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DENVER I.BTTER.

W e nre pcrmiiletl to m a k e the fol-

lowing ex l rnc l s f rom a p r iva t e le t ter ,

wr i t t en b y Wil l M . C h a p m a n , which

we know will be of in teres t to on r

readers , a l lhougli a Utile late in get-

t ing in to p r i n t :

D E N V E R , COLOUADO, J I ' L T 2 4 , ' 9 5 .

D . a r B r o t h e r : — I ' v e had qui te an ex-

perieii.ce s ince , the 4 th . I ' v e seen t h e

"Con t inen ta l Div ide ," which divides

the waters of the Pac i f ic from those of

iho " F a t h e r of W a t e r s ; " I ' ve seen a n d

cliiiibcd the ev^r lns t ing hills, whi le

with e ternal snows} I ' ve been down in-1

to the bowels of the ear th which m a d e

the cold perspi ra t ion ooze slowly

froth evei-y pore oj" Hly hotly; I 've seen

" t o t h e r " side of tllb clouds; I ' v e

picked a flower wi th one hand a n d

snow with the o the r , wi thout mov ing

out of niy t racks ; I ' ve seen an eag le

and its eyr ie on top of E igle R o c k ,

Bou lde r Camm, ye i , and I ' ve h e a r d

hiiii s c r eam; I ' ve seeil a pra i r ie-dog!

ra t t l e -snake , a n d dog-owl, occupy thS

came ho t a l i i t he g h m h d ; I ' v e sefen

B -ulder Fal ls ; I ' v e Seen moun ta ins of

eve ry conceivable shape and size,' se-

cluded vales, broad valleys; long $ v

ers, and p ic turesque canons ; I'Ve

seen a canon so defep few d a r e look

but once, ttith a f i v e r flowing down

it a n d playing more p r a n k s t h a n

Poe 's " W a t e r a t L o d o r e " e v e r

t h o u g h t of pe r fo rming ; and y e t this is

no th ing , compari t ively speaking; I see

s o m e t h i n g every day t ha t is g r a n d e r ,

more inspir ing, more j o y f u l to ME

t h a n all the foregoing; I see Gladys

g r a d u a l l y improving , slow b u t sure .

J u l y 12. A p a r t y of fotir; consist-

ing of (&o. Miller , J o h n (toss. Tims.

Carey a h d myself, s ta r ted for t h e

mountaiiiA. I was the passenger, as

the o the rs are mine owners and have

the i r a n n u a l meet ing J u l y 18th of

each yea r in the E l d o m d o c a m p .

Boulder county , Col. T h e qua r t e t t e

a re all " W o l v e r i n e s . " J o h n Gnss

came from G r a t t a n ; T h o m a s Carey

ha i l s f rom Muskegon; and George

Mil ler l ived in J a c k s o n . T h e first

one has been here 31 years , owns,

several thousand acres of land, 80

acres of coal, two gold mines , a cheese

f a c t o r y , $1600 interest in a gr is t mill ,

110,000 in L o n g m o n t bank and I

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d o n ' t know Imw much more. H e

mar r i ed , for his s m m d wife. Miss

Nel l ie Olcot t of Lowel l .

O u r outfit consisted of a span of

small mules, s t r o n g two-seated l ight

wagon with b rakes , heavy bedding ,

over coats and rubber -coa ts , hay a n d

data f o r mules, and a la rge g r u b box

fu l l of " g r u b " fo r us.

have an awfu l s to rm." A t this junc-

ture , we all looked the si tuation in the

face, b u t could see no smile. T h e

mounta in^ extend nor th and south;

we were t r a v e l i n g south, and the

s t o r m was go ing nor th . A t ou r buck

t ha t is a mile beh ind ns, t he sky was

c lear , nhd ten miles f a r t h e r on, the

sun wns sh in ing on Eas t mountains;

b u t i!i .IVnht and a t onr r ight , things

were different. W e could see a l i t t le

p i t c h of alio^V on G r a y ' s peak above

the wh i t e thunder-cai)*, with heavy

b laok clouds a b o v e the peak. I n a

few seconds this scene changed and

e v e r y t h i n g it) the mounta ins looked

l ike T h o m a s ' b lack ink, except the

snow, this had the appearance of a

. l a n u a r y thAw in Michigan. Nbw,

the re was a I ill I in the tempest ahead

uf us; y e ha l t ed , no r a in ' was f a l l i n g

on us, Silt we {hit t he tdrpaul in ovfer

o u r heads a f t e r we had huddled a n d

qu ie t ly watched developements . In

a few moments it was so d a r k west of

us t ha t we could not see the moun*

ta ins o r foot-hills, and in f r o n t of us

we could hea r a d is tant roar as of

rush ing water l . Sudden ly the l igh t -

h ing commehced flafhing and thun-

de r , peal on peal, went echoing and

reverbera t ing lip and down the Rock-

ies) and dowii came the ra in . O h , no,

it 'didn' t ra in , lliit it poured . W i t h i n

ten minutes i t stopped pour ing and

siniply ra ined, j u s t as it does in the

KaAt when it s tar ts in f o r a 1 zy, driz-

zl ing week of s to rm. W e reached

'Boll lder in a ha l f -hour and nil na tu re

f i l l e d to be apoligizing for hav ing

liittde such a d i s tuabance j u s t f o r the

^ A n d c u ^ a n d b e a u t y ,of the th ing .

W i n n wa were i n fo rmed t h a t we had

j n s t escaped a d o t i d ' burs t , we felt

t h a n k f u l , I a ssure you.

As we wheeled itji to the inn the

sky was as tileiih, a s t a r or two was

scintil lntii lg, and J a c k gave a b r a y of

approval as we j u m p e d out of the

wagon and s t re tched ourselves a f t e r a

r ide of 25 miles. W h i l e the land-

lady was ge t t ing supper , I took a look

a round the c i ty . A s Bou lde r is the

county seal of Boulder coun ty and ri

city t h a t every Gujoradoan feels proud

of, perhaps I had be t te r t e ' l you

someth ing of her . She is cal led the

A t h e n s of Colorado, s i tuated a b o u t 30

miles—as t h e bee flies—north-watt of

Denver ; su r rounded by a fine f a rming

a n d f r u i t c o u n t r y , unde r l a id by re-

m a r k a b l e bodies of l igni te coal, which

have been opened in hundreds of

places and whose p roduc t is an im-

p o r t a n i indus t r i a l fac tor in the r e -

sources of t h e s tate . T h e S t a t e Uni-

versity is loca ted here and I under-

s t and it is qui te popu la r a n d is g row-

i n g in favor . S h e has a fine system

of g r a d e d schools and is j u s t now

bu i ld ing an e l egan t high school at a

cost of $50,000. Boulder k n o u s

no th ing of h a r d tunes on accoun t of

so m a n y good gold camps close to her

in t h e moun ta ins above. I ' l l give

ivy you t h e names of some of the

where the canon is very n a r r o w a n d

pic turesque. These fal ls a re 100 feet

high and a person can view them

from any he igh t he chooses. T h e

l imit is t he top of moun ta in . N e a r

the falls on the south side of t h e canon-

is the Eag le R o c k , "Old G l o r y " wav-

ing on t o p of it. Some 4th of J u l y

celebration (?) had placed it there .

W e had nei ther the t ime nor inclina-

tion to c l imb up to i t . I t was here

t h a t we saw o u r first eag le . S h e

a p p a r e n t l y , was p roud of the rock

t ickle me to hea r you keep u p your

end of the conversat ion be tween puffs.

K ing ' s tongue run liku a p h o n o g r a p h ,

and all I could do was to " a h - h a , "

"yes ," " I d e c l a r e , " a n d — p u f f . W e l l ,

when we reached the t o p K i n g com-

pl imented me, by s a y i n g : " Y o u a re

the f irst t e n d e r f o o t t ha t eve r kep t

w i t h me ih coming up this m o u n t a i n . "

In t a k i n g a last) final puff , I r ipped

out t h e back of my vest, a n d a " T h a n k

you . "

" W e l l . " K i n g ia j ' s , " t h i s is the

t ha t bea rs he r name , a n d undoub ted ly Con t inen ta l D i v i d e , t he b a c k b o n e of

had considerable interest in the ey r i s

nea r her, which could be seen with a

g lass .

T w o miles a b o v e the falls is some-

th ing I heard abou t in I o w a on ou r

way out here . W h a t do you suppose

it is? A whi te sp ruce tree. I t cer-

ta in ly is t he handsomes t t ree I eve r j

saw or ever expec t to see; it is fifty j

f ee t high a n d as symmet r i ca l as if i t |

were j u s t t a k e n o u t of a m o u l d . !

T h e r e is n o t h i n g t h a t one would i

change if he cou ld . T w o miles above !

t he tree, ( ten miles f rom en t rance ) is

Cast le Rock , whtch is jus t g r a n d e u r

i tself . M a n y havfe come f rom New

Y o r k city to see this and the tree.

O n e man of New Y o r k says he will

give $10,000 for the tree p laced in

his y a r d . I silW a man here w h o

would give the same sum for i t ; b u t

the re is no i l se ' t a lk ing , it belongs to

' Unc le S a m . "

T w o mi les f a r t h e r and we reached

t h e ha l f -way house, where we a t e

d inne r . W e p u t the mules in t h e

house a n d w e occupied ou t -door .

T h e hoif te in ques t ion is a log cabin

8 x 1 0 and used to be used f o r a tav-

ern . I went u p the mountain 300 fl .

a f t e r some cones with which to s t a r t a

fire, J o h n went down a f t e r some

sp r ing water , G e o r g e a t t ended to the

mules and Tom se t t ab le . A f t e r ou r

10 o 'clock d i n n e r , we a l l . wa lked a

coup le of miles to m a k e the load

l ighter for the mules a a j h i s por t ion of

the trai l is very steep and d a n g e r o u s .

T h e r e is so much fall in th i s two

miles t h a t t h e roa r of the wa t e r makes

it most impossible to be h e a r d when

ye l l ing . In t h e par lance of t h e E a s t :

" Y o u can ' t h e a r yourself t h i n k . " I t

was in this rugged , wild, weird place

t h a t a l and slide occurred last y e a r

and nea r ly ki l led a whole f ami ly .

( T h e moun ta ins here a re 12,0(j0 feet

above sea-level.) A large bou lde r

spl i t t he cabin in to two parts . O t h e r

la rge rocks followed, and mud b rough t

up the rear . W h e n a neighbor ar-

rived he found the family in mud to

the i r waists, wedged in by rocks and

b u i l d e r s , bu t all un in ju red . W h a t

caused this slide? I t was a cloud-

burs t which also carr ied dest in ti> n

the whole length of the canon. I t .'•o

thoroughly destroyed t h e ra i l road

t ha t it has not been rebui l t . A por-

tion of th ree br idges out of twenty-

five, may still be seen if one loeks

closely, ami occasionally a steel r a i ' ,

' twisted and ben t out of shape , is seen well-known camp<: Sunshine , W a r

Gold Hi l l , Ma I a r a t . J ames town , and 8 l i c .king its ha l f length in t h e a i r .

E ldorado . Caribou and Neder land

a re d o s e d - u p si lver camps; each have

mills worth S100,00.

W e reached ou r j o u r n e y ' s end a t

1::]0 p. m. and t h e whdje of E ldo rado

. (.'amp considered she h a d company . A f t e r a r e f resh ing sleep we all arose j tt.ng i „ t n i , i u C e d t o the en t i r e c a m p ,

fed the nudes , ate b reakfas t , and H e r e a re a f ew of the acqua in t am es were on ou r way again at 0:00 a m. | w h i c h ! m n H e m u ] x ^ y ^ ^ r m ] , h

with a si lvery sunshine and a clear

few

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L l T D O E I t O F F I C E .

A* we neared Bou lde r , a prosper-

ousc i t y of 6,000 i n h a b i t a n t . , it began j w , tj

n a 8 , l v t ^ 8 U , * , , m e " c , e a r : f - n k , j o l l y good fel low8 : J a c k Crone,

to ra in . W e slowed up , p u t on o V i r . | i , n d pure atoi.vsph.-re. In a f ^ n i o - K i m b e r , w h o Ddks, looks and

c o a t - a n d rubbe r coa t , , and covered " , e , l t a w e h " ' , ^ e , , c h e , , , , n ' , l J e a c t s l ike Dr . M c D a n n e l l , Ca r l J en -

our beddin? with t a r p a u l i n . W e n , o u t h , , f , , , e c a n n " W , , , c h f 1 ninB», M r . Pe t e r son , Mr . Bus te r , M r -

were not a m i n u t e tor A t l i r a ™ inq-assable. T w o or three i r n - ; ( } i l f i l l i n M r T u r u i n e d , Mr . Wal

t ime we were th ree miles f rom t h e 0 " t h e , don and Mr . K i n g . T h i s K i n g looks

m o n n t a i n . and the s a m e d i s tance f r o m h , , , e " f ^ , H n " M J 0 0 , , e i |O U r l ike Buffalo Bil l . H e is a lways a r m e d

Bou lde r , as it is r iybt a t the foot of l u•H , , 8• r h f * ditches or f lumes ^ t.1 the t ee th , b u t Turn ipseed t.M)k m e

t h e mounta ins a t t h e mou th of Boul-1 l , , , , h e " >"U t , I 0 , , e 9 i , , e n n , , ^ i , , K i , , K W M 9 harmless ,

der Cam.n , one of the most p ic tur - , , n ' 1 P X U ? < m l o n e • t he re fo re I accepted his invi taUnn to

in i l * Ruckien. O u r d r i v e r , j P r , , i r i e " 4 0 " r ••>0 , m l " -

George afid owner of the mules ran i F o u r miles from e n t r a n c i s W i n d y

I t he mules a s h o r t d i s tance to e v a d e a : Poin t . 1 tell you it is a wild looking

' heavy cloud a t ou r lef t , then he took i place; a few years ago the s tage coach

' a squint a long Gun-ba r re l f o o t - h i l l 1 WHS blown over the precipice here. I

' a n i l r e m a r k e d : " B y co .k ie , lioyg, got out and w-.'.lked, i n a s m u c h as t h e

lnok at those monntnins , I ' v e l ived mules were n.v. acemtomed to moun-

j a round them 2 5 years and never saw ta in t rai ls and windy points T w o

I t h e m look BO i nky ; we a r e going to mi/fea f a r t h e r up U Boulde r FallSj

show me the mines. H e is such a

long ie«;ged moun ta inee r t h a i he kep t

me pufl'ing, bu t I managed to k e e p u p

with h im, a l t h o u g h he was 30 pounds

l ighter t han myself . H o w i would

l ike to see y o u . Dr . , keep d p with

t h a t sou-of-a-mounta ineer , u p one

side and (fown t h e o t h e r of a 11,000-

feet-high moun ta in , a n d how it would

the con t inen t . O v e r t h e r e , " po in t ing

th ree miles to t h e n o r t h , " i s A r a p a -

hoe P e a k , and w h e r e we s t a n d is

G r a y ' s P e a k . Down the re , a t h i r d of

a mile below us is T h e L a k e . T h a t ' s

all t he n a m e it posesses, b u t over

the re a couple of mi les is Pe te r son

Lake' , whicli covers fifty a c r e i aHd is

full of r a inbow and speckled t r o u t ; I ' l l

catch some for y o u r b r e a k f a s t . " ( A n d

he d id . H e c a u g h t seyen a n d J e n -

n ings fried them for me. Y o n t a k e

out the b a c k b o n e a n d e a t t h e m as

you would a sl ick of c andy . ) " O v e r

there to the east of us t h r e e miles is

Car ibou si lver mine, w o r t h 83 ,000,000

shu t down on account of G r o v e r . "

W e l l , I -p resume you h a v e h a d

e n o u g h of this for the present .

W . M . C h a p m a k .

PETOSKEY VS LOWELL.

Afte r the a n n o u n c e m e n t t ha t t he

P e t w k e y base bal l team had disban-

ded for the season no one expected to

see t h a t aggrega t ion of ball tossers in

Lowell this yea r ; bu t we and they

were doomed to d i sappo in tment as

well a s some very d e a r f r iends a t Bel-

d i n g .

W h e n some of the Lowel l c r anks

had V s and X s shaken under the i r

noses b y the a d v a n c e g u a r d of the

Be ld ings they qu ick ly responded in

k ind , and qu i t e a t idy sum was wa-

gered upon the g a m e be fo re the first

ball w a s t h r o w n .

T h e g a m e was adver t i sed to "be

played by Lowel l and Be ld ing t eams .

I m a g i n e the su rp r i s e of the Lowell

rooters when the " B e l d i n g ? " t eam

m a d e its appea rance , with seven m e n

from t h e c rack P e t o s k e y t e a m , one

f r o m Greenv i l l e a n d o n e pcor lone

m a n from Be ld ing .

However the Lowe ll 's d i d n ' t craw-

fish and though l a ck ing the i r r egu l a r

second and t h i r d basemen put u p t h e

hot tes t g a m e of bal l e v e r witnessed

on the h o m e g r o u n d . T h e score by

innings tells t h e s to ry .

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 - . Lowell 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2-5 Be ld ing 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2-5

T h e g a m e was called a f t e r t he

n in th i n n i n g on a c c o u n t of d a r k n e s s

and the B e l d i n g c r a n k s d i d n ' t c a r r y

away a n y Lowell money .

A MINOR BASE BALL LEAGUE.

W h a t ' s t h e m a t t e r with o r e a n i z i u g

a W e s t Michigan base bal l league-

next y e a r ? W i t h a c i rcui t of t o w n s

l ike Has t ings , Be ld ing , Greenv i l l e ,

G r a n d L e d g e , and Lowe l l , t h e ex-

penses would be compara t ive ly smal l

and we believe the t-cheme could be

m a d e to pay its way . A g rea te r de-

gree of interest would be developed itf

t h e respective t o w n s , t h a n b y the

present h a p h a z a r d way of p lay inn ,

and a la rger a t t e n d a n e e would result .

W h a t do ou r e x c h a n g e s in the above

towns th ink of the p l a n ?

THE OLD nOMESTEAT).

I t is noi a t all w o n d e r f u l t h a t " T h e

Old H o m e s t e a d " re ta ins its hold upon

t h e A m e r i c a n pub l i c . W i t h t a c h re-

c u r r i n g y e a r t h i s genu ine A m e i i c a n

p lay r e t u r n s and each y e a r it is as

co rd ia l ly greeted and a s h e a n i l y en-

j o y e d as ever . O n e cannot help lov-

ihg homelv old .liwhua Wli i i romb, the

h i g - h e a r t i d New Eng land f a rmer , he

is so real , so human . " C o m e aga in ,

ne ighbors , " he says , " a n d visi t t h e

old homestead. C o m e in J u n e wl en

t h e sun shines a n d l e t t he scarlet

ereepets chnse you hack to ch i l dhood , "

[oj.NT.NUSU OX X.a8T i-.ua J ~

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IN TWO PENINSULAS.

NEWS OF THE HAPPENINGS IN

MICHIGAN.

Itrlkrm at Ishpemln? nnd N^cnnnee are

Restlras and Violent — Kon-Unlonlsta

Captured and Made to Join the Strikers

—Iluw the Workera were Frightened

•trlklnff Miner* Still Firm—Strike Newa

Twenty outside laborers arrived a t Ishpeminfr on an early morning train, 10 of whom were taken off there and the 10 remaining were sent to Negau-nee for service a t the Ituffalo mine. The strikers were eluded, and being deeply chagrined they kept careful watch upon every incoming train thereafter . So when another carload of new men arrived a t Negaunee on the C. & N there was a large mob of strikers to greet them. The scabs al-most broke their necks trying to es-cape, but they were taken in hand and escorted by the mob the union meeting amid great cheering. Two days la ter another lot were captured in the same way and the unionists rejoiced greatly to know that out of 35 men imported from Chicago they had prevented 33 from going to work. All the men said tha t they had been told that the str ike was ended and that muru muu Weio needed a t Si per day.

The scheme of the strikers to inter-est the federation of labor has suc-ceeded. and the Marquette range min-ers' union has received its charter as the branch of the American Federa-tion of Labor, and displayed the doc-uments in their parade. The miners claim tha t the federation will give the strikers financial aid. and that the union railroad men will refuse to handle the ore. The position of the trimmers a t the port of Marquette, also the vesselmen and ore handlers on Lake Erie docks, are thought to be of more signiticanco than the move ment among local trainmen.

("apt. Harper, of the Dexter mine, offered his men an advance and the men were willing to accept and re turn to work, but when the consent of the union was asked it was flatly refused. Capt. Harper said tha t the prevailing hardship a t the Dexter location and the prospects of fur ther distress among families residing there, were in a large degree responsible for the action of his company in reference to the wage rate, but tha t they could do nothing more. At the Sec. 21 mine of the Lake Superior property the en gineers and pump men obeyed the mandate of the union and quit work, but those a t the Sec. 10 mine remained on duty, and made public their deter-mination to disregard the order of that body. The Lake Superior Co. be-gan boarding up the windows and doors of the buildings a t Sec. 21 mine. The management asserts that the mine will be closed for the winter. The stopping of the pumps a t Sec. 21 may have a serious effect on the Winthrop mines, which adjoin them on the east.

Later.—The pump men a t Lake Su-perior, Sec. 21 mine, returned to work when they learned tha t in case the pumps would remain idle any longer the water would flood the Winthrop mines, in which event the workings which were started up last week could not be wrought

The Calumet company, of the Michi-

Jan National Guard, was transferred rom Ishpeming to Champion mine and

the ore crushers were started with a force of 20 men, and there was no interference with the work by the strikers. Men, women and children assembled to watch the movements of soldiers, but they offered no resistance.

Striker* Reaort to Violence. There are signs which indicate t h a t

serious trouble may occur at any time. Incidents happen almost continually which show that the spirit of violence needs not only the opportunity to awaken it to action. As an instance, while the non-union men employed a t the shovels a t the Salisbury mine, were sleeping in the box cars provided for their safe keeping a gane of strik-ers loosened the brakes on a t ra in of ore cars and ran them into the loca-tion. The cars had a start of almost half a mile and were going a t the rate of 15 miles an hour when they struck the box cars. The men were' thrown from the bunks and some of them were badly frightened, as they thought the strikers exploded dynamite under the car. The sleepers were driven over 200 feet along the road, and one of the cars, which ran against the ore chutes, was derailed and damaged. The ore chutes were completely de-molished. The strikers who commit-ted the deed evidently intended to in-jure the the men, and* it is likely tha t this would hare occurred had not the mine watchman boarded the cars and applied the brakes, checking the i r speed considerably before they struck tne sleepers' cars. None of the men in the cars were injured. •• Two strangers who were -passing through Negaunee on their wp.y to the woods were set upou by this str ikers and most cruelly beaten. One of the men was quite old and he clung to the fence and begged for mercy, but was given a blow in the mouth which al-most knocked him senseless. The officers could not cope with the gang and it was not until Mayor Foley ap-peared that the mob desisted and their victims escaped. They were af terward found hiding several miles away com-pletely exhausted and terribly injured. Mayor Foley gave the strikers such a 8ev«- -e lecture that many of them be-came ashamed and threw away the clubs they had been carrying during the strike, (iov. Uich heard of the dis-graceful iiffair and telegraphed Mayor Foley to know abotit it. The later re-plied that he had sworn in 50 extra police and would prevent any more outbreaks.

Mlrhlfiran IMnkera Meet About 150 delegates to the eighth

ahnual convention of the Michigan State Bankers' association met in Y . M. C. A. hall, Detroit, for their busi-ness sessions. Hon. Don M. Dickinson welcomed the men of finance and Hon. U. J. Diekema, of Holland, responded. President S. M. Cutcheon, of Detroit, in his annual address spoke of the re-cent changes in banking laws and urged several more, such as the abol-ishing of the "days of grace." T h e annual banquet a t the Kussell house was very elaborate and the responses to toasts to the point. The officers as chosen by the nominating committee for the ensuing year were as follows: President, L. H. Withey, Grand Rapids; first vice president, W. J . Cocker, Adrian; second vice president Mark S. Brewer, Pontiac; executive council, J . A. Cavorde, Grand Rapids; G. B. Morley, East Saginaw; Geo. A. Abbott , Muskegon, and A. G. Bishop, F l i n t

A Bold Foatodlce Bobhery. The postoffice a t Fenton was broken

into by burglars who cut a hole in the door to reach the lock. The money and stamps were locked in a U00 pound safe and the robbers v/ere evidently afraid to tackle i t there, so they hitched themselves to D., G. H. & M. truck, loaded the safe on it and hauled i t through town a t 2 a. m. to the out-skirts, where with chisels and ham mers the safe was stripped of its outer casing and an entr&nce effected a t the back. The inner steel chest was re moved and literally smashed to pieces, C. C. Topping, the postmaster, says tha t they got 9100 in uiuuey and a large number of stamps. The blank money orders and other valuable papers were unmolested. Many peo-ple heard the sounds of the hammer and noise made by the burglars, bu t none dared to interfere.

