' The Clinton Independent. VOL XXXIII—NO 46- 8T. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY. AUGUST 81.1899. WHOLE NO.-171K

BREVITIES. in class of ’99 He is strong in English ARRESTED WORTHY OF EXAMPLE. What are you doing for onr Conatjr and oratory ; is 27 years old and has THE FAIR Fair to open Tuesday, September 26tb For Violating Village Ordinance Prohibit ­ and continue four days f School opens Tuesday, September 6 . had considerable practice in public The 44th Annual Exhibition of the Clinton How a Young Man Is Fast Reaching the ing Retailing on the Street* of Order your cucumbers from Yariger speaking, which ably prepared him for Couutjr Agricultural and Horticul ­ Top of the Ladder Through Ills Own St. John*. BUSINESS LOCALS. at 20 cents a hundred. a teacher of English. tural Society Will be Held In St. Efforts and Proper Conduct. John*, September 86, 67, 28 Albert Simpson, residing in the Today Is “St. Johns Day ” at the We are in receipt of a communica Fred Boron, whose parents reside In Apples Wauted. and 89. 1S99. south western part of Ovid, township, We are in the market for any quan ­ Durand street fair and carnival. tion from Rev. J. T. Ewing, rector of No pains or trouble Is being spared Olive township, this county, and who tity of Paring and Cider Apples. All Loren Castle carries his left arm in was arrested last Saturday St. John’s church, dated at Linesvllle, by the officers of this soejety to make by officer Hulbert on com­ had occupied a responsible position in sound apples two and one-fourth inches a sling. He is nursing a boll on his In size, and larger, will do for paring. Pa., August 28. in which he says that the coming exhibition prominent plaint of Marshall Keeney, charging John Hicks ’ grain elevator and supply hand. the evening services will be resumed house for two years, about three weeks Tiie small cider apples should be kept among the best that has been offered the violation of an ordinance prohibit­ separate from the others. Windfalls At about 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon next Sunday evening, and that the since the organization of the society, ago was given an opportunity to enter and apples that are shaken off will do last the mercury stood at 92 in the ing the selling at retail from a wagon Holy Communion will be celebrated at 44 years ago. on the streets of St. Johns without a into competition with 400 others for a for dryers. Will not barrel any more shade. the morning service. He adds that he The lists of premiums offered are desirable position in the brancli house early apples for a short time. Marcus B. Face, Maple Rapids, has license. He was taken before Justice .Wolcott , D anlev & Co. is having a good time. now being distributed, and those who Lyon, where he pleaded not guilty, of Whitman & Barnes, tlie great man­ had an increase of pension from $10 to Marshal Keeney has planted two have not yet received one may be sup­ ufacturers and Jobbers in this and PuniIs desiring to study Piano, Or­ $14 per month. and his trial was set down for Friday, iron posts at the drinking fountain at plied by calling at the store of the September 1. A warrant has been foreign countries, at Akron, O. Every gan, Harmony or Voice Culture, are Mrs. C. S. Allison, gave a luncheon requested to commence their work the the head of the avenue, to which he president, F. A. Travis. The premi­ Issued for the arrest of Joseph Thelen, applicant must undergo a rigid mental Tuesday afternoon for Miss Olive has attached by chains two new cups, ums offered are liberal and apply to examination and in tlie various branch ­ 1st week of September if possible. Munger, of St. Johns. salesman for Mr. Yariger, for the Marion E. D o doe , which are drawn up by the means of nearly every article produced upon same offense. es of study. Mathematics was the Studio of Music over Spaulding & The common council of Ithaca are springs, out of the way when not in the farm, in the home and the shop. study given the most attention and Co’s. Store, Clinton Ave. due here today on an official visit to People come to town with loads of use. This Is better and safer than the It Is the aim of the officers to make melons, berries, potatoes, or wlmt not, greatest test. Forty problems. In va­ study up sewerage matters. old way of having the cups dangling in these annual fairs a pleasant meeting rious forms, were given, all of which New fall Dress Goods in black and Miss Clara Carson, of Owosso, gave and after stocking up the groceries colors at Noble Burnett ’s. and out of the horse basin. place for a good visit with friends with all they will bear, they then go Mr. Boron solved within as many min­ a Nastursion lunch, Saturday, for Miss Married, at the home of the bride ’s from the various sections of the coun ­ utes, and many of them without the The Time xnd Opportunity. Olive Munger, of St. Johns. about peddling to the people, and in parent’s, this village, at high noon, ty, to exhibit their products and to most cases at a cut price from what aid of pen or pencil. Tills Is some­ If you are to buy a Bicycle sooner or It cost the taxpayers of Lansing Tuesday, August 29, 1899, by Rev. W. exchange views in relation to the thing that had never been done before later you can save money by buying It $49,823.23 to run their schools last year. the grocer must get in order to have a of us now, as we are offering our entire F. Allen, .Glenn R. Hathaway and mode of planting and cultivation. No profit with which to pay his rent, bv any applicant. stock of wheels at cost. This is no An average of $15.81 per pupil. Miss Mildred J. Marsh, all of St. Johns. one is trying to make money out of it, Of course Fred was accepted over all idle talk, but real business, as you will Beginning with Sept. 2nd, Nora taxes and Incidental expenses, which There were many relatives and friends but simply to have a good time and to are too numerous to mention. other applicants and given a place in learn by calling on us. Wandel-Mann will receive pupils in present, who brought many handsome show what can be produced in Clinton the salesroom, and it is already Inti­ F. H. Brsn & Co., piano, voice culture add harmony. What provoked the arrest of Simp­ Opp. tlie post-office, St. Johns. presents for these popular young peo­ county. son, was that he occupied the most mated that he will be placed at the The trimmed hats that Mrs. L. ple, who at once began their wedded •Persons looking about for farms head of one of the branch houses, at a C'antleld is selling for 50 cts. and $1.00 prominent corners on the avenue and New Capes and Jackets life In a practical way. usually visit these fairs to see the high salary, within a very short time. at N oble Burnett ’s. are the best values ever shown in St. as the melons were eaten the rinds Rome time ago Michigan applicants quality of their products, and this were thrown upon the walks and in Fred Boron’s early life is one which Johns. alone renders our fairs great adver­ might be Imitated by any young man Second Hsud Wheels Music-lovers of St. Johns will have for clerical positions in the census the gutters, to the annoyance of deal­ In good good shape at prices which will bureau were ordered to report at tisers. ers. with pride and profit. He hits been make It interesting to callers and buy ­ the pleasure of listening to the cele­ It is hoped the stock men of the thoiough in all that lie has undertak ­ ers. Listen : Wheels for $2.95 to $15. brated Louise Brehany Concert Co., Chicago in October to take an examin­ The state legislature granted the ation. This meant an expensive trip county will co-operate with the mer­ villages of the state the right to regu ­ en ; always faithful and honest with Don’t miss the place and opportunity. October 18th. chants, manufacturers, farmers, gar­ his employer ; is free from all bad liab* F. H. Bush & Co., Durand Express : “A. E. Dutclier, to 200 persons, and the result is that late by ordinance, tlie peddling from Opp. tlie post-office, St. Johns. Director Merriam has agreed that the deners and housewives in making the house to house and from wagons upon its and enjoys the respect and confi­ of St. Johns, of the firm of Dutcher coming fair one worthy of patronage. dence of all. How easy it is to build For prompt and careful service in. & Conn here, is assisting in the shoe Michigan examination shall be held the streets. in Lansing. It will begin Sept. 27 Arrangements are being perfected It is not tlie intention of the authori ­ a good structure in life if you only draying and at reasonable charges em- store this week. ” for a fine field of horses to compete in build tlie foundation well. We pre­ ploy W. A. Beach, the new drayman. Those wishing to rent rooms to pu­ and continue three or four days. ties or merchants to debar t lie farmers Grand Ledge Republican : “The the speed department for the liberal and producers from disposing of their dict for Fred Boron a high place among Bicycle Bargain* For Saturday, September pils or to take them to board can do so long continued drouth is proving a purses offered. the most useful and successful busi ­ 2, 1899. by leaving their address arid prices products upon our streets, but it must great injury to the bean and corn crops: The best of order will l>e maintain­ be done within reason and with some ness men, and at no distant day. One $50 Crescent for $15. witli Supt. Gilbert. the latter on rolling ground especially ed and a happy and safe visit to our What a comfort and pride lie must be One Featherstone for $10. It was five weeks last Monday since degree of fairness. Everyone enjoys Three Ladies’ Wheels guaranteed to is suffering badly. Late beans County Fair will be guaranteed to all fair treatment, no matter whether it to his parents. May success attend January 1st, for $17.50 each. rain fell upon this section. Corn, late him in his every undertaking. will be a short crop if rain does not who will favor us with their patron­ be the merchant or tlie producer. O. G. Plunkett . potatoes, beans, fruit and pastures are age. With the presence of good Photographer, come soon. Late potatoes are also If tlie producer would prefer peddling Come to the County Fair niul have a suffering as a result. among the sufferers from the hot dry weather we may expect one of the 31 Clinton Ave., St. Johns, Mich. If you are anticipating a trip out of his products about tlie town, rather good visit with your friends. weather. It seems destined to be a best fairs yet held upon these grounds. than selling them to the dealers, let School Book*. town, call at Mrs. L Canfield’s and see poor crop year, especially in this part New and Second-hand School Books the new line of fall hats just the thing keep In mind the coining County him take out tlie required license for of the state.” so doing, and lie will be richer in en­ THE PLEASURE VAN exchanged on favorable terms for travelling. Fair and do something to aid in milk ­ at Aldrich ’s. Reports to the state board of health joyment and money at the close of the Our neighbor, C. C. Vaughan, who ing it a great success. Richard Gay Carrie* a Load of Fifteen to llo- show that diarrhea, rheumatism, dys ­ season. Cryntal Lake. Vegetable cook wanted at the lias been severely sick with pneumonia entery, bronchitis and cholera infan­ It is tlie aim of our dealers in all tel Steel.” Wages. $3 per week. accompanied by fever, is very much THE NEW MONEY ORDERS The first trip made by Richard Gay ’s tum in order named caused most sick ­ kinds of farm produce to buy all tlie large pleasure wagon was for Crystal Good bargains and pretty patterns better, and will be soon about again. ness in Michigan during the week end­ seasonable produce they can handle in Carpets, Mattings and Lace Cur ­ A Great Improvement on the Prexent Lake on Monday afternoon last, with Ovid Register Union: “Some farm­ ing August 29. Consumption reported and sell without loss. Beyond this it fifteen on board, drawn by four horses. tains at N oble Burnett ’s. ers near Bath are cutting their corn at 193 places, typhoid fever at 74. System —I.ower Kntex l’romtxed. A sample of the new form of money would be folly. Let them exchange They took supper at Carson City en- School Tablet* to save the fodder. The drouth has scarlet fever at 35, diphtheria at 19, positions and the producer would feel route. They arrived at the lake at And everything required in the completely ruined many corn fields.” whooping cougli at 19, measles at 16, order has been received at the St. Johns post office from the department at the same as does the grocer. Be just about 10 o’clock. The following school room at bottom prices The city authorities have ordered cerebro-spinal meningitis at 1 and to one another and this life will be at Aldrich ’s. Washington. In form and dimensions named were among tlie passengers: the judgment of $ 2,200 secured smallpox at 1 place. sweeter. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Baker. Mr. and Buy Standard Patterns agains: the city by Mrs. Delina Wil­ A new Sunday school was dedicated it is like a bank draft, making it con­ venient to be handled when mixed with Mrs. W. A. Norton and two sons, at N orlk Burnett ’s. son for injuries received through a In southeast DeWitt Sunday, August The premiums offered for competi­ Misses Leah Fowler, Helen Wheelock, defective sidewalk, pair. 27, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Rev. commercial paper. The advice is the tion at our Count y Fair are liberal. Mantles for gas lights, 15. 18 and 20 same size and form, and is an exact Belle Baldwin, Helen Corblt, Prof. cents at The Fair . Rev. W. F. Allen, pastor of the J. R. Wooton, of Lansing, conducted Sugar !!«•«• t Pulp fur Stock. McCall, of Nashville, Tenn., Fred Baptist Church, has been suffering the services and there was a large duplicate of the order, carbon paper be ­ The pulp of the beet is one of the Bargains in sample lot of Shirt ing used between the two when the Struble, Lynn Hunt, and Mr. Gay and from throat trouble, which has made turnout. There has been a new school best and cheapest foods for cattle and bis assistant Arthur Hotchkiss. Waists and Skirts and ladies’ Wrap­ it somewhat difficult to articulate building erected in this district, which order is made out. A coupon is given sheep. As a milk producing food it is pers at N orlk Burnett ’s. totlie purchaser as a receipt. The new Six and one-half hours w'ere consum ­ distinctly. He is improving daily. is know as district No. 7, so all tilings unexcelled. While it is true that tlie Koouim to Keut, order is on paper witli tint of blue. In ed in making the trip, and a longer People living along Oakland and are new and right, and a Sunday pulp soon ferments after being thrown time in the return, empty. Mr. Gay Pleasant and desirable rooms in S.’ate streets, where the new sewers school started under such favorable the center Is an escutcheon bearing the on the dump and siloed, still there is splendid location. Inquire of Mrs. A. words, “Postal Money Order,” In shad­ will take a load over Saturday and J. Hicks, corner of Cass and Mead sts. have been constructed this season, auspices cannot help but succeed. notiiing in fermented pulp that is in bring the first party back Sunday. “chipped in” and had Mr. H. A. Sage The Tonawanda (N. Y.) Herald ed capital letters of the two tints of any way injurious to dairy cows or any Money Saved sprinkle them thoroughly last night. says: “ There is a general drouth blue. They will go Into use as soon as other stock, but on tlie contrary it is And satisfaction secured by buying Miss Anna C. Dooling. announces throughout this state. Many forest tlie present stock of orders Is exhaust ­ better when in the fermented state 34T1I ANNUAL REUNION your Books and school supplies that the fall term for her music pupils fires are reported. Root crops gener­ ed. January 1 there will lie a reduc­ than when freslr The solid matter is at Aldrich ’s. will commence September 7, 1899. dur ­ ally are suffering. The rainfall of tion in the price of fees for money or­ composed mostly of tlie cell walls of the In Mt. John* on Tharnday, September Complete Gas Fixtures at Tlie Fair. ing which term she will be pleased to July and August lias been the lightest ders. beets, and contains considerable crude 21, 1H99. Special for the week, 60c. The 34th annual reunion of tlie 23d see those who desire to join the class. in several years. Cattle are driven fibre. It Is best however, to feed it Buy your New fall Dress and get A business man recently said to us: long distances in some localities for THE GOVERNOR ACTS. with coarser rations, such as bran, a Michigan Infantry will be held in St. value received at Noiile Burnett ’s. “ By the time the average man is 50 lack of water in streams that usually little alfalfa or hay, or even straw. A Johns, Thursday, September 21, 1899. Want* tin* People to Help the Porto Klco Tlie program will consist of an address Opening: of School. he has money enough due him in bad furnish an ample supply.” The same Sufferer*. cow will eat about fifty pounds a day, Buy your Books and School Supplies debts to support him the rest of his paper says : “ The early apples, peras, sheep from seven to ten pounds. The of welcome and response, music, ora­ at Aldrich ’s. Governor Pingree, after due deli­ tion by Gen. O. L. Spaulding, to be life, if he could collect it. You may peaches, plums and grapes are plenti­ beration, lias issued an appeal to the pulp feeding proposition is one of the know something about it yourself. ” ful and cheap.” principal adjuncts of a beet sugar followed by toasts and responses, with New style of Gas Chimneys at people of Michigan for the relief of appropriate vocal and instrumental The Fair . The first carload of new hay shipped the sufferers from the Porto Rican factory. from this station this season was by music. The late Henry Walbrldge The best selection of Outing Flan­ ST. JOHNS IX LUCK hurricane. Supplies should be sent to Make some exhibit at our County nels is at N oble Burnett ’s. Sprague & Squair, on Friday of last Col. F. B. Jones, army building, foot was chosen president at their last an­ Fair the latter part of September. nual meeting, and Charles Fowler was week, to the Boston market. It was Han the Date Set Kor a World Champion - of Whitehall street. New York City, Gay ’* 'Box and Dray Line. chosen vice president. Having added to my general draying purchased by M. Myers for J. F. Ty- •hip Hnxe Ball Context. in packages plainly marked “Porto DeWitt at Lauxlng. gert. It was of good quality and will business a safe and comfortable omni* The date is fixed for the biggest at­ Rican Belief,” and lie should be con­ The Lansing Journal of Friday last Texting Sugar Beets. bus with which 1 make sure connection bring the top of the market. traction that has been offered st. sulted as to the time of shipment. says: “The big loads came as expected, Jothan Allen, the expert, In a com­ with all trains. Calls made in anv Clarence Pattengill was before Jus ­ Johns in the way of sport for years. Money should be sent to the National a numberof farmers having decided to munication to the St. Louis Republi ­ part of tlie city. Orders left with tice Woodruff Tuesday, charged with Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Bank of North America. New York compete fertile prize of a new Beraent can-Leader, again advises the pulling me or at Tlie Steel will receive prompt being intoxicated on the streets of St. and careful attention. September 13, twa weeks from yester- City, which has been designated as a plow for bringing in the largest load of of weeds among the beets, and also Richard Gay , Proprietor. Johns. He pleaded guilty and was ady, witnesses one of a series of 21 repository for the relief fund. people. Frank Fulrbank Is so far the says: “Sometime In the near future fined $1 and costs. He got off very games played between the Columbian unquestioned winner of this prize. you will get a card from the sugar gTATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS. 1 easily after his statement that this Clinton County Fair, September 2(5, and Cuban Giants base ball teams for 27, 2H ami 29. He put a hay rack on his wagon company asking you to bring or ex­ COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS was his first and last offense of the the colored championship of the world. and started at an early hour from his press to the factory four average beets kind. The game Is to be played at the fair To Start a Rabbit Farm. home in DeWitt. Incredible as It from your patch for analysis. The CAPITAL. $50,0u0. Supt. I. B. Gilbert, Prin. F. P. Buck W. H. Davis, who resides on Logan ground, and has been secured for St. may seem, 74 persous were brought same will be repeated a short time NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, 9900,009. and Miss Bromley will be at the high Johns through the efforts of the com­ st. has made a study of the Belgian to the city in Ills wagon which two afterwards and from the two analysis school Saturday afternoon and Monday mittee signed to this article. rabbit for tlie past six years and in­ strong horses drew.” the factory will be able to tell you at tends taking up about 40 acres of land P. K. PERRIN, President to meet all pupils who wish to plan It is not exactly wise to look lightly just the right time to harvest your O. W. MUNGER, Vice-President. their work for the coming year. They upon that announcement, as the cities in the neighborhood of Lansing and Prepare something for competition at beets for the very highest test, and J. W. FITZGERALD. Cauhler wish specially to see all who are to of Durand, Owosso, Ovid and Fenton stocking it with Belgian hares. the Cllntnn County Fair the latter part that means the largest price possible enter the freshman class of the high have set aside a business half holiday “I think it is a money-maker,” he of September. to you for your beets. The more care­ . DIRECTORS: school this fall. said, “and I intend putting a large O. W. Munirer, Geo. F. Martin, J. W. Fitzgerald when these games have occurred, and Death of E. 8. Fits, of Olive. ful you make this selection, the bet ­ Several persons have made inquiries also closed the schools for that time. number of the animalson the Lansing ter advice the factory can give you. J. H. Corblt, J. H. Fedewa, Geo. W. Em­ of the attorney general regarding the market in the near future. ” Edwin 8. Fltz, aged 65 years, yrho mons, Jaa. Richardson, P. K. Perrin, It is an excellent entertainment and three months ago removed from Lan­ They do not want the largest nor the John J. Kelser, G. E. Corbin, new dog law. They are all Informed is no money making scheme, as the In other parts of the United States smallest, the ripest or the greenest, Jesse Sullivan. that the law does not take effect till the raising of the Belgian rabbit has sing to Olive, died at his home In the teams are playing for a $ 1,000 side bet latter place Tuesday night at 7 oclock. but Just an average of your patch to September 22, and as the assessment and 95 per cent, of the gate receipts, proved a profitable experiment.^-State the very best of your Judgment. ” 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. of dogs has already been made this Republican. Last Thursday he was thrown from a leaving only 5 per cent of the gate load of hay and severely injured. Prosperity st Maple Rapids. HIE STATE SAVINGS HANK, of Fowler. year, the statute will not become ope­ receipts for the committee to defray St. John* Roy In Luck. rative until next year Since then he has not been able to Tlie Dispatch says: “Prosperity has expenses. Ora Travis, a former St. Johns’ boy, move a muscle. Deceased is survived CAPITAL. 119.000. Fourteen little girls gave their friend The game will be closely contested and now principal of Union City evidently struck Maple Rapids In Hazel Peck a complete surprise yester ­ by a wife, one daughter and two sons, dead earnest. New houses are being by the Jealous rival teams and patrons schools, and Miss Minnie VanCamp, a one of whom, D. G. Fltz, is a resident NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS. fsnO.OOO. day afternoon. It was planned and will see Wilson, the champion pitcher successful teacher In that city, were erected, old ones added to, and any of Lansing. The funeral services were FRANK GRULER, President. carried out to a complete finish by her of the world. Also a diversion in the quietly married In Union City on amount of repairs are being made; all mama, to the delight of those present. held at the late home of the deceased of which speaks wrtl tor the enterprise FREDERICK SCHEMER, Vice-President. shape of boxing, wrestling, etc., and Wednesday evening of last week. W. H. SMELLING. Caahier. The refreshments were all that could Thursday afternoon at one o’clock, and progressiveness o$ur residents.” Khorus singing, (quartet) between the They are spending a brief time In Rev. E. Van Burger officiating. have been desired, and there was noth­ DIRECTORS: mfth and sixth innings. northern Michigaa before returning List of Letters. ing omitted toafiord then a good time. For particulars see small bills and to their school duties. All Join in Licensed to Wed. Remaining In the Postoffice at 8t. Johns Constantine Feldpauech, Frederick Schemer. W. A. Newton, of Joliet, Ill., has Mthographs, which will soon be posted. wishing them a happy life. Date. Name. Age Mich., August, 29. 1899: W. H. Snelllne, Michael flpltslejr, been hired as teacher of English in the Aug. 90—Qlenn R. Hathaway, St. Johns- 23 Baker, C. 8. Morgan. Ike J. H. Corblt, Frank Qruler. H. 8. Inouaham , Mildred J. Marsh, Ht. Johns...... 19 Beanett, Geo. W. Bcheonhal. Herbety Conatantlne Oruier. high school. He graduated from Lake H. P. Gaoe , With a united effort the approaching ('ole, MlssOraoe Thomas, H. D. Aug 29—Roy I. Stone, Ovid...... 23 Heckman, Cbtfrlaa Richmond A Weller Forest University, Lake Forest, Ill., D r. H. D. SquAm. County Fair can be atade beat yet held. Eva L. Iluntoon, Ovid...... 29 WILL H. BRUNSON, P. M. -Money Loaned on Real Estate Mortgage* IENT. THURSDAY, AUGUST 81.1899.

