Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — Page 3

Wealthll °f hair E5R*«63» wealth!' W®l * n d c c d, Wj ijraJoW EkSl Especial- rJ F & v-daciS i y * 0 a 11 vwiS woman. I j IL physical attraction is Ei r-3 secondary to it. We fi k\ have a book we will 1 1 1 gladly send you that vt f L tells just how to care t ] Is for the hair. El Ji If your hair is too ff vigor Jl Growth becomes f M vigorous and all dan- I 7/ drufif is removed.' / 15 It always restorers r ip color to gray or faded | hair. Retain you r I |j youth; don’t look old i <2 before your time. 1 15 JI.OO a bottle. All drugglrta. w- ► 1 “I have used your Hair Vigor / t 1 now for about 25 years and I have f, f j found it splendid and satisfactory [ ‘ A in every way. I believe I have I. 3 recommended this Hair Vigor to V f hundreds of my friends, and they A ; > all tell the saine story. If any- P . 1 body wants the best kind of a Hair r J Vigor I shall certainly recommend w / to them just as strongly as I Z A can that they get a bottle or Ayer’s p HUr Vigor.” I I 3 Mrs. N. E. Hamilton, 11 T Nov. 28,1698. Norwich, N.Y. 11 j J Wr/te the Ooct or. ' J If you don’t obtain all tho benefits Wl ta you desire from the use of the Vigor, ft 3 write the Doctor about it. Address, fta 4 Da. J. C. AYEIt, I T ■ Lowell, Mass. 14

War His Preference.

When Charles Dudley Warner was editor of the Hartford Press, back In the ’6os, arousing the patriotism of the States by his energetic appeals, one of the typesetters came in from the com-posing-room one day, and, facing Mr. Warner, said: “Mr. Warner, I’ve de elded to enlist In the army." With mingled emotions of pride and responsibility Mr. Warner replied that It pleased him that the man felt the call to duty. “Oh, it isn't that," said the truthful compositor, “but I’d rather be shot than set your copy.”—Hartford Courant.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. Vi the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.

Couldn’t Be Spoiled.

Hicks—No, I don’t suppose I am up to your plane of Intelligence. Fact Is, I have deteriorated since you first knew me. Wicks—lmpossible! Boston Transcript. VITALITY low, debl'lUtod or exhanated cured by Dr. Kline’s InviuoraUtm Tonic. FREE SI Trial Bottle containing 2 weAx’treatment. Dr. Kline's Institute. KU Arch Street, Philadelphia. Founded IWL A Maine veteran of tbe civil war still of tbe hardtack composing a part of the last army ration Issued to him thirty years ago.

Hall's Catarrh Cura.

Is taken Internally. Price 15 centa. Over 40,000 trees, representing 100 varieties, are to be set out In Riverside Park, New York. Mm. Wlnalow'a Bootsixo Hravr tor Children teeth ins: aotteas the gums, reaucee innammatloa. allays ptin. cures wind colic, v ceats a bottle. Why does a pup always chew .the best curtains in the house?

MOVING MISERY. The Streets Are Full of It Every Day. Tell-Tale Marks of Liver Troub ee In the Faces of Mankind Everywhere, and Yet It Is So Easy to Look Good and Feel Well. People we meet--on the street. Wlint a lot of them look miserable, willow, pimply, despondent, their skins blotched with liver spots and black-heads. It’s all In the liver. Beauty la blood deep. No one can have the clean, clear skin of health where blood Is Impure, and no one can have pure blood where liver Is laty. Lively livers bring new life, pure blood, bright looks, therefore health and beauty. Lively livers make lively dispositions, contentment, good nature; therefore happiness. . Caacarets Candy Cathartic make the liver lively, purify the blood, bcnutlfv the skin and are guaranteed to cure constipation aud prevent Its dire consequences. Cases rets are In tablet form; compact, convenient to carry, tasto good (eat like candy), never grip nor gripe, cause natural action of liver and bowels; therefore the Ideal laxative. It's what Casco rets do, not what we say they do, that proves their merit. Bold by druggists generally, 10c, 25c and 50c, or by mall for price. Our booklet, '‘Lighten the Ills of Humanity," and sample mailed free for the asking. Address Sterling Jtemedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.; or fiew York. ®Thls is the CABCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters "CCC.” Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, Imitations and substitutes.

