Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1902 — Page 3

CATARRH OF LUNGS. A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured by Pe-ru-na. Miss Maggie Welch, secretary of the Betsey Ross Educational and Benevolent Society, writes from 328 North State street, Chicago, 111., the following glowing words concerning Perun a: “Last fall I caught the most severe cold I ever had in my life. I coughed night and day, and my lungs and throat became so sore that I was in great disHISS BSGGIZ WELCH. tress. All cough remedies nauseated me, and nothing afforded me relief until my doctor said rather in a joks\ ‘1 guess Peruna is the only medicine that will cure you.’ “I told him that I would certainly try it and immediately sent for a bottle. I found that relief eaine the first clay, and as I kept taking it faithfully the cough f gradually diminished, and the soreness est me. It is fine.”—Maggie Welch. Address the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free literature on ca-‘ tarrh. How often we ‘ W hear the remark that this or that child seems to be forever catching every disease that makes its appearance In the community—and again it is noted that other children never seem to be sick. A child whose stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys are kept in healthy action by that pleasant remedy, Dr. Caldwell’s (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin never acquires the "sick habit.” The child who la continually catching every disease knots u to children is the child whose system la in a congested condition. You can insure your child’s health, and save expensive doctor bill, and a lot of worry, if you have a bottle of this laxativ. in the house and see that it is used regularly. ALL DRUGGISTS SOc and SI.OO Bottta* s SAMPLE BOTTLE and Interesting book FREE for the asking. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, IHs. J The holiday <ifta ara th* uaefiU rlfta. Every homa nhoulJ have a gvxxi Dictionary. Tnia year why not <iv« voine one a WEBSTER'S International Dictionary of ENGLISH, Biography, Geography, Fiction, etc. The One Great Standard Authority. The* New Edition has 23.000 new words ¥361 pa<ea MOO illustration". N« w plaice throughvuL Let Us Send You ETM IT IT "A Testln Pronunciation ” A J'-LL Affords pleasant and instructive entertainment Al*n Webitrr’s < <te JJictlonury. 11UO [MLjes. 1400 illustrations. Site 7xlo x 2 t-8 inches. “ First-* lass tn quality, second-class in site.” iLT.t’RTRaTFD PAXTHIJCTS ALSO ERBS G. 4 C. MERRIAM CO., Pub*., Springfield, Mau. TOESEJ Christmas Dinners FOR 200,000 POOR PEOPLE will be supplied by the Salvation Army throughout tba United States. WILL YOU HELP by sending a donation—no matter bow small? Salvation army CHICAGO Headquarters 84 Adams Street Chicago, 111. JANUARY BUYING There Is no time like January for satisfactory Shying. The halltoy rush Is ovsr u>4 the early Spring trade has nos yet bekun lu January you a" Way. get first pick ot alt tho earliest Spring gooda and there Is ample lime to fill and ship your orders with grealer promptness. ■end II cents TODAY nur UrfeGeneral I Catalogue No. 71. It ctr*« ploturrn , deacrip* tian* and pricta on almoafc everything you ent. wear or vaa. Bavo *4 to 4 un everything you purchase by sanding your orders to MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. CHICAGO “ The Ron*. that Telia the Truth.” RRft Had wax's Reedy Relief Curse Readaeba, Tunthaehe, Neuralgia. Rheumatl.m, Lambege. Paine and weak. Bum In the bank, epiae er Sidneys, palskp arunad ths liatfs: 'iiis&'.v •Word Imtnadials saw and Its continued us* tor a tew

PAYNE ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT.