NATIVES SHOW TREACHERY. know that they are not so much im­ in the wilderness discovered by Hagar. I 4 4 Yoti Never Miss the Water TALMAGE’S SERMON. Water to drink and water to bathe In. Filipino Mayor* Found to Ho In Longue pressed with the heat as with the pic­ turesqueness of half disclosed features. The river of God, which la full of wa­ Till the Well Runs Dry/4 ips with Insurgent*. tin rails. Four puny souls stand in the organ ter. Water of which if a man drink Manila, Aug. 22., via Hongkong, Aug. 'HEALTH RESORTS, ” the sub­ We never realise the value of health loft and squall a tune that nobody he shall never thirst. Wells of water Handwriting Experts Take Issue 29.—Recent events have proved some­ ject LAST SUNDAY. until it is gone. When old time strength knows, and worshipers, with two thou ­ in the Valley of Baca. Living foun* what discouraging to officials who are and vigor are •wanting, purify the blood with M, Bertillon. sand dollars’ worth of diamonds on tains of water. A pure river of water trying to accompany war with a policy MA Fool Tbat Is Callad In tha Hebrew the right hand, drop a cent into the as clear as crystal from under tha by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla; soon re­ of conciliation. Two new municipal Tongue Hotheads, Having Five Porch­ poor box, and then the benediction is throne of God. These are watering- stored appetite, perfect digestion, steady ESTERHAZY THE CRIMINAL government* have collapsed through es, Where Lay a Great Multitude of places accessible to all of us. We do nerves and even temper •wdl prove it is the treachery of the mayors. pronounced and the farce is ended Impotent Folk. ” John v., S, 3. The toughest thing I ever tried to do not have a laborious packing up before bringing back the gtoev of perfect health. Opinion m to Who Wrote the Bordereau Sunday the mayor of San Pedro Ma- we start—only the throwing away of catl, who was elected by the people un ­ was to be good at a watering-place. la Mow About KquaUy Divided—M. do Outside the city of Jerusalem there The air is bewitched with the "world, our transgressions. No expensive ho­ der the direction of Prof. Dean tel bills to pay; it is "without money Frejelnet, Former Mlnlater of War, la was a sanative watering-place, the pop­ the flesh and the devil.” There are Worcester of the United States a3- and without price.” No long and dusty NcvprDisdppo/nts to Teatlfjr Today. ular resort for invalids. To this day Christians who, in three or four weeks visory commission for the Philippines, travel before we get there; it is only was brought to Manila and lodged in there is a dry basin of rock which in such a place, have had such terrible shows that there may have been a pool rents made in their Christian robe that one step away. Declining an Obituary. Rennes, Aug. 29.—In today ’s court- Jail. The United States officers at San In California, in five minutes, I there three hundred and sixty feet they had to keep darning it until The Aroostook (Me.) Pioneer prints martial proceedings two handwriting Pedro Macatl found that he was using walked around and saw ten fountains Christmas to«get it mended. the following story of Indian shrewd­ experts who testified at the trial in 1894 his office as a recruiting station for the long, one hundred and thirty feet wide, all bubbling up, and they were all dif­ and seventy-five feet deep. This pool ness: Some river-drivers were work ­ that Dreyfus had certainly written the Philippine army. Four disguised ln< The health of a great many people ferent; and in five minutes I can go ing on the west branch of the Aroos­ was surrounded by five piazzas, or bordereau declared they are now con­ surgent officers were helping him. makes an annual visit to some mineral through this Bible parterre and find took. The logs had jammed into a vinced that Esterhazy is the author. The mayor of Balinag was also ar­ porches, or bathing houses, where the spring an absolute necessity; but take you fifty bright, sparkling fountains nasty snarl, and no one hankered for Mercier was present when the court rested and confined in the same prison patients tarried until the time when your Bible along with you, and take an bubbling up into eternal life—healing the job of going out with a cant-dog to convened, despite the rumor that he The Americans caught him passing be ­ they were to step into the water. So hour for secret prayer every day, and therapeutic. A chemist will go to start the key-log. In the crew was an had left France fearing his arrest, upon tween the lines of the two armies with far as relnvigoration was concerned, it though you be surrounded by guffaw one of these summer watering-places Indian noted for his coolness and skill. which, it was said, the government had incriminating documents, which the must have been a Saratoga and a Long am! saturnalia. Keep holy the Sab ­ and take the water, and analyze it, and The boss finally looked over in his decided. authorities secured. Another promi­ Branch on a small scale; a Learning- bath, though they deride you as a big ­ tell you that it contains so much of direction. “Coot,” he said, “go and The first witness called was M. Pa- nent mayor is under surveillance. ton and a Brighton combined —medical oted Puritan. Stand off from gam­ iron, and so much of soda, and so much break that jam, and I’ll see that you ray-Javal, the draughtsman, whose evi­ Such event* and conditions tend to and therapeutic. Tradition says that bling hells and those other institutions of lime, and so much of magnesia. I get a nice puff in the paper.” The red­ dence was interrupted on Saturday by give color to the assertions of foreign at a certain season of the year there which propose to imitate on this side come* to this Gospel well, this living skin looked at the logs and then at the the adjournment of the court. M. residents acquainted with the native was an officer of the government who the water the iniquities of Baden-Ba­ fountain, and analyze the water; and boss. “Dead Injun look nice on paper!” Paray-Javal demonstrated the fallacy character, who Insist that a great ma would go down to that water and pour den. Let your moral and your immor­ I find that its ingredients are peace, he grunted, and walked away. Jority of the natives sympathize with in it some healing quality, and after pardon, forgiveness, hope, comfort, life, of M. Bertillon’s calculations and criti­ tal health keep pace with your physi­ TO CALIFORNIA. cised the latter’s unfairness in not sub ­ the insurgents and elect officials whom that the people would come and get cal recuperation, and remember that heaven. “Ho, every one that thirsteth, jecting Esterhazy ’s handwriting to the they know to be revolutionists. the medication; but I prefer the plain all the sulphur and chalybeate springs come ye ” to this watering-place. Via the Midland Rout*. same tests as the prisoner’s writing. At For two weeks Manila has been po­ statement of Scripture, that at a cer­ cannot do you so much good as the Crowd around this Bethesda. O you Every Friday night, at 10:35 p. m., a the same time the draughtsman de­ liced at night with unusual vigilance. tain Beason an angel came down and healing perennial flood that breaks sick, you lame, you troubled, you dy ­ through Tourist Car for San Francisco, clared that even if M. Bertillon had Apparently the authorities are ex­ stirred up or troubled the water; and forth from the “Rock of Ages.” This ing—crowd around this Bethesda. Step carrying first and second-class passen­ pecting trouble. The trend of affairs then the people came and got the heal­ in it, oh, step in it. The angel of the gers, leaves the Chicago, Milwaukee & done so the results would not have may be your last summer. If so, make SL Paul Railway Union Passenger Sta­ proved anything. tends to.make the policy of leniency ing. Thai angel of God that stirred it a fit vestibule of heaven. covenant today stirs the water. Why unpopular among the Americans. tion, Chicago, via Omaha, Colorado When two witnesses had testified up the Judean watering-place had his Another temptation hovering around do you not step in it? Some of you are When they abandoned Morong they too weak to take a step In that direc­ Springs and Salt Lake City (with stop­ and argued against M. Bertillon’s sys ­ counterpart in the angel of healing, nearly all our watering-places is the over privileges at Salt Lake City), for burned the whole town. tion. Then we take you up in the arms tem, it was the opinion of the sympa­ who, in our day, steps into the mineral horse-racing business. We all admire all points in Colorado, Utah, Nevada thizers of Dreyfus that if the state­ waters of Congress, or Sharon, or Sul ­ of prayer, and plunge you clear under and California. The Tourist Car berth BRITAIN TO ENFORCE RIGHTS. the horse, but we do not think tbat its the wave, hoping that the cure may ments of the witnesses were correct phur Springs, or into the salt sea at beauty or speed ought to be cultured :U rate from Chicago to San Francisco is they had simply pulverized M. Bertil­ Dispute Over Lands at Hankow Leads Cape May and Nahant, where multi ­ be as sudden and as radical as with only $6.00, and the sleeping car berths the expense of human degradation. Captain Naaman, who, blotched and should be reserved a few days in ad­ lon. The latter wished to reply, but to Exciting Incidents. tudes who are worn out with commer­ The horse race is not of such impor­ the president of the court, M. Jouaust, cial and professional anxieties, as well carbuncled, stepped into the Jordan, vance of departure of train. Through Shanghai, Aug. 29.—As the outcome tance as the human race. The Bible tickets and sleeping car accommoda­ declined to allow the specialist to go of a dispute regarding some lands at as those who are afflicted with rheu ­ and after the seventh dive came up, intimates that a man is better than a his skin roseate-complexioned as the tions can be secured from any agent in over his evidence again, taking the Hankow, on the Yang 'ise Kiang, matic, neuralgic and splenetic diseases, sheep, and I suppose he is better than the east, or by applying at the Chicago, ground that the evidence would never flesh of a little child. about 700 miles from the sea, which go and are cured by the thousands. a horse, though, like Job ’s stallion, his Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot or City end if every expert did the same. were purchased in 1863 by the concern These blessed Bethesdas are scattered neck be clothed with thunder. Horse Ticket Offices in Chicago. Send for our M. Tesslonere’s testimony against of Jardine, Matheson & Co., but were all up and down our country. A STRONG BABY. free illustrated California folders. Ad­ Dreyfus then followed and then M. races in olden times were under the dress Geo. H. Heafford, General Pas­ subsequently included in the new con­ We are at a season of the year when Keglmen on Which One Infant Is Mak ­ Charavay, the expert who had previ­ cessions to Russia, the owners, under ban of Christian people; and in our senger Agent, Chicago, Ill. rail trains are laden with passengers ing Astonishing Growth. ously declared Dreyfus was th»j author the advice and protection of Mr. day the same institution has come up and baggage on their way to the moun ­ There ia a doctor in West Philadel­ Mr. W. H. Ijams, who has been re­ of the bordereau, was called to the wit­ Hurst, the British consul, sent work ­ under fictitious names. And it is called tains and the lakes and the seashore. phia who has a son one year old, and cently re-elected treasurer of the Bal­ ness bar. His testimony proved to be men to fence in the tract. a “summer meeting,” almost suggest ­ Multitudes of our citizens are away for timore and Ohio railroad, has been in of the greatest interest, as he came to After the work was begun a dozen ive of positive religious exercises. And this baby is probably the strongest hu ­ a restorative absence. The city heats the employ of the company for forty- confess he had made an error, and said Cossacks from the Russian consulate it is called an “agricultural fair," sug ­ man being for its age and weight in six years, and has been treasurer since he was now convinced that Esterhazy appeared on the scene and forcibly are pursuing the people with torch and gestive of everything that is improving the world. Its father will hold a cane May, 1866. When a small boy in Bal­ and not Dreyfus wrote the bordereau. ejected the workmen. fear of sunstroke. The long, silent in the art of farming. But under these in his two hands, and the baby, grasp­ timore he saw the great parade that This announcement made a deep im­ The captain of the British second- halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz deceptive titles are the same cheating ing it, will draw itself up to its chin Baltimoreans arranged to celebrate the pression on the court and was greeted class gunboat Woodlark, specially de­ with excited arrivals. The antlers of and the same betting and the same three times. That is but one of its nu ­ laying of the corner-stone of the Bal­ with a general murmur of satisfaction. Adirondack deer rattle under the shot drunkenness and the same vagabond ­ merous feats of strength. The physi­ timore and Ohio railroad on July 4, signed for river service, after consult ­ 1828. ______The next expert, M. Pelletier, also tes­ ing with Mr. Hurst, landed a party of of city sportsmen. The trout make age and the same abomination that cian says that his boy ’s unusual mus ­ tified favorably to Dreyfus. bluejackets and moved the Woodlark fatal snap at the hook of adroit sports­ were to be found under the old horse­ cular development is due to a daily The Buddhists in Ceylon are now The flna witness,M. Variraud, main­ within firing distance of the Russian men, who toss their spotted brilliance racing system. massage treatment. Every morning he energetically preaching that the end tained the declaration he had made be ­ consulate. For a time a fight seemed into the game basket. The baton of Long ago the English government lays the little fellow, naked, on a of the world will come this year, with fore the Court of Cassation, that the imminent, but nothing further oc­ the orchestral leader taps the music- got through looking to the turf for blanket, and kneads his muscles for the result that the faithful see that it bordereau was not written by Ester­ curred. The bluejackets are now stand on the hotel green, and Ameri­ the dragoon and the light-cavalry thirty minutes. Once a month he would be mere waste of time to grow hazy. Col. Jouaust then announced guarding the property. can life has put on festal array, and horse. They found out that the turf weighs the baby and measures its rice or in any way provide for the that M. de Freycinet, who resigned as The British third-class gunboat Esk the rumbling of the ten-pin alley, and depreciates the stock; and it is worse calves, chest, arms, etc. The monthly wants of next year, and are instead giving their minds seriously to a pil­ minister of war May 6 of the present has been dispatched to Hankow from the crack of the ivory balls on the yet for men. Thomas Hughes,the mem­ increase of weight and girth are re­ grimage to Anuradhapura. At the year and who was succeeded by M. this port. Great Britain is evidently green-baized billiard tables, and the ber of parliament and the author markable. The baby has never had Krantz, who in turn was succeeded by present time European residents in determined to uphold British rights. jolting of the bar-room goblets, and known all the world over, hearing that shoes or stockings on its feet or a hat Gen. le Marquis de Gallifet on the Ceylon are finding that religion is a the explosive uncorking of the cham­ a new turf enterprise was being start­ on its head, and in the summer it wears downfall of the Dupuy ministry, would pagne bottles, and the whirl and the only a little sleeveless dress that comes poor substitute for rations,and the out ­ be among the witnesses to-morrow, Upholds Chicago Platform. ed in this country, wrote a letter in look for the future is sad indeed. Next Washington, Aug. 29.—Senator John rustle of the ball-room dance, and the to its knees. It gets a cold bath every and the session was closed with the re­ which he said: “Heaven help you, year the pilgrims of today will be T. Morgan rf Alabama says that there clattering hoofs of the race courses, morning. “If nothing goes wrong,” quest that a rogatory commission be then; for of all the cankers of our looking out for help from the govern­ is no longer an expansion issue, either and other signs of social dissipation, old civilization there is nothing in this the physician often declares, “this sent to Col. Paty du Clam, whose ill­ child will be one of the strongest men ment, for there will be famine in the in national politics or in national attest that the season for the great country approaching in unblushing land. ness prevents his attendance in court, thought, so far as the results of the American watering-places is in full the world has ever seen. lie will never to which Col. Jouaust agreed. meanness, in rascality holding its head Spanish war are concerned. He is play. Music! Flute, and drum, and get bald and he will never lose a Are You Using Allen'* Foot-Eane? This step does not satisfy the de­ high, to this belauded institution of convinced that there will be no plat­ cornet-a-piston, and clapping cymbals tooth. As for his muscles, with mas­ It is the only cure for Swollen, fense, but they acquiesced to the com­ the British turf. ” Another famous form declaration against American re­ wake the echoes of the mountains. sage and a course of exercls# that I Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, mission, taking Du Paty de Clam’s sportsman writes: “How many fine tention or other recent insular acquisi ­ have laid out, they will be big and Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Glad am I that fagged out American domains have been shared among testimony on the principle that half a tions by either of the next national supple all over his body. All his flesh Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into loaf is better than no bread. life, for the most part, has an oppor­ these hosts of rapacious sharks during conventions. The senator said: “I tunity to rest, and that nerves racked will be, when tense, hard as steel, and the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe do not believe that the next democratic the last 200 years; and unless the sys ­ when relaxed as soft as the flesh of a Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad­ and destroyed will find a Bethesda. I tem be altered, how many more are JOHN R. M’LEAN IN THE LEAD. convention will declare against the re­ believe in watering-places. They re­ young girl.” dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y tention of the Philippines. I view the doomed to fall into the same gulf! ” Indications That He Will Be Nominated cuperate for active service many who With the bull fights of Spain and the Whale Meat as Food. Chicago p’atform as the party creed.” Loss of Hair Due to Mental Shock. at Zanesville. were worn out with trouble or over­ bear-baitings of the pit, may the Lord That the Japanese consider salted In a French medical journal M. Bois- Zanesville, Ohio, Aug. 29.—While work. They are national restoratives. God annihilate the infamous and ac­ whale meat a delicacy would appear to Window-Glass Trust Given Up. sier relates the following remarkablq there are only a few of the delegates Let not the commercial firm begrudge cursed horse racing of England and be proved by the quantities of It pur­ Anderson, Ind., Aug. 29.—It is offi­ case, which is an addition to the here for the democratic state conven­ the clerk, or the employer the jour ­ America! chased. The whales are caught off tion, yet most of the candidates and cially given out today that the organ­ group of cases in which sudden loss neyman, or the patient the physician, Now, the watering-places are full of the coast of Korea, the blubber and their workers are on hand. The dele­ ization of the $37,000,000 window-glass of hair or change of its color followed or the church its pastor, a season of temptations to men and women to tip­ flesh cut up, salted and sent to Japan gates will all be in tomorrow for the trust has been abandoned. Brown mental shock. The subject was a vig­ inoccupation. Luther used to sport ple. At the close of the ten-pin or bil ­ for 6ale a* food. Over 2,000,000 pounds conferences during the forenoon, and Bros. & Co., bankers, who were finan­ orous peasant, aged 38 years, who was with his children; Edmund Burke used liard game, they tipple. At the close of whale meat were imported into Na­ the regular district meetings in the af­ ciering the deal, and are out $50,000, not of a nervous temperament beyond gasaki aVsne last year. to caress his favorite horse; Thomas of the cotillon, they tipple. Seated ternoon and the meetings of the com­ have withdrawn, the immediate cause being slightly emotional. His hair was Chalmers, in the dark hour of the on the piazza cooling themselves off, mittees in the evening. A full state being the action brought in the Indiana abundant, and a dark chestnut col­ church ’s disruption, played kite for re­ they tipple. The tinged glasses come rL or and not even slightly interspersed ticket is to be nominated, including courts by the Glass Workers ’ National creation—so I was told by his own around with bright straws, and they candidates for governor, lieutenant- association enjoining the Indiana man­ with white filaments. One evening, as daughter —and the busy Christ said to tipple. First, they take “light wines,” 'I 9 governor. attorney-general, auditor, ufacturers from entering the trust. he was returning home, preceded by his the busy apostles, “Come ye apart as they call them; but “light wines” treasurer, supreme juge and mem­ mule, on which was mounted his son, The independent and co-operative awhile into the desert and rest your ­ are heavy enough to debase the appe­ ber of the board of public works. manufacturers organized Friday in Co­ selves.” And I have observed that tite. There is not a very long road aged 8 years, the animal slipped, and For months there has been an ani­ lumbus and will open their plants they who do not know how to rest do between champagne at five dollars a the child was thrown off and trampled mated contest in the eighty-eight Sept. 15. not know how to work. But I have bottle and whisky at ten cents a glass. on several times. He was only severe­ counties for the nomination for gov­ ly bruised, but the father thought he New Regiments Sail Oct. IB. to declare this truth today, that some Satan has three or four grades down ernor between John R. McLean, Col. Washington, Aug. 29.—The quarter ­ of our fashionable watering-places are which he takes men to destruction. was killed, and in endeavoring to save James Kilbourne, Congressman John J. master-general has prepared a state­ the temporal and the eternal destruc ­ One man he takes up, and through one him was terror-stricken. He trembled, Lentz, Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood, Mayor ment giving the probable sailing dates tion of “a multitude that no man can spree pitches him into eternal dark ­ and had palpitations and a feeling of James A. Rice, Charles L. Haskell, Col. of the transports for the Philippines, number; ” and, amid the congratula ­ ness. That is a rare case. Very sel­ cold and tension in the face and head. James P. Seward, Horace L. Chapman together with the number of men they tions of this season, and the prospect dom, Jndeed, can you find a man who On the following day the hairs of the and others. The contest was really will ca ry. The first ten volunteer of the departure of many of you for will be such a fool as that. Satan will head, beard and eyebrows commenced between McLean and Kilbourne. as regimr ts, from the Twenty-sixth to the country, I must utter a warning, take another man to a grade, to a de­ to fall in quantities, so that after eight the delegates instructed for the others the Th.‘ • ..y-flfth, inclusive, recruits for plain, earnest and unmistakable. scent at an angle about like the Penn­ days he was absolutely bald. At the An Excellent Combination. were also listed on their second choices same time the skin of the face and the three volunteer regiments being or­ The first temptation that is apt to sylvania coal-chute or the Mount The pleasant method and beneficial for either McLean or Kilbourne. Dur ­ ganized by Gen. Otis, together with Washington rail-track, and shove him head become paler. Without delay the effects of the well known remedy. ing the last week it has been the field hover in this direction to leave your hairs began to grow again in the form 1,207 recruits for the regular army, piety at home. You will send the dog off. But that is very rare. When a Syrup of Figs , manufactured by the against McLean, but the closing coun ­ make a force of 15,697 men to leave man goes down to destruction, Satan of a colorless down. Soon all the af­ California Fie Syrup Co ., illustrate ty conventions of last Saturday gave and cat and canary bird to be well fected regions were covered with finer, the value of obtaining the liquid laxa­ San Francisco by Oct. 15. brings him to a plane. It is almost a him such a lead that he has since been cared for somewhere else; but the more silky, and a more thinly sown, tive principles of plants known to be temptation will be to leave your reli­ level. The depression is so slight that medicinally laxative and presenting considered master of the situation. Preparing to Greet Farmers. you can hardly see it. The man does completely white hair. The hair of gion in the room with the blinds down them in the form most refreshing to the There were conferences of the leaders Boston, Aug. 29.—The national farm­ not actually know that he is on the other regions was not affected. taste and acceptable to the system. It and the door bolted, and then you will yesterday in Cincinnati and in Colum ­ ers’ congress will meet in this city down grade, and it tips only a little to­ is the one perfect strengthening laxa­ come back in the autumn to find that bus that are expected to result in an Oct. 3 to 6, and the local committee of ward total darkness —Just a little. And Her Ashes In the Mortar. tive, cleansing the system effectually, it is starved and suffocated, lying dispelling colds, headaches and fevers agrgeement when all the leading candi­ arrangements is planning the details the first mile it is claret, and the sec­ An odd monument was desired by stretched on the rug, stark dead. There ntly yet promptly and enabling one dates and their managers meet here. for the entertainment, the legislature ond mile it is sherry, and the third an elderly maiden who died a few Eovercome habitual constipation per­ There are no differences over the having made an appropriation to that is no surplus of piety at the watering- mile it is punch, and the fourth mile weeks ago in Athlone, Ireland. She manently. Its perfect freedom from platform, but there are hot contests for end. The congress is made up of dele­ places. I never knew any one to grow it is ale, and the fifth mile it is whisky, left a fortune of $135,000 to be spent in every objectionable quality and sub ­ very rapidly in grace at the Catsklll stance, and its acting on the kidnevs, places on the state committee, which gates from the different states, and the and the sixth mile it is brandy, and the erection of a church, provided that governors are now making the ap­ Mountain house, or Sharon Springs, or liver and bowels, without weakening will hold over for the presidential year. then it gets steeper and steeper and her body should be converted into pointments. This is the first time the the Falls of Montmorency. It is gen­ or irritating them, make it the ideal steeper, until it is Impossible to stop. ashes and used in making the mortar laxative. congress has ever met in New England, erally the case tiiat the Sabbath is more Claimed Korea's Throne. Look, not thou upon the wine when for build'ng the edifice. In the process of manufacturing figs and a large and Interesting meeting is of a carousal than any other day, and Victoria, B. C., Aug. 29.—The steam­ it is red, when it giveth its color in the are used, as they are pleasant to the expected. there are Sunday walks, and Sunday cup, when it moveth itself aright At taste, but the medicinal qualities of the er Tacoma brings news of a recent at­ Just Think of It. rides, and Sunday excursions. Elders the last it blteth like a serpent, and remedy are obtained from senna and tempt to seize the throne of Korea Wife Murder and Salcido. Tommy Scroggins—"I’d hate to be other aromatic plants, by a method and deacons and ministers of religion, stingeth like an adder.” made by an alleged member of the old Marshfield, Wis., Aug. 29.—William dat two-headed boy at de museum. ” known to the California Fig Syrup who are entirely consistent at home, Whether you tarry at home—which royal family, Wang Eul Soo. He has Moran of this city shot his wife Sun ­ Jimmie Wiggins—“He has lots o’ fun. ” Co. only. In order to get its beneficial sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on will be quite as safe, and perhaps quite (been in exile since his birth. He re­ day morning and afterward killed Tommy Scroggins—“I know dat, but effects and to avoid imitations, please them at Niagara Falls or the White as comfortable —or go into the country, remember the full name of the Company turned to Seoul on May 2, at once made himself. The couple had not lived to­ Jes’ t’ink o’ havin’ two faces to Mountains, take a day to themselves. arm yourself against temptation. The printed on the front of every package. himself known at the royal palace and gether for some time. Four children warsh.”—Ohio State Journal. If they go to church, it is apt to be a declared himself the rightful king. He are left, the oldest 14 and the young ­ grace of God is the only safe shelter, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. jacred parade, and the discourse, in­ whether in town or country. There are SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. was arreste'd, but so unusual were his est 2 years. stead of being a plain talk about the watering-places accessible to all of us. Danger. LOUISVTLLK, KY. NEW TORE. N. T. actions that the court physicians ad­ For sale by all Druggists. —Price 50c. per bottle Curlons Story from Vienna. soul, is apt to be what is called a crack You cannot open a book of the Bible The Bank President—Are you aware judged him insane. He was then lib ­ Vienna, Aug. 29.—The Politische sermon—that is, some discourse picked without finding out some such water­ the cashier has taken a half-interest in erated, but immediately afterward re­ Correspondenz says that a deputation out of the effusions of the year as the ing place. Fountains open for sin and a yacht? The Confidential Adviser— arrested by order of Lady Mo,the power of American merchants from Manila one most adapted to excite admira­ uncleanness. Wells of salvation. No. Perhaps we had better see he does behind the throne of the kingdom. He has gone to Washington to promote a tion; and in those churches, from the Streams from Lebanon. A flood struck not become a full-fledged skipper.— was sentenced to death and was decap­ scheme for ceding the Philippines to way the ladles hold their fans, you out of.the rock by Moses. Fountains Indianapolis Journal. itated. Great Britain. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUKSDAY, AUGUST 81,1899.

