Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — Page 3

Keep Your YOUHI If you are young you naturally appear so. If you are old, why ap- . pear so? Keep young Inwardly; we will look after the outwardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of gray; advance agents of age. Ayers Hair vigor will surely restore color to gray hair; and it will also give your hair all the wealth and gloss of early life. Do not allow the falling of irour hair to threaten you ongerwith baldness. Do net be annoyed with dandruff. We will send you our book on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. WMta f*• Doofar. If you do not obtain all the bonofita you expected from the aso of the Vigor, write the doctor about It. Ptobably there Is some dlficulty with your general system which may be easily removM. Address, DR. J. C. ATER. Lowell, Maas.

There has just been erected in the Mount Clare shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore a new high pressure steam boiler for the purpose of testing locomotive boilers under steam pressure. Heretofore a locomotive had to be hauled to the outside of the shop, fire built in the firebox and steam gotten up in order to make a test, this method consuming much valuable time. Under the new arrangement all this is done while the engine is standing in the shop, a system of steam pipes having been arranged so that the engines on any track in the erecting shop can be tested without being removed.

Value of War Medals.

Some idea of what British war medals are worth was furnished by the prices obtained at a recent sale In London, when an East Indian company’s gold medal for the Egyptian campaign of 1801 realized £SO, the Sultan’s gold medal Tor Egypt, 1801, £l6; a New Zealand medal, 1845 to 1847, £6 ss, and a London volunteer medal, presented by Maj. Thomas Drury, June 12, 1799 which in all probability is unique--115 10s.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body, or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted.—Gladstone. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is our only medicine for coughs and colds.—Mrs. 0. Beltz, 439 Bth ave., Denver, Col., Nov. 8, 1895. Why don’t rented wheels belong to the hire grade of bicycles?

“I DO MY OWN WORK.” Bo Says Mrs. Mary Roohiette of Linden, New Jersey, in this Letter to Mrs. Pinkham. “ I was bothered with a flow which would be quite annoying at times, and at others would almost stop. “ I used prescriptions given me by my physician, but the same state <jiS—of affairs continued. “ After a time I was T taken with a flooding, that I was gM w* obliged to keep my bed. Finally, in despair, I pave up my doc- ' tv, and began ""r tiding your medicine, and have certainly been greatly benefited by its use. “Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Oompoupd has indeed been a friend to me. “ I am now able to do my own work, thanks to your wonderful medicine. I was as near death I believe as I could be, so weak that my pulse scarcely beat and my heart had almost given out. I could not have stood it one week inore, lam sure. I never thought I would be so grateful to any medicine. “ I shall use my influence with any one suffering as I did, to have them nse Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” Every woman that is puzzled about her condition should secure the sympathetic advice of a woman who understands, Write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass, and tell her your ills.

IMPERIAL CAPRICE.

Remarkable "Wedding In Russia— Bridal Chamber of Ice. The Binpress Anna of Russia In the last year of her reign carried out one of the most “mighty and magnificent’’ caprices that ever entered Into the head of even a supreme monarch. In 1739 one of her nobles, Prlnoe Golitzln offended her and she varied the usual program, did not send him to Siberia, but instead made him court page and buffoon. He was a widower; the Empress commanded him to marry again. The Prince carried out her instructions in the spirit of his profession, and selected a girl of low degree. Her Majesty took on herself all the wedding arrangements; the winter of 1739-40 was extraordinarily severe; she ordered a house bulk entirely of ice; it consisted of two rooms, and all the furniture, even to the bedstead, was of lee also. In front of the house were placed four small cannon and two mortars, aud these were of ice; they were fired, too, several times without bursting. When the wedding day came there was a procession of 300 people, mostly peasants, from every part of Russia. The Empress had commanded them to be sent to her by her provincial governors; each person wore the costume of 'bis or her own province, and some were drawn iff sledges by reindeer, some by dogs, some by goats, and some by oxen. The bride and groom rode in the midst in a great iron cage placed on the back of an elephant. After marching through the principal streets of St. Petersburg they went to a building we hear of as the Duke of Courland’s riding house, and there supper was served in many different fashions, for each guest supped as she would have done at home; and the customs in different parts of Russia then differed greatly —more even than they do now. A ball followed, and the dancing was as varied as the cookery. After the badl the unfortunate bridal pair were escorted to the ice house, where they had to spend the night, for guards were placed before the door to see that they didn’t get out.

HOW RELIEF CAME.

JVom Cole County Democrat, Jeff er ton City, Missouri.

When la grippe visited this section, about seven years ago, Herman H. Eveler, of 811 W. Main street, Jefferson City, Mo., was one of the victims, and has since been troubled with the after effects of the disease. He is a well-known oontractor and builder, a business requiring much mental and physical wonk. A year ago his health began to fail and be was obliged to discontinue work. That he lives to-day is almost a miracle. He says: “I was troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart and a general debility. My back also pained me severely. “I tried one doctor after another and numerous remedies suggested by my friends, but without apparent benefit,

A Contractor' e Difficulty.

