IvOWKIvIv J O U R N A L . I T o l a m e T h i r t y O n e . I T o . « . L O W E L L , m C S . , W E D N E S D A Y " , A P R I L 1 5 . 1 8 9 6 C z t e D o l l a r a T e a r .

A STORY DENiEi).

N o Conmiun ica t ion S e n t to Madr id o n t h e C u b a n Quest ion.

The Prenidnnt ArcniDnlatiiiR Infornmtlon to Enable Him to Form H JUKI Con-

ception of the An mil Situa-tion in Culia.

SALVATION ARMY S P L I T .

Baliinirton and Jlrn. Kooth Tell Moic ot IT* C'UUHCS.

New York, April 13.—Copiroander and Mrs. Uallington Booth gave out a five-col nr.. n s talenient Sunday n ight giving- ofliciai'.y '-onn' of the reasons f o r having foresworn allegiance to fore ign headquar ters . The vital po in t s in Ihe Btatement are that at iu te rna t iona! head-quar te r s the re had r o m c t o bt a positive

Washington. April 13. - The htate- o f e v e r - v t h i n / r iean. Ob-

went published in a number of n e w s p a - ! iect,(m* werc " r ^ a h>' 0en- Booth

p e n Saturday morning -, purj>orting to against t he display of the nat ional flag

AN AWFUL DELI).

S. E. Min shall, of P e n t w a t e r , Kills F i v e a n d Himself .

HIB Wife nnd Three Children and ft Keishbor An- the Victiini of

HiN Kn-h and Ill-nan e Act.

Pen twa te r , April 12.—S. B. Minehall, im a t torney of t h i s town, made a sue-censful a t t empt on Thur sday n i g h t t o as-

B R I E F L Y S T A T E D .

gl\«e an outl ine of a dfopatch allegii^- t o ^ "P011 ****** * n A m ^ l l s and homes . , sassinate William 15.0. Sands, president have been sent by Secretary Olney to ^ ^ t h

tv t i r n e h a d U I T n ^ 1 o o e a f ® the Sands A- Maxwell Lumber con,-

t b e United States minis ter at Madrid. ^ f a r s „ a n d a t ^ propos ing mediat ion on the part of t h e 1 ^ o f t 0 11

United States in the Cuban insurree-t ion, has no foundat ion in fact . The n o f i t positive and direct denial t h a t can be p u t i r words can be applied t o t h e • tory .

These s t a t ements are made on an un-quest ionable au thor i ty and in such t e r m s as to jus t i fy an explicit repudia-t ion. not only of the whole tenor and

the parades . He objected to the

use of the eagle upon crests, and con-stantly spoke depreeat ingly of the country and of i t s people and it® insti-tut ions.

The s ta tement says tha t the a t t e m p t was made to annex the armj- in the United Sta les to that of Canada, and tha t , in spite of the p ro tes ta t ions of the wr i te rs , they were forced t o m a k e

. • .. . . . a part ial annexat ion, and at t he p resen t phraseology of the alleged synopsis of i • r . i . v ^ *v J • • . 4. . j u * t } i e army work in Dakota , NorIh t h e adminis t ra t ion s a t t i tude, b u t a l Vf , s t a t emen t of equal positiveness t h a t no such dispatch w a s t ransmi t ted to Min-i s te r Taj-lor. Undoubtedly- the presi-d e n t and Secretary Olney, if no t t h e o the r members of the cabinet, have dis-trussed the Cuban situation with a view t o de te rmin ing w h a t policy th i s govern-men t should pursue wi th re ference to ] I t . Bu t whatever negotiations, if any , m a y have been ini t iated on the sub-j e c t have no t been put on paper in any shape .

PreHlflent Morlni: with Care. The president has for some t ime been

accumula t ing informat ion f rom official, semi-official and pr iva te sources t o en-«ble Irim to f o r m a just conception of t h e actual condition of affairs in Cuba. Outs ide of Havana, at the f irst class p o r t s of Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Matan-zas, Sagua la Grande and Santiago, we have consular officers of high g rade . Kot one of these por ts has ye t been d is turbed or menaced by the in su rgen t forces . Repor t s f r o m the United S ta tes consular officials at these po in t s con-t a i n much valuable information, which i t is not deemed "compatible w i t h t h e pub l ic in te res t s " t o make public a t t h i s t ime, as called f o r by the recent resolu-t i on of the house of representa t ives . The re are also a number of American capi ta l i s t s in Boston and e lsewhere who own Cuban planta t ions and hav^ t h e i r American manager s on the island. F r o m these m e n much confidential in-f o r m a t i o n has been and is be ing re -ceived. With all these sources f o r ob-t a i n i n g t h e f a c t s OJH'II to t h e adminis-t r a t ion it has never been contempla ted a t any t ime t o send Gen. Schofleld or any o ther army officer to Cuba to inves-t i g a t e and r epor t . The pres ident and Secre tary Olney have f e l t t h a t they were ge t t i ng at the facts in a much m o r e sa t i s fac to ry way than by sending u special commisaioncr, and when they have received all the information ob-

Montana and Xortu Wash ing ton is governed f r o m Toronto, and i t is said t h a t the. officers hardly dare to let t he citizens of these s ta tes know t h a t the i r money goes t o Ca-nadian headquar te r s .

WET G R O U N D S .

Kaln Prevent* the Hurry Wrijriit Memo-rial Hall Game ut Rockford.

Rockford, Ell., April 14.—The rain stopped the most unique game In the history of baseball Monday. Veterans of the sixties, whose names were once household words, met in a contes t ac cording to the old rules t h a t gave the pi tcher n ine btdls. made a foul on a bound out . and caused the r u n n e r t o be called out if he overrun first base. The umpire of the game was H. H. Waldo. 76 years of age, known as the " f a t h e r of the Fo re s t Citys," which t e a m was or-ganized here in 18C5 and played until 1675, being one of the mos t famous clubs in the count ry . The game was in honor of Ha r ry Wright , t h e proceeds going t o the erection of a m o n u m e n t t o hhn in Phi ladelphia . It was made a r e union of t h e p layers of the old Fores t City t eam, and a number of players who had been p rominen t on o t h e r teams volunteered the i r services.

A J O U R N A L I S T G O N E .

pany . Af te r leaving Sands for dead, Minshall w e n t t o his home and shot h is wife and three children dead and then commit ted suicide by shoot ing himself t h rough the head.

Sands had been work ing in the office of the company and had s tar ted home a b o u t 9; 30 o'clock. When wi th in a few-rods of his home a man jumped out f r o m behind a t ree and fired a t hhn . Sands broke in to a r u n , t h e would-be assassin fo l lowing him closely and fir-ing a t his victim every few seconds. Five shots in all were fired, t w o s t r ik ing Sands in the arm and one in the leg. As Sands reached his door h e fell, and his assai lant , probably t h i n k i n g he had Idlled him, tu rned and fled.

Haudu DICB of HIH Wonndn. Sands ' cries fo r help aroused mem-

bers of his household and n physician was summoned and the police notified. Sands' r ight a rm was so badly sha t -tered i t was found necessary t o ampu-t a t e it. and a t seven o'clock p. m. Fr i -day he died f r o m t h e ef fec t of h is wounds.

There was n o known mot ive f o r t h e a t t e m p t on Mr. Sands ' l i fe , as he w a s not known t o have an enemy.

The politic were unable to u n e a r t h a clew to enlist t h e services of S. B. Min-shall. Mr. Sands ' a t t o rney . A messen-ger was sent t o his house. Fa i l ing t o arouse any of the fami ly , he became suspicious t h a t BOMielhing was wrong and forced an en t rance .

An Awfnl girht . In the m a i n room were found The

bodies of Mrs. Minshall, Huby, a 16-year-old daugh t e r and a promis ing m u -sician, and t ha t of Minshall himself . The m u r d e r e r had evidently shot h i s wife fir«t and Ruby, w h o had been awakened by the repor t , had come downsta i rs t o invest igate . The revol-ver which her f a t h e r had t u r n e d on her a f t e r she entered t h e room had Iwen held so close t o her body t h a t h e r n i g h t dress had caught fire. H e r l ife blood had quenched the flames, however , when she fell t o the floor. Minnhall then went ups ta i r s and shot h is t w o

A Bndjr®t of IntcreMinK Fact* from Many Localities.

The iron ou tpu t of Michigan is 6,000,-000 tuns a year .

The e igh th Michigan cavalry will bold i t s nex t reunion in Holly in Sep-t ember .

The Tilden mine a t Bessemer has shu t down and 200 m ine r s are out of employment .

Hillsdale county supervisors re fuse t o call a special election t o vote on the local opt ion quest ion.

E i g h t hours on s t r ee t work i s d<v manded of the c i ty of Lansing, by the Federal labor union.

Charles Noble is unde r a r r e s t a t Kal-amazoo, charged w i t h robb ing J . Sedan & Son, of Paw Paw, h i s f o r m e r employ-ers, of $400.

Gov. Rich has appointed Wal t e r H. Churchil l , of Shelby, a g e n t of t h e s ta te board of correct ion and char i t i es fo r Oceana county.

T O B E A T T H E M A C C A B E E S .

Two Meu for a Bold Attempt at Fraud.

Cadillac, April 10.—The hold a t t e m p t of Wyman P. Ogden, of Har r i e t t a, to d e f r a u d the Order (7f Maccabees out of ?;2,000 insurance, by a bogus d rowning in the Manistee river last fal l , has flnal-

TOVHK Mlelilcan Womiin In .Tall. Clinton, l a , April 13.—An accom-

plished young woman was arres ted here late Saturday for forgery and ob-t a in ing money under false pretenses . She had been goinf; about tli<- city so-l ici t ing money on a paper she claimed f o r a society of Kings" Daughters , and Is said to have forged the name of sev-eral merchan t s to give it influence. She secured about $20. She gave the n a m e of Miss Wilson, and said she was t ry-ing to get money enough to go to her home i r Michigan.

Rome IntcrMtinK riiniren. Lansing, April 14.—The s ta te census

depa r tmen t ha-s issued a bullet in on the occupations of the 1,728,669 people in the s ta te who are over ten years of age. Of these 809974 are males and 828,695 females , and 1,181.368 a re native and 547,301 are fore ign born.

Wrfi at Koekford. Eockford , April 9.—The business por-

t ion of th i s place was wiped out by fire early Wednesday morning. The loss is a b o u t $75,000, par t ia l ly covered by in-surance. The fire swept bo th s ides of Main s t ree t .

Ca.pit«Ll

VKJ* i bOVTELL, MICH.

S:2S.OOO.CO

FranciBK:nK. President. Oban. McOarty, VioePresidont.

M C. OriRwold, Cashier.

1)1 HECTORS: Fraticta Kiwt Ch&s. McO&rtf Bfbert Hardy F. T. Ktne Geo H. Force L. J . Post

M.C.Gritrnold

A General BankitiK Buslnesa T ran "acted. Money Loaned or Real Kutate Security

ta inable , and not till then win the re aB 0- u f t « r mikado had be-be any consideration of the quest ion j "towed ujKm him one of the most cov lis t o w h a t act ion, or whe the r any an-1 decorutious, t h a t of the Sacred

CoL John A. Coukerlll Died Huddouly Cairo, Eirypt.

London, April 11.—A dispa tch to the Chronicle f r o m Cairo says t ha t Col. [ohn A. Cockerill, t h e well-known Amer-ican newspaper editor and correspon-dent died suddenly a t Shepheard ' s hotel In t h a t city Fr iday . Death w a s caused ' young boys, George, aged fou r , and by apoplexy. Col. Cockerill recent ly ar-rived in Cairo f r o m Japan , where he had spent some t ime as correspondent of t h e New York Herald, f ie was represent lug the same paper in Cairo.

Col. Cockerill left J a p a n only a few

t ion , should be taken on t h e concur ren t reso lu t ions of congress.

Will Ignore American Claitua. Havana, April 13.—Great in teres t is

f e l t here in a report received by t h e Diar io Marina f rom Madrid to the effect t h a t t he Spanish government has de-cided to pay no at tent ion to c la ims of Amer ican citizens for damages fo r losses suffered in Cuba until t he United Sta tes agrees not to intervene in the Cuban quest ion.

D I S E A S E G E R M S K I L L E D .

HlHcovory That the X liny IH H Deadly Foe of Liiphthi.'riu uuU «. nolura.

Chicago, April 14.—Prof. W. P . P r a t t

Treasure.. He was res t ing in Cairo fo r awhile , s t udy ing the Anglo-Egypt ian campaign, before leaving fo r home, •when he w a s so suddenly s t r icken down.

A FRIEND'S ADVICE. MONTAGUE, M i c h , , r ^ o v . 1 8 , 1 8 9 3 .

Will iam Windecksecht , a weal thy f a rmer of Muskegon county, personally

ly led to t h e a r r e s t of F r a n k L. Ogden, appeared before me, a Notary Public, his b ro the r , and Mir iam S. Chase., both 1 th i s day. and deposes and says: ' T h a t of whom made affidavits t h a t Ogden for the past year or so he was afflicted was drowned, when in fact he was safe w i t h Weakness, Trembling, Hear t Fail-

und alive in Wisconsin. Ogden and U T ® ' „ E r , r e ? , ^ S . r v o U Hl

n ( ! , , l ' ? £ * * * * ' Chmw . r e n o . in j . i l . 1 t h , , suited with physicians ana received no p e r j u r y , and will have a p re l iminary H e was r rsuaded by a f n e n d examinat ion soon. Other a r re s t s will t,0 t r y n Hampie boctle of Dr. Wheeler'p doubt less follow, and no ef for t will be Nerve totalizer, and he says t h a t t he spared by the g r e a t camp t o b r ing the trembling and nervous feel ing was im-consp i ra tors to jus t ice . | mediately stopped by its use. Af te r -

fMessrs. Orflen and Chass, with Wyman ^ a r d s he used two bottles of the same Ogden, went flahing in the Manistee river1 m.-dunne and says he i« entirely cured August, 1895. Frank and Wyman tried to and f ree f r o m tha t trembling sensation; cross the river on a raft , and, according to his hear t gives him no trouble and he the story of Cham, and Frank, Wyman HieepH well. He fu r the r says t ha t his slipped off and was drowned The latter • ^ h e a , t h jfi m u c h a n d t h a t wife, lilszie, demanded Ji.OOO Insurance £ J-,I. money, which her i.i.sband bad taken out ^ '« f i l i n g the attention of his neigh-Through a letter sent from Wisconsin, the bore and f r iends to the remarkable suspicions of the Ma^cabee ofliclals were ' value of Dr . Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizei ." aroused and after a hunt the story of the | Signed. W . WIN'DEOKKECHT. drowning was found to be a hoax. Mrs. | Sworn to and HiUmribed Iwfore vie a Ogden, it is said, has confessed. She is the fJofury Public for Mnskeuan county, daughter oi T. Olover. of this city.] ; ^ MicIligai_

DE. TAFTS ASTHMAlEinS I never f a Jt-; nend ueyour

, we Will UUntOmniltrlalhottlernrP The DR. TAFT BROS. M. Co., Rochester, i u T H t b

I Beautiful Face

is made doubly attractive — a p l a i n f a c e s e e m s l e s s plain — if ac-companied by a graceful fig-ure. The

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brings out the curves of a hand-some figure and gives grace to an awkward one. Every inch of It f i t s . AURORA CORSET CO„ Aurora, I1L

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E. R C O L L A R .

D E T R O I T R A C E S .

Uany Entrlei and Valuable Frltces for th« July Moeting.

J AS. MORRISON For sale by D. G. Look and Hun te r &

Son.

SIX ARE SLAIN.

and Prof . Hugh \ \ igh tman, the electro- , . . t he rapeu t i s t aud the bacteriologist of B e u n e t t Medical college, have pract ical-ly proved t h a t the Roentgen ray is a 'deadly foe to d iphther ia and cholera. T h e y have pu t the g e r m s of t h e mos t deadly diseuscs t h r o u g h the tes t . A week has elapsed. They have been fed and nur tu red with the g rea tes t cate. They have failed to propagate or spread, proving they are dead or have been Stunned. Cholera was the easiest , aud appears to have wiped out ent i re ly . Diphther ia has been treated very ten-derly nnd favorably, bu t a f t e r e igh t days has failed to show the s l ightes t s igns of life.

A Horrible Tragedy in the Town of Pent-water, Bliuh.

P e n t w a t e r , Mich., April 11.-—S. B. Minshall , an a t torney of th i s town, made a successful a t t e m p t on Thurs -day n i g h t to assassinate William B. O. Sands, pres ident of the Sands it Maxwell Lumber company. Af te r leav-ing Bands for dead, Minshall went to his home and shot bis wife and th ree chi ldren dead and then commit ted aai-olde by shoot ing himself t h r o u g h the

F rank , aged t w o years . Ke turn ing t o the lower floor he had placed t h e re -volver to h is own head and fired the f i f th fatal shot. Minshall had a lwnys been considered inoffensive.

Motive* of the Orluie. MinshaH's pockets were fu l l of car-

tr idges and a le t te r w a s f o u n d addressed to "A. Williams, Kookeiy building. Chi-1 t h e 2:28 class t r o t t i n g has 87, t h e 2:1^

eago." In it Minshall declares h is pu r - \ pose to kill himself because of his press- { ing f inancial difficulties, and h in t s a t 1

his intention to kill Mr. Sands, who , he declares, had taken advantage of h im. i He asks t h a t his f a m i l j - b e provided f o r - - , . , . l , if they survive him. a l though he says it cer, aged 85, w a s f o u n d dead in bed mav be be t te r f o r t h e m if thev all die ; H t t l l t : home of h is daugh te r , Mrs. Ar-before being reduced t o beggary . ! t h u r Davis. He had u bullet-hole jus t

He has fel t , he savs, that the resohi- i back of the eye and a revolver flghtly tion which led pauper f a t h e r s to idll clutched in both hands . Spencer was their paupe r chi ldren was Spartaj i l ik- j , ' ^ 1 1 preserved, had a comfor tab le home

, I t will be an sgreeable surprise to per-Detroi t , April 1J. I h e en t r ies loi pubject to a t tacks of bilious colic

t h e special eveuts of the Hlue Kibbon i to learn tha t prompt relief may be had mee t ing of the Det ro i t Driving club, by tak ing Chamberlain 's Colic, Cholera, which will be held on the Grosse Po in t e , and Diarrhoea Remedy. In many in-t r a c k in Ju ly , have j u s t closed, and the 1 stances the a t tack may be prevented by number of en t r ies received Insures the i t 8 ^ ' n ? t f a l B T e

i ,m e ' ^ 3 as Boon as the first

success of these events and of the meet- ' , ? f ^ £> . • j vi and 50 cent bottles for sale by L. H. ing. The grea t Merchan t s aud Mauu- j j n n t ^ f ac t urers ' stake.,which is guaran teed fox , — . i t s face value of 10,000, has 129 entries, and will be w o r t h f r o m $13,000 t o $15,-000. The l i s t of en t r ies covers the choicest selections in t h e 2; 24 class trot-t i n g In 13 s ta tes and the province of Ontario. The new chamber of com-merce s take of $5,000 f o r 2:24 pacers baa 21 entr ies . Of t h e o ther special evenre

R EED CITY SANITARIUM

and PRIVATE HOSPITAL, R E E D C I T Y , M I C K . ,

ItaffiEW B.-SPINNEY, M. 0.. Proprietor. M. A. SPINNEY, M. D., Mgr. and Reildent Physician

TIiIb Suulturluiu in now ouuu (or the cure of Nil forms of CHHONIC DISEASES. Special atteution riven to CATARRH, EYE, EAR. THROAT and LVM DISEASES. Also hECTAL. UTERINE and PRIVATE DISEASES. Send for Journal. Hotel Wavevly, Lowell, Friday all day, A/prll 17.

M I C H I G A N M I N I N G S C H O O L A lilirh prude State teuliuical school. Practi-

c e work Elect-ve system Suuimer courses G'vec detjre'fs of 6 "B., E 31. and PhD. Uvbra-torlfs. Shops, mill, etc., well equipped. For ost-aloirueti midreBK M. E. WADSW UKTH, Ph. D., Dire-tnr HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN.

pacing 24 and the 2:20 pac ing 13 entr ies.

T O O K H I S O W N L I F E .

StranKe Suicide of John Spencer at Crys-tal Lake—His Family.

Crystal Lake, Apri l 10.—John Bpen-

0P1 FOB BUSIES! M Y S T O C K O F

D R Y G O O D S

IMHKIC Iitlaiiil for Uued. Providence, K. 1., April 11.—The re-

publican s ta te couvention was held here I ' r iday and elected delegates a t large t o the nat ional convention at St . Louis. While the delegates were not ins t ructed , the sen t iment of the convention was unanimously f o r the nomina t ion of Eeed. The only p la t form adopted was a resolut ion presented by the Providence board of t rade, which declares in favor of gold as n monetary s tandard , In favor of a national board of a rb i t r a t ion , and Pfopom-d Greater New York agree wi

A le t t e r was found In Mlnshail 's pocket in which he declares his purpose to kill himself because of press ing tinancial difliculties, and h i n t s a t his in-tent ion to kill Mr. Sands, who. declares, had t a k e n advantage of h im.

D E A T H F O R S I X .

BxploNlon hi a Aloutuuu Mine Keeulta OinastruuHly.

But te , Mont., April 13.—By an explo-sion in or near the magaz ine on t h e eas t 1,100-fool level of the St. Law-rence mine abou t 4:20 Sa tu rday morn-ing six men lost the i r lives. They a re : Con. G. Lowney, J o h n Ouinlan. Ed Shields, J a m e s Dwyer. J o h n MeVeigh Pa t r i ck O'l lourke. None oi the men. as s ta ted ut the mines, were marr ied.

Mayor Strou 'H Veto. Albany, N. Y., April 14.—The reasons

given by Mayor S t rong f o r vetoing the g rea te r New York bill were read in t h e senate Monday night . In t h e course ol h is s t a t emen t the mayor says he is in favor of consolidation, and t h a t he be-lieves a ma jo r i t y of the citizens of the

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and t h a t no one not so s i tuated could unders tand the impulse.

In ano the r le t ter he says t ha t San-Is had promised him all the business of the lumber firm, bu t had lately demand-ed a thi rd of it as commission and had taken away a half of t he insurance poli-c i e s . f rom which Minshall derived his living.

The coroner 's ju ry rendered a verdict to the effect tha t Mrs. Minshall and three children were sho t and killed by the f a the r , who a f t e r w a r d s killed him-self, and t h a t Minshall also inflicted fa ta l wounds upon Sands.

wi th his daugh t e r he re , and ano ther daughter , Mrs. B i rd , of Chicago, who is reported to be wea l thy . His bro ther is a minis ter in a fash ionable church of an Engl ish par ish ,and he w a s a younger son of an Engl ish earl . Tl is supposed t ha t some fami ly t rouble led to the suicide.

KalauiaiKK) Deiuoorata. Kalamazoo, Apri l 13.—The democrat-

ic couuty convention elected P . H. Gil-key as delegate a t la rge t o the s ta te con-vention Sa turday . J u d g e L N. Buck, w a s chosen cha i rman of the couu ty

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A Fine Line of Dress Goods and Tr imminfs 1 : commit tee . William G. Knight was I

Pen twa te r , April 13. I h e funera l of chai rman of the convention. Besolu- j the Minshall family took place Sunday t j o l i K were adopted favor ing the im- | and was a t t ended by thousands . Pe>)- m ^ i u t e res tora t ion of silver to t he ) pie came to the village by t ra in and p l u o e i t occupied In the currency eye-1 o ther conveyances, anxious to view t h e ^ p r l o r t o i t H demonet iza t ion In 1873. remains. Morbid cur iosi ty was not 1 rp0 e u ( j t h e conveution Insisted on

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denounces the f r ee coinage of silver.

Nine Penonit Drowned. Cape Henry ,Va., April 11.—Capt. J o h n

Faunce and his son Percy, of Washing-ton , were drowned yes te rday , w i th t he i r crew of seven colored men . C a p t Fuunoe was renewing his s tu rgeon nets, wh ich are located on the coast jus t be-lowf Virginia Beach. An ocean swell s t r u c k the l i t t le c r a f t and capsized It, d rown ing all hands .