a wide-awake girl at that time, pecu­ FILIPINOS DISTRUST OTIS. GIVES FREELY TO CHARITY. THE LATE MR. KNAPP. liarly susceptible to first impressions. Imbibed an Impression of the late Mr. mill Hjcyjii cm. Agalealdo Will Nat Negotiate Peace Fartagal's Queen Devotes Her TIs You see, she was such a queer little Knapp’s eccentrldtes that was not al­ Tar ms with Hint. and Money to Doing Good. thing that we couldn ’t help taking her together complimentary to the departed A prominent Filipino asserts that From Harper’s Weekly: We hear to our hearts at once. But there I gentleman. Rural Guards Fire Into a Crowd Agulnaldo will never negotiate with tees about Portugal than about Spain that’s Just the way with me! It al­ “Poor dear!” she said one day. “He of Ex-Soldiers. Gen. Otis for peace. Otis is blamed for at any time, and of late have heard ways seems to me as If everybody tried so hard to speak. If he only precipitating hostilities in February, lees than usual. The queen of Portu ­ ought to know the people I know,with ­ could have told his wants!” We never when an amicable arrangement was gal ie a sovereign deserving a long out any particular explanation. asked her any questions. We Just let FIVE KILLED, TEN WOUNDED. possible. mark for her Interest in hospitals and Well, it was Just this way. That her talk on, feeling that this was kind ­ The Filipinos express profound trust hygiene, and also in the welfare of the summer that mother and I wanted to est and best. I Inferred from this last DlHculty Arise. Over s Rumor That Id Admiral Dewey. They, apparently children of poverty. At Alcantara the paper the sitting room, though father remark that her husband had been af­ the United States Would Reject Cer­ believe him to be the only man who founded, in 1893, a dlapenaary peculiar­ would have given mother his head If fected with paralysis, particularly as tain Claims — Authorities Kxpaot Mo can achieve a peaceful settlement. ly for meeting the demands of childish she had asked for it,heads didn’t count, she had said on another occasion, "I invalids, as pleasantly situated as pos­ Farther Olsturhaaoee. LookPi at your tongue! nd If it’s costed, it was money we needed, and of that used to sit at my window and James sible, and spaciously planned, combin ­ your stomsch is bad, your liver out or he had none. Then after much hard 6at at his, I sewing, be looking out of BROOKE STOPS PAYMENTS. ing a diet kitchen, consultation rooms, order. Ayer's Pills will clesn your thinking I devised a plan, and though the windows at what was going on in The rural guard and a number of Will Not DUtrlbuta Any Mora of tha sivglcal halls, and much of the depart­ tongue, cure your dyspepsis, mske It was a great shock to father and the street. He seemed perfectly hap­ Cuban soldiers had a conflict at Cuevl- Money Appropriated. mental work of a hospital. Almost your liver right. Essy to tske, essy mother at first, 1 carried the day, and py as long as I was there. But then tas, a small town near Santiago, In Gov.-Gen. Brooke has virtually decid­ every day the queen herself goes to the to operste. 25c. All druggists. the npshot of it was that we adver­ we can never tell. I often wish now which five were killed and ten were ed not to make any payments to Cuban establishment and takes a personal Want your^inouatache or beard a beautiful ” tised for a summer boarder for our that I had done more for him, or could wounded. troops on the basis of additional rolls. share In the labors of the charity, now The difficulty was the result of a ru ­ brown or rich Mark T Then uae spare room. Unless you have done have learned better what he wanted." The first payments brought to light waiting In the kitchen dlatrlbutions, BUCKINGHAM'S DYE ttUlSr. the same thing at some awful crisis In “What did the physicians say or do?” mor that the American authorities such an amount of thievery and at­ and again assisting in the surgery. Sev­ your life you can never for a moment I asked. would reject all applications for a tempted swindling that he has ceased eral well-known women of her court imagine. Oh, reader, the awful mix­ "They said it waB the breaking up share in the $3,000,000 that had not to consider the question of distributing are equally practical. The general ROSA BONHEUR'S VANITY. ture of hope and fear that held place of the system by old age. I never been filed before the payment at Guan ­ what is left of the $3,000,000 in sup­ charge of It Is oommltted to a religious in our hearts until we received a neat­ felt that they quite understood the tanamo last month. plementary payments. order, a favorite of the queen's, but She Instated on Having Her Foot la tha ly written, briefly worded note, signed case.” No further disturbances are ex­ the eminent Portuguese physician, Dr. Portrait Becanae of Their Small Size. “Phoebe Knapp." Wealth of South Dakota. Poor little thing! Married to an pected. Silva Carvalho, heads the Btaff of med­ Nobody who ever saw Rosa Bon- Mother was taken with it at once, aged paralytic and yet regretting his The assessed valuation of the state ical workers. In one year (1895) there heur ’s picture would believe h«r guilty and as she delights In all things mis­ Forest Fires In Colorado. of South Dakota Is $158,722,704, an in­ death as the breaking up of the one were given to the building 8,659 con­ of any personal vanity. A blue Jeans erable because she cpn make them feel tie on earth! What desolation, what Great forest fires are raging in the crease of $40,142,208 over last year. In sultations, 63,704 rations from the diet blouse and breeches are not the dress better, she was especially captivated utter desolation her case seemed to vicinity of Denver, Colo., above the the. total about $13,000,000 Is corporate kitchen, 32,521 bandages, 76,480 pre­ of a woman who thinks much about by the closing sentence, which ran: me! I was moved to take her In my Platte canon of the national forest re­ property. serve. Settlers are fleeing from Deer scriptions and 470 vaccinations. The her looks. But the painter was proud “Having recently met with a bereave ­ arms and weep with her, which was a of her feet. Ouce an English artist ment, the rest and quiet you offer will great deal for me. creek. Immense Copper Belt Pound. milk and vegetables are furnished An immense copper belt is known to gratis by the queen, and the medical painted her portrait. She was satisfied be a great boon to me.’’ Not only was the late Mr. Knapp old May Form Colored Regiment. with it, but noticed one detail with "Widow, likely," said father, as we extend from White Horse rapids on the supplies are also defrayed by her. Fif­ and imbecile and paralytic, but be had Orders for the enlistment of more disapproval. "But my feet,” she asked, read this note aloud In his presence Yukon river to a point on the Dalton teen hundred babies were treated in other traits which must have rendered volunteer regiments will be issued soon “where are they? You must put my (for the fifth time). him highly objectionable as a dally trail, forty miles from Lynn canal. one twelvemonth. It Is said that there by the war department. At least one of boots In because I have such small "Miss or Mrs., Katie?" asked mother, companion. is not any royal charity of the sort in them will be composed of negroes. feet.” They were small in reality, but although we both knew the signature “Just about this time every after­ Europe so efficiently managed, with the Chinese Excluded from Philippines. in the general carelessness of the art­ by heart "Yours sincerely, Phoebe noon I always gave James a bowl of The state department has been In­ additional active co-operation of the Knapp.” cream with fresh sponge cake in it Otis liars Filipino Junta. founder. ist’s attire they did not coma in for Gen. Otis has frustrated the attempt formed through a diplomatic channel much attention. S-he was as proud of "I’m sure I don’t know. I can’t read He would not touch It unless It was In that Gen. Otis has applied the Chinese to establish a branch Filipino junta in Do Vour Feet Ache and Barn? her Legion of Honor medal as of ‘her between the lines," I answered, rather a certain bowl nor unless it was fresh exclusion laws to the Philippines. flippantly, I fear. from the baker ’s. And yet they tried Manila. Senor Lichauco, who was the Shake into your shoes Allen’s Foot- feet, and it always had an especial The unknown was beginning to take to persuade me that he didn’t know prime mover, has been arrested. Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes value In her eyes, because she got It a sort of weird possession of me. It anything!" First Californio Regiment Home. tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures from the Empress Eugenie's own hand. seemed uncanny that everything From which I inferred that, added to Does Not Want Cavalry. The United States transport Sher­ Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Most of the women In Paris who have should turn upon the movements of a his other peculiarities, the late Mr. Major-Gen. Otis says no more cavalry man, bearing the First California regi­ Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and the order are In religious life. One is stranger whom we had never seen, and Knapp possessed an extremely unpleas­ is necessary to the conduct of the cam­ ment of volunteers, arrived at San Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE. an actress. This is Marie Laurent, wherever I turned I could not help see­ ant temper. paign in Luzon. The country is not Francisco Aug. 23. All were well. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. said to be the oldest actress on the ing a silent figure in a long crape veil "And, oh, Mrs. Curtis," she walled, suitable for cavalry operations. French stage. She received the medal, lifting its hand and commanding me Always put off until tomorrow that which not for her achievements as an act­ "after the poor dear was dead and . Endeavor to Organize Miners. should not be done today. to do this or that, upon which I was gone they wouldn ’t let me bury him in ress, but as the head of the Actors’ Or­ To Fight Hubonlc Plague. The United Mine Workers of Amer­ People who never make mUtakes are danger­ already engaged. the family lot." From which I inferred ica are endeavoring to organize the an­ ous people to associate with. phanage, a home for the orphan chil­ However, we were all ready for her that the dear departed had come of a In view of the alarm caused by the dren of actors left without means. appearance of bubonic plague in Eu ­ thracite miners of Pennsylvania, whose at last, and when father came from the family of unpleasant tempers. Such union collapsed twenty years ago. Hall’s Catarrh Cure station and deposited upon the front rope, a congress of public health bodies A Vienna engineer named Poliak has heathenish doings I never heard tell Is taken internally. Price, 75c. made a discovery which seems to have piazza a tiny little woman of about 50 of. Surely, however they felt towards will meet at Brussels Sept. 4. solved the question of the rapid trans­ years of age, with big, frightened gray him during his life, nothing but a fiend Disease Appears In Ponce. eyes, and delicate, sensitive features, a Thirty cases of acute malaria and The skirtH of chance are often a good bit mission of telegraph messages. By a would deny him the family resting President Back In Washington. frayed about the edges. process only requiring the use of a creature that would have looked small place after he was dead. The president has left Lake Cham­ three of typhoid fever developed at How few persons realize how much their alongside a robust child of 10—the con­ Ponce, Porto Rico, as a result of the little means to others. simple apparatus Herr Poliak is able But I forgot my interest in Mrs. plain and gone back to Washington. on the same telegraphic line to wire trast between the little object and the Knapp and her affairs by reason of Both he and Mrs. McKinley are im­ flood carrying filth Into the city. commanding figure of my imagination Mrs. Wlnriow'* Soothing nvrup 60,000 words an hour. The details of some of my own. I had a delightful proved in health by the trip. For children teething.softrnx the gum*.reduce*Inflam ­ this remarkable invention have been was so great that I almost had a fit of letter from Tom DIxou, saying he Property Loss In Chile. mation, «!,«)« pain, cure* wind colic. IS centra bottle. Joliet Firm’s T.arge Contract. bought by a stock company, which hysterics on the spot. I took refuge would be with us for a week. Now, Property valued at more than Contracts amounting to $2,000,000 The only wholesome part of an old-fashioned states that up to the present they have In flight, while mother cooed and cod­ Tom was a favorite cousin of mine, £1,500,000 ($7,500,000) has been de- doughnut is the bole. and calling for 2,500 steel gondola cars met with great success. dled the "poor dear" and took her up and I spent a good deal of time fur ­ £1,500,000 ($7,500,000) was destroyed to her room. You see, mother was Just have been received by the Fox Pressed nishing up my little belongings so that during the severe storms In Chile. Hush! Don’t You Hear the Baby Cry? A man naturally looks pail after in her element, while I had all my no­ Steel company of Joliet, Ill. The only cafe medicine for tour curd colic In nursing I might look my very best when he tin bio* a Caacareta Candy Cathartic. Make mother a kicking the bucket. tions to readjust to existing circum ­ came. And then, I was putting finish­ milk mildly purgative. druggist*. 10c, *5c, SOo. Things are apt to look rather blew Miners Still Hold Out. Boers Order English Cartridges. stances. My flights of fancy will be ing touches to Tom’s room, too, until after a cyclone. Pana (Ill.) miners have decided not An English firm has received an or­ Saving money means saving trouble, but by the death of me some day, father says. the minute he arrived, so that I really I caught mother on the stair a mo­ to go to work unless the operators pay der from President Kruger for 14,000,- no means laying (t up. 1S3SW 5 Thompson’s Eyo Wafor. had no time to talk to Mrs. Knapp or them 40 cents per ton. This the op­ ment as they were coming down and 000 Mauser cartridges for urgent de­ I know that my life was saved by Plso's Cure to listen to her if she wished to talk erators say they cannot do. WSIOWJ'>H"W to me. livery to South Africa. for Consumption.— John A. Miller, Au Sable, Washington, D.C. Michigan, April 21, 1895, ms. Dear old Tom! How good It was to Now Bishop of Marquette. Reinterment of Ilrown’s Followers. ff&RSas5l!!zJSSWHSSf.S l«lureau. see him that day with his blithe ways Father Frederick Els, the fourth The bodies of the followers of John He who makes quick use of the moment is a [ 13 Train d vil war, 15 adjudicating claims, ettyattjr aiuoo and “bonny brown hair!" We talked bishop of the diocese of Sault Ste. Ma­ Brown, who met death at Harper’s genius of prudence. and talked till supper was called, and rie and Marquette, was consecrated at Ferry, Va., in 1859, were reburied Aug. “Summer Complaint” was a terror to children until Brown’* Teething Cordial wax found to euro It. BARTER'S INK then we still talked all the way to the Marquette, Mich., Aug. 24. 28 at North Elba. —None so good, but it costs no dining room door, and yet we found more than the poorest. Fight at Coney Island. The devil seldom makes any fuss over a death time to say nothing about anyone but Killed by Dynamite Exploelon. It is said Jeffries and Sharkey will bed repentance. ourselves. As we seated ourselves at By an explosion of dynamite at Jop­ Love of money Is the root of all evil—and of CATHARTIC the table I saw Mrs. Knapp's vacant fight at Coney Island, in the same ring lin, Mo., six men were killed and the much good. place (for she was a little late) and in which Fitzsimmons lost his honors plant of the Marguerite mine was to­ realized that I had not mentioned her to the present champion. tally destroyed. A Letter to Mrs. Pinkham Brought presence in our household. Laurler Going to England. Ex -Got . Merrill Is Dying. Health to Mrs. Archambo. "Why, we have a boarder, Tom,” I Sir Wilfrid Laurler will leave Cana­ Former Gov. Samuel Merrill of Iowa began, in answer to his look of inquiry [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 42,395] da for England in a few weeks to dis­ suffered a stroke of paralysis and is at the empty place. Just as I spoke cuss the Alaskan boundary question “D ear Mbs. Pinkham —For two thought to be dying. He is at Los years I felt tired and so weak and dizzy W. L. DOUCLAS she glided in. and other matters. Angeles, Cai. “Why, who on earth would have that some days I could hardly go $3&$3.50 SHOES {"»•«•« thought of finding you here!" and he Chicago Wants G. A. R. Encampment. Germans Will Help Kroger. around the house. Backache and head­ Worth $4 to $6 compared with shook her hand in a grasp so hearty Chicago Grand Army posts will make German residents of the Transvaal ache all the time and my food would other makes. Indorsed by over that I could see It was painful to her. a great effort to have the national en­ have expressed their willingness to vol­ not digest and had such pains in the 1,000,000 wearer*. She colored faintly, and said a little campment of the Grand Army in that unteer for service with the Boers in the womb and troubled with leucorrhoea ALL LEATHERS. ALL STYLES TOM STARED. unsteadily, “This is, indeed, a surprise, city in 1900. case of war. and kidneys were affected. THI eam iTB kar* W. L. D.* cW breathed softly into her ear, "Miss or ‘‘After birth of each child I grew ■■■• u4 prle* *laap«4 *a kilHw Mr. Dixon,” and I read between the New Charge Against Dreyfus. Tike no inbetKate claimed Mrs.?’’ Old Clsy Mansion Burned. weaker, and hearing so mnch of the to be a* good. Larged maker* lines that the surprise was not an al­ It is said that Dreyfus ’ prosecutors "I don’t know. I couldn ’t find out," The historic old Clay mansion, near good you had done, I wrote to you and of $3 and $3.50 iboea In the together agreeable one. on the general staff will take the world. Yourdealenbonldkeep answered mother in that awful stage But Tom didn’t seem to notice any ­ Paris, Ky., was destroyed by fire, be ­ have taken six bottles of Lydia E. them—if not, we will *end yon ground that he and Esterhazy were ac­ a patron receipt of price. State whisper of hers that sends me nearly thing (most men are dumb about such lieved. to have been caused by an in­ Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one kind of leather, *1ze and width, plain or cap toe. Into fits whenever she tries it. But complices. box of Lozenges, one box of Liver Pills, Catalogue A Free. things, you know), so I kept my eyes cendiary. W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO.. Brockton, Mata. our boarder did not seem to notice. I and ears open, and waited for develop­ New Yellow Fever Cases. one package of Sanative Wash, and to­ made a venture on a bold stroke. "I ments. Two new cases of yellow fever at Fire llngea at Milwaukee. day I am feeling as well as I ever did. shall call her Mrs. Knapp, and then At last they came, and in the most Sancti Splritus, Cuba, have been re­ Fire in the yards of the B. Uhrlg Coal When I get up in the morning I feel as TOURIST she can correct me If she doesn’t like startling manner. ported to the marine hospital service. company and the Foster Lumber com­ fresh as I did when a girl and eat and TO it. I’ve always heard that It gives a 'So I hear poor Jim is gone at last?" pany at Milwaukee caused a loss of sleep well and do all of my work. If middle-aged married woman much said Tom, turning to Mrs. Knapp as $140,000. ever I feel weak again shall know greater offense to be called ‘Miss’ than Iowa Insurance Company Falls. where to get my strength. I know he buttered his seventh biscuit (Tom The Iowa Mutual Fire association Will Attend G. A. It. Encampment it does to address a single sister as yourmedicine cured me.”—Mrs. Sauna always was rather a greedy youth, and has failed, State Auditor Merriam re­ Major-Gen. Nelson A. Miles and CALIFORNIA ’Mrs.,’ so here goes." enjoyed most heartily the good things Archambo , Charlemont , Mass . voking its authority to do business. Adjt.-Gen. Corbin will attend the G. A. VIA "I hope you had a pleasant trip of this life, mother’s cooking among down, M-m-,” I said, pleasantly, al­ R. encampment at Philadelphia Sept. 4. The present Mrs. Pinkham ’s experi­ them). ence in treating female ills is unparal­ lowing my voice to die away on the “Oh, Mr. Dixon, how can you speak Naples Free from Plague. last syllable as I found my courage A dispatch to London from Naples Dynamite Monopoly to Stand. leled; for years she worked side by of him in that way!" exclaimed the side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and ooslng out at the tip of my tongue. I says the report that the plague has The volksraad of the Transvaal re­ widow, hurrying from the room, in a for sometime past has had sole charge couldn ’t say Mrs. Knapp after all, to fit of sobbing. made its appearance there is false. public has decided that the dynamite mmsmYou will practice good economy In of the correspondence department of save me. Tom stared. monopoly shall not be canceled. writing I noticed with much amazement that her great business, treating by letter C. 8. CRANE, G. P. a T. A., St. Louis, “Well, I’ll be darned! What under Deny Trouble at Santiago. as many as a hundred thousand ailing for particulars. father and mother avoided the pitfall the sun is the matter with the woman, as successfully as I did, during that Both Gen. Brooke and Gen. Wood Landtag Convenes In January. women a year. All women who suffer anyway?" he exclaimed. W.N.U --DETROIT—NO.35 —1899 first meal, and we all went out on the deny to the war department reports of The German landtag will be recon­ are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham "You ought to be ashamed of your ­ piazza after supper to enjoy the Bun- riots and disturbances at Santiago. vened in January, when the canal and at Lynn, Mass., for advice, which will When Answering Advertisements Kindly self," replied I, severely. "No wonder set. Here our guest set our minds at franchise bills will be revived. be promptly given without charge. the poor woman is shocked to hear Mention This Paper. rest. Cure for Ilnhonic Plague. "How James would have enjoyed you speak of her husband In that way after he’s dead and gone." Prof. Band! of the University of Mes­ Soldier Has Yellow Fever. this!" exclaimed she, softly, as If half sina claims to have discovered a serum Two new cases of yellow fever are to herself. Mother nodded so vigor­ Tom stared again. And then he te Jones Umbrella “Roof broke into such spasms of laughter that will cure the bubonic plague. reported in Havana. One American ously and triumphantly behind her soldier has the disease. back that I was afraid she would no­ that I thought he had suddenly lost his Put on in Fits anyj tice it, and so hastened to nod In reply. mind. I had heard of such things, but Major Harrison Is Recovering. Cavalry Go to Manila. One minute. We knew now. She was a widow. "He I had fortunately been spared the sight Major Russell B. Harrison, who has The transport St. Paul allied from Frame.i loved to sit beside me and watch the of them so far. been ill at Santiago of yellow fever, San Francisco for Manila with 750 men No Sewing setting sun, even in the city, ” she went "Her husband, ” he exclaimed, when appears to be out of danger. of the Third cavalry. on softly. "It seems terribly lonely he could catch his breath, as he wiped Judge Henry Hilton Dead. without him. Oh, if I could only have the tearv from his eyes. “Her hus ­ Enlistments In Regular Army. brought him out into such a peaceful band! She hadn’t any husband. She Since the beginning of the Spanish Judge Henry Hilton of New York flop new was married. Jim was her old war there have been enlisted in the died at Sthjatoga Aug. 24. He had been place as this, he might be alive nowl for a new That last hot spell was so hard on him. black cat!” and then be went off again regular army 90,671 men. Ill for some months. Into spasms. I thought perhaps he had a sunstroke, Premier Mlvela Is III. Bryan to Stump Kentucky. but I could not tell.' No wonder the hard-hearted relatives Cover Your Own Umbrella url Premier Siivela is ill and confined to Col. W. J. Bryan will stump Ken­ Don’t throw awav your old one—make it new for Mother's eyes filled with sympathetic had objected to having all that was mortal of "the late Mr. Knapp" laid his bed at Madrid. His condition Is tucky the latter part of September or 91.00. Recovering only takes one minute. No sewing. Adjust a We I tears, and as she laid her hand gently not serious. the first of October. 