The Clinton Independent.
VOL. XXXVI-NO. 10. ST. JOHNS MICH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901. WHOLE NO—1820 A CHRISTMAS WEDDING. LOOK OUT EUR CARS. LOCAL JOTTINGS. BAPTIST NOTES, Chief Clerk WyckofT of the Post office □ Preaching In Bengal and Riley • Mrs. M. A. Gardner, of Owosso, is church next Sunday afternoon at 3. llecoiuew a Benedict. moving to this village. □The Missionary societv will meet Professor Kelley of the St. Johns Married, at the home of the bride ’s Frank Aldrich, of the Central hook Electric Road Will Build Bridge with Mrs. O. B. Walter Friday after aunt. Miss Anna Gray. InSarnla, Ont., Arrangements Have Been Made store, has been wrestling with the noon. High School Weds Miss on Christmas day, 1901, by Rev. Mr. to Use Steam Temporarily measles. at Center Street in the City Thompson, D. D.. Walter G. Wyckoff, of Lansing. Resolution*. Thurza Judd. of St. Johns..and Miss Belle Franklin, on the Electric Line. E. E. Whetstone has been confined of Sarnia, Ont. to his house for several days most of Alonzo O. Huntley, oldest member Miss Neva Walbridge, of St. Johns, the time in bed. of Bengal Grange No. 225, died Dec appeared as bridesmaid and Mr. Joliu ember 1st, 1901, and the following Emeline Selden, of Eagle, lias been resolutions were adopted at a recent SHOWERED WITH RICE. Gray, of Sarnia, as best man. granted a widow ’s renewal of peusion AGREEMENTS ARE MADE. Mr. Wyckoff Is chief clerk in St. COMPANY TO REORGANIZE of $12 per month. meeting of the grange. Jahns postottlce and is well and Whereas , It lias pleased our favorably known by the patrons and Geo. Pulfreyand son have purchased Heavenly Father to remove from our others. a grocery stock in Alma and Bert lias By Which the Pere Marquette midst Brother Alonzo O. Huntley; The House Was Decorated With Miss Franklin, for some time at the The Town Board of DeWitt taken charge as manager. therefore he it Tennessee Holly and head of the trimming department of Demanded Pay for Their P. C. Carr purchased this week of Will Handle Passengers Resolved. That in the death of Bro Boucher & Fetich ’s millinery business, ther Huntley our grange lias lost its Mistletoe. Streeter & Durkee a 40 acre farm on and Freight. has won many steadfast friends among Valuable Time. section 15 in Olive township. oldest member and one who will ever our people. he remembered with kindly feelings, May a long, happy and successful Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brunson enter and tiie community, where lie lived a life be theirs to enjoy is the wish of tained thirty kinsmen and friends at respected citizen; therefore, be it On Christmas morning at half past every one who knows them here and Nearly all the townships between a Christmas dinner at their home iri a “If it is finally decided to use steam Resolved, That as an expression of nine the marriage of Mr. Dean Wel elsewhere. Lansing and St. Johns, have grunted truly royal manner. for a short time, cars will he running our respect for tlie departed, our lington Kelley, professor of English in permission to the Great Northern rail Married, in St. Johns, December 20, between Lansing and St. Johns within charter he draped for the period of by It. J. Woodruff, Esq., L. M. Tiuk- two weeks,” said John E. Mills this thirty days, that these resolutions be the high school, and Miss Thurza way to use steam instead of electricity placed on the grange records, that the 455 iepaugh and Miss Edna Yanhuugh- morning. “If we conclude to wait for Mae Judd, eldest daughter of Mr. and on its line until July next. The De- ton, both of Greenbush. same he published in the county Mrs. Geo. II. Judd, was solemnized at Witt township board, however, held our electrical equipment it will not he papers and a copy be sent the bereav Sid Hass and Wm. Willoughby, of until later in January when cars are ed family. the family residence on Cass street. up the company for the paltry sum of Ithaca, have purchased the Hewitt moving regularly.” A. N. Steward , The ceremony was performed by the $7. 50 before they would grant the re hardware stock at Maple ItaPids and J. N. Plowman , Rev. Joseph T. Ewing, rector of St. quest, claiming that it had cost this will take jiossession soon. Mr. Mills, accompanied by B. J. At Least it Looks Very Much Ellen B. Steward , John ’s church, in the presence of a amount to call the hoard together. Syd. Smith is greatly improving the Arnold, president of the Arnold Co., Committee. hundred or more relatives and friends That Way at the Present President Mills is hustling to pro looks of his residence on Clinton made an inspection trip over the road Avenue north hv the addition of a List of l,«tt«m. ; of the bride and groom. Time. cure passenger cars and regular trains yesterday, the run being made to St. ' V,. large and handsome porch. Sohns in 38 minutes. The road, Mr. Remaining ill tiie Post Office at St. JC%£.% The home was elaborately decorated will he running by January 15, as has Dec. 17. 11W1: with Tennessee holly and mistletoe. all the time been the date announced There will be a dance at Olive grange Mills says, is in the finest shape, and Burl Mr. Griff Monser Mr. James hall New Year’s eve. Bill, including Mr. Fred Lewis, of Jackson, played by the Independent . is the only electric road in Michigan Brown O. II v Monser Mr. George It is now thought that three pas dance, oyster supper, horses to'hay Rridgcinau E. E. Smith Miss Susie the Lohengrin Wedding Marcli as the CAN’T STAND THE STRAIN built for the avowed purpose of hand Ik-Young Mr. John Van Norman Fred senger trails will be run each way and baggage checked, $1.00. .lack way Mrs. Sarah Tain Miss Jennie bridal party entered and took their daily, Sunday of course excepted, be ling heavy freight. Watts Mrs. John Samuel Weatherbee and wife, who WILL H. BRUNSON, P. M. p
Tb, doled I'hUrator f*»e. Andrew Carnegie, who gave Iron COYGRKMS. A t|*a4r*plr lalrldr, Tlic Jury In the noted Phlacator case Mountain $15.(mmi for n library, lias I’eurl Warner, aged 28. cook: Lou trial in 84. Joseph, after seven hours' added $2,300 to hla gift upon request. The bill to provide revenue tempor Kline, 18, cook; S. Lot bouse, cab deliberation, gave a verdict against Tiie library will be opened in about a arily for the Philippine Islands passed the bouse by a vote of H53 to 128. The driver, aud J. Jacobs, cook, were the Hnroda gold king, which means month. found dead lu a Columbus. O., board that I’li laca tor will pay'to Joseph Co- The Schley Case As Regards Navy bill Imposes the Dlngley rates on good* A Woman’s Strange Journey Rude Fred Gut**kunst lias been bound over entering the United States from the ing house Tuesday night, h ease of veuey, the plaintiff. $7,oU0. Tills suit to the Lansing Circuit Court on the ly Ended. was brought |»y Coveney to obtain $7.- Closed. Philippines und tlie rates established suicide. The two couples went to tin* charge of entering a dwelling anti at by the Philippine commission ou (HK) in gold dust which I’talacator lind tempting u felonious assault on u boarding house Sunday, and secured once paid tilui for alienating Ids wife's goods entering the Philippines from adjoining rooms, claiming they were young girl. the Puited States. It also provides THE ILLNESS OF GEN. ALGER. affection, hut which had been obtained I^eo Arnold. 10 years old, was crush HOME AND CHILDREN BURNED married. Tuesday nothing was seen for tin* collection of tonnage taxes on of them. mill, though the rooms re agHln by IMilscator under duress. ed to death between the ears at Pow vessels plying between tlie United mained locked, and no reaponse could IMilscator had paid Coveney $’i.3W> to ers Wednesday night. He was a brake- Hog* teut on the l.lvlng Fle«h of » Far Oxnard'* Request of the President-Old* ’ States and the Philippines, and that be secured to repeated calls, sus stop a damage suit threatened when man in the employ of the Chicago & mer Mile* Get* m Reprimand — The foreign vessels may ply between these picion was not aroused until night. Title to the Flat, up Aral* - Killed hr at a country ball Phi sea tor helped Co- Northwestern railroad. ports uutll January 1. lOOfi. The duties Finally the doors to the rooms were a P. M. Train More lend For Home* veuey'a wife out of a window. The Clerk C. C. Hopkins, of the Supreme 1>Im Ue Mar Gets Justice—Various Mat $7,000 afterward paid was when l’hls- and taxes collected under the provis foreed, and the occupants were dis ■leader*. Court, has completed the docket for ter* of Interest and Notes. ions of tlie hill shall go Into tlie Phil covered lying on tlie beds dead. The eator and Coveney ’s wife registered at the January term, the smallest Janu tin* rainier house. Chicago, as **F. ippine treasury, to be expended for the keyholes aud cracks around the doors ary docket In at least ten years, con use and benefit of the Island*. had been closed with rags, and the Gen. Alger's lllneaa. Johnson and wife." Following Fills taining only 132 eases. Horae and Children Burned. cator to the Yukon valley for more The home of John Ashbaugh, a Representative Wood, of California, fumes of chloroform tilled tlie rooms, In order lo relieve the sufferings of Congressman Apllu is confident that lias introduced a Dili to establish u disclosing the (nuse of death. the patient, an operation known in the money the tallies were turned on Go- Summitville, l’a., farmer, was destroy veuey, and after many weeks in Jail nothing will be done at tills session of department of mines and mining. medical profession as cholecystotoiny ed by fire and four persons were lie gave up ids $7,ooo in gold dust to congress that will in any way Injure Carnsitlf Will Give More. was performed upon (Jen. It. A. Alger, burned to dentil Sunday moriilng. Be Chairman Ray, of tlie house com gain Ills freedom. Aside from tlie re tlie beet growers and manufacturers of Andrew Carnegie has had an inter ex-secretary of war. Sunday forenoon, sides tlie four children who lost tlielr mittee on Judiciary, bus introduced an turn of the $7,000 obtained under du Michigan and other states. view with President Roosevelt iu re- in the hope of relieving him of his old lives, five persons were seriously in anti-anarchy measure, which prob ress, the court allowed Coveney $.'/00 The Great Britain Insurance corpor gnrd to tlie gift of $10,000,000 recently trouble, gall-stones. Considerable ap jured. Mr. Aslitiaugh was awakened ably wHl In* tin* basis of legislation on interest. Joseph Coveney Is a farmer ation of London. England, is the latest prehension was felt as to the general ’s by smoke entering tlie room lie occu that subject in the house. The meas made for a national university. If the living near Hnroda. He owns forty addition to Insurance Commissioner pied and found the lower part of the ure provides tlie death penalty for start Is made right aud tlie plan works ability to undergo the operation, but Harry's list of concerns not authorized acres of land, but with the exception house ablaze. He made hi* way out assaults on the president or other ex as well as Is hoped. Carnegie. It is the malady had reached such a stage of Ids wife, who did not appear In to do business in the state. that drastic measures were deemed side with his two smallest children ecutive officers. It Is made a felony said, stands ready to make further court, has no heirs. Frank IMilscator. A little child of Mr. and Mrs. James to advise or teach tlie overthrow of necessary, the only hope of relief ap und hurried back to look for liis wife, contributions that will reach the enor a three times millionaire, Is at Hot Dobson, of Stnudlsh, was accidentally the govern meat or any interference parently lying In that direction. brother and four other children who mous sum of $25,000,000. Tlie objec Springs. Ark., and did not appear in smothered in bed by one of the par with government officers. The dentil (Jen. Alger rallied from the effects were still in the house. lie succeeded tionable feature of tlie gift—tlie fact court. It was shown hy the agree ous rolling oil it during the night. The penalty also is provided for conspira of the operation rapidly, and Dr. C. ill reaching a room that had been oc that It is In bonds of tlie United State* ment read in court that Jus. O’llara. accident was not discovered uutll , cies in t!ds country leading to the kill (>. Jennings, the attending physician, cupied by tlie children, lint only one, Steel corporation, will probably lie re of tills city, Coveney ’s attorney, would morning. ing of a foreign king, emperor, presi announced that the symptoms were the S-year-old boy, Herman, was there. moved. Carnegie, it is reported, is reserve as ids fee for prosecuting this dent or other ruler. favorable to ills recovery. There is a Mrs. Geo. Pcliull, of Tekonshn. an He could near tlie screams of tlie three willing to make tlie offer iu <-ash. The case half of tlie money for which the aged lady, fell down cellar while the others In another room which lie was Mercer, of Nebraska, introduced a only reason the ironmaster made the possibility, of course, of some unfore suit was brought. $3,7)00. seen complication arising, but barring other members of tlie family were gone unable to reach. Mr. Aslilmugh could Dill appropriating $2,000,000 for tlie offer in ImiiiiI* was that lie considers to town and fractured a leg. She was not enter their room. The flames were proposed new building for the depart them more profitable than any other tills, his chances are considered fair. Hardwood I.umber Combine. The operation, which was liegun at not discovered until several hours af so fierce he was compelled to fight hi* ment of agriculture. security lie or tlie government could A big combine of hardwood lumber terward. way from the house. Meantime Mrs. A Dili introduced hy Senator Penrose obtain 10 o'clock, at the Alger home in De- men has been effected. mak trolt, was iicrformod by l»rs. II. W. Sheriff Brewster from Pontiac ar Ashbaugh had Jumped from an upper provides for levying a duty of 25 i>er ing the most important step ever rested James Tuylor at Sault Ste. Ma story window, and was lying ou tin- cent ad valorem ou all inqiortatious of A lone bandit got $7,000 from a bank Longyear. II. O. Walker and J. B. taken in Michigan In those Interests. Murphy, the last from Chicago, while rie for alleged bigamy. Taylor, It is ground with a broken leg and suffer unmanufactured silver. in Springdale, Ark. It menus tlie incorporation of a com charged, married Edith Maeomber, of Drs. C. (J. Jennings, E. L. Sliurly and ing from internal injuries and burns. pany to absolutely control the hard Caro, and later Alice H. Leroy, of Most meniliers of congress left .'or Mayor Sherman, of Utica, N. Y.. lias William AJfdejf, ’the last from Haiti- home over the holidays Thursday. So wood lumber market in tills state, and Rochester. removed Police and Fire Commissioner niorj^'were also present. (Jen. Alger I.ong Knit* the Schley Case. Friday’s sessions were very thinly at John Morgan on the charge of exceed all tlie mills on tlie Michigan side of John