Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — Page 3

Millions of Cook Books Given Away.

There is one Urge house in this country that ha* taken business on its turn and means to ride in on the rising tide. Alive to the signs of better times and to the best interests of the people, they are now circulating among families a valuable publication known as The Charles A. Yogeler Company’s Cookery Book and Book of Comfort and Health, which contains very choice information on the subject of cooking. Receipts for the preparation of good, substantial and dainty dishes, prepared especially for it by a leading authority, will be found in its pages. Much care has been taken in its preparation and distribution, with the hope that it will be just the thing needed for housekeepers, and just the thing needed also for the care of the health and household. As a Cookery Book it will be invaluable to keep on band for reference. It also contains full information in regard to the great remedies of this house, which provide against bodily ailments, especially the Master Cure for Pains and Aches, St Jacobs Oil. To give some idea of the labor and expense of this output, more than 200 tons of paper has been used in its publication, and at the rate of 100,000 a day, it has taken several mouths for the issue. The book can he had of druggists everywhere, or by enclosing a 2c stamp to The Charles A. Vogeler Company, Baltimore, Md.

Night in the Desert.

R. Talbot Kelly, the English artist who illustrated Slatiu Pasha’s “Fire and Sword in the Soudan,” lias written a paper for the Century, which he calls “In the Desert with the Bedouin.” Mr. Kelly has drawn a number of striking pictures for the article. A bit of this description is as follows: Night in the desert is very solemn. Surrounded by these sandy wastes melting in the gloom, the silence of nature is almost painful, and the occasional howl of a jackal or neigh of a horse only serves to accentuate the succeeding stillness, while the wonderfully rare atmosphere makes the stars appear of such unusual size and nearness that one feels oppressed with a sense of lonely- littleness. I am often asked how I occupy my time in the desert; my reply is, “Painting.” Everything is paintable, anil the desert is always beautiful. Infinitely varied in texture and local color, prolific of wild flowers and insect life, its interest is unending, while its trackless expanse undulating to the horizon seems like an ocean suddenly petrified into absolute rest, and impresses the mind with a sense of vastness and repose which nothing, in my opinion, can equal. Again, as the effects of varying weather pass over the silent land, how perplexing are the quick transitions from gray to gold as passing sunbeams play hide-and-seek among its billows, or when the white heat of day gives place to the violets and yellows of sunset! Added to the intrinsic beauty of the desert itself are the innumerable “subjects” always ready to hand—now a goatherd watching his flock, or a party of .nrabs exercising their horses; about the tents domestic duties in full swing; a negro slave roasting coffee over a fire of cobs; black-robed women flitting from tent to tent; or a group of gaily dressed children, the girls playing “knucklebines” in the sand, the boys, as usual, indulging in the mischief readiest to hand. Everywhere a picture! An artist’s paradise, indeed, the only drawbacks of which are one’s utter inability to accomplish a tithe of the subjects surrounding one, and the discomforts aud hardships of its life. There Is more catarrh in this section of the conntrv than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to lie incurablo. For a great many years doctors pronounced It a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken Internally In doses from to drops to a teaspooijful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send for circulars -md testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. BF~Sold by Druggists, 75c.

Good Fortune.

Beggar (piteously)—Ah, sir, I am very, very hungry. Dyspeptic (savagely)—Then have the decency to keep your good fortune to yourself. I haven’t had an appetite for years.—Judge.

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WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS YOUNC, LAD. When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green, And every goose a swan, fad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown, And all the sport is stale, lad. And all the wheels run down; Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. —Charles Kingsley.

BY RUSSIAN BISHOP.

“Keep her steady, Mac, and tell Brown, in the engine-room, to stick to her present rate of speed. Seven knots, all things considered, is decent going, even downstream, on one of these Russian rivers; and then we are in duty bound, you know, to economize the company’s firewood, cheap as it is.” “Aye, aye, Capt. Burton,” cheerfully responded my tall, raw-boned first officer, entering with national alacrity into a question of thrift. Macgregor, chief mate, and Brown, chief engineer, were, with myself, John Burton by name, the only three Englishmen on board the Fair Helen, a fine steamer, of light draught but considerable engine-power, belonging to the Anglo-Russian Steam Navigation Company and built expressly for service on the Dnieper. We were pretty far to the north just then, in the government of Mohilew, where the great river first becomes navigable for anything bigger than a skiff or a fiatboat, and were coming down now with a string of rafts in tow.

