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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
.The Fatal Gift of Wit. :"

The death OF $. 6. Cox suggests TO the
Globe Democrat some apt reflections upon
the "fatal gift OF wit" The CD remarks
that "by one of those strange paradoxes
which present themselves from time to
time TO illustrate the feebieness OF human
vision and the blindness of human judg-
ment, the qualities which made Mr.. Cox
personally popular with the leaders and
masses of all parties were the very quail
ties which barred for him the path to
political promotion" Mr. Cox had long
aspired to the speakership of the house.
He was respected, honored and adj
mired by his own party, and
was a favorite with all. When
the democrats regained control Of the
house, in 1875, Mr.. Cox by length OF SER
vice, purity of character, and solid abilities
as a statesman, was richly entitled to the
highest honor in their gift. But he was
set aside for Mr. KERR; year later Mr..
RANDALL was preferred to him, and again
in 1888 Mr.. CARLISLE was chosen in
preference to him. The great ability and
worth of all these gentlemen are univers-
ally conceded; but Mr.. Cox was the
superior of any OF them in scholarship,
experience in public affairs and knowl-
edge of the science OF government. But,
as the Globe Democrat says, ''he was
handicapped in the race for pub
lie preferment by the possession of the
rare combination of intellectual facul-
ties and imagination whose manifesto
tons are variously called humor and
wit" The world voted him shallow and
frivolous, and men of less ability were
placed ahead of him in the race for po-
litical honors. And yet, although life
appealed to him In its SUMMER express
sions, his record of more than a quarter of
a century of active and honorable political
work proved that he was at least as sensi-
Bile as any of his colleagues TO its graver
and more serious aspects. Indeed, the
vividness of imagination and exuberance
OF fancy which he possessed gave him.
from the very necessities OF the case. an
insight into questions and a grasp OF the
more complex and intricate phases OF
problems which men less happily constr
tuted never hope to attain"
How grievously the world oft misjudges
its greatest men!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

JOAQUIN MILLER contemplates purchasing
yacht and leaving San Francisco for a cruise
in the South seas.
CHARLES A. DANA of the New York Sun
will sail from New York the latter part of Sep
TENDER TO spend a month in Spain.
THERE is said to be little doubt in England
that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the next laure-
ate.
WHEN Gen. Grant was in Japan the Japan
ese premier, desiring to compliment the gen.
eral by telling him he was born to command,
tried in English, with the result: "Sire, brave
general, you vas made to order"
Miss SANGER, who toys with typewriter in
the interests of President Harrison, is one of
the successes of the administration. II is said
that she has been of more assistance to the
president than any clerk in his employ. She is
a rapid worker and can copy on her machine
l20 letters day.
WE have reminder that slavery once ex-
listed in Pennsylvania in a notice in the Monon-
gahela Republican of the recent death of an
aged colored woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones,
whose parents as well as herself were the prop
erty of the Patterson family. She was born in
Miflin township, Allegheny county. The
gradual emancipation law of Pennsylvania
went into effect in 1880
w. II. SMITH, the leader of the conservative
tremely fond of flowers, and has consignment
sent to him from his country house, Green
lands every morning while he is in town. His
gardens are pretty picture, and in them and
in his lighthouses he finds employment for
thirty persons. while his expenditure upon this
particular fancy amounts TO several thousand
pounds year.
ONE Of the members of the finance commit
tee Of the worlds fair and a man of prominence
in New York business circles says: Although
have been actively interested in business here
for great many years | never saw Jay Gould
in my life until yesterday. | was surprised in
the first place TO see that he was gray-both in
beard and hair: and in the second place that
his health seemed delicate TO pronounced de-
gree. But what surprised me more than any
thing else was the very small part that Mr..
Gould played in the operations of the finance
committee. Ii was not that he did not act in
any capacity at all but he was not consulted in
the least and his name was not much as
mentioned by the men who took the manage
ment OF the finances of the fair in charge"
JULES VERNE, the scientific" novelist, is a
lawyer by profession, although he never prac-
ticed. Before making hit with Five Weeks
in Balloon he had scored some success as a
dramatist in Paris When his book made hit
Verne determined that he would cram up
science, and attended lectures at the Paris
school of mines. IL is doubtful whether he is
really we'll posted up in science, and it is prac-
tically certain that he consults professional
authorities on all moot points. He is, however,
a brillian mathematician and knows something
OF chemistry. He is very rich, thanks TO the
enormous sale of his books, which have been
translated into every language under the sun.
He has a charming house at Issy, and has lat
terly become religious, though In his earlier
years he was a skeptic.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
WITH A JOKE ON HIS LIPS.
DEATH OF SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX
Almost With His Last Breath He Cracks a
Joke at His Physician's Expense-Close
OF an Honorable and Useful Life
why He Was Dubbed ''sunset"

