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and postortlce addresses of their dele­ ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING AS UNGRATEFUL YOUTH LIGHTNING DID IT. gates as soon as chosen. Justin R. Whiting, Chairman. An I in-* t-nl ful Session Held 111 tlie IIIkIi He Stole From tlie Good !>lun Who Gave A Large Itarn anil Content* l.lckfil F|> hy Chah . S. Ham i*ton, Secretary. School hunt Monday Night. Him Entertainment. Fire. Caused hy Lightuliig. The annual school meeting for Charles Blass, a lad about twenty About 2 o ’clock last Monday after­ Kea* Estate Transaction. As Stenographer ot the 29th The Busy Time on the Farms Charles M. Merrill, trustee, to Bert District No. 4, Bingham, was held in years of age and employed by the noon while tlie rain and electrical Gardner and wire, lots 1, 2 and 3. Judicial Circuit to Take the iiinli school building last Monday managers of tlie “snake show” with storm was most severe, tlie large frame Occasioned by Heavy Rains Mock 4ft, St. Johns, ij. c...... 4140*1 CO night. The attendance was slim and tlie carnival company, applied for barn and its additions on tlie farm of Fil l L Truster to Thomas M. Granger. Effect Sept. 1. tlie meeting uneventful. shelter and lodging at tiie home of Frank Taft, in tiie southeast part of nwJ4 of swL section 15, Duplalo.q. o. 1 00 The director ’s annual report showed Marshall Keeney last Monday, saying ’JTiomus M. Granger and wife to Ben­ this township, together with their jamin Garrett, nw>4 of sw‘4, section the receipts for the year to have been lie could not Hnd a place in town at contents, was struck by lightning and lft. Dupluln ...... i:iro 00 $14,887.78, which, with a cash .balance which to stay. Tlie good-hearted consumed by fire, resulting in an esti­ KEEP PEOPLE AT ROME. Frank M. Spaulding et al to Ralph A. from the previous year of $2,573.14, officer welcomed him and gave him as mated loss of about $2,500 with an in­ Stanhope, land on out lot 1. also lot* WM J. SMITH SUCCEEDS make a total of $17,400 1)3. good a room as lie had in his house. surance in the Clinton County Mutual 23 and Ul. block 27. Ovid, q. c...... _ Jti 42 The expenditures for the year were Mr. Keeney called his guest in tue of $1,000 oo barn and $800 on contents, Charles Heller and wife to Ernst were $13,011.23, leaving a balance at morning but lie replied lie was in tlie besides $105 on granary. Tlie barn Some Good Attractions Man Gruler, n4yof let A. block lft, Fowler :(00 00 habit of working late at night and Henry A. Parks and wife to Joseph tlie end of the school year of $3,840.70. contained about 4o tons of hay, wagon, agement Trying to Please. Martin, n tin acres of sH of nvM, sec­ Temporarily and will no Doubt The estimated expenditures for the sleeping most of tlie forenoon. Some buggy, farm machinery and imple­ tion ”5, Dallas ...... 3150 00 be Permanently Ap­ ensuing year are $12,080.20 and the time in tlie morning when all was ments. All the live stock with tlie Russell II ill et al to Willi am II. Odiug. estimated receipts$11,900. This leaves quiet about tlie the house the young exception of a number of swine, were sc1* of seet made their appearance upon the ne!4 *>f tie's, section 20. Ovid, ij. c...... 2 00 and is known to be speedy and accur­ vacancy on the board caused hy the Judge Stone who sentenced the culprit yearling heifer from tiie lightning streets, owing, possibly, to the vigi­ Philip R. Sturgis and wife to Arthur ate and has had some experience in expiration of the*term of II. J. Patter­ to six months in the Ionia reforma ­ Monday afternoon, valued at $20, lance of Marshal Keeney and his as­ I>. Gilson and wife, land on licit. son who refused re-election. Mr. Parr tory. which'was adjusted at $15. sistants. It is safe to keep your eyes section 17, Hlnghain ...... t!50 00 court work. Judge Stone has great received 43 votes out of a total of II. B. Kneeland, of Bengal, lost a well open and your hands on your cur­ Albert .1. Baldwin et al to LuaDn Aus­ confidence in Mr. Smith's ability and 72 cast. tin, a piece of laud on n^ of tie's, fitness and will undoubtedly recom ­ good cow at the same time, valued at rency. Notwithstanding Mr. Robin- section 26, Olive...... 50 00 Mart. F. Washburn was elected to A MUSICAL TREAT. $•'*0. which loss was adjusted at $37.50. son has two special detectives on the Schuyler Georgia and wife to Tyler mend him to the governor for appoint ­ till the vacancy caused bv the expira­ streets watching out for had charac­ Georgia, nety of section 31 and land ment. on n4 of nwg .section 32. Bingham 3800 00 tion of the term of J. H. Fitzgerald. Given by Mis* Katharine Srlhert mul Her ters and to protect the people. Eight Mr. Langley expects to engage in The retiring trustees have served professional pickpockets from Grand Spencer L. Frisbee et ul to Robert business in Detroit. CI uh * In Fowler. SALOON’S FRIENDS llyslop, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, block 14, the peeple well and faithfully and Rapids left tlie train at tills station Ovid ...... 200 00 deserve and will receive the thanks of Monday, but they were soon spotted Delayed by mistake. HIU* Hustler* mowing Hot Air Nt h David Steel and wife to Mlntrum the entire community. Tiie 3rd recital by tlie pupils of Miss and started out of town. Kinney, w*.*. lots 1 and 2, block 34. WILLIAM HUMISTON Mr. Parr and Mr. Washburn are Gathering of Saloon Men. A good band furnishes music for the St. Johns ...... tiOO 00 welfknown and the people have con ­ Katharine Seibert, assisted by the Tyler Georgia and wife to Schuyler Ladies ’ Octette, took place on tlie. entire show, and if any of theperform ­ Georgia. w)4 of tiek . section 21). Bing ­ An Old Vet. an streets tlie one that sold to above points during June, July, transportation alone was more than Tlie funeral occurred at tiie residence THE PUSH CUT LOOSE. seems to give the best Mtlsfact Ion, sod August and September, return limit the cost of any other feature in the Fred M. Lyon, youngest son of Mr. Monday afternoon, Rev. McDermand at the same time mystifies its patrons, October 31st. show of the world today. Towering and Mrs. C. W. Lyon, of Conway, officiating; Interipent In t he family “There was about 300 of our boys is that wonderful spectacular, a re-pro ­ For rates and further information like a colossus in the Great Pan- Mich., sod brother oi E. II. and w. c. lot in South Bingham cemetery. present, and most of us was wonder­ duction of Haggard ’s novel “She.” call on your local agent or write to American Show which will exhibit at Lyon, tills village, was found uncon­ Mrs. Irish is survived by an aged ing what kind of a game we were up Each member of tlie company is an Geo. W. Vaux. Asst. Gen. Pass. & St. Johns on Friday, July 25. scious in his room at a hotel in Petos- husband and tive children, three against. Tlie buncli of politicians artist in tiis particular line, and we Ticket Agent, Chicago. key last Thursday night, with what is having died at different ages. She soon cut loose, and began giving us a song and dance and throwing the predict a gtx>d business for them. thought to be epilepsy. From the was a member of tlie Baptist church. To-morrow and Saturday are expect­ BUSINESS LOCALS. NEl'TRlTA first he lias remained unconscious. Tlie aged husband mourns her absence ‘con ’ into us in great shape. They ed to be the principal days of tiie Car­ Has had two or three spasms, in one very much. told us that tlie republican party had of which lie bit his tongue in a always been dead friendly to the liquor nival. when everything will be in good Money To Loan At Lowest Kate of Interest Mann fuelured by Manufacturer* him! lie- Tlie following named nieces from running order. II. J. Patterson . St. Johns. frightful manner, after which his out of town were present at the interests and that we'd only be doing taller* t w-oclat Ion, I.til,, Hattie Creek. attending physician inserted a stick funeral: Miss Miranda Grove, of tlie decent thing if we gave the uarty The manufacturers, in placing their in his mouth to prevent a repetition. Goodrich: Mrs. George Gordon, of a hand now and got out and hustled DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. Money to laiau. superior health food. • nkutrita ,’ on It will be remembered that Fred Flint; Mrs. Tyle Gidley, Mrs. Herbert for Bliss delegates in the primaries. A delegate convention of the Demo ­ On improved farms. tiic market, say : “It is with conti- left home some years ago to take a Cole and Mrs. Mary Mills, of Davison. “Judge Whelan gave us a nice, soft crats of Michigan will meet in tiie 29 m 3 E. L. Doolino . i ce we solicit your thorough trial of trip around the world, and during the talk about what the party had done Detroit Light Guard Armory, in the the most perfect combination of Spanisn war lie was in the navy. Of Eiir IIhIi a* She I* Wrote. for us and what lie knew we had done City of Detroit, on Wednesday, July Village Tuie*. health-giving elements, so blended by bite lie lias been employed in the for him. You know tlie judge is ‘tig ­ Toth. 1902, at 4 o'clock p. in., standard our process of manufacture as to make railroad yards at Petoskey. Mr. Lyon A good illustration of the kind of ering ’ on leaving tlie police court and time, for the purpose of placing in Village taxes can be paid at my it an unequalled health food product. is an intelligent young man and lias men who sometimes fill positions of getting on the circuit court bench, if nomination candidats for tlie various store at one percent, up to and includ­ Scientists and all leading physicians seen much of tlie world in which lie more or less magnitude in official life Mr. Carpenter is able to step into that state offices to be filled at tlie Novem ­ ing Saturday, August 2nd. 1902. are advocating the use of both' cereals has many friends. is afforded by a letter from a district other poor fellow ’s shoes. ber election; for tlie election of a State C. A. Putt , and nuts, basing their theory on the He was removed from the hotel at clerk to tlie secretary of state. Tlie “Duffleld, that new $10,000 beauty, Central Committee to serve until tlie Village Trosurcr, for tlie Village of most carefully investigated health Petoskey to the home of his parents clerk had been called down for failing shot a little more hot air into tlie convention meets to nominate state St. Johns. 3w principles, confirmed by statements at Conway, to which place his brother, to promptly render his monthly health gang, and Earle told a couple of mighty officers in 1904; and for tlie transac­ taken from the vital statistics of coun­ E. II. Lyon, was summoned by tele­ report and lie answered as follows: tough stories that lie had heard in the tion of such other business as may Having purchased the draying outfit tries whose people subsist largely on graph last Sunday and went Sunday “Fred M. Warner Esq My Dear Sir in last legislature. properly come before tlie convention. and business of John L. Lyon, am pre­ these natural products of nature, evening, lie returned Monday morn ­ regarding to my report wenssday “Holmes, the fellow they call Van­ Conditions in this state which are pared to do a general draying business. showing the added years of life and ing, saying: “I do not see how my april tlie 30 1002 i don sam—Your let- derbilt. made a spiel about what, lie known to all intelligent citizens, make Oders left at Parr Bro.'s grocery will universal perfect physical condition, brother can live under such circum­ ler of Mav 24 1902. Now report lias had done and hadn’t done for us. and it important that we should exercise receive prompt attention. as a result of eliminating meats from stances. Ido not believe he can live been Received for the month of april ‘Doc ’ Kennedy, tlie long guy with tlie especial care and deliberate judgment Hudson Sherman . their regular diet. through another spasm.” 1902. There is won tiling i wish if it glasses, tried to ram a few sugar-coat ­ in tilling every place upon our ticket Recent experiments by dietic ex­ Could be Don to for me to avoide all ed Bliss pills down our throats.” this year. For tills reason tlie com ­ Mr*. K. Kohl niton. Hair Dre*ser perts have shown that one pound of these Dates i can Testide lide to all mittee arranged that the sessions of and manufacturer of Hair Goods to nuts prepared as in *nkutrita ’ con ­ RELIEVED OF 8* reports that i made t hem on tlie Le­ the tirst day shall be devoted to tlie order and on sale. Shampooing a tains as much nutriment as 3 pounds gale Days and now mistakes about DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION. ireliminary work of the convention, speciality. Rooms in Union Block, up of lean beef. They are nature's store ­ t Item i write mistakes on filing plankes jalloting for candidates being deferred stairs. Walker St., East, St. Johns. house. where is secreted a supply of After it Visit tn liuffalo Mill'* Wild niul to you dut i Don tlie best i Coud i am until the morning of tlie second day. going to male Maport on Saturday 31 Tin- Democratic party of Clinton county energy, strength and health, gathered Wooly Went Slioiv at Owohmo. will meet in Convention at the Court Hon* *, In accordance witli a resolution How to Do It. from her various woodland stores, and 1902 tli aint wan Man! out of fifty adopted in 1880 and since followed, Alvin Winegar, one of the honest acording to Reporte that Don Ills In the Village of St. Johns, on Saturday, For particulars how to get good re­ are absolutely free from adulteration and unsuspecting farmers of Bengal July 26, 1IMK, at one o'clock p. in., for the eacli county will be entitled to one turns on your idle money, call ou and unpointed. They also coutalu a Part any Beter than me Good by, delegate for eaeli 500 votes cast for township, accompanied hy Ills wife, Your truly,—,” Tlie report in ques­ purpose of selecting fourteen delegates to at Charles 8. Sprague, St. Johns, Mich. large amount of albumen, and arc ab­ went to Owosso last Friday to witness tend the State Convention to be held In governor at the last election, and one solutely free from germs. tion was received nearly thirty days additional vote for eacli fraction of A Bargain. 1 he performance of Buffalo Hill's Wild after It should have been made — Detroit, July 30,19ft:. for the purpose of plac­ In the combination of cereals and West show. There was a big crowd ing In nomination candidates for the various not less than 250 votes, but every Comparatively new Dtp buggy for nuts perfected by our own protected and among the multitude iff saints state offices to be tilled at the coming No county shall be entitled to at least $35. Apply soon. It will go quick. process of preparation, we have a pro ­ there were some sinners and thieves, vember election, for the election of a state two delegates. Delegates must be G. S. Cor bit. duct w hich will appeal to those requir­ and at the hands of the latter Mr. U. B. NOTES. central committee to serve until the conven ­ residents of tlie counties they repre­ ing a highly nutritive food that is Winegar suffered the loss of $* in cold tion meets to nominate state officers In 1904. sent. Clenllnes* and Safety. easily digested, and is very palatable. Tlie delegates from tlie several cash. As lie was assisting ills wife Services for next Sunday. Bengal and for the transaction of such other busi­ 1 have just added two new Sterilizers Dyspeptic and disordered stomachs aboard the train for their return trip, ness as may properly come before the con ­ counties in each congressional district to my shop for Sterilizing tlie tools, are unknown where ‘nkutrita ’ is 10:30 a. m. West Bengal 7:30 p. m. will meet in caucus at 2 p. m. of said a pickpocket approached him from Bingham 2:30 p. m. vention ; and also to elect fourteen delegates towels, cups and brushes, therefore I freely used. All of the elements that befiind, and while Mr, Winegar had to attend the Congressional convention day. at such places as tlie committee am able to serve the public in a strict­ cause physical disturbances have been Tlie Bengal union aid society will may hereafter appoint, and select ly Sanitary manner. Childrens hair treated by a method of the latest ap­ both hands engaged in assisting his meet at the parsonage Wednesday when railed and to elect a new county com ­ names to recommend to tlie conven­ wife up the car steps, this thief afternoon, July 23. All arc cordially mittee, and a chairman, secretary and treas­ cutting a specialty. proved science, which renders them an hurriedly thrust his hands into Mr. urer. Under the above call the different tion for tlie following named positions: W. W. Ferguson , Propr. easily assimilated and much-relished invited. Chairman of the district delegation, Under Wilson Bros, store. food. No stomach is too weak or deli ­ Winegar's pocket and extracted his Tlie Bengal union aid society will townships will he entitled to representation one vice-president of tiie convention, cate to retain and be nourished by poek ‘*t-book containing about $8 in hold an ice cream social Tuesday as follows: one member of tlie committee on per­ available cash and disappeared in the evening. July 22. at tlie home of Wm. linth i Watertown t ‘ NKUTRITA. ’ Victor ...... ft Riley...... 4 manent organization and order of l^TATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS. At a great cost we have assembler! a opposite direction from which the Beandt. Everybody come and enjoy business, one member of tlie commit ­ line of machinery, made for our re­ train was going. yourself. Ovid A Bengal ...... 4 tee on resolutions, ! RECTORS: any well regulated grocery. The People ’s party caucus will be Johns cemetery not long since. They cal situation in tiie state and discus­ O. W. Munger, Otis Fuller, J. W. Fitzgernld held at Batli town hall on Thursday stopped at a pretty lot in which no Thos. W. Shelling. Eugene B. Parr, sing important matters connected evening. July 19, for the purpose of interment had been made, when one A. L McCIIntock, Jay Session*, with the campaign, and it is hoped J. H. Corblt,George W. Einmons, P.K. For Mule. Lyman Parr, John G. Patterson. Perrin, Jonn J. Reiser, G. F. electing four delegates to attend the said to her companion: “What a Warren Potter, I’eter,Thome, that every committeeman will be Nine well-bred 2-year-old Heifers. county convention at St. Johns July Ijcautiful lot this is.” “Yea,” replied present. Corbin, J. Sullivan. Price WO each. Philip Barnhart , Henry N. Webb, Thomas II. F.ddy. 30. By order of committee. the companion, “and no one buried Emery E. Urir, Edwin 11. Lyon . County committees are requested to Sec. 30, Bingham. J. B. Saxton , Chairman. here; what a shame.” Secretary. Chairman. send to the state committee the names 31’er Cent. Interest Paid nn Tine DepcsItS CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, JULY 17. 1902

Ellas Clark, the Stockbrldge miller, tS/NA/W^MVWWWWWs VVWWVVWVWWWWVWWX/WWVV^ A Uni fir* fur Life. suffered a stroke of paralysis and in Txvo ppiuons perished in Lake Mich!- In a critical condition. gun Tuesday night, and eight others Fred Gauss, a White Oak farmer, fought hours for life, clinging to the had one of his feet nearly cut off Sat­ overturned yacht Arab IV.. owned by urday by a mowing machine. THE NEWS OF THE WORLD John II. Cameron, of Chicago. The Fred Grieve, of Saginaw, a Pere yacht, struck suddenly by the fierce Marquette brakeman, was killed at storm which sxvept over the lake lata Vasoar Monday afternoon while shunt­ In the evening, capsized. Mary Taylor, Uhr ltnllrond Worker*. Crop* Damacrd. More Rural Delivery. ing cars. Kitchener** Welcome Home. 16 years old. and Harry Jenson, 17, Report* from correspondents show Rural free delivery will commence liny City Is to have a plant for the Lord Kitchener reached London Sat­ Conferences betxveen the strlkliiJ both of Chicago, were drowned. that the storm Monday noon was quite September 1 In these Michigan towns: manufacture of wood alcohol by a new urday, having landed at Southampton freight handlers and managers of the When the storm struck the yacht no general through the lower part of the Ctorsonvllle, Sanilac Co. (route No. process which will use up waute, such some thro** hours earlier. Ills progress railroads In Chicago did not produce attempt had l>een made to reef sail, state, and did considerable damage to 1>S population served, 576; number of as sawdust, shavings and slabs com ­ through the tuetroi>olls xvas one of the any definite result last xveek. All the nnd with all Its canvas flying, the crops. At Lapeer hall fell with the houses. 128. ing from mills where hardwood lum­ most memorable of the many remark­ railroads, xvltli the exception of the boat, xvltli 10 merrymakers aboard Clyde, Oakland Go. (route No. 1>; ruin. Props on some farms were laid ber Is manutactured. able of the past three years. The Chicago & Northxvestern, Erie and Il­ xvlioily unconscious of danger, went flat on the ground as though cut by a population. 007; number of houses. 135. over In a flash, filled Instantly and left Flat Rook. Wayne Co. (route No. D: Mrs. Sarah McLaren, of Ionia, small procession of carriages contain ­ linois Central, refused to recede from machine. Corn was twisted out by sprinkled gasoline on tliee carpet. Her ing the general and his staff. In simple, their position nnd declared that tli eight person* struggling for life In the population. 330; number of bouses. 125. waters of the lake, three miles from the roots. Fruit trees were nlso con small grandson struck a match, nnd serviceable veldt dress, lacked spectac­ men must accept the terms offered by Holloway, Lenawee CV». (route No shore. siderab'y damaged. One farmer re­ there was an explosion. Her clothes them on July 1. This means seventeen ports a total loss of his season'* crop 1); population, 700; number of bouses, caught tire and she rolled on the grass ular features, but evidently the crowd By heroic efforts on the part of the 105. was then* In its tens of thousands t) cents an hour and a period of proba ­ men, the women xvere supported in except hay. At Lansing nearly an Linden, Genesee Co. (routes 1 nnd 2); to extinguish it, but was very badly Inch of hail fell in an hour. Crops In burned. see the mail of the hour and not a tion fur new men. The demands of tin the xxater until they could be given u population. 