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; W I T H : M I A L I C E T O W A R D N O N E A . N r 5 C H ^ n i T Y F O R ,

VOL. VI, NO 9. LOWELL. KENT COUNTY. MICH.. AUGUST 18 1898. WHOLE NO. 269

Get oft the Earth and Keep off

' by investing in n psir of our

Nettletoii Flue Calf C o o n r e s s S h o e s .

sizes 5 to 7 i ' f o r only

$2.00. Qnnlity is our strong nrgn-

ment. Come early and aecnro your pair-oar prices make lively buying.

GEO. M. WINEGAR.

oom? —That is what we want—

We will sell*'—""OSBSS*-

cfrigcrators . — A . t Cost while they last.—

Gasoline Stoves, new and second hand

a t greatly reduced prices.

150 foot Thresher Belts . O O to close out.

R. B. Boylan.

THEBELD1NG ROAD.

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Andy F y f e Soys I t Will be P u t

T h r o u g h Soou.

Beldiug, Aug. 10.—It now seems certain ai.>t Bolding is at last to have addei. railroad facilities. A syndicate of Boston has secured options on the Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw and the Lowell & Hast-ings railroads, and it is the inten-tion of the company to extend Low-ell & Hastings south from Freeport t o Hastings to connect with the Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw, and north from Lowell to Belding. Th i s will g ive Belding a very much needed opening direct to Chicago bv the way of Chicago. Attorney Fyfe , Of Grand Rapids, is author-ity for the statement that the road wi l l be built within three months after the right of way is secured through Belding.

Union H a r v e s t P icn ic . The Fourteenth Annual Union

Harvest Picnic will be held at Sara-nac Wednesday. Aug. 24th. • Prof .

• L. B . Taft , of the Michigan, Agri-cultural College, R . A ; Hawley, of Ionia, and others will address the meeting. Gov. Pingree will be at the picnic if possible for him to at-tend. The Clarksville and Smyrna bands will l>e present and a jjrand balloon ascension in the afternoon.

G. A . POTTS, Secy.

BUNDLE OF BONES.

CUBA LETTER.

Long,

Ca ledon ia Soldier R e a c h e s Home

A f t e r a T r y i n g Tr ip .

Caledonia, Aug. 16.—Walter Brooks of Cunany F , Thirty-second Michigan, has arrived at his home. H e received a ten days' furlough, and although he was then hardly able to drag himself around, he would travel nntil he would get so weak he could stand it no longer and would then get off apd rest until the next train. Thus in four days ' time he reached Grand Rapids, where some friends took him to the XJ. B. A. hospital, l i e refused to stay there, declaring; " I am going home if I have to walk."

Brooks is noth ing but a bundle of nea. W h e n he enlisted he was at-

ing college a t A n n Arbor, but pped everything and went to the

nt .He was in the Thirty-second hospital corps.

Call and see my work. Rae Mal-colm. Photogapher . . Lee bldg.

Republ ican Delega tes .

Lowell township Republicans met

in Caucus Tuesday and elected the fol-

lowing delegates:

To the county convent ion—F. N.

White, L. J . Post, C. W. Wisner; to

the representative convention—Fred

Hinyon, C. Guy P e r r y , H . A . Peck-

ham; to the senatorial convention—

F . N . While, D. G. Look, C. 0 . Hill.

T h e Greenvi l le Band C o n v e n t i o n .

T h e band convention a t Greenville

is reported to have been way

below par in attendance, man-

agement and hospitality. Ther 6

seemed to be no head to

the affair and everything went by

guese and by chance. There were less

than a dozen bands there and the

boys were poorly fed. To cap the

climax, a girl who got mixed up in a

free-for-all, accused two of the band

boys of stealing her watch and they

had a bi t of an argument with an of-

ficer who finally concluded that the

young lady had better look elsewhere

for her watch .

T h e nex t convention will be held

a t Belding, and that town will prob-

ably make a success of the undei tak-

ing.

The members of the different bands

bave not forgotten their good time

here and are understood to be ready

ii accept another invition to revisit

us a t any time. We. had better ask

them to come again next August.

G. A R . ExcnrBiou*Via C, & W. M .

a n d D., G. R ' & W. Ry».

F o r the G. A. R . Annual En -uampment a t Cincinnati, these lines will sell tickets Sept. 3d to 6th in-clusive a t very low rates. Return limit Sept. 13. An extension of lim-it to Oct. 2od will be made upon de-posit of tickets with agent at Cincin-nati. Ask agents for lull particulars,

1 0 G E O . D E H A V B N , G . A . R .

Lost H i s Born a n d C r o p s .

Lake Odessa, August 1 2 — A barn

belonging to Lcuicr Ikishuell, six miles

northwest of town, burned late this

afternoon. Cause unknown. Insur-

e ice light. Loss, 82,000. All the

grain,seventy live tons of hay and the

farm tools were burned.

A n o t h e r L e t t e r F r o m Se rg t .

M a u r i c e Lang Miss ing .

Santiago, Cuba,

J u l y 28,1898.

Fr iend Wil l :

I wrote you a letter some time ago bu thaves ince learned that all of our mail has been held at Kingston, Ja-maca, for the 5c postage rale and alto for fumigation and as it may be some time before you gel that leilitr, 1 will write another which I th ink will leave to-morrow directly for the stales.

Bhortlv a f te r I wrote you our com-pany was detailed on hospital duty and as there were a great many cases of suspected yellow lever we were quarantined for ten days a t Siboney, during which time we burned every building in the town and moved the hospital far ther up the coast. A great many boys in our regiment have the fever, mostly malarial and ty-phoid and quite a number have been sent to the United Stales for treatment, including Gen . Duffield, Col. Boyn-ton, Maj. Webb, Maj. Vaughn and a good many privates. I th ink that Maurice Lang was in the hospital and we have lost track of him. They probably went to Fortress Monroe.

When we were released from quar-antine we moved up near Santiago where we now are. Our camp is well located, being r ight on the beach near Fort Morro.

The city of Santiago is l ike all tropical towns, low buildings, narrow crooked streets, with sidewalks wide enough for one, and a general appear-ance of fillhiness, although some parts are quite the opposite. The most important buildings are the governor's palace, nstom house and the cathedral. This Cathedral is said to have been built in 1600. I t appears like an old ruin appointed inside. The Palace is now General Shafter 's head quarters . T h e natives of the place seem to like the turn af-fairs have taken and treat us very nicely.

The stores are very much al ike and one can purchase any th ing from a pound of nails to a gold watch with-out the trouble of going next door. Of course the city is in a state of starvation and prices are ve ry high. F o r instance, tea is §4.00 pe r pound, canneil goods *1.25 per can and a meal, consisting of soup, bread, coffee and fruit , costs f rom 81.50 up.

The bay is crowded with American ships all of which seem to be idle and some think that they are wailing to take some of the troops away others believe that we will remain here some time. Everything is in uncertainty so far as the men know and as we sel-dom get any news from the outride world we know notmng of what is going on. 1 received a Lowell Journ-al of Ju ly 6lh yesterday and we had a Detroit News of Ju ly 9lh . Those are the latest papers we have received.

Our I s t Lieut. A. J . Babcock, of Fl in t , Mich., died on the 25th of ty-phoid fever, perhaps you remember him. He was well liked by all the boys and was a good officer. His re-mains will be shipped home by the next t ransport .

The weather here is very hot and is the cause of a good deal of suffering. Our regiment has the most to contend with for we have had no tenia issued us and lost most of our blankets, etc. on J u l y 1st. I t rains in torrents nearly every afternoon and a great many men are compelled to sleep in their wet clothing.

W e have never been issued the brown canvass suits tha t were so much talked about and rations are the same one would need if he searching for the North Pole.

In spile of all the hardshins, though. I am feeling pretty well and think I can hold out as long as a n y of them. All of the Lowell boys are well ex-cept Lang . The number in t i e hospital f rom our company I think U 22, but none are very dangerously ill. Our 2nd Lieut , was sent home with the fever last week. He is Lieut . O'Kiellv Atkinson, ol Detroit, son of Col. Atkinson, so that the only officer we have now is Capt . Wagner.

I would like to hear from you in the near fu ture and let me know how every one is in Lowell.

Give my regards to all my friends and tell them that I am in good health. Say that I would he pleased to hear from any of th2m. Of course, you understand undi-r wha t r i rcum-blanc •!> i niii writing an.I hoye you will excuse the rather soiled appear-ance of this letter.

I remain as ever, your friend, Sorgt. Clarence E. Long ,

Co. L. 33 Mich. Vol. Inf., Santiago, Cuba.

Musical Reci tal a n d E n t e r t a i n m e a t .

Firs t monthly recital given by the

pupils of Edward D . Misner's vocal

class at the Firs t Baptist church,

F r iday evening, Aug . 26, a t 8:00

standard t ime.

PROGRAMME.

Piano Solo, "Amer ica" Ona Hunter.

Reading, "American F lag ." Tenor Solo, "There Room's for one

More Star . " Wil l Murphy.

Medley, "Red, Whi le and Blue." Mandolin club.

Soprano Solo, "The Choir Boy." Nina Wisner.

Reading. "How Mickey Got 'K i l l ' in the W a r . "

Esther Ruben. Soprano Solo, "New Kingdom."

Fern C la rk . Soprano-Tenor Duet. "Edenland." '

Maud Andersoi - E Iward Misner. Music, "Selected."

Mandolin club. Reading, "Lips that Touch Liquor

Shall Never Touch Mine." Grace Blakeslee.

Tenor Solo, "Break the News to Mother ' '

Edward D, Misner. Piano Duet. "Se'ec.ed,"

Anetta Wal t s -Mary Whitney, Class Song, "Song of Freedom"

After program refresh men Is will be

served by ladies of the church. Ad-

mission 15 including recital and re-

freshments. Proceeds will apply to

church music fund. 10

Genuine Clearance Sale - O f -

CUTLERY

To close out every pattern of Knives , Shears, Razors, etc. we have in slock to get ready for the largest and most com-plete lino of Cutlery ever offered in Lowell.

Christy Pattern Sets lOc Knives lOc, 15c, 20c, 25c, etc. Extra Forks, All styles, Each 3c

Every th ing must go . Don ' t expect us to mention every bargain in this line that we have. Advertising costs money and we are already making a BIG sacrifice on this C L E A R A N C E L A L K .

PROGRAM FOR RE-OPENING

SERVICE.

were

At F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h , Lowell,

A u g u s t 21 and 22, '98.

SUNDAY A. M., 1 0 : 3 0 .

Voluntary, Miss Anetta Wat t s Invocation H y m n Responsive Reading Prayer Anthem, "Praise ye the Fa the r . "

Macy. Announcemanta Scripture Lesson Vocal Duel , "He that makes the

Sparrow8."Lang8toff. Nina Wisner, Ber tha Ransford.

H y m n Sermon, Rev . C. E . Conley, De-

troit . P rayer H y m n Benediction

SUNDAY p . M. , 2 : 3 0 .

Volun ta ry ; Miss Annela W a t t s Hymn Scripture Lesson Prayer Anthem, "Rock of Ages ," Nelson Announcements Vocal solo, "Close to thy bleeding

side," Danks . . Maud Anderson.

H y m n Sermon, Rev. Chas. Oldfield, of

Cedar Springs. Prayer Hymn Benediction

' SUNDAY E V E N I N G , 7 : 3 0 .

Voluntary, Miss Anetta W a l l s Hymn Scripture Lesson Prayer Anthem, " J u s t u s l a m , " Parks Announcements Anthem, "Great is the Lord ,"

McPhail . Hymn Sermon, Rev. C. E. Conley P r a y e r Ladies' Quartette, "Good Night ,"

Poppen.

MONDAY EVENING, 7 : 3 0 .

Voluntary, Miss Anetta Walls Hymn Prayer Anthem, "God Bless our Native

Land , " Lorenz. Remarks, Rev. C. E . Con lev Vocal Solo, "The Holy City,"

Adams. Eilward D. Misner.

Remarks, Rev. Tilley, Hastings Anthem, " I was glad," Bemis Remarks , Rev. E . 11. Shanks, of

F lush ing . Ladies' Trio, "Sing sweet star?,"

Lorenz. Remarks, Rev. Chas. Oldiield

| Male Quar te t te , "When Circles are "broken," Koschai .

Klark & Klark,

K-K-K-K HARDWARE.

I Want

Old Gold and Silver and will pay Cash for it.

I want to make you prices on the largfest stock of watches, clocks and jewelry ever shown in Lowell.

I want to do your repairing, guaranteeing satisfac-tion in every respect.

C . M . - H I G B Y

AN ELEGANT LOT O F ^

Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons Surrey's and Family Rigs

J u s t received, as fine as si lk and we wil l sell t h e m at

prices that w t f f f i t o n i s h t h e oldest inhab i t an t .

NASH, On the Brfdsc,

L O V V & T L . , M I G H I C M N .

OUvcc.Chillcd Plows, idcbakcr Wagons,

Ascriculturnl IrapIctncntH.

archil Slid

r i I • f

B r o k e His Log.

Samuel Pelhiil fell fr»m a straw ! slack in South I»wel l vo.-U-r IHV and j broke one of his legs at the liip. Dr. ' McDannell was called i " at tend him.

Men and women wanted To bring a Dollar to the LEDGER oJlice and place their name on our list of subscribers.

g o w e l l g t d t j e r .

F. M. JOHNSON, Publisher,

I / ) WELL, r MlCHTOAr

i'umliy treea originated from geneal* ogy Bend.

Kenluckians to a man are in favor of war on the water.

Many a man starves today while feeding on tomorrow's hopes.

W a r m weather has a tendency to In-crease the floating population a t sea-i lde resorts.

I t ' s poor consolation to the girl who has been s tung by a bee to know that bees are partial to sweet things.

W h a t defense could Uncle Sam put up if Spain sued for damages for giv-ing ner imprisoned troops indiges t lon?

WAS A GOOD FELLOW. C A P T . " B U C K Y " W A S F I H B T

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

T y p e o f t h e T r n a A m e r i c a n — W i » * K l i r r l f f ,

J n d g e , S c o u t , M i n o r , H u r o S h o t a n d

P l K h t e r — T c n d e r o e o t o n i l W i f e —

Bto r j r o f I 1 U C n r e o r .

Spanish soldiers now refuse t o go in to any battle unless they see the s ign "A Hard Boiled Egg with Every Defeat ."

Matanzas had great fun at the mili-t a ry funeral of the mule killed in the bombardment This shows that even the Spaniard knows when to salute his superior.

A Boston jury has awarded 510,000 damages to a man whose too was crushed by a cake of ice as it fell from a delivery wagon. The company con-siders this a very cold deal.

Spain has a new explosive called daza with which it is hoped to accomplish wonders. It is projected in the form of a rocket and is guaranteed to sink anyth ing from a rowboat to an is-land.

I t is a sad story that comes from Spearflsh, S. D., to the effect that the late Mrs. De Ledeboer died of a broken heart , produced by grief over her son going to the front with the Dakota troops. The Dakota contingent was sent to Manila to support Dewey, and Mrs. Ledeboer feared that her boy would never return. None but the mothers can ever know how their heart strings were pulled when their boys shouldered muskets and marched away under old glory to meet such fate a s might be decreed to them. But the boys will come home one of these days, and then how proud the mothers will be of them.

APTA1N "BUCK-EY" O'NEILL, the m o s t picturesque man in the west, was one of the first to fail before Span-ish bullets in am-bush at Santiago. "B u c k e y" can.« from Arizona with his band of 300 rough riders, but

all over the land hearts will grieve for their loss in him of a near and dear fr iend. He was too splendid to be the representative of a portion of the country, and all Americans may be proud to have him taken as a national type. In the vastness of western ter-ritory "Buckey" found a fitting stage for the drama of his life, which was so many-sided that an eastern Journal well aescribes him as "Arizona miner, scout, judge, sheriff, mayor, dead shot, soldier, hero and all around good fel-low." To have been all these and to have so lived his life as to leave the stamp of his unique personality upon the community is distinction enough for one man.

