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Gokeys' Boots AN ANTIDOTE

For Wet Feet AT

CANDIDATES. FRUIT MEN. THE TOWNSHIP TICKETS NOMIli- FAV(iRABLE REPORT ON FRUIT

ATED MONDAY. BUDS.

Also t h e Men Named Townships.

in Otlfor j Deliberations of t h e Peach Men at Their Last Meeting.

C E O . WtNEGAR.

For Sale—Five Splendid Farnte. Small payment down*, balance dri lton£ time to s\tit pArdhaRer, at six

per,cent interest. LoW pfioCs. ImpWVed wholly or irt jiart as you wish; well watered, with troiit streams, buiUiings, good rrtails, schools, rail-roads, and stations, good market, etc.-. within one milty described as fol-lows, to wit : The S\Vl-4 of Seo 3, T 13 N R 7 Wi 160 acres, improved'. W 1-2 of N E 1-4 Seo 10, 80 acres, partially improved. N 1-2 of SE 1-4 •f Seo 10, HO acres, small improvement. SH I'-l df Soc 12 and a frao-tiHnai piece adjoining, of 23 acres, making 188 acres; house, bam and improvements. Also a farm of 286 06-100 aoifes, nonr Willianwton on 1). .L. N. R . K. and Grand River gfAv^feA turniiike, improved-, hud

iadf A. A. DWIGHT. S.

will divide into two farms. Enquire of of address KNAPP, , Lowell, Mich. 781 Jeffefrson Avenue, I)etroit , Mich.

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THE LOWELL H&BBLE WORKS. JOS. H. HAMILTON, PROP.

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Please Cell before Purchasing.

At the Citizens' Caucus held at

Train's opera house, Monday, the fol-

lowing township ticket was nomin-

ated: Supervisor, Jacob \V. Walker. Clerk, Will M. Chapman. Treasurer, John S. Eggleston. Justice, K O'Harrow. Highway commissioner, Arthur \V.

Morgan. School Inspector, Chas. Winks. Board oiT review, R B. Boylan-, 5 .

ft. Blain. fctibstnUles, D . V Denick, Prahk

I^ickard, John R Hutch, Segel Qra-haW.

tHe If. iilowing were appointed tow.11

SMp 'committee for the ensuing yeart

J . S. Hooker, 8. F . Edmonds, Geo.

6 . Barber.

The Republican caucus was very

largely auendedi as high as 243 bal-

lots being cast. After a vigorous

struggle between rival candidates, the

following ticket was completed:

Supervisor, Frank N. White. Clerk. Will M. Chapman. Treasurer, Loren Barber. Highway cominissioner, \V. H.

Murphy. Justice, Joseph Kinyon. Drain commissioner, C. Orrio (till. School inspector, Mim Jennie G r a -

ham. Board of review, A. L Cootas. Ouistabies, Will Yeiter, Btnj,

Morse, H. A. Richmond, C. Blakeslee.

As delegates to the county conven-tion, W. S. Winegar, Will M. Chap-

man and A. R. Denise were phosen.

Township committee: D. G. ijocA^

Chas. Qtiick, A S . Houghton.

Grattan Democrats made this ticket:

Supervisor^Frank McArthur; cleik, L. R. Rohson; treasurer, William Jones; justice, J . F. Sullivan; high-way commissioner, G. Diyle; drain commissioner, E. E. Less iter; school inspector, F. Bowler; board of review, J . P. Norton.

And the Ri'publicans this:

Supervisor, .1. G. Hessier; clerk, E S. Brooks; treasurer, L A. Elkius; justice, L. M Squires; highway com- ' missioner, W. C. Slayton; drain coin-m'ssioncr, E. W. Lytic; school inspect-or, E. P. Nash; member of board of review, J . II. Watkins.

In Vergennes. the Democrats put forward this ticket:

Supervisor, Fred L Hodges; clerk, P. J . Olell; treasurer, John R. Den-nis; justice. S Wingeier, Jr. ; hiirh-way commissioner, C. S. Beokwith; drain commissioner, P. J . Mausoi; bchtN)! ifispACtor, Arthur Anderson; board of review, John Quillin,

While the Republicans have these:

Supervisor. James H. Andrews; clerk, Don A . Mann; treasurer, William T. Condon; justice. Earl G. Nash; highway commissioner, J . R. Lynn; drain commiisiuner, A. R. Condon; school inspector, F . C. Doyle; board of review, Jacob Mas-teubrook>

Meeting held at residence of L. J . Post.

Report of condition of frn-t buds,

b u t few had examined Apples btil

ihrtse reported favorably.

Report on peaches: J E1. Lse re- |

ported buds on Early Michigatt, Hill's

Chili, early and late CrAwfenls in i

Condition for fair cfo|i. Mvfod Kis- |

or reported all buds fta^ly killed. Mr. j

^heathen reported bud& in fair con- |

i^uon. WillAtti H'UrtteVS report was

favorable on &il b i t NVheitland, D. |

j Sterling's rtJJ.Vrt WAs favorable; tt. i

Pearce ofc" Granci ftaplds, rtporte^i j all fruit in good coMduioh. 1

Several persons brought samples of

peach buds and a committee was ap-

pointed to inspect them. They found ,

a great variation, soma baing nearly

all killed and others nearly all alive.

Those in best condition were taken from

topi of yoang well cultivated orchards |

those in worst condition frotft lower

limbs of orchards not culiiVAteil.

J . A. Pearce gave a very irttefeSt-

ing accrttiul o£ his trifi throdgh Worth

OarolhjA, Stating that a good fri\it

Iftlrop ^ras an exoeprfon while the Ap-

posite is true of diVr owd locality.

Peter Mc^hefddn read a short but

interesting |)a^cr on d^rayirtg and »I-

EO expressed the opinion that f tai t

growers should say Teas aBodt the

profits of the business, and that

horticultural meetings should be held

wiiiv closed i^oora. He ktated that

there wai great danger df Ihe fruit

boeiness getting ^rherei potatoes and

beans are. tn the .diacussion that fol-

lowed, but few agreed with the speak-

er and several expressed the opinion

that the knowledge of f ru i t insects

and diseases should be generally dis-

seminated, as one person cannot suc-

cussfully combat them alone. j

Mr. Garfield gave a talk on orna - ,

mentiug home grounds, in his usual i

pleasing and interesting manner, tell-

ing of the many mistakes people are

apt to make in setting out trees and

plants.

Recitations by Mesdames E. Eng-

lish and A, Hunted were well appre-

ciates and added much to the interest i

of the meeting. ,

There were present from Grand 1

Rapids: Messrs Garfield, French, i

Pearca and Stevens and they helped !

grea t i | to make the meetin; a success.

The society adjourned to meet with I

Matthew Hunter in June .

QUEEN ESTHER.

BROOMS, Brooms, BROOMS, ONLY

10 CENTS EACH. We are selling our stock

bf Groceries at the

Very Lowest Prices

8 lb Rolled Oats

3 Cans Corn

25c .....35c

...25c 1 lb GofKl Tea 25c

25c 1 lb Best Japan Tea.... 40*

..25c •. 25c 1 ib Mocha & Java Coffee...35c

GUARANTEE

Perfect featisfactidn, Quality, Largest

Quantity and Lowest Prices.

BARBER & CRAW. Highest prices paid for Fancy Cutter^

Fresh Eggs, and all kinds of

Farm Produce.

—S=I1L0WELL PLANING MILL,? M . * tov , raor*., A * » DSAUIBI X*

Lumber, Lath, Shingles and Cedar Fence Posts,

HAeUFAC 1R1R8 OF SACH, DOOW, BLINDS, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES AND . MOULDING, EXHIBITION AND SHIPPING COOPS. DRIED

APPLE BOXES, ETC, MATCHING. RE SAWING AND JOB WORK. WOODEN EAVE TRoCGHS.

& S O N , I ^ o w e l l , M i c h .

New

Bazaar Store!

Lighted With Lowell Current.

The Livingston hotel was illumin-

ated from top to bottom iast nigtit for

the.first time with sixteen candle

power, incandescent lights furnished

by the Weal Michigan Light and

Power Company from potter general

ed at Lowell, ftits 4s the first test of

the new current on a large scale and

the result was decidedly gratifying U»

the management he re to fo re the

Livingston hat been lighted by s pri-

vate dynamo located in the basement

of lha.hutel. ThiKy two-handle power

lamps were used, Vut with the L>well

current, fully as bHiiiant a radiance

seemed to be obtai/fSif' with si x teen-

candle power lampe as with those of

double that capacitV hereto

f«»re.—[Grand Rapids Democrat,

March 28.

The popular Cantata Slated f o r • April 14, 18 and 16. |

The beautiful cantata. Queen Es j

ther, will be rendered at Music hall 1

on Tuesday, Wednesday artd Thure- ,

day evenings, April 14, 15 and 16, j

by a n 1 chorus of thirty voices , j

accompanied b^ an orchestra of 10 |

pieces. There will be a splendid of beautiful costumes and

'some grand masic. This will be

THE event of many seasons. Do not fail to witness it.

Read up the stofy oA Queen

Esther and then go to see it illus-

trated with beautiful scencs.

Watch for the programs to be

issued early next week.

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One door west of Bakery. Call and examine prices

you will go no : r-

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If yon haven't] bacoo we New Cigar!

t w e n t y t« • w •2 60

pipe and to-1 them frw at the

patent tip, too " l A o d U l

AtteadeA a Club Meetlag a t Oread j Rapids.

L. P. Thomas, A. W . Weekes, D.

G. Look, S. P. Hicks, E. O. Mains,

Chas. ( ju ick^E. R. Quick, A . L

Peek, M. a Greene, Will M. Chap-

man and Frank Jf. White attended a

Meeting of the Young Men's Republi-

can Club at Grand Rnpida, Monday.

M. C. Greene delivered an address on

' 'Character and Uanbuod in Politics"

which w«a highly spoken of by those

in t t t fndan^f .

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2 0 0 . 0 0 0 WEAK MEN GUREte: STARTLING FACTS FOR f5li3EA8£D VICTIMS. •

•SECURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAYt I D C V n i l 0 N'rTOQ» doHpoadent; weaker debilitated; tired monanAS; no am-Anb TUU r

1 lookitaf; weak back; booe M r * • etool; di " YOUt

8 i e i ,0,, Dln) loe?M; roetiMe; hufyard looking; weak back; rarioccele; dr-posit in urine and diaina at eto energ/ and MrengiL - Wf OAN OUR* Y

nlcere; eon throe t: want ox con &d«ac«r Uok m

keSroRED to manhood hv dps, k. s k. JOtlS A. MAKtlN. JOHN A. MANUB. CHA8. POWERS. OHAE POWB88.

narOuK 'lBKATMKXT. AVTKK TkkAllUtKT. BtFUUk THkA.-j.LNT. Ar kK IkBAHUjrr, NO MANES OR IUTW0NML8 USED WITHOUT WMHrTTEN COKSENT.

Jofcn A. ManliA eaja: VARICOCELE, EMISSIONS AH5 I^POTENCY" CURED.

triad eexen medical firma and i 1 save up in deepair. The draina on my tjwtrm

I waa one of tba oocntlaM Tio> Uyeanaf

idapaBt: •PPBi reina or

my inteUactaa weilaamr aexnal and, Ufa. My Brother advlj?«d me at a last reaort to Dta. Kennedy A Kergaai. Icommaooed their Na«__. Treatment and in a few weeke waa a new maa, with saw life and ambition. Inia waa fear yeara acs, •and BOW 1 am married and happy. 1 . x r

Syphlirs, Enissioas ?sricocele, Curd.

ipaeialiata to all my afflieted fellowmen. CURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAY.— CONFIDENTAL.

'The rloee of early boyhood laid the fonndarion of my ruin. Later "ti a "any life" and axpr*nre to Mood du •laeee oooiplatxd the wrack. I bad all tbe aymptoma of Nenraaa Oaftilit)—annkeneyea^eiaindcoa, drain in arine, nerrnnaueea, weak bnck, e'c. SyphiH* caowd my hair to nut- oat, bone pain*. Hloera in: month and on taasae. b'ajrbea on body, *<Q. i Oiapk Qoditrird Dra. Kennedy A Kergan. Thay taatiino me iZ bealth, rigor and bapplnew,** CHAS. POWBBS.

tw W* treat akj cure VmricueU, Emmioms, Netvcus DMIity, StmmcU Discharge Stif A hue, 17 YEARS IN DETROIT. 2 0 0 . 0 0 0 CURED. NO RISK.

READER! New W.thod Traalipent wiU oaee yo£ What it haTdona for COamTATWN FPEE. Mo aatler who ' of (tuune «mqiea reaanaabla. BOOK

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WEWSV N O T E S OF P E O P L E AND

T l f l N C S O F MICHIGAN.

t fa l renHv At BHrti cnn Wins In the Orm-

torlcart Con tout wlili Vhirncn VnlveCdtr

— C o l l e g e Btudentt Co Thrungb

til* lee WhBe EkaUnc—One Oroirned.

Tko t7.of H. WlM lh< U h n t c t h Chicago T h e first Inter-co! Icpia to deba te be-

tween t b e In lvc tva ty of Michigan and t h e Univers i ty of Chicago was wit-neKsed by a b o u t 600 peoole a t Ann Arfbor a n d r e sa l t ed in fa or of tbe ttiiee loca l men who supported the crlaims of t h e Sn i r e r s i l y of Michigan, '•jit'n. Alger prraided and the judges wtjro IVcaidont. Hallcntino. of Ol»erlin a f l e g e , 41. \ f . Conp ton . puporintend-o a t of t h e To ledo si-hools. and Judge McCleMao of Anburn, Ind. The ques-t ion deba ted was. " I s t b e principle o( e g r a d u a t e d proper ty t a x one which <^«ould b e adopted by the s tales?" l l i c h i g a a . a s t h o ai l innative, was re-p resen ted by Ohas. J . Vert. Kdinond llliick a n d l'a<ii V. Albright : Chiciigo,

• t he negaiiTc, by J a m e s I'. Whyte, V^csleyG. Mi teh i^ lnnd IJ. B. Vaughan. T h e jndgos were ont, only a few min-afces, and the i r mark ings pave Michi-!gan tho victory wi th 35 points to Chi-eago'e. r r . |

6*4 Drovnlnc at Olivet. 1 A p a r t y of UndcnLs werb ska t ing on

P ine lake , a b o u t one mile fro<n Olivet ebl tage. w h e n tho fee broke th rough a n d let t h e m i n t o t h e icy water . A. M. F inney , of Chicago, was drowned, j Miss A l b w i a C h a p m a n , of Por t Huron, was t a k e n f rom tho wa te r a f t e r tioat-injr near ly a a hour on a rail. A dozen of t h e p a r t y p lnaged in a t d i f ferent t imes in va ia e f fo r t to help the i r d r o w n i n g companions, bu t were obl iged t o give it n p because of t h e -ootd. A t las t a board was secured and pnshed t h r o u g h the ice ; bu t not before F i aney w e n t under in an heroic at-t e m p t to s a r e Miss Chapman.

Tragedy Near Bnyat Oak. Will Crocket, a young man who has

no t borne the best reputa t ion, a t tended a par ty given by Fred Johnson and wife , colored, a t the i r shan ty on the l^en Mile road, near Royal Oak. He go t in to a q a a r r e l with Mrs. Johnson and l e f t t he hrmse. About 3 a m. he r e tu rned considerably the worse fo r liquor, l ie iag denied admission he proceeded to bn r s t the door down and j u s t as he crossed the threshold J o h n --eon s h o t him fn l l in t he face wi th a tihotgnn. Crocket will die. Johnson is a yAnng m a a and has general ly been considered peaceable. He gave him--self up and was locked tip a t Pontiac.

MICHIGAN NEWS.

John C i l l e r ' s home burned at Sher-idan.

Grace UurnhMn. aged IS, was kil led by a t r a in a t Gcand Uapids.

A r u n a w a y a t Milford resulted in t h e dea th of Josie Kellogg, aged 17.

T h e n e w caacas law was a fa i lure a t tirand Rapids, Jackson and Lansing.

B y r a n Duncan lost, his f a rm resi-. dence near l ialay City by fire. Loss, 32.000.

I t cost Mrs. Mary Weinlander 8200 a t Hil lsdale f o r v iola t ing the local option law

John Peterson had both legs c a t off by a s t r ee t ear while he was d r u n k a t Menominoe.

Dem Ohristie, aged 22. of Rives Junc -t ton , took morphine fo r a toothache

doqd.

Vpsilant i 's mil i tary company pro-poses to erec t a 825,000 armory and opera house.

O. W. Kurke, of Perry, was bound ever for tr ial on the charge of sel l ing l iquor wi thout a license.

T h e If. S. supreme court lias an-nonnced a rehear ing of the famous pension case of Judge Long.

Horace Crosby, a fa rmer near Vassar w a s kicked ia t he side by his horse, and the re are no hopes for his recovery.

Haaken Hansen, a newsboy, aged 13. fell in to the river while playing on a boom a l Grand Uapiils and was drowned.

T h e supreme court knocked (Irand Rapids on t in her endeavor to sell $75,000 wor th of bonds to purchase a m a r k e t s i t e

Miss Henriet ta Sparrow, about whom tl icre was so much sensational l i t iga-t ion a t Lansing recent ly , has been de-clared i n sane

T h e Western Michigan Frui t Grow-e r s ' association in session at Grand Rapids reported f r u i t in better condi-t ioo than in years a t this season.

W. H. Thaeker , t he Benzie county f a r m e r sen t n p for l i fe two years ago. f o r poisoning his wife.has been granted a n e w tr ia l by t h e supreme cour t

T h e Masonic block, t he Dufiie block a d j o i n i n g and ano the r wooden build-ing were destroyed by fire a t Yale. T h e loss is 85,000 with small insurance.

Will iam E. Streibinger . a commission m e r c h a n t a t SU Fuel id avenue, Cleve-l a n d . commit ted suicide a t the Ran--dolph hote l , Detroit , by taking poison.

A t rapper named Lyman Phillips w a s found dead on tlie shore "of Acker-son 's lake , near Jackson, lie was p a r t l y in t he wa te r when discovered.

T h e s t r ike in Wheeler 's ship yard a t "West Day City has been ' sett led. "Wheeler will pay off in checks as or ig ina l ly intended, which caused the e k t k c .

> T h e war depa r tmen t est imates t h a t i t will cost 8 ^ 0 , 0 0 0 to construct a 1,000-foo t b reakwate r f rom Presque Isle into Marquet te ha rbo r which has been a t fcod for.

- T h e body of Mat thew Weidenbach. a 6c rmim grocer a t 1218 Grat iot avenue, •efcroit, was found in his woodbhed.

' I h e r o w a s a bul let hole in h i s l e f t temple. A revolver was ly ing n e a r tuui an a i l d j window was open. I h e dead man ' s family believe t h a t h e eem-jni t ted suicide, bu t the police insist fthattic waa murdered.

Ueo. .lones was conr,ictett a t u r a n d l iupids of inducing Mary Webster, a simple-minded 17-year-old gii i, to live wi th him by having a mock-marriage >erformed. If took tlie i u iy about fvc minutes to reach a verdict bf gui l ty,

i ' h a s a wi fe and is eora i red to besides.

i T h e t rus tees of the Hay > iew l a m p Meeting association met a t Detroi t and decided to extend the wa te r mains and

?u t in a 85.000 electric l i gh t plant . amp meet ing opens Ju ly 0.

Chas. Hedinirer was soldering his gnsoline t a n k in his s tore a t Clio when it exploded, b lowing the f r o n t of his s tore ou t and shak ing the whole town, l l ed inger was not badly injured.

The State Fai r association and the West Michigan association have come

i t e rms whereby the f o r m t r will hold ' i ts foir on tho la t ter ' s grounds nt Grand Rapids, profits to be shared equally.

Dur ing the first t hunder storm of t ho season n t Calien Isaac Haroff s house was s t ruck by l i g h t n i n g a n d t h e windmil l demolished. A tree in an-o ther pa r t of the town was Bhattered.

Geo. Jones , convicted a t Grand Rapids of deceiving Mary Webster by mak ing her believe ho had marr ied her by means of a mock ceremony, was sentenced to Jackson for th ree years.

Geo. Town, of Otsego, was engaged m buzzing wood when the saw burs t , a piece h i t t i ng him in t be face, c u t t i n g bis nose, mouth and chin open, f r ac t u r l ng his j a w and knocking several teeth out.

Alber t Henry, aged 40 years, an em-ploye on t h e n igh t s h i f t of the C. & G. T. shops at Kattle Creek commit ted saieide by t a k i n g an ounce of carbol ic acid. He was found dead in an out-house by his wife.

K. J . Wiemnn, of Armada, a t r ave l ing salesman for the U. S. Halting Co., re-cent ly won a horse a t a raule and his good luck has followed him to the ex t e n t t h a t h e is now tho fa ther of trip-lets—two g i r l s and a boy.

4The twenty- th i rd annual meet ing of t he Michigan branch of the Woman s Board of Missions of t he In ter ior of t h e Congregational church held a t Port. Huron repor ted t h a t over 88,000 had been received the past year .

Nearly 25 fishermen were carried out in to Saginaw bay by the wind breaking the ice and they were in g r e a t dange r of losing the i r lives. They reached shore a f t e r 24 hours , b u t had to abandon al l of the i r belongings.

