Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Page 3

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AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.

From Republican Traveler ,' Arkansas dtp, Kan. Pilgrimages to some shrine of Si Vitus, to cure the disease known as St. Vitus’ dance are no longer made. The modern war of treating this affliction is within reach of every household, as is shown by the experience of Karl A. Wagner, the 11-year-old son of George Wagner, of 515 9th street, Arkansas City, Kan. The father tells the story as follows: “Over a year ago,” he says, “Karl waa taken with St. Vitus’ dance and continued to grow worse; during five months he was under a physician’s caTe. His tongue became pAyadysed and we conld not understand a word he said.' He became very thin, lost the use of his right leg and seemed doomed to become a hopeless invalid. We had about given up hope when Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills were recommended to my wife by a lady whose daughter had been cured of a similar affliction by the pills. “1 bought a box of them at once and

soon notic e d a change for the better in K a r 1 ’s condition. If was so well, p 1 eased' that I bought more of them, and when he had taken five boxes the disease

A Hopeless Invalid.

disappeared. “That was six months ago an<T there has been no return of the disease. The cure was effectual and permanent, and I feel satisfied that no other medicine could have produced so marvelous a result. We feel rejoiced over the restoration of our son. and cannot help but feel that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are the most remarkable medicine on the market.” No discovery of modern times has proved such a blessing to mankind as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Acting directly on the Wood and" nerves, invigoratingthebody, regulating the functions, they restore strength and health in the exhausted patient when every effort of the physician proves unavailing. Over 400 diamonds are known t<) have been recovered from the ruins ol Babylon. Many are uncut, Wit moel are polished on one or two sides.

Ladies who possess the finest complexions are among the patrons of Glenn’s sulphur Soap, hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brown, 50c. A shipyard at Ominato, Japan, atiH in operation, was established over 1,900 years ago. “ Tue American Navy Illustrated" Is the most popular book of the day. See adv, on this pane. Mrs. Winslow's soothisu nxHur nr Children teething: softens the rums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. US cents a bottle.

INCREASE IN WHEAT ACREAGE.

Department of Agriculture Statistician Makes a He port. The May returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture show the acreage in winter wheat to be 5.7 per cent greeter than the acreage last year, the comparison being not with the acreage harvested in 1897, but with that sown in the fall of 1890. While there is an increase of 28 per cent In Kansas, a more or less marked increase in every Eastern and every Southern State, and some increase also on the Pacific coast, the large expansion thus indicated is to some extent offset by a decrease of 2 per cent in Indiana, 3 per cent in Ohio, 12 per cent in lowa, 13 per cent in Missouri and 16 per cent in Illinois. The reduction in area in these last named States is due to the fact that the fall of 189 G was one of the finest seeding seasons ever known, whereas that of 1897 was one of the most unfavorable. The average condition of winter wheat is 86.5, against 80.2 on May lof last year. In the nine States with 1,000,000 acres or upward in this product the averages are as follows: Kansas 105 Pennsylvania ■ 96 Michigan and Tennessee, each 95 Missouri 88 Indiana 87 Illinois 86 Ohio 82 California 26 Correspondents agree in reporting the crop of California to be one of the smallest ever raised in the State. On the other hand, the crop of Kansas bids fair to be the largest in its history. The proportion of spring plowing usually done by May 1 is 75.8 per cent of the whole amount. The proportion done this year by that date is 72.4, against 61.9 last year. Among the States in which plowing is usually advanced are New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota. Among those in which it has been delayed by unfavorable weather are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota. In Kansas the proportion done up to May 1 was 12 per cent below the average. In Missouri it was 16 per cent and in Illinois 19 per cent.

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE

Grand Organization of Five Million Men Is Proposed. A plan for the formation of a national defense auxiliary to the regular army and militia, presented by \Y. D. H. Washington, a collateral descendant of George Washington, has been enthusiastically adopted by the surviving leaders of both sides in the last war and indorsed by the President, cabinet officers, Governors of States and military and naval leaders who could not with propriety give their official indorsement. The general plan of the organization is to enroll every able-bodied man within projier age limits who is willing to take up arms in defense of his country in case an enlistment beyond the resources of the present instituted military forces is necessary. It is estimated that there are 5,000,000 men who will

CAPTAIN GENERAL AUGUSTIN. Spanish Governor of the Philippines.

thus evince their willingness to act in defense of their country if called upon to do so, and this voluntary enrollment will present to the nations of the world a force immediately available which is unprecedented in history. At a meeting in New York City the organization Of the National Volunteer Reserve was perfected, ami Mr. Washington was elected President; Gen. A. McD. McCook, Secretary; Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield was elected Acting Commander of the Volunteer Reserve, with Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet of the Confederate army, Vice Commander, and Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard chairman, and Lieut. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, M. C. of Alabama, vice chairman of the Military Committee. The movement is receiving the active and moral support of public men from all localities as fast as its purpose becomes known to them, and thousands have already and are daily enrolling. Those who bo desire may send their names to headquarters National Volunteer Reserve, Washington Building, New York.