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Women in Modern Industries.

Four millions at women, or 18 per cent, of the entire female population of the United States, are now said to be engaged in paid industries, the number having doubled in twenty years. In 1870 there were but 8»000 bookkeepers, accountants, typewriters, etc., whUe In 1890 the census reports give 20,000 women thus engaged. Three ndllion women are engaged in donjestScNservlce, which gives a grand total o>f 7,000,000 women in this country who are wage-earners.—Saturday Evening Post.

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It is said to be no uncommon occurrence on the new Siberian railway for fuel or water to give out. In the latter case a halt is made and snow collected and melted until enough water is provided for proceeding to the next station.

Lane's Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Success In most things is in knowing how long it takes to succeed.—Montesquieu.

Hall's Catarrh Care.

Is taken internally, Price 70 sente. Self-respect Is the cornerstone of all virtue.—John Hers'tiel.

CALLS FOR MORE MEN

President Asks for 75,000 Additional Volunteers. LISTS ARE NOW OPEN TO ALL Recruits Are Not to Come Entirely from National Guard. President McKinley Asks the Several States to Let Him Have More Troops with Which to Whip the Spaniards —Call Is Thought to Indicate Early Invasion of Cuba by Army Now in the Field—Germans Failed to Bluff Dewey at Manila. Washington special: The President has issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 more volunteers. This will make the total army strength, regulars and volunteers, 280,000. The second official callsfor troops is as follows: “Whereas, An act of Congress was approved the 25th day of April, 1898, entitled ‘An act declaring that war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain,’ and “Whereas, By an act of Congress entitled ‘An act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war and for other purposes, ’ approved April 22, 1898, the President is authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the army of the United States; “Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution and the laws, and deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, volunteers to the aggregate number of 75,000, in addition to the volunteers called forth by my proclamation of the 23d day of April, in the present year, the same to be apportioned, as far as practicable, among the several States and territories and the District of Columbia, according to population, and to serve for two years, unless sooner discharged. The proportion of each arm and the details of enlistment and organization will be made known through the War Department. “In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “Done at the City of Washington this 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sec-ond. “WILLIAM M’KINLEY. “By the President. •WILLIAM R. DAY, “Secretary of State.” It is confidently predicted in Washington that this second call for volunteers denotes an early and concerted move upon Cuba and Porto Rico. With this understanding of it the proclamation of May 25 will be as welcome to the American people as was that of April 23 calling out the first 125,000 volunteers, and will be responded to as heartily and as promptly. In answer to the first call the quotas are practically all filled except those of a few Southern States. When the full number of men allowable under these two proclamations has been enlisted, and when the regular army has been recruited to the limit permitted under its present organization, the United States will have under arms, including regulars and volunteers, a total of nearly 280,000 men. With such an army to supplement our gallant navy we ought to be able to take anything short of Madrid itself. , Like the men called out under the former proclamation, these new volunteers are to be enlisted for two years, unless sooner discharged. But unlike the others these will not be drawn exclusively from the State militia organizations. The enlistments will be open to all men of proper age and physical abilities, irrespective of w’hether they have had previous military training or not. This will give 'a much desired opportunity to many private organizations of a military nature to 'see active service, and it will also give a similar chance to thousands of patriotic individuals who have belonged to no organization at all. Reports from various States indicate that the call will meet (With hearty response. Independent companies are already organized in many of the States, and these will be offered to the service of the country.

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To Seize Hawaii. There are indications that the administration intends to take possession of Hawaii whether Congress passes the annexation resolution or not. The President has the power to take possession of the islands os a war measure', and it is Mid that he already has assurance from the Hawaiian government that this method of annexation will be acceptable as a way of getting under the protection of the American flag. gome of the Costs of War. An estimate for a deficiency appropriation of $11,400,000 in the expenditures of the quartermaster’s department for the current year was sent to the House Thursday. Of this amount, $9,000,000 Is required for transportation of troops, $1,000,000 for regular supplies', $1,000,000 for horses and mules, $200,000 for incidental expenses and $200,000 for barracks and quarters. ' - Remembered the Maine Men. The graves of the cemetery in Key West, lie the bodies of twenty-four victimfl of the Maine explosion, and of four men killed on the Winslow in the cutting of the cable at Cienfuegos, were profusely decorated on Memorial Day with flags and flowers, contributed by newspaper correspondents and naval men. lamed G. Longstreet, son of Ren. James A. Longstreet, has been commissioned as second lieutenant in a battery •f light artillery at Atlanta, Ga. • ' . ’ , '".A , • -. «.a >

