Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Page 3

PeeaUartttea of French Bread. Paris Letter to Chicago Post. ’ la Paris bread is indeed the ‘‘staff •of life.” It is carried about- the streets without even a string around it. Women clasp the long rolls affectionately to their bosoms and rest the ends against their hair. Men forget that it isn’t a cane that they are carrying, and rap the end of the loaf on the pavement as they walk. I saw a little boy in the dirt by the Seine using a long piece of bread for a plaything. Presently he wiped it upon his dress and took a mouthful. I saw a woman sitting on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens cosily hugging a great round loaf —without any wrapper, ■ please remember. We heard angry voices before our window, and beheld a woman thumping a man with a fresh baked roll. It broke in two, but the woman beat a —tattoo on bis back with the pieces. When wo go to buy bread we are tempted to ask: “How much is it a yard?” We are sure the French people never die of lockjaw, for any grinding apparatus that can stand the test of years on this bread can stand anything.

Worn-out, “run-down,” feeble women, need Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It builds them up. It’s a powerful, restorative tonic, or strength-giver —free from alcohol and injurious drugs. The entire system is renewed and invigorated. It improves digestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, gives re- ’ freshing sleep, and restores flesh and strength. As a soothing nervine, it allays and subdues hysteria, spasms, and all the nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease. It’s the only guaranteed medicine for women. It does what is promised —or it asks nothing. It gives satisfaction, in every case, or the money paid for it is refunded. ■> That’s the way its makers prove their faith in it Contains no alcohol to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to derange digestion; a legitimate medicine, not a beverage. Purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system.

r SHILOH’S •i <■' CONSUMPTION CURE.*” t The success of this Great Cough Cure fa without a parallel in the history of medicine. AH druggists are authorized to sell it on a positive guarantee, a test that no other cure can successfully stand. That it may become known, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, ate C lacing a Sample Bottle Free into every home > the United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for ft will cure you. If your child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief 4s sure. If you dread that insuiious disease Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for SHILOH'S CURE, Price io cts., 50 cts. and fl.oo. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame, IK Shiloh’s Parous Plaster, Price aj ctx. sxxsxmtxxxwmsßwmixsmaamxMX ' It is an old-fashion notion that medicine has to taste bad to do any good. Scott’s Emulsion is codliver oil with its fish-fat taste lost—nothing is lost but the taste. This is more than a matter of comfort. Agreeable taste is always a help to digestion. A sickening taste is always a hindrance. There is only harm in taking , 4 cod-liver oil unless you digest it Avoid the taste. Scott & Bowwk, Chemists, 131 South sth Avenue, New York. Your druggist keeps Scott’s Emulsion of cod-Uver aQ—all druggisu everywhere do. Jx. M Common Soap Rots Clothes and Chaps Hands. IVORY SOAP DOES NOT. i '

.Why Dr. Price’s Baking Powder is > Superior to all others. No great efforts are made by other manufacturers to procure and use pure materials. -It is true that one other company has the facilities, -4 a nd cupidity induced it in an evil hour to use ' 1 • . 1 j ammonia, in order to swell its profits. Hence the Price £ Baking Powder Company stands alone in its fight for a pure f baking powder. No other article of human food receives greater care in its production, or has attained higher perfection. Dr. Price’s Cream is surely a perfect baking powder. Free from every taint of impurity. No other article used in the kitchen has so many steadfast friends among the housewives of America.

EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS

What the Government Stations Are Doing For the Farmer. J. G. Speed in Harper’s Weekly, Farmers in the older States arc spending millions of dollars annually for commercial fertilizers. In this country, as in Europe, they have become an absolute necessity on wornout soils; but to make them profits: ble it is necessary that they should fit the wants of the soil and crops for which they are used. If a farmer buys potash for land which abounds in potash but needs phosphoric acid, he of course loses. The fundamental principle in the use of commercial fertilizers is to select those materials which supply in the bbst forms and at the lowest cost plant food which the crop needs and the soil fails to furnish. L In order to enable farmers to find out the wants of their own soils and the best way of supplying them, and at the same time to get light upon the properties of soils in different sections of the country, a number of experiment stations are introducing soil tests with fertilizers, which are largely conducted both by the stations and also by individual farmers on their own farms. Of course many of the experiments are failures, but many practical men who have engaged in this work have declared that they have thus learned a great deal which is practically useful and highly instructive.

