Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Page 7

A W«1 Without i Conscience. “I really think that an ostrich has more brains than an Arab,” declares Lilian Bell in the Woman’s Home Companion, when describing a visit to an ostrich farm near'Cairo. “They have the most-curious agate-colored eyes—colorless, cold, yet intelligent eyes But they are the eyes of a bird without a conscience. An ostrich looks as if he would really enjoy villainy, as if he could commit crime after crime from pure love of it and never know remorse; yet there is a fascination about the old birds and they have their good points. The father Is domestic in spite of looking as if he belonged to all the clubs, and, much to my delight, I saw one sitting on the eggs while the mother walked out and took the air. Ostriches and Arabs do women’s work with an admirable disreghrd of Mrs. Grundy. Ostriches have an irresistible way of waving their lovely plumy wings, and one old fellow twenty-five years old actually imitates the Dervishes. The keeper says to him, ‘Dance,’ and although he is about ten feet tall, he sits down with his legs spread out on each side of him, and shutting his eyes, he throws his long, ugly red neck from side to side, making a curious grunting noise and waving his wings in a billowy line like a skirtdancer.”

On the Mercy of the Court.

A youthful graduate of the Harvard Law School came West and opened an office in a small frontier town. His first client was a man accused of stealing a horse. The case came to trial before an old judge and a jury composed of bewhiskered ranchers, and though there was no doubt of the guilt of the defendant, he had a regiment of friends who swore he was forty miles off when the horse was stolen. This evidence the prosecution was unable to break down, and the young lawyer plumed himself on a certain acquittal. The jury retired, and five minutes later was back in court. “Have you agreed on a verdict?” asked the judge. “We hev,” answered the foreman, as he shifted a gun he carried on his hip. “We find the defendant not guilty, an’ recommend the defendant’s lawyer, owin’ to his youth an’ innocence, to the mercy of the court.”—San Francisco Wave.

The Shekel Earned.

That which we work for and win by earnest effort is doubly our own and carries with it Its wisdom. Thus a man who inherits a fortune seldom puts it to the best or wisest uses. In order to learn the wise and beneficent use of money one must have tolled for It coin by coin, must have some time suffered the want of It. A man born with a golden spoon In his mouth never tastes either pain or happiness as these are known to the common man. He has not felt the great danger of desire which gives to fulfillments Its exquisite flavor. Not having struggled In the fight, he knows nothing of the joy of Victory.—Woman’s Home Companion. Nasal Catarrh quiokly yield! to treat, ment by Ely’s Cream Balm, which is agreeably aromatic. It ia received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals tha'whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists ■ell the 50c. size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To aooommodate those who are partial to tha use of atomizers in applying liquids into tha nasal passages for catarrhal trail, hies, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the medicinal properties of the solid preparation.

Cause of the Kettle’s Song.

People often wonder what makes the high note of a simmering tea kettle, but the explanatioh is simple. As the water heats little bubbles of steam are formed at the bottom of the kettle. These rush upward and, being attracted to the sides of the kettle, they make a commotion which sets the metal In vibration and the kettle “sings.”

Baby's Mattress.

A nice mattress for a child’s bed may be made of paper. Old letters, or any clean paper that is not too stiff, may be torn into strips for this purpose. Make a stout cover of the size required, fill It with the torn paper and over all place a folded blanket.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Is taken Internally. Price 7s cento.

Washing Out Glass.

To make cut glass clear and shining you should use a soft brush when washing it, and, after drying with a linen towel, finish with tissue paper. Piao’k Cure for Consumption has been • family medicine with us since 1865.—J. B. lfadison, 2409 42d ave., Chicago, Til Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.—Confucius.

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DREYFUS HAS A DAY.

