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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
BEATEs PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
Henry Clay, James 6. Birney and Horace
Greeley
TEnrunl

Henry CLAY had one disqualification
that neutralized all the possibilities of
good which he possessed. For many of
the best years of his life his brain was al
WAYS suifused, like Bismarck's, with the
alcoholic poison. The history OF parties,
from Alexander the Greats time to this,
will disclose to any investigator that, of
all known disc qualifications Tor offices of
trust and difficulty, this is the most en-
tirely fatal, because it disturbs the
Judgment while infiaming all the passions
and propensities which constitute the task
of the Judgment. Nine-tenths of presi-
dents fitness is Judgment James G..
Birney of Kentucky, the candidate of the
abolitionists in 1910 and 1874, was a veri-
table king OF men, a person OF the highest
type of character known among us. His
life was a series of the noblest actions,
performed for the noblest reasons. He
was brave, steadfasta nd gentle, of gracious
and dignified presence, asking nothing
from liis countrymen except to turn
them from what he conceived to be
their errors. In 1910 he received
1869 votes; in 1914, 90, 263 votes. No
patriotic son of Kentucky could do bet
ter service to his countrymen, than to
make this admirable man Familiarity
known TO Jneu. I1Orc6 NTf6ely pore MS
character in his face-half baby, half
philosopher The sweetest child that ever
looked into it's mothers eyes had not a
more benevolent expression than his
countenance habtually wore The worst
portrait does not quite obliterate it :;
the best renders it imperfectly. The
politician who said: "A man who would
hurt Horace Greeley would strike his
own mother" roughly expressed the
feeling which the chiId-like part of his
face often excited. His voice, too, was
the pipe of child. But above the eyes
there was such noble dome of head that
a Greek sculptor would have been glad to
take it for the model of benevolent wis
dom. His demeanor showed similar con-
trasts From that baby face what torrents
of bad words would come, with no more
malice behind them than there is behind
a child's vehement crying when some one
has broken its toy! With pen in his
hand and subject before him suited to
his talents and disposition, as well as to
the momentary needs OF the Tribune, what
editor ever wrote more effectively?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
Mr.. j. 81. C. Smith Ha- Another Word to
say About 1t.


say About 1t.
To THE EDIToR-Sr: Please allow me
another word il reference to Mr.. Grol and the
bi-weekly law. Mr.. Groll seems to be angered
at my showing that the law has penalty at
tached, although he said in his first article it
had none Mr.. Groll says for me to start out
and try to find work and give notice that will
have my pay every two weeks and see how
soon will get the grand bounce"
He then says: There is in my opinion no
remedy in any law short of making it a crims
on the part of the employers to fail to comply
without any demands upon them"
Then he would make il a crime to tail 70 pay
an honest debt when due without even asking
the employer for your pay, and that would
carry with it imprisonment If the criminal
failed to pay his fine. ! desire 10 ask Mr.. Grou
if he believes that this kind Of law would be
constitutional? Here is what the constitution
OF our state says: There shall be no imprison-
ment for debt except Tor fraud" Art. l, Bill
of Rights.
Further. believe that the "wage-worlzer''
who would have his employer arrested for not
paying him would get the grand bounce"
quicker than the one who at the end OF two
weeks would kindly say to his employer
please, can have my wages"
/ don't know how much OF a wage-worker Mr..
GfOA Is, out am OF the opinion tnat mere are
no loo men IN the state of Indiana who could
summon intelligence enough as a legislative
body TO make a law that would be compatible
with his inexhaus6ble source Of constitutional
knowledge.
To make it a crime to fail to pay an honest
debt promptly when due, would make crinli-
mails OF Ms all. The law complained OF by Mr..
Groll was made especially for the wage-vorkers
and not in the interest OF employers.
We have many criminal laws which are
"dead letters" because the people do not care
to make themselves prosecuting witnesses
against the violatOrs for fear of getting the
grand bounce" as Mr.. Groll says. And if the
penalty TO the bi-weekly law lif the constitution
would permit a crime and I'm and inn
prisonment for failure to pay the fire aDd
costs, in order TO make it edectual, the parties
injured would have to testify against their en-
ployer, and / believe they would get the
grand bounce" and receive no benefit whilst
the penalty now provided allows the employs
81 per day for every day default is made, eT.
ceeding the wages due, etc.
Try again. Mr. Groll. J. II. c. SMITH.
Button. Ind. Jan l.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
Five Dollars Reward.

