Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — He Was a Brave Soldier. [ARTICLE]

He Was a Brave Soldier.

“You were in the late war, were you not, Doctor ?” was the question put to a quack physician. “Oh, yes I” he replied, straightening himself up, “and I was accounted a very brave soldier, if I do say it myself.” “Yes,” the questioner went on, “your experience in your profession, I imagine, would necessarily make you indifferent to personal danger.” “Why so?” asked the quack. “Because you are so accustomed to lacing dwtfh.*— Philadelphia Call.

In t Nutshell —The new tariff bill needs only to be plaiiiiy understood to meet with universal acceptance by those whom revenue measures should affect —namely, the poor. It is the citizen whose one hard-earned dollar means fire, light, 1 read, that legislation must primarily protect The man with a million dollars can protect himself. First, we need in order that 70 ages should be higher and goods chea; er, cheaper wool, chemicals, fibres like jute, hemp, flax and lumber. We want cheap food and clothing, homes at fair rent and especially cheapness in iron, clay and glass. The proposed tariff bill contem[lates this; not as thor Highly as we could wish, but still with measurable improvement upon any tariff bill we have known. Moreover, in abolishing war taxation we i- lose the war.—New York Herald.