Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Page 2

SCIENGCE AND PROGRESS

K.eeps it Off the Ground, The housekeeper who has trouble with sagging clotheslines will appreciate the merit of the clothes dryer recently invented, as shown herewith. It has two great advantages over previous devices for this purpose in that it can be lowered within easy reach of the laundress when hanging the clothes, and is then raised far enough

above the ground to lift the washing out of reach of the dirt. It will be noticed that the uprights are jointed and pivoted near the base, with a windlass mounted on a short post at one end, to which a rope is attached. By releasing the ratchet and unwinding the rope a short distance, the posts tilt downward by their own weight until the line is conveniently low for hanging the wash, the weight of the posts and crosspieces keeping the line taut meanwhile, or a coiled spring can be used to attach the opposite end of the dryer from the windlass to its posts. It is not necessary to walk from one end of the line to the other in hanging the clothes, as pulleys are provided, and arrangement may be made for hanging as many lines as desired. As soon as the wash is on the line the windlass is used to tighten the rope again, lifting the posts into a vertical position and maintaining the lines at their highest level.

Lee’s Mil tary Career.

Colonel Charles Marshall of Baltimore, who was invited by Washington and Lee university several years ago to write a military biography of General Robert E. Lee, is reported to have practically completed his work. General Lee himself collected data for an account of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia, but did not begin the work of actual composition. Colonel Marshall has made use of this material in preparing his memoir, and has also had access to many of the captured Confederate records in the' war department at Washington.

A Fruit Tree Sprayer.

The illustration shows an improved spraying apparatus for discharging liquids on the foliage of fruit trees,

the machine being designed especially for large orchards, where time is more valuable. With the apparatus provided it is possible to drive a team between the rows of trees may be sprayed at the same time. There is also a storage tank for the accumulation of pressure, in order that if a tree is discovered to be unusually infested with insects the wagon may be stopped long enough to treat them to an extra large dose of the destroyer. The pipes are arranged in such a manner that a number of barrels op the liquid may be carried at once, emptying themselves automatically in rotation, without the opening or closing of any valves when the sprayer is once in motion. Thus a large quantity of the liquid may be carried and discharged with the least attention to detail, allowing the operator to devote his entire thought to the condition of the trees. The pump is operated by gearing it directly to the hub of one of the wheels.

Housing in London.

Nothing in recent municipal history on its social side has equaled in interest and significance the achievements and projects within the < last dozen years of the London county council in building homes for wageearners. Up to the beginning of this year buildings for the accommodation of 16,352 persons had, with the exception of a minor fraction then under construction, been completed, land had been acquired, and plans Were under way to accommodate 14.853 ■erons, and the purchase of land had ften sanctioned for the erection of Bh others to accommodate 5,800 persms.

AN INHERITANCE IN WESTERN CANADA.

Indian Reservation* and Other Nbu Metricts to Be Opened Lp This Year. In the Great Saskatchewan Valley and the Fertile Plains of Assiniboia. To the Editor, Dear Sir: The past three or four years have demonstrated to a large number of Americans the value of the grain-growing and ranching lands of Western Canada. Tens of thousands have taken advantage or the offer made—by the Canadian government as well as of the exceedingly low prices asked for lands by the railway, colonization and other companies. The experience of those who have been settled there for some little time is of a highly gratifying character. So much so that the Canadian government, who has control of the immigration into Western Canada, has decided to open up some new districts this year in the well known Saskatchewan Valley and also in the fertile plains of Assiniboia. These Districts are probably the most productive in the entire West and in close touch to largely settled communities as well as being situated on some of the most important. lines of railway. They are within easy reach of markets, schools, churches and other social advantages. in some of these districts lands may be homesteaded as well as purchased outright at very low prices. Now as to what can be done on these lands. The evidence of the settlers in the neighborhood of the lands now about to be opened for settlement (some of them being located in one of the best Indian Reservations) goes to show that the very best results have followed even most indifferent methods. Cases are given where farmers having gone there with most limited means, barely enough to erect a small house and break up a little land, have in three or four years time become prosperous, all debts paid and money in the bank. The soil in the Districts mentioned, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, is a rich black loam, fifteen inches to three feet deep. As a settler says, "It appears like the accumulation of decayed vegetation and ashes for centuries (the sub-soil is a stiff, putty clay).” On this soil it is possible to raise from 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats 75 to 100 bushels, all of which bring good prices at the local market. For mixed farming these new districts are probably among the best in Western Canada. Stock fatten easily on the wild grasses. Hay is plentiful, and prices splendid. Another settler writing to a friend in lowa says: "'rhe climate is all that could be desired, plenty-of rainfall in summer, with-no hot,, dry winds.’ On the 28th of September I saw prairie flowers in full bloom, sweet corn, potato and tomato vines that had not been touched a particle with frost, and the winters are milder than those in the State from which I came. After the holidays the Winter sets in clear and cold, with plenty of snow for good sleighing; no high winds or blizzards are known. Horses live out all winter and pick their own living, while cattle live all winter in open sheds and around the hay ricks. Wheat, oats and barley are the principal grain crops. Potatoes and all other roots and vegetables do well, the yield being enormous as compared to those in the States. Wild fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and all varieties of currants yield in abundance. As a reader of your valuable paper for a number of years, 1 feel that I should inform you of the progress and advancement being made in Canada within the past few years, and the inducements and advantages that will follow settlement in Western Canada. Those who desire information can do. as I did, and apply to any Agent od the Canadian Government, whose name I see appears in advertisements appearing elsewhere in the columns of your paper, and when writing ask particularly about the Saskatchewan Valley or Assiniboia Districts. Yours truly, Old Reader."

