Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GsvMi E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER . INDIANA

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 1 * The Fifty-fourth Congress will not contain a single colored member. George Washington Murray,of South Carolina, who is a member of the present Congress, has been defeated, and no representative of his race was chosen at the November election.

Ths KaisCr's “Song to JEgir” has proved to be a financial success. Thirty-six thousand marks IfavtTalready been realized bj r the royal author from the copyright. The proceeds will all be handed over to the memorial fund of William I Memorial Cathedral at Berlirj.

A Philadelphia architect thinks the great flats of the future will attain a hight of forty stories. The only difficulty now standing in the way of such structures is the inability of machinists to make elevators that will operate satisfactorily beyond a hight of 300 feet.

The editorial chair of Harper's Weekly, so long and ably filled by the late George WtlliamGurtis, variant since his death, will in the future be occupied by Henry Loomis Nelson. Mr. Nelson is probably entirely competent to fill the position, but we do not recall any remarkable characteristics—or any characteristics, in fact—of his at this writing.

The steamship Campania con tinues to “break the record.” That unfortunate “record” has been having a hard time for several years. The last trip eastward, from New York to Daunt’s Rock, was accomplished by the Campania in five days, nine hours and eighteen minutes —a gain of one hour and twenty-nine ’•minbtes over the best preceding effort in th is direction.

Corea is believed to have a*great future. Its fisheries could supply the world. Its gold mines, yet undeveloped, are believed to be practically inexhaustible. Its manufactures of porcelain, yet in their infancy, ate unequalled for certain varieties ’of that article of merchandise. Given an independent government the Coreans are likely to attain an important position in the world of commerce at least.

The wool industry developed a new phase out in Wyoming recently. Three thousand head of sheep were stolen and shipped to Chicago, from which place they were sold to various points, in bunches, in Illinois. Indiana and Michigan. Wool is very low and it is claimed that sheep-rais-ing does not pay, but the men who worked the steal are said to be en - tirely satisfied with existing conditions.

A sure-enough duel took place at Paris, Christmas Day. M. Juarez, the Socialist leader, fired two shots according to the code, at Dr. Barthou, Minister of Public Works. Dr. Barthou, wishing to be polite, returned the compliment. It is quite unnecessary to state that both gentlemen felt that their •‘honor” was vindicated, and that neither was |mrt. Those French duels are “too funny.”

As a matter of contemporaneous Information it may be stated that |.he rifle—so long the favorite instrument of revenge and death in Kentucky, either cn the field of ‘honah,”or in the murderer’s hands —has of late given way to the ax. which has been getting in, some very effective work that could hardly fiavebeen accomplished with powder and lead, however effectively admin- . istered. Mechanical progress in all departments has achieved astonishing results, but in no one line of development have changes been so marked and important as in marine architecture. Ocean steamers within the past fifty years have been length ened four hundred feet, and their capacity has been trebled. Speed Jtlso has kept pace with other changes, and a voyage across the 'Atlantic has practically become a mere protraqted ferriage. • L The farmer near North Vernon who saved, a train by burning his shirt, when he discovered arf obstruction on the track, deserves a testimonial. The übiquitous reporter [who telegraphed an account of the affair, is unfit for the position he attempts to fill, having failed to give jto a waiting world the name of this (self-sacrificing individual. For once the hackneyed advice, “Keep on

your sinkt,” would have been ill timed, and it is probably the only case on record where that intimate garment has acted as a life preserver for a large number of peopk* in imminent danger. The “season’’ of 1894 on the great lakes lasted 234 davs. Over 13,00'»,000 tons of freight passed through the ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie. Tlie vastnessur tins traffle can not i)C easily compreiie.nded- An expert has figured out that it would require twenty miles of freight trains a day •~taW6a.le.it. Thc 1 imilllas not yetT been reached in tlie carrying trade of our inland seas.

