The ndependent. VOL XXXI.-NOr ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.. WHOLE NO.

BrarlllM. A PROFITABLE MEETING. LOSS BY FIRE. Village Caucus. 7 • _____ A Democratic-People ’a-Union-Silver THE TILLAGE WINS! the Crowley telephone —No. 7. Brotherhood of St. A ml row In Session ’ at caucus for the purpose of placing A Fine Young Horse Perished In the —8ilver men, are you registered ? Flint. Kmination candidates for the vari­ The third annual convention of the Devouring Flames. —Reuben It. Smith, of Eureka, has ous village offices and for the transac ­ Brotherhood of St. Andrew, of Miclu- About 5 o'clock last Friday morning tion of such other business as may prop ­ In its Suit Against the County- been granted a pension. By the Republicans for County n, was held in St.Paul's church. Flint, the bam of James A. Keeney, situated erly come before it. will be held at the Board oi Supervisors. —A pension has been granted to Sol­ School Commissioner. Kit Saturday and Sunday. There were Eugine House, in St. Johns. Monday omon L. Richards, of St. Johns. about 75 delegates present. In the se­ about 60 feet from the rear of his resi­ eveuing, March 1, 1897, at 7:30 o'clock. —Ex-county clerk Geo. H. Marshall lection of officers for the ensuing year, dence on Lansing street, was discovered The committee urges that all who sym­ is suffering from an attack of nuralgia. G. S- Scofield, of St. Johns, was chosen to be on fire, first by Mrs. Keeney, who pathize with the principles advocated SXALLI'OX HILLS Ml'ST BE PAID BY CONVENTION ELECTED DELEGATES a member of the council. Saturday —Mrs. F. A. Percey gave a very pleas ­ had risen from her bed to learn the time by this party, turn out and see that a COUNTIKS. ant “afternoon, ” Monday, to her lady TO THE STATE CONVENTION, noon a very fine dinner was served in strong ticket is placed in the field. friends. the chapel of the church by the ladies of day, when the light from the burning Rodney A. Beebe, of tbe parish. Among the delegates bam attracted her attention* She at L. D. Parr , ' —Born, to Wm. Shioyer, of Riley, were Rev. F. Hall and J. II. Corbit, who The Supreme Court Rendered » Deelsalon Saturday morning, February 20, a And Adopted Resolution* In Favor of XV. H. once informed her husband of the fact, O. A. Whitlock , went from here Saturday morning, re­ when he sprang from his bed aud com­ Committee. to That Effect LhM Week. daughter. Bruiisou ’* Candidacy for District turning in the evening. C. O. DuBois menced dressing himself. While thus —The latest thing out is “Gould's Attorney. went Saturday evening and remained engaged frantic neighbois pounded on Program Seal Brand ” cigar—a sweet aud refresh ­ over Sunday. Prominent among the his bedroom window and informed him Of the High School Literary Club, to be In 1895, the village of St. Johns pre ­ ing smoke, 10 cents. 2w-19 delegates present were A. M. Hadden, that his barn was on lire. Before our given Tuesday evening, March 2 : sented to the supervisors of Clinton —Ed. Kuhns has bought the stock of The Republicans of Clinton couuty associate secretary for the United alert fire department could reach the Music...... Mandolin Club clothing of Sullivan A Kuhns, aud will States, and W. J. Webber, of Detroit. scene of destruction, the building was Kecitutiou...... Alice Branch county bills aggregating $2,810, that be ­ remove it to Fowler. met in convention in the circuit court beyond the saving point. The barn was Vocal Solo ...... Mrs. Ed NcabU Obituary. Essay...... Adah sturrls ing the expense of the epidemic of small­ —See to it that you are properly regis­ room last Friday at 1 p. m. Every town ­ of good size and was almost surrounded Ftauo Solo ...... Mabel DaFoe pox in the village in 1894. The bill in ­ tered and prepared to vote at the ap ­ ship, except Westphalia, was more or John. Washington, one of Eureka's with good roomy sheds, which, altogeth ­ Recitutlon ...... W. Vredcnburyr cluded an item of $690 as extra com- proaching village election. less represented, and something like a old residents, died Friday, February 19, er, involved an outlay of about $750. In Vocal Solo ...... Thurza Judd 1897, aged 61 years, Mr. Washington the barn was a fine young horse, placed Head!or ...... Alice Kelly pensiou granted health officer Palmer at —Washburn ’s orchestra will furnish Newspaper ...... -Bertha Keys full convention was visible. was a man aud neighbor of high esteem. there the night before by a brother-in- Adtniee'on, 8 vents. the rate of $10 per day, and $150 paid music for the “Judas Maccabeus ” play C. C. Vaughan, chairman of the coun ­ His religious character was above re­ law of A. D. McCabe, a neighbor, and FANNY CHURCH, • him as a physician for attending indi ­ at Ovid, Saturday evening. ty committee, rapped the convention to proach. He was a charter member of without the knowledge of Mr. Kee­ Chairman of Program Com. gent patients. The board allowed the —A fine 16x20 portrait, gloss or pla- order, and after briefly stating the ob ­ the United Brethren church, to which ney or any member of his family. Had whole bill, except the $690. The circuit tino finish, for only $1.00, with orders, ject of the meeting, called J. T. Daniells, be remained faithful to the last. It may Mr. Keeney known that the horse was BUSINESS LOCALS court granted a mandamus to compel at Stage's East Side Studio. of Essex, to the cnair, aud, on motion, truthfully be said of Mr. Washington, there he might have been able to res­ the payment of this item, and last — Rep. Jackson has introduced a bill Mr. Vaughan was made temporary sec­ and not of all who profess and cal! cue it from its distressing situation. ep Thursday this action was sustained by in the House to provide for shutes or retary. themselves Christians —“none of these There was stored in the barn a new bean Shoes. P’rices from 25o to $1.00 per the supreme court. ladders in Maple river at Duplaiu. On motion of J. C. Brunson, of Vic­ things move me.” For many years sheller. a separator and a hay press, ail pair. Woodruff &’Troup , Counsel for the county contended —Miss Julia Smith entertained about tor. committees on credentials, perma ­ nearly all the burdens of the church of which were burned. The Shoe Dealers. that the health board cannot tix the nent organization and orderof business, rested on him. He did all with Chris ­ Through his heroic acts, which result­ compensation of one of its members, twenty of her friends at her home in To The Public, East Bingham last Thursday evening. were made to consist of three members tian willingness, looking for his reward ed in the burning of one of his hands in and thus bind the county for the pay ­ to be appointed by % the chair. The fol­ where nothing is withheld or forgotten. a painful manner, Mr. Keeney was en ­ Reports to the effect that I shall leave ment of the amount. The court did not —Several piekeral have been caught lowing were appointed : For several weeks he was a great suffer­ abled to pull out his tool-chest, a cutter St. Johns, are untrue. I shall stay right sustain this, inasmuch as it was con ­ at Moore' * Lake lately, the two largest On Credentials—D. II. Hunt, Bing ­ er, but bore it all with Christian resig­ and a buggy. This is about all that was here so long as the people show by their ceded that the charges were reasonable, weighing 16 and 15 pounds, res pectively. ham: A. M Birmingham, Duplain ; C. nation. saved. The estimated total loss is be ­ actions that they think I have the right nor did it sustain the further contention —Judge Daboll will deliver his lec­ C. Taylor, Ovid. Ilis funeral took place aj the Evan ­ tween $900 to $1.(XX), on which there is to live. If there are “too many jewelry that the law places the burden of pay ­ ture. “The Capture of Fort Fisher, ” at On Permanent Organization and Order gelical church, at 1 p. m. on Sunday last, an insurance of $500—$300 on contents stores here,” and the public elect that I ment of health officers upon the town ­ Dennis' hall. Eureka, oa Saturday eve of Business—John C. Brunson, Victor; and was the largest ever held in that and $200 on building, in the Clinton shall be the first to go, will do so, but ship, city or village. On the contrary ning of this week. Itobert Anderson, Essex; Marshall place. Rev. F. M. McClintock. presiding County Mutual. not until then. Realizing the extreme it held that it was the intent of the leg­ —At the business meeting of the Hand, Olive. elder of the U. B. church, officiating. Had it not been for the promptness business depression, I have decided, un ­ islature to put upon the county the bur ­ Michigan Republican Club, in Detroit The report of the committee on per ­ The discourse was an able one. A wid­ and alertness of the members of our fire til “prosperity comes,” to make the fol­ den for extraordinary services rendered this week, E. P. Waldron, of this vil­ manent organization and order of busi ­ ow and two daughters survive him. His department on the spot, the house would lowing prices on watch work : to prevent the spread of contagious dis­ lage. was chosen a member of the board ness, recommended that the temporary remains were laid to rest in Eureka's have been licked up bv the flames as was Cleaning, ...... 50c ease and for the care of indigent per ­ organization be made permanent, which cemetery, amid great honors. the bam. In fact, the outlook was so Main-springs ...... 50c sons afflicted with such disease. of directors. —The first wool of the season bought was adopted. favorable that Mr. Keeney removed most Jewels...... 50c in this market, was 250 pounds of lamb's Nominations for County School Com­ of its contents. The loss will be prompt ­ Hairsprings ...... 50c wool purchased by Foercli & Danley, missioner being now in order. Robert SCENES OF LONG AGO ly adjusted and paid. Crystals, hunting case...... 10c PATRIOTIC EVENING." the wide-a-wake dealers in farm pro Anderson.of Essex, presented the name Crystals, open face, thick ...... 15c of the preseut incumbent, R. M. Win ­ Re-enacted at a Church Social at tli« High School Notes. Ail other work at same reduction, and duce, last Saturday. The price paid all work fully warranted. Celebrated by the La

Swallowod a Sliver Dollar. MICHIGAN SOLONS. Widoe has a substitute for the flat records of missing soldleraj to empower too* BlIB- OATS, I7» BIS. BABLKT. TlVliEN THE LAKES. Truman Hunter, a Grand Rapids two-cunt passenger fare ou railroads in township boards to fix the time for M. M. Luther, East Troy, Pa., grew plumber, was playing with a silver a bill providing for the issuing of 600 closing saloons; to prescribe a course of 209 bushels Salter's Silver Mine Oats, dollar, throwing it into the air and PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE aud 1,000 mile tickets good for family studies to be known as the Agricul ­ and John Breider. Mishicott, Wla., 17$ MICHIGAN NEWS RECORDED IN bushels Sliver King Barley per acre. catching it in his mouth. The dollar, LEGISLATURE. or firm for two cents a mile in the tural college course; to provide for the NEWS FOR MICH IQ ANDERS. after one throw, started down his lower peninsula and two and one-half inspection of trees, shrubs, vines, etc., Don ’t you believe It? Write them! throat. Hunter felt it going and cents in the upper peninsula. Other imported from other states; to prohibit Fodder plants ae , rape, teoalnte. BtiuouniU, Mllvrrltoa and Part ot the sought to stop ifby grasping his neck Summary of the Principal BUla Intro- important House bills: Providing for shooting or hunting of wild game on vetch, spurry, clover*, grasses, etc., in and nearly chcked. He was taken to the assessing of all bank stock In the Sunday. endleas varieties, potatoes at $1.50 a Populist* Name a Fusion Ticket— dared and of the Doing* of tbe Both a hospital. An examination showed place where the bank is located; barrel. Sailer's seeds are bred to big Branches—Pingree Reform M rain re* With only two bills passed in the Mtrhlgan Club Banquet at Detroit that the dollar had goue clear down, to give township boards the same Senate and four in the House, and yields. America’s greatest seed cata­ Beginning to Cnt Quite n Figure. an Enjoyable Occasion. and that he had been choking himself. power to suppress saloons in any par ­ these of only local importance, there logue and 12 farm seed samples are The doctors do not apprehend serious ticular locality es the village councils were Introduced in one day a total of sent you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., consequences, and think that the now hold; to increase the fees for In ­ 150 measures in the House and 50 in La Crosse. Wla., upon receipt of 10 Michigan Club Banquet. The Senate will have a committee to money will soon be available. corporating companies to about $35 on the Senate. The most important of cents stamps, vorth $10, to get a start. The twenty-first annual feast of ora ­ Investigate tho Detroit house of cor­ the first $1,000 of capital stock, and to the Senate bills were these: For the w.ou tory and other good things by the rection, but without expense to the THE TWO PENINSULAS. $1 for each additional $1,000 of stock; formation of unincorporated telephone Michigan club, at Detroit, was fully state. As the time limit for the intro ­ Albert R. Griffith, aged 62, was found duction of bills approaches both houses providing that all property owners companies; allowing upper peninsula up to any of the past events which Bay City has given half of her Wash ­ drowned in the Ohio river at Cincin ­ are flooded with measures more or less mast make sworn statements of the legislators $5 per day while in session; nati. He was a cousin of Gen. Grant made the enviable reputation of the ington park to the Detroit «fc Mackinac value of their property, and to do away to largely increase the governor ’* and was a steamboat engineer. It oiuh. The absence of the bright partic ­ Important. In the Senate the follow ­ railroad. with the township boards of review, military staff by permitting the head looks like a murder. ular star—lion. M. A. Hanna, of Ohio, ing are presented: To license firearms Mrs. H. Little, aged 70, of Coldwater, creating a county board of review; for of each military department of the chairman of the national Republican for the killing of game; for soldiers ’ was burned beyond recovery while a bounty on kingfishers, for the better state to make staff appointments of “I was troubled with that dreadful committee—disappointed many of those relief commissions in cities and town ­ building a kitchen fire. protection of trout; providing that un ­ colonels to the number of three each, disease called dropsy; swollen from present, but the numerous other speak ­ ships; to repeal the law requiring two head to foot.- Burdock Blood Bitters The new $60,000 8t. John ’s Orphan married women who are led astray may the positions being honorary; for a ers filled in the time and spirit of the years’ active work in an attorney ’s office has completely cured me. It Is a most asylum at Grand Rapids was dedicated secure a secret marriage license upon stale examining board of seven mem­ occasion so well that tbe affair was before admission of applicants to prac ­ wonderful medicine. ” Josepb- Ilcriok, by Bishop Richter and a dozen priests. proper showing before the probate bers to be appointed by the governor highly appreciated. Gen. R. A Alger, tice at the bar; to prohibit normal Lin wood, Ont. An intoxicated Indian and his dog. judge, and providing a $100 fine for for the examination of all appointees President McKinley ’s secretary of war, schools taking up university work; lying on the track near Gladwin, were cutting amount of Immediate relief for any official or newspaper publisher in the M. N. G., before they can hold The office of the Pittsbnrg Post, was was toastmaster, and after a few of ! who makes the matter public; to make office; to compel drug stores that sell almost totally destroyed by fire caus­ his enlivening remarks had placed l run over and killed by a Michigan the poor from $20 to $10 in each case Central passenger tram. telephone stock only $10 a share so liquors to buy liquor licenses; to pro ­ ing a loss to the paper of about $60,000' everybody in good humor —if they and having such accounts audited by that small companies can be organized; vide for the electrocution of criminals and about $40,000 to the building; well needed such an inducement after their . Frank Burdick, aged 31, attempted township boards instead of poor com­ providing that verbal threats of injury who shall be convicted of murder in insured. banqueting —Gov. Pingree was intro ­ to steal a ride on a freight train from missioners; to establish a reformatory to property can be prosecuted; for a the first degree, when the jury so re­ duced and delivered one of his charac ­ Grand Blanc to Detroit, but fell under for women; for a state forestry com­ Thousands of the victims of consump ­ $10,000 appropriation to Improve Kala­ commended, and for the electrocution teristic speeches of welcome. Then the wheels and was cut in two. mission; appropriating $33,600 for the tion owe their death to the simple neg ­ Central Michigan normal schooL The mazoo river in Calhoun county; to pre ­ of convicts convicted of mnnler of a lect of a cold. Dr. Woofl ’s Norway followed Congressman Hopkins, of Ill­ The Kalamazoo companies of the vent the pollution of streams and lakes Michigan National Guard are preparing flood of bills was still greater in tbe fellow prisoner in state prisons; pro ­ Pine Syrup cures coughs and colds, inois, whose subject was “Our Nation. ” by sewage from cities, the Great lakes viding that bicycle insurance compan ­ bronchitis and all throat and lung Senator-elect Penrose, of Pennsylvania, a grand rcoeption, ball and banquet to House, the most important being these: not included; providing that newspaper ies must have at least $10,000 of paid tronbles. spoke on “Washington ’s Influence on be tendered Gov. Pingree and his staff For a state board of steam boiler in ­ spectors; requiring patent medicines, reporters need not divulge in court the up capital, and must always keep Modern American Politics.” Curtis Feb. 26. secret sources of their information; to The safe in the Clearfield, Pa., post- eto., to be tested by the state board of up securities to the amount of ooe- office was blown open and $1,000 worth Gu'ld, of Boston, “The Republican During a fist fight between George prevent discrimination between ship ­ £arty.” Then John A Logan, Jr., the health; to prevent the use of animals, tenth of the total amount of risk; ot stamps and $300 in cash stolen. Lusby and Frank Kopff at Ann Arbor dead or living, for scientific purposes pers of freight on railroads; to amend to prohibit railroad companies from son of the famous “Slack Jack’’ Logan, the later dangerously injured Lusby the law relative to Sunday observance whom the old soldiers loved so dearly, in the public schools; providing that taking up their tracks; to provide foe Covchlni Lead* to Conaomptloa. by pounding him over the head with a assaults made ou women under guise so as to keep theaters closed on that the appointment of a state board of Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough Oaaie before the assemblage In response nail puller. of professional confidence shall be day; to provide for more severe pun ­ health commissioners; to encourage at once. Go to your druggist today to “Old-Fashioned Republicanism. ” Curtis Baird, who escaped from jail ishment of assault on women. and get a sample bottle free. Large Patriotism” was allotted to O. J. prosecuted tbe same as rape cases with and provide for military instruction in at Coldwater last July by making a Bills by the dozen and bills by tho bottles, 35 cents and 50 cents. Go al Corey, of Chicago; and Hon. Albion the same penalties attached; providing the public schools; to regulate the wooden key and unlocking the door, holding of meetings for running and once; delays are dangerous. Tourgee, of New York, closed the that only $1*7.75 shall be the limit of score. Every legislator seems to have has just been captured at Bronson and exemption from garnishee, instead of a whole pocketful he has been holding trotting horse races, limiting them to toasts with “The Flag.” returned to jail. Dividends of 20 per cent have been During the afternoon preceding tbe $25; for the incorporation of cyclone .back until the 50-day limit for their 10 days; to require persons operating declared to creditors of the First Na­ Augustus ltlurton, of Pittsford, was insurance companies; providing that introduction had almost passed. The threshing machines to procure a li­ tional bank of Mt Pleasant. banquet Gen. Alger gave a reception fatally injured by the fast mail on the at his residence to the distinguished only taxpayers may vote on questions most important new ones in the Sen ­ cense; to require notice to be given of j Lake Shore. Blurton was intoxicated, Involving the disposition of money; to ate are these: Making the one-sixth action to recover damages on account | Anyone who suffers from that terri­ guests who were to speak at the ban ­ and drove into the westbound fast mail quet. and hundreds of Michigan Re­ abolish the state live stock sanitary mill tax for the maintenance ofdhe U. of death or personal injuries; to amend ble plague. Itching Piles, will appre ­ train. He was frightfully mangled. publicans took the occasion to greet commission; to provide women physi ­ of M. wholly dependent upon the re­ the net relative to prize fighting, fixing ciate the immediate relief and perma ­ Chas. Noss. aged 31, living near Har­ cians and attendants upon female in ­ moval of the homeopathic school to a penalty for using less than five ounce nent cure that comes through the use them. and congratulate the new secre­ of Doan ’s Ointment It never fails. tary of war. bor Springs, was hauling a load of logs mates of insane asylums; to reduce the Detroit; providing that no member of gloves. Rep. Davis has begun a war when his horses shied and the logs penalty for receiving stolen goods the board of control of the Soldiers ’ against plank roads, offering a renolu-| commenced to rolL Noss jumped but under $35 in value from five years’ im­ Home shall be eligible to reappoint ­ tion to require the attorney-general to I The Ypsilanti normal school asks for A Fusion Ticket Nominated. a new electric lighting plant , * It required a whole afternoon ’s work was caught and his head crushed to a prisonment to one year; appropriating ment or to the position of commandant receive all complaints made against . $36,000 for the Ypsilanti normal school; until at least two years after the ex­ plauk mod companies and personally to bring the silver Democrats, the Sil­ pulp. j Have you earache, toothache, sore ver party (mostly Republicans), ODd Four dogs hitched to a sledge drew providing for imprisonment at hard piration of his term of office as a mem­ investigate them, and if after such throat, pains or swellings of any sort? the Populists together on common Veterinary Surgeon Dcadman from the labor for from three months to one ber of the board: for the appointment hearings he is satisfied that there have A few applications of Dr. Thomas ’ ground in convention at Grand Rapids, Soo to Alpena in six hours. The dis­ year of parents who torture, starve, of a state commission to examine the been violations of charters, he is in ­ Eelectric Oil will bring relief almost ar,d even then the middle-of-the-road tance is 6.1 miles. One of the dogs has abandon or willfully deprive of shelter records and books of all building and structed to Itegin proceedings against instantly. Populists kicked over the traces and a trotting record of a mile in three children under 16 years of age; to loan associations; to make express com­ tint companies for a forfeiture. Rep. I nominated a ticket of their own. Tbe minutes. change the name of West Bay City to panies pay 8! tax on each 8100 of gross Goodell introduced a resolution author- ' When a man is “beside himself ” he gener ­ receipts and to compel them to file an ­ izing a committee to investigate and ally demonstrates that he doesn't like tbe ticket named by the tripartite fusion- E. H. Powers, a prominent plumber Wenona; to provide for the collection company. report the names and occupations of i b»ls is as follows: nt Niles has received word from Val­ of village taxes by the county treas­ nual reports; a bill to permit insurance against burglaries, robberies and loss all employes of the state who are get- I NO-TO-BAC FOR FIFTH CENTS. For supreme court justice—George encia, Spain, that by the death of M. ; urer; to authorize the formation of a corporation for the prevention of cru­ of money by transmission in the mails; ting $800 a year or over with a view to Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac L. Yaple (Democrat), of Mcndon. Sarbore, his brother-in-law, he becomes regulate or remove your desire for tobacco. to protect heirs of depositors in savings a complete revision of salaries. A For regent of the University —Stan ­ heir to $162,000 as the only relative of elty to animals and children; Saves money, makes health and manhood. banks so that if at the end of 15 months Cure guaranteed, 5Jc. and tl.uO. all druggists. ley E. Purkhill (Silver Republican), of the Spaniard. for the stamping of boots and shoes, labor arbitration