Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Page 2

THE WORLD'S HAPPENINGS

hnptpks «f UftoDite Ik« Called From the Press Dispttches ts Metropolitan Papers. The Fowler schools have Instituted $ fire alarm system and fire drills are held each day. The high school building at Monon was flooded with water last week and considerable damage was done. All the schools have been closed and all public gatherings have been ta booed at Franklin on account of an epidemic of smallpox. Daniel Bosh, a pioneer of Indiana, and the first male child born in Lafayette, is dead at bis home near Seafield. W. H. Thompson, of Valparaiso, was awarded a verdict of $2,000 in the Valparaiso superior court for the death of his son who was killed in the wreck of the Wallace circus train at Durand, Mich., two years ago. Get DeWitts Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve—it is healing, soothing and cooling. It is good for piles. Sold by Is. F. Fen dig. Claude Babb, two years old, son of %t» and Mrs. Carroll Babb, of Eaton, fell out of a window while he had a toy rake in his mouth and the prongs were forced through the roof of his month into the brain, killing him. » ———————— —————— Wolcott is to have a base ball team again this summer. The fans are goHt'ng busy to give a play to raise the money for a start. Man Zan Pile Remedy. Price 50c is guaranteed, But up ready to use. One application, prompt relief to any form of piles. Sdothes and heals. Sold by B. F. Fendlg. M.Ap.My. Munroe Philips, of near Creston, lowa, visited Lowell, the guest of' his sister, , Mrs. James Smith. This is the first time the brother and sister had seen one another in fifty years, and it was a happy meeting. In Benton county there are 21,345 people living in "dry” territory, territory from which the saloons have beer tory from which the saloons have been driven by the use of the remonstrance. But in one township of the County, which has a population of 788, there are four saloons. ManZ&n Pile Remedy comes ready to use, in a collapsible tube,, with nozzle. One application soothes and heals, reduces inflammation and re- 4 lieves soreness and itching. Price 50c. Sold by B. F. Fendig, McApMy Members of secret fraternities and Sororities will not be allowed to attend high Bchools of Chicago after the beginning of the school year next Beptember,under a drastie rule adopted by the board of education of the n T**T ~ TO ‘~ vote stood 16 to 3in favor of the rule. Wearing a badge made of hemp and formed in the shape of a noose, Whiting citizens have organized themselves into a vigilance committee to watch three of the city councilmen who are thought to be permitting the Hammond Whiting & East Chicago Railway company to flirt with them for a fifty yhar franchise.

How to Cure Constipation Few people altogether escape a disorder of the bowels. You may catch cold, over eat, over-drink, worry too much, : Sot exercise enough or do a hundred and one other things that result in constipation or costiveness. When the trouble comes it is well to know what to do for it. In the opinion of thousands there is no better cure for constipation than Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which anyone can obtain for 50 cents or $1 at a drug •tore. We all have constipation occagaionally, and the sensible thing to do is fls have s Sot Lie of this remedy always la the boose. You take It at nlrht oo reUrtnr. for tpSßM|»ln aod when you wake up in the morning ,'M your usual hour IS produces Its results. P"Ysnr Stomach lus tan Uy becomes lighter, your >esdl dearer, your eyes brighter, you feel active aad spry eooe again, your appetite has returned sad you are ready to work with enthujpaaaa and vigor. All this may hot have taken •tore than a dose or two. at a coat not to exceed jWOtr three cants. Can you afford to feel bad Wliwi you aaa feel apod for so litUel s k * Dr. Wilson Brown, of Metropolis. 111., has no haaftaaoy In saying that Or Caldwell's Syrup ‘papMn la the greatest es all laxatives sod he HwttJ admits to his patients that If they used Wffeaa the Momaok. liver or bowels got out of "■Mar thaw wsski have leas aaed of him. it is the beet cure for occasional or pnaaie aoaaUpatioa. dyspepsia, biliousness. Aaadisa. sour stomach, lasy liver, flatulency. (MgWhML aod similar digestive Uls In old or Mt Ills a thousand times better then sal is IT purgative waters, acts genUy but earely. is passant lo the taste, doee not gripe, and cures ■Kayour druggist and get s to cent or |l aaa aaa if oar claims are not justified Ml* n»>W ctska, mt h mto sess Is »M E£.yia Srtt ■sc gnsTTinT “ Bp .». Bold by A. F. LONG.