The following letter, along with five-dollsr.
bill, was recently sent to the Terre Haute Ga.
sette:
/ offer the above reward for the name OF
reputable and prominent republican who has,
up to this time, publicly raised his voice for
conviction OF the Hon. 4 William Wade Dud-
ley, the author Of the most infamous paper ever
known in American politics. Church men,
bers. deacOns and ministers of the gospel sre
not barred. The guilt of this man Is unques-
toned. With brazen audacity he practically
admits it. He has. time and time again, been
challenged 10 enter the state. One-thousand-
dollar reward has been offered him TO come TO
his own home and make affidavit that the pub
lished letter is not his. This man was. and for
aught we know, Is to-day the bosom friend Of
the president-elect. Ii is a matter Of popular
belief that he was put in his present position,
as treasurer of the republican national commit.
tee, at this gentleman's earnest request. Has
this anything to do with the oysterlike silence
OF those who, as Judge Gresham says, GO 70
church one day and 20 out and corrupt voters
the next? ANTI-DUDLEY.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
BrIngs some Good.

"While we repudiate emphatically the
idea that Northumberland can be sub
stituted for Christianity in civilizing
Africa" says the Rev. VI. E. Strictly, ID.
D., in the American Missionary vet it is
only just that we should admit that Islam
brings with it some influences for good
into that benighted land-infuences that
strongly appeal to the higher instincts
and ASPIRATIONS Of the people, and are,
therefore, an elevating power. First of
all, the one true God of Islam tends TO lift
the African above his idols, his fetch. his
witehcraft, and his cannibalism. Then
the prohibition OF wine and strong drink
snatches the people from what threatens
to be the vortex of their ruin-intemper-
ance-whlle Christian nations are now, to
their shame and iniamy, swelling the
floods and increasing the velocity of that
vortex by larger importations OF intoxicat-
ing liquors. Then, too, the followers of
Mohammed are using the school of the
prophets in the preparation of their mis-
sionaries. The great training school, the
old university of Cairo, is said to number
at times as many as 10000 students of the
koran, a number which may we'll chal-
lenge comparison with the Protestant
theological seminaries of Europe and
America, not only by their numbers but
by the astonishing success of their pupils
as missionaries. They run where we halt,
they win where we fail"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
..when saw we Thee?,,

Then shall He answer how lie lifted up,
In the cathedral there, al Lille, 10 me
Tho same still mouth that drank the passion cup,
And how turned away and did not see.
How--Oh, that boys deep eyes and withered arm
In a mad Paris street, one glittsring night
Three times drawn backward by his beautyis charm,
gave him-nOt farthng for the sight
How ia that shadOwy temple at Cologne,
Through all the mighty music, did wiring
The agony of his last mortal moan
From that blind soul gave not anything.
And how at Bruges at a beggar's breast,
There by the windmill where the leaves whlrled so,
saw him nursing, passed Him with the rest,
Followed by his starved mothers stare of woe.
But my Lord Christ, Thou knowest had not much
And had 10 keep that which had for grace
To look, forsOoth, where some dead painters touch
Had Left Thy thorn-wOund on thy mothers face.
Therefore, my Lord Christ, pray of Thee
That OF Thy great compassion Thou wilt save,
Laid up from moth 10 rust, somewhere, for me,
High in the heayens-the coins never gave.
Is NJ b. Piatt, in Beliord's Magazine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16

ScoTTSBURG, Jan. S.-[SpeciaLl ! William
Passwater, jr charged with breaking into the
store OF j. q. Robertson, at Lexington, month
ago, was arraigTed in the circuit to-day, and, on
a plea of guilty, sas sentenced to two years inn
prsonment in the prison south. The trial of
Ed Abbott and Ollie Monroe, implicated in the
same THEFT is set for Friday
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
"I Reckon L Hev.~
fChicapo Hernld.l

A touching picture of party loyalty was pre-.
scented at the union depot at St. Louis the other
day by woman with two pairs of twins, the
elder pair she said were called Blaine and
Logan and the other two Harrison and Morton.
you missed it on the first two" said by
stander; but you have had great luck on the
second pair" Pressing Harrison and Morton
to her breast she replied: IL reckon / hev."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
INC ReIgn OF Que Purltnn,.

IL it probable that the nation will enter upon
an administration of pubic affairs at its surface
as purtanical as the observances of the Serious
Family, but ia secret more corrupt and Peck
sniffian than has ever before been seen. ..
The Flanagans of Texas will be in Washing
ton but they have learned discretion. Prayers
before contracts and psalms after jobbery will
follow the good Roman presidents OF auspices
before battle and plans alter victory.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
A Purely Feninine perice.
tTine.i

Madce-"What beautiful presents you have,
and what a stack of theml Where did they all
come fromT
Flora McF.-"It's a secret-you'll never tell?
Well, then, besides the old engagements, /
made four hrand-new ones the week before
the heart to break but three of them yet-and
aren't the things loyelyY
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
A SLIGHT Dinerence.
Merchant Traveler.l