bill which will be composed partly or wholly of nothing is added or drawn from depos ­ pushed in the House provides that | Owosso. Norman Richardson, a Plainfield It is a long step toward Heaven to be born Forregentof tbe University —Thorne Imitation leather; for a homeopathic its, tbe fact shall be advertised by the when strikes are threatened a labor In a home where tbe Bible Is loved. township, Kent county, farmer, was ; college of medicine at Detroit; bank; for an amendment to the consti ­ commissioner shall investigate, and if ' Support (Populist), of Webberville. killed while drawing a load of logs. I I believe my prompt use of Piso'a Cure The break iu the Populist ranks was for the supplying of state institutions tution providing that the governor necessary appoint an arbitration board 1 prevented quick consumption. Mrs. Lucy llis sled “slewed” while crossing a with Michigan products; to prohibit may require the supreme court to pass of seven men to settle and adjust the Wallace, Marquette, Kan*., Dec. 12. IKK caused by a strong opposition to fusion bridge and he was crushed between which finally resulted in about half any contractor or debtor from paying upon bills sent to him for his approval; strike, tuber House measures: Making I the logs and tbe bridge. "Business ” covers a multitude of transac ­ the delegates organizing a bolting con ­ any money to a laborer in a saloon; for a revision of the rape law so as to it a misdemeanor for anyone to ' John Mobre. was found dead at Mon- j tions just out of reach of tbe law. vention which elected a state central for the licensing of sleeping and parlor require the proseeutor, when the girl attend a state political convention | Riches exclude only one inconvenience, committee, with Sullivan Cook, of roe, having committed suicide by tak­ car companies doing business in Mich ­ in the case is between the ages of 13 and as a delegate when he is not and that is proverty. —Johnson. Hartford, as chairman, and nominated ing laudanum. Moore threatened to igan; to prevent monopolies in articles 16. and the carnal relation wns had a citizen of the state; providing kill himself and other members of his of general necessity; requiring bills of without force, to show that the girl foe a bicycle corps for the Michigan ' Mnke Tew Thosmid Dollar* l»T otiewllur £nr justice of tbe supreme court John PASTKI'UTNE HUM. For particular* wtl;* -IIIUK ■0. Zabel, of Monroe; for regents of the wife’s family, on account of his wife’s fare in public eating places to be was previously of a chaste character in National Guard, the corps to contain T. UlU.IkKV A CO., at. L*ul., M*. University, M. O. Graves, of Petoskey, applying for divorce. Moore was given printed in English. order to secure conviction; to punish not more than 50 and not less thau 3C to drink. When a man is the slave of gold, he Is serv­ and Robert McDougall, of Hillsdale. Gov. Pingree ’8 appointments are be ­ males and females over 15 years of age utemliers, to be located at Lansing, ing a pretty hard master. The middle-of-the-road Populists will James Mitchell, aged 97, the father ginning to receive more respectful con ­ for debauching the persons and de­ inemliers to furnish their own bicycles | God has never tried to make a man who ciaim the party name and will insist of John Mitchell, of Reed City, w#s sideration from tbe Senate. Col. Fred praving the morals of boys under 15 and guns, the state to appropriate $40C could please everybody. H. Case, of Three Rivers, was con ­ years of age; permitting hotel keepers for the 4-orapany; an amendment to the upon being counted. fonnd in a swamp near Big Rapids, BW* Couch FsKtm badly frozen. The old man was on his firmed as inspector-general of the M. to sell chattels left by non paying constitution whereby the governor can I* the oldest ood beat. It will braok i-u n Cold qnlokM Several Wayne Firm* Borne* Oat. way to visit his brother Henry, but N. G. by a vote of 18 to 8, but the op ­ boarders; appropriating $170,925 for appoint a state commission to secure Uuui anything aba lU*kl«u i raliaM*. Try It. proliably lost his way. He will prob ­ position maae a hard fight. The ap ­ the Michigan School for the Deaf; pro ­ uniform legislation; for a state exam­ Between & and C a. m. tbe Stringer Half of the sweetness of life is lost by try­ block in Wayne village was discovered ably die. pointment of A. C. Bird, of Highland, viding for the use of district school ining board of “tonsorial artists;” foi ing to dodge enjoy ment ho be on tire. The portion of the block The Sunday Lake Mining Co., at to be a member of the board of control houses for religious meetings, where the municipal ownership of telephones; of the Agricultural college, was also five people make the request; making for the appointment of two women on Just try a lOc.box of Cascarets.candy cathar ­ burned was the grocery store of John Bessemer, has reduced wages 10 per tic. the naest liver and bowel regulator made. U. Murphy, the hardware store of J. cent. This is the third Gogebic mine confirmed. Senator Wagar noticed a void contracts made payable, in gold; the Soldiers ’ Home board; for redis­ B. Kleabir, cigar factory of John Fitz- that has made reductions from 10 to 15 bill making a wholesale reduction in providing one-tenth of a mill tax iu tricting the congressional districts ol It In better to be a mustard need than a mountain of dead rock. gibbons and law office of Edward M. per cent to meet the Norric mine sjale. salaries of state officials and which townships and cities for the support of the state; providing that employes of will make an annual cut of $50,000 in soldiers ’ relief commissions, which the state, county and city governments are Voting. The household furniture of Mil ersnow get on company account Whin bUlious or costive, eat a Cascaret. C. Hogarth, who resided iu the block, from $1.15 to $1.35. the salary list. Senator Campbell act provides for; prohibiting the sole to receive their salaries weekly; tc candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c. Sjc. was also destroyed. Mr. Vining, who wants to make a saving in the same and manufacture of cigarettes; provid ­ prohibit the killing of deer in the John Jaskewicz, one of the guards ing a penalty of a 850 fine for lowering The state board of corrections and was sleeping in a room adjoining his at St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic church line by cutting down the capitol em­ lower peninsula; to prohibit prize ployes. Other important Senate bills: upper berths in sleeping cars when charities has already recommended to law office, barely escaped death and at Bay City, was taken with cramps fighting, except it be done under Creating the office of legislative proof they are not nctually in use; to amend the legislature appropriations aggre­ was compelled to jump from a second while on duty and died soon afterward , the auspices of athletic clubs and with I reader and doing away with engrossing the liquor law, raising the license for gating $943,762, and has yet to pass on story window. Nothing in the build ­ in great agony, tearing the clothing five ounce gloves; to license fishermen; the estimates of the Pontiae and Trav­ ing was saved. It is presumed that and enrolling clerks; to suspend, the retail dealers to 87.10, and for to appropriate $74,900 for the from his breast. He was a leader in wholesalers to 81,000 per year; erse City asylums. the Are was accidental. the anti-Bogacki faction and was ap ­ printing of all state publications for fish commission; to abolish the two years except the state manual and to divide the state of Michigan into 13 office of state geologist; to abol ­ parently strong and healthy. The cor ­ congressional districts. Rep, K. W. Warden Van Kvcra Resign*. oner will investigate. laws; amending the village incorpora ­ ish the bounty for the destruc­ Warden John R. Van Evera has ten ­ tion act so as to provide for boards of Moore introduced a bill in tbe House tion of sparrows; providing for town ­ dered his resignation of the warden* It is alleged that the German Aid public works; for the examination of to repeal the special charter of the ship system of roads; to provide for the ship of the upper peninsula branch society, No. 2 of Port Ilnron, does a persons elected or recommended for Michigun Central R. R. so as to bring examinations of all corporations by the thriving liquor business on Sunday. it under the two-cent fare law. A Purify prison at Marquette, and the same has offices in the National Guard from commissioner of banking; to prohibit They sell tickets at 25 cents each dur­ been accepted, to take effect at once. lieutenant up; providing for boards of single tax measure was introduced by additional compensation to express Tour blood now with a course of Mood's ‘Sarsapa ­ ing the week, which are redeemable in Rep. Stoneman. It provides for an rilla and lie ntron'g and vigorous when the changa George 11. Freeman, clerk of the county auditors for every county companies for delivery of packages to wurmer weather comes. prison, has been appointed his succes­ beer on Sunday at the German garden. amending the law relating to mutuul exemption of $5,000 on buildings nnd within limits of chartered cities; pro ­ It is said that this has been going on sor. Mr. Van Evera served four years fire insurance companies so that every personal property or realty so as to re­ hibiting the killing of beaver, otter or for some time past but that the officers and has given the highest satisfaction. company must have $100,000 worth of lieve the small property owners ns far fisher until Jan. 1, 1901; authorizing have no power to stop it. He has taken charge of the large coal insurance before beginning business; as possible. Rep. Atkinson has an im­ appointment of three attorneys to ex­ business of Pickands & Co. on Lake Joseph Shelters, aged 14, lived alone amending the liquor-law, making the portant bill which provides for a state amine and report upon a revision of Hoods Superior. with his mother at Whitehall. Tom closing hours 9 o ’clock at night to 7 commission to regulate the assessed the legal procedure in this state in Brooks, aged 35, was a frequent visitor o ’clock in the morning, provided that valuation of property, real and per ­ civil eases; prohibiting notary public Gov. ringree's Military Staff. at the Shelters home much to the dis­ Sarsaparilla in cities of over 10,000 population, com­ sonal. by which it is hoped, as has from taking any acknowledgment or Is tho best■est—IIn fact the One True P ood Puritior. taste of the boy who warned him to The governor has appointed his mili­ mon councils may permit saloons to been Hone in other states, to enforce a oath of a member of a hank when the Hnnd ’c Pill c are the only ta!«. tary siaff, as follows: Eli R. Sutton, of keep away. Not heeding the boy ’s keep open on all holidays except cash value assessed valuation on nil notary is an officer of su:h bank; mak­ IIMUU .» rilla W|t|, ood ’*San«ai>ari.ia. Detroit, colonel and* aide-de camp; threats Brooks called at the house and Thanksgiving and Christmas, and open property throughout the state. Other ing it unlawful for any person to serve Charles W. Herbst, of Detroit, colonel young Shelters fired a charge of buck ­ up at 4 a. tn. and remain open until new House bills: Imposing a specifie as an appraiser or commissioner of es­ and aide-de-camp; Geo. A. Loud, of shot into him at short range and 12:30 o'clock. Among bills passed by tax on persons, firms and corporations tates more than once in one town in*a PATENTS, TRADE MARKS Oscoda, colonel and aide-de-camp; Brooks will probably die. the Senate were these: For the incor ­ engaged in exporting minerals out of year; prohibiting pool selling in Mich-1 Examination and Advice aa to Patentability of In ­ vention. Send for •Invanlora ’ OttMe. or How to Data Frank I). Buckingham, of Flint, col­ The Michigan Trust Co., which was poration of labor organizations; fixiug the state; to provide for proceedings igan; providing for township commis­ Patent. ” OTARRELL A SOS. WaUtinitton. a U onel and aide-decamp; Willard K. made a receiver for the R. G. Peters a penalty of 20 for unlawfully wearing in garnishment against persons who sioner for destruction of noxious weeds Bush, of Detroit, major and military Sait and Lumber Co., and R. G. Peters, badges of the G. A. R. or the Loyal have embezzled property or money; in highways; for emasculation of third- IS secretary. of Mnnistee, when Peters failed six liegion. Pingree legislation got in on to prevent the use of trap, stake, gill term convicts and insane persons; es­ ALARASTINE- __ ... WHAT?* years ago, report to the U. S. court at the ground floor of the House. The or set net in waters, connecting tablishing a lien on horses and other A pure, permanent and aritalic wall-coating Two Little One* Burned to Death. Grand Rapids that every creditor has much-talked-of move to get at the rail­ Lakes Huron and Erie: to ap ­ animals for the co6t of storing ready for the brush by mixing in cold watar. Mrs. Thos. Bros noski locked her two been paid in full and there remains roads appeared in a resolution offered propriate 86.000 for the state Itoard the same; establishing uniform rules FOR SALE BY PAINT DEALERS EVERYWHERE. children in the house at Iron Mountain of health to comply with the aid pro ­ rnrr i A Tint Card showing "2 dealrable tints, about $1,000,000 for Mr! Peters. When by Rep. VVldoe which was adopted by for incorporation of churches, | inLL al»<> Alabanl ne Souvenir Ho<-k sent free and went down town, to do some trad­ the failure occurred a committee of a vote of 36 to 6. It provides for the viding for teaching in public schools religious and Sabbath schools; J ■ iiak to any one mentioning thl* paper. ing. While away, the house caught ' creditors examined the assets the de­ appointment by the speaker of a com- the modes by which tho dangerous for local taxation of railroads whether ALABAST'NE CO., Osasn Rapid *. Mich . Are and burned down. Both children clared that not 50 cents ou the dollar .mittce of three members to investigate communicable diseases are spread; to operating under special charter or gen ­ perished. could be paid. any violation of the law relative to provide for the display of U. 8. flags eral laws; to prohibit making contracts I HOW TO CET A T. 8. Bailey, a veterinary surgeon freight charges on the part of the rail­ over school buildings; to require oounty payable in gold alone; providing that J I QQ BICYCLE FREE George Hart’s two-year-old son fell and harness dealer, of Cassopolis, came ways operating under the general law treasurers to make monthly statements; only property holders may vote on ques- ™ • WW wlW I VhH l llmhl on a knife at Greenville, and was as near being frightened to death as it or under special charters, and to re­ to prohibit the keeping open of photo ­ tlons involving expenditure of money; my*tery to solve, killed, the knife piercing his heart. is possible without his dropping. Ten- port remedial legislation with refer­ graph galleries on Sunday; an appro ­ prohibiting express and freight compa ­ ho;tedious word a Jerry O'Leary was killed at the year-old Myrtle Bryan was seen crawl­ ence thereto. The committee is au­ priation of $60,000 for the l. of M.j to nies from chargingmore than one rate, orders, to take. Cleveland Cliffs furnace at Gladstone, ing out a side window of Bailey’s shop thorized to subpoena witnesses, to ex­ declare unlawful and void all arrange ­ the- maximum rate over their own Only some writing in your own. homo, ] while repairing the signal bell on the at 8 p.m. The marshal caught her and amine books and papers, and to employ ment*, contracts and agreements, jurisdiction, in transporting packages, particulars send stamped) addressed envaio ejevato*- she confessed that Bailey ill-treated touch assistants as may be necessary, trusts or combinations, made with a «■ von though two lines have to be used 1 Household Pn%, A IVYjp Co., The students of Hope college at Hol­ her. The brute was captured at his and is to report within 30 days. The view to lessen competition; to provide to get the consignment to its destina ­ 64 Bleecker Street, New toi land have formed a co-operative society homo and marched to jail surrounded civil aervloe bill, affecting all counties a remedy for persons aggrieved by over ­ tion; compelling railroad oompanics to for the purchase of books and claim to by a mob which threatend to lynch having a population of over 100,000, charging by railroad companies; pun ­ give Interchange of service of track; save 20 per cent. ,I him, but lie was safely locked up and all eltiea having » population of ishing any person making false busi ­ prohibiting discrimination in express Mrs. Alva True, an aged lady of J >Vhll « prospecting for gold on the over 20,000, was noticed by Rep. Weth- ness reports; prohibiting the preference charges, the minimum rate to be 18 Rives Junction, fell on the icy sidewalk | range north of Ishpemlng John Kenny erbee. Rep. Chamberlain wants to en ­ of creditors by means of mortgages, cents per consignment in the lower at Jackson and fractured her hip. found two specimens which experts say act tho Torrens land transfer system, etc.; to compel counties to take oare of and 25 cents per consignment in the Recovery is doubtful. I w<”»ld 8 '"»y 4he rat* •l*.® 00 » 400 which does away with abstracts. Rep. their indigent*; for the publication of nnner peninsula. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 . 1897.

apron, and reached down her hat from run the risk of such other chance as way to a pictured mansion. And I tell CATCHING A BURGLAR the pegs behind the kitchen door. TALM AGE’S SERMON. wise men think they can peel off or you If you will come and enliat under CATARRH OF THE THROAT. “Hurry, why don ’t you?” said Mias twist out of a Scripture passage that the banner of our Victor Emmanuel, A WOMAN’S TERRIBLE SUFFERING WITH IT O,” Mid Betsey Hardscrabble. has for all the Christian centuries been and follow him through thick and thin, SHATTERED FAITH LAST AND ITS ATTENDING EVILS. Jane, “nothing “I am a-hurrylng, ain ’t I?” retorted SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. interpreted another way.” You.say: and. fight his uattlcs, and endure his shall indace me to Betsey Jane "I do not like Princeton theology, or sacrifices, you will find after awhile After Treatment She Finds Herself Free change my mind, But at this moment a rumbling New Haven theology, or Andover that he has changed your heart from From all Symptoms of Catarrh and From the Text! “And Some Are Broke* mem. I’ve give sound, like the throes of a miniature theology. ” I do not ask you on board a Jungle of thorny scepticisms Into a Headache* Are Oaty n Memory. Pieces from the Ship” — Acta, Chap, garden all a doom with luxuriant ley warning, and I earthquake, struck on both their ears. either of these great men-of-war, their From the Courier-Herald, Saginaw, Mich. shall stick to It! “He’s knocked down the whole half ter XLVII, Verse 44 — Saving the portholes filled with the great siege- that you have never dreamt of. From The number of remedies for the Uls that No girl, mem, as ton of coal!" screamed Betsey Jane. Wrecked on Life’i Tempestuous Sea- guns of ecclesiastical battle. But I do a tangled Caprera of sadness into a human flesh is heir to which are placed on respects herself “He’s banging at the door to get ask you to take the one plank of the paradise of God. tue market is almost innumcr • bie, and the I do not know how your theological public at large is ur one to class all these could put up with out!” shrieked Miss Hardscrabble. EVER off Goodwi . Gospel that you do believe In add strike remedies oa worthless. The pub ie is not al- the sort of trent- Away went Betsey Jane after the po ­ Sands, or the Skere, out for the pearl-strung beach of system went to pieces. It may be that wuvs right, however, us some of ibese rem­ edies, by their sterling worth, have over ­ » meat as I gets at lice, while her mistress locked herself ries, or Cape Hat- heaven. your parents atarted you with only one plank, and you believe little or came the prejudice against patent medicines, No. 54. The way cold meat, mem, is In and considered whether there was teras, was a ship In Says some other man: “I would at­ ami are rapidly wiuu.ng their way by the weighed afore it goes off the table to enough red lavender and valerian In worse predicament tend to religion If I was quite sure nothing. Or they may have been too force of true merit to pub.ic favor. Of the make sure as there ain ’t anything the bouse to justify her going into hys ­ than. In the Medl- about the doctrine of election and free rigid and severe in religious discipline, latter class there is none more prominent and cracked you over the head with or more popular in this vicinity h t least, than cribbed off It before It comes back for terics. And then the police arrived, t e r r a n ean hurri ­ agency, but that mixes me all up. ” the remeuy known as Dr Williams’ Pink nine o ’clock supper, with a Welsh rab ­ and she hadn ’t time to indulge her ner ­ cane, was the grain Those things used to bother me, but a psalm book. It may be that some Pills for Pale People. The work dou- by bit and a pickle! And as for me, mem, vousness. ship on which two I have no more perplexity about them; partner in business who was a member these pellets in relieving cases which otb«-r for I say to myself: “If I love Christ of an evangelical church played on you remedies and physicians have failed to re­ I*m expected to live off bread and “Come out of here, you vlllln! ” hundred and sev- lieve, has caused many people lo rise up cheese and salt pork. And the old gent growled Policeman 20,000.02. eity-six passengers and live a good; honest, useful life, a trick that disgusted you with re­ und call them b essed. he measures all coal by the scuttleful, “Let me out!” roared a voice from were driven on the I am elected to be saved; and if I do ligion. It may be that you have asso­ A number of i hese cases having come to the the Inside. not love Christ, and live a bad life, I ciates who have talked against Chris ­ knowledge of the courier-Herald.the parties and says I’ll bring him to the poor- coast of Malta, five miles from the me­ retried benefited by these pills have be**n house if I don ’t leave off wasting the “Yes, I’ll let you out,” said Police­ tropolis of that island, called Citta will be damned, and all the the theo ­ tianity in your presence until you are interviewed The reporter, whose dut v itbn* kindling-wood —and Miss Ziewriah she man 20,000.02. “Oh, you hoary-headed Vecchla. After a two-weeks ’ tempest, logical seminaries of the universe can ­ “all at sea,” and you dwell more on been lo look up these cases was skeptic. . counts the very lumps of sugar and the old sinner, just come along with me!” when the ship was entirely disabled, not make it any different. ” I flounder ­ things that you do not believe than on at first, but since he has had an opportune ed along wh ’le in the sea of sin and things you do beiieve. You are In one to see and talk with people who have be< . apples in the store-chamber. Why, “How dare you!” shouted the cap ­ and captain and crew had become com­ benefited by rtao use of this remedy, hase -• mem. there couldn ’t a black beetle tive. pletely demoralized, an old missionary doubt, and it was as rough as the Medi­ respect like Lord Nelson, when a sig­ pcriencod a change of opinion, aud is now grow fat in that house, let alone a “If you’ve any question to ax, you’d took command of the vessel. He was terranean on the fourteenth night, nal was lifted that he wished to dis­ prepared to beiieve almost anything which when they threw the grain overboard, regard, and h a put his sea-glass to his can be said in fuvor of Pink Pills, and the respectable sized mouse, and no money better keep It to ax His Honor in small, crooked-backed and sore-eyed, most skeptical would be in ti.e same con ­ couldn ’t hire me to stay, after my Court, ” said Policeman 20,000.02, and according to tradition. It was Paul, but I saw there was mercy for a sin ­ blind eye and said: “I really do'not dition oi mind tad they been given the same month is up. ” he dragged the culprit out and clapped the only unscared man aboard. He ner, and that plank J took, and I have see the signal. ” Oh, my hearer, put opportunities for investigat on us he on a pair of handcuffs before Betsey been warming myself by the bright fire this field-glass of the Gospel no longer Among 1 huse who have ocen grea> lv bene- And, catching up the tin cup which was no mors afraid of a Euroclydon fitted by the use ot Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contained a cent ’s worth of yeast, Bet­ Jane and her mistress could believe tossing the Mediterranean sea, now up on the shore ever since. to your blind eye, and say, I cannot for Pale People is Mrs. Kate D. Jarvey, sey Jane hurried home, much relieved that the desperate villain was really to the gates of heaven and now sinking While I am talking to another man see, but put it to your other eye, the who resides at 204 Hennansau street, this in custody. about his sou! he tells me: “1 do act eye of faith, and you will see Christ, city. Mrs Jarvey was called upon by a re- by thin free expression of her mind It to the gates of hell, than he was l>oi ter of this paper, who stated to her that to Mrs. Jones, the baker ’s wife. With “A-breaktn ’ into peaceable citizens ’ afraid of a kitten playing with a string. become a Christian because I do not and he is all you need to see. he had heard , f h» r being benefit d by the all 'the speed which she could make, coalholes and frightenin ’ the ladies! I He ordered them all down to take their believe there is any hell at all.” Ah! If you can b?lieve nothing else, you use of these pills and aske i if she would tell however. Miss Zerulah Hardscrabble wonder you ain ’t ashamed of yourself,” rations, first asking for them a bless ­ don ’t you? Do all the people of all certainly believe in vicarious suffer­ him about it,mat he might publish the mat­ ter for tue bene it of iho.