Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — Page 7

Left Destitute!

Not of worldly goods, but of all earthly comfort, la the poor wretch tormented by malaria. The fell scourge Is, however, shorn of Its thong In advance by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, its only sore preventive and remedy. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, rheumatism, nervousness and kidney complaints are also among the bodily afflictions which this beneficent medicine overcomes with certainty. Use It systematically.

Cider Drinkers in Maine.

The abundance of water this summer has not caused any decrease in the rural consumption of old cider.'The abundance of apples last fall put cider barrels at a premium. Many farmers declare that two barrels of cider are as much help as an extra man in haying time. Up in Canaan one man is said to have drunk five barrels since last fall, but he promptly takes a back seat when a Cornville citizen asserts he has consumed eight barrels in the same time—Augusta Journal. Great mischiefs happen more often from folly, meanness and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Scrofula Cured Face and Head Covered with Soree, but Hood’s Has Cured Them. “My face and head were a mass of sores, but since taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla these sores have all disappeared. 1 believe Hood’s Sarsaparilla has no equal for scrofula.’’ IDA A. WEAVER, Palermo, 111. Get only Hood’s because HOOd’S Ba parma Is the best—ln fact, the One True Blood Purifier. Hood *s Pills I CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO NEBRASKA! September7,2l. Octobers, 19: [ On these dates round-trip ■■ JB ■ ■—' ' tickets,good for 21 days, will njALaff ' i be sold by all Burlington p M 1 1 Route agents and by those ff"' ' [of many eastern railroads at pt us gz.oo. ' i The undersigned will send you free on appll- 1 i cation a handsome illustrated pamphlet 1 i describing Nebraska, with a large sectional 1 i map of the State. ' A Dry, Healthy Climate. A Soil Unsurpassed for Richness, easy to cultivate, and yielding ; all varieties of crops. ] That is what Nebraska offers to the home-! I seeker. Ask your nearest ticket agent about, J the cheap rates, or write to P. B. Eustis, I General Passenger Agent, C. B. & Q. R. R.,, E Chicago, 111. WIMMSMSMMmiMHSM' I SLICKER I WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a f or rubber coat. If you want a coati that will keep you dry in the hardest storm buy the Fish Brandl Wl, Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to NAME ON A POSTAL GWD (AND WE WILL SEND YOU OUR 136 PAGB' ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE ■— Whesilr Repeating Arms Co. ISOWINCHESTBIIiNVe , NEW HAVEN, GmN . WAGON A better Beale for less money than fig H I ■ has ever been offer- V I ■ fll I A. w. .•..fcHSLj) UhLLU Binghamton, N. Y. " ■■ B4A Day—" Either sex”—selling Froien Perfumes, jh ll I Everlasting Ino boxes Agents 25c. CH ICAGO U 111 NOVELTY CO., 885 Lake st, Chicago, ill.

AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARB ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. X DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER’S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now y/7‘/> < zz *** on ’ ever V bear the facsimile signature of C£s£/x J&cc&U wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER’S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought /'~p y/f*, on th* and has the signature of wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except ’The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Pletcher is President. zz . March 8, 1897: Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought" Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. nu««ir»«a W.HUIT, uvNutrn.

You Have Waited for This.

There an many people who would be glad to abandon the habit of drinking coffee if they could only find a substitute for it. That substitute is Graln-O, made from pure grains and a beverage in every way preferable to coffee. Graln-O is not a stimulant—it is something better. It is cheering, nutritious and strengthening. In other words it is a food-drink, as coffee is not It is acceptable to the most delicate stomach, and agrees with confirmed dyspeptics. Unlike coffee Graln-O produce# no nervous action. It never Interferes with sleep. As for the flavor of Gralifc-O, lieople who use it say that after using it a week or two they like its taste better than that of coffee. Grain-0 is sold by all grocers at 15c. and 25c. per package. Try it

Cowboys' Day in Texas.