"Buckey's" greatness was of his own making. With prophetic foresight and a spirit tha t knew no fear he carved hia own way. "bucking" every obstc#» and honestly earning the name by which he was best known.

Fate or fortune gave him many op-portunities. His real name was Wil-liam Owen O'Neill. He was born of Irish parents in St. Louis in 18G0. He graduated from the National Law School of the District of Columbia, and i later out of seventy-two applicants for |

. . . . . I . in A T M W L ' U o W T> 1\! A ' W 's topped at the front door to inquire now there is a sharp rock on one side oruB%ed t-ctb the soldiera before ho J A L M A O L S J l i H i l l O l N . a s l 0 h l g w e | f a r e i i j u t povony on the and a sharp rock on the other side - ' could reach them. 1 1

Buckey 'jxempiified the time-worn Raying. "The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring." A gentle littlo woman, whom he married several years ago, lives to mourn the man who, no matter where he happened :o bo when away from home, wrote her a let-ter every day. Even in his pursuit of criminals over the deserts of Arizona and Colorado "Buckey" wrote a few lines to "Pauline" on a scrap of paper, and sent it back by any stranger whom ho met on the highway.

He came from lighting stock.

" P E O P L E O F M A N Y T R O U B L E S , '

T H E S U B J E C T .

F t o m 1 S n m n e l , 1 4 : 4 , na F o l l o w a i " T h r r e

W n * n B l m r p K o c k o n O n e S i d e , n n d

n K l i n r p R o c k t in t l i « O t h e r " — H o i t t t e r -

I n c o f t h e I ' h l l l K t l n r i .

The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There

H i g U jus t one man, accompanied by his father was Captain Jo"h7o :NeTll of the body-guard to do that thing. Jona-famous Irish brigade of the Second ar- l b a n , 8 l h c h i r o o f * c c n e - 1 k n o w

one side nnd sickness on t h t olh*r aro Bozez and Seneh, nnd they Interlock their shailows, and drop thwtt upon the poor man's way. God kelp him! "There Is a sharp rock on the on« side and a sharp rock on tho other side."

my corps in tho war of '61. His broth-er, Eugene Brady O'Neill, is now on his way to Manila, a first lieutenant of volunteers. High on the roll of honor, which will be one of the country's con-tributions to history, will be tho name of this man, whoso courageous spirit and striking personality won for him the respect and love of every man, wo-man and child whose good fortune it was to know him.

D R I N K F R O M A L A M P - P O S T .

An English paper says that for some time there have been rumors that one of the next things in applied science was to be street-lamps for London which should supply the weary pedes-trian with tea, coffee, cocoa nnd hot water on the penny-ln-the-slot system. Tho rumors have turned out to bo true. The hot-water lamp is an established fact, as any one who is able to make a journey to Queen's Buildings, South-wark Bridge Road, may see for him-self.

that David cracked tho skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that 300 Uidconites scattered ten thousand Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery; but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Hero is Jonathan with his bodyguard in tho valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on tho other side Is a rod ' called Seneh. These two were as famous In olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibral-tar. They were precipitous, unscala-ble and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan, on his hands and feet, begins the ascent With strain, and slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes J .vathac nnd then goes ins bodyguard. Bozez on

The lamp looks Bomethlng like an overgrown gas lamp standing on a square base. This base is really a tanl> containing fifty gallons of water.

Tho water comes from tho street main, runs up the lamp-post, and pass es in a spiral of many swirls round am' round three great gas flames. The

In the opinion of Carlos S. Fox, for-mer United States vice-consul at San-tiago, tho surrender of that Spanish stronghold means the resumption of business, with good chances for wide-awake, active business men', who grasp the situation early to reap the great-est benefits. Ho Bays that, except a match factory in Santiago, there aro no manufacturing plants in eastert Cuba. Everything the people wear, eat and drink comes from other coun-tries. This being the case, there will be a first-class opportunity for all manufactar lng enterprises. The land, which is fertile, but so far has not been properly tilled, is well adapted to raising coffee, sugar, tobacco and cat-tle, which, according to Mr. Fox, could be sent to the United States without causing competition with home pro-ducts. In the Interior the land abounda with mahogany, cedar and other kinds of t imber. Concluding, the vice-consul says that a railroad Is needed f rom Santiago to Havana, a distance of about 400 miles. This would greatly develop the country.

C A P T A I N BUCKEY O'NEILL.

The latest reports from the Arctic gold fields indicate a docidcd change of sentiment among the miners in favor of seeking their gold on the American side of the line. Such a revulsion was to be expected and the idea Is to bo commended. The Klondike Is not the only gold region in tho Yukon valley. There Is every reason to believe that there are just as rich deposits In the Alaskan streams as in those of the northwest territory, and they can be prospected and worked under much more liberal restrictions. The fact that the Klondike output of gold has fallen somewhat below what even tho most conservative expected is In large part due to the needlessly heavy tax laid on mining enterprises by the Canadian government. The fact that the govern-ment has collected a tax of J800 000 on 57,000,000 Is bound to have Its aeterrent effect upon the full development of the country. There Is reason to believ# that the Canadian authorities have overreached themselves In this matter , and tho marked movement that has now begun toward Alaskan streams promises soon to prove that Canada's loss will be our gain. Forty Mile creek, which was the original Yukon gold field, is being worked again, and it 1b Just as reasonable to expect that new and richer strikes will be made on our side of the line as on the other. Am-erican prospectors will do well in fu-ture to keep this fact in mlad and lo-cate their claims where they can work them without exorbitant taxa-tion.

I t has been suggested that t h s desig-nation "battle of July Thlrdlf be ap-plied to the great naval engagement t h a t marked the destruction of the Capo Verde fleet. As the fighting on land about Santiago was chiefly con-fined to the battle of El Caney f n d the s torming of San Juan these twA names will cover the army's part sufficiently. There Is no reason, therefore, why the designation of Santiago should not be nsed in distinguishing the naval vic-tory, cr, !f it desired to be still more definite, " the naval battle of Santiago" vou ld answer the jurpoea.

assistant paymaster of tho navy be passed at the head. There was some delay in making the appointment, and O'Neill became impatient and left for Arizona, where he found opportunities which led to prosperity and distinction. He was at different times editor of the Arizona Miner, the Phoenix Herald, and the Hoof and Horn, a cattleman's paper.

In that country of chance and hazard Buckey got hold of some good mining properties, and was elected sheriff for three consecutive terms. His reputa-tion as a fearless regulator of the mor-als of that community will be long re-membered. He was the best shot in the territory, and became the terror of lawbreakers. He came unscathed from a number of desperate fights. His next political office was that of sheriff of Yavapai county. He was three times defeated for congress and was unani-mously elected mayor of Prescott. the only vote against him being his own. When the call for arms came "Buckey" formed his company so quickly that the president telegraphed his thanks, and the riders went straight to San An-tonio, each man proud to be with bis captain and willing to die for him. Tho women of Prescott presented the riders with a Bilk flag (tho first raised near Sevilla. Cuba) and the men gave Buckey a revolver. Judge Ling, who made the presentation speech, said: "Mayor O'Neill, we want to give you a mount. It is not full grown, but merely a Colt. We tell you that It bucka Every t ime it bucks head It

•jjlgrard a Spaniard and you can rest U t f r e d that one more Spaniard will bid bis father, the devil, good morn-

"Buckfy" then w e n r l | the front . He wrote his f r ^ n d , i f c r l o w Weed BariMS, a l e t t e r f w m San Antonio, In which ho said: "I am ready to take all the chances. Who would not gam-ble for a new star on the flag?" Buck-ey" ilunbled and lost, poor chap, and the rough riders are mourning a gal-'lant comrade, a soldier who was brave and who died "with his boots on" and his face to the enemy. At Balqulrl Corporal Cobb and Private English fell from the lighter Into ihe sea. Quick as lightning "Buckey" was overboard and iwlmmlng toward them. Unhap-pily, tho lighter swuiig round and

heat turns the water Into steam, and tho steam, confined at a pressure of thirty pounds to the square %iich, be-comes superheated, and passing down-ward, keeps the water In a small tank above the main one always boiling. From the upper tank the steam passes to the main one. which It keeps at a temperature just below the boiling point. The smaller tank Is supplied from this main tank.

A half-penny put In the slot a t the side releases a spring nnd enables a handle to be pulled over, whereupon tho boiling water runs from a spout In any quantity up to a gallon.

At present only the hot water is on tap. Later, compartments In the square pedestal will be filled with tab-lets of compressed tea, cocoa, etc.; cups will be attached to tho base, and thsn the thirsty traveler will only have to put his penny In the slot, draw out a compressed packet from tho drawer, drop it into tho cup, turn on the boiling water by means of another half-penny, and enjoy his cup of hot drink at any hour of the day or night.

8 h e S m o k e d o n s n U p c a C a r .

On one of the Tenth street summer cars yesterday a dainty miss of some 20 years sa t in the rear seat pufflag composedly at a cigarette. She seemed to enjoy the notice which she attract-ed, and like a veteran she allowed the smoke to coil and wreathe Itself around her fair features. As tho car neared Walnut street a youth with tennis rac-quet jumped aboard, and ejaculating the 's ingle word. "Mabel!" almost fell of/, the car In his astonishment. The girl laughed and threw the half-smoked cigarette into the street, where it was rescued by a newsboy, who, af-ter taking a single whiff, threw it dis-gustedly Info the gutter. "Mabel," whispered the young man in horror-struck accent, "1—am—surprised." "Charley." replied the girl, in the same tone, "so am 1. I don't know what 1 was thinking of- when I lit tha t one. I 've been smoking them all week by the doctor's orders, and I'll never do i t again In public." Tho cigarette was

one fide. Seneh on the other. After sharp tug and push, and clinging, see the head of Jonathan above the hole In the mountain; and there Is challcngo. and a fight, and a supernat ural ccnstcrna.lon. These two men Jonathan and hia bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over tho rocks, and open a campaign which demolishes the enemies of is rael. I euppose that tho overhang-ing and overshadowing rocks on either side, did not balk or dishearten Jona than or his bodyguard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. "There was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side.'

My friends, you have been, or are now, some of you. In this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble he can go through with it. He gathers all his energies, concentrates them on one point, and In the strength of God or by his own natural determination goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him, and trou-ble to the left of him. Is to bo pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might endure It. but two troubles, two dis-asters, two overshadowing misfortunes are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him! "There Is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side.

In this crisis of the text IB that man whose for tune and health fall him nt the same tlmo. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize in business be-fore they como to forty-fWe years of age. There is some collision in com-mercial circles, and they stop p a y W n t . It seems aB if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man Is who risks nil his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the t ruth. I t seems as If a man must have a largo amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much easier it is to buy than to sell. It seems as if every man must bo completely burned out before he learns the Impor-tance of always keeping fully Insured. I t seems as If every man must Do wrecked In a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug In case of a sudden eurodydon.

When the calamity does come It Is awful. The man goes home In despair, and ho tells his family, "We'll have to go to the poor-house." He takes a do-lorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a little t ime passes, and he says. "Why, I am not so badly off after all; I have ray family left."

Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise, he gave him Eve. so that when he lost Paradise he could stand iL Permit one who has never read but a few novels In his life, and who has not a great deal of romance In his composition, to say. that If. when a man's fortunes fall, he has a good wife —a good Christian wife—he ought not to tie despondent. "Oh," you say, "that only Increases the embarrass-ment. since you have her also to take care of." You are an Ingrate( for th? woman as often supports the man as the man suppor s he woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the wom-an generally brings the courage nnd the faith In God.

Well, this man o' whom 1 am speak-ing looks aronnd. and he finds his fam-ily Is left, nnd he rallies, nnd tho light comes to his eyes and the smile to ms face, nnd the courage to his heart. In two years he Is quite over It. He makes his financial calamity the first chapter In a new era of prosperity. Ho met tha t one trouble—conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of tho rock Bozez; yet he soon rose, and began, like Jonathan, to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment! When the fortune failed it broke the man's spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men In our cities whose fortune nnd health failed at tho same tlmo. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembles with Incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since th( hour when they called their creditors together for a compromise. If suet men are impatient, and peculiar, anc irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met Buccessfully. If, when the health went, the fortune had been retained. It would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the

Now, a ccrtaln amount of persecu-tion rouses a man's defiance, stirs i s blood for magnificent battle, and makes him fifty times more a man than he would have been without tho persecu-tion. So It was with the great Re-former when ho said, "I will not be put down; 1 will bo heard." And so it was with Millard, the preacher. In the t ime of Louis XI. When Louis XL sent word to him that unless ho stopped preaching In that stylo bo would throw him Into tho river, ho plied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he reach It by fast horses." A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of It, nnd too long continued, becomes the rock Bozez throwing a dark shadow over a man s life. What Is ho to do then? Ho home, you say. Good advice, that . That Is Just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet nnd sym-pathetic homes! But there is many a man who has the reputation of hav-ing a home when he has none. Through unthlnklngnoss or precipita-tion there aro many matches made tha t ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes In which the re is no sympathy, nnd no happiness, and no good cheer. The clamor of the batt le may not have been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of tho "Wedding March," and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and tho benedic-tion of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rock of persecution, and on the other side of them the rock of do-mestic Infelicity. Wha t shall such n one do? Do as Jonathan did—climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation from which you may look down In tri-umph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates, and having his name writ-ten on the board fences of London fu doggerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could—acting as though she were pos-sessed by the devil, as 1 suppose she was; never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote In his diary these words: " I did not forsake her; I have not dismissed her; I will not recall her ." Planting one foot upon outside persecution, and the other foot on homo trouble, John Wes-ley climbed up Into the heights of Christian Joy, and after preaching forty thousand sermons, and traveling two hundred and seventy thousand miles, reached tho heights of heaven, though In this world he had It hard enough—"a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other."

Agaln.tnat woman s t a rds in the crisis of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood nt the same time. Withont mentioning names, 1 speak from observation. Ah. it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart Is not troubled, and Bbe has a fair cheek, and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the'husband, or the father, is dead. The e-cpensos of the obsequies have absorbed all that was j t f ; . ihe savings "an1-- nnd wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she goes forth—n grave, a hearse, a coffin, behind her—to contend for her exis-tence and the existence of her children. When 1 see tuch a ••a'Me ns that Oi.en, I shudder at the gbastllnesri of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered Ellppers nnd write heartless essays about women's wages, but that ques-tion Is made up of tears and blood and there Is more blood thnn tears. Oh. give women free access to nil the realms where she can gel a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let men's wages be cut down before , hers arc cut down. Men have Iron in ! their souls, and enn stand It. Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but n windowloss hut for shel-ter for many yea-s. rather than that af-ter 1 am dead there should go out from

Again, that man Is In the crisis of th» text who has a wasted life on tho ono s.ao and an unilluminated eternity on the other. Though a man may nil his l ife have cultured deliberation and self-poise, if he gets Into that iiosltio all his self-possesslou Is goue. The are all the wrong tbouch>.s of existence, all tho wrong dtels, all wrong words—strata above Btra. granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock I call Bozez. On the other side ore all the retributions of the fu-ture, the thrones of judgment, the eter-nal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between thebo two rocks ten thousand times ten thousand have perished.

O man Immortal, man redeemed, man blood-bought, climb up out of those shadows! Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven; have your eternal life se-cured. This hour just take one look to tho past, and see what It has been, nnd take one look to the future, and see what It threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can af-ford to lose your property, you can af-ford to lose your reputation, but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gloaming, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in tho day when tho earth burns up and the heavens burst.

You sec from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of tho gospel he does not demean him-self. There la nothing In religion that leads to meanness or unmanllness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan d i d - c l i m b toward God. climb toward heaven, climb Into the sunshine of God'a favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to come gloriously up—up Into the communion of saints; up Into tho peace that passeth all un-derstanding; up Into the companion-ship of angels. He lives upward; he dies upward.

Oh, then, accept the wholesale invi-tat ion which I make this day to all the people! Come up from between your invalidism and financial embar-rassments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitu-tion. Come up from between a wasted life and an unlllumlned eternity. Like Jonathan, climb up with all your might Instead of sitting down to wring your I'^nds In the shadow and In the dark-ness—"a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side."

my home into the pitiless world woman's a rm to fight the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread! And yet. how many women there are seated between the rock of bereavement on the one side nnd the rock of destitution on the other! Bo-zez nnd Seneh Interlocking their shad-ows and dropping them upon her mis-erable way. "There is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side."