Bodies of Oneeol* Miners Becoveied. Six days a f t e r the terrible Are in the

Osceola copper mine a t Calumet ihe flames were smothered out and the gases had escaped sufficiently to allow a search to be made for the 30 victims of the horror. The first victim found was James Williams, who was working 3,100 feet below the surface. He was found hanging to the ladder within 400 of the surface, having made his way through smoke and gas for more than half a mile before he gave up the fight. Further down 27 more bodies were found before the searchers reached the eighteenth level, where they were forced to go back owing to the gases.

PENINSULAR STATE NEWS.

Por t Huron Presbyterians have dedi-cated a handsome new church.

The 10-year-old son of Charles Le-cox, of Dover, was drowned in Dem-ming'-s lake.

Paul Palmer, aged 4, of Adrian, was found dead under a 300-pound bale of tow in his fa ther s barn.

The seven-year-old son of Evan Hast-line fell from a wagon a t Buchanan and was fatal ly crushed.

John R. Franks, near Muskegon has been found guil ty of criminal assault on his 11-year-old daughter.

John Winters' cow, near Elk Rap-ids, a te a large quantity of dynamite, and she hasn ' t been found y e t

Henry Strocker, a hermit carpenter, was found dead in his sb vnty near Warren. Whisky was the > ause.

Drink and Clenrette* Caime a Trairedy. Frank Forbes, manager of a theatri-

cal company playing at Grand Ledge, was addicted to the excessive use of cigarettes and also indulged heavily in intoxicants. While on a spree he quarreled with his wife a t the l^otel and ended up by shooting her in the side. The ball passed entirely through he r body. When Deputy Sheriff Halli-day attempted to arrest Forbos he fired two shots a t the officer, both passing through his clothing. Forbes was finally overpowered and jailed. Mrs. Forbes cannot recover.

Samuel Tubbs has discovered traces of coal on his farm, near Ann Arbor.

Lndington organized a board of trade, with 100 charter members. David,Olney was elected president

The weather is very dry again, and the woods along the Michigan Central f rom Mackinac City to Cheboygan are ful l of fires.

Harbor Springs Adventists claims tha t the raging fires on Beaver island are a plague sent to punish the people for their sins.

Alfred Collacott, of Carsonville, has disappeared leaving a le t ter which causes the belief that he has com-mitted suicide.

Andrew Kuhl, of Dayton, was acci-dentally shot in the thigh while hunt-ing. Blood poisoning set in and he cannot recover.

Clayton schools are closed on ac-count of scarlet fever. The village health officer. Dr. E. J . Ellis, is very ill with the disease.

Gov. Rich has appointed Wm. R. Keiirick, of Saginaw, judge of the Tenth circuit, to succeed Robcp-t B. McKnight, resigned.

Alexander Ralph, who recently bought the Owosso <fc Corunna Street railway, is to immediately fit up the road with electricity.

Fire a t the farm of Herbert Brown, near Albion, destroyed three barns, containing four horses and consider-able grain, etc. Loss (2,000.

John B. Lavigne was arrested charged with burglarizing the store of the Ishpeming Co-operative Co. He is a member of the police force.

I ra H. Curtis, butcher a t the asylum a t Kalamazoo, suicided by cut t ing his t h r o a t Constant association wi th lunatics had unbalanced his mind.

The executive board of t h e Michigan Knights of the Grip has decided to hold the annual convention of the or% ganization in Lansing Dec. 30 and 31.

Albert Ellis, aged 40, an insane man, stood on the C. & G. T. track near F l in t fighting some imaginary enemy when a train hurled him to his death.

O. C. Hollister and A. Hotchkiss killed a 300-p<>und bear within 80 rods of the courthouse a t Atlanta. His feet were badly burned, probably by forest tires.

Mrs. J . Ford, of near Williamston, tooK a big dose of morphine at the Franklin house. North Lansing. She was despondent because her husband deserted her.

Mayville boasts of the distinction of being the home of the oldest inhabit-an t in Tuscola county. She is known as Grandma Husted, and has just cele-brated her 100th birthday.

Loyd Hummer, 7-year, old, was drowned a t Saugatuck, while swim-ming in the Kalamazoo river. His fa te was not known unti l his mother found his clothes on the river bank.

Herschel A. Whitaker, of Detroit, president of the Michigan fish commis-sion, is being pushed for the appoint-ment to the U. S. fish commission, to succeed Col. McDonald, who died recently.

Bonnet Shingwakoa. an Indian, and Geo. Wilson, white, had a fight at Harbor Springs because Wilson tried to escort the Indian's squaw homo from an Indian dance. The Indian was fatal ly stabbed.

Gilbert M. Steese, a jewelry sales-man, was found dead on a bench in the Fulton-st. park . Grand Rapids. He le f t a note s ta t ing that he was bankrup t financially and physically and fe l t there was nothing le f t but to take his life.

Fred Rayburn, nertr Alpena, lost his house four barns and several sheds, besides large quanti t ies of grain and several vehicier. The loss is 87,000. The insurance lapsed a month ago and could not be renewed owing to the prevalence of forest fires.

The jury in the Mary I. Pierce mur-der tr ial brought in a verdict finding Mary I. Pierce guil ty of manslaughter a f t e r being out nearly all n i g h t She was sentenced by Judge Padgham to the industrial school for girls a t Adrian unti l she is 21 years of age.

John McDononghand Frank Ludwig, of South Haven, were sent to jail for six months, wi thout the alternative of a fine, for violating the local option law. At Charlotte Joe Hcnning and Wm. Conant wore fined 8100 and 850 respectively for the same offense.

Vena Johnson, a 10-year-old colored girl, was shot and killed by her broth-er-in-law, Edward Hurst, also colored. Hurst heard her moving about the house in the n igh t and thinking of bur-glars he fired wi th a musket, the Charge s t r iking her iu Iha abdomen.

James J. Hill, president of t h e Great Northern railroad, is said to be con-templating the erection of a 850,000-hotel on Mackinac island, larger than the Grand. Mr. Hill has been looking for sites, and i t is supposed he will build the hotel on the' hill near the Grand.

A firebug gained an entrance to the unoccupied house of Alec Williams, a t Owosso, and applied the torch, af ter soaking i t with oil. The house had been unoccupied for 12 years, though filled with costly furn i ture belonging to Mr. Williams. Loss about 8&1OOO; no insurance.

State Treasurer Wilkinson's report for the fiscal yea r ending June 30 shows a balance a t the beginning of the year of 8531,825.27; receipts, 83,-704,198.20; total 84,226,023.45. The total disbursements were 83,035,005.08, leaving a balance, of 8200,417.70 a t the close of the year.

The Dunn Mining Co., a t the head of which is the well-known iron ore firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Co., of Cleveland, has closed a deal with the owners of the Northern Chief i r on Co., by which the syndicate secures control of the Germania, Minnewawa, Windsor and Pence mines on the Gogebic range in Michigan.

tawing Their Youth.

HERE AND THERE.

VARIETY OF NEWS ITEMS FROM

A ARIOUS PLACES.

A Caisson Blown Up WhUe Be ing Driven

Over the Streets a t Lonlsviile, Ky., and

Four Young Militiamen nre Killed.—

O. A. B. to Test Pension Decisions.

O. A. R. CAPTURE LOUISVILLE

Old Old

Four Men Killed a t O. A. B. Encampment Four members of the Louisville Le-

gion, a swell military organization a t Louisville, Ky., were instantly killed a t 4 a. m. by the explosion of ammuni-tion in the caisson of a gun which was being driven to Phoenix hill for ser-vice in connection with the G. A. parade a t the national encampment Two others were badly injured and one may die. Capt. Castleman, who was in charge, was riding a t ths side of the detail, but Was uninjured. The caisson contained 00 pounds of powder and the men killed were seated upon the caisson. Their bodies were terrioly mangled and thrown 300 f e e t The explosion occurred iu the finest rosi dence portion of the city and near the home of Maj. 'Geo. B. Eaton, where Gov. John Young Brown was stopping. The governor was stunned while sleep-ing and i t was some t ime before he revived. The horses drawing the cannon were killed.

Attorney-General Maynard is look-ing u p acts on which to base legal action to determine whether the S t Clair Flats belong to Michigan or the United States. The last legislature instructed him to have this matter judicially settled. This action is im-portant just now, on account of the ar-rest of a Detroit man fur selling liquor there.

The state fa i r a t Grand Rapids was success and reflected credit on its

promoters. When the members of the association met in annual session they elected officers: Wm. Ball, of Ham-burg, was re-elected president by ac-clamation; vice-president, I. H. But-terfield; secretary, Henry S. Fralick, of Grand Rapids; treasurer, C. W. Young, of Paw Paw.

The Chicora accident was revived again by the finding of a lounge from her f re ight cargo and a ship pillow, on the beach north of S t Joseph. This is the same spot where a f t e r three previous s tonps some par t of the steamer has come ashore. The boat cannot be f a r distant f rom this place, and an effort is being made to s ta r t another searching party.

A fracas occurred in Albee township.

MORE HORRORS IN ARMENIA.

Tnrklsh Troops Tartar* Christinn Men nnd Bavlsh Women nnd ChBdrwo.

London; A dispatch f rom Ears, Armenia, says t h a t the ent i re district of Kemaks is surrounded by Turkish troops dispatched by Zekki Pacha under the plea of arrest ing Armenian revolutionaries. The villages of Carni, Tiriguerno, Tortan, Horopout, nnd Mangar are reported to have been completely sacked while the population aRCTCgatlng 5,000 people were foully treated. The men were tortured and the women and children were ravished. The four monasteries of Aukwauk Sourphop, Thervorithchoga and Sou phagop were sacked and the ai tars do stroyed. The excitement and alarm are universal.

High Offlolals Plan Another Massacre. Authentic information from Moosh

is to the effect that an anti-Chri-tian society of Turkish officials has been formed there and a t Bitlis with the avowed intention to s laughter the Christians in the event of the accept-ance by the Porte of the scheme of reforms presented by the powers. I t is declared tha t Consul Hampton is to be the first victim.

Satsonn Massacre to be Repented. New York: Hsrant M. Kiretchjian,

secretcry of the Armenian Relief as' sociation, has made public the follow-ing communication from the valley of Moush: "The remnant of the people f rom the Sassoun district have returned to their villages. They are rebuilding the ruins, but the government is rais-ing obstacles so tha t the rebuilding may be retarded. The government has let loose the Bakranst i Koords over the hills of Sassoun. Our people who have returned to their ruined vil-ages are in terror and dismay. Koords who are friendly with our villages have ' sen t us word, saying: For the love of God, arise and flee t h a t you may save your lives. The government has brought the Bakranst i Koords for the purpose of ut ter ly exterminat ing what is l e f t of your people.' "

"A Pension Is n Vested R i g L t " Commander-in-Chief Walker of the

G. A. R., in an interview as to his in-tention of taking measures for a case to establish the claim t h a t a pension is a vested r igh t said t h a t he would do so as early asspossible. "There is no question in my mind," be said, " t h a t the courts will hold t h a t a pension is a vested r ight when the mat ter is brought to their at tention. I feel tha t

. . i t is due old soldiers and members of Saginaw county, in which Alexander I the grand army tha t steps bo taken to Kidd, a farmer, lost his life. I t s e e p s bring the mat ter to an issue and t h a t t h a t Kid^ had some altercation wi th every meaus possible be utilized to se-six unknown men, one of whom hi t ] cure recognition of the r ight by the

im on the head with some blunt in-s t rument and he died from the effects of the blow. The coroner's jury said t h a t Kidd brought it all upon himself by his ungoverable temper.

The four boilers in the Marine City Stave Co.'s sal t block exploded with terrific report , completely demolishing ' the boiler house and a portion of the ' main building and in jur ing two men severely. Chas. Essenberg was proba-bly fatal ly h u r t and Rosswell Heath received painful injuries. The explo-sion was caused by low water in one of the marine boilers. The damage is estimated a t $15,000.

A par ty of Chicago capitalists, headed by Alanson Stewart Apple-ton, were a t Benton Harbor in the interest of the pronosed trans-Michigan ocean ship canal, to connect the southeast end ol Lake Michigan with the west end of Lake Erie a t Toledo, and also for the purpose of inspecting the territorial road across the state, with a view to the construe* tion of an electric railroad from Ben-ton Harbor to Detroit via Decatur, Paw Paw, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Marshall, Albion, Jackson and Ann Arbor.

Wm. Parker , son of a farmer a t Moore's sett lement, near Standish, was sent to drive the cows home, bu t he did not return. Search was made all n ight and all day, when he was finally found unconscious. When he recovered he said tha t when coming home he saw a bear cub in the road. Picking u p ^ s»\ck he threw i t a t the cub jus t as th'^ old bear como along. She caught him and gave him a severe hugging. He remembered noth ing more t i l l several hours a f te r he was found.

At the annual session of the Michi-gan Grand Lodge, Select Knights An-cient Order of United Workmen, which was held a t Grand Rapids, the follow-ing officers were elected: P. G. C., August Menge, of L'Anse; G. C., J . F. C. Hollings, of Detroit; V. C., E. B. Russell, of Battle Creek; L. C., F red Last, of Bay City; G. S., J . E. Sheldon, of Jackson; G. L., James Pitcher, of Saginaw; G. T., William Dabbelan, of Grand Rapids; G. 8. W„ W. H. Mason, of Saginaw; G. J. W., Ralph Treat , of Grand Bapids.

The Allegan paper mill was sold to Chas. A. Johnson, of Niles, who will convert i t into a strawboard factory.

courts. The test case will be filed and vigorously contested even to the high-est court of judicature."

88 Drowned by a Steamer Sinking. A special from Vancouver, B. C.,

says t h a t the China steamer Catter-thun, bound from Sydney, N. S. W., to China with 81 human beings on board, is lying many fa thoms deep off Seal Rock, near Port Stephens light-house and only 26 lives were saved. The accident was duo to currents dr i f t -ing the steamer on t h e rocks in the fu ry and darkness of the storm. The cargo of the steamer Cat ter thun was very valuable. Among t h e cargo were ten thousand sovereigns.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wesley Boyd, imprisoned a t Dayton for the murder of Mrs. Burt, hanged himself in his celL

The Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking railway was sold fo r 84,100,000 to the bondholders' committee.

Acting Secretary of State McAdoo has received 81,440.000 from Spain in payment of the celebrated Mora claim.

The lumber yard of Bohm & Stnhr, a t Cleveland was burned over and the planing mill destroyed. Loss 850,000.

Ernest Myers, a tramp, fa tal ly cut Tim Burns, another tramp, a t Chilli-cothe, O. Marshal Stanley mistook Fritz Morloch for th« murderer and shot him twice in vital parts.

A dispatch from Tegncigalna, Hon-duras, says tha t the published reports of terrible earthquakes in tha t country in which 300 lives were lost and much property destroyed is totally without foundation.

Germany celebrated the batt le of Sedan wi th imposing parades and cer-monies a t Berlin. Two score Ameri-can veterans of the Franco-German war were given the place of honor in the parade and were greeted individ-ually by Emperor William.

The London Chronicle says t h a t ad-vices received from 8 t Petersburg are to the effect t h a t Ru&sian police have discovered a w i d e - w e a d plot against the life of the czar wad other members of the imperial family. Some of the leaders were quietly arrested. Bombs, arms and revolutionary pamphlets have been seized by the police of Moooow.

Veterans Find n Welcome In Kaintnck—Encampment Doings.

The Grand Army of the Republichos invaded southern soil again and cap-tured the city of Louisville, Ky. This city of the state noted for i ts pret ty women, fine horses and whisky did everything In its power to make i t pleasant for the boys in blue, and i t is needless to say tha t the famed south-ern hospitality was fully, exemplified. The first formal feature of the big gathering of the Naval Veterans' par-ade with about 10.000 men in line. This association elected officers as fol-lows: Rear admiral, Samuel Aman, of New York; commodore, E. C. Farquhar, Zanesville,0.; captain, Geo. Fritsohner, Louisville: commander, W. G. Fergu-son, of Philadelphia; l ieutenant com-mander, E. D. Bliss, Brooklyn; senior lieutenant, J . B. Bray, Rockford, III.; junior lieutenant, Jas. Stanley. New Vork; fleet surgeon, Thos. G. Henry, Cincinnati: paymaster, E. F. Duston, Providence, R. I.; fleet engineer, G. L. Seavy^Chicago; judge advocate general, Chas. Cawley, Chicago; chaplain. Rev. A. S. McWilliams, Detroit

The Women's Relief Corps tendered a reception to Commander-in-Chief Lawler and staff which was the social event of the encampment Over 10,000 people passed through the Gait house parlors.

Of course the big event of the en-campment was the parade of veterans, and it was a big parade too, a t least 50,000 old soldiers being in line. The city was most elaborately decorated and over 300,000 spectators crowded the streets upon which the procession was to pass. I t was rather a touching scene to behold, this long line of "Yankees" parading through a south-ern city amidst tremendous cheers and applause from the erstwhile "John-nies." The veterans showed the v/eight of years and the effects of ser-vice while marching. I t was the gen-eral remark tha t there were never so many eld, lame and feeble men in line, but they proudly kept step and "tramped, tramped, tramped" just as if they were still t he boys "Marching Through Georgia."

Grand Army veterans and their friends to the numberof 4,000 attended the grand camp fire a t Music hall the same evening. Hon. Henry Watter-son, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal then made the welcome ad-dress in behalf of the citizens, to which Commander-in-chief Lawler responded. Several other campfires were also hold.

The business sessions of the encamp-ment were full of interest, but the most interesting portions were the election o ' officers and chosing the place for the next encampment There were several very pretty incidents.at the opening—the welcoming speech by Hon. Henry Watterson, the presenta-tion of a magnificent silver tea service to Past 'Commander-in-Chief Palmer, and the presentation of gavel made of gold, silver and copper, and studded with diamonds, rubies and sapphires to Commander-in-Chief Lawler by the Montana depar tment The reports of the various officers showed a total net loss in membership of 13,010 for the year ending June 30, 1895. The number of deaths for the year were 7,308, and there is now a membership of 357,030. The receipts for the year from all sources were 833,427; expendi-tures 820,480; balance on hand 812.333. Buffalo, Denver, Baltimore, S t Paul, and Nashville worked for the encamp-ment in 1890, and S t Paul won. The election of officers resulted: Com-mander-in-chief, Ivan A. Walker, of Indianapolis; senior vice commander. Gen. E. 1L Hobson, of Kentucky, junior vice commander, C. E. Cosgrove, of Washington.

The reports of the officers of the Women's Relief Corps showed a mem-bership of 110,774, a gain of 35,696 for the year. The amount expended was 8188,329 of which 864,659 was for relief.

A session of the Ladies* Circle of the G. A. R., another auxilliary to the veterans' organization, was also held ind reports made showing an increase in membership.

WE KEEP T H E CUP.

The Much Tnlked-of Yncht Races for t b * American Cap n Grand F i u l f e

The international races betwefen the American yacht Defender and the British yacht Valkyrie III , the prelim inaries of which have kept the lovers of the sport on the tip-too of excite-| ment and interest for many weeks, has pi oven a great flunk on the par t of t h e British challenger. Lord Dunravcii. The first race was sailed over a course 15 miles to sea from the coast of New Jersey and return and was won by the American bout by 8 minutes and 49 seconds. In the second race Defender was crippled by the Valkyrie I I I swinging her boom so as to break a back stay and spreader on her oppon-ent, which resulted in the topmast be-coming so weakened as not to be able to bear the upper canvas. This oc-curred a t the very s tar t , yet the crip-

Sled American came in but 40 seconds ehind the Britisher on a t r iangular

course of 10 miles on each leg. The Defender protested the race and the committee declared her the winner ol^ a foul. At the third race Lord Dun-raven's boat went across the s tar t ing lino and then withdrew from the course, the reason given being t h a t the excursion boats crowded too close to the course, nothwilhstanding. t h e fact that the nearest boat was half a mile d i s tan t The Defender continued on the course, making the 30 miles in 4 hours, 44 minutes and 12 seconds. This made three races won by t h e American yacht and insured the Amer-ican cup remaining with ns. While all lovers of sport and fair play regre t the miserable ending of what promised to be the greatest contest ever known, ye t all are pleased a t the Defender'a success. Lord Dunraven's boyish ac-tions and ill-temper in severely con-demned.

WUl Dnnrnven Dare Accept This. New York specials say tha t in view

of Lord Duniaven's kicking on t h e course and regulations of the American cup races the Atlantic Yacht club con-templates trying to arrange a race or a series, between the Defender and the Valkyrie 111 for a special cup to cost 82,000. The members of the olub will wager from 85,000 to 820,000 tha t the cup will be won by the Defender. They will allow Dunraven to arrange the details, only that the course shall be in waters between Sandy Hook and Marblehead and the date be within the limit of Oct 1. Gen. Chas. H Taylor, of Boston, has telegraphed tha t as the races for the American cup had such an unsatisfactory termination, he will give 85,000 for a trophy to be contested for by the Defender and the Valkyrie off of Marblehead. Lord Dunraven would make no satisfactory reply to these offers, but Mr. Iselitl, of the Defender syndicate, said, " I will race the Defender anywhere, a t any time and for anything."

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It is a F a c t LUNATIC'S STORY.

A T>r«

Han Taken From n V. S. Steamer and Shot The steamer City of Sydney, which

arrived a t San Francisco from Panama, brought particulars of the capture of Florencio Bustamento, one of Antonio Ezeta's favorite lieutenants—who had come on board a t Corinto, Nicarag-ua,— by Salvador authorities a t La Libertad. It is supposed by the Spanish-Ameri-cans who came up on the City of Syd-ney tha t he has been torn to pieces by an infuriated mob or publicly shot in the streets of the city of San Salvador. The arrest of Bustamento while aboard an American ship is said to be in di rect violation of international law and the turbulent l i t t le Central American republic may be called to account for i ts high-handed action by the United States. Capt Johnston, of the City of Sydney, refused to disenss the mat ter , saying t h a t he could not do so un t i l he had first consulted his superiors.

Bustamento was one of the men who accompanied ex-President Ezeta, of Salvador to San Francisco on the U. S. warship Bennington, a f t e r escaping f rom Salvador subsequent to the down-fal l of the Ezetas. The rebel Presi-dent Gieterrez made repeated demands fo r their surrender, bu t the captain refused to give them up. Before the m a t t e r was settled with the United Sta tes anthorities, the Bennington was ordered to San Francisco. The ease of the refugees was tried in the U. S. courts and at tracted world-wide at tention. The resul t was t h a t the United States refused to give up the men. All bu t Ezeta lef t San Francisco and i t is now said tha t Ezeta is plan-

ing to re turn to Salvador to overthrow the present government

The three-year-old son of John Hafer, a farmer near Adrian, was found drowned in an abandoned well.

Tremendous rainstorms flooded the town of Webb City. Mo., so tha t resi-dents were driven to the second story of their houses. Damage over 8100,000.

The steamers Buenos Ayres, Monte-video, and Isla do Luzon arrived at Havana from Spain with 4,800 troops. Five other steamers landed 8,400 troops a t Santiago, Canfuegos and Caibarren.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett , au-thor of "Li t t le Lord Fauntleroy," who has drawn so many pret ty portraits of the happy side of domestic life, has a t last to admit tha t marriage has been

failure in her own case, and here-a f t e r will live apar t from her husband. Mrs. Burnet t is now In London, but her husband is in Washington, and admits t h a t a mutual separation has been agreed upon, on the gronnd of incom-patibility of temper.