-e who mLht be was lying in wait for her behind the said Policeman 20,000.02, with an extra ing. Then In insured all their lives, beliefs and no belief at all, of good ing, for you ae it almost every day in suffering and seeking a remedy, 'the lady back parlor door when she came in. Jerk to the necktie of the brigand. “I telling them thsy would be rescued, morals and bad morals go straight to some shape. The steamship Knicker ­ rep.ieu ; “Betsey Jane, ” said she, severely, say. come along, why don ’t you? Now, and, so far from losing their heads, a happy heaven? Do the holy and the bocker, of the Cromwell line, running •“ 1 have been benefited by Pink Pills, and I certaiuly am willing thut the story snouid “you’ve been gossiping with some ladles, don ’f be scared! The gang ’s all they would net lose so much of their debauched have the same destination? between New Orleans and vew York, was in great storms, and & captain be .old. 1 have recommended them to every­ young man. ” broke up! ” hair as you could cut off with one click At midnight, in a hallway, the owner body, as 1 be.ieve they are a wondefui “I’ve been for the yeast, Miss,” said At this juncture the fluttered doves of the scissors: nay, not a thread of of a house and a burglar meet; they and crew saw the schooner Mary D. mt dicine, and 1 thins 1 should let others of this cote ventured to peep over the it, whether it were gray with age or both fire, and both are wounded, but Cranmer, of Philadelphia, in distress. know of their curative powei s. 1 was trou ­ Betsey Jane, panting with the speed bled with catarrn of the throat, ana while I she had made. banisters of the basement staircase. golden with youth. “There shall not the burglar dies in five minutes and The weather cold, the waves mountain was not s'ck in bed I was very miserable ”1 don ’t believe a word you say,” said Miss Hardscrabble uttered a shriek, a hair fall from the head of any of the owner of the house lives a week high, the fir^t officer of the steam­ from t.e disease. V\ hen I would get up in Miss Hardscrabble, brusquely —at which, as policeman 20,000.02 said you.” after; will the burglar be at the gate ship and four men put out in a life­ the morning my thr at would be filed with boat to save tne crew of the schooner, offensive matter and I would have to hawk which Betsey Jane only tossed her head “ran throueh Mm like a carving knife. ” Knowing that they can never get to of heaven, waiting, when the house ­ and spit for some time to get relief. I was and made no Teply. “It’s pa! ” said Miss Hardscrabble. the desired port, they make the sea owner comes in? Will the debauchee and reached the vessel and towed it also troubled with severe headaches as a “Go and make some toast for tea,” “It’s master!” said Betsey Jane. on the fourteenth night black with and the libertine go right in among out of danger, the wind shifting so that results of the catarrh. the schooner was saved. But the five “I saw re*ommendations of the Pink added Mias Zerulah, "and put my fa­ “Brute of a policeman! ” cried Miss overthrown ca*go, so that when the the families of heaven? I wonder if Pills and commenced taking them, aud soon ther ’s slippers and dressing-gown Hardscrabble, “release my parent! ” ship strikes it will not strike so heavily. Herod is playing on the banks of the men of the steimship coming back, began to feci better. I began Liking the their boat capsized, yet righted again warming against he comes in; and if “Ain ’t he a burglar? ” demanded At daybreak they saw a creek, and in river of life with the children he mas­ pills in the spring, I think a year ago last their exigency resolved to make for sacred: I wonder if Charles Guiteau and came on, the sailors coated with sprin.% and continued to take them about a your young man is prowling about Policeman 20,000.02, in great perplexi ­ year. I now hat e no symptoms of catarrh, the premises, he ’ll be sorry for it, for ty. It And so they cut the cables, took and John Wilkes Booth are up there ice. The boat capsized again, and three and the headaches do not boiher me. 1 was I’m going through the basement with a “No more than yourself,” said old in the two paddles they bad on those shooting at a mark. I do not now con ­ times upset and was righted, and a a s i troubled with female weakness.and the pills relieved me from t*>at in a preat meas­ candle to make sure that all is right. ” Mt. Hardscrabble, who, with his mouth old boats, and hoisted the mainsail trovert it, although I must say that for line thrown the poor fellows, but their hands were frozen so they could not ure. 1 have been thiuking that 1 should “It ain ’t nothing to me, ma’am, how and eyes filled with coal-dust, and his so that they mignt come with such such a miserable heaven I have no ad­ commence tiie use of the pills avain next much you go through it with a candle, ” face resembling that of a negro min ­ force as to be duven high up on the miration. But the Bible does not say: grasp it, and a great wave rolled over winter. I think they are a great medicine, said Betsey Jane, stung beyond her strel ready for the stage, presented a beach by some fortunate billow. There “Believe in perdition and be saved.” them, and they went down, never to and have recommended them to a great Because all are saved, according to your rise again till the sea gives up its many p ople. control. most indescribable appearance! she goes—tumbling toward the rocks, i have a sister living at Steubenville, “Don ’t dare to be insolent, girl!” “Dearest pal ” exclaimed Miss Hard­ now prow foremost, now stern fore­ theory, that ought not to keep you from dead. Appreciate that heroism and Ohio, ” continued Mrs Jarvey. ‘who hay said Miss Hardscrabble. scrabble, flinging herself upon him. most, now rolling over to the star­ loving and serving Christ. Do not re­ self-sacrifice of the brave fellows all suffered from an affection of the spiue. I board, now '»ver u> the larboard, now fuse to come ashore because all the who can, and can we not appreciate recommended the pills to her fehe was “No, mem, I won't, ” said Betsey “Don ’t be a fool, Zeruiaht ” was his lying in bed from the trouble with her spine, Jane, in a tone which might be inter ­ tenderly parental response. a wave dashes ~lear over the deck, and others, according to your theory, are the Christ who put out into a more which uflecled her head,causing very severe preted as meaning: “I’ll be as insolent “But how came you there? ” demand ­ it seems as if the old craft has gone going to get ashore. You may have a biting cold and into a more overwhelm ­ heauuches. fc>he commenced Liking the puis and last winter wm n 1 visited her she was as I please, and you can ’t help your­ ed the policeman, naturally reluctant forever. But up she comes again. different theory about chemistry, about ing surge, to bring us out of infinite astronomy, about the atmosphere peril into everlasting safety? The much better und was gaining flesu. l he self.” to let go of the burglar whom he had Paul’s arms around a mast, he cries: puls had made a gn at change in her, and Miss Hardscrabble nearly annihilated captured vjlth so much eclat. “This “AH is well, God has given me all those from that which others adopt, but you wave of human hate rolled over him she was much pleased with iheir effects.” her retainer with a glance as she light ­ ’©ne whole prbceeding has got a kind of that sail with me." Crash! went the are not, therefore, hindered from ac­ from one side and the wave of hellish Di\ Williams’ Pink Pills contain, iuacon- prow, with such force that it broke off tion. Because your theory of light is fury rolled over him on the other side. densed form, all the element* necessary to ed the candle and set forth on her a aueer look, to my mind. ” give new life and richness to >he b.no i and nightly round of investigation. “I don ’t know that it’s anybody ’s the mast. Crash! went the timbers, different from others, do not refuse to •Oh, the thickness of the night and the restore shattered nerves. '1 hey are also a bustness," said old Mr. Hardscrabble, till the seas rushed through from side open your eyes. Because your theory thunder of he tempest into which »i»e. iflc for troubles peculiar to females. sucb “I always go at dusk,” said Miss as suppressions, irre ularitics and all forms sneezing vehemently, “but I went to side of the vessel. She parts amid­ of air is different you do not refuse Christ plunged for our rescue! Hardscrabble, “because that ’s the most • • • of weakness They build up the blood, and dangerous time for thieves and burg ­ down on my way from the office to ships, and Into a thousand fragments to breathe. Tecause your theory about restore the glow of health to pale ,.nd lars; and after that the doors are ail measure out the coal in scuttles and the vessel goes, and into the waves the stellar system is different, you do You admit you are all broken up, one sallow cheeks. 1 n men they eflecl a radical locked, and Betsey Jane has to come to make sure there hadn ’t any of it been two hundred and seventy-six immortals not refuse to acknowledge the north decade of your life gone by, two de­ euro in ail cases arising from mental worry* are precipitated. Some of them had star. Why should the fact that your cades, three decades, four decades, a over work or excesses of whatever nature. spirited away. I didn ’t speak to any ­ Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose body because I didn ’t want anybody been brought up on the seashore, and theological theories are different bin ­ half-oentury. perhaps three-quarters bulk) at ;>0 cents a box or six boxes for *2 SO, to know; but that stupid servantgirl —” had learned to swim and with their der you from acting upon what you of a century gone. The hour hand and and may be had < f a I drii"gists.or direct by know? If you have not a whole ship mail from Dr Williams’ Medicine Company, “It was me, pa, ” said Miss Hard­ cirins Just above the waves and by the the minute hand of your clock of life stroues of both arms and propulsion fastened in the theological drydocks fccbenecLidy, N. Y. scrabble, “looking up the house. ” are almost parallel, and soon it will of both feet, they put out for the beach, to bring you to wharfage, you have “No matter who it was,” said Mr. be twelve and your day ended. Clear If a woman can succeed in making her and reach it. But alas for those others! at least a plank. “Some on broken Hardscrabble, angrily. “Between you discouraged are you? I admit it is a husband proud of her she can get almost They have never learned to swim, or pieces of the ship. ” anything she wants. two fools I got locked in before I sad thing to give all our lives that they were wounded by the falling of “But I don ’t believe In revivals! ” are worth anything to sin and the could make you hear. And now the 1067 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE. the mast, or the nervous shock was too Then go to your room, and all alone, devil, and then at last make God a whole matter is explained. You needn ’t Don ’t believe it, nor did the editor great for them. And others had been present of a first-rate corpse. But the wait, policeman. Go about your busi ­ with your door locked, give your heart weakened by long sea-sickness. to God, and join some church where the past you cannot recover. Get on board until be saw Salzer’a great farm seed ness, girl. Zerulah, if you’re quite Oh, what will become of them? thermometer never gets higher than that old ship you never will. Have catalogue. It’s wonderful what an ar­ through staring, perhaps you’ll lay me “Take that piece of a rudder,” says fifty in the shade. you only one mor3 year left, one more ray of facts and figures and new out a clean shirt ” Paul to one. “Take that fragment of month, one more week, one more day, things and big yields and great testi­ The policeman slunk away. Betsey “But I do uot believe in baptism! ” a spar, ” says Paul to another. “Take one more hour —come in on that. Per­ monials it contains. Jane descended into the kitchen, gig­ Come in without it and settle that mat­ that image of Castor and Pollux. ” haps if you get to heaven God may let Send This Notice and IO Cent* Stamps gling under her breath, and Miss ter afterward. “But there are so “Take tha* plank from the lifeboat. ” you go out on some great mission to to John A. Saizer Seed Co., La Crosse, Zeruiah disappeared into the linen many inconsistent Christians! ” Then “Take anything, and head for the some other world, where you can some- Wi8., for catalogue and 12 rare farm closet, while old Mr. Hardscrabble, come in and show them by a good ex­ beach. ’ What a struggle for life in ample bow professors should act. “But vhat atone for your lack of service in seed samples, worth 110, to get a start. rubbing his abraded joints, sat before the breakers! Oh, the merciless waters, I don ’t believe in the Old Testament! ” this. WJL the parlor fire, muttering to himself: how they sweep ovar the heads of men! Then come in on the New. “But 1 From many t deathbed I have seen Only stupid people complain of hard work. “Such fools as people are!”—New women and children! Hold on there! don ’t like the Book of Romans. ” Then the hands thrown up In deploration Smart people never overwork themselves York Ledger. Almost ashore; keep up your courage. come in on Matthew or Luke. Refus­ something like this: “My life has been Germany leads in glass-eye manufacture. In France, bicycles are electrically lighted. Remember what Paul told you. There, ing to come to Christ, whom you admit wasted. I hal good mental faculties A Wonderful Automata. INDESCRIBABLE APPEARANCE. the receding wave on the beach leaves to be the Savior of the lost, because and fine social position and great op ­ POISONING THE FOUNTAIN. me for the key if she wants to go out­ If you have ever purchased a pack ­ In the sand a whole family. There you cannot admit other things, you are portunity, but through worldliness and If the foun- tain of life Is age of postal cards you have perhaps crawls up out of the surf the centurion. like a man out there in that Mediter­ neglect all has gone to waste save these poisoned at its very source, side of the doorstep. ” there can be no health h> Through the back kltdben —peeping noticed that the strip of paper sur­ There, another plank comes Jn, with ranean tempest, and tossed in the Me- few remaining hours. I now accept of any part of the body, under the tubs in the laundry, across rounding it looked as though it had a life clinging fast to It. There, an ­ lita breakers, refusing io come ashore Christ and shall enter heaven through When a woman has any disease or weakness of the stone-paved hall toward the vault- been put there in a great hurry. So It other piece of the shattered vessel, until he can mend the pieces of the his mercy; but alas, alas! that when I broken ship. I hear him say: “I won ’t might have entered the haven of eter­ the delicate i special organ- Ifke cellar, walked Mis3 Hardscrabble, is, but not by nervous human hands. with its freightage of an immortal soul. ism of her sex, the fount- a modern type of Lady Macbeth in the In the service of the government at They must by this time all be saved. go in on any of these planks until 1 nal rest with a full cargo, and been ain-head of | h e r physical sleep-walking scene. Washington are two machines which Yes; there comes In last of all, for he know in what part of the ship they greeted by the waving hands of a mul­ existence is poisoned and she cannot be healthy m “Ha!” said Miss Hardscrabble, with a were made in Connecticut. These had been overseeing the rest, the old belong. Wheo I can get the windlass titude in whose salvation I had borne in the right place, and the sails set, any respect until this one tragic start, “the coal-cellar door ajar! machines are capable of eonntlng 500,- missionary, who wringB the water a blessed part, I must confess I now fundamen- tal trouble ie What does this mean? ” 000 cards in ten hours and of sepa ­ from his gray beard and cries nut: and that keel-pieoe where it belongs, enter the hartor of heaven on broken cured. “Thank God, all are here! ” and that floor-timber right, and these pieces of the ship. ” The family Opening it the least possible section rating, wrapping and sealing them in physician I believe In both the He’deiberg and ropes untangled, I will go ashore. I am of a crack, Miss Hardscrabble dropped packages of twenty-five each. The The Foreuplne ’a Quill*. may make Westminster Catechisms, and I wish an old sailor, and know all about ships the very com ­ the candle on the cat and uttered an strip of paper which goes around them The current opinion that a porcu ­ you all did; but you may believe in for forty years, and as soon as I can get mon error of eldritch scream. But, In the height of is pulled off a drum by two long fin ­ pine throws its quills at an enemy is ascribing nothing th'-y contain except the one the vessel afloat in good shape I will her panic, she still had presence of gers, and another Iron finger dips int not supported by facts, gays the trouble to super- t> idea, that Christ came to save sinners, come in. ” A man drifting by on a ficial causes; he may mind enough to bolt and double bolt a pot of mucilage and applies itself Portland Oregonian: The spines of and that you are one of them, and you piece of wood overhears him and says: prescribe for neural ­ the cellar door on the outside. to the paper in exactly the right spot. the porcupine are very loosely attach ­ gia, indigestion, in ­ "Run for the police, Betsey Jane! ” are Instantly rescued. If you can come “You will drowa before you get that Another part of the machine wraps the ship reconstructed. Better do as I am ed to the body and are very sharp — somnia, or headache, said Mlsa Hardscrabble, flying upstairs. in on the grand old ship, I would rather when these arc merely symp ­ strip of paper about the cards, a thumb ­ doing. 1 know nothing about ships, as sharp as a needle. At almost the 'Tve got him! ” have you get aboard, but if you can toms of some deep-rooted like apparatus presses upon the muci­ slightest touch they penetrate the nose malady of the distinctly fem­ “Got who, mem?” said Betsey Jane, only find a piece of wood as long as the and never saw one before I came on lage spot, and the package is thrown of a dog or the clothing or flesh of a inine organs. who was on her knees before the human body, or a piece as wide as the board this, and I cannot swim a stroke, upon a carrier and is ready for deliv­ person touching the porcupine, and Any woman suffering from kitchen Are, vainly trying to brown a outspread humai arms, and either of but I am going ashore on this shivered these delicate com- I ery. them is a piece of the cross, come in timber. ” The man in the offing, while stick there, coming away from the ani ­ plaints may be com ­ slice of bread before its handful of pletely cured right in smoldering coals. (“La!” said Betsey on that piece. Tens of thousands of trying to mend his ship goes down. mal without any pull being required. The man who trusted to the plank is The facility in catching hold with one the privacy of her own Jane to herself, “toast knows stingy A Corrupt and Wicked Dog. people are today kept out of the king ­ home (withoutaecourse people as well as anybody. And it dom of God because they cannot be ­ saved. O my brother, let your smash ­ end and letting go with the other has to mortifying examina ­ Rolllngstone —“Couldn ’t you lend me tions and “local treat­ won't never brown for 'em!”) lieve everything. ed up system of theology go to the bot ­ sometimes caused people to think that your hound to go hunting with to-mor ­ tom, while you come in on a splintered the spines had been thrown at them. ment ”) by Dr. Pierce’* “Your young man! ” said Miss Hard­ 1 am talking with a man thoughtful Favorite Prescription. row?” Winkumslily — Td be glad to, spar! “Some on broken pieces of the The outer end of the spines, fir some scrabble. “In the coal cellar! But he ’s but Featherbone tooV. him this after­ about his sou! who has lately traveled It gives health to the special organism of Bate now until the justiciary comes.” through New England and passed the ship. ” distance down, is covered with small womanhood. It purifies all diseased con ­ noon on a two-days' fox-hunt over at You may get all your difficulties set­ barbs. These barbs cause a spine once ditions; gives elastic strength to the liga­ “It ain ’t nothin ’ of the sort!” contra ­ night at Andover. He says to me: “I ments, and vitality to the nerve-centres. It Mudsock. ” Just then a prolonged tled as Garibaldi, the magnetic Italian, imbedded in a living animal to keep dicted Betsey Jane. “I ain ’t got no canine howl Issued from the woodshed cannot believe that in this life the des­ promotes good digestion, sound sleep, and tiny is Irrevocably fixed; I think there got his gardens made. When the war working farther in with every move ­ freedom from pain. young man! And if I had, he ain ’t out upon the silent bosom of the night. will be nnother opportunity of re­ between Austria and Sardinia broke ment of the muscles. It is the only medicine devised for this skulkin ’ in your coal cellar, Miss Hard­ “Why, there ’s your dog! I thought he one purpose by an edneated, skilled spe ­ pentance after death. ” I say to him: out he was living at Caprera, a very scrabble, no more he ain ’t! It’a the Theory About Quinine. cialist in this particular field of practice. It was at Mudsock?” “Sir! Which would rough and uncultivated island home. is the only medicine which insures pro ­ cat,” “My brother, what has that to do with It is claimed that the tree from th# you suspect of lying, that low, measly you? Don ’t you realize that the man But he went fonh with his sword to spective mothers against the dangers and But Tabby herself, rubbing up cur or myself?”—Exchange. bark of which quinine is obtained fur­ sufferings of motherhood. against her, with a good deal of melted who waits for another chance after achieve the liberation of Naples and Dr. Pierce’s thousand • page illustrated Sicily, and gave nine million people nishes no quinine except in malarial re- tallow still adhering to her fur, served death when he has a good chance be ­ ;ions. If the tree is planted in a ma­ book, “The People ’s Common Sense Med­ A Po*er, fore death Is a stark fool? Had not free government, under Victor Em­ ical Adviser ” contains several chapters de­ as a mute contradiction to thia last larial district It will produce quinine; voted to the special physiology of woman, assertion. Mr. Walker—“Yss, I seem to have a you better take the plank that is manuel. * Garibaldi, after being ab ­ sent two yearB from Caprera, returned, If It is planted in a non-malarial dis­ with advice and suggestiona for self-treat­ “Go for the police, ” said Miss Hard­ curious taste. It is very strange, but if thrown to you now and head for shore, trict it will not produce quinine. It is, ment which every woman ought to read. scrabble, her voice rising a semitone I think a girl pretty every one elae is rather than wait for a plank that may and, when be approached It, he found A paper-bound copy sent absolutely free on that his home had, by Victor Em­ therefore, inferred that quinine is a receipt of ai one-cent stamps to pay fot higher, "or I shall instantly dicharge sure to think exactly the rsvsrae.” by Invisible hands be thrown to you manuel. as a surprise, been Edenlzed. malarial poison, drawn from the soil mailing only; or, cloth bound, 31 stamps. you without your month ’s wages!” Mlsa de Muir (after a pause) —“Do you after you are dead? Do as you please, and stored up in the bark of this tree. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Thus adjured, Betsey Jane grum- bat as for myself, with pardon for all Trimmed shrubbery had taken the think I am pretty, Mr. Walker?’’— A happy Christian Is always a uoefn) one. blingly took down the sleeves which my sins offersd me now, and all the place of thorny thickets, gardens the The devil has an iron collar on Nuggets. place of barrenness, and the old rook ­ every man who thinks more of the were rolled up above a pair of plump joys of time and eternity offered me Cascarrts stimulate liver, kidneys and Pow, I Instantly taks them, rather than ery In which he once lived bad given saloon than he does of hia home. bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, Me- \nd mottled arms, removed her checked It ii never t« early to mend. —Puck. jk ; V

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUKSD a T, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.