1.17S; number of bouses. pageant. From the moment he set foot the country were more or less dam ­ Thomas II. WInnett, general freight men were eighteen cents, time and firm hold on the overturned boat. aged. At Durand, where previous 202. I’ostofllce at Argentine to be sup­ in Loudon to the time of his disap ­ one-half fdr overtime and no period Six of the party managed to crawl plied by rural carrier. Mall to Liudcn, nnd passenger agent of the Detroit & pearance beneath the portal of St. mins this month did a good deal of Mackinaw railway at Bay City, lias of probation, all men to receive full into the small yawl nnd after a fierce Mich. James* palace. Kitchener received sucji battle xvith the xvuves reached shore damage, Monday ’s storm has well nlgli Mount Morris, Genesee Co. (routes 1 been stricken with smallpox In a mild pay from the start. The Northwestern discouraged farmers. At some places an outburst of popular enthusiasm as and notified the life-saving crew, who and 2»; population, 1,687; number of form. He was taken sick last Friday, quite overs ha do xv ed the demonstra ­ road offered seventeen and one-half in the Saginaw valley the -storm seem­ house*, 280. but tin* case was not diagnosed until cents an lu*sr. single time tor overtime went to the rescue of the two xvho had ed to reach the velocity of a cyclone. tions on previous and similar occa ­ been left clinging to the l»oat. Orion, Oakland Co. (routes 1 nnd 2); Wednesday. sions. for men employed by the day, but not At Carrollton a schoolhouse was struck for men xvbose wages are paid by tli When found they were nearly ex­ population, 1,061; number of houses Dora Dels more lias been appointed Kitchener was conducted to the hausted gud about to drop from the l>v lightning and a good many trees 230. I’ostofllce at Alert to be discon ­ postmistress at South Haven. Mich. month. The Erie offered seventeen king's sick chamber and Ills majesty, boat. uprooted. tinued. The barn* of Eder Faneher. four from Ids couch, extended a xval ui xvel- cents, single* time for overtime and no period of probation. The Illinois Cen­ The Imdies of the txvo young persons Palmyria, Lenawee Co. (route No. miles east of Utica, were struck bv come to the general and personally ex­ drowned xx’cre found in the cabin of Honda)' DrownlnK*. 1); population 650; number of houses. lightning Monday and burned, includ ­ pressed his thanks for the termination tral declared that it had made an Two lives were blotted out in the 150. ing all contents. Los*, $2,500; par­ agreement xvltli Its employes since the the yacht when the boat was towed of hostilities. The king then presented Into the harbor. waters of Cass lake Sunday afternoon Three Oaks. Berrien Co. (routes 1 tially Insured. Kitchener xvith the decoration of the inauguration of the strike, and that it through the sinking of a rowboat con ­ nod 2>; population, 1,160; number of |. (r<, Friday morning destroyed the new Order of Merit. The general then xvould do no more. The men must ac taining three members of a picnic houses, 260. cept that or remain on strike. Gov. Nash, of Ohio, has decided to stables of the Rouse Ice Cream Co., of saxv the queen, after which lie drove call the legislature In special session party from Detroit. The victims were Benton Harbor. Three horses were to Lord Roberts' residence In L’ortland Adoiph Budelier. aged IS. son of Mrs. Crffn 01,1 Age. A Duel Coming. August 25 to enact a municipal code burned. James Johnson, an employe, place. bill for the several cities of the stute. Kmnia lludelier. of 98 Chestnut street, An old man and a fair young widow who did noble work in saving horses, At the campaign meeting of the six nnd Anthony Rukamp, aged 18, son of clasped hands Saturday at the mar­ The Cambria Mine Horror. candidates for tlie United States sen ­ was terribly burned. It Is thought ho­ BASE BALL. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kukainp. of ."S4 riage altar. The groom, a pioneer of boes caused the fire. Tlie extent of the horrible catastro ­ ate, at St. George, Colleton county, S. Orleans street. Miss Mamie Wlesler Kalamazoo county, was A. G. Corner, Saturday, there xvas a war of xvords The 225.\225-foot, two-stor.v barn In phe of the rolling mill mine of tlie Beloxv we publish the standing of or Sandusky. O., the third occupant of 80 years old. Ills bride, Mrs. Minnie ■ which may lead to a duel between Fennville, owned by “Peppermint" Cumbria Steel Go., Johnstown. I’a., Is the American and National leagueclubs the boat, clung to the bottom of the Corser, has seen 23 summers float by Todd, of Kalamazoo, was burned not capable of being grasped. Sat­ j Congressman A. C. Latimer and form- capsized craft and was rescued by two and Is exceptionally bright ami good ! or Gov. Gary Evans, txvo rival candi up to and including the games played Thursday night. It was the biggest urday, in spite of conflicting reports on Tuesday, July 15, 1902. young men. looking. barn in America. Tlie fire was caused as to the number of dead, a careful and dates for the senatorshlp. Mr. Lati- Charles Goodall. a young Detroiter, Corner spurned the use of sj>eotators complete compilation shows that 112 I iner in bis speech said that Mr. Evans AMKHICAN LEAGUE. by spontaneous combustion In the hay Per ct. was drowned while bathing In the De­ as lie made out the application for his mow. Loss, $25,000; half Insured. is tlie extent of the list of the bodies had once been his friend. He was in Won. Lost license and Insisted that he was still temipted by Mr. Evans, xvbo said: Chicago ...... 41 23 .621 troit river near the Canadian shore, Some one entered Jno. F. O’Rourke's outside the ndiio. St. Louis ...... 36 31 .537 opposite the middle of Belle Isle, Sun ­ a young man. To this future explorations of the “Latimer betrayed me like a dog." .... 38 31 .536 orchard, a short distance west of Bear Latimer in retaliaflon brought up n Boston ...... day afternoon. ‘‘I need somebody to look after me,'' I^ike at night, nnd ruined 161 fruit mine corridors uiav add a few. but it Philadelphia...... 35 31 .530 story of a $15,000 bond deal, during 37 .479 Karl Dennis, 18 years old, was he salt!, "for some day I will be an trees, cutting some down ami hacking cannot be mnnv. Almost all the em­ Washington ...... 34 drowned while bathing in Hanna lake, old man. but not yet. I am good for ployes xvbo could have been in tlie Mr. Evans ’ term as governor. Cleveland ...... s: 39 .4X1 around others. As president of the Mr. Evans replied: "I denounce the Baltimore ...... 31 3.) .413 near Caledonia. Sunday morning. Ho many years yet." village Mr. O'Rourke has been active mine at tin* time of the life-xvrecking .412 The bride evidently thought so. too. man \* ho repeats that rumor as a liar." Detroit ...... 2) 49 could not swim and got in beyond his in efforts to suppress illegal whisky explosion of Thursday are accounted NATIONAL LEAGUE. for she lovingly clasped his arm and The men started toxvard each other, depth. selling. for. Very fexx* inquiries for missing Won. I,o*t. Per ot. together they walked from the clerk's tint Sheriff Owens rushed in between .719 Alfred Jurva. of Houghton, a sur­ have he«*n presented to the authorities Pittsburg ...... 53 u Smallpox Excitement. office to a Justice of the peace around or to tie* mine officials and this better them. Insisting that the court room Boston ...... 37 SO .552 the corner. face man at Quincy shaft No. 2, was xvas no (dace for duels. To this Mr. Chic.igo ...... 3J 33 .542 The family of Goo. Howard, living (lashed to death by falling down the than anything else demonstrated the 35 .531 The couple will live on the old farm impossibility of many bodies still re­ Latimer agreed and Mr. Evans re­ Brooklyn ...... 43 some in miles south of St. Joseph, has shaft Tuesday. He was climbing the marked then* xvas plenty of room out ­ Philadelphia ...... 31 41 ,4M been quarantined for smallpox. The at Schoolcraft, which Corser has cul­ maining in the death tomb. 40 .4(7 tivated for 54 years, and though the ladder in the shaft house when it fell side, and plenty of time in tlie future. St. Louis ...... 81 disease was diagnosed Monday by Dr. back. Jurva was about 40 years old The mine officials say there is ur> us<> Cincinnati ...... 29 40 .421 groom already has two children, they New York ...... 22 49 .209 K. J. Witt. Great excitement pre­ and is survived by a widow and five attempting to estimate the number of \«*xv Chinese Minister. vails over the fact that the family has are grown up and out of the way. dead. They say they simply do not children. Sir Liang Chen Tung, secretary of AMUSEMENT* IN DETROIT. been afflicted with smallpox for two Tuesday's storm caused a destruc ­ know and urge tin* futility of placing Tlie Operator* Will Walt. the matter on flu* basis of guess xvork- the Chinese embassy to the coronation Wondkuland —Aftcr.ioons at, 2 aud 4, lJc. Do weeks, when they thought it was only At a conference held between the ex­ tion of property along the valley of of King Edxvard, has been appointed and 2*.-. Kve. at 7 :3j and 9. I>. 10c, 2JC and 23c. chiekenpox. and all of the time they the Ann Arbor railroad that is con ­ They express tin* belief, however, that ecutive* committee of the coal mine all. or almost all, are out of the mine. Chinese minister to the United States. have been picking berries for the Chi­ operators nnd tin* men in Saginaw Sat­ servatively estimated at $60,000. The The nexvly appointed diplomat D a T1IE MARKETS. cago market. This is regarded by urday the operators, at the urgent re­ city of Ann Arbor has suffered $25,000 graduate of Yale university, and is the authorities to be a terrible condi ­ in tlie destruction of seven culverts A Convict"* Vengeance. Detroit, Cattle: The very best cattle, 10 quest of the miners who are out on a Thirst for tin* blood of one of Ills able, dignified and honest. He is the to 15 cents higher; all other grades were tion of affairs, as every case of ber­ strike, decided to suspend the force of and the tearing up of streets by the .ueady at last week’s pilots Choice steer-*, oxx n family, it Is believed, xvill event ­ first of the body of student* sent to ries shipped by the family has been their ultimatum, demanding that the flood. America in the seventies to receive $0 OOd/O 50; good to choice but her steers. infected with smallpox and lias gone ually cost Harry Tracy bis liberty if 1.000 to 1.1U0 pounds V> OOftro 75; l'ght to result of the conference of a week ago Twelve alleged violators of the state recognition befitting their accomplish­ good butcher steers and heifers. 700 to 9i>> to Chicago families. Some crates of Ik* acted upon Immediately. Insisting, liquor law were recently cited to ap­ not Ids lit**. Pursued by bloodhounds ments, tin* Chinese officials having dis ­ pounds, $1 00ti4 50; mixed butchers and fat berries from the Howard farm await­ however, that the matter be settled pear in court in Saginaw, and now n and hundreds of armed men over more liked them because of their progressive cows. $3 504)4 50; canners and common to ing shipment at St. Joe have been con ­ than 5(H) miles of rough country and fair butcher bulls. 12 757f3 50; good ship­ either at the national convention in In ­ deputy United States marshal is after vlexvs. pers' bulls. $3 504/4 50: light Stockers. $3 25 fiscated and destroyed. dianapolis, July 17, or immediately af­ 10 of them, for having no federal 11- xvilderness. journeying as high as 65 New ministers to Russia, France anil 'pi 00; cood well bred feeders. $4 00*1(4 50. ter. MW.-se. one witness. .las. Hoperoft, miles in oih* day, without sleep and Italy have also been nominated by the Veal Calves—Steady. $4 504)6 50. Milch Wlrkrd Knln inn coo. xvlthout food. Tracy has practically Cows and Springers — Steady. $30 to $50. was fined $25 by Recorder Snow for dowager empress. Sheep: Hist lambs, $6 50(jr6 87%: llghtto The investigation of Chief of Police Drail nnd (nknown. refusing to testify. sacrificed all hope of escape to fulfill Wu Ting Fang, the present Chinese good mixed lots, $4 234)5 25. yearlings. $5_00 Burr Greenfield, of Kalamazoo, con ­ The body of an unknown man was Grand Trunk employes in Durand a vow he made txvo years ago. xvlien minister, expected to lie recalled, hav­ 4j5 50: fair to good butcher sheep, $3 95' sented to Circuit Judge Adams in the Tlie paper Is signed by J. Miller. Last night be had congestion of one movement recently decided upon to re­ 4 00; native lambs. $2 304)6 50. possible event of a side-step. Hops: Mixed and butchers. $7 SOFT'S 05; lung and a temperature of 102 3-5 de ­ Premier llnlfonr. duce the active naval force on the A Mn0W. ing an effort to secure a labor temple tion in China. 5.000 bu at 77c; No. 3 red, 78c: mixed win ­ many families with water free of for tlie exclusive use of their locals. After long search for the will of the night in school house yards nnd in charge without knowing it. doxvntoxvn parks, without so much as ter. 80c per bu. Tlie Detroit United Railway has filed late Ann Bird, who left no known King Fdivnrd Afloat. Corn: No. 3 mixed. 05‘Ac; No. 3 yellow. Supt. Richardson states that people relatives, an acquaintance of the de ­ a blanket to cover them. Some had to 67)4c per bu. have tapped the water pipes without n formal protest against paying it-* b**g for food, although every precau­ King Edward was removed from Oats: No. 2 white. 57V&o; No. 3 do., 37c; $7,826 assessment for improvements ceased Journeyed all tlie way from Col ­ Buckingham palace to the royal yacht do. August. 57c; do. September. 35c per bu. notifying the city, and he is busy is­ orado. searched Mrs. Bird's house and tion Is taken to provide for them. Chicago —Wheat: No, 3. 70@76c; No. 2 suing warrants for the offenders. Sev­ to the Saginaw street bridge in Flint. It will take days to relieve tlie situa­ on Mouday. The yacht xvill cruise in red, 76Vi'))76v*e. found the will and deed*, hid in the the vicinity of the Isle of Wight. His eral business men are -said to be on Some residents of the flooded district back of n picture. Tlie will left n 1 * tion, and when the xxater finally Corn: No. 2. 8tHc: No. 2 yellow. 81%-c in the low lands about Ann Arlair are majesty xvas not fatigued by the trans ­ Oats: No. 2. 60S)51c: No. 2 white, o4 ’v4) tlie list. the estate to the Colorado friend, who reaches its former channel iui epidemic 54’ic; No. 3 white, 52Ai4f5ie. angry because the health board lias o? malaria nnd typhoid fever xvill pre­ fer and expressed great pleasure at cots $s(H* that would have gone to the the change. Slrnok by Lightning. condemned their wells as unfit for use. state. vail. it is thought. Produce. Damage is expected to reach a mill­ Butter: Creameries, extra. 2I'<;4f22c; Mrs. John Knoll of the township of Several business houses In Benton An unknown man. about 55 years CONDENSED NEWS. firsts. 204)21c; fancy sele ted dairy, 17'<,SJ Frankenmuth, was struck by lightning Harlstr and St. Joseph were entered old. was found hanging in a box car ion dollars ISc; good to choice, 16S*17c; bakers’ grades, while working in the fields with her some time early Saturday morning. A 13Si Uc. near Falrport Junction Monday. A A violent shock of earthquake was Cheese; New full cream, S’glOc brick. husband and son, and killed Monday smaP amount of cash and wearing ap­ coroner's jury agreed that It was sui­ A Very Old Man. Ferry Chesney. the oldest man In experienced in Caracas. Venezuela, LbUHc. afternoon. parel was stolen. Two Chicago lads, cide. but as the man was seen in the i Saturday. Reports from the Interior Eggs —Candled, fresh receipts, 18c; at She was putting up shocks, and her Lester Richardson, aged Id, and Ar­ neighborhood several days ago. looking Tennessee, ami perhaps the oldest In mark. 17c per doz the United States, died at Ills home i of the country say the shock xvas felt Honey: No. 1 white. 13b44e; light am­ husband ami son George were loading thur Hemmlngs. aged 19. when ar­ for a farm to buy, and was understood thereabouts. Slight damage xx-as done liny on a wagon. The horses ran away rested. admitted the night's work. on the summit of Cooper ridge on Julv ber. lOSjllc; dark amber, k&Dc; extracted. to have considerable money xvltli him 4. at the age of 126 years, the day of nt Guarenns. Guatlre, Valencia, and 6b*>Vic per lb. when the flash came, and when the Memlters of the war-time crew of and no money xvas found on his body, La Guayro. Apples: Choice new, $1 50@>1 75 per bJ; men succeeded In stepping them they the United States steamer Yosemlte, his death being Ids birthday. <*hesnev $5. 26 per 1*W. some people have a notion that It may was born In Virginia on July 4. 1776. United States Consul McWnde at Evaporated apples: 9\ic per lb.; iu> found Mrs. Knoll lying on the now residing in Saginaw, have receiv- lane been foul play. drlfd. 4S<6c per lb. ground dead. ed checks from Uncle Sam. money due and, as a stave, belonged to Jonathan 1 Canton lias cabled tin* state depart ­ Cherries: $2 254r2 50 per bu. Gilbert Nordquist and Toney An­ Jackson at Clarksville, on the Roan ­ ment that cholera Is raging in al> cujratits: $1$11 25 per bu. as a result of a lawsuit to recover drews went to the home of John Cur­ Dressed Calves: Fancy, 94i95<.c per lb.4 The Toy Platol Victim*. prize money for the destruction of the oke river. When 12 years old he saw ! towns along the Kxvellen river in tis. colored Monday night and tried George Washington. It was four days Kxvnn Si province. The consul says fair, per lb. Still another ease of lockjaw has re­ Antonio Lopez off the harbor of San to coax Cunl* to let them enter. This Poultry: Rrollers, 12b 13c; llx-e hens ?11 sulted from the effects of toy pistol Juan, Porto Rico, June 2S, 1898. after hi* death thnt his body xvas dis ­ that 3.0000 persons have died in l’ing- D^se; roosters. 64 t7c ; young ducks, lib 12c; tlie latter refused to do. and ordered covered. lok. and over 10,000 In Kwellan. turkeys, lotillc; geese. 7ti8c per lb. wonnds received by Bay City boys on Gov. Bliss has pardoned William tIn ui away. The visitors then tmn»- Raspberries: Red, $44r4 50; black. $2 the Fourth. The patient is 10-year-old Postmaster-General I’liyne, xvho is bushel. Steele, sent to the Jackson prison for bnrdcd the house with stones and Cur­ Tallow: No. 1, 6c: No 2. Sc per lb. Stanley Derdowski. He Is so 111 that tis shot them both, hitting one m the First Lirut. Matthew E. Hanna. Sec­ one of the president's chief advisers, five years from Manistee county in ond Cavalry, has been ordered to Ha­ asserts thnt there Is entire accord In Ha>: Prices on baled hay now are as he Is unable to lie down, being kept in February. 188)8. Steele’s term would back of the bead and about tlie follows: No. 1 timothy. $12 50b 13; No. 2. n sitting posture, while the cord* of his vana. Cuba, for duty as military at­ the cabinet concerning the president's $11; clover, mixed. $10 504rll; rye straw. expire In a few months, ami it Is re­ shoulders, ini'* the other on the head. $6 fsMI"; wheat and oat straw, $5 50 pet neck draw his head back. Two deaths Neither of "the men was fatally hurt. tache at tin* United States legation. determination to have legislation en ­ ported that he Is suffering from tuber­ Lieut. Hanna served on the staff of acted In the next session of congress ton In *ar-lot* f. o. b., Detroit. have already occurred In similar eases culosis and will not live out his sen ­ Both are under nrrest. They Insist Wool: Detroit buyers are paving ths and another patient Is eritieally ill. they were only making a social call. (Jen. Wood while the latter was mili­ to curb tlie offensive trusts. "It 1s ri­ following prices: Medium and coarse un ­ tence if required to remain In prison. diculous to think otherwise," lie said. washed. 174) 18c, fine do.. 15c; do. bucks, Battle Creek people think Gogune tary governor of Cuba. A man. supposed to be E. W. Park­ Gov. Bliss has appointed Roy I). A large tank barge owned by the 9c; unwashed tags. 6c per lb. Matthews, of Owosso, circuit court water should be filtered before using, Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer has been In- er. a clairvoyant, of Fort Wayne. Inn., •is swimmer* do not tend to make It Tidewater Oil Co., of Bayonne. N. J., dieted by the Buffalo grand Jury for Tlie president has Issued a cornin'*. committed suicide at a hotel In Grand commissioner for Shiawassee county, has turned turtle In the East river. seem drinkable raw. | the murder of her husband. Dr. Jacob k Ioii to Director Merrlam under the Rapid* Sunday by taking morphine. to succeed John I). Stookdale, who has New York. Between four and five removed from the county. Tlie wooden floor of 496 cell* In the U. Meyer, who was shot and killed in new permanent ccnsiw Inxv, a a director The Turtle Lake Shooting Club Is ar­ thousand barrels of molasses xvas | Id* office oil the night of June 20. The first battalion. Third Infantry, Jackson prison have been taken up spread upon the waters of tlie river of the census. ranging with the land commissioner M. N. G.. MaJ. .las. S. Parker, of Flint, nnd replaced xvltli cement. Under the (lev. Y sIps. of Illinois, has granted a A collision In the straits of Malacca for the purehnse of eight additional Three men on the boat barely escaped , respite until Aug. 11 to I^iuls G commanding, will have an instruction wood xvas found a thick layer of flirt. with their lives. lietxx'een the steamer Teutonia and a sections of delinquent tax lands In Al­ field oninp nt Zilwaukee. south of Bay This Is believed to hax'e caused tin* Toombs, xvho xvas to hare lM*cn hanged Chinese Junk sank l»oth vessels, only 64 pena nnd Montmorency counties. City, from Saturday night. July 19, to typhoid fever prevalent In the past. William A. Malian and Glinrles H in Chicago Friday for flic inr tiler of person* being saved out of 100 on An ugly scrap took place Jn Ann the Sunday evening following. Theodore Achilles, a Muskegon den ­ Rlnker. txvo prominent farmers of the Larsen woman on board n ’Jont in board. Arltor Saturday evening nnd ns n re­ tist. was found dead Tuesday night Rxveet Springs, Monroe county, W. Va., the Chicago river last winter. The contract has ?»een signed and On the 10th l’etoskey became legally committed suicide by shooting them­ sult Otfloer "Tip** Ball has a badly bat­ the seat of Emmet county. The Ti e body xvas partly on the sidewalk Samuel Boyd, aged 24, one of Ad ­ bond filed lor the erection of the art tered face and William Picknrd, Sr., back of an electric light pole. One selves while on a hunting trip. Both miral Dexvov's orderlies'on the flag- records were removed to the new court were 42 years old nnd cousins. They gallery of the Louisiana purchase ex­ and wmiam Plckaii, Jr., are In Jail house, nnd tlie first business trans ­ hand xxa« burned, probably from con ­ ! sldp Olympia at the battle of Manila position at St. I gulls, to cost upward and will be clmrged with resisting an had threatened to kill themselves be­ bay, wu* almost Instantly killed n» of $1,000,000. This Is the largest sin acted in it xxas the marriage of (diaries tact with a lixe wire stretched four fore. but gave no reasons for wanting officer. Parker nnd Min* Martha Barnard. feet from the ground. Magrudcr's Station. Md., Tuesday gle contract that xvill be taken under to die. ' night, by being struck by a train. fin* exposition ’s division of xvorks CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY. JULY 17. 1%?.