M. Swift, of Lapeer, con- Secretary Long di/qkised fiually- of vnrt on the operating table alsmt nil tli» great lakes. Tlie prime movers in tended. Both houses adjourned until ing ids uutuority. Tuesday he remov hour and a quarter, but stood the or deiuued to pay Horace Pettingill, trav the Schley case, so far as tlie navy Monday, January (I, HH»2. ed Commissioner Frank L. Jones on tlie organization of tlie combine are eling inan, $(5S4 for an assault, goes to department is concerned, by acting deal well ami was able to bid some of Henry \V. Carey, of the Peters Salt the charge. The commissioner voted tile doctors a cheery good-bye when jail rather than pay. Pettlnglll will upon tlie findings and conclusions of A Wretch Who Should linns’. to expend money in tlie police and tire and Linn tier Co., of East Lake; W. T. have to pay his Isnird. $3.50 per week, tlie court of inquiry. He approved tlie they left shortly after he recovered Culvert, with Justus S. Stearns, of Two Isiys mimed Seyberth and Bo- fund to enlarge some engine house* from the effects of tin* anesthetics. and keep him in nine months. findings of fact and tin* opinion of the nell, aged 13 and 15 years respectively, and the police station without waiting Ludington, and William II. White, of full court; he approved tlie majority William II. White & Co., of Boyne A spasm of reform is sweeping over who had been out in the country to for the expenditure to be authorized by Over Onr Hundred Years. Marquette, and tlie mayor has issued opinion where there is a difference in cut Christmas trees, reached home, in the people. City. They are members of the com the court; he held that the court could Tgiuis Itock, a French-Cuiiadian, who mittee on plans for organization, which an ultimatum to saloon keepers stat Eau Claire. M is.. Sunday evening al lived in (Jeo. Washington ’s time, ing that they must close their places not have entered into a considerati on most exhausted from tlie effects of an AMI7SKM KNT* IN DETROIT. submitted tlie arrangement to-day. of the question of command at the bat passed away at his home in Lading- Such big concerns as Obeiinur & John of business promptly at 11 p. m.. and assault by a highwayman. The boys S’ KICK KNIIINO IIKC ton Wednesday at the advances! age of also that tlie slot machines must go. tle of Santiago, and finally lie accepted state that they were attacked by a Detroit Opera —"The Christina." —Evenings son. of Alpena; II. M. Loud & Son. of (lie recommendation that no further ul *: Wednesday Miitlax- at !. 107 years. Hock’s first and last sick Au Sable; Buckley A- Douglas and tin* Tlie family of Geo. Smith, of Green man who strapped them together and Lvckvm Theater Kobcit Mantt-ll. —Satur ness was nothing more than a mild proceedings shall be bad. Tlie secre put gags in tlielr mouths. He then day Mat.. :.V; Eve . I'*. 25. und 75 Butters Salt & Lumber Co. are go ville. who were poisoned by something tary also lias declined tlie application case of grippe, death resulting more took from them what money they had Whitney (Iiiasii --"The Flaming Arrow.”— ing into the combine. The men are to they ate for breakfast Sunday morn of Admiral Sampson's counsel to enter Mat. lue. 16c. and ’25c. Kvcmncs. 10c. 70c, 30c. from old age than anything else. Mrs. ing. are oot of danger and will recov and dragged them to an abandoned be stockholders in a state company, upon an inquiry Into tlie question of Wonderland Afternoons at 2 and *: 10c, I >0 Hock died three years ago at the age which will control tlie output of all er. It is thought belladonna was used summer luiiise. He fastened tlie door and J,c. Kve. ut 7:3i and 0:1.»; 10c, 1 >c and 76c. of So. To them 13 children. 110 grand command and lias notified Admiral their mills. An agreement will lie in mistake of vanilla in flavoring fried- Kclilej’s counsel of that fact ns a rea and set the house on fire. Tlie I toys children and ">1 great grandchildren thk MAHKF.TS. made as to tin* amount of money each cakes. son for declining to hear them on tuat managed to free themselves after a were born. Louis Hock was born at mill shall receive for its output, and There is much concern at Grand point. desperate struggle and escaped from sea while his parents were crossing Detroit —Oat tie: Most steer*. $5 SOS'*: then Hie state company will sell for Haven over the condition of the bar tlie burning building. Both were quite good to choice butcher t-teers. $( 8T/a5 40; the Atlantic ocean in the year 1704. what it is able on the open market, at tlie mouth of tlie harbor. The wa A Crook** StroiiK Cull. severely injured by their experience. light to good, $1 WtiT 76; good steers and During his younger days lie spent the profits to be divided among tlie ter over the bar is said to be growing Annie Evans, alias Tessie Hamilton, Tlie cottage in which they were con heifers. $4 :iT>4i4 H*,: light to good. V! toftjA i">; many years with tin* Indians in the fined was totally destroyed. common thin heifers to full butchers. stockholders who are tlie owuers of shallower with every storm, and prom alias Tessie Ellis and several other 47 t.Vh3 35; mixed butchers and fat cow s, •west and is said to have been the tlie mills. ises to delay tlie Units more or less all names, who is well known to tlie po 4-io4; dinners and common thin butchers, first while man who entered Yellow winter. lice of America, lias been sentenced to Min- >l«-n Killed. 41 .'xsv/g 75. Hhet-j — llcst lambs. $4 SW|& 25; stone park. Endowed with a consti Wrffli of n I*. M. FVrry. By an explosion of gas in tin* Solio light to good and good mixed lots. VI 50'i( One thousand d 'liars worth of roses a year at Slierborn. Mass., prison for 4 75; fair to good mixed and outcher sltee|>, tution which never knew fatigue. During a terrific winter gale from will lie but one of tin* features of a larceny from tin* person. Tlie woman furnace of Jones & Latigliliii in Pitts $2 40#i3 75; culls a nd common, $1 30412 :>•. Hot k endured untold hardships dur the south Sunday night ear ferry l’ere swell social function to lie given by skipped tier hail and was heard from burg Thursday morning, nine men Hogs—Fairly active, but lower; tops, ing bis long frontier career and until Marquette Hi. formerly the Muskegon, Mrs. J. L. Hoard, wife of the million in various cities until she was finally were burned to death and five other* 45 95; hulk ut •*> 92*««»5 95. ten years ago worked in a sawmill Chicago —Cattle: i,ood to prime. miT 25; struck on a 13-foot bar while entering aire of Port Huron, on tlie evening of arrested in Detroit. At Toledo, a gang were more or less injured. The dam poor to medium f:: 704/5 *t); Stockers an I every day. Ludington harbor, instantly breaking Dee. 30. at her handsome home ou Pine of crooks met Inspector Douglass at age to tlie plain will amount to $20.- feeders. *24(4; cows. 41'i»4 5i: heifers. $1 50'
and somehow she wormed out of BM that 1 had got it. and let her dispose of It for me, for she said she knew ho* The Diamond Bracelet to do it without danger.” "What did you get for it?” The skeleton shook his head. Thirty* Dy MRS. HENRY WOOD, four pound, and I had counted on a hundred and fifty. She took an oath Author of East Lynns, Etc. she had not helped herself to a six* pence. ” "Oaths are p'entlful with the genus,” CHAPTER XVI. “Ay! but you were powerful once remarked the detective. In an obscure room of a low and and ferocious, too. The skeleton as "She stood to it she hadn ’t, and she dilapidated lodging house, in a low and pect Js a recent one. ” stopped and helped me to spend it. dilapidated neighborhood, there sat a “And all for nothing. I don ’t know when the aunt be responded the stranger, also rising, After that was done, she went over man one evening in the coming twi about any bracelets.” lieved she was ar- and as sue did so throwing hack her to somebody else who was in luck; light; a towering, gaunt skeleton, “Don ’t trouble yourself with inven uni,-- ranging a highly veil. and I have tried to go on, and I can't; whose remarkably long arms and legs tions, Nicholls. Your friend is safe in ymt-m des rab e engage “Leila!” gasped Carson, looking honestly or dishonestly; it seems alt looked little more than skin and bone. our hands, and has made a full con ment for her niece, one; nothing prospers, and I’m naked Incredulously into her face. The arms were fully exposed to view, fession. ” and on the prin and famishing —and I wish I was dy* “Yes. Leila.” was the answer whis since their owner, though he possessed “What friend?” asked Nicholls, too ing.” ciple of dong pered, while her arms stole round his and wore a waistcoat, dispensed with eagerly. "Evil courses never do prosper, wrong that good neck, “come hack to you with the New the use of a shirt. An article, once a ’The lady you got to dispose of it Nicholls, ” said the officer, as he call may come, she kept Year, never to leave your side until It coat, lay on the floor, to be donned for you to the Jew.” ed in the policemen, and consigned the back the notes of so pleases God.” at will—If it could be got into for Nicholls was startled to lncaution. prisoner to their care. this obviously poor Then they sat down and she told the holes. The man sat on the floor "She hasn ’t split, has she? ” So Gerard was innocent! suitor. him how, three years before, after be in a corner, his head finding a resting "Every particular she knew or “But how was it you skillful detec ing left a widow, she determined to place against the wall, and he had guessed at. Split to save herself. ” Carson often felt tives could not be on this man ’s find out what had become of the sweet dropped into a light sleep, hut If ever “Then there ’s no faith in woman." desolate, hut never scent?” asked Colonel Hope of the of heart of her younger days. How, by famine was depicted in a face, it was "There never was yet,” returned the so utterly as then, ficer, when he heard the tale. a chapter of happy accidents, she in his. Unwashed, unshaven, with officer, “if they are not at the top an
tariff for the benefit of the few and even thoughHEe felt fn “Els'heart That HoB against the interest of the many. of the Butts had a magnet in Sybil Tres For Business The Independent. SYBIL AND 1 sider. He receiv’d him graciously uud With Each 50c. accepted the present. SALE or EXPOSITION PROPERTY. ? SBOROK 8. COKBIT. - • - Proprietor Sybil and the forester had now many For Pleasure Editor and Manager The sheriff of Erie county posted THE ARCHER Ij opportunities of meeting, nnd a strong FRANK fl. ROSE. - feeling of affection sprung up Itetween Worth of Tea notices this week of sale following them —not unnoticed by the keen eyes of CHRISTMAS. exposition property: The electric A Story of the Oldea Time. I Michael. No Hatter Which Yesterday, Christmas Day, was gen tower, the manufacturers, art, agri There were times when he felt inclined 1 WILL GIVE erally observed as the day of the year cultural, horticultural and bazaar to rend his snow white beard with disap If you wish to visit the country It wbh n sweet summer’s afternoon, to j pointment. that brings most joy to a religious buildings, the stadium and the con ward the middle of the fifteenth century I And now began a new life for Hob of Free of Charge or take a pleasant ride around people. A day when we lay aside and tents of the various buildings, tbe and the inhabitants of the little villuge ol the Butts. His former sylvan haunts und town the place to getyourout- try to forget the things which have fountains and pipfe connections, and Friars Holt were all assembled upon tin ! gay companions knew him not, for he be tit is at green watching the attempts of some ol all other property on the grounds. came Michael Rexthorpe ’s drudge, a -AN- made life sorrowful and to rejoice and the younger men to send their arrow* mere hewer of wood nnd drawer of wa give thanks. The sale is slated for December 20 and straight to the ceuter of the butts which ter, and yet he felt that this unaccus As a rule when our minds are pre unless prevented by the exposition stood at one end of the chosen place ol tomed toil was amply repaid by the op occupied with pleasant reflections we company, will result in stopping the recreation. portunity of breathing his love into Syb “Another shaft missed the clout,’ Earle’s Livery sile of the buildings to the Chicago il’s ear nud hearing her shy answer in are overwhelmed witli the sense of ob laughed ail old man ns the arrow stuck response. ligation which we owe to Providence Wrecking Co. for $03,000. quivering in the turf, falling three yard.- One day Michael ’s countenance was Barn where you can get a nob for protection and the blessings be short of the butt. “The king will nevei full of triumph. “I have found them, ” Like I have on exhibition In my by team and a handsome car complain that lads of Wain wood make window. stowed upon us during the year. On Senator Hanna 's statement that cried ho, “I have found them. I am not riage at any and all times. havoc among his deer if lie hears of suet quite certain of eternal youth, for that such occasions our hearts are Ailed he would rather have the satisfaction shooting as this. ” will he a gradual process, but of the wa If you are going for a pleasure with gratitude and in some form the of being the means of bringing capital “Hold your prate, Gaffer Jenkyu,” said ters of oblivion I have no doubt, i have, ride he can fit you out in royal great mass of the people give expres and labor into harmonious relations the young man who had discharged the however, hit upon a sure means of testing style. last shaft, pettishly unstringing his bow sion to their feelings by bestowing up with each other, than to leave any the latter and will do so on that jolter 22PQUNDSBRQWN SUGAR If you are going on business “It was n cross wind which marred my headed archer aud see if it will make him other monument to his memory, leads on others such tokens of their good shooting, unless, indeed, it was the wiz forget Sybil.” For $1.00. his teams will get you there. will as may in their opinion be appro the Chicago Chronicle to say that it ard's wand," he added, crossing himself He hastened away to the keeping room priate and in a degree symbolical of Would be a more worthy effort than devoutly as he cast a glance of scorn and of the tower with the silver goblets, each Prices Very Reasonable. abhorrence ut a young maiden standing the favors which the Great Benefactor that of taking millions of dollars from containing a small quantity of some I am still selling: the some little distunce apart from the group liquid pure and colorless as crystal. Teams and carriages furnished of all has bestowed upon them. the people to give in tlie shape of of rustics, u fair haired girl of middle “I will quaff youth, ” said he, “while the Celebrated Coffee, for all special occasions. Sweet charity joins with all the best subsidies to ship owners who do not height, with a pair of laughing gray eyes. archer shall drain the cup of oblivion to Best service for least money at elements of humanity to make this need it and