SENATOR MANHA. , , ORTGAGE SALE—Default having been As a member of the Senate, to which COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. M made Iu the conditions of a certain niort- The Independent age, dated 1'ovt-mber d, *804, executed by Mary body Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, has I Walker to Chariest-. Hathaway, and recorded OFFICIAL. tou November 27, 1894, In liber 86 of mortgages, on announced he will appoint the chair- page 128. in the office of the rtglster ef deeda for Proprietor GEORGE 8 . OOKBIT. o)au of the National Republican Com­ the conuty qf Clinton, Michigan, on which mort­ CRANK. E Dk WITT, Lessee Special Mrctlug of the Village Council, The Evening News, gage there la du : at the date of this notice the sum of one hundred aud three dollars aud sixty-two mittee to succeed Senator Sherman, that February *3, 1897. millionaire political manager will be in cents interest, fifty dollars and sixty ceuts of which • UNION SILVER NOHINKKS. Called to make a settlement witb tbc Village “THE MEAT DAILY OF MICHIGAN.” Interest has been past due since May 6, 1890. Tbe [■osition to aid materially in the redemp amount of principal unpaid ou said mortgage is officers, and transact any business which fourteen hundred aud forty-five dollars und sixty- State. tion of his pledges made last summer to might come before any regular meeting. The Greatest Advertising Medium three cents, and it being expressly provided by the For Justice of the Supremo Court — The meeting was called to order by President terms of said mortgage that should auy default be GEORGE L. YAPLB of Mention. the protected trusts, pools and other in the State is THE DETROIT EVENINO NEWS. Why? ade Iq t |i« payment of said interest, or any part Spaulding. For Kcfrenta of the University — combines in return for their liberal con Because it has by far the largest circulation. Why has thereof, ou any day whereon the same STANLEY’ E. PARK HILL, of Owosso. tributions to the McKinley campaign Present, Trustees Cross. Milhnan, Morris, it? Because it is the best daily newspaper. If you want la made payabte aa expressed In said THORNE RUPERT, of Webborvllle. Keoyon. Palmer and President Spaulding. mortgage, aud should tbe same reciatn unpaid and ’fund. This, too, would seem to be the the best, TAKE THE EVENINO NEWS. in arreur lor the space of sixty dava, inen aud County. The Finance Committee report as follows: from thenceforth, that Is to say, alter the lapse of Kot Commissioner of Schools — only reason which can be given why St. Johns , Mich ., Feb 23,1897. Two cents a copy. Ten cents a week $1.25 for 3 nontks the a*S sixty days; the aforcauid principal sum of SEYMOUR D. WATSON, of 8l Johns. The finance committee report that they fourteen hundred and forty five dollars and aixty- man of his qualifications, character and (delivered ). (by mail ). three cents, wi'b all arrearage ol Interest, shall, iu record should be placed in the United have examined tho accounts of the Village the option of the mortgagee, be due and payable CHANDLER ON BIMETALLISM. States Seuate. A man with absolutely Clerk, the Secretary of the Water Board and iiniii) disti ly ihercartei , aud more thaD sixty days the Secretary of the Elect* lo Board and find AGENTS IN EVERY TOWN IN MICHIGAN. baring eldpscd since fitly dollars and sixty cent* The sensation in the United States no experience as a legislator —and none of said lutere.t became due, tbe said mortgagpu that they are correct and that the several bs?wt>y electa to treat said principal sum and In ­ Senate, last week, was pronounced ad* in politics except as the successful officers have turned over to the Treasurer all terest as due and payable for rrason of said default vocacy by Senator Chandler, Republi ­ In the payment of interest aforesaid, making a manager of a campaign in which , resort moneys that have come Into their hands from The Evening News, Detroit. total of principal and Interest due on said mort­ can, of bimetallism in its broadest bear ­ was had to the most indefensible meth ­ all sources. We have also examined tboao- gage on the dat-* hereof the sum of fifteen hundred counts of the Treasurer aud find that they and fifty-eight dollars and twenty five ceuts, be ­ ing ou the currency of the country. Air ods —it must be presumed that he is to sides an attorney fee of thirty-five dollars pro ­ Chandler was so concise that a repro ­ agree with the Clerk’s and that the orders vided In said mortgage and by statute; and no suit be placed in the Senate of the United paid by him agree with the stubs of the order or proceeding at law or in equity having been in- duction of the language used will beBt States for the purpose of contiuueing books and that his books show a correct ao- stltutedHo recover any part ol the debt secured by convey bis meaning. In part be said laiRtM^MUftMkia.'i said mortgage. Now therefore by virtue of tbe there the same kind of work which couni of all receipts and expenditures and power of sale in said mortgage contained and by concerning his reslution : characterized bis couduct of the Repub ­ agree with this report herewith submitted. xlatute in such case made and provide*., notice is We have canceled the stubs of the order hereby given that ou Saturday, the 0th day of “That it is the sense of the Senate lican Presidential canvass. The great March, 1897. at one o'clock p m, at the west books and orders and all receipts and vouchers that the United States should not per ­ protected corporations which furnished Safety and Saving ‘root door of the court house for said county, iu and tiled the same with the Clerk. the village of Si. Johns, Iu said couuty, there will manently acquiesce in the single gold the “sinews of war” for the “honest Respectfully submitted, lie sold at public vendue lo tbe highest bidder the for ownersof engines This incomparable land Iu said mortgage described, namely: The standard, and that the efforts of the money ” campaign will hail Governor J. T. M1LLMAN. boiler feeder obtains both results. Safest, most per ­ north-west qufiiter of the uorth-wesi quaiter ofsec­ government in all its branches should Bushnell's announcement with loud ac­ JESSE SULUVAN, fectly automatic—with wide opcu or with throttled suc­ tion number ten, Intownsblp number seven north, A H. KENYON. tion; lias widest range of steam aud greatest grading of range two west, lo Michigan, for the purpoee be steadily directed to secure aud main ­ claim, for m Mr. Hanna's elevation to of satisfying the amountso duo on said mortgage. Finance Committee. capacity. Saves time, fuel, trouble —money. The ra tain the use of silver as well as gold as the Senate they w ill see the certainty of —Dated December 8, 1896. Clerk') Report From February 25, 1896, to February A frc»i CHARLES O. HATHAWAY, standard money, with the free coinage campaign promises fulfilled in the way 17, 1897. Fedkw A ft Walbkiouk , Mortgagee. 4^ Automatic feature Attorneys for Mortgagee. of both, under a system of bimetallism of additional tariff plunder galore. — RECEIPTS. It tht to be established through international u. mup- ORTGAGE SALE.-Default having beeD Grand Rapids Democrat. Injector Balance on hand Feb. *5,1890 ...... 11,325 35 UKK. made iu the conditioos of a certaiu mort­ agreement, cr with such safeguards of S B Da boll ...... -....» 185 00 la easier to operate, handling and feeding Into boiler evtartov Lears gage,M dated November 29, 1895, executed ty Mary legislation as will insure the parity in Vice-President Hobart w ill nomi ­ Chas Moreland, rent ...... 75 00 hotter water than any other. Catalogue aud price liat free. about I*. A. Barton, by Samuel 8. Walker, her duly author ­ AMERICAN INJECTOR CO., DETROIT, Midi. ized attorney, to Charles G. Hathaway, and re­ value of the two metals at a fixed ratio, nally resign, early in Alarch, many of Standard Oil Co lease...... loO 00 corded on November 29, 1895 in liber 84 of mort­ furnished a sufficient volume of metallic the positions as president aud director Sewer connection ...;...... 8)00 gages on page 558, In the office of the register of Marshal, sidewalk repairs ...... 21 SO deeda for tbe county of Clinton, Michigan, on money aud give immunity to the world of mauy corporations that enabled him which mortgage there D due at the dale of this Tool bouse ...... 1 00 notice tbe sum of ene hundred and six dollars and of trade from violent fluctuations in ex­ to be an active controller of several Severance, fine-money ...... 8 00 LIVER GAVE TO THE WORLD THE CHILLED PLOW eighty-eight cents interest, fifty-two dollars and change.' ’ trusts. It is not mentioned that he Licenses collected by marshal 117 76 ftlty cents of which iDterost baa been past due sluce May 29, 18-6. The amount of principal un ­ The early part of the speech was a will give up liis position as king of the Co treasurer, delinquent tax.. 820 10 and it has saved more money to the farmers of America paid on said mortgage is Ulteen hundred dollars, presentation of the principles of finance, coal trust, one of the most profitable of •• - “ ... 227 04 than any other Implement ever produced. and It being expressly provided by the terms of Co treasurer, liquor tax...... 1,237 50 said mortgage that should any default be made in the Senator arguing against a single his holidays. tne payment ot said Interest, or any part thereof, Clinton avenue gutter...... Silt 70 on any day whereon the same it made parable as standard of either metal, silver or gold. Maple avenue sewer...... 225 00 expressed in said mortgage, aud should tbe same Prosperity on the Farm. He traced the gradual demonetization Rent Fireman ’s Hall....!...... 1 50 Oliver Chilled p|_QWS rttnain unpaid aud *n arrear for the space of thirty of silver, the closing of our mose of satisfying the amount so due on Air. Chandler took up the fall of prices, Smoke protector ...... 9 23 There Is Nothing So Good. said mortgage. —Dated December 8, 1890. ine he is a gentleman of leisure while CHARLES G. HATHAWAY, particularly in farm products, resulting Stewart’s salary...... 7« 00 There is nothing just as good as Dr. Fkdkwa ft Walbkiduk , Mortgagee. he is using it. But I know of many -10,203 03 Grand Trunk Railway Sysiem. from silver demonetization. The Sena ­ farmers who are drawing upon their in ­ King ’s New Discovery for Consumption, Attorneys for Mortgagee. SALARIES. Coughs, and Colds, so demand it and do tor declared that within the last tweuty vested capital and working hard all of Marshal ...... $ 480 51 Arrival and Depart hit of Trains MORTGAGE SALE—Default having b^en not permit the dealer to sell you some made in the conditions ot a mortgage exe­ years there had been a steady fall of the time. Clerk...... 2«6 20 M In going through the country you see substitute. He will not claim there is At St. Johns. cuted by Isaac R. Smith and Harriet E. Smith l* prices in all classes of property. His the farmer's table filled w ith plenty of Aseessor ...... 175 ou anything better, but in order to make L. Byron Mattison, dated December 1. 1886, and own convictions —that silver demone ­ Treasurer, 1895 ...... 76 00 more profit be may claim something else recorded December 1, 1886, in the office of tbw the common food. But often the IN EFFECT JANUARY 11, 1H97. Register of Deeds for CliDton County, in Michi ­ tization was at the bottom of this down ­ farmer has no hope of paying his inter ­ Attorney ...... 75 00 to be just as good. You want Dr. King ’s gan, in Liber 67 of mortgages, 00 page 285; on est and sometimes not even his taxes. Board review...... 8 00 New Discovery because yon know it lo be which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the ward movement in prices —caused him = 2 c = S E 2 2 a E date of ibis notice, nine bundled and forty dollars He is working hard and living upon Board building inspectators.. 15 00 safe and reliable, and guarnteed to do c. a. m a « to seriously doubt whether the era of ^ a a. w « a. and eight cents, besides sn attorney fee of twenty- past prosperity, or often upon the mercy Health officer, 1995...... 21 10 good or money refunded. For Coughs, < is s a s s s10 M« t-e «w wo five dollars, stipulated in said mortgage, to l>e restored prosperity was not near at of the money loaner. Of course, the 3 00 Colds, Consumption and for all affections »h> e4 oo ww 40 1-^ H n e» . paid should any proceedings be taken to foreclose ------—$1,004 87 e-4-v- • jC* said mortgage, and no suit or proceeding at law or hand. He was led to the conclusion, he farmer free from debt can make a good of Throat, Chest and Lungs, there is noth ­ inequity having been instituted lo recover any said, that prices had not yet “touched living. But think of the thousands of SUNDRIES. ing so good as is Dr. King ’s New Discov ­ s a a b 3 2 2 2 = 3 3 rt ol the debt secured by said mortgage ; there- dollars he has invested in farm property Printing proceedings,notices. 01 a a «• a «• m a * c, • re by virtue of the power of sale in said mort­ bottom. ” ery. Trial bottle free at Fildew Sc Mi 11- C that should bring him au income free and ordinances ...... 313 00 mau’s drug store, 8t. Johns Regular size V'SSSS 828^5 gage contained, and of the statute in such case Stationary supplies ...... - 35 61 s c6 3 * *5 4$ ^ made and provided, notice |s hereby given that on This shrinkage in prices had been from his labor. The common laborer 50 cents and $1.00. 3 +- April 3, 1897, at 1 o ’clock in the afternoon, at most serious since 1890. The value of goes to work with no capital but his Litigation ...... 965 58 tbe west front door of the Court House for Clinton property in the United States wassixty- two hands aud thinks thev should bring Police...... 901 14 County, iu Michigan, lo the Village of St. Johns, him enough to support liis family in 1..7X) 62 in said county,there will be sold at public vendue flve thousand millions in 1890; now it is Interest sewer bonds ...... ■iucklen’a Arnica naive. a a *3 a to tbe hUhest bidder, the premises described ia comfort where the smallest farmer has Election expenses ...... 93 .50 | &S5 | : said mortgage, viz : The west half of the north ­ 2,479 3> The Best Salve in the world for Cuts estimated at forty-nine thousand mil­ from one to two thousand dollars in ­ *$*••• east quarter of section thirty-four, in township Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Khenm, Fever « * S •# : six, north of range two weat, in Michigan* —Dated lions, a shrinkage of 25 per cent, since vested in property that should pay him SUNDRIES. Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblanes, 3 3 fll 3 i i interest and his work should support 5* X | 3 ; January 6. 1897. L. BYRON MA iTISON, 1890. Our debts had not shrunk, but Rebate on sewer lax (Clark).. ..$27 00 Corns and all Skin Eruptions, aud posi ­ 5:JS : & Pkrrins ft Baldwin , Mortgagee. his family. We would think from the flags : W ► u W ; « Attorneys for Mortgagee. W12-I3 remained an inexorable change. De­ ...... - (Hicks).. ... 55 00 tively cares Piles, or no pay required. It 9> 11► C4, E► w* idea that seems to nest in the brain of Rebate on general tax, 1895... .. 4 20 « * 3 * -o •2 © -a 89 ‘ 8 ducting them, the value of our property some writers in regard to the farmers, Is guranteed to give perfect satisfaction = EC = 33 i S?sS =«. Insurance ...... 22 00 or money refunded. Price 25 cents per | ORTGAGK MALE.—Default having been was cut down to thirty-three thousand that they were a class oi creatures who .. 16 06 3 31 j * •35-3 -S If il l made in the conditions of acertain mortgage, burrow up in the fall and remain under Morris, 1895. act...... box. For sale by Fildew A Milltnan, at dated December 21st, 1891, executed by Fred Deck­ millions. Can this proceed, asked the Michigan Telephone Co...... 50 15 St Johns and Fowler. er to George 8. Wright and Preston G. Wright, and cover uutil late spring, when, the truth Hfsl o 2 <5 <51« recorded December 22, 1891, in liber 78 ofMort- Senator, without wide-spread bank ­ Crowley Telephone Co...... 80 00 a. ~Sl a. a. 2 is, they are at work by lantern light two -IU------$% 204 40 ges on page 113, in the office of the Register of 2 2, 2 as ~i eds for the County of Clinton and State of Mich ­ ruptcy ? hours befoie their town neighbor is HIGHWAY FUND. Did Yon Ever till! awake with the many chores and the igan, which mortgage was duly assigned by said He was of the opinion that the grad­ Repairs on streets, sluices and Try Electric Bittters as a remedy for HH* George S. Wright and Preston O. Wright to Charlee ual tendency was to leave debtors with ­ work that winter always brings. There walks...... $392 20 G. Hathaway Deceraner 15. 1892, and which assign ­ is no danger of the farmer getting any your troubles ? If not, get a bottle now ment was recorded December 16,1892, in Liber 81 Permanent Improvement ...... 414 73 and get relief. This medicine has been Sleeping and Parlor Car Service. out the power of paying their debts un ­ too much leisure. Instead of telling the WEST-BOUND. of Mortgages, on page 72, in said Register’s office; til, by a gradual revolution, the assets farmer to stop grumbling, they had bet ­ Street cleaning, snow plowing. found to be peculiarly adapted to the re­ on which mortgage there is claimed to be due at etc...... 185 27 lief and enre of all Female Complaints, 10:47 s. m. train has parlor car to Grand Rapids. the date of this notice the sum of seven hundred of the debtors were absorbed by credit­ ter tell him to stop saying that the farm­ Extra charge 25 cents. snd thirty-eight dollars and seventy-three cento, ers can't combine for their best inter ­ Ditch contract (Harr s)...... 250 00 exerting a Wonderful direct influence in 7:59 p. 111. train has parlor car to Grand Rapids. besides an attorney fee of twenty-five dollars pro ­ ors. If it had not been for the fortu ­ est, but to go to work with a will, and Street fountain ...... 97 50 giving strength and tone to the organs. If Extra charge 26 cents. vided in said mortgage and by statute; and no suit - $1,339 70 EAST BOUND. or proceeding at law or in eouity having been in ­ nate balance of trade in our favor dur­ prove to the middlemen and the con ­ you have Lora of Appetite, Constipation, stituted to recover any part or tbe debt socured by ing the past pear, he said, there would sumers that they are a power and not a Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, 8:26 a. m, train has parlor car to Detroit. Extra said mortgage. Now, tnerefore, by virtue of the WATER ITTND charge 25 cents. Pullman parlor car from Detroit have been a cataclysm in this country tool. It is quite time that we let them Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or to Toledo cornecting with »leeoer for the East and power of sale in said Mortgage contained and by know that the farmer works for the Permanent construction ...... $ 398 36 troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bit­ New York. statute in such case made and provided, notice U which would have prostrated all inter ­ Running expcnsesi ...... 2,918 72 hereby given that on Maturrtay, the lat (lay money in it, and not for manual exer­ ters is the medicine you need. Health 5:28 p, m. trail) has parlor car to Detroit. Extra of May, 1897, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at ests and produced infinite misery in our Interest on bonds ...... 3,000 00 charge 26 cents, and Pullman sleeper from Detroit cise or for sweet charity's sake, and let .. and Strength are guaranteed by its use. the west front door of the Court House for Clinton u& not quit fighting ana grumbling un ­ $0,317 08 to Toronto, Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, Philadel ­ County, Michigan, In the Village of 8t. Johns, ia business and domestic affairs. It was ELECTRIC LIGHT. Large bottles only fifty cents at Fildew A phia and New York- said County, there will be sold at public vendue to because gaunt famine stalked through til we receive legalinterest on our In ­ Interest on bonds ...... -.... $1,750 00 Mill man ’s Drug Store, St. Johns and Fow- 1:67 a. m. train bsa through day perlor cars and the highest bidder the land in said mortgage de­ sleeper from Windsor to Suspension Bridge, Buffa­ vestments, and living wages for our Commission ...... 2 26 er. 3. scribed, namely: FIve-stxteentbs of tbe southwest India that trade was favorable to us. work. Observer . lo, New York sod Boston, fractional quarter of section nineteen, in township For this reason, Air. Chandler said, Running expenses ...... 0,355 29 8:25 a, ro. and 12:10 p. ra. train connects at Du­ seven north of range one west, commencing at tbe $8,107 55 To National Democrats of Michigan. rand with C. A G. T. Dlv. for Chicago. northwest corner of said description snd running turning toward Air. Palmer,(Democrat, Twenty.five Years of Wedded Bliss. Clinton avenue gutter orders G rand RAnDSJFeb. 11, 1897. 8:25 a. ni. and 5:23 p. m. trains connect at Durand thence south one hundred rods, thence east far . 337 26 with CS A M for Saginaw and Bay City and with enough to make five-sixteenths of said description of Illinois,) who sat near, he was op ­ Last Saturday, February 20, 1897, paid by treasurer...... There will be a mass State Convention C A G T Dlv. for Pt. Huron and natlle Creek. of land, thence north one hundred rods, thence posed to such declarations for a perma ­ nearly seventy relatives and'friends met Rebate on Maple ave sewer.. 100 00 of National Democrats of the State of E. H. HUGHES, A. Q. P. A., Chicago, III west to the place of bcginnlog, containing fifty at the pleasant farm home of Mr. and Rebate on Clinton ave gutter 77 43 Michigan, held in the St. Cecilia build ­ BEN FLETCHER, Trsv. Pass. Agt., Detroit, M. ecres of lsnd, for the purpose of satisfying tbe nent gold standard as that enunciated THOS. BROMLEY, Agent, St. Johns, Mich. amount due on said mortgage —Dated January Mrs. Mark Ilill, in Olive, and helped Cleaning village wood lot ...... 46 00 ing. Grand Rapids, March 3d, beginning by the Indianapolis convention. 27th. 1897. CHARLES O. HATHAWAY, them celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rebate on gutter stone, at 11 o ’clock a. m., for the purpose of Fkdkwa A Wai .bridgk , Assignee. The Senator took up the relative pro ­ their wedded life. "Morris”.. 4 50 taking measures to preserve and perfect Terms of the Circnlt Conrt. Attorneys for Assignee. duction of the metals. He said the ex­ The day was enjoyed very much by -» 565 19 the organization of the National Demo­ all who partook of the festivities, and a pense of the last year had shown, al­ Total expenditures ...... 26,545 17 cratic party, to nominate candidates for ORTGAGE SALK. -Default having been day that will linger long in the memory STATE OF MICHIGAN I made in the conditions of a mortgage Balance on hand Feb. 17, 1897 ...... 1,935 68 Justice of the Supreme Court and two 29th Judicial Circuit. 1 M most providentially, that tho claims of of all present. As usual on such oc­ Regents of the University, and to trans ­ I do hereby fix and appoint the times of executed by Margaieth Hlergans to Charlee an over production of silver were casions. a dinner fit for the kings was $28,380 85 act whatever business may properly holding the several terms of Court within said N, Plowman, dated March 9, 1893, and recorded served to all. Circuit for the years 1890 and 1897 . March It, 1893, in the office of the Register of groundless, the product of 1896 being M. MCDONALD. come before the convention. CLINTON COUNTY. Deeds for Clinton county, iu Michigan. In Liber The dress worn by Mrs. Hill on her F. M. SPAULDING. Clerk. Any voter of this State, in sympathy First Monday in February. 78 of mortgages on page 308 ; which mortgage was 215,000,000 of gold and 215,000,000 of sil­ duly assigned on March 20, 1894, by said Charles wedding dav was on exhibition. The President. with the principles of true Democracy, Fourth Monday in April. ver, au exact balance. time was taken up with music, singing as enunciated In the platform adopted Last Monday In June. N. Plowman to William K Dutton, by a written By Trustee Morris: Second Monday in November. ’ aigninent Which was recorded March 20, 1894, in In concluding he advised his party to and visiting. Resolved That the report of the Village at Indianapolis,will be entitled to a seat. said office, in Liber 79 of mortgages, on page 149 ; Among the guests from a distance GRATIOT COUNTY. on which mortgage there Is claimed to be due at adopt his snggestions and said if, on Clerk to the Village Council of the financial By order of State Central Committee. Second Monday in March. were, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hill, and W. R. Shelby , Chairman. First Monday in June. the date of this notice, one hundred aod sixty-slg the contrary, this is not done and the Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hill aud daughter, standing of the Village of St. Johns be accept ­ Second Monday In September. dollars and ninety-three cents, besides an attorney ed and adopted, placed on file and incorpor ­ J. C. Holt , Secretary. lwp fee of fifteen dollars, stipulated In said mortgage to Republican party shall contest itself from Mulliken ; Mr. and Mrs. Addo First Monday in December. be paid, should any proceedings be taken to fore­ ated In the minutes published In the three Dated October, 1891. close said mortgage ; and no suit or proceeding at with seizing and enjoying the spoils of Hill and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Ebb ORTGAGK HALE.-Default haring been 8. B. DABOLL, Hill and children, from Mason. papers published In said village. Circuit Judge, 29th Judicial Circuit. Michigan. law or in equity having been Instituted to recover office, surrendering unreservedly to the Accepted and adopted ms follows: ____M*made in the conditions of a certain mort­ any part of the debt secured by said mortgage; Mr. and Mrs. Hill were the recipients gage, dated Jaousry 3d, 1895, executed by John A. therefore, by virtue of the power of sale in said money power which so effectively con ­ of several substantial presents, among Yeas-Trustee Cross, Millman. Kenyon, Mor­ Smith and Elizabeth Smith, bis wife, to Michael mortgage contained, and of the statute In such ris. Palmer. He welt and Oatbarlna Hewelt. and recorded Janu ­ ORTGAGE SALK.—Default having been case made aodprovided, notice is hereby given that tributed to its recent victory, acquiesc­ which was a beautiful silver berry spoon ary 8d,IR96, in Liber 78 ofMortgavea.on pago544, in I made In the conditions of a certain mort­ Nays-none. M on May 15, 1NO7, at one o ’clock in the after­ ing permanently in the existing gold from a brother in California. the office of the Register of Deeda for the Couoty of gage, dated November 4. 