Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — Page 3

SAILORS' SEWING MACHINES.

They Are Hand Machines' and Owned by the Men. Visitors on board war vessels in the navy yard will very likely see among the .sailors scattered about the decks smoking, talking, and so on, a sailor at work with a sewing machine. It is a hand machine, and has a pretty heavy base, so that it can be set down on deck and worked eesly without shifting its position. , r The machine is owned oy the man working it. On a big ship like, for example, the battleship Indiana,. carrying a. crew, of'4oo. men or more, there , would probably be found as many as a dozen sewing machines; on a third rate cruiser, a smaller vessel, such, for illustration, as the Detroit, there will be apt to be four or five sewing machines. The machines are oftenest owned by sailmakers and sailmakers’ mates, but they may be owned by sailors; any man on the ship might have a sewing machine if he wanted to. Space IS valuable on a vessel, and so only hand machines are allowed, and to bring a machine aboard permission must be got from the commanding officer. It is not to be supposed that every man in the ship would want a sewing machine; as a matter of fact, comparatively few men do, and those who want to take one aboard are not likely to find any difficulty in the way. A* sailor who has a sewing machine makes and repairs garments for himself and he does work for others for pay. There are not so many sewing machines on the vessel of the new navy as there were on those of the old; the sailor nowadays makes up less of his own outfit than he formerly did; lie draws more completed articles from the Government; but there is st;,ill plenty of work to be done aboard ship with sewing machines, and some money to be made with them yet. Tremendous Exodus to the Klondike. Despite the warnings of those who bare been on the spot, and predict suffering in the Klondike region, thousands of adventurous Americans are wending their way thitherward. AH' of them should be provided with that medicinal safeguard, Hostetter’s Stomach Ritters, which warns and nourishes the system, and prevents malaria, rheumatism, kidney trouble, besides remedying liver complaint. dyspepsia and constipation.

A Seeker for Fame.

Ors. Harube—Zekiel, don’t you want me to git another bottle of them castiron bitters when I go to town for your rheumatix? Mr. Harube—No, I guess I better try something else. They done me a power of good before, but I don’t s’pose they’d print my picter in the paper again.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

How’s This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wkst & Thua x, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldino, Rinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tlie system. Testimonials sent free. I’rtce 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.

Sweet Thing.

Mr. Wallace (Impressively)—Ah, here Is another story of a man who killed himself his home was pyMrs. Wallace (sweetly)—And did that make his home happy, or does the paper say?—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Had to Show Her Dresses.

When Sarah Bernhardt went to Vienna she was compelled before playing to appear before the official judges in al the dresses she was to wear In the plays produced in the Austrian capital. Eighty-six miles shortest to New Orleans, 109 miles shortest to Florida — Queen and Crescent Route from Cincinnhti. Cynic—A man who is never happy unless he is very unhappy. Solid daily trains to Jacksonville, 24 hours from Cincinnati. Queen and Crescent Route.

BEWARE OF MORPHINE. Mrs. Pinkham Asks Women to Seek Permanent<L3Klg3f Cures and Not Mere Temporary Belief From Pain. ____ " Special forms of suffering lead many a | V. woman to acquire the morphine habit.ipWEay [ \ One of these forms of suffering is a duH,K&3yjT \ /V'A -*■ A. persistent pain in the side, accompanied by k/sHf \ Ik I/Z jgg heat and throbbing. There is disincline-BSt I tion to work, because work only increases ESK, the pain. This is only one symptom of a chain of / IS troubles; she has others she cannot beer to confide to her physician, for fear of M an examination, the terror of all sensitive, W taodest women. J H The physician, meantime, knoWs her condition, but I I \ cannot combat her shrinking terror. He yields to I I \ her supplication for something to relieve the pain. I I Ho gives her a few morphine tablets, with very I ] I \ grave caution as to their woman 1 Sho l I 111 thinks morphine will help her'right along ; she be- I I 1 comes its slave 1 , ’ 1 |I L A wise and a generous physician had such a case ; * j'X.v he told his patient he could do nothing for her, as ’ X; she was too nervous to undergo an a friend. She said to her, “ Don’t give yourself up; just go to the nearest druggist’s and buy a bottle of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will build you up. You will begin to feel better with the first bottle." She did so, and after the fifth bottle her health was re-established. Here is her own letter about it: “ I was very miserable ; was so weak that I could hardly r■ >around the bouse, could not do any work without, feel- / ing tired out. My monthly periods had stopped and I was v so tired and nervous all of the time. I was troubled very SHIP -A much with falling of the womb and bearing-down pains. A friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege--J table Compound; I have taken five bottles, and think it is L the best medicine I QVer used. Now I can work, and feel myself. I. used to be troubled greatly with head, but I have bad no bad headaches or palpi/V \ \ tafion of the heart, womb trouble or bearing-down X pains, since I commenced to take Mrs. Pinkham's medicine. I'gladJy recommend the Vegetable Com- '''* pound to every suffering woman. The use of one bottle wHI prove what it can do."—Mb*. Duct Piaiut, Derby Center, VL