Will Emmons, whi le spl i t t ing wood a t Jackson caugh t his ax in a c lothes line. I t rebounded upon his skul l ,

I cu t t ing a f r i g h t f u l gash, sever ing an 1 a r t e ry and near ly sl icing his ear off. | A surgeon saved him f rom bleeding to . death.

| T h e t h r e e companies of mil i t ia in Grand Rapids have organized as a sto,:k company u n d e r the name of Grand Rapids Light in fan t ry , and will un i t e in secur ing a commodious armory. The a rmory will be ready fo r dedicat ion in t he f a l l

While E. G. Bailey was oil ing the machinery in his laundry a t Lansing h is coat sieeve caugh t in a swu t ly re-volving s h a f t and ho was th rown to-ward t h e ceiling. He caught a pio-jec t ing beam with his l e f t arm and h u n g un t i l every s t i tch of his clothes was torn f rom nis body, bu t was not badly in jured .

S t rong southwest winds par ted the ice in Kewaunee bay, nearPequaming , se t t ing five fishermen adr i f t . The i r rescue was regarded as almost impos-sible, b u t tho men waving distress signals, were seen by Constant Kem-bach, a fisherman, near Jacobsville, and he succeeded, a f t e r g r e a t exer-t ions and much danger to himself, in saving a l l fivo. The families of the men had given up hope of seeing them again.

Foreclosure sui ts were begun in the U. S. cour t a tGrand Rapids aga ins t the Detroit, Lansing & Nor thern ; Detroit, Lansing & Grand Rapids, and Saginaw A Western railroads, by the B5ston holders of the t ru s t mortgages. Tnis is t he first s tep in t he radical reorcan-ization.of the D. L. & N. system, which has been contemplated for th ree years. The mortgage bonds on which the suits a r e based, aggregate about S3,-225.000. Tho bii) asks for t he appoint-men t of a receiver.

Wm. 11. Meyer, t he Traverse City merchan t arrested for alleged a t t e m p t to de f raud his creditors, has turned on his accusers. At Philadelphia his at-torney brought suit in the U. S. cou r t against ^ m u e l L. Jones, of McSber-rys town. Pa., to recover 8100,000 dam-ages for alleged false arrest . J o n e s sold cigars to Meyer, giving him credi t of 82.000. Last J anua ry robbers b roke into Meyer's store, gagged Meyer and stole 84.700. Jones charged t h a t t he robbery s torv was a ruse and had Meyer arrested.

The fifteenth annua l mee t ing of t h e Woman's Home Missionary union of the Congregational church of Michigan was held at Port Huron. The r epo r t s showed the society to be flourishing. The t reasurer ' s repor t showed t h a t 84.088.01 had been receu'ed d u r i n g t h e past year. Officers elected were; Pres-ident. Mrs. T. P. Powell, of Grand Rap-ids; vice-presidents. Mrs. W. H. War-ren, of Lansing: Mrs. Geo. McLane. of Detroit; Mrs. T. N. Rhodes, of Han-cock: Mrs. D. M. Bradley, of Grand Rapids: corresponding secre tary , Mrs. C. C. Dennison. of Urand Rapids; re-cording secretary, Mrs. H. C. Wyman, of Detroit.

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«aere.i by K itlve* andaSerlom to of A IT.ilrw B Utn.

Cape T o # ? . South Africa: The Ma-tabeles of t h a l n s e z a and Filabusi dis-tricta have reWlted and massacred the

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white setllurs. Including British C mlssary Hcntley. The fugi t ive wh a te ilouking to Buluwayo and Gwelo fo r protection. A dt ' taohment of 75 volunteers wi th a Maxim gun have been dispatchcd against the natives. I t is said t h a t a prominent witch doc-to r is tho ins t igator of the r ising and t h a t grea t cxciteinent exists a t Bulu-wayo.

The upr i s ing is widespread and be-comes more serious hourly. One of t he gravest fea tures is t h a t the nat ive police have been induced not only to t ake pa r t in t he rebellion bu t to induce the various t r ibes t h a t t hey were sup-

1 posed to control to t ake up a rms I against tho whites. The set t lers in

Matabeleland are flocking into the towns which a re being placed in con-diiion fu r the defense. Fears are cu

KnglandU "Souilaa Pleiile" Create* Con*

•lilrrable .UUnaiUfuctUm Among tbe

I'ewer*—Turker. f'ranee ami Buwla

C'utnblulns Their OppntlnE Influence

Tn-kejr. France and Bnoala Oppown EngHnd Constantinople: As a result of t he

ext raordinary cabinet council the Turk ish government has issued an appeal, addressed to Franco and Rus-sia, asking them to intervene with the object of regula t ing tho affairs of E g v p t Germany, it is added, was also requested by the porte to exercise her good oilices In this sense. In well-m-fonned circles it is declared t h a t tho action of the porte in due to tho coun-sels of France ami Russia, the

o o r i UM.. .. - . . w.l.%. f Aw The Republican s ta te convention

SKKATK-ElcUty-iifthrtay—Mr. Mills.ofTox- j 1 c j j Austin, Texas , occupied th ree u . delivered a lorcible .Hjwech oa tUr OibOB j a n ( j w o u n d up with a p r e t t y ijuefitloa ilurinK whloh he denouaoed Oott. knock-down fight, a spli t coavcntlou

to St. Louis. bur colonleH la bolli i ' " ' 0 , d a""1 t , , e "ew worw. TUB Keen-Aiuaou raea s e c u r e d c o n t r o l

Wcv.or as an "ulnwiou* scoundrel and villoln" , . ,|(.int>A»tbns to iro 1 , n j rivalled tl,•) '""'"'y History of hp na oml i"}*1 T. j iC/? ^ bur colonics in boib ii»' old uou tbe new world. The Reed-Allison men seei Mr. Mills said thfl 'nited Stales Inid stood by rif the convention on tho opening of

^o^niisUd"©!! t he th i rd day and proceeded to elect t couinc Culm in ifcr ixmacMion of Spciln, wnn four dclf'piito.vat-lui^e to bo Aout to It not tue moml oDilcnilutiof tb«UoluU SUUs the tit liOuU convontioo. Jus t an [S net IS"! they were about to pass r e f l a t i o n s bfurd fronitbo Cuban people. • Tho day will ins t ruc t ing the delegates to vote fo r

H H | govern te r ta lned for t h e safety of a pa r ty of | men ts of which countries, i t is claimed. a b m t I.OOJ set t lers , mainly women ' have submitted t ha t the present is an and children, who are in t he laager in | opportuue moment for Turkey to raise the vicinity of which a s t rong force of i the question of her suzerainty over Matabules has been reported. The Egypt being practically usurped by natives arc raiding fa rms and killing i Great Britain. The governments in-

dicated, it is alleged, promised Turkey their support In the matter.

Paris: A semi-olllcial note was issued those killed were horribly mutilated* s ta t ing tha t France will refuse to sane* and their faces were burned aiinost j tion the use of the Egyptian reserve bevond recognition. j fund for the purpose of the Brit ish-

Frederick Selous. the well-known i Lgvptain expedition u p the Nile to tcrcncc to tho ad ouramcal of coogre^s came ling guns.

whi te se t t le rs in the Matapo hills «ii»-t r ic t and rumor has it t ha t over :">0 peo-ple have been slain. The corpses of

come IwieV'iho Amerrcan coascienoe will be ftced o r Allison the MuKinlcy men ih« mad# a ruah for t he platform. A hot

fight ensued in which suveral men were badly "bunged np ." bu t t he chairman declared tho convention ad lourned. The McKinlcy men remained in possession of t he haU a f t e r t h e i r

tuba, and wbea that consclounnwis comes the American people will till this chaaibor with hcnutors who will Kiop Hint oppression Mr. Mortfiin. of Alabama, also spono brledy In fur-tber suppori. of the Cubau resolutions. Mr. Mills' resolutions wont to tho calua-dur. Tho rost of the dny was Riven

S r s r a ^ . » • uiralnsitheuppolnimont.asoincersof the army o ther convention and selected lour or navy, ot jwrHons who held commissions In delcirates to go S t Louis who wero in-tho rcKUlur army Widie iho rebeiUmi. Mid who , 7 , ^ , ^ ^ 0 . Me Kin lev first, nubsuiiuentlv took In the war on the sldo of the s t r u o e a to vote xor ueiviniey nres, ronicdrnu-.y. wbiob pas-od tho senate during last and all the time, ' i i ie ques t ioa l.io liiKUi of o .i iieinent over the Venezuela now is which delegation will be given Uoundory question, passed the House alter two s t i ! hours donai«i with but onedlsBentln* vote, that seats a t ht. Loul& / of Mr. Houtcl.e. of Maine. Toe bill previously , considered to abolish the dealb (tenalty in cer-tain cot.cs (vas passed. Hills also wero passed lo ma>.o the uaio of splrituoiw 11 ition tin .or u

explorer , C a p t Gifford and Capt j Don^oln. unless ishc Sneukiev each led independent bodies I pledges concerning the British evacua- i Mr. Plait, proposing an ad ournmcni oa May t in t he western i iar t of t h e island. I volunteers against the Ma tabeles in ; tion of KgypU ___ ^ 1 K s f u W S a V t t

Pinnr del Klo t'wptnmd by Cubans, i i | . . .. . Havana; Reports have reuche«i hqro false brand pantshaldo by line and Imprls- t ha t P inar del Uio has I)cell cunturud onmoul; to turn over tho property of the . . . i nK ,1P™pn t . . Verv moacer de-v. Mormon church now In tbe hands ot " J l»Je inhurgent-i. v ery IULU^U ue y

receiver lo the trus'.ccs, and BCV- tai ls have, been received and Mio oui-era; others of m.nor Imooitance. Hop. cials will not speak of the ulhurcd llcr.inrn. of Iowa, liuroducc.! a bill pro* n,v,„ vldin# (or a co nmissloii of uve engineers to re- ocfeat . I he p n v a t e tnessages to IMri ui>oi)i,ii:biiot practicable rouu: tor a ship Cubans sav t h a t iMaceo and Oalixto canal having U4 loet depth, cbonecuac tho ( j a r c i f t commanded the rebels a n d Great lakes with tno Atlantic o eon. forty . «.K-Ihousan.l dollars ore to l>e appropnatcd lor tho a lmost al l the c r u l i t is given to t he cxpenbts of tho commission. Americans who came with the Bcr-

SF.SATK.- Kighly-Blith day.—The first re- muda to work the Hotchkiss and Gat-Thc city has 20,000 inhabi-

receives precise in tho Senate in a formal resolution oilered bv t a n t s and was the Spanish str«>iighold

. . - . . % . >• . i Ci l > . . . . . . . . . . . 1 i rcsiuru. namsonio reccivBui-corauoo^ nom the vicinity of Buluwavo. but w e r e ] A dispatch from bu l «.tcrsuurg says .spun and uracil was jwsiponed by nnobcc-each repulsed. Thev killed a large t ha t Russia is giving her suppor t to Hon from Mr. Allen. Most of the day was

Later advices from Buluwayo r.n-nonnce t h a t the son of the late King - . -

ing a t Khartoum and eventua l ly a t t ho possession of Kassala.

London: The Constant inople corres-

The Republican s ta te convention a t Huron. S. D., declared fo r McKinley for President and reaffirmed t h e finan-cial plank of the Minneapolis p l a t fo rm of lb'J2.

Dr. Tharp . t he s t a te prison physician a t t he Commons, O., pen i ten t ia ry re-moved f rom the body of J a m e s Morris a federal prisoner from Newark , O.. a needle which he swallowed 42 years ago. when he was 11 years old. Morris says tho needle h a s pained him a t dif-f e ren t t imes and in d i f f e ren t pa r t s of his body all his life. I t was badly cor-roded when t a k e n ont, bu t tbe point was st i l l s h a r p and the eye perfect . Dr. T h a r p says he has known a nnm-her of cases like this, b u t none where the needle s t ayed in t h e body BO long.

T h e Bri t ish-Egytian t roops a t Wady-Halfa ready to march aga in s t t he Mahdist city of Dongola on the upper Kile numbers 10,000 men. Rel iable re-por ts say t h a t Khal i fa has a force of 40,000, well a rmed and possessing ar-t i l le ry and jseige guns a t Dongola. The Khal i fa i has proclaimed a holy

the British. T h e first t t e r was to occupy and

eh. near Wady-Halfa , t he inir back t o coHcent ia te

war agains move of t he f o r t i f y Aka dervishes fi a t Dongola.!

Mrs. Ma a f t e r a brie t h e charge f rom Rev. "

vidson was acqui t ted ,1 a t San Francisco of

vlng ex tor ted 8<r>00 B r o w n

Lobengula. who was banished from Matabeleland iast year, has re turned and placed himself a t the head of the insurgent Matabeles. The la t ter have in some manner obtained possession of many ritles and a stock of ammunition, which a l though not large, is sufficient to enable them to make a much more effective fight than they did two years ago.

There is the keenest anxiety th roughout t he Transvaal as to tho fa te of the unprotected Boers and their families in Matabeleland. Many burghers are requesting the govern-men t to g r a n t them permission to go to the assistance of their threatened countrymen.

A f r t Coo pin Killed by Barrlari. A masked man entered the f a rm

house of Alvin M. Stone, near Tall-madge. 0. , by means of a ladder, which he raised to an upstairs window. He first passed through a room in which Hatt ie and Flora Stone were sleeping wi thout awaken ing them. Going quiet ly downstairs to the room in which' .Vf. and Mrs. Stone slept, he at tacked them with a b lun t instru-ment of some sort, h i t t ing both upon the head. They were rendered sense-loss. bu t t he villain mut i la ted the i r bodies and stabbed them to be sure of their death . He then wen t to tho room of Ira Stillson. t he hired man , and knocked him senseless wi th a s tunning blow. Then r e tu rn ing t o t he rooms of Flora, Emma and Hat t ie he t reated the fir'.t t w o likewise, bu t Hatt ie was merely cu t by a g lanc ing b.ow and she made her escape by jumping f rom a window and r u n n i n g to a neighbor for help. Tho murde re r became alarmed at her escape a n d fled. When the neighbors arr ived Mr. and Mrs. Stone were dead. I r a Stillson a n d Emma Stone wore unconscions a n d seriously injured, whi le F lora Stone was badly dazed. T h e cr ime is a mys-tery. The re is no possible motive fo r the murders , so f a r as can be learned. Certainly t h e murderer was n o t b e n t on robbery, fo r in a bureau d r a w e r in Mr. Stone 's room were t w o pold watches and some money and n o t h i n g had befcn t aken apparent!}-.

Anson H. S t rong was a r res ted a t Ravenna, charged wi th t h e murder of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Stone. Thi r -teen yea r s ago S t rong was sen t to t h e peni ten t ia ry for horse s teal ing, his conviction being secured by the testi-mony of Stone. Several years la te r ho was again convicted on the tef-timony of Stone. He gained his l iber ty t he second t ime about t h r e e weeks ago and was a t once suspected of t he mur-der of Stone and wife.

Franc* Getllne On Her DlKinty. London: France 's a n n o n n r e m e n t in

regard t o the annu l l i ng of ex i s t ing t rea t ies of the o ther powers wi th Mad-agascar is of ex t r eme importance. Under Secre tary Curzon, of Grea t Britain, said t h a t when the govern-men t had received official notico of of th i s act ion i t would t a k e p roper s teps to protect Brit ish interes ts .

Paris : M. Ber thelot , minis ter fo r foreign affairs, has recent ly resigned because of cabinet diff icult ies T h e premier . M. Bourgeois, haa succeeded M. Bar thelot , a n d M. Doumer. t h e minis ter of finance, will, ad in te r im, t a k e the por t fol io of minis ter of t h e inter ior , previously held by Mr. Bour-geois. M. Bourgeois was quest ioned by t h e budge t commi t t ee of t he sena te in r e g a r d to Madagascar. He said t h a t French product* would e n t e r du ty f r e e and t h a t tho t rea t ies con-e luded by the qneen of Madagascar had lieen annul led. M. Bourgeois said; ' •The powers may complain if t hey t h ink they have ground to do so. We have divided tho sovereignty, p lac ing in ternat ional a f fa i r s under local au thor i ty , b u t reserving f o r our-selves fore ign sovereignty ."

F i r e did 8100.000 damage in t he At-lant ic oil refinery a t P i t t sburg .

Spain has sent 117,705 troops to Cuba since t h e beginning of t he rebell ion in Feb rua ry , 1695; t he cost of the w a r fo r t h e first year being 850.000,000 and the es t imates for this yea r are 8 < n , 0 i ) 0 , 0 0 0 .

Gen. Weyler says it will requi re a t least t w o years to suppress - t he insur-rect ion.

F o r t he second t ime wi th in a mon th t w o bodies of Spanish t roops have mis-t aken each other for insurgen ts in Cuba. The second occurrence was n e a r Es-perunzii, province of Santa Clara, when 17 soldiers and fou r officers were ki l led, and five officers and 84 soldiers wounded.

A dispatch f rom Athens repor t s t he r enewa l of t he murders of Chris t ians on t h e island of Crete and the exist-ence of a panic there , owing to t he be-lief prevai l ing t h a t t he T u r k i s h t roops are wa i t i ng for t h e Chr is t ians to re ta l -ia te f o r o u t r a g e s when they will seiae t he occasion to begin a genera l mas-sacre.

t . i „ wv^i.. which Is not yet completed. Tbe par-ifrapbs Dongola expedit ion is Lngland s reply Kubstltutlnit salaries for fees lor United to the Turco-llussian alliaucc. T h e Mates dUu-let attorneys and marshalH Viedomosti says t h a t England is aim- woro agreed to after a lonstny dlscuaxiou.

Mr. GnllinKcr. lie p.. K. H..proposed an amend-ment lo the constitution to be known as article X v I. providing that neither Congress nor any state shall pass any law rcipectimtand estan-lishment ot religion, or prohibiting the free exorcise thereof, or use the credit of the United

Inatloa. or religious soc'.cty, or any tnatltation. society or undertaking which Is wholly or lu [

a s t year in t r igues were on foo t be tween the Turk ish Osman Digna, which were l ikely to embarrass I ta ly and England.

Rome: T h e senate , by a vote of 100 to fi. has adopted the credi t of 140,000.- p r l t t , o n u , , a n ( 1 ^reral dlvenldg m-

d for by the cove rnmen t vldents made such rapid progrew with It that when tbe adjournmenl had been reached all the paragraphs had been passed, save thoee relating to the Increase ot tho navy.

SkmATf!—Eighty-seventh day—Most of tbe

GENERALITIES IN BRIEF.

T h e town of Colon, Panama, suffered a 8 * 1 0 0 . 0 0 0 loss to t he business section by fire.

T h e Ohio house of representat ives has passed a bill prohibi t ing high ha t s in thea te rs .

I t is reported that. England and pondent of the Times says t h a t fo r t h e las t year in t r igues were on foo t be- states or any state or any money raised by France have come to an o g n e t o e u t on

gove rnmen t and uxation for the purpose of loundlng. mala- «he Ejrvntian difficultv I WBM llbnltr »y> talnin* or aiding any ehurcb. religious denom- i l u c ^ g y p " ® " lumcuuy.

newly l io i ted

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alliance w a s an accomplished f a c t and t h a t Italy had now become t h e effec-tive bond be tween Great Br i ta in and the dreibnnd. On th i s basis I t a ly ' s safety ex te rna l ly was finally obtained. She was able , wi th per fec t f reedom

__ __ Hon. Edwin F. Chi , t he part under Nectanan"ecclesiastical control. ' pointed ainbassadur of . t he Hons* -The Bouse took up tho naval appro- s t a t e s , has arr ived a t Beftin.

, -i . , , prlatlon bill and despite several diverting In-000 lire asked for by tho government vldents made such rapid progrew with it that for contemplated operat ions in Africa. The speaker, d u r i n g tho debate , pointed out t h a t t he a t t i t ude of Grea t Britain showed t h a t t he Anglo-I tal ian w a 9 on the legislative appropriation

bill, but It was not conpieted owing to Mr. Sherman's motion to strike out the proposition for the change from fees lo salaries for 17. S.

'districtattorneys and manthals. Thesubcct j was debated at length. The oint resolution ! was tKtssed providing for a commission for the

w.iic -OT*,, t . . . u . . reuwu. ' preliminary survey for the construction ol a .. . . . . . - , nnit i n rw i inu h u r v l f 1 "Mp e"'11*! of "PPnn'fi11 width and denth. from amendmen t to t he const i tut ion fo r the

7u ^ . , "cc u Py neraeiT IhBi } o w e [ . H h o r 6 o f l A k e M l c t l l g j n t h e e i p C t : o n o ( i t s sena tors bv d i rec t with the in te res t s of t he count ry a t 1 vVobash river. The joint resolut.on was passed won OI u . ^ sena tors mrec t

ailow.ng ei-Presidem Harrison to acoept doc- , r o M ! 0 1 l u e people. orations from Urazll and Spain. Mr. White rrw* IT ennr^mo rvHirt Kia reported favorably from the committee on ter- T f c e ^ s n P r e m e c o u r t n a R decided ntories the bid admitting An-ona to state- t h a t in in ters ta te commerce cases wit-hood. Mr. Perkins, from the committee on nesses can be compelled to answer education and labor, presented a favorable m- nnthwithKtandinf thov tnav port 01 the hill authoridtw the appointment of quest ions n o t h w t t n s t a n a i n e m e j may a non-partl-un commission on labor, agrlcul- plead self- incrimination. ture and uupiial. Mr. Allen introdured a reso- . , , . . , . lutlon declaring that Congress should not I Austral ia has again been visited by ad ourn wltboui restoring the free coinage of te r r ib le hea l and an a l a rming namber silver and taking from the secretary o f d e m t h s h a r e 0 ^ , . , ^ f p o m

Christopher Schrage, a Chicago miser, was bound and gagged by rob-bers in his own home and 850,000 was

• stolen. Pres ident Hyppoli te , o t t h e republ ic

of Hayti , died suddenly of apoplexy. His dea th is a g rea t loss to t h e black republic.