NEW YORK, Sept 10.-Congressman sun
set" Cox died at s:S3 o'clock this evening.
The end was quiet, and the dying man breathed
his last as peacefully as ii falling into light
sleep. Mrs. Cox, who had been scarcely away
from her husbands bedside for the past two
days and nights, held his left hand, while his
old friend. Douglass Taylor, held the other.
He had been conscious all day. until about a
quarter Of an hour before the end. DIR. Lock-
wood was in attendance at the time. Nichols
Keaney, William Hirschfeld, two nurses, and
two servants were in the room. All knelt
about the bed
Mr.. Cox's last conversation was about the
four territories whose statehood he hoped to
father lie mentioned New Mexico and Ari.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
How Tanner Was Forced out.

The manner in which the president
handled the Tanner business reflects little
credit upon him. 1t appears from the re-
port in the republican Globe Democrat, of
st. Louis, that he literally tried to bride
TANNER into resigning. The GiObe-D
crdt is Secy. MOBILES home organ, and is
undoubtedly well informed. According
TO its account, when the president found
that he was forced TO choose between
NOBLE and TANNER, he authorized Senator
HIsCoCK TO offer TANNER the marshalship
of the eastern district of New York as an
inducement TO resign. TANNER laid the
proposition before his wife, and that lady,
with a sense of propriety infinitely to her
credit, resented il in the most spirited
manner" Thereupon TANNER destroyed
the resignation he had prepared" DAN
RANsDELL, of the Slick Six, was then called
in. He was sent to TANNER to offer him
thirty days leave OF absence, with full
pay, if he would resign before the
10th inst, with the alternative of dismis-
sal" RANsDELL succeeded in his mission,
and TANNER accepted the terms imposed
upon him. "That Mr.. TANNER will be
given another office there is no doubt"
says the Globe Democrat AS to which the
st. Louis Republic pertinently remarks:
IL would be well for the dignity of the presi-
dency if this statement were incredible, but I'M
fortunately il is not 1t is only few weeks
since when TANNERS private secretary was ex.
posed in conspiring with the claim agents
ring, which has DUDLEY and LEMON at its
head. The president actually bribed him 10
leave the department of the interior by giving
him an office in another department In
so doing he plainly showed that, though man
might be too corrupt and unreliable for NOBLE,
he was not so for HARRISON.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
LAID AT REST.
Many Beautiful Tributes Paid to the Mem
DRY of the Late Congressman Cox.

Many Beautiful Tributes Paid to the Mem
DRY of the Late Congressman Cox.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S-Long before 10o'clock
this morning, the hour set for the funeral of
the late Samuel Sullivan Cox, the First presby-
terrain church, corner of Fifth-ave. and Twelfth
ST., began to fill with ilIustrious mourners and
admirers of the dead statesman from the hum
bier walks of life. The rain poured in torrents
the whole morning and nasty wind prevailed.
but did not keep the crowds away. Before the
services began the church was filled and it was
necessary To close the doors, leaving many
people on the outside.
The floral tributes TO the departed were I'M
usually magnificent covering the entire length
of the altar with fragrance and beauty. and
concealing the choir and transept. Among the
most noticeable pieces was a cross six feet high
of nephitoss rosebuds. tube-rcses. white carna-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