CORDIER’S EVIDENCI STRONGLY FAVORS PRISONER. Never Thought Bordereau Knoujch to Warrant Conviction —Back* Opinion with Proof—Former Minister of War Be Freycinet Explains ‘‘Syndicate.” Tuesday was another good Dreyfus day. Lieut. Col. Cordier, retired, who was a member of the intelligence bureau at the time Dreyfus was there, occupied most of the time of 'the court martial. His testimony was strongly in favor of the accused. M. de Freycinet, former minister of war, also testified regarding the “foreign syndicate” reported to have been formed to fight for Dreyfus’ freedom. He admitted frankly that he had 'no basis for the statement. Lieut. Col. Cordier was first called to the stand. He testified that at first he believed Dreyfus guilty, but later he became 6ure there was no proof of the guilt of the accused and certain facts tended strongly to the presumption that he was innocent. He related the first description given of the traitor. It was that he was a colonel, 45 years old and decorated, which did not answer closely to Dreyfus. The last named was 34 and not decorated. Then the witness, continuing, said: “Foreign officers are aware that some of the members of our service make A regular business of treason.” This was received with murmurs of surprise and negation by the audience. “Some of these know only French, but there are others who are linguists, such as Esterhazy, for instance, who is proficient in the languages.” “Col. Sandherr,” continued Cordier, “was loyal and a patriot and he died an honest man. Trouble began in the bureau with the arrival of Col. Henry. Before that there was harmony. Sandherr disliked Henry. The latter’s famous forgeries were simply committed in order to demolish the evidence amassed by Lieut. Col. Picquart. There is no proof of Dreyfus’ guilt, while on the other hand there were numerous suspicious acts in other quarters.” Maj. Lauth here arose and

SKETCH TAKEN IN THE INTERIOR FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE FIRST ARCH.

disputed certain of the dates and facts mentioned by Cordiex. Later, however, he firmly reiterated his statements. M. Labori then read a telegram from a man named Pages, who was a friend of Col. Sandherr, denying that Matthieu Dreyfus attempted to bribe him (Sandherr). Gen. Roget now confronted Lieut. Col. Cordier, saying: “What part of my deposition are you pleased to designate as false?” Cordier: “It is all falseu” A long dispute between Gen. Roget and the witness then ensued. ** “Were you not an anti-Semite in 1894?” asked Gen. Roget. “Yea, 1 was,” replied Cordier, “and I still object to having Jews in the army, but not enough to bring false evidence against one of them who is accused of the crime of treason.” This direct thrust at Gen. Roget caused a great sensation. Col. Fleur and Archivist Gribelin of the general staff also confronted the witness. Their argument, however, was without result. • Gen. Mercier then took the stand, and to the surprise of every one supported Cordier in some of his statements. He also affirmed Pages’ telegram, read by M. Labori, to -the. effect that Matthieu Dreyfus ever attempted to bribe Sandherr was correct. The next witness was former Minister of War de Freycinet. He looked like a little white mouse, which, in fact, is his political nickname. M. de Freycinet testified in barely audible squeaks. The witness first testified in regard to the 35,000,000 franc foreign syndicate to free Dreyfus. He said he got the idea that it existed from a discussion with Jamont on possible coincidences and happenings as the Dreyfus case progressed. This was the only basis for his statement to Gen. Mercier that such a syndicate existed. Col. Jouaust, president of the court, then asked the witness what was his opinion of Dreyfus. M. de Freycinet replied: “I will be satisfied, Colonel, withwhatever verdict the court renders as correct.” The audience was disappointed at this diplomatic answer, which saved the witness from publicly declaring his opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. M. Labori asked M. de Freycinet: “Do yon know a single fact which would lead you to think that any foreign agent had done anything in France to bring about a revision of the Dreyfus case?” “No, nothin,” replied de Freycinet. “Or anything that would influence the court of cassation?” insisted Labori. “No,” emphatically said the former war minikter. The court adjourned after the testimony of a few minor witnesses was heard. M. Gallichet, a reporter on military matters, and a friend of Col. Henry's, -testified that Henry was uncommonly uncommunicative when the Dreyfus ease was on. Belhomme, another handwriting expert, who testified at the Esterhazy trial, persisted that the bordereau was not written by Esterhazy. He would not say, however, that Dreyfus wrote it ■ ~. . Abraham Cohn Lab&tt, 97 Galveston Sifts Gift m £u6 united otntes.

