Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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“Osteopathy” or “bone doctoring,” in the opinion of most intelligent people, should be placed in the sfeme category as “Christian Science.” When it comes to curing all the ills that flesh is heir to by either “treatment,” one is about as nonsensical as the other, If the legislature recognizes the Osteopathy fad, as statedit will be asked to do, it should also recognize the Christian Scientists.

'The appellate court Wednesday affirmed a judgment holding that the compensation of Henry Meer as treasurer of- Shelby county must be determined by the fee and salary law of 1891, as amended in 1893, and not by the act of 1879. He claimed an additional sum of $2,750. which would have been due him under the old act. He was elected in 1892 and the act did not become applicable to Shelby county until made so by the amendment passed the following spring. B. F. Louthain a prominent Logansport editor, relieved himself of the following as a farewell to the retiring century: “The nineteenth century is a thing of the past. He grew to be a hale, well matured old century. In His youth he enjoyed but few of the comforts and conveniences of life. His food was cooked in a Dutch oven and he had to light his pipe with a flint. He wrote his love letters with a goose quill and fastened his galluses with a thorn. Ah, little did he think that before he passed off the stage of action that he would be wearing golf suits, riding a bicycle and eating pie with a fork! When he was ushered into the world a hundred years ago the house wives leached there own lye and kept the flies away from the table with a peach sprout. There were no.. screens, no cook stoves, no carpet sweepers, no yeast cakes, no baking powder, no shoe buttons, no Chautauquas, no spring, mattresses, no, union suits, no rubber shoes, no cucumber spoons, no clothes wringers, no clothespins. Think of it! Our great-great-grandmothers a hundred years ago never enjoyed the luxury of hanging out clothes on wash day with a two-by-four sycamore clothespin between their inby lips. A century ago there were no railroads, no steamships no typewriters, no stem-winding watches, no paramount issue, no Mark Hanna! During the century the shirt waist has been discovered, the vermiform appendix has been hunted to its lair, threshing machines have come into use and the throw board has been invented. It has been a wonderful century. Good-by.”