Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — Page 7

My Mother Had Consumption "My mother wu troubled with consumption for many years. At last she was gives up to die. A neighbor told her not to give up but try Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. She did so and was speedily cured, and is now in the enjoyment of good health.” D. P. Jolly, Feb. 2,1899. Avoca.N.Y. Cures Hard Coughs «1 1 No matter how hard your cough is or how long you have had it,’Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you could possibly take. But it’s too risky to wait until you have consumption, for sometimes it’s impossible to cure this disease. If you are coughing today, don’t wait until tomorrow, but get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once and be relieved. It strengthens weak lungs. Throx size*: 25c., enough for an ordinary cold; 50c., just right for asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness, whooping-cough, hard colds; SI.OO. most economical tor chronic caaM and to keep on hand. The John M. Smyth Co. Have No Agr-nta. The well-merited popularity -of the great mail order establishment of the ■John M. Smyth Co. of Chicago seems to have induced unscrupulous parties to go through the country and falsely represent themselves as sales agents for this house. By thus representing themselves they Shave succeeded in imposing upon many iby selling goods and taking cash and -notes from victims who actually believed ’they were purchasing goods from the ’representatives of the firm direct. The John M. Smyth Co. have no agents and ■denounce as frauds all parties traveling through the country and claiming to represent the firm. The public should be on the lookout' for such impostors. Russian Peasant-Woman Poet. A few years ago Europe was talking about the poetic gifts of the Russian peasant woman, Irena Feodossowa. After living for some time with friends in St. Petersburg she went to visit her o*d home, where she died'recently, aged 70. She was an insignificant, shriveled woman, small and lame, but with an intelligent face. Iler memory was simply astounding; she knew by heart about 20,000 verses, and was regarded as a perfect cyclopaedia of legendary lore. Dane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. la order to be healthy this ia necessary. Acta gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Itilians in Argentina. One-fourth of the inhabitants of the Argentine Republic are Italians. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an especially good medicine for Croup. Mrs. M. R. Avent, Jonesboro, Texas, May 9, 1891. Durable Soap Bubbles. Bubbles made of filtered Castile soapsuds and glycerine will late for days. MILLIONS OF ACRES MOt Choice Agricultural Lands now opened for settlement in Western Canada. Here is grown the celebrated No. 1 Hard Wheat, which brings the highest price in the markets of the world. Thousands of cattle are fattened for market- without being fed grain, and without a day’s shelter. Send forinh -mation and secure a free home m Western Canada. Write to F. Pedley, Supt. Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the undersigned, who will mail you atlases, pant£blets, etc., free of cost: C. J. Broughton, 1222 lonadnock Bldg., Chicago, HI.; T. O. Currie Stevens Point. Wis.: M. V. Mclnnes, No. 1 Merrill Blobk, Detroit, Mich.; D. Caven, Bad Axe Mich.; James Grieve, Heed City, Mich.: N. Bar* tholomew, 306 Fifth Street, Des Moines, lowa Agents for the Government of Canada. [g Cures a Cough or Cold at once, 9] Conquers Croup without fall. ■M Is the best for Bronchitis, Grippe, IpM Hoarseness, Whooping-Cough, and for the cure of Consumption. EJ ■5) Mothers praise it. Doctors prescribe it ■tod Small doses; quick, sure results. Tlil:IJIHIl!ltBl;lilll-.ny Eli’s Croam Bahn /6S3X WILL CURE Drnggisu, SO Cto. . •** Tmv p *“ Un r traalllNa double ■ ■■IWIWIIW quick: Writ* Os|L miULL Fsuisa Agwt. VatMactoa. BA

GEORGE WASHINGTON, DIED DEC, 14, 1799.

IN HONOR OF WASHINGTON.