ficient administration of the govern ­ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. FORCING AN ISSUE ment, has been superseded by the col ­ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Xhc lection of vast sums r.ot required by Liberty consists of letting your wife REPUBLICANS ATTEMPT TO DE­ the government which can be stored LESSON III. JULY 20; EXODUS 20; do as you please. CEIVE THE PEOPLE. up in the treasurv vaults or Is loaned O/r/ Dec/ 1a-lf—TEN COMMANDMENTS. A well-bred person is oue who to favored banks for which not one doesn ’t boast about It. H a 00/7 cent of Interest has been or is being Would Divert Public Attention from paid, anlcss It be the donation by the Golden Text—“Thou Shalt Leva Thy Almost every man is lazy, but he Matters that Are Injuring the Party bankers to the Hanna campaign fund Neighbor a* Thyself’—Matthew 19: doesn ’t like to admit it. Da// , —Democrats Will Demand that In­ of 1890, 1898, 1900; and probably 19—The Lesson Shows Our Duties When it comes to earning a living some men are dead ones. vestigations Shall Be Thorough. another liberal advance to the tarue to All Men. corruption fund this year. When an officeholder loses his grip “Once la the late ’70a, ” said Man- learned what was the matter. The What statesmen and patriots these he does less handshaking. •ager John J. Murdoch of Chicago. "I minute the professional swimmer Tho Republicans are in a mess, they Last week we studied the first table ef Republicans be! the Law, our duties to God. This week If a man gets too fresh he deserves had been playing through the Bouth was dragged on board his partner, are unable to agree among them­ we study the second table of the Law, to find himself in a pickle. with a company which had the mis­ who had been holding his clothes, selves on the most important legisla ­ THE PRESIDENT DEFEATED. our duties to man. Both lessons make up Many s man sets himself up as a fortune to go broke at Selma, Ala. came staggering down to the spot. tion. The exposure of the looting of the second lesson God taught the Israel* hero because he ha* no valet. By methods which it might be em­ “Here’s your clothes, Bill,” said the Cuban treasury to aid the Sugar ftes in the desert training school. The The Senate Refuse* to Act on HI* first table is the basis of the second; the A small boy ’s ideal hero is another barrassing to 'recount my partner and the inebriated partner, throwing them trust, tho bribing of Gomez and the Recommendation for Cuba. last sLx commandments flow from the boy who runs away from school. I worked our way over to St. Louis. down on the deck. “Murdoch ’s got a cruelties in the Philippines have put first four. If God is to be revered and The defeat of the Cuban reciprocity A pessimist is a man who believes We arrived In the Missouri metropo ­ hatful of money already and I’m tired them on the defensive. ebeyed as our Father, man Is to be loved legislation Is a great blow to the ad ­ and cherished as a brother. that every chestnut has a worm in 1L lis with 85 cetits as our joint capi­ carrying ’em around. ” With admirable audaciousness they tal. “Somebody who was wise enough ministration of President Roosevelt. I. Fifth Commandment. The Duty of Self-praise go33 a long distance —in attempt to divert public opinion from honoring Parents. —V. 12. What is Com ­ an advertising medium of universal “My partner had been reared in to get on to the scheme heard the His attempt to coerce congress to do their own sins of omission and com ­ his bidding, which he emphasized in manded? 12. “Honor thy father and thy circulation. the town of Troy, N. Y., and the first remark and he successfully pumped mission hy charging the Democrats mother.” "That word ‘honor ’ means the drunken man till he gathered the two messages to that body, has been more than mere obedience —a child may It is easier for some musicians to dhy in St. Louis he ran a'eross a pro ­ with attacking the army. The Presi­ obey through fear. It means love, grati ­ fessional swimmer who had been a whole yarn. Then he spread the spurned by a large faction of the Re­ compose a wedding march than a dent sets the pace by making a publican party In the Interest of tho tude, respect.”—Moody. crying baby. schoolmate of his in Troy. The swim­ Why is it commanded? (1) Because stump speech at Arlington, and the Beet Sugar trust. It is now stated The rof.ii who like3 to hear himself mer had been working in a St. Louis great trust-controlled dally newspa­ "parents are kings by divine right.” that the President will call an extra Theirs is “a natural authority which is a talk is usually the only one who cares natatorium, but had been discharged pers take up the refrain. The little the day before we got to town. lie session of congress. Tho members reflection from God ’s own, and is sus­ to hear him. organs edited by the postmasters give of the Beet Sugar faction in the house tained in its just exercise by the will of A sister’s love Isn ’t supposed to bo had a total capital of 80 cents, which, tongue in unison. God.” —Dykes. (2) Because parents are of representatives, joining with the wiser than children, even ignorank pa expensive —unless It happens to ho after due consideration, ho put into This effort to put the Democrats in tae common pool. He also had a Democrats, passed tho bill reducing ! rents usually having a wisdom gained some other fellow ’s sister. the attitude of assailing the army the duty 20 per cent on Cuban prod- from experience which is more valuable partner, who had no money at all. will prove abortive; the common sol ­ than the school learning their children Few men have will power enough to ‘‘The four of us lived as long as uces, with another section added do things they don t want to do and dier is all right, and most of the of ­ may have gained. (3) Because most pa­ possible on the money in hand. Then which was Insisted on by tho Demo ­ rents do more for their children than don ’t have to but ought to. ficers, from Gen. Miles down. They matters became desperate. We had crats, repealing tho differential duty the latter can ever repay. (-4) “That thy days may be long. ” Dutiful children nr« The gvrat trouble with some men tried to get work of some kind, but obey orders; that is the duty of the on refined sugar. The Republican soldier. free from the passions and vices that so who were heroes yesterday is that had failed utterly. Finally we held members of tho Senate found them­ often stunt the growth and shorten the they are still on earth to-day. a session at which the following The Democrats do protest and will selves in the same dilemna as tho j life. forever protest against the issuing A man is not always known hy the scheme was evolved: members of their party in the hottso How can we honor our rnrents? (1) By company he associates with—as tho “The grocers of St. Louis had ar­ and carrying out of orders to make of representatives. They were com ­ I prompt and cheerful obedience; (2) by “a howling wilderness ’ of any terri­ j caring for them lovingly in poverty or company sometimes discovers to its ranged for a grand excursion on the pelled to take the bill as it Came ! sickness; (3) by the little tokens of re­ cost. tory under the American flag. from tho house, with the Democratic river. It was agreed, after a long spect that the aged prize so highly. One way to avoid ft.val mistakes in They protest that to “kill all over anti trust section, or take tho re­ discussion, that we should raise as II. Sixth Commandment. The Duty of distinguishing' between mushrooms much money as possible, buy tickets ten, ” to kill prisoners, to torture by sponsibility of r.o legislation. Regard for Life.—V. 13. What Is Forbid ­ den? 13. “Thou shalt not kill.” The It. and toaustools is to confine your op ­ on the steamboat, and start on the water cure or other Spanish method, The Democratic position Is unique; is not war, it is vandalism; it is not V. gives the thought more accurately, erations to parsnips.—Chicago News. excursion. When the boat was a the members of that party voted in “Thou shalt not do murder. ” Killing is American, it is barbarous. If not or ­ good distance out from land my part­ Asleep Under the Straw. tho house and are ready to vote in sometimes Justifiable; the Bible Itself en ­ dered by tho highest authority it joins the kilting of men for punishment, WISE AND OTHERWISE. ner was to give a last despairing story of our put up job and the crowd the senate, for the President ’s recom ­ would never have been perpetrated as when blasphemy had been committed, wail and jump overboard. The pro ­ which had been contributing began mendation for reciprocity with Cuba. and of animals, as for sacrifice or to put by American soldiers, except perhaps A sure sign Is one that reads “No fessional swimmer, who was to be to clamor for our blood. They took But knowing that this 20 per cent re­ dangerous beasts out of the way. But trust.” on the upper deck, was to throw off in Isolated cases. murder Is always wrong. Murder is kill­ the hat away from me and ran me duction on Cuban products would in ing with hatred in one ’s heart, or care­ If a man has a good memory ho his coat and vest, unloosen his shoes, into that dark hole. The rest of our The Democrats believe in keeping the case of sugar, inure in a great the military authority subordinate to lessly assenting to slaughter. That is knows when to forget. and leap overboard to the rescue at crowd were served in the same way. measure to the benefit of the trust, i what the sixth commandment forbids. the cry of 'Man overboard. ’ My part­ the civil power. No republic can exist How can we obey? (1) by loving all An old bachelor 6ays tho best pet “Once in the early ’70s, ” says Mr. they compel at the same time the j dogs erme In glass cases. ner was a good swimmer, so we fig ­ Murdoch, “I was a member of a lit­ that does not do so. The Democrats repeal of the differential duty, under ; men. “Whoso liateth his brother Is a murderer. ” (2) By being “our brother’s Flattery is always dished out to ured that nobody involved was run ­ tle theatrical barn storming com ­ intend to investigate these cruelties which the trust is allowed to collect keepers No one is free fro/n blood- other people —never to us. ning much risk. pany which was playing the little off- when they have the power, and pun ­ about $(1,000,000 additional tax from___ guiltiness who does not do what he can “When the professional had beat­ the-railroad towns in New York and ish the guilty, however high in com ­ the American consumer, and if i to save life and prolong It. Adulterating Any candidate vho is knifed at the 1 food is murder. So is selling Intoxicating en my partner into'submission in the Pennsylvania. At Granville, Pa., our mand. They will investigate the ex­ countervailing duties are added that noils Is apt to feel somewhat cut up. pense accounts, both at home, in tho liquor. So is the maintaining of “sweat­ water and a boat had put out from manager ‘jumped ’ the town with the sum can be multiplied fourfold. This shops," or dark and filthy tenements. (3) the steamer to complete the rescue total proceeds, amounting to $8 or Philippines and in Cuba. The trans ­ legislation, if enacted, would probably By doing what we can to abolish war. (4) we had arranged that I—who at that $10, leaving us to get forward as best port service and the purchase of sup­ aid .ho Cuban .-autor somewhat «nd I j* time ran strongly to silk hats and plies will be investigated. They will we could. I finally was sent ahead would reduce tho price of refined j ill. Seventh Commandment. The Duty red neckties—should take off my silk to Jamestown, Pa., to see what ar­ find out who received the large sums sugar in tho United States as much, ! of Purity.—V. 14. What is Forbidden? California hat, drop the cash we had left into rangements could be made to show that have been raised by extremo or more, as the Sugar trust would j I?: 8haIt no .t oommlt adultery it, and collect as much money as 1 taxation and if the money was squan ­ . ^ , Christ Himself explained this seventh there. By telling a sad story of our l ain on the *0 per cent decrease of commandment as forbidding the impure could among the passengers for the misfortunes and enlarging on the dered on high living in Cuba and duty it would have to pay on import- j thought and desire as well as the impure ostensible benefit of the heroic res­ dramatic abilities of the company I elsewhere. Who was “fixed ” to stay ed raw sugar from Cuba. 1 ac* Rself- ar*d the law is to be understood in Summer cuer. out of politics and who was aided to in its wider sense. It includes also In fts finally persuaded the school commit ­ 950 from Chicago “We managed to raise $5, and spent stay in. What secret intrigue set This double reduction did not suit ! prohibition whatever leads to Impurity, tee to allow us the use of the school- the Sugar trust, nor did it suit its j such as licentious books and pictures. 947.50 from St. Loots house on condition that they should free the Hanna pets, Rathbone and allies, the administration senators. \Vhy ,3,lt, forbidden? Because no sin 945 from Kansas City have the first money taken in from Neely? Why Buenearaino was or ­ „ ’ ■ . . . _ * not even Intemperance, so rapidly ruins a Out snil hack It 1 resident Roosevelt had really j man, body, mind, and soul, as this sin. August 8 to H the sale of tickets. The hotelkeeper dered by the administration to come wanted to aid the Cubans and strike ! Moreover. It destroys the family, which was also persuaded to take his to this country to testify, when the Quick and Cool way to go a blow at one of the great trust Is the basis of the State. chances on getting his money after request of the Democrats for other How can wo Obey? If impurity already Harvey Meal Service witnesses was refused. A page might monopolies, wny did he not recom ­ has a hold on one, the only way he can See Grand Canyon of the performance • was over. So I Arizona and Yosrmlte bo filled with other details that will mend the reduction of the tariff on conquer It Is (1) to hate the sin; (2) to went back to Granville and by pawn­ recognize Christ as his only Savior from ing two silver watches we raised be investigated, and from the amount refined sugar equal to the advantage Address, Gen'I Agent’s Office, It; (3) r.ot to see how close an approach A. T. <* S. F. R'y, 151 Griswold of evidence that has been forced to the Sugar trust would gain hy the 20 to It he can safely make, but to avoid It enough money to hire a farmer to Sfrcef. Detroit, Hlch. drive the company over to James­ the surface there is a vast amount per cent reduction on Cuban raw altogether: and (4) to fill his life so full sugar? of Chrlstllke labors that there will be no town in a bobsled. 1 remember that behind. Havemeyer would not, of course, room in all his twenty-four hours for he first put a big feather-bed into the To do this tho Democrats must anything else. sled box. On that the members of olect a majority of the next house of r.nder these circumstances, give a IV. Eighth Commandment. The Duty the company knelt down on either largo check to the Republican cam­ of Honesty. —V. 15. • What is Forbidden? Santa Fc representatives, and this they will paign fund, but the consumer of 15. “Thou shalt not steal.” Thou shalt side and on top of us all straw was lo, if the people agree v.ith them that not steal time. Procrastinator. Thou heaped on until nothing could be the curtain should be raised and the sugar In the United States would be shalt not steal reputation. Gossip. Thou seen but here and there the top of a truth known. benefited, even if the collector for the j shalt not steal faith. Infidel. Thou shalt cap or •onnet. At any rate 1 went campaign fund had to hunt from other i not steal hope. Pessimist. No wonder tho Republicans are on trust runners the neee-sarv cash tn 1 IIow can we °bey? Wc keep our * to sleep five minutes after we started the defensive and are endeavoring o , rt> tne necessary cash to j 8e]vcs from llttie thefts, knowing that out and never have I enjoyed a more switch the thoughts of tho people make up the deficiency. | they lead to greater ones. We must count peaceful and restful sleep than on from their misdoings by claiming that ------■ It stealing to take anything even with the that fourteen mile drive with the Roosevelt ’s Judgment Warped. . owner ’s consent. If the owner does not anything you Invent or Improve j also gat the army is being attacked. They T>. . , . ~ . : know to what he is consenting; as *nen CAVca T.TR'AOc MARK. C0PYRICHT or DESlwN thermometer fifteen degrees below know, liowever, that it is the orders resident Roc.se> elt nas certified, In a dealer names all the good points of a PROTECTION. Send model, sketch, or photo. zero. issued to the army that is the main his late speech to the Harvard grad- | horse, leaving his customer to discover 1 for free examination and advice. i “I had made arrangements in nates, that Senator Lodge i3 his high- the ba<1 ones. I>oint and the officers of the army, 14“' «*« a Republican .houM I FoThm' BOOK ON PITEHTS”fee "before’ N ’pates*’A"'* 1 He Leaped Into the River. Jamestown for the daughter of the for their own honor and reputation, Write i town blacksmith, a girl named Mur­ he. There is no doubt that the Presi- i den? 16. “Thou shalt not bear false wit- „ C. A. SNOW & CO. $2 for four tickets for the excursion. and the honor of the United States Patent Lawyers. WASH I NGTON, D.C. phy, to furnish the music on a new will welcome the change. dent is right from his own standpoint, | ness against thy neighbor. ” We bear tvwsswssvwwvwwssvsasai > The minute the boat left the dock for Lodge is known In Massachusetts i *alse witness (1) in saying about a man they commenced selling beer. The piano —the first in the town, which .. „ ...... , , what we know to be untrue; (2) in keeping barroom occupied most of one of her father had just bought for her. COFFINS FOLLOW THE FLAG. as ^ machine politician the boss of j client when others say it; (3) In passing tho Republican party of that common- ; it on to others, by word of mouth or in the decks, and everybody in sight On arriving at Jamestown with the company I soon learned that there wealth, as Quay is in Pennsylvania * print; (4) in “damning with faint praise ; helped himself, paying or not for Facts Which Should Cause Voters to and Hanna 1= of .he Republican parly i ® J” what he got about as he pleased. As was a bitter feeling existing because Do Some Thinking. a result of this freedom the partner another girl, who had always played at large. j derogatory to others, even if they are Wonderland for dramatic companies on the melo- Forty-one new cases of cholera in His personal friendship for Lodgo I true; (7) In making statements about oth- of the professional swimmer, who Manila in one day, with more than has warped the Judgment of the Presi- frs th.at no A,kn^l tr^L,(fi and had been on short rations for several deon, had been overlooked. So we . . ,, , .. , i in using half-truths where we should arranged to play two nights, with 00 per cent of deaths, is the sad news dent. Tae Massachusetts senator is | speak the whoie truth; (9) in twisting the weeks, drank more than was good from the Philippines on June 1. This for him. as we afterwards learned to Miss Murphy as the orchestra on the quite an ordinary individual with the truth by the wrong emphasis; (10) In be first night and the melodeon girl accounts for the immense shipment assurance and egotism that often goes lievlng a man guilty before he is proved Cemplc Cheater our sorrow. on the second night. As a result we I of coffins which is noted by the New with it. Lodge, if sold at his own not to be innocent. “Finally the steamer reached a : York World, when it says: “The army How can we Obey? (1) The only safe Most Beautiful Playhouse had two huge houses and I got well price would be expensive, but if got rule Is to say nothing on earth we would place in the river where we thought transport Kilpatrick will carry on in the United States. it safe to spring our great scheme. started on my first experience as a rid of at his actual value, it would not have repeated In heaven, and nothing theatrical manager. j her next trip to Manila 4,000 coffins not ruin a poor man to buy him. There behind a man's back we would not say DETROIT’S HOME OF My partner jumped into the water, for use in burying American soldiers before his face. (2) Make a practice of “At that time the Detter class of are lots of small but strenuous states­ praising others. (3) It Is wise not to talk and the man on the lookout raised who have died or are dying of fevers, HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE the cry of ‘Man overboard. ’ At the men at the helm these days. much about others. (4) The supreme cholera and other diseases incident cure for false witness-bearing iu to fix word the professional swimmer, who our minds on the true witness-bearing. to tropical warfare. Slavery in the Philippines. 4-SHOWS DAILY-4 was located on the upper deck, threw “Assuming the low average cost of Christ said that His disciples ere His off his coat and vest, kicked off his An amendment to the Philipp!' .' witnesses. Now It Is plain that no one a o ’clock, 4:i5-7 :3°*9 :I5 P- **»• $8 for each coffin, this shipment of shoes, leaving all his clothes in bill prohibiting slavery in the islands can__ be a true witness for Christ and a Local Time. f32,000 of merchandise exceeds in was offered hv the npninrrnts lmt false w'itness against bis neighbor, charge of his partner, and made a was onertu d y tne Democrats, but VI. Tenth Commandment. The Duty of value our total exports in nine great spectacular dive into the river. was promptly voted down by the Re- 1 contentment.-V. 17. What is Forbld- The Lowest Prices, lassiflcations during the month of . “Instantly the passengers were all publicans. The autior of the amend- den? 17. “Thou shaft not covet Afternoons, io, 15, ao cents. attention. They crowded to the rail May, the last for which figures are inert wa3 Mr. Patterson of Tennessee, &ny thing that Is thy neighbor s. ’ Covet ­ at hand: Agricultural implements, ousness is not the desire for more; that Evenings, Sundays, Holidays, and watched every motion. The who slated: “That Gov. Taft before desire Is at the basis of all progress and 10, ao, 35 cents. swimmer reached my partner in a $1,100; sewing machines, $2,274; flour. tho insular committee testified that civilization, and it Is right to sock to few moments and pretended to beat $5,250; clocks and watches, $">,302; the treaty made by Con. Bates and satisfy it. Covetousness Is the desire to Reserved Seats in Boxes, petroleum, $780;!umber, $1,700; build ­ possess what another person has. him over the head so that he might the S: ltan of Jolo wn still In force How can wc Obey? (1) Get at one with ti each be safely handled. The captain ers’ hardware, $5,192; carriages. $5,- There wore to :lay 3iO,OOJ slaves lr God. Learn that God ’s will for you is stopped the steamer, and a boat 371; furniture, $1.339—Tola], $27,328. the Jolo group. Children were sole best. It makes you poor, then welcome pulled off for the rescue. As soon “In the trade which ‘follows t ie flag ’ from their parents. Girls were sub poverty; or sick, then let the coueh be The Headquarters of Suburban to our new Pacific possessions the Joyful; or lonely, then exult In solitude. as the two conspirators were pulled ject to tho d- sires of their masters.’’ Learn to say with all your heart, and in Visitors to Detroit. into the boat it was my turn to come number of coffins is to the quantity any Gethsemane. "Thy will be done." to the front. I climbed up on to of ordinary merchandise in pathetic Do the Taxpayers Like This? VII. The Covenant Ratified. The T.»n proportion." Commandments were the Lnw\ but they the railing, took off my silk hat, The fondness lor military display c! became, by the solemn ratification of tho threw the last three dollars we had our 3trenr.ous administration will cos people, a covenant between Israel and Je­ into it, and called upon the passen­ Difference in the Two Parties. '.he tr.rr?yi'rs of the nation a pro'.:;, hovah. This momentous act being accom ­ BO YEARS' gers to contribute liberally to a fund Secretary of the Navy Moody and plished. Moses, at God ’s command, with­ EXPERIENCE po:.::y. Net only are groat mllitar* drew Into the mount for forty days and for the hero who had risked his life Corgressman Poutell, speaking at tho maneuvers to be inaugurated which i nIsMa to jecelve the stone tablets of the to rescue the stranger. The re­ Playing the Piano. banquet given by tie Republican club will cost a large sum for transporta law. and the further revelations and sponse was instantaneous. Almost companies playing the small towns at Detroit, glorified the deeds of their tion and thus bo a bonanza for the counsels God had for him. everybody put in something, and traveled in big red wagons, usually party, especially the largo surplus in favored railroads, but a barrel of my three large silver dollars set an hiring their horses from farmers or tho Treasury and that the public debt money In to be spent fitting out all th. Civic Pride. example which wa3 quickly followed. livery men along the route. Not long ­ was les3 now than in 1S98. Or.t- would available ships, which the Navy do "What is that awful ground swell By the time the lioat with the rescu­ er ago than 1885 I remember gicetlng think, to hear these ardent Repub- nartmont says: “Will participate i.i roar I hear?” asked the Nashvillian D esigns ing party on board reached the an actor who was still running a red j Means talk, that they alone paid, a'l the most extensive fleet maneuvers early In the morning. C opyrights Ac . steamer I had ever a hundred dol ­ wagon show through the central part ‘ the taxes. It is well to remember 'vor attempted hy the navy in the "Oh. that’s just Memphis growing, ” r ratentabla. Conitri'inleo. lars in the hat, and I had only begun. of Iowa. ” that every dollsr that goes Info the West Indies. ” replied the Memphis man.—Memphis tlon*»tr(etl» eonUdentUl. ll*iidb-.>ok on I'mcd U Out of the corner of my eye I saw »ant fro®. < fldoit araney for aeourtn* ualanta. United States treasury is wrung from (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal. Patent* taken turouwli Mono A Co. raowvs the two dripping figures pulled up Carried Bullet Long Time. the people through the tariff or inter­ Has Not Hurt Gen. Miie3. tptriel nitUt, without eh arc o, lu tbe on board. Then something happened. Abraham Kisler, recently admitted nal revenue taxes. If tho collection Tie attempt of the Junior senatoi There are Many Such. Somebody hit me, the silk hat, with Into the Buda Pesth workhouse (alms­ of the most taxP3 is the great credit from Indiana to besmirch the char­ "He says his proudest boast Is that Scientific American, Its contents, was pulled out of my k handsomely lllnutrsted weekly. l.»rreet etr> house), has for fifty-four years carried mark of statesmanship, then the Re­ acter of Ge?,. Milet has. pke most of he never forgets a kindness. ” •ulatlon of any Mtontlle Journal Term*. W k hands, and I was hustled into a dark a bullet in his head which he received publicans have achieved it. The good the political moves or this exuberant , „That,a r, ht He never doGS forget re . j four rr.oM.be, |L Sold by an newsdealer* MINN & Co 98 ItmAmy. fijgyy V and cramped little hole. while fighting in tho Lustrian rebel­ Did Democratic plan of the least taxes yonng man. proved a broncrang t >. t he does you. and he won ’t ict "Presently and In fragments 1 lion. possible, with due regard to the ef­ M. own party, either." THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY JULY 17, 1902.