The results of these tests in general show that ’‘soils vary greatly in their capabilities of supplying food to crops. Different ingredients are deficient in different soils. The best way to learn what materials are proper in any given case is by observation and experiment. The rational method for determining what ingredients of plant food a soil fails to furnish in abundance, and how these unfurnished materials can be most economically supplied, is to put the question to the soil with different fertilizing materials, and get the reply in the crops produced. The ciHef use of fertilizers is to supply plant food. It is good farming to make the most of the natural resources of the soil and of the manure produced on the farm and to depend upon artificial fertilizers only to furnish what more is needed. 11 is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil itself may yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way.” Probably the most valuable work these experiment stations have done has been to analyze these various com merial fertizers which are offered for sale by manufacturers. Ih some of the States, in New .Tersy, for instance, the fertilizers are analyzed and the qualities of chemicals compared with what the manufacturer claimed that the composition contained. So as to make tins perfectly plain, the money value of the chemcals found in each sample is noted and compared With the price charged by the manufacturer. Some startling results have been shown One fertilizer selling ats2s per ton would’ be found to have a value of S2B; another, selling at S4O a ton, would be found to be worth only sls; and in one instance I recall the manufacturer charged 43 a ton for his complete fertilizer and the chemist found that its actual value was only $2.50. Bulletins like these have certainly done great good, for they have warned farmers ..from buying inferior chemicals, and they have compelled manufacturers to keep their compo sitions up to the advertised standard. When there is more universal education among the farmers it will only be necessary to express the value of fertilizers in Chemical terms. We have the authority of the United States Agricultural Department for the statement that in the States where experimental stations have long been established the greater number of the farmers now need nothing more than these chemical terms to guide them in selecting the the special fertilizers needed in given cases.

The Letter That Caine at Last.

Washington Post Some strange things are discovered about the Postoffice Department, and the dead-letter office is a vast storehouse of epistles full of wit, humor aufl pathos. Dory Cool is a farmer who resides in Saunders county, Neb., a few miles of Fremont. Sixteen years ago Miss Harris, of Bryan, lit wrote him a letter he did

not get until long after it was mailed It was evidently impossible to fine him, or the letter got stuck some where in a postal car, or fell into ar obscure corner in some postoffice At all events the epistle finally founc its way to the dead-letter office where it remained for a period anc was then started out upon a fresh journeyOn the 22d of this month Dorv Cooldrove into Fremont, Neb., after his mail. Among the letters given him was that written by Miss Har ris years before, on the Bth of May, 1875. It had been sixteen years, four months and thirteen days reaching its destination. The Strang® part of this story is that Mr. Cool and Miss Harris have been maried several years and have a number ol children, the eldest being upward ol fifteen years old. Unlike the usual story of this kind, the two were not separated by the non-receipt of tlw letter, and two hearts were not an guished when they found out ‘ what might have been. ”

Scene in a Country Grocery Store

Tramp (entering)—“Say, could you let me have a glass of whiskyV I have no coin wid me, but I’ll give you five stamps, if that’ll do.” j&rocer (to get rid of him) —“Al; right (pours out the whisky) here’s your whisky.” Tramp drinks it, smacks his tips, stamps live times on the floor and walks toward the door. The grocer shouts at him to come back. Tramp returns. £.. • “What do you want?” “Didn’t I give them Id you? 12 —-s“No, of course not.” “Well, here they are again.’ (Stamps five times more.) “Ah, I see; ha! ha! Well, that’s a pretty good joke, but I’ll tell you what I’ll do; I’ll give you a quarter to try that on that fellow across the street there.” _ “Sh! Why, ho just gave me 50 cents to try it on you.”

