The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
MOTIFS AND COMMENTS.


drunkenness, even though they can talk
and work, and are in no sense responsi-
BILE to the law as adults. l could not
hold such a man responsible any more
than, il he had heen proven idiotic or
crazy" The public must look out for
itself.
THE Scotch census, which is the last
Of all to come in, shows the same in
crease in the town aud decrease in the
rural population which the whole civil
lied world is becoming familiar with.
For the first time Scotland has passed its
fourth million in the upward climb,
which brings it very near the point at
which Ireland, in her pathetic descent
from 5000, 600, now stands. In another
ten years, il the existing rate of increase
in the one and decrease in the other is
maintained, Scotland will actually ex-
coed Ireland in population.
AN editor tells story to show how
the most glaring errors can be made. can
be overlooked and almost get into print.
A correspondent. probably writing
hurrledly, spoke Of man who was in
Jured in his fright foreleg.n The editor
who read the copy skipped over that
right forelegn Of a man as IL il were
the most ordinary thing in the world to
meet four-footcd men, The composltOr
''set up" the "foreleg" and it was the |
ever watchful proof-reader who came in |
to the room with a broad grin on his |
face to ask how many legs men usually |
had.
A CONSULAR report on the trade of |
Klung- Chow during 1890 makes mention
of very strong silk, which is made
from grub called the celestial silk
worm, or, locally, paddy insect" and
found on sort Of maple tree. The in
sect whom fully grown. is thrown into
boiling vinegar. on which the "head" Of
the gut or ''silk" appears. This is
sharply torn out with both hands drawn
apart, and is as long as the space be-
tween them, say five feet. The silk is
80 strong that one single thread of it is
sufficient to make line with which to
catch the smaller kinds Of fish,"
The Supreme Court of Michigan ha
decided that ambulances are not to be
driven through the streets OF a city at a
rate of speed prohibited in the case Of
vehicles generally. The municipal ordi-
lances of Detroit forbid driving within
me limits of that city, faster than six
niles an hour 1t was argued that this !
I'D not apply to ambulances, whose
business 1t is to respond to an emergency !.
all as quickly as possible. The Court ,.
ioes not accept this view. 1.-THE public 1
interests, it says, ''do not demand that
n order to afford prompt relief to one
'erson requiring the use of an ambulance :
'ther persons may be run down and in =
ured by the fast and reckless rate of
peed of the ambulance in going to the
ssistance of the person injured"
A DRUGGIST says in the New York In !
dependent that 1.-THE proper place to I
adically cure iDcbriety is the inobriate I
sylum, and there ought to be more of '
UGH institutions. Then, again, in large |,
ltles there ought to be places where q
rinking men could go as sort of ii
sfuge. A great many really good men 81
rink to excess sometimes through some II
lfluence or other--sickness, sorrow, a et
cath in the family, something Of that nj
ind. There ought to be some place ca
here they could go and recuperate. gi
any a man, for the want of such a
ACE, has gradually drifted into con OF
med inebriety If such men 20 to a OF
otel the temptation Of the cafe is there W
they 90 to Turkish bath they will ca
I'd there the opportunity to indulge in
luor. They are not incbriates fit for
! asylum; to use common expression, an
ey have got off for the time being, di
ID they simply want the chance of re- lie,
rning to their normal physical state. ha
A. H. McGUFFEY, the author of the AZ ~
nous McGuifey's School Reader, is IN
III alive and is still a well-knOwn law La
T Of Cincinnati. He is a modest and ~
firing gentleman of the old school, q;
urtly in his manner and we'll informed
all literary matters. 'sNo other book, = =.
Us the Cincinnati Times-Star, "has sn ,.
d such general perusal in this coun- III III
7 as McGuffey's School Reader. Al -
ost the land over people of all ages are NO
're familiar with its pages than those g.,
any other book ever printed. per- -
ps. Their early ideas were nurtured a.
it. 1t could not but be that publi- ~ ~
ton of any force with such constitu- ~
49,
iucnce. The pages of this textbook 20 -.
We always been full of sentiments OF a -
ty order. Through it the spark Of -,
nerican patriotism has been made to -
w in millions Of youthful breasts. III
no cannot recall having his quick ~
ung blood fred by schoolroom perusal -, -
Give me liberty or give me death ? or WI w,
'rike for your affairs and your fires ? ~,
1 other like ringing linesl' !.
JUDGE HOMER, of Broken Bow, Ncb., pla
1ed judgment the other day that has wa
ated sensation. That is the region an'
ere the farms are being sold to pay PIC
mortgages. The Judge said: ave
asked to turn 100 farms over TO cor
ney lenders, and 500 women and
ldren ovc- to pauperism. 1t shall Inc
'er be done in this district while / am the
Ige. The people are not able to pay, hat
/ will not assist in their being ho'
bed. Let US wait until crop can be mi
led and confidence restored, and al Tor
| come out ali right II a man be tina
ng on his land OF living of Of It, and In
ing to cultivated. he should have the
ard Of his work. / will never con
! a sale in times like these IL the own
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