St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 December 1895 — Page 7

Aches And pains of rheumatism can be cured by removing tlie cause, lactic acid in the blood. Hood’s Sarcures, rh ? M ’natisin by neutralizing this •cid. Ihousauds ot people tell of perfect cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla The Ono True Blood Purifier. $1; six for $5. Hood’s Pills ar * harmoniously with Hood's Sar- I saparllla. 25c. Trust in Truth. It Is curious to notice that, with all the reverence so generally expressed for truth in the abstract, there is so little actual trust placed in it when we come to its details. We do not allude to willful and deliberate falsehood or Intentional prevarication for a distinct and selfish purpose. Os course persons who are thus guilty cannot, be expected to put any trust in truth; they probably dread It as an enemy that will expose their real characters, and which it is therefore politic to keep at as great a distance as possible. But those who had no such cause to fear it, who are mainly sincere and straightforward in their characters, detsiring no concealment and intending no deception—eyen these, or at least many of them, do, in one way or other, betray a want of that perfect confidence In truth which it would seem natural for them to entertain. The San Francisco Examiner says there-is one" curious fact respecting the animal creation with which one will never become acquainted if he depends on his text books for information. It is this: No diving representative of the animal kingdom has more than five toes, digits or claws to each foot, hand or limb. The horse is the type of onetoed creation, the camel of the twotoed, the rhinoceros of the three-toed, and the hippopotamus of the four-toed animal life. The elephant and hundreds of other animals belonging to different orders belong to the great five-toed tribe. ' TELL-TALE FACES. PINCHED AND CAREWORN, As Worn by Many American Women. [SPECIAT. TO OVE LADY READERS.] The “ tell-tale face ” is worn by many American women, and is a symptom of •ymptoms, a signal of distress. While women do

all in their power to hide their condit ion, - the practised eye I soon detects the trouble. When pains and | aches arc felt in I every part of the body, when faint^ness, dizziness, and that bearing-down feeling prevail, when loss of sleep and appetite, arc re- ► dueing ilerh dailv, when ihe society of friends is irl.some, i and the hopeless Date, then the face and careworn, and prompt relief is necessary, or a beautiful lite will be sacrificed. An American woman, Lydia E. Dnkham, a student of women and their diseases, twenty years ago .succeeded

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In producing an absolute cure for all di - eases of wom< n. Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound stands to-day as it did then, pre-eminent. Mrs. 11. Wampler, of Barabo, Wis., ■whose* letter we were permitted to pub-

lish last year, writes that she hopes Mrs. Pinkham will continue to use her name, as the publication in newspapers of the account of her own wonderful cure and relief from years of misery has been the means of influencing ' many suffering women to try Lydia E. Pink-

ham’s Vegetable Compound, and become well like herself. Mrs. Wampler feels, and rightly, too, that in this way she is doing a great good. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Read the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one^tablespoonful.in water at bedtime. Sold by all Druggists. jST Cures where all else fails. ~ E3 , m Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Vse ^3 In tima Sold by druggists. m

Reports of chiefs. I SECRETARIES REVIEW WORK AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS. Herbert Wants More Battle Ships and Torpedo Boals —Eckels Tells All About Banks— Lamont Is Pleased with the Condition of the Army. Affairs of a Nation. The total number of national banks organized since June 20, 1863, has been 5,023. There were in active operation on Oct. 31 3,715, with an authorized capital stock of $664,136,915, represented by 285,190 shareholders; average number of shares,' 2,136; shareholders, 77. The total amount of their circulation outstanding was $213,887,630, of which amount $190,180,961 was secured by United States bonds, and $23,706,669 by lawful money deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. During the report year forty-three banks wore organized, located in twenty different States, -with an aggregate capital stock of $4,890,000. Os these new banks twenty-eight, with a capital stock of $2,530,000, mre in the northern and northwestern rection of the country, and fifteen, with a capital stock aggregating $2,360,000, in the south and southwest. The number of banks organized during the year was less than 30 per cent, of the yearly average. There was a net increase during the year of $10,779,597 in the amount of circulation secured by bonds and a gross increase of $6,322,540 in the total circulation. Os the 3,715 banks in active operation, 2,901, with a capital stock cf $536,725,832, are in the northern and northeastern half of the country, and 814, with a capital stock of $126,848,950, in the south and southwest. There are 2,til I national banks located east of' the Mississippi River, with a capital stock of $527,612,792, and 1,104 west of the Mississippi, with a capital stock of $135,961,990. The number of banks leaving the system by reason of the expiration of their corporate existence was four. During the