"You are looking very downcast and glum,"
said one young travelling man to another.
"What is the matter?
"Same old trouble. | tried TO propose to my
girl again last night, and prefaced the proceed
ings with a serenade."
"And did she throw cold water on your
bopesT
dNo-but her mother threw hot water all over
nv npU clotheEn
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
TThe Examiner.l

A good minister of Christ must have
the three G's-grace, grit and gumption.
1t might, perhaps, be said that these are
qualities necessary for success in any call
ing, but they are certainly requisites in
the minister and important in the order
chosen by the wise and witty speaker.
Nobody will dispute that the minister
needs grace. The doctrine is not quite
obsolete, though in some quarters appar-
emily obsolescent, that the preacher of the
gospel is esp cially called of God to his
work, and may hope to be endued by the
spirit OF God with special qualifications
Tor doing his work. Perhaps it
is not so generally recognized
that grit is Almost as necessary as grace.
That form of courage that does not shrink
from conflict, even IN an apparently des-
perate cause, Is not uncommon. The
secret OF success depends, as much as any
other thing, on the logged persistency of
purpose that enables one to hold his
ground and go on with his work steadily
In spite OF numerous obstacles and annoy
ances. 1t is the man who sticks, who
gives himself time to accomplish some
thing in community, and to make his
personality felt there, whose work abides
aud grows. And gumption is a third in
G4o tLAcdDlC QuetlllN nOlcO btnccs
practical wisdom. The man of gumption
is born; not made. Solomon tells us that
a certain kind of man, though brayed
in mortar with a pestle, will
never become wiser. Some men
seem incapable OF learning, even in the
dear school that experience keeps, but
tumble out of one blunder into another
throughout their lives. Such men are
hopeless. But there are others, in whom
tacttulness is not spontaneous, who are
yet capable OF learning from experience,
and il they make a blunder are never
known to repeat it. Unfortunately,
gumption isnot to be learned by rote from
a textbook, nor can professor impart it
by lecturing or drilling. So far as it is
not innate, it must be learned in the
school of the world by hard knocks and
bitter reverses. More men have failed for
lack of it to do the best work of which
they are capable than for lack of any
other one thing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16

verberation. On large scale, or small
scale, as God may call us, let us do our
part toward fastening the contamination.
BY word, by deed, by cheerful look, by
earnest PRAYER. by sympathy, by lives de-
voted to the best things in the best way,
we may all be felt; and though our names
may not once be mentioned on earth
among the workers for the grand result
God will recognize us and ask us to take
part in the final jubilee celebrative OF a
world emancipated and world redeemed.
There was pathOs and beauty worth
commemoration in that which the Irish
woman in Boston said to the priest at the
time moneys were being raised for the re-
lief of starving Ireland. She brought 500
for the relief fund. The priest, with tears
in his eyes, said: "You can't afford to
give 500; better give half of that" mo"
she said, "send on the hundred. | shall
feel happier il give hundred to the suf-
fering people of my native land. Open
ing the subscription book TO make record
of it the priest said. "What is your
name?" "Never mind the NAME" she re-
piled. "Send on the money; God will
know the name"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
Adams sollloaur.
Ichionro Trihnne.l

az don't say marriage is a failure said
Adam, candidly. as he sat down on log just
outside the Garden OF Eden and looked hun
grily at the fruit on the other side of the wall
'but il had remained single, this wouldn't
have happened"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
A Lofty Ideal.
rsunday-SehooI Times.

ISunday -School Times
He who would make progress for him
self, or who would help others upward,
must have clearly before his mind the
ideal of the best conceivable attainment.
But, while man must perceive that ideal
for himself, it is not always tor him to dis
close IL to others. If he would be to others
q means OF inspiration or of instruction,
ali his words and acts must point in the
direction of his ideal; but they are not
necessarily to point it out in its explicit
ness. When Moses would reform the He
brew view OF the marriage re-
lation he made regulations in the direction
of the ideal standard OF marriage in its
pristine purity; but because Of the hard
ness OF the peoples hearts, through their
wrong education mp to that time, he re-
Trained from exacting of them all that
would have been their duty had they been
capable of perceiving it as such. So,
again, Jesus withheld some truths from
His disciples which they were not yet able
to bear, while all that He said to them was
IN the direction of the greatest truths
known TO himself And SO it must be
with every wise teacher and leader. He
needs to have his highest ideal ever before
himself; but it may not be expedient to
bring its dazzling brilliancy Immediately
before the dull eyes OF those whose gaze
upward he is lovingly directing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16

scores of Charming Isabellas with ging-
ham umbrellas" will soon be bright ami
mated features of misty moisty" land.
scapes. Late corners from Europe are the
exclusive possessorS OF these arcicles Just
now, but it is rumOred that the uncertain
days OF spring viii find them in general
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
The Sex of ..Neal..s. Doc.
TJudgc.l