The entire business portion of Pierce-ton, Ind., was destroyed by lire. The loss will be heavy.

The Jacksonville. Fla., board of trade adopted resolutions declaring tha t the time has come for the United States to recognize the Cuban revolu-tionists as belligerents, and requi ing the Florida senators a n d . ~ sentatives touse every means to about such recognition upon the sembling of congress.

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Dun's says; A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, aooordlng to the *^nl outcome of toe crops, is not unexpected at this season. If the government crop reports were correct the situation would not be enoonragiog. But not much conildenoe is placed in the re-duced estimate of corn, none at all in the esti-mate of wheat and even the most enthoslsstls bulla do not think it worth while to quote the government report as to cotton. The faei i s we are beginning to market not far from MM.-ouo.ouo bushels of corn, though only about 100,-000.00 > bushels will be moved from the ooubUm where It has grown; about 4<u.000.>i00 bushetaot wheat, of which the farmers are nnwleely hold-ing back a large proportion; and about 7.110.000 bales of cotton. Prices have settled back dur-ing the past week notwithstanding the gloomy agricultural department report The wheat crop is evidently larger than the department has estimated and la coming forward with more encouraging rapidity. The farmers have un-doubtedly been keeping back wheat under an agreement among themselves, but it does not seem a profitable operation for them. The price declined sharply with Uttle Indication ol recovery. The price of corn has also yielded with a strong prospect of the largest crop eve*

Erown. and a large proportion of the crop wUI e of little proht to the farmers. The largest

output of pig iron ever known Is apparent' supported by a reduction in stocks un ' The market for finished products Is a „ weaker, with indications of hesitation onl part of buyers, although prices are on • whole fairly maintained. The rapid shipmee of Marquette ore during the post week have ] some intluonce upon prices of Bessemer prof ucts. Cotton goods nave been strong with comparatively good market tor raw cotton. 1 at the close a decline Is indicated, because I market for raw cotton has shown much wet-ness. Sales of wool have been but little m o . , than half that of the same week of 1893, and there were Indications that the domestic mar-ket is quite overloaded by the speculative i chases made some time ago.

News has been received of terribli earthquakes in Honduras, Central Atmrica, which continued for nearly 24 hours. The city of Yetapan suffered most severely, but many small villages were almost destroyed. Mountains about Yetapan burst open and enor-mous sheets of flame shot into the ais. Scores of people were killed by rocka-and many wore engulfed in molten, lava Shock followed shock unti l the buildings rocked as thoueh t l e y were in a huge cradle. The killed as f a f 8« found in the first search numbered 880. The property loss will almost reach Si.ooo.ooa I t is calcuiaiad tha t over 1,800 cattle were killed

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Cleveland's Flag. Just a t the eastward of Gray Gables

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O ONE BROUGHT Jn'n casual contact with Edward Flint would have sus-pected that he was of unsound mind. None tho less ho was ono of tho most danger o n s lunatics that I had lu tho X asy-lum.

In his saner intervals no man could have desired a pleasanter companion, and It was my constant habit to spend half an hour or so a day in his con-genial company. Ono day, just before his periodical attack, ho told me the following story, which is of such a unique character that I give it just as he told it to me. At its conclusion, wrought up to a pitch of fury, he made a determined attack upon me, and I nearly paid for my tale with my life, being only rescued with difficulty by the attendants.

• • • •

T was what the world would call a successful man, and on my fortieth birthday I reckoned I was making over £2,000 a year. I had always been a lonely man and had never had the least Inclination towards female so-ciety, contenting myself with my work and my books. One day, however, I had to wait upon an old gentleman who had recently come to our town for the purpose of. drawing up his will. When this was done I was Introduced to his daughter, a girl about 20. Ethel Millikin was not what might have been called a beauty; still, I new at once that I had met my fate.

• • • • • • "It was clearly absurd for me to at-

tempt to win her love in the usual way, the disparity in years was to great, so I decided to win her respect first

'I took time over it and quietly in-terested myself in her pet projects, subscribed to her sick fund, lent her hooks, and was of use to her in many ways. Already she regarded me as a very dear friend, nnd. I have no doubt, would soon have learned to love me.

"One night I was to take her and her sister to the theater and had booked three stalls. At the last minute, how-ever, to my secret Joy, her sister had a bad headacho and was unable to go. We went as arranged and I decided to

"One morning I crawled down to the office feeling utterly done up and list-lessly examined my correspondence. Among it I noted one from an old friend who was practicing as a physi-clau in Paris. Tossing the rest of the letters to the managing clerk I began to read my friend's long letter. Sud-denly a paragraph lu it seemed to stand before my eyes as if written in fire. I t ran thus:

" 'You will, I know, be keenly inter-ested in a marvelous discovery that Dr. Luys of this city has Just made. He is our great authority on brain diseases and also dabbles in hypnotism and other kindred subjects.

" 'He has established beyond any doubt that it is possible to remove the delusions of an insane person—previ-ously hypnotized—by means of a thin magnetized steel band worn around tho patient's forehead for about a week. This is sufficiently marvelous, but is nothing to the fact that If a sane man or woman wears the band previously used by the lunatic the delusions of the latter pass In their entirety to the wearer, who be-comes an echo In every action of his predecessor.'

"At last! At last! Crushing the paper In my hand. I reveled In the ex-quisite revenge the letter revealed to me. My brain, preternaturally excited. In a few moments planned the whole scheme. Violently ringing my bell, I Informed the clerk who came hurrying in that I had to go to Paris at once on urgent business. I told him to ask Sir Edward to meet mo a t the office In four days' time to finish the settle-ment, and I started at once for London en route for Paris.

"Fatigue was gone. Once more alert and active, I felt as If treading on air. On the journey I rehearsed and re-hearsed the scheme I had planned out until I thought it perfect. I at once, on arrival, hastened to my friend's house and pretended that I had not received his letter. After breakfast he took me to Dr. Luys' clinic, and there I saw that the powers he laid claim to were indeed his. Selecting the neediest-looking of his assistants I gently touched him and drew him aside. In my best French I told him that if he came to my hotel that evening with the band just removed from the lunatic who had been relieved before my eyes. I would give him 2,500 francs, or £100. At first he would not listen, but at last he did, and I went back to my hotel, content. That evening I left

" 'How awfully good you are, Flint! I can never repay you for your kind-ness; I owe you more than I can tell already. Why, you Introduced me to the lovelieat '

" 'Stay! stay! Don't begin that. I

LIVES ON ELM TREES.

Ravages of a Beet le That fa Destroying

tho Efma of Now Kiisluml. The advance of elm-leaf beetles Into

New England lias been extremely rapid, „ . ... says the Springfield Republican, About

will arrnngo to start next Monday; win , f o I , l n i g h t n E n t h f i y w e r e reported in

that suit jui?' full force In several towns in ConuecLl-"So It was agreed, irtid he left tho . ^ M a B s a c h u 8 e t t g . s tam-

office In high spirits, while I sat on acd f o r d f M i , . - o r d i B r l d g e p o r t and other thought of Ethel, my wife in the fu-ture.

"In the Uttle village of Ancorn I bound the fatal band round his fore-head. I could not hypnotize him, but

towns along Long Island sound have been ravaged, and from New Haven they have come up tho valley and are in Hartford as well as in this city. Tho damage done in tho famous elms

I felt sure t h f I of New Haven, the elm city. Is melan-tho BUCccHa of ^ e band ^ o u l d be^ as ^ c o n t e r a p I a t e T h e t r e e 8 a r e

as brown as in the last of fall, and no

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good as any other man's hypnotic power. And so it proved, for, on the eighth day, I found Sir Edward Berk-ley—Ethel's promised husband—in his bedroom, a gibbering lunatic. I at onco secured the steel band, which was soon destroyed, and then summoned as-sistance. With great difficulty we had him removed to an asylum, and I went hack to break the news to his financee, I did It, I flatter myself, well, and then left her alone for a month. Then I gradually began once more to frequent the house, until I stood again In my old position. Berkley had been away for flvo months, and I thought the time had arrived to speak my mind to Ethel. I went one afternoon to see her, and. If possible, to win her. Sitting at her side, I was Just going to speak, when I heard a step on the stair nnd turned round, and to my amazement saw Sir Edward Berkley himself. Then I saw all was over—a blind fury seemed to seize me. In a moment I was on him. 'Ah! I have you now—I have you at last ' "

• • • e * With a hound Flint was upon me. I

fought for my life, but fortunately as-sistance was at hand, and, fighting, yelling and struggling, the maniac was secured.

work has yet been done to stop the

(From the World-Herald, Omaha, Neb.) • A World-Herald reporter was attract-1

ed by the evidence of renewed activity of some of the older Inhabitants of the village of Bruce, a suburb of Omaha, Neb., and enquired the cause. Mr. An-drew Flnkenkeler, who was a member of Company B of the First Iowa Volun-teers during the war, made the follow-ing explanation so fur as he hlmse-K Is concerned.

"In Juy, 1866, while my company was

ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS.

A New York Woman Artist Accomplishes

Winders In a New Field. Miss Fannie Elkins, a New York ar-

tist, follows a unique line of art which has won her a World's Fair medal and diploma, "awarded for accuracy, detail and beauty." Miss Elkins makes ana-tomical drawings for physicians and surgeons who require such in deliver-ing lectures or in illustrating medical books. To the outsider the work a t once carries grewsome suggestions. Un-doubtedly it is an odd occupation for a woman to choose. Miss Elkins, so far as can he discovered, is the only Ameri-can woman who has succeeded in mak-ing a distinct profession of such drawing. Once within her studio the

despoilment. Last week the city coun-|on the march through to Austin, Tex., oil determined take mea..,re8 a g a | n , t r ™ £ tho pest. Most of tho mischief for weak I wns sunstruck and re-year had been done and that will be1 malned unconscious for several hours, tho case almost everywhere, A few Every summer since I have been una-weeks ago the state agricultural school at Mansfield, Conn,, published full di-rections for tho meeting of the elm-leaf beetle at the outse t Professor C. D. Woods said:

"The easiest way to destroy the bee-tles and prevent to a considerable ex-tent their ravages another season is to treat the ground around the base of the trees for a distance of several yards with strong kerosene emulsion. This will not help the trees this season, but if all the pupae at the surface of the ground are destroyed, and If th is Is done under all the trees In a given town, there will be no beetles to lay eggs next season. The kerosene emul-sion Is best prepared in this way: Soft soap, one quart; kerosene, one pint: water, six quarts. • Warm the soap until It becomes liquefied. Remove from near fire, add the kerosene and agitate rapidly with a force pump for five or ten minutes until it becomes e homogeneous creamy mass from which the kerosene will not separate on stand ing. Add the water and thoroughlj i. !x, when the emulsion will have th« appearance of milk. This should be ap plied near the trees at two or thre< different times in sufficient quantitie to thoroughly saurate the surface of th ground. A force pump with sprayim nozzle, or a watering pot with nose cai be used to apply the emulsion."

WITH A BOUND FLINT WAS UPON ME.

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put my fortunes to the touch dur-ing the performance. On our arrival the theater was crowded and, to my Intense annoyance, I found a young client of mine. Sir Edward Berkley, In the next stall to ours. I was obliged to Introduce him and had the mortifi-cation of seeing that Miss Millikin had made an Impression on him. What ^hance had I against a young, wealthy and handsome man? And with Jeal-ous eyes I already saw the Chateau d'Espagne of love, that I had so care-fully reared. In ruins.

On our return from the play Berk-ley insisted on accompanying us to Mr. Millikin's house and was Introduced by me to him.

"The acquaintance ripened Into friendship, and friendship Into love, which I was powerless to prevent; and one day Berkley burst Into my office In a great state of excitement and asked me to congratulate him!

"Me, of all men! How I managed with Impotent rage at my heart, to keep a smooth and smiling face on I do not know; but, to add to the bitter Irony of the situation, I had to receive Instructions to draw up my successful rival's marriage settlements. I could have cheerfully murdered him as he sat in his chair so bright and cheerful, with the happiness of youth glowing in his face. Suddenly his face twitched, and he hastily put his hand to his brow.

" 'What Is it?' I eagerly asked, hop-ing he might be going to be ill.

" 'No th ing -on ly neuralgia. I have suffered from It for years and have

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So saying, he got up and took his go and make love—curse him!

—to his fiancee. "No one knows what days and nights

I spent, although I worked until my body was aching; my brain would not let me sleep. I roamed up and down my room, planning impossible methods ef revenge, only to see the futility of it aU. The times are not suited for melo-drama. and I could only watch and watch and—wait

Paris with my 'revenge' carefully packed In a small box. On arrival a t my house I slept for twelve hours, a thing I had not done for weeks, and awoke ready to carry my scheme through.

"The following morning I was closeted with Berkley for some time, poring over deeds of t i t le and old, musty documents. I purposely de-layed, In order to fatigue him. Pres-ently I saw the tell-tale contraction of his face, and I knew he was mine. Leaning across the table, I said:

" T had intended. Sir Edward, halt ruining myself In giving you a wed-ding present; but I have altered my mind—I will cure your neuralgia in-stead.'

" 'What ! ' said he, eagerly; 'I'd give anything If you could; it 's the only cross I have to bear.'

" 'Well , I'll cure you on one condi-tion.'

" 'Name It—I'll do anything.' " 'That you give me your solemn

word of honor not to disclose to any-one the method of cure.'

" 'All right; only cure me.' " 'Well , I'll tell you, first, why you

have had to promise. You must know that this office—that Is, myse l f - i s the repository of half the secrets of the town/ This is because everyone thinks I am a model for solid common sense. Now, if you blurted out that I had ad-vised you to use a half-spiritualistic, half-quacklsh remedy, why, my reputa-tion as an embodiment of practical sense would be gone. I used myself to suffer from headaches, and do now, for that matter, and had tried every remedy that the doctors could suggest At last I was persuaded to try a spirit-ualist, to whom I went at n ight He gave me a thin band to wear whenever I had a headache, and he said it would relieve it if due to overwork, or cure it if due to neuralgia. I t was to be worn for eight days constantly, and, to en-able you to do H, I suggest that we both take a week's holiday and go to some small fishing village and try the treat-m e n t '

"I paused and waited with throbbing heart for his answer.

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A thimble was originally a thumb bell, because it was worn on the thumb as sailors still wear their thimbles. Ii is a Dutch invention, and in 1884 ii Amsterdam the bi-centennial of th thimble was celebrated with a great deal of formality. This very valuablt addition to my lady's workbasket w a

idea of grewsomeness is almost lost, first made by a goldsmith named Nich The room is a pleasant square one, with olas van Benschoten, the ancestor o

ble to stand the heat of the sun, and have been compelled to give up my work. There was In my head a bearing down feeling which Increased until it seemed my head would burst and It caused a ringing In my ears, and palpi-tation of the heart set In, so that the slightest noise would set my heart thumping. Several times It has ren-dered me unconscious for from seven to ten hours at a time. In addition to this the rheumatism extended up my entire side until It diew my head down on my shoulder. I lost my strength and flesh and was totally unfit for work.

"For twenty-eight years I have con-sulted physicians and taken their pre-scriptions without deriving any mate-rial bene.1t. My ailments increased In Intensity until I was assured that there was no hope for me. "

"In November last I rend In the World-Herald a case of a man who had been entirely cured from the aliments from which I was suffering, by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. On November 28 I purchased a box. In a week I felt "better than

had for six months past. The ring-ing in my ears began to lessen In volume and finally left me. The pain form the rheumatism gradually left me, so that within one week from the time I took my first pill I was able to sit up in bed. On January 1 I was able to go out and walk around a little. On February 9 I was so thorough-ly cured that I accepted a position as night watchman in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, remaining out of doors from 6 p. m. until 6 a. m. I have gained In weight from 144 pounds which I weighed In November last, to 162 pounds which I weigh now."

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a big window overlooking Fourteenth street and admitting a strong light to the table beneath. There are few of the manifold decorations and hangings which usually appear In studios, but the drawings, framed In oak and gilt upon the wall—part of her World's Fair ex-hibit—are not at all alarming. Among these the human eye, much magnified, is represented under several aspects, gazing out from circular mats of white board.

B I T S O F M U S I N O T H O U F C H T .

"Soc ie ty is continually surging with the conflict of dollars and sense.

Fishermen will dream of fish lying about them, but in reality it 's the other way.

The more a man looks a t the purchase of a lawn mower the less the mower seems to he.

No man can learn to play a cornet and teach Christianity in the same neighborhood.

There Is one consolation with the new worn no craze—the coming chaperon will be a man.

The flsjerman who lies in wait tor a trout and finally gets it, is apt to lie In weight for many moons.

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the American family of Van Bensco tens. And it may further interes colonial dames to know that the firs thimble made was presented in 168 to Anna van Wedy, the second wife o Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the purchase! of Rensselaerwyck and the first pa troon. Mme. van Rensselaer's mem ory was duly honored in. Holland or the occasion of the thimble bicenten nial. In presenting his useful gift Var Benschote^ pegged Mme. f a s Sea&Je la'er "W accept- fWs hew covering for the protection of her diligent fingen as a token of his esteem." It was no; until 1695, Just 200 years ago, that th( thimble was Introduced Into England by a Hollander named John Lofting who opened a thimble manufactory at Islington.—Harper's Bazar.

The Germanic's Becord. The steamer Germanic, of the White

Star line, has made 422 passages across the Atlantic, traveling a distance of more than 1,500,000 miles. She hae just had a set of new engines put In to take the place of those which were new when she was, in 1875.

J E T S A M .

There are two solid silver tea tables at Windsor castle.

Cuba has twelve varieties of mosqjui-toes and 300 varieties of butterflies.

The French government annually ap-propriates $25,000,000 for various charl-

There are in Wales about 910,280 Welsh speakers and about 236,000 out-side the principality.

I t appears that there are only about 100 native born American tars In the United States navy.

Governesses able to cycle will soon he In demand In Paris, such Is the rage for cyc\Ing among girls.

An antarctic Iceberg has been seen that was 20 miles wide, 40 miles In length and 400 feet In height.

A statue in bronze of Ole Bull, the great Norwegian viollnst, is to be erect ed by his fellow-countrymen at Minne-apolis.

It Is stated that, taking the country all over, there are an unusual number of applicants for relief from marital misery.

A railroad trestle 1.600 feet long. With double tracks and a steel drawbridge, has Just been completed over Colgate creek, Maryland.

From London to Aberdeen, a distance of 504 miles. Is now covered in eleven hours by a train of the London and Northwestern railway.

A decided novelty In Connecticut legislation Is the law which went Into effect a few days ago making the license of liquor dealers attachable for debt

One-quarter of the main line of the Trans-Siberian railroad Is noW com-pleted. The cosft has been about $30,-000,000—somewhat under the estimate.

The women a t York Harbor, Me., have two alternatives, either to wear bloomers or put a stop to sprinkling the streets with salt water, which ruins their dresses.

N O T E S OF T H E DAY.

London Is now listening to Slgnor FabozzI, a Neapolitan pianist, born blind.

In 1897 Canada will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of Se-bastian Cabot

Georgia has a quiet, harmless Seventh Day believer in the chain gang for a year for working on Sunday.

Tom Eck and John S. Johnson are talking about getting up a big profes-sional race meeting in Minneapolis.

The building of looms in Lowell was begun nearly seventy years ago, and has been continued ever since without Interruption.

A typesetting machine that can set 50,000 ems an hour has been invented by Father Calendoli, a Sicilian Dom-inician monk.

Bicyclists must first learn to ride fairly well before they are allowed to use their wheels in the public streets of Russian cities.

Admiral Meade, who retired only lately, after a long, active service in the national navy, takes a great deal of comfort in his wheel.

A Portsmouth, N. H., liveryman failed for $12,000 the other day. He says bicycles ruined the business, for three years ago he was worth $40,000.

Arthur Gardiner, the speedy Chicago cyclist, who has beaten Bald and other class B men in open races recently, rides a wheel geared to seventy-six inches.

Blanche Cox. a well-educated and ladylike Salvationist, has been sent to Jail for thirty days for "disturbing the peace" of Colorado Springs by open air meetings.

Springfieu, Mass., Intends h a m g something big in the way of profes-sional races at Its fall meet Sixteen hundred dollars has been appropriated for four professional events.

As a result of the leglslatioa adoptee' some time ago by the L. A. W., exclud Ing the negro from mehersbip in th< league, a national organisation of col ored wheelmen will soon be organised.

Squeezed the Hand of an Empress In tho

Fervor of Becltatlon. G. W. Smalley, in "Studies of Men,"

relates the following Incident: "Tenny-son was one of the party invited some years since by Sir Donald Currie on a yachting erip, the yacht provided being an ocean steamer of the South Africa line, known as the Pembroke Castle. Mr. Gladstone was another guest, I think—certainly he was on one of the two or three trips then taken. There was on board a young English girl, since married and dead, whoseJjeauty and Intelligence and charm were all remarkable. Tenui'son attached him-self to this brilliant and sympathetio weature. He was often asked to read, and i t became his habit to read holding her hand, which, in the fervor of recita-tion, he often pressed. The ship put in at Copenhagen, and the Princess of Wales and the Empress of Russia, then on a visit to her old home, came on board. There was luncheon, and af ter luncheon Tennyson was asked to read; and did, sitting between the Empress on one side and the English girl on ths other. When It was over and they had gone up on deck, he asked the girl whether she thought the Empress liked I t 'Well,' answered she, "her Majesty must have thought it a Uttle unusual.* What do you mean?' T mean that I

don't think the Empress is In the habit of having her hand squeezed in publie even by poets.' It seemed proper to Tennyson to offer to the Empress his most humble apologies for his mistake. The Empress laughed, and told him shf bad enjoyed the reading extremely."

N O T E S OF T H E DAY.

In Ohio one In every ten voters is a soldier.

The school children of Delaware have, by vote, selected the peach blos-som as the floral emblem of the state.

Chief of Police Jansen of Milwaukee has begun a crusade against dance halls In his city. He says that they are among the worst of evils.

A game protective law Just passed in Missouri provides severe punishment for any one convicted of killing a doe deer In the next five years.

Ten plates by John Ruskln, some of them In colors, will be published soon from the Orpington Press, with descrip-tive passages from his works.

Charlie Vaughn of Coldwater, Mich., shot a crane six feet four inches from tip to tip of wing. The bird had a vase in its stomach -that weighed nearly a pound.

Los Angeles is having a new boom. The superintendent of buildings there reports $600,000 put Into buildings dur-ing the month of July, following $336,-000 In June.

Red tape Is driving shipping from the new Baltic canal. I t causes so much unnecessary delay that the old way around Denmark in preferred, and besides the pilots and officials are im-polite.

The sea serpent has migrated Inland. I t was seen in Lake Manitoba a week ago by a citizen of Minnewaken, Man. I t was a t that time forty feet long, had a head like a bulldog, and was covered with long gray hair.

A dog belonging to George Wilcox of Canton, Conn., met a porupine in his wanderings a few days ago, and came home so full of quills that i t took a long time to pick them out, and two men to hold him during the process.

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LOWELL, KENT COUNTY. MICH.,

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FRANK M. TOHNaON.

Entered at "Lowell post oQlce bb second i )h68 matter.

tUBSCUIPTION ONE DOLLAK YEARLY.

ADVBHT1SINO RATES. Business locals 5 cents per line each Issue Legal ads nt legal rates. Cards in directory column | 1 0 0 per llni

per yeir. One inch pur year. Rates for lanrcr advertisements made

known at the offlce.

.lob printlnr in connection at Grand Rapids rates. "Always rrorapt," is our motto.

STAND BY YOUR HOMETOWN.

T h e following article from the

Ionia Sentinel will bear repeating

here. Lowell people will please read

"Lowell" wherever the Sentinel line i t

' ' Ion ia , " for the principle is the same

everywhere nnd the lesson taught if,

i (and by your home town. The Sen -

tinel says:

This cily and county is overrun hy

peddlers or agents who are selling all

sorts of goods in competition with

local merchants without paying a dol-

lar of taxes in the town or county and

who under some sort of a con-

struction or other of the interstate

commerce law even evade the pay-

ment of a license for the privilege.