South America, chiefly noted for revolutions in the past, has of late become prolific in alleged gold fields. ’We had occasion recently to note the a new Eldorado on the Carsewenne river, between Brazil and French Guiana. Strange to say, no fresh advices have since been received from that locality, but another gold field of quite as remarkable a character is reported to have been found in the Argentine Republic. The discoveries are in the foothills of the Andes, known as the Chubnt territory, and old California miners who have investigated the region are said to be'ieve that the richest gold veins the world has ever seen are now being opened. There is great excitement, and thousands of prospectors are flocking to the region. " - .. .... . - The Lexow investigation at New York developed many sensa lions. One of the important expos! urcs was that of Police Captain Crecdon, who testified that it cost him $15,(100 to securer tjic appointment, $5,000 of that sum going to one of the Police Commissioners. The Captain reimbursed himself by “levies” on criminals for suspending their arrest, and upon honest business men for “letting them alone.”. Capt. Crecdon, at the time of his appointment, made oath before the Police Commissioners that he had not paid a cent to get the position. Accordingly Creedon was suspended for perjury, which would seem an cm in ently proper action, for on ce, on the part of the Commissioners, but was reinstated on the intercession of the Lexow committee, who had promised him immunity. A man who will swear to contradictory stories is not a very reliable witness.

The new Czar and his government appear to have inherited the good will so long cherished for America by the rulers of that great empire. The United States, strange as it may appear, has in the past received very substantial benefits on this account. That the relations between the most despotic of all civilized governments and the administrations of the greatest Republic on earth should be especially cordial is a phase of international comity quite -urn accountable, and for which we as a people have every reason to be thankful. The latest exhibition of this peculiar friendship is the placing of an order by the Russian government for $4,000,000 worth of armor for. two battleships at Bethlehem, Ba., over the competition of Herr Krupp and a dozen other European manufacturers. The United States can stand an indefinite amount of this kind of friendship.

Mongolian Magic.

W. Woodville Rockhill, in Tlie-Century. These Taichinar Mongols are much given to all forms of magic. Stormdispelling they seem to have learned from the K’amba Tibetans; but the origin of some of their other practices is not so clear. Certain among them, they claim, can cause a person to be stricken ill or can even compass his death. After having procured a few hairs, a nail paring, or something from the person of the intended victim, they, make a little image of him in flour, and in this stick the relic. Then it suffices to prick the head, heart,Hungs or limbs of the effigy to cause acute pains to be felt by the orig’nal in 'the same portion of his body. Of course one must recite certain potent charms the while; in them lies the secret of success. lam not aware, that this modeiof bewitching a person, so well known in the Western world in ancient and medieval times, obtains io any great extent in Asia. Personally, I have never met it elsewhere.

The round bald spots on a heifers’ face, often near the eyes, are caused by a parasitic disease, a plant that grows in the skin and destroys the hair roots, thus causing baldness. It is infectious, for it produces seed, very minute and invisible to the naked eye, but having great vitality, nevertheless, so that wherever the animal rubs itself these germs gather and from thence get on to other animals. The remedy is to apply a solution of bichloride of mercury, or mercurial ointment, to the spots after washing them with warm water. To paint the spots with tinctjure of iodine will also cure the dis ease.

THE PRIDE OF INDIA.

The Wondrous Tomb Taj Mahal ] at Agra. The World Cannot Duplicate This Marble Dream of Beauty and Splendor—--1 Dr. Talmage's Sermon For the Press. In continuing his series of round the world sermons through the press the Rev. Dr. Talmage, last Sunday, chose tor his subject “Tomb and Temple,” having reference to that most-famous and beautiful of mausoleums, the Taj Mahal. The text selected was, “From India Even Unto Ethiopia.” Esther i, 1, •In all the Bible this is the only book in which the word India occurs, but it stands for a realm of vast interest in the time of Esther, as its our time. It yielded then, as now, spices and silks and cotton and rice and indigo and ores of all richness and precious stones of all sparkle and bad a civilization of its own as marked as Egyptian or Grecian or Roman civilization. It holds the costliest tomb ever built and the most unique and wonderful idolatrous temple ever opened. For practical lessons in this city, my sixth discourse in round the world series, I show you that tomb and temple of India. The building is about six miles

