Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Page 3
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IB FULL CONFIDENCE jgb The trading season ending—a new one beginning, I have known it for years That, “We mean right for our customers” and That, “We do almost the right thing always.” Thousands of people in 100 counties, our patrons, I in this and adjoining states know us and believe in us. .av The proof of the above assertions is the increase of business of this year—l 4 carloads of buggies, an average sale of 50 horses per week for a year—harness,, wagons, trades and other things in proportion—2s years continuous sale days at Judyville— WEDNESDAY and FRlDAY—means a record of unbroken good intentions and promotion of public confidence. We have favors in our line for every man who intends to do right—no complaint of bad treatment can ever be heard in the crowds always found at Judyville every Wednesday and Friday—’ hcvj ata distance srczz> goad stuff for a comic weekly. nov. 61027 t 4 JUDY, Judyville, Indiana. f" 0 f" P flC kag e Conkey’sLaying J •• ■ K I ■ Tonic and 25c Poultry Book. •• 11 !■ Im Bring “Adv.” to A. F. LONG. •• ;; Tell us about your Poultry Diseases. We p •? have the Remedies and Guarantee Cur<e. A. F. LONG, Agent.
John W. Kern for U. S. Senate.
As a political mis-move we had rather hoped that the democrats of Indiana would send Tom Taggirt to the United States Senate, but In t e Interests of the state and of general decency, we are pleased to tee th t Tom has decided to get out of the way and let some other democrat have the senatorial plum, and since Tom Is out we know of no democrat we should sooner see sent to Washington to represent the state Indiana that John. W. Kern, late candidate for vice-president on t e democratic ticket The Republican did think that Mr. Kern was not quite the man for vice-president, net sufficiently fitted for possible ascendancy to the piAesldency, but that he stands head and ehou’de s above any other democrat in Indiana in point of broadness and qualities of statesmanship, there can be no doubt. And the fact that he twice represented his party as a gubernatorial candidate and then as ’ the candidate for vice-president, each time with a hopeless chance for success, entitles him to some reward and the only opening Js to become a United States senator. We feel su e that almost every democrat In Jasper county would prefer' John W. Kern to all of those who have bedn mentioned and we also fesl that republicans as well as democrats would regret the calamity of having the state represented by a man as corrupt as Tom Taggart, whose open support of the liquor Interests and his continued vice resort at French Lick.', has given him a moral rating that Indiana should not be compelled to stand for in Its national congress.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup . not only heals Irritation and allays inflammation, thereby stopping the cough, but it moves the bowels gently and in that way drives the cold from the system. Contains no opiates. It is pleasant to take, and children especially like the taste, so nearly like maple sugar. Bold by all druggists. Invoking only the unwritten law in her defense, Mrs. Nancy Murrill has been acquitted at Jackson, Ky., of murder. She killed Miss Mary Terry, with whom her husband was infatuated HOW TO TREAT A SPRAIN. Sprains, swellings and lameness are promptly relieved by Chamberlain's Liniment This liniment reduces Inflammation and soreness so that a sprain may be cured In about onethird the time required by the usual treatment, 25 and 50 cent sixes for sale by R. F. Fendtf. * rs
Get Your Sale Bills Here.
The Republican is better able than ever before to print sale bills this year, and to get them out with expedition and *in the most approved manner. All of the stock cuts owned by both the Republican and the Journal are at the disposal of the customers and expert printes in charge of the work In every department Remember that when the bills are printed at the Republican office the printing carries with It the publication of the sale notice in the Semi-Weekly Republican, which enters almost every farm home In Jasper county. The season for sales has begun and there will undoubtedly be many of them this year, and we should like to print every sale bill used in Jasper county this year. We use a good quality of board, publish the entire list of property to be sold in the Republican, ano can arrange with all who like to have the sale notices Insreted In the Wheatfield or Roselawn papers, which have a circulation covering the entire north part of Jasper and Newton counties. Orders by mall or telephone given’ prompt attention.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? In. case of a burn or scald what would you do to relieve the pain? Such injuries are liable to occur in any family and everyone should be prepared for them. Chamberlain’s Salve applied on a soft cloth wifi relieve the pain almost instantly, and unlees the injury is a very severe one, will cause the parts to heal without leaving a scar. For sale by B. F. Fendlg. o Dr. Hom IL Remmek, registered optician, who has made regular visits to Clarke’s jewelry store for five years, is now permanently located there. Dr. Remmek is fully qualified'to accurately measure errors of refraction. This knowledge of the eye and rays of light enable us to determine the kind of glasses to prescribe. Our glasses are reasonable in price and your sight Is priestess and wo want your patronage. From the 10th to the 15th of November is the time to sell your turkeys tor Thanksgiving. For good young turkeys weighing from 11 pounds up and ben turkeys weighing J pounds and up I will guarantee 13 cents with the rise of the market. 10 cents for old gobblers; 8 cents for fat "ducks; 6 cents for geese. -These prices are subject to change ot market unless y <mi contract. Get your googg in early and avoid the rush. Chickens always sell better after the holiday rush. B. 8. FENDIG.
