Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Page 7

The Sorrowful Tree.

There is a tree 5n Persia tQ which the name “The Sorrowful Tree” is given. Perhaps because it blooms only in the evening. When the first star apepars in the heavens, the first bud of the Sorrowful Tree opens, and as the shades of night advance and the stars thickly stud the sky, the buds continue gradually opening until the whole tree looks like one Immense white flower. On the approach of dawn, when the brilliancy of the stars gradually fades in the light of day, the Sorrowful Tree closes its flowers, and ere the sun is fully risen not a single blossom is visible. A sheet of flower dust as white as snow, covers the ground around the foot of the tree, which seems blighted and withered during the day, while, however, it is actively preparing. for the next nocturnal festival. The fragrance of the blossoms is like that of the evening primrose. It the tree is cut down close to the roots a new plant shoots up and attains maturity in an incredibly short time. In the vicinity of this singular tree there usually grows another, which is almost an exact counterpart of the Sorrowful Tree, but less beautiful, and, strange to say. it blooms only in the day time.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

New foundland Gun Men.

The New foundland pioneer was a curious mixture of simplicity and hardihood. Only 15 years ago, before the introduction of magistrates on the West Coast, “shotgun law” was the order of the day. If one offended another the aggrieved party threatened to shoot the aggressor on sight. Although every man had his own gun, and the threatened man had equal chances in a fight, he would hide in hisjiut and go in fear of his life for many days, never thinking that he might settle the affair by a counter threat.

Crushing the Oil Man.

Purse-Proud Father—Can you support my daughter In the style to which she has been accustomed? Complacent Young Mam—l could if I were contented with it, but I hope to give her something better.—Somerville Journal.

Chicago Great Western Increase.

The earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway, “Maple Leaf Route,” for the first week in September, 1899, show an increase of $28,069.28. Total Increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1) to date, -

Adulteration of Radishes.

Even radishes are adulterated now in Berlin. They are dipped into aniline dye to make them look fresh and pink. 11l luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of saying pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second—T. T. Munger.

[LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 93,284]

“ Dear Mbs. Pinkham —For some time I have thought of writing to you to let you know of the great benefit I

Mrs. Johnson Saved from Insanity by Mrs. Pinkham

snenced to have spells with my spine. Every month I grew worse and at last became so bad that I found I was gradually losing my mind. “ The doctors treated me for femhle troubles, but I got no better. One doctor told me that I would be insane. I was advised by a friend to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial, and before I had taken all of the first bottle my neighbors noticed the change in me. “I have now taken five bottles and cannot find words sufficient to praise it. I advise every woman who is suffering from any female weakness to give it a ‘ fair trial. I thank you for your good medicine.”—Mrs. Gertrude M. Johnson, Jonesboro, Texas.

Mrs. Perkins’ Letter. “I had female trouble of all kinds, had three doctors, but only grew worse. I began taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and used the Sanative Wash, and cannot praise your remedies enough.”— Mbs. Effie Perkins, Pearl, La.

LIVER ILLS. Da. RkDWxY * 00., New York: Dear Bir»-I h»r ß been .l.k tor nrarly two roan, and Mara been doctoring with aomo of the moat expert dooton of the United States. I have been bathing in and drinking hot water at the Hot Springs, Arkanuw, but it teamed everything failed to do mo good. After I taw yonr advertisement I thought I would try yonr pills, and have nearly used two boxes; been taking two at bedtime and one after breakfast, and they have dona mo more good than anything else I han need. My trouble has been with the linr. My akin and eyes were all yellow; 1 had sleepy, drowsy feelings; felt like a drunken man; pain right above the navel, like ae if it was bile on top of the etomaoh. My bowels ware very costive. My mouth and tongue sore most of the time. Appetite fair, but food would not digest, but settle heavy op my stomach, and some few mouthfuls of food come up Again. I could only oat light food that digests easily. Please send "Book of Advice.’* BaspectfuUy, BEN ZAUGG. Hot Bprings, Ark. Rad ways PILLS Price Mosnta a box. Bold by Druggists or eent by mail. Bend to DR. RADWAY A 00., IB Kim Street, New York, far Bock of Advice. Nasal XnTsX CATARRH In all its stages there should be cleanliness wgst Ely’s Cream Balm Vyiaan«M l coo the* and heal* the diseased membrane. '"J It cures catarrh and drives VSSjL away a cold in the head JtaiSiiSSJ* quickly. Cream Balm to placed Into the nostrils, spreads •eer the membrane nd to absorbed. Beltof to-too* mediate and a cum foilown. It to not drying-dem sot produce

have received from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Soon after the birth of my first child, I com-

