Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — Page 7

Rin[?]s Always the same.

Although many Jewelers advertise “something new In rings,” the feet remains that they are but slight variations of the styles In vogue at the time Moses piloted the children of land out of bondage of Egypt. Rings are allnded to In the Bible, In the books of Genesis and Exodus. They have been found among the relics of prehistoric races, the stone age, the bronze age, and the age of the mound builders. Herodotus mentions that the Babylonians wore them, and from Asia they probably were Introduced into Greece. The rings worn in early times were not purely ornamental, but had their significance as signet rings. A king's messenger delivering a message ami exhibiting the king’s signet as authority was obeyed Implicitly. The Romans had a marriage ring of Iron with a Jewel of adamant, signifying^eternity and constancy. History mentions a magic ring possessed by King Bolomon of which the Jews and Mohammedans have abundant traditions. It was by means of this ring as a talisman of wisdom and power that Solomon was enabled to perform those wonderful acts and accomplish those vast enterprises that have made his name so celebrated as (he wisest monarch of the earth. The later Romans wore a profusion of rings, and the more* effeminate had rings for summer and winter.

Daniel Frohman's Start.

It was Edward Payson Weston, the pioneer long-distance pedestrian, who tempted Daniel Frohman, manager of the Lyceum Theater of New York, from journalism Into the theatrical business. It happened this way: Mr. Weston had returned to New York after his successful walk through the West, and in 1871 he gave an exhibition against time in the old American Institute Building. This was the beginning of our present six-day walking matches. He hired Franklin Fyles, who was then a Sun reporter, and Daniel Frohman to manage the novel affklr. The receipts from this undertaking were more than SIO,OOO, and this success started Mr. Frohman in theatricals. Mr. Frohman has amassed a fortune since then. Mr. Fyles is a leading dramatic critic and playwright, and Mr. Weston, as young as either of his old-time friends, la an advertising agent.—Philadelphia Post.

Chicago Great Western Increase.

The earnings of the Chicago Great ’Western Railway, “Maple Lent Route,” for the first week in September, 1899, show an Increase of $28,069.28. Total Increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1) to date. $179,050.82.

Elephants’ Tasks

In the African elephant both sexes have ivory tusks, while In the Asiatic they are generally restricted to the male

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JOHN C. HUBINGER.

m Wcstcn Capitalise, Maaafaatanr asi rhilaatkiofht Among the leaders of the progressiva element for which tha midis west is famous, Mr. John C. Hubinger, of Keokuk, Is, reigns without a peer. As a manufacturer, aa an enterprising capitalist and as a philanthropist his fame has spread over many states, and Us financial enterprises have developed many obscure towns into progressive, thrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr. Hubinger, although hut 47 years of age, can look bade upon scores of commercial victories, each one of which has benefited mankind, for his liberality is as bountiful sa his business sagacity is marvelous. He was born In New Orleans, his parents being of French snff German origin. When he was four years old, his family removed to Kentucky, in which state young Hubinger received a public school education. Almost before reaching man's estate he secured patents on a somber of val uable mechanical Inventions, thereby laying the foundation of his present fortune. By inclination and force of circumstances his attention was early directed to the manufacture of starch by improved processes, and in the course of time he became the head of a concern having an annual business of millions of dollars. But genuine ambition never quite satisfied with existing conditions, works ever toward perfection, and after years of painstaking study •cd research Mr. Hubinger has made a

JOHN C. HUBINGER.

discovery, which he considers the crowning event of his wonderful career, and which is embodied In a aew article of commerce, known as Red Cro&a Starch (Bed Cross trade mark.) He Is planning to distribute millions of packages of this starch to :he housewives of America, at a merely nominal price to the consumer, In to make Its merits known without delay. Thus, for but ft cents two large tec packages of Bed Cross Starch may be had, together frith two magnificent Shakespearean views printed In If beautiful colors, or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar; or for only 20 cents 10 packages of the starch and the entire series of eight Shakespearean views and one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar —views alone easily worth SI.OO. Watch this paper for future premium announcements, of which every lady will certainly want to take advantage. While Mr. Huhinger will devote his best energies td the manufacture of this new and wonderful starch, he will not retire from the various financial enterprises in which he is interested—street railways, electric lighting plants and the Mlssisisppi Valley Telephone Co_ with 10,000 telephone subscribers in Minneapolis and St. Paul—nor will bis augmented activity interfere with his social obligations and exercise of the splendid hospitality which he dispenses at his palatial Keokuk home. Mr. HnMnger’s family, consisting of himself, wife and four children, ia the" pivot around which his activity revolves, and while fond of promoting great enterprises, he la still fonder of his home circle, where he spends every moment of time not taken up by business or public cares.