Senator J a m e s McMillan, of Mich.-gan . says he is opposed to t he proposed

home and in Africa. The commission of tho Egypt ian

debt met a t Cairo and decided to ad-vance t h e 8 2 . . r i 0 0 . 0 0 0 necessary to meet the Br i t i sh -Egypt ian expedi t ion against Dongola. Of t h e sum needed 8 1 . 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 is avai lable immediatol'v. The Engl i sh . German, Italian^ and Austr ian members of t he commission voted to advance the money required. T h e Russian and French members voted aga ins t t h e proposit ion and im-mediate ly l e f t t he meeting. T h o rep-resenta t ives of t he Par is syndicate of

of the treasury tho power to Issue bonds. , - j • HonsK.—The naval appropriation bill was s t roke. Typhoid fever epidemcca ey-passed wituout snbsumiai amendment. An clones and ea r thquakes are a b e very effort was made by the advocates of a larger r i_ f...ni. in» lncrea.>e of the navy than was autborl/.cdoy l ' r v , 0 , V M U

tbo bill to increase the number of battleships .'.Canada hU& a new law requi r ing ( rehenuiviven 01 ure 1 " r ' B / V ' from four to six. but they were voted down. K;cvriUtR f rom'Tf iM Hniled S ta tes to Egypt ian bondholders took s teps to various oth^r appointmeuts were offered but I '"cyetibts f rom tnev uou«»t VUMO w ins t i tu te proceedings before tho Egyp- ail failed. The bin ns nasseJ carries ijiii.- deposi t the price of the i r t ian mixed t r i buna l aga ins t t h e d e b t commissioners and t h e minis te rs re sponsible fo r t h e reserve fund .

ail failed. Tho bill ns passed carries Ltill. • 31. and authorizes tho construction of four battleships and 1 torpedo boats, the total cost of which will be in the neighborhood of aviiK).-0 0. COWHSHBNCK.—The senate and Louse conferees on the Cuban resolutions, after three days consideration agreed to accept tbe Senate resoiutiotiK. This was found necessary as tt cut off debate in the Senate where it wa>

New York Xnctorsea Wlorton. T h e s t a t e convention of New York

Ronnblieans was held in New York understood that the opponents of the measure would talkUU, death, it only rema.ns now lor the House to agree to the conference report. City. T h e on ly incident t o enl iven

the convent ion wan a a a t t e m p t by a minor i ty of t h e nominat ion commit tee t o commit t he de lega tes to t h e na-t ional convent ion to McKinley if i t was f o n n d t h a t Morten 's chances were knocked o n t on t h e first b a l l o t I t was a Morton convention, however, and t h e de lega tes selected were out-and-out Morton men. Tbe delegates-

SBSAT" -Eighty-eighth day. -The legisla-tive appropriation bill carrying > <0 was passed. Aside from providing the usual ap-propriations. the bill is important In effecllug a reform of tbo sysicnf 01 oompensatlon for United States district attorneys and marshals, salaries being substituted for fees HOUSE— The appropriations committee a'.temptrd to take up tbe sundrv civil appropriation bill but the beinbera who were Interested in bills on the pnvate calendar defeated tbem and tbe

a t - large: a r e Thos. C. P i a t t , of Tioga; latter bills occupied he day without much leg-Warner Miller, of Herki taer; Chauncey ^ H o a of general importance. M. Depew. of New York, and Edward Lanterbach. The p la t fo rm declares in favor of protect ion and reciprocity. In speaking of t he money qnestion, i t savs:

We rccognl/e in the movement for the free coinage ol silver an atlemp; to dcgraile the long established standard 01 our monetary sys-tem. and henoe a blow to poblio and private credit. Until there Is a prospect of Interna-tional agroement us to silver coiimge. and while gold remains the standard of tbo United States and theclvln ed world, we declare in favor ol the Hrm and honorable maliitenaucooi that standard

The p la t fo rm concluded wi th au eulogisiic s t a t emen t of Gov. Morton's fitness fo r t he presidential chair , and pledges t h e New York delegation to his int« J in teres t .

Keed the Mmi—In Wrtssm hunett*. The Republican s t a t e convention a t

Boston. Mass., was t be most enthusr iastic ever held in t h e s ta te . Hon. Thos. B. Reed, of Maine, speaker of t he na t iona l house of representat ives , was indorsed as the i r candidate fo r Pres ident w i t h a rous ing vote. I t was a Reed convention f rom beg inn ing to end and t h e delegates w e n t wild over t he ment ion of bis name. The resolu-t ions opposed free silver except by in te rna t iona l agreement ; indorsed a pro tec t ive tariff and reciprocity; u rged recognit ion of Cuba; and de-manded s t r i c t res t r ic t ion of immi-grat ion.

Transviial and Omitffe f r e e State Unite. A P re to r i a dispatch says: The si tua-

t ion is serious. President Krugor has concluded a new offensive and defen-sive all ianoe wi th t he Orange Free State . T h e Transvaa l w a n t s its inde-pendence guaran teed by England in connecticui wi th t he o ther powers. The Boers are a rming in t h e Orange Free S ta te and in Cape Colony. T h e large influx of Germans has been d r a f t e d in to t he police force and the ar t i l lery . The Free S ta te and Afri-k a n d e r Bund has offered to suppor t t he Boers.

i to t ' t T h e Anditot ' u-n annex a t Chicago suffered $ 1 0 0 , 0 t f 0 by fire.

A disastrous fire in t he smel t ing de-the copper works of t he Salt Manufac tur ing Co., ?a., caused a loss esti-

mated a t SllpOO.OUU. T h e bui lding* dest royed cov (red nearly fou r acres of g round .

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Kr t m e n t of nnsylvania

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SKNATK. — Eighty-ninth day. — Mr. Hoar, ot the committoc on judiciary, made an effort lo 1 KISS tbe Honse bill aboilshlng capital pun-ishment lo certain cases but after brief discus-sion ibo bill wont ever. Tho caiendar was ta-.en up and a few unimportant bills wero passed. Mr. PcIter's resolution for the ap-pomtmont of a special committee of live sena-tors to Investigate recent bond Issues huJ been reiegaiei to the calendar, owing to tbo onpos tion of Mr. Hhl.-but it waa reached In the regular order. Again Mr. Hill sought to have the resolution go over, but he waa met by energeticproteats notonly from Mr. I'offer. but also from Mr. Woloott and Mr. Teller and the nnancial and bond discussion wll: be revived. HOILSE—Tbe Senate resolution uuthorising ex-President Harrison to acoept certain medals presented to him by the governments of uracil and Apain was adopted and then the House went Into committee of tho whole, taking up the sundry civil bill and dlspoKing of if) of tbo 1UUpages. Mr. SmlUi. of Michigan, intro.iuoed In tne House a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a mixed rec.procity com-mission of tlve rnembers. not more than.Uiree 01 wbom should bo of any pollt.cai party. Tbo resolution Provides that tbe coramisaton sbnii meet In Washington and devote its Umo to o.'lginnting and perrceting trade treaties with European powers and governments of the of tbe.western hemispbere for submission to the Proaident.

price of t h f c r ^ t v l i e e h i j ^ cus toms houses, which will be re turned when they a re ready to r e t u r n t o t he Uni ted States.

A. dispatch f rom Constant inople says t h a t 815.000 sent to Harpn t b y t b e Armenian relief commission in New York has relieved 54,000 souls of tem-porary needs. Over 1,000 have daed of s ta rva t ion a t H a r p n t

Scot t Jackson, t he supposed mur-dere r of Pearl Bryan, is b reak ing physically in the Newport , Ky., jail . Jackson and Walling wero a r ra igned , both pleading not gui l ty . J a d t s o a will be tried first on April 7.

ConCTessman Corliss, of Michigan, h a s great ly altered his par lor and sleeping car bill to t h a t i t now merely places such cars under control of t h e in ters ta te commerce commisaion aa* makes no a t t e m p t to regulatemUios.

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di t ion supposed to be t h a t fnomi the s teamer Bermuda has landed.betwtien Ouan tanamo and t h e c i ty of San t i ago do Cuba, in t h e province of t he l a t t e r name. Twelve sailors on boa rd t h e Spanish gunboa t Conde Venadi to have died of yellow fever. I t is also learned t h a t several Americans, members-of a n expedition which lauded a t Mamianil lo four mon ths ago, have uied.of yellow fever. A repor t was circulated here t h a t Maximo Gomez is a vorv sick man and is suf fer ing with a h igh fever. I t is fo r t h i s reason, i t is said, t h a t be h a s avoided all engagements wi th t h e Spanish t rooas ef la te a n d has re-mained quiet , leaving t h e ac t ive eon-duc t of the campaign to.Maceo uud h i s o ther l ieuteuants.

Bayard has made an-a t a London banque t

which is regarded ass ign ihean t in view of t he vote df censure passed b y t h e honse of re, subs tance he had said i caused the as readily say i f occasion p

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same t h i n g s again d.

Sylvester Seovel, a, w a r correspond-e n t in Cuba, says t h a t the insn rgen t s are complet ing plans to s tarve t h e Spanish troops by des t roying growing crops, b a t s tor ing ia out-of-way places supplies fo r the insurgen t a rmy.

F r a n k Scott, an an imal t ra iner , be-came angry a t t h e b i g e l ephan t Gipsy while exercising her a t Chicago and gave her a j ab wi th bis spear. T h e big beas t became fu r ious and picking j ^ Scot t n p wi th her t r u n k dashed him} i : a i i C

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THE EASTER GHIMES. A Tate f rom the RuasUn of Kovolenko.

' T WAS the night .before the Easter |morning. The llt-Ule village by the murmuring creek was half hidden In the mystical, va-pory. starry gloom of a Russian night in springtime. The neighboring wood flung blackest shad-

ows on the fields beside I t All was s i l en t The village slumbered.

Hours passed, and long before the night was gone Us sUH charm was broken. LlgJjar Kaftan to glimmer in

of cottages whose wretch-edness was disguised In the bewitching springtime gloom of night. A gate creaked. The tread of a foot was heard here and there. Moving figures, darkly o u t l l » d . emerged from the shades of tho wrod. A dog barked, and then an-other and another.

Then a horseman clattered along the village s t r ee t A pssslng car t groaned and creaked nnder its early morning burden. The dark ly outlined figures Increased In number . The villagers be-gan to gather In the i r church to bid welcome to the spring holiday.

It was a quaint little church. It stood upon a hillock In tbe middle of the vil-lage. All a t once its windows glowed dimly among the shadows. Then their brightness increased. The d iurch was all a l i gh t

High Into the darkness overhead reached the old belfry tower. Its top was lost in tbe azure gloom.

Then the rickety belfry s ta i rs began t3 creak Old Mlcheich. the hellrlngcr. wa? clambering a l o f t Soon his l a u e r n hung la the bell window, shining like a new star in t he sky.

It was hard for the old man to climb those steep and crooked stairs. His old eyre no longer served him. and he. like they, was worn out.

As he climbed, he pondered. It was time indeed, he thought, tha t he should res t Dot God would not send him death Ho bad seen bis children burled. He b id stood by the open graves ot his grandchildren. He had followed the old to their last resting place. He had

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NGER WAS CLAMBER-ING ALOFT.

o young there, too. But and lived. It was bare,

a w e Dad he welcomed the ' o r P w t r 8 0 many times that he

rec;W|tom all. He had even l,0W a S ? i n 1 : i t e r J'681"8 he

ipd lor wBth in tbin same old _ . as now y hoped tor it. And this early mtngOK God had tu ougnt

j fbwe once It was not yet 'Vne for him to Ting

the merry poals antahe old man totter-Pd to tbe belfry * ; V " ' and leaned out over the railing. %low him in tbe arkness or eould ' fcly see the neg-

"gravea. The whle wooden cross-

es at their neads seemed to be guarding them with their widcstretched a r m s Here and there a few birch trees bent naked branches forlornly over the mounds and the aromatic odors of their young buds arose on the silent a i r to Mlcbelch's nostrils. They bore to him a tale of tranquil, eternal sleep.

Where would he be a year from that moment? Would he be there again? Would he have once more climbed Into that tower under the clamorous coppei bells to awaken tbe slumbering night with their sharp, resounding strokes? Or would he lie out there in a dark corner of the cemetery with n white cross guarding his everlasting sleep?

God alone knew. He was ready to die —but in the meantime God had brought him into the belfry once more to wel-come the Easter morning.

"To the glory of God!" His old Hps repeated the oft spoken

I I S SEIZED T H E BELL ROPES, formula, and his old eyes gazed into the deep sky above, burning with its millions upon millions of stars.

"Micheich! Oh. Michelch!" Tho voire came from below. It was

the old sexton, who had come from the church into the graveyard beneath the tower and who was gazing toward , with his hands shading his blinking, tear moistened eyes In vain cffoi t to make out the form of the bellringer in the darkness overhead.

"What do you want?" answered old Michelch. bending over tile railing. "I am here. Can't you see me?*'

" I do not sec," cried tbe sexton. " Is i t not t ime to r ing? W h a t do you th ink?"

Both gazed upon the stars . Thou-sands of God's lanterns were blinking at them from the flnnameat The night was waning. Micheloh t h o u g h t

"No, not yet." he ssld. "Wal t awhile. t know when." • • •

But it was t ime to salute t he Easter morning. Old Micheich gazed at the • tars oncc more, and then arose. He removed bis hat , crossed himself and gathered up the hell ropes. A moment more and the night air shivered nnder the first resounding stroke. Then came tho second, the third, the fourth. The lightly sleeping Easter a i r quivered with the Joyous music of t he shouting, singing bells.

Then the bells ceased. The solemn service began In tho churoh below.

In bygone years Micheich had always gone down to the service and stodd in a corner near the door, praying and lis-tening to the music. But it was hard for him to do th i s cow. H e felt tired. So he sat down on the bench beneath the copper belle aiid listened to their waning resonance.

He t h o u g h t About wha t? Michelch himself could hardly answer the ques-tion. His glimmering lantern scarcely .lit u p the belfry. Ue could not make out the droning bells. They were lost hi daikness. From the church below his 014 ,,^.0 caught the singing cow and then. The old man ' s gray head

sank upon his ches t Disconnected scenes from the past swarmed in his mind like bees in the hive.

"Ah!" he said as the music of t he Easter hymn drifted up the tower stairs, "they are singing tho troparion."

In his imagination ho sang that hymn, again a youth, in the old church below. Tbe little old priest. Fa ther Naum. many years dead and hurled once more was Intoning the end of i prayer while children's voices united In tho responses. Hundreds of peasants bowed and arose like corn before the wind. Now ihey crossed themselves devoutly.

Tho old familiar faces were of those long since dead. There was the stern visage of his father. There stood his elder brother a t the old man's side, sighing deeply and crossing himself again and again. There he himself s tooi , yoang. healthful, strong. Joyful full of expectation of a life's happiness.

Where was that happiness now? The old man's thoughts flickered up

like a dying flame. Recollection Illu-mined all the nooks and corners of V.s life. And all he saw was endless, ceaseless, merciless labor—labor f a r be-yond his s t rength. . He saw sorrow, too —much sorrow— and suffering unut ter-able.

Ah. where Indeed was that happiness of which he had dreamed?

Tbe burdens of l ife had wrinkled his young face, had bent his powerful back before the time had come. They had made the Joyous boy sigh as his elder brother had sighed.

There on the left, among the women of the village, with her head humbly b e n t he saw his sweethear t She was a good woman. May the peace of God be with her soul!

Oh. the pain that she had suffered' Want and work and woman's woes had withered her glowing womanhood. Her eyes had grown dim with years and weeping. The shocks and bl lgnts of life had painted a dull f r ight upon her comely face.

Ah, where was her happiness? God had given them one son, their

joy, their very soul, and he was ground to bis death by men's injustice.

The picture broadened and graw vivid In the old man 's mind. H e saw standing in h is pew the rich enemy of the family, bowing his head to t he very ground, glossing over In his prayers the wrongs of the widows and orphans whose lives he had blighted In h is selfish greed. Micheich felt his hea r t grow hot within him now. as it had done then, while the dark faces of t he holy

HAD FALLEN HELPLESSLY, images on the a l ta r - f rowned sternly upon man's sorrows and man ' s injus-tice.

But all this was long, long passed. All this was far away in the old times. And now all the wjde world for him was this dark tower, where the wind sighed gently among the swinging bell ropes. \

"Let God Judge you j God will Judge you!" whispered the e ld man, thinking of his enemy. S i l c | t t ea r s r a n down his cheeks.

"Micheich! Ah, Michelch! What is the mat ter with 7of! Are yon asleep?"

The voice came from tho churchyard wi thout

"Good Gotll" cried the old man, re-membering tho fur ther duty tha t awaited him. "Did I really fall asleep?"

He seined tho bell ropes and pulled them with skillful hand.

Far below tho people swarmed from the church, as ants swnrm from the ant-hill. Golden standards reared them-selves In the air of the unborn Easter morning. Forming as a cross, the pro-cession began to move around tbe church, amid Joyful cries of "Christ has risen from tho dead!"

The words went to the old bellrlng-er 's heart, and glancing out he was exalted In spirit. It seemed to him that the waxen candles that the people bore blazed with suddenly Increased bril-liance in the gray darkness, that the throng moved more and more swiftly, that the s tandards waved the more Joy-ously, and that t he awakening wind lifted up the Joyful chorus from below and turned It to the bell's brazen peals

'with a sweetness superhuman. Never did Micheich r ing the bells

with such Joy and sp i r i t

It seemed as if his old hear t had been welded into the dead copper of those bells, which laughed and sang and wept at the entrancing melody tha t rose to the stars above. And the s tars seemed to fairly blaze with Joy of It as the music poured upward Into heaven and fell backward to caress the earth.

What a hymn of Joy It was those bells nealed forth. The great bass deafened the sky with the grand brazen cry of "Christ has risen." And the tenors, struck to their hearts, shouted sonor-ously, "Christ has risen!" while tho clanging sopranos, as though fearing their lesser voices should be lost to tho grand chorus, hurriedly, llko gleeful children t rying to outstrip each other, screamed a thousand times, "Christ has risen!"

And that sad old heart forgot Its cares. Its sorrows, and Its Insults.

Tho gray bellrlnger heard only the brazen music, now singing, now weep-ing, now floating to the s tarry sky. now sinking to the wretched ear th : and It seemed to him that he was surrounded by his children and his grandchildren and tha t these were their happy voices —the voices of old and young to-gether pouring out In one grand chorus a hymn of Joy and rapture.

So the old bellrlnger pulled the ropes with strong, nervous a rms while tears poured down his cheeks and his heart ran" fairly over with a happiness he had never known before. And below the people listened, and they said to each ctfcer t h a t Michelch had never rung so wonderfully before.

Then suddenly the great bass bell hesitated—and was s i l en t For a mo-ment the others sang an unfinished, un-certain harmony. Then they. too. ceased, and there was silence save for the low. sad. t rembling droning of their stilled but still resonant throats.

The gray hellrlngcr had fallen help-lessly on the bench beside the ropes, and two tears silently rolled over his pale cheeks.

Send a substitute! The old bell-ringer has rung himself o u t

For Eaaterw RISE! This day

shall shine for evermore,

To thee a s ta r di-vine on Time's dark shore 1

Till now thy soul has been all glad and gay;

Bid it awake and and look a t Grief to-day!

But now the stream has reached a dark, deep sea;

And sorrow, dim and crowned. Is wait-In s thee.

Each of God's soldiers bears a sword divine; t

Stretch out thy t rembling hands to-day for thint '!

Then with slow, reverent step and beat-ing heart .

From out thy Joyous day thou must depart—

And, leaving all behind, come forth alone.

To Join the chosen hand around the throne.

Raise up thine eyes! Be strong! Nor cast away

The crown tha t God has given thy soul to-day!

Easier Ilaraa.

About Easter t ime hares a r e almost as common as eggs In the shop win-dows, and many boys and girls may wonder why this is so. It Is plain why the egg should be used. The l ife which comes, a f t e r so long a time, from tho lifeless-looking egg. makes ft especially typical of the resurrection. It is not so clear what the hare has to do with Easter Sunday.

Easter is a feast regulated by f i e moon. Tha t is. It Is appointed by the church t ha t Blaster should faU "upon the first Sunday af te r the first full moon which fell upon or a f te r the vernal equinox." Now. the hare Is t he animal which the ancients considered sacred to the mcon. and proper to be used at all feasts regulated by the mora .

So among the old customs which have been handed down to us f rom the old. old days is that which still uses the hare as well as the egg in the pret ty fancl . fnl decorations uuitahle for our great spring festival.—Easter Sunday.

