i THE LOWELL LEDGER. 1911

TOL. XII , NO. 16 Largest Circulation. LOWELL. MICHIGAN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1904

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Wire Fence Manufacturers

While my present stock lasts I will sell for less than it cost to make it. Call and get prices and terms and lay in yotir 1905 stock while it is cheip.

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A. D. OLIVER

NO FliRTflER RAISE IN TKLErilONE RATES. IS

THE BEST PROMISE

BOYLAN.

Village C o n m l t t e C u SccMte From

CltizeaB Co.

A largely attended meeting of the patrons of the Ix>well exchange of the Citlreu's Telephone Company was held at B. C. Smith'a atore laat Friday evening t o consider the raise In phone rates which went Into effect October 1.

Dr. O. V. McOannell and H. J. Coons were ch<M9eu chairman and secretary respectively. After a con-ddersble diaruasion the fol lowing committee waa appointed t o comer with the telephone companies: Wel-don Smith. R. E. Sprlngett, D. G. Look. A. W. Weekea. H. Naah; and the meeting adjourned for one week.

This morning we learn t h a t the committee met repreaentatlvea of the Cititen'a company Tueeday even-ing. but accomplished nothing fur-ther than that the company agreed to consent t o an amendment t o ita franchise providing that there 'ahali be no further Increase of rates during the next ten years, the life of the franchiae.

The committee expects t o meet representative*! of the Bell c o m p a n y this evening.

PERE l A R ^ l E T T E ENGINE STRUCK TRA1P

CASE THROWN OUT JOHN W. MURPHY'S DAMAGE

SUIT AGAINST VILLAGE OF LOWELL.

l a f l l c i l B g Severe Inu n o t Fatal It -

jartes.

A tramp giving the name of Ed-ward F. Preaton and claiming Lan-sing aa his home, waa struck by a Pere Marquette engine Toeaday morning while Intoxicated and had one leg broken, one knee Injured and a cut on tlie other leg. He w a s alt" ting on a tie near Grand river bridge and attempted t o croas the track In front of the engine. The train h a n c s picked him up and took him t o the P. M. s tat ion where he waa attended by Dr. Eaton.

Preston la n o w comfortably en-sconced II one of Hotel Waverty'a Ited's and very comfortable, thank you.

Since the above w a s put In type, t he fellow givea his name aa Frank Welch and claims no home. County Supt. of the Poor Haven, waa here this morning and had him conveyed to the county house.

Securi ty for C o s t s (Vol F n n l s h e d

By P l s l a t l f f .

The fifteen thousand dollar dam-age suit brought by John W. Murphy against the Village of Low. ell w a s brought t o an abrupt close on Tuesday morning before Judge Wolcott In the Circuit Court at Grand Raplda. Mr. Murphy w a s un-able t o give security for costs, and hl« artorneya after looking up their evidence came to the conclusion that their case w a s not a s s trong as they supposed, and when court opened E. J. Doyle, attorney for Mr. Murphy voluntarily moved for non-suit, with leave to move t o set it aside before the next term of court. A Judgment for the costs already in-curred w a s accordingly rendered in favor of the Village, and should Mr. Murphy care proceed with his case at the next term of court It will first be necessary for him to pay the costs already Incurred, file security for costs and to s h o w cause for not prosecuting his claim a t the present term of court.

This case arose o u t of a supposed injury t o Mr. Murphy, resulting from a fall on a sidewalk within t l s Village about a year ago. The Vil-lage took the position that the walk where be fell w a s in a good s tate of repair, and that his injury did not result from thla fall but from anoth-er fall which he took later. T A Village has a lways been willing t o pay a reasonable" amount of dam-

ges t o those injured through its negligence, but contends tha t It Is cheaper and more Just t o tax-payers to tight w h a t appears t o b e a n un-just claim than t o pay a few hun-dred dollars In aettlement.

Milage Attorney R. E. Sprlngett and L. E. Knappen of Grand Rapids represented the Village, and Mr. Murphy waa represented by E. J. Doyle and F. A. Stace of Grand Rap-Ids.—[Com.

HOW MANY MAKE A RAIN?

Seems It I s a ' t Wet E a o n g h for

Tkeae Y o a a s Folks.

Three showers were given thla week In honor of Miss Clara Hodges by her y o u n g lady friends. The first w a s a miscellaneous shower, by Misses Mary Whitney, Lizxie Mc-Mahon and Carrie Davidson a t the home of Miss Whitney. Each y o u n g lady appeared in the costume of a lit-tle girl, with hair d o w n In braids. They toasted marshmallowa before an open fire and engaged In child-hood games.

Miss Lizzie Thompson entertained the party Tuesday afternoon. Daln ty refreshments were served at a table decorated with red and white hearts and flowers in red and white. Before leaving, the bride-elect received a shower of hand-kerchlefs, wrapped In white and tied with red ribbon, those being her coi-

ns. Misses Delia Winegar and Nina

Wlaner g a v e the third, a kitchen shower, ' Tuesday evening a t the home of the former, all guests being required t o bring their needles and s e w for tbe bride-elect. Light re-freshments were served.

Oysters and Fish Fresh from the Ocean and the Great Lakes

Q U A L I T Y A N D P R I C E S R I G H T

In Meat Market Staples w e are a l w a y s "IT.

A. L. WEYRICK.

B K i D O L U r S WORTH IN THE EPWORTH LEAGUE

COURSE Or ENTERTAIN MENTS AND LECTURES

C H U R C H E S A N D S O C I E T I E S

IODI9T.

Class meeting a t 9:90 a m. Preaching a t 1030. Sabbath school a t noon. Junior League a t 3:00 p. m. E p w o r t h League at 6:0". led by

Mrs. Avery—Subject; "He lp ing Une Another."

Preaching a t 7:00. I t will be noticed that the evening

service begina half an hou r earlier than usual.

COaGUMUmOBAL. The morning scb |ect will be "What

do w e mean by tbe word Salva-tion?" Evening aubiect, "Weapons of Warfare."

The Sunday evening service will begin hereafter a t 7 o'clock.

Thuraday evening praver meeting as usual a t 7.30.

VIiisko Tax f le t lce .

All Village Taxes must be paid lie-fore Oct. 18. 1904 a s roll wlH If re-turned o n t h a t date.

Frank J . McMahon. Village Treas.

Suit and overcoat sale a t Godfreys C. Bergin has aold bin l»am at the

rear o l the new elevator to Nathan Blair, w h o la moving tbe building to his residence lot In the Village. It is a new and good building and Mr. Blair paid $300 for It; but i t stood where Thomaa * Bergin will build a p o t a t o s torage house and w a s not available for tha t purpose.

W eldon Smith has purchased the lot between tbe PuUod and Masonk hall blocks and expects sometime to build a s tore thereon. Mr. Smith s a y s he has faith enough In thebulld-Ihs of tbe electric raUroad and Its cffect upon Lowell t o think that thla will be a good thing t o own .

Off ic ial Newspaper. TEN* PAGE PAPER

Losing Tour Grip on Business? Memory foiling? Unable to conccnuatc your mind

on your work ? Headache ? Get up in the morning as tired as when you went to bed? Irritable, nervous, despondent ?

Better call a halt. You may be a big, strong man. but you can't cheat nature. Carelessness now may mean a complete breakdown any day—any moment You've worn out your nervous energies and you must restore the lost power.

Syrup of Hypophosphites

contains all the active properties of nerve and brain force. It acts directly on the nerve centos, revitalises the system, builds up the body and fills the arteries with rich, red blood.

We have Rexall Hypophosphites in three forms—Cloudy, Clear and the Tome Solution. Tbe Cloudy contains Pyrophosphite cf Iron. The Clear, which many prefer, is made without lion—and the Tonic Solution, a preparation designed especially for those who suffer from kidney or stomach troubles. It contains no sugar or eyrup, yet is pleasant to take.

D. G. LOOK, Druggist.

Hsaker. i aS iaa Band Willi Thirty

Fonr Moa, Nov. 14th.

The committee feels coufident In aaylng t h a t tbe Ep worth popular course of lectures and entertainments for th is season will be far ahead of any In tbe past , wi thout coating the public an;, more than formerly. It la composed of alx numbers, four en-tertainments and t w o lectures, as fol lows:

The Haskell Indian Band, under tbe direction of Denlaon Wheelock, Nov. 14. This number waa procur-able only for a matinee, on account of the high price for an evening en gagement, which is $500. This band Is composed of thirty-four musician^ ail professionals and Indians, repre-senting many different tribes.

Austin K. DeBlois. pastor of the First Baptist church of Chicago. Dec. 13. Dr. DeBlois Is a most elo-quent speaker. He is master of the art of gesture. His quiet, calm, ef-fective delivery Is coveted by all who would reach thoughtful people.

Dr. Merritt Driver, pastor of tbe People's church. Chicago, January 6. Dr. Driver's accomplishments as a scholar, orator, traveler and world citizen are mirrored in the vast audi-ences that throng McVkker's theater every Sunday morning in tbe very heart of Chicago, t o hear bim discuss the foremost problems of tbe world.

The famous Geveland Ladles' or-chestra. January 25. This orchestra is composed of ten soloist, directed by Alfred Metxdorf. the great tTeve-land leader and violin soloist- It Is a company of artistic merit In which numbers play no part. Not how manv |>eople but what kinds of ar-tists'has been tbe idea in arranging this combination.

Ross (Yane. cartoonist, humorist, clay modeler, pianist, February 2. His programs are unique combina-tions of light and shade, the humor-ous and the instructive, the gro-tesque and tbe beautiful, and filled to tbe brim with the aploeof life, "variety." Here droll caricatures and character sketcLei In crayon and clay, charming landacapea, illus-trated songs, Impersonationa and laughable piano burlesques follow each other in bewildering succession, - A novel and charming blending of art. wit and philosophy."

The Arlon male quartet and Elma B Smith, reader. March L This quartet has acquired a reputation bv giving concerts of tbe most popu-lar and pleasing character. I t s rep-ertoire includes some of the difficult nelectionti by the best composera but is characterixed by songs of tbe more I > o p a l a r character. Miss Elma B. Smith is probably the greatest nov-elty reader, Impersonatar and Imita-tor before tbe public. Her Imitation of birds, babies and children are a unique feature of her work. Her bird warbling is unsurpMaai by any on the stage.

Misa Ethel Thomas Is selling tick ets. Give her a liberal receptton and yourself some great treats for a very Uttle money.

Season tickets only one dollar; for chlldien under 12.50 cents.

People l iv ln^outs lde the Village, n o t called upon by Mlaa T h o m a s can secure tkketa at the Lowell State Bank or a t the Coons and Butts •tores.

AMIS

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CHAINS, FOBS AND CHARMS

t o match.

Special Prices on Cut (i lass and high grade Silverware.

R. D, Stocking.

Some Pumpkins We are makings some good, old ''Home Made Pumpkin Pies" from field pumpkins. T ry one for your dinner. Fresh every day.

WELDON SMITH, The Baker.

We kave now on our floor the most complete line of

jffard Coal

SSase Siurners we have ever shown.

We have all kinds and sizes. Call and see them.

Scott & Winegar

gatvell £edgtr. F. 1L Johkwon, Publisher.

LOWELL, MICHIGAN.

Treasurer Robert! says the |10 bllliB are highly popular. Deservedly so, too.

Phlpps got his divorce. Now he la tally qualified to play golf a t New-por t

Being an adept a t putting people to sleep, Jim JeBrles is going into the hotel business.

An eastern editor has confessed that he is sick of telling lies. "Who follows in his train?"

Thf czar's new baby has heaps of trouble before him. Incidentally, he has got to learn to talk Russian.

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M I C H J G A M JVEWS CjbolM tains from rvor t h * s p e o l A l l y

M l ^ w w d f o r o u r r » « d a r s

4 H | | 11 II ^ i r V l "At V>I > l i — ^ l i —

A dressmakers' convention may lave a great deal more interest for •ran than they are aware uf nt the time.

The average Englishman, it is said, consumes 500 glasses of beer per an-aum. It inay be true, but it looks frothy.

WATCHMAN SHOOTS AT A CLERK

Ovarzealous Guardian of the Peace Comes Near to Enactlhg a Tragedy. As a clerk of an Alma cigar store

was entering his place of business to begin /his day's labor, the city night watoh happened along and asked wno he was and for What reason he was entering the store. The clerk, suppos-ing the officer was fooling with him, and that he knew his occupation, made some laughing rejoinder about the officer's knowing him, or some-thing to that effect, and entered the store. As he was closing the door a blinding flash came from the outside, and a-bullet whizzed past his head, having cut ,a clean hole through a plate glass window In the store. The clerk ran out and asked the night watch what he meant by shooting and the latter simply tuld him bp wantca to know who the Intruder was. Noth-ing but poor marksmanship prevented a tragedy.

EXCITEMENT OVER HORSEMEN

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The King of Italy is only a little more than four feet in height, but he probably feels as tall as a church •teeple.

The Empress Dowager of China has become an apostle of reform, but she reserves the right to do her own re-forming.

The New York Press wants a way patented to always get the last word in an argument Easy. Give it to your opponent

Several lives were lost In the last Bouth American revolution. This is a matter which should be inquired Into, by the police.

Bxcesaive automobiiing produces the disease automania, so the doctors say. Excessive dodging produced autophobia long ago.

„• • — A Owing to the fact that the hazing

•esson has opened it is necessary for thevdoctors to attend to their regular patients between times.

HUNTERS PREPARE FOR SPORT

Secure Licenses and Polish Up Flra-artna for the Fall Shooting.

. Everywhere In the state hunters are beginning to resurrect and polish up rifles and shotguns, lay in a stock of ammunition and make other prepara-tions for the fall hunting season, al-though it does not open until Nov. 9. In most of the counties, however, the licenses have been received, and al-ready many are taking them out, evi-dently to see who will be the first on the list in their respective coun-ties. In the upper peninsula deer and partridge are numerous, as well as black bear, and, as the majority of the sportsmen head for that local-ity, they may look to find game In un-usually large quantities. One county clerk in the upper peninsula expects

large number of applications for Ilceuncs In his county, for he has pro-vided himself with 1,500 blanks.

ONLY ATTEMPT TO KILL DUCKS

The stork Is certainly doing well by'European royalty this year, which, by* the way, must be encouraging to yotong Queen Wllbelmina.

4 (Chicago poet is severely criticised making "finish" rhyme with "tpin-

•ch." But allowance should be made tor the Chicago pronunciation.

^ h e apple crop of New Jersey this year Is immense, and already the fan-cy of the New Jersey farmer lightly turns to thoughts of applejack.

Canadian vegetarians outswam the meat eateis In a contest at Toronto a few days ago. As a rule, however, the best swimmers are fish eaters.

The new treaty between Great Brit-ain and Tibet authorizes Tibet to pay John Bull 12,600,000 for the privilege «f letting h imio exactly as he pleases.

Travel-Stained Riders Are Mistaken for Desperadoea at Hartford.

Three Bay City men were the cause of much excitement in Hartford re-cently. They rode Into the village on horseback, and, from their travel-stained appearance, having ridden the animals from Bay City, they were tak-en for desperadoes. Soon an armed posse was organized and citizens pa-raded the streets with shotguns on their shoulders or secreted themselves In places where they thought likely to be visited. They watched all night, and in the early gray of the approach-ing dawn, ducked for their homes, af-ter a dentist, with whom the desper-adoes stopped for a few minutes' chat, told them that the men left early in the evening to continue their journey to Chicago, where they were to dis-pose of their horses.

Robs His Benefactor. A plausible stranger stopped at a

farmhouse near Henderson and asked for a night's lodging In a shed, barn or some other place. The kind hearted farmer obliged him, and about mid-night the family were aroused by a commotion among the chickens. The farmer went out and fired off his shot-gun, but seeing nothing suspicious, went back to bed. In the morning he found forty-five chickens missing, also the suave stranger who had craved a night's lodging. A neighbor said that early In the morning, while re-turning from a political meeting at Owosso, he had met a man on the road driving a wagon in which there were two boxes of chickens.

Why Hunters In Grand Haven Marshea Do Not Pay Fines.

There are reports of ante-season duck hunting in the marshes In the vicinity of Grand Haven, and the persons are evidently being kept posted on the game warden's whereabouts. The trouble with apprehending offenders in connection with duck shooting Is made dlftlcult by the terms "attempt-ing to kill" being left out of the law. The latter simply says those who kill ducks out of season may be punished. The citizens around Grand Haven who practice Illegal shooting only "attempt to kill." It is said, and that is why more of them are not before the bar of justice.* This, by the way does not speak well for the marks-manship of the sportsmen.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that no great success is ever achieved In this world by kicking. Didn't Ella evef see a football game? Or a burleaque show?

At this season of the year it is only proper to expect the Mad Mul-lah to come forth at any moment wita another of his justly celebrated out breaks.

Efficient Guardian of Peace. Crystal Falls has just one police-

man, and for the short time he has held the position he has indeed es-tablished a record for himself. It Is said that before he took the office the town was the headquarters of tramps, chicken thieves and bums of every description, whereas now It Is safe for a woman to walk the streets at midnight without being molested. Dis-orderly houses have been raided bums are run out of town as soon as they strike it, and no matter who the offender is, he has to suffer. This Is all done by one man, with the occa-sional help of an assistant, and the city is quite proud of Its marshal.

The Chicago woman who found a pink-eyed burglar in her pink boudoir will doubtless file an application for membership in the Municipal Art Lefcgue.

The annual crisis In Mr. Harry Lehr 's life is almost upon him. The d o s e of the Newport season is a t hand BBd he must decide what to wear on the train home.

A S t Louis newspaper reporter left BB estate valued at |80,000 when he died the other day. There are few of ns who could have survived under the circumstances.

The railroad statistics show that the average passenger can ride 68,-917,645 miles before getting killed. Al-ways make it a point to get out and walk the 58,917,646th mile.

Circus License Decision. Muskegon has lost a somewhat nov

al and complicated damage suit. Last summer a circus exhibited there, and a dispute arose, when circus day came, regarding the streets to be usql for the parade. The show com pany contracted to pay a license for exhibiting and parading and claimed that, in disputing the line of march the city had broken its part of the contract. The circus accordingly paid its fee for the use of the grounds only, pitched its tents and cut out the pa-rade feature. The city commenced suit recently to recover $125, the amount of the unpaid portion of the license, but lost the case.

BAND GIVES CONCERT IN RAIN

Mutlclans Appreciate the Loyaty of Their Fellow Townsmen.

One night recently the Petoskey band was scheduled to give a con-cert on the streets. It had no more than nicely started playing when a rainstorm came up, jind soon it was pelting down in fine style. A large crowd of citizens had assembled to listen to the concert, and were loath to leave their posts for a little rain. The band, seeing that its audience did not offer to move, did not wish to disappoint them by discontinuing the music, so they stood their ground and discoursed during the downpour, and it is said that not one of the crowd deserted and cut for shelter. All were pretty well wet down when the rain ceased, but the loyalty of the citi-zens toward their band remains un questioned.

School Is Closed. There Is one school district In Cal-

houn county where there will ha no schol this year. Last year only one pupil attended, and the township hired a teacher and paid her $25 per month for teaching the one. This year they decided to close the school, and now comes a kick from several parents in the township who want to educate their children, just because the school is closed. They have writ-ten letters to the school commission-er and superintendent reciting the law over and over again. The com missioner has decided to take chances, however.

Escape From Angry Wives. A couple of women living at Johan

nesburg, a village near Gaylord, are emulating the example of Carrie Na-tion. Recently two men of that vil-lage were whiling away a spare hour with "a quiet little game," when In some manner their wives got next, secured an ax and battered down the door of the room where they were playing. The gentlemen made a hasty exit through a window, and es-caped for the time being.

Dives From Buildings. A high diver iwo b9«n giving exhi

bitions in the cities of central xnlchi gan, first taking up a collection and then leaping from a two or three-story building into a wagon box filled with hay. If the collection is not large enough, however, he will not make the leap, and when he passes the hat before the performance many become skeptical and think him sim-ply a grafter. However, he actually performs the feat described, and when It is once seen people do not blame him for refusing to make the leap If the collection is small.

Food Aids Animals' Growth. W. B. Lilly, a farmer of leisure, liv-

ing near Union City, has for many years maintained that the growth of animals depended entirely upon the quality and quantity of food adminis tered. He has experimented consid-erably with cats and as a proof of the truth of his theory he now exhibits a mammoth cat of ordinary breed, 6 years old, which Is as big as a good-sized dog, weighs 31 pounds and is still growing.

LATEST CASH MARKET REPORTS

WHEAT. Liverpool—Amerktn, Vb (P^d. Chlcajto—No. 2 refl. NowYork—No. 2 red. JL19%(01.19V4-Mlnncnpolln—No. 1 hnrd. $1.26. Kansas City—No. 2 hnrd. 11.0661.06. Duluth—No. 1 hard. |1.2f»4. „ „ Milwaukee—No. 1 northern. |1.22^©1.2i St. Louis-No. 2 rod. $1.12 401.18%.

CORN. ^ . Liverpool—American mixed, <• 7v4o. Chicago'—No. 2. Mtyc. New York—No. 2. Mttc. Kansas City—No. 2 mined. 49H6MC. St. Louis—No. 2. ««4e5iuc. Peoria-No. 3. 64c.

OATS. Chlcaro—Standard. 31HC31Hc. New tork-No. 2. 39ttc. Kansas City—No. 2 white. 8363SHC. St. Louis-No. 2. 8«HC3Mic. Peoria—No. S white. 31>i@32c.

CATTLE. Chlcaco-tl.25S6.i0. New York—|3.10fl«.75. Kansai Cltv—|1.E0®6.15. Onaha-n.T5(S6.00. St. Jo«eph-42.00O4.10. Plttaburr—I2.T505.76. Buffalo—IS.TSOIt.OC. St. I.ouls—H0C<36.C6.

HOGS. ChlcaRo-IS.00Ce.07H. New York—t8.6066.7S. Kansas City—$5.50®5.80. Omaha—12.5035.76. St. Joseph-tS.&O^F 67tt. Pltt8burB-l8.00S6.45. BufTalo—$4.006(>.4£. St. Loul8-|4.6O06.96. w

SHEEP AND LAMBS. Ghlcago—(3.1086.25. New York-|2.00e6.37H. Kanwa Clty-|2.7r.e6.«). Omaha—S2.&0S6.4O. St. Joseph—12.7666.10. Plttsburr—11.6066.10. Buffalo—11.5066.60. St. Louls-J3.5O06.25.

H I E T

Czar G o i n g to Rcval to Bid F a r e w e l l to R u s i a ' s S e a

F ighters .

GREATESTSQUADR3N ON WATER

Vcsssis From Pert Arthur Are Ex-peoted to Aid In infllctino Otmsge on Admiral Togo's Ships When Re-

inforcements Arrive.

Burglara Commit Murder. According to word received at Hol-

land Gus Brewer, a former resident of that city, was killed by robbera at Portland, Ore.. Sept. 22. Brewer, It is said, was about to close his restau-rant for the night when several men entered and demanded his money. He refused to give It to them, whereupon all drew revolvers and shot him to death. Brewer was a popular young man in Holland, Grand Haven and the vicinity.

Farmer Is Cruel. A farmer of one of the upper coun-

ties surely holds the record for cruel-ty In the neighborhood. According to nearby residents when his horse does not go to suit him he pounds tiie beast unmercifully with a wagon stake, and If this does no good he pro-ceeds to grab the animal by the nose and shut off Its wind for a minute at a time. To his child, he unmercifully applies the horsewhip upon the slight-est provocation.

Aged Mar: Learns to Read. Joel Seaton, about 70 years old, liv-

ing on a farm near Manton, has learn-ed to read and write In the past two or three years. Seaton has acquired the knowledge all by himself. He says it required much perseverance, but that the success was well worth the effort.

When the dancing masters have In-vented another dance that is as easy and awkward as the two-step their promise to abolish that form of terp-aichorean festivity may be fulfilled.

Thus far 800 or more double stars have been discovered and catalogued. They will soon be so plentiful a3 to attract no more attention than the hirth of a girl baby in the family of a European monarch.

Plenty of Mink. The old lumber docks along the Sag-

inaw river at West Bay CMty, espe-cially in the vicinity of the fish houses, are overrun with mink, according to those whose business calls them to the vicinity of the river front. Some of the youngsters are planning to trap them this winter to earn an honest dollar by selling: their skins. The pelts bring from | 1 to |2.

Northern Normal Opens. The Northern Normal has opened

at Marquette for the fall term. An Increased class of representative stu-dents is In attendance, the enrollment showing a gratifying gain over that of last year. In a few weeks the stu-dents will be able to occupy the new addition to the school; a fine library, which is not yet quite finished.

Escapes From a Bull. While Morris Williams, of Fairfield,

was leading a bull the animal attack-ed him, striking and knocking him down. Mr. Williams was so fortu-nate as to fall near a high wire fence, under which he had the presence of mind to roil. This probably saved his life.

Cows Eat Dynamite. Four cows belonging to an upper

peninsula farmer died recently from Scientists have declared that if a

n a n bo put in a dark room with a blue light It Is possible to extract his j eating dynamite. Several sticks had teeth painlessly. Shut a man with the L e e u i e f t where the animals could toothache In a dark room and the j e t them a n d , after suffering great air will become blue enough without i y death relieved them. artificial aid. '

Anti-Swear League. Menominee boys have an Anti-Swear

league with a large membership. To fiTther protect the members, a rule has been established prohibiting them from lounging on the street corners at any time.

Mr. Aster has a right to live where he pleases, and to be a citizen of any country, or the subject of any mon-arch that will take him In; but he cant expect the people of the United States to take much pride In his {Amcricai origin.

Rare Caila Lilly. A Mason lady has a calla Illy of

which she has a right to be proud. Last June it sent out a blossom thought to be one of the finest speci-mens ever seen in the locality, but now It has a double blossom measur-ing ten inches long and five wide.

Think Burglars Poison Dogs. Dog poisoners are at work in Niles

and are selecting valuable dogs every time. It Is now suspected th f t It is the work of burglars, as one dog that proved useful In driving the mis-creants away a week ago is the latest victim.

• Bellevue Pioneer Is Dead. One of Bellevue's pioneer women,

Mrs. Zery W. Hoyt, died In her 92d year. To within a few days of her death she was able to sew without the aid of glasses, and holds the rec-ord for piecing quilts in Michigan.

Big Cut of Logs. One of the largest cuts of maple

logs ever made In Emlnet county has been made at the mill of Frank Mer-chant, at Alanson, when 205 logs were sawed Into lumber In two hours. This means about 20,000 feet.

Boys Stone Train. Grand Haven has a gang who are

In the habit of throwing stones at passing Pere Marquette trains. A stone went through a window, strlk Ing and slightly injuring a passenger A couple of boys have been appre bended charged with the offense, and they claim they were Just throwing at the smoke from the engine. They were turned over to the officials of 1;he railroad company.

Broken Wire dhars Earth. During a heavy rainstorm at Niles

recently a live wire was broken, and the earth thereabouts, which was la cinerated by the heavy charge, resem bled a gigantic coal clinker. Had it not been for the rain, large plies of wood pulp plied up In the Michigan Wood Pulp company's plant nearby would have caught fire.