The speculator and the exploiter are are constant consumers of meat. For has ever known. The gem that had been ly he loved and how earnestly he remember­ BUNINE88 DIRECTORY. reaping a rich harvest under Republi­ persons of limited capital, with a slumbering seemed now awakened into life; ed the Declaration of Independence. The Independent. desire to eugage in stock-raising, royalty trembled upon Its throne; tyrunuy Hear him at Gettysburg—"Four score and MRS. MARION E. DODGE, Music Teacher, can rule, but the man who earns bis there is at present no more attractive looked about her for new means of defense; seven years ago our fathers brought forth bread in the sweat of his face has no field in America than tin* Island of earth's down trodden millions leaped and upon this continent a new nation, conceived eiORGK 9.COKBIT. • • • Proprietor interest in Republican politics. How Cuba, which was almost denuded of s'loutcd for Joy, for our fathers had put In liberty and dedicated to the proposition Attorneys. U.4MEL AliltorT, PDITOH AKU MGR cattle during the late war.” forth the thrilling uiinuuncemeiit "That al| that all meu are created equal." long will the laboring men be deceived men are created equal, ” and "that govern­ Tiie plantations of the Tropical Then he tells them It wus for that Idea DOLING A KELLEY, Attorueys at Law, by Republic in promises and coerced ments derive their Just.powers from the St Johns, Mich office up stairs on Walk ­ Senator Beveridge is said to be* Land Co. are located in Santa Clara they had fought, and It U indeed true tiiat by Republican threats? consent of the governed." Der street east. 1849 lieve that it is his destiny to become province, near Sancti Splrltus. In every drop of blood sited for the defeuse of regard to Santa Clara province Mr. How this cut at right angles with the na ­ the flag from the time the rebel cauuou first president of tills republic. Destiny Lucpste says: "The vegetable soil or tions of the past! How it antagonized the VTOKTON A JAMIJ.ON, Attorneys at Law ON THE EUGE OF THE TROPIC*. boomed upon Sumter, until Lee surrendered J.N Office over St. Johns .National Hank. St. his been blamed for some queer capers A timely book of unusual interest mold of this province near Sancti teachings of aristocrats and tyrants! Jeffer­ at Appomattox was shed to maintain the Johns. Mich. 1SI» during tlie last few year, and we are Spiritus and Trinidad is tiie most son and his co-workers ware radical indeed! Idea tiiat all men are created equal. Our lias recently appeared, entitled fertile of the entire island. From prepared for the worst. "Opportunities in the Colonies and What! The sous of toil whom you have plutfurui during all that struggle on the KARL HROWN, Attorney at Law, St Cuba.” The section on Cuba Is written Remedios to Sancti Spiritus thecacao treated as menials and serfs equal with the Held, iu the cump, tu the halls of congress, s Johns .Mich. Office in the Clinton block is easily grown, ann in tiie virgin inflated claimants of royal blood! Aye, in J The popular election of senators is by the Hon. Rerfecto Lacoste, former ou laud and ou sea> wus the Declaration of mayor of Havana and ’secretary of mountains of tills region the land Is the sight of God, they are equal; they, too, Independence. The contest was tomaintaiu \|ONEY TO LOAN on real estate security getting nearer. One of the evidences lvJ. by Henry E. Waibridge, St.Johns I0<5 agriculture of Cuba. As ex-Governor capable of supporting large herds of are formed iu His Image and entitled to cer­ and pepeluate the right of self-government. of it is to be found in the fact, that Wood says In introducing tills gentle ­ cattle, both on Hie plains and in the tain uuuHenable rights. This Is God's law ’ We tnslntaliied the freedom of our race and mountains. This is particularly true und henceforth It shall be tiie law of the new EWIS SEVERANCE, .a . M. Attorney the corporation-ridden and rail-road- man, lie is thoroughly conversant witli struck the shackles from the limbs of the Counselor and Solicitor, St. Johns. Mica of tiie region of Sancti Spiritus.” world. L controlled members of the republican the economic conditions oCthe Island Intelligent readers will be assured slave. Hu laid hlui down a sluvq and rose newspaper fraternity are becoming and writes from a personal knowledge by the above extracts from tills The American revolution was no sudden up a man, andoutwurd trod into t he glorious YON A MOINET, At’ornejs at Law, St. of his subject. With reference to the outbreak. It was preceded by years of litierty of God und proclaimed to all the Johns, Mtcb. Office over Chapman's store. alarmed and are imagining terrible eminent authority that the plans of L subject itself Gen. Wood continues: the Tropical Land Co. have l)een made peaceful discussion and remonstrance. It world thutthe great truths of the Declara ­ things as likely to happen if the people "The needs of Cuba today in the prudently and with ample knowledge was nut a happening or a chance. It was tion of Independence applied alike to black PAULDING, NORTON A DOOL1NO get a voice in the selection of members direction of foreign commercial assis­ tiie inevitable icsult of tiie conditions pri­ and white. Tbut all men ure created equal O Attorneys at Law. Office over St. Johns tance are many. The peculiar situa­ of the situation. There can be no ced mg it. It was one step In the grand on­ and llioroiigliout ail tbe struggle from 'Hi ou National Hank. 1690 of the seuate millionaires ’club. tion created by the late war and the reasonable douDt but that their Orange ward march of humanity. every battlefield and in every camp, wherev­ temporary occupation of t lie island by Grove plantation will lie eminently er wuved the stars ami stripes, there could ILL H. K HENSON, Attorney at Law und It is scarcely possible for us who have Solicitor In Chancery. Office over the The Commoner b**gan with eight the United States will give an impetus profitable to those who hold shares in tiie Declaration of Independence be read, W pages, it now contains sixteen:* it be­ to many trades and professions. it. Indeed, that a most unusual lived from infancy under the influence of post-office, St.Johns. Mich. 1516 opportunity is offered to the public to tlie American idea "That all men are created and Its grand truth, "all men are equal" and gan with about seventeen thousand Especially is tills true of agricultural Its sequence, they ought to be free, nerved K A E L. WALHRIDGE, Attorneys at pursuits. Cuba’s advantageous loca ­ secure an investment of undoubted equal," to appreciate the grandeur and no­ II. Law, St. Johns, Mich. i3t*7 subscribers, it now prints a little safety and ample profit is sufficiently bility of the act of Jefferson and Ids co-peers the soldiers for the Union to grander deeds tion on the edge of the t ropics renders and more glorious victories. Out grown .the more than one hundred thousand co ­ her soil peculiarly susceptible to the proved by the popular interest evinced when they put forth iu '76 the great charter ERRINS A BALDWIN, Attorneys at in regard to this undertaking of the of our liberties. To do so. we must put our­ Declaration of Independence! Thou jou Law, Money T,oa tiers und Real Estate pies each week, and this growth is growth of truita and small vegetables, have grown superior to Washington, to Jef­ PAgents. Office over Chapman's. Clinton Ave., company. selves in their place and seek to realize how St. Johns. due to the paper’s friends who sing i'here are chances for the farmer, not thoroughly hud been Ingrained in tiie minds ferson, to Franklin and Lincoln. Dur- you only in these products, but also in the j discard it? Dare you separate it from tlie its praises and extend its influence be­ STAND RY THE DECLARATION OF of t he people of tiie old world the idea tiiat Dentistry, main staples, such as sugar, tobacco tiie flag? If there be one luun in ull our his­ cause it stands up for domestic print! INDEPENDENCE. the common people belonged to tiie king. and coffee. ” T hat somehow, because of tbe fancied royal tory whose every act and word iu public life 3 E. COHHIN.-M. D.. I). D S. To get the pies and defends the rights and inter­ As Mr. Lacoste is so reliable an Xs benefit of the experience medical know­ The following is the full text of the ty in Ids blood, lie had the right of dominion shows him to lie a reverent lover of the ( ests of the comi ion people. authority, his opinions will have a Declaration of independence, it Is Abrutium ledge and surgical skill wulch are indispensa ­ peculiar value with those who have address delivered in this village on the over the body, tbe brain and the conscience ble to perfection of results In dentistry app.y Fourth of July by Hon. Vernon II. of the laborer. How was it that our patriot Lincoln. Hear him agalu as he amplifies its to Corbin Ac Son. St. Johns. been following the articles in regard fathers with that kingly idea still lingering precepts—"For one man to govern another Senator Allison has written a to Cuba that have appeared in these H. KENYON, Dentists. Over Weils’ Smith, of lonja: and prevalent in tiie new world had the man, without his consent, is despotism." • Orocery. St. Johns. Mich. constituent that he is opposed to the columns. It will he noted how admir ­ And again in keeping with its teachings he A ably all the statements made In such Mr. President, Lad ies and Gentlemen — phyalcul und moral courage und political popular election of senators, and pre­ In the invitation given me to ad ­ wisdom to put fortli t lie Declaration of Inde" exclaims, "Those who deny freedom to o. H. MANN, D. u.s. Ofliceover articles are corroborated by the evi­ dress you today, it waf quite plainly others, deserves It not themselves, and und­ Spaulding & Co.s hardware, op­ fers to leave the matter in the hands dence of Mr. Lacoste. His words give pendence; a declaration which has stood the posite The Steel Hotel. Surgery intimated tiiat 1 ought not to talk test of more than a century of nutioual life, er a Just God eau not long retain it." a specialty. Office hours.8 to 1> of the legislatures. This isdisappoint- ample proof of the intelligence with a m , 1:3t* to 5 p. m., 7 to 8 . eve’g which the Tropical Land Co. made more than 30 minutes. The writer under the imperfect application of which we You can not, you must not, cither by word ing in view of the fact that an Iowa evidently understood the tendency of have grown with marvelous tHpidity und to or deed or vote, trample upon or ignore this legislature has declared itself in favor tiieir plans f<>r operating in Cuba, a lawyer when he gets started on a homas s. mann , d. d. s., middle of especially with reference to the the true ideal of which in toleration and declaration of human rights. upper bioek, same floor as Perrin Jr of tiie popular election of senators. subject with which he is not very purity of government we have not yet at- Should the tempter ever whisper to you TBaldwin. St. Johns. Mich. development of their Orange Grove familiar. 1 am ready, however, in the If the senator feels that he has fairly plantation. tuined. And it Is still beckoning us to greater that in tiie Interest of commercialism, of outset to give you tiie cheering assur­ heights and loftier ideals. Avoiding all greed, or lor gold, It is liest to ignore its Physicians. represented the people of liis state lie In regard to orange growing Mr. ance tiiat I will keep within my allot ­ Lacoste says: artifice, they planted themselves upon the truths and separate it from the flag, then 1 HOIISKIX GALE, M. D. Office on ought not to be afraid to trust ills po ­ "Oranges grow to* perfection in all ted time. everlasting principles of justice and truth. beg of you to call to rniiid. for 1 know you Ws State Hank. Night calls at TLe Steel. litical career in their hands. parts of the island and their cultiva­ 1 am glad of the opportunity of In the face of grave peril they dared to d° reverence him. the greut leader Iu the great Office hours:—11 to 12a. m.; l to3 and 7 tol'p m meeting again the people of St. Johns what they believed tobe right. Thusexldbit- struggle fur the union, and bis utterances tion is at present receiving much and of again looking into the faces of V. DOOLING, Physician and Surgeoa. GOOD AM) It AI). attention, for the crop is gathered ing the true but rare qualities of statesman ­ concerning t Idsmagnachart*of unr liberties. • Office over Allison's store. St. Johns. during the months of December and old friends, for I assure you there w ill ship. He, alt hough reared In poverty, attained J The Lansing Journal contrasts the ever linger in my memory pleasing the grandest fame. He was the klnglleat of N. LEONARD, M. D., Pbvslclan, Bur- January, when exportation to the They realized that iibertyof thought, lib­ • geon and Xiectrologist.Orid, Mich. difference in the amount of crime recollections of your pleasant village men, for he wus true as truth, simple as a E great markets of the United States is and hospitable citizens. erty of speech and tiie equality of all men committed in Ingham county as com ­ possible. Of course Cuba is below the before the law were the true principles and c.iild, pure irs nature's flower, tender as u H. DODGE. M. D., Surgeon and H - I am also glad there are some locali ­ mother’s love, upprouchable by ull, yet ffrni • pathic Physician. Office and residence pared with Clinton county during the frost line, and freights from her coast ties where they still cling to the time- foundation stones upon which to build a Jover Spaulding&Co ’§ hardware.oppthestee!. cities to the maikets of the United state. a-a rock. Tbe great statesman, the peerless past. year. The Journal says: honored custom of celebrating our ana martyred president, the nation ’s idol- C. DL’NN, M. D., Physician and Bur- States by water ought not to be more Hut It Is net simpiy for their brave words ‘•In Ingham county there were 680 Nation ’s birthday. In these later Abruiium Lincoln. • geon. Office over Spaulding ,4 Compa ­ than rail rates from California to that we should venerate these revolutionary Pny's hardware store, St. Johns, Micb. office arrests during the first six months, days there are some indications that If you cast aside the truths of this declar ­ the Atlantic seaboard, so tiiat the heroes. They demonstrated their greatness hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9 p. m. while In Clinton there were only 61. we think we have outgrown tiie wis­ ation you discord its teachings. It is more possibilities of the development of the by their acts and the unanimity with which In Ingham there were 380 unclassified dom of 1 lie Fathers and the small tbanaglitieriuggenerality.lt is a sublime HART. M. I)., Physician and Hur orange Industry are flattering indeed, t.iey rallied beneath the folds of the flag as • geon. Eureka. Mich. 1317 disorderlies arrested, while in Clinton things of '76, and that the observance truth that all men are equal, iu the sense H .is this is a crop that does not call for well us the fortitude with which they suffer­ the number was only 11. In Ingham of other days should crowd out the that they ure entitled to equal rights and no a great deal of lai*or, and the returns ed tiie privations of the camp, and their HAVENS, M. I)., Homeopathic Phy- but one tine of $2 was paid by disorder ­ festivities of our old fashioned Fourth: one man has the right to suy what other in the climate of Cuba are certain and death upon the well-fought field attests stoian and Surgeon. Ofliceover Heller's ly persons arrested, while in Clinton and 1 am conscious that but few peo ­ rights another shall enjoy. We will stand by Bazaar. constant. ” their devotion to the principles they had an ­ the 11 persons arrested paid tines to ple attend, on an occasion like this, to the Declaration of Independence. In regard to bananas, bis opinion is nounced. And they. Indeed, have written R. S. E.GILLAM,Physician and Surgeon the amount of $iw and $13*.80costs. ” hear the speaker. \\ hen the morning discards the sun when, as follows: some of the grandest pages of the world’s Office at residence, opposite court house HencC 1 always feel a little uneasy tiie cvenlngblushes to own a star, when a Dwest. Cffioe hours 1 to 4 p. tn and 6 to 9 p. m "Of fruits, probably the most im­ tiistory. MR. ROOSEVELT AND HIS BOOKS. and especially since I heard the story Christian Is ashamed of the Golden Rule, then portant is tiie banana. There are For Its tiulhs they died. Their devotion of tiie Speaker and t lie Dog Fight. 1 and not until then cun an Ameil un le A Washington dispatch to the New many varieties in the island. They was scaled with their blood. Their vener­ Undertakers. trust tlie dogs in St. Johns are all ashamed of the Declaration of Independence* are grown in all parts of Cuba, but safely corralled in some concentrado able forms seem to pass before us ou this York "World under date of May 30 chiefly where the soil is deep and rich, When you are ready to trample upon the ILL A- EDI) OSGOOD. Undertakers says that Mr. Roosevelt has sent to an camp and cannot divert your atten­ sacred day. They believed what they taught: opp. post-office,St. Johns, Mich. ind where there is an abundance of they pledged their lives, their fortunes and flag, then and not until then may you fitly W tion. spurn Its teachings and its truths. And am eminent personage ‘‘a full set of Mr. moisture. A large business has recently 1 once had the pleasure of talking to their sacred honor to the maintenance of Roosevelt ’s own works, every volume been developed in raising bananas for the inmates of the State House ot those great truths anti in the struggle that I touching on forbidden ground when I ask TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS tiie American market, and steamers Correction. They were marched in. followed they proved their devotion to and ought the flag to wave in any land where the containing the author’s autograph are now engaged in the transportation Declaration of Indendence cannot be read? FOR 1001 AND 1902. and an appropriate sentiment. ” It is tiie keepers in charge, tiie doors lock­ their fitness for self-government, of tlds fruit. There is no reason why ed. The speakers were uj>on the plat­ I know that there Is a theory lately put Is it to symbolize serfdom In one hemisphere St. Johns high school room, beginning third to be hoped that the recipient will Cuba should not secure a good part of fortli tiiat this old document is obsolete; aud freedom In the other one. Cun I'hureday of August. form and the inmates were turned St. Johns eighth grade room, beginning read some of these books very carefullj. the trade that hitherto has been over to our tender mercies. What a t iiat it contains but glittering generalities; you maintain a republic here and an empire developed between the southern ports abroad.* Will not thulaws for the republic third Thursday of October. In these books he will tind that Mr. tlirill of satisfaction I experienced. I that its principles are not suited to our en­ St.Johns high school room, beginning last of the United States and Central knew they could not get away. For larged and changed conditions; tiiat we have soon be touched and blighted with the frosty Thursday of March. Roosevelt has uttered eloquent words America.” breath of despotic power and our liberties St. Johns seventh grade- room, beginning once 1 could hold my audience. 1 outgrown its teachings and in tiie far-away third Thursday of June. of condemnation against nearly every He testifies to the profits derived didn't say. as did the preacher who iutlying possessions of the United States, <1 windie at home as the empire grows abroad? Examinations will commence at 8:80siRnd Important policy now being pursued from vegetables in these words: was addressing the Inmatesof a prison where wave the Stars and Stripes and where W hat |I plead for, then, today Is tiiat we ard time. "Vegetable gardening lias been T. H. TOWNSEND, by Roosevelt's administration. lie but who had prepared his sermon for the agents of this government hold sway, an stand by the teachings of tiie fathers aud confined hitherto to supporting tlie that we seek by our honesty and patriotism C< irntuissioner of Seboois. will tind in those books the most com ­ local demand in the neighborhood of a different occasion, as he greeted them irder lias been made forbidding tiiat tills with the pleasant statement "I am sacred document be read. to purify and preserve our Institutions so the larger towns of the island, and lYHOItATK NOTICE.—PROBATE COURT plete indorsement of tlie right of the glad to see so many of you heie.” But Hut 1 remember tiiat under Its teachings that we may hand them down to our chil­ Filipinos to life, liberty, and the pur­ even this lias not l)een done at all dren’s children, more pure and |>erfect than l Clinton County—66. Notice is hereby giv­ times, for there lias always been more l thought, "I am glad you can ’t get we have grown from a few small and en that all claims and demands against the suit of happiness and of the right of away just now. ” struggling colonies to a great and ocean- when they came to us. Let me adjure you estate of NICHOLAS THOME, deceased, or less green grocers' supplies impc i ted then in the language of Holy Writ. "To stand will be heard by ihe Judge of Probat* This tins been and ever should be consider­ boiind nation ; that our progress lias been a tlie Filipino to a government deriving into the island from the United States. ill the old paths, ask for the old way and of said county, at the Probate office in the vil­ ed the Sabbath of the Nation. Other days marvel and a disappointment to kings and lage of St. Johns. on the -jth day of January. This is not the natural course for this walk therein and you shut) find peace anti its powers from the consent of the are sacred and awaken sweet and boly mem­ aristocrats throughout all the earth; that I).. 1903, and ihat the creditors of said de­ class of crops to take, for the soil and -afety." ceased are allowed six months from t he date of governed. lie will tind in those books ories, but this day should stir In every heart our development and growth, guided by it, climate of Cuba arc particularly Had I the time I would gladly speak of this notice In which t<> present their claims a clear and distinct historical state­ adapted to the raising of many classes the purest sentiment of patriotism and the holy precepts, have been as tbe parable of for adjustment. —Dated July iird. A. D , iiitz highest Ideals of government. And if ever the grain of mustard seed exemplified in some other dangers that menace us. The CHARLES M. MERRILL, ment tiiat the so-called expan of vegetables and they could be placed vast accumulation of wealth; the use of Judge of Probate. the base spirit of commercialism, so ram ­ politleal history. in tiie markets of the Atlantic sea­ money in politics; the need of political hon­ sion policy of the republic: n pant in our land today, so smothers our pat I remember that Lincoln said in tiie first ROBATE OKDEF.-STATE OF MICHI­ board so early in tiie season, before esty and political Independence. In fact, pirty of today is wholly in- riotism that we forget the heroes of '76, their Republican convention in Springfield, Illi­ GAN, County of Clinton.ss. At a session the gardeners of tiie southern states the necessity for the exercise of more con­ Pof the Probate court for the County of Clin­ privations, their teaching ’s and their exam­ nois—"Let us plant ourselves upon the De­ c insistent with the policy adopted by commenced to gather their crops, science in political action and, ubove all, of ton holden at tbe Probate office, in tbe Village ple, then have we reached the beginning of claration of Independence and tiie gates of of St Johns on Monday tbe 7th day of the United States in its acquirement tiiat a good price could be assured. ” the intense partisanship tiiat pervades ull the end. It is well tiiat on this sacred day hell can not prevail against us." Anti 1 seem July in tbe year one thousand niaehundred "The pineapple,” says lie, ‘‘of which parties. and two. of territory in the past. Probably Mr. we lay aside our usual vocations and meet to see him upon the historic field of Gettys there are two varieties, tiie white and We ure attempting to solve a great prob­ Present, Charley M. Merrill, Judge of Pro­ Roosevelt has forgotten many of the and call again to mind tiie privations and burg and hear him as be uttered those words bate. tiie purple, is considered the queen of lem; we welcome to our land and to a share things he said in these interesting sacrifices with which our liberties were w deli have liecome classic and which have so In the matter of the estate of MARY Cuban fruits. The first is known as in tbe blessings und responsibilities of our K. SCHNEl DEK, deceased. Michael Spitzley bought. stirred the hearts of his countrymen and are volumes. Perhaps he thinks the recip­ the sugar loaf, and is large and very government, the people of almost every executor of the last will and testament of That we pause tnourmad pursultof wealth to echo through tiie ages us be proclaimed said deceased having made application for swejt, but it is the latter which is clime; the old world Is casting her thousands ient will not take the trouble to read and In our mad strife for place and power, Ids devotion to its great truths mid culled tiie allowance of bis linal account and for usually exported. Tills fruit grows upon our shores. Four million of slaves have bis discharge. them; but there are in those volumes and by railing again to mind tiie struggle upon bis co-workers to dedicate themselves Thereupon It is ordered, that Thursday, tli* best in loose limestone land, on the been made citizens and we are attempting to with which our liberties were bought and anew to the maintenance of a government 31st day of .Inly. A. I). 