Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1909 — Page 3

HEW tOVEMOI I TO THE PEOPLE Inaugural Address and Message to Legislature. TWO IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS Bcooath the Dome of the Capitol at Indianapolis, Thomas R. Marshall, z Upon Being Inducted Into the Office of Governor of the State of Indiana, Delivered an Impressive Inaugural Address—Formal Recommendations to the General Assembly Touching on the State of the Commonwealth. Indianapolis, Jan. 11. —In his inaugural address delivered tn the rotunda of the capitol today. Governor Marshal! said: My Fellow Citizens: Chosen by the votes of a free people, under, as I trust, the providence of God, to become the governor of my native state, I have just assumed a solemn vow to be faithful to the duty Imposed upon me. This vow has not been lightly taken. I am neither unconscious of the greatness of the task imposed upon me nor of the weakness of my own powers to fulfill it. A free people knows no other way to manage itself than by seeking the will of the majority. That majority will, however, soon become a minority unless it provides reasonable rule for all the people, a violation of which plain dictate of justice would be, in my judgment, oppression. Theories of government will rightfully continue to exist and be discussed in Indiana, but now that the tumult and passion of an election have passed, it becomes my duty and yours as well to give the best of ourselves, not only to the maintenance of a free government, but also to the honest, economical and painstaking administration of public affairs. These affairs are to be managed not with an eye single to party success, but rather with an eye single to the public weal. I have not ceased to be a Democrat, but I have pledged myself this day to regard and carefully conserve the rights of citizens who were not favorable to my election, but who, I hope, will now cheerfully accept my •ervlce so long as it is fairly rendered in the beet interests of Indiana. While the right of government comes only through the free consent of the governed, still In a larger sense, that right should never rest in any man’s hands until he promises to do his utmost to respect the views and protect the rights of alien, denizen and citizen alike, and to give to all the people his best in the way of good government, '■unawed by Influence and unbougbt by gain." This pledge I now give to the people of Indiana. Having promised you, so far as I can contribute to it, honest and faithful service by myself and by the public servants over whom I may have control, I trust I will not be considered a mendicant knocking at your gates when I suggest that there is likewise a duty resting upon you. It is true that those of you who were born to the purple of American citizenship have never verbally registered a solemn oath to be obedient to the constitution and laws of the land. Still, those who came before you and who bestowed upon you this priceless heritage have tacitly imposed that obligation upon you, and you cannot shirk its discharge if you would. As I owe to you loyal service, you owe to me respect, confidence and support untU, by lack of ability or dishonor, I may have justly forfeited the same. Ton call me governor, but what I ■ball govern depends upon yourselves; and how I shall succeed, depends upon your attitude. The most important thing in a free government is to have the people always conscious of the fact that they are themselves largely responsible for not only the system of government under which they live, but for Its due administration. There are certain verities which neither education nor evolution can change. A_peocan always have the form of government which they desire if they are wlitfne to make the necessary sacrifices to obtain it. To these, therefore, I desire to direct your attention. In a way you want freedom as thought in Indiana —are you charitable enough to Ist other people exercise the same privilege? You want freedom to worship God according to the dictates of your own consciences—are you brave enough to worship Him and generous enough to let every other man find his way into the presence of his Maker as best he may? You want free and untrammeled opinion on all public questions —are you liberal enough to promote your views without ceasing to be an American and becoming a tyrant? You believe that upon all questions you are yourself orthodox—can you grant your brother the right to entertain a different view without charging total with heterodoxy? You want honesty in public affairs —can you be honest in your private affairs and not think it would be wrong to steal a dollar while right to bribe a legislator? You want economy in expenditure of public money—are you willing that your special Interests should be as economically administered by the state as you require ths interests of other olticens to be administered? You want thoroughly competent men to Mm yoa— can be generous