Macgregor left me on his round of inspection, but I, who had just then no call of duty, remained idly leaning against the taffrail and gazing, now at the summer sky of greenish blue, now at the swampy and reed-grown shores, where herds of black buffalo and flecks off sickly sheep browsed on the rank grass, and once again at the brown waters of the sluggish Borysthenes, now swollen Jjy recent rain. Astern of the steamer was the long array of rafts which we were towing, composed of timber, cut down in the forests further north, which forms a valuable article of export to the more pastoral and treeless south of Russia. Most of these rafes had shells or straw-thatched hovels built upon them to screen the laborers from sun and rain; and at the edge of each some half dozen men .with long poles in their hands kept watch in case the clumsy craft should ground among the shallows and mud-banks. I had now spent over two years in Russia, and had acquired some little knowledge of the country, and, what was harder, a tolerable smattering of its very difficult language, while there were those who regarded me as singularly lucky in having been appointed, young as I was. to the command of the Fair Helen. The duties, however, incumbent on me as skipper of a river steamboat in Russia were not much to my inclination, and I believe I should long since have resigned my post and gone back to blue water and a sailor’s life had it not been that I fell in love and that my love was returned. Pretty Annie Clements, only child of the English manager of Prince Demidoff’s paper mills at Mohilew, was the enchantress whose bright eyes detained me in Russia, and only two mouths had elapsed since our troth-plight had received thp sanction of Annie’s father. Mr. Clements, who had from his youth up filled lucrative positions in the Czar’s dominion and had saved money, was a good type of a class of Englishmen who may be described as AngloRussians. His industry and business habits had given him a marked superiority over the people among whom he dwelt; but at the same time he was imbued with an almost superstitious respect for the government under which he had lqng lived and for every abuse and every freak of administrative tyranny on the part of the higher powers. “This must be Bykhow,” said I, starting from my reverie, as I caught sight of the copper-coated cupola of the Church of St. Michael overtopping the wooden roofs of the tiny town; “but what have we here!” I added, as a boat put off from the wharf and was soon alongside of 'the steamer, which had slackened speed in obedience to a signal from the shore. “Why, it is a bishop!” And, indeed, the most prominent personage of the group which presently boarded us was, to judge by his garb and mien, a prelate of the Russian Church. He wore gracefully flowing robes of almost Oriental aspect, and the quaint mitre, with its narrow edging of purple and gold, which distinguishes a Muscovite bishop. Behind him came three attendants —his chaplain, his crosier- bearer, and' another, who tinkled a little silver bell, at the sound of which our Russian sailors and deckmen dropped upon their knees and struggled with one another who should be the first to kiss the bishop’s ungloved hand, on which glistened a great amethyst ring.

I found the bishop, who was a young man, not more than two years older than myself, very urbane and affable. He spoke French and German, too, fluently, and was in tone and bearing quite a citizen of the world. The bishop’s business with me was soon stated. He wanted a pafSpige to the city of Kiew for himself and attendants, and also for a party of ecclesiastical students from the great monastery of Glinka, who were bound for the tame place to be solemnly inducted within the pale of the Russo-Greek priesthood by the Archbishop of Kiew. There were, moreover, some three or four nuns who desired to avail themselves of the same opportunity for returning to their abbey. At first I was somewhat puzzled. Truth to tell, the vessels of the AngloRussian Navigation Company did very little business in the passenger carrying line. By towing, by the transport of light goods, and so forth, we earned a decent dividend; but although we had an elaborate printed' tariff of charges, “the neat private cabins" and “saloon" for first-class passengers had come to be sadly conspicuous by their absence. However, the bishop, with his easy way, made things pleasant. Russians, he sAid with truth, needed in fine weather but scanty accommodation. Students, nuns and himself could rough it, only thankful for a speedy journey. And the payment he would leave to me to apportion. “A compliment,” added the prelate with a laugh and a shrug, “which I assure you, captain, I would not offer to my own countrymen. But you English have a conscience.” I did not forfeit the national reputation for fair dealing by charging Bis Worthiness—for such J believe to be the correct designation of a Muscovite bishop—too much for the meagre comfort which I was able on board the Fair Helen to supply to this clerical comj>Nty. We set to work with hammer