Lightning Hits Umbrella. , Mrs. Thane Hewitt of Sparta met

with a peculiar accident during an electrical storm. She was walking and carrying an umbrella, which was struck by lightning and shattered. Mrs. Hewitt miraculously escaped. The same bolt of lightning struck and set fire to a nearby building.

Big Potato Story. A Gaylord farmer lays claim to hav-

ing the largest potato story this sea-son, and for its truthfulness he is ready to vouch. He says he recently dug seventeen potatoes from one hill in his garden, and from another twen-ty-seven potatoes, all of them being ever the average size.

Anti-Auto Club. Farmers near Battle Creek have or-

ganized an antl-automoblle club, and have petitioned Congressman Gard-ner to Introduce a bill protecting farmers from reckless chauffeurs, it is stated that Congressman Gardner will actually introduce the novel measuro.

Suspect Boys of Burglary. Ionia has suffered several burglaries

and it is thought it is the work of two youths who have been arrested charg-ed with the crimes and lodged in Jail. A pair of trousers stolen from one of the places was found upon one of thu boys.

Paper Mill to Start. The big pulp and paper mill plant of

the Munislng Paper company, limited, which has been under construction for more than two years. Is about ready to go into operation and prob-ably will be running in two weeks. Fine insnila fiber paper will be manu-factured. The plant will convert 15,-000,000 feet of hemlock timber Into paper every year, and the supply of raw,materia!! is practically inexhauat-i W . t h e mills will give employment to 200 persons night and day the year round.

Three men were killed and a number injured in the wreck of a stock train near Bismarck, N. D. The dead are: Smyth Dobson of Dickinson, George Davis of Saginaw, Mich., and Fred Volpert of Montana.

A monument to Gen. William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition has been unveiled in Bellefontaine ceme-tery, St. Louis. It was erected under the provisions of the will of Jefferson Kearney Clark, the youngest son of the explorer.

Announcement was made at Sharon, Pa., that the United States Steel cor-poration is preparing to start Its mines at Slippery Rock. The mines have been idle since the miners struck against a reduction in wages last Jan-uary.

Dan R. Hanna, J. B. Perkins, James Parmelee, Belden Seymour, W. B. White, L. Dean Holden and H. M. Hanna, Jr., amateur horsemen o! Cleveland, falied by twenty minutes !n an attentft to drive a four-horse team in relays from Cleveland to Ra-veuua. a distance of forty miles, in four hours.

Silvio Plod, Peter Froslnla, Emilia Paagnine and Charles Dolfi, miners, were drowned at Monongahela, Pa., the skiff In which they were crossing the river being run down by a steam-er.

Hilary Altman, Charles Altmananu Iver Harney are being held in Florida for the Georgia authorities in connec-tion with the Duncan-Altman feud murder.

Demos Dakay of Herkimer was killed and four other men were seri-ously injured near Mountain View, N. Y., on the Mohawk & Malone rail-road, when a scaffold on a railroad bridge gave way.

The St. Augustine, Fla., authorities have arrested a man supposed to be Frank Duncan, a safe-robber, who while under sentence of death lor mur-der, escaped from the Birmingham, Ala., jail.

Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Wil-holte, Mrs. Lydla Mounts and Mrs. Myra McHenry bro>.3 two pl^te glass windows In the Mahan Wholesale Sup-ply company's warehouse In Wichita, Kan.

The International Brotherhood of Carpenters, in convention in Milwau-kee. re-elected W. D. Huber and In-creased the per capita tax from 20 to 25 cents to raise a defense fund against the open shop.

The Blppus Oil company, of which Lafayette McWllliams of Chicago is president and J. Fred Blppus of Hunt-ington. Ind., vice president, has incor-porated and bought for the Huntington Light and Fuel company 4,000 acres of oil leases in Grant county, Indiana, for $250,000. The leases have 130 wells and a dally production of 350 barrels.

The bollermakers employed in the Erie railroad shops at Meadvilie, Pa., are on strike.

Jacob Priniki was hanged at Greens-burg, Pa., for the murder of W. J. Kelsey of East Charleroi.

The fifteenth session of the trans-MIsBlssippi commercial congress will meet at St. Louis Oct. 25 to 29.

Thomas W. Wllliama, a mining con-tractor of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and a brother of former Congressman M. B. Williams, was accidentally killed in a coal mine.

Rev. W. D. Maxon of Detroit, chair-man of a committee to secure con-certed action by ministers on the question of divorce, reported that six-ty Protestant celrgymen there have agreed not to marry any person who was divorced on grounds not approved by the church.

George Frame, charged with help-ing to lynch the negro Maples at Huntsville, Ala., was acquitted.

William S. Alley of Alley, Conger & Co. and S. L. Blood of 8. L. Blood ft Co. were suspended from the New York stock exchange for one year each.

The junior editor of the Robinson. 111., Argus, Frank Kopta, was married to Miss Rose Rains.

Rear Admiral Charles W. Rae, engi-neer In chief of the navy, returned to Washington from the Pacific coast, where he inspected engineer work.

Fire in Wiconlsco, Pa., destroyed the hosiery mill of W. H. Sheaffer and twelve other buildings. Loss $100,-ono.

Thirty-five young Americans who won Rhodes scholarships have sailed from Boston to take un their studies at Oxford.

St. Petersburg, Oct. 3.—The Baltic sea fieet is ready to sail and on its ability to drive the Japanefee navy trom tho sea hangs the issue of the war. The fleet will sail from Reval Tuesday. It will be ^e most power-ful fieet that ever set aall from any European port, and is relatively larger than the whole Japanese navy. The czar will go in person to Reval to say farewell to his commanders and sea-men.

While hopes are still entertained that Port Arthur may be able to hold out until the appearance of the Br^'ic fleet, thtt quention of the fall of that stronghold does not, apparently: en-ter greatly into the calculations of the admiralty. The only thing expected of the Port Arthur squadron Is to break out of the harbor and Inflict as much damage as possible upon Admir-al Togo's fleet. Such ships an escape are expected to make their way to Vladivostok, where the repairs upon the cruiser Bogatyr are understood to have been practically completed, and those on the Rossla and Grcmobol are nearlng completion.

Mighty Sea Flgh; Impending. The war In the far East will depend

upon the issue of the sea fight after the arrival of the Baltic fleet. Vladi-vostok, although Icebound In winter for commercial ships, can easily be kept open for a fleet of war vessels by means of Ice-breakers. If the Jap-anese fleet*Is caught in such a weak-ened condition that the Baltic ships are able to win a victory officials here hold that other problems will solve themselves, and with Japanese com-munications severed the Japane army on the mainland will be at mercy of Russia. /

A division in the adniralty had long existed throughout the period of prep-aration regarding the advlsabWy of sending out the squadron, but with the decision to doubl. the size of the Manchurlan array and press the war with vigor the logic of those who for months have Insisted that every a\ all-able ship should be dispatched to the far East has finally prevailed. The argument that no complete victory over the. Japanese is possible unless the command of the sea Is wrested from them could not be overcome, and though much valuable time has been lost and the moment seems Inauspi-cious, it Is officially intimated that an irrevocable decision has been taken to dispatch the Baltic fieet, even If the Port Arthur squadron should be an-nihilated before its arrival there.

!t Is realized that the fleet will bo much better able to enc< unter the foe now than next sprln?, after the Jap-anese ships have liad all winter to clean, repair and refit.

Japanese In Fiehtlng Trim. This boldly announced program

seems to stake the whole issue upon sea fighting. The Japanese ships. It must be remembered, have been in active service seven months. No matter how greatly the officlency of the guns and the speed of the vessels have been impaired, the crews of Ad-miral Togo's ships have enjoyed the prestige of continucus victories, while opposed to them will be a fioet of brand-new ships, more or less, untried, and none of which have fired a shot in actual warfare, and whose crews have never yet been under fire.

Important conditions are attached to the program outlined above.

Fleet Must Stand Teot According to this informations the

continuation of the Baltic fleet's voy-age to its destination will denend primarily upon how the ships them-selves stand the test of actual sailing, and, oecondly, upon developments In the far East. Should all go well with the squadron on the voyage and Rear Admiral Wlren be able to strike a tell-jng blow upon Admiral Toco, even if half his ships go to the bottom, the Baltic squadron will be hurried on with all possible speed. If defects de-velop in the vessels, or if Wiren falls utterly, the squadron can at worst re-turn and await the compietloa of oth-er ships now building. Nothing, it is argued, will be lost and much may be gained by the mere , departure of the squadron; and the fact that it may have to be reckoned with later may make Admiral Togo wary about risk-ing his ships when the time comes for Rear Admiral Wiren's sortie, and thus give the latter a better opportu-nity to escape.

The military situation, so far as the public is concerned, remains un-changed. Numberless stories are afloat regarding important commands with the new army and tho disposi-tion of various prominent officers whose names have been mentioned In connection therewith, but nothing con-clusive has yet been given out. It is merely evident that preparation for the dispatch of fresh troops Is being pushed as rapidly as possible. It Is understood that the second division of the guard regiments is already under orders to go to the front.

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On Life's harvest field, Oo. will mark the Increase

Hint your acres yield; Stay your hand a moment,

lis destiny you wield.

If you sow the wind What is your futuro gain?

Thistle tops and brambles. Or heads of golden grain?

Crops of peace and plenty. Or harvesting of pain?

If you sow the wind. What Is It you will grow?

The whirlwind upsprlnglng Will In Its fury blow.

For 'tis a truth eternal We reap what we sow.

—Mrs. M. L. Rayne.

Cost of Something for Nothing. Just before the late John P. Altgeld,

at one time governor of the state of Illinoli:, died, be prepared a manu-script for a little volume entitled "The Cost of Something for Nothing." This manuscript was found among his pa-pers after his death by Mrs. Altgeld, and has Just been published by the Hammersmark Publishing company of Chicago.

It Is an Interesting discussion of the theory of human rights and the psrt that special privileges play in humau affairs. One chapter is devoted to the liquor traffic and his diccussion of the matter Is something of a surprise to his many admirers. Mr. Altgeld was an "Individualist" of such an extreme type that he was unjustly dubbed an "anarchist" by his enemies. He was a "German of the Germans." He al-ways had the support of the liquor dealers in his various campaigns. These men construed the governor's "Individualism" and his "personal lib-erty" ideas to mean tho right of the individual to open saloons and pr*y upon society.

But down deep in Altgeld's heart there seemed to have been an under-current of social philosophy not in ac-cord with the views of his followers or his own suppos6d views. This Is brought out In his posthumous volume under the chapter "The Liquor Traf-fic," which Is here reproduced In full:

"In America the liquor traffic has yielded great profits, both in manu-facturing and in retailing; and men ongagedVin the business show, for a time, eviaenco of prosperity. Some of the,most palatial homes in this coun-

t r y belong to brewers and dlBtiiiers; their equipages are of the best, and their manner of living is sumptuous.

"One generation of brewers and dls-tillors in Ailierica has passed awty, and we can stifdy their lives and pass Judgment on thfelf work. The most hnpresslvo thing that strikes the ob-server of these men is the universality of their moral ruin.

"Personally, many of the men on-gaged in this business are not only men of ability, shrewdness and onUr-prlse, but they are men of kindly im-puises and inclined by nature to be generous; and some of them possess a considerable culture.

"Why should a blight hang over them? It Is the moral taint in their business that comes home to them with its trail of death.

"Why say moral taint? Because the effect of the whole business, as now conducted, is to cater to the weak-nesses, to destroy the charactcr and lower the social status of men and of communities; and this demoralization and ruin reaches back to the source from which it sprang.

"Vibrations in the atmosphere move in a circle in all directions from the point, of disturbance, and all that come within that circle feel more or lesji of the shock. In the traffic in liquor, both the hand that delivers and the hand that receives the liquor be-como palsied.

"If liquors were made and sold as drugs and groceries are sold, the effect would be different. If men took them as they take drugs and food, a email per cent would be used, and the de-moralization following would be com-pamtlvely small.

"But the manufacturers of liquors want to make money, and they en-deavor to swell their sales. For this purpose, they encourage tho opening of saloons.

"These saloons become lounging places, where characters and habits of Industry are destroyed, whore habiu

^of drinking and carousing are formed that pull down not only the individual, but his family; and every time the drunkard and his family sink a notch lower, the moral effect tends to blight tho family of tho saloonkeeper, the brt-wer, aad the distiller, who created th® condition from which this ruin proceeds. It Is the reactionary effect of human conduct. The microbe of mcfal degradation works backward as wed as forward—Montreal Herald.

A Good Example. Nht alone In free and enlightened

Amei'lca is there an advance being mad>j along the lines of reform, and in the efforts made to crush out the gnjai evils that are forever threaten-ln^ the well-being of humanity. Al-

• v though for long years wo have been battling with tho evils of lntem6«r-anoe, and have passed many laws lor

i thn control and restraint of the liquor l trafltc, we find ourselves, to-day, in

tho broad light of the twentieth can-tury, outstripped by benighted Africa

I in the effective methods adopted to #l9e out the saloon and the accom-pan? ing destructive evils of intom-pertnee. A few days ago we came acre as the following statement, which seews like the promise of a better day

^ for that land beyond the seas. The T f writer says:

^ "The Emperor Menelik of Abyeflnia has issued an edict prohlWiting the 1m-

-TOPICS portatlon of alcoholic drinks Into hlfl empire. French wines and German beer have, he says, found their way to his court. He has watched their ef-fects, and has come to the conclusion that, If ho does not put a stop to tho drinking that Is going on, his empire will soon fall a prey to other nations. The emperor has no objection to Eu-ropean arts and sciences, but he sets his face against European poison, and declares that he will punish Import-ers oi alcoholic liquors by forcing thi) liquor down their throats until they die. In the preamble to his edict he saya that drunkenness is pernicious, enfeebles a race, and destroys the body and mind. He desires that his people remain strong, healthy. Inde-pendent, and, as a means to thls end-, prohibits alcoholic drinks in every part of his domains."

This action of Emperor Menelik 1 worthy of emulation, and If the same principle of action were adopted everywhere by those In power, how soon would the saloon, with its ac-companying evils of' crime, poverty and Intemperance, be wiped out? Wa shall wait with Interest the effect of this courageous stand taken by the Abyssinian Emperor for the welfare of his people, and If he does not weaken It will mean a noble' future for his kingdom, a future of prosper-ity, of giuwlng morality and enlight-ened progress.—Los Angeles Times.

I I B g l E u m v w n f B W A T n E y

Alcoholism In England. Unpleasant facts calculated to

wound the British national pride aw found by the hundreds in tho report of the select committees on physical do-terioration. Just published.

Alcoholism," abuse of tea, fiat feel, impaired vision, bad teeth, la=lnes? and unwholesome food are some of tho subjects on which evidence wa« given by tho witnesses.

Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice, one of our foremost soldiers, said that on Mafeking night he walked from Charing Cross to Cannon street. Hu went through the whole crowd and did not see a dozen men that he could have enlisted.

On the subject of youthful drink-ers. the general referred to a "little, puny, three-year-old child In a hos-pital a t Blackheath who uad a penny given him to play with, and the poor little wretch held out his hand to every visitor with the penny In It, asking them to get him "just a ha'porth of gin." It was his one idea of the way to use the penny. Gin was his Ideal of happiness.

Inquiries showed that "gin livers" for children under three years of age were a common experience /of hos" pitat practice.—London Dispatch.

The Drink Habit. The drink habit is a greater evil 'n

England, where It Is practiced with Anglo-Saxon violence, and it seems to be Increasing among the poor, while it decreases among tho rich. The well-to-do are giving up cham-pagne and claret In favor of diluted whisky, partly from economy, and partly from the gout. The poor con-sume apparently as much strong and impure liquor as they did before the government effort to check the evil.

This country presents no such clear case as England, because our popula-tion contains so many temperats drinkers—Germans with their beet and Italians with their wine. Ai brewers we have Just passed Ger-many, where the consumption of beer is apparently growing less, while it Increases here.

The salutlon of the exceptionally many-sided problem of regulating man's taste for alcohol has been brought no nearer by legislation. The brightest side of It Is the check given to drink by industrial advance. As labor becomes more skilled and better organized drunkenness la diminished, that tho chances favor the s o b e r -Collier's Weekly.

Father Mathew and the Rum Traders. Father Mathew frequently used th«

following illustration: "A very fa* old duck went out early one morning in pursuit of worms, and after being out all day she succeeded in filling hev? crop full of worms; she had the mla-fortune to be met by a fox, who at once proposed to take her life to sat-isfy his hunger. The old duck "ap-pealed, argued. Implored, remonstrat-ed. She said to the fox; 'You cannot be so wicked and hard-hearted as to take the life of a harmless old duck, merely to satisfy the cravings of hun-ger?" She exhorted him against the commission of so great a sin, and ' begged him not to stain his soul with innocent blood. When the fox couid . stand her cant no longer, he said: 'Out i upon you, madam, with all your fine' feathers, you are a pretty thing to ' lecture me for taking life to satisfy my hunger. Is not your own crop fuil of worms? You destroy more lives In one day than I do In a month." i This was Father Mathew's reply to tne makers and vendors of llqtiur, when they charged him with spoiling I their trado, and taking bread from the Hps of their children.

Building Right. Our business Is not to build quickly,

but build upon a right foundaMon and In a right spirit. Life is more than a mere competition as between man and man; It Is not who can be done first, but who can work best; It Is not who can rise highest In the shortest time, but who is working most patiently and lovingly in accordance with the design^ of God.—Joseph Parker. D. D

Fire at Middlesboro, Ky., destroyed the stores of Jacob Goodfrlend & Co. and H. Stopinskl. Loss, $50,000.

Vice-President Corral of Mexico will go to the St. Louis exposition as the representative of President Diaz.

First Assistant Postmaster General Robert J. Wynne has returned to Washington after a vacation in Eu-rope.

President Roosevelt attended the dedication of the Mount Pleasant Con-gregational church. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Georgo Barker Stevens, professor of systematic the-ology In the Yale divinity school.

Fred Brower was sentenced to two years and a half In the Iowa state pen-itentiary for horse stealing at Iowa City. Iowa.

The safe in the postoffice at Rose-mont, a suburb of Philadelphia, was blown open by dynamite and money and stamps aggregating about $200 stolen.

Tom Winkle, charged with arson, was acquitted, while a mistrial result-ed In the case of James Mitchell, charged with murder in the lynching of the negro Maples In Huntsville, Ala.

Ten Ye Key, who has brought thlr ty boys "from China to be entered in Americas universities, has decided to place two of his charges in Yale.

President Thomas Milan of the Vera Cruz and Pacific railroad has let a con-tract for the building of culverts, abut-ments and retaining walls all along the line, amounting to $1,000,000.

San Domingo hau purchased a naval vessel in Germany.

Officials captured a madman mvir Timberland, southwest of Shell Lake, Wis.

The gold production of the Cripple Creek, Col., district., for September amounts to $2,041,000.

Dr. Thomas D. Hogg, an aged and prominent citizen of Raleigh, N. C., was killed by a freight train.

The Indiana yearly meeting of Friends took steps toward providing for superannuated ministers.

The Washington, Iowa, Gazette, one of the oldest papers in the state, has bought out the Washington Daily Herald.

The University of Pennsylvania be-gan Its one hundred and forty-ninth annual session with an increased en-rollment.

Hugo Donnerstag, arrested on a charge of having murdered his father near Woodboro, Minn., was held with-out ball.

A distributing station of the East Ohio Natural Gas company in Cleve-land exploded and two men were prob-ably fatally Injured.

The jury In the Sllfler case, a farm-er accused of poisoning his wife at Grundy Center. Iowa, returned a ver-dict of not guilty.

Joseph W. Dufour died at Minne-apolis, Minn., as tho result of an attack by highwaymen, who threw him over a cliff, a distance of forty feet, down to the Mississippi river.

Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of com-merce and ' labor. Investigated the need of an Immigrant station for San Francisco and inspected a proposed site for the building on Angel Island.

William W. Thomas, American min-ister to Sweden and Norway, who made a brief visit to bis home In Portland, Me., returned to Europe. ' Among the passengers who arrived

In New York on the White Star line steamer Baltic from Liverpool were Vice Admiral Sir Charles C. Drury, due of the lords of admiralty of the British navy; Sir George Newnes, M. P.; the earl of Yarmouth, and Marshall Field.

Milwaukee was chosen as tho meet-ing place for 1906 by the ninth bien-nial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, which adjourned in Buffalo, N. Y.

Orviile Harald, the ulchmond, ind., tenor, has decided to refuse the offer of M i l j . S c h u m a n - H e l n k t o Rive h i m

a musical education In Germany, and iiSteau will go on the road as an evan-gelist singer.

In a freight train wreck on the Grand Trunk railway near Eastwood. Ont, Engineers Kirkland and Heron, Conductor Falls and Brakeraan Bene-dict were killed and Fireman Cameron was probably fatally scalded.

Reuben A. Torrey and C. M. Alex-ander, the American evangelists, closed their meetings at Bolton, Eng-land. The evangelists will begin a mission at Cardiff Oct. 2.

John R. Wise of Wisconsin, a clerk ot the third class in the Indian bu-reau, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., to take effect Oct. 1.

Union university of Schenectady. N. Y.. celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the Inauguration of Rev. Dr. Ellphalet Nott as president of Union college.

John Scott of Sioux City, Iowa, has brought suit for $6,000 for alleged breach of promise of marriage against Mrs. Ella Rassett, formerly of Ho.--atmg. iowa. but now of New York.

Ex-Congressman W. C. P. Breckln-rldge received a paralytic stroke and Is dangerously ill at Lexington, Ky.

King Head a" farmer living near Clinton. Ky., his wife and child were shot from ambush and seriously hurt.

The Polish Roman OatboHa,trlenni-al congress In Pittsburg voted to es-tablish schools between the elemen-tary and college grades.

Moody institute, Chicago, is given $1,000 in the will of the late Alderman Harry Orth Shelby, filed for probate at Oklahoma City, O. T.

The third national convention of the St. John the Baptist Union of Ameri-ca began at Wiliimantlc, Conn., with an attendance of 160 delegates.

CONNECTICUT IS POWERFUL

ADDITION TO AMERICAN NAVY

V. There went overboard from the gov-

ernment ways in the Brooklyn navy . yard Sept. 29 a battleship the superior | of any of her type save her sister ves-• sel, the Louisiana,.which was recently (launched from the yards of a private shipbuilder.

The Connecticut and the Louisiana are two of the most powerful battle-ships that have ever been built. The designs were found to be so satisfac-tory that they were adopted for three later battleships subsequently author-ized by congress, these being the Ver-mont, the Kansas and the Minnesota, all now in course of conrtmctlon, but none very far advanced toward com-pletion.

Designed for giving Irejrvy blows and for receiving them, the main points of interest about a battleship lies In her battery and system of ar-nior protection. The Connecticut Is designed to carry a battery of four 12-inch rifles, eight 8-inch rifles, twelve 7-lnch rlfies, twenty 3-lnch rifles,

The First Connecticut. twelve S-pounders (automatic), eight 1-pounder (automatic) eight machine guns, two 3-lnch field guns and four torpedo tubes.

"It goes without saying," writer the naval expert of the Scientific Amer-ican, "that this is a tremendous bat-tery. All the guns are of the latest high velocity, long calibre, rapid-fire type. The 12-lnch has a muzzle veloc-ity of 2,800 foot seconds, an energy of 46,246 foot tons and a penetration of Iron at the muzzle of 47.2 Inches. The 8-inch gun has also a velocity of 2,800 foot seconds, and its energy at the muzzle is 13,600 foot tons, while it is capable of penetrating 31.4 Inches of Iron at the muzzle. The 7-lncb gun. is fifty calibres in length, has a veloc-ity of 2,900 feet per second, a munzle energy of 9,646 foot tons and can pen-etrate 28.7 inches of iron at the muz*-zle. The excellent 3-lnch gun has the high velocity of 3,000 feet per second and a muzzle energy of 874 foot tons."

By reason of her memorable trip around the Horn and her splendid work at Santiago, the Oregon has been popularly regarded as a battleship unequaled. The Oregon certainly was and still la a superb fighting ma-chine, but her chances of winning in an encounter with the Connecticut would be about the same as those of

complete steel deck three Inches In thickness, which slopes toward the sides of the vessel to a junction with the side armor below the water line. It is alio sloped forward and aft to a junction below the water line with the stem and stern.

In addition to the belt of Krnpp steel thai protects the waterllne near-ly 8,000 cubic feet of corn |)ltoh cellu-lose will be driven In back of the belt armor throughout the length of the ship, the mass being tightly rammed Into a steel cofferdam, which Is worked In as part of the structure ot

• the sblp. Should a penetration of the belt occur the shot would probably pass through the corn pith cofferdam, but as soon as the water followed the saturatio* of the corn pith would cause It to swell with great rapidity, until it acted with an obturating ef-fect in closing the bole.

Before the shell could reach the en-gine room or boilers or magazines It would have to pass through several feet of c^al stored In the coal bunk-ers, and then It would have to effect a very oblique penetration through the sloping sides of the three-inch deck. If it should penetrate the three-Inch steel deck several feet more of coal would be encountered, and It is pretty safe to say that such frag-ments of the shell as might reach the vitals of. the ship would have lost so much of their velocity, as to be capa blc of doing very little harm when they got there.

It Is Interesting to note that in the building of the Connecticut and the Louisiana there has been a rivalry be-tween the government builders and the Newport News Shipbuilding com-pany, which has had no parallel In this country. The vessels were au-thorized by the same congress and it was stipulated that one be built at a navy yard, the other by a private en-terprise.

The Newport News company got the contract for building the Louisiana, and the work of constructing the Con-necticut was intrusted to the New York navy yard. The Louisiana was so far ahead of the Connecticut that she was launched several weeks ago. This would seem to indicate that pri vate shipbuilding enterprises can turn out battleships faster than can the government at Its navy yardfc

But It should be recalled that no vessel had been built at the New York yard since tho Maine was construct-ed, whereas numbers have been con-structed at the bands of the Newport News company. The one had already been equipped with every necessary appliance, whereas on tho other hand these bad to be supplied.

Moreover, the men In private em-ploy might work overtime If they liked, whereas the other being In gov-ernment employ had stipulated hours of labor, and there being no govern-ment warrant to hurry work these worked the regulation hours and ceased.

The Connecticut measures 450 feet

tur.o c.i ^'"OSrct SptlnO" TH.^nnilS oj^i-oa '(BUI) OW" (PtmJj *» HAPtOfmt

WAGRAn SHOWING THE imBER.JIZL 4 POSITION'S OF (WM5.

Latest Addition to O nited States Navy.

John L. Sullivan if now pitted against Jeffries, the new champion of the ring.

The defense arrangements, accord-ing to the expert authority quoted, are tho most complete to be found in any design built or building today. There Is an unbroken belt of Krupp armor from stem to stern, which Is eleven Inches In thickness at the water line amidships, and tapers gradually to a minimum thickness of four Inches at the ends. Associated with this is a

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in length and has an extreme beam ol 79 feet 10 inches. She displaces 10,' 000 tons. Is fitted with triple expan-sion entrlnes, and is designed to have a sustained sea speed of eighteen knots an honr. Her engines are of the vertical triple expansion type and are supplied with steam from Babcock & W'lcox boilers. The indicated horsepower is 16.500, the corfl capacity 2.200 tons. Her complement is 42 ohlcers and 701 men.

I ouls Flclschmann, Called Home, Wa» Genuine Philanthropist.

