Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Page 7

Important Information for Men and Women.

For those who are accustomed to sending away from home for their goods it is of the greatest importance te know the character and reliability of the establishments selling goods to families catalogues. The great emporium of the John M. Smyth Co., located at 150 to 166 West Madison street, Chicago, has been established for a third of a century, and has furnished over a half a million homes in Chicago and vicinity alone. This firm enjoys the confidence of the public by its many years of fair dealing. It issues an immense illustrated catalogue that should be in every family, as it describes and gives the price of every article required for household use. A sample of the extraordinary values offered by this firm is shown in the illustration of the gentlemen’s overcoats in another column of this paper. These garments are indeed wonderful values, and yet they are but a sample of the thousand and one useful articles illustrated and described in the beautiful catalogue of the John M. Smyth Company. The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves.— Demosthenes.

I I I The debilitating drains and K .7 discharges which weaken so L ■ many women are caused by Ca- h « tarrh of the distinctly feminine ■ ■ organs. The sufferer may call B i|| her trouble Leuchorrhoea, or ■ Weakness,or Female Disease or ■ I some other name, but the real ■ ■ trouble is catarrh of the female ■ I organs and nothing else. ■ Pe-ru-na radically and perma- B ■ nently cures this and all othei jl forms of Catarrh. It is a positive B B specific for female troubles Bj caused by catarrh of the delicate ■ I lining of the organs peculiar to B ■ women. It always cures if used ’<] persistently. It is prompt and B ■ certain. ■ t The microbes that cause chills and fever and malaria enter the system through mucous membranes made porous by catarrh. Pe-ru-na heals the mucous membranes and prevents the entrance of malarial germs, thus pre-' venting and curing these affections. PILES “I eoflbred th* torture* of th* Aamxad with protruding piles brought on by constipation with which I was afflicted tor twenty years. I ran across your CASCARETS in the town of Nowell, Is., and never found anything to equal them. To-day I am entirely free from piles and feel like a new man." a H. Karra, Mil Jones St., Sioux City, la. CANDY W CATHARTIC TSAOS MARK “Pleasant. Palatable. Potent, Tasto Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. Ho. 800. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Starting Ksaedy C—ymy, CMtaf, S—trtal, Bsw Tm» lio-ro-Mc 8 slicker] WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Nr|or rubber coat. If you want a coat EMM® 1 that will keep you dry In the hard- sAJMSF I est storm buy the Fish Brandl XV? Slicker. If not for sale In ■Brl town, write for catalogue to n> W. L. DOUGLAS 53&53.50 SHOES gogg - Werth t 4 to *6 compared with £ other makes. Zs W Indorsed by over B 1,000,000 wearers. AH LEATHERS. ALL STYLES Fj-.v M THS Mitill have W. I» anglw’ _Z aaae and pries (tamped ee k.tteta, I Take no substitute claimed to be as good. Largest makers Of *3 snd 43.50 shoes In the world. Your dealer should keep them—ls not, we will send you a pair on receipt of price. State kind of _R. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, ■ass. Ely’s Cream Balm jggjjiK WILL CURE HAY FEVERFW Druggists, SO Cta. ‘“Sil BfFfi&bhggSsM. ' ;

GREAT CROP OF CORN.

PRESENT INDICATIONS DENOTE > A BIG YIELD. Should'Conditlona Prove Favtfrable the Crop May Reach the Enormous Total of 2,350,000,000 Bushels, Far in Kxceaa of the Mark Set in 1896. Bushels. Commercial estimate of corn crop 2,350,000,000 Government Auguert estimate. .2,148,000,000 Record corn crop (1806) 2,235,000,000 Kansas State es imate 400,000.000 Kansas record crop (1896) 247,006,000 Nebraska State estimate 330,000(000 Nebraska record crop (1896).... 298,000,000 Will this year's be a record corn crop, is about the only doubtful point now left as to the great American harvest. It is assumed that it is to be a 2,000,000,000 bushel crop, but there have been four such already; in 1896. when the total was 2,283,000,000 bushels; in 1895, when it was 2,151,000,000; in 1891, when the figures reached 2.060,000,000, and in 1889, when the crop was 2,112,000,000. It has been dry and hot in the West for a fortnight, and it kept getting hotter and dryer each day until the corn people began at the close of last week to fear that the prospect of a record breaker In their line was to be lost. The weather Interest in the West just now centers around this. »• Has there been drought damage enough to the tasseled maize to spoil the prospect of a new figure, a new mark on the Western possibilities in the greatest feed crop Of the world, the one which last year brought the farmers of the West over $550,000,000, which always greatly exceeds in value the wheat crop, and which is the one crop America raises for the world and in which it has no competitor? O.f the 2,359,000,000 bushels of corn raised last year the world over, the United States gathered about 2,000,000,000 bushels. The Kansas authorities figure that the Sunflower State is this year to have about 400,000,000 bushels, and the Kansas corn Is made, has been in large part cut. Nothing can now spoil the Kansas figure. The Government officials, always conserva-

—Chicago Record.