4 clumsy man can do it as well as a clever woman. over that of Mrs. Knapp she Inquired In the family lot! tenderly, “How long Is It since he died, Mother and I looked at each other Alliance In the East. Thlrtv-flrst Regiment Breaks Camp* dear?” and said nothing. What was there to The defensive alliance between China The Thirty-first regiment left Fort IBI DATS’ FREE TRIAL. "Six weeks, ” answered the widow. say? But we thought things. I don't and Japan is declared to be an accom­ Thomas, Ky., for San Franciaoo to em­ not all you exrcard, or hoped for. refers AT know whether they were the same OUP EXPEH8E and EKR1NM A BALDWIN, Attorneys st servitude, except as a punishment for Ex-President Harrison has announc ­ letters for him, to which Ellison ex­ ------INCLUDING------In that part of tbe country. Fine JL Law, Money Loaners and Real Estate house, 2 large barns and granary, wind­ Agents. Office over Chapman'*, Clinton Ave., crime whereof the party shall have ed that he is opposed to the McKinley pressed a willingness to do, when Mr. FLASH POWDER St. Johns. been duly convicted, shall exist with­ policy of killing the Filipinos. Mr. mill that forces water to barns, nice in the United States or any place sub­ Streeter handed him nine letters and For Sale sugar bush, the fences in first-class ject to their jurisdiction. Harrison will be condemned by the twenty cents in money with which to at shape. Will sell at a bargain. Dentistry. Mark Hanna press for these remarks purchase the required number of Hamilton's No. 97—80 acre farm in Olive town­ There has been much pettifogging H. KENYON, Dentists. Over Weils" as they are extremely anti-English and stamps, when Ellison gave him back ship, 65 acres improved, about 4 acres „• Grocery. 8t. Johns. Mlcb. by the McKinley understrappers in of timber, buildings fair and well the effort to show that the Philippines cannot be tolerated.—Lansing Demo­ two cents in change,‘after which Mr. fenced, in good state of cultivation, G. H. MANN. D. D. S. Office over Streeter handed him his keys and asked Studio..... Spaulding & Co s hardware, op­ are not a part of tlie United States, crat. good water, a big bargain at $3,200. posite The Steel Hotel. Surgery but merely “territory in possession of if he would bring his mail. He said No. 98—29-acre farm 54 miles north­ a specialty. Office hours, 8 to 12 Gov. Pingree’s life has been threat­ west of St. J oil ns. The buildings are a. m , 1:30 to 5 p. in., 7 to 8, eve'g. the United States,” and therefore not ened by a crank. Now when somebody he would and went out. Twenty min­ utes later Streeter was called up by Notice to Wheelmen. good—large house and barn, plenty of ige subject to the provisions of the Con­ steals his diamonds, he will have creat­ We, the undersigned, do hereby agree water aud all well fenced. Price, VJ • benefit of the experience, medical know ­ stitution which require all tariff laws ed sensation enough to go on the Mr. Wyckoff, head clerk in the post- to refund the money on a 25c bottle of $1,050. ledge and surgical skill which are indispensa­ 8 ble to perfection of results In dentistry, apply • to be uniform within the United stage. Once there, them ention office, asking him to come to the office, Henry & Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Lin­ No. 110—154 acres of land miles to Corbin A Son. St. Johns. when he was informed that seven let­ iment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruis ­ southwest of St. Johns, with good States. So far as slavery is concerned, of the supreme court or of railroad es. scratches, chafe3, cuts, strains blis ­ buildings and fences, orchard, good homas s. mann , d . d . g., middle of ters written by him and mailed that upper block, same floor as Perrin A however, this thirteenth amendment, legislation would set his excellency ters. sore muscles, sunburn, chapped water, all improved and near school. TBaldwin, St, Johns, Mlcb. in terms which cannot be pettifogged bounding like a ballet girl.—Carson morning, bore stamps which had been hands or face, pimples, freckles or any Price. $*00. other ailments requiring an external No. 116 —59 acres of land five miles away, clearly cuts the ground from City Gazette. used before and cancelled. This very Physicians. much surprised Mr. Streeter, who said: application. Lady riders are especially southwest of St. Johns. Good house, under the feet of the McKinley apolo­ pleased with Arnica and Oil Liniment, barn and orchard, all improved, at a The state of Michigan is- badly in “ Well, I want those letters to go and it is so clean and nice to use. Twenty- N. LEONARD, M. D., Physician, Sur- gists, as slavery is not only prohibited the hole as a result of the recent re­ bargain. E• geon and Electrologlst, Ovid, Mlcb. throughout the United States, but in perhaps I had better put on new five cents a bottle; one three times as No. 118—120-acre farm 24 miles north form legislature, and about January large for 50 cents. of Wacousta, on the main traveled B. DODGE. M. D., Surgeon and Homeo- “anyplace subject to their juristic- stamps.” He told who he had sent Sold by Travis & Baker, ‘Fildew & . patblo Physician. Office and residence 1st, when the fiddler is paid, people the letters by and the circumstances road north and south, on south side of Jover Spaulding ACo’s hardware,opp the Steel. tion.” will find themselves “touched ” its Millman and A. O. Hunt. the road. Large house and barn, good connected with the sending. .Mr, windmill and timber, well fenced. C. DUNN, M. D., Physician and $ur- ANTI-IMPERIALISM. never before. State taxes will be ORTGAGE SALE.-Default having been P• geon. Office over Spaulding A Compa­ Wyckoff said : “ No, we will forward made In tbe conditions of a mort­ This is a first-class farm and in a good ny's hardware store, St Johns, Mich. Offloe The Iowa Democrats, at their recent nearly double the amount paid in ’89 them and request the return of the Mgage, executed by Alfred Henry Sober,state of cultivation, and lots of fruit hours 1 to 4, 7 to 8 p. m. state convention declared in pointed Pingreeism comes high but people envelopes. Nellie J. Sober, Alfred Sober and Eliza Sober of all kinds, 4 mile froom schoolhouse. HART, M. D., Physician and Sur to the Michigan Mortgage Company (Limited) Price, $3,600. • geon. Eureka, Mlcb. 12)7 language against the policy of the ad­ must have it.—Pontiac Post. Monday morning Mr. Streeter caused of St. Johns, Michigan, dated January TA 1*94, H ministration towards the Philippines. and recorded In tbe office of tbe Register of No. 120—25-acre farm in township of W. POLLARD, M D. Physician and Sur- “Fighting Joe” Wheeler hits arrived the arrest and detention of Mr. Elli­ Deeds for Clinton county, in Michigan, on Bingham, with good buildings and all • geon. Office over the State liaDk of St. The following is the text of the reso­ January *7. 1*94. In liber 87 of Mortgage*, on JJohns. Residence corner Cass aDd Ottawa sts. at Manila, and it is safe to say that son, charging embezzlement. He was page 20; which mortgage wan duly assignt-d improved, 2 miles southeast of St. lutions: if the veteran has his own way arraigned before Justice Marshall, January 27.1891, by said Michigan Mortgage Johns. This is a bargain at $2,100. o M. POST, M. D., Physician and 8uigeon The attempt, unauthorized by Con­ Company (Limited), by its proper officers, to No. 121—200-acre farm in township O* Office over H. M. Hoerner & Son's Meat it will not be long before he is in the when he pleaded not guilty, when the Marvin Babcuck, by a written assignment, of Washington, Gratiot county, large Market, No. 14 Clinton ave. Residence, cor. of gress, to conquer the natives of Orien­ which was recorded February 6, 1894. in said Lansing A Rodgers streets St.Johns. Mlcb. field. If any of Aguinaldo ’s followers case was set for trial on Tuesday next, office, in liber 80 of Mortgages, on page 132; house 18x26-16-26-16x30. Barn, 36x50- tal islands Is a repudiation of the should happen to see a little man with and !n default of bail Ellison was sent wblcb mortgage wa* again duly assigned 62x50-62x20-62x20-62x14; granary, 18x WJl. HAVENS, M. D., Homeopathic Phy- American doctrine of consent affirmed March 27,1894, by said Marvin Babcock to Al­ 26-18x14; hog-pen 24x30, hen-coop 24x siclan and Surgeon. Office over Heller's a long beard and wearing a brigadier to jail. berta M.Clark, by a written assignment. which Bazaar. • in the Declaration of Independence was recorded March 27, 1MM, in said office, in 12. Buildings all painted, two flowing general's uniform coming their way The United States authorities rere liber 79 of Mortgages, on page 190; which wells, fruit of all kinds, water piped lton Jefferies, m. d ., snccessoi and in conflict with the principle they are advised to take to the jungle informed of the transaction when mortgage was again duly assigned, March 81, into the house and barn, about 70 acres to A. J. Wiggins. At St. Johns office which George Washington and his 1*94, by said Altierta M. Clark to Marvin Bab ­ A8pring8t., Wednesdays ’til Saturday s. 171: forthwith.—State Republican. Dept. U. S. Marshal Tobias, from Bay cock, by a written assignment, which was of timber with 50 acres seeded down R. 8. E. GILL A M, Physician and 8urgeon fellow-patriots of the Revolution made City, arrived here yesterday noon, recorded April 9, 1894, In said office, in and well fenced. This is the best Office at residence, oppositecourt bouse The first fruits of the glorious war in liber 79 of Mortgages, on page 152; and said stock farm in Gratiot county. Price, Dwest Office hours 1 to 4 p. in and 6 to 9 p. m sacrifice to establish. We condemn when he learned he could not take Marvin Babcock having died on June 28. 1898, the war against the Filipinos, believ ­ the Philip! nes for the American farmer leaving a last will and testament, which will $ 6 ,000. R. ERNEST SCHEMER. Physician aD Ellison until the charge for embezzle ­ was duly proved by tbe probate court of Clin­ No. 122—664-acre farm In southwest D Surgeon. Office over C. Gruler's store ing it to have been inspired by Great- is the rise in the price of hemp, which ment was settled. The United States ton county, in Michigan, and Cnarlea T. Bab ­ corner of Greenbush, good buildings, Fowler. Mich. nei has gone up from $70 a ton to $200 a cock appointed by said court executor of said Britain for the purpose of producing authorities will take charge of him last will and testament, on August 26, 1898; basement barn, lots of good water, good D. SQUAIR, M. D., Physician and conditions that will force an Anglo- ton, and binding twine will soon be and said mortgage having been duly assigned. apple orchard, 250 bearing peach trees, H• Surgeon. Office, Second Floor in tbe when the civil authorities are done September6, 1898, by »aid Charles T. Babcock, fences in good shape, at a bargain. Clinton Block, St. Johns, Mich. American alliance, and we not only costing more than twice as much as as such executor, to Charles T. Babcock, by a with him. written assignment, which was recorded Sep­ No. 124—140-acre farm 3 miles south ­ protest against the war and demand usual. Binding twine is a big item tember 6,1898, In said office, in liber 97 of Mort­ west of St. Johns, a nice brick bouse Undertakers. its termination by extension to the with the grain growers, and brother gages. on page 884; and there being due upon and frame barn and out buildings, good PRIVATE MAILING CARDS said mortgage at tbe date of this notice, Six­ windmill, fences in good shape and W. INGRAHAM, UNDERTAKER, W*> Filipinos of the same assurance given McKinley is being admonished by his teen hundred and twenty-one dollars and S. ker 8treet East, 8t. Johns, Mich. 1408 western friends to set things to rights iwenty-three cents, besides an attorney fee of land in good state of cultivation, with to the Cubans, but we record our deep- The 1’oflt Mi»Mter General Issues a Note of thirty-five dollars, stipulated in said mortgage about ten acres of good timber. Don’t in the Philippines at once so that the to be paid, should any proceedings be taken to Anctioneers. seated antagonism to an alliance with Warning. foreclose said mortgage; and no suit or pro­ fail to look this farm over, for we offer Great Britain or any other European farmers may not have to “souron him” The post master-general has issued ceeding at law or In equity having been In­ it at $ 8,200, a great bargain. Don’t ouie boron , auctionber .-i *■ next year. —Lansing Journal. stituted to recover any part of the debt se­ miss this chance for this farm has got prepared to sell farm property, housebol power and express our detestation of the following order: “The use of the cured by said mortgage; therefore, by virtue to g<». Lfurniture, and general merchandise, on mol the attempt made in British interests of the power ot sale in said mortgage con­ favorable terms. I speak English, Germs words ‘Private Mailing Card’on print­ tained, and of the statute in such case made •sTCall and get our prices on village and French. Orders through St. Johns pos to disrupt the friendly relations which LITERARY NOTES. ed matter or cards which do not con­ and provided, notice Is hereby given that on property. Wc have first-class property office will receive prompt and careful attei September 23, 1890, at one o’clock in the af­ tlon. have uniformly existed between the form to the conditions prescribet by ternoon. at tbe west front door of tbe Court which we are offering at low figures. United States and Germany. September is the month for fishing departmental order No. 354, of June House for Clinton county, in Michigan, in the and outdoor sports, and is the begin ­ village of St. Johns, in said county, there will We oppose conquest of the Philip­ 23, 1899. is unauthorized and the cause be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder pines because imperialism means mili- ning of the hunting season in Canada of confusion in the mails. Postmasters the premises described in said mortgage, viz: STREETER & the north fractional half of the north-east tarlism, because militarism means and in Maine. Scribner ’s for Septem­ and the public are informed that the fractional quarter of section one, In township ber has a number of articles with an five north of range two west, in Michigan. government by force, and because use of these words on matter which Dated June 28, 1899. outdoor flavor to t hem. It opens with CHARLES T. BABCOCK. DURKEE____ The KLONDYKE is far away. In fact, all government by force means death of does not conform to the conditions of Perkins A Baldwin , Assignee. an account by Frederic Ireland of Attorneys for Assignee. Real Estate Exchange & Brokers, those golden hills are a good way off. or are government by consent, destruction of authorized ‘Private Mailing Card’ is only Imaginary. There are always plenty of political and industrial freedom and what lie calls “the finest canoeing held torendersuch matter unmailable. St. Johns, Mich. agents trying to get you to invest in some country in the world.” He made a GOOD THING way off, and it Is their busi ­ the obliteration of equality of rights It is desired that this order be given ness to make it look bright. But don't be too live hundred mile journey from Mat- fast. See for yourselves. Your home dealer and assassination of democratic insti­ the widest publicity. ” Dr.p.B. ]\^onroe wants your patronage and will always make tutions. tawa to the head waters of the Ottawa The provisions of the act which au ­ Buy It an object lor you to leave your money at and Gatineau rivers, through a region home. thorized the use of private mailing I have one hundred Monuments of the lat­ ' Thi £re were 5,920 suicides in this abounding in tisli and moose. It has cards are that the cards must not WILL HE AT est designs in MARBLE and GRANITE to country last year, says the Lansing Your select from. You can have them any size, been for centuries and is now the exceed in size 3 1-4 by 5 1-2 inches any design, any material, and guaranteed, Journal. This is far beyond any home of the Algonquin Indian. The Hotel Steel Wed., Sept. 27, '99. cheaper than Klondike gold, as cheap as any must be of a quality equal to that used dealers ar dealer’s agent can sell them. reasonable proportion. The cause region through wnich Mr. Ireland Shoes Come and see me which contributes most to this crime In the manufacture of the regular Yours for your money, wood, hay corn and traveled with Algonquins for guides government postal cards ; and must potatoes, is nervous exhaustion. People are is the best sportsman’s haunt left in rushing with breakneck speed after weigh 6 pounds 3 ounces to the of__- F. F. MURDOCK, America Much of the wilderness is thousand. They may be of any color, some ambition and become nervous, as yet uncharted. The illustrations Opp Postoffice, ST. JOHNS. MICH. hysterical or physical wrecks. Most and must contain the prescribed C. A. PUTT are made from the author ’s abundant legends on the address side, with blank of them give up and lead a miserable photographs. He will be remembered No. 17Clinton Are., St. Johns. Grand Trnnk Railway System. old age Instead of a joyous and a fresh space for stamp. The usual infrac- as the author of two former sporting tions are with regard to weight and IN EFFECT JUNE 19, 1899. one. Others die in the harness and articles in Scribner ’s, one on New KOHATE OKDKK.-STATE OF MICHI­ size. GAN. County of Clinton, ss.: At a session D. & M. DIVISION. these resort to suicide. The lesson Brunswick and the other on the Min- Pof the Probate Court for the County of Clin­ is more recreation, less rush, modified Western Fair at London, Ont. ton, bolden at the Probate Office, In the Village West-Bound from St. Johns . gan Seigniory. The Stevenson letters of St. Johns, on Tuesday, the 22nd day of Au ­ ambitions, more patience, with slow are continued. Other contributes In addition to the low rates made gust, in the year one thousand eight hundred No. 11—Morning Exp. to Gd. Haven, 10:47 am to the Toronto Fair from August 27th and ninety-nine. No. 15 — Mall and Chicago Exp. to results, a completer enjoyment of the are Albert White Vorse, Charles Present. Hon. Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Gd. Haven...... 3:12 pm small pleasures of life, a habit of sleep to September 2d, the Grand Trunk Probate. Warren, Grace Ellery Ohanning, Joel In the matter of the estate of MARY G. No. 17—Steamboat Exp. toGd. Haven without care and of leisurely eating. Chandler Harris, W. C. Brownell, Railway System will also make rate of 8CH0MISCH. deceased. Michael Spitzlev, ex­ and Milwaukee ...... 7:59 pm Lieut.-Col. J. I). Mirey, Robert Grant a single fair for the round trip from ecutor of the last will and testament of said No. 19—Western Exp. to Gd. Haven 8:20 am The prolongation of the war in the deceased, having made application for tbe Nos. 11.15,17, Daily except Sunday and Frederick CrowninshieJd. The all points in Michigan and as far west allowance of his final account, and for his No. 19, Dally. Philippines, and the extensive scale dlscbatge. poems are of more than ordinary merit. as South Bend, Ind., to the Western Thereupon It Is ordered, that Thursday, East -Bound . upon which it is to be carried on, will the 14th day of September, A. D. 1899, at No. 16 —Steamboat Exp. to Detroit The Gyration* of lion. Alilen Smith. Fair at London, Ont., which is held one o'clock In tbe afternoon, be assigned for necessitate an increase in the nations and East...... 8:20 am from September 2d to the 16th. Tick ­ the examination of said account, at the Pro­ y reason of repeated requests i revennes, or a new bond issue. The William Alden Smith got off one of bate Office. In the village of St. Johns. have decided to vlsli 8t. Johns once In five No. 20—Mall to Detroit...... 12:09 pm his spread eagle speeches at Orion ets for the London Fair will be sold And It Is further ordered, that notice be weeks,B snd will be at tbe private parlor of The No. 22— Evening Exp. to Detroit and imposing of new taxes will impress given to the persons Interested In said estate, on September 7, 8, and 9, with a limit Steel Hotel, where 1 can be consulted free up­ Fast...... 5.22 pm the people more fully even then they the other day in which all the men of the time and place of said hearing, by on all CMses. Everything confidential. AM are who do not think as the fellows who to return leaving London on all trains causing a copy of this order to be published requested to bring two ounces of urine No. 18— Eastern Exp. to Durand and are now Impressed with the fact that in The Clinton Independent , a newspaper Charges moderate, and no Incurable cases E*st ...... 9:17 pm up to and includingSeptember 18,1899. printed and circulated In said County of Clin­ think for Mr. Smith do, were denounce taken. I always make diseases of women and No*. 16. 90. 22, Dally except Sunday. the war in the Philippines must be The Fair at London is one of the finest ton. for three successive weeks previous to children a speciality, also chronic diseases. I ended quickly for reasons of economy ed as traitors. Of course, this Includes held in Western Ontario. said day of bearing. have disposed of my local business to take tbe No. 18, Dally. CHARLES M. MERRILL. road, expressly for tbe benefit of chronic suf ­ W. H. Burke , Agent, such eminent men of Mr. Smith’s own (A true copy). Judge of Probate. if for no other reasons. ferers. Come and see me. It costs you nothing, E. H. Hughes , O. P. A T. Agt.. St. John*. arty as Senator Hoar. Senator Fora- Hamilton Clark, of Chauncey, Ga., All medicines furnished are purely vegetable er. Senator Mason. Ex-Senators Ed­ says he suffered with itching piles IOBATE ORDER—State of Michigan. —roots, herbs and barks. Correspondence Chicago, ill. The Democratic factions in Chicago E twenty years before trying Dewitt’s County of Clinton, ss. At a session of the solicited before my visit If possible. Address munds and Boutwell, Carl Schurz, Witch Hazel Salve, two boxes of which ProbateF Court for tbe County of Clinton, me at 448Cue~ 8t..T