Louis Fleischmann of New York cast his bread upon the waters and It returned to him an hundred-fold. Mr. Fleischmann was a practical philan-thropist. He was called a "pauperizer of the idle" ten years ago when he established his "bread line," but this did not cum him from his purpose. To him anyone who begged something to eat was sufficiently in want to deserve charity. If the suppliant was willing

Soldier's Enduring Fame. | "Dulce et decorum est pro patria

mori"—thus it has always been and thus it will be so long as international disagreements continue to bo settled by resort to arms. Not only do patri-ots deem it sweet and becoming to die for their country, but the mem-ory of those who fall in defense of flag and country Is cherished more sacredly than that of those who achieve the greatest and most benpf-Icent triumphs In the arts of peao*. No other fame is so endurii^: as that of the military hero. On no other are honors b o gratefully bestowed. This is demonstrated in the history of the United States quite as conclu-•ively as in that of any other country. —Washington Post

to wait In a long line of gaunt-oyea, shivering humanity. In the most In-clement of weather, he was hungry enough to deserve his half-loaf and cup ot" steaming coffcq. So the "bread line" continued and grew, and often has it been taken as an Index of the number of needy and unemployed In tho great city of the East. The man who established tho bread line Is gone, but the line remains, an elo-quent tribute to the memory of one of the gentlest and best-loved philan-thropists in this land of mere or less unequally distributed abundance.

Rounded Out Name. Judge D. Cady .Herrick, Democratic

candidate for governor oi New York, was baptized plain Cady Herrick, the name having been selected by his mother. But this did not please hi j father. The latter thought that Cadj' might be softened into Katie—and his child was a big, bouncing boy. When the boy attained a few years his fai. v er told him to write his name D. Cao1? Herrick. He said: "The D will signiti the only letter of the alphabet for which It stands. If people chooso to think that it stands for a name In-stead of a letter, they may; but as for you, write your name D. Cady Herrick —D. to please me and Cady to pleas*! your^mother. Then we'll both be rep. reser^J . "

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News From Collar's Cloak Oepartment w ^xc'U3've ®ress ^erns Several dozens garments are ready for early purchasers. THRICE R E A S O N S w h y a select few will save money. First—Because we

haven't all sizes. Second—The styles and fabrics arc the very latest. Third— There's been a general clipping1 from the price. whether you are ready to buy or not.

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Adam and Eve Wore Furs. If t t a o r e WHS a p r e h l B t o i ' i C ' i n a u heproVxib l .v w o r n f u r a . P u r a n l w a y f l w o r e a n d JII w a y s w i l l lit* a

l o a d i n g f e a t u r e of w o m e n ' s w e a r — J u s t n o w t h e y a r e t h e v o g u e . O u r furw c o m b i n e t h e e l e g a n c e a n d corapletenoMH of u p - t o - d a t e f a s h i o n w i t h t h e p r a c t i c a l p r o p e r t i e s of l a w p r i c e s .

In Brown and Mixed Novelties just arrived. Black dress goods maintains its sway—still controls as a leading- color in the

realm of dress. Black is a lways dignified, elegant and genteel. It is putting it l ight when we say we have the best values and largest assortment in Lowell .

Remember! We are the exclusive agents for the celebrated Jamestown Dress Goods.—They talk for themselves.

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SQUIRE PHELPS of Lee. Mass., has, under pressure by State authorities, apologized for having tried to protect life I and l imb by fining a man for speeding his automobile contrary to law. The man in the case is Gurney, third secretary of the 3 r i t i s h embassy; and the justice was accused of a grave breach of international law, as "Persons attached lo an embassy are expressly relieved from any legal responsibility, and the exemption even extends to'domestic servants." The Governor says that: "Other channels of redress are open in case of vio-lation of Massachusetts law by the diplomatic representatives of other nations;" but Gurney himself claimcd 'that he could not under international law be arrested or held for any crime.' If such be the case, foreign diplomats and their understrappers could commit all the crimes imaginable before enough inter-national red tape to tic them up could be unwound, a condition repugnant to Americans. Squire Phelps has behind him that good Democratic principle, the equality of all men before the law; and while the purpose of the international law in question may be good, as a matter of right and common sense, the Brit-ish flunky has no more license to violate American laws than the poorest and meanest wretch in the land. The Squire in apologizing will make a mental reservation similar to lhat of Galileo in his forced recantation. It is a satisfaction to read that the British people do not approve of Gurney's stand; and that this is probably the last job of the sort the descendant of Balaam's beast will ever hold. The American people will not apologize for Squire Phelps. He is just their kind.

SENATOR HOAR, Massachusetts' grand old man, is dead. His was a great influence for good in the United States Sen-ate, where in recent years he com batted many Republican measures with his forceful oratory. In the end, however, he a lways voted with his party, thus laying himself open to the charge of not voting as he prayed. Still, he commanded the high esteem of his colleagues and opponents and countrymen in general; and will rank high among American statesmen.

THE discontinuance of the suit for damages brought by Jdhn W. Murphy against the Vil lage of Lowell is the third of recent cases, started by E. O. Mains against the peace and prosperity of the Village and its inhabitants, to go by the board. People who did not know before may now understand what was meant by declaring Mains an unsafe man in the com-munity. The little coterie that tried to hold him up may now take time to reflect.

H a s S u c c e s s f u l l u s t a l l a t i o a a n d

S o c i a l ( i a t h e r i t t g .

Cyclamen c h a p t e r O. K. S. held an en joyab le and largely a t t ended meet-ing V r i d a y evening, when Mrs. Mar-gare t Lewis w a s ini t ia ted and the ofticers for the ensuing y e a r wore en-Eftailed. The Ins la i ia t iun w a s con-ducted by W o r t h y M a t r o n Smith a n d Marshall Sclmnck f rom Vesta lodge, Ada. severa l o the r members of t h a t c h a . | t t e r being present . After t h e ceremony wmT concluded Cycla-men c h a p t e r showed their apprecia-t ion of the services of the visi t ing ottlcera by presen t ing each wi th a b o u q u e t of American B e a u t y roses, a n d the c o m p a n y repaired t o t h e d in ing-room, where a d a i n t y lunch w a s served.

T h e o f f i c e r s i n s t a r i e d a r e : W o r t h y m a t r o n — E l l a N i c h o l s o n ; w o r t h y p a t r o n — M . C. G r e e n e ; a s s o c i a t e m a t -r o n — E l l a P o s t ; c o n d u c t r e s s — E t h e l M. T h o m a s ; a s s o c i a t e c o n d u c t r e s s -L i l y S t o c k i n g ; S e c t . — H e t t y M o r g a n ; t r e a s . — S a r a h At w a t e r ; c h a p l a i n -M a r y E c k e r ; o r g a n i s t — K . f). S t o c k -i n g ; A d a — E t h e l T h o m a s ; R u t h - A m l i e P o s t ; E s t h e r — B e s s i e H e n r y ; M a r t h a — N i n a W i s n e r ; E l e c t a - N e l l i e T o w s -l e y ; w a r d e r — L e t t i e P a r k e r ; s e n t i n e l — J a s . M c P h e r s o n .

THE Republicans will hold 800 meetings in Michigan dur-ing this the last month of the campaign. A s Roosevelt cer-tainly does not need such activity, it must be an effort to save Warner's bacon. Perhaps old Michigan does not know what she needs and wants. In that case, the scare may Work. Otherwise, Ferris wil l be the next governor.

THE vertical writing system is to be thrown from the Grand Rapids schools; and the death knell of another fad is sounded. In educational matters as in those of diction, it is well not to be "The first by whom the new are tried nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Even Lowell is not above heed-ing this time honored rule.

ANOTHER victim is claimed by the prize ring in John Pet-ers, a N e w York pugilist, and the police who permitted the fight are in trouble. T h e price of the young man's life was the gate receipts, $200. How about the responsibility of those that furnished the money and gave the brutal exhibition the sanction of their presence?

EX-PRES. 'CLEVELAND will not participate in the cam-paign. N o reason why- he should. He has had the highest honors the Nation can bestow. Le t him fish and trot the babies in peace. He belongs now not to a party but to the People. He can serve them best not as a partisan but as a mentor. ^

No, SIR! T h e man who gets drunk and lies down on a railroad track is not altogether an object of pity. If he is not a fool, he knows when he 'puts a thing in his mouth to steal his brains away. '

THE Epworth League lecture and entertainment courses have an uplifting tendency on the entire community. For this reason—aside from your own pleasure and profit—you should support them.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. H e g u i a r m e e t i n g of t l i e C o m m e m

C o u n c i l of t h e V i l l a g e of L o w e l l he ld in t h e C o u n c i l R o o m s o n M o n d a y e v e n i n g , O c t . JJ, 1904.

M e e t i n g c a l l e d t o o r d e r b y P r e s i -d e n t H a k e s .

P r e s e n t T r u s t e e s C o l l a r , H i c k s , L e e , N i c h o l s o n a m i W i n e g a r , a b s e n t S m i t h .

A p e t i t i o n w a s r e c e i v e d f r o m t h e P . M. R y . Co . , a s k i n g t o h a v e W a s h -i n g t o n s t r e e t o p e n e d t h r o u g h f r o m M a i n s t r e e t t o t h e r a i l r o a d t r a c k s a n d a l s o a s k i n g p e r m i s s i o n t o c r o s s s a i d s t r e e t w i t h t h e i r t r a c k s . T h e p e -t i t i o n w a s r e f e r r e d t o t h e S t r e e t C o m m i t t e e .

T h e S t r e e t C o r a m f i s s i o n e r ' s r e p o r t f o r t h e m o n t h of S e p t e m b e r w a s re -c e i v e d a n d p l a c e d o n t i le o n m o t i o n b y T r u s t e e H i c k s .

O n m o t i o n b y T r u s t e e W i n e g a r t h e f o l l o w i n g b i l l s w e r e a l l o w e d .

Y e a s C o l l a r , H i c k s , L e e , N i c h o l s o n a n d W i n e g a r , a b s e n t S m i t h .

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u p o n t h e c h a r a c t e r of y o u r tfiougbta; t h e r e f o r e , w a t c h well o v e r t h e m , a n d o n t o r t a l u n o n e t h a t a r e c o n t r a r y t o p u r i t y a n d t r u t h , s o t h a t if y o u r soul •were laid o p e n t h e r e would a p p e a r n o t h i n g b u t w h a t would b e a r t h e H t f a t a n d ca l l u p n o b l u s h .

W h e n you s e e a girl l o o k i n g EUB* p lo lous ly a t t h e t i p s of h e r t l nge r s i t I s a s ign she Is w o n d e r i n g if t h e r e te any t r u t h In t h e c h a r g e l h a t s o m e « n o k e c lga reUes .

Green Feed for Laying Hens. G r e e n f e e d s f o r l a y i n g h e n s wh ich

add t o t he p a l a t a h l l ' t y of t h e r a t i o n , a l s o f u r n i s h a l a r g e a m o u n t of nu t r i -t ion, a n d u n d o u b t e d l y h e l p to k e e p h e n s in " c o n d i t i o n . "

T h e N e w Y o r k S t a t i o n r e c o m m e n d s f o r w i n t e r f e e d i n g , c lover , a l f a l f a a n d I m m a t u r e g r a s s e s , a n d s t a t e s t h a t t h e s e c o n t a i n m o r e of n e e d e d l i m e t h a n do g r a i n s . T h e l ibe ra l f e e d i n g of d r ied y o u n g c lover a n d g r a s s e s will g e n e r a l l y I n s u r e d e e p o r a n g e co lo red yo lk s , w h i c h a r e p r e f e r e d hy m a n y b u y e r s t o p a l e ye l low ones .

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M o v e d b y T r u s t e e H i c k s t h a t t h e t i m e f o r t h e c o l l e c t i o n of v i l l a g e t a x e s b e e x t e n d e d u p t o a n d i n c l u d -i n g M o n d a y . O c t . 1 7 t h , 1904, t h e l a t -e s t d a t e t o w h i c h a n e x t e n s i o n m a y b e g r a n t e d . C a r r i e d .

Y e a s C o l l a r . H i c k s , I jee , N i c h o l s o n a n d W i n e g a r , a b s e n t S m i t h .

O n m o t i o n b y T r u s t e e N i c h o l s o n , C o u u c i l a d j o u r n e d .

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h a s h a d a p r e p a r a t i o n a n d e x p e r i -e n c e w h i c h e s p e c i a l l y q u a l i f y h i m f o r t h a t of f ice . A f t e r s e v e r a l y e a r s of p r a c t i c e a t D e t r o i t , h e c a m e t o (.-Jrand R a p i d s / i s a m e m b e r of t h e wel l k n o w n l a w firm of B u r l i n g a m e , B e l d e n & O r t o n , t h e s e n i o r m e m b e r b e i n g E d w i n A. B u r l i n g a m e , f o r t w e l v e y e a r s j u d g e of t h e S u p e r i o r C o u r t . M r . W m . P . Be lden h a v i n g r e m o v e d f r o m G r a n d R a p i d s , a n d . l u ' l g e B u r l i n g a m e h a v i n g r e t i r e d f r o m t h e a c t i v e w o r k , M r . O r t o n h a s s u c c e s s f u l l y c o n t i n u e d t h e p r a c t i c e of t h e firm. H e h a s b e e n e n g a g e d in m a n y n o t a b l e l e g a l c o n t e s t s , c iv i l a n d c r i m i n a l , t h e b e s t k n o w n p r o b -a b l y b e i n g t h e A d a m s - B a k e r s u i t f o r b r e a c h of p r o m i s e , in w h i c h h e r e p r e -s e n t e d t h e p l a i n t i f f a n d s e c u r e d a v e r d i c t f o r SJKI.OIMI. H e r e c e n t l y r e p r e s e n t e d f r u i t s h i p p e r s of S p a r t a a n d C r a n d R a p i d s b e f o r e t h e i n t e r -s t a t e C o m m e r c e C o m m i s s i o n in a c a s e r e s u l t i n g In a n I m p o r t a n t dec i -s i o n a f f e c t i n g t r a n s p o r t a t i o n r a t e s o n t h e f r u i t of W e s t e r n M i c h i g a n .

Mr . O r t o n s e c u r e d h i s e a r l y t r a i n -i n g o n a f a r m a n d in c o u n t i y s c h o o l s , b u t s u c c e e d e d , t h r o u g h h i s o w n e f f o r t s , in g e t t i n g a U n i v e r s i t y e d u c a t i o n . H e g r a d u a t e d a t A n n A r b o r in b o t h l i t e r a r y a n d l a w de-p a r t m e n t s . a l s o s t u d i e d in N e w York C i t y a n d C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y , a n d w a s , f o r a t i m e , i n s t r u c t o r In P o l i t i c -a l E c o n o m y a t A n n A r b o r . At t h e a g e of t h i r t y - f i v e , he Is n o w wel l fit-t e d . by c h a r a c t e r a n d e x p e r i e n c e , f o r t h e I m p o r t a n t d u t i e s o ' p r o s e c u t i n g a t t o r n e y .

Closk Medicine Case.

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ing ci ck , with l e a the r casing. The dial , h o w e v e r , hi inscrihcd wii:h t he words , " m x t do-e , " ins tead of Lae reg-ula t ion n u m e r a l s . T h e clock p r o / e s to be a box which , when opened s h o w s a m e d i c i n e g lass , with d r a c h m s and o t h e r d r u g g i s t ' s m e a s u r e s , checked off on i t s s u r f a c e . T h e h a n d s of the

mock c lock can be moved a round and the hour fo r Hie next dose t h u s accur-a t e l y k e p t in mind.

Stop! Nail This

Broderick & Son 66 Canal St.

G R A N D R A P I D S , M I O H I B A N .

Great Bankrupt Sale! We don't believe in hollering", but these Winter Suits

and Overcoats will wait for no one at the present priccs. Better g'et in while there's a chance. You know this is the clearing- out sale of the Webber Bankrupt stock and includes all the Winter suits and overcoats in that stock. We sold all the li^ht weight suits and Spring- top coats early in the season and now we place on sale all the bal-ance ol the stock consisting of all the men's, boy's, and children's SUITS AND OVERCOATS, sweaters, caps, flannel night shirts, house coats, boys' flannel waits and Under-wear.

How Do These Prices Strike You?

$10.00, $12.00 a n d $ 1 5 O v e r c o a t s a n d S u i t s s i z e s 34, 35 a n d 3(5, f o r $ 6 . 5 0

C h i l d r e n ' s O v e r c o a t s 75c, 08c a n d . . . $ 1 . 2 5 S w e a t e r s 48c t o . $ 1 . 7 5 C a p s 10c. 15c. 25c a n d . . . . 4 8 c H e a v y fleeced l i n e d u n d e r w e a r 39c t o 4 8 c F l a n n e l N i g h t S h i r t s 3 9 c

ZfAe man with one dollar in his pockoi leaves

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r e c e n r a r c h d e a c o u i y m e e t i n g in h is d iocese l:e re la ted m o r e than one tha t p u t t h e l -uo t i o j h .m. Muiicloa bo ng m a d e of h i s a l leged t h e n oi a lol le l s e t , h e l a u g h e d and sa id :

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h e a u t i l u l s i lve r -mounied to i l e t set . I b a d m y o w n old sat w a h me. and , be-ing l i ke K i n g J a m e s in p r e f e r r i n g old f r i e n d s t o n e w ones , 1 pu t t he s l iver s e t a w a y a n d used my own.

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m e , a n d so it w a s , 1 t h i n k , hu t 1 d i d n ' t t h i n k they w o u l d be anakdng a p u b l i c c o n v e n i e n c e of m y h o u s e . T h e y caane in—Oh. s e v e r a l t imes . T h e y a l w a y s apo log ized , but t h a t d i d n ' t m a k e i t a n y m o r e c o n v e n i e n t f o r m e t o b e an-

s w e r i n g t h e door a n d l e t t i ng t h e m in a n d l e t t i n g them out a g a i n . O n c e o r tw ice 1 w a s c lea r u p t o t he t op of

t h e h o u s e and had t o go c l e a r d - w n -s t a l r s . I w a s a l w a y s j u s t as p l e a s a n t a s could be . bu t 1 th ink they under -s tood tha t i d i d n ' t o a r e m u c h a b o u t It, a n d t h e y s topped c o m i n g unt i l Mrs . P a r k s ' i l l ne s s and t h e n Mr. Pa r i e s be-g a n c o m i n g a g a i n — t o call t he doc to r . I t s e e m e d to m e , t h o u g h , t h a t h e n e e d n ' t h a v e a l w a y s left it un t i l it be-n a m e a n e m e r g e n c y . Of cour se , in a c a s e of s i c k n e s s I wou ldn ' t t h i n k of r e f u s i n g anybody a n d 1 Wke to be n e i g h b o r l y . B u t a r e n ' t peop le pecu-

l i a r s o m e t i m e s ? " W e l l , thamk g o o d n e s s , t h e y had

a b o u t s t o p p e d b o t h e r i n g m e un t i l last

w e e k , w h e n ' there c a m e a r i n g at t he ' p h o n e a n d somebody sa id : " I s th is Mrs . P e a b o d y ? ' I sa id 'Yes. ' a n d then t h e w o m a n - - I t wa« a w o m a n — s a i d : ' I 'm ve ry s o r r y to t r o u b l e you . bu t

Liquid Air to Cool the House . T h e r e Is e v e r y ind i ca t ion t h a t with

in the next d e c a d e n i t r o g e n and oxy-g e n will be de l ive red fo r cool ing pur-p o s e s . j u s t a s mi lk a n d g r o c e r i e s r.rc de l i ve r ed to-day. a n d a t a m i n i m u m p r i i e . W h e n t h i s t i m e a r r i v e s ar-c h i t e c t s will p lan fo r coo l ing pipes a;; t h e y do n o w for h e a t i n g a p p a r a t u s .

I n v e n t o r s h a v e now p e r f e c t e d the i r s y s t e m s , h o w e v e r , to t h e e x t e n t t ha t t hey a r e bu i ld ing a p l a n t which will m a n u f a c t u r e e v e r y t w e n t y - f o u r h o u r s liquid a i r which In coo l ing effect will b e e q u i v a l e n t to 200 t o n s of Ice. At f i rs t t hey p r o p o s e to I n t e r e s t l a rge es-t a b l i s h m e n t s w h e r e t h e l iquid a i r will he de l ive red r e a d y fo r u s e . a t one-t w e n t i e t h of t h e p r e s e n t cos t . L a t e r , when i t s va lue Is r e c o g n i z e d . It will be de l ive red to t h e h o u s e w i f e In Insul-a ted c o n t a i n e r s r e a d y to a t t a c h t o t h e p i p e s load ing to t h e coll o v e r h e a d .

T h i s coil, hy the w a y . will be m a d e as o r n a m e n t a l and Inconsp icuous an poss ible , and will cos t n o more t h a n the h e a t i n g p ipes . As n i t r o g e n Is one of t he m o s t p e r f e c t p r e s e r v a t i v e s known , it Is p r e d i c t e d t h a i when It be-comes p l en t i fu l t h rough t h e m a n u f a c -t u r e of liquid a i r It will he poss hle to do a w a y wi th ice. s o fa r as t h e k i t c h e n r e f r i g e r a t o r Is conce rned .— Good H o u s e k e e p i n g .

W i v e s Mus t W o r k in J a p a n . As an e x a m p l e of t h e humble a t t i -

t u d e of t he J a p a n e s e w i f e Mrs. H u g h

F r a s e r r e l a t e s th is i n c i d e n t : "A mid-dle-aged m a n on tho u p p e r floor w a s s u f f e r l u g t e r r ib ly f r o m hea t , and h is l i t t le w i f e s e e m e d g r e a t l y d i s t r e s s e d

abou t h im. All t h e s c r e e n s had been opened , but It w a s a b r e a t h l e s s day

and no b r e e z e c a m e to r ing the l i t t l e g l a s s bel ls on the h a n g i n g fe rn w r e a t h on t h e v e r a n d a . T h e m a n sat w i th h i s h e a d in h is h a n d s g r o a n i n g , wh i l e ma-d a m e . k n e e l i n g oh t h e m a t s beh ind

h im, f a n n e d h i s h a c k a n d f r o m t i m e t o t i m e r u b b e d h im d o w n with a b lue t owe l , an e x p r e s s i o n of the deepes t r e s p e c t a n d s y m p a t h y on h e r face. W h e n h e s e e m e d a l i t t l e b e t t e r s h e b u s i e d h e r s e l f w i t h p r e p a r i n g <ea.

- w h i c h h e d r a n k eager ly , and, of cou r se , m a d e h ' imself f r igh t fu l ly hot a g a i n , w h e n s h e w e n t back pa t i en t ly

t o h e r f a n n i n g and rubbb ig . "

F e l t P a d s t o S a v e Ice. A s i m p l e d e v i c e f o r p ro tec t ing the

ice supp ly is, to a l l appea rances , a pad of f e l t b e t w e e n s h e e t s of coarse ly woven w i r e . I t should m e a s u r e an inch l e s s t h a n t h e r e f r i g e r a t o r , all the

way r o u n d , to p e r m i t c i rculat ion. Be-f o r e l ay ing i t u n d e r t h e ice it is dipped

in cold w a t e r . D i r e c t l y t h e pad becomes damp

f r o m c o n t a c t w i t h t h e ice It th rows o u t a b l a s t of cold air . which com-p le t e ly e n v e l o p s t h e ice and reduces

t h e r a t e of m e l t i n g . It should be c l eaned a n d a i r e d every l ime Hie re-

f r i g e r a t o r is c l e a n e d .

Salt W a t e r and the Hair. T h e e f f e c t of s a l t w a t e r on tho hair

d i f f e r s in i nd iv idua l cases , but it is c e r t a i n t o be v e r y s t i cky and hard to d r y a f t e r c o m i n g o u t of the snrf U is a d v i s a b l e t o r i n s e It thor i r 'h lv is f r eSh w a t e r a n d s o a p , slnoo it will he

could you get Mrs . and Mr. P a r k s , m u c h l i g h t e r and e a s i e r to do np than t o t h e ' phone . I t ' s s o m e t h i n g very

i m p o r t a n t , ' "1 Lhougiht t ha t w a s abou t t h e l imi t .

I s a i d : 'INo, I don ' t s ee h o w 1 can. I 'm ve ry busy a n d 1 would h a v e to d r e s s a n d — n o . I 'm sorry , b u t I oan ' t

do It.' " ' O h . very we l l ; excuse m e fo r

t r o u b l i n g you. ' s h e sa id in a s a r cBs t i c voico and the r ece ive r was shu t off.

" N o w . would you bel ieve i t? A f t e r

all t h e pa ins I 've been 10 to bo n ice t o •bhoni tilioBC peop le a r e j u s t a s 0 >ol as can be slnoo then . I HUPIHW? they

a r e of fended , but I don ' t k n o w w h a t t hey could have expec ted m e t o do."—

O h i c a g o News.

If a n y of t h e s a l t wa t e r had hei'ii a l lowed to d ry in it. T h e more soap o n e r u b s in to t h e h a i r and tho more t h o r o u g h t h e w a s h i n g and rinsiiiK of

t h e s e a b a t h i n g t h e be t t e r .

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The "Fox"

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U n i v e r s a l . a r r a n g e m e n t 01 let ters, .10 ke\'6 w r i t i n g 78 c h a r a c t e r s , w i t h double c o m m a a n d doub le period, s h i f t key on e i t h e r s ide of t he keyboard , l ock ing ou r i g h t side and un lock ing by press ing e i the r s h i f t bu t t on .

No t i ce how m u c h more conven ien t th i s a r r a n g e m e n t is t h a n a n y o the r . Combined wi th t h e s h o r t key d i p a n d the l igh t touch of t h e " F o x , " i t g ives g r e a t e r speed a n d eas ier act ion than is even a t t e m p t e d on o t h e r wr i t i ng mach ines .

It is only one of the f e a t u r e s w h i c h p lace t he " Fox " in a class by i tself . Our free t r ia l plan enab le s anyone , a n y w h e r e , to prove t h i s asser t ion . C a t a l o g u e

ma i l ed on reques t .

F O X T Y P E W R I T E R C O . . L T D . . AGENCIES IK PJUNCH'AL CITIES. G R A N D RAPIDS, MIOH.

C h a m p i o n Ice Cream E a t e r .

" A m e r i c a n g i r l s a r e w i t h o u t d o u b t i the g r e a t e s t Ice c r e a m e a t e r s a n y ; win ro in t h e wor ld . E n g l a n d and I F r a n c e a r e fond of f rozen pudd ings , j Icon and the l ike . F e w p e r s o n s In j e i t h e r coun t ry , howeve r , c a r e to r ice j c r e a m to t he s a m e ex ten t t h a t t h e j A m e r i c a n s do. I t m i g h t bo said t ha t j l ike baseba l l a n d pie h a b i t . It is dis- 1 t inct ly an A m e r i c a n fa i l ing .

W o o d Offitt- in I ' . H. William Jewelry Hloro. Ollz. Phono IU7

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H O U S E H O L D H I N T S .

Carl Jfunter 1 C o a l

B o l o g n a on t h e Hoof .

' b a t t e l m< r t g a g e b l a u k u a t T H E l n o u j o n office.

I t e p o r t c a r d s . T h e L e d g e r .

