The Clinton Independent. -S/ VOL XXX1I.-NO. la. 8T. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY, JANUARY (5. 18W^: WHOLE NO-1628
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Peck spent Thursday In Baled hay is coming to market freely. Furs Wanted. Ionia. . George Mowat, of 8t. Johns, has been EVIDENCE OF POISON- Mrs. John Uroste, of Fowler, spent Thurs We will pay tbe highest market prices granted a pension of $8 u month. Lalngsburg Doctor Ten titles That Mrs. A TRIP TO for all the Furs we can get. We deal day In bt. Johns. Revival meetings are in progress at direct with exporters and can give you Fred Druse, of St Johns, made a business the M. £. Church, with good interest. Hartman Died of Opium Poisoning. trip to Lyons Thursday. full value for yours skins, see us before Rev. D. D. Martin will preach in Ben The examination of Mrs. Emma J. H. Fedewa and Boys Have you sell. Foerch & Danlkt . Better and Safer System of Heat Miss Eva Hamilton, of Newbury, Is visiting gal Grange hall next Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Roehm on tbe charge of being concerned her sister Mrs. Harry Bradner. Just Returned. ing the Court House. Oral Pruden went to Beldlng Thursday An original pension of |G per month in tbe death of Mrs. John Hartman, Cedar Posts. has been granted to Quincy L. Boyler, where he expects to have work. wbo, it is alleged, died from the effects HAD A PLEASANT VOYAGE BOTH Parties wishing to build fence in the W. A. Norton is In New York City and Wash Wacousta. spriDg should be on tbe lookout for of morphine poisoning a mouth ago, GOING AND COMING. THE PRESENT ONE 18 HAZARDOUS ington on legal business tbis week. Bengal Grange will give a dancing their cedar posts and draw them while paiarty and oyster supper at their ball, on was begun at Laingsburg, Jan. 3. Paul tbe roads are good. Any length, quan AND EXTI1AVIGANT. O. C Clark and family spent the latter pait Goodhue, a local drug clerk, testified of last week visiting relatives in Elsie. the‘ e 22nd of February. Mr. Fsdewa Reports Grass Very Green on tity or size cut to order this month. Par The St. Johns Manufacturing Com that be sold Mrs. Roehm 2U grains of ties wishing extra size for anchor posts, Thos. Pottet.of Cascade Spiings. spent the pany has just completed an order for morphine on November 27, tbe Saturday the Emerald Isle—No Snow and Very or anything in tbe cedar line, can leave Tlic Attempt to Heat the Building Un Judge** Association Mooting. Knight* of the Grip. ENGLISH FIRED ON RUSSIANS. HANNA DOWNED-FIRST ROUND BENINSULA MATTERS The fifth annual meeting of the As In welcoming the Michigan Knights ITEMS OF INTEREST. sociation of Judges of Michigan was of the Grip, at the opening of their Triable Between the China Grabber* — Anti-Hanna Republican* nod Democrat* Other Eastern Mew*. Organlz* the Ohio Legislature. held in the supreme court room of the oonventlon at Kalamazoo, Mayor PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS PICKED RELATED IN A BRIEF. CONCISE capitol at Lansing. The annual ad Stearns roasted the new interchange London: A sensation has been caused The opening session of the Ohio state MANNER. dress of President George S. Hosmer, able mileage book. Chairman E. P. PROMI8COUSLY. by a rumor from Plymouth that the legislature was marked by the first of Detroit, was a review of legislation Waldron, of the legislative committee, English admiral has fired on a Russian battle for the U. S. senatorahip to suc A Tonne Man Shoot* Hla Youthful MU- enacted since the last meeting. The urged that the railroads be asked to The Kaetern Situation Grow* Dark** — man-of-war in Chinese waters. Noth ceed Hon. M. A. Hanna, who, as is carry 250 pounds of baggage instead of ing is known as to the rumor at the known to all, is the principal candi treaa and Fire* n Ballot Into HU act allowing suits to be brought against any voluntary association of five or 150, on one ticket. Maj. R. W. Jack- Unci* 8am May Hav* to Tak* a Hand foreign office or the admiralty. date. The revolt against the chair Bruin—Teacher* and Judge* Hold more by service on any officer was com lin, of Detroit, advocated a 2,500-mile —Again Reported That Secretary The London papers publish also the man of the national Republican com Tholr Annanl Convention* at Lauin| mented upon and commended. Judge interchangeable book at a flat 2-cent Intends to Reelgn statement that England is pressing mittee—which became so apparent in Hosmer regretted that the divorce law rate, but it was voted down, a 1,000- China to declare Port Arthur a free the state election last November —came mile book being regarded as of greater port. It is supposed that the presence boldly to the front in the organizing School Tenrhera of Michigan. did not allow the bringing in of an ab French Make a Grab la China. sent defendant by publication only utility. Treasurer McNolty reported of British warships there is intended of the legislature. The best convention of the Michigan receipts, 89,640.60; disbursements, 88,* It is reported that the admiral of the to insure freedom of access for trading The Hanna candidate for speaker of after it became apparent that personal French fleet has hoisted the French Teachers ’ association ever held was service of an order to appear could not 079.71. Secretary J. C. Saunders said vessels. the house was Alexander Boxwell, the forty-seventh, which occupied three at present the membership was 1,749. flag on Hai-Nan island. The Chinese It is reported that China has given against whom the anti* —led by Gov. days at Lansing. There was a larger be had. In speaking of class legisla offered no opposition. tion President Hosmer mentioned the A fine banquet was served at which consent to Russian surveys for a rail Bushnell, Mayor McKisson, of Cleve attendance by several hundred than Senator H. B. Column was toastmaster. Hai-Nan island is off the south coast way to Port Arthur as a branch of the land, and Hon. Chas. L. Kurtz—put np ‘ sugar beet bounty law and quoted of China, and separates the Gulf of ever before. President Delos Fall, of Judge Cooley as against these bounties. Among the resolutions adopted was Russian Trans-Manchuria railway, and Rep. H. C. Mason. In the hall cf Albion college, compared the change one urging the establishment of the Tonquin from the China sea. It has not a mere extension of the Chinese the house the wildest scenes were wit The act to prefer ex-soldiers for publio an estimated area of 12,000 square of half a century. In 1845 there were employment was considered at great department of commerce and industry Tien-TBin railway. nessed during the first hour of the ses 1,314 male and 1,830 female teachers in length and it was said that while by the national government, its head miles and a population of 1,000,000 The arrangements with Russia for sion. All of the 109 members were in Michigan, the former receiving an there are few men who will deny the to be a regular cabinet officer. Chinese, exclusive of wild tribes in the the guarantee loan are actively pro their seats. As the ballot proceeded average monthly salary of 811.98 and claims of the soldier to public consid B The following officers were elected: interior. ceeding, and when completed the Rus there were loud cheers as the doubtful the latter $5.24. Of the 16,000 teach eration, yet his claims should be en President, John A. Hoffman, of Kala Japan Preparing for War. sians on the plea of supervising the members responded to their names, ers reported in 1893 more than 12,000 forced through public opinion, not mazoo; secretary, John C. Saunders, of Dispatches from Shanghai state that collection of the land tax, will obtain and when the roll call approached the were women who received an average through legislative action, and it is Lansing; treasurer, Chas. McNolty, of Japan is working night and day pre the right to enter every yamen in the close and Mason secured the necessary salary of 835.09 while the men averaged doubtful whether it is competent for Jackson, re-elected; and one vice-pres paring for war. It is believed the empire. majority, there was a long demonstra 846.17. More and better educated wo ident for each of the twelve congres British and Japanese fleets are in close It is officially announced from St. men the legislature to direct the local au tion that delayed the official announce in our schools is now the rule. thority beyond requiring peculiar qual sional districts of the state. The la touch. A British fleet of eight ships Petersburg that M. Kuril Alexeiff has ment of the vote. The ballot resulted: He also said that attention was being ifications to insure fitness. dies of Kalamazoo gave a lunch to the and four torpedo boats has arrived at been intrusted with full powers to Mason 56, Boxwell 52. The anti-Hanna paid to the child ’s body as well as his The program included papers on “A knights and their ladies at the Kala Chemulpo (the port of Seoul). It is re “promote the development of the com combine then completed the organiza mind. He strongly commended the Legal Anomaly, ” Justice Hooker of mazoo club in honor of the election of ported that there are two Japanese mercial relations between Russia and tion of the house, electing John P. law of 1893 making it compulsory to the supreme court; “The Pardoning John A. Hoffman as president. The cruisers in the Yang-Tse-Kiang river. Korea, in competition with British and Griffith speaker pro tem, and Chas. H. indicate methods of preventing the Power and its Limitations, ” Charles L. visit of the knights and ladies ended We Should Tak* a Hand In China. Japanese influences and to aid in furth Gerrish chief clerk. The remainder spread of communicable diseases. Rarden, of Greenville; “Experiences with the annual ball at the Academy Senator Morgan, of Alabama, of the ering the prompt construction of the of the preliminary business was trans Many subjects were discussed bearing Upon the Bench, ” Judge E. A. Burlin of Music. committee on foreign relations, says projected orthodox church at Seoul. v acted without much trouble. upon the relations of teachers to pu game, of Grand Rapids. that it would be impossible for the M. Alexiff is the representative of Rus In the senate the Hanna Republicans pils, to the general public and to their Considerable discussion was caused MICHIQAN NEWS ITEMS. United States to remain complacent sia who was placed in charge of the felt sore. One of the first things to be immediate employers — the school by a paper by Justice Edward Cahill, should European nations undertake Korean customs after McLeavv Brown, considered was the appointment of a board. The star of the convention was Eber Caswell, an aged Alamo hermit, the dismemberment of China. If par the British representative, had been Bishop of the supreme court, on “The Bench, was robbed of 837. joint committee on arrangements for John H. Vincent, of Chautauqua as Viewed from the Bar.” Judge Cahill tition involves the abrogation of treat removed from the position at the insti the inauguration of the governor. fame, who addressed a large audience severely criticised the jury system as a The F. A P. M. has promised to ies, this country would be left to make gation of the Russian government When this joint resolution came up in at the First Baptist church. His sub relic of barbarism. He said the cor erect a new depot at Port Huron. terms again with each European nation This practically gives Russia super the senate, the Hanna Republican sen-*' ject was “Tom and His Teachers. ” ruptibility of jurors was recognized, John Lang died at blandish after an separately in accordance with territory vision of the Korean finances. a tors declined to vote on account of Officers elected: President, J. W. and jurors have to submit to an es extended spree and was buried by the to which its sovereignty extends. The German missionaries at Tsao- their opposition to Gov. Bushnell. The Simmons, of Owosso; vice-presidents, pionage which no self-respecting judge county. Therefore, unless the powers now am Chow, province of Shan-Tung, having resolution was adopted by the Demo- • H. Z. Brock, of Hancock, and J. H. would stand for a day. Men with Romeo's new 813,000 municipal elec bitious for territorial extension take reported that the commandant of the cratic side of the senate chamber, as Kaye, of Cadillac; secretary, M. L. neither education nor experience for tric light plant has started up and into account the importance of Amer Chinese garrison of the town had used sisted by Senators Shepard and Weight- Palmer, of Jackson; treasurer, 8. J. ican commercial relations with China, threatening language toward them, Gier, of Hillsdale; executive commit their work are selected by lot The works well. man, Republicans, and Senator Voigt, attorneys do their utmost to befog the John Lyons, a C. & W. M. brakeman it will be necessary for the govern Baron Hey king, the German ambassa fusionist This action of the senate tee, George W. Loomis, of St Joseph; jury, and the judge cannot marshal ment to intervene in self-defense. dor at Pekin, demanded that the com caused quite a stir about the state A. Gaylord Slocum, of Kalamazoo, and living in White Cloud, was killed by a Foreign diplomats at Washington, it the actual fucts for the instruction of rolling log at Pellston. mandant be dismissed at once. Mal house. Lucy A. Sloan, of Mt. Pleasant. is reported, are much concerned over treatment of German missionaries was After the completion of the general the jnrors, and Judge Cahill said In the senate the combine controlled either the old practice of judges giving A canning factory to employ about the movements of their respective gov what led to the recent seizure of Kaio- everything on all votes, but no test business the association divided into 150 men will be built at Port Huron if ernments in the far east. Chau by Germany. The firm demands sections and discussed matters of near their opinion as to the facts should be votes were taken in the house after reinstated, or trial by jury should be a bonus of 84,000 is raised. of Baron Heyking caused considerable the organization was completed. The est interest to the different classes. New Michigan postmasters: Milling la Secretary Sherman About to Resign. alarm among the Chinese officials in The presidents elected by the various abandoned. The discussion showed The story that Secretary of State feeling that bad been engendered in Judge Cahill to stand alone. Justice ton, Tuscola county, H. B. Henderson; Pekin. the preliminary conference was shown, sections were as follows: College sec Montgomery and Judges Daboll, Peck Willow, Wayne county, Jesse Butler. Sherman is about to resign, the rea in all roll-calls. The feeling on the tion, D. C. Thomas, of Adrian; High son now alleged being his enfeebled 30 CRUSHED TO DEATH. School, S. W. Peavy, of Flint; Mathe and Hosmer, as well as several practi The fire in the big steel coal shed at condition, making it impossible, after Republicans sides of both houses was tioners, all defended the jury system. Dollar Bay is under control, after the Floor of City Hall Gave Way at London, intense. Senator Garfield was clerk of matical, W. W. Beman, of Ann Arbor; Judge M. V. Montgomery reviewed the a long public career, to give Primary, Miss Martha Sherwood, of firemen have been at work for three further service to the country, and Oat., During a Big Political Meeting. the senate till it was organized, and history of the bench of Michigan. weeks. he was very emphatic in his utterances. Saginaw; Musical, Mrs. Emma A. The