PERSONAL. the language, which everyone expects PERSONAL. to master, and finds a task not easy to manage. Will Rob wont to Detroit Tuesday rooming Geo. N. Seifert spent yesterday in Durand Living is reasonable, when It is con­ E. J. Molnet was professionally engaged at to spend a few days. sidered that It Is never cheap in the Miss Cora Church spent Sunday with Mrs. Flint yesterday. great cities. The ordinary price in a Mias Viola Bond, of Duplaln, Is visiting pension Is one hundred marks per The Workers!^ Bert King In Fowler. Advantage* of That German City Mrs. A. J. Wiggins Is home frona her vaca­ friends at Lyons. month. If the room is quite small, it O. B. Swain Is spending a few days with to Musical Students. tion «t Crystal Lake. may be ten or fifteen marks less, and Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Hyatt went to Durand friends In Lyons. if two persons can Join and rent a Judge Daboll held court In Ithaca yester ­ Tuesday to spend a few days. THE BEST Of TEACHERS AVAILABLE, small apartment they can live much Mrs. L. L. Hammond went to Howell Tues ­ day. Home today. cheaper. Hread costs a little more Lunch Mrs. Chas. Sprague and daughter went to AND THE PUBLIC CONCERTS day to spend a week with friends. than In America, but coffee, tea, eggs Mrs. Chas Hammond went to Ionia Satur ­ Owomo yesterday for the day, INSTRUCTIVE. and butter are about the same. Be­ day to spend a week with friends. Paul Jameson, of Washington, D. C., Is here sides being interesting, the lessons are Build it on a biscuit basis —a UnOOda basis. visiting relatives and friends. and useful which we learn in Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Green, of Bengal, have Living Reasonable - Batcher Shops this land of uniforms and discipline. Use any kind of a relish, but one kind of a founda ­ returned from their eastern trip. Wm. Chase went to Durand yesterday to Groceries Marvels of Neatness. Lulu Harris went to Pewamo Saturday to spend the balance of the week. this letter proves acceptable, I tion— Uneeda Biscuit* They possess as spend several days with a cousin. G. B. Murphy and son George spent yester ­ may send another telling something dainty a flavor as is ever found in the best bread. Miss Harriet Vreeland la spending the day looking at the sights In Durand. The following is a letter written by about smaller cities, and peasant life. week with her sister, Mrs. Martin, In Ionia. W. W. Peck went to Grand Rapids yester ­ Mrs. T. L. Drake, who is now, and has M. D. Judge Daboll returned Tuesday morning day to remain a couple of days on business. been in Germany nearly four years from his vacation spent In the northern Miss Grace Paine returned last Friday Rr«l Estate. from her somewhat extended visit iu the with her daughter Alice, who is under ­ county. Elizabeth J. Drake to Wm H. Rich­ Mrs. L. 9. Skinner and son Sterling, of west. going a thorough training in music. ards, n 5-16 of e 54 of s w 54 and s5-16 James Hare, of Detroit, Is spending a few of e tt of n w or section 30, Bengal Essex township, went to Detroit Tuesday Mrs. Drake is a sister of Mrs. J. H. (q. c.)...... 225 oo days In this county looking after his In­ morning. Alice Knowles et al, to William Berk- Uneeda Corblt, this village, and was a resident Mrs. C. J. Sowle and little daughter went terests. hausen, u 14 of sw 54 of section 17, of St. Johns in an early day. In later 1,060 oo to Ithaca Monday to spend a few days with Miss Minnie Raker returned Monday, after Essex...... visiting friends for a few weeks at Plymouth years she has resided in Denver, Colo­ Martha Bateman to Thomas Bateman her sister. e«of sc 54 of section 30, Watertown l.ooo co Mr. ank Mrs. Geo. A. Archer and daughter, and Lauslng. rado: J. H. Fedewa went to Charlevoix last even­ Isabelle A. Hooper to James Abegg, of Maple Rapids, went to Durand Tuesday lots 12. 13,14 and pt. of 15, block E, ing to be absent the balance of the week on Berlin , July, 1899. to visit friends, Ovid...... - legal business. Dear Editor of the Independent: Biscuit Mrs. Thomas Beak and daughter Pearl, of Ann Hildreth et al, to Jonathan Hil­ That you may know my promise of dreth, n 10 a. of s 100 a. of lie X of have started the thoughtful housewife crackerwards. Ithaea, are spending a couple of weekB at Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Prouty, after a visit with Mrs. A. O. Bean, returned to Reading, long ago is not forgotten, I will jot section 28, Essex, (q. C.)...... In Uneeda Biscuit she finds food novelty John Cunningham ’s. down some notes pertaining to life as Jonathan Hildreth et al, to Milton F. • Mrs. R. J. St. Clair, after visiting her farth­ Mich., yesterday. Hildreth, e *4 of n 40 a. of s 00 a. of without loss of nutritive value; a complete, satisfy ­ Mrs. S. Teneyke returned from Lansing we experience it in this far away land. er, J. B. Mock, several weeks, returned to ne k of section 28, Essex, (q. C.)...... ing, health giving food that is always ready, always Sunday 4fter spending a couple of weeks From histories and books great facts her home In Ovid Monday. Jonathan Hildreth et al. to Ann Hil­ can be gathered, but lesser incidents, dreth, w 54 of e 54 of n 40 a. of s 00 a. fresh, always dainty. These are the reasons why Mr. and Mrs. R. H\ Knapp, who had been with her sister there. Mrs. Blanche Streeter, of Grand Ledge, is referring to ways and means, remain of ne 54 of section 28, Essex, (q. c.)... make the ideal lunch for the visiting Mrs. Chas. Sage, returned to her Uneeda Biscuit here visiting her father, li. J. Patterson and for one friend to tell to another. As Jonathan Hildreth et al. to Esther business man or the mechanic—for everybody. Order home at Port Huron Monday. German cities have long been associ­ Ocobock, e H of w V4 of n 4« a. of s «0 Misses Susie and Katie Simmons, of West­ other members of the family. a. of ne % of section 28, Essex, (q. c.) one of the new 5 cent air tight packages. Mrs. Ida Burgess and daughter are spend­ ated particularly with music study, phalia, spent the latter part of last week Jonathan Hildreth et al, to Mary D. ing a few days with the brother of the for­ perhaps that will be a good leading Hildreth, w 54 of n 40 a. of s 00 a of with their cousin, Kittle Wakenmann. topic ; although one finds this country ne M of section 28, Essex, (q. e.)...... Mrs. H. H. Hart, after spending a few days mer, Charles Heller, at Fowler. Annie Harris spent the last three weeks so rich in the arts, that only a few Lydia J. King to Frank Cowhii et al, with her daughters, Mrs. J. C. Hicks and Mrs. lots 15, 16 and 17, block 14, Ovid...... with Nellie Mead In Olive, and attended the items can be mentioned in one letter. Mattlson, this village, returned to Ionia In Berlin, one is first impressed with Homer R. Campbell to Edward Wal­ carnival at Lansing Wednesday. dron, land on se 54 of section 18, GET A SILK DRESS FREE. Monday. Mrs. Belle Kearney and son Ralph, are the general nuidern style of architec­ Watertown...... Miss Francis Bishop, who returned from The old reliable publishers of the well known and highly interesting Family Magazine, to ad­ spending a few weeks with relatives uiul ture and broad streets, and not until Homer R. Campbell to Edwnrd Wal­ vertise It. are offering HANDSOME SILK DRESSES—full m to 15 yards. This offer Is open to her outing at Bay View last Friday, went to friends at Lansing and Buttle Creek. the attention is turned toward the dron, land on se 54 of section 18, any reliable person who will send for It at once and protnlae to show It with the paper- If you Battle Creek Monday with her Bister, Ida Watertown, (q. c.)...... wish to take advantage of above silk dress offer, you must first send 25 Cents—silver or post­ 11. J. Patterson, who has been absent u people, does one realize it is a foreign Ida J. Sanborn to Edwurd Waldron, age stamps-to pay for handling and postage on the paper we send three months on trial, and Whitney. week or ten days at Grand Ledge and Lan­ city. You see the droschkes (cabs] you will receive It by return mail. Mrs. J. R. Tranchell, who has been visiting land on n 54 of se 54 of section 18, sing, returned last Tuesday evening. (lying around like so many bees, ana Watertown, (q. C-)...... Mrs. Phoebe Nash, Willlamstown. Pa , writes: Just received the black silk dress—14 yards — her brothers George and John and families, you sent me. Tbe quality is magnificent, and 1 thank you a thousand times over. Mrs. H. H. Harris and daughter Francis, each driver looks exactly like the other Helen M. Knight to Pyron Brown, returned to her home at Leroy. Mleh, Tues ­ Mrs. Eliza Brown, New Haven, Conn , writes: 1 scarcely believed It t>ut this morning my spent last week with the families of Lewis in their peculiar white stove pipe land on w 54 of section 31, Duplaln, silk dress arrived. I have shown It to a dozen neighbors They all Intend sending for one. (q. c.)...... - day morning. and Charles Kellogg, near Bannister. hats; here and there a gaily bedecked It Is certainly very beautiful and I will do all 1 can for your paper. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Teed and Mr. and Eva Bauer to Frederick Motz, w 30 a. We can show proof of thousands of dresses given away to those who have answered our ad­ Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Estes drove down to pair of officers, or a troop of marching Mrs. L. 9perry returned from the Mackinaw of n fr. X of ne fr. 54 of section 2, vertisements. All dresses sent promptly. Owosso this morning to spend the remainder soldiers; the rows of small, neat Dallas...... country Tuesday morning, where they had HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO., Lock Box 331, Philadelphia, Pa. of the week with their son James and family. looking shops where robust looking Jacob W. Smith and wife toCharlesG. spent two weeks. Norton and wife n 85 a. of ne M of Mrs. Alex DeClair and her three little maidens are hastening in and out, do­ section 27, Duplaln...... Mrs. G. C. Taylor and Mrs. Geo. Frazer, girls are visiting relatives and friends this ing their marketing, in bright colored Henry D. Tobias and wife to Frances sister and niece of Chas. Fowler, after spend­ week in Detroit. Her son Louis accompan­ dresses, white caps and aprons, and A. Tobias, land on s w if of section ing several days here, returned to their 7, Eagle...... CONSULTATION and EXAMINATION FREE and Strictly127169...... ied her. women and dogs drawing carts—these home in Granville, Saturday. Mrs. F. F. Randolph, who had been visiting are some of the features which attract Volcanic Eruptions Mrs. Charles Parker, who had been visit­ D2SS. IB., S- dS CO. her brother, O. C. Clark, returned to her the attention of the newly arrived Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob ing Malinda VanBerger, in Victor township, home In Detroit yesterday, stopping In Du ­ American. We also notice the queer life of joy. Buckien ’s Arnica Salve The Celebrated Specialists of the returned to her home In Marcellus, V an- rand enroute. appearance of the windows, and find cures them, also Old. Running and Fe­ Ruren county, Mich., Tuesday. Gen. O. L. Spaulding and son Tom, return ­ not only the goods displayed, but sam­ ver Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, American Medical and Surgical Institute of Miss Mary Schneider, who has been in ed Tuesday evening from their business and ples and prices so arranged that, as a Warts. Cuts, Bruises. Burns. Scalds, Saginaw attending her sister, Mrs. Charles pleasure trip up to the Soo on the U S. rule, customers are expected to make Chapped Hands. Chilblains. Best File Muskegon, Mich., will be at Doan, who has been 111, returned home Satur ­ Revenue Cutter. their selection, and only enter the cure on earth. Drives out Fains and day, accompanied by her sister. Mr. and Mrs. John Burgess, who have been store if they decide upon a purchase. Aches. Only 25cts. a box. Cure guar ­ THE STEEL HOTEL, ST. JOHNS, Register of Deeds. B. V. Soule arrived home spending a month with their daughter, Mrs. Thrifty management, this, saving anteed. Sold by Fildew & Millman, from his three weeks ’ outing at Skegemog Warren Ackley, returned to their home iu room and clerk hire, beside discourag ­ Druggists. Point, Sunday morning. Mrs. Suoles and Canada yesterday. ing the idle shopper. At first it seems son Dave, arrived on the Tuesday previous. odd to see so many people gazing in at John Hicks and his son J. C., returned from Quickly cure constipation and rebuild Wednesday, Sept. 27. Mrs. Geo. Baler, of Grand Rapids, and their eastern trip down the St. Lawrence and the windows. There is the officer and and invigorate the entire svstem—never Miss Carrie Conkleman. of Detroit, who had in Vermont, last Friday. Mrs. Hicks Is ex­ lady, side by side with the peasant, gripe or nauseate —DeWitt s Little Office Hours from 9 a. m. to t> o. m. been visiting their sister, Mrs. R. B. McCabe, pected home today. with her basket on her arm. Early Risers. C. E. V an Sicklb . have returned to their respective homes, the Misses Susie Durkee and Myrtle Richard­ You can well imagine the beauty former Tuesday and the latter today. son will go to Detroit this week, where they of a flower display, but not so one of Mrs. C. F. Bishop, who has been at the sani­ will meet Mrs. L. Canfield and assist her In the meat shop, and .vet, with the tarium. Battle Creek, with her husband for almost endless variety and colors of looking up styles and purchase millinery for WANTED several weeks, returned home Monday. Her fall trade. large and small sausage, a wonderful husband, who Is somewhat Improved of effect is produced. They form pyra­ stomach trouble, went to Grand Rapids, mids, and hang in graceful festoons. where he Joined his brother William for a ANNOUNCEMENTS. These, mixed with the bright squares IMMEDIATELY lake trip north. of meat, and a generous mixture of The laifles’ aid society of West Ringham potted plants and palms, you see, at The Grand Trunk Is In It. will meet with their pastor’s wife. Mrs. I. J. Ten Carloads of Old Iron, for Tripp, on Thursday afternoon. September 7. the holiday season, one of the prettiest The Grand Trunk Railway will sell You are invited to attend. of all windows among many. Going which we will pay the highest tickets to New York and return good Dance at Bengal Grange hall, Friday even­ inside you find women in general at­ market price in Cash. Also to go on September 1, 2, 3 and 4 from ing. Sept. 8. Bill, 50 cents. tendance, both cutting and selling. Paper Rags and Rubbers. There will be a meeting of the Woman’s The wife of the proprietor is a very all its stations west of Detroit and St. Association of the Congregational church Tuesday, September 5th. This being the important personage: well dressed Clair rivers, the rate from Detroit first meeting after the vacation, a full at­ and ordering everybody about with being only $15.15 and a proportionate tendance Is expected. the air of a captain. Further on this MRS. ML'RRETT FRINK. MND & SEVERANCE. low rate from all its stations in Mich­ President. subject let me say, the markets are There will be the regular preaching ser­ a marvel in point of cleanliness, with­ igan and west of the Detroit and St. vice at the Grange hall. Bengal, next Sunday out taint or odor, wholesome with Clair rivers. Tickets will be good to afternoon at the usual hour; there will also white paint and pretty with palms. be given the opportunity for baptism and re­ return up to September 12th, witli ception of members at this service. Pastor The same is true of groceries. The privilege of extension to September Holmes will be present. tendency in all such shops Is toward KODOL elaborate decorations, with floors as 30th by deposit of ticket upon the pay­ M. E. Church Notes. clean as those in our drug and dry ment of a 50 cent fee. These tickets The fourth quarterly meeting services of g(hk Is stores at home. Dyspepsia Cure. the Methodist Episcopal church will take will allow a stop-over of ten days at place next Sunday and Monday, September I have wandered, and must not for­ Niagara Falls or Philadelphia by pas­ 3d and 4th. get that I intended to make music my Sunday at 9:30 a. m. will be the fourth special subject, thinking it may inte­ “Digests What You Eat” senger depositing his ticket on arrival. quarterly love feast. The love feast service to be followed at rest tiie average reader. To be sure, Remarkable Rescue. 10:30 by the quarterly observance of “The our boys and girls can study music at It is now preparation just put out Lord's Supper." home, and the choice between an by us. It absolutely will cure dyspep­ Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plaintield, 111., Sunday school at 12:15 p. m. sia aiid al 1 ki nd red st

...» CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1899

TAX LAW AMENDMENTS. The city of Battle Creek now has a WAR NOTES. PRESIDENT CUERIN municipal dag of distinctive design, H*r* are Several of Interact to Property Of tli* Anti-Semite Lean* Planned to HflfS FOR MRS. the colors being red, blue and yellow. Naval Constructor Hobson has sub ­ Owner*. mitted to the navy department a sup­ Fir* tb* Building If Attacked. The council adopted the emblem at a Special from Paris: Anticipating an As time for paying state and county recent meeting. News of the Day as Told Over the plemental report to that recently made A Whole Regiment of News Items taxes will soon be at hand, the tax­ on the condition of the Spanish ships attack from the gens d’armea occupy ­ From Michigan Towns payers of the state will be interested Attempt will be made at Coldwater Slender Wires. raised from Manila bay and now being ing an adjacent house, M. Guerin, in several important amendments made to raise funds for the erection of a rebuilt under his supervision at Hong president of the anti-Semite league, soldiers’ monument in that city. One to the general tax law by the last leg­ Kong. These ships are the Isla de and his companions, who are barri ­ citizen has offered to contribute $250 as D0MESTI0 AND FOREIGN NEWS CAPTURED FOR BRIEF READING. islature. Section 59, which formerly Cuba, Isla de Luzon and Don Austrian. caded in the headquarters of the a starter for the fund. provided for interest on delinquent He sets forth in detail the condition of league, poured petroleum in the room Britisher* and Boer* Still Making Prep­ A Clmre Firebug Shot In the Act of taxes at the rate of 8 per cent per an­ The state board of education will work. He says that they were more near a point from which the attack encourage the organization of school aration* for War — The Cleveland was expected, preparatory to setting it Vlrla( a Farmer’s Buildings bat Ks- num and the addition of a 4 per cent damaged by fire than by shot, and that collection fee, was amended so as to officers’ associations in counties, pat­ Street Car Strike to be Inveetlgated most of the rebuilding has been made on fire. The anticipated move on the caped — A Female Prisoner Jumped make the penalty 1 per cent a month, terned after the one recently organized by State Authority. necessary by the burned woodwork. part of the officers, however, did not Into Lake 8t. Clair and Drowned. the additional collection fee being re­ in Washtenaw county. They were 80 per cent completed on materialize. The streets in the neigh­ tained. A great amount of damage has al­ July 1, and Mr. Hobson says they will borhood of the Rue de Chabrot, in Hew Colleenm at Chicago Collapsed. Under the previous law there was no ready been done in lower Michigan for be ready to turn over to the navy for which is located the anti-Semite head­ Weekly Crop Bulletin. Twelve steel arches, each weighing The weekly crop report issued from charge for the cost of advertising, etc., the lack of rain. About the only service within six weeks after the ar­ quarters, are quiet, but a strong force until the lands had been advertised county where crops have not been 33 tons, which were to have supported rival of the batteries and the electrical of troops is remaining on guard there. the United States weather office tells a the superstructure of the Coliseum distressing tale of drought throughout and made subject to sale. The adver­ damaged by the drouth is Lenawee. plants. These were shipped some Ten of the men arrested for taking tisement was made in April and there Quartermaster General White has building in course of erection on Wa­ weeks ago, so that there is every pros­ part in the recent demonstration were the state. The report says: The first bash avenue, Chicago, fell to the was no charge on the account men­ commissioned a press clipping bureau pect the vessels will be in commission condemned to undergo from a week to three days of the week were cool with ground late on the afternoon of Aug. tioned until the land was actually of­ of New York to compile a newspaper' before long. two mouths in prison. light frosts in some of the upper pen­ 28th. It is known that nine lives were insula and the northern counties of fered for sale. An amendment in­ history of Michigan’s troops and naval Gen. Hughes, of Iloilo, reports four creases this expense from 70 cents to militial through the Spauish-American crushed ouL The bodies of two men Dreyfn* ’ Lawyer Ha* Recovered. the lower peninsula; the last four days are supposed to be under the wreck ­ soldiers ambushed, killed and muti ­ Maltre Labori, leading counsel for were very warm. Moderately heavy $1 per description, and makes the war. lated, a few miles south of the city of charge a lien upon the land on Oct. 1 age. Ten are in the hospital with in­ the defense, who was murderously as­ showers occurred in portions of the In the vicinity of Camden, Hillsdale juries received in the accident and of Cebu. No names are given. Robber saulted Aug. 14, was present at the be ­ upper peninsula, but not a drop of rain next preceding the time prescribed for county, springs are drying up and bands, in Negros, have been scattered, the sale of the land. these four will surely die, one may ginning of the second day of the third is reported from any station in the farmers are experiencing difficulty in possibly recover and the rest are for and most of the members are returning w*eek of the second trial by courtmar- lower peninsula; generally the weather Lands now held for unpaid taxes of watering their stock. The farmers are to work on sugar plantations. Armed 1897 will be sold for taxes, unless the the greater part seriously injured. tial of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, of the has been hot and dry, and this con­ feeling downcast over the crop pros­ The immense “Traveller,” or derrick, Tagalos who had entered that island artillery, charged with treason. The dition was intensified by the nearly latter are sooner paid, in May next pects. were severely punished, and conditions Under the old law the expense of this which had been use in the erection of wounded attorney put new life in the cloudless skies that have prevailed The family of Brinton Grable, living the arches, had been removed and the are favorable for the formation of a trial by attacking Gen. Mercier. He most of the week. The effect ou corn, sale, which has been increased to $1, at Silver Creek, three miles southwest civil government under military su ­ would not become a lien until that agents of the bridge company were ac­ asked Mercier where he obtained cer­ late potatoes, beans and pastures in of Plainwell, were poisoned by eating counting their work as practically pervision, as has been directed. There tain papers that he is using against the southern half of the state has been date, but the new law makes a lien on gravy that had stood over night in a is little change in Panay and Cebu is­ Oct. 1 next. completed, when suddenly and with­ Dreyfus, but Mercier declined to ans­ ▼ory detrimental; in the principal agri­ tin basin. It is believed all will re­ out the slightest warning the arch last lands. The withdrawal of volunteers wer, notwithstanding the court in­ cultural counties of the lower penin­ Another amendment is the restora­ cover. and regulars, discharged under order tion of the fee payable to county treas­ put in place suddenly fell over against structed him to do so. Labori says he sula corn and beans are drying up and Muskegon is to have a big tin plate 40 last year, has prevented active cam­ urers for tax certificates to accompany the one next to it. The weight was will yet force a reply from Gen. Mer­ ripening prematurely. Pastures are mill. The size of the building will be paigns in those islands, which medi­ warranty deeds. This was reduced too much for this, it gave way, crashed cier. ______very brown and late potatoes are 200x200 feeL The capacity will be tated reinforcements will cure. from 25 to 15 cents and subsequently against the third, and then, one by Where the Money Went. nearly at a standstill. Many farmers from 500 to 1,000 boxes of finished tin The war department gave out for abolished, but the last legislature re­ one, the great steel spans fell over to have been cutting their corn in order plates every 24 hours, giving employ­ publication an interesting statement The annual report of the auditor tor stored it at the latter figure. the south, precisely in the same man­ the interior department has been sub ­ to save it for fodder, and beans have ment to 200 hands. ner as a number of cards would fall. of the financial condition of the island mitted to the secretary of the treasury. ripened prematurely and their harvest Lapeer is to have a street fair SepL of Cuba. It shows that under the already begun in some counties. Fall Prisoner Leaped to Death. Making Preparation* For War. management of the United States gov­ The report shows that the total num ­ Unfortunate Mary Ann Carr, 25 years 19 to 22. The business men’s associa­ ber of accounts and claims settled dur ­ plowing is fairly well advanced in the tion reports $1,100 pledged for the The Cape Town correspondent of the ernment the receipts of the island from of age, dived to death from the lower ing the fiscal year ending June 30, central and southern counties, but the carnival. The annual Lapeer County London Daily Mail says : Despite the Jan. 1, 1899, to June 30, of the current parched soil has brought much of this deck of the steamer Darius Cole into virtual blockade of war material in year, exceed the expenditures by the 1899, was 25,233, involving the expen- the waters of Lake St. Clair on the Veteran Battalion's reunion is to be ditureof $173,598,233, being an increase work to a standstill and farmers are held at the same time. Delagoa bay, the Cape government is very handsome sum of $1,480,021. This waiting for rain before resuming pre­ 27th, while on her way from