They aud their principles do not live

here. They do not pay taxes here.

They have no intfcrests here except to

get what money they can out of us

and take it away to be invested else-

where. Some of these men are un-

questionably doing a retail business.

The rulings of the courts relative to

shipping packages into the state und«ir

the interstate commerce law canuol

possibly Apply to them and it is more

than doubtful whether they could

nninta in themselves if a test cast

ware cartied through the circuit court

to the supreme court. Equi ty and

law alike, it would seem, ought to be-

on the side of the local dealer.

If the city and county cannot cam-

on the contest for the better protec

tion of home industries and home en-

t ;rprise it would he a good idea for

all the dealers in a certain line—say

groceries—to combine and make a

tj.st case.

We believe however that the peo-

ple would stand by the duly empow-

ered oflicials if the contest should be

made in the name of the people and

am'* BAnense would be chier-.. that tTie

ful ly borne. -

If local merchants who l i t l p i F 1

build up our town nre to be at the

mercy of a swarm of t r amp dealers it

is time we knew it.

As a prominent banker said to the

Sentinel this morning: "The mer-

chants on Main street are taxed to

biiild a pavement in front of their

stores, and then perapatic hawkers

representing merchants who build

pavements in other towns outside the

county are permitted to set up a

movable store free of cost on thai

pavement to injure the trade of the

men who built it.

Right here a word to our citizens:

If the law will not aid us in this mat-

ter take it into your own hands. Do

not patronize a man who comes to

your home to sell outside goods

Deal with your own merchants.

Help them and they will help yon

These traveling dealers may give yon

your money's worth and they ma}

not. You cannot tell. If they do

not what redress have you. Yon

have parted with your money. The}

are here today; somewhere ehe to-

morrow. Give them a wide ber th .

Your local merchant is always with

you . If you d' n' t get what you order

you can return it. Yon can talk ii

over with him. If it isn't right lu

will make it right. There are a

thousand reasons that can be given

why it is better for you simply from

a selfish stand point to deal with your

liome merchant. But we cannot af-

ford to be selfibh. I t is not good pol-

icy. Help your mighbors and von

ther tby help y msi'lves. Stand by

each other. C a n y the golden rule

into your business.

H o w much money dots Detroi t or

G r a n d Rapids pay towards the sup-

port of Ionia churches or Ionia schools;

for paving Ionia streets or supplying

Ionia hemes wilh water or other

necessary comfort.-? Not one cent.

Gi and Rapids is for Grand Rapids j

every t ime. W h y shall not Ionia be

enough in your pocket to pay for

yoir return ticket. Buy your lunch in Ionia nnd take it with you.

I f you spend your money with

Ionia merchants they will put it in

Ionia banks and what is lefl of it after

paying the wholesalers, for their goods

will go into the common fnud which

is the measure of our prosperity,

which measures our profits and makes

up our surplus.

The Leiiuer endorses the above as

applied to Lowell, and only hopci

that the home merchants for whose

good it labors will appreciate their

home papers with a reasonable adver -

tising patronage. There is no earthly

use of onr trying to induce people to

trado with merrhants who will not use

printer's ink. The live merchants of

Grand Rapids advertise continuously.

Lowell merchants need to use the

same kind of trade inducer, and there

is no good reason why they should not

do so. * *

BAND MUSIC AT THE STATE FAIR-CflAND RAPIDS CALL

The Grand Rapids papers assume

that the state fair manageis ought U

haye employed one of the Grand Rap-

ids bands. They should remember

that that cily is but a small fraction

of Michigan nnd that this is a STATE

fair. I f the Valley city folks want a

fair all to themselves, they can have

one rnd the state fair can be held else-

where. The above men'tioned papers

take especial delight in heaping r id i -

cule upon the Northville band, which

perhaps is not a l together unmerited;

but the Workman ' s remark that a

band from a small town must of ne-

cessity be "cheesy" is such an insult to

the smaller towns as to demand retort.

Until quite recently, state band tour-

naments were held annually in Mich-

igan for which large prizes were awar-

ded to winning bands by eminent mu-

sical judges. A t these tournaments

awards were made to competing band.-

from Flint , Por t Huron, Saginaw

Bay City, Almont, Ypsilanti, Lansing.

Constantine and other citiesand towns

of the state. Rut NEVER, to our know-

ledge, has a band from Grand Rapids

won a prize a t a State band tourna-

ment. And now, at this late day, for

Grand Rapids papers to assume for

the hands of that city a monopoly ol

the musical talent of the state is a de

g r e e o f g a l l and impudence rising ul

most to sublimity. W e have no quar-

rel with the musicians of Grand R a p

ids; but their claims to the stale lair

job are certainly not superior to thost

of" a score of other Michigan towns vp"'-a n

who iiWtfciffc'jWreTHt

to contest for points with

in the state.

C. J . Church. C. A. Churuli.

have not beep »frai|

jverv band

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COOP ADVICE TO CRITICS.

T h e country newspaper is an im-

portant agency in the cultivation ol

public spiri ' , and however humble ii

•nay seem beside the metropolitan

da i ly , it has a place in popular edu-

cation which is too little regarded.

While the editor is often not above

the rank of a practical printer, there

are many persons in most of the sub-

urban towns, clergymen, lawyers,

teachers and others, who have tlu-

leisure and the ability to use the pa-

per as the vehicle of influence over

their fellow-citizens. The country

newspaper is usually local in its news,

and the very people who might make

it fresh nnd suggestive are those who

complain most loudly of its meager

character. Short ar t ichs ptrtaininy

to local interest are always welcome

in its columns, and the men and

women who most dts i re to make home

life in the country rich ami influen-

tial can best do so by contributing

rreely to its columns of what they

have in mind. In some places this

has been done, and the result in the

quickened life of the community has

been gratifying.—[Boston (Mass.)

Herald.

B A N K I N G H O U S E O F

6 . J . - l f t i i r G l i a n d S o n

LOWELL, MICH.

Ivstabllhlicd ut Greenville, 18G1; Luwell/SS,

' J e n c r a l B a n k i n g B u s i n e s s Done.

Money loaned on ItenI Estate or Danka-ble Paper. Interest paid nn Time Depths. Excliunges available in ull the Cumtnerciul Cities of the World ai cut rent rates.

W E S O L I C I T Y O U R DUSINKSS.

was not in n responsible condilion.

Drunkenness is no defense whatever.

H e had no business to get drunk.

He deliberately put himself in con-

dition to do murder, and should be

punished to the fullest extent of the

law.

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WRITING to the Grand Rapids

Herald, Geo. P . H u m m e r denies the

statement tfuit the state made $25,000

last year out of the Ionia prison fur-

niture factory and says that the fac-

tory was run at an aclnal loss. Then

what in the name ol i ,j that 's sensible

is the object of continuing the despic-

able practice of slealibg bread from

the wives and children of honest men?

Where 's the sense of doing a mean

business at a loss? Here's hoping that

We will some day e h c t a Ipginlature

that Will do awny with Jail-bird

competion with honest labor.

ALTO.

Goo. Camfield went to Grant) Rapids Wednesday.

The infant daughter of John Clmttcrdon and wile was buried Tuesday, Sept., 17,

Geo. Kerch wns in Clarksville Monday. Geo. McKee went to Lowell Vouduy. Dr. Hunter is on the tiick list. The greut day in Alto,September 13.

was n success. Kverylhing went oft-grand-ly. The ball game resulted ip n defeat for Clarksville by a score of 14 to 18.

B. F. Palmer was in Grand Rapids Tues-day.

C. MeCormick, of Clarksville waipn Alto Friday.

Warren Rr.wleoder will remove to his former room and A. Berpy will occupy the vacant house.

Peaches are getting scarce in this vlcin-'ty.

Phil Ilurtly has become a resident of Al-to.

G. W. McKee entertained company from Kohnozoo last week,

PARNELL POINTS.

Pat Manzer has recovered from a seriouv attack of typhoid pneumonia.

Harry Loughlin is able to bunntagnin after five weekssickncsH with mahnial fever

Lucy HefTron has gone to ntiend school at the cotnmercial college at Grand Rapids.

Minnie Mahme bus gone back to Lowell lu attend school.

Born, to (Juy Korton and wife, a nine pound girl.

Aggie Inlscoll ami Jennie Corrignn have returned from a weeks visit with friends in Grand Rapids,

Mrs. E. Cody of Hersey is spending n v '1 ' l her parents, P, Mur

couple of w u U l i 1 1 — ' ' phy and wife.

Mrs. Phil Corrigan andcoiiMn Julia tier are viMting Mrs Peter Corrigan,

Richard Heflron and wife of Lowell fpent Sunday with parents, James Htflron and wife.

GnMa Nugent and Henry Vooney were united in ihe Imly bonds of nialrimmy, Tuesday at Ihe Caiholic ihurch. Rev, Fr. Crumley ofliciating,

Louise Cuddihy of Grand Rapids is visi« (ing her com-in, N aggie Cuddihy of I'ainell

James Loiighlin and Frank Howler have gone to Montreal to attend svliool.

Mr, Cuddihy ofBowne is visiting his j dnuphler, ^ is. P. Rresnaban of Parnell. I

# arte Vur| hy spent Sunday With Katie . Joyce of Cannon.

Johnie Walch has gone to resume his j studies in the Assumption college of S'apd-wich,

.Daniel Doyle is on the sick list.

ALTON.

Perry Purdy found a bean stalk in his field tbnt bad 12o well filled |hkIS on.

Mrs. Alma 'cofield of Lowell spent lust week Thursday with Mrs. John Hapeman and Friday al Orrin Ford's.

P. W. Byrnes vibited relatives at Lowell Sunday.

Charles Reynolds and wife of South how-ell visited his brother Wiley last wetk Thursday.

Put Manzor is sick with typhoid fever. Miss May Go«idell is visiting her cousin,

Mrs. John I, Weeks in Grattan, A large number attended the Slate fair

from here. Geo, Ring has joined the Smyrna baud. Dell Wood and mother of McCmls wore

guesU of bis uncle Wiiey Reynolds last Sat-urday and Sunday.

Ii. King and wife visited his brother Har-mon in Keene Sundny,

H, D. Weeks retin ue 1 last Saturday from Hasting, where he is running a dryer, and has been sick ever since.

D. A. Church and wife visited at Mr. Armstiong's in Cannonsburg Sunday,

Wm, Rennells' little lioy ismiflering with paralysis tl e last two weeks, but Is some betti-r at present writing.

Miss Elgie Ford is not as well this week. T|ic A Idrlch engine has left the mill to

do some threshing this week. — — - t -

The Ledger to new sub.-tribfcha till January 1, 96, fbr obly ifl Ceuts. Subscribe now.

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VE^QKNNE-S. \

G. W. CfoijVy p d v M entertained Mr. Crosby's M I m Dvllu Cru|bj' uf Van dalin, Cass counly, last week.

Mrs. James Hrandeberry of Howard City was culling on friends here hist Friday.

Win. Misncr and wife are enterlaining their brother's wife, Mrs. P. P. Micner of Muskegon. *

Call Warner of Shelbyville was (he guest of his uld school mute, Joe Biucbolon lust week.

Irving llatchelor and wife entertained their uncle aud wife J . G. Critteud n of Martin last week.

D, S. Blanding wife and daughter Misa Miss Grace, Quint Hudson and wife, Hurt Sweet Roy McDonald Hollie and Albert Kruni took in (he state fair last week.

MisJIenry MeCall ol Chippewa counly is (he guest of her parents, Wm. Krtnn nnd wife.

Alvin Moroy of Mccosta county. Vera Dean, A. G. Sinclair, and wife of Lowell were guests of Irving Batcbelor nnd wife one day last week,

S. J . Roomsburg of Portage, Kahuunzoo county was the g est of Irving llatchelor hist week an(l |ook l>ome some of Mr. B's. fine peaches (o show, |I|i) people Inlying seen none so nice in Kalutuezou marked this season.

Welconia to our AI(o brother scribe; we ho|ie to hear from you every week.

DID YOU EVER

Try Electiic Hitters asa remedy for your troubles? If not, ge( a buttle now ami' get relief. This medicine bus been found to be pecnlinrly adapted to lbe relief aud cure of all Fem ale omplapqs, exert Ing ti wonder-ful direct iuiluence in giving slrongth and tone to the organs. If vuu have 1O«h of ap-petite, const potion, iieadache, fainting spoils, or are nervous, sleepless, excitable, melancholv or (ronbled with dizzy spells, Electric Ilittei-s is (he medicine you need. Heahh and sdcngdi arc guaranteed by its use. l/arge bottles only 50c at IMtnter & Son's drug store. 3

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Made—Hnrrishurcs for L A D I E S , Reynold 's lor Q P N T S ,

W A I E S ' G O O D Y E A R R U B B E R S A R E T H E B E S T .

A N D E E S O N & F I N D L A T ,

West Side Shoe Slore.

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For beauty, strength, lightness, durability and easy

running qualities, no other bicycle can equal the \ Ictor.

Buy a Victor and know you have the best.

PRATT LAKE.

Mrs. D. Coyey nnd sun Ward visited friends ut T'ratt Lake.

Miss Nettie McNnnghlon is visiting her | friend Eunice Fled her.

A good many from Pratt Lake attended the state fair at Gravd Rapids.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Andrews and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thurlby attended Quarterly meeting at South Lowell StimhtV.

The hay makers will return to their homes iu Grand Rapids next Tuesday.

Mr, Granger of Mullikvn visited his cousin Mrs. Levi Fletcher the first of the week. . Miss Floy Morgan and Mattie Fletcher visited Eunice Fletcher Sunday!

OLD PEt PLE.

Old people who retjWre medicine to reg-ulate the bnwels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Hitters. This mod icine does not stimulate and contains n<> whiskey nor other intoxicant, bill ucts us a tonic aud alterative. It ac(u mildly on (he stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving (one (o (he organs, (hereby aiding Nature in tho performance of the functions. Electric Ilitteis is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People lind it jnst exactly what they need. Price 50 cents per bottle at Hunter &, S<«n's Drtlg Store. 5

ADA WLFKLV NEWS.

people atlen last

House to rent on Washinirton Rtrtct. nquice of Mrs. N . Purp le .

FoBttKS killed his Wife at Grand

Ledge w i d e drunk and withobt proV

o.-ation. tt's deft m e Will be that lie i

Pr in t ing of all kinds done bontly, chtaply and exp«diiiuu«lyi * |

Quite a mini ded ihe State fair Wednesday and Thursday; all re large aUendance and a good exhibit.

Frank Bradfield of Harbor Springs is visiting bi« parents at this place.

Miss Katie Clark spent Sunday with W. A. Covert and family of Lowell.

Fred Habkin one of Ada's young men commences his first term of school i-eplem-beroOthin (he Withcy district, L'usvade. All wish him success,

Sadie Clark has roturned from Grand Rapids where she has been spending the summer to attend school.

Mrs. 11. A. Clark of this place was the guest of her brother, of Laiuont last week.

Ada can boast of having the finest mills in this part of the country, if you are in doubt jnst call at Smith & Parkers' and try a sack of their fine grade ol rye flour. Mr. Smith is also agent for the famous Ceresolo flour mnntifactuied iu Minne-apolis Minnesota.

Claude M. liradfield of Grand Rapids spent part of last week with his father, H. H. nradfiold of this place.

E. Bradfield and family of Ilarlmr Springs aie visiting relatives in und about Ada.

Mis. E. R. Clemonls und liitle daughter Sophia fire visiting Mr. ClemeflW sister, Mrs. Herbert Evart of Kent Cily,

Rev, Westover, preached his farewell «erinon in the M. E. church of this place Sunday evening.

The Ladies' Benevolent society of the First Congregational church meets at Mrs. Vivian's next Wednesday, Sept. IH,

Mr. and Mrs. llillis hsd a Ixihisler come to s ay Inst Monday—n ten pound girl.

F. H. Wallace and family, .Vllss Maine Shangnessy nnd Mrs. Franc McNanghton spent Sunday with F. L; Crflmpton aud wife of Grand Rapids,

U. D. McNatighloit who has boon in Cal i'orniti for the past two years for the bene-fit of his hoalih has relumed to his old home not much improved for bisjHurnev. We are all glad (o welcome him back but sorry (o see him so leeble.

H. E. (.'lark of Grand Rapids passed throhgli olir town to day.

AlK (ilid Mrs Frank McKnight of the Valley City spent Sunday wilh Mrs. Mc-Khlght's parents. L. Bums nnd Wife.

J . Rurhs of (iiirtigo is home on a two Weeks visit with his paunts Mtsnud Mfs, L Uurtu.

BOSTON.

OVERMAN W H E E L C O . Makera of Victor Eicyelc* and AthleUc Goods.

NEW YORK. CHICAGO. DETROIT,

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Printed Note Heiids, Good Qualily, d * | w Other Printing in Proportion. 1 a

Business Directory. J. HARRISON RICKERT.

dentist. Over Church's bank. Lowell.

S P. RICKS,

Loans, CollflcUons, Real Estate and Inst r-

ance. Lowell, Mich,

0 . 0 . McDANNEL, M. D , Physician and Surgeon. Ofllce, 46 Bridge

street, Lowell. Mich.

M. C. HREEN, M. D. physician and Surgeon. Ofllce at Residence

Bridge street, Lowell, Mich.

CAVEATSJRADE HARKS COPYRIGHTS.

G. G. TOWSLEV, M. D., Physician a t d Surgeon. OUlce uoms, 10 am.

to ftvm. and 7 to 8 pm.

J. M.UOODSPEED, M.l>. Ofllce and Residence on Hudson street. OIIIcc

hours from 9 to 10 a. m , ^ to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m , Sunday. 3 to 5 p ra.

WM. NORTHRUP. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Offlce over Howk &

Son's shoe store, Lowell, Mich.

FARMERS H O T E L

Lowell u £ e r R , , t e " 1 1 0 0 . per day. $3.50 per wet k. uJttd P ^ ^ d clean beds.

MILTON M. PERRY,

Attorney and Counselor at Law, Train's Hall Block, Lowell, Mich. Speclul attention given to Collections, Conveyancing, and Sale of Real Estate,

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BY W r o . F . Wl. HOWARD.

tdojivrifffi'e/, jais.J door, dainty slstor," said Mr, Fal-

[toV. who had been ft silent llstoner to tho ecuversiition. with a touch of Avholcsomei disdain In his voice, "if the Lord of Glory lnul come ou earth in your turn!, you would ducidu ut once Hint a manger was nltogelher-too low 0 place for you to visit Him in, and would no doubt send your resiwcta by a Bci-vant or district visitor."

t ' Harry Falconer I" Tho lady wns really iliocked. "What nn idea; as if there werfc 8iiv narallel bd wcou tho 1 ivo cases.'

"I'm notan.exteusiv • nmle rcudor, butl havop fnlnt rocolloction of somothlug in it like 'Imismui h ns yo have d mo it unto least of those?, ye huve done it unto

-•piled Mr. Falconer, quietly. nn me if 1 sucm rude, Mrs. Stan-

1 luuocl, "but I recall my request. Flint go. for Lottie Is so sensitive,

\ to rood hearts and faces, that slio 'W detect a proud or unsympirtheilc

thought at once." "Have no fears; I didn't have the lean, lu-

tention of going," replied Mrs. Stauford, with n hard little Inugh; "it's qulto out of my line', but speaking of my return, I havo • proposition to make. What do you any to lenulng Grade w me for a few mauths. Jjillle is goue nnd I am very lonely." she spoke feelingly now, and wilh a much softer tone.

Isabel looked inquiringly at her husband, who answered promptly: "Why no, Emily, we could not think of sparing tho child; could we, Mrs. Falconer!"

•'Certainly notbing but n desire to oblign Mrs. Stanford could bo an Inducement, and we should miss her very much," replied Isabel, thougbtfully; slio bud not realized how the llttie ono bud crept into her heart.

"It would not bo at all advisable," re-joined Mr. Falconer, decidedly; but hearing Grace's light step iu tho bull, "wo will leave it to hor, and see If she wishes to go. How is iu Graclul'' as the child came in, and, as

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tN YOim TIME."

tsabol held out her arms, nestled in her lap, putting her arms coiitldingly about her neck. "Would you like to go home with Aunt Emily and be her little girl for a

The chlRPtooked from one to the other doubtfully, and then at ber aunt, who Awaited her answer smilingly.

"If you please, papa, 1 would rather atay with you und mamma," she answered, pat-ting Isabel's cheek with her little white baud.

"Bo you shall, dear." said Mr. Falconer, in a satisfied lone; bo hud little doubt of her reply when ho put the question.

" Don't you remember what a lovely time • you had whrn you were (here last year!"

said Mrs. Stanford,coaxlngly; " the rides In Central Park, and all the other nice things you enjoyed so much I"

"Yes, auntie," replied the child, readily, '•but I didn't huve mamma then,"

Mrs. Sinn ford bit her lip in annoyance. What was the charm about this plain, un-assuming woman which brought her such love and rospectl she asked herself impa-tiently. anil the answer would have beeu apparent had she not beeu so blinded by pride and prejudice that she would not see. • "Shall v/c spend the evening in tho homeroomf" said Isabel to her husband, Inquiringly. Mrs. Stanford had stepped but upon a small balcony, ostensibly to look At a stand of flowers there, really to re-c6Vcr from her vexation, which her native good sense told hor was unladylike aud un-Ctilled for.

" A V he replied, decidedly, "not until nUr f mlly wheels have an application ol the oil of kindness and love," and ho looked slgiilflcaaUy at tho form on the bal-cony; "wo want no jarring or discordance Vitrt."

••Is there any thing I can say or do, Mr. I^alfonerl' in a low, pained voice.

"No. my dear wife," he bud never called her that before, and sho looked up at him

I gratefully. "Only be patient and natural Emily Is notshowinghor better self, aud i

: am sure a little puilence and forbearance . will bring it out all rignu"

lira. Stan font, even men. was struggling Wilh herself, having the grace to bo ashamed

i Ot he* petulance. " 1 know I should love her with the rest," she said to herself, "if

Pi she had oecn one of our own rank in ' Mdety, b u t — a n d tunt little "but" was . e.iough to embitter aii her thoughts,

• Mrs. Stanford had two sides to her char-\ acter, one a selfish and worldly side, with

an overwhelming respect for what then would say or do, the oilier a charmingly friendly and kindly one, which few could m i s t This bei ;er self was struggling for

' pro-eminence, us she absently looked into i; (he depths of a pure cai la lily.

' "Oh, papa, let's ride out to Falrmount v this evening," said Grade, ns Mrs. Stau-

9 rustling in with u happier shade hands mo face. " Auntie has not iew statuary."

"ihy Utile girl, that is a happy sug-said Mr, Falconer, "if auntld

etogo." aid certainly bo a very pleasanti pending the evening." said Mrs.

graciously; she had sensibly doj

that there should be no more fray g————,. that evening at least, and Mr. Fal-* .i, conr r wont at once loonier the horses.

evening air, after the heat of the ftie beauty of tho drive insensibly rs. Stanford's ruffled feelinsrs und

hr&ag'fit out ber better self, and she was tiarticuhlrly chatty and ajrcoabiei to Isa-oel's relief, who responded ot once to her tuood, ' Grade delighted in nding, and expressed the happiness of her little hcort by ft flow of ehlldish oonvcrsatloa as she nestled close by Isabel's side, laying her cheek lovingly against the soft velvet and chenille of her wrap, and occasionally looking iu her face withtHnilo of saiinfant'""

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Mrs, Stanford was not slow to observe these sipns of affecilon, and, huppily, she wns Inspired by them to a desire to do her brother's wife justice at, least, tf no more.