AMERICAN DISASTERS.
Chronology of Calamities Our Country Has Suffered. 1835, Dec. 16—Great fire at New York, in which 674 houses and many public edifices were burned; loss estimated at $20,000,000. 1870, Sept-Oct—Many lives lost and a vast amount of property destroyed by floods in Virginia and Maryland. 1871, Oct 7-11 —Chicago nearly destroyed by fire; about 250 persons burned, 98,500 rendered homeless; property loss, $290,000,000; flames consumed 25,000 builalngsp 1876, Dec. s—Brooklyn theatre burned and 295 lives lost 1881, Sept &—Forest fires in Michigan destroy 500 persons and render 10,000 homeless. 1884, Feb. 18—Tornadoes in Southern States kill 600. 1885, Nov. 13 —Fire ait 'Galveston, Tex.; 70 houses burned. 1886, Aug. 31—Earthquake wrecks Charleston, S. C., and kill 96 persons. 1888, Jam. and March —Snow storm and blizzard throughout counuy killed 700 persons,.", 1889, May 31—Johnstown (Pa.) flood; nearly 6,000 lives lost by the bursting of a dam. 1894—Forest fires in the Northwest kill 400. 1900, Sept. 12 —Flood at Galveston destroys 8,000 lives and causes $25,000,000 damage to property. • 1903, Dec. 30—Iroquois theatre, in Chicago, burned and 700 lives lost. 1904, Feb. 7 —Conflagration at Baltimore destroyed 2,500 buildings, entailing a loss of $65,000,000. 1904, June 15—Steamer Gen. Slocum burned in East River and 95? lives lost. 1906, April 18 —Earthquake in San j considerable loss of life and property.
Inaccessible Forests.
Nearly all of the northern and eastern part of Guatemala is covered with a dense tropical forest, consisting of mahogany, different kinds of cedar, chicle and other hard woods. Along streams down which logs can be floated much of the mahogany has been cut, but as yet very little of the other woods have been marketed. This- la especially true of the departments ot Peten, Alta Verapaz and Izabal. Most of the forests still belong to the government, and the usual method of securing the timber is by concession, byi which a certain number ot trees are cut at a given price per tree, or a stipulated sum is paid for the timber or given tract It is not an easy matter to get titles to large tracts of land in Guatemala, as it is discouraged by the government These concessions are not usually granted for a longer period than five years. Sometimes it is stipulated that if a certain number of trees are cut during that time tuey must be renewed. The pine forests are limited, being in the mountainous country principally and inaccessible. Most of the lumber used comes from the united states principally from California. The for ests* of this country are generally so Inacessible that the railroad companies Import coal, because it is difficult tor them to get enough flrewobd. *
Rallways In Algerian Desert.
The opening of - tne railroad from South Oraso to Bechar, a distance of 445 miles into the interior, was tne most Interesting event of the year 1905. Considering the great difficulties encountered; not the least of which was the scarcity of water, the line being entirely through a desert, the construction was rapid. The last section, from Ben Zireg to Bechar, was built in ten months, and the roadbed is solid enough to permit of a speed of fifty miles an hour. This section is thirty-two miles long. The most remarkable result of the building of this line has been the rapid pacification of the country traversed. At Ben Zlrez, a station for the oasis of Flguig, near which the Governor-Gener-al and his' escort were attacked by brigands less than two years ago, a market' has been established which did a business ot over >2,000,000 in 1904 and 1905. (All the stations along the line have been fortified, so that any attempt at organized robbery can be immediately suppressed.—United States Consular Reports.
House of Ghosts.
