Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Page 7

Good Blood! Your heart beats over one hundred thousand times each day. One hundred thousand supplies of good or bad blood to your brain. Which is it? If bad, impure blood, then your brain aches. You are troubled with drowsiness yet cannot sleep. You are as tired in the morning as at night. You have no nerve Bower. Your food does you but ttle good. Stimulants, tonics, headache powders, cannot cure you; but will. It makes the liver, kidneys, skin and bowels perform their proper work. It removes all impurities from the blood. And it makes the blood rich in its lifegiving properties. To Hasten Recovery. You will be more rapidly cured if you will take a laxative dose of Ayer’s pills each night. They arouse the sluggish liver and thus cure biliousness. Mfrdto to ocn* Doctors. We have the excluitve service* of some of the most eminent physicians In the TTnfted States. Write freely aU the particulars in recreate. Address. OIL J. C.ATER. Lowell, Mass. PENSIONS Writs Cipt. O’mmu >***!«* Ami, WuMute*. ».«. CPPP 12 Photos of yourself. Sample A psrtlcuars FIVEC 2c stamp Sunbeam Photo Co., Buffalo. N.Y.

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Pronounced It Wrong, Probably.

“I’m afraid;! gave the Colonel a rather disagreeable surprise yesterday. 1 didn’t mean to at all.” “As to how?” “I invited him to come into the library and see some old papyri I got lately, •and from the expression the Colonel dropped I am of the belief that be thought I was going to introduce him to. some rye whisky.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a packageof 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-O 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 25 eta. per package. Sold by all grocers.

A Mechanic in Westminster.

Notwithstanding all that Britain owes to mechanics, there is only one workman who received the highest funeral honors of being buried in Westminster Abbey, and that was George Graham, a famous scientific instrument maker of his day, who in 1700 invented the dead-beat escapement in clocks. Graham’s obsequies were attended by the Royal Society in a body. The largest block of marble ever sent out of East Tennessee was shipped by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to New England during the first week in March. It was consigned to Norcross Bros., at East Cambridge, Mass., and it weighed 45.000 pounds. It was quarried near Knoxville.

Celluloid Cigarette Holders.

Visitors to Paris should be warned against purchasing celluloid cigarette holders and mouth-pieces now being turned out in large quantities by the Government cigarette works. The celluloid may blaze up in the twinkle of ah eye and explode. I believe my prompt use of Piso's Cure prevented quick consumption.—Mrs. Lucy Wallace, Marquette, Kan., Dec. 12, '95.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Responding to a resolution of inquiry in regard to the enforcement of the liquor law in Alaska, Secretary Gage sent a statement to the Senate, in which he says that, notwithstanding the efforts of the department, it is still a fact that the law is openly violated. It has, he says, been reported to the department that forty saloons do business in Juneau, a town of less than 4,000 inhabitants, while in Sitka, which contains less than 1,000 white inhabitants, there are twelve open saloons. “The universal public sentiment in the territory,” says the Secretary, .“is bitterly opposed to the enforcement of the liquor law, nnd the efforts of the officers are met with intimidation, threats of violence and attempts at bribery.” The Secretary closes with the' statement that it is impossible to enforce the present law against the existing public sentiment. • * * Officials of the money order department are somewhat at a loss to understand why a formal prohibition should have been issued forbidding the further exchange of money orders between this country and Spain, except upon the assumption that the order follows some prescribed form previously used. The fact is, there has never been any interchange of money orders between Spain and the United States. The Spanish Government has shared with Mexico'and the South American States the distinction of never having sought to establish a money order system within its own borders, and therefore has never been in a position to negotiate « money order convention with the United States. * • • Patriots in the employ of the Treasury Department who desire to enlist in the army or navy for service against the Spaniards are to receive encouragement from Secretary Gage, who has had a circular prepared to be used in replying to the numerous inquiries coming in from employee of the department throughout the country. It announces that those who desire to leave the service temporarily for the war may be reinstated under existing civil service rules at any tfme within twelve mouths from the date of separation from the service. • • • The model of the battleship Maine which has been on exhibition in the corridors of the Navy Department and has been surrounded by a crowd of tourists almost continuously since the explosion at Havana, has been removed to the basement to be packed for shipment to Omaha, where it will lie exhibited this summer at the exposition. One of the messengers estimates that the model Las been inspected by an sverag? of i,OOO persons a day since the 15th of February. • • * Over GOO doctors have applied for appointment as temporary surgeons m the navy for the war, although for months there have been several vacancies in Ihe regular service which are permanent and carry with them a pension. The difficulty is in passing the examination imposed by thq medical board. It is so severe that few young then can pass it, although there is always an abundance of candidates. • * * Gov. Atkinson of Georgia and Gov. Taylor of Tennessee have both applied for commissions as brigadier generals in the volunteer army and assignment to the command of the troops from their respective States. Both gentlemen express their intention of resigning their governorships if they receive appointments, and they understand that it is necessary for them to do so.