and saw, and as all sailors, even Russian fresh-water mariners, are handy fellows, we soon knocked up some sough cabins for the nuns, while I gave up my own quarters to the bishop. As for the *tudents, the weather was fine, and a set of hardy young fellows might surely make shift to keep the deck. There were, as It turned out, four nuns, two of them being tall, burly Tsvorniks, of that she-grenadier aspect so common among the Russian peasant women who take the vows, and the other two slight, delicate in manners and apearance, and unmistakably ladies. There were twenty-three students, well-grown lads enough, but apparently shy and ill at ease, and who huddled together in a mob when brought on board, and shunned conversation. Nor were the nuns very communicative; but the bishop, who was a fluent and agreeable talker, made amends for the taciturnity of the rest. At Stostitza, where we stopped to take in firewood, and where the overseers of the rafts went ashore to hire fresh laborers In the room of a dozen fever-stricken wretches on whom the miasma of the muddy river had done its work, and who had been left behind it at Bykhow, a sad procession went by the wharf alongside of which the steamer lay. This consisted of some thirty political prisoners, Poles, as we were told, inrnlicated in an abortive revolt near Minsk, and now on their way to Siberia. They were of all ranks and ages; some with delicate hands and faces that told of culture and refinement; others who showed the marks of honest toil; bqt all bore themselves with a certain air bf quiet dignity which seemed to impress even the half savage Cossacks who guarded them. There was something in the proud endurance of the captives which touched me. They were in chains, their clothes were worn and ragged. Their faces were wan with the pr.vations of a Russian prison, and all were footsore and weary. Yet it was impossible not to admire the patient courage of their demeanor.

“Bah! They are not of our century, these Poles,” said the bishop, taking a pinch of snuff and offering to me the gilt box with suave courtesy. "They sacrifice themselves for a dream.” We were a long time at Stostitza, for the overseer’s new hands were hard to coax away from the vodka shops,, though when they did arrive they certainly turned out to be fifteen as strapping fellows as I had ever seen; men, too, wno walked with the steady step of old soldiere. Of .this .however, since conscription passes half the peasantry through the ranks, 1 thought little, but gave orders to cast off the moorings, get up a fuller head of steam to make up for lost time, and push on to Rogaczew, our next halting place. Four versts down the river I caught the gleam among the tall reeds of the bank of Cossack lance points, and soon, rounding a head-land, descried the kafila of prisoners. These latter marched but slowly, and their mounted guards, under the orders of an officer in green uniform—a major, as I guessed by his medals and the glitter of his epaulettes— driving them on with blows and threats. Just as we came abreast of the captives I heard the overseer of the rafts shouting hoarsely orders which seemed worse than useless, for by some mismanagement of the poles the raftsmen had grounded one of the cumbrous structures on a sand bank. The tough towrope jerked and creaked. “Stop her, there below —reverse engines!” I called out; but scarcely had I done so before, to my utter amazement, the travelling bishop drew from beneath his purple-hemmed cassock a silver whistle and blew a long, shrill note. The effect of this signal-call was magical in its rapidity. Wading waist-deep in the water, the raft-workers whom we had taken in at Stostitza hurried to shore, scrambled up the slippery bank and rushed like so many tigers upon the escort that guarded the prisoners. “Ha, traitors! Cut the villains down!” thundered the Russian major, whisking cut his saber and aiming a heavy stroke at the first assailant who reached him; but a cudgel parried the blow, and in less time than it takes to tell it the officer was disarmed and dragged from his saddle. Of the nine Cossacks eight were dismounted and bound without any serious resistance, but the ninth eluded the hands that clutched at his bridle, fired, wounding the man nearest to him, and, wheeling his shaggy steed, rode off at a gallop, pursued by a storm of pistol balls and curses. “Help, Captain! Cap” gurgled in choking accents a well-known voice, and I looked round, to see Macgregor vainly struggling in the grasp of three ecclesiastical students, one of whom held him by the throat. Another of these interesting neophytes was pressing the muzzle of a revolver to the forehead of the scared helmsman, while five or six had found their way to the en-gine-room, to Judge by the sounds of scuffling that proceeded from the hatchway.