Jarring Proposition.

The scheme of forming large game preserves in the east is to surround them with a wire fence and have it charged with electricity. The poachers who run up against it will at least be surprised.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your shoes, Alien’s FootEase, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy. N.y" William F. Kline’s celebrated painting, "The Flight into-E'gypt,” which was awarded the Clark' Prize at the recent Academy .Exhibition, will be shown at the Pan-American Exposition.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop tne cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The Ordnance Exhibit at the PanAmerican Exposition will surpass any display of the kind ever made at an exposition. • In the Spring, take Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb Medicine purifies the blood and gives new and vigorous life to systems depleted by the trying winter season. Stamp collectors all over the world are adding the new Pan-American series of stamps to their collections. Don’t Do UnneceMary Work Use the great labor-saver. Maple Cits Self Washing Soap. All grocers sell it. Spanish sheep are white, except those of La Mancha, which are black.

VcMwra and France -tfe. "Britain and Japan. Russia and Japan are steadily drifting toward a collision. Japanese statesmen may wish to avert it, but they may be powerless to resist the popular demand. The Japanese army, on a war footing, numbers 603,116 officers and men. Russia is said to have 3,564,000 available, but, of course, most of them are not in Manchooria and could not easily be sent there nor kept from starving if they were. Counting the forces mobilized for the Chinese expedition, Russia at last

FROM A PHOTO OF A COMPANY OF RUSSIAN CAVALRY AT TIENTSIN.

accounts had four army corps in Siberia, numbering in all about 160,000 men. A considerable part of this force of course is in western Siberia, thousands of miles from the scene of any conflict between Russia and Japan. Although Russia has three times the population of Japan, this discrepancy would practically cut no figure. The resources of either country in the raw material of armies may be considered unlimited. The Japanese are not, like the Boers, in any danger of the absolute exhaustion of their male population. They have over eight million men of military age, and for them, as for the Russians, the question of military strength at the point of contact is merely one of organization, transport, subsistence, skill in command, quality of troops and finance. The Russian fleet in the far east consisted a few months ago of three battleships, seven first-class and two second-class cruisers, six gunboats, two torpedo boat destroyers, twenty torpedo boats and three transports. At the same time Japan had four firstclass and two second-class battleships, ten coast defense vessels, three firstclass, nine second-class and five thirdclass cruisers, sixteen gunboats, three dispatch boats, one transport, twelve torpedo boat destroyers and thirtyeight torpedo boats. Besides these she has under construction two first-class battleships, which are now about ready, three first-class cruisers, two thirdclass cruisers, one gunboat and twenty torpedo boats. It would probably be a matter of considerable effort to get Russia to bring 'ships enough from the Baltic to equal Japan’s strength in the Pacific. Of course, if she could get the help of France it would be a different affair, and if a fight comes France will not fall to aid the Muscovites. In that ease Japan would need a friend. The current incidents between Russian and British troops at Tientsin indicate where she might posibly find one. With France and Russia fighting Japan and Britain Germany would naturally be inclined to aid Britain, but would find herself sandwiched between the land forces of France on the south and Russia on the north. United Germany would not last long against those powerful forces. Her navy would be of no use in such a war. The country would be overrun by Slav and Gaul. Therefore Germany would be forced to remain neutral. Thus the while, the French and Russian Asiatic fleets would be engaged with Japan their European fleets would be busy with the navy of Great Britain. It is argued that the French and Russian fleets would make short work of the British navy. Their great battleships are of the latest fighting invention, whereas a large portion of the British navy is composed of wooden ships. It would be murder, nothing less, to send these ships against the modem destroyers of France and Russia. it would therefore be a war of the first-class ships of the three nations. In a combination France end Russia’s fleets would be somewhat superior to Britain’s. But whether their fighting blood is as good as is the case with their proposed foe is another matter. The next few months may develop a