BLANCO AS CRUEL AS WEYLER.

Becomentratios In Cuba Are Dying by Thousands. rresident McKinley has received reliable information from Havana that the most horrible cruelties are being practiced upon the reconoentrados. Since the blockade began they have died by thousands in the western part of the island, and it is ■of an uncommon sight to see a cartload of bodies of the victims of Spanish misrule carted tQ the outskirts and dumped into trenches. Few of those who were in Havana when Gen. Lee left the city are alive, either dying from starvation or being murdered outright by Blanco’s soldiers. When people of wealth and consuls of foreign nations ate without food, and appeal to their Governments for help, the condition of the reepneentrado cap better be imagined than described.

Cheered for Spain.

A dispatch from San Juan, Porto Rico, says that after the bombardment of that place by the American squadron under Admiral 'Sampson the French wtanhip Admiral Rigault de Genouilly left the port, cheering the Spanish army and navy as she passed out.

Great Victory for Cubans.

A report from Havana* is to the effect that 000 Spaniards were killed in a fierce engagement with the insurgents in that province.

AMERICA’S TRADE WITH SPAIN.

Cotton aifd Tobacco Are Exchanged for Fruits, Nuts and Wine. Following the bulletin issued by the Agricultural Department last week on the general trade relations of Spain with thereat of the world from 1886 to 1895, the department issues another on our trade relations with Spain from 1888 to 1897. According to the first of these bulletins our trade with Spain during the fiscal year 1597 fell off more than sl,000,000, though in the same period it largely increased with all other European countries. Our trade with Spain, although subject to minor fluctuations, appears to have been gradually shrinking for about fifteen years. It attained its maximum development in 1883, when the combined imports and exports reached a value of $24,725,632, or more than $lO,000,000 in excess of the present figures. The returns for 1897, with the single exception of those for 1895, which fell to $14,501,195, were the lowest recorded since 1878, twenty years ago. The average value per annum for the last five years, 1893-7, amounted to $16,240,588, as against $18,305,404 for the five yeara immediately preceding. Our trade balance with Spain has been normally 3 to 1 in favor of the United States. In 1897 this balance amounted to $7,250,772. The falling off in trade seems to have affected exports and imports equally, so the ratio remains unchanged. The bulk of our exports to Spain are agricultural products, and these have increased from 75 per cent to over 86 per cent in the last decade. Cotton and tobacco form more than 90 per cent of our agricultural exports to Spain. Our Spanish imports are also chiefly agricultural, but these have steadily decreased from 65.91 per cent in 1888-92 to 62.69 per cent in 1893-7. Fruits, nuts and wine farm 85 per cent of our Spanish imports.

CUT CABLES UNDER FIRE.

Blanco Entirely Separated from Spanish Powers Ontside of Cuba. L A few hours before the Winslow was caught in the Spanish trap off Cardenas four boats’ crews of men from the Marblejiead and the Nashville went tjirpugh 1 somewhat similar experience off Cienfuegos on the opposite side of Cuba. The tire that rained on them was from a thousand rifles and machine guns handled in rifle pits on the beach less than 900 feet from where the boats lay, and the record is two killed, two mortally wounded, and four seriously wounded of the forty who were in the boats. The Spanish loss is believed to have been very heavy. The lighthouse fort and the arsenal at Cietnfuegos were destroyed duriug the engagement, and the shells from our warships set fire to the town. Our greatest success, however, was the cutting of two of three cables running out of Cienfuegos, for which purpqse the action was undertaken. The fleet in the vicinity consisted of the Marblehead, which had been on the station three weeks; the Nashville, which had been there two weeks, and the revenue boat Windom, which had arrived two days before. It was the intention to finish cutting the third cable on the next day. All three cables at Cienfuegos belong to the Cuban submarine System. The smaller one, which was not C\Jt, extends no further west than Manzanillo. The other two run to Santiago de Cuba, where connection is made with lines to both Jajgpica and They were a pari of the Tast channel of cbhi munication between Havana and the outside world except through Key West, and with both of them cut Gen. Blanco is entirely separated from Madrid and the Spanish powers outside of Cuba.

DEWEY IN CONTROL.

