The Clinton Independent. VOL XXXII.—NO. 21. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898. WHOLE NO.—1636

. PAROLED. 753690 FAUST AND MARGUERITE Public Sale. A My SAD Having more road scrapers than is Presented by a First Class Company at necessary, I will sell for cash for the Frank Martlet! K*leased From the Ioula Township of Bingham,four Waldo road Prison Monday. Scrlven ’s Friday Evening. scrapers, ou Saturday, March 12,1896, One of the largest gatherings ever at 10 o ’clock, at Kenyon ’s feed barn,8t. Young Son of A. U. Stock well Frank Bartlett sent to Ionia from The Home of Earnest Botsford known in Scriveu*s Opera House listen­ this county for two years in February of Philip N. Coon Has Gone into the Johns, reserving the right to reject any Kicked by a Horse. Burned to the Ground. ed to the rendition of Goette ’s grand or all bids. I’etek Cramer , last year for assault with intent to do drama “Faust” last Friday evemug by Cultivation of Ginseng. Highway Commissioner for Township great bodily barm, less than murder, the Porter J. White Company, under of Bingham. (21-2w) has just been paroled by Governor the management of Geo. A. Mansfield St. Johns, March 1, 1898. I ROM WHICH DKATH ENSUED WITHIN Pingree. This assault for which Bart­ FIRE ORIGINATED FROM A DEFECT­ No such spectacular and perfect elect- EXPECTS TO CLEAR *6,000 IN FIVE TWELVE HOI KM. lett served time occured in February, IVE CHIMNEY. trical effects have ever been present­ John Hicks YEARS FROM AN ACRE OF GROUND. 1897, in this village. He met John Bran- ed in St. Johns before. The perform ­ Displays Europe and America’s choic­ nan in a pool room in this village aud ance was a firstclass one from curtain est novelties in Spring Goods. insisted ou playing a game of pool, up until the last call, and the splendid The Little Victim wan the Pritie of the which the latter refused to do. This The Mulleting Insured for RIOO lu the patronage granted this company should Great Clearing Sale. angered Bartlett and he went out doors I A Possibility of a New Industry Springing Home of HU Parent* — He had a Nat­ Farmers’ Mutual of Clinton County. remonstrate to the management of this Every thing of the Miss II. L. Hicks and laid in wait with a stone and as play bouse that players of the better Uj> in Clinton County. ural Love and Reverence for Brannan was leaving the place he stock of Millinery and Fancy Goods, class will always be greeted by a packed will be closed out at greatly reduced Hi* Creator. pounced upon him, dealing him several bouse in St. Johns. terrible blows. prices, to make room for new stock of About 7 o ’clock last Sunday morning Porter White’s “Mephisto” is Dot a spring goods. Lunch and tray cloths, In selecting a jury to try the case bad sort of a devil. In fact we have Philip J. Coon, an old soldier of nearly 100 names were chosen and re­ fire was discovered in the upper part of Bengal township, has recently gone doilies, sofa pillows, table spreads, etc., heard a number of compliments in bis at prices way dow n. Hats at one half About 7 o ’clock Saturday evening jected before the requisite number the old farm house of the late Wm. C. favor since the Friday evening perform ­ into tbe cultivation of ginseng, and ex­ could be obtained. After receiving bis price. Mas. H. W. Holton . last, while Mr. and Mrs. A. U. Stock- Botsford, in the township of Greenbush, ance and judge that he has a number pects to clear $6,000 from one acre of Successor to Miss II. L. Hicks. sentence Bartlett declared that as soon aud at the time of the fire occupied by of admirers among those who witnessed well and two children, one a girl about as he got out of his present trouble be ground in five years. 33 years and the other a boy 8 years and W. E. Botsford and family. the performance. Mr. White as “Me- Flowers for All. would drink no more whiskey. blsto, ” Miss Charlotte Craig as “Mar- Mr. Coon has bad a large amount of 8 months old, of this village, were re­ The fire must have originated from a ha,” and Stanley St.John as “Valen­ experience in digging and selling this At our greenhouse we have in blossom defect in the chimney between the up­ Tulips, Hyacinths, Geraniums, a Giant turning home from a drive in the coun ­ BREVITIES. tine” were the favorites of the eveuing. root, both in the northern and southern Jonquil three inches in diameter, and try, a dreadful accident occurred to per ceiling and the roof, for it was dis ­ Julian Green's “Faust” was not nearly states, and spent years of time study ­ many other plants . All lovers of Flow ­ covered that the roof was first on Are, as enthusiastic a lover as he was a them while in the vicinity of the Scriven March came in like a lamb. swordsman and in bis tilt with “ Valen­ ing the nature of the plant. ers should see our display. We shall farm, on the section line road, just west Republican village caucus tomorrow which soon broke through into the tine” they eacli showed their famaliar- The scarcity of the plant, which for ­ have plenty of Carnations and Roses at upper rooms, rendering it impossible to all times. »f the village. The two children were evemng. ity with the foils, giving a very exciting merly grew wild in large quantities, has Do not send away for your Easter seated in the front part of the cutter, A false alarm called out the tire de ­ remove the bedding and other effects exhibition of sword practice. from the upper part of the house, where Mr. White showed a perfect control induced Mr. Coon to try the experi­ Lilies, for we shall have plenty. with their backs to the dashboard. The partment Monday night. three beds were made up aud two more ment of cultivating it. lie hasone acre C. F.& T. W. Knapp . The Manufacturing Co ’s, shops com ­ of the facial muscles, succeeding at norse, which was one of Mr. Stock weirs ready to make up. times iu assuming a model demoniacal of land on the farm of Alvin Winegar, in John Hicks gray team, and a spirited animal, was menced running full time Tuesday Mr. Botsford and other members of morning. expression, and his laughter was nerve ­ Bengal township, which last fall, he Sells ready-to-wear Dress Skirts cheap­ on a good stiff trot. The cutter dove bis family at once went to work remov ­ tearing. Democrat-Peoples-Union Silver village ing the goods from the lower part of the We feel satisfied that the manage ­ planted with the seed, and the present er than you can make them. into a hole in the road, which fright­ caucus at the engine house next Monday house, and were successful in getting ment of our play house will secure dates indications are that the crop will be a ened the horse and caused it to kick and evening. them all out before the tire reached the from more or this class of plays. For Sale. good one. It requires about five years The 160 acre farm, section 32, town ­ then to run. and after some difficulty, James S. Osgood, of this village, has lower part, but they were somewhat to raise a good saleable root from the been granted an increase of pension of damaged in removal. ship of Lebanon, owned by Cornelius in which one rein gave way under the The building was insured in the Clin­ MUST PAY FOR HIS RIDES. seed. About 696,000 plants can be Grove. This is a No. 1 farm, well situ­ strong tension caused by Mr. Stockwell's from $0 to $8. ated, well watered, good buildings, and Recollect the 10 cent tea at the M. E. ton County Mutual for $400, but there raised from one acre of ground, the heavy pulling, the horse was turned was no insurance on the contents. Bro. Keyes, of the Corunus Independent, a plenty of them, convenient to school church Friday evening of this week, plant being placed three inches apart. and to market. Also, farm in Ionia •ompletelv about, when Mr. Stockwell from 5 to 8 o ’clock. The house was rebuilt to a consider ­ Has Oflendecl the Owosso & Co ­ able extent last year, and was valued at runna Electric Company, At present prices, the root when county, from 20 to 200 acres. Village sprang from the cutter and caught it by OwingtotheiUne8sof Mr. J.R. Pierce $800 to $1,000. The cellar was an out ­ dried, brings $4.00 a pound, the seed roperty for sale and to rent in Portland, ihe head. When the horse was quieted the Union Farmers’ Club will not meet side one, hence there was no loss in Ned. P. Keyes, of the Corunna Inde- $7 00 a pound. From 1,000 plants, one lich. Enquire of until further notice. deudent, said some complimentary O scar N. Jenkins , it was found that the kick had taken that part. things about the new electric lighting pound of seed and three pounds of effect upon the skull of the little boy. Lost —a pair of ribbed, black silk lady's Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Ag ’t, mittens. Mittens or information thauk- plant now being constructed in that roots can be secured every year after (21-2w’) Portland, Mich. lie was taken into the home of James fully received at this office. THEY HAVE GONE. city, and the next week received a letter five years, the first root maturing in five from the president of the Owosso & The Place to Get It. Little, near by, when Dr. l’almer was Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Albro, in years. Corunna Electric Company, requesting Mr. Coon says he has dug up roots Any person contemplating the pur­ summoned as speedily as possible. He Greeubush township. Saturday night, Rev. Hall and Family Left For Niles on him to return the complimentary ticket February 20,1898, a daughter. that were 74 years old. The age of the chase of a Sewing Machine will find found that a hole 2ixl inch had been Moudny Morning. issued to him by the company, and en­ plant can be determined by the amount prices at my place as low as in Chicago broken in the back part of the skull, Sam Heller, of the bazaar store, is a Last Saturday Rev. Frederick Hall, closing a bill for fares since August 6, of stalk that comes out every year. or any other city, on the same class of the pieces of which he removed. He candidate for the office of township for more than four years rector of St. 1897. In speaking of tbe matter the In­ From one to six roots appear, from ’ one goods. Come and be convinced. clerk on the Republican ticket dependent says: to five inches in leugtb, on eachstalk. A. B. Balcom . told the almost distracted parents that John's church. this village, shipped “ We don ’t oare a continental darn for in all probability the child would die The Woman ’s Association of the their goods to Niles, Mich., w hither he Ginseng should be cultivated in a Congregational church will meet at Mrs. and his family went on Monday morn ­ the old street car line, and when we thick, shady woodland, and the ground Fifty choice B. P. Rock for sale ; also from the effects. The little Christian Murdock's next Tuesday, March 8, at 2 ing last, and where he will at once enter want a ride upon it we will cheerfully properly prepared when the seed is Turkey Eggs in season. A. McCutch- spirit took its flight to God who gave it, o ’clock p. m. upon the duties of rector of Trinity pay our little half dime. But look at sown. That is all the cultivation the eon, four miles south of St. Johns. [w3 at about 7 o'clock Sunday morning. Chas. W. Fletcher has been appointed church, of that city. The best wishes the brass displayed in saying, “Please plant needs. return your complimentary tickets,” The root of this plant is highly valued John Hicks The funeral was held from the bap­ agent at Bath for the Farmers’ Mutual of our community follow them. Fire Insurance Company of Clinton and At his two last services, last Sunday and then inclosing a bill for the rides as a medicine among the Chinesse. Shows a nice line of Ladies ’ Belts in tist church yesterday afternoon, at we have taken since August 6tb, 1897. Tbe Chinese plant has become so rare Leatherand Metal. Gratiot counties. morning and evening, large congrega ­ The Independent is for sale, but we which Rev. D, D. Martin officiated, in The ladies ’ aid society of Olive will tions greeted him. At the morning that the American plant has taken its service fully one hundred people partook can ’t be bought for a measly little bit place, and tbe article is now an export Farm for Sale. the absence of their pastor. The little meet with Mrs. Oliver Bixby Wednes ­ of card board that entitles the bolder from America to Ctiina. The root form now peacefully rests in St. Johns day, March 9, at 10 o'clock a. m. All of the hcly communion. In the closing thereof to free transportation over the The Jacob Abfalter farm of 180 acres are cordially invited. exercises of the Sunday school Mr. B. D. when dry is of a yellowish white color, two miles north of Pewamo will be •emetery. Palmer offered the following preamble Owosso street car line for six months at w ith a sweetness in the taste somewhat sold cheap on reasonable terms, or will In this connection the grief stricken The Bengal union aid society will and resolution, which were adopted by a stretch.” resembling that of licorice, combined trade for smaller farm. Enquire of the meet at the church Wednesday, March a rising vote of scholars and teachers: with a slight aromatic bitterness. owner. Oliver Toan, at his residence, or parents desire us to again return their 9. at 10 o'clock a. m. All are invited. Mr. Coon invites anyone who wishes unbounded thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Lit­ Whereas, it is with feelings of sorrow and THEY KNOW MORE NOW. of J. H. Fedewa, St. Johns, or of F. II. Please bring luncli baskets. regret that we part with Rev. Mr. Hall and to know more about the plant to call Geller, Fowler. tle and family, who did all in their II. L. Kendrick, who lias been con ­ family, who arc soon to leave us for new about the first of June and see his patch fields of labor. Therefore, be it Another Scheme For Getting tbe Bent growing. power to save the life of this dear little fined to his home with fever for nearly Hesolved, That we, the members of St. New Wash Fabrics at John Hicks’. boy. and to alleviate the pain and an­ two welks. is now improving and will John’s Sunday school extend to our rector,Mr. Of Tlie Farmer. His postoffice address is St. Johns, soon be able to be about again. Hall, cur heartfelt thanks for his kind,earnest Mich, and all correspondence on this Furs, Hides and Pelts, guish of his parents. and faithful labors, whils with us, and we wish 11. Viies correspondent for the De­ subject will be promptly attended to. About thirty friends gave Mrs. George them God speed, and pray heavens richest troit Free Press, writing to the paper Iu exchange for cash at highest market The flag at the central school build ­ Howland , Magley a very pleasant surprise Mon­ blessing may go with them. under date of February 25 says: A far­ Gave Birth to Triplets. price. R. opp. The Steel. ing was placed at half-mast during the day evening, the occasion being the Sadness, mingled with tears, was no­ mer residing near this city was swindled time of holding the funeral. thirty-ninth anniversary of her birth. ticeable on every side. How often it recently by a new scheme which has The wife of Joseph Droste, of West­ Burgaing in Cloaks at John Hicks’. The M. E. church, of Greenbush, will occurs that people do not realize the just been put into practice. A couple phalia. recently gave birth to triplets, hold its aunual donation at the hail on goodness of their friends and neighbors of men drove on his premises and pre­ two girls and a boy. One of the daugh ­ A Practical Shoemaker. Tuesday eveuing March 8,1898. Every ­ until separation takes place. sented papers purporting to give state ters weighed five pounds and twelve If you want boots or shoes made to A (iOODJiHOWING. one is cordially invited to come and There is joy in well doing when our authority for examination of wells aud ounces, the other three pounds and order, or repairing done neatly, prompt ­ have a good supper and a good time. best efforts are crowned by unmistaka cisterns under the pure food laws. fourteen ounces, the son tw’o pounds ly and at resonable charges, call on me Record of Criminal Cane* Disposed of by ble love and esteem, as has character­ They inspected the water through a four ounces. Tbe latter lived but nine over Woodruff & Tromp ’s shoe store. Henry Walbridge, Prosecuting Attor. Dr. McDonald, the specialist, who has ized the going away of Mr. Hall and microscope, and found all kinds of mi­ days. G. II. Pervorsk . ney, During 1897. been meeting with such gratifying suc­ family. A large number assembled crobes. bacteria, cholera germs and ty­ cess in bis visits here, will be at The at the depot last Monday morning to phoid fever bugs. They permitted the BUSINESS LOCALS Stallion for Sale. Total numbt-r of cases disposed of ...... 75 Steel, Thursday, March 10. Those look­ say good-bye, which words were uttered farmer and his other half to look Z. Sexton, of Price, will offer his cele­ Total number of convictions, including ing for relief will do well to consult with that same feeling of regret that through the microscope they carried Here’s a Trade brated Clydesdale stallion for sale, pleas of guilty, ...... 58 him. has been depicted in the countenances Of course they saw a perfect menagerie Wanted —25 Second-hand w’beels in March 10th, at 10 o ’clock, at the farm Total number of cases settled by the parties Rev. A. II. Whitaker, for many years of the people since the day he offered that always was and always will be con­ exchange for the Clipper 1898 Special. of H. W. Hill, one mile north and one paying all costs, and complaining party pastor of the Free Will Baptist church, his resignation. tained in a drop of water. Tbe thor Call and see the New Model. mile west of DeWitt. acknowledging satisfaction ...... 6 at Elsie, has resigned and removed to oughly frightened farm folks were ad O. G. Plunkett Total number of cases commenced by Magis ­ Jackson, where he has accepted a call vised to apply certain remedies, which Valuable Farm at a Bargain. trates, and afterwards investigated by from a church society of the same de HER SINS FORGIVEN. tbe fakirs sold to them at a high figure, John Hicks A farm of 280 acres, on best of roads, Prosecuting Attorney, who found no of ­ nomination. and then went to their swindling way. Shows new styles in Lace Curtains. in Bengal township, 8 miles from St. fense committed or proof in sufficient to An unusually large number attended And She Pnid a Debt Contracted 20 Years An annalysis of the remedy proved to Johns; good buildings; 230 acres cleared: bold for trial and case dismissed ...... 11 be plain soda, and nothing more. the Frances Willard memorial services Ago. Gold In Clinton County. Rich Vein 40 acres of good timber; good water and This number Includes cases wherein jury at the M. E. church Sunday evening Strnck In Bingham Tow nship. good wind mills. Terms favorable. disagreed and case was dismissed; also one last. Both Revs. Martin and Longman A few days ago, says the Durand Ex­ Farm can be equally divided in favor ­ seduction case where the parties afterward spoke of the great work accomplished press, A. C. Farmer received the follow­ CIRCUIT COURT JURORS Mr. Lewis Severance informs us that able manner. For particulars inquire intermarried; one case where defendant ing letter from a lady at Burton: since advertising for collections in the at the Independent office. by this queen of women. home papers he has, in the last two wasidischarged by writ of habaes corpus; “ What a convenience it would be,” “Enclosed please find $1.00, which I A Te»t Case Before Judge Person Regard ­ also one truancy case. owed you when I lived in Ovid. The months, taken in about three thousand writes one of our patrons, ** if every ing Their Pay for Sundays. It Pays To Trade At John Hicks. Acquittals—In circuit court, 3; in justice Lord has forgiven my sins and made it dollars for collection. He believes that court, 2. Total ...... 5 home in the country and village bore plain to me that I should pay you what Michigan men who have served their it pays to use the HOME PAPERS Total disposition ...... 75 the occupant ’s name iu bold letters, 1 owe you. ” country as circuit court jurors will Read what one of his patrons says about Who Boos Yonr Braying I placed in some conspicuous place w'bere Mr. Farmer says that as near as he watch with interest the outcome of a his work. I am thoroughly prepared with well- it could easily be seen and read by the can remember it was nearly twent case commenced at Lansing Monday. St. Johns, Mich. February 24,1898. fed and capable horses, strong spring passer-by in the sheet.” years ago that the lady bought the dol Bartlett Willy as assignee of 72 ex-jurora I recently placed in the hands of drays and careful and obliging drivers, DELINQUENT TAXES The ladies of the Congregational lar’s worth of goods that she failed to secured from Circuit Judge Person an Lewis Severance, Attorney at Law, for to do work in my line with safety and at church will give an art sale and exhib­ pay for. order directing County Clerk Gunn to collection, a small account which I had reasonable charges. I have a first-class From the Various Townships of Clinton it at the church rooms, on the 15th and show cause next Monday why a man been trying for some time to collect. piano mover, and make a specialty of Comity For the Year 1897; 16th of March. An eutertainment will damus should not issue to compel him Within thirty minutes after 1 had that kind of work. Richard Gay The following is a list of the delin ­ be furnished for each evening, addition ­ TRAIN WAS LATE. to issue pay certificates to the ex-jurors placed the account in the hands of Mr. quent taxes on non-resident lands re­ al notice of which will be given next for Sundays during the terms of court Severance, he brought me the money. I Insurance. week. Admission, 5 cents. iu which they served. For a number of cheerfully recommend him to those turned by the treasurers of the various Clnltned the Company Was Negligent — Fire, Life and Cyclone. townships in Clinton county, beginning Saturday, February 26, John McKel- years it lias been customery to allow having business in that line. T. C. Butler . on the first of March and up to the this vin was brought before Lewis Sever ­ Damages Wanted. jurors pay for six days a week only, and John Pfleoiiarr . ance, this has been the practice in most of tbe date. As may be seen from a review of justice, charged with breaking in A peculiar suit was begun in the cir­ Miss Belle Finch, of Lansing, will HE STATE SAVINGS BANK it, Westphalia is the banner town, not and stealing from the warehouse of cuit court of Kent county last week, by other circuits of the state. Tbe case OF FOWLER. having returned a sinarle penny, with Foerch and Danley on the 22d. He ad ­ Jennie M. Starbard against the Detroit, will eventually go to the supreme court. open Millinery and Dressmaning parlors Dallas a close second. The closer the mitted bis guilt, waived examination, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R. R. Her about March 10th, opposite opera house. r CAPITAL, $15,000. times the more careful is the prepara­ and was bound over to the next term of Safer than Klondike. Please call and get prices. husband was a farm hand and in the NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, $600,099 tion to meet such demands, as is illus­ the circuit court. habit of walking on the railroad track II. V. Hughes has severed his connec­ New Laces and Embroidery trated by the amounts returned this The Congregational church social to and from work, The regular time tion with the wholesale grocery house of at John Hicks FRANK ORULER, President. year : given at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. for the train was 12:10 ,but one day the Phipps, Penoyer & Co., of Saginaw, and FREDERICK SCHEMER, Vlee-President Bengal, ...... s 12 98 Enos Blizzard, north of this village, on train was late, and hit and killed Star­ has accepted a position with the Sierra To those Desirons of Building. W. H. SNELLING, Cashier Duplaiu,...... 17 02 the State road, last Tuesday evening, bard. It is claimed the company n as Gold Co., of California. There has been I have on hand, at my place of busi­ Westphalia...... nix. negligent in having the train late and placed in his hands by the company DIRECTORS: Dallas...... 68 was liberally attended by our villagers. ness in Fowler, Mich., large quantities Constantine Feldpausch, Frederick Schemer Eagle ...... 20 64 It was a very enjoyable occasion, and $20,000 damages is demanded. about $10,000 in shares to be disposed of. of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash,Doors, Watertown, ...... 80 50 resulted in adding to the treasury of The company is capitalized at $5,000,000, Blinds, Mouldings, Casings, Columns, W. H. Snelling, Michael Spitiley, Victor, ...... a 64thatsociety $17.00. divided into 200,000 shares at $25 each, 4. E. Dntcher, Frank Oruler. Corner and Base Blocks, Bricks, Sewer Constantine Oruler. Olive, ...... 20 39 A number of the Maccabees from LANSING NEXT. and are on sale at $3.00 per share. Tbe Pipe, Drain Tile, etc. I also have Bileyt ...... ,...... 29 10 company have a 20 stamp mill on tbe Maple Rapids Tent visited St. Johns Uba river, run by water power, and is Woodworking Machinery whereby we Essex...... 30 86 Tent Tuesday night, for the purpose of Her Connell Grants a Franchise to the manufacture Window and Door gp^Money Loaned on K‘*l Estate Mortgages. DeWItt...... 148 19witnessing the exemplification of the milling ore every day at a profit. The Frames, Ilay Racks, Wagon Boxes, (This last includes $60.77, which Is on a poor new ritual by the St. Johns team. They Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis money they wish to raise is for building Tanks, Cisterns, etc., by as good, skilled piece and which has besn re-assessed for back found a crowd of Maccabees and a royal Railway. a chlorination plant aud putting in pow ­ mechanics as the state affords. Owing gTATE BANK OF ST.JOHNS. taxes for the last three years J welcome awaiting them. After the in­ er drills, which will immediately put the to my very large patronage, small ex­ At the meeting of the Lansing city mine on t good dividend-paying basis. COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS itiating work, refreshments were served council Monday, a franchise was grant ­ The company has been offered $1,000,000 penses, and to the fact that I buy in confoundei Tstatement which was followed by work in the ed to the Lansing, St. Johns and St. for the entire property, which makes large quantities and discount all my CAPITAL. 60,000. Orental lodge. The visitors expressed Louis Railway. Following are the bills, 1 am enabled to sell at very small the stock worth $5 00 per share that you NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS 1900,000. themselves well pleased with the man­ streets over which the road will run: can buy now for $3 00. The price per profits, and defy competion, either at In the Report That There Is no Money to ner in which they were entertained. North street to Center street, south on share will be advanced June 1 to $-'>.00. wholesale or retail. Respectfully, Keep in mind the fact that Dr. W. C. Center street to Franklin street, west (21-3w) JonN Gay . Pay County Orders. The shares are fully paid up and non» P. K. PERRIN, President. Walker, of Detroit, who met with such on Franklin street to Washington ave ­ assessable, and a first-class investment. John Hicks In regard to the confounded statement great succesa in his practice here last nue, thence south on Washington ave ­ The company and their property will O. W. M UNGER, Vice-President. that has come to the ears of Deputy year, and has been taking a rest from an nue to Michigan avenue; or on Center bear the closest investigation. Mr. Shows an elegant line of Carpets. J. W. FITZGERALD. Cashier. Dounty Treasurer Upton, that there is active practice, will resume his visits to to Saginaw at option of the company. Chase, the treasurer of the company, no money in the treasury to pay county St. Johns, at the Hotel St. Johns, on will be in St. Johns the balance of the Two HO Acre Improved Farms, DIRECTORS: orders, he brands it as utterly untrue Saturday. March 12. also at the Retau Another Damage Claim. week, the guest of Mr. Hughes, his Well located 5 and 7 miles from Sti O. W. Monger, Geo. F. Martin, J. W. FitsgeraM and heedless. He further says that House, Ovid, Friday, March 11. Dr. Notice of a claim for damages from J. Johns, for sale at a bargain. Enquire o' there is not a valid outstanding order brother-in-law, and will be pleased to J. H. Co. bit, J. H. Fedewa, Geo. W. Em­ Walker’s judgment and skill in dealing A. Beadle was presented to the council explain all about the best investment on Dr. Jones or at Lyon ’s justice office. mons, Jss. Richardson, P. K. Perrin, against this county but what will be with chronic troubles of all kinds is well- by the clerk. It is stated that Mr. Bea­ 21tf Wm. II. Freeman . promptly paid on presentation. Some ­ the market today. Ir. 1899 the company O. 8. Allison, M. 8pitzley, known in St. Johns. Read his adver ­ dle ’s horse fell on the ice at the intersec­ expect to have in 100 stamps, when the Jesse Srllirsn. body has got the affairs of the county tisement on another page, and remem- tion of Spring and Higham streets, and property will pay In monthly dividends John Hicks and village of St. Johns confounded. bes the dat«s. received injuries warranting damages. one bundred per cent, to the investor. Offers great bargains in Cloaks. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Day o*l| CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898.