1895, executed by Williamnoon. at the west front door of the Court Houae Mrs. Millard Fike and Airs. Flora A petition was read from T. D. Abbey, ask­ Clinton, State of Michigan, on which mortgage H. Cattle and bia wife, Alice E. Castle, to Richard for Clinton county, in Michigan, in the village of standard and treating bimetallism^ ‘a ing for s license to shoot sparrows within the there ta claimed to be due at the date of this notice Moore, and recorded In the office of the register of St. Johns, in said county, there will be sold at pub ­ lionet read original poems written for the sum of $2016.33. besides so attorney fee of deeda for Clinton county, Michigan, In liber 64 of juggling humbug ’ and the promise to corporate limits of the Village of St. Johns. lic vendue to tho highest bidder, *he premises de­ this occasion. As the shades of even $80.00 provided In said mortgage and by alatute: mortgages on page 565 November 6, 1890, on which scribed in ml hi mortgage, vis: The west half of promote it as a pledge never intended ing drew near, the guests, after wish ­ On motion, the petition was referred to the snd no suit or proceeding at Taw or In equity har ­ mortgage there Is due at the date of this notice the the south-west fractional quarter of section num ­ ing the bride and groom many happy re­ Committee on Laws and Ordinances. ing been Instituted to recover any pert of the debt sum of $488 80, besides an attorney fee of $15 pro ­ ber six, and the west one-fourth of the east half of to be fulfilled, Republicans will speedily secured by said mortgage., Now, therefore, by vir­ vided by statute ; and no suit or proceeding at law turns of the day, departed for their sev­ By Trustee Morris: tbe south-west fractional quarter of section num ­ And the tide or political battle once tue ol the power of sale Id said mortgage contained or in equity having been inatituled to recover any ber six ell to township six north of range three eral homes, realizing that another bright Resolved. That the Clerk be Instructed to and by statute In such case made and provided, rt of the debt aecured by said mortgage. Now west, in Michigan. Said sale will be made subject more turned against them, and they age had been added to the Book of order eight copies of McCracken's Compila ­ notice la hereby given U|at o> Saturday, tho er«fore by virtue of the power of sale Iu said to tbe payment of tbe remainder of said mortgage tiny of May, 1897, at one o ’clock In the afternoon, Bmortgage contained and by statute In such case will soon exchange places with their Fdfe. One Who Was There . tion of Election Laws. not yet due, and being twenty-two hundred and at the west foot t door of the Court House for Clin ­ made and provided, notice Is hereby given that on fifty dollars due March 9,1899, with interest pay ­ now sore, bleeding and prostrate foes. Carried as follows: ton County, Michigan, In the Village of St. Johns, Saturday, the *7th day of February, 1897, able July 1,1897, and July 1, 1898, and March 9, Advertise!! Letters. Yeas—Trustees Cross, Morris, Mlilman, Ken ­ in «atd County, there will be so'd at public vendue, at one o ’clock In the afternoon, at the weat front 1899, computed at six per cent, from July 1, 1896. — to the highest bidder, tho land in said mortgage door of the Conrt Houae for Clinton county. Dated February 16, 18VT. yon. deeorlbed, via: The southeast quarter of the soul h- Michigan, In the village of 8t. Johns, in said The fastest long-distance railroad February 28,1897. county, there will be sold at public vendue to the WILLIAM F. DUTTON, Nay-Palmer. « enst quarter, of section twenty-four, of town seven Pkrrins A Baldwin , Assignee. Cable, Miss Della Miller. Libble north of range four west; also tho northwest quar­ hlgheat bidder the land In said mor. gage described, run on record was made on the Quincy, On motion Council adjourned, » via: Lot four, block one, Perrin a Addition to the Attorneys for Assignee. Orowner. And Muller, Joseph M. MCDONALD. ter of the southwest quarter of section nineteen. Burlington & Missouri road Monday, Crego, Henry Moore. Miss Maggie In township seven north of range three west, all in village of 8t Johns, aforesaid, according to the re­ Frayer, Miss Olga Monroe, Francis Village Clerk. Michigan, tor the purpose of mllsfylng the amount corded plat thereof In said register's office, for the from Chicago to Denver, 1,028 miles, in Gates. Mrs. Katlo Mackey, Daniel due on said moitgage —Dated February 2*. 1897. purpose of satisfying the amount dne on said Bring that job of Printing to the eight minutes less than 19 hours, an Hungerford, Miss Ilda Pulver, T. C. MICHAEL HKWF.LT and mortgage. —Dated, December 2,1896. RICHARD MOORE, Imrorsol. Miss I

McKinley Prosperity. Awarded ..1887., BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Editor Independent : Having re­ Highest Honors —World's Fair, GHEE!) OF THE TRUST ceived several letters of inquiry regard­ Barbers. ing the spring elections as to what the DR For the Fall and Winter ticket should be, and how it should be AUOH IOKRCH, proprietor of ThaCenira Barber Shop. Ladies’ and cbJIdrsu ’s hair A Lesson Learned From the headed, I desire space in your paper in J"ttlug s specialty. Good bath rooms Id connection TRADE. Violin and other string* ; musicians ’ oulflta, etc. Lexow Investigation. which to express my views. First of all yWCtr 1 am in favor of continuing the fight for bimetallism in the most positive form. Attorneys. ENORMOUS PROFITS GATHERED IN BY I would unite all the sliver factions iu I tVIN IEVEK A PICK, A. H. AT- THE SUGAR MONOPOLY. the county, in fact as well as iu senti ­ W CREAM ..JACKSON.. I TOKNEY, Over Bunday ’a Grocery. 1404 ment, and would recommend that the ■DWIN H. LYON. JOHN C. OOOL1NU. YON St DOOLING, Attorneys at Law, St. In Ten Years Has Taken From the People silver forces unite in every township aud TJIE SUCCESSFUL i Johns, Mich, Office over Kendrick ’s store. ’ In Excessive Profits •07,040,000. call but one caucus, and that would be &AKlN<5 the one under the banner we fought the J PAULDING St NORTON, Attorneys at Law. BAKING j Office over St. John* Nation 1 Bank. 1676 people ’s cause last fall. Notwithstand ­ ILL H. BRUNSON, Attorney at Law and The New York World, in a summary1 ing we were defeated, I look upon it as MERCHANT TAILOR Solicitor in Chancary. Office over Putt’s of the sugar trust investigation, says: a victory for the people in coming years, Wjrocery atore. 1316 “In the ten years of its existence the and bad not the present executive been POWDER !• showing m baudsoa tine of POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. lOHM H. KKDKWA. IIKNBY X. WALBRIDKX, sugar trust iias taken from the people occupying the Presidential chair Wm. Absolutely Pure. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free jlEDEWAA W4I.HU I DUE, Attorney* of the United States $117,040,000 in the at Law, at the old stand, over the ‘corner Celebrated for Its great leavening strength J. Bryan.would have been our next Pres­ from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. FALL I rug store,” St. John*, Mich. 1387 and health ruinous. Assures the food against shape of excessive profits. Its normal ident. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. alnra and all forms of adulteration common to profits would have beeu but $139,200,000 .41.BRIDGE A OSHORN. Attorney* at the cheap brands. Our county aud state conventions have and winter VV Law. Office over Allison ’* Jewelry Store. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK tor the ten years. Instead ot being sat­ met, and with the exception of a little isfied witli such a return, the sugar much m his favor? No, indeed. He's SUITINGS. I. M. PKRBIN. P. X. PKKHIN. A. J. 1ULDWU trust has, during that period, divided g. o. p. boodle money used in the Popu ­ fJEKKINX Sc HALWWIN, Attorney* at the enormous sum of $230,240,000 in list convention at Grand Rapids, we a queer being, quite hard to understand 1 Law and Solicitors in Chancery. Bounty, profits alone. If the sugar trust cau We might call him an inslaved enigma pension, real estate agents, conveyancers and have perfect harmony and a perfect Which will be made up In the most mod­ n> ney loaner*. Also examine titles, pay taxes, The Independent, keep ou doing this for sixty years, lie seldom knows a hat his trouble is, uuion, because we are fighting the com­ ern and perfect fitting manner. .no make collections. Business entrusted to their which is less than the allotted span of and trys the wrong way to right it. He are will be promptly and faithfully attended to. one man's lile, it will have collected mon people's cause. MTce over wlckes’ grocery.gi Clinton Avenue,St. Published every Friday rooming from The cannot see, or rather, I should say, will fohnr, Mich. 1183 more toll from the American people We have in this county , at the head of $*ay“Every garment guaranteed to be Independent Block, No. 17 Clinton than there was money in circulation in not see an inch beyond his nose. He Avenue. our county ticket, a man ripe in the pro ­ perfect and eaAy fitting, and the quality lITB• M. CASTLE, Attorney at Law. the entire country last year. will dress in rags and wear patches, aud vv Money to Loan. *>iflce b 'ad of Clinton OHO. 8. CORK IT, s - Proprietor “These startling facts can be proved fession of school teaching and thorough ­ of good* to he as represented. tvetvio, osat side. 1J83 FRANK E. DK WITT, - Leasee ly equipped for the discharge of the du­ vote for a tariff on wool, fence his farm from the testimony which has been put ZRA K. AVKRILL, Attorney and law, St. iu before the legislative committee now ties of the office of County Commission ­ with osage hedge and yellow dogs, and TERMBi E Johns, Mich. 115 Walker Street Eaat, near investigating trusts, and from testi­ er of Schools; a thorough bimetallist, vote for a tariff on lumber, barbed wire poetofflee. Strlcly In Advance, • 1.00 mony that has maiuly been given out and nails ; sell oats for 10 or 15 cents, by the sugar magnates themselves. and a man who hasstayed with the prin ­ Picture Ipt ciples when there was no hope of suc­ and corn for 8 or 10 cents per bushel, Dentistry. will be made at the rate of 91.SO “Not less than 6,000 men who were Per Year. working in sugar refineries that went cess, until the people could at least be and then wear a gold badge und shout H. KENYON, Dentist East Walker out of business when the trust organ ­ induced to rally to their own defence, for a continuation pf a single gold stand ­ . • Street. 1183 Oar advertising rales are $100 per column per ized, lost their places and have not been annum. Business notices five cents per line for and for this alone, if for no other reason, ard. Frames! each Insertion. Editorial notices, ten cents. able to find employment in that industry G. H. M ANN, I>. D. S. Office over Business cards, $1 per line per year, since. These 5,000 men averaged not he is entitled to the sufferage of those He thinks a good town in his own Spaulding A Co. ’* hardware, oppo ­ Marriage, birth aud death notices Inserted free. less than $2 a day each. Working 300 country that pays a large percentage of site The Steel Hotel. Surgery a Obituary comments, resolutions, cards of thanks, for whom he has labored. Hamilton has some elegant specialty. Office hours, S to 12 a. el*., will be charged tor at the rhte of five cents days a year on this basis, those 5,000 Then at the head of the state ticket the county and state tax a detriment to ones that he is selling very m., 1:80 to A p. in., 7 to 8. evening. per line. men would have earned a total of $8,- him. He believes in protection for the Correspondence containing local netrs Is solicited 000,000 a year in wages, or $30,000,000 we have “ the boy from Menden, ” lion. cheap. Call and see them. E. COR1I1N, M. D., D. D. S. To get from all parts of the coucty. grasping corporations, money sharks, Lf# thebenefltofth. the experience, medical know- for the ten years. Geo. L. Yaple, to represent the oppo ­ ledgetlae aBd tsurgical skill which are indispensable to FACILITIES FOB DOINO “Theodore Havemeyer, the vice presi ­ sition to a united partisan bench in the etc., but none for merchants of his own rrection of results In dentistry, apply to Corbiu CAMERAS. rSon, 8t. Johns. dent of the trust, said that one of the highest judicial tribunal of the State. county. So he joins the Grange F. M. J OS PRINTINa objects of its organization was to pre ­ Where is the farmer br producer of B. A., F. A. the Wheel or other oath- Persons interested in Cameras will save Unsuroassed for stvle and cheapness. vent 'illegal combinations of organized money by calling at labor.' There is no contention that the wealth that will not support these two bound organizations to down the merch ­ Physicians. 5.000 men who lost their places when candidates, whose hearts have always ants of his own county. He believes in Sacred Concert. HAMILTON’S STUDIO B. DODGE, .71. D., Surgeon and Ho the trust was organized constituted an beat in unison with the toiling masses, free trade now, yes, with a vengeance ; • meopathic Physician. Office and residence illegal combination of organized labor. J Come and bear the following sacred and will continue to do so whether in wants to buy from first hands, so pur ­ Can furnish any camera on the >vor Spaulding A Co. ’s hardware, opp. The Steel. program rendered at the M. E. church They were deprived of a means of earn ­ market at the lowest price. ing their livlihood because it was the defeat or success at the polls. It now chases his fruit trees of a traveling agent RANK C. DUNN. M. !>., Physician and Monday evening next. Reserved seats Head of Clinton A»«., West Side F Surgeon. Office over Spaulding i C policy of the sugar trust to shut down becomes necessary for every township he never before saw, who claims to rep ­ hardware store, 81. Johns, Mien. free at Hunt's drug store. Admission refineries and swell profits by curtailing to unite, and the voters should show by resent some nursery a thousand miles reduced to 15 cents. productions. ” E. KNAPP, HI. Physician and their expression in every township that away; pays from two to five prices for a S**rgeon. Office at residence, first house PART L western coun ­ Undertaking. Tuesday evening, March 2. A cordial invita ­ Sarah A. Besley, 40 acres, sec. 11, Greenbush, 9700. then that's another thing —make an open try instead of turning it over to a mil­ Consultation and Examination Free 1 W. INGRAHAM, UNDERTAKER- tion Is extended to all. Stephen G. Williams and Arvllla Williams to fight on him. We ought to win in this lion dollar cabinet, as we are now about and Strictly Confidential. V Walker Street Eaat, St. Johns, Mich. We again ask you to be present at the meet­ Jane Dunlap, 40 acres, sec. 3, Ovid. 91,3.x). 1408 ing of the B. Y. P. U., at the Baptist church on Chas. E Mathews and wife to Eliza M Math ­ spring election, and will, if the believers to do. Such submissions brings to me IIR8. It. 8. St CO., devote their attention to Februaty 28, at 5:30 p m. It Is to be a mission ­ ews, land on sec. lo, Greenbush, 91.400.00. in bimetallism are loyal and true to their a mixture of sadness and madness, and Diseases of the Eye, Ear , Throat and l.ungt, At- hma anti consumption, and all Chronic, Private and ary meeting led by W. J. Dockbam. Subject: Thomas J. Barber and wife to Ferdinand H. a continuance of it will eventually re­ Geller, 40 40-100 acres, sec. 4, Dallas, SHOO. principles. The prosperity promised us Jfatrvout internet, Drformiliet, Granulated J.idt, Crott "History of the American Baptist Home Mis­ has not come, and will not come under move from me all the human sympathy Eye, Deaf nett, Discharge of the Eart, Bronchitis, TOM PADLEY, sion Society.” Sarah A. Besley to Eliza M. Mathews, land on Chronic Cough, Goitre, (big neck) Eever Sorts and sec 10, Greenbush, 9700. the gold standard, and the incoming ad­ I have for the unfortunate down-trod ­ Ulcert, Brightt /titrate. Rheumatism, all diteatet oj The Pioneer Harness-maker has The B. Y. P. U. will bold its next handshake Chas. Mankey and wife to Jacob Mankey, 4o the Kidneys and Bladder, heart , Stomach and her­ at the home of Charles Buck, on Lansing acres, sec. 3, Dallas. 9000. ministration knows it to be a fact. den that persist in its continuation. eout Distort, Chorea-St. Vitus’ Dance-. General De­ street north, on Tuesday evening, March 2# 8pencer W. Gibbs to Benry C. Lewis, 80 acres, McKinley's election was brought Yes, let the committee in every town ­ bility, Scrofula, Skin Diteatet, diteatet of men and sec. 28, Du plain, $2,650.00. • women, and all diteatet due la bad blood. and it also extends to you an Invitation to be about by the illegal use of money, money ship call a caucus for the “ Democratic, KPILKP8Y, OR FITS positively cured by REMOVED present. Please come, bringing your friends Eliza M Mathews)to Sarah A.Bosley, 15acres, People's Union Silver party, ” and every­ a new and never ratling remedy. sec. 11. Greenbush, 9600oo. with you and haw a good time. placed in saloons and other places of re­ body iu favor of the principles of bimetr I)rs. 11 8. St Co. make a specialty of all forms Aaron B. Brown and wife to James W. sort, and while nearly all the ministers talism should attend such caucus and of Recta! Diteatet, Piles-internal ond external, Jlch- LITERARY NOTES Brc.wn, 40 acres, sec. 26, Ovid, $2,000.00. see to it that none but simon pure bi ­ ing and Bleeding, Rectal Ulcert, Elm ret, IXttula— Theresia Schneller to Michael Spltzlcy, Jr., of the gospel came forward and preached which arc often taken for Nervous and Lung the Lait of Stevenson ’* Master­ land on sec. 5, Westphalia, $700.00. metallists are placed in nomination. Troubles, all cured. Remember, wc cure ail “St. Ives,” in behalf of the “ gold standard, ” they Better be defeated in a just cause with forms of Piles without pain, interruption or piece. Michael Spltzlcy and wife to Philip Cook, could Btand before their congregations detention from business, and without the use land on secs. 15 and 22, Westphalia, 92,301.82. good and true men, than prevail with of knife, caustic or ligature. Come and be The world will have nothing more from the aud preach a sermon on “money the root the opposite. Yours, magic pen of the late Robert Louis Stevenson Marthas. Pullman to Holmes T. Clark, 15 convinced. acres, Bee. 20, Watertown, $550. of all evil,” without mentioning the past II. J. Patterson . after the romantic novel of “St. Ives,” which Marla H. Van Auken to Jacob VanAuken, 83 begins publication In the March number of campaign. They took the side of the To Young, Middle-Aged 15-100 acres, Sec. 4, DeWltt, $3,000. Attention SiIvermcn ! McClure's Magazine We know from Steven ­ ChnstopherBelen and wife to Mathias Helen, gold standard, probably because they Mr. Bryan said in his letter to the free and Old Men. son ’s letters to Sidney Colvin, already pub- 1 «0 acres, secs 28 aim 20, Westphalia, $2 425. expected larger contributions from the llahed, that he was engaged on this novel ■ ~~ ^ silver forces after election : “ We shall Snffcrlng from Spermelorrhcra, Im potency- Lost “goldbug ” members. They marked manhood, —or from Wetkom brought on Iron) er­ To the room next north of A. B. Halcom's down almost to the moment of bis sudden KAGI.R. yet triumph, let each advocate of bimet ­ rors or Indiscretions In youth or over-indulgence Sewing Machine and Carriage Store, where death, and that it Interested him deeply. He their ticket under the eagle and sacri­ In later years, are given permanent relief. Abso ­ allism continue the work.” Organiz ­ may be found a complete stock of Draft and had the good fortune to leave It substan ­ From Our Correspondent. ficed the great American fowl, but when lute cures guaranteed; strictly confidential. ation aud education is the watchword. TUMORS AND CANCERS rured without Driving tially complete. The last two chapters, per ­ Frank Xerisom is clerking at Band- they go to take dinner with their former acids, knife, pain or scar. New methods. field, Mich. There are many ways that every friend haps, were not fully written ; but he left such friends they are greatly disappointed if CATARRH. New home treatment. Unsur ­ a summary of them that the course and con ­ Mrs. Wrn. Dravenstratt is numbered of silver can assist. One is to send ten passed and cheap. they don ’t find one set before them on GU A RA NTEK to cure every case of Dyspepsia, HARNESSES, clusion of the story are quite satisfactorily with-the sick. (10) cents in stamps or silver to G Sick Headache, Plies, Tape Worm and Stricture. shown. Persons who have read the novel pro ­ the table. Their salary may mostly ■rtTWe will give special attention to difficult T. R. Compton and family will move Walter Meade, Secretary of the Michi ­ cases and to cases other uhysiclan have failed to And a stock of nounce It unhesitatingly one of the most en ­ to Leslie soon. come from goldbug friends, but for a gan Bimetallic League, 720 Chamber of cure. Persons applying for treatment will please gaging of Stevenson ’s works. It is written in bring two or throe ounces of urine for analysis. Louis Marietta will remove to near substantial livelihood they must seek Commerce, Detroit, Mich., for the plan his most cheerful vein : It moves with a rapid ­ Potterville soon. Those who are unable to call, can write full par ­ ROBES, BLANKETS, the former. Their plea was for us to of the Michigan Bimetallic League and ticulars of their case and hate medicine sent by ity t.nd thrill of Incident unsurpassed: and It Carl Whitmore, of Detroit, is here have confidence* but we find we are pay ­ express, wlth full Instructions how to be taken.. presents a succession of personages of the ut­ visiting his mother and brother. full instructions for the organization of The Arm ot Dra. B. 8. A Co., were Incorporated WHIPS, most variety, subtlety and attractiveness. It ing dear for our confidence. Are our eeveral yearn since with a capital of $50,000, hence local clubs or societies. Let the friends you take no chances If you employ them. They is a love story, and the heroine is as Irresisti­ Mrs. Elisha Sutherland has been very ministers supported by confidence? or sick with pleurisy during the past week. of silver see that this plan is secured are responsible and well-known. Address And In fact every artlole found In a well regu­ ble as she who engaged the affections of Mr.. does it take a little money? They tell Al. Jeckles is rejoicing over the re­ and an organization started in every lated establishment of tbe kind, that defies David Balfour and of all who read the Immor ­ us it Is not the lack of money, but the DRS. B. S. & CO., competition as to style, quality and prloe. tal record of his adventures. The right of cent advent of a little daughter in his township in the county. ’ home. lack of confidence. Thanking you for past favors, I ask you to aerial publication of “St. Ivea” In America LOCK BOX 160, call on me In my new quarters. An Inspection was purchased by McClure’s Magazine of his Arthur McCauley aud mother have Now, If that is true, why not stop is­ Presidential Inauguration at Waalilngton, D. C.. March 4, 18117. ■ solicited- executor very soon after Mr. Stevonson ’s returned from an extended visit in the suing bonds and conduct our business Muskegon, - Mich. death. State of Ohio. For the above occasion tickets will be Repairing neatly and promptly done. Rev. Miles, of DeWitt, has been here solely on confidence? We are of the sold from all stations on the Grand —Archer Gunn, of Ovid, has pur- helping in the revival meetings at the opinion that it would be much cheaper. Trunk Railway System, and from con chased the Lyons Herald, and has M. E. church during the past week. If it is not the lack of money, why do necting lines at the rate of one fare for THE BRISTOL TABLETS. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS taken possession. John Hunter and wife are very much they issue bonds with which to get the round trip, via. Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, also Via. Detroit and Toledo They have cuffed ten* of thousands. SCHEDULE FOR 1806-7. pleased over the arrival of a sprightly money to do business with? They will enre YOU. Betting and gambling have of late baby daughter, which arrived on the Lines, and over all regular routes. For The Bristol Tablets are not a Cvas Iu, but High school room, 8t. Johns, third Thursday years become rather more general at 29th instant. They said business would revive. Yes, rates, routes and information apply to a positive cure tor Dyspepsias and Iixllgen- and Friday. Aug. 20 and 21.1896. it has. Every lawyer In town has had, all agents of the Grand Trunk Railway tlon In all forme. Nervousness, llyaterla. Gen ­ Court house. St Johns, third Thursday and Oxford than they were 15 or 20 years systems and connecting lines. Tickets eral Debility, Asthma, Constipation. Rilloua- Friday, Oct. 15 and 16.1896. •go. —Ada Amspoker. a domestic em- for the last two months, double the neas. Kick Headache and Disordered Liver. High school room. St. Johns, last Thursday loyed by Attorney George l*. Stone, of will be good for continuous passage only, One Teblet relieve* in ten minute*. A cure and Friday. March 25 and 26.1897. An English wfiter says the nse of Ithaca, usual amount of business, and a mem­ and will be on sale March 1, 2, and 3, GUARANTEED in six weeks. Court House, St. Johns, tbirn Thursday and was fatally burned Monday Friday, June 17 and IS. 1897. morphine doctors is constantly ber of one firm told me that they had valid for return passage March 4, 5, 6, AT DRUG STORES. by a afternoon. Her hands and arms were 7, and 8, inclusive. Certificates of all grades will be granted at growing evil. In their case the tempta ­ burned to a cri^p and she was Injured work enough to keep one more good The Smallest, the Che*rest the BEST. tbe examinations at St. Johns In August and tion is enormous. about the head. It is not known how lawyer at work. Now, a good time for Send 35c In stamps for 17 days full treatment March. Certificates of the second snd third the fire originated, as she waa in the Licensed to Wed.“ to the grades will bo granted at all other examina ­ A mysterious ringing of electrical lawyers is a nice Index to prosperity. Date. Name and Residence. Age. tions. kitchen alone at the time. Prompt ac­ Bristol Medical Company, All examinations will begin at 9 o ’clock s m. bells in a house in Switzerland was tion alone saved the house from destruc­ Lawyers ought to favor the gold Feb. 18 —Jeremiah B. Howe. Ollre...... 48 and continue two days. traoed to a spider whose web had con ­ standard, and vote for it. But what Alvlra E. Stampfly, DeWltt...... 27 Lock Box 107. Detroit, Mich, , Respectfully. tion. Miss Amspoker died on Tuesday. Feb. 19 Thomas Duon, St. Johns ...... 39 R. M. W1N8TON, nected two wire*. Her home was in Owosso. about the farmer ? Can we say half as Mary Cary, 8t. Johns ...... 40 Commissioner of Schools. V.

GLUTTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1897.

DAILY DOINGS OF CONGRESS, WAR CLOUDS OROW. GEN. LEE 18 ANGRY. TO EXAMINE CORPORATIONS. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.jy| p|j D £ y§» Senate .—50th day.—Tho immigra­ Bill Will Soon Be Introduced In Missouri tion bill now goes to the President, the legislature. CRETAN TROUBLE IS CAUSING last legislative step having been taken SAID TO HAVE TENDERED HID LESSON IX. FEB. 28—ACTS 8i I- St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 24.—A bill will 1 Cures Fever. SERIOUS THREATS. in the Senate by an agreement to the RESIGNATION. 17—DISCIPLES DISPERSED. 2 44 Worms. conference report on the bilL Strong soon be introduced in the legislature 44 opposition was made to the report, but looking to the appointment of a state 3 Infants ’ Diseases British Refuse to Join the Powers In n Consul-General wt Havana la Uuable to the final vote was yeas 34; nays 31. examiner of all corporation properties. Golden Texts “They That Were Scat­ 4 44 Diarrhea. Make HU Superiors at Washington The idea is to have the accounts of all tered Abroad Went Everywhere Preach­ Blockade of the Port of Athens— There was little else of general inter ­ 44 Properly Understand the Caban Situa­ incorporated companies examined in 8 Neuralgia. Geeks Continue to Send Troops and est in the session. House .—After two ing the World ”—From Acts, Chapter hours of debate the bill was passed tion —He Is Dissatisfied. the interest of the public, the holders 8, Verse 4—Tho Good Samaritans. 9 Cures Headache. Supplies to Crete-—Hot Fl(htln(. opening up to individuals and corpora- of stocks and bonds and prospective io 44 Dyspepsia. investors in such securities, in the same l< ions 138 reservoir sites reserved by the Washington, Feb. 24.—“Consul Gen ­ N the summer of 37 1 1 Delayed Periods. Ismail Bey has been appointed the geological survey in the arid region of way as is done by the national hank eral Filzhugh Lee has not resigned not A. D. the events 12 i 44 Leuchorrea. new Turkish governor of Crete and the west. The conference report on examiner on behalf of the general gov ­ here related took will he resign," is the Information giv­ 44 the commanders of foreign warships the legislative, executive and judicial en at the state department to-day in ernment place. Places, Jeru­ 14 Skin Diseases. have notified him that they have ad­ appropriation bill was agreed to, and reply to inquiries for confirmation of Senator Mott of St. Louis introduced salem and Samaria. 15 Cures Rheumatism. the remainder of the day was devoted a resolution requesting congress to sub ­ The text of the les­ dressed an ultimatum to the commo ­ son follows: 10 44 Malaria. dore of the Greek fleet requesting him to a contested election case of the mit an amendment to the constitution 1. And Saul was 44 Whooping Cough to withdraw from Cretan waters. Tenth Kentucky district of the United States for the election consenting unto his 20 44 They requested Ismail Bey to find a Senate .—51st day—The arbitration of president and vice-president for six death. And at that No. 27 Kidney Diseases. way of notifying the insurgents of this treaty was again the only matter of years, and United States senators by time there was a 30 44 Urinary Diseases fact, and of summoning them to yield general importance before the Senate, the people for a term of nine years, great persecution against the church 77 41 Colds and Grip. up their arms, also of informing them and no action was taken. House —The senators to be ineligible for re-election which was at Jeru­ Sold by Druggists, or sent prepaid on that the powers had taken measures to House unseated J. M. Kendall, Demo­ after two terms. salem; and they were all scattered prevent Greece from interfering in the crat, of the Tenth Keutucky district, abroad throughout the regions of Judea receipt of price, 25c. Da. Humpubeys ’ Homeopathic Manual affairs of Crete. The insurgents re­ and seated N. T. Hopkins, Republican. WOMEN WOODMEN TO RETIRE. and Samaria, except the apostles. 2. And plied that they would not surrender, Private pensions filled in the day. devout men carried Stephen to his burial, of Diseases Mailed Free. Denver Branch of the Order la Looking and made great lamentation over him. Humphreys’ Med. Co., Ill William 8L, V. Y. but would continue the fight. They Senate —52d day—And still another 3. As for Saul, he made havoc of the have sworn loyalty to Greece and be ­ day was spent in executive session con ­ to Self-Control. church, entering Into every house and lieve that Greece will take care of sidering the arbitration treaty, with Denver, Ool., Feb. 24.—The Wood ­ hailing men and women, committed them them. Over 1,400 more Greek troops, Senators Teller, of Colorado, ahd Dan ­ man ’s circle, the woman ’s branch of to prison. 4. Therefore they that were scat­ with six field guns, have landed at the Order of Woodmen In the west, is tered abroad went everywhere preaching iels, of Virginia, strongly opposing it, the word. 5. Then Philip went down to Kolnnbari, seven miles from Canea, and Senators Lodge and Platt arguing contemplating withdrawal from the the city of Samaria, and preached Christ and have been joined by 8,000 Cretans. for immediate ratification. House — Omaha management, which exercises unto them. 6. And the people with one An Athens dispatch says that the The general deficiency appropriation supreme control over the order in the accord gave heed unto those things which Grecian government has officially in ­ bill which,carries $8,441,027, was under western states, and, if possible, form­ Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which ho did. 7. For unclean formed the powers that Greece is un ­ consideration, but was not passed. ing a Pacific jurisdiction, which will spirits, crying with loud voice, came out Caveats,PATENTS and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pot- 1 able to reverse her policy in the mat­ Senate .—53d day.—A resolution of CONSUL LEE. place them on an equal tooting with of many that were possessed with them; ent business conducted for Moderate Fete. ter of the occupation of Crete. the reports that the Virginian had the Woodmen. and many taken with palsies, and that Our Office is Opposite 8,8. Patent O met sympathy with Greece in the present and we can secure patent in less time than those British Block the Plan of the Powers. conflict was promptly adopted. An at­ thrown up his position because his A convention has been called which were lame, were healed. 8. And there was remote from Washington. will meet in Salt Lake City March 3 great Joy In that city. 9. But there was Send model, drawing or photo., with de^crip-< The powers addressed a collective tempt was made to pass a bill to pro ­ government at Washington would not a certain man, called Simon, which be ­ tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of note, originating with Germany, to vide for a commission to look into labor back up demands which he considered to discuss plans for the new jurisdic­ foretime in the same city used sorcery charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. tion and to decide upon the best means A PAMPHLET, “ How to Obtain Patents, ” with Greece demanding the withdrawal of problems, but it was displaced by the necessary for the maintenance of the and bewitched the people of Samaria, cost of some in the U. 5. and foreign countries her naval and military forces from the Indian appropriation bill which proved national honor and the preservation of for carrying out their plans. giving out that himself was some great scat free. Address, island of Crete within 48 hours, failing the rights of American citizens in Ha­ one: 10. To whom they all gave heed, a rich source of discussion, particularly from the least to the greatest, saying, which, the port of Piraeus (Athens) on the amendment to reverse the pol ­ vana. FilibaftterlnK Steamer Held. This man is the great power of God. 11. C. A. SNOW & CO. Opp. Patent Office. Washinoton . D. C. would be blockaded and general hos ­ icy of last year for the abandonment Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee's de­ Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 24.—John D. And to him they had regard, because that tilities commence. Later however the of sectarian schools on Indian reserva­ mands upon the state department and Hart, owner of the filibustering steam­ of long time he had bewitched them with scheme was vetoed by Great Britain, tions. No vote was taken on the upon the administration for enlarged sorceries. 12. But when they believed er Laurat’a, who has been on trial in Philip preaching the things concerning ouse and there is little prospect of its being amendment. H .—The general de­ powers to make good his demands upon the United States court here for sev­ the kingdom of God. and the name of adopted ficiency appropriation bill was under the Spanish authorities for the pro ­ eral days charged with setting on foot Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both The newspapers of Berlin reflect the discussion and gave Mr. McMillin, of tection of American citizens have been a military expedition to Cuba in de­ men and women. 13. Then Simon himself believed also; and when he was baptized, bitter resentment felt by Emperor Tennessee, an opportunity to make a ignored. Time and again he has en ­ fiance of the neutrality laws, was found William at the rejection by the mar­ bitter attack on Justice Shiras, of the he continued with Philip, and wondered, tered his protests with Secretary Olney guilty this morning by the Jury. The beholding the miracles and signs which quis of Salisbury of his majesty’s per ­ U. S. supreme court for liis action in and informed that official that the trial was begun last Tuesday. Scores were done. 14. Now when the apostles JmNEATS. I HAUL MARkS sonal. the income tax decision. rights of Americans were being tramp ­ ot witnesses were produced by the which were at Jerusalem heard that Sa­ M. Skouses, the Greek minister for maria had received the word of God, they 1 COPYRIGHTS.* Senate .—54th day.—Washington ’s led upon, that American lives were be ­ prosecution among the members of the CAR I OBTAIN A PATENT » War a foreign affairs, has replied to the last- farewell address was read in an im­ sent unto them Peter and John: 15. Who, anxnpt Fnswer and an honest opinion, writ. Is ing sacrificed and American property Laurada’s crew and the crews of the when they were come down, prayed for JP U NR dk CO., who bar* had near 1/ Oft j yean? communication from the representa ­ pressive manner by Mr. Daniel, of Vir­ destroyed by the Spanish soldiers and them, that they might receive the Holy oxpsrtsno*. ------In th*------patent-----^usineso. — — Com mu- tives of the powers, saying it is impos ­ yachts and tugs which aided in making ttons strictly confidential. A Handbs.kHandbook ofi ginia. The Indian appropriation bill by the direct order of Gen. Weyler and the expadition a success. Ghost. formation concerning Patents and bow to ok* sible for Greece to recall her torpedo b thorn sent free. A no * catalogue or ; discussion was then resumed and the ' associates. He has stated in the most HINTS TO THE TEACHER. I sad sclent!flo hooks sent _fro*. fleet, so long as the excitement contin ­ Senate finally agreed to a clause di­ positive and emphatic terms that the ou token throughentitle Istaunt Awierleaet'aaj A Oo. ues in Crete. recting temporary contracts with sec­ New Line to Venezuela. The lesson opens with the picture of I nottoe In thehe Helen til! Spanish authorities hold the United the Persecutor. 1. He was sincere. Saul's Greeks Capture More Towns. St. Louis, Feb. 24.—Venezuelan Con ­ tarian schools on reservations where States in contempt, and have system­ fierce and apparently bloodthirsty con ­ lesontly IlluitrateaT** br Tar tb« Notwithstanding all the outward no government schools have been es­ sul Herman Meinhard is authority for duct Is set In its true light by such state­ ■on Of ear scientific work la IH atically and continually ignored his a rsor. Specimen ooptes seat free, I show of opposition on the part of the tablished. A veto from Mr. Cleveland the statement that the Illinois Central ments as Acts 23, 1; Acts 26, 9, 10; 1 Tim. ■mien, monthly, tUAayoar. Single demands upon them looking to investi ­ mats. Bvsry number non tot ns been powers the Greeks continue to send on a private pension bill caused a railroad, through Its general freight 1, 12, 13. Such bigots have been seen In tn colors, and photographs «f new troops and supplies to Crete and they sharp criticism by Mr. Gallinger of the gations into the cases of Americans and passenger agent, George E. Lary, every age, honest, but mistaken. Such enabling builders to show the whose lives and property were tyran ­ was the spirit of Dominic, of Calvin oontrsrt*. Address are steadily driving the Turkish troops President's course. The Loud bill, I is considering the establishment of a against 8ervetus, of the Puritans In New to the three points occupied by the providing for one cent letter postage nically and arbitrarily placed In jeop ­ steamship line between New Orleans England. 2. He was Intense, because it warships of the powers. Col. Vassos, and for closer restrictions on second- ardy. He has stated that the Spaniards and Venezuelan ports. The proposed was his nature to be earnest In every­ commander of the Greek troops, has class mail matter so as to limit it act as though assured that they would line would form a part of the regular thing. Saul, like Paul, could do nothing MARBLE not be Interfered with from Washing ­ by halves. What aroused the persecution captured another important position, strictly to newspapers, was under dis­ Illinois Central system. Big Four In ­ was the doctrine, launched by Stephen, and the village and fort of Vouklies. Col. cussion but no action was taken. ton, and that they would be running no terests and other large concerns in the that Jews and Gentiles were to become Vassos in the name of King George, is House .—The general deficiency appro ­ risks in proceeding with entire indiffer ­ Mississippi valley are said to be in ­ one In the Gospel. 3. He was. neverthe ­ GRANITE establishing a system of administra ­ priation bill was passed and the con ­ ence to any demands which might be terested in the project. less, fighting against conviction. What were "the pricks ” against which he was tion. The municipal elections are al­ sideration of the naval appropriation made upon them by Gen. Lee and other kicking (Acts 9, 5) but a feeling which he ready proceeding and mayors have bill begun. American consular officers. Rlv«r* Are a Menace. could not overcome, that Stephen was been installed in the towns and vil­ The strained relations between Gen. right, that Jesus was the Christ, and War Seems Inevitable. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 24.—The rain that the salvation was for all men? The lages outside of Canea, Heraklion, Lee and the administration naturally has ceased and the temperature has Retimo and Sitia. A dispatch from Vienna says that a causes no end of discussion in political next picture is that of the Church. The report has been received from Salonica fallen until light Ice has formed. These time to estimate a church or a character Cemetery Work of any description Col. Vassos has been ordered by circles in Washington. The official de­ Is not when it is prosperous, but when It to the effect that a collision occurred conditions, if continued, will do much Low in Price as any King George not to retire unless the nial of the state department in regard toward lessening the height of the in ­ is In the midst of trial. Notice here the igan. I have a Fine between the Turkish soldiers and the traits of a true Christianity. 1. It has DESIGNS in ScoU powers fire on him, when he must re­ to Gen. Lee’s resignation is accepted evitable Ohio river flood. At 9 o ’clock tire inland without replying to the fire. Greeks at Naszlitza, near the Greek as correct, but It is believed that Gen. growth —germinatlve power; It propa ­ American Granites. this morning the river had reached gates Itself. It Is a seed which springs He is. however, to resist the Turkish frontier. The Turks were defeated Lee would like to resign, and he has After getting prices elsewhere call and with loss and withdrew for reinforce ­ 51 feet 4 inches and was rising at the up wherever it is drppped, whether in troops/ The government sent instruc ­ been with difficulty kept from resign ­ Judea, Samaria, or Antioch; In America examine. You will decide to rate of four inches an hour. If this buy of me. tions to the consul at Canea declaring ments. The Turkish governor of Sal- ing for six weeks past. or In Japan. %. It has breadth. Verses 5. ouica has ordered the troops to the rate continues the water will be run ­ 6. It overcomes the prejudices of race that as the four towns which the dow - and nation, breaks the bonds of sect, and ers occupied were not held in behalf of point where the disturbance took ning into the Grand Central depot by F. F. MURDOCK place. -The population along the WISH FOR HARMONY. 3 p. m. brings Jews and Samaritans into one fel­ Turkey they must, like the rest of lowship. 3. It has power. Verse 7. The Opposite Post Office. St. Johns, Miok Greek frontier, is eagerly awaiting the Crete, be regarded as Greek territory. Populist Editors at Kansas City Send physical miracles of the apostolic age signal to rise against the Turks. Fund for Hint. Stcpniak. were pictures of its spiritual working in Powers* Warships Flrk on the Cretans. A dispatch from Athens says that Message to Their Brethren. London, Feb. 24.—A statement is­ all ages. Even now the Gospel drives out A dispatch from Canea says: At 4:30 the National league has addressed a Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 24.—The re­ sued to-day shows that so far $2,500 unclean spirits and gives power to the LIVERY p. m. Sunday signals were made to the Impotent. 4. It brings Joy. Verse 8. Ev­ strong letter to King- George and form press editors in session here un ­ has been subscribed for the benefit of —AND- British warships Dryad, Harrier and ery truly converted soul tastes the Joy of Premier Delyannis, declaring that if der a call of Secretary-Treasurer Ro­ the widow of Sergius Stepniak, the salvation, and has within a fountain of Revenge, together with one Italiau, Europe tries to cancel the fait ac- selle were late in convening this morn ­ famous Russian revolutionist and exile, happiness. 6. It has discipline. Verses one German and one Russian ship, to accompli of the union of Crete with ing. who was killed at a railway crossing 14-16. The Church was a unit, whether open fire on the Cretan position on the Greece, the league, through its power ­ A. general feeling of satisfaction over on the outskirts of this city about a In Judea or Samaria. It recognized the hills above Canea where the Greek flag central authority of the apostles, and sub- ful resources in Macedonia and else­ the re-election at Memphis of Presi­ year ago. Sixty dollars of the amount emitted to It. The last picture Is that of was hoisted some days ago. The Brit­ where in the Balkans will provoke a dent Paul Vandervoort prevailed, but Is credited as having been subscribed Simon the Sorcerer, showing the traits ish ships fired 40 and the foreign ships general uprising of Hellenists. the opinion was that the situation as by friends In the United States. of a false Christianity. We need not 30 shells at the village and ruined the waste much time in the profitless Inquiry Greece Threatens the Powers. regards the attitude of the Kansas City house held by the Cretans. The flag gathering toward the southern meeting about Simon's powers, which were not was soon lowered and the order, “cease A dispatch from Athens says that Bryan Encourage* Oratory. unlike those of so-called “mediums'' now ­ Greece has declared that if the bom ­ remained practically unchanged, and adays. 1. Even In the true Church, and fire,” sounded after 10 minutes. Salem, Ill., Feb. 24.—William J. Bry­ bardment of the insurgents' positions that nothing but the organization of a In Its purest days, there was a false dis­ Thereupon the flag was rehoisted. an, wife and daughter spent Washing ­ ciple. "Simon, among the disciples; and. in the Island of Crete is repeated she new association was left open. Tempo ­ Boarding Stable The rocks around were crowded with ton's birthday here, and paid~a visit to believing after a fashion, he was not al­ will break off diplomatic relations with rary Chairman Leo Vincent called the together a hypocrite. 2. He was a Chris ­ Cretans. The Turks, encouraged by the public school which the great free the powers. It is also stated that As* meeting to order at 10 o ’clock. tian In form, a baptized member, but not FINE TURNOUTS OF A LI. KINDS the fleets, now opened a lively fusil­ silver advocate attended in his youth. sim Bey, the Turkish minister at After some discussion, a committee of In heart and life. He carried worldly lade, while the Cretans were removing He addressed the pupils on Washing ­ aims and methods Into the Church. 3. He Special attention given to Boarding Horses.rum Athens, threatens that Turkey will three, composed of General Master the wounded. The Cretans had not ton, and offered two valuable prizes to supposed that other disciples were on his class outfits furnished for Commercial Men, break off her relations unless the Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Funerals, Pleasure Parties, Etc. replied during the whole performance. be awarded 'by the board of education, own plane, and offered money to the Greek troops are withdrawn from Labor, Congressman James Gunn of apostles to buy the gift of the Holy from year to year, 'to the two pupils •P*Persons having Lame and Disabled Horses It was a somewhat melancholy and de­ Crete. Idaho and National Secretary J. A. Ed- Spirit. His spirit was that of selfish am­ .Hi find the best or faaflUiM for treatment at my grading spectacle. standing the highest in oratory. bition, seeking power over men. rather •tables, M.C. LI VESA Y, Vetersarf Surgeon, in at> Dispatches from Canea say that 15 gerton, was appointed to draft a tele­ tendance. Stables 2d door West of The 8teo than power with God. tforih aids. (IMS) Hanna Goei Into the Senatn. Christians, including three nuns of the gram of inquiry to be sent the Mem­ phis convention. Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio, has given out SL Elias convent, were wounded by 'Charleston. W. V»., Is Under IVater. FKa NK n CHOFIKI U Wrap' r. the following statement: the bombardment by the foreign war­ Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 24.—The Consul Jones and Queen Margherlta. “It had been my intention to make ships. Five thousand insurgent troops South Pittsburg Under Water. river here Is forty feet and rising and The Washington Post tells this story no announcement in relation to the arrived within half an hour after the Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 24.—The con ­ all of the lower part of the city has of Col. Wallace S. Jones, United States action I would take in the matter of firing commenced. , tinued rains along the Monongahela been under water since 9 o'clock last consul general at Rome, Italy, now on Tbe Clifton House and Allegheny valleys promise to night. Both the Kanawha and Elk riv­ an appointment to fill the prospective McKinley's Cabinet Complete. a visit to this country. -Col. Jones is cause a flood here greater than any ers are rising and there is now evidence a Floridian, and has been in the consu ­ CHICAGO, vacancy in the Ohio representation in President-elect McKinley ’s cabinet is the United States senate until the va­ since 1891. At noon the marks showed that great suffering among the 'lower lar service In Italy for the last ten Is recognized the headquarters for all now complete, as follows: 26 feet of water in the channel and ris­ classes will'follow the receding of the Michigan people. Being controled by cancy actually existed, but on account Secretary of state, John Sherman, of years. He is a gentleman of wit, tact of the manifest interest of the people ing at the rate of nine inches an hour. waters. and culture, and his ability to make a Detroit capital, its proprietors feel spec ­ Ohio. Dispatches from all points at the head ­ ially Interested to make Michigan trade I deem it best to say that when Sena ­ -Suicide Because bf « Love Affair. happy response at the right time Secretary of the treasury, Lyman J. waters report the rivers still rising and and traveling public at home. The rates tor Sherman resigns to enter the cabi ­ Gage, of Illinois. Boston, Mass., Feb. 24.—John Lewis brought him Into the good graces of are reasonable, $2.00, $2.50 and $8.00 per net of President McKinley I will ap ­ old river men predict from 28 to 30 Secretary of war, Gen. Rnssell A. Roche, son of James Jeffrey Roche, Queen Margherlta o.i his first appear ­ day, American plan. Accommodations point to succeed him Hon. Marcus A. feet here by nightfall. The low lands Alger, of Michigan. editor of the Boston Pilot, shot him ­ ance at Court. The queen asked him first class. Hanna, of Cuyahoga county, to serve In this city, south Pittsburg and Alle­ Secretary of the navy, J. D. Long, of self In the right lung last night while from which state he hailed, and on be ­ until his successor is chosen by the gheny are already under several feet ing told, said'that she had often heard seventy-third general assembly of the Massachusetts. standing in the doorway of the Castle GEO. CUMMINGS HOTEL C0„ Secretary of the interior, Joseph Mc­ of water, and the residents are moving Square hotel. His wound Is dangerous. Florida described as a very beautiful PROPRIETORS. state. I trust this action will meet to higher ground. with the approval of the people. ” Kenna, of California. A love affair Is thought to he the cause country. “Yes,” your majesty,” was Postmaster-general, James A. Gary, of "Mr. Roche ’s act. the prompt reply, "we call It at home I>r. Arthur Duestrow, the millionaire of Maryland. Kalcidd of a War Veteran. the Italy of America.” The neat com­ who murdered his wife and little boy Attorney-general, John J. McCook, Jacksonville, Ill., Feb. 24.—James M pliment was not lost on royalty, and 'Wabash'Is Uncommonly'High. at 8t. Louis nearly three years ago, of New York. Landreth, a veteran of the Fifty-ninth the colonel was rewartled with a charm ­ has been hanged for the crime, which Secretary of agriculture, James Wil­ Gr&yvllle.'lll., Feb.-24. —The Wabash ing smile from one of the loveliest Ohio Regiment in the late war, escaped river at this point is> rising at the rate was extremely cold-blooded. son, of Iowa. from his watchers in a fit of insanity women in EHrope. of an Inch an hour. The lowlands are A force of Cubans under Gen. Lacret this morning and hanged himself. He The people of school district No. 1, all under water and as the rain is con ­ bad a pitched battle with Spaniards was a man of good character, a brave Algomn township, Kent county, are tinuing It is'thought that the entire HEALTH AND BEAUTY HINTS. who outnumbered them two to one, soldier and a good citizen. He had about 10 miles west of Havana. The divided over the question of holding river bottoms will be flooded. The religious services in the school house. been sick for some time, the result of river is now higher than it has been Tor Cubaus were caught between two col­ One faction is holding revival services exposure during his army life. He Gloves worn at night too constantly umns, and after fighting for two hours, every night and the others have tried leaves a wife and one daughter. three years. are apt father to yellow the hands thaa by a skillful feint, drew off part of the repeatedly to break up the services, whiten them. Vaseline yellows the volunteer corps and then made a furi­ but did not succeed until they tnrned 'Ministers'Must Be Citizens. fektn. Mrs. Beecher Is Mnch Weaker. ous attack on the other, compelling a skunk loose during a service. Pros­ - Jefferson 'Oily, Mo., Feb. -24.—The Glycerin and lemon Juice soften and ecutions will probably follow. Stamford, Conn., Feb. 24.—Mrs. Hen­ the Spaniards to retreat and open a legislature has passed a law whloh pro ­ whiten the sldn. Mixed 'In equal pro ­ The House passed the Senate joint ry Ward Beecher has rallied from her Mitchell ’s Kidney Plasters passageway for the Cubans. The Cu­ hibits any . person from solemnizing portions'It ir-an excellent remedy for Absorb all disease in the Kidneys and resolution increasing the salary of the sxtreme prostration of last evening but bans lost 100 men, the Spaniards double marriages who is not a citizen of the chapped hands. wekwe them to a boa.Ay condition. attorney-general to $3,500 and requir­ Is weaker. She passed the night as that Dumber. United Stated. No foreign bishop -or A'good lotion to use for perspiring Old chroaio kidney sufferers soy ing him to reside at Lansing. The lomfortably as could be expected, but The industrial school committee has measure must yet be signed by the priest can legally perform the mar­ hands <* made of cologne water and tkey g»t no relief until they triad falls noticeably after each recurring recommended an appropriation of governor and then submitted to a vote riage ceremony in Missouri until he belladonna, using about seventy-five MITCH EL MRKIDM ET ittack. fl59,000 for that institution. of the people. becomes a citizen of the United States. grammes of cologne to twelve of bella ­ gflld by Druggists everywhere. donna. Flanker Was**, I swell, M—r CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897-