judges elected the following offi recognizing the necessity of giving After a warm election at London, Thomas, of Detroit; Kindergarten, While Clayton Taylor, near Birming way to a more active man to cope with Out., a large crowd gathered in the The result of the organization of the cers: President, Erastus Peck, of Jack- ham, was playing a mandolin, a string legislature again revived the rumors Miss Clara Mingen, of Detroit; Physi son; the numerous important foreign affairs city hall to listen to speeches from the cal Culture, Dr. E. M. Mosher, of Ann vice-president, A. C. Adsit, of snapped, striking him in the eye, de which now' confront the United States. successful candidates, which has long that the Hanna men would now com- ■ Grand Rapids; secretary, R. II. Person, stroying the sight. bine with the gold Democrats for the Arbor. of Lansing. It is pointed out that if we annex been the local custom. About 2,500 An address by Gov. Pingree, full of West Bay City’s municipal electric Hawaii there are certain treaties now people had crowded their way into election of Calvin S. Brice as a gold standard man, rather than have Bush-, good advice and information was well A Wicked Old Sinner, lighting plant has begun operations existing between that republic and the room and there was consider received, and a reception in the state and after seven months of darkness Japan which will have to be declared able enthusiasm, which was suddenly nell and McKisson elected for the long, Michigan and Indiana officers are and short terms as silver Republicans. house in the evening was a brilliant after a man, aged about 65, who gave there is light again. void in the interests of .our manufac interrupted by one of the most terrible event, with an elaborate luncheon tures, and on the other hand if the calamities in the history of the city. This is denied by Hanna men, however, the names of George W. Clark, W. B. Wm. Golden, for five years ticket who claim that there are yet battles to spread in the executive office by Gov. Sherman, George La Blanche and W. agent of the Ann Arbor railroad at European powers dismember the Chin While a speaker was being applauded Pingree as a surprise, and music by the ese empire we shall have to demand a section of the floor in trout* of the be fonght and won and they felt that T. Frick. “Clark” is credited by La- Ann Arbor, has accepted the position by the tim? for holding the joint sena Albion band and the Boys' Industrial porte, Ind., police with having married of ticket agent of the C., IL A D. at that similar treaties which we have platform for the speakers and immedi school choir. with China shall be continued in force. ately above the citv engineer ’s office torial caucuses and the joint balloting three women within 60 days, and of Toledo. for senator the voice of the Republi- # The State Association of County Com having deserted them as soon as he se The ticklish part of the business for gave way without warning and fully missioners of Schools held the annual A mass meeting was held at Kalama the McKinley administration is that 100 persons were tumbled into a sort cans throughout the state rising in cured all of the money and valuables zoo to boom the beet sugar factory protest against the combine would meeting at Lansing in connection with he could. The stranger ’s last conquest if China is seized and Hawaii annexed of funnel shaped trap which proved to the teachers ’ meeting. A multitude of project. Dr. Dan Bleyker, who has we shall have to deny to Japan the be a death-trap for over one-fourth of cause enough of the opposition to come was Mrs. Lucy Killain, aged 60, of visited all the sugar beet countries of over to the Hanna standard to insure matters of interest and importance Kalamazoo. While there he was very thing that we shall demand of them, for an immense safe and a heavy were dicussed. Officers elected: Presi Europe, declared the project was en those who take China. There is no steam coll, weighing half a ton, top his re-election to the senate. They at known as William Sherman. They tirely feasible. once carried the war into the home dent, R. M. Winston, of St Johns; vice were married after two month ’s ac denying that the President will need a pled over into the hole crushing at president, R. D. Hailey, of Gaylord; sec George Martin and Frankie Daven secretary of state a good deal younger least 30 to death and injuring nearly counties of the “bolters. ” quaintance and he left within a month, port skated out on thin ice at Macki retary, Miss Flora Beadle, of Hastings. owing several bills, but taking a big and more acute than Mr. Sherman to all of the others. Although the plat The port of Havana is to be opened roll of money with him. He dined naw City, broke through and were handle these two propositions and form on which the speakers were Tragical Doable Shooting at Detroit. drowned. The bodies were recovered to exportation again. The port was with her brother in Battle Creek and make each seem right, and maybe that standing was apparently the first thing closed by Capt-Gen. Weyler’s edict of A young man and a young woman disappeared, taking a team of horses, and vigorous efforts made to resusci is why it is being persistently stated to give away, the mayor-elect and stepped into a drug store on Jefferson tate them, but without, effect May 14,1896, for the purpose of cutting a buggy and a lumber wagon, it is al that our ambassador to Great Britain, many alderman escaped the death that the tobacco industries of the United avenue, Detroit and telephoned to leged, from a feed barn in Battle Creek, The state inspectors of the Michigan Mr. Hay is to take Sherman ’s place. overtook so many others who followed Emergency hospital for an ambulance States, particularly those of Tampa and has not been seen since. Sheriff Military academy at Orchard Lake re them into the lower portion of the and Key West., off from their supply to take two wounded persons to the Spanish Officer* in Caba About to Glv* l’p building. Snow is looking for him. Other al ports that, in completeness of equip and thus to paralyze those Cuban col hospital. When it arrived the attend leged wives are at Sturgis and Misha ment and efficient training, it is second Havana: The campaign of Gen. Pando ing physician was surprised to have Penulon Attorneys Denounced. onies of the United States, which was waka, Ind. only to West Point The conduct of with the best of the Spanish army in becoming the fostering strength that the young couple present themselves the cadets is praised in highest tern's. Cuba has been brought to an abrupt U. S. Commissioner of Pensions H. as the wounded ones. They were ap Clay Evans makes a sweeping and com made the insurgents formidable. Two Violent Deaths at Monro*. The Marquette County Telephone halt in the east owing to the impossi There are about 70,000 bales of tobacco parently quite weak and examination Two fatal railroad accidents occurred bility of continuing an aggressive cam prehensive denunciation of pension at showed Co. declared a dividend of 10 per cent torneys as a class. He says: “The now choked in the warehouses of that each had a bullet wound at Monroe in one day. Eli Cooley, a Jan. 1. This has been accomplished in paign in default of the receipt of sup Havana ready to be shipped to the in the head. At the hospital they gave well-known character, was struck by plies and munitions repeatedly de most demoralizing feat ure of the pen two years, and with cheap rates. The sion system is the existence of 50,000 states the moment the port is opened. che names of Myrtle Cramer, aged 18, a Michigan Central train and was so total investment is 835,000. Stock was manded from the government. The The present crop is also promising. of Grand Ledge, and Edward Travers, badly matigled that death resulted general and his staff have left the pension attorneys. The ordinary pen issued at 8100 par and is now sold at sion attorney is worse than the most aged 22, of Detroit. The girl says they shortly afterwards. His right arm 8125. scene of operations on the Cauto river Six members of the family of Adolph had spent the night at a rooming house and limb were severed «close to the for Santiago City, where it is said, pestiferous ‘varmint ’ that ever invaded Reich were killed by flames and smoko and when they awoke in the morning The Michigan Sugar Co., at Bay City, a hen roost. If there are frauds on the trunk and his head badly bruised. He has practically decided to accept the their intention is to take ship and re in a fire that occurred in his home in Travers shot her and then sent a bul was about 55 years old and leaves a turn to Havana to impress upon Capt- pension rolls they have been planted Jersey Citv. let into his own brain. She said she offer of an Essexville site for its beet there by the pension attornej ’.” The widow and a large family of children sugar refinery. The site includes 20 Gen. Blanco the utter futility of mak was willing for him to kill her and had in poor circumstances. ing any impression on the rebel strong commissioner is considering a plan to THE MAHKETS. submitted to previous attempts under acres, to be exempt from taxes. Real do away with these attorneys and have The other unfortunate was J. Smith, estate is on the boom in Bay county. hold in the cast until the Spanish Similar circumstances. Once he had of Detroit He was found dead in the forces are re-enforced and supplied the persons appointed to look after LIVE STOCK. tried to strangle her and another time Many farmers from other states, who with all essentials to carry on a cam cases directly under government super New York--Cattle Sheep Lambs logs yard of James Roberts. The supposi have had experience in raising sugar Best grades.. *4 fto®4 S> 41 ft i 13 40 *8 Of opened an artery in her wrist. The vision. The result would be a great Lower grades .2 7.mj,4 2ft 3 00 5 50 3 6ft tion is that he was riding on a freight beets, are looking for land. paign. He declares that he has no girl had been working in Detroit about train and either fell off while asleep base of operations, the iusurgents ’con saving to the veterans and the govern Chicago— What was supposed to be an airship ment and liability to frauds would be Best grades.. .4 7 xa> n 4 7ft 0 0) 350 two months. She will recover, but or jumped off and received a severe in trol being so complete that it is impos Lower grades 2 73424 50 3 00 4 00 32ft Travers will probably die. passed over St Charles at 8 p. m. about sible to convey supplies to Spanish col reduced to a minimum. jury which disabled him and he 500 feet from the earth, and was mov Detroit— crawled to this house, which was but umns operating in the interior of the Best grades.. .4 flO&ft 00 4 25 5 00 The Lansing, St. Johns & St Louis, ing at a rapid rate of speed in a south province. Bismarck Still Liven. Lower grades .2 50tf4 50 3 00 4 50 a few feet from the track to get assist easterly direction. It was brightly The following printed in a London and the Lansing, Dexter A Ann Arbor ance. No one was at home and the Buffalo — illuminated with green and red and Mr*. Balllngton-Booth Cannot Recover. paper as a dispatch from Berlin was Best grades.. .3 75©4 00 0 10 85ft electric railways have filed articles of man was unable to gain from exposure. Lower grades .2 2 >423 50 4 50 830 association with the secretary of state. white lights, and was observed by a Mrs. Maude Ballington-Booth, the flashed all over the world and created score of people. considerable excitement: “The one re Cleveland — Dr. L. R. Fiske, who has been presi A Civil Service Squabble. world-famous Salvation Army and Best grades.. 4 2>a4 51 4 50 0 00 355 dent of Albion college for more than Treasury officials have dismissed The Graham-Forsyth uniform ntext American Volunteer worker, cannot mark on the lips of everybody is, ‘Bis Lower grades 2 50A4 00 3 50 4 50 820 book law enacted by the last legisla recover. She is suffering from an marck is dead.’ Although expected Cincinnati — 20 years, has given up his work. Rev. Deputy Collectors Finsterand Muir, of Best grades....4 50®4 7ft 4 ftO 5 50 845 ture provided for the appointment of aortic aneurism, and while her life is for months, the event has caused a 4 0J 32ft J. P. Ashley, the new president, takes Port Huron, for alleged violation of great shock. It is the sole topic of Lower grade*. .2 5X®4 40 2 8ft charge Jan. 4. the civil service law in contributing to three county commissioners of schools In no immediate danger, the attending Pittsburg — to act with the state board of education physicians state that she will never be conversation in the hotels and cafes.” Best grades....4 50®4 8ft 4 7ft 6 10 3 So G De Vileger, Jr., a commercial a political fund. The funny part of it 3 50 4 6J 330 is that Collector Avery, who com in selecting the system of books. Gov. able to resume active work. Com Later advices showed the report to Lower grades. .2 7.©4 25 traveler of Battle Creek, who has writ Pingree lias appointed Commissioners mander Booth has clung to the hope be absolutely untrue. Prince Bismarck ten stories under the nom de plume of plained of them, is said to openly defy grain ,, ETC. the civil service law. Trouble is very J. L. Wagner, of Eaton county; Miss that his wife would regain her former is suffering severely from nervous Wheat. Corn, Oau, “Gyp, ” was robbed of 83,852 in a Kan- Flora Beadle, of Barry, and R. S. vigor and splendid energy. Even he troubles, gout and insomnia and while No 2 red No 2 mix No 2 whit* 8&s City hotel. likely to occur as a result of discharg 81 ®S4'4 29 ©20* ing of Messrs. Muir and Finster. The Campbell, of St Clair. admits that he knows his wife’s life he cannot live a great while there is New York 08 ©««* Walter Glendenning, aged 77, of Railroad Commissioner Wesselius' an work is ended. no apparent signs of his passing away Chicago 00 ©09* 26 ©»H 23 ©23* West Saginaw, in spite of heavy snow, civil service commission is getting after soon. •Detroit 02 ©OS* 20 ©»* 2> ©25 Collector Avery as it is said that these nual report will roast the railroads for Toledo 04 ©94* 27 w. 27 24 ©24 walked 12 miles from Kalkaska to visit refusing to comply with the law com Two Findlay, O., Man Killed by Goa. deputies were promised immunity from Big Lock-Out In England. Cincinnati 92*®93 27 ©27 H 24 ©24* his nephew near Williamsburg. He pelling the issue of family mileage The dead bodies of Henry Behner, Cleveland 02 *1.02 27 ©27 24 ©24 has not a gray hair in his head. the charge now made against them aged 35, and Joseph Browneller, aged After a bitterly contested strike for when they testified against their books at 820 apleoe, while issuing in an eight-hour day last July 100,000 Pittsburg 06 ©96* 20 ©20 26 ©26 Ex-Warden Hatch, of Jackson prison, former superiors, Messrs. Springer and terchangeable books for 830, with 810 25, who had been missing several days Buffalo 07 ©97 80 ©to 27 ©27 at Findlay, O., were found at the home machinists of England have refused to •Detrolt-Hay. So 1 tlmotht 10.0) per ton. has resigned as superintendent of the Turney last year. rebate, good only when represented by Cronk shirt contract at Jackson and of the former. The men had been suf accept a compromise of 51 hours per Potatoes, 6Jc per bu. Live Poultry, turkeys, the buyer. Unless the railroads give week and now the employers have de 10c per lb; chicken*. «c; ducks. 7c. Eggs, will take charge of 300 convicts en Josei*i Lindley, the pioneer shoe in Mr. Wesselius recommends that focated by gas which escaped from a strictly fresh. 