... It has been decided to send the insurgents in Cuba a quantity of muskets and carbines that are stored in the arsenals. They were discarded by the army when the new Krag-Jorgensen rifle was adopted, and are similar to those that have been served out to the militia in the several States. The arms are in excellent condition, although they are not up to date. • • ♦ There is a real estate dealer in Washington named William McKinley. There used to be a real estate dealer here named John Slierman, and he caused his venerable Senatorial namesake a good deal of annoyance. It looks queer to see signboards upon vacant lots offering property for sale or rent by William McKinley. ... In 1861 the postal business of the country had increased from $13,000,000 to $96,000,000 a year, and the last official report of Government disbursements showed that it oost $48,000,000 a year to. transport the mails and $44,000,000 to handle them. The aggregate number of pounds handled is 600,000,000. • ♦ * William Jennings Bryan has written a letter to President McKinley offering his services to the Government in any position in which they may be useful. The letter is brief, but courteous, and asks for any«assignment the President may see fit to give him. , ( Adjt. Gen. Corbin is the busiest man in the department—perhaps the busiest man in Washington— working nineteen and twenty hours a flay to get the volunteer army started and the new regiment of regulars under way. ... Congress had an opportunity to contemplate war from a new point of view when Secretary Alger asked for an ap propriation of $34,019,997.38 to pay the ordinary expenses of the army for just two months. * * » The President has received a touching letter from a gentleman in Richmond, who offers to raise an entire regiment of Virginia colonels, but this has become a delicate subject down in that quarter. ... It is believed in Washington official circles that after the insurgents are fully armed and equipped they will be able to send a force of 50,000 men against Havana. ■■ . The President is beariifg up well under the strain and public receptions have been rcaumed.

FOR WAR REVENUE.

Emergency Taxation Measure Ta Approved by the House. The war revenue bill passed the House Friday afternoon at 6 o’clock by a vote of 181 to 129. The affirmative vote was cast by the Republicans and Messrs. Cummings, Driggs and McLellan of New York, Fitzgerald of Massachusetts, MeAleer of Pennsylvania and Wheeler of Alabama, Democrats. The negative votes were cast by the Democrats, Populists and Silver men and Messrs. Tierney of North Carolina and Thorpe of Virginia, Republicans. The point at difference was the proposed issue of $500,000,000 of bonds, with the proceeds of which to obtain funds to carry on the war with Spain as fast, and whenever, it should be necessary. The bill as finally passed contained important changes as follows: Making the increased tax on beer apply to stocks placed in cold storage pending che passage of the bill; authorizing the sale of packages of fine-cut chewing, as well as of smoking, tobacco of two and two-thirds ounces; reducing the tax on tobacco dealers from $24 and S4B per annum to sl2 and $24 respectively; exempting Jelegraph messages sent under franks from a tax; taxing promissory notes secured by mortgage on real estate 25 cents; making all telephone messages upon which a toll is charged taxable at from 1 to 5 cents, according to the charge; taxing life insurance policies issued upon the industrial or weekly payment plan a cent for each unit of 5 cents of weekly payment; exempting co-operative assessment companies. A new schedule of taxes on premiums paid for property insurance, which was also made to include policies of reinsurance and those issued upon profits and titles, was inserted—lo cents on all premiums between SIOO and SSOO, and $1 on all exceeding SSOO. Warehouse receipts given for agricultural products deposited by the actual grower thereof in the usual course of business for sale are exempt. The tax on proprietary medicines, articles or preparations selling at from 10 to 25 cents, was made one-half cent; the tax on each dollar package of chewing gum, or part thereof, 5 cents. Mineral waters were taxed one-quarter of a cent a pint. The appropriation out of the tonnage tax receipt for the marine hospital service was reduced to $550,000, and the minimum bond to be sold by the Secretary of the Treasury was reduced from SSO to $25. to bring the bonds within the reach of as many people as practicable. Amendments rejected were offered by Mr. Handy of Delaware and others, reducing the amount of bonds authorized to be sold from $500,000,000; by Mr. Lewis of Washington, making the bonds payable in standard gold or silver coin—loß to 136; by Mr. Brucker of Michigan, making the bonds payable at the option of the Government in either gold or silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to I—lll to 135; by Mr. Shafroth of Colorado, making them payable one-half in silver and onehalf in gold; by Mr. Vincent of Kansas, making the rate of interest 1 per cent; by Mr. Barlow of California, making the bonds redeemable in lawful money instead of coin. Mr. McMillin's income tax substitute for the bond issue was rejected—l 23 to 143. The debate was participated in by Messrs. Dingley, Hopkins, Newlands, Shafroth, Walker, McMillin, Grosvenoi and Berry.

