Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Do You Know What a pmmiw - 8? If not, read on a little further. Tiie Perspectoscope is a new thing in Optics, just patent* ed, made to supplement the Camera, and more than doubles its value and the value of its products. It is the picture maker or the pitair e yiewv r, what the telescope is to t b e astronomer. The planets, to the natural eye, are beautiful: but when the telescope is turoed upon them they are gran C Just so with the Perspectoscooe, it reveals beauties in your pictures which you had no idea existed. It gives the true perspective from a single picture, str »w*. ing every part of the scene in the exact size, position and proportion that you saw them when you placed the camera—men just as tall, rivers as wide and mountains as distant, as if you were again looking at the objects themselves. Any one having a camera loses half the pleasure of taking pictures if he does not have this instrument. Everybody who buys a c .mera now includes the Perspectoscope as a part of the outfit. Everyone having a stock of photographs w : ll get infin* itely more pleasure out of them, if they are seen thro’ the Perspectoscope, for, whereas before a glance at a picture was suffici ant, thro this wonderful instrument one will gaze and gaze. The price of the Perspecto* scope, covered with M rocco, is two dollars; but we will send you an introduction sample for one doll r and t yenty-five cents, if you will there if ter show il to other pert ons who are int* erested in the camera or photographic pictures, and tell them where you parch* ased it, and we will agree to refun' 1 the on on return of the instrument, if it does not cone up to description. The Parliament Publishing Co 324 Dearborn St Chicago

One of the things the Democ at? man wsuld like to see: “Col.Honar jl.ctedto congress as soon as he beco ~es a full fledged lawyer.” This is certainly a case of at first sight.* Or, it may be ’’a penny a liner.” Which? In the Indianapolis News of last Friday appeared a column article concerning the members of the graduating class of The Indiana University. As er calling attention to the rapid growth of the University from 1884 when the attendance was only one hundred and forty four to the present with an attendance of one ihousand and fo'ty-nine, the article gives brief biographical sketches of sixteen of the representative membere of aclassof one hundred an/, thirty. Among those given special mention is one from this county as is shown by the following—- “ Another well-known student of the law department was Raymond Thompson, of Rensselaer, who is member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,” FOR THE ENCAMPMENT. Comrades—Rensselaer Post No. 84 will st art for the National Encampment at Cincinnati on Monday,September sth, 1898, on the 145 -m. train. Free quarters have been obtained for 30 men D H Yeoman, Pont Commander ■ J M Wasson, Adjutant. A good coach will be set out at Rensselaer for the accommodation of people who desire to attend the GAR meeting t.t Jincinnati. This ear willggo forward on Sept -sth, 1898, at 1 45 p m landing you at GA R Gamp at 1 15 in the evening- W H Beam, Agent. There is much complaint about the mismanagement of affairs at Montauk. W E Curtis, the Chicago Record correspondent says that the inefficiency shown in caring for the wounded soldiers is due so the incompeteney of those who have been appointed to positions thro’ political pulls. If this be true, the ad> ministration deserves the severest criticism for permitting such a thing to occur. We have thousands of men who the people havo educated to serve them in time of war. Such men should have been put in pharge of the Jcommissary and medical departments of tfip srmy. Almost every branch of Gigantic business is becoming conTrusts, solidated into a trust. Jtecently“the steel man ufactuiers, the makers of heayy chemi| cals and the men who control the flour millshave boen foiming combines with an aggr gate capital of $400.00( ,000. Now the wholesale grocers of the Uni ted States are at it. They have held a meeting in ±Vew York for the purpose of