18c perdoz. Butter, dairy. Ift* gaged in similar work at Ionia prison. dealer of Ionia, was found dead in bed. their charters be annulled. coal stove. clared a lock-out. per lb; creamery, 22c. Joe. Lewis, a wealthy farmer of East The Michigan Engineering society M. J. McPherson, superintendent of To Punish Weyler for Talk Against C. 8. The sixtieth anniversary of the The Second City of th* World. met at the Hotel Harrington, Port Hu the Presbyterian Sunday school at Leroy, Kalamazoo county, was con El Correo Espanol, La Nacional, El pope's first celebration of mass was ob With the opening of the New Year ron, with 35 delegates present. Mayor Howell for 31 years, has declined re- victed on the charge of illegal parent served at the Vatican. Full 3,000 dele Epoca and other Madrid papers that New York City became Greater New Boynton delivered an address of wel election. age and is now serving a sentence of six published Gen. Weyler’s threats and* gates from Catholic societies and paro come. A number of instructive papers Scottish Rite Masons from various months ’ in the county jail in lieu of his protests against President McKin chial committees were admitted to the York and the second city in size in the were read and discussed, and the dele parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois paying 81 a week for the support of Saia Della Loggia of the Vatican. world. Robert A. Van Wyck was in the child. He say* he was convicted ley’s message will be prosecuted. The gates visited the 8t Clair railroad tun and Canada held several sessions at publication had been prohibited on in P. H. Mabry, agent of the Southern duced into the office as the first mayor nel in a body. Bay City. They conferred the higher on perjured testimony and refuses to under the new conditions with a great pay the money because of the principle ternational grounds. It is said that Express Co. at Brunswick, Go., who degrees and participated in a big Gen. Weyler will also be prosecuted. embezzled more than 815,000 from the deal of enthusiasm on the part of his The annual convention of Michigan banquet. involved. He went to the jail volun followers who greeted the new year tarily, taking with him bedding and agency there and escaped, was cap circuit court stenographers was held Mrs. M. E. Casey, who was shot four The large planing mill of the C. J. tured about four miles out of Savan with a noisy demonstration. at Jackson. Officers elected: Presi times by her husband at Alpena, is re other articles for his comfort. Hamilton Co., at Buffalo, employing Merritt D. Lyon, a young farmer nah. Mabry was searched and 815,- dent, James E Henderson, of Cadillac; covering. She say* her husband was 150 nen, was destroyed by fire together 070.73 was found on him. He said he Wm. Nesbitt, a young farmer near vice-president, C. II. Strawhecker, of engaged in counterfeiting and it was near Mulliken, was arrested on the with an immense stock of made up Marlon, was waylaid by three high charge of betraying hi* 15-year-old lumber. Loss 8120,000 with 870,000 in walked all the way from Brunswick, Grand Rapids; secretary • treasurer, the fact that she knew too much that over 100 miles. waymen and relieved of 8300. Joseph H. Brewer, of Grand Rapids. led to the shooting. sister-in-law, Almira Osmun. surance. CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THUB8DAY, JANUABY 6, 1898, which set Dick wondering what it CASUALTIES. Scrofula and oould mean. Newark, Ohio. —While on her knees All other blood Weil, after this it very soon became engaged in prayer. Miss Nellie Stick an established custom that Dick should ler, aged 20, living near Gratiot, was Diseases are promptly find his way over to Gravelelgh at Minor Happenings of the Past seriously burned, a spark from a grate And Permanently Cured least twice In every week, and some falling upon her clothing. times Miss Dimsdale asked him to Week. By Hood ’s Sarsaparilla. stay to share their dinner, for she Manitowoc, Wis.—Five horses and was a woman of very hospitable na three cows perished in the burning If you suffer from EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS. of the farm buildings of Herman Boett ture, though she was quiet and some Any form of Blood what stiff in manner, and a little old- cher. This is the fourth time that Mr. fashioned in her ideas. And although Political, Religious, Social and Criminal Boettcher has suffered a fire loss. Disorder, you should \ Doing, of the Whole World Carefully Streator, Ill.—The wife of O. S. Ole- INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. David Stevenson had all her wishes on son his side, she really grow to like Dick Condca.ed for tier Ucadera— The 4c- was fatally burned by the break Take Hood ’s and CHAPTER V. is fit to be your aunt; ” and then Old.nt Record. ing of a lighted lamp. She died in E was strongly Dorothy laughed a little, and pushed the better of the two, for Dick was four hours. Only Hood ’s. the door open. gentle and kind in his manner to tempted to rush off each Flora, Ind. —While hunting, the gun home and dress "See, this is my Loras Doone, ” she and all alike, content to let his Indlanopils, Ind. —The demand of of Vena Byrun burst, causing the loss The longest canal In the world Is In Russia. said, going Into the nearest stall, and wooing do Itself—If the truth between creditors for the removal of Trustee It extends from St Petersburg to the front himself and go off you and me be told, happy in the of sight in both eyes. ier of China and measures nearly 4,500 miles. to the Hall after showing him a ball of white fluff Perkins and the appointment of a re Bordentown, N. J.—Mrs. Anna Fow- A sponge with the gieat circumference of colled up In a deep bed of hay. “Isn ’t present, and a little Inclined to leave ceiver for the Krag-Renolds wholesale 5 feet0 inches has lately been taken from Dick, but he resist the future to be as long the future as lery, aged 65 years, was burned to the waters of Biscayne bay, Florida. ed the temptation she lovely? ” grocery firm resulted this evening In death in the house of Frank Graham. Dick Aylmer groaned within him might be because of the terrible old the appointment of D. W. Coffin, who with a hopeless uncle In the background. Then, too, Flora, Ind. —While crossing the Van- AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. feeling that he self; he had fallen from a paradise gave bond In $200,000. We are asserting In the courts our right to the there was always present In his mind dalia tracks Wilbur Schuyler slipped exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," and would gain nothing of tenderness to the comparative per New York.—The steamer Concho, and was crushed to death. "PITCHERS CASTORIA." as ourTiade Mark. sonality of a cat—commonplace even the knowledge that, sooner or later, he by it, that he would would have to make a clean breast of which arrived from Havana, brought Sycamore, Ill.—W. Jones accidental I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hysnnls, Massachu only vex himself though It was a Persian cat which 968 bales of Cuban tobacco. ly tipped a boiler of scalding water setts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CAS bore the name of Lorna Doone, and his Identity to Miss Dimsdale and to TORIA,” the same that has borne and does now by the sight of the other fellow philan Dorothy, and to cast himself upon Berlin —The empress of Germany, over two boys. One is dead. dering after the girl he had loved all she loved it. who has been suffering from influenza, Hamilton, Ill.—'Miss Della Buckert’s bear the fac-slmlle signature of CHAS. H. It was a beautiful cat without doubt, their mercy as regards the deception FLETCHER on every wrapper. This Is the his life. "She ’ll find him out after a which had really been no fault of his, has suffered a relapse. Dr. Zuneker, millinery store, Oscar Johnson ’s gro original “PITCHER S CASTORIA” which has bit," be said to himself, "and then and it turned its head back at the her physician, is staying at the new cery and the Popel & GUler building been used in the homes of the mothers of sight of Dorothy, and purred loudly, and to persuade them to consent to a she'll know how to value a man who secret marriage. And whenever poor palace. burned. America for over thirty years. Look carefully means every word—ay, and more than and with evident satisfaction. Paris—The official newspapers still Maryville, Mo.—Arch McMasters and at the wrapper and see that It Is "the kind yon “I want to know Just what you Dick reached this point in hla reflec have always bought, ” and has the signature of every word—that he says.” tions, he Invariably gave a groan of insist that the reports of French oc Miss Anna Edwards were returning think of her, ” said Dorothy to Dick— cupation of Hal-Nan island by Admiral from an entertainment in Hopkins, CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No ' In the meantime Dick Aylmer went utter despair, for he had a dreadful one baa authority from me to use my name on and turned in at the hospitably “truly and honestly. Don ’t flatter me De La Bedolliere are absolutely un when their team became frightened. about her. Lorna and I don ’t like foreboding that never, never would except The Centaur Company of which Chaa. open gate of Gravelelgh Hall, with the Dorothy ’s aunt give even the most re founded. Miss Edwards was thrown from the H. Fletcher Is President assured air of one who knows before flattery—we want to know the truth Bar Harbor, Me.—Miss Lucille Pulit sleigh and killed. March 8, 1887. SAMUEL PITCHER. M. D. about ourselves —the brutal truth if luctant consent to anything of the hand what his welcome would be. "Is kind. zer, oldest daughter of Joseph Pulitzer Memphis, Tenn. —S. P. Lock secured Miss Dimsdale at home? ” he asked of you will, but truth at any price. Now of the New York World, died at Chat- a berth in a Pullman sleeper attached Mercury had wings on his heels. He what do you think of her? ” So the sweet autumn days skipped must have had soar feet Barbara, who came to the door in an over —September died and October was wold, his summer residence, of typhoid to the Kansas City,Memphis and Birm "I can ’t see her properly, ” answered fever. ingham railway train. Trainmen swer to his knock. born, lived Its alloted time, and in turn "My husband had two cancers taken ■ “I am not sure, sir,” Barbara an Dick. Milwaukee, Wls.—The freight steam found his remains on a trestle. The "Lorna dearie, get up and show passed away, and wintry November from his face, and another was coming swered. “But she may be in the gar came in. The last tinted leaves fell er Alice Stafford, for whose safety con supposition is that Lock walked in his on his lip. He took two bottler of Bur den —I’ll find out, sir, in a minute. ” yourself off,” said Dorothy to the cat; siderable apprehension has been felt, sleep and fell off. dock Blood Bitters and it disappeared. then finding that the great white Per from the trees of the great oaks and She disappeared again, leaving him horse chestnuts, and the tall poplars arrived safely at Frankfort, Mich. Mason City, Iowa.—Voorhles-Roberts He is completely well.” Mrs.. Wm. there, and then a man ran out from sian did not move, she turned her out Burlington, N. J.—The state masonic block suffered by fire. Loss, $8,000. Kirby, Akron, Erie Co., N. Y. of her bed, and took the four kits Into which shrouded the hall were now but the side of the house, to take the gaunt and shivering skeletons, only a lodge has taken possession of the mag Dummick & Wrate, wholesale cigar her own lap. nificent mansion recently purchased manufacturers, lost $12,000; Hoag & Spiritual dyspepsia is harder to cure horse ’s head; and before Barbara ap memory of their old luxuriance and than the other kind. peared again, Dick heard a light foot "I think she is lovely,” said Dick. here for a home for indigent members Shipman, clothing, $8,000, and Cobb, “Isn ’t she an enormous size?” glory. But to Dorothy Strode the bare house furnishings, $3,000. step on the gravel, and Dorothy her and leafless trees were more beautiful of the fraternity and their widows and self, wearing a blue dress and a white "Immense, ” Dorothy answered, "and orphans. It was erected and furnished Auburn, Ind. —'While hunting quail a great beauty too. ” than they were either In their summer David Davidson of Garrett was shot in sailor hat, came into sight. "Oh! Mr. gowns of green or in all the many- by a Cincinnati millionaire at a cost Harris,” she cried, in such a Joyous By this time Dick had begun to of $225,000. The figure paid by the the face by his partner, John Short. tickle Lorna Doone ’s ear, and that hued loveliness of their autumn frocks, Davidson will lose one eye. tone that Dick’s heart fairly thumped for to Dorothy all me world was light masons for the entire property, within in response. "I had no idea that you lady began to respond after the man and without, was a trifle over $20,000. Rockford, Ill.—The explosion of a GIVEN UP ed and beautified by the warmth and ner of cats when they are not shy — Macon, Miss.—Jim Jones, colored, gasoline stove In the south barn of the were here. I wonder how it was I did that is to say, she had put her two fire of radiant love —better to her the Rockford City Railway Company start not hear the wheels. Come and be in leafless branches of November with who burned a widow ’s house about fif forepaws upon his knee as he sat on teen miles south of here, was lynched. ed a fire which destriyed the structure. troduced to my aunt; she is here, round the bed of hay, and was vigorously love than the fairest blooms of spring Loss, $12,000. this shrubbery —we always sit here in rubbing her cheeks, first one side and time Into which love had not yet come. He was under guard of a constable Appleton, Wls.