Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

McKinley intimates that he has only begun the work of boosting wheat. Dingleyism means a big daily deficit in the government’s income account. It is said a $1,200 farm has been entirely paid for with the proceeds of the sale of hen fruit. The opening of the public sihools at Hammond has been postponed to October, owing to prevalence of diphtheria in that city. A new use for the watermelon has been discovered. Some genius declares tha* an acre of watermelons will yield more sugar and a much finer quality than an acre of the best beets ever grown. An exchange thinks the oyster and strawberry haye each done a big part toward evangelizing the world. They have built and furnished more churches, paid the salaries of more ministers and helped more heathens than any’other two natural agencies. ’

Now comes the welcome news that the coming oystei season will be the beat in ten years. Not only are the luscious bivalves more plentiful than common but they are said to bo unusually fat and sweet. Hurrah for September with its ‘r.’’ Let it come apace and with it the oyster. So much for the new tariff? It hps increased the production of wheat anc oysters m this country, and decreased the supply abroad? ’Rah for Bill McKinley and Dingley Bill! ’Rah I !