Love as Fires Sight.

Believers in the possibility of love at first sight may feel a sympathetic Interest, and perhaps find a Darwinian argument, In a story iff the first meeting, of two apes In the London Zoo. We retell the tale from "Wild Animals ifi Captivity.” Sarah was seated alone In her cage, when a new ape made his appearance in front of the bars. Instantly both animals uttered short cries, and bending toward each other, protruded their thin Ups until they met across the bars of the cage. Then, as the keeper threw open the cage door, the apes rushed into each other's arms and squatting on the floor, hugged each other with comic affection. In a few seconds they rose, and standing erect, raised their arms above their heads, grasped each other’s front pairs, and screamed and howled in mutual appreciation. Let us hope that they Uved happy ever after.

Somewhat Ungrateful.

A New York man fell overboard a few days ago and was rescued as he was staking for the third time. The first thing he did on recovering consciousness was to soundly berate the man who had saved him. declaring that if be knew his business be would bare caught him the first time be sank, not the third. ■altfa Catarrh Cara.

Dogs Growing Weaker.

Experts agree that the Ilfs of a dog hibltion, and we are gradually raising dogs that will not be so ko« Bred as the semi-wild mongrel types. - j

Business Situation.

Chicago Correspondence: The changed condition of the money markets has been the principal topic of discussion in both commercial and financial circles this week. In New York rates for both call and time loans have been sharply marked op, and there naturally have been at least sympathetic advances in all of the large centers. There is doubtless a good deal that is purely artificial in the money situation at the moment, bnt at the same time some legitimate reasons exist for an advance in rates over the level prevailing a few weeks ago. The movement of the .crops snd the steady expansion of general business are both calling for a much larger use of money, and as is always the case, particularly at this season of the year, New York is being drawn upon to furnish a certain proportion of the necessary funds. The effect of the higher rates for money have been felt principally, and in fact almost entirely, in speculative circles. In the stock markets there has been a sharp decline in values, amounting in some cases to $6 and $7 a share, in consequence of the liquidation that has accompanied the calling of loans by the banks. Legitimate business interests have not as yet felt the influence of the advance In money rates to any appreciable extent. There hi no stringency, in the ordinary sense of the term, so far as they arc concerned, commercial borrowers having no difficulty in getting all the funds they need on time at rates which, all things considered, cannot be called at all burdensome. In the general business situation no really disappointing factors have come to light during the last week. All of the leading railroads report a shortage of cars with which to carry the enormous volume of freight pressing for transportation. Manufacturing plants are still far behind on their orders and prices are being maintained on their highest level. No weakening in selling values is anywhere discernible, and consumption continues on an extraordinarily large scale. The bulls in the wheat market had cause for dissatisfaction this week. With two important matters in their favor the prices were a trifle lower at the close of the market Saturday than at the end of the previous week. The Government crop report, issued Monday, was altogether in their favor, and the daily shipments of wheat and flour abroad were very liberal. A small crop, as less than 500,000,000 bushels is now regarded, and a heavy export business, were insufficient to sustain prices in face of large stocks in commercial channels and weekly additions to their amount. Argentina shipped to Europe this week over 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, compared with no shipments the corresponding week last year, and thus to that extent compensated for apprehended small contributions from Russia and the Danube, which, as regards the first, at least, is by no means assured, notwithstanding failure of the crops in important districts of that great empire. The bulls in wheat have been buoyed by the hope of greater outside speculation as a result of some evidence of waning interest in stock investments, but that has so far failed them. An abundant corn crop is now assured, and owing to the recent warm, dry weather will be ready for use and shipment much earlier than in ordinary seasons. That state of the weather has also dried up the pastures and caused an unusual consumption of corn, and as the climatic conditions in Europe have been of a similar character the demand for export has maintained its previous activity, so that there has been no reduction in prices, and the future is full of promise for good returns to the growers, as well in the matter of prices as of yield.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Boston public schools are overcrowded. Rowing is unusually popular at Harvard University. Russia is to establish a system of compulsory education. The largest school in San Juan, Porto Rico, occupies only one room. J Ninety-five kindergarten teachers wgre licensed in New York in one week. The Northern Indiana Normal School has a brass band composed ot students. Edouard Rod says American universities require too much of their professors. EVery child of school age can now be accommodated by the New York City schools. ' _ During the month of July 102 Heidelberg stndents were arrested for disorderly conduct. Nearly all of the conductors of chapel exercises at Yale under the new regime will be laymen. Harvard has 304 instructors; Yale, 245; Pennsylvania, 245; Michigan, 167, and Chicago, 175. A score of students from Cuba and nearly half as many from Porto Rico are at Notre Dame, Ind. Mayor Hoos has put an end to political influence in the appointment of teachers in the Jersey City public schools. In future Russia will punish disorderly students by requiring them to aerve in the army from one to three years. Princeton’s new freshman class contains 289 members, a slight decrease, due to higher scholarship requirements. Chicago Theological Seminary’s determination to grant degrees to women has led to much comment by the religious press. Friends of the higher .education of women take great pride in the appointment of Miss Lillie J. Martin ns professor of psychology at the Leland Stanford University. It costs a girl S4OO to go to Vassar, S4OO to go to Smith, $420 for a year at Wellesley, and between $450 and $750 to spend a year at Radcliffe. Since Yale was established, nearly 200 years ago, the president has always conducted the devotional exercises, but President Hadley will not do so. Princeton seems to have gotten the best year, Princeton gets six from La wren eevllle and Yale two; three from Andover, while Yale gets one. Exeter senda one gets St. Paul’s quarterback.

