Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The welfare of babies is engaging the attention of Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, and in a few days he will distribute circulars intended to reduce mortality of Indiana chil** dren. He prefaces the circular with the statement that 25 out of ICO babies cie before they are one year old and 40 or 50 out of 100 die before the end of the fifth year. Dr. Hurtv will try to reduce this large per cent. Tnis month, secretaries of coun ty boards of health will report to him the nam e and addressesof paren s to whom children were born and to these parents will be sent fro*; the circular, which will have*bnef ebapt rs on cleanliness of person and premises, fresh a r, clothing, nursery, food, diseases of childhood,sterilization of milk and sterilization of water. It is not expected that all the circulars distributed will do good. The circular deals entirely with prevents tive treatment Another pamphlet already bei- g distributed sets forth wise precautions against cholera infantum, cholera morbus and dysentery... Recent re orts show many deaths from cholera infantum A DISMA LFAILURE. Tne attempt to kil off the Wa basil Plain Dealer because its able editor, Charles Haas, had opinions of his own and the manliness to express them, has resulted in a dismal failure, as is nearly always the case i such undertaking . The paper started i. opposition to the Plain Dealer, called The Tribune, wa* the means of bankrupting severa individuals tvho put monev into it, and now, after frequent changes in management, tie paper that was started to kill eff the Plain Dealer has gone "where the woodbine twineth and the wliangdoodle mourneth.” 8o says the Va paraiso Messenger.

We invite the attention of Deni ci’ats to the art'cle cn fourth page copied from South Bend Times, concerning the attitude of Judge McCabe in the trustee case recent ly decided by the Supreme court. In response to overturea for peace, it is given out that the Uni ted States Government will de mand 1. The independence of Cuba. 2. Tue cession of Porto Rico to the United States. 3. The removal of evpry vestige of Spanish government and auth orityin the Garribean and West Indian waters, effecting a material acquisition of numerous islands over which the Spanish flag flies, one of th » most important of which is the Isle of Pines. The mater of indemitv, and son cerning the disposition of the Phi ippine3 will probably be submitted to a commission. A feature of the circus parade is the cslebiated Wallace man eating lions. Four ferocious brutes with a terrible history. Captured after having laid waste a p ovince. A present to the foreign agent of the show by the Akcond of Rajpostauah. The largest and most expen sive a imal den ever constructed contain animals, which is open in parade. Ai Rensselaxr, Wednesday, August 3d. One of the mistakes people are incliueu to make in treating a Vies tim of heat prostration is to give them wh'skev or some other stimulant This is a grave error. Cool** ing’drinks should be given and ice placed on the wrists or forehead. Every efiFort sho Id be made to keep down the tem H erature; that is the only safe method to be em* ployed. ►Some wag has figured out the difference between Uncle Samand a rooster and an old maid. He says that Circle Sam says Yankee-doodle-do, the rooster says eock-a-doodle-do, and the old maid says any-dud^’ll-dp. The Wallace Shows Have the finest horses of any show on earth... At Rensselaer, Wednesday, Au-‘ gust 3d.,

“We now claim to have a larger country circulation than any other in the county... Democrat? Yes, yes: but that plan is notori ginal with you. Your predeces sors all resorted to it, the people here understand it, and—smile Prince, one of the largest of Wallace’s elephants, died at Wabasha, Minn., a few days ago of blood poisoning, resulting from the binding chains with which the beast! ad to be fastened. Prince is the fourth elephant Mr. Wallace has lost within the last two years, and was very savage Some wteks ago he went on a rampage at Racine, Wis., and killed the keeper Wm. Anderson. Pastor Fritts will preach next Sunday night, at the First Baptist church, on the “Mistakes of Mo*< ses.'*