Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Page 6

AS THE WORLD REVOLVES

SVoh from XJncle Sam. Charges lately having been made at the office of the commissary general that large quantities of valuable stores shipped from San Francisco for Manila have been disappearing for several months, Secretary Root cabled orders to General MacArthur to make a thorough investigation for the purpose of ascertaining if there was not a conspiracy to defraud the government. The arrest of Captain Barrows, quartermaster of the department of Southern Luzon, and the rest of his accomplices was the direct result of these orders. It is not stated how extensive have been the government’s losses, but it is believed that they will amount to several hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate. The name of the contractor who has been placed under arrest is being withheld for reasons best known to the secretary of war. He is believed to be the dominating figure of the conspiracy, and when the facts are all known the secretary and adjutant general are convinced that it will be disclosed that he is the man who has made it easy for Barrows and his commissary sergeants to dispose of government flour and other rations and collect cash from the persons to whom they were delivered. The information that has reached Washington thus far proves that the commissary system in the East is conducted in a loose manner. The fact that the losses have been going on for months is causing Secretary Root and the president a great deal of annoyance and will doubtless urge them to demand that drastic measures be taken, not only to punish everybody concerned, but to put an end to future raids on army stores. It is feared that when the facts are all known it will be found that the raiding has not been confined to Manila, but extends throughout the entire department of the Philippines and that the losses Mil amount to upward of $1,000,000. What the war department fears is that Barrows is simply a cog in a vast machine that has been op-

CAPT. J. F. BARROWS. [Accused of Being the Head of a Big Army Commissary Swindle in Manila.]

erating to defraud the government and that , many other men better known than himself will be dragged into the scandal before it has been closed.

Death of Sir John Stainer.

Following closely upon the death of Sir Arthur Sullivan, England has lost another of its eminent musicians, Sir John Stainer, professor of music in Oxford university. Though not so widely known as Sullivan, whose reputation was largely due to his operettas, Professor Stainer was in every respect as well equipped a musician. His larger works were only a few cantatas, of which “The Daughter of Jairus” and “St. Mary Magdalene” - are the, most important, but he greatly enriched English psalmody as well as secular music with his hymns, anthems and songs. As teacher and musical scholar he stood at the head of his profession in England, and besides this had national fame as an organist. 'His various treatises upon harmony, composition and the science of music are among the best of their class, and <the “Dictionary of Musical * Terms,.” which he published jointly with W. A. Barrett, is the standard authority of its kind in English. He received the highest honors for his scholarship, and will long be remembered as one of the most proficient of contemporary scientific musicians.

Johnson Is a Paradox.

Tom L. Johnson, who has been elected mayor of Cleveland upon a democratic ticket, one of the main planks of which is the upholding of the 3-cent car fare proposition, is one of the strange anomalies of the country, and withal a man who has many friends because of his intense earnestness in any work which he undertakes. To understand something of the paradoxical nature of the new mayor of Cleveland it is necessary to compare the following facta: Agnanufacturer of the most highly protected steel rail, he is a free

trader of the most pronounced kind; a trolley king who has driven out competition in the cities where he has large traction interests, he is at the same time the fiercest foe to monopolies and monopolists in the country; a very large owner of real estate, he is the leader of the disciples of Henry George and has given largely of his wealth to the furtherance of the cause of the single tax movement; a gold standard man, he was one of Bryan’s most enthusiastic supporters. That he left the traction world of Cleveland some time ago is but a mere incident in his desire to represent the city as its mayor. He is quite capable of supporting a plank in a platform which he would oppose from a business point of view, not from insincerity, but rather from an earnest theoretical idea of what is to be desired in a utopian world, and also a practical

TOM L. JOHNSON.

knowledge of what is necessary to business in a world which is not utopian. His properties, which are represented as nearing $10,000,000, have been obtained entirely by his relentless energy and foresight of fields available for labor. He started in life without a high school education and traveled rapidly through the various stages of newsboy, clerk, worker at a furnace mouth and bookkeeper in a railroad office. He soon saw the advantage of the street railway interests from a money-making point of view, and, as he married a wealthy woman early in life, he obtained a small beginning in Indianapolis, from which time he has worked onward to his present proniinent position.

Reward for a Pekin Hero.

