Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — Page 3

The Causes of Cancer.

There are few diseases that human family that are more to be dreaded than those of a cancerous nature. The cancer proper Is a most appalling foe to life. Whether it can be cured is and always has been a debatable question. Cases are cited where alleged marvelous cures have been effected, but this does not to any appreciable extent alter the facts in the case that the cancer is practically incurable, once It gets any sort of headway in the system. The causes of this disease have been so imperfectly understood that any effort at prevention was worse than useless. A French scientist claims to have discovered cancer gernls in wood, and that artisans who work in wood are much more subject to this disease, all things being considered, than those who handle most other materials. Having once started on this line of research, he found cancer germs In wood and vegetation of various kitfds. Elm and willow trees showed a greater proportion of these germs than other woods. In high altitudes or where trees are not common, very few cancer germs were found; from all of which it appears that we may be at last on the high road to some reliable and conclusive knowledge upon a subject which has baffled the skill of medical scientists for many years.

The American Working Man.

Much comparison has been made betweeiv the endurance of the Chinese and the American workingman. Those with authority say that the average workingman of America is as superior to the Chinese as Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is to any other dyspepsia cure. The Bitters also cures constipation, indigestion and prevents malaria.

Forced to It.

Parke>—lt is wonderful what an enormous price a man can pay for a .frightfully uncomfortable cottage at the seashore. Lane—What did you get It for? Parke—Well, I wanted to make my wife and family happy for the summer.

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 is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. *4 the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.

The Coarse of True Love.

She—There is one serious obstacle before us. - He—Your parents? She—No; but my little brother is unalterably opposed to our attachment Harlem Life.

Stamps.

The varieties of stamps now current in the world number 13,811.

Carter’s Ink

Is so good and so cheap that no family can afford to be without It. Is yours Carter’s? Men don’t always have Uf* climb to fame—the bridge jumper, for instance. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.—Dionysius.

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TAKU ROAD, LEADING FROM TIEN-TSIN TO THE FORTS.

CHICAGO “REDS” ARRESTED.

Police Prevent Anarchist Meeting to Approve Humbert’s Assassination. Anarchy tried to come to life in Chicago again for a little while Sunday afternoon. The effort continued long enough to cause a riot in the street in front of the West Twelfth Street Turner Hall. The riot lasted long enough only for the police to gather up Mrs. Lucy Parsons and dump her in a patrol wagon, grab Abraham Edelstalt because he yelled “Shame,” to smash Clement Pfeuntzner because he was supposed to be a dangerous anarchist, to drag in two other anarchists, and, with this batch of five in the wagon, to go galloping off to the police-station. This was all that came of the proposed celebration in West Twelfth Street Turner Hall of the murder of King Humbert. A handful of policemen was all that was needed to put an end to the plans and hopes of revived anarchy in Chicago. King Humbert’s assassination was to have been celebrated with a big meeting. Mrs. Parsons, whose husband, Albert Parsons, was hanged for complicity in the Haymarket massacre in 188(1 and who was, with her husband, one of the leaders of the anarchists then, was to have been the principal speaker at the meeting. L. S. Oliver, another old-time anarchist, was to have made a speech. Simonetta. the Italian anarchist, was to have discussed what lie called the master stroke of Bressi in murdering King Humbert. This meeting was -to have for its watchword the cry that anarchy was not dead in Chicago. The police set about to demonstrate to the anarchists that anarchy was dead in Chicago.

HORRIBLE STORIES

Told by Natives Who Have Escaped from Pekin. Belated advices from Pekin, via CheFoo, to Shanghai, say a messenger who attempted to leave Pekin was captured, according to deserting Chinese officers, and a message addressed to "Any foreign commander,” urging instant aid for foreigners, was found. It was undated hut evidently sent out about July 25. These deserting officers left Pekin July 15. The streets were then jammed with anarchistic Chinamen, whose fighting among themselves literally reddened the gutters with blood. They say there are I<>,ooo troops in Pekin and 8,000 at Tungtsun, and they hold all the streets within a mile of the legations and had burned and abandoned the Ohenffien gate. Viceroy Liu Kun Yi and Director Sheng both officially declare the ministers are held ns hostages and that if the allies advance, they will be killed. Stories of horrible barbarities continue to come in. Two French nuns at New Chwang were burned alive. Dr. Ting, who graduated from an American college, received 2.000 lashes but refused to renounce Christianity. In several instances native Christians were skinned alive.