“Secure him!” cried the false bishop, pointing tp me, and three young fellows, all well armed and all With their black robes disordered and revealing the very secular garb which they wore beneath, rushed upon me. Bewildered as I was, the English Instinct of giving as good as I got prompted me. One antagonist, stunned by a well-directed blow, dropped like an ox beneath the pole-axe; a second was tripped up and the pistol wrested from his grasp; but then a flash of blinding fire glared before my eyes, and next all grew black and hushed and quiet, and the very world seemed to swim away from me as I fainted.

When I regained my senses it was night. The stars were twinkling above us and the wash and ripple of the river were the first sounds which reached my dulled ear. How my head ached! The throbbing pains it occasioned me made me try to lift my hands to my brow, but I could not stir. I was bound and helpless, and I groaned aloud. “Is it you, Capt. Burton?” said a lugubrious voice near me. “ ’Deed, then, but I’m glad to hear ye speak, though it is that way, for I thocht ye were dead.”

“What has happened, Mac?” I asked feebly. “Can you not help me get up? Who boarded us—pirates, or”: “Nae pirates, captain,” interrupted the mate. “The job’s a poleetical one, nae doubt, and Sharpe himself was a saint to you fause-tongued loon o’ a bishop, as he ca’ed himself, the ringleader o’ the gang. And as for helping ye, laddie, how can I do it, seeing I lie here, tied neck and heels, like a calf for the shambles? Brown and the fireman and the rest of the crew are all in irons below, with the hatches battened down over them. The overseer and the raft laborers have run off, frightened, puir chiels, out o’ their bits o’ wits, and the major and his Cossack reivers are about as comfortable, Capt. Burton, as oursel’s. Our best hope is in the coming o’ the police.” But, alas) when the polioe and military, in the gray dawn, caihe lagging up in obedience to the summons of the solitary Cossack who had ridden off unharmed, we found that from the Polish frying-pan we had been promoted to the Russian fire. The major, who had passed some hours in impatient durance tied to a willow tree, with a gag between his teeth and ’ a cord around his wrists, actually foamed with rage When we were hustled into hts presence. “But for your help, English houuda,"

he reiterated, "yonder rebel scum coott not have interfered with the Emperor’s Justice. Prisoners have been rescued, loyal soldiers have been bruised, disarmed and deprived of their horses. I myself Here, corporal, take the scoundrels away. They shall suffer for the success of their rascally accomplices.”

Macgregor and Brown, being able to I walk, were sent off to Kiew. each with : hts right wrist chained to the stirrupleather of a mounted policeman, while I I ,on account of the weakness caused by ! a severe blow on the head inflicted with I the butt end of a pistol, was conveyed i in a jolting country cart to Tchernigov, where I was duly lodged in prison. Very bitter were my reflections as I lay on my hard pallet bed watching the ' scanty sunbeams that played upon the i barred window of my cell and listening j to the shrill squeaks and pattering feet | of rats distressingly tame that haunted ; the jail. What was I to do? My emI ployers would probably supersede me as commander of the Pair Helen. Of Siberia I bad no serious fear, but a long imprisonment might end only in expulsion from Russia. Annie was lost to me. I knew the rooted prejudices of her father too well to believe that he would ever accept a son-in-law who had conspired against the imperial authorities. And who was to persuade Mr. Clements that I was blameless in the I matter? I could fancy him in his armchair stolidly declaring, in reply to Ann|e’s pleadings on my behalf, that there was no smoke without fire, and that as I had made my bed so I must lie. And so weeks went by. “Mr. Burton, or Capt. Burton, you are free!” It was an officer of rank who spoke, pleasantly enough, tapping his boots with his gold-mounted riding whip as he stood on the damp stone floor of my cell, with the door open behind him, admitting welcome air and daylight. “Your innocence and that of the other British subjects confined at Kiew has been at last fully proved by the confession of the principal rebel, Count Demetrius Sobieskl, wounded and taken at Wilna. Ah, I see you do not know of whom I talk. Well, he was your passenger.”