Farmer's Handy Feed Cooker.

We desire to call our readers’ attention to the Farmer’s Handy Feed Cooker, which is sold at the low price of $12.50 for 50-gallon capacity.

By feeding poultry and stock with cooked food during the. .winter months, at least one-third of the food is saved; also having stock in a hbalthy condition, preventing hog cholera among your hogs, and insuring the hens laying freely during the winter months when eggs are always wanted at high prices. Tills Cooker will pay for Itself in one week’s time and is without doubt thebest and cheapest on the market—just what its name Implies, a Farmers Handy Feed Cooker. Upon application to the Empire Manufacturing Co., 014 H street, Quincy, 111., a catalogue, giving a full description, may be obtained. They are made in all sizes.

Swiss Wine Storage.

A “bottle-lake” is the most concise term that can be used to describe the new subterranean tank which the ItaliamSwiss colony has. just completed at Asti, for storing half a million gallons of wine. ’First an excavation was made in a rocky hillside in the rear of the winery. Next a wall of concrete,., two feet in thickness, was put in the floor and sides, and built into the cover, the latter being supported by fifteen steel girders. Next the entire surface was covered with a lining of pure cement, and finally this was glazed to the impermeability of glass. The whole has been buried beneath three feet of earth, and soon grass will grow above the wine lake. The cement wine tank is one hundred and four feet long, thirtyfour feet wide and twenty-four feet high. The contents may be drawn off by gravitation. There are several advantages to be derived from the construction of the concrete and cement cistern. One of these it is expected will be that the wine will be maintained at an even, cool temperature. * Another is.the equal blending of five hundred thousand gallons of wine at one time. A third is the saving in insurance. This is calculated at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which in five years would repay the cost of construction. *

It Keeps the Feet Dry and Warm

And is the only cure for Chilblains, Frost Bites, Damp, Sweating Feet, Corns nud Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Useful as a Reference.

Timkins—Hello, Simkins! -What are you doing with that big book under your arm? Simkins—Oh, that’s an unabridged dictionary I’m taking home. A young lauy from Boston is to be the guest of my sister for a couple of weeks.” New line to Tampa via Queen and Crescent Route from Cincinnati, 34 hours, through Pullmans. Mulhall, the noted statistician, spent over forty years in accumulating the material for his one volume of statistics.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money IT It fails to euro. 25c. The life of Murillo lasted from 1618 to 1682, but most of his great paintings were executed in less than ten years. New Orleans limited, Queen and Crescent Route. Only 24 hours from Cincinnati to the Gulf.

RUSSIA MAKES A GRAB

DEFIES ENGLAND BY SEIZING MORE CHINESE TERRITORY. Czar Holding Kin-Chan—Occupies the Strategic Point in the Gulf of DaoTong—Control of Manchuria aa Well aa of Corea. Ominous Move Toward Pekin. Russia has made another grab of Chinese territory, and evidently is intent upon forcing the hand of Great Britain in regard to partition. News comes that the czar’s forces have occupied Kin-Ghau, lying north k of Port Arthur. This places them a little nearer Pekin and gives them command of another important strategic position in the Gulf of Lau-Tung. The incident has intensified the interest in oriental affairs, and is taken to mean that the czar is intrenching himself in the flowery kingdom. It is also taken as signifying that an understanding exists with Germany and possibly with France. Kin-Chan is an important walled city (not an open port) at the head of the gulf of Lau Tung, and it commands the mouth of the river Yaloo, where the great naval battle between the Japanese and Chinese was fought, and the other important rivers which flow into the gulf. It is about equidistant between the mouth of the Yaloo river and the terminus of the great wall of China. It commands the railway system recently constructed from TienTsin to the capital of Manchuria, and is of pre-eminent importance as a strategic poshfion. Trie seizure shows that Russia has practically taken possession of Corea, Manchuria and the gulf of Lau Tung, and possesses a significance which wffl cause consternation among the diplomats of the old world. Its situation is such that its