Recommendations M de for Legislation for Good of the Service. Henry C. Payne, Postmaster General, In his annual report, especially notes that the “increase in postal revenues not only attests the wonderful prosperitl of the people and the activity of business interests that the extension of postal facilities, carefully directed, results sooner or later in increased receipts and diminished deficits.” He presents the following comparative statement of the financial operations of the department for two years: Ordinary postal revenue .$109,531,778.67 $119,058,220.40 Receipts from money order business .... 1.068,659.20 1,880,817.86 Other sources. 430,765.43 Total receipts from all K sources . .. .$111,631,193.39 $121,848,047.26 Total expenditures tbeyear 115,554,920.87 124,785,607.07 Excess expendutlres over receipts ....$ 3,023,727.48 $ 2,037,640.81 The estimated deficit for 1903 is given as $5,602,227 and for 1904 as $8,242,856. The Postmaster General says that deficits in the postal service are not to be viewed with apprehension, as it is the policy, whenever S.e postal receipts exceed or come near the expenditures, to extend postal facilities and cheapen the cost of the service to the public. In this connection is noted the continuing effort to better the condition of postal employes, Involving wholesale promotions and reductions of working hours of clerks in postofflees. Of the rural free delivery the report says: Rural free delivery service has become an established fact. It Is no longer in the experimental stage and undoubtedly Congress will continue to Increase the appropriation for this service until all the people of the country are reached, where it Is thickly enough settled to warrant it. The estimates of the department are to the effect that the available territory for this service embraces about 1,000,000 square miles, or one-third of the country area exclusive of Alaska. The 11,630 routes now In operation cover about one third of the available territory. From this it will be seen that ft will require 27,000 employes additional to those now In the service to cover this territory. If Congress shall make the necessary appropriations it is believed that within the next three yeans the extension of the service will have been completed. With the carrier's salary fixed at S6OO per annum the annual gross cost of the completed rural free delivery service will approximate $24,000,000. After the service has been completed this increase ought not to exceed annually 8 to 10 per cent, or In about the same proportion as obtains in other branches of the service. The people are demanding the service with Impatient earnestness. 'The report states that the money order business lias largely increased during the fiscal year, both in the number of orders issued ami the amount of money involved. The number of domestic money orders issued was 40,474,327, amounting to $313,551,279. The number of international money orders issued during the year whs 1,311,111, amounting to $22,974,473. The number of international orders paid during the year was 307,679, amounting to $5,821,729. Of the railway mail service the report says: At the close of the year there were 1,350 Hues of traveling postofflees, covering 178,796 miles in length. The number of clerks employed was 9.731, annual travel by them in cars 221,589,899 miles. To accomplish this 3,785 cars and apartments were used on the steam roads, besides twenty-four cars on the electric Hues under the supervision of the railway mall service and F 3 apartments on steamboats. it Is estimated that these clerks-—liandled 15.062,830.640 pieces of ordinary mall and 24.174,174 packages and cases of registered mail. The errors by clerks in handling the mall as reported Indicate but one error made for every 11,502 pieces correctly distributed. There were 286 casualties to mail cars last year. In which either mall or clerks were injured. Nine clerks were killed and 88 seriously and 302 slightly Injured. In the appropriation act for the current fiscal year provision was made for the first time authorizing the postmaster general to pay to nie legal representatives of any railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty or who. being injured while ou duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such Injury, the sum of SI,OOO. The report closes with the following recommendations for legislation: That the extension of free delivery to towns of not less than 5,000 population, or $5,000 gross annual receipts, be authorized. Thnt substitute letter carriers in cities of 75,000 population and ov6r by guaranteed monthly earnings of not less than S3O, and in cities of less than 75,000 population not less than $25. That rural letter carriers be allowed an annual leave of absence of not to exceed 15 days with pay. That the maximum fee for a money order be fixed at 25 Instead of 30 cents. That section 3 of the act of June 13, 1898, chapter 446, providing that assistant postmasters, cashiers am! other employes of postofflees of the first, second and third classes shall give bond direct to the United States, be repealed, and that a statute be knacted requiring such officers to give bond directly to the postmasters, and holdlug postmasters responsible under their own bonds for any and all acts and defaults occurring at their respective offices. That the interstate commerce law be amended to prohibit common carriers, town, telegraph and express companies, or any of theft employes, from aiding and abetting In the green goods or lottery swindles, or any other scheme carried on partly by mall and partly by common carrier and which Is In violation of the postal laws. That the department be authorized to adopt a system of postal cheeks. That a statute be enacted authorizing the receiving and dispatching of certain classes of mall matter without the necessity of affixing postage stamps to Individual pieces. That un act be passed conferring upon tbo department specific authority to Introduce a system of reply postal cards and envelopes. Authority to print In book form the opinions rendered by the assistant attorney general for the postotfice department. That provision be made for new and suitable buildings for the manufacture and repair of mail equipment, the quarters at present occupied being entirely Insufficient.