HJohn," said Mrs. Hawkins as they we're
going home from church. why did the minis
ter call the dove that brought back a green
twig TO the ark hep Il don't know" replied
John; unless it was that il the dove had been
female she couldn't have kept her mouth
olon.d lo.c. nnn.nh Ia aa Tie t.rin 10 The arlr q
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
Very Amusing.
N. Y. sun.l

1t is somewhat amusing to hear republican
leaders saying so mncir nowadays about the
free and honest ballot"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-16
THE Rl-WeEKLY LAW.
.ishness L. made ne plsy

But those who into cobwebs run,
Right well deserve their fate."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

WSsa Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria,
WAs9 me was = Child, she cried for Castoria.
UAsa she became Miss, she elung 10 Castoria,
WAe2 sAsAsd Children. she gave them Castoria
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
THE LATEST JOKE.

How BIrs. Jason Retalled 1t to Her Pa
tient Lesser Hall
Mrs. Jason came home the other
evening with her face ''wreathed in
Smiles" as the novelists have it.
"Well, what are you grinning at?"
was the cordial greeting Of her lord and
master.
II heard some thing funny down
town." she answered.
"Well, what was it."
''Oh. nothing much. / happened to
meet little Johnny Figg. who used to
keep the apple stand across the way,
you know, and he's got a better one
down town now. / asked him how he
was getting along and he says to me-:
oh, I'm still keeping stand, you see.
thought it was the cutest thing I had
heard for good while.
Oh. you did, did you. Maria' If l
ever see where the laugh comes in I'll
try and smile, even if / have to get up
in the middle of the night to do so,"
was his crushing reply. to which she
deigned no answer.
About two o'clock in the morning
Mr.. Jason was awakened from dream
of being stabbed by a masked assassin
to find his wife energetically nudging
him below the fifth rib
''Oh, JehieL. had that wrong" she
twittered, in tone Of one who has
made great discovery. Johnny said
his business was at a stand.stilL You
see the point now, don't youP"
"Yes, reckon SO" said the old man
in no gracious tones. ''and IL ! feel the
point of your Internal elbow jabbing me
in the ribs any more tonight I'll go to
sleep in the barn. Do you hearp'
And he didn't laugh either as he
promised to-" was her reflection, us she
settled down to sleep again with the
sweet consciousness OF duty performed.
Detroit Commercial Advertiser
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
CONTRARY TO JUSTICE

A Fact More Worthy of Admiration Than
ANY Other Recorded by History.
Themistocles. the leader of the
Athenian armies, was a great soldier,
but not conscientious man. From an
undue love of his own coun-
try, he was anxious to ruin
its neighbor and rival, the State of
Lacedamon. One day. in public as
sembly. he informed the Athenians that
he had formed-a design for raising them
permanently above the Lacedarnonians,
but he could not communicate it to
them because its success required that
it should be carried on with the great
est secrecy. He desired them to ap-
point a person to whom he might ex-
plain the design. and who should Judge
whether they were to allow 1t to be ex-
ecuted. For this purpose they unani-
mously pitched upon Aristides. the indi-
vidual of their number in whose hon.
esty and prudence they had the great
est confidence. Themistocles then
took Aristides aisle. and told him that
the design he had conceived was to
burn the fleet belonging to Lacedamon
and the rest of the Grecian States,
which then lay in neighboring port
BY this means. he said, Athens
could not fail to become
the undisputed mistress OF
all Greece. Aristides now re-
turned to the assembly, and merely
<o16 :,
advantageous to the interests of Athens
than the scheme OF Yhemistocles, but
that nothing could be more unjust The
people Immediately, without hearing
another word, ordained that Themisto-
Giles should desist from his project
Rollin, the historian, says of this de-
cree of the Athenians; :. do not know
whether ali history can afford US a fact
more worthy of admiration. 1t is not
company of philosophers (to whom
it costs nothing to establish fine max
inns of morality who determine on this
occasion that the consideration of profit
and advantage ought never to prevail
In preference TO what is honest and
just It is an entire people who are
highly interested in the proposal made
to them. who are convinced that it is
of the greatest Importance 10 the well
fare of the State. and who. neverthe-
less. reject 1t with unanimous consent,
and without moments hesitation, and
that for this only reason--that it is con-
trary to justice. N. Y. Ledger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

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children to suffer from headache, fits,
ST. Vitus Dance. nervousness, ETC., when
they can be cured. Mrs. p was cured of
sick headache, dizziness. dyspepsia, ner-
vous prostration of eighteen years stand
ing, after failure of sixteen physicians;
Mrs. X. of sick headache for 35 years :;
Yrs p. of twenty to fifty fl nigh !;
others from this vicinity could be men,
toned who have been cured by that Won
tierful nerve food and medicine-Dr-
Miles Nervine which contains no NOR
pafne opium or dangerous drugs. Free
sample bottles may be had at Eberle's
drug store.