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LOWELL, KENT COUNTY. MICH.,

—BT— FRANK M. JOHNSON.

Enlerert at luwell post office »• Bfcond rlasB milter.

f UB8CRIPTI0N ONE DOLLAR YEARLY.

APTCKTISINO BATES. Bueinesi locals 5 rrnts per line each issue Leeal H d s a t r a t e s . Cards tn directory column II 00 per line

per yei»r. One Inch | 5 pi r jear. Rates for larrrr advertisements m«de

known at the office. Cards of thank», 50 centv Rrsoiutiuns of condoknc?, f 1 00.

Job printiur in connecllnn at low st livine r>ite«. "Always Prompt," is our motto.

O U R RETIRING SUPERVISOR.

I'uuple were unwilling lo believe

I hat Supervisor Hergin waa in ea r -

nest in bia detenninat jon not to ac-

cept n renominntion—which in his

(rase had come to be almost eqnivn

lent lo nn election—but were finallv

ennviDced; and the nomination of

Jacob \V. Walker—a most happy one

—followed. Mr. BerginV reasons fur

retiring do him credit. He wishes to

devote wha t t ime he can spare from

hiu private business to looking after

the village intere-U in the electric

light p lant . H e surrenders an office

where he received remuneration in

order to attend to duties which are

entirely honorary. "Wel l done, thou

good and fai thful servant."

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Tiik Grnpd Rapids doctor, Kirk-

land, who shot n boy's legs fnll of

bird shot for throwing a stone through

a barn window, has been fined $100

for his fun. Tho doctor was uio fret*

altogether. An appeal to tliQ shot

g u n in a case where a heml ick shin

•ile would have filled the bill is a littlc

too radical for this climate;

doctor knows it now.

and '^thc

THE CITIZENS' NOMINEE.

The record of Jacob W.- Walker

as supervisor of Vergennes is one

that challenges an equal—twenty-nine

years of faithful service, backed up by

unquestioned ability and sterling in-

tegri ty , T h e people of Vergennes

evidently know how to freeze onto a

good th ing; and Mr^Walker ' s stand-

ing with his fellows on the board of

anpervisura is a matter of countjf his-

tory. T h e people of Lowell could

make no mistake in making use of this

lifetime of experience by electing

Jacob W. Walker to the office of

suporvisor. » » *

THE TOWNSHIP TICKETS.

The people of Lowell township

are to be congratulated upon the ex-

cellent t ickets submitted to them by

the Citizens' and Republican caucus-

es. Both are headed by men above

roproauh, and their running males

are worthy their leaders. The en-

dorsement of tbe Republican nomi-

nee for clerk by the CuizenK* caucus

waa alike uomplimentacy to Mr. Chap-

man and creditable to the caucus. » •

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F R O M Louisville comes the s 'ory.of

a fa the r—God save the mark—who

chained his son in a baru for t w o

years for having committed the enor-

mous offense of running away from

home. What shall be said of a

neighlwrhood which would tolerate

such tiendUhnei's! A tar and feather

bee would hardly express the senti-

ments of a good healthy community.

A necktie party would be more in

keeping with the offense. From this

distance it looks as if the buy was the

uiosf respectable person in that neck

of the woods; he showed good sense

when he ran away. If we had a

father like tha^ we should run too. * * *

T H K Detroit Free Press speaks of

the loss ot $700,000 by the burning of

t h e warehouse of a big distillery, in

which were stored several hundred

thousand gallnns of whisky. I t a p -

i pears to us that a loss took place long

before the fire—at the time good,

. wholesome grain was converted into

poison; and that there could be little

else but gain were all the strong drink

in tbo world to be conKumed iu one

grand conflagration. If such a fire

could take place tomorrow, all the

world might well join in the Hallelu

j a b Chorus. * *

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A P I J I F . thirteenth is the anniver

sary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson,

and the day will be-appropriately ol*

ferved in many parts of tbe coimlry.

I t is n e e d l e * to say that the war cry

of his bigoted contemporaries, "Tom

Pa ine , T o m Jeffersou and tlie devil ,"

will not be trotted out on tha t occa-

sion. Thomas Jefferson still lives, in

the hear ts o f his c o u n t r y m e n ; bu t

where a re his detractors? L e t us

hope tbey have a t lebgth made the i r

pf t tce with the Grea t F a t h e r ' whom

T H K president of Mexico iu l if-

message to the congress of that rt?-

public commends the Monroe doc

trine "as marked out b y its author

and so prudently recalled by Presi

dent Cleveland." Good for our pros

perous southern neighbor! Let every

republic on the continent north and

south follow suit, and say to the

loitering monarchies of the East :

" Hands ofl ! " • •

« A RKCKNT " f a d " among smokers in

said to be the engraving of the liko-

ness of one's wife or sweetheart upon

tbe bowl of one's pipe. We know of

some women who would not feel com-

plimented to see their features depic-

ted on a dirty pipe.

If M o t h e r Would Lis ten .

If mother would listen to me, dears. She would freshen that faded gown,

She would aometlmfei lake an hour'a rest, And sometimes a trip lo town.

And it shouldn't be all fur the children, Tlie fun and the cheer and tlie play;

With the patient droop on the tired mouth, And the "Mother has had her day."

True mother has had her day, dears, When you were her babies three,

And she stepped about the farm and the house,

As bmty as a bee. Wiien she rocked yon all to sleep, dears,

And sent you all to school, And wore herself out and did without.

And lived by the Golden Rule.

And «o your turn has c*me, dears. Her hair is growing white;

And her eyes are gaining the faraway look That peers beyond the night.

One of these days, in the morning, Mother will not be here.

She will fade away into silence— The mother so true and dear.

Then what will you do in the daylight, And what in the gloaming dim?

And father, tired and lonesome then Pray, what will you do for him?

If TOII want to keep your mother, You must make her rest to-daj;

Must give her a share ia the frolic, And draw her into tl » play.

And if mother would listen to me, dears, She'd buy her n gown of silk,

With bullous of royal velvet.

And ruffles as white as milk. And she'd let you do the trolling.

While she sal still in her chair. That mother should have it hard

through. It stri! es me isn't fair.

— M A K O A B E T E. PANOSTEB.

all

Ver se t ines.

Miss Addie Collar and bruthers, Charley and Bert are guests of friends iu Cumbell this week.

Mrs. Clark Frazier of Muskegon visited Hiram Frazier and wife und other friends last week.

Lottie Olmsted attended the teacher's examination iu Grand Rapids Iui>l week.

Mary Bennett entertained Emma Cole of Grand Rapids part of last week.

Kiltie Clark of Lowell closed another very auccessful term of school here last Fri-day. She will have a week's vacation and then commence the spring teim here.

Robins have been singing to us for aerer-al days now, making us realize that spring is here for sure.

Mrs. S. Lee is on the sick list. We hope for hei speedy recovery.

This neighborhood has been blest so far so far this winter. There has bceu but very iillle sickne>a.

The bicycle fever has struck this neigh-borhood. Allie Bennett is riding a new hundred dollar America wheel; Mary Mc-Lean has one of the same kind and Charley Merriman has a new S. and J . wheel. They all think their's is the be»t kiud made.

Thif, Mondar, has been a lovely spring day and we think March is going out like a lamb, although the most ot the month has been like a roaring lion.

G. W. Croaby made a business trip to Grand Rapids last week Friday.

F. J . Batchelor, wife and daughter, Fern, attended the wedding of Vera Dean and Alvin Morey in Lowell lust Thursday.

Ed Bunker and wife of Bnwne visited their parents I. J . Batchelor and wife last week and attended the Morey-Dean wed» ding in Lowell.

A. G. Sinclair and wife, Alvin Morey and wife, of Lowell, apeat Sunday al I; J . Batchelor's.

women's r u b V r t , a t 25 cents.

. H o w k & Son .

Keene C e n t e r .

Cad Peck is down from the upper penln-s ila for a visit willi his parents. Horace I'eck and wife who arc taking care of his little boy and girl.

Vern Clark had u bad accidcnt this week —three of his fingers blown olT with a dynamite cap.

Next Friday night will be tho league's tnouthly busin&ss meeting.

Last Thursday evening the ncighhorf <ave William Sayles and wife a very pleas-mrprise. All spent the evening in sdclal chat and games. At ten o'clock a very nice supper was served and at a Isle hour all went to their homes leaving the family their best wishes.

Henry Kerby has two cousins visiting him from Eureka.

Mrs. Knee visited at Mrs. Frank Finch's Tuesday.

Mrs. O. Choat visited at Mrs. Wilkin son's ta»t Saturday.

Miss Seymour of Ionia will teach in the Sayles district, commencing, April 5.

Milton Wilkinson has finished a fnui months term at Grand Kapids Columbia college and has returned horns.

Fred Lee is afflicted again with the rheumatism he is obliged to keep in the house most of the time.

Mrs. Hherman Kennedy has rented her farm to Mr. Bryer of Otitco, who will oc-cupy it soon; and Mrs. Kennedy will move to Smyrna.

Mr. Ogilvie's family all went to their new hmue in South Boston last Thursday. Sorry to have them go as they were fine neighbors.

Mrs. Hiram Lee is taking care of Mrs,

Amssa Lee.

Cad Peck and his two children visited his mother-in-law, Mrs. Converse, Satur-day and Sunday.

Mrs Amasa Lee still lies very low at this writing; but little hopes of her re-covery.

Mrs. Knee and Eva visited at Mrs. Wilkinson's on Friday.

All kinds of watch, clock and jew-elry repairing done nt reasonable prices. U . B. Williams.

Everybody mnke it their head-qtmrten at the New Cigar Store where you can rend all the latest papers aud smoke good cigars.

For first class laundry call at . the Banner Laundry.

' Fox C o m e r s [ to LATE FOB LAST WEEK.]

Mrs. Eugene Lee was the guest of Mrs. J . K. Lee, Wednesday.

Allen Robinson and wife spent Sunday with Edgar Smith and family of South I^owell.

..Ben Barton of Ithaca has hired, to L. J . Lee for the season.

Miss Ethel Moore of Lowell is spending a few days with Miss Cora Lee.

Mis. M. J. King aqd Mrs, W. Long have been quite seriously afflicted with tho grip but are better al this wriliiif.

Charles Whitlow and wife visited John Cramer and wife recently.

Mrs. Eugene Lee and son, Glenn, visited her parents, J . C. Wardwell and wife re-cently.

Little Morrison Krum h is been quite ill the past week.

G. E. Sanlsbury is building a nsw house just south of the Catholic cemetery. We underMand Mr. S. and Mr. Mastenbro«>k are going into the milk biikiness together. Here's luck to you.

L. J . Robinson, Frank Alger and Gso. Krum with their ladies visited with Guy Perry and wife of Lowell recently.

Mrs. S. Lee is very ill at this writing.

F a l l a s s b u r g .

Mr. Taylor started for Dakota foetdny.

Annie Pultroffis to work at Mr Laux's Ibis summer in Keene.

WUlle Kejfoid aud wife are n.tidenta o( Lowell.

M. C. Denny is laying the wajl fur John Wright'* new bouse.

L Bayles and w.fe spent Sunday at Monto layiea*.

Knby Sayles Is at work foi George McQee.

Krona Bozung aud Tress Kae went lo West-phalia Saturday.

ecbool closed Tuesday lo begin again next Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Pottruff visited Satuiday aad Sunday In Urattan.

Ficd Smith aud wife of Grattan yiaited st Jake M.stenbno^'a Friday,

Will Tridenick aud wife spent Sunday at L-'Well.

West Lowell.

Tbe Ladles Aid of Church of Chr.st will holdaaugarso UI at the home of N. Blair, senior, cn Wednesday evening. April 22. Everybody come and have a good time.

Mesdames H. Peters and N. BU|r expect lo attend the Christian Endeavor coar ntion at Ionia on Thursday.

J. Maclntyre la quite aick sod under the doctor's care.

Tbe Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs. H. Peters, Wednesday, April 15'.h st 1 p. m. A cordial invitation Is extended to ail.

Mrs. J. A. Fearce, who Is visiting hrr sis ters, Mesdames M. D. Court and 8. (Jristwood bss been quite sick with la wlpp* but is 1m • proving. ^

Peach Hill Grove.

Little Riiby Parsons who broke her arm is improving nicely.

Mr. and Mrs. Creer are the happy par-ents of a 10 pound boy.

The sick are all improving.

Every one seems to rejoice that spring is

so near.

Mr. and Mrs Weitz and daughter, Allie have been visiting friends away.

BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. Tns BEST S A L V S In the world for Cuts

Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands. Cbiidbialns, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, snd positivoly cures Plies, or no psy required. It Is gusrsn-red to give perfect sstlsfacilon or money re-funded. Price 2 5 cepts per box. FOR SALE Bt HUNTER A SON. 72,

LOST OR MISLAID, Policy No. 45.1811 issued by The Penn Molmil Life In-

sunince '"ompanv, on the life of John E. Hunter. The finder will please return it to the undersigned. Application has been made fur the issuing of a duplicate.

J . E. H U N T E R , Alto, Mich.

ESTATE OF ANDIIEW B. JOHNSON, DECEASED.

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" F a c t s a n d O p i n i o n s " • e a r b y H A Z E N h S . P I N G R E E , M A Y O R O F D E T R O I T ,

F o r .v t i le sit t h e L E D G E R < I f f ice a t 2 o c .

B u s i n e s s D i r e c t o r y .

J, UAkRISON RICKERT. dontlst. Over Church's bank, Lowell.

8. P. HU a n •.cans, Collections, Real Estate and Insur-

ance. Lowell, Mich.

O.C. McllANNEI^M. D , Hhysicisn and Suri^son. office, 40 Bridge

street, Lowell, Mich.

M.C.HREEN, M. D.

,ibysleian snd Surgeon. Office at Residence Bridge street, Lowell. Mich

O.G. TOWSLEY, M. D., Physician and Surip on. < nllce iiours, 10 am

toB : m. and 71-t 8 pm.

J. M.Gi)OD8PER>>, M.U. office and Residence ou Hudson street. Office

hours from 9 lo 10 a m , 2 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 p m , 8und«y. 21-• 5 p •>•.

Have you paid for ibis year's L E D -GKK j e t ? I t lakes money to keep i t going. '

F inger rings, ea r rings, breast pins, etc. repaired by U . B . Williams.

River Road

Wilbur Post aud slater, Andie, were guests of their gnindpsrenta, C. B. Car-ter and wife the first of the week.

Will Wisner and wife of South Boston spent part of last week with her pa rrnts, Sebastian Waunscli and wife.

Minnie Martin vUited frienda in Grand Rapids last Thursday and Friday.

C. B. Carter has rented his farm to Carl Rolit of VerKennes. Mr. Roht takes possesnion this week.

Owen Shspard of St. Johns is visiting fiia aunt, Mrs. L. A. Carter.

Mrs. Hasling's horse waa found dead in the stable last Monday morning.

Ma Ernst spent two days last week in Grand Rapids attending the examination.

There was a meeting of Sarhs people at the home of C. Althaus Sunday.

Mrs. Denny is visiting relatives in Grand Rapids.

Twenty n t ' i -e 4, 4i an

t or Four pnunda. crackers, bntter

soda, for 25cts. a t tiergin's. .

See Ecker & Sini for wood abd kin-dlings. /

Buy all kiud of wood of J . W . Ecke r & Son.

N. P. Husted A Co. employ no agents but deal direct with their cus-tomers. They have a fine stock of trees—peach, pear, plum, cherry and cto.

Notice to Creditors. Q T A T E OF MICHIGAN, County ol

Kent. ss. Notice is hereby given, that by an order of the Probate Court lor the (Jounty of Kent, made on the Kith day of March A. O. 181)11. six inontlm from thnt dale were allowed for creditors to present their cliiims ngainst theesiateof Andrew B. Johnson, late of said County, deceased, aud that all creditoni of said deceased are re-quired Ui present their claims to said Pro. bate Court, at the Probate oflice, in the city of Grand Rapids, for examination and al-lowniice, on or before the 16lh day of Sep-tember next, nnd (hat such claims will be heard beioresaid Court,.on Wednesday, the ICih day of September rcxt, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day.

Dated, Grand liaplds, Mich., March 16, A. D.1896.

l- VRUS E. P K I I K I N S , Judge of Probate.

•IVf ORTCACE 8AIE. . . , , a v x Detault having been made in the conditions of a certain 'mortgage made by Thomas R. Oraham and Florence J . Gra-ham, his wife, of Lowell, Kent Cniinty. Michigan.'dated July 19, A. D. lS9<t and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for tho Countv of- Kent, Slate of Miehi^an on the 16th day of Seplember, A. D. 18'J3 in liber 209 of morlg.iKes on pages 550-551-&O2, by reason whereof, the power of sale contained iu said mongage has be-conie operative, instnllmeuts of interesi due on said mortgaire on the 19lh day of Janu-ary, 1894, the 19tli day ot July, 1894, the 19ih day of January. 1895, the 19th day of July, 1895 and the I9th day of January, 1896 n->t having been paid, each of said semi-annual insUillments of interest on said moriKage having ruinaiued unpaid and in arrear for the space of thirty days and up-wards after the same liecnme due and pay* able; for which default said mortgagee here-by exercises her option granted by said mortgage ami declares the entire principal Mim of said mortgage and nil arreamgeit of interesi thereon to be now due and |>ayalde. On which said morti.'age there iseliiimed to be due al the dale </ this notice the sum of four hundred and forty-three dollars (|44S.-00) and no suit or proceeding st law hav. ine l>een instituted to recover the moneys secureii by said mongaae or any part there-of; now, therefore, bv virtue of the power of Mile contained in said morlgagp itnd tlie Htainte in audi case made and provided, notice is hereby given that on THE skcuku DA v OF J C S K , A. D., 1896, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, I shall sell ar public auction to the higlicst bidder, at the north front door of the Kent County Court Hoiipe in the City of Grand Rapids (that being the place where the Circuit Court for said County is held) the premises described iu said mortgage, or much thereof as may be necessary to nay the amount due on ssiti mortgage with intten-st st the rate of seven (7) iter -xnt per annum snd sll legal owls and expenses of nale including an attorney's fee of nfleen dolbirs, as provided by Isw. The premises be^ig described in sahl mort-gage as lliat certain piece or parcel of land situate and beln^ in the Village of Lowell, in the County of Kent, State of Michigan and deaerilied an follows, to wit; Lot num-ber forty (40) oftiweet A Smith's Addition to said Vilk<a of Lowell according to the recorded plst tilsreof.

Dated, Man* 2nd. A. D. 1896. . , FB AHC X S A'. Swarr .

„ „ Mortgagee. Rwaar, Paa ra r s A J C D K I K S ,

Alteratys fur Mortgags.

FARM PR* HOTEL. .owell, Mlcb , G. F. I^me, Prop. Rntes | 1 00 per day, $3.50 per werk Good meals and clean beds.

MILTON M. I'HtUY, Utoruey and Counselor at Law. Train's Hall

Block, Lowell, Mich, -pffi . l atlention given to Collections, Oonv-y •nclng. and Sale of ROAI KslaU*.

•las also qualitK-d and bee d ••itted to prac-tice lu the Interior l>< p irtm--i>t and all tbe bureaus thereto and is rv.ily t-# prosfcuti-Claims for those Hi -i in v ••• ••ntitle'd to Pension Bounty.

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"So tliat'a you. .1 im'ray Watson," smiled the,doctor . " I ask your panlon; before thlii 1 thought you wero just a dude- 1 kIkiII toll your mother there Js hope for you."

"Thanks," langhed tho younger man. "There 's tv/cnty«flvc dollars. I sup-pose. though, your fees will gobble i t all up."

"To the last cent. Jimmy: that 's why , I k'Qt ofT tho car ." lie shut the door

f'4' smartly In the fnco of the crowd, and, finding the switchman's wife in the small hall, said, severely: "I suppose you call yourself a Christian woman, rna'a

"Tlfcre hain' t no meeting-house In ihis fltr-ahon country not for forty

iles,jnest plains," she said, sourly, qd j^av lng a family of my own. I

obliged, if ray man do work on railroad, to take into my house

rangers with complaints as may be catching."

"Well, this Is, I take It." grinned the doctor, " to your sex."

She smiled a little grimly, and took up her youngest child in a motherly sort of way t h a t pleased the keen observer.

"You've got a kind heart; your tongno runs nwoy with you. that 's all. And now do your best for tho sick tvomau. I have plenty of money tc poyyou."

"j—I put her in my bed," said the woman, shyly. "She's a pretty little tiling, and is clean out of her head, but •he hain ' t no wedding-ring."

"Well, she Is punished now, poor girl , for her share in tho wrong-doing without you and mo naying anything."

"All aboard!" Hounded outside. As the train rattled awav. Dr. John went softly to the little room where the eml-

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Mrs. MlnnyV" "How did you find my name?" she

cried, piteously. "And you can't call me that : for some one I love dearly has that name for mo."

"You said it when oa t of your bond," said Ductor John, oalwly "Now go to sleep."

"Hut I've go\ lots of things I must a t tend to about him," looking a t the baby curiously. "You see. having him makes me different. I feel 1 must do things for him 1 don' t want to tell ."

