Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Page 7

Ladies’ Plaid Golf Capes.

The new fall and winter styles in ladies’ weir are now out, and as a rule, are mors bewitching than ever. A moat fascinating garment is the ladies’ plaid golf cape Illustrated and described in another column of this paper by the John M. Smyth Co. of Chicago, and at the extraordinary price of $5.65. This golf cape is indeed wonderful value, and yet it is but a sample of the thousand and one useful articles illustrated and described in the enormous catalogue of the John M. Smyth Company. For those who are accustomed to sending away from home for their goods it is pf the greatest importance to know the character and reliability of the establishments selling goods to families from catalogues. The great emporium of the John M. Smyth Co. has been established for a third of a century, and has furnished over half a million homes in Chicago and vicinity alone, and enjoys the confidence of the public by its many years of fair dealing.

Questionable.

Miss De. Puyster—l can trace my ancestors back to the reformation. De Jonesr-Thaf s nothing. I can trace mine back years and years before they attempted to reform.

SUFFERED 25 YEARS * L Congressman Botkin, of Winfield, Kansas. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, Congressman Botkin says: “My Dear Doctor—lt gives me pleasure to certify to the excellent curative qualities of your medicines—Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lln. I have been afflicted more or less for a quarter of a century wl!h catarrh of the stomach and constipation. A residence in Washington has Increased these troubles. A few bottles of your medicine have given me almost complete relief, and I am sure that a continuation of them will effect a permanent cure. Pe-ru-na is surely a wonderful remedy for catarrhal affections. “J. D. BOTKIN.” The most common form of summer catarrh is catarrh of the stomach. This is generally known as dyspepsia. Congressman Botkin wtfs a victim of this disease twenty-five years. Pe-ru-na cures these cases like magic. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, 0., for a free book. 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 preventing and curing these affections. TAPE WORMS “A tape worm eighteen feet long at least came on the scene after my taking two CASCARETS. This lam sure has caused my bad health for the past three years. lam still taking Cascarets, the only cathartic worthy of notice by sensible people.” _ Gao. w. Bowlxs, Baird, Mass , CANDY W CATHARTIC Vcuxcuufc TOADS MARK MOWTSMO Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c, 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... •UrllM Bamedy Coa*uy, Mntrtal, M.w Xart. SlB M-Tfl.Rlfi Bpld'endjguaranteed by all drng- “ I U*PAU aUU to CTJItE Tobacco Habit & IW slicker] WILL KEEP YOU DRY. a Don’t be fooled with a or rubber coat, if you want a coat that will keep you dry in the hardest storm buy the Fish Brandl Slicker. If not for sale In your town, write for catalogue to ■ » W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 & 53.50 SHOES Worth <4 to SB compared with £ other makes. A’ W Indorsed by over S 1,000,000 wearer* -W ALL leathers, all styles Fl V )W TH* •Blum W. L -J «a». u 4 prle* «Uaip»i » keUem. VHSM Take no substitute claimed A to be as good. Largest makers aWFJL of *3 »da 48.50 shoes in the world. Your dealer should keep them—ls not, we will send you spairon receipt of price. State kind of leather^ or cap toe. W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO.. Brookten, Mass. Ely’s Cream Balm XSJX w,lx 01,1,1 CATARRH

FIRE IN STOCK YARDS

HORSE PAVILION AND TRANSIT HOUSE ruined; Flames Attack Julldinga Over Area of Many Acree-Aggregate Loss to a Scire of Structures s294,ooo—Hundreds of Horses Stampede. For the second time in three years fire has wiped out mammoth horse sale stable® at the Chicago stock yards. The Dexter Park pavilion, two residences and three detached horse barns were destroyed. and the old stock yards hotel, the Tiansit House, was badly damaged. For awhile it was feared the flames would spread to the stock yards proper, but hard work on the part of the fire department, aided by a strong southwest wind, which carried the flying embers in the opposite direction, averted this danger. The property loss is estimated at between $300,000 and $400,000. About 2,500 horses were in the pavilion when the fire broke out and these were turned loose. In the stampede whieh followed three persons were injured, none, however, seriously. Two hundred guests of the hotel were forced to rush from the building, many of them leaving their effects behind in the scramble for places of safety. The fire was discovered at 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon in the southeast corner of the huge pavilion. The first alarm brought four engines and a hook and ladder truck, but by the time they arrived the fire had gained such headway that a 4-11 alarm was sent in. This was quickly followed by two special calls, each for ten more engines, and in a short time thirty-four engines were at work. Within fifteen minutes after the discovery of the fire the huge building, with its dome towering nearly 200 feet, was enveloped in one seething, surging mass of flame. The long speedway in the center caused - a draft, which carried the flames far out beyond the building, communicating with the hotel 150 feet away. Seeing that the pavilion could not be saved, the firemen turned their attention to the hotel. The fire started in the hotel in the rear near the elvator shaft, and up this the flames shot high above the roof, communicating the blaze to each of the four floors. After nearly three hours’ work the flames were subdued, but not before the building was left almost a shell. The total loss to the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, according to the estimate of J. A. Spoor, vice-president and general manager of the company, will reach the sum of $294,000. All of the property was insured, but with the exception of the hotel the insurance was not equal to the value of the property.