are not entitled to it. Iler age could scarcely have exceeded the dregs.” two pounds for eighteen years, and the merry expression day one of rejoicing to mankind. In- Hanna would indeed be making a Meanwhile the lovers were engaged in j of her face as she smiled at the woebe earnest conversation beneath a pink May 25 Cents. to the inspired story of its origin has good swap for fame by such a change gone look of the discomfited bowman had tree, which grew on the south side of the Earle’s Livery been woven the beauties and gladness jof base, no more wizard's glamour about it than is tower. of all the spirit of that generous in always to be found in the rippling laugh “Have you not made up your mind yet. ter of a pretty girl, dearest Sybil," murmured the archer in LOUIS SAWADY. Oscar Earle, Prop. stinct in the human heart that would We pay at the rate of about “Yes, there she be, sure enough, ” mut impassioned tones, “will you not ex seek to make at least one day in the $850,000,000 a year for the little more tered Gaffer Jenkyn. with a glance of change this dull tower and the harsh W. P. Earle. Mgr. year a period of perfect happiness and than $5,000,000 a year of l’hilippine malevolent hatred at the young girl. words of your guardian for the sweet re WARMTH, STYLE, DURA enjoyment. trade we get, while European nations “What business has she down here among treats of the merry greenwood? ” us? Even if she can ’t cast spells herself “The prior of St. Wulfstan ’s chapel is Still all human effort in this direc pay nothing for the more than she can tell all about us to that old war- ready to join our hands, and my comrades BILITY, SATISFACTION ! BUSINESS DIRECTORY. tion fails. I n spite of all the generous $48,000,000 a year they get. These lock who lives in the ruined tower in will give you a hearty welcome. Fly i«i<5iilses, in spite of all the acts of figures do their own talking. Carnstone Chase.” with me, and do not waste your young M. Attorneys. By this time general attention was drawn kindness, “the great sad heart of hu life here." to tlie beautiful intruder and threats and For awhile the maiden hesitated, and EARL DROWN, Attorney at Law, St manity ” still retains a degree of sor The present “regular army” of execrations were leveled at her head. then, with a deep blush, consented to fol • Johns .Mich. Office in the Clinton block row which no kindness can erase, At first the girl appeared unconscious Brandt, federal officeholders is reported to low her lover. ONEY TO LOAN on real estate security which no charity can make to dis number 250.000. And the number of of her danger, but all at once a stone They returned, and as she entered the PRACTICAL M by Henry E. Walbridge, 8t. Johns. 16*«S thrown by a lad grazed her arm, and as appear. keeping room she saw her guardian care would-be recruits is somewhat in she perceived the threatening attitude of fully placing two silver goblets upon the Counselor and Solicitor, St, Johns, Mict In St. Johns yesterday many homes excess of the size of the Republican the crowd a look of intense terror pussed table. were made glad through the thought vote in the last national election. across her face and she turned to fly. “Where hast thou been, gadabout? ” Furrier, YON A MOINET, Attorneys at Law. St. fulness of kind hearts and helpfulness “I)o not let the witch escape. ” cried an said he, with an angry frown, “and where J Johns, Mk-h. Office over Chnpiiian'sstore. old crone. “1 lost two sweet grandchil found among the King's Daughters is that oaf of a bowman? Send him 151 PAULDING, NORTON A DOOL1NU If the farmer did but know it, he is dren last autumn. They said it was the hither, nud I will hasten him up by par Attorneys at Law. Office over 8t. Johns and others, who spread joy and satis only fighting the battle of the beet falling sickness, but I know better. It taking of a cup of strong waters with him SNational Rank. 1596 was through the devilments of the old faction witn generous hands. sugar combine. It could pay the before he goes fortli on his quest.” Monroe M, H. CASTIE, Attorney at law. Money And still, in this same village, there wizard and his ward.” Michael placed the goblets at separate to loan. Office head of Clinton avenue, farmer just what it is doing and still A menacing circle soon formed around ends of fhe table and then shambled out Weastsido. ll at are hearts and homes into which the make an enormous profit even if we the poor girl, whose entreaties for mercy of the room. As he did so the girl caught ST., shadow of the blackness of sorrow and were received with shouts of derision, and ILL H. BRUNSON, Attorney at Lawand did the fair thing by Cuba. n malicious twinkle in his eye, which Solicitor in Chancery. Office over tbe despair found its way. It may be that she would have been seriously maltreated raised her suspicions, and with lightning- Gd. Rapids, Mich. Wpost-office. St. Johns, Mich. 1616 death or sickness held sway over the had not a figure burst through the ranks like rapidity she reversed tbe positions of A Million Volf**. of her nssailuuts aud loudly asked the the cups: then, hastening to her lover, she ENKY E. WALBRIDGE, Attorney at Law, St. Johns, Mich. 1387 loved. Could hardly express the thanks of meaning of their cowardly conduct. whispered a few words in his enr. H The many family reunions which Homer Hall, of West Point. la. Listen The man who interposed in the girl’s He nodded and in a few seconds enter SEAL GARMENTS to ORDER ERKINS A BALDWIN, Attorneys at were enjoyed yesterday may lose one why: A severe cold had settled on his behalf was attired in the picturesque ed the rootu where the seeker nfter the P Law, Money Loaners and Real Estate dross of a forester, though he wore uo Agents. Offlceover Chapman's, Clinton Are., of the precious links which made the lungs, causing a most obstinate cough. mysteries of the occult was in waiting. A SPECIALTY. St. Johns. Several physicians said he had badge or cognizance to show that he was “You want some venison, I hear, Mas chain complete. Let us be thankful consumption, but could not help him. the retainer of any uoble house, and the ter Rexthorpe, ” said the forester. “I can Alterations and repairs to all Fur Dentistry. for all the blessings of this life. cloth of which his Lincoln green doublet lay my hands upon u fair white doe in When all thought he was doomed lie Goods promptly and satisfactorily began to use Dr. King ’s New Discovery was composed was of a finer character half an hour. ” E. CORBIN, M. I>., D. D. 8. To get the for consumption and writes—“it com than thut in which servitors were attired. “ ’Tis well,” answered Rexthorpe, rub made. Orders left with NOBLE G• benefit of tbe experience, medical know KDISON’S LATEST. pletely cured me and saved my life. I “Hello, my masters!” cried he, step bing his hnnds, “but beSare thou goest BURNETT, Dry Goods Merchant, ledge and surgical skill which are indispensa ping between tbe maiden and her assail ble to perfection of results I11 dentistry, apply The fact that Edison, the most prac now weigli 227 lbs. ” It’s positively drain this; ’twill hearten thee up. ” St. Johns, will receive prompt and to Corbin & Son, St. Johns. ants. “What wit is this? By the bones The forester tossed off the contents of tical electric scientist in the world, guaranteed for coughs colds and lung careful attention. troubles. Price 50c and $1 00. Trial of Jonathan the Archer, call ye your the goblet and was about to leave the H. KENYON, Dentists. Over Weils’ has just testified his faith in Marconi, bottles free at Fildew & Millman ’s. selves Englishmen to behave in such a room when the old man said, “Whither .• Grocery. St. Johns. Mich. manner? ” recalls the fact that our own wizard is goest thou. Hob? ” G. H. M ANN, D. D.S. Officeover now engaged on an invention which STURGION BAY, WIS. A confused chorus of explanation rose “To the broken cross,” answered the Spaulding 14 Co.s hardware, op from the little crowd, but the smith, who forester. posite The Steel Hotel. Surgery will be quite as valuable commercially had first suggested violent measures, “Good; he hath forgotten all about the a specialty. Office hours, 8 to 13 Ann Arbor Railroad Makes It it Regular a.in., 1:30 to 5 p. m., 7 to 8. eve'g as Marconi ’s wireless telegraph. His Station for It* Car Ferries. strode to the front. doe,” said Michael gleefully. “The po “This is no business of thine, Hob of latest goal is the practical storage bat tion works already. Now for my change. ” homas s. mann . d . d . s., middle of The Ann Arbor Railroad car ferries the Butts," growled he. “Get ye to your He drained off the contents of the chal tery and the goal seems to be in sight. are now making regular stops at Stur upper block, same floor as Perrin A own business of stealing the king's deer, ice aud fell stricken by death, while the TheKLONDYKE is far away. In fact,all TBaldwin, St- Johns, Mich. Of its application Edison himself says geon Bay, Wis. Steamer leaves Frank and leave honest men to look nfter their forester and the maiden journeyed on to those golden hills are a good way off. or are in an interview in Harper ’s Weekly: fort Monday. Wednesday and Friday, own affairs. We will have no witches or where light and happiness awaited them; only Imaginary. There arc always plenty of Physicians. 9:30 a. in.; Sturgeon Bay, 3:30 p. m.; agents trying to get you to invest In some “With the new storage battery, warlocks among us, and this wench, who for love has been ever the spring of eter GOOD THING way off. and it is their busi arrives at Menominee 5:30 p. m. lives up at Carnstone Chase with old nal youth, while it is only death ’s hand ness to make itlook bright. But don ’t be too W. POLLARD, M. D„ PHYSICIAN weighing perhaps half as much as the Going east steamer leaves Menomi fast. See for yourselves. Your home dealer • AND SURGEON, 8t. Johns, Mich. Office Michael Rexthorpe, shall not come down that can brew the liquor which fills the Jover State Bank; residence cor. Ottawa and batteries nowin use, the radius within nee same days 11:30 p. m.; Sturgeon here casting her spell over us and ours.” wants your patronage and will always make cup of oblivion. It an object for you to leave your money a Case Sts. A11 calls answered night or day. which electric vehicles may be safely Bay l:3o a. m. and arrives Frankfort As he spoke he laid a rough, sinewy home. following morning 7:30 a. m. hnnd upon the shoulder of the shrinking Y. DOOLINO, Physician and Surgeon, and surely used is at once extended to Old Tavern Sian*. I have one hundred Monumentsof thelat- girl, hut in a moment staggered back un s Office over Allison's store, St. Johns. fifty, seventy-five, and even one hun “Philadelphia a hundred years ago was est designs in MARBLE and GRANITt to Of Benefit to You. der the effects of n heavy blow dealt him select from. You can have them any size, M. LEONARD, M. D., Physician, Sur- dred miles without recharging. While noted for its tavern signs,” remarked an any design, any material, and guaranteed, I). S. Mitchell, Fulford, Md.: “Dur by the man called Hob of the Butts, who, antiquarian at the Historical society. E• geon and Slectrologist,Ovld, Micb. placing the girl's urm in his, drew her cheaper t han Klondike gold, as cheap as an v the range of the electric carriage is ing a long illness I was troubled with “These were of ingenious device and fre dealers ar dealer’s agent can sell them. B. DODGE. M. D., Surgeon and Homeo- thus tripled, its weight is halved. The bed sores, was advised to try DeWitt’s through the crowd, not one of which ven quently had painted on them n few lines J• pathio Physician. Office and residence tured to manifest any opposition. Come and see me over Spaulding &Co 'e hardware.opp tbe Steel. element of wear and tear is practically Witch Hazel Salve and did so with Neither spoke a word until they had of verse. A sign near the old navy yard wonderful results. 1 was perfectly presented a tree, a bird, a ship and a Yoursfor your money, wood,hay corn C. DUNN, M. D., Physician and 8ur- eliminated, since the new battery will left Friars Holt some little distance be cured. It is the best salve on the mug of ale, with the quatrain: potatoes. • geon. Office over Spaulding A Compa last as long as the carriage in which it hind them, aud then the girl said timidly: Pny's hardware store, St. Johns, Mich. Office market.” Sure cure for piles, sores, “1 thank you, fair sir. for your kindness “This is the tree that never grew; hours I to 4, 7 to 9 p. m. burns. Beware of counterfeits. This is the bird that never flew; is mounted. It seems to touch the in rescuing me from that dreadful man. F. F. MURDOCK, limit of that straining after the auto C. E. Van Sickle . This is the ship that never sailed; HART, M. D., Physician and 8ur I thought I should have died with terror Thia ia the mug that never (ailed. H • geon. Eureka, Mich. 1217 matic which characterizes all the me when he laid his hand on me.” Opp Postoffice. ST. .TOTIN': MICH The forester laughed merrily. "Matt “On Thirteenth street near Walnut HAVENS, M. D., Homeopathic Phy- chanical processese of the day. It is Used by the ladies of fashion all William McDermott had a tavern, with siolan and Surgeon. Officeover Heller s over the world. It’s without doubt Clink nnd I understand each other, pretty Bazaar. simplicity itself.” the greatest beautifier ever offered one, ” said he. “But tell me, who are you. these lines on its sign: Edison prophecies that his new bat the American women. 35c. Made why did they call you a witch and want “I, William McDermott, live here; A FREE PATTERN R. So E. GILL AM, Physician and Surgeon I sell good porter, ale and beer. Office at residence, opposite court bouse tery will revolutionize street traffic- only by Madison Medicine Co. C. E. to throw you into the pond? ” (yoar own selection) to every sub Dwest. Office hours 1 to 4 p. m and 6 to 9 p. m I've made m.v sign a little wider scriber. Only 50 cents a year. Each of the automobile trucks—and Van Sickle. Tears started to tbe girl’s eyes. “I am To let you know I sell good cider. called Sybil Tressider.” answered she, these are actually building —will draw “and 1 am no witch, though 1 live up in 'A wag named Douglass had an inn Undertakers. three tons of freight and work ten Carnstone Chase with that fearful man, cnlled ’The Silent Woman. ’ On the sign ME CAU SE! Michael Rexthorpe. was a picture of a woman decapitated, ILL A EDIT OSGOOD, Undertaker* hours a day. The automobile will soon her head lying at her feet. The Yellow W opp. post-office, St. Johns. Mich. be within everybody ’s reach. The “My father, Reginald Tressider, who believed that he ~ould find tbe philosoph Cottage tavern, on Second street near MAGAZINE! wizard, cheered by the success of Sinking er’s stone, was the owner of the house in Greenwich, had on its swinging sign tho his new battery, looks foward to the the Chase and Michael Rexthorpe was couplet: A LADIES’ MAGAZINE. his trusted familiar and acolyte, but my ‘‘Rove not front sign to sign, but step in here, A f «m ; beautiful colored plates; latest Grand Trail Railway System time when electricity will be produced Where naught exceeds the prospect but the cheer. ” fashions; dressmaking economies ; fancy directly from coal —that is, from heat poor father died, and the fearsome man. work; household hints; fiction, etc. Sub Michael, has taken everything. He says —Philadelphia Record. scribe to-day, or, send w. for latest Copy West-Bound from St. Johns . —and ocean steamers and trunk line Spells, Lady agents wanted. Send for terms. l am bis ward, and, though 1 am not abso Stylish, Reliable, Simple, Up-to- No. 19 —Morning Exp. to Gd. Haven, 10:51 am railways will be run without any other lutely n prisoner, yet he has forbidden me A Genius. date, Economical and Absolutely No. 13—Mail and Chicago Exp. to power. :o go beyond certain limits.” As a man went up the stairway lend Perfect-Fitting Paper Patterns. Gd. Haven ...... 