Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — Page 7

GENEROUS GIFTS BY BRITONS.

• America la Greatly Indebted to Phil anthropic Englishmen. Much public Interest was aroused during August, 1895, by the announcemeat of the award by the Smithsonian Institution of the Hodgkins prize of 110,000 to Lord Raleigh and Prof. William Ramsay for their remarkable discovery of a new element—argon—ln the atmosphere. From time to time bequests have been made to the institution, but for the most part these have been comparatively small. In 1891, however, Thomas G. Hodgkins, of Betauket, N. Y„ expressed his desire to donate $200,000 to the Smithsonian fund. The regents accepted the sum, with the single condition made by the to.-or “that the Income of SIOO,OOO of gift shall be used under this general purpose for the especial use of the Increase and diffusion of knowledge concerning all the phenomena of atmospheric air?’ In accordance with this provision early In 1894 a circular was issued, offering “a prize of SIO,OOO for a treatise embodying some new and important discovery In regard to the nature or properties of atmospheric air.” The first award of this prize was made as mentioned above. Two grants of money were previously made from this fund to aid In the prosecution of special investigations on air, one of which is being carried on In Germany and the other In the United States. Meanwhile, Ln November, 1892, Mr. Hodgkins died at the advanced age of 89 years and made the Smithsonian Institution his residuary legatee. In consequence a further sum of money was added to the Smithsonian fund, and the total amount of the permanent fund now on deposit in the United States treasury is $911,000, on which sum an annual Interest of 6 per cent Is paid to the Institution for the carrying out of Its special aims. It Is curious to note that Hodgkins, like Smithson, was an Englishman, and, again like Sn’jithson, he was a student of sci-ence.—Self-Culture.

Rar and Expensive Drugs.

Saffron would appear, to an ordinary observer, as decidedly expensive at sl4 a pound, until assured that it is composed of the central small portions only of the flowers of a crocus, 70,000 of which it takes to yield the material for one pound, says Chamber’s Journal. Otto of roses sells at $l4O per pound, and it takes 10,000 pounds—or nearly five tons—of roses to obtain but one pound of the oil Aconitine, extracted from the root of monkshood, is said to be the very strongest poison extant, the dose being but one six-hun-dredth of a grain. It is sold at the rate of $1,020 per pound. Turning from the vegetable to the animal world in search of rare drugs, the writer refers to the musk of the Asiatic deer, which at $360 to $420 a pound mi*t be a prize to the wily hunter. In some of the tropical seas a float Ing,'sweet-smelling mass of tunbergris is met with, worth at present $27 per ounce, in the market This ambergris is said lo be the “diseased biliary product” of the whale. Another peculiar animal product in use as a drug is a solution of the pure venom of the rattlesnake, given occasionally in malignant scarlet fever.

Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat■aent by Ely’s Cream Bahn, which i« agreeably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists ■ell the 50c. size; Trial size by mail, 10 eents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment Annonn cement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids Into the nasal passages for catarrruA trouthe proprietors prepare Creamßalm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by ma : L The liquid form embodies tide medicinal properties of the solid preparation.

A Kentucky Drowning.

Neighbor—You have my deepest sympathies, madame, in the drowning of your dear husband and my best friend, Col. Bibber. It must have been a great blow to you, indeed. Mrs. Bibber—A tetrible blow to me it was, surely, but how infinitely greater to him, poor soul! Imagine, If you can, the ignominy that must have possessed his sensitive nature at the consciousness of the fact that he was being drowned in water.—Boston Courier.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

Is taken Internally. Price Ta cento.

Long Day.

In Spitzbergen the longest day la three and one-half months.

Piao's Cure for Consumption has been a family medicine with us since 1865.— J. B. Madison, 2400 42d are., Chicago, HL Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.—Bishop Horne.

1 I . i PW I Sick headache. Food doesn’t digest well, appetite poor, bowels constipated, tongue coated. It’s your livet! Ayers Bills are liver pills, easy and safe. They cure dyspepr sia, biliousness. 25c. AU Druggists. |

GREAT CROP OF CORN.