There is an old manor house at Knaresborough, England, parts of which were built 700 years ago. It Is a fine place, with magnificent paneling in the rooms, a beadstead in which Cromwell once Blent, a priests' hiding place and< a ghost The priests' hiding place is concealed by a spring door. The present occupant of the house says that during the night sounds of footsteps are heard on the landing and it is impossible to keep the door of this room closed. On one occasion the footsteps were accompanied by a loud bump at the door of another room. During some recent restorations the skeleton of a woman was found burled at the foot of a staircase.
Mr. Balfour once spoke of. "an empty theatre of unsympathetic auditors,** and Lord Curzon congratulated his party on the circumstance that, “though not out of the woods, we hav« a good ship.’* A new magazine is to tell you just what is in all the other magazines The new editor will not have to work very hard.—Denver Republican.
UNCLE SAM'S NEGRO OFFICERS.
Eight Now Hold Army Commission* ■ Coms From the Ranks. Uncle Bam haa on his long payroll eight negro commissioned officers of the army, three of these ,being officers, while the others are chaplains and a paymaster. By the Army Organization act of July 28, 1866, there were designated four regiments of negroes. These organizations are now the Ninth and Tenth regiments of cavalry and tne Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth regiments of infantry, and since their formation these negro regiments have had asigned to them negro chaplains. Probably the best known of all the negro chaplains is Allen Allensworth. Chaplain Allensworth has seen much active duty, and his service with tne “Fighting Twenty-fourth,” which did good work in .Cuba, has been continuous since his entry into the army on April 1, 1886. Next to him as to age and service is Theophilus G. Steward, who was appointed on July 20, 1891, from the District of Columbia and assigned to that other fighting infantry regiment, the “Brunette Twenty-fifth.” His service has also been continuous with the regiment to which he was- first assigned. The present chaplain of the Ninth Cavalry is George Washington Prloleau, a native of South Carolina but appointed from Ohio. All of his service has been with the Ninth Cavalry, now stationed at Jefferson Barracks Missouri. He has fourteen years of service before him. The la st of these chaplains is William T. AndersOn, now with his regiment, the Tenth Cavalry, ‘which nas > A&t? Mrrtoe is Cuba aadtte P&i(ipplnes. The last of the negro staff officers of the army is John R. Lynch of the pay department, who entered the service in June, 1898, as an additional paymaster of volunteers, with the rank of Major, which position he held for three years, until honorably discharged in May, 1901, when he was appointed to the permanent establlt iment as paymaster with the rank of Captain. The only negro officer of the army who is a West Pointer is Charles Young, at present on duty as Military Attache at Port au Prince, Hayti. Capt. Young entered the Military Academy in 1884, and was not graduated unil 1889, when he was commissioncl an additional Second Lieutenant a id assigned to the Tenth Cavalry, where he remained only about one month, when he was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Infantry as a Second Lieutenant. In this regiment he remained only twenty-seven days, when he was again transferred to the Ninth Cavalry, where he remained until promoted to be First Lieutenant, on December 22, 1896, when he was assigned to the Seventh Cavalry, a white regiment. He remained with this regiment for about ten months, until he made a transfer back to his old love, the Ninth Cavalry. He was promoted a Captain 1n February, 1901, and eighty-eight Captains will have to move out of tne way before he becomes a field officer with the rank of Major. There are two negro officers who ,have won their spurs by coming up from the line by competitive examination. They are Lieut. Benjamin U. Davis of the Tenth Cavalry, now on duty as military instructor at Wilberforce University, at Wilberforce, Ohio and Lieut. John E. Green, Twentyfifth Infantry, now serving with Company H at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Cuban Drug Stores.
There are two hundred and fifty drug stores in Havana for the 250,000 inhabitants, and the same ratio may be accepted for the other cities of Cuba. There are also many organizations and societies which employ doctors and their own pharmacists and dispense medicine to the society members. Physicians, however, do not often dispense medicine. The average number of prescriptions compounded is lees than in the United States. The pharmacist is not permitted by law to prescribe, and the relation between physicians and pharmacists is friendly. Doctors prescribe a great amount of ready made or patented medicine. Prescriptions are the best part of the drug business in Cuba, as pharmacists there sell less of toilet articles, cigars, etc., than are sold in American drug stores. The customer Is considered the proprietor of his prescription, which is returned to him after being entered in the prescription book. Pharmacists In the larger Cuban cities fill foreign prescriptldns as well, consulting the pharmacopoeia ot the country from which it comes. Cuban pharmacists generally prepare their own tinctures and ointments. Cuban pharmacists have great difficulty in obtaining good clerks. The pay is >25 to |IOO per month. They are free three times a week after 6 p. m. and also every second Sunday. Pharmacies are open from 6 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night, Sundays included.
