Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS LAGRIPPE [ARTICLE]

PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS LAGRIPPE

The Panama Canal promises to be about as disastrous and expensive an undertaking for Uncle Sam as it did for the French government. Already about four times the original estimated cost has been asked for, and this Is evidently only the beginning.

Theodore Roosevelt will go out of office March 4 the most unpopular president that ever occupied the president's chair, and those publishers who have contracted for his African hunting trip stories at one dollar per word are likely to be stung good and proper.

If the bill of Senator Mattingly, which has already passed the senate, becomes a law, the office of city treasurer in all county seat towns will be abolished and the duties placed with county treasurers. It will possibly then be necessary in some isolated instances to bring “friendly” law suits to compel the treasurers to perform their duties.

A moving picture man near the state house in Indianapolis that is patronized heavily by the statesmen who are engaged in making and breaking laws for the Hoosiers, is doing a very enterprising thing. He is having a film made that shows a mock legislature in session. One feature of the session is a scrap between two legislators, one from Hooppole county and the other from Mudsock, and the bone of their contention is whether or not Groundhog Day shall be made a legal holiday. Now if the makers of that film will only make it true to life, it surely will be a funny one.

Representatives pf Indiana have been in conference over the case of John R. Kissinger, of South Bend, who submitted to a bite of a yellow fever mosquito while in the army in Cuba in the interest of science. Kissinger is now drawing a small pension of sl2 a month and the Indiana representatives want to have it Increased to SIOO a month, as he is in bad shape, physically and financially. He was bitten by yellow fever mosquitoes and then treated by the best medical experts to be had there with the army. It is impossible for him to walk and he is obliged to crawl on his hands and knees. His wife supports the family by taking in washing, it is said.

We have not as yet seen a single newspaper endorsement of Mr. Halleck’s two pet measures to have a circuit judge in every county in the state, thereby doubling the expense for judges, already a huge sum, or that of having township and county dredges. Even the ‘‘organ,’’ which usually endorses every scheme

to take money from the pockets of the taxpayers, is withholding public endorsement of these proposed’ measures. The former seems to have originated in the fertile brain of a Starke county lawyer, who evidently thinks there are too many lawyers in Indiana for the amount of litigation, and wants to double up the number of judges at S3J>OO per year in order to reduce the ranks of the unemployed, but in introducing the measure in the senate Mr. Halleck does not say that it is introduced “by request,” but takes all the “glory” unto himself. Therefore he must be entitled to all the “knocks” a long-suffering tax-paying people are capable of administering.

Pneumonia often follows lagrippe but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar, for lagrippe coughs and deep seated colds. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package.