her home sending enormous consignments of statement probably will be a surprise over the last fiscal year of 2,659 claims, parations for the seeding of fall wheat in Port Huron, to Detroit, in charge of Fred Brandenberg, a Chesterfield munitions of war to Bloemfontein. to many persons who had thought that involving $24,278,866. The great bulk and rye. Rain is therefore very much Detective Judson C. Lombard. The farmer, scared by the numerous burg ­ During the present month over 2,000,- Cuba under the military occupation of of this money went, of course, to the laries, provided himself with a revolver. needed in nearly every county of the steamer was stopped and small boats 000 cartridges have been sent and 500 the United States was not self-sus ­ government pensioners, $139,775,141 lower peninsula. In the upper penin­ lowered, but all efforts at recovery On the 21st a burglar entered his home, rifles were despatched recently from taining. being expended on this accounL sula the conditions have been generally were futile, for the body soon sank out stole the weapon, exchanged an old Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein. In suit of clothes for a new one and made The Philippine holidays are rather favorable and crops have made good of sight. Some of the passengers say addition to this the Cape ministry, Railroad Accident In Chile. way with his watch. unique in the mixture of native and progress. they saw it come to the surface but while absolutely declining to arm the American days. They are: Circumcis ­ A great railway accident occurred at once and then it disappeared. The Stillwell Palmer, a Methodist of near volunteers of the colony, continues to ion, Jan. 1; Three Kings day, Jan. 6; Santiago de Chile on the 24th. An en­ Daring Hold Up. young lady was being returned to De­ Adrian, was dumb for two years. He afford other facilities to the Orange Purification, Feb. 2; Washington’s tire train fell into the river Mapocha, Michael Dodovan, Jos. Wilson and troit to answer to the charge of grand thought the Lord directed him to go Free State to arm its burghers just birthday, Feb. 22; Holy week (two which runs through that city, and Frank Reed, hoboes, are in jail at larceny. The cause of the drowning to a Baptist ex-preacher named Iler. across the water, freely granting the days), Thursday and Friday; Ascension many lives were losL Although the Lansing on a charge of robbery with a was not due to Mary ’s fear of being He did so. Iler struck up a song and use of the colonial railways for the day, May 11; Decoration day. May 30; tremendous storms that have been deadly weapon accompainment, acrime convicted or of serving a possible five then prayed that Palmer’s speech be distribution of cartridges from the Corpus Christi day, June 1; Independ­ raging for a fortnight throughout Tor which life imprisoniUent can be years, but simply because she did not restored. Afterwards Palmer begaD Bloemfontein arsenal to the border ence day, July 4; Assumption day, Chile continue, there has been some imposed. Their victims were David like the idea of the detective bossing to pray aloud too. towns. The patience of the people is Aug. 15; Labor day. Sept. 4; All Saints’ abatement. Advices from various Sparks, Jesse Delosh, Oral Van Ilelden her around. The new steel bridge over Sucker becoming exhausted, and unless the day, Nov. 1; Thanksgiving day, last points indicate widespread distress and Jos. Popezinski, aged from 16 to and misery. Valparaiso and other creek, two miles west of East Dayton, imperial government acts quickly and Thursday in November; St. Andrew’s MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS. 18, all of Grand Rapids. They are all collapsed as a traction engine and decisively the gravest damage may en­ day, Nov. 30; La Purissima Conception, cities have suffered severely. detained at Lansing as witnesses, ex­ grain separator were passing over it. sue to British prestige. England is Dec. 8; Christmas day, Dec. 25. cept Popezinski, whose treatment A new $35,009 depot will be built at C. S. Cruiser Rescued a British Crew. Durand at once. The bridge was a new one and the also making daily preparations. A report received at Manila from forms the most tragic part of the af­ cause of its collapse will not be known The United States cruiser Montgom­ Kalamazoo’s celery crop for this year Cebu says Datto Mundi, with his fair. The boys were sons of respect­ until the debris is raised out of the Cleveland Strike to be Investigated. ery arrived at Rio Jgneiro from Monte­ able families, having left home unbe ­ is estimated to be worth $1,000,000. tribesmen, has taken the warpath video on the 21st. She reports having mud. The engineer saved his life by It is probable that the state board ol against the insurgents who are hold­ known to their parents for the pur­ Automobiles may be used in connec­ arbitration will investigate the Cleve­ rescued the crew of the British steamer jumping into the water. ing Zamboanga, and has given them a pose of doing a little hoboing just for tion with the Ann Arbor hospitals. land street railway strike on the de­ Nettleton, Capt. Vigers, from Norfolk, A warrant has been issued for the warm battle. Mundi welcomed Gen. the fun of it. Popezinski told the rob ­ mand of the executive committee of July 25, for Rio Janeiro, which went Indications all point to the largest arrest of George Boucher, and the Bates, saying he was anxious to be ­ bers be had no coin, but after investi­ the strikers. Thus far the board has aground at Marica, 20 miles east of corn crop in many years in St. Joseph sheriff of St. Joseph county is after come an American citizen and asked gating they found 30 cents on his per­ not tried to settle this strike because Rio Janiero. All the members of the county. him. It is alleged that Boucher is permission to fight the insurgents. son, and for telling a lie the tramps it had not the power to do so unless Nettleton’s crew were saved. A hen owned by Ithaca parties has wanted in connection with the finding He was given an American flag. Gen. threw him off the top of a box car both parties were agreed. The law produced dozen of double eggs this of the body of an unknown man at the Bates has returned to the Sulu archi­ while the train w as running about 18 provides, however, that in case there is Several cases of yellow fever have summer. mouth of the Paw Paw river recently. pelago to arrange for establishing miles an hour. His condition Is not no arbitration either party may ask occurred at Panama. The disease, it It is said the officers are convinced that American garrisons there. known at this writing. Chas. Detros, aged 43, of ML Clemens, for an investigation which will be is said, having been imported from the man was dead before his body was Guayaquil, Ecuador. committed suicide by hanging on the judicial in its nature, and ascertain It is not likely that any more cavalry Firebug Shot bat Escaped. 19th. He was slightly demented. thrown into the river. regiments will be organized, save the Edwy C. Reid, editor of the Allegan who is responsible for the strike and BASE BALL. Two unsuccessful attempts have been Not a single couple took advantage its prolongation. The strikers were one which Gen. Otis formed in the made to burn the buildings on the farm of the offer to be married free at the Gazette, one of the most bitter of the Philippines. Gen. Otis has cabled that anti-Pingree Republican papers of the asked by the central labor union to Below we publish the number of games of of Matchew Keebler, eight miles north recent Maccabee picnic at SL Joseph. demand such an investigation. Secre­ cavalry cannot be used to the best ad­ ball played by the Western and National state, was arrested at Grand Rapids on vantage in the islands, and, in his Leagues, giving the number of games won and of Clare, and the person or persons are Rt. Rev. Frederick Eis was conse­ tary Bishop, of the state board, is now the 24th upon a capias issued at the judgment, the two regiments of regular lost, together with the percentage of each club still at large. The first attempt occur ­ crated bishop of the diocese of Mar­ in the city and he says he is ready to to date, Monday, August 28tb: instance of Quartermaster-General W. cavalry and the volunteer regiment red on the 19th, when Iveebler ’s 13- quette and Sault Ste Marie on the 24th. take up the investigation if it shall be WBSTKHX LEAGUE STANDING. year-old boy discovered the house on L. White, as the commencement of a will be sufficient to meet all needs of Games Per demanded. Clubs. fire and extinguished it. Coal oil had Fields are too dry to plow in Arenac $20,000 suit for libel. Reid made the campaign. Played. Won. Lost Cent county and farmers will soon begin Indianapolis...... m 67 39 .632 been applied to the clapboards. On charges against White which the lat­ Forester* Elected Officer*. Since the beginning of the Spanish Minneapolis...... 112 60 43 .616 the 21st the boy while on watch dis­ cutting corn if the dry weather con­ ter alleges he cannot prove. The annual election of officers in the war there have been enlisted in the Detroit...... 109 56 53 .514 tinues. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tallman and two supreme court of the Order of Fores­ regular army 90,671 men. This in­ Grand Rapids...... 109 55 54 .505 covered a man trying to set the barn St. Paul ...... Ill 51 60 .439 on fire and shot at him. The man re­ T. H. Anderson, postmaster in the children, of Detroit, were poisoned by ters of America, which took place in cludes those who were discharged Milwaukee...... 103 47 58 .448 turned the fire with a revolver and fled village of Rapid City, has been arrested eating diseased meat, and remained Detroit on the 23d, resulted as follows: after the close of the war and the in­ Buffalo...... 100 45 64 .413 into a nearby cornfield. The kerosene charged with embezzling $700 of gov­ without medical attendance for seven Thomas J. Ford, Pittsburg, supreme crease of the regular army for service Kansas City ...... 10) 45 64 .413 ernment funds. in the Philippines. Three hundred NATIONAL LEAGUK STANDING. had this, time been applied to the hours, none of them being able to call chief ranger; C. P. Rendon, California, Games Per sweatpad of a harness and which he Out of the 71 applicants who took for assistance. They were discovered supreme sub chief ranger; Thomas F. and ten thousand and sixty-five ap­ Clubs. Plaved. Won Lost Cent was attempting to ignite when dis­ the county teachers’ examination held lying on the floor by a friend. While Donahue, Rhode Island, supreme treas­ plied and were rejected. Brooklyn ...... 109 74 86 .eh) Boston ...... no 68 42 .618 covered. Blood was found in such at Mason, 12 secured second grade cer­ no member of the family has yet died, urer; E. M. McMurtry, New York, Admiral Watson is seriously sick at Philadelphia...... 114 70 44 .614 quantities to prove that the boy ’s aim tificates and 25 those of the third Mrs. Tallman lies in a precarious con­ supreme secretary; S. B. Morris, Mas­ Manila. He was the victim of an acci­ Baltimore...... 1IW 85 43 .602 had been careful. Keebler is a pros­ grade. dition at one of the hospitals. sachusetts. supreme recording secre­ dent on July 11, while making a trip Cincinnati...... no 61 49 .566 tary; Dr. M. 8. Clark, Ohio, supreme from Manila to the river to avoid the St Louis ...... 118 64 52 .562 perous and respected farmer and why The Allegan County Agricultural so­ An unknown man, giving his name Chicago...... 113 57 56 .504 such a dastardly attempt should be ciety announces that the county fair as Tom Burns and aged about 50 years, medical examiner; J. C. Smith, Con­ full force of the typhoons. After the Pittsburg ...... 112 55 57 .491 made to destroy his property is a mys- will be held from OcL 3 to 6, inclusive. went to Mancelona on the 23d. He necticut, supreme senior woodward; H. accident serious heart trouble devel­ Louisville ...... no 49 61 .445 New York...... no 49 61 .446 tery. W. J. Bryan will be invited to attend acted strangely, as though troubled W. Mace, Pennsylvania, supreme junior oped, from which the admiral is still woodward; George W. Black, New Washington...... m 38 73 .342 Four Metamor.i Hen Indicted. one day. about something, and asked a deputy suffering. Cleveland...... 115 19 96 .165 York, supreme senior beadle; James T. The controller of the treasary has The grand jury convened on the 28th Manton will be the central office of sheriff to lock him up, saying that he Wafer, New York, H. G. Stoetling, decided that a volunteer who enlisted THE MARKETS long enough to file indictments against a telephone system which will take in was crazy. A short time after being Washington, and J. J. Doyle, New in the navy for the war with Spain four prominent Metamora men in con­ all the towns in Wexford county. locked up he was found with his throat Hampshire, supreme trustees. and who was discharged at his own re­ LIVE STOCK. nection with the wrecking of the Cross Farmers are patronizing the new sys ­ cat almost from ear to ear. He had quest before the expiration of his term New York- — Cattle Sheep Lambs Hogs Roads Weekly plant, last April. Judge tem liberally. broken a window pane and used a MI**tonarln* Had a Narrow Escape. Best Grades .$4 8094 75 3 50 5 00 4 6) fort was made to put Doty out of busi ­ treasurer, August Franzquist, of Crys ­ Alexander B. Speel,of SL Paul, Minn., A stabbing affray in which ono man with their lives at Lancho, where the Pittsburg — ness. tal Fall8. The grand lodge will meet China inland mission has workers. chief of the division of customs and in­ Best grades... .5 3)93 90 4 3) 5 0 5 05 was probably fatally cut occurred at at Ishpeming next year. sular affairs of the war department, in Lower grades..2 i>0$&4 *3 3 5 OJ 4 73 Blind Bicycle Rider. Bay City early on the morning of the Flint’s tramp ordinance is a success Forest Fire* In Colorado. place of Maj. John J. Pershing, who 22d. A dispute over the payment of GRAIN, ETC. A novel team of tandem riders left in every particular. The keynote of Forest fires, which it is thought were has been ordered to Manila for duty on Wheat, Corn, Oats, Menominee on the 22d for a trip to hack fare led to the trouble. the success of the ordinance is that it started by campfires, are raging on the the staff of Gen. Otis. No. 2 red No. 2 mix No. 2 white Niagara Falls. They are Fred Buth, a In 12 hours on the 21st 80,000 pack­ prescribes manual labor as the penalty foothills near the entrance to Platte The Red Cross society has news from New York 77977* 40®4 >4 28*28 wealthy cigar dealer, who is totally ages of fruit were shipped from St. to be imposed upon its transgressors, canyon, about 20 miles south of Den­ Manila that Aguinaldo has promised Chicago 73973*4 28 *2814 2092)* blind, and George Mack, a young man Joseph to Chicago. It is the largest who are required to work out the ver, Colo. The fire started five miles to release all sick Spanish prisoners. •Detroit 73*7314 35935 24924 invoice ever shipped in the same length Toledo 72-172)4 84934* 21921* who has been an attendant on the amount of their fine on the streets at up the canyon, and burned over the Wonder how many more times he in­ Cincinnati of time between the two ports. 71®7I H 38 *33* 21922 former for several years. They expect the rate of 50 cents a day. Before the mountains on both sides of the canyon tends making that promise before he PUUbnrg 7597514 37937 26926 to be gone five weeks, and will visit Work will begin SepL 1 on a branch ordinance went into effect the city was and are now devastating the timber fulfills it? Buffalo 74*7444 36936 25925 Detroit, Buffalo and several other of the Duluth, South Shore A Atlantic a regular rendezvous for all specimens section along the foothills. There are •Detroit—Hay. No. 1 timothy, 110 so per ton. eastern cities, and also pass through railway, controlled by the Canadian of the genus hobo, but is now abso ­ a number of ranches in the vicinity The total amount raised for the Potatoes, S5c per bu. Live Poultry, spring Dewey home fund up to and including chickens, 9c per lb; fowls, 8*c; turkeys, 10c; Canada. This is their third annual Pacific from Newtonville, 15 miles lutely free from the pest of their and several of them have been slightly ducks, 7c. Eggs, strictly fresh, 14c per do*. bicycle tour. • •_ south of Houghton, to Rockland. presence. damaged by the fires. Aug. 25 was $19,843. Butter, best dairy, 16c per lb: creamery, 21c. Mrs. Louis Levi, of Detroit, was Martin Koch, aged 16, of near Ann Lit Cigar* With 95 Bill*. Catholic Orphan Asylum Burned. The church missionary society has scalded to death at ML Clemens on the Admiral Dewey will arrive in New Arbor, was struck on the head by a received a report stating that 40,000 George W. Hawkins, for 33 years a 22d. She was in the act of taking a York on Sept. 28. The SL Agnes convent and orphan­ heavy block of wood wherein a spike persons have died of famine on the east resident of Alpena, wan recently buried mineral bath without an attendant, Four additional acute cases of the age at Sparkhill, N. Y., was destroyed was contained. The spike penetrated from the county house. H!s body was and had turned on the hot water and bubonic plague have been reported at by fire on Aug. 28th, entailing a loss his skull, and yet the boy will live, al­ coast of Africa. laid to rest in the potter’s field. There then fainted. Before recovering con­ Oporto. The streets of that city are of $150,000 and causing the death of though he is partially paralyzed. Llewellyn Stout, who killed Harvey were no mourners and no funeral ser­ sciousness she was so badly scalded now patrolled and the town is com­ four persons. The fact that the 400 Severe fightiDg took place on the 23d H. Wurster, a telegraph operator and vice. His coffin was paid for by the that death ensued. pletely isolated. inmates were asleep at the time the and 24th in the neighborhood of Monte station agent on the Philadelphia A county, yet in the days of hia early At a meeting of the physicians of Postmaster-General Smith has is­ fire broke out and only so few killed Christi, Santo Domingo, between the Reading railway, was hanged in the residepce in Alpena he sometimes with southern Michigan and northern Ohio sued an order declaring that the use Is almost a miracle, but the coolness government forces and the revolution ­ jail at Eaton, Pa., on the 22d a reckless laugh would touch a match and Indiana, the Trl-8tate Protective of the words, “private mailing cards ’ and courage of the sisters is responsi­ ists. It ia said the former lost heavily, Over 40 Negroes are in the Pulaski to a $5 bill and with it light his cigar. and Medical association was organized on printed matter or cards which do ble for the great saving of life. About while the latter, owing to the advan­ (Arkansas) county jail as a result of a 25 were injured by falls, jumps and tage of the positions they occupied, The roadbed of the new Battle Creek with the following officers: President, not conform to the prescribed size and concerted effort on the part of the au ­ burns, but none seriously. and Kalamazoo electric railroad has Dr. Fenton, of Reading; secretary, Dr. quality of card, is unauthorized and only suffered slight loss The revolu ­ thorities to run down the men who a tionists are reported to be continually been completed to within one mile of T. H. E. Bell, of Montgomery; treas­ that such cards are accordingly un ­ The National Farmers’ congress will few days ago committed assaults on receiving reinforcements. Galesbnrg. urer, Dr. James Bates, of Camden. mailable. meet in Boston, OcL 3-6. five white women in Little Rock, Ark. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUB8DAY, AUGU8T 81, 1899

ance In action is required in the presi­ heart yearned towards him passion­ JTHE NATURAL RATIO. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ately. N Her accepted lover had a hard dent of the United States.” time of it that day. The guests re­ Here is trouble right here in the marked to one another that, if Mar­ IT IS ALWAYS THE COMMER­ family, so to speak, and there is no LESSON X. SEPTEMBER 3—EZRA tineau was “sweet” on his cousin, he CIAL RATIO. occasion for* the Republican newspa­ 3: lO TO 5. put a very good face on it; for he talk ­ pers to get over into the Democratic pasture to look for other family trou ­ ed with quiet ease to her, did not avoid rbe Fictitious Kutlo of 38 to 1 Tolls bles. The Oregonian is, and has been Gold* Text—“The Temple of God 1* her In the least, and offered his con­ the Story of How the Producer He* always, a Republican newspaper. It Holy Which Temple Ye —t Cor. gratulations without any evidence of is, in the opinion of the Minpr, the 3:17—Rebuilding the Temple — “Let ‘repressed emotion." Been Mulcted for the Benefit of the Money Sharks. strongest Republican newspaper and u* Build with Yoo.” Some three days after this, Valdane the most ably edited In the four statei saw a paragraph in the papers which of the northwest corner of the country took him back to London at once. A Horace Boies has been interviewed —with apologies to the Butte Intel 10. “The builders, ” L e., Jeshua and Ze- week later Marguerite received the fol­ again, and he Informs the public that rubbabel, who were at the head of affairs. CHAPTER XVI — (Continued.) Mountain. It was due to the efforts oi (See Ezra 3: “Priests In their appar­ ment she swayed his emotions com­ lowing letter: he is a “bimetallist. ” He would have the Oregonian more than any other “Marguerite, my darling, my saint— el.” The elegant and beautiful official pletely, and Marguerite seemed as “Dear Miss Lilbourne —1 have to an­ to be that or quit being a Democrat. cause that Oregon gave her electoral robes used by the priests In thalr cele­ Maj you forgive me! Think what I nothing beside her. He only felt now nounce to you that your uncle, Mr. The principles of Democracy declare as vote to William McKinley in 1896. Sub ­ brations, especially the blue and scarlet feel this moment. We are parting—you and purple robes, with gold and gems. that, with Lady Mildred for his wife, Daniel Brandon, died suddenly of apo­ positively for gold and silver as the sequent events have no doubt caused and I. And that means death! Wom’t "With trumpets." Not for music; but, he might fulfil all the golden dreams plexy in Paris last week. There is no basis for the nation’s monetary system the Oregonian to change the estimate like our church bells, for summoning as­ you forgive me?” which he had formed since his sudden will, and. by the nature of the entail, as they declare against high protection it placed upon McKinley three years semblies and Joyful announcements. ‘The “Yea, I will! I forgive you, ” she re­ acquisition to wealth. all his landed estates and house prop- \ and its products, which are industrial ago. All must admit that when a news­ sons of Asaph." One of the gie.it choir turned tremblingly. “Heaven forbid I leaders of David's time. These were his He 'tried to persuade himself that erty revert to you, as the only living monopolies and discriminating laws in paper of the Republican standing and descendants or their successors In this should be hard-hearted to you. In­ Marguerite would not have been hap­ blood relation. His affairs, I am sorry the Interest of capital combinations. general ability of the Oregonian goes choir, as those in training In the schools deed—indeed I forgive.” py with him, that it was truer kind ­ to say, are in great disorder, and quite But Mr. Boies is mistaken when he back on the man it helped elect, there of the prophets were called sons of ths “Then," he said, “give me your ness to confess this before marriage half your fortune has been gambled lays the coinage ratio is not essential. must be some ground for it. It is ap­ prophets. "Cymbals.'' These were musi ­ hand.” cal instruments very much like those than to cling to an engagement on away on the stock exchange. There He seems to be under the impression parent McKinley will not have the cor­ which are In use among us under ths She gave It and he pressed it to his which his heart was no longer cen­ will be, I hope, between six and seven that the ratio should conform to the dial support of the Oregonian next same name. "After the ordinance (order) lips. tered. Besides he was not engaged hundred a year for you when all year. of David." (See 1 Chron. 