CHINA’S END IN SIGHT

IMPRISONED EMPEROR INVITES FOREIGN PROTECTORATE. Such an Action Would Mean the Extinction of the Chinese EmpireBoxers Burn Christians Alive—American Marines Are Landed. Events have lately been moving at a rapid pace in China. With 4,000 Russians marching on Pekin and the small fqj-ees under the admirals, Americans joining, co-operating in this movement, it is evident, says a correspondent, that a crisis is at hand which may have big and unexpected results and denouements. Marines of the thirty-one ships of war

of all nations now in Chinese waters have a big job cut out for them if they undertake to protect all the foreigners in China. As a matter of fact they cannot do it, and Russia is the only country with the necessary military force on call that can effectively deal with the situa-

MINISTER CONGER.

tion. Before Germany, France, England or America could send a sufficient military force to Pekin the missionaries and all other foreigners would probably share the fate of the Christians in Armenia five or six years ago. From Shanghai comes the report that the Emperor of China has appealed to the European powers for joint intervention in his behalf. He proposes that the foreign governments now represented by troops at Pekin release him from his palace prison, depose the empress dowager, declare a joint protectorate oven the country, disband the Chinese armies, substitute for them an army under foreign officers, provide gunboats for the rivers, and assume entire control of the customs, posts and telegraphs. If correct, this report means the end of China. Win n the Emperor of China invites the European powers, he invites the extinction of his empire. In 1044 there was rebellion in China, and the defeated party asked the Manchoos to enter tho empire. That request practically closed Mongolian rule, for the Manchoos, who went to Pekin to defend

DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA.

the empire, remained to rule it. There have since besni rebellions in China that have carried the empire to the verge of anarchy, but the Manchoo dynasty has maintained itself. There have been insciTectkins that have devastated whole provinces, revolutions that have received the support of the Mongolians, anti-dy-nastic movements which have had the fanaticism and fury of the old crusades, and several anti-foreign outbreaks, all of which have been covertly encouraged by the Government, but never before has the Government or a representative of the Government invited the Western powers to assume control. In addition to the American marines landed at Pekin by direction of United States Minister Conger, the United States hospital shop Solace sailed from Manila, having on board 100 marines and five officers, Maj. Waller commanding, in response to the telegraphic request sent

from Tong-Ku by Rear Ad:ai ra 1 Kempff. Thirty other marines lett Manila on the United States gunb o a t Nashville, bound for TienTsin. The Navy Depar t m e n t at Washington has Ih-cu informed that the Monocaey has gone to Tien-Tsin

ADMIRAL KEM[?]FF.

and the Yorktown to Che-Foo. A large body of Boxers have burned three American launches at Soo-Chow. A Pekin correspondent says: "The American mission buildings at TungChau, twelve milea from Pekin, which were abandoned by the missionaries, have l>een looted aud burned by the Chinese soldiery who were sent to protect them. Wjthin three days seventy-live native Christians, well-known men, who had been trained for years by American missionaries, have been massacred near Tung-Chau. Many of them were burned alive. The intimidation of Christians continues within Pekin itself. Most of the mission compounds' are closed, and the missionaries are being collected nnder the protection of the legation guards. News was received in New York City Wednesday of the murder of Dr. Edna (I. Terry, in charge of the station of the Methodist Episcopal Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at Tsung-llua. Edna Terry was born in Boston nnd wns appointed by the New England branch of the Methodist Missionary Society in 1877. Tsung-llua is six or seven miles north of the great wall and about 100 milea from Pekin. Vkll dispatches out of Pekin an* ccnsorcilW thr iiMerest of the Empress. The determination of the foreign ministers to increase the garrison at Pekin lead* to a belief in foreign circles in Tien-Tsin nnd Shanghai that the powers will never leave the Chinese capital, but will make China another Egypt. The chancellor of the Japanese legation nt Pekin, Hugiynma Akira, while proceeding alone nnd unprotected on official duties. was brutally murdered by soldiers of Tuug-Fub-Siang, the favorite bodyguard of the Empress, at Manlgate railroad station.

A FABLE OF SOCIETY.

