Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — Page 7

WOMEN OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Their Redeem! n< F««tire la a Sense of Absolute PeraaaaA Cleanliness. “The aristocratic Philippine matron ■ and her daughters indulge in no greater boaily exercise, if they can help it, than that required for driving or shopping,” says Charles Bryant Howard, In the Woman’s Home Companion. “But the peasant woman shares her husband’s work, whatever it may be, laboring at the plow behind an ungainly carabao (water-buffalo) in the paddy-field, or helping to pole a huge lorcha, or eocoanut raft, up or down the river, besides attending to her domestic ogres. And I take pleasure in saying that, whatever its proprietor’s rank or station, the native Philippine nlpa hut is Invariably a marvel of neatness and cleanliness as to its interior; far superior in this respect to the average Spanish dwelling-house, be it that of a merchant's clerk or that of the governor general. So far as the latter are concerned, a decent servant-girl, Buch as are employed in America and England, would not be content to remain in one two days. “Hundreds of girls are employed in the great cigar factories; and others in the convents labor to weave the farfamed pina lace of the Philippines, several at a time squatting on the floor around a single frame, picking and manipulating with deft fingers the Infinitesimally delicate fibers. Sometimes they work for months to complete a single mantilla or handkerchief. These native women are rarely employed by the European residents as domestic servants, except in the capacity of lady’s maid or children’s nurse, ana even these positions are often occupied by boys. They are very unreliable, and the utter absence of the sense of gratitude, so characteristic of the entire Philippine race, renders It an almost hopeless and very exasperating task to attempt to train them as servants. Their only redeeming feature is their sense of absolute personal cleanliness, but in spite of this many European women prefer to go to the expense and trouble of Importing a Chinese ama from Hong-Kong or Canton, rather than to Intrust her children to the care of a native girl, although when in her own capacity as a mother the Fllipina, so far as observation goes, leaves nothing to be desired.”

Binder Twine History.

The single strand binder twine, in general use to-day, was the original conception of Mr. William Deering, of the Deering Harvester Co., Chicago. The value of the idea is apparent, since without it the modern twine binder would be impossible. The Deering Harvester Company is the largest manufacturer of binder twine in the world.

One Way of Showing It.

“They say Briggs is a very patriotic man'.” “Did he ever shoulder a gun for his country?” “No; but he wears a Hobson collar, Dewey cuffs and an old glory shirt.”

A Mystery Solved.

He—For some time past I have been thinking She—Oh! I wondered what was the cause of the strange look upon your features. I had never seen it before. We will forfeit SI,OOO if any of our published testimonials are proven to be not genuine. THE PISO CO., Warren, Pa. Johns Hopkins, who died In Baltimore In 1873, was worth $100,000,000.

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CRITICAL PERIODS

In Woman’s Life Are Made Dangerous by Pelvic Catarrh.

MRS. MATHILDE RICHTER.

Mr*. Mathilde Richter, Doniphan, Neb., Bays: “I suffered from catarrh for many years, but since I have been taking Pe-ru-na I feel strong and well. I would advise all people to try Pe-ru-na. As I used Pe-ru-na and Man-a-Iln while I was passing through the change of life, I am positively convinced your beneficial remedies have relieved me from all my 111 b.” Pe-ru-na has raised more women from beds of sickness and set them to work again than any other remedy. Pelvic catarrh is the bane of womankind. Pe-ru-na is the bane of catarrh in all forms and stages. Mrs. Col. Hamilton, Columbus, 0., says: “I recommend Pe-ru-na to women, believing It to be especially beneficial to them.” Send for a free book written by Dr. Hartman, entitled “Health and Beauty." Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O.

Remember that choiera morbus, cholera Infantum, summer complaint, bilious colic, diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all catarrh of the bowels. Catarrh 1b the only correct name for these affect tions. Pe-ru-na Is an absolute specific for these ailments, which are so common in summer. Dr. Hartman, in a practice of over forty years, never lost a single case of cholera infantum, dysentery, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his only ramedy was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring further particulars should send for a free copy of “Summer Catarrh.” Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.

