Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Recovery is General. [ARTICLE]

Recovery is General.

Speaking of the improved condition of trade and the restoration of the government’s credit the St. Louis Globe-Democrat say h: “The country has met the peril face to face and has overcome it.— We know the worst now that was in store for us, and that worst has passed. It may be a little slow in disappearing altogether,but whether it moves slowly or quickly, we know that it can not come back.— The monthly deficits have reached their greatest figure; the gold fund has touched its lowest level. Every change in conditions that comes will be a change for the better.” “Herein is the reason why treasury deficits are no longer poitentous. Even at the worst their days can no now be long in the la v >d. The general tendency of things everywhere in the financial and business w< rid is toward im 3 rovement. This is true of Europe as well as of the United States. Whatever may have been <he ii. mediate and contributory cause of the recent business sta r - nation the ultimate causes must have been universal, for the r ef* sects were world-wide. The re. covery which ha* set in is equally general aid pervasive. The treasury may not be prompt in res fleeting the improved conditions, but even there the change will soon be apparent.” ♦ ■" ■ A Boston daily paper has just printed a long article in piaise of beer—“the aromatic, sparkling, amber fluid, which, it says, is fast becoming our national drink. It I raises beer as a food, and ns an ai 1 to digestion, and altogethe is as enthusiastic over its virtues and good qualities as if the writer were a brewer with beer to sell, On the other hand, Professor Morse, at‘a recent meeting of the Alumni Association of the Medico-Chirurgin cal College in Philadelphia, made these significant statements; “We are rapidly becoming a nation of beer drinkers, and the insidious hold gained by that incurable kid-. ney affection known as Brigfct’s disease, threatens in time to largely decimate the ranks of the beerdrinkers.” He adds that “it has been conclusively proven that beer and lead poisoning (are the principal factors in producing Bright’s

disease,” and says that “beer shon not be drunk at all, but, if uljtii should never be drawn throng* V lead pipe.” . ,- - L - - -..3 An interesting fact nag'c6mb* cas ' in connection with the Jaff* •salem railway. Turkey \ concession. France found. ital. Belgium furnished halt* tne' rails and coal. England found the other other half. Poland and Switzerland sent engineare and laborers. Greece furnished the cooks. The United States shares with Germany the man who first surveyed the road. Philadelphia supplied the engines. The nations may yet unite in doing much more important work in restoring ihe Jews to Palestine. —Thi gs to Como.

A correspondent writes us that: “Contractor Hack is hard at work on the famous Burk bridge crossing the Iroquois river 4j miles north of Rensselaer. A bridge has besn very difficult to maintain at this point on account of the nature of the soil—not being able to make a fill across the fiat adjacent. Au attempt was made to bridge the fiat also, but proving a failun the filling process was resorted to. It is said they dumped in a log school house, rumerous ricks of hay,all the brush and timber from a 20-acre forest, and sand on top of this, which hac partially served the purpose for a few years. A contractor with the nerve and patience to undertake to build a pile bridge has now been at work for two weeks or more and has succeeded in finding good foundation at from 35 to 50 feet below the surface. He occasionally has trouble in driving piles thr jugh tho old school house. The bridge is to be about 300 ft long, with bents about every 16 ft; each bent is composed of four oak piles from 35 to 50 feet in length. Upon these will bo placed sills on which to attach the flooring. Mr. Hack is sparing do pains to make a good bridge here, and I feel assured that in the near future there will be no trouble in crossing the river at this point and the people from the n rth will not have to draw their heavy loads of produce so far around to market through lack of this facility.

Sam. E. Yeoman has on hand a few more of the celebrated Snyder Garden Plows. If you wuold procure one, must call soon. <► •<■» ■*- r--,-. . Ana before the above was being scanned by the readers of tne Republican, Thurston made a suecessi.ul strike for liberty, and no lon-er does duty in the public souare under the vigilant eyes of the workhouse taskmaster. Quarterly meeting at tho M. E. Church, Sunday,- May sth. Sermon and sacrame ital service in the forenoon; love-feast at 3 p. m. Rev. J. H. Wilson, P. E, will preach at night