use of the mails and the printing press,
its high priced lobby at the legislature
last winter, its heavy payments to venal
newspapers, its disbursements among
politicians and such school officials as
we're in the market, the rotten old trust
must have expended vast sum of money
in Indiana during the past nine months.
Then there are the immense profits which
it has lost by the displacement of its read
ers, Biographies, copy-books and arith-
metics throughout the state to be con-
sidered After all, it would have been
money in the pockets of the school book
pirates il they had dealt honestly and
fairly by the people of Indiana in times
past, charging only honest prices for their
publications. and making these prices uni
form throughout the state.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE announcement of S. S. Cox's death
will be received with profound sorrow all
over the country. A brighter, brainier, or
more brilliant man never sat in the
American congress, and a more lovable
and attractive personality never was on
earth. His fund of humOr was inexhausti-
BILE. and il made him universal favorite ,
but he was more than a joke-maker. He
was man of rare intellect and solid at
tainments. His scholarship was profound
and varied. He was broad statesman,
an eloquent orator, and charming writer
He never touched any subject that he did
not adorn. He was clever in the realm of
poetry and humor, but equally so in the
domain of political economy and the
science of government. His versatility
was phenomenal, and his industry
prodigious. He was always a demo-
crat, and no man in the party had
deserved better of it and of his country.
He will be missed from the councils of the
nation, in which he had long been such
an honorable and commanding figure, as
few public men of the day would be
missed, and his memory will be cherished,
not only as that of an honest man, patri-
otto legislator and a wise statesman, but
as recalling the ideal of the scholar and
the gentleman in politics.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

WITH effronterv that would do credit to
the most hardened school book agent, the
local organ of the trust remarks that the
state board of education has "never in
dorsed the new books except in
comparison with those named in the
law" When it is considered that the
books named IN the law are those
published by the trust, for which it
has been charging the people of Indiana
two and three prices for many years past,
the JournqPs gall will be appreciated.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

EVERY attack made upon the new text
books is an attack upon the board of edu-
cation. This board is composed of the
leading educators of the state; the presi-
dents of the three most important col
leges, and the superintendents of schools
in the three largest cities. They are men
of the highest standing in the educational
world, and their integrity has never been
questioned except by the swindling school
book trust and its newspaper hirelings.
Gov. HovEY is also q member OF this
board, and so is State Supt. LAFoLLETTE.
The members of the board devoted
ten days to a thorough examination
of the books composing this series. Then,
by an aye and nay vote, which is of rec
ord, the board unanimously decided that
the arithmetics of this series were equal
in every respect to those specified in the
law as a standard, being RAYS arith-
metics, published by VAN ANTWERP,
BRAGG & Co. And with only one dissent
ing voice-that of La FoLLETTE-the board
rendered the same verdict as to the In
diana Biographies and readers. If these
gentlemen are not competent to pass
upon the merits of school books, we don't
know where qualified judges are to be
found in Indiana. And if they are not
competent to do SO, the educational inter
ests of the state are certainly in poor
hands.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
A LEcHEROUS PRIEST
Who Narrowly Escapes Lynching At the
Hands of His Practitioners.