The old-fashioned Cowboy bad his day at Seymour, Texas, a few days ago. Several hundred ex-cow punchers, the remnant of the men who filled the history of the Southwest with tales of desperate shooting and hard riding, gathered In their picturesque ranching garb, lariat on pommel and six-shooters on hip, to attend the reunion of the Association of Cowboys. Five hundred unbroken broncos were brought.Jn for the visitors to show their old-time prowess on, and the sight attracted 10,000 spectators from all over Northwestern Texas. The “old-timers” appeared in full frontier regalia, and the opening parade was one of the most curious ever seen in the West. It was a typical plainsman’s procession, and every feature of life on the plajns was represented. A barbecue dinner, served to thousands a live oak grove, followed the parade. Afterward there was a special parade of 400 Comanche Indians in full tribal costume, including blankets, pipes, war clubs, etc., which, in the appreciative language of a local correspondent, was “the most successful incident of the kind ever witnessed in Texas.—New York World. The last of the bunch of fifteen 21x26 inch Consolidation locomotives built by the Pittsburg Locomotive Works for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have been delivered and are in service on the Second Division between Brunswick and Cumberland. These locomotives excite very favorable comment by reason of their general design, excellent workmanship and efficient service and are further evidence of the great advance that is being made by the B. &O. in its motive power. Thir-ty-five (35) of this type of locomotives have been placed on the Second Division during the past year, and with the reduction in grades and in the increase in power the number of cars per train has been increased fully 40 per cent,

Glass Eye for a Tiger.

A tiger with a glass eye Is at present in the menagerie at Stuttgart. A serious affection of the muscles caused the beast to lose the sight of one eye. As the public didn’t appreciate a oneeyed tiger, the beast was put Undei cocaine, and the useless optic removed. He was measured for a new eye, which had to be made with a special degree of ferocity. For the first week he tried to rub it out, but he now rests contented as the only wild animal with a glass eye. &

A Fatal Interruption.

Pruyn—Did you ever really know a man to be cured of a disease by a patent medicine? Fields—Well, I can’t ezactly say’s I ever did. I knowed one man t’ take It reg’lar fourteen years, an’ et mought o’ cured him, but jess then th’ goldurned patent expired!

Cleaning and Dyeing.

Ladies and Gents’ Clothing beautifully cleaned and dyed at reasonable prices. Send postal card for price listand informs tion. Merchants’ Dyeing Co., Chicago,lll. A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whiskey, which retails for sl6. Out of this the Government gets $3, the railroads sl, the manufacturer $4, the vender $7, the farmer 40 cents and th» drunkard gets the delirium tremens.

Hall's Catarrh Cure. Is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. The British empire has an area of 11,400,000 square miles and a population of 400,000,000. The British empire is six times as extensive as that of ancient Rome iu its palmiest days. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.—Swift.