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The delay in the departure of the troops for Manila was not only due to the difficulty of obtaining transports on the Pacific coast, but also to the inability of the quartermaster, commissary and ordnance departments to secure the necessary supplies. Those who have complained about the tardiness of the Government in reenforcing Admiral Dewey should remember that these troops are going to a country where they can obtain nothing except tropical food, which would bring them down with disease and cause the death of many if eaten before they were fully acclimated. It was therefore necessary to provide at least six mouths’ rations for 20,000 men, and a simple calculation will demonstrate what that means. The troops are provided with all the meats, breads, vegetables, tea, coffee, sugar and other groceries, and, in fact, all of the necessaries of life, enough to last them for half a year if they were cast away upon 4 desert island or beyond the reach of re-enforcements. In addition to the commissary stores required the ordnance department was called upon to provide all the arms and ammunition, clothing, tents, etc., which 20,000 soldiers might need under any contingency for the next six months. Under ordinary circumstances supplies purchased for shipment to Manila would have lasted the entire United States army a year. • • • There is no excuse for the advance In the price of food products because of the war. Of course wheat and other breadstuffs have advanced in all the markets of the world because of the short crops in other countries, but in New York, Washington and other cities of the East meats have advanced from 2 to 5 cents a pound and provisions and table vegetables in a corresponding manner. There is no scarcity of either, there is no interruption in the trade, the market gardens in this part of the country never produced, more abundantly than this spring, and there is no unusual demand. The market men have simply taken advantage of the war as an excuse to increase prices and charge 6 cents instead of 5 for a bead of lettuce and 35 cents instead of 25 for a bunch of asparagus. The butchers say they are not to blame for the advance in beef and mutton because they have to pay more to the wholesalers. • • • The lowa delegation contains the prize orators of the House of Representatives. For dramatic effect and impressive eloquence nobody can beat Mr. Cousins; for high flights of oratory and scholarly argument Dolliver is unsurpassed; in a rough and tumble debate David B. Henderson is the equal of any man upon the floor, and for satire, vituperation and malediction Col. Hepburn is superior to any man who has been in Congress for years. The lowa delegation is also distinguished because it furnished more men for the Union army than any other State delegation in Congress. Mr. dark was a private in the Nineteenth infantry; Col. Henderson lost a leg, while colone.l of the 46th regiment; Mr. Lacey was a lieutenant of the 33d Iow«; Mr. Hull was a of the 23d, and, Mr. Hepburn a lieutenant in the 2d low® cavalry, and Mr. Perkins a private in the 31st infantry. .• * •

The second call issued by President McKinley will raise the volunteer army to 200,000 men and the whole army to 279,500 men. The army reorganization bill authorized the increase of the regular army to 62,000 men, and in addition to the 200,000 volunteers there will be three cavalry regiments, with 3,000 rough riders from the West; ten infantry regiments of imniunes, with 10,000 men, and 3,500 in the engineers’ corps, making a grand total of 278,500 men in the United States army. It is the intention to at once send an army of from 75,000 to 100,000 men to Cuba, since there can be no danger to the transports from she Spanish fleet bottled up in the harbor at Santiago de Cuba. There will also be a larger army sent to Manila to hold the Philippine Islands. There will be no experiments made there. • • • The prediction is freely made at the War Department that within two weeks there will be 50,000 troops on Cuban soil. They will land in the east and west of Havana, and possibly on the south coast, in the vicinity of Cienfuegos. The immediate invasion of Porto Rico is not only being seriously considered, but is now almost under way. There are political as well as military reasons for this step. The administration still looks for a sudden collapse of the war by proposals of peace on the part of Spain, made under the thin guise of European intervention. The administration has determined that Porto Rico trust be one of the fruits of victory, bat to bring that about it is deemed necessary that the United States should effect a landing in the island before the treaty of peace.

Admiral Saflipson is a religious man. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in this city, and the Men’s Society, which is a literary club connected with the church. He was always regular in his attendance during the several years that he was stationed in Washington, and took a great deal of interest in philanthropic work. After he was placed in command of the squadron the Men’s Society sent him a telegram of congratulation and confidence, to which he returned quite a touching answer. Commander Washburn Maynard of the cruiser Nashville and Lieutenant Commander McCrea, executive officer of the Machias, are also members of the some society. 4». • • • The first commission in the volunteer army was given to Maj. Gen. Wheeler. His name went in with the first bunch of nominations, and was confirmed the same day. The next morning he was at the War Department before office hours waiting to be sworn in and receive his commission. • « • War news is bulletined throughout the entire United States, and hundreds of amateur strategy boards are in session every day discussing the situation in Cuba and Manila.

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The gross earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway for the second week of May show an increase of $16,861.36 over corresponding week last year. This makes the increase for the first two weeks of May $44,377.33 over last year, $11,435.04 of which increase is from passenger traffic. The increase oa the fiscal year to date Is $608,401.45 over corrMponding period last year.

Town Without Doctors.

A place for physicians to emigrate to Is the city of Hamah, south of Aleppo. Though It contains 60,000 Inhabitants, among whomdlseasesof the eye. In particular, are rampant, there Is not a single physician In the city. FITS Psmawntly Cured. Ko fits or nmomnsm sfiur first <U»'» wo mJ*. Klim*OraatServe asNn. texmmro VcSSs a botua °“-

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