Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — Page 7

WAR IN THE ORIENT.

COLD WEATHER PREVENTS ACTIVE OPERATIONS. Both Armies Occupy Substantially the Positions They Have Held for Weeks —Progress of the Baltic Fleet—Next Battle May Be on the Sea.

A Mukden dispatch says that “the extreme cold keeps things quiet along the front.” When the thermometer is below zero one cannot look for active and continued military operations. There are reports of movements of Russian and Japanese flying columns, particularly on General Kuropatkin’s left flank, but both sides occupy substantially the positions they have held for weeks. If it be the intention of the Japanese to take their time henceforth about the reduction of Port Arthur it will be in their power to send Marquis byama a strong re-enforcement. The lowest estimate of General Stoessel’s force is 4,000 men. That probably is too low, but if he should have three times as many the Japanese can safely send away a considerable portion of their Port Arthur army. In the opinion of the Chicago Tribune, if Marquis Oyama, after having been re-enforced from that quarter, does not take the offensive speedily he probably never will. His army will have reached the highest point of efficiency after the arrival of the trained soldiers who have been fighting under . General Nogi. The men whom he may receive from Japan will not be of so good quality. On the other hand, the troops now reaching General Kuropatkin are drawn from the garrisons on the western frontier of the empire and are superior to many of those previously sent to him. before long General Kuropatkin should have at his disposal all the troops the carrying capacity of the Transsiberian railroad will permit him to keep supplied with provisions. The road is constantly being made more efficient by the construction of new sidings and the substitution of iron for wooden bridges. It would not be surprising to hear that the Japanese have given up the plan of assuming the aggressive for a policy less prodigal of the lives of the soldiers. In that event Marquis Oyama could choose between holding his present position after fortifying it more extensively, or he could fall back upon some point nearer his base and await his enemy there. It is admitted that the Russian ships at Port Arthur are destroyed, or are so badly damaged as to be unserviceable. The Japanese ships which have been blockading Port Arthur have gone home to refit and get ready to meet an advancing Russian fleet, which, though superior on paper, certainly is inferior in personnel. Naval officers of all nations have turned their eyes to the orient and are waiting eagerly for the result of the impending contest between great fleets of armored vessels. They have a professional interest in the matter aside from the general interest felt by all. General Stoessel has given General Nogi a map showing the positions of the hospitals in Port Arthur, so that they may be safe from Japanese fire.

Progress of the Baltic Fleet. It is almost three months and a half since the Baltic fleet was officially declared to have sailed from Cronstadt for the far East. However, the fleet lingered at Iteval and Libau for over a month after that, and the real beginning of its voyage must be dated from Oct. 10. It covered the first 2,200 miles of its 17,500-miie journey at the average speed of about four miles an hour. Then, at Tangier, it divided into two squadrons, one of which, under Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, started around the Cape of Good Hope and the other, under Rear Admiral Voelkersam, went by way of the Suez Canal. Rojestvensky’s squadron Is now coasting along German Southwest Africa. In forty days, since leaving Tangier, it has covered about 5,200 miles, at the average speed of five and a half miles aai hour. Voelkersnni’s squadron has left Jubutil, in French Somaliland, with a speed record up to date of about three miles an hour. The Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean are generally assumed to be the rendezvous for the fleets. At the present rate of speed Admiral Rojestvensky should be there about the 15th of January, the distance he has to cover being something less than 4,000 miles. Then, assuming that the second squadron has arrived and that a’third squadron which left Libau in November has caught up, he will be ready to take up the serious part of his adventure. It is 0,000 miles from the Chagos Islands to Vladivostok by way of the Tsugani Straits, or, for a fleet averaging five and a half miles an hour, about fifty days’ steaming. The fleet ought to cover this distance, It is true" in thirty to forty days, but experience up to date is sufficient to show that if It ever approaches Vladivostok nt all it will not be till the month of March at the earliest.

War News in Brief.