WARS & RUMORS OF WAR

war that may change the maps of the world.

Improwing the Erie Canal.

The Western States are more interested in the improvement of the Erie Canal than is the state of New York. If the capacity of that canal were greater than it is the cost of transportation to the seaboard of the products of western farmers would be decreased, and the benefit of this saving in cost would go to them in part. There is no certainty that anything will be done in the near future to add to the usefulness of that canal. The

shippers of the west will have to look to the Canadian government for better facilities for water transportation to the ocean. Governor Odell has recommended to the New York legislature the continuation of the plan of improvement started in 1895 and abandoned after all the money voted by the people had

The Morocco Trouble .

The United States government proposes to force the payment by the Sultan of Morocco of an aggregate of about $50,000 in claims due to citizens of the states who have been unjustly dealt with by the provincial authorities of Morocco. Morocco has agreed to pay the Exaqui claim of but she has steadfastly ignored the Settlement of other equally important indemnities. The aggregate of $50,000 in claims is the result of several years’ outrages against, American citizens. In some instances commercial travelers have been interfered with contrary to the treaty rights. In other cases the property of Americans such as cattle, sheep and grain have been seized by the provincal authorities. Lately an immediate reckoning was demanded. One of the cariosities of the litiga-

been spent, with little to show for it. That plan contemplates the deepening of the canal to nine feet and the lengthening of the locks. The estimated cost is about $25,000,000. The present cost of transportation of cereals per ton per mile on the Erie Canal is 1.75 mills. If the canal were nine feet deep the cost would be about 1.16 mills. If the barge canal advocated by the commission of which General F. V. Greene was president were to be built, the cost per ton per mile would be only .88 mill. But it will take $76,000,000 to construct such a canal, and there is no reason to be-

lieve the people of the state of New York will vote the money. Friday is the unlucky day of the week, but it seems to have no terrors for those matrimonially inclined. It is said that Friday holds a fair average with other days of the week for marriages solemnized.

tion is that the Morocco “court” gets out of the way whenever a day has been set for a hearing. Mr. Gummere, our consul at Tangier, the capital, has been instructed practically to corral the court and insist on a hearing. If the court is not willing to yield to Mr. Gummere’s suasion the cruiser New York will take a hand in the settlement. In all cases, however, the presence of an American war ship has been effective off Morocco. The Exaqui claim was promptly put into the way of settlement when the Sultan heard that Dixie had been ordered from Naples to Tangier. Even in that case, however, the Sultan pleaded the Fast of Ramazan as an excuse for one month’s more delay. The Sultan held that during Ramazan he could not attend to business.

THE NEW YORK AT SEA.

Fulfilling Peter's Will.

