Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.

Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, and stock country in the world. Full information free. Addres* the Oregon Immigration Board,Portland,Oregon. We are now making small-size Bile Beans, especially adapted for children and women—very small and easy to take. Price of either size 25c per bottle. For sale by all druggists, or mailed on receipt of price. J. F. Smith & Co., St. Louis, Mo. Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c. Ip afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c. Have you tried "Tansill’s Punch" Cigar?

Piesident Harrison’s letter to Gen. Manson Internal Revenue Collector in Indiana, which has just been published, is a production far from creditable to the President. He wrote a personal note in terms of familiar friendship, soliciting an official resigna tion to relieve him from a party embarrassment. How Gen. Harrison can square this record with his declaration as Senator, as candidate and as President, it is impossible to conceive. The point is driven home by the fact that when Gen. Mauson resigned the President wrote to him another communication thanking him for his “manly and friendly course”. It does not seem to have occurred to the President that it would have been more manlj, as well as more dutiful, for him to refuse to take advantage of personal friendship to accomplish a political end. —New York Star. Tne work of the Cleveland administration laid the foundation for a new and respectable navy for the United States, and if succeeding administrations continue the work in the same faithful and satisfactory manner, only a few years hence the country will be powerful on sea as well as on land. The new steamship completed or begun during Secretary Whitney’s term admitted to be a great improvement upon any previously constructed, and equal in power and efficiency as engines of war to any vessels of their class possessed by other nations. This improvement is due to the superior executive ability of Secretary Whitney and to his faithful regard for the interests of the government, instead of the conferring of largesses upon partisan favorites, as was the custom of his Republican predecessors, who spent a great deal more money for the construction of inferior hulks that have been the laughing stock of this and every other country. The new and improved navy is another valuable mon ument to the statesmanship and fidelity of the late Democratic administration.—LaFay ette Journal.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, an old Republican paper of high standing, has apparently obtained some very important inside information m regard to the effect of Tanner’s pension poliov. It says that a statement has been prepared in outline, which shows that the a 1 lo wance made by Tanner will increase the pension expense about one hundred millions of dollars, or double what it was before his appointment. It gives it as the opinion of the secretary of the treasury that “the existing income of the government can not meet this drain upon its resources That is to say that instead of a large surplus, which gave politicians so much concern when Cleveland went out of office, there will be an actual deficiency of revenue unless Tanner’s work is undone. Isn’t this a promising beginthe Republican administration?

That part of the platform adopted by the Democrats of Massachusetts relating to pensions is worthy or reproduction. It says; “Pension legislation for the benefit of invalid soldiers or sailors who fought for their country should be just and liberal; it should be administered in a spirit of fairness and equity and in accordance with the laws of Congress, but not in tl e interest of greedy claim agents, nor with the object of emptying the treasury. Nor should the purpose of legisla tion be perverted bv the unjust discrimination ot making favored cases special, nor by the granting of thousands of dollars of arrears through rerating to officers of the pension bureau or t<*a United States senator, while needy appli cants without political influence are kept waiting for 'va mSWMm

their just dues. We condemn the ruling by which this administration, in reversal of former decisions, has thrown open the pension list of persons dishonorably discharged as an outrage upon common sense, a degradation of what should be a roll of honor, and an inn suit to every true soldier. The married man who has to chip in toward the support of his wife’s relatives sometimes ironically remarks that he didn’t marry the whole family. Well, Henry Miller, a Cincinnati shoemaker did just that act. He married a Miller girl. She died and he married her sister, who also died. Then he took a third to wife and she deceased. The! stock of girls having run out he married thoir mother. She passed away after giving birth to a child by the faithful ally of the family. Each of the departed left a daughter and the first three are astonished to discover that they are not only step sisters, but cousins, while the daughter by tne mother-in-law is not only a cousin and step-sister, but likewise an aunt to the others. She stands, too. a living proof of the fact that not all sons in law, despise mothers-in law. That was a refreshing re - mark made here Tuesday, by wholesale druggist Eliel of! Minneapolis before the nation-; al druggists’ association, to the

effect that he’d “like to know where the jobber would come out if he furnished pure drugs to the retailer.” Drugs are for the hoaling of the sick, the last persons on God’s earth who should be the victims of the greed of the apothecary. There is no class of goods that command a more ridiculous and uncalled for profit than drugs. Bromide of potassium, for instance, can be purchased at wholesae for 28 cents a pound. Go to a drug store to get a two ounce vial filled with the solution and you will pay at least five cents. Surely the margin on drags is enough to warrant the consumer in getting pure goods.—lndianapolis Sun. Mrs. Albert Smith, of Hendricks county, aged 85, is the mother of sixteen children. She has given birth to two sets of triplets and three sets of twins.