Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — Page 7

Plucking Ostrich Feathers.

During the plucking of his feathers the ostrlct feels no pain. The process Is simple. Over the head of the ostrich Is placed'a long bag with a breathing hole in one end. One man holds the bird while another cuts with shears the long feathers, only those of the wings and tail being taken. The short feathers, being ripe, are pulled out without pain, as they would soon drop In the course of nature. The stumps of those that are cut remain In until three weeks later. Sometimes the bird picks tire stumps out herself. The feathers on the back and abdomen drop ofT. The feathers of the male bird are the more valuable.

The Surgeon's Valentine.

He—You know about the doctors operating on Tom Archer for appendicitis and discovering that their diagnosis was wrongShe—Oh, yes. Well? He—Well, they sent him. home on Valentine’s Day. with a note reading “Opened by mistake.”—Judge.

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 Easv. Cures Corns, Bunions. Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leltoy, N. Y.

Choice or Pick.

“ ’Eard a deuced funny joke te-day,” ■sid the Englishman. “A laborer says to the foreman:, ‘Will I need to take nv' ■hovel or my pick for that job?' ” “ And what did the foreman say?’* “’E said: 'Well, you may take your choice.’ ” —Catholic Standard and Times.

The Poor Chauffeur.

Marjorie—Charlie took Dolly fur a ride in his new auto. The machine broke down and she had to walk four miles. Madge—Was she very angry? Marjorie—Was she? Why, she called him a motorman. —New York Sun. Henry A. Salzer, the well-known Wisconsin seedsman, gives the last thousand dollars to wipe out the debt of the La Crosse Y. M. C. A.

English as She Is Spoke.

She—Oh, let us dance the next. I cannot stand sitting. He—Neither can I.—The King. I cannot praise Piso's Cure enough for the wonders it has worked in curing me. —R. H. Seidel, 220'! Olive street, St. Louis, Mo., April 15, 1901. Salt thrown on a coal fire when broiling steak will prevent blazing from the dripping fat.

DON’T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHERS.

Use Ited Cross Ball Bine and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 6c a package. Outings generally make a man very much out indeed—that is. of money.

CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind You Han Always Bought A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever. Dn. t. felix ooiracd , s oriental CREAM. OR M AGICAL lIE 4 1 TIMER c - . ttimonn Ten. Pimi>l„, Krark- _ -S2 L®,’' Moth ]>HtchM. Kaah and . fcJtg-Utwa atoat-m*. and ...r. __ iah on baanir.and L go ArjJXdeflM detection. It b*||3 -Jr sn<l fcsa® Wd W/ taateittobaauralt 55 J Kl ■" properly made. B A » ) Accept nocounlerSi J \ ®V r * s*' l ! to a \ lady of the haotJ » \ “Aa yon lad lea will /y /^YJoolhaijjlninmi--1 I 1\ L , Cream’aathelea.t k\g harmful of all the _ _ .. hkinprepnretjon*. 1 * For eele by all Drnsgtata end Fancy-Oooda Pealare tn the IT. 8 . Canada and Europe. EKED T. IIOPKIM. I’ropiietor.at Great Jouea HU. N. T.

You cm DO IT TOO Over 2,000,000 people are now buying roods from us at wholcsalo prices saving 15 to 40 percent on everything they use. You can do It too. Why not ask us to send you our 1,000pate catalogue f— It tells the story. Send 15 cents for It today. 3 CHICAGO

