Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. I Giokk E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER INDIAN/-

“A wiSK man feareth and departeth from evil; butthefoor~Tageth and is confident.'* < . • Rhode Island is the most popui&ws portion of the United States. It has been calculated that if all of the territory of the country sustainedas proportionately large a number of people as this small corn• monwealth the census man would have to account for about 745,766,300 human beings. It „is claimed that Rhode 'lsland is by no means overcrowded and that it is still growing. Canada is likely to reap all the substantial, benefits, of -*. annexation without any legal formalities, if Yankee enterprise can bring about thatresult. “Commercial Union” is rapidly becoming a realized fact. Boston and Halifax are now con uected by two fast express trains daily which accomplish the journey in less than twenty-four hours. The “world do move” and all things go withit,

Mexico has become inoculated with the Exposition mania. The government \)f that Republic has granted concessions for an internafional exhibition which is to be inWgurated in the City of Mexico April 2, 1896. The will remain open at least six months. Fhe buildings will be extensive and riaborately ornamented and a majprity of the structures will be pernanent ———l— . * The famous Niblo’s Garden Theater at New York will be closed forever in a few weeks and the building will be torn down to make room for i modern office building. The theater was originally opened on this lite by William Niblo in 1828. Almost every President of the United States since that time has visited the place at one time or another and the most famous actors, singers and trtists of the world have appeared an its stage. Col. Bob Ingersoll is going about the country deliveringa brand new lecture on “The Bible.” He abuses the old Book in his usual verbose style to the great satisfaction of himself and the amusement of the audience, and as usual, also, continues to pocket from SSOO to $2,000 for each performance. No man knows the utter futility and Ineffectiveness of these avalanches of eloquent blasphemy better than Ingersoll himself. To the end of time millions of intelligent people will pin their faith to the teachings of the Scriptures and die in “the faith once delivered to the saints.” Bismarck’s birthday celebration was a “corker” if reports are to be trusted. Enough beer was drank to float a navy and the “patriotism” kiduced thereby was of the usual stolid and determined character. It would be interesting to have Bismarck’s opinion of the Nicholson bill. We do not understand why ®ur enterprising dailies have failed to procure an interview with the Iron Chancellor on this subject. It •fc pretty safe to say, however, that be would not indorse it, and would probably be quite as emphatic in his denunciation of that measure as Senator Voorhees.

You'd hardly believe it, but there is an old gent now living at the Piscataway Poor Farm, near New Brunswick, N. J., who celebrated his 123 d birthday, April 2. His name is Noah Raby, and for six years he has been totally blind. This latter statement makes us doubt the reliability of the story. As a rule those extremely old people we read about sead easily without “specs” and have just begun to cut a new set of teeth. Mr. Raby distinctly remembers having heard George Washington's speech at th n Yorktown surrender. The old gentleman gave up •hewing tobacco ten years ago, as he contracted an idea that it was lable to injure constitution, which was never strong. He still smokes with a great deal of satisfaction. Mr. Raby claims to have embarked on life’s eventful journey at Eatontown, N. C., April 1. 1772, bat we are afraid that the reporter who “discovered” him has worked •ff a very superannuated April fool joke on the long-suffering public. Amxbicans, known throughout the •ivilized world for their prodigality, are the largest purchasers of preMaus stones in the world. Amster* dhsn In Holland has long been known on the largest diamond market in the wortd, but the change in the tariff ■pjaeiog the duty on rough dia•Madte end inortMin* it on polished

gems seems likely to reSult change in this respect. A large number of diamond workers have been imported from Holland to New York.. An Effort was made to exclude these laborers under the contract labor law, which" forbids the importation oi foreign laborers un--1 der contract, but it is now underv stood that this will fail or rather that the law will be evaded by making the contracts with the men after their arrival at New York. Diamond cutters in Hollaud make large wages—s3o to S4O a week. They do not expect to do any better in this country, but hope to secure steadier employment-, The diamond trade at Amsterdam has been much depressed of late, in sympathy with the world- • wide financial depression. Liberty in Europe is hampered and checked by powerful influences of which Americans have little or no conception. Recently the German admirers of the poet Heine raised a fund of 175,000 marks for a fountain monument memorial to be erected at Dusseldorf-on-the-Rhine, the Doet’s native town. The city council of Dusseldorf refused to permit the erection of the monument in the city on account of Heine's well known' socialistic and liberal sentiments, which were decidedly in opposition to all monarchies. Heine was an exile from Germany on account of his revolutionary ideas. An effort was then made to get permission to erect the monument at Mayence. This also failed. The monument seemed to be an elephant on the hands of its projectors. Finally it was determined to present the structure, which is most beautiful and elaborate, to the German singing societies of New York, the officers of which have just obtained permission to have it erected in Central Park. The monument is of pure white Tyrolean marble. The center-niece, a column, shows a large medallion