; entwgh to see that thia does not acoI essarily haply your selection or the selection of your personal friend? If a member of the minority you believe the bipartisan management of state institutions Will promote the best interests of the state—are you patriotic enough to see that an election which changes you from a minority to a majority does not change the principle upon -which these institutions should be administered? The governor of this state is not authorized by your written constitution to make any laws for you. This is the function of the general assembly. The governor's duty consists tn seeing that when laws are once made, they are enforced. You say you want them enforced. Do not think that you can shirk responsibility for law enforcement by berating the officers of the law, among whom is the governor. Whenever any complaint comes to me of the lack of law enforcement in Indiana, 1t should not be sent to me as confidential, because It will not be so treated. A citizen is as much bound to bear his part of the burden of law enforcement as is the law officer. I shall very promptly send any communication Informing me of law violation to the proper prosecuting attorney with instructions to call upon the citizen to back up tn public the charges which he has privately made to me. If you are wiTltng to do your part of the work and any law officer of this state shall fall, neglect or refuse to discharge h’s duty, the present general assembly will, I believe, enact such legislation as wTTI enable me to see that the laws of this state are enforced. The peace and well-being of this state are not conserved by the multitude of criminal statutes nor the severity of punishment. W the number of crimes and misdemeanors were reduced, the degree of punishment lessened, and greater effort made to convict for every violation of the law, the peace, quietude and good order of the state would be greatly Increased. It Is the certainty and not the severity of punishment which lessens the commission of erlme. Crime should be crime to every citizen except the vicious. Legislators have been known to enact statutes at the instance of interested parties upon the theory that either the law would be automatic or that no attention would be paid to it after It was enacted. It Is the common experience of mankind, whether 'in a republic or In a monarchy, that to enforce a law which rises above the moral sentiment of the community, such enforcement breeds perjury, discontent, bitterness at feeling and local anarchy. In its last analysis, regardless of constitutions, statutes and court decisions, the law Is the moral sentiment of each particular neighborhood. Civic righteousness as a theory and civic righteousness as an accomplished fact may be in any community as far apart as senlth and nadir. The best civic righteousness is the righteousness of the Individual citizen —of the man who is honest not because it pays, but just because he is; the man who is truthful not because it is a good business asset, but because brain and heart do not suggest the lie; the man who is sober not because of public opinion, but by -reason of his own self-respect. Take all the virtues and all the graces of human life, view them from every standpoint as you may, and your sober judgment will convince you that it is tot so much the rigor of the law as it Is the regard of the individual citizen for his own well-being which marks the progress upward of a people. How often have we seen men Acquitted of statutory crime who were guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. These acquittals have come because the legal enactment was beyond and above and did not meet the approval of the moral sentiment of the community where the man was tried. How often .again, have we seen convictions of many of the statutory crimes and misdemeanors of Indiana referred to jokingly. Such convictions have ceased to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of the convicted man. He is, after conviction, as warmly received into society as he was before, and his conviction is made the source of infinite merriment by his friends. Conviction under a law which does not meet the approval of the moral sentiment of the community, as a source of merrymaking, and acquittal of a guilty person under like circumstances but tend to breed a disregard for law, lower the standard of public morals and weaken the whole fiber of the state. This condition of public ideas should be changed. It can be changed in only one of two ways. You must either insist upon the legislature wiping out many of these statutory enactments or you must cultivate within yourselves a greater degree of reverence for those enactments and you must realize that the punishmnt which the state inflicts is only supplemental to that punishment which public opinion should inflict upon the law violator. Be prudent and conservative, therefore, in the requests which make to your legislators for statutory enactments. The gray dawn of the twentieth century has not changed the truth that legislative enactment looking toward the making of men honest, or truthful, or industrious, or wise, is “as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” It has been suggested to me from a good but not thoughtful source, that the province of human government is to promote good character. As great national reforms never work down, but always up. so character is builded from the inside of the individual man, and not from the outride. A great Englishman declared that you could not indict a people. May I be permitted to add that the Indiana legislature cannot baptize the state? The best form of government cannot exist in Its purity over a bad people, faestriattve eeaot&ents should