999 Mir ill ga n Press Association. Note* on lb* War Situation. State of Silver Coinage. The annual meeting of the Michigan Spanish Premier Sagasta scorns the In reply to a Senate resolution Sec America's Press association was held in the Hotel suggestion of Prince Bismarck that HNJHHIL retary Gage has made a statement rel­ Cadillac at Detroit. As the association Spain submit theCuban trouble to ar­ ative to the coinage of standard silvet Doings of the Week Recorded in a is to hold its literary meeting in Mus­ bitration. Investigation of the Maine Disaster dollars from bullion purchased under Greatest Brief Style. kegon this summer there was little More than 810,000 was realized by the the provisions of the act of July 14, business transacted in addition to the benefit performance for the relatives Shows Treachery. 1890. Fine ounces purchased, 168,674,* Medicine election of officers. An invitation from of the Maine victims, at the Metropoli ­ 682; cost, 8155,931,002; coinage value, Greatest , Became it does what all other CONCISE AND INTERESTING. the Canadian Pacific road to take the tan opera house, New York, UNCLE SAM IS GETTING READY. 8218,084,438. From Aug. 13, 1890, to medicines fall to do. As an instance editors and their families to thePacific The double-turrcted monitor Terror Nov. 1, 1892, there were coined from of its pecallar and unusual curative', coast was accepted and the executive power, consider the most insidlons Fire la a Chemical Work, Cause* Ter­ has been sent to New York harbor and Will not be Caught Napping: If War Should this bullion 36,087,285 standard silver rific Havoc —Firemen Blown 80 Feet committee was instructed to make ar­ dollars, containing 27,911,259 fine disease, and the disease which taints rangements. The treasurer's report the new monitor Puritan has taken her h* th« Outcome of the Affair—Con ­ and Instantly Killed —Many Specta­ place at the Norfolk navy yard. ounces, costing 829,110,186, giving ar the blood of most people, producing showed a balance of 8465 on hand. sul-General Dee Advised Americana to incalculable suffering to many, while tors Wounded by Flying Debris. seigniorage of 86,977,098, from which Officers elected: President, H. R. The work of naval construction and in others it is a latent fire liable to armament is being pushed by the Span­ Leave Havana. there were paid tor expenses, from Pattengill, of Lansing Timely Topics; Aug. 13, 1890 to Nov. 1, 1893, 899,905 burst into activity and produce untold The Ilall Bros. ’ Chemical works at vice president, B. J. Lowrey, of How ­ ish government with the greatest activ ­ misery on the least provocation. Kalamazoo was discovered to be on fire ity at the Ferrol arsenal and dockyard. and the remainder, 86,877,192, was paid ard City Record; secretary, H. C. Black­ Special cables from Havana state into the treasury. From Nov. 1, 1893, is the only ailment to at 10 p. m. and the entire fire depart ­ man, of Hillsdale Democrat; treasurer, Gov. Rogers, of Washington, has or ­ that the naval court of inquiry has Scrofula ment turned out to subdue the flames. to Feb. 1, 1898, there were coined from which the human family is subject, of E. D. Conger, of Grand Rapids Herald. dered that the 12 companies composing practically concluded its investigations thi» bullion 37,735,572 standard silver which the above sweeping statement The firemen had about succeeded in the National Guard of Washington at Havana and will now secure testi­ controlling the blaze in the uppers to- dollars, containing 29,186,106 ounces of can honestly be made. Now, a medi­ Algonae Happy—Has a Railroad Now. shall be immediately recruited to their mony of survivors of the Maine at Key fine silver, costing 825,922,916, giving a cine that can meet this common enemy ries when there was a tremendous ex­ The Detroit A St. Clair Railroad Co. full strength. West. It is believed that the court is plosion, apparently in the basement, seigniorage of 811,812,655, all of which of mankind and repeatedly effect the laid the rails through the streets of Havana: Consul-General Lee has in­ unanimously of the opinion that the has been deposited in the treasury of wonderful cures Hood ’s Sarsaparilla which lifted the whole interior and Algonac and the town made the event Maine was destroyed by an outside ex­ the United States. The balance on the roof of the structure into the air formally advised Americans not neces­ has, — clearly has the right to the title a gala occasion. Men, -women and sarily detained here to leave for home plosion. Unfortunately, for the pub­ hand Feb. 1, 1898, was: Fine ounces, of America’s Greatest Medicine. and demolished the walls, killing at children paraded the street with guns, at once. Many families will sail as lic is eager for an official settlement of 111,531,136; cost, 8100,835,363; coin ­ least 10 men outright and wounding horns and a brass band, and the citi­ soon as possible. the vexed question of who caused the ing value, 8144,179,389, which when Hood’s ns. over a score of others. zens gave an oyster supper to the rail­ Maine's loss, it is not certain thata coined into silver dollars will give a The dead are: George Halliday, The Madrid Iraparcial blames Spanish road men at the Hotel Barry. public announcement of the conclusions seigniorage of 843,344,025. Is sold by all druggists. gl ; six for $&. driver of chemical engine; Pat McHugh, weakness in the Allianca. Venadito, reached by the board will follow im­ pipeman; John Hastings. Jr., spectator Competitor and other affairs as encour ­ McKinley will Interfere In Cuba. MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS. mediately. Upon the report of these Hood ’s Pills flood's Sarsaparilla, ’a&f. helping on hose; Charles Whiting, aging the United States in “their pres­ conclusions to the secretary of the It is announced that within 60 days spectator; James Quigley, spectator Traverse City ’s council has voted for ent bellicose attitude." navy, in the discretion of the depart ­ President McKinley will present a de ­ About theonly chance for a poor gas helping on fire; William Wagar, fire­ a free text book system for the schools. Martin Redding, a diver who was ment, it is not unlikely that public mand to Spain that the war in Cuba consumer is to burn with indignation. man; L. L. Holloway, druggist; Frank taken to Havana to work on the wreck William S. Dewing was fined 85 at action may be somewhat delayed. It must cease, but the terms will not be Mother Gray ’* Sweet Powders for Children Auwers, spectator; Eugene Dole, half­ Kalamazoo for employing a boy under of the Maine, has returned to Key is even possible that, for prudent-rea ­ arranged or expressed until after the Successfully used by Mother Gray, pay fireman; Joseph Clifford, telephone 14 years of age in his factory. West. It is said that he talked too sons, the filing of the board ’s report Maine investigation has been concluded. nurse in the Children’s Home in New lineman. Wagar, Halliday, McHugh, much and displeased the court of in­ Hon. Alfred Chandler, aged 84, and may itself be delayed beyond a This step does not necessarily mean York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stom ­ Holloway, Quigley and Dole leave fam­ quiry. • date when its expeditious work war, but does mean peace in Cuba. ach, Teething Disorders, move and ilies. The seriously wounded are: wife, aged 78, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Coldwater. Rep. McCleary, of Minnesota, says would seem to warrant a conclusion of The President will insist that hostilies regulate the Bowels and Destroy James Utter, fireman, both legs broken; thatas the Maine entered Havana har­ its labors. cease and that Spain and the United Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. Jack McDermott, fireman, legs broken There is a project to connect the in­ bor with her guns loaded for action Bottling up navy officers by threats States appoint a commission to treat They never fall. At all druggists, 26c. and face badly burned; Ord Knight, dependent telephone systems of Grand Sample ffee. Address, Allen S. Olm­ Spain had a right to place her over a of a courtinartial does not prevent the with theCubans and devise a solution. sted, LeRoy, N. Y. fireman, head badly cut; Will Hastings, Rapids and Saginaw, by way of How ­ mine or destroy her, as she saw fit, if leading facts of the Maine inquiry be­ The President niay mention, as one bad scalp wound and right foot blown ard City, Edmore and Alma. she had reason to suppose that the coming known. The divers are devel ­ possible means of settlement, the sur­ Stinginess and economy are no akin. off; George Chatterson, back broken It has been decided by the board of render of Cuba by Spain for a large Maine's intentions were warlike, and oping important results. From ex­ Coughing Dead* to Consumption. and leg injured; Victor Vocelle, bad directors of the Lansing, Dexter A Ann Mr. McCleary contends that they were. amination of the interior wreckage money indemnity, the United States to scalp wound and skull fractured. Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough Arbor electric railroad to extend the Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has they have secured evidence which guarantee the payment of the bonds, at once. Go to your druggist to-day The building in which the explosion line from Dexter to Ann Arbor. gone to Havana as the personal rep­ seems conclusive that the explosion this country holding control of the and get a sample bottle free. Sold in occurred and caused the death of ten An investigation of Jackson county came from underneath the ship. Some Cuban customs meanwhile for security. 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; de ­ men and seriously injured a number of resentative of President McKinley to affairs resulted in the arrest of Super­ meet Consul-General Ia ‘c and receive a of the smaller magazines may have ex­ There is a strong belief at Washing­ lays are dangerous. •others was a small four-story brick visor Edward II. Howell charged with complete statement of the actual con ­ ploded. The main • 10-inch magazine ton that Spain will accept, the Presi­ shell only 30 feet wide and 100 feet did not explode. dent ’s proposal. She will surely do so Too late to cure a cold after consump ­ having received bribes while an officer ditions in Havana and information on tion has fastened its deadly grip on the long and was located at the inter-sec ­ of thecounty. the Maine disaster which was of too vi ­ Q It has been discovered that the for ­ if her government can control her tion of Church street and the Michigan ward part of the keel of the Maine, people. lungs. Take Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Central railroad. The thin, weak struc­ Mrs. Wm. n. Phillips committed sui­ tal importance to entrust to mail or Syrup while yet there is time. cide at Grand Rapids by taking poison. telegraph. with its ribs and plates, was stove so ture just burst like a cannon rocket. far upward that parts of the shattered Daughter* of the American Revolution. Diphtheria relieved in twenty min­ There was little fire to speak of. Up She was 40 years old, had no children The greatest activity known since The seventh continental congress of and the cause of her action was trouble double bottom show out of the water, utes. Almost miraculous. Dr. Thomas’ to the time of the explosion only an oc ­ the rebellion is now witnessed at the and in places sections of the green- the National Society of the Daughters Eclectric Oil. At any drug store. with her husband. Watervliet, N. Y., arsenal and the en­ casional faint flare was seen through painted outer hull are visible. of the American Revolution was held Buskin's 04 books bring him In ICO,000 a year. the windows of the third story. It The Lake Shore house, at Essexville, tire force is working night and day. The hull is now imbedded in the at Washington with 800 delegates pres­ came as unexpected as a flash of light­ burned at 6 a. m. All the inmates es­ Several carloads of 12-inch projectiles mud to the depth of eight feet. The ent, and Mrs. Adlai Stevenson, the No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*. have already been shipped to Fort Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak ning from a clear sky. The fire boys caped, with the help of the firemen. divers sink to their armpits in the mud president, in the chair. There were 65 man strong, blood pure. 60c. II. All druggists. and citizens were working side by side, The property w-as owned by W. Ben- Hamilton. Orders have also been re­ and have the greatest difficulty in charters issued during the year. Ap­ close up to the building, and no one stein, and valued at 81,000. ceived for the shipment of all projec ­ prosecuting, their work. plicants for membership numbered Thevirtue Is In thestruggle, not the prize. had given the first thought of danger, Wm. May bee, a farmer, was struck by tiles now on hand to the several forts, A message has been received at the 3,080. The number of real daughters although everyone knew the nature of about New York and to forward all a train at Grand Rapids and died from state department from Consul-General of revolutionary soldiers is now 268, ^ “A Perfect Type of the Highest Order of the contents of the structure. The completed guns as speedily as possible and their average age 91 years. The his injuries. He carelessly drove upon Lee. expressing the opinion from what y Excellence in Manufacture.” most remarkable feature of the disas ­ the track in front of a train and both to the proving grounds at Sandy Hook. he knows that the disaster to the Maine report of the treasurer showed the ter is the proportion of death to the horses were killed and his sleigh de ­ The cruisers Columbia and Minneap ­ was not an aceident. This, of course, finances to be in a healthy condition. size of ruins. Strange to say, also, molished. olis, the double-turreted monitor Mian- is not the final verdict of the court of The plan to erect a Continental hall at there was not a single individual in the ; Inspector-General Case, of the Mich­ tonomah and the ram Katahdin, all at inquiry, but it gives the administration Washington for the display of revolu ­ building when the fatal explosion oc ­ igan National Guard, says that should the League Island navy yard, have warning of what is to come. The New tionary relics was announced to be curred. Both the killed and injured been ordered to go into commission York Herald, which has been very con ­ progressi ng nicely —84 2,000 having been Wamei*Co:s it be necessary 90 per cent of Michigan's were buried in the brick and mortar of military strength could be mobilized with dispatch. Both cruisers have servative, says: There is no longer any contributed. Medals were presented the walls or struck by Hying pieces. at any point in the state within 48 skeleton crews aboard, while the mon ­ reason to doubt that the explosion to the founders of the society, Miss The walls of the building were but one hours after the call. itor has been lying at dock for several which wrecked the Maine came from Mary Desha, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Wal­ Breakfast foot in thickness and the explosion years and the Katahdin since last win­ underneath the vessel and that her worth, Mrs. Eugenia Washington and simply scattered them like grape shot Members of the river and harbor ter. The work of enlisting men will Mrs. Mary S. Lockwod. Mrs. Daniel committee of the national house of rep­ magazines had nothing to do with the from the mouth of a cannon. Pipeman continue until orders to stop have been initial explosion, and played a much McLean was elected president-general. Patrick McHugh who was working on resentatives visited Benton Harbor and received from Washington. St. Joseph and investigated the need smaller part in the general disaster a ladder at the front of the building Madrid: The cardinal archbishop of than was at first supposed. Zola Found Guilty and Sent to Prlaon. was thrown clear across Church street of an immediate appropriation for the Paris: M. Zola, who hasbeen on trail improvement of the harbor. Valladolid has published a pastoral let­ The Washington Star, which is ex­ •and struck the wall of Clarage & Son's ter blaming America for the prolonga ­ tremely conservative and strongly ad ­ for the allegations which he brought foundry on the opposite side. The Otsego Sportsmen's association tion of the Cuban war. His eminence ministration, states guardedly that the in the Aurore, published by M. Per- The entire basement of the building wired the war department that they had says: “The hypocritical friendship of administration has concluded that war rieux, against the conduct of the Ester- Absolutely Pure, was devoted to the laboratory. The enrolled one full company of able-bod ­ the United States fosters the rebellion is inevitable, but is determined to post ­ hazy court martial, was found guilty Delicious, offices occupied the front part of the ied young riflemen ready to fight and wastes Spain's resources in order pone it as long as possible, in order on all counts. He was sentenced to one Nutritious. .first floor and back of it was the label­ against Spain, and could raise double the better to attack her when weak­ that we may be better prepared. A year's imprisonment and to pay a fine ing room and stock room. The second the number in 24 hours' time. ened. ” He exhorts all true Spaniards member of the foreign relations com­ of 3,000 francs. ..Costs Less Ttiai) ONE CENT a Cop.. fitoM* was used as a store room for Rev. John P. Ashley, S. T. B.,Ph. D., to “unite in defending the rights and mittee is authority for the statement. M. I’errieux, the manager of the eenrrpfty bottles and the pill factory. The has been formally inaugurated as sixth honor of the nation. ” The letter has There is no use mincing words or us­ Aurore. was condemned to four months’ Be sure that you get the Genuine Article, •entire third floor was occupied by the president of Albion college. Nearly caused widespread comment. ing qualifying phrases, President Mc­ imprisonment and to pay 3,000 francs made at DORCHESTER, MASS, by Kalamazoo paper box factory. The 50 ministers from the Michigan and Kinley is being forced into war. It is fine. The Corrcspondencia Militure, organ There was a big demonstration out ­ WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. < monetary loss is comparatively slight. Detroit conferences were present, as of the Spanish army, says: “The pre­ now practically only a question of ways That of Hall Bros. A Co. is about 825,- well as prominent educators of the vailing impression is that war betw’een and means. Ilis long delay in taking side the court when the audience rushed Established 1780. J 000. and of the paper box firm 85,000. state. Spain and United States v 'll break action on the Cuban question was to out announcing the verdict, with cries Both firms are almost fully insured. The old Fourth Michigan infantry out in April.” A former captain-gen ­ induce Spain to sell Cuba to the insur ­ of “Down with Zola, ” “Death to the held its annual reunion at Hudson and gents, and it is believed the he would Jews,” and “Vive la armee.” Met Death on the Road. eral of Cuba (presumably Marshal Mar­ adopted resolutions inveighing against tinez Campos), is reported as saying: prefer to settle the Maine matter by Lewis and Frank Nehring, of Ossin- Spanish cruelty and treachery, urging Spain paying a large indemnity in case THE NEWS CONDENSED. 1 Exactly What You Want. eke, drove to Alpena to do a day ’s trad ­ “I never entertained a doubt that if the immediate recognition of the Cuban therebellion were not suppressed be­ it is shown thattile destruction of the ? The day for nauseating nos ­ ing, and while returning in the even ­ republic and offering^ their services in Maine was not accidental. But the A rich strike is reported on American ing were struck by an express train fore 1898, war with the United States creek, 130 miles from Dawson, in U. S. trums is past. People now case of war with Spain. would become an accomplished fact. voice of a patriotic people burning for want a laxative that is purely % which was an hour late and was run ­ vengeance is being heard from all sides territory. vegetable, gentle but positive 5 ning faster than usual. Frank was Mrs. George Davidson, aged 28, wife Unhappily my prophecy will be ful­ and the President will be found in line The British shipAsia was wrecked in of action, pleasant to the taste, driving and Lewis laid down on some of a carpenter at St. Joseph, left her filled. ” with the people. It is believed that a gale off Nantucket, Mass., and 18 non-griping, antiseptic, con- » straw in the rear end of the sleigh box. home at night dressed only in her night In reply to the strong denial of Senor it will be well to delay the inevitable people were drowned, including Capt. verrient to cany, at » popular The train cut the box in two just back gown, and with her two weeks’ old du Bose, Spanish charge d'affairs at as long as possible We are ready, in a Dakin, his wife and daughter. ice. The only one -ornbin- J of the seat, killing Frank instantly, babe in her arms. She boarded the Washington, that there are mines in Cg all these desirable qual­ tug Hohn and from thence plunged general way, but there are certain President McKinley was the Wash­ ities is while Lewis was thrown 20 feet and the harbor of Havana, the diplomats points of weakness which it is imper­ ington day orator of the annual cele­ was uninjured. One of the horses was into the river, and both mother and show that Senor de Lome frequently child were drowned. The body of Mrs. ative should be strengthened before bration given by the Unive.