DEATH IN A THEATER

FIVE KILLED IN A CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE. Ceiling Falls in Robinson's Opera House and Wild Panic Follows— Frenzied Spectators Rush Frantically for the Exits-Children Injured. Hugh Roof Truss Falls. The falling of the ceiling in Robinson’s opera house-Friday evening gave Cincinnati almost a repetition of the horrible accident of ’76, when the cry of fire in the same opera house caused a stampede in the audience and over 100 persons were crushed to death. Friday evening the Holden Brothers Comedy Company was producing “Dangers of a Great City,” and the curtain had just been rung up on the second act, when there was an ominous cracking heard all over the house. A moment later the house was iu total darkness and 200 persons who had been seated in the orchestra chairs were submerged in a mass of plaster and fallen timbers. The list at the hospital shows five dead nnd twenty-six more or less seriously injured. In addition tn these n large number, probably twenty-five or thirty, were so slightly injured as to be able to walk home. The ceiling of the theater was in the shape of a dome, which was formed by rafters rising from walls of the theater and joined in the center of the ceiling by a circular bar of iron. This bar was fastened to the roof of the house by iron rafters, the whole forming the inside shell of the theater. This whole mass was precipitated upon the heads of the 200 spectators. The preliminary cracking and a slight shower of loose plaster gave a short warning, being enough, however, to enable many to get under the seats and thus save themselves. Trampled Upon in the Rush. The gallery, balcony and dress circle were untouched, but the occupants of these, fearing that the worst was yet to come, rushed from the building, and many were crushed and trampled upon as they attempted to get out. Those who escaped severe injury in the orchestra made a rush for the stage, which soon became a mass of struggling humanity, entangled in the ropes and stays of the scenery, which had fallen upon the stage. The cries of those trying to escape and the moans and prayers of the injured were Heartrending. The actors fled from the theater in their stage clothes and escaped injury. All the lights in the theater were extinguished by the breaking of the main electric wire. In five minutes the patrol wagons and as many fire engines and ladder companies were surrounding the theater and a howling mob was rushing about interfering with the work of rescue. While the excitement was at its height and men were cursing and women screaming in their frantic endeavor to escape there came another crash. It was the entire ceiling tearing away from the rafters and tumbling down upon the masses of struggling humanity. It sounded like a terrible whirlwind. The noise was heard for a square around, and hundreds rushed to the front of the theater, but were met 1 and driven back across, the street by the I streams of people rushing from the in--1 side. Hundreds were crushed under foot. Cause of the Disaster. Among the first who entered the building after the dome had fallen was President George W. Rapp of the Cincinnati Chapter, American Institute of Architects. “It was not that dome,” said he, pointing to the huge heap in the center of the floor, “that caused the trouble. The fault ; lies with the roof trusses. The house i has been built more than twenty-five years and the wood has shrunk until the bolts and nails afforded the smallest possible security. One of these trusses had rotted away from its fastenings; it has parted and thrown the two sections down, and they in their descent pulled the dome with them.” The damage to the structure was nothing at all to the stage, comparatively little to the gallery, which suffered most, almost nothing to the dress circle and much less than one would think from the debris scattered through the parquet where the mam truss landed. The truss rested in the parquet very much in the shape of a capital letter “V.” The wonder is that so few were hurt and of the few hurt so many escaped with slight injuries.

FUMIGATING THE MAIL.

That Coming from Yellow Fever Districts Is All Disinfected. All the mail from the fever-infected districts is perforated and disinfected by a corps of mail clerks. Armed with paddles studded with short, sharp nails they perforate all letters, papers and packages.

PADDLING LETTERS.

When the mail is thoroughly paddled the car is closed and the* fumigating machine lighted. This is allowed to burn for an hour or so, and then the mail is fit to be distributed. The orders are explicit and photographs going through the Southern mails at this time are likely to turn up with the eyes missing. The jury in the case of Valet Albert V. Sugden, charged with steeling jewelry and bric-a-brac from the house of Millionaire Richard T. Wilson in New York, brought in a verdict of guilty of grand larceny in the second degree and strongly recommended Sugden to the mercy of the court. All the salt furnaces on both Afees of the Ohio River near Point Pleasant, W. Va., are closed owing to the rine in the price of coal. They are compelled to pay $224 per 100 bushels and say they catsnot afford thia.

How Do Yom Wear Your Hat? “You can generally tell a man’s character from the way he wears his hat,” a physiognomist remarked the other day. “Indeed, tills is cne of the most reliable guides for the amateur character reader that 1 know. “Take the mat who blusters. He stands with his feet apart; wears his clothes at least a couple of sizes too large for him; and his hat stands bolt upright on his head, firm and precise, in a way that reminds you of a general in command. “The person who wears his hat deep down over bis eyes—on the bridge of bls nose, in fact—is given to melancholy, and is Inclined to be despondent about the future. But he is also quick at observation, and unselfish. The hat worn at the back of the head denotes Independence of a certain obstinate nature, self-esteem, purse-pride. “Some originality is expressed in the habit of wearing the headgear slightly to one side, though the Inclination to right or left should not be too strongly marked. If very noticeable, you have the ‘waggish’ individual. A man with a thoughtful, poetical temperament seldom looks well in a hat, being always seen at his best bareheaded; while, curiously enough, criminals of nearly all classes quite reverse this order of things.”—Answers.

How to Carry a Revolver.