The next morning she arose wlthado-teruunation to be kind toward tho young hostess, nnd sho succeeded so well that she was unexpc-ctodly ngroeable. Hhe was sit-tlnglnthe drawlng-mun when Isabel en-tered from a visit to Mrs. Montford's room. That good woman had divined tho state of affairs Intuitively, nnd her sympathies wero with the young wife, and she oould not re-sist. the temptation of saying, with a slg-nillcantnod:

"Don't you let her browbeat you one par-ticle, Mrs. Fnlconer," and Isabel hud re-plied smilingly, with a little pat of tho good :

woman's motherly shoulder: "Don't bo i alarmed, Mrs. Montford, ou my account"

"Grade tells mo you have been having some new dresses made," Mrs. Stanford was saying, pleasantly. "I must confess to a weakness for liking to seo pretty cos-tumes," and, in obedience to tho hint, Isa-bel led tho way to her room, and the ro- l malnder of the morning was spent in i looking over the new wardrobe nuddls- !

cussing styles, "If you will allow mo to compliment !

you," said Mrs Stanford, as she inspected | the garnet velvet with tho eye of nn cx- I part, "I must say you hnvo shown tho 1

most perfect taste In your selections." She • had half oxpecied to see a gaudy display, ! such a mistuko as might easily have been • made by a less pure tiste.

Isabel received the commendation with a flush of pleasure; sho wns anxious to bo friendly with this haughty sister-in-law, though she did not intend to cringe, or suo- | rlllco n shade of her self-respcct, to gain hor : friendship, and It wns pleasnnt to hear a compliment from her, even upou tho sec- i ondnry topic of dress.

"It Is the first time I have over had tho I

" lio siy-C you spend Christmas with us," was Mrs. Stanford's last words before the carriage drove away, "Lilly and Ralph will be home, and we shall rely ou you also."

" Well, my dear," said Mr. Rtanford, as he came home and found his wife In her usual place at tlw dinner table, "what of thiii terrible cj eaivro, your brother's wlfft!"

"Morion." she replied, und she meant every word fully, "Mrs, Harvey Faloouor Is a remarkable won\an."

CHAPTER VI. " Ofall the nolsbto thing* on earth,

Tho queerest one is pride of birth." Tho heated season was over and tho

greater portion of the city's people were at home i'gain; meantime Isabel had made a few very pleasant acquaint.nces, and was on friendly, and even intimate, terms with Mrs. t'olo.iel De Long, who had discovered that which Mr. Fnlconer had hoped she would In his wife, qualities of more value than mere external graces,

Mrs. Harry Dwight. who lived near, had also become an luformnl visitor, nnd was enlhuslaslic In her praises of Sirs. Falconer,

Cards were out for a very select pnrty to which tho Falconers wore invited, nnd Isabel and Mrs. Dwight wero out shopping. "If I were you I should much prefer the nn-dressed kid," said Mrs. Dwight, "It is more stylish,"

"Then of course I must submit to It. even though 1 do not like it as well," replied Isa-bel, laughing.

'•Out of fashion, out of tho world," smiled Mrs. Dwight

"Even In so small a matter as gloves, I think sometimes a woman is a perfect martyr to fashion," A rustle of silks at hor sldo caused Isabel to look up from tho kids she whs examining.

Mrs. Horvey, a lady whom she had mot and liked p rtlculnrly, stood beside her,

, , . | and cordially hold out her hand. Another opportunity of p owing myself without re- l u ( l v . B t 0 O ( , b ; h e r 8id>, whoso face Isabel gard to expense," she replied, qtUeUy, "and , ^ o t n o l i i n . she took Mrs. Horvey's doiibtlcssmylasto will Improve with oppor- jmil(j tunlty and culture." | „ j j v d o a r Falconer; so happy to

"I don't seo how It can," said the other, | m e o t J o a t . . ^ M r a . Horvey. "Allow mo with candor. "1 haven't told you of Lilly's wedding gifts, have 11" she continued, with a mother's pride in hor only daughter's marriage festivities.

"I shall be delighted to hear," said Isabel, cordially. "I admire Mrs. Norton so much, and am In such haste to make hor acquaint-ance "

The balm was soothing to tho mother's heart, aud she replied cordially also, with a Utile laugh: "The admiration is mutual, then, for Lilly quite raves over you; that picture which you nnd Harvey sent quite captivated her, and it (< a beauty; It takes a front rank in hor list of gifts," and then f,>llowed u description of the wedding and (mitftau, which occupied tho remainder of tho morning.

In tho afternoon more callers enme In. Mrs. Harry Dwight among them, another prominent lady In the circle which I&ubel was exp clod to enter.

Sho had tired of Newport, she said, nnd had come homo to rest; she was a bright, captivating little body, and, like a bra mg breeze, cheered and cleared the atmosphere wherever she went Society hud quite faded to spoil her, and she carried her warm heart where mil *ro had placed it, in direct communication wl;h her blight, hur>y brain, and her deeds of charity and kind-ness will perhaps never bo es-.lmatod until sho nioels them again lu that hereafter, where oven tho kindly word and modest CUP of cold water are not forgotten.

" Wo shall have such a di'lightful oppor tunity to get acquainted before the season commences." she said brightly. "If I only know how to knit I would put on a black silk apron and come over and bring my knitting, as grandmamma used to do."

"Rut in li-'uof kniili'ig, please lay aside formality and come lu without ceremony," said Isabel, gracefully, m otlng her caller's cordiality. Mrs. Stanford was more than over impressed with her new sister's abil-ity to mako ber way in society, and she was in a very amiable frame of mind as evening drew near, which fact Mr, Falconer ob-served with pleasure.

"We will spend the evening in tho •homo room,' " he said to Isabel in a low voice, as they passed out of the dininz-room,

" Very well," sho said, looking up, with a happy smile, "I havo to speak to Mrs. Montford a moment, and wUI join you there."

"This is our snuggery; where we keep the altar tires of home burning," said Mr. Falconer, as he threw opea the door and usherod his sister iu. It was a revelation to her, aud she looked about her In sur« prise; as well she might, for there was nothing in her elegant home which com-pared with it for beauty and purity of do-sign

" It is Isabel's work," said Mr. Falconer. "Shu and Grade planned It all."

"Even to the portrait?" said Mrs. Stan-ford, inquiringly, as she paused before the picture m surprise. She bad imagined fair Mattie's face banished from the new wife's presence.

"That was her thought, also, and a com-plete surprise with the r e s t "

" I surrender, Harvey." Hie sister turned with tears in her eyes toward her brother and placed her hand upon his arm affectlon-atnly. She had a tender heart, though, as we havo seen. It was surrounded with a heavy crust of worldlincss. '"You have In-deed found a treasure among women, and together wo will tight her battles, if need be, before the world.

The remainder of Mrs. Stanford's visit was very pleasant and she seemed striving to atone for hor first unkindnfiss. "If there is any thing in which I can be of assistauce to you," she Bald the following morning as they wero sitting In the library. Khe sjioke with a Uttle hesitation; she did not wish to bo patronizing, but she was so accustomed to being so that she feared to blunder Into it unoousciousty.

'• I am ignorant on some points, I will con-fess," replied Isabel, frankly. "There are certain forms and ceremonies in society in Whioh I have hitherto had no need to educate

to present to you my friend, Mrs. Monteith. of Now York, Mrs. Falconer."

Mrs. Montoith's eyes had been fixed on Isabel's face In a cold staro of recognition, and, ns Mrs. Hervoy pronounced tho name, sho looked for the first turn into tho cold face, and caught the unwinking stare in Its perfection.

Every trace of color loft her face In her Indignation as sho met the look, and wns r«tnmded by it of tiiO insults this woman had delighted to heap upon her in the past, but sho controlled herself enough to ao-knowlodge tho Introduction by a coldly civil bow, but Mrs. Monteith tossed her head scornfully, and gave no token of havmg beard It

"I have mot this Mrs, Falconer before," she said In an aside to puzzled, mortified Mrs. Horvey.

Isabel's f.ice wns a study, nnd Mrs. Dwight, too Indlgunnt to finish her shop-ping. druw heraway ns sc^n ns possible.

"For pity's sake, Mrs. Falconer, do toll mo why that ill-bred women should treat you In that shameful way," sho said, as soon as the carriage was in motion.

"It Is a very short story," said Isnbel, bl'terly, "Mr. Falconer first mot me behind amiUinerv counter in New York where this wmnn wns a frequent customer, and where she delighted In heaping insults upon me a^a shop-girl. IT - funded mo, and brouirht me here as his wife.

•'Perhaps. Mrs. Dwight, now that the murder Is out, your sympathies will be with Mrs, Monteith," and sho looked sadly in her friend's face.

"You do me Injustice, Mrs. Falconer," re-plied Mrs. Dwight, warmly, laying her hand on Isabel's, which was trembling with ex-citoinent "I trust a fashionable life has not ossified ray heart completely, and you

Mi's: Faltoner, and her eyes' fairly Hashed fire at Mrs. Monteith."

" What grounds does she claim to have for such rwdencss?" asked Aunt Katy, an elderly woman with white huir and a sweet pale face, sanctilled and made lovely by long years of suffering.

Sho hod been left a childless widow under circumstances of peculiar sadiiess, and Hor-ace Horvey had taken her to his homo when he brought bis young bride there, and sho had been the family saint ever since.

•' Why, she says Mrs. Falconer was a shop-girl In Now York when Mr. Falconet) married her, and she doesn't assooiule with shop-girls," imitating Mrs, Montcith's arro-gaut raauuor.

"How long since I" said Aunt Katy, luighing merrliy in her low sweot voice; ".t seems to mo I havo soon Mrs. Dolly Mon-tolth when she considered a shop-girl very good society, indeed."

•• Do tdl me, Aunt Katy," said Mrs. Hor-vey, "who Is Mrs. Monteith, aqd what is her conncction wilh J'our fatnilyV"

1 Aunt Katy's low laugh rang out again ns sho replied: "My dour Myrtle, Mrs. Monieiih,

, this haughty damo who doesn't associate with tho laboring classes, was once my

i kitchen girl. Sho began hy washing pots and kettles, hut ns sho was neat aud quick

1 I promoted her to the care of tho china-closet nnd diuing-rooin after a time, whore she atticted tho uttontion of a vourg grocer's

1 clerk, who married her. Hor family were miserably poor, and I felt sorry for the girl,

: and did all I could to help her. but slio was always proud and vain, and, after her mar-riage, sho cut loose from her family entirely, and I do not suppose she would recognize ono of her own sisters now."

"But how did Mr. Monteith got his wealth I" asked Mrs. Horvey, after lifting her hands and exclaiming in her astonish-ment at the story,

I •' He hud a facu'.'.y for successful speoula-! tion, not alwavs strictly honorable, either, I I fear," replied Aunt Kuty, "and finally I struck oil In tho very height of the oil ox-I cltoment, and made a fortune In a hurry,

aftor which they removed to Now York and Dolly Monteith set up for a fashionablo lad v."

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me, your friendship is apprcci-, M1dd„ng8, per t o n . . . . HORSE#" Isabel, gratefully, returning com im-al, per uoj,,, .

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thyself; the folding of a card and snch Inlnutla of etiquette, for instance. Mr, Fal-coner's edflcation had also been neglected on sttoh points, I observe." i

'•Yes,indeed," laughed l i ra Stanford, "Harvey cares no more for stich small etiquettes than as it they did not exist,'* and then followed a oondensed compendium of faahWrnable forma. I

'Believe ated," said tho pressure of the friendly hand, "and now that you havo heard so much of my history, perhaps you would iike to hear more," and she gave a brief sketch of tho principal events of hor Ufo up to the present

"Why. It's a ro l romance," cried Mrs. Dwight when sho had tlnlshed; "1 always liked Mr. Falconer, but 1 am sure that he is a perfectly grand man now."

"So am 1." said Isabel, with a sigh. •'If I could only love him as he so richly de-serves."

"You will I Love can not help coming to reward such a kind, unselfish character."

Mrs. Horvey and Mrs. Monteith, m the meantime, had left the store.

"Pray tell me what you can have against Mm. Fali oner," said Mrs, Horvey, coldly. "I think you owe me an apology for treat-ing a friend of mine so rudely," She was not nt all afraid of Mrs. Montelth's elegant apparel or snobbish manners; within her own rocolloctlon she had boon forced to live plainly, having only been so prosperous for a few years. She h ui always visited Mr. Horvey's family, and his young wife had

j never "inqmrcd upon what ground the ac-quaintance originated.

' "I am not accustomed to treating shep-^ girls us equals," replied Mrs. Monteith,

with disagreeable haughtiness; "your I f r i m l , Mrs. Falconer, was nothing but a 1

common shop-girl when Mr. Falconer took , her up and married her. aud I made up my

i mind when I hoard tho disgraceful story from Mme. Arnot, hor employer, that if

i ever I came to Philadelphia I would expose 1 her." " What disgracefulstoryf'demnndcdMrs.

Horvey; sho was still too Indignant with Mrs. Monteith to take in the fact of Isabel's low estate in all lis terrible signiticanco.

"Why, o/ai rte, she must havo inveigled him imo tho marriage," replied Mrs. Mon-ieiih; "no man of his wealth would marry a shop-girl unless unduly influonced."

"Harvey Falconer isn't a man to bo in-voigled," asserted Mrs. Horvey, emphat icaily. "The fact of hor being a shop-girl wouldn't influeiico him against her a mo-ment if ho fancied her otherwise,"

"I pity Mrs. Stanford,'' said Mrs. Mon-teith. "It must bo a terrible blow to have such atneta /lance in the family."

"Yes, poor Mrs. Staufordl" cricd Mrs. , Horvc-y. ironically, "She came here and

made thotr. a visit, appeared with Mrs. Fal-coner in piiblic, and went home perfectly oharmed wilh her sisicr-in-.aw, ns I know on undoubted authority," in a triumphant

[tone, "and 1 would advise you, Mrs. Mon-i with, to kcop your knowledge of Mrs. Ful-! coner to yourself, if you have no better ' grounds to feund your antagonUm upou.

Mr. Falconer isn't tho flrst man in our Amencan aristocracy Who has married a poor girl, though it isn't every 5)u..r j-lrl thai can rise from a low position to a higher one wi>h such grnco as Mrs. Falconer has

, done," she added, significantly, i Something in the latter allusion seemed to ' touch Mrs. Monteith iu a lender spot, for

she tossed hor head und ».dd aomeiting sharply noout "arrognuce" aud "upstarts,"

' which Mrs. Horvey did not catch, • "What do you think. Aunt Katy," said

Mrs. Hervoy, an hour later, as she was sealed in a pleasant room ut home, where an invalid's chair was tlrutvn up to a sunny window.

•• We met that elegant Mrs. Falconer at Cady'a this mot-nlng, and Mrs. Monteith gave her tho cut direct Ih such nn Ihsoient manner. I waS io mortified I thought I ibonld sink: Sirs. Bar Mr Uwicht. wui rcila

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m i?E.TO !S HSSVESSS on-It octo pcxprtiiliy nnd qulrkiy. Cu.-cs when ai: | tn ik

ethers lr.ll, Voum noc regain lost, ci'inhoed; olr Tieniccovc: yctuisfal visor, Abi.olat-.'iv Jimr-.inteed to i:ur«Xoi-\on»ne«.«. Sjost V lti-.IUy •taii'i.'cncr, XtjiMtyl- mtttluui. F.nttl'ntver olCliur nc. . Palllr.ff Rletnoey. "iVoiittujr _n«r. i. am .lit ry^rU of cdf ahuc or txcar.'i nni'

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••>11 ; u . a "veiilef t nmt, tnslsto'ihav Ig VXifcrr.it'S KERVWJdK, or e. nil for it :.ao-cur cJ InvostDot&et, PrppaW pla'.nvrei; •"7. V* pc- l-o>:, or <1 fur ^,». wi ih i I'nultlv. . 'rtttcn < 'm-.i-fluseo to Our« ot'Ki fund i!-.'. • o .oy, I i.-uiiii'.Mfroo.Solil ?)"'lniBi.,lst». Addris.i

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Milwaukee aud Chicago by steamer dur-ing nuvigaiion only, ffiJfChalr car, bullet bar and sleeping car service,

Kastward No 12 has Pullman sleeper nnd Imtiet car attached Chicago to Detroit daily.

No. 14 has parlor buffet car attached Grand Haven to Detroit extra charge ('io cents). No. 18 has parlor car attached, ex-tra charge, (25 cents). No, 82 has sleeper to Detroit,

Westward No. 11 has parlor car attached I extra charge 25 cents.) No 15 has parlor huflet car uitached Detroit to Grand Haven (e::tra charge 25 cents). No 17 liac the. linest of PulIniiin sleepers and bullet cars aliached to ( hicago daily. No, 81 has hli eiier to tirand Rapids.

Cily I'lli.e lirs( door cast of tho King Milling Co. where (icketsaroou sale for all p ints through and IOCMI.

:,*iien 7 a. in. to 8 p. m. Sunday, 4 to a p. in. ,1 NO. W. LOl'D, BEN FLETCHKR.

Traffic Manager, Trav, Pass. Agent. A.O, HEYDLAUFK, Local Agent.

IT MAY DO YOU MUCH GOOD.

Mr. I-"red Miller, of Irving, III., writes (lint he had a Severe idue- trouble lor many years, with severe pains in liis Inn k and also his bladder was iiifectod. He (ried many so en lied Kidney cure* but without any uood result. About a year ago he be-gan use of Klectric Hitters and found relic at once, Klectric Hitters is especially adapted to euro of all 1 idnev nnd liver troubles und olten gives instunt relief. (hie trial will prove oui statonient, Priee only 50c. for large bottle. At ilunter and Son's Drug store, (>

KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABFE9. The Mate (.'ommaiuler writes us I'roiii

Lincoln, Neb., as I'.Hows: "AHer trying otheV inedicinos for what seemed to he a very obstinate cough in our two i liiidrcn we tried Dr. King's New Discovery and at the end of two days the cough entirely lefl ihein. We will not be without ii here after, us our experience proves (ha( it cores when-all other remedies fail."—Signed F. W. .Stevens, Stale Coin.—Why not give thW great niedieine a trial, as it is guaranteed and trial bodies are free at Miinter A Son's drug store. Regular size oOc and $1.00. (I

BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

TUB B U S T SAI,V« in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, UU-e-s. Suit Rheum FVver Sores, Tetter, Chopped Hands, Chi dblains, Corns, and all Pkln Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It 1 guaran-teed to give perfect sallsfac. Ion or money ro-Funded. Price 25 cents p'-r uox. FOR SALE BY HUNTER it SON. 17a

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No Coca ine! No Needles ! No Danger! Twenty-live Years Exjieri-ent-e. SatUliu-tidii guaranteed or no pay, Oince only.

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CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK K'Y* Trains leave Durund f or Battl'i Creek.Cbl •o and West at 9:35 a. m., 1:32 p. m., and

(1.50, p. m. and 11:^0 p. m. t*"or Flint. Port Huron md all points east,

5 03 a. ra., 9:30 a. m., 6:35 p. ra., aud 10.20, p. m

l luclnnatl, Saginaw .fe Mackinaw R. R. t'-alns leave Ihuand for 8«gin«w and Bay t ily 0.00 a. m , 9:40 a. m., and 0:50 p. in.

W. E. DAVIS, G. P. A., Chuago,

LOWELL ^ HASTINGS RAILROAD TIME TABLE .

In Effect Sunday, uclober 28, 1894.

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'(xlauny and Wall ,7 inlinrj.

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CARLISLE'S AXIOMS.

T H O U G H T H E W O U L D K I L L T H E

S I L V E R C A U S E .

The wvmon are gootl looking In splta of the fashions.

Has any Inventor ever tried to evolve .% smokeless parlor lamp?

A cat farm has been established in Cincinnati. Its purr-puss U to raise fur .

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ARniiiKt n S i i u k — Silver - HttttuUril I'oiintrlm tho Most I'roHperoUi—JTrom Othur Avull*.

The busiest men now are those who run the thrashing machines. We all have our busy days.

Whenever you see a woman wearing •uspenders you can safely wager a nickel her husband has borrowed her belL

The bloomer shows how much there was In the skirt to admire; but no—ah, no—not in the case of tho bow-legged girl.

Ex-Reverend and Ex-Mayor Stark-weather of Superior, Wis., Is now plan-ning for the stage. He ought to take a few rounds in Ihe ring.

A private bank in Tacoma "busted" last week, with $380,000 liabilities and |444 In cash. Just figure out how mucn the creditors will get if they a re real lucky.

Rev. Mr. Wilson of Terre Haute de clares that he will not recognize a wom an in bloomers. And still the Terre Haute ladles are wearing them. They evidently dbn t care.

As the smoke of battle gradually clears away the public discerns that the smiling figure sitting on the top of the heap, with the spoils of war clustered around him, is that of Matt Quay.

6 t Louis papers are discussing the question why women will not treat one another. They have a flrst-rate rea-son. After they have bought material for their dress sleeves they have no money le f t

Some of the people in Pontiac, Mich., have actually gone mad on the Sunday closing craze. They even went so far as to try to keep tho postoffice closed, but when Postmaster Pierson informed the leaders that he would seo that every one of them were indicted in the United States court if they didn't let up they wisely concluded to allow Uncle Sam to continue to accommodate the people. There are a great many people in Pontiac with wheels concealed in their upper stories.

"Women are no better than men,"* &ald Mrs. Almy, in addressing the women's parliament a t Point of Woods recently. This Is not true. Women are better than men. There is no man worth his salt who doesn't believe so. Women are the elect of the earth. If they did not supply men with ideals, furnish them with objects for devotion, give them lessons in unselfishness, the whole structure of civilization would come down like a card house. No man would have made such a statement. Mrs. Almy owes an apology to her brothers for attacking the foremost ar-ticle of their social creed.

The Louierille Courier-Journal prints a sensational article ahout the Czar of Russia mistreating his wife, in the course of which i t says: "Three times the Czarina burst into tears a t the breakfast table and hurried away, leav-ing the despot of Russia to think how cleverly he was taming her." This is a gross injustice to the Czarina, who U a woman of splrlL As a matter of fact the young people have had but one difficulty. One Monday the Czar made sneering remarks about "a washday dinner," and the Czarina Informed him that he could eat down town or hire a cook, just as he chose. Since that he has not had a captious word to utter.

Mr. Carlisle In one of his speeches delivered himself of five so-called axioms, which the gold press In the east is circulating ns something pro-found nnd unanswerable. They are ab follows:

1. There Is not a free-coinage coun-try In the world to-day that Is not ou a silver basis.

2. There Is not a gold-standard coun-try In the world to-day that does not use silver money along with gold.

3. There Is not a silver - standard country In the world to-day that uses any gold along with silver.

4. There Is not a silver-standard country In the world today that has more than one-third the per capita cir-culation that the United f tates has..

5. There Is not a silver-standard country In the world to-day where the laboring man receives fair pay for his day's work.

We will offset these five with six others:

1. There Is not one free-coinage country in the world to-day that Is not enjoying unexampled prosperity, the only drawback being a foreign debt contracted on a gold basis.

2. There Is not a gold-standard country in the world to-day the prop-erty of which has not shrunken In value from 35 to 60 per cent during the past twenty-one years; not one in which there Is not unexampled de-pression, distress and sorrow.

3. There Is not a silver-standard count: • In the world to-day that has any need of gold money except to set-tle frvclgn balances, and there Is not a gold-standard country In all the world to-day tha t the bulk of all gold Is not locked up In the treasury or banks, and the people are suffering from "sound money" asj'/hyxla.

4. There " s not a sliver-standard country to-dayv where there are any Idle deposits lyJng In the banks, all the money being In active circulation, and drawing large Interest, and the cir-culation per capita of real money Is just about what I t ' s ^n Mexico, nearly all the money of ultimate redemption being hid away In thev vaults of the treasury or national banks.

5. There Is not a silver-standard country In the world to-day where the laboring man Is not receiving TirH pay and more work than he ever received before. And there is not a gold coun-try in the world to-day where a vast proportion of the people are not idle, and where the wages are above the rates of 1849. except where they havo been maintained by the stubborn per-sistence of labor unions.

G. There Is not a silver-standard country In the world today where the people are not doing better than ever before. And there Is not a gold-stand-ard country In the world to-day where the people are not in more distress and suffering more lous and apprehen-sion than ever before.—Salt Lake City Tribune, Rep.

thing, nnd nre fast discovering how poor a thing the 50-cent dollar national bank note Is, and how good a thing they have when they possess an un-limited legal tender silver dollar.

B I M E T A L L I C , E H ?

Queer lllnietnllUti Are Those EaHtern

(•old nuRii.