SEIZURE OF CHINA BY THE POWERS.

Russia has occupied Kln-Chau. In addition to I’oit Arthur, of which she took possession a few days ago. Emperor William of Germany some time ago seized Klao-Chou. ostensibly to compel payment for Ire murder of German missionaries. Chemulpo, Corea, is the port before which Eugand is said to ha. e made a naval demonstration.

possession practically places Russia in a position to defy the world. The struggle for supremacy in the far East seems to have begun in earnest. Since the kaiser made his bold grab for foothold at Kiao-Chou all Europe has awakened suddenly to the consciousness that no time is to be lost. Heretofore the powers have been comparatively timid in their encroachments, postponing the day of final reckoning and trusting to the march of events to fix the moment when the inevitable foray upon the orient must be made. The aggressions of Japan and Russia quickened the process. Wilhelm’s action has given it another powerful impetus. Apparently every diplomat in Europe has now been seized with the apprehension that unless something is done immediately the chances for securing strong positions in the far East will all have been swept off the international bargain counter. If the reports from Chemulpo are accurate Great Britain has now found it necessary to say a word in its own behalf, and, while attention has been concentrated on the Chinese coast, has played a trump card at Corea. Its pretext for entering the field at this point is plausible. Since the war between Japan and China, Corea has been more or less amenable to the influences of all the interested European powers. China having lost its nominal suzerainty, Japan was forced by Russia to desist from spoliation on its own account, and the Russian influence lias been predominant The British consul finally

PORT ARTHUR, NAVAL STATION SEIZED BY THE CZAR.

has been moved to protest to the Corean Government against the removal of a British official and the substitution of a Russian—a maneuver threatening to put the Corean finances under the administration of the Russian minister. The consul's protest has been ignored, and the appearntfCe of British warships off Chemulpo is merely a demonstration that Great Britain means to make the protest emphatic. That very grave complications are likely to ensue—if not now, at some time in the not remote future —is evident.

GOOD OUTLOOK FOR COLONY.

Commander Booth-Tucker Pleased with Prospects at oledud. Commander Booth-Tucker has gone from New York to California to complete the work of founding the first of the salvation army colonies in this country at Soledad, near Monterey. Most of the cottages have already been built and the work of cultivation is well under way. No families have yet been installed on the farm of MX) or more acres, but numerous applicants are ready to start the moment Commander Bootb-Tuckcr reaches San Francisco. The commander said that there whs no doubt but the experiment would prove a great success. Claus Spreckels, he said, is erecting a million-dollar beet sugar factory in the immediate neighborhood, which will be able to consume all that this firm can produce und as many more f.trm aas they may care to start in the neighborhood. t .

REPORT ON RAILWAYS.

Statistician Adams Gives Out Figures for Twelve Months.? Henry C. Adams; statistician of the interstate commerce commission, has issued the ninth annual report of railway statistics tn the United States. It covers the year which ended Jnne 30,1896. At the date on which the report ended there were 151 roads in the hands of receivers, being a decrease of 18 as compared with the corresponding-date in the previous year. During the year covered In the report 48 roads were taken out of the hands of the receivers, while 30 others were placed in the hands of receivers. The length of operated mileage in the hands of receivers June 30,1896, was 30,475.39 miles. The operated mileage in the hands of receivers June 30,1895, was 37,855.80 miles. The capital stock represented by the railways in the hands of receivers June 30, 1896, was $742,597,698, and the funded debt $999,733,766. These figures, compared with th ecorresponding figures for the previous year, show a decrease of $183,075,766 in capital stock and $319,561,447 in funded debt At the date on which the report closed the aggregate mileage was 182,776.63 miles, being an increase of 2,119.16, as compared with the previous year. This shows a percentage increase during the year covered by the report of 1.17. The per cent of increase for the previous year was 1.09, and for the year ending June 30, 1894, it was 1.27. A comparison of this increase in mileage with the increase for the years 1889 and 1890, when the length of line was extended about 7,000 and 6,000 miles, respectively, enables one to appreciate the extent to which railway construction during the last few years has fallen off. The statement pertains to single track mileage. The total number of railway corporations June 30, 1896, to be accounted for by the statistics of railways in the United States, was 1,985. Of this number 1,008