MichiirH" Woman Comew to orief. Duluth , Minn., April 11.—Mrs. Sam-

uel D. Smith, of Detroi t , Mich., w a s sen-tenced to 13 mon ths ' hard labor in the pen i ten t i a ry a t St i l lwater , Minn., fo r u t t e r i n g a forged i n s t r u m e n t . Mrs. Smith and her husband succeeded in swindl ing Mrs. Mae Cameron, also of Det ro i t , out of $2,500 about a y e a r ago. Mrs . Smith confessed to hav ing colleotr ed the money on a cert i f icate of deposit t o which her husband forged Mrs. Cam-eron ' s name. Smi th is still a t lanre .

h im In t h a t respect , but t ha t the pro-vlsions of the bill are no t sa t i s fac tory t o all concerned.

Dunlop'H Case Advanced. Washington, April 14.—The motion

to advance the case of the United Sta les vs. Joseph Dunlop, charged wi th depos-i t ing obscene mut te r in the post ollice a t Chicago fo r t ransmiss ion th rough the mails , was Fr iday gran ted by the United States supreme court , and it v as set f o r hea r ing on the second Monday of n e x t t e rm.

Por t l and , Ore.. April 11.—In session here yes terday republ icans selected del-ega t e s to the St. Louis convention fo r McKinley. The p l a t fo rm declares fo r bo th gold and silver and the mainte-nance of values of the t w o metals .

Hank Safe llobbed of 84,000. Wichita, Kan., April 14.—The Bank

of Sunnydale . tills county , was b roken open by bu rg la r s Sunday n igh t , the safe blown, and $4,000 in money stolen.

gratified, f o r the coflins were n o t opened. According t o the laws of t h e Episcopal church, t h e regular f u n e r a l services cannot IH1 held over a cr iminal or suicide, bu t , at the earnest reques t of relatives, llev. Mr. Laws, of Grand Itapids, repeated a special combined service f o r adul ts and chi ldren. At the grave the full Episcopal service-was read over the graves of Mrs. Minshal l and Ihe three chi ldren. Over the grave of Minshall t h e minis te r offered a s h c t prayer , commending the soul of the murdere r to his Maker fo r mercy.

t he f ree and unl imited coinage of silver i aud gold on equal t e rms and in ra t io of sixteen t o ouc.

KeorgauUatlou Neoetwary. Detroit , April 13.—C. P e r r y , secre tary

and t r easure r of t h e consolidated Grand T r u n k system, who was reelected sec-r e t a ry of the Chicago & Grand T r u u k rai lway, says t h a t the high rate' of run-n ing expenses d u r i n g an unprof i table year is wha t m a d e a reorganiza t ion ol the Orand T r u u k necessary . The busi-ness hist year was disappoint ing, being

Sands ' fune ra l will t a k e place Wednes-i » n«t revenue deficiency of $324,040 or §111,800 more t h a n the deficiency carr ied fo rward for 1894.

Summer Capes. Please call and examine styles and prices.

day morn ing at 9. A son will a r r ive at t ha t t ime f r o m Salt Lake City. Bonds leaves a widow and th ree sons and a for tune of near ly $1,000,000.

l a f c Waists ladigs Waists

Convicted of Oonnterfeltiug;. Detroi t , April 11. — Charged wi th

br inging into the United States the sum of $25,(11)0 in coun te r fe i t $10 t reas -ury notes f rom Canada in 1808. Charles Clark, a man of many aliases, w a s found guil ty Fr iday afU'ruoon and re-manded to jail f o r sentence. He has been variously known as J a m e s Bur-dell, J i m m y Cour tenay and Charles Harwood, aud is t he last oi t he notor i -ous Brockaway g a n g of counte r fe i te r s .

Will Build a BIR Tannery. Munising, April 11.—The leather com-

pany of th i s place is mak ing a r r ange -ments t o build the la rges t t a n n e r y in the world, the main bui ld ing to be 1,000 fee t long.

Will Soon Be Completed. Detroit, April 14.—General Manage*

Crapo, of the Flint, & Pere Marquette railroad, mtfe t h a t the new line of that company between Mpurot and Toledo will be completed aud in operatiou by next September, when the Fl int & Pere Marquette will retmme its through traffic with Ohio and eastern points. An arrangement has been ooiumin-mated whereby the Wabash and Flint & Pere Marquette railroads will make a short Toledo-Detroit route.

A Banker Pound Uullty. Oshkosh, Wis., April 13.—T. C. Shove,

of Manitowoc, was in c i rcui t cour t con-victed of f r a u d u l e n t bunking, t he j u r y b r ing ing in an uncondi t ional verdict. Shove was the pres ident of the Shove bank a t Manitowoc, which assigned April 12, 189JL

in very Choice Patterns.

It is useless to quote prices. You can be better convinc-ed by examining goods and quality.

Remember the New Dry Goods Store at C. G. Stone & Son's old place.

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CPA R I, F S Q U I C K .

Fotcred at the Port Offlt* at Lowell, Kicfaigu, ' Moood CIM matter.

S u b s c r i p t i o n $ 1 . 0 0 a Y e a r .

RATES FOR ADYERT1SINO.

Is t he external indication of • con-At ion of the blood which produces s fietr irritation almost unbearalile. It is • mistake to th ink tha t this local irrita-tion is t he diseafe i t sd f—i t is simplv an cr idenceof a disordered condition of the blood. The seat of t he disease is in the Mood, and this is why the various salves and ointments usnal l r applied have no effect whatever. They cannot possibly reach the origin of the trouble: only • blood remedy can do tha t . S. S S . is without an equal for blood diseases, and promptly and permanently cu res Eczema and removes all ta int .

Much torture could be avoided if t he i t r t i tching symptoms were heeded and • cou r se of S.8.S. taken promptly, as ap-f e r e n t l y insignificant s in irr i tat ions a raa l ly ' develop into the worst form Of Eczema unless properly treated.

I t matte:* not what other t reatment has been tried in vain, S. S. 8 . always e r t s at the seat of t he disease, and forces it o u t

Mr. William Armstrong, an old resi-den t and hu>hly respected citizen of

.xiS bnrfneM lt*mt Soents per Una each la

adrertlaMDentt u statute prices. OanV of Thanks S0 cer ta each, rsttanUeat «f •e eunber of Uaea. tUlteon Intended to braeflt any o*e'i bus!-

•«B wiU be charged for at admtisiBff ratea. '-"•otoUoas of ooodoleBoe, 11-50. vriafe, death -Mi birth notices free. srds la Direcxxr Ootama. t l per line per

. trds of 1 la. In Directory, fS per year. T«tes for lanrer sdr*rllKments made known hf offlw .

W e d n e s d a y , A p r i l 1 5 , 1 8 0 0 .

WHEAT BADLY DAMAGED.

Weather

D O S N A K E S C H A R M ?

THERE ARE PROS AND CONS TO THIS

QUESTION APPARENTLY.

A Tale From Texas Which Supports the AflrtnaUea, ba t There Are XataralUU Who Say No—Claim That the Snake's Tic Urns Are Self Hypnotlxrd,

HER FAN : Flutl'-r of f«Ti«hrr* nnd perfume o: laces.

Carved sticks of ivory, daintily whito; , Phi;:.jt little *. ..plA«. with mischievous fac^"—

Aii. ixnild I '>at read yoor «^|>icesiun arightl

; " j n- tcnow, arc you wh'>Uy v '—ling, A > .u |A.lt oneanothcrwiU. luftT i-wictT

1 " . ' i ' w that myhtortsbe Ik stealing, i ! • ' .« r her T»carly eb'id fwtf

Aln.-I I f Y r •

•Javr. Kiii .. i i-U n*) cure, for wuimdit from love's

•nk v J exult in tin- Rlanwa • ' IWK when BHE FEIKA to en-

A gopher m a k e at Esoondidohapbeon the cause of niuoli earnest discussion among local natnralista. The question | na- • M<i pow<?r her riettms to nTet

dlscnwed was " D o Snakes C h u m or fctallll% ^ . u i r i s in the m ^ o i tlM-danoes: Hypnotize The i r P rey?" One of the , ; ; iua?h yoa ] u from «.'-h fold, na tura l i s t s had the unusual but for tunata AudtL-.-cj!. morericUmor •n.inetrr'B fandes experience a t Escondido of happening upon a large gopher snake just as the rept i le w a s about to overcome a trem-bl ing cot tontai l rabbi t and envelop the an imal in i ts deadly coils. For some t ime Ihe na tura l i s t watched the snake's movenienta.

I t was wi th in 10 or 18 inches of the apparent ly fascinated rabbit . Silently

j and almost imperceptibly t h e snake had j warmed its way nearer and nearer to its j victim. I t s eyes glistened w i t h on in-* tense brightness. Hot a uioveuieut d id I i t make which migh t a larm the t imid rabbit.

Qn in va!"—hi* fat<' I" tinMd. - ijucy Mayo Warovr in bu>tou Budget.

CRANKY GUESTS.

Dealing

Cold March Winds and Dry lilltcbted the Plaat.

Lansing. Apri l 12.—The s t a t e month-ly c rop repor t fo r April HIIOWB tha t wheal has been in jured d i n i n g March, ' J ' 6 eye of a hnmnn being is sorejiuleive and wi thout rain and warm wea the r a D d intended to be terr i iying. appeared t h e f u r t h e r damage will be scriouK I t ! 'o exert an ent i re ly dif l^rent influence MVB wheat made snuill g r o w t h in the tipon the mind of the innocent rabbit

Experience of Hotel Clerks In With Some of Them.

' ! csunot sleep in t h a t r oom," said a goesl at a hotel in th i s c i ty last evening us he walked to the desk in the oflice aud th rew the key upon i t

" W h a t is the mat te r with i t ? " asked the clerk.

" T h e r e is noth ing t h e n a t t e r w i th i t except t ha t the bed i s in the wrong

The forked tongue, which to p l ace , " t h e guest replied. " F o r more than 20 years I have slept in a bed wi th

ORtE^ FIRE.

flow the Te»rlMe Et»ir,ae of Pesti uctlon Was l'*cd In Warfare.

Joiiivillo, who served tinder King L j u i s IX in tbo seventh crusade of 1348, g i tes a g r rvh ic -^sc r ip t fon of the ter-

i rora of Greek lire: " I t huppened one night that the Turks brought up ail en-

gine that Uwy culled the perriere (stuno th rune r ) , a terrible engine of destruc-tion, aud placed it in f ront of some cat castle? ( rhaz chatei l) t ha t M. Gaul t ier de Curel and I were guarding that

night , and f rom this engine they threw Greek fire a t us in great quant i t ies (a plante) . I t was the most horrible th ing tha t ever 1 saw. When the good knight, M. Gaul t ie r , my comrade, saw the fire, he cried out atftl said to-us: 'Seigneurs, we ore lost furcver wi thout remedy, for if they set firo to our cat castles we shall be consumed and burned, and if we leave our post we shal l be disgraced, and so I conclude tha t there is no one who can defend us f rom th is peril ex-cept God. our blessed Creator. Order all our men, every t ime the enemy throws the Greek fire, to throw themselves on their hands and knees and cry. " T h a n k s to our Lord, in whom is a l l power! ' " And whenever the Tc rks fired the first shot we threw ourselves thus on our

t h . ^ <™""1 < |» » « " • . ' " I l« b " i h . n d . M d „ o n , cutnmander had become such a habi t w i th me tha t i t

fall , but it had a favorable w in t e r aud suffered no i n ju ry before March 20. From that d a t e to the end of the m o n t h the ground was bare of snow and the usual March f r ee r ing and t h a w i g

would be actual ly impossible fo r m e to sleep w i t h the head in any other direc-t i o n . "

" I t wi l l be impossible for me to g i r e

This da r t ing tongue e i ther excited the v ic t im ' s curiosity or caused the ani -ma l to so concentrate its n i n d on the snake 's tongue as to th row tha t mind yea a room containing a bed wi th the in to a hypnotic condition of such bend in tha t d i r cc t i cn . " said the clerk. ^

D e Pere. Wis. , writes on April i su 1S96. r a w ^ d the fields to look brown and ron- strength t ha t i t could not break the " T h e hotel is well filled tonight, and I : n _ r f>^ r rirapftn , n ^ , i r j t

siderably damaged . Correspondents spell and r u n away from impending have only two vacant rooms, ba t I will . r .r i lh«nt lioht that ir on April 1. t he da te of t he i r r e p o r j . , death. The forked tongue darted out of have the bed turned fo r y o n . " Call ing JayliBht in oar h(<t so were not w i thou t hope that warm ra ins the snake 's mon th almost as regularly * — * — * u l - I ~ *-

and rapidly as the needle of a sewing

ordered. The na ture of Greek fire was such tha t i t advanced toward us as big a s a tun. and i ts tail extended a yard in length (une demye-canne deqnatrepans) . I t made such a noise in coming tha t i t seemed as though i t were a thunderbolt fa l l ing f rom heaven and anpeared to m e

M f f t O S ' S F A C T S T H A T C A N N O T B E

• D E N I E D .

STRONG STATEMENISIH FAVOR OF HIS

IMPROVED HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES

Ash Your Druggist for Munyon'a

Guide to Health Select a 25

Cent Remedy and Cure

Yourself.

George W . Brewer. 884 Nor th Main street South bend, Ind., says; 1 have suffered a lmos t constantly wi th rheu-mat ism since 1864 my jo in ts a re d r a w n out of shape and I h a r e been very l ama for a number of y e a n ; m y suffer inga were grea te r a t n ight so t h a t I got n o sound re f resh ing sleep. I began t ak ing Munyon'e Rheumat i sm Cure and t h a t night I slept soundly and restfnl ly a l l nigbtr t he first fo r a long t ime. 1 a m still feeling m u c h improved a n d I a m constantly r a in ing . My wi fe has bean similarly afflicted though n o t so long o r sa extensively and she has experenced a like relief f r o m the same remedy.

would res to re the p l an t to ila norn al rondi t ion . and tha t it waa not p e m i a - machine rises and b l l s in the cloth. The nent ly in ju red . Since tha t da te , bow- l i the body crept nearer and nearer. T h e ever, the re h a s been a con t i nuous rabbit w a s motion less. I t s eye was fixed d rough t , w i th cold r o r t h and nor th - on the piercing eye of the snake. Even west n inds. T h i s cannot cont inue, t he the w a r i n g of the wind kissed shrubs repor t says, much longer i thout seri- about the rabbi t fai led to break the spell .

a porter , t he clerk instructed him to t m a t h e bed in the gent leman 's room so that t h e bead would be to the north. The guest followed t h e porter np s t a i n . 1

and as no th ing fu r the r was heard f rom h im it is presumed t ha t he retired and slept peacefully.

" T h e r e is no accounting f o r t a s t e s , "

Munyon's Rheumat ism Core neve r fails to relieve in 1 to 8 hours, and enrea in a few days. Price. 25c.

Munyon's D y s p e p d a C u r e is gua ran -teed to cure all forms of indigestion a n d stomach troubles. Price. 25c.

M u n j o n s Catarrh Remedies poeiilvely core. Price. 25c. esch.

Munyon's Kidnev Cure speedily cu r e s pains in the back, loins a n d grnfns, a m t

great was i ts flame of fire Three t imes *11 forms of kidney disease. Price, 25o, that night they threw th is Greek fire a t Munyon's Female Remedies are s us from the aforesaid perriere and fou r boon to all women. P n c e , 85c. t imes f rom the great crossbow (acbeleste Asthma Cnre, with A s t h m a Herbs , a tour) , and every t ime our good K i n g * „ . . . , __

S ^ W d were t i J S S ~ t he fire at u s in this manner he cast — himself upon the ground, and stretch-

« x l u . d . I n r f j r gr in, d ^ t h iu r-irt . h . c t o k , to the r t f e r t e r , , h j . . ^ 1 , h h j | , ^ n ^ t

The condi t ion of w heal now is more snake f o n u wrea thed its fo lds about the and tbe funny experiences w e b a r e in cri t ical t han a t any previous t ime since creature. Then was the spel l broken. : the hotel business would fill a volume.

MR- V.ILLIAM ARVSTONG.

B u t t h e s t rong coils of t h e snake were in position. Never a rabbi t lived t h a t ecu Id break tha t embrace of death. Beal ixing a l last the terr ible p e r i l t h e terrified rabbi t struggled vainly to es-cape, and as t be rings of t b e snake drew

In it u a s &5 in t b e s ta te , a r r . in closer about tbe f ra i l fo rm so t ight ly | ISM pe r cen t . In March, lsS»t. the tha t b rea th ing became difflcnlt t he nib- ebriated came in to the hotel one night , I wea the r w a s cold and d ry , w hile in 1393 b i t u t tered a d e s i r i n g c ry a lmrs t b u - , and producing a pocket compass said j it was unusual ly u ^ r m and r iodera te ly ' man in i t s fntenseness and ecund. I t j tha t be wished a room where the bead j wet . T b e a m o u n t of whea t reported was tbe r abb i t ' s last ea r th ly utterance. ' erf t he bed should be placed to the

j sowing. T h e averages of c r o p c o n v -spondents* e s t ima tes a re a s follows, the nomi-arisons be ing wi th a i e r a g c years ; Sou the rn counties . SI p e r c e n t . ;

• ceu ' r a l . S6 per cen t . ; no r the rn . 92 pe r > cent. , and fo r t be s ta te , SC pe r o rn l .

Before tbe night is over we may have calls fo r beds wi th the i r heads turned to every point of t he compass, and of course w e are obliged to accommodate every one.

" I remember an instance l ike this several ye^rs ago. A man sl ightly in-

ed t i heaven, he cried in a loud voice t o our Lord 8ndex?la imed as he shed grea t tears. 'Beau Sire Dieu Jesus Christ , ga ide nioy et loute ma gent. * " ( " H i s -toire de 8L L o u i s , " Pe t i to t . volume S, page 235.)

The cat castles mentioned by Joinvi l le were wooden towers used in sieges, a n d the word caune is a French meesnre of length equivalent to s ix feet and con-sisting of e ight pans of nine inches each. There was nothing novel in t h e mere throwing cf Cre. I t has a lways

• T h e ez l ea t of mv fnflerin«* can be 1 T b r a , , p r ' ^ r 0 D d i , i 0 n o f clover m ^ J - ly ten minutes. Unwind ing i irelf . the a p ^ r t c i u e d when I ' s u t e tbar mv c w - 1 o n % • n d P ^ t u r e a i s62 . H , 6$ and » in snake dragged the prey under an ad d h i o a was such tha t ! ctwld not l ake , l i e w u t h e x n . cent ra l and n o r t h e r n j Joining bush fo r dinner. B y bed, and 3or three months 1 never i count ies , and s ta te , n s p e c i u e l y . I^ve j To t b e natural is t w h o watched the laid down, bot was compellled t o sit in , s tock i s in gK**! ccndi t ioc a n d a v e r a ^ t s | capture of t b e rabbit i t appeared a s if • y cha i r wben not moving around. I ' f rom Sn t o 95 p e r c e n t . T h e cut look f u r the snake h a d certain I v fascinatcd the was treateJ hr t he besa of phyweians , f r - j i j ^ I a n i m a l wi th no res- zvi i n e d al! t he patent \ m n A -*je-3ic^es rei a m e n d e d ior Bcze^ia, TWELVE FIREMEN ARE HURT tSf ^ " fangs witbont anv goad •esalts. I then west riRfcWWEW ARE ^ ft> only means of k i l l ing prey is by OOB-to t b e I-sdiinD Mvd ^aths. with the same or tae i x u » i i c<par fBe« t sfriction. I n o d e r to catch an an ima l aesajK, and l b n t o ML C iemta t s . the , Oven< «»e bj tHmoh*. i t seems a lmos t necessary fo r the snake e d e V a i e I med .cal reson . where t h e , DetroiL April 12.—Fire S a t u n d a r t o Eaacinate t be vict im. ttealaient_ j'::r-.a.ly "hclpnj .ue, bat the n igh t d a m a g e d tbe five-s:orjt storag-* | Other na tura l i s t s c la im tha t snakes do

• * e i l t 1 9 waieboMse owned by the iii ter^ide nc* possess t h e p.-wer of fescinating ei-Storage Warebcuse company t o tbe ex- ther b i rdsor animals. O n e t s a n who has

the indicatcr in a cer tain position. I t so happened t ha t t h e gent leman 's bed. which had been careful ly placed north-' east according to the compass, was in reality placed w i t h the head to the south. The m a n discovered his mistake

A s a gopher snake is not poi- ' h e next morz . . i* and was cured of the ^ ^ " m r i t i ^ f L ^ S T T ^ ^ f a

" I . bear the colonel is a hard d r ink-e r . "

" H u h ! He ' s the easiest dr inker I ever saw in my l i f e "—Detro i t Tr ibune.

Dandruff is doe t o an enfeebled Mate of t h e skin. HallV Hair Renewer quick-

f ad . "—Phi l ade lph i a B u l k r n . bea i i n^and prevpc i ing the format ion

Asease sho-tflr retumeL FBorida. tbinkine: tha t a c h a i s e of cli-•zate and wa ir -_nd the citron .nut •right oire iLt, '>at fooad oo ccrc.

1 "Tied S.S . i f ter ih-ee days the and arching rab>ided, sad

" 1 coBtaantd t o iTniirore stead Uv -flntil I was mell—entarely en red. After c c n -• e a c i n g S. S. S. ! ner-— put an e r t t r -• a i appjical jon to tny HianUs o r any part, • f BIT Ixwy. Voa aaay rcser to m e any (CC»0B Irtan Eczema. I wift • I w s r s k e s p t h e S. S. S. in ray hcuse, to r ! oaas ider i t t he heci Hlood •me-dicioe • i t he pres'tzit ape. 1 am seventy years •f iageand iim a:©w da pttuBCL bealJa.'1

For rea] i •]. o 1 disease1- reli f tz~ C aly l e a b a l t n e d by er-r .? a real Woad retae-dy . ho m n s y peo^de w'hm are SD'^erf-rs from an oibstioat.- or deep-teaaed iJood diseat-e naakc-"ihirsnaKl.nseoif taking r r a -t Jiies waJfclh al^iesi sre •••rly ton-ics and cannoi p o " : ' fly reacn their tr-onblc. I t i s in Tnsl «icfc cases which •c-lher so-called b l o j d reiaec ies caaDcxire "caa l aa l S.SJS. fca«- made bonjt oi lihe mod. mtnaiksfal emres.

S . S. S. enres yiermantrrtHy Cancer, Calarrh . Rhemualasc!, Eczema, Tetter. Con'Lag-.ons Ekiofl Poison, >CTC»foila, and al l cflier diseases t a r i n g Iheirorigin i n the blood. It is a

A R e a l B l o o d R e m e d y . and gets at the seat of disease and forces it orrt promptly even after olier ao-calOed Wood remedies have lalSed. S. S. S. is gnarairteed pimcHy TegrtaWe.

Books on Wood and sk in diseases will lie anailed free t c any addretis hj SvitL fipeciLc Co., Atlanta, Ga.

t en t of tlQjCidCi and destroy*d and dam-aged tbe c o n t e n t s upward of TweJie SineE.: iL who had en te red frons t b e f ron t v e r e taken out . overcame b / smoke. Elffht of these a re in t h e ho^-pitals.aiDd tilM'Oondilioaofonc.CLai ie- said t o be able S3 t o p^rzlyne i h t : r vie DrifioelL a p i p e m n . i s . coEs^ je re i cri". t i n s that, Ibe birds or aa insa is s i e i « i -' f aL Xea r fy all t he o c a t e c t a wet-- de rodn t t e r ly incapable of i tovs-nent and bc-nsehold g-ooda. some of t h e m w y w a i t f c r t b e a f t a c k of a s s a k e o r - r e s go valnable. I t is believed tlhat t be own- forward t o i s e e t i t i n f e a r a n d l r e r a l ling.

Cmnat ion Growtec I> Favor.

The muvement in favor of cremation as aga ins : ea i th bur ia l is growing in England . H e other day Mr. William Ba thboae . t~x AL P . . c;.iU*l in public t h a t be had made p rev iacu for crema-

given tbe m a t t e r much study remarked • t ion i s L u o u c case on pt inciple and t ha t " n o e r r a r is apparently more rooted* wi th a view to prumoting the reform.' in t be h u m a n raicd than tha t which a t - ' A t thL- n i - ^ c i . : a new cret^atcritun is t r ibutes t o snakes th i s peculiar power of s a lmost rea-ly for use a t LiverpoaL I t i s f a sc ina t ion . " B r tk i s power t i e j a i e a neal ! c i ld iag of i^edsmdsiai je ,s imple

a L l cha&te in design. The main door« opers in to a ; r in l l chapeL F r o m th is

of dandruff

t i t a can of f fcfkbn ' Stnrrcd Homlar iHalMOornl It k •I'tirioa. FnilquIOe

head-Munyon's Headache Cure stops - che in t h r e e minutes. Price, 25 cen ts .