—Ewald Kuehne was TO DIE! when a mob of forty men took him to the hot weather; the sight of the sea then the other, against his hand. During this autumn she had seen killed in a runaway while driving That's what Miss Fannie McOon- helps to keep one cool. Auntie, ” she "She has taken to you,” cried Do but little of her old admirer, David the woods and shot his head off. home. continued, not giving him time to say Stevenson. He had gone to the Hall Lemars, Iowa. —After suffeiing the J3KL aid, of Louisville, Ky., writes. rothy gladly. FOREIGN. a word, "this is Mr. Harris, whom I "Of course she has; Lorna Doone once or twice after he knew that “the pangs of remorse for twenty years, (yjjp 1 One of many thousand unsolicited met at Lady Jane ’s, who brought me knows a good thing when she sees man from Colchester ” had became a William M. Nye has confessed to Sher testimonials, regarding the effi home that day, you know; ” then, turn frequent visitor there —gone with a iff Ryan that he is wanted at Wahoo, Vienna —An Imperial decree has it,” he answered, laughing. "Besides, been gazetted authorizing the govern cacy of“5 DROPS.” ing to Dick, she said, "This is my why shouldn ’t she take to me?” savage assertion of his rights as an Neb., for disposing of $10,000 worth of aunt, Miss Dimsdale.” old friend and a life-long intimate of mortgaged property, and wishes to re ment, during the prorogation of parlia Hotel Broadway, Louisville, Ky., Oct 7,1897. "Some people don ’t like cats,” said ment, to levy taxes and provide for the SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO„ 167 I am very pleased to see you, Mr. Dorothy, "especially men. ” the house. But when he found that turn there to expiate his crime. Dearborn St, Chicago, Ill. : Dbab Sins: After Harris,” said Miss Dimsdale, holding Miss Dimsdale had, as he put It, "gone Detroit—Gouverneur Morris, a great state expenditure from Jan. 1 to June a long silence I write you to know how I am. I She had not forgotten how, the very 30 next. owe my life to you, or at least believe I do, for out her hand in a frank and gracious last time he was in the house, David over to the enemy,” he gave up even grandson of Robert Morris, the revolu I was given up by two doctors (good ones too) welcome. Miss Dimsdale nad the that much intercourse, and gave all tionary patriot, died suddenly here Paris—Figaro says that the minister to die, but after taking two bottles of your med Stevenson had kicked her favorite out for foreign affairs, M. Hanotaux, will icine 1 was able to get about I am trying to somewhat stiff manners of the last his energies to his farming, content, aged 50 years. He was well known Induce everybody that of his way, not brutally or to hurt convene an International conference generation, or, I might say, of the her —for David, whatever his faults, as he told himself, to bide his time. throughout the country as a civil en SUFFERS FROM RHEUMATISM first half of the century, but in her At last about the middle of Novem gineer. without delay for the naturalization to try your "5 DROPS," and I know of some that was not a brute —'but because he was of the Newfoundland banks during the have tried it, and pronounced it the best they own house she was always more genial ber when half the officers of the regi Richmond, Ind. —Professor W. P. ever tried. so jealous of Dorothy that he could fishing season. than In any other place, and Dick not endure to see her care for any ment were on leave, and soldiering Reeves of this city has accepted a call Yours truly, Fannt McDonald . Aylmer shook hands with her and and Colchester alike were as flat and to the chair of English at the Iowa Paris—M. Georges Pallalne, director thing. "How can you waste your love of customs, has been appointed gov A DEAD SHOT FOR RHEUMATISM. felt—well, that a very fate was fol dull as ditch water, Dick Aylmer got State University. He will enter upon Horsehead, Ark., Nov. 13, 1897. lowing him in his acquaintance with into his dog-cart and turned the his duties at the opening of the next ernor of the Bank of France, In succes SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 187 sion to M. Magnin. Dearborn St., Chicago, I1L: Thank the Lord, I Dorothy Strode, for here he was again horse ’s head toward the big gates. term. am on foot once more. The "5 DROPS” knocked forced, as it were, to be known as Har "Hullo, Dick!” called out a brother Havana —Captain General Blanco has CRIME. the Rheumatism In the head and put me on my crutches, so I kept taking It, and now I have ris, when all the time his real name officer to him, “where are you going? ” Eigned the appointments of the presi thrown away my crutches, and walk about like was Aylmer, and how was he to tell "Oh, a drive,” returned Dick prompt dent of the council and the five secre Oconomowoc, Wls.—Ernest Cornell, a man. May God bless the man that got up the "5 DROPS," it Is a dead shot for Rheumatism the old lady that some one or other ly. . taries. The name of Eduardo Dolz was charged with the murder of his two and Gravel. Three different doctors gave me had made a mistake—that is. without substituted for that of Amblard as children, has been ordered to be put medicine and treated my case. Besides I have "Oh, a drive,” repeated the other, bought and used every remedy I ever heard of giving himself the look of an impos noting the evasion instantly —trust a minister of commerce. on trial before the circuit court of that was recommended for Rheumatism, and it ter? Like lightning there flashed Waukesha county and Cornell was all did me no good. One dose of “6 DROPS" soldier for that. “Got any room for a Aurora, Ill.—John Scharfe, aged 80, was worth it ail. It stopped the pain, and I am through his mind an idea that If Lady fellow? ” was struck by a switch engine, re committed to jail. now able to go about. I have not the time to Jane had mistaken him for somebody Guthrie, O. T.—Robert Bevis, of day to fully state my case, but will gladly write "Take you as far as the town if ceiving fatal injuries. you a complete statement at some future time. else, she had really no guarantee of you like," said Dick good-naturedly. Toronto, Ont. —The Rev. William Gainesville, Tex., has been arrested, L T. Stamps . his respectability, and with equal rap “No, never mind, ” answered the otb- Burns, while preaching in Galt, drop and is being held at Tecumseh await Ai a pnxltlve cure for Rheumatism, Sciatica, idity there shot through his brain a ing a requisition from Texas to take Neuralgia. Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, tr. "I’ll walk down with Snooks pres ped dead in the pulpit of heart fail Hay Fever, Catarrh,Sleeplessness, Nervous remembrance of his uncle ’s letter, his ently. ” ure. him back on a charge of perjury and ness, Nervous and Neuralgic Headache, unde ’s threats and his uncle ’s unyield “Didn ’t want a lift, you know, ” he Hyattsville, Md.—The postofflee here bond forfeiture. Heart Weakness, Toothache, Earache, ing, unbendable —yes, I must be hon explained to Snooks, who in polite so was entered and the safe blown open Huntington, W. Va.—During a dance est and finish up the sentence as Dick ciety was known as Lord William and looted of $700 in currency and at Dinge83 Ed Chaffin was shot dead. IS"FIVE DROPS” thought it—his uncle ’s unyielding, un stamps. Chaffin's father was murdered in a has never been equalled. Veryl, "but I did want to find out IIE nRflPt ” taken but once a day Is a dose bendable, devil of a temper. And so, where old Dick was going. But Dick Racine, Wis.—The Shaw Hardware dance fight less than a year ago. “ - of this great remedy and to enabl. not from any contrivance or wish of all sufferers to make a trial of Its wonderful euretire was ready for me, and as close as company made an assignment to Hy Columbia, Mo.—John Hunt, sen properties, we will send out during the next thirty his own, Dick, in that awkward mo wax. ” land Daymond. The assets are given tenced to be hanged here Jan. 13 for days, 100.S00 sample bottles. Me each, prepaid by uadi. ment, let the mistake pass, and al Even a sample bottle will convince you of Ha merit. WASTE YOUR LOVE ON A CAT. "Yes, I know —tried It on myself at $5,000. Columbus, Ind. —George Curtiss was Beat and cheapest medicine on earth. Large bottles lowed tihe two ladies at Gravelelgh with him the other day,” said Snooks arrested near South Bethany, charged (300 doses) 01.00. for SO days 3 bottles for n.M. Not Hall to believe that his name was, as on a brute of a cat?” he had burst out, Saginaw, Mich. —Sewell Avery, one sold by druggists, only by us and our agents. Agents when Dorothy had caught up Lorna reflectively. “Dick Informed me he of the wealthiest lumbermen in the with burning John Patterson ’s barn. wanted In new territory. Write us to-day. they had imagined, Harris. was making a careful study of mare’s- Curtiss admits his guilt and says he In behavior he was very judicious; and held her to her cheek. Saginaw valley, died In a private sani SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE GO., "Some nests for the benefit of the British As tarium in Flint. was paid $1.50 to apply the torch. lie he talked more to the aunt than to the men hate cats—a man who disclosed the name of the alleged brib niece, although his eyes followed her comes here sometimes loathes Ler,” sociation. ” Milan, Mo.—Floyd Cleeton went to 167-169 DEARBORN ST., ^____ , ILL. (To be continued.) a dance and attacked George Farmon er, and the officers are now searching wherever she went in a way which told she said to Dick, and Dick knew by a for him. Miss Dimsdale all too plainly what sort of instinct who the “some one ” with a knife, inflicting wounds from which he will probably die. the murder of his daughter, Mattie had brought him there. was. Huxley and Arnold. Rea Hunt, was declared insane by a But, Judging by his serene and sober “Oh, 6c.ne men are cross-grained Dean Farrar records In his "Men I Astoria, Ore.—Capt. Whitney and sheriff ’s Jury. conversation with Miss Dimsdale, you enough for anything, ” he said good- Have Known ” an amusing and perfect crew of ten men of the bark Oakland, which went ashore in Cape Flattery, Streator, Ill.—Richard Ehart was ar might have thought that Dick was naturedly —he could afford to be good- ly good-natured retort which Mr. Mat rested, accused of a burglirvy. It is said sixty instead of six-and-twenty, and natured, for he had realized what this thew Arnold provoked from Professor were picked up by the schooner Laura May. he entered the home of John Hahn Miss Dimsdale was charmed with him. girl’s real feelings for "some one ” •Huxley, for the better appreciation of and secured $975 in notes and $40 in “Such a thoughtful, sensible fellow,” were. "For my part, I must say I’ve which it may be added that the "sweet Ames, Iowa.—Mrs. James Miller cash. she said to herself as she watched got a liking for a cat, but I should ness and light ” of which Mr. Arnold and her baby were fatally burned. The New York.—William Arnold, son of him presently go across the lawn with hardly class a beauty like this with wrote were exemplified in his own very baby died a few hours later and the Lieutenant Commander Conway Ar Dorothy to see her Persian kittens, ordinary cats. She is not only a beau airy and charming manners: I some mother cannot live. Mr. Miller light nold, committed suicide by shooting Just at that time the very pride and ty to look at, but she is evidently af times met Huxley In company with ed the fire with kerosene. He is un himself in the right temple at Mont Joy of her heart. Ay, but men were fectionate, and —and —and she ’s yours, Matthew Arnold, and nothing could be hurt. Clair, N. J. deceivers ever, sometimes quite un you know. ” more delightful than the conversation Pittsburg, Pa.—Mrs. Sarah McGowan Eldora, Iowa—Crazed with grief over conscious though it be. At that mo "The tea is waiting, Miss Dorothy, ” elicited by their contrasted individual was shot and killed at her home in the death of bis wife, J. M. Cook kill ment Dick was saying to Dorothy, said Barbara, appearing at the door ities. I remember a walk which I Rankin, Pa. Her husband, Anthony ed himself on her grave at Relnbeck. "And I thought the week would never Just at that moment. once took with them both through the McGowan, one of the wealthiest resi Alexandria, Ind. —During a quarrel get over —the very longest week I ever “Come,” said Dorothy gently. pleasant grounds of Paris HIM, where dents of the town, is in Jail charged Kitty Hayes shot and Instantly killed lived.” Mr. Arnold ’s cottage was. 'Te was with her murder. Lewis Fink, a barber. : "Then why didn ’t you come be CHAPTER VI. Winooshl, Vt.—Fire destroyed the It Cures Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat Croup. In asking Huxley whether he liked going Los Angeles, Cal.—Ed L. Parker at fluenza. Whooping Cough, Bmnehitissnd Asthma. fore?” she asked, with innocent au MAY come over out to dinner parties, and the professor plant of Mason & Co. ’s machine shop tempted to kill C. J. Sheets and his A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, dacity. and see you and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. answered that as a rule he did not like and S. H. Newton ’s sawmill, lumber wife in a lodging house and then com Yea wilt see the excellent effect after taking the ' “Oome before! But you said that I again? ” said Dick It at all. “Ah,” said Mr. Arnold, "I yards and tenements. The loss is mitted suicide. first dose Sold by dealers everywhere. Large wasn ’t to come till this week,” he an to Miss Dimsdale. rather like it. It Is rather nice to meet more than $100,000. Newman, Ill.—Miss Frances Wells . bottle# 25 cents and 50 cento. swered. "Besides, I didn ’t know —I when he took people. ” "Oh, yes,” replied Huxley, Wheeling, W. Va.—Joseph Nichols tried to commit suicide with strychnine wasn ’t sure that I mightn't get bun leave of her that "but we are not all such everlasting died of hydrophobia. Nichols was bit because her employer found fault with HE ALASKA OUTFITTER dled out neck and crop when I did afternoon. cuplds as you are!” ten in September. her cooking. oome. Oh no, I didn ’t want to run "Oh, yes,” she Toronto —A cablegram from London New York. —J. N. Harris, a North WMAT TO TAKB AND WIAT IT COSTS the risk of that ” answered. She was says Lord Hertford disclaims ac Carolina negro, was arraigned on the BOW TO BBACH TUB OOLD FIBLD0 ; "Do you often get bundled out neck quite conquqered Unreasonable. knowledge of the reported intention of ssaiissis uv JONES’ Cash 8torb charge of sending threatening letters 108 A 110 Front Street. PORTLAND. ORE. and crop when you go to call at by the delightful It Is part of a doctor ’s duty to keep the imperial authorities to appoint him to William K. Vanderbilt, J^ln Wana- houses? ” Dorothy Inquired demurely, modesty of his up tihe spirits of his patient, since Lord Aberdeen ’s.successor. maker and other prominent men. SEND I0CTL and with a saucy twinkle in her eye. manner. "You will generally find us hopefulness is often the best of medi Calcutta—The Zakka-Khels have Kankakee, Ill.—Despondent over the HE PAYS THE FREIGHT II STAMPS. i “No, I don ’t,” he replied with a in about four o ’clock, tor we are very cine, but the Cincinnati Enquirer cites blocked the road from All-Musjid to loss of a large farm in this county laugh. "But I have known what it quiet people, and a few tennis parties a case in which encouragement was Lundi Kotal, preventing the establish CURE YOURSELF! Henry Gundelach, a commission mer Ha Big « for unnatural was to have a decided oold shoulder, or a dance or two are all that Dorothy carried almost too far. A man met ment of communication with General chant of 1945 West Lake street, Chica discharges. Inflammations, irritation* or ulceratioas and I didn ’t want to find it here. ” sees of life. Sometimes l wish that with a frightful accident, as a result Sir William Lookhert. go, committed suicide by taking poison of mucous membranes. j "And you have not I think Auntie It was different; bat oM trees, you of which both his legs had to be ampu Youngstown, O.—The Lloyd-Booth at the home of St. Anne friends. . _ Painleee, and not astrla- iTHfEvMI Cheu KUlOo . cent or poisonous. has been particularly nice to you,” she know, ” with a smile, "are difficult to tated. "Never mind, ” said the surgeon, company is making a pair of shears to St. Louis, Mo.—The coroner ’s Jury •eM byDrnggMs, said, as she opened the door leading a few days afterward, finding the poor weigh 175 tons. held William Roberta, James Murphy, 1 or sent InMi plain wrapper,W i B|f|ie<* transplant. ” by express, prepaid , tot Into the atable. "And Miss Dorothy does net look an man despondent; "never mThd, we Areola, Ill.—George Conley, a farm Fred Snyder and W. J. Nolan responsi ft on. or S bottles, 82.75. ! Dick put his hand out to open the if she found life at Gravelelgh Insup shall have you on your feet again er, ordered a lunch In a restaurant and ble for the death of Jacob Weinan, who Circular neat oa rniuui door also, and in doing so Just touched portable, ” said Dick, with delicate within three weeks.” . was waiting to be served when he fell was strangled last week. hers. “I think, ” said he, In a danger flattery. dead. New York—Itzig Iapko, alias Max ously tender tone, which would great “No; Dorothy Is a good girl,” Miss Don't swear before a lady. A gen Canton, Ill.