"To-night will do." "I might die." "You are not. In the slightest dan-

' ger, nor is tho boy; nnd, though you have had your own wny a long .time—

j possibly too long — you must mind ; now." 1 She obediently closed her eyes, nnd

in the late afternoon when Dr. John returned greeted him with a radiant smile.

| "I 'm quite sure I am going to die," she said, happily, "and you don't know

! how glad I am- 1 feel so good and sen-1 sible, I know I can't live long. Now I

want you to write out legally all about the child and roe. how I came here. Ilia name is to be Krancois—French for Francis, you know—de Restaud, af ter his grandfather , wl)o is a general In France. His father 's name is Henri de Restaud. My name, which is funny, is Minerva Patten do Restaud. and my old aunt, Hannah Patten.in Newcastle, Me., has my marriage certificate and all .my other pap*1-? She took them away when she v.*| me up I d the valley of the Troublesomo. She was afraid my husband might take them from me and say we were not married If he wanted to go back to his people In Paris. I never wanted to see any"of them: one memboj ot tne family was enough" (with it ghost of a smile); "but the baby has made me see things dif-ferently. The family are very rich, and there is only one heir,.Henri 's older brother's son. Henri said he was sick-ly, his mother 's family being consump-tive. Tha t little baby may grow up a man, and he would hate me bccauso I had not looked a f t e r his interests. Of course i t will seem strange to people in

•r peared a while-headed Child, w r o called out, shrilly:

"Lady wants to know what 's squeak-ing out here ."

"Says she's going to get up and see, if Dr. A-corns don't come and tell her," shrieked a second white-head.

Miss Patten opened the basket, and a fluffy mass of disapproval bounced out. spun around, and made a vicious dash a t Miss Patten's ankles, while she stood a statue of patient endur-ance.

"I 'm used to It. He hates the basket," she said, shaking him off. "I can ' t blame him. for I've futchud him clear from Hosting."

"Says she just knows It's her dorg," yelled tho third white-head; and the doctor, with various inane cajolements, coaxed the dog to the house. Luckily Mrs. Macon removed the infant, for, with a wiki baric, Skyo leaped on the bed, kissed his mistress" wan face,

I her hands, uttering joyful l l t t lubafks, • nnd then, remembering old days, curled j himself in a little rmind heap a t her

forth the facta hi this case In proper legal phraseology."

"I foil to comprehend jus t what you mean."

"You see," explained the doctor, " the French people arc particular about documents; and between tho property of Do Restaud's father and th is child of Mrs. Minny's there is only a feeble child."

"Mrs. Minny's child?" Oliver.

mis Rheumatic Is Ihc only pos i t i ve Cure k n o w n lo the Medical P ro fess ion for

t h e Cure of Acu te a n d C h r o n i c R h e u m a t i s m , Gout, Lumbago. S c i a t i c a ,

Neura lg ia , O v a r i a n Neura lg ia . D i s m e n o r r h a a . Psor ias i s . Sc ro iu l a , Liver

repeated fmd K i d n e y Diseases , A posi t ive Cure e f fec ted lu f rom 6 to 18 d a y s .

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gran t woman lay unconscious of this . „ . i " ui.«..» »«« e , . 1 . . France t h a t I was here without any-world, so nearly on the threshold of 1 , . .. . the n e x t

In tho chill gray of early dawn Dr. John came out in the kitchen, where Jonas Macon, the switchman, sat over the fire; he had been forced to sleep in his chair the long night af ter a day's work. The hospitality of the poor often means personal deprivation.

"Is she goin 'Jo live?" asked the man.

I be th | strivi ma

"I hope so. The baby is a fine boy." "Both of 'em better deod, if what

wife th inks of her is true," sighed the man. "As for the boy. if he must grow up and work as I've done, never gi t t in ' no further , he won't thank you for o-savin' of him."

"He may turn out a great man some day; and thrn ," said Dr. John, half to himself—"she is not a common or un-educated woman, the mother—he may 1

be tho better for the story of his birth, atrive to rise the higher for it."

"Jdkely not he won ' t Them 'syium Bdren don't amount to mucltin-gen-

A- Takes a mighty smart man lo jie out of tho mud."*'

^ 6 r 'Wfe1 dbne nobly by her," said the doctor. "She has tho best heart ."

"She is kind," muttered the man, "on' she have stood about everythln" a woman can stati*. I'll git my own b r e a k f u s t You toll hor to turn In an' sleep with the kids awhile."

The doctor we back to his patient, and Mrs. Macon brought the little flannel bundle out by the stove. Later the children were wild about it. Did , the train leave tho baby? were they 1 going to have it always? and could i they seo In the windows of the trains, ' as they passed, lots of baby faces look-ing out for mothers to talte them?

At night Mrs. Macon woke the doc- , tor, who was taking a nap in the chil-dren's bed. I

"I think, sir," she said, worriedly, j " the l i t t le lady is gouooutof her head. , She's feeling round in the bedclothes j for a dog, and calling one pltiful-likc." i

"I have been a bMnd fooll" cried the ! doctor. "I felt n^ the time I'd ought | to know her." ran to tho sick- ] room, and, luckily, had some quieting medicine in his case. The sufferer, however, resisted long, as she slept Bighed, and one tiny hand felt around nervously, while the other, clinched hard in the sheet, resisted all pressure to open it.

The next morning the white-haired children wero very quiet; they played a l o n g way from the house, and to-wards evoning Dr. John kept them by him in the kitchen, telling stories. To this dny the youngest one looks in vain for a b,iby to come by train that shall be his own property, an illusion crea-ted by the doctor's stories.

"She's osleep," said Mrs Macon, coming out. "and here's a little purse I found In her pockct I couldn't get it before,, for. loony as she's been all day. she. watched me if I went near her things."

A shabby little purse, containing only a flvu-dollar bill and a card—Craig Oliver's, with his oflice address.

"I didn' t need this to tell me." said the doctor "She is a married woman all right. Mrs. Macon; her name Is Mlnny do Restaud. and her people are well-to-do. How she came here I haven't the faintest idea; she disap-peared last fall, nnd her aunt has searched all over the country for her.'

ihr the morning when the doctor at to see his patient he found her scions, looking with Ineffable dls-

,in on the red-faced bundle beside

' body, and that Is why I want you and the Macons to witness a legal paper telling all about It."

"I have half a mind tosond to Denver for a lawyer," said Dr. John. "If the l i t t le boy's claims should ever be dis-

| puted—and they might, you know—It would be best to have everything right. Besides, the French people are g rea t for documentary evidence, certificates of birth and such things."

"I suppose yon had better," she sighed, lying back on her pillow, "bu t I hate any more people to know. I've had such a long peaceful time, I am sorry to have to go back to quarrel-ing."

"Mrs. Minny, before you go to sleep I will tell you something, but you must not ask a question, for you have talked enough.

SHE "KNELT DOWN AND OATHRUED BOTH TO HER BKKAST.

feet, looking at her with affectionate eyes.

" P u t the baby down and seo If he'll growl." commanded Mrs. Minny.

"You heartless thing!" scolded Dr. John.

Mrs. Macon gingerly laid the baby on the •bed. Skye sat up, all interest and amazement, then with depressed de-meanor slunk to his feet and scuttled over the side of the bed out of the room. How Mrs. Minny laughed! Miss Patten heard her.

"I t ' s many long days since I ooukl laugh," she said, grimly.

"She Is only a child," said Oliver. He wished he had not comet he should have sent his clerk.

"Is Aunt Hannah out there?" asked Mlnny, softly.

"Yes. She brought the dog." "Is she very, very ongrv with me?"

plteously. "I did not want to bo caught and made to go home. I want to tell her, though, if she worried how sorry I am."

"She can come if vou will be quiet and let her do the talking," cautioned Dr. John.

TO BK CONTINUED.] How Mncb Do Doja Know?

This is rather a difficult qnostion to answer. A dog about a years old is no doubt wiser far than a child double that age. At 0 a dog is in his zenith, und can bo taught but little more, but by this time, alihougli hncannot speak, ex-cept in a kiud of dDn:b language, he knows everything that is said about him —that is, if be has been the constant compunion of a kiud master and mis-tress. We are too loath to admit that a dog can nnderstaud quite a deal that ia spoken, especially if it concerns himself. I am sure that, like myself, many of my readers could send me anecdotes in proof of this. Tho following is scut me by a lady. I t is worth reading;

••My husband bad at ono time a very fine collie, which seemed to understand conversation perfectly. On ono occasion ho told his housekeeper that he was go-ing to ride next day to his father's place, 80 miles away, aud, lurning to his dog, said, 'You will stay at home.' Next morning tbo dog was not to bo seen, and when his master arrived at his destina-tion tbe dog bad got there first, and was peacefully resting under a table. Tho strangest thing was tha t tbe dog was taken to my husband's home by rail, and had never traveled on foot between tbo two places. "—Edinburgh Scotch-man.

New Livery .

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Pullcn stable, east side.

KOIl SALE BY HUNTER A SON. D E T R O I T Nov. 24, 1895. •u LANSING & NORTHERN R.R. LOWELL .t HASTINGS UAILKOAD

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No :i

Parlor cars on all trai< s between Urand Rapids and Detroit, scats !25 cents.

CHICAGO it WEST MICHIGAN RY., Trains leave Grand Rnp'ds for Chicago

8;:»0 a. m., 1 25, p. m , 11:80 p. m. l eavc f >r Manlstw. Ludlniffaui. Traverse

City and P-iUiskey, 7:110, a. m., 5:110, p. in. GEO. DwHaVEN, Ucn. Fa-s Ag-nt, Ci.AHK, Agent Gruna Rjpids

Lowell. W.H. DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE

T i m e T a b l e in E f fec t M a r . 20 ,1806 . WaSTWAKD.

"TTI STATIONS.

I know all about voti. I was . , , . . , . . " H I be good," she answered, eagerly.

' 'a - r n T "VOU k n o V U c o v o r j l h l n o o u *11 mo " P T A u n l 1, IaD " h ; to. What will she think of h i m r -so you need not think m e . .U-angrer , , „ t h e „ d , t l l c c i

but an old friend eager to serve you." ^ She caught bis hand with her frail

little one and turned her face away without speaking. He sat by her un-tll she slept, and he felt, as Oliver had done, that she was a woman child, not

'You're the kind rfvtor who stayed off the train on account of mo." she '•aid. faintly "Y^ff t fe re ever so good; but I'd much nijW , ' rV>avo just died. She" (with a w c i j | tfl^oe at Mrs. Ma-con) "told me al

"Most womei that nice little

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acolded the dt/.tor; "that , talk." ' t ike my old maid wint"

^ V e s black, too.

THE DOC'TOlt rout TED TO TUB HOUSE. a woman, and doubly dear by t h a t clinging helplessness.

A week had Mrs. Minny been sick a t the switchman's house when Dr. John telegraphed to Oliver to send a lawyer to the station. He also added: "If Hannah Patten Is in Denver, scud her along." lie had telegraphed to New-castle and found she was not there.

When by special order the train stopped a t the lonely brown honse, Dr. John was on the watch. He wentdaily to the track for papers, having esUb-lished communication with different conductors. lie had received no an-swer to his message sent the day be-fore. and he.Hurmised that Oliver, with bis usual attention to business, had sent a lawyer directly the mensaare was received The siation was only a n i g h t and a part of a day's ride from Denver To his surprise and dismay. Oliver him-self stepped down from the train, turned and assisted a tall lady to de-scend. a lady much burdened with p a r eels and carrying a large basket

There was no chance to speak nntll the train had gone; then Misa Patten eoid, calmly;

"Where is i.he?" The doctor pointed to the house. " I

must tell her tlrst." he said in a whis-per; "she is stiil very weak, and tho surprise might upset her. Where did yon come from?"

"Hosting. I'vo traced her, but went on to Denver instid, an' was in Mr. Oliver's oflice when the telegram come. Him being a lawyer, I per-suaded him to come too."

While she spoke the basket in her hand tilted up and down, and a myste-rioua whine came out of i t Mrs. Miriny, wide awake, was being enter-tained by the white-headed trio; they were discussing whether they would

j rather hove a baby or a dog to plajf with; they decided In favor of the lat-ter, lor they never had a canine friend, while there was a new baby every yew or so; in fact, tlie oldest girl had a care- I worn look on account of her duties as J nnrse._ In the door of the houae ap>

bundle. "After tha t she can never call me frivolous again. Why, she's quite a young thing in experience be-side me. Wasn't she good to bring my dog?"

Aunt Hannah meant to be severe and oold, perhaps to speak her mind a lit-tle; she had not forgiven the long, anxious months; bu t tho sight of the girl lying there white and frail, the baby in her arms, softened tho stern old fnco. and with a sob she knelt down and gathered both to her breas t

CHAPTER VIL "Craig." said Dr. John, sit t ing down

on a nail-keg, "why did you come here?"

"Because you sent for a lawyer and for Miss Patten. I connected the mys-tery with the young lady I had assisted to run away, whose fate has been a good deal of trouble to me ever since. I wanted to help her, if need be. Is she very ill?"

"Getting better f a s t It was mad folly to start on a journey sick ns she was. I don't blame you, Craig, for t h a t long ride and the risk you ran; she is very winning, this troublesome little lady, and brave too. It Is a won-der what a woman can endure, a slight frail creature whose baud you could crush in your fingers."

"But she had," said Oliver, uneasily, "plenty of money, bad she not?"

"She was traveling in the day coach, and has, 1 think, about five dollars in a shabby little purse. Miss Pat ten was right when she said we should not see Mrs. Mlnny until the money you gave her was all gone. Where has she been all these long months? Hy her finding the dog. Miss Patten probably knows now."

"Yes, and 11 was as I t h o u g h t -something entirely original. Near Boston Mrs de Restaud got acquaint lod with an elderly female " h o ran some sort of a re t rea t for aged pets, invalid dogs and cats. The idea was so novel Sirs. Minny decided to stop over and see the place. Finding Mrs. Blinn agreeable, and Syke contented in the society of his kind a t the re-t reat , she remained. She met a sailor from Newcastle in the street one day, and he told her Miss Patten had not been home for a long time. So she decided not to write anyone, but to remain hidden. One day a few weeks ago rhe came home from the village much upset, and acted oddly; she had cither seen some one or rend some-th ing in a newspaper, for the vlllaga storekeeper naw her poring over one, looking much upse t Two days later. 1 leaving a note containing board fof her dog, she disappeared. This Mrs. Ulinn. who seems to be a good sort of a person, worried a g rea t doijl. looking for her everywhere, and in Uer search wrote to the postmaster a t Newcastle, for she had heard Mrs. Minny speak of having been there. Through that let-ter Miss Patten found Skye, and thefi startod for Denver."

"She may have seen De Restaud. or that servant of bis," museJ^ the doc-tor. "Well, now yod ere here—though I'd much rutlier a stranger huf oome— I want you to draw Up a papcf sett ing

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No. 14 haa parlor buffet car attached Grand Haven to Delroit extra charge ('2Ji cents). No. LS has pallor car nttauhed, ex-tra charge, ('25 centa). No. 82 has sleeper to Detroit.

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Open 7 a. m, tu 8 p. m. Sunday, 4 tu 5 p. m. W. .1. SPICER. BKN FLETCHER.

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Tho JC rays may prove tho new wo-mcD has a marble h e a r t

Tho beot corks coma from Algeria. There ar« 2,500,000 acres o* cork forests I n t h a t countrf .

Af t e r thir ty years of secrecy Keely Is t o have the motor patented. Look ont for vibratory engines.

Two thousand bicycles were ile-•troyed in a Boston conflagration tho uthor day. Scorchers, 'ndeed.

ENGLISH ANECDOTES.

THE LATE IND1ANIAN WAS RATHER ODD OLD MAN.

D u r l n f t h * A n a e n t l n a of T«ZM f h «

VoamUt tna f o r l i l t O r M t f o r t m n *

W a t Laid—Ul> Chari ty W a i AI war*

S i l e n t — U u Ora tory .

T h e world didn't come to an end and neither did the comet strike us. Thus It is with many calamities that peo-ple foolishly anticipate.

In Mr. Astor's case Lady Henry Som-erset has demonstrated that she is "enough to make a man mad." while proving that sho will not "drive him xond."

Mr. John Jacob Astor has "sworn off" paying taxes this year to the ex-t e n t of a trifle over two millions. Tha t ' s the kind of leap year John Jacob says it is.

Wi th the approach of warm weather I t does i seem as if Mayor Sutrt) v/as r igh t when he eaid that Collis Hunt-ington would not carry away anybody's red-hot stove. •

Bismarck is superstitious, hut we are no t likely to hear that ho is keeping any extra number of black cats in order to insure tho success of the young Em-peror ' s new navy.

The weather bureau service costs the government $900,000 a year. Of course, t t is a good thing, but i t sometimes •eems ae If we ought to get better weather for the price.

I t Is perplexing to learn tha t the Turkish Government has promised safety to Americans until Minister Ter-re l l returns from his t r ip to the United States. Why should tlie promise not -continue after t ha t ?

Tho Tennessee centennial exposition to he held in Nashville next fall, while celebrating the 100th anniversary of the admission of the state into the union, will be national and International in its character. Every state and foreign country Is Invited to take part , and every inducement is offered them for t i e malting of exhibits and the erection of special buildings.

Indianapolis Letter. ILLIAM H. EN-gllsh, ono of the stalwart figures a m o n g Indiana's best men, is gone. He seems to have kept his lifo well squared.

He was a lone-some-looking man, and was as lone-some as he looked

He doubtless found good company In himself, for he was the sole cocnsellor of his own acts. Had he been less se-cluded he might have lived longer. He lodged and ate at a hotel on the Circle which he owned. It was there he fell sick, nnd there a few weeks later he died. To an old man who has known the minute attentions of home, sickness and death at a hotel are not ideal reali-zations. When Mr. English's illness was incipient he indulged the delusion of robust men that it waa a tnfln. though warned not to do so. His only daughter lived but a couple hundred miles away at Chicago, thongh she was not sent for until her father's condition I believe, was critical. Mr. English had ample fortune, of course, to keep a man-sion and pay servants to wait upon him but the ease and comfort of such a life were never a part of his calculations Economy seemed to have grown into a passion with him. and perhaps be prac-ticed it to extremity. 1 don't know.

Of late Mr English had become stout, and yet with his increase of rotundity from year to year be never outgrew that

of absence as quickly as possible and went back home. There he drew on the town for all the money ho could borrow. But the town was poor. One of t h s rich-est men in It was a merchant who had made a snug sum by swapping prlnta for produce, and who liked Bill English. He was asked for a liberal loan. Ho wanted time to consider. But time was money theu or nothing. No golden dream had ever siigResled to him a speculation In bonds, but on English's assurance he shelled out a thousand or so. He knew that, make or break, t t would be returned to him. That was in 184S. English went back to Washing-ton and put every dollar he had In Texas bonds. The Lone Star Joined the constellation the bonds went to par. and Mr. English made his pils. Like the peach, it grew, and It grew, and It grow. But some of it returned to the old merchant at Lexington. Enterprise had pushed him to tbe wall, he had made other loans that were lost, and the bank that held his money collapsed in

TALMAGE'S SEEM.0N.

"GOOD AND BAD RECREATIONS," LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.

"And I t Comii to raas. When Thalr l l a a r t a Ware Merry, t h a t Thay Said,

( 'all f o r Sanson , t h a t II* May H a k a

l'« fport"—Judcot xrl.. SB.

HERE wero three j thousand people as-bembled tn tho tctn-• plo of Dagon. They had come to make sport of eyeless Samson. They were all ready for the o n t e r t a l n m e n t They began to clap nnd pound. Impa-tient f o r t h e

amusement to hegln. and they cried,

a panic. He lived four years, a r r i v i n g 7 C t * h

h i . wife six months, w i t h - i t a shsl te ' f " ? b , ' n df

0 , d

or a table of his own. and during ail l e d b y J h e o f a i ? this time Mr. English cheerfully sup- 0

ff| <

, h 0 n i J ^ n t of oiled him with both apliearance there goea up a shout of

piled him with both. ] B u f h t e r H n d ( l e r | g l o n T h e b n n d 0 , d

This was but one or tne millionaire's R | o n t p m o n d 8 he is tired, and wants kindnesses that! the world knew nothing to rest himself against the pillars of of. He despised ostentation in charity, i h c h 0 n 8 0 . BO h<. M V 8 t 0 the lad who yet was greedy of fame. When Chicago iwds blm. "Show me where the main

burned down Mr. English gave a thou-sand dollars to the relief of Its people, though It Is believed hs gave only ten. He wrote his name on a subscription paper for a round thousand. Though carelessness or inattention he pnt tho lust two ciphers in the cents column, or at least too far to the right to be in line with the dollars. Tbe subscription list

pillars arc!" The lad does so. Then the strong man puto his right hand on one pillar nnd his left hand on another pillar, and. with the mightiest push that mortal over made, throws himself forward until the whole house comes down In thunderous crash, grinding the audience like grapes In a wine-press. "And so it came to pass, when -• -A AUmw mM Wliu IUTT uuuasw. . — .

was given to one of the newspapers with their hearts were merry, that they said, directions that proof-sheets be sent to Call for Samson, that he may make us

tbe others. There were no subscriptions below a dollar, and only a few to which cents were attached. So the editor eli-minated the rents column, printing only tho amounts in dollars, and away went Mr. English's last two ciphers. This represented him as contributing only

Recently a newspaper in Louisville published the pictures of several young lady clerks. A wealthy young man was very much taken with the face Df one of them, and lost no time (knowing that delays arc dangerous) in obtaining nn Introduction. It is now announced by telegraph that "the parents of the yonng lady have fouud tha t he will make a desirable husband and have consented to the match." Girls, get your pictures In the paper.