16: lt>-21.) David commercial value of the metals in the first organised choirs and music for ths “Good-by, beloved, ” he said,touching to Marguerite —she always said so. Had claims are settled. I have seen his arbitrary way. The history of coinage temple services. It with as tender a reverence as If It not her last words to him been, "Re­ solicitors, and can easily prove your does not Justify Mr. Boies’ conclusion. Shadow* Before. 11. “Sang together by course, ” R. V., had been the hand of the dead. But member you are free?” Ah, but had identity, as Cathie recognized you at If gold were demonetized and silver “Coming events cast their shadows one to another, responsively. "The verb he lingered to ask her the question- - very probably means that the chant of he not, in return, held her to his once that day you fainted at High Lees made the only metal money of final before. ” The New York Tribune, con­ praise was responded to with a great “are you going back to London?” heart and vowed that he was her and we have Mrs. Acland as well to redemption the present difference be ­ trolled by Whitelaw Reid, ex-Paris burst of chorus, vocal and instrumental, “Yes." slave? It was a humiliating position, trust to. His poor young wife takes tween the coinage value of gold and the the substance of which was some well- peace commissioner, and until recently knpwn sacred refrain. (Compare Ex. U: “You have hired a fly to take you to and he writhed under it, but deter­ the personalty, but I am afraid there commercial value of silver bullion a thoroughgoing McKinley organ, has the station?” 20, Zl.)"—Cambridge Bible. “He Is good,” mined to put ofT the evil day of con­ will be next to nothing for her; no would be reversed. The arts and lately been pouring hot shot into the etc. These words first appear as the dox- “No.” fession. doubt your generosity will suggest it sciences and mechanics could not find McKinley camp, because, first, of what ology at the close of the psalm written by David, and sung at the bringing of “You can never walk it.” While Bernard was thinking thus at to you to make some slight provision use for nearly all the gold production, it calls the president’s betrayal of the “I must try." the ----- to Jerusalem (1 Chron. 16: 34). Olarisdale, Martineau the irresistible, for her. Mr. Brandon's solicitor will and the market price for it would cer­ civil-service merit system by his re­ They are found substantially In Psa. 106, He went close to her. Martlneau the heartless, for whom his call upon you tomorrow, as I imagine tainly be made by a surplus in its anx­ cent order turning over some ten thou ­ 107, 108. 12. “Ancient men, that had seen the “You must let me help you ----- ” stately cousin was suffering all the that it will not be pleasant for you to iety to sell. But having a fixed value sand offices to the spoilsmen, and, sec­ "No! Oh, no!” first house," which was destroyed B. C. pangs of jealousy, was pacing the see me. The money which I owe you for coinage purposes, and its coinage ond, because of his failure to confirm 686, fifty-one years before. They must “Then I shall not believe that I am dreary length of a street in East Lon­ has been placed to your account at being free and unlimited, naturally and the sentence of the court-martial in the have been sixty or seventy years old. forgiven. Let me take you to the vil­ don. the bank. I am afraid that the an­ necessarily its bullion value would be case of Capt. Carter, convicted of rob ­ “Wept with a loud voice.” The weeping lage. I know where to get a fly there, It was a very warm night—the at­ was not because the new temple was nulling of the marriage will be a more Its coinage value. The same thing bing the government of a million or smaller than the first, for It was at and I will see you safe Into the tfaiu. mosphere in that crowded district was lengthy business; but it shall be done would be true of silver, but of no other so dollars by means of corrupt con* least one-third larger In every dimension. You cannot deny me that; you will not almost fetid. Now and then scream­ I promise you, as soon as possible. metals, because gold and silver are the “Many shouted . . . for Joy. ” The tracts. The Minneapolis Tribune, the younger were Joyful that they had any be unforgiving? I swear I will not ing and discordant laughter broke the The one thing now left for me to wish only metals that possess all the con­ Portland Oregonian and a number of silence, as various denizens of the temple. speak a word to vex you; but oh, my for is that, after so many years of stitutional and other requisite qualities other prominent Republican newspa­ 1. “The adversaries of Judah. ” The neighborhood reeled home to their own love, let me do this for you! Don't sorrow, happiness may come to you for money metals. The experience of pers have declared that it may be nec­ mixed race of the Samaritans. Those drive me mad.” beds after the night's carouse. opposed In race, in religion, and in pur­ in unstinted measure, so that in years commerce and money changing for essary for the Republican party to “Yes,” she answered, “you may take With hlB hands behind him, Valdane pose. They did not call themselves ad­ to come you may look back upon me thousands of years proves this to be nominate another than McKinley for versaries, but were so In reality. sauntered up and down, heedless of me. I—I feel very strange and weak. and the injury I did you as nothing true. But merely possessing the requi ­ president next year; while Harper’s 2. “Let us build with you. ” Let us Join I don’t think I could walk. Will ycai these interruptions. His face was but the nightmare which you said it In your work, and hence In the use and site qualities does not make either one Weekly, an enthusiastic supporter of direction of the temple. "For we seek please take care of me?” very pale; he had no cigar to console seemed the first day you came to see of the metals legal tender money. That him in his solitude. He seemed like McKinley in 1896, now says: “We your God . . . and we do sacrifice unto She took a few steps forward, but the me in Lance Lane. I shall go abroad is done by the flat of the government wonder if Mr. McKinley knows what him.” But they did It In u different way, effort to move made her turn deadly one who neither knew nor cared when all this is settled, and shall try coining it, and the flat Axes the quality partially In connection with other things some good men—not gold Democrats which would destroy the perfection and pale. She had been through too muoh whither he went, only his sunken eyes to cross your path no more. I can and the quantity —that is, fineness— that day. were fixed upon an upper window in or independents, but old-time Repub ­ power of the Jewish worship. "Let us never forget your noble forgiveness— that shall constitute a legal tender for licans—are saying of him. They are understand what that religion was which Valdane saw the change In her face, the doctor’s house —a window where a the one comfort I shall carry with me a specified purchasing and debt-paying the colonists asserted to be identical with and darted forward. The next mo^ saying that he has done more harm to the religion of the returned exiles. They light was burning. To and fro he through my lonely life. With deepest power. Less than 50 cents’ worth of walked, while still the candle burned the country than Mr. Bryan could have said they worshiped the God of the Jews, ment she was lying senseless in his respect I am most entirely yours, silver, bullion value, now has 100 but It was after the manner of the North­ arms. steadily on through the night. He done. No one can regret more than "Valdane Martineau. ” cents’ worth of debt-paying and pur­ ourselves that this is a fact. We are ern Kingdom, ... a worship that had knew that in that bedroom the woman Some days afterwards he received a chasing power because the flat of the been associated with the Steer at Bethel. CHAPTER XVII. who owned all his heart was suffering not prepared to assent to it, but it is . . . They combined their old Idolatrous, note from Mary Stelling, inclosing a government makes it a legal tender for the cruelest agony, and that he was certainly worthy of Mr. McKinley ’s se­ religion with that of the newly adopted Lady Mildred went down stairs into slip of paper, the words on which were that many cents, and the government indigenous divinity of Palestine. 'They the drawing room that night, a tumult the cause of it, and he could not help rious reflection. He is alienating the written in pencil: itself receives it at that value. After feared the Lord, and served their own of feelings contending in her heart. her in any way —could not mitigate friends who made his election possible, gods’ (2 Kings 17: 33)."—Professor Adeney. “Dear Sir—I send you a line from all, therefore, it is the flat of the gov­ and whose support may be absolutely "Assur, ” R. V., Assyria. "Which brought Miss Lilbourne, who is not well enough ernment and not the qualities them­ necessary to his party next year. There us up." Three times Assyrian kings, af­ to attend to business at all Just now. selves which the metals possess that ter the destruction of Samaria, replaced can be no question that the tide of Re­ the captl^ps by colonists from the East, She has had a low nervous fever; my makes them money. Hundreds of years publican opinion is steadily setting Babylonia* Hamath, SuBtana. and Persia. father thinks it is because she refused of experience shows that the difference against the renomination of McKinley (See 2 Kings 17: 21; Ancient Monarchies, Vol. II.. p. 416.) to leave London this autumn. Now in the quality of the metals produced and little question that he will be out that money is no object we hope to 3. “Ye have nothing to do with us. ’* fluctuates from a fraction below to a of the race before the Republican na­ For the reasons given above. take her to the Riviera for the winter. fraction above sixteen pounds of sil­ tional committee meets.” 4. “Weakened the hands.” The refusal Thanking you for all the trouble you ver to one pound of gold. of the Jews to unite with the Samaritans made them bitter enemies, and they did have taken on her behalf, I am, yours The ratio of production is 16 to 1. faithfully, Mary Stelling.” Rottenness. everything In their power to stop the- Therefore that is the natural commer­ progress of the temple building. (1) As The slip of paper Inclosed, which From the Coldwater (Mich.) Sun: It cial ratio. Thirty-two to one is the In Nehemlah’s time (Neh. 4: 1-2), by Valdane carried reverently to his lips is interesting to note that in McKin­ sneers, slanders, and threatening attacks. bankers ’ ratio. The difference between before opening, contained only a few ley ’s jumble of politics, one of its sec­ (2) By writing slanderous letters to the words: the bankers ’ ratio and the natural com tions will keep on telling a given lie government and hiring (v. 6) “counsellors merclal ratio represents the amount against them.” Probably in Babylonia. “I am not at all well—I cannot at­ after the other sections have been This continued “all the days of Cyrus, ” tend to anything. Kindly leave the subtracted from the purchase price of called off and muzzled. The latest in­ who died In 629, “until the reign of Da­ question of the marriage until you wheat and other products of the farm, stance lies with the state department, rius, ” who began to reign B. C. 622, and by an act of government (1873) hos It took two years more to get the desired: have heard again from which is the natural breeding place of permission; so that for about fifteen- "Marguerite. ” tile to the producing millions and liars. Col. Denby, one of the peace years nothing was done on the temple. (To be continued.) friendly to dealers in money, bonds commissioners at Manila, cabled over Two views of the course pursued by and interest. a roseate dispatch twenty-four hours Zerubbabel have been taken. First. Many have regarded it as a great WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE BLACK after the correspondents’ “round rob ­ mistake, a piece of narrow-minded, big ­ Wrong In Erery Way. in” had shown up the rottenness of the oted folly, which made enemies of those It It Claimed That Wearing of Clothes who should have been friends, and kin ­ From the Grand Rapids (Mich.) whole situation, in which he claimed Affect* the Complexion. dled hatred and Jealousy, and lowered the Democrat: From whatever point of that everything was all right, that the moral tone and cooled the seal of the new Why are some races on this earth view Judged, the McKinley Philippine islands were being rapidly pacified, and colony. Such seems to be Gelkle's view. darker-skinned than others? It is not On the other hand, Rawllnson calls It program is wrong. It is wrong because that the volunteers were eagerly re­ altogether due to the heat of the sun ’s enlisting—in fact, had to be restrained "an heroic refusal to accept the materia) the islands, already thickly settled rays, for many people of tropical to keep from falling over themselves in aid of a rich and powerful people at the with men glad to work for four dol­ risk of Imperiling religious purity." “Thus climes are as light-hued as Europeans. order to get into the new regiments. lars a month and board themselves, was a great peril averted.” “They saved It has long been known that climate That, of course, is what might be ex­ a nation, for the time at any rate, from offer no opportunities to the rank and alone is not sufficient to account for a pected from Denby. He is, or was, a the danger of having their religion cor­ rupted and adulterated by Intermixture colored people. Dark skins are by no file of the American people. It is Cleveland gold Democrat, pompous and wrong because the climate is such, the with a form of belief and practice which means confined to the tropics; they are windy, whom Cleveland sent as min­ was altogether of an Inferior type, and to to be found in races even beyond the islands being almost under the equa ­ ister to China. There about his first a considerable extent tainted with heath­ temperate zone. This diversity, ac­ tor, that they can never be American­ official act was to get his son appointed enism.”—Rawllnson. The colony could WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIM VALDANE SAUNTERED UP AND ized, but must be held as conquered, not have Joined with this adulterated DOWN. cording to a writer in one of the Amer­ as secretary of legation and a second race without destroying the possibility of ican magazines, can only be accounted alien dependencies. But, admitting that son shoved into a fat job in the Chi­ the restoration of a pure and hqly relig­ for by considering the different modes the annexation of the Philippines is de­ nese imperial customs service, which ion. To let all the world Jeln the church All day had Valdane absented himself, one pang. The self-abasement which sirable, the McKinley administration without becoming Christians Is to ruin of life that have acted for centuries is controlled by an Englishman named the power of the church and prevent its and she could not understand it. he suffered then was the salvation of upon the various classes and castes of has, in every way, so conducted itself Sir Robert Hart, the agent and tool of good Influence upon the world. To refuse It must be Jealousy, of course —that Valdane Martineau. He acknowledged the country. The coolie who works in as to make exceedingly difficult the end the British government. Naturally to do this Is not bigotry, but self-preser­ was clear; but was it possible that she to his inner self without reserve that the fields with a strip of cotton cloth proposed. First, through its consuls from then on Denby drew his breath vation. had gone too far, and alienated where he had sinned, and his whole being about his loins, is very dark; the mer­ and other agents, the Filipinos were according to the wishes of Sir Robert Byrne-Tumber: "I heard a comment she had but meant to incite? She was filled with a deep longing to chant and trader who never go abroad promised independence if they would Hart and the British government. He p at the academy today upon that looked round the room as she entered atone. without being thoroughly clothed are Join In the war against Spain; then it now has no difficulty in finding things aintlng of yours, 'The Harvesters.’ ” in search of him. He was not there— Her window was open; the night many degrees fairer. broke faith, repudiated the promises exactly the way McKinley wants them [. Prcshnlst: “Complimentary?” that fact just turned the scale against breeze swayed the white blind. Per­ It is said that a colony of Jews on of its agents, and brought on the war (ound. him. haps she thought the measured tramp the west coast of India has been es­ by announcing to the Filipinos, before tyrne-Tumber: “I can’t decide. A Lady Mildred was not going to en­ in the street below belonged to the tablished for nearly eighteen centuries, the Paris treaty was ratified by either ustic-looking visitor glanced at It for Here'* Prosperity. few moments and remarked that It dure even the suspicion of being night policeman on his beat. She but because they have not followed the the United States or Spain, that they From the San Francisco Star: In a jilted. could not know the despair and hope­ habits of the people as regards cloth­ had been bought of Spain for $2.50 a lade him tired.”—Standard and Ca- general way it has long been known tiolic Times. “That settles the matter,” she said lessness which filled the soul of the ing they remain to this day a white head and must come under the yoke. that the amount of pauperism in New to herself. “Bernard Selwyn shall man who watched her windows, men­ people. On the other hand, the Aryan Having thus Involved the country in York was very large, but the flgurei propose to me tonight, and I will ac­ tally taking farewell of everything populations of India and Persia, orig­ a wholly unnecessary war with the obtained by Hamlin Russell of Newark, cept him.” which makes life glad to men, mental­ inally a fair people, by adopting the Filipinos, the administration has, by N. J., from public officials, and pub ­ Later in the evening Lord Umfra- ly calling down every blessing on the customs of those countries have be ­ its “unconditional-surrender ” policy lished in the New York Comonwealth, KANSAS ▼ille brought her a telegram from the head of the innocent girl who had come in great measure a colored race. and its refusal to offer any definite as­ are startling. In August, 1898, Rob ­ Accordingly, it is argued that the defaulter. suffered so deeply. surances of local self-government to ert W. Hebberd, secretary of the staU IN THE steady march of nature is toward the “Called to town on business —very The dawn came at last, and lighted the Filipinos, stood squarely in the board of charities at Albany, addressed evolution of a fair people all over the sorry. Please make my apologies. up Valdane’s bagged face. Then, Just way of peace, at the same time the Catholic summer school, and the PHILIPPINES Will return tomorrow if I may. ” as the first red sunbeam fell upon world. The layer of dark pigment be ­ sjupidly endeavoring to accomplish in Is making a reputation for oouraxe neath the cuticle prevents the skin address is published in pamphlet form His lordship would have held that Marguerite ’s casement, the candle went the Philippines, with 30,000 troops, and patriotism that stir* our blood. from blistering, and when proper cloth­ He says that during the preceding fis­ telegram with more emotion had he out. work which, it is generally conceded, cal year 269,147 persons were cared foi Kansas in the Cornfields, It seemed like a signal for him to ing renders this safeguard unnecessary will require four to five times that known that it secured twenty thou ­ nature dispenses with altogether. It in almshouses and other ‘‘charitable ’’ Wheatflelds and orchards has al­ go. Nothing was now left but to number. So far as the Philippines are ready made a reputation for gigan­ sand a year to the Umfraville estates. is also hinted that color has something institutions; 1,523,699 persons were re­ tic yields that astonishes the world. Late that night Bernard dejectedly drink his cup of humiliation to the concerned, in whatever phase consid­ lieved at “charitable ” dispensaries, and OH well. coal, lead and salt mines to do with the mental and intellectual ered, the McKinley policy has been a furnish a bast* for industrial de­ sat at the open window of his bedroom. very dregs—to appear to an astonished conditions of a people, but into these outdoor relief was given to 758,609 per­ velopment. Send for a free copy of world as fellow-conspirator with Dan­ sorry failure. He had broken faith with the girl who questions the writer wisely forbears to sons. Anything In the line of duplica­ “What’s the Matter loved and trusted him; he had yielded iel Brandon, in the carrying out of tion, by which the one person may ap­ enter. With Kansas?" and for Informa­ to temptation and was now engaged to the most infamous of plots, and to Trouble* of Their Own. pear twice, Mr. Hebberd considered, it tion about homeseekers' excursion Lady Mildred. The mad triumph of dissolve the Illegal yoke whish bound Klllarney to Be Annexed. more than offset hy cases of relief no1 tickets via Santa Fe Route. From the Butte (Mont.) Miner: Address : : : : : the hour was over; in the darkness Marguerite. It Is cheerful to hear that perhaps we placed on record. We do not know are to have the estates of Muckross, on Those newspapers of the Republican and stillness his conduct looked very .Meanwhile a bold front must be definitely whether these figures apply F. T. HENDRY, Gen. AgL, the Lakes of Killarney, Ireland, in ad­ persuasion which are busily engaged rile. Not only was he bitterly asham­ worn to the world; and none could to Greater New York or to the city Ths A’chison, Tope'ta A Santa Fe Ry., dition to our other American posses­ finding trouble In the ranks of the De­ ed, but he was alarmed. What were wear a mask better than Valdane Mar- mocracy are respectfully invited to proper. If to the former, it Indicatei DETROIT. MICH. tlneau. sions, an axe manufacturer of Lansing- likely to be the consequences of this burgh, N. Y., having purchased It for nause and ponder over the following that fully one in four of the popula­ act? Should I^ady Mildred once dis­ The next day he returned to Claris- 9186,000. Of course there is a possibil­ from the Portland Oregonian: tion must be the recipient of publii cover that, at the time of his propos­ dale. He took the news of Lkdy Mil­ ity that Mr. Peck and his money will “President McKinley has shown him­ “charity, ” and the tendency of increas ing to her, he was in honor bound to dred’s engagement with a calmness himself be annexed to Ireland instead, self to be a mere instrument in the ing population, if not offset by full) another woman—well, his imagination which made her lose her temper. He but we hope that he will spend his win­ hands of politicians. He has shown it opening up natural resources, is t( FOR MEN ONLY! Tor LOST or TAILING IIXIOOS, was scarcely vivid enough to picture looked ill and old. Every one thought ters In this country, and spend his time in all possible ways, and the whole spread similar conditions over the en­ Seaeral and NERVOUS DUTILITY, what might happen. He really be ­ Martineau was altered. Mildred im­ country is talking about It. In civil tire nation. Such is the "civillza W**kncoa of Body and Kiwi, Efforts Issuing free tickets for the ensuing tULlililJLliiof Errors or Kxoossos la 014 or Y*«fe lieved himself to be in love With Lady agined that he must be suffering In summer to his fellow Americans, for and military affairs it has been the tion" the “blessings ” of which the ad­ R.bu.i, k.kl, ■ lUfOOO fall* a,.«•**!. Haw U t»l*|l mi sir*a.i i-ra wxi i.nunn r Mihtn omm xs* r*aTS arVoier Mildred. Difference in rank bad secret, but, with his characteristic the hospitalities of the famous en­ same. Such ability as be has is neu ­ ministration is trying to shoot into thi ik.nl. 1,1, a.r.lll.t HOBS T»ZiT*irT-SiaiOn la a ha In IMHj from »0Slit*, as* r**M«a Co—IHta. -rflittin weighed very little; but for the mo- pride, held his feelings in check. Her chanted region. tralized by his excessive amiability. Filipinos, Cub* to become the victim DNfH$U«« Bosk, ngfaeiiloo aed ^reefk miIM (—cU<) ftrifb Something more than mere complais­ of the same policy, If successful. ■HIE MEDICAL CO., MUFF AU>,M* V. THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1899.