not precede, but should succeed, ctrk reform. As you want and hope tc have your fathers’ government endure and your fathers’ God to smiie upon you, so I beg you to be zealous in pro motfng all the virtues of private life among yourselves; never to use a dis ferent rule in dealing with public officials than you would use in the private affairs of life; to be as zealous in granting to every other man the righl to life, liberty and to the pursuit ol happiness as you are in maintaining that right yourselves; to be ever ready to uphold your officers in the mainten ance of the majesty of the law; tc keep constantly before your minds th* fact that you are rulers in Indiana; tc strive to put into the life of the state every virtue which has blessed youi individual life; to remember when it the majority that it is not at all im probable some day you may be in the minority, and that, therefore, good cit izenshlp consists as much in decent treatment of your neighbor as in the enforcement of your own particulai ideas. The free people of this state, undei no compulsion to act whatever, adopt ed a written constitution, as they de clared, “to the end that justice be es tablished, public order maintained and liberty perpetuated.” These seem tc me to be the functions of government in Indiana. A complex civilization throws many’ a side-light upon these propositions, and we have, in my judg ment, been paying more attention tc the side-lights than to the principles involved in good government. What we need is not reform, but regenera tlon. For many years that body of oui Citizenship which represents the cap ital of the state has been jealously watching the general assembly lest in its enactments it should pass some law which would be inimical to the interests of capital. On the other hand labor has also watched and importun ed the legislature not to pass any en actments which would be inimical tc it and of benefit to capital. To a less extent here perhaps than in many oth er of the commonwealths of this coun try the war between labor and capital is being fought. It might be appropriately described as a state of armed neutrality. This, however, is not the attitude which ought to be maintained between men, every one of whom ought to understand that the business of government as defined by the con stitutlon is not to promote business and It Is not the business of business to control legislation. A rebirth in the minds of all the men of Indiana, an awakening to the fact that justice car never be established where legislation enables one man to obtain a special privilege over another man, public or der maintained where jealousy and bit terness of heart exist, and liberty per petuated where one man thinks that he has inherently a better right to pro tection at the hands of the law than another, will result, I trust, in a new point of view for the capitalist and ths laborer; will help each of them to un derstand that they are all brethren ir this American commonwealth, having equal rights, equal privileges, and en titled to equal opportunities. If ths passion and the tumult of the past can be allayed, and these twp great inter ests so essentially necessary to the prosperity of this people can be per suaded to meet in a spirit of mutual reepect and mutual esteem, we may safely look forward to the time when without legislative enactments, each will sheathe its sword and grasp the hand of its opponent in friendship. 1 am not yet ready to concede that classes will permanently exist in a land of manhood suffrage. The battles won by either side in the past have not been worth the winning. We all do in anger the things we wish in our calm er moments we had not done. Legis lation will be necessary in the future as in the past, but let us legislate in a spirit of equity rather than in a spirit of revenge. And so, my fellow-clitzens, let us ap proach the discharge of our duties with reverence for the high ideals upon which our system of government i« founded, and with a renewed sense of the personal responsibility which rests equally upon every man in Indi ana to see that all the inherent rights of the people are preserved; that officers do not usurp any function of gov ernment which has not been expressly delegated to them, but give to the people an honest, economical and businesslike administration of public affairs. These are the ends toward which, doubtless often bliudy, I will strive. To the attainment of them, may I not ask your hearty co-operation byway of advice, assistance, constant watchfulness and a genuine effort ev erywhere in Indiana to elevate, if need be, and hold aloft constantly these in slgnia of good government and these banners of victorious conquest over all those foes who are inimical both tc the best form of government and its best administration? THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Recommendations Touching Upon th* Welfare of the State. Following is Governor Marshall’* first message to the legislature: I recommend that you immediately employ a non-partisan expert, if need be, residing out of this state, to enter the various offices in the state house, examine the work which is done there in. report to the committee on appropriations what would be a liberal salary for the official, how much clerical assistance he needs, what such assistance should be paid, and what offices if any, can be abolished without detriment to the public service. In the interests of integrity, I recommend that you put every official in Indiana upon • fixed, definite and certain salary, tc