Calvin P. Titus, the musician of the Fourteenth Infantry who was the first soldier to scale the walls at Pekin, has been appointed by the President a cadet-at-large at the Military Academy. He will have to come to this country to take the examination. Adjutant General Corbin has cabled General MacArthur at Manila to send young Titus home on the first available transport. Titus earned his appointment at the relief of the Pekin siege last October by climbing the city wall with a rope, which he lowered to his comrades, enabling them to follow. He was slightly wounded by a Chinese bullet as he reached the top of the wall. All the officers of his regiment, the Fourteenth, serving in China, joined in a petition to the President for the appointment of Titus to West Point, saying they are satisfied that upon graduation from the academy he will make an excellent officer. Their petition characterizes him as proved to be “trustworthy, intelligent, sober, brave, and a thorough_spldier.” Young Titus was born in Clinton, la. His parents died when he was a child and left him in the care of the Rev.

CALVIN P. TITUS.

W. G. Lee, a captain in the Salvation Army. When the Spanish war broke out he was in Shaftsbury, Vt., and promptly enlisted as a musician in the First Regiment from that state for service in Cuba., On his discharge, at the close of the war, he went West again and enlisted in the regulars as a bugler in the Fourteenth Infantry. He was assigned to Company E and served in the Philippines until the command was ordered to China. He will enter West Point with the experience of three wars to back him.

PRESIDENT CASTRO.

Venezuela must either give guarantees of security to and respect for American officials and other American citizens in that republic or respect and security will be enforced by the United Stares. This position of the United States with respect to Venezuela is pregnant with dramatic possibilities in the near future. The attitude of the United States, while pretty clearly defined, will not be officially declared until after Minister Loomis has discussed with Secretary Hay the cause of the quarrel between the two countries. Ine United States and Venezuela, although the fact is fairly well disguised at the State Department, are again on the edge of war. The international case appears to be this: Venezuela desired the recall of a Minister who was believed to be com-

RELIEF MAP SHOWING LOCALITY OF VENEZUELA’S PITCH LAKES.

An inventor of New Haven, Connecticut, is making an effort to have the clock face that all humanity has been consulting for centuries changed for one made suitable for the progressive people of the twentieth century. In stating his objections to the present system of telling time the inventor points out that there is a bewildering, brain-trying number of figures which are never necessary at one time for one hour indications on the face of the clock of today, and he further says that some of these figures are right side up while others are upside down, some repose on their sides, while others are placed at various angles. This, as can be readily seen, creates confusion and often renders it difficult to tell the exact time at a glance. In the latest system there are never more than four figures shewn on the

THE TIME INDICATED BY THE NEW STYLE CLOCK IS 12:25:35 (SEE SECOND DIAL) OR 25 MINUTES AND 35 SECONDS AFTER 12 O’CLOCK.

Astrological Periods.

When, by their progress in their orbital transits, Saturn, Mars or Uranus reaches certain points in the Zodiac, at which they come to within five degrees either forward or backward from the exact degree, of the conjunction, square, or opposition to the place of the sun in a geocentric, or the earth in a heliocentric horoscope, it Is a warning of an evil, or at least an annoyance, period for people born any year on or 'between any of the dates given below. This does not take into consideration the transits in cardinal

Venezuela Again

mitted to the interests of the asphalt trust, and in the interest of which he put an affront on Venezeula by having a warship sent to Venezuela to settle by shot and shell an ordinary case in the civil courts. The State Department having so far indorsed Mr. Loomis, still indorses him and makes the counter claim that Venezuela is guilty of persistent outrage against American officials and citizens; that there must be a reckoning by diplomacy or otherwise. As the first step toward the chastisement of Venezuela the United States brings away the American minister on a warship. The next step is the preservation of a serious and mysterious silence which creates a position of menace toward Venezuela. The fact that Mr. Loomis has been recalled, if only temporarily, taken in

The Latest in time tellers

dial of the clock at once, and they so indicate the time that no mistake is possible, and indicate it so accurately that valuable minutes need never be lost. Under many ordinary circumstances a minute over or under time will cause a great inconvenience or trouble, but there are many conditions when even the loss of few seconds means the loss of millions of money, or even the wrecking of lives. The inventor by his new system has evolved not only a singular time indication for clocks, but he has also developed clock mechanisms radically different from present practice, which will probably in a short while absorb much of the business in time indicators and become the standard system of the twentieth century. The inventor says: “When the hour of the old-fashioned timepiece is dang-

houses of the geocentric horoscope, favorable or otherwise. Here is a point in which the two systems harmonize and agree as to the time of an evil period, especially during transits of Uranus and Saturn. According to the rules of the science, if people drift blindly during these periods they are apt to do something which will cause them financial mosses, or mental worry from other sources. Do not understand that some dire calamity awaits you if your birthday happens to be mentioned in the following list of dates. “Forewarned is forearmed,”