portrait of Heine. A figure of the Lorelei surmounts the pedestal. On either side of the pedestal are lifesize figures of nymphs. “The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” A beautiful and laughable example, of this inborn perversity M anundane arrangements was afforded at Cramps’ shipyard at Philadelphia, March 25, when an attemut to launch the great steamship St. Paul failed complgtely. A vast crowd had gathered, every ceremonial custom had been complied with, the key was knocked loose and the bottle of wine was broken over the bow to christen the ship. But the vessel serenely sat upon her ways while the crowd swallowed the usual great cheer that was all ready to make the welkin ring. For once the “welkin” didn’t have to ring. The ship simply would not “go.” If developed that the Cramps had miscalculated the weight of iron work that bad been allowed to go into the ship during the winter. One thousand tons at least had been added that is usually put into ships after they are launched. The crowd retired in disgust while the veteran shipbuilders will make more effective arrangements and launch the ship privately when they get a good ready.

Moths.

Philadelphia Record. Our correspondent who desires to know how to tret rid of moths in carpets, and how to stay rid of them, brings us a puzzling question. Light is really the best preventive. A room well lighted and carefu’ly swept once in two or three weeks will seldom be infested with moths. They are creatures of darkness. The best way to get rid of them when once established is to lay a welldampened cloth on the carpet and then run a hot flatiron over it. The steam destroys the moths. Run the iron slowly and lightly over, so as not to press down the pile of the carpet. Eternal vigilance is the price of security.

Labouchere's Remedy.

San Francisco Argonaut. Laboucliere was at dinner one evening in his Twickenham villa when an united guest arrived—h Mex can. who had a government concession in which he was very anxious to interest Labouchere. The stranger talked volubly until his host, who had listened with evident reluctance, asked: “How do you expect to get back to London tonight? My house, as you see, is full and I cannot offer you a bed. Have you a carriage?” “No,” said the Mexican. “I came by train and intend to return that way t “But,” returned Laboachere, “the last train left five minutes ago, There is one chance for you,” he went on. “I will row you down the river to the next station, where you can catch the express. We can talk business on the way.” Excusing himself to his guests, Labouchere went off with the Mexican. Within an hour he was back. “That Mexican,” be said in the tone of one who had accomplished a satisfactory piece of work,“is landed on bn island which is overflowed at high tide. It will be high tide in half an hour. No man ever spoiled my dinner with Mexican concessions twice.”

GREAT MAN HUNT.

Hundred* of Meo join In ChMing Colorado Robbers. A Crlpple.Creek, Colo, special April 11 laySf'Tfitfm'altaTrdexpress-wagon'whlch’ ffttmecU with the-Mid land Terminal railroad at Grassy was boarded this morning about two miles from this .city by two men, wliaoverpoweredtlie.. driver;Robert Smith.’-WTured an express package containing $16,000 atid escaped on horseback. The hold-up took place about 930 o clock an the summit of Tenderfoot hill, on the highway between Cripple Creek and Grassy, a station on the Midland Terminal railroad. Within twenty minutes from .Ujo time the »jbbcry was committed Deputy Sheriffs Sterling and Jackson and two hundred men .started to scour the hills in learctr of-1 h o ro b hors. A mess age was Sent to Cation City for a bloodhound to bo put on the trail of the robbers. The latter were traced to the divide road north if town, near Ryolito mountain. After robbing the . . express theycrossed over Dow mountain and, near Gillette, t,hey ii.scarded the horses, which they had stolen. They resumed their Hight in a light buggy, which they had secreted in the timber and drove away. Over 'five hundred men from this place were soon Louring the country, among the volunteers being men who know every inch of the ground for miles around.

A LIFE PRESERVER.

she Indianapolis Journal in n Uerolc Role. 'While Mr. Oscar Potter, secretary of the Ingalls Zinc Company, was superintending some work aboutTltmrock-crush-ing rolls in the company’s plant, Wednesiay morning, the right sleeve of his coat taught in the gearing and he was drawn into the jaws. to be no possible escape from either death or having his arm literally torn from the socket, when, fortunately, an Indianapolis Journal. which was in his pocket, caught in the belting in some manner and, throwing it off,_stoppcLthe;machii>e. No one was near enough at the time to assist him and the paper saved his life. He was badly Injured as it was, and workmen had to use heavy bars to liberate his mangled arm and shoulder.