A. S. Mason was before Judge Edison this morning charged with carrying a concealed Weapon. According to Mason’s story he was taking the weapon, a revolver, home to be cleaned. He started with it in his hand, but, seeing Officer McLennan approaching, he thought he had better put it in his pocket, and did so. This was just what Mason should not have done, and it proved his undoing, and the officer took him in tow. Mason was very much mortified at being arrested and was anxious to right himself in the eyes of the law. “If you say so, Judge, I’ll take this here gun and throw it in the lake,” he remarked to the court. “What do you think I’d better fine you to make it even?” asked the court. “Well, don’t strike me too hard, Judge, that’s all I’ve got to say,” replied the prisoner. “Well, I’ll suspend sentence this time,” said the court. “In future, when you have a revolver to take home, carry it in your hand, wear it on your watch chain or send it home on a dray.”—Duluth Herald.

Quien Sabe?

Quien Sabe—who knows—ls a phrase in very common use among the Spaniards, and helps over many, many difficulties. It is expressive. What the weather may be the coming winter, who knows? It may be snowy, wet, stormy, cold, freezing, and full of sick-’ ness and pain, who knows? Some of us to-day, hale and hearty, may He on beds of torture or hobble about on crutches, who knows? Before the autumn merges Into winter many may have symptoms of approaching trouble, of the old rheumatism coming on, or of first attacks begun; who knows? Who knows? That’s a conundrum. But. there is one thing everybody knows, the best thing to do is to be ready for the weather coming and to take hold of what is. Everybody knows what is best. With St. Jacobs Oil in the house, everybody knows they have a sure cure for rheumatism, acute or chronic. It is likewise known that in any stage of it the great remedy does its work of cure perfectly. If we suffer we need not ask who knows, when it is so well known what Is best.

Norse Sailor Proves a Hero.

The wrecking of the schooner Hueneme off Unalaska Island discovered a real hero in the person of Charles Neilson, a Norse sailor. Amid a dense fog in a southeast gale which threw sea spray over the topmasts the vessel struck a hidden rock. The deckhouses were swept away, and Capt. Peterson and his men clung to the rigging. It seemed that every sea would dash them to death, when the captain appealed: “Who will venture ashore?” ; “I will!” Neilson shouted, and with the lifeline about his waist he struck out for shore. It was some time before he was heard from, and the men on the wreck were bewailing his fate, when a shout told them of Neilson’s safety. To the lifeline a hawser was tied, and in due time Neilson pulled his nine shipwrecked companions ashore. — Chicago Record.

Properly Expressed.

The ideal Boston small boy—who exists chiefly in the humorous periodicals—is trained from his earliest years to habits of accurate statement Puck represents a man as asking a boy who was fishing not far from Boston: “Are the fish biting well to-day, sonny?” “The fish do not bite, sir,” replied the boy, respectfully. “They attempt to swallow the bait, when the hook embeds itself in the mouth. But the fish are unusually wary to-day, sir.”

There Is a Class of People

Who are injured by the use of coSee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coSee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coSee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 18c and 25c per package.

Expensive Metals.

Gallium is quoted at $3,000 per ounce, geranium $1,125 per ounce, rhodium sll2 per ounce, ruthenium S9O, iridium $37, osmium $26, palladium $24, and cast iron only $0.000375 per ounce. We will forfeit SI,OOO if any of our published testimonials are proven to be not genuine. THE PISO CO.. Warren. Pa. Dr. Ramachandravya, a converted Hindoo priest, is preaching In Tremont Temple, Boston, and la attracting tonslderable attention.

