Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

User's Magazine An Exceptional Year. The year 1891 has been marked by a greater advance than any similar period since the Magazine was established. Not only has the literary and artistic excellence been maintained and increased, but a corresponding gain has been made in the sale and influence of the Magazine. At the end of 1891 the circulation has risen to more than 140,000. It may justy be promised that the further improvements for the coming year will ie proportionate to these largely increased opportunities. For Next Year. It is not possible to give, in a brief space, an account of all the features in perparation, but the material is deficient in neither importance nor range of subject. Among the subjects treated: The Poor In the World’s Great Cities. It is proposed to publish a series of articles, upon a scale EOT before attempted, giving the results of special study and work among the poor of the great cities* This plan will include an account of the conditions of life in those cities (in many lands) where the results of research will be helpful for purpose of comparison as well as for their own intrinsic interest. While, from a scientific point of view, the articles will be a contribution of great importance, the treatment will be thoroughly popular, and the elaborate illustration will serve to make the presentation of the subject vivid as web as picturesque. Washington Allston. Unpublished Reminiscences and Letters of this foremost among early American painters. A number of illustrations well lend additional interest to the articles. Important Moments. The aim of this series of very short articles is to described the signal occassion where some decisive even took place, or when some great experiment was first shown to be successful—such moments as that of the first use of the Alantic cable, the :irst use of the telegraph and telephone, the first successful experiment with ether, the night of the Chicago fire, the scene at the moment of the vote on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson etc., etc. Out of Door Papers. In the early spring will he begun a number of seasonable articles, among them being: Small Country Places, how to lay outand beautify them, by Samuel Parsons, Jr. Fishing Lore from Angler’s Note-Boob, by Dr. Leroy M. Yale. Mountain Station Life in New Zealand, by Sidney Dickinson. Racing in Australia, by Sidney Dickinson, with illustrations by Birge Harrison. A full prospectus appears in the Holiday Number, now ready. Price 25 cents. $3.00 per year. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, PnWislier. M 3 aid 145 Broadway, New Tort.

Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that on the evening of the 21st day of December. 1891, A. L. 5890, an election will be held by Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M. of Indiana, at its Lodge Hall, in Rensselaer, Indiana, for the purpose of electing officers for the year will include threejtrustees of said Lodge. • v W itness my liand and | seal [ the seal of said Lodge this * —, — ' 24th day of December, 1891. Chas. G. Spitler. Secretrary. Advertised Letter*. Harry Metzger, Mrs. A. E. Bryant, Mrs. L. J. Brown, Jas. Calvin, Hon. J. Critchfield Temperance Evengelist.