THE ZIONISTIC MOVEMENT,

Whereby the Jew Hopes to Regain the Band of Mia Fathers. “The Jews are developing a scheme that has for its object the purchase of Palestine from the Turk and the founding of a Jewish government in the lamd of their fathers,” writes Edward A. Steiner, in the Woman’s Home Compamion. “Already the movement has become a formidable one in some of the European countries. The leader of this movement is Dr. Theodore Herzl, of Vienna, an author of European reputation, who, unwilling to bear longer the taunts of the anti-Semitic mob of his native city, and unable to erase from his face and heart the marks of his race, has planned this exodus with the view of restoring to his people the land once their own, in which, unmolested, they might live and govern themselves. “An able aid to Dr. Herzl is Rabbi Moheleth, of Russia, one of the noblest and most charitable men, revered for his piety and saintliness, of character. At his word of command the Jews would come oat pf Russia like bees out of a hive. Why should they not be glad ,to leave a country where they have experienced only hatred, shame and cruel oppression? In Germany there are scholarly men yearning to lead their people—not from narrow ghettos and squalid homes, but from the broad streets of Berlin' and from the merchant places of Leipsic and a country of their own government, where they will no longer be the despised and persecuted beings they now are. In Rome, in Venice, and in many other, places In Europe, the exodus fever is spreading and burning in the hearts of the doWhtrodden but hopeful people. “Among the French Max Nordau, the well-known author, is the leader. From Paris, from Marseilles, from Boulogne, the Jews expect to go in large numbers, leaving behind them a country where Justice weeps because she is not only blind but fettered? In our own America the movement has not received such a cordial reception, largely because the need for it is not so apparent here. Though, of course, the American Jews who sympathize with this new exodus do not intend to leave the United States, yet they are encouraging it for the sake of their oppressed brethren all over the world.”

Ladies Can Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Allen’s FootEase, a powder to be shaken into ths shoes. It makes tight«or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures swollen feet, blisters and callous spots. Alien’s FootEase is a certain cure for in-growing nails, sweating, hot, aehing feet. At all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Very Rare.

Adaline—When I marry I shall select a man who resembles an arc light. Mae—Gracious! In what way? Adaline—Not go out at night and nevet smoke.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

Is taken internally. Price 75 cents. ▲ successful* criminal lawyer has to make a great many guilt-edged arguments. Mrs. Wtsatow** aooxiiura Srsor tor Children teetKhf; eetteaa the sums, reauoee inflammation, allaya pain, cure* wind colic. a cents s bottle.

FARM BUILDINGS.

Here's a Farm or Village Dwelling Coatinc 31,800. A most desirable bouse is here described. It is cheap, considering its many advantages and its extreme beauty as an adornment of a rural landscape. It is quite large enough for a family of eight without crowding, and on a pinch considerable room may be found in the attic, if it is enclosed and laid out as it may be. But In our study of this plan we have designed that all of the children shall have the whole of the attic for their part of the dwelling, for study or play, and there the toys will be kept and a baby house put together for them, and the little

FRONT VIEW.

library of lesson and reading books will there be kept. This will be found one of the most valuable means of education for the children, and the mother or the big sister may go up and there make school and amusement for the little ones, where they will be safe, and as happy as the days are long. The ground plan is 32x29 feet inside, not including the verandah. The sizes of the rooms are given on the floor plan, the verandah not being Included. The cellar is 6 feet 6 inches in height, the first story is 9 feet and the second 8 feet 3 inches. The materials are: Cellar, stone below ground, brick or shaped stone above; first story, clapboards; second, square shingles; the hexagonal bottom of the shingle may be preferred by some, but it is really a useless expense. A large pantry is placed between the kitchen and dln-

REAR VIEW.