Hands of His Practitioners.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 12.-The congregation Of
the little catholic church in Granville are in a
state of ferment over a series of events which
resulted in the abrupt dismissal of their pastor,
the Rev. Father Seeley, two weeks ago. lie
very narrowly escaped a coat of tar and feath-
ers. Nothing but the reverence felt for his
calling and patrisrchal appearance stayed the
hands of his angry parishioners. 1t seems that
for the past few months the pastor has been
mistreating number of girl pupils who attend
ed the parochial school, and the parents of the
children becoming aware of il. the elders of
the church were informed aud indig-
nation meeting was held, Father Seeley be-
ing dismissed. He admitted the truth of
the story to the elders and left at once.
Father Seeley came 70 the parish three years
ago. At that time he said he had been sick in
Milwaukee for long time. After the scandal
came out he admitted coming from Detroit.
He is a French Canadian by birth, and is in
his SEVENTEEN year. Where he has gone is not
known.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE st. Louis Republic shows from the
census reports that during the high tariff
decade of 1S70-s0 the number of factories in
Missouri decreased from 1871 to 1892;
the capital invested in manufacturing
from $50, PSI, 900 to So, 5O7, 600; the value
of product from sos, 213, OOOto $l65, 3ls,OOO
and the amount of wages paid from
S31. 055, 900 to 50, S09,0 600 Here is par
tisl list of factories closed during the same
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE republicans are making a Doodle
campaign in the new states. They boast
that they have plenty of money for these
states, and for Virginia az well, and that
the democrats are short of funds. This is
probably true. II Doodle will win the
new states and Virginia, the g. o. p. will
get them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

ballot, and if they cannot use il to get
more pensions, they can employ it very
effectively in Furnishing the knaves who
have traded so shamelessly upon their
credulity.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
A window 20 the sole.
[Terre Haute Express.l

lerre Haute Express.
Wibble-"Did you know that there was Q
hole in the bottom of your shoep
Waddle-"Oh, yes. But you shouldn't call ID
hole; call il an eye."
Wibble-"Why%
Wabble-"Because it is sort of window 10
the sole"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE school book trust is literally food
ing the mails of Indiana with postal cards,
circulars, ETC., containing bitter and un-
truthful attacks upon the new text books
We have had quantity of this scurrilous
literature forwarded to us and find it to be
a compound. in about equal parts, of false
hood and inanity. What, with its liberal
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

GRAND juries meet at Augusta, Me-,
three times a year and indict the drug
gists and hotel-keepers of the town for
selling liquor unlawfully. The druggists
and hotel-keepers pay fine of 500 and
costs each, and continue their business at
the old stands. That's the way prohibit
ton does not prohibit in Maine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
Reason Dethroned.

10" TUX WIFI
Judce-"Did you ever notice any signs Of
insanity in the deceasedY
Witness a member of the legislature -'Well,
once, when he was a member Of the legislature,
he introduced bill that wasn't a particle OF
interest TO anybody-except taxpayers"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

With a feeble appetite and imperfect diges-
ton, it is impossible for the body TO secure the
requisite amount of nourishment. Ayers Ssr-
saparilla not only Stimulates the desire for food,
but aids the assimilative organs in the lorna
ton Of GOOD blood and sound tissue
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE attention OF the monopoly press is
respectfully invited to the fact that the
great strike in free-trade England has re-
suited in complete victory for the men.
When the protected" workingmen of
America strike, they generally get the
worst of it,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

A TEXAS republican bought stiff bill
of goods OF the Wanamaker house at Phil
a delphia. Then he applied for a post
office. He got it. Business is business"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
decades:

In the face of such figures as these, the
country is actually asked to believe that
war against protection is wA against our
industries!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE american Tribune, the soldiers or
gan published in this city, in speaking Of
the Henderson pension steal, says:
In the face of the aged decrepit and broken
down soldiers, of the hollow faces of children,
whose widowed mothers struggle for their
scanty fare, and whose claims have been pend
ing for years, the fact that Corporal TANNER
can make up without any application
whatever, and allow man who is already in
ailluent circumstances and drawings salary Of
5000 as u. :. senator an additional $4,000 no
matter how worthy, is so preposterous that il
will cause loss of confidence in him by the
veterans EVERYWHERE
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

Single copy Invariably in Advanced -...-....s1 90
weask democrats 10 bear in mind and select their
own state paper when they come TO take subscrip-
tions and make up clubs.
Agents making up clubs send for any information
desired Adde'S THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL
Indian apolis, ind
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