A couple applied to a rural justice of the peace for total divorce. The justice called the bailiff aside and asked In a whisper: “What’s the law on that p’lnt?” “You can’t do it,” replied the bailiff, “It don’t come under yer jurisdiction.*’ “We’re willin’ to pay cash fer It,” replied the husband, not understanding the nature of the consultation. “I’ve got the money In this here stockin’.” The justice looked grave. Then, adjusting his spectacles and addressing the man, said: “You knowed ’fore you come here that ’twarn’t fer me ter separate husband an’ wife, an’ yet, you not only take up the time o’ this here valuable court with yer talkin’, but ackchully perpose ter bribe me with money! Now, how much has you got In that stockin’?” “ ’Bout six dollars an’ a half, yer Honor.” 1 "All right, then. I fine you $5 fer bribery an’ a dollar an’ a half fer takln’ up my time with a case what my jurisdiction Is out of, an’ may the Lord have mercy on yer souk”—Atlanta Constitution.

Hall's Catarrh Cure.

Is taken internally. Price 7s cents. S ecret Order* tn Thia Country. There are in the United State* over fifty distinct secret orders with more than 770,000 lodges and 5,000,000 members. , • ?<,' ■ _.S. J Whiskers a Modern Idea. Before 1840 men almost universally had their faces dean shaven.

JOHN G HUBINGER.

Remarkable Career of a Well-Knowi Western Capitalist, Manufacturer and Pbllanthroplat. Among the leaders of the progressive element for which the midle west is ,'ntuous, Mr. John C. Hubinger, of Keokuk, La., reigns without a peer. As a manufacturer, as an enterprising capitalist and as a philanthropist his fame has spread over many states, and his financial enterprises have developed many obscure towns into progressive, ihrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr. Hubinger, although but 47 years of ige, can look back upon scores of comnercial victories, each one of which has >eueflted mankind, for his liberality is as bountiful as his business sagacity is marvelous. He was born in New Orleans, La., his parents being of French and German origin. When he was four rears old, his family removed to Kenucky, in which stdte young Hubinger received a public school education. Almost before reaching man’s estate he -ecured patents on a number of valuable mechanical inventions, thereby laying the foundation of his present fortune. By inclination and force of circumstances his attention was early directed to the manufacture of starch by improved processes, and in the course of time he became the head of a concern having an annual business of millions of dollars. But genuine ambition never quite satisfied with existing conditions, works ever toward perfection, and after years of painstaking study and research Mr. Hubinger has made a

JOHN C. HUBINGER.

discovery, which he considers the crowning event of his wonderful career, and which is embodied in a new article of commerce, known as tied Cross Starch (Red Cross trade mark.) He is planning to distribute millions of packages of this starch to the housewives of America, at a merely nominal price to the consumer, in order to make its merits known without delay. Thus, for but 5 cents two large 10c packages of Red Cross Starch may be had, together with two magnificent Shakespearean views printed in 12 beautiful colors, or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar; or for only 20 cents 10 packages of the starch and the entire series of eight Shakespearean views and one Twentieth Century Girl Oalendar —views alone easily worth SI.OO. Witch this paper for future premium announcements, of which every lady will certainly want to take advantage. While Mr. Hubinger will devote his best energies to the manufacture of .his new and wonderful starch, he will not retire from the various financial enterprises in which he is interested—street railways, electric lighting plants and the Missisisppi Valley Telephone Co., with 10,000 telephone subscribers n Minneapolis and St. Paul —nor will i ais augmented activity interfere with ’ ais social obligations and exercise of the splendid hospitality which he dispenses at his palatial Keokuk home. Mr. Hubin ger’s family, consisting of himself, wife and four children, is the pivot around which his activity revolves, and while fond of promoting great enterprises, he is still fonder of his home circle, where he spends every moment of time not taken up by business or nublic cares.