Munjoi i ' s Pile Oin tment positively cures all f o n i s of piles. Pr ice , 25c.

I l unyon ' s Blood Cure eradictates a l l impurities of t h e blood. P n c e . 25c.

Munyon's Vital izrr restores lost pow-ers to weak men. Price, $1 00.

A separa te c u r e for each disease. A t all druffgists. 25c. a bottle.

Personal let ters to P rof . Mnnjon.lSO® Arch s t ree t , Philadelphia, P a , answered with t ree medical advice fo r any dis-ease.

Will RcMBie Work. Negannee. March 28.—The Buf fa lo

mines, f o u r in number , will resume work wi th par t ia l forces April 1 a n d will begin work ing fu l l forces May L The Barassa mine will resume April ] .

Ftre In Chicago-Chicago. March 31.—The b i g four - s to ry

bui lding a t 333 to 344 Wabash a v e n u e wi th all i t s con ten ts was completely de -stroyed by fire a t th ree o'clock Monday a f t e rnoon . T h e fire s t a r t e d on t h e floor occupied by Madame Yale, and w a a causcd by a n explosion of chemicals. T b o total loss is es t imated at980,000.

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ei'fc dn mos t •cases cainx indir5d«tal in-su rance thertOL. ba t t he s t o r a g e corr p a a v 5s not Oiali-le for d a m j ge t o tb<

b y ifi7<e. An extensxsc of the* bm-neid baaidiltg inexn adjjolnani'-ewjipfHj i a j o r y . T h e n.niSding is well i csnred . T h e or ig in <-f t be fire is not known.

.% RORTTME W N ' OTIL ITELRK.

Monnt * Vn.-ens. A f r i l fi.-—Tl^> Ike^an-fljer Sai.'iily as Buanted bv «ifijonsofinaii!l-0 n s . *. Oeifler was a^ieiiifid froarj Paris j.gt '• s-c. i-skang f o r t h e gesseakgy t>eT«i=!'reafcos. o f e w W aBber. l^he is t o t r a c e oa tbe « w « e and find a t e t e b w of b:rt«f tne fcrirs < F « - PSeife Di i a n t i e t . who A t a a k e JOK a s t i x x w; l i a^cb

but. w i tbon t any power cf retalis'icc-Now, s a y oca who watches the t f -

bavior cf sma l l aa imals j "aied a!;ve r s food in t h e cages in wh ich fT-aSres e re kept in c a p l i i i i y in t b e fcope <i r^log th i s mar re loce poiwvr in e p e r a t r a was! be grieroDsly disappoantvi. Cajckeas , ra ts , gciofta pigs, cabbi l f . a l l E'.<«e about w i t h an c « c r abitemce cf f f a r of the srafces. My b d i f f i s t h i t i t is posd-ble to »ciocnntCartbBpa| ie iarbeIkf t ha t a n k e s poiBess a pewer t o fascSmrte for

An ttiHfTTfj Zui,T oaaw

in P a lit; nveeBlDy, Seavfimg a a e s t a t e of i jOWji i i Hzi&cs wi thout any ^imn^di-a t e heart . Vhe IScrantafrs bai«- in >Jao(Wfflb ooamly «"soe !! Si.ii and i odoAe WJiT'y jierRtus.

rex,zi t h e cculn w i l l ba carriec a f te r t he b n n a l s e r v k e i f r e a d i m o a s m a l l apar t -moist beyerd and there placed upon a n i r c t f r s t a e rnnniDg cn wheels and ra i ls in a l ine w i i b t h e furnace and poshed ncdte^ssly in to t b e abode cf flames. t

F l o i j iLe u-^pel the c k r g y m a n , fol -lowed by the le la t ives cf t he deceased, wi i l c -o tod a s t a i r cn the c^Hisite t i d e from tL-e dir^r by which t lvcwSin has b e t j l i ^ o n d in to a smal l gaiiery over-loc^mg t i e door ot t be f c m a c e . From th i s g i l k j y the ser r ice prescribed fo r tLe fcrave wi l l be read aed the menn:- . e rs w i l l lake tbe L»t lock cf t be yooffin ar i t diaippeaiB wstnin tbe fnxnace. T h e i r r s r i i o a <d t b e c rematcr iom at An - j fit jo is wtaelydbaaen. being in tbe beai t

A R B L E W O R K S . JOS. H. HAMILTON. I'rop,

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DEALER I!C M%XUFA'*lUk' .gB O F

^arBIg znfl Bracitg Scmgtgrg Work A!! - ' o r k G u a r a n t e e d . P l e a s e C a l l B e f o r e P o r c h a s f o g

T i l t Par*

an owl or a i e z e m i h o e oasbas ^ tije : a p j i u y snUui lau n<dghbccl.c«d and bird toward tbe m a k e a n d ib t :r timtes- aciceie^ie Ir^-an a d p u u of t be d t y . | ing r - ^ d i t nsay eac3y be j-nt oown t o T b c i e > an c j x e , w i t h a o a i s g e for t be i! t be cfiedt t be c u a t e ' t ?;Llaiti«-, w h i l e ! catititaker a t f&Jied. a t t a e e ^ u a n c e ga t e . "

' t hey a r e m reali ty soesely atr^iopm of Tl*: c x c B a a ^ i a m w i l l be opened f c r :

ro rBJeIsyr tO.KatA. I t Ht SrvK t BOST.DnaUta.

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t i i j t i'-nJiij, Bi-rneO. Ki.Jj'iriny.oo. A-rril IL—At 'St. Aogos-

1fiT)e*v <'!at!}iofl5<- ehort ic lS«awar t en rc -ii t r a laa'ire • - w a s jweivi ingabe fir«l <wjnraiutiii(» witu < ai,.f *e« w-.>nB b y MSmk . penrer cf fa iwii*: : jb i n the s sake . tat ElliKa MeOnorv '.aimt ut i ire Imm * j t® tbe farzb of bar riiil.iTaal feel.ugs.

: tbe birds t o d r s re o 3 tbe intraiaer. A naatbta t -na wbcte y t w a f w e a t tMdad wi l l akuotu oemiuDy bauave in l i a t way aajd ma* beeseif fa i l a vibdin, mat t o t be

p a b l K oae n U l a t t i t b i n Apcil L — ' WeyrosiBfltes- (razette.

T i e Hturxfi Wc-ri-*xl.

Oato Fteadner bas b t aa bay ing lottesy t^cir-eas for y e a n bas sjevcr wen so

If .ro— dealer '• A j.a. c ! h a r . f ' t scr ." 1 t k m of S.lidM pet.

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T husibioid! 5s a'hjc< 'hindliy un-'au nearly jponaidc'S 1 jviuoilher wvt-Tall n-ciul'iit aroj. JHe j^a t

Jin I'W.-t'-Jir ^ 3 I.! Ml. •\ 'City. A]Til il'O.—Jj<rwi.jio isadd i.v ajred •frve years , a n d 8Via &b«d-a i ed tibjee.. Uvmp a ' LiuMxiod, ty , a t e wiiiid panBi ipt l^uefflflay a n d

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been s t jzed or of a BMBhn WLOTO t*ta b a t been ntibhai; i t E ; jy be .risnpJy abe •eSeaL of ji'jdrica iDjeslefl tietforf J f iit>e •dbfamr has oaaae npon tSf i ioeae , cn i t anay b : laicpleccric;. jty. In uanety-

'cas^fc tiLit of a jnw.. . ua i <ur iLe icnbariOf #»eHe cirases -hy- bac i t w-'cik. Tnixiit, aben, df t b s t . i - m a u i j ae , a u c wbai a b o a t t be laHcinaidaii enenu-jf'jd o t 1] ^ ^ auan, oiu-'i, of wiiidb tudouuiesuy lifiau re.aonofid?' T i c cxpHiou.; .:i jje^ an h e jn • jomy Oat i t at a < o i f t.J

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I ocris iPr a t t be ITO nf •id" ' j i t iiui neoeaBBjy so %(• in to (rtte- Taewaaa | <af bow abe r a t - at ins'ugbr al.tmt. b a t ! ibe re 3b a fbyHirSogiciiI 'CAj)li3aTjcu.. | TThul b a p r ^ t abi : I icawe i t t i i t t b e aaa r i 1* eeM bypuaof le i ^ i b e Si'abe t"—-wtijp BUt.c; a H(jrt of taujcife. ao a a w e oai of vdir , eon 'e (ztsaszz: n£ a'.-a GhauaL-'j l . i ioat-Seri

matiuui, fo ua tbe xoffi te of a ookued O F X O V E M B E K 4 t h 1 8 f K i .

b t s j i a boii avij. Out i c t b e c e ^ e -. <atfiC-j a r Lit.

PnKKefrtM-wt wii ;c^eedi!Ttacana«e.aAdlhedif iappMntr :>ntof t h e m u . ^ e > tura^dl t be ecai^ at t he ls - r e S e n n a . w i th t h e r emi t s u n d ^ r t h e admTnif t ra -

^xr i r ing in Mie h i s -I rioa t.r<py rfe-ted. wi ' l m a k e the c%iintiaiicn tbe r w * i n t e r . o n

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s el l a: i pal bin. an a b: gaSsy ' t '• • ~af iba -df'T bt'ocie- t i ? :'

: to c a k e tare at at tbe ma*- j a!i tigfit i^-ndnes p^r ti. v-s tl-jr Sfpellr-zt, f^.jnsly r«v.- • ' f t r» l*8?tir-d i<«hli-b alt t i e

.-.-cr-.i of tacaceCs ir tbe bax with ti-e | pobiw-nl »«••*•«. of tbe day, to erwy Aaaeocan aiiaea re^ardlew of ptr-vuJh.t. Aire:- ibe diawa_u be went to , . . ... v,t I P w - . c

1 AIMU re-sera* wm* an e t r r s - aw f tmiga o n e q r j s i e t o e o o m i a x the T - sK^t t r d W f - t / d . " h z i e t - e z 1 * * * ! * ' • & * * * * " ' d ^ m ^ w o o t J to » - « • io t h e o o u i u y .

' V . . Z . «V *• ' * * ' « h * h »r» rww »ao*i atthontr. f a s c ^ a t i p e isr-Tet. oocanfete iLe ioiteay .-^an Rm- m B u m b f r . t h e orwam of k«a>oeo«« pkpeis . fonggn and doakeMic, w i t h Uje

Ibst wal jd ioo ruin..^ Jb t ci'-rtc y-.-t^r-:" n*aJe« rttbrnt* d^^cripRoes «f woman'sattmi, ' wrfc -- r u w l an l attr td-ve dfcp«A.u of botiH&j'.i aBterest. Tot - New Y»ak

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" • rteiy. v:i especitlly ntoBe wtm* t» tbe wometi and y--cmg people of the house* aue- jj/*- Pmm* t b e <>abas. abe Haddeie, a-•'J t b e Er j fc raTts . -T t i i r i a r e said to» have f " "v eg { ju jw ibe pa ra"2 of E d f c . \'i£Ti<n • allertiptte b a r e h w a mude to Sdoi.'TtfytheTO ctweesus, i t c t n c n p o a E i i i t ba r b e . ^ r p a r b e i aarci;^ ibe wathouitiufc «i iii tbe^aee 'Of aoe tesL

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

M i n e Rlii|>?e».

Ilisb Alice Nobler, uaa lelui I f rom a visit ol aeveral weeks m Grand Rapids, j week

ii./.- i oiiic i taue uy i NTi« RLE PL.tTK or Ed. Fa i l l e r. <r

P re yo ' j r c'oTej» wi lh J' 'I siV

A 1 btuves tliorfiu„ ly clea ^ i i f ' d and xet up in t>I t CIBPH coiu'irioti

Al t" l»a«llB«-

tits.. McKee was in Fie*|Miri >lon(ln..

C. O Hill went to O n m d Rap-.i-

Moiiday.

C. Scott, of Hastings, and John I'u jaer and wife of Greenville, were

j ' l - i t u o f Rev. Turner nnd wife last

W. Johnson took a load of potj^oes

to Grand Rs -Hs , April l l l b .

MM. Kflh- O i r k tve an excel!ei;t re port last Sunday aa delegate to lue con

vention at Lo veil la.«i week.

Merriman school began Its spr 'n t ; term

last Monday. Miss Leona McUonaell.

teacher .

Geo. Merrit moved buck to Saianac.

April 18th. #

There was a smal l a t t endance a t tbe sugar social at E d . Deniae's last Thurs -

day evening, on account of the stoi m,

N. P . Busted & Co. 'ave a large as-sor tment of f ru i t trees for their spr ing trade. They a re booking orders daily They employ nn agents .

I h a r e tbe largeut stock, ca re fu l ly se

lected, of wall paper in Lowell. W . 8. WlKEOAB

Geo. M c P e e a n d wife WF R" in IJOTPII

S .vurday.

S r.rooks and E. Beery, of Ca'edoiiia. w t i t .a Alto OP business Sa 'n i i iuy ,

John Broadlient, of LoweJi, was in

Alto Saturday.

A. Bergy, w e n t the Valley City Wed.

Flora Leibler, of Caledonio is visiting

A Bergy nnd fami ly .

J o h n Lawyer shoa re l some sheep for

M. B. Remington. Monday.

T o u are invited to come and inspect ou r wall paper and compare prices. I t makes no difference whe the r yon buy

or not , you a re welcome a t Look's

Pha rmacy .

Tbe best d ining room chairs. J . B.

Te i te r sells t hem.

ScgKUll. j

Geo. M m r a r and family will occupy | t he boose former ly owned by J o h n I

Hnll lker. 1

J . Hnl l iker has gone to G r a n d Rap ids ,

w h e w he will s tay for t o m e t ime.

Mrs E. Tra in has re turned f r o m S a r a -nurt where she bas been r i s i t ing her

mother, Mrs Car ter , who is ill.

Lula Youngs, of Lansing, is s tay ing

wi th her a u n t , Mrs Rogers.

W. O. J u r y and family have moved

back to Segwnn.

Charles Bancrof t and wife of Alto

visited a t A. Bancrof t ' s l as : week.

Bor.-tie.

H. 1). McVean a n d wife of Alto,

spen ' Sunday wi th F r a n k Kl ine and

wife.

Richard Johnson bas puicbased a new

buggy.

Lena V a n At ten vieited Saturday

with Kat ie Johnson .

' par ty of f n e n d s gave Miss Phena ; Salsbury a pa i ty Fr iday »ve Warm

J sugar was served a f t e r which they de-

I par ted fo r tneir homes. All had a merry

j t ime.

i Duncan Parker of this place and Miss [ Polly Woods of Elmdale , were united ' in marr iage a t Free port Thursday eve.

Congratulat ions.

Boyd Colson re tu rned to bis home in

Alton.

The electric s torm Friday niRht, ju r -l ud broke two window lights in

eh's store.

. xin R. Whi te and wife, of Low-e vi iie'l her f s t e r , Mia. W a r i ' n

I-'DI Sa turday and Sunday.

I iriie Andrews cut his leg lam week

( • qui te t-ick.

and Mo* 151. Condon visile 1 Day

Condon, Sunday .

*'-r. C 'H Whi te is able to be out igain

•I > II ng iiiuess.

Virihors a t Perry Purdy 's last week w-re Eider Massey and wife, f rom En-tr ican. Mrs. BiiKgs, of Langston, Mr. and Mrs. O Cboate and wife, of Fallas-

bury, and Fred Jones and wife, of Grat

lau, Suuday .

Jaa E n g l u b , of Cadillac, visited Ja s Andrews Sa turday , looking a f t e r D. A.

Hioiig^tt's colts.

John Andrews is quite sick with pneu

monia.

Will Bliss and wife, of Gra t tan , visited

her mother , Mrs. Orrin Ford, Sunday .

A. L Moon bas rented h ' s f a rm to Mr.

Oianger and he will move to Samuel

Davis' t e n a n t bouie.

Bates Keech atltl wife went to Green-

ville, Sa tu rday .

W m . London was in Greenville, Satur-

day, on business.

8100 Reward $100. The rea.lern of thl1" papir will be plea.vd to

learn that there U it .ea.-(i one drcuUcd disease th«C science has been able to cure In all IM stnee? and that !•< catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only ponltive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh b> ini; a constitutional dls -ii"',: >| uresa 'jiiStUuUoijAl treatmeni. Hall's Cuairh < nits is ianr.it in eroally aoi.TR dlri-cily upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system thereby de^troyl.nr the foundation of the di«ea«" and i;ivin>; tlii patient strength by buildlne i'P the cnrt't-itlon and asolatlnK natuie In duliiKits work, i r-'iirletors have

• much faith In Its curative |>O«.IH that ther )ITer one humlred doll trs for any case that it

lads to cure Send for list of lestlmonlals. Address, F. J. CHENEY, & CO , Toledo, 0,

Sold by diwg'sta. 76c Hall s . amily Pills are the best.

Every day Is wall paper dHy a t Look's

Estate of JOHN DEVOE, deceased. V OTICE TO CREDITOIts.-Stare of Mlchlfcar.. l» county of Kent. ss. Notice Is hereby gireo that by an order of the I'robnte Court for the County of Kent, made on tbe Uth day of April, A. D. 189J. six months from that date were allowed for creditors to present their claims against tbe estate of

JOHN DEVOE. late of said County, deceased, and that all cred-itors of said deceased are required to present their claims to said Probate Court, at the Probate offlce, in the nlty of Qracd Kaplds, for examina-tion and allowance, on or before the 8th day of October next, and that such claims will be heard before said Court on

TBORSDIV, r a a STB OAT o r OCTOBCR NEXT, at ten o'clock In the forenoon of that day.

Dated. Grand Kaplds. Mich.. April 8th. A. D. 1988. Ci'HUS E. PEKK1NH.

154M JutlKeof Probate

McConnell & Co. have secured John L. Kopf , who will begin work

Monday, April 20th. H e will be pleas

pd to meet all the eld customers . Call

and see h i m .

Mrs A. Jones has returned home.

Mr Dodd bas moved in to t h e Canfield j Kapids Sa turday h o a , e j Mis J o h n Livingston is on the sick

Hay is scarce but yon can si ways ge t 1 list.

i t of C. H . Wesbrook. • Albert Stanffer and wife visited b n n -

Come in and buy one of ou r couches.

They sre good f o r tha t tired body. J . B. YBITEE.

Sontli Boston.

Geo. J . Stcrey w^s burle-l Monday. He was a b ro ther to Mr- Jackson, wi o

was buried so recently. HU wife and his t is ier . Mrs. Dr. Millimr<n a re »>otn

sick. i

Mis Geo. Green spent last week in

Lowell, being called th^re on account of tbe sickness and dea th of her s u n t .

Mis. H . Randell .

v - and Mr . N P ^ to Carson c ty to visit th-.-tr on . Dr.

Glen Gould.

Mr. and Mrs. Gre^n enter ta ined their

uncle s n d a a n t , Mr. a n d Mrs. Ph iup Holcomh. of Corel, also Mrs. Bar a d nil.

of Saranac, over Sunday .

If there is one t ime of yea r more than

any other , t h a t a f a rmer sbonld perform his work in a n d on t ime . i< »5 t u. ^rcb^n1.

There is m u c h t r u th in t h a t old saying,

"A s t i tch in t ime saves n ine . "

Comrade Israel Cave passed h - r e Tues-

day on his way to LowelL H a v e j u s t asked w i f e w h a t grea t ca lami ty hap-pened to th i s natran 31 years ago to-day.

Tuesday, a n d as quick SP tbo j g b t , sne

answered. President Lincoln was aceas-

day wi th A. J . Miller and lamily of

I rv ing.

Mis Lewis Coles, of Carleton. is visit-

! i n? her daugh t e r . Mis W. H . Wat ts .

Mrs Isaac Wilson and family are

moving to Alto.

Mis Wesbrook is visiting her parents

in Ver^ennea a l t h e present w r u n R .

Tan Oxfords at W l n e g a r s .

Falias A Clark have secured tbe ser vices of a first class p lumber and are i spent ia&t Friday in Beldlng.

While's Br id ie Breexes.

Geo. Ring and wife visited in Al ton

p a n of las t week.

Mr a n d l i r a Fred Smi th and little daughter , Winnifred, were the guests of Mr and Mrs D. O. Shear last Fr iday.

Henry Compton made a business t r ip

to Greenville last Monday,

J e r r y Connor, of Sou th Keene is building a ki tchen fo r A r m o n d Ring.

Mr and Mis Riley McChul of Down

tbe River Sundayed a t D. O. Shear's.

Eber a n d J a m e s Compton and sister, Alice, spent Sunday wi th the i r sister,

Mrs Elmer Barr of Vergennes.

The sale at J o h n Vandenbiock 's was

pos t toned unti l April 17, on account of

the ra in .

Mis Myron Bozung is slowly improve-

m g .

Mr nnd Mr? Barkley of K e e a e spent Sunday with herais ' .er, Mrs A. Vanden-

broeck.

The White Bridge ball n ine met last

Sunday to organize for t be summer .

Mrs A. J . Ring spent last week wi th

her siater. Mis Pbi la C la rk .

D. O. Shear spent Sa tu rday wi th h is

daugh t e r Mrs O. F . Hogan , of Segwun.

Mis»Iva Compton le f t Sunday fo r Mr Slayton's of Gra i tan , where she will

spend tbe summer .

i U. B. S bear and mother , spent par t of

j last 'week with Iriends in Grat ton.

I Henry Compton and sister Alice

PBOBATE ORDER—ijtate of Michigan, Coun-ty of Ken:, sa. At a session ot the Probate

Court for tbe said County of Kent, held at the Probate Ufflce. In the City of Grand Rapids, on tne 7ih day of April, in tbe year one thooHUid eight hundred and ninety six.

Preaent. Cyrus E. Perkins, judge of Probate. In tbe matter of the estate of

JOHN L. COVERT, Deceased. An Instrument In writing:, purporting to be

the last will and testament of said deceased, having been Bled in this court for probate.

It U ordered that FRIDIT. TBI 8lh DIT or Mar, 1899,

at ten o'clock In tbe forenoon, at said Probate Office, be appointed for proving said Instrument.

And it la rnrtber Ordered, That a copy of this order be published three successive weeks pre ••ous to said day of hearing, in tbe Lowell Journal, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Kent VA true copy.) CYRUS K. PERKINS,

Haaav D. Jawiu , Judge of Probate Register. IB t-91

VTOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS ON CLAIMS. State of Michigan. County of Kent, ss.—

Probate Court for said County. Estate of

deceased. Tbe undersigned having been appointed by the

Hon. Judge of Probate of said County, Commis-sioners on Claims in the matter of said Estate, and six months from the itth day of February. A. D.. 1890 having been allowed by said Judge ol Probate, to ail persons having claims against said Estate, in which to present their claims to us for examination and adjustment

Notice U Hereby Given, That we will meet on Thursday, the 16th day of April, A D, 1896, and on Monday, the 24lh day of August. A. D.. II at nine o'clock a. m . of each day. at tbe ~

prepe ed to d o work o n short notice.

Ml ;* : *T - " f p

Qu.v.. X i t -a Wll. t ^s. ^ C... . . . i K m * i f i l l ' ng Co. and «ettle thei i ac-

counts .

Do not forget i he sale a t J o h n V a n -

" t : br a c k ' s April 17.

H. P . Compton went to Saranac Mon.

wi th a load of veal, •%

Mrs A i Richardson and two children

of l i u f a n t , are tbe guests of her sister,

Mre A J . Ring.

Dies Erraws of Ent r ican , is work ing

lor Mr Lotte this summer .

_. r..n< visued in Orleans Saturday

S ir.day.

I 1 na t e a lot of cistern vats which I I I>- • m m y storage. For sale very .

A good real es ta te mor tgage to e x change fo r property m or o « i t th i s vil

I age. tf

Cedar Fence posts, peeled, f r o m 7c. n p

s t W . J . Ecker A Son's.

Any th ing yon w a c t in wall paper a t

Look's. 1696 pa t te rns f r o m 7 t o GO cents

a double roll.

S««tk Lowell.

The Ladies Aid society mee t w i th

Mrs Lydia O 'Harrow Wedneeday, th i s

week.

Miss Lizzie Kilgns, of Lowell, v i m e d over S o n d a y wi th he r pa ren t s and a t -

tended chu rch .

Tbe social a t Mr L a m p m a n ' e was a

Hiccees, receipts, fS- lu .

Edward Rollina. of Beendon. b vkitr ing his a u n t , Mrs H . Proc tc r . a few d a y s

before beginning work a t Mr Ked 's .