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yuir .•■Ting ( m ::1, 1 .. ■ . H exixu nee of twenty-eight b.uik.* ’• ill xj.U ■. ithe sure -iimc : •y• 1 • I ■■:•(> to 19u5. the e ■■■ >r .. •* . t< ■ - 1 ' SB9 banks will cx.l.e. The umm ■- of banks leaving Hie s; -tem ci mw -lie ;. ir through vu’mu:>i\ lie-iida •cm '.,s !Htw one, having a capital stock of si>,U93, iW and circcdat.on of $1,152,00'*. Receivers for thirty-six banks have l«>en appointed during the year. Cie aggregate capital stock of these bunks was $5,235,020 and iheir circulatimi sl.003.102. Os these banks, Iwo, with a capital stock of $450,000, were reported last year as being in voluntary liquidation. and nine, with a capital stock of $2,750,(Mt0, were of the number of banks which closed their doors in 1803 and subsequently resumed business, but through continued business depression and the slow character of their assets were unable to meet their obligations, and were thus compelled to go into insolvency. The'following amendments to the law are recommended: “1. That the <'ora pt roller be empowered to remove officers of national banks for violations of law and mismanagement. “2. Thqt loans to executive officers and employes be restricted and made only upon the approval of the board of directors. *'3. That the assistant cashier, in the absence of the cashier, be authorized to sign the circulating notes of the bank and reports of condition. "4. That sonte class of public officers bo empowered to administer iho general oaths required by the national-bank net. “5. That bank examiners be required to take an oath of office and execute a bond. “(5. That upon a day in each year, to be designated by the Comptroller, the directors of national banks shall be required J to make an examination of the affairs of the banks and submit to the Comptroller a. report. “7. That the Comptroller be authorized to issue circulating notes to the par value of the bonds deposited by them ] with the Treasurer of the I’nited States I to secure such notes. j “8. That the semi-annual tax on circa- i lating notes of national banks be reduced ' to one-fourth of 1 per cent, per numnn.” ' LAMONT’S REPORT. Some Changes Recommended — Matters Are Generally Satisfactory. In his annual report Secretary Lamont I shows the effective strength of the army . to be 20,584 of all arms. The new law ’ regulating enlistments has greatly im- ; proved the personnel of the army, and has I not impeded required enlistments. Os I 7.780 men recruited during the year I 5,518 wore native born. 'The strictness : of the examinations, physical, mental and moral, may be measured- from the fact that 38,249 applicants were rejected. 'The addition of two companies to each of twenty-five infantry regiments, and two foot batteries to each of five artil-

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I lery regiments is recommended. Four । companies is the size command recommended for one oflicer’s control. Increase from 800 to 2,000 yards in effectiveness of small arms is noted. The battalion organization of State militia is commended. For the contemplated increase in force $1,200,000 will be required annually. Over $5,000,000 reduction of expense for regular force, per year, has been effected. It is said the staff force of oflicers is too great, nearly one-third of the $5,069,570 of salaries going to this class. The present chiefs of bureaus in the staff organization of the army are pronounced capable and efficient men, in every way worthy of the responsible places they occupy and zealous in the faithful performance of duty. But a plan to insure retirement after a term of years, and promotion of next in rank, is recommended. The relations between regular army and State militia are most gratifying. At need, over 106,000 volunteers, equipped for active duty in the highest sense, could be placed in the field within forty-eight hours. Considerable space is filled by the Secretary in considering the questions of seacoast defenses, dynamite guns, etc., and river and harbor improvements and numerous other subjects are considered. SECRETARY HERBERT’S DESIRE. Iwo More Battleships nnd Twelve Torpedo Boats Recommended. Secretary Herbert, in his annual report, shows the progress made during the J year in the construction of Government cruisers, and speaks in high praise of the workmanship on the new navy. He also outlines the work under contract, and says: • "An inspection of the relative strength of navies will furnish, it is believed, nil the argument now needed for the continuation of the building program heretofore indicated by tb< action of Congress. We arc not in want of ordinary unarmored cruisers or of gunboats, but we are lamentably deficient in torpedoboats, and we certainly need more battleships. An inspection of the building programs of other nations will demonstrate that the lessons taught at Yalu and Wei Hai Wei have tended to confirm the belief of naval experts throughout the world in the efficacy of these two classes of vessels.