by “turning It "over, ” as he said. There ­ U mIumi Cannot Be C'md bv local applications, as they cannot reach fore my mother calls him a gentleman. the diseased portion of the ear. There U ONE MAN’S SUFFERING. “Mr. Druce,” I ask, “keeps his loan- only one way to cure deafness, and that U Smouldering fires office still?” by constitutional remedies. Deafness la The Trials end Tribulations of a Bat­ caused by an inflamed condition of the mu­ “Yes, and Is quite a rich man. All cous lining of the Enstachlan Tube. When of old disease tle Creek Citizen—Hew He this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling the neighbors borrow of him. They sound, or Imperfect hearing, and when it Is lark in the blood of many a Comes to Tell This Story. pay him back a little at a time every entirely closed deafness Is the result, and man, who fancies himself in week.” unleHH the inflammation can be taken out ; CFrom the Battle Creek Moon.) and this tube restored to its normal condi ­ good health. Let a slight “You owe him nothing, I hope? ” tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine Among the moulders at the works of cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, sickness seize him, and the “No, my eon; I manage without, tlic Michigan foundry company can be which is nothing hut an Inflamed condition old enemy breaks out anew. found Mr. Amos Mayuanl; be has lived though ’tis a hard pinch. ” of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any in Battle Greek for over ten years, is "I make It as easy for you as I can, case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that The fault is the taking of honored and respected by all who know mother, ” I say, sternly. “It would be canned be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. medicines that suppress, in ­ Send for circulars, free. him; such is the man who makes this harder the other way. All that I have stead of curing disease. Yon statement, be says: “ I have bad kidney CHAPTER IV. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, a that is really there, and with out­ is yours. You ’ll promise me never to Sold by druggists, 75c. can eradicate disease and trouble for years, and it hus made my T WANTS but six stretched hands that seem to have Hall's Family Pills are the best lay yourself under an obligation to purify your blood, if yon use Hte miserable. Tlie heavy lifting, neces ­ weeks to Christ- tongueB in them, so eloquent are they. sary in ray business, made me worse. I that man? ” The woman of limited means who is always the standard remedy of the mas, and the “Why, mother," I say, “what are “I promise you. my son, “.she replies, well dressed either devotes her entire In ­ have been compelled to lie in bed in a help ­ come or her entire intellect to her clothes. world, less condition for as long as nine days at a weather is cold and you looking for? A ghost! ” in a tone made piteous by my stern ­ time: the greatest pain was froromy back, cheerless. I, expect She gives me a scared look, and lets ness. Lane’s Family Medicine Ayer’s • which sometimes felt as though a bayonet to have a long me lead her back to her chair, into “Do you think, ” I say, following was being run through me in the region stay at home this which she pinks, still all of a tremble. Moves the bowels each day. In order of my Iddncys; many citizens of Battle out the direction of my thoughts, “that to be healthy this is necessary. Acts Sarsaparilla. time — to spend “It was I who gave you that *Yo, Mabel ’s mother owes him money? ” gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures Creek knew how bad 1 was. 1 could not Christmas there, in heave, ho! ’ mother. ” move without the greatest caution, for “It is likely, my son. ” sick headache. Price 26c and 50c. fact Tomorrow I “Really you, Amos?” as soon as 1 attempted to stoop over, bend “And has Mabel herself spoken to CllftC race * uMful article, for only Mma *ube. to one side, or even turn in bed, the pain am to take tea “Really me, mother. ” you about it?” Pureness of heart and life gives a clear­ CARLO inLC to PoultryKeeperatttc. Every poultry was simply unbearable. I wore porous with Mabel and her “Your voice was so like your ness to the mental horizon which nothing rattier want# thl. trading poultry paper. Sample free. “No, my son. ” else can do; It clears away a vast number or Add reus Poultry KuruCo., Boi 91 Parkeabarg. Pa. plasters constantly for the little tem­ mother. Mabel ’s mother is a widow, as father ’s, my son, ” says Bhe, almost In clouds and shadows. porary relief they brought me. When ­ “Has she not spoken to you about mine is. Strange to say, I have never a whisper; “and at that moment I was Mr. Druce?" ever I caught the slightest cold it went seen her, and have never entered her looking into the fire, end thinking of “STAR TOBACCO.** straight to my kidneys and made me house. “She has never mentioned his name As you chew tobacco for pleasure use Star. worse. I was advised to try Doan ’s Kid­ him ----- ” to me, Amos.” It Is not onlv the test but }he moat lasting, aud, SS^SSSm thereioie, the cbea, est. ney Pills, and got some. I nave taken in Presently she adds, “I didn ’t know This comforts me somewhat. If » The day has come and gone, and I 3100 BICYCLES FREE. all four boxes of them, and I now feel as but that he might be calling me to girl is about to be married, and her In order to introdue our “18G7 ” wheels we intend am sitting by a winter ’s fire, talking A wise and kindly silence would often pre ­ active as ever. A few months ago 1 would come to him. ” heart is In the match, she would surely vent incalculable injury. Especially should giving sway a number free to advertise them. For have ridiculed the idea of being cured so by fits and starts to my old mother I pass my arm around her neck, and we avoid repeating what has been said In particulars .end 2c. (tamped addressed envelop, to the speak of it to such a friend as my AVALON OICYCLC CO., quickly, and being able to work as I can about one thing and another. It all the heat of anger. she takes my hand and bolds It in mother was to Mabel. How do I work Agents wanted everywhere. 111-621 Broidery. Y.Y. now. All the long-standing pains arc comes back to me as clear as the noon ­ hers, so that she has a necklet of her out the sum. then? In this way: Ma­ Mrs. Winslow's Sootaing Syrup gone, and the former traces of kidney dis­ day sun. The years that have passed Fnyp Booklet, handsomely Illustrated, orders found in my urine have disap ­ own loving flesh and blood about her. bel ’s mother favors the match; Mabel Forchilarcn teeihins. .often*tlie .1 umi.reduces inflam 1ULL describing M tbraska, her farms since then and now melt away, as vu'.lon, allay, paiu. -sure, wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. rnr rand the opportunities there far peared. I have recommended Doan ’s Kid­ “Then my voice is like my father ’s?” herself wishes to avoid it I follow i though they have never been. I 11 bbyoung men and farm renters to ney Pills to many friends who were trou­ “Yes, my son. ” * out the current of my muslngs. become farm owners. Mailed wltboutchargc bled as I was, and in every case I have • ; Not an hour ago I left Mabel ’s house, “How well I remember his ‘Yo, Much to be said on both sides—when a wo­ oh application to P. S. Eusns, General Pass­ “Do you like Mabel ’s mother? ” man has only half a sheet of paper on which enger Agent, C., U. & Q. R. R.. Chicago, I1L learned they proved as beneficial as with and I am gaztonl«hedt "Not when gold is flung before her /th > world with a yield ot ITSbu.of Balzer*sl In bottles If they are Kept full and well mine. She knows that I refer to her court­ /Silver King Bartvy per acre. Don't you beUerel corked. The juice is not likely to keep long eyes. Like mother, like daughter. ” fill Just write him. In order to gain, to 1897’ after allowed to come in contact with at­ Her husband had been a small ing days, and she draws a deep ,100.000 new customer* we tend on trial mosphere over 40 degrees temperature. It builder, and when he died, had left breath. My mother and I have never ex­ jio DOLLARS’ WORTH FOR lOe-l is excellent tor invalids. changed a harsh word and, I resolve Ilf pkgs. of new and rare farm reeds, including I barely enough for the support of her ­ “Yes, my son. We loved each other 1 above Barley. Teoalnte, Giant Sparry, Sand / that one shall not be uttered now. Age \Vetch,"40c. Wheat. ” and other norrltk., p <>,-/ When geuius attains to a dress-suit it has self and Mabel. So much I learned be ­ true.” ^lttvely worth flO.to (ret anta-1. all postpaid ^ become celebrity. fore I went to her house. “No happiness without love, mother. ” has its privileges as well as its in ­ L Including our great reed catalog, for 10a , Unbelief is the egg out of which all sins firmities, and wRh increasing years ‘ kLarge,t grower, of farm reed, and pot*-i are hatched. Now, what has set my thoughts “None, my son. ” • tore In the world. S6 pkg*. earliest^ the judgment becomes warped. So I . vegetable reeds.(1. Catalog tells. A man may set his foot down —and be but wandering as I look into the fire? Her Her voice is broken by the tears kall .boat lt.Gl.dly mailed to^ a mule. cold hand which lay dead in my palm? which are running down her old face. say no more; but I resolve that I will ..intendingbuyers. Send Put out your hand before you put up your test Mabel soon. * this notice. __ prayer. No, not that alone. What else, then, There is no happiness without love, ______W.N. in connection with that? A simple and she had tasted it, this little pale The opportunity arrives a day or two HI---- W thing —a passing expression on her old mother of mine, and she lived now afterward in the early morning, and I WORN OUT. face, that was there but a moment, and on the memory, Bucking honey out of speak to Mabel direct. Does any one Smith —“This is my last cigar.” W. N. U.--DETROIT—-NO. 9—1897 then was gone. the past. ever remember the exact words that Jones “That 8 good; I was afraid When Answering Advertisements Pie A COMMON EXPRESSION USED BY In this way: We have had tea, and And in the midst of these thoughts pass when he is following out a pur ­ you had one for me.”—Up-tO-Date. Mention Thl* Paper. AMERICAN WOMEN. the tea-things are cleared. I am talk­ comes the remembrance of a frown pose such as was in my mind? I do ing and talking, and Mabel and her on a woman ’s face, and the cold touch not, and cannot set down what was 8Iany do not Realize the Full Significance mother are listening. I, full of my of a dead hand. Vainly do I try to said. I know that I was deeply agi­ of Those Two Words. theme, am maundering away on some shake it off. tated, and that my first reference was startling experience —startling to them, “How old were you, mother, when to Mr. Druce. \ When a woman is nervous and irri­ I mean —and Mabel ’s eyes are fixed on “He is nothing to me,” Mabel says. table, head and back ache, feels tired you first saw father? ” my face, and my eyes are fixed on hers, ITU MB COSTING Sit. • all the time, loses sleep and appetite, “I was a little girl In pinafores, my when an unusual stillness arouses me son. ” has pains in groins, bearing-down from my dream. sensation, whites “Seven or eight years, maybe? ’’ NAPOLEON LEARNS BUSINESS. • For I am dreaming. The magnetic and irregulari­ “About that, my son. ” Indifferent About Letting His Subordl- influence of a presence that I love has “Like Mabel? ” I say. ties, she is not natea See His Ignorance. cast a spell over me, and has made I intend only to think this, my ques­ “worn out,” me unconscious of everything else A few days after the thirteenth ven- but feels tions being put so as to lead up to about me. For the matter of that, Ma­ the point; but the words came out demalre I happened to be at the office as if she of the general staff in the Rue Neuv* For bel and I migh't be alone In the world without my having anything to do were. des Capucines, when Gen. Bonaparte, An unusual stillness, I say, and it is with it, as It seems. From this mo­ Such who was lodging in the house, came in, what I mean; for, although before I ment I am conscious that my mother is says the “Memoirs of Baron ThiebaulL ” fefisiimpTiotJ receive this new impression the sound watching me In a secret way. Well, of my voice is the only sound to be what have I to conceal? I can still see his little hat, surmount ­ ed by a chance plume badly fastened For the last 20 years we have kept Piso's Cure for Con ­ heard in the room, and although no “Who was at Mabel ’s house to ­ on, his tri-color sash more than care­ person but myself has spoken for night? ” she presently asks. sumption in stock, and would sooner think a groceryman could lessly tied, his coat cut anyhow and many minutes, the new silence is dif­ “No one but Mabel and her mother, ” a sword which, In truth, did not seem get along without sugar in his store than we could without ferent from the old. There are I answer. the sort of weapon to make his fortune. Piso ’s Cure. It is a sure seller.—RAVEN & CO., Druggists thoughts that move like living things “Wasn ’t any one else expected? ” Flinging his hat on a large table in the 'within you, and here are some work­ “Not that I know of.” Ceresco, Michigan, September 2, 1896. middle of the room, he went up to an ing their spell upon me. And under It occurs to me that my mother has old general named Krleg, a man with a ’their influence my eyes wander from a purpose in turning my thoughts In wonderful knowledge of detail and the Mabel ’s face to meet her mother ’s. this new direction, and I question her author of a very good soldiers ’ man ­ | Well, I see a frown there, that is all; concerning it. She answers me in a that a womb ual. He made him take a seat beside but a frown that tells a story I cannot roundabout way. trouble is hmnirent, and she cannot him at the table and began question ­ ^iANDY CATHARTIC fead as yet. I am striving to spell “He Is often at Mabel ’s house, and I act too promptly if she values her ing him, pen in hand, about a host of out that story now. thought he would be sure to he there future comfort and happiness. J It was not a shadow from the fire facta connected with the service and The experience and testimony of tonight. ” discipline. Some of his questions show ­ falling on her face, and distorting the “He! Who? ” rafcca/veto some of the most noted women of ed such a complete ignorance of the lines there, or playing on it to Its dis­ “Have you not heard, ” she says, with America, go to prove beyond a ques­ advantage; it was a frown like a black roost ordinary things that several of tion that Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vegetable a quaver in her voice, “that a gentle ­ my comrades smiled. I was myself ;cloud. And when I bid her good night man is keeping company with Mabel? ” CURE CONSTIPATION Compound will correct all such trouble 'her hand lies cold and dead in mine. struck by the number of his questions, at once by removing the cause and “No, I have not heard. Is it true?” their order and their rapidity. * • * 10* ^ALL |And Mabel ’s good night? It is as “It Is the common talk. The neigh ­ restoring the organs to a healthy and ;kind and warm as ever it was; and But what struck me still more was the SO* DRUGGISTS normal condition. If in doubt, write bors say they will soon be married.” spectacle of a commander-in-chief per ­ she does not see that my mind la So here is an end to my wandering IDtJfll TTTPT V nTTIPIMTPPD t® rare as, rare of constipation. Csacsrets are the Ideal Laxa- Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., aa 'troubled, being, mayhap, unconscious fectly indifferent about showing his ADul/LUlubl uUAuAnlEi£il/tire, nerer crip or rripe.bat cause eta, astara) results- kas- thousands of women do. thoughts, an answer to my uneasy nle and booklet free. Ad. STERLING BEMFDY CO.. Oiir.ro, Montreal. Can. . or New York. !of the cause. subordinates how completely Ignorant Here is n lady who says:— muBlngB, cutting Into me like a sur­ J I come home, where I am surrounded he was of various points of the busi ­ * 4 Let me add my name to your list geon ’s knife. This is the meaning of ness which the junior of them was 1 of testimonials. For years I suffered )by the shells that a dead man gath ­ that woman's coldness to me when I ered when life was strong within supposed to know perfectly, and this with such a weakness of the back I left the house. I can read the story raised him a hundred cubits In my could not stand straight. 1 had terri­ ;hlm. I gaze into the fire, and I see now, as she read the story of my love Your Ruling Planet Discovered ■Mabel's face; I gaze upon the shells, eyes. ble pains in my womb. Thedoctorsaid for Mabel when she frowned upon ihe. p.. k rtrolnini ** t« (he title of Prof. O. W. Uunntiiguam'i latest work on tbl. ancient toienoe. ;and I see the tokens of a dead man ’s Ditotort Poultry. Dj AMTUlUKy Written In plain, comprehensive language Every page sparkles with an operation must be performed, as She has no mind that I shall step in the - ... ------gem. of Information. Keeijr reader will acquire am.sin : and startling knowl ­ there was no other way to be cured. •love. Ay, In these dull, Inanimate way of the richer man. , ‘They say,” said a citizen, “that the edge of this inyetlr.1 re ence. Price, post- .1 . 'r Afte and Sl.ee. according to Idmling. I was afraid to have the operation per ­ ;shape8 I see the star that Illuminates “A gentleman, you say, mother? ” expert poultryman knows at sight Just THE ASTROLOGER’S CORNER. ;the world, and beautifies it—the Star Pom* slight rhan.es necessitated i slog teas spore tor this neparimenL Prof Canntuguam I* daily receiving formed, and kept “One with plenty of- money, any ­ where a dressed- chicken is from. Of flattering tosilmnnlals of lits genin* and marvrlor.e power In reading the language of the sign* and planet*, ;of Love. hishoros ope life i e dings with chart are daily convincing people of the great and VALUABLE INFORMA­ trying the medi- Sjq ways.” course he knows a Philadelphia chick- | TION to be had th ough hU w ndcrful knowledge 01 astrology. He receive. letters from every state and | I turn toward my mother, with a lerrl ory and hts fame has ext-nded Into foreign lands. cines that I saw ' “Who Is this gentleman, may I ask?” en when he sees It, but they tell me Under no circumstance will names of correspondent* bo publl-hed. but the following are extracts from advertised. At :shell at my ear. In reality she is a "You must know him, Amos. Mr. that of western poultry, for instance, recent letter.; "I re-reived ray horoscope, am much pleased with IL It Is ae near right at to possible la 'small, shriveled woman. In whom one mule* It.” another writes: •• I *m .or rise i at ito correctness." last I tried yours. Druce.” he can tell at a glance whether a chick- i Prof. Cunnlrghaa now propose* to toll your ruling planet and send a tort reading ABSOLUTELY FREE to would Imagine but little sentiment the applicants whose letters h.p en o be the First, Third. Ninth and Twelf h opened from each day’* mall. After tak­ “What! the money lender? ” en comes from Ohio or Illinois, and bo All .a-plranta for them FREE RF.ADiNOS must rendt sex, rare or nationality, place, year, month, dots, ing three could abide. I have noticed lately that as “Yes, Amos.” on. It's a fine thing, no doubt, to be hour and mlnnte of birth. A. M. or P. M., as near as possible. Applicant, entitled to FREE REAPINGS will !she grows older her form shrinks, and re etv them by teturn mall with their tl cento refunded lea* , cento postage. All applicants muse read bottles I t~z7f' -S able to do this, and still I should be tt cents to pay for tuelr reading In oose they do not win FREE reading. DO NOt DELAY i eead at oacej felt llker ^ ^becomes more spare. But as I gaze at you are Just as apt to win a* anybody, and if you do not. you will receive a valuable test by astrology far tha CHAPTER V. satisfied to be without this refinement small sum or tt cento. Those not knowing their time of birth should tend t cento for further InstraettoM. new wo- 'her now she becomes transformed. The of knowledge concerning the chicken man. I rec­ .’lines and wrinkles disappear, the flesh HE ugly, thin, In ­ territorially If I could tell, before buy ­ ‘ 'PROF. C. W. CUNNINGHAM, ommend it ^becomes firmer; the eye regains ita quisitive face that ing, whether It was tough or not. ”-— luster, the cheek Its color; the shrunk ­ I have seen but Dept. 4,194 S. Clinton Street, Cbicefo, 111. to every woman, and cannot praise It Exchange. ______THE FOLLOWING ARE BORE READINGS FOR THIS WEEK, enough, for It saved me from the sur­ en form Alls out, and in my fancy I see once, many years Mias K. B-, Kokomo. Ind. According to the data Pansy D. Morrow. According to the data furnished jher as I saw her in my childhood, be ­ ago, appears again A Pertinent Enquiry. furnished, the Eedtoenl Sign Gemini, which Mercu­ the Zodiacal Sign Virgo, which Meroary rtflee, was geon ’s knife. ”—Mas. Mima Boca, ruing nl your birth, therefore Mercury la your fore my father went to his death —a before me; the “If you don ’t get out of here, ” said ry rales, was rising at your birth, therefore Mercury rating planet or slgalflretor. Dolgeville, N. Y. Is your ruling planet or elgntfleator. Yoa are above medium hetghti slender figure, hot 'comely, pretty woman. bony fingers again the bartender, who was somewhat giv­ Tea are shove medium hetghti straight, slender well proportioned; median to dark complexion, hair Now, what causes me to throw my make themselves en to circuitous statements, “It will flgnrei dark rompleston. hair and eyes; the eyas hare and eyo*i the eyes are qutto expressive and have a The colder the winter the wanner ear a peculiar sparkle, sharp sight and quick, restless quick, rortleea movement and appearance. Yen are hearts should be. voice In the direction of the door, and felt within my become my painful doty to soak you mttoh Inclined to tntolleotaal pursuits and prefor movement- Yon belong to that aloes of people from those kind of toples In your usual eonve rsaUsm Yoa to call out suddenly and unexpectedly : - palm. It seems but Id the neck. ” which eoaree oar most brilliant scholars, teachers, are very skeptical, yet take delight in luve-Ugatlng TO CUBE A COLD TW ONE OAT. "To; heave, ho! ” yesterday that they “Might I Inquire, ” responded the lawyers, writers, rte. i year horoscope Is of a kind the occult and mysterious In order to know tha truth. Take Laxstivs Bromo Quinine Tablet*. that shows a life of considerable struggle and any­ Ton art ambitious. Industrious and n leadar In any Druggists refund the money 11 U fells to cute. My mother starts up with a scream, lay there. I spit up ­ gentleman who had stood against the thing that yon wl-h to do that will bring yoa financial thing yen bet ow e interested in. Thol.it half of life returns would require great egort and the tureens, will be more successful than the flrsv Yoa did not and runs to the door with a frighten ­ on my palm to rub off the fancied con ­ stove for two hours, “might I Inquire when reehed, would bn after disappointments and get the finished education such a* you ware capable Don't wait for somebody else to show you ed look. There she stands, trembling tact He offered to lend me money, If this Is to be an external or Internal nnnoyaneea Yoa are not appreciated to the aatent of taking, there was always something to prevent Ik Mw to do right. year ability shoald command. Masrtage I* not more You will soon he under an evil transit of Mare, a few aad white, with eyes that see nothing this man, and doubtless has mate more treatment? ”—Indianapolis Journal. lhaa average flertuaate. months later a fertanale trwo.lt of Jupiter. CLINTON INDEPENDENT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.