—Steve Marshall, a farm Iapgo, who Is wanted in Russia on a ly have enlightened Miss Dimsdale, Dimsdale replied in a tender under tleman will always permit a Jadjr U> er residing near Farmington, was held charge of embezzling 3,200 rubles “that she is a delightful woman; she tone, and then she gave a little sigh swear first. up and robbed of $100 by two high ($1,600), wa sarrested as he landed from waymen. the steamer Etruria from Liverpool. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUKSDAY,. JANUARY 6, 1897 Senator Chandler ,of New Hamp XECUTOR8 SALE-Notice is hereby given FALL IN ARKANSAS- E_ that by virtue and in pursuance of license BUNINENN DIRECTORY. The Independent shire. has come out in favor of bi Try It at Our Risk. anu authority granted to nie the undersigned on metallism. In an editorial in bis paper, the Hi h day ui March A. D. 1897. by the probate Barbers. Gcltlug Until) for Winter Down by the That ’s a fair offer? Any court for thecoui-ty of Clinton, state of Michigan, OaOKOE 8. OORBIT. Proprietor the Concord Evening Monitor, be says: to sell real estate belonging to the estate of Hiraui Mississippi. one with impure biood, dys Nested, deceased. I sill s II at public auction to ACOB FOKKCH, proprietor or The Centra FRANK K DaWITT. I Lessees ‘A good New Year’s sesolve for re the highest bidder therefor on the Slat day of Barber Shop. Ladle* ’ and children's hair G. CLAIR STOCK, ( publicans is to demand, and during 1898, In contrast to our watery spring we pepsia, rheumatism, weak February, 1NUM, at one o'clock p. ui., at tbe J»ttlng a specialty. Good bath rooms in connection are having the dryest fall that lias been probate office In St. Johns. In said county of Clint Violin and other airing* ; tnueiciane ’ outfit*, etc struggle for bimetallism. Every man nerves, liver or kidney disease, on, the following described premises, vis: COM MISSION Kit If. VANS’ ROAST. who works for wages should flghtagainst known for years iu this locality. ■ PACIFIC HAKBKlt SHOP- W. W. Feigns The rivers aud bavou9 are dry except The north half of the northeast quarter and tbe -A on, Proprietor uo to the Pacific Harbor The following from the Washington the single gold standard of money, can thus make a trial of east half of tbe eaat half of the northweal quarter, which is the most potent cause of the the deep holes, ami they are literally all on section numner twelve In township remove to St. Johns as soou as the first Awarded Roy ml make* the food pare, good sleighing comes.—Muir Tribune. Highest Honors —World ’s Fair, wholeeome and delioioua. Special Drain Commissioner Duncau, of Washington, who has charge of the DR Dr. F. B Monroe work on the Maple River improvement, yWCtr says that there is no doubt but that next SICK or WELL WILL bB AT summer will witness the inauguration of active work on the much talked of and hoped for benefit. Mr. Duncau The Steel Hotel, Friday,Jan. 7. was In Lansing a short time ago con sulting with the officials there. They were well catisded with the work so far You’ll and anxious to assist iu pushing the work. —St. Louis Republican-Leader. w CREAM Last October Herrick & Miles, of this Find Relief city, breeders of carrier pigeons, pre sented a man in Grand Rapids with uine fine birds from their dovecove. BAKING After being shipped to Grand Rapids the left wing of each of the birds was clipped, all but the last three fiight- OR Distress and Pains feathers being cut off. They were also POWDER kept in confinement for more than two MOST PERFECT MADE. months, but such handicaps are nothing A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free and for a Depleted to carrier pigeons. Within the last few days four of the birds have returned to from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. FPocketbook at POWDER their home in this city.—Lansing Jour 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Absolutely Pure nal. One day recently John Hunter brought Cannot Kind His Kslatlvcs, seven chickens to town and they brought Abram Yankely died very suddenly him $6.34. They were late capons, of apoplexy while driviug from FerriB averaging about 5] pounds ap ece. This to Me Bride. He had plenty of money, Y REASON OF REPEATED BEQUESTS 1 would indicate that there was money in but nothing is known of his relatives, Charles W. Loud’s have decided U> visit 81. JobDs once in five Bweeks, and will be at the private parlor of Tbe the poultry business if properly handled. although the authorities have been try Steel Hotel, where I can be consulted free upon all Besides selling almost $85 worth of ing to find them. —Gratiot county. cases. Everything confidential. All are requested SOVM. SAKINO POSOCR 00., NSW YORK. poultry, he sold euougli eggs to pay Ills POPULAR LOW PRICE DRUG STORE. to bring two ounces of urine. Charges moderate, and no incurable cases taken. I always make dis meat bill during the summer, besides eases of women aud children a specialty, also assisting on his grocery bill to quite a SCRIBNER’S chronic diseases. I have disposed of my local busi considerable exteut. This from oue- Opposite THE STEEL. ST. JOHNS. ness iu order to take the road, expressly for. the haif the produce of 50 hens makes it liem-fu of chronic sufferer*. Come and see me. It MAGAZINE costs you nothing. All medicines luroished are The Independent. veiy evident that there is money in purely vegetable —-ools, herb* and barks. Corres poultry if handled upon the right prin pondence solicited before my visit if possible. Ad ciples. —Grand Ledge Republican. For 1898. dress me at 148 Cue St., ToLdo, Ohio. Published every Friday morning from The The pietty home of Mr. and Mrs. i* *zto era * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** o* 00 CASES I CURE. Independent Block, No. 17 Clinton John Flisher, of South Ovid, was the A GREAT PROGRAMME. ■j Avenue. ■ ** Dyspepsia, All Sexual Diseases, scene of a double wedding Wednesday, Tbe Story of ths Involution, by Senator ** Kheumatiseumatisui, Heart Disease, TELEPHONE NO 7. December 29, at 3:30 o'clock. The con Henry Cabot Lodge. to run throughout the ** Indigestion, Consumption in its tracting parties were their two eldest year. (For the first time all the modern art ** Fits, Early Stages, daughters, Clara May. to Herbert J. forces and resources wiil be brought to bear ** Piles, Bronchitis, GKO. 8. CORH1T, Proprietor upon this Revolution Howard Pyle and ** Neuralgia, Sore Eyes, Haikinsand Emma Dora to Thomas ON GUARD Urinary Trouble*, corps of artists are making over 100 paintings All Nervous Diseases, FRANK E. DE WITT, I . Lessee* ** G. GLAIR STOCK, f N. Stanton. Both brides are educated and drawings for this great work.; ** Coativeness, lx>st Manhood, and talented young ladies, and for sev ** Fevers and Results, Kidney and Liver Captain A. T. Mahan ’s "The American ** Blood Diseases, Complaint*, TKHMSx eral years have held enviable positions Navy In the Revolution," to be illustrated ** And all Chronic Diseases. as teachers in the schools of both by Carlton T- Chapman, the marine artist: By my new process through the blood I examine counties. They have a large circle of Harry Fenn, and others. all diseases through tbe blood, treat all through 8 rtcly in Advance, • 1.00 88 friends, who wish them all the good Tlinmas Nelson Page’* Tlrst Long Novel, ** the blood, an I cure all I pronounce curable through • Red Rock —A Chronicle of Reconstruction. ” ** the blood direct. Dame Fortune has in store. Mr. Stan Mr. Page has devoted four years to the story, Catarrh, Salt Rheum, A (Settlements of Pest Dae Subscriptions ton is an enterprising voung farmer. and be conslderslt hts best work.(Illustrated Yes, on guard all the time. We Female Weakness, Paralysis, will be made at the rate of S1.50 Mr. Hanking is a hustling, upright by B. West Clinedtnst.) >:<* Scrofula, Eruptions, Per Year. have gained a high reputation of Seminal Weakness, Tumors, business man of Elsie.—Ovid Register- Kudyard Kipling, ltlchard Harding Davis, Cancer, Tape Worm, Union. Joel Chandler Harris, George W. Cable, ■ Effects of Malaria, all Skin and Blood Diseases, and Our advertising rates are 1100 per column per and others, are under engagements to con. making the best picture? in the QO 111 effects of Grippe. annum Business notice* five cents per line tor WASHINGTON. tribute stories during 189H. DK. F. B. MONROE. each insertion. Editorial notices, ten cents. Robert Grant ’s "Search-Light Letters'* — county. We stand constantly on ■ Business cards, $1 per line per year From Our Correspondent. replies to various letters that came In con ■ Marriage, birth and death notices Inserted free. sequence of bis "Reflections of a Married guard to maintain it. No inferior ■ Obituary comments, resolutions, cards of thanks, Mrs. Elmer Blinn was the guest of Man" and ’The Opinions of a Philosopher. ” etc., trill be charged for at the rate of five cents Mrs. J. Cooper Sunday. pe* - l'ne. •The Workers" In a new field—Walter A. Wy- work turned out by us. We win ►» Correspondence containing local news Is solicited The members of the County Line coff, the college tnan who became a laborer, ** 11utu all parts of the county. church have been holding prayer meet will tell about his experience with sweat business by deserving it. rjrj Can You ing at the church the past week. shop laborers and anarchists in Chicago. ■ vacuities nob doino (Illustrated from life by W. R. Leigh ) Give us a call ** Mr. and Mrs. W. Willes. of Lansing, QO visited Mrs. Willes’ sister and family, The Theatre. The Mine, etc., will be treated ■■ JOB FRUSTTIHSTO In “Tbe Conduct of Great Business ” series Mr. and Mrs. Ilearm Brown, Monday (as were "The Wheat Farm,” "The News Colt Afford CtCt (7 naumassed for stvie snd cheapness and Tuesday. paper," etc., Iii '97/, with numerous illustra CtCt Mr. and Mrs. Ilearm Brown went to tions. ** Life at Girls’ Colleges-like the articles on CtCt Saginaw county Saturday to spend the "Undergraduate Life at Harvard. Princeton CtC< IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. first day of the year with Mrs. Brow ’n's and Yale," and as richly Illustrated. CtCt To pay $ 1.00 for getting parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Baker, return CtCt ing home Monday. Political Reminiscences bv Senator Hoar, CtCt who has been in public life for forty-five C«Ct your Watch Cleaned ? The Durand postoffice has been moved Who ever heard of so many weddings? years. CtCt to larger quarters. is a question everyone is asking now. J. HAMILTON. CtCt C. D. Gibson will contribute two serial sets CtCt An elevator with latest improvements Among the last and not least is our of drawings dnrlug '98, “A New York Pay,” CtCt or mainspring put in ? is agitated at Durand. school teacher, Miss Emma Rule, to and “The Seven Ages of American Women. CtCt when you cun get the The rate of taxation in Ovid village Mr. Joe lloxie. Mav their lives be very THE UP-TO-DATE PHOTOGRAPHER. CtCt C*Ct same done as well, if not ■)is fall is $1.70 per $100. happy is the wish of all. Tbe full prospects for *9$ Id small book form ______OO better, at one half the A few of Mr. and Mrs. C. Monroe's CM pages), printed In two colors, with numer tCtCtCtCtCtC go out to the cemetery and yon will as at the third command he pull ad THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. luteusl ve Cultivation. TALMAGE’S SERMON. see that the tombstones all read beau slowly off his coat, there went a sob When a country Is new and land la A Grateful Woman. tifully poetic; but if those tombstones through the school. They saw then cheap, there Is a tendency on the part of the farmer to take up as much land ''HOUSEHOLD CARES.” last would speak the truth, thousands of why he did not want to remove his LESSON II., JAN. 9. MATT. 4: coat, and they saw the shoulder blades as possible, says Rural Canadian. In This SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. them would say: “Here lies a woman 1-11. killed by too much mending, and sew had almost cut through the skin, and the first settlements the lands occupied are invariably far more extensive than Letter ing, and baking, and scrubbing, and a stout, healthy boy rose up and went Golden Text: For In That lie Himself **Lord, Doit Thon Not Caro That My scouring; the weapon with which she to the teacher of the school and said: the ability of the settler to cultivate Kilter Ha* Led Me to tiern AloneT** was slain was a broom, or a sewing "Oh, sir, please don ’t hurt this poor Hath Suffered Being Tempted, Be Ie them. And even when settlement has Speaks —Lake! Chapter X., Verse 40. machine, or a ladle.” You think, O follow; whip me; hee, he ’s noth- Able to Succor Them That Are been fairly well advanced in those dis man of the world! that you have all tfrh Ing hut a poor chap; don ’t hurt blnj. Tempted.—Ueb. Hi IS. tricts where homesteads are nO long cares and anxieties. If the cares an! he's poor; whip me.” “Well,” sat-i er to be had for the asking, Intensive cultivation is not carried on in Can Itself.1 Yonder is a beautiful village home- anxieties of the household should confs th.) teacher, “it’s going to be a sever* The section Includes only the lesson. ada to anything like a degree that stead. The man of the bouse is dead, upon you for one week, you would be whipping; I am willing to take you im Read each verse. a substitute." “Well,” said the bo/, Suggestions to teachers. —Note the posi gives the best returns possible for land. Gentlemen: — and his widow is taking charge of the lit for the insane asylum. The half- tion of this lesson In the life of Christ, In France, according to authorities After suffering premises. This is the widow, Martha rested housekeeper arises in the morn "I don't care; you whip me, if you will as the last of his preparations for his who criticize Canadian agriculture untold misery of Bethany. Yes, I will show you also ing. he must have the morning repast let this poor fellow go. ” The stout, great work upon which he enters Imme for six long years prepared at an irrevocable hour. What healthy toy took the scourging with diately after. Note the necessity and from this standpoint, the art of fer the pet of the household. Tills is universality of the testing by tempta tilizing the soil is carried to such an from female Mar), the younger sister, with a book if the fire will not light; what if the out an outcry. “Bravo!" says every tion. Almost every true and useful life extent, that, In the case of tenant weakness and under her arm, and her face having no marketing did not come; what if the man —“Bravo! ” How many of us are begins in this way, sometimes by a def womb trouble* I farming, the tenant usually reserves oan say, I am appearance of anxiety or care. Com clock has stopped —no matter, she must willing to take the scourging, and the inite and distinct battle, sometimes by the right to carry the surface of the pany has come. Christ stands outside have the morning repast at an irrevoc suffering, and the toil, and the anxiety choices In little things between good snd well and strong evil, but which are really decisive. Make soil of his farm or garden away with and doing the the door, and, of course, there is a able hour. Then the children must be for the people! Beautiful things this lesson a mirror in which we may see him on the expiratioq of his lease. work of my fam /Ry good deal of excitement inside the got off to school. What if their gar to admire, but how little we have of our own temptations and the way to vic This is the more practicable in that tty and dairy and door. The disarranged furniture . is ments are torn; what if they do not that spirit ! God give us that self- tory. Look up the Bible passages con country because of excellent means of all work belonging to a farm Indoors, know their lessons; what if they have cerning temptation, and the helps they alone, for the first time in nearly six hastily put aside, and the hair is denying spirit, so that whether we give toward overcoming. The whole les communication, the usual smallness of brushed back, and the dresses are ad lost a hat or sash —they must be ready. are in humble spheres or in conspicu son Is very practical in Its nature. the lots cultivated, and the fact that years. Four boxes of your famous Mag* Then you have all the diet of the day, ous spheres we may perform our whole Historical Setting. — Time. — Probably nolle Blossom oured me after dootoring justed as well as, in so short a time, the French peasantry seldom wander for years and having spent muoh money Mary and Martha can attend to these and perhaps of several days, to plan; duty—for this struggle will soon bo about January, A. D. 27, directly after his far from the neighborhood in which baptism. Place.