J . B. Linn, wi fe a n d d i n g b t e r . cf

Vergeiu.ee, were gnests of Mr H . A.

R i c h m n d . and f ami ly , Sonday .

Mra DeWiU Fero, v t i l e d last Tuesday

and Wednesday w i t h her mother . Mra D. 8 . Roberts , of Orleans. Ionia county ,

who has been confined t o her bed nearly

eight mon ths , w i t h rhenma t i sm.

Mi— Addie O. H a r r o w , is very sick

wi th pneumonia .

Mra Mary Lorefauid h o n t h e sk i t list.

Several ladies in th i s vicini ty will be

very bosy th i s s n m m e r as t hey have PBrchaced a large collection of flower

S c r o f u l a

Cmarxlft-

Mr. Stanffer and fami ly have moved

to E Paris .

Mrs. H a r t bas returned f :o ia Va Va

t o e i : n in • ' -c ;e.

Wnii r i l i n g on Ws J .j •!

4tb. J o h n W a t v r d o n . lost i h - '• i i e -longmg to i t , ih.raewhere b n * n the

reside ace. of bis f a t h e r , W S. a- er » » *? son and Charles Bu t tnck ' s . If th find, r ' cbvap. F. L. FALLAB.

will noti.'y h im v h e r e tuey ?re i .• lea •» j n*»y the best. Tbp Clipper.

t h e m a t t he s to ie in CAOCADE village, he i FALUS & CLARK.

wid be much obliged.

Mbs Flora Leibler. r f Caledonia, dosed |

her school Friday in t h e Thomas d - tr ict . j with an exbibit ion in t be evening, .<hici<

all wno a t t ended pronounce a decided

success.

Mr. and Mre. Scot t Thompson and daugh te r d iovo ou t f r o m tbe city to hi>

mo:here. Sunday .

S . A r m s t r o n g and fami ly a r e moving in wi th Geo. Gorham, in hia home ad-

jo ining the village.

Mies Belle Vanderhoof is r i s i t iog in

Grand Rapids.

Mrs. J . S . Clark has rented her f a rm

and bas moved t o t h e Miller house, near

he r home. S h e reserved t w o wras o ' he r r e r d e n c e . H e r sister, Mrs. E. R.

Johnson issisted her in sett!, .ng.

Mr-. J . C. a n d Mrs. Wil l B r j> n. of

C .and Banids, d rove out t o Abiauiv.ouk's and enjoyed warm sugar and v o t i n g

tbe en^ar bosh . F rank Vanderhoof and family have

I moved in to t h e bouse across f r o m J o h n

Wooding.

Harvey Vanderhoof and tamily h a v e moved into the house wi th h b mother .

Mrs. Vanderhoof .

Miss Lillian Orlip is visi t ing Mrs. M. Schenck wi th her household work

A number of the y o u n g frieo'** of

Archie P a t t e n o n en joyed a very p ea t a n t evening a t h is home recently.

H . C. Dennison bas bis peach orchard j p runed a n d plowed. Ea r ly pea*, pota-

toes, Ac. , p lan ted .

I County.

HENRY PltOCTOB.

Hobert Hunter. J r . in the Village of Lowell, in Ud county, to receive and examine such claims. Dated. March 9th. A. D^IKB.

(»4l )

ROBERT HUNTER. JR., LEONARD H. HUNT.

Commissioners.

PROBATE ORDER-tStateot mcnigan, county of Kent,sa. At a session of the Probate Court

for said county of Kent, held at the Probate Of flee, in tbe City of Grand Rapids, on the a d dry of March in tbe year one thousand eight hundred and ninety six.

Present Cyrus E. Perkins, Judge of Probate. In the matter oC the estate of

CHARLES ARMSTRONO, deceased.

Willie B. Armstrong having filed in this Court liispetiUon pray ing that the administration of said estate may be granted to Jesse B. Arm strong of Cannonsburg.

It is Ordered, that M050AT. rax 3>TB DIT or Aran. 1996,

at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at said Probate Offlce. be appointed for hearing said petition.

And it Further Ordered, That a copy of this older be published three saccesBive^-eeiM previ-ous to said day of bearing.in the LOWKLL Jocx ML. a ne1

County (A true copr.)

HtKRV D. J r w n

N e r v o u s P r o s t r a t i o n

Cured b y Dr. Miles* Nervine .

Prolonced deranccTnent of the nervous r^K'nn no*, "nly tho brain and moO-

j. «». • i v ..ui uX.-.i- ' In sinaoof tho vital onrans. Tho mnst dancerous of tlic!^ Indirect requite Is when tho heart is aJToctcd. TiiK . IF IT"? case of tho Rev. W. F. Surlac.i, Fa vn lti% "r. 'Ilua., who writes un 1 jr dat 3 o." F »b. I i f l o :

%

"Fourteen years aco I had a slight stroke ot paralysis. Overwork brought on nervous prostration. I was exceedingly nervous and tbe exertion of public speaking caused heart palpitation that threatened my Ufa I used two bottles of Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure for my heart trouble, and two of Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine for my nervous-ness and feel better than I ever expected to feel again. I can speak for hours without tiring or having my heart flutter as It for-merly did. and I have you to thank tbatX am alive today."

On sale by all druggists. Dr. Miles' Book on Heart and Nervous Disorders FREE fay mai l Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, I n i .

Dr. files* Remedies Restore Beat tk

RELS"M0N I N C O O D A

A I

PATENTS C L A R K , D E E M E R A C O . ,

Paten* Practitioners 3) years, 180 Broadway, New York, will send Free upon request of the readers of thia paper, onr '* Hints to la* veators," also Patent Guide and a selsctai " List of Valuable Inventlona Wanted.*'

UIITED BTATE8 AID F0RBI9I PAI-EHTB quickly procured on LOWEST LIB-ERAL TERMS Expert service guarantee*. Clients' patents sold without charge. Advice FREE. I f * f N I IS THE NLT f U l l T l

MW PATCIT8, Gen. Rufus King pereoo-y superintends our Selling Department.,

Address, 0LABE, DEEMBB & CO., SoUdton of Pstents, Main OKce 189 BROApW&TV 5BW YOKv Branchek; Waab'n and Phil*.

NOTE: All orders to , rocure patenU re-ceived from readers of thu paper arc entitles to QBE YEAR'S sabscripHon FREE.

CUmhtmUf SaBini IWssnail Wiaaa

PENNYROYAL PILLS • SHgNrl aa< Paly Utiialai •

SATK. ftiwAji rrlUbU. tAOisa uk AV DnnM kr (kkkaU^i KafUtk DU-Jg^

W Crwul la ked ud M l MttlUsVM » wskdvlthMMrlMM. TabeXV other. Mtfiut daxfrrmu nliMN •

fTiefu cmYimiraltM. AL T>:>A!IL>,OTMA4SA It turni* M ctftlemUr*. ' lll'r mi " Keller tkr LadlM," U Ittfr. n

Ml far ul Local Dnociiu.

WE HAVE SOJ£

ewspaper printed and circulating in said of Kent. CYRUS E. PERKINS,

Kecister.

E.PERKIJ Judge of Probate

3 tS-96 W. A PRATT, 8sey.

prices. Ship anjTrhere examination before Everjihlnp want lO* stTlesof Carr taaah • • sty les of HM-aeos. 4 1 styles KMIBK Sa jiUafc Write for catalogue.

"HEres** S . O . 2 L . I T T r j E F I B L . r 5 ,

OEKBRAL JOBBER IK

Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Work, Tin Roofing and Eave Trcughing.

O p p o s i t e M u s i c H a l l B l o c k .

ALL Kinds of Repairing.

Lowel l . M i c h i g a n .

LOWELL PLANING MILL, W. I. ECKER i SON, Propri..

Dealers in Lumber, Lath ^ Shingles AHD M AKUPACTrRKHS OF

Sash, Doors, Blinds, Door and Window Frames and Screens, Moaldi-%

Exhibition and Shipping Coops, Dried Apple Boxes, Etc., Matching, Resa ing and Job Work.

Wooden Eavetroughs.

L \ o w e l l , M l o b i g a a .

i t

BA5BJXO HOUSE OF

In fes t s the blood of h u m a n i t y . a p p e a r s in var ied fo rms , b a t is forced T r ' u r m r ' R to Vield to H o o d ' . Sarsapari l la , which J ' C H U R C H

purit ies and vitalizes the bl<Md a n d . 4 1 T i l D I T H i l D A G A V cu re s all such d i s u s e s . Uead t h i s : V i U U J M V t t * C v O l r i R f

'• In *?pt ember, 18W. 1 made a misstep and , Injured my ankle. Very soon a l tera ante, L O W E L I J , M I O H .

G. A. CHUROB

l is ten to the wedding bells, Duncan Parka hat taken Mtse Poily Weals for a life partiMr. Congratulation.

Superior quality of *all paper •. all patterns at W. 8. Winegart.

Ladw't fise Oxford*, the mew toe, at Wtnegar'a.

A Sore two Inches tcrow formed and In walking ' to favor It I sprained my ankle. The sore became worse; I conld not pot my boot j . on and I thought I should have to giveup : at every step. I could not get any relief • and had to stop work. I read of a cure bl 1

a similar ca-t- by Ho^d'* ^r*ap«rilla and concluded to try it. Before I bad taken :

all of two bottles the sore had healed and the swelling had gone down. My

Foot Is now well and I have been greatly bene-fited otherwise. I have increased in | weigh: and am in better health. I cannot say enough in praise of Hood's Sarsapa- ; rilla. ' Mas. H. B L V K E , SO. Berwick, Me..

This and other similar cures prove that

Hood's Sarsaparilla i

Is tbe Ooe True Blood Purifier. All druggtsO. f l . | Frepwl 't>lj by C. I- H l A Co l>V«en. H***. .

77 T, the best taaulyealhaftic Hood s r l l l S aad ttrer sdBclut. Se. I

: ESTABLISHED AT GBEX5VILLB 1961 E S T A B U A U D AT LOWELL I ' ®

Does a General Banking Basinets. 1 Money Loaned on Beat Estate or Bankable Taper. Interat Paid on Ttae DepoA*

Exchanges ArallaWe to ill the OomiBerdal Cliies ot the World at Onreat Bates.

WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.

i A L A B A S T I N E . IT W O N T RUB OFF.

Will Piper is U u u i t u i .

KalsomiRe is tem-poiarj, rots, nibs off and Scales. ALABASHNE fonrrs a pure and permanent coatfag and ( not n quire to be taken off to renew froml to lime. Is a dry powder. The latest n beinc adanted to mix, ready for use. n Cold'Water. Can be easily brushed on by 1 one. Made in white and twelve fas tints. ALABASTINE is adapted to i of plain and relleC decorating.

FOI SALE BT ALL FltST-CUSS PAIIT DULEES. ASK T0UI PAIET 0E«LE1 FOI CAM OS

I MMHUFUCTu/tro OHLY BT ALA BAST IN E oo.. ORAND RAMOS, \

r u b o f f

tm

11 j

•

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Trade Hustler

H

O

'o To the front

again, with a

fine line of

Russet Shoes

than ever be-

fore.

These are in

the LATEST

styies and can-

not help but

suit the most

Fastidious.

We have them

at all prices,

from 5 2 , 0 0 up.

Come and see.

Geo. Winegar

Ooagrogntlonal Oborob.

IHV. JA8. PROVAN, PABTOH.

Divine Worship at 10:30 a. m. Sabbath Schuol at noon. Junior Chrtatian Endeavor S:80 p. m. Senior (Jhrifltiuti Eodpavor 6K)0p. m. Vesjwr Service. Snbbath. 7:80 p. m. Prayer meeting Tlmradaj , 7:80 p. m. Al* are cordially invited to attend (he

•etvicee.

MethoitlKt Epliicopal Oburon.

UT . A. P. KOOIU, PASTOR.

Sunday morning services 10:80 o'clock. Sunday school 12 m. Epworth League meeting 6:30 p. m. Evening nervice 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening?^). Every one is invited.

South Lowell and Sooth Koston M. E. Church.

South Lowell M. E. church—Preach-ng a t 2:30 p. m. Sunday school at IKM p. m. Epworth League a t 7:80 p. m.

South Boston M. E. church—Preach-ing at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at 12 at. Epworth League at 7:30 p. tn.

Everybody invited to these meetings. REV. E. W . DAVIS, Pas to r .

Epworth I . cn tnc and Sunday School Conventloo.

The joint convention^of the Epworth League and Sunday School of the Ionia Dist. Mich. Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held at Lowell on Tuts day, Wednesday and Tl.ureday, April 7tb. 8th and Oth, 1806. Following isjprogram:

Pres ident ia l Year .

Th« year of 1698 will be of the utmost interest to our citizens on account, not •lone of its being presidential year, but on account of the position we have tak-en among the muions of the world. No man cau be- too well posted so we have made arrnn^fments tn furnish in

' c o n n e c t t o n w i t h t h e JOURNXL, to a l l •nbsonbers wlio un- paid in advance the ( hicago Intel Oce^n ot the New York Tribune or both in coiii.ectlon with the JOURNAL at a VERY low rate. T H R W E E K L Y I N T E R O C E A N $ 1 . 0 0

T H E L O W E L L J O U R N A L $ 1 . 0 0

B ith for $1.85 Or

T H E N Y . W F E K L Y T R I B D N E $ 1 . 0 0

I J I B L O W E L L J O D R N A I $ 1 . 0 0

Both for "7. $1.25 Or

T H E . N L W Y O R K T R I B U N E $ 1 . 0 0 T H E C H I C A G O INTER OCEAK $i.oo T H E L O W E L L J O U R N A L $ 1 . 0 0

Three fur ^1.05

D. G. « . <te M. Ci ty Ollice.

• For rhf oorv^nl^nc <>i mfjbo wuu iHfiah pun.Lube ilicir uua and railroad Mckete together I have placed on sale at the above office a fall stock of tickets to d i local ami ilitough points so that pas-•engers tire ready to pet on the train when they reach the depot.

A . O. HEYDLAUFF, A g e n t .

LOWELL JOURNAL, LOWELL, MICH.

tt?>

"How Is It Possible?

, Yon can't Bf-e how mint* meat, as cood us any muUi- ut bome, cau lie •oM

,for 10 centa u package (ccough for 2 largr plat) ?

The Reason's Plain. J Many carloads of themnterials

J f o r Noue Such Mince Meat Jrarc bought at ouc -thne, altirst 'hands. All the paring, chop-

j ping, seeding, stcmaring'-and 'cleaning arc (lone by perfected machinery. Such immense quantities are sold that a mite of profit on each package of

NONE SUGH M I N C E M E A T

| i s enough . BtBd jour nim» Mi ladrM. »oil inCBtleB tUf

puxr, u4 wf *111 ••H T*» • book. "lir*. PurvklDi V ont of thi noil pop- , *l»i kaai ro«n Mliwr. mf dtj . f

aUULL-Mll U: (O., STBACTSE, R. T.

Wednesday, April 15* 1890.

HERE AND THERE-

Tan Oxfords at Winegar's.

"Spex" repaired at U. B. Williams'.

Dr. Riokert, Dentist, over Church's Bank.

For wood and coal call on C. H. Wes-brook.

J.' C West, Grand Rapids, was in town Monday.

,Try the Columbian salmon, for saleat C. Bergiu's.

Ladle's Fine Oxfords, the new toe, at Winegar's.

Cheap and good wood and coal at C. H. Wesbrook.

Buy your Daisy 90 springs at $1.75, at McConnell's.

Miss Minnie Palmer has been visiting Lowell friends.

Bridge work and all dental operations at Dr. J . H. Rickert's.

The largest Une of book cases and side-boards a t MoConneira.

Try the Journal's Fine Job Printing. Satis.-action guaranteed.

Geo. Head worth, of Grand Rapids, was home over Sunday.

Buy Cigar Clippings a t the factory, Train's Opera House Block.

Mrs. Hall, of Grand Ledge, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Orton Hill.

Mrs A. Willett, of Entrican, is visit-ing her sister, Mrs Bonnar.

Promptness m filling wood and coal orders at C. H. Weebrook's.

Barber & Craw's uncolored Japan Ua; 40c per lb. Finest In town,

Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Brooks, of Grand Rapids, spent Sunday in Lowell.

Max Levitt, of Grand Rapids, visited his father, A. Levitt last Saturday.

Rev. McGee, of Kalamazoo, will preach at the Baptist church Sunday.

When you want s c c e elegant frames for pictures, go to J . B. Yeiter for them.

You will tave 10 per cent, of your money by trading at Barber & Craw's.

Porter Carr has a new Belknap wagon complete for sale. Will take good note.

Mies Helen King entertained Miss Kate Enos, of Grand Rapids, Tuesday.

The next meeting of the Lowell Teach er's Association will be held April 18tb.

Prof, and Mrs. W. D. Sterling are visit-ing Lowell relatives and friends this week.

Miss Minnie Blakeslee commenced school Monday morning in the Pearsall District.

Truman Clibbon, of Detroit, was the guest of Miss Frances Lee, the first of the week.

Try the Journal for advertising and you will never regret it. Job work a specialty.

Miss Stella Keister, of Pewamo, was the guest of Annie Hunter a few days cf last week.

Mi«s Clossie Denny is confined to her bed by a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism.

Night calls promptly attended, by call-ing either a t J . L. Kopfs House, or at G. V. McConnell's.

Henry Mitchell was in town Monday and received the "glad hand" from his many old friends hure.

One good smoke in this world is bet -ter than two in another. Try the N I C K L E P L A T E 5c cigar.

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hatch were in town Monday a short Mme, and are visit ing friends in South Boeton.

Store your stoves with Fullas & Clark, Ail stoves thoroughly cleaned, polished and set up in first class condition.

Barber A Craw found an immense ta -rantula in a bunch of bananas last Fri-day. Loren put his foot down on it.

For sale or cxchango: Berry plante will take maple sugar, hay or grain of any kind, or wood. Clinton Snow, (tf)

Our goods are pure, wholesome and you will make no mistake in trying them. You will find them at Barber & Craw's.

Bert E. Quick started out last Monday on his initial trip for Hlrth, Krause & Co.. the wholorale shoe dealers of Grand Rapids.

Rev. Ira Jones filled the pulpit at the Congregational Church Sunday morn-ing, in the absence of the pastor. Rev. Jas. Provan.

When you want Garden Hose, see that new brand of Leatherite Hose that Porter Carr has for 11 cents a foot. Ful-ly guaranteed. 43-2 w

The 26th regiment, Michigan vols., held their annnal re-union at Mason, last week. J . Kinyon. R. Quick and A. P. Hunter, attended from here.

Mrs Clark is visiting her daughter, Mrs H. H. Dyer, a t Stanton, Mr Dyer has accepted his old position a t Ishpem-ing and will move from Stanton in a short time.

Rev. Jas. Provaa attended the Grand Rapids Association meetings held a t Middlevllle, on 13th and 14th of April. Report will be given at the prayer meet-ing on Thursday evening. Regular ser-vices will be held in the Congregational Church on Sabbath, 19th inst. Chorus choir and'isolo singing in the evening.

Rev. J . Jay Finley will preach in the River school bouse, west of town, Sun-day, April 19th. at 8 p. m. Subject: "Church Membership and its Advan-tages.'* The public is Invited to attend.

The ladiee of the W. R. C. will hold a five cent tea a t the home of Mrs Charles McCarty. Friday, April 17th, All mem-bers are requested to come aud bring their husbands. Tea served at 5 o'clock.

Rev. Dr. FairfieH, of Grand Rapids, will deliver his well known lecture on "Palestine," in the Congregational Church, on Tuesday evening, 2l8t April, a t 8 o'clock. Admiseion free. Collec-tion at tbe close. All are Invited.

Marks Ruben Is again before the pub-lic with a sale as is a sale, as the quota-tions given in his advertisement in another column shows. Marks is a bene-factor in that be gives the people some of the greatest bargains over known.

Prof. W. 'D. Sterling will deliver an add ra s at the M. E. church, next Sun-day evening, subject: "How to Get Rich." Prof Sterling is an eaay, fluent talker, and his audience will have the added interest of a personal acquaint-ance with the speaker.

A letter from Dr. J , D. Robertson, of Chicago, came to J. H. Rickert liift week announcing the death 4f two of his children f rom membranous croup. The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. Robert-son, here, extend to them their deepest sympathy and condolence.

Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hicks, were in Saranac, Friday, attending the funeral Mrs. Geo. Potts, wife of the editor of the Saranac Local, who died a t that place last Tuesdaj night. Mrs.N Potts had been an invalid for several years and was a woman universally loved.

The township and village have joined hands and r e n f d offices ita* the Fox building. The Town Clerk and Village Recorder will have their offices there ; besides the Supervisor and Highway Commissioner and the village President will have desks, and the meetings of the Common Council and Township Board will be held there.

Drs. Snyder and Van Kammen, of Grand Rapids, have opened a dental of-fice In the Graham double bnck resi-dence corner of Main and Hudson sts. All who are interested in the painless extraction of teeth will And no method so perfect and satisfactory as by the use of their Vi tali red Air, Cocaine used cn all who desire tha t metfco^ They have many old patients in this vicinity who are very glad to welcome them here.

Orchards of J . Frost and Jesse Frost and sen, seven miles north of Lowell, show enough live buds for a full crop Orchards contain 4,000 trees set out in spring of *95. Jay Frost has a tree of the early Crawford set out in 1880; it has produced the last four years 38 bushels of saleable frui t , sold on an average net of $1.10per bushel, $41.80; 1892, 6 bushels: 1898, 10 bushels; 1894. 12 bushels; 1895, 10 bushels. We think that this tree beats everything in the state.

The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers are nftw running daily (except Sunday) be-tween Detroit and Cleveland. When traveling east or west, north or somh, t ry to arrange to take advantage of these luxurious steamjfeu between Michigan and Ohio, if you are con templatlng a snmmer outing, write A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit Mich., for illustrated pamphlet which gives full information oi a trip to Mackinac via the Coast Line.

Lf*t of Onclalmed Letter*

Remaining in the Post Office at Lowell Mich,, week ending April 11,1896:

LADIKS.

Mrs Alfred Cable, Mrs Furgerson. GENTLEMEN.

Pierce Berdell, E. N. Chase, 8. A. Hustin, W . W . Knapp Co., F. L. Kennedy, Mervin Raymond, Chas. Tomlinson.

Persons claiming the above will please %ay "AdvertiBed" and give date of thie list. M A R T I M N. H I K E , P. M .

Queen' Esther.

The first of a series of three represen-tations of the Cantata of Queen Esther, was given last Tuesday evening to a well filled house. The performance while a little ragged, as all first perform-ances are, was on the whole very credit-able to thu performers. The solos v?ere well tendered and the choruses fine, al-though a little slow in being taken up. The dramatic action of the piece was spirited, espedally that of Miss Efiie McDiarmld, who sung the part of Zerish, and her rendering of the music was even better than the acting. Miss Mc-Diarmld has a full, rich alto voice, which under the skilful tutelage of Mrs. Goodspeed has developed wonderfully. Miss Ora Weekes surprised her fnends by her conscienclous stage work and her singing was a genuine surprise. Lottie Sayer shows much improvement since her last appearance she has a rich, smooth voice, and Is one of Lowell's coming artists. Miss Anna Maynard as the Prophetess seems to live the part and sings the difficult solos she has with grace and expression. Mrs. Ella Hine's first reappearance since her return ic Lowell is as Zensh's attendant and the short solo she has and in the duet she shows no lack of the eweetness of tone which charmed her friends in former years. Mrs. J. M, Goodspeed sings the part of Queen Esther, in a truly master-ly manner, of her voice no criticism is needed, she is well known, >uu have all heard her sing and we feel that we can add nothing to the already hi^h opinion in which she is held.

George Winegar sings King Ahasu-aras and sings it well, his voice has gained much the past winter m depth and volume. Mordacai is sung by Roy McDiarmid, who has a phenominal tenor voice. He sings the part for all it is wdrth Geo. M. Winegar sings Haman and the name of Winegar is assurance that it is well sung. Will K. Morgan as Hegai and James Martin as the High Priest, each have good. bass solos and each render them well. Tbe quartette of the Kings guards, composed of Chas, Memman, Roy Whedon, Frank White and Bert Charles, is nice and very well rendered.

The rboruses aie well sung in every particular, the only fault being a hesi-tancy in picking them up j m t as quick as they should be, but that Is a fault of not being thoroughly acquainted with the continuity of the plot and will not appear a t all in tbe fur ther representa-tions. The orchestral work is good Lowell may wall be proud of her musi-cal talent in every branch. The open ing overture is fine and blends harmo-niously into the prelude to the opening chorus. The performance is a success.