What are such to do? Somehow, let them climb up Into the heights of the glorious promise: "Leave thy father-less children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust In me." Or get up Into the heights of that other glorious promise: "The Lord pre-serveth th* stranger, and relleveth the widow r.nd t h e fatherless." O, ye sew-ing women, on starving wages! O. ye widows, turned out from the once beau-tiful home! O, ye female teacherB. kept on niggardly stipend! O, ye de-spairing women, seeking In vain for work, wandering along the docks, and thinking to throw yourselves into tho river last night! O ye women of weak nerves and aching sides, and short breath, and broken heart, you need something more than human sympa-thy; you need the sympathy of God. Climb up Into his arms. He knows it all, and He loves you more than father or mother, or husband ever could or ever did; and. Instead of sitting down.

D i n n e r n t t h e Z o o ,

Dinner a t the Zoo calls for a moat extensive and varied menu. In fact, the difficulty of keeping animals from all quarters of the globo supplied wlUi food that resembles that to which they were used "-n tholr native fields forests or jungles Is one of the most difficult problems that tho managers of zoological collections must face. Only one animal—the hog—seems wholly in-different as to the nature and qnality of Its food, and some specios are ex-tremely fastidious. Even tho ostrich manifests a choice and shows no rel-ish for the naila and old Iron with which It Is credited with regaling I t - -self on the African farms; and one species, the Somalt ostrich, accepts only green food, refusing to touch th® meat and biscuits of which tho.South African ostrich Is very fond. The-gi-raffe is one of the daintiest of beasts, living in nature on the loaves which it strips from trees, and in the gar-dens on the best clover hay, crushed , oats, bran and chaff, with fresh green r

tares and an occasional onion as rel-ishes; and while It is very fond of fresh, whole apples, rejects one t h a t has been bitten. Some animals a r * able to change their na ' ive tastes and acquire others, vegetarians becoming flesh eaters, and Insect eaters tu rn -ing to fruit and gra in- as tho kea of New Zealand, which, once a s t r ic t vegetarian, has become very fond of mutton. Animals In the Zoo have t o submit to more or less of this, for the i r native food i s often unattainable. Nothing nas been found on which th» Australian koala will thrive, but tho kangaroos and wallabiw take kindly . ;o grass and mulze. and breed fre-quently. Unfortunately, the kan-fo-cos a re very subject to gout and corns. The polur bear Is happy with h ' - s e blubber and ploice, and the oroc-odiles nnd alligators are satisfied with raw meat. Tho aptoryx, which at homo lives cm worms nnd larvae, feeds and prospers on Imitations carved out of filet steak—New York Journal.

of the cubeb variety, commonly used I very best medical advice, and he could i wringing your hands In despair, you for colda.—Philadelphia Record 1 have had the very best attendance, and ; had better begin to climb. There are

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Woinnn In Hrlrnre. To assert that women have had aq

Important influence on the progress of science would certainly be exaggera-tion; but to say that they have always been wholly foreign to it would be still more inexact. The female Bex have, in fact, been for many centurlea contributing to the extension of the field of scientific knowledge: and now that they are beginning to take a more prominent part In affairs of this cate-gory, It seems a favorable time to re-view some of their achievements and to notice some of the women whose scientific accomplishmenU have been most remarkable. We begin with a Milanese mathematician of the eight-eenth century—Marin Agn;sl, a woman who was unique among the few who have occnj^ed themselves with the ex-act science*. Her precocious intelli-gence nnd a prodigious memory, wbici* permitted her to express herself cor-rectly In seven languages, and her rare aptitude for one of the most ardu-ous branches of mathematics—the in* finitoslmal analysis of which Lelbnit* and Newton had only just Indicate formulas—the salntilness of divided between study, p r a y r charitable works—all con t r I but make her one of the most agr'eabl1

characters which the ecientlflc blsto: of the last century offers us.—Appl tons' Popular Science Monthly t July.

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Perhaps t h e best known and most popular feature on the midway is the Hagenback Wild Animal Show Co. Almost every variety of beast t h a t has shown an inclination to become sub-servient to the will of man is found here, and a rc made to show w h a t the patience nnd perseverance of the t ra iner has wrought . Some of the nets are t ru ly s tar t l ing, nnd f r a u g h t with no l i t t le danger to the trainer . And the fac t tha t several have been qui te seriously in jured since the open-ing of the fa i r seems b u t to add t o the general interest, r a the r than detract theref rom.

The first Spanish flag captured a t San-, t iago is in the War depar tment exhibi t nt tho Omaha exposition. Pinned to the flag is a card g iving the his tory of the capture, when taken , f rom whom, end under what circumstances. Gen. Shaf ter gathered u p a collection of old brass trophies, a lot of old s tyle fire-arms and a box of the new Mauser rifles and shipped them to the Trans-Mississippi exposition, where they will be added to t h e exhibit of the war department .

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A Juvenile Story. "Plense come over to our barn right

after dinner, I've got a scheme for celebrating tho Fourth that will wake up the town."

So ran the note which Farmer Tully's son Benjamin had sent to his four friends—Will Cheater, Walter Casey, Hal Gossmnn and Eddie WII-mont.

"Benjamin" (his chums always call him Benjamin) "has got up something new again. Wonder what It Is?" mut-tered Will, as ho read his note. Ben-jamin was very versatile in schemes, nud for this reason, probably, he was looked upon ns a sort of leader among his companions.

After dinner Will went dircctly to the Tuly farm.

In the rambling old barn that sqimt-ted close to the sluggish river he found the other four; Benjamin, si l t ing on a feed cutter, was thoughifully chewing a straw.

"Well, what Is It, what Is It?" quer-ied Will, Impatiently.

"I will tell you. You know what a mortar Is?"

"A mortar? Why, mortar is the Btuff they stick bricks together with."

"T in t ain ' t tb^ mortar I mean. I mean these sawed-oll little cannon that \)olnt up In the air and are used to shoot bombshells out of. My idea Is to make a mortar and some bomb-Bhells. They would make as much noise as a cannon, and when the bomb went off In the air (t could be seen aud henrd for miles in nil directions."

The boys looked at each other aghast.

"Why, we can' t do that ," said Eddie. "Thoso things have to be made In fac-tories."

"We can make 'em all right," said Benjamin. "There's a big iron drain tile about a foot in diameter down In the field that will make a splendid mortar. All we need to do is to flt it into a log to stop up one end. 1 know where there Is Just that kind of a log, or stump, too, and It will prevent the tile from bursting when the thing goes off."

"But what would you make your bombshell out of?" asked Hal Goss-man.

"1 have thought that out, too," was Benjamin's ready reply. "We can take two baseball masks, rip the leather off and fit them together and plaster clay over them until they are thick enough to be pretty solid, leaving the insido empty to be filled with powder. Wo can get all the powder we want."

That afternoon four of them got the ' t i le and carried It In Benjamin's boat

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It was the remains of an oak tree per-haps three feet in diameter. In its center was a deep opening which

. seemed just about large enough to ac-commodate the tile. All together the boya carried the tile to the slump, and

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given you ABSOLUTELY FREE by your gr^ccr on conditions named below. These Plaques arc 40 inchcs in circumference, are free of any suggestion of advertising whatever, and will ornament the most elegant apartmect. No manufacturing concern ever beiore gave away such valuable prc::nts to Its customers. They arc not for sale at any price, and can be obtained only in the manner specified. The subjects arci

A M E R I C A N W i L D DUCKS. A M E R I C A N P H E A S A N T , E N G L I S H Q U A I L . E N G L I S H S N I P E .

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Elastic Starch lias been the standard for 25 years. TWENTY-TWO MILLION pack-ages of this brand were sold last year. That's how good it is.

A s k Y o u r D e a l e r to show you the Plaques and tell you about Elastic Starch. Accept no substitute.

I

HOW TO GET THEM: • A l l p u r c h a s e r s of t h r e e 10-cont o r s ix

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Every Groccr Keeps Elastic Starch. D o n o t d e i t y . T h i s o f f e r Is f o r a s h o r t t i m e m l y .

"CARRIED THE TILE TO T H E S'l UMP."

with much pulling and blowing suc-ceeded In getting It Into the great hol-low place In the stump.

"When shall we flro her off?" quer-ied Will, when tho mortar was com-plete.

"I think about midnight before ihe Fourth would be the best time," nnd the others thought so, too.

Tho powder was bought, a bomb-shell made and hidden away In the barn, together with the remainder ol the powder.

About an hour before midnight on the 3d the five boys crept noiselessly down to the river shore where Penja-mln'fl skiff was moored. They pulfed down the stream and landed In utter darkness, for Benjamin said It would be dangerous to have a lantern near the powder.

The charge for the mortar, about two pounds, was emptied from Its sack into the tile. Paper was placed on top of it and rammed down solid. Then t h e "Bhell" was dropped Into the mor-tar . Nothing was placed on top of this. Tho mortar was now loaded and ready for firing, for Benjamin had

A ' 11 nf fire had leaped f un fituu'i). m-i .nh one great bound l;,id ro^'lu i an onuimoua height. leav ng a fiery fltronni hchind It. Tliey could see It oway up in tho .»ir. glowing like a star. It secjiunj to remnln motion-lens for a minute nnd then i)"gaa lo descend.

"Ain't tha t ImmenFR?" cried Benja-min, waving his hat In groat glee.

Down, down, it rushed like a blazing comet. The paper wadding had stuck to the shell, nnd becoming Ignited from the explosion continued to burn fiercely. A stream of sparks rushed upward from It. The air was full of burning paper. Then, ns It was about to drop into the river a quarter of a mile away. It hurst. A heavy crash again woke the echoes and another blaze of light Hashed for an Ins tant Then came darkness.

"It Is all over." said Benjamin. But he was mistaken. There was a

pood deal to follow, something which he and his companions had not count-ed on.

It chanced that pome public-spirited men in the village had derided to glvo an exhibition of fireworks on the night of the Fourth also. Having determined to keep the matter quiet until the Fourth had arrived, the fireworks had been purchased very slyly and carried to a spot on the river bank about a quarter-mile below the place where Benjamin's bombshell had begun Its flight. He-e a raft had been made, ami upon It the fireworks were put. This was done on the evening of tho 3d. Two men were hired to sleep on the raft to see that it was not dis-turbed.

The men poled the raft out Into the middle of the river and lying down on their blankets went to sleep sur-rounded by a wholesale assortment of sky-rockets, roman candles, giant crackers, bombs, pinwheels. and all manner of things, without a thought of danger. They had been sleeping soundly for about two hours when the noise of the mortar awakened them.

They saw the bombshell dar t ing down with marvelous speed, which in-creased every second, and before they could pull In the rope to which the anchor was fastened which held tho raft It was right above them.

Horror-stricken, they plunged Into the river and hurried away as fast as they could through the shallow water.

Then the shell exploded. The men ducked their heads. There

was a great splashing In the water as pieces of the bursted shell were hurled Into It. but neither of the men was hit . Half dazed, they lifted their heads. The red glare of the exploded shell and the accompanying roar had gone.

All was darkness for a brief moment. Then came a vicious hissing from tho ra f t , and the air was filled with flying sparks, it was one of the pinwheels which had caught, and as though in-spired by a spirit of mischief it was whirling at a great rate, sending Its sparks everywhere.

The men rushed back to the r a f t to save the cargo.

Then the trouble commenced in ear-nest.

Firecrackers began to bang away in unsuspected spots, and no sooner was a pack snatched out and thrown Into the river than other packs took up the chorus.

"Yank "cm out. yank 'em ou t ! " cried one of the men. making a dash for them a t the risk of burning his fingers.

Just then a couple of pinwheels siart-cd at the same time and began to buzz and fluster as though each was trying to outdo the other and both bent on putt ing out the men's eyes in a shower of sparks.

Now that they had got agoing 'he fireworks were evidently bound not to be Interfered with, for while the rock-cts end roman candles were bombard-ing one man a giant firecracker did its best to tear the other's fingers off and to help defeat his assault n big bomb exploded a imed in his face.

The tumult was at its height, but tho men worked desperately to save what they could of the fireworks, but

i in the midst of their forlorn task they heard hoots, yells and loud laughter

j from ihe snore. Looking shoreward they could dimly

see a large crowd of people on the river bauk. The village had been aroused and had come to witness the novel spectacle. Moreover, from the sounds from that way, they seemed to be en-joying it immensely.

"Well, that settles me," said one of the men on the raft , disgustedly. "Them people Is laughing a t us. Let's gel out of this hornet 's nest. This stuff is bound to blow itself all up any-way." and he coolly jumped Into the river and waded ashore. I l ls compan-ion followed him.

Once ashore they were surrounded by a crowd of people curious to learn all about the matter.

The men were very discreet, how-ever, In regard to who owned the fire-works. but told how they happened to he set on lire. Where the trouble-some fiery visitor had come from ap-peared to be a mystery. Many had

I m p o r t a n t t n M o i l i r r * .

Th" mBHiifacturcrs of fnstorln Imvo been comj UI'd to Hpmd hur .dn u s of t l iounnnds of •IOIIUI-H t o Inmll lur l / i ! t h e puhllo tvlth tho sin-n u ' u r o o f Chun. l l . F lo tehnr . T h i s h a s b r n nix-i- - l . n o d by reason of p l rn tc* c o u n t r r f e l t -IRK t h o C u - t o r h t m l o m r k . T h i s conntor -fe l t l tu ; N a r n i n o not only u r u l n s t t h e p r iprln-tors "f Castorla. but ai'iilnst tho urowmi:

. penc ra t i i n. All persons should be ca re fu l to ! nee t h a t CaHtnria b e a r s t h e Klrnaiuro of Chan.

11. F l e t c h e r . If thuv would miard vh" h e a l l h of i t h e i r c h i l d r e n . I ' n n - n t s and mothe r s . In par -

t i cu la r , o u s h t t o carefu l ly cr.atnlno t h e Cas to r l a o d v e r t l x e m e u i s v. hi eh have Iw-cn a p p^arlni : In t h i s p a p e r , and to n tnember t h a t t h e wra b e a r * F . . . m a n u f a c t u r e d cont inuously fo r over t h i r t y Tears.

AIDED BY MRS. PIMHAIL Mrs. W. E . PAXTON, Y o u n g t a i m ,

North Dakota, wri tes abou t her strugr* glo to regain heal th a f t e r tho bir th o l hor little gir l :

" D K A U M R S . PINKITAM:—It fe with pleasure t h a t I add my testimony t o your list, hoping t h a t i t may Indnco others to nvail themselves of your val-uable medicine.

" A f t e r the birth of my little girl, ho wrapper of ovi-rv bottle of ircnulnc Castona | three years ago, mv hea l th was very w a r s t h e fao-Rlmllo Hlgnaturc of Chui . H. » , , , * , , , , • „ •Meteher. under whose suporrlalon it has been I P * ^ ' , a ' ' leucorrhoea badly, and a

torrlblo bearing-down pain which gradually grew worse, until I could do no work. Also had headache near ly all the time, and dizzy feelings. Men-struatiuns were very profuse, appear-ing every two weeks.

** 1 took medicine from a good doctor, but i t seemed to do no good. 1 was becoming u armed over my condition, when 1 read y<mr advertisement in a paper. I sen t nl tmce for a bottle of Lydia E. P i n k h a m s Vorretabic Com-

T h o l o r r e n c o u n t r y In one b i d y nnd u n d e r one goverm; i nt Is the Russian empire. It oot-t a ins 8,&38,iuti square miles.

D n n n t y I* l l l o o d D r o p .

Clean blood mean, a clean Ocln. No beautr without I t Caacarets, t andvCathar-tic cleans your nlood and k<-eps It clean, by stirring up the la/.y liver and driving all Im-purities from the body. Bct,;n todav to banish pimples, bolls, blotches. bUekheads. and that alckly bilious complexion b. taking C u c a r t t t - b a a u r | ^ „ d l ak t ag u „ . t h i r d , ot gl-su.hatlstactlon

Don' t pe t t h e Idea In to you r hend t h a t y o u c a n pu l l yourself o u t of t r o u b l e w i t h a c o r k -screw.