tive in their estimates, put the Kansas yield at 346,000,000 bushels. Its record up to the present was made in 1896, when there was a harvest of 247,000,000 bushels. Nebraska is pretty nearly as far along as Kansas, some of its corn being cut in the south. Besides Nebraska has been well favored with rain, even while some of .the other States have been suffering. The hugeness of this year’s corn promise is best shown by the official Washington estimates in bushels on the seven great corn States, compared with the two previous years: 1899. 1898. 1807. • Ohio.. 90,000,000 103,000,000 92.000,000 lad... 120,000,000 129,000,000 110,000,000 111... 219,000,000 200,000,000 233,000,000 M 0... 179,000,000 155,000,000 172,000,000 KM.. 346,000,000 133,000,000 162,000,000 lowa. 219,000,000 255,000,000 220,000,000 Neb.. 300,000,000 159,000,000 241,000,000 T0t.1,473,000,000 1,134,000,000 1,230,000,000 It is a risk of only a few days, a fortnight at the outside. Already half the corn area is beyond the danger point In another week three-quarters of the whole will be made, and in a fortnight the entire crop will be secure. , It is not remarkable, consequently, that the interest in the corn belt weather should at this juncture be intense, nor remarkable that the corn speculator should be especially apprehensive of the possibilities. It is the momentous risk of the day, of the greatest import to the entire country; to the farmer, whose interest is direct; to the cattle man, the railroader, the merchant and the banker, whose interests are hardly less at stake. Even Wall street knows that its values might be cut sensationally over night by an accident in the next few days to the corn crop.

VIEWED BY M’KINLEY.

President Watches Thirty Thousand Veteran* Marching. Tuesday was the big day of the Grand Army encampment at Philadelphia and the city was alive at an early hour. The presence of President McKinley increased the interest, and his drive over the route of the parade aroused the greatest enthusiasm among the throngs in the streets. The head of the procession moved at 10 o’clock. The distance covered was five miles. Independence Hall was passed daring the march, and caps were lifted and colors dipped by the veterans. The chorus of 3,000 school children occupied a portion of the grand stand on the north side of the city hall and sung patriotic airs as the veterans passed. Post No. 1 from Rockford, 111., the oldest post in the Grand Army, headed the line. Disabled veterans rode in carriages, following the department of Pennsylvania at the end of the line. In order came the departments of Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Potomac, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Washington, Alaska and South Dakota. Thirty-five thousand men were in line. At no celeibration since the centennial has this city seen the crowds which lined the streets along which the veterans passed. The Avenue of Fame, with its snowwhite columns and festoons of bunting and laurel, was the favorite viewpoint. One of the most interesting features of the encampment was Camp Sexton at the Belmont mansion in Fairmount park, where 8,000 veterans occupied tents. Standing upon the top of Belmont looking toward Philadelphia the best view of the camp could be secured. Down below stretched the. ? great field of tents. Behind them rolled the Schuylkill—picturesque there, perhaps, more than at any other spot, and beyond the banks rose the city of Philadelphia framed between the two walls of green as in some giant picture. The veterans had everything that could possibly be conducive to comfort at their disposal. There was no question of roughing it, the ordinary vicissitude of camp life having been eliminated as a

THE CORN CROP.

result of the elaborate efforts of the local veterans. Eighteen water lines ran through the camp, with sunken barrels pi -iced at short intervals for the thirsty visitors. Two mess tents, 160x60 feet In size; ice cream and sutlers’ tents were situated at the western extremity of the camp. Telephone and telegraph wires ran overhead to the exact center of the camp, where the instruments were situated, and where the postoffice wks. Near by was the bureau of information tent, with headquarters and officers* mess tents above on the brow of the hilt Ten tents for the medical corps and five large hospital tents were at the eastern edge of the camp, sheltered from the sun by a clomp of spreading trees. Incandescent lights were suspended up and down the lines of tents, while at the intersections of the streets or passageways were placed the blazing camp fires, where the old veterans gathered before turning in at night and fought their battles over again. An arch was at the west of the camp surmounted by flag poles forty-five feet high and the entire structure, built to resemble stone work, was covered with flags and G. A. R. insignia.

COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK.

Brooklyn and St. Lon Io Men Pay *3,000 for a Chat. ▲ chat over the long-distance telephone between Brooklyn and St Louis last •week cost the conversationalists more than $3,000. A man in the trolley car borough and another in the Mound City talked to each other for about fifty hours. Most of the talking was done between the hours of 8 p. m. and 8 a. m. when the rate between Brooklyn and St Louis is $0 for the first five minutes and $1 a infanta for additional time.

Mrs. Col. Richardson SAVED BY MRS. PINKHAM.