LATEST FROM KENTUCKY.

Repntation of “Ye Dark and Bloody Ground" Sustained. At Covington, Ky.. April 11, State Senator Goebel, a'personal friend of Secretary Carlisle, fatally shot John Sanford, President of tlie Traders’ Bank. There was an Did feud between them,but the immediate jause of the encounter was a road law, pushed through the Legislature by Goebel reducing tolls on turnpikes. Sanford was President and owner of several of the highways affected by the law and abused Goebel for his action in the Assembly.

NEW CONSUMPTIVE CURE.

Consul General DeKay, stationed at Berlin, in a report to the State Department. announces that Dr. L° ui 3 WaldStein, of New York, now in Germany, has discovered a positive cure for consumption and cancer, Tim new treatment, which has been perfected by studies abroad, consists of injecting minute doses 3f Jpilocarpine until thp lymphatic system is stimulated and the white corpuscles of the blood overcome, the poisonous particles which produce the disease. Dr. Waldstein’s researches have gone to the fountain whence those healthful white corpuscles spring, and by enlivening its iction and productivonesss restores the mndition of the blood destroying, poison)us germs. The importance of the disrovery is thought to be beyond those of Pasteur, Koch and others.

DANGER A REFORMERS

An English special. April 10, says: ’Tha ,’oreman of the work In the Patton tunnel has placed an embargo upon the telling of tnrrilous stories ortho use of intoxicants imong hissubordinates.and the position of Lhe men is so dangerous that his wishes ire cheerfully respected". Both ends of the funnel are well protected with vitrified brick arches, but the workmen have now reached the most dangerous point. Timbers eight feet long and twelve inches square, set upon a solid foundation, spreading at the ends like a fan, until they ire close together, now support the mass of earth. These timbers crack like rifle shots under the tremendous strain. The work will be finished by July 4, if no untoward accident occurs.

NEW GOLD FIELD IN MONTANA.

For a year past miners have been at work in the Little Rockies, southeast of Harlem, Mont., with results most satisfactory, as is evidenced by recent shipments of over 550,000 o f free milling gold ire to Great Falls for treatment. Mines m the belts or mineral zones been jpened up—the Gold Bug and Hawkeye—»ach series yielding rock bearing gold and lilver, assays running as high as ?40 a ton In gold. Anew town named Sandusky has been laid out, and already contains twenty business houses. Experienced men are of the opinion tliat tlie new mines will develop into one of the finest gold camps in Montana.

BOSSES MUST “SET ’EM UP.”

At Omaha the journeymen brewershave been on a strike. An attempt was made, Wednesday, to settle the differences. All the boss brewers of the city met and drew up a contract to be signed by the union. Tills contract proved satisfactory, except ane clause, which provided that workmen bo furnished beer at 9, 11,12,2,4 ai.d 6 o’clock. The workrijftn refused to sign nnless the clause was changed to free beer every hour. The workmen in every Jorowery in the city are out.

GOT EVEN WITH JUDAS

A Greek church at Youngstown, Ohio, celebrated Easter by crucifying Judas Iscariot in effigy, afterward shooting firecrackers at the effigy and then burning jt. Dr. M. L. Hall and Miss Ella Parrett, of Newport, havo been united in m&rrjago sfter a courtship of twenty years. The much dreaded army worm has mada Its appearance (n parts of Kentucky.

THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.

Unconfirmed Report* of an Important Rebel Victory. A Tampa, F!a„ special, AprillQ, says: Late reports from Havana assert that the Santiago with more than 300 wounded Spanish soldiers. They -were taken to the hospitals ther<Lbecause-the- hospitals at Santiago are crowded. A letter from Santiago mentions a battle at Trocones, near the Canto river, in which;-the Spanish General Salcena, with 1,000 men, engaged a band of revolutionists under Rabi, about March 26. The Spanish loss was said to be 380, while the Cuban loss was four killed and. thirty -> nine wounded. •The Spanish troops were mostly bays, the letter says, and in- th<i battle pity was taken on many who were I caught and their lives spared. J Cuban society at Tampa held a rousing mass meeting. Wednesday night, in sym-. (lathy with the revolutionary cause. A! telegram was read announcing that a bidbattle had been fought and won by tha Cubans at. Ramon de Las Yaguas. A telegram from Cuban sources confirms Guillermo's death, The program continued until midnight. It was the largest meeting ever held in Tanqia, and has created fresh interest in the cause.

