OUR PRICES ON CLOAKS AND CAPES WILL DEFY COMPETITION. JOHN HICKS. The Clinton Independent. VOL XXXIII.—NO. 13. 8T. JOHNS, MICH.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 12, 1899. WHOLE NO.—1680

BREVITIES. SHE STRUCK IT RICH. COUNTY CONVENTION. GONE ABROAD, BU8INE88 LOCALS. ANNUAL MEETING Cloaks, Capos and Far*. Two Hearts Now Beat as One In a Home of Of the Modern Woodmen of America, Held Little Kdlth May Meadows, The Little Or­ \rou can buy Cloaks, Capes aud Furs The big black Minstrel boom —Wed­ Of tlte Farmers' Mutual Fire* lutumnrt nesday, Jan. 25. Peace and Plenty. In 8t. Johns Tuesday. phan, Gone to Kngland to Beside as good and cheap at Noble Burnett’s Company, Doing Business In Clinton With an Aunt. as any one in town or out of town can Walt for the Only Mammoth Min­ and d, seasonable millinery at low and finally the lonely widow went to elect two delegates to represent the of Robert E. Hicks, a neighbor in prices is what people want, they can We overheard it said, ‘’there issoon George N. Ferrey, of Greenbush, was Henderson in October last, where they Woodmen of this county at the State East Bingham. The winning ways of to be a wedding in the young people’s re-elected vice-president, receiving Camp to be held at Menominee, in be accommodated by calling on us. every vote but one, and that was prob­ were united in marriage. Now she little Edith secured her a warm place It Is our desire to close out our entire society of St. Johns.’’ writes back to her friends describing February next. in the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks. stock of Winter goods, and If low A license has been issued for Win. ably his own. their comfortable home, richly fur­ The election resulted in the choice It was Mrs. Hardy ’s request that after Charles B. GifTels was re-elected sec­ of E. J. Bullard, of St. Johns, and Clay ­ prices Is any object, we will accom­ M. Jones, of Eagle, to marry Addle retary by the largest vote polled at the nished, and with a horse and carriage her death Edith should be taken to plish our desires. Benjamin, of Portland. at her service. She Is certainly in a ton Plowman, of DeWitt. her aunt in England, Mrs. Hardy,s Boucher & Petsch . meeting, being 71, and without oppo­ fair way to enjoy the residue of her E. E. Cowan, of Ovid, gave a very native country. Incompliance with A marriage license has been granted sition. and as an acknowledgment of interesting talk for the good of the tn John B. Hippie, of Laingsbnrg, and his efficiency and faithful service to life. this request the little orphan, accom­ Buy your Shoes of Anna Siegrist, of Victor. We have been permitted to make order. II Is remarks were well received panied by her step-father, Mr. Hardy, Woodruff & Trump . the organization, he was voted an in­ the following extracts from a letter and liberally applauded. Mr. Cowan a very good man, left here last week E. J. Moinet has been appointed crease In salary of ♦•*>0 a year, making addressed by Mrs. Harding to her is a line speaker and a gentleman who Thursday evening for the old country, Come Next Saturday, Jan. 14th, township clerk at Ithaca in place of his salary from this time forward $500, friend. Mrs. Sophia P. Harford, of has the Interests of woodcraft at heart. Mr. Hardy expects to return to this and get a Corset Bargain at Noble Bur­ Arthur Mulholland, resigned. which Is still $100 too small, without St.Johns, under date of December 4: In the evening St. Johns camp en­ township in the spring. nett a. A good 50c one for 29c. The one real event of the amuse­ perquisites. “I am well and satisfied with this tertained the visitors by conducting a Despite the fact that little Edith’s Wood Wanted. ment season. The only Mammoth Article 3 of the charter was so country. When I first came here the stranger through the Great Forest, stay had been a short one in the home Minstrels, Wednesday, Jan. 25. amended as to extend the lightning thermometer Indicated 80 degrees after which covers were laid for 250 at of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, strong attach­ I will receive sealed proposals from Keep in mind the social by the clause to any part of Clinton or Gra­ above, add at this writing 29 degrees I. O. O. F. hall. ments had been formed, which render­ tills date to January 15, 1899, from per­ Woman's Guild at the home of Mrs. tiot counties, instead of on the prem­ above. The first snow here this sea­ The mandolin club entertained the ed the parting in no small degree sons who desire to furnish wood for E P. Waldron next week Thursday ises, as heretofore. son was on the 23d of November. assembly with a few of their choice sorrowful. May God bless and watch the schools of St. Johns, eighty (80) evening. Numbcrof new members added dur­ The day after Thanksgiving was sun­ selections, after which all dlsiiersed to over her through life. cords 18 Inch, of which fifteen (15) cords ing the year 010. with a total of $<>97,- shiny and pleasant. We have 700 their homes, feeling they had passed can be basswood and sixty-five (05) Recollect the annual meeting of the 5fl0 worth of insurance. Number of the day and evening pleasantly as the cords green beech and maple. One Clinton County Agricultural Society policies cancelled for various causes, fruit trees, 29 grape vines and acres of hundred (100) cordsof three foot wood, at the court house next Saturday af­ strawberries and raspberries. We guests of St. Johns Camp No. 2387. M. A CREAMERY. 3.73, with an amount of insurance of have a splendid carriage horse and a W. A. equal parts of beech and maple, to be ternoon. $487,370, leaving a net gain for the The choice by acclamation, as the delivered by the 15th of March. Con­ company, during the year, of 2(13 mem­ good part Jersey cow, I took butter An Kffort Being Mailr to Re-establish One tract to lie entered into by responsible The beet sugar made at Bay City and eggs to market this week, re­ senior delegate to the State Camp, of In St. Johns. has much the appearance of the cane bers, and $210,18.1 insurance. ceived 24 cents a dozen for eggs and 15 our esteemed fellow townsman, E. J. parties in writing. sugar, except that the granulations The company has now 4,4.77 mem­ E. E. Eggleston, formerly of St. Henry J. Patterson , cents for butter. 1 have an oak side­ Bullard, is a well merited tribute to Johns, a graduate from the dairy de­ 3w Director School Dint. No. 4, Bingham. are finer. bers. with a total amount of insurance board, one glass above and two on the his business ability. Mrs. W. 11. Brunson Is acting as of $.7.(103,08.7. There have been sixty- partment of the Stfite Agricultural nine losses during the year, amounting sides. My parlor suit is black walnut College, and who has been meeting Buy your Shoes of leader of the M. E. church choir, and upholstered with black haircloth. Woodruff & Tromp . while Mrs. W. W. Peck, who is quite to $13,381.14. The assessment of $17,- FARMERS^ INSTITUTE. with pleasing success in Ills profession, 308 was all collected within three My carpets are heavy Brussels. For Is here for the purpose of getting the ill. is absent. my dining room I chose matting. people of St. Johns and the farming A good place to get value received months after the notices were given, To l>r Held In St. Johns, Thursilay and Fri­ in Dry Goods is at N oble Burnett ’s. Wm. Gardner and mother, who with the exception of $348.04, which is The furniture is oak. My tablespoons community round about, interested In have been living in Owosso for some cost $1 each. I have a new rag carpet day, February * and 3, 1H0H. re-establishing a creamery In St. the shortest time within which this The farmers of Clinton county are Bicycles stored free, at time, will again take up their resi­ work has been accomplished for a on my bed room floor. My front hall Johns, and possiblytoconnectachee.se G eo . I). Cooper ’s. dence in St. Johns. number of years. floor is covered with oil cloth, also the to be favored with an opportunity to factory with It. It would seem that stairs. We have two climbing roses share In the pleasures and profits of a combination of this kind might be Byron Danley, The farm of O. S. Satterlee. of Port­ The company is in a tine condition, another two nays' meet 1 ng of the State land, consist ing of 90 acres, has been and every officer and member Is exer­ running over the front veranda, red made to succeed In this locality, with In his new quarters, opposite the old and yellow. Farmers’ Institute in St. Johns, so tine a country as surrounds St. stand, buys live poultry every week sold to Jed Briggs, of Eagle, who will cising himself to add to its strength Thursday and Friday, February 2 and have full possession after March 1st. and popularity. It is a home institu Mr. Harding says, ‘‘tell your friend Johns. day in the year, and pays the highest to come and make us a visit next 3, on which occasion the following market price. Let It be known every­ Prof. E. M. Plunkett, superinten­ tion. and should receive the hearty en­ named able Instructors from abroad dent of the Ovid schools, was elected dorsement of every citizen. August.” We have a large canning ANNOUNCEMENTS. where tnat the old firm of Foercli & factory at Henderson, one-half mile and from our State Agricultural Col­ Danley has long since been dissolved, treasurer of the state association of It is estimated that fully one-third lege will be present and address the superintendents of schools. It was a of all the looses by tire during the oast from us. Tliv Ladies' of the Congregational church and that I am doing business on the Well, the wind is going down and 1 people upon different Important sub ­ will give s 15 cent tew at corner rooms next opposite side of the street from the old deserved honor. year, were occasioned through the law­ must close. We have a good deal of jects pertaining to agriculture and the Tuesday evening, January 17, 1899. lessness of tramps. The questiou Is AtG. A. R. ballon Wed nesday. 2:30 p. m.< stand. Byron D an lew Governor Pingree Saturday appoint sunshine. The magnolia blossoms fill dairy products of the farm: J. S.- Myrtis Camp No. 602, R. N. A., will hold Its ed Judge Daboll, of St. Johns, to hold still being discussed: “What shall we the air with perfume and roses on Woodward, of Niagara county, N. Y.; regular meeting. Let all members attend. Ik) not miss the Bargains prepared court at Charlotte to relieve Judge do with the tramps?” every side. Goodbye. ” C. B. Charles, of VariBuren county, The regular review of the 8t. Johns Hive, for Saturday, Jan. 14th, Smith, who is over at Marshall trying Mich.: Hon. Frank Wells, of Lansing; 397. L. O. T. M., will meet Friday evening at at N oble Burnfot ’s. the Mains case. Prof. Clinton D. Smith, of the Agri­ Masonic hall. Every member Is requested to THE FIRST DEATH lie there at 7:90 sharp. Buy your Shoes of The "experience social” of the Con­ A TIMELY DISCOVERY. cultural College; Prof. Jas. E. Ham­ The Woman's Guild of St. Johns, church gregational society, at the spacious mond, superintendent of nubile in­ will give a sociable at the home of Mrs. E. P. Woodruff & Tromp . home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Em In Charles II. IngtrsolP* Father's Family struction. and Mrs. Maud it. Kellor, Waldron, Thursday evening. January 19. mons, last Monday evening, resulted Charles B. Ingersoll. a former resi­ Prevents » Destructive Flood In the Opera in the ladles’ department of the Agri­ 8uppcr from 5:30 to 8 o'clock. A good farm of 85 acres. 75 cleared, dent of St. Johns and now of Green- House Property. Tickets are now on sale for ten cents apiece good house and barn, granary, wind­ in a very enjoyable and profitable oc cultural College. for a grab in the grab-bag, to take place at casion. bush township, was called to Owosso About midnight last Monday night Later we will publish the program, St. Valentine's Festivity, Feb. 13. Each tick ­ mill and orchard, and well fenced, for to attend the funeral of his oldest that faithful guardian of the people’s which will include the names of a et draws something and stands a very good sale cheap and on long time. Situat­ Our local physicians report a large brother. E. S. Ingersoll, on Monday chance of getting the handsome quilt made ed in Duplain township. Nobetterin number of people sick in this county, property, Jerry Dooling, discovered, number of our own people who will by the "Saints" and on exhibition in Noble last. The deceased was in his 50tn while making his rounds, that water deliver addresses or read papers. Burnett's window. Michigan. Call on or address from various causes, chiefly the 4w J. W. Smith , Owosso, Mich. grippe. It would be useless to even year. He was an architect and build ­ was running through the brick wall The meeting is looked forward to Jolly St. Valentine will soon be here. Get er by trade, and had been a resideut over the back door of Clark & Hulse’s with a great deal of Interest by all ready for his coming and have a merry time attempt to name those laid up with of Owosso for the last twenty-five with the "Saints” on February *3. The gyp­ Bicycles enameled any color, at the malady. shoe store. He turned his light into classes of business men and women. sies. fortune tellers and entire grab-bug G eo . I). Cooper ’s. years of his life. He was the oldest the store, when he at once discovered family will be present. Among the many Decatur Bross. who has recently of a family of six children—four broth ­ that the floor was being covered with other little oddities a cure for broken hearts A real bargain in Flannelette Dress moved into the village from his farm ers and two sisters. He was the first water. He at once reported the fact will bo offered as a specialty. Come and get in the north east part of the township, RROKE HIS LEG. mended at the Ladles' Library. Goods, Saturday, Jan. 14th, to break the family circle by death. to the proprietors, who had their as- at N oble Burnett ’s. announces himself as a candidate for The father and mother are in good sistants hurry to the scene of destruc­ Circuit Court. nomination upon the Republican health and spirits, considering their Surli Whs the Misfortune that Hefei Lit­ tion In time to prevent any great dam­ tle Stanley Wilson. The adjourned November term of Do not forget that Mrs. L. Canfield ticket for the office of township treas­ age. age. A water pipe in a room above is selling her entire stock of millinery urer. The deceased leaves two sons and While Stanley Wilson, a little8-vear the circuit court for tills county was had burst. The water was immedi­ old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. II. Wilson’ opened last Monday morning by Judge at cost . ______Arens & Co., of Westphalia, who two daughters, grown to manhood ately cut off in the cellar and great iKidds, of Mt. Pleasant, of the 21st purchased the old creamery property and womanhood. loss averted. corner of Cass and Ottawa streets, was Come early and make your selections, of the St. Johns Mercantile Company, The remains were taken to Green­ playing with his sled, in company with judicial circuit, while Judge Daboll for with the present prices the stock young associates, last Tuesday, lie fell was holding court at Charlotte. The is rapidly decreasing. and converted it Into a cold storage ville for interment, where the parents jury was on hand in response to orders. warehouse, have now snuglv stored of his widow reside. COLLAR BONE BROKEN. in such a manner as to break the main Mrs. L. Canfield . Ohas. B. was accompanied home bone of the left leg between the knee Judge Dodds read the cases on call. away lietween 300 and 400 toils of ex­ and hip, and while he was still unable The attorneys were not ready. He Best Bargains of the Season. cellent Ice. cut from the lake at Merle Monday by a brother residing at Du­ $2.50 Hats being closed out for $1.00; Beach. rand. A Young Hoy Painfully Injured In a Run­ to get up. his companions tumbled and dismissed the jury, (who, by the way, away Accident. fell over him. unconscious of what had Judge Daboll pronounced the best lot $1.00 Hats for 25 cents. 1 do not want Miss Sylvia Sherman, of St. Johns, A farmer, named Frank Wheeler, happened to him. He was carried to of men that had ever stood before him to carry these goods over and Clinton Canfield, of Saranac, were A Sl’RFHISE PARTY. his bome, where Drs. Weller and Pal­ in that capacity), and the court was Mks . S. J. Jones . married at Ionia. Tuesdaj', January formerly a mason living in this vil­ lage, now of Gratiot county, came to mer attended to the fractured limb. further adjourned for the want of Fedewa A Walbrldge. 10, 1899. Miss Sherman had been ii town Saturday with a load of stock. Stanley will be deprived of play for something to do. and without date. resident of St. Johns the greater part In Honor of Mr. mill Mm. DeWitt Merrll, several weeks to come. Loan money at low rates of Interest of her life, and takes with her the of Went Bingham. While unloading at the Ktock yard, No More to This Life. on real estate security, In any sums the 10:47 a. m. train came in. and the desired. ______best wishes of a host of friends in her On the evening of January <1 the team, which had been left in charge Petit Jurors Myron, son of Mr. jftid Mrs. R. W. new relations in life. home of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Merrll, of his son, a boy about 14 years of age, The following is a list of persons Holley, died at his home In Olive Go to diaries Wright, collector of the of West Bingham, was the scene of a became frightened and started toward drawn to serve as jurymen at the Feb ­ township, Tuesday, January 10, 1899, Noble Burnett’s for Dry Goods, No. 7 First District of Michigan, says that very pleasant surprise party given by the train, striking the rear car with ruary term of the circuit court of this of lingering consumption, in his 29th Clinton Ave. Telephone No. 115. orders drawn by the secretary of a neighbors and friends, who tilled the considerable force, but the horses were county : year. The funeral will be held from secret or beneficiary society upon the house to the extreme. The house was not seriously injured. The boy. how­ Belen. Fred...... Westphalia the house tomorrow, and the inter­ Buy your Shoes of treasurer must lx* stamped, unless surrendered to the invaders, who ever, was thrown to the ground with Benton, Julian...... Watertown ment will be made in the cemetery in Woodruff & Tromp . spread a bounteous supper, which was DeWitt. they are handed directly by the secre­ such force as to break his collar bone. Birmingham, Millard F...... Ovid Sewing machines repaired and work tary to the treasurer If they go into enjoyed by all; after which their pas­ Clark, Oscar...... Watertown No other serious injuries were found. guaranteed, at G eo . D. Cooper ’s. the hands of a third person, a two tor. Rev. I J. Tripp, presented each Clemons. James...... Bath BU8INE88 LOCAL8 cent stamp must lie affixed. with a tine rocker as a memento of the Cowles. Bert. P...... Essex Notlre to Water Takers. The grip is getting in its unpleasant friendship and esteem of neighbors CHARLES HUNTLEY. Cramer, Joseph...... Bingham Do Not Buy a Cloak or Capo Water rates are now due and will work. It seizes a person suddenly and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Merrll have Doty, Frank ...... DeWitt until you see the goods and prices be received at the office over the En­ and lets him go in a few days general­ long been faithful and active members Deveraux, William...... Duplain at N oble Burnett ’s. gine House from January 10 to Janu­ of the U. B. church and their removal Arraigned and Pleaded Not Guilty -Gave ly, but in such a weakened condition, Gregory. James...... victor Farm for Halo. ary 21, 1899, after which the water that he thinks he has had a long siege from the community will be regretted MOO Bonds for Trial In the Circuit Court. Grove, Cornelius...... Lebanon will be cut off from those who have of typhoid fever. A doctor’s advice is by all. Charles Huntley, charged with as­ Gruber, John...... Westphalia I will sell my farm of one hundred not paid. H. Tows, Sup’t. to give in and stay in the house at sault and battery with intent to mur­ Harper, Fred...... Bengal and twenty acres, known as the Mike der Asa Pound, of Victor township, in Henning farm, three and one-half Ij^TATB BANK or ST. JOHNS. first. Neglected cases, especially in AN EXTRA SESSION. Hicks, Stephen...... Bingham miles from Kt. Johns, cheap, or will which lung complications are promi­ the early part of last month, and who High, John...... Ovid COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS. nent, may result seriously. Of the Hoard of Supervisor* Held at the was recently captured by Sheriff Dunn Jandernoa, Paul...... Lebanon take In exchange village property or a Home of Ex-MayorSpaulding:. In a northern liimlter camp, was ar­ Kipp, Jesse...... Olive smaller farm. John Hicks. Noble Burnett and II. ______J. H. Fedewa . CAPITAL, $50,0u0. L. Kendrick are making some special The majority of the members of the raigned before Justice Lyon last Mon­ Loomis, Ezra...... Dunlaln low prices this week on seasonable board of supervisors, here last week, day for examination, when he pleaded Lorenz, Charles...... DeWitt Fine Line or New Embroideries. NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, $900,000. and first-class cloaks and outside were made the guests of Mr. and Mrs. not guilty to the whole charge, where­ Leucht, Fred...... Riley very cheap, at N oble Burnett ’s. wraps for ladies’ and children’s wear. F. M. Spaulding at tea last Thursday upon he was required to give bonds in Makly, John...... Bath P. K. PERRIN, President. the sum of $500 for bis appearance for Munroe, Horace...... Eagle Annual Meeting. If, after purchasing a garment, you evening. They were accompanied by O. W, MUNGER, Vice-President. Ionia , Mich., Jan. 9, 1899. find anything wrong with it, the mer­ County Clerk Wm M. Smith and F. trial in the circuit court, with two Pierce, John y ...... Greenbush J. W. FITZGERALD. Cashier A. Travis. They enjoyed a couple of good and sufficient sureties. The Plowman, David G...... Riley The annual meeting of the People’s chant is right here to make the defect Schuler. Michael...... Dallas Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of right. No one can buy and sell goods hours’ respite from their legislative bonds were not furnished and Huntley DIRECTORS: at a l iwer price than can our own duties in a very pleasant manner. is still in jail. Smith, E. A...... Greenbush Ionia. Montcalm and Clinton counties, dealers. If you are going to buy a Snyder, Elton...... Eagle will be held at the City Hall in Ionia, O. W. Mumrer. Geo. F. Marvin. J. W. Fitzgerald garment, look through these stocks OBITUARY, Election of Officers. Steel, Myron ...... Olive Tuesday, January 17. for the purpose J. H. Corbit, J. H. Fedewa, Geo. W. Em­ before doing so. Mrs. Mary llinman died at her home At the Business meeting of Bing­ Ulrich. John...... Dallas of electing three directors, and the mons, Jas Richardson, P. K. Perrin, on Mead street, this village, Friday, ham Grange, held Thursday night, Wert, William...... Victor transaction of such other business as John J. Keiser, G. EL Corbin, The new 1899 issues of one dollar sil- January «. 1899. in her 57th year. She Dec. 29, 1898, the following officers may come liefore it. Jesse Sullivan. ve* cert ideates are lieginning to make was born in Wakemc ., Huron county. were elected: Resolutions of Sorrow, Yours respectfully. their appearance. The figures are Muster—Arthur Mead. The members of the board of super­ T. G. Stevenson ,Secretary. 3 Per Cent. Interest raid on Time Deposits. large and the danger of being raised is Ohio, July 27, 1842, and was married Overseer—Alva Church. to Orson Hinman at Battle Creek, Lecturer—Prank Atkinson. visors, at their January session last rPHE STATE SAVINGS HANK, of Fowler. reduced. The distinguishing feature Mich.. October 7, 1859. By this union Steward -Dwight Tabor. week, adopted the following preamble Bargains in all Dry Goods this month of the face of the notes is a spread Asst. Steward—Perry Teed. and resolution and sent it to their before inventory, eagle with the United States flag in two children were born, a daughter Chaplain—Leoru Teed. at N oble Burnett ’s. CAPITAL. $10,000. and son. The son died several years Treasurer—Conrad Burkhart. brother, Robert McCor.key, of Bath, its talons and the United States ear- who met with an accident In a runa­ ago. The daughter, Mrs. Edward Secretary-Delos Tabor. The large town city halls, they say, NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, $500,000. Itol building in the distance. Minia­ Bartram, is still living. (late Keeper—Clarence Atklson. way, and was unable to attend this ture pictures of Lincoln and Grant, Pomona—Mary Orms. meeting. Are filled with vile corruption; The funeral was held Sunday last, Ceres—Mrs. Richmond. Where men are bought FRANK GRULER, President. surrounded by laurel wreaths, are Flora—Marv Holden. Rev. Lovejoy officiating. She bore St. Johxr . Mich.. January #. 1899. And men are sold, FREDERICK SCHEMER, Vice-President. placed on the lower line of the face of L. A.H. -Mr*. A. Peck. Whereas , This Board lias been deprived the note and one large numeral and her suffering with a Christian forti­ ’Till they raife a perfect ruction. W. H. 8NRLLING, Cashier. tude. and was loved by all who knew List of Isetters. at this session of the presence and advice of But the City Hall at St. Johns the seal are printed In blue. The one of It* members, Supervisor Robert Mc- back of the bill is printed In green, her. Remaining In the Postoffice at Si. Johns, Corrupts no man or brother. DIRECTORS. Conkey, of Bath Township, by an unavoida­ It costs a nickel. Try It once. and on the face ana back there is un­ Mich., January 10, 1809: ble accident, and being desirous of express­ Constantine Feldpauscb, Frederick Schemer. covered paper showing a nice note. Ranks, Miss Belle Kerman. J. E. CD And you will use no other. W. H. Snelltng, Miohael Spitzley, “PEDE.” Green, Elmer Moore, Clifford ing our sympathy for said member: he It Hitchcock, E. M. Hteavens, Mrs. Hattie Resolved , That this Board extend to our The best selection of Ladies’ Dresses J. H. Corbit, Frank Gruler, To Our County Corrr«pon