To be popular with some people all that Is necessary is to say “Thank you” in a very loud voice. FITS Permanently Cared. No Ml or nerroiHnre* ■nor am use of Dr. KUnel Great Nerve Bo-

WOMEN DO NOT TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH. Modest Women Evade Certain Questions When Asked by a Mato Physician, but Write Freely to Mrs. Pinkham. An eminent physician says that “Women are not truthful, they will Ito to their physicians.” This statement should be qualified; women do tell the truth, but not the whole truth, to a male physician, but this is only in regard to those painful and troublesome disorders peea RWgSsJI sex. There can be no more terrible ordeal to a delicate, sensitive, refined woman than to be obliged to aaswer certain questions when those questions are I asked, even by her family physician. This is espot the case with unmarried women. This is the reason why thousands and thousands of i women are naw corresponding with Mrs. Pinkhaaa r To this good Woman they can and do give every symptom, sb that she really knows more about the true condition of her patients through her correspondence than the physician who personally questions them. Perfect confidence and .-A WK candor are at once established between Mrs, Pinkham and her patients. Years ago women had no such recourse. Waw Nowadays a modest woman asks help of a ‘ v woman who understands women. If you suffer ML—4 from any form of trouble peculiar to worn on, 1 write at once to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., IAJzIIH And the fact that this great boon which to extended freely to women by Mrs. Pinkham, to appreciated, the thousands of letters which are received by her prove. Many such grateful letters as the following are constantly pouring in* “ I was a sufferer from female weakness for I I ' about a year and a half. I have tried doetom I and patent medicines, but nothing helped me. \ ’I I underwent the horrors of local treatment, but ImY \ \ ■ received no benefit. My ailment was pronounced ■W \ ulceration of the womb. 1 suffered from in* ‘J fW \ \\ tense pains in the womb and ovaries, and the \\ \ \ backache was dreadful. I had leucorrhoea to \ X. \ \ its worst form. Finally I grew so weak I had \ \ 'to keep my bed. The pains were so hard as to \ \ almost cause spasms. When I could endure the \ pain no longer I was given morphine. My memory grew short, and I gave up all hope of ever getting well. Thue I dragged along. At last I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Her answer dame promptly. I read carefully her letter, and concluded to try Lydia E. Pinkhamto Vegetable Compound. After taking two bottles I felt much better; but after using six bottles I was cured. My friends think my cure almost Her noble work is surely a blessingto broken-down women.”—Gbacz B. St IMG* BUBY, Pratt, Kansas. It Was Before the Day of

SAPOLIO They Used to Say “Woman’s Work Is Never Done.” This is the head v * a ear^ne woman. “There are others.” And if the others don’t look cheerful, it’s no wonder. . You’ve C'Vtf \ S ot to hard, if you do your 'jyl i washing and cleaning with soap, I an d y° uSre £ ot to wor k a long 1 time *1 / over it, and you’re wearing things / out with your rubbing. Pearline makes the work easy and quick; saves rubbing. The wonder is that any woman who has to do soap’s hard work can look pleasant Still, some of them do, in spite of it Millions Pearline F I 1 taro recently road of tat sssm where Ripens Tabulee relieved peonle from severe rofforfaT which they experienced from the necessity of living in an impure atmosphere. First, there was a ■mt who tept “««ent lodging-houm in the New York. He found that a Tabula take, now and then kept him from getting sick in that polluted atmosphere. Then there was a man wh» worked in a coal mine in Ohio, where the great distance under the hills made it impossible t. gat purs air, the air being forced to the men by great fans which would sometimes cexxe their mottos am neeount of breaks in the machinery and then the air would become very bad indeed, causing pain* in the head, dininess and Tainting. This man found a Ripan. Tabnle taken at such a time would nenerve him from the pain he had previously experienced. Another miner, well known in Scranton,Fa» suffered from the foul atmosphere he breathedfor so many years in the mines, resuMng there from th* gases and damp. “My stomach suffered most," said fee. Finally he was induced to make trial off Ripans Tabules, and was so much benefited that he now makes a practice of carrying a few of th* magic Txbules in his pocket, to as to be able to swallow one at the first sign of approaching trouble. The fourth case is that of a Philadelphia tailor who had charge of the manufacturing department, an< Svked him to try Ripans Tabules. He did so and the result was that die frtt two TabuleswroMgfr udAHmMidSstiMScchaiife. “I escape all headaches now "he writes, “and no hw hot the room is, one Tabule Joes away with all suffering. I aiways carry some with me for am emergency and can sincerely recommend them.”

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