-sity of tossed to one side instantly killed and alluded to Havana's magnificent de ­ active hostilities are invited. Pennsylvania. the other was dragged 300 yards and Davidson was recovered, but the babe fenses. At the time Senator Mills said There is not a department in the .literally cut to pieces. was probably swept out into the lake. in the senate, “Let us take Cuba,” de The House passed the sundry eivil XJMQhoXb. government in which their is wanting appropriation bill after four days' de ­ A serious wreck occurred on the Ann Lome remarked contemptuously to an the active evidences of the fact that Natural Oat at Port Huron. Arbor railroad at Alma. A special American professor of history who was bate. The most important action was every one in authority believes there the elimination of the appropriation A. company organised at Port Huron freight had backed down to get water visiting him at the time: “Let them will be trouble and it is high time to Tor the development of thenatural gas when a double header, consisting of take the mines from Havana harbor for our representation at the Paris ex­ prepare for it. In the navy department position on a point of order. CINDY supply believed to be located under ­ two engines and 42 cars, came whirling first. Even Constantinople is not more there is manifest the greatest activity. neath that locality, struck a gusher on around a curve and ran into the extra. safe from this threatened invasion. ” One of its earliest steps following the The navy department has just com ­ CATHARTIC the E. R. Marcotte property when pleted the allotment among the states This train was shoved along a block, A gloomy tone pervades political cir­ destruction of the battleship was the A booklet and aampte free for th» asking, down only 104 feet. The well was several cars were telescoped,three being cles in Spain on the reports of a split issuance of an order to the commander of the appropriation of 850,000 made or you can buy a box for xoc, ajc, 50c, at plugged up until a gauge could be at­ broken into kindling wood and one in the Cuban ministry. The autono of the European squadron calling all for the assistance of the naval militia your drug store. Satisfaction guaranteed. 76 tached and the exact pressure ascer­ thrown off the track. Both engines mists, Senor Gibenga and Senor Am- of his vessels out of the Mediterranean organizations. Of this amount Michi­ Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago. Montreal. NewYorfc. tained. If the present pressure con- were badly wrecked. No one was hurt. gan receives 82,084; Ohio, 82,332. HA TA DIB Sold and guaranteed to eure To- blard, are, it is believed, secretly treat­ sea. It would have been exceedingly |U-|U*uAw baooo Habit by ell druggist* - tinues the amount of gas to be obtained The attendance at the annual Michi- ing with the separatists in the direc ­ foolish, to have allowed these ships to The final step in the program of the from the wells is said to be sufficient club banquet at Detroit was quite large tion of independence for Cuba. Senor have remainded in that inland sea, sale of the Kansas Pacific railroad was to supply the present needs of the en­ and the speeches particularly enjoy ­ Govin, theCuban secretary of the in­ where they might have been caught by taken at Topeka, Kas., when the entire tire city. ____ able. Senator Burrows acted as toast ­ terior, is accused of treason by the Im- the Spanish navy at a disadvantage. line from Kansas City to Denver was 'Pingree Name* Malts to Succeed Just. master; Gov. Pingree took opportunity parcial. El Pais says: “Spain should These ships will rendezvous off the sold under the consolidated mortgage ifiov. Pingree announced the appoint ­ to roast trusts and monopolies; Senator treat with the rebels direct rather Portuguese coast in the vicinity of Lis­ for 88,000,000 it being bid in by Alvin ment of George L. Maltz, of Detroit, Fairbanks paid the Republican party a than tolerate the traitor Govin. ” El bon, where they will await further or ­ W. Krech for 88,000,000 on behalf of formerly of Alpena, to the office of glowing eulogy; Senator Davy}, of Min­ Correo Espanol says: “Govin is a traitor ders. It is probable that they will at the reorganization committee. state banking commissioner, to succeed nesota, spoke upon Cuba, Hawaii and to his country. Whoever supports a once be ordered to the United States. A mob fired thehome of Postmaster the late Banking Commissioner Just. other interesting subjects and advised traitor is likewise a traitor. ” At no time since the war of the re­ Baker, colored, at Lake City, S. C., and The appointment was not unexpected, patience and conservatism in passing bellion has the military branch of the then shot several volleys from rifles mnfi it is understood the governor had judgement as to the cause of Maine Henry W. Corbett, who was ap­ government been so active as it is to ­ into the house. Baker and his infant received the assurance of the ap­ disaster; W. F. Gurley, of Nebraska,, pointed as senator from Oregon by the day. It does not follow that war will child were killed and their bodies cre­ pointee that it would be accepted. said that the Republicans would win governor of that state, was denied ad ­ come, but activity in both the war.and mated. Mrs. Baker and her son and 'The appointment is quite generally again in 1900 with the monetary plat­ mission to the Senate by a vote of navy departments is too unmistakable two daughters escaped from the burn ­ commended. form of the St. Louis convention. 50 to 19. to be concealed. ing building, but were maimed for life. The interstate commerce commission Waiting is the word that character­ The Cuban autonomist government PI. . 5Forty families from Henry and Wood The government has been collecting send has suspended the operation of the long izes the attitude of the administration. has confirmed the appointment of Senor ade. along. counties, O., contemplate settling in information as to the strength of the and sho/t haul clause of the interstate The President waits with anxiety for Manuel Rafael Angulo as delegate of Roscommon county next spring. militia in the United States and also commerce act in favor of railroad lines what the board of inquiry may report. the number of men who would be the colonial government at Washing­ Mrs. Ann A. Hannah, aged 66, wife in the U. S. in competition with the There can be no doubt that he will be ton to prepare a commercial treaty, ac­ $1.50 of Hon. Perry Hannah, died at Trav ­ available for service in case of an emer­ Canadian Pacific road to allow them to ready to act when that report is re­ cording to instructions, which he will gency. The returns from the states POTATOES■ a Bbl. erse City, of which city they were meet the rate cutting of the latter. ceived, no matter what its nature may receive frem Senor Montoro and Senor Lanreet Reed POTATO graves* la Aaerlea. T*e are interesting in view of the prospect •‘Rent Rew-Verker" gleee Seller’. Rerlteei a yield the founders. Regardless of the winter months, the be. Should the board report that, in ’ Rodriguez, colonial secretaries of the ef 4S4 keebele per acre. Frieee dirt 'bee*. Oer of trouble with Spain. The total mili­ prospectors have been prosecuting its opinion, the investigation shows treasury, and of commerce respectively. ereel Seed Beet, II Pena Seed Rtnpiee, Wertk Clarence J. Herbert, a trusted em­ tia force of the United States and the RIO, te gei a start, for 10a. *ed IMe eel Ire. their work without intermission in that the government of Spain, or a 8enor Louis Polo y Bernabe, tl e new — JONR A. SAL7VR BRIO CO., La Creese, Wle. W. r.m ploye of the Standard Oil Co., at Grand territories, as shown by the returns, south Alaska along the coast and their eitizen of Spain, was responsible for Spanish minister to the U. 8. has sailed Rapids, was arrested on a charge of em­ is 114,948, and the total number of men perseverance has been rewarded by a thedestruction of the Maine, the Presi­ bezzling 81,000. available for military service is 10,- from Oibralter for New York. 301,339. large number of finds. This portion dent's task will be easy, for no talk r PISO’S CURE FOR ro While dressing a beef at Monroe Cen­ of the territory is more accessible than about a money indemnity would Btop The bill to increase the U. 8. artil­ ter Wm. Evercouser, aged 52, was killed Secretary of War Alger returned to Washington from Old Point Comfort any other, and their is room for thou­ the people from taking the case in their lery force by two regiments passed the In time. Bold by drnggteta. . . by the windlass falling over and strik­ sands. own hands, and with his approval. Senate by a vote of 52 to 4. ing him on the head. decidedly improved in health. CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY. MARCH A I HOI!

dy triumph. The question to be put the firBt, because It bad held its own today 1* not how long the Cuban re­ against forces so enormous and so evi ­ A FRIEND’S ADVICE. public will last, but how long Spain dently representing the utmost that can continue her costly effort* to sup­ Spain could bring to bear. The situa­ And what it led to. BLOCKADE OF CUBA. press It tion In Cuba had Its reflex influence The first year of the struggle was the on Spain at length In the coming of the Sagasta ministry, under which Weyler, It !■ not * common occurence that a many a younger woman. Rver since my most critical. The appeal of the revo ­ friendly word ahould be the meana of giv ­ recovery 1 have taken a couple of bottles * How the War with Spain Would Be Sue- * lutionary party, headed by the lament­ whose successive campaigns had been ing nearly forty years of happiness and of Dr. Ayer'a Sarsaparilla each spring, and palpable failures, was replaced by hearth to the person heeding the advtce it am quite satisfied that X owe my good \ cessful Inna Short Time. « ed Jose Marti, was welcomed In sev­ carried. This was the case with Mary healthto this treatment. I give this testi- eral of the provinces, to which war ma­ Blanco, while autonomy was offered to Lingard. At twenty-five she was dragging roonial purely in the hope that it may * 4 out her days in misery. At sixty-one she meet the eye of some poor sufferer.”— terial had been successfully carried, the patriots instead of independence. ' finds hetsclf so active and strong she can Manx Limoaad , Woodstock, Ont. ******************************* but the Spanish authorities got wind It is in the midst of Blanco's cam­ do work that would shame many a younger Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla has won its way woman, and looks back on thirty-six to every corner of the world by the praise In case of war between the United not keep a large stock of provisions. of the contemplated risings, and In paign that her third anniversary now happy, healthful years of industry. But of its friends ; those who have tried it and Puerto Principe seized arms and am­ dawns upon Cuba, with prospects let her tell her story : who know they were cured by the use of States and Spain the lBl&nd of Cuba If the imports are stopped the entire "Thirty-six years ago I had great trouble the remedy. There is nothing so strong would be freed from Spanish rule much supply of food in Havana will be ex­ munition. A few days after the fa­ brighter than ever. The failure of the with my liver. The doctors allowed that as this personal testimony. It throws all mous Feb. 24 Captain General Calleja autonomy plan is conceded, and cer­ there were tumors growing on it, and they theories and fancies to the winds and more easily than Is generally Imagined. hausted by the 200,000 inhabitants of blistered my side in an effort to give rae stands solidly upon the rock of experi­ This country would not need to send a the city in less than a week. Suppose declared the provinces of Matanzas and tainly In the field Blanco has done not relief. I was at that time earning my ence challenging every skeptic with a a whit better than his predecessors. living as a tailoress, but for five years, positive "V knout.” Ayer ’s Sarsaparilla large army to the island to fight the now that war Is declared one of these Santiago to be In a state of siege. The between the pain in my side and the with its purifying and vitalising action on Spaniards in the field. Neither would days. The United States in that case movement spread. Maximo Gomez, by Indeed, the leading feature of his oper ­ blisters I was in constant misery, and the blood is a radical remedy lor every ations, General Pando ’s expedition In work was a drag to me, with no prospect form of disease that begins in tainted or it need to bombard Havana nor attack has only to blockade the seaports of the vote of the leading officers of the of relief; fortunately tor me, however, a impure blood. Hence tumors, sores, it in any other way. Perhaps the war Cuba to starve out the whole Spanish former revolutionary war, was chosen southeastern Cuba, was an acknowl ­ friend advised me to take Dr. Ayer's Sar­ ulcers, boils, eruptions and similar dis ­ edged defeat. Why, then, should not saparilla, and finally persuaded me to take eases yield promptly to this medicine. would end, as far as Cuba is concerned, army, and that without landing a sin­ commander-in-chlef. Bartolome Mas- a regular course of it. When I first com ­ Some cases are moie stubborn than others, so, Rabl, and other well-known citi­ the third anniversary be full of hops menced taking the Sarsaparilla my aide but persistence with Dr. Ayer's Sarsapa­ without the Americans firing a single gle man on the Island. The Spaniards was so painful that I could not fasten my rilla usually results in a complete cure. shot either by land or sea. Though will simply be compelled to surrender zens cast in their lots wi^ the patriot dress, and for a time I did not get auy Mary Lingard began with a bottle, and cause, while the two Maclro and other relief, but my friend advised me to per­ went on to a course of Dr. Ayer ’s Sarsspa- these statements may at first appear because of the lack of food. severe and relief was sure to come, and rilla. When she was cured she realized astonishing, they are merely the logic­ Many Ports Dcfenselen*. veteran leaders landed in Santiago, come it did. This happened, as I say, that a medicine that could cure disease where the people flocked to their stan­ thirty-six years ago. My liver has never could also prevent it. So she took a couple al conclusion to be derived from To prevent the possibility that they troubled me since, and during these years of bottles each spring and kept in perfect knowledge of the real state of affalr3 dards. I have passed through the most critical health. There are tnousands of similar might make a desperate effort inland period of a woman's life without any par cases on record. Sonic of these are In the struggling island. to overpower the Insurgents and get Changing Officer*. ticular trouble, and to-day, at sixty-one athered into Dr. Ayer's Curebook.a little years of age, I am active and strong, and fook of too pages which is sent free by the Extent of Spanish Control. their vegetables and other provisions, Spain quickly rose to the emergency, able to do a day's work that would upset J. C. Ayer Co., Cowell, Mass. Write lor it. The Spaniards, with an army of 150,- something might be done easily, quick­ and within two months after Feb. 24 000 men, of which not 90,000 are regu ­ ly, and at once. There are many sea­ Calleja was succeeded as captain gene ­ Peop e wnp think before they speak always Nobody but a coward will accept ports of some importance In Cuba ah ral by the renowned Martinez Campos, manage to economize on talk. praise that he doesn't deserve. lar troops, all that is left of the 200,000 soldiers sent from Spain since 1895 solutely defenseless from the sea side. who professed his ability to end the on. WHAT SPLENDID COFFEE. The Fullness Thereof. and decimated by battle and sickness, Cardenas, for instance, in the province rebellion before the end of the autumn. Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., Ill., Amid the discomforts of life and the control only the seaports and the of Matanzas, on the northern coast, is The fights of Los Negros, El Guanaba- BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE. writes: "From one package Salzer’s fullness therof, reaching to every strongly fortified towns In the Interior. one of them. Cardenas was taken In no, Jarahuca, Juraguanas, El Cacao, (This warship, a companion vessel to German Coffee Berry costing 15c I family, there is that which can so The country from east to west is In 1849 by the insurgent Narciso Lopez and El Jobito taught him that his task the Kentucky, will be launched at grew 300 lbs. of better coffee than I easily mitigate or entirely cure, the the hands of the Insurgents. The east­ with a handful of Americans on board was no trifling one, while in July, when the navy yard of the Newport News can buy in stores at 30 cents a lb.” wonder is why we endure and suffer ern part of the island, including San­ a small merchant vessel. Since then commanding in person, he was defeat ­ Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, A package of this and big seed cata­ so much. From big pains to little tiago de Cuba and Puerto Principe, Is no fort capable of resisting a cannon ed by Maceo and Rabi at Bayamo. March 24; the wife of Lieut. Wins­ logue Is sent you by John A. Salzer aches, which are the wear and tear held by the Cuban Generals Calixto shot has been built there. The Ameri­ Meanwhile Gomez and Marti had set low, U. S. N., acting as sponsor.) Seed Co., La Crosse, Wls., upon receipt of the physical structure of man, there Garcia, Jesus Rabl, and Lope Reclo cans can hold Cardenas and from there out for Puerto Principe, and in their for Cuba? We cannot Bay how many of 15c stamps and this notice, w.n.f. are always remedies good, better and Loynaz. There the Cubans are strong ­ communicate with the insurgents In first severe conflict the heroic Marti men Spain has had under arms in the best. The choice should be always for 1 When some people want counsel they proceed er than In any other section of the the country. In a short time the whole was killed. Gomez pressed on, and in island, but probably a quarter of a mil­ to consult their own interests. best as the surest and the cheapest, in the province of Puerto Principe was lion would not be too high an esti­ chronic or acute suffering with rheu­ Island. They have In these two.prov ­ Cuban army may be well armed by A cynic is the only dupe of his own follies. matism, neuralgia, sciatica or lum­ inces 20.000 men at least, armed and them and secure some cannon to attack joined by Salvador Cisneros Betan­ mate; and yet against this tremendous bago, or with the minor ailments of with plenty of ammunition. There the inland towns. If without such court. Next Gomez, marching into the force the Cubans have made head. The Doublm the Pleasure of a Drive. sprains and bruises, or of soreness and they hold the Spanish columns in con ­ munitions and with the immense risk provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas, burning question is not how long they A fine carriage dottblcs the pleasure stiffness, the efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil and difficulties they incur in securing carried out his policy of destroying the can endure, but how long Spain will of driving. Intending buyers of car­ stant check, and the recent defeats of and the fullness thereof In so many General Pando In Santiago de Cuba, at scanty supplies from the feeble flili- sugar crop, and thereby stopping the find it possible to stand the strain. riages can save dollars by sending for complete and perfect cures make it the large free catalogue of the Elkhart the entrance of the Cauto river, and of busteifng expeditions they not only revenue which Spain derived from it. The Climax Near. stand out as the best remedy for pain. hold their own against Spain but ac­ Other battles and skirmishes followed, Cuba's third anniversary, too, found Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Why, then, should we stand on the General Jimenez Castellanos at La Es- Co., of Elkhart, Ind. order of going for it, and not go at peranza, almost within sight of Puerto tually Imprison the Spaniards in their and before the first year was over her nearer that recognition by our own forts and cities, it is obvious that pos ­ Spain recognized that she had to deal country which has always been one of W%’1 does Heaven take care that no man se- once? In numberless cases the aggra ­ Principe city, show conclusively what curea happiness by crime. vations of discomfort* and pains are the power of the Cubans is In the east. sessing war appliances which will place with a most formidable revolt. Mar- her aims. Events have of late become from delay. Why should we suffer? The central part of the island, that urgent in that direction. And we do Ask for Allen's Foot Ease. not now refer to the recent calamity In A powder to shake into your shoes. New York has 90,000 unemployed. Is to say, the province of Santa Clara, It cures Corns and Bunions, Chilblains, Is controlled by General Maximo Go ­ Havana harbor, whose grave results Swollen, Nervous, Damp. Sweating, SALZER’S GRASSES AND CLOVERS. mez. The Cuban commander-In-chief cannot yet be forecast, but to those Smarting and Callous feet. At all Are warranted. They produce! We are has at least 10,000 men there under his events which are steadily and swiftly Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sam­ the largest growers in America. I-ow- orders, with Generals Carrillo, Monte- bringing near the time when, as Presi­ ple FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, est prices. Seed Potatoes only $1.50 per agudo, Alvarez and several others as dent MciKnley has said, we must Im­ LeRoy, N. Y. barrel. Big farm seed catalogue with subordinate commanders. peratively call on Spain to make peace. The best cross for us is the one that will soon ­ clover and grain samples (worth $10.00 Strength 0f the Cohan*. est kill our selfishness. to get a start) sent you by the John A. There are about 5,000 insurgents In American Export Trade. Ileauty Is Blood Deep. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse Wls., upon the provinces of Matanzas and Havana. L VXi 'M For the better part of this century Clean blood means a clean skin. No receipt of 10c ami this notice, w.n f. This Is where the Cubans are weak­ England has been the world ’s work ­ beauty without It. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by Eggs arc preserved by electricity. est, the Spanish fortified towns being shop. Indications are not wanting that 6tlrring up the lazy liver and driving all im­ nearer to one another and the Spanish the day of her supremacy Is past, says purities from the body. Begin today to Lane's Family Medicine. army more numerous. But neverthe ­ the Engineering News. The colonies banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, Moves the bowels each day. In order she has planted would be false to the and that sickly bilious complexion by taking to be healthy this is necessary. Acts less they have strength enough to keep Cascarets—beauty for ten cents. All drug ­ gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures up a very lively guerrilla warfare, raid ­ spirit of enterprise and Independence gists. satisfaction guaranteed, iOc. 2 >c, 50c sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. ing almost daily the most important that has brought England herself to When wo are good in the right way we are towns and making dashing attacks on her present proud position if they were good for something. Alaska has six breweries. the outskirts of Havana city itself. The content to sit down and live by agri ­ SEATTLE, unquestionably best and cheap­ A copy of the new edition of Miss recent death of their plucky leader, culture and mining and depend on Parloa's Choice Receipts will he sent General Aranguren, has not abated KEEL OF THE MAINE SHOWING THAT IT WAS AN UPWARD EXPLO­ other countries for manufactured goods. est starting point and outfitting station for SION.—FROM A SKETCH. Alaska and Klondike, does not ask or advise postpaid to any of our readers who their ardor. General Betancourt, Gen­ The nations of Europe all strive so to you to go, but you will find Seattle's facilities, will make application by postal card or eral Alejandro Rodriguez, General Ra­ shape their legislation as to keep the stoi cs and experience unsurpassed and prices note to Walter Baker & Co., Limited, fael de Cardenas, and Colonels Davalos, home market for themselves and at the the very lowest. Washington state has Klon- Dorchester, Mass. them, in this respect, on the same tinez Campos was displaced by Weyler dikes of its own. Seattle Is the chief city. Collazo, and others are cutting out footi"g as the Spaniards themselves, as captain general, and troops were same time capture as much as possible Strangers are protected by Public Comfort Scald head is an eczema of the scalp a great deal of work every day for the they will exterminate all the Spanish poured into Cuba in enormous num ­ of the export trade. It is true thait the Bureau. Address Chamber of Commerce, Seat­ —very severe sometimes, but it can be tle, Wash. Spanish and the guerrillas in Havana columns daring to leave their fortified bers. Rigorous, vindictive, and in some exhaustion of her mines of Bessemer cured. Doan's Ointment, quick and and Matanazs provinces. Pinar del places and eventually invest them In cases barbarous edicts were Issued. The ore, the increased depth of her coal Prudence and industry are the best safeguards permanent in its results. At auy drug against bad luck. store, 50 cents. Rio province, the western extremity, Is the principal cities. royal troops vied with the rebels In mines and the fact that lumber and a Cuban stronghold. The Cubans there With a single dynamite gun of small ravaging the island, trade was re­ many other raw materials must all be To Care Constipation Forever, What's the secret of I happy, vigorous are as strong as In Santa Clara and Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. caliber, and with the 3,000 or 4,000 stricted, plantations were stripped of imported have much to do in handi­ If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggiaia refund money. health? Simply keeping>ing the bowels, hold the long and impregnable chain rifles received by him from several their laborers, and a policy of concen ­ capping England In competing for the the stomach, the liver and kidneys of mountains extending through the Ptso's Cure for Consumption is the best of all strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit­ small expeditions sent from the United trating the country people In and world ’s trade. It Is true, also, that the Cough cures.—George W. Lotz, Fubucher, La., ters does it. province. They do not allow the Span­ States, General Garcia has driven the around the towns was carried out with restrictions imposed by labor unions August 28, 1895. iards to get out of their towns. Gen­ Spaniards from the greater part of the unsparing severity, with suffering and factory legislation probably oper ­ The wicked are in the most danger when they Riches aro not an end of life, but an instru ­ erals Delgado and Ducasi are the prin­ and starvation in consequence, that (eel the safest. ment of life province of Santiago de Cuba. ate to some extent at least as an addi ­ cipal Cuban leaders In that province. Cuba’s Fixbtlnx Strength. have been simply appalling. Fighting tional handicap. But, besides these The result of this situation is that the It is a fact, which even Spanish diplo ­ went on in many places. Maeeo made c '.uses, there is also the ambition of One of Mrs. Pinkham’s Talks Spaniards cannot exist on the prod ­ macy will not dare to deny, that if, a brilliant campaign in Pinar del Rio other nations to develop their own re­ ucts of the country in any part of the Instead of hampering the Cubans the and gained victory after victory in a sources and supply their own needs — Concerning a Mother ’s Duty to Her Young Daughter. Together with a island. The country near the towns United States in their work of sending career of most extraordinary audacity, to achieve commercial as well as po ­ Chat with Miss Marie Johnson. was laid waste by General Weyler, and expeditions to the brethren; if, in­ crowned by his death. Aranguren, also litical independence. In the movement the gaunt specter of famine stalks all stead of prosecuting them in so drastic a martyr to the cause, with other now under way for the development at Thebalance wheel of a woman's life is menstruation. On the proper per­ over Cuba. The extermination of the a manner as was done during the ad ­ American export trade It Is well to formance of this function depends her health. peaceable Inhabitants by hunger is go­ ministration of Mr. Cleveland; If, in­ bear these facts In mind. We need not Irregularity lays the foundation of many diseases, and is in itself symptom ing on rapidly. All these facts are too stead of keeping, at enormous cost to expect to permanently supply Euro ­ of disease. It is of the greatest importance that regu ­ notorious to be denied at this time. The this country, the American navy and pean nations with all goods which their larity he accomplished as soon as possible after the flow reconcentrados. or non-combatants, the police watching the Cuban Junta own natural resources will permit them is an established fact. starve and die by thousands only be­ to make. Our automatic tools may for cause and its agents, the Cubans here had Disturbance of the menstrual function poisons the country, on which they ex­ been unmolested, the possibility which a time enable us to win a trade in cer­ the blood. In young girls suppression develops clusively depend, Is not producing food. now confronts us of an International tain lines, but European manufactur ­ latent inherited tendencies t9 scrofula or con ­ The insurgents keep zones of cultiva ­ tion of their own, where they raise war would not exist. The Cubans, ers will eventually buy the tools that sumption, and no time must he lost in restoring with no more than 40,000 men in the will enable them to make the machines regularity. Many a young girl goes to her grave field, and with all the odds against or products themselves. In the coun ­ because this difficulty has been thought lightly of, them, have proved in three years that tries of South America, Asia and Af­ and mother has said, '‘Time will bring about a they are more than a match for Spain rica, however, the building up of cure; she is young, I don ’t worry about her.” / -f BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY. W With a regular aqd ample supply of manufacturing industries will be a Mother, when you see your daughter languid war materials they can free their Island (This vessel will be launched March 24. at Newport News shipyard; Miss slower and longer task and such of and indifferent to things that usually interest a without any other help from abroad. their trade as we may secure we may young girl, when yqu note that flush on her cheek, Christine Bradley, daughter of Gov. that glassy appearance in her eyes; when your Cuban Army ’* Aid. Bradley of Kentucky, acting as spon ­ reasonably expect to hold for many daughter tells you that even the weight of her In a war between Spain and the sor.) year*. dress waist oppresses her, and that she has terri­ ra United States It Is beyond doubt that dashing leaders, repeatedly raided into Surface of the Sea. ble pains in her stomach shortly after eating, don ’t the whole Cuban army would be on the environs of Havana. The west, The surface of the sea is estimated ignore these signs 1 If you do, you will be follow ­ the American side. There la no doubt, ♦he center, and tfcu east of the Island at 150,000,000 square miles, taking the ing your daughter to the grave, for she will die 1 either, that we would give th. m all the witnessed Cuban prowess against an whole surface of the globe at 197,000,- This is gospel truth—she is developing consumption of the bowels 1 rifles, cartridges and cannon they need. enormous disparity of force, and while 000, and Its greatest depth supposedly Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the greatest regulator known CRUISER MINNEAPOLIS. They would then take care of the land (Floated Thursday from the dry dock the east was the most quiet it was equals the height of the highest moun ­ to medicine. Make haste to use it on the first appearance of the tell-tale operations. We would only need to largely In patriot hands. tain, four miles. The Pacific ocean symptoms ; it will restore all the female organs to theiruormal condition. In League Island navy yard, near blockade the Spaniards by sea and let Philadelphia.) Adianrr of Insurgent Cause.’ covers 78,000,000 square miles, the At­ Miss Marie Johnson's letter to Mrs. Pinkham, which follows, should inter­ them starve. Of course, the Spaniards The second anniversary of the revo ­ lantic 25,000,000 and the Mediterranean vegetables and store their cattle, but would make an attempt with their navy est all mothers and young ladies. She says : lution found it even more hopeful than 1,000,000. “My health became so poor that I had to leave they do not divide their provisions to break that blockade. The contest School. I was tired all tte time, and had dreadful pains with the non-combatanta, nor do they would then be only a naval one. But allow vegetables to be raised or cattle in my side and back. I would have the headache with their capital only eighty miles m so badly that everything would appear black be­ kept by any but themselves, because It from Key West, and sixty from Dry fore my eyes, and I could not go on with my Is their policy to prevent the Spanish Tortugas, which would probably be the studies. I was also troubled with irregularity of army from obtaining any kind of re­ center of our naval operations, Is it UMm -w. \ menses. I was very weak, and lost so much flesh sources In the country. reasonable to suppose that the Span­ that my friends became alarmed My mother, who Spanish Depend L'pon Import*. iards could relieve Havana either by Is a firm believer in your remedies from experi- The Spanish army, therefore, exclus­ stealth or by force? In a few days the ence, thought perhaps they might benefit me, f ' j"l ively depends upon the provisions im­ proud Spanish stronghold, with Its Ca­ and wrote you for advice. I followed the advice /a a 1, ’V ported from abroad. Rice, beans, and bana fortress and its Morro Castle, you gave, and used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable ^ ^ \ *1 flour they receive from Spain. Meat with its mined bay, and its tamous tor ­ Compound and Liver Pills as you directed, and am f Wta , * for the Inhabitants of the seaports they pedoes, would be at our mercy, and not now as well as I ever wax. I have gained flesh / * * * obtain from Mexico and Florida. The very much blood would be shed. KEY and have a good color I am completely cured of irregularity. Words cannot 150,000 Spaniards under arms exclusive ­ ‘r.r and express my gratitude, and I cannot thank you enough for your kind advice ly depend upon steamers loaded with THIRD l’KAR OF STRUGGLE. medicine.”—Miss Marik F. Johnson , Centralis, Pa. provisions from abroad that enter the 9 • Cuban ports. Not a potato comes into Cuba Began Her Present Effort for Ia- “THERE IS SCIENCE IN NEATNE88. ” the CKy of Havana from the country. dependenee Feb. 14, 1S9B. The milk Is almost all condensed and Feb. 24 was the third anniversary of BE WISE AND USE Imported from the United States. Eggs Cuba's struggle for Independence. It and vegetables are from Florida. And found the patriot cause, In spite not what Is still more Important, on ac­ only of Spain ’s predictions but of her count of the great financial distress In prodigious efforts, strong and buoyant MAP SHOWING WHERE SPANISH AND AMERICAN FLEETS ARE AS­ SAPOLIO Havana, the Importing merchants do with a well-founded confidence of spee- SEMBLED AND ASSE MBLING.—SEE KEY. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898

confidence is restored and we have pros ­ Dr. Timothy Baker Dead at Union City. KlLEY. The state game and fish warden of REPORT OF THE CONDITION The Independent. perity floating around in great big We glean the following facts concern ­ From Our Correspondent. Michigan announces as follows: “Any OK THK chunks. ing the recent death of Dr. Timothy Everyone is enjoying the beautiful line that Is set in any manner and that Baker, who was among the earliest sel­ sleighiug at present. O BO HOE 8. CO KBIT, Proprietor Great is the humbug—and Die Repub­ lers of St. Johns, from Robinson ’s is not held is evidently a set line. The PRANK B I)*WITT, I lican party is its prophet. Weekly, published at Union City, Mich., Jesse Granger is moving bis saw mill act that previously defined that floats, St Joins O.0LA1K STOCK, ( onto J. Sealer’s farm. underaateof February 26th, whlcbsays: bobs and tip-ups were not set lines has At Ht. Johns, Michigan, at the Hose of BRYAN’S TIMELY WARNING. “ Dr. Timothy Balter, meution of Charles Land is preparing to build a business, Feb. 18, 1898. whose serious riluess we made last week, new house this comiug summer. been repealed. This department now We invite our readers to ponder over takes the position that floats, bobs and RESOURCES. Democratic-Peoples-Union Sil­ died at bis home on Ellen street last Ashley Kimball, of Gratiot county, is Loans and discounts ...... $100,333 8-1 these timely and thoughtfut words of Sunday morning. The end came peace­ moving ibto II. G. Bliss’s tenant house. tip-ups are in their very nature set Stocks, bonds, mortgages ...... 49,288 4* ver Caucus. one of the most vigorous living repre­ fully and, surrounded by loving rela­ lines.” Overdrafts ...... 888 10 tives he passed quietly to the great be­ J. C. Flynn and M. T. Streeter, of St. Ranking house...... 8,500 00 sentatives of genuine Americanism: Johns, were at Forest Hill on business Furniture and fixtures...... 2,500 00 A Democratic-People ’s-Union Silver yond. In Dr. Baker’s death Uniou City Saturday. Other real estate...... 5.524 8 h “In my opinion we should be slow to loses one of her oldest aud most highly ROBATE ORDER—Slate or Michigan, Due from banks in reserve cities. 52,103 41 Caucus will be held at the Engine Room act in the Maine affair, especially under esteemed citizens, and the members of 8. II. Williams has added a stock of P County of Ciiulon, aa. At a aeaalon of the Checks and cash Items...... 184 34 Monday evening, March 7, 1898, at 7 the trying oircumstances which con ­ boots aud shoes to his stock of general Probate court for the County of Clinton, holden Nickelsat and cents...... 95 82 his family are called upon to mourn the the Probate office , In the village of St. John*, on Gold coin ...... 8.910 OO o ’clock, for the purpose of placing in front us. Another fact which in my departure of an affectionate and loving merchandise. Thursday, the 24tb day of February, in the yrai Silver coin ...... 1,883 00 mind impels us to exercise discretion is husband and father. Dr. Baker was The ladies ’ aid society will have a so­ one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. U. 8. and National bank notes.. 7,588 08 nomination candidates for the various that the official investigation of the ex­ cial at the home or Mrs. J. Q. Brooks, Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate, born in Seneca county, New York, Sep­ In the matter of the estate of JOHN SCRIVEN, Total ...... *243,337 3* village offices soon to Income vacant, plosion is now being made. The United tember 18,1818, his paternal lineage be­ Friday night, where they will dispose of deceased. * and for transacting of such other states cannot afford to be too hasty in ing of English origin and his maternal their quilt. Who will get the lucky On reading and filing tbr petition, duly verified, LIABILITIES. this matter. International questions ticket? of William Byrne, administrator of said estate, Capital stock paid In ...... * 50.000 00 business as may properly come before it. tracing to the Holland Dutch, who were praytuglhat he may be authorized and dt ecled to Suriilus fund ...... 5.113 11 The committee especially requests that are involved, and it would be a sad the first settlers on Long Island. He coDveytoS. A Simmon certain real estate pursu­ Undivided profits less current compliment to our government were we began the study of medicine in his early A rich vein of bituminous coal twenty ant to terms of land contract made by said John ex pelisses. Interest and taxes all sympathizers with the party turn out openly and maliciously to bring about youth, and came to Michigan in 1835, feet thick lias been discovered in Ing ­ Scriven, deceased, in his lifetime, for the sale of paid ...... 488 57 and see that a strong ticket is placed in strained relations by Our anxiety to lo ­ having been thereafter prominently ham township, Ingham county. The said lands to said Simmon. Commerclal deposits subject to cate the responsibility of the Maine dis ­ existence of the vein has been known Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the check...... 07,092 00 the fleld. Rodney A. Bkkhe , identified with important business en­ 17th day of March, A. D., 1898, at 1 o ’clock in Commercial certificates of de ­ aster. w terprises at Monroe and Jonesville, later for some time, but its richness was not the afternoon, he assigned for the heating of said posit ...... 54,821 74 O. P. Dk Witt, suspected. It is located directly on a petition, at the Probate Office in the village of St. Savings deposits ...... 35,890 82 “The proper policy in my mind is for locating at Detroit. From this city be Johns. J. 11. Corbit . the United States government to inves ­ went to St. Johns, and was one of the line with the proposed Lansing, Dexter Total ...... *248,887 38 and Aun Arbor Electric Railroad. And it is further ordered, that notice he given tigate the disaster carefully, and if the early settlers of that place, being con ­ to the persons Interested In said estate, of the STATE OF MICHIGAN.V hs evidence tends to attach the responsi ­ spicuously identified with the platting time site: place of said hearing by County or Clinton . I bility where the people assert it properly We are anxious to do a little good in causing a copy ol tnls order to be published in the I, J. W. Fitxgerald. cashier of the above of the town aud with its business inter­ Climtu X Imjkpkndkkt , a newspaper printed and r~ belongs is found, then will it be time ests. He was married in 1838 to Eliza­ this world and can think of no pleasant­ circulated In said county of Clinton, for three suc­ named bank, do solemnly swear that tbe er or better way to do it than by recom ­ cessive weeks previous to said day of hearing. above statement Is true to the best of m/ The Republican programme for such action to be taken. Politically beth Miller, who died in 1847, leaving kuowledge and belief or otherwise, the patriotism of the one daughter. Sarah E., who became mending One Minute Cough Cure as a CHARLES M. MERRILL, J. W. FITZGERALD, Cashier. now embraces three pernicious American people has never been ap­ the wife of Robert G. Hutchinson, a preveutativeof pneumonia, consumpt ­ (A true copy.) Judge of Probate. Subscribed and sworn to before me tbs pealed to in vain, but undue haste at ion and other serious lung troubles 1st day of March, 1898. locomotive engineer, and who died in RODNEY A. BEEBE. doctrines: this time might involve us in a disas ­ 1885 at Lansing. October 4, 1854, he that follow neglected colds. it OH ATE ORDER— State of Michigan Notary Public trous conflict for which there would be C E. VanSickle. County of > linion, as. At a session of tht 1. Foreign control of our was married to Sarah A. Hodge, who PProbate Court for Ihe county of Clinton holden at Correct —Attest: no sufficient cause.” survives him. He leaves two sous aud the Probate office, lu the village of St. Johns, on GEO. F. MARVIN, primary money. This is the advice and admonition one daughter —Frank W., Robert 11. aud Free Pills Wednesday, the 28d dav of February, In the year C S. ALLISON. Janet E , wife of W. D. Bennett. Mrs. Send your adre»s to II. E Bocklen A one thousand eight hundred and uinety-eight. PORTER K. PERRIN. which William J. Bryan addresses to Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. Directors, 2. National bank control of B. A. Ostrom (Elizabeth Hutchinson) a Co. Chicago, and get ii free sample box In the matter of Ihe estate of HIRAM NES- his countrymen in the critical conjunc ­ grand daughter by his first marriage, of Dr. Kings New Life Fills. A trial TELI-, deceased. our paper money. ture of events which has followed the resides at Louisville, Ky. will convince you ol their merits. These Edward Nested, executor of the last will and EPOKT OF THK CONDITION Dr. Baker had been a resident of tealamentof a.tld deceased, haviug made applica­ R 3. Trust control of the tax­ destruction of the battleship Maine in pills are easy in act! m and are particu­ tion for ihe allowance of his final account. -----OF THE----- the harbor of Havana. He has spoken Union City since 1875, and until a few larly effective in Ihe cure of Constipation Thereupon It la ordered, that Thursday, the ing power. years since was engaged in the practice and Sick Headache. For Malaria and 17th (lay of March, A. D 1898. at or.e with the wisdom and forethought of a of medicine here. He was a member of Liver troubles they l ava l*een proved o ’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the ex aininatinn ol said accouut, at the probate office, in State Savinas Ml of Fowler, Will the people submit? No. statesman. All intelligent and reason ­ the Masonic fraternity and prominent invaluable. They are guaraiited to be the Village of St.Johns. able people will weigh and heed his in the Episcopal Church, having been perfectly free from eyer y deleterious And ills furtherordered.that noticebeglven to AT FOWLER, MICH., —William J. Bryan. senior warden of Grace Church at the substance and to be purely vegetable. the persons Interested in said estate, of the words. They will wait for the conclu ­ time of his death. Personally he was time and place of aaid hearing by causing a copy At the Close of Business, Feb. 18, 1898. sions of the naval court of enquiry be­ They do not weaken by iheir action, but of tbia order to be published in the most kind of heart, affable and cour ­ by giving tone to stomach and bowels Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed and RESOURCES. fore accusing the Spanish officials with teous —a typical old school gentleman — greatly invigorate the system. Regular circulated iu said county of Clinton for three and his sterling qualities of mind and successive weeks previous to said day of hearing. Loans and discounts- ...... £39,040 71 treachery or indulging in inflammatory size 25c. per box. Sold by Fildew & CHARLES M. M Kit KILL, Stocks, bonds, and mortgages ...... 