TERMS OF PEACE.

They Will Ro Very Burdensome on China. A Washington special, April 11, says: An authoritative statement of the terms )f peace negotiated between Japan China has been secured from official sources. They are as follows1. Independence of Korea. 2. Permanent cession of the island of Formosa to Japan. 3. Indemnity of 330,003,000 taels (Chinese, co_inworth SL33.L. 4. Permanent occupation of Port Arthur and contiguous territory. 5. A new Japan-Chinese treaty opening up the interior of China to commerce. The actual value of the money indemnity is estimated at $220,00>.000. The fifth term opens up all the Chinese rivers to trade. '

CAN’T STAND IT.

China Wilt Ask European Powers to lo- ' terse e. A St. Petersburg cable, April 12, says: China, considering it " impossible for hoi to accept the Japanese conditions for peace, is sounding Russia and tlie other powers as to whether they will intervene. It is stated on excellent authority that Russia hasdetermined tomakediplomatic apposition to the annexation by Japan of tiny portion of the Asiatic continent. The Russian army and navy in the far east arc being reinforced, with the view of supporting this doctrine. The Russian government has also resolved" not to interfere In Armenia, inorder to have a free hand In the far east.

ADVANCE IN BEEF.

The New York World. April 10, stated that beef was as high in that market as it had been in twenty years. A few retail - Porterhouse steakr®9 ?ents per pound; sirloin, 25c; sirloin roast, 26@28c; round steak, 18c. The retail dealers claimed that the rise was due to a combination among packers. The wholesalers absolutely denied this. H. D. Armour, eastern representative of Armour & Co., Chicago, in an interview, mid: “The public does not know what it is talking about. The advance is simply due to a shortage in the supply of marketable cattle throughout the country, consequent upon an almost complete failure of the corn crop last year throughout the great corn belt of the country, and short crops for a year or two preceding that. It is a fact which few Eastern people understand that good prime beef can anly be made from corn. The still fed animal puts on as much flesh as the cornled, and to the ignorant eye gives promise of making as edible meat, but there doesn’t begin to be the quality to it that corn-fed beef possesses.” The latest, quotations on the New York market for prime native steers is $6.20 to 16.35 per 100 pounds, live weight. A year Mio prime native steers were selling at H. 40 to $4.55.

THE PRESIDENT'S INCOME TAX.

There has been much speculation as to the probable course of the President consenting his own Income tax, the constitution providing that the President’s salary Shall not be diminished during his term ol affice. The matter has been set at rest by tn authoritative announcement, from Private Secretary Thurber, that Mr. Cleveland will not seek to evade the tax ir any way, but will make returns of his ofilcial salary in the District of Columbia Mid his income from other sources in New I’brk. Mr. Cleveland’s Income tax on his Jal arv—sso,ooo less the 14,000 exemptionwill bo 5920. The President, it is underJtood, does not believe that ho is entitled to any exemption because of the constitutional provision referred to.

THE HOLLER FISH LAW.

Attorney-General Ketcham has decldec that the Holler fish law must bo printed with other laws. Ho holds that the Secretary of State has no discretion whatever in regard to publication of laws which have come to him in the form of inrolled acts duly signed by all propel officers. It will be remembered that the Holler law failed to pass the House, yoi received the proper signatures and was mrolled and duly sent to the Secretary of State. The decision of the AttorneyTenoral as to the discretion of the Secretary of State to print the same may b< rood law, but all the attorney-generals this side of Halifax cannot make a law of v measure that failed of passage in one of the Houses of the General Assembly. 1 James Nash, colored, of Anderson. Righted from a train at Elwood, only tc bo met on the depot platform by a policenan, who told him that negroes were nos Glowed In Elwood, and for him to leave instanter. Nash kept out of the way. until time for departure of the Pan-Handle train, when ho was met by another patrolman, who Informed him that if he did nol eave on the train then on the point of lulling out, be would kill him, and he enforced the order with hi* club. Nash fled to Anderson.

GRADS AND THE TRAMP.