Some Idea of the terrors of a burst-ing volcano may be gained from the account of the last eruption in Hawaii. T h e crater of the volcano was filled f rom COO to 1,000 feet deep with molten lava, which finally forced its way through a subterranean passage. I t w a s forty miles from thero to tho sea, yet this avalanche of molten rocks reached the waters In lens than two days, destroying every thing In Its t rack. I t continued flowing for thrco weeks, heating tho sea water twenty

miles from shore.

WILLIAM H. ENGLISH.

In 1891 the legislature of Nebraska I passed a law forbidding the ownership of real property in that state by any ! corporation not incorporated under | state lawc, and ordoring all property j so held forfeited to the state. The first n i i t under the law has been brought ' ngainst the North Platte Land aud Wa-1 ter company, a corporation whose stockholders are principally English-men, and which has not a Nebraska charter . This company holds about 20,-WM acres of valuable land, and before they give It up the supreme court of t h e United States will probably be aaked to rule on the validity of this

Kebraska law.

brown frock coat bis tailor made him. some seventeen years ago. for a visit to Samuel J . Tilden. i t was In that c o a t -pants and vest to match—that he had tho famous Interview with Mr. Tilden aa io campaign expenses, and about which Mr. Walter Wellman has spun some <1 his wildest romance. Mr. English cer-tainly did not get cheated In that coat, n j matter what price ne paid for It. It must have been made of good material to have kept Its dressy look BO long, even if handled with tbe best ot care. 1 should say. from observation at differ-ent timea. that the goods was north of England worsted. Mr. English seemed attached to the coat ns an old friend; and. like Napoleon, he could never tolerate new faces about him. It was all hs retained of the campaign, and kept It as a relic, though he paid for it, as he did for everything else he got at thnt time. I saw him last In the early days of December. He was without aa overcoat, after the manner of Hannibal Hamlin, which was very Injudicious, for the weather was Inclement. The brown frock was wide open in f r o n t Possibly It waa a little too tight to button then.

In Indiana Mr. Engiisn was thought a rich man. He left ah estate worth three millions, half of which goes to his son. I t Is of fifty years' growth and be-gan with the annexation of Texas. Mr. English was then 33 years old and

A floating mining camp is now being lltted up a t Ellensburg, Wash., and next sp r ing will ply up and down the Snake l ive r . The camp will be perfectly ap-pointed In every way with a full bat-t e ry of mining appliances and quarters f o r the miners. I t is being constructed . on an Immense fiatbottomed boat es- | clerking In a department a t Washing- | pedally built for that purpose. On the ton. He was richer In character than boat is a big stationary engine and In purse, and had bis reputation nt his bollors, dredgers, and pumps of various homo not been of the very best, that sizes, and all the appliances for extract- floodtid# In affairs that Shakespeare ing gold, end a boarding and lodging sings of would probably have dasued house that will accommodate at least past him and been lost forever. He bad l iO miners. The camp is an experiment seme money at Lexington, his native by a Chicago syndicate, and i t will be town, and had saved all possible from moved up and down the r^ 'er , working bis salary of two y e a r s - f o r Mr. Engiisn t h e banks and bed of tho stream for was a born saver, though not then dorm-

gold.

A wealthy Japanese gentleman who ,e to th i s country a few weeks ago :udy its clvlilzatlon has seen one

watched a footbal l game, at-meeting of the Ohjoago City witnessed an nfteritaea a«e-e Kentucky Legislature, aad

back to Japan. I

nated by his genius for acquisition. The j bonds of the Texan Republic w^rn ut very low price—not above seven or ' eight centa. Jesse D. Bright, who an-ticipated Texas becoming a state, was a friend to young English and told him that he might lay the basis of a fortune, if he had ambition that way, by buying

i Texas bonds. "But mind," said idr Bright by way of caution, " th is Is only n ' r nplolon. You must not hold me en-tirely rogponsible if annexation falls.' ' Young English asked that the sltnation be more, fully explained, which was done. H 3 then prepared for the

De Castellanes have not parted. ntroversy between George Gould

the New York tax department over size of the estate has been explained a o i J t .

actorily, doubtless, to Mr. Gould's , consequr-^ of r»_

ten dollars. I t was a small sum for him, and gave people a wrong opinion ot him. But he would not correcj the error. The last time tho Ohio river flooded its valley he gave a hundred dollars down und lifty each week while the destitu-tion lasted.

I know a man who assisted Mr. En-glish in his third race for Congress. Tha t was before he came to fndian-apolis. They ate at ihe same table, slept in tbe same bed. spoke from the same platform. Mr. English Is not the only Indionian of renown that has been helped by this man. He is a big oak in the intellectual forest of Indiana, and a great many twigs bang on him. He has made reputations at tho price of bis own. and in h is old age says it is an un-profitable business. As an orator for the people he laid Mr. English In the shade. He had a new speech fo r every

MRS. ENGLISH. occasion, and his thoughts burst int^ words with the strength and freshnesi that only uew thoughts can. In ont*ilt-tle town, where the people had deter-mined on on ovation, they gathered about the stand after speaking to com-pliment ihe orators. It isn't a tribute to theln Interest In political affairs to say thatj af ter Mr. English had been lo

four years they took the other r the candidate. They did and wished him success. He

ch brother-in-law- cieariv 1 , 8 o p p o r t u r t t y .

congre8| men fi l thoughJ

explair* nlng. D uurprisS

Most I ZtC2 ll]

: to them that he was not| cun-;hy." as'd tbe spokesman with fcon't you tbe congressmanT'

lo not knew opportunity M L z z . X t i c IACS.

spor t And they cailod for Samson out of \ h e prison-house; and he made them

sport." In other words, there are amuse-

ments that are destructive, and bring down\disa8ter nnd death upon the heads of those who practice them. While they laugh and dicer, they die. Tho throe thousand who perished that day in Gaza, are as nothing compared with the tens of thousands who have been destroyed by sinful amusements

But my first toxt implies that there is a lawful use of the world, as well as nn unlaw/ul abuse of It. aud the difference between the man Christian and tbe man un-Chrlstlan Is. that In the former case tho man masters the world, while in the latter case the world masters him. For wbom did God make this grand and beautiful world? Foi whom this wondenul expenditure of color, this gracefulness of lino, this mosaic of the ground, this fresco of the sky. this glowing fruitage of orchard and vineyard, this full orchestra of tbo tempest, in which the tree branches flute, and the winds trumpet, and tho thunders drum, and all the splendors of earth and sky come clashing their cym-bals? For whom did God spring tbe 1 arched bridge of colors resting upon buttresses of broken storm-cloud? For whom did he gather the upholstery of flro around the window of the setting sun? For all men; but more especially for his own dear children.

If you build a large mansion, and spread a great feast af ter it, to cele-brate the completion of tbo structure, •do you allow strangers to come in and occupy the place, while you thrust your own children in the kitchen, or tbe barn, or the fields? Oh, no! You say. "I am very glad to ace strangers in my mansion, but my own sons and daughters shall have the first r ight there." Now, God has built this grand mansion of a world, and he has spread a glorious feast in i t and while those who are strangers to his grace may come In, I think that God especially in tends to give tho advantage to his own children—those who are tho eons aad daughters of the Lord Almighty, those who through grace can look up anJ say "Abba. Father." You cannot make | me "believe that God gives more advan lages to the world than ho gives to me church bought by his own blood. It, therefore, people of the world have looked with dolorous sympathy upon those who make proiese.ou of relig.on, end have said, "Taose new converts arc-going down Into privation and into u-rdshlp. Why aid they not tarry u Uttio longer in the world, and bave some of its enjoymenta and amuse-ments and recreations?"—I say to sucn men of the world. "You are greatly mis-taken;" and belore 1 get through 1 will •how that those peopio who stay out of tbe kingdom of God have the hard-ships and self-denials, while those woo come in have the Joys and sattsiau-

tioos. In the name of the king ot heaven

and earth, I serve a writ of ejectment upon all the sinful and polluted who have squatted on the domain of earth-ly pleasure as thougu u belongeu to them, while 1 claim, in behalf of the good and the pure and tbe true, the eternal inheritance which God has giv-en them. Hitherto, Christian philnn-uropis ts , clerical aud lay, have busied hamselves chlelly In denouncing sinful

recreations; but I feel we have no rignt to stand before n e n und women In whose hearts there is a desire for rw-reauon amounting to positive necea-buy, ucuuuiic.ufi iuiS aua uiui uuu tutt jmer tumg, wneu we do not propose lu give tuum something better, uod holplug me and with reference to my last accouht, ! shall enter upon a sphere not. usual in sermonizing, but

| a subject which 1 think ought bo be presentedJtt this time. I propose now to lay be t t re you some of tbe recrea-tions whlsh are not only innoceit, but positively! helpful and advantr.^eous.

In tho i r s t place, I commend, among Indoor rRreatlons, music—vocal and 'nstrumeltal . Among the first things sreated vrtls tho bird, so that the earth might have music at the s t a r t This world, which began with so sweet a serenade. Is finally to be demolished mnldst tils' ringing blasts of the arch-uigel's tjBmpet, so that as there was

music at tbe start, there shall be music at the close. While this heavenly ar t has often been dragged Into the uses of superstition and dissipation, we all know it may be the means of high moral culture. Oh, it Is a grand thing to have our children brought up amidst the sound of cultured voices, and amidst the melody of musical in-struments.

There Is In this art an Indescribable fascination for the household. Let all thoso families who have the means to afford It, have flute." or harp, or piano, or organ. As soon as tho hand is largo enough to compass the keys, teach it how to pick out the melody. Let all our young men try th is heavenly ar t upon their nature. Those who have gone into it fully have found in It Illimitable recreation and amusement. Dark days, stormy nights, seasons of sickness, business disasters, will do lit-tle toward depressing the soul which can gallop off over the musical keys. or soar In Jubilant lay. I t will cure pain. I t will rest fatigue. It will quell | passion. I t will revive health. I t will reclaim dissipation. I t will strengthen the immortal soul. In the battle of Waterloo. Wellington saw that the Highlanders were falling back. He said, "What Is the matter there?" He was told that the band of music had ceased playing, and he called up the pipers and ordered them to strike up an inspiriting air; and no sooner did they strike the air than the Highland-ers wero rallied, ana helped to win the day. Oh, ye who havo been routed in tho conflicts of life, try by the force of music to rally your scattered bat-talions.

1 am glad to know that In our great cities there is hardly a night In which there a re not concerts, where, with the best musical instrumenta and the sweetest voices, people may find enter-ta inment Patronize such entertain- i ments when they are afforded you. Buy season tickets, if you can. for the "Philharmonic" and the "Handel and Haydn" societies. Feel that the dollar and a half or two dollars that you spend for the purpose of hearing an artist play or sing is a profitable Investment Let your academies of music roar with the acclamation of appreciative audl-ecces assembled at the concert or the

orntnrlo. Still further. I commend, ns worthy

of their support, the gymnasium. This Institution is gaining in favor every year, and I know of nothing more free from dissipation, or more calculat-ed to recuperate tbe physical nnd men tal energies. While thero arc a good many people who have employed this , Institution, there is a vast number who arc* Ignorant of its excellences. There are men with cramped chests and weak sides and despondent splrlta who through the gymnasium might be roused up to exuberance and exhilara-tion of life. There arc many Christian people despondent from year to year. who might, through such an institu-tion, be benefited In their spiritual re-lations. There are Christian people who seem to thinl- that it Is a good sign to be poorly; and because Richard Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids. they think that by the same sickliness they may come to the same grandeur of character. I want to tell tho Christian people of my congregation that God will hold you responsible for your In-validism if it is your fault, and when. through right exercise and prudence. you might be athletic and well. The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a man of mild dis-position upon the animal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while bis blood will change its chemi-cal proportions. It will become llko unto the blood of the lion, or the tiger, or the bear, while his disposition will | change, and become fierce and unre-lenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. " • •

Wo shall have the smooth and grassy • lawn, and wo will call out people of j e v e r ( ! ^ o p• all occupations and profesnlons and ask them to join in tho ball-player's sport. You will comc back from these outdoor cxercises and recreations Aith Rirength in your arm and color in your cheek and a flnsh In your eye and cour-age in your heart. In this great bnttli;

try." You push 11 up on the curbstone-for him and pass on. He wondors who-that well-dressed man was that helped-him. You did a kindness to tho twy, but you did a great Joy to J ° * o w n

soul. You will not get over it aH the

week. . On tho street to-morrow mcnung,

you will see a sick man passing along. "Ah " you say. "what can I do to mako th i s 'man happy? He certainly does not want money; he Is not poor, but he Is sick." Give him one of thoss twon-ty-five hundred checrful looks that yoa have garnered up for the whole year-Look Joy and hopefulness Into hls souL It will thrill biro through nnd there wni be a reaction upon your own soul. Go-ing a little farther on. you will come to l i e store of i friend who Is ernbarrassed in business matters. You will go in and say. "What n fine store you have. I think Dusiness will brighten yon will have more custom after awpue. I think there Is coming a great pros-perity to all the country. Good f o r n -Irg." Vou pass ou t You havo hiip that young man. and you have helpci^

'"colonel Gardiner, who sat with his el-bow on a table, spread with all extrava-gant viands, looking off at a dog on the rug. saying. "How 1 would like to change places with him; I be tho dot, and he be Col. Gardiner;" or. thoee two

' Moravian missionaries who wanted to go Into the lazaretto for the sake of a t -tending tbe sick, and they were told, -If you go in there, you will never oome out We never allow anyone to come out for he would bring the contagion Then they mado their wills and went In. first to help the sick, and then to die. Which was the happier—Col. Gardiner, or the Moravian missionaries dying for others? Was It all sacrifice when ihe missionaries wanted to preach tho Gos-pel to tho negroes at the " a r b : i d ° ® 3 ' and. being denied the privilege. soW themselves Into slavery, standing sLlo by side, and lying side by side, down In tho very ditch of suffering, in order that they might bring those men up w Ufo and God ai d heaven? o h ; J J a r e

I * * thrill in tho Joy of doing good It is tbe most magniflcont recreation to which a roan ever put his hand, or his head, or bis heart.

But. before closing. 1 want to impress upon you that rao:e secular entertain-ments are not a fil foundation for your soul to build on. 1 was reading of a woman who had gone all the rounds of sinful amusement, and sho came to die. She said "I will die to-night a t s ix o'clock." "Oh." they said. "1 guess not;, you don't seem to be sick." " I shall .lie at six o'clock, and my soul will bo lost. 1 know It will be lost. I have sinned away my day of grace. Tho noon oame. They desired her to seek religious counsel. "Oh. she said, is of no use. My day is gone. I have been all the founds of worldly pleasure and ii is "too late. I will die to-nlgh^ at six o'clockT- . T h e day woro a w a * and it came to f ou r ^ ' ^ o c ^ a n d t o B J o'clock, and she cried out nt fivWcloclc. "Destroying spirits, ye shall not havo me yet; It Is not six. It is not six!" Tho moments went by. and the shadows be-gan tc gather, and the clock struck six; and while It was striking her soul went.

The last hour of oar life will soon be here, and from that hour we will re-view this day's proceedings. I t will oo a solemn hour. H from our death-pillow we have to look back and Bee a life spent in sinful amusement there will t o a dart that will strike through our soul, sharper than the dagger with which Virginlus slew bis child. The memory of the past will make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities and riot-ing through which we bave passed will come upon ns. weird and skeleton as Meg Merrlllies. Death, the old Shy-lock. will demand and take the remain-ing pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood; and upon our last oppor-tunity for repentenco and our Vast chance for heaven the curtain will ror-

Str-nj-th and WraknMa. There Is a s much kill In selfishness

zs thero Is in poison.—Love for Ood takes In everybody else.—Too many people make the mistake of belonging to church without belonging to Christ.

that Is opening ngainst the kingdom j —The tlcvil makes every str ing pull to-of darkness, wo want not only a con- i ward the caloon. from hunger to poli-

secrated soul, but a strong arm hnd I stout lungs and mighty muscle. I bless God that there are so many recrea-tions that have not on thero any taint of Iniquity; recreaMons In which we may engage for the strengthening of the body, for tho clearing of the Intel-lect. for the Illumination of the soul.

There is still another'form of recrea-tion which I recommend to you. and that is the pleasure of doing good. I have seen young men, weak and cross and sour and repelling In their disposi-tion. who by one heavenly touch have awakened up and become blessed and buoyant, tbe ground under their feet and the sky over their heads breaking i forth Into music. "Oh." says some young man in the house to-day, "I should like that recreation above all others, but I have not the means." My dear brother, let us take an account of stock. You have a large estate, if you only realize It. Two hands. Two feet. You will have perhaps during the next year at least ten dollars for chari-table ccntributlon. You will Bave

| twenty dve hundred cheerful looks. If you want to employ them. You will havo five thousand pleasant words if you want to speak them. Now what an amount that is to start with!

You go out to-morrow morning and you see a case of real destitution by the wayside. You give him two cents. The blind man hears tbe pennies rattle in

lies.—Any kind of a sinner can bo savpd to-day who will quit bis mcan-necs and trust In Christ.—Tho sun haa spots on It, and yet some people ex-pact every church member to be per-fect—The man who is anxloua to uorve God can begin right away.—Whatever would have been wrong in Christ is wrong In any member ot his church.— Sin would not be so deadly i t the devil had to fight in an open field.—The man who is not doing his best tor Ood is falling short of what God expects him.

, to dOK—Ham's Hem.

A Bay of Snaihlna.

"If anything unkind you hear About somo one you know, my dear. Do not, 1 pray you, it repeat When you that some ono chance to*.

meet: For such news has a leaden way Of clouding o'er a sunny day. But if you something pleasant hear About somo ono yod know, my dear. Make haste—to mat

w e l l -To her or him the* Kor such news h a ^ Of lighting up a #

s groat haste 'twore^

ime to tell; helden way A day."

Tha OrowiaK Ooo« The. growing go J

partly dependent o o l that things are n o t 11

. iiie as they might havf his h a t and he says, "Thank you, s i r ^ J a g k, the number wh God bless yon!" You pass d o w n ^ f i e | a hidden llfp/Snd rest s t ree t t rying to look indifferent; but you feel from the very depth of your soul a profound satisfaction that you made that man happy. You go oa still farther, and find a poor hoy with a wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on the

{ curbstone. He fails In tbe a t tempt 1 You say, "Stand back, my lad; let me

tombs.—Geordfe Eliot

I of t b e World*

of tbe world is

Ec acts, and irlth you or Is halt ow-

talthtulty nnvisited

The International character i tian Endf/vor Is manifested | the fact that the British Natisg ell has invited tbe I n t e r n a t J vent ion of 1900 lo meet in j f l London.

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i

That Bxtrometlrod feeling afflicts nearly every-body at this season. The bustlers cease to

^ push, tho tireless grow weary, tho ener-gptlo b«como enervated. You know just what wo mean. Some men and women' endeavor temporarily to overcome tuat

Tired Foeling by great force of will. But this is unsafe, as it pulls powertally upon tbe nervous system, which will not long stand encb strain. Too many people " work on thoirncrves/ 'sud the result is seen Inun-fortunnto wrecks marked "nervous pros-. ration," in every direction. That tlrod

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CHAPTER XVL—fGonrnscno.)

"She giver, me up! Margie renounces p e ! Strangers we must be henceforth! What does It all mean? Am I Indeed awake, or In It only a painful dream?"

Ho read Ihe few lines of the missive a third time. Something of tho old lominant spirit of Archer Trevlyn came back to him.

"Thero Is some misunderstanding. Margie has been told some dire false-hood!" bo exclaimed, starting up. "I will know everything. She shall ex-plain f b l l y " I

He seized Ms hat and hurried to her residence. The family were at break-

i fast, the servant said, who opened the ! doer. He asked to see Miss Harrison, j "Mlsa Harrison left this morning, sir. < in tho early express." said the man. eyo-icg Trevlyn with curious Interest.

"Went In tho early train! Can you tell me where she haa gone?"

"I cannot. Perhaps her aunt. rarnsworth. or Miss Lee can do so."

"Very well;" ho made a despernto ef-fort to ceom calm, for the cervant's oh- j servant eye warned him thnt he was not acting himself. "Will you please ask Miss Leo to favor mo with a few mlnutea of her t ime?"

Mica Loo camo into the parlor where Archer waited, a little atterword. Archer, himself, was not more chang^l than she. Her countenance was pale, even lo ghastllness. with the exception of a bright red spot on either cheek, and her eyes shono with such an un-natural light, that even Archer, ab-sorbed as he was in his own troubler.. noticed it. She welcomed him quietly, '.ii a somewhat constrained voice, and relapsed into silence. Archer plunged at once upon what he came to ascer-tain.

"Tho seivant tells me that Miss Har-rison left New York'this morning. I am very anxious to comicunlcato with her. Can you tell me whither she has gone?"

"I cannot. Sho left before any of the family wero up. and though she left notes for both her aunt and her busi-ness agent, Mr. Farley, she did not in either of them mention her deatinn-tlon."

"And did she not speak to you abou' It?"

