Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Page 7

A Nation of Gamblers.

Gambling lias become* the favorite amusement of Americans. With many it is business as well. The extent of the habit is, of unmarked by statistics or census except in the case of “business gambling” or speculation, but it is almost incredibly great. The constant or occasional dealers in grain on margin at thd Chicago board number thousands in the city and thousands more in other cities and in country towns. Chicago is the center of all grain speculation in America, and there is scarcely a town in the North of 10,000 population that has not one or more brokers, each with his correspondents in this city and telegraphic communication a dozen times a day. An estimate of the number of their customers is well nigh impossible, but they must be an army. Stock gambling through Wall street is, of course, the most extensive. Every, fluctuation on the exchange is immediately telegraphed in all directions, to be scanned by the many thousands of investors. Daily newspapers the country over find their readers so eager for information as to the gossip and features of the stock and grain “markets” that they are led to employ special correspondents and Writers to cover these subjects with great thoroughness. More than one newspaper printed either in Chicago or New York incurs an annual expense exceeding SIO,OOO in procuring intelligence valuable only to speculators. So general is business gambling even in provincial eities that newspaper proprietors are compelled often against their will to supply the demand for “market news.” But it is not in grain and railroad stocks that “business gamblers” find attractions. Mining stocks are extensively dealt in, especially on the Pacific coast, while oil numbers its votaries by the tens of thousands throughout thfe North. The New York, Oil City, Bradford and Pittsburg exchanges enjoy transactions each year involving two hundred times as much oil as is annually produced, and producers and consumers complain that they are completely at the mercy of the speculative interests. Extensive as margin speculation in grain, stocks and oil is, it is probable that its patrons are outnumbered by those Avho gamble in a form to which the word speculation is not applied. Thousands of pool rooms at which ventures are taken on horse races and baseball games are crowded daily by men and boys in almost incredible numbers. Telegraphic reports of the races at Saratoga, Brighton, Coney Island or Louisville are received in great profusion. Ventures can be made with sums as small as ten cents and as large as a gambler cares to risk. This form of gambling is singularly attractive to the young and non-professional, who crowd the rooms in every city in which they are tolerated. In addition to these stationary pool rooms are the hundreds of pool sellers who follow horse races of high or low degree, numbering their customers by thousands daily. In all largo cities and in most small ones there are gambling houses at which faro, roulette and poker are served to all comers. In some cities these places are run openly, in other semi-seeretly. There are hundreds of them of various kinds in Chicago, and they are patronized daily and nightly by thousands of men. Chicago is no more given to this form of gambling than most other American cities. In addition to all these are the lotteries and policy shops, which are in some respects identical. One lottery concern enjoys receipts of six millions of dollars a year, and pays out in prizes $3,180,000. There are several of lesser magnitude in operation. Throughout the South, and in most large cities of the North, are policy shops at which customers speculate upon the outcome of 'the numbers of the lottery’s daily “drawings.” These shops are also numbered by thousands, and their customers are chiefly working people. It could almost be said that everybody gambles. Besides the boards of trade, exchanges, lotteries, brokers’ offices, and other regular gambling establishments, card playing for money is carried on in innumerable saloons, club rooms, and private residences. Those who do not gamble in stocks or oil or buy lottery tickets or play at faro may sit down at home to play poker with acquaintances or match pennies on the parlor .tables Bare is the man who does not occasionally venture a dollar or a dime in some one of these ways. If nothing else remains he will, if a quiet man, make a wager on the election, or if a country lad, wait for the country fair and experiment with the wheel of fortune. We are a nation of gamblers.— Chicago Herald.

Scenes in St. Paul’s.

Every one may go to St. Paul’s Cathedral in the afternoon: and every one may use his ears and eyes when he gets there, says London Truth. When I went I used my ears, and heard an excellent sermon by Canon Liddon, and, among other things, this is what 1 saw: When the canon began to preach, one choirman went fast asleep immediately; the man next to him kept awake. About the middle of the sermon the first man had woke up; but then his companion had gone off. On the other side, I saw another choirman fast asleep. That makes three—some I could not see. I was not surprised, after this, to find the boys in the greatest disorder; one boy was actually lying almost across his companion, his neck hanging over him, in a dead sleep; his friend would not arouse him, but kept awake till he awoke and then went to sleep himself. The boys opposite me seemed more lively, but, if possible, still less devout. One was engaged in making Punch and Judy with his surplice; sucked sweets; another had a scent-squirt; while his. friends were engaged in making little paper things, and trying to get them to stand up on his bench, to the great delight of the rest. A lady who sat next to me was so scandalized, got so fidgety—especially about the brazen boy who lay xvitli his head acroM the other—that I thought she would have got up and roused him herself. I think St. Paul says something about things being “done decently and in order;” more’s the scandal that such