Andrew Carnegie la to be asked to reward a Laporte county boy with a medal. The youth’s name is Henry Pearce, aged 13 years, and he saved two smaller sisters from drowningJ>y an act of heroism that should cause his name to be written in the catalogue of the republic’s heroes.

Roy Yeager, the 15-year old son of Fineon Yeager, one of the best known residents of Tippecanoe township, was drowned Thursday night in Headley lake, near Lafayette, while duck hunting. The boat he was in capsized and unencumbered with heavy hunting clothes he soon |p|uL'| 30 Days’ Trial SI.OO is the offer on Pineules. Relieves Back-ache, Weak Back, Lame Back, Rheumatic Pains. Best on sale for Kidneys, Bladder and Blood. Good for young and old.*Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Mch,A,My. i *" 7 ------i——— A car load of undesirable citizens, 26 in number, were herded in a Pennsylvania car and shipped to Logansport Befqre the fact became known to the Logan police they were scattered throughout the city, but later Were rounded up and driven out of town. The first hunters license ever issued to a woman at Delphi has been taken out by Mrs. Clarence Johns. Mrs. Johns is well known as a marksman. She procured the license chiefly that she might accompany her husband on his duck huntr ing expeditions to tie Kankakee marshes. Don't cough your head off when you can get a guaranteed remedy in Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. It is especially recommended for children, as it pleasant to take, is a gentle laxative, thus expelling the phlegm from the system. .For coughs, colds, croup, whooping-cough, hoarseness and all bronchial trouble. Guaranteed. Sold by B. F. Fendlg. MchApMaj

While blasting away a large stone imbedded at great depth in the ground a construction, crew on the line of the new Monon railway, near Jasonville, discovered a den of snakes. When the blast was fired the snakes were thrown in every direction. The majority seemed lifeless, but a number tried to crawl away. A snake was killed measuring nine feet in length. Sheriff Swisher, accompanied by Captain Sanders of the Pan Handle detective force, left yesterday afternoon for the prison at Michigan City, where they will meet and bring the murderers of Sheriff Oglesby to Winamac today. The prisoners, Frank Webb and John Smith, will ask for and probably be granted a change of venue to Starke county, where their trial will be held at the next term of court

GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.

Mr. Norman R. Coulter, a prominent architect! in the Delbert building, San Francisco, says: “I fully endorse all that has been said of Electric Bitters as a tonic medicine. It is good for everybody’. It corrects stomach, liver and kidney dis■jidets in a prompt and efficient manner and builds up the system.” Electric Bitters is the best spring medicine ever sold over a druggist’s counter; as a blood purifier it is unequaled. 50 at A. F. Long’s drug store. Some Earl Park and Fowler sportsmen secured a ten year lease on a piece of land at White Oak near the Kankakee river, on which they are going to build a $2,000 club house where they and their friends will go during the hunting and fishing season and enjoy themselves. Some Morocco people are also negotiating for a gtrip of land near the river on which they intend to build a club house.

Chas. B. Hahn, director and general overseer of the Anderson boys’ city or Christian templar association, went to Delphi Thursday to give the officers of the Junior citizens’ association, an organisation of the same char acter there, an idea of how the Anderson city is managed. The National juvenile association, of which Judge Willis Brown, of Salt Lake City, is president, and Chas. B. Hahn, of Anderson, secretary, has two other branches in Indiana, Peru and Winona Lake. The State Board of Health, at a special meeting, decided to call a conference of representatives of municipal and private-owned water plants In the state with the State Board of Health, to be held In Indianapolis June 24 and 25, the purpose being to consider and study the source of water supplies in Indiana, together with preservation and purification and to consider standard and uniform methods of analysis. Last Thursday night the Reynolds K. of P. lodge had a house warming and Invited their brethren from all parts of the county to join them In dedicating the new hall. The boys responded to the Invitation with a royal good will, Wolcott, Montlcello, Monon, Brookston, Chalmers and other lodges being represented. There was a prise for the lodge having the largest per cent of it* membership at the meeting and this was won by. the Brookston lodge which turned out sixty-two.

THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN

Territoiy Valuable for Its Oil, Coil and Fisheries A RUSSIAN PRISON HOLD

Salmon Yields $15,000,000 Annually Sea Coast 250 Miles Long and Mountains 5,000 Feet HI gin— Country Cold and Untillable— Many For Bearing Animals. ,

As big as Belgium-and Holland put together, very nearly as big as Ireland, and fully twice as big as Greece, Sakhalin is a long, narrow Island,, nowhere wider than the State of Massachusetts is long, and at certain points not wider than Nantucket, says the Boston Evening Transcript. But this ribbonlike island lying northwest of Japan, stretches along the coast of Siberia (from which a narrow sea separates it) for a distance of 670 miles. Sakhalin has a river 250 miles long and mountains 6,000 feet high. It’s by no means a vest pocket country. Only here and there is the soil at all fertile, and even then you must content yourself with raising market truck and expect to get malaria while weeding your garden. Such at least has been the experience of r Russian penal colonists who have tried to wrest a living from the soil. Moreover, the country looks every whit as Inhospitable as experiment has proved it to be. If it had no other claim to Importance Its dense forests would be enough to make It worth owning. Practically untouched, they stretch from one end of Sakhalin to the other.

Besides, there Is coal—not easily mined, but abundant. At Duey the toughest criminals have worked chained to their barrows, and each year they spent in the mines has counted as a year and a half toward/' hastening their discharge. Sakhalin has long supplied shlpß with fuel. According to C. 8. Patonoff the oil regions of Sakhalin are richer than those of America. Subterranean lakes—some of them with an area of 8,000 square feet—lie so close to the surface that natural gushers can be easily established. The oil regions lend themselves readily to exploitation, for the east coast Is only from twenty to twenty-five miles away, and there nature has provided harbors that boats drawing twenty feet of water can safely enter. For four months of the year, to be sure, those harbors are icelocked, but the ice can be broken by specially constructed steamers known as "ledokol.” Meanwhile another sort of game abounds—in the north a fine menagerie at large, composed of bear, foxes, sable, antelope and reindeer; in the south an occasional tiger; on the coast a remunerative profusion of seal, sea lions and dolphins, not to mention a species of plebeian whale little prized by blubber hunters. But the chief source of wealth in the Sakhalin of to-day is the fisheries. The rivers teem with salmon, the waters along the coast with herring. In a single year Sakhalin yielded $1,500,000 worth of fish, and this in spite of the most discouraging conditions. The Russians •wouldn't give the Japs a free hand, nor would they themselves develop the full possibilities of the fisheries. As long as the island remained a sort of Siberian backyard, into which exiles were constantly to be thrown, it was bad policy to encourage fleets of fishing boats to come prowling along the shore. The boats might thin out the population. Every year Sakhalin sends a million dollars' worth of fish fertilizer to the Japanese rice fields. This fertilizer, nee herring, is so indispensable to rice growing that when the war cut off the Japanese fishermen from the Sakhalin coasts two Japanese towns, Howkaido and Otaru, petitioned the Mikado to send troops to seize the island. The director general of prisons asked permission to organize an gmy of Japanese jailbirds for service in Sakhalin. Such overtures as these met with governmental discouragement, but the seizure of Sakhalin by trained troops was undertaken as soon as practicable. Nor did Japan fall to perceive that a Sakhalin in the grip of a foreign Power would constitute a standing menace to Japanese agriculture. It was the case of Corea over again, only with herring substituted for grain as the vital point.

Where We Get Our Salt.

Balt is so common an article that one is astonished when he realises the amount of it produced in the United States during the year 1904. The number of barrels was 22,030,002, valued at $6,021,222. In spite of this enormous output, coming mostly from New York and Michigan, the United States Imported salt to tha value of over half a million dollars and exported 26,608,677 pounds, valued at $99,066. The deposits of salt lu the United States are not numerous, those In New York, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas and Louisiana being the only one* which are worked Commercially.—Boston Herald.

A Vegetarian Danger.

la some respects vegetarians suffer more than meat eaters from uric arid poisoning, seeing that beans, peas, lentils and peanuts contain twice as mueb of the poison as meat. The natives of India svffar greatly froapnrl* arid dleeesee, owing to the quantity of dahl (lentils J they set, Other natives who avoid dahl are almost entirely free. —London Mall.

COST OF LIVING IN GERMANY.