A Rural Court Scene.

PULSE of the PRESS

The Dreyfus Verdict. Now France is on trial at the bar of civilization.—New York World. It is odious in the sight of every lover of justice and liberty.—lndianapolis News. France will suffer, and ought to suffer r for this infamous verdict. —Minneapolis Tribune. Justice has been outraged, manhood humiliated, militarism enthroned. —Omaha World-Herald. Dreyfus is vindicated in the tribunal of the civilized world and France isnow on trial. —Boston Transcript. The reconviction of Dreyfus will subject France to the just contempt of the civilized world. —Omaha Bee. France must right this great wrong speedily or submit to the contempt of honest people the world over. —Kansas City Times. There is no such peril for any land as that fact that, under the shield of its laws, the innocent are not safe. —New York Times. The French army, to vindicate whose “honor” both courts trampled justice and the forms of law, is crucified afresh.— Kansas City Star. The deathlike stupor with which the verdict was received in the court room foreshadowed its reception by the world at large.—New York Herald. The meaning of this verdict is that France is to-day a national degenerate, unworthy the respect of civilized peoples. —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The crime will call aloud not merely for reparation, but in years to come it is to be feared for vengeance—and probably not in vain.—Pittsburg Dispatch. It is apparent that if the evidence of Dreyfus’ innocence had been ten times as strong he would have been convicted just the same.—Kansas City Journal. By the judgment at Rennes France stands self-condemned as being two centuries behind the age in some of the essentials of civilization.—Philadelphia Record. The Dreyfus case is only one example of what has been enacted to a greater or less extent in all countries by military courts. They are relics of the dark ages. —New Orleans Picayune. The general staff of the French army have earned the contempt not only of honorable soldiers in every land, but of all right-thinking people in uniform or out. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. If France be as besotted, as fatuous and as degenerate as some of her critics insist the Dreyfus affair will stop here and a more stupendous tragedy will be ushered in.—Washington Post. Who can criticise the starvling herd of Paris for accepting the vocation of the assassin when assassination that is worse than death itself is proclaimed as the policy of the Government?—Philadelphia Times. The only way in which France can now escape the contempt of Christendom is by such a prompt and effective revolution of public sentiment as shall force the undoing of this foul wrong.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Dreyfus infamy means that, for the time being at least, the military caste In France has more influence than the political arm of the Government and this is a humiliating and dangerous situation in a republic.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Boer and Briton. If Oom Paul Kruger will only get a dean shave all will be forgiven.—Louisville Post The Boer is too shrewd not to perceive the necessity for ultimate compliance.— Cape Times (South Africa). The principals in the South African troubles hifcve almost reached that point where talk ends. —Indianapolis News. Oom Paul hasn’t put the lawn mower on his face yet, so we guess he doesn’t really mean to fight.—-St Paul Dispatch. Oom Paul does not hesitate to intimate that Presidents have some divine rights as well as monarchs. —Washington Star. We shall .prefer to believe that Mr. Chamberlain is playing to the galleries of politics for his own ambitious purpose.— Brooklyn Eagle. The gratifying thing about Oom Paul is that all this advertising is not likely to bring him to this country to lecture.— Kansas City Journal. Now Great Britain appears in the light of a man who has been tricked into a bad bargain, claiming the rights he has yielded and agreed to. —Indianapolis Journal. The only ground on which Great Britain can now justify war with the Transvaal is that her imperial policy makes it necessary for her to control that State. Boston Journal. The Anglo-Saxon Alliance will certainly lie in abeyance while Great Britain proceeds to steal the possessions of some thick-witted but honest Dutchman near the Cape of Good Hope.—Wisconsin State Journal.

Uncle Sam's Sultan.