scenes should® be enacted on Sunday afternoon in a cathedral bearing his great name. I beg to state tjris paragraph is not a joke; if I have extenuated nothing, I have certainly “set down naught m malice.”

Draft Horses.

The following is a synopsis of a lengthy article whieh appeared in the Chicago Tribune, consisting of interviews of its reporters with the leading draft-horse dealers of America. It was headed as follows: ‘‘Breeding of Draft Horses—One of the Important Industries of the Day— Experience of Dealers who Handle 40,000 Horses Annually—Belative Merits of Percheron, Clydesdale and English Horses—Opinions of All Leading Dealers in New York and Chicago — They are unanimous in preferring the French Breeds over all Others, as they are more enduring, best dispositioned, stand the pavements best, and bring higher prices. ” The Tribune reporters were instructed to procure opinions as to the relative merits of the different breeds of draft horses being raised in this country and sold in their markets. The experience of dealers who sell perhaps 40,000 horses annually directly to those who buy them to wear out was thus obtained. This information is of immense vlaue to those engaged in breeding horses. Mr. I. H. Dahlman, of New York City, said: “I handle between 9,000 and 10,000 horses annually. Of the draft horses I handle, the ’ greater proportion—nearly all—are Normfin-Per-cherons. These horses are docile, intelligent, easily broken, steady in harness, powerful and compactly built. They are short in the back, deep in the body and broad in the chest. They have the best feet of any horses in America. Ido not want it understood that all Norman horses have these good qualities'. I have seen some im- , ported that were as badly shaped horses as could be found. Long in the back, narrow-waisted and not worth their freight from France here. That class of horses is only imported by people who buy them to sell and not to breed.” In regard to the Clydesdale horses, Mr. Dahlman said: “I will give you no criticism. I buy very few of them. I prefer to pass their stable and say nothing about them. From what I have said the Tribune readers, I think, will understand what breed of horses I would recommend them to raise.” C. & H. Hayman, East 24th street, New York City, said: “We liandlej about 2,000 horses a year, principally | draft horses of all kinds—French, Clydesdale, English, and Belgian. We handle more of the French than any of the others, because the people like them better and will give higher prices for them than for any other breed. They have more endurance and are the best dispositioned horses we have. They mature sooner and are ready for the market younger than the other breeds. The Clydesdales are not so well shaped nor are their feet so good. We advise the farmers of the West to breed to the finest and best-bred Percherons to be found. ” The above opinions were the expressions of all the other dealers interviewed, witli one or two exceptions. The object of all farmers who breed horses for use or for market, is to obtain animals that will mature the earliest and bring the most money. In order to accomplish this purpose with the greatest degree of certainty the use of the finest and best-bred Percheron Stallions is recommended and advised by nearly all the dealers. The finest specimens are recorded with their pedigrees in full in the Percheron Stud Book of France.

He Got What Was Left.

“George, ” said the grandfather of his country, very impressively, “last night the cows got „ into the garden and destroyed everything that had roots and leaves. Now, do you know who left the front 'gate open?” “Father, ” replied the noble boy, “I can not tell a lie. I did it with my little latch it.” “I knew you did,” replied the grandfather of the republic, grimly, “and if you’ll just step into the woodshed a minute I’ll show you all that the cows left of the garden. ” And he did. It was the lithe top, branch of a dwarf apple tree, about three and one-half feet long, and the old man took instantaneous impressions of it all over George’s back so that he could see what it looked like when he turned around. —Burlington Haw key e.

Body-Burning in England.