D r . C n r t e r ' s K . ^ n . T p « do. 's w h a t o t h ^ r n i rd i e lno f ldono tdo . I t r e t rn la ton tho f o u r imimruintorir . ' insof l h c body—the S t o m -ach L ive r . Kidneys and Dowels. 2.>c p a e k a r e

D o n ' t pu t on too m a n y o l rs a s you float d o w n l l l e ' i B t r eam: you r l i t t l e bi .at m a y capsl-cc.

H a l l ' s C a t a r r h C o r e

Is taken internally. Prlcc, 75c.

I t Is clnlm'^l t h a t a t p r e s e n t t h e Knul l sh l a n -Buatre I s s p o k e n b y I10.0w).000 people .

COSMO BUTTERMILK TOILET ROAP makes tbo skin soft, whito nnd healthy. Koid everywhere.

There arc found In both books of the Dible 3,5)90,'(83 letters, and TTlt.KKI words.

T o C o r e C o n s t t p s t l o n F o r e v e r , T a k e Casc i r e t s Candy Cathar t ic . 10c o r Zjo.

If C. C. C. fall to cure , d m s i r i s t s r e fund money.

In China t o - a n t e nnv one by t a k e off one ' s h a t Is a d e l i b e r a t e Insul t .

I neve r used so q u i r k a cure ns P I s o ' s Cure i r Consumpt ion—J. B. 1

t i e . W a s h . . Nov. 25. IS'jJ. f o r Consumpt ion I ' a l m e r . Uox 1171. S e u t -

K o man e v e r conquered w h o be^an a s t r u e e l e w i t h h i s eyes s h u t .

the bot t le I fe l t so much bi-'.ur t h a t I i nd for t w o more. Af te r us. r three boivles I fe l t as s t rong and well a-s any one.

" I thi : ' - i t is the best medicine for f ema le wet. less ever advertised, and recommend It v, every lady I meet suf-f e r i n g f r o m th i s i ,tiblc."

Materni ty is a woi. Vrful cxpcrience and many women app 4 . h it wholly unprepared. Chi ldbir th v .,ior r i gh t conditions need no t t e r r i fy w .u en. .

The advice of Mrs. P inkham L-.reoly offered to all expectant mothers, •--.,1 he r advice is beyond question the va luable to be obtained. If Mrs. Pax-ton had wri t ten t o Mr.-?. P inkham be-fore confinement she would have been saved much suf fer ing . Mrs. P ink ham's address is Lynn, Mass

It h e a l s I r r i ta ted (rums, and e lves -he ch i ld ren reb t by day and nlclil . B r o w n ' s T e c t h l n ; Cordial.

Moral cottrntre Is t h e s u r e s t k e y to t h e h e a r t of u p u r e woman.

DO YOU m m A m t i

100,000 ACRES S ; ™ sold on l o n g t i m e n a d c »«y p a y m e n t s , a l i t t l e e a c h v o a r . < o m o a n d s o u s o r w r i t e . i H K TitnSlAV MOSS STATU UAMv, Saallao C e n t e r , Mich . , o r

THE TRUMAN MOSS ESTATE, Croswcll, Sanilac Co., Mich.

W . N . U . — D E T R O I T — N 0 . 3 4 - - 1 3 9 3

if you are dissatisfied with the size

of piece or with the quality of the

chewing tobacco you are now

using—

and you rll get your money's worth.

The 10-cent piece of Battle A x is

larger than the 10-cent piece of any

other brand of the same high quality,

and is the largest piece of really good

chewing tobacco that is sold for

10 cents.

P e m e m b e r t h e n a m e • ^ w h e n ^ycu b u y a g a i n .

NicCRAY'S m o p f r w

wood." They hurried down the river bank

to the boat. Then came a roar that almost deafened them, and a great glare shone over woods and river.

"Look! Look!" shonted Benjamin, f o ln t l n f up. "There ihe goat I"

tho river

run a long fuse through a hole In '.ho , . , ., t, nnmo s t a m p a n d u p In to tho pipe u n t i l i t s e e n It. bu t n o n e k n e u « i- .< . • toucbcd the powder. j Benjamin .ml 1.1* frl. n l s r.ere m

"Ain't It pretty near midnight?" | the crowd. As roon ^ they ! ^ ! n p d t h ^ asked Eddie Wllmont. eagerly. Ho : bon>b ^ c a u f : e i 1 , h o , n i ! , h u r 1 0

voiced the Impatience of th" others. "Let her go!" nald Chester. Benjamin, on his part, was ns anx-

ious as his companions to put their experiment to the test. Str iking a match, ho touched the blaze to the end of the fuse projecting from the pipe. Hissing anil sputtering, tho Are crept toward the charge.

"Now get to cover!" advised Benja-min. excitedly. "She will reach the powder In another minute, and t i p air may be full of flying iron and

REFRIGERATORS A N D C O L D S T O R A G E

raularat >•. SI I m. t tm >} )• W Itnl f r« ••W •Vf •rileyt*. irJ tultl loOrc-., I lurd ailb lld>rt.. " J "1 •» Tit., • syrriitir. Ai-'i • •; cci*l liuo <'l IVfrlRvrttori f »r the FAItnihK. llc rl rntort of«il Wind- ud •l/et liitllt t.'order ti.i Or I'-.u lism. urnn ». II tflt, ev. See "ur rxMblts .it ti (IMo S t u e I ' s l r . Ci»l-

n'•m, Ir.dluni Ma '• la i r , ladlui.ai>oll,. Iiliuola 8 a t e t» r . Sri'iti^l'.i !J.

KEFRtCERATOR AND COLO COjtfPAWY,

Mi l - t . . K t - n d ' . ' l v i r e . I n d . I ' . S A

•- 'A H A N D S A W I S A G O O D T H I N G , B U T N O T T O m S H A V E W I T H . "

snmebody's fir?-, o:! • they bad rowel that v,ay. i;c:.>re they reached there they saw that tho fireworks on the raft wore too far go;:c in their career of self-destruction to be saved, and they rowed their boat ashore and watched tho (|iiecr exhibi-tion. somewhat frightened at the cal-amity the bomb had caused. i

The uproar from the raft grew less i , a f te r awhile, the firc<".:i(';ors ceaseil -• to be heard nnd all became dark and F R Q l l l S" A C T O R Y T O U S E R D S R E B T . silent. ^omafcoflno8nrrer«.BnjL;lc*.

The secret of who shot the shell dirt O a r h a v e b*i,f,vJa.iy »

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

not come out until long after, for .ho boys kept very qiilet.

CHARLES F. WELLLS.

Spain has sent to Cuha 1.000 tons of medicines, etc.. In three years.

Wo make flne Snrreys, nn|.-ic*. Pirn tons mid U tdWail Oiirciudiibat u Wen favonlily kuonu to the trud-; lor y.' Wo now 8 11 direct lo lh« B-.r u Wkolnal* frii.-,. ThU »!ii buyer prefer* to deal with the factory. II« jruts of ii« wurk r: loan prtco than amenta n-k fur low jr.-adc vehlo!" • •ulijeot t'» cxainlnailon. WK UKLIVEU OH board cars KAV Ind.. i;s may milt pnn-huer. Send for catnl'icuo wlj-' -i rs niKi- Write today. Wo sell Sewing Machine* a well. A'latWk.tw.uprW*. ALL GOOD. No litatteH t'i'> fur airay fi dohuslne" with nn and»3ve inn nwm-m. _ nr.VAUD TV. IYALIHER CAKKlAtiK COM GOSUEN, INDIAKA,

•at CUy W«r»-r""«a ana oo«», 1:0 Wfl lltti SU

., v.# ihlp anywher*. i a* olty.*1 o.. or Ooahea, ll rlce» plainly prlnMil. •1 the UOSHKI nictcutaa uere yon live, yon a r a m Addre-i.

MBWHIBKWCTt'.

SUht l o m H & d g e r .

I'UDLIBnBD BTIRT THOnBDAT AT

UUWBLL, KENT COUNTY. MICH.

- B Y -

FRANK M. JOHNSON.

Entered at Lowell post office as second lass matter.

fUBBCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR YEARLY.

•OTBRTISINO BATBS.

Business locals 5 cents per line each Issue Legal ads at legal rates. Card in directory column $1.00 re r line

per year. One Inch |B per jew. Rates for larger advertisements made

known at the office. Cards of thanks, 60 ceuta. Resolutions of condolence, 11.00.

Job printing in connection at lowoct Hvinp i & tea. "Always Prompt," la our motto.

GETTING TOOETHER.

I tel l yon , th is J r t i t e coun t ry—she ' s

g i t t i n ' jj^Bfr she ' l l do ,

"VVlieu t h e N o r t h e r n bands p l a y

" D i x i e " and t h e people o ^ 1 ' i

i t , t o o !

W e ' re m i g h t y close t o ^ ^ r when

t h e y mix t h e niyw so—

A n ' ye t , w e w u z ^ i d e d some th i r ty

y e a r s a g ^

I t e l l yojK'iliis he re coun t ry—jus t

liJful 'an sea—

I^Tiout as nigh uni ted as the Lord

'ud have i t b e !

W e ' r e marchin ' on toge ther th rough

summer t ime an ' snow—

W e t h a t wuz divided some t h i r t y

y e a r ago!

Toge the r ! Tha t ' s the music t ha t ' s

r i ng in ' to t h e sky!

Tha t ' s what the winds is s iag in ' as

t hey blow the blossoms by !

T o g e t h e r ! Hear the bands play, an '

all t he bugles blow—

W e t h a t wuz d iv ided some t h i r t y

year ago!

T o g e t h e r ! Sing i t—r ing i t ! Send t h e

music r ippl in 1 long,

T i l l t h e whole world hears the

echoes of t h e swel l in ' t ide of

song!

Ti l l t h e whole world jo ins t h e

chorus—bands play and bug les

blow—

W e t h a t wuz divided some th i r ty

yea r ago!

—Alanta Constitution.

N o w t h a t t h e war is over , peop le

will h a r d l y need to b u y t h r e e or

f o u r c i ty pape r s ; and pe rhaps t h e y

can g ive t h e i r home p a p e r s the sup-

por t t h e y deserve .

THE CITY BAM WHITNEy, W A T T S A CO

R e s p o n s i b i l i t y - $100,000. O v -• MICH*

I'resn lent.

Altoii

Qns Weekes and of Lowell, were callers at J Mod?,. /» recently.

Jud Haperimi and wife, of East Lowell, spent But .' y here.

Lti'c Bniley nnd wife, of Vergennr-. v 's", iled her brother. Olis, Sunday.

Mr. Coons, of Lowell, was nt '"'s •S""s' Newton, Sunday.

Peter Keech and wif. .-HI./ Mrs Koberts

went to Stanton M«. Kate Vcrgeaaes visited

at J . Moshpi '- rcrenlly-Mrs. tfrm*' i8 visiting in Grand

Rapf'-• u iimie i'urdy, of Smyrna, has been vis-

iting her slep-motiier. Percy and Daisy Reed, of Vergenncs,

visited at Mrs. Sam Beirie's Sunday. Mrs. George Bradsted, of Lake Odessa,

called on friends here recently. A cow switched her tail into Mrs. Claw"

son's face nnd cut one of her eye balls. K. Ring was at Cannonsburg last week

on business. Mesdames A. J . Howk and Will Howk

of Lowell, were guests at E. Ring's one day last week.

A. Culver nnd wife, of Balding, visited friends in this vicinity Sunday.

Quite a few attended the band convention from here.

A new wall was laid under the mill bridge last week by Kichmond & Rogers, of Lowell.

Z. H. Covert aud family are visiting at this place.

Mrs. D. Church had two cousins from Hubbardston visiting her last week.

Florence Hcrrington, of Cannonsburg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dorus Church.

Mrs. Newton Coons was at Grand Rapids last week.

Ous Weekes visited at L. K. Alger's, of Greenville last week,

«•;/ I I \M SHAKESPEAUF ' U. A. WATTS,

A general b n n W ' "eTf . fT i «•"' upwprdn*

ceived in ™ ^ w . h , c h

» V.^rcsiwill be credited semi-an-m m l l S 6 ' " " dc i 'osHs ' e f l f o , , r " l o n t h s .

M m.vl.mncd on real estate security, ni.l |inyincnts allowed of any amount at

•my llnio.

C O - P A R T N E R S :

ORTON HILL, Lowell, Mich W. A. WATTS, D. R. WHITNEY, Lowell, Mich. WILLI A M SH A KESPEARE, Kalamazoo. E. W. BOWMAN, N. 8. WHITNEY, Richland, Mich ASA STRATTON,

WE WAST TOUR BUSHESS.

H:

" T H E cruel war is o v e r . " Le t us be

t h a n k f u l that it has been so well

done aud p raye r fu l tha t our country

may no t soon be a t war again. »

at *• G E N E R A L L E E a n n o u n c e s h s i c a n -

didacy for the oflice of senator f rom

Vi rg in ia . " T h e mothe r of presi-

den ts ' ' would t h u s be well represent -

ed.

R e m a r k a b l e Rescue Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainticld, Ill-

makes the followini; statement, that she caught cold, which settled upon her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family nhysician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no mcdicine could cure bur. Her drug-gist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Coniumptlon. She bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefltted from first do e. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; and now di>es her own housework, aud is as Well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of his Great Discovery at li. H. Hunt & Co.'s drug store. Large bottles 50c and f 1.00.

Verge tmes .

George Morgan, wife and daughter , of Freeport , were recent guests of her father, W m . Parker , and fami ly .

Ed . Hoag and wife took in the Niagara Falls excursion and stopped in Canada to visit Mrs. Hoag's sister, Mrs. Ju le t ta Stewart and family.

G. W . C r o s b y and wife attended a small dinner party in Lowell Sun-day and had an enjoyable lime.

Edna and Inez Steel, of Grand guests of Mrs.

I F THE president would i n f o r m

t h e country j u s t why i t is t h a t he

has de te rmined to recommend that j Rapids, were recent

congress advance Sampson e ight Bennett.

n u m b e r s aud Schley only six, he F r a n k Fox, wife, son and daugli-, , , * . ' ter , Mrs. Jones, Katie Parker , Delia

would solve a m y r t m - t b u m o " 1 . . . J t w 0 | ) r o t n e r , ^ s u n d , y

people cannot u n d e r s t a n d . — [ D e - 1 at Murray's lake. Mrs. Jones has

t r o i t Free P re s s . a camera and took many nice views * around the lake.

^ , . J i m Collins is a pretty good marks-J h k only name we hear mention- m ; l n > 1 I e w e n t o u t S u n ( l o v

ed in connection wi th the Demo- i and killed two squirrels a t one shot.

c ra t ic nominat ion f o r prosecuting 1 Frank Hatchelor is enter ta ining his

a t to rney is t h a t of L a n t K. Salsbury; cousin, 1- red Batchelor .

a n d we bel ieve t h a t such a nomina- j S e t h V a n W o r m e r and wife went to

l ion wou l i meet t h e approval or ; ^ 1 U l , i , b Sa turday to visit

Keetie.

Mrs. James Carr, of Lowell, drove out to visit Mrs. B. Wilkinson Thursday and on Friday the two Indies went calling to Pot-ters' Corners and stopped nt Amos Lee's foJ dinner and as it happened to be Amos' 72d birthday they spent the afternoon with him and Mrs. Carr returned to Low-ell that night.

Amos Abbott and wife and Henry Ker* bey and wife spent Sunday at Marvin Ray-mond's.

Mrs. Erma Bowen gave a tea party to a number of her lady friends Friday which was enjoyed by all.

Mrs. Firestine, and children, of Chicago have been spending a few weeks visiting relatives in Keene.

Misses Lula and Gertie Huntley, of Grand Rapids, have been the guests Of their uncles, H. M. and Ed. Trask, for a few days.