'[ "I • Orly re w mend the con- • prOCFoS I■ 7 oI.F Tl': ! ' .\l ■'U’TTH t)f •: petition ; immg them ; s cn ,led the de- - s pnrtnient dumg the in a n o years to con--1 [ tract i :• gm ■ . .its ;.ml b rp- doboats at a I Aery large reduction from form r prices. ' ■ The price pc- ton for the gunboats Ma- ‘ (bias and C .ine. euitiactcd for in ’ | April. 1890. was B'9>2. m the average i price of the three gunboats contracted for i I in January, 1891, and of the six others i ■ just let out to contract is $222.84 per ton, a saving of SS9 .52 per ton. or 2G per ; lent. of the price of the ships. The price ! ; of the Ericsson, contraeied for in October, 1891. was $945.83 per ton. The i average price of the six torpedoboats con- • traded for in 189.5 is S7GG.SS per ton, a reduction of $179.25 per ton, or of about ‘ 20 per cent, in the price of the boats. These prices compare very favorably with the prices for similar work dene abroad.’’ Secretary Herbert devotes considerable - space to consideration of armor plates, ordnance, projectiles, submarine boats. • automobile torpedoes, etc., and to ini' । provements in the business methods oi the department. In Chinese Villages. Mr. Weldon and I often went Into the villages, walking between the fields i of shivering rice, but far oftener the ^villagers came to see us in our houseI boat— men, women, babies, dogs and j all. Always some little side canal, the offshoot of tlie main waterway, was the : only street between or before the vil- ■ lage houses. There was always the I towpath, but. the best route was by a । second path leading behind the houses. By following that, we passed through i the farms and yards. We saw the men ] and women thrashing the rice by beat I ing a log with handfulls of it. to seattef the kernels on the ground. Wc saw the | farmers turning the soil over and ^breaking it. up laboriously, or punching j holes in the thick day. dropping seed# j in them, and then smearing the hole* i over with a rake. We went into the i inner courts of the better houses, and ! noted how the men. and even the tiniest [ baby boys, thrust themselves forward j to greet us, while the women and girls ' slunk behind or merely peeped through the doorways and open windows-ths । latter being Elizabethan contrivances, ' framed for little panes of oiled paper । or the enamelled inner coating of seashells. White goats, wolfish dogs, com- ' mon-sense chickens, hump-backed cows i and nose-led buffaloes make up the animal life that is so painfully missing in Japan ami so abundant in China. The Luciferians, an early Christian sect, took their name from Lucifer, ths Bishop of Cagliari.