The S. 8. and E. L, Convention.

The joint Sunday School and Epworth League convention held at the M. E. Church, last week, was a success in every way. Among the papers which received universal conimendation was " Trained Workers In tbe Sunday School,'* by Mrs, A. P. Sweet, of Ionia ; "Relation of the Epworth League to the Popular Amusements of the Age," by Mrs Clarence Deal, of this place. The papers by Miss Mattie Lowe, of Vickeryville; W, J . Percival, of Lake Odessa; ' Bible Study," by Miss Matie Baker, of So. Boston, and "Leading to Chritt." by Mrs. Elsworth. of Saranac, and the addresses of Rev. Fayette L. Thompson, of Lansing; Hon R. A- Haw-ley, of Ionia; Rev. W. L, Bray, of Port-land, and Rev. J . R. Wooton, of Free-port. Much disappointment was felt over the failure of Capt. E. M. A'len, of Portland, to be present, but he was de-tained at home at the bedside of his sick wife.

The convention wss a great success and aroused nruch enthusiasm in the local Sunday School and Epworth League circles. The church was packed to the utmost during the entire period of the convention. The thanks of the convention were expressed to the people lx)well for their entertainment of the crowds who were present.

The Kent Co., Republican Convention is hereby called to meet A P R I L 22ND,

1896, at 11 a. m. , in the Lincoln Club room, Grand Rapids for the purpose of electing 41 delegates to the Rep. State convention to be beld in Detroit May 7, 1896; to elect 41 delegates to the Rep. Congressional Dist. Convention to lie beld at G R A N D R A P I D S , A P R I L , 80TH

day, 1898, also to elect a County Committee for the ensuing two years and for the purpose of transacting such other business as may properly come before tbe convention.

Each township and ward is entitled to three delegates.

Grand Rapids Mich, March 17, 1890. GEO. E . JUDD, C h a i r m a n .

E D W I N R. BROOKS, Sec'y. —Vreiblit Banner, O. JR.

Notice. My wife, Gertie M., having left my

bed and board without just cause or prpvocation, all persons are warned :against harboring or trusting her on my account.

Dated Lowell, Mich., April 15, 1896. B. B . VAN COURT, A d a , Mich .

Constipation is a deadly enemy to health; Burdock Blood Bitters is a dead-ly enemy to constipation.

Henry Ward Beecher once informed a man who came to him complaining of gloomy and despondent feelings, that what he most needed was a good cathartic, meaning, of coarse such a medicine as Ayer's Cathartic Pills, every doee being effective.

Fifth T) I strict Bepnhllcan Convention.

G R A N D RAPIDS, Mich., March 17. ,96. To tlm Republican Electors of the Fifth

Congressional District: The District Convention of the Re

publicans of the Fifth Congressional District of Michigan, is hereby called to meet at the Lincoln Clnb Rooms, Grand Rapida, on Thursday, April 30th, 1896, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of electing i wo (2) delegates and two (2) alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention to be held at St. Louis, Mo., June 16,1896, and for the purpose of placing in nomination a can-didate for Congress for said District and for the transaction of such other busi-ness as may properly be brought before said Convention. Each County in said District will be entitled to representation in said Convention as follows: Ionia County, fifteen (15) delegates, Kent Co. fortv-one (41) delegates, Ottawa Co. twelve (12) delegates.

By order of Committee. Louis K. BISHOP, Chairman. A. E D ROBINSON, Secretary.

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As fine a cigar for 5c as the

R O Y A L . I O N I A . T h e y must be fine quality for Eleven of Lowell's first-class dealers p laced

them in stock, and here they are: Chas . McCar ty , Grocer W. S. Winegar, Druggist

C. Bergin, Grocer D. G. Look, Druggist Jno . Giles & Co. , Grocers H u n t & Co., Druggists

Barber & Craw, Grocers Hun te r & Son, Druggists R. 'VanDyke, Grocer R. W. Swayze, Hotel Waver ly

W. B. Rickert , Frui ts and Confect ionery.

Yours truly, G. F. FAUDE.

Died.

Mrs. Jenette D. Hunt (nee) Allen, died at her home in Douglass. March 12th of heart failure, aged fifty-nine years, nine months and eleven days. She was horn in Whiteside county, III., in 1836, and moved to Michigan in 1851.- She was married to James S. Allen, a t Edwards-burg. Five children were bom to them, four daughters nnd one son. In July, 1890, Mr. Allen passed away, In 1892, the deceased married Frank Hunt, who survives her. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Douglass. She leavee three daughters, one son and an adopted daughter, an aged father, one sister, t * o brothers and a large circle of friends to mourn, but what h their loss is her gain.

Mrs John Randall

Died a t her home in this village Tues-day, April 7th, af ter a short Illness.

Harriet Raymond was born in Len-nox, Madison county, N. Y., May 8, 1837. and came to Michigan with her parents when she was 16 years of age and settled in Keene. In 1861 she mar-ried John M. Randall, and they came to Lowell to live. They went to Califor-nia to live, soon after the war, hoping the climate nould bem lit their health. While there their little daughter, Mary, died. They returned to Lowell In a short time and have since made this village their home.

Mrs Randall was a member of the M. E church, was a good christian, always ready to lend a helping band, and when the summons came to join the loved ones who have gone before, was ready and willing to go.

Her loving husband, two sons, John and Bert M., five sisters and three brothers, are left to mourn her loss.

The funeral services were held a t the M. E. church, Thursday afternoon a t 2 o'clock. Rev, A. P. Moors officiating.

GREAT BARGAIN SALE. The finest line ot Teas in West-

ern Michigan, will he put on special sale, commencing April 20th, and ending May 1. A rare chance to get your supplies.

Don't miss it 43 2w JOHN GILES & CO.

All kinds of job printing on short no-tice a t the Journal Office. Call a t once.

Obi tuary .

Gi ' r 0 J. Siory, died at bis home in S 'U 'h Hoston, Saiurdh.s morning, af ter a Imgt wig bickness. 1

George J, Story was born in Living-ston county. New York, June 26. 1825 He spent his earlier years in the same county. He married Miss Sirah J , Roger, in the place of his nativity. Oc wber 6, 1852. They came to Michigan in 18")8 and settled on their farm in 1860. the most of the improvements being the product of their effort and toil

T^'> childrf n were born to them, a tk.., Frank Stor j , and a daughter, Mis. Emma Thurby, both survive to mourn the loss ol their beloved father. Of his fathers family two brothera and one sister survive him, all of whom are residents of South Boston, they are Wm. S. Story. Cyius C. Story, Mrs. Caroline

M. Gunnison. There has passed away one of the

pioneers of Ionia county, honored and resprcted by the entire community for his honesty and sterling integrity. Dur-ing his sickness he spoke of going home and when asked if he was ready to go, answered that he waa.

The funeral was held at thp home In South Boston, a t 1 o'clock, Monday. Rev. A. P . Moore, officiating.

SAVED BY A CAT.

A FAMOUS EPITAPH. f \ • It MaTftn In Ponghkeepsle the Graff* • * ft

Self Exiled Englishman.

There are some interesting epitaphs la the old graveyards in Pooghkeepele, but probably none of them hns been so wide-ly known and admired an that on tbe stone which! murks the burial placfl nf John Taylor in front of Christ cbmrch, on Academy street This epitaph has beeu widely published on both sides of the ocean, i t is said, aud is believed to have been written by the English poet William Roscoe and sent over for his friend Taylor's grovestone. Yet tbe stone lies ueglected, and the last three lines of the epitaph have been broken off, probably during the work preceding the building of the new church. The epitaph was published in Benson J . Lossing's book ou " Vossor College and Its Founder,** aud was greatly admired and frequently quoted by Matthew Vas-sar, Jr . , as many of his friends remem-ber. The inscription and epitaph on tbe atone are as follows:

In this spot wna Interred John Tujrlor

Attorney nt Law tho oldest son

of Doctor John Taylor ' of Bolton 1c Moors, England who died of tiiu yellow fever

Sept. Uth, 1805. Aged 8G years.

Far from his kindred friends and native sUea Here monlderlng in the dnst poor Taylor liea. Pirn was his mind, and frousht with various

lore And his mild heart was never cold before. Be lov'd his oonntry, lov'd that spot of earth Which gave a Hampden, Milton, Bradshaw

birth. But when that country, dead to all but gain. Bowed her base neck and hugged the opprees

or's chain Loathing the abject scene he drooped and sigh

ed. Oroased the wUd warca and here untimely

diod. Stranger what'er thy country creed or hoe Oo and like him the moral path pnnme; ' Go, and for Freodom every peril brave And nobly scorn to bo or hold a slave.

The last line is one that has been par-ticularly admired and frequently quoted, and i t is gone from the stone, which ia broken off jnst after the fourth line from the end. That this stone should have been so mutilated seems little short of vandalism. John Taylor is said to have con.e to this countiy about the same time tLut the Vassar family came, shortly after the close of the American Revolution, and at a t ime when the English government was repressing al l outspoken friends of reform in. fear of a repotitiou in England of the French revo-lution. He was the uucle of Mr. Hudson Taylor, and the greatuncle of Mr. Rob-' ert E. Taylor. His father, Dr. John Tay-lor, was a very prominent man in Eng-land, with many infiuential friends, one of whom was the poet Rosooe, who wrote the our'taph, which reminds one very muc h 01 some of Goldsmith *8 best lines.—Poughkcepsie Eagle.

"The Pyramid Ump."

"The pyramid l imp," as i t has come to be called, is that state of body which falls upon one for two or three days aft-er making the ascent of the pyramids One is so much pnlled and pushed at the time that little or no inconvenience is felt. There is no sign of soreness of joint or muscle nntil after one has slept, and then the trouble begins to brew; the second day of that man or woman is worse than the f h r t ; the cli-max is reached at the end of the second or beginning of the third day, and from that time the patient begins slowly to recover.—Cairo Correspondent

How a ItuNhful I ' o n n g Man at I^uii Got a Spoon.

There is a man, well known in ju-dicial circles as one of the most polished aud courtly of gentlemen, who tells the following story:

He had not, iu his early youth, those advautiu'PH whioh tond to produce ease of munijor. When about 16, he v.aa much in love with u neighbor's daugh-ler, and, according to his statement, was at this time nearly 6 feet tall, un-gainly, shy and with the proverbial ubiq-uitous bands and f ee t

Ono Sunday ho was at dinner with bis rosy cheeked sweotheart, and when tbe guests had bccu served with soup the youth discovered that be bad no spoon. He grew red in the face and waa in an agony of mortification and dismay. If he asked for a spoon, he felt sure ev-ery ono would look at h im; if he did not eat his soup, his hostess would be euro to remark it. What was he to do? He felt his hands growing larger and more in tbe way than ever, aud his feet oausod him untold emotion by absolute-ly rtrusinK 10 £!o under his chair.

Grout beads of perspiration stood out on his faco and trickled down like rain. The situation was becoming nnendur-able when a tercified cat, pursued by a small but game terrier, rushed into the room uml Hprung upon the table. The guests jumped up, and in the general confusion tbe embarrassed youth retain-ed bis Feat, and turning to the servant remarked calmly, " I ' l l have a spoon, please."—Washington Times.

Dnmaa* Predict ion.

The last time Sarah Bernhardt saw Alexandre Dumas she congratulated him on the fact that the thciusandth per-formance of " L a Dame h u x t a m d l i a s " was soon to be given with proper cere-monies.

"Ah, madam,"sa id the dramatist, ' I am very williug that the event

should be celebrated, but on one condi-tion—that I be not p r e sen t " And he was no t

XUiluiivu Buffering. "

Mrs. Waggles—Doesn't your husband suffer dreadfully with rheumatism?

Mrs. Wiggles—Yes, but i t 's nothing to what the rest of us have to endure.— Somerville Journa l

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LOWELL JOURNAL LOVVBLL, MICH,

THE CITY OF MEXICO.

T* T H E M C K I N L E Y BOOM is booming and other candidates must stand from under. The people, all tho peoplw, demand his j

) nomination and the Republican party should heed thp call.

A Wonderland to tho Norlliorn Tourlits. Strangt- SitililH and rcoiiliwr

People.

T H E R E SHOUM) HE A villaKe ordinance Bgainst tbe placing of tin or metal signs on the fences or railings on the side-walks. They soon become lose at the corners and many valuable dresses are ruined by being snagged on them. They are a uuisance and should be abated.

I T I S TO T H E ADVANTAGE of every reader of the Journal to scan Its adver-tising columns. When a dealer bas

ethlng to sell he usually lets those fio want to buy know It, and when

JTOTT want to buy anything you •hould putt yourself as to where you Oinld buy cheapest No successtul busi-netrf man does all his trading with one hm^e. ha always has bis eyes open for bargrtind.

The Journal publisbirB thin week a Very Interesting letter from Rev. E. VHU Deusen, who Is a missionary at Bardn-town, Barbadoes, West Indies, andl ^ many friends here will read it wMi much interest, Mr. VanDeusen gets a weekly letter from home in the Jour-M which is sent regularly and we are (glad to be the medium of his communi-

tions home.

The Common Council a t its meeting confirmed the appointment, by Presi-dent, of S. P. Edmonds, village mar-shal, and Arthur C. Morgan, night-watch. President Bergin also appoint-ed the following standing committees for the ensuing year: Finance—Coun-oilmen Collar, Winegar, Hunter; Street —Councilmen Winegar, Look, Lee; Fire —Councllmen Quick, Collar. Hunter; Sewers—Councilmen Look, Quick, Lee;

juncilmen Lee, Look, Collar.

THE DAILY NEWSPAPER.

H i Development and Its Worth ExeelleoV ly Set Forth.

The evolution of the daily press into more than a newspaper is forced by trablio expectation aud custom. It is to t majority of people, at least on this continent, the sbleHbraty. It must satis-f y a wider demand than that of the man Who merely wants to know if stocks bave risen since yesterday or whether Benegambia and Bolivia bave gone to War overnight.

Matthew Arnold said, with a sus-BlCion of tears iu his voice, that if he oved something like 60 years longer than he expccted to, he would probably he the only man in Great Britain who would be found reading books. He took i n extreme and rather pessimistio view, ^ s a matter of fact the press has been

|ely instrumental in encouraging the

Wo arrived at the City of Mexico Sat-urday evening. Feb. 22d and a party of us decided to attend the circus, O m n Bros.., who formerly conducted a tent show in tbe Unitfd States, have a per-manent circus here of world wide repu-tation, so for the circus we started. At Querettero we had bought the3feffiican ileroW. a,daily paper printed In Eng-lish, and found out all about the amuse-ments. so our party, consisting of W. J . Hunsacker, of Detroit, Will R. Cook, of Hastings, Hon. E. O. Shaw, of Neway-go, C. C. Vaughn and John Hicks, of St. Johns and myself started out. In the depot we found an American attache of the Mexican Central R. R., who di-rected us to go straight down tbe street six blocks on the right, turn to our right and we would nee a bright light at the circus entrance. We startrd going on the left side of the street, we hadn't gone far when a street branched off to the left, then another and another, then ono to the right, another to tho left and one right and l e f t This was five blocks on the side of the street we were on and only two on the right, but we kept nn until we had passed two more to tbe left , when we began to lose confidenc-iu our "director** and took matters into our own bands. Spying a policeman's lantern In the center of the street we hunted up its owner ord by a series of mixed questions, and tbe exercise of rare good guessing talent on the part of the policeman, vie found wo were all r ight so far, and we went on w ith it -newed faith in our original instructions. Six blocks on our right were passed, but on looking up the street we saw no sign of the "bright light," so we dived into a "Cantina," a place where liquid refresh-ments are sold, where after a short rest the entire party approached the proprie-tor and Will Cook, who had been study-ing Spanish all day, opened rhe battle of words; tbe puzzled look on the face of the man showed us that he was "way off", so W. J . Huneaker tried It; Mr Hunsaker. had spent six weeks In Cuba once and was an indefatlgible student of "Spanish as sbe Is printed" on good Havana cigar boxes, and realizing his fitness for ihe task and the certainty of success, a smile of approval appeared on the faces of the party as he furged to the fore and commenced to exercise bis "cigar box spanish." But It was results we were after and as the puzzled ex-pression on the face of tbe proprietor deepened we lost faith in our Ihst resort. The proprietor bad evidently lost faith in himself and bis ability to understand and you can imagine our surprise and joy when he turned to his waitress a r d in pood English: "Say! I wish you'd come here and see what these fellers w a n t " It is a singular fact that every person m

During tbe day they are at work and Incldently begging from every person they meet. In tho few days we spent In the City of Mexico I saw more beg-gars than I ever met before all together. The first thing the children of this class learn Is to hold out their band for a ' centavio," tho immorality among this class is awful, they are the nearest approach to tho beast of any humanity I have ever come in contact with.

The City of Mexico has wide beauti-ful streeis well swept, with street cars running in every direction away out in-to the country. Fine residences and yards line the streets while the public parka are beautiful. The two principal parks are the "Zocolo" for the poor and the "Alamada" for the rich, each c i v s keeps to its own park, although there are no laws compelling them to do BO. In eaoh park is a band stand and mu-sic is furnished by "Military Bands" all day Sunday and every evening during the week. These bands belong to the stauJing army and it is a singular fact that the band at the "Zocolo" furnlt-bi-s much tbe better music. One of the so-cial events of the week is the twelve o'clock dress parade on Sunday nt the "Alamada;" the walks are covered with a canvas awning and along both sides are a double row of chairs, which rout a t a "real," or twelve cents each, and all of Mexico's society is out in ita finest apparel, cither promenading or watching the promenaders. This dress parade lasts two hours and tbe crowd melts away, to reappear on the Paseo, the "F i f th Ave." of the city, a t five o*clock. Tbe street is lined with a dou hie row of carriages moving in each di-rection, being kept in line and in order by. mounted police, who are placed about six rods apart facing in alternate directions. The carriages are only per-mitted to turn at tho circios, small cir-cular parks located about six blocks apart, in the center of each of which is a statue of one of Mexlco*s heroes Some of our party who had witnessed similar functions in tbe capitals of Europe, Rotten Row m London, Unter Den Linden in Berlin and tbe Boule-vard in Paris, said that this for magnifi-cence was their equal. Every little ways along both sides of the Paseo are s 'atues of their celebrated, statesmen and generals.

APRIL BLIZZARDS.

Fur ious B l a s t s Oaueo G r o a t Dam-ago In W e s t e r n S t a t e s .

In Colorudo llulldliigH Were Wrecked and Some MVOH I'rulmbly Loitt—Texaa

and NcbruNka AIMO Swept bjr the Wind.

FRANCISCO VIRANDA.

Bold In ReT<>reDct> In Vcnexnela as a Plo-m-er of l.llinrty.

Francisco Miranda was a type of tho reckless fighter and udventuror always dear to the hero worshiper, aud ho was so cloacly identified with tho inception of Veue/.uclu's revolution against Spain that ho will always bo held as u nation-al hero.

Ho was born in Caracas in 1750 and entered tho Spanish military service when ho was 17. Ho served in the Unit-ed States iu 1780 and later in Cuba. He was forced to leave Cuba for some illegal

THE MOON BOTHERED JULIET.

leading of good books, and while it en-grosses thfr attention of many millions ! room spoke English and the proprietor Cf readers to itself the fact of the in-1 himself had only been in Mexico six

weeks. We found the,circus and saw a fairly good performance, but we could never again get Hunsaker to attempt

Creasing literary output of .the country • n d the world refutes the notion that the public Is losing its appetite format-ters of enduring moment Tboreuu, the ! •postle of high thought and individual- 8 P a n , s h -ten, took no care of the changes that are , The City of Mexico is most thor-reoorded and forgotten every day because'oughly policed with soldiers of the b e lived apart from men and studied na- 'standing army and in fact the whole tare. He i t s a s who cried: "Do not reed { j g well-covered with these po-

i lice, in the country you are always in The country police are

the times. Head the eternities." But he Bved in a day when the press was small, , , . . . of little infiuence and servile. In his ; 8 ^ . ®ne-

state it supportod the demands of slaveholders, to his infinite disgust, it was first and last a mere record

the day's doiugs. Bnt the press of this day is more than

• record. It is a mirror of the world's thoughts and intentions, a critic, a judge, a guide, a friend. By many the news pages are glanced at, and attention is bestowed on the contents that exhibit deliberation, research and scholarship. There is as pood writing and as pur-poseful and helpful writing in the daily papers today as tbere'was in the inaga-Eines of the first half of our ceutnry be-fore. Moreover, i 1 io writing to some purpose. I t is not for mere display of Style. bnt to accomplish tbe betterment

governments, of society, of institu-tions and arts, (0 slin.ulate effort in r ight causes, to encourage industry.

cfllled '•Rnsticana** and dress in leather trousers and coat or jacket which just comes below their waist. They are armed with "Martini-Henry" rifles, a Coit revolver and a short sword, which cm be uced as a bayonet on their gun, th"y s lue st always have a murderous looking knife in their belts, and fifty rounds of amunltion. In the city these soldipr police are dressed in a blue uni form and are placed at clone intervals throughout tbe city; at night each one of them has a lantern which he sets In tbe center of the street at the corner of his beat and be can always be found within half a block of bis light. They aro uniformly courteous and obliging, but punish any infract'on of the law on the part of the natives, overlooking

A Small Japanese Boy Held It and Would Not Oo Away.

"While in Japan we went to Tokyo to play 'Romeo and Jul iet , ' ** said Mrs. Potter recently. "We played from 7 o'clock in tbe morning until 9 o'clock In the evening, as the manager demand-ed plays, that would last all day, and when I told him that we had noue of sufficient elasticity he replied that when it was all onuod, we would start all over again. Well, we did. The manager was impressed with the necessity of having a moon, and that Juliet, as near as pos-sible, should always be kept in tbe moonlight

"Well, the balcony SOCEO arrived, and there was no moon, but in the midst of

Cripple Creek, Col., April 13-—The Cripple Creek district waa visited by the severest and moat destructive bliz-yarfl ever known Sunday. An ini'meusc amount of damage has been done, and In , all probability some lives bave beeu lost 1 transaction, and for several years led an In the hills, rumors to that effect being 1 adventurous life iu Russia, Turkey, In circulation, and general fear la enter-tained for the prospectors. A light snow started at 11 o'clock Saturday night ond about three in the morning the storm was renewed and the velocity of the wind, which was from the north-tost, increased and continued to blow at the rate of 60 miles an hour all day. A score or more of buildings In this city were blown down nnd tents, signs and loose lumber were scattered over town. All the telephone wires out of the camp are down, and no trains arrived or de-parted Sunday afternoon.

Denver, Col., April 13.—The 1:20p. m. train over the Florence & Cripple Creek road was stalled between here and Ana-conda. One of the suburban trains from Victor is stuck In the snow at Elkton. On the Midland Terminal two passen-ger trains are blockaded at Qil let t

In Texan. Colorado City, Tex., April 13.—A cy-

clone struck this town Saturday n i g h t doing considerable damage to property nnd resulting in the death of Jomes Sol-omon, a 12-year-old boy. The Solomon house was scattered all over the block. Mr. Solomon, wife and five children had retued, and it is remarkable that any of them escaped alive,

Dallas, Tex., April 13.—All that pa r t of the state w e s t southwest and north-west waa visited by a severe windstonn Saturday n i g h t The wind dhme f rom the west, and in many localities was al-most a tornado. At Fort Worth a sash, door and blind factory and the grand stand a t the baseball park were wrecked. At Cresson, a small town below Fort Worth, the Por t Worth & Rio (trande railway depot, tho Meth-odist church and nine business houses and residences were demolished.

At Bates, Denton county, the Meth-odist church was destroyed and other buildings moved from their founda-tions. Along the line of the Texas Cen-tral, from Cisco to Dublin, damage to farmbousea and crops Is reported. The wind was fallowed by a driving rain, which added to the damage.

Iu NebrHitkH.

on all parts of the structure a t the somo time.

Usually only one great ornamental fountain is playing, rising to tho great height of 157 loot. This is probably tho largest artificial fouiitaiu in existence, emitting 82,c.^O gailons per hour. Tn caso of firo all tho water pressuro is di-rected through tho numbers of exterior and interior fountains. Thus every part of tho structure, both inside and out, could soon be drenched and any coufia-gration soon extinguished.—bt Louis Globe-Democrat.