0927 8TATB LEGISLATURE. STATE QOS8IP. DOING8 OF CONGRES9. FIGHTING PROBABLE. The opening Best ion of the Michigan 2 West Branch has been visited by a The anti-civil service reformers in Flllplao* Holding Hollo Against a Fore* state legislature was absolutely unin­ •17,000 fire. the house scored a victory. The legis­ of American Troops. teresting. In the senate after the goings of the Week Recorded in a Marshall is preparing for free deliv­ News of the Day as Told Over the lative, executive and judicial appropri­ Dispatches have been received from drawing of seats the officers selected ery. It wil require three carriers. ation bill was under consideration and by the Republican caucus were elected Manila saying: The situation at Iloilo^ Brief Style. A steel range in a private house at Slender Wires. when the appropriation for the civil with but very little opposition—the service commission was reached Mr. island of Panay, Is grave. Over Saginaw was made a total wreck by five Democrats voting for Charles A. Evans (Rep., Ky.) made a motion to natives, fully armed, are in the cl( exploding. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS CONCISE AND INTERESTING. Ward, of Ann Arbor, for president pro strike it out. The motion carried—67 1,500 more at Melo, a suburb of Iloi tern. After adopting the senate roles The “Prohibs ” of Kalamazoo county to 61. However, as this was in com­ 17,000 more, it is reported, are ready Insurgent* Refuse to Liberate Spaniard* tor. Flap** and Albert Peek Suffer De­ of 1807 the senate adjourned. In the have held their convention and elected mittee of the whole, where no record embark at several points on the island at Manila —Bad Railroad Wreck on feat the Hand* of Senator Bur­ house, after the representatives had delegates to the state convention. of the individual- vote is made, the of Negros, 15 hours’ sail from Iloilo. secured their seats the officers chosen the Southern Railroad — Youthful row* — Anti - Pingree Han Elected The Pilgrim Congregational church friends of civil service hope to restore AU the women have withdrawn. Thgj by the Republican caucus were form­ of Lansing which was just completed Bobbers Admit Their Quilt. the provision when the vote comes in rebels, after a consultation, insist Speaker of the House. ally elected. Speaker Adams made a has been destroyed by fire. Loss $12,- the house. During general debate on upon inaction until Gen. Aguinaldf speech. Wm. E. Gardner protested 000. Filipino* are Ugly. tbe bill Mr. Swanson (Dem., Va.) de­ shall have been heard from. Get against the seating of Henry M. Pingree Lmea the Pint Round. Auditor-General Dix is authority for Manila dispatches Bay: The insur­ livered a speech on anti-imperialism. Miller, in command of the A meric Edgar J. Adams, of Grand Rapids, Schmidt, one of the Democratic mem­ the statement that the tax sales will He said the administration which could expedition sent to occupy Iloilo, bers from Saginaw. Rep. Herrig, of gents refuse to liberate the Spaniards Was nominated for speaker of the be smaller this year by nearly one- hardly be driven into war for liberty dined to concede them time. At Saginaw, presented the protest and it held as prisoners, on the demand of the •fichigan house of representatives on third. Americans, claiming that this might had, within a few months, become same time he gave assurances was received and filed. Schmidt was lives and property would be prot be construed as an act of submission greedy for conquest. The liberators the second ballot in the Republican sworn in and the contest will come up Circuit Judge George M. Buck, of The foreign residents then petitiod to the United States. With regard to of the Cubans were to become the de­ Caucus. The first ballot resulted in a later. Kalamazoo, is a candidate for re-elec­ Gen. Miller to grant the extension i tion. B. F. Heckert, of Paw Paw, is liberating the monks, tbe insurgents spoilers of the Filipinos. He con­ tie, 46 to 46. The second ballot stood Rep. Colby, of Wayne, in the inter­ tended that it was unconstitutional for sired by the rebels, as a fight wot 18 to 44. Adams’ only opponent was ests of the Pingree men, moved to also a candidate. intend to negotiate with the Vatican cause inevitable loss. This also GeJ directly. Gen. Rios (Spanish) has now the United States to undertake a colo­ John J. Carton, of Flint. amend the rules so as to allow the Gaylord can no longer boast of hav­ Miller refused and prepared to land opened direct negotiations with the in­ nial system and eited the Dred Scott The election of Adams was a body changing of any rule by a majority in­ ing one of the largest men in the state, decision in support of his contention. forces, sending an emissary back ta stead of a two-thirds vote. The object as “Big Bill” Morton, who weighed surgents concerning the prisoners. Manila- for instructions. The rebels blow at Gov. Pingree, and it is gener­ Hong The first session of the senate after is to place the Pingree men in a posi­ nearly 400 pounds, is dead. Kong: Leading representatives are strengthening their position and ally believed that it will result in of the Filipino junta in Hong Kong, the holiday recess occupied only 14 tion to force committees to report bills W. G. Emerick, of Saginaw, cashier are preparing to resisL The streets o^ trouble for the Atkinson bill. Adams’ declare that the serious crisis in the minutes although in that brief time when desired. The motion was tabled of the American Commercial & Savings Iloilo are full of armed soldiers, wbQ Philippines is due to what they desig­ two open sessions and an executive Course all through the special ses- and can be called up when most op­ are constantly entering in every direc­ bank, resigned to organize the Sagi­ nate an “overt and unfair treatment session were held. After prayer the iion was one of opposition to that portune. naw Beet Sugar Co., with a capital of tion. There is great excitemenL The measure; and it was feared that in of Filipinos by the United States.” reading of the journal of the last ses­ Large crowds filled Representative $250,000. sion was dispensed with and Mr. Frye, American troops are restless. The reb ­ making up his committees he will not hall to hear the reading of Gov. Pin- The Filipinos are determined to pre­ els are drilling on the beach, evening A proposition to bond Shiawassee vent the landing of the Americans at who was in the chair, immediately give the governor a chance. This first gree’s message, which occupied about and morning, in full view of the Amer­ county for $ 10,000 for the erection of a Iloilo, and may, as a last resort, de­ recognized Maj. Pruden, assistant sec­ defeat of the governor was also quite two and a half hours. There was very ican expedition, which is still afloat county building on the poor farm will stroy the city for strategical purposes. retary to the President, who presented generally regarded as making Burrows little applause, although close atten­ The American expedition at Iloilo be submitted to the voters at the next The junta insist that a rupture of the a message from the President of the eertain of victory in the election of tion was given. consists of a signal detachment, bat ­ election. friendly relations now existing between United States. The message contained U. 8. senator over Albert Pack, the Sergeant-at-Arms Shepherd, of the tery G of the Sixth artillery, the Michigan will be represented by two “the Filipinos national government” the Spanish-American treaty of peace. Pingree candidate. The governor’s house, was appointed as his assistants: 18th regulars and the 51st Iowa regi­ men in the next graduating class at and the American executive is immi­ On motion of Mr. Davis the senate then friends, however, contended that the se­ Tyler Carmer, of Oceana county; John ment It is commanded by Gen. Mil­ West Point Military academy. They nent and that hostilities are probable went into executive session in order lection of a speaker did not affect the Torris, of Detroit, and Chas. S. Despres, ler, a veteran fighter, and arrived off are Leon B. Kromer, of Grand Rapids, unless what they characterize as the that the treaty might be referred to senatorial situation. of Grand Traverse. the committee on foreign relations. Iloilo on board the transports Pennsyl ­ Moses Parshelsky sergeant-at-arms and Thomas H. Jackson, of Ionia. “unreasonable, unfair and overbearing vania, Arizona and Newport, convoyed The nomination of the speaker took policy of the Americans” is modified. In a few minutes the senate reconvened exactly two hours and it took an hour has appointed Hugh C. Bentley, of I During 1898, the Flint & Pere Mar­ by the U. S. cruiser Baltimore and an quette railway steam car ferry Pere They say the Filipinos “would deeply in open session and Mr. Allison an­ longer for the speeches and the other Hancock, as his assistant. Bentley nounced the death of Senator Morrill, auxiliary gunboat was in the 34th Michigan regiment. Marquette crossed Lake Michigan 810 regret such a rupture, but would ac­ nominations. Chamberlain nominated cept it as inevitable. ” of Vermont. The usual resolutions Geo. E. Gillam. of Iiarrisville, for The first bill to be noticed in this times. Three ferries now run, and Judge Day on Expansion. Admiral Dewey cabled to the navy were adopted, and as a mark of respect speaker pro tern, and it was made session of the legislature was the At­ one or two more are said to be needed. In a speech at a banquet welcoming department that he had sent the gun­ the senate adjourned. unanimous. kinson bill, and it was noticed by Saginaw merchants are formulating him home at Canton, O., Hon. Wm. R. boats Concord and Petrel to Iloilo to In support of the resolution offered The minor positions in the house Henry M. Cheever, of Wayne. plans whereby debts can be collected. Day, president of the peace commis­ co-operate with the cruiser Baltimore some time ago by Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo.) were filled as follows: Sergeant-at-arms, Reps. Chamberlain, Anderson, Gus­ They propose to have a bill introduced sion at Paris and late secretary of in support of the army expedition. in opposition to expansion, Mr. Caffery IV. F. Shepherd, of Lenawee; assistant tin, Scully and Meier were appointed in the legislature by which any person state. After briefly reviewing the The troops under Gen. Miller have (Dem., La.) delivered an extended Cergeant, John Torris, of Detroit; clerk, as a committee on the Schmidt-Gar- earning $1 a day or over can be gar­ peace negotiations said: “If this treaty been ordered to disembark. With the speech which was a constitutional Lewis M. Miller (by acclamation), of diner contest from Saginaw. nisheed for debt. should be ratified it brings to the display of force that the army and argument in support of the declara­ Wayne; assistant postmaster, C. N. United States title to the Philippine^ Wreck on the Wtbuh. John G. Tucker, receiver of the De­ navy will be able to make it is tions of the-resolution. Mr. Caffery Willis, of Allegan. troit & River St. Clair railroad, has is­ to be dealt with as the American peo­ One of the worst smash-ups in the thought that the natives will abandon said he proposed to argue that the gov sued another block of $35,000 worth of ple in their wisdom may see fl* In Officer* of the Senate. history of the eastern divisions of the their show of resistance and welcome ernment of the United States was in­ certificates, and the money will be one thing, I think we are all agreed; The senatorial caucus elected: Presi­ Wabash took place at Belleville, when the soldiers. In any event, however, hibited from corporating the recently used to pay up the indebtedness and that when the line of our duty there dent pro tern., P. B. Loomis, Grand freight train No. 60 collided with an­ according to the present understand­ acquired territory into the U. S.; that complete the equipment. lias been determined, it must be dis­ Rapids; secretary of the senate, Chas. other freight which was lying at the ing, the troops will be landed without congress had power to govern any ac­ ft Pierce, Oscoda; sergeant-at-arms, charged as becomes a great, free and station waiting for another train from Frankfort citizens are very wroth further delay. quired territory only with the ultimate liberty-loving nation. Whether or not Moses Parshelsky, Detroit; assistant the east. The engineer reversed his because the Ann Arbor railroad com­ It is reported that the governors of purpose of erecting it into states; that sergeants, Ilezekiah Sweet, Hillsdale, we have so willed, the days of our in­ engine and jumped, escaping unin­ pany makes South Frankfort its stop­ all the provinces of Luzon have assem­ people of such territory cannot be held ternational isolation are past It does and John Hill, Genesee; postmaster, jured, while the heavy freight went ping place, and the Frankforters have bled at Malolos the seat of the Filipino despotically by congress, and that it T. J. Clark, Alma not follow that the advice of the im­ plowing its way into the rear end of to go three miles to catch a train or power for the purpose of offering their would be unwise and dangerous to in­ mortal Washington,to avoid entangling Pack Withdraw*. the train lying at the station. The Bhip their freight. They will appeal lives and property. They say they corporate into the United States as alliances, is less potent today than "With the defeat of their candidate caboose of the first train was driven on to the state authorities. fought only for independence of the citizens people who differ widely in when the words were written.” Tor speaker of the house the Pingree- the top of the engine of the rear train, The 35th Michigan quartermaster Filipinos and are unwilling to surren­ their habits, customs and religion from Pack people saw that their chances of and car after car was smashed and has been ordered to put in requisitions der to strangers. the people of this country. Wreck on the Union Pacific downing Burrows were very poor and piled up. Fire was soon communicated for four months’ supply of rations, Senor Agoncillo, who is in Washing­ Under discussion of the subject of As a result of a wreck on the Union after lengthy consultations it was from the engine to the caboose, and equipments, etc. All requests for ton as the representative of the Phil­ the constitutional right of the United Pacific railroad at Sunal, 15 miles east deemed the best for all concerned that this together with five other cars were leaves of absence or furloughs are de­ ippine government, has asked to be States to carry into effect the policy of of Sydney, O., four people were killed Albert Pack withdraw from the race completely burned, and between 12 nied. The boys now feel sure they recognized by the United States as expansion. The leading speaker was and seven injured, and four cars were for United States senator. Mr. Pack and 15 cars were more or less demol­ will soon start for Cuba. such and to be accorded the same rights Mr. Hoar (Rep., Mass.), who delivered entirely consumed by fire. The acci­ as other diplomats. wrote a letter thanking his friends for ished in the smash-up. Fortunately Incendiary fires have occurred so fre­ a speech in support of the resolution dent was caused by the eastbound pas­ their support and virtually announcing no one was injured. quently at Negaunee that the citizens Another Railroad Wreck. introduced by Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo.), senger train being a few seconds be ­ his candidacy for the U. S. senate to are becoming desperate and threaten Four dead, two injured and the loss declaring it to be in opposition to the hind in getting on the sidetrack. succeed Senator McMillan two years Three More Escape From font*. constitution for this country to acquire to lynch the firebugs if caught. The of about $ 100,000 worth of property is Three more convicts escaped from Cut Awn y for 1S4 Day*. Jience. latest was the burning of the barn of the result of a head eDd collision on foreign territory to be governed per­ the Ionia prison. They were John The crew of the British bark Glen- The house of representatives was the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with 300 the Knoxville

village, and grew much attached to the TALMAGE’S SERMON. Philippines, we make a declination to tbe national cemeteries of the IN THE ODD CORNER. farmer to whom it belonged. The two that will be disastrous to our nation, United States! Exposure and daring Pains and Ache* cranes found the simple country life and other nations will take control of are admirable when duty calls, but these archipelagos and rule them, and QUEER AND CURIOUS YH1NOS exactly to their taste and soon knew “A NEW CENSUS'* LAST SUN- keep out of peril when nothing prac­ Off Rheumatism Maks Counties* perhaps to our humiliation and do­ tical and useful Is to he gained for AND EVENTS. every inhabitant of the place. They DAY'S SUBJECT. Thousands tuff or. used to call regularly at the houses to st i-v * Ion. The other theory Is that If your family or your country or your Bnt this disease is cured by Hood’s SaBk be fed, and all went well till the female we take possession of these once Span­ God. I admire the David of my text saparllla, which neutralises the acid In CM A Lmiod la Natural History Taught by bird died. Vroa the Second Book of Samuel, ish colonies, we invite foreign Inter­ as he suppresses himself and enters blood. If you bars any symptoms «* Tbo D« tII Fish—Description of th • ference, and enter upon a career that Then the other chose a new compan­ Chapter ivlll., Verse 8, as FoUows: the gate of bis castle, as much as 1 rheumatism take Hood’s Ear saparllla a* Hlaoous Monitor — A Self-Kducated will finally be tbe demolition of this admire him, when, with his four fin­ once and do not waste time and moo-y «• ion, and his choice was a strange one. “Thou Art Worth Ten Thousand of unknown preparations. Tbe merit at Crus government. Both positions are im­ gers and thumb clutched into tbe gris­ He took as his friend a bull, to whom Us.” measurably mistakes. God has set Hood’s Sarsaparilla is unquestioned and Ms he showed the utmost devotion. He ly locks of Goliath’s head, which he had record of cures unequalled. apart this continent for free govern­ decapitated, and Saul admiringly asks, Wot mm Autograph. would stand by the animal in the stall, One of the most wondrous charac­ ment and the triumphs of Christianity, "Whose son art thou, young man?" Hood’s Sarsaparilla Though old the thought and oft exprest, and keep the flies off him, scream ters of his time was David. A red- and we may take either the first or Is America's Greatest Medicine for rheumaUasa *Tis his at last who says It host. when he bellowed, dance before him haired boy, he could shepherd a flock, And David, blushing with genuine I’ll try my fortuns with tho rest. the second course without ruin. We modesty, responds, "I am the son of Hood's Fills cure all Mver Ills. «a cents* ~~ and follow him out with the herd. or carry “ten loaves and ten slices of may say to those islands, "We do pot Life is a leaf of paper white milk cheese to hia brothers in the regi­ thy servant, Jesse, the Bethlehemlte.” The communal system of Joint herd­ want you, but we have set you free; see A Cnrlone Incident. Whereon each one of us may writs ing of cattle and swine, and driving ment.” or, with leathern thong, stone His word or two, and then comes night now stay free, while we see that the The world has had other conquerors, A curious Incident was brought t* them together to the pasture prevailed loaded, bring down a giant whose ar­ Spanish panther never again puts its yet they subdued only a nation or a light, near Peterborough, by the talo- "Lo. time and space enough," wo ory, in the village, and In following his new mor weighed two hundred weight of paw on your neck." Or we may in­ continent; but here is One who is to graph office. A London center fora* "To write an epic!” so we try friend the crane learned the duties of metal, or cause a lion which roared at vite the annexation of Cuba and Porto Our nibs upon the edge, and die. be a Conqueror of hemispheres. Other that the insulation of a principal wtr* cowherd, so that one evening he him in rage to roar with pain as he Rico, and say to the Philippines, "Get physicians have cured sufferings, but to ths north was so Imperfect aa t» brought home the whole village herd flung it, dying, to the roadside, or ready, by education and good morals, Muse not which way the pen to hold, here Is a Doctor who gave sight to render it impossible to get s m sat age Luck hates the slow and loves the bold. of helfera unaided, and drove them into could marshal a host, or rule an em­ for free government, and at the right through. They wired up to Peter­ Soon comes the darkness and tho cold. those who were born blind, and with­ the stable. pire, or thumb a harp so skillfully time you shall be one of our territo­ borough, where the officials, on teetfag that it cured Saul’s dementia—a harp out surgery straightened the crooked Greatly begin! though thou have time From that day the crane’s life be ­ ries, on the way to be one of our for location, discovered that there was But for a line, be that sublime — from whose strings dripped pastorals, states.” And there Is no power in Eu­ back, and changed the numbness of came a busy one. He undertook duties paralysis into warm circulation, and a contact with the wlree somewhere Not failure, but low aim, is crime. elegies, lyrics, triumphal marches, rope, Asia or Africa, or all combined, between Gltnton and Market Deeping; enough to last him from morning till who will yet extirpate all the ailments benedictions. Now, this man, a com­ that could harm this nation in its s few miles north of Peterborough. A Ah, with what lofty hope we pamei night. He acted as policeman among of the world, until the last cry of the But we forget It, dream of fame. bination of musics and heroics, of world-wide endeavor. God Is on the telegraphic employe set out in haste; the poultry, stopping all fights and dis­ world’s distress shall change into a And scrawl, as I do here, a name. dlthyrambics and battlefields, of coun­ side of the right, and by earnest im- upon his bicycle to remedy the defect —James Russell LowelL order. Once, when a turkey and game­ song of convalescence. Other kings try quietude and statesmanship, la to ploration for divine guidance on the and what was his surprise to discover cock were found fighting the crane first fit out a military expedition. Four have ruled wide realms, but here is a fought the turkey and then sought out part of this nation we will be led t< that a big snake, a coluber natrlx, over A Hideous Monster. thousand troops, according to Jo­ do the right. We are on the brink of King that will yet reign in all the four feet In length, was hanging npra One would scarcely expect a "devil- and punished the cock. sephus, were sent into the field. The earth as he now reigns In heaven. Once, when two heifers lagged be ­ nothing. There is no frightful crisis. the wires. With difficulty hs remove* flsh” to be a pleasing animal; and. In­ captains were put In command of the This train of Republican and Demo­ There have been other historians who ths reptile, which was quite dead, am* deed, of the several widely different hind, he drove them through the street companies, and the colonels in com­ told the story of nations, but here is so vigorously that they became fright­ cratic institutions is a through train, Immediately contact was disestablish ­ species of fish which bear the name, mand of the regiments, which were and all we want Is to have the engi­ One who tells us of things that oc­ ed and lnsultatlon made complete all are more or less repulsive; but the ened and broke away, running two disposed into right wing, left wing, curred before the world was. There miles in the wrong direction. neer and the brakemen and the con­ From ths time London wired the ob­ one encountered in his boyhood by Mr. and center. Gen. Joab, Gen. Ablshal ductor attend to their business while have been other generals who com­ struction to the time of the defect h*» Frank T. Bullen, which he hits describ ­ The bird was not discouraged. He and Gen. Ittai are to lead these three manded men, but here was a General could not bring them back, bnt he did the passengers keep their places. We ing remedied, barely half an hour hsi ed in a recent article, was particularly divisions; but who shall take the field want men in this nation with faith who commanded seas and hurricanes. elapsed. It was assumed that some the next best thing. He turned them as commander-in-chlef? David offers unpleasant, and represented a little enough for all. We want here and There have been other prophets, but lads had killed the reptile and, in * known variety, found only In the Oulf into a field and then stood guard over his services, and proposes to go to the here is One out of whose life and ca­ them till they were fetched. there a David worth ten thousand men. mischievous mood, had thrown it *R of Mexico. front He will lead them In the aw­ • e e reer, Moses and David and Jeremiah He would drive out treepassing cat­ ful charge, for he has not a cowardly on the wires. “When I was a youngster, ” he writes, The warrior David of my text and Exekiel and Mlcah and Malachi tle as courageously as a dog, and. un­ nerve In all his body. He did not pro­ “I was homeward bound from Santa showed more eelf-control and moral and Zechariah dipped their inspira­ like most busybodies, was a universal pose to have bis troops go Into perils Ana with a cargo of mahogany; when prowees in staying at home than he tion. There have been other merciful IN OLDEN TIMES'. favorite and the pride of the village. which he himself would not brave, off Cape Campeche was one calm after­ could have shown commanding in the hearts all up and down through the and the battlefield required as much noon leaning over the taffratl, looking field. He was a natural warrior. Mar­ ages, but here is One who loves us with Many Things Were Different—Now-a-day» Devils la Russia. courage then as now, for the opposing down into the blue profound, on the tial airs stirred him. The glitter of an everlasting love, and whose mercy the Public Profit by Experience* forces must, In order to do any ex­ watch for fish. Superstition Is very rife throughout antedates the birth of the first moun­ When the Btriped pole or sign whicj ecution at all, come up to within pos­ opposing shields fired him. He was Russia and the Bast, says a SL Paters- tain, and the wash of the first sea, and now indicates a barber shop was ens “A gloomy shade came over the itive reach of sabre and spear. But one of those men who feel at home in burg correspondent of the London Tel­ the radiance of the first aurora, and ployed to let the publio know whert bright water, and up rose a fearsome there came up from the troops and the saddle, patting the neck of a paw­ egraph. In some parts of Russia the the chant of the morning stars at the enpping or bloodletting was profem monster some eighteen feet across, and from the civilians a mighty protest ing cavalry horse. But he suppressed people believe that devils can enter himself. He obeyed the command of creation, and will continue after the sionally performed, close shaves were in general outline more like a skate or Into tbe organism of human beings, against David’s taking the field. His ray than anything else, all except the the troops whom he would like to last rock has melted In the final con­ of daily occurrence; not the easy re­ whose actions they thereafter guide, life was too important to the nation. flagration, and Atlantic and Pacific moval of the hirsute or hairy adorn­ head. There, what appeared to be two If he went down, the empire went have commanded. Some of the great­ and there are sorcerer* who profess to oceans hare rolled out of their beds, ment of the head and face, hut does curling horns about three feet apart down; whereas, if the whole four thou­ est Sedans and Austerlitzes have been be able to cast out the spirits. These In backwoods kitchens, or In nursery, and the last night shall have folded up shaves from entering eternity. Morw rose one on each side of the most men are utterly without scruple, and sand of the ranks were slain, another horrible pair of eyes imaginable. A with three children down with scarlet its shadow, and our Lord shall have than one unfortunate entered the bar ­ the sufferings which they cause their army might be marshaled and the de­ ber-surgeon's doprway to leave it m. shark ’s eyes, as he turns sideways un­ fever, soon to join the two already la cried, out In the same words that victims to undergo may be easily j feat turned Into victory. The army corpse or so weak that weeks were re­ der your vessel’s counter and looks up the churchyard, or amid domestic sounded through the night of John’s imagined. Very few cases ever come and the nation practically cried out, quired to get the victim of malpractice- to see if any one Is coming, are ghast­ "No! No! You cannot go to the wrongs and outrages enough to trans­ banishment on Patmos, "I am Alpha before the law courts. Tbe people look 1 form angels into ievlls, or in com­ and Omega, the beginning and the end, on his feet. Bloodletting was used for-- ly, green and cruel; but this things upon the wizard as a powerful person­ front. We estimate you as ten thou­ everything, from a heartache to a corn, eyes were all that, and much more. sand men. 'Thou art worth ten thou­ mercial life within their own counting- the first and the last.” Then all the age. who can work them much evil, rooms in time of Black Friday panics, mightiest of heaven will gather and a pain in the loins was invariably “I felt that the Book of Revelation sand of us!” / and, therefore, not lightly to be pro­ or in mechanical life in their own car­ around the Incarnated God of whom I treated with two incisions, one on eacb was incomplete without him, and his That army and that nation, then voked. Hence complaints are rarely penter shop, or on the scaffolding of preach, each one saying It for himself, side of the spine. Like plasters and gaze haunts me yet. Although quite and there, reminded David, and now liniments, these helped from tb» laid before the tribunals. walls, swept by cold or smitten by but altogether uttering it in mighty sick and giddy at the sight of such a remind us, of the fact which we for­ counter irritation they created, an* wo- A typical story of the sort, however, heat. No telegraphic wires reporte chorus, "Thou Son of David, thou Son bogy, I could not move until the awful get, or never appreciate at all, that presume that had Mr. Calvin Wilson, recently came before the court of Vla- the crisis of the conflict, no banner of Mary, thou Son of God, thou art thing, suddenly waving what seemed some people are morally or spiritually iroprietor of the leading shaving par- dicaurase. A Mahometan mollah, or was ever waved to celebrate their vic­ worth ten thousand of us!” or of NUes, Mich., lived in the time of like mighty wings, soared up out of priest, named Ahmed Ramasanoff, was worth far more than others, and some { worth far less. The census and statis­ tory; but God knows, and God will But I must not close without com­ George III, of England, in place ot the water soundlessly to a height of charged with torturing a peasant wo­ taking the course he did a short time - tics of neighborhoods, of churches, of remember, and God will adjust, and by mending to you this wonderful Christ about six feet, falling again with a man named Kotcheretova, his object him the falling of a tear is as certainly ago with his back, bloodletting would thunderous splash that might have nations, serve their purpose, but they here and now as your pardon for all have been resorted to. Read how he being to drive devils out of her. At noticed as the burning of a world, and sin, and your solace for all grief, and been heard for miles. the beginning of the present year can never accurately express the real treated his trouble. Mr. Wilson says: state of things. The practical subject the flutter of a sparrow’s wing as the your triumph in all struggle. Down at "I must have fainted from fright, for Kotcheretova, who was only twenty, My occupation has very likely, much to de- that I want to present today is that flight of the apocalyptic archangel. Oh, Norfolk, Virginia, a few days ago, a with the cause of my backache from which I the next thing of which I was con­ fell ill. her malady being accompanied have suffered considerably for a number of those who have especial opportunity, what a God we have for small things gentleman was telling me of one of scious was awakening under the rough by epileptic fits. The villagers and year*. Standing on one's feet some days 18 bow* especial graces, especial wealth, espe­ as well as big things! David no more our war-ships in Cuban waters. Be­ Is bard on the best of backs, but when you have doctoring of my shipmates. Since then her husband, a man named Aslan-Bek, pain across the loins, with lameness and sore­ cial talent, especial eloquence, ought helped at the front than helped at fore it left a northern harbor, some ness, every time you move tbe muscles ot tbe I have never seen one leap upward in came to the conclusion that she was to make up by especial assiduity and home. The four regiments mobilizet Christian ladles, at much expense and arm. long. long, before your dally task is over the day time. At night, when there is affilcted by evil spirits, and the hus­ for the defense of the throne of Is­ you often wish you oould go to sleep. I tried no wind, the sonorous splash is con­ consecration for those who have less with fine taste, bought and furnished everything to better my condition but was un­ band called upon the mollah Ramasan­ opportunities and less gifts. You rael were right in protesting agalnsi for that war-vessel a pulpit, from successful until I used three boxes of Doan’s stantly to be heard, although why they off to cast them out. The priest came Kidney Pills. The relief they brought to a mam ought to do ten times more for God David’s exposure of his life at the which the chaplain might read the ser­ who has worked hard all his life and is now make that batlike leap out of their to the bouse and began bis treatment front Had he been pierced of an ar­ past the three score and ten is much easier IS proper element is not easy to under­ and human uplifting than those who vice and preach while on shipboard. appreciate than to describe In words. Doeo’a First of all they made up a big wood have only a tenth of your equipment. row, or cloven down with a battle-ax, The pulpit was made In the shape of a Kidney Pills perform what they promise. stand. It does not seem possible to fire, and when there were plenty of hot The rank and the file of the four thou­ or fatally slung from a snorting war cross, and it was beautifully damasked Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale bv alE believe such awe-inspiring horrors ca­ asbes they stripped the young woman sand of the text told the truth when charger, what a disaster for Israel! and tasselled. The ship got into the dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by pable of playful gambolling. and tied her hands and feet. Seeing they said. “Thou art worth ten thou­ Absalom, his son, was a low fellow, battle before Santiago, and the ves­ Foster - Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T^. “That is a kind of monster sufficient­ these ominous preparations, Kotchere­ sole agents for the U. S. Remember sand of us.” and unfit to reign, his two chief char­ sels of the enemy began to sink, and ly hideous to form a fitting companion tova began to cry out, and begged them the name, Doan's, and taka no substi ­ In no city of Its size are there so acteristics were his handsome face and their crew were struggling In the to that most frightful of all monsters— to desist. "Cut off my arms, put out tute. many men of talent as are gathered In his long hair—so long, that when he waters, when, from this ship I speak and one often called a devil-fish—the my eyes, do what you like, but do not this capital of the American nation. had it cut, that which was scissored of, the officers and sailors began to gigantic octopuB, well known and re­ burn me.” They paid no attention to Some men have a regular Sunday Some of the states are at times repre­ off, weighed “two hundred shekels, throw over chairs, planks, tables, to morning attack of homesickness whea membered by readers of Victor Hugo’s her pleadings, and, picking her up, sented by men who have neither tal­ after the king ’s weight," and when a help the drowning save themselves. the church hells ring. Toilers of the Sea.’ ” placed her on the fire.- She then be ­ ents nor good morals. Their political man has nothing but a handsome face After a while everything movable had To persevere in one's duty, and be came insensible. She was covered with party compensates them for partisan and an exuberance of hair, there is not been thrown overboard, except the pul­ silent, is the best answer to calumny. Porto Ricans Shave with nines. burns, which tbe doctor who examined services by sending them to Congress, much of him. The capture or slaying pit in the shape of a cross. After ob ­ The natives of Porto Rico have no her declared to be of a very severe or by securing for them position in of David would have been a calamity jection by some that It was too beauti ­ need to buy soap, for the wooded coun­ character. the war or navy or pension or print­ irreparable. Unnecessary exposure ful and valuable to be <£st Into the try abounds in plants whose leaves and When brought before the court the ing departments. They were nobodles would have been a crime for David, as waters, the cross was dropped Into the i: Try Grain-> 0! bulbs supply most fully the place of priest explained that the woman’s hus­ before they left home, and they are it Is a crime for you. that Indispensable article. Among the band had sought bis advice. He coun­ sea. One of the drowning men seized nobodies here. But they are excep­ In nine cases out of ten, the fatali­ It, but let go, and another seized, and if Try Grain-Ol if best of these is the soaptree, so called, seled Aslan-Bek to force hla wife to tional. All the states of the Union ties every day reported are not the the shout went from many on deck to Ask you Grocer to day to show you * £ though it is more a bush than a tree. name the spooks, and he (the priest) generally send their most talented men fault of engineers or brakemen or con­ Its bulb, when rubbed on wet clothes, would be able to restore her to health. those struggling in the waves, "Cling < ► a package of GRAIN-O, the new food < ► and men of exemplary lives and noble ductors or cab-drivers, but of the stu­ to the cross! Cling to the cross!” makes a snow-white lather, which has He had put her on the fire until she purposes. Some of them have the 4 * drink that takes the place of ooffee. 4 * pidity and recklessness of people at Several of the drowning took the ad­ an odor like old brown Windsor soap. pave the names of the evil spirits, gifts and qualifications of ten men, of The children may drink it without street or railroad crossing. They vice and held on until they were res­ The Porto Ricans, who are all, from which he then wrote UDon a piece of a hundred men—yea, of a thousand i * Injury as well as the adult. All who < ► would like to have the Chicago limited cued and brought in safety to deck, the highest to the lowest, great dandies paper and threw it Into the flames, men—and their constituents could ♦ try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that 4 J express train, with three hundred pas­ and shore, and home, and I say to all in their way, make soap out of cocoa- after which he was quite sure that the truthfully employ the words of the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, sengers, and advertised to arrive at a the souls today sinking in sin and nut oil and home-made lye —and a fine devils would leave her. He added that text and say, "Thou art worth ten certain hour in a certain city, slow up but it is made from pure grains, and £ soap it is. smooth and fragrant. This when she cried out before being put on thousand of us." sorrow, now swept this way and now to let them get two minutes sooner to that: Though the guns of temptation the moat delicate stomach receives it cocoanut oil soap Is used for shaving. the hearth it was not she that wept, With such opportunity are they aug­ their destination, not one farthing of Without distress. | the price of coffee* < ► but the devils. The inquiry showed and disaster may splinter and knock When a man wishes to have a shave in menting their usefulness In every pos­ their own or any one else’s welfare de­ 15 cents and 25 cents per package. the morning he starts out with his co- that the woman had been kept on hot sible direction? Many of them are; from under you all other standing, and pendent on whether they arrive one everything else goes down take hold of Sold by all grocers eoanut-shell cup and his donkey-tail asbes for eight hours. Tbe headman some of them are not It Is a stu­ minute before twelve o’clock, or one brush and bottle. It is never any of the village deposed that snch meth­ pendous thing to have power—political the cross and cling to it for your pres­ Tastes like Coffee minute after. You ought to get per­ ent and everlasting safety. Cling to trouble to find an empty bottle in Porto ods of treatment were often employed, power, social power, official power. It mission from a railroad superintendent Looks like Coffee Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, or almost any of and were always snccessfnl. The court has often been printed and often quot­ the cross! for he who died upon it will Insist that your grocer give* yon GRAQLO j ► to mount beside the engineer on a lo­ save to the uttermost, and he is so the larger West India Islands, even in found the priest guilty, and sentenced ed as one of the wise sayings of the comotive, to realize how many evils of Accept no Imitation. remote spots in the mountains. At least him to deprivation of all his civil ancients, "Knowledge la power;” yet good, and so lovely, and so mighty that recklessness there are In the world— he is worth Infinitely more than ten twenty generations of thirsty people rights and to one year ’s Imprisonment It may as certainly be power for evil funeral processions whipping up to get have lived there and thrown away the The husband would have been also aa for good. The lightning express thousand of us. It yon marie a across before the cow-catcher Btrikes mead entry prior to bottles. The man carries no mirror; tried, but that his wife declared that rail train has power for good. If It is the hearee; man of family, with wife June *2,1*74. tor lees he Is too poor to own such a luxury. she forgave him. on the track, but horrible power for and children beside him in a wagon, The Play of Spanish Children. VETERANS than ISO a craa, disaster if It leaves the track and yon are entitled te an additional entry, *7 Not one house in twenty in Porto Rico evidently having made close calcula­ At Fuenterrabia the place was en plunges down the embankment The which I* assignable and worth somethin*. has even the very cheapest looking- For Japan ’s N» tt. tion as to whether a stroke from the fete for four days in honor of the pa­ Widows and minor orphans of deceased sol­ ocean steamer has power for good, glass. But generously rich nature pro­ Japan Is keeping shipyards in sev­ locomotive would put them backward tron saint. The mornings were divid­ diers have same right. I will buy Iw Do no* sailing in right direction and in safe waste postage unless you made an original vides the mirror, as well as the soap. eral countries busy with orders for or forward in the Journey' to the vil­ ed by the natives between long serv­ entry aa stated a bore. waters and under good helmsman and The man goes to some convenient pool new war vessels. At the present time lage grocery; traveler on a railroad ices In the Cathedral and letting off JKKK COLLINS, Helena, Montanas In the mountain stream where the wa­ wide-awake watchman on the lookout two protected cruisers of the second bridge, hoping that he could get to the rockets in the streets; the afternoons ter is quite still—there is his mirror. but Indescribable power for evil If un­ class are being built in this country end of the bridge before the train were entirely devoted to bull fights, CURE YOURSELF! He breaks his bottle on a stone and der full headway It strikes the break ­ , Vm Big • for anoatarat for Japan, and France and Germany reaches It. You have no right to put four hulls being generously provided discharges, ItlUaaatloia deftly picks out a sharp piece of suit­ ers. As steam power or electricity or | Irrltatloas or -1-—* ‘—r are each building one armored cruiser your life In peril, unless by such ex­ each day. Somehow we did not go. In able sise. Then he lathers his lace water forces may be stored in boilers, of mueeas n embraces* of the first-class. One third-class posure something is to be gained for the market place were a group of tiny . ----- Painless, sad not aatrlae profusely, and begins to scrape away in dynamos, in reservoirs, to be em­ ATMtEvtSI CHEMIOuCa gent or poieoeeae. cruiser and two torpedo gunboats are others. What imbecility in thousands children playing the only game they Mold hy nrantitt, with his piece of glass, which, in his ployed all over a town or city, so God on the stocks In Japanese yards, and of Americans during our recent Amer- knew. That was a mimic bull fight. w sent la plala wra pper, hands, works as well as the beet steel sometimes puts In one man enough in British hands the biggest orders of 1 co-Spanish war, disappointed because Every stage was faithfully reproduced. razor. A cut or even a light scratch faith to supply thousands of men with v ■ Circular aaat on ruswt all are being carried out. the surrender came so soon, and they Only a few small boys and girls were Is extremely rare as a result of this al courage. If a man happens to be thus England Is the principal purveyor for coaid not have the advantage of being not taking part in the game. They fresco form of shaving. Japan's navy. She Is now building for endowed, let him realize hla oppor­ tunity and improve It. At this time shot at San Juan hill, or brought down had managed to capture a live sparrow, it four battleships of the first class, with the yellow fever, and carried on and were enjoying the more fascinat­ Bolf-Bdooated Crane* five armored cruisers of the first class, millions of men are atremble lest this nation make a mistake and enter upon a litter to transport steamers already ing pleasure of twisting off Its legs and CHEAP FARMS We hear many stories ot educated each of 10,000 tons displacement, and so many floating lazarettos, Instead of wings. We should think the patron animals and birds that have been care­ several torpedo-boat destroyers. Two some policy of government for the is­ lands of the sea that will founder the thanking God that they got no nearer saint must have felt both pleased and DO YOU WMTIN0HE7 fully educated, but a story told in the years hence Japan’s navy wRI rank to the slaughter than Tampa or Chat­ flattered by the spectacle.—Chambers ’ Cornhlll Magazine is somewhat novel. among the most Important of the republic. God will give to a few men on both sides of this question faith tanooga, or the encampment at their Journal. Inasmuch as the crane of whose doings world. own state capital, mad at the govern­ 100,000 ACRES It tells educated itself, and became a and courage for all the rest. These •old on long time and oany payments, a Huh are two false positions many are now ment, mad at God, because they could History tells us the ancient Egyp­ eseh roar. Come and srce os or write. THI ▼ery accomplished bird without any Speaking generally, the superior rase TRUMAN MOSS BTAT* BANK, Senile* taking —false as false can be. The one pot get to the front In time to join tians honored a cat when dead. The •utside assistance. Is the race which has sufficient power Co ate r, Mtoh., or Is that If we decline to take under full tbe four thousand corpses, that are ancient Egyptians were wise in their THE TRUMAN MOSS ESTATE, It lived with its mate in a German to take what it wants. charge Cuba and Porto Rico and the i now being transported from the tropics day and generation | Groswell. Sanilac Co. Micfc, THE CLINTON’ INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, I860. CONSULTATION and EXAMINATION FREE and Strictly Confidential is now 7,81*1.55 miles or main track, COL. W. J. BRYAN. The Place To Get The Independent and 2,198.40 miles of side track and spurs, a total of 10,018 miles. During The Guest of Honor at the Jackson Day Them. DIBS- S- <35 CO. Banquet, Given by the Buckworth - Proprietor 8BC ROB 8- OORBIT, the year the railroads carried 9,802,491 Club at Cincinnati. The Celebrated Specialists of the passengers within this state, and of INDEPENDENCE FOR CUBA AMI* THE Col. W. J. Bryan, who was the guest American Medical and Surgical Institute of PHILIPPINES. this number only three were killed of honor at the Jackson Day banquet William J. Bryan address**! an ini* and six injured, while 31 employees given by the Buckworth Club at Cin­ Wm. F. McAuslan Muskegon, Mich., will be at uiense audience at Springfield, Ill., were killed nnd 259 Injured. One hun­ cinnati last week, responded to a toast recently, and in Ills remarks touched dred and six other persons, principally upon the question of expansion or an­ upon the expansion question as follows: trespassers upon tracks and trains, nexation. He spoke in part as fol­ THE PRACTICAL The Steel Hotel, St. Johns, were killed and 79 injured. The taxes “The party that is willing to oppose lows: a gold standard because it is wrong assessed against railroad property last “The sentiment of the people upon any ought to be great enough to oppose year were 1943,013.88, an Increase over the English colonial system because it great question must be measured during the the previous year of $203,075.80. days of deliberation ami not during the hours ..SHOEMAKER.. Friday, January 27. is wrong. It is astonishing that any of excitement. A good man will sometimes one living in this age in the United Office Hours from 9 a. no. to b p. m. states should uphold the doctrine of Thk American army of~occupation be engaged In u tight, but it is not reasonable in Cuba is to lie supplied with milk to expect a Judicial opinion from him until Next tu Judd’s Merchant Tailoring Estab- securing land by conquest. I say, lie has had lime to wash the blood off his give independence to the Cubans, not from the original fountain. A Chicago hraent, opposite The Steel, has added to hla because we promised it but because stock buyer has ordered 500 milch cows face. 1 have set'll a herd of mild-eyed, gen­ they fought for it and have a right to tle kino transferred into infuriated beasts cck of hat d-n i <’c |«< fs, it whether we promised it or not. to be shipped at once by rail to some by the sight and scent of blood, and I have Why cannot we apply the same prin­ southern port, and thence to Havana. seen the same animals quiet and peaceful ciples to the Philippines ? Why should Some of the cattle ships in which our again in a few hours. We have much of the Taps, Nails, we purchase the Philippines from troops were transported can be used animal in ua still, in spite of our civilising Spain? We declare Spain should not processes. It is hot unnaturul t hut our poo have any title to Cuba. When 1 buy for the purpose for which they were pie should Ik * more sauguinury immediately the Philippines I want to deal direct­ fitted. after a battle than they were before, hut it Is only a question of time when reflection Strings, ly with them, and want to pay more will restore the conditions which existed lie- than *2.50 a piece for them.” A uditor -General D ix is author­ fore this nation became engaged in the war ity for the statement that the tax with Spain. When men are exeited they talk alsiiit what they can do; when they are And everything in the line of Findings. THE X-KAY. sales now being published will be calm they talk about wtiat t hey ought to do. C. 8. Armstrong, an eminent elec­ smaller by nearly one-third than prev­ Appeal to Philip Sober. trician, of Chicago, in writingto the “ If the president rightly interpreted the ious sales, on account of decisions of feelings of the people when they were Intox­ Chicago Record of the improvements the courts and the fact that people icate.I by a military triumph, wc shall appeal All new work and repairing in my line fully from ’Philip drunk to Fill lip solier.’ The In electricity during the past year, are generally paying their taxes more forcible annexation of the Philippine islands warranted and prices satisfactory says: “Previous to 1898 the Roentgen would violate a principle of American ptil>- (ban they did a few years ago. llc law so deeply imbedded in the American to all. Call and see me. ray was extremely useful in surgery in mind that until' a year ago no public man would have suggested it. It is difficult to detecting metallic substances In the The sparrow bounty is becoming so overestimate the Influence which such a body, in discovering flaws in metal, burdensome that a strong effort will change in our national policy would produce Respectfully, on the character of our people. Our oppon­ etc., but during this year the more be made at the present session of the ents ask ‘Is our nation not great enough to do what England, Germany and Holland are WM. F. McAUSLAN. perfect apparatus which has been em­ legislature to repeal the act and give doing?* They inquire •fan we not govern ployed enables the operator to define the taxpayers a rest. colonies as well as they? ’ “Whether we can govern colonies as well the heart, the lungs and other softer as other countries can is not material; the The Gratiot County Herald warmly real question is whether we ean, in one hem­ portions of the body, and now promises isphere. develop the theory that govern­ to bring about a complete revolution supports the candidacy of Judge Sher­ ments derive their just power from toe con­ sent of the governed, and ut the same time in internal medicine. Tuberculosis man B. Dabolf for the Supreme Bench. inaugurate, support a’td defend in the other hemisphere a government which derives Its H. A. S. of the lungs can be diagnosed, and it authority entirely from superior force. And is possible to determine the exact part THE SENATORIAL FIASCO. If these two Ideas of government cannot live together, which one shall we choose? To de­ of the lung where the disease has fend forcible annexation on the ground that The Would-be Executioner Flayed. we are carrying out a religious duty is worse cent cigars have no equal, started, owing to the thickening of Now that the “skin ” hss been taken from than absurd. and are indorsed by all who the membrane, which shows on the the executioner let’s (ret together, apply em­ “The blble teaches us tliut it is more bless ­ 5 use them as the best 5 cent ed to give titan receive, while the colonial screen. In diseases of the heart the ollients, and be civil to one another.—Detroit policy is hast'd upon the doctrine that it is cigarin this part of the country. Journal. ______more blessed to take than to leave. 1 am rays will show the changes in the afraid that the Imperialists have confused aorta and which of the chambers of l’lngree Not the Whole Tiling. their licalltudes. 1 once heard of a man who the heart are affected. Stones in the It has been demonstrated that Gov. Pln- mixed up the parable of the good Samaritan groe no longer holds the KepuhiieHii party with tlie parable of the sower, and in attempt­ HE CUKES AFTER OTHERS FAIL. ing to repeat the former said : ' A man went bladder can be at once made visible, of Michigan in the hollow of Ills hand. Lan­ from Jerusalem to Jericho, and us lie went lie »•*•■**■ **■*»•*• rii3 Most Successful and Scientific Treatment of All Diseases and Weak ­ and in various other ways with the sing Journal. fell among thorns and the thorns sprang lip B VWUtkk »***»»»*• WU* and choked him.’ nesses of Mankind Possiblo to Obtain. more perfect apparatus it is quite The Other Fellow I i Blame. Entered the War as Peacemakers. "We entered the Spanish war as peace­ NKNUC The moil widely and fa vfrnbly known HpeclaJist In the United States. Ris long expert probable that many organic diseases The divers aud various members of the makers. Imperialists have an indistinct Bn-e, ramurfcuble skill and universal aucoeaa In the largeat hospital, in the worlaenabtes can be determined by means of Prof. Filigree Board of Strategy agree in one tiring recollection tliat a blessing lias been prom­ him to treat all CHRONIC, NERVOUS, SKIN and BLOOD Disease, upon the latest Mien —that It was the other fellow’s fault-—Grind ised to the peacemakers, and also to the I PRESERVE : lUlo principles, and entitle, him to the full confidence of the afflicted everywhere. Roentgen's valuable discovery. It meek, but their desire for more territory lias TAT) ATT M AM has no superior in diagnosing and treating diseases and de- Rapids Democrat. perverted their memories so tliut as they re­ x-rlliviA.LT fortuities. Medical and (Surgical Diseases, Acute and Chronic lias ceased to be a wonder and has call the former it reads: 'Blessed are the | THEIR PICTURES! | ' .aarrh. Diseases of lUe Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Lungs, Dyspepsia, Bright'. Disease, taken its place alongside of the phon­ .logged Ills Memory. peacemakers for they shall inherit the earth.’ I ■ i f•. i, Kidney, Liver, Bladder, Chronic Female and Sexual Discuses speedily cured by Governor Filigree ean probably now rec­ Annexation cannot be defended upon the reuiinent Dial has never failed In thousand, of case, that bad been pronounced beyond hope. Many people meet death every year who might have been restored to perfect health ograph, the telephone, the ajr pump, ollect at least one thing that Senator Bur­ ground that we shall find a pecuniary profit in the polley. The advantage which may - had they placed their cases in the hands of experts. the static machine, the ophthalmo­ rows has clone In the past twenty-five yetrs. come to a few individuals who liold the offices HNUTANT TO LADIES.—DR. OTTMAN, after years of experience, has discovered scope, the spectroscope and other val­ — Lansing Journal. or who secure valuable franchises cannot The lives of little ones are the greatest core known for all diseases peculiar to the sex. Female diseases positively cured properly be weighed Hgaiust the money ex­ By the new remedy, OLIVE BLOSSOM. The cure is effected by home treatment. Entirely uable adjuncts by which the scientist A Political Amateur. pended in govern lug the Philippines, because always precarious. Every par­ harmless and easily applied. Consultation Free anaand strictlyStrictly Confidential. wrests from nature her innermost Filigree lias handled his campaign like an tlie money expended will be paid by titose ent regrets, when they are taken DR. OTTMAN operates successfully and ----DBAFNX88.------I cure 90 per cent, of aH who pay tlie taxes. We are not yet in posi­ painlessly for squint eyes, pterygium, iridec­ amateur. Kor a man who proved himself suddenly away, that they did cases. Many cases cured in one treatment. secrets.” Prof. Armstrong also has tion to determine whether the people or the not have a photograph of the tomy, turning in or out of eye lashes or lids, DISCHARGING EARS cured in every great faith in horseless vehicles, and such a success in Detroit politics, It is sur­ United States as a whole will bring back from closure of tear duct and all other eyeopera- case. prising that he should have been so weak in tlie Philippinesas much as they sent there. little darling. Better have 006 tions. CATARRH OF THE NOSE, bronchitis predicts that in fifty years from now “There is a saying tliut it is not profitable taken now while the child is CHRONIC SORB BYES and granu- and lung troubles, caused from catarrh, po»i- his work throughout the state.—Saginaw to buy a lawsuit. Our nation may learn liy lated lids quickly cured. tivety cured. horses will only be seen in museums. News. ___ experience that it is not wise to purchase the healthy. We make the best A CERTAIN AND POSITIVE CtTRB right to conquor people. Spain under photographs in the city. for the awful effects of earlv vice and the W hat It Means. compulsion, gives us a quit claim to the numerous evils that follow in its train. TO YOUNG AND MIDDLE- VIEWS OK JUSTIN K. WHITING. It means that the Republicans of Michigan Philippines in return for S20.000.000. but PRIVATE BLOOD AND 8KIN AGED MEN. Hon. Justin R. Whiting wasoueof she does not agree to warrant and de­ DISEASES speedily, completely aud per­ are heartily tired of the outrageous dictation fend our title as against the Filipinos. manently cured. A CHRP PM DC The awful effectuof early the speakers at the “Old Hickory ” of that man who is a Republican governor To buy land in one tiling; to buy people is NERVOUS DEBILITY AND SEX­ n OUnC UUnCt vice, which brings or­ In name only and loses no opportunity to another Lund is inanimate ana mukes no i. HAMILTON UAL DISORDERS yield rapidly to hi. ganic weakness, destroying bolh mind and celebration at Jackson, Monday last, resistance to a transfer of title; the peoplu criticise Republican principles and abuse a Up-to-Data Photographer. skillful treatment. body, with all ita dreadful ilia, permanently and delivered a strong address, hold­ are animate, and sometimes desire a voice In PILES, FISTULA AND RECTAL cured. Republican president.—Gratiot County Her­ their own affairs. But whether, measured by ULCERS guaranteed cured without paia or ing the party firmly to the lines al­ ald. __ dollars and cents, the conquest of the Philip­ detention from business. DR. OTTMAN ready marked out during the cam- pines would prove profitable or expensive, it SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, SLEET, paired themselves by improper indulgence Plenty of ••Go" but Little “Get There." will certainly prove embarrassing to those Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness, Lost and solitary habits, which ruin both mind paign of last year, from which he The lion. Potato Filigree’s campaigning who still hold to the doctrine which under­ Manhood. Night Emissions, Decayed Facul­ and body, unfitting them for business, study, lies a republic. ties, Female Weakness and all delicate dis­ society or marriage. said there must be no deviation. He against the re-election of the Hon. Julius Against Military Rule. orders peculiar to either sex, positively cured, MARRIED MEN, or tboae entering on eulogized Bryan as the great leader Caesar Burrows was just as effective as his “ Military rule is antagonistic to our theory as well as functional disorder, that result that happy life, aware of physical debility, campaign against expansion will be. Pin- of government. The arguments which are from youthful follies or the excess of mature quickly assisted. and progressive thinker, which was used to defend it in the Philippines may be years. WU GUARANTEE TO CURB Nervous pree Is one of those bustling fellows who are used to excuse It in tlie United Spates. Un­ SPECIALTIES: Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Debility, Falling Manhood, Syphilis, Varico­ der military rule much must lie left to the BRANDT, received with great applause. He ad­ described by their admirers as “always on Sores, Pimples, Scrofula, Blood Taints, cele, Stricture, Gleet, Unnatural Discharges the go,” but there are occasions when he discretion of the military governor, and this Eczema, Cancer, Piles and Diseases of Women Weak Parts and all Kidney and Bladder vocated free silver and an income tax. can only he justified upon the theory that Quickly and Permanently Cured by the latest Diseases. and urged the importance of begin ­ fails to get any where in particular.—New tlie governor knows more than the people approved treatment as pursned by leading AW Cases and correspondence confidential, York Sun. whom he governs, is better acquainted with •pecialiats of America and Europe. bnt personal consultation preferred. ning now to raise a campaign fund for their needs than they are themselves, is en­ More Courage Than Sagacity. tirely in sympathy with them and is thor­ FREE EXAMINATION OF THE URINB.