The Japanese cruiser Saiy» n was sunk by n Russian mine in front of Port Arthur. Japan is preparing to dispose of Russia’s Baltic Aeet when it readies Asiatic waters. The Japanese cruiser Adsuma is reported to have been blown up by a Rus■ian mine. The Japanese blew up Rlhl| M Hill Fort at Port Arthur, killing several hundred Ruseiana and rendering twenty gun■aelesa.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

The weekly review of PhjMnn Chicago trade, published a by R. G. Dun & Co., says: Business conditions exhibit steady progress toward greater activity. Snowstorms early in the week interfered with traffic, but this had slight effect and was quickly overcome, especially in holiday merchandising, sales within the last few days having attained unusually l»rge proportions. Other branches exhibit increased distribution, and in some lines extra effort in production is necessary to meet growing demands. Larger deliveries appear in grain, and railroad earnings reflect further gain in operations. Bank clearings maintain a high average, money is in more extended use and mercantile settlements remain satisfactory, while commercial defaults again make favorable comparison with those a year ago. Current buying is most active in heavy wear goods, boots and shoes and Christmas novelties. Late requests indicate that there has been gratifying reduction of both country and city retail stocks, and it is notable of present buying that discounting of bills, is of frequent recurrence. Western advices generally report favorable prospects for the jobbing interests, factories being steadily employed, and the farming classes able to spend freely foi their needs. Breadstuffs closed under revived demand, although export buying was very moderate. Wheat advanced 1 cent a bushel, but corn declined I’/y cents. Provisions were in lessened foreign need, and values suffered a slight decline. Live stock were in ample supply, and reached the highest average values this season. Bank clearings, $200,985,634, are 12.8 per cent over those of same week last year. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 26, against 25 last week and 31 a year ago.

Bradstreet’s report on Nev York. the general condition of 0 the country is as follows: Crop and industrial conditions are mainly favorable, and with seasonable activity in retail and holiday distri button in most sections the year is drawing to its close with a decidedly cheerful tone in most lines of business. Cold weather has stimulated , heavy dry goods, clothing and footwear and helped reorder business with jobbers Railway earnings for November show gains in gross exceeding 9 per cent, following an increase of 4 per cent in 1903, and rendering certain the prospect that the early small decrease shown in gross receipts for the calendar year will be turned into an increase. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Dec. J 5 number 239, against 231 last week, 239 in the like week in 1903, 225 in 1902, 262 in 1901, and 262 in 1900. In Canada failures for the week number 37, against 23 last w’eek and 22 in this week a year ago.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.13 to $1.16; corn, No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats, standard, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,72 cto 73c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $11.50; prairie, $6.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 26c; eggs, fresh, -18 c to 22c; potatoes, 28c to 36c. Indianapolis—Cnttle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, choice light, SI.OO to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; corn. No. 2 white, new, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $4.60; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, sl.lO to $1.12; corn. No. 2. 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2,29 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,70 dto 72c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, $2.00 to $4.40/ wheat, No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 82c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2. $1.16 to $1.17; corn, No. 3 yellow, 45c to 40c; onts. No. 3 white, 32c to 33c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 83c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern, $1.05 to $1.08; corn. No. 3,41 cto 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 76c to 77c; barley, No. 2,51 cto 52c; pork, mess. $12.60. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.14 to $1.15; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 82c to 83c; clover seed, prime, $7.92. Buffalo —Cnttle. choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to choice. $4.00 to $4.60; sheep, fair, to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $4.50 to $7.00. New York—Cattle, s3_.>o to s«>.«>s; hogs. $4.00 to $5.00: sheep. $3.00 to $4.90; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.16 to $1.18; corn. No. 2. 53c to 55c; oats, natural, white. 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 24c to 28c; eggs, western, 27c to 32c. Mrs. J: O. Rust, widow of the late John 6. Kttat. bns been elected president of Boscobel Female College in Nashville, Tenn. ______________ The report of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company for the year which ended June 30. shows a dawease in gross earning* of $185,680.

TO AWAKEN WHEN YOU WISH.