Kedwuj'e Reedy Relief (tore* Heedeche, Toothache, bearsifla. Rheumatism. I.umtwsn. pstn* end eeek!i«*e In the Lech. •pin* nr Milne?*, i nine ero nd it* irer. pleurisy, swelling of the Joint* and i-otnei f ell lnd«. the a-pllost on of Rsdwnys lteod? Relief will afford tmmedieie eene end lie continued a**- for e few dart efleote e permanent i nre. Mold b> IJrimnlete luunu A l«.. MwlUlX CANDY CATHARTIC a to Genuine tUmped C. C. C Never fold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to tell “ffomethlne |ust at food.** Land Seekers? CENTRAL T. verr ity tOI.ONA 1)0 offer* Great RRSrVWA I .*? '"'I" v e*' n?". tln CHfcAP end |*lK> puCl IVB LAN 1)8, In trei ietna lit good for all farming purpose. **p*ci»lly f->r IIAIsINtA BTOO K t 1 nil kluda. Land values ererysheisar* Incnmeing. Man I J'iatef Barnelna, eiiii full Information. TIIA BIT OAUsoN UXe t 0.. IU 11e.t.«,« „U nM |m OCEANA COUNTY. MICH.. Banner County cf tho World For rich farming, fruit emwln* and fine nllmn** Where crepe »«« flail. Theger-U.i enotof the ear.u. r or * home in it writ* J. I).H. liasaoN. liar., Aliuu. DSTKCYIVEfc-— Ky»t| f ««1 n try. • irer*kr* nhi inar Urj. lalrrßftlioa J Dvltcuv* Aftnry, AlUeeM**. Wm

TRAINS CLIP RECORD

CHICAGO-NEW YORK SERVICE BEATS THE WORLD. NewTwenty-.Hour Specials Reach Destinations with Time to Spare—Lake Shore - New York Central Traius Make Flying Speed. That the United States can operate the fastest long-distance passenger railway trains in the world was shown the other day when the twenty-hour trains between New York and Chicago on the Lake Shore-New York Central railroads rolled into the terminal stations at New York and Chicago, three to four minutes ahead of time in each case. At the schedule time of twenty hours the Lake Shore trains will make every day an average speed of 49 miles an hour. This average speed is surpassed by some foreign traius, but their runs are only about half the 980 miles by the New Y’ork Central and the Lake Shore. The trip from New York was the means of showing what modern motive power as applied t*> railroad trains can accomplish. The “Twentieth Century Limited” on the Lake Shore-New York Central line kept up the run westward to Buffalo without hindrance, the train arriving there and starting over the long stretch along the shores of the lakes as had been outlined. The even pace was kept up in the main until near New Carlisle, when a freight train got in tinway nnd caused the loss of thirteen minutes.

Long before the run into Chicago had been completed, however, this lost time had been made up. and when the engine came to a standstill under the sh-d at the Grand Central station it was two minutes ahead of time. Railroad men have compiled .some interesting statistics as to the relative speed of trains in America and in “Eu-

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED.

rope. While the claim that the United States has the fastest long-distance passenger trains in the world is substantiated by these figures, it is also shown that for shorter runs France and England have faster trains than America. The figures show that the Empire State express from New York to Buffalo runs the 44<) miles at the average rate of 53 miles and a fraction an hour. The new twenty-hour trains between Chicago and New York run at the rate of 45 to 49 miles an hour. Tiie Europeans' claim to have accomplished something in getting up speed is based on the performance of the Sud express, which makes the 48ti miles between Paris and Bayonne at the rate of sti miles an hour, and on the of the East Coast express, which runs "•93 miles, from London to Edinburgh, at the rate of 50.77 miles an hour, while the West Coast express runs from London to Glasgow. 401 miles, at the rate of 50.18 miles an hour.

JAMES R. KEENE.

Who Told Kins Kdward All About the Bulls and Bears. James R. Keene, whose long arid confidential cliat about finance with King Edward at Lady Listcr-Kaye's dinner.

has made all W all street jealous, is one of the (leverest talkers in New Y'ork nnd one of the wittiest men in the street. Air. Keene, by the way. is English born, but that is al! there is about him that is English. His father was a wealthy London merchant when the future

JAS R. KEENE.

financier was horn, but failing in business. came to America. Of course King Edward received Mr. Keene as nil American. nnd Mr. Keene could not, by any stretch of imagination, he regarded us being anything else.

Religious News and Notes

Thorp nro 2*J7 tlifforent religion* soots in Great Britain ami Ireland. Tho first I.oynl Temperance Legion in Mexico wits organized hy Miss Htlic l>uhmorc in Gnnnajuuto. The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Orcnt Britain reports during the 1 1 >t year the largest increase in membership for nineteen years. The Hev. 11. <!. Jackson, I). I)., writes in the Northwestern Christian Advocate that iiiMtitutlona 1 church work in Cairn 20 is accompanied by uiuny ditHeullies. More than 2.00;) men in the Cnited Ftates navy are members nf the Navy Temperance League,’ mid art? pledged to total abstinence duriii2 t!i»*ir term of service President Uonscv.lt’* address on the Bible lias been widM.v distributed by the American Bible Society. It has sent oat NU.OtKI copies in English and IU/HM c-iyi"s In Spanish. The railroad department of the Y.’ M. C. A. has erected forty-eight buildings In four years, or oue n uio.Y.h, with twothirds of the amount eootrihuted by railroad companies.