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Coffee cake should be wrapped white warm in a napkin and there re main until cut. One-third of a teacupful of molasses is a good substitute for a wine glass of branc.y in fruit cake or pudding. Buy bay soap by the quantity if you wish to be truly economical. Stand the bars on edge, one above another, with as much open space as possible between them. They will then dry out and last almost twice as long.' When any recipe includes the juice of one lemon, tne quantity used should be four teaspoonfulls, as both the size and juiceness of lemons vary. Those persons who find it necessary to hold any object nearer than fourteen inches from their eyes, who find that their eyes become dry and itching on reading, need glasses. Persons under 40 years of age should not wear glasses until the accommodating power of the eyes has been suspended, and the exact state of refraction determined by a competent ophthalmic surgeon. The spectacle glasses sold by peddlers and by jewelers generally are hurtful to the eyes of those who read much, as the Tenses are made of inferior sheet glass, and not systematically ground. No matter how perfectly the lenses may be made, unless they are mounted in a suitable frame and properly placed before the eye, ' discomforts will arise from their prolonged use. Persons holding objects too near the face endanger the safety of their eyes and incur the risk of becoming near-sighted. The near-sighted eye is an unsound eye, and should be fully corrected with a glass, notwithstanding the fact it may Bleed no aid for reading. The proper time to begin wearing glasses is just as soon as the eyes tire on being subjected to prolonged use.

Is Dancing Sinful?

JTcxas Siftings. Parson Gridly is very much opposed to dancing." He said recently to a young lady of his congregation: “Are you ono of those giddy girls to whom dancing Js a heavenly pastime?" • _ ■ ‘No; T don.t think that dancing is perfectly heavenly," she replied, demurely. “Ah, that’s right." ““Dancing is not perfectly heavenly,’.’ continued the youhg lady, “for you see it comes to an end too soon, but it is very much like heaven as long as lasts."

Can Readily Detect Counterfeit.

A man who handles much money soon becomes accustomed to detect counterfeits “because they don’t look right.” In four cases out of five he can not, without close inspection, give any better reason, but the first impression is quite sufficient, and an error is comparatively rare. A money-handling instinct, if there is such a thing, can be developed into almost preter-natural acuteness, so that, at a glance, one bill will be accepted and another rejected. Detecting counterfeit coins, however, “by the feel” is all nonsense. A smooth quarter of standard silver coming from the hands of a perspiring man is just as greasy as the worst pewter. The only way to detect a coin counterfeit is by the ring, and this is infallible.

Never Omit That.

Epoch. Dr. Fitter—Then you could do nothing whatever for the patient? Dr. Paresis —No; except send in my bill, of course.

Poor Fellow

Puck. “Has he no aim in life?" “Oh, yes; but he’s never had a shot at it.”

To cure a severe case of colic take a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of water; drink and go to bed. This is one of the speediest remedies known. It will also prove efficacious in reviving a person who seems almost dead from a heavy fall.

Vapor Poison and Its Antidote.

The morning and evening mists that pervade the atmosphere of malarious localities cannot be breathed with impunity, A safeguard is needed to render harmless the dangerous miasmata with which they are Impregnated, The surest, safest defense is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It is an antidote to the poison which has already been inhaled and borne fruit, an adequate preventive of its harmful effects. No preparative for breathers of miasma-tainted air or drinkers of malaria-poisoned waters like the Bitters. It completely neutralizes the otherwise irresistible onset of the aerial foe. Settlers on newly-cleared land, excavators of canal routes (notably that on the Isthmus of Panama) Western pioneers and emigrants—in short, all subjected to malarial influences in air or water find in it a benign remedy, an effectual safeguard, Disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, “la grippe,” rheumatism and kidney complaints are remedied by the Bitters. When an author isn’t read, he’s blue naturally.