The editor of the LEOOER gives his cor-respondents a free trip to Lansing next

month. Many thanks to him. Two weeks ago Amos Lee, of Potters

Corners, had his house broken into by some unknown person while they were absent from home. They made their en-trance by breaking the back door open aud

broke a heavy oak casing off which seems most impossible. They made their stay short as they must have seen one of the family making his appearance.

Mrs. Ogilvie and Myrtle visited Mrs. Charles Lampkins Thursday.

Mrs. Carrie Scott is on the sick list. A fine picture waij laken of the Lowell

LEDGEB CO;respondents last week nnd they

nil Were a jolly party. A large number from Kecue attended

the band convention at Belding last week and all say of all the places yet Lowell can beat them all.

The cemetery social was well attended. A hundred people were present nnd a good time had.

B. Wilkinson and wife spent a few hours Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvie and was treated to ice cream and cake after which we were invited out to see a cat that mothered two little ducks which was a curiosity, She takes care of-them night and day.

Our grocery man was arrested for selling groceries on the road but he won the suit and came out victorious and is at work again. Good for Frank Keech.

We see that a good many from Keene went to campmeeling at Long Lake and a good many more would like to have gone if salvation had been free as we always sing it.

Bert Hunter, wife and son and Robert Sparks, wife and son took dinner and spent the day with Samuel Strong, of Potters Corners, as he lives alone.

t h e Democra t s in th i s par t of the

conn t v. Charley Merr iman is entertaining

a young lady fr iend this week. W . L. watch out now and don ' t tell me

THE people who a re finding faul t | 6 , 1 V more stories or it will go hard

w i t h B o b E v a n s fo r us ing cuss • ^ r -. , , , Allen Bennett was among the

words would do well t o le t t h a t i a t M u r r n y ' g , a k e Saocl ty .

gen t leman se t t le t h e ma t t e r with 1

t h e A l m i g h t y . Those who strain '

t h e ha rdes t a t a l i t t l e slip of the

t o n g u e a re ve ry o f ten t h e last per-

sons to p a y the i r honest debts .

" T H E g rea t H i n d o o hea le r" a t ;

G r a n d R a p i d s p roves to be a dead ]

b sa t and a scoundrel . Some Low- j

e l l people had fa i th in h i m ; and who i

wil l t hey pin t o now? D o u b t

been labelled a sin in t imes

b u t if more p e o p l e had doubts , t

f ak i r s would no t f a t t en upon p u b !

c redul i ty .

I F THERE is anyth ing ihat citizens

oi Lowell can do to expedite the. ex-

tension of the Lowell <fe Hastings

railroad to the north, in time to head

off the iirojeoted Grand Rapids elec-

No Cripe When you take Hood's Pills. Tho big, old-fash-ioned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to pieces, are not in It with Hood's. Easy to take

H o o d ' s and easy to operate, Is Uue of Hood's Pills, which aro " 1 1 _

to date in every respect I I I 6 le, certain and sure. All • • • • ^

druggists. 256. C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass. The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

Robbed t h e Grove .

A startling Incident, of which Mr. John Oliver, • f PhlladelphU, was the subject, is narrated !»y him as follows: "I was in a most dreadful condition, My fkin was almost yel-low, eyes sunken, tounge coated, pain con-tinually in bt.-k and sides, no appeUte—grad-ually crowing weaker day by day. 1 hrec physicians bad given me up. Fortunately a friend advised trying Electric Bitters and to my great ioy and surprise, the first bottle made a «'.i ded improvement. I continued their u< ior three weeks and am now a well

,man. 1 know tliey saved my life, acd robbed the gr.ve of another vlcUm No one should fdlltw try them. Only 50c per bot. at L. H Hunt «V: Co. drug store.

Special

We find that our stock of Muslin Underwear, large as it

was, still insufficient to meet the wants of our Lady

Customers and have ordered the second lot to satisfy

those that were too late to pet what they wanted in

in the first.

Our Sales exceeded our highest expectations and

The Prices

Were a surprise to everybody. We have a large

stock of Lace Curtains, Window 'Shades, Carpets, Oil

Cloths and Linoleums and are selling them at right

prices. If you don't want a Carpet at 10c we have

better ones.

I T - B . Z B U J - A - I I N " .

L o w e l l , M i c h .

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

On Aug. 14 about fifty neighbors nnd

friends went to Mr. Vasper's woods and after partaking of a bountiful repast we

listened to the reading of a sermon written by Mr. Talrnage, followed by devotional singing and recitations and were also fav-ored with an interesting address by Mr. Rolf. After serving ice cream and cake we went home feeling that wc had enjoyed a pleasant nnd profitable day.

The ladies' aid will be entertained at the home of Mrs. A. Campbell, of Lowell, on Wednesday, August 24th.

C. Mclutyre and wife entertained rela-tives from Durand Sunday.

Mrs. Holmes visited at H. Peters' Friday. J . Court and family, J . Ingersoll and

family and Mrs. Easterbrook spent last Friday in Grand Rapids at Reed's Lake.

A. Rowland has a sister visiting him

from a distance. A. Campbell and wife called at 8. Grist*

wood's Sunday. Ida De Wilder, of Grand Rapids, is visit-

ing friends in this vicinity. E. Thompson, wife and daughter who

have been visiting friends in this vicinity and Lowell returned to their home in

Ionia Monday. Mesdames Oristwood and Thompson

called on Mesdames Court and Brower, of Lowell, Friday.

C. Court is preparing to enlarge his house by building on a kitchen.

M. D. Court and wife, of Lowell, visited at S. Gristwood's Saturday.

Through the kind invitation of our editor we were permitted, a few days ago, to be* come acquainted with the LP.DGF.R corres-pondents and expect to renew the acquaint-ance of all later on.

Preaching at the school house next Sun-day at 3 o'clock by J . J . Finley, of Cascade;

Mesdames Easterday and Jury call on Mrs. Campbell, of Lowell, Saturday.

C. Ketchum is having a well put down oa his plaoc.

W e fit the eyes with glasses and give you a perfect fit. Special at-tention to complicated cases at OH -yer's H i

A mail might as well t ry to pu t a quar t of water mto a pint measure as to make a better harness than our famous Oak Tanned hand made har-ness, Before purchasing it ia for your interest to call and look a t our j goods. Brown & Sehler .

MUSIC AND FRENCH. Mrs. Clara A. Slade, teacher,

Lowell, • - . . Mich,

J. HARRISON RICKKRT. dentist. Over Church'* bank, Lowell.

8. P. HICKS, Loans, Collections, Real Estate and Insui-

ance. Lowell, Mich.

Buck len 's Arn ica Salve. T n * BEST SALVE i n t h e w o r l d f o r C u t s ,

Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhenm, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, C&ilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positive-ly cures Piles, or no pay required. I t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by L. H. Hunt £ Co.

Sp lend id New Lino of

B e d R o o m S u i t s

At From

$ 1 0 . 5 0 U p

Goods delivered free of charge to

any part of the city.

M c C O N N E L L .

G r a t t a n - Vergennes .

The rain Sunday night was much needed. Nellie Byrne returned home Sunday

after a week's visit with friends in Lowell. Little Blanche Jakeway spent last week

with her grandparents, Charles Francisco j and wife, of Lowell.

Quite a few from Lowell, were fishing on j Malone's lake Saturdav.

CCROFULA w yields to tho b

in its worst form yields to tho blood cleansing power

of I lood's Sarsaparilla. Thousands of cases have been perfectly C U R E D .

E a s t Lowell.

8. Gilbort aud family are visiting their , parents, H. Gilbert anil wife. Also Guy

Wedding IK-MS will ring this week for | B i t k e i o f M a c k i n a c t a n ( 1 n a r r y G i l b e r t > 0f

Town D o e T id ings

Mrs. AdelaMe Morse, of Chupd Rapids, is visiting friends here this week.

Willard Batey nnd wife, of Kalimazoo visited George Bntey and family last week.

Mrs. Georpe Batey went to Alto Sunday. Her dauchter, Mrs. Fraizer, returned

t r ie road into the country north of us, ^ 0 ' n e * l l h ' , t ' r-

would it not 1« well to do it quick? W U 1 N ' i ! e 8 ^ ' n o v e d 1,ac!l o n

Do we want the t rade switched off to

iiis farm Tom Leece has hired and moved to the

Johnson dairv farm near Ada. Grand Rapids? If no t le t us he up Graadpi Siint..n was bitten and doing. the hiind bv a dog last Thursday.

through

Mary Erwin and George McCabe. Artie Talbot, of Belding, attended church

at Pamell Sunday. Mrs. Edgar Byrne, of Chicago, is visit-

ing her parents, J . Vc! artv and wife. Chas. Doyle and Wm. Murphy, of Low-

ell, were in Parnell Sunday. Laura Jakeway returned home Saturday

after a week's visit with friends in Grand Rapids.

' Durand, are visiting at the same place. John Cary and family were in Lake

Odessa Sunday. Joel Aldrich, of Detroit, visited his

aunt, Mrs. Mary Ware, last week. Frank Sayles. wife and daughter took

tea with John Cary and wife Thursday. W. Filkins, of Bownc called on his sister

I ist Sunday on his way to Lowell. Rev. Mange, of Lowell, held a meeting

By I t s R e c o r d of remarkable cures ; at the Ware school Sunday evening and Hood's Sarsaparilla has become the • there will be another in two weeks. . one true blood purifier prominently in A h e a r t y welcome is extended to our new the public eye. Get only Hood's. correspondent of Bowne.

H o o d ' s P i l l s are the best family j We are sorry to hear of the illness of catliartic aud liver medicine. 25c. , Mrs. J . Filkins of Bowne.

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CHICAGO AND ALL POINTS WEST. .

Leave Mnskegwi at GOO p. m. Leave Grand llaven at 9:00 p. m.

DAILY Arriving in CHICAGO the following morn-

ing in time for the outgoing trains;

THIS IS THE SHORT LINE TO CHICAC3. Passengers should see that Jtheir tickets

read via this Popular Line.

T H R O U G H TICKETS lo all points via Chicago can be had of all agenU on D., G. H. * M., C. & W. M. R'y, T. S. & M. Ry., G . R . & I . R y . , a n d o f W . D . ROSIE, A g e n t

Goodrich Line, Muskegon, or N. ROBBTKS, Je., Grand Haven.

R . C . DAVIS, C a n . P a a a . Agt. OHIOACO.

O.C. McUANNEL, M. D , Physician and Surgeon. Office, 46 Bridge

street, Lowell. Mich.

M. C. GREEN, M. D.

physician and Surgeon. Office at Residence Bridge street, Lowell, Mich.

Q. G. TOW8LEY, M. D., Physician acd Surgeon. Office hours, 10 am

to 3 pm. and 7 to S'pm.

E. H. CAMBELL, INSURANCE, LOANS NoUry Public, Real Estate Agent and Col-

lector. Over Bovlan'a store. LoweM

MILTON M. PERRY,

Attorney and Counselor at Law, Train's Hal Block, Lowell, Mich. Special attenUon given to Collections, Conveyancing, and Sale of Real Estate.

Has also qualified and been admitted to prac {Ice in the Interior Department and all the bureaus thereto and Is ready to prosecute Claims for those that may be entitled to Pension Bounty.

Edward 0. Mains, A t t o r n e y a t L a w .

YOUR PATRONABE 8 0 L I 0 I T E 0 .

F O R F Z K B

INSURANCE! P.

O A X i Z . O H

D. EDDY & CO.,

A . E . Cambell, D e n t i s t ,

OVER BOYLAN'S STORE. All branches of dental work done by

the latest improved methods. Sat-isfaction guaranteed.

Gas administered.

LOWELL MARKET Invariably corrected Thursday morning.

New Wheat 65

Old Wheat 6 65 Corn @ 36 Oals © 22 Bye 0 26 Barley per'ewt 60 Flonr per cwt 2 00 Bran i>er ton 14 00 Middlings per ton 16 00 Corn meal per ton 6 16 00 Corn and oats per ton 0 18 00 Bnlfer e 16 Egg" 10 New Potatoes 0 40 Beans 70 « 75 Beef 6 50 @ • 6 00 Veal 6 00 « 6 K Pork 4 60 @ 4 50 Chickens 7 0 8 Wool washed 20 a 28 Wool unwashed 15 0 2t

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G o s s i p a n d C h a t a b o u t Peope a n d T h i n g s You Know.

Tho Lowell VV. C. T . U. was well patronized last Saturday, serving tea to about seventy.

Ray Force has returned from Val-1 second floor of the McKee block and finished his

Alto. Our thriving village is no longer lo be

without educational facilities, but is to have a high school whoso conr.se of study will be equal to that of towns manv times the size of Alto.

On September lOth, Principal L. II . Merriman will open a high school on the

will aparaiso, Ind., having nnislieci his j continue for eight months, in two terms course of study there. | sixteen weeks each. Printed catalogues

Will Brown and wife, of Middle- may be secured of the principal. ville, spent Sunday with her parents , ! Geo. Whi t e and wife.

Mrs. 0 . Robinson is spending her vacation with relatives in Muskegon and South Boardman.

Mrs. Winnie Spencer, of Sunfield, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pain ter , of this place.

Miss Myrtie Rogers of Lowell vis-ited Saranac friends the first of the week.—[Saranac Advertiser.

E . Thompson, wife and daughter, Mrs. H . Youngs, all of Ionia were re-cent visitors at S. Browes'.

Wi l l Wr igh t and bride, of Ann Arbor , spent Sunday at the home of his parents in th is place.

F r a n k McMahon and wife returned Saturday f rom a visit with his sister. Mm. 8 . Hergin, of Howell.

Mrs. M. S . Chapman, of Grand Rapids, visited this week with her daughter , Mrs. M. C. Greene.

Mrs. W. A. Chapin of Edmore and daughter, Ethel , of Chicago were the guests of 0 . Chapin Sunday.

Mr . and Mrs. Wi l l Duga, of Grand Rapids, spent last week with her b r o t h e r , T . Donovan, and family.

Mrs. Jessie Hutchinson is making an extended visit with her parents, W . B. Gardner and wife of this place.

Miss Martha Thompson entertained her friend Miss Nora Husted, of Grand Rapids, the fore part of last week.

Mesdames J . W . Hroadbent and

CHAMPION S N E E Z E R .

A Small Slxed Kentacky Man Could n r cak I'p a Camp Mcet ins

with Kbhc.

"Did you ever know a man who could snee/e loud enough to break up a camp meeting, to stop the taking of testimony in court nnd cause a bel-lowing cow to stop in disgust and won-der what the noise was t ha i was drowning its thunderous voice?" said an old fisherman one night recently.

On being informed tha t his sneezer was entitled to cake and all the ac-cessories necessary to conduct an up-to-date bakery the gentleman consent-ed to tell more of his sneezing friend, says the Lflhlsville Post. He said:

"While fishing in a mountain town in eastern Kentucky last fnll I went to the village near by one rainy morning to at tend circuit court . The judge was delivering on impressive charge to the

I grand jury, and every ear was llsten-1 ing to catch each word, when the stlll-' ness of the cour t was broken by an un-

earthly ker-chew, ker-chew, ker-chew, etc.. etc., etc. The judge was thunder-struck, nnd Instantly every eye was turned toward the r ea r of the room, where a little unobtrusive-looking old fa rmer sat sneezing ns if his head were coming off. The judge ordered the sheriff to bring the In t ruder before the bench. The offender came fo rward and the judge had a fine entered against the Innocent cause of the dis-turbance.

"Two of the sneezer's fr iends were

Fa l las tmrg .

Misses Ada Boothe, Anna Craft, Alice Stack and Minnie Steketce and Vera Carv-ver visited at Aldrich's Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich visited Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Vergennes, Sunday.

Miss Anna Craft, of Grand Rapids, is visiting Ada Booth.

Mr. Willet, of Entrican, visited over

Sunday at Mr. Denny's. Mr. nnd Mrs. Weekes and daughter, ida

also Krnest Hautserman visited at Mr. Beckwith's Sunday.

Ada Boothe and Anna Craft ate ice cream nt Mr. Choat's Sunday.