First Girl Baby in 140 Years.

A girl baby has been born to Mr. trnd Mrs. Arthur W. Becker of St. Louis. Ordinarily such an announcement would carry with it no interest beyond the immediate circle of the family interested. But when one is told that tho Beckers are a particularly large family and thnt this is thfi first girl Becker to be born in 140 years, the coining of the little lady immediately assuines considernble Importance. The family are to hold n general celebration. Supreme Court ot" the United States says tho American school of magnetic hcnling, Nevada, Mo„ is legally entitled to use the mails, that the claim of ability to cure Is not fraud. Big victory for “healers.” The Interior Department has decided not to permit the planting of commercial orchards under lense or contract to cultivate by nursery companies in tho Cherokee nation. Secretary Root, in his annual report, will recommend the rettorstion of the f ny cantdsn.

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The Outlook.

Her Papa—Yo’ aspiah ter marry mah daughtah, sab? H’m! Whad am yb’r prospec’s? The Suitor (a widower) —Every single one ob de pussons to' whom mah late lamented wife done washin’ to’ bab promised ter liber’ly paternize her successah.—Judge.

Chagrin.

“I have always hoped," he said in a discouraged way, “that 1 had some force of character and was fairly able to show It." “What’s happened?” his wife asked. “The State boss of the political party I’m affiliated with wants me to run for Governor.”—Chicago Record-Herald.

Artistic.

“She Is very artistic," said the impressionable youth. “Yes," answered the man with the steely eye, “she is one of the sort of girls who think a bunch of hand-painted daisies is much more important on a dinner plate than an omelet.”—Washington Sta,r.

Wonderful Work.

Case No. 18,977. —David M. Bye, P. O. Address Box 297, Midland, Mich, says: “Three months t was almost Incapacitated from labor; could not sleep at night; had to walk the floor, owing to terrible pain in the hips, in the email of the back, tn my Instep and ankle of the right leg. “I was treated for sciatic rheumatism In the hospital, but received no benefit. One month ago I returned hotpe, and was given a box of Doan's Kidney Pills. To-day residents of this city can bear witness to the fact that I am able to work, and can also walk to my work without the aid of a walking stick or crutch. “In speaking of the Immediate effect of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I did not find them to deaden the pain but quickly and surely to eradicate the cause of It. "I am of the opinion that Doan’s Kidney Pills is the best remedy for kidney ailments that can be procured. “I was especially careful In my diet, In order to give the treatment fair Play. “In conclusion, I shall be pleased, at any time, to answer any Inquiries regarding my case, from anyone desirous of obtaining It." A FREE 'TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Bye will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. A Parisian lady has been compelled by the police to break up her home, consisting of twenty hens, fifty cocks, thirty pigeoni, a goat, four cats, eight dogs, a parrot and a dozen small birds. Her neighbors objected to the noise at night. Help your wife to get breakfast easy. Take home lira.. Austin's Pancake flour. Your grocer waits to supply you. One-tenth of the Inhabitants of the village of Long KLarston, In Hertfordshire, England, arc snid by a statistician to have reached tho nge of ninety years.

20 MILLION BOTTLES SOLD XVERY YEAR. mark. Happiness 1s ths absence of psfn, snd millions have been made happy throuth being cured by St Jacobs Oil of RHEUMATISM. NEURALGIA. TOOTHACHE, HEADACHE. LAMENESS. SCALDS. BURNS. SPRAINS. BRUISES and all pains for which an external remedy can be applied. It never falls,to cure. Thousands who have been declared Incurable at baths and In hospitals have thrown avtay their crutch.*, being cured after using St. Jacobs Oil. Directions In eleven languages accompany every bottle. CONQUERS PAIN

A Gentle Hint.