Br i t i sh Army T e m p e r a n c c . T h e r e a r e now 2G.171 to ta l abs t a in -

e r s in t he a rmy in Eng land and 24.-000 In India, wh ich , with t he honor-a r y m e m b e r s , g i v e a total of r.7.:iti4-

n e a r l y a q u a r t e r of t he total s t r e n g t h of t h e a rmy. About one- th i rd of t h e

r e c r u i t s sign t h e p ledge soon a f t e r

joining.—Ex-

T h e Pop 'on s u b w a y w a s opened

B e p t e m h e r 1, 1897.

GIRLS-N O T

T h i n k y o u h a v e the l i cense to t he ta lk t h a t be longs t o a m a r r i e d woman.

Go too f a r in t h e f u n of m a k i n g your b e r t y o u n g m a n a bi t jeaiou.; .

Apply t h e Btilted l a n g u a g e of t he novel h e r o i n e to y o u r e v e r y d a y life.

M a k e y o u r s e l v e s fe l t as t he t y r a n t s of t he h o u s e h o l d .

L e t o t h e r g i r l s know how pocullar y o u r b r o t h e r 1B in t he bund l ing of m o n e y .

I m a g i n e tha t m e n n e v e r grow t ired of be ing t r e a t e d a s i n f e r io r s .

T h r o w o u t h i n t s of how easy you e x p e c t to t a k e l i f e a f t e r m a r r i a g e .

Do t h e " g r a n d " b e c a u s e you hap-pen to m e e t s o m e o r d i n a r y pe r sons .

Te l l a m a n h e is " c r a n k y " If he c h o o s e s to t h i n k fo r h imsu l f occas ion-ally.

W h o n s t e w i n g p r u n e s a d d o n e o r two s p o o n f u l s of red c u r r a n t je l ly to the w a t e r in w h i c h t h e p r u n e s a r e

s t e w e d . A t i n n e d s a u c e p a n shou ld n e v e r he

used fo r c o o k i n g s p i n a c h . N e i t h e r shou ld t i l ls v e g e t a b l e be p a s s e d

t h r o u g h a w i r e s ieve . T o c lean an e n a m e l e d b a t h t ub r u b

off all t he Kta lns w i th n c lo th d ipped In para f f in , t h e n w a s h wi th s o a p a n d w a t e r and f ina l ly d ry w i t h a so f t c lo th .

T o r e c u r l a f e a t h e r boa which h a s b e c o m e d a m p f r o m ra in o r dew rtrb in a b a n d f u l of c o m m o n s a i l and s h a k o It b e f o r e a b r igh t f i re unt i l it is q u i t e

d r y . T o r e m o v e p a n e s of g lass t h i c k l y

cover t h e p u t t y with s o f t soap. Ti l ls will r e n d e r t h e p u t t y so f t , w h e n 11 can he ea s i l y s c r aped off a n d t h e

g l a s s r e m o v e d . A bed wh ich c r e a k s w i th e v e r y

m o v e m e n t of t he s l e e p e r m a y be s i lenced by r e m o v i n g the s l a t s and w r a p p i n g t h e i r e n d s in n e w s p a p e r be-

f o r e r e p l a c i n g them. To r e m o v e t a r s t a i n s rub t h e m a r k s

w i th lard a n d then leave fo r a f ew hour s tha t t h e t a r m a y s o f t e n ; spong-ing wi th sp i r i t s of t u r p e n t i n e will t hen

r e m o v e the s t a in . To c lean a m i r r o r f i rs t sponge ove r

t he g lass wi th a l i t t le sp i r i t , t h e n dus t it ove r with some powdered blue t ied u p In mus l in . P u b t h i s off wi th a cloth and give a f inal pol ish wi th a

si lk handke rch i e f . Do not u se t h e ba thh r i ck o r o t h e r

g r i t tv sul>stance for c l ean ing t aps , for s o o n e r o r la ter It wi l l get i n t o t h e jo in ts and cause n e e d l e s s w e a r and expense . A good po l i sh ing oil is all thai is n e c e s s a r y and b r i g h t n e s s is

t h u s secured witihout f ea r of d a m a g e . Po r r i dge may he tu rned out of t h e

s a u c e p a n wi thou t leaving a n y adher -ing to t he bo t tom if. a f t e r t h e p a n l ias been r emoved f rom tho lire, it be lef t f o r a few m i n u t e s s t a n d i n g on s t o n e s or s o m e t h i n g cold. T h o po r r i dge will not ho cooled to any great e x t e n t by

this and w a s t e will be p r e v e n t e d . W h e n the hand le s of t ab l e k n i v e s

become loose or come off they can he eas i ly m e n d e d with res in . P o u r a lit-t le powdered res in Into t he h a n d l e of t he kn i fe , t h e n heat t he par i of tho blade wh ich fits in to t he h a n d l e till it is red hot and th rus t in to t he handle . W h e n cool tho b lade will bo

found to be firmly fixed in. Meat bones , s c r a p s of m e a t and

small p o r t i o n s of lef t -over v e g e t a b l e s ho ut i l ized in a soup by c o o k i n g

t h e m slowly unt i l the mea t a n d vege-t a b l e s a r e soft , t h e n s t r a i n i n g t h r o u g h a l ine co lander . Set th is s o u p a w a y overn igh t and in tho m o r n i n g r e m o v e t h e tat and s t r a in a g a i n ; t h e n a d d

1 Koasoning and use as a s t o c k fo r any

, d^nired soup

Poor P rospec t .

T h o X-rav ope ra to r m a k e s an ex-e n s e to call his a s s i s t a n t I n t o a room a w a y f rom the pa t i en t upon w h o m

t h e a s s i s t a n t Is o p e r a t i n g . " S a y . " o b s e r v e the ch ie f , "you ' l l

n e v e r do for th i s b u s i n e s s . "

" W h y ? " "Can ' t you see t ha t t h a t p a t i e n t

only h a s two dol lars in s m a l l c h a n g e in his c lo thes , when o u r r e g u l a r f e e

Is t w e n t v ? " — L i f e .

D R . M . C L A Y T O N G R E E N E B r a d u a t e

Uu lve rKl ty (d M i c l i i g a n u i id P o u t f l n u i i m t o ( , ' . t i i iw :il V - w Vork I ' i l v d i u i Mecl icul S c h o o l a n d H o s p i t a l , N e w Y o r k (, 'ity.

O f f l o e L O W E L L NIICH.

T H I S P A P E R in (Ui lilo w i t h M u r p h y , Q u i c k & C o . , A i l v e r t i K i n g A g e i n - , l lo t iHe imin l l l i l g . . U n i n i l K u p i d * . w i t h w h o m a d v e r t i s i n g coi i t r i i iv ts m n y lie m a d e . tf

STATK OF MIOHJGAN. T i c I 'n-bal. Court fi'i tho C'ouulv nt Ki-nt.

In ill)' matter of the Eslnleol ( i E l M I G t W. ( roniiv, littofliieed.

Noli00 IN hereby jfiven (hut. I»y virtue ol in order of -aid court, made mi the innlii l ay <it H«pieuiliei A Ii. I!"1!, I - lul l ii. •U pnbbi: auction, •MI the Uiird day ol Novfntlier.A. I). HX'-1,111 ten ..Vlo.-k in Mm-loreiMiun al the preuiim-s on-eotibn I went} nine in Wrgenuer ' lnwiwlnp 111 canl Oi'im y, I he inleruMt nt naiil eniaie 111 tin- lollnw

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•tfet qnanei of naid nection uveni j - imu' , tiiwriiciiio al'oreHanl.

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\ \ a n t k i ' — ( j i tick I,v. f ew porHons |,U r e p r e s e n t l o n g e s tHb l i s l i ed \v l io lenuie h o u s e a m o n g r e t a i l i no rcba i i tH a n d a g e u l e . L o c a l t e r r i t o r y of f ew c o n n t ies . L i g l i t e e n d o l l a r s s a l a r y a n d e x -p e n s e s p a i d w e e k l y . E x p e n s e m o n e y a d v a n e I. ( o i i i m i s s i o i i e x t r a . P e r -m a n e n t e n g a g e m e n t . BuHineas mic-ces s fu l . P r e v i o u s e x p e r i e n c e n o t es -s e n t i a l . Hi i d u s e d se l l a d d r e s s e d e n -v e l o p e . A d r e s s . S u p e r i n t e n d e n t T r i m Itirs. iil'o D e a i b »rn S t . , C h i c a g o , d e c s

A I . I . iIm- r e l i n b l e p a t e n t m e d i c i n e s a d v e r t i s e d in t h i s p n p e r a r e so ld by

D. G. LOOK, t h e L o w ell D r u g a m i H o o k m a n .

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CRANO TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM.

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Choap RHTOS to St. Louis. A si. 1.. T Tli-K.u Auent (ir Afldriwi

S, L. Vaughn, C. P.A., Chioaga.

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would you d o ? " K i d d e r — " ! t h ink I'd go down a n d

t h a n k tho j a n i t o r . "

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SI.oil p e r 1000, T h e L e d g e r .

Nti ' l ICi; T O C U E D I T U U S .

O T A T E O F l U I C H U i A N , The I'roliate ^ Gmirt f'ti the Couulv of Kent.

In tin- in itlor of t he estate of KDW A UD G R E E N , deceased.

Notiue o hereby jjiven that four inoiillni from the Ifi lhday of AugustA. D Ml-4, have been allowed for creditor-- l«> present their olainib ayainst said deceased to said eonrt for examination and adj i is lment , and that all or diloiM of Haul decased m e rupiired tu pnMint their c laims to Maid noun, at the probate office,m the city ofOrand llap-ids, in said county, on 01 liofore the loth day nf Dnoemiier A. I'. M't'-l. and that •laid claims will be heard by said i"iirt on Tuesday the 15th dav nl Deeemlier A. D. 19(14, at ten o'clock in the lorenoon.

Dated August l">'li ^ ' ' " ' i , I IAi iUY D . J I rtELL.

J u d s e of ProluUt,

THE

SleDt phore OR,

t h e M y s t o y o f

S U a m e s ' P a r k

JNO Bl.OUNDELLE-BURTON

"IToflte K bmdhic onm«ltent ahnrc. Where billows nfver heni, nor

tempcHU Ttax."

=J7:x^==

i Mlonginc to th( na iient nam tlomillty.

" r robab ly hull tliwf ppoplp linvo ocrapied th is very HlttiiiF '•tinm at Borne tJnie or ntlinr." riillli '

T H E S T O E Y ,

OHAPTEIl I .

Ida lUiugbton Bat. on a brlphi nima

0 ^ n « ~ \ ™ i v «l .h"ln h™vr, -nm, ot t t a l y**. * ^ ^ ***« ol tfasm wen. . . . . . . «..! ! * * * * . " " *">*<1" f " " 1 " "

B r n a n M 1.1 .. HUflden - l .nmt.m. " ' or Hk. rriand wh. m m- ' l lv ^ » i n n " ™ . " '« k " "'<• th«t

WHK now not far on—ner nnuvrla^e. Within tiip iMt month ube had liecome

' eiifniped. -not without Bnme Rarlior doubtfi on bar part a« to whotbor HIIP

P B K H M G C l E .

T H E FTOET OF THII tTT YEAUB

AGO. "And you are pertain of thp year he

was married In?" "I'erlectiy- therp is nn poHBlblllty oT

my being mratakpn. Hf wae married on New Taar ' s Day. 'SR; I was bom In May. TW."

"I t JB atmnpe. certainly. But tberp Ih one Bolution of It—It- It not pneslble tbat . even If thlB Ib be. thp liuly roRiB tered an dite wile might not have I •eon •o? In fact s h e could not bavp boon otherwdBe he could never bavp mar-ried your mother."

'Will not believp It! HP WAS too cold and auRtere—loo puritauk-ul I li:id almoat said—40 form any HUCII coa-nection."

"Do you think, then, tbat hp wmild commit bigamy?"

"I d o n t know wbat to think I" ibe a t bur answered gloomily.

Two men, both about thp saaiP iipe. twenty-five, were b en ted in u private room a t « s Inn, known at- tlip ilotol H d k m i e . a t Le Tocq. a dreary iMiinc town with a good though »mall har-bor. • floron mllee west of Ha\Te. On a line day the bay thai runs in from Barfleur to Fecamp IK pay and lirlght. but It pneeuted a mekinohoh uppoar-anep on this occasion, an the two young men gazed out at It aonwh the min-aoaked plots of (rnisH thai forniod t h e lawn of the "Bollpvue." I <own be-low the cliff on which the iun -oiMid, tbe port war viHibie. mid in tin port wttB to be Bwen an EupliHh cutlor. the Eler tm, in wliicb tiip friendfi hail run for Le "VOCQ when UIE «torm. thai nud now been raging for rwenry-lour bonis, broke upon them. They hml loft Cowes H fortniRbt ago and hud lioan yachting pleasantly in the (Ihinmel Hince. putting into Oherltoun; on cine occasion. Inui Kie .Merc Ep'lisp on annther, and Havre on n third; nnd now. u* 111-ludk would IIHVP It. il seem-ed at If they were doomed to l»p wentber-bound in. of tlo many tlroHty places on tbe '•oam. the dreurioat of all. l<e Teirq.

Tbe first night In the Inn to which they bad conn- up af ter riHeinp rbe yaobt mudp (mug and comfortable m t h e barlMir lielow . and the sailor* left In (Jiiarfre of ber oluo provided fur. pasaed eaully enough. There waB tbe hope of the storm alintlug—which was cheering—and they bud cards, anfl some Par i t newepajvers t o reud. and above all. they were fatigued and could sleep well. But . on tbe next flay, t h e Storm had not abated, and they were tired of curdK. tbp old Purls papers bnd been reud and re-read, and Jater ones had not arrived, ami they w e r e refreHbed with tbeir night s rest anfl wanted to lie off, "But there was no gett lug off, and what was to l»e floneV

Tbey bad stood all the morning looking out of tbe window dlK-onso-iately, bad smoked pipes and oigur «ttBF limumenible. and bud yawned a good deal, and sworn u little.

"What the- deuce are WP to do to prevent ourselves from dying ol «u-nul , Philip?" the one asked tbp other.

"Jerry." the other auBwered solemn-ly. "J know no more than you do. There 1B nothing left t o read, aud soon—very soon, aiai.:—*thore will be nothing left t o smokp but tbe caporal obtainable in the village That, bow •ever, might poison UK and end our anlserles "

Then the one called Philip begsn looking about t h e salon that WIIF at their disposal, and wbistllng plaintive ly, and peering into the cupboards, ol which there were two:

"Hullo!" be suddenly exclaimed, •^tore Is another great mnuUil treat for mt—a lot of old books; and p r e clous big onee, too! I wonder what fibey arp?"

"Pull tbom out and let us see. Prob-ably only Le Monde lllmUre. or Le •lournal Amusunt, hound up for the landlord's winter •IgbtB' delectation, af ter tbey bav* been thumbed by

Ballot in the village." "Oh, ronfound the liooks!" I'blllp

SBdaimed when he had looked iuio them ••tbey nre only the old r.-KiBinrs. I t h e LIVTBB DEB Etraugers of hygone !

year[>

"NeverUieleBb, lot us see tbem." OIP other answered; "at any rule we Khali learn what kind of cumiiauy the bouse taas k e p t "

fc, olmylng bin liehest, I'h'lip taougbt tliem out, and Uiey aat down •^to be»in at the beginuint;" us they

laugbluKly; and ea--i1 took n vol-m e «nd commenced to peruse It W*mry now and then tiiey told one

of mme nam. they Imd come i, tbe owner of which wan known

t o thorn by hearsay, and they agrt-ed tha t the "Hotel Believue- bad in its day, had some very good people for Its ,<ueeU:. Tbey had found several titles —BSngUah—inp-rllMid In the „r the rei -nar, u 'd als^ r.-u- u .

nt the pagp before him, "Wbat kind ol a find IB It now, Oer-

Ty?" he asked "Any one very won florful?"

"It must bp ii mistake " the n bur j said In a low voice. "And yet how • could such II mistake bspponV l.ook ' a t this!" and he pointed with hit- flugor t o n line In the Itook.

"By Jove!" the othor c\ •lulmpU. as iie road. "Aout 17. M M . l.'Hon. (ior-

, "Vase Occlovp et wa f o m n u T h e n he , said, "our father of course! There never was any other Gervnae Occleve

j In exlRtonce. exi-ept myneU. whll" he was alive. But what can Ii mean?" '

"li means Unit your fnther knew thlp place many yearp ago. anil came here, thut is nil. I should say. It i.- a : coincidence, but af ter all it i> no more 1

strange that be should know lie Vocq. ' tii.in that you Should:"

"Itut yon don't nee the curious part ' nf it. Philip! It IB tbp words et sa fontme. Tkjy fatnoi l»ad n" wife in 1K"»4! Ee never had a wife until be married my mother, and then he was Ixird Penlyn and no longer known OB Gorvase Occleve."

And then followed the ronvuivitmu with wbidh this -tory opens

"Il IB a strange thing." Philip sa'd. "but 11 must he u misuike "

In bis own heart being somewhat of a woridlinc, he did not think It was any mistaUe ai all. l i e thought It •highly prolmhle that the late l.orri Penlyn bad. when hen a lady travel-ing with him who wa- registered us his wife, but who. in actual fact, was not

| bis wife at all After a fow moments spent in

thought. 'Gervaae turned to his friend and said. "Tbe landhirU the man who stared BO hard at me yesterday when

was altogether certain of her loelings —though, afterwards, she told herself ovor and over api ln that the man IO whom she was now promised was tbe only one shp could ever love: and the wedding day was fixed for the lat of fieptemlwr. Her fu ture bushnnd was Gervasp Occleve, "Viscount Ponlyn.

8hp was thp only daughter of Sir Paul Itaughton, B wealthy Hurrey baronet, and had been to him, since her mother's death, bb the apple of bis eye—the only thing that to him seem-ed to make life worth Ulvlng. It was true thai be bed fllstracfions that are not uncommon to elderly gentlemen of means, and poBsessed of worldly tastes; perfectly t rue that Paris and Uice, and Ascot and Newmarket, OK well BB his clubs and hiB friends—not always male ones—had charms for him that were still very seflacMve. hut. a f t e r al! they wore nothing In comparison to his daughter's love and his love for her. Never durluB bis long wiflowerbood. a widowerhoml dating from her Infancy, hud he failed to make ber life and bapplnesii he central object of 'his existence: never •hail be allowed bis plearfurop to mnnd in the way of the study of her com fort. The bent schodls nnd musters when she was a child, t b e beet friends and chaperons for her when woman hood was approaching, and when It had arrived, the greatest llhenillcy as regards uhuques for drenHihakers, mil liners. upbolHterors. horses, etc.. had been but a small pun of his way nt showing bis devotion to her And she had TBtumed his affection, had been to him a daugbtor giving had. love ioi

we came in. was an elderly person He kva . and endeavoring in every way in may have had th is hotel in T.4. might her power lo muke him an ample re-even remember this myRterious mime- ' turn for nil the thought and care he " ike of mine. 0 think J will ask htm to come up."

"houlflnt*' Phil ip said - H e inn't « all Ifkejy l f , romembor anvthmg

U." m hi. mind he thought h very probable tl, M the man might even at thai diHt.ince of time, remam h e r «,mousing l i r Gor-vase's father c ipecml ? if he had made u long sti.v « t the house, anfl would pef luq* abb some reminiscences of his whilom gueat that might by n o means make his son feel c o m t o r i b ^

and t Jo I T " " ' r " l U ' e WUh ""heeded, and the other rai«: the bell. 1, W u , aiiHwered l>v „ t i dy w n U n ^ w « i r ^ the cap peculiar ... the district, w shorn O e r v a ^ - v , ho W U l UIJ

l e ^ ^ m g u i s . - . . . d in very ^

„ " t l , e , t t" '" ' , rd is m. wii, v „ u ^ good enough to that Lord Pan Km wnuld i . glad ii. .Meek io him ' ^

p M u ' ' t hd '"w, ami „ f w 1

)a, at the

v ^ t i o n . r " " H d r e " H ' m l »» Tunrn H . ^ l U n i P "»'> the

! rWH<i r e BJ««nW%. but. as

that 'hlRK0 n n l , ' e i l , y i 1 "R"'" noticed that his eyes were Used upon him with a wonderm. stare; „ Ktare e x a c ^ the «an.P as he had rev ived on the p7e

t e " T ^ " " " a , , l a , , B f l t he ho-tel. There was nothing rude nor .if temnve in the .ook: i, IWriouk mofe «tf the nature or an incredulous g , , ^ than anything elne

"Mllor has exjireesed a wiah n. ^ ^ 7 ^ " ^ entered, "He has. J* ™ everything to his w.sh In m y poor house!"

Perfect ly," Gervase auswered; "but ' " ' n t t o as I; you u (juestlou. "Will

S l r i i l T i , e " r A n d 1116,1 w h H " andlord bnd taken a cha i r -s t i l l iaok tag intently at h i m - b e went on

We found thaae U v r * des Et ran

S ? _ ^ . f O U r " f l . for won, "f anything else to reed, we took them down mid have been • n u n * , o u r

selves wltl, tbem. 1 hope we did not take a liberty."

Mais, Mllor!" the landlord said with a Hhrug of his shoulders nnd a twitch of his pyebrowE. that were meant ti. exjn-ess his satisfaction at bis gueHts

thenf " t 0 U l l d H D y t l l , n e t " d ^ t r n n

Thank you." Gervasp said "Well '

5 ^ ^ r ? r O U g h * " • ' M K , k ~ thp one v e r 0 n , e " a a m e w

But lie fore he could tinisb hte sen toace the landlord had jumped up

ldl> wwie hp gesticulated in a fhor ouph French faahion.

"Gest ca, Dlou. mais oul!" be begun

Mr Mllor. I Buiuie ym,; KTben vou

S S ? *u h , , U B , 7 * t e r d ^ ' 1 « « to TOOff. But where, mon IMen. Iiw wl«re h a v e ! men him? Or is I, i.ut

H , > , r , l « " " " fleafl one looking a ' Z 0 U , S , , t e And now tirn. you mention to me the name of Oc-^ then in . momeu, be eomm back to me and I Hee him onee ngum

vou Z . A I , , w : ' 4 m l you. then ta verity he returns u, me

this J ™ ^ ^ 8 " ' a i r 7 . w M T , ~ , , U r , , , m ' : , , , t , " n ^ in which you now sn "

"M i "'"'Y to you?"

tliat : h" u u )y one rh n;:

hud showered on her. Of course be hud foreseen that t h e inevltahle day must come s'ben—love him however much she might—she would still lie willing to leavp him, when she would lie willing to resign being (mistress of her father 's bouse to be mistrsm of her husliands. His worldly kuoWl edge, which was cxtenstve enough lot bulf-a-dozen ordtuary men. told him clearly enough tliat tbe parem nest •very soon iMilled on tlie bird tlmi saw Its way to building one for ilaolf. Tel , when the blow fell, us be had known it must fall, hp did tnnt find thut his phlloHopliy enahled htm endiirr II very ligbfly. On the other hiind, tberp was his IOVP Tor her. anil thai hadp him let her go since li was lor ber happiness that she should do r.n.

'<1 promised ber moUier when slip lay flying." bp said io himsolf. "that my life shoulli be dpvoted to her. and 1 have kept my vow to thp liest of my jiower. 1 am not going io break It now. Heeides it is pun of a futhorcs •fluty to see his duughier well married;

I and 1 supposp I'eulj'n Is a giMid mulch At any rate, tliere iirp plenty of other fa thers and mothers who would like to have caught him Tor their ciriB "

Thet Hhe^diould have made a ueusa tion during ber first seuMin was not a thing to aatonish +iir Puul. nor. in fleed. any one else. Ida Itaughton wu; as thoroughly beautiful a girl, when flrst shp made hnr iippearatn e in Lou don society, as any who hud over tat: on their place in Its raukE Tsll nnd graceful, and possessed of un oxquis Itely fduiped beafl. round whidi her ailbum lialr curled in thick locks with bright hazel eyes, whose espn- on varied In accordance with then own-er 's thoughts and Teeliugt. ome imes saddened with teurs she listened to any talp of sorrow; with n no.ie the

| line of which was perfect, and u mouth the smallnesB of which dis-guised. though it coUld uoi hide, the even, white teeth within, no one could look at Ida without auknowledg ng how lovely she wati. Even other and rival debutuntcs granted her lovell neaH. mid the woman who can olituln such u conceMBion us this from her sisters bus lairly esiabl.shed ber r;; hl t o bomuge.

As s h e aat at her boudoh wimlos on thlB June (biy. thinking of her now definitely settled miirrlage. She was wrniflorlng If the lite Imfnre her would he UB bright nnd happy as the on* she was leavmg behind for ever. Th.n— with the exceirtion of the death ol loir mother, a sorrow tliat time imd mnrci-fully tempered to her—had beau with out alloy. Would t b e future he so? There was no reason to tbluk other wise, she reflected, no reason to.doulit ilt. Lord "Penlyn was young hand some, and manly, the owner of an lion-orod name, and well endowed wlih the world's goods. S'et thai would not have weighed wltb tier Jiad she not loved blm.

Klip bad aaked iierself if she did loveiiim several thnos imtore she con aoiited to give him tin answer he de aired, und then she acknowledged that bp alone bad won her heart. Khe re called other men s attentions to her.1

tbeir soft words, their desire to pl.-u'e;' how they had haunted her footsteps at I wills uiid at the opera, and how no other man's homage had ever been so sweet to her as Hie homage ut Ger vase'Occleve. At flnlt—wwhiug Htlli to I»P sure of herself—she would not agree to l»e tale wife, telling him that she did not know bet heart; but when be naked ber a second time, a f te r :;he had bad ample opportunity to r rollec t ion. she told blm be should have his wish.

• And you do love me, Ida?" -he ask ed rapturously, perhapF hoyishly, at

Mtss fume. West ley 816 Welb Street Marmettc.Wis

fflf W ells StTPOt. llAUiNErrrt;, Wis . . Sept. 2fi, 1908.

1 was all Tim flown from I'Tvoue-nessand overwork and hud t. renign any position anfl tak"' a rest, i] •found tlmt II was not guiniug my stn'iigtli and health us In" ah I cnnitl wish, and as your Wine of

, •Garflui wasTecommenfled assuclm , pood medicine tor the ills of our I ees. 1 1'ought a bottle und hogan uainc it. 1 was mtisfiefl with the TPPiilts irom the une of Uie linit bottle, and tnokthmMnoreand then •found i was restored togivod licultli and strength und able to talie up mv work with nmmved vigor, u, ronsiderii aline tonii and ex'-'llnut f o r woneoiil, ncrvnm condiliou. mid um pieaied nnilutt* it.

AfiKEf W B R I U E t , Ser .HorUi WtaMMhi UoUnml SnoMtjr.

Becure B$lilH);bQttle of Wine of iCurdui mid a _25c. package ig Thedfnrds Tliurk-Imuiglit totluy.

I man. If laT' Gon-ase aaliefl. "Forgive j the question, but •every lover likes l o | know, or think, tliat no one has ever

been before him In t h e aflectlon of t h e woman be loves."