No Need of Anxiety Over the Ad< miral's Position in Manila Bay. The American dispatch boat Hugh McCulloch, attached to* Admiral Dewey’s squadron, arrived again in Hong Kong, bringing dispatches from Manila. She reports that there has been no change in the situation there. Pood is getting scarcer in the city and famine is prevailing. A Spanish revenue cruiser entered the harbor of Manila and was captured. The Spaniard had been cruising around the southern islands for sixteen months and did not know that war had been declared. When Admiral Dewey learned of his promotion he hoisted his flag with the usual salutes. Consul Williams landed at Cavite last week after the Spanish garrison had evacuated the place. The insurgents, who had hastened to occupy the town, greeted him with enthusiasm. He was followed through the streets by a crowd numbering 2,000 persons, nil shouting, “Viva ios Americanos!” Spaniards arc convinced that a British merchant steamer piloted the American squadron into the bay, and comments friendly to the United States, published in Manila English papers in other cities of the East have the hatred felt for the British.

CURRENT COMMENT

American shot and shell are the best answer to Spanish heroics.—New York Journal. The chief province of the naval strategy board seems to be to figure things out after they have happened.—St. Paul Dispatch. . It would appear from the news reports that Spain purchased a great many war vessels for publication oniy.—Washington Post. tn order to have a naval victory to boast of, the Spaniards may yet have to confess, that they blew up the Maine. —Kansas City Journal. Spanish warships are cruising in the straits of Gibraltar. They will yet get into straits where they cannot cruise.— Salt Lake Herald. Spahlsh officials say it “was a sad but glorious day.” And so it was—«ad for Spain and glorious for the United States. —Kansas City Journal. There appears to be 4 growing suspicion that the sons of some .great men want to start In where their fathers k*£» off.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. , The American pctople love peace, but they do not want peace In war. They prefer Deweys way of arguing with Spain.—New York World. , » . When the Spaniards sank our battleship they put a new Maine-spring in every “watch” in our pavy.—Boston Globe.

War with Spain.

Aa war with Spain has broken ont the officials seem to think that ail that will be needed Is warships, torpedo boats and other Instruments of destruction. But really wbat will be needed more tban anything else is a good supply of “5 DROPS” (manufactured by the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 167 Dearborn street, Chicago 11L), to knock out the Rheumatism which is sure to grip our soldiers aud sailors in the miasmatic climate of Cuba and the surrounding Islands. The truth is that something to heal and cure Is precisely what is needed right how in the desolated “Queen of the Antilles.” Those 200,000 reconcentrados reported dying by hundreds need provisions, but they need good medicines fully as much. If Miss Barton, of the Red Cross relief work, was supplied with ”5 DROPS” she could save many a sick Cuban. These miraculous “5 DROPS” conquer many of the worst diseases, such as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, the excruciating Sciatica and the other diseases for which it is recommended. The War Department should see that there Is an abundant supply of “5 DROPS” la the medicine chests.

Nest of Spectacle Frames.

Bombay newspapers are responsible for the tale of a local crow which has built Its nest of spectacle frames stolen one by one from the stock of a Baboo optician.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show yon a packageof GRAIN-O, the Dew 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. the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 eta. per package. Sold by all grocer*. He that is always calm Is always brave.

Hall'a Catarrh Core. Is taken Internally. Price 75 cents. Why do fashion’s leaders always follow It?

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Oldest Sailling Vessel.

The oldest sailing craft in the world la the So-called Goldstad ship, a Viking vessel, which was discovered in a sepulchral mound on the shores of Christiania fjord. It is 1,000 years old. The changes in methods of operation and operating staff on the Chicago Great Western Railway, which forecasted in these columns, became effective on May 9. The official circulars issued by Mr. Raymond DuPuy, General Superintendent, announce the abolishment of tha office of superintendent of transportation and the appointment of Mr. J. Berlingett, who has held that position, as superintendent of the southwest division, extending from Kansas City, Mo., to Oelwein, lowa, with headquarters at Des Moines, lowa. Mr. J. A. Kelley is appointed superintendent of the northwest division, including main line Oelwein to Minneapolis and tha feyle and Hampton branches, and la located at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. O. Oornelisen is appointed acting superintendent of the eastern division, Chicago to Oelwein, headquarters at Dubuque, lowa.

Admiral Dewey.

“The American Navy Illustrated,” shows pictures of Admiral Dewey, Fitshugh Lee, the wrecked Maine, the vessels now composing the American navy, Morro Castle and many others. See adv. columns of this paper. Richter was fond of pets, and at on* time kept a great spider in a paper box, feeding and tending the creature for many months.

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