Snifkins—l was going to propose to her. but I thought first I’d read her some love verses I'd written about her. Miss Peppery—And did she like them? Snifkins—Well, she remarked if she ever married she’d prefer a man with more money than brains. Miss Peppery—Ah! Then you proposed and were accepted.—Philadelphia Press. , IN ITS ADVANCED and chronic ferm a cold In the head is known as Nasal Catarrh and la the recognized source of other diseases. Having stood the _ test of continued successful use, Ely’s Cream Balm is recognized as a specific for membranal diseases in the nasal passages. It is not drying, does not produce sneezing. Price 50 cents nt druggists or by mail. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren street. New York. Give up prejudice and try it. Messrs. ELY BROS.:—I have been afflicted with catarrh for twenty years. It made me so weak I thought I had consumption. I got one bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm and In three days the discharge stopped. It is the best medicine I have used for catarrh. FRANK E. KINDLESPIRE. Proberta, Cal.

LONG LIFE AND A MERRY ONE.

Strenuous Americans Outlive the Indolent Africans. It seems that we are all wrong about the hurtful and life-shortening effect of American “hustle.” Our national motto may be said to have been “A short life, but a strenuous one.” We were willing, as a. people, to have the span shortened a little if only we could have something worth while, something active and effective, going all the time. But it seems, according to the latest bulletin of the census bureau, that the fast life is also the long one, says Harper's Weekly. Our “median age”—that is, the age which Is such that half the population is under It and half over it—ls more than seven years greater than It was a century ago, and Increases from decade to decade. We are surpassing easygoing foreign countries In this respect; we are surpassing even the loose jointed, Idolent, beautifully relaxed, never-worrying African in our midst; for whereas the median age of our American whites is 23.4 years, that of the devil may-care colored person Is but 18.3. Lately much confusion has arisen in the minds of many Americans over the statement made by certain eminent neurologists that it is next to Impossible for a man to “overwork,” provided his bodily functions are kept in good order by temperate and wholesome living. Other physicians, to be sure, tell us that hurry and worry spell death. We had accepted the latter Judgment, with the qualifying reflection that no mutter what science tells us, It always seems to have "another think coming.” This census bulletin which links the long life with the fast ene appears to be the other “think.”

Disproving an Adage.

“I can never marry you,” snid the beautiful" blonde. _ "But,” pleaded the wealthy old mnn, “won’t you make my life happy for the short years I will be here? 1 am troubled with n weak and faint heart.” “In that case I accept you.” And yet they say faint heart never won fair lady.—Chicago News.

True Sympathy.

Tom —Why so melancholy, old mnn? Jack—Miss Jones rejected me last night. Tom —Well, brace up. There are others. Jack —Yeo, of course; but somehow 1 can’t help feeling sorry for the poor girl.—Chicago News. The cinch bog has been called the costliest insect in America. It has cost ns high as one hundred million dollars to feed during a single season. A bug hardly visible to the naked eye and which will provide 500 offspring ts difficult to cope with nnd Its offensive odor protects it from other Insects which might feed upon it. He sought for others the good he desired for himself. Let him pass on,—Egyptian. Mrs. Winslow’s Bootsiwo Svaur for Children

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The Mystery Solved. Mlles—l wonder why a woman seldom talks to herself? Giles—Because In that case she would have to do the listening also.—Chicago News. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do—use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. The number of newspapers and periodicals has more than doubled. If you like Mrs. Austin’s famous Pancake flour, won’t you be food? Tell your friends how delicious It is. PLEASANT ■rx* THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW ANO MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor Myo It octo yontly on tbo stomach, llrar and kidneys and taaplMoant laiatiro. Thio drink io made from horba. and la prepared for use aa easily aa too. It io called ttjUane's Tea” cr LANE’S FAMILY MEDICINE All drupelets er by mail M ote. and 10 etc. Buy it tn day. Lanr'a Fawlly Medicine mnrra tbs bowela each alley, In order to ba healthy thio Io nacooaary. Addrwse, O. F. Woodward. Le Xoy, N.Y.

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