33 324 76 heart had endeared to him very many (Atruecopy.) Judge ol Probat'. Overdrafts...... 1,108 MS war talk. There is no reason to doubt friends. Millman. Druggist. 4 Furniture and fixtures...... 803 13 the thoroughness or impartiality of that Funeral services were held at Grace Due from banks in reserve cities...... 12.929 tU Today all the trusts, all the Checks and cash items...... a 25 96 court. It may be taken for granted that Church on Tuesday afternoon . coirauct- Nickels aud cents...... 31 77 monopolies, every agent which its findings will place the responsibility ed by Rev. F. A Chapman, anil the mor ­ CONSULTATION and EXAMINATION FREE and Strictly Confidential Gold coin ...... 1,220 Oil tal remains laid to rest m Riverside Silver coin ...... :,31 Ol for the blowing up of the Maine where U. S. and National Bank Notes ...... 6,384 90 § is bleeding the country, has cemetery. it justly belongs. Notwithstanding the ------—^------1DT2S. IB., S. CO. Total ...... *95,259 71 • taken refuge under the wing lurid reports which are printed in the What pleasure is there in life with a The Celebrated Speciali-ris of the LIABILITIES. § of the Republican party be- yellow journals iegarding the discover ­ Capital stock paid in ...... *15,000 (10 headache, constipation and biliousness? Surplus fuud ...... 1,100 (X) ies being made by the divers, there is Thousands experience them who could Undivided profits less current expenses, f cause they fear the Democratic absolutely no reason why anyone should American Medical and Surgical Institute of interest and taxes paid ...... 488 42 become perfectly healthy by using De- Commercial deposits subject to check...... 12,987 74 ? party, which has kicked them get excited. It is imperitive that the Witt’s Little Early Risers, the famous Muskegon, Mich., will be at Commercial certificates ol deposit ...... 56,560 Oh Savings deposits ...... 9.145 50 | out. —Extract from Gov. Pin- official investigation should proceed de ­ little pills. C. E. VanSickle. liberately to its conclusion. The gov­ Total ...... *95.259 Ti f gree ’s Buffalo speech. ernment may be depended on to act The Steel Hotel, St. Johns, Slate ol Michigan, County of Clinton, ss :—C, The Gulden Secret of Long Life. W. U. Snelling,cashier of the above named bank, do $ with the decision and promptitude be­ Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the solemnly swear that tbe above statement is true to coming the occasion when that conclu ­ bowela open. Bacon ’s Celefy King for the tbe nest of my knowledge and belief. Nerves Is a Vegetable preparation aud acts as 4V. H. SNELLING, Cashier sion is made known to it; but until the a natural laxatlveand Is tn e greatest remedy Wednesday, March 23, 1898. Subscribed and sworn to before ine this 28th ds,* of February, 189*. JOHN G. PATTERSON, GREAT IS HUMBUG. government is put in possession of the ever discovered for the Cure of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, and all Blood, Liver und Office Hours from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. One dny only each month Notary Public. *' The goverment shows a revenue defic ­ information with which the naval court Kidney Diseases. Call on C. E. VanSickle, sole Correct —Attest: agent, and get a trial package free. Large FRANK GRULER, iency of over $00,000,000 since the Ding- of iuquiry alone can furnish it, there is sizes 50c and 25c. 2 C. GRULES, FREDERICK SCHEMER. ley bill. This is a greater deficiency no call or justification for public excite- Directors for any entire year under the Wilson meut or impatience, no matter what The True Remedy. bill and eight millions greater than the may be the result of the investigation. W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, III. TYKl’ORT OF THE CONDITION deficiency during the last two years of We can afford to wait. The honor and ‘Chief,” says: “We won ’t keep house the operation of that law. dignity of the nation will be vindicated without Dr. King ’s New Discovery for , OF THE Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Experi­ We are in no wise troubled over this in any event. —Lansing Journal. mented with many others, but never got deficiency. There is money enough in the true remedy until we used Dr. King ’s Clinton County Savinas Bant FRANCIS E. WILLARD. AT ST. JOHNS, MICH. the treasuary to run the country for a New Diecovery. No other remedy can At the close of business, Feb. 18, 1898. considerable time even if the deficiency Francis E Willard, the world-famous take its place in our home, as in it we leader of the cause of temperance, and have a certain and sure cure for Coughs, RESOURCES. continues. The deficiency is causing the Colds, Whooping Cough, etc.” It is idle Loans and discounts ...... * 59,423 77 government to pay the money that is President of the Women ’s Christian StocKS, bonds and mortgages ...... 101.378 5*i to experiment with other remedies, even Due from banks in reserve cities...... 49,425 78 hoarded in the treasury and is thus get ­ Temperance Union, died at New York if they are urged on you as just as good Checks and other cash items...... 31 72 last Friday morning, after an illness of Nickles and cents ...... ** ting it in circulation. as Dr! Kieg ’s New Discovery. They are Gold coin ...... 8,020 08 But the situation is amusing. three weeks. Miss Willard was born in not as good, because this remedy bat i Silver coin ...... 2,088 43 Churcbville, N. Y., September 1839. recotd of cares and besides is guaranteed U. S. and National Hank Notea...... 3,298 01 During the campaigu of ’90 the Repub­ It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles lican party howled about ilie “defi ­ She was graduated at Northwestern free at Fildew & Millman ’s Drug Store, St. Total ...... *221,692 00 ciency.” Female College, Evanston, Ill-, in 1859, Johns. 4 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in ...... * 35,081) 03 They said all our fiancial troubles became professor of natural science Surplus fund ...... 7,000 08 were due to the “deficiency.” there in 1882, and was principal of Gen­ Undivided profits less current ex­ KPOKT OF THE CONDITION penses, interest and taxes paid .. 8,458 38 They said the want of confidence was esee Wesleyan Seminary in 1888- ’67 R Savings deposits ...... 186,581 06 due to the “deficiency. ” Miss Willard, in 1874, identified herself -----OF------Savings certificates of deposit ...... 8.602 48 They said the drain on the gold re­ with the Women ’s Christian Temper­ Total ...... >221,523 00 ance Union, being corresponding secre­ The St. Johns National Bank, % serve was due to the “deficiency. ” AT ST. JOHNS, MICH. State of Michigan, County of Clinton, as: f, They said that matters would never tary until 1879, when she became presi­ P. K. Walswortb, Treasurer of the above At the close of business. Feb 18, 1897. named bank, do solemnly swear that tb» get any better till we stopped the “defi ­ dent of the national organization. She above statement Is true to ihe best of tuy RESOURCES. knowledge and Itelief. ciency.” organized the home protection move­ Loans and discounts ...... $ 101,010 89 P. E. WALSWORTH. ment, and sent an appeal from nearly Overdrafts, secured and unsecured.. 385 85 Treasurer . At that time the “deficiency ” was U. 8. bonds to secure circulation ...... 85.000 00 Subscribed ami sworn to before ine, this lot averaging about two millions a mouth. 2(iu,(i00 people to the legislature of llli Premiums on U. 8. bonds ...... 2,500 00 day of March, 1898. nois, asking for the temperance ballot Stocks, securities, etc...... 30,100 00 A. E. WILSON. They said that no other party but the Banking-house, furniture, & fixtures. 0,500 00 Notary Public. Republican knew how to construct a for women. Other real estate and mortgages ____ Correct —Attest: owned ...... 5,698 37 ALBERT J BALDWIN. tariff bill so that it would yield suffic­ Upon the death of her brother, Oliver Due from National Banks ;not Re C. C. VAUGHAN. A. Willard, in 1879, she succeeded him serve Agents) ...... 715 37 G. PENNELL. ient revenue. Due from state banks and bankers.... 1.809 50 Direeto't. They said that the first thing to be as editor of the Chicago Evening 1‘ost Due from approved reserve agents. . ,102,68.> 08 In 1882 she became a member of the Checks and other cash items...... 68 61 done was to restore confidence and bring Notes of other National banks ...... 28:1 00 ROBATE ORDER.—State of Michigan prosperity was to enact a tariff bill that executive committee of the Prohibition Fractional paper currency, nitkles, county of Clinton, ss. At a session of the and cents ...... • ••• 2,“ 88 PProbate Court tor the county of Clinton holden at would furnish sufficient reveuue. party, and in 1888 accepted the leader ­ Lawful money reserved in bank, viz: the Probate Office, in tbe village of St. Johns, oc So all winter Mr. Dingley and his com­ ship of the White Cross movement, Specie...... >14,625 00 HE Saturday, the28ib day of February, in the year one Legal tender notes ...... 2,000 0O CURES AFTER OTHERS FAIL. thousand eight hundred and ninty eight. mittee were at work preparing a tariff which resulted in legal enactments for The Most Successful and Scientific Treatment of All Diseases and Weak­ Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasu- In the matter of the estate of JOHN GAL- bill which would provide a sufficient the protection of women in a large num ­ rer (5 per cent of circulation) ...... 1.1>«> nesses of Mankind Possible to Obtain. LAG H ER. deceased . revenue so that the new' congress would ber of states. On reading and filing tbe petition, duly verified . Total ...... * 296,810 05 Themost widely and fa vfrably known Specialist In the United State*. Hia long expert of Robert VTGallagher, praying that tbe last wiL not be delayed by preparing its own ence, remarkable hriii and universal aucoeas In the largest hospitals In the world enables and testament of said deceased may be proved If the holders of Spanish-Cuban bonds LIABILITIES. hlrn to treat all CHRONIC, NERVOUS,'SKIN and BI/OOD Diseases upon tbe lausal scien and admitted to probate and that Margaret Gal­ bill. Capital stock paid in ...... $ 75,000 00 title principles, and entitles him to tbe full confidence of the afflicted everywhere. lagher or some other suitable peraon may be ap­ And as soon as the president was seat­ could some how be provided for and Surplus fund ...... 10,750 00 It I) fITTM AM has no superior In diagnosing and treating diseases and de- pointed executor of said estate. satisfied there is no longer a doubt that Undivided profits, less expenses and LesAv O l A i’kiVIN fortuities. Medical ana Surgical Diseases, Acute and Chronic Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the 24H ed he called an extraordinary session of taxes paid ...... 1,238 27 Catarrh, Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Lungs, Dyspepsia, Bright's Disease, day ot March A. D , 1H9H, at one o ’clock congress so that ttie only party that our government would speedily put a National bank notes outstanding ...... 22,500 00 Diabetes. Kidney, Liver, Bladder. Cbfonlc Female and Sexual Diseases speedily cured by lnthealternoon.be assigned for tbe hearing of Due to State Banks and bankers...... 2.788 28 treatment that lias never failed In thousands of cases that had been pronounced beyond said petition, and that the heirs at law and knows anything about tariff schedules stop to the barbarities of which Spain is Individual deposit subject to check...112,232 42 hope. Many people meet death every year who might have been restored to perfect health legatees of said deceased and all other persons guilty of iu Cuba. We really do sympa­ Demand certificates of deposit ...... 66,927 92 had they placed their cases in the hands of experts. interested In said will are required to appear at a could prepare a bill that would bring Time certificates of deposit ...... 5,393 18 IMPORTANT TO LADXBS.-DR session of said Court then to be holden at the sufficient revenue, restore confidence thise with a struggling people striving the greatest cure known for all diseases pcecullar to the sex. Female diseases positively Probate Office, in tbe Village of St. Johns, and for a free government but monetary in­ Total ...... ». *298,810 05 by the new remedy, OLIVE BLOSSOM. The cure is effected______by home treatment. Entirely show cause, if any there be, why the will should and bring prosperity. State of Michigan, county of Clinton, ss. harmless and easily applied. Consultation Free and StrictlyStrict! Confidential. not lie approved. At that time the “deficiency ” under terests, my boy. are paramount. I, P. E. Walswortb, Cashier of the above named DR. OTTMAN operates successfully and DEAFNESS. I cure 90 per cent, of all And it is further ordered, that notice be glvea bank, do solemnly swear that the above state­ painlessly for squint eyes, pterygium, iridec ­ cases. Many cases cured in one treatment. to the persons interested in said estate, of tbe pea the Wilson bill was averaging about dency and the hearing thereof, by causing a copy The world has passed through vari ­ ment Is true to the best of my knowledge and tomy, turning in or out of eye lashes or lids, DISCHARGING BARS cured in every one and a half million a month. belief. P. E. WALSWOKTH, closure of tear duct and all other eye opera ­ of this order to be published in tbe Ct-ntTO*' ous ages according to history and myth. Cashier. tions. CATARRH OP THE NOSE, bronchitis Iff dbpkndknt , Ja newspaper printed aud And the congress of the only party CHRONIC SORB EVBS and granu ­ and lung troubles, caused from catarrh, posi ­ circulated in said county ol Clinton for three sun The golden age, the age of stone, of Subscribed and sworn to, before me this lated lids quickly cured. tively cured. cessi ve weeks previous to said day of hearing. which knew anything about tariff sche­ copper, of bronze. At present we seem 1st day of March, 1898. A CERTAIN AND POSITIVE CURE CHARLES M. MERRILL. A. E WILSON, for the awful effects of early vice and tbe TO YOUNG AND MIDDLE- Atruecopy Judge of Probate. dules prepared a bill to provide suffic­ to be living in the bond-age. Notary PubUo. numerous evils that follow in its train. Corrkct —Attest: PRIVATE BLOOD AND SKIN ient revenue, restore confidence and W. BUNDAT, AGED MEN. DISEASES speedily, completely and per­ DMINISTRATOR’S SALK.—NOTICE bring prosperity. C. C. VAUGHAN. manently cured. EUREKA! *EUREKA! O. PENNELL. hereby given that by virtue and in pun And that perfect bill, prepared for the Director). NERVOUS DEBILITY AND SEX- A SURE CURE. VSL'w&f'Slsl???. Aauceol license and authority granted to me t UAL DISORDERS yield rapidly to hia ganlc weakness, destroying both mind and undersigned,on tbe 23d day ofjuly. 1897, by t purpose of providing sufficient revenue skillful treatment. body, with all it* dreadful ills, permanently Probate Court of Clinton County, State of MicJ A Thing of Beauty and Utility U a Joy PILES, FISTULA AND RECTAL cured. an, to sell real estate belonging to tbe estate by the only party that knew anything of ORTGAGE 8ALE. —Default having been Forever —Until Destroyed by Fire, ULCERS guaranteed cured without pain or fohn Scriven. deceased, I will sell at public ai tariff schedules, has been in operation a M made in the conditions of a mortgage exe­ detention from business. DR. OTTMAN tion.to the highest bidder.on the Eighteenth l>< The circuit court room, which has cuted by Cornelia Barker Briggs, Clark II. Barker, SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, OLBET, paired themselves by improper Indulgence of March, A. D 189H, at 10 o ’clock in tbe f* little over six months. Ellen Barker. Hattie E. Bird and Samuel A. Bar­ Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness, Lost and solitary habits, which ruin both mind noon, at the office of the Judge of Probate, In t And the deficiency has averaged a beeu made dingy and unsightly by the ker to Bertram Glffels, dated December 18, 1895, Manhood, Night Emissions, Decayed Facul­ and body, unfitting them for business, atudy, Court House at St. Johns, Michigan, the follow! smoke from the coal stoves, and danger ­ and recorded February 6,1898, in the office of ti e ties, Female Weakness and all delicate dis ­ society or marriage. described premises, vit.: All that portion of t little over eight million a month ever ous from the frequent falling of large Register of Deed* In Clinton County, in Michigan, orders peculiar to either sex, positively cured, MARRIED MEN, or those entering on aoulbeast quarter of the southeast quarter of • sections of plaster from the ceiling, In Liber 88 of mortgage*, on page 408, on wbicb as well a* functional disorders that reanlt that happy life, aware of physical debTlity, lion seven. In township seven north of range t since. mortgage there la claimed to be aue at the date of from youthful follies or the excess of mature quickly assisted. west, in Michigan, lying south of tbe Ivtn More than five times as much as it caused by an impertect and leaking tht* notice, ten hundred and aeventy-flve dollar* year*. WB GUARANTEE TO CURB Nervoua Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Compan roof, is now being made beautiful and and forty-one centa, be-ldea an attorney fee of _ SPECIALTIES: Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Debility, Falling Manhood, Syphilla, Varico ­ land: thesouthwest quarter of the southeast qn was under the Wilson bill at the time thirty-five dollars, stipulated in said mortgage to Sores, Pimples, Scrofula. Blood Taints, safe by the addition of a new and sub­ cele, Stricture, Gleet, Unnatural Discharge* ter of said section, excepting that portion owe it was revealed. be paid, *hould any proceeding* be taken to fore ­ Ecxema, Cancer, Piles and Diseases of Women Weak Parta and all Kidney and Bladder by said Railway Company; five and one-half act stantial embossed steel ceiling, which close said mortgage: and no auit or proceeding at Quickly and Permanently Cured by the latest Diseases. of land off the east end vf the south half of I Four times as much as it was under will render it safe for those there assem­ law, or in equity, having been Instituted to re­ approved treatment as pursued by leading BVCases and correspondence confidential, southwest quarter of said section, lying aouth cover »ny part ol the debt secured by said mort ­ specialists of America and Europe. but personal consultation preferred. the Wilson bill during the previous bled from time to time, and pleasing to gage; therefore, by virtue of the power of sale to said Hallway Company's land; the east half of I the sight. The building will never re­ EXAMINATION OP THE URINE.—Eachperaon apptyin gfor medical treat- northwest fractional quarter of section eighlei year! aatd mortgage contained, and or the statute In ment should send or bring from 2 to 4 ounces of urine (that passed rfrat iun the___„ morning pre-„,c. In said township; the south half of the south w quire another one unless it should be such case made and provided, notice la hereby ferred), which will receive a careful chemical and microscopical examination, and if requested quarter aud the northeast quarter of the soul More than double what it was under destroyed by fire through the agency of given that on March 19, 1 SOS, at one o ’clock In a>written analysis will be given. Persona ruined In health bjr unlearned pretenders, who weat quarter of section twenty-three. In said toe the present system of heating—by dan ­ the afternoon, at the west front door of the court ­ keep trifling with them month after month, giving toiaonona and injurious compounds, should ship; lot two of block six of said village of the Wilson bill during the worst year house for Clinton County, In Michigan, in the vil ­ applv Immediately. Delava are dangerous. gerous and expensive coal stoves. lage of St. Johns, In said county, there will be sold Johns; lot three block Aftyeix, In said village But the Republican party is the only at public vendue, to the highest bidder, tbe prem­ WDNnPRFIII RIIRPQ Perfected In old caae* which have been neglected or unakillfully 3t. Johns.—Dated February 3d, 1898. party thatknows anything about tariff VTUHULnrUL ounce treated. No experiments or failures. Parties treated by mat t WILLIAM BYRNE, ises descr.bed In said mortgage, vis: The west sixty or express, but where possible, personal conaultation i* preferred. Curable cases guaranteed. Administrator of the estate of John Scriven Try us for that next job of Print acres of tbe w« at half of the northeast quarter of r W’C'aae* and correspondence confidential. Treatment sent C. O. D. to any part of U. 3. ceased. schedules. section nine, In township six north, of range one And though they said that the deficit ing. west, In Michigan.-Dated December 21, »8»7. -let of 180 questions free. Address, wltb postage, BERTRAM GIFFELS, Mortgagee. of two million a month was the cause of The Independent and Detroit Free Picitxiirs A Bsldwim , ottman 255 E. Broad st.. Columbus. 0. Get your AUCTION HILLS prl all the hard times, they now tell us that Press, one year, $1.50. Attorneys for Mortgagee. Dr. B. E. , *at The Independent Office. CLINTON INDEPENDENT THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1898.