PRESENT INDICATIONS DENOTE A BIG YIELD. Shonld.Conditiona Prove Favorable the Crop May Reach the Enormous Total of 2,350,000,000 Buehela, Far in Ex-, earn of the Mark Set la 1890. Bushels. Commercial estimate of corn crop .2,350,000,000 Government Anguet estimate. .2,148,000,000 Beeord corn crop (1800) 2,285,000,000 Kansas State estimate 400,000,000 Kansas record crop (1898) 247,000,000 Nebraska State estimate. 830,000,000 Nebraska record crop (1890).... 298,000,000 Will this year’s be a record corn crop, is about the only doubtful point now left as to the great American harvest. It is assumed that it is to be a 2,000,000,000 bushel crop, but there have been four Buch already; in 1806, when the total was 2,283,000,000 bushels; in 1895, when it was 2,151,000,000; in 1891, when the figures reached 2.000,000,000, and in 1889, when the crop was 2,112,000,000. It has been dry and hot in the West for a fortnight, and it kept getting hotter and dryer each day until the corn people began at the close of last week to fear that the prospect of a record breaker in their line was to be lost. The weather interest in the West just now centers around this. Has there been drought damage enough to the tasseled maize to spoil the prospect of a new figure, a new mark on the Western possibilities in the greatest feed crop of the world, the one which last year brought the farmers of the West over $550,000,000, which always greatly exceeds in value the wheat crop, and which is the one crop America raises for the world and in which it has no competitor? Of the 2,359,000,000 bushels of com raised last year the world over, thy United States gathered about 2,000,000,000 bushels. The Kansas authorities figure that the Sunflower State is this year to have about 400,000,000 bushels, and the Kansas corn is made, has been in large part cut. Nothing can now spoil the Kansas figure. The Government officials, always conserva-

tive in their estimates, put the Kansas yield at 346,000,000 bushels. Its record up to the present was made in 1896, when there was a harvest of 247,000,000 bushels. Nebraska is pretty nearly as far along as Kansas, some of its corn being cut in the south. Besides Nebraska has been well favored with rain, even while some of the other States have been suffering. The hugeness of this year's com promise is best shown by the official Washington estimates in bushels on the seven great corn States, compared with the two .previous years: 1899. 1698. 1897. Ohio.. QD.IXMkOCO 103,000,(KO 02,000,000 led... 120,000,000 1L0.000.00C 110,000,000 Itt... 210,000,000 200,000,000 233,000,000 M 0... 17»,000.00* 155,000,000 172,000,000 Kas.. 340000,000 133,000,000 162,000,000 lowa. 210,000,000 235,000,000 220,000,000 Keb.. 300,000,000 150,000,000 241,000,000 T0t.1,473,000,000 1,134,000,000 1,230,000,000 It is a risk of only a few days, a fortnight at the outside. Already half the corn area is beyond the danger point. In another week three-quarters of the whole will be made, and in a fortnight the entire crop will be secure. It is not remarkable, consequently, that the interest in the corn belt weather should at this juncture be intense, nor remarkable that the corn speculator should be especially apprehensive of the possibilities. It is the momentous risk of the day, of the greatest import to the entire country; to the farmer, whose Interest is direct; to the cattle man, the railroader, tlto merchant and the blinker, whose interests are hardly less at stake. Even Wall street kiiows that its rallies might be cut sensationally over night by an accWeirt in the uetf fWr dnyw to the corn crop.

VIEWED BY M’KINLEY.

Preaident Watches Thirty Thousand Veterans Marching. Tuesday was the big day of the Grand Army encampment at Philadelphia and the city was alive at an early hour. The presence of President McKinley increased the interest, and his drive over the route of the parade aroused the greatest enthusiasm among the throngs in the streets. *

The head of the procession moved at 10 o’clock. The distance covered was five miles. Independence Hall was passed during the march, and caps were lifted and colors dipped by the veterans. The chorus of 3,000 school children occupied a portion of the grand stand on the north side of the city hall and sung patriotic airs as the veterans passed. Post No. 1 from Rockford, IH., the oldest post in the Grand Army, headed the line. Disabled veterans rode in carriages, following the department of Pennsylvania at the end of the line. In order came the departments of Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Potomac, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Washington, Alaska and South Dakota. Thirty-five thousand men were in line.

At no celebration since the centennial has this city seen the crowds which lined the streets along which the veterans passed. The Avenue of Fame, with its snowwhite columns and festoons of bunting and laurel, was the favorite viewpoint. One of the most interesting features of the encampment was Camp Sexton at the Belmont mansion in Fairmount park, where 8,000 veterans occupied tents. Standing upon the top of Belmont looking toward Philadelphia the best view of the camp could be secured. Down below stretched the great field of tents. Behind them rolled the Schuylkill—picturesque there, perhaps, more than at any other spot, and beyond the banks rose the city of Philadelphia framed between the two walls of green ns in some giant picture. The veterans bad everything that could possibly be conducive to comfort at their disposal. There was no question of roughing it, the ordinary vicissitude of camp life having been eliminated as a

THE CORN CROP.