feeizig Bather Hard on the Woman Who Had Aepirations. A plain and sensible husband and father, who was making a modest livelihood in the retail dry goods business, had a wife who was ambitious to shine in society. She was quite well aware that her husband’s means' were not of sufficient magnitude to permit an extraordinary dazzle in that glittering galaxy of gaiety, glamour and gentility, but she banked on the matrimonial alliance of at least one of her two beautiful daughters w'ith an aged millionaire who was ready at any moment to marry any pretty girl who would accept him. Naturally enough, It was not to be expected that any young and pretty girl could love any old thing like he was; but then he was so rich that love might well be asked to take a back seat. Now, the husband of this ambitious lady and the father of the two beautiful daughters was foolish enough to think that love mixed with matrimony better than money did, and he was averse to the machinations of his wife to dispose of either of the daughters to the millionaire at a price. One day the lady, In no pleasant humor, spoke to her husband on the subject of his opposition. “I should think,” she said, "that you would have some ambition for your daughters. You have never been able to furnish them with the means their beauty, accomplishments and position demand, and now, when I am doing my utmost to do a parent’s part by at least one of them, you must oppose my efforts and seek to thwart my purpose. I should think you would show some sign of appreciation of the attention and honor paid us by the wealthy gentleman whom I so highly respect” “Forgive me, my dear,” responded the husband, contritely. “When the gentleman comes thia evening I will obey you and show some sign of appreciation," Upon this the wife was greatly molUfled, and the husband went down town to his store, returning In the evening a little later than usual, but quite cheerful. At half-past 8 o’clock the wealthy gentleman called, and shortly after the lady bad gone in to meet him her husband followed her, bearing In bls hands an artistically painted card fully a yard square. “It is the sign I promised for the gentleman,” he said, handing it to his wife, and she read upon It in large letters, "Please Call On Us Before Purchasing Elsewhere.” ~ Thereupon the lady fell into a state of madness, from which she has scarcely yet recovered, and the husband la taking his meals down town and sleeping In bls store.

Lane’s Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. 1° order to be healthy this is necessary. Acte gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and Mlc.

Modern Business Methode.

“How is business?” asked the reporter. "Dull,” said the marriage-license clerk. “I’m thinking about advertising that I’ll give an oil stove and a pound of candy with each license.”— Indianapolis Press.

Carter's Ink ls Used Exclusively

by the schools of New York, Boston and many other places, and they won't use any other. The cost of constructing a cable system Is about $2,000 a mile, and tbe total amount invested in submarine lines at present is upward of $200,000,000. The Sutlej River in India descends 12,000 feet In 180 miles.

LIKE MANY OTHERS Clara Kopp Wrote for Mr». Pinkham's Advice and Tells what it did for Her. “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham I have seen BO many letters from ladies who were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedies that I thought I would ask your advice fin regard to my condition. I have been doctoring for four years and have taken different patent medicines, but received very little benefit. I am troubled with backache, In fact my whole body aches, nK stomach feels sore, by spells get short WF of breath and am W very nervous. Menjl strpation is very irII regular with severe bearing down pains, crimps and backr-' ache, I hope to hear from you at once.” — 9 Clara Kopp, Bock port, Ind., Sept 27, 1808. “I think it is my duty to write a letter to you in regard to what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for me. I wrote you some tirfe a,go, describing my symptoms and asking your advice, which you very kindly gave. lam now healthy and cannot begin to praise your remedy enough. I would say to all suffering women, * Take Mrs. Pinkham’s advice, for a woman teat understands a woman's sufferings, and Mrs. Pinkham, .from her vast experience in treating female ills, can give you advice that you can get from no other source.’ " —Clara Kopp, Bockport, Ind., April 13, 1899.

New Binding Twine, 91c Lb. BBKPRMHO T- M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE, im’A'.WBMW’S MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

Vast Coat of a Mistake.

In the haste of building the Siberian and Trans-Baikal railways twelvepound Instead of twenty-four-pound rails were used, wooden bridges were built and crossings made far apart. The result is that not more than twenty miles an hour can be safely made. To make matters worse they have adopted the heaviest kind of engines which on the numerous steep grades cannot be run less than thirty-five miles an hour. It will cost $7,725,000 to reconstruct the Trans-Baikal and $25,750,000 for the reconstruction of the Siberian system.

Woman Can Love More than Once.

Life was not lacking In experience for Auntie Rodgers, a negro centenarian, who dropped dead at Perry, Ok., a few days since. A hundred years of life had not blotted out all of the brightness of Auntie Rodgers. She had been married six times—to four negroes, one Indian and one white man. She said of all her husbands she loved the last, the white man, best And yet some sentimentalists are forever assuring the world that it Is Impossible for any one to love more than once.—" Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.

Revolution in Water Travel.

Experiments have proven that vessels, fitted with propellers which imitate the fish’s fin, develop remarkable power. It will cause a revolution in water travel. Men gradually learn that Nature's ways are best. One cause of the remarkable success of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the fact that it is a sure cure for constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia and biliMisness.

Rhode Island's Fine New Capitol.

Rhode Island is the smallest State In the Union in area, and its entire population is about equal to that of the City of Boston, yet this State has nearing completion a State Capitol which is exceeded in cost by the capitols of few States and which good judges declare is equaled by none In architectural beauty. .