from Agra, and as we rode out in the early dawn we heard nothing but the hoofs and wheels that pulled and turned us along the road, at every yard of which our expectation rose until we ha<l some thought that we might- be disappointed at the first glimpse, as they were disappointed. But how can anyone be disappointed with the Taj is almost as great a wonder to me as the Taj itself. There arc some people always disappointed, and who knows but that having entered heaven they may criticise the architecture of the temple and_the cut of the white robes and say that the river of life is not quite up to their expectations, and that the white horses on which the conquerors ride seem a little springhalt or spavined? As you-approach the floor of the Taj one experiences a strange sensation of awe, and tenderness, and humility, and worship. The building' is only a grave, but what a grave! Built for a queen, who, according to some, was very good, and according to others, was very bad. I choose to think she was very good. , At any rate, it makes me feel better to think that this commemorative pile was set up for the immortalization of virtue rather than vice. The Taj is a mountain of white marble, but never such walls face each other with exquisiteness; never such a tomb was cat from block of alabaster; never such a congregation of precious stones brightened, and blazed, and chastened, and glorified a building since sculptor’s chisel cut its first curve, or painter’s pencil traded its first figure, or mason’s plumb-line measured its first wall, or architect’s compass sweptits first circle. The Taj has sixteen great arched windows, four at each corner; also at each of the four corners of the Taj stands a minaret 137 feet high; also

at each side of the building is a splendid mosque of red sandstone. Two hundred and fifty years has the Taj stood, and yet not a wall is cracked, not a mosaic loosened, nor an jarch sagged, nor a panel dulled. The storms of 250 winters have not marred, nor the heat of 250 summers disintegrated a marble. There is no story of age written by mosses on its white surface. Montaz, the queen, was beautiful, and Shah Jehan, the king, here proposed to let all the centuries of time know it. She was married at twenty years of age and died at twenty-nine. Her life ended as another life began. As the rose bloomed the rose bush perished. To adorn the dormitory of the dead at the command of the king Bagdad sent to this building its cornelian, and Ceylon its lapis lazuli, and Punjab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst, and Thibet its torquoise, and Lanka its-sappbire, and Yeman its agate, and Punna its diamonds, and blood stones and sardonyx and chalcedony and moss agates are as common as though they were pebbles. You find one spray of vine beset with eighty and another with 100 stones. Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it, and although the labor was slave labor and not paid for, the building cost what would be about $00,000,000 of our American money. Some of the jewels have been picked out of the wall by iconoclasts and conquerors, and substitutes of less value have taken their places, but the vines, the traceries, the arabesques, the spandrels, the entablatures are so wondrous that you feel like dating the rest of your life from the day you first saw them. Th# Taj is the pride of India and especially of Mohammedanism. An English officer of.the fortress told us that when, during the general mutiny of 1857. the Mohammedans proposed insurrection at Agra, the English government aimed the guns of the fort at the Taj and said, “Make insurrection and that same day we will blow your Taj to atoms,” and that threat ended the disposition for mutiny at Agra. With miner’s candle we had seen something of the underside of Australia, as at Gimpie, and with a guide’s torch we had seen at different times something of the underside of America, as in Mammoth cave, but we are now to enter one of the sacred cellars of India, commonly called the Elephants caves. We

had it all to ourselves—the yacht that 7 was to take us about fifteen mites over the harbor of Bombay, between enchanted islands and along shores whose curves and gulches and., pictured rocks gradually prepared the mind Tor appreciation of the most unique spectacle in India. The morni ng had been ful 1 of thunder and lightning and deluge, but the atmospheric agitations had ceased and the cloudy ruins of the storm were piled up in the heavens, huge enough and darkly purple enough to make the skies as grandly picturesque as the earthly scenery amid which we' moved. After, an hour’s cutting- through -th e waters we came to the long pier reaching from the island called Elephanta. It is an island small of girth/butsix hundred feet high. And now we come near the famous tern pl ejiewn from one rock of porphyry at least eight hundred years ago. On either side of the chief temple is a chapel, these cut out of the same stone. So vast was the undertaking and to the Hindoo was so great the human impossibility that they say the gods scooped out this structure from the rock and carved the pillars and hewed its shape into gigantic idols and dedicated it to all the grandeurs. We climb many stone steps before we get to the gateways. The entrance to this temple has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on sculptured devils. How strange! But I have seen doorkeepers of churches and auditoriums who seemed to be leaning on the demons of bad ventilation and asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought to be leaning on the angels of health and comfort and life. All the sextons and janitors of the. earth who have spoiled sermons and lectures and poisoned the lungs of audiences by inefficiency ought to visit this cave of Elephanta and beware of what these doorkeepers are doing, when instead of leaning on the angelic they lean on the demoniac.