3:12 pm fainting, smothering, palpita Hob of the Butts stroked his chin ing to an elevated station the other day No ll—Express to Grand Itapids 7:57 pm thoughtfully. “A sad tale,” said he. ho took some change out of his pocket to No. 17—Western Exp. to Gd. Haven 7:25am MICHIGAN FARMERS' I'LATFORM. tion, pain in left side, shortness “But what doth he up Id the lonely tower buy a magazine. Near the end of the MSCALLJffl Nos. 19.13,11, Daily except Sunday The expression of principles brought of breath, irregular or intermit —from whence ns I have passed that platform he accidentally dropped a nick A BAZAR* ■ No. 17 Dally. way nt night I have seen strangely col out and adopted by the Michigan el, and several bystanders looked around East -Bound . tent pulse ana retarded circula ored vapors issue aud clouds of bright at the sound of the coin. They were sur State Convention of Farmers in session sparks tloat away like evil demons on prised to see the man take a quarter Patterns ’ No. 12—Express to Detrol and East 8 :28 am tion all come from a weak or No. 20—Mall to Detroit ...... 11:20 am at Lansing recently of Farmers’ Clubs their errand of ill?” from his pocket and deliberately let it Al Seim Allowed sod rrrf scat Isos thow cantained several natters of import defe&fve heart. Overcome “lie searcheth for two things —the se- fall through a crevice in the flooring tbe Basting and Sewing Uses. No. 18 —Evening Exp. to Detroit and rret of eternal youth and tbe waters of caused by a broken board. Only 10 and I, cents each —non. higher East...... 4:49 pm ance. The action in favor of the elec these faults by building up the AA for tt^em Sold in nearly every cny Dblivion, ” replied Sybil Tressider. The silver piece fell to the ground, No. 14—Eastern Exp. to Durand and tion of United States senators by pop and town, or by mail from heart-muscle9 and making the Hob of the Butts looked puzzled. “I landing just outside a high fence, behind THE McCALL CO.. East...... 9:09 pm ular vote sli >ws the growth of senti heart-nerves strong and vigor know not what you mean by the last.” which a building was in course of erec II3-I15-II7 West 31st St.. NfW YORK. Nos. 20. 18. 12, Dally except Sunday. laid be. No. 14, Daily. ment in that direction in the state. ous. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure tion. Its owner watched to see where it In its best sense, this matter lias “It is the draft which brings forgctful- fell and then started to go down after it, is the remedy to use. It is less.” answered the maiden. explaining, however, as he noticed the TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS nothing of partisanship in it. If the “Then Mat Clink often finds that when look of astonishment on the faces of his farmers of the state are a unit in favor the best. le quaffs the nut brown ale.” returned spectators: |he forester with his merry laugh. Maple Rapids of the proposed change, that fact “I would have spells when I “I have just lost a nickel through that FOR 1901 AND 1902. should have a large influence in dictat “I cannot ask thee in.” replied Sybil, crack, but it’s not worth going after, so would get weak and faint and my “but from the bottom of my heart I thank 8t Johns high school room, beginning third heart would »eein to stop beat in order not to waste it I have thrown a ing the position of Michigan when the thee. I hnve not met a friend since I can quarter after it. I can afford to lose the Thursday of August. Stage Line matter shall come up for decision —as ing, then it would beat very tecoilect.” St. Johns eighth grade room, beginning hard. I began taking Dr. Milej’ next train for 30 cents.”—New York third Thursday of October. Leave Maple Rapids 8:30 a.m. daily; arrive it must come some time. The gentle She turned from him with n sigh nnd Times. St. Johns high school room, beginning last in time to connect with 10:51 train west. Heart Cure and when I had used unde her way slowly toward the time Thursday of March men gathered in Lansing showed their twelve bottles my heart was all Unfair. 8t. Johns seventh grade room, beginning; Leave St. Johns 8:30 a.m., arrive Maplo Rap »rn tower, which stood like some giant third Thursday of June. ids 11:30 a.m. sense and appreciation of the condi right. ” Mrs. J. L. Taylor , tentiuol watching over the bleak waste. Etta—Edith is as mad ns she can be Owensboro, Ky, Examinations will commence at 8:30stand- Leave Maple Rapids 1:30 p.m., arrive St, tion of affairs in voting against any • *••••• with Mr. Colter. He has placed her In a ard time. _ _ T. H. TOWNSEND. Johns 4:30 p.m. sort of ship-subsidy plan. And yet In a very few days Hob of the Butts terribly compromising situation. Commissioner of Schools. lA>ave St. Johns on arrival of western mail; Bertha —For mercy’s sake, you don ’t there was something of inconsistency igain found himself in the vicinity of the arrive Maple Rapids «:30 p.m. Dr. Miles' tnean it! in taking the action at the same time tower, nnd with a wiliness which those Good accommodation for travelers. who were acquainted witli his frank nnd Etta—I am sorry to say I do. They Special attention given to express und doing they favored a hiirii protective tariff Heart Cure I pen nature would never hnve given him happened to come to town together the errands. on sugar. This was induced without rredit for he carried on his shoulders a other evening, and he didn’t speak a HEADACHE Charges low. Orders left at DeWitt’s whole word to her the whole way. Of course doubt, by centering influences brought is a heart and blood tonic of fat doe. which he humbly offered to sale bouse will be given prompt attention Uirhnel Rexthorpe ns n tribute from one everybody must have supposed them to bear by representatives of the many Stage kept at Mrs. Wiggins ’ barn. L 11st sto unequaled power and never Who. though ignorant, was a devoted ad- married. It places Edith in a most awk In St. Johns at Farmers’ hotel. great beet sugar factories in this state. fails to benefit if taken in time. nirer of learning. ward situation, nnd she Is getting along, Our newly acquired possessions, by The cunning old mnn fathomed the you know, to an age when she cannot af HART
Miss Mame Emmons, who is supt. of J^KPORT OP TUB CONDITION music in the public schools of Clinton, Open Secrete of World's Btnvlee. Ill., is here spending the holiday vaca It seems paradoxical that the navies OF THE tion with her parents and friends, and of tbe different nations which build Soft Baking to be present at the wedding of her ships to tight each other with should Clinton County Savings Bank, sister on the tirst day of the new year. be willing to publish In nn Internation AT 8T. JOHNS, MIOH. Lona J. Leonard hus returned from al nnval manual the plans of all their Royal Harness At the close of business. December 10, 1901. as Powder the west where he lias been traveling battleships, with the fullest Informa eulled fur-ny tin) Commissioner of the Too can make your bar y Absolutelybsoluteiv I'Phjreurf since last April. He will spend the tion concerning them. This has been ncaa ms mofl ms a flora 'Hanking Department. holidays with his parents, George D. done in “All the World’s Fighting and aa touch aa wire by RESOURCES. Leonard and wife, this village, and uaiiitf KURSK. A liar. Ships ” (recently published by the Hur- ■ •as Oil. You can Makes the food more delicious and wholesome will then go to Illinois or Iowa to make lengthen Its Ilfs—make It Loans and discounts ...... $ 40,460 Tt pers). the great international naval lust twice aa long aa it Bonds. inortArages und securities...... 249,226 15 ROYAL SAKtWO FQWQgW 00., N«W YOfUL his future home. ordinarily would. Premiums pit id on l«mds ...... C,04t> (si Supt. I. B. Gilbert went to Grand manual edited by F. T. Jane. To Due from other hunks and bankers l* Rapids Christmas dav to attend a this remarkable volume all the chief Due from hanks In reserve constructors of every navy In the world cities...... 152,200 43 Walsworth from Olivet; Jay Watkin, meeting of the State Teachers ’ Assoc U. S. and National Dank iation the balance of the week. F. P. have contributed, submitting designs EUREKA currency ...... 8.906 00 PERSONAL. Hal Chapin and Guy Norton from Ann Gold coin ...... 11,;Ri2 50 Arbor. Buck, teacher in the nigh sclnx l, and and giving full Inside data about every Silver odd 11...... 171 58 Miss Florence Perkins Is home from County Superintendent of Schools warship In the world and every mer Harness Oil NickelsVud cents ...... 28 Mrs. I). E. Wilson, of Maple Rapids, Townsend went today for the same Checks.cash items,Internal Ypsilanti. left this station Tuesday to spend the chant ship useful for purposes of war. makesapoorlooking bar- revenue account ...... 314 00 72,954 79 pu rpose. The book Is already in use In the refer nma Ilka new. Mule of Mrs. J. H. Whiteside went to holidays with friends in Ionia. pure, heavy bodied oil, ce Total ...... $390,717 70 Casnova Tuesday. Miss Mayme Andrews and sister, ence libraries of the great daily papers pacia! ly prepared to wilt), M. L. Phares and wife, of Grand Mrs. Julia Roony, of Oiive, went to stand the weather. Judge Daboll was in Saginaw on Ledge, spent Christinas day with S. I>. nnd In the bureau of equipment of the LIABILITIES. Fremont, their old home, Tuesday United States unvy.„ Sold everywhere business Thursday. Watson and family, tills village. last, to spend tiie holidays. Mrs. In cans —ail size*. 'a pi till stock paid in ...... $ 2k, One on I)r. L. Jones was transacting busi Mrs. Vernie Stauffor, after visiting Roony and husband will again take up Surplus fund ...... 5,000 on Midi b| STANDARD OIL CO. Undivided profits, net ...... 3,130 77 ness in Ovid Monday. her aunt, Mrs. E. A. Durkee, returned their residence in Fremont, where Savings deposits ...... :E0.289 12 J. L. Hamilton spent Christmas with to her home at Cassnova, Tuesday. Mr. Roony lias engaged with a railroad Savings certificates...... 27,088 87 353,977 99 company. his cousin at Muskegon. E. B. Waite and wife went to Fen Totul ...... $390,717 70 ton Tuesday to spend the remainder of Dr. Donald McDonald Mrs. T. Cl. Reynolds spent Christmas Mr. and Mrs. II. V. Abbott and lit CHICHESYLft'S ENGLISH State ok Michigan , County of Clinton, ss: with friends at Pewamo. tiie week with Mrs. Waite’s parents. tle son are here spending tiie holidays THE SPECIALIST, I, P. E. Walsworth, Treasurer of the abovc- with Mrs. Abbott ’s parents, Mr. and numed hunk, do solemnly swear that the Omry Kosht, of Jessie, spent Sunday A. F. Brooks, of Detroit, was the PENNYROYAL PILLS above statement is true to the best of my with friends in St. Johhs. guest of C. W. Carter and family, this Mrs. C. S. Scofield. Mr. Abbott will IS COI/CXITO-! know lodge and belief. village, on the Joyous Cb ristmas day. return todiis studies in a medical P. E. WALSWORTH, Miss Louisa Martin spent Christmas Treasurer. Miss Grace DeMay, of Jackson, college in Cincinnati, and Mrs. Abbott with her mother in Fowler. and son will remain here until spring, Subscribed and sworn to before me this Dr. S. M. Post is professionally en arrived Saturday to spend the holidays ICth duy of December, 1901. with her cousin. MissMable Walbridge. when Mr. Abbott expects to graduate If. B. WASHBURN. gaged in Marshall this week. as a full Hedged physician and surgeon. Notary Public. A. J. Miller and wife, of Owosso, Win. Secord and wife, of Victor Correct Attest: township, spent Christmas witli their G. PENNELL. spent Christmas in St. Johns. Cough Cure affords immediate relief Muflr. Always reliable. 1.adieu. ask Druggist Tor C. C. VAUGHAN, daughter, Mrs. Joe Savillf, at Owosso. «IIM'IIKWi:it» i:.\4.1.ISII In Hed and JOHN C. HICKS, W. H. Burke and wife spent Christ for coughs, colds and all kinds of Wold metallic boxes, eealt-d with blue ribbon. Di rectors mas with his parents in Ionia. Mrs. E. Wright, after spending a throat and lung troubles. For croup Take nu oilier. Ileliue dnogerouu uiibutl- lutlon* and liullutionu. Huy of yourDruggist, Mrs. Jennie Myers went to Lansing few days with friends in this village, it is unequalled. Absolutely safe. or Mind ••**. in stamps for l*arlleulara. Teutl- Tuesday to spend the holidays. returned to her home in Owosso, Tues Very pleesant to take, never fails and moniala and Kellef for l.adlca." in Irllrr, JYKIMtltT Ot TIIE CONDITION by return Hall. 10.000 Testimonials. Hold by P. II. Flint and wife went to Flint day. is really a favorite with the children. ail Druggists. _ OF- Tuesday to spend the holidays. Miss Mattie Lyon left here Wednes They like it. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. day morning for Ionia, where she will C. E. Van Sickle . ■loo .Tladixtn Nquare. 1*111 LA., PA Miss Pearl Sanford is spending the Mentl in thla paper. holidays with friends at Petoskey. visit her sister the remainder of t lie \v'iek. The St. Johns Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Mead spent last horseT talk. AT ST. JOHNS, MICH. Monday with his mother in Owosso. Frank L. Thome, assistant teller in tbe State Bank, spent Christmas day At the close of business. Decernbsr 10, IDOL W. II. Parker is spending the holi witli his parents and friends in West Llssa Bee, 2:13V4. will be bred to Bin Lyon & Ten Eyck RESOURCES. days with friends at Ravenna. Mich. phalia. gen, 2:001-4. Miss Leone Shaw is spending the It is reported that Jack Curry in Loans and discounts ...... $104.7*8 t 7 Claude Wilson, Addison: Bird Cush WANT YOUR CRAYING overdrafts, secured and unsecured. 2.447 sit holidays at her home in this village. man, Lansing, and Guy Mead, Bath, tends to locate at Allentown, Pa., for U. S. bonds to secure circulation ...... 15,000 t*0 the winter at least. Stocks, securities, etc...... 35,093 82 Mrs. A. A. Nicholes is spending the are visiting the Misses Shaw in this They are anxious to get it and will do Dunking-house, furniture and fix holiday vacation witli friends in Jessie. village. Will Leyburn, 2:00, Is now the fastest everything possible to please you tures...... 