Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — Inhuman Meanness. [ARTICLE]

Inhuman Meanness.

In a certain town in Rhode Island the parents of two children, a boy and a little girl, died, leaving them to the cold charities of the world. A meeting of the local Authorities was held to decide upon action that would relieve the town of the expense of supporting the children. The matter was discussed freely, and at an adjourned meeting, held at a private residence, the children were required to be present’, and this was the way the case was managed: The boy was told to go into an adjoining room, where he would find a man asleep, in a certain described pocket of whose clothing was a five-cent piece, which he was to bring to the committee. The boy obeyed the order. The girl was sent to another room where a woman was sleeping, from whose pocket a piece of money or scrip was to be taken. She also obeyed the instructions given her, and the children were afterward arrested upon a charge' of petty larceny, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the State reformatory school during their minority. Correspondence Providence Journal. An Allegheny (Ta.) eating house keeper was fined a dollar and costs the other day for ringing his dinner-bell too loud. The huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills, constructed of crude, coarse and bulky ingredients, are fast being superseded by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or SugarCoated, Concentrated Root and Herbal Juice, Anti-Bilious Granules—the “ Little Giant” Cathartic or Afultum in Parvo Physic. Modern Chemical Science enables Dr. Pierce to extract from the juices of the most valuable roots and herbs their active medicinal principles, whlch/\when worked into little Pellets or Granules, scarcely larger than mustard seed, render each little Pellet as active and powerful as a large pill, while they are much more palatable and pleasant in effect Dr. Ira A. Thayer, of Baconsburg, Ohio, writes: “I regard your Pellets as the best remedy for the conditions for which you prescribe them of anything I have ever used, so mild and certain In effect, and leaving the bowels in an excellent condition. It seems to me they must take the place of all other ca thartic pills and medicines.” Lyon & Macomber, druggists, Vermillion, D. T., say: “We think they are going to sell like hot cakes as soon as people get acquainted with them, and will spoil the pill trade, as those that have used them like them much better than large pills.”

The Latent Triumph of Temperance. —We congratulate the temperance world on the success everywhere attend ing the use of Vinegar Bitters. Certainly no preparation containing alcohol has accomplished such cures of malarious fever, biliousness, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lung complaints, constipation, and general debility as we hear of from all quarters as the results of this famous vegetable specific. No true philanthropist will regret to see spirituous liquors expelled from medical use if they can be safely dispensed with ; and that they are not necessary in any case of sickness, whatever its character, appears at last to have been demonstrated. If public opinion is capable of making any impression upon the minds of the Faculty they will ere long introduce the most popular of modern medicines into the hospitals, and prescribe it in their practice. The millions have given the article a fair trial; it has more than answered their expectations, and no theoretical opposition can shake their faith in it. 13