EUREKA. rhe Independent. From Our Correspondent. Albert Smothers went to Ohio Sun ­ GEORGE 8. COR BIT, * Proprietor day. Edith SUvernall began teaching in THE the Stafford district Monday. St. Johns High School. Mrs. Laura Coverstone. of Brecken- ridge, was in town last Monday. OPENS TUESDAY, SEPTEHBER 5th, 1899. Clinton Co, Savings Bank Mrs. Dr. Hart attended an Advent­ ST.JOHNS, MICH. ist campmeeting at Ionia last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ilelt, of Ashley, COURSES OF STUDY. I* 4j8 3 Per Cent. Interest on Deposits visited friends here the latter part of last week. PREPARES Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Westbrook, of LOANS MONEY ON APPROVED SONDS AND For Teaching, LATIN.—Offers four years Pompeii, were Sunday guests of Mrs. of Latin, two of German, Alge­ REAL ESTATE SECURITY. Louisa Wadsworth. For Business, Miss Minnie Barrington, of St bra, General History, Civil OFFICERS: Johns, is visiting her grandmother, For College Government, Physics, Geom­ A. J. Baldwin . Prea P. E.WALSwoRTH.Trea. Mrs. M. A. Hulse. and University. etry. G. Pennell , V-Prer R. C. D exter . Asat.Trea The U. B. mite society will meet with Mrs. Ettie Brewbaker, Septem­ THE LOCAL MARKETS. ber 7th. at 10 a. m. SCIENTIFIC. - The same as Latin Course, except Chem­ ____ St. Johns , Mich.. Aug. at, 1899. The Ladies’ Christian Aid society ADfllSSlON. HHSt. Johns elevators open at 7 a. m. and will meet with Mrs. Ettie Kirby Wed­ istry, Astronomy, Psychology close at 6 p. in. The following are the prices paid In caah nesday, September 6. Any one holding the Coun ­ and U. S. History, and Politics for produce In thla market: Dr. Eugene Hart and sister Pearl, ty Commissioner’s Diploma are given in place of two years Wheat, old...... f 66 •* new...... 60 ® 62 and Mrs. Mary Botsford and son Artie may enter without examina­ of Latin. Gats. new. 20 returned from Canada Saturday. tion. Applicants, not holding Clover Seed...... 3 00 at 3 so Mr. and Mrs. Heinlin and Mrs. Belle A slke ...... 8 75 at t oo such diploma, may enter by Hay, new...... 6 00 & 7 00 Hayward, of Washington, were guests COMMERCIAL — Gives Retina...... ® 8580 of Mrs. Emma Youuglove, Saturday. passing an examination in the fine training in Commercial Barley ...... Rye ...... - Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Parks and regulai 8th Grade Studies. Arithmetic and Book-Keep­ Potatoes...... grandson, Vernie Eaegle, spent last ing, Shorthand, Typewriting nutter ...... 14 week visiting friends in Eureka and F.ggs...... 11 and Commercial Law. Tallow...... -...... vicinity. Corn. ear...~...... - at Mr. and Mrs. Will. Richards and Lard...... Hides...... daughter Blanche, and Mr. and Mrs. Graduates from the Latin, Scientific and English Courses enter the U. Pelts...... 10 Fred Bird, visited friends in Montcalm ofM. and Michigan Colleges without examination. Graduates from our Beef, live...... county last week. Beef, dressed...... 6 00 Commercial Course can take up the work of any business office. Pork, live...... - 3 50 Quite a numberof friends of Mr. and Pork,dressed ...... 4 50 Mrs. Robert Teare, from near Elsie, Veal calf, lire...... 5 00 Veal calf, dressed...... (ft 7 00 spent Friday at their home. An ex­ EQUIPMENT. EXPENSES. Fowls and chickens, live...... 6 at 6% cellent dinner was served and an en­ Fowls and chickens, dressed... 9 at 10 joyable time was spent. The Tuition has not been raised since last year. Latin and Ducks, live...... 6 We have five Teachers, all College or University Graduates; a< Ducks, dressed.....-...... — 8 Addle Kirby, youngest daughter of fine Library of one thousand volumes; good laboratories for teach-1 Scientific Courses, $20 per year. English Course $10 per year Goose, live...... 6 Mr. and Mrs. James Kirby, was born Geese, dressed...... 8 b | Commercial Course, where the expense of buying and repairing Turkeys, live...... 8 \pril 2H. 188«, and died August 2«, mg Chemistry, Physics and Botany, and one of the finest buildings typewriters is heavy, $25 per year. Turkeys, dressed...... 10 1899, aged 13 years, 3 months and 2* Wood, dry hard...... at i .VI days. The funeral was held at the in the state. Board and Room can be secured at $2.00 or $3 00 per week. Wood soft...... -...... i 0O Christian church August 28, 1890, con­ ducted by Rev. F. J. Feather. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby have the sympathy of OLIVE. FOWLER. OLIVE CENTER. CLINTON COUNTY NEWS. the entire community In this, their COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. great loss. An older daughter, Edith, From Our Correspondent. From Our Correspondent. From Our Correspondent. • RILEY. is very sick with typhoid fever. Jay Van Dyke, of Riley, is numbered John If. Fedewa, of St. Johns, was Mrs. C. Vail, of DeWitt, is with her witli the sick. in town Thursday. sister, Mrs. M. Lapham. OFFICIAL. From Our Correspondent. DEWITT Mrs. Will Rrinkerhoff spent last week Archie Parks and wife have another Many from Olive attended the pio­ Everybody is wishing it would rain. at Pine Lake. daughter to gladden their home. neer picnic at Round Lake last Thurs ­ COMMON COUNCIL ROOMS, * Jim Keeney lias moved his family From Our Correspondent. Mark Brazee, of Belleville, visited day. There wm a Mg crowd. St. Johns . Mich., August 29, 1899. f Fowler band went to Lyons Wedne?- Regular adjourned meeting. from St. Johns to Forest Hill corners. Mrs. James Bronson is able to be hereabouts last week. day to take part In the band conven­ Theo. Loomis and wife and M s out. Called to order by President Travis. Terry Wright and family are now A. Dunlap has moved to St. Johns. tion. Wiirtenshaw, of Geary, start today for Present—Trustees King, Hunt, Richardson occupying Lem. Webster ’s tenant Rain Is the priuclpal cry of the His health Is very poor. Peter Moore and family returned Mt. Pleasant, to visit relatives. and Spaulding. house. people. Farmers around here have begun cut ­ Monday from the Ionia camp meeting. Gusta Lapham is building a wall for By Trustee Spuulding: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hoppe are Eddy J. Gunnison is employed at the ting their corn, as it is drying up badly. They report a good time. a new house. I wonder why? Mr. Whereas, The contract awarded to William spending a week in Toledo witli M. A. C. A number from tills section attend­ Huffman and E. McIntyre are doing Crich for the construction of the Oakland friends. James Lance Sr., and wife a id Geo. the work. Mrs. August Schrader and Mrs. Wm. Linn has been oil the sick list ed the carnival at Lansing last week. Baldwin and wife and daughters, re­ and Statu street sewer extensions has been Charles Martin are visiting friends in for a few days. None appeared to be dead in love with turned from Mancelona Monday. Mrs. Bell has been very sick at her complied with, and the said sewers comi list­ Illinois. Corn Is much damaged by the ex­ the doings. Mrs. Elmer Buck and children went daughter ’s, Mrs. II. Huguelet. A son ed to the satisfaction of the Sewer Commis­ A. J. Chapman, of DcWitt, spent treme dry weather. There was quite a crowd at Merle to St. Johns Tuesday for a several from Oakland county and a daughter sioner. Tuesday at the home of his daughter. Mark Brazee, of Bellville, called on Beach last Sunday to listen to the days ’ visit with hersisters, Mrs. Frank from Ovid have been visiting her. Resolved, That said sewer extensions are Mrs. Alfred Lance. friends in town last week. music rendered by Hoffman’s orches­ Waters and Mrs. Oscar Aker. Mrs. Celestiue Huguelet Is very sick hereby accepted by this Council. Rufus Pratt and wife, of South Ly­ tra. The music was fine. with gangrene In her foot, caused from Carried. Hugh Gunnison Is visiting in De­ Mrs. John Keeney and children and a shoe nail entering the big toe. The Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson ons, visited relatives in Riley and Wa­ troit and Wyandotte tills week. The married people of DeWitt Miss Edith Bullard, of St. Johns, call­ and Spaulding. tertown last week. Grange entertained Saturday evening, ed on relatives and friends Wednesday. other foot is affected and little hopes L. Webster returned from Pyoskev Miss Alta Gunnison returned from August 19. Every one present re­ are entertained for her recovery. Nays —None. Lansing on Saturday, where she had Mrs. A. B. Bullard and son left Mr. and Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Burt- By Trustee Spaulding: and other northern points Sflurday. been visiting. sponded promptly when called upon. Tuesday for St. Johns, where she will Resolved, That the Clerk Is hereby In­ He reports a good time. Several of the young friends of Miss visit her husband, mother and sister. enshaw. of Geary, visited at T. Loom­ structed to draw an order in favor of Wil­ A. O. Huntley, of St. Johns, spent a Improvements have been, made on is'and B. McIntyre’s. The two form­ the meat market building by putting Lucile Pearce sprang a surprise on her Mrs. M. E. Bullard and Mrs. John liam Crich for the halauce due on sewer few days last week in the homes of last Saturday, the occasion being her Keeney. er recently moved from North < Carolina contruct. John Pingel and Alfred Lance. in a new front. 11 tli birthday. Miss Lucile was the and will move to Grand Rapids next Will Krum caught a very large fish The DeWitt gun club will attei d Elmer Bnck left Wednesday for week. Carried. recipient of several presents. Lowell, where he will take charge of Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson in Moor’s lake Sunday, wtiich weighed the Labor Day celebration at Round The young men of DeWitt Grange and Spaulding. fourteen pounds. Who next? Lake September 4, and shoot for the the section force during the absence SOUTH ORAL. Orville Pratt and his mother, Mrs. prize. ire to entertain at DeWitt Grange, of the section boss, who intends to Nays —None. Saturday evening, September 5. \\C visit “auld Ireland,” ills native land. By Trustee Hunt: V. R. Pratt, attended t lie funeral of John Shively has moved his family hope to see every young man present, From Our Correspondent. Resolved, That the time for collecting the Mrs. Susan Whitting'Sunday, at Pe- into ro'nis in the M. T. Woodruff warno. is business of importance will be trans­ Rev. Shower attended the carnival Will Crum caught a 14 pound picker- special sewer assessment tax be and the building, corner of Bridge and Main ited. at Lansing. al at Merlebeach Sunday. same Is hereby extended sixty days from and Oral Hildreth and wife went to Ovid streets. Including August 27, 1899. Mondav to see her sister, Mrs. Henry Nearly everybody around here at­ Born, to Nick Gellcr and wife a Mrs. Will Cole lias tlie hay fever. Henry N. Webb returned from the tended the pioneer picnic at Round little daughter. Carried. Karat h *r, who is reported ill with ty ­ Pioneer picnic sick, and has been con­ George Wilkes, of Owosso, spent Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King. Richardson phoid fever. Lake last week, The extremely hot Irene Scbe.ner and Edwin McPher­ Sunday at D. B. Rathburn ’s, depart­ fined to the house for several days, day prevented many from hearing tie and Spaulding. Rol e t Landers recently purchased but at tliis writing is able to be out. son spent Sunday at Joel Wagar’s. ing Monday with his family for Owosso, Nays —None. a piece of land of S. C. Bliss, just east speaking. The attendance was large, when lie will move to Battle Creek. Cap. Linn and son Dial, J. E. Jayne estimated at 2,000. Mrs. Dr. Weller and sister, of St. By Trustee Hunt: of the Woodman hall, and is preparing and daughter Gerda, Frank Irish and Johns, were calling on friends in Fow­ August 25. about twenty friends of Resolved, That the Clerk darw an order on to build a house at once. ler Saturday. Mrs. Floyd Clark, took In the excur ­ WESTPHALIA. Miss Bessie Jacob met and surprised the general fund in favor of the sewer fund Timothy Brooks, of Alba, who lias sion to northern Michigan last week. Clarence Mansfield and wife and her. reminding her of her eleventh for the sum of three hundred dollars.- been spending some time at the bed­ The Maroon band, of this place, has Mr. Black and wife went to Grand birthday. A very enjoyable time wm Carried. , side of his sick brother, John Brooks, been engaged to furnish music for the Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Finds, Rapids on the excursion Sunday. reported by all. After'a dainty sup­ Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson returnel to his home the latter part Labor Day celebration at Round Lake i boy. per they departed for their homes, and Spaulding, of the week* Miss Cora Church, who has been September 4. The bovs will give a Some farmers will begin to cut corn visiting Mrs. Bert King since Satur ­ leaving many little presents which Nays —None. tine concert during the day. this week. day, returned to St. Johns Wednesday. will long be remembered. Among the By Trustee Spaulding: ELSIE. ■A large number of DeWitt people Miss Eva Freund returned to Grar.d guests were Nina Winston, of St. Resolved, That the reviewing of the Higham From the Elsie Sun. attended and enjoyed the Pioneer pic­ Rapids Saturday. Miss Emma Gruler ’s health has been Johns; Ethel Newman, of Pleasant street sewer extension special assessment Tom and Walter Archer started for nic at Round Lake last Thursday, Au ­ John P. Gross and son were In Pcwa- improved by her trip to Petoskey, and Valley, and Searl and Louisa Wilkes, roll Is hereby postponed to September 4, 1891*. California Wednesday, where they go gust 24. The Maroon band furnished iuo last Wednesday. she is now able to walk around town. of Owosso. at 7:30 p. m., at which time the board of spe­ in hopes that the former’s health will music, the crowd was very large, and Mrs. Dr. McPherson, from Detroit, cial as-.es-.ors will moet with the Council at he benefited by change of cllmato. it may well be said It was a big day School will commence next Monday. A large attendance is expected. who has been visiting her parents. the Council rooms to review and correct said J. F. Hyde, of Lincoln. Ill., is spend­ for Round Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Baldwin, returned TIME TO PLANT BULBS roll. ing a few days with his sister. Mrs. Ar- Augustus Simons is having a new to Detroit Monday. Carried. temesia Fuller, and other relatives and OVID. well dug bv Smith & Crites, of Lyons. Careful Work Done Now will Repay You Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson old time acquaintances in and around Mrs. Philip Get rge and daughtt r Mr. Hodge, of St. Johns, has set a When Spring Comes. and Spuulding. From the Register Union. monument in the Wagar cemetery Elsie. Katie, drove to Portland last week "This is the season of the year in Nays —None. The reunion of I)ist. No 3, held at ■ a . G. Shepard is making extensive Monday. at the grave of Mrs. Joel Wagar. It Street Commissioner Keeney submitted the I. A. Warner’s home in Elsie last week improvements on his house recently The new boiler for the grist mill is a beautiful piece of work for the which to set out bulbs. Prepare the following report of defective sidewalks: Friday was a decided success. Not less purchased of the Curtis heirs. was put in this week, teing a decided money. ground for them before they are re­ Judson H. Dutton, w. ends lots 9 and 10, block than one hundred took part In the fes­ J. W. Smith, of Owosso has sold his improvement. A great many people attended the ceived by having it dug up to a depth 32. new stringers; Eliza Hoyt. s. side lot 6, tivities. farm of 85 acres in Duplain to Charles Joseph Meyers, who live* three ml'es except the east 50 feet in width, block 30, re­ G. Norton of Duplain ror $3,400. tournament at Lyons on Wednesday. of at least a foot—a foot and a half is pairs. The little son of L. J. Loyd and wife, south and a mile west of town, is Our Fowler band is getting to be an better —and worked over until It is By Trustee Spaulding: of Bannister, who was so terribly in­ Mrs. Jessie E. Brown, formerly of building a new house. excellent band, and we are confident Resolved, That the report of the Street Ovid, was united In marriage with mellow,” writes Eben E. Pexford in Commissioner he received and ordered placed jured bv the cars Aug. 11. died Friday Mrs. J. Theut, of Detroit, visited they will be able to compete with any upon the records, and that the Street Com­ last. The funeral was held Sunday, Mr. Charles Dean of Detroit, Tuesday friends and relatives in this village band at the tournament. the September Ladies’ Home Journal. missioner Is hereby Instructed to serve no­ burial in Victor. August 31. during the last two weeks. “Mix with a liberal quantity of old, tice on J. H- Dutton and Elisa Hoyt to repair A pleasant family gathering was that Invitations arc out for the marriage Tony Martin’s meat market is prov­ Miss Motz, a young lady living near their respective walks within (iftoen days of Fowler, has been very sick with rotten manure from the cowvard. or, service of notice. at the home of Joseph Tabor, Monday of Miss Eva Huntoon and Mr. Roy I. ing a success. Tony is an able mam- Carried. to celebrate his 73d birthday. About Stone at the home of her parents Mr. ?er and does an extensive delivery typhoid fever. She had been sick two if this is not obtainable use bonemeal Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson 20 were present and the occasion was and Mrs Geo. Huntoon, Wednesday Si si ness through the week. weeks before they called Dr. McPher­ In the proportions of one pound to a and Spaulding. son, and the disease had assumed its Nays —None. a most enjoyable one. Aug. 30th. We regret to learn that Mr. and Mrs. square yard of soil. If the soil Is On motion Council adjourned. Leon Bates, of Thompsonville, has If. M. High and F. A. Marshall, who Frank Cook have decided to leave worse form. The services of Miss M. MCDONALD, Clerk. lieen in Elsie the past week, called have been camping at Skegamog Point, Westphalia in the near future. They Katz, a nurse who graduated from a naturally heavy it is well to add con­ here by the serious condition of his had a thrilling adventure with a sail have a host of friends here who wish Chicago training school, were secured. siderable sand to make It lighter and CAMPING AT CRYSTAL LAKE. mother who has been in very feeble boat. They, with two young men from them success wherever they may We are CT>nttdent Miss Motz owes her more porous. Plant the bulbs as soon health for some time. Chicago, went out in a canoe sail boat locate. speedy recovery to the intelligence and when some distance from shore and careful nursing she has received. as possible after they are received, as BY A FELLER THAT'S BIN THAR. they capsized. High being In the most EAGLE. Miss Katz is a Fowler girl and we they are greatly Injured by exposure UNION HOME. hope she will get worlj enough to in­ If you want to have some fun, my boy, dangerous position under the sail. He to the air. Set tulips and hyacinths And drive dull care away. From Our Correspondent. displayed remarkable presence of mind George Long was at Bellevue Wed­ duce her to remain In Fowler, for we six Indies deep, smaller bulbs from Just liar to what I tell you — School begins next Monday, ,with by striking out away from the boat and nesday. believe a nurse like her to be a bless ­ Don't mind what others say. ing in any community. four to five inches. All bulbs should Hitch up your one-horse wagon. Miss Clara Harvey as teacher. when beyond the sails swam to the Miss Myrtle Buckley has been on Your tent and baggage take, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Smith attended boat. The members of their party who the sick list the past week. be placed five or six Inchesapart, and And spend a week at Crystal — the farmers’ picnic at Round Lake witnessed the accident were terror Mrs. Libble Foster went to Jackson WEST RILEY. each kind kept by itself.” At CryatRl by the lake. last Thursday. stricken. A boat containg W. J. Thursday to remain a few days. From Our Correspondent. If you're all run down with business. Jay Wyman has rented his farm to Martin, James Woodworth and A. C. Mrs. Fred Howe is at Mt. Clemer s Excursion to the National O. A. K. Encamp­ And you're feeling mighty blue: Chapman was dispatched to ahe rescue. receiving treatment for rheumatism.* Misses Lula and Nora Burnes are ment at Philadelphia. If your appetite is failing, Fred Gardner, and will move to St. visiting relatives in Detroit. And you don't know what to do, Johns this week. The ladies’ aid society of the Uni ver- The Grand Trunk Railroad officials Story of a Slavs. Miss Cassie Kincaid Is at home for a Why, you'll eat beefsteak and taters Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and baby sallst church will serve ice cream at have arranged to have Pullman sleep­ Till you've got the stomache ache. Loren visited their parents, Mr. and To be bound hand and foot for years' town hall Saturday evening. weeks ’ visit, after which she will re­ When you've been a week at Crystal — Mrs. E. A. Smith, last week. by the chains of disease is the worst Mr. and Mrs. Ben Holmes, of Iowa, turn to Grand Ledge, where she will ing cars on the special train, Sunday, At Crystal by the lake. A little daughter of C. E. Stevens form of slavery. George D. Williams, were guests of her cousins, W. H. attend the fall term of school. September 3d, starting from South Yes, there's lots of fun at Crystal. was taken suddenly ill last week, but of Manchester, Mich., tells bow such a Holmes and wife Wednesday. Last week Tuesday afternoon, about Bend and Grand Rapids. The rate The boating there Is One, is reported better at this writing. slave was made free. He says: “My Or you can slide the old toboggan wife has been so helpless for five years Exposition and Industrial Fair at Toronto 1 o’clock, E. H. Kincaid’b house, situ ­ for double lower berths will be $5 to On the Smith A Struther's line. Jacob Grubaugh, who rented his ated two and one-half miles north of If your hands you would not blister, farm near Bridgeville last year and that she could not turn over in bed August 88 to September 9, 1S99. Philadelphia. The balance of train Why. there’s the Crystal Belle. las well; alone. After using two bottles of Elec­ For this, the greatest of all Fairs, Wacousta, caught fire and soon burned Or the Dewey or Olympia will answer quite moved to St. Johns, is moving back tric Bitters, she is wonderfully im­ to the ground. It is thought the fire will consist of first class coaches, smok­ Rut the best thing up at Crystal, to the farm this week. the Grand Trunk Railway System will originated from a thimble in the wall ing and baggage cars. See W. H. And the thing that takes the cake, proved and able to do her own work. ” make the following low rates from all Is to get Into a red bathing suit The Misses Clara and Emma Harvey This supreme remedy for female diseas­ points on its system In Michigan wist of a summer kitchen, connecting the Burk, agent at St. Johns, to secure And tumble In the lake. went to Ionia last Friday to visit their es quickly cures nervousness, sleepless­ stovepipe with the chimney. The your berths and all desirable Inform* lister. Mrs. Charles Dunn. They will ness, melancholy, headache, backache, of Detroit ana St. Clair rivers: One building was insured In the Farmers’ And when your six days' fun la up. First Class Fare for the round trip, ation. The train will leave St. Johns And you're going home again, return home Wednesday evening. fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle tickets good going on August 27, 28. Mutual for $400. The contents were Y<>u ’ll have to pack your wagon Mrs. John Waldron, an elderly lady, working medicine is a godsend to weak, nearly all saved. at 3:45 p. m. Fare for the round trip, 'Cause you cannot take the train. sickly, run down people. Every bottle 29, 30, 31, and September 1 and 2, valla And when you're jogging out of town *nd mother of Mrs. J. Silvers, has been to return up to and including Septem­ $14.50. You'll make no great mistake very ill for a few days, but we are uaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by ber 11, 1899. Bismarck ’s Iron Nerve If you give three cheers for Crystal I ildew & Miiiman, Druggists. And har dandy little lake. pleased to learn of her spfeedy recov Was the reeiit of his splendid health. “DeWitt’a Little Early Risers did -Muir Tribune. tor- ______, “ Our baby was Bick for a month with Kodol Dyspepsia Cure thoroughly di­ Indomitable will and tremendous ener­ me more good than all blood medicines and other pills.” writes Geo. H. Jacobs, severe cough and catarrhal fever. Al­ gests food without aid from the stomach, gy are not found where Stomach. Liver, Irritating stings, bites, scratches Due Minute Cough Cure quickly though we tried many remedies she and at the same time heals and restores Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. of Thompson, Conn. Prompt, pleasant, never gripe,—they cure constipation, wounds and cuts soothed and healed bv cures obstinate summer coughs and kM>t getting worse until we used One the diseased digestive organs. It is the If you want these qualities and fie suc ­ DeWifet’s Witch Hazel Salve,—a sure oolds. ** I consider it a most wonderful Minute Cough Care,—it relieved at cgioe only remedy that does both of these cess they bring, use Dr. King’s New arouse the torpid liver to action and and safe application for tortured fieeh. medicine.—quick and safe:”—W. W. and cured her in a few days. ”—B. L. things and can be relied upon to perma­ Life Pills. 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