-Each person applyingg for medical treat- next year by liberal and steady con­ oughly honest and unselfish in his desire to ment ahoaid send or bring from 2 to 4 ounces ol urine (that passed first in the morning...... pre-„lt- tributions. Gov. FI agree had strong forces to overcome do them good. Such a combination of wis­ ferred), which will receive a careful chemical and microscopical examination, and if requested in his tight against Senator Burrows. He dom, integrity and love la difficult to find, The Furrier. a'written analysis will be given. Persons ruined in health by unlearned pretenders, who keen trifling with them month after month, giving poisonous and injurious compounds, should could see them ahead when he deterlmed to and the republican party will enter upon a applv immedistsly. Delays are dangerous. The people of Detroit are in earnest hard task when it starts out to select suit­ make the fight and the surprising feature of able military govemers for our remote pos­ ROOMS; 12-10 KENDALL BLOCK, WflUnFRFUl C1IRFS F* rt5W' 0,d which be * n neglected or unskillfully in regard to the holding of a great bi the contest Is that he allowed himself to get TTURUtnrUL bunco treated. No experiments or failures. Parties treated by mal sessions. Even if the party has ubsolute or express, but where possible, personal consultation is preferred. Curable cases guaranteed. centennial celebration in 1901. At i so thoroughly in earnest that defeat would confidence in its great political manager 146 MONRO 8T., Senator Hanna, It must remember that the SM'Casse and correspondence confidential. Treatment sent C. O. D. to any part of V. 3. meeting of prominent citizens, held mean political ruin. This may testify to the *ople of Ohio have compelled him to serve Jet of 190 qnsstlons free. Address, with postage. recently, substantial progress was governor's fearlessness but not to his politi­ K the United States senate and that inferior Grand Rapids, Mich. cal sagacity. —Portland Review. men must lie intrusted with the distribution Private Box ICiO. DRS B, $. & CO., Muskegon, Mich, made. The date of the exposition was of Justice and benevolence among the nation’s The 11 Rrgrmir" Faaeed In. durk-skinned subjects in the Pacific. fixed, the beginning being set for May Muffling ths Liberty Bell. It seems to be true, as was predicted before “If we enter upon a colonial policy we 1, to last until November 1. The site election, that Plngrea is aurrounded by an must expect to hear the command "Silence!” Dr. F. B. Monroe. is to be on the main bank or in the unbreakable, unjumpable, bull-proof legis­ Issuing with increasing emphasis from the imperialists. When the discussion of funda­ lative fence. The election of Burrows is as­ Detroit river at some point between mental principlesis attempted in the United 8572 WILL BE AT Connor’s creek and the river Rouge. sured, aud with that all Plngree measures go Mates, If a congressman attempts to criti­ Seal “ ' to Order FARMS a-glimmering. The election of Adatns as cise any injustice perpetrated by a govern­ The exposition is intended to cover a ment official against a helpless people he will FOR— speaker was the first premonition of Pln- lie warned to keep silent unless his criticism A SPECIALTY. Steel Hotel Wed., Jan. 25, '99 wide range, and to this end every gree’a fall. The McMillan corporation ma­ encourages resistance to American author­ chine has been able to clip the “ reformer's ” ity in the orient. If an orator on the Fourth state and territory in the Union, and of July dare to apeak of inalienable righto or itscolonnlal additions, also the gov­ wings.—Gratiot Journal. refers with commendation to the manner in which our forefathers resisted taxation with­ ernments of all nations and their col­ What the Legislature Will Do. out. representation, he will bo warned to “ I am a Republican,” says Governor Pln­ keep silent lest his utterences excite rebell ­ Repairs and Alterations onies will be requested to participate ion among distant subjects. If we adopt a aud make representative exhibits. gree af Michigan in his annual message to colonial policy and pursue the course which the Legislature. Then he proceeds to criti­ excited tlie revolution of 1771 we must muffle Promptly attended to. 1 have Special weeks will be set apart for all cise the Republican national administration the tones of the old liberty bell and com­ mune in whispers when wc praise the wis­ also on hand a large assortment kinds of sport, and special days for aud argue against the Republican polley of dom of our fore fa tners. of COLLARETTES, CAPES No. 1, -Tlilrty-slx and one-half acres representative characters of historic expansion. Just what the Michigan Legis­ • We cannot afford to destroy the declara­ in Essex, with good building. Price, lature will doabout it is not apparent. Prob ­ tion of independence; wc cannot afford to and LADIES’ FINE FURS at interest in Michigan. The aim of the erase front our constitutions, state and •1,500. ably, however, It will refrain from ceding national, the bill of rights; we have not time lowest possible prices. Orders No. 2.—Forty acres In Riley, all Im­ management of the enterprise will be Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines back to examine tho libraries of the nation and solicited. Styles and estimate of to bring Detroit into the national to Spain. Coming on the heels of the Gover­ purge them of the essays, the speeches and proved, with good orchard. the tiooks that defend the doctrine that law cost of garments furnished on prominence it deserves. nor's recent stinging defeat in his attempt to is the crystallization of public opinion, rather Eighty acres of land, 4 miles south control the election of a United States Sena­ than an emanation from physical power. application. of St. Johns. Buildings all new. Fen­ tor, his effort to outline a national policy in • But even if we could destroy every ves­ ces all good. Eight acres of fine Tim­ The people and politicians have tige of the laws which are the outgrowth of a paper which should have been devoted ex­ the Immortal law penned by Jefferson; if we ber, well watered. Will sell cheap. been so busy with the speakership clusively to State affairs is worthy only the could obliterate every written word that has ATOBTOAOK SALE.—DEFAULT HAVING Eighty acres of land, 5 miles south fight and senatorial battle at Lansing passing comment that Plngree seems to l>o been inspired by the Idea that this a ‘govern­ 2.TA been made In the conditions of that mort­ ment of the people, by the people and for the gage executed by James H. Ktrhy and Luolnda of St. Johns. Good house and large that they have almost overlooked the getting further away from his party than people,’ we could not tear from the heart of L. Kirby to Sherman Kirby, dated January 17, barn. Good fences and 6 acres of fine ever.—Chicago Tribune, the human race the hope whioh the Ameri­ ISM, and recorded in the office of the Register timber, Will sell eheap. fact that there are a few Democratic can republic has planted there. The Im­ of Deeds for Clinton county, In Michigan, on members of the legislature. These Nothing When Yon Get Used to It. passioned appeal. ‘Give me liberty or give May 18,1896, in liber HP of mortgages on page These are only four or the many good me death,’ still echoes around the world. In 119; and aald Sherman Kirby having since farms and tracts of land In this and members, according to the Capitol The imposition of a war tax was all that the future, os in tho past, the desire to lie died, Intestate, and Porter K. Perrin having City Democrat, held a caucus, and the saved the country from a condition which free will be stronger tnan the desire to enjoy been duly appointed administrator of the northern counties which I am enabled Mr. McKinley seemed to regard as dreadful a mere physical existence. The conflict be ­ estate of said Sherman Kirby by the Probate RI REASON OF REPEATED REQUESTS 1 aeDtiment prevailed that as they tween right and might will continue here Court of Clinton oounty. In Mtchlgao, on to offer for sale or exchange at prices A* have decided to visit 8t. Johns once In five when he took charge of the government. It and everywhere until a day Is reached when September 1.189H; aud there being due upon ranging all the way from 40 cents to W0 weeks, and will be at the privateparlor of The held the balance of power lietween was all that kept the treasury from continu­ the love of money will no longer sear the said mortgage at the date of this notion, Steel Hotel, where I ean be consulted free up­ ous running behind. And now there is the national conscience and hypocrisy no long­ twenty-two dollars and nlnety-sla cents, be ­ per acre. on all cases Everything confidential. All are the two wings of the republican party er hide the hideous features of avarice be ­ side' an attorney Tee of lirtcen dollar*, stipu­ requested to bring two ounces of urine It would fall upon them to hold bad complacent announcement that there will hind the mask of philanthropy." lated In said mortgage to be paid, should any Charges moderate, and no incurable cases be no change in taxation for a long time to proceedings be taken to foreclose said mort­ M. T. 8TREETEH, taken. I always make diseases of women and legislation in check as much as possi­ gage; and no suit or proceeding at law or In children a speciality, also chronic diseases. I come, and the president of the United States A Frightful Blunder equity having been Instituted to recover any have disposed of my local business to take the ble. They will endeavor to Introduce himself, extends the poor comfort that the rtof the debt secured by said mortgage: Real Est ate Dealer and Loans, road, expressly for the benefit of chronic suf­ people will know that taxation will not he Will often cause a horrible Burn, orefore bv virtue of the powrr of sale In Head of Clinton Ave.. East Side. St. Johns ferers. Come and see me It costs you nothing an equal taxation measure which the Scald. Cut or Bruise. Bucklen's Arni­ Bsaid mortgage contained ana of the statute in All medicines furnished are purely vegetable people of the whole state can endorse. fluctuating. It is a reminder of what the ca Salve, the best in the world, will kill such oase made and provided, notice Is here­ —roots, herbs and harks. Correspondence amiable lady said about her husband. She the pain and promptly heal it. Cures by given that on February 18, 1 MOD, atone solicited before ray visit if possible. Address While It Is doubtful whether the re­ “ allowed ” that he was the most remarkably o’clock in the afternoon,at the west frontdoor me st 448Cue 8t„ Toledo, Ohio publicans in the legislature will allow Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcere, Bolls, of tho court house for Clinton county, In even tempered man she had ever known —al­ Felons. Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Michigan. In the village of St. Johns. In said M OTIVESOLICITORS WANTED EVERY­ such a measure to become a law the ways angry. Taxes are to be always high. Best Pile cure on earth. Only 25 cts. a oounty, there will be sold at public vendue, to AWHERE for “Tlio Story of the Philip­ Cases I Cure. Democratic members are In shape to They are to be kept high so that the people box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Fll- the highest bidder, the premises described In pines" by Murat Hnlsteud. commissioned by Dyspepsia. All Sexual Diseases. will get used to them.—Pontiac Post. ssld mortgage, via: The south half of the the Government as Official Historian to the Rneumatiaileumatlsm. Heart Disease. dew A Millman, Druggists. south half or the west half of the northwest War Department. The honk was written In Indigestion, show the people what equal taxation army camps at SanFrancisco. on the Pacific, Consumption In its fractional quarter of section two, in township Pits, _ . 1M stages. would be had they the power to pass The People Have I.nng Memories. eight north, of range two west, In Michigan. with General Merritt, In the hospital at Hon­ Plies, Bronchitis, On the whole, the episode of Hobson, who Mr. S. A. Fackler, Editor of the Said sale will be made subject to the payment olulu, In Hong Kong, In the American tren­ Neuralgia, It ches at Manila. In the insurgent cantos with Sore Byes, sunk the Merrlmac In Santiago Harher, re­ Micanopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife of the remainder of said mortgage not yet due, All Nervous Diseases, Urinary Troubles, and children suffered terribly from lJt- and being one bund rod and fifty dollars due Agninaldo, on the deck of tne Olympia with Costiveness. Lost Msnhood. A ccording to the report of railroad calls In some particulars the episode of Bryan Grippe. One Minute Cough Cure was January 17, 18W, with Interest at seven per Dewey, and In the roar of tho battle at the Fevers and Results, Kidney and Liver who told of the cross of gold at the conven­ cent, computed from January 17, 18M —Dated fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brimful HOOd Diseases,. Complaints, commissioner Wesaelius, the railroads tion at Chicago. In eaoh ease tffe exploit the only remedy that helped them. It November 17,1898. of original pictures taken by government And all Chronic Diseases. of Mictiijran Increased their business made Its author known to tlie whole Amcrl acted quickly. Thousands of others rORTRIt K. PRRRIN, photographers on tho spot. I.arge book, low By my new process through the blood I ex­ can people, and when seventy millions of use this remedy ana specific for ICap Casper, inquest fees.. 57 187 78 II. V. CARPENTER. Baking allowed at...... 57 No. 40—Frank A. Dement, It. J. McVEIGH. No. 13 -Emergency Hospital...... printing for county.. 1 50 Committee. care of insane person..— 10 00 allowed at...... 1 50 On motlou of Mr, Hunter the report of the allowed at...... 10 00 No. 47 —R. M. Winston post- Committee on Treasury was accepted and oyal uge account...... 5 21 udopted. R No. 14 Alonzo E. Dunn, prisoners Powder allowed at...... 5 21 T diBSOLUTECVA bsolutely 'P1(Hurljre Of the Board of Supervisors of Clin­ wash bill ...... 23 70 The orders were then burned in the present* allowed at...... 23 70 No. 48—A. O.- Hunt, goods of the Board by the Committee. ton County, Michigan, No. 15—William F. Tromp,...... for county ...... 7 88 The Committee on Clnlma submitted the Makes the food more delicious and wholesome inquest fees ...... 1 60 ullowed nt...... 7 88 followiug report: allowed at...... 1 60 No. 49—G. R. Pennington, St. Johns Mich., January 0tb, 1899. No. 16 —O. A. Whitlock, inquest... Dept, sheriff fees...... 11 15 To THE lio.NOUAULE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: allowed at...... 11 15 AT THEIR JANUARY SESSION, A. fees------1 60 Your Committee on Claims have examined PERSONAL. PERSONAL. allowed at...... 1 60 No. 50—Joseph Welbertramp the following bills and recommend that they D., 1800. No. 17 -William Dunham etal.. board bill ...... 14 80 be allowed as reported. allowed nt...... 14 80 R. G. Allison was In Ionia Monday. Ray Cone spent Tuesday evening at Ovid. inquest fees...... 1 22 No. 54—The Clinton Repub­ H. F. Conn was In Durand Tuesday. 1 22 No. 51—H. I*. Gage, under lican printing for Co.$ 198 18 E. J. Moinet, of- Ithaca, was in town on allowed at...... sheriff fees...... 128 58 W. L. Frisble was In Owosso Monday. No. 18 Hiram A. Sage, inquest... allowed at...... 198,18 business Wednesday. allowed at...... 1 28 58 Fred Everett, of Ovid, was in town Monday. fee* ...... 1 60 No. 55—F. E. Aldrich, goods Mrs. Dell Hovey and Mrs. Cora Hannans Pursuaut to adjournment the Board of Super- No. 52—Thos. H. Waldron, E. II. Lyon was in Ovid Tuesday on busi ­ visonsof Clinton County, Michigan, convened allowed at...... 1 60 for Co...... 4 10 went to Lansing yesterday. No. 19— Alonzo K. Dunn, sheriff... goods for county ...... 4 50 ness. Louie Henderson returned to school ut at the Court House, In the Village of St. Johns, allowed at...... 4 10 account...... 53? 03 allowed at...... 4 50 No. 56 —James E. Kirby, dept Will Barber spent Sunday with friends In Ann Arbor Tuesday evening. in said county and State, on Monday, January No. 58—Warner Hundny onia. 2nd, A. D. 1899, and was called to order by the ullowed at...... 532 08 sheriff- fees...... 8 50 Mrs. Willard Lyon went to Port Huron, No. 29— Alonzo E. Dunn, supplies goods for county ...... 2 80 J.G. Monroe was In Detroit Saturday on Tuesday, where she will spend the week. Chairman. Allowed at...... ~. 8 50 for jail...... 20 50 ullowed at...... 2 80 No. 57 —E. B. Voorhees, bur ­ nisiness. Fred Tromper, who has been absent from The roll was called by the Clerk and the fol­ W. G. HUNTER, F. F. Murdock was In Ithaca on business allowed at...... 20 50 ial of Indg. soldier... 40 00 St. Joints since last spring, returned yester lowing members answered to their respective THOR. C. BUTLER, Tuesday. names. No. 21- -William Hamilton,... .. allowed at...... 40 Ot* day. L. W. BALDWIN, No. 5S—John W. Mentor Charlie Thorne, of Owosso, visited Frank Bengal- Adin W. Skinner. inquest fees...... 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Will Hopkins, of Durand, Committee. telephoning for Co... 180 Valentine Monday. Bingham—Thomas C. Butler. allowed at...... 1 60 visited at Fred Vrcdenburg's Tuesday and allowed ut...... 180 Arthur Post, of Owosso, spent Sunday with Dallas - Levi W. Baldwin. No. 2?—Alonzo E. Dunn, prisoners Mr. McVeigh moved tliut the report of the Wednesday. No. 59—John W. Meutor, friends in St. Johns. DeWitt—Andrew S. West. board board ...... 427 15 committee on claims be nceepted and adopted Elmer Pouch, of Ionia, who lias been visit­ dept sheriff fees...... 56 92 Porter K. Perrin spent the first of the week Duplatn—LaMott O. Bates. allowed at...... '.. 427 15 and tlie clerk authorized to draw orders on ing his brother, Arvine, went to Owosso allowed at...... 56 92 with his family in Detroit. Eagle—Jed H. Briggs. No. 23- .Alonzo E. Dunn, lock ...... the county treasurer for the several amounts. Wednesday. No. CO—Wm. Crick, labor L. N. Sheardy, of the Corunna Indepen­ Essex—John T. Danielle. bill at jail...... 60 15 Huld motion prevailed. Walter and Mac Holmes, of Salem, Mich., and goods for Co..... 7 74 v dent, was in town on business Monday. Greenbush —Dwight S. Morrison. allowed at ...... 66 15 Tlie committee on public buildings sub ­ visited their nephew. H. M. Holmes, Monday allowed at ...... 7 74 Harry Abbott returned toCIncinnatl Mon­ Lebanon —Biou J. McVeigh. No. 24 The Clinton Republican, mitted the following report: and Tuesday. the onorable oard of upervisors No. 01—Geo. H. Marshall, day morning, where he is attending school. Olive—Zephaniah Sexton. printing for Co...... 139 28 To H B S ; Mrs. Addle Van Dyke, of Riley township, Justice fees...... 0 75 Shirley Da Foe returned Saturday from Ovid—William O. Hunter. allowed at...... 139 28 Whereas, at tlie time that the Jail was was called to Ovid yesterday by the illness allowed at...... 6 75 Saranac, where he visited friends last week. Riley —Horatio N. Carpenter. No. 25—George H. Marshall,...... built there was no provision made for the of her mother. confinement of female prisoners, juvenile of- No. 62 —Noble Burnett goods Mr. and Mrs. Frunk Cook, of Ovid, came Victor—Charles W. Pope. justic fees...... 3 83 Mrs. A. J. Hicks, who has been visiting fenders, and insane persons and persons de­ for Co...... ,...... 4 30 Monday to visit Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Waldron. Watertown —Holmes T. Clark. allowed at...„...... 3 85 friends In Kalamazoo, arrived here Tuesday allowed at...... 4 30 The Misses Mac Post and Josie Carter Westphalia—Theodore Bengel. No. 26 —John W. Keeney, dept ... tained us witnesses, whereby the Sheriff can evening, where she expects to remain. comply with the law In taking care of the No. 63 —St. Johns Mfg. Co. spent Tuesday with Arthur Post at Owosso. There being a quorum present, tho Board pro­ sheriff fees ...... 1 15 G. Clair Stock, formerly of St. Johns and above persons, -hm It Is at the present time goods for Co...... 18 02 Mr-. C. D. Caruss, of Ovid, visited her par­ ceeded to business. allowed at...... 1 45 late of Owosso, left here this morning to ac­ Therefore, we, the undersigned, your com­ allowed at...... 18 62 ents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Waldron, over Sun­ COMMUNICATION FROM COUNT* OFFICERS. W. G. HUNTER, cept a position in a Job printing office in mittee on public buildings, would recommend day. Communications from the State Association L. W. BALDWIN, No. 64 —W. N. Stocker, Con­ W. A. Durkee attended a meeting of the Detroit. • THOMAS C.BUTLER, that the basement, now occupied asukitchen stable fees...... 8110 Mrs. T. H. Corbett, of Ann Arbor, who has of Supervisors of Michigan, and the Game, Fish People’s Fire Insurance Co. at Ionia, Tues­ Committee. and dining room, be fixed up for rooms for ullowed at...... „...... 81 10 been visiting her mother, Mrs. J.G. Wise, and Dog Protective Association were then read day. Mr. Clark moved that the report of the com­ caring for the above class of iiersons, and No. 65 —O. 8. Inland, Inquest for the past two weeks, returned to her home by the Clerk and on motion wore laid on the W. T. Rowley, who lives near Maple Rap­ mittee on claims be accepted aud adopted and that an addition lie built, one story high, of fees...... 1 60 Tuesday. table. ids, returned to school at Ann Arbor Mon­ the Clerk authorized to draw orders on ^the brick, and of sultabledimentionsfor a kitchen, allowed nt...... * 1 00 Lottie L. Calkins, State Organizer of the INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. dining room etc., on the west side of the jail ti ight. Bills numbered 1 to 39 inclusive were presented County Treasurer for tlie several amounts. W. G. HUNTER. Royal Circle, and Mrs. Emma Clark, of Ionia, residence, as may be determined by your hon­ Mrs. Dean Wickes returned Monday even­ and referred to the committee on claims by the Said motion prevailed. L. W. BALDWIN. went to Durand Tuesday evening, where orable body, the cost of which, we think, can TUGS. C. Ut’TLEK, ing from Mutitieid, where she visited friends Chairman. On motion of Mr. Hunter the Board adjourned they expect to organize unotlier branch of be done at the expense of one thousund dol­ Committee last week. MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. until to-morrow morning at nineo’clock. the Royal Circle. lars, or less. Mr. Briggs moved that the report of the Mrs. Geo. Feightling was called to Holt, Oil motion of Mr. Clark the Board adjourned WILLIAM M. SMITH, D. S. MORRISON, Amerleus Vaughan, who has been visiting HOLMES T. CLARK. committee on claims be accepted and adopted Saturday morning, by the serious illness of until tomorrow morning at nine o’clock. Clerk. Chairmad. her mother. his uncle, C. C. Vaughan, went to Ionia L. W. BALD IVIN, and the clerk authorized to draw orders on Tuesday, where his father, C. E. Vaughan, WILLIAM M. SMITH, D. S. MORRISON, A. W. SKINNER, Mrs. J. 8. Cahoon, of Eureka, went to Ionia Clerk. Chairman. the couuty treasurer for the several 'Tuesday to visit her parents and other rela­ resides, from which city lie will return to his Thursday Forenoon Session, January 5th, Committee. amounts. tives for a week. home in the East. Mr. Kates moved that the report of tlie Said motion prevailed. Rev. and Mrs. O. R. Lovejpy left here lust Tuesday Forenoon .Session, January 3d, A A. D. 1899. Miss Etta Long, of Carson City, returned to I>. 1893. committee on public buildings be accepted Mr, Buldwln moved that the Board tender evening for a two weeks ’ visit with relatives to the chulrmnn and clerk thereof, a vote of her home Monday, after visiting tier aunt, The Board convened pursuant to adjournment Tlie Board convened pursuant to the adjourn­ and adopted as the action of the Board, ami and friends in New York. His pulpit will be thunks for the capable and efficient manner Mrs. Wm. Hefty. and was called to order*by the Chairman; roll ment, and was called to order by the Chairman. that the matter be left in the hunds ot the supplied on Sunday next by Rev. H. A. Shel­ in which they have performed the duties of Miss Julia Bross went to Detroit Monday, called; quorum present, and so 'reported. The Roll called. Quorum present and so reported. Sheriff and the County Treasurer; that tlie where she will resume her study of music don, and on the following Sunday bp Prof. The minutes of tho previous session were read work be let to the lowest responsible bidder, their respective positions, and for thecourtesy i Goodrich, both of Albion, Midi. minutes of the previous meeting were read and which they have at all times observed to­ with Mrs. Larned. approved. and approved. and that the expense be paid from the con­ ward their fellow members. Miss Myrtle Butler, of Grand Rapids, at­ Real Estate. Communication From Connty Officers. Reports of Standing Committees. tingent fund of the county. tended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. 1 P. The committee on Treasury submitted the Said motion prevailed. Said motion prevailed. Fred. Van Vleet and wife to Lee Van The Clerk then presented the bonds of the Chairmau Morrison briefly addressed the Ilinman, Sunday. Vleet, s 19% acres of nw % of sw % following report: Motions and Resolutions . several county officers, which require approve- Board expressing to the members his appre­ Miss Eva Hamilton, of Newberry, will and the undivided 1-5 of nw of nw by the Board of Supervisors. On motion of Mrj St. Johns Michigan, January 5th 1899 Mr. Clark moved that the Couuty treas­ M of section 9, Olive...... fl ciation of their close attention to the busi ­ spend the next three week9 visiting relatives Bates said bonds were referred to the committee To the Honorable Board of Supervisors:— urer be authorized to procure the necessary Jasper M. Hart et al. to Luther W, ness of tlie Board aud tlie loyal support given and friends in St. Johns. on appropriations for examination. Gentlemen,—Your Committee on Treasury beg books, and to have the record of lands de­ Sibley, w % of e % of block 33, De him during the period of his chairmanship. Mrs. M. J. Sanson, who has been visiting Witt (q. c.)...... - Introduction of Bills. leave to make the following report: We have linquent for taxes, In this county, transcribed On motion of Mr. Baldwin the Board ad­ her nephew, Wm. J. Servlss, returned to her Richard B. Roberts to Luther W. Sib ­ Bills numbered 40 to65 inclusive were presented examined the books and vouchers of the County I herein, at the exjiense of, not to exceed, home in Detroit Saturday. ley, w % of e *4 of block 3*. DeWItt Treasurer’s office and And as follows: fifteen dollars. journed without day. (q. c.)...... and refered to the ’committee on claims by the D. 8. MORRISON, Miss Stella Wolcott returned Saturday to Chairman. Balance in county treasurer’s hands Said motion prevailed. Sarepta J. Taber to Fred C. Van WILLIAM M. SMITH, Chairman. Morencl, where she will resume her duties as Motions and Resolutions. October 1, 1898...... $ 9,268 10 Mr. Bates offered tho following resolution, Vleet, s 42'/4 acres of nw frl. of Clerk. a teacher in the school there. section 3, Olive...... 2 Mr. Daniells moved that the communication Money received by County .Treasurer and moved the adoption and called foryeas Mrs. J. S. Purvis and little Harry Hammcll Alice A. Zwelfel to John A. Beck, 25 from the executive officers of the State associa­ in October, 1898....’...... 1.... 245 81 and oays. acres on w % of nw of section 10, These are dangerous times for the wont to Plymouth Tuesday, where they will tion of Supervisors be taken from the table. Money received by County Treasurer St. Johns, Mich., Jauuary 5, ’99. visit relatives for about three weeks. Green busli...... in November, 1898...... 7,855 61 health. Croup, colds and throat trou­ Said motion prevailed. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors : Miss Elizabeth Dunn, who lives a few miles Ezra Owen et al. to Alice A. Zwelfel, Money received by County Treasurer bles leads rapidly to consumption. A (q. c.) 25 acres on w % of nw M of Mr. Baldwin moved that Messrs. Clark and Whereas the tramp nuisance in our county bottle of One Minute Cough Cure used from St. Johns, went to Grand Rapids Tues­ in December, 1898...... 18,988 64 section 10, Greenbush ...... West of this Board be sent to the comming meet­ ba« of late reached high proportions, not at the right time will preserve life, day, where she will spend some time. Rufus Sheldon and wife to Rina E. ing of the State Association of Supervisors, to Total amount during the three...... only in number but in expense, and believing health ana a large amount of money. Miss Gertrude Wetberell, of Lapeer, who (’all. lot 15. block 6, Van Deuscn's be held at Lansing, Februaryl7th, 1899, as delegat­ months including money oh hand to that the best way to discourage their com­ Pleasaut to take; children like it. speut the past two weeks at the home of P. 8. addition to the village of Elsie...... ed from Clinton County Board of Supervisors. January 1st, 1899...... 136, i58 16 ing here. Is to feed them less, I offer the fol­ C.E. V an Sickle . Buck, returned to her home Saturday. George nyde and wife to Jacob Gru- baugii et al.. lot 7. block 4, avenue J Said motion prevailed. We And the orders redeemed as fol­ lowing resolution: Frank Buck, Paul Seibert and Cally Smith addition to the Village of St. Johns On motion of Mr. Bates the Board adjourned lows:...... Resolved, by this Board, that the price for To insure a happy new year, keep the returned to Ann Arbor Monday, where they George Siefert and wife to Peter S. until to-morrow morning at nine o’clock. Contingent orders...... $ 7,268 39 feeding tramps, in this county, on aud after liver clear and the body vigorous by will resume their studies at the University. Slefert et al.. lot I and part of lots usiug DeWitt’s Little Early Kisers, WILLIAM M.SMITH, D. S. MORRISON, Poor orders...... 2,709 06 this date, shall not exceed twenty cents tor Mr. and Mrs. John Gross, who recently 10 and D, ShepardsviUe...... the famous little pills for constipation Clerk. Chairman. Witness orders...... 989 55 two meals and one nights lodging. lived at Beal City, went V> Westphalia Mon­ John L. Meadows to Elizabeth R. and liver troubles. C.E V an Sickle . Meadows, ue frl. Hi of nw frl. J$of Township treasurers receipts______L. U. BATES. day, where they expect to make their home. 6,846 29 section 4, Eagle...... After a general discussion of the tramp Miss Ella Henry, who has been spending Wednmidsy Forenoon Session, January 4th’ State treasurers receipts...... 288 26 Anthony nufnagcl and wife to Peter nuisance the yeas and nays were taken on the past few months with Mrs. Wm. M. Mul­ Simon, seHof the ne J4 of section Soldiers relief orders...... 77 34 1899. 56 00 the adoption of the resolution offered by Mr. der, returned toiler home in Fowler Tues­ 27, Dallas...... 1 Insurance...... A Long Life Tho Board convened pursuant to adjournment Berth and death orders______Bates. day. Gordon B. Valentine to Mary M. Val­ 1 90 entine, ne M of ne M of section 10. and was called to order by the Chairman, roll Miscellaneous receipts ...... The vote resulted as follows: Yeas, For sixty-nine years Downs’ Elixir Mrs. F. F. Garrett, of Grand Rapids, who 1,036 79 Ovid, $1.00 and other considerations called; quorum present and so reported. The Drain ordors...... 660 91 Messrs. Skinner, Butler, Baldwin, West, has kept on curing coughs, colds, croup, spent the past two weeks with her sister, Hovey Blougli to Mary Jane Robert ­ minutes of the previous sossion were read and Bates, Briggs, Daniels, Morrison, McVeigh, son (q. c.) o % of w % of nw of sec­ Sparrow orders...... 96 80 consumption and ail throat and lung Mrs. A. A. Chick, returned to her home Sat­ approved. Sexton, Huuter, Carpenter, Pope, Clark, and urday. tion 12, Eagle...... - Moneys paid out from October 1st,... troubles. Some people thiuk it good Report of Standing Committees. Bengal. Total Y chs 15. Nays none. The Joseph Dunlap to William L. Norton, 1C98, to January 1st, 1899, ...... $ 20,081 31 Miss Maggie Seifert, who spent the past lots 21 and 2z, block 19, Ovid...... The committee on appropriation submitted resolution having received all the votes given only for lung troubles, but the fact is year at Ann Arbor, came last Friday to Lucas A. Mulder et al. to Clarence A. tho following report: Leaving a balance on the County ___ was unanimously adopted, and it was so that it is the best remedy for cold in Treasurers hands on January 1st,... opend some time with Mrs. W. A. Norton and Mulder (q. c.) n % of n % of sw K of St. Johns Michigan, January'4th, 1899. declared by the Chairman. tbe head, or cold settled in the joints or section 3, Victor....,...... 