Exercises Commemorating the lOOth Anniversary of Hie Death. The 100th anniversary of the death of George Washington, the liberty loving revolutionary leader and first President, was observed throughout the United States! Thursday. In Washington City and at Mount Vernon the anniversary was celebrated with impressive Masonic ceremonies. President McKinley and his cabinet took part in the exercises, as well as delegations from about fifty lodges throughout the United States, England, Canada, Nova Scotia and New Zealand. At sunrise guns from Fort Washington began sending their noisy tribute to the honored dead lying at Mount Vernon on the opposite bank of the historic Potomac. The echoes reached Washington city and gave the signal to the host of Masons gathered from far and near that the ceremonies of the day had begun. The procession to Washington's tomb was composed of the Master Masons of the District of Columbia. Following these came the officers of the grand lodges of the District and of Virginia and the grand representatives of the lodges of twenty States, together with various civic, and military organizations. An interesting figure in the procession was George Washington of Shepherdstown, W. Va., the grand nephew of President Washington and the son of the last Washington to own Mount Vernon. R. T. W. Duke of Virginia, the eighth descendant from Gen. Washington, also took part in the procession. The procession, headed by the Third United States cavalry band, marched down Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street to the river, where boats were taken for Mount Vernon. Meanwhile, at 10 o’clock, President McKinley boarded a special electric train to go to Mount Vernon. He was accompanied by the members of his cabinet and invited guests. On arriving at Mount Vernon the procession was reformed and moved to the historic mansion, where President McKinley joined the column. It then marched to the old vault, to which the remains of Washington were consigned Dec. 18, 1799, moving by the same path and in the same order as in the fun-eral procession of 100 years ago. The places of honor at the vault were given to the representatives of the lodges with which Washington was identified in his lifetime. A solemn dirge by a band was followed by prayer by Bishop Randolph of the Southern Episcopal diocese of Virginia.

This and That.

August Lowell, Boston, gave $50,000 to the institute of technology. Richard S. Berlin of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed census supervisor of that city. Postmaster Bailey, colored, Millview, Fla., gets five years in the pen for embezzlement. Giantess Ella Ewing has erected a house at Gorin, Mo., ,the doors of which are ten feet high. James Tates, a Chicago waiter, was fatally stabbed with an umbrella in the hands of a customer. A Sonora (Mexico) mine operator says the war with the Yaqui Indians will continue for two years. Patrick Harrington of Sacramento, Cal., had his mind unbalanced while taking a degree in a society. German officials who accompanied the Emperor to England have been appointed honorary knights of the Victorian order. Efforts are being made to combine the leading manufacturers of enameled bathtubs, washtubs, laundry and bathroom equipments. Surgeon General Sternberg of the United States army is said to have found a Venezuelan shrub which will cure the leprosy. Struggling with a cat which he was trying to kill. Francis Pelky, of Novato, Cal., was shot in the foot, the animal clawing the trigger of the rifle which he held in one hand. Constable Cornwell and George Howard, near Columbia, S. C., are dead. Moonshine whisky fight. Andrew Sallender, city assessor, Frankfort, Ky., died of blood poisoning, caused by the cutting of a small pimple on his face. Speyer & Co., New York have purchased the holdings of the Stanford estate in the Southern Pacific, amounting to 285,000 shares. In accordance with a dying wish, the ashes of Mrs. Clara Karl’s body were scattered to the winds from the statue of liberty in New York bay.

COLONEL J. F. BELL.

American Commander Who Has Won Honors in the Philippines. Col. James Franklin Bell, who added new honors to his career by defeating and putting to flight the Filipino brigades under Gens. San Miguel and Alejandrins in the mountains near Mangatarem, ii an officer of the regular army, in which he holds the rank of lieutenant. Before going to the Philippines he was attached to the Seventh cavalry, and was stationed at Fort Riley, in Kansas. As colonel

COLONEL BELL.

of the Thirty-sixth United States'volunteers Bell distinguished himself two months ago in the action near Porac, when he rode in advance of his troops and single-handed charged seven of the enemy. He captured a captain and two privates, and the remaining four Eilipinos fled before the shots from his pistol. For this gallant conduct the President directed that a congressional medal be presented to him. Col. Bell is a native of Kentucky. He was appointed to the military academy in 1874, and was graduated in 1878.

The Political Pot.