RAISING MONEY FOR WAR.

Question of How Uncle Sam Will Kaiae Funds for Philippine War. Secretary Gage, of the Treasury, is engaged in<the task of ascertaining whence the funds are to come with which to pay the largely-increased army recently determined on by the President and Secretary Root. The recipts of the government did not meet the extraordinary expenditures when the army was Smaller, and the problem of how to meet the cost of 30,009 additional troops gives the Treasury Department some uneasiness. The administration, it is said, is unwilling to make another bond issue, but if this cannot be avoided it will be done; and it is asserted that Secretary Gage has ample authority to issue more bonds for the prosecution of the war in the Philippines, which is regarded as a part of the war with Spain. It seems to be generally conceded that custom duties should not be further increased and thus the means of'raising necessary funds lie in war taxes, or bonds, or both. The following are some of the suggestions that find favor among the revenue officials: The imposition of a stamp tax on all patent protected articles, the theory being that the value of the article is greatly enhanced by the protection of the patent laws of the United States, and that, as a war measure purely, the government would be justified in demanding a fractional part of the profits secured through the establishment of a monopoly by virtue of the patent laws. It is also proposed to place a stamp tax on all slot machines in which there is any element of chance. It has been found that the manufacture of these machines has attained gigantic proportions. In each of them the percentage of profit to the proprietor is enormous, and the tax would not be oppressive. Of course, this would not strike those machines which dispense chewing gum, for in them there is no element of chance, and the gum already pays a government tax. Another proposition that has met with favor at the hands of the Treasury Department Is one to put a stamp tax on all firearms, except such as are used for national, State or municipal purposes;

PERTINENT Personals

Bourke Cockran was once a porter for A. T. Stewart. * According to the Jewish Chronicle Paderewski is a Jew. Russ&l Sage’s sister lives at Oneida, N. Y. She is 93 years* old. Daniel Lamont’s private fortune is now said to reach $5,000,000. Mrs. Howyd Gould owns a fan for which her husband paid SIOO,OOO. Governor Roosevelt has taken to the Gladetonian .exercise of felling trees. ,*T. P. O’Connor says Mrs. Langtry looks quite as yonng as she did ten years ago. R. D. Blackmore, ’ author of “Lorna Boone,” is a prosperous market gardener. Min Yong Whoa, the new minister to Washington from Corea, speaks English fluently. William L. Elkins the street rail* way syndicate began life as an errand boy in a grocery. Leopold Carreras of Rhfiadelphia does not read jokes, as he dislocates his jaw

Pa in Conquered; Health Restored by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.

[IITTII TO MM. FIKKHAM XO. 91,649] M I feel it my duty to write and thank you for what your Vegetable Compound has done for me. It is the only medicine I have found that has done me any good. Before taking your medicine, I was all run down, tired all the time, no appetite, pains in my back and bearing down pains and a great sufferer during menstruation. After taking two bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I felt like a new woman. lam now on my fourth bottle and all my pains have left me. I feel better than I have felt for three years and would recommend your Compound .to every suffering woman. I hope this letter will help others to find a cure for their troubles.” Mbs. Della R.EMICKEB, ReNSSELAEE, IND. The serious ills of women develop from neglect of early symptoms. Every pain and ache has a cause, and the warning they give should not be disregarded. Mrs. Pinkham understands these troubles better than any local physician and will give every wonian free advice who is puzzled about her health. Mrs. Pinkham’s address is Lynn, Mass. Don’t put off writing until health is completely broken down. Write at the first indication of trouble. A Dilemma. “It’s no use,” remarked Mr. Blyklns, as he looked at the thermometer. “What’s the trouble?” “A man can’t tell what to do. It’s so warm that I can’t get along without a fan, and if I fan myself sufficiently to make any impression I’m sure to overexert myself and get still warmer.”— Washington -Star.

An Important Personage.

Conductor—See that insignificant little fejlow over there at the pie coiinter? Passenger—Yes; what of him? Conductor He's more Important than the President of the road. What he says goes. Passenger—lndeed! Who is he? Conductor—He’s the train dispatcher.