IONA, and said something about making great
effort in their behalf at the coming session.
Two hours before he died his colored servant
who had Just come on from Washington, went
TO the bed and Mrs. Cox asked her husband il
he recognized him. He looked at him and
patted him on the shoulder The colored mans
eyes filled with tears, while all were deeply
affected. In the afternoon while DIR. Lock.
wood was talking 10 him, Mr. Cox made some
witty remark that completely upset the doc
tors dignity.
Late in the afternoon kilograms were sent to
Mr. Cox's sisters two of whom live in Zanes-
vile, O., and the other in st. Louis. Mr..
Cox's nephew, who is the superintendent Of
the Smithsonian institution, was also tele-
graphed for. DIR. Lockwood said that the i'm
mediate cause of death was heart failure and
the cause peritonitis. kilograms were sent to
Sergt.-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
J. p. Leedom and to Speaker Carlisle.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

SEcY. WINDOW explains that the in
crease in the public debt during July and
August was only apparent. The impress
sion that the debt had actually increased,
he says, "arose doubtless from the pecu-
liar form of the monthly statement of the
public debt issued by this department, in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

THE only setback the democratic state
ticket of Virginia has received was when
RIDDLEBERGER took the stump for 1t.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

at is fact" that Hoods Sarsapar;lla does
cure scrofea, salt rheum, and other diseases or
affections arising from impure state or low con-
dition of the blood, overcomes that tired feel
ing. creates good appetite. and gives strength
to every part OF the system. Try il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
TERMS PER YEAR,

Entered at the PossOice at indianapolis as second
class matter
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1889-12-28
iEGURE 4 home II THE Laid OF ElDHas
DINSMOREl

One of the growing towns of the
South, is situated on both sides OF
savannah, Florida d Western
Railroad, Just twelve miles from
Jacksonville, Fla. It In high, dry
and level, and q succeeSfui hort-
cultural and truck growing secttos
of the State. Dinsmore can %
easily reached from Jacksonville %
railroad, by water rosis, % ~ 81
hour and a half drive 0rW sn sssss'
lent plank and shell REM
Dinsmore is not one q ne Sssss
ted spots that 10 only hid out On
paper, but o thriving prospsrvNs
town that recommends itseh %
capitalist and laboref, % fstsRs
and wives who are vigilant ever
their own interests and the wetfAS
of their children, to those who are
seeking homes and those Who have
capital to invest for speculatiss-
Thesland can be obtained at Ne
msrkably lew figures and on terms
suitable to the condition OF every
purchaser. AT the present Vow
figures a poor man can make regu-
lar payments on valuable home
with less than the aggregate OF
unnecessary expense or money act
ually thrown away. II is an In
yestment that one cannot regret
and through which you will realize
manyA times the amount invested.
Tho prices are for Front Business
Lots one acre, sos, $50, $s5. Sec
ond choice, $25 $1S. Third choice
SIS. Fourth choice $40. Fifth
choice, S.. It must be remember
ed that these are acre lots.
We also have vegetable and
truck farms laid out adjacent to
Dinsmore, containing from FIVE to
sixteen acres each, which We offer
for the benefit of those who wish to
farm at s. acre.
Our terms are one fourth cash
and balance in one, two and three
years.
The chain of title will be short
and strong. 1t is from the State OF
Florida to the Railroad and from
the Railroad to you.
Truck farming around DinsmOre
would be at the door of two OF the
greatest markets in the South. Let
everyOpoor man if With but one
dollar, commence to buy a lot in
Dinsmore. The fare from Jackson
vile and return is only twenty-five
cents. Think of it. There ere
eight passenger trains pec day and
the round trip will only cost TWEEN
ty-five cents. Trout creek, large
streams passes right through the
vicinity, thus affording pure fresh
wotar for stock. perfect drainage
| and abundance of fish.
TAKE WARNING NOW, and
do not let this grand opportunity
slip you. 1t is the very best chance
you will have to secure good
piece of valuable property and such
startling prices.
The merchants in Dinsmore arc
enjoying a gooA trade and the
townS is rapidly growing. Saw
mills are convenient for securing
timber to build, an laborers who
desire work csn get Som a dollar
and half to tWc dollars per day
For further information or piati
and how to see Dinsmore, call OF