MINISTER LOOMIS.

connection with the understood intention of Senor Pulido, the Venezuelan charge d’affaires in Washington, to leave soon for Caracas, indicates a condition that is exceedingly serious. When General Castro assumed the Presidency of Venezuela he found the treasury empty and the people too poor to stand further taxation. Having no other recourse than to tax foreigners doing business in the country, it is claimed he protected the Warner-Quinlan-Sullivan syndicate in an effort to take possession of the property claimed by the New York & Bermudez company. This government notified Minister Loomis is that it did not take sides with either company, but that the controversy must be settled in the courts. This may be regarded as the beginning of the serious aspects of the case.

ling in one direction between VI and VII and the minute hand is losing itself in another direction somewhere between -XI and XII, the new timepiece will read simply and conclusively 6-58. in another minute the last figure magically disappears and 9 takes its place, and in sixty more seconds all the figures vanish and in their place appear 7.00. To state the system clearly and tersely, time will be told as the railroad time table tells it. And with the general introduction of this system would be done away with such bungling expressions—entailed by the old circular dial plate with its wreath of figures—as 20 minutes past 9, 14 minutes of 12. Instead we shall adopt the crisp, accurate terminology of the time table, and say nine twenty, eleven forty-six, etc. The invention has lately been patented .

and by knowing the time in advance when the evil is indicated and then being extra careful of your health and financial matters, and also being particular to see that your conduct is such as to be above reproach, it Is expected that you will counteract at least the greater part of the evil indicated. The evil dates are April 23 to May 18, June 1 to 12, June 23 to July 10, August 8 to 22, September 1 to 12, Se> tember 23 to October 10, November 9 to 21, December 1 to 12, December 23 to January 10, February 6 to 18, Mwrah 1 to 12. —Prof. G. W. Cunninghasa.

® springjM§> £\\j CATARRk>W3\ To the aiTlicted.W?’®/ kJ ' / hili 111 f 8 HSI |9 ' By/ - ',<■£&' * | f —\ f . 1 4 JF every one in the world were healthy and happy what a glad day Easter would 1 be. But the sun rises every Easter morning on a multitude of sick and afflict* ed. The Easter lilies gladden the hearts of the sick and well alike. But to the sick something more than the Easter lily is necessary to bring that hope and cheer which every one expects on Easter day. The well need no physician, but the sick need a remedy. Nearly one-half the people in the United States are suffering from some form or phase of catarrhal ailment These ailments take different forms at different seasons of the year. In the springtime catarrh assumes a systemic form, produ ci ng nervousness, lassitude and genera! languor. Systemic catarrh deranges the digestion and through deranged digestion it impoverishes or contaminates the blood. Thus we have blood diseases and nervous derangements through systemic catarrh. Peruna is a specific for these cases. No other remedy yet devised by the> medical profession is able to successfully meet so many phases of spring ailments as Peruna. Men and women everywhere are praising Peruna as follows:

A First Class Tonic, Wm. A. Collier, Assistant Paymaster U. S. N., writes: **l have taken Penina and recommend it to those needing a first-class tonic, ” A Great Tonic. Hon. M. C. Butler, Ex-U. S. Senator and Ex-Governor of South Carolina, writes from Edgefield, S. C.: “! have been using Peruna for a short period and I feel very much relieved. It is indeed a wonderful medicine and besides a great ionic.” Splendid for the Nerves. Robert B. Mfuitell, the famous actor, writes from New York City: “Peruna is splendid and most invigorating—refreshing to the nerves and brain. ” For General Debility. Hon. Jno. V. Wright, of the Law Department, General Land Office of Tennessee, writes: “/ wish everyone who Is suffering with general debility or prostration could know of Peruna.’'

THE BEST HE EVER SAW.