The Famous Editor Had Not Forgotten Hie Old Friend. _LouisvingPost.__ Henry W. Grady, whose pen gave the South new thoughts, and whose silvery eloquence awakened a spirit the sunshine of his philosophy into his everyday life. He was beloved in Atlanta as no man there has ever been. Especially was he the ideal of the poor and humble. Mr. Grady always sympathized with a man that was broke. He had been that way himself, several times. His charity usually kept his pockets empty. One afternoon a type of printer, common enough in the southern country, a few years ago, but since the advent of typesetting machines seldom seen anywhere, went intc the Constitution offiee on a “panhandling” tour. Some of the re. porters and editors contributed tc his relief fund, but most of them didn’t. Finally Mr. Tourist reached Mr, Grady’s desk. “Don’t let me interrupt you, Mr. Grady; just droppedMn to see your co-laborers and yourself—and collect a few bits,” he said. “I am very busy today, and, really, I haven’t a sou, 1 ’ replied Grady, his big, open face beaming-with kindness on bis visitor. “Sorry, very,” said the tramp. “1 wilLseq you late r. ” He did. In half an hour the man camt back. This time he went directly to Mr. Grady’s desk, and laid upoc it a full length “dupe” sheet, upon which the following was printed in four-line pica characters: “Henry W. Grady, To Sam Robinson, Dr. “To express charges on paper,s2.7s;’ “Used to work for you,” f aid Mr. Robinson, as he placed his long, unwashed right index finger on the “dupe” sheet and fondiy disturbed his auburn whiskers with his lefl hand, which was innocent of water ( “Reckon youdisremember Sam Rob inson, eh?” Robinson had changed a great deal. Corn whisky had planted numerous crowsfeet near his eyes and rather demoralized him generally, but his name, manner and peculiai drawl had not changed, and Grady instantly recognized them when they were associated together. Grady remembered, too, that Robinson had lent him $2.75 to get his pauer oui of the express office two years before. ,‘Thought it was you all the time, Sam,” exclaimed Grady, jumping up. “Shake. How are you, anyway?” “Merely so so,” replied Mr. Robinson, “and devilish thirsty.” “Let’s have something. We’ll gel 'the $2.75 at the counting room as we BfO out.” And the great Southern journalist and Sam Robinson, the tramp, went out together. » A few days.later I met Robinson. He looked like another man. He was about Mr. Grady’s size, and the clothes he wore looked very muck like Mr. Grady’s, r

NORTHERN INDIANA FREAKS.

Some Extraordinary Products From Nature's LaboratoriesAlbert Martin, residing near the Fulton county line, in Cass county, has a Plymouth Rock hen which has , not been laying for some time. Re> l cently she went on the nest, and the family was greatly astonished tc discover, when she left it shortlj afterward, that she had a live chick. Only a few bits of broken shell were about the head of the chick, which was still wet. The supposition is that the egg, in some manner retarded in its progress, was held until the germ developed and proceeded to the stage of incubation. So far as known, this is the first case of the kind on record. Another remarkable lusus naturae is that of a pig owned by Frederick Shipman, of Pulaski county, which was born recently with its tail directly in the middle of its forehead and its nostrils in the side of its snout, like a duck. Unfortunately, its mother lay upon it and smothered it the second night after its arrival, or it might have proved a valuable acquisition for some museum. John Wilds, a well-known farmer, who lives north of Logansport, had a lamb, borne by one of his ewes, which weighed at birth almost twenty pounds. The extraordinary size of the animal may«be appreciated from the fact that the ordinary lamb weighs at birth about five or six pounds, while nine or ten pounds is considered quitg remarkable.

Not, So Stupid

Detroit Free Press. “There’s a man to see you, sir,' said the office boy, politely. “Well, you stupid, didn’t I tell yov I wouldn’t see anybody?” “Yes, sir." “Then why did you receive him?" “I told him to wait without, sir." “Without what?” the boss, expecting to crush the boy by hi* chestnut. “Without any chance of seeing vou, sir,” and the boy dodged through the door. A live electric wire in Lexington, Kan., snapped in two and one end trailed in the street. A hog began to inspect it, and tl]C moment its snout came in contact with the win the animal was knocked out. Then another hog, equally curious, waj also fatally shocked. A third hoj touched the wire cautiously and it new sick at home.

AN INDIANA PATRIARCH.