, England and Germany. Ho went into i the French serviceat the outbreak of the | revolution and by brilliant service reach-

ed the rank of major general. His namo is on tho Arc do Triomphe iu Paris, as one of tho groat captains of the revo-lution. His reckless and ndventurous spirit apparently kept him In constant confiict with sober law, for in 1797 he was condemned by tbe directory, bnt es-caped to England. Receiving no aid in England, he camo to the United States.

Here he put into motion his scheme of freeing his native country from the Spanish rule. He found means to equip two small vessels, aud with 200 volun-teers ho sailed for Veuozuela. He lauded early in 1800 nnd was attacked by a superior Spanish force, losing many of his men. The Spanish captain burned Miranda in effigy and offered | 5 0,000 for his capture. He recouped his forces, and a few months later took a Spanish town, but did uot succeed in arousing the people to revolution.

I t was some time later that ho met Bolivar and with him went to Europe to secure aid for their enterprise.

When they returned In December, 1810, Miranda organized tho first repub-lican government which waa made pos-sible by the uprising of the people in April, 1810. He was vice president of congress and signed the constitution and the act of independence. He was com-mauder of the army and won several victories over Uv* Spanish, but his disre-gard for all pi t ^rieties finally got him into trouble. Hta fellow officers among the revolutioni.-du -turned against him, he was accused of being a traitor to the cause, and in 1812 he was taken prisoner by his own party.

[ He was allowed to fal l into the hands I of the Spanish authorities, who sent him | to Cadiz in 1818 as a political prisoner. | Three yeai;s later, on July 14, 1816, he

died.—New York Mail and Express.

BEAUTIFUL JAPANESE CATHEDRAL

Learned In One I.nMon.

A truly remarkable story of feline in-telligence was lately told by a corre-spondent of the London Spectator. In-dotd, it might fairly ho called incredi-ble, only that the correspondeut, as will bo seen, vouches for its truth.

I am induced to scud you an account cf a remarkable instanco of feline sa-gacity which occurred in my house last week

About a fortnight ago my black Per-sian cat brought to the house a yonng sparrow, and taking i t to the front door-mat, began strippiug it of its feathers. The cook, not approving of the litter made by tho said feathers, doubled ths mat over aud told the cat he must uot make such a litter, butgtrew the feathers on tho wrong side of tho mat and not on the top. •

A fortnight afterward the cat brought in another bird and, marvelous to say, turned the mat—which was a heavy coir mat—over with his claws, and littered the wrong side of it with the feathers, precisely as tho coi k had lold him to do.

This is absolutely true, aud without exaggeration.

W h a t "MaliolonR*' Mean*.

A prospective juror, wearing long hair nnd a wealth of whiskers, caused muc1' lyughter iu Judge Dunne's court.

"Du you understand the meaning of the word 'malicious?' " asked tho attor-ney for the defense.

"Of course I do," promptly replied-the man iu the jury box. i

"Well, uow, what does it mean?" 1 "Soldiers," answered the bewhisker-

ed juror. Then he looked surprised while the court told him he was excused from further service. . He afterward said he thought that

the lawyer'asked him the meaning of the word "militia."—E.vchauga

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And IU Uniqne Way of Protect ion F r o m Fire by Fountains.

When foreign architects visit Japan Omaha, Neb., April 13.—The heaviest 1 rainfall in Nebraska the last five years and see tho cathedral of Buddhism for prevailed Saturday and Sunday. In ' the first time, they are generally aston-the southern counties a violent wind-1 ished at the maguificeut structure. I t is storm preceded the rain, and consider-, executed iu pure oriental style and is able damage is reported, hut no lives' richly ornamented with carvings. H. were lost as far aa can be ascertained, ito, a fatuous bnilder of Nagoya City, A dispatch from Red Cloud saysav io- designed i t The structure was com-lent gale prevailed and the sky assumed i meuced iu 1878 and was completed in

inky darkness. Many persons ' 1895. The cost has beeu estimated at 117,600,000. It would have greatly ex-ceeded this amount had uot numbers of

an inky darkness. rushed to their storm cellars.

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PROHIBITIONISTS.

In Springfield a n d Nomina te State Offlcera.

Springfield, 111., April 10.—The prohl-Romeo's most passionate wooing, which, so far as the light on the stage was con- \ inated for governor Hale Johnson, of cenied, might have takeu place at mid- Newton; for llentenant governor, E. A. day, the moon suddenly Appeared. I t , Wendell, of Fairbury; for secretary of was in the form of a lautern fited on a bamboo pole aud was swayed before my

state, Alonzo E. Wilson, of Chicago; for auditor, Arthur J. Bassett, of Chicago;

face by a little Jap who stood beneath | for treasurer, E. K^Hayes, of Galva; for the balcony in full view of the audience. The audience didn't seem to mind i t in the least, but it made me very nervous, and every time Romeo would pour forth

A v < T r i n H l n o ' & n d s a w ^ u , I , I , l l u 8 a t a ' w -MX gnnQing Rouses machine shop.

Buddhists worked without any recom-! I l i m h p r T ' ' l th ' and wood^n eaTe. •' UUI I IUCI 1 trougnv at . I. Ecker & Soaa.

pense. [ ; As the structure ueared completion ! Q g f j g r F e \ v M j ' ^ l •r0,n 7 c ' ' l i r "*

the committee having the work in \ 1_L.... e r ^ bition state convention yesterday nom-' charge was much perplexed as to fire j f n i * Q a l p 1 KOOn Writer E*ri Straw-" ' * ~ ' ' ' * insurance. They fonnd that no company p^Mjro Ad(W w. w. Kh yon^U^eufMich2

wonld assume the risk on such a vain- j

i A. E. Cambell, D.D.S , Dentistry i'i All It- Branches.

Crown, ISridge iiud Pia^e W o r k .

Gnu Aihniniatrreil, Offlce Offlce Hours

Over Boylan's Store. 1 to 12 AM; 1 to 8 P W

attorney general, Robert H. Patton, of Springfield; for trustees state universi-ty, Miss Lucy Page Gaston, of Harvey, Mrs. Carrie L. Grout, of Rockford, Mrn.

thr i f t , honor and content. Tho condiiiou , many breaches ou the part of strangers, of the world in our century without the daily press is muhinkabl Bagle.

| Every day la wall papfr day at Look's

Famons Veteran Dead. Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 10.—Philip G

iau, the unlou soldier who cut down I rebel flag at Fort Sumpter, died at

his homo in Plttstbn Thursday, aged 50 years. He served lour years and four months In the Fifty-sccond regiment Pennsylvania volunteers.

attributing their neglect to ignorant Brooklyn an ample excuse for utrangers but no

excuse for natives In I'nebla one took 1 his lantern and went five blocks to show some of our parly where they could get Home cigaro.

The sidewalks in Mexico are very narrow, not over four feet wide, and t!ii- E. en ing tW- MI IT, through which

j wo wont was literally swarming wuh humanity. Porters, cunying immense loads of every conceivable thing, the

' meat Is delivered from tho slaughter houses to the markets by these human freight wagons, which cany un eullie

his soul I would ejaculate, 'Take away | that moon. ' But the boy was mindfu l ' of his instructions, that Jul iet was a l - :

ways to be in the moonlight, and dur-; ing the rest of the performance every time I came ou the stage I was pursued by that awful moon. Nothing conld in-duce the boy to desist, aud so the moon held fu l l sway."—Rochester Uniou aud Advertiser.

Fine Job Printing of all kmdt* M T?-J O O B M A L Offitv.

T h e d r e a m of Ponce de Leon w « that he might dis-cover the fbuutain of perpetual youth. H e died searching for i t The fountain he was looking foi was an itnpossibil' Uy, unnatural anil c h i m e r i c a l . The nearest th ing to the fountain of perpe t

al youth is a foun-l a i n o f perpetual, p e r f e c t h e a l t h . Health keeps people yoang. S i c k n e s s m a k e s them old. Heal th means first

Koted Voonterfelter Convicted. 'V Detroit, April 10.—Charles Clark. alias James Burdell, alim; "Jimmy" Courtenay .alias Charlen Harwood. has ^ r ^ r e s ^ o n IbeirbaokT'womenTnd been found guilty of bnuging jn-j.uoo 1 . . , t i - . j wor th of counterfeit ten-dollar treiu.- ^ with babies strapped on n ry notes Into the United States f r o m , their back; children running hither and Canada in the spring of 1808. Clark is thither through th.* crowds, the entire: the last of the notorious Brockway j a'.reet given up to the people. Here w e

Ella M. Orr, of Plttsfield. The platform favors woman suffrage, free silver, ch i l 1

Service reform, and reaffirms the posi-tion of the party on the liquor questiou. 1

THROUGH A TRESTLE.

Five Men KlUed in an Accident Near Bedford, Ind .

B e d f o r d , Ind . , Apr i l 14.—A f r e i g h t t r a i u on t h e Belt road w e n t t h r o u g h a t r e s t l e n e a r h e r e a n d fe l l a d i s t a n c e of 70 f e e t k i l l i n g five p e r s o n s . T h e d e a d a."e; Cha r l e s Ogden , c o n d u c t o r ; J a m e s Slier. ' , fireman; M. J . M a s t e r s o n , b r i d g e e a r p f n t e r ; E d . B ivens , b r i d g e c a r p e n -t e r ; W a r r e n S. L e r m o n d . b r i d g e c a r p e n -ter. T h e i n j u r e d : G e o r g e Meinzer , en -g i n e e r ; J a m e s Davis , b r i d g e c a r p e n t e r ; I l en rv De vau l t , b r a k e m a n . T h o five d e a d bodies w e r e t a k e n f r o m t h e t w i s t -ed ami d i s t o r t e d m a s s of w o o d a n d i ron , s o m e o ' t h e m b e i n g a l m o s t u n r e c o g n i z -

able.

able wocden structure, the danger of de-struction by fift being very great, nnd thus the promiums would amount to an enormous sum of money. At last the committee decided on a design devised by Dr. Tanabe. Numbers of powerful fountains wore constructed, both exterior and interior, which can be made to play

K Hankers Will Meet in St. Louis.

Sp r ing f i e ld , 111., A p r i l l 3 . — T h e A m e r -i can Hankers ' a s soc i a t i on wil l hold i t s a n n u a l m e e t i n g t h i s y e a r in S t . Lou i s on S e p t e m b e r 22,23 a ^ d "4. A r r a n g e m e n t s h a v e been m a d e t o c lose t h e a n n n a l sea-

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of all, strength anil g i o n w i t h an e x c u r s i o n t o L i n c o l n ' s

r ^ H v e ' fSnc t fon i ton* at Sp r ing f i e ld , 111., on S e p t e m b e r Putindigcutible twut. 1 lit* biniJctrs wi l ! di 'voto oi«t* 10 ter Into the s tomach p a t r i o t i s m a n d h o n o r i n g t h e m e m o r y ol

2 n j i ^ i ' 9 t 0 t h e g r e a t m a r t y r . find lodgment m the | b i. bowels. It will stop , Iowa Cont rac tor* FalL t h e i r action. Poi- Des Moines , l a . , Apr i l 13.—J. C. Mar -

S T w i i c h " s h o u l d ^ o n e o f t h e o i ( l e 8 t b u i , d i n e c o n t r a r t -have been thrown o r s l b e c i ty , f a i l ed , w i t h l i ab i l i t i e s off, is re ta ined in tbe

body, and as :t cannot go any place else, more or less of it gets in to the blood. Tha t ' s constipation. I t is such a wonder-fully simple thing that people d o not regard

g a n g of c o u n t e r f e i t e r s convic ted in t he f e d e r a l c o u r t s w i t h i n u f e w weeks .

saw women with a little fire of charcoal or twigs in a "brazuno" cooking "tor-tillas." We thought these people were cooking lunches to sell to the patjaersby, but on our return to tbe car at eleven

box of Dr King's N « wf ^ ; r

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of a b o u t $20,000. T h e vaJue of a s s e t s is d o u b t f u l . T h e y c o n s i s t m o s t l y of d i s t r i c t school b o n d s . T o o low a bid on a l a r g e c o n t r a c t f o r e r e c t i n g s choo l b u i l d i n g s is t h e c a u s e of t h e f a i l u r e .

Wal l ing Trial Set fo r May 5. C inc innu t i , Apr i l 14.—'Ihe a t t o r n e y

f o r Alonzo W a l l i n g . I n d i c t e d w i t h Soot4. J a c k s o n f o r t he m u r d e r of P e a r l B r y a n , h a s been no t i f i ed t o be r e a d y t o p roceed

burn, distress after eating, foul breath, w l t h t h e t r i a l May 5. coaled tongue, dizziness, palpitation of the j

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Ilerious stibstance and to be purely Ivege-1 These people never have lived under a jtable. They do not weaken by their ac-, r 0 0 f and their only home Is pome nook [tion, but by giving tone to stomach and a nob man's house, their bed the 1

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Voluuleuin f o r Cuba. L e b a n o n , Ind. , A p r i l 11. — C a p t .

J a m e s W a t t s , a p r o m i n e n t c i t i zen a n d v e t e r a n of t h e l a t e w a r , i s o r g a n i z i n g a c o m p a n y h e r e t o g o t o C u b a t o a s s i s t t h e i n s u r g e n t s .

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GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY DISEASED MEN CURED

T U n i l C K M n C ^ Jonng mon. middle agel mor. and old men ran look back nt I n y u o n n u o their boyhood days or eirly manhood wiUi a Binh of remorse.

The ignoranofl of early youth, or later ou a NRN-ivnt lile a-> "one of th.- bojb" has BOTV-S theaeedft for tu ure Minorlnr- S E L F A B U S E isatprriblosin BEainst nntare and will brim: a rich harveet. Blood nnd Private Ui-cases sap the \ery life auJ vitality of fhe victim. Uor NEW METUOD TREATMENT will positively care all tLe follow-iuy diseaaiM;

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Henry's hasty and vindictive intention, the colonel's interference, and Hester si t t ing unmoved through it all. What was themeaningof thiawarlikeepisode? Were such things of so little moment in the daily life of the south tha t they could be passed over without comment? I t would appear so, since his hosts hud immediately ignond the incident as though it had never been. Even Hepler had been able to take up the thread of inconsequent conversation again with no visible sign of perturbation or em-barrassment. What was the reason for Henry's sudden nnd savage wra th? Conld the intruder have been a common marauder of chicken-coops, or waa he a sneak thief hoping to find the house unoccupied becautie there were no lights?

The sinister meaning in Henry's care-less reply answered these questions be-fore they had taken shape. Could i t be possible tha t the Lntimers were in-volved in one of the cruel vendettas about which he had heard nnd read ?— was that what Hester meant when she said her own family had not escaped? And following closely upon the heels of the latter question came another: If he should enter the family, would he be ex]>ected to bear a par t in any such irregular warfare? No, tha t was not quite the way to state' i t ; say, ra ther , could he reasonably hope to hold the re-spect and affection of his wife upon any other condition?

The night was cool, nnd the light all* sweeping up the side of the mouufain was grateful and refreshing af te r the heat of the day. and yet Ringbrand grew uncomfortably warm as the in-evitable conclusion placed itself like a gigantic exclamation point at the end of his theories. The possession of physical courage in his own projjer per-

son is not a necessary qualification for the writer of stories. It is t rue tha t he must recognize its existence, and he must be upon sufiloiently intimate terms with its outward prese.mi jn ts to be able to imbue his heroes with a proper degree of contempt for their personal safety; beyond this, the exigencies of the a r t demand nothing, and the ar t is t himself may be tlie most, humble votary of the goddess of common sense. Some such thought as this came to Ringbrand as he made his way down the mountain. The successive scenes of his uneventful life passed in review like the pictures of a retrospective panorama. Now t h a t he thought of it, he saw t h a t all of his lines of conduct had been drawn well upon the hither side of personal antagonism—that he had always been averse to anything approaching an ar-bitrament of force. With well-mean-ing sophistry, he had argued himself into the belief tha t a contempt for mere physical courage was a par t of the thoughtful man's protest against bru-tality and the unconvincing logic of appeals to physical superiority; but he remembered, with a sharp little st; of mortification t h a t these fine-spun theories had l>een swept aside like cob-webs on the few occasions when he had been brought face to face witli personal danger. I t was not necessary to go far for an example; a flush of shame glowed in his face when he recalled the small fit of ter ror tha t had seized him bn t an hour before, when he had stood help-lessly watching Henry t iy ing to get the dodging shadow within Ute range of his rifle.

After that , his thoughts kept him but indifferent company for the rest of his walk, and he reachcd Tregarthen, and hit room a t the Lud lows', wi thout hav-ing arrived a t any more definite conclu-sion than a determination to ask his fr iend for an explanation of the inci-dent a t "The Laurels." and to ge t there-with so much of the Latimer history as Ludlow migh t be able to recite.

The la t ter enlightened him, cheerful-ly, on their way to the furnace the next morning. "Tha t was probably one of tfee STMBfc" h f tVMl "ttooflfe wfcr be

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should risk his skin a t such close quar-ters I cali't imagine. They're a bad lot, though—equal to almost anything, I'm afraidk"

"Who are the Bynums, nnd w h y -Hut don't make me pull i t out of you by llttlcb; tell me the whole story."

"1B it possible tha t you've been in Tre-garthen all this time and haven't yet beard of the Latimer-Iiynum feud?"

"It 's more thori possible; it 's a fact." "Well, It's a Ibng story, bu t I'll con-

dense It for you. Old Squire Latimer, the colonel's father, was instrumental in bringing one of a former generation of the Bynums to justice for the mur-der of a revenue officer. Since tha t time there's been a running fight between the two families; the squire had his house burned, and subsequently lost his life, presumably a t the hands of the fa-ther of the present family of Bynums. 1 qualify because there seems to be a little doubt about the murder part , now, although the squire's neighbors >yere well enough satisfied to hang John By-uum by the summary process of lynch law. Of course the row couldn't be expected to end with a single lynching, and when the boys grew up they began on the colonel. I believe he horse-whipped one of them and got a broken arm for his pains; tha t was a good while ago, but the feud has lost none of its bitterness with age. I t ' s been stirred up in my time by a lawsuit over the Mc-Nabb coal vein, which Is situated on a part of the colonel's estate, bu t waa claimed by the family in the cove. Of course the colonel—or ra ther the com-pany, in this instance—won the law-suit, and that didn't help matters any. We tried to open the coal vein af ter-wards, but it 's my private opinion t h a t the Hynum boys destroyed the working aa fast as we developed it."-'

"What a f r ight fu l s tory of lawless-ness!"

" I t is ra ther savage, when you come to think of it, isn't i t ? And we haven't seen the end of i t yet by several livea, I 'm afraid."

"But won't the law protect the colonel in the defense of his r ights?"

"It—or public indignation—would avenge his death very promptly, but in regard to the other, you'll remember tha t you mnst first catch your hare; these fellows don't go around with a brass band announcing their inten-tions."

Still, I should think it would be easy enough to get evidence against them."

"Do you?—then suppose you try it . That 's a bright idea, Hugh; you are in-terested in the family fortunes, and you haven't anything else on your mind. Ju s t turn in and get evidence enough to hang these three Bynum boy* and I'll guarantee the colonel will give you f e s -ter out of hand."

l?—<3od forbid!" replied Ringbrand, turning pale. "My gi f t s don't lie in tha t direction."

Ludlow glanced a t his fviqnd with a look of mingled curiosity and concern. "I waa wondering if you'd changed any, Hugh; you used to be a 1 oaceable sort of fellow in college 1 can ' t imagine you in the role of a fire eater."

•Go on and say the rest of it," said Ringbrand, bit terly; "you can't imagine me as an adopted member of a fire-eat-ing family. Well, I don' t blame you; I can't do i t myself."

"1 shouldn't have put it in any such uncharitable form," responded Ludlow, reflect ively, "but, since you've men-tioned it, Fll say what ' s been in my mind ever since you told me what brought you to Tregarthen. Hester Latimer's husband will have to do one of two things—help fight the family battles or refuse to have anything to do with them. The first may cost him his life, and the last will be very sure to cost him his happiness. Tm no hand to meddle, as yo 1 know, Hugh, bu t it 's well enough to consider these things before it 's too late."

That 's the pity of if, Tom," replied Ringbrand, quietly. ' T m afraid it 's too late now. I realized two things pret ty clearly last night—one was that

l ife without Hester wouldn't be worth living, and the other was that I'd ra ther die than have her find me out fo r what I am."

"That 's put t ing i t ra ther harshly; you haven't any good reason for think-ing tha t you ur t—"

"A coward—say it, Tom; 1 plight to be able to bear the t ru th , and that is the t ru th . I know it; I've known it all along, only Tve been trying to make myself believe i t wasn' t so. That 's what was a t the bottom of all those little things you remember in the uni-versity days; you don' t know how I despise myself when I think of it all."

"No, I don' t remember anything bn t what I said a moment ago—that you were always a peaceable sort of fellow."

"That isn't i t ; i t ' s one th ing to be peaceable f rom principle, and quite an-other to be restrained by a wholesome fear of consequences. I t ' s always been the lat ter with me. I can look back over my life and see how I've been con-tinually dodging. W h e n I was a l i t t le fellow, the fear of a whipping was the strongest incentive to good behavior, and the same argument has held good evor since. Yon know that . Tom, if you'd only admit It."

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" i f ' . MIIUBII.-J • "uryou vilify yuur- | self. Hut scriou-lv, :Iiigh, this is i-crisis lliat 's fo t to be riot. 1 tn lvyour word for it that you're properly in love 1 with Hester Latbucr; if she does you the honor to return your aireetlon— which, I take It, is not yet a foregone conclusion—why, you're a lucky fel-low, aud you should be thankful t •lough to fight her battles, aud those of her fa ther aud brother If need be. It. may not require such a phenomenal di irree of physical courage* but It'll ask for some of the moral variety; and there's always a wide possibility tha t it'll de-mand both in heroic propoHlors. If I were in your place I should fight the battle beforehand; then, if you find you're not going to be up to it, the hon-orable th ing Is to pull out while the girl Is ye t fancy free. That 's pretty straiffht talk; but you know me of old, and you have Invited frankness."

They were nearlng the furnace yard, and Ringbnand did not reply until they reached the gate; then neghtsped Lud-low's hand and pressed i t warmly. " Y o u ' m a good friend, Tom. I'll think it over and try to do as you advise. Only if I can't br ing myself up to the mark, you mustn ' t be surprised if I should drop out unexpectedly* I don't believe I could face you or Mrs. Ludlow af te r that ."

"Thinking it over" asked for solitude and quiet surroundings; and af te r leaving Ludlow, Ringbrand walked on u p the valley, skir t ing the base of the mountain until he came to a rough cart road leading toward the summit. He took it because If plunged Into the forest and offered shade; and af te r that he paid little attention to direction or distance until he found himself before what appeared to be an abandoned mine. The mouth of the opening was choked up with broken timbers and masses of. rock, and on a board nailed to a t ree growing ou t of a crevice jus t above the tunnel arch he read: "Mc-Nabb Tunnel, T. C. & I. Co." The name brought back Ludlow's story of the feud and the lawsuit, and he examined the place with awakening Interest. From the small cleared space In f r o n t of the working he could see the extent of the cove with its shelving sides pitch>-ing down toward the yellow fields in the center; and, as there was but one house In sight in the bowllike depres-sion, he concluded a t once tfiat It was fhe home of the Bynums. Turning again to the tunnel, he found that by scrambling over the pile of debris In the entrance he could reach a place where the height of the excavation permitted him to stand upright; and when his eyes became accustomed to the dim half-light, he looked about him with the observant curiosity of one who sees latent possibilities for the collecting of literary material from the most commonplace sun-ound ings. There was ' l i t t le to be seen save the ragged walls of coal and a few rus ty mining tools; the heading stopped ab-ruptly about 30 feet from the entrance, and the excavation was a mere irreg-ular gap in the edge of the thick seam of coal. While he waa examining a miner 's lamp which he found sticking in a crevice, he felt a breath of cold ulr which seemed to come from above, and, looking up, he saw a narrow r i f t in the sandstone roof of the tunnel f rom which the draught appeared to issue. Lighting the lamp and thrus t -ing it up Into the aperture on the end of a stick, he could see that the r i f t widened above the opening and t h a t i t extended indefinitely Into the mountain a t right angles to the direction of the tunnel. The opportunities for fu r the r exploration seemed promising, and Ringbrand, yielding to an inquisitive

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impulse, drew himself u p Into the crev-ice by the help of a coal pick. By the smoky flare of the lamp he could see t h a t he was standing in a natural tun-nel of considerable height, running crosswise of the coal working and com-municating with it by the aperture through which he had entered. As i t was evident t h a t thu latter opening was artificial or accidental, he deter-mined to ascertain If there was any other means of egress from the cavern. Turning to the left, the exploration came shortly to an end against a wall of broken rock and detritus which completely filled the crevice; re-tracing his Hteps, he pushed forward in the opposite direction, meeting with no obstacle for a considerable distance. The cleft was of irreg-ular width, but i ts walls were perpen-dicular and smooth, rising above his head until their outlines were lost in the gloom. At several points they ap-proached each other so nearly tha t he had some difficulty in squeezing through; bu t a f t e r the passage of one of the narrowest of these rocky strai ts he came out Into a large chamber. In which the murky darkness was diluted by a thin stream of sunlight filtering through a hole In the roof. He stood gazing upward a t the small aper ture f a r above, wondering if It could be used as an entrance without the help of a rope ladder. The question had scarcely taken shape before ita answer appeared in the form of a double row of rude niches cut in the wall and run-ning in irregular lines up to the gash in the roof. In the flue damp sand a t his feet he saw the imprint of a man's boot, and there were many more o l them j u s t beyond i t The explorer ex-amined them oarefully, and then sa t down upon a rock to classify his find-i n g

By the amofcy flare of the lamp he conld tee that he was ntnndlntf In a natural luiniol.

tha t it hns been used, too^and some one has taken a deal of trouble to make it available. I wonder If there's any other way out of the place? I suppose there isn't."