A. G. Steketeewent to Saranac Sunday. Kitty Boothe, of Grand Rapids, is visit-

ing her parents. Mary Copleland is on the sick list. The dance at Mr. Aldrich's was well

attended. Elmer Reed and wife, Mr. and Mrs.

Loomis and Mr». Kichmond, of Lowell, j called,.who testified to the man's good visited at Frank Sherard's Sunday.

Hen Sage erected a monument for his j

wife, Monday, Aug. 8. Edith Colvin is home after making an

extended visit in Sparta. Vern Carver, of Freeport, is visiting her

cousin, Ada Boothe.

Cascadc.

Re/. E. C. Cary and Mrs. Cary and I daughter spent Sunday with Elder Findley. 1 Mr.Cary delivered a very nbleaddress at

W . J . Medler and families are camp- j Christ church. Subject:—' It is well with ing on the banks of Grand River ea*i the child." of town. i The many friends ol the Mrs. Harry

character nnd high standing, but said they could hear him sneeze three miles any day in the year. One said tha t the sneezer once broke up a camp meet-ing with a sneezing spell, and t h a t he saw an enraged bovine stop a thunder-ous bellowing fit t o look in wonder a t the human who could make more nois^ thnn a mad bull. But the old fellow couldn't help it, and the fine was re-mitted."

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The Misses Melva nnd Enly Nagler and Maslher Floyd Nagler of Bell-view are guests of their aunt, Mrs. Fred Brunner .

F . T . King of the King Milling Co. of Lowell did business in Saranac last Monday. He expressed himself as very much pleased with his business in this vi l lage.—[Saranac Advertiser.

Mrs. 1. A. Anderson has just re-turned from northern resorts. Mack-inaw Island, Petoskey, Charlevoix and Bay View were among those she has visited,

Leo B. Pe r ry , of Co. B. 35th Mich. Reg. , called a t M. M . Per ry ' s Satur-day on his return to Island Lake from a short furlough spent a t hi:-home in Howard City.

Agnes Wi ley , formerly of this city, now of Lac du Flamdeau, Wis., spent a few days here this week the guest of E l l a Travis of Ottawa street.— [Grand Rapids Press.

T h e Rev. L . N. Pat t ison will take for his tubject Sunday morn ing "The Archers of Joseph." Text, Genesis x u x - x x i i i . and xx iv . In the eve-ning ho will speak ot " T h e Lif t ing up of Christ." T e x t : John i n - x i v a n d xv.

Principal Merriman of the new Alto High School was at the LEDGER oflice Monday afternoon to have bis an-nouncement circulars printed. T h e work was so expeditiouslj done tha t he was enabled to read proof on job before leaving for home.

Wood will learn with regret of her sev-ere illness. Mrs. Wood has been spending the summer with her son al Muskegon but she expressed a desire to return lo Cas-cade which has been lier home since child-

hood. Mrs. Henry Brobst has the sympathy of

all who know her. .She has been a great

Hero In an fnntanc* ProTlnir T h a t • Large Xnmlier of Them Can

He Believed.

"Nobody believes a wor4 t h a t he rends in the newspapers."

This is the remark which was made by a prominent Eostonlan at a public dinner n_few weeks ago, says the Bos-ton Journal . It is hardly worth notic-ing, it so ut ter ly lacks sense and dis- j crimination, but a s t r iking event has happened since it was spoken which

check similar foolish r emarks sufl'erer for over a vear and no. hopes for ' ^ l 0 " ' < | .

r ; f rom leaving the lips of those who a t -recovery. I tr ibute dishonest journalism tohones t

Rob*. Patterson who has been nek for | j ) a p e r s >

some time is somewhat better and hopes to j Commodore Dewey won a bril l iant be well enough to >pend the winter in ! victory on the other side of the world Florida. ! on e Sunday morning, nnd on Monday

Or. Clark has brouji t his beautiful morning every home in America was

Plense remember that you can get what you '.ant, ns you wnnt it, and at prices that are right, with a good line of stock to select from.

I young wife to dwell among us I'hey have our best wishes.

Mrs. Alonzo Davis, of Rockiord, aud Win. Patterson, wile and laughter, of Mc-Cords were entertained by .\ir.-.. 1'. Oavis last Sunday.

Dr. Wooster, wife and daughter were the

guests of S. Teeple Sunday. IL L. Davis, of Milwaukee has been

spending his vacation with his parents* F. M. Dnvis and wife.

Miss Genervie McCormick, one of Chi-cago's most promising aitists, who has been spelling the summer with the Hon, H. F, McCormick, of Grand Rapids, visited your correspondent and expressed great ad-miration of the scenery around our burg-Miss M. took home many sketches which she will transfer lo canvas the coming win.

ter.

| told about It. His name was upon . ! everybody's lips, his picture before all j | eyes, praises for his men in every con-| versation. I t was all +he work of " the i j newspapers."

Tho president, the navy depar tment ' ; and the board of naval s t ra tegy had |

not a word about the bat t le except what " the newspapers" told them. Monday went by, and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday, and a t the close of the working week there was still no information except what " the newspapers" gave. Congress was de-lighted and the plans of the war were advanced, ns the victory warranted . Yet the United Sta tes government would not have known there had been a bat t le but for " the newspapers."

Who is It, pray, t h a t does not believe a word he read in the newspapers?

Something new :i patriotic volope with a flag, red, white and blue. W c print them to yout dcr at $1 .00 for -'.'iO. They heauties. Try a batch.

Then the great Master of Life. Tnren-ya-wa-gn. Holder of the Heavens, saw with compassion and gave the star his wish, because of his love which keeps all things within the circle of his arm. Slowly, gently, through the purple twi-light, when Gush Kewnn. the darkness, nnd Weeng, the gentle spirit of sleep, hovered in the air, the star mine drif t-ing downward, floating, drif t ing, fall-ing from the far plains of heaven, the fair land above.

Through the forest a band of hunters came laden with game. Silently but quickly they traversed in unerring cer-tainty the trackless solitudes. They knew that just beyond, not fnr away, the twinkling fires of their wigwams gleamed redly through the darkness, flaming upon the laughing children a t play upon the smooth turf about tho lodges, flashing from Ihe glittering ornaments of the women as they moved about preparing the evening repfTH, and shining redly upon the grave faces of the braves and elders as they sat smok-ing the calumet and listening to tho voice of the Che-nee-ga-ha, tho story teller, ns he sung of their deeds of valor. All but one of the hunters hastened on-ward, seeing nil this awaiting them at the end of their wearisome march. Rut he. the Dreamer, tho one who saw where there was naught, he, looking skyward, beheld the star falling swift-ly through the darkness with all its paleness gone, flaming in ruddy splen-dor across the sky. "Sec." he says, "it Is the Wakendendas, the meteor I"

Then they turned to look in wonder and the wonder grew, as the star flamed downward, nntil it rested at length upon the bosom of the slumbering lake, when, lo I st raightway i t blossomed for th an earth flower, with slowly tmfolding silvery petals nnd heart of gold, lying rocked in blessed rest and peace upon the softly whispering water.

Thus was born the beautiful O-kun-dun-moge, tho water lily.—Detroit Journal .

A R a m t l n n T r a n n l n t l o n o f D i c k o n s .

Tho quizzically expanded met: liors and idiomatic, slangy expressio: > In the sprightly comical parts of th hook ("Dombey and Son") have son.i mes, naturally, proved too hard nuts r tho honest foreigner to crack. A Im rous Instance of such a fiasco occurs chap-ter 2, where Mr. Chick's mati lonLil bickerings with his better ha f form the theme of our Inimitable hur.iorist's sportive and allegorical muse. "Often, when Mr. Chick seemed be :en, ho would suddenly make a start, turn the tables, clatter them about the cars of Mrs. Chick, and carry all before him." The Russian rendering of this sen-tence, which I translated verbatim, runs: "Often, when Mr. Chick seemed beaten, he would s tar t up from his seat, catch hold of the chair, make a c' it ter close to the ears of his astonished spouse, nnd fling about everything thai came ready to hand." Well, indeed, might the elegant and ladylike Louisa show astonishment a t such emphatio contributions to the debate—Notes and Queries.

G R O W T H OF F L A X IN INDIA.

The P lan t In Reared Explnalrely fo* the Seed a n d Not for

Filter.

Consul-Oeneral Pat terson, nt Cal-cut ta , in a report to the depar tment of state, notes a cur ious fac t about- 11 a x growing, repor ts the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He writes: "In answer to an inquiry from a Chicago firm relativfr to the quant i ty of flax produced a n d exported from India, I would say t h a t flax is grown in India exclusively f o r the seed. In no part of the country ia the fiber produced. Experiments have been made for many years with the same result, viz., that it is no proof that a plant can be made to yield a fiber because it can be grown in a country. Flax, hemp and china g ras s are admirable samples of this fac t . The possible area of fiber production of any of these in India is extremely narrow. Hemp yields fiber in Russia and other countries and cannot Ivi made to produce the narcotic. . In In-dia the very reverse is the case, except in a small portion of the Himalayas, where it yields admirable fiber and no narcotic to speak of. While large areas of flux are cultivated in almost every par t of India and Bnrmah. it is grown, only for the seed, of which large quan-tities are exported, nnd not for fiber, and there Is no flax exported from In-dia."

A Puerto Hlco Cnntoin. William E. Curtis, who has been a

good deal of a globe trotter, writes from Washington to the Chicago Kec-ord: "I observed phenomena at San Juan, and the same at Ponce do Leon, for which I have never been able to ob-tain a satisfactory explanation. The

' old negresses who sit around the mar-ket place and tho shady street corneni selling dulces f rom large baskets are

i habitually smoking long black cigars. ' and they put the lighted ends In their j mouths. Why they do so and how they can enduro It are mysteries Ihat could not be solved, but it Is nevertheless a fact and a custom that is unique In Puerto Rico."

I.OWRM, A HASTINOS TIMETABLE.

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Trv THE LEDOBB 10 weeks tor 10c ' if your post . Mice is in thin county.

LENGTH OF MEXICAN WAR.

T h e r e ' s t o be a P icn ic a t Grat id

Rap ids , A u g u s t 28 .

Get ready to go and tell your friends and neighbors about the Schwabenfest or German Picnic on above date . The Annual Schwabenfest is an oc-casion of merrymaking by the Ger-mausand they cordially invite every-body to join them, All manner of old country games and sports are includ-ed in the day's program, and a fine brass band will furnish music. A plentiful supply of f;ood things to eat and drink will be furnished for the hungry and thirs ty. Schoenfold's grove a t Reed's L a k e will be the scene of festitives and is easily reach-ed by street cars fron the s'ati- n .

A ppecial excursion train the D . , G . R . &. W . Ry. will leave E lm-dale a t 10:05 a. m. and arr ive at Grand Kapids a t 10:50 a . m. Leave re turning a t 6:30 p. m . Round tr ip rate .40. 10

G E O . D E H A V E N , G . P . A .

LOUIS. MICH

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l loatll l t lea Were WaRed for Two Years Before Peace Wna

Declared.

The Mexican war is the best example and instruction in the time i t takes to fight small wars. That took two years nnd the present war Is moving a t express speed by Its side, as might be expected a f t e r 52 years, says the

I Philadelphia Press. Hostilitlea began { March 13, 1840. Gen. Mejla, at Mnta-I moras, called out the Mexican troops. | A month later, April 20.1646, Gen. Tay-i lor called for 5.000 militia. A fortnight

later, May 13, congress offlclaUy rec-ognized the war and culled for volun-teers. Mexico declared war May 23. 184C. Mexico hud no fleet and no army

. . ^ . j on the frontier except some desultory Mrs. M a r y D u n n i g s of Has t ings , o l e K Monltrey was not taken until

is dead a t t h e age 87 years . S h e had j f o u r months later, September 23, and

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M c C o r d s .

Frank Yanderatolp and family, of Grand Rapids were Sunday guests at Frank

Clark's. H.Davis,of Milwaukee, spent Wednes-

day with Wm. Patterson and family. Ida Pauhis. who has been visiting rela-

tiues in Grand Rapids, returned Saturday. Uncle Clint Wood has returned from a

two weeks visit with relatives in Wiscou-siu.

Clarence Thomas, who has been studying telegraphy under the supervision of L. Wa&sink, passed a very credible examina-tion in Grand Rapids, Thursday, and has accepted a position for a short time in the depot at Alma.

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l ived in t h a t place nea r ly 50 years .

A Caledonia man horsewhipped his 10-year-old boy on the p r n o i p a l s t ree t . T h e pi teous cries of t h e lad soou a t t rac ted a large crowd, who made d i re threa ts , and t h e f a t h e r took lo his heels, a lwut a hundred men and boys chas ing him.

Mar r i ed : Geo. P . McCabe, Can-non , Mary I rwin , Gra t t an .

T h e Grangers of Ionia county will hold their annual picnic on t h e fail-g rounds a t Ionia on A u g . 24.

Marr ied : Char l ie J e n n i n g s and P h e u a Dr ie r , of Greenvi l le .

J a m e s Mi l l s—Saranac—New sou.

J a m e s H a t c h — S o u t h Bos ton—A new daughter .

l luena Vista was not fought until eight months a f te r the war begun, February 22, 1847.

After nearly one year of hostil i t ies hi which our forces had been drilled and disciplined In camp and by months of campaigning, Gen. Scott sailed for Mexico and captured Vera Cruz, ten months a f le r hostllltleB began. March 29. 1847. I t took 4>/j mouths, to Sep-tember 14. 1847, before the City of Mex-ico was taken, 10 months a f te r hostil-ities opened. Pence only came in two years, in June , 1848. Yet the Mexican was quoted as a great case of quick work in fighting.

Che Ewlfler, Over Pos to f f l cc .

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Lowell, Michigan .

BIRTH OF THE WATER LILY.

Indian Leffend of the Falling; Stai Whleh Ueoame a F lower .

From tho twilight skies a pale s tar looked down with wistful longing upon the beautiful green earth. All about It Its brother and sister stars were br ight and happy and in bands sported together upon the measureless shining plain in which they lived or collected thickly along the broad road which is tho pathway of ghosts (the milky way) In their journey to the far-olt country of souls, the splmen-kah-wi-u, the fa i r land above. Pu t this one star was alone in heaven and sorrowful with longing. I t turned away from the soft light of the moon when she walked forth adown the broad heavens and shuddered and hid its face when the sun, the bright

t hear t of the sky, filing wide gates for the beautiful wabun, the smiling dawn-maidens. Fairer under the light of tho young moons or the bright shimmer of the sun seemed the lovely earth than all besides, and the still green meadows,

I tho cool waving forest, the blue rivers, j more blissful than the star-lodges set I In the sky. i Every night at twilight the star saw

its pale image reflected in a tranquil

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Closing Out Sale

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In order to close out our stock ol' /

I C r o q u e t S e t s

I will close them out at the following {/ low prices:

Trains arrive and depart from nont street passentror denot

D E T R O I T J L s o R f l N n n f l

June 19,18S3 OTAND RAPIDS & WESTERN R. R

Lv. tiol'-L' Kast A. M. 1'. M. 1'. M. Gnu il l<«pirts 7 0 0 1 3 5 2 5

" UilMiU 7 8 5 a 0 9 0 0 2

A T Lowell .'.U 15 2 0 Lv Lowell UUO A.M 4 20 ii Lansing 8 5-1 2 0 7 2 2

Ar Detroit 11 4 0 5 4 5 10 0 5 M. P. M K. M.

(. »i Nil wssr A M. !'. M. 1'. M. Lv rtrM' "s'iio I 10 r, io

!. -.n-ing 10 6 0 3 3 1 8 4 8

P. M. \r Lowell a so 0 20 Lv Lowell 11 5 0 •l so

Klindalc 1 2 1 3 4 4 3 10 18

Ar Grind Rapids ur.ss 5 20 10 5 5 Grind Rapids P. M K M. P. M.

4 Ball Sets 6 8 "

6 0 c 75c

S I , 0 0

They wont last long at these prices Take 'em while they last.