The four leading candidates for Governor in Florida are gold men. Neither party expects more than 5,000 plurality in Maryland this year. Senator Morgan’s re-election from Alabama will be opposed by Joseph F. Johnston, present Governor of the State. Again there is a movement to make the vote cast, not the electoral vote, the basis of representation at Republican national conventions. Among Illinois newspapers there is a general belief that Carter H. Harrison will be the Democratic candidate for Governor. In Utica, N. Y., a Republican was elected as a member of the City Council by one majority, and his election makes the Council Republican. The Connecticut House of Representatives has in its membership 101 farmers and seventeen mechanics. There are 252 members in the House. Petitions are being circulated for the nomination of Mayor Jones for Congress in the Toledo district of Ohio for the November election in 1900. According to the Philadelphia Ledger ex-Senator Quay does not expect to be seated on Gbv. Stone’s appointment, and he is urging an extra session of the Legislature. The Anti-Saloon League is taking an active part in the campaign for the Speakership of the Ohio Legislature in opposition to A. F. McCormick, the leading candidate. In one New York election district the thirty-third of the Twenty-first Assembly, there are only five voters, and the cost of primaries and election is 5250, or SSO to a voter. z Reuben F. Kolb, who ran for Governor of Alabama some ten years ago on an independent ticket, is mentioned with fafor as the regular Democratic nominee for the next race.

Indian Magicians Not Clever.

The Indian conjurers are not very •lever. They offer no new tricks and no wonderful ones. Their counterparts in China are many times more deft, audacious and original. The trick of rousing a mango tree to grow in the presence of a crowd is the most vaunted thing the Indians do, and that I failed to see, through it is practiced by many of these vagabonds. Several persons who have witnessed it told us that it is worked beneath a cloth or sack and that it seems as 4' it might easily, be done by drawing a small young plant from the performer’s clothing and setting It up in the dirt under the covering. The so-called tree Is usually but a few inches—at the inostafoot—in height. However, against the reports of such skeptics we must weigh the testimony of many famous travelers. * * * Nearly all the conjurers we saw were also snake charmers. Their work with serpents is extremely interesting, even aft. r one learns how harmless are their snakes. The reptiles are carried in baskets and bags and are of all sizes. * * • The cobras are best worth watching. • • * Usually a mongoose is put out to fight a cobra, but the ferretlike animal is not only spiritless, but remains so. I never saw or heard of anything come from such a combat except once, at Delhi, when the conjurer was not looking and a large serpent killed and half swallowed the mongoose. And the most interesting thing about that was the noise of the owner’s lamentation.—Harper’s Magazine.

The Typewriter Invention.

A statistician has proven that the Invention of the typewriter has given employment to 500.000 people, but he fails to state how many cases of weak stomachs it has induced. All people of sedentary occupation need Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It helps nature to bear the strain which ensues from confinement.

Valuable Relic.

The Duchess of Northumberland possesses a shawl given her by Charles X. of France which cost a fabulous sum. It is manufactured from the fur of a species of Persian cat, the hair of Which is so fine that one strand IS hardly visible to the naked eye. The spinning, weaving and fashioning of the material required several years of labor and thousands of cat skins.

The Cause of Chapped Hands.

Much of the discomfort experienced from chapped hands in winter is caused by-washing with inferior soap, she ingredients being highly injurious to the skin. It is therefore important to have pure soap. If warm rain water and Ivory soap be used in washing the hands they may be kept clean and. smooth at ail seasons. ELIZA R. PARKER.

Turkish Women’s Rights.

The Turkish woman is marriageable at the age of 9 years, and by Turkish law at that age, if married, she is competent to manage her property and dispose of one-third of her fortune. The law allows her to abandon her husband’s house for just cause, and will protect her In so doing. She cannot be compelled to labor for the support of her husband.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it ia made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.

All About the Curtain.

Mrs. Stubbs—l declare, John, these spring curtains are not worth a row of pins. Just wait until I get hold of that clerk that sold them to me! Mr. Stubb—Going to give him a curtain lecture, Marla?