He rose and walked across the cham-ber to the point where the crevice ap-peared to continue it« way Into the mountain. There was a narrow slit showing that the cleft extended still farther, but the contracted passage waa only a few Inches in width. Fastening the hook of the lamp upon one of the points of the pick, he pushed the l ight into the crevice as far as he could reach, and by this means was able to discern the dim outlines of another chamber similar to ' the qne In whioh he wan standing. In moving the l ight about to get a better view, the lamp tumbled off and rolled out of reach; and in en-deavoring to recover It with the pick the point of the lat ter became so firm-ly fixed In a crack in the rock tha t he was unable to extricate.it . "Tha t was a br ight thing to do," he said, pausing to wipe the perspiration from his forehead. " I suppose i t would have been all the same if my life had depend-ed upon that trumpery excuse for a light. Fortunately, I can get out either way without i t ."

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The Confederate Debt Would lie Some-thing Instead of Nothing—Kngllsli Oold llar.arded on Cemetery RIIIRO — Sedan WHM IN View of Little Rouiul Top.

[Copyright, 1806, by John Clark Ridpath.] V.

The blood flecked foam of the gront rebellion broko surflike over Cemetery Ridge. Ono of onr poets has charaoter-izod It as "a high t ide," uud tho figure is not unfit. When Armistead, with his hat on his sword, went down among the Union gnus, it marked tho supreme touch of those forces which, beginning with the plnntntions of tho cavaliers, rose iu tho domestic estate, of the south, liuked itself with fhe JefTersoninn theory of government and became volcanic— if not glorious—in tbe southern Coufed-eracy. What if Pickett's column had gone headlong over?

In tho rptro.npcct wo see that It was not an imp'jssiblo thing. Longstreet, who was aliout the only cool headed man in th it tremendous melee, thought it impusriibie to win with Lee's method, and the eve:.! vindicated his jndgmpnt. Strangely enough, <n that day the north did uot imagine it possible for Lee to be victorious. Neither did the north suppose that the loss of the battle would entail irreparable disaster iu the field or chauge the final results of the war.

Tho leaders of tho southern Confeder-acy made their greatest mistake In not understanding this lutr-ut and irrevoca-ble determination of tho northern people to win the fight. Ic might take 4 years or 14, but the settled purpose of the average Union man was to re-estab-lish tho nation without the loss of a foot of soil or a single pit ••gative of tho government. There m-ver was a well developed donV'm the nort-hem states that the f• •: y ;ld nltimatoly bo re-planted i;i uL..qaivoep.l triumph throngh-ont tho Union. This sentiment, wide-spread and rock founded, might have rallied and doubtless would have ral-lied and prevailed even if the Confeder-ates had triumphed at Gettysburg, bnt after 82 years we may well recall the peril of that hour and repeat the ques-tion, What if Lee had won?

If Leo had won, he himself wonld . have become titanic. Ho would have

risen to another plane in military his-| tory. No future reverse or final failure I could then have dimmed his luster.

Moscow and Leipsic and Waterloo bwit iu vain ou tbe martial glory of Napo-leon. There were groat elements iu tho character of Robert E. Leo. His personal grandeur cannot be doubted. His career as a commander has been applauded by all military critics, i u tho "Memoirs of Gran t" one may perceive that the man of Galena, nut given tu weak jeal-ousies, was touched ou several instances by tho maguificeni bearing aud possibly superior fame of his rival.

If Lee had sueceeded in crushing Hancock, iu cutting Meade's army in two, in adding Gettysburg to the list of his victories, his gJoiy us a general mnst have shone throngh thu centuries. t

If IAH) had NUDI, ihe Confederate debt would probably have becomo something instead of nothing. Shy lock Biitannicus. who had given his money with the doa-ble hope of disrupting the Union and gaining for himself a iuture monopoly of ihe American col tou crop, had every-thing staked on Pickeu's charge. Vicks-bmg also just tin n &truck him in the hollow side, and ho resounded like a vacuum, bnt his grcnt hazard was on Cunotory Ridgo. Tbe British goveru-menl was with him iu hope, aud so was France, and so was all the west of Eu-rope. If the Confederacy coald unco gain recognition, then i m bonds, payable six u.^aths al'lerward, would have « value, bat ii tho C ' u f ' devixy should break nnd recoil from that village graveyard thou the hazarded gold of Britaunicus must be dissipated forever with the smoke.

About the only unmixed blessedness iu the memories (.f the civil war is the happy recolleci ion mat the British bloat who tried,A on false information and with false hopes, to purchase the dis-membermeut of the Amcncan Union lost his money forever ut Ueitysunig. He paid the bill. The two hours 'vol-cano of Alexander's batteries, roaring and exploding over Hnnt aud Hancock, was an expensive spot i whn-iiv.'as liqni dated in full by Old of Lng-laud. We rejoice in the rotrw.ipcet ut his Irreparable luso and mortification, junt as he would have smiled from ono oi his mniton chops to the other a t onr discomfiture and ruin if Lee had won tun battle.

On Uie other hand, .^'hylucli A::. - . canim v;-.b' co.,i*'r' d and imde • tvnre

j by tho breiilri; . J .Ut;' • . ; <""'1 a ecriointy, i*" ol iur y >w was hazarded on tiur caut-o ai h..uie— and some tb it was piven abroad—was given with the patriotic design of up-holding the fu io i i ••. -o iuui 1 Jild' .g n.n.*' about i -puh ;cr,n i but much more of it was giv ; simpiy and solely as a bi'i ciijaiiDU. . .n io . e men wlio dickerw. in our NOMOWS. re-joiced in onr disa-iers, bi.ufni our debt in the dur/; days at a niihiiin.l ii •n.i:, got the boudn at evi.y U.UI 'O ! themselves, and who with their de-scendants. for i r i "O y • have fattened then lv>.- «;i j . .i.- 'l fulne. at. the exp 'ii.-f • .. j eopie They havo wMl; -.ii coiiii/u i iion t a u n the toil and o.; .» i. '• .a» • • huui ble millio:..s, 1 i \.. . co iu ,v- .i:::. forbearance tiio nr^iitmare—..ill a.;. heavy as v v — j •,

The world .:nnv\> II'.W V R-LW •, itself in-the j .•.•e »..i 'i.-ic world know:, i . > ' alar dodges and h.^ ill'1 ;• ••t alarm aiid how a-poojila in cvory va . - ...i- u i . is aro driven by no^yts.-sty to ) • ij thf. •selves with some ctlicrfo'i.i (i • • Gold

nnd slVwir are tho supremo cowards of the world. If we were Imperiled today iu another like crisis, they would ' fly aud leave us to our fate. My friend Iron-qulllof Kansas lias happily summarized the whole thing in a few lines: TIN- mer i t I ' t h o country innr'-licd mid flllrd

tin L.'nlon RI.nk.T. Tho MO'.' Y of t l i e country mari'licd and FLLUD

the b'ujtliHh ImnkM. At IN.it the war was over, and Johnny criiwd

to roam. He eaine with IIUKIOH pluylnu; tho HIH.I'IO

sneaked hark home I

One day, when a lying grapevine tel-egram of a Uniou disaster had enabled the brokers in Wall street to swoop down on thu national credit and buy themselves rich in a few hours, tho gaunt Lincoln went over to the war do-partment, hoisted himself with a swing on to a long oak table, and bringing down his clinched fist like a maul said: "Stanton, do yon know what I think? I think that the men who are speculat-ing in tho life blood of thin nation, an those fellows In New York are doing, ought to bo haugnd. Don't you?"

At all events, tho national debt was confirmed and made valid by the recoil at Gettysburg. The people did not thou know that tho debt w i s to become the great fundamental fact iu our snbse-queut history. The people wero intent on the battle. They wero gloriuufl iu their determination to see the battle through. While they were fighting it ont victoriously au euemy took posses-sion of the house, whoso expulsion has not yet been effected and who now open-ly advances his protensiouH to be tho original owner of tho premises. He says that the American people, being bound to him iu a couiract which ho has al-ready changed three or four times iu his own interest, must now either discharge their mortgage with a dollar worth 170 cents, or else ho wil l rightfully fore-close on the farm aud mako them all tenants at will forever. It is a bad busi-ness. Gettysburg made the flag supreme. Our constellation of stars has spread to a cluster of 4(1, but Gettysburg also brought to loyal Shylook such an oppor-tunity to spoliate the world as he had not enjoyed since tho Napoleonic wars.

The recoil of tho Confederacy on the Sd of July determined the general lim-its of the conflict The war lusted for 21 months and 6 days, bat never after-ward was the impact of tho southern armies what it bad been before. Tbe Confederates fought ou, but i t was a sullen, heavy, defensive, despairing fight. There was no abatement of courage or of the declared purpose to win or die, but the fury and arrogance of tho Confederacy were gone, never to return. Lee and Johnston knew it. Da-vis nnd his cabinet knew it, aud it was uot long nntil the whole world lenew it also.

After Gettysburg the descent of the secession cause down into darkness and tho oblivion of the underworld was constant aud irrevocable. No power could shore up the tottering fortunes of that brave, ill starred, reckless thing called tho southern Confederacy. In a prize fight there is always a critical ble w. Sooner or later ono of the com-batuUts receives a shock that reaches to the nerve centers aud weakens him from head to foot. He staggers to the grouud, but rises ou time aud smiles. Ho throws himself into posture, aud his backers shout and bet more money—and lose it. Their favorite bas had a blow from which he cannot recover, and ere long he goes to his corner in tbe nuconseions-ness of semideath aud despair.

The strong and defiant south stood thus in the arena ou tho 8d of July, 18(13. Ab.mt 4 o'clock in the afternoon a blow was delivered by the Uniou army which, falling over <be heart of the euemy, laid him low ou the bloody slopes. That blow made all his future risings and fencings and bravado to be nn more than the expiring rounds and dragging afterplay of a contest that was already decided.

Tho political structure of half the world was affected by the shock of Get-tysburg. A poet, musing on Little Round Top in the twilight of tbaf awful d: r , might sro Sedan as well ns Appo-mattox in the distance. The French army occupied Ihe City uf Mcxico ou ibo lOthof June, 13G3. Lee had already crossed tho Potomac. The foreigu regen-cy was established while ha was at Ciiambersbarg. fceveu days aftef the great buttle the hareduary Mexican monarchy under a Catholic emperor was proclaimed. Napoleon III, that son of Hnrtense and Sumcbody, hybrid of sphinx and Mephistopheles, had care-fully planned to profit by onr wreck. His idea was to eurich the La; in races \4iih tho botsam and jetsam of .the American catastri-pho. Aud iliings went well with him utilil the recoH of Leo,

Thar event sho^-pd that t lie Confed-eracy was for tho pseudo-Bonaparte a delusion aud n snare. If- Lf • had won, Napoleon could have supj.'orted his u>mpa;:on iu A. ' i lea. His li/irc.irhiuij imi.,;ai: might have, brou * f^i who was th i"> to 'm; hix purpose? V.'» ? i -. i • j • ai cauplex-ion o' » .i..,;-. •—as . .genie's cou:itiii:iiice caj-.u^i-.i-—al tlie uew.s of Gettysburg. The break of Pickett 's col-umn v a s also a li..;iik in the dikes of t,!.','p T.-1 i iup re. Napo?i:un".-i . .dou-mcnt o? Ma:.;:..ilian aud L.. - .. !:ing back under tbe menace to Grunt was the C;.' vV fiv. i i. ti -;t. - r r e t . - . b e c a m e his mood i.nd habit nnt i l he found hin.self at last beynt with 1 llfire in the crater of Sedan.

T'io poi of 1 ond Top, still rnpt in vision IT the tv .n.suduib sundown of that < v, might see .TcfTeraou Davis, willi a u w icmSiiuiug comrades, flying b ' ' ' U r : . ! cavalry from Charlotte into th ; .ub \.oo.ls nf Georgia, lie . .,,1.1 see the tail lignre oi Maxi-mli and ing h; .he 1110™!!!;.' light b r ' . r e Ihe leveled inasketi of tho uven-t e u 0; i^iqe Uie g.iy .s of Qnevetu o. H> rr.::' " "'•/» Ffa at •(!.<» back tiodr of the Lor.vin at nr'l'.iiiht on ibe Hd of t>ep-u nib. v. ih'r Die Coa.ii da L.' - ps,

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BRIDGETOWN, BARIUDOKS, W . I , ,

Feb. 9. istiti. Dear Jounutl~We nrnved bore the

morning of llm 2fith of Jan. after 11 anil of three and ono half days from Kings* ton; Jainnlca. Om ndo to tb.h pli.ce 1 WHI-11 pli-iiHUDl or.i a ih« w -a.i er warm and not vciy rough. Tbe rt.*-tnnce from KmgHion to this place 'si said to be IH'H. miles. Our shin WUH of j the Royal line, oi Mad ble. ni Packet Co. Oionocu.

Tne principle city of Ibh island ii Bridgetown. In* population, 21.(1(10 Thu population of the IHI. IUI is 180,0(MI, of wbicb lO.UOO, or one I2ih is white. The iHland contains KW square mlh s. Quite IKK) to tho square mile. Onr own county of Kent would make five} islands as large a i tho lele of Bar-bados, Tbe export is rum, molasses and sugar, Tbe preseut lime is sugar mak-IIIR. They are now lanulng not lar from this plantation, Tbey make three and four luigbheads per day. A bojjh-head weighs on au uveitige 2,000 pound'. Large quanttties are shipped iu bag? in > sizes as large us l hiee hushi 1 bats. Tbe • cane Is «;iubhed belween tbi-eo lar^c j iron rolloivi, driven by a lar0e four winded wmd mill. Almost evuiy plan taiiuu bus one and sometimes two ol t b o e mills. There are a few 01 thebe sugar mills that are operated by steam March is the best month for sugar m iking as the wind bloivs hardest that aionib. I w ill not try 'o give a descrip Hon of tbo evaiioratiug piocess. it is simply boiled tn largt* n pptr keiiles, iu a 1 OA- six or seven in number, bet so us ibe edge of oue kettle joined to ibe oilier, then ibey dip from one kettle into ibe other, till the lasl kettle wben it Is put in large ccoleis and sliiTed till cool enough tu be put in the hogsheads with holes in the end to ?llow the molastis to run out. The molasses iu ban el led and shipped by ilself. &ugar Is now miuging

25 per hundred per hogshead. America gels a large rate of the sugar made here. Tney get much of their flour and grain from America. The Barbadians here think if i. was not for America t hey w» uld die for want of flour. Their idea is that America iu tbo greatest and best place on the earth , (and tbey are not far from the truth,) and if more Americans knew it tbey would be happier to.

Yams, sweet potatoes, and a small ground edible the size of a man's thumb called eddoes, are tbe ground products of 1 bat nature. Some Indian corn and a kind of corn called Uuiny corn, is the grain raited.

Tbe island is almost destitute of lim ber, that having been removed long ago. Tbe beautiful Mahogany is a nat-ive of this island. There are other woods here but not in any quatities. The lumber for building is shipped in from other countries, In fact almost everyihiug such as are sold in stores is imported. This island is wholly de-pendent on the outside word for many of its most necessary things. I' Is not the fruit producing island that Jamacla 1 is, although they could be grown. | Fruit is not dear as the following sho-vs: j Four tuid live bananas for a cent, a ;

dozen limes Tor a cent, two oranges for | a cent, four large lemons for a cent. 1

Yams sell for one dollar a hundred j pounds, sweet pota'oes to 35 cents per hundred pounds. Flour is not hijih ; being three ••ents a pound, either for one pound or one hundred pounds.. 1 | can buy jusi. as big a loaf here tor one j cent, two cents or four or eigiit cents as in Lowell or anywhere else ir Michigai:. 1 I t would cost you eigbt cents heie to get a common sized sponge cake baked. , The people bere do no baking as fuel is scarce and deal. Coal sells in bags of t b m bu. ;«iid a hundred pounds! weight, for ninety cents a bug. Tb'S is j shipped in fiom other islands. A cod is sold in smjili buuehes ofabom »-ix iuchts through and a fool long fo;- a c n a bu::ch. Tlii? is used mostly (o kin^l • the coal. The coal is used in a kettle 8. 10 or 12 inches across (be top and ti inches df:ep, with an ope ning m the bo ;om and H grate to keep tho coal from going ibiougb. Anything to L-.* hoiled can be n-cely cooked on tnis I fiio Tbey are ro t :-n:.ioiis here about their breakfast l<»ing:.! fi ». m. as-Amencans are; 10 a m. i-? the Ba'hv-!!-anV time-to breakfast. Dinner i - Lake, et font lo six p. m. Your s c ' b e h.is | not yel turned Barbadian in t.'.is line '1

On making sn evening vi-'t ii • custf-iii lo -"at you '<• a cin of li l | milk and a piece o; iponge c.ihe or a ooo-1.-.

The 15 .>0 wiirie popuh •l-.o 1%111jcc.tnji.je weli wi.u tl 1. hi: . :.. ot ber count lies. Tbose who hb . t c- -m- -especiaUy from America bi ve gi-cn the : isi • 'a cb .ii'/e ot cast iliat has been i a In ip. cn.ier* u-ve been a neip, nut the A m e i ' r ii.- • i - ;ind wi i he Mie real! leaders in adv nemg imj • -vi nient.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

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1 LUIII RVLUULIEI A N o i t s . )

l.lk'-wlse, I pay unto you 1 . .'I ; • '" 'E nf th • I!";-,e|B

r one sinner that repenteth.—

HI. I'tdra the

hi.1 fatal tne cu. e 1 in!

cry, " T h e r e goes Mrs. Boi JOHN CI-ARK RIDPATH.

«ut. net They heve a fine qua1

t h a i is IIO.v looked af a I T . e r of p r . ' l i t

tuivi, and bids fai . i s land as a home p

another time.

or by A u to Un.* m a

be a bolp i

oduc t . '•'•i E . VAN PI.T

k clui|jier, same grenl 1 • :Ii3.

1 for thin pnniblo in tlm uilicr lioHpels; hut mai.y passages lluow llulu on tii" illirerent parts, as on

: Ac; .in tr ..11 I'nnidlsc; lliu l i i"- l and Judah, an shewn ..v us on the fruit of sin;

E. I..;I, .12: 1:1:6, 15; Inn. 67:20, . ..ion's c::pcrIcKue In Ec-

• i. -11 H; r l on tho welcome home; I..1. 1:18; 6,Vl-2: M:7; M a t t . 1I-2S; John a:l'i; Uev. 22::7; Itoni. n:V: Kzek. 38:14,15.

'I a;K.—Dttenibur, A. U. 28, or early Jan-uary , A. I.1

I ' l .Acn —FOMNWH. R- In T'orna.

LESSON NOTKP

T h i s is t h ' crown a n d p"JUI o f J a r -ab les . It 1) 11 wor ld of w i sdom 1 .A' h o p e and iove, c o n d e n s e d i n t o a l e w words. It I> a vi i ion of L.HC b c a i l of •5od. The 1 hi"E pa iabks of tb i sc lnp-ler slunld HE Ktu-ili-d together, us each one is ccnij I- TED by t b e others , Tlie lalsitadi r. U.iulingj which mi^bl urisc F.oii i ( h e n r e a ui I ' i o n (.f o n e v iew a r e

EOI I'EEU'D by t he otihers. There is n o j one VLI.-W oi n a m 's sin uud loss, n o r of 1 ' • 1 ' l o . la .-LUI'ul m a n , w l . i c b c a n pes- | ••-ihly , ; . • : 1 t h e t r u t h nn a l l s i d e s a n d i n all TIICPC p a r a b l e s w e r e a fin-LAIR n-ifohMng of t h e t r u t h t h a t tbe Gospel was fcr all men. I t pre-pared fhe way for the reception of the ( ient i les , and enab led the d isciples , when the t ime ca ne. to SEE t h a t t b e wvlc aii.'igof the'.Ientiles wasapar to f , t h e o r i g i n a l p lan cf Jesus.

T h e iirat p ic tu re w e bave p r e s e n t e d

in the pan.uit of the lesson is of ilie I at he 1 a n d home. T h e h o u s e h o l d e r is o-ir l l e a . e n l v Fathex, f u l l of l o \ e for His cl.ildiiu The two suns represent d i f V ; RCUL eharacters and classes among t h e m . Tin n: i;s a s ense in which only (hose w h o b e l i e v e i n Jesus and o b - y (lod a f e His ch i id ren (Bom. 8:I.4-I7; John S:3!l, ^2, 44); but in another view (Jod is tl ie I -a lher of a i l men, t h o u g h w a n d e r i n g , .tad def i led, uud refusing t o , a c t as child ' -en. for l i e has created T h e m in His own image, caics for them, and loves t hem AT- His own ch i ld ren ; a l l owe Him honor, love and obedience. Tt has L-.ccn suggested filial thi-.-. p a r a b l e with equal p-opriety might liocallcd tbe parab le of tJie Bereaved Fa ther .

The second picture presented is of the wandering from this Father and " His home. The request.of the younger son US the expression of man 's de s i r e to BE independent o f ( iod 's control and r e s t r a in t s , and to do AW he pleases. He is wea ry of see ing "thou sba l t nots" over the grates of so many a temple of pleasure, AND thinks be can be happier to yield to his u n r e s t r a i n e d lus t s nnd desi ics . So t he y o u n g e r son "took his j ou rney into a far count ry . " perhaps to Rome or Corinth , where were ga th -ered every luxury and vice.

The third picture is of a wasted life. Some have applied t h i s " r i o t o u s l iv ing" chiefly to wanton and d iss ipated s in-ners. IT does app ly to them, bnt. it ap-plies also to all sinners; for they do w i l h s p i r i t u a l t h i n g s what r io tous m e n d o w i t h e a r t h l y t h i n g s . The w o r l d l y l i fe is a l w a y s a w a s t e f u l life. It wastes body and soul. Ttwcstc- - life and h e a l t h . Shiners was t e t h e i r Bibles, the i r Sab-bath*. the inf luences of the Spirit, t h e i r re l ig ious t r a i n i n g , all t he i r Heaven ly inher i tance , and get no th ing bnt tem-porary pleasure in return.

The four th picture of our lesson is of a F a m i n e . IT was a famine of t he soul . Tho pleasures of the younger sou soon failed. His m o n e y was gone, his seem-i n g f r i e n d s left, h im , his conscience t o r -t u r e d h i m , his hear t , vasempty , be bad none of the good things h; had sought.

In tho depths! T h i s is o u r fifth pic-tu re . Wc observe tha t in this far-off l and Ibe p rod iga l , with all his banquets and his lavishness had not gained a tan-gle friend, so that it was imperative t h a t lie s h o u l d b a . e " j o ined h imsel f ( l i t e ra l ly g lued himself to. in effect a s l a v e ) l o a c i i i / e n o f tihal country."

w h o sent h i m i n t o his fields t o feed sw i i u . T h i s was l i ie most d e g r a d i n g work a Jew conld do. The boasted freedom of sin becomes t h e m o s t de-grading s l avery .