C . II A L E X A N D E R

• r s on all tralrn between Grand lb pul- i d Hetrcit. seats 25 cent-.

cr.fi. l)EH.VVRN,Oen. Pass. Agent, u • •WK, A^'i'ii' •»rand Kaplus

1/iwell

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM,

Arrival an«l Departsire ol l iains al,Lowell

T lmo T a b l e In Effect May 15 ,1898. WUSTW.VUII,

G d K a p i i l s , G d l l a v e n I.KAVI; ABIUVK aim Muskegon t l - I" p'" ^ 3 56 pm

Gd Kapids,(id Haven Muskegon and Chicago. f -1 55 pm ^T|0'47jauJ

Gd KapiJs,* id Haven and Milwaukee ate .Stations ' ') 19 pin f 7 ' ' am

Gd Kapids Gd Haven and Muskegon * 5 40 am *9 19 nm

Mixetl fid Kapids f 2 15 piuf 12

CLARKSVILLE — ACADEMY.

T H I S P R I V A T E SCHOOL O F F E R S T H E

FOLLOWING C O I R S E S O F STL'DY,

Where Doeii I 'apn Come Inf The Lclpsig Tagebintt devotes a col-

umn to the marriage market . An ad-vertisement published lately was as fol-

^ „ lows: "A eon, elderly, solid and seri-Dr . 31 i l l lman ol l ioston has re- j 0 U 8 f | 8 Keeking for his fa ther (a s tr ict

covered f rom his recent illness. and solid man In a quiet business) nn Miss Lor eil a Fe r ree is sitciuliii" j alone-Standing widow and maiden with

a few davs with a company of "ome ready money. Offers, with full f • i • ' .i i i* statement of particulars, to be ud-fr iend* m camp, on the. rank, ot I d r e t 5 t ( , ^ 1 0 n ^ b e | i i l ( ^

Uraud m e r near Lowell . [Sara- i viewed by appointment between the nac Adver t i ser . hours of nine and eleven."

P r iva t e 0 . Chamber la in , of the Ionia company now at Sant iago died there of malarial f e t e r last week.

Marr ied : V a r n e W . Clark, Sar-and K a t e Ellis.

Income Tax In India. The Income tax In India Is levied on

all incomes of £33 and upward, and then only one man in 700 comes within Its scope.

i its pale image reuecieu in «ctionl C o u r s e ; lake set round with green rushes, and , T l l i s < ) ) l i rH. ^ i | i e regular work ol

mighty forest trees witk wide arms , ..n n... O„,m ion branches of study. I Interlaced, and it looked with envy upon , Tuition for term of 20 weeks, j-S.OO.

the namagoosh (trout) and the sly 1 {£MgiiSh Course . . . kenozha (pickerel) leaping In the sun- | Gives shorter or review work of corn-light or flashing in the moonlight; upon inon Itranches and all academic studies

1 the dainda (frog) calling among flic i lending to first, second and third grade ' reeds nnd rushes, and upon the bright teacher'scenificatet. Tuition for term

w-a-«a-,iiis-sft (lifrlitninp bnS ) fllttlug . through tho darkness above the mur- I Acudcmlc Courses . . . muring water. Kvery night the loon

; called to the echo hiding upon Ihe shore 1 and the whippoorwill answered clear

and sweet In the purple distance. The i wild geese stretched their lazy flight j across the quiet surface, the plover

piped from the sedges, the owl hooted j a far In the lonely forest. | All through the long months of the I moon the star looked down upon tho

fa i r lake lying tranquil with waves splashing in soft undertone of nil hap-py things: saw the swei-t blossoms In the bright Moon of Flowers (May) creep down to ifs borders: saw the gentle fawns in the Month of the Deer

I (July) come troopimr down to drink of its cool waters, until now in the gray month of the Beaver (November) tho • t a r had grown wan and more pale, breathing its life away in sL-hs of long-ing.

Prepares the student for state certiti-cate or university. Tuition for term of 20 weeks, $10.

Nortnul Course . . . Includes kindergarten and professio. studies for all grades of teacher's ( tilieates. Tuition forjerni of 20 weeks $10.

B u s i n e s s Course . . . Gives iKH'k keeping in all itsformsaud nt her branches necessary for a complete business education. Tuition for term of 20 weeks, $15.

A n n o u n c e m e n t s f o r 1 8 9 7 - 9 8 . i

W i n t e r School Begins

Oct 24,1898. W r r i t e

F o r Par t i cu la r s .

and 0 ETranHnc/Mauaiicrs, Clarksville Ionia Co. Mi;h

Detroit, Ca;i.i 'a and l.KAVi: East t " 15 am

Detroit aiM liicago -'.a Durand tl'i-17ani

Detroit, C;;aada and East + Jl 50 pm

Detroit, Canada and East * 9 19 |>m t Except Sunday. * Daily.

Mixed Owosso +12 10

AnuiVE t 9 19 pm

t 4 55 pm

t l 2 10 pm

* 5 40 am

2 15.

SERVICI

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SLEEPING AND PARLOR CAR WESXWAUD.

12 10 pm train has parlor car to Grand Haven. Extra charge 26 cents.

9 19 pm train has parlor car to Grand Haven. Extra charge 25 cents.

JUSTWAhP. rr»am train has parioi c r t o Detroit a charge 25 cents. I'nlluian palace

»,.r Detroit to Toronto connecting with sleeping car for the east and New York— connects at Durand with C i\: G T division for Port Huron and Chicago and with < J

& M for Saginaw and Bay City. il BO pm train hits parlor car to Ditr ,

. Extra charge 25 cenls, aud I'ullroan -: tf . -; ing car to Toronto, Suspension I'rid | Bufialo, I'hiladeiphia ami New VoiJ i ' connects at Durand with ' A G T divisn .

for Port Huron and Battle Creek and with i C. 8. & M. division for Saginaw anil Bay I CitV.

A.O. HK.IDI.AVH, agent, I. •N il. Mich. I E, H. Hi oiu -. As-t Gen P .v T gent, i Chicago. III. i BEM FI.KT< HKR. Trav Pass agent Detroit j Midi.

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Doings of the Week Recorded in a Brief Style.

CONCISE AND INTERESTING.

' H l o h l f f u n S n l l o r I . iuht o n t h e T o s e m i t e

C o i n i n g H o m e — P r o m i n e n t M l c h l e u u

L a w r o r a n d L e g i M l a t o r D e a d — M l c b i -

R n n L o N t * M a n y o f S o l d i e r i t o y s .

M i c h i g a n N a v a l R c s e r v e n G o o n t o b e I T o m o

, Gov. P ingree rccei rcd t h e t e l e g r a m f rom Assis tant Sccro tary of the Navy Allen, n o t i f y i n g h i m t h a t t h e Yosemite had been ordereil to P h i l a d e l p h i a , w h e r e t h o officers and c r e w wil l be dis-•diarged, a n d i n v i t i n g h imsel f a n d staff . to inspect t h o c ru iser be fo re t h e Mich-igan Naval Reserves a r e sen t home. I n reply tho governor t e l e g r a p h e d t h a t he would endeavor t o be p re sen t if word conld be s en t to h i m on w h a t day h i s visi t would be ag reeab l e . , Nor folic, Va. : T h e U. S. aux i l i a ry c ru iser Yosemite, m a n n e d b y the Mich-i g a n Naval Reserves, ra ised he r a n c h o r In Hampton Roads and sai led fo r t h e f i e a g u e Is land navy ya rd , Ph i lade lph ia , Where t h o orew wil l be mus te red out Ot t h e service of t h e Uni ted S ta tes and i return t o t he i r homes.

W o r e H l o h l g a n B o y n D i e n t S a n t i a g o .

V h e l ist of dea ths a m o n g the Michi-g a n troops a t San t i ago con t inues to g r o w . T h e fo l lowing a r e the l a tes t : , H e r b e r t Darr , Co. F, 33d, ye l low fewer and pneumonia ; J o h n Hogan, Cd; D, 34th, typhoid fever; P. 0 . Covety, Oo. M, 34th, ye l low fever ; George Cull-m a n , Co. L, 34th, typhoid . • P r i v a t e F r a n k Fu l l e r . Co. M, 33d, typhoid fever j Scrg t . A r t h u r H. Henry ,

. 83d. yel low fever. Corp. Chas. C. Chamber la in , Ionia,

Oo. I . 34th, ye l low fever; Olof Hushy, Cto. L, 34th. malar ia l fever; Daniel J . Walancy, Co. G, 33J, ye l low fever : Ed-ward Myott , Co. L, 34th, typhoid fever; Lewis F. Wick, Co. 0 , 33d, ye l low /ever ; F r a n k Bur ton , Co. L. 33d, yel low fever.

C o n n t e r f c l t o r H C u u g l i t .

'A b i g hau l of couuterfeitcr.s has been made a t Detroit . Four b ro thers , Chaiies, Edmund , J o h n and David

• Johnson , a r c in safe keeping and abou t $5,000 in counte r fe i t money.besides the plates, otc., have been recovered a t t he i r headquar te rs , 795 Twen ty - s ix th s t ree t , Detroit . Tho Hancock and Win-dom S3 bil ls were t h e ones counter-fe i ted. t ho ar t i s t ic worlc required be-i n g done by t h e youngest b ro the r , David. T h e r e are few b a n k s in tliis soction of tho coun t ry , inc lud ing par-t icular ly Ohio, Michigan and ad jo in ing s ta tes , t h a t have no t of ten accepted these countcrfci ls . a n d the re have been few bogus bil ls t h a t have caused the government dctcctives more t rouble.

C o l . A t U i n a o n U l c d S u d d e n l y .

Col. J o h n Atkinson, one of the most p rominen t members of the Michigan

. b a r and s t a t e legis la ture and a s t r o n g -supporter and a ide of Gov. Pingree , died of neura lg ia of the hear t a t De-t ro i t . His t a k i n g off was most sudden, as he was a t h is ollicc and a b o u t t h e -city two days be fore apparen t ly in per-fect heal th . Fo r tuna t e ly t h e e n t i r e f ami ly was wi th in easy call , Mrs. At-k inson and the younge r ch i ldren be ing a t the i r summer home on Bois Blanc Island, Detroi t r iver ; his sons Dieut. Bcil ly Atkinson, Co. L. 33d Michigan, hav ing just r e tu rned from Sant iago , and Maj. O'Brien Atkinson, 33th Mich-igan, was at I s land Lnko.

HIcU Mlc IIIK i n O f l l r e r a O o u i o H o m e .

Brig.-(«en. DuOleld, of Detroi t , hav-i n g been released f rom quy.-antine a t I lgmont Key, Fla . , proceeded n o r t h t o Maine to recupera te f rom the effects of ye l low fever which he cont rac ted a t San t iago . Leave;, of absence have also been gran ted t o the fo l lowing conva-lescent Michigan officers: Col. Boynton, Maj . M. E. Webb, Maj. V. C. Vaughan , Capt. Wilcox, Lieut . Haas, 34lh Mich-igan ; Lieut . Atk inson 33d Michigan.

M I C H I G A N N E W S I T E M S .

. J o h n Crane h a s been appointed post-mas t e r a t Carbondale , Menominee county .

Mrs Andrew Ilurgos fell be tween t w o ca r s a t Kalamazoo and was f a t a l l y mangled .

F r e d Von Wal tcnhnusen . of Bay City, Co. A, 31sl Michigan, died of fever a t Ohiokamauga.

T h e Niles Mil l ing Co., of Niles, has received an o rde r from a Havana l inn f o r 1,009 ba r re l s of flour to be shipped by Sept. 1.

A Washington dispatch says the re is l i t t l e chanec of the 35th Michigan be ing ordered away f rom Camp Eaton before be ing mustered out.

\VhlIe on horseback d r iv ing cows Vlchoe l Rider , aged 12, n c a r G a g e t o w n , Was s t ruck by l i g h t n i n g and bo th boy and horso were kil led.

I lomer 0 . Pa lmer , of Manchester , Co. C, 31st Michigan, died of t y p h o l fevor a t Ohickamauga. His f a t h e r rived and took the r ema ins home.

Daniel Orccnman, a Michigan Cen t ra l employe, and Don F innegan . aged 14. were ki l led by an express Ir.iin u;i t h e Michigan Central at Ann Arbor .

T h e Bau l t Ste. Marie council has g ran ted a f ranchise in eonncction wi th t h e Soo w a t e r power canal which as-s u r e s the bu i ld ing of a S2,()00,000 p l an t

Chas, B a r t r c m , Co. B, 31st Michigan, d ied a t Camp T h o m a s f rom spinal men-ingi t i s . He w a s 19 years of age and w a s the first vo lun teer f rom St. Louis

f o r t h e second t i m e w i t h i n th ree weeks a whole ' company of the 35th Michigan a t Camp Ea ton h a s been made j thei r f r i ends a t t he expense of the gov Sick by t h e use of mi lk f u r n i s h e d them eminen t . All t h e o the rs wi l l be bur ied

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Chas. Carlson, aged 53. suic ided by d r o w n i n g a t Traverse City.

11 Sec re t a ry of War Alger h a s notif ied Gov. P ing ree to send t w o good sur-geons t o each of t h e Mich igan regi-m e n t s immedia te ly .

Work h a s begun t o w a r d t h e erect ion of a m o n u m e n t t o cx-Gov. B la i r on t h e s t a t e house g rounds , Lans ing . I t wi l l bo unvei led in October.

New Michigan pos tmas te r s : H a r t -ford , Wm. Benne t t : P l a i n w e l l , F r a n k P . Hea th ; Sou th Haven, Chas. Dela-m e n ; Boyne, R. E. New ville.

T h e s u p r e m e t rus tees of t h e K n i g h t s of t h e Maccabees have p u r c h a s e d choice p rope r ty a t Po r t Huron fo r t h e purpose of bu i ld ing a Maccabee temple .

T h e semi -annua l convent ion of t h e Cen t ra l Michigan Band association, a t Greenvi l le a t t r a c t e d over 10.000 people t o h e a r t h e 35 bands which were p resen t .

I t i s expected t h a t t he 33d and 34th Mich igan reg iments wi l l sail f rom San-t i a g o and be encamped a t Camp Wykof f , Montauk Point , L. L , by A u g u s t 25.

Pos tmas te r 11. L. Bourroughs , of Fa i rgrove , Tuscola county , was a r -rested charged with f a i l ing t o deposit government moneys a m o u n t i n g t o a b o u t SI00.

Capt. Fred Alger, son of the secre tary of war . Is not recovering f rom feve r contracted in Cuba as rapidly as w a s hoped for. and is confined a t t he f am-ily home a t Washington.

Capt. Fred Alger, of Gen. Mi les ' s t a f f , son of Secretary Alger, has arr ived a t Washing ton to recover f rom a spra ined knee and an a t tack of mala r ia resu l t -ing f rom the Sant iago campaign.

Warren tu rned out w i t h all k inds of noise-making appa ra tu s t o welcome home J . 11. F lynn. a g u n n e r of t h e ba t -t lesh ip Texas , who arr ived home on a seven days ' fu r lough . He is on ly 17 years of age.

Mrs. J o h n Mend, of Rice Creek. Cal] houn county, was s t r u n g back of t h e h a n d by a black horne t whi le fishing. The h a n d began to swel l and she w a s unconscious in 29 minu tes and dead in less t h a n an hour.

Har ry Adams, aged 18. of Grand Rapids. Co. E, 32d Michigan, died of typhoid fever a t Fe rnand ina . Fune ra l services were held aud the en t i re regi-men t escor t ing the r emains to t h e de-pot for sh ipment home.

The fever pa t ien ts of t h e 32d Michi-gan have been t r ans fe r r ed f rom Fer-nand ina . Fla. , to F t . McPherson. At-lan ta , Ga. Over 50 pa t i en t s were t a k e n on the first t r a in and the re were as m a n y more to fol low.

Drs. J . 0 . Cobb, Lee, Pa lmer , Stimp-son and Stevenson, i m m u n e physicians, appointed by <iov. P ingree t o he lp care fo r the sick in the 33d and 34th Michi-gan a t Sant iago, arr ived a t New York t o t ake t h e Yale for Cuba.

Fred A. Pereival. Co. F , 33d Michi-gan , w h o was reported dead a t San-tia«ro. and whose p ic ture and o b i t u a r y appeared in several papers, h a s re-ported to his m o u r n i n g Port Huron f r i ends t h a t he is alive and wel l .