Awarded Ueyml mmkea the /bod pure, MUST GIVE UP PROPERTY. wholeeome mad delieiemm. highest Honors —World's Fair, FREE CONSULTATION Dr F. B. Monroe, Tax Title Men Who gave $10 for Property —BY— WILL bB AT Worth $40,000, Must Return It DR; OFFICIAL. to the State. Steel Hotel, Thursday, Mar. 17. Common Council Rooms , ) On February 11, the auditor-general St. Johns , Mich., Feb. 84,1898. j issued to Martin J. Smith and Dr. Dim- Regular adjourned meeting. ond, of Haslett Park, a tax deed for pro ­ Called to order by President Leland. perty owned by the state valued at $40,- Present Trustees Cross, Danly, Hunt, Ken­ 000. The tax title dealers paid $10 for It. yon, Miilman, Tromp and President Leland. The property is in the heart of the busi­ The Committee on Ordinance reported and ness section of Lansing, and is occu­ reccommended thaOhe following ordinance be w CREAM pied for business purposes, the state re­ passed by the Council. ceiving a handsome rental for It. An ordinance authorizing the Lansing, St It appears that in 1894 a special assess­ Johns and St lx>uls Railway Company to ment for a sidewalk was made against construct sod maintain a street railway In the the property. The tax was not paid Village of St. Johns. BAKING and the property was returned as delin ­ quent. A year ago the auditor-general Section 1. The Village of St. Johns hereby included the decrifikms in his peti­ ordains that authority and power are hereby tions for a decree orsale of all deliqueut granted unto the I.ansing, St. Johns and St Louis Railway Company, its successors or POWDER property in this county. A decree was taken and subsequently the property assigns to construct, own, maintain and operate MOST PERFECT MADE. was bid off by the gentlemen named, a street railway, subject to the provisions of A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free who were given a tax deed by the state this ordinance, In and out of said Village of from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, St Johns upon the following named streets POWDER itself, and this deed has been duly re­ 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Absolutely Pure corded. and public thonyjghiares of said village, to- It has been discovered that two errors wit: Entering the Ivillage on Lansing street were made in the descriptions by the lo ­ south and running thence north to the inter ­ sUuctlon thereof shall be determined by tbe section of Hurd street with Lansing street. council. cal assessor, so that it will not be neces- Y REA80N OF REPEATED REQUESTS I for thestate to apply to the courts to set From this point either of three routes Is per­ Section XIV. All the work of construction dr . McDonald B have decided to vUlt St. Jobas once in live the sale aside on the ground that the mitted be used to reach the head of Clinton of said railway and the manner of construction weeks, aud will be at the private parlor of The Avenue, viz: First, east on Hutd street to shall be under the supervision and control of THE SPECIALIST. Steel Hotel, where I can he consulted free upon sll state property is exempt from taxation. caaca. Everything confidential. All are requested All that need be done is to apply for a Trowbridge street, thence north on Trowbridge the council of said village or of some person ap­ to bring two ounce* of urine. Charges moderate, KOVAL KAKMM FOWMS 00., MW VOKK. certiticate of error and it will be issued street to Cass street, thence east on Cass street pointed by it.whose compensation shall be paid and no Incurable caaea taken. I always make dis ­ by the auditor-general. The tax title to Maple avenue, thence north on Maple by said grantees, and said council or such per­ OFFICE PAKLOR8 AT THE ease* of women and children a specialty, also chronic dlaeaios. I have disposed of iny local busi­ men will get their money back. avenue to State street, thence east on State son so appointed by it. shall have tbe power ness iu order to take tbe road, expresaly for the street to the head of Clinton Avenue; second, to stop all work on said railway at any; time HOTEL STEEL, benefit of chronic sufferers. Come and see me. It BREVITIES. beginning at the intersection ,oi Hurd street when be or 1C* hall think best and said work costs you nC ’thing. All medicines famished are PERSONAL. and Lansing street, thence north on LansiDg shall not be resumed until all tbe work a'ready purely vegetable —-oots, herbs and barks. Corree- Hear Dr. Dawe on Wycliffe next S°nudeuce solicited before my visit if possible. Ad- street to Baldwin street, thence east on done on said railway within said village ahall ST. JOHNS. me at 448 Cue St., Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. John Outcalt is dangerously ill. Tuesday night. Baldwin street to Ottawa street, thence north be made to comply with the directions of the Jay Harper returned from Jackson last Sat­ -ON- CASES I CURE. The Daughters of liebekah spent Sat­ on Ottawa street to Casa street, thence east on council or the person so appointed by It as urday evening with Mrs. H. A Sage. urday. Cass street to Maple avenue, thence north on above provided. Any refusal or neglect Ion Dyspepsia, All Sexual Diseases, Wm J. Mull, of this village, has l»een Father Auer, of the Catholic church, was Rheumatism, Heart Disease, Maple avenue to State street, thence east on the part of the grantees or their successors or Indigestion, Consumption In its granted an increase of pension of to in Ovid yesterday. Thursday, March 10th. State street to the bead.of Clinton AveDoe; assigns to comply with this section shall work Fits, Early Stages. $8. Miss Catherine Carland. of Corunna. Is visit ­ Piles, Bronchitis, The Lady Maccabees are “buzzing ” third, beginning at the intersection of Hurd an immediate forfeiture of this franchise. ONE DAY ONLY EACH MONTH. Neuralgia, Ho re Eyes. ing friends in St. Johns. street and Lansing street and running thence at Lady Esther Sheldons this afternoon Louis Severance was engaged In legal busi­ Section XV. The council of said village OFFICE HOURS 9 A. M to 9 P. M. All Nervous Diseasee, Urinary Troubles, ao4 evening. north on Lansing street to State street, thence shall have the right to amend this ordinance at Costlveneas, lost Manhood, ness at Lansing Monday. east on State street to the head of Clinton Fevers and Results, Kidney and Liver Subject of the Epworth League next Mrs. 8. J. Jones la spending a couple of any time as they ahall see fit, so long as such Blood Diseases, Complaints, Sunday evening is “Directed to Person ­ Avenue. , amendments shall not conflict with the pro ­ Consultation And Ex­ And all Chronic Diseases. weeks at her home In Nunica. From the head of Clinton Avenue the route By ray new process through the blood I examine al Work, ” leader. Miss Barrington. Mike Fedewa, of Fowler, waa transacting visions of this ordinance. About a dozen young people attended shall run north to Gibbs street. From this all diseases through tbe blood, treat all through business in St. Johns Tuesday. Section XVI. The rate of speed for the the blood, an! cure all I pronounce curable through a partv and sleigh ride to the home of point threeroutes are permitted to be used to sunning of cars on said railway on Clinton aminations Free. the blood direct. Miss Oral Casterline last Monday even ­ Mlsa Nina Clark Is visiting relatives and reach the northern boundary of the village on DR. F. B. MONROE. friends in Fairfield and Elate tbia week. Avenue from State street to the Detroit, Grand ing. Lansing street, viz: Beginning at the iuter- Haven and Milwaukee railroad shall not ex­ Dr. McDonald has for years made a The Ladies ’ Aid Society of the Baptist Prosecuting Attorney Walbtidge was in El­ section of Gibbs street and Clinton Avenue, sie Tuesday on business pertaining to hla ceed six miles per hour, and at all other places study and specialty of chronic and lin­ church, meet Wednesday afternoon of thence north to the section line between sec­ in said village shall not exceed ten miles per gering diseases that require skillful next week. March 9, at the home of Mrs. office. tions nine and four In Bingham township in medical treatment for their cure. Bnch E. I. Hobart. Hoy Bell and Marlon Burnett, of Maple hour, but this provision shall not be construed case Clinton Avenue shall hereafter be opened to waive in any way the obligation of tbe cases as family physicians fail to help The first lecture of the Union course Rapids, spent Sunday with friends in »L before the construction of the railway, thence and pronounce incurable are particularly next. Tuesday evening will be bv Dr. Johns. grantees, their successors and assigns and weston said section line to Lansing street; their agents, to at all times use due care In the solicited, especially thoae overdosed with VITALOZONE DaWe, of Saginaw, instead of Dr. Pllls- Miss Josephine Martin, of the Fowler school, second, beginning at the same point, thence strong mineral drugs and poisons Dr. burv. as announced last week. spent Wednesday in St. Johns, visiting the running of its cars and in the rate of speed em­ The Best Pint of999...... Wm. Bird, of Duplain township, has north on Clinton Avenue to Floral Avenue, ployed. McDonald uses ooly the purest medicines schools. thence west on Floral avenue to Lansing from the vegetable kiugdom. He pays bought the old Nelson Griswold place, Eli Seifert, of this village, and John F. Ros- Section XVII. No mote than five cents in the World. corner or Clinton avenue and Lewis street, thence north on Lansing street to the attention to tbe cause of the disease and sow, of Fowler, went to Detroit on business northern boundary of the village; third, be­ Bhall be charged for a single fare for one per­ street, and will become a resident of son from any portion of *a!d village to any instructs his patients the way to health OOc a Bottle. Every Bottle Guaranteed last Monday. ginning at the same point, thence-test on and liappiues-. Dr. McDonald can show St. Johns. Eugene and • Ross Allen, Nettle and Emma other portion thereof. or Honey Refunded. E. P. Waldron, chairman of the Mich­ Gibbs street to Lansing street, thence north on hundreds of testimonials in the hand Whittaker, of Elsie, visited at O. C. Clark's Lansing street to the northern boundary of the By Trustee Danly. igan Commercial Travelers ’ Associa ­ Resolved that an ordinance authorizing tbe writing of grateful patients who have last Sunday. village. tion, has been chosen a member of the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway been cured by him when others failed. Michael Spitzley, one of the solid men of Section II. Said railway to built by said RESTORES LOST VITALITY. advisory committee of the State league Company to contruct and maintain a street He is so familiar with the human system Cures Dyspepsia, Constipation, Liver and Kid ­ Westphalia, was transacting business in our company shall be oi atandard guage and shall of Republican Clubs. railway in the Village of St. Johns be and the that he is able to read all diseases of tbe ney Diseases. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, village last Tuesday. have the necessary tracks and turnouts and Sick and Nervous Headache, La Dr. E. W. Rvan. Ypsilanti, Mich., same la hereby approved by this council. mind or body correctly at a glance with­ says: “ It is sufficient to say, the lecture Mrs. Lillie Mathews, or Flint, a cousin of said tracks and turnouts shall be made and Grippe, 8kin Eruptions, Carried out asking any questions. Thousands of etc. of Dr. Dawe at our church last evening Mr. H. V. Hughes, spent last Monday here vis ­ maintained in such portion of the streets and Yeas. Trustees Cross Danly, Kenyon, Mill- invalids are being treated daily fur was magnificent, and more than met ing our public schools. public thoroughfares as the council shall direct. man, Tromp. diseases that they do not have, while a the high expectations of our people. ” Miss Maud bloat was summoned to her Section HI. Said railway company sball, Thousands Can Testify to the Curative Nays 0. few drops of medicine directed to the The Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis home In Chicago, Tuesday, In consequence of at its own expense, provide and keep in repair Properties of This Medicine. Tbe clerk presented and read a notice and seat of the disease would give speedy re­ railroad company were granted a 30- the severe illness of her sister. at all times such substantial and permanent, claim by J. A. Beadle for damage* sustained lief, and permanent cure in a very short year franchise at the meeting of thevil ­ Chas. Williams, of Grand Ledge, has been approaches to Its tracks and all street crossings by reason of his horse falling upon tbe ice at time. Good health is the most precious HEADQUARTERS FOR ST JOHNS AT THE lage council last Thursday evening. We spending a few day with her parents, Mr. and and streets that teams and persons on foot shall the intersection of Higham and SprlDg street. jewel in our crown of happiness. With HOTEL ST. JOHNS. give the ordinance in full in another Mrs. Jacob Williams, in this village. be able to cross such tracks conveniently at all The notice was ordered placed on file and the it the world is bright; without it, misery column. Win H. Freeman, who had spent neatly two times. claim was referred to the Committee on Claims. claims us for her own. If you are a Bishop Harris’ Guild will offer for years with hla son In Steuben couuty, N. Y . Section IV. The rails shall be laid on said On rnotionlcouncil adjourned. sufferer you should weigh these words: r.AAA AA AA A A A A AA AA A aale from Fowler & Ball’s show window, returned to SC Johns last Tuesday. track or tracks in such manner as shall least

manity; wears our woes, and while Lastly: Consider the shepherd’s fold. TALMAGE’S SERMON. earth and heaven and hell stand The time of sheep shearing was a very THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Royal Tea amased at the abnegation,wraps around glad time. The neighbors gathered to ­ A Paragraphic Chronicle of the Acts of him the shepherd’s plaid. gether. and they poured wine and th# Nation ’* Lawmaker*. “THE GOOD SHEPHERD" LAST LESSON X., MARCH O—MATT. I2l danced for Joy. The sheep were put A sweeping reduction of over $8,000,- SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. “Cold mountains and the midnight air, 1-13—THE SABBATH. Aids Witnessed t&e fervor of his prayer. ” in a place inclosed by a wall, where it 000 from the amount carried by the was very easy to count them and know current law is made in the sundry civil Digestion From the Text, Pialmt, Chapter XXIII. Next I mention theshepherd ’s crook. whether any of them had been taken Golden Text: **Tbe Son of Man Is Lord appropriation bill reported to the Verse 1 aa Follows: “The Lord Is My This was a rod with a curve at the end, by the jackals or dogs. The inclosure Bren of tbe Sebbnth D»jr"—Mntt. 1(1 House, the aggregate appropriation and Shepherd’’ — The Battle Between which, when a sheep was going astray, was called the sheep-fold. Good news S—Suggestion* to Teachers—Timely carried being $44,749,893. The total is was thrown over its neck; and in that I have to tell you, in that our Lord the Wealth and Poverty. ■Explanations. $13,234,541 less than the regular and Purifies way it was pulled back. When the Shepherd has a sheep-told, and those supplemental official estimates made for sheep were not going astray, the shep­ who are gathered in it shall never be the The section so far as related to the Sab­ the fiscal year 1899 and $8,861,890 less HAT with post and herd would often use It as a sort of struck by the storm, shall never be bath question, Includes only the verses than the appropriations made for the Blood. rail fences, and our crutch, leaning on It; but when the touched by the jackals of temptation of the lesson, and the parallels. But the current fiscal year. A reduction of sheep were out of the way, the crook and trouble. It has a high wall—so thread of opposition to Christ runs $5,367,899 is made in the appropriation pride in bouth> through the whole chapter. The lesson down, Astrakhan was always busy pulling them back. high that no troubles can get in—so for river and harbor work and this All we, like sheep, have gone astray, high that the joys can not get out. How Is only one Instance of a series of events Nothing Is so rMential to thehealth of and Flemish \arle- showing the different kinds of opposition greatly affects MichAin. the household as a good family remedy ties of sheep, there and had it not been for the shepherd s glad the old sheep will be to find the Jesus had to meet and overcome. Congressman Ilennerson, of Iowa, for stomach disorders, Impaired diges- Is no use now of crook, we would have fallen long ago lambs that left them a good many years Suggestions to Teachers. It may be well has introduced a bill to revive the tion and the maoy derangements of the over the precipices. ago! Millions of children in heaven! at the beginning to note the various kinds the old-time shep­ of opposition described In this chapter, grade of lieutenant-general of the army. blood, stomach and liver, and most Im­ herd. Such an one Here is a man who is making too Oh, what a merry heaven it will make! which were brought against Christ to Mr. Johnson, an Indiana Republican, portant of all a cure for Comitlpatlon, had abundance of much money. He is getting very vain. Not many long meter psalms there. stop his work. Then taking up this par­ delivered a speech in opposition to the which is the origin of so many serious He says, "After a while I shall be in­ They will be in the majority, and will ticular Instance, we can learn certain Hawaiian treaty that electrified tho complaints. opportunity of be­ great principles which will help us to see coming a poet, be­ dependent of all the world. Oh, my run away with our Bong, carrying it up more clearly our duty in some difficult House and the galleries in denunciation ing out of doors twelve hours the day, soul, eat, drink and be merry." Busi­ to a still higher point of ecstasy. Oh, cases. But we cannot lay too much stress of what he termed an attempt to cut ROYAL TEA and oft-times waking up In the night ness disaster comes to him. What is there will be shouting. If children on on the principles by which we should be loose from the traditional policy of the is an inexpensive and common-sense God going to do with him? Has God guided as to the wise and right use of remedy for Just such troubles. It can be on the hills. If the stars, or the tor ­ earth clapped their hands and danced the Sabbath. This question Is one of sev ­ United States and enter upon a scheme any grudge against him? Oh, no. God for Joy, what will they do when, to the of colonization that had proved the prepared at borne and is an ever ready rents, or the sun, or the flowers, had eral concerning our moral duties, on the relief for the countless ills that occur In anything to say, he was very apt to is throwing over him the shepherd’s gladness of childhood on earth, is add ­ true solution of which depends our own ruin of empires and of nations. He crook and pulling him back into better welfare and that of our state and na ­ used some very strong language, but every family, an excellent tonio and a hear it. The Ettrlck Shepherd of ed the gladness of childhood in heav­ tion. valuable remedy for man, woman or child. pastures. Here is a man who has al­ his remarks were enthusiastically ap­ Scotland, who afterwards took his seat en? Time.—Spring or summer of A. D. 28. It is also a health and strength producing in the brilliant circle of WilBon and ways been well. He has never had It is time to get over these morbid Place.—Capernaum, and the fields in its plauded. tonio for weak women, and when used Lockhart, got his wonderful poetic any sympathy for invalids; he calls ideas of how we shall get out of this vicinity. The Senate adopted the resolution of according to directions restores strength inspiration In the ten years In which them coughing, wheezing' nuisances. world. You make your religion an un ­ 1. “At that time,” or period, during Mr. Morgan instructing the committee and vigor in cases where the system Is After a while sickness comes to him. dertaker planing coffins and driving that tour or season In Galilee. It must on naval affuirs to inquire and report run down and health Is Impaired by he was watching the flocks of Mr. Laid- have been during one of the harvest sea­ family cares and overwork. Regulates law. There is often a sweet poetry in He does not understand what God is hearses. Your religion smells of the sons. “Jesus went on the Sabbath day whether a man-of-war, equal at least to any warship in the seas, to be and strengthens the digestive organs, the rugged prose of the Scotch shep­ going to do with him. He says, “Is the varnish of a funeral casket. Rather through the corn. ” Through the grain makes pure and rich blood, cures Indiges­ herd. One of these Scotch shepherds Lord angry with me?” Oh, no. With let your religion today come and show fields of wheat or barley. The English named the George Washington, can be call all grain corn. They were doubtless built, armed and commissioned within tion and insures freedom from all female lost his only son, and he knelt down in the shepherd’s crook he has been pull­ you the sheepfold that God has provid ­ on their way to or from the morning complaints. prayer and was overheard to say, “O ed back into better pastures. Here 13 ed for you. Ah, you say, there is a service in the synagogue, for “his disci ­ a period of twelve months. Sold by all druggists. Onohalf pound Lord, It has seemed good In thy provi ­ a happy houpehold circle. The par­ river between this and that. I know ples were a hungered. ” The rabbinical While the Senate had under consider ­ for $1.00, half size 50 cents. Refuse sub­ law allowed no eating on the Sabbath, ex­ ation the diplomatic and consular ap­ stitutes. dence to take from me the stafT of my ent does not realize the truth that these it; but that Jordan is only for the sheep cept In case of sickness, prior to the children are only loaned to him, and washing, and they shall go up on the morning prayers of the synagogue. propriation bill a sharp debate on the Our book entitled “A Book for Women ” right hand at the time when to us sent free. Address, sand-blind mortals I seemed to be most he forgets from what source came his other banks snow white. They follow 2. "But when the Pharisees saw It.” Cuban situation was precipitated by domestic blessings. Sickness drops the great Shepherd. They heard his These Pharisees were accoinpanylng Je­ Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, who offered as in need of It, and how 1 shall climb up sus, not to learn the truth, but for the an amendment the resolution passed South Bend Remedy Co., the kill of sorrow and auld age with­ upon thoee children and death swoops voice long ago. They are safe now — one puri>ose of finding some fault with' upon a little one. He says, “Is God one fold and one Shepherd! him. They hated him because they were by the Senate a year ago recognizing SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. out it. thou mayst ken. but I dinna. ” wrong and his teaching reproved them; the belligerent rights of the Cuban in­ David, the shepherd boy, Is watch­ angry wuh me?” No. His shepherd’s Alas for those who are finally found he swept away many of their false rules crook pulls him back into better pas­ surgents. The debate became general ing his father’s sheep. They are pas­ outside the lnclosure. The night of and customs, and they must either change and occupied nearly four hours. Mr. turing on the very hills where after­ tures. I do not know what would have their sin howls with jackals; they are their lives, or prove the teacher to be In become of us if it had not been for the some wrong. Morgan, in opposition, said the passing ward a Lamb was born of which you thirsting for their blood. The very 3. “Have ye not read, ” so as to re­ of the amendment would be practically have heard much, "the Lamb of God, shepherd’s crook. Oh, the mercies of moment that a lamb may be frisking member and apply. You scribes have read our troubles! You take up apples and often with your eyes, but have you not a declaration of war against Spain and which taketh away the sins . of the upon the hills, a bear may be looking read also with the understanding? "What he didn ’t like that way of doing it. If world." David, the shepherd boy, was plums from under the shade of the at it from the thicket. trees, and the very best fruits of Chris­ David did, when he was a hungered. ” a plain straightforward declaration of beautiful, brave, musical and poetic. I In June, 1815, there was a very noble Note the emphasis on hungered. His fol ­ war was presented he would vote for it. tian character we find in the deep lowers, too, were hungry; but It Is on the think he often forgot the sheep in his party gathered in a house in St. James' acting of David, as one of the most emi­ Mr. Teller did not accept Mr Morgan ’s reveries. There In the solitude he shade of trouble. When I was on the steamer, coming square, London. The prince regent nent of the Jews, that our Lord concen ­ position that the adoption of struck the harp string that is thrilling was present, and the occasion was trates attention. this amendment would be a de ­ through the ages. David, the boy, was across the ocean, I got a cinder in my 4. "How he entered Into the house of claration of war. He had, he said, eye. and several persons tried to get it made fascinating by music and ban­ God. ” The tabernacle then at Nob, a hill gathering the material for David, the queting and by jewels. While a qua­ near Jerusalem. "And did eat the shew- reached theconclusion that the recog ­ poet, and David the man. Like other out very gently, but it could not be drille was being formed, suddenly all bread. ” The shewbread was the bread nition of belligerency rested with the boys, David was fond of using his taken out in that way. I was told that that was kept on the golden table in the executive. Mr. Teller declared that if the engineer had a facility in such the people rushed to the windows. Holy Place. "Which was not lawful for knife among the saplings, and he had What is the matter? Henry Percy had him to eat . . . but only for the the matter rested with himself exclu­ noticed the exuding of the Juice of the cases. I went to him. He put his priests.” Lev. 24: 6-9. sively he would recognize the belliger ­ large, sooty hand on me, took a knife, arrived with the news that Waterloo tree; and when he became a man, he had been fought, and that England had 6. “Or have ye not read In the law.” ency of the Cubans, if he knew it would said, “The trees of the Lord are full of and wrapped the lid of the eye around The Sabbath was the priests’ busiest day bring war tomorrow. Mr. Foraker an­ the knife. I expected to be hurt very won the day. The dance was aban­ of labor. “How that on the Sabbath days sap.” David, the boy, like other boys, doned; the party dispersed; lords, la­ the priests In the temple profane the Sab­ nounced his intention to vote against had been fond of hunting the birds' much, but without any pain, and in­ bath.” By performing the whole temple the amendment, explaining his reason stantly he removed the cinder. Oh, dies and musicians rushed into the service. "And are blameless.” “Because nests and he had driven the old stork street, and in fifteen minutes from the the greater duty of temple service set to be the fact that it was sought to off the nest to find out how many eggs there come times in our Christian life, aside the law of Sabbath rest (compare make it a rider on an appropriation when our spiritual vision is being first announcement of the good news were under her; and when he became the house was emptied of all its guests. John 7 : 22, 23).” bill. He added: “I expect at no very spoiled, and all gentle appliances fall. 6. “In this place Is one greater than distant day that there will be an ap­ a man, he said, "As for the stork, the Oh, ye who are seated at the banquet the temple.” Jesus Christ himself. He Hr trees are her house.” In boyhood Then there comes some giant trouble, propriate occasion for further remarks and black-handed. lays hold of us and of this world, or whirling in its gay- was greater than the temple, (1) because he had heard the terrific thunder­ eties and frivolities, if you could hear he was the Lord for whom the temple upon this question. I think the time storm that frightened the red deer Into removes that which would have ruined was reared; (2) all Its sacrifices pointed to is coming for action. ” Mr. Thurston our vision forever. I will gather all the sweet strains of the Gospel trum­ him, and had their fulfilment In him; (3) ,’?*veaU, and Trade-Marka obtained and alt Pat-] premature sickness; and when he be­ pet announcing Christ’s victory over he was the Spiritual Temple, the highest said he had never ceased to regret that . nt business conducted for Moocsatc Fees. < your Joys together in one regiment of ► oun Orncc ie offosit * w. a. patcnt Orncc] came a man, he said, “The voice of the sin and death and hell, you would rush temple In which God dwelt. Therefore he Cuban belligerency had not been recog ­ land wecansecure patent m less tune than those] ten companies, and I will put them could Interpret the law to his disciples Lord maketh the hinds to calve. ” Da­ 1 forth, glad in the eternal deliverance. nized when the barbarities of Weyler [remote from Washington. _ ( vid, the boy, had lain upon his back under Colonel Joy. Then I will gath­ with more authority than the priests for should have won for the United States i Send model, drawing or photo., with dejcrip-i er all your sorrows together in one The Waterloo against sin has been the temple service on the Sabbath. >tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of! looking up at the Btars and examining j fought, and our commander-in-chief 8. “For the Son of man is Lord even the sympathy of the world. He was of [charge. Our fee not due till patent is aecured. < the sky, and to his boyish imagination regiment of ten companies, and put of the Sabbath.” Therefore he knew its the opinion, thatwe are drifting into a l A PtSPHltT, “ How to Obtain Patents,” with: hath won the day. Oh, the Joys of this full meaning, and could give the right icost ot same in the U. b. ana foreign countries] the sky seemed like a piece of divine them under Colonel Breakheart. Then war with Spain, but he thought that [sent free. Address, I will ask, which of these regiments ! salvation! I do not care what meta- Interpretation of Its law. embroidery, the divine fingers work ­ I phor, what comparison you have; bring 7. “If ye had known what this mean- while thecourt of inquiry at Havana ing in the threads of light and the has gained for you the greater spirit eth.” If you had understood the prin ­ was conducting its investigation the C.A.SNOW&CO. ual victories? Certainly that under it to me. that I may use it. Amos ciple which underlies my defense of my Senate should maintain a most circum­ [ Owe. Patent Orncc, Washington . D. C. < beads of Btars; and he became a man shall bring one simile. Isaiah another, disciples ’ conduct on the Sabbath. “I and wrote, “When I consider thy heav­ Colonel Breakheart. will have mercy, and not sacrifice." What spect attitude and be calm and quiet. In the time of war, you may remem­ John another. Beautiful with pardon. Mr. Allen made an extended reply to ens, the work of thy fingers." When Beautiful with peace. Beautiful with helps and blesses men. rather than any he became an old man, thinking of the ber, at the South and North, the ques­ forms of worship. the arguments advanced against his MARBLE tion was whether the black troops anticipations. Or to return to the pas­ 9. "He went Into their synagogue. ” position. He maintained this was the goodness of God, he seemed to hear the toral figure of my text, come out of Luke says It was on another Sabbath. and bleating of hip father’s sheep across would fight; but when they were put This shows one way In which Jesus was first time that the belligerency prop ­ Into the struggle on both sides, they the poor pasturage of this world into accustomed to keep the Sabbath. osition had been presented to the Sen­ GRANITE many years, and to think of the time the rich fortunes of the Good Shep­ 10. "A man which had his hand with­ when he tended them on the Bethle­ did heroically. In that great day of ate when there was any chance of its eternity it will be found that it was herd. ered; ” 1. e., dried up from a deficient ab­ being effective. The House would be hem hills, and he cries out In the text. The shepherd of old used to play sorption of nutriment. Luke says his “The Lord Is my shepherd.” not the white regiment of Joys that "right hand.” This would hinder him In brought face to face with it and it would gained your greatest successes, beautiful music, and sometimes the earning a living. “They asked him, say­ be brought to a vote in that body. It If God will help me, I will talk to sheep would gather around him and ing, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" but the black troons of trouble, mis­ The question was still being discussed. could not be buried in a committee as you of the shepherd’s plaid, the shep­ fortune and disaster. Where you have listen. Today my heavenly shepherd Here was another opportunity for Jesus the previous resolution passed by the herd’s crook, the shepherd's dogs, the gained one spiritual success from your calls to you with the very music of to explain his views about Sabbath keep­ Senate had been. Mr. Hale made the Cemetery Work of any description « ing. But the object of the Jews was Low in Price as any place in Mick* shepherd’s pasture grounds and the prosperity, you have gained ten spirit­ heaven, bidding you to leave your sin point of order against the amend ­ shepherd's flocks. "that they might accuse him,” and thus igan. I have a Fine Display of NEW ual successes from your adversity. and accept his pardon. Oh. that all bring him to trial for Sabbath breaking, ment that it was general legislation DESIGNS in Scotch, Rwedish aai And first; The shepherd’s plaid; It • * * this flock would hear the piping of the and both discredit his teaching and pre­ and had under the rules no place in American Granites. would be preposterous for a man go ­ Good Shepherd. vent him from continuing to teach. the bill. The vice-president sustained After getting price* elsewhere call ml You have noticed that different flocks 11. 