Tin. a it was thai ho came to himself, as OM- a w a k e n i n g ont of an evil d r e a m , o r one w h o hn« LO«:T H?'' r vason . a n d hns been wander ini r in s t r ange hal lucina-t i o n s , b e c o m e s h i m s e l f a g a i n , a n d sees Hiing-s I..< I HEY are. Tho sinner is Jon:;h , s leeping in t h e storm, d r e a m i n g be;. 11 IFIIL but unroa l and evanescen t d n . ;s .

Wncn be bad COM" to himself the fir \ step was lo resolve to go to bis t ; t h - r . t h e s e c o n d step, TO1 act . i t needed resolution. Doubtless the hat-' ' e o f ( o a f i i c ' L ; : ; . ' h o p e , v ice , ••onsci - K-E. fat- r and b o n u r.g-r. doubt whetb. r bo would be received; • han.e. cor e-'ons nnworlhiness, fer.r of the taui-tsof his companions—-wasvery

'!'!I • -"-.M . ••'I.TI " t o " ' ,e to "! hould be r. •' -ed

' net come "\ t" h 's • or came out to him. .ve now have is of the

Wc sh aiM here note is that which was .- a ' ; thai Ihe ring in the bol nf xank, equivalent ings in IJi:roj>ean coiin-

.•s were worn only by h. si- v s The su\cd

hU f a t h e r , v " t o w a r - l . ' l a t b c r ; b is f:i

Tlie p i c t i uc welcor b-n: . ' i b a t the ro'-e ' by J e w s of ra ; i-ast !-• the c r t-- a r m o r i a l he. TJ'II S; that .'HOES w e t f rea iaen , neve r i-,. si s i nne r is no b i ied se

of lo\ ice is a se :he son and h«i r o

Ona to five applications of Doan'T O i n t m e n t will co re TII.I wo : C C - C C ; I i d l i n g f i l e s i b e r e EVER u-:^. ( 'i-n y o n 1 afford to suffer ovtnr-» whet. :. never-fail i r g r e m e d y IS a t 1 ' Doan'S Oin: .nent nev r failf..

NoBmuli ohjeccion -vhtch •vcnnir f a '1 ; , had to i h e ci't tii. e . -prin? : • iMo'- ' wa- their •• .nn nnp- ' os 1 • nr c , thif. ohj . iniii.K r*, .„v.v3 • \ -Shi - .pjia:^, t h e m o s i p o ^ t r i u i -IMI pf.p- • ul--. of -d purifiers, is us pie . . a t to tbe palate as a coidmi.

There cre lion Is of men of tho pro-foiimlest tbought who find uolhiug in

1 the di.-closuiofi of sa;- N C to shake their fa i th In THE ef.>nic,' v i r t p . . of r eason vid -eligion.—I'.E.I ^

f O T T n i ? U o h l i i ; / i : !

If You I I . •••). R •}•" * • .T §

Yoiirself ' : F'te 'V- I-.-F Pain . 'iiiiln;r M

! Some p e o p l e snlTer w i t h LW- 1- L. O, mnnv people a re worn out and •••"URE H I the litno, many more people TN ve LAME itack and backache. F e w peopl • N der-

: •.land t h e real cause of t he i r UCHCS, a n d | fewer ye t know how easily thev can find 1 a cure. J u s t a word of expiuna1 A I TORE

n r n v e tha i what w say is irin.. I'lio 1 ' a ' a the key-nole of Ihe k i - ' a j y . I t A • that 's a sign that the k : i n ' . a r e

' ' r k i n g p r o p e r l y ; it is lame ; another a. the kidneys are out of orrler. The kid-

• 1 >. you know , a re the fillers of the b lood, but l i l t era somethnes get clogacd up, (his means in their case tha i tho blood

•arses thnnigh the ent i re system impreg-. t i e d w i t h poisonous uric acid, briuging

111 many 11 disorder which. If neglectcil. means disease perhaps incurable. And now about the cure:—Don ' t take our word for it ; read what others say ;

Mr. David C. Oaks is proprietor of the well known h a r d w a r e and paint shop nf. 22-J Last -Main Street, Kalauiuzoo. Mr. W.iks has suffered a great deal from k idney aihnents; he described his condition anil cure as fol lows; " I l i a d a bad, lame b a c k , which I suppose was caused by my kid* nevs ; was confined to my bed d u r i n g b a d attacks, I m i g h t say, f r o m t ime t o t ime . I have been iu tha t condition for years . The urinary organism was affected, ur ine being scanty, highly colored, and diRicult i n passage. I was i u a bad shape when I got a box of Doan's Kidney Pills, a! out which I had heanl. I have used now two boxes of them, a n d t he pills INVO removed all the pain nnd t rouble. The . ' ; was a marked improvement right from the first, and i t has continued - right; along. Doan's Kidney P i l l s are l i i e r ight thing in t he r ight place."

For sale by all dealers — price, 50 cents. Mailed by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sofeagents for the U. S. IH meinbof the name, Loan's, and take no o i l i e r .

f m w m J I THE

- B E S T m m In your neighborhood this season

PLANT OUR FAMOUS

all of whicii arc described and illus-trated in our beautiful nnd entirely New Cctotogue for 1096. A new featuie this season is Ihe Free de-livery of Seeds at Catalogue prices to any Post Ofiice. This ' ' New Catn-» logue " vc will mail on receipt of a 2-cent stamp, or to those who will state i where they saw tills advertisement, the Catalogue will be mailed Free I

t P E T E R E D B l S C I I & C C . j j w 35 St S? CorUamlt St., ITewYork.

H U I ^ P H H E Y S ' Dr. Hnmpb^cy«, Prcclflm cro sclcctl/lra!lya«<

carefully prepared RrnedlM, used for years SJ. private practloe and for over tblrl} jc.1n1 by tta people with entire success. Every sialic SpcciBfc a special cure for the dtswise nf.nied. wo. ci'HM rmnn 1—Fevc.a, Congintlous, Indammatlons.. .tvJ 2—Worm-, Worm Fever. Werri Colle.... .'it) 3—Trethiasi toUc..Crying, Wakeluluiss .v1 ' 4—Dlnrrhca, of Children or Adults.. .!>•' 7-Cougbi. Colds, Bronchitis .i!:: 8-XcnrjiIg:n, Tonthacr.?, K.iceacbe.— 9-Bcadnclies, Sl")c nrodnrhe, Verrl.T'i.. .'.IST

10-Dyspeps-n. l.lllousaiid, constipation. .V> 11—Su^lprc^sl d o r j ' u iu fa l Per io is . . .3.: I'J—Whites, Too T: of use Prrtiy's .<$: 13—Cronp. Lurynsrltlr.. Iio.'.fcenei« sif 14—Salt Rbonv., Erjiti.-l.-'s, 1 - : ; '-.in 15—Rhcnmai! -;n. Hlieumatlo Pilns ... . 16—Blalana, Chills. Fenr ted Ague lf>—Catarrh, Irt-jeatn, Cold In thol'^JiU. JJJi 20-V»'hoopin(t Conph MP 27—Kidney Diseases .28 88—Ncvvoua Del.lllty ... I.PA S O - r r l n a r y V ci-U: • 2 3 5 4 - S o r e T h r o a ; , Cu-aiy.Cloerated lh.-catjJ6 «^17 Ii "v HUt-.THREVS' DtiO OK*

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j Hair to fti Y-r •IJ'-'l C~'or. ICw.i wsip C -•• hairfcaas. ' ! V\f, -I.-: " ^

TTyon a « C O ? ! ! S U I t " ; P T I V f c . or 4 .. t;. n. .1 . : ,.- )• PAHKEH S 1 -/..fE.l TOKJO. >iJ.ny«..o... .,.ho».w k-saumldiaCowra - JL»iuii_0-iuiuuuuiiVuUaatn,

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nt. II is serv-ile bccomes

. t> HCKN I but tli^ i.:->. . '•> .'• h i . - i ..ic ; .-erarar.i fr, mnUriaJ, . \ .>paag . posts a'lit p'i'ki -s. lay 1 pos. , • .-1'..; r-.K.-. and 1 ! piek. ts jt-i r. o. I'l.-k,.-1 sfO'ilii i~i m-i of : . i wioJ. l ' in.;: f '

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Who L« r.i-. n L v. iija

At Fallas & FU k ' - : HS-I.va- ? ' • " ' ' I

— i he ro 1 of i hri-.t is no t t h a t « f to rpor , b u t of ha ; a .ony; it is not re-f u s i n g t he s: .-ii'- ' . 1 c o n q u e r i n g i n it; n d resting- fi .. du'.y, but finding res l in duty .—N. V. Observer.

—Once go f . . ; l i v e - a n d lore and move and aa i t h i n k alii tor Jesus , and I know no o t h e r t houe i i t . o r nir.-. - i . W . I 'a l ier .

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A' Tt ITS -'ToTEF EDITOR:—1 have ?n absolute

remedy for Cor - .'lap'.: n ry it , 1 ; thou . .ids of iii'i.: .-ss coses h.- :• i 1 already

—Unless v.e . ,• "Our i a t h e r " i n o u r money ge t l in ; . . we cannot wor sh ip God by say ini: it in church .—Eam'a i l o r n .

^.manervy cure . ^ 1 of its power t ' - . t I R • ' send two hoi: i:s free to UIR.SC who have Consi'inj: ion," Lung Trouble, U ti ey v ! 1 express and postotT E T. A . SLOCTTN,TT. c . , RR

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NhlOHBORHOOD NOTtSi.

Down tit- Kivot.

Emery Foiney is woikin* on D V. AtwBu r'n (arm, and now uccuuies llm

same Geo. Ro k ha^ purcha-c ^ tho Martin

farm aiid has taken |K»-se»t.iou of the

same. Mr and Mrs Ed. Story were culled to

South Boston Monday to attend ii>e

funeral of iiis- uncle.

Mrs Engles and Mrs McCall aro in Gd. Rapids to day, (TueH«h»y )

Blr and Mre Luthor Sw« et visued at Lou Coonrod's the Jirei of the week.

Mre Eriisc is at home after spending a few week-, oaring for her sister, nt

Pewamo.

A Bne line of side boards at J . B Yeitfi'rt.

Baled hay and straw at lowest rateH, C. H. Wesbrook.

For Plumbing aud Eave Troughing.

Fallas & Clark.

Elmdale.

Ray Haskin is attending bchool a t

ClKiksville.

Bert Klahn is very sick with brain

fever.

Lizzie Kilgns, of Lowell, spent Sun-

day with her parents.

Mrs. Caleb Weiland, who has been very sick, is reported a little better.

Phoebe Schwader is sick again.

O. E. Jenning and wife, of Campbell, called at J . Lusks, Saturday.

Rev. E. W. Davjs attended the S. 8. and E. L. convention at Lowell, last

week.

Miss Belle Luek, of Lowoll, Sundayed with her pareuts.

Mae and Bessie Taylor, of Bowne, •pent last week with their ^rund-parents, J . Lusk and wife.

Clipper Wheels. Fallas & Clark, Sole

Agents for Lowell.

See onr cabs, they are beauties, a t Mc-

Connell's.

For all kinds of canned goods try C.

Bergin'e.

East Lowell.

Oar school commences Monday, with tbe former teacher in charge.

Fred Godfrey has been quite ill with inflammation of tbe lungs.

Burr Mart commenced work for Peter Fenning, last Monday.

Mr and Mrs Judd Hapeman, have moved on the farm lately occupied by George Wheaton.

Frank Fenning was on the sick list last week.

Ray Ware is working his father's

farm this year.

Mr Nelson has moved on tbe farm re-cently occupied by hfc son, Charles.

8. Y. Carey, who has been confined to (ha house for the past two months, is able to be out again.

Mr White, the supervisor, visited this vicinity this week.

If your watch or clock has "gone •wrong'" g» t it repaired at U. B. Will-hms . All work guarnnteed for one

year.

Barber & Craw make a specialty of all high grade groceries for the lowest prices and guarantee satisfaction.

Grattan Gathenage.

To Mrs and Mre Asa Wood April 11, a «on. Two sons and two daughters is a nice Wood-lot.

Miaa Emma Miller, of Cannon, com-menced the siirihg term in the Lessiter dist. Monday.

Elmer Storey and family, of Spencer, Tisited relatives here Sunday.

Will Hall, wife and little daughter visited Mrs H's mother in Courtland two days last week.

Mrs J. I. Weekes enjoyed a visit with her cousin. Mrs Cambell, near Lowell, lately."

I t rained all day April 9, so the sheep shearing festival was postponed to Sat-nrday, April 18. Please remember.

"rrattan P. S. will hold a social v n u i r i.a!1 iir-a Elmer Little, April 17, evening. All invited.

Peter Elkins baa gone to Menominee fo r tbe summer. His wife, nee Effie McArthur will soon follow.

Adolpb Wooster bad the misfortune t o lose his pocket book with between $25 and $28 in it, on the line of Grattan and Cannon to beyond the Ashley church m all over 6 miles. The road waa careful* ly looked over early Monday, but no p. b. found.

Mr and Mre J . A. Leasiter had been married 8 years April 12. A company of near relatives ate baked chicken, ioe cream, etc., with all the usual accompaniments, in honor of the event.

MAUD.

FAllanburg Kacio.

IJriiry Fa:I •. of Onmd • i ent Hund.'.v til< l.i- fnilt-r.

Mis « imilit ' >ti Rev. A r m

s t ion r «!i'i -v• ' o v i s i ' i d rs lti>lil«ii.

1 m'-'l.-t'

Wni J o h n v M t - d wi lh Hen

iitM wi-. U

Mr> Wm R-xf<>rd hpeii' Riiiul .y i.i Jake Miisteni mik ' s .

Mr and Mrs. Wooley. of EmricMn spent a few »laiM laot week with iheir daughter. Mre. inge.

S Foster and Mtmiiy. of Cannnnsbur^. VIM ted hia itiotl.er and brother, over Sunday.

Mn nio Rouse spent last week with Ada Booth.

Mre Prim Wesihrook. of Campbell, visited her mother last week

N. Bozung ai.d wife visited her brother, Sunday.

Mre. Stauiou's father is visiting her. He has been visiting a daughter at Ne waygo.

Clayton Fallas and wife visitea hia father and mother, Sunday.

Ed. Fallas and wife, of Grand Rapids, visited Mr. Moon, Saturday.

See our $2.25 mattress, the best in town, at McConnell's,

200 patterns m new and up to date wall papers s t Looks. We have the goods and make the prices that con-form with the times.

fo rk ing for A. Lee, haa gone home I a'ok. Mi's Rbpfprstorf takps her plnre.

Mr.- Chai Lee and dnughtor, MrsChos I Lampkin, have been visiting their aunt, 1 Mis S'.ono. at TWdm..

i Our liitle old school house looks M:e a

now one. I t has lieen thronuh a course of repairing inside and out Th10 '>• use has l>een built 41 years

Miss H ward. • f Berlin, will teach the spiing toim at (hu ich ' s coiners, nouuut ne nn Apiil 20

Vr and Mi> n< 11 Bowen visiltd at S. •irr's Sunday.

Mis John Loiicks is very sick.

Miss Mattie Locher, of Berlin, waa the guest of her brother, Charlie Locher, a f. w IIUVH las t week

P a n e l ! F o l n u .

Warm and spring like.

The marriage banna were published Sunday, for the first time, of Dell Boler and Miss Mary Heffron, and Frank Cor-ngan and Miss Katie Lsughlin.

Mr. Eardley, of Cascade called on Father Lyons, Saturday.

An Altar society was formed last week with Mrs. Bresnehan, President; Mrs. Wm. McCarty, Secretary; Miss Maggie Laughlin, Treasurer.

The church haa a beautiful new sanc-tuary lamp.

Miss Evah Carl has a new carriage.

Tom McCarty is teaching in the Mc-pherson school.

Miss Mae Byrne is teaching in the Tolbot District.

Miss Maggie Molligan, of Grand Rapids has been making her parents a short visit.

P. Breenehan is moving the old school house on his lot for a store house.

The cemetery has been greatly im-proved by the recent cleaning up.

Sir. and Mrs. John Ronan, Mat Ronan and sisters, all of Plainfield, attended church here, Sunday.

We enjoyed the convention at Lowell last week, all the papers we heard were good. The essay—"Relation of the Ep-worth League to the young people's orgamzationa of other denominstiona," by Miss Mattie Lowe, of Vickeryville, waa very fine, ao very unselfish.

Grattan S. 8. social at Elmer Li tie's the 17th. Rox and shadow social.

Teeth extracted by tbe new painless method by Dr. J . H. Rickert.

Go to Barber & Craw's for your tea: prices 25c, 40c and 50c per lb.

In the spring the housewife's fancy turns to wall paper and paint. Her steps should tiirn to W, S. Winegar. He has tbe goods a t right prices.

The mistake of your life will be made •by failing to look at Winegar's Wall Paper before buying.

Keene New*.

Married, Leon Sheldon, to Minnie Brown, both of Keene.

Aaron Russell has chosen another bet-ter half. Miss Pearley Sabin, of Belding.

League next Sunday evening, Miss Seymour, leader. A fine program is be-ing arranged.

l ir and Mrs John Fallas have moved on their farm and set up two tents and will live there this summer.

Miss Anna Heather, of Miriam, is working for Mre H. N. Lee.

Mre A. F. Lee Is up and around the house, but is not very strong.

Mre H. 8. Lee haa been moved home and is-improving.

JJell Wether by is sick with a sore throat.

Not s very large crowd out Sunday e v e , to.the League. Hope the people will to rn out snd help our yonng peo-ple. Mrs Armstrong was with us and talked on tbe bible. Hope abe can be with us often.

Miss Bird Stshl is wpzking for Mrs Wilkinson for a few weeks.

Mrs Bert Bowen has gone to Kalama-zoo to visit Mrs Perry Sayles,

Rev. Armstrong will deliver eight aermons on the subject of St. Paul, be-ginning next Sabbath.

Miss Lillian Defoe Is working for Mrs WUI Campbell.

A. A. Wooley. of Entrican, fe visiting relatives here,

Mrs James Bowen is sick.

Miss Mina Bowen, who has been

Bergin's is the place to get teas and coffees

Are you going to plant out any fruit trees? if so, better see N. P. Husted A Go. they can supply almost anythimt m the line of Fruit Trees, Ornaments Is etc. Th^y employ no agents.

Try Barber A Craw's Mocha and Java Coffee, 35c per lb.

Having purchased the Banner Laun dry oi C. L. Severy, I would be glad to see all its old customers and guarantee to all othere.ibat I will keep tbe reputa-tion of the Laundry good, by doing only first class work. G. W. SEVERY.

Vergenne* visitor.

Mrs. Charlie Martin, of Chippewa Lake, has been visiting her sisters, Mre. Orlando Odell and Mrs. Warren Hoag, also, her brother, Charlie Gott.

Mr. and Mrs. Lucene Barnes, of Port-land, have been visiting her aunt, Mre. Myron King and cousin. Mrs. Charlie Gott, of Lowell.

Harold Weekes and Jay Wattere, of Lowell, spent part of their vacation with their cousins, Fonda and Bertie Bailey.

Wm. Misner was in Grand Rapies, one day last week.

G. W. Crosby and George Masters made a business trip to Grand Rapids, Wednesday.

Last Sunday, the mercury was up to 82 on a north porch too.

Mrs. Emma Beckwlth, of near Fallas-burg, has moved in the tenant house owned by John Bergin, near the Mc-Pherson school house.

Wm. Collins and family have moved bsck to Vergennes and now occupy the tenant house owned by E. L. Bennett.

Fred Beckwith is working for Q. Hud-son this season.

Mr, and Mrs. Charlie Gott and son, of Lowell, visited their daughter, Mrs. Lute Bailey, one day last week.

Through the kindness of Mrs. J . C. Richmond, of Lowell, we had the pleas-ure of visiting our old time friend, Mrs. Jane Tunks, who ia at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter White, near Smyrna, Friday and Saturday. We were grieved to find her ill. Mrs. Tunks was born in Canada in 1880 and came to Vergennes over a half s century ago. She is a t rue christian woman, gladly, hopefully looking forward to the sum-mons to that better country from which there is no return.

We enjoyed our visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter White. They have a very plesssnt home.

Have not seen a good looking field of

wheat yet.

We still continue to handle the cele-brated Shaker Beady Mixed Paints. Guaranteed In gold to be made of pure lead and oil and ia aold as cheap as any first class paint on the market.

LOOK, THE DRUGGIST.

All persons indebted to the firm of R. Quick & Son will please call at office of King Milling Co. and settle their ac-counts.

THE FIRST bPECIAl F08 W l r f Commencing Saturday, April 4th. 1

M A R ITS Is Again to the Front With a Complete Stock of ^

In order to make room for the Mew Goods that are arriving daily I will FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYSoffer my entire stock of Gents Furnishing Goods, Etc., at the following low prices:

Loveland's Ladies Fine Shoes, $ 1 . 5 0 }

Former Pr i ce . . . . $3.00 )

Gents Fine Shoes, $2.00

Former Price $4.00

Come and See Them.

West Side Shoe Store, Lowell, Mich.

50 Doz. Blue Denims Overalls worth 4 0 c , . . . .now 25c

25 Doz. Blue Denims Overal ls worth 50c, now 35c

25 Doz. Blue Denims, extra heavy worth 75c, now 50c 25 Doz. Blk. Str ipe Duck Overals, worth 75c, now 50c 10 Doz. C o t t o n a d e Pants , worth 75c now 58c 10 Doz. Heavy Co t tonade Pants, worth S i . 0 0 , now 75c 10 Doz. F ine Heavy Cde . Pants, worth S i . 2 5 , now 87c 20 Doz. Boys Knee Pants 4-14 yrs, worth 250, now 17c 12 Doz. Boys Knee Pants 4-14 yrs, worth 35c, now 23c 10 Doz. Boys Knee Pan t s 4-14 yrs, worth 40c, now 29c 10 Doz. Boys Sweaters ,worth 25c now 17c 10 Doz. Boys Blouse Waists, worth 25c now 17c 10 Doz. Brownie Overal ls , worth 40c, . n o w 25c 10 Doz. " dbl . knee and seat, wor th 65c, now 48c

40 Doz Mens Work Shirts 36 in, worth 30c, now 19c

40 Doz Work Shirts. Blk & White, " 50c, now 3 5 0

25 Doz Amoskeag Shirts, 36 in. , wor th 50c, now 35c 25 Doz H v y Blk Stripes, " worth 75c, now 50c 10 Doz Mens Brn and Bl Sweaters, worth 50c, now 35c 20 Doz Mens Satine Shirts, worth 50c now 35c 5 Doz Negligee Shirts with Collars a t t ached now 48c 5 Doz " " worth 90c, now 67c 5 Doz " " worth 1.25, now 87c 40 Doz Mens Suspenders worth 20c now n o 20 Doz Suspenders, extra hvy. , wor th 30c, now 18c 150 Doz Mens Socks, worth 8c now 5 c 50 Doz Mens " db l heel & toe, worth roc, now 7c 20 Doz Mule Skin Gloves & Mits, worth 40c, now 25c

Goods Sold as Advertised. 1

Gome and Examine Hj Stock Before Bnpg. It Is No Tronbie to Sbof Goods. REMEMBER THE PLACE,

MAKE NO MISTAKE:

Marks' Old Stand, East Side, Lowell 1

Stockholder* Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock-holders of the Lowell Building and Loan Association will be held Monday evening, April 20, at 7:80, in the Knights of Maccabee's Hall for election of direc-tors and other business that may proper-ly oome before such meeting.

H . A . PECKHAM, Sec.

Notlee.

All pupils expecting to enter school for the first time this spring should be-come enrolled as ooon as possible. I t is hoped that parents will give thia their attention, as no pupil will be allowed to enter school for the first time after the explrstion of two weeks.

W . A . LUDWIG, Supt

Dr Thomas' Electric Oil has cured hundreds of Cases of deafness that were supposed to be incurable. I t never falls to cure earache.

Amerlcanjt Iu Nova Scotia.

A lady of Nova Scotia, writing to the Boston "Transcript, says that the Ameri-cana who visit Nova Scotia are almost without exception pleasant and well mannered people. "We note some alight difference between their speech and ours. Their voices are higher and sharper, and they are more up to date as to slang. I am afraid that iu our heart of hearts we feel ourselves a liitle superior in re-pose of manner, for the rollicking enjoy-ment of the ordinary American when on a holiday in Nova Sootiais, perhaps, too evident But when the patience with which they endure many inconveniences, the zest with which they enter into any pleasures that come in their way, and the good wil l with which they are ever ready to help any charitable scheme which may be afoot in a place where they are staying are put iu the scale against' the loudness which sometimes offends us, the trifling peculiarity kicks the beam.

LOWELL MARKETS.

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