OFFICIALS BEHEADED JULY 28.

Bhenit Confirms Story—Li Ping* Hang Master at Pekin. A dispatch from Shanghai says that Director of Telegraphs Sheng in fin interview confirms the story of the execution of two members of the, tsung-li-ya-men. or Chinese foreign office, for friendliness to tin* foreigners, and adds the names of the officials and the circumstances of their death. He says the victims of Li Piug Hang’s wrath were Hsu Ching Cheng, formerly minister to Russia, and more recently imperial directorgeneral of railways, and Yuan Chang. They had been doing good work in suppressing the Boxers, and had supported the efforts of Prince Ching to save the foreigner ministers and restore order in Pekin. For this they incurred the displeasure of Li Ping Hang, and, notwithstanding their high office as members of the tsung-li-yameu. they were led out on July 28 and beheaded, as a warning to others. Gov. MeSweeney of South Carolina tried to prevent the lynching of*two negroes at Florence, ami when the mob refused to disperse, called out the militia to guard t!»' v jail. Alexander Donelsou. a leading citizen of Davidson County, Tennessee, was assassinated near the Noldiers’ Home at Hermitage, Tenn. The murderer la unknown. The British flag was planted on Nieu or Savage Island by her majesty’s ship Porpoise in June. The island is situated 300 miles northeast of the X° n Ka group, and has a fertile soil. There has been talk lately in Switzerland' of an alliance with the United States. One paper has even favored joining the American Union as a State.

AMERICA'S REPLY TO LI-HUNG-CHANG

SECRETARY OF STATE HAY.

The following statement was given out at the State Department in Washington, consisting of a telegram to the U nited States embassies in Berlin, London, Paris, Rome and St. Petersburg, and to the United States minister at Tokio: Department of State, Washington, Aug. I.—ln reply to a suggestion of Li-Hung-Cbaug that the ministers might be sent under safe escort to Tieu-Tsin, provided the powers would engage not to march on Pekin, the Secretary of State replied on the 30th of July: “This government will net enter Into any arrangement regarding disposition or treatment of legations without first having free communication with Minister Conger. Responsibility for their protection rests upon the Chinese government. Power to deliver at Tieu-Tsin pre supposes power to protect and to open communication. This is insisted on. This message was delivered l>y Minister Goodnow, on the 31st, to Viceroy Li, whe then inquired whether, “If free communication was established between ministers and their governments, if could be arranged that the powers should not advance on Pekin pending negotiations.” To this inquiry the following reply was sent on the Ist of August: "Goodnow, fonstii General, Shanghai—l do not think it expedient to submit the proposition of Karl Li to the other powers. Free communication with our representatives in Pekin is demanded as a matter of absolute right and not as a favor. Since the Chinese government admits that it possesses the power to give communication it puts itself in an unfriendly attitude by denying it. No negotiations seem advisable until the Chinese government shall have put. the diplomatic representatives of the powers in full and free communication with respective governments and removed all danger to their lives and liberty. We would urge Earl Li earnestly to advise the imperial authorities of China to place themselves in friendly communication and co-operation with the relief expedition. They are assuming a heavy responsibility in acting otherwise." You will communicate this information to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.”

THE SHAH OF PERSIA.

Oriental Potentate Whose Life Wae Recently Attempted in Paris. The Shah of Persia, Muzaffir-ed-Din, followed in the footsteps of his father, Nasr-ed-Din, who twice made a tour in Europe, has been visiting the various European courts. He concluded his tour by a visit to the Paris exposition, and it was there that his assassination was attemptfed.. v ■ MMBfflr-ed-Din, who is 47 years of age. is the second son of his father, his elder brother, Zil-es-Sultan, being Governor of Ispahan. He was nominated as the suc-

THE SHAH OF PERSIA.

ceaaor to the throne by his father, and succeeded him in the summer of 1890, when Nasi--ed-I)iu died by the hand of an assassin. Mirzaffir-ed-Din arrived at Erivnn, in Russia, on Thursday, May 24, and at Tiflis on the following Monday. The Russian populace received his majesty with much enthusiasm. Continuing his progfes»j;> Muzaffir-ed-Din reached St. Petersburg at the end of May. and from there went to Warsaw.- There he -was awarded a magnificent reception. A grand entertainment was provided for the Shah. Mexico is considering the advisability of adopting a standard system of reckoning time. At present Mexico has an official time, computed at the capital and telegraphed to various parts of the republic. That time differs from Greenwich six and one-half houys. The fear of cholera and the plague renders many of the natives of India heartless. A correspondent writes that when a member of a family is attacked by the disease, he or she is shut np in the house with a pitcher of water, and left to die.

