Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

For all kinds of sewing machines, repairing and supplies, call on E. F. Gibson, at Antrim & Dean’s hardware store. Telephone No. 14. wtf. Buy Lime, Hair, Plaster Paris sand, gravel and cement side walks of Rinehart. , wtf. When you want a loan on your farm or town property, call on James H. Chapman. He has unusual facilties for placing loans promptly. Abstracts prepared carefully and promptly. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. Ferguson & Wilson have plenty of money to make allthe loans required in Jasper county. We will give applicant choice from private funds or eastern funds. Don’t forget to call and get our terms. For a first class buggy or carriage give C. A. Roberts your order. All work is warranted and prices to suit thetimes. New Millinery. Latest Fall styles. Cubas in all colors. Dakotas, to suit any cowboy, however particular, and Walking hats in every variety and style. Hundreds of them at Mrs. L. M. Imes. Tennessee Centennial and Inter national Exposition, May Ist to Oct. 31st, 1897, at Nashville, Tenn. Fare for the round trip from Rensselaer only $lO. Tickets on sale daily. W. H. Beam, Agt. Boys you that want a nice buggy for your best girl call and see C. A. Roberts. “Those jobs are butes.’ Cancer positively and permanently cured. No cure —no pay. Address Dr. A. W. Armocost, Brookston, Ind. Now is about the time that you should get your flues cleaned before putting up your stoves and avoid fires. Any one wishing work done see Harry Wiltshire the “chimney sweep.” I have the Studebaker wagon for sale in all styles. C. A. Roberts. Mrs. J. L. Gerrish, Hammond, Ind., says:—“l have been subject to severe headaches for years and have ■ never found anything, to relieve it like Universal Headache Remedy.” For sale by A. F. Long. Universal Laboring Men’s Tonic will give you an appetite It makes rich pure blood. For sale by A. F. Long. Notice the low prices on granite ware at C. A. Lecklider’s. Competition not in it.

BLAINE’S GENEROSITY. How tbe Plumed Kiitjfht Aided President Taylor’s Danirhter. A good story of James G. Blaine is told by a writer in the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The incident related was a magnanimous and clever act of the Maine statesman, when, as speaker of the house, he got through a resolution appropriating $12,000 to the needy widowed daughter of President Zachary Taylor. This lady got as far as Washington on her way to Paris to see a sick daughter, and, being destitute of money, appealed to her only friend at the capital, Gen. Sherman. His purse was always open to the distressed, but he had no funds at all adequate to relieve her necessities. In this emergency he, thought Of BlfUne. The man from Maine entered into the spirit of the occasion as soon as he heard Gen. Sherman’s statement. He called another to the chair, made a five-minutes’ speech that fairly electrified the house, which passed the resolution which Blaine had penned only a moment before. He took the resolution in person .to the senate, where it was also immediately passed, had the president to sign it the next day, and on the following day the beneficiary got the money. Gen. Sherman always insisted that Blaine would have made the grandest actor that ever lived, and in adapting his career to politics, he robbed the stage of a born star. The Sand-Ladened Missouri. Mr. Frank H. Spearman writes in St. Nicholas of the freaks of the Missouri river, his article being entitled “A Shifting Boundary.” Mr. Spearman says: You must know that the real business of the Missouri is to carry the mountain waters east and south into the Gulf of Mexico. But in bounding from side to side of its valley through the tedious centuries, it has twisted and turned so many times that no doubt its head is confused. Carrying the quantity of mud it does, you would hardly expect it to be clear-headed. There is actually so much sand in the water that the fish all have sore eyes; some are totally blind—the saddest-looking creatures you ever caught. A really fastidious trout or bass dropped into the Missouri would hang himself in despair—on a fishhook.

Spiders ■■ Peta. Spiders are not generally popular creatures with either sex. Yet a lady writer affirms that they can be,made the “dearest little pets in the world.” She tells how she collected a common garden spider and kept the sweet lady under a glass tumbler for three weeks. She watched her "building her house of snowy silk” and raising a family, and, says the writer, “she soon learned to take flies from my hand and drink water from a leaf which I gave her fresh every day.” There are, indeed, according to this lady, few things so agreeable as a spider, whether regarded as an architect, a thing of beauty, a slayer of pests or a household pet.