Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Cause of Holes In Umbrellas. [ARTICLE]

Cause of Holes In Umbrellas.

One of the fruitful causes of holes in the folds of an umbrella Is Improper care when It Is wet. To roll up a wet umbrella Is to invite the dyes to rot it, and one of the banes of the umbrella manufacturer Is loaded dye on silk. Out of 100 samples of silk - bmltted to the writer, not over ten were pure dye, and 50 per cent, of the silk thread submitted was overloaded with dye and would not stand our chemical test., This Is a fruitful cause of trouble in umbrellas, and our concern insists 'i all the sine and silk threads standing a chemical test in this respect. When over-dyed silks are wet and the umbrellas rolled and set away, we find the owners complaining that their umbrellas are cracked in the folds. Fine holes appear and they are apt to return the umbrella to the merchant and claim damage.—Hardware. A glow worm makes light with about one-three-hundredth part of the force used In ordinary artificial light. When men know how to make light as cheap, streets and homes will be as light as day for a mere fraction of what light now costs. Lack of vitality and color-matter in the bulbs causes the hair to fall out and turn gray. We recommend Hall’s Hair Renewer to prevent baldness and grayness. I wonder why it is that a woman never likes to have her husband get chummy with an old bachelor. Two bottles of Fiso’s Cure for Consumption cured me of a bad lung trouble.—Mrs. J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 26, ’95 Make hay while the sun shines, but make haste when it rains. FITS I’ermanen'ly Cured. No fits or nervousness after first oaj’s u:e of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Kostorer. Sendfor FKEE 8>2.00 trial bottle andtreal so. Dr. K H. Blink, Ltd., 931 Aren st. I’hllauelpnia, Pa. Mrs. Winslow's SootHino Srnup for Children teething; sottens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle.

“This talk of these gentlemen •bout prices and accidents and this lecrimination about dead and buried speeches show them to be still groping about among the underbush. while sensible men are standing on the mountain top and beholding the earth to the very horizons edge. The view may not be of the whole round earth, but it is better than the view from the jungle.”—From Speaker Reed's answer to Win. Jennings Bryan.

How are our silver friends explaining the increase in value of cotton crop this year in the face of the fall of silver? Silver has fallen 20 percent, in the past year, while cotton has so much advanced that this year's crop, although very light in quanity, will bring $25,@OO,OOO more to the farmers of the farmers of the South than that of two years'ago. The “explanation” which the silverities apply in ths case of wheat will not do for cotton.

Now’ that the soft-coal strike has been practically settled without bloodshed, it is proper to call attention of those who are scolding about the interference of the courts in matters of this sort to the fact that the use of the injunction has doubtless been very valuable in preventing disturbances. It has saved the effusion as a great deal of blood by preventing the congregation of those whose assemblage would have worked them into a condition almost certain to result, in violence.

“Prior to the passage of the Dingley tariff act we had scenes like those which -preceded the first day of 1879. The offerers of the patent remedy stood by and jeered. They mocked at us when our fear came. But when the due legislation had been had and there was no further change to be looked forward to: when business had reached its sound basis and there was a reasonable chance to calculate the future, there came a repetition of the phenomena of 1879."—Speaker Reed in New York AVorld,

Another proof of the generally improved business conditions is found in the enormous increase in the output of pig-iron. When business generally is good the demand for iron is gbod. It enters into the production of aitides for the farm, for the railroads’, for building, for sea-going vessel.*. ;md aisaost every business enterprise, and has rightly been denominated a business barometer. In October as last year the weekly production of pig-iron in the United States averaged 112.000 tons. The average weekly output for September «jf this year will average about 190,000 tons. That is the difference between protection business and free-trade idleness, protection prosperity and free-trade adversity.

It a very easy thing to denounce as a crime the lynching of the Ripley county desparadoes, last week, and to cry out that the state is disgraced by the action of the lynchers; but what are you going to have peacable and decent people do when such gangs get established in a community as these Levis did in Ripley county and the Renoes in Jackson county, years ago? in Ripley county these Levies had Jjeen robbing, burning, stealing and torturing for thirty years and not a single conviction t'A® the local coarts of any of the

gang in all that time. It was seldom that anyone even dared to testify against them in the courts, and when they did the gang always had friends on the juries enough to render convictions impossible. Of course some of the gang have in times past been convicted of "counterfeiting, but that was in the U. S. courts, and the trials held in places where the influence of the gang was powerless to terrorize or corrupt the juries. But in the commission of crimes of which only the state courts could take cognizance of, these Levies had a complete immunity from punishment, and practically there was nothing left for the honest portion of the community to do. than to follow the example of the vigilance committees of California and other western places, in earlier days, namely to wipe out the lawless element by an act of popular vengeance. It is lamentable that such things must happen, but the thing to do is to so reform the practice of our courts and the police systems of our country communities that the ascendancy of such gangs as the Levies will become, impossible. Denouncing the men who lynched the Levies and making frantic demands for their punishment, will do no good. Plenty of the best people in Jasper county would do as the Ripley county lynchers did, under the same circumstances.