• LOST TIME. < * Newton, 111. From 1863 to 1885 —abe'dt 22 years—l suffered with rheumatism of the hip. I was cured by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. T. C. DODD. “ALL RIGHT! ST. JACOBS OIL DID :/£" <

The best natured man down town Is the man who has women folks- at home to grumble at. Thanks to the Eord. XII - Sr. T AHL, Minn., October, ISCO. : I recently had the opportunity of testing the celebrated Pastor Koenig's Nerve Tonic in a very severe case. A poor widow to whom I have frequently given aid and assistance in my capacity as City Missionary, sent her 12-yoar-old daughter to mo one evening to procure necessary aid; while she was relating her destitution and stating that her mother was how nearly to;tally blind, the poor child suddenly fell into an epileptio fit. I gave her two bottles of your medicine, and the girl is now well and happy, 'and the support Of her aged mother. The Lord ■be thankea I I think that such a case as this redounds to your honor and to the glory of Him above, who has given you the knowledge to prepare suoh a blessing for suffering humanity. IL B. IBMSCHEK, Missionary, 635 Otsego Ava. A Valuable Book on Nervous LsJ L L Diseases sent free to any address, f* Kl* r and poor patients can* ah>o obtain I this medicine free of charge. KOENIC MED. CO., Chicago, 111. Soldby Druggists at SI per Bottle. OfbrSS yasrgeSlxe.ai.7g. 6 Bottles for S 9.

- CRATEFUL-COiwrOK fINQ. EPPS S COCOA BREAKFAST. “By . thorough knowledge of the natural taw., which govern the operations of dlge-tlon and nutrt. tl >u, and by a careful applle atlon of the fine propel > ties of weli-sehscted Cocoas Mr. Epos has provldu. our breakfast tables with a doUoately flavoured bey ! terage watch may save us many heavy doctors bills. It is oy tne judicious use o£ suoh articles of dl« t that a constitution may 09 gr-dually built upuntl strong enough to resist every tendency to disease: Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our-, selves well fortified with pure blood a"d a properly nourished frame."— "Civil Service Gaeette. Made simply with boUln? water or milk. Sold only In half-pound tins, ny Grocers, labelled thus: . JAMES EPPS <fcCO.. Homreopathlo Chemists, London. Enclasp- '

Ely’s Cream Balm QUICKLY CURES COLD in HEAD Price SO Cents. Anplv Balm into each nostril* Ely 8r05.,58 Warren St.,N Y. IJLU 44—91 - _ UfJWLtB _

S4O PER CENT OFF! A New Departure. In order to scatter our Churns more extensively over the country, we have decided to giyo the consumer the benefit ot our wholesale car load prices. For the next sixty days we will try the experiment of selling direct to the consumer, and in order to give them the most liberal offer ever made, we propose to sell our churns at 40 per cent oa. Am wall oleaaed with the 10 ral. chant roe eent me. The Cyclone leave. my old there clear behlad. HORA Cl F. SAXTCK, tbelberne. VL A“" , l ple^W «r»Bxffs“"<?WsS:K;n I >.. W.T*. The Cyeloaeaarpaamaaaythiac i I cbmn mui lather jUuntea I caa chore bettor la laamiaete. with th* Little Cyeloae. A. B. HSRI.ItAN. Red Oak. lowa. The ohara alvee perfect aaUafeotlon. MBS. MBNBT BTA3K. Olaadme. Ky. I like year ehora. JULIA A. MANN. CeaterviUa*., Ohm. I Uho the chore; eaa de a chare la* In ton ml.atM. F. NS WRY. Hardaaabar*. lad. The churn work. good. J. H. BRUM. Bockdail. The chore lire, perfect eattafwtlon JlirollDHollamLTwM. I Ilka the Cyclone very touch. M. TODD. Haderrn. Ohio. lUketheokara very much JRBSB WILLIAMS Mkh. Like the Cyclone vary well. D. 9. GATKB, Hill View. N. T. lebnrn now with eoniaeli lew labety B.F. WARVBY. My wife wya the Cyclone la the alocat churn made. She would The Cyclone beat. any churn we aver tried. WILLIAM MaBBO WN, Carthage. Mo> oat part with It. F. B. WOODRUFF, Chadroa, Neb. Oar little girl naw ohorna In litre. «r twenty mlnatea. A. KILLY, lUeelO.ll. I Ilka >eer chern; it la th. boat ever made. C. C. IBWIX. Paddock, Neb. Z?* . w.d.» I like tbeCycfeao very moch. MRS. B.OXKT, SuuriM Chy, Mian. ' JOMB a. AMASOn,wu..r.m. , The prior. oftheCbarna, inciting Tbermoiaetm. aroaiMlowo: B Gallon Cltnrn. »3.00, • OaUoB Chum, TGallon Owra, *4BO. jg, IB Gallon Chum. 110 00. 80 Gallon Chum, 818.00. Send Foetal or Xtpreu Money Order tor me Mae. amwak Imo <k par ooel. aadgtoaehaen that will leak yea a UfeUaa. STZUEXa FULLEY AJEVD ISA.CHXITK WORKS, SOLI MAKERS. INOIANAPOLIS, P. B. Plsmo prossrvo this, for it will not appear a<ain.