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OUR RAILWAYS. How They Appear in Comparison with Those of Europe. An Interesting comparison of American and European railways is derived from the seventh annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission just issued. The miles of railway in the United States in operation for the year ending in June were 178,708; capital stock and debts are given at $11,565,600,000; earnings from passenger traffic were $276,031,751, from freight $700,477,409, and from all other sources, 90,134,533. The British Board of Trade returns for the railways in England, Scotland, Wales .and* Ireland, give mileage at 20,908; Kapital stock and debt $4,926,936,000 Wud the total traffic revenue at $399,>72,714. * Operating expenses in this country amounted to $757,765,739, and net earnings were $309,887,774, while in Great Britain the revenues aggregated $236,041,565, and net earnings $163,231,265. The passengers carried in the United States numbered 583,248,007, and in Great Britain 911.412,926, of which latter 1,184,861 were holders of season tickets. The great, difference in area and density of .population accounts in large measure for the better exhibit of British roads, where the hauls are short. While the cost of road and equipment per mile in this country is $55,641, in Great Britain it is $235,648. This tells the commercial story that American railroads are building up trade by opening new territory, and covering long stretches of country but. thinly inhabited, while in Great Britain the limit of development has been reached. Conditions in bojh countries are, however, so different as to render a comparison more interesting than instructive. Railways this way are still In a transition state.—Philadelphia Times. Confinement nnd Hurd Work Indoors, particularly In the sitting posture, ere far more prejudlclil to health than excessive nuiscnlnr exertion In the open air. Hard sedentary workers are far too weary after otthe hours to take much needful exercise in tho open air. They often need a tonic. Where can they seek invigoration more certainly and thoroughly than from Hostetter's Stomach Hitters, a renovaut particularly adapted to recruit the exhausted force of nature. Use also for dyspepsia, kidney, liver and rheumatic ailueuts Shrimp Fishing in Puget Sound, A new resource has Iwen discovered ! and a new industry started in the Pugot Sound region. While the catching ' Yhd marketing of shrimps has been a I I eousldcrab'e ry In the waters nlxiut San 1 r.mci< • > for m irly a score . । of years, it was always thou -ht that I sljrlmps did not exist in Puget*Sound. ' • Lindy, however, they have been found | j thwe in large numbers, and a com- I ' piuty has 1 n forn dto catch them ' I sound tthrimj ; are s. ; 1 to be finer than ! any yet iouinJ on the I .. * e- tst. A Fatuous Paper. ■The Youth's Companion has become I famous bv uuse tio re is hardlv ai; >us i man or w<man in Great Britain or the ; i Ucit* J States who does ir • contribute to , the paper each year. 'Die writers* en- i I gaged lor 1896 protui'i* to make the paper more attractive th.tn ever before. To those who subscribe at once, send- ' inf $1.75, the publisher; make an extra- I ordinary offer-to semi free a handsome ' fonr-page calendar. 7xlo inches, lithographed in nine bright color . retail price e which is 50 cents, The Companion free every week to Jan. 1. 1896, the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Double Numbers free, and The Companion a full year, fifty-two weeks, to Jan. 1. 1897. Address The Youth's Companion, 199 Columbus avenue. Boston^“}S ‘‘Old Dog Tray” was in its time one of Foster’s most popular songs, 120,000 copies being sold in eighteen months. Il was written in the back room of a combined grocery and grog shop in New York city and was immediately sold by the author to a firm of publishers that made a fortune from its sale. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach tho diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure Deafness, and that Is by eonstUu- , tiorial remedies. Deafness is caused Dyan, in- : flamed rendition of the mucous lining of the । Euittehian 'TTilmc. When this tube gets inflamed vow: have a rumbling sound or hhperfeet hearing ami when it Is entirely dosed Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be tatlca out and this tube restored to its normal corwition. hearing will be destroyed forever; cases out or 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, fr e. F. J. 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Enough to Provoke a Saint. A young man in an outing shirt and straw hat was wheeling a baby carriage back and forth along the pavement in front of a certain flat. The hot afternoon sun poured pitilessly down upon him, and he was as angry as any man in the city. “My dear,” came a voice from the ' upper window of the house. “You go to thunder!” he shrieked back. "Let me alone, can’t you?” and he went on wheeling and mopping his face. An hour later the same voice came from the window In earnest, pleading tines: "George, dear!” “Well, what in the deuce do you want?” he shouted. “Have the waterpipes burst?” “No, George dear,” wailed the voice; “the water pipes are all right, but you’ve been wheeling Lottie's doll all the afternoon. Hadn't you belter let baby have a turn now?” This was last week, but George Is still in the hospital pending an examination as to his sanity. The Modern Mother Has found that her little ones are Im- ! proved more by the pleasant laxative, ■ Syrup of Figs, when ia need of the laxa- j tive effect of a gentle remedy than by ! any other, and that it is more accepta- i ble to them. Children enjoy it and it ; benefits them. The true remedy. Syrup | of Figs, is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. A San Francisco clothing firm prints a picture of Svengali and Trilby in its advertisement, with the legend beneath: “We don't want to put you in a trance —we are content to give you a fit.” If you desire a luxurious growth of ' healthy hafr of a^natural color, nature’s crowning ornament of both sexes, use only Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. If some people would think twice before they speak, they would keep st’ll most of the time. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is the best medicine for that disease I have ever used.—L. C. Johnston, lola, Texas, June 24th, 1891. It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. Duty and to-day are ours.—Greeley. FITS.—AH Fits stopped tree by Dr. Kline's Gr«,t Nerve Ko-tui or. No Fits alt< rfi '...hyX use. ^lar- । velous cares. Trestisesnd ^.'tomal i "'.i.e tre- to l Fil cases. Send to Dr. Kline, an Arch Si.. PhiU. Pa. ' Mrs. Wln-dow's So mix > Srßer f r (litld—n Certulng: iir t Ltunis r : ues itillamuiatiou, allays paxn. cures M'ludcoUc. S cruto a bottle.

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