7.000 00 Geo. S. Hunt, wife and daughter are Mr. and Mrs. Verta Brazee, of the get of Milton, 2:11)1-4. Ills dam is Other real estate owned ...... - 9,5» (ft and hold your patronage. Due from State Banks and Bunkers 9,835 07 spending the holidays witli her people. Perrinton. spent Christmas with liis Criterion, 2:29%, by Crittenden. HE WILL UK IN ST. JOHNS, Due from upproved reserve agents... 48.188 Iti parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Brazee, Checks and other cash items...... 7.197 52 G. E. Pray and wife are spending Daredevil, 2:00, Village Farm’s fa Fractional paper currency, nickels, the holidays with friends at Muskegon. McConnell St. mous race and prize winning son of at STEEL HOTEL They give prompt and careful atten and cent- ...... 892 64 Mrs. Luna Bennett, of Greenbush, Lawful money reserve in bank, viz: Miss Rose Schneider went to Sag Mambrino King, was exhibited at the tion to every call. Specie ...... $10,454 15 inaw Tuesday to visit her brother, went to Mason Christmas day to spend Pan-American horse show. Legal-tender notes ...... 3,500 00 John. the remainder of the holiday season Thursday, Jan. 9th ------13,953 15 witli relatives. Direct llal, the Village Farm ten .LYON & TEN EYCK...... Redemption fund with U. S. Treas Mrs. T. B. Knight and son. of Olive, urer (5 per cent, of circulation) ...... 750 00 M. D. Hubbard and wife, of Pontiac, thousand dollar pacer without a record, ONE DAY ONLY EACH MONTH. went to Pontiac Tuesday to visit rela worked a mile for Ed Geers at Mem ST.JOHNS, MICH. tives. spent Christmas dav witli their peo OFFICE HOURS 9 A. M- to 7 P. M. Total...... $254,614; Jt phis in 2:00%, last half in 1:02. Byron Brown, of Duplain township, ple, this village and township, return LIABILITIES. ~ ing home today. Onward Silver, 2:08, is the tirst Ten went to visit his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Capital stock paid in ...... $50,000 00 Dean. T. L. Newman and wife, of Union nessee bred trotter In tlie 2:10 list. lie Consultation, Examination and The Place to Get your Surplus fuud...... 10,000 00 Home, left this station Tuesday fora was bred by W. A. Collier of Memphis, Undivided profits, less expenses and Miss Blanch Doolittle, of Owosso, visit witli friends at Owosso, and in taxes paid ...... 5,039 72 spent Christmas with relatives in St. who still owns his dam. Sylvan Maid, Advice Free. BICYCLE Repaired, your National bank notes outstanding...- 15.000 <»> Johns. Genesee county. by Aberdeen. Due to state banks and bankers . .. 15,697 08 Gottlieb Karcher, of this township, LAWN MOWER sharpened Individual deposits subject to cheek 104,684 11 Miss Belle Ilosekrans, of South Bing Red Princess, 2:12V4. who has raced DR. MCDONALD Demand certificates of deposit ...... 54.225 41 ham, went to Lyons Tuesday to visit a left here Tuesday to spend the holi so well for W. L. Snow this fall, is days with liis daughter, Mrs. II. A. or GENERAL REPAIR Total ...... $254,646 32 cousin. Miller, of Owosso. owned l>y the veteran reinsman. A. J. Is one of the Greatest Living Speci-al (Jack) Feek, now retired from the ists in the treatment of all Chronic James McCaw went to Grand Rapids Mrs. O. A. Whitlock spent Christmas State or Michigan . County of Clinton, ss: Tuesday to spend a few days with sulky. Diseases. His extensive practic and ING Done is at 1, P. E. Walsworth. cashier of the above- friends. with her parents at Ovid and the superior knowledge enable him to named hank, do solemnly swear that the remainder of the week with friends in George Spears, who is handling Alves cure every curable disease. All al)ove statement Is true to the l>est of my Mrs. LeRov Roberts, of Maple knowledge and belief. Flint and Detroit. for Nathan Straus of New York, denies chronic diseases of the Brain, Spine, P. E. WALSWORTH, Cashier. Rapids, is visiting her parents at that he had offered to match Alves Nerves,'Blood, Skin. Heart, Lungs. Owosso. Mrs. Carrie Hoenshell and children, E. C. Whetstone’s Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19t li of Corunna, spent Christmas with against The Monk for $2,500 a side, the Liver. Stomach, Kidneys and Bowles, day of December, 1901. Mrs. W. A. Norton and children II. B. WASHBURN. her uncles, Stephen, Robert and J. M. race to be held on a trotting track. scientifically and successfully treated. Notary Public. spent Christmas with friends in Hicks, this village. DR. MCDONALD'S success in the ltOltATK OKIfEK.-STATE OF M1CH1 Correct —Attest: Lansing. , treatment of Female Diseases is simp P GAN, County of Clinton, mb. At a session G. PENNELL, Attorney Ray Latting. of Grand of the Probate Court 1'or the County of Clin JOHN HICKS. Mrs. Sylvia Blackmore is here visit Ledge, is spending the holidaps with THE REVIEWER. ly marvelous. His treatment makes ton. holden at the Probate Office, In the Village O. C. VAUGHAN, ing her uncle, Manley Irish, and other sickly women stronge, beautiful and of St. JohnB. on Monday, tbe 9th day ot Di rectors. his sister. Mrs. Nelson Palmer, and December, In the year one thousand nine kinsmen. family this village. If ttie treating custom and the re attractive. Weak men, old or young, hundred and one. cured in every case and saved from a Orvil Sowle spent Christmas In Paul Seibert spent Christmas witli volver habit could be eliminated from Present, Chailes M. Merrill, Judge of ltoitATK OKDEK.—STATE OF MICHI Fowler, the guest of Miss Lizzie American life, tills country would be a life of suffering. Deafness. Rheuma Probate. GAN, County of Clinton, ss: At a session his parents, Charles Seibert and wife, tism, and Paralysis, cured through In the matter of the estate of MARY Pof the Probate Court lor the County of Clin Silliman. of Bengal township, returning to bis 10 per cent better place to live in. — K. SCHNEIDER, deceased. It is celebrated Blood and Nerve Rem On reading and filing the petition duly ton, ho:den at the Probate Ofliee, In the Village J. Morrison and wife, of Greenbush. position in Detroit. Minneapolis Times. of St. Johns, on Monday, the 23d day of edies and Essential Oils charged with verified, of Mary Martin, praying that December, in the year one thousand nine huu went to Detroit Tuesday ) visit sister Miss Anna Tiedt and her brother, The St. I.ouis world's fair Is now in the last will and testament of said electricity. THE DEAF MADE TO deceased may be proved and admitted to pro dred and one. of latter. Fred, of Dallas, went to St. Charles its uucntlmsing stage. They are chop HEAR! THE LAME TO WALK! Present, Charles M Merrill, Judge of Pro bate. and that Michael Spitzlev or some other bate. Walter Cattermole. formerly of St. Tuesday to visit relatives. They were ping down splendid trees In Forest Catarrh. Throat and Lung Diseases person may be appointed executor of said estate. lu the matter of the estate of JOHN Johns, is now in business for himself accompanied by John Budzier. park and are appointing boards of lady cured. Dr. Me Donald cures Fits and SCHAFER, deceased. On reading and filing the Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the petition, duly verified, of Stephen Schafer, at Albion. Miss Jessie Holden, who has been managers. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Nervous Diseases. Eczema and all 2d day of January, A. !».. 1902. at one visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Green at Skin Diseases cured. o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned for tbe praying that the iast will and testament of Miss Cora Dobson is spending the West Point is now entirely free of all hearing of said petition and that the heirs at said deceased may be proved and admitted to holidays with friends in Pontiac and Price, leaves for Toledo tomorrow, DR. McDONALD has been called law and legatees of said deceased, and all other probate, and that he or some other suitable Plymouth. where she will make her home. forms of hazing, and time will tell the Wizard of tiie Medical Profession, persons Interested In said will, are required to person, muy be appointed executor of said whether the present crop of cadets will because be reads all diseases at a appear at a session of said court then to be estate. Austin Phillips and Henry Dewey, Miss Anna Gross, after spending a boldon at the Probate office in the village of Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the of Corunna, were in this village the few days with her sister, Mrs. Joseph be the better or the worse for the im glance, without asking any questions. St. Johns and show cause. If any there be, 16th day of January, A. P, 11*02, at one Sick folk, call on Dr. McDonald. It o'clock In the afternoon, be assigned for the first of the week. Thelcn, this village, returned to her munity that they are granting and re why the will should not be approved. hearing of said petition, and that the heirs at home in Wyandotte last Tuesday. ceivlng. —Chicago Chroulele. is a pleasure to meet him. Dr. Mc And It is further ordered, that notice be giv law uml legators of said deceased, and all other Mrs. Bert Sparks and two children Donald never turns the poor from his en to the persons Interested in said estate of persons interested iusaid will, are required to went to Thorn Apple Lake Tuesday to E. A. Durkee and wife and Miss It is hinted In England that Gibraltar door. the pendency of the hearing thereof liy caus appear at a session of said Court then to be spend Christmas. Estella Grittin went to Casnova to would crumble like an ant hill If struck ing a copy of this order to tie published In the ; holden at the Probate ofliee in the village of participate in the joys of a reunion in CONSULTATION FREE. Clinton Indki 'kndent , a newspaper printed Kt. Johns and show cause, if any there be, Mrs. J. Gordanier and son, of Essex, by a few shells from a warship. As and circulated in said County of Clinton for why the will should not be approved. the home of Mrs. Durkee’s parents. Those unable to call can address three successive weeks previous to said day of went to Jackson Tuesday to spend the certain other nations have a wholesome bearing. And It is turthei ordered, that notice he holiday vacation. Miss Ethel Richmond and Miss respect for England ’s navy, the Biitons CHARLES M. MERRILL. given to the persons interested in said estate DR. D. A. MCDONALD (A true copy.) Judge of Probate. of the pendency of the bearing thereof by Mrs. O. F. Gellman and three child Minnie Kruse, of Lansing, spent are uot likely to lose much sleep over causing h copy of lids order to be published ren are enjoying the holidays with Christmas in the home of the former ’s In the Clinton Indkpknoent . a newspaper the rumor.—Boston Globe. printed and circulated in said county of Clin friends at Fowler. parents, O. L. Richmond and wife, of The wooden freight car will soon bo ton for three successive weeks previous to said Mrs. Gilbert Granger, of Bengal, this village. day of hearing. an obsolete feature In railroad equip CHARLES M MERRILL. went to Mayville, Mich., Tuesday, to Misses Minnie Barrington. Edith ment. Meantime steel passenger cars A true copy.) Judge of Probate. spend the holidays. Mead, Anna . Ryan and Brownie ARE Bromley went to Chicago last Friday are not finding the same favor. Why Mrs. CoraSutfln, of Owosso, is visit this Is so Is rather puzzling, because ing her parents, M. F. Richmond and to remain witli friends during the HoIIATE OIIItKK.-STATE OF MICHI present week. the steel passenger car would obvious GAN. County of Clinton, ss. At a session wife, in this village. YOU ! HEAD Pof the Probate Court for the County of Clin ly get rid of one railroad peril —It could Frank Robb, of Pontiac, is spending Mrs. M. L. Welter, after visiting her ton holden at tiie Probate Office, in the Village mother, Mrs. Grant, of St. Johns, and uot be burned. —New York World. ofSt. Johnson Thursday the 19th day of De the holidays with his mother and cember in the year one thousand nine hundred brother in St. Johns. Mrs. B. T. Youngs, of Bengal town NOISES? and one. ship, returned to her home in Owosso DEAF? t Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Pro Frank Baumgardner, of Olive, will last Saturday. THE WHIRL OF FASHION. ALL CASES OF bate. spend the holidays with friends at In the matter of tbe estate of BERNARD Toledo and Fremont. Mrs. Mary Richardson, of Bath, M. RADEM ACHER.deceased On reading and arrived in this village today and will Chinchilla remains a very favorite DEAFNESS OR HARD HEARING filing the petition, duly verified,of Mary Heyer Frank Squair. H. D. Squair and make an extended visit with her fur for those who have sufficient color praying tnat the last will and testament of wife and John Harmon spent Christ- said deceased may be proved and admitted to daughter. Mrs. Ira A. Shaw, of the to wear It. ARE NOW CURABLE probate and that Peter Thelen or some mas in Grand Ledge. Farmers hotel. Exquisite lace pieces In point ap by our new invention. Only those born deaf are incurable. other suitable person may be BppolDtcd Roy Nethercott and wife, of Grand executor of said estate. Miss Rose Hugulet and Miss Clara plique are used on the wide brims of Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the Rapids, visited their parents in this Ferul, of Olive, left this station Satur black, white or golden brown picture 16th day of January, A. I). 1002, at one village over Christmas. HEAD NOISES CEASE IMMEDIATELY. o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the day noon fora trip to Remus, Isabella hats made of the richest silk velvet. F. A. WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS: Mrs. F. W. Blair, of Lansing, has hearing of said petition, and that tbe heirs county, where they are spending the Narrow lines of costly fur on gauze, Baltimore , Md.. March -o. inci. at law and legatees of said deceased and all been spending the past week witli her holidays with friends. Gentlemen : — Heins entirety cured of deafness, thanl.s to your treatment, 1 will now give you other persons interested in said wlli are re parents in this village. net and tulle remain one of the incon n full history of my ca! c, to be tired nt \ oc.r discret ion. , , quired to appear Ht a session of said court Miss Lizzie White and Mrs. Delbert gruous combinations, but it Is extreme About five years 0"O my right car begun to bing, nnd this kept on getting worse, until I lost then to be holden at the Probate ofliee in the Geo. S. Engle and wife, of Detroit, Chcsbro, of Colony, Kansas, after my hearing in this car entirely , , Village of St. Johns Hnd show cause, if any are spending a sew days with friends visiting their father, L. II. Post, and ly effective and becoming whenever I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a num- there be, why the will should not be approved - used. And it Is further ordered, that notice be in this village and Ovid. uncle. I. H. Chesbro. in Greenbush, given to the persons Interested In said estate, B. A. McCabe from Grand Rapids returned to their home today. Separate waists of brocade are a of the pendency of the hearing thereof by caus spent- Christmas with his parents, Mr. rather novel feature of the season, and i tut it nil w to.u utntiii.