result of the elaborate efforts of the local veterans. Eighteen water lines ran through the camp, with sunken barrels placed at short intervals for the thirsty visitors. Two mess tents, 160x60 feet in size; ice cream and sutlers’ tents were situated at the western extremity of the camp. Telephone and telegraph wires ran overhead to the exact center of the camp, where the instruments were situated, and where the postofficc was. Near by was the bureau of information tent, with headquarters and officers’ mess tents above on the brow of the hill. Ten tents for the medical corps and five large hospital tents were at the eastern edge of the camp, sheltered from the sun by a clump of spreading trees. Incandescent lights were suspended up and down the lines of tents, while at the intersections of the streets or passageways were placed the blazing camp fires, where the old veterans gathered before turning in at night and fought their battles over again. An arch was at the west of the camp surmounted by flag poles forty-five feet high and the entire structure, built to resemble stone work, was covered with flags and G. A. R. insignia.

COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK.

Brooklyn and St. Louie Men Pay $3,000 for O Chat. A chat over the long-distance telephone between Brooklyn nnd St. Louis last week cost the conversationalists mere than ?3,000. A man in the trolley car borough and another in the Mound City talked to each other for about fifty hours. Most of the talking was deny between the hours of 8 p. m. and 6 a. m. when the rate between Brooklyn nnd St. Louis is $5- for the first five Mtantcs and -fl a minute for additional time.

ASSUMES NEW PHASE.

DREYFUS CASE NEARS INTERNATIONAL DANGER LINE. Labor! Makes a Startling Move by Requesting the Court to Call Foreign Diplomats aa Witnesses-A Reputed Scion of Servian Royalty Testifies.

Monday’s session of the Dreyfus court martial opened rather badly for Captain Dreyfus, as a surprise was sprung upon the defense In the advent of an Austrian political refugee, Eugene Cernuschl, who came out with a flat-footed denunciation of the accused, which, even though it may eventually be proved a pure fairy tale, is bound for the moment to exercise a malignant influence upon the French people. Cernuschl, as soon as he had delivered hia testimony and Labor! had asked to have him put on oath behind closed doors In order that he might be punished, if guilty of perjury, left the court room and was net seen again. Cemuschi’s testimony, which was in the form of a letter to the president of the court martial, Col. Jouaust, was most unequivocal. He claimed that on three distinct occasions, twice In France and once in Geneva, he was told by a high-placed foreign officer that Dreyfus had communicated treasonable documents to a foreign power. In the third instance Gernuschi said that the officer showed him documents emanating from Dreyfus and that this officer left France- hurriedly two days prior to the arrest of Captain Dreyfus. The allusion was evidently to Col. Schwartzkoppen, the military attache of the German embassy In Paris in 1894, whose movements were coincident with those described as the movements of the officer of Cernuschi’s deposition. The Introduction of a foreigner as a witness for the prosecution gave Labor! an opportunity to submit the most important request he has made throughout the trial. Labor! announced his intention, In view of the step taken by the prosecution in calling foreign evidence, to ask that inquiry should be made through the regular diplomatic channels as to whether the documents mentioned in the bordereau were actually commuaicated, and, if so, by whom. This involves an application to the German Government. The application would mean the lengthening of the trial for several weeks. A Vienna dispatch asserts that Eugene Cernuschi, who testified at the Dreyfus court martial at Rennes, France, is not connected with the Servian royal family, as claimed. His real name is Haducek. M. Labori Tuesday demanded that the court summon Col. Schneider, Coh Schwartzkoppen, Col. Panizzardi and other foreigners to testify for the defense and prove directly that Dreyfus had never had relations with foreign powers. The fact was also brought out that documents had been communicated to the president of the court without the knowledge of the defense. M. Labori made a strong protest, asserting that the great error of the first court martial was being committed over again.

The first part of Tuesday’s session of the court martial was secret. When the doors were opened for the public session, M. Labori read a brief statement to the effect that it was the consensus of opinion of the defense that while they had hitherto not called foreigners to testify, the Government having set the example, they would no longer refrain from doing so.

Then, returning to President Jouaust, Labori said: “We know the particularly delicate position of all concerned in this matter, but we must ask that you also summon witnesses outside of France for us. We want Schneider, Schwartzkoppen, Panizzardi and others to prove directly and emphatically that Dreyfus never had relations with foreign powers and never communicated to them the pieces mentioned in the bordereau. “We also ask that the Government secure through diplomatic channels documents bearing on the bordereau.” Maj. Carriere for the prosecution protested against the-moral and material difficulties of such action, and said it would not assist the defense anyhow. President Jouaust reserved his decision.

