Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1897 — The Greatest Country On Earth. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Country On Earth.

The Land of Promise is down South in the eight great Southern States penetrated by the Southern Railway. One way Settlers ick ets and round trip excurs’on iekets are sold by lines leading south in connection with the Southern Railway to give people a chance to s-e that gieat country. ihe Southern Railway runs to Asheville and Hot Springs, N 0., “ihe Land of tV.eSky,” America’s greatest resort of health uid phasure. Through vestibule trains from Cincinnati and Louisville t hro’ Pullman sleepers from S . Louia via the Southern Railway. J. C. Beam, Jr., N. V. . p. A , 111 Adams St., Chicago. Win H. Tavke, A. G. P. A., Louisville Ky.

The New Dog Law.— The Indianapolis Journal says: There has been .. vast amount of agitation throughout the St .te over the new doc law pasn d by the last Legisla.ure, requiring the township assessors to collect a dollar for each dog discovere.i. If theewnerof thedogdoes not pay, anybody s privileged te kill the brute on sight The tax commissioner and the officers of the auditor and nltorney general have been showered with inquiries about the new law and its operation, most of the inquiries coming from the township ssessors who begin their work of assessment on April I. In view ol this general anxiety the tat co missioners yeste day asked an opinion of t e attorney general as to when the new law goes into effect, and he replied thatsof >r as <t relates to the duties of township assessor i it cannot become effective until the assessment is made next year. This is because the assessment is made on April 1, and the new Uw does not go into effect nntil the session acts are pnblished and psoel limed, which will be about April 20.

‘Don’t expect prosperity to come back with a jump,” says the Glm eago Times-Herald. “We won’t,” says the Kansas City Times. f, lf she enters with a glide, if she moseys in on one leg; nay, if she even syshays forward on her sursingle, or waltzes gently forward on her ears, we’ll welcome her and brush the dust off the best seat in the house for her to fit down on It don’t make one,bit of diffeieuce how she comes, But the whennese of her coming is a matter of much interest ”