1902, at one many passages that will prompt the hillsides or iu stony places, because maintain it government based upon the the wisdom of the fathers iu founding "a based upon its teachings. o'clock In theafternoon.be assigned f..r tiie reader to wonder how it is tiiat a man moisture injures tiie plant. It may suffrage-of all these different elements. To examination of said account, at the Probate government of the people, by the people, for It has stood the test, and under its Influ­ office in the Village of St. Johns. wiio, as an author, gave expression to almost be said to be a child of the mold and weld them all Into one grund desert, and is a wonderful example of the people;” that we reawaken our love for ence the citizen in tills land lias enjoyed a And it is further ordered, that notice be such sentiments could, as a president, liberty and reinvigorate our patriotic In­ greater measure of freedom than perhaps In whole und t his demonstrate man's capability given to the persons interested In said estate, the bounty of nature In providing a for self government. Can it be done? Can of the time and place of said hearing, by caus ­ act wholly in defiance of those senti­ stincts and that we resolve to ponder care ­ any other country on the globe. ing a copy of this order to be published in the suitable growth for every sort of soil we successfully solve the problem? If so, fully the theories of the present, and test Discard tlie Declaration of Independence! C linton Iniiepkndknt, a newspaper printed ments. upon the surface of the earth.” Why? Do you not lie lieve that all men are all these must be taught the theory of our and circulating in said County or Clinton for That Mr. Lacoste has made a care­ them by the pure patriotism and lofty states ­ three successive weeks previous to said day manship of Washington's farewell address created equal. And what will you give us— government and the duties of citizenship. THE FI LL DINNER FAIL. ful study of Cuba’s economical condi ­ of bearing. tions is shown by tiie following and the subline doctrines of the Declaration an omnipotent parliament as has England? They must learn to love the flag and respect CHARLES M. MERRILL, President Mitchell of the United of Independence. That we drink A government bused U|Kin the divine right the laws, for there Is no true lllierty without Judge of Probate. quotation: law. A true copy. again from the fountain from which of kings? J Implore you to consider its cost, Mine Woikers, in his address to the •‘The raising of fruitsand vegetables Webster said, "Liberty and law, they are public, says: for the American markets is meriting our liberties have come and commune a id remember that human history is but an itOBATE ORDER—STATE OF MICHI- again with the Fathers whose wisdom and highway along which you may vainly at inseparable now and forever.” Let your gan. County of Clinton, ss. At a session The total number of persons em­ tiie serious consideration of many school houses dot the land and your colleges Pof the Probate Court for the County of Clin­ Cuban farmers. Tiie necessity of heroism secured to us the sacred right of tempt to count the unnumbered graves of ton, holden at the probate office, in the village ployed in and around the anthracite multiplying tiie island ’s sources of self government. One hundred and twenty- tiie common people, slain as sacrifices to the be reared and every voter taught to use his of 8 t Johns, on Monday the )0th. day of June, coal mines is 147.500; they are employed six years ago today there was assembled In greed and ambition of woultlbe kings and own powers and stand by his convictions. iutheyear one thousand nine hundred un i two income is apparent to every thinking This Intense put ty spirit In our land today is Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge ot Pro­ never to exceed 200 days in any one Philadelphia the congress of the colonies. rulers. Are you willing to exchange It for bate. person, and to these the possibilities at war with the solution of this problem und year, and they receive as compensation offered by fruits and tiie small vege ­ Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of I ri­ any form of government on earth? Would In the matter of the estate of ANNA for their services an average of $1.42 de prudence was before It. The committee of you be u subject of a king or a citizen of the Is one of our greatest.'dangers. Washington K. KEAQEL, deceased. tables appear very strongly. It is warned us against it, saying It was "A tire On reading aud tiling the petition, duly veri­ for a ten-hour work day. It will thus which he was chairman had reported the republic. appreciated tiiat a single crop country not to be quenched, but demands a constant fied. of Abel Hill praylngthat he or Some other be noted tiiat they earn annually less Declaration July 2. It provoked an earnest 'The Declaration of Independence! It lias suitable person may be ap|>olnled adminis ­ than $300. Such pay may supply a Is always at a disadvantage, whether been our guiding stone In the past, it is our vigilance to prevent Its bursting Into flame, trator of said estate. that crop be coffee, corn sugar, cotton and animated .discussion. It was slightly Thereupon It Is ordered, that Thursday, th* living on a par with some classes of changed, but adopted nearly as hope for the future. Jefferson wrote it; lest Instead of waiming^it consume." And European laborers, but who will say it or rice. Crops will fail, markets will Washington, though wise and great and 24th day of July A. I)...1902 at one o’clock go to pieces, over production may Jefferson wrote it. Jefferson spoke Franklin and a host of patriots and states ­ In the afternoon, be assigned Tor the hearing is sufficient to support American not a word In defense of bis Immortal man such as the world has rarely seen en­ good, never pictured to himself the partisan of said petition at the Probate Office In the citizenship or to enable parents to unsettle values, and the land with but of 1900. hungry for gold, unscrupulous and vlliageof St. Johus. a single resource is constantly exposed production. The weather was Intensely dorsed It. And It is further ordered, that notice be educate and maintain their families? warm and It is said that the hungry tiles Washington, the peerless citizen and the daring. given to the persons Interested in said estate, of True it is tiiat a 10 per cent increase to tiie danger of a panic. With the How this spirit engenders hate! How Jt the time and place of said hearing, by caus ­ possibilities presented by tiie fertile from an adjoining stable swarmed thick and central flgure of the revolution, for seven in wages was granted by the coal years defended It, and after terrible cost in falsifies ami conceals! How It prevents us ing a copy of tuis order to be published in the fierce, and being no respeetor of persons by Clinton Isdkpxndekt , h newspaper printed operators as a strike concession twb soil of Cuba, and a climate tiiat from seeing the other side! Take your gen* invites tiie growth of all sorts of biting through the silk stockings of thedel- treasure and blood, the gloom at last was and circulating in said county of Clinton, for years ago, but it is also true that a ,'gates, possibly hastened the end of the dispelled and this sublime declaration of \ ulne party man aud to him there seems to three successive weeks previous to said duy of large proportion of this 10 per cent vegetables, her crops should be varied. be no other side. How we distort the utter­ hearing. Cuba should and could export, not discussion. human rights became a living reality. CHARLES M. MF.RR1I L, was paid hack to t lie companies to buy John Hancock affixed his famous signature Shull we cast. It lightly aside? ances of an opponent! How we magnify Judge of Pro at the suppression of an old powder sugar alone, but coffee, tea, livestock, A true copy! and, because of existing favorable and then sought to Impress upon Ids com­ In 1961 it was assailed and for a time Its their faults and conceal their virtues! How grievance. Moreover, according to rades t he necessity of all hanging together, fate trembled In the bslenoe. but the hero­ we whitewash Jaml conceal the faults aud reliable commercial agencies, the cost conditions, especially fruit and what **T If K VOLCANO'S DEADLY WORK is commonly known in the north as when Franklin, with Ills usual wit and wis­ ism of freemen rolled buck tbe tide of re­ wickednesses of our political friends! With of living lias increased, particularly in bellion and the flag was carried to victory many It seems to be a part of thsir religion from the fall of Pompeii to the Destruction 'garden truck.’ ” dom combined, said. "Yes, Indeed, must ot St. Pierre.” bv I’rof. Charles Morns. LI,. the purchase of food stuffs, from 30 to and "a government of the people, hy the to vote the party ticket straight. You re­ 4.) per cent, so that the purchasing The advantages of Cuba for stock- all hang together, or assuredly we will all D. Most Intensely interesting book ever raising arc thus described by him: hang separately." Thank God, they all people, for the people" did not |»erlsh from member the saying of Governor Plngree. "1 o published. Complete, thrilling and accur­ power of a miner ’s earnings is less this earth. supposed he would hold his nose and vote ate account of greatest disaster that evei be­ than before the strike of 1900. "Much of the cheap land of Cuba is hung together, ami although there fol­ fell tb^ human race-greater even than Pom­ well adapted to stock-raising, being lowed seven years of war. and between Lex­ And In defense of this declaration, saertd the ticket.” Many, we fear, have become so peii. Tells how Martinique, one of the most Tills is a sample of the prosperity supplied with excellent pasture and ington and Yorktown were many bloody to every true American, Grant thundered at accustomed to the stench ot political corrup­ (leautlfiil islands in the world, was suddenly tion that It has ceased to offend. All of this transformed Into a vertlble hell. About ;-io about which the Republicans boast so an abundance of water, both of which battles, yet at last victory came and the Donohon and Fort Henry and Sherman and pages profusely Illustrated with photograph* much and it also illustrates tliebenevl can be depended upon throughout the siarry flag, emblem of the free, was kissed by his hruvu men marched In triumph from comes of partisan zeal. Patriotism nevi r taken la-fore and after the di-aster. I’rai t i- year. No winter feeding or shelter is the winds of heaven, and the United States Atlanta to the sea, and for Its maintenance prompts It. We should remember that the cully only "Martinique Hook" In the Held, olence of the trust magnates, and yit thousands of *lirave men willingly offered claims of country are above party and that for everyone now insists on having Prof. necessary and tiie stock, when ready of America was one of the nations of the Morris's 1km>k and no other. Hest author, the Republican leaders have no time for tiie market, is less dependent on earth. their lives. And through all this terrible before we were partisans we were Ameri­ largest I look, tx-st illustrated, scientifically to apply a remedy to these conditions. good roads or railway transportation The DUtting forth of this delnratlon marks struggle for the maintenance of human cans. accurate. Price $1.50. Agents Wauled. Enor ­ This Intense party spirit Is a menace to mous profits for those who act quickly. Most They are so busy planning great than sugar or tobacco. The great an era In the history of the race. Heretofore liberty there was one man whose memory lltierai terms, outfit 10 cents. I ain't lose a sugar plantations are always large the concessions of roralty to right had been Is enshrined In the affections of the Ameri­ our government and Is the dry rut of Ameri­ minute. Send furoiitHt IMMEDIATELY and profits for great financiers that they but few and meager. Hut on this day. there can people second to none, and who divides can institutions. Here Is work for the lie at work. The chance of a llfc-tlrne for buyers of oxen, which are used for making money. have no time to consider the struggles plowing and for draft animals, while went forth a declaration of human rights the with Washington the love of Ills country­ patriot, to soften political asperities and 4’lark A Co., 222 S. 4th Ht.. Philadelphia* and privations of the wealth producers. themarkets of the cities and towns most perfect and comprehensive the world men. Ills every utterance shows how deep­ (Continued on 3th page.) Penn. THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902

j Mrs. Nellie Smith, after visiting OTICE OP LETTING OP DRAIN LOCAL JOTTINGS. CONTRACT - NOTICE IS HEREBY friends in St. Johns, returned to her Ngiven, That I, / Sexton, County Drain Com­ ’ home in Detroit Monday. missioner oT the County of Clinton ami State The Greatest Glory of this We are in line The Bengal union aid society will of Michigan, will, on the ‘43d day of July. meet with Mrs. Eli Good Wednesday, Mrs. J. A. Wallace and son Stewart. A. O. 1003, on the right of wav e side of July 2J, at one o'clock p. rn. An | who have lieen visiting her sister, Mrs. section 37 In the township of \Yc>.tphallu. invitation is extended to all. H. W. Carrington, In Greenbush, In said county of Clinton, at niue o’clock in | returned to their home in Augusta, the forenoon of that day, proceed to receive Golden Age. Fanners in Greenbush are not satis- bidsfor the construction of a certain Drain . Ky.. Monday, stopping for a short known and designated as “Snyder Drain, ” for Stone Side ­ tied with the recent combination of time in Owosso en route. located and established in the township threshers to raise the price of thresh­ of Westplialiu in said county of Cliutoii. and ing grain, and have formed a stock Mr. and Mrs. Gleun Turner, of described as follows, to-wlt: Commencing Grand Rapids, are here spending the 41 rods e of '« post on the w side of section 23. company to buy a threshing outfit. thence w on the 9* line 80 rods, thence s 33° The same kind of a combination exists week with her sister, Mrs. J. B. w * rod*, thence w 2 rods, tbeuce s 48 rods to in Ionia county, and so public lias the Chapin, and husband. 1 rod w of section corner of 22, 2-1, 20 and 27, walk or Building ttience s 71 rods, tbence w 5 rods n 8 t*°, w 40 deal been made that someone might Mrs. James Goeler and daughter rods s TO0, w 14 rods s 00', w 10 rods s 4.V. w 10 take a uotion to attack them for form ­ Edith, after visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. rod- - Ti . w rod- n . w 50 roil- ending 10 The Great Pan- W. Domer, of Bengal, returned to rods* and 31 rods e of sw corner of nw!4 of n ing a trust. e'/» of section 27, entire length of said drain “ She"’ is in town. their home in Canton. O.. last Monday. 82 30 chains. Stone; See us Said Job will be let by sections. The sec­ 1?. L. Andrus, of Muskegon, succeeds Mr. and Mrs. James Sutherland, tion at tin* outlet of tlie said drain will he let M. K. Plummer as day operator and who have been visiting Miss C. Shaver, first, and the remaining section-in their or­ this village, returned to their home in der upstream, in accord mice with the diagram cashier at this station. Mr. Plummer now on flic with the other papers pertaining is now agent at Coopersville. New York state Monday. to said Drain, in the office of tlie County John Williams, a once familiar Miss Anna Steel, of Bingham town ­ Drain Commissioner of the said County of and get our prices ship. went to Stanton last Friday to Clinton, to which reference may he had by all American character hereabouts, who had been a parties Interested, and bid- will he made and cliargeatthecountyhou.se since last remain four weeks received accordingly. Contracts will be European Menagerie ! J. G. Wise and Victor Clavev went made with the lowest responsible bidder giv­ fall, died in that institution, July 4, ing adequate security for the performance of Triple Circus Hippodrome! l‘J02, aged 80 years. to Grand Rapids last Friday to attend the work, in a sum then and there to la* fixed before placing a meeting of the .Knights of Honor. by me. reserving to myself tlie right to rejec* Oceanic Aquarium and The Klks of Lansing will hold their Mr. Wise was also accompanied by bis nny ami all bids. The date for the completion carnival during the week beginning of such contract, and the terms of payment August 1*. and have arranged with wife and daughter, who visited friends therefor, shall and will be aiiuouneed at the Congrese of Living Phenomena ! in tlie country near Grand Rapids time alfd place of letting. the Bostock company to be present where they remained until the fore Notice is Further Hereby Given. That at with their popular attractions. the time and place of -aid letting, or at such WILL EXHIBIT AT your order. part of the present week. other time und place thereafter to which I, Persons visiting Lansing who desire Mrs. M. L. Keeler and her little tlie County Drain Commissioner aforesaid, a tirst-class hotel at reasonable rates may adjourn thesame, the ns.e —incuts for will be pleased witli their stay at the grand-daughter. Ida Pflegharr, went iKMiettts and the lands comprised wit bin the to Ionia Friday to remain over.Sunday. “Snyder Drain special Assessment District." Downey House. and the apportionments thereof will Walter & Hodge. Mosquitos are unusually numerous Mrs. T. L. Drake, of Detroit, is here tie announced by me and will be spending the present week with her subject to review for one day, from nine and vigorous this season, owing to sister. Mrs. J. H. Corblt. o ’clock in the forenoon until five o ’clock in so much rain. the afternoon. Mrs. R. M. Steel arrived home last Tlie following is a description of tlie scl­ “She” is here. week from her visit in the east. eral tracts or parcelsof land eonslitiitlngthc James McQuiston. of Greenbush Special Assessment District 6f said Drain. Monuments. Mrs. II. A. Trump and sister, Miss mt c=n township, died at the home of her Edith Dunn, returned from their Sw of ii tvq of sw(4. section 23. daughter, Marie Nelson Scott, July W *4 of sw*4 of sw'*, section 23. J, liHij. He was born in Ohio August western trip last Thursday evening. Se*4 of sc1*. section 22. IT. 1 >_•'{, and came to Michigan in 1801. M. V. Allor. of Maple Rapids, left Set* of si*M of sw'4 of sc1*, section 22 this station Saturday for a visit with Nc‘i of m*q of nw'4 of ne ’4. section 27. FRIDAY, JULY 25. A widowand four children, also a sis­ N 4 of ncq of tu Vi. section 27. ter, survive him. He was a member his son Charles at Muir. S '/■, of c W acres of tv1* of ne 1*. section 27. Hands. N ’» ofsO-lftof of wVfiof ticM, section ’27. of the Christian church of Eureka. In­ Miss Jessie Chrichton is spending N V of s9-16of «•'» of ©H of nw l4, section 27 RAJAH terment in Eureka cemetery. the present week in Grand Rapids. Sct-4 of nc'4. section 27. Ne * of neV4 of neU of *eVi. section 27 Largest Elephant that walks the earth, now with tlie great Pan-American W. J. Black, formerly station agent Geo. Stubbs and wife, of Detroit, Now, Therefore, All unknown and non ­ for the Grand Trunk system at Pinck­ after visiting Mr. Stubbs’ parents in resident persons, owners and persons inter ­ Shows. Taller, Longer, Weighs More. Cost More, than Having purchased the equipments ney. was chosen by the company, oyer East Bingham, returned liome Satur­ ested in the ab"*ve described lands, and von, any Elephat ever captured. Samuel Pltchford. John K. Lehman. \Vm. and business of the Bowling Alley, hundreds of other applicants, to serve day. Morris, Imre nee Zimmer, Eddie Lehman. them as agent at St. Johns station as Myo Chapin expects to go to Bay Mrs T. Lehman. Jo. Wohlfert, Joseph Lehman just north of tlie Steel Hotel, have successor of W. H. Burke, resigned to are hereby not i tied that at the 11 me and place View this week to spend tlie balance aforesaid, or at such other time and place A HERD OF PHILIPPINE CATTLE renovated and made attractive the accept a position with the Union of his vacation. thereafter to which said hearing may be ad ­ Pacific as travelling passenger agent, journed. 1 shall proceed to receive bids for Imported direct from tlie Philippine islands for our wonderful new Menageiie place where ladies as well as gentle ­ in which position he will eertainly Mrs. Anna Emmons and daughter the construction of said “Snyder Drain. ” are here spending a vacation in the In the manner hereinbefore stated; and. men may enjoy tlie healthful exercise earn for Ids company many friends. home of her sister-in-law. Mrs Geo. also, that at such time of letting from 9 o ’clock in the forenoon until five o ’clock in without fear of hearing profanity and Charley Stevenson “took in” the H. Stephenson, and family. the afternoon, the assessment for benefits EDNA COOKE sights at the street fair last Monday and the lands comprised within the Snyder indecent language. The place will be and when he went to bed that night A widow's pension of $12 a month Drain Special Assessment District will be Tlie Girl Wonder! The only Lady Somersault Ilsder in the world on a bare- had a bad time with the nightmare. lias been issued to Mary S. Lewis. St. subject to review. kept clean and orderly and a place f<*r Johns. And you and each of you. owners and per­ back horse. A challenge of $10,000 to produce her equal. In his struggles he “let go his right” sons Interested In the aforesaid lands, are pleasant pastime and exercise in bowl ­ and struck tlie wall, seriously injuring Mrs. Frank E. Duremus and son hereby cited to appear at the time and place ids hand. Charley should engage a Robert, of Detroit, are here spending of such letting as aforesaid, and la* heard ing and playing billiards. Please give tlie present week with her sister. Mrs. with respect to such special assessments und ANNA COOKE horse trainer to tame that nightmare your Interests in relation thereto, if you -o us a call and be convinced that what of his before it gets away from 1dm Chas. Hulse. desire. The only Lady Four and Six-Horse Rider tlie world has ever produced. For Dated, St. Johns, Mich., July 1. A D.. 1901. we here say is true. again. Mrs. O. L. Spaulding, of Washing­ /.. SEXTON. grace and skill she lias no equal. Mrs. L. V. Hane, who has been an ton. arrived at her summer home in Countv Drain Commissioner of the county of invalid for many years, and well and this village, Tuesday afternoon, to re­ Clinton. favorably known to the people of main to tlie end of tlie season. Respectfully, Maple Rapids and St. Johns, left her Miss Sadie Rlchardsou, of Bath, is CAPT. SANTIAGO. HIGH DIVER. home in Dupluin township last week visiting hercousins, the Misses Shaw, Tlie world ’s highest diver; actually flings himself backward from tlie iiighest for Califosaia. where she hopes to at tlie Farmers hotel. Grand Trunk Railway System shun the terrible electrical storms Mrs. Ira A. Shaw accompained her point ever dived from. Turner & Evans, which effect iier nervous system so mother, Mrs. Richardson, to Bath to West-Bound from St. Johns . much in tldscountry. visit her Mrs. Shaw's) grandmother, No. 19—Morning Exp. to Gd. Haven, 11 :C0 an. More than all the Adam-Named and Noah-Saved Hulti-Famous Zoologi ­ Prop, of Bowling Alley. Have you seen ‘‘sins?” who was recently seriously injured by No.13—Mall and Chicago Exp. to Gd. Haven ...... 3:15 pm cal Wonders. Chauncey Pattengill was arrested a fall. Her advanced age is against St. Johns ... Michigan and locked up by Marshall Keeney her but she is reported to be doing No 11- Express to Grand Rapids 7 :57 prr well. No. 17 —Western Exp. to Oil. Haven 7:25atr last Tuesday for being drunk and dis ­ Nos. 19. 13. 11. Dally except Sunday HERD OP TRAINED ELEPHANTS orderly upon tlie streets of St. Johns. STAND IIY Til K I) 1C Cl. A Il.VT I IN Of No. 17 Daily. The accused was arraigned before .lus­ IMM riM»KN( I.. Trained Jaguars, Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Bears, Lynxs, Wildcats, Grizzlies, tier Marshall yesterday morning. He (Continued from 4tli page.) East -Bound Catamounts, Horses, Stallions, Monkeys and Ponies. pleaded guilty to the charge, w hereup­ throttle this demon of party. It demands No. 12—Express to I»< t rolt and East 8 ;28 an, $52? SAVED on he was sentenced to tlie Detroit brave men and true. To what crime* it No. 23— Mall to Detroit ...... 11:35 urr TO ALL POiflTS EAST AND WEST House of Correction fora term <»f «»•'» leads otherwise decent citizens! How It No. 18— Evening Exp. to Detroit and /OO EXALTED CIRCUS CHAMPIONS IN 150 SUPREME VIA THE LINE. days, as tlds was ids second offence of debuuches public sentiment ! Where is the East ...... -...... 4:42 pa ACTS this kind. David that will attempt to -day this Gdliatli; No. 14 -Eastern Exp. to Durand and Norman Clapsaddle was arrested We need men; bruve, earnest and true, who East ...... 8:52 pa. tlust Two Boats' and locked up by Marshal Keeney last dare to refuse to obey the mandate of party Nos. 20. 18. 12. Dally except Sunday. Grand, Golden, Glittering, Mile.Long Street Parade at to O’clock a.m. D F.TR01T& ijG FFA L0 Monday for being drunk upon tlie and who dare sometimes split their ticket. No. 11. 12, 14, and 17 Daily High Give at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. W. II. BURKE, streets of St. Johns. As lie iiad no “God grre us men, the times like these de ­ Agent. money the public would have been mand obliged to pay his board bill and care “Strung minds, great hearts, true faith and All Tents are Waterproof. Excursions on all Railroads. / a p4, for Ids family during the time of his ready hands, Michigan Suburban Railroad. Doors open at 1 and 7 p.m. Performances at 2 and 8 p.m. v incarceration. Therefore, he was dis ­ “Men whom lu>t for office doth not kill; . charged upon the promise that lie "Men whom the spoils Of office can not buy, Sc would keep sober. “Men who possess opinions aad a will, IN EFFECT JUNE 22. 1002. “Men who have honor and who will not lie: Lv. St. John* —8 20 a.m), 1.15 p.m., 6.15 pm At about six o'clock last Saturday Alt. LANsiN-o-9.00a.nl., 2 00 p.ni., <1.55p.m night there were !* s rigs hitched on “Men who can stand before^a demagogue STANDARD \ the east side of Clinton avenue and “And meet his treacbetou- llattery without PAY WHEN CURED $c. v Lv. L.a .vsi .vg —7.30 a.m., 11X a.m., 5.00 p.m 112 on the west side. Besides these winking. A it St. Jon vs—8.15 a.m., 11.50 A.m., 5.45 p ni DR e. A. MUNCH, | ;Vf& there were many on tlie side streets, “Tall men, suncrowned, who live above the the eminent special Rotary fog in tlie feed barns and on tlie move. SUNDAY TRAIN S. ict and consulting Shuttle St. Johns is a popular farmers' town. “In public duty and in private thinking." Sewing mr-, Remembering my promise, I must now for ­ I.V-. St. Jotixs -10.00 a.m.. 5.00 p.m. physician of the ■ A(( ^ Mrs. James Anstey, of Pompeii, is Ah. La nsing 10.40 a.m.. 5.40 p.m. Machine spending the week in our village, bear. I am not here to prophesy utir down Detroit Medical and fall, though I see grave dangers in our path­ shaking hands and reviewing the ansi no 4.00 p.m. Surgical Institute, way. Hut I am here to urge you to guard Lv . I -9.00 a.m.. old pioneer days with old time friends. Ah. St Johns—9.45 a.m., 4.15 p rn. carefully every avenue of danger, that you who has five diplo­ DETROIT 6 BUFFALO. Mrs. Anstey resided here when trails mas end honorary were used instead of streets, and those may preserve by your virtue tills priceless f 10.00 book tickets on salt for * 8 .00. STE&MBOAT CO. were happy days. blessing, a people ’s government. I fondly 1). W. JOHNSTON. diplomas, can name hope, yea, I believe, that the American peo ­ Manager, Lansing. ana locate any disease or weakness Win. Welhusen. of East Bingham, ple are lit for self-government and that they sold to Wilbur Church seven last fall’s ultimately will guide tlie ship of stute, without asking questions. v- pigs, their combined weight being freighted with its priceless blessings, along UUa Piisa Catarrh, Asthma, 1.780 N CLCVtL.