"No." Hbe answored. "never. You ere the flrst man 1 have ever loved'"

This bad happened nearly a month ago. but as Ida sai In hnr 'boudoir her thoughts returned to the drive on thai May night. TTes. she aoknowledgaA. ahe loved blm. and she loved him more and more ovary tlmp she EHW h.m. Hut BB she recalled this convorsai on

, s h e also recalled tbe (inostlon he had aaked her. the question as io whetaor ahe bad over loved any other mun; and she wondered what had made him ask it. Gould It be tbat It was sup posed by some of their circle—though orroneously supposed, ahe told her-self—that another man loved bur? Perfectly erroneously, hecmise that othor man bad never broalhed one word oT love to her; und huuiuHO. though be would sometimus in in bur •ociety continually for iperhups a week, and then be absent for a month, be nevor, during all tbe time they were thus eonataUtly meeting, paid her more marked atieution than o.her men were In t h e behlt nf doing. Yet. -notwithstanding tblK. It had conn- to her knowledge that It had been whia-ipered about tbat 'Walter 'Cundull loved her.

This man, Walter Oundull. this re-ponen aflmtror of liars, was wall known In society, was In a way IB mous. though hiB fame was in the principal pun flue to thi- B.-mplest pur-chaser of tlmt commodity—te weuirh. B e was known t o be stupendoualy

f

Before VouPundiasr Am- Othsr Write THE MBH HOIK KWINC HIAOHNS DOHWWT

OOAMCt, «IR8B. Manj- Sewific Machine nrr nrnrtnlDtell rojmrth

ies& of Quality, but the "*•<« llnini-" U nrnde to wast. Our Ruarantv nnva: runs out

V/c make Sowinr Machiiw. lo suit al I condtttons ot thotnidi. The "*•*«'* Wimir " sianil!.MflliB tiBKt of al.WlCli-tTMili-ldmih s^'iii: niadUME

M a 19 UeMlon. iiul?. PO»« SMUC r v

A. ' I f i t •OH-

iR i P ' A "X ' S Tit n u i t s

IDtidtors f m d

A ^Ofid p r e s ^ r r f i i i o n

F t i r tmam!kitnti TIhU-iiiiii iHn.'kci h-'eniiuulitOT iisniil stou. Tin- family ImiuU- (an wnwi ••iiiudin * Biipplytorii yew, All ilruwise-sell liiem.

O F C A R D U I

V-ia o a ^ n trmmfc w s i t e s

EKCursi.iu Tickets on sale dnifr-•oonniiiiudtiig April ST., IMia ntifl t*«a-

rich. t o be able t o spend any large i xiuuiiig fliiriiig ilheiperiod oi the Lx-

tlmy drove bat!I; from a lurge dinner •parry to Whidh tbey had gime al tttiiih-tmonfl. "5'ou are sure yon Bo?"

'Tes . " she said. * 1 inn sure 1 do, H •WUB not sure when first you aaked me, •hut a am •now;"

"Then kiss me, ilarihig, and toll me so. Otherwise 3 Bhall scarcely be able to believe :it;" and be ibent over her nnd kiaBed her, and ahe TBturnefl the ikiss,

•*11 'love you, 'Gervasel" ahe skid, lilnabing as she did so,

"Ymi have niade one supremcily hirp-ipy;" hp said U> her af ter t be i r I ps had met: "happy beyond -all thought . And, deureal, you Hhiill never have cause to re]»ent of It. Q will l»e io you the best, tbe truest ihrndiuud womiin eve r hail. There aball l»e no ahailow evet come over your life tha t II can keep awuy."

For answer she put her hand in IIIK. and so tbey drove along the bineB that ware getting thick wluli hawthorn aud dbestnut IdosKom. while uhead of them Bounded the merry voices iff others-of the pai't.y who were on a lour-iu-hund. They bad come down, a Joyous com-puuy. from town In t h e afternoon, hod dined at the '^Btar and 'Garter." und wore now on their wuy home under The noft moonlight of nn early summer evening. Hlr Paul bad been with tbem in the landau on t h e Journey out. hut on this return one lie wus aeatod on tbp top of tbp couch, talking to a lady whom hp uddressed mure Wian once ur "IIIB dtn.- old frieud." and was amok-lug iunumenihle cigarettee. Trolmlily hp did not imagine f.n- one moment that 'Lord Penlyn was going io take this opportunity- of propoaiug to hiB daughter: hut be had noticed thut they seemed to enjoy each 'Other's society very much, espucially when tbey eould enjoy II ulone. Aud so. nil th ings l»e-iug auluible and harmoniouK. and the buronai having a heart beneath IIIB

exceedingly welMlttiug wuiBtoout-und thut a very big bean where Ida was concemetl—hod let them have the gratification of tbe drive home to gether.

'And yon mevar iJuvafl, atu' other

Hy Breath. S h o r t n e s s o f B r e m t i b

I s O n e o f t h e C o m -

m o n e s t S i g n s o f

H e a r t D i s e a s e ,

UotwUlatundlns what muny nhyBio-IUHB taiy, l"-tirt ihsoiai con lie r.ur^d.

lit. Miles' "K-v." lieurt Cure IUIB pcr-•nuinently resuired to heultti muny tlinuwoids win. imd f.iunB no relldf In tthe medlolnen (ulinixilhlc or homoeo-patlllu) of regular pnu'tl.Mlie pliyBlOlaUS.

li has jprovefl lt-«.>ir unique in the hto-inry of m«Biolnc. by IH>III£ NN uniformly Buvi'eBaful In curing thns.- ilLseiiHes.

TJeurty always, nn.- of the tlmt nliow of troillil.- 1h nUnrtte of braith. "Whfltli-or I t c o m e s u : u ICHUU of w u l k l m ; o r

riumliu: up stidn;, or of othor cxnrclHCS. if •the'Inairt h; louii.e le meat ttliis<MCtm d.'nmiiQ upon It i.uiniilui; j.nwom—dhare 1h lUKitliing tv'.mc v.illi It.

Tin ••<•!•.- I- di::if ymi nm fln, in tto tain Be. i::i.-i- r. w iiaurt CUTC. Ott will i" to 1 !<• fouuUutlon of the •trou-blu, uml main- ; |.<Tiuunant cure by strQiislhTUlng uml ruunwlqg tlie norves.

•IJ ti I •. Mills' JJrw ileurt f'tin- i! " P' ' iienly For u numbor of y-urs I i, in.ni shm'tlilM at In-i.tl., pmoiu ' ••.• HIKIIIH, und pulns in my l"ft nuiv l ui iiiuutlis ut u time 1 would I"- ui: •ill- u. he on mv lott Hide, nn" it 1 laj ili't on my bnok would nearly HI: •itiior. A trimul ndvmed uilnc IDr. A. N'-w Muun Cure, which a fllfl v. iHi pond r-suUi;. ] i.»inin to improve xU .'nnw. OMU ufiw tnldng Hovoml ImtUes ui '...L- H a n Cure tthe pubui in my Biile uml dti""- Kymptomii MiniubeO. a um !...» eniir«|v Vll All t ime dreuflful sniothPrlnB Rp le r- n tions of the IUJL"—il". I'. IU;-UvE, Aliddletown, 'O.

ir th" nrm hntti. Hnnp ,|,rtt 'ii4ip you. Kir .Im^pi-il vrlll i.-uiiul ynur :mouoy. TTi'Vl? ti. ui fiir IYW Orrlid i ZuHJlJ 0f ^ Ants-Pain PIIIB. tthe Jlow K.;emtlhr liom^tty for I'IIIO. ATEO HytniUoiu Hlunk. Our HiifUliillst will diiiKiew your CUHC. tnll vrni wlml Ib wrnnt .iucl li"i» 'to rlgnt It. i-TM.. rm: 3»itu3K xmraaa ao.. ] .. u. n t . \Tui ;n^ i i, n nir, j iOj .

sum of mnney 'be dboae in order to .grntlfy his Indlinations. t o be able to look upon thouBands BB ordinary men looked upon buiidreda. und upon bim-ttredK as othei men looked upon teua. This was the iprlnclisil part of IIIB lfamu:'bul there was a'leaner, though bettor ipurtl l i wus true that he did spenO bundrnflB irad thousands, bin. as a rule, be spent tbem tin le as .much upon otherE as upon bimsdlf. His tuurs'liHiuind. bis yachts und fiteum ymilrts. bis villa at Oookbum. and his houBP in tQroBvenor .T'lane. BB well as bis wills at C^unues—to which a jo:-'ouB party wont evoiy winter—were as rmuch for his friondB us for blm. iHe gave dniuors chut men and women de-Qigbted In jo t t ing in vliiitbms to-. but ilt was noticed tbitt, though his cbof was a murvel. he rardly ate of auyrhiug but the souji und Joint himsell. und ttliu". while ofiiiorB wore drmkmg tbe 1»eBi wrae fbat (Buugm-Jy, or Ay. or . iltheims could produce, "he scurcely | ever (luenched tiiB thirat with ary-thing but a tumllloi -of uluret. I»ut he: would alt at t h e bead .of hte-table with a smile oT satiKfantion .upon hte IhanS-some ffase. 'contented wlfh the Iknoatl-•eftge tliat ihte guests were 'happy nnd enjoying tbemselvea.

Whte imun of Whom Ida was now thinking 4Uid whose story tnw& lie 'idld ibore, hud Mimmonced 'HTP a t IPestmin-Hter ^Jhadl. t o which Ibe lhad been jmt Ijy his untile, a rldh 'owner of mhieE and woods in HonduraK, from whidh plane he jiald flying via Its to iBngland once a your. 'or tonne iin two yeurs. TThe Imy WBB an orphan, left 'by Ihte in of ber in her brother's care, and that brother bad not failed In ;hte trust. The i a d ' went to Wetttmluster with t h e IfUH im-derstandlng thut "Bondurns nniKt be his hemp when school duys were over: but be knew Quit it wodld be a home of luxury nud trdpiital splendor. There, af ter hte schudl days. Ihe passed some years of hte 'JlTe. al tending to Uie mines, seeing "to the consignmeutE 'Of shiploads of mahogany nnd cedar, go-iing l o r uitys in t h e ihllte wl tb mo «am-IpauionB but tbp mestizos nnd t h e itn-diunR, und helping'hte undlp to gurnor up more and more wealth tha t WBH

•eventually destined to be hte. Dnce or twice in the apace nf ton years ihe came to lEurojie, generally wlch the oiiject -of lucreualug their connectbm with iLondon or-Oontlnentul elties. and of looking up und keeping touch with hte old schoolfollows and t r lends

And then, at last, t w o or throe yea is before this story opens, and When 'hte undle was dead. It sume t o l»e said Bbout Qtondon t h a t Wal te r <Cundail. t he irldbeat mmn 'from the IPaclfic t o t b e iQdlf of BonduraB. bad t aken a house in 'GroBvenor Place, und meant to muke damdon more or less jierjua-nenfly hte residenoe. The other placefi thut have been mentioned were ipur-chased one by one. und he naed ull hte poBaesshins—sharing them with hte friends—do- t u r n : but ILondon WBB, as people said, bis i iome 'Oiccasionully ^ he would go ufl' to iSlouduruE on buBl-: nesB, .or would ruah by the '(Wlenl 'es-•prens to •St. Pelertlburg or Vienna; 'but he loven iOngland better tbun any oth-er apot in the globe, and never HeStBtj unleHf. he was obliged'to do so.

This was tbe mun vhom goaalp bad auid was the fu ture husliund itf I d a Iluugbton—this tull, durk, handsome man, who was. when In Engluud, a groat d- til by bet aide iltut gowtlp bad bean ratbor siuggeretl when ill heard ihut. 'during Alt , 'Oundall's lB8t •tdmenoe iff six unouths In the tropics, ahe had become the ufluineod wife of ILord iPoulyhl It wondmud what be would say when he came hadk, us It ] 'heard be wus about to dowery abovUy.. and It wondered why on earth she uud taken I 'eulyn wJieu dbt -niigbt hiwe •had (lundull. It tallied it over in tbp •drawing rraams and the hall irooms. ai Ei«um and .on tthe lawn at ilandowu, ihut ilt did nnl seem to arrive at nnj-conclusion aatiatuauiry t o Itself

"I suppose the taut of i t Is thin •Ouudall never asked liar;" 'one said Uo miotbot, "and ^he got t ired of wan-ing:"

'U shoifld hove walled a Ibtt longer •on 'the off aJhautie," the other suid; "''Cundnirs a 'fifty t imes Jldhor Jellaw than Penlyn. nnd There's no wimimri-BUP beewnup THE JWQ. IHU one -te A

gioMltinn. IFaresltrom (Lowell. "Klldh.. t o .'St.

Hjimte imd wtuitm. imte SIT |h wasnn cxciirMirin t.Uik««r,: irate fn4 »lii Bli filly's •oHonrHWiii t idke t : ' ra te ir. tlay's •exonrHion ttldkot.

^•irflmiit||ajlve :lltemT.ureun<ltintlih-•orilifld.uuatiUin cifll4mILMH:ul Aireirt'iir writettt i 'Qeo. .W. ^ uux, A. ta. IP. A T A-.tflliicafffi. Oil. A. 'CI. ra^vfllmrfl. ILo-fiil Agmrt

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^'•e ciin do That ij ib of prbf t inc l m ynu »0)'M un T h f liEnHtJl; ofli;*p

CHUB YCHTH

TRTAAWORUWTBUR* UNCI WTMAN MW LTTE •aanorrr torm w o

. Mw iiimmK <0 TD •MiHI ttik. thr Bm Tmuldtr Ir

mm • j i i i /On iOi im, Illllllll VIMI WMti ab ot h— trnuMmdar i».^» nmiiiii,»«wd

IJIWIO «naO rar'«nai"u. S-OkMi R-R, mtaBttJnwta. 1- TiiT TI pmpilil

Hiia*i»T«TinM. irtim m.*o m-tiwwnmi

Onm aau OUMT <

unmi. BaoltlM.rm> *IU, >4

ION. OSIBAOC U.9.<L ttuiiill slseTiltc. flold by A. tt'i. -HTiiiKiis

man 'OT tbi world and a failendltl tdl-low and the. of her te mils-a'hiB.-"

"HP isn't a laid nort iff * hoy thourh ." said a third. "goodUaOking, nud all that. And." he fonrinued *en tontloualv., "be has t h e pull In age. TIIBCB vtuit Hilte: IQP ;te about Twan its'bve und '('iiiudull'i. wull (v-uar thirty, 'Isn't Ihr.T

"Dlhlrry Is no Btt^h great age." saifl t h e lirst one. who. Hiding over forty ibimsdll, looked upon'Ourdal! tiLin as al-miosi n hoy. -and. for n y putt. '1 think she has niade a mlatakd'"

A-.d -hut was WliUt Uie wwld «aid: •*?hi' hud m.tdi a uiiscake!" BHUI rthe 'think so lier^dlf. a s Hhe sui tloire thut Dingbt ii'inruiM 'r "No, ;;liai could not lie ipia«)liW! 'Ida ItaugOtou was a gild with too pur' anfl 'honurullle n been tto itahe-onp iman when diielloved .unothur. And w# Ik now Wha: tiipigoB Ips did not Iknow. thut mo word of love had evor ;pabs«d Ihdtwaeu bur and IVulter iCim-•flnll. Tbe world was inducing in ipro-dttPHs sfiecUlations whan It debated in Itf mind why ;idn hud not tukun as u husband a man who had Jiever aitokea •one word nf love t o her ;

'To be .•mftinupdi)

Awnd :l)y m-Baflh. A snutheni iii!?aiter employed a

mogrnto work nime-ofhte land during the pBHl year fin shareb On acnouut •ol the ihlrtt airice iff vdttim t h e mil-'ored meL's ihalf of t h e pruoeedB •mounted t o «a..Win. "The jilanter Iknew that Ut would ruin any Afro-Amerlron to get such a ;'um of muuqy aud denided that haiT of It would he enough. Tlpon lur thur irefledfion the conviction grow 'Upon ihim tliat gKitl) would ruin any ntigro Ir t b e world, no ihe nut the sum In half uguln. and, jplliitg lip *00 dbining Bllvor dollarfi •on 'his deak soul for the colored man mud Uirnthor and said that he w u malty to settle. The man came iin and fairly guaped at tlie amount 01 wealil Ir sight

'*»d' <0' Wd, boHB." saitl he, "Ite dot m o n o ail ours?"

"Tob:" "Wdll. don. divide It In two pllos

and you t s k e yotiuh hdff and II'll take mine."—lUluneupnIte Tribune.

T b e 'Dlevor iFishornmn.

Spoaiclng ifftfish renflndB one'of shad these days und, quite iprnperiy. Shad storiee are woes' maoh m order. There was a man who Hived on tlie THda-ware aAu> kqpt a Btanding oBor of .fi; to r 'the tflrs. si* pound shad caugh' at a oortain lisblng -village. OUCP a flrih-.ennan who neoded the f n caught a fairly :big shad on hte ifirst -drlfi. B e lhad t t wdlghed and thp scdle hnam Teglstored tflve ipoundB eight nuuneK.

Hlhte was itnn 'bad, 'but t h e tflshm-man WBB a man iff 'braiiiB. B e 'liH-ded t h e tdiad with eight OUIICRB of jjjrfl dhot. got t h e f t anfl thon :kindly .ol-iarefl t o cloun I t ffor sliot Ite sure In show under the ImilE.—PhllaUjljlhia PrBBB.

I First Crow.

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( g e n t t e m c n !

Inflections

^ UCiX r c k d j

ffeir r a n B n > . i n ( s s .

• W c ' - v t n-o.l jmsit

tttoe Ifiuestt d i^pilat '

'frf 53hi.<

a i i ' d ""'TrVig-^'crT"

l i h a i t t ' o r i g r a c c d a

tdodlbmfT b e n w t .

• "W't-ifl H'ilbt- lift

5Uip Mcisok.M iicp-s w o m ttifi S m v m a >iuiidnT ffftay iiaH.

MT. HSairtfHflfl ciT R'allluriliinx WAS Ihore ^intftnT,

Tbe ".'rbunifir [fiutn^- ait lilie Uml! Ila#n tRiiiflay- n ip ln was wiili sammiflefl anfl a WOJJ- iiileu«a:in tilhiie w-asfofiffcwifl 'by allL

•OMir now ijjJIlot te grnuip aid n w i w Bflsflaiiiin? IIHIW It'cnn tLamstng.

Mrs. QQainialh i('iul*Hir wiin'i ite^ihih-big a:. I ' l fd i s iCliiimftite HdU aoifi itn-jim'fl Dior annn.

Ati a,ufl EFTanik T'.igcs s jomt 'Samnr-"•ftsp anfl S u n d a y us g'tresms off .\i>oi<tr

SSIdhincnifl 'tf/Tl'itiilsoft.

r . IT. Wem m anfl arMennltertsailii efl :$». JL amfl wt le amfl Mtk S'loic'lil anfl sent WVD vfl »pw Ynr-k

J Mr. amfl U r s . ^'lefQfliBI^ r a l ln anfl !l S . R. iBlalii anfl Mrs. 'off ILuweli

llhite week,

3if WoaWletl wilfti waslk '(hcw-Hn. iwy I'lharmbidliiaiiV Nwonatfti m a t L ' i -•or TaiWkas. THkt wiilD So Vf.u xrooft. F o r sslie IVy A , D..

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S W M C O S m i

pJliiDC vein tiawwBe ard Tbirgtu.

S*'f i-nfjmlrhf W h o w fiivdes HWen the Fmtaa V.aOr-

*11.. nn I. - v . - flTntil the ynar nflDfi ttaiorp waunn'1|,W '«"Bi« i i . s t : . l l w a i ; 1M

'wne 'ctf 'OitiT s t n t w l

Samtte'iur !hat)flsv-imf

( O w w i n a t t s ; o t c i w t i

Tcm arilJii cmt 'cil

f io r X - e w FlaDI H a i t ^

tendimcftc t ' c m t m e d k

•w-iifa it-n ' d u g m t

TTtit, .nufl Ubcn g e n t l y Ituid j'oiu itoi libctmTTiw,.

* 'Ocrttairnll^- Ibe -soTjpirmed tto ftcii-rn w i h u l ii i h a n d s v i m t

tfdWow Vfffl

^ O e n n e 'in ffcr a Hcioik am<3 yciuHD s a y l i h a l w e ant- IfiaDDv ti'ns-lii'Dt'tfl

ijti o r c f w i t n f Bottg'-' ifaHird a n d 'otfttien.

* W f H H o r o w 'cmr Trtiber ori?i«->, Uatlior.

m l ® itlbe aneaai ' t t 'me -wicllll 'he ftodterng" !fcir t ' f m .

Chas. Althen,

I unn Kltsgs annum defl Hbe Paiir .an T ruiia Qaftt week.

-Jlames K odly bus grnienio 'Oamuil-; aioiw® niO'do>aan^MuiiMr wro^k.

TviiAciirih V ^ i f t n i d k ' s new ihnnsp te Tiiady nioi ifflajOtor.

'•viidloip IBetTie .fff l!iw doaJ anfl dtjufli lioniimtm- Hias done a nnmyisir off jji.lif eff /la-imiiug 'bore.

Our Country

nm- ttimmA.. (| AQ^uai Vrnto und w-fle wore ihi M T S J C . MTD-KTYRE anid son worn rt'o j'Ormifl tKagiiftellmo wwik.

Winorn fff xiite .plat IdsSaTurda j nfliuniinirilKinieSinida? Edwasrd'IThfnniiscni anflSainll. fff ® e w-as ucecnujianled'Ip-Mrs. St<ike-

Urnila -risftod cnwjr Snnday wftih fhte tee. Artibur T'arker .cff Vorgumies w a s

seon ciur«tn,onwSunflU;V.

r nifftlior. M t s . S . '©rbtrwoofl

'ClhaoOfiB TTiem has t aken a isilfi tko SLantndky.

Tlie ILadtes Aiid sfHiiffly ^ i l l miwt lan nihe ihtmie <DL M T S . S . QXMTWOMFL

Cmt. X , ait Illi'.Wi.a. an.

\ j C . Mdl'rttywHpiml S u n d a y ilu'Wramfl Ws^wa.

E lde r 'tiiinqi rff'fJuscHde willl uiremlh inn nibesclikdl ftionse Smida?., 'Oka. H. •an 8?Wiip.tm.\

'Glair jHunrarfl evgieits socia t.<> g o ®fi lite laniiior iin fou r th Uttlbttta.

Mrs. ORraaik Shorrairfl Ufuofiidnied To llior i»H»d.

'0«ur .irt"w si.nre w'biidi «t:aTtefl Two mwikfi K4?" untAer nihe tmamagouHnA cff Mrs. 't+airtidlfl itencrw niiifirom^bly -es-taiilbdied and dfllng gfocid timshiess

UTiie otieSoKm Hias •hean aiftwfl—Dx w<h«t way JII« '('IhimftiorllainiTii Shiian-aiih anfl l iwi i r TTaftlMts •snpuronr tte uttn '•diiunTTJfliiiaTiiir aiiflQ^vn-ffriKs!' •('•ut answer us— IPbiy are •earner •tnit more jjikiasaoi no t a k e anfl Qjbeir i<ffo<tt bs s o pmnlie anfl s o a^rtwaJM tiiat n o t iharfllh tnoBlkimw tihal in ite tjeof! uoed a rmo&tum'.. Tlbei) nlbe^ n/d 'imiiy rme^'p libe fturt ini|<r..ve (tA>e .iqipoiirw anfl ;aifl lib*' 'dt-ijowaim. 8R»n sallc ui HSie j ter ftittttflc l iy A.. IPl ^ntrtnMis.

r a a w i a .

Mutt. TiHu itiigon i •i-ntSmamo iiaifuOs ite vbiiTitaur ttuir laafhor.. J1 amies 'i^fduui. amfl .ctlhor Tfilartilres iin nlhte ^HuiDhy.

Mrs. TiHiresa ttUcgille ite 'tfotee illl aiit nihte wmlTiiiig.

M i r s M - a n m a l h a n d s o m H B m I f f f

t-iranfl ir;ajjiids aire vUBtaK iher j ia r -•eats M T . ^AIND M T S . -JL odni Malicme.

ffiomn. Iwi Bflldk IP.oiwflnr anfl miHe.. a dauigjhQusr..

Wte doniH see -aaiy iroaspm i « r ttliu' i-iranttaai IHaBI Ttmrm thoi^ot :l«m»fln tnciw.. A yvnmg "'liaill ijOaTw" an IbeeJIaito*-way ' s . Mfflilior amfl som JLTP flciing well .

MTS. Cadd ie MaDnue iff 'Gramfl ilds ite yttoSOag trtdaTwes Ihare nftjte week

IPodianifi 'fliirfflng ite nliie 'oirdfir <off ttihe day iin nliite vUiiriftj-. The '{iregi ite •wfiij- gicioid. ••'Vciwunplainits.'"

w b x j c i • c e K . v n n .

Tbe .cfurthinal Tains a w flciing imndh d a m a g e To Hate uKtaTcies.

The Siranfit' ball wasifilasttered last •weok and willl soiom Hte iin shitfie Icir Ditisiness. T h e 'cciunninttep wnjipoiint-(efl an nliie Dud imianibig are ijdaiming Icir a l ine •oirtoTttalimiom and s imper iin nliie moairffmiure.

•Jl iiaeilh tUwite iff ILwwdll Qinefl stun-day an (Oardan [P.arrcrwB--

Milnnle IBunscin off Qidwdll .•a woek Ibor 'ciifl ilrieufl amfl

nolfjidicir Mrs . 'C. A. IRamiws .

Siert l i s f i i es Aid scKtiet?- will tmert w i t t hMrs . 'Geci. ILewite. Eletnjiom '«ff 'fiflieors un nihan inioetlug. E w i y one iinwihied.

Mrs

tTcHtrtiimr* BT « tMsMaor.

Rpit, J ioo. S . "Gins'itf W a t e ^ A r k . . wnwjs , - ^For Da w w t b Q s n S o r e d Ifriini 1 •dDow -Jl utrnttioe. II 'OimsUhefl a numlmr (if gdnpsuiiaiifi anfl turied a!il sorts '<f 'meflioknes, %itn. igitt. mo me-iliitf. TPben II iiiexymi nibe 'use off EUedcrif iBfCtors amfl (fed ilhid II a m aiow xjurefl of a ftwaase nlhat ibafl m e dm a w ^ r a t p i o r t c w d h v years , "" ttf y e n want a tretia^iVe m e d i o m e f o r ILr*«er anfl E i d m w nron'Wle^ stomao'li dtsurdor or genera l doViiinT^ ffdt BtodSno B h a e r s . Hi^-truaranuiefl irr Ift. •&. Look.. Onlhr Sfcc.

M B H M d n n u

M. IL. iBaiflfy thus ^ f iue ttio'tiiranfl lEaj i idsas ' Juror .

ffienry Mi'Oloaiy. w-ITc anfl daug'b-«er cff 'Grand l i a j i lds vteited an (T't. Btmmn'lci S u n d a y .

Miss Eflhih 'Oraihes lhas iron urate fl lloticfh QSiomofly ifotommiJty d l w a v -ttte^ummertt h H m & A v e i n * ' M a n y B^dberx i n

nlbiB ooic'hiiors tibm'k nlbe mumf as II (IJldor Bemunn anneiidefl OtuihMm* .fi,. .hn l 0 U I roaieflv and mmtiLut,

lin'Gfrund StBijiids und lhas iromiraied ,.,11 „ n - u , HOT uiKnihor -veur. , , , j b e r M * * * .