PLEASES ITS PATRONS.

Grand Trunk Adds New Dining Cars to Its Equipment. The Grand /Trunk Railway has added two additional dining cars to its equipment. They are models of artistic beauty and materially add to the pleasure of traveling over this popular system. With improved, first-class coaches and the finest sleeping cars that are run on any through trains in America, it was essential to have the finest that could be got in the Way of dining cars. The management, therefore, placed these two new dining salons on the middle and western divisions, running between Suspension Bridge and Chicago. The cars are much appreciated and admired by the traveling public. The cars are 74 feet over all and are equipped with standard wide vestibules, steel platforms and six wheel trucks, with 33-inch steel tyred wheels. Air signals are attached, an anti-telescop-ing device affixed, and all modern appliances added. The general exterior appearance of the cars is similar to the new standard day coaches which are run on the Grand Trunk system. The windows are glazed with heavy plate glass, are all double, being dust proof when shut. The dining room is large, being 31 feet 8 inches long, and will seat thirty persons comfortably. The general style of the interior design is colonial, in quartered oak. The chairs are of oak, upholstered in leather. The windows are decorated with costly draperies, and the openings into the dining room are provided with ornamental portieres. The floors are carpeted with handsomely designed Wilton throughout the whole length of the car, and the vestibuled floors are covered with rubber tiling. The kitchen and pantry are equipped with refrigerators, range, steam table, lockers and all modern conveniences, the tables being covered with polished brass. A very handsome and beautifully designed sideboard is placed at one end of the dining room, just in front of pantry and opposite to the sideboard a wine locker is provided. China and linen closets, wardrobes and white metal washstands are in evidence in accordance •. with modern practice. The cars are heated with hot water coils in connection with steam from the engine and lighted by what is known as the Adams and Westlake Acme lamps, and the trimmings throughout are of solid bronze, most beautifully designed. The new car which is now running between Suspension Bridge and Port Huron, is elaborately decorated in a general green and gold effect, While, the one operated between Port Huron and Chicago is artistically decorated in gold, maroon being the predominating color, giving the car a most comfortable appearance. Altogether they are superb creations of skilled workmanship and greatly admired by all who see them.

An Old Adage Enforced.

“Your remarks are m-tlmed, Mr. Slowpay,” said the boarding-house landlady. “There is a time for everything, you know.” “Yes, I know,” replied Mr. Slowpay, as he helped himself to another plate of hash, “and I am forcibly reminded that this is the time.”

Divided Responsibility.

Kitty—Does the man marry the woman or the woman marry the man? Tom—Sometimes one way and sometimes t’other; but usually the man and the women are equally to blame for it. —Boston Transcript

Chicago Great Western Increase.

The grow earnings of the Chicago Great Western Ry. for the second week of September, 1899. show an increase of $37,922.70 over the corresponding weak of last year, making a total increase of $65,999.98 for the first half of September. The total increase for Joly and August, the first two months of the fiscal year,has been $156,635.68. Increase in net esrniags since July 1, $71,367.15.

Cost of a Royal Family.

The total coat to Russia of the imperial family is $20,000,000 per year.

Holland’s Hyacinth Fields.

Holland is still the bulb grower of the world. Supremacy in hyacinths and tulips is the one distinction left w'hich gains a niche for Holland among the world powers. ,No one who is acquainted with the figures of the Dutch bulb trade and has watched the insinuation of the hyacinth into the most forbidding corners of English urban life will doubt that Haarlem’s industry is a world power. Ought not, then, every Hollander to be proud of Haarlem? Should not he take off his hat to every hyacinth bloom he passes? And if he is not skilled to bow with grace the flower will teach him, for the humility of natural beauty invariably saves the hyacinth from any arrogance of bearing. True, it has not the singular grace of the daffodil, which learns the lesson of humility and bends its head just at the crisis of its glory; still, the upright hyacinth, left to its own devices, is never stiff. Also, should not the Dutchman at every feast reserve one cup to toast the tulip—a handsomer cup than ever he will drink from? It is a pity that the Hollanders have not a canonizing church, for St. Hyacinthus would make an ideal patron, and Flower Show Monday at Haarlem might be his day. That is the one day when the natives seem to realize that they owe their living to these blossoms. Nearly everybody wears one somehow; bicycles, carriages and humans all bear the floral mark; they cannot be called decorated; the flowers ofteh hang discourteously reserved, still there is a sense of duty to it.— Saturday Review.

Fifty Cents for Nothing.