Yonder is the King Ravana worshiping. Yonder is the sculptured representation of the marriage of .Shiva and Parhati. Yonder is Daksha, the son of Brahma, born from the thumb of his right hand. He had sixty daughters. Seventeen of those daughters were married to Kasyapa and became the mothers of the human race. Yonder is a god with three heads. The .center god has a crown wound with necklaces of skulls. The right-hand god is in a paroxysm of rage, with forehead of snakes, and in its hand is a cobra. The left-hand god has pleasure, in all its feature, and the hand has a flower. But there are gods and goddesses in all directions. The chief temple of this rock is 130 feet square and has twenty-six pillars rising to the roof. After the conquerors of other lands and the tourists from all lands have clipped, defaced and blasted and carried away curios and mementos for museums and homes there are enough entrancements left to detain one, unless he is cautiqus, until he is down with some of the malarias which encompass this island or get bitten with some of its snakes.

That evening of our return to Bombay 1 visited the Young, Men’s Christian association, with the same appointments that you find in the Young Men’s Christian associations of Europe and America, and the night after that I addressed a thyong of native children who are in the schools of the Chris - tian mission. Christian universities gather under their wing of benediction host of the young men of this country. Bombay and Calcutta, the two great commercial cities of India, feel the elevating power of an aggressive Christainity. Episcopalian liturgy and presbyterian Westminster catechism and methodist anxious seat and baptist water of consec ration now stand where once basest idolatries had undisputed . sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey inaugurated at Serampore, India, translating the bible into forty different dialects and leaving his wornout body amid the natives whom he had come to save and going up into the heavens from which he can better watch all the field —that work will be completed in the salvation of the millions of India, and beside him, gazing from the same high places, stand Bishop Heber. and Alexander Duff, and John Scudder and Meakay, who fell at Delhi, and Montieff, whofellatCawnpur. and Polehampton, who fell at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at Futigarh, and all heroes and heroines who, for Christ’s sake, lived and died for the Christianization ,of India, and their heaven will not be com - plete until the Ganges that washes the ghats of heathen temples shall roll between churclu s of the living God, and the trampled womanhood of Hindooism shall have all the rights purchased by Him who amid the cuts and stabs of his owa assassination cried out, “Behold thy mother!” and from Bengal bay to Arabian ocean and from the Himalayas to the coast of Coromandel there be lifted hosannahs to Him who died to redeem all nations. In that day Elcphanta cave will be one of the places where idols are “cast to moles and bats.” If any clergyman asks me, as an unbelieving ministerof religion onee asked the Duke of Wellington, “Do you not think that the work of converting the Hindoos is all a practical farce?” I answer him as Wellington answered the unbelieving minister, “Look to your marching orders, sir,” Or if anyone having joined in the gospel attack feels like retreating 1 say to him, as General Havelock said to a retreating regiment.” “The enemy are in front, not in the rear,” and leading them again into the fight, though two horses had been shot under him.

Indeed the taking of this world for Christ will be no holiday celebration, butaSi tremendous as when in India during the mutiny of 1857 a fortress manned by sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of Britain. The sepoys hurled upon the attacking columns burning missiles and grenades and fired on them shot and shell and poured fin them from the ramparts buring oil until a writer who witnessed it says, “It was a picture of pandemonium.” Then Sir Colin addressed his troops, saying; ““Remember the women and children must be rescued,” and his men replied: “Aye, aye, Sir Colin. We by you at Balaklava and will stood by you here.” And then came the trlumpliant assaults of the battlements. So in this gospel campaign which proposes capturing the very last citadel of idolatry and sin and hoisting Oyer it the banner of the cross we may have hurled upon us mighty opposition arid scorn and obloquy, and many may fall before the work is done, yet at every call for new onset let the cry of the church be: “Aye, .aye,* great captain of our sal- t vation. We stood by thee in other conflicts, and will stand by thee to the last.” And then, if not in this world, then from the battlements of the next, as the last Appoiyonic fortification shall crash into ruin, wc will join in the shout: “Thanks bo untd God, who givethus the victory! Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!”

CHINESE PRISONERS.