V C ROY L- HUNG - CHANG.

Few-Line Interviews.

R. T. Heintzelman, a San Francisco lawyer, talking of the Alaskan gold fields: "The output of gold from Alaska for the present year will not be less than $25,000,000. and I would not be surprised to see it far in excess of those figures, \earlj every steamer now brings from a quarter to half a million in dust, and the heavy shipments have not yet begun. About one-third of the men who are returning from Alaska this year have made fortunes there, and only a few of them have Imen at a financial loss because of theii venture. The better means of transponatiou and the increased number of people there ar“ making conditions if life easier in the gold fields, and I look for even a larger number of men to try a hazard of new fortunes next year in the far north.” L. T. Marigold, a prominent lawyer of New Orleans, says that Mississippi River traffic is by no means a thing of the past: “It is true that passenger traffic is not what it used to be, although many people who are in no particular hurry still prefer to travel by the river, but the freight that annually is carried up and down the Father of Waters is something enormous. And our hew interests in the West Indian Islands will tend to greatly increase it. New Orleans will be a port of entry for a great-deal of the commerce from Cuba and Porto Rico, and much of it will l>e carried up the river to St. Louis and Chicago and other centers of population.” William F, Ansley, of Florence, Ala., to a Washington reporter: "The negroes do not want to leave the South, and the white people of the South are juat as anxious to keep them'. 1 have had a large experience with the negro, and 1’ find hiiri a necessity, it might be that after u generation of immigration and the gradual change of methods and characteristics, tlie white people would be able to perforin their labor, hut at present the negro is a necessity in the home, on the farm, ami in every branch of manual labor. In my opinion the solution Is in the hands of the people of the South.” Estell McHenry, of St. Lonis, says that the Eads jetties are ready to be taken over by the government: "The Mississippi jetties are among the most 'gigantic engineering feats of the world, costing in the neighborhood of $5,000,000; and making a 20-foot channel out of a stream where there was formerly bnt eight feet of water. This has made of New Orleans a port for the largest among ocean-going vessels, where otherwise only the smallest of craft could have crossed the bars.”

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Not a Savage Indian.

As an illustration of that sort of salutary reproof which is sometimes administered by an “inferior,” Our Dumb Animals prints an incident communicated by a South Dakota minister. The clergyman had been asked to receive an Indian boy into his family for a few weeks, and had consented to keep the lad If he did not prove to be “too much of a savage.” He turned out to be a pretty good boy, so much so that one day, as a great treat, the mrm lster gave him a gun and told him to. take a holiday and go hunting. The Indian shook his head. “No,” he said, quietly. “Me belong to Band of Mercy. Me not shoot birds or animals, only rattlesnakes.” The minister had been very fond of using that gun, but he says he does not care much for it now.

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An Explanation.

Singleton—l wonder why a spinster nearly always has a cat or a dog for a pet? Wederly—Oh, I suppose she wants something that will stay out at night occasionally, so she will have something to worry about,—Chicago News.

What Do the Children Drlnie? Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have yon tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems, Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about y+ as much. All grocers sell iL 15c and 25c.

Very Little Space.

“My parents may come between us,” she faltered. “If they do,” he exclaimed hotly, “they must be pretty smalll.” And be pressed her still closer to his manly breast.—Philadelphia Record.

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A Gloomy Outlook.

First Professional North Pole Explorer—You look worried, comrade. Second Professional North Pole Explorer—Yes; I fear that some day one of those relief expeditions is going to discover the pole.—Puck.

Correct.

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Bad Place for Sweethearts.

Kissing is unknown to the Australian aborigfnes, the Maories, Papuans, and Eskimo. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds,— N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. 17,1800. • There are more beautiful and costly Illustrated trade catalogues issned in this country than in any other section of the globe.

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