DEATH IN A STORM.

Wild Wind Works Havoc in Man; Northwestern States, The tornado which swept across southeastern Dakota and northwestern lowa Saturday night killed a number of people and wrecked a great amount of property. The death loss, so far as known, is eight and the property loss exceeds $100,600. But meager reports "have been received. The towns touched were Valparaiso, Neb.; Elk Point and Richland, S. D., and Sheldon, Alta, Akron, Maurice, Westfield, Hartley, Archer, Mallard, Whiting, Oto and Smithland, lowa. All along the path of the stomi the buildings, for the most part small ones, were razed and considerable damage was done to crops. The greatest property loss seems to have been at Maurice, where the Sioux City and Northern Railway depot, the St. Paul and Kansas City and Thompson Brothers’ elevators, the local slaughter house and many residences were destroyed. '

The Commic Side of The News

A portion of the Spanish fleet has been definitely located. The Spaniards didn’t even knock dff that new coat of paint. Admiral Sampson has reported to the harbor master of Matanzas. So far no reports have reached us of an oversupply of volunteers in Spain. At last we know something of how the American modern battleship works. The shot fired halfway round th' world has been heard aCMadrid. Now is the time to follow Htunlet’s injunction: “Get thee to a gunnery.!’ When the cry came “To arms!’’ the patriotic girls were first to fall in. That man Don Carlos is ns fussy as a bully without a razor at a cake walk. Those Spanish gunners at Matanzas evidently couldn’t shoot the chutes well. Spain* probably will recognize the belligerency of somebody or other pretty soon. Spain evidently has been fooled by Col. Ingersoll’s theory that jßuicide isn’t a crime. From evidence appearing, Senor Polo refuses to consider bis mouth a closed incident. Europe is qiaking nt least one stern demand upon America—she wants more wheat. No matter how high the war tax is on whisky, the old topers will continue to “smile.” It must be admitted that many of the speeches in the Senate were sound and nothing else. \: A New York man has swapped his wife for a gun. Evidently a peace-at-any price man.

A WOMAN’S BURDEN.

From the Evening Newe f Detroit. Mich. The women of to-day are not as strong Ma their grandmothers. They are bearing a burden in silence that grows heavier day by day; that is sapping their vitality and clouding their happiness. Mrs. Alexander B. Clark, of 417 Mich- * n ® Tenue r Detroit, is a typical woman of to-day. Suffering as thousands of her sisters have suffered, she almost despair-

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SPEAKER REED’S ORATIONS.

He Always Commits His Set -Speeches, but Is Happier in Debate. Speaker Reed, talking about set speeches, said: "I haye spoken from memory for two hours. It is always a hard task and I am never free from the fear that somewhere along the course I am going to falter and break. I feel many a time as if I were not going to make the next hurdle, but somehow I usually manage to gather myself for the leap.” When Reed was a schoolboy up in. Brunswick it is to be feared he was not tho closest of students as a rule, until It dawned on him that a little special effort was necessary if he expected to come out with credit at the end of the term. At any rate, he set to work to learn his lessons, and this was the way In which he got into the habit of committing to memory. Butler’s Analogy was one of the tasks set for the

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I became blind.

class and Reed determined to maatec it The day before each reettatioa ha wo6ld shut himself np with the analogy and commit a page, word for word. Ha was always letter perfect in recitation, and that was the end of It. Nobody ever saw Mr. Reed refer to manuscript while making a speech, but he has never made a speech of any lm> porta nee on a set occasion that was not drudgingly and patiently “boned” and memorized. Yet his Impromptu outbursts in debate are as perfect in form and matter as the addresses he has ao carefully prepared.—Buffalo Express.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Hava 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 costs about %as much. All grocers sell it. 15e.' and 25c.

Makers of Handkerchiefs.

A comparatively small number OC handkerchiefs are manufactured in thia country, and those that are made her* are mostly of the cotton and inferior silk variety. The finest silk goods%r« imported principally from Japanj which country sends us annually b©4 tween 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 Japan 4 ese pongees. The best cambric article comes from France and Belgluin, and) linen handkerchiefs come from th® North of Ireland and also from Stj Galls, Switzerland. Japanese silk handkerchiefs are worth from $3 to S4O pen dozen, while the imported cambrics from Brussels sell for from $5 to $7 ai dozen, and the cotton product manUH factored In Pennsylvania and New) Jersey may be had for 30 cents pet dozen.—New York Times.

An Inexpliaoble Fact.

It is an inexplicable fact that meal buried in an avalanche of snow heafi distinctly every word uttered by thOM who are seeking for them, while thelti most strenuous shouts fail to penerf trate even a few feet of snow.

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