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MOSQUITOES LIVE TWO MONTHS

Dr. Bancroft of Bnrpengairjr Makes a Study of the Little Pests. Dr. T. L. Bancroft, of Burpengary, writes an interesting letter to the Australasian Medical Gazette on the life history of the house mosquito, an insect which recent work upon malarian infection has elevated into scientific Importance. This mosquito, It is thought, has been introduced into Australia from Europe. Tradition says that a mosquito lives a day or two; that it feeds only once, afterward retiring to some quiet spot, where the ova are matured, the in water, after which It dies, and that the male mosquito does not feed, and that it Is rare .that It lives seven days after the meal of blood. The Investigations of Dr. Bancroft into filarial metamorphosis tallies exactly with those of Dr. Manson In respect to the metamorphosis, except in one important item. Dr. Bancroft had never seen the actively moving filaria, or thread-worms, the last stage of the metamorphosis, but this he attributes to the fact that mosquitoes want to be fed, and that bls'died from starvation about the sixth day and before the filariae had developed. In confinement it Is necessary to feed mosquities. Various methods and foods were tried by Dr. Bancroft with little success, until ripe bananas were given, which proved to be suitable; it was noticed that male and female mosquitoes sucked the juice of the banana almost every day. It was also found that mosquitoes would live in glass vessels up to two months; the life of a mosq'ulto Is therefore not one or two days, but a month at least, and frequently two months. The embryo filariae, Dr. Bancroft says, when It is taken into the mosquito’s stomach, measures 1-90 inch in length by 1-3,000 inch in breadth; on the seventeenth day it measures 1-15 Inch by 1-1,000 Inch, and is not killed when put Into water. He believes that water Is the medium by which the young filariae are transformed to the human host, and he suggests that experiments with a pardon as a reward should be made upon life-sentenced prisoners.

Letting It Out.

If inquisitive persons cannot learn to “mind their own business,” they should try at least to control their tongues. The Sydney Journal tells this Illustrative anecdote on the authority of a woman whose servant was given to curiosity: “Did the postman leave any letters, Mary?” the mistress asked, on returning from a visit one afternoon. “Nothing but a post-card, ma’am.” “Who Is It from, Mary?” “And do you think I’d read it, ma’am?” asked the girl, with Injured air. “Perhaps not. But any one who sends me a message on a post-card is either stupid or Impertinent.” “You’ll excuse me, ma’am,” returned the girl, loftily, “but that’s a nice way to be talking about your own mother!”

Shake Into Your Shoes

Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nervous feet an<l instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest oomfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, fired, aching feet Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c, in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.

Ragtime in Reality.

“Do you have any ragtime down here?” asked the man with the guitar. “It’s always ragtime down here,” replied the hard-times citizen, with a lugubrious sigh, “nothing but rags; hardly any patches.”

Mail’s Catarrh Cure.

I» a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when It comes.—Disraeli. I know that my lite was saved by Piao’a Cure for Consumption.—John A. Miller, Au Sable, Mich., April 21, 1895. True love builds the morning fires all the year round. KIMINE BUG—More fun than a hex of monkey t; Mid three 2-eent itampa for a Killing Bug to Kiaaing Bog Mfg. Co, IXII Pine St., St. LosiaM*. Only one man In 203 te over alx feet In height

Fun in the Philippines.

A typical Yankee trick was played on the enemy over at Paombong the other day. There is a church over there, which is just across a narrow stream from the house occupied by our extreme left outpost of twenty-eight men from Battery H, Third United States Artillery, who are serving here as Infantry. The sentry on on the church side of the river conceived the idea of tying a long rope to the clapper of the bell in the belfry, carrying the rope over to his post in the road. Just as he had anticipated, the Filipinos came sneaking down close to the church the other morning, an hour or so before daylight. The sentry heard them coming, and promptly rang the bell. In a twinkling the Filipinos Opened on the belfry, and that and the church are now well dented by bullets. The outposts refrained from answering the fire, which was doing no harm, but after every volley at the belfry the sentry with the rope gave the bell two or three frantic peals. Believing the outposts to be still in the belfry and sorely pressed, the insurrectos crept nearer and poured in, as they thought, a still more deadly fire. All this time the men of the outpeets kept quiet, noting just where the enemy were. At daylight our soldlerstopened so briskly that sixty or seventy Filipinos found their error and hit the road briskly back to their own outpost, carrying several wounded men with them. The handy rope has been extended to reach across the river.—Leslie’s Weekly.

A Good Chance for Getting Even.

“Yes,” said the florid lady, “I made my will several years ago, and it was one of the wisest things I ever did.” “Why?” the meek-looking woman asked. “Do you expect to drop off suddenly. “No, but it’s such a satisfaction to go and change it whenever I get mad at any of the heirs.”

Discovery of Life Plant.

So full of vigor that if one of its leave* be pinned to a warm wall another plant will grow. It is these same principle* which enable Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to arouse to life and duty the overworked stomach. The sufferer from dyspepsia or any stomach trouble needs it. A private revenue stamp covers the neck of the bottle.

Paradoxical.

“Doctor,” said the patient, who runs to useless philosophical contemplations, “ague, It appears to me, Is one of nature’s contradictions.” “How so?” “It gives you the shake and yet it stays right with you.”—Detroit Free Press. Rest satisfied with doing well and others to talk of you as they please.—Pythagoras.

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