-e uixui uwiuv •• - — -- r r, • ing a ropy of this order to be published in tbe Mrs. Ida Walbridge and daughter ment. After I hr.d used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises ceased, ami Clinton iNDEPKNPkNT, a newspaper printed and Mrs. A. I). McCabe. Neva went to Sarnia. Canada, Monday these are trimmed only with a yoke to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear lias been entirely restored, i thank ye u and circulating in said County of Clinton for to be present at tbe WyckofT-Franklin heartily and beg to remain Very truly yours. three successive weeks previous to said day Rev. B. McDermand and wife went and sleeve cuffs of white, black or V. A. WRRMAN, 750 S Broadway, Baltimore, Md. of hearing. to Detroit Tuesday evening to remain wedding which took place at the borne Persian silk passementerie. Our treat ment does not interfere ir/th ffour usual occ u tuition. CHARLES M. MERRILL. of the bride at 5 p. m. Christmas. the balance of the week. Silk gimps and -passementeries en ■f n nomiunl Judge of Probate. com . A true copy. Tlohn Hicks, wife and daughter. Mrs. Mrs. S. K. Hodgess. after spending applique, copying very closely the beau *“.3S^,,d YOU GAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME Rawson, expect to leave today for their a pleasant vacation with her mother, tiful designs of applique laces, are the INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. southern home in Florida. Mrs. John Drake, in Olive township, ROBATE NOTICK. —PROBATE COURT most novel and effective of the ready Clinton County —ss. Notice Is hereby J. L. Patterson, of Fowler, went to returned to her home in St. Charles, Pgiven that ail claims nnd demands against the to use trimmings of the season. —New 0000100001 0000♦00000000000000000*00 Marion. Mich., to spend the remainder Saturday, accompanied by her two I 0000000000£u£f00 estate of THOMAS KERRIES, deceased, children. York Post. 0000*0000*000000*0*00*OOOOOOOOOO' will be heard by the Judge of Probate of said of tlie winter with friends. County, at the Probate Office In the Village of J. Earle Brown and Miss Birdaline Miss Anna Chapin, of Chicago, is The revived I.ouis XV. fashion of I St. Johns, on the 20th day of June, A. visiting her brother, Ed. and family, evening dress Introduces brocaded I> , 1902, and that the creditors of said de Wiggins spent Christmas with friends I ... MONUMENTS ... ceased are allowed six months from the date at Eagle and Grand Ledge. in Lansing and may visit her many moires for the pointed bodice nnd open of this notice In which to present their claims Fred and Ruby Bose are visiting friends here, providing our new road fronted skirt, with Jeweled strappings, J* for adjustment. begins carrying passengers the tirst of Dated December 19th. A D.. 1901 their uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. valois collar and petticoat of plain u In Granite and Marble. CHARLES M MERRILL. Wilton Anderson, in Essex. the week. satin or velvet Judge of Probate. Mrs. W. H. H. Chapman and George u Mrs. Elizabeth IIufTton went to ** IKON LAWN VASES and BOUQUET HOLDERS. Ionia Tuesday, where she will spend Chapman, wife and little daughter, fJKOIIATK N< the holidays with relatives, went to Cbesaning Saturday to attend MT Clinton C
TALM AGE’S SERMON. ages quadrlenntal. God haa Infinite re old place and as ten or twenty or fifty BITS OF INFORMATION. sources, and he can give presents of years ago come and open the did Bi There are Americana In Santiago, but great value, but when he wants to ble ae you used to, rend and kneel In the majority of the business houses are DISCOURSE APPROPRIATE FOR THE glvs the richest possible gift to s the same place where you used to pray conducted by Spaniards. PRESENT HOLIDAY SEASON. household he looks around all the and look upon ud as of old when you worlds ar.d all the universe and then wished us s merry Christmas or a The cost of schools for Indian chil gives a child. Yea, in all ages God happy New Year. But no! That would dren to the government was 12,489,525 Subject la the Nativity—How God Hon has honored childhood. He makes al not be fair to call you back. You had in 1900. The enrollment was 26,541. ored Childhood —Motherhood for All most every picture a failure unless troubles enough and aches enough and 1 here is a cave on the Jorend fjord, Time Consecrated by the Scene In the there be a child either playing on the bereavements enough while you were Norway, from which at every ebunge Humble Stable nt lletlilebeui. floor or looking through the window here. Tarry by the throne, mother, of the weather flashes of lightning is or seated on the lap gazlug Into the till we join you there, prayers all an sue. (Copyright, 1901. Louis Klopsch, N. Y.) face of the mother. swered. and in the eternal homestead It is stated upon good authority that Washington, Dec. 22.—'This discourse It was a child in Naaman's kitchen of our God we shall again keep Christ there are now 2,000 active Mormon of Dr. Talmagii is full of the nutlvlty that told the great Syrian warrior mas Jubilee together. But speak from proselyters scattered widely over the and appropriate for the holidays; text, where he might go and get cured of your thrones, all you glorified mothers, world. Luke 11., 16, “And they came with haste the leprosy, which at his seventh and say to all these, your sons and The latest society fad among the and found Mary and Joseph, and the plunge iu the Jordan was left at the daughters, words of love, words of fashionable women in England is that babe lying In a manger.” bottom of the river. It was to the warning, words of cheer. They need of being photographed as a moving The black window shutters of a De cradle of leaves in which a child was your voice, for they have traveled far picture. cember night were thrown open and laid, rocked by the Nile, that God and with many a heartbreak since An inch of rainfall, the drop* frozen some of the best singers of a world called the attention of history. It was you left them, and you do well to call as they form into delicate crystals, will where they all sing stood there, and a sick child that evoked Christ ’s cura from the heights of heaven to the val make ten inches of snow. —Ladies’ tive sympathies. It whs & child that putting hack the drapery of cloud leys of earth. Hail, enthroned ances Home Journal. Christ set in the midst of the squab chanted a peace anthem until all the try! We are coming. Keep a place Of late there has developed among bling disciples to teach the lesson of echoes of hill and valley applauded right beside you at the banquet. the native Hawaiiuns, especially among humility. Slow footed years! More swiftly run and encored the halleluiah chorus. the younger men, a desire to engage in A child decided Waterloo, showing Into the gold of that unsetting sun. Come, let us go into that Christmas a sea-faring life. the army of Ulucher how they could Homesick we are for thee, scene as though we had never, before Petrified fruits have been found in take a short cut through the fields Calm land beyond the sea. worshiped at the manger. Here is a coal from Spltzbergen, the island group when If the old road had been followed Behold also In that first Chistmas Madonna worth looking at. 1 wonder In the Arctic ocean, midway between the Prussian general would have come night that God honored the fields. not that the most frequent name in Greenland and Nova Zembla. ail lands and In all Christian centuries up too late to 6ave the destinies of Come in, shepherd boyB, to Bethlehem, De Foe is said to have written "Rob Is Mary. And there are Marys In pal Europe. It was a child that decided and see the child. "No,” they say; inson Crusoe” in six months. He wrote aces and Marys in cabins, and, though Gettysburg, he having overheard two ”we are not dressed good enough to rapidly, as may be judged from the im German and French and Italian and Confederate generals in a conversation come in.” “Yes, you are. Come in. ” mense quantity of his political writ Spanish and English pronounce it dif In which they decided to march for Sure enough, the storms and the night ings, ferently, they are all namesakes of the Gettysburg Instead of Harrisburg, and. dew and the brambles have made rough one whom we find on a bed of straw, this reported to Governor Curtin, the work with their apparel, but none haa Hungarian vineyard owners are re “You are very kind,” said Estelle. NEW YEAR'S ADVICE. with her pale face against the soft Federal forces started to meet their a better right to come in. They were joiced at the routing of the phylloxera, There Is a fo» that watch*** “Thank you. Miss Croker,” said cheek of Christ In the night of the opponents at Gettysburg. And to-day the first to hear the music of that and they expect soon to be shipping Tour comfort to destroy, Maude. But Ray, remembering that nativity. All the great painters have the child is to decide all the great Christmas night. The first announce their fiery wines to all parts of the Assuming shapes of evil Mis3 Croker must have heard her say To Interrupt your Joy: tried, on canvas, to present Mary and battles, make all the laws, settle all ment of a Savior ’s birth was made to world again. she wished she would go home, want To keep him at a distance her child and the incidents of that the destinies and usher m the world’s those men in the fields. There were Julius Caesar's calendar prevailed in Should be your purpose true, ed to hide herself. However, she most famous night in the world's his salvation or destruction. Men. women, wiseacres that night in Bethlehem and Europe until 1582, when it was sup “rtever trouble trouble came out from behind the curtain and tory. Raphael, in three different mas nations, all earth and all heaven, be Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and planted by that of Gregory XIII., now TUI trouble troubles you!" seated herself close to Estelle. Miss terpieces, celebrated them. Tintoretto hold the child! there were salaried officers of govern In use, which omits three leap years Croker then gave them each a crochet Each day he may remind you and Ghirlandajo surpassed themselves Notice also that in this Bible night ment who, bearing of it afterward, every 400 years. Of sorrow that's in store; needle. “This blue ball is for you," in the adoration of the magi. Correg scene God honored science. Who are may have thought that they ought to Gas Is the cheapest and most easily Each day with hints and shadow* .she said, placing the wool in Estelle's Perplex you more and more; gio needed to do no more than his Ma the three wise men kneeling before the have had the first news of such a great managed of all fuels, provided care is lap. ‘The mauve for you,” and she But go not forth to meet him donna to become immortal. The “Ma Divine Infant? Not boor, not igno event, some one dismounting from a given to its use. A good gas stove well dropped another ball in Maude's As many people do. donna of the Lily," by Leonardo da ramuses, but Caspar. Balthasar and swift camel at their door and knock managed will, counting in the time for And "never trouble trouble hands, “and the pink for little Rosy Vinci, will kindle the admlr tion of Melchior, men who knew all that was ing till at some sentinel's question, care and lack of dust, cost one-third Till trouble troubles you!” Ray.” ail ages. But ail the galleries of Dres to he known. They were the Isaac "Who conies there? ” the great ones of less than coal.— Indies ’ Home Journal. 'Tis time enough to worry The children laughed merrily, but den are forgotten when I think of the Newtons and Herschels and Faradays the palace might have been told of the When misery appears; at the lady's last words their faces small room of that gallery containing of their time. Their alchemy was the celestial arrival. No; the shepherds 'Tis tfme enough for weeping grew very long. “Now. girls,” “I GEMS IN PROSE. When there ’s excuse for tears; the “Sistine Madonna." Yet all of them forerunner of our sublime chemistry, heard the first two bars of the music, want three mats for my dressing case So ever at the fountain were copies of St. Matthew s Madon their astrology the mother of our mag the first In the major key and the last The determined and persevering Of prayer your faith renew, at home and I know you will be de na and Luke's Madonna, the inspired nificent astronomy. And when I see in the subdued minor, “Glory to God And "never trouble trouble lighted to make me a present before I need never despair of gaining their ob Madonna of the old book, which we these scientists bowing before the in the highest and on earth peace, ject in this world.—Beaconsfield. Till trouble troubles you!" go. which will lie very soon now. ” She had put into our hands when we were beautiful babe 1 see the prophecy of good will to men. ’ Ah, yes, the fields Be loving and you will never want For they who borrow trouble looked at Ray while she spoke and Infants and that we hope to have undei the time when all the telesopes and were honored. Are never out of debt. then left the room, for love; be humble and vou will our heads when we die. microscopes and all the I^eyden Jars The old shepherds, with plaid and O'er every fancied evil 'Horrid thing! ” said Ray, as the never want for guiding.