The High Court of Justice in England has decided that cremation is not illegal, because there has been no legislation against it, but a bill recently introduced in Parliament for the purpose of legalizing it under certain restrictions, has failed to be approved. In the court case referred to, the Judge decided that, if the cremation were done in a manner or place to make it offensive to any considerable number of the act would be indictable under the common law against nuisances.—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Such as have studied the fish supply of Western Maryland have become alarmed at the results which have been produced by the introduction of bass into the Potomac and the neighboring streams. The bass are vqry voracious in their habits, and attack all kinds of aquatic life for food. They have either devoured or driven away most of the fall fish, the suntish, the catfish, and other native fish, and they have greatly diminished the number of eels, and have even destroyed many of the turtles and water snakes. If this wholesale destruction continues it will not be long before the bass will be the only fish in those waters, and then the question as to their future food will be difficult to decide. They have increased very rapidly, and are now found in large quantities in alt the stream which enter the Potomac.* »

Macaroni is made by Italians in New York, Neufchatel cheese by Swiss in New Jersey, Schweizer kase by Germans in Ohio, Albert biscuit by Englishmen in Albany, and caviare by Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of these are exported to Europe, and there sold as domestic manufactures.

Gen. Dix Puts on His Uniform.

‘ The following anecddte from an illustrated article in the Century, by George F. Williams, the well-known war correspondent, on “Lights and Shadows of Army Life:” In some regiments the discipline was so strict that men on post as sentinels were on the alert to discover any delinquency of their superiors. At Federal Hill, Baltimore, Col. (afterward General) Warren gave orders to his Zouave Guards that only officers in uniform were to be admitted into camp. One bright Sunday morning in 1861, Gen. Dix, who commanded the troops guarding the city, walked over from Fort McHenry attired in an old linen duster, instead of the brass-but-toned and velvet-cuffed coat belonging to his rank. Attempting to pass the fine of sentries in company with an aid, the old General was amused at finding a musket barring his passage, while the aid, with his glittering shoulder-straps, was permitted to enter. “But don’t you Bee that this is Gen. Dix?” exclaimed the aid, angrily. “Well, between you and me, Major,” said the Zouave, his eyes twinkling with amusement, “I 'See very well who it is, but if Gen. Dix wonts to get into this camp, he had better go back and put on his uniform.” “You are quite right, sentry,” remarked the General, “I’ll go back and get my coat.” An hour afterward, the General, in full uniform, approached the camp, and, allowing the guard reserve to be called out, accepted the salute due lfis rank and position, and the incident increased his admiration for the entire command.

Deacon and Dude.

But the deacon was uneasy. Near him sat a dude from New York, with loudly checkered suit, a silver-headed cane, and a pronounced odor of patchouly. The deacop eyed the dude, shifted uneasily in his seat, and at length arose and said: “I guess I’ll get to wind’ard.” “I tell ye,” said he, suddenly addressing the,dude, “I know what’ll take that air smell outer your clothes. You must bury ’em—bury ’em a month, an’ then they’ll be all right. Naow when I was a boy, I lived in the country, an’ one day I was goin’ to school, an’ I threw a stone at a little black kitten by the roadside. Jerusalem! but I’ve never stoned a black kitten since. I reckon you run across one o’ them critters this mornin’, by the smell " Good gracious, where’s the feller gone ? Don’t see what there was to get huffy about,” he remarked, turning to the smiling crowd that had gathered round. “Guess he must ha’ gone to bury his clothes.” —Boston Globe.

The Harvest of the Sea.

Men of science whose opinions are entitled to the highest respect believe that the harvest of the sea is inexhaustible ; whatever the stupidity and watse of man’s garnering, the yield will not be affected. But this view is essentially empiric. The proof of an exception in a case like this upsets the rule altogether. Mr. John Ridley, Chairman of the Tyne Salmon Conservancy, writes to a London paper against the theory of the savants, and gives evidence to the purpose. He sees boat-loads of undersized herring brought into North Shields quay fit only for manure, and on his way thither he passes the fishwives of Cullercoats going to buy in the market because tho husbands can get no fish in their own waters. They live by taking salmon, an occupation that would have ceased long before this on the Tyne but for legislation. —London Telegraph. One Hun.ibkd and Thirteen Milks of Organs.—ln numbering the organs of their manufacture, Mason & Hamlin have reached No. 150,000. Arranged in a line these would reach one hundred and thirteen miles, or would fence the railroad on one side from the Grand Central Station in New York to within twenty mile 3of Springfield, Mass. Not only does this show the great popularity of American organs, but it illustrates what was declared by James Parton to be a general fact, that ho who makes the best articlojn his line always has the greatest success. We’ understand that the Mason & Hamlin Company’s new Upright Piatffi is now command ng a large sale, and is, in every way, up to the standard-of their unrivaled organs. We predict a large success tot this piano, which is constructed on a new system, said to be a decided advance over the prevailing wrest-pin system. —Bouton Journal.