According to current advices onr Sultan of Sulu is an ardent civil service reformer. He never discharges a wife without cause.—lllinois State Begister. The Sultan of Sulu, it seems, is greatly under the influence of his mother. If his twelve wives also have influence, petticoat government is evidently what Uncle Sam has to reckon with in that quarter. —St. Paul Pioneer Press. No one will contend that the Sultan of the Sulus is not blessed with a level head. He confesses in an interview, that if the Americans had not found him when they did he would have hunted up the Americans. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Sultan of Sulu may have a trifle too many wives, but in other respects he is a better American than some of the residents of Boston.—Kansas City Journal. In giving the Sultan of Sulu a fat salary the Government might have been actuated in. part by the* knowledge that it takes a good deal of money to buy hats for twelve wives.—Rockford Star. It is safe to say that Edward Attan-

NATION’S GREETING TO DEWEY.

Feataraa of the Reception to the Ma.l ail* Hero in Waahinston. The central Idea underlying the grand welcome to be given Admiral Dewey In Washington the first week In October la Its national character. His arrival at the Capital will mark his real home-coming to the American people, where the officials of the Government will participate, and the magnificently jeweled sword voted by Congress will be presented. To that end all the arrangements will be ora simple bnt most dignified character. The welcome to the hero of Manila at the National Capital will probably

SWORD VOTED BY CONGRESS TO DEWEY.

occur oa Monday, Oct. 2, although the date will depend upon the length of the celebration In New York, which is still unsettled. The principal features of the reception in Washington, as planned by the citizens, with the co-operation of the President and Cabinet, will be two in number—the presentation es the sword voted by Congress and a night parade. A public reception at the White House will be followed by dinner to the Admiral by President McKinley. The sword will be presented by {Secretary Long, at the east front of the Capitol, in the presence of Mr. McKinley and all the members of the Cabinet, late in the afternoon, while the parade, consisting of organizations of all kinds, will be accompanied by an Illumination of the city on a scale of beanty never before witnessed in Washington. The different features of ths preparations are in the hands of a centra 1 body of citizens and eleven committees, embracing in all over a thousand people. Preparations for the celebration have been in hand for over a month. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and other railroads entering Washington have agreed upon cheap rates for the celebration, and the committee expects that there will be an outpouring of patriotic citizens almost equal to the inauguration of a Preaident.

ETHICS FOR TYPEWRITER GIRLS

Religioaa Journal Hold* Right for Her to Help Her Employer Lie. The New York Christian Advocate, the Eastern organ of the Methodist Episcopal church, has created a sensation in religious circles here by advice it recently gave to an Inquirer. “Suppose,” wrote the applicant for Information, “that a young woman employed as a stenographer has to write what she knows to be flat contradictions of truth, what she knows is meant to deceive and the object of the deception is to take pecuniary advantage of others. Also that sometimes profane language and languageof questionable character on other moral grounds is dictated, should she write it or modestly decline to do so?” To this query the Advocate makes answer: “We know an instance of a young woman who declined to write profane language and lost her situation in consequence. We highly approve her course. She may be a machine in a certain sense, but if she professes to be a Christian or a modest woman she ought not to write anything which no one having arfy respect for Christianity or modesty would utter in the presence of a modest woman. But on the question of flat, contradictions of truth in the way of business statements, it is quite possible that a stenographer may be altogether too sensitive. > How does she know what view her employer may take of what seems to be a flat contradiction of truth? Is he to explain to her all his business affairs and make known to her all elements involved in every transaction in which profit and loss are concerned. With regard to his business dealings she !s but a machine, and her ears are not pointed by statements of fact or otherwise. Her mind should be sufficiently under control not to reason about anything that be dictates, except to direct his attention to verbal or other mistakes in composition. But no stenographer, male or female, should write things, which, passing through their ears into their minds, and to the machine through their fingers, could, not but defile. The stenographer need not make an issue. If a man happens to use profane language let her furnish the copy without the profane language. Then if an issue is made it will be by the man’s insisting upon it, and if he does insist upon it she 'win do. well to take her departure, trusting in the ’Fewer that make th for righteousness.’ ” In the Wee Hour*. He—Great Scott! for making a. racket this child is a regular tort in action. She (sweetly)—Would you mind bedding the tort tor a little while, George?” Phri Cure for Consumption has been a godsend to me.—Wm. B. McClellan, Chester,* Ela., Sept. 17. 1805. —-- The contented man is never poor;

Extinguished.