Health Is that stpte when all the OK of perform their functions in regtk. efficient manner; and to remove any obstruction to such action ia the proper duty of A. ' MUclne - - Hood’s Sarsaparllh? • Gives health by purifying the blood, toning' stomach and bowels, and Invigorating the Ek* neys and liver. Therefore, if you are in poor health, take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Hood's Pills— Best Uver invigorator and cathartic. Reliable, Effective, gentle. Price 25 I one ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and fl bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. — s —■ - v CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, KY. NEW YOM. M*

Those who have worn down their teeth in masticating old, tough bee will find that carbonate of soda will remedy the evil. Cut the steaks, the day before using, into slices about two inches thick, and rub over them a small quantity of soda. Wash off next morning, cut it into suitable thicknesses and cook. This same process will answer for fowl, leg of mutton and any other meats that are tough. Try this plan all ye who love delicious, tender meat. Lay a piece of charcoal upon a burn, leave it there one hour and the burn will be I e fled. ........ Pe * gn< ** Can’t Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. i We will give One Hundred Dollars for any {case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we ,cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY to CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75 cents. Just about this time Salvator is asking Guatemala: “Is It warm enough for you?” FI TH—All Fit. stopped frss by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fite after first day. use. Marvellous cure.. Treatise and 52.00 trial bottle free to Fitca.es. Send to Dr. Kline.93l Arch St.. Phils.,Pa A Philadelphia man claims that he will shortly fly without the aid of wings. It Is conjectured that he will start from a bank, No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. . There are times when even the milk of human kindness takes a' turn and is liable to sour.

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“August Flower” “ I have been afflict-’ Biliousness, “ed with biliousness Stomach " first one and tb« k “ another preparaPains. “ tion was suggested “ tome and tried but “to no purpose. At last a friend “ recommended August Flower. I< “ took it according io directions and, “ its effects were wonderful, reliev- “ ing me of those disagreeable “stomach pains which I had been “troubled with so long. Words “cannot describe the admiration: “in which I hold your August “ Flower—it has given me a new “ lease of life, which before was a“burden. Such a medicine is- a ben- “ efaction to humanity, and its good “qualities and “wonderful mer- Jesse Harker. “its should be “made known to Printer, “everyone suffer- Humboldt, “ing with dyspep11 sia or biliousness Kansas. Q. G. GREEN, Sole Man’fr, Woodbury, N.J. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187& W. BAKER & CO.’S Cocoa from which the excess of oil Wgßw ISJwn has been removed, I* absolutely purs and if is soluble. Hl M No Chemicals IS MB are ln ltß P re P aratlon - 111 > I ■ vit more than three ti,M ' f,i * 111 fl Hh ot Cocoa, mixed with M 3 1 Man Starch, Arrowroot or Sagar, ® f 111 snd 18 thcrefore inT * nore ec, ‘ |S| | Hw |1 nomical, coifing let, than on, ( If [J centacup. Itiadellcloua, nonrlahing. strengthening, basilt Digistsd, and admirably adapted for invalids as well as for persona in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester. Mass.

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