MERRIAM’S RECORD-MAKING WORK AS DIRECTOR OF CENSUS.

WILLIAM R. MERRIAM.

William Rush Merriam, director of the census, who has beaten all records in closing up the statistics of the twelfth census, was appointed to the post of director in April, 1899. Few men, a Washington correspondent declares, could have undertaken this work with better ability than the former Governor of Minnesota. In his varied career he has been hanker, business man, agriculturist, legislator, educator and statesman. Mr. Merriam is a native of New Y'ork and is 53 years old. He removed to St. Patti when a lad.

TO RECLAIM THE EVERGLADES.

Nearly a Million Acres May Be Turned Into a Garden. For the past fifty years, in fact, the practicability of draining the Everglades of Florida and thus adding a million acres or more to the wealth of the nation has been fully discussed. Several

surveys of that great submerged bastnr with its rich muck soli, its swamps, islands and streams, have been made during the past twenty years, so that the region i« no longer 'unknown. Fishermen, tvap- ■ per* and hunters have traversed the "glades” in every direction and have reported that, while they consist in the main of a vast morass of saw grass, tropical tiees and undergrowth, the? are , accessible. All are agreed as t> the • wonderful fertility of the soil where it is | not submerged and as to its capacity for : yielding great crops of sugar cane, rlcC | and of her products. j The prospects are now that from a .and I of desolation nnd waste the great swamp j rojhm of Florida known as the Ever- | glades- Is to be changed into a veritable garden spot, for work is already in progress \\ hereby the transformation is to be i fleeted. The scheme is of gigantic proportion, for it is the intention of its prqincters to reclaim nearly or quite a million acres of the most fertile laud to I*> Annul in this country which is now covered with water and rank tropical growths of wild plants, at present iuhabi ited only by alligators, snakes nnd mud turtles, and make it both habitable and cultivable. By opening canals and draining the great basin it is expected that nearly 4.000 square miles of rica land will ho added to the area of Florida, nnd a: the same time the State will be rid of one of its greatest drawbacks. While this enterprise is by no means a new one, the advances made in eng' Leering science during the past q-.-nrter of a century have made the problem more feasible than it was a few y-ars ago. and tiu* work can be done, it is said, at a minimum cost for so vast an undertaking. Operations have already been begun. and on the land reclaimed at the north side of the great luisin quit • a large tract has been cleared, upon which profitable crops of sugar cane, vegetables of all kinds, rice and corn have b. «--i produced without fertilizing flic soil or pajing much attention to tip- cultivation.

PEACE BRINGS LOSS.

The Boer War u Source of Kcvenuc to Americana. The stock growers of the western part of the C nit ul States will lose u great deni of money by the termination of the war. for the repoit or .lud.v Advocate Crowder of the army to the President shows that the a gouts of the British government at I.nthrop. Mo, (near Kansas City) have spent $J7.U35,:t50, or nn average of sol)7.ti7s a month, for burses and mules to be shipped from New Or--I**iius to South Africa. The number of horses shipped was DS,tW7, and the number of mules 75.108. In addition to this the agents of the British araiy have expended corresponding sums for freig.it. forage, labor and other necessary purposes in the same connection. They have" l aid us high as sno a bead for mules ami SSO for unbroken ranch horses.

N. H. (Jravos, n mining man, shot his wife twice In tin* head nml instnntly killed her nt their homo nt Suit Lake City, Utah. (Jrnros then allot himself in the temple, inflicting a fntui wound. No i-e.t---«on Is known for the murder uml ■uleide. Our lug the {MM year thirty-live vessel* Imre been completed for (treat Hritnin’s nary and seventy-five are in course *or const ruction. Jose and Tomas Palma, sons of Cuba’s president, hare been aeut to New York to attend school.

WOMEN’S LOVE FOR UGLY MEN.