He Was Too Near the Grave to Lie.

A feeble old darkey struggled painfully in. “Boss, ” he said, “Ise an ole, ole man 1 was bo’n in ole Vahginny, an’ libbed, dar mos’ on to ninety-eight year, an’ I want yo’ ter assis’ me er little dis mawnin’, boss, es yo’ pleas’, sail ?” “You knew George Washington, of course ?” “No, sah, I nebber seed him.” “What! You lived in Virginia ninetyeight years and never saw George Washington ?” “Dat am er fac’, boss. Ise an hones’ ole man, an’ am too gone in dis worl’fer to tell er lie? I nebber seed young George, but Lor’, sab, his pp’ ole gran’fadder an’ gran’mudder yuse ter think er pow’ful sight ob me, boss.” —New York Sun. — Dedicate diseases of either sex, however Induced, speedily and permanently cured. Book of particulars 9 cents, in stamps. Consultation free. Address, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. A Cedar Rapids editor wants any young lady who "jumps at conclusions” to consider him a “conclusion.”

Horsiord’s Acid Phosphate.

BEWARE OP IMITATIONS. Imitations and counterfeits have again appeared. Be sure that the word "Horsford’s” is on the wrapper. None are genuine without it. A man in Rochester fancies himself Rip Van Winkle, fle must have been on the pel ice foroe twenty years. —Norristown Herald. The best test of a human life is the amount of good it has been and done to others. Mrs. Lydia E. P.nkham may be given a seat of honor ,among those who have helped to chttffs« sickness into health, and to transform the darkness of suffering into the sunshine Of rest and hope. S jeep is very healthfuL There is nobody who knows this better than the hired girl, es» pecially in the morning.— Rochester Courier. Pure Cod-Liver OR, made from selected livers on the sea shore, by Casweia, Hazard k Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have Once taken it prefer it to all others. «Physicians hare decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. \ • . ' ■

“Iss’t that Mrs. Holmes? I thought the doctors gave her up. She looks well now.” ‘•She Is well. After the doctors gave up her ease she tried Dr. Pierce’s ‘Favorite Prescription’ and began to get tetter right away. 1 heard her say not loag ago, that she hadn't felt so well In twenty years. She does her own work and says that life seems worth living, at last. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘I feel as If I had been raised from .the dead, almost.” Thus do thousands attest ‘the marvelous efficacy of this God given remedy for female weakness, prolapsus, ulceration, leuoorrhaa, morning sickness, weakness of stomach, tendency to cancerous diSea c e, nervous pros-* tration, general debility and kindred affections. Puck thinks that the mother-in-law is the speaker of the house. Composed of genuine French Grape Brandy, Ex tract of Smart-Weed and Jamaica Ginger, with Camphor Water, Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed excels as a remedy'for colic, cholera morbus, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloody-flux, or to break upcolds, fevers or intltpnatory attacks. Crankiness is said to be hereditary. This is cheering, news to a boy turning a grindstone. ’ Chapped Hands, Face. Ptmples and rough Skin, cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswki.i,, Hazard & Co.. New York. An old bachelor wants to know if it’s squallity or If it’s quantity that takes a premium at the babv show. —Merchant Traveler.

Weak Eyes.

The number of people suffering with weak eyes, the result of reading tine print in an illy lighted apartment, is really alarming, and still they must read. But why confine themselves to poorly printed fine type reading when one dollar will pay for a large, firstclass story paper printed in plain type that can never injure the eye-sight? A paper worth thrice the price of subscription, containing not less than eight splendid stories in eaeh number. If you would like to see a sample copy* with the premium to subscribers, send your name and address to The Ledger, Chicago, 111.

Another Life Saved.

Mrs. Harriet Cummings, of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: “Early last winter my daughter was attacked with a severe cold, which settled on her lungs. We tried several medicines, none of which seemed to do her any good, but she continued to get worse, and finally raised latge amounts of blood from her lungs. We called in a family physician, but he failed to do her any good. At this time a friend, who had been cured by Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, advised me to give it a trial. We got a bottle, and she began to improve, and by the use of three bottles was entirely cured.” #

The Great American Chorus.