For upward of 800 years Russia has has had a definite policy, conceived by Peter the Great, and outlined by him in the famous instrument left by him at his death, whch Imposed on all who should succeed him the unshirkablo duty of carrying out that policy to the letter. As it was a policy of steady advance toward the east, of constant aggression, and so understood by all the powers of the world, there has ever been danger that jealous powers would unite t* resist Russia’s advance eastward, and so defeat ultimately its avowed purposes of conquest in Asia. Several times already the jealous powers have united for this purpose and have succeeded in wresting from Russia the fruits of victory fairly achieved. But the government of St. Petersburg is never discouraged, its policy is never changed. Its dear eye is ever on Constantinople, on India and on a good part of China. It is an eye that seems never to be dosed for a minute in sleep, and hence no chance is ever missed to make an advance. Russia is always prepared to move on, but generally its moves are made without an alarming display of soldiers. With all the watching of the jealous powers, Russia gets to where it would be, and mostly unperceived till it appears that its footing is secure for all time. On the approaches to India Russia is several hundred miles nearer to the boundary line was five years ago. And invading China it is now in Manchuria, and notwithstanding all the remonstrances, the protestations and the threatenings by the other interested nations in Manchuria it will remain. Japan Is the only one of the interested powers that can with a good face protest. Russia’s military preparations are always going on, and most times ini such a degree of silence that almost nothing is heard of them till the moment of surprise comes. It is the same with respect to Russia’s financial preparations for any emergency. It is ever flush of funds when the day of trial arrives. All the last year reports came from every capital in Europe that Russia’s finances were dangerously low—Russia was borrowing wherever there was a large sum to ba had on its credit. The inference permitted to be drawn was that the state was on the point of bankruptcy. But now the world is told, and certainly knows, that so far from being in financial straits Russia is better off in this respect than any other of the great nations. It is the richest of nations in its own natural and available resources, and its public debt, enormous as that is, is by no means unmanageable. Henry Norman, publicist and member of the English parliament, has an article in the current number of Scribner's Magazine in which he sets forth clearly the financial resources of Russia and states that during last year $1,250,000,000 of the public debt was paid off and that in the last ten years $15,000,000,000 has been discharged. Large part of this money was borrowed, but at a low rate of Interest, so that in the refunding of the public debt a vast saving was made. Says Mr. Norman: “During the past fourteen years Russia has borrowed enormously, • • • b u t during the fourteen years it has converted and redeemed in cash previous loans amounting to over $220,000,000,000. Besides its profitable borrowings It has had $2,375,000,000 income from the forests, more than twice that amount from the rentals of lands, and immense amounts from the railroads and manufactures condueted by us for the government.” Mr. Norman is a true Englishman and looks on Russia as the traditional enemy of his country, but he is compelled to admit that Russia is always prepared either for peaceable conquests or for great wars.

Preserving the Giant Redwoods

For its action in appropriating a quarter of a million dollars to be spent in buying one of the few remaining groves of giant redwoods, or sequoias, the California legislature deserves the thanks of the country. The giant trees, the largest of which tower up more than 350 feet into the air and measure 100 feet in circumference at the base, are unique, says Chicago Tribune. Within the last twenty-five years many of them have been cut down to satisfy the greed of lumbermen, who for the sake of the half million or more feet of sound inch lumber which each of the giants contains are willing to destroy what it has taken thousands of years to develop. Even on the two redwood groves which are owned by the United States sawmills are at work and are rapidly ruining the trees which they do not entirely destroy. Authorities agree that the great trees in these Sieves run in age from two to five thousuad years. They are survivors of past conwt’qns and seem to have almost lost the power of reproducing themselves. (Government foresters who have made a cartAti. study of the groves report that only a few redwood saplings are to be found, under the most favorable it will take thousands of years for tAgm to reach anything like the size oft their huge ancestors. The state of CaSfqrnia already owns one tract of lard, which includes the Mariposa grove, and the new appropriation will enable it to secure and to protect from the hands of vandals a large portion of remaining territory on which the big trees are found. It Is much to be regretted that congress did not take notion at its last session which would preserve for posterity the giant trees which remain on land belongin< the government y

It is a remarkable fact that th* Chameleon, when blindfolded, loss* tie power to change its hues, and th* • Ua- e body remains of a uniform tint

If You Have Rheumatism

Send no money, but write Dr. Snoop. Racine. Win., box 143, for (lx bottlet of Dr. Shoup’s Rheumatic Cure, expreee paid. If cured pay *5 JO; If not it it free. Seventy dollars was paid in London the other day for a copy of Franklin’s “Cicero,” Philadelphia, 1744. Now that the Winter season is past it is well to cleanse the system and purify the blood with Garfield Tea—an Herb Medicine good for all. The extensve and valuable resources of Louisiana will be exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition.

TO CUBE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

lake Laxative Bromo Quihinb Tablets. AU druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on the box 25c Canada’s exhibit at the Pan-Ameri-can Exposition will occupy a space of about 3,000 square feet. WANTED—Men with rig to advertise and Introduce Monarch Poultry Mixture. Straight salary (15 (X) weekly and expenses. Address with stamp. Monarch Manufacturing Co., Box (88. Springfield. Illinois. The biggest logs in the Western Hemisphere will be seen at Buffalo this summer. Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. People who have the least to say usually have the most to talk about. We thank you for trying Wizard Oil for rheumatism or neuralgia, then you will thank us. Ask your druggist We can forgive a good many things in people that can make us laugh. Ido not believe Piso s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. —John F Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15. 190 ft Remember,, woman is most perfect, when most womanly.—Gladstone.