Foodstuffs Advanced Greatly in the Last Ten Years. Germany Is no longer:the paradise of American and English families With incomes Just large enough to starve bn genteelly at home, says the New York Sun. Ten years have brought great changes in the standards of life In Germany, not only in Berlin bat In the smaller cities. Roughly speaking, the cost of living has Increased by a third to a half. In the matter of rent and servants' wages Berlin is still better than New York. Comparatively few families In Berlin boast the luxury of an entire house—even fewer, perhaps, than In New York. The rest live In wohnungen, or flatß, like their American compeers. The yearly rent for an apartment of four rooms in a desirable locality in Berlin varies from $375 to S4OO. Ten years ago the prices in Berlin were a fourth less. There are ceinplaints in Germany of the degeneration Of domestic servants, but at least a fair knowledge of cookery is a general possession, and in the second place, strict sight on the part of the police prevents absolute disregard of the sacredness of contracts. The minimum monthly pay for domestic service is $5. Even this is an increase of at least $2 within the last decennium. Turning to the cost of foodstuffs, the outlook is less encouraging. Almost without exception, articles of dally consumption have increased in price from a third to a half in ten years. As an example, mutton, which previously cost 12% cents a pound, now costa 25 cents Butterhas risen from 20 to 33 cents a pound, and eggs from 15 to 22 cents a dozen. This increase has been partly the result of deliberate legislative effort to Improve the condition of the peasantry by the imposition of protective duties on the products of the soil. In general, Berlin holds the same relation to other German cities as New York to American centers of population, but the cost of living in Hamburg and Frankfort Is more nearly on a par with that of Berlin than the cost of living in Philadelphia or St. Louis with that of New York. An exception in this connection must be made in favor of the cities of south Germany.

Anthony Fiala,

the young arctic recently rescued by the expedition under William S. Champ.

World's Wealthiest Country.

In the half century from 1850 to 1900, when the population of the United States increased from 28,000,000 to 76,000,000, or multiplied three and one-third times—a rate of increase far beyond that of any other great country—its wealth expanded from $7,000,000,000 to $94,000.000,000, being multiplied more than thirteen times. No other country closely approaches the United States in wealth. From the most trustworthy data obtainable, this is bow the principal countries stand in 1906 : Spain $11,000,000,000 Italy 18,000,000,000 Austria-Hungary... 80,000,000,000 Russia 86,000,000,000 France 46,000,000,000 Germany 50,000,000,000 United Kingdom.... 65,000,000,000 United States 110,000,000,000 Wealthier than the countries—the United Kingdom and the empire of Germany—which stand nearest to it, the United Btates is rapidly increasing Its lead over other nations.— Leslie’s Weekly.

The Ant as a Medicine.

Having thoroughly exploited the curative powers of the bee, writers have now apparently turned to the %nt. The latter, like the former, owes Its medicinal virtues to ths formic arid that It contains. Indeed, this acid owes Its name to the ant (Latin formica.) “According to the investigations of M. Clement, of Lyons, formic acid is a very Important drug. It augments considerably the muscular strength and resistance of fatigue. ... Its use causes to disappear the sensation of fatigue in the limbs, often felt on awakening la the morning. . . . Theee statements have probably only relative value, but Clement has supported them by experiments with Homo’s ergograph on a young man of 22 years. . . Ths results showed that after the use of formic acid the subject was sbls to furnish ten periods of work instead of live,' and to raise a weight 479 times lastead of Is 2, making an expenditure of 196 kll ogrammeters of energy instead of *JL.-?44tei»nr Digest