“The bishop?” I asked, half stupefied. “Yes, the bishop,” replied the general with a laugh. “The students and the last batch of raft laborers being, all of them, disbanded Polish soldiers who were willing to risk their lives for the rescue of the Minsk prisoners; an exploit in which they succeeded only too •completely. As for the nuns, two of them were men in female apparel and the others were simply Polish ladies of noble birth whose husbands were among the exiles, and who were resolved to aid in their deliverance or to follow them to Irkutsk. Your vessel, the Fair Helen, you will find at Kiew, with your mate and engineer on board of her. And now, Mr. Burton, it only remains for me, on the part of the government, to express our regrets, &c.” Annie and I are married, years since, and I command a ship of which I am part owner, but we do not live within the range of green-and-white frontier posts that mark the Czar’s dominions.

SAVING THE LAST DIAMOND.

The Remaining One of an Heirloom Clus, ter in a Man’s Tooth. A new way to keep a diamond from being lost or stolen has been discovered by F. Van Craennroeck with the aid of a Hyde Park dentist, instead of having the gem Bet in a ring or stnd Mr. Van Craengroeck caused the precious stone to be placed in a cavity in one of his teeth, where it will be both ornamental and useful, and probably in no danger of falling into the hands of thieves. This particular diamond has a known history that extends back through the French revolution and four generations of the young man’s family. It was to preserve it, and not because he needed it as a toothfilling, that he had the stone set in an upper bicuspid. The diamond Is a small one, weighing only an eighth of a carat, but it has been carefully cut. Originally It was set with twenty-six others in a geld band ring belonging to Mr. Van Craenbroeck’s great-great-great-grandmother, who was a native of France. The ling went through successive generations, and each new possessor lost some of the gems. Finally, when Mr. Van Craenbroeck obtained the ring from bis mother several years ago there was only one diamond left. Some time ago Mr. Van Craenbroeck’s mother died, and he was especially anxious to preserve the diamond as a memento of her. The ring, having lost its setting, was of little value as a keepsake. Dr. Fredus A. Thurston, whose office is in the same building as that of Mr. Van Craenbroeck, volunteered to set the gem in a tooth, where it couid not fall out, probably would not be found by thieves, and would be a pleasing addition to a smile. A hole was drilled in the front of the first upper bicuspid tooth in such a position that when the diamond was set it would sparkle in plain sight whenever the young man smiled. The cavity was drilled round, but the stone had been cut with one large facet and many small ones. The hole was only deep enough to admit a part of the stone, the remainder being allowed to project from the tooth like the setting of a ring.

The cavity was finally filled full of tooth cement, and the diamond was pressed into it. The large facet was left on the outside. Then the dentist took a small mallet and a bit of wood and pounded the diamond into place, just as is customary in filling teeth with gold. When the pounding was complete the setting of the stone was ended, with the exception of scraping away the cement from the edges of the diamond, which will be done later. It required the most careful handling to keep the diamond from getting lost. Whenever it dropped out of the cavity during the fitting process the sparkle was all that enabled the dentist to find it. Once or twice it dropped to the floor, and the owner of the diamond and the dentist had a long search for it. The precious tooth-filling shines best by lamp light, when it is visible across a good-sized room. Even by daylight, however, the sparkle of the gem will be sufficient to attract attention whenever its owner parts his lips. As it is placed at the front of the tooth the setting will last a lifetime. Jt is said that this is the first case of a diamond being used in Chicago as a tooth-filling. The experiment has been tried in New York in one or two instances, and in Europe, but there is no known instance where a gem with the historical interest of this one has been set in such a queer place to preserve the stone and not the tooth.—Chicago Tribune.