A Missourian Pronounces on the FarmIng Possibilities of Western Canada. Just at present considerable interest is being aroused in the fact that a few new districts (of limited acreage) are being opened out by the Canadian government in Saskatchewan anU Assiniboia (western Canada), and any information concerning “this country is eagerly sought. Mr. W. R. Corser, of Higginsville, Lafayette Co., Mo., was a delegate there during last summer, and writing of his impressions he says: “I found surprising yields of grain of all descriptions. One farmer I visited threshed of 175 acres: “600 bushels of wheat from fifteen acres, 40 bushels to acre. “600 bushels of barley from ten acres, 60 bushels to acre. “15,000 bushels of oats from 150 acres, 100 bushels to acre. “The samples were all No. 1. “I also saw a considerable number of stock. Swine do well and there is no disease amongst them. They are a good source of income to the farmer. The cattle on the range beat anything I ever saw. Fat and ready for beef, fully matured and ripened on the nutritious grasses of the prairie. I am firmly convinced that this country offers better facilities for a poor man than any I have ever seen.” Information concerning these lands can be had from any agent of the government whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this paper. The number of women engaged in the factories of Finland is 19,395.

The Best Housekeepers

use Maple City Self Washing Soap because it gives the best results. A man likes to feel that he is loved and a woman likes to be told.

A Spring Tonic. Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, Lynchburg, Va., says: “There is no better spring tonic than Peruna, and I have used about all of them. ” A Good Tonic. Captain Percy W. Moss, Second Arkansas Volunteers, writes from Paragon Id, Ark.: “/ find Peruna a very good spring tonic, and will readily recommend it at any time. ” Builds Up the Entire System. Miss Jennie Johnson, 3118 Lake Park avenue, Chicago, ill., is Vice President of Chicago Teachers’Federation. She writes: “Peruna restores the functions of nature, induces sleep and builds up the entire system. ” Makes Steady Nerves. D. L. Wallace, Charter Member International Barbers’ Union, IS Western avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, writes: “I now feel splendid. My bead is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy my food and rest well.”

Features of a National Park.

The Vicksburg national park will soon be complete as far as the acquisition of land is concerned. It will comprise in all 1,231 acres. It is proposed to restore all military features that marked it in the struggle of 1863.

Are You Using Alien’s Foot-Ease?

It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

New Century Slana's at Sea.

The new century was celebrated by marines all over the world by the adoption of a revised and - up-to-date edition of the international code of signals.

Lane's Family Medicine.

iuuVco caau uuwclj cxmju ua/. iu order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Thought grows mouldy. What was good and nourishing food for the spirits of one generation affords no sustenance to the next. —Hawthorne. The system cannot be in good condition when the bowels are constipated. Take Garfield Tea, it cures constipation and effectually regulates the liver. The out door sporting tastes of the emperor of Japan range from lawn tennis to football.

All Rosin-Filled Soaps

are Injurious. Better avoid them. Ask for Maple City Self Washing Soap. It’s pure. All good grocers sell It. The child is wiser in his innocence than the philosopher tn his wisdom.

The Best of Tonics. Hon. W. C. Chambers, Chief Justice of Samoa, says: “I have tried one bottle of Peruna and! can truthfully say Ml is one of the best tonics I ever used. ’ ’ A Grand Tonic. • Mrs. Gridley, mother of Captain Gridley, of the “Olympia,” writes: “I. used Peruna and can truthfully say itl Is a grand tonic. ” For Overworks Mr. Tefft Johnson, a prominent actor of Washington, D. C., writes from Fourteenth and “I” streets: “In tbs effort to improve a condition Impaired by overwork, I have found nothing that has done as much good as Peruna.” For a Worn-out System. Mrs. Catherine Toft, President “Vaikyrien Association, ’’ 3649 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, 111., writes» “ I often advise Peruna in cases of a worn-out system and a broken down constitution. ”

Condor of ths Andes.

The great condor of the Andes is the largest kind that flies. To another bird, which is an American now, has been given the second prize. It is the fierce harpy eagle of the Philippines. Our own turkey comes very near the second place.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your shoes, Allen’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.

Title Thar Roosevelt Prefers.

Vice President Roosevelt prefers to .be called by the title of “colonel” rather than by that belonging to the exalted civic position he now holds. “I earned my colonelcy,” he says, “and the other thing came to me.”

Should Be In Every Household.

A jar of RUBEFACIENT should be kept in every bouse. It is tbe most wonderful speciSa In all cases of internal inflammation and wUI speedily nip in tbe bud any case of Pneumonia, Diphtheria. La Grippe, etc. Write to tba Rubefacient Co., Newton Upper Falls, for free booklet.

Do Good to All,

"To tumble into ‘grumble* ditch is easy, but it is not so easy to get out. One way out is by doing good to others. As we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men.**

Coughing Leeds to Consumption.

Kemp s balsam will Mop ths cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bqttle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at one*; delays are dangerous. The closer we get to our ideals the less their appearance seems to suit ua.