12. "One sheep, and If It fall Into a the point and Mr. Allen took an appeal ing out to rough and besolling work ’ of sheep have different marks upon pit,” etc. Jesus appealed to their own examine. You will decide te to put on splendid apparel. The potter Legislating Against Book Agent*. Interpretation of the Sabbath law; and from the ruling, but was voted down. * buy of me. does not work in velvet; the serving them; sometimes a red mark, some ­ then turned It against themselves by ask­ times a blue mark,sometimes a straight A bill has been introduced in con­ ing, “How much then Is a man better (of maid does not put on satin while toil ­ mark, sometimes a crooked mark. The gress providing that no person hold ­ more value) than a sheep.” "Wherefore,'’ The Ohio Oil Co. drilled in a 100-bar- F. F. MURDOCK ing at her duties; the shepherd does ing a copyright for any book, map, or according to their own rules, "It Is law­ rel well on the Urban farm near Findlay Opposite Post Office. St. Johns, Mick not wear a Bplendid robe In which to Lord our Shepherd has a mark for his ful to do well,” to do good deeds, “on sheep. It is a red mark—the mark of pamphlet shall enter Into any agree ­ the Sabbath.” go out amidst the storms, and the THE MARKETS. the cross. “Blessed are they that are ment, combination, or understanding 13. “Then salth he to the man.” He rocks, and the nettles; he puts on the did one of the good deeds it was lawful persecuted for righteousness ’ sake, for with any person or persons whereby LIVE STOCK. I-.I'VE RY rough apparel appropriate to his expos ­ the parties to said contract shall have to do. As the cure .Is wrought only by a theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ” word, the Pharisees have no ground of New York — Cattle Sheep Lambs Hogs —AND— ed work. The Lord our Shepherd, com ­ the exclusive privilege to sell books, accusation; there has been no Infraction Best grades.. .$4 85®6 05 *3 OJ fid 10 |l 40 ing out to hunt the lost Bheep, puts on Furthermore, consider the shepherd's Lower grades.. 3 »► K351 7.1 4 00 6 10 4 15 pasture grounds. The old shepherds maps, or pamphlets, or into any agree ­ of the letter of even their own regula ­ no regal apparel, but the plain gar ­ ment, combination or understanding tions. —Abbott. Their whole p!an was thus Chicago — ment of our humanity. There was used to take the sheep upon the moun ­ ;ru8trated. while Jesus gave fresh em­ Best grades.... 4 75®5 25 4 60 5 89 4 05 for the purpose of controllng or reg ­ phasis and new light to his teachings. Lower grades. .3 00a.4 0) 3 25 4 50 389 nothing pretentious about It. I know tains in the summer, and dwell in the valleys in the winter. The sheep being ulating the output of books, maps or Detroit — the old painters represent a halo about Best grades.. ..4 1X014 30 4 59 5 55 405 the babe Jesus, but I do not suppose out of doors perpetually,their wool was pamphlets, or for fixing, establishing, MISSING LINKS. Lower grades. .2 59®4 OJ 3 25 4 50 880 that there was any more halo about better than If they had been kept in the regulating, controlling or Influencing Capt. H. G. Bates, of the American Huff xlo — hot atmosphere of the sheep-cot. Wells Best grades.... 4 20®• 45 4 75 6 75 413 that child than about the head of any the price for which books, maps or Volunteers, was a bugler in the army, Lower grades. .2 50®4 0J 4 09 5 09 409 were dug for the sheep and covered other babe that was born that Christ­ pamphlets are sold. ” The penalty pro ­ and blew the rally and charge on Cleveland — with large stones, In order that the hot posed by the bill is a cancellation of Sheridan's famous twenty-mile ride. Best grades.... 3 9)® 4 25 4 21 5 25 4 05 mas eve in Judea. Becoming a man, Lower grades . .2 5i®3 75 3 00 4 09 886 he wore a seamless garment. The scis­ weather might not spoil the water. And copyright. At the czar's coronation ceremonies then the shepherd led his flock v. ner- This curious bit of legislation is at Moscow there were 2,500 yards of Cluelnnistl — Boarding Stable sors and needle had done nothing to Best grades.... 4 8X®1 7 wintry days of trouble come, and we Cincinnati sotted and tattered raiment of our hu­ man, the sewing-machine agent and Ocean currents may be traced by 96® 93 81 (.81)4 28 ®28 manity. Sometimes he did not even go down into the valley of sickness, the venders of adhesive compounds Cleveland 97® 97 80®30)4 27 427 want, and bereavement, and we say, bottles. Along the coast of Spain Pltlabnrg 99 4 99 31431 29 >29 wear the seamless robe. What is that and patent kitchen utensils. As a sealed bottles are tossed overboard Buffalo 99® 99 S0®39 hanging.about the waist of Christ? Is “Is there any sorrow like unto my sor ­ 32 32 row? ” But, blessed be God. the Lord ’s rule, the book handled by the agent and allowed to drift. It has been •Detroit —Hay. No 1 timothy, 18.00 per ton. it a badge of authority? Is it a royal is a tolerably good one, and this is a found that in almost every case the Potatoes, 70c per bu. Lire Poultry, turkey*, coat of arms? No; it is a towel. The sheep can find pasture anywhere. Be­ tic per lb; chickens, 7)4c: ducks. THc. Errs. tween two rocks of trouble a tuft of great point in his favor. He Is not de ­ tendency of these sealed messages Is strictly fresh, 16c per doa Butter, dairy, disciples ’ feet are filthy from the walk ceiving his customer to any extent, nor 16c per lb; creamery, tic. on the long way, and are not fit to be succulent promises; green pastures be­ to come to the shores of America. side still waters; long sweet grass be­ is he obtaining money of that worthy A St. Louis thief, who stole a pair A dispatch from Madrid says: “As put upon the sofas on which they are under false pretenses. His book is to recline at the meal, and so Jesus tween bitter graves. You have noticed of hoBe from a young woman, denied thequestion of the purchase of Cuba is the structure of the sheep's mouth? It good, and while it may be, and prob ­ the charge when in court the next day. again being pushed in Washington, it washes their feet, and gathers them ably is, a very high priced edition, it up in the towel to dry them. The is so sharp that it can take up a blade The judge ordered an examination, may be of use to state on the highest of grass or clover top from the very has the merit of whelesomeness and and, when the thief's trousers were authority that 8pain will never, no work of saving this world was rough is rarely a menace to society. work, rugged work, hard work; and narrowest spot. And so God's sheep rolled up the missing hose were re­ matter what government, is in power, Jesus put on the raiment, the plain can pick up comfort where others can vealed in all their gorgeous splendor. consider any such suggestion, or any uni Buuiec* gather none. "The secret of the Lord Prof. Dolbear says that what is call­ compromise in Cuba beyond the broad mnniinia ;;;;r the winter j raiment, of our flesh. The storms were ed stupidity is simply the indication Apprentice (finishing the lathering of— -— cheap homes to beat him, the crowds were to Jostle is with them that fear him.” Rich pas­ of a customer) —Yes, sir; there’s no measure of autonomy drafted by the and prosperous con ­ him, the dust was to sprinkle him, the ture, fountain-fed pasture, for all the that a certain brain area is not proper ­ liberals. This is an absolute, irrevoc ­ IN THE ditions in Nebraska ly nourished or is without communica ­ monkey business allowed by our boss; and elsewhere, sub­ mobs were to pursue him. Oh, Shep­ flock of the Good Shepherd. every time we cut a customer ’s face it able decision. People who suggest scribe to '* Tbe Com tion with the nerve fibre. anything else are only wasting time Belt.” a monthly pa­ herd of Israel! leave at home thy bright The hill of Zion yields means a fine of a quarter. Then he WEST per hill of faro, plo- array. 'For thee, what streams to ford, A thousand sacred sweets Of the 61,000 breweries estimated to adds, brandishing his razor: “But to ­ and arousing unfounded hopes.” tnrea and information about the West. It wtU Gaylord Catholics are about to erect be sent for one year for 3ft cents; postage aUMps what nights all unsheltered! He puts Before we reach the heavenly fields, be in the world. 26,000 are in Ger­ day I don't care a rap; I’ve Just won a . ,-o, ted. Address. ’ Th* Corn Belt,” 30* upon him the plain raiment of our hu­ Or walk the golden streets. many. 95 at the races.”—Figaro. a fine stone church. Adam* Street, Chicago. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THIJR8DAY. MARCH 3, 1898

that they go to the other extreme, and make their villlans such unmitigated villians that it is Impossible to find one single ray of virtue wherewith to A Total Disability Claim of $1,650 Paid to redeem their character from its inky pall of utter blackness. But let me tell you that if all the women novel ­ ists who write stories in the English a Man Who Was Afterward Cured. language were to concentrate their ef­ LIGHT OUT OF forts upon the task of trying to de­ The Monitor, a newspaper published at opening his mouth sufficiently wide to take I am in even Letter health than whtn I gave pict the villainy of Lord Aylmer ’s na­ Meaford, Ont., Canada, Ant discovered this solid food. The doctors called the disease spl - you the first Interview." LJ/-\ r\ (\\ I__Oo. tural depravity, I am afraid that in case two yean ago, and published it at nal sclerosis, and all said he could not live. “Do you still attribute your cure to the length, which now seems, owing to the For three years he lingered in this con ­ use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pillsf” asked the INTERNATIONAL PRISM ASSOCIATION. the end they would have to call in dition. Then by some friends he was ad­ Monitor. the aid of their masculine confreres cure of it, to be a miracle,. The facts were vised to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for “Unquestionably I do, ” was the reply. CHAPTER XVII.—(Continued.) to afford to send the child home, if so remarkable that many people doubted Pale People. He took them and therewas “Doctors had failed, as had also the numer ­ to adequately complete the portrait. the truth of them. They said: “It is too re­ a slight change. The first thing noted was ous remedies recommended by my friends. • She had a pretty little brass stand, the climate was bad for it. Why, Dick For the noblp lord was all bad, thor­ markable; it cannot possibly be true; the a tendency to sweat freely. This showed Nothing I took had the slightest effect upon a tray, spirit lamp and kettle, and with dear, we should not be able to afford oughly bad —what up in the north paper is mistaken, and the man, although there was some lifeleft in uis helpless body. me until I began the use of Dr. Williams’ this apparatus she always made the to come home ourselves, if we could country they call “bad, core through.” he may think himself cured, will soon re­ Next came a little feeling in his limbs. Pink Pills. To this wonderful medicine I lapse into bis former condition, ” etc., etc. Thisextended, followed by pricking sensa­ owe my release from the living death. I have tea herself with much pride, and some not stand the heat.” Yet he had a delightful manner when The accuracy of its report called in ques­ tions,until at last the blood began to course since recommended these pills to many of help from Dick. It generally fell to “That is true,” he admitted. he chose, and in early middle age had tion, the Monitor determined to find out freely, naturally and vigorously through my friends, and the verdict is always in Dick's lot to light the lamp, but to ­ “And don ’t you think,” she went on made a genuine love-match with a definitely whether the facts were as stated his body, and the helplessness gave wav their favor. I shall always bless the day day she was all ready for him, and eagerly, “that I would rather live as and whether the man would really stay to returning strength, the ability to walk I was induced to take them.” beautiful young woman at least six­ cured. They accordingly kept a close returned, and he weing again questioned, Mr. Fetch by Mr. Petch from the Canadian Mutual to trying to make you feel that you Aylmer, and she is a strong and (see address below) had been a paralytic for said : “You see those hands—the skin is now Life Association, being the amount due him Something in his voice touched the healthy young woman, who means to five years,that there was such a total lack natural and elastic. Once they were hard for total disability. Itis unnecessary to add tenderest chords of her heart, and set did not throw away your love and con ­ of feeling in his limbs aud bodv, that a pin and wi bout sensation. You could pierce that this life insurance association did not throbbing and beating with a sicken­ fidence when you gave them to me.” be Lady Aylmer for at least fifty years run full length could not be felt; that he them with a pin and I would not feel lt.and pay this large amount of money to Mr. So they arranged that Dick should longer. Yes, I know, my dear, all could not walk or help himself at all; for what is true of my bands is true of the rest Petch, except after themost careful exam­ ing Bcnsation of fear. “Dick,” she two years he was not dressed : furthermore of my body. Perhaps you have observed ination accept the appointment of military sec­ that you feel about it. I quite appre­ of nis condition by their medical said In a whisper, “is it very bad news ciate your feelings toward me. Ob, yes, that he was bloated was for that reason al­ that I have now even ceased to use a cane, experts. They must have regarded him that you are trying to break to me— retary to Lord Skevversleigh, and that most unrecognizable, and could not get his and can get a!>out my business perfectly as forever incurable. does it mean India, after all?” two days later he should go and see it was your duty to tell me, but I am clothes on. The paralysis was so complete well. You may say there is absolutely no Mr. Fetch's address is as follows, Reuben Into affect the face aud prevented him from doubt as to my cure being permanent. Indeed Petch, Griersville, Ont., Canada- Dick looked straight into her clear his uncle again, and tell him the de ­ not going to cut myself out of all that eyes. “My dear little love,” he said, cision to which he had come. Doro­ makes life worth living just to oblige a husband who has got tired of me A clear conscience furnishes the best digestion There is no promise In the Bible for the man “I am afraid it does mean India, after thy had begged him to go and see him for a dinner. who wants to eat bread without earning it. all; but if it does, it shall mean India the following day, but Dick held out in three months.” DOVOU firmly there. No, he would have one To this decision Lady Aylmer had State of Ohio, Citv of Toledo, AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. for us both.” Lucas county, We are asserting In the courts our right to the more day of liberty before he went from that tjme forward kept most ns. He told her everything then—how Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," and Lady Aylmer had received him, how over to the enemy and gave himself rigidly. As far as her husband was the senior partner of the firm of F. J. “PlTc LER’S CASTORIA," as our Trade Mark. she had openly declared that her hus­ up. concerned, nothing seemed to annoy Cneney & Co., doing business In the City I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannls. Massachu­ 0OUGH of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, setts, was the originator of "PITCHER’S CAS­ band had some scheme of his own to “We will have a real happy day, her, and whenever she wished to do and tnat said tirm will pay the sum of darling, ” he said, when Dorothy had so and condescended to try to get her ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each TORIA,” the same that has borne and does now don't delay get rid of them both, how the old sav ­ and every case of Catarrh that cannot be bear the fac-simlle signature of CHAS. H. age had received him, and what end given way about imparting the news own way by means of a little flattery, cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This Is the to the savage. “By-and-by we shall she generally succeeded; and now that FRANK J. CHENEY. their interview had come to. But, of Sworn to before me and subscribed in original “PITCHER S CASTORIA” which has course, ” he wound up, “although I have more money than opportunity of Lord Aylmer had got into the “sixties” my presence, this 6th day of December, been used In the homes of the mothers of took time to consider it, my mmd was spending it together —let us make hay she was simply a stately, even-temper ­ A. D. 1886. America for over thirty year*. Look carefully hemp s (Seal) A. W. GLEASON. ’ while we can. First, we will go and ed, iron-willed and exceedingly healthy Notary Public. at the wrapper and see that it is “the kind you made up in a moment. I shall refuse have always bought," and has the signature of the appointment. ” have a look at the shops together, and woman, who looked as if she meant Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally I will buy you something you can al- and acts directly on the blood and mucous CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No BALSAM There was a moment ’s silence. to live to be ninety. surfaces of the system. Send for testimo ­ one has authority from me to use my name nials, free. “Dick, dearest, ” said Dorothy, in a It was partly on the subject of his F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. except The Centaur Company of which Chas. quivering voice, “is it a very good wife’s extreme healthiness that Lord Sold by Druggists, 75c. H. Fletcher is President. thing to be a military secretary to a Aylmer was thinking that morning as Hall s Family Pills are the best. March 8. 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER. M D. governor-general ?” he smoked his cigarette and tried to Ten Weeks for Ten Cents. Educate Your Bowel* With Cascarets. “Oh, well—yes—it is, dear, ” he ad ­ assure himself that the twinge in his That big family paper, the Illustrated Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. It Cures Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat, Croup. In* Weekly Sentinel , of Denver, Colorado, 10c. 2ic. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. fluenta. Whooping Cough, Bronchitisand Atthma. mitted. left foot were merely a sign of a com ­ (founded 1890), will be sent ten weeks on A certain cure lor Consumption in first stages, “I mean, would you have refused it ing shower and nothing in the world trial for 10c; clubs of 6. 50c: 12 for 11. Special Fools rush In where angels fear to tread. and a sure relief in advanced stages. Uteatonce. oiler solely to Introduce the paper. Latest You will see the excellent effect after takinq the if you had not been married, if you to do with gout at all. And just as a Star Tobacco Is the leading brand of first dose Sold by dealers everywhere. Largs mining news and Illustrations of scenery; the world, because it is the best. had never seen me?” worse twinge than usual made him also true stories of love and adventure. Ad ­ bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. “No, I don ’t suppose I should. I dare wince and shiver, the door opened gent ­ dress as above and mention this paper. Stamps Punctuality Is the thief of time. say I should never have bothered to ly and a man-servant made his ap­ taken. ______IN 3 OR 4YEARS AN get such an appointment, because, as pearance. They can do the best work who know best independence is you know, I hate the very idea of go­ (To be Continued.) bow to rest. assured i f yon take ing to India, but, at the same time, Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away Try Grain=0! up yonr home in to be quite honest, I don ’t suppose I To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag ­ AS WE SEE OURSELVES. netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Western Canada, should have refused. I don ’t suppose Bac. the wonder-worker, thatmakes weak men Try Grain=0! k Never Is as Other People See Us—Un ­ the land of plenty. any man in his senses would. ” strong. All druggists. 50c or 11. Cure guaran ­ Ask you Grocer to-day to show you Illustrated pamphlets, giving experi­ Dorothy drew her breath sharply, crossed with Our Own Affairs. teed Booklet and sample free Address Sterling Remedy Co . Chicago or New York. a package of GRAIN-O, the new food ence of farmers who have become and for a minute or two did not speak. “Don ’t you dread people who meand ­ drink thattakes the place of coffee. er on in long-drawn-out detail about A stony heart ar.d an Iron will are a had com ­ wealthy in growing wheat, reports of “Dick, darling, ” she Baid at length, “it The children may drink it without is true that you are married, but I their own concerns? ” exclaimed Mrs. bination. ______delegates, etc., and fall information as don ’t see that that is any reason why Ego. “I sat next to Mr. MLangweilig at TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. injury as well as the adult. All who to reduced railway rates, can be had Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that you should not be in your senses, too. ” “DOROTHY! DOROTHY!” the B.’s dinner last night and I never Druggists refund the money if it falls locure 2So on application to Department Interior, “What do you mean, Dorothy? ” he ways wear till we meet again; then was so bored! A clever mineralogist rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, Ottawa, Canada, also, residents of asked quickly. we will go to some good place and get is bad enough, but a stupid one is un ­ Cupid should be represented without a head. but it is made from pure grains, and Michigan address M. V. Mclnnes, Na 1 a little lunch; and afterwards have endurable. His whole conversation con ­ Coe ’s Cough Ttatsam the most delicate stomach receives it "Well, Just this. Supposing that lithe oldest and test. It will break op a cold qulcksr Merrill Block, Detroit; James Grieve, Lord Aylmer had let you refuse this a drive, come back here, dress, dine sisted of elaborate explanations ot the than anything rite. It i« always reliable. Try it. without distress, j the price of coffee. Reed City, Mich., or D. L. Caven, Bad somewhere, and do a theater after it. appointment, and had not made himself why and the wherefore of unimport ­ One baby elephant will boss a whole herd. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Axe. Mich., Agents for the Canadian disagreeable about your allowance, we There, what do you say to that for a ant events and happenings in his own Bold by all grocers Government. should have to go on just as we are real happy day? ” Mrs. Wlnalow ’s Soothing Syrop family. Her listener laughed to him­ For children teething »often» the gums reduce. Inflam Tastes like Coffee doing now. And, of course, Dick dear, Dorothy said that it would be de ­ malion, allay• pain, cure* wind code. (5 cent* a bottle. self, for he had Just come from his Looks like Coffee I should like to be Mrs. Aylmer instead lightful, thought—well, with some­ club, where he had happened to see Mr. Agreeable advice Is seldom useful advice of Mrs. Harris, and to live with the thing live dismay, that she should Langweilig, says the New York Tri­ Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O Smoke Sledge Cigarettes, SO for 5 cts. Accept no imitation. regiment rather than in Palace Man­ never get through it all. Yet the fear bune. “I am Just going to Mrs. Ego ’s,” CHEAPFARMS sions; but—but, at the same time, since of once giving way and breaking down he had said to Miss -----, "won ’t you Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. there is so much to be gained by it, altogether kept her up, and she went come along? ” “Mercy!” was the an­ for 30 days more you can try it for 25 cents . I would just as soon be Mrs. Harris -age,R Irving $41 FRIDAY, MARCH 11. Veil Calf, dr< ’68ed, fti.50 @700 Howard. Fred Shaver, Miss Lulu Fowls and Chickens, live. 6!«e. Miss Nellie Stevens attended the Miller, Wm. Will, Jas 8. m OFFICE HOURS 8 30 A. M. TO 5 P. M. Fowls and Chickens dressed 7e@8c Davis-Sitts wedding in. South Green H. D. MCCABE. P. M. Ducks, live, he; dressed, 8c. bush, Tuesday, of last week. m LUMBER! LUMBER !| Geese, live, tte; dressed, 8c. The Most Successful Methods in the Turkeys, live, 8c; dressed, 10c. Marion VanAustiue and Newton After years of untold suffering from Before building that house or barn Treatment of all Diseases and De­ Wood, dry hard, $1.40; soft, 11.00. Barnbardt, of Maple Rapids, attended piles, B. W. Pursell, of Knitnersville, formities Known to the Latest Cabbage, per doz., [email protected]. church here Sunday evening. B Apples, per bu- 4r. ia en ­ grade examination in St'. Johns Satur­ la gnranteed to give perfect satisfaction matched, per M £12.50 jp abled to discover the true nature of the disease from Ypsilanti. day. or money refunded. Price 25 cents per % and locale the organ* or oarta afflicted and many Earnest Jutting celebrated February box. For sale by Fildew r. Walker, look his worth McIntyre and wife spent Sunday Miss Ellen Hazle spent Sunday with proposition to raise by a tax, to be spread treatment and now is a well man. Ho had aebron- at Timothy Furl’s in Riley. her grandparent in Ovid. upon the taxable property of said county in ic stomach trouble, weak lungs and a constant tbe said year, one thousand eight hundred and cough, rhuematislm and Bright’s disease. He has Mrs. Eva Wilkin led the Epworth William Ha^le, of New York is ninety eight, tbe sum of two thousand dollars calned twei ty-flve pounds and work* every day. League last Sunday evening. visiting his parents in this place. (S2,<>00i, said money, if voted, to be used for tbe OR Distress and Pains He adviaes all who are alrk to tee Dr. Welker. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Thaver, of Penn purpose of replacing tbe stoves now used in Mr. C. M. Stutxmen cured of Blood and Skin di ­ Guy Longcor spent Sunday with his beating the court house of said county by sease of twelve years standing Yan, New York and Mr. and Mrs. father James Longcor and family. a steam apparatus This proposition is to be and for a Depleted Mrs. L. E. Lambert cured of varicose ulcers on Oliver Freeman, of Lainsburg. have submitted to tbe electors of said county in limb. been visiting their cousin, R'chard Mr. and Mrs. Fred Luchurst spent aceoidance with a resolution adopted by tbe Doctor Walker's specialities are diseases of the Sunday at D. Phillips near Burton. Board of Supervisors of said county by a F Eye, Ear, Throat, Lungs, and all cronic private and Freeman. Pocketbook at The B. L. A. social at Henry Fare- unanimous vote on Thursday, the sixth day nervous diseases and deformities, as Granulated The Grauge contest, ladies versus of January, in tho year of our Lord, one Lids,, Cross Eyes, Deafness, Discharge of the Earn gentlemen, closed in favor of gentle ­ gar's Tuesday eve. was well attended. thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Bronchitis, Chronic Cough, Goitre (big neck) Herman iAmngbury left Monday in testimony whereof I have hereunto set Fever Sores and Ulcers, Bright's desease, Rheuma­ men. The ladies served warm sugar my band and affixed the seal of tbe Circuit tism. all diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder, last Saturday evening. Several young morning for Colorado for his health. Court of said county this fourteenth day of Heart, Stomach and Nervous diseases. Chorea. (81. people from Bingham and DeWitt Miss Electa Smith, of Ovid, spent February, in theyear of our Lord, one thous­ y UuL.D£5?*)J.Kp,leP|,7 General Debility, and eight hundred and ninety-eight Serofala Skin diseasts and all diseases due to bM granges were present. The gentlemen Friday and Saturday at G. L. Smith's. WILLIAM M. SMITH. Charles W. Loud ’s blood also rectal diseases. were beat in tne end. Mrs. Henry Gardner, ot Turner, is f Seal of tbe Cfr- \ Clerk of Clinton County d»-I will give special attention io difficult case# ------——------I court ofClinton | and of the Board of and to cases other physicians have failed to cure. visiting her rather John Kosht in South (.County J Supervisors thereof. Rank references. Ovid. POPULAR LOW PRICE DRUG STORE. Persons apnlytng for treatment will please bring Whooping cough is the most distress ­ rrotn two to three ounces of urine, first passed iu ing malady; but its duration can be cut The E. L. convention was well at­ Don't annoy others by your coughing, the morning preferred for annalysis, short by the use of One Minute Cough tended and a good program was present­ and risk your life by neglecting a cold. Question Blanks sent on application. Enclose One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, ■lamp for reply. Those unable to see tbe doctor Cure, which is also the best known ed. Rev. W. F. Sheridan, of Pontiac, Opposite THE STEEL. ST. JOHNS. can address. remedy for croup and all lung and bron ­ state vice-peesidenl gave us a fine talk colds, croup, grippe and all throat and „ .. F.CWiLKSS.M. D., chial troubles. C. E. VanSickle. Saturday forenoon. lung troubles. C. E. VanSickle. Bo* 7*. Detroit Mich. Supplement to The Clinton Independent, Thursday, March 3, 1898.

IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. DEWITT. UNION HOME. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Miller are both on From Our Correspondent. Humors are afloat that tests of coal Mrs. M. E. Finch has been suffering Barbers. are being made and coal leases secured the sick list. from a severe cold the past week. in several townships of Shiawassee Mr. Cook, of Litchfield, visited his Mr. and Mrs. James High, of Shep- ACOB FOERCH, proprietor or TheCentra brother, 8. M. Cook, last week. Barber Shop. Ladles ’ and children’s hair county, especially in the northeast por ­ ardsville. were the guests of Mr. and JMttlng a specialty. Good bath rooms in connection tion, by Saginaw parties. Little Stanley Niles has been quite Mrs. S. McM asters, Saturday and Sun ­ Violin andia other•strings; st ’ musicians ’ outfits, etc. A wreck on the Ann Arbor road over­ sick, but is better at this writing. day. ■ PACIFIC HAItliKK SHOP-W. W. Fergus turned and ditched several freight cars A number from here attended the Miss Francis Finch, Jennie Howard on. Proprietor Go to the Pacific Barber near Elsie Sunday and scattered baled “Round Up” at the M. A. C. last week. and Charlie Finch visited E. B. Finch Shop, under Wilson's Clothing Store, 8t. Johns and family in Ovid, last Saturday and Mich., for Brst-class work. Shaving, hair hay and other produce for about forty Miss Osie Barnum, of Nashville, cutting, shampooing, etc., done in the latest or sixty yards. It was caused by a Mich., is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. L. Sunday. styles of the tonsorial art- freight truck jumping the track. For ­ Niles. Mrs. S. McMasters, who has been ail­ tunately no one was injured. ing for the last few weeks, was taken Mr. Daniels, of Wacousta, was the suddenly and seriously ill with a con- Attorneys. A Flint man has invented a new win­ guest of Dr. and Mrs. Sanford part of jestive chill last week Wednesday. A dow screen. It is simply a piece of last week. DWIN H. LVOM, Attorney st Law, St. wire cloth the width of the window, physician was summoned at once. She E Johos, Mich. Office over Kendrick ’s store. Prof. Chadwick’s singing class gives wras found to be suffering from an at­ kJ PAULDING. NOKTON M nnfl imo wound on a spring roller, like a window two entertainments this week at Ma­ tack of Pneumonia, but on prompt ac­ O Attorneys at Law. Office over St. Johna Nation- shade, and the free end fastened to the sonic ball. tion on the doctor ’s part thedesease was si Rank. 1M6 sash. The window thus is always %iyiLL H. BKUNSOM, Attorney at Law aud screened, with the sash at any height Misses Etta Webb and Marie Olcott checked in the first stage. She is now TV Solicitor in Chancery. Office over Putt*a desired. visited in Grand Ledge, Saturday and improving finely. groce ry store. ______12»16 •------—— ------A good man living not a thousand Sunday last. JOHN H. KEDKWa . hknky b. wal -sidbk miles from Portland, attended revival The class of ’98 D. H. S. held a social Real Estate. EDEWA A UAI.HKI DGE, Attorneys Sally C. Arnold to Edith M. Arnold und at Law, at the old stand, over the “corner meetings which were being held in his at the home of John Witherow on Mon ­ H s w >4 u e *4 and w 3u 2U-100 acres n Pirug store. ’’St. Johns, Mich. 1887 neighborhood, says the Ubserver, and day evening. w 14 n e frl >4. Olive ...... *1400 00 one night last week fell asleep. He Miss Ola Moots, of Lausing. visited Benjamin F. B. Arnold, et al to Sally C. a. M. fkbkih . p. k pkrrin a . j. Baldwin was called on to offer prayer, and being her sister. Mrs. M. T. Woodruff, Tues­ Arnold s w a e J4 and w So 20-100 ENH!*!** BALDWIN, Attorneys at pinched by his wide awake better half, day of last week. acres n w Y\. n e frl of see 2, Olive 2100 00 P Law and Solicitors In Chancery. Bounty said in a voice loud enough to be heard Hattie L. Hicks to Betsey A. Hicks s 4-5 pension, real estate agents, conveyancers and Rev. Taylor, of Grand Ledge, is as­ lot 5, block 9. St. Johns...... 300 00 money loaners. Also examine titles, pay taxea several seats away and not in the most sisting in the revival now in progress, snd make collections. Business entrusted to their gentle manner, “Gol darn you Betsy, Annie Belle Dwelle to Addison A. Bare will be promptly and faithfully attended to. and good results are confidently ex­ Woodruff e^nw and w 30acres of Office over Wickes’ grocery, Clinton Avenue,S*. kindle it yourself.” pected. w H n e * of sec 38, Olive ...... 3300 00 JODD8, MlCh_____ j WabasisTent. K. O. T. M., of Ionia, Geo. Holmes, Jr., of Matherton, and Rudolph Ooette and wife to Edward T. M- H. CASTLE, Attorney at Law. has entered into a ten years ’ lease with Mr. Blank, of Maple Rapids, were the Hughes et al lot 10 and n J4 of lot 9, W Money to Loan, office head of Clinton the proprietor of the Webber block for block 21, St. Johns...... 1200 00 avenue, evst side. 1183 guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willis McLouth Mary E. Gilmore to David S. Holmes, the entire third story of the new block over Sunday.* et al und lot 4 and e % 15, block 4, K. SMITH, Attorney at Law, 8t. Johns at a rental of $500 per year. The floor avenue add., St. Johns...... 400 00 • Mich. °(iico over Heller’s Bazaar. 11024 space is to be divided as follows: Main A novel sight for this place last week S was to see the Masonic ball lighted with William Jones to Ernest R. Holly w )^e J. WOODRUFF, Justice of the Peace lodge room, 53x63 feet; banquet V4 n w s e >4 sec 22, Olive ...... 250 00 R• Office over Allison ’s Jewelry Store. Collect room, 32 x 63 feet; parlor, 24 x 18; electric incandescent lights for the Birdella Stickler et al by guardian, to ions a specially. Remittances promptly made, 5931 ante-room. 8x26; kitchen, 16x18; cook dance Tuesday and the show on Wed­ Wallace J. stickler et al 7o acres on s room, 16x17: parlor for officers and de nesday and Thursday nights. w VA sec 19, Ovid ...... 1800 00 Dentistry. gree team, 22x26; waiting room, card Win. Fricke to August Fricke s s % n e it s 25, Bingham...... 20u0 00 H. KENYON, Dentist East Walker room and smoking room, each 16x16. SOUTH OKAI.. August Fricke to Anna L. Frick sj^s k e 8treet. hjj . The society will spend from $1,000 to */4 u e 14 sec 25, uingbam, ...... 1700 00 $1,500 in furnishing the rooms. Wa- From Our Correspondent. Peter Moyer to Jas W Moyer w H s w G. H. MANN, D. D. 8. Office over basis Tent has a membership of over fr % sec. 38, Eagle ...... 1 00 Spaulding A Co. ’s hardware, oppo ­ M. S. Ware and wife spent Monday site The Steel Hotel. Surgery a 400. in Westphalia. specialty. Office hours, 8 to 12 a. An exchange tells of a young divinity Miss Millie Tous spent Sunday with ______m., 1:30 lo 6 p. in., 7 to 8, evetung. student who was recently sent into a her parents in St. Johns. (1 K. CORBIN, M. D„ D. D. 8. To gel rural district to till the pulpit of a Grand Trunk Railway System. a the benefit of tlie experience, medical know ­ preacher who was ill. He chose for htf August Jacob and Samuel Jason ledge and surgical skill which are indispensable to theme the subject of creation, and was started for the north Monday. PST ™ JohMU,U in denU8try * »PP>7 to Corbin dwelling upon the wisdom displayed in Jesse Wager has moved onto his Arrival and Departure of Trains the creation of even the smallest forms mother-in-law’s farm, near Maple Rap­ At St. Johns. of animal life. “My friends,” he said, ids. Physiciaijp. “the same divine bower which created Mr. and Mrs. John Tubs visited their IN EFFECT OCT 4, 1897. B* W Surgeon and Ho the behemoth-, the mastodom and the ele­ daughter, Mrs. C. A. Van Dyke, last J, meouathic Physician. Office and residence phant, created a blade of grass; and the week. s s a s a s a £ a a ■ver Spaulding A Co. ’s hardware, opp. The Steel. all wise providence that made me. made M. V. Reed has returned home after • a. a. » x a. C. Q. at C6 * Ijl C. DUNN, M. D., Physician and 8ur- 8 E 5 8 « JL e geon. Office over Spaulding A Company ’s a daisy.” And he doesen ’t understand attending his brother's death and burial -<5S§5:8 hardware store, St. Johns, Rich. 1367 yet why the wordly members of the at Allegan. ■S c4 <» — t> 66 d> 66 © flack smiled during the rest of the ser­ fc. KNAPP, .71. U., Physician and Some of our young folks attended e S"rgeon. Office at residence, first house mon. a a a a a s a a g s o C*>utb of the M. E. church, 8t. Johns. 13/57 the theatreat St. Johns and report a ► « as « as a. O. • KAGLE. grand play. a S 5 » 8 n *HT, Oi, Physician and 8ur- John Adams and Miss Millie Tows £> c6 *4 eo 06 # Ic H V H » geo n. Eureka. Mich. 1317 visited Miss Lena Jacob Monday night, W. PMLLAHI) Physician and Surgt'ou. Mrs. Bert Lyon is sick with pneu ­ • Office over the State Bank of St Johns. Resi- monia. who is teaching in Bengal. Jlence corner Cass and Ottawa streets. 1284 Mrs. Cora Clark was in Hoytville Jay Coffman has removed the remains a a $ k! PONT* III. D., Physician sndSur- Friday. of his wife, who was buried in the II geon. Office over H. L. Hicks’ millinery Bough ton graveyard, to St. Johns, by : t store, No. 14 Clinton avenue. Residence, corner Willis Wilbur, of Collins, was at this theside of her mother. of Lansing and Rodgers streets, St. Johns, Mich. place Friday. * sfs?| : ; Frank Robson and family, who have 3 • | 3 : £ M. HAVENS, Ml, D., Homoeopathic Mrs. Jesiah Monroe is visiting her g g a a d ► K fl ; « Physician and Surgeon. Office over R. J. daughter in Toledo. * spent the last three months in Texas ► ► g 0 WWoodruff ’s shoe store. 1188 have returned to their home. Among £ W a. 3 ■s a*s o : I Mr and Mrs. Artemas Briggs called their curiosities are a pair of prairie 35 a M a. R. A. J. WIGGINS, Physician and Sur­ on Delta one day last week. dogs and other specimens of the plant 55' _• S a2 25 1 * 25 £ o. D geon. Office south of residence, on 8pring Miss Bessie McCrump is home from kingdom. street, St. Johns, Mich.______1244tf Pottersville for a short time. •3 -S :3 S - 5 g3«S|«S E, GILLAtl, ffl. D«, Physician ana a a a g- 2 S• Surgeon. Office at Residence, opposite court Bert Hart and wife, of Wacousta, KEW, c3 x (5 « 2 louse, west. Office hourslto4p.m.,exceptWed- mil iced ay, then 6 to 9 p. m. 1188 visited at A. P. Hart’s Friday. 5555s Miss May Knot, of Grand Ledge, is From Our Correspondent. K. ERNEST SCHEMER, Physician and Owing to the bad condition of the Surgeon, Office over C. Gruler’s store the guest of Miss Addie Munroe. Sleeping And Parlor Car Service. DFowler. Mich. 1461 Miss Nellie Fish visited her brother, roads last week, our mail carrier was quite irregular in his trips. WEST-BOUND. |7* F. BECKWITH, M. D., OCULIST AND Henry Stearns, of Mulliken, Friday. 10:47 a. m. train has parlor car to Grand Rapids. AURIST, 225 E. Main St., Ionia, Mich. F. J. DeWitt and wife, of Grand Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker and Mr. and Extra charge 25 cents. Mrs* Dev Van Vleet, of Dear Dewitt, 7:59 p. m. train has parlor car to Grand Haven, W. INGHAHAll, UNDERTAKER Ledge, called on Eagle friends Friday. spent Sunday at E. L. Chadwicks. Extra charge 25 cents. Connects with steamer for S• Walker Street East, St. Johns, Mich. Miss Bessie McCrumb, who lias been Milwaukee. 1408 Surprise parties are getting numer ­ The evening train leaving St. Johns at 7:59 con ­ at Pottersville for a time, is home again. ous hereof late. Sam Sleight was sur­ nects with the evening boat for Milwaukee, and John Clark and wife have gone to leaves for theeast on the arrival of the boat in the Auctioneer**. prised Mondav night by friends in hon­ morning. Lowell to take possession of the new or of his birthday. The evening was Ou and after Nov 17, trains No 14 and 15 will not ichard freeman , auctioneer .— hotel. run west of Grand Rapids Farm property and merchandise sold on com ­ spent in dancing. missionR or by the day. Satisfaction guaranteed. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Through the efforts of some of his EAftT BOUND. Orders to my address through 8t. Johns post-office A. Borough on Thursday March 3. All scholars and Mr. and Mrs. A. Baron, 8:25 a. m, train has parlor car to Detroit. Extra will receive prompt attention. are invited. charge 25 cents. Pullman parlor car from Detroit Robert Smith, who teaches the Rheu- to Toledo connecting with sleeper for the East and OUIE BORON, AUCTIONEER. I am pre­ Rev. M. B. Carpenter, of Lansing, bottom school, was very pleasantly sur­ New York. L pared to sell farm prop-rty, household furni ­ occupied the Universalist pulpit Tues­ prised Friday night at the home of Mr. 6:23 p. m. train has parlor car to Detroit. Extra ture and general merchandise on most favorable day evening. Boron where he boards. A large party charge 25 cents, and Pullmsn sleeper from Detroll terms. I speak English, German and French.— to Toronto, Susoenslon Bridge, Buffalo, Philadel­ Orders through St. Johns post-office will receive A sleigh load of people from Eagle of young people gathered, and tried to phia and New York. promp t and careful attention. ______attended a dancing party at Mulliken make it interesting for Mr. Smith as 1:57 a. m. train has through day parlor cars and 7 EO. H. SOWLE, AUCTIONEER. Farm last Friday night. well as themselves. sleeper from Windsor to Suspension Bridge, Buffa­ CT stock and menhandlse sold by the day, on a lo, New York and Kostou. per cent, or by the ioo. Satisfaction guaranteed. Allie Bennet who has been visiting Mrs. A. T. Ferguson, who has been 8:25 a, in. and 12:10 p. m. train connects at Du­ Orders promptly filled. Post-office address, St sick most of the time for the past two rand with C. A O. T. biv. for Chicago. Johns, Mich. in Mt. Pleasant tor the past few weeks 8:25 a. m. and 5:23 p. m. trains connect at Durand returned Thursday. years, has undergone an operation and with CHAM for Saginaw and Bay City and with Mrs. Almond Partlow has purchased lies in a very critical condition. Mr. O A G T Div. for Pt. Huron and -'attic Creek. Ferguson has been tied down so close E. H. HUGHES. A.G. P. A., Chicago, III. Schedule of Teachers’ Examinations. a loom and is now prepared to do car­ in attending her that it has been almost BEN FLETCHER, Trmv. Pass. Agt., Detroit, M. Until further notice Teachers Examinations pet weaving at her home. THOS. BROMLEY, Agent. St. Johna. Mich. will be held as follows: impossible for him to attend to any St. Johns. High School Room, Third Thurs­ Rev. Urch, of Ionia, will lecture at other duties, so about twenty of his day and Friday of August. the M. E. church Friday eve., March 4. brother Maccabees gathered at his St. Johns Court House, Third Thursday and under auspices of Epworth League. woods Monday and proceeded to make California Excursions. Friday of October. Rev. Urch is an ex missionary and his St. Johns, Last Thursday and Friday of him a nice wood pile. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED. March. subject will be, “A Cruise on the Tropic St Johns, Court House, Third Thursday and Seas.” LEAVE CHICAGO EVERY WEDNESDAY Friday of June. TheW.C. T. U. held a mother’s Certificates of all grades will be granted at meeting at the home of Mrs. Hiram Burlington Route to Denver, thence via Den­ the examinations of St Johns in August and he ver A Rio Grand Ry. (the scenic lino of the March. Certificates of the second and third Snyders on Thursday afternoon. Sev ­ Demorest Family Magazine and T world). Parties travel in Pu -nan tourist grades will be granted at all other examina­ eral papers were read and discussed, Independent one year for 1.76. Call sleeping cars fitted with every: .invenlence, tions. which go through to California anil are in full All examinations will begin at 9 o ’clock a among the most interesting was one on at this office soon. charge of special agents of longexperienoe — m. “Child culture,” written by Mrs. Walter For particulars address T. A. GRADY,Excur R- M. WINSTON. Buckley. slon Mgr. C. B. A Q, R. K., 211 Clark St„ Chicago Commissioner of Sohools.