Cares Woman’s Weaknesses. We refer to that boon to week, nervous, suffering women known as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Dr. John Fyfe od« of the Editorial Staff of Tins Eclectic Medical Rkvijcw says erf Unicorn root (Ffelonios Dioica ) which Is one of the chief ingredients of the "Favorite Prescription *: •A remedy which Invariably sets MS uterine Invigomtor • * * makes tor normal activity of the entire reproductive system." He continues " in Heloniss we have a medicament ..which more fully answers the above purposes Owm any other drug with which I am acquainted. In the treatment of diseases peculiar to women It is seldom that a case is seen 1 which does not present some Indication for this remedial agent” Or. Fyfe further says: "The following are among the leading Indications for Helunlas (Unicom root).. Pain or aching In the back, with*leucorrhoea: atonic (weak) conditions of the reproductive organs of Women, mental depression and irritability. Asoclated wittf chronic diseases of the reproductive organs of women: constant sensation dt heat In the region of the kid? neys: menprrhagla (flooding), due to a weakened condition of/the reproductive system: amenoi/n«wtsjinpressed or absent monthly or accompanying an abnomutl condition of the digestive organs and Ajuemic (thin blood ) habit; dragging senslMons In the extreme lower part of the abdomen.” -> Jf more or loss of the above svmt)tom9 aPB' MBWOo, lnvalia wimp patt-dg Better than take Dr. Fierce’s Favorite reading Ingredients oiwnicn is Unicorn root, or Helonias, and the medical properties of which it most faithfully represents. Of Golden Seal root, another prominent ingredient of "Favorite Prescription,” Prof. Finley Ellingwdod, M. D., of Bennett Medicai College, Chicago, says: "It is an important remedy In disorders of the womb. In all catarrhal conditions * * and general enfeeblement. It Is useful.” Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root: "In relation to Its general effects on the system, there is no medicine in use about which there is such general unanimity of opinion. It is universally regarded as the tonic useful in all debilitated states.” Prof. R. Bartholow, M. D., of Jefferson Medical College, hays of Golden Seal: ■Valuable In uterine hemorrhage, menorrhagia (flooding) and congestive dysmenorrheas (painful menstruation).” Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription faithfully represents all the above named ingredients and cures the diseases for which they are recommended.

A Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup CONTAINS HONEY AND TAR Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves Coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. “A* pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar” Children Like It Bold by B. F. Fendlg. The Cough Syrup that rids the system of a cold by acting as a cathartic on the bowels is BEES LAXATIVE GOUGH SYRUP Bees is the original laxative cough syrnp, contains no opiates, gently moves the bowels, carrying the cold off through the natural channels. Guaranteed to give satisfaction eg money refunded. Sold by B. F. FENDIG.

Headache Sufferers * - / , Do you want relief—in just a few moments *and no bad after-effects. If so, you have only to take, Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills. ® If subject to headache, have them with you always. No harm can come from’their use, if taken as directed, as they contain no opium, chloral, morphine, cocaine, chloroform, heroin, alpha and beta eucaine, cannabis indica or chloral hydrate, or their derivatives. Ask ydur druggist about them. "It gives me great pleasure to be able to refer to the Dr. Miles AntiJ’aJn Pills as the beet remedy we have ever bad in our house for the prevention and cure of headache.. Uy wife who has been a constant sufferer for years with the above complaint, joins nee in recommending Dr. Miles’ AntiPain Pills, hoping they may fan into the bands of all who suffer.” J. L BUSH, Watervlelt, N. T. Dr. Mllee* Anti-Fain Pills are seld by year drugget, who will guarantee that the first pack ege will benefit. If It S lie, he will return your money. dotes, 25 cents. Never sold In bulk. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind We take orders for rubber stamps. You can get anything you want on them. £ee the young men’s new Yale suits at the Chicago Bargain Store. - >l. ty. K i.\ i* -* *»»

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H. L. BROWN OJENTIST ■jcle ii. ’.ii ,ir,. Office over Larah*. Drug stuff. Gas administered for painlesM extraction PiHeat Market ROTH BROS. Rensselaer, Ind. Shop first door east of Odd Fallows’ building. Everything fresh and clean. Fresh and salt meats, bologna, eta. Please give us a call and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Moos hut good cattle killed. Remember the place. Highest market price paid tor hides and tallow. AUTOMOBILES We are agents (or the famous Bulck cars, Model F, 6 passenger, 22 horse power, just the car for every day use and reliable family car. Price $1,250.00. Model G. 22 power runabout Just the car $•» doctor or business man. Price $1,150.00. Model 10. Eighteen horse power, four cylinder runabout With detachable nimble seat This is the neatest car that was ever manufactured tor this money. Price $900.00. We also have Models D. and 8„ which la a fine high powered car in touring car and runabout Price $1,760. All the above care have full lamp equipment, repair kit and storage battery. We also have some bargains la need cars, having been thoroughly overhauled in our shop. RERSSEUkER 6ARA6E Rensselaer, Ind.