RUINS OF THE CHICAGO COLISEUM BUILDING.

DREYFUS CONDUCTED FROM PRISON TO COURT.

On leaving the prison Captain Dreyfns passes between a line of soldiers, who are drawn up at attention with their front to the crowds ou each side. *

ON THE VERGE OF WAR.

British sod Boers Likely to Soon Begin Hostile Operations. There is no diminution in the tension over the Transvaal crisis. War is now discussed In London as a certainty. It

PAUL KRUGER.

— V " ~ points to early action in the field and to

the certainty of a conflict. Unless President Kruger is aggressive, it is reckoned that the first engagement will come about the beginning of October. In the event of war the headquarters staff must turn to the artillery, for British infantry—even if 80,000 be sent, as is suggested—will be shot down like partridges by the Boers. The artillery, however, next to the engineers, is the strongest branch of the land forces. • Both the Transvaal and Britain are busy seeing to their military preparations, and in Pretoria a most gloomy view iB taken as to the outcome. Indeed, in telegrams received in London it is stated that war is certain, but the papers hesitate to publish them owing to their gravity. In an interview Tuesday, President Kruger said that the Boer position was best described in Psalm lxxxiii., 1-5 and 13-7, in which the psalmist declares that the enemies of the Lord have banded together against his people to exterminate them, and calls upon him to punish them, to fill them with shame, and to cause them to perish. The London Daily Mail’s Cape Town correspondent says it is estimated that 15,000 persons have left the Transvaal since the crisis arose. The Government has announced in the Assembly that it is considering greater facilities to enable

THE VOLKSRAAD—THE BOER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT.

women and children to leave Johannesburg. In view of the increased tension in South Africa the Government of Queensland is making preliminary arrangements for the dispatch of its military contingent.

News of Minor Notes.

Barter Fitzsimmons, Fishkill, N. Y., hiccoughed to deat^i. Unknown man was found in the river near Fort Thomas, Ky. William Kruger. 38. drowned at Atlantic‘City, was once the champion swimmer of Germany. New Orleans Brewing Association's plants were sold to the reorganized company for |860,000. Spalding it Jennings of the West Bergen, N. J., steel works, have increased

is the consensus of opinion that Kruger is proving himself a great man at his country's expense. The reserve lof the royal artilllery has been inIstructed to hold itfself in readiness for service in South Africa. This is the most serious military announcement since the beginning of the crisis, and

FARMERS IN POOL.

Men with the Hoe Unite iu Twenty Million Trust. The Farmers’ Federation of the Mississippi Valley has been organized at Topeka, Kan., and officers elected. Walter N. Allen of Meriden is president and business manager. The object of the federation is to regulate and control the shipment of farm products of all the States in the Mississippi valley, to establish and maintain offices, yards, grain elevators, to maintain agents to handle, sell and distribute such products, and to lend and borrow money and do a banking business at Topeka, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Netfr Orleans. The capital stock will he $20,000,000, in shares of $lO each. President Allen, in a long statement of the purposes of the federation, says the cost in commissions for marketing the products in the Mississippi valley is over

$21,000,000. He plans that his company shall do this business for the farmers for less than $1,000,000. The by-laws provide that there shall be no rebates’to shippers or dividends paid to stockholders, and that the surplus earnings shall be reserved to finance a bank department, to pay interest on the bonds of the company and for the pnrehase of the business and good will of commission houses.

CAUSED BY A WEIGHT.