Simple Plan Which Requires No Alarm Clock to Be Bet. We hear it frequently asserted that If persons will impress the thought firmly upon their minds and continue thinking about it until they have fallen asleep that they desire to awake at a certain hour in the morning, they will do it without fail, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat But how many people have tried this method of insuring a prompt awakening at a given hour in the morning only to find their rest throughout the night dieturbed and uneasy? The brain will usually respond to the will and awaken one in the morning near the desired hour under any circumstances, but to prevent the unbroken, uneasy sleep the adoption of only a very simple device is necessary. The last thing before getting into bed, take a wrntch or clock and turn the hands to the hour at which one wishes to rise and gaze at this just long enough to fix the hour firmly od the retentive memory. Then, if no other Absorbing thoughts intervene'"between that and the moment one is locked in slumber, the night’s rest will be easy and unbroken and promptly at the hour in the morning, as a rule, one will find one’s self released from sleep and wide awake. There is no need to keep thinking of the hour continually for a number of minutes, no need to repeat it over and over in the mind; all that makes the brain uneasy and results in the disturbed slumber. Simply look at the watch or clock, as I have indicated, and the influence of the mind over matter will be clearly demonstrated in the morning. Try it some night and observe how smoothly this phsychologica 1 fa ct works.

Found at Last.

Hensley, Ark., Dec. 26. —(Special.) — That a sure cure for Backache would be a priceless boon to the people, and •specially the women of America, is admitted by all interested in medical matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of this place is certain she has found in Dodd’s Kidney Pills the long-looked-for cure. “I am 38 years old,” Mrs. Williams •ays, “and have suffered with the ■Backache very much for three or four years. I have been treated by good physicians and got no relief, but thanks to God, I have found a cure at last and it is Dodd’s Kidney rills. I have taken only one box and it has done me more good than all the doctors in three or four years. I want all sufferers from Backache to know that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills and get well.” Backache is one of the first symptoms of Kidney Disease. Guard against Bright’s Disease or Rheumatism by curing it with Dodd's Kidney Pills.

Everyday Swindlers.

“There it goes again,” said the trolley conductor as he rang the bell to let off a passenger who had only ridden for a square. “You’d be astonished,” continued the knight of the bell strap, “to know how many people try to beat the trolley for a free ride when they want to make a call a square or two away from home. “They hop on the .car, wait till it has started and then want to know if the car doesn't go to some place which they know it doesn’t come within a mile of. In this way they get their ride for nothing and go on their way in the belief that they have fooled the conductor.” —Philadelphia Press. * k

Theater-Going Under Difficulties.

Patron —I see you have a notice outside, saying that tickets bought of speculators on the street will be refused at the door. Theater Ticket Seller—Yes, sir; that is our rule. “Well, I'll take a ticket for to-night, parquette ” “Very sorry, sir, but all the tickets have been bought up by speculators!’*

There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and untU the last few years was supjwsed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced It a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Hdenee has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio. Is the only eon stltutlonal cure on the market. It Is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. F. <l. CHENEY k CO., Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family I'llls are the best

Sign of the Three Balia.

The three balls used by pawnbrokers are the symbol of St. Nicholas. There is n legend to the effect that the saint once offered three purses of gold to three women to enable them to marry. The purses of those days were small bags, which when tied at the top to keep coins somewhat resembled balls.

Obeyed the Doctors.

Housekeeper—You don’t look as if you had washed yourself for a month. Tramp—Please, mum, th’ doctors says th’ proper time to bathe is two hours after a meal, and I haven't had anything you could call a meal in six weeks.

Rare Opportunity;

Man Overboard —Help! Help! Stranger—Phuy don't yez swim? “I don’t know how.” “Be gorry, ye've got an illigant chance to learn.” You are not expected to know values of funeral goods, but if you know that the National Casket Co. make “The Best,” you should ask the Undertaker to furnish that kind. A New Jersey woman thinks she is entitled to two pensions because she is the widow of one soldier and the grass widow another. , A GUARANTEEDCURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money If PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure you in •to 14 days Ko. What has become of the old-fashioned man who referred to a bucksaw as a "fiddleT’

BLACK HAWK WAR SURVIVOR.