What will the inventive brain of man do next?, This is a question some one asks almost daily. There is one, tbough, who leads all others, who for a quarter of a century has been making fine laundry starch, and to-day is offering the public the finest starch ever placed on the market. Ask your grocer for a coupon book which will enable you to get the first two packages of this new starch, “RED CROSS” (trade mark brand), also two children’s Shakspeare pictures, painted in twelve beautiful colors, 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 CHAIN STARCH BOOK. This is one of the greatest offers ever made to introduce “RED CROSS” laundry starch, J. C. Hubinger’s latest invention.

She Got There in Time.

“Madam,” said the fat man to the bedraggled woman who boardeji the car, “could not you have told that it was going to rain when you. left the house?” “Yes, sir, I could,” she promptly replied. “Yes, I saw that jt was going to rata, and I had no umbrella, but it was the last day of the sale of 39-cent perfumery for 9 cents a bottle, and I had to get down to the store or miss the biggest bargain of the century.”

NEBRASKA’S GREAT CORN CROP

300,000,000 Bushels Is the Estimate and It May Be More. A conservative estimate of Nebraska’s corn crop, which is now safe from frest, is 300,000,000 bushels. It is hard for rhe mind to grasp just what these figures mean. Counting 60 bushels of shelled corn to the load, it would take five million teams to haul the crop to market, a caravan that would reach around the world. It will take an army of 80,000 men over two months to husk it if they husk 60 bushels a day each. If loaded into cars of 30,000 capacity it would take 600.000 cars to haul the crop, a train over 4,000 miles long. At no time within the past ten years has there been such a tendency on the part of farmers to look for new locations. either to better themselves or to provide homes for their children. Many sections in the East are overcrowded w’hile thousands of acres of rich, wellwatered lands can still be had in Nebraska and northern Kansas at comparatively low prices. Thousands will visit that country this fall, as the railroads have announced cheap-rate harvest excursions for Oct. 3 and 17.

Coincidences

Fuddy—There is something peculiar about Titcomb. Duddy—Never saw anything * good about him. Fuddy— I mean it is funny how things turn out with him. He says he has on three different occasions made up his mind to move just as his landlord had made up his mind to bone him for rent. Titcomb thinks such coincidences are wonderful.—Boston Transcript

Shake Into Your Shoes

▲lien’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painiul, swollen, smarting, nervous feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort 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, tired, 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.

Nothing Else.

Fred—And what do yon think of my argument, Will? Will—Sound—most certainly sound. Fred—And what else? Will—Nothing else—merely sound.— Tit-Bits.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

Is * constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. Provision is the foundation of hospitality and thrift the fuel of magnificence.—Blr P. Sidney. Two bottles of Pico’s Cure-for Consumption eared me of a bad lung trouble. —Mrs. J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 96, ’96. — Even the worm will turn—perhaps Into a butterfly. assasF

Nation of Kings

There now remains only one people and one little valley south of the equator whose sovereignty has not been claimed by some European power. It is the valley of B&rotse, fifty or sixty miles wide, north of Lialun, in South Africa. And the only reason why the Marotse, who inhabit it, have preserved their independence is that England and Portugal both claim it, and therefore the work of “civilization” is at a stand still It may not be so easy to conquer the Marotse when the time comes, for they are a tall, well-set-up race, very black in skin. In manners they are very courteous and in bearing dignified. Every full-blooded Marotse Is by birthright a king, and takes his place in the aristocracy of the empire. In fact, as every one is king, there is no head ruler. The bare fact that he is a Marotse insures the respect of the subservient tribes, and as he grows to manhood a sense of superiority usually Implants in the native the dignity of self-respect All the labor is done by slaves who have been captured from neighboring tribes.

The Best Man Wins.

Prize fighting may not be a pleasant subject, but “it teaches a lesson—the inability of man to hold the championship for any length of time. How unlike that great champion' of health, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which has for fifty years cured constipation, dyspepsia, biliousness and liver trouble.

Trying tn Be Cheerful.

“Don’t you wish you were a polar bear?” asked the perspiring friend. “No,” gently answered the man who has had so much hard luck he has become humble. “I don’t wish I were a polar bear. If I were it would be my luck to be one who has to live to a zoological garden and wonder whether the keeper is going to put any fresh water in his four-by-seven basin. It’s a sad lot, but I’d rather be a human being and be able to go over to the ice-water tank when I feel like it and help myself.”—Washington Star.

Unrequited Affection.

They were sitting on the bench trying to catch what the wild waves were saytag. “I dearly love the sea,” Bal’d the first girl, as she gazed at the billowy expanse. “Oh, what’s the use,” replied the second sweet girl. “You know the attempt to extract gold from it was a failure.”

Satisfield.

The Face—Just think! Not a single man at the hotel. The Fairy—Well, I rather prefer mar-, rled men myself.—Kansas City Independent

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