Btrikingljr Homely Man Seema to Fascinate Femininity. Extremes meet In the fickle femlnlpa fancy. The attractiveness of the Adonis for women Is not to be compared with that of the man who Is so fearfully and wonderfully ugly as to serve as a living confirmation of the truth of the Darwinian theory regarding the d®•cent of mnn. A bevy of lovely American girls have formed a society the object of which Is to search the land for the ugliest men to be found outside the museum, and when found to marry them as soon as possible. Ever since the time when Mlrabeau, the ugliest of all Frenchmen, had his host of female admirers, really hideous men have been worshiped by women. A careful study of the subject-shows that there must be something else besides the mere attractiveness of ugliness pure and simple. There must be at least of Intelligence In the apelike visage. A single gleam Is all that Is required. With this the ugly mnn assumes a fascinating appearance to the eyes of his female admirers, who probably value the adoration of a homely individual above the rippling fancy of a handsome man who holds his looks at vanity’s highest estimate. This extraordinary fondness of women for extremely ugly men Is seen when some especially villainous-look-ing criminal is exhibited in the dock and immediately becomes the idol of all the women who attend the trial. The more hideous his appearance and the fouler his misdeeds the more enthusiastic is tiie worship of the women. “He is so delightfully ugly,” said a pretty girl w r hen asked what particular fascination a brutal criminal possessed for her..

The reply was too enigmatical for the good-looking mnn, who would have given a great deal for one glance such as the girl cast in tiie direction of the hideous brute in tiie dock. The women who lavished flowers on the ill-favored criminal and daily gazed rapturously at him as he scowled about the court room might have explained the reason of their affection. To tiie men it is inexplicable, the more so as the creature showed not the slightest appreciation of tiie admiration that was being lavished upon him by the women who attended the trial. It is a fact, says tiie Philadelphia Times, that in all ages and countries this strange feminine tendency has been strikingly demonstrated. No explanation that seems plausible has ever been given.

His Human Petition.

Now, the 4-year-old son of a leading Baltimore lawyer had been very wicked. He had fallen athwart the family cat and attempted strangulation, but was parted from his victim and sent to the nursery with orders to prepare for bed and the promise that personal castigation was to be bis fate before retiring. His shrieks turned to sobs, and presently silence followed so suddenly that his mother was convinced that sometiling uncanny was brewing, for in that house a quiet boy meant trouble, and no man could tell where It would strike. So the mother crept silently up to the door, but the sound of a very tired, yet anxious, little voice nailed her on the threshold. Like many an older culprit, the little chap bad resorted to bis prayers when in trouble, and It was no perfunctory performance. Evidently his whole heart was In the matter. "Oh, Lord," said tiie boy, “I have been bad. 1 beat the cat and muver will beat me, for she said so, and my muver Is stronger than I am. So please, Ixird, make me like one of the little cherubs wlmt haven't anything but a head nnd two wings wive feathurs. Then muver can’t whip me, and ’’ Here the childish voice hesitated, for he was sleepy, very sleepy, and then he crawled Into the bed to await the promised whipping, which, curiously enough, never came.—Boston Herald.

Couldn't Straighten Up.

Breed, Wls., June lGth.—Charles F. Peterson of this plaee, Justice of the Peace for Oconto County, tells the following story: “For years I had nn nehing pain In iny back, which troubled me very much, especially in the morning. "1 was almost unable to straighten my back and the pain was unbearable. “1 did not know what it was, but seeing an advertisement of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I concluded to try a box. “1 can only any that that one box alone baa done me more good than anything else ever did. "1 feel aa well now as ever I was. “I nave recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to several others who are using ttvem with good results.” Mr. Peterson Is a highly respected mjn and one who would not so positively make a statement uuless It was absolutely true.

Source of the Trouble.

Mr*. Green—Why, my dear Mr». Brown, how awfully pale you look. Mrs. Brown—No wonder. I’ve been having lots of trouble with dyspepsia lately. Mrs. Green—Dear me! I’m aorrjr to hear that. How long have you had it? Mrs. Brown-I haven't got It at all, but my husband has.—Chicago News.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

It taken Internally, l’rlca 75 cants.

Not After Results.

“Did the typhoid fever leave you with anything?" “No; the doctor got It all"

GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS

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