A Horned Rabbit.

J, C. Rutledge, of Kansas, la reported to have killed a horned rabbit. The animal did not differ materially from -the ordinary cottontail found In nearly every part of the country, except that at the base of the ears there cropped out two horns, each a little over two inches in length and about an inch in circumference, Thimbles made of lava are extensively used In Naples, Italy.

WHAT FOLLOWED LA GRIPPE

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Two Cents' Worth of Gas.

In a lecture recently delivered at Hie Royal Victoria Hall, London, Prof, Carlton J. stated that thirty-seven cubic feet of gas, which Is valued at one penny (two cents), and weighs about 1(4 pounds, can generate altout one pound of water when burned, and altout nineteen cubic feet of carbonic acid. It can heat thirty gallons of water from 50 degrees to 110 degrees for a bath, or It can boil eight gallons of water In good kettles, and make tea for sixty-four persons. It enu work /i oneliorse power gas engine for one hour, or lift a weight of eighty-eight tons ten feet high, doing the work of six men for one hour. It can melt ten pounds of Iron, and make a casting in- twenty minutes, which ordinarily would require two hours and thirty pounds of coke. It can braze a metal Joint In two minutes, wnieh would require twenty minutes in a forge. If burned in a sixinch flue for ventilation purposes, it can induce 80,000 cubic feet of pure nlr. It can give you a brilliant light i Weisbnch Incandescent) of fifty cnudle power lor nine hours. It can, In a good radiating stove, eomfortnbly warm a room sixteen feet square for an hour. It can easily cook a dinner for eight persons.— Practical Engineer.

A Marvelous Accident.

Henry Sutton, of Warren County, Pa., was the victim of perimps the most marvelous accident ever known. On tlie 10th day of August lie was nt work at the bottom of an oil well derrick, when n three-quarter Inch iron bar 21 feet long, cut off square at the end, fell from the top of the derrick, 74 feet, striking him on the ueck, passing through the body and coming out below the left nipple, entering the body at tlie thigh and coming out three and threequarter inches above the knee, passing on down, severing the little toe from the left foot and sinking 18 inches into the ground. Over 0 feet of this rough Iron rod passed through the body, and after becoming unconscious some fellowworkmen discovered what had happened, and laid the poor sufferer down and extracted the iron bar by pulling it out. No one thought that lie would live an hour, but he recovered.

209 Bushels Oats, 173 Bushels Barley

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Too True.

Funnlcus—l tell you, I find it pretty hard work turning out n column of jokes every day. McCabe—Yes: there's no fun in it.— Philadelphia North American.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 00 cent bottles. Go at ouee; delays are dangerous. The greatest Persian was Zoroaster, who founded the national religion of that people, a religion which, in form somewhat changed, still persists in the country vi’here it originated. To retain an abundant bead of hair of a natural color to a good old age, the hygiene of the scalp must be observed. Apply Hall's Hair ltenewer.

Longest Bridges.

The. longest bridge in the world is the one just opened across the Danube at Ozeruaveda, where there is a whole regiou of annual inundation. It is 13,325 feet long, without the approaches.

No-to-Bac for Fifty Cents.

Over 400,000 cured. Whv not let No-To Bac regulate or remove your desire f, r tobacc >? Saves health and in nhoocl. Curj guar .n eed. 50c and sl. all druggist-.. There are lu London alone, according to the last census, 411,300 women workers. - 1 * Two bottles of Piso’s Cure for Consumption cured me of a bad lung trouble.—Mrs. J. Nichols, Prineeton, lud., Mar. 20, ’95. Great Britain has a quarter of the total import and export trade of Russia. —i . Wotn bilious or costive, eai a Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10 ,23 c..