Horn—•Sfljd.. 36. tbe JJIlHim K r u m * * * * * * * * * X

and wDe. a Tlb dnupflrtor

^ j JS- ar r sasr s s ; II Ihiet week .

«K1* Ulitfhnr*. Iff m tliNir tftttttttmi

M t k . ff^ilmior., df Onrflwws^ Bwra, wewe "'Ohie off m y (ftrildnen w a s saib-jemt tto '(ironp 'iff a si-wire nygie, amfl anfl tribe i cwiop <<tf Ohinulietllani'V

wear.at fff swords Am*' one niigbi luvuy as many a s !he rihrwe. ITiurrag iSip Tokugawa Tegime.. htmrevar. a iii« war fr.-rmulgkHifi wihidh affivimfl 'onlly •tibf ariiijna, libe ifigtming anon fir sum-ura; aip arri t® mr jiamwirt anil l»s swfrdKmitihB Cj (oariy sworda This Ha* rumriinefl to ffor re until I1K7, whoa am edict was ilssnefl Uorbidflmg any •one in wear swords iin gitiWbc This 'oreutfid dlsconrom among taiose Whose Birrv.ioge m was io oanrs tbom, whore-Hj'iti t be ^weramjcnj girodiannell an-tirthBi edict, allow fug any one to wear to many swords a s fhe iplflasefi. This iromwefl the dborishefi disninpcifia ar-tutilieB ttr the wearer 'fff a sword, anfl nn one cared t o fln was ipor-ml.-rnd to afll. AMmugh woar.ng rwrrds has •ontiro'^- noasefi ffor Twnnty years Iin fltgian, tftie rilfl •osreoni anfl tp-wonenw ffor the weapon and ffts use "• ill among tbe gnntlrnnrai fff -!be rnuiflnw an6 many fff tbe nribilfty t.sve Mi their ihnusns irogdlar •esra'bltehrmenix w b f w ffonnbig ite ipratttieed.

Ta tihe ipast there wore 'nortatn Ta •mritis Kwordmakorr iht Hapat anil an-'Cbmniic blades 'fff tbeir wntfemawftftji are bighty tprlwil, 'Cme iflfr-trme sword-nuikor kas a Hinghlar rfgiuratim, Thte is TJlm^anasa wtie was a gmpi] rff t h e g"eut MBsamnne.. sernnfi ite fftme rff all napimew swordsmruhs B e was wifte-! r Lnown. and uindmdffleffty made pwfirds wtfirdi were •ercsdHnn wpapms. ihut 'he was a man fff Tinlenr tennpor. anfl ibis s*'firds wore thfiugirt •ercend llngly 'dimgornus. (ft was vajxpnfwti tihatt once wjthftrawn ffrom tlie sbeaTl: :ih®-alwajs shefl Wonfi IMfore tbfiing ire-Ttimed. T i n y wore rogardefl a s bbing ffiirtimflarijy imlnrity., sn Jar as tbe To-IbugBWi ffKmi> rff UKpanese rulers was •eoncHmed. The Safbor anfl granfi-latbfir 'iff ttyfyasn, tbe iftrsi dboruii 'nil "fibf- fanflly, were ibotih artadkefi !by ami. iiia'uytiug Mnramasa swords yasn iibordTore ilssnefl an edict fffiMid-ffnig any rme in icarry tbom. ITt was m this way that t h ^ r autQuhwfl tflbdir 'bafl fmjtutation.

Uluramasa onr* taufllnngefl ICaHa-tmnne to 1 trial] nff their reigieralve swrifBK. Masamune wmsetfrofl. and thf sword blades w«irp gdaoed in a Ttnmmg srrnam rff warrnr wiblh tbeir •edges Tumefl agBtest t be tourroni. A® tlif tea^eR. tw'lgs anfi rtibbUfti wthirti fflowefl 'Bnwn srreani ^an itrte Wura anaBa-^ swnrfi anfi were em'ored. while t b e r raTrffiflty evoidefi nnming frrte

R E D G R O ^ i L E A D E R .

W-s. Jnh* A. laipim, ®ht * timnua VflfV

tary W as Onw ttit

nail W — a r tfl Mw iWuar.imfl.

30tr. ihftin A l i f fpA, iprcBidfn* iff the Aaus&nuu Bkefl 'Onnss, kn.- v-s ijifir simalCy twnry •ni'-imafl (dharuraer 'fff jj mip.-T-naiiK* torna r>roBidet; J. •viw**,oll •u< iJh analllwn Sruifi Atnn.? p.-is: •cam-man dec.

NMery SJBnwrrs.->r. Q—mif'hhfiii ww only IT j w o * •old vTbtm. ite BSTT., sflif iiename t b e ftmiur .-ff JWtx A. l^igar.,

' TbOE TTvweontniC 1 i.nws" •Oa.iatai Oomfiy, ami. a ham til tbe Vrixt can war wfbJk yw n. I t e neens

1 B«r Mfear,, thy aooidt tMaA fff TTvis-. iidem Plaroft, was 'vigisnrar ufl iie lent riffioe «ff t h t : •cnunq^, asnd sib< hat Isfft hor *iBfiies at 9i. Ttnoew's «:in-voiK. K'nanadky.. Ike hi wane tber Hatbers asBisamt. u f l thin a was thaa the black -eagle <tf Ulnwus me: amfl wvunU. Jmjt

jibe set tihe msanoOe W Iter t m t bomt JtF toer wm-iigeous deeds. wttiidh «be weuii wrJae t b e generaD wfci -jbe nwoDt tba; would go ttafla

ft

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Stmnt mmnm

C V t c b e r >.as > -anwrikittgr

'da t"^—<adh x iax lOQii tuBS a

'hM^tamiL TVcTl aenss 'CW

wtaiAfflw 'iS'ivpJlay> t t t t b e r —

a lOBOBfiOelbe <expcsatt»odi

•aiia!i"> m e w •oanred t

tf'oir o t m r -

Doti""ii fcimctet Knar VaJhoe

BrtttieTrocais—ni -swaass- l i 'C

besl t ffCKsfe i W iJbe trocmeT

t T c r s k w a n i iiti G r a n j i l R a p -

nfls.

l a cioialfcs, ranm ooaHs

aaid sfflnls '?nar -stttnclk i*. t j o w

xsoMip i f ldbe iitt e v e r nrillS

Ibe.

T H E G L V N T

A- M^y ofc Som 0 « r Ljrvm tarnA QMUSD >JDS.

iSTamdl ffiajods. Miicli.

Ht ajadallM.

ILmikjaw, ei w t t a u u s w causefl 'iw a ihamQus tn ^o rm wlodh -ev 'tsts jJWunjilfiilly tin 'itow,. Di as mumt-a*«e so lionc as ^nqji'iseii l o nJbe air , Ibin wlion catTiefl 'iioiHiaiib uihe sfam, as in nibe wounds oausefl by jiortms-sion ttaijis or TUHIT 'unite, anfl wibtm nftic aur tut •cutil uflefl t h e co rm ite Tousefl w. ad twoy anfl ffwifiuoes tiflie|| f made "A!h.-

®je nem 'iarrclle wmih ownewefl sjpiril anfi Otertaf..

TPbe fimi mmwy " onBBaD HjOfar sent fhwine •out rff ihite ipay Ihte wiiSe stpeifi tmmi the iiurrihasr fff a tbeme.. end wttrtia Ibe Ttcmned ffrtm t h e wair {die Ihandefl ihin thf •deofl ffor a borne and D'fi a n ? « «rtr Hand "b.iuglitl ennni tbe a v -^ngs <ff t h e Tam~acnw» wftudh Ibe i a d anode

NLts i o c a x te a 'dhamnrng w.-rmaa He anee- Added ike tbe fnfttfvMiinn fff a ftfe PpflDT auuang fanwas juvqik- ite tbe ta&aBtt fff loea*^ igenius. «&d tbe WtHi b w ? so hHtnded that ifbe a a t f t y amvmg tbe ffinimwll «ff Iber ee* Ite ttftie aiaCHin. THbe denji Dope aftw -eiritonefl far Iber ftmiflaund ite onaniyeet ite •wwy w n e and WBi wibfanwer lb is aimne ite anen-tteamd.

Sfce -te a Mftbedis; snd a «dpwir wnr-sto^yer.. ibin ite Ibor irril^fieus fyaEgat-thiies i&e ite anmc ibrnad-mdnded.

V .

'mosi msru'Wint ifuusdn -i^er k n e w n Ylbese g e r m s niav'i»e flcsuroj^efl anfl all dunjeor ol ilotikjaw avfuflefl IVnr u j i j i lwnc 't lhamlmrlanrs PaVn Kaitan ntodly a s soon as nftie nmjjmy as re-<miiA»efl. ITBIC Kaiim 'te an aanneffflnt anfl fi«3uses cuts , 'lirusies and lilti ' im-jut'iijs i " beall wn.'boin matiDratuon amfliin«o>e tbrrfl tihe t u n e ire^imirefl ff/ir usual tfeabinettt.. Da tte tffir salk' Ibr A . IB,. StnnB«te.

skifi lfanaroune. "thai d mirmSTTa OF very wdH tbe drflerenee berween our swords. yours is Iblnndibirsr' anfi nims fwnrytbtng WbiCh mimna near ft. While mme avoids doing mmepessaTy n u t a g e -

JMNkMEK K-GDW6&.

aTHutdefl t h e j i a r t y an *ead l ey B-nii-da? mi^tot.

Ti. ikiruui anfl wiOe-amfl-ikibn ILrum were lln 'ti>rand lUgdds M o n d a y .

mianwiLtaatir.

Wfuf l f l itirtt tiiitoreflt y o u ilff y e u > t llnofciiip ffor a guaraotiiefl S idve :1 or SoreH, IBimis tor Pflen. H.ntao Eloflfl •id IPondet., M o . , wnuaes: HI ntnOepefl |[or a y e a r , b u t B ftxn fff Bui i t lon ' s Amnia Shlve nurofl une. Sirs t b e

iioc at IP). «G. L e e n f s

•drug siot i

Mate 'Clara Tamderwert ier ite sQionfV big t w o wedks in t i ranfl (Lagiids.

iFtefl lifi .uute fff fianqditill s>»en S t n i d a y mittih ihte sister.. Mrs. A BB-eiutstolumn.

MTS. Milllor cff tOttaaae ttlsiiiefl iber •daug'lrtor.. Mrs. IL. IFord, Sunday and M o n d a y .

41 ohn Clamudier und laniKy off Fliw-ijiort w e r e S u n d a y ©ueittB an C . B ojier 's

(Litttle Q'rana F o r d 'lius Uteen tjiitee 111 ttllie ^laet mmdk whih 'iiloofl ^tolson ^ a?t»e For i ! tbas also Hieon sitik whiii a I w e r .

Mr, W.eeA. ttibe 0 w t t Bewtne tteudb or, sfstm SaT.urduy anfl Stnidny an ihte iliouie iin Gaines.

ffiitmil- '(Ibujinittu iriihtefl nihe ittiiusi millet mrouud Hiow,. ummetirlng iflw l!otft«lx Ihttlhcs tulll anfl avoru^lug a b nut s ix t e n t o nihe acre,

A. 'G. Sieht ' tse anfl wile tli 'Wranfl l i t t j i lds idlslted at nilielbome (ff JIames IPowor'laet week.

Mrs . ft Ohn A. IPnwor anfl litttle mfjjihew,. Bruce, of Mnllev.llle.. 'Oanda. a re gues t s ifff Hior brotlhor,. Jl, E , 'fPeweriuufl wille.

Mrs . Era t ik Klhainnan n-is Hod Iher daugjlaor. Mrs . 'C. 'Garttuor.. iin

•"Smytraiu TeoaKtllj-,. Mhw Eflitih CWhlln uiifl tlhwe Qadjt'

S i f lenf l sdrwe 'twor flrom BltOfltng: mun-digr l o r a l e w Ihoors Tlsil an Unit

. 'home. fflonrv Sksetttt 'can wdll Ibuuitt cff nliie

I'meet tiiWld 'iff <oonn In t h i s setnilon. Iba^ibig u sample of t h r e e st i i lks

niroduoefl nwdlve wtBlimuriiurefl •fiars'dlfjrnm.

riamudl IH. [Post ite vetysltik al the , j ihemte <<ff Jite mteoe., Mrs. n. E . Uto^or. !|

E t t a 'Ohaiimati Is Hit f lmj imn , wUtth ibor <jteBer,, Mrs . Oliestor 'Ga^fl-tner.

H. Attdiierson Ihns sdlfl lite ffairm tf Jloe Bot^jey.

MT. anfl Mrs. Eoyall Sparks 'OT Atih-ttion a r e wilsiting mriUutilwes iin tbte jtitiHj-.

•floe B e u e r st-artefl MonAay 1><r Marvtunme mttlh a caiOoad fff ajiples.

MT. amfl MTS. Precttw (ff Morse?-are vtiWhilng nlhoir •sister. Mrs. iDmilly Bams on.

'flhaitllie Et'ost amfl .Jlfie Bessor will •cgtan a saloon ian MlUhrooik ailiaiun Sew,. 1.

ttiriiac ttaanlHto mnaMB.

ILe 'Qluiim fff CiH«euAMU, V ' l^ wa4- ToliWed ><d b i s eoMi.onianv Ibuadilli ftp' iu«'n«i<m fff O b r o n i n '(loosrifliB-uuen. WBiutt ll'^r. Bamg'fc Vow Bjiii'.e mills lliroke iit-e 'his Ibou^e., Ihi>i mreriVile wus attresMtd uiWhii"wlhe\ fultitrcily inured. TPlow^re pnurun-noefl no fmre , IJTIC ut I® '(5. L O O K S

dnug saoite.

iaV. ^ntigk Memvi!-.

N o "one wbo i s acqttaiiiteii wrtJb iits poofl (jualfuii*fHii be sunpnsefl a t nibe gtreai ifnyutlarny fff 'Ohamiuir-Uflnt'ii Coucjh Kiomedy. Qi mtt only 'uures ft'dds anfl ^jtiigiflffedtioiilly and If•eniuaaiemily, Ihut ijireifn/ts these 'fltsniisos fftrom Tesu tiinp in ipoei.tnoh-tia tit as allso a <oeittaim 'onre'fot (inuiji. WthlM^img 'ooupli lis mot damrerous wlien tbte memefly ite Mfm. U t wm-ttsmifi mo f^irum fir fflihor hurtifftJI sutbuunioe anfl muyfin irn ei 11s notffi doutih" no a IhuJby as t o un tulnh Hi lis alsii ipieasuui lao take ^ hen ail these ffaose ane ttdken nan oonsidur anion lii iie met euTijirtsiiit: tiliii: l"'1* l|ib' nm ifiemoien Ihmlk, us well as B-boine. lesteem t b i s Tomedv utity Ihiglh'ty anfl ^vety f e w are willthi: to talfcp any oiihor atftbor Ihav ttic ","H' usefl ott. IFer «kle b v A, IP*.

S a m i G i s .

«aat«B:«va> *a nmmik.

E . d u g w a s aniOaunoiHdiurg Mon-•day f i n iliuslness.

Mrs. MoKiln B iggs iteuition^ t h e Jib-1 i iogooes.

Act lOouflwn lltfft Mdiidu.v Inr iluiilu mo iMarln wotik iin nihe TOumd 'b 'use. 1

Ail Big i> w as nn deaiia <on liiiHiueus lluet wetik.

BQdhard Bergjin willl soem nifwe tie •St. j ilhns.

ILoadera l o r Btoaourath ILeugm' iniflUiib i f r - ^ T n fflnnaffftimi M r s ' otik-Hiu. Mr . Ereouian. Mr . Sucat'him. M rs. <liai iBa wiiL ftiafe a IBmle • v r r a . nihe ir«*Ht ilsiing iderfflllotial. (Cfirdladty Ibi^iltefl t o come umd lit'lng j some f ine wiktlh nlhom.

Miss Myntlle lU^-iniond fff Keeui te whiimiiigialt "George VoAtoet-'s.

Bird souson 'has fgiened anfl nihe ipoor feuthmtd lawamnres Uuiw t . suflor the gjralttf^y t h e g u t t e r s ijlleus tire.

M T S . A. V . WTIIICJHT FTIAS ebluiihtted t o TWO " rjiorutiems and ite'ddhtg wdll us tf idld Hie'erpactefl,

TOT. a n d M r s . W i l l i ( O e w e r t t FFFBI ' l f l -

ting S[sm« S a t u r d a y mnid^uudu-v an tber IliroilhHr. Bt W_ ttJind<s.

MT. and MTS. Erefl J l accM cfl ILcw -•till sj iom S u n d a y tall 'Guy ffThndluir's.

Array iff Glfta, ftift Mil Am

More or Ikoa UlMViik

T t o JKpcnBst coremnry tttae* ik mure than religions Thf bTWte '• own peqjde ta^e Iher to too- furure tma-hsnC^ tomBe. and there Ite t t o prea-«nt» off member* iff ibrn± ffandhea they

t H i r fcufllh, »mfi tbe ibrings-Crnnm anafew a g f t rff mosey a U i nride'a garanta. A Haaianest c i d re-ntfvaa ma weddin* ipnrtlmi Srom ffKCber, tnA to ibesr owa mpoa her g t t a a t rJnrhfiE articles nsOJal ffor house-keaping. and sashes iff s i lk crf^f and versa «n*tt iff ^J i tw—a curJout med-ley, Par •Qm bnuaeketgilng jgiKs twe lamjnerai wnodei jdllpwfi are A* rUfutnc. h f w h . SbeM-ea, wortlin*, irtna tmrtkni. ladle, apmnmg wifcel k-tubea nmsDs . I raz ls r t snfi fire harei,. nbtna t e a i r n , tehpius and r e m toatoa • w a k r i t o a , n o r z n z QUDIS . « r c U t o

"toidea parents alar asTariaibTy a m i a bftrtlf iff sake or t ine wine ffor t t o younc nnuple in soon their dnmeBtis BBonnnty

IPor the weflfllng reremnay tha bride, OreBsefl in ^tifne Bilk anfi w»-•ereil a i th a wwil, Ite narriefl •afl'tar miebt-Sail la a palanquin tto the ibrtdogrooin'lB bouae A priest ite mot ajeoeaaatfly tmllefl in Tbe tarldegrorna's tomUj-flfta on one aide iff the room anfi tha brltlra nn the ather. Bride anfl br ld» grnom Bit toeing each other ite t t o nentre of the Tnom A talfle sianda In tront rff them and on ilt a ihortie nil eake anfl cupB, Dt another talue a n placeti imagoa iff a ifir-iree, a blossom lug plum-tree amfl a stork standmg nn a tonoiae. T h e •first signifies t t o s f n n g t b iff t b e Qiridogrnom, the see-and the bsauty 'iff the bride and t h i r l the long llSe tesirec ffor both

yip*' boginB t t o marriage ffeair., t t o Baat part ending with the drink mg at th ree nupe each nff sake by tbrlde amfl hridogroom. TOton the tbride Qoaaaa the party anfl r e t urns wearing a new (wauiunlaQ Tribe, ibows to her pautu/ta and drtaks amriflhsr draught off noka. off wlhidh. indeed, mine cups ba^-e 10 ibe guaffefl before t b e ffeast ite fwor, the laat ibe lag cor*'eyed Urom a two-Hpnut-afl kettle. Ihelfl "by owe bridemolds 10 t t o Itypa .off t t o pair, tTi tb this m e mMdb uigntbrm tiuc thfjy are TO Share tbe BDirwwt anfl joys nf Que TO eeSber. t t o serr tne onda, Tji tto thla paint imfty are ipermlrtofl TO enter Hie 'mam, hut now t b e dnrirs are thfBwn op cm, anfl t b e wedding guesa file iin. Silence anfl formaDtt? are fm-IJOineB throu^hom tbe ceremony, affter tbe anrlra] of tbe cneitta —

A (Pinmc QWffoacy. TPbsre n e r a r wee a pinnir y w wfcrr*

m 'fterafiefi egg was IflP; wer, , ai.i anan-•fcer ibow anamy wore mareiied. Sieatity made. weT soasfmefl lamd (BaneOtfllF packefi ite pa-'-s.lftne pegier ite « IBnDe Ihmt tor tbemffiT^Hft. tbey ite*wma!l>"5r "pe ti® the T^hT fg»oi" amd find aSum-daar epprf,o.a--inri

?»u- l i e eges m m ite wOfl watsr •» erwor an£ "br-mc *> a ibod:: -jbnn gmot "barik Tin 'ihe ramge 'riloseiy offered amfl Dei them 5aanfi ite tbe !b« wKwr ffor twenty aninures, •vtbet "eafiy 7e nee tbom throw rflf t be hrc witter and Turn inrilB wamer owir thon:: tber. rpedl,: «»-ffas: as the tibeli is tAknn fflf cm -eaclh egg Un Twfi wnlfc a shamp fcn9e.; -take oul the j-fflka. put ite a Ihwril enfi lay | the halves tonedbflr f i t a phnror en thet -Jhty de awe got pepa-^atefi

tTIben aT t h e yolks "ba-x^ "beoa tre-ano^ed anafih line wftlfc a fforft anfi sea son WKt saTt. Tngipor WK?'nnnB-tef nr.

pTsne fff tihe aiap-onnatee. a Hf Ve

T a l k i n g l A b o u t l F l o u r

H a w yvm Itirtefl •omr V e « Hloatiiniry Bnami" BH'onse^wes wlbi?i k a n w . are Tmaanavms an <jiedlairinc Si "ibe tmA. Utt s liis' wjvtr-Sai. timfi—ttihe isont ttiban •cm toe 'd^Kmilefl n n men maike jqire.. lOTtntniTnams lhn-i#A. noAe amfl jiwfltr?,. MH ttames •oart a Wft. B afbe ftieet ite mofl too tor yam. >iew CetttttOTy Iftcnr Se nibe it'ourr yom cn^htt ttwi mse, CiMfwai iin f v e n r s a d t .

Man'ifiaf^invfl 'fcty t'lalloflijaiia Matlll-itng K-'iaanffiamy..

M e y e r s A M c K e e ,

'te .

ane^TeB "burror tmfi a t iny Wt fff anade airasvir«fi or rilt -irmefl pirikle., THbe yr.Tk mflrrure siboulfi be mniet enoupl TO tpack nfiwHy.. Now rfttMrm same 'fff tlie seasonefi yrilk Tf earih "hag rff egg. nress tbe IbalJws -npe'Aer wiWboir Irt-t ing tbe wihtee fff tbe egg get '"ami-isy" anfi skewer TogeJber wWh l i f Uialle wwoden inHfloflribs. TTWP ffor eac t m * ite snfficwmx Ttr ia t ions to the seimnn-ing rff t be yolks anay Ibe anade !by n a i t ^ a Hirle whijipefl rraaan w^ilh seasrncng fff ribesse fir a Swr npnrm-ffrite rff ground or dhnpped mate.

B M T J I K D B E G M I m S k m n

N E W D'VKK 'TILUCAG';" KNSDI SLL F I N I T E

lOomanendtaig OdL Und. snwaauorfi •ctt nihte line wtSB ibiaw tCMcaigio. M ta i ia j - s . Wednosdlays iamfl Firo&fiysaiiT^lutm. Qjaaw Muafaqcom ^nndtayK. Tues&ay* amfl inhnrsaays «n u M ipv. on- omdl tnTamil Uiavxm .an 'KiT. fi. an.

S t . La toa F a i r . ~ toaii fQtjMi ««• i a y M a Hi-fiaylBanBti Jl.ttfi 7 'Say Utanrtt SJiH

F o e ffamftiHr toflocmiatt&cai ask 'Gtramfl Timnlk A^jentt Son- HHinaa^Jh niirik«js.

?i, D.. Tuuplm.'Ci. IT A iCIUlctisu. li-

<C. F <CQa|9iUia, T. V.. »mrtit>p(ni TBlCI.

EXCURSIONS P E R E M A W ^ F T T E

TV. tsog-maw amfi B a y ".'liny, K'mt. SLame Tma&a ariiil Ihmw ttjo^wdB

^ e e piMftors. «wr as i ngonits Uor I jiarou-iilaps. tt. r Mo«fltar. i i . P . A.

^ E B J B C T H Q N S .

T f s y Jew perQde ran lte*«e amy ainmnr fff ariffTfasiaoi B tbey <eB3i" w r r t t fcemse'^w mp t e tflbe Ibriheff •thut tbey anifft® Iha** anaciOBfl saDribsd? ?T tbey watffeefl to.

IHhr amtn w%e ftalfcs teamed^ the bad tindnsWla!] •onnflfttmif - haa fforce a wauam ite g r tiril enc work ffor a salary tbix/ ts Ut i l l irtglr n'hei) fdte worke imwfti ItomdHr at Iwimr ffor 'hhn ffor a tndserable tptctanpf the- he ribooBBf t e igtve lier

W t e n a anarriefi man flirts f isr^t a eifjn tftiat Ihe te waHy linker it is •cuf* Hfcol? that ihe thinks 9t smart 70

Ihe riffty THbe woman whr marrief -vmmr If

t b e .one T>'bP gonoraHy aflr;s' ,c

•daughter 10 wait —Balrtmn-f 'can.

'hot amort

SrtOUIer* wtektitittar Smtsii ««11 •Si t-lbcBSC..

'0*ue w g y . seconfl-'tdnss miiikotf ioiu salle mn alii 'Staniioms om "trw and nihird UnaoftnyscfffuaflumeiaBfti Jksk^senfts 5oir f mnttiidlairs.

WnTmr> *>**• m *< ILnari*. iCiounfl antj i titlkei* un Jl.-w ra.'^es.-cm

salle an alimulkeiw.ati^ois. Ask agHun ffor raf f ' s . Htm" fff Ticket- amd •uDffiar-ticidair?.

StibaonAiers l a k e y-orwc

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CHAPTER XVII—Continued. Cobb started. He well knew that

the KarsichcBs would ran any risk to prercnt the p*rdon« reichln* their destination, and urgod the courier to obtain them again. "1 will take them to Chltka myself as f a i t as horses can carry me." '

The coarier shook his head. ' T h e rrcnlstloa of the corps of couriers imperial ot Siberia " he said, "are TCTT strlet ind the sllfhiest rioUtion of the rail* i s vfcslted with the sever-est puaishnteat. Once dellrered and slfcned tor. the pardons msy not bo rocalled Eton if I hsd the pardons I dsrv not g u e thetn In your keeplng.-

"Cannot yoo go to Chltka^yourselfT' askrd Cobb, eagerly.

11 is Impossible: I must obey my invfoictioBA to the letter. The rules

• e BO option." The courier walked a few paces

s v a f from his companion and stood •ilently to a deep study.

Cobb was no less Intently occupied with his thoughts fur the moment. The Courier had a pardon for lids Barefiky!

He: was about to start for Stralecsk wtth that pardon and Would And that Dda Barosky was not there!

FOr llda Barosky had escaped! Cobb was in a s tate of terrible un-

certalntv as to the best course to pur • • e ^ He ' knew ths t the courier ws? • man deruied to his duty, snd he fe l t that If t e Informed the courier, that llda Barosky v a s no l o o ^ r In Stralcnsk that the pardon might be annulled. Besides. It would g i te the courier knowledge of an escaping pHuoner and It would be his duty to

.arrest her at acy point. While he was thus dellbe-atlnc as

to the best course to pursue, the cou-rier rejoined him and. leading him still further away from the house, he p l a c A his hand on Cobb's arm with a cautionary pressure, and said; "I h a r e not told you a!!—there is one •ay of hope that we may get the par-dons again."