; which, by no cecstruction of law, shall i any sum be ever added; the adoption of a uniform system of bookkeeptag so i guarded that it cannot be copyrighted;• the examination of public records at tr- : regular intervals in such a manner as; will not Interfere with the right of local self-government; the auditing oi all public accounts, showing in every : instance upon such account the origI Inal contract or the section of the statI ute authorizing the payment of the i money and requiring all vouchers isi sued in pursuance thereto to have a like showing; the abolition of county councils, township advisory boards, and ■ perhaps other officials; the putting ol county commissioners and all other > public officials under adequate bond i with a proviso that the statute of ihnii tations shall not begin to run either criminally against the official or civilly against his bandsmen until after notice and demand to repay; preventing 1 any official of this state either individually or as a member of a corporation i from entering into or deriving any profit whatever from any public coni tract; requiring all fines, fees and for feitures to be entered on the public > records, promptly collected, turned into the treasury, and making the offi- ; clal whose duty it is to collect liable upon his bond if he does not collect t the same, whenever collectible; and j providing for the food and and clothing e of prisoners in jails and elsewhere at actual cost upon open bids received 3 therefor. 5 Investigation of Public Offices. 1 The public is not only desirous of ( having frequent investigation of all , public offices, but such investigations > are a check not only upon dishonesty, ’ but also upon extravagance. The system of fees and contingent allowances is likely to lead to extravagant and unwarranted use of public funds. 1 therefore recommend the investigation of the public offices under the state government for the purposes of ascer talning whether there has been any extravagance In their management and whether the letter of the law has been strained in order to obtain extra . allowances. If doubtful, Illegal or un- , constitutional allowances shall have been made, I request authority to bring , the necessary suite to compel a recov- ; ery of the money into the state treas- “ ury. With the corps of assistants in the attorney general’s office, it would seem that special counsel ought not to be employed by the state, but such counsel, from time to time, have been employed. I know nothing whatever as to the necessity therefor, and so say nothing upon the subject. I think, however, that economy and competency can be secured by giving the gover nor a special counsel, whose business it shall be to prosecute and defend all sui’s which the governor may direct ’ him to take charge of, and to advise generally with the governor. f Amendment of Election Law. i- In my judgment the election law 3 should be so amended as to definitely ■ provide for speedy returns and the safeguarding of the same to the satis i faction of all parties interested In an J election; for the contest of offices in such away as to guarantee a solution e erf the contest; and for the adoption oi a primary law not only for the nom 1 ination of candidates, but for the elecI tion of delegates to all state and othei conventions, to the end that the peo i pie may not turn their government = over to the hands of designing politi--1 clans. And I suggest that in such pri I mary election the people be permitted ’ to vote upon their choice for United E States senator. t This administration, whether justly 1 so or not, will be held responsible for the conduct of its officials. I request, therefore, that you Invest the governor = with power to remove, without cause ! any appointive officer in this state 1 whenever in his judgment such remov al will be beneficial to the public ser- > vice, and I recommend that you invest E him with authority to remove any elec e tlve officer who shall refuse, when callI ed upon, to enforce any law of this E state, preserving, however, to such of- > fleer the right of appeal from the decision of the governor to the supreme e court. New Railroad Commission. ; The general assembly of this state . in 1905 enacted what is commonly called "A Railroad Commission Law.’’ In 1907 it either passed or pretended ] to pass an act amending certain sec ; tions thereof. The preamble ie vague uncertain and does not disclose what , act was attempted to be amended, I Whether the present commission is de jure and whether its orders are leI gal, are mooted questions. To prevent useless litigation, I recommend the re , peal of all acts upon the subject and I the passage of a new one. * * There are now 10,000 grade crossings In Indiana where lives are constantly being lost. It is Immaterial whether these deaths are caused from the negligence of the persons or the railroads. Steps should be either taken to enforce the , present law or it should be so amended as to look to the ultimate wiping out of grade crossings in Indiana. The problem confronting the people 1 of this state with reference to corporations and stock and bonds which have been watered, is one that can not I be equitably adjusted offhand. Whethei we can remedy the evil of the past or , not, we can prevent a continuance ol it for the future. I recommend, therefore, an amendment of the corporate laws of Indiana In toto if possible, 11 I not, to the extent that hereafter a dollar’s worth in money or in property of the fair value thereof in the market must go into every corporation for every dollar of stock, and no bonds shall ever be floated until dollar for dollar shall pass into the treasury ol »he eocpozattoa fioattaff* tbe cam*.