A young and newly-married couple were entertaining their friends, and among the guests was one whose continued rudeness made him extremely dbjectionable to the rest of the company. His conduct, although most unbearable, was put up with for some time, until at supper he held up on his fork a piece of meat which had been served to him, and in a vein of intended humor, he looked round and remarked: “Is this pig?” This immediately drew forth the remark from a quiet-looking individual sitting at the other end of the table: “Which end of the fork do you refer to?”—London Spare Moments.

Still More Counterfeiting.

The Secret Service has just unearthed another band of counterfeiters and secured a quantity of bogus 4 bills, which are very cleverly executed. Things of great value are always selected for imitation, notably Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation.

Must Learn a Useful Trade.

Every boy in Germany, from the crown prince to the meanest subject, is obliged to learn some useful trade. The present Emperor mastered the art of book binding, though this is only one of his accomplishments, for he could probably earn his living as a musician if anything happened to his throne.

Progress.

With time, comes progress and advancement in all lines of successfully conducted enterprises. Success comes ta those only who have goods with superior merit and a reputation. In the manufacture of laundry starch for the last quarter of a century J. C. Hubinger has been the peer of all others and to-day is placing on the market the finest laundry starch ever offered the public under our new and original method. Ask your grocer for a coupon book which x wlll enable you to get the first two large 10-cent packages of his new starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK brand, also two of the children’s Shakspeare pictures painted in twelve beautiful colors as natural as life, or the Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all absolutely free. All grocers are authorized to give ten large packages of RED CROSS STARCH, with twenty of the Shakspeare pictures or ten of the Twentieth Century Girl Calendars, to the first five purchasers of the Endless Starch Chain Book. This is one of the grandest offers ever made to Introduce the RED CROSS laundry starch, J. C. Hubinger> latest invention.

Cook in Earthenware Vessels.

Cook nothing in iron vessels that you can cook in earthenware. The heat in the latter Is more uniform, the flavor better preserved and there is less liability to burn.

“Necessity is the Mother of Invention." It <wos the necessity for a reliable blood purifier and tonic that brought into existence Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is a highly concentrated extract prepared by a combination, proportwn and process peculiar to itself and giving to Hood's SarsapariHa unequalled curative power.

MANY young women are completely prostrated for a week out of every month by menstrual sufferings. I The terrors of menstruation overshadow their whole lives. How needless this is in most cases is shown by the thousands of grateful letters constantly ..Jj coming to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., awaae sa from women she has helped. Miss Joie Saul, Dover, Mich., writes ra/iro sis as follows to Mrs. Pinkham: FjHUES IN “I suffered untold agony every month and could get no relief until I MrCMIMmRr tried your medicine; your letter of ad- —Z—,, ▼ice and a few bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound have made me the happiest woman alive, I shall bless von as long as I live.” Miss Rosa Helden, 126 W, ’ Cleveland Ave., Canton, .writes: H f ’’Dear Mrs. Pinkham—--1 A FoUr years a &° l h** l almost5 Kt given up hope of ever be1 HA in £ a B ain - I was 1 ft j Sal afflicted with those \ Ml dreadful headache spells Ju flu lL j which would sometimes y| . Hr! la«t three or four days. 2 Also bad hackache, beaX-ing-down pains, leucorVsRSttV W rhcea, dizziness, and terri- \ ff ble pains at monthly periods K confining me to my bed. A B After readm £ so many testij f If monials for your medicine, I I l\ JI concluded to try it. I began. ' \ *° P* ck Up after taking 7 \ th* A l3 * bottle, and have con tinned to gain J J and now feel i /1 ffl a d *ff eren t woman. Gsfz'Cz /I / f J / /Pl y I can recommend Lydia W A A I E - Pinkham’s Vegetable wL n Compound in highest terms - to all sick women.” Pain leaves its mark. Faces become pale and thin. Fe*» fares grow sharp and haggard. The stamp of suffering is unmistakable. Write to Mrs. Pinkham for aid. Her experience is the widest in the world her advice is free. It Was Before the Day of 1 SAPOLIO They Used to Say “Woman’ VVOi KIS lvlwv€*j L/OilO* _

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