<, pounds, an aveaage of “.’>4 pounds the pathway marked out by the fathers. WO wure Bheumati«n.Pi*«, each, for $125. DR. FENNER’S Couhchcino JUNE 10th The destiny of tlds nation Is in our own Paralysis, Canosrs, Tumors, Rup­ Improved l'ail/ Exprrs. .Service (14 hour.) between There will be a special meeting of hands) we may make it the pride and glory DETROIT a -= BUFFALO Grisson \V. It. C. No. 20 on Tuesday of the earth or we may wreck It upon the tures, Varicocele, Heart, Lung, Skin, evening, July 22. All members are Blood, Kidney, Bladder and Leave DETROr Daily - - 4- PM. shoals of monarchy and strife. To preserve Arrive at BUTi ALO • • • 8.00 A. M. requested to be present. It, we must be true to our ideals, true to our ­ KIDNEY -d PHIVATI! DISEASES Connection* with aii ra Iroadi tor points *:ssT. The Electric Palace, 'located at the selves. We must remember that the obliga ­ of Men, and Women. Lc*ve Buffalo Daily - . 5.30 P. M. corner of Clinton ave. and Walker tions of citizenship are higher than these of Arrive at DETROIT • • • 7.00 A.M. streets, presents one of the most party and never hesitate to rebuke our party No matter WHAT your disease or Connecting with K*riie»t trains tor all] nts in Il( II* pleasing entertainments of the street rather than Injure our country. weakness, or who has failed to cure lliAN and the W ENT, aifro with l». M V. LIRE of st»*ar.:- Backache STANDARD GRAND. ara for all ’.ej ot to w’.iarf. By and interesting features. civil war and come forth purified. And niav cure for you. If necessary write Dr. Fenner, tick of a watch. Maks' 300 stitches while other doing this we will save you $3.00 to any lb* has spent a life time curing Just such rsfsrenoe, machines make 200. point East or West. John C. Calkins, a former resident we not hope that as the years go by the cases as yours. All consultations Free. PAT WHEN CUBED. Apply to our local dealer, or if there is no A. A. SCHANTZ, C. P. A., Oetrolt, M’ch. duties and repousibilitles of citizenship may dealer In your town, address and business man of St. Johns, and for “Eight months in bed. heavy backache, If impossible to see DR. MUNCH, a number of years last past been en­ be better understood and appreciated and pain and soreness across kidneys, also rheu­ THE gaged in the mercantile business in that it may yet become the highest ambition matism Other remedies failed. Dr. Fen­ write us for information, circulars, etc., Benton Harbor and the far west, lias of each one of us to add to tlie nation ’s se­ ner's Kidney mid Backache Cure cured me address the president DB. H. X. Standard Sewing Mach. Co. returned to St. Johns with his famll), curity and glory. And I can blit believe completely. H. WATERS. Ilamlet, N Y.” HLRFEB, care Detroit Medical and and will be interested in business with that the nation whose llliertles were first Druggists. 50c., fl. Ask for Cook Book Free. E, M. SMITH, Agent, Surgical Znatitute, Detroit, Mich. his father. bought with the blood of the brave men of OT WlTIlO’n A liPC Pure Cure. Circular. Dr St. Johns, Mich. The circuit court was occupied two 1770, and consecrated and hallowed by the 0 I • VII Uo UANuC Fenner, Fredonla.N.Y To accommodate people DR, MUNCH days of the present week with the herioc deeds of the citizen soldiers of 1801 and will visit monthly. divorce case of Elizabeth Van Wormer, lsivi will overcome every obstacle, outride 8TKKI. HOTEL, St. John*. I) a. m. to 7 of Elsie, vs. Law rence Van Wormer. every storm and disappoint every enemy, Xutduuo^ p. in .Friday. July‘2.1. Ovid. Kean llouo>, 'Pile defendant tiled a cross bill on and live through tin* ages, a menace and a Saturday, July -2(1, l.uiiiK*t>iirK, Norton California no Hotel, Tuesday, July 33. which a decree was granted without warning to kings and despots and a beacon alimony or costs to either party. light of glory to the downtrodden and op ­ —SUCD Ul II. II. Fitzgerald, formerly of the pressed. And as we prize the tree of human AiiAJ MORE LIVES ARE SAVED St. Johns News, lias purchased the liberty, may water It with prayers and tears PI°S ...BY USING... in Summer Flint Globe of E. J. Ottoway, of ! add patriotic deeds. And may no act of ours tarnish the glory of the flag or detract 8*><> from Chicago Detroit, and George B. McIntosh, Or. King ’s New Discovery, 847.JO from St. Lonh formerly proprietor of the Owosso . from l In- luster of a single star. ....FOIL... | And In the coming years, on the annlvers- *T»0 American. Mr. Fitzgerald, who is a sin'.! jo am KUiJfrom Kansas City Beautiful Complexions i ary of this-acred day, may our song of 11 b- good newspaper man, takes hold of the 9t|t «* Out iiibI hack j erty, this glad anthem of a free people, be J >(M| SJV.IM Consumption, Coughs and Colds Como from pure, nntalntod blood. No Globe at once and his management | each succeeding year more grand and more jna ‘mju Than By All Other Throat And August 2 to M complexion can bo muddy, mottled or sal assures the people of Flint a paper glorious, until Ju-tlce and truth arc en 9jy\ X uieoo | Lung Remedies Combined. low If tbe blood is i>nr<>; no complexion cue that will be full of news written in a ; throned In every depaument. of our govern- tiljdif A|no ((nick ami cool way to go I*? clear of blenilsln s If t he blood is not pure. ‘ merit and liberty and love reign supreme In lou tsamcq Thi$ wonderful » medicine positively Harvey Meal Service More than this; disease cannot exist till bright, readable style. every hope. i ‘jnDpu» body supplied with pure blood. This lstli ajwfp oj a >«j cures Consumption, Coughs, Colds, ^ See Grand Canyon of secret of the success of Celery King. It •jilt qfnoj o*^ makes pure blood. List of Letter*. Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneumonia, Hay Arizona and Yosemite. PERSONAL. no •Ucajq |oa op Fever,Pleurisy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness, Celery Kina cures constipation, Nerve, Remaining In the St. Johns postoffice week «Ji{ >inc^ *»iq« Btoinucb, Liver uml Kidney diseases. 8 ending, July 8, 1902. -ijd puc *jo* Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Address, tlen’l Agent’s Office, Albert Himes, of Soutfi Bingham, A. T. A s. K. K’y. 1.11 Griswold (.'arldon, Lera Hiller Montoe, Mrs. .T. C. SS1NHVUMump aqi «)si« Cough. NO CURE. NO PAY. rent to Corunna Monday to visit t'ressman. Mr. Clide McConnol. Watie aj >f *fi(> t«au Price 50c. & $1. Trial Bottle Free. Street, Detroit, Mich. rlends. Corey, Miss Eva Mot’un. Mr. Ed •Jiff r^ajnTf qii* L T. HORTOF Davis, Mi-s Katie McPherson, John Dealer in best Hard and Soft Woot Mrs. E. J. McIntyre, who had been Gould, Mrs. Mary Scoot, Larry pai«jj) t*aujeq Hunter, Mr. no )3a|ja od »A«q Flour and Feed, Hay, and Grain. (siting Iter grandson, Guy C. Longcor, Tubbs, Mr. Howard yjaxaJ)«**« rub uit^f Subscribe for the INDE­ Tvler, Miss Rhea Kuhns, Miss < iral luring the last six months, went to Miller, Mr. Clarence Warren. Mr. David Santa Fe ST. JOHNS, MICH. roronto, Canada, last Monday. WILL H. BRUNSON, P.M. PENDENT. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY JULY 17. 1902,

REED’S FEE TOO MODEST. lion crouched over her Are, her great, violet eyes staring In dense terror at Ex-Speaker Evinces a Trait Little the flames. For hours she had eat Some Famous Trees Characteristic of Lawyers. A Thankful Heart. • there cowering under a sense of im­ A man of national reputation had pending doom; suffering the agony of in Washington Streets occasion some months ago to employ a hundred deaths. No torture devised the services of Mr. Thomas B. Reed (Special Letter.) by man so intense so agonizing as in a case before the United States Thou art not rich, thou art not poor. that of undefined fear. She clenched J M ERICA’S history might In the Botanical gardens there Supreme court. He met the ex­ Thy fortune keeps the middle way; her hand until the blood sprang from f almost be told in the grows a young oak whose gracefully speaker in New York and after con ­ No Ills thy strength cannot endure. her tender palm and dyed her perfect trees of Washington City; outstretched branches are a-qulver cluding the arrangements for present­ Apportioned to the passing day. nails; low moanings broke from her Thou art not young, thou art not old. not in the long lines of with shiny green leaves. An Amer­ ing the case for the corporation which Yet. calm thou seest thy years depart; palid lips. ‘He would not come, he rustling maples, nor the ican traveler, who was paying his re- he represented, said to him: And joys are thine, a thousandfold — would not come, and to-morrow would clusters of vivid oaks spectB at the tomb of the great phil- "And now, D(r. Reed, I should like Because thon hast the thankful heart. be too late, too late. Oh, God; the l ) that clothe the capital in ospher who lived five hundred years Uj pay you a retaining fee at once. ” A thankful heart for life alone — bitterness of a luxury that defeats beauty for nine months before Christ and who wrote the six - “Ob, never mind that now," was the For beauty In the earth and skies, love. ’ out of the twelve; but in a few sacred books of the Chinese, picked reply; “wait until I think it over, and (And for such share as thou dost own “The man fought on, not knowing gnarled old trees whose fame has an acorn from the grave and brought I shall write to you." By happy gift of seeing eyes). For human love’s endearing bond. that he fought. Over rage and resent­ reached down through years and it as a souvenir to -Charles A. Dana. The man was in Washington when Where stauchty thou dost bear thy ment a desire had come to him, more which stand as monuments to tho Mr. Dana in turn gave it to Represen­ he received Mr. Reed ’s letter. The part — blinding than the blue flare of the men who have made the country. tative Amos J. Cummings, who was ex-speaker began by saying that he For solace here, and hope beyond— was “a young fellow in the law busi­ For all thou hast the thankful heart. lightning. The desire to be with her, First among these is Washington ’s a personal friend of Superintendent I to breathe the intoxicating perfume of elm, aptly termed “America’s greatest Smith of the Botanical gardens. To ­ ness, ” and was "afraid of charging So, to this day of crowning cheer. her hair, to feel the wild beating of monument, ” and planted by Ameri­ gether they planted the acorn, and too much,” and concluded by saying By easy course thy steps did tend, ca’s greatest man. With graceful now the 9turdy little Chinese tree that if $1,000 wasn ’t too high he Since with each day of all the year her heart on his, to crush her lips be­ \ \ branches that each year are as young may serve also to keep green the might send that amount. The rest of Some grateful leaven ^hou didst blend. neath kisses strong as eternity, eager No chance thy prize from thee can as life. His foot sunk into deepening with green as though their parent memory of Mr. Cummings, whose the letter was written in Mr. Reed's wrest; were not as old as the land, U stands death his colleagues in Congress la­ characteristic style of droll humor. i While life shall last thou shalt not part water and a stream of heaven’s blue bright against the historic houses mented a few weeks ago. “I wouldn ’t have balked for a mo ­ 0 With that good gift (of all the best). fire showed him the bridge —a mass The treasure of a thankful heart. of broken timbers heaped upon the about it, a worthy rival for that other Among the interesting trees in the ment, at paying a fee of $23,000," —Edith M. Thomas In Harper’s Bazar, farther shore. Before him, wild, National gardens are tho two “Peace said the corporation man, in telling of wicked water, but not hell a-gape, Oaks.” They were planted in 1863 it afterward, “but I drew a check and would have stopped him now. Into from acorns brought from Kentucky wrote a letter about liko this: by John J. Crittenden and Robert “‘Dear Mr. Reed: If the young fel­ the raging water, beating against it Malloy of that state, both of whom lows in the profession are going to Mr ❖ defying it, his magnificent muscles strove so particularly in the interest be such bears in the market, how are strained like whipcords, his face come many hundreds of times more. of peace at the beginning of tho the older ones going to make a liv­ blanched, his lips numb. civil war. From the acorns of these ing? I have taken the liberty of tam­ Realism vs. Romanticism. • At last they said good-night in the “The door burst open, Genevieve moonlight. And if there be any among historic trees Superintendent Smith pering with your bill by inclosing a Trevallion sprang to her feet. The raised 300 young shoots, which were check for $2,500.’ ” BY P. H. LANCASTER. you who have not counted the mo ­ man stood before her. His grand (Copyright, 1502, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) ments by the delicious quiver of a recently planted on tho battle of The next morning the man received They were sitting on the gallery in eyes, black and passionate as the Chickamauga, Georgia. the following telegram: heart beat against your own, I shall night, burned into hers. His breath the twilight and the discussion began not strive to picture to you that pleas­ Perhaps the most apparently won ­ “Washington, D. C.—You are alto ­ by the Woman Who Wrote taking ex­ came in hoarse, gasping sobs. Pallid, derful tree in the city is the great gether too good for this world. ant parting, for no words could make spent, unkempt as the storm, he stood ception to the extravagant praise be­ it plain; and if there be those among redwood in the Agricultural grounds "T. B. Reed." stowed upon a modern book. before her. Wet as a drowned rat!” The Wishing Tree. —which, after all, is not a tree, but Mr. Reed won the case for the cor ­ you who have, neither will I expend “Ah, how outrageous!" “It is not true; not possible. If a monument, the magnificent obelisk a house. The monster trunk was poration. —Saturday Evening Post energy u pon useless endeavor, for you “But he was wet,” she protested. human woman had attempted to live back of the White House. Beneath hewed into sections and shipped to know that no words may do it justice. “Bother; if we cannot escape prosaic through such a series of sensations So for the sunshine. The shadow its ancient branches Washington Washington, where it was set up in CRUDE FARMING IN JAPAN. details let’s have tea." she would have died of heart failure seems to step out of the vague pages the shape of a house. There is a came next day with his letter. “My As the Woman Who Wrote arose to In a week; or, been sent to an asylum of history into breathing reality. It door of ordinary size that opens hos­ Still Agriculture is a Very Old Sci­ own dear Polly, The Indians are up follow the others, the Newspaper Man for the Insane." is the only tree of the many that pitably into quite a livable room. From ence in the Land. stopped her. the center of this a stairway winds to Although Japanese methods of The Newspaper Man cut in dryly: he had planted that survives to-day; “Did you really kiss that knife ’s a story above. The upper room has farming appear ernde enough to Am­ “Realism wiil never appreciate ro ­ a touch of nature that makes the handle?” a peaked roof and large windows that ericans and Europeans, it is well to manticism.” modern Washingtonian feel truly akin “What knife?” look out in all directions on the remember that agriculture is a very “I wish to goodness that I could un ­ to the “Father of His Country. ” “The one I cut ham with that The “Barbecue” trees are two re­ grounds. Tho bark is over a foot old science in the land of the Mikado. derstand what is meant by realism night.” markably beautiful circular groves thick, and in one place is charred It was introduced there 2,700 years end romanticism, ” announced the “Why, you crank, you and I have just south of tho Washington elm. from the effects of some camp fire before Christ by an emperor who was 'green Girl never been anything to each other." They were planted during President built by Indians, or perhaps some pio ­ afterward deified as god of the crops, “Why, the difference Is Just this.” “Don ’t be too sure of that. Remem­ Jackson ’s administration for the bar­ neer in the early days of emigration. in recognition of his great services to responded the Woman Who Wrote. ber the damage I did to your mother’s becue celebrations, one grove for the Standing in tie rear grounds of the the people. “Realism deals with what would china. If you hadn’t been as cold as use of the Democrats, tho other for capitol is a tree which contradicts The soil had been cultivated in an probably happen—every-day flesh and an iceberg you would hare been bet­ the Whigs. Their quaint history does the theory that lightning never inferior way before that time, but this blood. Romanticism with impossible ter posted on realism. When your not affect the children who play under strikes twice in the same place. Su­ enterprising ruler saw the needs of creations of nerve and fury. For in­ own heart is going like a buzz-saw their shade nor the nurse maids who perintendent Wood declares that ho better methods. He taught the peas­ stance: you can ’t feel the beat of another roll their little charges beneath has seen the dome of the capitol ants by his own example, plowing a “Once upon a time there was a man against it. See? This is realism.” them. struck several times, and on each oc ­ small plot of ground and sowing it and a woman in a gaudy little garden The tree planting fashion set by casion a tiny fork has darted off at with five most important cereals. In and life looked glad. But as the sun An Effervescent Maharajah. Washington has been so generally fol ­ a tangent and struck the tree. How ­ the course of a few years every hill­ hastened to its setting the glow of On the first consignment of seidlitz lowed by his successors that the ever, this arboreal Ajax vigorously side and valley in Japan was smiling their gladness began to dim, for to powders to the Maharajah of Sing- White House grounds are as green defies electric bolts. Though its ready for harvest the man sunset meant return to camp, pur that monarch was deeply inter ­ as a forest with historic oaks and bark is stripped off and its sturdy This was accomplished, too, in spite and to the woman, making hot bis- ested in the accounts of the refresh­ elms. Cleveland represents an- ex­ old trunk burnt and seared by the of difficulties. The soil of Japan is -0011 for supper. So they watched the ing box. A box was brought to the ception. He once said something lightning's play, it stands like a naturally of very poor quality. The grave sentinel silently guarding the Betting sun and their words were few­ potentate in full court, and the in ­ very blunt about the nonsense of tree entire country is of volcanic forma ­ House end of the capitol. er as their eyes grew wistful. For terpreter explained to his majesty planting for “the name of the thing,” tion, and' only one-twelfth of the land Within the walled garden of tho this is ever so in life, novelist to the The door burst open, Genevieve Tre- how it should be used. Into a goblet though his wife when a bride added Is flat enough for farming. The farms contrary, notwithstanding. A full valion eprang to her feet. he put the twelve blue papers, and, to the mansion grounds a blood leaf of to-day are divided into very small heart makes not a ready tongue. and we have been ordered against having added water, the king drank Japanese maple. sections, each hardly larger than a • “Then into the garden came the them.” Do not condemn him for it off. This was the alkali, and the A graceful American elm in the potato patch, but every inch is culti­ maiden aunt of the woman, and she breaking it so rudely. His heart was Royal countenance expressed no sign south of the grounds is treasured by vated. The implements are crude. made obeisance to the man and said hurting him too badly to think of of satisfaction. * the gardeners because tho hands of After being plowed, the soil is loo- to him in pleasant, every-day, un ­ finesse. It is ever so with an ordi ­ It was then explained that in the John Quincy Adams planted it there. ened with a long-handled spade, an It grows no less beautiful with the grammatical talk, that she would be nary man, pain makes him impatient. combination of the two powders lay is then ready for the planting. Th_ years and its story, like all stories much pleased to have him make a Well, the woman felt troubled; be­ the luxury, and the twelve white sickle used in harvesting is little cause she missed him, and because all powders were quickly dissolved In of history, grows richer each season. larger than a curved bread knife. third at their teatable. Let any man President Harrison took double tvho has learned to prize the presence at once she could think of him only water, and as eagerly swallowed by his majesty. chances of living forever in the The recent death of Lord Wantage of one woman above all others say as of a still, white face upturned to hearts of his countrymen by planting affords a curious example of how peer­ the moon. She went to the machine With a shriek that will be remem­ what was in the heart of the man ps two trees. His once famous grand ­ ages die out. He was the first and last he followed the old maid and the and made a couple of shirt waists with bered while Singpur lasts the mon ­ arch rose, stared, exploded, and, in children, Baby McKee and his smaller of the line, though the title was not woman into the dining-room that tucked fronts and insertion as per or ­ sister, also dug holes and put in elm conferred upon him in 1885 with any der, then she read the newspaper to his full agonies, screamed: “Hold smelled of new bread and sad salmon. saplings that are now tall and grace ­ Washington's Elm. Idea of its being only a life peerage, “ 'We will not bother about biscuit keep from going into the garden. She me down! ” Then, rushing from the throne, fell prostrate on the floor. ful young trees. famous old Octagon house a lilac for he was a very wealthy man. Lord to-night. Polly, if you will slice some did not care to talk about it—sym­ There ho lay during tho long-contin ­ The “Bulletin ” tree, a tall sylvan tree was cut down not long ago whose Wantage had no children. There has cold bread, ’ spake the aunt. But the pathy upsets one ’s self-control. But ued effervescence of the compound, sentinel that guards the White House history is one of romance. It was been a great deal of talk lately about Interfered, declaring himself to the hurt in her heart grew worse as man groaning as surely monarch never gate, has a tragic history. When Gar­ called the Aaron Burr lilac, and its model saloons that are run by peers, be familiar with the weapons, and the day died and when the time cam* field was shot and the city was in a but it was not generally known that for tea, she felt as though the food groaned before, and believing himself death was due to old age. The lilac laying hold upon the bread knife, at­ in the agonies of death—a melan­ ferment of anxiety to receive reports was made famous during the tempor ­ Lord Wantage was the first peer to was choking her beforehand. of his condition more continuously tacked the loaf valorously. Where­ choly and humiliating proof that ary residence of President Madison in run an establishment of this kind. He The eyes of the woman grew warm than the press could furnish them, upon the old maid went to the pantry kings are mortal. the Octagon house at the time direct ­ started a model inn in Arlington long for the tea. The door latch clicked with tears as she looked upon the the doctors in attendance decided to ly after the British fired the White before the rise of the Gothenburg sys­ bread knife and thought of those issue hourly bulletins, which were tem, In closing and the bread-knife was in Age Limit and Hair Dye. House. great, clumsy slices, but she assented as tacked high on the body of this es­ the left hand of the man and his right For a long time there has been The story goe3 that Burr was en ­ a matter of course. Her fingers closed pecial tree. There was always a Thirty years ago in Japan the Seri arm was about the shoulders of the close to complete cessation in the amored of the beautiful Mistress Dol ­ over the horn-handle and that haunt­ crowd about it, and as the clerks of tures were printed secretly, and copi< woman. His breath raised her hair, manufacture of hair dye, but in the ly, who promptly forbade him the ing, upturned face left her. She saw the various Government departments were sent out only after dark. Tho: and then that happened which will al­ past year or so a boom has developed house. One morning in early spring ways happen when any ordinary man him again beneath the hanging lamp, passed on their way to and from the the infatuated Aaron climbed over who were engaged upon this work d in that branch of industry. The gen ­ offices the crowd became a living it at the risk of their lives. No end woman whose hearts have gone his eyes aglow with mixed up love and eral establishment of an age limit the wall and hid in the lilac bush mischief. Ah! how good to be able mass of humanity that blocked the until he saw' the President ’s wife, there Is a> Christian printing compar Into each other’s keeping, chance to in the employment of men in com ­ pavement on both sides of the tree in Yokohama, issuing the Scrlptun And themselves alone together and to think of him once more as her dear mercial and mechanical pursuits is as was her custom, come into the gar ­ bad boy. from the White House railings to den to read. No sooner was she not only in Japanese, but in Chines cafe from the eyes of others. For the said to be responsible for this un ­ the street. Those near the tree would Thibetan, Korean and two dialects < When the house was still, she car­ expected revival. An official of the seated than he threw himself at her ried the knife to her room and cov ­ read out the news bulletins while feet. Mrs. Madison sent him off — the Philippine islands. Last yei American Federation of Labor says their listeners, men and women, black there were circulated in Japan aloe ered its handle with tears and kisses. he knows for a fact of many men who through the front door —and from Trouble not yourself with idle ques­ and white, stood silently by the com ­ that time on she never would have over 138,000 copies. are using dyes to hide their gray mon brotherhood of sympathy. tionings. whether the man came back lilacs an the breakfast table, though hairs and hosts of others who shave Across from the White House, In Opportunity to make *30 weekly everywhere. they had always been her favorite Le^UInmto Unit will nokotou rich. AiMruna. from the wars or.no; for when a man constantly to look young enough to for information Ditto dk Co. 104 K. litlth St., New York. I/afayette square, is