Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — The Demoralizing Lottery. [ARTICLE]

The Demoralizing Lottery.

Harper’s Weekly. i Through its immense ramifications the Louisiana lottery reaches into every part of the country, seducing toe ignorant and idle and unwary with -he hope of making a sudden fortune by a small venture, and kindling the consuming passion for gambling which has widely ruined character and happiness. The reputable press of the whole country, by exposure of the facts and by cordial sympathy, can assist most effectively the honest citizens of Louisiana who are striving to destroy this vast power of corruption in their State and in the Union. The action of Congress also may well be invoked to prohibit toe use of the mails to carry lottery tickets and documents, as they are forbidden to transport obscene and other similar matter. Local dealing in tickets can he forbids den in the States and the introduction of lottery prizes may be prevented. But the exposure and the comments of the press can put the Louisiana lottery under the ban of National reprobation, so that the leaders and agents of the mischief may be pilloried in public condemnation and contempt. The fraternity of (he States ean not he better illustrated than by their common interest and effort in so good a cause as the overthrow of the Louisiana lottery. The United States is consuming five tons of pig ii-on now where four were consumed a year ago, and yet there are those who deplore the languishing industries of the country. We wish to say to our readers that Dr. Prices’ Delicious Flavoring Extracts Of Orange, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., are the finest, purest and most natural flavors we have ever used. They are made from the true select fruit and aromatics, The common flavoring extracts in the market bear no comparison for fine flavor, to Dr. Prices’s. Unless it rains pretty soon corn bread will next season hold high its head on the menu alongside the terrapin and canvas-, back duck. A. M. PRIEST, Drugg et, Shelbyvllle, Ind., says: ‘'Hall’s Catarrh Cure gives the nest of satisfaction. Can getplenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes It.” Drugglss sell it, 75c. It is the waste basket that knows most about the throws of poetry. “Where dirt gathers, waste rules.” Great saving results from the use of SAPOLIO. It is a solid cake of Scouring Soap used for all cleaning purposes except the laundry. When the United States officers prosecute counterfeiters they send good money after bad. There has never been anything discovered that will equal Dobbins’ Electric Soap for all household uses. It makes paint look like new, and clothes as white as snow. Our wash-woman says it is a pleasure to use it Ask your grocer for it. A Long Branch belle has a girdle made of silver dollars, and it looks like a waist of money. Invalids, aged people, nursing mothers, overworked, wearied out fathers, will find the happiest result* from a Judicious use of Dr. Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters. Where the liver or kidneys are affected, prompt action is necessary to change the tide toward health, ere the disease becomes chronic, possibly incurable, and there is nothing better to be fonnd in the whole range of materia medica. Sold everywhere.— No, “Constant Reader,” it is not called a baby farm because they raise children on it. Quite the contrary; it is where they do not raise children. Don’t let worms eat the very life out of your little children. Restore them to health by giving Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyer. . , ; Respect the bookkeeper’s refusal to go ut with the hoya at night. He knows p'ere is a day of reckoning coming. Bronchitis is cured by frequent ama doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. A pocket match-safe free to smokers of “Tansill’s Punch” 50. Cigar. Bead DR, SABBEK’B ad, in another column For a disordered liver try Beecfasm’a Pfthr.

The people who yacht to he happy ought to be happy, oughtn’t they.