DON’T EXPERIMENT

With your health. Use Batt's Caps for Colds. Prompt cure guaranteed. 25c at druggists. If a man has crow’s feet about his eyes there must be some caws.

Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.

— For children teething, softens the gums, reduces Intunmallon, allays pain, cures wind colic. Zicabottla The way of the transgressor often leads to foreign shores.

Coe’s Cough Balsam

la the oldext and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable Try It. At a certain age a man is so much the better for being bad.

The Best Laundry Soap.

Is Maple City Self Washing Soap. Just try it and see. All grocers sell it. Yawning in company Is a beneficent natural exercise. Baseball players; Golf players; all players chew White’s Yucatan whilst playing The Berlin Women’s club has 205 members.

UNDER THE SNOW. Ghastly Truths Revealed on the Disappearance nt Winter’s White Mantle.

Deadly dangers lurk in the ground left bare by the departing snow. All winter long there have been accumulating deadly disease germs. These have been protected and kept alive by the covering of snow and now, with the first warm days, these deathbringing microbes are awakened by the rays of the sun, and as the ground dries they are carried to all corners of the community in the dust that is blown everywhere by the spring winds. The human body at this time Is particularly susceptible to these germs, especially the germs of fevers. The system has been depleted by the foregoing winter. The blood is sluggish and filled with impurities. The nerves have not recovered from the tension they have been under for the past months. The stomach, the bowels, the kidneys, the liver are all at their worst. It is therefore, not strange that these germs of disease find fertile ground in which to thrive, flourish and develop into deadly ills. Spring is the time of year when one should fear an attack of fever, especially when the system is depleted, one should dread any severe illness. The vitality is at a low ebb. There is less power of resistance to throw off disease, and it is on this account that fatalities are so much greater during the spring months than at any other time of the year. There is but one way to ward off such dangers, and that is to fortify the

Lumber Notice. On and after January 1, 1901, we will sell direct to contractors, consumers or any other parties desiring to buy lumber, lath, shingles or any kind of building material, saving them a middleman’s profit. Send in your lists for estimates. . Correspondence promptly answered. JOHN E. BURNS IUMBEB COMPANY, LONO DISTANCE TELEPHONES MONROE til, MONROE 200. 40 W. Chicago Av. CHICAGO, ILL

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WOMEN MUST SLEEP,

Avoid Nervous Prost ratfan. If yoo ar* dangerously sick what 1* the first duty of your physician ? He quiets the nervous system, he daadene the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask. “what is the cause*" and the answer comes in. pitying tones, nervous prostration. It oame upon you so quietly in the beginniry, that you were not alarmed, and when sleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervous agony praying for sleep.

MRS. A. HARTLEY.

You ought to have known that when you ceased to be regular in your courses, and you grew irritable with, out cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright, and you cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 321 W. Congress St-, Chicago. 111., whose portrait we publish, suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound; her case should be a warning to others, and her cure carry conviction to the minds of every suffering woman of the unfailing efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

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human body so that It will become impregnable to the germs of invading di>ease. To do this take Dr. Greene’t Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It will build you up quickly, it will re-establish your waning appetite, ft will give you restful nights of sleep, it will give vim and vigor to the nerves, and it will dispel all existing poisons that have accumulated in the body besides counteracting the effects of others that may accumulate. Following is an instance that will Illustrate the wonderful power of Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Sheriff Jonas T. Stevens who is sheriff of Hyde Park. Vl, says:—"l have used Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy especially as a blood purifier. I had a very severe humor on my arms, accompanied by a verv bad itching, so severe that I could not sleep nights, causing me great Inconvenience by the loss of sleep by th* itching. A friend advised me to take Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which I did with the most satisfactory results, for the trouble has entirely disappeared, and I can now rest comfortably night* and have non* of my former misery from the burning, itching sensations.” Remember Dr. Greene’s advice will be given to any one desiring same absolutely free if they will write or call upon him at his office, 35 W. 14th StNew York City.

RARE BARGAINS-S land; bo better In Weaters Waahferton: om mQa from town of Cenvarlia, on main line X. T. rr-p—-T between Tacoma aad Portland: part ttma it dertreC W. J. Trotter, Centralia, Waah.