ing-room, and saves many steps, as a Slide door in the dining-room side opens into the dining-room. ATarge working table and sink are on the outside wall of the kitchen. Doors and a passage way lead from the kitchen to every part of the house, and by a wide, low tread stairway to the upper floor. The plan of the upper floor is not given, but it has four good-sized bedrooms, one at each corner of the house, all well lighted and aired, and provided with closets, and between the two on the kitchen side of the house there are a bathroom, water closet, and washstand. The bath is directly over the kitchen range, by which hot water from the cistern over the back porch may be lifted into the bath tub. Every bedroom has its own closet, and a large store-room may be made under the

PLAN OF MAIN FLOOR.

attic stairs which go up from the vestibule of the bathroom. So much in so little can only be crowded together, as in thts case, with entire convenience and cheapness, by the most careful thought, great mechanical skill and a thorough architectural ability. The pipes in the house are all collected together near the kitchen chimney, and freezing is thus A heater in the kitchen range will supply the heat for the bath room, and a cheap one in the parlor or dining-room, or both, if any Klondike family want to keep a nice warm climate in the house. Any carpenter will be able to make a bill of materials, such as will suit the farmer, who has but six hundred dollars to spend, but in time hopes to be able to finish his house as he may wish. The price mentioned includes everything for a complete house, except the heating apparatus mentioned, which Itself will cost about two hundred dollars, in addition to the sl,800 estimated. Fig. 1 shows the front and side of the bouse. Fig. 2 shows the rear view of it, with that part of it on the right hand side of the kitchen. The large window is that in the kitchen. The smaller ones are those shown in the floor plan, at the top and foot of the stairway, which is thus well lighted. The stairs have low easy treads and are amply wide.

DEVELOPING THE SOUDAN.

The First American Bridge to Span Egyptian Waters. Naturally English engineers are jealous of the success that has been scored by an American firm in securing the

contract for a work that Is destined t< become historical as an Important lin| In the Jong chain of communication be* tween Cairo and the Cape. 4t is, indeed, the only engineering work of magnitude on a railway that stretches 700 miles from Wady Haifa to Khartoum. The idea of giving it a special and appropriate Egyptian design had to be abandoned when English firms wanted months to complete such a structure, while American firms offered to turn out one of their own pattern in at many weeks. Celerity was of the first importance in order that considerable portions of the bridge might lie in place before the floods come down al the beginning of July. Long before this the piers will be ready to receive the superstructure, which has been turned out so rapidly that seven spans, each 150 feet long, have already been landed in Egypt and sent up the Nile. The American firm not being bound down to any special design, has been able to use rollings of a stock pattern which only needed aSfeptidn to the pan tlcular purpose of this bridge. Sec tions of the required length could thut be turned out by the yard, and all that remained to be done was to fit then) lightly together for approval before shipment in parts. The riveting together will be done on the banks oi the Atbara. I Egyptian soldiers and natives have meanwhile been preparing the piers;

CONSTRUCTING THE PIERS.

which are huge cylinders of iron bedded on solid rock, and filled with concrete. This had to be finished while the river was at its lowest, and the rocks showing just above or only a little below its surface. When the waters come down in their rage at flood time even these substantial piers might be carried away without some spanning girders to give them mutual support. Hence the need for haste. Work on the railway extension beyond Atbara river goes on all the while at the rate of 2,000 yards a day, and it will be carried to the Nile banks opposite Khartoum by November. Before then the great bridge with its seven spans, stretching across 1,100 feet of water, will be completed, so that, the whole Soudan railway may be opened (for traffic within fourteen months of the final overthrow of Dervish power.

A Black Turning White.