A HEALTHJBOOM. A Wave of Prosperity and Physical Well* Being Floods the Whole Country. EathMiaadc Statsswets from Aawricaa Cltheas Everywhere Whs Are Aaxleos te Islsra the World Hew WeU They Feel. The great secret jf gaining health and keeping It after it has been attained has been discovered and the news has swept across the whole United States, causing a perfect boom of health. The secret interests not only those who are 111, bat those who are well, for to maintain health illness must be prevented. Educate your bowels, keep your liver Uvely, and purify your system and blood with an antiseptic disinfectant! That’s all there is to it, but the means of accomplishing it never were known until the discovery of Casearets Candy Cathartic, the ideal modern scientific laxative. Hear what a few of the happy ones have to say: "I am a user of Casearets and think there is nothing like them.” Mrs. Lottie Pfeiffer, Arlington, Neb. “I have used Casearets in my family and there is nothing like them. 1 recommend them to everyone.” W. J. Berguin. Humboldt, 8. D. “We have been using Casearets in our family since last spring and cannot do without them.” Mrs. J. C. Jamieson, Poynette, ivis. “I use Casearets and could not get along without them. My husband uses and recommends them in bis practice.” Mrs. Dr. Nyce, 58 Ontario St.. Cohoes, N. Y. *‘l take pleasure in recommending Casearets. They are the most wonderful medical preparation I ever used. Casearets work like magic, and never fall.” John 8. Rice, 21 Seymour St., Philadelphia, Pa. “I am a firm believer in Casearets. They are the best cathartic I ever used.” Toto Holt, Wellwood, Manitoba. “I do not think there Is anything better for constipation than Casearets. I recommend them to all my friends." Minnie F. McCumb, Mianus, Conn. “I take pleasure In letting you know what good your Casearets have done for me. 1 suffered with constipation, pain in the stomach and dizziness for two years and tried most all kinds of medicines. A friend advised me to try Casearets. So I bought a 10c box, and after using them I felt great relief, and am now entirely well.” 8. Gould. 827 Durfor St., Philadelphia, Pa. Over five million boxes of Cascareta sold last year proves their merit. Buy and trv a box to-day. 10c, 25c, 50c. all Druggists. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Company. Chicago or New York. OThls is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Casearets bears the magic letters "CCC." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. There are meo who don't want the earth, bat all want lota.

Victoria's New Tea House.

England’s Queen intends to add one more to the list of tea houses on the Balmoral estate. Each of these retreats Is decorated to represent some particular country. For instance, there is “India,” which is furnished with bamboo and Indian matting, while “China” te decorated with the Celestial emblems in beautiful colorings. The new tea house is to be “America,” and will be put up in readiness for next year.

Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and when it is entirely closed. Deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its norma) condition, bearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out at ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. |3F*Sold by Druggists, 75c.

Money Lost on Horses.

According to tables made by sporting men over $250,000,000 is lost on the turf every year. Of this $50,000,000 is lost on English race courses and about $100,000,000 on Australian courses. The remainder is chiefly distributed between France, the United States and British colonies.

The Christmas Issue

of the Lake Shore Book of Trains is something entirely out of the ordinary in the way of railroad literature and will be found of interest to all. Copy will be sent to any address on receipt of 2-cent stamp. F. M. Byron, G. W. A., Chicago. A. J. Smith, G. P. A., Cleveland.

His Fancy.

Doctor—Let your son have anything he fancies, Mrs. Hardup. Young Hardup (love sick, feebly)— Then give me your daughter, doctor.

To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All «sts refund the money if it fails to cure. . W. Grove’s signature is on each box. The asp of Cleopatra is supposed to have been a small sand viper common in Egypt.

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Plain Girls Replace Vanity by Tact.

A lady who had seen much of tuß world was asked on one occasion wlqfl plain girls often get married soonofl than handsome ones. To which plied that it was owing mainly to thfl tact of the plain girls and the vanit]H and want of tact on the part of men., “How do you make that out?” a gentleman. J “The plain girls flatter the men, MR so please their vanity, while the haA|9 some ones wait to be flattered byfiijß men. who haven’t the tact to do 1

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Hayqß you tried the new food drink csßml GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nouriMM ing. and takes the place of coffee. fIM more Grain-O you give the children thcH more health you distribute through thaQR systems. Grain-O ia made of pure graiAO and when properly prepared tastes lImH the choice grades of coffee, but eoMH about >4 as much. All grocers sell it. 15n and 25c. I —

A Spanish Combination.

A Madrid journal is printed on with a composition easily by water, and the subscriber, after dQJ vourlng the news, washes his jouril|l| and has a handkerchief. g

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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