Sneezing, snuffing, and coughing! This is the music all over the land just now. An 1 will be until June. “I’ve got such an awful cold in my head.” Cure it with Ely’s Cream Balm or it may end in the toughest form of Catarrh. Maybe you have Catarrh now. Nothing is more nau-eous and dreadful. This remedy masters'lt as no other ever did. Not a snuff nor a liquid. Applied by the finger to the nostrils. Pleasant, certain, radical.

Three Remarkable Interviews.

A reporter has interviewed Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, M. C.; Hon. Judge Flanders, of New York; and T. S. Arthur, in regard to their experience with Compound Oxygen. These interviews give surprising results and show this treatment for the cure of chronic diseases to be most remarkable. A copy of these interviews, also a Treati.-e on Compound Oxygen, will be mailed free, by Drs. Starkey AsPaien, 1109 Girard st., Philadelphia.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stay at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot : GW) elegant rooms Jitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards v.er day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, an<J elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the citv.

“Put up” at the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will find firstclass accommodations at the low price of $2 and 82.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class.

H. W. HOYT, Proprietor.

In 1850

“Brown’* Bronchial Troches ” were introduced, and their success as a cure for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, and Bronchitis has been unparalleled. Skinny Men.—“Wells' Health Rencwer" restores health and vigor.cures Dyspepsia. Impotence-tl. The Poultry Keeper, published at Chicago, 111., has achieved a wonderful success. In a little over six months its circulation has increased vo thirty thousand aetual subscrib ers. It is the paper for those interested in the profitable pursuit; of poultry raising. Read their advertisement in this issue. “Rough on Toothache.’’—Ask for it. Instant relief, quick cure. 15c. Druggists. Mubdeb will out, so will the fact that Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, the natural hair renewer and restorer, is the best preparation ever invented and excels all other hair dressings, as thousands of genuine certificates now in our possession abundantly prove. “Rough on Pain” Porous Plaster, for Backache, Pains in the Chest, Rheumatism. 25c. Don’t work your horse 3 to death with poor axle grease; Frayerfs IheonTyrolfable make. “Roughon Corns.”—lsc. Ask for if. Complete cure, hard orsoftcorns, wart-), bunlons.

ARREST!! ALL DISEASES OF THE THROAT AND LUNGS BY THE TIMELY USE OF ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM STRICTLY PURE, „ Harmless to tbe most Delicate! By its faithful use CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN CURED when other Remedied and Physicians have failed to effect a cure. Jeremiah Wright, of Marion County.W.Va., writes ns that his wife had Pulmonary Consumption, and was pronounced incurable by tlieir physician, when tbe use of Allen’s Lung Bdsam entirely cured her. He wr.tes that he and his neighbors think it the best medicine in the world. Wm. C. Digges. Merchant of Bowling Green. Va.. writes, April 4th, 1811, i hat he wants ns to know that the Luno Balsam has Cured hb Mother of Consumption, alter the physician had given her np as incurable. He says others knowing her case have taken the Balaam and been cured; he th-iiks all so afflicted should give it a trial. Dr. Meredith, Dentist of Cincinnati, was thongbt to be In the last Stages of Consumption, and w«s induced by bis friends to tiy Allen's Lung Balsam after the formula waa shown him. We have bis letter that it at once cured his cough and that' he. was able to resume his practice. Wm. A. Graham k Co.,Wholesale Druggists, Zanesville, Ohio, write ns of the cure of Mathias Freeman, a well-known citizen, who had been afflicted with Bronchitis in its worst form for twelve years. The Lung Balsam cured him, as it haa many others, of Bronchitis. It is harmless to tfie most ielicals chili! I! MtaiKuo Ooioi in asy form! Recommended by Phys'ciang, Ministers and Nurses. In fact, by everybody who has given it a good trial. It Never Fails to Brine Relief. Call for Allen’s Lung Balsam Add shun the use of all remedies without merit and an established reputation. As au Expectorant it lias no Equal! SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS. AGENTS WANTED for tbe begt sad laatart-selUng Pictorial Books sn l Bibles. JYicts reduced 33 percent. National Publishing Co. Chicago, BL

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