500 00 1899, of...... $ 16,326 85 other friends. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the Mr. Daniells moved that,inasmuch as Blip Robert Buck returned to Ann Arbor, where Clarence A. Mulder to Lucas A. Mul­ boweis, as it acts upon the whole sys ­ der (q c.) s % of n % of sw of sec­ County of Clinton. J. H. BRIGGS, ervisor Robert McConkey, of Bath township, tem and speedily eradicates a cold lie is attending school, Saturday morning, tion 3, Victor...... Your committee on appropriations to whom H. N. CARPENTER, a valued member of this Board, ia detained after spending the holidays with his parents wherever found. We sell it and guar­ Gilbert W. Smith and wife to F.llza U. was referred the mattor of determining the cor­ B. J. McVEIGH, at home, aud unable to attend this session, antee a 50 cent bottle to cure any cold In this village. Holmes, e % of block 14, DeWItt..... rectness in form and sufficiency in amount of the Committee. of the Board by reason of bis having suffered or money refunded. Travis A Baker , Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Ingraham, of Lansing, William Hardy to Myron A. Knlttin. official bonds required by statute to beexocuted On motion of Mr. Daniells the report of r V4 of ne K ut section 13. Klngham 3 an accidental injury, that this Board tender Fildew & Millman , A. O. Hunt . •nine Saturday to spend the week with Mr. and filed by the several county officers together the committee on treasury was accepted and to film a vote of sympathy and their hopes Ingraham’s brother Will, who lives on South l.lmMrd to Wi«d. with the financial reliability of the respective adopted. for his speedy recovery; also, that a letter to Oakland street. ROBATE NOTICE.—PROBATE COURT, Residence. sureties thereof, beg leave to report that thoy The committee on claims submitted the that effect be formulated, and signed by each Clinton County, as: Notioe Is hereby Elmer Ellis and daughter Jennie, of Dun­ Name. Residence. Age. P Jan'y.5- Frank E. Atkinson, Bingham..... 26 have examined said bonds and And thorn cor. following report: member of the Board aud forwarded to Mr. giveu that all claims and demands against dee, who have been visiting relatives in St. St. Johns , Midi., January Rtb, 1899. the estate ot JOSEPH WILKIN8, deceased, Hattie L. Britton. “ ...... 29 rect and completo. All of which is respectfully McConkey - will be heard by the Judge of Probate of said Johns and vicinity, returned to their home Jan.y 7 Theodore R. Taylor,Ovid ...... 66 ubmitted. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors : Said motion unanimously prevailed. County, at the Probate Office iu tbe Village of Tuesday morning. Gertie Brogan. " ...... 16 Your committee on claims have examined Mr. Bates offered the following resolution, St. Johns, on tbe 23d day of Jane, A. I>. t. T. DANIELLS 1899, and that tbe creditors of said deceased Miss Lou Woodworth, of Rattle Creek, re­ bills from No. 27 to 58 inclusive, except No. which was, on motion adopted by the turned to Ovid Tuesday, where she is visit­ Card of Thanks. HOLMES T. CLARK are allowed six months from tbe date of this ZEPHANIAH 8EXTON 48 and recommend that they be allowed as Board. Resolved: That the Committee on notice in which to present their claims for ing friends, after visiting Miss Mae Kellor We employ this medium through which to below reported; adjustment. publicly thank the friends and neighbors for Committee on Appropriation. Treasury be and are hereby, instructed to com­ since last Thursday. pare the Contingent, Poor, Juror, Board of Dated, December 22. A. D. 1898. St. Louis Republican-Leader: “James their many kind acts and services during the On motion of Air. West the report of the com­ No. 27 —Fedewa A Walbrldge, CHARLES M. MERRILL, late sickness, death and burial of our son, mittee was accepted and adopted, the respective attorney fees...... $ CO 00 School Examiners, Deaths and Births, Drain, Judge of Probate. Moore, the popular night clerk of the Steel Sparrow and Witness orders, with their Myron. Mb. and Mrs . R. W. lfoLi.nr. bonds woro approved by the Board, and the allowed at...... $30 00 Hotel, St. Johns, visited his parents In tills order books and to check the same by stamp­ Olive. Mich., Jan. It, 1890. Chairman and the Clerk authorized and directed •Ity over New Year’s Day. ” No. 28—Grand Rapids Llth Co. ing across tbe stubs of said order books “Al­ to endorse the approval upon the respective Miss Vera Davison returned to Detroit books for county ...... 25 50 lowed County Treasurer, January 5th 1899,” GF.T1I8KMANK. bonds. allowed at...... Monday morning, where she Is attending tho 25 50 and after being so compared and checked The Committee on Claims submitted the fol­ Business University, after spending the hol­ No. 29—Doubieday Bros. A Co. that the said orders be burned in the pres­ To every soul that seeks to win lowing report. goads tor county ...... 14 00 idays with her mother, Mrs. A. Richardson. ence of tbe Board. Also, that all the miscel­ The victory over self and sin. STATE OF MICHIGAN. 1 allowed at...... Judge S. B. Da boll went to Charlotte Mon­ 14 00 laneous vouchers and receipts from the To walk the path ordained of Ood, Connty of Clinton. J881 No. 80—Geo Uulbert, consta- day, where he was sent by the Governor to House of Correction ami the Insane Asylum The KLONOYKK is far away. In fact, all The path by saints and sages trod, The Board of Supervisors of said County. Da ted ble fees...... 59 48 supply the vacancy left by Judge Clement and all other officers receipts and certlffcates those golden hills are a good way off, or are Smith, who Is still busy with the Mains case There comes a time by heaven's decree at St. Johns,‘Michigan, January 4th, 1899. To allowed at...... 59 48 only Imaginary. There are always plenty of lie stamped across the face, "Allowed at Marshall. To pass through dark Gethsemane. the Hon., the laid Board of Supervisors. No. 31—Loren Castle, Dept. agents trying to get you to Invest In some Your committee on claims have examined County Treasurer, January 5th. 1899,” and GOOD THING way off. and It Is their busi ­ The Misses Kate McFarlan and Mabel The Master's bitter cup to share, sheriff fees...... 138 07 ness to make it look bright. But don’t be too Bills from 1 to 26 inclusive, and wonld respect­ allowed at...... that tbe same be then Bled la tbe office of the fast. Hee for yourselves. Your home dealer Walbrldge went to Detroit Tuesday morn­ His lonely grief, His midnight prayer, 188 07 County Clerk, and tbe said Clerk Is hereby fully submit the following .as their report, and No. 82— F. C. Dunn M. D. wants your patronage and will always make ing, where the former will begin her studies To find when evil powers prevail authorised to credit the County Treasurer It an object for you to leave your money at ► do hereby recommend that the several amounts Med. Att. on prison- at the Business University, and the latter The dearest friends are sure to fall, with the several amounts. home. . , . scheduled herein be allowed, and that the Clerk er at Jail...... 8 00 I have one hundred Monuments of the lat­ will resume those interrupted by the holi­ That Ood alone our help must be Mr. Bates moved that tbe Board adjourn of the Board be authorized to draw orders on allowed at...... 8 00 est designs in MARBLE and G KAN IT R to day vacation. When passing through Oethsemanc. until tomorrow morning at nine o’clock. select from. You can have them any size, the County Treasurer for the same * No. 83—Willard C. Lyon,jus- Mrs. Max Blank and daughter Henrietta WM. M. SMITH, D. 8. MORRISON. any design, any material, and guaranteed, But oh, supremely blest are they No. 1—Noble Burnett, goods for tlee fees...... 108 15 cheaper than Klondike gold, as cheap as any went to Belding Tuesday, where Mrs. Blank Clerk. Chairman. Whose path leads through that gloomy way; County ______$ 8 61 Allowed at ...... 108 15 dealers ar dealer’s agent can sell them. will visit her sister, Mrs. A. Behrendt, for a To such, God's angel comes at length Come and see me week, her daughter returning in a few days allowed at...... $ 8 61 No. 84—Wm. Savill, consta- Yours for your money, wood, hay, corn and Reviving hope, Imparting strength. No. 2— William Simpson, burial ble fees...... 58 88 potatoes. They were accompanied as far as Belding And Christ with all Is sure to be Friday Forenoon Session January, 6, A. D. by Mrs. Blank's brother, A. Berger, who is on of indigent soldier__ __ 40 00 allowed at...... 53 88 Who pass through dark Oethsemane. the way to Ills home In Goshen, Ind. allowed at______40 00 No. 85—Richmond Backus. 1890. F. F. MURDOCK, When thus prepared for every loss, No. S -F. C. Dujn M. D. examin­ goods for county ...... 48 55 The Board convened pursuant to adjourn­ Opr Postofflce. FT. JOHNS, MICH The Royal Baking Powder is t_ They leave the garden for the cross. ing insane...... 5 00 allowed nt...... 43 55 ment and was called to order by the Chair­ greatest of the modern time helps to Take up their burdens one by one. allowed at...... 5 00 No. 80—Wm. Savill, teiephon- man, roll called, quorum present and so re­ . CTIVKSOLICITORS WANTED EVKKY- perfect cooking, and every receipt re­ Ni 4—H. Palmer M. D. examin­ lag forCo...... 2 05 _.k»WHERK for “The Story of the Philip­ And say, thy will, not ours be done, ported. The minutes of tbe previous session pines” by Murat Halstead, commissioned by quiring a raising ingredient should And so they come at last to see ing insane...... 5 00 allowed at...... 2 05 were read and approved. the government as Official Historian to the embody it. The meaning of Oethsemane. allowed at______5 00 No. 87 —LewlsSeverance.Jua- Reports of Standing C ommittees. War Department. The book was written in • ------No. 5—Nocholas O. Smith,...... tlce fees...... 27 40 The Committee on Treasury submitted the army camps at SanFrancisoo, on the Pacific Robbed the Grave. That Throbbing Headache with Gen. Merritt, in the hospital at Hono­ A startling incident, of which Mr. justice fees...... 5 55 allowed at...... 27 40 following report: lulu, In Hong Kong, in the American trenches John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the Would quickly leave you, if you used allowed at______5 55 No. 88—Travis A Raker, St. Johns Mich., January 6th, 1899. at Manila, in the Insurgent camp with Aguln- Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands No. 6- George H. Marshall,...... goods for county ...... 08 75 aldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, subject, is narrated by him as follows: To the Honorable Board or Supervisors : and in the roar of the battle at the fall of ot sufferers have proved their match__ justice fees...... 45 00 allowed at...... 03 75 “ I was in a most dreadful condition. merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. Your Committee on Treasury would res­ Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brimful of or­ My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunk ­ allowed at...... 45 00 No. 89—E. Baldwin, tramp pectfully report that as instructed by your iginal pictures taken by government photo­ They make pure blood and strong No. 7 —William M. Smith,...... board bill ...... 28 20 graphers on the spot. Large book. Low en, tongue coated, pain continually in honorable uody, they have compared the prices. Big profits. Freight paid. Credit nerves and build up your health. Easy recording, postage, serv­ allowed at...... 28 20 back and sides, no appetite—gradually to take. Try them. Only 25 centa. Contingent, Poor, Sparrow Witness, Juror, Iven. Drop all trashy and unofficial war growing weaker day by day. Three ices'...... 185 72 No. 40—Spaulding A Co., Births and Deaths, and Drain orders with soks. Adores# F. T. Barber, Sec’y., Star In. Money back if not cured. Sold by Fil­ allowed at...... 185 72 surance Bldg., Chloago. physicians bad given me ttp. Fortu­ dew & Millman, Druggists. goods for county ..... 88 09 their respective order books, and have can­ nately, a friend advised trying ‘Electric No. 8—E. I. Hull, burial of indg allowed at...... 88 09 celled tbe same by stamping across the stabs Bitters;’ and to my great jov and sur­ LaGrippe la again epidemic. Every soldier...... 35 00 No. 41—John W. Keeney, of tbe said ordei books, "Allowed January prise. the first bottle made a decided precaution should be taken to avoid It. allowed at...... 15 00 Dept, sheriff fees...... 5 40 5th, 1899,” and have the said orders here to WANTED 1 improvement. I continued their use It’s apecitic cure is one Minute Cough No. 9—Charles North, inquest.... allowed at...... 5 40 be burned In yeur presence. We have can­ Reliable man in this vicinity to open for three weeks, and am now a well Cure. A. J. Sheperd, Publisher Agri­ fees...... 1 60 No. 42—Riley J. Woodruff, celled the Michigan Asylum for the Iosane, a small office and handle my goods. man. 1 know they saved my life, and cultural Journal and Advertiser, Elden, allowed at.______1 00 justice fees...... 50 85 and the House of Correction receipts, tbe Position permanent and good pay. If robbed the grave of another victim.” Mo., says: “No one will be disappoint­ No 10-Alonso E. Donn, tramp... allowed at...... ,...... 50 85 Supervisors pay roll and all miscellaneous your record is O. K. here is an opening None should fail to try them. Only 60c., ed by using One Minute Cough Cure for board bill ...... 46 00 No. 44—John W. Keeney, receipts by stamping the same across the for you. Kindly mention this paper guaranteed, at Fildew & Millman’s LaGrippe. Pleasaut to take, quick to allowed at...... 46 00 Dept, sheriff fees...... 1 20 lacs. “Allowed January 5th, 1899,” and when writing. Drug Store. act. C. E. V an Sickle . 1 No. 11—James Anderson et al___ allowed nt...... 1 20 have Bled the same with the Connty Clerk. A. T. Morrill, Cincinnati!. 0«

> CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY.JANUARY 12, 1899.

per cent. In exercising Its police powet anies. If you Inquire carefully you will This may not be the place or time for fishing of the Inland lakes and stream^ over railroad corporations tne state has a wise and proper regulation of Its affairs. Siscover that you can scarcely make a the discussion of remedies in detail. It Each class demands attention at your met with a prompt obedience to Its or­ Under our present system we tax rail­ may be suggested, however, that a prac­ hands. roads upon their gross earnings. Ths purchase In which the price Is not dic­ ders. tated by a combination over which the tical step might be taken In the desired Eight-Hour Law. The repeal of special charters, granted method itself as applied to Interstate merchant you deal with has no control. direction If a national law were enacted to certain companies when the state was roaua has been held by high authoilty to The governor roasts the Associated which would confine corporations to lines T1rhs two years which have passed Since new and undeveloped. Is now derSanded bo a tax upon interstate commerce and, Press as a combination of the great dal.y of business which might bo regarded as nrr first message to the legislature have [Gov. Pingree Fears the Trusts and In the Interest of Justice. therefore, void. No company has cared to newspapers to cheapen the cost of col­ strlc-Uy within their proper sphere. Why nott altered In the slightestsllgh degree in^r firm There has been created within this test this question In the courts and the lecting the news. He bemoans the pass­ should any corporations be organized for conviction that eight hours state a class of corporations known as state cannot do so. But. Independent of ing or the small retail merchants In our the oonduct of mere mercantile or manu- enough to require a man to work for hi* Monopolies Will Make Us suburban railways, which do a very this question, the method Is unjust. The cities and towns and the advent of the factur ng business? 8uch enterprises living. Tho Inestimable benefits of our profitable business. Some of them are tax upon the earnings or Income operates glgantlo department stores which swal­ should be left to Individuals. Legislation public school and of our free educational operating un^er the general railroad law In favor of the railroad companies. When low them up. He then continues: which sought to directly compass this re­ Institutions of all kinds, have made of our of the state, and others, are doing busi ­ the times are hard and the eara'nvs We are familiar with the arguments put sult, would doubtless meet with the con­ clerks, artisans and mechanics, thinking 'A MERE NATION OF SLAVES. ness under what Is known as the street smaller, the tax la less. In the aqeantlme forward to defend this system on its sup­ demnation of the courts. But there may men. and It Is doing only simple Justice railway law. They are performing in the state's burdens are no lees, and may, posed merits. We are told that It Is an be avenues by which the purpose could be to liberate them from the factories and many cases the duties of steam railroads perhaps, have Increased, and the relief ac­ worshops these two additional hours. In corded to the railroad companies during Inevitable tendency of general conditions attained without that danger. The fed­ 'Ha Also Rom Disaster in .the Annexation In the carrying of freight and passen­ over which there Is no human power of eral congress found no legal obstacle in order that they and their families may en­ gers. The police power of the state over these hard times and depression must be control. We are told that the world is the way when J wished to prevent the joy some of the advantages and real of the Philippines, but Favors Taking this class of corporations Is poorly de­ borne by the property owners generally. growing smaller as ths means of com­ Issue of circulating notes by state banks. pleasures of life. It is your especial priv­ fined. Regu.atlons for the safety of per­ Thus, during times of depression, when munication and transportation are be ­ Lnuer its revenue-raising power It levied ilege and duty to bring the so-called All of the American Continent We sons and property carried by them have the people are less able to pay, their bur ­ coming more perfect, and the world re­ a tax of 10 per cent upon on all such cir­ "merchant princes" and "captains of In­ not been adopted by the state. I there­ dens are Increased, and Just to the extent quires a lees and less number of persons culation, and the notes disappeared at dustry ” In this country to a realization Can Get—Equal Taxation Exhaust­ fore urgently recommend that the state that the railroad companies’ burdens are diminished. to control affaire as Independent men, and once and have not since been seen. A tax, of the fact that our laboring men are ively Treated—Income Tax, Etc. have the same supervisory control over that all the business of the human race equally prohibitive, might be levied upon something more than toolB to be used In the conduct of their business that It has What would be the result if the state can now be managed more efficiently from all corporations In the United States or- the senseless chase after wealth. The over that of steam railroads, and that attempted to collect the entire burden of a few centers ana by a few men leaving an zed for other purposes than the con- shortening of the hours of labor will also tuey be placed under the supervision of a tax upon earnings or Income? How the rest of the race nothing to do but to uct of railroads, steamboat lines, tele­ make it necessary to give work to the Gov. Pingree’s message to the Michigan the Commissioner of Railroads. much would the farmer or merchant have S contributed from 1893 to 1897? The result act as hewers of wood and drawers of graphs, telephones, canals, and posslblv large number of unemployed. ‘state legislature was a voluminous docu­ Taxation. would have been that the state would water. It Is all In accordance with Irre­ one or two other great enterprises too Primary Election. ment, completely covering state affairs sistible natural law. A cold-blooded polit­ heavy for the hands of Individuals or or­ Equal taxation has ever been the para­ have received but little If anv Income and Under our constitution and laws It is and dealing at length with national af­ would have been bankrupt and unable to ical economy Informs us that It makes for dinary partnerships. Such a measure mount problem Involved In civil govern­ the cheapening of all the necessaries of would do away, once for all, with tne syn ­ both the duty and privilege of every citi­ fairs. The substance of the message is ment. The best thinkers In every age meet Its obligations. Under a law that zen to vote and tP participate In the elec­ provides for a tit* upon earning* and In­ lit#. The concentration of capital, the dicate tine tru3ti and the combines tbat as follows: have grappled with the question but OS centralisation of control, In the manufac­ are sapping the llfe-Diooa or this people. tion of honest and capable men to fill the yet we are. apparently, as far from a comes the state Is at a great disadvan­ various offices within the gift of the poo- To the Honorable the Senate and House tage. It has no way of determining what ture and distribution of each of the great In former days tbe legislatures of great j of Representatives: perfect system as we were half a cen­ staples, saves a thousand elements of states regarded It as tnelr privilege and ple^ and any legislation which w 11 en­ tury ago. It is one of tne principal ob ­ the earnings are. How this system has courage or aid them In the performance ( It Is my duty and privilege to address been tolerated all these years Is some­ cost, and enables the manufacturing and d"tv to memorialize congress on matters you, by message, as the Chief Executive jects of government to equa.ize publio distributing trust to lay the article down of concern to the nation. They “request- of that duty should receive your undi­ burdens, and both the constitution and thing I cannot understand. There must vided support. of this state, upon such matters of state be something about great wealth or before the consumer at a greatly reduced on" me representatives and "Instructed poMcy and state government as affect the the law. In form, at least, contain & price. We are also assured, on the au­ and dlrectea” the senators to take action The present system of nominating by guarantee of it. The question of equal power that affects legislators without conventions is wrong In both theory And general welfare. The needs of a great their knowledge or belief, and It Is evident thority of every one of these trusts which In conformity with their wishes. Thla an­ commonwealth like ours are many. Its taxation has become the most important has been brought Into court, that this cient and valuable privilege should be re­ practice for many reasons. It Is prac­ question In this state and no one has that the legislators of Michigan are no tically Impossible for a delegate to repre­ -recessltle* are varied. Its Interests are exception to the rule. saving of expense enables the trust to vived. It is true that the senators at the Interests of over two and one-half ever opposed It, except the lobbyist and spare a much larger portion of Its earn­ Washington no longer regard themselves sent the w shea of hls constituents where the special Interests benefitted. The pres­ At this point the governor branches off there Is more than one officer to be nomi­ millions of people. We live In an age of Into a series of Illustrations from which ings for the wages of its labor. But these as amenable to the direction of their cre­ rapid changes, and more rapid develop­ ent state administration, by which I pretenses nre hollow shams. While the ators. Indeed, It Is often said, and with nated. It also tends to permit a few mean not only the state officers, but also he deduces the theory that the U. 8. con­ scheming politicians to dictate, either ment. Our state may be Justly proud of the legislative branch of the govern­ gress Is controlled by corrupt on. He also trusts have neither souls nor hearts, they loo much truth, that the senators sent to Its position In the union. None has great­ are ruled by men, not angels; men. too, Washington own the legislatures which honestly or otherwise, the nominations. ment, has been placed In power with the declares that In the legislature of Michi­ It Is too frequently the case that dele­ er possibilities. Our agricultural resources express understanding that some action gan the Atkinson tax equalization bill who, In their greed toward the consumer, send them there. But thla should be cor­ and their heartleesnees toward the lab ­ gates, after having been elected for a are constantly growing In magnitude; the looking to an equitable system of tax­ was defeated by money and corruption. rected. and might be If legislatures were specified purpose, are Induced, either by wealth of our forests Is fast disappearing, Returning to the subject of methods of orer, are freed altogether from the per­ honest and courageous. Every federal ation oe taken at once. I respectfully sonal responsibility which, In spite of the use of money or the promise of offi­ but yet a source of pride; our minerals In call attention to the recommendations taxation, he resumes: senator chosen should be compelled to cial position, to utterly disregard tbe In­ extent and quality stand first In the union. I am satisfied that we should In some himself, controls and modifies the selflsh- take oath In the presence of the legisla­ heretofore made and commend them to necs of the individual manufacturer and structions and wishes of their constitu­ Michigan is In a better position to take ad­ your careful perusal, to the same extent manner raise sufficient revenue for state ture which chooses him, to follow Its In­ ents thereby practically disfranchising vantage of the great Inland merchant ma­ aa If the matter were embodied In this expenses without having to apportion a employer. No employer who does busi ­ structions In hls congressional action whole precincts and townships. rine than any other state. It possesses message to you upon the subjeot. d'rect tax among the counties of the state. ness In hls own name dare stand before when those InBtruotions are embodied In I therefore recommend that a law be and educational system unsurpassed by The average rate of taxation for all, This system Is vicious. It puts a premium the community In which he lives and tn formal resolutions and conveyed to him which hls reputation la part of hls capital, passed providing that all candidates for that of any other state or country, which purposes In this state, exclusive of the’ on dishonest appraisement and permits by the governor, or transmit hla resigna­ each elective office, from governor down Is fully designed to develop the highest special Improvement tax. Is not far from the county to receive the benefit of Its for such heartlessness toward labor as the tion. Some might perjure themselves in to township and ward officers, be nom­ type of American citizenship. Its univer­ 2V4 per cent on the dollar. The most own wrong. Each county Is trying to very small man will calmly and even con­ spite of this, but all would not. inated by a direct vote of the electors. sity, the pride of Its own citizens. Is also careful research that can be made de­ keep down Its valuation In order to pay scientiously exercise toward hls depend­ Gov. Pingree seizes the opportunity here I also recommend that provision be made the pride of the country at large, and con­ velops the fact that the rate paid by the as little as possible of the state tax, and ents when speaking and acting as the rep­ to score the national administration. He for the nomination at such primary, by a stitutes a lasting monument to the state's corporations that are now taxed on their the lesult Is that while some counties are resentative of a corporation toward which says there Is much soltcltude at Washing­ direct vote of the electors or the state, of devotion to learning, to art, and the sci­ earnings or Income Is about 8-10 of 1 per assessed at practically their cash value, he regards It as hls duty to grind the lost ton for the sufferings of the subjects of a candidate of each party for United ences. Its citizens are Intelligent and cent. In other words. Individual proper­ others are only assessed at 60 or 60 per penny for the benefit or the stockholders. the Spanish monarchy and heathen across States senator. By so doing, while under patriotic. Peace and good order has pre­ ty pays 226 upon 81,000 of valuation, while cent of their cash valuer and this appor­ The humanity of the manager of a corp­ the seas, and the administration haa much the constitution he cannot be elected by vailed within Its borders. Every sign now the property of those quasl-corporatlons tionment Is frequently made worse by the oration Is lost In the mere machine which to sav of "humanity" and Its rights, par­ a direct vote, still the legislature would now Indicates that under the blessings of pay $6 upon 81.000 of actual value. A state hoard of equalisation. If this ap­ he becomes as part of the greater ma­ ticularly the humanity farthest away, hardly dare to disregard the wishes of Providence, and a wise administration of continuation of this inequality Is wholly portionment were done away with there chine for which he acts. When the pro­ when It Is the humanity which occupies their constituents, so plainly and fairly the law. Michigan Is about to enter upon inconsistent with the faithful discharge would be no object for the county to keep cess of concentration haa worked Itself these states and territories—American hu­ expressed, and in that manner It might a new and yet greater era of prosper­ of our duty to the public. down Its assessment. Each country would out to completion, the law which governs manity —which Bhould most interest the be possible for the common people to get ity and development. To this end I invite There le no reason why the land, then have to work out Its own salvation, both prices and wages will assert Itself administration and the congress of the some representation In the upper house careful attention to the recommendations buildings and other property of these and no county would be affected by the with Irresistible force. The consumer will United States. Our own