Collapse of Chicago Coliseum Paid to Be Due to 1 his. Searching investigation made Wednesday probably establishes the cause of the collapse of the twelve giant steel arches for the Chicago Coliseum, killing ten laboring men and injuring a score of others. A bias weight upon two arches at the extreme north end of the structure where the trusses first gave way is regarded as the cause of the awful accident. A Chicago dispatch says that experts who searched the ruins discovered four large chains attached to these two arches. From them were suspended two-inch ropes, running through a pulley, and the former wound around a cross section of heavy iron timber. The jarring of the hoisting engine and the attempt either to

hoist or lower this beam is said to have brought down the two steel arches and they in turn caused the collapse of all the remaining steel framework. Several tobacco warehouses, Mount Sterling, Ky., burned. Loss $50,000. Naphtha tank in Lehmann’s hat factory, New York, exploded. Rachel Verta, 34, jumped from third story; both legs broken. Edna Nichols and Nellie Healey also badly hurt. Sire loss small. Number of lives lost along the Carolina coast during the recent hurricane is now estimated at 100. ; . . Sir Wilfrid’Laurier, the Canadian premier, says that he will attend the Chicago festival with the Karl of Minto, Canadians. 81 * Ch ” le * Tuppw “**

Denmark’s Food Exports.

Denmark gives forcible evidence of increasing yields, says the Forum. She has a population of 2,200,000, or 143 inhabitants per square mile. "She is not only able to feed her steadily increasing population, but Is in a position to export considerable quantities of food products. In 1885 her exports of such products amounted to 200,000,000 krollers ($54,000,000); her imports, to 83,000,000 kroners ($22,400,000), an excess of $811,000,000, or sl7 per capita. The exports of food products, animal and vegetable, of the United States, for the fiscal year 1897 amounted to $390,000,000. or $5.55 per capita. In the phenomenal year 1898 they rose to $550,000,000. or $7.85 per capita. The rate of progress In Denmark is shown by the following statement: “According to official figures the production of grain, about 150 years ago, amounted to about 12,009,000 bushels annually. In consequence, however, of the reforms effected at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the rate of production was gradually Increased to 36,000,000; while, during the of 1881-87 It rose to an av<w Nos 86,000,000” ID ' Cuban Women Crow 0> _ As a rule, the Cuban wfHtfan is round in figure and pretty In feature. Her face Is seldom vivacious—one looks In vain for the beauty of expression. Her hair is often a “glory” to her, and is sometimes of that black-blue shade only possible with the daughters of Southern Europe and their descendants, .though occasionally the Cuban girl varies the program by being blonde, and, to be plain, rather fat. This lady is often a woman at 12, and the mother of a large family at 19 or 20. So pretty In her youth, in age she becomes either lean and dried or fat and unwieldy. She fades early, and, for want of strength of character, Is apt to lose control of her husband, who, nevertheless, still continues to need such i as badly as any man of his times. TSut, whatever she may grow to seem, her eyes never fade. To the last, through aU vicissitudes, they are big and black.

Honor to the Spaniard!

A story of Spanish kindness to Americans should not be forgotten among the many records of American generosity to Spain. It is thus printed in a New York exchange: While we were atfil at war with Spain, Capt. Don Pedro Millet, of the Spanish barkentlne Gabriel, rescued the crew of a wrecked American bark, caring for them for twenty-six days, and then refused positively to accept any remuneration. We take off onr hats to our friends, our late enemies. There is true nobility yet in the blood of old Castile.

Music for Nervousness.

Scientists claim that music has power to soothe the nerves. But the quickest way to cure nervousness is to strengthen the nervous system.- We know of nothng which will accomplish this qnicker than Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Do not take a substitute. See that a private revenue stamp coven the neck of the bottle.

Their Use.

Knox—As fire escapes are conducted to-day I can’t for the life of me see what nse they are. " • Fox—You can’t? Why, they are useful in permitting the escape of the fire that is not utilized in consuming tbe building.—Boston Courier.

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