Two years ago an Austrian merchant, who had been on a business trip to Africa,brought back with him from Egypt Ibual Lacho, a Soudanese negro, aged nineteen years. Speedily acclimated, the black immigrant soon learned the German dialect of the Viennese and surprised them by his clever manners and the elegant dress he displayed in the cases and upon the “promenade.” During the last autumn he became affected by nervous troubles, which a famous neuropathist of Vienna subjected to electrical treatment. Ibual Lacho’s condition began to Improve from day to day, and, strange to relate, in the same proportion as the disease seemed to leave him there disappeared the black dye of his skin. Paler and paler he grew, until, through the stages of Peruvian and Egyptian mummy coloration and the pallid tinge of embalmed beef, he blanched into gaining the true Caucasian complexion. ' Ibual’s doctor explains the discoloration of his patient from a process by which the black pigment In his skin was disintegrated and finally eliminated through electricity. This chief coloring matter, melanin, of pigmentum nigrum, found In the eye, the hair and the skin, contains iron, and strongly reacts upon electric application.—Vienna Fremdenblatt. •

Roller Yachting.

Save during the rainy season Lake Lefroy, In Western Australia, is quite dry. But as the water evaporates as the hot weather approaches a smooth, glassy floor of crystalline salt is deposited. Those living on the shores have found a means of utilizing this. All boats which sail on the lake when possible are, during the dry season, fitted with four wheels, and thus are enabled to continue their travels. As Lake Lefroy has an area of over 100 miles, and the surrounding country is extremely rough, this means a great saving in expense, labor and time. The speed attained by these wheeled yachts is very considerable, though not quite equal to the pace of the ice yachts so popular in Canada.

Lighting Up the Sea.

A new method of illumination on the ocean consists of using a hollow cylinder of steel tubing, charged with calcium carbide. This shell is to be shot from a gun to a distance of two miles. When it strikes the water it generates acetylene gas and gives 1,000-candle power, which burns from the end which floats. This light cannot be extinguished by water.

Demoralization of Madrid.

A correspondent in the Frankfurter Zeitung draws a lurid picture of the increasing demoralization of Madrid. The present population includes, he says, 20,000 professional beggars, the same number of abandoned women, 5,000 thieves and there are hundreds of gambling houses.

Havana Clerks’ Pay.

Clerks in Havana receive from $35 to $65 per month, according to thfiit value, those speaking English commanding the best wages. A suit ofl clothes costs from $25 to SSO, a dress suit aggwhere from S6O to SIOO.

Sherlock Holmen 300 Years Ago.

Dr. John Donne, the famous English divine and poet, who lived in the reign of James 1., was a veritable Sherlock Holmes In bent of mind. One of bls exploits is as follows: He was walking in the churchyard while a grave was being dug, when the sexton cast up a moldering skull. The doctor idly took it up, and in handling it, found a headless nail driven into it. This he managed to take out and .conceal in his handkerchief. It was evident to him that murder had been done. He questioned the sexton and learned that the skull was probably that of a certain man who was the proprietor of a brandy shop, and was a drunkard, being founu dead in bed one morning after a night in which he had drank two quarts of brandy. “Had he a wife?” asked the doctor. “Yes.” “What character does she bear?” “She bore a very good character, only the neighbors gossiped because she married the day after her husband’s funeral. She still lives here.” The doctor soon called on the woman. He asked for and received the particulars of the death of her first husband. Suddenly opening his handkerchief, he showed her the telltale nail, asking in a loud voice: “Madam, do you know this nail?” The woman was so surprised that she confessed, and was tried and executed.

Curious Custom.

In China guests at dinners run around between the cdurses. This is supposed to keep the digestion in good condition, but the hustling American needs something else, and there is nothing better than Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. If a man or woman is suffering with constipation, indigestion or any stomach trouble, jt’s their fault if they don’t get well.

Preservation.

“There’s a big difference between your teeth and peaches, ain’t there, sis?” “I don’t know, Johnny; what is it?” “Well, when you go to preserve peaches you put lots of sugar, but if you want to preserve your teeth you have to let sugar alone.” x

Those Loving Girls.

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Americanized.

Everywhere the woman of to-day is a progressive creature. A milliner's store has been established in Porto Rico.

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