native humanity of congress. herein contained. corporations should be more sacred In assessment In another. be charged the highest price that can be has much more to complain of than that squeezed out of him; the laborer will be Aa to State Boards. State Institutions. our eyes, or should receive more favor I am In favor of an Income tax. I be ­ of the Philippines or Cuba. He says the at our hands, than the land, buildings lieve that an Income tax based upon a paid the lowest wages upon which he can men who are most notorious as the heads One of the most pernicious customs la In proportion with the Increase of pop­ and other property of a citizen. The very low percentage, and to a certain ex­ keep life enough In hls body to perform of great monopolies seem to be the most vogue In thla state Is the practice of hav­ ulation there is an Increase in the needs question whether railroad business is tent graduated, would be a benefit to the hls dally task. This result has not yet Intimate friends of the present adminis­ ing “hold-over” members on stats and requirements of the state Institutions, profitable, has nothing whatever to do state and would not be oppressive to been quite accomplished, but It la sure as tration and to be the most eager to re­ boards and commissions. In this way especially of those devoted to educational with the mode of taxing It. The Income anyone. Great numbers of people In this that night follows day, as certain as the dress the wrongs of all people who Uve mismanagement Is covered up, and there and charitable objects. Our asylums, de­ or profit of a railroad company would state, receiving large salaries, reap the law of human selfishness. outside the United States, It being their Is no way of reforming abuses which voted to the care of the most unfortunate have to do with the fixing of tne value benefit of our schools and stats Institu­ There Is no salvation for the consumer well-doflned purpose to divert attention notoriously exist In some of our state wards of the state, are constantly crowd­ of the property, but not with the sys ­ tions without paying & tax of any kind. except In free competition; there Is no from the outrages committed against institutions. When a new member ac­ ed. Not having at hand the means of pre­ tem of taxation. A vacant store or I would suggest that all Incomes up to dignity, no manhood for the laborer ex­ them. So far as the American people are cepts an appointment on one of these venting the Increase of Insanity, we can dwelling is not as profitable as one rent­ one thoQsand dollars be exempt from cept In the comparative Independence he concerned, this administration seems to boards he finds himself a hopeless on*y continue to provide more room and ed and producing an Income, but could taxation; that Incomes from one to two derives through the free competition of look upon them as having no rights except minority if he attempts to Inaugurate additional facllltloe for the care and treat­ we. by any argument, show that a thousand dollars be taxed. many employers who seek hls services. to lay down their lives and. Incidentally, any changes, no matter how necessary ment of Its victims. building should pay a tax upon Its earn­ their freedom for the conquest of foreign such changes may appear. By the time The state has created at large expense ings, because Its location was unfavor­ Public Franchises —Municipal Own­ A Revolution Not Improbable. lands and the fattening of domestic he has acquired any Influence he has five Institutions for the care of children able and the Investment not profitable? ership. The governor solemnly declares that the monopolies. generally fallen In with hie associates,, and persons of tender age. The home for and aa a result old foggy methods are The farmer and merchant Is not asked Referring to the Immense value of continuance of this state of affairs will Imperialism, Expansion, Etc. abandoned and neglected children, at whether hls business Is profitable when street railway and other public fran­ eventually bring us to the point where perpetuated and actual abuses escapd Coldwatrr, I deem one of Its most excel­ the tax levy Is made. He is confronted chises In great cities which have hereto­ there will be one great monopoly wh.en The governor says It was no secret to correction. The Governor Is, and should lent charities. The law regulating the simply with the statement of tne state's fore been given away by common coun­ will control the supplies of the nation; the the people of the state that he was op­ be. held responsible for the manage­ adoption of children from this institution need, accompanied bv J state s demand cils In spite of protests of the people, the consumer and laborer will become slaves; posed to the war with Spain, and he has ment and control of all appointive should be exceedingly stringent In pro­ for money. The argument that a differ­ governor recommends: <1) The passage the soil of the country will be seized and not yet altered hls opinions on the matter. boards. Consequently the term of all tecting the rights of the natural parent, ent rule should apply to corporation of an act making It requisite to the valid­ a new landed aristocracy will have arisen, He is now opposed to the policy of the such appointees should be coextensive and this, too, before the rights of foster- property is the argument of the lobbyist administration In retaining the Philippine with the official term of the Governor. ity of a franchise In tbe streets of any and the feudal governments of ancient The knowledge that an entire new board parents may Intervjne. and those specially interested. The argu­ municipality that the ordinance granting France and England will be dupi.c&.ed Islands as a "vaseal oolony." He says: The School for the Deaf, located at FI nt. ment that these corporations are quasl- such rights shall be voted upon and ap­ on American soil. The governor I have not yet heard one valid argu­ would have possession of all the books Is one of the state Institutions that Is per­ pub ’.lc In their nature and are controlled proved by citizens. (2) The passage of olnts out the *M), 000,000 accumulated ment In defense of this ambitious and and proceedings at the expiration of a haps better known without the borders of dangerous policy, aa It is now presented certain fixed time would tend to cbeck to a certain extent, by laws that are an act giving to the people of any mu­ y John D. Rockefeller as an example extravagant or selfish enterprises, and. Michigan than any other, except the uni­ made for their government by the state nicipality the right to establish and Eof wnat monopoly Is doing. The for congressional approval. We might versity. Because of its excellent manage­ wherein their tolls and rates of fare la legitimately extend our territory on our in my opinion, would greatly Increase maintain their own street car system. governor also sees another danger the Integrity and efllclency of most of ment and most perfect system of Instruc­ fixed. Is Just as weak when used as ac The arguments In favor of municipal Horn this groat evil which attract* but own continent, whenever and wherever a tion, and of the high character and abil ­ argument that a different system of tax­ ownership are too many to be stated little attention, but which may wed ex­ fair opportunity presents Itself, and the our state boards. ity of ItB faculty, It is reeogn zed as a ation should prevail as when applied tc here In detail, but a few may be briefly cite the alarm of every lover or hls coun­ Islands of the seas near us may properly Tax Titles. model institution, not only throughout the the vacant store. These corporations b» stated: (1) The taking out of the con­ try. The centralization of ownership and be regarded as a part of the continent. In my message to the Thirty-Ninth United States, but also In foreign coun­ the very reason of being quasi-public, trol of the council of a matter which control threatens a new sectionalism But the conquest and retention of an Legislature I urged the importance of tries. It can be truthfully said of this are endowed with powers that an Indi­ has always, in large cities, been the most more dangerous than that which led to archipelago six thousand miles from our chang.ng the tax law, so that tax titles school that every graduate Is self-support­ vidual cannot exercise. Under the right fruitful source of municipal corruption. the war of the rebellion. The insatiate shores, too tropical ever to permit the could not be acquired by individuals, and ing, a statement which perhaps cannot be of eminent domain, they may enter up­ (2) The tendency of a public plant to stomach which Is oevouring all wealth Is settlement there of our own people, al­ so that lands sold for taxes should be ­ made concerning any similar school hav­ on the premises of an Individual and give the greatest consideration to the located In the East. There all the great ready densely populated by eight or ten come State property. There are few oc­ ing an attendance equally as large. take hls property for their own use and lives and comfort of passengers. (3> The heads of syndicates, no matter where millions of a barbarous and alien race cupations more despicable than that of The Institution for the care of Juvenile benefit. They have the right of perpet­ tendency of such a system to confne they originated, sooner or later make who we can neither mix with, assimilate, the professional purchaser and dealer In offenders, located at Lansing, Is under ex­ ual charters and other privileges, and the tracks to as few streets as possible. tlelr homes. To that point la drawn all nor civilize. Is In my Judgment, little less tax titles. The decisions of the Supreme cellent management. Its hundreds of lit­ the fact that they are granted these Instead of as In the franchise system to the profits of these enormous concentrat­ than madness. I am not an enemy of ex­ Court of the State have made it more tle Inmates are given the best substitute powers and privileges makes it necesnary cover as many as possible. (4) The re­ ed industries, and little by little the re­ pansion per se. Most of the territory of difficult than ever for owners of land tO' for a good home and parental care that that the Btate. in a measure, legislate tor duction of fares to as 'o* a point as Is mainder of the country Is drained of Its the republic has been acquired by con­ relieve their property from the lien of the state can furnish. Many boys of very their government—else there would be consistent with the cost of maintenance. wealth. With no hopo of recovering It. To quest or purchase. But It was on our own tax titles. I ao not desire to protect the1 ender years, so young that. In my opln- no guarantee that the property thus the East all the profits of the .ndustrlee continent. If not contiguous to our own negligent owner of real estate, but there on, thev could have but little apprecia­ taken by the power granted by the state Trusts and Combines. of the nation are poured In a colossal and borders, and practically uninhabited. It Is no reason why the unfortunate should' 5tion of the fact that they had transgressed would be used In the Interest of the pub­ There is no feature of our times that overflowing stream, and there Is thence was secured with wise provision for the be made the victims of the unscrupulous the law. And their way to It. I arv'se the lic. should so alarm the patriot, nor Is there doled out again to the rest of the country future safety of the republic and as the and close-fisted tax title dealer. adoption of such reasonable measures as If the state should exercise an author­ any so well calculated to drive the well- barely enough to pay for raw materials future home of millions of our Increasing In this connection I desire to call your Will make it Impossible for parents to ity over a corporation in fixing Its tolls and keep life In an Impoverished labor. It population. The Philippines are In no attention to an extravagance, a wasteful and throw around It other restrictions meaning legislator to despair, as that way necessary for our safety, or even expenditure of the people’s money, which have chldren sent to this school, either which confronts us on all sides In the is only a question of time, and not so very because they wish to be rid of the obliga ­ that would make unprofitable the oper­ long a time either, when the East shall useful therefor, as are the Hawaiian Isl­ can not be too promptly stopped by you. tion and expense of caring for them, or ation of the system, Its value would be rapid concentration of all the productive ands and the Antilles. They can never he I refer to the large sums of money dis­ energies of the nation In the hands of have sopped up, as with a sponge, the made the home of Americans. We must bursed by the State for advertising real bemuse thev think the school presents thereby decreased, and It would be right overgrown corporations, or multiple cor­ whole surplus wealth of this nation. better facilities for training them. I also to consider this fact in fixing the value What discontent, what Jealousy may we look forward to a perpetual guardianship estate to be sold for non-payment of of the property. The state has never yet porations called trusts; or, where more over an Inferior and servile race, who will taxes. The cost of advertising lands un-, recommend that every Inducement for solid combinations cannot be effected, by not then expect to grow in the hearts of county agents and others to bring chil­ legislated to oppress, bankrupt or de­ the population of the other sections, to always be alien to us, whose masters we der the present system amounts to mors stroy the railroad corporations and has means of inter-corporate agreements for must be forever, whom we must govern than the total of salaries paid to ths dren to tne home, such as the payment the purpose of limiting competition, aad possibly precipitate another civil war. of mileage for bringing them here, be re­ only used Its power to prohibit oppres­ Our readers, our press and our legisla­ as inferiors, whom we can never welcome State officers, the Governor, the heads sion and extortion against those of ts controlling prices. The process began as fellow-citizens and equals. There can­ of all the departments, and their depu­ moved. This system Is an outrage on with the means of transportation and In­ tors have not yet fully realized what this youth and places a premium on a decision citizens, who were unable except under degrading process means to the future of not be even a sufficient mixture of resi­ ties. I would strongly recommend that the law, to protect themselves. I under­ tercommunication, namely, the rail­ dent Americans there permanently to gov­ personal notice to teal estate owners, against them. It seems unreasonable to roads, telegraph lines and telephones. In a republic founded upon democratic prin­ punish a boy 10 or 11 years old for having stand that a mile of railroad in the bar ­ ciples. A democratic republic cannot sur­ ern the Islands. The supply must be sus­ whose taxes are unpaid, be substituted ren plains of northern Michigan Is not as spite of the feeble effort of tne federal tained, as In the case of the British in In the place of notice by advertisement committed an offence, even though he may interstate commerce law to check the vive the disappearance of a democratic not know what an offence Is, and leave profitable as a mile of railroad In the population. When our hundreds of thou­ India, by periodical drafts from our armies In the newspapers. The newspaper no­ thickly populated and fertile fields of tendency, it has continued almost unin­ and our politic ans to govern those tices rarely come to the attention of the parent, who has neglected h's child, terruptedly, and promises to continue In sands of free merchants have become the not only to go unpunished, but to bo re­ Washtenaw county. Neither la 160 acres mere hirelings of vast mercantile corpora­ Islands and to Veen them In continuous delinquents, especially those who have of poor land In the northern part of the future. Indeed, the process of con­ subjection. Permanently governed by unintentionally neglected to pay their warded for his carelessness and Indiffer­ centration of ownership and manage­ tions which have crushed them out of ence by having the state clothe, feed and Michigan as profitable as 160 acres of such aliens and foreigners who will have taxes. • land In Washtenaw county, but ee^h ment has proceeded much more rap.dly business; when the little shops, In which no Interest at stake In the Islands and lit­ Michigan In the War. educate his offspring. It every case pos­ since that law was passed than be lore. our people trade with thetr neighbors, sible the state should boll the parent rj- should be taxed at what It Is worth, at* have disappeared In ruins before the tle sympathy for the people, the restless There Is nothing In the history of under the same system. This Is al. I Where these agreements have been o»,en inhabitants will grow discontented with sponsible for the maintenance and educa­ and public, the commission has In some growth of a few enormous establishments Michigan that adds more lustre to her tion of the son sent to his school. Both ask from corporations, and the people of In each town which absorb all the trade; the slavery we will be compelled to en­ name than the conduct of her sons dur­ this state will not hold him guiltless instances Interposed a check, but such force, and the fierce Malay nature w 11 ing the late war. When the call for this Institution and the School for the interruptions to the process have omy when all the great Industries have been pHnd ore located In this c'tv. and you who Is willing to accept less. break out In periodical Insurrections troops was Issued by the President of I speak now of the methods of tax­ driven the promoters to more Ingenious concentrated In the hands of a few gigan­ which we shall be compelled to crush with Will have ample opportunity during the and secret devices to evade the law. tic corporations; when the yoemanry of the United States there came from ths present session of the legislature to be ­ ation. There should be but one rule and bloodshed. college, the office, the workshops and ths one method In order to create an equal­ The same cloud of centralized owner­ the farms have lost their lands to great It Is claimed that there Is nothing In the farms brave, patriotic, earnest men. come acquainted with the work done by ity before the taxing law. I do not ship and control Is spreading over the proprietors, and ha\e sunk to the condi­ constitution to forbid the acquisition of willing and anrluus to participate in ths them. mean that railroad property should be means of movement on our Interior tion of the tenant and the serf; when the any foreign lands whatsoever. Th s may dangers of war. In their country ’s be ­ The Home for the Feeble Minded and waters, where floats, and must Boat for artisan may offer hls services to but one Epileptic, located at Lapeer. Is one of the taxed locally in the different assessment be so, but I can never believe that the half. Men 3f all professions and trades districts, for the reason that the great many years to come, the chief part of great corporate employer In hls own trade spirit of the constitution, the spirit of our vied with each other to be first In ths newer Institutions of the State. To Its lines of railroad, having the most valu­ the American merchant marine. There —and shall be utterly at the mercy of that Institutions, the genius of our people, ever field and this, too, knowing that thou­ management and methods I Invite your able equipment, the most valuable right seems no longer to be any room for the one—where shall the republic find the In­ contemplated or would deliberately tol­ sands must meet their death from fever careful attention. of way, and the most valuable franchises Individual steamboat owner. The amount dependent voter, the free man, to govern erate. the prospect of acquiring control of and disease under the tropical sun of ths I will dispense with specific recom­ are located In the older and more thick ­ of capital required for the successful it In peace, to defend It In war? There territory densely Inhabited by people then Span sti possess)! ns. mendations as to the several Institutions, ly populated portions of the state. In conduct of the business Is nearly as far will no longer be men In this country; whom we must hold In perpetual subjec- On the 24th of April, 1898, a gcr.^rai or­ except In the case of the State House or beyond the resources of a single Indi­ there will be only, on one side corpora­ Correction and Reformatory at Ionia. these sections the rate of taxation In t on bv force of arms. der was Issued directing the Michigan some Instances Is as low as 1 per cent vidual as that needed for the conduct tion managers, and on the other a mass Heretofore our country has enjoyed a National Guard to mobilise at Island This Institution Is legally termed a re­ upon a dollar of value, while these ra.l- of a railroad. Tens of millions concen­ of servile and dependent slaves. splendid isolation from those evils which Lake on April 26th, and on the night of formatory, but Its province as such has roads have the largest earnings. On trated In one corporation, and contro.*ed There must be remedies. The law was have been the lot of land-grabbing Euro­ that day there were In camp at Island been lost by the confinement within It or the other hand, those railroads having by one hand, are devoted to the con­ made for the people, not the people for Lake nearl- four thousand men, with some of the most hardened criminals, as struction and management of an enor­ the law. We nave done greater things, pean nations, and from the complications well as young and first offenders. The less valuable rights of way, iess extens.ve and embarrassments which have appar­ practically no equipment, and with lit­ equipments and less valuable franchises mous fleet of gigantic vessels, whose bolder things, before. Other peoples have ently produced them. Our terr torial tle if any appreciation of the arduous law permitting the sentencing of old and and the earnings of which are greatiy owners a.so seize by the same means the accomplished reforms which seemod quite duties they would be called upon to per­ hardened criminals to It should be wealth of the mines that furnisn cargoes as difficult to the lawyers and the epurts. gro-vth has hitherto only Intensified that amended so as to prevent this oblectlon- less, are located In the sparsely sett.ed happy Isolation, for It has given us only form In order to fit them for active par­ portions of the state, where the average for them, and thus render al) competi­ If technical construction of ihe constitu­ contiguous territory which would other­ ticipation In the war that had then been able practice, and only first offenders, tion by lesser men or organizations Im­ tion stands In our way, constitution can and the vouneer class of convlsts should local rate Is, In some Instances, as high wise have been the seat of rival powers declared. In thla connection attention as 6 per cent. It is easy to see, there­ possible. W hole fleets are rendered ob ­ be amended; or. a more summary method as neighbors. Every European power should he called to the promptness and be confined there. The intermtnvllnc of fore. that local taxation of railroad solete and He rotting at the docks, hun­ may be adopted by electing and appoint­ enthusiasm with which the National ouths with those who have become dreds of owners are impoverished, and ing Judges who will construe these Instru­ which we can, as opportunity offers, ex­ jardened and habitual criminals, works property would place the heaviest bur ­ clude from this continent and Its adjacent Guard of Michigan responded to my call. l den upon the least valuable property en­ men who were formerly their own mas­ ments according to the sternal law of Jus­ Islands, should be excluded, thus remov­ The total number of Michigan troops great harm to the former. gaged In the business. There Is a more ters are reduced either to poverty or to tice and humanity. One of the great polit­ ing danger which might sometimes threat­ mustered In the five regiments was potent reason, however. If possible, the condition of employes. ical parties of this coutry haa already 8 677 and the total number of deaths Central Board of Control. Much as we might dsfHore this con­ made this latter suggestion In a national en our unparalleled and splendid Isolation. I submit for your * consideration the against the local taxation of raliroads When we shall have driven the last of about 250. than the one above stated—that of de­ centration of the ownership of the facili­ platform, only to have It denounced by I would recommend that the Stats recommendation that there be created a ties for transportation and communica­ the promoters cf the people’s degradat on them from American soil, then. Indeed, central board of control of all the tn- voting the taxes derived from these cor­ shall we be Independent as no other peo- make an appropriation for the benefit of porations to the primary school fund— tion, It might be tolerated as the Inevit­ as anarchy and revolution. There may be the soldiers of the late war sufficient to gMtutlons of the S'ate, and that the sys ­ able price the public must pay for the those who will so denounce ne for Inti­ 1e ever were on earth, and safe from all tem of separate boards now In vogue be It is deemed necessary to assess and angers of foreign war or costly compli­ bring each man's pay up to one dollar levy the taxes against this class of prop best results In these great and necessary mating that there is no divinity-hedging 8 per day while In active service. abolished as a step In the direction of services which lndlvldua. enterprise and about Judges which makes them superior cations. , economy. erty by means of a state board, created Michigan Is a proud member of the sis­ for that and other purposes, and to have energy could never afford. Short of gov­ to their masters, the sovereign people. I Michigan (Mate Naval Brigade. Insurance. ernment ownership and control of tnese am content to suffer this penalty. If I terhood of states) Her patriotic citizens I wish publicly to congratula.e the More than one billion dollars of Insur­ the taxes when levied paid directly Into have ev denced at all times a tender so’.lo- the state treasury. This method la sim­ quasl-publlc functions, no means are yet must, but no penalty shall restrain me Itude for the welfare of the union, wheth­ state on tne character ana efficiency of ance Is carried upon the lives and prop­ ple and comparatively Inexpensive and apparent adequate to prevent tbe.r rapid frem raising my vo ce on all proper occa­ Its naval militia, as shown by their gal­ erty of Michigan citizens. Twelve mil­ concentration in a few hands and at one sions even against courts which foster er In war or peace. I commend this sub ­ lant conduct during the entire period of lions of dollars are paid annually in cannot be complained of for any good ject therefore, to your earnest considera­ reason. It is the method of the Atkinson great center of wealth. what I bclclve to be a danger to the free­ tion and the consideration of the people tbe hostilities. Before the first call for premiums. So universal has become In­ bill, so-called, and In that form has re­ Our toleration might be all the more dom and welfare of the people. volunteers was made on the 23d of surance protect'on, that few persons are complacent, could we Indulge the hope Legislation must address Itself to this of the state, and hope that after mature April, the Governor received a telegram now without It In some form. The work ceived an endorsement of the people of deliberation and careful consideration, this state. This board should be com­ that the process would stop at the busi ­ supreme duty of the hour, and find a way the voice of Michigan may be heard upon from the Navy department asking For a of the Insurance Department of the state posed of experio, well equipped by ex­ ness of transportation and intercommuni­ through or over technicalities. If It docs complement of 166 men and nine officers during the last two years Is so well cation. But It has Invaded other tle.ds not. there will some day. In the not dis­ the subject by means of a memorial u> for service on board the United States perience ana ability to plawe a proper congress. Jcnowrt as to require no comment here. value upon the property within Its Jur­ with the power of a glacier and the tant Future, come a frightful awakening, ship "Tosemlte.’' Additional men were The annual saving to the people of the isdiction. It Is neither necessary nor rapidity of a torrent. One by one each when courts and legislatures will be swept Government Ownership of Rail ­ called for and according to official re­ state of more than three hundred thou­ of the great stapies - which form tne aside by a power which has little respect roads. ports 11 officers and 270 men of the naval sand dollars In the premiums alone Is a advisable to provide cumbersome or technical machinery for the accomplish­ necessaries of life Is falling each Into for either. A great people will not wlll- I would hesitate before making any rec­ militia of Michigan were regularly en­ record to be proud of. ment of the desired end. the hands of Its special syndicate, or Inelr and consciously be guilty of slow ommendations on the subject of govern­ listed In the navy. It was the “Yosem- The argument has been presented In trust, or trade combine, which are but suicide. Laws must be enacted that will Ite," manned by Michigan men, which, Building and Lo*n Associations. ether names for a group of men domin­ mental ownership of railroads, were I not conveyed the transport “Panther" to certain quarters that an Inequality ex­ restrain monopoly, and theee laws must thoroughly convinced that there Is no There are about eighty building and ists In the assessment and taxation ated by one man of superior force and be enforced, or the people, becoming con- .Guantanamo, and covered the first suc­ Vo\n associations doing business In this genius. Into whose single hand is con­ other equitable and permanent solution of cessful landing of American troops on of other properties than those above v'nced that all law la made for their tho great questions arising out of rail­ •tite and all but two or three of them mentioned. Granting this to be true, centrated more power than any king pos­ degradation, will some day trample all Cuban soil. Single-handed, the "Yossm- are organized under the laws of Mlchl- sesses. and In comparison to whom the way transportation. Thla proposition Is ite" maintained