New York Special.—Charles H. Jones, chairman of the resolution com-mittee of the democratic national committee of 1892, sends the following concerning the resolution on gold and silver, about which a controversy has arisen: I was chairman of the com-mittee on resolutions and also ot tho sub-committee that framed the demo-cratic platform of 1892. Mr. Patterson's statement of the conflict In the com-mittee room, ns described In the news-papers, Is substantially correct. Tho money plank a t first submitted was a stralghtout bimetallic plank declaring for the free coinage of goM and silver on equal terms. I t was discussed seven hours, and repeatedly amended and re-cast. Patterson and Senator Daniel of Virginia led the contest for the inser-tion of the words "free coinago of sil-ver.". Senators Vilas and MacPherson led the fight against the use of these words, but not on the ground that they were opposed to the use of sliver. They declared over and over again that they were just as good blmetallists and just as friendly to silver as Patterson and Daniel. They said their objection to tho words "free coinage" was simply that they had a special meaning In cer-tain parts of the country that would be misleading. Atkins of Tennessee in-troduced the compromise resolution that was adopted after being modified. Patterson and Daniel fought it to the end and voted against It when i t wa* put to a vote. I recall the fact made In the final discussion. Senator Vilas read the plank as It now stands to Pat-terson, dwelling with strong emphasis on the first clause, and asked Patterson how It differed essentially from his de-mand for free coinage. Every member of the sub-committee claimed to be in favor of genuine bimetallism. If Vilas or MacPherson or Bayard had admitted that the resolution could be Interpreted to mean gold monometallism It could not have passed the sub-committee or the general committee of the conven-tion. All three of these bodies sup-posed real bimetallism was being In-dorsed when this resolution was adopted.

TAJjM AGE'S SERMON.

' F I V E P I C T U R E S , " T H E S U B J E C T

O F A T H R I L L I N G D I S C O U R S E .

"llrholil I See ihe llenven* Opened"— Acts TII : 60-00—Delivered ul Academy of MnMc, New York, Suuilay, Sept. IS, 1805.

It I* Going Too Hon. J. C. Sibley was In Washington

last Friday en route home from North Carolina. He Indignantly denounced the statement that the sentiment for free "Cplnage Is dying out. "It Is ridic-ulous," said. "Far from dying out, If thertj^\jfme«Wng the matter with It, It Is g r ^ / ^ j . v, fast; It Is growing

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S o r e r e l m Not the Flr»t t o Taboo jftank

Paper. X

How to build a good road Is a very important subject to the people of a great nation that Is just becoming fully aroused to the Importance of maintain-ing a better system of public highways. In his new book. Gen. Roy Stone, s o -cial agent of the United States Depart-ment of Road Inquiry, says that the perfection of roads is a fine dry smooth dirt track, for the reason that such a surface Is easy on horse .and vehicle, while free from ja r and noise. He ad-vocates narrow stone roads beside tho dir t track for the reason tha t in wet or frosty weather dirt roads are often Im-passable. A dirt road In good condi-tion is preferable to a furface of stone for driving and wheeling purposes and would save much wear on the latter which Is the more expensive of the two. As a matter of course this general sug-gestion is to hr. modified to suit differ-ent localities, but on the whole. Gen. Stone's report, made after the examina-tion and a careful survey and study of recently built roads in all parts of the country Is a safe and scientific guide for the correct building of logical and last-ing highways.

The Son, expressing its surprise that men with such names as Dink Botts, Pod Dlsmuke, Hoke Smith, etc., have attained prominence among their fellow citizens, seems to have lost sight of the fac t tha t Hon. Button Gwinnett signed the Declaration of Independence.

I t is now more than some weeks since W. W. Taylor, the ex-cash-handler of South Dakota, was sentenced to five years a t hard labor. He hasn ' t done a •troke of work yet, and i t begins to look as if it wasn't Intended that he should kill himself laboring.

"The American people do l o t want a 50-cent dollar" Is a favorltf/assertlon of the gold standard ad/»cate. "I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word." The American p p p l e do not want a 50-cent dollar and the great struggle now going on 'between them and organized greed b<»ars evidence of tho fact. They are rapidly discovering, too, what a real "50-cent dollar" Is and why they do not want It. In the re-cent controversy between the water company In Denver and the citizens many of the latter attempted to tender the company payment for water ser-vice, but everyone offering national bank bills was told that such currency was not legal tender. In every case the company refused it and the citizen was forced to exchange the bills for some other kinds of currency. When silver was offered It was not refused. In this way many people, for the first time, understood that national bank bills were not legal tender. Recently In Indianapolis a gentleman tendered the Capitol National bank of that city one of Its own bills and asked that he be given gold In exchange. He was Informed that the bank did not give gold in exchange for its notes. Three other banks were tried and each re-fused to make the exchange, either for the bank bill or for a hundred' dollar greenback, and the man was Informed by Mr. Jno. P. Frenzel, president of the Merchants' National bank, that not a bank in Indianapolis would pay out gold In redemption of any kind of paper money

Here then is the real, actual "50-cent dollar," of which we have heard so much. That dollar is the national bank note. That dollar is not legal tender. That dollar Is repudiated by Its own makers. That dollar will not pay debt unless the creditor chooses to receive it; while the poor, despised and much vllllfied silver dollar Is a legal tender, and will pay all debts (except those protected by that Infam-ous clause originated by Its enemies, "unless otherwise stipulated in the con-tract") owed by the people of the United States.

For this reason the peopl* desire it and demand that it shall be furnished them in ample quantity and also de-mand that the infamous exception clause be abolished. The peop'e not only "know a good thing when they «ee It," but they also know a poor

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ple d o ' J ^ l ; c a i " % • * on the sub-ject; th the co free coIift\> ^ what Is nVyfc ' /dhlzatlon. I am i satisfied thmj®^[ H^ould get a vote ^ jpL ' rectly on thdt question, without refer- 1

ence to anything else, we could carry both New York and Pennsylvania for free sliver by a large majority," Mr. Slhley' will make a few speeches In his own state and then go to Kentucky to t i ke part In the gubernatorial fight there.—National Watchman.

Women'* Faith In Mankind. Surely, woman's Ingenuity Is nn-

equaled. Witness the way she takes care of her key at the summer hotel or boarding house. When a man takes up his abode a t such a place he lugs his key around with him, or leaves it a t the offlce, and in almost any event he as likely as not loses it. But woman has discovered a new and sure way of disposing of the article. She doesn't lumber up her pockets with It, neither does she leave It at the office, and rare-ly, Indeed, does she lose It. Her almost Invariable habit Is to thrust It under the strip ot matting or carpet covering the entry before her chamber door, where It is supposed to repose in peace and safety. TTiis, too, notwithstanding the fact tha t the little hump i t pro-duces in the carpet Is by no means In-visible to the naked eye. Nor is It with-out significance to the average under-standing. What Is more, there is a similar little hump before each neigh-boring bed-room door, so that a glance down the entry reveals a whole double row ot such humps. They speak volumes ot not only the Ingenuity ot woman, but of her sublime faith In hu-man nature.

An Unappreciated Story. A story, told by an English paper,

and claiming the merit of absolute truth, evidences once more the Inex-orable pur i ty and womanliness ot Queen Victoria's character. At Wi id -sor a party of young princes and prin-cesses were chattering with members ot the royal household on various mat-ters. The Queen was present, but was not noticing them especially, when a heartier laugh than the rest aroused her Interest and she asked to be told the fun. Now the laugh had arisen from an anecdote, which was not really risky, but just a little bit so. There was a demur at repeating it to the Queen. Everybody felt slightly uncom-fortable. The Queen said again that she and Princess Beatrice would like to hear the story. I t was told. The Queen listened, and then said with her in-imitable dignity and simplicity: "We are not amused." It Is not the example set by Its royal head that has given to the English smart set Its unenviable reputation in the matter of morals big and little.

No matter what else he has done, the preachcr has failed when he hasn' t moved anybody toward Christ

T B P H B N HAD been preaching a rousing s e r m o n , and the p e o p l e could not stand it. They resolved to do as men sometimes would like to do In this day. It they dared, with some plain preacher of righteousness— kill

him. The only way to silence this man was to knock the breath out ot him. So they rushed Stephen out of the gates of the city, and with curse, and whoop, and bellow, they brought him to the cliff, as was tho custom when they wanted to take away life by stoning. Having brought him to the edge ot the cliff, they pushed him off. After he had fallen they came and looked down, and seeing that he was not yet dead, they began to drop stones upon him, stone after stone. Amid this horrible rain of missiles, Stephen clambers up on his knees and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples; and theu, looking up, he makes two prayers—one tor himself and one for his murders. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;" that was for himself. "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge;" that was for his murderers. Then, from pain and loss of blood, he swooned away and fell asleep.

I want to show you to-day five pict-ures.

Stephen gazing into heaven. Stephen looking at Christ. Stephen stoned. Ste-phen In his dying prayer. Stephen asleep.

First, look at Stephen gazing Into heaven. Before you take a leap you want to know where you are going to land. Before you climb a ladder you want to know to what point tho ladder reaches. And It was r ight that Stephen, within a tew moments ot heaven, should be gazing Into 1L We would all do well to be found In the same posture. There Is enough In heaven to keep us gazing. A man »•' largo wealth may have statuary In ih# hall, and paintings In the sitting-room, and works ot art In all parts of the house, but he has the chief pictures In the art gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glass and ever-lncreas-Ing admiration. Well, heaven Is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe Is his palace. In this lower room where we stop there are many adornments; tessellated floor of amethyst, and on the winding cloud-stairs are stretched out canvas on which commingle azure, and purple, and saffron, and gold. But heaven is the gallery In which the chief glorfes are gathered. There are the brightest robes. There are the richest crowns. There are the highest exhilarations. S t John says ot It: "The kings ot the earth shall bring their honor and glory Into It." And I see the procession forming, and In the line come all empires, and the stars spring up into an arch tor the hosts to march under. They keep step to the sound ot earthquake and the pitch of the avalanche from the moun-tains, and the fisg they bear Is the flame ot a consuming world, and all heaven turns out with harps and trum-pets and myriad-voiced acclamation ot angelic dominions to welcome them In, and so the kings of the earth bring their honor and g'cry Into It. Do you wonder that good people often stand, like Ste-phen, looking Into heaven? We have many friends their.

There Is not a man here so Isolated In lite but there Is some one In heaven with whom he once shook hands. As a man gets older, the number ot his celestial acquaintances very rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them good-bye, and they went away; but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when some ot our friends go across the sea, we stand on the dock, or on the steam-tug, and watch them, and after awhile the hulk of the vessel disappears, and then there Is only a patch ot sail on the sky, and soon that is gone, and they are all out ot sight, and yet we stand looking In the same direction; so when our friends go away from us Into the future world we keep looking down through the Narrows, and gazing and gazing as though we ex-pected that they would come out and stand on some cloud, and give us one glimpse of their blissful and trans-figured faces.

While you long to join their com-panionship, and the years and the days go with such tedium that they break your heart, and the vipers of pain, and sorrow, and bereavement keep gnawing at your vitals, you will stand, like Ste-phen, gazing into heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you saw them last. You wonder if they would recognize your face now, so changed has it been with trouble. You wonder It, amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and put their shoulder under your bur-den*. You wonder If they look any older; and sometimes in the evening-tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder It you should call them by their first name it they would not answer; and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but God and yourself are there you distinct-ly call their names, and listen, and sit gazing into heaven.

Pass on now, and see Stephen look-ing upon Chr i s t My text says he saw the Son ot Man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in this * morld, Just how he looks in heaven, we

cannot say. The painters ot the differ-ent ages havo tried lo lumgluo tho features of Christ, and put them upon canvas; but wo will have to wait until with our own eyes we see him and with our own ears we can hear him. And yet there is a way of seeing him and hearing him now. 1 havo to tell you that unless you see nnd hear Christ on earth, you will never see aud hear him In heaven.

Look! There ho is! Behold the Lamb of God! Can you not seo him? Then pray to God to take tho scales off your eyes. Look that way—try to look that way. His voice comes down to you this day—comes down to the blindest, to tho deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me, all yo ends of tho earth, and bo yo saved, for I am God, and there Is none else." Proclamation of universal eman-clpatlou for all slaves. Tell me, ye who know most ot the world's history, what other king ever asked the aban doned, and the forlorn, and the wretch-ed, and the outcast to como and sit be-side him? Oh, wonderful Invitation! You can take It to-day, and stand at the head ot the darkest alley In all this city, and say, "Come! Clothes for your rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your eternal reigning." A Christ that talks like that and acts like that, and pardons like that—do you wonder that Stephen stood looking at him? I hope to spend eternity doing the same thing. I must see him; I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocked oft my shackles. I want to hear the voice that pronounced my deliverance. Behold him, Uttle children; for It you live to three-score years and ten, you will see none so fair. Behold him, ye aged ones; for he only can shine through the dimness ot your tailing eyesight Behold him, earth. Behold him, heaven. What a moment when all the nations of the saved shall gather around Christ! All faces that way. All thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.

His worth it all the nations knew Sure the whole earth would love him,

too.

I pass on now, and look at Stephen stoned. The world has always wanted to get rid ot good men. Their very life Is an assault upon wickedness. Out with Stephen through the gales ot the city. Down with him over the preci-pices. Let every man come up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselves. Every stone re-bounded upon them. While these mur-derers were transfixed by tho scorn of all good men, Stephen lives in the ad-miration ot all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pelted. "All who will live godly In Christ Jesus must suffer per-secution." It is no eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes him. Show me any one who Is doing all his duty to state or church, and I will show you scor&a ot men who utterly abhor him.

It all men speak well of you. It is be-cause you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around i t Brave soldiers ot Jesus Christ will hear the carbines click. When I see a man with voice, and money, and Influence all on the right side, and some caricature him, and some sneer at him, and some de-nounce him, and men who pretend to be actuated by right motives conspire to cripple him, to cast him out, to destroy him, I say "Stephen stoned."

When I see a man In some great moral or religious reform battling against grog shops, exposing wicked ness in high places, by active means trying to purify the church and better the world's estate, and I find that the newspapers anathematize him, and men, even good men, oppose him and denounce him, because, though he does good, he does not do it In their way, I say, "Stephen stoned." But you notice, my friends, that while they assaulted Stephen they did not succeed really In killing him. You may assault a good man but you can not kill him. On the day of his death, Stephen spoke before a few people In the Sanhedrim; this Sabbath morning he addresses all Christendom. Paul the Apostle stood on Mars' hill addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as a modern schoolgirl. To-dey he talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of justification and the glories ot resur-rection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whom he preached, and they threw bricks at him, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon blm, and yet to-day, In all lands, he is admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the presidential chair; but from that spot ot coagulated blood on the floor In the box ot Ford's theater there sprang up the new life ot a na-tion. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive.

Pass on now, and see Stephen in his dying prayer. His flrst thought was not how the stones hurt, his head, nor what would become ot his body. His flrst thought wns about his spirit. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ." The murderer standing on the trap-door, the black cap being drawn over his head before execution, may grimace about the future; but you and I have no shame in confessing some anxiety about where we are going to come ou t You arc not all body. There Is within you a soul. I see It gleam from your eyes to-day, and I see It irradiating your countenance. Sometimes I am abashed before an audience, not because I como under your physical eye-sight, but be-cause I realize the truth that I stand before so many immortal spirits. The probability is that your body will a t least find a sepulchre In some ot the cemeteries that surround this city. There is no doubt but that your ob-sequies will be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow your head under the inaple, or the Norway spruce, or th* cyprtss, or tk^ blossoming I r ;

but this spirit about which S tephe t prayed, what direction will that lak»t What guide will escort It? What gat# will open to receive It? What cloud will be cleft for Its pathway? After It has got beyond the light of our sun, will there bo torches lighted for it the rest of tho way? • Will tho soul havo to travel through

long deserts before It reaches the gooiT land? It we should lose our pathway, will there be a castle a t whose ga t» we may ask tho way to the city? Oh, this mysterious spirit within us! I t has two wings, but It Is In a cage now. It la locked fast to keep It; but let tho door of this cage open tho least, and that soul Is off. Eagle's wing could not catch It. The lightnings are n o t swift enough to come up with I t When the soul leaves the body It takes fifty worlds a t a bound. And have I no anx-iety about It? Have you no anxistjr about It?

We may be too feeble to employ either of these familiar forms; but thl» prayer ot Stephen Is so short, is so con-cise, Is so earnest. Is so comprehensive^ we surely will be able to say that: "Lord Jesus, receive my sp i r i t " Oh,. If that prayer Is answered, how sweet It will be to die! This world Is clever enough to us. Perhaps It has treated, us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated; but It on the dying pillow there shall break the light of that bet-ter world, we shall have not more re-gret than about leaving a small, dark, damp house tor one large, beautiful, and capacious. That dying minister ia Philadelphia, some years ago, beauti-fully depicted It when. In the last mo-ment, he threw up his hands and cried out: "I move Into the light!"

Pass on now, and I will dhow you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Scriptures, the text says ot Stephen: "He tell asleep," Oh," you say, "what a place that was

to sleep! A hard rock under him, stones falling down upon him, the blood streaming, the mob howilnj . What a place It was "to sleep!" And yet my text takes that symbol of slum-ber to describe his departure, so sweet was It, so contented was It, so peaceful was I t Stephen had lived a very la-borious lite. His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves ot bread he had distributed, how many bare feet he had sandalled, how many cots ot sickness and distress he had blessed with ministries ot kindness and love, I do not know: yet from the way he lived, and the way he preached, and the way he died, I know he was a la-borious Christian. But that Is all over now. He has pressed the cup to the last fainting lip. He has taken the last Insult from his enemies. The last stone to whose crushing weight he ia susceptible has been hurled. Stephen Is dead! The disciples come! They take him up! They wash away the blood from the wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around look upon the calm countenance of h im who had lived tor the poor and died tor the truth. Stephen asleep!

I have seen the sea driven with the hurrlcarc until t the tangled foam caught In the rigging, and wave rising above wave seemed as It about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen tho tempest drop, and the waves crouch, and everything become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a man, whose lite has been tossed and driven, coming down at last to an Infinite calm. In which there was a hush ot heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep!

I saw such an one. He fonght all h is days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They ratt led a t the door-knob while he was dying with dnns for debts he could not pay; yet the peace of God brooded over his pillow, and while the world faded, heaven dawned, and the deepening twi-light ot earth's night was only the open-ing twilight ot heaven's morn. Not a sigh. Not a tear. Not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep.

I have not the faculty as many have to tell the weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or n o t I cannot tell by the blowing ot the wind whether i t will be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I can prophesy, and I will prophesy what weather it will be when you, the Christian, come to die. You may have it very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance, the next another an -noyance. I t may be this year one be-reavement the next another bereave-m e n t But at the last Christ will come in and darkness will go o u t And though there may be no hand to close your eyes, and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no candle to lift the night, the odors ot God's hang-ing garden will regale your soul, and a t your bedside will halt the chariots of the King. No more rents to pay, no more agony because flour has gone up, no more struggle with "the world, the fiesh, and the devil;" but peace— long, deep, everlasting peace. Ctephen asleep!

Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Vnlnjured by the last of toes.

Asleep In Jesus, tar from thee Thy kindred and thy graves may be; But there is still a blessed sleep, > From which none ever wake to weep.

You have seen enough for one day. No one can successfully examine more than five pldtures In a day. Therefore, we stop, having seen this cluster of Di-vine Raphaels — Stephen gailng into heaven; Stephen looking at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in his dying prayer; Stephen asleep.

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immriom. mssASSOCIATION. ) a/ tenMusioN of - I MUD. MSNALLY & CQ. CHAPTER I.

T WAS A BRIGHT frosty night toward tho middle of March. The moon had risen an hour ago, and hung like a round mirror of burnished silver close above the glittering stream of Thames, as he swept broadening down to West-

minster Bridge. The Abbey towers rose sharply Into the clear air, and caught ihe moonlight full upon their heads, but beneath them, on the farther side, lay a wide region of silent and mysterious ahadow. In the shadow paced the figure of a man. By the slow and monotonous regularity of hla footfalls as he passed backward and forward you might have taken him for a sentinel on guard. But to a closer look, the long, high-collared coat, the quaint and ample outline of his hat, and a certain balance In his •step betrayed the seafaring man, and gave a hint of his rank. His figure and the easy swing of his movements pro-claim him strong, but the obscurity eon-cealed all other characteristics.

Up and down, up and down, he paced; always the same measured step, al-ways the same dlstar'<e to a yard. Noth-i n g about him spoke of Impatience, and ye t he was evidently expecting some one or something; for each time that h is beat ended at the angle of the north-ern tower he stopped, and looked first t o the right across the deserted square up to the entrance of Whitehall, and then to the left, where, on the edge of St James Park, the lights of Glamor-gan House shone through a few gaunt and leafless trees.

For this was In 1821, and In 1821 Gla-morgan House was still standing. And tonight it was especially In evidence, f o r the open gates and the unwonted I illumination of the garden court showed plainly that some festivity was In prep-w a t l o n within.

Minute af ter minute passed, till sud-nly from overhead came the deep

sound of the clock striking the half hour. At the same Instant a carriare rolled Into the square. The watcher had Just turned his back, and was retreat-log for the fiftieth time toward the doorway of the Abbey, when the vibra-t ion of the chlmea ceased, and the sound of the approaching hoofs and wheels jfell upon his ear. In a moment he was 5back a t the corner of the building, •where he stood motionless, with his ^iead thrown forward like a dog strain-i n g in the leash.

The carriage passed close before him, •wheeled oft to the right and disap-peared Into the court of Glamorgan House. Ho made a quick step forward .a* If to follow, but cheeked himself, « n d stood -for a moment Irresolute. While he was hesitating, a party of ladles muffled In opera cloaks and «hawls, an^ attended by several gentle-men, crossed the road from the en-trance of Dean's Yard, and took the • ame direction as the curlage. The fig-u r e In the shadow hesitated no longer, "but followed In their wake with long, resolute strides. He came up with long. -«s they reached the portico, and passed in to the cloak room with the gentlemen of the party. There coat and hat were laid aside, and he stood revealed as an officer of the king's navy, wearing a captain 's epaulettes upon a very stal-•wart pair of shoulders.

As he entered Lord Glamorgan—a tall , old man with bushy eyebrows and si Jovial red face—stepped In front and aheok him warmly by the hand. Then put t ing a big hand upon his shoulder •with a fatherly air, he wheeled him for-ward, nnd himself turned to face his •wife. "My dear," he said, with a half tow, " I present to you C a p t Richard Estconrt of his majesty's ship ——. Wsll, welll TMck, which ahall lt-be. eh?"

His lordship had been a lord of the admiralty In the last ministry, and though now-for some time out Of offlce, l ie retained a perhaps exaggeratad Idea of his own 'Influence In naval affairs.

Lady Glamorgan received the young m a n with all the graclousness for which she wss deservedly popular, " C a p t Estcourt," she sal#, "Is slower to fol-low an advantage jn shore than at sea; "his reputation had been here long be-fore Wm."

Estcourt flushed. VI have .been four Tears on the Indian stations," he said, "and three before that In America."

Since he had been almost the flrst.In t h e room. It seemed impossible.that he nhould miss the person for whom he was waiting; but when the stream of Incomers had apparently ceased, and Lady Glamorgan found time to leave the door and look at the dancing, her eye fell on him a t once, still on guard In his solitary corner. She came toward him immediately, bent on the hostess' congenial duty of Introduction.

" S a p t Es tcour t" she-said, "you a re positively not dancing! A -sailor too, aind a t a sea lord's ball!"

"Pray do not trouble about n e . Lady Glamorgan," he replied; ' f I am In no fcurry to begin."

"No, no!" she said, " I m u s t find yon some pretty craft at once; 'I have gooa patronage to bestow Just now, and you may choose between a strong ally or

rich convoy, both making their flrst voyage."

His grave eyes lit u p with a •smile'In answer to her playful tone. "New •hips," he Laid, "are never lucky; I'd ra ther have one taken from the en-

There was an undertone ef unex-pressed manning In -the words; sheL

BY HENRY MtWBOLT caught It, and looked a l him with kind-ly Interest.