NATION’S GREETING TO DEWEY.

Features es the Reception to the Manila' Here In W«ahH»«toti. The central Idea underlying the grand welcome to be given Admiral Dewey la Washington the first week la October Is Its national character. His arrival at the Capital will mark his real home-coming to the Amer people, where the officials of the Government will participate, and the magnificently jeweled sword voted by Congress will be presented. To that end all the arrangements will bo of a simple but most dignified character. The Welcome To the hero of Manila at the National Capital will probably

SWORD VOTED BY CONGRESS TO DEWEY.

occur on Monday, Oct. 2, although the date Will depend upon the length of the celebration In New Yoak, which la still unsettled. The principal features of the reception In Washington, aa planned by the citizens, with the so operation of the President and Cabinet, ylllbe two In number—the presentation of the sword voted py Congress and a night parade. A public reception at the White House will be followed by dinner to the Admiral by Eresldent McKinley. The Aword will j>e presented by Secretary Long, at the cast front of the Capitol, In the pretence of Mr. McKinley and all the members of the Cabinet, late In the afternoon, while the parade, consisting of organizations of /ill kinds, win be accompanied by an Illumination of the city on a scale of beanty never before witnessed In Washington. •The different features of tha preparations are in the bands of a centra' body of citizens and eleven committees, embracing in all over a thousand people. Preparations for the celebration hare been In hand for over a month. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and other railroads entering Washington have agreed npon cheap rates for the celebration, and the committee expects that there will be an outpouring of patriotic citizens almost equal to the Inauguration of a President.

LINES HIS WALLS WITH LEGS.