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No Grace Before Meat.

“Walt a moment, Henry,” said the devout matron to the fresh-alr urchin from New York, about to take his first meal in the country. “We always say something before we eat here.” “Go ahead, ma’am,” shouted Henry. “Nothin’ you kin say’ll spoil my appetite!”

Binder Twine at Low Prices.

If you want a special inside price on binder twine, either Sisal, Standard or Manila, cut this notice out snd mall to Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Binder Twine Department), Chicago, stating about how much twine you will require and how soon you will want It, and they will save you money by quoting you a price that will either secure your order or compel the party who supplies you tv sell to you at a lower price than he otherwise would.

A Wifely Surmise.

Mr. Jackson—Mose Johnson got fine $2 an’ costs to’ drunkenness, and his wife came around and paid It and took him home! Mr. Linkum—Yes. She suspected dat he wanted to go to jail so’s to get out ob house cleaning.—Puck.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but coats about as much. All grocers sell it 15c and 25c.

First of Woman's Colleges.

It Is claimed that the Wesleyan female cpllege at Macon, Ga., was the first woman’s college In the world. It was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of that town in 1830.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your shoes Allen's FootEase, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Lcßoy, N. Y.

Oom Paul's Old Boots.

A pair of Oom Paul’s old boots are being used Ln England as collection boxes for funds In aid of the wlvee and families of the“absent-mlnded beggars.”

Cheap Binder Twine.

Farmers will do well to write T. M. Roberts’ Supply House, Minneapolis, Minn., for the special offer of binder twine made in another column of this paper. .The firm stands well and is rated high to the various commercial agencies. Mrs. Julia Clark, of Dallas, Texas, Is a survivor of the days of ’49 In California. She was the only woman In the gold-hunting party which left New Orleans In July of that year. Piso’s Cure cannot be toe highly spoken of as a cough cure.--J. W. O’Brien, 322 Third avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Cornelius J. Simmons, a lad of 12 years, is the vice president of the Collins Park and Belt Railroad of Atlanta, Ga. The boy’s father Is the president Danish lighthouses arc supplied with oil to pump on the waves during a storm.

FIND PLENTY OF ADVENTURE.

Central America Affords a Fine Field for Men of Roving Habits. ‘♦Central America is the only place on this hum-drum hemisphere where life still runs red,” sighed a young gentleman who holds a very good position in a Poydras street commission house. “It is the last ditch of romance, the one spot where the sword is mightier than the pen. I wish I wasn’t nearsighted and measured a little more around the chest. I’d go down there and break into the seventeenth century and have adventures that would make your hair curl.” “Y-e-es, life Is very strenuous In Central America,” said the head bookkeeper, who Speaks Spanish and smokes brown-paper cigarettes. “I went down there once myself and opened a general merchandise store 'tother side of Chlqulmula. My stock consisted chiefly of whisky and cartridges, which were the two articles most In demand in that part of the country, but I also carried small side lines of tobacco, sardines and fancy percale shirts. “One day a big nigger came Into the store, smoked what was left of the tobacco, ate the last six boxes of sardines and put on all the fancy percale shirts —one on top of the other. Then he Introduced himself as Gen. Tomasso Somebodyorother, and told me to charge the bill to the army of liberation. While we were arguing about the matter a detachment of Government troops came up looking for my colored friend and blew the roof off the store, with a small shell from a mountain howitzer. The general went one way and I went the other, but we both got caught and the commandant proiqptly put me under arrest for harboring a notorious rebel. I was taken before the jefe politico, as they call their maglstra tes down there, and In order to square himself with the authorities Tomasso turned State’s evidence and swore that I was the head and front of the revolution. The scoundrel had on all my percale shirts at the time he was giving Ms evidence, and I was so mad I couldn't talk coherently. “Still, I think I would have been discharged If It hadn’t leaked out that I had a couple of barrels of whisky In the store. When the jefe heard that he ordered me locked up and confiscated my property for the use of the department. The American consul got me TOt eventually, and I came home In the steerage of a banana steamer.” “And have you never been back since?*’ asked the near-sighted young man.

“No,” replied the bookkeeper. “I think I prefer a country where life runs light pink Instead of red. It’s less weaning on the nerves.”—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.

Indoor Exercise for Gould’s Horses.