a dwarf chest­ blooms. has won such love from a woman that be able to hold their positions. Sta­ nut known as the Wishing tree. Its she kisses handles for his sake, he has tistics prove that it is every day be­ We should ’ never mako enemies, if for “Fathers" of the Republic. no other reason, because it Is so hard to seen his Austerlitz; let him beware coming more difficult for a man past behave toward tthorn as- we ought. —PaU lest he live too long and so look upon the prime of life to secure employ ­ George Washington was but 43 hier. when he took command of the Con ­ The highest suspension bridge In the- his Waterloo. ” ment. Tho skilled mechanic engi ­ world Is at Fribourg. Switzerland. “That’s realism.” neer or employe who wants a job in tinental army in 1775. Alexander “In all save one particular,” com ­ any service must have youth as well Hamilton was only 32 when he be­ mented the Newspaper Man. as ability. If he doesn ’t possess it ho came the first United States secretary Tho Woman Who Wrote spoke hur­ must counterfeit it. Presumably the of state in 1789; he had signed the constitution at 30 and had been a cap­ riedly, “Now for romanticism: elderly man with a bald head must m DENT’S tain in the Continental array at 19. “It was a wild, dark night, dark as wear a wig in order to cover his years. James Madison was but 36 when he g Toothache death. The rain poured down in cease­ became the “father” of entr constitu ­ less torrents; the wind tore the thou­ Repairing Longfellow's Home. tion at the convention of 1787. w.m Gum sand-year-old monarchs from the for ­ The repairs on the outside of the old Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declare est and lashed the sea into a raging Longfellow home, Portland, Me., have tion of Independence shortly after bis mass of inky waters. Against it all, begun. The house 1b to have a new 33d birthday. Vhen he attended the STOPS TOOTHACHE. Why Ruffcrt in the very teeth of the storm, the Carry a package of Dent's Toothache roof and the woodwork and blinds are ! The Bulletin Tree. ratifying convention in 1788 James Gum; applied to cavity or surface re­ man held on his way. Heedless of the to be painted. The floor in the vestl- I old brown trunk is gnarled and squat­ Monroe was but 30 years of age; at lieves IwtHtly. Not a chewing gum. howl and roar, heedless of the jagged bule, from the street, is to be restored 32 he was United States senator; at Insist oa DENT'S, the origin*) and only ty, but its crooked branches give mag ­ trustworthy. All druggist?, or by mail* lightning that leaped from the lower ­ to its original appearance, and the 36 United States envoy to France, and Cba bread knife was in the left hand nificent shade. Tradition goes that a ISo. C. ft. DENT A CO.. Twtrolt. Mlcth ing heavens. Deaf, blind, lost to con- old stone front doorstep, which has wish whispered by any one while hug­ at 41 governor of Virginia. of the man and his right arm was sclousnss of aught save the sting of been covered up for many years, is to about the woman ’s shoulder. ging the big tree never fails to come wounded pride and the fierce resent­ be raised and used again, as formerly. true. Characteristic of Kruger. ipace of a moment, heaven hung over ment of an outraged love. None save Over this old step the family have The park guard tells a story of a An anecdote of President Kruger the breadboard, then a loose plank gods or devils would have braved such gone from the beginning of the house. colored woman who used to drag her is told in a letter received in New iy WAIT YOUR TRIBP •queaked and the woman began to lay a night, but he----- What was beat of On it stood Zilpah Iyongfellow, in 1798. tired way through tho grounds every York from one of the British oCtcera places for six and the man cut slices rain and lash of wind? What was the mother of the poet Ixmgfellow, and every night after a hard day ’s work who was captured with Gen. Methuen Yon can Kay of us at whole­ %t a thickness to beat the band. this wild storm without, compared to presented a standard to the Portland at her place of service in the First by Gen. Delarey. sale prices and save money. The man ’s hand touched the wom ­ the fiercer one raging within? The federal volunteers, the first uniformed wa’d. One evening she heard about A pious Boer, arguing against war Our 1,000-page catalogue tells en ’s Intentionally as he passed plate rage of passion that sent the blood military company in Maine. This tho wonderful virtues of the old after the struggle with the English the story. We will send it upon tnd platter. Marvel not, ye mortals seething through his veins, and beat company was reorganized as the chestnut, and putting her weary arms had become inevitable, said that na ­ receipt of 15 cents. Your neighbor* >f mundane flesh and blood, that the In his brain like hammers. Portland light Infantry, and next year around its trunk begged for a bicycle. tions as well as individuals when trade with ns— why not you ? tea drank that night was a nectar "The crimson curtains with their the members are anticipating a cen­ She had hardly got out of the grounds smitten on one cheek ought to turn lompared to which the ambrosia of satin fringings swept to the floor, tennial celebration. —Boston Tran­ when she picked up a fine bicycle the other. script. “Exactly,” exclaitaed Oom Paul, he gods was but as milk and water, shutting out the storm and the night. lamp, and she plodded along her homeward way, firmly convinced that “but Scripture doos not say what wo ’or all that I have told is very true They could not shut out the wind that Don ’t sit up lats or be late to me&l^ If she had only wished a lit’je harder should do next, and manhood speaks CHICAGO sd has come to pass many hundreds howled and shrieked like a thousand Both are unsanitary^ she would have found her bicycle. up and says; ‘‘Thrash the fellow. ’ ’’ The house that tells the tra 4 times, and if the world holds will fiends in torment. Genevieve Tr«val- CLINTOS INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY. JULY 17, 1902.

rick’s day, no matter what the trade, even if they do not at times No Petrified Songs There. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Eaaa wea1 am her Men ran toward the hotel In squads, not be sure of this. In London there Is a fur company father, and the rightful ocstodtan ‘Of waving their arms wildly. * He also met numerous persons, fly­ A Fortunate Postmaster. Kirk, Ark., July 14th.—Mr. William which was established during the our family honor. Perhaps 1 may ire- Was it an opportunity to quench ing this way and that, maddened with reign of Henry VIIL sort to other and more drastic meas­ tho thirst that frequently burns Irish fear. 8. Drennan, Postmaster at this office, ures should you oanthroe to force throats on this glorious holiday? Some hardly knew whither they counts himself a very fortunate man. To Cure a Cold in One day. your unwelcome attealious upon my Charlie knew of yore all about went, and appealed frantically to this Mr. Drennan In addition to being Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All •daughter. ” postmaster is a Justice of the Peace, druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 2&o. MBS. J. H. HASKINS. the battle of tbe Boyne, and how an cool-headed man beseeching him, for for months after, and at the time I “You would find roe Toady -and will­ orange flag arouses the hatred of a heaven’s sake, to tell them where tbe a member of the Christian church and a highly respected and useful cit­ If there be a ring or halo around the thought death was a welcome relief) ing to give you bank as .good as you St. Patrick’s day parader even as the stairs could be found. sun in bad weather, expect fine weather but before my last child was born a •send, sir.” red flag stirs tbe maddened bull to Nor did he fail to direct them, every izen. soon. ood neighbor advised LydlaE.Pink* “Why, you youirg •scamp, II could He has suffered for some time with am'i Vegetable Compound, and frenzy. one, even while he pushed on to tbe Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup.' G break every bone in your body, if I Had some bold and incautious soul next flight what some people would call “rlck- For children teething, eoftrn* the gums, reduces tn- I used that, together with your PHI# chose,” almost frothing-at ‘the mouth etts” or “rigors ” of the kidneys —kid ­ flamiiiallou, allay* pain, cure* wind colic. 25c a bottle. and Sanative Wash for four months dared to txrvite 'immolation by thus Up, up, he went, still finding smoke before the child's birth; — it brought with rage. flaunting la tbetr faces the color they circling along the halls, through ney disease in a very painful form. He could not sleep, he had a dull There are parent! who work for their me wonderful relief. I hardly had an "Better not try it, captain. In New despised? which women staggered, shrieking children too much and talk to them too ache or pain, and when the child waa York state they electrocute for mur­ He supposed this must be the case. their appalling distress. pain over his left kidney, was con ­ little. ten days old I left my bed strong in der, and it’s a worse fate than hang­ It was a terrifying picture. tinually restless, could not lie still, health. Every spring andfsll I now tako To his surprise, however, the ex­ ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADEDt ing, which yarn know has terrors citement spread —the crowd pressed There were comical elements in­ and had to get up through the night a bottle of Lydia E.PInkham's Veg ­ Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them etable Compound and find it lceepe enough never to be forgotten. ” madly forward, mounted officers came jected Into it, of course, but no one several times and was also troubled white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Charlie, acting upon ithe-spur of the in this way during the day. me in continual excellent health.”— I galloping back, shouting out some ­ had the heart to laugh. Mas. J. II. HASKINS, 3248 Indiana Ave., moment, could not ‘hely giving him thing that at first he could not catch. Charlie knew In his heart a dread ­ He used a few boxes of Dodd's Every finger of the hand has, at some Kidney Pills, a remedy recently In­ time or other, been used for the wedding Chicago, Ill. — $6000 forfeit Ifakccc Ultimo* this little thrust. Never tio bis dying day would Char­ ful calamity was impending —nothing ring. nlal I* net genuine. It was a keen one. lie Stuart forget the intense anxiety short of a miracle could save the troduced In this state and advertised Care and careful counsel Is The other’s jaw dropped, his eyes of that moment when he seemed to great structure now, and the days of as a cure for Kidney Disease, Rheu­ 1 am sure Pico's Cure for Consumption saved what the expectant and would-be matism, Malaria, etc., and in a short my life three year* airo. —Mr«. Thos . Robbins , momentarily rolled in a spasm of feel as though the fate of empires was miracles appear to be past. Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.. Feb. 17, 1900. mother needs, and this counsel agony, and the sweat seemed to break at stake—>and then he heard distinctly Perhaps scores of human lives time was completely restored to vig ­ she can secure without cost bj out upon his bennw. above the roar tho stentorian voice of would be sacrificed to the demon of orous, good health. He Is very grate ­ Some young people who marry in haste writing to Mrs. Pink ham at ful to Dodd's Kiduey Pills. have to hustle so for a living that they Lynn, Mass. Charlie saw ainil was satisfied. a leathern-lunged officer: fire—mostly helpless women, em­ have no leisure in which to repent. He had given .the conscienceless “Turn out! The avenue Is Impass­ ployes or guests, who had been view­ Benr with the man who does not think Violet Glass as Cancer Cure. wretch a body-Utow in return for his able! The Windsor hotel Is on fire! ing the parade from the upper win­ If It takes all summer. WHERE FOR AH EDUCATIOH? vile threats. dows. An expensive electrical apparatus Before deciding this si! Important question Turn ont! ” the thoughtful parent will carefully iovssto Capt. Brand's spasm lasted but a Doubtless that stentorian shout The mere fact that such a draught which is known as an actlnolite has 'T'NHAMLINS WIZARD OIL gate tbe muny xdvuuiages offered by tho Just been placed in tho New Yorl: brief space of time, and then he re­ sent a shuddering chill to many a passed through the halls from these PREPARATORY SCHOOL at OLIVET C0LLEQ8 covered his eelfpossession. Flower hospital, said to be the first far SORE FEET heart when those who heard It glanc ­ open windows would hasten the total ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT Expenses low. Instruction best, influence* rigkS There was n peculiarity about the ed up at the massive pile and compre ­ demolition of the whole structure and complete Instrument of the kind per­ Send for catalogue today. Correopondeno# captain that seemed very marked — make It more certain. manently set up In an American hos­ cordially invited. hended the hundreds of precious lives GEORGE N. ELLIS. Principal, Olivel, Mich, when in a rage his eyes became quite that were endangered. Had Charlie no sacred duty of his pital. By its operation it Is hoped to make a thorough test of the theory bloodshot, and glowed like the orbs of To rone could it appeal with more own to perform, he would have gladly BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY THE SUPERIOR CREAM EXTRACTOR a hyena upon the deserts of which he irresistible force than to Charlie devoted all of his time toward effect­ that the powerfully concentrated In a dainty little booklet, sj out of some 3000 I* what you want thte weather. loved to talk. chemical, or actinic, rays of violet- bright boys tell in their own way just how they It loti not mix Water with the IllW Stuart. ing the rescue of these terrified girls. have made a success of selling It Separatee all tha Cream. And just now they were fiery, in­ colored light possess distinctly cura­ It dor* the work of a Centrifugal Stp* All hie hopes and ambitions on earth As It was, he could only think of rator with one-half tho txoab.o auA deed. were centered there—the girl he Arline. tive properties in cases of cancer and THE SATURDAY 030-tenth the oxpenoo. If the core of your ratlk trouble* yo*c The look he gave -Stuart had mur­ loved with heart and soul was far up Her lovely face was before his eyes tuberculosis. To the patient the op ­ EVENING POST eration is an entirely painless one, write 11* for deecrlptlre circular, prlceA der in it, though Charlie showed no in the doomed structure, perhaps and seemed to plead with him to Pictures of the boys— and testimonial*. 6ign of alarm. and its advocates claim for it that it letters telling how they 8 JPKRIOR FENCE MACHINE 00. asleep, under the Influence of an make haste. Hi Grand River Ave., Detroit, Mlah Here, in this public place, the The smoke was growing even more has none of the objectionable fea­ built up a paying busi­ opiate, after a wakeful night with an tures that often attend the application ness outside of school man would never dare assault him. aching brow. dense, and he had to push close to hours. Interesting Besides, Charlie possessed the idea the doors to distinguish the numbers, of the Roentgen rays to sensitive por ­ stories of real business Clears the Complexion At first his blood seemed congeal ­ tions of the human body. that he could hold his own at any­ ed into ice. in order to make sure that he was on tact. 132 Willard Street, Burlington, VL time against the fellow. True, he We will furnish you with March 21, 1902. “I thought I would Then it leaped through his veins the right floor. Ten Copies the first week Free was smaller than the captain, but a If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes try Baxter's Mandrake Bitters to olear like boiling lava, fresh from the At last this knowledge came to use Red Cross Bail Blue. Large 2 ox. of Charge, to be sold at Five Cents a Copy; you can then my complexion and purify my blood. P life devoted to occasional dissipation throat of Vesuvius. him. package, 6 cents. find it haB helped me very much.” must have sapped some of the astosr send us tbe wholesale price for Charlie did not waste time in re­ The opportunity was in his grasp. as many as you find you can Mrs. Mary T. Brunette. ishing powers which a generous na ­ flection. Here the same conditions seemed to It Is difficult to say who do you the sell the next week. If you want Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters are sold- ture had originally bestowed upon the Time was worth more than money abound —there was smoke In plenty, most mischief, enemies with the worst to try it, address every where in liquid or tablets at 25 eta worthy man of many faces. frenzied maids and flying figures intentions, or friends with the best.— Boys * Department Henry, Johnson 4 Lord, Prop's, Burlington, Ft now, warth all the world to him. The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia But Capt. Ffcranfl restrained himself He had leaped to the pavement darting through it all like spectres. Bulwer, When answering Ads. please mention this paper - —reason had not quite deserted him. like a deerhound, and dashed toward Charlie was.somewhat out of breath He smiled grimly, and there was the hotel in great bounds. as a result of his 6teady climb, but a world of meaning in his sardonic Some men would have lost their otherwise in good physical condition. look. wits, but .it seemed that the greater He had the number of Arline ’s “Very good, my hearty! You have tho emergency the keener became his rooms well In his mind —the house chosen to throw down the glove, and mind. had been crowded, and these were the from this hour it’s war to the knife Even as he ran and elbowed his best at her service, though the clerk between us. You may live to rue the way through the excited crowd with had promised her a suite near the day you made an enemy out of one Irresistible force, he was mapping out McKinleys after that day. who held out the Olive branch. De­ a plan of campaign. What if he could have made a mis­ pend upon it, Arline Brand is not for Really there seems no limit to the take in any way? The wretched con ­ you. A fond parent must guard the human mind —its capacity is astonish­ sequences almost paralyzed him to JUfLnfonfa. JrsgusStffes interests of his sweet ‘Child. Go your ing —it ri««s to meet the emergency even think of It. way, young sir; and when next me regardless of what is needed. Eagerly he had scanned each flying meet it will be as foes to the death. Now, even when thus fighting his or crouching female figure he met, in I wash my hands of you. ” way through the crowd, Charlie saw the hope that he might thus discover the hopelessness of attempting to the one he sought. Health will come with all it! blessings to those who know the way, and it is mainly a ques­ CI1APTRK XSI1. reach the main entrance on the ave­ But as yet he had not found her. • The Fateful Hour. nue. Even in that smoke-laden atmos ­ tion of right-living, with all tho term implies, bat the efforts which strengthen the system, Charlie looked after the retreating The spaoe for half a block was phere he knew he could not mistake the games which refresh and the foods which nourish are important, each in a way, while it is figure of Capt. Brand, and was in densely packed with a whooping mass he.- figure, while one note from her also advantageons to have knowledge of the best methods of promoting freedom from unsani ­ doubt whether to take him seriously of humanity, partly imbued with the voice must have thrilled him through tary conditions. To assist nature, when nature needs assistance, it is all important that tho or consider his threat a huge joke. He eager curiosity that always distin ­ and through. medicinal agents used should be of the best quality and of known value, and the one remedy soon resolved to dismiss from his guishes crowds the world over, and at (To bo continued.) which acts most beneficially and pleasantly, as a laxative, la —Syrup of Figs—manufactured by mind Capt. Brand aad all he typified, tho same time a 'Chivalrous desire to the California Fig Syrup Co. and seek repose. be of use somehow. The Talk of Children. With a proper understanding of the fact that many physical Ills are of a transient char* He gained the sanctity of his room, If he desired to reach that door It has been said that children speak actor end yield promptly to the gentle action of Syrup of Figs, gladness and comfort come to and, lighting the gas, sat down to he must perforce walk -over the heads the best English in the world in the heart, and if one would remove the torpor and strain and congestion attendant upon a con­ have a last deliberation ere retiring. of the packed crowd. that their Idea Is expressed In the All seemed capable of running in a A better plan suggested itself. fewest words and to the point. stipated condition of the system, take Syrup of Figs and enjoy freedom from the aches and .smooth groove, but “the best laid He remembered a side entrance Mr. Andrew Simonds, of Charleston, pains, the colds and headaches and the depression dne to Inactivity of the bowels. In case of .schemes of mice and men gang aft which would admit him much moro is convinced that their powers of any organic trouble it is well to consult a competent physician, but when a laxative Is required »glcy.” Bobby Burns tells us, and who easily. vernacular are superior to bis talent remember that the most permanently gratifying results will follow personal cooperation with has not found It true In his own ex­ Now he was at tbe earner. for intelligible description. the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs. It Is for sale by all reliable druggists. Price fifty perience? He took one look up and around. He was one day trying to Interest cents per bottle. Charlie retired. Whether he slept The picture was impressed upon his little girl, nearly 3 years old, by The excellence of Syrup of Figs comes from the beneficial effects of the plants used In tho aoundly or not concerns ns little, bat the tablets of his memory forever. telling her stories of the circus. She combination and also from the method of manufacture which ensures that perfect purity and under the circumstances It Is hardly No longer were handkerchiefs and loved horses and was particularly uniformity of product essential In a perfect family laxative. All the members of the family probable that his slumber was very green ribbons waving from the Impressed by the feats of the bare- from the youngest to the most advanced in years may U9e it whenever a laxative Is needed and refreshing. numerous windows of the hotel— In­ back riders. share alike In its beneficial effects. We do not claim that Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of There was too great a load on his stead, panic-stricken girls threw out “Now," ho said, taking a chair by ■Bind. their arms appealingly and shrieked way of Illustration, “this is a horse. known value, but it possesses this great advantage over all other laxatives that It acts gently Be felt very much as a man might in terror. A man comes In on him and rides him and pleasantly without disturbing natural functions, In any way, as it is free from every ob­ whs* Rtnnds upon the brink of a preci­ The wand of an evil magician had all round the ring standing up with­ jectionable quality or substance. To get its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the pice. touched the scene, and transformed it out any saddle or bridle. Then di ­ genuine and the full name of the Co.—California Fig Byrup Co.—is printed on the front of every Success or failure—his whole fu­ in a twinkling. rectly another horse comes in bare- package. ture depended upon one Utile word — Smoke already oozed from several back (putting another chair by the was balanced in the hollow of a girl ’s openings, proving to Charlie that his first), and the man rides him, too, hand. hopes of the fire being trifling; were just In the same way, until at last Charlie's previous bitter experience groundless. there are four horses, and he rides bad caused him to feel more or less It was most serious. them all round the ring at the same iTOW ft caution, with a shade of distrust to ­ The holocaust of the Parisian time. And a row of four chairs rep­ ward the gentle sex, and against this Charite Bazar was about to be repeat­ resent the four horses. Now, wasn ’t he had to fight. ed in New York; and that 8L Pat­ that fine?” Could be have known what lay be­ rick’s day would be marked as the The little one looked up, very fore him. wider what fearful condi ­ most grewsome Gotham had ever grave, her eyes full of the doubt and tions he was fated to win his sweet­ known. credulity that so often puzzle us— heart, even fcto hold warrior spirit Charlie now had a better chance to "Yes—be had many legs —that might have quailed a little. push ahead. man.” It is Just as well perhaps, that these Already he feared he had delayed “And I had to go all over that story things are merriflelly hidden from our too long. again, said Mr. Simonds. fjew—Just as w*M that we need only There were many people and much grapple with each difficulty as it ap­ excitement In the aide street, but it True Greatness. * pears in view, Instead of crossing was of course not to be compared True greatness, first of all, la a with the avenue where the crowds thing of the heart. It Is all alive with U afflicted with bridges before we come to them. tors tjst, U£ | Thompson's Eyo Water The day dawned. had gathered to witness the parade. robust and generous sympathies. It Is 3 I DONT STOP TOBACCO There was more or less of a bustle Straight to the oaor Charlie neither behind Its age nor too far be­ guddenty. It Injures tha nervous system to do to. Use BACO-CURO w. N. u .-detroit -no . 29—100s tl you wn In the air. dashed. fore It It is up wltb Its age, and md it will i ahead of it only Just so far as to be You have no right to ruin y°your health, spoil your d igestion and poison New Torn contains more sons of A man stood there endeavoring to your breath by using the filthy weed. A guarantee 1 in each box. Erin than jwobably any Irish city out ­ keep out those who had no business able to lead Its march. It cannot Giro 1.00 per box, or three boxes for *2.30, with guarantee to curt or side of Dublin, Inside, for It Is well known that dar ­ slumber, Cor activity In a necessity of money refunded. At all good Druggists or direct from us. Write for free booklet And these pgv. “iotic exiles never ing thieves will take advantage of Its existence. It Is no reservoir, but a EUREKA CHEMICAL CO., - La Crosse, WiS. neglect to fittingly celebrate 8L Pat­ s^ch occasions to ply their nefarious fountain. —Rostt^ll D. Hitchcock. I THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY JULY IT 1002.