The court martial Tuesday heard the complete story of Esterhazy’s confession from the lips of Reporter Bassett, who was sent by the Paris Matin to London for the purpose of securing the interview. The witness testified to the already familiar story of bow and why the bordereau was written by the man now’ in exile. Esterhazy was quoted as saying that he was ordered to commit the crime by Col. Sandherr. This brought a protest in most theatrical style from Maj. Carriere, the Government commissary. -“I protest,” he cried, “in the name and memory of Col. Sandherr, against the insinuations introduced against him.” M. Labori, however, ignored this protest, which he styled “a ridiculous pretension.”

FRANCE FEARS RIOTS.

Dreyfus Verdict Is Expected to Cause Disorder. As the end of the Dreyfus court martial trial comes within sight the French Government is beginning to display a fear that the verdict may give rise to troubles and orders have just been received by two regiments of infantry and one cavalry regiment, already within hail of Rennes, to hold themselves in readiness to march on the town at the first sign of disorder, to occupy all strategical points and to repress manifestations in their inception. The anti-Dreyfus organs, by their antiforeign articles, have already singled out foreigners as enemies of the country, and there is little doubt that foreign journalists will be the first victims of the violence of the mob—not so much AngloSaxons as Austrian, German and Russian Jews, who form a majority of the press representation of their respective countries.

Sparks from the Wires.

Gold has been discovered near Mine Center, Ont. An old building fell at Baltimore, Md., killing Mike Cooney, a carpenter, and severely Injuring two others. Clara Wilson, 17, by many considered the most beautiful Covington, Ky., committed suicide wro carbolic add. Mrs. Samuel Fobs, a bride of two weeks, New York, took four shots at her hubby with a revolver. She missed her aim. She was fined sls, which was paid by her husbundfiend they wttt home together.

Ejecting a Patient.

The following story, told by the poet Tennyson, Is a graphic Illustration of Abernethy’s manners toward a certain class of patients who vexed his professional spirit: A farmer went to* the great doctor, complaining of discomfort in the head, weight and pain. The doctor asked, ‘‘What quantity of ale do yon take?” “Oh, I taaks ma yale pretty well.” Abernethy, with groat patience and gentleness: “Now, then, begin the day, breakfast. What time?” “Oh, at haafe past seven.” “Ale, then? How much?” “I taaks my quart.” “Luncheon?” “At eleven o’clock I gets another snack.” “Ale then?” “Oh, yees, my pint and a haafe.” “Dinner?” " “Haafe past one." “Any ale then?” “Yees, yees, another quart then.” “Tea?” “My tea’s at haafe past five.” “Ale then?” “Noa, noa.” “Supper.” “Nine o’clock.” “Ale then?” “Yees, yees. I taaks my fill then. I goes asleep afterward.” Like a lion aroused, Abernethy was up, opened the street door, shoved the farmer out, and shouted, “Go .home, sir, and let me never see your face again! Go home, drink your ale, and die!” The farmer rushed out aghast, Abernethy pursuing him down the street with shouts of “Go home, sir, and die!”

Care of the Eyes.

Up to 40 years of age, bathe the eyes twice daily with cold water. Avoid reading when lying down or when mentally and physically depressed. When the eyes are tired rest them by looking at objects from a distance. Old persons should avoid reading much by artificial light; be guarder as to diet, and avoid sitting up late at night. Avoid stimulants and drugs which affect the nervous system, especially when they are known to exert an injurious influence. After 50 years of age bathe the eyes morning and evening with water so hot that you would wonder how you would stand it; follow this with cold water, that will make them glow with warmth. Do not give up In despair when you are Informed that a cataract is developing; remember that In these days of advancing surgery It can be removed with little danger-to the vision.—Up-to-date.

Music for Nervousness.

Scientists claim that music has power to soothe the nerves. But the quickest way to cure nervousness is to strengthen the nervous system. We know of nothng which will accomplish thir quicker than Hostetler's Stomach Bitters. Do not take a substitute. See that a private revenue stamp covers the neck of the bottle.

Size of Families.

The average size of families In Europe: France, 8.03 members; Denmark, 3.61; Hungary, 3.70; Switzerland, 3.90; Austria and Belgium, 4.05; England, 4.08; Germany, 4.10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland, 4.22; Scotland. 4.-10; Italy, 4.56; Spain, 4.65; Russia, 4.83; ISeland, 5.20.

Specifications Called For.

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Very "Homely."

The apex of "plainness” seeaas to have been attained by an old iiillasM “down-east.” “Why,” said one of Ida good friemfiau "ho was so homely that when he mafia up a face he was handsomer than he waa other times!” Under the new census women mast tell thetr age truthfully or be fined $10&. Lucky for McKinley the dear things can’t vote.—Wisconsin State Journal

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