People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

seven persons. He intends to be absent about a week or ten days. Will is a hustler and deserves to sell land whether he is successful or not. The Catholic church organization of this place is at present enjoying a ten days’ religious feast. Their principal speaker is highly spoken of as a fine orator by all who have heard him—Protestants as well as Catholics. His speech or lecture last Sunday night was on the subject of temperance. He takes the position that the meaning of the word “temperance'’ is that people should not take enough of the stuff to become intoxicated. But the trouble would seem to be: When is a person to know when he has had just enough? Who is to be judge? If a great many drinks of intoxicating liquor will make a person beastly drunk, will not a small drink intoxicate him in proportion to the amount imbibed? Then, again, is becoming beastly drunk wrong? If so. then is becoming slightly drunk not slightly wrong? The effects of a slight debauch may not be as far-reaching as a greater one. but is not the principle of the thing just as much violated in the one case as in the other? We have yet to find the man who drinks at all who knows just when to stop or when he has had enough; or, in other words, to know when he is drunk— for, when he is intoxicated to a certain extent he is certain to not know it. The speaker Sunday night said it was all right to take one drink, but not to take it to excess. We leave the matteT for your readers to judge for themselves.

The public schools will all open for business in Jordan township next Monday. Business appears to be brightening up in Remington to some extent as the weather grows cooler and winter approaches. George Hardy, ex-bankei' of Goodland, visited Remington on business matters the latter part of last week. He owns a fine farm of 160 acres 14 miles southeast of Remington. A. D. Babcock, attorney, also of Goodland, visited Remington on business matters last Saturday. A. D. was formerly a resident of Rensselaer. Ira Baker, wife and daughter of Little Rock, Ark., visited with the family of his brother-in-law, Henry Welsh, last week. Mr. Bakerand family went from here to Morocco, where he has several brothers and sisters, with whom he will visit for a short time before returning to his home in Little Rock. He was formerly a resident of Jasper county, and was a member of the Fifteenth infantry. Indiana volunteers. during the late war. Dash.