- Civil Service Examination This people will not tamely submit to the creating of an office-holding class, because that class soon comes , to stand with the administration and < soon believes itself to be the master and not the servant of the people. Al the same time they do demand com potency In office. Though in the offices of the state the clerical assistance should be representative of the party in power, still I suggest that you al least consider whether a system oi examination can not be adopted sc that if either Democrats or Republicans are employed, they shall be com petent to discharge the duties of their offices. Department of Inspection The department of inspection in Indiana should be revised and put up on a business and scientific basis. The office of oil inspector is run upon the vicious fee system. There i are thirty-three deputies, some oi whom do not Inspect the oil in the manner provided by law, but are more interested in inspecting the check! which come in payment for their al I leged services. I recommend that the department be recognized, having a i chief inspector, whose sole duty shall, be clerical In taking charge of the! I reports of the subordinate officers and* seeing that the fees are promptly paid : into the state treasury; and that there I be a deputy Inspector for each con gressional district in Indiana, one and no more, whose salary shall be fixed with reference to the work which hat heretofore been done in the several congressional districts of Indiana, the 1 fees remaining as they are, but to be covered into the state treasury. I know nothing on the subject of in ' snranee except that there are a great many complaints about the present status of the law. I therefore reoom--1 mend that if possible you take up this 1 question, and if needful, revise the Insurance department in the state of ' Indiana. , Repeal Metropolitan Police Law. i The metropolitan police law Is a violation of the doctrine of local self- ! government. I recommend its Im I mediate repeal. There are certain phases of propo sed legislation which can scarcely b« distinguished from paternalism or Soi ciallsm. S«hernes of all kinds will be i presented to you. 1 can not prevent, i and will not attempt to prevent, youi • yielding to these demands, but I think your sober judgment will appreciate > the fact that under the guise of admin ■ istering a free government, we are, in reality, rapidly turning all the • functions of government either into a business asset or a guardianship over i the Incompetent, the ignorant and the 1 shiftless. In making your appropri I atlons you must not forget that oui i revenues are constantly being antici pated, and that only the most rigid economy will meet our needs without | a bond issue. i Useless Offices - The present cities and towns act has, in my judgment, over burdened cities 1 of the third and fourth classes with > useless officers and extravagant sal i aries. They do not add to the effleienI cy of the public service and are a burden upon the taxpayer. The aol should be amended and the useless [ offices abolished. In this connection 1 wish to express my dissent against the 1 power of common councils in cities ol the fifth class to compel street im provements which mean practically 1 confiscation of property. The majority 1 of property towners in cities of that class should have something to say ' with reference to such improvements. [ The hour has gone by when it is ■ necessary to beg investors to accept ! franchises. Hereafter municipalities should be prohibited from granting ■ franchises until the price the public Is to pay to enjoy them is clearly defined, and the municipality Is permit 1 ted to share In the profits arising therefrom. State Boards. ’ In 1903 the general assembly created a state board of pardons. As it now , exists it is a partisan board. It has authority to employ a competent clerk, who shall also be a stenographer, at a salary of 9900 a year. The state ! board of pardons has not made use oi the services of this clerk and sten ' ographer for more than twenty days I in any one year. The services of that clerk during the rest of the time have been at the disposal of the governor. I In conformity with what ought to be the settled policy of this state, I rec > ommend that this act be amended s« as to provide for a bipartisan board, t and I further recommend that one ol the stenographers in the governor’s I office be required to act as the clerk ■ and stenographer of the state board ■ of pardons without additional compen- : sation. i The number of boards and commls- : sions in this state is startling. In- • stead of increasing the number ol ; commissions, in my judgment they should be curtailed. The state beard ; of health has not had that support from the state of Indiana which its i laudable efforts in behalf of the public health and the dissemination of the i knowledge of preventive medicine I among the people of this state de- : serve, nor have the local boards of ■ health been always selected with an : eye single to the public welfare. Ths powers of these boards of health should be enlarged so as to give them I jurisdiction over the pollution ol i streams, the sources of water supply, ventilation, lighting and plumbing of tenement houses, and a general disaretlon as to health requirements. I subject only to the right of appeal fol the event of unnecessary and oboox I lest requirements. Appointments I ahonM b* made not excluetvsly for