Chicago Veteran turns Uncle Sam's Jtqnntr to a Novel Us*. Henry Curtin, a veteran of the civil war living on the West Side, has a room In his residence that impresses all his visitors as a veritable chamber ;of horrors. This Is because Its most conspicuous decoration and ornament is a row of human legs suspended on the walls and entirely circling the room. Mr. Curtin always laughs at the fright of strangers at the first sight of this room, and then*explains that the legs are only artificial ones, and there’s nothing to be afraid of. Then he tells them how the legs came to be there. “You see,” says Mr. Curtin, “In ’64 I was so foolish as to try and stop a cannon ball with my right leg. Of course, I wasn’t one, two, three, and the next thing I knew I was In a camp hospital with only one leg left. That ended my soldiering. The Government had me measured for on artificial leg as soon as I was able to be about, and I came home to Chicago. "Well, I discovered that I couldn’t wear the kind of leg the Government gives, owing to some reasons connected with the way my leg was amputated, and the only leg I can wear Is this wooden stump that straps to the thighs. It was In *65 when I got my first leg. In ’66 an express package brought me another. I sat down and wrote the War Department that the legs were of no use to me. and therefore not to send them. They didn’t take a hit of notice of my letter, and in ’67 another leg came. I wrote again to Washington; told them I had three of their legs now that I couldn’t use, and didn’t want them to go on and bankrupt the Government buying me legs. “They never noticed me. In ’6B I got another leg. They began to get In the way around the house, so then I started the labeling and dating of each one, and hanging them up on the walls of my den. They came regularly—one eaeh year. There’s thirty-five there now, and I guess I’ll last long enough to see fifty or more If Uncle Sam doesn’t get tired sending them.”

A Swimmings Grin is tone.

Some of the fishermen on the River Tyne, in England, are not only Ignorant, but stupid. On one occasion, two of these fishermen were caught by a heavy freshet, and driven out of the river to soa. As the story goes, one of the men saw, in the dusk, a hoop floating by. The hoop was full of foam. ‘•We are saved!” exclaimed the man. “Here’s a grindstone swimming.” He followed up his discovery by jumping on the “grindstone,” but the result was not very satisfactory. Piso’s Ours for Consumption has bees a godsend to me.—Wm. B. McClellan, Chester, Fla., Sept 17,1895. Nothing .is more disgrace!®! than Insincerity.—Cicero. yl •• v kl*V' : 'l - : ' v ‘ -v W'i'-tf ■'' - 1 , A•i , ,

Some Ting Spoons.

Ml as Phoebe Ann West, of Nantucket, la the possessor of the most remarkable twelve dozen spoons In this country. They were brought to America, by Mies West’s father, who was a sea captain, several years ago. They are of East Indian workmanship and their minute dimensions may be realized when It Is stated that the twelve dozen perfectly formed spoons are kept In an ordinary cherry stone. The carved cherry stone which holds them is one of the most wonderful examples of skilled handiwork In existence. It Is exquisitely carved and mounted on a tiny silver and Ivory stand.

Still More Counterfeiting.

The Secret Service has just unearthed another band of counterfeiters snd secured a quantity of bogus bills, which are very cleverly executed. Things of great value are always selected for imitation, notably Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation.

Wheelmen Joke.

Wheelmen will enjoy a little incident told by “Teddy” Edwards, the noted century rider. He says that when he waa riding in the suburbs of Utica, N. Y., he asked a wheelman which might be the best road to take from Utica to Syracuse. The big-limbed stranger eyed the famous century rider’s slender shape a moment and said: “Take the New York Central.”

Progress.

With time, comes progress and advancement in all lines of successfully conducted enterprises. Success comes to those only who have goods with superior merit and a reputation. In the manufacture of laundry starch for the last quarter of a century J. C. Hubinger bas been the peer of all others and to-day is placing on the market the finest laundry starch ever offered the public under our new and original method. Ask your grocer for a coupon book which will enable you to get the first two large 10-cent packages of his new starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK brand, also two of the children’s Sbakspeare pictures painted in twelve beautiful colors as natural as life, or the Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all absolutely free. All grocers are authorized to give ten large packages of RED CROSS STARCH, with twenty of the Shakspeare pictures or ten of the Twentieth Century Girl Calendars, to the first five purchasers of the Endless Starch Chain Book. This is one of the grandest offers ever made to Introduce the RED CROSS laundry starch, J. C. Hublnger’s latest Invention. Among the 11,667 foreigners settled In China at the end of 1897, England had 4,929, the United States 1,564, Japan, 1,106, Germany 950, France 698.

44 Necessity is the Mother of Invention.” h was the necessity for a reliable blood purifier and tonic that brought into existence Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is a highly concentrated extract prepared by a con • bination, proportion and process peculiar to itself and giving to Hood’s Sarsxpar rSU unequalled curative poiwer.

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