- They worry, fume, and fret; Behold, in tae first place, that on the and all the electric batteries and all crook, have for the most part van And If you would l>e happy door closed. ”1 won't knit a mat for night of Christ's life God honored the the observatories and all the univer ished, but we have grazing on our rr Another course pursue. her. I thought Bhe meant to give us brute creation. You cannot go into sities shall how to Jesus. It is much United States pasture fields and prairie And "never trouble trouble the wool. ” Till trouble troubles you!” that Bethlehem barn without going that way already. Where is the college about 42.000.000 sheep, and all their "It just serves us right for talking YOU past the camels, the mules, the dogs, that does not have morning prayers, keepers ought to follow the shepherds Anticipating pleasure about mamma's friend as we did,” re May give relief from pain; the oxen. The brutes of that stable thus bowing at the manger? Who have of my text and all those who toil in plied Estelle. "We will have to knit CAN Anticipating sorrow heard the first cry of the Infant Lord. been the greatest physicians? Omit fields—all vine dressers, ail orehard- Js never any gain; them. C’ome, Ray, I’ll begin yours, ting the names of the living lest we ists, all husbandmen. Not only that aythlng PATENTyou Invent or Improve | also ret Some of the old painters represent the And if you would be cheerful and Maude, don ’t you remember? Christmas night, but all up and down CAVC.a TTRADE MARK. COPYRIGHT or DESIGN oxen and camels kneeling that night should be invidious, have we not had PROTECTION. Betid model, sketch, or phot*. In mind and body, too. Make a chain cf three stitches and the world's history, God has been hon Then "never trouble trouble before the new-born babe. And w’ell among them Christian men like James 1 for free examination and advice. the next row plain. ” oring the fields. Nearly all the mes- FREE. NoAtty** Till trouble troubles you!" might they kneel! Have you ever Y. Simpson and Rush and Valentiirf BOOK ON PATENTS fee beforebefc pa leak' They were all three fond of this kind thought that Christ came, among other Mott and Abercrombie and Abernethy? slahs of reform and literature and elo of work and presently forgot their Who have been our greatest scientists? quence and law and benevolence have TC.A.SNOW&CO . things, to alleviate the sufferings of Patent Lawyers. WASH I NGTON, D.C. disappointment. the brute creation? Was it not appro Joseph Henry, who lived and died in come from the fields. Washington from The sun was Just setting when Es priate that he should, during the first the faith of the gospels, and Agassiz, the fields. Jefferson from the fields. The presidential martyrs, Garfield and telle said: “There, that's the last of few days and nights of his life on who. standing with his students among BO YEARS' the wool and my mat’s done. But Just earth, he surrounded by the dumb the hills, took off his hat and said. Lincoln and McKinley, from the fields EXPERIENCE see what a big wad of paper Miss Cro beasts, whose moan and plaint and “Young gentlemen, before we study Henry Clay from the fields. Daniel ker rolled her wool upon. ” She tossed bellowing have for ages been a prayer these rooks let us pray for wisdom to Webster from the fields. Martin Lu ther from the fields. Before this world Estelle, Maude and May Robbins the paper under the grate and fasten to God for the arresting of their tor the God who made the rocks.” All is right the overflowing populations of stood in the window with their heads ed off her knitting neatly. tures and the righting of their wrongs? geology will yet bow before the Rock our crowded cities will have to take to close together. "And mine ’s finished, ” said Maude, Not a kennel in all the centuries, not of Ages. All botany will yet worship and here is another great roll of pa the Rose of Sharon. All astronomy the fields. Instead of ten merchants “I am so sorry," whispered Estelle. a bird's nest, not a worn-out horse on I RADI rnARBi per, and there is something hard in in rivalry as to who shall sell that one “I do so want to make mamma and towpath, not a herd freezing in the will yet recognize the Star of Bethle Designs hem. apple we want at least eight of them opyright c papa a New Year’s present and I have it. Maude opened it slowly, laughing poorly built cowpen. not a freight car C * A . to go out and raise apples. Instead Aarons tending • aketch and description mar spent all my money —every cent.” as she did so. A bright five dollar in summer time bring the beeves to Behold a’so that on that Christmas *nlcklT aecertain our oplntuo free whether eja gold piece. of ten merchants desiring to sell that Invention I* probably patentable. Communion. "So have I,” said Rosy, "and I have market without water through a thou night God honored motherhood. Two Montetrlctlj confidential. It end book on Patent* "Oh. look! Just look! I wonder if one bushel of wheat we want at least tent free, oldest agency for eecnrlngpatenta. not kept even a piece of ribbon or an sand miles of agony, not a surgeon's angels on their wings might have Patent* taken through klunn A Co. reeelve Miss Croker meant to put it there! ” room witnessing (he struggles of fox brought an infant Savior to Bethle eight of them to go out and raise Special notice, wit boat charge. In the ounce of worsted.” wheat. The world wants now more "It is too dreadful,” Maude whisper "I am sure I don ’t know," answer or rabbit or pigeon or dog in the hor hem without Mary’s being there at ed Estelle, but wait until Ray has rors of vivisection, hut has an luterest all. When the villagers on the morn hard hands, more bronzed cheeks, more Scientific American, ed, “If that horrid Miss Croker had muscular arms. To the fields! God A handsomely tllnatrated weekly. 1-argest finished her mat then we will go In the fact that Christ was horn In ing of December 26 aw’oke, by divine •wiaviuuMlatlon v*or any scientific■tieutuiv iohiinmlour net Terme.pv * not Insisted upon our buying those lit pear;------four months,-T- —$L USoldM brtDbp ah Inswadeetsra and ask her. ” a stable surrounded by brutes. arrangement and in some unexpected honored them when he woke up the tle books at the fair we would all shepherds by the midnight anthem, "It is done, ” said Ray, “and here Is Standing then, as 1 imagine now I way the child Jesus might have been have had plenty of money. I wonder and he will while the world lasts con another five dollar gold piece. Es do, in that Bethlehem night with an found in some comfortable cradle of how long Bhe Is going to stay. She is tinue to honor the fields. When the telle, you’d better get a poker and pull infant Christ on one side and the the village. But no. no! Motherhood so fussy,” said Maude. "Nothing suits shepherd's crook was that famous out that paper you threw under the speechless creatures of God on the for all time was to be consecrated, and her. Sometimes she says: ’This egg night stood against the wall of the grate.” other, 1 cry: Look out how you strike one of the tenderest relations was to is too soft, Lizzie; take it away and Bethlehem khan, it was a prophecy of Estelle soon had the paper In her Ihe rowel into that horse's side, take be the maternal relation and one of the bring me another. ’ Then Lizzie makes the time when thrasher's flail and hand, and sure enough, there was a off that curbed bit from that bleeding sweetest words “mother." In all ages up a face and I have to laugh. ” farmer's plow and woodman's ax and third gold piece hidden away in it. mouth; remove that saddle from that God has honored good motherhood. “Well, but Maude," said Estelle, who ox's yoke and sheaf binder ’s rake shall Kodol John Wesley had a good mother. St. was the eldest, “that is wrong. The "She must really intend them for raw back; shoot not for fun that bird Bernard had a good mother, Samuel surrender to the God who made the girl who is hired to wait on the table us,” said Ray. “I feel so ashamed that is too small for food; forget not nudgett a good mother, Walter Scott country as man made the town. Dyspepsia Cure should never make faces, no matter because she heard me say, ‘I wish to put water into the cage of that a good mother, Benjamin West a what happens; and you must never she would go home. ’” canary; throw out some crumbs to Digests what you eat. While the three girls with the money those birds caught too far north in good mother. In a great audience, OATHS IN LAST CENTURY. laugh at her again. I am sure Miss most of whom were Christians, I asked It artificially digests the food and alda in their hands and the mats in their the winter ’s inclemency; arrest that Curelng l>oue at the Car mid on the Nature In strengthening aod recon Croker saw you this morning. ” that all those who had been blessed laps were wondering what they ought man who is making that one horse Itench. structing the exhausted digestive or* "But she is fussy.” said Kay, "and 1 of Christian mothers aritfe. and almost to do, Miss Croker walked In. draw a load heavy enough for three; The early part of the nineteenth cen gaus. It Is the latest discovered dlgesV wish she would go aome.” the entire assembly stood up. I)o you "So I see my mats are finished, ” she rush in upon that scene where hoys tury was the age of heavy drinking snt and tonic. No other preparstloa "Mamma likes her, ” replied Estelle. not see how Important it is that all can approach It in efficiency. It ln» said. “They arc very pretty and I are torturing a cat or transfixing a "You know she was mamma’s teacher motherhood he consecrated? Why did and bad language. Gentlemen swore ■tantly relieves and permanently cure* will keep them always in remembrance butterfly and grasshopper; drive not once and some one left her a big for Titian, the Italian artist, when he at each other because an oath added Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn of my three little friends. ’” off that old robin, for her nest is a tune and so she stopped teaching. ” sketched the Madonna make It an emphasis to their assertions. They Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea* Estelle held up the shining coin. "I mother's cradle and under her wing Sick Headache,Gaalralgla,Cramps an4 “And mamma says, too, that she Is Italian face? Why did Rubens, the swore at inferiors because their com found this In my ball,” she said. theie may he three or four musicians all other results of imperfset digestion. very charitable and gives heaps and German artist, in his AT d >nna make it mands would not otherwise receive "I put It there as a little surprise of the sky in training. In your fami Price 60r. nod II. I,ar*e size contain* SH time* heaps to the poor people, ” put in Ray. a German face? Why did Joshua Rey prompt obedience. The chaplain no all size. Book all aboutdyapei>*la mailed fra* for you,” replied Miss Croker, "and lies and in your schools teach the com “Then I wish she had bought those nolds, the English artist, in his Ma cursed the sailors because it made Prepared by E. C. DeWITT 4 CO., Chlce**. now I hope you can buy some small ing generation more mercy than the books herself instead of making us donna make it an English fare? Why them listen more attentively to his ad r K Van Hiclrle gift for your mamma and papa. Then !*'«*■ hr spend all our money, ” grumbled present generation has ever shown did .Murillo, the Spanish artist, in monitions. Indies swore, orally and she added, "Come, children, hurry on Maude. and in this marvelous Bible picture of his Madonna make it a Spanish face? in their letters. Lord Braxfleld, a “If we had been honest and said the nativity, while you point out to I never heard, hut I think they took famous Scotch judge, offered to a lady right out, 'I want all my money for them the angel, show them also the their own mothers as the type of at whom he swore because she played CALIFORNIA myself,’ perhaps she would,” said Es camel, and while they hear the celes Mary, the mother of Christ. badly at whist the sufficient apology tial chant let them also hear the cow's that he had mistaken her for his wife. telle. The first word a child utters is apt "Tomorrow' is New Year's day. It moan. Erskine swore at the bar, and Lord BEST PERSONALLY CONDUCTED to be "Mother! ” and the old man in TOURIST EXCURSIONS Is too late to get anything now, ” sigh Behold also in this Bible scene how his dying dream calls, “Mother, moth Thurlow swore at the bench. George on that Christmas night God honored IV. was always swearing; a profane ed Ray. er!” It matters not whether she was Leave CHK'AIIU “If we only had some of that lovely childhood. Childhood was to be hon brought up in the surroundings of a oath always accompanied this Defend wool Miss Croker has been winding ored by that advent. He must have a city and In an affluent home and was er of the Faith's expression of ap Tuesdays and Thursdays for the last three days, we could knit child ’s light limbs and a child's dim proval of the weather, a horse, a din dressed appropriately with reference VIA THE mamma some beautiful mats for her pled hand and a child's beaming eye to the demands of modern life or ner, or a drinking bout. His accom dressing case. I could knit one be and a child's flaxen hair, and babyhood whether she wore the old time cap plished brothers envied his powers in GREAT fore dark,” said Estelle, mournfully. was to be honored for all time to come, and great round spectacles and apron this field of endeavor, and copied his “Could you, my dear?” said a voice and a cradle was to mean more than a of her own make and knit your socks example. "Society clothed Itself with close behind them. grave. Mighty God. may the reflec with her own needles seated by the cursing as with a garment." Vauxhall, ROCK ISLAND The three children turned and saw tion of that one child'* face he seen in broad fireplace, with great backlog then still a fashionable resort, must Miss Croker sitting in a rocking chair all infantile faces! ablaze, on a winter's night; it mat have been a delectable place, with Its ROUTE Just behind them. They did not "AND THE PINK FOR LITTLE Enough have all these fathers and feast of curse words and flow of oaths. ters not how many wrinkles crossed and Srenlc Line. know how long she had been there or ROSY RAY." mothers on hand If they have a child and recrossed her face or how much Other amusements were bull baiting, how much she had heard, hut she had your wraps and I will take you down In the house. A throne, a crowd, a her thoulders stooped with the bur cock-fighting and prize-fighting. Wil- three large halls of brilliant colored town to choose your presents. ” scepter, a kingdom, under charge. Be dens of a long life. If you painted a berforce and Sheridan supported m bill Tourist Car vis Southern Route leaves wool in her lap. Never did three little girls dress In careful how you strike him across the Madonna hers wnu'd be the face. What in 1802 to abolish bull baiting, which Chicago every Tuesday. "Are you sure, Estelle, that you srch short time. head, jurring the brain. What you a gentle hand she had when we were was opposed by Mr. Windham, on the could make a mat before dark?” said Mis* Croker took them to such won say to him will be centennial and mil sick and wr.*t a vn-ce to soothe pain, ground that It waa “the first result of Dally PI ret Ones Kleeper Thrni.gh Bet ween Miss Croker, looking over her spec derful stores and was so pleasant and lennial, and a hundred years and a and was tb*r« an? one who could so a conspiracy of the Jacoblna and Chicago nnd Ban Francisco. tacles at the three blushing faces be kind that the three little girls never thousand years will not stop the echo fill up a room with peace and purity MethoAlats to render the people grave Crossing the beet ecenery of the Ruckle* and fore her. Maude and Ray answered forgot that New Year'* Eve. and re-echo. Do not say, “It is only and light? Aid what a sad day that and Milou8." —London Dally News. J*ierra Nevada* by Daylight. Direct connec "Yes." very shyly. The gifts that they carried home to * child. ” RAther say. “It is only an was when we came home and she could tion to Lis Angeles. Beet Dining Car Service through. "Then," said the lady, "sit down their parents, which were selected Immortal." It is only a masterpiece of greet us not, for her lips were for A Kansas girl whe recently lost her Write fur Information and literature to there on the aofa and 1 wll* *i»* you under Miss Croker’s advice, were real Jehovah, It Is only a being that shall ever still. *«ome back, mother, in voice has received twenty-seven offer* V. D. LYON, T. P. A.. each one of these bails of wu*i" ly very pretty. outlive sun and moon and star and these Christmas times and take your of marriage.—Chicago New*. II Fort Street Weet, Detroit, Mloh JOHN sKHASTLIN, O. P. A„CHICAGO. »
CLINTON INDEPENDENT.THURSDAY. DEC. 26. 1901.