"She did not. I spent a part of_ last evening with her. Just before you camo. but she said nothing to me of her in-tention. She was uot quite well, and desired mo to ask you to excuse her from going to the opera."

"And did you not see her this morn-ing?"

"No. I have not seen her since I '.eft her room to come down to you la.-U night. When I returned from my luter-

leavo for the north this morning In the early express. I marked his baggage 1 for him. He had been hurried so in his preparations, ho said, that he had no time for It." . t

"Indeed? It'a a bc^o to bo hurr ied. ; Where wur, ho r-V-.ed to?"

"Well, really, the name of the place j has escaped mc. Some little town In | New Hampshire or Maine. I think. We , do so mucTi of thin hucltess that ray j memory Is treacherous about BUCUJ things."

"Were you rnealdng of 0*s f r tn l?" asked Tom CllfTord. a friend of Archer's, removing his cigar from his mouth. Deuced fine fellow! Wish I had some of his spare nhilllngs. Though he's generctis cs a prince. Met him this morning Just as lie was j coming down tho steps of tho Astor. I Had to get i:p early to sec af ter that | confounded store of mine. Walker's j too lazy to open It mornings."

"Vou met Mr. Castrani?" said Archer, referring to the point.

"Yes. He told me he was going away. Woman somewhere mixed up in the case. Said he expected to find one-somewhere—well, hanged If I cnn tell where. There's always a woman a l ihe bottom of everything."

"He did not mention who this one was?"

"Not he. But I must be going. It 's nearly lunch time. Good morning."

Trevlyn stopped a few moments with Mr. Harris, and then went back to his rooms. He was satisfied. Hard as it was for him to believe it, he had no other alternative. Margie was false, and she had gone away from him under the protection of Castrani. He could have forgiven her anything but that. If she had ceased to love him. and had transferred her affections, he could stiil have wished her all happiness. If she had only been free and frank with him. But to profess love for him all the while she was planning to elope with another man, was too much! His heart hardened toward her.

If there had been. In reality, as he had nt first had supposed, any misun-derstanding between him and her, and oho had gene alone, he would have fol-lowed her to the ends of the earth, r.Cu

| have had everything made clear. Bu: ! an It was low, he would not purBiie her I an Inch. I ^ t her go! False nnd pei-I fidious! Why should her flight over j trouble him?

But though he tried to believe her worthy of all scorn and contempt, his heart waa still very tender of her. He kissed the sweet face cf the picture he had worn so long in his bosom, heforo he locked It away from his sight, and droppeil some tears that were no dls-

vlew with you. I tapped at her door— [ honor to his manhood, over tho half In fact. I tapped at it several times dur-ing the evening, for I feared she might bo worse—but I got no reply, and sup-posed she had retired. No one saw her this morning, except Florine. her maid, j Miss Harrison's sudden exodus.

dozen elegant little trifles she had given him befor& he committed them to tha flames.

There was a nine days' wonder ov\r But {

aud Peter, the coachman, who drove her to the depot."

"And she went entirely alone '" "She did from the house. Peter t^ok

her in the carriage." "From the house! But after that ' '"

he asked, eagerly. "Mr. Trevlyn," she said, coldly, "ex-

cuse me.1"

her aunt waa a discreet woman, and was generally understood thnt Margie j had taken advantage of the pause in ; the fanhicnablo season to visit some distant relatives, and if any one coupled her flight and the departure of Castrani together, it wan not made tho subject of remark. Alexandrine kept what she

j knew to herself, and of course Archer "1 must know!" he criod; passionately j Trevlyn did not proclaim his own d -

graeplng her arm; "tell me, did ehe set 1 ccrtlon. out upon this mysterious Jourr.r:/ For a week, nearly, he managed lo alone?" ! a ' J 0 U t - r i a ^ n t the end of that time

"I must decline to answer you." he called ut Mrs. Loo's. He wanted to "But 1 will not accept any denial!

Mlsa Lee, you know what Margie v/as to roe. There has arisen a fearful mis-understanding between un. I must bave it explained. Why will you trifle with me? You must toll me what you know."

"I do not wish to arouse suspicion, Mr. Trevlyn. which may have no founda-tion lo rest on. Only for your peace of mind do I withhold any information 1 may pusscas on tbe subjec t"

"I t Is a cruel kindness. Toll mo everything a t ouco. I beg of you!"

"Then, it It distresses you, do not blame me; Peter saw Mr. Louis Cas-trani at the depot, and is confident he went in the same train, iu tbe same cur with MUs Harrison."

"CasJranl! Great Heaven!" he sing-gored into a chair. "Is it possible? Margie, my Margie, that I thought so good and pure and truthful , taice to me! It cannot cannot be! I will not believe it!"

"I do not ask you lo," said Alexan-drine. proudly. "I insinuated nothiug. 1 only replied lo your question."

"Pardon me. Miss Lee. I am not quite myself Ibis morning, i will go now. I trmnk you for what you have told me. und trust it will all be ex-plained."

" I trust KO,'' answered Miss l^ee. lurn-ing to leave tho room.

."Stay a moment! To what depot did Poter drive hor?"

"The Northern, I think ho said." "Again I th^nk you, and good morn-

ing." He hurried away, got into the first

coach he came across, and was driven to the Northern depot.

He was somewhat acquainted with the ticket agent, and assuming as non-chalant an air as was possible in bis present disturbed state, he strolletLinto the oflice. After a little Indifferent conversation, he said.

"By the way, Harris, do you know Mr. Castrani, the young Cuban, who has turned the heads ot so many of our fair belles? gome one was telling me he lett town this morning."

"Castrani! Yet, I think w . He did

The idei posscHted him that in some way she might be cognisant of Margie's destination. And though he had given the girl up. ho longed desperately io know If she were happy. He had fell i strangely giddy nil day, and the heat oi ! Mrs. Lee'o parlors operated unfavorably j upon him. He was sitting on a sof t j conversing with that lady and her danghlct. when suddenly he put his

j hand to his forehead, and sank back, pale and speechless.

In the wildest alarm, they called a physician, who put him to bed. and en-Joined tbe severest quk t . Mr. Trev-lyn. he said, had received a severe shock to bis nervous system, and there was immineut danger of congestive fever of the bruin.

His fears were verified. Archer did j not rally, and on tho second day he was i delirious. Then the womanly nature 1 of Alexandrine Lee came out and

asserted Itself. She banished all a;-tendants from tbo sick room, and took sole charge herself of the sufferer. Not even her mother would she allow to take her place. When tempted by Intense wearineiia to rewign her post she would take that stained glove from ber bosom, and the sight of It would banish all though: of admitting a stranger.

"No," she said to herwlf, "poopla in delirium speak of their most cherished secrets, and he shall not criminate him-self. If he did that terrible deod. only I of all the world can bring a shadow of suspldon against him, und the secret shall never be revealed lo any other."

So sho sat the long days and longer nights away by tho side of this man sho lo^ed so hopelessly, bathUig bis fevered brow, holding his parched hand, and lingering fondly over the flushed, un-conscious face.

He sank lower nnd lower day by day —so very low that the physician said he could do no more. He must leave tbe case. There was no tb lngfor It but to wait with patience tbe w a p i n g s of na-ture.

At last tbe day came j B e n the rav-ings of delirinm subside®and a deadly stupor intervened. It iM* the crisis of

iht- difceaue. The sundown would de- 1) A N R 11 R Y ' S ( t T A N T clde. Dr. Grayson said; he would be A ^ U I t 1 O l 1 i i i 1 . better, or death would ensue. "~

Alexandrine heard his opinion In stony silence. She sat by tho bed's bead now, calm and silent; her powers of self-control were Inflnite. Her mother camo In to watch for the change, ns did several of Archer's friends, heretofore exduded. She wa? not afraid for them to come; thero war- no danger of Mr. Trevlys criminating himKelf now. He had not spoken or moved for twelve hours.

The time passed slowly. The sun crept down the west. The ticking of tho watch on the stand waa all that broke the silfnee of the room. The last sun ray departed—tbe west flamed with gold and crimson, and the amber light flushed with the hue of health the white face on the pillow. Alexandrino thought she caw a change other than that the sunlight brought, and bent over him.

His eyes uneljced--he looked away from her to the vase of early spring flowers on the center-talde. Ills llp.i moved Sho caught the whispered word with a ficrce pang ot her heart:

"Margie" Tho physician stepped forward, and

sought the fluttering puli». His face told his decision before his lips did.

"The crisis Is pnesed. He will live." Yes. ba would live. The suspense

was over. Alexandrine's labors were shared now. and Archer did not know how devotedly he had been tended — bow be owed bis very existence to her.

Ho mended slowly, but by the middle of May he waa able to get out. Of course he was very grateful to the Lees, and their house was almost the only one he visited. Alexandrine was fit-ful and moody. Sometimes she re-ceived him with the greatest warmth. and then she wonld be cold and dis-tant. Sho puzzled Archer strangely He wanted to be friends with her. He felt that bo owed her an Immense debt of gratitude, and be desired to treat ber ns he would a dear sister.

Perhaps it was because time hung so heavily on his hands, that Trevlyn went so frequently to Mrs. Lee's. Cer-tainly be did not go to visit Alexan-drine. We all know how the habit ot visiting certain placoa grow npon us. without any particular cause, until wo feel the necessity of going through with tho regular routine every day. He was to blame for following up this ac-quaintance so closely, but he did it without any wrong Intention. Ho never thought It posaibie that any one should dream of his being In love with Alexandrine.

Hut the world talked. They said It was a very pretty romance; Mr. Trev-lyn hnd been deserted by his lady love. had fallen 11! on account of It. had been nursed by one whom of course he would marry. Indeed, they thought hlra In duty bound to do so. In what other way cauld he manifest bis gratitude?

Vague whispers of this rcached Trev-lyn's ear. but he gave them at first little heed. He should never marry, he said; it waa sinful to wed without love. But as ho saw Alexandrine's pale face and strangely distraught manner day by day. he came to feel as If he had In pome way wronged her, though how he did not exactly understand.

Ono day he entered the sitting-iN )m of Mrs. Leo with the freedom of a priv-ileged visitor, without rapping, and found Alexandrine In tears. He would have retreated, but she had already seen him, and he felt that it would be better to remain. Ho spoko to her kindly.

"1 trust nothing has occurred to dis-•.resu you?" She looked up at him al-most defiantly.

"Leave me!" sho said. Impetuously; "you, of all otherr.. have no right to question me!"

"Pardon roe!" he exclaimed, alarmed by her atrnnge emotion, "and why uot I question you?"

'•Because you have caused me misery czi'Vugh nj ready—"

Who Can Uutrh Ills IncheaT—EaU Drldv* port. In tha hams State, Had a Fhe-rotnaiiHllr U'B Vonag: FeUoir Latl Vuar. but He Uled.

ANBURY, CONN., counts pmong Us population a boy not yet out of his "teens," who tow-ers up lo the mag-niflcant height of six feet nine Inches nud who bas not yet mado up hi* mind aa lo Ihe point where he will

bring h!n growth to n full sto*. says New York World.

Not yet sixteen years old he Is. It la reed less to coy. an object of wonder to all who see him for the first time, and

I irvarlably attracts the greatest at-1 trntlon whenever ho appears on tho

streets. Ilia name i? Herman Johrson nnd be

' Is oxreedinply proud of the notoriety 1 thnt his Immense height has brought to him.

| The writer bad a conversation with him the other day. In which he said: "I believe I am the tallest hoy of my ape. not only In New England, but In the whole country."

Johnson Is very anxious to be en-lightened on this subject and nt his request his picture Js sent to The World In the hope that. If there Is any one who can size up with him. he will make himself known.

No man or boy In Danbnry comes nnywhere nenr him. Boys of his own age look llko mldgeta when they stand beside him.

His case recalls that of Patrick Casey, the young Bridgeport boy. an account of whom was published In The World In October. 1895/ In tbe middle of August that year Casey, who was then live feet high, began to shoot up-ward and kept at It until he was about the middle of tbe following October six feet three Inches. Thla was an aver-age of a quarter of an Inch a day or nearly seven feet a year. His age then was sevenfeen years.

Casey, however, was unable to with-stand this enormous strain upon bis constitution and he died the following November. Before his death bis hair turned from red to Jet black. Tha physicians accounted for the change on the theory that tbe tincture of iron that had been given to him as a tonic bad entered into his blood and acted upon tbe hair. His case pnzzled the doctors, but no autopsy was held on tbe re-mains, owing to tbe objections of the family.

;T;> NS rov N.VL'BI

POSTOFFICE SECRECY.

A^alnut the Itiilrs for l.ettor-Currlfra to d r e Addrnaao*.

fi Is not generally known that Unci'. Sara looks upon the address or where-abouts of one of his citizens as an in-violable secret. Such, however. Is tho case, says the New York World.

A New Yorker who had been out of the city for some time found upon his return, a few days ago, that one ot bis Intimate friends had changed bis resi-dence without leaving bis exact new ad-dress. All he could gather was that his friend now lived in n flat on tbo north side of a certain s t reet

When he arrived at tho block In ques-tion he found to his dismay that every house in It was a flat house. He would have to go from door to door until he found his friend's name over one of the door-bells.

He had not proceeded far when ho met a letter-carrier making his usual delivery. Here, he thought, waa the man who could save him a lot of time and trouble.

"Yes. sir," replied the postman, In response to his query. "I know the party very well. But 1 am sorry to say I cannot give you his number. It Is against the rules."

The same secrecy Is observed at the

A llaaher Mashed. A masher's a being with "cheek" like a

mule. And brains light as feathers or chaff,

Who studies vain glory in vanlty'a school.

And thinks of politeness be knows ev-ery rule.

And dressea up well—to dispel ridi-cule—

Vet knows that he's of tbe riffraff.

Maids, matrons, aud roulhers, who hap-pen to go

Through the town unprotected, all feel

The sneers and the Jeers of this mascu-line foe

Who stands n a lamp post, as If for a show.

And language Immodest at ione females throw.

Enough to make decency reel.

I saw one one day sidle up to a m a i d -A daughter of Erin's grecu Isle—

Who knew bis intentions; so, nothing afraid.

As quick as a soldier e'er handled a blade.

She raised ber u iwrel la and stopped bis tirade

By smashing his stove-pipe silk tile.

That hat was soon wrecked, nnd he looked rather cheap,

Aad growled through bis teeth with a hiss.

Again she went a t him, and with a full sweep.

And down quick as lightning bo fell In a heap.

"Young man, as you sow you are cer-tain to reap,"

Cried she; "and take this aud take this."

Whack! whack! the umbrella came still on his head

As gazed bu bewildered and muto. Until a chance offered; away theu he

fled. With face from discomfiture perfectly

red; And as hn "skedaddled" this heroine

said, "I wish I'd my big brother's boo t "

—M. C. McMahon.

T h e New Pho to ic raphr .

It Roentgen and Edison can upon their sensitive plates photograph the

post office. The postal address of any- inner man, how muer more can Ho who body will not be given by the federal knows, understands and controls all the authorities eveu to a state officer. This laws aud forces of nature! 1 think ol rule Is in accordance with the general the Great Bye tha t reads every thought principle that a man's dealings with and emotion, and records unerringly

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Kuuhcii. An la. Rats, Mice, 15c.

The wni;es of sin is death, no matter bovhlg* tnav he tlie st.'.i'on or booml poaitum ol tboM whoeutcatfe in it.

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A Very Iniporr.iu <}ue«lion with f irm-er* uml (Iliter* •)tint Now.

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There isn't much KOOU to n man who trie* td be good hlmp.y and only hceuuse but tieud teNa him to.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo. Lucas County-ss. Frank J. Cheney maljes oath that h*

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Sworn to before me and su tscribed ta my presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1KS6. A. W. OLEASON.

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It snmo people cooldn't find anvthlmr 10 t behind, they would l>e always on the ruu.

Why suffer from indigestion? Bur-dock Blood Hitters cures Dyspepsia and all diseases of the stomach. li*er und bowels.

Oen. Booth commonood lus career In a pa»a-b.-oker's shop il KuKlund.

It Is so easY lo rc-no»t Corns wit1! WniJef?cms that wc wonder so m;'ny w i l l endure them.-Gel Ulnderoorus aud sec bow nicely 11 takes tbem oil.

Luce of all kinds is now made by murbioerjr.

FIT#--*I' nt" •tom-nj '-7 "n. kuirs satti naVk trxToaKii. .v, r.: aiw i.m ii.--r mm- M«r-frtooi cuten. ita'l »i 11 IrliJ lio'ile rr*» to MS CUM. bcnutuDr Kllnr Zlt A-rl>"(..l'lnua(JpaiJL.t-A.

There ate always J.0 •« British vesfU at sex.

Coe'n Cotit-h l'nl«ain lipst. It w i l l btMk >.|> n Colli q

U.uii *a> tlUiiu I'IM-. Itii>lUut:«lcU*Ule. TiV n.

A N* vadn man carries n 800-year-Old Tmtcb.

Tt Is to he mtrettcd tbn'- man In so «iiw«-tuted that be cannot forget hi- loe.t.

The preacher wiio doe* no! pruc UCR all we preaches, preuulies too much.

the government are of a confidential na-ture. J

upon the Bcnsltive plates ut His great Book ot Remembrance human deeds. How can a man remain impure and un-

Autiqnitr " t Moaaic ftoor*. j jj-ug jn the light of modern science. Mosaic fioors, laid with Krnall pieces whose rays are focused upon the taci

..... - j n regaiaj-, 0 j Qo^'g omniscience and upo^ ' a e

Egyptians, judgment day?—Rev. L. W. A " n -

of different colored ston patterns, were known to 2300 B. C. In Babylon kind dated 6-om 1100 B. C common IA tke Athenian houses

of this ley were

id Roman The Anthony (Moj u7'e t ,° b u "a

office crib lo a c c o m m o d ' j l / ^ e r s who •Wish to pty their aui—3®K>ns in corn.

Break Out in the Springtime. And a great many who are not poets, pay tribute to the season in the same way. The difference is that the poet breaks out in about the same spot annually, while more prosaic people break out in various parts of the body. It 's natural. Spring is the broaking-out season. I t is the time when impurities of the blood work to the surfa ce. I t is the time, therefore, t c take the purest rud most powerful blo^d purifier,

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LOWELL STATl BANS Capi ta l , - $25,000.00.

l iOWELL, MICH.

FRANCIS KING, P m i d e m , CHAS. McCARlY, Vice Pre>ident.

M. C. ORIS\VOLD,( wliicr.

DIRECTORS: F r n n d s King, Chas. McCarty,

Robert Hardy, F. T. King,

Q. H. Force, L. J . Post. M. C. Griswold.

••••• A General Banking Business TranRaclcd Money Loaned on Real Estate Seeilrity

DEAL-McdlARMI^.

Spcc ia l N o t i c e .

SectliM 1. The people of the State bf Michigan enact. That Section eight bf act number two hundred three of Ihe publVc acts of eighteen hundred 'seventy-seren, entitled "An act rela-tive to dividing townships and villa-ges into election districts and to pro-vide for the registration of electors in such caws," being section one hundred Ihirty-ooe of Howell'd annotated stat-utes, be and the same Is hereby amen-ded su as to read as follows:

Sec, 8. The electors of each elec-tion district shall meet at one o'clock !n Ihe afieninon at the polling place of each district respectiyely to tran-sact sucb buainess as il usually tran-sacted at township meetings hy viva Voce vote, and shall co()iit or canvass the votes on each and eVeW question which shall be submitted to them and the result (if fetich vote Shall be coun-ted aild rfertoHed to the board of in-fepectoft di election of precinct nuirt ber oMe, And shall l>e bV ihetb consoli-dated and cAntassed in iWe same man tier as provided by section seven of said act: Provided, That all questions proposed to fee acted ttpon shall be

Ereviously Reported lo the township nard and by them reported to the

\>oard of inspectors ofelcfetion of each precinct on the morning of election, iaud that no quesUon snail be enter-tained that is not so reported.

Approved June 1,1895. —[Public Acts, Michigan, 1895.

f t o g i s t r a t i o n Notice*.

To the electors of the township of

Lowell, notice in hereby given that 4

tneetiug of "the board of registration

bf the township of Lowell will be

heM at the office of the Town Clerk

in said township, on Saturday, April

4th, 1896, for the piifpose of register-

ing the nantes of all such persons 'as

shall be possessed of the necessaW

qualifications of erectors in election

diKtricis number oVie (1) and two (2)

tn said township, ifti»t heretofo^ t ^ i s -

itered;-Artd that sA'ni Board of regikVa-

ttdii will lie irt vision 6rt the day and

kt ibe i Ia'ce Aforesaid, from nine

o'clock in the forenoon until fiye

b'clock in the afternoon, tor the pur-

p ise aforesaid.

Dated this 20Lh day of March, A.

t ) . 1896.

\V. H . EDDT, T o w n C le rk .

Notice.

The residents of each mid (tetrict

are requesteil to select some of their

ttumtter for overseer of highways and

Via^il the sinie to highway commis-

sioner as tne new law makes it c«nV

pulsory for the overseers to be voted

fur in each precinct at the same time,

1 o'clock p. in. ;

Elec t ion Not ice .