Dr. C. B. Bipley was called toGrand Mrs. E. J. McIntyre is spending a SHIP SUBSIDIES HILL. American shipping interests when Clinton Co. Savings Bank Ledge to attend tiic little son of l>. B. few weeks In Toronto, Can., with her From tin1 Michigan Farmer. tliis combination of interests is con ­ Moore, who was seriously ill. The grandson, Angus Headman. Considerable discussion lias been en­ trolled and owned by American 'OSTEOPATHY doctor returned Friday evening leav­ gaged in on the above subject by the capital? ST.JOHNS, MICH. Eva Edwards and gentleman friend, Grange and tlie Farmers’ Clubs, but ing the child much better, since which of Corunna, and Fred Edwards aud Have we any assurance that freight “The Better Way to Health, ” time lie lias steadily improved. family, of Owosso. spent Sunday witli no. detiuiten'i.„ l’ conclusion...... I,. -ii has nbeen reach*„ _/and passengers would he carried Percent. Interest on Deposits. The click of the mowing machine is James Edwards. ed. 1 lie I .umei kindly allows space cheaperif tlie lines were subsidized? cures heard on all sides. The farmers are and invites opinions on the subject. The excessive capitalization of these CANS MONEY ON APPROVEDBONOSAND Beatrice, Edna and Thresla Longcor I t h, <;i>P|Ttunity to express my > steamship lines calls for Increase or a REAL ESTATE SECURITY. | very busy caring for a tine crop of hay. were in town Tuesday. views and opinions, but do not assume . fair dividend on tlie capital, Chronic Diseases, Deformities The Misses Moore and Raymer, to* Bert Longcor and w ife have moved that ttoe} are correct In every instance. j admit that our trade i i getlier witli Dr. Bipley. were pleasant- into Will Winfield ’s house. In tlie first place 1 wish to state my iiid com ­ And many acute complaints OFFICERS: I ly entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Trow ­ merce with South American states is J. BALDWIN,PreB I'. E.WALB WOHTH.I’reB position aud tlie reasons therefor. 1 very unsatisfactory, but to subsidize O Ps.n.nkll, V-Pre». K. C.K eatlk , Asst.Tree bridge Sunday evening and by Frank am opposed to subsidies in general. I where other methods fail. 1 Baumgardner Monday evening. SOUTH It! LEV. lines for a few years until they become do not regard them as useful to tlie profitable, and then withdraw the aid. THE LOCAL MAKKKTB. OLIVE. masses of the people but are a benefit , the trouble lies ln determining when F. H. WILLIAMS, M.D., D.0. From Our Correspondent. to the coi poiati(»ns tli.it are asking feu t|l0y are profitable, and to get the tS^St.JobnB elevators open at 7am ano From Our Correspondent. Wheat harvest is again at hand and them. I do not believe that it is the | jaw repealed when it is bound to be so. LANSING, MICH. o.ose at b p m. Alma Pierce is very sick. there bids fair to be a big yield. province of a republican form of go'* ■ lfthe government is soanxiousto ST. Johns , Mlcb., July 17, 1902. Mrs S. A. Pierce and Varney II. Maud and Helen Perrin, of Lansing, eminent to tax the masses extend our trade with our southern NOUKS--S-I2, a-4, 7-B. The following arc the prices paid in caul. Pierce have the mumps. are spending a part of their vacation heiieilt of the few. I lie idea ot giving neighbors, why not build and equip a for produce In this market: at the homes of their unde, Biley aid to corporations ana syndicates | steamship line? The expense would IIO ALLEGAN ST. WEST. VTneat. white...... Henry Bohrer’s last week. Grinold and Mrs. Ella Blizzard. benefit will eventually reach the great | of battleships. They could he so con- Clover Seed ...... 4 25 The new house of Bert Brinkcrhoff Willie llungerford, who has been dise. in fact it lias been authorita­ Vea ! calf .dressed...... 7 00 St H IX) is fast nearing completion. our shipping interest lias to compete tively stated that tlie government Leave Maple Rapids 1:30 p.m., arrive St Wood,dry hard ...... 2 00 «a a is absent for some time in thiscoiiiiinmi- witli all these roads without any gov ­ Johns 4:;i0 p.m. Wood. soft...... t>J4 HART $■ STRATTON, Broilers ...... 10 sr. li From Our Correspondent. today 1 can thank him, the head of tons, and tlie European merchant Turkeys fat ...... Clinton Co. Republican politics, and gave a preference to American ships Ducks, fat ...... Albert Eibach and Herman Gaddy the lesser lights that 1 am far more and seamen in tlie East India trade. Proprietors Geese...... 6* attended the big show at Owosso prosperous than* 1 would have been if Tlie Yankee sailors could outsail the Postmaster iW~ Byron Danley buys live poultry every Frida}. still a resident of Clinton Co. I’m Britisii in any weather. We now hold week day the year round, and full value paid KateSeneller returned to her work used to hard work and physically able the Queen ’s cup since 1851 for being at All tunes. at Mrs. John Miller’s after a week’s to do tlie work 1 attempt having had tlie best sailors, and they have not visit at’her home in Westphalia. experience in both district and graded been able to win it back, though re­ Palmer Lyon & Ten Eyck To Our Correspondents. Frederick Pfiel and Michael schools and now in the teaching busi­ peated trials have been made. This of So. Glen Falls, N. Y., des­ When you are In St. Johns please call at O’Conner have lately improved their ness, so that ’‘teaching is not merely a does not look as if we did not have WANT YOUR CRAYING side issue;” it is a life work, and 1 men competent to sail the high seas. cribes a condition which thous­ our office and let us become better acquaint ­ residences by painting. ands of men ed. When out of stationery let the fact be Jay Sessions ’ house is to be remodel­ know it well. 1 am now able to re- Tlie late unpleasantness that we known at the bottom of vour correspondence ed and enlarged. Herman Gaddy and l>ort to you some of tlie interesting have had witli Spain fully demon­ women Albert Eiback do the carpentering. tilings of tliis Southland. strates our ability to cope with any identical SOUTH OVID. Suffice it to say , 1 keep tlie niuflied- foreign power. Our navy in tlie short They are anxious to get it and will do Ciias. Roberts and wife lately visited drum letter as a souvenir of the good period of two hours annihilated tlie theirs. everything possible to please you at her sister’s, Mrs. Chas. Allor ’sin Read what he From Our Correspondent. Muir. Republicanism of tlie north; it will Spanisli fleet and etianged tlie geo ­ and hold your patronage. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Kimmcl, July make a fine companion piece for Clay- graphy of tlie world. If any one says, and note 5, a nice baby boy. Mother and child Miss Irma Sessions is in Eureka, tonism in tlie south. doubts tlie. ability of our seamen, the similarity doing well. nursing a patriotic youngster who At the recent Republican conven­ without any general training in tlie o f your own They give prompt and careful atten ­ came to Dr. Eugene Hart’s the 4th. tion on June 29th the insurgents came merchant marine, for we did not have tion to every call. Mrs. I). D. Patterson is on the sick Lebanon Farmers’ club held the out victorious, and after tlie regulars any at that date, let them read tlie case. Write to list. Dine meeting at Eli Smith’s and adjourned a placard announced history of the war of 1H12, and they were him, enclosing A number from here attended the enjoyed one of t he largest gatherings “Booms to Let.” ••All’s well that not subsidized either. Remember tlie stamped ad ­ ..... LYON & TEN EYCK...... camp meeting Sunday at Bound lake. and best meetings on record. Nearly ends well.” J send greetings to all- trip that the Oregon made during tlie dressed envel­ irank Baker was on the sick list eighty members and visitors enjoved friends and foes. Spanisli war. a trip of 11.000 miles, ST.JOHNS. MICH. the hospitality of the host and hostess. After 1 came to Little Rock I made and she arrived ready for action. L D. Palmer. ope for reply, Sunday. and get a per­ Mrs. Carrie McCreery is on the sick The usual harvest vacation will be it my first duty to visit tlie city Foreign ships,a re subject to sinking list. taken and meetings attain commenced schools. I was delighted to see tlie spells when they come in contact witli sonal corroboration of what is in October when Mr. and Mrs. Terry energy and progress manifested on tlie our navy. A foreign government se­ here given. He says regarding George Dunkell, of Vernon, visited Watters will entertain the club. part of teachers who were working cured tlie services of the master me­ his uncle, Ezra Dunkell, and family against difficulties of limited school chanic who made the Oregon, if we Dr. Miles’ Sunday. July*:. Joshua Thompson and FOWLER. funds and crowded rooms. are proficient in all these things what j Granite & Marble wife also spent Sunday there. I noticed some provincialisms in lack we? Possibly subsidies. Steven Taft and daughter Pearl From Our Correspondent. speech that may never become nation ­ The war of lwi made it necessary Heart Cure: Miss Fannie Van Aruhiirgh isspend- were on the sick list last week. al, but tlie methods and text books for our merchant marine to lie trans- j “I suffered agonizing pain in the left John Neller and family visited at ing a few days witli her brother, were tine and up-to-date and equal to ferred to tlie British flagon account of j breast and between my shoulders from Warren Van Amburgh, and wife, of those 1 have seen anywhere. tlie depredations made by rebel priva- heart trouble. My heart would palpi­ D. D. Patterson's Sunday afternoon. Bengal. J Work. Mrs. Mark Johnson and brother Last week 1 attended tlie state teers preying on our commerce. The ! tate, flutter, then skip beats, until I Wm. Bibby. wife and children, of teacher’s institute, at Hot Springs, Alabama, the most destructive of any j could no longer lie in bed. Night after visited her daughter, Mrs. W. Williams St. Johns, spent a few days or last, tlie great winter resort of the United of them, nearly drove our commerce night I walked tlie floor, for to lie down Sunday. * week with friends in town cn route States, of which 1 will write you in from the seas. At tlie close of the] would have meant sudden death. My W. Williams and family visited at for Grand Rapids w here they intend another article. war a law was made to encourage ship condition seemed almost hopeless w hen M. Johnson's Tuesday. I began taking Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure, to make their future home. Tlie teaclMiig force of the state building in tlie United States by but it helned me from the first, l.ater MURDOCK & DAVIES B. G. Waters and family sjient Mrs. C. Ocobock is still very feeble. numbers about 5,uoo. and 200 teachers placing a high tariff on iron and other | I took Dr. Miles’ Nervine with the Sunday afternoon with Ezra Dunkell enrolled. At tlie institute some of articles that enter into tlie construc ­ Heart Cure and tlie effect was aston ­ and family. Miss Ida Gross returned to Ionia tion of ships, and a part of tlie law ishing. I earnestly implore similar suf­ Monday evening after spending a them were “back numbers ” as defined ferers to give these remedies a trial." Mrs. Clark Smith was on the tick couple of weeks with her father, at Wac mst i -but they are alive and 1 was that no foreign built ship would i The new firm, succes­ list Sunday. Mathias Gross, and family. wish 1 could place before you tlie ex­ be allowed an American register or Sold by all Druggists hibit work being i repared for tlie St. allowed to float tlie American flag. on guarantee. A noon Putman and family visited Wm. Willson and wife, of Essex, Louis fair. Ships could not be built here as cheap sors to F. F. Murdock, friends here Tuesday. spent Sunday witli Geo. Baldwin and I will enclose a few specimen lists of as they could in foreign countries, Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Peter Desprez and family attended j wife. They were accompanied home examination questions which you may and the result was we could not build will continue at the old the street carnival at st. Johns by Miss Millie Baldwin, who will hand to my friend Townsend: they ships and compete with tlie British in Tuesday. spend a few days witli them. may of some interest to him In carrying freight. Tills law has been stand and will be in bet­ Mrs. M. Johnson's brother from Mrs. Cora Shackleton lias gone to comparison with questions used by on the statute books for 40 years, and J western Illinois is visiting her flow. Mt. pleasant to take a course at the him. Give them to him with my com ­ still tlie shipping interest is languish­ S/.OO TO Master Claude Miller, from near normal training school. Mrs. Shackle- pliments. 1 would do him a favor or ing. ter shape than ever before Lain*fsburg. is spending theweek with ton has been employed as primary show him any courtesy I could. But now conditions have changed. I his aunt. Mrs. C. Boice and family teacher in the Fowler higti school s The school year is not as long here We can make iron or ste**l cheaper I to sell you who visited liis parents Sunday. this coming year. as the rural schools nortii but Ar­ than any other country in the world.! CHICAGO Monday's storm did considerable Hugh arid Willie McPherson left kansas need not be ashamed of her or anything that enters into tlie con ­ damage in this vicinity. Lightning last week for a short visit with friends effort and tlie strides in school work struction of ships. Europeans are struck Jacob Chatham’s barn and in in Canada. They will also visit Niagara in tlie next live years will compare complaining because we are invading $1.50 ROUND TRIP less than a minute another Ixrlt struck Falls and other points of interest favorably with schools in other sec­ their markets and underselling them ! The best, at the before returning. tions that have had more o! privileges right under tlie eaves of their shops ] on the adjoining farm Frank Taft's and advantages. They have sent experts over to til s j granary and glanced off and struck King, Snelliiig & Gruler havesold The examinations are quarterly and country to study conditions and as- | liis large barn. J. Chatham's barn out their drug business to Mr. Wren, in tins county a Saturday institute is certain how we can manufacture so! took tire but was extinguished, but of Corunna. Wc regret very much to provided to follow the examinations cheap. This does not h»ok as if our lowest prices. F. Taft's barn, granary, hen house lose Mr. King and family as they have in order to help those who as yet have manufactures need government aid. j GOODRICH 11 pigpen, together with nearly ad made many friends during their stay no oilier means of Normal instruc ­ We have cheap coal, cheap Iron, and i their contents, was burned in a.short in Fowler. tions. more skillful labor. Wnat more do j time. Many of the neighbors soon Mrs. Geo. Bliss and Arthur Grant, we require? Our foreign commerce gathered and by hard work, together Tlie colored school population of Line CALL AND SEE THEM. of Maple Rapids, were in town .Satur­ the state is 40 per cent of the total, exceeds that of any other nation. with a change in the wind, the house day. corn crib were saved although the leaving (JO per cent of tlie school child­ The idea advanced by some is that j house was badly scorched and the corn Lewis Sturgis, wife and children ren white. In case of war the merchant marine | STEAMERS crib considerably damaged. A new spent Saturday and Sunday in Grand The colored schools are taught by could l»e transformed into a transport Rapids and attended the Wild West colored teachers. I visited some of for carrying troops; looks nlausible bind i. hay tedder, laud roller.sleighs, show. their city schools and tlie high school. enough for a country like England, cutter, "!■<• wagon and one buggy wi re All are under tlie control of tlie which is always preying on some weak i MURDOCK & DAVIES. among the contents of tlie barn. Several from here attended the From Muskegon or Grand Haven on Through heroic efforts the carriages show at Owosso Friday. worthy city superintendent of white government, but has not got sand j and horses were saved and a few The rainy weather caused many of schools, Prof. Rightsell. I was sur­ enough to attack a first-class power, j Sunday, Monday, Wednes­ harnesses. A large quantity of old prised to see tlie skill, talent, good In fact wc do not want any such expense | the farmers to break the rule of keep­ order and close attention of these as England has had when it requires, day or Friday. Opposite the Postoffice. hay and some new, besides a large ing Sabbath for a day of rest. colored children. .'ioo.ooo men, four years’ time and one quantity of wheat, oats and beans Miss Nora Kaspar is entertaining Old party feeling is giving way. billion in money to whip 25,00o farmers. t hat were in the granary, were burned. company from Detroit this week. St. Johns ... Michigan Loss estimated to be at least $2,000, Blessed be tlie day when history and She had better keep her ships and Lv. Muskegon, 7 :oo p. m. partly insured in the Clinton Co. Mrs. J. T. Wood and children spent tlie people look back upon the Civil troops at home. England ’s possessions Mutual. Mr. Chatham was also in­ a few days of last week with friends war as inevitable from causes as old as inkeattend all over tin world: aha Lv. Gd. Haven, 9:15 p. m. sured in that company. in Lebanon. tlie constitution. needs a large na\v and merchant A. E. RICHARDSON, Mrs. James Briggs w:ls called to I attended one G. A. R. meeting at marine to carry supplies to her armies; Ar. Chicago, 6:00 a. m. Lake Odessa last week on account of tiie National Cemetery here. 1 was but with us conditions arc different. MERLE BEACH. the serious illness of her father. never more impressed than witli the Our country and its possessions are spirit 1 saw during the renditions of near at hand, except the Philippines, From our Correspondent. CABINS and STATE ROOMS STEAM BATH. tlie program. A beautiful wreath of and they are not worth burning much Contractor and Builder. Mrs. Fdlth Brink is visiting her ferns and roses was sent to tlie plat­ powder for. HEATED and ELECTRIC LIGHTED. sister. Mrs. Forbes, for a few days From Our Correspondent. form bearing the inscriptions G. C. A. Why not subsidize the farmers so this week. Clarence McFarran ’s barn was to G. A. B. (Grand Confederate Army they can raise mules and horses for tlie JOBKKK IN' HOUSE REPAIRING During the electrical storm on Mon ­ burned Monday with all Its contents, to the Grand Army of tlie Republic.) army? They are a very potent factor day a tine heifer belonging to Amiel besides a quantity of finishing lumber Never until the Spanish-Arnerican in case of war. War should be the And Jobber in all kinds Hugalet was killed by lightning. Pass­ for liis new house. Cause of tire un ­ war did the south put'up tlie Stars exception and not the rule. We should j ing along tlie barn yard of Clayton known. and Strips or recognize the Fourth of cultivate the arts of peace. Arbitration Plowman the lightningstruck a hog. July as a day of independence. The should lie tlie rule or tlie day. BARGAIN of Woodworkjto order. knocking it down, blit the current A terrific storm visited this place cannons on that day were silent and Our boundless recources have fullv was nut sufficiently strong to kill it. yesterday. Lightning struck the tlie Ameiicau boy's firecrackers and demonstrated t" European govern ­ The place to buy your Screens. First Baptist church and damaged torpedos were used at Christmas time ments that we are abundantly able to Mr. and Mrs. Rochon, Messrs. the building quite badly. to avoid recognition of tlie fourth. take care of ourselves and help our Philips and ^ttleston, who have been Last night thieves entered t lie store Today decorations are quite marked neighbors, like Cuba, when in distress. FOR SOME ONE Agency for the at W. J. Ennest ’s the past week, have of F. C. Davis and carried away goods thomugliout tlie city and torpedosand When European governments are left for Detroit to attend t he races. to the value of nearly $400. Sheriff firecrackers are plentiful. tumbling over themselves to get on Host Roofing on the market. The next dance at the Bead) house Sliavey and Deputy Holton are here Tills letter may seem a medley lint friendly terms with us we do not fear FARM nf 80 acres, four miles from will be held Thursday evening. Bill Investigating. if it is not interesting it costs you war. 1 f there was ever a time when Shop <>pp. Wood Bro.’s mill, 50 cents. Messrs. Slpley and Cole will St. Johns, the county seat, witli 1. M. Dryer is putting in a ct merit nothing. our shipping interests needed the ST. JOHNS. MICH. furnish the music. flooring in the basement of hl.< hotel Tlie temperature here so far lias fostering care of the government tlie sufficient timber to nearly or On Thursday evening of last week preparatory to putting in a meat reached only 90 degrees. Tlie nights least excuse exists for it now that it quite pay for it. Tlie land is Messrs. E. Webb. Floyd Webb. Bochon i market. have so far been cool. The cattle ever did. adapted to grass, spring crops and and King, witli their wives, also under father's careful treatment arc The latest movement of J. P. Morgan stock: dark sandy loam with Messrs. Philips. Attleston, Molnet SIIEPAHDSVILLE. doing beautifully. We are repairing lias been to form a trust, or combina ­ and Blanche Stevens spent the even ­ our house and will soon be “at home” tion, among tlie greatest steamship gravel subsqil. Will take $1,900 if HEADACHB ing at the Beach house. The evening to our friends even from Michigan lines, buying them up and capitalizing sold soon. If you want such a was made enjoyable by several vocal ; From Our Correspondent. and nothing would give me more them at 120 millions and making ID place don ’t miss this opportunity. selections given*by Mr. King nnd Mr. Edgar Edwards and family, of pleasure than to extend tlie hospital­ million by tlie deal. Drtos it not look E. Webb. Mrs. King accompanying 1 Arkansas, are visiting in town. ity of my own home to our old friends a little clieeky for these people to come them on the piano. Mr. and Mrs. King T lie M. E. ladies ’ aid society will I can never forget. before congress and ask tlie American reside ip Cleveland and are guests of meet witli Mrs. F. D. Cleveland A ery kindly, people to give them from 9 to JO j. C. Shumaker and wife. j Thursday afternoon. July 17. L. Cart s Faimikl . millions annually in subsidies to aid GEO. S. CORBIT, I