He la Now in Mia 90th Tear and Realties in an Illinois Town. William H. Lee, of Shobonier, 111., claims the distinction of being the sole survivor of the Black Hawk Indian war of 1832. With the difficulty which lowa is experiencing to find traces of its Mexican war survivors, it is hardly probable that any survivor of the Indian war fourteen years earlier will be found in this State. Mr. Lee is now in his 90th year. The story of his life shows many hardships, but the pioneers on the frontier a half or three-quarters of a century ago were inured to hardships. Mr. Lee was brought west from New York when he was 3 years old. The party made its way on two rafts and a flatboat constructed of logs. The emigrants took all of their live stock with them in their passage down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers, landing at Shawneetown, from there going to Salem, and finally to Vandalia, at that time only a small village. At this place Lee grew to young manhood under the hard lessons qf frontier life, assisting his father in his grain treadmill and in sawing lumber. The story of his participation in the Black Hawk war and subsequent life is told by a correspondent thus: “When the Sac and Fox, or, as it was known, the Black Hawk, war broke out in 1832, William H. Lee was only 16 years of age, but he possessed courage ec to the hardy training he had received in his Illinois life. After the close of the war he made three successful trips to New Orleans by boat, which in those days was considered a feat of unusual importance, each time taking large loads of grain. In 1850 he succumbed to the California gold fever, making an overland trip to that part of the country. This trip was followed by two others. On each of the trips large numbers of cattle were taken along as an investment. The party was attacked by Indians on the first trip, but was successful in deafeatlng the red men. On the second journey the party lost all their live stock. The third trip was thoroughly successful. Returning to his farm in Illinois, Mr. Lee has remained there in active charge until within the last few years, when he turned the active management over to other hands. None of his children is living.” The Black Hawk war wUs closely associated with the early history of lowa. It was near Fort Madison that Black Hawk’s followers rendezvouzed to take up the war trail and to..cross the Mississippi; it was across the river from the very northeastern point of lowa that the massacre, hardly to be dignified by the name of battle, of Bad Axe occurred and ended the short-lived war; it was to lowa that Black Hawk and the few survivors returned when the war was ended. The Black Hawk war figures more prominently in Illinois history than in that of lowa, but it is an important chapter in the annals of this State. —Des Moines Register and Leader.

NO TONGUE CAN TELL

How I Suffered with Itching; and Bleeding; Eczema—Until Cured by Cutlcura. “No tongue can tell how I suffered for five years with a terribly painful, itching, and bleeding eczema, my body and face being covered with sores. Never In my life did I experience such awful suffering, and I longed for death, which I felt was near. I had tried doctors and medicines without success, but my mother insisted that I try Cutlcura. I felt better after the first bath with Cuticura Soap and one application of Cuticura Ointment, and was soon entirely well. Any person having doubt about this wonderful cure may write to me. (Signed) Mrs. Altie Etson, Bellevue, Mich.”

Willowware Industry.

In ten years Maryland has jumped from jlfth to third place in the willowware industry of the United States, ranking now next to New York and Pennsylvania. Baltimore is one of the three willow-ware centers which only have shown any actual growth in the business. In Maryland the center of the willow district lies in Howard County. In the neighborhood of Elkridge alone the output of willow exceeds $5,000 per annum, while Anne Arundel County contributes $2,500. $36.00 per M. Lewis’ “Single Binder,” straight 5c cigar, costs the dealer some more than other 5c cigars, but the higher price enables this factory to use higher grade tobacco. Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, Illinois.

Dr [?]gging.

First Little Boy—My sister wears a No. 2 shoe. Second Little Boy—Pooh! That’s nothing. Mine wears a No. 6.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E W. Grove's signature is os eacb box. Xso.

Smoking and Ear Troubles.

Smokers who have auditory trouble are warned by a French physician that tobacco should be used by them with great moderation, as it aggravates ear diseases. Piso's Curs for Consumption slways gives immediate relief in all throat troubles.—F. E. Bierman, Leipsic, Ohio, Aug. 31,1901. Large Scandals from small talk often grow.

ST. JACOBS OIL

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