Notice is hereby gWen, to the eTec-

lors of the township of Lowell, in the

county of Kent, and slate ofc Michi-

gan, that the next annual township i meeting will be held on Monday the

sixth day of April, A. b . 1896, at

Music hall, district No. one and at

Train's Ojiera House district No. two,

in said township at which election,the

folloiriog officers are to be chosen,

• viz: One supervisor, one township

dlerk, one township treasurer, one

liig(iway com missioner, one justice of

!tlie peace, full term; one school in-

'speotor, 2 years; one member board

df review, 2 years, four constables.

The polls <ilf said election will be

opened at 7 o'clock a. m. or as soon

thereafter as may be, aud will remain

'open until 5 o'clocfc p. in. unless the

board shall in tfceir discretion adjourn

Vbe polls a t 12 o'clock noon, for one

llioar.

Dated, this 23d day of toarch A.

b . , 1896 i . . . W | L H . EDDY, To»>'a Clerk.

S l u r s I t s Owti T o w n .

T h u is the way the Atulliken Ex-

'preae man talks about bisVome town;

" I t was atmgested by a subscriber that we buy lOOpaqods of salphnr and por i fy fl»e l o w n v ^ i f j h e work cc/uid be accomplished wi l lT l^ j Jounds Vbe

A P l e a s a n t ttftfte T h e C^retBouy, C o f t t u A e l And

QuestA.

About 75 invited gueftts alSeWbled

al the plcasi nt home of A. McDlAr-

mid and wife, Tuesdayi March 3!, to

witness the mnrriage of their daugh-

ter, M. Estella to Rev. Clarence E.

Deal, of Climax, the ceremony bting

performed by Rev. Levi P. Musters

D. I), of Kalamazon, assisted by Rev.

A . P. Moore. The guestj wef'e re-

ceived by Miss Mattie Thompson and

Leroy McDiarmid.

Promptly at 1 o'clock Miss Mamie

Walsh began playing the wedding

march &nd the bridal party, consist-

ing of the two minister, the bride's

maid aud best man and the bride And

groom, entered the parlor. They

stood beneath an arch, which was

trimmed with evergreen aud white

ribbon and duriiii; the ceremony Miss

Walsh played softly upoil tiie organ.

Miss Effie McDiarmid sister of the

bride, acted as bridesmaid and Will-

ard Deal, brother of the groom, as

best man.

The bride was al tired in a steel

gray gloria silk gown and carried

bride's roses and the bride's ir.aid woVe

white cashmere aud carried pink

roses. After the congratulations which

followed the ceremony, the weddlHg

diiinef wfts served. tTic gihs were very beautiful and

VAlliable and in only one instance

we're there two of the same article.

Mr. and Mrs. Deal took the 4 p.

m. traiu for Bancroft to visit bin

brother, and from there went to Cli-

max, where a reception was tender-

ed them last evening at the parson-

age of the M. E. church of which

he is pasUir. Mrs; Deal will finish "Ut her

school year ftere add aboilt the first

of Jiily they will go to house-kef p

iiig At Climax. Tlie guests frott out of towft were:

Miss Grace Buell of Grand Rapids,

M. I Winchell a^d family o f iou i t ,

C. L. Coppena and fatrtilv, E . L

Timpson. Miss Matie Stone, H . W.

McDiarmid and wife of Riiwne, Jude

Fletcher and Wife and Miss Bertha

M^;Arlli,6^ of South Boston.

her nt

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JACOB W. WALKED.

ft Is t o n s and Able Record R e v i e w -e d b y Oae W h o Knows H i m .

I notice that the Citizens Caucus

of Lowell has nominated Jacob W

Walker for supervisor and if elected,

with his knowledge of the inachiuery

of the county boat-d will undoubted-

ly be Able to reduce the taxes of Low-

ell fully !l6 per cent. Mr. Walker

was the supervisor from Vergennes

for a great number of years and he

always managed to keep the taxes of

that town much below those of sur-

rounding towns, much to the chagrin

of the supervisors of other town".

I do not believe that Jacob has

forgotten his cunningness aud if he

cau reduce the taxes in Lowell 10

per cent, il will be a saving to the

tax pavers of about I1803' This

amount will pay ail the township ex-

penses. keep ortr bridges in repair and

take cure " f t h c 'totous p w r .

ttigh 'taxes always effects the

growth and prosper i ty of a town'. W

a man wauls to b u y a f a r m or engage

in business, one of the first questions

he a s k s is, " H o w a re t h e t a x e s of t h e

town?" and when he learns that they

are high he will locate iu some other,

and perhaps less advantageous local-

ity. Ko township in the state has bel-

ter natural advantages than Lowell

and its interests ought not to be crip-

pled by a yearly burdensome tax roll.

OnSERVEE*

A FareWell S u r p r i s e s .

Ou Monday evening the neighbors

and friends of 0 . K. Scofield, wife

and son, Merrill, met at home

and gave them a very pleaftant sur-

prise. Refreshments Were served^

and with music a very enjoyable cVdh-ing was passed.

Mr. Scofield and family are about

to "move to their new home near Fean-

vill^, Allegan county, onto a peach

farm. Our best wishes' go with t h e m . — o n .

ftasqttentde M l .

H i s Vergennes Dancing Club will

give a gran$ fnaiiquerade ball at M u -

sic ball on &9av evecing, April

orchestra,

f a m i s h e d ^ F r e d Sfineiof

fold 10

pnee S i n g but t w

H. A-. i S ^ h n m left on Tuesday for A ten day* trip through New York and l^ettrtaylVanlft irt the interests of the Lowell CMilet and Wood Rim uompauied. y

Celebrated IjMgAta brand canned goods at 8/V

A. L. Peck left rtn Tuesday for a week's trip to Bustouf

Two gallon p i W ^ y r u p TOcts. at Bergin's.

A. 0 . Heydlstiff waS ill Delroit bver Sunday.

All kinds of wood artd 'coal for sale by C. H. Wesbrook.

Ida M. Cole «fOrabd Riiphls was the gneftt df Ai 0 Heydloun artd wife Saturday.

One good smoke in thi* world is better than two in another, Th'e Nickel Plate 5c Cigar.

Miss Florence McDannell has re-turned from a visit at Marquette.

The time is nearly up for felts and rubbers, come in i\nd see our line of work shoes before tjiui/miy.

A. J . rjtDWK & Sox. George Jones of Grand Rapids was

convicted Saturday of assulling Mary Webster, a yonng country girl whom he picked up at the depot. He took her to his rooms and had a friend perform a mock marriage and after a few days deserted her.

Those fmit trees you are talking about can be had of N. P. Husted A t>).. yottr home ntirservrtien. ThAy employ no agents, a full assortment for spring trade.

Dan'l Pletcher went to Saginaw, Tuesday, to represent Joseph Wil-son Post, G. A. R , at the depart-ment encampment of Michigan.

Buy baled hay of C. H. Weshrook

Mrs, Clarinda Stocking, who has been makin<r her home with daughter, Mrs N. G. King, Ionia, is spending a week with Lowell friends.

Buy jKOrytoiodi res taud picture tnouldmg wbofa'wou \ » n .find tbe largest stoAX at MVConnetf 'A Co's.

George Gulliford left for Albion Mon^av mornin^.

.G^XKI ftio b u l x ^ f f e e at Bergin's, 25cts. s \

Fred Brune'r and wife visited her Wher and mother iu Rreeport Sun-

Bt'e the^Udfl Uae oWiaby calik ever fn town a l l i tVr i 'n^ i l a^Cn's.

i ra Jones and wife have lieeu visit-ing their daughter at Grandville.

Miss Marv Gulliford visited over Sunday wiih her pareots. J . Glim-ford and wife. j

This vear we hu've cotyfbe I freest assortment of good wokJcJ^iOes, cheap, that we ever carried. .

A. J . HOWK A S o v .

Mr. Burrows and Miss Smith were the jruests of Fred Bruner and wife S n n d a y

For sale cheap: k Y/wt type writer, nearly new, inquire of Dr . J . E. Hunter, Alto, Mich.

George Gulliford who ife traveling with a temperance quartette spent a few davs at home last w e k .

Genuine ColumT^Kf river salmon at Berl in 's f i r 10ct& pei^pound.

Katie Carter intended the teachers* examination at Grand. Rapids.

A few pair ' f clolli top Button shoes left a t 11.00 forraerlv\t2f50-

A J . Howk A Son.

Georce Wbea ton of East Lowell is moving to Keene.

Monev. to loan on real e s f t e . Low rates, no bmus. Lowell State Bank. • • *• r . , Mrs. Hattie Bancroftfof Alto visit-ed with Mrs A. Bancroft last week.

All kinds of spectaclft repairing. U . B. Williams.

The lajfcestj newesAnd finest line •of ditiins'Smajk a i lowegt^ prices at McT^nnell WCIMV.

Mrs. Coatw1 ten nV the Txiwell Bap-tist ehureh eave a social a t the home of Mrs. Banerofl, Wednesday evening.

Barber A Craw invite your atten-tion to some sample prices on grocer-ies in Uija issue ^

Our high cut Seal Grain is a rare excluder of water, dost wnf ^irt .

A. J . HOWK A S o * .

Mr. .and Mrs. Wealberwax of Grand Rajrids were tlie gueats of R D. Bancroft's Snnday. V

Go to tbe new Clear Store fo r sil kinds of smokers' article^ Train's opera house.

, May Lseoe of Eltodale visited with her aunt, Mrs, Earl F^plkner, Mon-day and Tuesday1, f

Ambov cheese, j lone better, 14cts. a l Berlin's. / .

John t ta tman of Alto w ^ t h e guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper last week.

FJO* SALE—Three 40-acre tanan, cheap. Enos A Bradfield.

nnte Blakeslee attended the 'a examination at Ionia last

[iss Ora Shear of White's Bridge last week.

monld-HtCcaneU A

at Ida H

Win. Murphy and wife of Segwun have moved to Grand Rapid*.

i lUs Kathrine Boothe of Grtnd Rapids is visiting b6r parents aud friends in Lowell.

Buy coal of Weshrook now before the rise.

Mrs. Will Pullcn, Lynti Crawford and Aneile Pullen visited iu Claiks-ville a few days last week.

Mn>. Hattie Morgan is visiting her sister, in Grand Rapids for a couple of days.

Miss Anniu Scott has returned to her home in Clarksville.

Mrs. F. R Miles of Grand Rapids, has been visiting Mrs. W. S Qodtrei and oth r relatives in Lowell.

Flrty M<ji^an is visiting her aunl, Mrs. Robert Johnson of BijTwne.

Dick Benedict of l- nia is 8|)cnding his Kasler vacation with his cousin, RHV (jiMKlVelli

Dan Lewis a\Vd wife are visiting her parentfe near Middluville.

We C DiVaVeii- 'CV money on bed room suits .yvyi | i i^iri^ l ' r e l 1 ' 1° select frnm l i wlot!on»ell A Co's.

' fhe White Ribbon tWies will meet at the home of Mrs. Brower, Friday, April 10.

John Vandenbroeck of the north-east corner of Vergennes will sell his farm, stock and implements at auction on Thursday, April 9, a t 10 a. m. The list includes some valuable horses and cuttle.

Birth, in Lowoli. March 26, a daughter to J . B. Yeiter and wife.

Miss ttallie and Master Allie Stoue are 8|iending this \Veck iu Grand Rapids ,

MAfcha and Javk j / f f ce , iVesl in the Wofld, at BergiiOr'A

Don't forget to remember that wc are doing nothing but first class work at the Baiiner L-iundry.

G. W . SEVER v . P r o p .

Twenty days additional time to pettle a bill of exceptions was granted bv Judge Grove, Monday, in the cast of Josiah Brown against the township of Bowne.

Turn out and vote. Let's have an old fashioned rousing town meetin'. minus the whisky and fights.

H. D. Wood was down town Mon-day after a six weeks tussle with the grip. He is still very weak.

M. M Perry was called to Free-porl on business Tuesday.

jiihVi L. Covert an old pioneer citi-zen djed at his home iu this village l^st Friday at the age of 82 years. FuneVal Services were held at Alton on the Sunday following.

i ' h e School exhibition and enter-tainnhent was all that its promoted and pltroiis could hope for—a sue'ress.

, Try the best 10c cigar, Ifbe Ed Faude. ^

.Va^ Waterman and wife of Sara-nkc spent Sunday in, Ivowell.

Mris. John Bergiu has bce'A very HI.

F r i n k McMahon is recovering from a long and dangerous illness.

Uteis ^Jyra Hnvens of Paw ^aw was a gffiest of E. A. Speaker, Tues-day.

Cliirpes will be made for cards of thanks and resolutions of condolence in this paper hereafter, as per adver-tising card at head of editorial column.

Mrs. Wm. H. Parker entertained Mrs. Kellogg and son, Burwell, of Ada, and Mrs. Bntler and two little sons of Chicago, Sunday.

^red Young of io'nia. and 0 . II. Brower and wife of South Boston were guests a t S. Brother's last week.

George J . Murriy has moved into the Henry Tredeuick house, near W. R. Blaisdell's.

H. Zeigler of Grand Rapids was in town Monday.

Retail price allowed farfresh eggs on subscription at this office.

Mary, eighth-ear old daughter of James ScUt, was badly scalded on her chest one day iast week, while Uirninghot water ont of a teakettle. She is getting along as well as could be expected.

Look at the lal»el on your paper, and if the date isn't 1896 you are behind aud ought to oome in and see us or send a remittance through the mail.

E a s t e r Services a t M. E. C h u r c h .

Easter sermon by the Pastor a t

10:30 a. m. Solo by Mrs. Goodspeed

and other music appropriate to the

occasion.

Exercises of the Sunday school wll!

constst of songs and redtations in ac-

cordance with the ioyful memories of

the day.

Usua l services io t h e even ing .

T i m e E x t M d e d .

severa l c o m p l y wi

joes t t o d e l i v e r subscr ip t ion by Apr i l 1 , we h a v e decided

ex tenwoa of t i n e . ' A l l d o n H n g t o t a k e or p a y f i r

w i t h w « o 4 h a v e n o w

Xdo so. Make is withdrawn.

At have

/ the reques t of m e n n n a b l e to

who with

Jted, n a n -win

o C c e .

j EDM'S UHMD MIIIB A ffcHfc t A n t i - R a t t l e r a n d Bolt

In •H" •• Xome " Anfr iiAi'tlef. fff f ^ r an a .,: • Lmt blTrciiiaily pit'vi'iiW any taullmjm

toi;;ilin2. lenJrrlni? tham perf^Uy uoM^a, J r.ill. with ordliiorv u s C v M

o Tcii'cHf, aud ahjftprreoWttfd Tor OMMWOw-iug

• 4 1- Tliey are quickly and fcwiljf Jnsprtii W ]k nqrcJ. by placing in pontlon and drlfre in or Wit

i .ii a hsmmcfi not being neewwry to remove inc

' . >• Their stiapelituih that ibtyHrchetd finnlv j# p'ace by iigring teniloo. < ' 3. Being made of two picccs, solidly rivctca \ogelher, they wll pot , ) break as others nude of orfc piece do. „ ^ _.i, 1. 4. Beinu made of Crenrcm Patent Cold Rolled iSteel. every P3"

waitanied to preserve Ihelr strength and etMticity. and not to bena or , i break with ordinary Use. . . . ^ , . I 5- By their UK much annoyance Is avoided, and very ofuMi valuable

4 6. If The nut comes off bolt, holding shaft to shackle, vheboU cannot loco . out on Kcouni of the bolt-holder attachment. • Mamrfactarad by

Sample Pair Free on u u u i u u i i m n n u • MM* T HUH

Application. • • • • t iMMIMI IIVI • • • • • • • J

pm. Ider combined. ^

f.U,'

500 P r i n t e d N o t e H e a d s . O o n d Q u a l i f y ,

O t l i e r P r i n t i h g i n P r o f - o r t i o n . $1.: $ 1 , 0 0 0 IN P R I Z E S .

t o be D i s t r i b u t e d A b s o l u t e l y Free .

t lse the letters contained in the text": ^'MDNON SEEDS GROW," nnd form nr. manv words as you can, us-ing letters eitjier backward or fur ward, but d'<n't n?^ anv letter in samn word more times than i{. appears in "MONON SEKD6 GR6W." F o r exam-iile th^ words: see, on. non'#', Weeds, etc. The person forming the greatest numner of .words, using ttie FplWirs ni the text, will receive Ohe Ituhdred Dollars irt cahk Foj; the neJtt larg est list, we will give 875 in cash, fdr the next 125 cash, and fo r each . of the next ton largest lists we will give S10 in gold. If you are good at woTrd making y-n can secure n va'uaWe prize, as The Monon Seed Co. intend giving manv hundred special !• rites to persons sending them lists coulniu-ing over twenty-five words. Write your name on fist of wonla (nnmlier-ed) and enclose the same potftpaid with 12 two-cm I stamps for a com-bination package of Motion Seeds That Grow, which includes 12 pack-ets i f the latest and most popular flowers of different varieties, also par-ticulars and rules of distribinioii of prizes. This word contest will be carefully nnd conscientiously con-ducted, and is solely for the purpo«-e of further introducing our seeds in new localities. You will receive the biggest vajne in seeds ever of-fered, and besides if Voii aVe able "AiaWe a good Hst of wo>t^ i n d answer prorH|itiy you will stand an equal opportunity, to Secure a valuable prize-. W e in'te6d spending a f^r^e ammint "f money In the digtribuilrt1!! of prizes in this contiat. We assn're you that youl- trial order with 'us will i>e most gritiifying. Write yout name plainly and send list as enVly as ptifsibl'*.

Address, MOSON SnEfc Crt. Monon Bldg., Chicago, Hi. ^

Tha Cueamhmr Bpoog*. In tba .oenmber sponge (Eaplm

t e l l s cumnibor) we haVe a specimen or one which lies opun tbe mud aftcir t b s manner of its namesake, which U 'wrne -w h a t resembles. Perhaps , however, the most beautiful of a l l these siiiciout sponges is Euplectella aspergil lum, or . as i t is c o m m o u l j cal led, Venns ' flow-er basket I t is l ike a beaurifnl Morn of glassy fibers or a graceful buiqriet holder. The first specimen ot t h i s sponge in England came in to tbe poaaeasioo of the la is Professor Owen in 1841. I t ^ a s held by him s s a g rea t treasure. ItNvas soon followed by a f ew more spedff ient , which were sold in the marke t a t w o n t £6 apiece, but now tha t they have men fonnd t o be ao p len t i fu l tbe^ 'xuaybe bought for as many shillings. These sponges were fouud by the Challenger expedition to be growing in v a s t ^ b n n d ance in certain spots in the deep waters among the Ph i l ipp ine ish$da and also off the coast of B r a z i l "They l ive buried in mud which is so soft and louse as not to crush tbem or ifa any way to impede the assumption df then- elegant form, and they ate suppurtea in their position and prevented fMd^sinking fay a fringe of glassy spicnles.

"The tube of this specimen from the Philippines, after the oesth of the sponge, is frequently inhabited by one, sometimes by a pair, of decapod crusta-ceans." He raminds one forcibly of tbe hermit crab we -have all seen living in dead shells upon our own aborea. "These," says tbe same author, "are so often found together that only a few yearr KO a paper was written loabow thst ibis sponge was a wonderful habitation eon-stnetod by this crab "-Good Words.

ftltOLAlMHD

1.1*1 of. nnoIaimH lelters ret ths post a ' /."well Mich.. weeS ing March 28. 1RM.

R rnt j .km —O. E. A Hani's, John dreWs, H. ( i MArler, R. P. Zos^iil.

Perwina rlaiminn I lie nhovo will |»li sav "adveriiMkl," nnil tdve 'lijt- nf this.li

MAittIK K. Hi NR. P. M.

DID V<)U E V P R

Try Eleetiic Hitters renieHv :«>r; tmnbles? If not, p«-t n lM»ltl» bow Ar relief. This mwlicine IIHS 1'iiAt finmir |ie<riilisr|y ii<l.t|ite<l lo the relief Aiul cuV all Fein ale "tuplaint?. exertinK a Sro'tm fill direct influence in giving Mrenplh lone to the organs. If von have loss «<ti| petite, i-onitl potion, headnrhe, Tufii Kjtells. or are nervous, sleepless. c«HlahU inelar.rholv or troubled with d inv spells, Klei-iriC Hi iters is the mediiiue you need, liealth and xtrength are i;niiranti*«> bv its use. Kifiy cents nnd 111 nt ' ' un t A I'o.'s dmg store. 3

CONDENSED TESTIMONY.

' hrtrlcs B. Ilooil, broker anH in-Vnufac-lurer's a^enL '"olmnlms < )lii", eerdffea I hat Dr. Kind's New Dibatvery bus ' Wo.'equal ti a eolith remedy. J D. BctVw'A, Prop. St. James Hotel, Port Wayne, I n d ^ P that he was cured of . a cnu^h of tiro ] standing, csifted by la gttftpe, bjr Dr. 1 New Discovery. R. F . Merrill, IhJd^ ville. Maw., savs'thai Tie fc lasused omtnendeil it an<l ntver knew itl would caiher liave U than any | CIHSE it a 1 WHYS cures. Mrs H I

E. 2oth St.. ("hirago, always haad and has no tear of croupjl instantly relieves Free tranH b H Hunt & drug store.

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upon it—Mrs. S.G. Hate.

j—I don't know what's the natter with me. doctor. I am perpetoslly limping today. Is it loco-motor ataxy. I wonder?

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