Frank Gould’s horses are to have a $90,000 building In which to take Indoor exercise. He has bought for the purpose a plot of ground In the most aristocratic neighborhood of New York, fronting fifty feet on West Fifty-sev-enth street and running back 100 feet toward Fifty-eighth street, where It fronts Mr. Gould's stable. The price of it was SBO,OOO. The new purchase will connect with the stable by a sheltered driveway. On the site will be erected a structure for the exercising ring at a cost exceeding SIO,OOO.

A Powerful Ice Crusher.

On Lake Baikal, In Siberia, on Feb. 10, a new ice-breaking steamer, which was built on the lake, was given a trial trip. The journey was made from Llstvennltsehnoye to Pereyemnaya and back through Ice 2 feot 7 inches In thickness, the distance of eighty miles being traversed in twelve hours. The trip was considered most successful, and'the engines of the steamer developed sufficient power to keep the lake open for traffic during the winter.

Seashells in Asphalt Pavements.

The board of works for the district of St. GHes, London, Instead of using sand and fine gravel to sprinkle asphalt pavements when they are wet and slippery for horses, all of which are smooth-shod in London, as In Paris, scatters small seashells which are kept In blns here and there along'the curbstones. These seem to be an excellent substitute for gravel.

Straight Road To Health Is by the way of purifying the blood. Germs and impurities in the blood cause disease and sickness. Expelling these impurities removes the disease. Hood’s Sarsaparilla docs this and it does more. It makes the blood rich by increasing and vitalizing the red globules and giving it power to transmit to the organs, nerves and muscles tbe nutriment contained in digested food. Hood’s Sarsaparilla I( the Beat Medicine Money Can Buy.

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Census of the World’s Railways.

▲ census of the world’s railways recently compiled gives the following figures: In Europe the miles operated (J have risen In four years from 141,552 to 155,284; in Asia from 22,025 to 26,890; In Africa from 6,522 to 8,169; in America from 212,724 to 299,722; and in Australia from 12,322 to 13,888, making a total for the world at 433,963 against 395,143 four years ago. These figures show that Africa made the greatest proportionate advance, that continent’s gain being over 25 per cwt against 9 per cent in Europe, 22 per cent. In Asia, 8 per cent, in America, per cent. In Australia; and for the entire world. The length of the world's railways In 1895 of 483,953 miles Is more than seventeen times the circumference of the earth at the Equator. The United States has a greater mileage of railways than the rest of the world combined.

Government Aid of Art.

France’s ministry of public Instruction encourages art by an annual expenditure of $3,600,000. This Includes the support of the Ecole des BeauxArts and ten other state schools of lae arts.

A SENATOR’S LETTER. Peruna as a Nerve and Catarrh Tonic the Talk of the World. ~ kJ Hon. W. V. Sullivan, TJ. 8. Senator trow Mississippi. Hon. W. V. Sullivan, United States Senator from Mississippi, in a letter recently written to Dr. Hartman from Oxford, •ays the following: “For some time I have been a sufferer from catarrh In Its most Incipient stags, so much io that I became alarmed as to my general health. But, hearing of Fe-ru-na as a good remedy, I gave It a fair trial and soon began to Improve. Its effects were distinctly beneficial, removing the annoying symptoms, and was particularly good aa a tonic. “I take pleasure In recommending your great national catarrh cure, Pe-ru-na, as the best 1 have ever tried. “W. V. Sullivan." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0., for a free book on catarrh. Summer Complaints, ’DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA MORBUS. Taking the Radway’s Ready Relief In water will in a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Malarial Fevers, Sick Headache, Colic. Flatulency and all Internal Pains. Externally for Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains. Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Stings at insects. Sunburns, Burns, Toothache, Headache, Pains In the Back, the application of RW to the part or parts affected will Instantly relieve and soon cure the sufferer of these complaints. Sold by all druggists. RADWAY A CO., New Tort. IcHICAGOtoWAAHA e Double Dally > Service New line via Rockford, Dubuque, Waterloo. Fort Dodre an cl Council Bluffs. Übrary-smoklng-ears, sleeping ears, free reclining chair cars, dining cars. Send to the undersigned tor a free copy of Pictures and Nates En-Weute Illustrating this new line as seen from the car window. Tickets of agents of I. C. R. R. and connecting lines. A. H. HANSON. O. P. A., Chicago! nDADfiV SEW SISCOVERV; givea UIwVZ « O 1 quick relletjkeerae wens eewMi. Bookotteedweeuleend le PAYS’ IrMUml FKK*. Pr.lL IL ttreeo'e Sees, Mes S, Atiaeta. de> c* N« U» No. 24—1900 WHEN Will fl NO TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE SAT " yas saw tee strertteeaesi is this paper