maintain operating accounts and render operating reports. Qf the railways rendering operating reports 782 are independent operating roads and 226 are classed as subsidiary roads which maintain operating accounts. The number of independent roads reported as not operating during the year covered by this report was 67. The number of roads which rendered financial reports during the year was 796, of which 324 received a fixed money rental. V

STARVATION IN CUBA.

Thousands Dying of Hanger-Food and Clothing Needed. The most profound distress prevails among many thousands of people in Cuba. Starvation not only impends but is an actual fact. The President has been informed of the facts from sources whose credibility cannot be doubted. He has gone to the length of his constitutional power in calling the state of affairs to the attention of the American people. The StAe Department has used all of its authority to mitigate the conditions, there, and the letter to the public sent out by Secretary Sherman the day before Christmas pointed out the way to further alleviate the miserable condition of the recoucentrados. Monday the sum of $5,000 was received by Assistant Secretary Day from certain charitably disposed persons whose names nre not and this sum was immediately remitted by telegraph to Consul

General Ix>e for disbursement among the more pressing cases.

HE HAS NOT RESIGNED.

Rumors Regarding Secretary Gage Are Without Foundation. A Washington dispatch snys that Secretary Gage hits no intention of resigning from the cabinet. The report that he had formally tendered his resignation grew out of an incident at the cabinet meeting last Friday. The subject of the Wolcott commission wr.a under discussion, and n reference was made to published reports that Senator Wolcott hud criticised Secretary Gage. Suddenly the Secretary turned to the President and remarked: “If my position embarrasses the administration in the smallest degree, Mr. President, I will cheerfully resign and relieve you.’’ The President took occasion to reassure Secretary Gage. The incident was pot regarded seriously by the cabinet. Nothing more will come of it. The Secretary stated afterward to friends that he had no idea his position embarrassed the President, but he wanted to be clear on that point. The Secretary thinks Senator Wolcott’s feelings toward him have been misstated. The Union Pacific Hallway baa reduced the time from five to four days a week in the shops at Idiramie, Wyo., and cut salaries 30 per cent. The men get a twenty days* holidsy lay off. Business on the road has fallen off 40 per cent.

Eat that You May Sleep.

j_ The old condition that to-eat-a'bytblng just before going to bed is sure to produce Indigestion and render sleep impossible is now happily exploded, says the Philadelphia Times. Something of a light, palatable nature In the stomach is one of the best aids to quietudg and rest. Some physicians have declared, indeed, that a good deal of the prevalent insomnia is the result of an unconscious craving of the stomach for food in persons who have been unduly frightened by the opinion that they must not eat before going to bed, or who have, like many nervous women, been keeping themselves in a state of semi-starva-tion. Nothing is more agreeable on retiring for the night than to take a bowl of hot broth, like oatmeal gruel or clam soup. This Is especially the case on cold winter nights, when the stomach craves warmth as much as any cither part of the body. Even a glass of hot milk is grateful to the palate on such occasions.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children nay drink without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha and Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. . Onefourth of the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package, sold by all grocers.

A Search Watchman.

Searchlights are now used to illuminate at night the grounds of the Jersey State prison to prevent the Escape of prisoners. It is reported to have been effective in preventing the escape of prisoners In severtl Instances.

Do You Dance To-Night?

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Lovesick, Perhaps.

She —I noticed Dr. Singleton calling at the house of that young widow almost every day. She must be pretty sick. He—Not sick; only pretty. An ordinance in Newborn, N. C., prohibits any one, proprietors and employes included, from going in or out of a place of business between Saturday midnight and Sunday midnight.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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