off flan Juan for several It does not affect the merits of the law Into the dust. Just in principle, and the experience of all tan While these associations have been plan proposed. It simply casts upon robber barons of feudal ages were pig­ It Is evident that state legislatures have weeks one of the closest and most sf-’ _nsti jmental In doing much good and mies In their capacity for extortion and countries where the railroads are operated fectlve blockades of the entire war.1, fr you another duty —that of readjust­ but little power to reach the sources of by the state proves that It la practical. have furnished to many persons of mod­ ing the assessment laws of the state, oppression. this disease. If one state were to deal Every father who had a son aboard the erate means the facilities with which to In order that all property within the The anti-trust laws of the federal gov­ heroically with the subject, Us industries Fish Proposal Ion. "Tosemlte" during the fierce engage­ provide themselves homes, yet so exten­ ernment have fallen powerless before might be driven to other states which ment of Sen Juan can point to that song state shall be placed upon the assess­ This Is one of the subjects to which I sive have become their operations that ment roll at its true value. There Is no them. Constitutional restrictions have neglected this work; but It would seem record with pride. At Governor of Mich-: the state should proceed at once to ex­ objection to having the board created for been Interpreted by the courts so as that the power of a state might require desire to call special attention and which Igan I congratulate the state on thf' ercise over them the closest supervision. the purpose of assessing railway prop­ practically to make those laws a dead all Its citizens to be treated alike and com­ I Invite every member of the legislature showing made by Its naval militia, aaftt letter. Indeed, no period of our history ped foreign corporations to furnish neces­ to Investigate for himself. The fishing In­ I congratulate the men upon the records Railroads. erty, clothed with power by a separate terests of Michigan are of proportions bill, to have direct supervision of the as­ bas witnessed so rapid and noxious a sities at the same price to all Its Inhab ­ they made. Michigan may Justly be proud of her rowth of trusts and combines as the itants, except as to difference in cost of little realized by the people as a whole, Women Members of Advisory Board. transportation facilities, ©unrounded as sessment and levy of the tax upon all ew years since the Congress undertook but even limited research will show how I earnestly recommend that such legts-, 1t Is by the greet lakes, the tonnage of property In the state. f transportation and In amount purchased. The right to tax Is one of the sovereign to restrain them. Within that period This would prohibit thetne Standardstanaara Oilmi andana Important they have become. Legislation latlon be enacted as may be necessary, which Increases with business Its facili­ we have seen new trusts organised, or biscuit trusts from putting up the price Is needed In several directions At pres­ requiring the appointment of at least oni‘ ties In this respect, through compet'tlon. powers of the state. The right to regu­ woman on the advisory board and of at' late tolls Is a police power and Incident to old ones reorganised so as to evade the In one locality to crush out competition ent there exist abuses which works great have a tendency to keep down railroad law, each of which has partially or en­ In another, as Is now -•on- • Injury to large numbers of people direct­ least one woman physician upon the staff rates to a point as low as those of any Its existence. The state Is charged with tirely succeeded to the control of the ly Interested, and which are Indirectly an of each state Institution charitable or other state. Michigan has 7.900 miles of the ’uty of exercising Its sovereignty one dares compete with these combines. Jus under the constltut'on. The exer­ manufacture end sale of the staples tn If the remedy must be applied at Wash­ injury to every citizen of the state. corrective having women or girls as In- , railroads, the extent having been In­ their line. Hundreds of articles are gov­ ington and must cover states alike, this The fishing Interests may be divided In­ mates. creased during the pest year bv the addl- cise of police power depends upon Its dis­ cretion. It must exercise the one to main­ erned In their price by secret agreements does not relievo us of all responsibility In fo two classes the commercial fishing of HAZHSN 8. PINGREE. m of *00 miles. Railroad earning*, have which do not make their appearance In the matter. the Great Lakes and the less extensive Governor. Screased over those of last year fully 15 tain Its existence; It must use the other in tbe form of legally organised com- CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1?, 1899,

l H4 ****** *** ****** *** ********** *** *** *** ****** *** J there were not less than fifteen sail Deafness Cannot be Cured loosl applications as they cannot reach ths THEY WANT TO TELL In sight of the vessel which picked me ftseaaed portion of the ear. There is only ons up. way to cure deafness, and that la by constitu­ -—W tional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an In­ flamed condition of the muoous lining of the These Grateful Women Who Hat* CHAPTER IV. Eustachian Tube When this tube gets Inflamed Been Helped by Mrs. Plnkham. DICK RODNEY; you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear­ Th* Eugenie. ing, and when It is entirely closed. Deafness Is After being conveyed on board, hot the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal Women who have suffered severely or. The Adventures of brandy punch was readily administered oondltlon, hearing wlU be destroyed forever; to me; all my wet clothes were taken nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, and been relieved of their ills by Mr*. which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of Pinkham ’s advice and medicine are off, and I was put Into a snug berth, the muoous surfaces. .We know the cozy warmth of which, together Ws wlU give One Hundred Dollars for any constantly urging publication of thetr ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that oannot statements for the benefit of other wd- of nothing better to tear the with the effect of th^ steaming punch-— be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir­ lining of your throat and “a stiff nor’wester,” as I heard It called culars; tree. men. Here are two snch letters: lungs. It is better than wet F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, a Mrs. Lizzie Beverly , 258 Merrimaa I______| | —and the toll and misery, mental and Sold by Druggists, 76a feet to cause bronchitis and Hall's"'•Family St., Lowell, Mass., writes: pneumonia. Only keep it t«« stc act tit etc etc etc ttt ttt ttt tttt act ttt ttt bodily, I had undergone, all conduced ' PUls are the best. to give me a long and almost dream­ “ It affords me great plcasuro to tell up long enough and you CHAPTER II.—(Continued.) schooner and fallen overboard to lee­ It Is said that married men make better clerks suffering women of the benefit less slumber. Thus the noon of the all I have will succeed in reducing your ward. So I soaked the moldy biscuit than single ones. They are not in such a hurry weight, losing your appetite, Now I began to be assailed by that next day was far advanced before I to get home of an evening. received from taking Lydia Eh Pink* bringing on a slow fever and Illne8s, which terror and anxiety had in the brandy, ate it, and went on deck, awoke to the realities of life and a ham’s Vegetable Compound. I can hard* in time to see the sun set at the watery making everything exactly hitherto but partially repressed—a vio­ consideration of the awkward predica­ No Friction. ly find words toexpress my gratitude for horizon, from whence it cast a long what she has done for me. My tronbl* right for the germs of con* lent seasickness in all ita horror. ment In which I was placed. “The relations between the passen­ sumption. and tremulous line of yellow splendor Afraid of being washed from the deck, I had been picked up by the Eugenie, ger departments of the Pennsylvania was ulceration of the womb. I was un­ Stop coughing and you along the dancing waves, to where the and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads,” over which the waves were breaking a new brig of 260 tons register, “cop­ der the doctor's care. Upon examina­ will get well. schooner floated in her loneliness. said D. B. Martin, manager passenger tion he found fifteen very large ulcer*, ’ now, once more I crept In wretchedness pered to the bends, and standing A-l traffic of the B. and O., “are not strain­ but he failed to do me good. I took sev­ below. Night followed, and one by one the at Lloyds, ” as I was Informed by Sam­ ed nor Is there a rate war in progress, eral bottlesof Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vege* Before descending, I cast a despair­ stars appeared in the mighty blue dome uel Weston, her master. He added as has been Btated in several recent table Compound, also used the Sanative ing glance at the loosening sail which overhead; there was no moon as yet, that she had a crew of twelve hands, newspaper paragraphs. While, of Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham ’A still caught the wind; it was a source and I thought of hoisting a light at the men and boys, exclusive of Marc His- course, we do not like the new feature of Increasing danger which I dared not mainmast head, but where were a lan­ lop, the mate, and Tattooed Tom, his introduced by the Pennsylvania rail­ medicine saved my life, and I would recommend it to all suffering women. , attempt to remedy, even had I strength tern and matches to be found? assistant, and that the brig had the road, considering the aggressive action Mrs. Amos Trouble ay , Ellenburgh to have done so, for the wet deck was I thought also of lifting the fore­ reputation of being one of the best of our own line and all other circum­ stances in connection with the passen­ Ctr., N. Y.. writes: now sloping like the roof of a house, hatch to explore the forepart of the Bailing out of London. ger situation at this time, we are not ** I took cold at the time my baby and I would assuredly have fallen into schooner, but I felt too feeble and sick The morning was fine and warm; the In a position to find much fault’* was born, causing me to have millc the sea to leeward. After several feeble at heart, and now with the coming of skylight was open, and a pleasant cur­ efTorts, I succeeded In partially closing the shadow of night a ghost story of legs, and was sick in bed for eight rent of air passed through the clean, Only stupid persons complain of hard work. weeks. Doctors did me no good. I the companion hatch, for warmth and the Dutch skipper recurred to me. wainscoted cabin. A spotless white The smart ones always manage to get others to security, and, descending, threw myself do their share. surely thought I would die. I was al­ Thirst was now becoming an agony, cloth was on the table, across which on the cabin floor, sick and despairing. so troubled with falling of the womb. and I Inhaled the dewy atmosphere in there were lashed certain bars of wood, The lurching of the vessel, the close­ FITS Permanently Cured. No flta or nervotuneaa after I could not eat, had faint spells a* cures coughs of every kind. vain, for its property was saline, and technically termed a fiddle, to keep first day'* use of Dr Kiine'a Great Nerva Restorer. An ordinary cough disap­ ness of the atmosphere, and general seemed to make my sufferings greater; Send for FREE |si.OO trial bottle and treaUaa. often as ten times a day. One day r pears in a single night. The the plates and glasses from falling to Da. B. H. guns. Ltd.. »31 Arch SU. Philadelphia. Pa- lady came to see me and told me of th* odor of the cabin, overpowered me at hut happily it induced a drowsiness. I leeward; and on looking from my cur­ racking coughs of bronchitis last; I became fearfully ill, and from benefit she had derived from taking crept below, and seeking the bed in the tained berth (for I was not permitted A woman always agrees with a man whose are soon completely mas­ being so, lapsed into unconsciousness, opinions are the same as her own. Lydia E. Pinkham ’s medicine, and ad*) tered. And, if not too far captain’s berth, drew the clothes over to rise) I saw the captain and mate at after enduring all the wretchedness in­ vised me to try it. I did so, and had along, the coughs of con­ me and strove to sleep—and so weary lunch over brandy and water, biscuits duced by that ailment of the ocean. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY taken only half a bottle before I was sumption are completely was I that sleep came. and cheese; and busy the while with For the top of my head seemed about Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All able to sit in a chair. After taking cured. How long I slept I do not know, but charts and compasses, as they were druggists refund the money If It falls to oure. to fly off, its sides to be crushed in; 26c. The genuine has L. B Q. on each tablet, three bottles I could do my own work. Ask your druggist for one I was suddenly roused by a violent comparing their nautical notes and ob ­ there was a singing In my ears, an i ______I am now in perfect health.** of lurch of the schooner. servations. ache in my eyeballs; and then came There Is no uncertainty about the age of the On reaching the deck, I found that The brig seemed to be running stead­ man who thinks he knows it all. Dr. Ayer’s that awful sinking of the pulses, of the a gale had again come on, and that the ily through the water upon the star­ body, of the soul itself which thou­ sea was whitened with foam, amid Carter's Ext. Smart Weed Cherry Pectoral sands have endured in cases of aggra­ board tack, and I could hear the gurgle Will cure a cold la one night; will eare sore DO YOU which the Beablrds were blown wildly of the sea under her counter, as It bub ­ throat In a few hours. Acts quick. Sure cure vated sea-sickness, but none has been for Catarrh In every 25c bottle. . Plaster. hither and thither; that the moon was bled away in the wake astern—in fact, able to depict. now on the wane, and shed a cold, the sound seemed to be Just a foot In short, after a paroxysm of illness weird light between the black masses In time of peace & soldier is abont as useful COUCH It will aid the action of the above my ear, realizing the terrible as a sealskin cape In August. and tears, I became totally unconscious of flying scud, upon the tumbling bil ­ Cherry Pectoral. idea that there was “only a plank be ­ DONT DELAY of the peril and horror of my situation, lows and the empty schooner, which Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup If you bar* any complaint what­ tween me and eternity. ” TAKE; ever and d.ilra th. belt medical and found a refuge in sleep. yet floated buoyantly enough. But she For children teething,soften* the guma,reduce* Inflam ­ advice you can possibly obtain, Capt. Samuel Weston was a well- mation, allay* pain, oure* wind oollc. ti centaa bottle. •write o» freely. You will receive a now careened fearfully to port. I fore­ made man of middle hlght, and some­ REMPS prompt reply that may be of great saw that unless the masts were cut value to you. Addre.e, CHAPTER III. where about forty years of age. He There are times when economy is more fool­ away a capsize was inevitable, for the ish than extravagance. DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Hail. Useless Regrets. was rather grave than Jovial in man­ wild wind howled over the waste of I must have lain long thus. On re­ ner, but pleasant, kind and gentleman­ The Medicated Croup Necklace Is the only seething water, and the schooner covering, I rose more stiff and more ly. There was nothing about him that Croup safeguard known or eold. Price by mall groaned and trembled as wave after 15c. Medicated Croup Necklace Co., Oakmont, Pa BALSAM benumbed than ever, and with feeble particularly indicated the seaman, and ' Frugality is a fair fortune; and hab ­ wave thundered on her empty and re­ steps ascended the companion ladder, he never used startling adjectives, or, It's sometimes difficult to distinguish a bar ­ its of industry a good estate. ber from a butcher. TH5^<#V: and then a cry of despair escaped me. sounding hull. according to the proverbial idea, inter­ Notwithstanding my weakness, I en­ The sky was clear and sunny, but larded his conversation with obscure PACIFIC COAST LIMITED. deavored to tighten the brailing of the Plso’s Cure for Consumption is the best of all whether with the light of a rising or a nautical phraseology. cough cures.—George W. Lotz, Fabucher, La., fore and aft foresail; but how vain setting sun, I could not at first deter­ He wore a short pea-coat with brass August 36; 1805. It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sere Throat, Croup. In­ Lands you in California in three days was the attempt! The moment I re­ fluenza, Whooping Cough, BronchltisandAsthma. mine, morning and evening on the buttons, and a straw hat. A handsome from Chicago and St. Louis without moved the rope from the belaying pin lie who runs may read—of his defeat the day A certain cure lor Consumption in first stage*, ocean being so much alike to an un- gold ring secured his necktie, and the after the eleotion. and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. encountering high altitudes or snow it was torn from my hand; the whole You will see the excellent effect after taking the blockades. This palatial train carries practlced eye. Not a vestige of land fag-end of a cheroot was between his sail fell heavily loose, and swelled out first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large dining car and reduces disturbance of was visible! teeth. He was exactly portrayed thUB "There are no cross babies or sick babies In bottles 25 cents and 50 conts. upon the wind. It flapped with a families that use Brown’s Teething Cordial.’’ dally habits to a minimum. Write for Sea and sky were around me; not a In his colored calotype, which was sound like thunder in the blast, and When Answering Advertisements Kindly lowest rates and illustrated pamphlet, sail was in sight, and nothing living framed and screwed into the bulkhead. The poet’s new suit Is often but an "Owed to In a moment the deck seemed to pass giving complete particulars, to James was near, save a few petrels tripping Close by it was another of a lady with a Taylor. Mention This Faner. Charlton, General Passenger Agent, from under my feet, and I was strug­ over the water, alongside of the fatal a little boy, standing at the base of a Chicago & Alton Railroad, Chicago, Ill. gling alone In the midnight sea. schooner. column, which of course had a'crimson To the horror of being drowned was Two Old Crutches will often tell a tale Had I slept all night, and was this curtain festooned behind It; and they, The wife governs best who doesn’t now added that of being devoured by let her husband know she’s trying. the dawn of a new day? Had I slept I had no doubt, were his wife and child. the fishes. all day, and was this the approach of So Capt. Weston—or, as he preferred suffering from LUMBAGO, A cry to heaven escaped me, as I • Don’t let the little ones suffer from another night? I devoutly hoped not, to call himself, Sam Weston—was more rose panting and almost breathless and and how they were thrown away by use of eczema, or other torturing skin dis­ as I most dreaded night upon the domestic in his tastes than those who struck out to prolong existence. The eases. No need of it. Doan’s Ointment ocean; but the gradual sinking of the usually live by salt water are sup­ enres. Can’t harm the most delicate sea repelled and buoyed me up, for It St. Jacobs Oil. sun, and the Increasing redness of the posed to be. skin. At any drug store, 50 cents. is by no means so easy to sink as many sky, ere long Informed me that the Neither was there anything partic­ persons Imagine. time was evening. I now knew the ularly nautical in the appearance of the , In trying to w!n a girl’s heart a The schooner was lying now com­ DON’T BORROW TROUBLE.” BUY young man often loses his head. west, and turned my haggard eyes to mate, who was a smart and athletic pletely on her beam ends to port; her the south, for there the land and my young fellow, about flve-and-twenty masts and half her deck were In the ! “It was almost a miracle. Burdock home lay; but still the envious wind, years of age, with somewhat of a Glas­ water. It had filled the body of the Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible though lighter now, seemed to blow gow accent, keen gray eyes and sandy- loosened sail, and served to keep her breaking out all over the body. I am from that quarter. colored hair; and he it was (though I SAPOLIO very grateful.” Miss Julia Filbridge, Oh! how deeply and earnestly, by steady, but still the waves washed West Cornwell, Conn. wildly over the hull. I knew she must was not aware of it then, or for long ’T1S CHEAPER IN THE END. thoughts unuttered, I prayed in my after) who boldly plunged into the heart that it would change and blow soon fill and go d6 wn; yet so strong Is I Spain’s transports of joy probably the Instinct of self-preservation that I stormy sea, and swam to the founder­ went down with her warships. toward the shore—any shore—or any BIG FOUR ROUTE” soon reached the foremast, climbed ing schooner, and finding that I could part of the coast of England, and neither understand nor obey instruc­ THE GREAT ! “Cure the cough and save the life." bring me so near that I might have a into the now horizontal rigging, and THROUGH OAR LINE TO seated myself on the row of dead eyes, tions, had made a line fast to my waist, Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup cures chance of escape of life and preserva­ and thus conveyed me safely into the CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK, * BOSTON cough and colds, down to the very through which the shrouds are rove, tion, by swimming—by putting to the boat; so to this young Scotchman 1 verge of consumption. test that skill and those powers of ac­ clutching them with wild tenacity, THE BE8T ROUTE BETWEEN ■ while drenched, cold, and despairing. owed my life and a debt of gratitude. i A man is always discovering things tivity I had acquired at Eton, in the (To be continued.) Cincinnati and Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo and Detroit that others knew long ago. waters of the Thames. The spray flew over me, thick as The sea was comparatively smooth, rain, but bitter, heavy and blinding. ELEGANT DINING CARS j Monarch over pain. Burns, cuts, but still the empty schooner rolled and How long I could have survived I The Wrong Log. sprains, stings. Dr. Thomas Eclectrio lurched fearfully; the more so that the know not; but I felt as one In a dread­ Oil. At any drug store. i A well-known Archbishop of Dublin fore and aft foresail was hanging so ful dream and acted with the decision was, toward the end of his life, af­ • The man who fails to start doesn’t loosely in the brails. and firmness with which we often seem flicted by his absence of mind, that led have to stop and think. A hundred years seemed to have to acquaint ourselves amid the most often to startling developments. Ths fantastic situations created by the elapsed since I had heard the dear most devout of men, the best of hus­ fancy in sleep. voices and seen the loved faces of those bands, he figured in one anecdote that I had left at home—of my father, my Suddenly, amid the stupor that was might have got a less well-known mother, of Dot and of Sybil; while the coming over me, I heard a voice and pietist into trouble. It was at a din­ events of my early schoolboy days saw a large brig looming between me seemed to have occurred but yesterday. and the pale, waning moon. She was ner given by the Lord Lieutenant of All time was chaos and confusion! close by, with her courses, topsails, Jib Ireland. In the midst of the dinner In my sorrow and despair I never and fore-and-aft mainsail set, but with the company was startled by seeing thought, unless with anger, of Jan van her foreyard laid to the wind as she the Archbishop rise from his seat, Zeervogel, the poor Dutch skipper, lay to. Then I heard the rattle of the looking pale and agitated, and crying: "It has come, it has come!” "What whose Interests were so much Involved blocks and tackle, as a boat descended WANTED-Case of bad health that B-I-P-AJVS NEW DISCOVERY; am from the stern davits with a splash has come, your Grace?” eagerly cried will not benefit. Send 5 cents to Rlpana Chemical quick relief and curea worth with the loss or safety of his little Co., New York,for 10 samples and ljOOO testimonials. cases.DROPSY Sen J fot book of Itestimonial* and 10 datV schooner, with which the flood tide had into the sea. half a dozen voices from different parts treatment JTtm. Da u.H.euuur saoas. ituau. km made so free. I thought only of my “Cheerily, now, my lads, give way! ” of the table. “What I have been ex­ Get your Pensloa own danger, and my mother’s sorrow cried the voice I had heard before; pecting for some years —a stroke of PENSIONS^HDOUBLE QUICK WHEAT for the mystery that would overhang “pull to windward round this craft, and paralysis,” solemnly answered the Write CAPT. O’PARRELL, Pension Agent, my fate. overhaul her. Archbishop. “I have been pinching 1428 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, D.G. Now hunger assailed me, creating a “There’s a man in the fore-rigging!” myself for the past two minutes, and WHEAT .|.C0 TPA To Introduce our Tea THE EXCELLENCE OF STRUP OF FIGS new terror lest I should perish by want cried another. find my leg entirely without sensa­ lieu I VU | U we m,„ QQQ fail l» size•!* mpackage on receipt of 4 two-cent sump is due not only to the originality and of food; and all I had read or heard of “Then stand by in the bow with the tion.” “Pardon me, my dear Archbish ­ Guaranteed•anteed to cure Constipation and Headache WHEAT wrecks, rafts and castaways crowded boat-hook. ” A Nerve Tonic. 25e. h package. Neurotlco Medicine simplicity of the combination, but also op,” said the hostess, looking up to Co., Hornellavllle. N. T. “Nothing but wheat; what you might! to the care and skill with which it is on my memory to aggravate the real I strove to speak, to shout; but my him with a quizzical smile, “pardon :all a sea of wheat.” Is what was said voice was gone. nDADfiV A Quarter Century of per- manufactured by scientific processes perllB which surrounded me. me for contradicting you, but It is me ■» •» V/ • O I manent Cares. Immediate oy a lecturer speaking of Western Can* 1 known to the C alifornia Fig 8ybup | Once more I sought the cabin, and “Spring into the sea,” cried a voice; Belief. 10 flay a’ p 11 DC trial treatment Ida. For particulars as to routes, that you have been pinching.” and book of tea- vUHt timonials Free. Co. only, and we wish to impress upon on finding an ax broke open what ap­ "do you hear me, you sir—you in the B. H ARTE CO., *AS Powers Fnrg I railway fares, etc., apply to Su­ all the importance of purchasing the peared to be a press or locker. There­ fore-rigging there? Jump in; we can­ Block. Koekeeter, N. Y. ■ Mtt ■ perintendent of Immigration, Depart* true and original remedy. As the in were several cups, bottles and drink ­ not sheer alongside a craft that pitches Lord and Minister. ment Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured ing glasses, placed In perforated about like a cork in such a sea as The Scottish Leader says that the M. V. Mclnnes, No. 1 Merrill Block.; | by the C alifornia Fig Syrup Oo. shelves; but nothing eatable save a sin­ this.” former Lord Elphinstone’s parish min­ Detroit, Mich.; James Grieve. Mt. iMSif Pleasant, Mich., or D. L. Caven, Bad ; only, a knowledge of that fact will gle hard and moldy biscuit, which the “Don’t fear, my lad,” cried others; ister was a very scatter-brained theo­ Meat smoked la a few boars with assist one in avoiding the worthless "we’ll pick you up.” MAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. Axe, Mich. rats abandoned on my approach, and logian, and in his sermons often knew Mad* from hickory wood. Cheaper, cleaner, imitations manufactured by other par­ nothing drinkable save the remains of But I was powerless, blinded by sweeter, end surer thao ths old way. Send for not the end from the beginning. One circular. E. KRACSKK A DUO., Mlltee, Pa. ties. The high standing of the C ali ­ the brandy in which the peaches had spray; and though unable to respond, Sunday his Lordship, in his customary TOURIST fornia Fig Syrup C o. with the medi­ been preserved—and I viewed the Jar clutched the rattlins with fatuous en­ DR. MARTEL’S TO cal profession, and the satisfaction sleeping, gave vent to an unmistak ­ with horror, as the primary cause of all ergy. Then strong hands were laid able snore. This was too much for FRENCH , which the genuine Syrup of Figs has my sufferings and dangers—I Bay the npon me, and I felt myself dragged into RELIEF ; given to millions of families, makes the boat. the minister, who stopped and cried: FEMALE remains, for It had fallen from the ta­ "Waken, my Lord Elphinstone,” A “ FOR j the name of the Company a guaranty ble and been broken to pieces; so noth­ “Shove off. shove off—give way! this PILLS i of the excellence of its remedy. It U grunt followed, and then his lordship CALIFORNIA ing remained of its contents, except craft will sink in a minute,” cried some Parti crnlara and testi­ 1 *ar in advance of all other laxativer answered: “I’m no steepin’, minister.” monial* In plain aealed about a gill in a fragment, and the one; “give way for the brig! ” and Just WOMEN letter ■ an an Faxm. VIA i as it acta on the kidneys, liver and peaches which lay in the lee or lower as they turned the head of the boat to­ "But ye are Bleepin’. I wager ye dln- FRENCH DRUG CO., 381A 383 Pearl SI., New York bowels without irritating or weaken ­ side of the cabin. ward their vessel, the Dutch schooner na ken what I said last,” exclaimed the ing them, and it does not gripe nor , appeared to right herself; there was a pastor. "Ou, ay, ” returned the peer. Who iaswertag Advemseoests Kindly nauseate. In order to get ita beneficial What would I not have given for a single drop of pure cold water, to alle­ crash as her deck burst up, and then a “Ye said, ‘Waken, my Lord Elphin- nestle* This Tapet. effects, please remember the name of stone.’ ” "Ay, ay, ” said the minister. the Company — viate that choking thirst which Is ever sob seemed to mingle with the air You will practice good economy In the sequel to sickness, excitement and that was expelled from her hold as she "But I wager ye dinna ken what I writing CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. sorrow! But there was not a drop on filled and went down like a stone. said last afore that” "Tuts,” replied O. 8. CRANE, O. P. A T. A., St. Louie, ______SAN FRAN OkSOO, Cal. board, as the scuttle-butt had broken Though I had been so long unseen, the nobleman, promptly. “I’ll wager for particulars. ______UUBTOU, Uj. >IV YORK* JLC, ^ I afterward learned that at this time ye dinna ken yerself. ” *>N S UM PI ION Its lashings In one of the lurches of the I w. n .u __ D etroit —no . a—iao8 :

THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY. JANUARY 12, 1899

OVID. IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

* From Our Correspondent. Lansing reports one thousand cases of grip, 4 of a mild character. SUBSCRIBE FOR ’PHONE Miss Wile has returned to Detroit. m :’iS 4 * Mrs. Nellie Clough, of Ht. Louis, hud her fer: La grippe lias many victims In our midst. collarbone broken in a runaway accident. A 4 4 Grandma Gilbert is very sick with catarrh­ •ompanloo, Miss Curtis, wasscvorcly bruised. m ..PARR BROS.. I ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY 4 al puoumonla. The latest railroad project discussed in 4 Mrs. H. Bradley, after an extended visit, is Ionia is ail electric line from there to Crystal m STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. Subscribers in St. Johns. 4 again In our midst. Lake via Palo, Huhhardston and Carson City. 4 NATIONAL Mr. and Mrs.B. It- Beardslee have returned Elson Teeter, a Lansing pioneer. 82 years i>;• 4 Connected with 16,000 Subscribers 4 from Toledo where they spent the holidays. of age, was burled in that plaee Friday of Our Opening Day, Saturday, Jan. 7th, was a grand success, our store m in the State by LONG DIS­ Levi Austin has moved Ids family to Ban­ last week. He had lived lu I^inslng since 8 * m A 4 4 nister. Two bright little boys for the schools 1847. m TELEPHONE TANCE LINES. over there. Scarlet fever lias broken out in the Jail at of Satisfied Customers. '■’Mi 4 4 R. N. Thompson, formerly of this place, but Mason, Ingham county, the result of con­ m Call up Central at FILDEW A now of Kalkaska, wan Instriimentalln saving tact with the prisoners who escaped from New Goods, Best Goods, Lowest Prices and Honest M 4 4 the lives of six persons at the burning of a Ionia prison. niLLHAN’S and Canvasser will hotel In Pittsburg laAt Sunday morning. The question of testing for uoal Is being Treatment Win the Day. * COMPANY• ••• 4 MB.V mW: agitated at Ithaca. Many citizens of the wall and take your Subscription. Mrs. Alloc Ketan accompanied her son. •Alii Every Article Sold on its Merits, and Price and Quality Guaranteed. (INDEPENDENT.) 4 Gerard to Detroit Saturday, where he will place believe the region abounds in the mi * resume his studies in a Dutdnes* eollege, much-desired article. m If Jou are a Lover of (rood TEAS and COFFEES we invite you to N ote —The Low Rates of Independent Companies have popularized •-* 4 Mrs. Hetan expects to he gone for some time. Orrln E. Packard, Eaton county's largest Inspect Our Line. 4 the Telephone business, and put ’phones within reach of all. The illustrated sermon at the Congrega­ grain dealer, has filled his second order for * 4 tional church last Sunday evening, was en­ 5,000 bushels of wheat to be ground Into flour m A Full and Varied Assortment of BULK and BOTTLE PICKLES f *********** joyed by a good audience. The reports of and shipped to Ireland. of All Kinds, mixed, sweet and sour. OYSTERS in Bulk or in & the secretary and treasurer show this Sun­ At a meeting held in Alma Thursday of last h Can. Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Raisins, and Dried day school to be in s prosperous condition. week in the Interest of a sugar beet factory m six hundred poople were present and 1,000 Fruits of All Kinds. ELSIE. From the Regisler-Unlon. acres of land pledged for beet raising Edward Nesbitt is suffering from grippe. Work is in progress on a new twenty tlious- Our Special $1.00 Order for Saturday, Jan. 14, Only: Che Independent ind dollar hotel building at Ithaca. The From Our Correspondent. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. ('has. W. Austin, of building will be of brick,and lonlasundMonc as lb. Sack MAPLE RAPIDS FLOUR, 35c John Snclllng returned to Ann Arbor this Romeo, formerly of Ovid, twin girls, Satur­ day, Dec. 31. trimmings, size 100x06, and three stories high. Package Yeast, OBORGE 8. CORBIT. • Proprietor week. Three more convicts escaped front Ionia Hawkins lints, will operate Cooley ’s eleva­ Married, at the home of the bride ’s motiier. prison. Two girls discovered them lu a barn Gal. Molasses, - tor the coming two years. Mrs. J. Gifford, her daughter Gertrude to -THE- Wm. Edgar Edwards, of Arkansas. Rev. G. in an ad|olnlng township, aided In tlielr Rev. X. L. Brass, who lias been quite sick capture and received $15 cacti of the reward. 5 lbs. GRANULATED SUGAR, the past week, is slowly recovering. P. Mitchell officiated. Miss Bertha Potter, who lias been confined Judging from the number of voters who 1.4 lb. Pepper, Miss Bertha Brass was called to Howell last to her home for the past six weeks, owing to signed the petitions for calling an election week by Mrs. John Kalltaon, of that city. to repeal the local option law. tiie vote would I 1 Bar Acme Soap, Clinton Go. Savings Bank sickness, is regaining health and expects he unanimous In this locality at least.—Grand Miss Bertha Travis lias returned to Hllls- soon to be out among her friends. Ledge Republican. tST. JOHNS. MICH. dulc, where she will attend school t lie coming According to W. H. Faxon, our local term. weather observer, the total rainfall during The new Pilgrim church, at Lansing, erect­ Your Patronage is Cordially Solicited. Pays 3 Per Cent. Interest on Deposits. Dr. A. B. Way, who lias been on the sick l8D8was29.01 inches; fait of snow. 54 inches. ed at a cost of $12,000, aud never occupied, list for some time, was seen on the street one There were 164 clear days, and 73 days In was burned Monday, tiie result of a defective day last week. flue. Insurance. $7,o00. The cnurcli will which the weather was purtially cloudy. probably ht* rebuilt. Loan* Money on Approved Bond* and Married, at 7:45 o’clock p. m., Thursday, at Our depot and freight house have received the home of the bride ’s parents, Mr. and Rlvio Chase, of Ionia, lias secured a verdict PARR BROS. Real Estate Security. a new coat of paint. Mrs. Renter, of Freeport, Midi., tlielr daugh­ of $7.(2)o again si tin- Bell Telephone Company Stephenson Block, St. Johns. Phone 79. Will Letts lias sold Ills livery stable to Ma­ ter Florentine to William Clarence Smith, of for Injuries received by the breaking of a OFFICERS: loney Bros., of Ithaca. Hhcpardsvllle. Rev. O. P. Mitchell officiated. cross bar, while employed as a lineman, crippling him for life. A. J. Baldwim , Pre*. P. E. Wai -wobth , Tre*. The ice harvest has begun and a very good A euriouH incident occurred recently In quality lias been housed. Principal J. M Chapman, of t he Muir union 3. Pennell. Vc-Pre*. R. C. D kxtee Amt.Tre* connection witli the death of John Rich­ schools. Is prominently mentioned as the Principal E. G. Van DcVentcr and bride mond, of Fairfield, Shiawassee county, a candidate for (he County Commissioner of THE LOCAL MARKETS. are now settled in their pretty home on Oak young man 21 years or age, who was killed by Schools of the Sliver party of Ionia county, street. a falling ilmh. Just after the accident, a carrier dove alighted on the house and was at the election next spring. $y$t. Johns elevators open al 7 a. in. and Elsie students who were home for the holi­ seen by a neighbor. When the door was During the year 1808 the secretary of state close at 6 p m. days have returned to tlioir studies at the collected 936.4MI.50 in franchise fees from eor- IMMENSE ********** opened It flew in and pen*lied on Mrs. Rich­ St. .Inn ns . Mich.. January 12,1«X> several universities they are attending. mond's shoulder. It was tenderly placed In IKiratlons organized in tills state. During The following are the pric« s paid In cash Larry Fanelly, with thirty Italians, lias another room. About ten minutes alter the the first week in .lituuary of tills year tiie for produce in this market: conic to Elsie to spend the winter. They will young niun breathed Ills lust, the pigeon amount of such fees collected was $38,482.50. Wheat, white. No. 1...... f Mi live In six ears which the railroad company died. No one knew whence the biro came The old pioneer, Edward I^ike, died of Three Days ’ Sale Wheat, red, No. 2...... 06 has put upon a new side traek for them. as It bore nothing to identity It. heart disease last Friday nikiii. Mr. Lake Oats...... 28 M. 8. Doyle, representative In the lower was 75 years and 6 months old, and came to Clover Seed...... 0 00 fl 4 00 lisusc of Michigan's congress, went to Lan­ EAGLE. Gratiot county when hut one house was Albike ...... 0 00 a 4 oo AT THE 4 00 @5 00 sing Monday to take up nlsofficlul duties and standing on the site of Ithaca, and wild Hay. new...... assist in the re-election of Hon. J. C. Bur­ From Our Correspondent. animals were as plenty about the site of our Beans...... a »5 rows to the U. 8. senate. city as tame ones now are.—St. Louis Repub­ Barley ...... 00 so institution is the backbone of the village, for the past two weeks. school house, nearly new, und plenty of a 4 oo distributing about 928,000 to the farmers of 1,000 Pairs of Strictly First-Class Shoes, bought at Pork, dressed...... -...... 3 75 John Patten who is here looking after his money to run It. but not a scholar within age Veal calf, live...... 5 00 a o oo this seet’on each year. Interests here aud about Eagle, drove to St. limit for school attendance, and Howard Veal calf, dressed...... 6 00 a 7 oo Johns last Friday to attend the land sale of Simpson, one and a half years old. Is the only Prices that enables us to sell them Fowls and chickens, live...... 44A 6 the late Jackson Pcrdew place, lie bid It In. child in the district. Fowls and chickens, dressed UMOV HOME. at 50c on the Dollar. Ducks, live...... Mrs. Sarah Niles, who lias been a resident Ducks, dressed...... From Our Correspondent. of this place for a long time has with her son The Lot Includes: Ladies’ Fine and Heavy Shoes. •teese, 11 vo-...... moved to Grand Ledge where she will loin A BAD MAN. Geese, dressed...... Moses Kuhns, of Shepherd, lias come to her daughter, who preceded her to that place Misses’ Fine and Heavy Shoes, spend the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Geo. some time ago. Turkeys, live...... » 8 Keller. Children’s Fine and Heavy Shoes. Turkeys, dressed...... 10 We understand Jed Briggs lias bought a Harry Bennett, a Barber by Profession, is Wood, dry hard...... 1 10 @ 1 50 The U. II. aid society will hold their annual part of the projierty owned by the late Mr. Men’s Fine and Heavy Shoes, Wood, soft...... -...... -...... 1 10 meeting at Mrs. Wrn. Finch’s home Thurs­ Satterlee. of Portland, arid will move there Wanted by the Authorities. day. Jan. 10. All please come. Dinner from with his parents, Mr. aud Mrs. Hiram Briggs Youths’ Fine and Heavy Shoes. 12:00 to 1:30. A man giving his name as Harry The meetings of the V. P. S. t\ E. are be ­ in the near future. Bennett, claiming to hail from Mil­ Bovs’ Fine and Heavy Shoes. CLINTON COUNTY NEWS. coming very interesting. Eddie Lyon will Rev. H. B. Bard, of Lansing, delivered an waukee. was employed in the barber conduct the services next Sunday evening; able discourse Tuesday evening at the Uni- A limited lot of Ladles’ Rubbers, strictly firsts, at 19c; 1 lot of Men’s Miss Clara Harvey, essayist; Loyd Stead, a versalist church. It was both entertaining shops of Wilson & Son, and C. E. Bar­ LEBANON. recitation. and instructive. He will occupy the pulpit ron, for a short time. He was a terror strictly firsts, at 45c, sold by all other dealers at 80c. Geo. Goritm, who has been ill for some time again Wednesday evening, January 18, 1800. to the women. A short time before Front Our Correspondent. witli spinal trouble, is very low. A few A double weddingoccured at the home of Remember this will be the chance of a life-time to get strictly high- weeks ago a blister was drawn on the back of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Tallman Wednesday even­ leaving here he contracted for and re­ Mrs. Jasper Slnkey has been poorly of late. Ids neck to ullcviate his suffering. A large ing, January 4th. when their daughter, Grace ceived a watch of Wm. E. Slade, grade shoes at these extremely low prices. Call and be con­ School reopened In the brick Monday, after boil came and developed Into a running son’ E. was united In marriage to Frank H. Byam, which he forgot to return or pay for vinced that what we advertise is true. two weeks ’ vacation. which could not be healed. A physician was and their nephew. Miles Stark, to Mary Miss Carrie Tlninta. of Pewanio, spent la*t culled and tile disease pronounced gangrene. Knapp. Only relatives of the contracting before leaving town. From here he week among Ix*l>anon friends. Mr. Gower, of Eureka, is employed as nurse. parties were present. The ceremony was went to Ovid, where he managed to Call Early and Avoid the Rush and Get First Choice. The little sons of. M. M. ami Levi Messer The patient is rapidly falling. rrformed by Rev. Kenyon, Mr and Mrs. get into the confidence of several peo­ One of the best and most complete surprises yam left on the 7 o'clock train for Chicago have been ill with the dreaded anti preva­ of the season occurred Monday evening at andB will be “at home "at this place after ple, among whom was Walter Hamell, lent grip. the home of Henry Howard. W illiam How­ January 20th. of whom he borrowed an overcoat and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Abbott returned Tues­ ard went to Ovid In the morning and, return- a pair of gloves, which lie forgot to day of iast week from a visit with Saranac lug at 8 lu the evening, found a company of relatives. Deafly fifty gathered to remind hlmlii differ­ WESTPHALIA. return, Hamell swore out a warrant Benjamin’s church chose officers at their ent ways of his nineteenth birthday, one of for his arrest, but the local officer MARINO BEET SUGAR. last meeting as follows: President. C. F. which was the presentation of a trunk, by From the Portland Review. after spending a couple of days around Abbott; Vice president, Mrs. Ada Howard; Thomas Stead, in behalf of his brothers and the state, failed to find him.’ He for­ The I 'roc*— Explained by a Visitor to the Secretary, Miss Elma Brooks , Treasurer, sisters. A lap supper was served. Such re­ Sibley Ha/.en Is on the sick list. Factory Near Bay City. Miss Velma Smith. marks as * ’I wouldn’t have missed it for any ­ John Wlebcr will build a new barn next got to pay his board at the new Retan thing.” “What a good time I’ve had,” etc., spring. house, antf the cook, a Mrs. Sailor, A visitor to the beet-sugar factory Mr. anti Mrs. Uriah Fritz, who were among were heard from several voices as they, in the early settlers of Lebanon, and are well the early hours, departed for their homes. The present enrollment of the school dis­ went to Corunna the same day he did. now in successful operation at Essex- rememltered by our older residents, recent­ trict is 35. and later she telephoned to Ovid to ■ S.«3d00D’ ’ ly celebrated their golden wedding at their John Fedewa will erect a new residence the ville, Bay countj’, thus describes the home In Midland county. C. J. Warner, of BATH. learn whether or not he was there. Maple Rapids, Is a brother of Mrs. Fritz. coming season. Bennett is still at liberty practising process of manufacture for tiie benefit Mrs. Fineis has purchased Joseph Kissan's ’Q ’030 A number of Bert KUlam’s friends oliser- From Our Correspondent. farm of 80 acres. his deceit and deviltry. of the readers of the Saginaw Evening ved his birthday Tuesday evening of last week by gathering unexpectedly at his home Kcmeniber the masquerade dance, at Pro­ Jos. Kemper, of Detroit, is visiting his par­ News: and making him a Jolly visit. Before leav­ gressive hall, Friday evening, Jan. 20. ents In this village. ing they made him the possessor of a line The 1. O. O. F. and Rebekali lodges held a Mrs. Kate Hunt, of Beal City, lias been WORTHLESS DOGS. “Should you pass this beautiful chair in which all hope he may long enjoy joint installation, followed by a banquet. spending the holidays with relatives in building, you would see one wagon hours of ease. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Goodhue, Friday Westphalia. evening, a 64 pound boy. Ed. Is the happiest Kill Nearly One Million Sheep in Thin Coun after another loaded down with sugar man in town. In consequence of the Intense cold weather SOUTH ORAL. The dance at Progressive hall. Saturday following the rain of last week, ice Is plenti­ try Kach Year. beets, being driven within the gates * P3AJ3S aq pui? l evening, was largely attended and an enjoy ­ ful and good, to the great pleasure of skaters f, From Our Correspondent. able time reported. as well as parties who wish to pack It this There are nearly a million sheep kill ­ to the scales. Here the loads are ♦ John Wandle lost a horse last week. We understand that Jay A Hall, the under­ winter. ed every year by dogs in this country, weighed and then emptied into a V 3UI03 •ui 1U31B jaS : The sick in this vicinity are gaining. takers of this village, expect to move to Willie Gross and Leon Boucher returned to and every sheep that was thus killed M Grand Ledge and open a new furniture and Si. .hilms after nearly a week ’s visit with Mr. was worth more than the the dog that large beet shed, the interior sides con­ Floyd Jason spent last week In Eagle. undertaking establishment. Gross’parents; “ Short” said he never had a oj auijj aqj si mom { Fred Jason and A. Jacob were in Eagle this Mrs. Philip Knapp, an old resident of this such a great time In his life aud regretted he killed it, for every sheep-killing dog verging toward a narrow trough, week. place, died Sunday morning. Funeral Tues­ could not stay longer. is worth several dollars less than noth­ through which a stream of water flows, § m day at 2 p. m., at the M. E. church. Remains •AV3U 3>JI| >|00| O* { Harry Haines, of Eagle, was in Riley last were interred at the Rose cemetery. Postmaster I am * her would greatly appreci­ ing. It is sunrising that so many conveying the beets from the large week. ate the boys would they keep quiet while worthless and dangerous curs should shed to a small room in the main ♦ • Mrs. A. NVilcs, of Mair, Is visiting at P. mall is being distributed in the evening. It | dn pax|| put? ‘pajuuAv ♦ Robson ’s. Lebanon Farmers' Club. is very unpleasant for him to distribute mall be permitted to live. They ought to building to be washed. The surprise party at Henry Crum's was Lebanon Farmers' Club held a large and with such an annoyance In the office. be speedily introduced to the busi ­ “After being thoroughly washed enjoyable meeting Thursday. Januai^ 5, at ness end of a Winchester rifle and well attended. Jay Sessions’ with an attendance of 87, many they are carried to the top of the ♦ J0|03 XUB P3|3IIJHU3 There will lie a social at H. X. Carpenter’s bclug Centra] Club members and other visit­ EUREKA. their depredations cut short by end­ building by means of a wheel elevator, Jan. 27. All are Invited. ors. Several new and most of the old mem­ ing the lives of all sheep-killing dogs. where they are weighed in an auto­ joj bers signed for the new year and our club From Our Correspondent. A flock of sheep well cared for will add ‘jauiuins ueap pu» » Probablv I hreequartersof the house­ starts 1880 with brighter prospects than ever. matic scale. From the automatic Music by Miss Alice Waters, opened the Joseph Walker Is suffering witli carbuncles more than a hundred per cent to their scale the beets run into the sheer, keepers of America use Royal Baking on Ids neck, value every year. The wethers should I lauitfua o} sapXuiq Powder. Why? program In the morning. Miss Velma Smith being cut up into slices. They are fed gave a recitation, a pathetic story of a dead Miss Ethel Brown Is the guest of Helen be turned off for mutton either as to the diffusion battery where water soldier lad. Miscellaneous business and din­ Rummel this week. lambs or as soon as the first fleece is Horrible agouy is caused by Piles, ner were then disposed of. If our large meet­ washes out the beet iulee, which is of ings continue, which of course they will, the A. Youngiove lias hcen quite sick, hut Is clipped. The ewes will more than a dark red color. The remainder, a Burns and Skin Diseases. These are club will have to double the number of lap- better at this writing. double their number by increase from immediately relieved and quickly cured boards. President Plggot called the club to Mrs, Myrtle Smith Is visiting her sister. wet mass called pulp, is dropped to by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Be­ working order as soon as the dinner hour Mrs Minerva Allen, at Ithaca. lambs and produce a fleece of wool be ­ the bottom floor and thrown out to be i Q31NVM ware of worthless imitations. had passed, and a song by Miss Anthony was Mrs. L. A. Jefferys is spending a few days sides. It is a shame to ourclvilization carried away by the farmers, as food listened to with pleasure. Roll call of mem­ with her sinter, Mrs. Stella VanSickle, In at. that any such innocent, peaceable and for their cattle. C. E. V an Sickle . bers was responded to very generally by Johns. quotations. Next was a recitation by Mrs. valuable animals should be murdered “Next the diffusion of juice is mixed Th»> Companion's Definite Program. Jay Sessions. “Say. ‘ I’m glad to see you.* ” Mrs. R. Cayman, of Elkhart, Indiana, Is by worthless dogs. with milk of lime and then pumped to Dr. J. Harrison, of Maple Rapids, next read visiting her brother, E. J. Rinlnger and The Youth’s Companion in its an­ a valuable and most practical paper on family. the carbonation tanks, where it is nouncement for the volume of 1889 *• Hints to stock owners.’' Ills subject dealt Charles 11. Turner and Dr. Eugene Hart Teachers’ Association at Wacousta. purified by means of carbonic acid. promises that It shall be the best one chiefly with the hygenlc care of horses and attended u Woodman convention at St. Tiie Southern Clinton Teachers’ “Thence it is pumped to the filter ever published, and the Companion after ills paper he stood quizzing on proper Johns Tuesday. presses, where the lime Is removed and improper methods In rupard to other J. J. Kel9er, wife and daughter Elda, re­ and Patrons’ Association will meet at always gives more than It promises. stock. Next came a song by Mrs. ('has. Mar­ turned from a two weeks' visit at Luding- the Congregational Church, Wacoua- from the Juice, the latter appearing Grand Trunk Railway Spies. More than 200 distinguished contribu ­ tin and Miss Frances latwless. C. F. Abbott ton last Friday. ta, Saturday, January 28, 1899. The in a clear amber color. The clarified then gave a recitation, ” Bill’s In trouble. ’’ tors are already engaged. Among President F. M- Piggott, delegate to the last The war drama. ” Blue and Gray, ” will be program is as follows: juice then goes into the evaporators, IN EFFECT NOV. 13, 1M98. them are lion. John D. Ding, Secre­ produced by home talent, at Dennis’ opera consisting of four large kettles, which association, next reported that meeting and house. January 21, IKtw. MORNING SESSION. tary of the Navy, who lias written for the doings there, to which all gave close at­ 1082) o’clock. Prayer —Rev. W. DePuy. are used to remove the excess of water the New Year’s number an article on tention. Wm. Trowbridge, of Ohio, is the guest of School Government—A. J. Phelps, Vvarou*- by evaporation, leaving a thick sub ­ D.&M. DIVISION. The question box was an Interesting fea­ David L. Eaegle. He and Mr. Eaegle were ta. our torpedo-boat service, entitled “The ture and eaeli learned of others, something school hoys together In Ohio fifty years ago. stance, which is pumped to the tower. or other. Discussion, led by l’ora B. Oarlock. \Ya- Little Demons of War:’’ Edward Ev­ Itev. R. H. Long will begin a series of meet­ cousta. Here it Is sulphured in large tanks, West-Bound from St. Johnm. erett Hale. Bret llarte. Henry M. Following this was an Informal talk on the ings at the Christian church next Monday Recitation—Miss Elizabeth Shuart, Wa­ then passed through the mechanical lieneflts and good derived from our farmers' evening. He will in* assisted by a young cousta. No. 11—Morning Exp.toGd. Haven, 10:47 am Stanley. Rt. lion. James Bryce, John el ubs. filters to waiting tanks. minister from Marshall, Midi. Some Essential*. ol Primary Number Work No. 15— Mall and Chicago Exp. to Burroughs. William I). Howells, An­ After music by the Misses Anthony the — Berenice Goodrich, Bath. “The syrup is kept here until there drew Lang. Edmund Gosse, Alfred club adjourned to meet the first Thursday of Discussion, led by Hattie Kinney, DeWitt. is room for it in the vacuum pans, Gd. Haven...... 3:32 pm the next month with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Lam­ WEST RILEY. No. 17- Gd. Itapida Exp. toGd. Rad- Austin, the English poet laureate, bic. Solo—Mrs. Nettle Streeter. Wacousta. where it is boiled until grains can be Home Mistakes of Teachers—Principal Don Ids and G. R. A I...... 7:58 pm Hon. Carl Schurz.Thomas Nelson Pago. F Goes. Wacousta. seen and from thence passed into the From Our Correspondent. No. 19—Western Exp. to Gd. Haven 8:25 aw William Black, Sarah Ornc Jewett, The U. S. Government tests of bak ­ Henry Shuart ia In Osceola county on busi ­ Discussion, led by A. B. Kincaid, Wacousta. crystallizers. From twelve to thirty- < K*tavc Thanet and Poultney Bigelow. ing powder showed Royal superior to ness. Music—Male Quartet. six hours the mass is stirred in these Nos. II. 15,17, Daily except Sunday. all others. Hence It makes the best Dinner. crystallizers and next dropped to the No. 10. Dally. This is but a selection from the defin­ Al. Sumners, of Lansing, visited at John AFTERNOON SESSION. ite program which the Companion has food. Burroughs's last week. mixer. Until now the grains of sugar East -Bound . UJOo'clock. Recitation—Miss Noril Hast No. 16 — Detroit Exp. to Detroit and prepared for its readers in 1899—a pro­ Max Kincaid spent last week visiting with Intr*, Wacousta. have been mingled with syrup so the A Thousand Tongue* friends In Grand ledge. K«t...... —...... 8:25 am gram so rich and varied as to attract Tiie Miasen Lulu and Nora Humes enter­ Music. mixture Is put into the centrifugals young and old with equal charm. All Could not express the rapture of An­ tained friends from Portland last week. Our Debt to Our Profession—Principal composed of very tine screens which No. 38-Mail to Detroit.... -...... 12:04 pm sultserlbcrs to the 1899 volume will re­ nie E. Springer, of 1125 Howard st„ Hiram Butnes and a number of other farm­ lluvh Gibbs, DeWitt. turn at the rate of 1000 revolutions No. 22— Evening Exp. to Detroit and Philadelphia Pa., when she found that ers are hauling stone from Watertown for Discussion, led by B. A. Rums, Westpha­ East...... 5:17 pm ceive the exquisite Companion Calen­ Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump­ building purposes. lia, and Maude Walker. Rath. per minute, and the syrup is thrown dar for 1889—the finest one ever given Adelhert Aldridge is putting up a building Solo--Mrs. Streeter. out leaving a mass of white sugar; on No. 18-Eastern Exp. to Durand and tion had completely cured her of a on Main street, Wacousta, that he Intends School Sanitation, Indoors and Out -Ed­ this a stream of cold water is turned East...... 8:17 pm to Companion readers, and one of the hacking cough that for many years had ward Waldron, Wacousta. finest ever produced. A handsome il­ imlng for a foundry and machine shop. and then bluing water is added, mak ­ No*. 16, 90, 22, Dally except Sunday. - made life a burden. All other remed- Let all the farmers In thla vicinity remem­ Discussion, led by George Tyler, Bath. No. 18, Dally. lustrated announcement and sample lea and doctors could give her no help, ber the institute at Wacousta Saturday, Jan. School Organisation an Aid to School Man­ ing it appear snow white. The granu­ 14, and show their appreciation of the good ners—Mrs. Blanche Whitlock, Wacousta. lated sugar as it is now called is con­ Tros . Bkomi.kt, A pent, copies will be sent free to any one ad­ but she says of this Royal Cure—“it Discussion, led by Inez Watkins, DeWitt. dressing by attending. veyed to the sugar box, and from E. II. Huorks , G. P. A T. Apt.. St. Johns. soon removed the pain in my chest and Mrs. Skimahan visited at her son’s, John Music. Chlcopo, III. Thk Y outh ’s Companion , I can now sleep soundly, something I Burroughs, last week. Hhe has now gsne to MRS. MARY E. DYKE. there to the granulator where It is iAtnsing, where ahe Intends to remain for Local Committee. dried In a revolving steam dmm. 211 Columbus Avenue. Boston, Mass. cau scarcely remember doing before. I some time at the home of her grandson, Al. GEORGE J. SMITH. Principal. Hustltnp, Energetic Agents, feel like sounding its praises through­ Sumners. President. Being dry it is once more sifted, the either man or woman in eyerv The smallest things may exert the out the Universe.” 8o will everyone fine being put as first-class granulated town and oounty in the Unit­ WANTED ed Stales and Canada; no greatest influence. DeWitt’s Little who tries Dr. King's New Discovery Coughing injures and inflames sore Paul Perry, of Columbus. Ga., suffer­ sugar, the other as coarse sugar. •obemea, no gifts, no hutnbugi. Straight, Early Risers are unequalled for over­ for any trouble of the Throat, Chest or lungs. One Minute Cough cure loosens ed agony for thirty years, and then cured “Following the process of manufac­ honorable, legitimate business. V7e furnish coming constipation and liver troubles. Lungs. Price 60c and $1.00. Trial the cold, allays coughing and heals his piles by uslug DeWitt’s Witch Hazel ture the beets reappear in about 18 best of bank reference. Send for our whole­ hours as sugar, extra fine and ready sale price list and particulars. £mall pill, best pill, safe pill. bottles free at Fildew & Mlllman’s quickly. Best cough cure for children. Salve. It heals Injuries And skin dis­ AMERICAN TEA CO.. C. E. van Sickle . Drug Btore; every bottle guaranteed. C. E. V an 8icklb . eases like magic. 0. E. V an Sickle . - for use.” * Detroit. ML b.

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