"If you are waiting for some one," she said, "of course I will not trouble you; good fortune to the brave!" and she left him glowing with mingled con-fusion and gratitude. She was far too great a lady to be curious, but all good women ot her age are very naturally Interested In a young romance; and it is not astonishing that she found time now and again to glance in Estcourt's direction.

For a long while he did not change his position, and she began to fear that ho was doomed to disappointment. But a t last there was a stir near the door, and she hurried forward to receive the new guests.

An elderly dowager In green satin, and a gouty old nobleman in a star and spectacles hobbled In and paid a brace of homely compliments. As they passed on. Lady Glamorgan glanced back over her shoulder, and saw to her sur-prise that Estcourt was coming for-ward through the crowd with a look of relief upon his face.

"The Mllbrlcks?" she asked herself. "What can the man be thinking of?"

But as he drew nearer she saw that his eyes Ignored this absurd eld couple, and were fixed Intently upon some one beyond. She turned to the door once more, just In time to welcome a very different pair. A gentleman with Iron-gray hair and mustaches, wearing a red ribbon across his plain evening dress, was piloting a lady through the throng that blocked the entrance, with a courtesy and adroitness that con-spicuously distinguished him from all around.

As for the lady, whoever looked upon her turned to look again. She was fully as tall as her companion, but scarcely more than half his age; her dark-blue eyes flashed fearlessly upon all they met; her Hps wero red with life and curved with the pride and laughter of youth: the slight flush of her marvelous complexion and the spring of her step roused the beholder's pulie In sympathy with her splendid vitality. Her dress was of white and gold, scarcely less brilliant than herself; round her neck and on her brow were diamonds, and she wore them lightly, like a queen.

"Ah!" murnftired the countess to her-self, as she came forward. "It Is Madame de Montaut; a prize taken from t h s enemy! I understand, but It Is a bold game for so quiet a man."

She shook hands with her guests and retreated a little to watch trfelr meet-ing with this audacious young captain. I t was evident at once that he was al-ready In favor with Col. de Montaut at any rate; the lady too, af ter a few mo-ments' talk between the three, accepted Estcourt's arm and continued her pro-gress down the room.

A quadrille was Just ending; In an-other moment the dancers would be dls-

I perslng, two and two, in all directions | to the seats and more secluded corners. Estcourt led his partner across to the farther door; there she stopped him P'vS turned to look a t the dance. Her eyes sparkled, and her foot began to beat time upon the floor.

"Splendid!" she cried; "I long to be one of them myself!"

His brow contracted slightly. "Don't you think," he suggested, a llttie timid-ly, "that we had better choose our seats before the rush comes?"

"Oh, no, thank you," she replied, laughing. "I ahall not need a seat for a long time yet; we have only Just ar-rived. But perhaps you have been here longer and are tired of dancing al-ready?"

"I have been here an hour or more," he replied, "but I have not been danc-ing."

"And pray, if I may ask. for what other purpose did you come so early?"

This directness confused him. "I—I got here too soon." he said, "and had to wait outside by the abbey."

"Where, of course, you could not dance?" she Interrupted, mischievously.

"And even then I was almost the flrst here," he continued; "and—and—"

"And so you resolved to dance only with the latest comer, by way, I sup-pose, of striking the balance rlKht?"

He pulled himself together, and made an effort to play his part In the game.

"Balance or not," he said, earnestly, " I resolved to dance only with the lat-est comer. If she should be Madame de Montaut"

"And so you shall." ehe answered merrily, as the dancers broke off from their flrst figure and made for ths door In pairs; "that Is, as soon as these poor things have rested; in the meantime let us walk In the empty room till they come back."

She took his arm once more, and her touch seemed to send a tremor through him from head to foot; they stepped

[ forward Into the great ballroom, hung wKh mirrors and gaily colored flags, and brilliant with a thousand lights that threw a dazzling sheen upon the broad expanse of polished floor. She talked with animation, and he answered almost mechanically; the Intoxication of pride mounted to his head and numbed his senses as he made his tri-umphal progress before the eyes of the elder ladles on the dais, the long line of dancers sitting out against the walls, and the herd of solitary men standing, each with folded arms, at the bottom of the room. Their whispers reached him with faint Incense, and he scarcely knew himself for a mortal like the rest.

[ But now the band struck up again: j I the crowd returned, and he found him-self floating with his radiant partner through the upper heaven of perfect rhythmic motion. Suddenly, as It seemed, the music stopped; he mastered the swimming sensation In his brain and turned to look at her. Her eyes beamed back upon his with frank sym-pathy.

"Glorious!" she exclaimed, "What a pity It must end so se*n!"

"So soon?" he stammered. In a sud-den panic; "so soon?"

"We are leaving early to-night," "But It Is only Just 1L" "Then we have but half an hour

•mora."

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They had left the ballroom and were mounting tho stairs In advance of the throng. At the fop a tiny boudoir of- | fered two chairs, and no more.

"Shall wo hear tho music so far away?" she asked ns they entered It.

He was pale and evidently ill at case; he grasped at her question as a t an unhoped-for opportunity.

"I shall hear your voice," he said, nervously, "and that is all the music t desire." (i "What!" she answered, laughing, "with my strong French accent, a s your people choose to call It?"

She sat down In the higher and straighter of the two chairs, and opened her fan. Only a low lounging seat was left for him, and nothing | could have been more uncomfortable under the circumstances. He fixed himself upon the extreme edge and was about to speak, when she broke In be-fore him.

| "You don't look as much at rest as you deserve to be aftor that famous dunce."

He was beginning an answer, des-tined no doubt to end sentimentally, when she again forstalled him.

"You nre not accustomed to the lux-ury of arm chairs at sea?"

He saw that she did not mean to give him an opening, nnd tried de-terminedly to make one for himself.

"Forgive r.ie," he said, disregarding her question, "but I have something to say to you." ^ "And I to you," she answered readily,

"I have found the pearl you were good enough to hunt for the other day. Where do you suppose It was?"

"Madame de Montaut," he said, with desperate Irrelevancy, "I have admired you ever since I flrst saw you,"

"You can hardly expect a weman to go quite so f a r In return," she replied, with an affectation of cordial shnpll-clty; "but I may say truly that tkere Is no one whose step I prefer to ybora. Come, the next dance must b« begin-ning, and I am eager not to lose a note of It." And she rose lightly and shu: her fan.

He too stood up, but did not move toward the door.

"I am sorry," he said; "but what 1 have to offer you Is more than a dance —If It be not much less."

Her quick ear caught the sincerity of his tone and her look changed. "You nre right," she said, with a serious grace; "I will hear you." And she sank with a soft rustle Into the low chair, which she filled with an air of easy roy-

1 nlty. He remained standing; his hands, a s

they grasped the back of the other chair, were tense with nervous energy, but his throat was dry and his brain confused; for ills life he could not break from this fatal dumbness and express himself.

A gleam of not unkindly merriment shone In her eyes as she came to the rescue.

"Capt. Estcourt," she said, "you are a man whose words mean, a t the least, all they say; since, then, you speak of admiration, I understand you to offer me—love."

"Love? Devotion!" he exclaimed, with husky fervor, but stopped again and began to stammer.

"And I suspect," she continued, "from your embarrassment, that you have had thoughts of asking me to marry you."

"Oh! It Is too great a think, I know," he broke In earnestly; "it is out of all reason: but I do not ask It, I entreat It of you."

She raised herself a little and looked him gravely In the face.

(TO B l COKTIJftTBD.)

THE ARCTIC MUSK-OX.

AUTOMATIC DOCTOR. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—-Latest U .S . Gov't Report

One Big Animal Which I i Not Likely t o Become Extinct,

But there Is one large bovine animal on our continent which Is not destined lo be snuffed out of existence like the unfortunate bison, and tha*. Is the musk-ox. He Is under the protection of the forest king, whose game pastures are seldom penetrated by white poach-ers, On the map of Arctic America you can put your finger down almost anywhere, so that It be on land north of the Great Slave Lake and east of the Mackenxle river, and say, "There lives the musk-ox," without fear of success* ful contradiction. Just beyond the limit of trees and bushes, even the smallest and scantiest, on the silent desolate, and awful barren grounds northeast of Great Slave Lake, a t 64 degrees north latitude, the musk-ox draws the line marking his farthest south. A man who can endure cold like an Eskimo, travel like a caribou, live for weeks d n frozen caribou meat, starve as cheerfully as a Yellow-Knife Indian, and endure the companionship of vermin-covered na-tives, can reach the southern border-land of the musk-ox, and possibly get back alive with two or three skins. Mr. Warburtcn Pike, Englishman, can do and did all these things no longer ago than 1890; and his book on "The Barren Grounds of Northern Canada" Is a mest interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of that very desolate country. The musk-ox Is perhaps the rarest, and to white men the mest dif-ficult to secure of all our land quadru-peds. Robes are by no means uncom-mon, and often sell for as little as US each; but of mounted skins there are In our country exactly seven. Three of these constitute a group In the National Museum: two are In the American Museum of Natural History In New York; and the museums of Philadel-phia and Cambridge havo one each. Although during their long sojourns In high latitudes Gen. Greely and the members of his expedition party killed many musk-oxen, you will notice that they were unable to bring back even so much as a single horn.

WnmatTs affection, I have often had occasion to remark

the fortitude with which women sus-tain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him In the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such Intrepidity and elevation to their character, • W at times It approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and ten-der female, who had been all weakness an i dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising In mental force to be the comforter and supportsr of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrink-ing firmness the bitterest blast of ad-versity.

Everything commenced upon the flrst day of the moon Is supposed to turn out success nn.

DROP PENNY IN SLOT AND GET PRESCRIPTION.

The Latent Thing In London—Tho Ma-chine Tells Von What Medicine to Buy for Ordinary Kfcry-Duy Ail-ments.

^ ICKEL - in - the- I slot machines have ! been applied to many novel uses, , but the queerest ot all those catch-p e n n y contriv-ances is one that gives you a pre-scription i t you are sick and need one. These auto-matic doctors a r e ,

of English origin, and at the present time may be found on street corners In many parts of London.

They are made ot wood to the l ike- , ness of a man, nnd are about halt the 1

size ot the American cigar store In-dian. He is unlike the Bannock In-dian, however, in that he is full ot holes. All over the body, head and limbs ot the figure are slots tor the re-ception ot the penny tee charged tor the prescription, nnd beneath the slot Is the usual opening, from which tho prescription issues after the penny has got in its final work.

These automatons are the property ot the London Automatic Prescription Company, an Incorporated concern which has among Its shareholders not a tew ot the foremost physicians In London. At flrst a very few ot the automatons were put out by way of experiment, and the mistake was made of placing them In the fashionable promenades, such as Rotten Row. Pet-ticoat Lane and portions ot the Strand.1

Here the swell chappies whetted their curiosity tor a time by dropping pen-nies In the slots, and then the wooden physicians got to be a colossal joke.

In a short time, however, the autom-atons were removed to the Whlte-chapel d is t r ic t where they met wilh a generous patrorage from tho poorer classes. Ot course, these figures do not dispense medicines, as there would be an insurmountable obstacle In the law. The prescription given by the figure for a penny is a good one, generally pro-scribing the standard remedy for or-dinary ills, such as toothache, earache, headache, etc. Then there are antisep-tic dressings for cuts and liniments tor bruises, tonic tor the hair and salves tor corns and bunions. In each case the prescription bears the name and business address ot the apothecary whose shop Is nearest to the automa-

I ton.

D O H O R S E S W E E P ?

A Well-Anthent l ra ted Case Proves T h a t They I>o.

Do horses weep? Is a question dis-cussed by the Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette. I t tells us tha t there is a well authenticated case ot a horse's weeping during the Crimean war. On the advance to the heights ot Alma, a battery ot artillery became ex-posed to the fire ot a concealed Russian battery, and in the course ot a few min-utes it was nearly destroyed, men and horses killed and wounded, guns dis-mounted and limbers broken. A soli-tary horse, which had apparently es-caped unhurt, was observed standing with fixed gaze upon an object close be-side h im; this turned out to be h is late master, quite dead. The poor aninHil, when a trooper was dispatched to re-cover him, was found with copious tears flowing from his eyes; and It was only by main force that he could be dragged away from the spot, and his unearthly cries to get back to his master were heartrending. Apropos of the intense love that cavalry horses have for music, a correspondent of the Gazette writes that when the Sixth Dragoons recently changed their quarters a mare belong-ing to one ot the troopers was taken so ill as to be unable to proceed on the journey the following morning. Two days later another detachment of the same regiment, acsonipanled by the band, arrived. The sick mare was In a loose box, but hearing the martial s trains, kicked a hole through the side of her box, and making her way through the shop ot a tradesman, took her place in the troop before she was secured and brought back to the sta-ble. But the excitement had proved too g rea t and the subsequent exhaus-tion proved fatal.

He Had TrnrcIM. A Windham county (Conn.) man,

who rounded out 75 y w r s ot his life without going more than twenty miles from his birthplace, was one day an-swering the questions of a distin-guished western visitor, who had come on to the old farm from far beyond the Mississippi valley to leara of the child-hood ot his father and mother, who were born in Windham county. The old native gave the westerner just the details the latter was seeking.

"And I suppose you have always lived around here." said the man from be-yond t h e Mississippi.

'*Oh, no," replied the native, "I was born two miles from here."

A l i n f f a l o H o r r o r . By the upsetting of a steam yacht In

the harbor at Buffalo, N. Y., nine peo-ple were drowned, all but two ot whom were business men ot the city. The ;ratt keeled over while turning around.

After Bloomer* In Georgia. The advent of bloomers has caused an

Did law to be dug up In Georgia, which prohibits men from wearing women's jresses and women from wearing men's clothes.

tfasssa m .

A b s o l u t e l y p u r e

T H E R E W A R D O F H O N E S T Y .

It Is Not Always Bo Free and Oeneroos

as to Be Very EnconraKlng. "The caso presented In last night's

paper of a reward ot |10 being paid tor the return ot $50 reminds me of a simi-lar anecdote—only different," said the ancient New England member of the club to a Utlca reporter. " I t happened In Providence (R. I.) forty years ago, when the city contained but one mil-lionaire, who was an old Scotchman named Alexander Duncan. One day Mr. Duncan, In leaving his offlce, dropped a large roll ot bank notes In the street. They escaped his eye, but not that ot the small boy, who is around everywhere, and who pounced upon the bills Immediately. The roll contained J500. When Mr. Duncan received It he eagerly counted the money and, finding i t correct he turned to the boy nnd said: 'I thank ye, my little man.' Then, noticing the look ot dismay in the poor lad's countenance, he felt m his trousers pocket and fished out a coin, which he

I handed to the finder of his wealth. And j tho coin represented—what do you

think?" "Five dollars?" "A dollar?" "A halt dollar?" "A quarter of a dollar?" "Just halt ot that. It was an old

Spanish coin that we used to call a nlnepence In New England and that you would call a shilling in New York. In other words, It was twelve and a halt cents which Alexander Duncan, the

! millionaire ot Providence, paid to the honest boy who found and returned to

| him |500."

J C. S I M P S O N . Marques s . W . V s . s s y s . " H a l l ' s C a t a r r h Cure cured me of a very baa case of c a i a r r h . " D r u g g i s t s seU It. 75o.

K e r o s e n o will r e m o v e t a r .

T o e ' s C o n s h B w U a m In the eldest and b<-«t. It win bioak up « Cold <jnlei«e thananytblngelxe . It l s«: • relUble. Try I t

K e r o s e n e wi l l r e m o v e f r u s h pa in t .

"Hnnson'a .Wagin Corn HalT*." W«pr«iiii'd io cut* nr money rcfundvil. Aak yon*

dnitrgut lo r It. I'i lea IS C«qU.

S i n a l w a y s c a r r i e s a k n i f e u n d e r i t s c l oak .

y iTS—Alin tmtoppoi t f r - p h y I>r. K U n r ' ^ O r e * ! erTe | { e s t o r f r . _ N o K l l s a f t r r t l m l i m u u y j * um. arvHrnisrun**. T r r a t l s e a m l f J i r u i l l o i i l ' - f m - W It c u e s , bvud tui>r.Klliic,)Ul AicIioImI'LUU.,!**

If wo cou ld no t s u d o r we would no t n e e d love.

P i s o ' s C u r e f o r C o n s u m p t i o n r e l i e v e s t h e m o s t o b s t i n a t e coughs .—itev . d . l iucuMUKL-Licit, L e x i n g t o n . .Mo . Feb . S54, VL

N o m a n d o c s h is b e s t w h o w o r k s only fo r pay .

Take Parker's Cinger Tonic home with you. You will find it to exceed y o u r e x p e c t a t i o n s In itbutinic co lds , a n d m a n y Ills, uuhw; a n d w e a k -nes se s .

T h e l a n o r a n t a r c n e v e r d e f e a t e d In a n y a r g u -m e n t .

Pnln U not condnelve to plensnre. especially when occasioned by corns. Hinder-c o r n s will piea.su you . f o r i t r e m o v e s t h s m p e r f e c t l y

W h e n t h e sense of s h a m e is lost a d v a n c e m e n t cea se s .

! Why suffer from indigestion? Bur-1 duck Blood Bitters cures Dyspepsia j and all disorders of the stomach, liver , and bowels.

1 D o u b t i n g mlndf will e v e r y b r i ng a s w a r m of 1 demons .

Are you suffering from rheumatism? Thomas' Eclectric Oil has cured thous-ands of the worst cases of th is terr i-

! ble disease. I t only costs 50 (cents to try it.

The p r a y e r t h a t o p e n s a window In h e a v e n , can only be ot tered when God Is w o r s h i p e d .

Put an end to misery. Doan's Oint-ment will cure the worst case of Itch-ing Piles there ever was, and do it almost instantly. Years of suffering relieved in a single n i g h t Get Doan's Ointment from your dealer.

The Modern Beauty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle and pleas-ant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs.

T h e c h e e r f u l g ive r is a l w a y s t h e one w h « g i v e s m u c h .

Nearly all summer complaints ar® due to bad blood and unheal thy bile. Dr. Fowler's E x t ot Wild St rawberry cures by attacking the root of th* trouble. I t never fails.

r rove n e v e r ttnds a b u r d e n t h a t i t d o e s n o t t r y t o l i f u

Jonn G. White, a Cleveland authority | on chess, has a library of about 6,000' volumes devoted entirely to the game.'

Captain Jonathan Norton, of Lee. I Mass., the oldest man In western Mas-' sachusetts, has just celebrated his 99th birthday.

Blondln has always been a singularly abstemious man In his personal habits, and at 72 Is still able to perform on the tight rope.

C h e a p E x c n n l o n t t o t h e W e s t .

Bountiful harvests are reported from all sections ot the west and northwest, and an exceptionally favorable oppor-tunity for home-seekers and those de-siring a change ot location is offered by the series of low-rate excursions which have been arranged by the

| Northwestern line. Tickets for these excursions, with favorable time limits, will be sold on August 29, September 10 and 24 to points in northern Wiscon-sin, Michigan, mh-thwestern Iowa, western Minnesota. South Dakota, Ne-braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and a large number of other points. For full Information apply to agents of con-necting lines, or address W. B. Knls-kern, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Western R'y, Chicago, 111.

Harvest and Home Reekers' Kzrursloa. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-

way company will sell t ickets a t great ly reduced rates on September 10th and 24th, 189.'>. to points in Missouri, Kan-sas and Texas. For fu r the r particu-lars address H. A. Cherrler. N. P. A., M., K. & T. Ry., 316 Marquette BIdg. t ' Chicago, HL

A s vou sow. h o e and m o w , A c rop ol g r a i n to ge t .

Y o u m o s t worK. s a v e a n d s t u d y , F o r success In l i f e - y o u be t .

I.ow Rate Harvest Kzcnrslons, via th* Mlssoarl I'aclflc System.

On S e p t e m b e r 10th and'.Mth, 1S)5. t h e Missour i Poc l f l c Rai lway a n d i ron M o u n t a i n R o u t e w l U sel l t i c k e t s a i half r a t e s , i p lu s ; ^no for t h e r o u n d t r i p f r o m St . Louis , a n d I ts Miss iss ippi R i v e r G a t e w a y s , a s well a s f r o m K a n s a s Ci ty . L e a v e n w o r t h . Atch ison . St . . loseph a n d Omaha to po in t s W e s t und s o u t h w e s t . For cop ies of land pamph le t s , d e s c r i p t i v e of the resources , soi l und c l i m a t e of t h e s e v e r a l W e s t e r n and .Sou thwes te rn s l a t e s , a d d r e s s c o m p a n y ' s a g e n t * or U. C Townsknd. G e n e r a l P a s s e n g e r Agent,

I S u Lou i s .

Hat Gray Whiskers and a Terrier. A bicycle seems to call out a man's

latent peculiarities with unfailing cer-tainty, and there are always interest-ing examples of such development to be seen among the riders In the park or on the roads. A gray whiskered man rides rA 'he boulevard almost every day with a small Skye terrier in a wire basket fastened to the front of the bi-cycle just below the handle bars. He has been riding this way for several months, and Is never seen without the dog. The animal's expression is a cu-rious combination ot terror and ennui, and there is an alertness in his look which might be understood to indicate that he would jump out at the first op-' portunlty. Other similar riders are to be seen on the road every day, but un-fortunately all ot them are not so harm-less.—New York Sun.

Mantfle's Bnsy Week. Following is a society item from Ce-

dar Point, Kan.: "Maud Hastings wea pretty busy while here last week. 6he broke John Sayre'a colt to ride, raked alfalfa, pitched wheat and killed a snake. Come again, Maudle."

Mete Wheel

fbr your Wagon

f . . Any tlx# yon wuil, tO (o M Incbai high. Tlr* 1 to * la-fSwi wide — hubs |o fit any azl*. C«et Biaay tlmM tn a Mt-•oato havaMt ot lew vbwta teMyevwacoa H f e r k a a l l a t m aialairo4d«r. maa.1 wra. bof*, tc. WO r«Mtttac at ttras Oati-r/rM. AddraM K M l r a H r K , O e _ r . O. Bex M, Qalacy IS 1

M r w.HMUMat • E N o l U N W u k i B c t o * B . C .

lyrs la last war. UadJudloaUogelates, atty alM^

WOMEN'S FACES T T —like flowers, fade

and wither wilh time; the bloom of the rose is only known to the h e a l t h y w o m a n ^ cheeks. The nerv-ous strain caused by the ailments and pains peculiar to the sex, and the labor and worry of rearing a family, can often

be traced by the l ines in the woman's face. Dull eyes, the sallow or wrinkled face and those feelings of w e a k n e s s " have their rise in the derangements and irregularities peculiar to women. The functional de-rangements, painful disorders, and chronic weaknesses of women, can be cured with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Por the young girl jnst entering wananhood, for the mother and those about to become mothers, and later in "the cbange of life," the " Prescription " is just what they need ; it aids nature in preparing the system for these events. It 'aoa medicine prescribed for thirty years, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel a n d Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y.

HAIR BALSAM and taaatifto Om hsk.

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| EWIS'98 I powsuxs m m o s • • (PATEfTIO)

The msds. Uoilke other Lye, It Setag a fine powder and packed l®* iwlib reraovable hd. the contgtt

iinirifecilag sinks, closets, waahlag bottlea, paints, treea. atfl.

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LOWELL STATE BANK LOWELL, MICH.

Capital, $26,000. ••• ••

FRANCIS KING, I ' roulent,

CHAS. Md'AKTY, Vice Pr^ ident .

M C.ORISWOLD, Cashier.

15. N. KKI.STKR, Assistant Ca«hier,

DIRECTORS:

I'rxncis King, Chas. McCarty,

lloWrt Hardy, F . T. King,

(J. II. Force, M. C. Griswold.

A General Ranking R.isiness Transacted

Money Loaned on Real Estate Security

A m o n g the j u r o r s fo r the S f p t e m - j Thf i mar r i age of H e n h r W . Mooney be r le rm of of t h e c i rcui t court a r e : j a n a A u g u s u N u g e n t b. 11 of G i a l -

[CWMSVHO PROM riHiT )

A m i eve ry year the ])e«)ple Hock t o

s e c ' T h e Old H o m e s t e a d , " to s teep

themselves in the brisk New I I « m | -

sh i re a i r t h a t pe rvades the play a i d

refresh t h e m s e h e s in the wholesome

a tmosphere of the life D e u m a n

Thompson has so a b ' y presented.