i “ “ pc lit! cal sertvees rendered, but upon ’ the ground of competency and fidelity to duty. The study of the cause and cure of tuberculosis Is a laudable one The same may be said of epilepsy. Nc better management, in my judgment ' can be obtained than that of the stats board of health, It will not do, how ! ! ever, to turn these two Institutions j into free sanitorla. For many years ; the people of this state have been paying all the expenses of Insans wards aside from clothing. Wherevei charity demanded this to be done, II was right, but there are many Inmates of our insane asylums who have funds amply sufficient to provide tor th* wants of those dependent upon them at home, and still have sufficient prop erty left, either in whole or in part, tc support themselves. All such insane epileptic or consumptive patient should be compelled to support them selves, either in whole or in part, and the burden ought not to rest upon 1 the people of this state. Let us deal ■ generously with the unfortunate of the state, but let not the state support ‘: those who are able to support them'; selves. Charges of a Grave Character. The erection of what is known as ' the Indiana School of the Deaf and j I Dumb was, during the recent cam ; ‘ paign, attended with charges of such 1 a grave character, involving not only; I the amount of money expended, but J also the manner of its expenditure and' i the stability of the buildings when j completed, and the erection of th* , Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the , Insane near Madison having also beer brought into controversy, I recommend either a nonpartisan or bipartisan Investigation of these two institu- 1 tions which shall involve a report from ’ thoroughly competent architects dk I vorced from any political significance whatever, to the end that we may , know whether when these building* are completed they will be safe and durable. There is a crying demand foi 1 the erection of an asylum for ths crim 1 taal insane. The problem Is, how tc 1 meet this demand without additional i expenditure of money. It Is possible , that a sale of the real estate occupied by the School for the Blind and the woman's prison would furnish suffi cient money to erect at different placet a modern school for the blind, a worn an’s prison and a hospital for the criminal insane. The state geologist has done a valuable work for Indiana, but that work is probably completed except the making of a evil survey for this state That survey has already been under taken by the national government, and several of the counties of this state have been surveyed accordingly. Be fore continuing this office be sure that it is worth $7,500 a year to the people of Indiana. Conservation of Timber. The conservation of •timber in Indiana, which will always remain an agricultural state, is to be obtained by leo Mires delivered to the farmers in the various counties erf the state by educated men who know the soil conditions and the grade of timber which will grow In such soil. The object lee son which we have in Clark county is too far away for most of the farmers in Indiana to induce them to make a journey for the purpose of seeing I 1 what the state is doing. The depart l ment is not in charge of an educated 1 forester. I recommend the sale of this tract of land, the appointment of a 1 state forester and an assistant, whos«l business it shall be to deliver populai 1 lectures to the people of the stat* 1 upon this Important question. The ' most that can be hoped for Is to Induce the farmer to use his waste land as a timber lot. Educational Institutions. 1 It Is your duty to foster and main tain the educational institutions of In ! dlana, but you should not be so lavish in the appropriations of money as tc enable these institutions to destroy private educational institutions which are furnishing, without any cost to the people of the state, educational ad vantages to a large number of its cit izens. The state should own all prop erty of every institution supported by it. whether educational or benevolent. If the state is to assist further the state board of agriculture It should have control of that board and ite property. A Final Word. There are many other matters that have already come to my attention tc which I should like to direct yours, but I have already overburdened you with suggestions, many of which may not meet with your approval, and some of which the limited time in which yo« are in session will prevent you from considering May I offer as an incentive to the diligent discharge of youi duty my firm belief that such discharge will meet not only with the si lent but with the openly avowed appro bation of the people of this state, and may I suggest to you further that you ( proceed with caution in the passage ol 1 any legislation? Undigested legisla I tion must inevitably result in evil tc the body politic. Your record will bs made not by the amount but by th* cbarater of the work you do. Let what is done be done after mature delibera tion in the interests of the whole people, striving ever to establish justice maintain order and promote liberty among the people of this state. “Th* world is governed too much,” there fore, consider whether the throwing ol the people upon their own resource* may not be better for them than the I enactment of many statutes defining I

their duties and fixing their conduci among themselves. If at any time yon or any of your committees should deem my Judgment to be of any value I to you In any proposed legislation, 1 I am your, as I hope to be the public's, obedient servant, 1 THOMAS R. MAP3HMA.