Oobb's heirt beat faster. T h e courier went on. speaking

quickly. "Some time ago charges of robbery of the government were pre-ferred. against Kareicheff and his son. It U alleged that they made false re-turns of the amount of food consumed. Thei r uncallei-for cruelty to the exiles is another charge. These charges h a r e been considered by the go t e rn or of the prorlnce. If found guilty Kar-slchefl will be deposed at once and must return all goTernment papers In his possession. The decision of the gorernor was to have been forwarded to mc at the last etape. but as it did not arrive 1 came on to Investigate the charges myself, without waiting for the governor's decree. I had an Idea that Karslcheff was commandant i of Etape No. i . Instead of No. 7, and did not Imagine that 1 was dealing with him until his wife, mentioned ner name. 1 was surprised. 1 have seen enough to-night to convince mc that be ehoald be dismissed, but 1 can not act on account of the absence of the governor's decree. 1 Instructed my secretary to wait at the etape where 1 passed last night until the goverwor's dispatches for me arrived, aac then to follow me with all possi-ble speed. He is on his way now, and most be oa the road between here sad the poolooetape. Now, if

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(hat decrce were in my hands. I could depose Kareicheff OJ the spot, and if. a s I believe is the case, be is to be seat to exile as a common prisoner for bis offense agi lns i the govern-mrnt . that fact will f ree his daughter Oiga from his control and leave her mistress of herself. She can not be kept in restraint by any o r e convicted of crime."

Cobb listcoed t u b breathless anx-iety.

- W h i t can I do?" h e asked, eagerly. •"Dzr: you attempt to resell my sec-

retary, yo?i would meet him on the ro}d..ar.i I aril! give you an order to brine en the dispatches without de-la^!"

. "Pare f — I ! " exclaimed Cobh-

"by the soul of Hickory Jackson, there Is nothing In the world 1 couldn't or wouldn't dare just now!"

"Brave fellow." said the courier. "I knew that would be your answer. He gave a low whittle. His Cossack driver appeare-i from the shed where he bad been awaiting his master's or-ders with patient docility. The courier whispered a few words to him. The driver disappeared.

"But we forget the wolves!" said the courier.

"All the wolves this side of Hades would cot scare me to-night," ex-claimed Cobb. "But I must have arms."

"You will find them in the sleigh— two repeating rlflea and a revolver."

"And a pocket pistol?" asked Cpbb. The courier looked purzled. Cobb laughed and In an instant the

courier smiled also. "You will find supplies in the stelgh." he said. '&t the same moment the sleigh came np noiselessly, the driver walking by the side of the spirited horses, and keep-ing his band on the bells to prevent any sound.

Cobb sprang Irto the sleigh. The courier lifted a robe and .d rew

forth two bottles of brandy. Both of the men took a long pull.

"All ready?" asked the courlcr. "Ready!" said Cobb. The driver slipped away f rom the

head of the impatient, fiery horses. "Go!" One touch of the long whip In the

bsnd of Cobb snd the horses bounded forward. The sleigh bells Jingled a merry tune. The driver, dismissed by a nod from the courier, disappeared, and In another ten seconds Cobb had reached a turn In the road that skirted the dark forest, and he was out of sight on his adventurous journey.

The doors of the house opened. Karslcheff. Nicholas and Katherine

stood revealed In the strong l i g h t "What was the noise?" they asked

In one voice. "Qen. Cobb has gone for a pleasure

ride In my sleigh." was the reply, and th«» courier a l t e red the house.

"I do not understand you." said Kar-slcheff.

"No?" said the courier. "That Is unfortunate! This is my room? A lamp? Thanks! I am going to bed— good-night!" And he was gone.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Out of the Depths. Katherine gazed a l te r the courier

with an expression of the bitterest hate. M Tha t man is our enemy." she said, "and even now he is plotting agaiasi us. Cobb gone — where? What does i t mean? Heavens!" she exclaimed, a s the thonght occurred to her. "Can he have sent Cobb to Stra-lensk with the pardon of llda Baro-sky?"

Father and son looked a t each other —then at Katherine. . "1 have formed my plan." she said,

"but 1 must think of my instrument." Even as she spoke the door of the

room leading to the chamber occupied by the baroness opened.

Katherine. Karslcheff and Nicholas turned quickly.

A woman appeared, hesitated a mo-ment. and was about to retire again, when Katherine in her sof tes t voice said: "Pray come in."

The s t ranger hesitated a moment, and then entered.

"You have quite recovered?" askeu Kather ine with apparent solicitude.

There was no answer. Perhaps the question had not been

understood. Katherine repeated It. In a low voice and with a pro-

nounced English accent, the stranger —she was apparently young—said that she did not speak Russian fluent-ly and a t times had some difficulty in understanding the language.

"You a re with the wife of Gen. Cobb?" asked Katherine.

The stranger must have misunder-stood the question, for she evidently thought that her passport had been ssked for, as she handed that Im-portant document to Katherine.

The latter glanced at the document Karslcheff and Nicholas gazing over her shoulder as^ she did so.

"Caroline Cobb," exclaimed the countess—"a relative?"

With some difficulty Caroline Cobb explained that she was a poor rela lion.

"Won' t you be seated?" said the countess, "you must be tired."

Caroline sai down. "A glass of vodka?" suggested Nich-

olas. Caroline shock her head. "A cup of tea is beuer ." said Kath-

erine. drawing the beverage from a steaming samovar that stood on a table near. As she handed the tea to the girl, she made a signal to Karsi-cheff and Nicholas to leave them alone.

" I win go and sec- that the prison-ers a re all right," said Karsicheff. '

"Come. Nicholas!" and both men leH ' t he room.

Katherine and the companion of Cobb and his wife were alone.

"Prisoners did he say. madame." said Caroline In her broken Russian, and with that pronounced English ac j cent that Katherine .had noted before. ' "Prisoners did he say—and Is this.1

then, a prison?" Katherine explained that the prison

was on the other side and that the house was the residence of the com-mandant of the etape.

"Do the prisoners remain here?" In-quired Carollue.

"Oh, no; they only arrived to-ulght; they came from Chltka. and are on their way to the mines."

' T h e y are exiles—political e x i l e s -then?"

"Some of them are, hut others of them are thieves and robbers and mur-

AS THE WORLD REVOLVES

HERO OF SCIENCE DEAD.

Late Dr. Finsen, One of the World's Greatest Benefaictors.

Dr. Niels R. Finsen. who has Just died at Copenhagen, deserves to rank among ihe great heroes, as well as among the great benefactors of mod-ern times.

The healing power of light had been recognized, in a general way, by the medical profession long before bis time, but little practical use had been made of It. When Dr. Finsen wns a ynime student In Copenhagen

, university he began a series of lu-derers of the most desperate charac- testlgatlons to discover to what p rop ter. I t Is .that which makes the com-mandant. my husband, so careful. He is fearful that they may break out and massacre us all."

"But there are soldiers to protect you?"

"The guard Is small and might easi-ly be overpowered by those wretches

ertles of light Its curative Influence was owing. He was naturally of frail constitution, and excessive exertion broke down his health. Nevertheless, with Indomitable perseverance he continued his work In the cold, hu-

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if they had the slightest knowledge' that so little stood between them and liberty."

Katherine sat In thought a moment as If revolving some plan.

"You have not asked for your pre-server." she said, a t length.

"Pardon me. madame." was the re-ply. "1 have been thinking of h im; he risked his life to save mine. 1 long to see him and to thank him from the bottom of my heart for saving my life. What is his name?"

"I do not know it. but he is one of the unfortunate political convicts sen- j tenced for l ife to hard labor in the mines!"

"Oh. madame!" "Poor fellow." Katherine resumeo,

speaking In a voice of sympathetic ten-derness; "he Is so young, so hand-some. It Is such a pity that he is des-tined to such a fate . He will die be-fore he Is twelve months In the mines. I pity him from the bottom of my heart." and she sighed deeply.

Katherine. a s we know, had an ex-ceedingly sympathetic namre.

"Is there no hope for him?" at length said Caroline.

'There Is no hope." said Katherine !n a low voice, "unless—"

"Yes! yes !"

raid climate of Copenhagen. His efforts were at last rewarded with the Important discovery that part of the rays of the sun's spectrum destroy bacteria, while others possess the healing nature which physicians had long ascribed to the ray of light a s a whole.

The flrst successful tost of Dr. Fin-sen's important theory was made at Copenhagen in 1894. when he cured many cases of smallpox, and even saved the patients from being scarred, merely by hanging red curtains at the windows of the sick room. He later found a way to concentrate rays of the ordlnaiy electric light so as to cure long standing cases of the dread-ed lupus or tuberculosis of the face.

If Dr. Finsen had chosen to keep bis plan of curing lupus a secret and to employ It only In his private prac-tice he could have made a fortune out of it. and it would have been deemed professionally ethical for him to do so. But. Inspired by the same generosity aud desire to relievo suf-fering humanity which prompted him

' to continue his investigations a t the [ cost of his health, he made bis meth-

od public. The Finsen lays a re to-| day used for curing lupus and other j serious and disfiguring skin diseases

^ . g , . . . . . . ! in every civilized country. "There Is no hope for him unless he , .

could escape. Poor fellow! If he had; but 43 years old. a chance he might be able to secure cut short his life. He was his freedom." She thought a moment !« 1™C m a r t > r i n t h « c a u 8 e o f h u -• 1 * -• tnonm mnr-a \\v V i l a

j GOING TO FIND MOTHER.

Pathetic Story of Henry Ward Beech'

er 's Childhood. William James, *be Harvard p s y

chologlst, was Illustrating the con-fusion Into which children's minds may be thrown by the reception of different ideas about the same sub-ject.

"Henry Ward Beecher," ho said, "furnished us in his childhood with a good example of the thing 1 mean.

| On the death of Beecher's mother the i little fellow was told by some that I she bad gone to heaven, and by oth-| era that she had been laid in th«

ground. "He brooded over these contradic-

tory Ideas until they were reconciled In his mind Then, one morning, he was found digging In the garden very busily.

" 'What are you doing?' they asked

bim. " 'Why.' said the child. *1 am going

to heaven to find mother . '"

Then Finish the Dishes. The B's had given an Impertinent

maid notice, and In consequence were obliged to assume the duties that she pointedly neglected. On the last day of Katie's stay, as one of the ladies of the family was hastening to answer a ring at the front door, she was ar-rested by an explosive whisper from the rear of the hall, where the Irre-pressible ex-mald, Katie, In most nn-plcturesque dishabille, was estab-lished: "Mrs. B. If that's anyone for me, say I'm out"—San Francisco Ar-

gonaut.

Fish Fighting In Slam. I

Fish fighting Is the most popular sport In Slam. The two fish, trained I from the age of six months to fight are placed In a large glass bottle. I t Is most curious to note each fish's at-titude when It becomes aware of i l l adversary's presence In the bottle. Swelling with rage and pride, they sail around and around the narrow space, pretending not to notice each other, until suddenly one fish makes a savage dart at Its unwelcome com-puilon. biting Its fins and body. The fight continues until t he referee sees that the Issue Is no longer in doubt, when the contest Is stopped.

Straining the Air. A woman living In a smoky d t y

helps to keep her house clean by straining the air as it Is drawn Into the cold air register or box to he sent up through the pipes into the di f fer cnt rooms, says Good Housekeeping. The register is taken out, a piece ot cheesecloth a trifle larger than the opening is spread over the pipe and the register Is replaced, Its edges holding the cheesecloth In place. The particles of soot and dust which ac-cumulate on the cheesecloth soon prove how much the wall paper and furniture have been saved.

and then went on; "There Is but one I way." she continued, "If It could be done. If some one were to go to Alexis—"

I "Alexis—Is that his name. You re-call It. Ihec—you had forgotten I t "

Katherine saw that she had made a slip. But she recovered herself and with apparent frankness went on. "Yes. his name Is Alexis Nazlmoff."

Caroline started. Katherine noticed the start. " * ) u have beard of him?" she

asked. "I suffer—one of the brutes got his

fangs In n >* shoulder and It makes me wince at times. Pray go on, mad-ame!"

"Alexis Nazlmoff and his companion, a young student named Barosky. are two of these exiles. There Is one plan by which Nazlmoff can escape—but only one. and that plan. If carried out, would enable you to effect the rescue of the man who saved your life, and also enable my husband to quell the mutiny of the desperate convicts If it should arise. The plan is this" cun-tinued Katherine. "We will admit you to the kamera. Your desire to thank the man who saved you will be an ex-cuse that will disarm all suspicion. That will bring you In contact with Nazlmoff. You will be supplied with a file to remove his Irons and that of his companion. You must tell them to pass the word to all the others that a simultaneous rush will be made to

erpower the guards. My husband have the soldiers ready to fire

on the others and in the confusion your preserver and his companion can escape. What do you say?"

(To be continued.)

manity. Mankind loses more by his early death than it would by the pass-ing of many statesmen and soldiers who strut much more conspicuously upon the stage of the world.

HONORED BY FELLOW VETERANS

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Ce'. 'x River Lumber cocipany's mi!! at e save -ra. Several men were .-c .i ar the »ime. and wr-.-e thfuwn a divaace of thirty feei cr more to the -r : -d. Al! were more or less seriously i t jured. but luckily ] note were killed.

Good ViCrv. Wiih Hcrvscter. The operating a co.a r -rve*ier

near D«>aaguc cut and shocked one huBtlrcd aboefca of one fcucdred hills «ack ta three aart ocrha1! loan.

f.'lsczjkze County Fair. The .-h.-v iUK. cOwiify faff has I

clostd a t Lake City, and the attend- 1

ance has been all that could be de-sired. Races have been the feature each day. a id although only half a doten outside horses were entered, the rpt-rl was exciting from start to finish. The exhibits wore in every way up to the standard and attracted much fa-

i vorable comment.

Church fo r Colored Baptists. South Haven Is to have a colored

Eaotlst church in the near future .

City Farrrer Coes Well. Farmers in general are disposed to

smile a t their ci ty brother's flrrt at-tempt to till the soli, but this year nicomlngdalo has an exception a-,d the city man leads the procession. P. O. Homel. a former Chlcagoan. had one acre of ground Into pickles this year and has delivered a t the Williams Bros, salting station at that place 17.-035 pounds of pickles and received for them $191.10. This has been an excel-lent year for cukes and Blooming-dale farmers have profited thereby.

i

Animals of Angora. A writer on the Angora goat calls

attention to the fact that the climate of Angora possesses some remarkable

1 peculiarity causing the development of a silky coat on animals of various

> kinds. Not only the famous goats, which produce mohair, are thus fur-

. nlshed. but a similar tendeucy is ex-hibited among such animals as cats and greyhounds living in the same

! country.

I Spectacles of Famous Man. Walter Newbegln. a Kezar Falls,

Me., collector of curiosities, has the spectacles worn by Rev. John Buzzell, the first Baptist minister In Maine, whi is ssld to have had his eyesight suddenly restored and to have grown a new head of hair and a set of teeth at the ripe age of SO years.

THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE.

Mra. 8. W. Marine, of Colorado Springa, Began to Fear the Worst. Doan's Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 S t Uraid

Bt , Colorado Springs, Colo., President of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes:

**1 suffered for three years with se-vere backache. T h e doctors told me my kidneys were affected a n d p r e s c r i b e d medicines for ine, but I found It was only a waste of t ime and money to take them, and began to fear that 1 would never get well. A friend ad« vised me to

try Doan's Kidney Pills. Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that I decided to keep up the t rea tment and when I had used a little over two boxes I was entirely well. 1 have now enjoyed the best of health for more than four months, and words can but poorly ex-press my gratitude."

For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N Y .

Eu'.hrolth'red mid Ince-trlmined win-dow blluds nro penemlly pin m l In sit-ting rooms now. Those trifiuied with f i n n y nnd point d'urabe inoe are very hnndstmie. while still more elnlwmte nrr some embroldeml duchesse blluds deeply flounced with Ince.

$100 Reward. $100. Tbt rrtden of thU ptper will be pleised to !e«ni

that ibrre In at Icutcmc dretded dliefe thill tcleuct been able to cure la ill Ita IUKM. and tbat ti

Caiarrb. Ilall'a Catarrb Cure In the only podtlro care BOW known lo tbe medlca] fratcnilty. Calinh being a comtltullunal dbeaw. reqalrca m umitJio-Uunal treatment. Ilaira Catarrh Cure la taken In-teraally. acting dlreciljrnpon tbe blood and ronoont •urfaces of the •r«tem. therebr destroying the foundation of tbe dliease, and Kirlng the patient itrenrth by building up tbe conalltutlun and atalit-tng nature In doing lt« work. Tbe proprieton have to mueb faith In Ita curative powen that they offer One Hundred Dnliata for my ca*e that it laUl to cure. Send for Hit of teatlmanlala.

Addresa r . J. CHENKY * CO., Toledo. O. Sold by all DrtiggUU. 75c. Take Uall'i Family PUla fcr conitlpaUoo.

Table cloths nnd serviettes shonld be slightly st.ircluHl. for thus they will bo mude to retain their fresh anil clean iippcanmce longrr.

World's Fair Visitors. Persons attending the great Expotltlon

at 8l. Louis ihould secure a room close to the Fair and in a safe brick building. Ho-tel Epwortb hns all the conveniences of a flrat-clasa modern hotel, within four mln-otea' walk of Convention and Administra-tion entrance. Rates tl.00 per day and up for lodging. Meals al reasonable prices. From Union Station, go to Olive street. tf>Ve Palmar Onri1<»n car, going west Uf em. Our boys meet all-cars.

A box filled with l ime and' placed on the shelf In n pantry and frequent-ly renewed will nlworb the damp and keep the air pure ami dry.

Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's S weot Powders for Children, nsod by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, Now York, cure Summer Complaint, Forerishness.Hendoche,Stomach Troubles,

j Teething Disorders nnd Destroy Worms. At I all Druggists', 25c. Sample mailed FREE. | Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.

"How- pmoefully j o n n g Sklvett raises his h a t " "I wish he could raise the price of the hat half as gmreful ly."

Mra. Wlnslow'a Soothing Hymn. For children teething, aoftena the gum, reduce* t» dammatlon,allay*pain.enreawindcollu. SScabottia.

CAN DRINK TROUBLE.

G&'mv. / f . v j & y m o v

Gen. Henry V. Boynton, president of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, which recently held Its reunion at Indianapolis. Is a distln-guisheo soldier of the civil war and la ter was widely known as dean of the newspaper correspondents at Washington. He was made a briga-dier general by President McKlnley.

Puzzle to Medical Men. Harry J. Scott's skull was frac-

tured several weeks ago In Goshun,1

y . Y.. when the tank of a chemical engine exp oded and a piece of the metal penetrated his brain. A suc-cessful operation was performed, but he was partially paralyzed and unable to speak for days af ter consciousness returned. Finally, a slow Improve meot began, and when he made an ef-fort to speak was able to enunciate only the word "mamma." "iTie man is now able to walk, but the only words he can speak commence with the fetter "M.'* Physicians say he will eventually recover his speech pe r fectly. but are unable to account for the peculiarity in the case.

That 's one way to get I t

Although Ihey won't admit it many people who suffer from sick headaches and other alls get them straight from the coffee they drink and it Is easily proved if they'e not afraid to leave Tt to a test a s in the oase of a lady ifi ConceUsville.

"I had been a sufferer from sick headaches for twenty-flre yesrs and anyone who has ever had a had sick headache knows what I suffered. Sometimes three days In the week 1 would have to remain in bed, a t other times I couldn't lie down the pain would be so g r e a t My life was a tor-ture and If I went away from home for a day I always came back more dead than alive.

"One day I was telling a woman my troubles and she told me she knew that It was probably coffee caused i t She said she had been cured by stop-ping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee and urged me to try this food

drink. • That 's how I came to send out and

get some Postum and from that time I've never been without It for it suits my taste and has entirely cured all of my old troubles. All I did was to leave off the coffee and tea and drink ' well-made Postum In its place. This change has done me more good than everything else put together.

"Our house was like a drug store for my husband bought everything he heard of to help me without doing any good, but when I began on the Pos-tum my headaches ceased and the other troubles quickly disappeared. I have a friend who had an experience Just like mine and Postum cured her Just a s it did me.

"Poatum not only cured the head-aches. hut my general health has been Improved, and I am much stronger than before. I now enjoy delicious Postum more than I ever did coffee." Name given by Postum Co , Battle Creek, Mich.

"There's a reason- and it's worth finding out.

Some women t an keep a secret easier thau they can keep money.

I am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.-MAS. THOS. ROBBIKS, Maple Street. Norwich, N. Y., Feb. I", 1900.

Merchants wbo make each cusWner believe they nre especial cases are the ones who win.

Mfw D*«|d Kennedy's Fnrorlte Remedy savad myUto! 1 bad djuwyjla and l y n e y d S E F Ti flnnr"" Albert Merrltt, Park Placa, M. Y. U a botUa.

A large proportion of the cookln? In Ptirls restaurants Is done In light of the customers.

Marino Eyo Remedy cures sore eyes, makes weak eyes strong. All druggists, 60c.

For Cupboard CorDor

St Jacobs Oil Straight, stronc, sore. Is the best

boosehold remedy for

Rheumatism i

Neuralgia Sprains Lumbago Bruises Backache Soreness Sciatica Stifltoeiss i

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M E X I C A N

Mustang Liniment c u r e s C a t a , B a r n s , B r a i s e s .

Woat U easts its MdiVMlsaieMts wotttet anj TBYAAERTTALAFR

I

IN GREAT DISTRESS iCUR,0U8 WAY3 0F 8EA CRAB3-

VOMITING SPELLS LONG RESIST-ED EVERY EFFORT TO

\ CHECK.

Mrs. Brooks Became So Weak She Thinks She Would Have Died But For Dr. Willlama' Pink Pills.

Mrs. Sarah L. Brooks, of No. 45 Lin-1 coin Park, Chicago, Illinois, gives tbe following account of her cure from dis-tressing spells of vomiting;

"For Uve years off and on I was treated in vain by different doctors for relief from a stomach trouble which showed Itself in frequent and trying spells of vemlting. Part of the time 1 was able to work, and again i would be confined to bed for three or four days in succession.

"My stomacn was at times so deli-cate that it would not retain even plain water. The spells would some-times occur s t intervals of half an hour, and would leave me so weak that 1 would be compelled to He down between them. 1 would have several oi them during the night following' a day of ouch attacks. Finally 1 be-came so weakened that I had to give ; up working altogether. 1 weighed only .

I nlnety-fcur pounds. "Last January i read about Dr. WI1-!

Hams' Pink Pills for Pale People in one of the Chicago dally papers and 1

bought a box and began to use them. After 1 had used half a box I found that 1 could keep on my stomach the footj 1 ate. 1 was encouraged by this and kept on using the pills for four months. At the end of that time tbe vdmltlng spells had ceased altogether and my weight went up to 142 pounds and is still growing.

"1 think 1 surely would have died if It had not been for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, for 1 sometimes vomited clear blood, and for three or four days a t a time 1 could not eat a bite of any-thing. One doctor said 1 had chronic Inflammation of tbe stomach, and an-other said my difflcnUy ^ a s a cancer, i but none of their medicines did me < sny good at all. Finally 1 concluded that 1 did not have blood enough to digest my food, and 1 began the treat-1 ment that has cured me. 1 can ea t 1

anything now, and have strength for all kinds of work. I always keep Dr. Williams' Pink Pills on hand, and I recommend them to my friends be-cause 1 know they cured me."

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills agree with the most delicate stomachs and

^strengthen the digestive organs until tb.ey do their work perfectly. They arS 's ty l by all druggists.

$f)od Housekeeping. Good houatkeeplng Is the science of

combining perfect cleanliness and neatness with ^economy and comfort, of giving to the Inmates of the home healthy bodies through the prepara-tion of wholesome and palatable food, careful and intelligent attention to sanitation and the laws of hygiene. It also Includes the fine ar t of homemak-log in its highest and truest sense.

Allen's Foot-Easls, Wonderful Remedy. "Have tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, and find it to be a certain cure, snd gives com-fort to one suffering with sore, tender and swollen feet. I will recommend ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE to my friends, as it is certainly a wonderful remedy.—Mrs. N. U. Guilford, New Orleans, La."

Take Elaborate Precautions to Protect

Themselves From Enemies.

Certain species of crabs cover them-selves with sea weed in order to de-r i v e their foes. One crab was seen ay the naturalist, Eislg, In 1878, to pluck off zouphytCR, thoso plant-like inlmal colonies which grow on shells md stones, and to flx them on the iplnes and hairs of Its shell. A still ieeper romance of defensive tactics .s to be found In the case of certain r.ermlt crabs. They live In the cast-}ff shells of whelks and crawl about, bouso on hack. One claw Is bigger than the other, and this Is an adaptive leature. for when the crab retires into Its house the bigger claw Is tucked across the mouth of the shell to bar the way against a possible Intruder. More curious etlll is the habit of ono species which tolls along with a sea anemone fixed to his sholl, like Sin-bad carrying the Old Man of the Sea. Great care is taken of this anemone. It Is fed by the crab, and If the latter has to seek a new shell by reason of his growth be tenderly shifts his ten-ant off the old abode and places him on the new one.

A Small Boy's Esssy on Water. A very original essay on water by

a very small boy is quoted by a con-temporaly. He divides all water la-•o four subheadings—rain water, soda water, holy water and brine. "Water," he continues, "la ured for a good many things. Sailors use water to go to sea on. Water Is a good thing to fire at boys with a squirt gun and to catch fishes In." But tho strangest of an uses for water Is this: "No-body." ho says, "could he saved from drowning If there wasn't water to pull them out of." One Is here reminded of a similar essay on pins. In the course of which the boy writer said that pins had sated many lives by people not swallowing them.—Ram's Horn.

Uncle Ehen. "I a l n t got no objections a t all to

do roan what assumes to be superior," said Uncle Ehen, "pervlded he makes an hones' effort to live up to his own representations."—Washington Star.

They Like Homer Sometimes. "It's a strange fact," said the col-

lege professor, " that the very stu-dents who don't like Greek In my classes are the ones who yell for 'Homer' at a baseball game."

Restrict Hights of Buildings. These requirements as to bight of

buildings in Manchester, Eng.. arc en-forced: Buildings in narrow streets shall not exceed in bight two and a half times the width of such street; buildings In the principal streets are restricted to ninety feet, and build-ing In ordinary streets are restricted to sixty-five feet.

Support Oak by Props. In the village of Meavy, Dartmoor,

England, Is an old oak which was flourishing In the reign of King John, and Is still flourishing, though support-ed by stout props.

Sure Cure at LasL Montlcello, Miss., Oct 3 (Special)—

Lawrence County is almost daily In receipt of fresh evidence that a sure cure for all Kidney Troubles has at last been found, and that cure Is Dodd's Kidney Pills.

Among those who have reason to bless the Great American Kidney Remedy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett of this place. Mrs. Raggett had Dropsy. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her.

"I was troubled with my kidneys," Mrs. Baggett says in recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills to her ' fr iends, "my urine would hardly pass. The doctors said I had Dropsy. I have taken Dodd's Kidney Pills as directed and am now a well woman."

Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kid-neys. Cured Kidneys strain all the Impurities out of the blood. That means pure blood and a ioiind ener-getic body. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the greatest tonic the world has ever known.

If your window glass Is lacking in brilliancy clean It with liquid paste mndo of alcohol and whitimr. A lit-tle of tills mixture will remove specks and Impart a liidi luster to the glass.

1 M AN I S / ( Mil D K I . N

Promotes DiicslionChwrful-ness and Rest.Contains nellter Opium,Morphine nor Mineral

I N o r N A R C O T I C .

j t + * o u i t s e n u a m *

JbiSm**

. Aperfccl Remedy forConnlipa-I R o n , Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions ,Fevcrish-n e s s and L o s s O F SLEEP.

Facsimile Signature of

EXACT conr or WRAPPER.

GASTMUA For Infanta and Children.

The Kind You Have Always Bought

Bears the

Signature

of

In Use

For Over Thirty Yeers

C M TM OCMTWNI •ommm, mtm TWHI orrr /

OOWM THE WAYS OF DEATH.

Whither down the way* of drenm Went mv *t.irr. eyed—

Wayward iBUghtrr nt her lipa And longing at her side ?

Went the joy of day with her From tin- uoldrn land*.

All the wonder of the niKiit In her unheeding hands.

Wind o' June Im* gone with her From the to««ing tree.

Dove-neck marvel from the mUt< Of the morning KCU.

Flower* ulie forgot to tnke Smell no longer iweet:

Enrth hai no more plen<antneM Save where fell her feet.

So 1 peek tliht place of drenm Where wait* my • tarry-eyed,

All the happy thing* of earth A-crowding at her side.

—Charlea (J. D. Roberta, in the Century.

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THE FIREFLIES'WEDDINQ

(A S h o r t Story.)

B y C A T U L L E M E N D E S .

Tranalated for the Commercial Advertiter by Walter T. Stephenson.

33 m 53 & NE evening as I was retarn-

Ing from the vlllnp; fete I noticed In tbe liuht of a moonbeam a child sleeping against a tree In the road-way, alongside of a minia-

ture cathedral In plaster. I have often wondered who buys those hideous pro-ductions of ecclesiastical nrchlteoture. with such square, ungraceful outlines, surmounted by a tall steeple and Illu-minated with a caudle end placed on the altar. A sensation of pity seized me when I gazed upon the poor little merchant, who must have spent the entire evening trying to sell his church, and. finding no purchaser, had fallen asleep to dream, perhaps, of the beat-ing which awaited him at home.

Ragged, dusty nnd tanned, he was as picturesque as he was dirty. I awak-ened the lad, gave him some money, and to avoid the semblance of almsgiv-ing, I acceptcd the plaster cathedral.

I t bothered mc a good deal as I car-ried It off under my arm. I walked faster, being anxious to relieve myself of the burden, which 1 Intended to leave in a corner of tBe garden where it would serve as a scarecrow for the sparrows which were already begin-ning to steal my cherries.

I must have looked like one of those personages you see In religious paint-ings bearing the resemblance in min-ia ture of the chapel which they have dedicated to Saint Timeoleou or Saint Ildevert In expiation of thpir sins.

Midnight sounded; I was still awake In my bed, with eyes half closed. But

was an Insomnia without fever, vague and delicious, refreshed by the soft moonlight entering through the wide-open window close by, which also bathed the winding paths of the gar-den below, the beds of flowers and the velvety grass In the pale enchantment of fairyland.

Perfectly happy In my semi-conscious state, without the sensation of exist-ence. yet enraptured with the Joy of living, I wos rather a thing ecstatic than a man. And the vast silence, the absolute calm, so suggestive of solitary wastes, drowsy nooks, of leaves un-stirred by any breeze, were deepened by the almost arrested throbbings of my heart, by the dispersion In a dream-less peace of all my dead desires.

Suddenly a slight noise startled me. One might have called It the contact scarcely sensible of some delicate ob-ject with a feebly resisting surface. The sound was rhythmical, too. at equal intervals, suggesting the idea of a boll infinitely distant among the clouds.

The noise continued hardly audible, yet seoiiiiiig to gently Importune me. I arose and looked out of the window.

Fancy my surprise! The cathedral which on entering I

had placed near the door in a narrow path, like a churdi at the end of an avenue—the cathedral whoso candle end Inside had long been extinguished —now radiated illumlnation through all Its tiny rod windows, and as I leaned forward to examine more close-ly I perceived that the Inclination of an adjacent woodbine caused the steeple to be capped by an oscillating bell flower In which a bee performed the office of clapper or ringer. What was going on then In my garden be-neath the mystic light of the moon?

I softly stepped over the window sill and knelt In the shade of an acacia. In the wall of the little church, just be-hind the choir, was a crevice, through which I now peeped. More than a hundred fireflies attached either to the shaf ts of the columns or perched before the altar In lieu of candles fillod tbe edifice with light, nnd In the top of the steeple the Industrious bee tolled his bell In the woodbine, as If calling the devout to some Important cere-mony.

A constantly Increasing and Innum-erable throng of Insects was entering

C r , c k e t 8 a nd grasshoppers . p i , ^ fields Jostled each other eag-h e L n . e V n n : 11 , a d y bug, to avoid T ' r * * " .6 crowd, wns ,,0,0,1

m u r l i ^ f r 8 0 c o u f o s , o n of mur-

bad "taken' f 0 " " ' ° n r

music, Joyous yet religious, fairly filled

the little basilica, so brightly lllvimln atod by the tlrofiles.

A memo. . ) ' . MKleea, ot .ome ' o r t wus on the point of commencing.

When I beheld two proceed toward the Lhol r . t l i eo"^ wl'l . iimfldel.t air ItentlnB « " , ,„rlo...ly. "H""- " " ' " ' " L , , timid. I Mii.noiHl tUerc waa « wetldl.n

" Ami or tl.l. I « . at the high altar a iua«0 , f l c * , l t , , ,

ami .old ol,..u>.le. . a . l . M by two lesser bugs as "colyti . P proach the bridal party with gesture seemingly of lienedlctlon.

Mv eves glued the crevice. I lost not „ single detail of tbe •nigust c ^ m o i u With eager curiosity I crowd ns it gradually rtlspot-ed. h e the fireflies extinguished their glit one bv one. Then noiselessly I turned to trace on the moonlit path tbe course of the newly wedded couple nfter oi-trlcatlng themselves from the tumul tonus throng. ,

Where would they go? W o u , ^ ^ J flr away for their honeymoon toward some distant nuptial flower, under warmer aiure. beneath utore ardent stars? Or would they " n j e n t them-solve" with the flrst convenient corolla invitingly open under the discreet cur-tain of a leaf?

• Wherever fancy leads you, oh, gj -tie bride and bridegroom, may the Ood of Insects ephemeral, and quickly fading, to you be kind. Mny you have much happiness In the tew "hours of your brief sprlngtlmel

"Never may the sabot of a peasant or the slipper of a woman wbo per-cliancc seeks repose under a tree cause vou fear as you wing your flight so close one to the other, over moss-clad hank, from bush to bush! May the dew-drops that you sip together he over perfumed to your taste! May the chalice preferred never refuse an odor-ous h ulglng! And If you should fall Into the clutches of some cruel child, may it be the same little hand that seizes you both, so that you may suffer and die togetherI"

While I wos breathing these heart-felt wishes for their happiness the two Insects bad not flown away: they had climbed up the length of a Bengal rose hush, the topmost rose of which surmounted the ledge of my window, and I saw them disappear Inside the flower, whoso petols. half gone, closed softly over the tender pair.

Not for one Instant would I have thought of returning to my room by the window, as I had l e f t - a rustling of the leaves would have disturbed the rapt lovers In their flrst Intimacy. I started, therefore, toward tbe door, where I happened to observe on the stone ledge another hug. which I had not perceived before and who without doulit had followed the others.

What was Its business here? Why hod it come? Was It a relative of the bride, or—who knows?—a rival of t^e bridegroom?

Many a man has suffered under tne windows of a nuptial chamber; and among Insects perhaps as with us, It Is the misfortune of some that becomes the happiness of others.

The poor little creature remained motionless, close by the rose hush. I touched It with the end of my finger, very gently. I t stirred not. Alas! I knew then that It was dead.

Carloa* Colnelilonee*. Curious coincidences mark the lives

of two women who married Dr. A. T. Knox, of Bowen, Powell County. Ky. One is dead, the other living with her hushand. Both women were named Alice, both removed to Kentucky when eight years of age, and each bore bim three children. The father of each wife Is dead, the mother of each Is liv-ing and each is named Ann. The pa-rents of each wife had nine children— four boys and five girls. Each wifA lifts three brothers whose names nre ex-actly alike, and each has two sister^ whose names are alike. One wife was born In North Carolina and the other In Virginia. Ono was the eldest of nine chlldn n and the other the young-est of nine children. Three children df Dr. Knox are living nnd three are dead. Tho wives were Intimate friends.—Kansas City Journal.

CouMn't Tltlnk of the Cloilng Word. A relative of the late Mr. Walter B.

Brooks tells of a dinner on one occa-sion nt that gentleman's house, when rt clerical guest was requested to make a blessing.

The reverend gentleman complied, but once started on his How of Invoca-tion there seemed no Indication that he over Intended to stop. On and on swept the stream of eloquence, while the soup turned stone cold and the hoa-tess looked appcallngly at her hushand.

Suddenly Mr. Brooks hroke Into the blessing vith a fervent "Amen."

The clergyman stopped, and with beaming eyes ejaculated, "Oh, thank you, thank you. I could not think of the word amen to save my life."—Bal-timore Sun.

Many women are denied the happiness of children through derangement of the genera-tive organs. Mrs. Beyer advises women to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

M D K A B MRS. P I X K H A M : — I anffered with stomach complaint for years. I got so bad that I could not carry my children but Ave months, then would have a miscarriage. Tho last time I became pregnant, my husband got mo to take Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After taking the first bottle I was relieved of the sickness of stomach, and began to feel better in every way. I continued ita use and was enabled to carry my baby to maturity. I now have a nice baby girl, and can work better than I ever could before. I am like a new wo* man." — MRS . F R A N K BEYRB , 22 S. Second St, Meridea, Conn.

Another case which proves that no other medicine In the world accomplishes the same results as Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

" D E A R MRS . P I X K H A M I was married for five years and gave birth to two pre-mature children. After that I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-pound, and it changed me from a weak,, nervous woman to a strong, happy and healthy wife within seven months. With-in two years a lovely little girl was born, who is the pride and joy of my household. If every woman who is cured feels as grateful and happy as I do, you must have a host of friends, for every day I bless you for the light, tiealth and happi-ness Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable

Compound has brought to my home. Sincerely youA, MRS. MAS P. WHARRY, Flat 31, The Norman, Milwaukee, Wis."

Actual sterility in woman is ver> rare. If any woman th ink! she Is sterile let her write to Mrs. Pinkliam at Lynn, Mass., whoso advice is given free to all would-be and expectant mothers.

AmgLfkjy FORFEITUvvMror t forthwith pitxtnce thaorlrlnal letten tadtlgiiktvrwof 1

V h l l l m abore t«iUmonUi», which will profe tholr nbsolnt#genulnene*. OwUUU Lydla K. IMnkkam Med. CoM Lrnn. Maw.

. D O X O U

COUCH OONT D E L A Y

K e m p s BALSAM

t t Cures Colds. Cougbn. Sere Throat, Croup, In fluenzn, WhoopluK Couch. Bronchitis ec£ Anthtna. A certain euro for OoniunipUon In first wlage.s. IUHI a sure relief lu udvanml sUvee. UK Bt onec. Vou will see the excellent effect afiej taking the flrst dose. Sold by dealer* evtry « here. Large bottles 25 cents and BO cents.

Benedict Arnold Home. Tlie Benedict Arnold house, a Revo-

lutlonnry War landmark a t New Ha-ven, Conn., has been torn down. The front doors nnd some of the Colonial windows have been given to the New Haven Colony Historical Society for preservation. For many years the old house where General Arnold lived when nn apothecary before the war had been the centre of several stone-yards. Its interior was a warehouse.

Forest City Water. Colorado Springs, Col., has the pnrcat

water of any city in the United States. The supply is derived from reservoirs and lakes on the side of Pike's Peak which are fed by springs and melting snow. Chemical analyses of the water have repeatedly shown it to be purer than that of any other city In tho conn-try. due to the fact that the supply It derived at such an altitude as to make contamination impossibl*. - •

Around the World •M b»vc need yew Ftak Brand Slicker* for year* tn the Hawaiian Maod* and foowl tfceai tbe aatar article that Mlted. turn BOW In tills cennt ry

m s i t a w 5 5

(•MM ON aeeuoATNa)

VZVTTXIVSZ proof Oiled Clatklat , " asinres tho baynr of js the poeftlvo worth of * .

A. J. TOWER CO. ,11. S. A.

TOWER CANADIAN CO.. UWTBD Toronto, Canain

To Hold the Boys In S h o e s snd k e e p them well shod^ buy the be8t l lne>msde.

" D E F I A N C E " S h o e s for Boys and Clrls'wear for k e s p s . ' Ask your dealer for them.

Booklet fma .

SMITH-WALLACE SHOE CO., CHICAGO

Send Top of Psckage of

IQdp t f l dk t for handsome

"Color Barometer."

Address Hygienic Food Company

Battle Creek, Mich

Strawberry and VegatabU Daaiars

The Piuinengcr Department of tbe llllnoli CcntnU Hail road Company havercccnUy lh«ued a publleatlon known an Circular No. IS, in which is described tbe

bai l territory in this country for the pro wing of early ttrawbmles and early vetfctoblea. Brery dealer In mich product* Hbould address a postal card to the undendtitad n t j ) u | } u q ^ a , jlp.wa' requesting a copy of

a. I-" MEHHY, As.sU Gen'l Pass'r Agcnk

BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS C U R E D A T H O M E

If you hkTs week eye*, fnlllnc al ht,cranulau>ulMi>.tcuii)auvrr llif ayn or sore area of any llntl, caUrrb or daafneaf. »rli« mtlilc-arriptlon of roor fa*® ami a trial trcauurnt • ill be wnt yoa

F R E E O F C H A R G E . Thin trial trfitmrnt la mild anS barmlrM and haarun-dmanrmvere

. caMr. Itr. Sloort-»a« appointed by two florrrnora. ("biff Kr f and Kar lo tba MM-K>url Ntat<- lanlilullnn forlbr Blind, andwaa aluo fro* tr—orot the K>o ami Karln the Arnrrlran Medli-all'iM-li-ire. Crooa ay'aa •iiT,l«hl*ii*d by now ualnlnai airtbod. Write to DB. J H A ft VKY M OCR k7 Ky o and b u luatltute. bult«30. OddraUowa'Bldc..St.LoaU.

TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS' LINES and Village Eichanoe*

Build your own llne»-tne*pea« »lve anduluple. Bookot loitruo-Uun Free. CN SM THE KORTH EL1CTR10 00. U7 Bt Clair St., Olaveland, Ohio

" ^ H r ^ i T h o m p t o i t Eye W a i f

W. N. U . ~ D E T R O I T - N O . 4-I.-1904,

When answering ads. please mention this rape .

Fortune! In l i t t le gard- :

.ens. Kaitly g r o w n everywhere. Sella In i

— A m e r i c a n market at i S 7 to 8 1 8 per lb . ; c o i U U ) grow ICRS llmu II. III.- J demand: roota and aeed fur aide: booklet f ree ; write IKigr. OZARK QXBBS5Q CO., Hef t . S, Joflin, Be. ;

GINSENG Qdago

m .

Store Full of

New Dry Goods • J u s t R e t u r n e d JbVoin IVIarket-

See our . . .

Furs A pood F u r Scarf for 75 cents. An eleg-ant la rge one for $1.50 to

$2.00. T h e best $5.00 one we have ever

shown.

W e a lways show the largest stock of

Bed Blankets.

T h e best

Table Oil Cloths are a Shilling a yard at our store.

For . . .

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts

Come to our store.

We sell an All Silk Black

Peau de Soie

GOOD NEWS. Come and see the price on the P A R L O R S U I T at

H A K E S ' Furniture Store, only $ 4 4 to-day and it is worth $5o. Also come and see the New Furniture that is coming in and see how low the prices are.

Bet te r goods and lower prices than ever before. Ju s t think of this before you buy.

Courteously yours,

H. W. HAKES. for

59o There isn't anyth ing tha t equals it a t the price or comes anywhere near it.

W . W E E K E S .

Heard About Town

See Hakes ' window. Dr. Hodges, dentist . tf Don' t forget the waltz pa r ty Oct. G. Choice cream candies 10c per lb.

Sherman's Bazaar. P o t a t o e crates a t Lowell Planing

MUI. Mrs. M. McMahon Is visiting a t

Howell. Your Vllage t a x must be paid be-

fore October 18. See those overcoats Godfrey Is sel-

ling for f9.75. Phil Reutelster waa in Grand Rap-

Ids las t Sunday. Dr. J . Gauss of Chicago Is visiting

a t the home of L. J . Post . J u s t think of the low prices t h a t

Hakes is giving on furniture. Mrs. E. F . Denny ha« recovpred

from an a t tack of pneumonia. L. H. Ta f t haa changed his address

from Big Rapids t o Ann Arbor. Charcoal fine kindlers—best thing

out, only 15' per sack a t Weyrick's. Born— in Lowell, Oct. 4, to Mr. aud

Mrs. Geo. M. Winegar, a nine-pound son.

John C. Bianchard of Ionia is eighty-two years old and still rides a bicycle.

Mrs. Kannsen of Bay City spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J . D. Crawford.

Miss Ola M. Johnson resumed her work a t the Parr lsh Business college Grand Rapids, this week.

Mrs. R. W. Graham and sou, Dr. F. A. Graham, of Harbor Springs, are In town for a few days.

Mrs. J . P. Murphy spent Sunday ID Grand Rapids with her daughter, Mrs. T. A. McCarthy.

Mesdames Lucy Krause of St. Louis and Kamel of Detroit visited Mrs. J. G. Mange las t week.

Mesdames J. W. Oliver aud Frank Brown of Grand Rapids visited Mrs. O. C. McDanell the first of the week.

Our low prices should fill our store with anxlons buyers of clothing, furnishings and shoes a t Godfrey's.

Messrs. and Mesdames George Lemon and Munson of Grand Raplas are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Joseph.

H a y w a r d and White announce their Fall and Winter mlllnery open-ing for Fr iday and Sa turday , Oct. 7. and 8.

Mrs. B. C. Curtis and son Bur ton and Miss Josle DnPree of Beldlng were recent guests of Mrs. Sherman Avery.

Mrs. K. H. Pursel of Caledonia and Miss Mae Simpson of Grand Rapids Hpent laet Thursday with Miss H o r -ence Behl.

Win. Ross was married to Miss Mary Rutledge a t Saul tSt .Marie las t Wednesday. They returned here Friday aud met the following rela-tives a t the home of his uncle, David Flanagan; Mr. and Mrs. Jas . Gem-mell of Seaforth, Out.. Mr. and Mrs. David Chalmers of Paris. Ont., and Mr. and Mrs. R. Flanagan of Grand Rapids. The bridal couple will make their home In the Kopf house.

CharleH E. Hogadone, Democratic nominee lor county clerk, was In t o w n Friday, making acquaintances He received many pledges of sup-po r t from Lowell people regardless of politics. I t will be remembered t h a t ConnorSmlth who has had two terms already. Is the Republican nominee. Smith received b-it three note« in the Bowne primary election. Some of Mr. Hogadone's best reconi-mendations are given by Republl. cans who have served on the Board of Supervisors with him.

Dancing school opens Oct. 6. Fresh salted peanuts l()c per lb a t

Sherman's Bazaar. Get your p o t a t o crates a t Lowell

Planing mill. A reclining go-cart and a swing

cradle for sale cheap. 2wk8 Mrs. C. Bostwlck,

Mrs. Elmer Winchel aud Mrs. Ed. Thompson of Ionia visited Mrs. S. Brower the lat ter p a r t of last week.

Mrs. Coons, Earl Hunter and Rev. Butler attended t8e Grand Rapids Congregational association las t week

Mrs. Chaa. Stoughton aud Miss Nina Wright were called t o Grand Rapids Tuesday by the death of the la t ter ' s sister-in-law.

Messrs. and Mesdames F. R. Ecker and D. G. Look called on Mr. and Mrs. Ed. N. Parker near Lowell Cen-ter Sunday, and inspected the new residence, which is now nearly ready occupancy.

Allen Morse go t his left hand in contact with a rip saw a t the Cut-ter factory a few days ago. Only a flesh wound, and no fingers gone. Jus t a reminder of dangerous possi-bilities t o the unwary.

Fo r eruptions, sores, pimples, kid-ney and liver troubles, constipation, indigestion, use Holllster's Rocky Tea. Carries new life t o every pa r t of the body. Tea or tablet form. 35 cents. D. G. L O O K .

Miss Mabel Scott wishes to an-nounce to her pat rons t h a t she will open her dancing school In Train 's opera house Thursday evening, Oct. 6, with an informal waltz p a r t / , assisted by Ray Gates violinist, and will continue throughout the season every t w o weeks.

An alarm caused by the burning of sweepings In the furnace pipe of the E a s t Ward school building yes-terday lead to the ringing of the fire bell and the turning ou t of the de-partment . There was no occasion for Its service; bu t the boys go t a little needed exercise. No damage whatever.

Watch our windows for specials. Sherman's Bazaar .

Good music a t the waltz p a r t y Oc-tol)er (l.

See those suits Godfrey is selllnir for $9.75.

Mrs. T. Krum of Ionia spent Sun day with Miss Lizzie Torwllliger.

Mrs. S. O. Littlefield has beeuspen-a few days In Grand Rapids.

Everything In the lumber line a t reasonable prices.

Lowell Lumber Co. Clarence Reutelster went duck

hunt ing Saturday morning and shot seven, securing all but one.

The Lowell Orchestra will give the first of a series of parties a t Train 's opera house on Wednesday evening. Oct. 19.

Mr. and Mrs. J a s . W. Johnson of Grand Rapids spent Sunday with Lowelj relatives returning' home Monday.

There will be a Thanksgiving pa r ty a t Gleaner hall Moseley, Wednesday evening, Nov. 2:{. Music by Lowell orchestra.

Messrs. W. E. Marsh and A. 1). Sturgis are now keeping "Bachelor's Hal l" in the Chas. Quick house, re-cently purchased by Mr. Marsh

BenJ. Terwiiliger has broken up house-keeping for the winter and rented his house t o Mr. and Mrs. Nell Cameron, who take possesion next week.

Johnnie J ay , who expects to move from Lowell with his parents soon, entertained twenty of his young friends last Friday evening and re-ceived several gifts from them.

J . M. Meyers and family moved Into the Eider Ea ton house, recently purchased by them; having sold t o Chaupcey Townsend his house and lot on Monroe street:consideration $625.

James A., son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Johnson, enlisted in the navy as an apprentice a t Chicago las t week. He will l)e s tat lond a t the Naval training s ta t ion a t Newport , R. I., during tne next six month.

Lulu Stanhope, St. Louis; "I used to have a horrid complexion. I took Holllster's Rocky Mouutaln Tea and am called the prett iest girl In the city." Tea or tablets. ;i5 cents. D. G. Lor K.

Arthur More gets his mail a t Eagle. Mich., now.

Buy your clothing, furnishings and shoes a t Godfrey's.

Carloads of nice, new stock arriv-ing dally. Lowell Lumbef- Co.

Miss l^pini Murphy is book-keeper for the Lowell Lumber company.

Order that job of stat ionery now before you forget It. The Ledger.

. • Mrs. Leora Rice of Kalamazoo is

the guesf of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hakes.

Mrs. Theo. Mueller and daughter Kate have returned from a several weeks visit with relatives in Chicago.

Mrs. Claude Lane of Harbor Springs is vei l ing Lowell friendsand relatives. Mr. Lane will join her here soon.

A. A. Dwight, brother of Mrs. S. P. Hicks, died a t Martin. Allegan county, Tuesday. Funeral a t Mar-tin today. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are in attendance.

W. Leroy McDiarmid recently moved from Sidney, Nova Scotia, to Po l t s town. Pa . He is still connec-ted with the L. M. C. A. work in ca-pacity of secretary.

The first foot ball game of tiie sea-son was played here yesterday lu -tween the Lowell High School team and the "Reds" of the town. It was decided in favor of the Reds, by a score of 10 to 0.

N O T I U B . — All persons owing the late firm of Ecker & Foster are here-by notified t h a t their accounts must be settled a t once. 2w Porter Carr, Trustee.

S. Brower and family entertained Mrs. Elmer Winchel, Mrs. Edward Thompson and t w o daughters, all of Ionia, and Mrs. Laura Ward of Ada, last week. Messrs. Winchel and Thompson joined them Sunday.

From indigestion,aches aud pains. Your system will be free. If you'll but take a timely drink, Of"Rocky Mountain Tea.

D . G . L O O K .

The body of Mrs. Burton Wright of (Jrand Rapids was brought here for burial yesterday. Brief services were held a t the home of Mrs. Stoughton, grandmother of Mr. Wright, conducted by Rev. A. H. Sturgis of tiie Lowell Methodist church.

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Better come to us if you w a n t a good job. T H E L E U O E I I .

Eye, Ear, Nose and Throal SPECIALTY,

G. G TOWSI#EY, M.D. Office Graluiui Blk Lowell, Miob

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O In these days of cheap watches and shoddy manufacture, a timepiece should be selected wi th care. A good watch should las t a lifetime, and long-er. Such watches are the only kind worth having and In or-der t o get them you must buy of a reliable dealer who is a t hand t o make the guarantee good.

We have in stock .complete lines of tiie best watches made. Ail sizes for both gentlemen and ladies.

We sell watches for precisely wha t they are, and quality considered, our prices are al-ways as low as can be had.

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Do You Want T H E V E R Y B E S T V A L U E S P O S S I B L E

F O R YOUR M O N E Y

If so, Look at Our Values. pt

For a few days only we shall sell for cash a ..

27 In. Paau de Sole Silk, $1. 25 value at 9 8 q Per Yard

Saturday Only.

A Military Hose Supporter, (25c value) 1 lo pr. One lot Children's Golf Gloves and

Mittens (25c value). • 1 So pr.

New Coats and Furs... them already but new ones are arriving weekly.

November sheets are in. Come and get one.

LOWELL, J. B. NICHOLSON.

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f a f f and Winkl milliiiery FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCT. 7lh AND 8th.

All ladles are cordially Invited t o inspect our display of the very latest styles in Fail and Winter Millinery.

Mrs. White. Miss Hayward.

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Payments. People having- a bank ac-count find tha t to pay their bills by check is the safest and most conven-ient way.

Every possible courtesy and at tent ion extended to all our customers. <'

THE LOWELL ITATE BANK.

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Horse Owners!

Thi s store can be of service to every owner of a horse. We have a full line of Veterinary Rem-edies. We make a specialty of preparing1 special receipts for horse liniments, condition powders, etc. We have a full line of s table necessities such as sponges, chamois, etc., etc.

When you need anything for your horse that a first class d r u g store should have—come here.

A. D. STURGIS.

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For Sale By

W . S. GODFREY

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