QUEER WILLS OF RIOH MEN. fv Soma Extraordinary Bequests That Han BEFORE m * Paaxad Into History. 1 4 It doea not necessarily follow that BecaAJse PUBLIC EYE because a man has been ehrewd enough Why iL to amasB a great fortune he Is wise LATE HEAO OF LONDON POLICE. enough to dispose of it in a sensible Its component parts are all wholesome. Colonel Sir Henry Smith, who has manner. The records of the probate It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. Just resigned Iroua his post of com courts show that bequests fraught with Syrupy rig,s missioner of London city police, had onerous, even Impossible, conditions It is wholly free from objectionable substances. held that Important place for eleven are not uncommon, it is as though years, and is admitted to have been the testator, resenting the scramble for family laxative It contains the laxative principles of plants. the best commissioner that ever filled his property which he foresees will fol It contains the carminative principles of plants. the office. His resignation was due to low his death, desires to make the lot the fact that the police committee of of his heirs as hard as possible. It is pure. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are the common council of London refused Within the last few months there agreeable and refreshing to the taste. to act on his recommendation for an have been several of these eccentric It is gentle. Increase in the force. Sir Henry has had wills. A brother left his sister $25,- All are pure. It is pleasant. several ugly experiences, due to the 000 under the express condition that All are delicately blended. she should neither marry nor become a nun. In default of carrying out the It is efficacious. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. stipulations the money Is to be dis tributed among other relatives. It is not expensive. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to Very different toward marriage was It is good for children. the originality and simplicity of the combination. the attitude of a wealthy Italian who died recently. To each of his three It is excellent for ladies. To get its beneficial effects — buy the genuine. daughters he left $500 a year if they remained single and five times as It is convenient for business men. Manufactured by much, $2,600 yearly. If they married. A member of the English parliament It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. Just deceased bequeathed to hie two daughters his entire estate of $i"20,- It is used by millions of families the world over. 000 with the provision that they can (aufor Hia jto^YRilp (? only Inherit if they attain the ago of It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. 35 without wedding either a Hebrew of a citizen of the United States. If you use it you have the best laxative the world San Francisco, Cal. A curious evidence of the foresight produces. of Benjamin Franklin is furnished by Louisville, Ky. New York. N. Y. one of the items of his will. A small FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. sum of money was left with th » pro small number of men at his command. viso that it should not be used until The last affair of this kind w’as that the twentieth century, and that mean of the return of the London volunteers, while the accumulating interest should when the force was called upon to be added to the principal. handle a crowd of drunken persons, The gift has now become avails! le, several hundred thousand times great with the result that the trustees of the er in number than the police. This Franklin fund have at their disposal THE 0., R. I. & P. R. R. • lOO Reward 9100. HOMICIDE IN AMERIOA. Per Cent of NcrraM and White*. affair drew matters to a climax. Sir $375,000, which will be used to erect a By January 1st the Rock Island ex The readers of this paper will be pleased to The census of 1900 shows that th* Henry demanded an immediate en Franklin institute In Franklin square, learn that there is at least one dreaded disease pects to be able to open for business its that science has been able to cure In all its Startling Flgares Show Increasing Dis art 13,197 nsgroea to every 100,1 largement in the strength of the de Boston. southwestern extension to El Paso, stapes, and that Is Catarrh Hall's Catarrh regard for Homan Llf*. whitea, compared with 13.576 In lM partment. The council committee Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the More singular even than any of Tex. This line, In connection with the A Louisville preacher has recently would not listen to his request, and he medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu A Christmas Dinner That Was Not Eatew these odd bequests was the obligation Southern Pacific and the Mexican Cen tional disease, requires a constitutional treat made the startling assertion that therefore resigned his post in disgust. ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, because of indigestion! This sorry tale that Ix>rd Bute imposed on his heirs. tral railroads, will give the Rock acting directly ui>on the blood and mucous sur “home life Is safer in the dominions would not have been told if the systeaa Much feeling has been aroused in I»n- had been regulated and the digestion per* As he lay dying he expressed the wish Island the shortest line both to South faces of the system, thereby destroying the of the ameer of Afghanistan than It dou by the council ’s sluggishness. foundation of the disease, and giving the patient fected by the use of Nature’s reniedp — that his heart should be taken to the ern California and the City of Mexico, strength by building up the constitution and Is In Kentucky. There are more mur Garfield Tea. This wonderful herb medi holy land and buried there, adding that assisting nature in doing its work. The pro ders In Louisville with 200,000 people cine cures all forma of stomach, lives and make it a dangerous competitor of prietors have so much faith in its curative and bowel derangements, cleanses the 1’ruls* fop the Czarina. unless this was done his relatives the Santa Fe. It took Just one year to powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for than there are in London with its system, purities the blood and laya th* There is a most wonderful fascina would never rest happy in possession of any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of 7,000,000. There are more murders In foundation for long life and continued construct the 546 miles of the new ex Testimonials. Kentucky with Its 2,000.000 people than good health. Garfield Tea la equally good tion about the czarina, and to English his estate. So strong was this appeal tension from Liberal, Kan., to El Paso, Address F. J CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a for young and old. people she will always prove an object Sold by druggists 7!Sc. In Great Britain with a population of that the order was carried out to the Tex. For the purpose of complying Hall's Family Fills are the best. of interest, for was she not the grand letter. with the Texas law that every railroad 40,000,000. Finally, there are more The maximum age assigned to th# murders in the United States than In daughter of our late queen? The Em within that state shall have state oper Training Hutilin Policemen. pine is said to be 700 years; to the rod press of Russia is an extremely beau the whole of Europe, with Italy and beech. 245; to tlie oak, 410, and to tho A Blacksmith's Story. ating headquarters and also for general It is not generally known that in St tiful woman, and we cannot but ad Turkey left out and Russia Included." ash, 14G years. Goodland, Kana., Dec. 23.—N. E. Al construction facilities and convenience, Petersburg there exists a special school mire the way in which she, a mere The Nashville American says—and the new road was placed under the where young men are trained for po The Rlehes of Rplndle Top are Pibalsea, bertson. a local blacksmith, had almost who can deny—that "this statement Is girl, took up her position and its re- j charters of five different railroad cor lice service in the two capitals. In A full •pprerlatlon ot tbe farts la beginning te decided to give up his shop altogether true.” The American asseverates that lawn upon the Investors of the world. Oil Is llgeM sponsibilities in a foreign land, and j consequence of the numerous outbreaki energy and the fuel of th* future. Pamphlets giv on account of Rheumatism which had porations, viz.: The Chicago, Rock "no other civilized nation approaches at once made her presence felt at the j and the growing necessity for a mor* ing valuable Information mailed on request. A* crippled him so that at times he could Island & Pacific proper, the Chicago, this In the question of murder, and drew. Sanaa* city Oil and Kite Land Co., 400 New court over which she reigned as em- | efficient and well-trained police force, England Building. Kanaaa City, Mo. not use bis hammer. Rock Island & Mexico, the Chicago. 1 those which come nearest to It are press consort, says Woman ’s Life. A the minister of the interior has re His shoulders and arms were so sore Rock Island & El Paso, the Rock Island such countries as Italy and Turkey, devoted wife, she is hardly ever ab solved to open a second policemen'* How much we would bare lost, had that he couldn't sleep at night. He & El Paso, and the El Paso & North where the assassin ’s knife is freely God rnnde the sun so that it could sent from her husband's side, and at training school for service In the prov had suffered for years, but was gradu eastern. The road from Liberal to used and where men allow their anger never leave us in the dark. the same time she is a model mother. ince*. The school will have several ally getting worse, till at last he had Santa Rosa, N. M., a distance of 272 and hate and disgraceful paseions to It must be a terrible disappointment courses of lectures and practical drill about made up his mind to give up. miles, was placed under direct Rock rule their conduct. This nation has that there is no heir to the imperial for officers and men. During their G-eneral Health. throne; nevertheless, it would be im But Just then he heard of some won Island construction, with J. H. Conlen, a red record of which It should be derful cures of Rheumatism by Dodd's vice president of the Chicago, Rock training the young men will be used heartily ashamed. ” Gentlemen: —I used two bottles of possible to find a happier family party occasionally for actual service In th« Baxter’s Man rake Bitters and it had than the emperor and empress of Rus Kidney Pills and thought he would try Island & Mexico, as Chief Engineer capital, so as to give them practical Did Not Want s Hear Then. a decidedly good effect along the line sia and their little daughters. for a cure once more. and General Manager, while from San They cured him completely and he ta Rosa to Carrizozo, a distance of 130 experience In the discharge of their "The sickest man I ever took Into of general health. I took it for digee- duties. Who can help admiring th* tive troubles and was much pleased has not a trace of Rheumatism left. miles, the construction work was given the woods, ” said an Adirondack guide, BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN SINGER. painstaking care and foresight of Rus with the result* G. A. Botsford, On- The shop will not be given up and Mr. to the El Paso & Northeastern, which near North Creek, "was & lawyer who Miss Bessie Abbott, who has just sian autocracy In defending its own away, Mich. Albertson may be seen there any day Already had a constructed line from El came in from Buffalo last fall to kill made a highly successful debut in precious existence? r>nODG£V'tw discovery , give* hard at work as If nothing had ever Paso to Carrizozo. The road from Lib a bear. He said he was going to kill ■ WI O I quick relief aod'-ures worst ailed him. eral to Carrizozo will be equipped with one If It took all season. He wanted s taaes. Book of teeiltronlui* and 10 bath * treatmeet What is the u eof employing some one • Mlft. PH. B. U. bftkftk'b BOSS. Bar ft. AtlAsA*. JU eighty-pound steel rails, oak or pitch to do your dyeing for you. If you use rug of his own killing for his office. pine ties, and modern ballasting. De He stayed In the woods three weeks, IC let In <*n hii Automobile. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES you can pot, side tracks, switches, station do it just as well as a professionaL and wouldn ’t look at deer or small What are the sensations of a racing Astrology! Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. game. Finally h# had to go home. He houses, yardings, water tanke, and A horoscope which shows your Dlspositloe, automobllist? A good many people sent his stuff out to the railroad by have, no doubt, asked this question Western Union telegraph lines have all •Mentality, ’ What Best Adapted For: Where kept pace with actual road building, We often call upon God to take away team, and walked out himself, saying you should locate; as regards Marriage,Health. mentally the past week, especially our trials, when what lie wants Is to Traveling; the good and evil periods of tbt and when the road is opened by the that would be his last chance at a Coining Five Years. Send the Year, kfoeth — those who saw the races at Oakley last give us grace to stand them. bear. "Sure enough, he went around day of Month, hour of Day; place bora end th* Monday. A Cincinnati Commercial first of next year It will be In as perfect sex. Costs but One Dollar. Address William a big rock and met a tear face to face C. Pratt, 0x 820, Manhattan, Kan. Tribune man put the query into words condition as any of the lines of the A Good Way to Begin 190?. Rock Island system that have been in Cleanse the system, purify the blood In the trail. He forgot what he was on that day and while the crowd was and regulate the liver, kidneys, stomach service for years. In connection with after, forgot he had been hunting three Salzer't Rape __ 9PELTZ- waiting for Fournier and his "Blue and bowels with the Herb medicine, Gar give* Rich, [f]K. What la t»1 field Tea, thus Insuring happiness and weeks for this very animal, forgot that green Devil’’ and Mr. John Duttenhofer, who the Rock Island-El Paso line is the FARM new thirty-mile railroad which Is to health for the New Year. he wanted a rug for his office, and even had made a good race in the first forgot that he had a gun. He turn develop the Immense Dawson coal The preacher often needs a change event, answered it by inviting him ed and sprinted In the direction ot and two others to take a spin around fields, owned by the Rock Island, on of people as much as the people need SEEDS the Beaubien and Miranda grant, In the a change of preacher. which he came till It all came over J BALZER'S|lAlwMO SKIDSnr.Luo NEVERda x7 aauAIL! . v the track in his automobile. him that the bear was Just what h* As the machine whirled out of the northern part of Colfax county, N. M. 1,000,000 Customers' Stops the Cough ana wanted. Then he stopped, went back," Proudest record of a- y K-ednmwn on earth, paddock and onto the track the wind This road will leave the main Rock and yet we are reaching out for more. We Island rails at or near Liberal station, Works OfT the Cold said th# guide, according to the New deal re, by July let, SOO.OOO more and Lane# struck It with full force, but the Laxative Brouro Quinine Tubleta. Price25c. York Times, "and saw from the tracks Lbla unprecedented offer. speedy little racer seemed not to mind twenty miles southwest of the Cana dian river crossing, and run through that th* bear had gone a good deal tio WORTH FOR I0c, that a whit, in a moment it had There are men who hope to get to faster than he did, and In th* opposite 1 We will mall upon receipt of 10c In ala in pa ‘ the New Mexican counties of Ban Mi heaven simply because they have our great catalogue, worth tlM.00 to any spun past the grand stand and was direction. ” wide awake fanner or gardener, to guel, Mora and Colfax. This branch never been in jail. gether with many farm eeed asm pie., taking the first run like a thorough poartlrcly worth *10 00 to get ft bred. People, fences, and the land will be completed by May 15, 1902. The atart with, upon receipt of hi grand opera in Paris, is a charming UTS rermanenny nircff. Tom* or nerrmtnmaik., St. Louis, Mo., dispatch: Joseph J. loc In atari!pa. 3# pkga. scape In general now seemed to be a coal Is to feed the southeastern por ft rat day. u.a of hr. kdne'e i.rrat Nerva Keatorer. Novak, living at Ingleside station, in aarllrat vegetable . American girl about whose musical tion of the Rock Island-El Paso line, Send for FKKK 92.00 trial bottle and treaitM. Please aceda. #1 00 rapidly moving panorama, so fast and l>«- R. H. ft i.in a, Liu., trill Arch St.. I'biia
THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUUSDA V, DECEMBER 26 , 1901.
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ST.JOHNS. MICH. From Our Correspondent. Geo. Brink lias gone to Kansas to With the closing of the first year of the new century ends our Fifty- visit relatives. Pays 8 Per Cent. Interest ou Deposits. Miss Jane Smith, of Sf. Johns, visit Second Anniversary Expose—Only a few daysremaining. It has been ed at C. T. Rockwell ’s last week. a most successful offering of High Class Merchandise at extraordinarily OANI MONEY ON APPROVED BONDS AND (’lias. Ganz, of Watertown, will visit REAL ESTATE SECURITY. Ohio relatives during the holidays. low prices to an appreciative buying public. Clias. Decke nod wife, of Lansing, OFFICERS: visited at S. W. Norris ’ last Suuday. The people like our frank way of dealing. They like to deal at a store A. J. Baldwin .Pros, P- E.WALSWORTH.l’rca Geo. Van Dyke, of Olive, and Gust where they have confidence in everythingoffered them. They like to u i'BNNKLL. V-Prrv K. C. Dlxtbk. Asst.Tros Yanz, of Riley, are very sick at pres ent. be told the lowest price of an article first, and to know the price is fixed THE LOCAL MAKKKTS. Roy Gage and wife, of Nortli Olive, As we have but one price—it must be the lowest. They like to know visited at Varney Pearce’s last Sun tW'St.Johns elevHtors open at 7 a. in anu day. that if anything, by mistake, wasn’t what it was sold for, or developed otose at 0 p. m. Mrs. Will Brlnkerhoff received a a defect, theylcould bring it back—we stand behind everything that St. Johns . Micb.. Doocinber 26,1801 visit from an Oakland county uncle The following arc the prioob paid in cash riccntly. for produce in tbia market: goes out of our store. Waeat, white ...... @ S2 Fenton Brink and wife, of West De- Wheat, red...... @ m2 Witt, visited Fred Tucker and wife, We are doing our best to make our store a better one every day. It is ->*»'•...... <& 46 of East DeWitt, Sunday. Clover Seed...... 4 00 <» 4 85 better now than it was a year ago—it was better then than twenty-five Alblke ...... s oo © « fto At the ricint regular meeting of Hay. new ...... 0 00 & 8 00 file W. R. C. of DeWitt, the following year ago—better then than fifty years ago...... 1 20 to 10 Coin skins. 25 to 27 Witt (J. W. Anderson PoM the follow Skunk skins, ...... 25 to 1 00 ing officers were elected: Com., Geo. JOHN HICKS, 33 Clinton Ave.; St. Johns, Mich. R**ef, live...... J no <& 4 00 Sampson: S. V. Thomas W. Bald B -eT,dressed...... 5 oo Q 6 2.7 Pork.live ...... 5 25 @ 5 r>0 win: J. V. C., James Brunson; Q. M., Pork,dressed ...... 0 00 (ft 6 50 J. H. Brink; Adg., II. P. Clark; chap Veal calf, live...... 5 00