Loaded With Chains to Which Are Hung Heavy Stones. January Century. I had hardly finished my investigation of this weird and morbidly fascinating picture when I heard y tremendous clanking of chains ovez the stone paving. Three men wern coming along, and another walked about twenty —yards behind. All wore hobble-chains,.and in addition, each carried a large block of granite in his hands that must have weighed at least fifty pounds. As they drew closer, I saw that these stone blocks had holes in the centre and that through them ran a long chain. Each chain was rove through another fastened around the man’s waist, and. running free, was carried up and welded around his neck. The four men had hardly sal down when another, similarly fetteredrxrppeared, coming down the long courtyard. He joined them, ane they sat in a row. 1 had not seen these fellows when walking through the prison. They presented the usual semi-ragged, unshaven, unwashed, hungry, anc wholly rapacious appearance. Some looked defiant, others broken-spirit-ed; one looked a coward and a sneak and I said in my own mind that he was the worst scoundrel of all. Still no magistrate appeared, anc I had leisure to examine the sur roundings. The materials for a turbulent scene were present: first, the prisoners; and, second, certain instruments of a coercive nature. There were four or five wooden col I ars s tack cd 1i k e si at es again st a wall. A narrow ring at the edge ol the neck-hole was worn bright anc shiny. It ended abruptly in 3 ridee of black dirt, which edged of! outwardly, and faded into the dull, dusty roughness of the main surface. A few knotted scourges hung from a nail close by, and also a piece ol heavy leather like a boot-sole. The guide told me that this was foi beating the prisoners across the mouth when they cried out too mud during examination.

To Grow Old Gracefully.

Brookline Chronicle How weak and foolish we are tc war with time and destiny! Why de we try to hide from the world and from our friends that which it is fan possible to hide? Shall wc ever learr how to grow old gracefully and naturally? We are conscious that the flying years are leaving their telltale stories on our faces; we know we are “growing old,” yet we prink anc and powder, rouge and rage, as though we were successfully deceiving pur friends. We trim down graj streaks or dye the hair and beard; wt wear young and “natty” clothes and do the “kitten act” whenever wc think it will tell, and so we cometc think of this thing seriously, and realize that it is unnatural not tc ripen into the full corn in the car. we see how foolish all this fear and deceit is. If we would only see and act upon these inexorable laws, how much better should we be—what s load of anxiety and sin would be lifted from our hearts! Some then have been who were wise enough tc build upon this foundation, and they have received their reward. The writer has in mind some happy beings who, instead of insisting that they were in theirprime, when it was patent to all that the shades of life’s evening were upon them, withdrew from competition with youth and gracefully and heartily retired be fore the bloom was, in some cases, fairly off the rose, One particulai case was a singer, who. surprising even herself by her brilliant wort one evening at a concert, decidec then and there never to sing again in public, thus leaving in the memo ry of her hearers only theimpressiot of her imposing beauty and her gio rious voice. How much better sucl a course is we may gather from being witnesses, some time or other, t< artists who have held on and sun; once too many times. Orestes, a suburb of Alexandria, wanti to incorporate with eight hundred population. Alexandria will oppose the move menu

The Man for the Emergency.

We were humping along down toward the Gulf on a trunk line road less than a year ago. when we stopped at a small station thirteen minutes late. We had I>ee li reported as late from the lasft .and exy>ected orders here t<> change the ruu. A brief investigation, disclosed the fact, that tlio station, master, who was also the operator, was drunk. He had felt a chill coming on, and had downed about a pint of redeye to keep it off. He sat in a heap in liis chair, his strength all gone, and his eyes blinking, and all the reply he could make to the conductor was: “Shay, ole feller, whazzer mazzer wiz you?” The conductor pondered a minute. The side track there was full of freight ears. It was six miles ahead to the next station, but did the north bound express h*Te orders to Idt us make it?? He suddenly grabbed the operator, hauled him out of the office upon the platform, down upon the-earth, anti then carried him to the water ditch aud dumped him in. There weret tiiree feet of water, and it was cold as ice. He hauled tlie operator up and down for two minutes, dragged him! out aud stood him on his pins, and then said to him in a voice as menacing as the point of a dagger: “Go in and telegraph for my or< dors!” The man walked in all dripping, sai dowu to his table and sounded his call,] and in fifty second our train had orders to make Six-mile Siding,” and make it like !” The engineergot the word.j and away we went, and five minutes later were at the switch. Just then old north-bound tooted, and our last car was iu aud the switch thrown over not a second too soon. She came past us at the rate of fifty miles an hour, flinging dust and gravel clear over every car, but we hail saved our bacon. Two months later I met the operator in New Orleans and asked him if his cold water bath left any ill effects. “Not* the slightest,”-was his reply. “The only trouble was that the company objected to my way of taking a bath, aud fired me out.”— N. Y. Sun,

Beginning to Enjoy Life.