—: — A STARTLING New York Medical Authorities Cl-Sfrfl Dyspepsia Causes ConsumptioiH|||| The post mortem statistics of BEB 1 ig Xi-v. York hopitals show that j cases of consumption are due to checked dyspepsia, especially w'Htfl the victim wes predisposed to tin culosls. SHH Dyspepsia wears out the body IEK brain, the weakened, irritable st*Kgj ach is unable to digest food, the > flEg does not receive the required no MH ishtuent. const it flat ion ensues and victim becomes thin, weak and fard. As a result, the body u fertile field for the germs of diseaftm to lodge and flourish. Swß Therefore, the person who pernE® dyspepsia to progress unhindered El® guilty of contributing toward the belopment of one of the most insidi,WK . and fatal diseases known to I ew Dyspepsia is curable ij. | treated. The Smith, Yager & Drug Co. sell a remedy which t iposotively guarantee will cure inH»! 'gestion or dyspepsia or they will (HE I for all the medicine used during I trial. This remedy Is an absolut-EU [new medical discovery and has b*HK named Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. tainly no offer could be more fair, the offer of the Smith. Yager ADiug Co. is proof positive that RexKK Dyspepsia Tablets are a dependalHß and infallible remedy. Inasmuch KB the medicine will cost you nothingßji it does not benefit you we urge yKH who are suffering with indigestion KR dyspepsia to try this remedy. Eag twenty-five cent boj of Rexall DysptSgA sia Tablets contains enough medicigßS for fifteen days' treatment. RenießK bcr Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are orKS sold in Decatur by the Smith, YagKl fc Falk Drug Co. WHAT PARISIAN SAGE WILL iKs OR MONEY BACK. zw Stop falling h:®R two weeks. /VpARiSIAN 1 cure dandruff YMk AGE J two weeks. stop spiittijSf ha ' r ‘ I Stop itching immediately. -v Grow more haduK' •*' Make harsh Soft ’ and luHj Iff uriaßt - f Brightens up I hair and eyebrowHi iSj;■ As a h air d res Stß ■lwliM lng ls without peer —contai'.Ss R.N nothing that cigtf l&J mEB possibly harm 'jßfi hair, it is not sticky, oily or grim®] ' —it is used by thousands to keep tlfizE .hair healthy—it prevents as well I cures disease. g® I For women and children it is t ® most delightful dressing and shouH be in every home. Holthouse DnM Co. sells it for 50 cents a large boffl i tie. g PUBLIC SALE. to The undersigned will offer for saW iat his residence, one mile south Beery church, beginning at 10 o'clocj® a. m., Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1909, the foffl lowing property, to-wit: Horses—Fois bead horses, one grey brood mare conjra ing 9 years old, one brown brood marH coming 8 years old, 1 sorrel horse fl years old, one spring colt Belgiaiffl Cattie —One good Jersey cow, will bg fresh In June, one spring calf, onn good Jersey cow, one ChesterwhitM male hog, one Scotch Collie dog, fouM cr five dozen chickens. Farm Impleflj ments —One Smith wagon, two tols buggies, one set of heavy work hary! ness, two sets of single buggy har® ness. one pair of bobsleds, one MonjjS arch riding cultivator, one 18 sprinipj tooth harrow, one breaking plow, on-® double shovel plow, one float, foddejS in field .one bushel red clover seed. Terms —$5.00 and under cash on da;® of sale; over $5.00 a credit of ninfl months time will be given to purchasS er who gives approved security. Foafl per cent off for cash. CHARLES W. ANDREWS. I J. N. Burkhead, Auct. $ q ’K Mother Gray's Sweet Powders fog Children. I Successfully used by Mother Grayg nurse in the Children's Home in Nevffi York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomfl ach, Teething Disorders, move an<S regulate the bowels and Destrofl Worms. Over 10,000 testi~onialsß They never fall. At all Druggists® 25c. Sample FREE. Address, Alleq| S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. fe o — « FREE—IOc. package Donkey's Layinm Tonic and 25c. Poultry Book. Brian ad. to Smith, Yager A Fklk. By maftS Tc. 249-30®

FIVE DOLLARS and more per da£ can easily be earned by selling oiuEM Special Men’s Ladies’ and Children'® hosiery from the Mill direct to conJH sumer Experience unnecessarytPadM rr.snent position to vomen. Address Mills, Reading, Pa.