—There is no hint given without obtaining relief. matters. They did not keep Christ but what if the butcher has sent meat over. they were born. The returns from a Gratefully yours, unmasticable, or the grocer has sent as to the place where Jesus went to be standing at the door until they were One of the most affecting reminis tempted, but most authorities incline to single acre of land cultivated in the Mrs. Milton Whitmore , newly apparelled, or until they had articles of food adulterated, and what cences of my mother is my remem the northern part of the wilderness of vicinity of Paris by the highest degree Swartz Creek, Genesee Co., Mioh. elaborately arranged their tresses, then If some piece of silver be gone, or some Judea, between Jerusalem and Jericho brance of her as a Christian house on the west, and the Jordan and the up of intensive tillage often amount to coming out with their affected sur favorite chalice be cracked, or the roof keeper. She worked very hard, aud per part of the Dead Sea on the east. eight or even tenfold more than the MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM prise as though they had not heard the leak, or the plumbing fall, or any one when we would come in from summer Tradition places it In Mount Quaranta- returns from an acre of land on a IS THE BEST REMEDY two or three previous knockings, say of a thousand things occur—you must play, and sit down at the table at nooD, nla, not far from Jericho, near the Jor Canadian farm. The costs of this cul-‘ for evory form of female disease. It is ing: “Why, is that you?" No. They be ready, pring weather comes, and dan. It was named Quarantanla (which tivation are certainly greater than I remember how she used to come in means a space of forty days) because equaUy effeotive for the girl in her teens, were ladles, and were always presenta there must be a revolution in the fam- with beads of perspiration along the Jesus was supposed to have passed his that of ours, but are not, it is alleged, the young wife with domestio and ma ble, although they may not have al be ready. Spring weather comes, and line of gray hair, and how sometimes forty days of fasting In one of Its caves. increased in proportion to the larger ternal cares and the woman approaching the period known as change of life. A ways had on their best, for none of us you must shut out the northern blast; she would sit down at the table and Explanatory. —The Initiatory Battle and returns. The difference consists always has on our best; if we did, our but what if the moth has preceded you Testing. —V. 1. “The story of our Lord^ mainly in better profits to the cultiva simple, homo treatment with which any put her head against her wrinkled temptation, as we have it recorded In de woman can treat herself without medioal best would not be worth having on. to the chest; what If, during the year, hand and say, “Well, the fact is, I’m tail both In St. Matthew and In St. Luke, tor. aid. Ask your druggist for Magnolia They throw open the door, and greet the children have outgrown the apparel too tired to eat.” Long after she might is almost certainly a fragment of auto Blossom. Price $1.00 for a month ’s Christ. They say: “Good-morning, of last year; what if the fashions have biography. I do not mean, of course, The One Farm In Alaska. treatment. Take no substitute. Our have delegated this duty to others, written by our Lord, but it must have A few weeks ago a man brought a Master; come in and be seated." Christ changed. Your house must be an book entitled “A Book for Women” sent she would not be satisfied unless she been related by him to his disc'ples. schooner load of rutabagas, or Swedish did not come alone; He had a group of apothecary ’s shop; it must be a dis attended to the matter herself. In fact There was no human witness. ”—Rev. A. FREE to any address. friends with him, and such an influx pensary; there must be medicines for C. A. Hall. Bishop of Vermont. turnips, to the Sitka market, says the we all preferred to have her do so, Alaskan. These vegetables were grown SOUTH BEND REMEDY CO., of city visitors would throw any coun all sorts of ailments —something to for somehow things tasted better when As the first Adam, the head of the race, SOUTH BEND. INDIANA. loosen the croup, something to cool the must be tempted and tested at the brg'n- in Alaska on a farm near Klllisnoo, try home into perturbation. I suppose she prepared them. Some time ago, nlng of his career, so must the second also the walk from the city had been burn, something to poultice the inflam perhaps the only farm worth the name in an express train, I shot past that old Adam, the head of the redeemed people in the whole territory. From this a good appetizer. The kitchen depart mation, something to silence the jump of God, be tempted and tested at the be homestead. I looked out of the win ginning of his work. The first Adam gentleman, Mr. Hubbard, we gather ment that day was a very important ing tooth, something to soothe the ear dow, and tried to peer through the ache. You must be in naif a dozen failed, and changed Paradise into a des some Interesting facts concerning this department, and I suppose that Mar darkness. While I was doing so, one ert: the second Adam gained the victory, novel farm. About two years ago tha had no sooner greeted the guests places at the same time, or you must of my old schoolmates, whom I had and Is changing the desert into Paradise. attempt to be. If, under all this wear Some Introductory Questions. — First. Messrs. Baker and Hubbard took about than she fled to that room. Mary had not seen for many years, tapped me seventy-five no worriment about household affairs. and tear of life, Martha makes an im What was the purpose of these tempta or eighty acres of tide on the shoulder, and said, “De Witt, tions? They proved that he was worthy land about five miles from Klllisnoo. Caveats,PATENTS and Trade-Mark, obtained and all Pat She had full confidence that Martha patient rush upon the library or draw to be the Messiah, as a battleship Is test ing-room, be patient, be lenienf! Oh, I see you are looking out at the scenes They dyked this land at low tide to pre ent business conducted lor moderate Fees. could get up the best dinner In Beth of your boyhood. ” “Oh, yes,” I re ed before it Is sent to war. (1) "For his vent the overflow of the sea water, Oun Office is Opposite W, s. patent Office any. She seems to say: “Now let us woman, though I may fail to stir up an own sake. He was a man and had a and we can secure patent in 1cm time than those plied, “I was looking out at the old and proceeded to till the ground. Few remote from Washington. .... have a division of labor, Martha, you appreciation in the souls of others in character to build, and temptation is es Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip sential to character building. No man men, McGinty like, would have con regard to your household toils, let me place where njy mother lived and died.” tion. We advise, if patentable or not, tree of cook, and I’ll sit down and be good." That night, in the cars, the whole knows what Is In him —how weak he is ceived tha idea of going to the “bot charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. So you have often seen a great dif assure you, from the kindliness with or how strong —till he Is tried.” Tempta • Pamphlet “ How to Obtain Patents, ” with scene came back to me. There was tom of the sea” to locate a farm, but of same in ’ the U. S. and foreign countries ference between two sisters. which Jesus Christ met Martha, that tion vanquished is strength, character, this they have actually done, and they he appreciates all your work from gar the country home. There was the noon hope, perfection —Boardman. He neeeded scot free. Address, There is Martha, hard-working, day table. There were the children on to realize his work and that he was the have a bonanza. The ground is rich painstaking, a good manager, ever in ret to cellar; and that the God of De either side of the table, most of them Messiah, to conquer his doubts, and ga!n and productive, requiring no fertiliz C.A.SNOW&CO. ventive of some new pastry, or discov borah, and Hannah, and Abigail, and gone never to come back. At one end assurance. Hence Satan ’s question, “If ing or irrigation. True, their variety Opr. Patent Office. Washington . D. C. ering something in the art of cookery Grandmother Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, thou be the Son of God?” (2) For the of the table, my father, with a smile sake of others, if Jesus would be the of products is limited, and their con and housekeeping. There Is Mary, al and Hannah More is the God of the that never left his countenance even Saviour and helper of men, it was neces venience to market not the best, but so fond of conversation, literary, so housekeeper! Jesus was never mar sary that he should not only be exposed certain it is they are not bothered by MARBLE when he lay in his coffin. It was an to the same temptations as we are, but engaged in deep questions of ethics ried, that he might be the especial eighty-four years’ smile—not the smile neighbors who borrow their farming and she has no time to attend to the ques friend and confidant of a whole world that he should gain the victory over of inanition, but of Christian courage them, and by the same means which are implements, for there is not another GRANITE tions of household welfare. It is noon. of troubled womanhood. I blunder; and of Christian hope. At the other available to us. (Heb. 4: 15.) He con farm in 1,000 miles of them. No dan Mary is in the parlor with Christ. Christ was married. The Bible says end of the table was a beautiful, be quered, not as the Son of God, but as ger of their neighbors ’ stock trespass Martha is in the kitchen. It would that- the Church Is the Lamb ’s wife, man, else his victory would be no pledge ing upon their farm, and no quarrels and that makes me know that all nignant, hard-working, aged Christian that he could give us the victory. Sec have been better if they had divided housekeeper, my mother. She was very ond. How can a holy being be tempted? with neighbors over partition fences. the work, and then they could have Christian women have a right to go tired. I am glad she has so good a Simply because every living being has ap In the “rolling deep ” lies their only to petites. desires, avenues of pleasure, these divided the opportunity of listening to Christ and tell him of their annoy place to rest in. “Blessed are the danger of trespass, which occurred Jesus; but Mary monopolizes Christ, ances and troubles, since by his oath right things. Jesus was tempted through once when the dyke burst. Last year dead who die in the Lord; they rest the good that was In him. (See below on Otmetery Work of any description as while Martha swelters at the fire. It of conjugal fidelity he is sworn to sym from their labors, and their works do each temptation.) "The force of a temp they raised 10,000 bushels of tubers. Low in Price as any place in Mioh* was a very important thing that they pathize. George Herbert, the Christian follow them. ” tation depends not upon the sift involved They are up with the times and have igan. I have a Fine Display of NEW should have a good dinner that day. poet, wrote two or three verses on this in what Is proposed, but upon the ad a silo, making sufficient silage to win DESIGNS in Scotch, Swedish aal Christ was hungry, and he did not subject: vantage connected with it. And a right ter all their stock. We give this some American Granites. Napoleon ’* Loit Treasure. eous man, whose will never falters for a often have a luxurious entertainment. moment, may feel the attractiveness of what minute description of this Alas After getting prices elsewhere call ami Alas me! if the duty had devolved upon “The servant by this clause The recent find of an old military the advantage more keenly than the weak kan farm, as it is a matter of informa examine. You will decide to Mary, what a repast that would have Makes drudgery divine: knapsack filled with French gold man who succumbs; for the latter prob tion to our readers to learn something buy of me. Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws. ably gave way before he recognized the of the only farm in a territory of 577,- been! But something went wrong in pieces coined about the beginning of whole of the attractiveness, or his na the kitchen. Perhaps the fire would Makes this the action fine. ” the century near Vilno, Russia, recalls ture may be less capable of such recogni 309 square miles. F. F. MURDOCK not burn, or the bread would not bake, the dreadful fate of Napoleon ’s grand tion. In this way the sinlessness of Jesus Opposite Post Office, fit. Johns, Mich, or Martha scalded her hand, or some A young woman of brilliant educa army and its disastrous Russian cam augments his capacity for sympathy; for A Plea for Honey. thing was burned black that ought to tion and prosperous circumstances was paign in 1812. After the destruction in every case he felt the full force of Many a weary house-mother exerts called down-stairs to help in the kitch temptation. ”—Prof. Albert Plummer. D. herself to put up rows on rows of Jel have been made brown; and Martha of Moscow the bold conqueror was D. “Sympathy with the sinner In his trial lies, jams and canned fruit, often in LIVERY lost her patience, and forgetting the en in the absence of the servants. The compelled to seek safety, but his return does not depend on the experience of sin, proprieties of the occasion, with be- door-bell ringing, she went to open it to the frontier was not the retreat of but on the experience of strength of the the extreme heat, when the same —AND— and found a gentleman friend, wlfo temptation to sin, which only the sinless amount of time, more healthfully spent sweated brow, and perhaps with an orderly army; it was flight with all can know In its full Intensity. He who out-of-doors, would supply her family pitcher in one hand and tongs in the said as he came in: “I thought I heard its horrors. Napoleon himself hurried falls yields before the last strain. ”—West- music; was it on this piano or on this cott on Heb. 2: 18. International Critical with a like quantity of sweets quite as other, she rushes out of the kitchen in back in advance of his army, in order wholesome and palatable to the aver to the presence of Christ, saying: harp? ” She answered: “No; I was to steady the throne, which kad be Commentary on Luke. Third. In what playing on a grid-iron, with frying-pan form did the temptations come? They age household, says Country Gentle “Lord, dost Thou not care that my sis come shaky by events in Paris and must have come from without, and not accompaniment. The servanfs are man. Of course a variety is desirable, ter hath left me to serve alone? ” elsewhere. The shipping of the war from within. Satan could not have come and I would not do away with the time- Christ scolded not a word. If it were gone, and I am learning bow to do as Satan, as Apollyon to Bunyan ’s Pil treasure, which at that time still con grim, with horrible form and sulphurous honored preserve closet, but its dain scolding, I should rather have his this work." Well done! When will tained 12,000,000 francs, and which was women in all circles find out that it is and flaming breath; for he does not t You wouldn ’t even touch my shadder WHAT MAN DOES NOT LOVE BEAUTY? A CLEVER CAPTURE. as I passed. ’ SKILL OF DOCTORS TESTED. “The Tinman, drinking more ram, X ml pink ham Counsels Young Wives to Keeep Their Attract! venaflfc grew angry. WELL - KNOWN A Letter From a Young Wife. Fifteen Years of Suffering. inspector, once re ” ’I’d like to see# you try it You’re lated to us a clever more of a grasshopper than a propor- Seven-eighths of the men 44 capture, effected ly-bu/lt man, that ’s what you are! I thought I should surely die.” by himself, a Come, I’ll bet you this gold watch that in this world marry a woman daring thief, who you don ’t jump clean over me aa I because she is beautiful in their eyes. When the stomach begin* to fail in the severity of the disease or the prompt had more than stand not?, back toward you. ’ It* duties, other organs speedily become and pcricct cure performed by Dr. Ayer’s once escaped from “ ‘Watch be hanged! ’ says Slmmora. What a disappoint Mttccted in sympathy, and life is simply a Pills. Similar results occur in every case ment then to see the , burden almost unbearable. Indigestion where Dr. Ayer’s Pills are used. ,x They prison. The in ’I’ll bet ytu a bottle of rum agalont and dyspepsia are so common that only helped me right away” is the common spector himself had that bowle you’ve got in your belt that fair young wife’s beauty the sufferer from these diseases knows expression of those who have used them. fading away before a year ^ the possibilities of misery that inhere in Here is another testimony to the truth of bad considerable 1 clear a shore chap like you, hold up them. A typical example of the suffering* this statement: your hands as high as you can, at « passea over her head I of the victim of indigestion is furnished experience, and in the case of John C. Pritchard. He went tracked his man to a low public house; jump, oaly give me a run of a few 1 feel as if I would like on for fifteen years, from bad to worse. ** I formerly suffered from indigestion yards.’ to say to every young woman In spite of doctors he grew constantly and weakness of the stomach, but Since I and, under pretense of being an old weaker, and thought he would die. He began the nse of Dr. I. C. Ayer’s Pills, thief himself, threw hie companion “ ‘Don-i! ’ And drawing the bowle who is about to be married— got well, however, and thus relates his I have the appetite of tne farmer's boy. I knife frrom his belt the bushranger “Strengthen yourself in ad experience; am 46 years of age, aud recommend all off his guard by relating anecdotes. who wish to be free from dyspepsia to He was unarmed himself, and knew laid It on the table. ” vance, so that you will not ** For fifteen years I was a great sufferer take one of Dr. Ayer’s Pills after dinner, from indigestion in its worst forms. I till their digestive organs are in good that the real burglar —who was known “Gammon! ” observed Bill, who had break down under the new tested the skill of many doctors, but grew order. ”—Wm. Stkimkb, Grant, Neb. to the fraternity as “Bill the Cracks listened with much attention to the strain on your powers. ” Keep your beauty, f worse and worse, until I became so weak X could not walk fifty yards without having Dr. Ayer's Pills offer the sorest and man ”—had a revolver in his breast story. “It’s a thing as Leotard, or any it is a precious possession ! Your husband loves to sit down and rest. My stomach, liver, swiftest relief from constipation and all pocket, with the use of which he was one o ’ them springy chaps,couldn ’t do. ” your beauty, he is proud to be seen in public and heart became affected, and I thought I its attendant ills. They cure dissiness, would surely die. I tried Dr. T. C. Ayer's nausea, heartburn, palpitation, bad breath, thoroughly acquainted; and the ques "Its only a trick,” replied Mr. with you; try to keep it for his sake, and your Pills and they helped me right away. I coated tongue, nervousneaa, sleeplessness, Blake—"a mere circus triick— which own. continued their use and am now entirely biliousness, and a score of other affections tion was how to arrest him single- well. I don ’t know of anything that will that are, after all, only the signs of a more handed. Story followed story, and every clown In the ring understands. The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under so quickly relieve and cure the terrible deep rooted disease. You can fin * nort reminiscence reminiscence, till Bill Here, I’ll show you how it’s done tr< the eyes, the general drooping of the young sufferings of dyspepsia as Dr. Ayer's information about Dr. Ayer’s Pills, and the wife’s form, what do they mean ? They mean Pills."--Johw C. PaiTCHARD, Brodle, War* diseases they have cured, in Ayer's Cure* and his companion —who called him a minute —that Us, I’ll show you how Ten Co., N. C. book, a story of cures told by the cured. Simmons must have done it, according that her nerves are failing, that her strength is going and that something This book of 100 pages is sent free, on self Jerry Blake—became as thick as This case is not extraordinary, elthsr in request, by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. members of the former ’s profession to my belief. ” must be done to help her through the coming trials of maternity. are proverbially supposed to become. With ready obedience Bill stood up. Build her up at once by a course of some tonic with specific powers. Such as There are more clocks made in America Let us be of good cheer, remember “Now,” said Mr. Blake, after a and turned his back to the operator. Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vegetable Compound. You can get it at any druggist’s. than in any other country. ing that the misfortunes hardest to pause, “as a last bit of anecdote, I’ll “I suppose that ’s bow the Tinman Following we publish by request a letter from a young wife—of her own a©- bear are those which never come. stood? ” cord she addresses it to her “suffering sisters,” and while from modesty she Dane ’s Family Medicine* show how Joe the Tinman was took. He’d sworn as there wasn ’t any man “I should fancy so. Raise your arms asks to withhold her name, she gives her initials and street number in Moves the bowels each day. In order Do You Dane* To-Night? Chambersburg, Pa., so she can easily be foand personally or by letter: to be healthy this is necessary. Acts as would take him single-handed. a little above the level of your head. Shake into your Shoes Allen's Foot- That ’s it Throw them back a little, To my Suffering Sisters:—Let me write this for your benefit, telling you gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes Well, as the reward for his capture was 6ick headache. Price 25 and 50c. a heavy one, a chap named Simmons, and I’ll show you how the trick was what Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I am but tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures done. ” nineteen and suffered with painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, dizziness, burn Corns, Bunions, Chilblains and Sweat who was then one of the mounted po ing sensation back of ears and on top of my head, nervousness, pain and The first portable clock was made In 15IX ing Feet At all Druggists and Shoe lice, determined to try it on. So what Bill, following every direction, raised his hands high over his head, then let soreness of muscles, bearing-down pains, could not sleep well, was unable A bottle of Dr. Wood ’s Norway Pine Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad does he do, knowing some of Joe ’s to stand without pain, and ohl how I longed to be well! dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y haunts, but bribes a stockman, who them decline slightly in the direction Syrup in the house saves doctors ’ bills, of his new friend. One day I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham telling her all, knowing I could do so saves trouble, and very often saves lived in a lonely hut on the side of a in perfect confidence. precious lives. Gives almost instant The German government proposes to try deep gnlly among the hills, to let him The latter, taking Bill’s wrists in to grow potatoes in Africa his hands, brought them gently togeth She wrote me a lovely letter in reply, telling me exactly what to do. relief in cases of coughs, colds, or lung take possession of the place for a After taking nine bottles of the Compound, one box of Liver pills, and using troubles of any sort. Oon ’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away week or so. It was a hut where Joe er. “This is how the thing must have one-half package of Sanative wash, I can say I am cured I am so happy, To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag was accustomed to call when he want and owe my happiness to none other than Mrs. Pinkham. More hoys die in infancy than girls. netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- ed to pick up news, or get a fresh sup been done, ” he said. “Simmons must Bac. the wonder-worker, that makes weak mon have taken advantage of a position Why will women suffer when help is near? Let me, as one who has had strong. All druggist*, title, or *1. Cure guaran ply of rum, for the stockman had been that placed the bushranger absolutely some experience, urge all suffering women, especially young wives, to seek teed. Booklet and sample free. Address a convict like himself, and a pal of Mrs. Pinkham ’s advioe. —Mrs. R. S. B , 113 E. Catherine St., Chambersburg, Pa. 1 “A Perfect Type of the Highest Order of Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York. his; but, pal or no pal, he sold Joe In his power to draw a pair of hand \ Excellence in Manufacture." cuffs from his pocket, and, before the A heart without love Is like a violin with this time, and no mistake.” If there is anything that keeps the When a man has been guilty of any out strings. “I’d have blown his brains out if other could make a movement, slip them on so.” mind open to angel visits and repels vice or folly, the best atonement he I’d been Joe,” observed the cracksman, the ministry of evil, it is a pure human can make for it is to warn others not F.dnrnte Yonr Bowels With Ca.carets. with a savage oath. The thing was done in an instant, love. to fall into the like. Candy Cathartic, cure coiiHiipnllon forever. and, before the cracksman could real 10c. tic. If C. C. C fall, drugging refund money. “I honor your sentiments, ” respond ize the fact, he found himself seated in WaMBaMs ed Mr. Blake; “and from what I know In Olden Times It Kt.pi the Feet Dry and Warm. The Bell Telephone Co. rents 914,673 tele one of the chairs, his hands fettered, And is the only cure for Chilblains, of Joe, he shared ’em. But, you see, and his captor, calm and smiling, People overlooked the importance of phones. when he looked In one night at the permanently beneficial effects and were Frostbites, Damp, Sweating Feet, Corns hut, no stockman was there; but in standing over him. satisfied with transient action; but now and Bunions. Ask for Allen ’s Foot- Breakfast “What do you mean by all this? ” that it is generally known that Syrup Ease, a powder to be shaken into the his place Simmons, looking the very Bill gasped out at last, looking about of Figs will permanenty overcome shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe WE WANT TO TELL YOU pictur ’ of a rough shepherd, was seat him with bewildered amazement “Is habitual constipation, well-informed Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE Ad ed over the fire, making his tea. It a Joke?” people will not buy other laxatives, dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Why Your Back is Lame—Why it Aches ‘“Hllloh! where ’s the stockman “A capital Joke!” replied the other. which act for a time, but finally injure and Pains, and How to Cnre it. here? ’ asked Joe, stalking into the hut the system. Buy the genuine, made It is said that the average man ’s hair “It was I who tried the same Joke on by the California Fig Syrup Co. turns gray five years earlier than the and approaching the fire; for Joe the Tinman, and it succeeded capi Do you know what it is to have a back wasn ’t afeared of Satan himself. Be woman ’s. that is never free from aches and constant sides. he was all stuck round with six- tally.” Naturalists say that, in proportion Cin, a lame back, a sore back, an selling “You?” to their size, spiders are seven times as Coughing Leads to Consumption. Absolutely Pure, ck, in fact, a buck that makea your life shooters and bowle knives, so that he Delicious, “At that time I belonged to the strong as lions. Kemp ’s Balsam will stop the cough a burden? What have you done for it? was a caution to look at. Colonial police. Now I’m Mr. In at once. Go to your druggist to-day Nutritious. And does it still keep you from the happi “ ‘He’* gone. ’ spector Simmons. My address Is Scot State of Ohio. Citv of Toledo, and get a sample bottle free. Sold in ness that perfect health brings to all? Wo “‘Gone where —dead?’ land Yard, and I’m very much at your Lucas county, 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; de know full well if such is your condition ” ‘Pretty nigh It. He’s down at the ss. lays are dangerous. ..Costs Less Ttian OHE CENT a Cup.. a cure for it will be a blessing you no service.”—New York Dally News. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is station with marsh fever. I’ve been the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Be lure that you get the Genuine Article, ' doubt desire. Plasters won ’t ao it, but ordered up here In his place. ’ Cheney St Co., doing business in the City The hermit robs God and man and may assist in bringiug strength. Liniment Htr.rint by Echoes. of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, steals from himself. made at DORCHESTER, MASS, by wou ’tdoit; for, while it may give tem * ‘And who may you be, mate, when and tnat said firm will pay the sum of you’re at home? ’ asked Joe, savagely, An interesting peculiarity of Alas ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. < porary relief, it does not reach the cause. kan navigation is thus described by and every case of Catarrh that cannot be In cases of burns, sprains, scalds, or The cause, there ’s the point; there ’s where for he was disappointed at losing his cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. any of the other accidental pains likely Establish id 17 R0. to make the attack. Most backaches come Mr. La Verne W. Noyes in the Chicago FRANK J. CHENEY. ffriend. Sworn to before me and subscribed in to come to the human body, Dr. from disordered kidneys, therefore you ‘When I’m at home, ’ said Sim Times-Herald. He extols the beauty my presence, this 6th day of December, Thomas ’ Eclectric Oil gives almost in must correct their action if you would be mons, still busy with his supper; ‘if of the scenery and the smoothness of A. D. 1WA stant relief. cured. Head the following from D. D. (Seal) A W. GLEASON, home means England, I might be lord the water—by the Inland steamer route Notary Public. Cook, whose address is No. 18 Michigan —and says: The channel is tortuous Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally He who foresees calamities suffers Street, Grand Rapids. He says: — and acts directly on the blood and mucous “ I have used Doan ’s Kidney Pills and and full of rocks, and whenever a fog surfaces of the system. Send for testimo them twice over. nials, free. wish to say it is a truly great medicine. is encountered every movement of the F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a NEURALGIA ship is fraught with danger. I was Sold by Druggists, 76c. Eczema in any part of the body is in Thirty years ago I had nervous prostra Sick and Ntrvous Head tion while in the army, where I served for Hall's Family Pills are the best stantly relieved and permanently cured awakened about 3 o'clock one morning by Doan ’s Ointment, the sovereign aches POSinmr Cured over four years. I think it was during by a long blast of the steamer’s whis this service that the seeds were sown which The pope can speak English, German, Ital remedy for all itebiness of the sain. in 30 Minutes, by have caused all tny trouble. Severe bili tle. This struck me as unusual, for ian and French perfectly. vessels are rarely met on that trip, In only three cases out of ten tfie sight is ous attacks bothered me, and at such times equally good In each eye. Getting into debt is getting into » my kidneys were worse. It is almost im and there are comparatively no settle tanglesome net. possible to describe the pain which so ments. A moment later I heard the Beauty U Blood Deep. To Cur* Constipation Forever, At all drugqists or sent post often lamed tne. I have been so lame that captain and the pilot on the bridge Clean blood means a clean skin. No paid upon receipt of |l. to stand up after I had been sitting down Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or Bo. over my stateroom In a lively colloquy. beauty without it Cascarets, Candy Cathar If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggist* refund money. required a great exertion. Walking was "I tell you it’s right there! ” said one tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by FRENCH CHEMICAL CO. at times an impossibility, even at night I stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im 356 Dearborn St.. of them, excitedly. “It must be, or A gull can fly at the rate of XX) miles ao did not rest, being forced to get up during purities from the body. Begin today to hour. Chicago, in. the night. I heard of Doan ’s Kidney Pills we’ll be on the rocks in a minute! ” banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and wondered if they could make an al That was enough for me. I tumbled and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Star Tobacco is the leading brand of if .muted with | Thompson ’s Eys Water. Cascarets—beauty for ten cents. All drug •ore eyes, UN most lame man well. I got some, and out of my berth and, half-dressed, gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 2*>c, 50c. ike world, because it is the best. soon after taking them began to feel their rushed on deck, just as the whistle MORPHINE and WHISKY HABITS good effects. I used them for some time, When love works it looks not at the clock. Hour CURE. Book KRKK. Du. 1. i. gave another unearthly screech. It The colder the climate the greater the size OPIUM 1101'!SAN, UekelleB;*.., CHII Ai.O, ILL. my lameness all left me and I have not of the human brain. felt it since. Doan ’s Kidney Pills have seemed to be answered Immediately nDHDQY HEW DISCOVERY; »i«v 1/1% w I W I quick ivltvi an 1 cuici eor.t done me an inestimable amount of good. ” “IS IT A JOKE?” by another whistle near by, and I im TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT. tun. Send for book of ti-stlmoniel* and IO (lays’ For sale by all dealers, price 50 cents. agined we were meeting a steamer. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All treatment Free. Dr. H.u.uKsaa’ ssosit. niuu. ux mayor or chancellor of the exchequer, Druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. Z6o Mailed by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, for any chance I have of getting back "What did I tell you?” cried the pilot. TRIAL N. Y., sole agents for the U. 8. Remem- “There she is, all right! ” After wait Go to your grocer to-day BOTTLE ber the name. Doan’s, and take no other. there; but being here where I am I'in The clock In Westminster Abbey is the SENT only a Jail-bird. ’ ing ten minutes or more, hoping to be largest in the world. and get a 15c. package of ______iFREE. esASTHMA! m IllL TA*T ItltllM.. A F.ImKt.. kochuU able to catch a glimpse of the strange Hit. TAFT BROS., 4 Elm Ht„ Rochester, N. Y. “ ‘Who do you take me for?* he Starting for heaven on a gravestone Mrs. Winslow’s Rooming syrup is risky business. asked, with an oath. craft, I accosted the captain, and ask For children teething.-often* the from*, reduce* Inflem- ” ‘I don ’t take you for anyone but ed him where the other steamer was. nutUoDAllxr* pain, cure* wiud colic. 26 cent* a bottle, MEDICATED AIR INHALER My question nearly gave him an ep Ha. no equal for the cur* of CATARRH and LUNG FARMER S HARDY FEED COOKER. your proper or your improper self,’ It requires half a day to sing the national DISEASES. By mall, SI M. We desire to call our readers’ atten said Simmons, quite unmoved, and ileptic fit. We had run into a donse hymn of China. W. H. SMITH * CO., Props.. Buffalo, N. Y. tion to the Farmer’s Handy Feed filling two tin mugs with the sweet fog, and our pilot was guiding us in Grain-0 PATCMTt Bend for Invmrorr ’flulde, free. Noehanr* that crooked channel and among those Coe’s Cough Bulanin ■ M I GW I 9. for negotiating patrntroutxlned through Cooker, which Is sold at the low price ened tea. I. the oldeet end beet. It will break up a cold quicker OX EdgarTataAU. PtlratS«llcll«n, St. Kr^d..;, Ywk. of $12.50 for 50 gallon capacity. ‘“And who am I?’ treacherous rocks by the echoes sent than anything else. It i. always reliable. Try it. It takes the place of cof- WATSON K. COLEMAN, “ ‘Joe the Tinman. ’ back from the mountains which here fee at J the cost. ______■ Patent Lawyer. *0t F. 81, S. ff. Paris gardeners buy toads for use as in PATENTS “Joe handled his pistols as one pre and there rise precipitously from the sect destroyers. Wuhlaglra, D. (. Low feee, hlgbeei reference.. pared for action, but Simmons burst water’s edge. Made from pure grains it r ■ IIII O 1° the Booth. Cheap. Easy Tertnx ■ * A II KB W t rp*. Cat " -11-Crave ford * To., Into a laugh. No-To-Hse for Fifty Cents. is nourishing and health Beetk.r* Mwlun, Auk,III*, T* “ ‘Leave off handling your barking- Guaranteed tobacco habit oure, makes weak A Celestial Joke. men strong, blood pure. 60c. *1. All drugglBia. ful. irons, ’ he said, ‘and take that mug of The love of fun Is not unknown tea. I’d advise you to put a taste of In Greenland potatoes never grow larger Insist that your grooar gives you GRAIN-O. among the serious looking celestials, Accept do1 imitation. r stamp. Authors and Writers Union,Chicago,I1L rum in it, for the night ’s a nipper. who du’lng the last decade have been than marbles W«i earned la t years by one You know where the bottle Is, so make collecting in the Australian colonies. I shall recommend Plso ’s Cure for Con agen* with our free outfit. no bones about it. When Old Mike $22,000Yon can. P. 0,1971, New York. sumption far and wide.— Mrs. Mulligan, A storekeeper, wishing to advertise his Plumstead, Kent, England, Nor. 8, 189 j. (that was the name of the stockman) articles in the Chinese language, en W. N. U. —DETROIT—NO. 2—*98. sent me up here in his place, he iENSIONS. PATENTS, CLAIMS. gaged a Chinaman to paint a sign, ex go VQHN W. MORRIS, WASHINGTON.0.a didn ’t forget to say who was his ment has a monopoly In the sale of spirit When Answering Advertisements Kindly Ufa rrlsiKol IiislMT V S. Prados Barms. friends and best customers. ’ pecting, of course, that it would be a uous liquors. Meatioa This Taper. p9/rxin tmtt *w^tu|jinilo«Uii. claim,,atly does. very enticing one. It did not answer “So, Joe the Tinman and Simmons am ■■ ■■ Bj^x during the winter months his expectations, however, for the only ■ • ■ JB |K about the farm lands of ‘the trap ’ sat down to their tea to U k ■ ■ Nebraska. Iowa anil Mis gether, and a jolly night. I’ve heard, perceptible effect it had upon the “re Shall we en 9b b nM | ■ «ouri. post voua- lations of the sun and the moon,” as dure or cure 9 9 Igiro 9y» BEl F how to Krt they had of It. borne in a prosperous, By feeding poultry and stock with “Toward morning each took to boast the Chinese t«rm themselves, was to ACHES AND PAINS? healthy community. The "Corn Belt.r’a monthly cooked food during the winter months, ing of his powers of doing this thing excite a grin at the broadest dimen Ask those who For they know paper, handsomely Illustrated, is full of infor at least one-third of the food is saved; the comfort of mation concerning western farm loads. Bend or that thing, and, among other things. sions. At length the storekeeper, *>y have used 26 centa for a year’s subscription to “The Corn also having stock in a healthy condi a considerable bribe, obtained a trans prompt relief. Belt,” J00 Adams Street, Chicago tion, preventing hog cholera among Simmons, who ’d been, when a mere St. Jacobs Oil, your hogs, and insuring the hens lay boy, a sort of acrobat at a circus, lation In English of the advertisement, ing freely during the winter months boasted of his powers of Jumping. and found it read as follows: “Don ’t when eggs are always wanted at high “ ‘Now, ’ he said, ‘supposing the traps buy anything here; storekeeper a prices. This Cooker will pay for Itself were about me, and you was one of rogue.”—Exchange. CHEAP FARMS in one week’s time and is without ’em, I’d clear a short man like yon at CANDY doubt the best and cheapest on the a bound; and, provided you weren ’t Til* Undertaker I Welcome. market—Just what Its name Implies, a armed, I’d defy a dozen like you to r V ^ CATHARTIC ^ Do You Want Farmer’s Handy Feed Cooker. Upon Undertaker Smith of Leavenworth, application to the Empire Manufactur catch me.’ Kan., at the recent reunion of the ing Co, 615 H street, Quincy, III, a cat “The Tinman, who was bumptious in a Home? his cups, denied this. Grand Army veterans, displayed in alogue, giving a full description, may front of his establishment a huge sign, be obtained. They are mode In all sizes. ** ’Why, ’ he said, ‘if you was to try inn innn ipdcc »nd unim- to leap over me as you say. I’d Just up “Welcome, comrade*. ” IUU„ 7 UUU,__ . AUnLo?loruv be‘ CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, JANUARY 0 1897. EUREKA SH CPAKDSVf LLK. Hello, Mr. Independent- the Independent From Our Correspondent. From Our Correspondent. Give me the Penny Store. John Wright moved to Pompeii Mon I Too late tor last week.] I want to buy some things to m Mercantile Company Shoe Department. GEORGE 8. COHBIT, Proprietor day. School commences again Jan. 10. go to housekeeping and will FRANK K. D*W1TT, I Lessees Miss Edith Finch spent last week In Mrs. Hobart Munsou is spending the buy them where I can get G. CLAIR STOCK. ( St. Johns. week in Grand Rapids. Alfred Stearns of Sunner was m town Joseph Gifford and wife are spending 1 dozen extra heavy .Milk Phiih 55c -TH1 Saturday. the holidays with friends in Poutiac. A 100-piece decorated raised flower SHOES CUT Charles Sherman, of St. Johns, was iu Mrs. Geo. LaPoint returned Monday Dinner Set at I5.S5. town Sunday. from Fowler, where she has been visit A Complete Cobbler ’s Set at 65c IN SOME INSTANCES JUST ing her son. Large size Dinner Platen each 5c Clinton Go. Savings Bank II. V. Smith was in Ithaca Friday on Fancy pie Plates, per set, 25c HALF PRICE - legal business. Manley Burns and wife, of Six Lakes, 8T. JOHNS. MICH. spent Christmas with their sister, Mrs ('ups and Saucers per set 68c Teachers ’ meeting at J. L. Eaegle Large size Coffee or Tea Pot 8c Everything in — Saturday evening. A. R. Doyen. Donna Edwards, of Owosso, visited Large size Granite Pie Plates 10c Pityg 8 Per Cent. interest on Deposits. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Nennis spent New her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Best Machine Thread 4c Year’s day in Elsie. Mop Sticks 10c SHOES, RUBBERS, and Edwards, VVednesday. Needles, per paper lc FELTS, STOCKINGS. Quartely meeting at E. V. church Blanche and Milo Taylor, of Ovid, Money on Approved Bonds end next Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Pott ’s nlrfcle plated Sad Irons N5c spent Wednesday with their friends, Copper bottom Wash Boilers 45c Beel KiUtt Security. Mrs. Mary Hobart and Eliza Man Burt and Olive Cleveland. • hlldren ’g Coasters and Sleds at 28c Chester are on the sick list. We understand the old mill property Tea Kettles from 14c up are offered you at at a big reduction. We’d Indies ’ prayer meeting at Mrs. Dora has been purchased by a Mr. Audrus, of Kitchen Lamp, complete 18c m rathea include your dollars in our inventory oyyicxBS: Ingersoll ’s Friday afternoon. Greenbush, for the purpose of starting 8 pint Cup 5c Dr. Eugene Hart lias purchased a feed mill. A . J. Haldsin , Pr««. P. E. Wai -wosth , Tret, Woolen Hose from 12>£c up than the goods. This sale is attracting the a. Pkknill. Ve-Pres. R. C. Dkztkb Aut. Tret acres of laud of S. D. Gilison. Dell Longcor shipped five and one- 8-piece Cut Glass Water Set 48c Mr. and Mis. A. Matthews, of Essex half car loads of stock from this place Darning Needles 4 for lc Greatest Crowds we have ever had. We in visited at C. E. Matthews Friday. to Buffalo on Christmas day, returning Clothes Pins 6 dozen for 5c THE LOCAL MARKETS. vite you to see the bargains offered. Our Senator E. Mudge and wife, of Maple Tuesday afternoon. Lamp Chimneys 4c Rapids, are visiting at J. L. Eaegles. School closed Friday, Dec. 24, with Crochet Needles, all kinds, So 8t. Johns, Mich., Deocmber 8. 1898. an enrollment of forty-six pupils, nine Sanrord ’s Black Ink 8c entire stock is included at prices ranging from The following ere the prices paid in cash for Rev. W. H. Clemens returned from teen of whom were in first grade. Five Tissue Paper, per sheet lc produce In this market: Sanilac county much improved in health of them, viz., Clarence Workman. Nel Pie Tins from lc up i, I, i off—Sale Closes Jan. 15. Wheat, white. No. 1. 84. “ • red. No. 2. 84. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Blair, of Ionia lie Longcor, Laura and Lucille Walker, Oats, 20I&21. are visiting their daughter, Mrs. and Della Way, were promoted to the We have a few pieces of Cellu Clover Seod.lB..V>@»3.00. Cahoon. second grade. Alsike. 14.00—S4.Nl. loid Goods left over which we will Hay, $4.00 to $7.UO. Our church bell announced the depar The union Christmas exercises at the offer at prices that will seem re- Ileana. (W , 1