"Our new neighbors are very polite," said Mrs. Perkasle to her husband when he came home at night. "Are they?” "Yes; I sent to borrow their stepladder and they told me they hadn't one, but If I'd wait awhile they'd send and buy one.''—Harper’s Bazar.

The Spartan Virtue, Fortitude,

Is severely taxed by dyspepsia. But “good digestion will wait on appetite, and health on both,” when Hostetler's Stomach Bitters Is resorted to by the victim of Indlgeslion. Heartburn, flatulence, biliousness, will cease tormenting the gastric region and liver If this genial family rorreetlve meets with the fair trial that a sterllug remedy deserves. Use It regularly, not spasmodically—now and then. It coiuiuera nialurlal, kidney, uervoua aud rheumatic ailments. The Dutch people consume more tobacco per head than the people of any other country. Cascszsts stimu.sie Iwr, kidneys sad boweiz Nt*. rr s.rkrn. weaken or sBUe. lQg.

A Master. To master ts to overpower. ] ' £ Master Cure of sciatica, mmi It overpowers, subdues, soothes, heals, cures it. ijfflftßßiKEflß* maav%%%ah%%%%ah%%%%#aa%%v% ih% % 4%an ! ‘/S>aisdy cathabtig COHSTIPATIOH i so^a^EaaniasD^,^ SSESSSaSSSt; “Use the Means and Heaven Will Give You the Blessing.” Never Neglect A Useful Article Like SAPOLIO For the last 20 years we have kept Piso's Cure for Consumption In stock, and would sooner thmk a groceryman could get along without sugar in his store than we could without Piso’s Cure. It is a sure seller. —RAVEN & CO., Druggists. Ceresco, Michigan, September 2, 1896.

Ironing is hard enough. Save your strength for that. Make the rest l VyW\ washing easy with Pearlfne. Soak; boil; rinse—that is all there is / to it, Ihe clothes are cleaner and /, \ whiter than in the old way; colored i \ goods are brighter; flannels are softer 'X \ \ and won’t shrink. se your P ear^ine j U3t as fc- —' * — y7* j directed on every package, and y° u £ et the best results. Don’t \ \use more—that only wastes it; don t use less—that only increases your work. Use it alone; no soap with it; nothing but Pearline. An Alabama druggist report* the case of an old confederate soldier who when buying : ; ; ; • RIPANS TABULES for a neighbor, who lived out by him in the country, told his own story, as follows: ‘ * Ever since I was in the army, where I contracted indigestion and dyspepsia from eating hard tack and sow belly, I have suffered much from those and kindled ailments. A son of mine told me, while home On a visit over a year ago, get some Ripans Tabules and take them. I did, and in a very short time I was benefited. I have felt better, ate more and relished it better than at any time since the war, and am doing more work now than I ever expected to do again. 1 tell you they are the GREATEST MEDICINE FOR A FELLOW’S STOMACH I ever saw. We always have them at home, and I always recommend them when a fellow complains about his stomach hurting him.”

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r lows fsrmt for rate: |i per ant ridl'WWttu. Wau££^T?ll T ‘* rly ’ UDt “P* ld for J- MuilSS, A new club ia being organized In Chicago for the improvement of the State militia. One feature will be a course of military lecturea for several months of the year. Special Rats to Washington. $17.50 Chicago to Washington and return, via Monon, C., H. & D„ B. & O. S. W. and B. & O. Sleepers through without change. Tickets good going March 1, 2 and 3, returning March 4 to 8. Ticket office, 232 Clark street. Depot, Dearborn Station, Chicago. The military academy at West Point has sixty-one professors and 296 students. Wrs. YVlnalow’e Boots nt. Bxnrv toe Children Ujethtna j Miteui tb« nmi, rwmoM lnflasunatlon. allay* palu. oum wind colic, a ~"M a bottl*. Jvst try a toe box of Caicarwti, candy cathartic. oa- ' •t bver and bowel regulator made.

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