Th is ( F r i d a y ) and S a t u r d a y evenings

th i s c h a r m i n g New E n g l a n d idyl will

he s taged a t Powers ' opera house.

G r a n d R a p i d s ,

Mrs. Freeman Winters died last (Thursday) nijrht. Fun-eral services at the house, Sun-day at 2 ]), m,

A, B. Waterman & Son pur-chased the Commercial hotel at Saranac of John Cutler and have taken possession. We congratulate the people of Sar-anac upon their acquisition and can assure them of a g-ood hotel service. Mr, Waterman will he missed in Lowell, where he is respected for his many excel-lent qualities.

Rev, E, H, Shanks is assist-in a revival meeting- at Belding,

N. P, Husted and C, D, Blakeslee were at the Ionia fair the most of the week with exhibits of fruit and trees,

Mr, and Mrs H, A, Peck-ham returned from their wed-ding trip Saturday evening;,

Mrs, Amelia Hodges of Grand Rapids spent Sunday with her father, J, M, Mathew-son.

The office of Mains & Mains is undergoing- repairs, painting rnd papering and will be as good as new,

R. L, "Irish has purchased and taken possession of the Da-vis house.

Five larg-e loads of Switzer cheese were shipped from the L, & H, station Wednesday.

Charles Oberly, formerly a Lowell boy, visited his friend, S, S. Lee, the fore part of the week.

was in

town

O u r newly chr is tened hote l—long

m a y it W a v c - r l y .

R. R. Squires of R o c k f o r d town Wednesday .

.1, E . Hrecti of Ionia was in

M o n d a y .

CIn ren t e Slncnm of Rockford was

in town Monday ,

/AVe Havts sacured a corrpsnondeht f rom A d a and her initial le t te r ap-puars this week. Here ' s hoping tha t she will lie a s tayer .

M r Ir ish has t a k e n possession of the Davis house.

Miss May Gul l i ford of G28 W e a l t h y avenue is spending a couple of weeks with her parents iu L o w e l l , — [ G r a n d

R a p u l s Democra t .

A ' H t ^ assort meiVl of scl»ool shoes slUlj>i\ a t Anderson & F n d l a y ' s .

T h a t famous and most p o p u l a r d r a m a , The Oid Homestead , wi h the qnaii i t Josh W h i t e o m h , a p p e a r s at P o w e r ' s Ope ra house. G r a n d Rap id s , on Fr iday and S a t u r d a y even ings Q u i t e a mi in her of Lowell people will

prohuhly a t t e n d .

T h e W h i t e R i b b o n Lad ies will meet and have a picnic tea a t t h e home of Mrs. W a i l , Sep tember 2 7 .

T h e F l i n t ball boys , who were de-feated here, went lo loriia a n d the team al that p h u v repeated the dose. B a r b e r caught for Ion ia .

Get 7 pounds of B a r b e r & C r a w ' s rolled oats for 2.') cents .

T h e best feature of the s t a t e fair was the exhib i t made by the fish com- , mission. I t was c redi tab le a n d in-terest ing indeed.

A wr i te r in the Free Press advises f a r m e r s to sow rye iu the corn fields immedia te ly af ter shock ing the corn. H e says it is only necessary to g o Over t h e ground with a cul t iva tor and t h a i t he win te r pas tu re afforded will a m o u n t to f a r mure than the cost of

t he crop,

E r n e s t F n l l i n g t o n of Vergennes has pnrchnsetl the f a r m of J . Spence r Va iuh US.MI on sect ion 28 iu Ve rgeu -

lius.

Wi l l i am T , H o l m e s , A d a j Lewis Boulard , Bowne; W . Wk L y b a r k e r , Ca le ion ia ; E d w a r d B , Joyce , Sr. , Can -n o n : W i l l m m Tevple, Cascade; S. D . Norman , G r a t t a n ; E l m e r E . Rich-mond, Vergennes .

T h e finest l ine of teas nnd coffees ever shown in Lowell a t B a r b e r A Craw's ; t ry t h e m and be convinced.

Money spen t in G r a n d Rap ids won ' t bui ld up Lowel l . B u y in y o u r home town if y o u desire its prosper i ty .

The Pet i iskey team failed to pu t in an appea rance as adver t i sed . S o m e of tne players were called borne nnd

their t r ip was cut sho r t .

Greenvi l le w a s scheduled to play b i l l a t Lowell Tuesday bu t , ns a r e -por te r for the G r a n d Rap ids Hera ld pu t s it , • ' f lunked at t he last m o m e n t , " 0 ; ' c o u r s e t hey " f lunked . " Did you ever bea r of t ha t c lub ca r ry ing ou t an agreement , unless i t was conceded e i ther t h e ump i r e or some other un-fa i r advan t age? The i r for t is "Hunk-jug ,"—[Ionia S t a n d a r d .

Mrs M. M. P e r r y , pres ident of t h e distr ict women ' s home missionary un-ion, was in G r a n d R a p i d s S a t u r d a v , comple t ing a r r angemen t s fo r the i r next a n n u a l meet ing t o be held O c l -

tober 4.

Mrs . E , R . P o w e r of G r a n d R a p i d s visited her sister, Mrs . W . Lang ley and o the r re lat ives he re last M o n d a y

and Tuesday .

Money t o l<«an on real e s t a t e . L ow r a t e s , no bonus . Lowel l S t a t e B a n k

Mrs , Or ton Hi l l will represent t h e Lowel l Congrega t iona l women's h o m e missionary society a t t h e distr ict a n -nual to be held a t Hudson ville,

A convent ion of the S u n d a y schools of the township of Lowell is being held a t the* Methodis t chu rch a t Sweet 's corners today.

Born to H e n r y J o n e s and wi fe Sep tember 10th a d a u g h t e r .

T h e Ladies Aid society of Keene wi :l hold a chicken pie social a t t he G r a n g e Hal l on F r i d a y evening , Sep-t ember 2 7 t h . Proceeds fo r benefit of K - e n e c h u r c h . All a r e inv i ted .

Old homestead a t P o w e r ' s O p e r a house. G r a n d R a p i d i F r i d a y a n d Sat-u r d a y evenings.

Lessons aud organ fu rn i shed to pa r ty having no i n s t r u m e n t , Mrs' K n i g h t ,

R e v , A , P . M o o r s is in a t t e n d a n c e a t C o n f e r e n c e , w h i c h c o n v e n e s a t

A l b i o n t h i s w e e k . In c o n s e q u e n c e t h e r e wi l l b e n o s e n ' i c e s in t h e M .

E . c h u r c h n e x t S u n d a y ,

T h e G r a n d r i v e r d i s t r i c t j o i n t c o n v e n t i o n of t h e w o m e n ' s h o m e

m i s s i o n a r y u n i o n aud t h e w o m e n ' s f o r e i g n m i s s i o n a r y soc i e ty wi l l b e

h e l d a t H n d s o n v i l l e O c t o b e r 4, T h e f o r e n o o n w i l l b e d e v o t e d t o h o m e m i s s i o n s a n d t h e a f t e r n o o n t o f o r -

e i g n ,

L o w e l l ' s b a s e b a l l t e a m g o e s t o B e l d i n g S a t u r d a y t o p l ay t h e ag-

g r e g a t i o n B e l d i n g - G r e e n v i l l e - P e -to skey c l u b .

B u y all k i n d of wood of J , W , E c k e r & Son,

M r s , C . M , V i n t o n and t h r e e

c h i l d r e n of W a k o n d a , S o u t h D a k -o t a . a r e v i s i t i n g h e r p a r e n t s , R

H u n t e r and w i f e and o t h e r r e l a t i v e s ,

J a m e s F r i a r and w i l e of G r a n d

R a p i d s s p e n t S u n d a y w i t h h i s sis-

t e r . Mrs . J . D K e l l y ,

W . R . B o w e n of K e e n e m a r k e t e d

a load of w h a t was c l a i m e d t o b e

t h e l a r g e s t a n d n ices t p e a c h e s of t h e season , T h u r s d a y . T h e y w e r e

l a t e C r a w f o r d s and F . B. C l a r k was

t h e p r o u d p u r c h a s e r .

FOB SALE—Three 40-acre fa rms , cheap, E n o s & Bradf ie ld ,

T h e G r a n d Rapids P i ess is respon-sible fo r the fo l lowing:

The re was a young miss in Yps i lan t i , Whose bloomers were a w f u l l y s can ty .

A u d she ac tua l ly swore, W h e n a hole fou r b y four

W a s snagged in the seat of her pan ty .

Q u i t e a n u m b e r f r o m here a re at-t e n d i n g t h e S e v e n t h i>ay A d v e n t i s t

c a m p - m e e t i n g , b e i n g h e l d a t L a n -s i n g S e p t e m b e r 19 t o M , O v e r

f o u r t h o u s a n d p e o p l e a r e e x p e c t e d t o a t t e n d ,

Barl»er & Craw gua ran tee prices and qua l i ty of goods . D o n ' t forget it.

" T h e Old HomoRtead" is no s t r ange r lo theater-goers of th i s city and each recur r ing visit is welcomed by hosts of people who rarely a t t e n d a thea te r excep t to see the wholesome, emdti iug scenes of this p ic tu re of rura l domes t.icity. T h e engagement will OJMJII F r i d a y n iuh t ami will conclude with the p e r f o r m a n c e S a t u r d a y even i ng . — [ G r a n d R a p i d s Democra t .

P e t e r C. E l k i n s a n d Eff ie M c C a r t h y both of G i a t l a u , were marr ied re-

cen t ly . T h e G r a n 1 R a p i d s Press says t h a t

"Lowel l is the craziest base ba l l town in the s ia e."

T h a t 25 c e n t tea B a r b e r & Craw ' s is out of s ight .

O u r a t tent i ' n has been called to the fact t h a t t he names of Pres ident Ber-gin a n d Clerk Burne t t were omi t t ed

t an , is announced .

A mar r iage license has been issued to A b r a h a m K i e f e r knd I l a t l i e E . i t ob in sen , both of Lolvell.

T h i s season's " O l d H o m e s t e a d " cohipany, which will He seen a t Pow-ers ' F r idhy and S a t i i H a y evenings inc ludes several very t l e v e r cha rac t e r actors and with th# addit ion di" a dou-ble qua r t e t and a choli- of t w t h t y s e -lected voices, i t m a y he ibst ly &iid t ha t t he New E n g l a n d idyl l has neve r be t te r presented*.—[Grand R a p i d s

T h e ce l eb raWff lLy iu^dS shoe in at Anderson AvFiutHaV's.

M r , and Mrs. G , W . B a n g s re -t u rned T h u r s d a v f rom the s ta te of New York where they h a v e been visi t ing relatives,

A social was held a t t he h o m e of Mrs. 11, Wesbrook in Cascade, F r i d a y evening , for the benefit of Mr, Wes t -

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j u s t

ON E of the most poetic aad clmrming pictures in the whole Bible is that portion ot of scripture in Revelation, describing the Tree of Life, standing by the banks of tl.e

peaceful river, bearing the twelve manner of frails and leaves for the healing ot the nations. In this grand book, the author has endeavored to group together the brightest thoughts of all ages and times on the fruits borhe by t h e T r e e of L i f e , burning and beautiful words that go home to our hearts and l i f t us into a higher and holier atmosphere. Taking up theseone by ond and enlarging Upon them, what a glorious feafit of good things we find in them, and Vriiat a rich harVest we may reap in bur every day walk and conversation by the study and contemplation of the thoughts, idbas and feelings expressed in them.

Many, in the hurfy and scurry for wealth, ih the headlong rnce for plaife and pbVer,1

over, the Ada (lastor. Proceeds.80.00,! losing sight of the TREK OF L I F E and the T R E E OF D E A T H , They ignore the awlul Editor E, B, Lapbam of the Bel- j consequences of eilting of ihe fruit of the one, and they aie fa«t forgetting the only substitute to

ing I j ^ e r Hjade this office a pleas- ^ | i a ( j f o r ^|,e 0 f 0ther—the leailitij? of upright. Christian lives. The latter result is d ing B a n n e r Hiade this office a pleas- ^ f o r t h e f r u i t o f t h e O t h e i

p t w a f i ^ e 8 t b r o u g h t a l n n i l b y s t o H n g t h e m i n d w i t h t h e n o b l e s t i l i o u g h t s o f t h e Ixwt t h i n k e r s , a s w e fili»l

i n g fame, ha» l ^ e n T u g g e d « M . a Z r t h e m . e m b a l m e d i n t h e w r i t i n g s o f t h e g r e a t a n d g o o d ; * n d a s t h e In-st t i m e f o r s o w i n g - s e e d i s h i

bv 3 the Congrega t iona l church of O i - t h e s p r i n g , s d t h e b e s t s e a s o n f o r s o w i n g g o o d w h o l e s o m e i n f l u e n c e s i s c h i l d h o o d ; a n d t h e d u t y o i

sego,

Sep t ember 29 ih will be y o u r last chance to see G r a n d Rap ids on a S u n d a y excurs ion. Wi l l cost y o u on ly 45 cents f rom E l m d a l e .

Go ing to G r a n d Rap ids on t h e 29 tb? L a s t cheap S u n d a y excurs ion .

Las t chance of th i s yea r t o go to G r a n d R a p i d s on a S u n d a y excurs ion will be on S e p t e m b e r 29 ih . L e a v e E l m d a l e a t 10 :30 a m .

Miss R h o d a Wesbrook who h a s beeu employed a t Ka lamazoo fo r t h e pas t six months has been s p e n d i n g a week with he r mo the r , H . W e s b r o o k ,

in Oascade.

G e t a bott le of t ha t fancy ca t sup a t B a r b e r & Craw's for 10 cents.

Mrs . F . Canf ie ld , of Or l eans , Ionia c o u n t y , spen t S u n d a y wilh Mrs . I . W , Hals tead ,

O . J , K i n y o n and f a m i l y moved l o Lowe l l Tuesday . Mr . and Mrs, K i n - 1

all parents is to see that the proper seed is implanted in the minds of their children:

This Wonderful Book Contains just such seed. In it the full reward of il well-spent Christian life is lleld up ih sharp I contrast with thfe emptiness of a life giveh over to selfishness ahd disobedience While the read-ing matter is bf such a character as to make the book "WORTH ITS W E I G H T IN G O L D , " " the artistic department has received sj>ecial attcntibn, and the work is embellished throughout by many beautiful illustrations, such as will charm the mind through the eye and help to more in-delibly impress on our minds the wonderful truths presented in the

100 Full Page Engravings Many of them by the some of the forembst artists. Nothing shoddy about The Beautiful Tree of Life. It is printed in a splendid manner, on fine quality of paper, and the illustratlbns ait; g-ems of a r t ; the retail prices fixed at from 30 to 60 percent below books of similar style. I t is j j a standard work; a book for all times and seasons, and it will adorn the library of the wealthy and the great, while it is bringing joy and ligfhting- up the poorest cabin in the land. Jj

The Beautiful Tree of Life Contains 512 pages, beautifully printed on toned paper, nearly 100 engraving-s, and we furnirfw-^ it, handsomely bound in two styles, at the following- remarkably low prices: No. 1.—Elegant cloth, gbld side and back stamping, SI.50. A special edition has been issued containing the H O F F M A N G A L L E R Y OF E N G R A V I N G S . It was found impossible to place t h i l

von wiVblTpr^tlv ^ h L a k e ' ? r a n d s e r i e s o f illustrations in the "The Beautiful Tree of Life," tind sell it at the same price; ' Odessa people. Mr. Kinyon is a it being- already a very large and handsome book for the money: Hbnce, the special edition con^ prominent member of F. & A. M. taining- the Hoffman Gallery. This special edition will contain, ill addition to all the matter in lodge h-re aud Mrs. Kinyon ie an the regular edition of the book, this magfnifitent series of twenty-four full page engravings;

egg* and f a r m produce and will pay e d g e s , $ 3 . 0 0 :

What Are the Hoffman Engravings? p ie aud wife of L a k e Odessa visited ! T h i s i s o n e o f t h ^ ' i n o s t r e m a r k a b l e a n d b b a u t i r u l s e r i e s o f i l l u s t r a t i o n s o f s c e n e s i n t h e life h i

p a y s if

f r iends here S u n d a y before last.

Save your peach pita Be rg i a cash f r t hem.

The coun ty super in tendent neighhnrinff county every t eacher a t the tha t took their local patter to hold up the i r hands. O u t of 160 presehi only 6 responded a t which he not only ex-pressed surprise, bu t s a id : " Y o u don ' t spend a do l l a r a y e a r with these pa-pers ye t you expec t t h e m to p r in t f r e e of charge notices of insti tutes, insert p r o g r a m s of s a m e take f u l l report of wha t you do or say on these occasions, publish y o u r school repor t aud then ex-pect them lo adver t i se you and y o u r abi l i ty in vour chosen profession t h u s assist ing you Ut c l imb the ladder to hiirher positions and bet ter sa lar ies without, a cent ' s pa t ronage in r e t u r n . " — [ E a t o n C o u n t y Repub l i can .

Peop le iu search of good l a u n d r y service, are cordial ly inv i ted t o g ive t h e B a n n e r l a u n d r y a t r ia l o rde r .

Christ that have bSen brought before the ..public .for the past half a centhry. The artist a s you readily know, is a German of world-wide fame. Some reproductions of these pictui , offered in this country heretofore, but usually at a high price. This is the first attempt to place them within reach of the great mass of the people. By k special .and fortunate arrangement wi^h

recently asked ; the publishers of "The Beautiful Tree of Life," T H E L O W E L L LEDGER Is enabled tomaRfc county institute readers the following

Very Liberal Offer: We send the LOWELL LEDGER one year The price of Book No. 1 is • •

f o r . . . . ^ : ; • • • Sl.od : $ L 5 t »

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Total We offer both in combination for only: ^ ^ -The LEDGER one year and Book No. 3, Regular Price, $3.00, we offer them both * The LEDGER one year and Book No. 4, Regular Price $4.00, the two together only * •

No One Is Barred Out. Old Subscribers whose papers are paid a year in advance can get No. 1 for 90c, No. and No. 4 for $1.80. People not wishing to take the LEDGER will be supplied at tl.

. $ 2 . 5 0

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$2,20 ^ 2 . S 0

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Monet refunded if work is not right.: the regular rates. Cash to accompany each order. Subscribers ordering by mail, ad^ Trade at home and your cash will re- to cover postage. Call and see this elegant work of art. Address all comhiunications t

THE LEDGER, LOWELL, MICH. t h e P r o b a t e Cour t t h e r i l l of E d w a r d > , — — Lennon sr., la te of t h e t o w n s h i p of Cascade, d isposing real es ta te va lued at 811 000 and personal ty va lued a t $2,500. The will b e q u e a t h s to M i s .

Gih, thus giving exeursioulMK five days at

eillier Chicagu or Milwaukee. The attractinnn ut (Jliicagu are too nitm-

M argil ret Lennon , ~wid»w7'ibe*' h . ' .m^ ^ a D ( 1 , , , a , .B, Milwaukee i* Stead on section twen ty -n ine of Cas I U m ! Milwaukee Ex|Hwiti.rtt, which opem

cade , d u r i n g her lifetime, then to 1 4 a n , , 0 , , t - 1 0 ' ^ , l , i 8 w i , 1

the i r four anna. F r a n k . E d w a r d , ! ^ l , ' e ^ , i n , c t o v W l "nc of the be*

J a m e s and Wil l iam, sha re and tthare 1 ^ ' e r t t ' r n p x I K W ' , , " n " K'v e n-al ike. T h e r ema inde r of ihe es ta te is I I himgo tiekem are EIKKI going im all also bequeathed to the sons nn con- traiim (ex«ej»t No, o of (J. & ( j . T. Ry.) of dition t h a t they pay lo each of t h e Octolasr l ,«nd Milwuukee tieketi< are valid daugh te r s , SOEUU B r o u g h a m , El iza- on reguhir steamer leaving in connection belli H a r m o n and Marga re t M c K n i g h t wiiji Bienmlnmt expretw na Oct 1. For fur-t l ,000 on or b e f o r e three yea r s a f t e r | therinfomratiun and rate* enquire of agents, t he death of t h e m o t h e r . T h e o the r sous , Thomas and J o h n have bi- n provided f o r , E d w a r d Lennon and J o h n H a r m o n a re nomina ted execu tors.

I t is all riirht fo r y o u r ne ighbor to bor row your LKIX; Kit long e n o u g h to aee what i t is, but he should not keep i t up forever , i f t he pa|>er is wor th r ead ing it is wor th two cents a week.

T h e LEDGER on t r ia l t hree mon ths fo r 25 cents. D o n ' t bor row i t for-ever .

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™i I O W A STANDARD SCALE

EXCURSION TO CHICACO AND MIL-WAUKEE.

The Detroit, Grand Hoven & Milwnnkee

Kuilwav, in connection with the I'liimgo & Grand Trunk Railway and Ooodrieh Tran

sportation compuny from Gnmd Haven will

j give one grand exctuwon to Ghicagn und

I unothcr to Milwaekee, on Tuewluy, Oct. 1,

fr . im the list of counci lmen publ ished j «nd foi the*e exairsinnn one fare for the Inst week, AH r igh t , it s tand" a m n- i T.mnil trip has taen made.

ded as f o l l o w : , Look Q u i c k , L u ! See H u n t e r B e ( r j g i n tn Collar W i n -ega r . A n d now t h e clerk can B u r n -

e l l .

See E c k e r & Son f b r wood and k in-

d l ings .

Chicago ticketH ure good via all mil and

Durund or via Grand Haven and the Goo.l-rieh steamers. The Milwaukee tickets are

via the IX, G. IT. & M. railway und taeun:-

er» from Grand Haven. Tiieae tick eta wiil be good to return up to Sunday night, Oct.

The most simple and durable scale on the market .

It requires no pit.

Bearings a re all made f rom t h e best refined eteel.

Wilt n o t get o u t of o r d e r .

Can be built by any carpenter .

&end for descriptive circular and p f l c s l i s t .

THE IOWA SCALE COM

rUNUPACTURBRS.

TOLEDOi IOWA.

I F Y O U W A N T T H E B E S T

Ice Cream Ice Cream Soda

Rickert has it. The proof Is in trying.

S. O. LITTLEFIELD, General Jobber in

o p p i Tin, Sheet Iron and Work.

T I N ROOFIXG A N D EAVETROUGHING." s ^ S f c ^ A L L K I N D S OF E K P A l f l "

Opposite Music Hall Block, Lowell.

FKKE P I ! . I A

Send y w r name and thhire* to H. E. litii-klen A Oi.. rluraK", «*»« get a I w sample IHIS ol Dr. Kim;'# New Life P i l k A trial wi" eonvincc y«n of their meritK. Thrw- pills tre «wy in m-tion and are par-licnlarlv enective in the cutv of coDNttpa-linn an<l >ii-k hemlai&e. For malaria und liver trouble# they have lieen proved in-valuaiile. They are guaranteed to l»e per-fect lv free from even'deleU'rionn iiilwtunce and in he purely vrgetahle. They do not weaken hy their action, hut hy giving tune to suinmi-'h aud lx"*" eln greatly invigorate the Mvxtem. Kegi.lar aize 2-ic |ter hoi. Sold liy Hunter & Si a , druggist. 4

A L L FRKK. ^

Tl^-se who liavf IWMI Dr. KingV \ I)iac«'very know itK value, awl thwewlnf ' have not. have imw the opp'-nuniiy n, irf il I'rws. Cull on ihe adveWised druggliti and ^•rl a trial In •tile In* . Send your name anil add rear, to 11. K. itueklen «V (>«., CJiiengn, and gut a wimple lane of l>r. KinnVJCrw Life l'ill» free. af well as a Guide to Ileultii und Household Instructor, free. All of whicli in irmirunteed to do you enod and rin-t you n>>lhing at Hunter & Son's, drug-gi-t. 4

S cond bond buggies f o r sale verf '•heaji, 11, V : Slocking.