EUREKA UNION HOME. MAPLK RAPID*. From Our Correspondent. From Our Correspondent. From Our Correspondent. The Independent. W. S. Pierson is suffering with a lame Mr. and Mrs. McMaster spent the lat­ Isaac Hewitt is still confined to the foot. ter part of last week in Ashley. house. GEORGE 8 . CORHIT, Proprietor Eureka school has two new black ­ Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Jolly returned Dewight Goss, of Grand Rapids, was FRANK E. DeWITT. Lessee boards. calling on old friends in town last week. To Professional from their visit at Carland last Wednes ­ Milton Stevens is moving to Midland day, bringing his sister, Mrs. Snyder, About $30. was realized from the do­ -THE— county. borne with them. nation Friday evening, for Rev, Car­ Blackburn Tripp has bought the W. Nina McLaren is slowly recovering man. S. Pierson farm. Blowly and Office Men. from her severe illness, occasioned by a Mrs. Simeon Hewitt, who was Clinton Go. Savings Bank Owen Stearns and Ange Hixson severe attack of pneumonia, but as yet, improving after her long illness, is spent Sunday in Ithaca. is not able to set up. again wdrse. I have just received a new and complete ST. JOHNS. MICH. Teachers ’ Meeting at O. P. Ingersoll ’s We understand that II. Howard will Miss Chandler CreaSinger visited Mar- Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock. soon get $1,500 left him by his sister, gunte Travis, of St. Johns, Saturday line of Pajs 4 Per Cent. Interest on Deposits. Eugene and Pearl Hart spent Sunday Mrs. Patrick Lee, who receutly died at and Sunday. . with Miss Hattie Manchester, near her home near Battle Creek. The W. C. T. U. gave a hatchet party Ashley. Mr. W. W. Thomas, of Grand Rapids, at Grange hall. February 22. A good Loan* Money on Approved Bond* and A load of young people attended the Deputy Head Consul of the M. W. of A., time is reported. Beal Estate Security. ball at Maple Rapids on Friday even ­ spent Sunday at the home of his broth ­ Harvey Jones is representing the For­ ing last. er-in-law, L. G. Loomis. esters, of this place, at their annual Stationery .. Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Caruss, of St. meeting in Port Huron. oryiciRS: The U. B. Mite Society will meet with Mrs. Sarah KeiSer, Thursday, Johns, made several calls last Friday on The Good Templars gave the drama, Comprising Blank Books, Memorondum * . J. Baldwin , Pres. P. E. Walswosth , Tre*. March 4. friends at Union Home, and were guests “A Noble Outcast,” to a fair audience, 3. Pennell . Vc-Pre*. R.C. Rkitkr Asst.Tre* Rev. A. N. Henry preached at the of E. A. Smith aud family Friday night Saturday evening, at Perry’s hall. Books (for coat or vest pocket), Inks, Disciple church, at the Colony, Sunday and Saturday. Essex Lodge No. 1, A. Ot U. W.. at Mucilage, Pens, Penholders, Pencils, THE LOCAL MARKETS. evening. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Post have been .last have the honor of a Grand Lodge Rev. S. Seibert, of the U. B. church, quite sick during the past few weeks, officer. B. W. Hewitt having been Rules, Rubbers, Files, and in fact, a line 8t. Johns . February 25, 1897. will assist Rev. Schemer in his meetings lie is able to be about again, but elected Grand Watchman,at their meet­ too numerous to mention, and if you will The tallowing are the prices paid in cash for this week. Mrs. Post is still confined to her bed. ing last week in Detroit. produce in this market: We hope for her speedy recovery. Maple Rapids is most decidedly and call and inspect them, will satisfy you Wheat, white. No 1. 79. Mr. and Mrs. E. Knight returned There was a surprise party at C. P. Wheat, white. No. 2, .74. from an extended visit in Ohio, last unanimously opposed to the new calen ­ that in kinds, quality and prices I am in Wheat, red. No - 2, .79 Wednesday. Finch ’s Saturday evening. The guests dar that is being talked of by scientists. Wheat, red. No. 3, .74. were treated to warm candy and pop ­ We don ’t want any twenty eight day the front rank. Oau. ,12®, 17 Burt McKinstry and family have corn. After enjoying themselves for a Barley, per 100, .4MC-50. moved into the north part W. P. Grif­ mouths. We haven ’t days enough as it Rye, 28rf8.00. about fifty being present. We want more nights in a week. Hay, mixed. 16.25. The woman ’s prayer meeting will be From Our Correspondent DRUGGIST AND STATIONER. Potatoes. .l.V.9(J. held with Mrs. S. J. Turner, Friday WATERTOWN CENTER. Pork, llvef3.ou®)3.15 afternoon. Leader, Mrs. Younglove Mrs. Earnest Clark is very sick. Corn, ear, .10. Mrs. O. W. Lowell visited Mrs. Wil­ From our Correspondent. Lard. .OS. Mrs. Dora Jngersoll. Mrs. Floyd Hides .00. Leach, Mrs. Walter Burk, Fred Bots- lard King, Sunday. F. F. Conrad was in St. Johns last Pelts, .2CX&40. ford Bud Charlie Teetes are on the sick Another show has struck Delta," and week. t Fowls, live, 05. , list this week. Chicken, live oft o».OT>V4. still it is hard times. Blanche Gailock is visiting at Oscar Ducks, dressed. .08. Judge Daboll will deliver his lecture, R. D. Wilson's daughter from Mis Garlock's. 44444444444444444444444444 Hoof, dressed. .04&.00 “The Capture of Fort Fisher, ” at Den ­ • Veil CalMive. .(H‘io«. souri, is visiting home. Mrs. Nathan Wells lias been visiting Wood, dry $1 50, green f I 20®,J1.30. nis ’ hall, on Saturday evening, Feb ­ Mrs. M. L. Corbin visited her brother, in Eaton Rapids. 4 4 Apples per hu.. 5>K25. ruary 27. for the benefit of the G. A. R. Carrie Lowell, Monday Turkeys, dressed, .08. Admission 10 and 15 cents. W. J. Garlock aud family visited at 4 4 The German Methodists held a prayer St. Johns a portion of last week. Turkeys, live, .07. John Washington died at Ins home in 4 Great Cost Bale 4 Gecso, live: .ofl. meeting at Theodore Stolls last Thurs ­ • Fred Meyers has bought the farm for­ Chickens, dressed, .0". this place, Friday morning, February day 4 Rabbits, So. each for good ones. li). Funeral was held at the Evangelic merly owned by Mrs. Blanche Whitlock. 4 al church Sunday. Presiding Elder Mr. and Mrs. W. Forbes, of Lansing, Marcus Whitlock and family are visit­ 4 4 McClintock, of Shepard ’, preached a very visiter! Mr. Forbes ’ sister, Mrs. B. F ing relatives near Eagle and at Hast­ of Millinery impressive sermon from Psalms 17:15- Kinney, last Thursday. ings. 4 4 From Our Correspondent. “I shall be satisfied when I awake with Mr. and Mrs. James Elliot and Mr. There was a party last Thursday 4 4 Mr. J. Bibby will move into the form ­ thy likeness. ” Deceased leaves a wife, and Mrs. Bert Oliver visited Fernands night at Geo. Gall’s. A good time was 4 4 er Price home, south end of Fowler. two daughters and many friends to Ainsley ’s family, Monday. reported. Still On. Miss Anna Dunebache, of Lansing, is mourn his loss. The Farmers’ Institute is to be held Mrs. Archie Hunt lias been quite low 4 4 visiting her cousin. Miss Ottilia Simmon. March 2, at Delta Grange ball, instead with congestion of the stomach and of March 3, as before stated. 4 4 Mrs. Fisher, of Owosso, is making a Ethel Finch returned from St. Johns bowels, but is better at the present In order to reduce stock and make prolonged visit with her daughter, Mrs. on Saturday. Last Thursday the ladies church so writing. 4 4 Fred Becker. There was no school on Monday, it ciety, of Delta, visited Frank Elliot and Mabel Oppenlander sprained the ten 4 room for Spring Stock. A nimble 4 being Washington's birthday. mother, who live east of the Grove dons in one of her arms quite badly one Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Werner, school house. 4 a daughter, w ho received in Holy Bap Mrs. John Bryant entertained the day last week. She, with other school sixpence preferred to a slow shilling. 4 tism the name Anna. Evangelical aid society this Wednesday. Last week the Justice-of-the-Peace children, was sliding down snow banks, 4 and Sheriff of Eaton county started to when her feet caught and threw her Come and inspect the beautiful 4 Joseph Schneider has rented the old Miss RiHa Peirson entertained the take a man to jail. They hired a man over on her arm. She will be unable to 4 4 Nic. Miller farm, and Frederick Fink Christian aid society last week Wedues to drive their team and the driver and attend school lor sometime. 4 goods and learn the low prices. lias a lease of the Peter Kasper farm in day. prisoner sat on the front seat while the 4 this township. Charles Carter made his family a two dignataries sat on the back seat to 4 4 Peter Ulrich has purchased the spa ­ pleasant visit on Tuesday, taking them watch the prisoner. The horses were 4 Respectfully, cious Fowler residence of Mr. Keeny, by surprise. fiery and took all the driver's attention. From Our Correspondent. 4 east of the Catholic church, and will Rev. A. N. Henry has decided to re­ A sudden move of the team loosened Mrs. Charles Jones and little daugh ­ 4 4 take possession of the same in the latter main pastor of the Christian church the back seat and sent the two support ­ part of March. ter are much improved in health. 4 4 another year. ers of the law backwards into the sleigh. The United Brethren are holding re­ Rev. J. Ilewelt had the honor of en Mrs. Floyd Leach, Mrs. Walter Burke, Both are large men aud they being 4 4 tertaining the following named rever­ tightly wedged side by side in the sleigh vival services at the U. B. church. BOUCHER & PETSCH Erine Harie and Charley Teets are on end gentlemen as his guests at his resi­ box, found it slightly (?) difficult to Mrs. William Bearndts has been on 4 4 the list of the sick. It is thought that the sick list, but is some better at this dence on Tuesday last: Rev. J. Cahalen. Mr. Teets has typhoid fever. move. The driver held the team while 4; Head Clinton Ave., East Side. of Fenton; Rev. M. Comerford, of Pinck ­ the prisoner found a fence rail and pried writing. 4 ney ; Rev. G. Stapleton, of Jackson ; Revival services will be held in the tiie two dignataries from their undigni ­ Mr. John Crampton, of Mecosta 4 4 Rev. T. Burke, of Palms; Rev. T. Rose, Evangelical church every evening this fied position. It would be an act of county, is here visiting his parents for of Deerfield, and Rev. J. Crowe, of De­ week. All the young men are request­ charity to have a wider sleigh box made a short time. 44444444444444444444444444 troit. All these gentlemen were his for­ ed to meet in the prayer-room on Thurs ­ for these gentlemen as the next prison ­ day and Saturday evenings, at (5:30. Mrs. Mrs. Dan Harper's little son has the mer class-mates. er may not be willing to help them out. scarlet fever ; so has also the children of Florence Belcher, Leader. The Rev. 8. m ♦ «■» Mrs. Ellen Curry, a most estimable S. Seibert has joined with the Rev. P. A. G. Simmons. old lady, of Hubbardston, died at the Scheurer in these meetings. K1LKT. Mr. Albert Armstrong has moved his home of John J. Long, on Saturday, From Our Correspondent. mill to the Wilcox farm, two miles February 20, whilst visiting her daugh ­ south of St. Johns. ter, Mrs. Long. She became ill and OLIVE. Misses Daisy and Lula Hildreth spent gradually failed, although she retained Thursday in Lansing. Mrs. John Eldred, of Clarendon, Hon. W. J. Bryan’s Book all her faculties till the very end. She From Our Correspondent. Mrs. Viola Pratt spent Wednesday Mich., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. leaves three daughters, lieing Mrs. Anna Mrs. Wm. Lankton is still quite sick. and Thursday iu St. Johns, a guest of Wm. A. Swagart, who is quite ill. Ilenry, Mrs. Ellen Long and Mrs. John Ross Rrooks has rented Ins farm to Mrs. Nhthan Jones. Mr. Chas. Graham and Mr. Walter A LL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. J. Long, all three most highly respected Henry Rohrer and will move to St. Oral Hildreth and wife returned home Smith, of Ashley, wpre the guest of G. ladies, and members of the Catholic Johns. Sunday, after spending two weeks with W. Swagart and family, Saturday and W. J. Bryan’s new book should correspond im­ Sunday. congregation of Fowler. The deceased Rev. Charles Legal will preach at friends iu Gratiot couuty. mediately with the publishers. The work will contain received all the sacraments of the church Masonic Hall, Sunday, February 28, at Fred Boron, of Olive, who is canvass Misses Millie Mahar, Mvrtie Parks before her death, and departed this life 2:30 p. m. ing for “The First Battle,” spent Wed­ and Mary Swagart visited Mr. and Mrs. well prepared, and humbly resigned to Willie Everts, at their pleasant home, An account of his campaign tour . . . Mrs. E. Falor, of Lebanon, is visiting nesday night at the home of his cousin, the will of God. Her remains were in ­ A. D. Lance. on Tuesday last. # terred in Hubbardston on Monday last, her mother, Mrs. Lewis Smith, who is and her funeral was one of the largest quite poorly at present. Mrs. Charles Dane and daughter His biography, written by his wife . . ever seen in that village. Mrs. Curry Mrs. Marie Moore, of Elsie, is visit­ Ruth, of Fowler, after spending a week Report of Pomona. was a well-known benefactress of the ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. Mahon. with her parents, F. H.Odingaud wife, Clinton County Pomona Grange met His most important speeches .... Hubbardston Catholic church, and long Her little sun is quite sick. returned home Monday. with South Riley Grange, Wednesday, will her memory remain holy amongst Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dills and Mr. and The dance at Woodman ’s bail, last February 17,1897, and was royally en members of that happy community. Mrs. Jerome Dills attended the funeral Friday evening, for the benefit of tertaiued as usual. The attendance was The results of the campaign of 1896. The ire of a certain Fowler corres­ of Mrs. Clark Smith, at St. Johns last Charles Kimball, who recently lost his Hue considering the state of the roads. pondent to a certain St. Johns paper has week. home by fire, was well patronized. Grange opened in usual form in 4th A review of the political situation . . Mrs. Viola Pratt, who has resided in degree at 11 p. m. At noon the call to been sadly groping in the dark as to the Died, at bis home in Olive, February dinner was answered by all descending object of his biggotted wrath. Although 20, 1807, after an illness of several years*, Petoskey for the past few years, but a AQENTQ WANTED <=• it lias been exceedingly amusing to those former resident of this place, and who to the lower hall, and were seated to John Austin, aged between sixty and the well-filled tables. At two p. m. the kuowing it. still to prevent unmerited seventy years. He was a member of the is spending the winter with her son Or Mr. Bryan has announced his intention of devoting insults hurled against one innocent, let ville, was greatly surprised last Thurs ­ sound of the gavel called the patrons to F. & A. M.,of DeWitt. a seat. it be stated that The Clinton Inde ­ day evening by a number of her old one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of Died, at bis home, in Olive, February First, a song by South Riley Grange. pendent receives its local items from friends and neighbors. The evening bimetallism. There are already indications of an enor ­ lour distinctly separate authors in 19,1897. after an illness of only a few was pleasantly spent. Daisy Hildreth Mrs. Hattie Jones, Master of South Fowhr, and the suspected writer of the day3, Wm. Merchant, aged nearly 88 entertained the company with some fine Riley Grange, welcomed Pomona in a mous sale. Address “smoking room ” item has but occasion ­ years. He was respected by all who vocal music. Mrs. Charles Land, in few well-chosen words. II. N. Webb, ally the honor of transmitting our most knew him. He was a member of the behalf of the friends, presented Mrs. of DeWitt, ably responded. Little Maud F. & A. M., of DeWitt, under whose Sias sang nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur truthful reports to the ofllce of The In ­ Pratt with a handsome willow rocker, W. B. C0NKEY COMPANY, Publishers, * ^ auspices his funeral was held Sunday Miller read selections. Mrs. E. A. Fer­ dependent . We shall never attack, after which refreshments were served in Bengal. He leaves two daughters, and then all returned to their respective guson gave a recitation. The following not even by insinuation, the character Mrs J. Tucker, with whom be lived, questiou was well discussed : “Who is 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. of any of our citizeq/s. TnE Independ ­ homes. and Mrs. Geo. Smith, of Gratiot county. Responsible for the Success or Failure ent is a clean and noble paper, one that can be read by any innocent child, hence HATH. of the Grange ?” Nearly as many ideas it would not have it. Its correspondents WASHINGTON. as there are members were presented. are as broad minded and liberal, truth- From Our Correspondent. But the final summing of the whole of Tools, etc., for JJave You Seen that matter was that each member was re­ ^ General Boot and loving people, as are its readers ; hence From Our Correspondent. Elder Sage preached at the Baptist a outfit Shoe Repairing, they like to see certain moral dangers Meivin Stormfeltz is now numbered church last Sunday evening. sponsible. Mrs. Sias and Miss Floy pointed out in order that they may be with the sick. Whittaker furnished instrumental mu­ # J£legant Line Perry Sober, who has been sick for sic. Miss Belle Chapmau furnished in ­ INCLUDING avoided by the public. Such is in- con ­ Dr. Barrus, of Riley, was the guest of some time, is reported worse. sonance witli the principles of as nobly strumental music and sang, “Beauty Mr. C. Monroe, Thursday. Miss Jessie Purtel spent Monday with fal Golden Somewhere. ” A. B. Cook Three Pair* of Half Sole* and a Half a conducted paper as The Independ ­ Wallle Wyman holds the reins over her cousin. Miss Lavina Montgomery. read a comic selection. The question, ent has the honor and reputation of Doton Leather Patches. being. As to Mr. Pung ’s resort, well, the finest pair of bays in this vicinity. A number of the young people at­ “Why Should the Grange be Perpet ­ we have heard it repeatedly called a John IngliBli was the guest of his sis­ tended the dance, at DeWitt, Friday ual ?” was well discussed. Many Fine China gambling resort, and this by eye wit­ ter, Mrs. Charley Grubaugh, the first of evening. things were said about what has been nesses; but, true to our above indicated last week. The revival meetings at the Peacock done and still may be done yet by the -AT- principles, we used the mild epithet, Wallie Wyman and Myron Grubaugh school house, conducted by Rev. Martin, Grange. After a song by DeWitt “smoking room. ” Enough to the wise. made a flying trip to Itnlaca Saturday, closed Monday evening. Nineteen con ­ Grange the afternoon session closed aud on business. Grange opened in the 5th. verts were reported. The next meeting of Pomona will be KKW, 'bt the A number of the members of the Re- held at Keystone in April. One new HELLER’S BAZAAR! d on the bekah Lodges, of Perry, Laingsburg From Our Correspondent. { candidate was received in the 5th degree. same in the near future. and Lansing visited the Bath Lodge At Keystone the 5th degree will be con ­ Aarou Black has removed to South Mrs. Libbie Grubaugh was called to last Friday evening. The visitors, num ­ ferred upon a large class we hope. The Ovid. the death bed of her brother. John bering fifty, were made welcome, and Grange decided to have K. L. Butter­ COBBLER Mr. O. A. Knapp and Mr. E. Black Washington, of Eureka, last week. after lodge were treated to an excellent field, of Lansing, lecture in Clinton Special Prices this week in China. are on the sick list, besides the usual Mr. Hefty intends to move to St. supper, which all enjoyed. county, in March. Enameled Ware, Nickle Plated Cof­ number of cases of measles. Johns the first of April. There was a Mrs. C. L. Pearce , Lecturer. CONTENTS. There will be a “Mystery Social” at surprise party on D. Cheasbrook, Mon ­ 8HEPARD8VILLK. fee and Tea Pots, and last, but not the home of Mr. Samuel Slate, Thurs ­ day night. All report a good time. 1 Iron Stand for Lasts, 1 I.a*t for Men s least, From Our Correspondent. Work, 1 Last for Hoys' Work. 1 Last for Child ­ day night. March 2, for the benefit of ren ’s Work. 1 Shoemakers' Hammer, 1 Shoe ­ tbeXady Maccabees. Mr. James Edwards and daughter makers Knife. 1 Patent Peg Awl Handle, 1 P«r We judge from the noise that rent the LEBANON. Eva visited friends at Muir over Sun ­ Awl, 1 Wrench for Peg Awl Handle, 1 pair Flour and day. Not even Men's Half Soles. 1 pair of Boys' Half Soles, air last Tuesday night that the boys From Our Correspondent. 1 pair Women's Half Soles, 3 large Leather took the task upon themselves to en The M. E L. A. S. meets with Mrs. a grain of salt is Patches for Men's Shoos. 3 largo Leather Garden Seeds. tertain (?) the newly married people. Mark l^eetch has gone to North Perry St. Clair on Thursday of this Patches for Women's Shoes, 1 bottle Leather Dakota, week, at 1 p. m. ^wffhting to emphasize and Cement with directions for use, 1 package Mrs. N. €. Banghart and Mrs. C. Slo­ ’make perfect the flavor of' Half Soling Nalls for Men's Work. 1 package cum. of Owosso, visited at Z. Sexton's • Dave Travis expects to go to New The social at F. D. Cleveland ’s Tues­ Half soling Tacks for Women's Work, 1 copy We are making a special effort to York this week. day evening, owing to the sevt re weath ­ directions 'or Half 8ollng. etc. a few days last week. Mrs. Banghart Securely packed In wooden box with binged reduce our stock preparatory to go­ was the guest of Mrs. P. II. Wilkin, Jay Sessions is having a time with er, was only fairly well attended. ltd. Weight 14 pounds. Wednesday. rheumatism in bis neck and shoulders. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hazel and daugh ­ NONE SUCH ing east for more goods. We are Again the grim reaper has been in M. J. Palmer’s son, 8 years old, was ter Beth, of Ovid, and Mr. and Mrs. PRICE 81.00. giying away pictures. Come and seej our midst. Mr. John Austin died at thrown from a horse near H. Holmes ’, Ed. Ilazie. of Duplajn. gathered under MINCE MEAT. his home Saturday, February 20, after a south of Matherton, Saturday, and se­ the paternal roof Sunday. kPurr, -wholesome, — an econom-j Any of the above articles sold separately. long illness. He leaves a wife and three verely injured, but will probably re­ The Y. L. B. A. will place on the ical luxury. Sold everywhere ' 8inaller set m same proportion. At' daughters, Mrs A. Boron, Mrs. V. cover. boards in the near future a five-act Take no substitute. Clavey and Mrs. R. Mead, and a host of s*n