He Fought In the War of 1312 Under General Jackson. A newspaper correspondent travel, ing in Indian territory found a full blooded Cherokee who, according to a.utheutic accounts was 112 .vears old. He was living in a cabin alone. His name is Big Robin. Physically he is vigorous to for one so old, walking three blocks and up a. flight of stairs in Fort Smith, to a photograph gsllery without the slightest indication of fatigue. Big Robin says he don’t know how long ho has been in this country, writes the correspondent, but is sure he has Deen here, more than fifty years. Long ago he had a wife and childrein, but they have beendead so long he has but slight remembrance of them. He has Pne son living who is now a very old nan, but Big Robin refuses to live with him, preferring the solitude of his cabin in the fo/estj where he spends his time bottoming chairs and doing other work of a similar nature for those in the neighborhood. He amuses himself when not otherwise engaged tinging from a well-worn Cherokee hymn-book, which he carries with him it all times, and which he took from ais pocket and held in his hand when he sat for his picture. When questioned as to his early history his memory seemed very deficient, but when asked if he had . iver Deen a warrior he braced up and ‘ displayed much interest. He said that he fought in the war of 1812 under Jen. Jackson, and participated in the battje of the Horseshoe, at which time.; duTwas "a lusty warrior, under the immediate command of" Maj. Ridge, the loted Cherokee. The night before the battle Gen. Jackson was anxious that he hostile Creeks should have no means of retreat in the event of a mccessful storming of their fortificalions on the next morning. 'The Creeks bad wisely provided for this contingency by mooring several hundred 5 noes at the water’s edge in the rear >f their breastworks. Gen. Jackson told the Cherokee chiefs and warriors the necessity of cutting off the means )f escape for the enemy, when Maj. Ridge, Charles Reese and, Big Robin volunteered to swim the river in the night and cut loose the canoes. Accordingly th<-y swam the river with their bowie knives in their teeth, and succeeded in accomplishing their purpose. but not without a fight, as they veto discovered by the Creek Gentries, ivho at once endeavored to destroy them. In a hand-to-hand fight in the water, Maj. Ridge, while swimming, silled a Creek warrior, which Reese ind Big Robin beat off the others, and, the bold swimmers reached the opposite of the river in safety. Maj. Ridge md Charles Reese were the great unjles'of E. C. Boudinot, of this'eity, and. ifter the victory at the battle which followed the daring exploit of the sight, Gen. Jackson presented Reese with a silver-mounted rifle in token ot Ms gallantry on that occasion, which gophy is still in the Rmvlinot family.

GERM THEORY OF DISEASE.

the Position It Occupies and Attention It Is Receiving from Scientific Men. The germ theory of the origin of disease is a subject which is at present attracting the attention of scientific men in all parts of the world. The chief importance of the germ the- ' ory, however, is not that it shows the origin of disease but that it points out the best means to be employed to effect a cure. The germs of disease, from whatever source they come, are lodged and developed in the blood. The blood, of course, by circulating to every part of the body, is sure to scatter disease throughout the system whenever it is impure, the weakest and most susceptible parts being the first to suffer. It is because of scrofulous taints in the blood, for instance, that the skin becomes covered with eruptions. It is Tactic acid in the TlloOd which causes rheumatism, and it is because the blood does not supply proper nourishment to the nerves that people suffer with nervousness. The cure for all these diseases, and of many others, can only be effected by purifying the blood, and absolutely destroying all germs of disease. No intelligent person can doubt that Hood’s Sarsaparilla has actually and permanently cured many thousands of cases of scrofula, rheumatism, nervousness, dyspepsia and other troubles, and, as its proprietors claim, it is all because this medicine purifies the blood. As a matter of fact, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the only reliable blood purifier that is before the public to-day, and persons afflicted with impure blood or any of the great variety of ailments which it causes, will be most certain to find relief and cure in Hood’s Sarsaparilla because It possesses this peculiar power to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, and destroy the germs of disease.

Artemus Practically Jocose.

Payson Tucker Was in his younger jays a companion of Artemus Ward, and tells many a good story about h 1 inHere is one that the railroad manager relateJTrrex-Govcrnor Plsvisled at the Twin Mountain llqusc the other day Artemus was out very la.o one night ind came homo in a driving snow storm. The family liad retired. Artemus went around the house threw mow balls at his brother Gyrus’ winlbw, shouting for him to come down quickly. Cyrus appeared in haste and >tood shivering in his night clothes. ■‘Why don’t you come in, Charles? The loor is open.” “Oh,\” replied Artemus, “I could have gotten in all right I jailed you down because I wanted to tsk you if you really thought it wrong X) keep slaves.’’—Lewistown Journal. Child—“ Uncle Jonas, do you b’lieve In signs?" Rich Uncle —“Why do you ask?” Child—“’Cans') mammar said big ears was a sign of generosity, but you didn't give sie nothin’ fur Christines." IlasN'o ouiuk your retort cut Mr. Chesnut to the quick." “impossible! Bo is a Philadelphian."