First Theatergoer—" Have you got a pair of rubbers?’* , Second Theatergoer—“A pair of rubbers?’’ r | First Theatergoer—" Yes; a pair of opera glasses.” i If a -word to the wise Is sufficient there are a lot ot people who are mighty shy on wisdom.
WATERY CIT[?][?]
Remains of Lake Dwellers of Ages Ago Still to be Seen in Italy. These Lake Dwellers followed two distinct systems in forming a support for their dwellings. The first was that of pile driving, the second was that of island making. In the former case piles were driven into the lake and kplatform erected upon these on which the houses were built In the case of the latter, masses of timber, mad and stones were dumped In shallow water, and on this artificial island dwellings were then made. The Lake Dwellers flourished thousands of years ago, but their system of building, strange to say, has been followed at a later date by civilized people. Quite a number of the world’s famous cities stand in the border of the sea or In low places surrounded by water, very much resembling those villages of olden time. The largest of all these watery cities is St Petersburg, the capital and largest city of Russia. The city is built on piles and on Islands in and around the delta of the Neva. Even the admiralty quarter of the city; situated on a peninsula, is converted into Islands by canals. These Islands are connected with each other and with the peninsula by a large number of bridges, several of them very fine. The city Is elevated but little above the Neva, which has more than once overflowed and caused great destruction of life and property. The banks of the principal canals are protected by walls of granite. St Petersburg owes Its existence to a whim of Peter the Great, and only vast and unlimited Imperial power would have ot building < capi'daZ on a morass.
Hamburg, one of the free cities ot Germany, is another of the cities bp stilts, so to speak, being built largely on piles. It is situated at the junction of the Elbe and the Alster, and the latter river flows through it, and numerous canals intersect the city and communicate with both rivers. Something over sixty bridges span the rivers and canals.
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is one of the watery cities. It is built on an arm of the Zuyder Zee, in the shape of a half moon, and, as the site is a marsh, is founded on piles driven into the mud. Dikes guard ft against tides,, which rise higher than the city’s level. A system of canals, in connection with tne River Amstel, divides the city into about ninety islands, and the canals are crossed by nearly three hundred bridges, hence the name of the city, Amsterdam, meaning “the dike or dam of the Amsdel.”
The city was only a small fishing village in the thirteenth century, but in the seventeenth century it was the greatest commercial center of Europe, and even now is an active and bustling city. It has a population of nearly four hundred thousand souls. Venice, in northern Italy, is built upon a cluster of islets, eighty in number, in a lagoon which is separated from the Gulf of Venice by a long and narrow sandbank divided into a number of small islands by narrow sea passages, six in number. Inside of this sandbank and between it and the mainland is the lagoon, in which are scattered the islands upon which Venice is built. As the islands in many places afford no suitable foundation for buildings, the city Is largely built upon piles, and stones. In many places canals serve tor streets in this city of the waters, and the carriages are boats called gondolas. The canals are crossed by bridges of strange pattern, very nigh in the middle but with easy steps, it is a beautiful city with many attractions, and her structures seem to rise like a fairy vision out of the sea. The city of Ghent, in Belgium, at the Junction of the Lys and the Scheldt, is built on twenty-six islands divided by canals and connected bv hundred-' and seventy bridges. It is surrounded with gardens and meadows, and in-its mingling ot land and water resembles Venice. By the great canal which flows into the Scheldt, Ghent is connected with the sea, and it can receive at its docks vessels drawing seventeen feet of water.
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is situated on a number of islands on the shores of the Baltic sea, and must be considered as one of the watery cities. A large number of canals abound in the lower part of the city. Piles have been sunk in many places and a large part of the city is buut upon these.
Mexican Statistics.
There are ten volcanoes in Mexico. Mexico has fifty-nine lakes and great lagoons. Mexico has vast deposits of onyx and marble. Slavery was fully abolished in Mexico in 1837. Coahuila coal Is exported to the United States. The army of Mexico comprises about. 40.000 men. The area of Mexico is about 750,000 square miles. The ‘‘valley’* of Mexico is 7,500 feet above the sea level. Mexico is about ten times larger than Great Britain. Mexico has a coast of over 6,000 miles. • Cotton factories in Mexico employ over 25.000 people. —* ;
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