Americans are just’beginning |o .-enjoy life. We are not quite the sober and sad-cheeked race that vve_ once were. The struggle for existence finds the people better off than they were one ami two hundred years ago. There is more abundance ami comfort, less cold, hunger and exposure, better food, shelter aqd clothing. Things can be enjoyed now which could noteven exist here previously, for both the comforts ami luxuries on one ham] ami the margin for expenditure on the other have increased ami come into being. ThestHtave given color and interest to life... The religious belief, too, is more -cheerful. The awful deity of Puritanism has been supplanted by a loving one. Religion now busies itself more with good deeds and human sympathies ami less with gloomy introspection. It hasgathered a larger beiw vo 1 enee aswell as justiCcT of God, amhof the substantial \ ictory of good over evil which this implies. Contact with Germans and Jews, who have migrated to this country ami become a part of our environment, is having i s influence. Go to Saratoga and who among the visitors are having (he most enjoyment? . The Hebrews. .Among the work people who are out for a holiday in the park, or the country, or on tlie water, the Germans show the most hearty-devotion to the occasion; and neither are the Irish and other Europeans wanting in this respect 1 . All these influences of better feeding, more leisure, a belter religion, a growing msthet icism. huger incomes and possibilities of bettor living generally, to say nothing of_ the contagious example of the Germans, the Hebrews ami other peoples who know how to enjoy living, are bringing the people of this country into a better enjoyment ol

HOOD'S ON TOP.

A Mammoth Edition of Beautiful Calendars For 1805, Lowell, Mass., Morning Mail. Hood's Calendar for 1895 may now ba obtained at the drug stores, and every on® who gets one secures “a thing Of beauty.’’ Indeed, in the novelty of the design and| the exquisiteness of the coloring, the calendar surpasses all previous issues, just us* Hood’s Calendars have for many years surpassed all others. The calendar is formed in the shape of a heart and is ornamented with two beautiful child faces' which have always been charming feat-1 tires of Hood’s Calendars. On the right is] a representation of “Winter," the sweetl little face with light brown eyes peeping] out from a dainty cap. while the snow flakes are falling all about. The face on! the left is a picture of "Summer,” and is lighted with blue eyes and the head cov-, ered with a lint decorated with bright flowers. The shades are perfectly blended and the whole picture is surrounded by a tasty border. The design was made byi Miss Maud Humphrey, one of the most) ?;ifted and celebrated water color artists n the country. The calendar gives the usual information concerning the lunar changes, and upon the back is printed ts table of astronomical events especially catciilatctTfor C. I. flood & Co. During the five months when the calenj dars were being made there were actually employed every day in this part of the work at the laboratory six printing presses, one bronzing machine, four eye! letting machines, seven wire stitchers! eight large paper cutters and 162 persons! At the beginning of the work this largi force was able to produce about 100,00< calendars a day and for several week! towards the close the daily production amounted to 140.000 calendars. The edb tion of Hood's Calendars for 1895 was 10, • 500,000 more thanlast year. This, of course, is an immense number; but the general reader has only a faint conception of its magnitude until he is re- 1 minded that the little 500.000 added to the ten millions is considered an enormous edition by manv of the largest advertisers In the world. If the calendars were laid down In a single line, they would reach almost one thousand miles, and if the different pieces in the calendar pads wens laid tn this way they woulji extend al-{ most thrtie thousand miles, dr from New, York to Liverpool. For the past eight years Hood’s Calendars have exceeded in number every other similar publication, but It was hardly dreamed that they; would ever come up to the mammoth edition which was demanded this year. Those who am unable to obtain Hood’i Sarsaparilla Calendars at the drug stores ihould send six cents in stamps for one