F ishermen of Beaver is land, L a k e Michigan, declare they wi l l not observe the closed fishing season as i t is t he i r most profi table t ime of t h e year . Troub le Is expected a s Game Warden Osborn says he wi l l enforce t h e l aw.

At t h e elqsinjr mee t ing of t h e a n n u a l conference of the Free Methodists a t Paris , Mecosta county , scores of people became uncont ro l l ab le f r o m excite-ment , and Dr. Ashe, of Walkcrvi l le , Wm. Meode. a f a rmer , died f r o m hea r t t roub le , aggrava ted by exci tement .

Mary Maehi, aged 10, a domest ic , w a s found hi an o rcha rd a t Dearborn wi th her th roa t cut f rom ear t o ear and a bloody rav.or nea r by. T h e grass abou t her was beaten down a s t h o u g h a s t rugg le had t aken place, b u t an ex-amina t ion of the body showed t h a t no assau l t had t aken place. Wm. Parish, aged 22. a foster b ro the r of t h e girl , was arrested on suspicion.

A syndlchte of Boston cap i ta l i s t s has secured op t ions of the Chicago, Kala-mazoo it Say inaw and the Lowell & Has t ings ra i l roads, and it is t he inten-tion of the company to ex tend tho Lowell & Has t ings south f rom Free-por t to Has t ings t o connect w i th tho Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw, and n o r t h f rom Lowell to Belding. Th is will give Belding a n open ing direct t o Chicago by way of Kalamazoo.

The s ta te mi l i t a ry board has dcclded t h a t t he reorganiza t ion of the s t a t e mil i t ia for the present shal l consist of one ba t ta l ion of 430 men, eo t h a t In case of an emergency in Michigan the re will be t roops enough to protect prop-e r t y and quel l riots. The board feels t h a t t he reorgan iza t ion should not t a k e place whi le absen t members arc a w a y to war . They st i l l be long t o the s t a t e mil i t ia , t he i r en l i s tmen t In t h e Uni ted Sta tes service s imply a c t i n g as a leave of absence.

At a mee t ing of the Democratic s t a t e cen t ra l commit tee and the Democrat ic candidates , held a t Detroi t , a p l an of campaign was out l ined , which pr inci -pally consists of a n a t t a c k upon Gov, P ingrec ' s admin i s t r a t ion . At t h i s

ictiug ("has. S. Hampton , of Petos-was elected sec re ta ry of the com-

ittcc; Geo. Wm. Moore, of Det ro i t , asurer , and If. G. Coburn. of How-

i j n City. !!• ' l iecrctary. I t w a s dixjded to .•."usirt t he campaign in f u l l s w i n g about Sept. I.

The w a r depa r tmen t , in reply t o a n anpeul f rom Gov. P ingree on the sub-j(St, repor ts t h a t t he g raves of soldiers of th i s w a r have been marked , and i t is t he in ten t ion of the d e p a r t m e n t , as soon a.s t he condi t ions wi l l pormit , t o send an expedit ion t o Cuba for t h e purpose of b r i n g i n g the bodies to t h i s count ry . As many will be taken t o their homes fo r bur ia l as requested b y

Russia is Crowding Great Britain Out of Northern China.

BRITISH BECOMING MOUSED.

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in the nat ional cemeteries on Ameri-can soil.

Lyman and I ra Van Kersen, aged 8 and 13, d rowned in Muskegon lake .

Great Br i ta in has received a severe set-back in China as a resu l t of t h e combined diplomacy of Russia, F r a n c e and Belgium, pa r t i cu la r ly the fo rmer . The contes t centered on the g r a n t i n g of the concessions fo r cons t ruc t ing a ra i lway f r o m Pekin t o Han-Kow, a n d It was universa l ly conceded t h a t t h e power wh ich secured th i s was in t h e ascendancy in Chinese empire. F o r this reason Sir Claude M. MacDonald, the Bri t ish minis te r t o China, a t t ended a mee t ing of the Chinese foreign office officials and pledged Great Br i t a in ' s fo rmal promise to suppor t China If t h rea tened by any fore ign power on account of a concession gran ted to a Bri t ish subjec t . However . M. Pavloff . t he Russian charge d 'affaires , con t inued to e x e r t his influence aga ins t t he Pe-k in-Han-Kow rai l road. The conces-sion represented t h e essence of Grea t Br i t a in ' s f u t u r e in China, and i t w a s realized t h a t if China yielded t o Rus-sian menaces, t he prospects of t h e Shan Si (British) syndica te were im-peri led. I t w a s a foregone conclusion t h a t M. Pavloff would demand a revo-cation by the Chinese government of the S h a n SI contrac t . Pr iva te en te r -prise would avail n o t h i n g aga ins t t h o representa t ions of Russia, and Grea t Br i ta in would he ba r red f rom t h e com-mercial advan tages which t h a t agree-ment carr ies .

L a t e dispatches f rom Pek in say t h a t an Imperial edict has finally issued sanc t ion ing the Belgian loan f o r t h e const ruct ion of t h e railway l ine f r o m Pek in to Han Kow. despi te the p ro t e s t s of S i r Claude MacDonald, t he Br i t i sh minis ter . Baron DeVinck, the Be lg ian minis te r , sen t a d ispatch t o the T s u n g -Li-Yamen. (Chinese fore ign office) as-s e r t i n g t h a t M. Pavloff, t he Russ ian cha rge d 'affaires, a n d M. Gerard, t h e F rench minis te r , had joined h i m in u r g i n g the Tsung-LI-Yamen t o disre-ga rd the a t t empt of the Bri t ish minis-ter . t o prevent t h e ratification of Pek in -Han Kow cont rac t , and i t is asser ted conf ident ly tha t despi te t h e Br i t i sh en-deavor t o obta in a revision of t h e con-t r a c t . an Imperial decree wi l l issue f o r t h w i t h for i ts rat i f icat ion.

T h e Tsung-LI-Yamen has a lso g iven fo rma l assent to a l l t he cond i t ions im-posed by the Russian c h a r g e d 'af-fa i res , M. Pavloff, r e g a r d i n g t h e con-t r a c t fo r the Niu-Chwang (ur i t i sh ) ra i l -w a y extension loan . These condi t ions a r e in d i rect conflict w i t h t h e t e r m s of t h e s igned con t r ac t and a re designed t o b lock t h e comple t ion of t h e final con t rac t .

London : All t h e m o r n i n g pape r s in-c lud ing t h e suppor t e r s of t h e govern-m e n t , a t t a c k Lord Sa l i sbury f o r weak-ness in dea l ing w i t h t h e Chlne&e ques-t ion . T h e S t anda rd sa3*s: " T h e s e re-pea ted humi l i a t i ons a r e becoming In to lerab le ."

Daily Mail: " T h e door is closed. T h e proudly boas ted Bri t i sh Hon does n o t exis t in the Yang t se val ley. I t is a mis take ; and , look ing t o w h a t Lord Sa l i sbury has done In E g y p t , h i s fai l -u r e in China i s inexpl icable ."

Daily Chronicle: " W h a t is t o be t h e resu l t nobody can say. T h e r e is room for t h e gloomiest forebodings . Does t h e coun t ry real ize t h a t fo r w a n t of a l i t t l e fo res igh t and firmness Great Br i ta in may e re long be p lunged in to a colossal w a r ? Such, w i t h o u t the leas t doub t or exaggera t ion , is t he ap-pa l l inp poss ibi l i ty ."

In the house of commons A. J . Bal-four , t he first lord of the t r easury and government leader , admi t ted t ha t t h e s t a t emen t s in the Pekin dispatch were subs tan t i a l ly correct , aud said t h a t t he m a t t e r w a s " e n g a g i n g tho ser ious a t t en t ion of the governmen t . "

Par is : T h e papers a re f u l l of t h e hignificancc of t h e Chinese quest ion. The Mat in says: " I n China the g rea t -est game in t h e world is be ing played, nnd French in te rvent ion should bo efficacious a n d decisive." The Soir has a sensa t ional ar t ic le headed, " W a r be tween E n g l a n d nnd Russia Imminent . " T h e J o u r n a l des Deba tssays : " E n g l a n d is now seekimr an a r r a n g e m e n t wi th Russia. T h a t u n d e r s t a n t l n g is impos-sible unless Russia r emains mistress of of tho nor th and Eng land Is insured her influence on the Yangtse r iver . In shor t , t h e l ines of the scetion a re beg inn ing t o be marked a long which the d i s rupt ion would occur whenever China fa l l s to pieces. Clearly, ne i t he r Franco, Germany nor J a p a n could hold aloof f r o m such an ag reemen t . " Tho ar t ic le h i n t s t h a t F rance would sup-por t Russia in the event of war , and savs, in conclusion: " F r a n c e will bo con ten t w i th the s o u t h e r n provinces, border ing on Tonqu ln . "

DEWEY EDM CARDED M A N I L L A .

C i t y U n r o n d i t i n n o l l j r K t i r r p i i d o r e d

C » l > t . - ( i o n . A i r - u s t I F i n d .

Washing ton : The .state d e p a r t m e n t gives out the fo l lowing dispatch re-ceived f r o m U. S. Consul Wl ldman, a t Hong Kong: "Augus t i says Dewey bombarded Manila; c i ty su r r ende red uncondi t iona l ly . August i w a s t a k e n by Germans in a l aunch t o t h e c ru iser Kaiserin Augus ta and b r o u g h t to Houg Kong. Cedit repor t . "

Press dispatelies f r o m Hong K o n g say: (Jen. August i , cap ta in-genera l of t he Phi l ippines , arr ived by the Kaiserin Augusta . l ie refuses to be in terv iewed and wi l l say no th ing more t h a n t h a t he is go ing to Spain a t t he first oppor-tun i ty . The German consul was called upon and he informed t h e correspond-e n t t ha t t h e ou t sk i r t s of Mani la were bombarded by the Americans and t h a t t he c i ty sur rendered . No d a m a g e w a s done to t h e c i ty proper , on ly t h e out -sk i r t s be ing bombarded. Gen. Augus t i told o lady t h a t Admira l Dewey de-manded the su r render of Mani la in a n hour . T h e Spaniards declined t o sur -render , and Dewey began t h e bombard-ment . nnd the .Spaniards hoisted the w h i t e flag. Gen. August i immedia te ly jumped in to a German launch , wh ich was in wa i t ing , and w e n t t o the Kais-er in Augus t a which sai led be fore t h e b o m b a r d m e n t w a s concluded.

Madr id : The gove rnmen t is i n fo rmed t h a t (Jen. August i , governor -genera l of t h e Phi l ippines , has l e f t Mani la f o r Spain, g iv ing his command to t h e sec-ond in r a n k .

United States and Spain Sign a Peace Protocol.

ALL HOSTILITIES HAVE CEASED

P r e n l d e n t M c K l n i e y I x s n e d a T r o c l a m a -

t i o n I m m r d l a t e l y A f t e r t h e S l K i i i n i ;

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t h e P r o t o c o l In O n t l l n c .

Madrid dispatches r e p o r t t h a t s teps have been t aken to cour tmar t i a l Gen. Tora l fo r s u r r e n d e r i n g at Santiago.

The w a r depa r tmen t is a r r a n g i n g to con t inue supply ing food to the Cu-ban Insurgents and I n h a b i t a n t s fo r a n Indefinite period.

The Insurgen t s in t h e western p a r t of Cuba a r e w i n n i n g numerous victo-r ies over t h o Spanish. T h e most im-p o r t a n t was t h a t of 3,000 Insu rgen t s unde r Gen. Gomez, w h o crossed t h e s t rong t r o c h a be tween Las Vil las a n d Camaguey a f t e r d e f e a t i n g 4,000 Span-lards w h o guarded t h e - t r o c h a a t t h a t point . More t h a n 300 Sanlards w e r e ki l led i^nd t h e Cubans lost 130 men. At Tres Pa lmas a smal l body of Cubans under Gen. Diaz drove COO Spanish t roop i f r o m the t o w n a n d c a p t u r e d a supply of a rms , a tnmuni t ion and s tores .

The navy d e p a r t m e n t has Issued or-ders t o d i scon t inue en l i s tments .

T h e P e a c e N e w s S e n t O a t .

Ponce, Por to Rico: T h e peace n e w s h a s stopped all f o r w a r d movements of t h e American a r m y in Po r to Rico. Gen. Wilson, a t Coamo, and Gen. Schwan, a t Mayaguez, wi l l r ema in a t those places, which t h e y took posses-sion of a f t e r hot ba t t l e s in wh ich t h e losses w e r e small . Gen. Henry , w h o is a t Utuado . wi l l r e t u r n to Ad jun t a s , and Gen. Brooke, w h o had advanced beyond Guayama, wi l l r e t u r n t o t h a t t own . Gen. Miles expec ts t o do noth-ing pending the a r r i va l a t San J u a n of t h e peace commissioners.

T H E N E W S C O N D E N S E D .

Pres iden t McKlnley wi l l l a k e a va-ca t ion in October.

I t i s repor ted t h a t Mulai-Ab-El-Aziz, s u l t a n of Morocco, i s dead.

T h e customs rece ip ts a t San t i ago J u l y 30 t o Aug. 13, were £0-1.215.

Maj .-Geu. F l t z h n g h Lee announces h i s candidacy fo r t h e U. S. sena te .

T h e U. S. gove rnmen t announces t h a t unres t r ic ted mall service wi th Spain h a s been resumed .

T h e first Amer ican flag t o e n t e r H a v a n a h a r b o r s i n c e Gen. Lee le f t , was e a r n e d by t h e d ispa tch boot Moran .

Repor t s f r o m S a n t i a g o say Gen. Gar-cia h a s repented of h is has ty ange r to-w a r d Gen. S h a f t e r and is anx ious to be re ins ta ted in t h e good graces of t h e Amer icans .

T h e American b a r k C. C. F u n k , f rom Tacoma, foundered on T a s m a n i a and 11 of those on boa rd t h e bark , includ-i n g Capt. Nissen. h i s wi fe a n d t w o chi ldren , were d rowned .

Germany is opposing t h e United S t a t e s ' proposed nava l s ta t ion in Papo-Pago ha rbor . Samoa, and a.s a counter -move It is predic ted t h a t Germany will t ry to annex t h e Islands.

Miss Clara Bar ton , head of t h e Red Cross society, h a s asked Pres ident Mc-Kln l ey fo r a vessel to ca r ry much-needed relief suppl ies to Havana . I t wi l l be g ran ted immedia te ly .

With a s implic i ty in keep ing w i t h republ ican ins t i tu t ions the w a r , which h a s raged be tween Spain and t h e United S t a t e s fo r a period of t h r e e mon ths and 22 days, w a s qu ie t ly ter-mina ted when Secretary of S ta te Day, fo r the Uni ted States , and M. Cambon, ambassador of France, ac t ing fo r Spain, in t h e presence of Pres ident Mc-Klnley. s igned a protocol which wi l l form the bas is of a def ini te t reo ty of peace. As t h i s ceremony was con-cluded t h e Pres ident requested, tho hand of t h e ambassador and t h r o u g h him r e t u r n e d t h a n k s to the s is ter re-publ ic of F rance fo r t h e exercise of her good offices in b r i n g i n g abou t peace. He a lso thanked tho ambassa-dor persona l ly for t h e pa r t he has played in t h e negot ia t ions , and the la t -t e r repl ied in app ropr i a t e terms. As a f u r t h e r m a r k of his disposi t ion. Presi-den t MeKinley called fo r t h e procla-mat ion which he had caused to be d rawn up, suspending host i l i t ies , and s igned i t in t h e presence of M. Cambon, who expressed his apprec ia t ion of t h e act ion.

T h e procotol provides as fol lows: 1. T h a t Spain will re l inquish a l l

c laim of sovere ign ty over and t i t l e t o Cuba.

2. T h a t P o r t o Rico nnd o t h e r Span-ish i s l ands in t h e West Indies , and an Island in t h e Ladrones , t o be selected by t h e Uni ted Sta tes , sha l l be ceded t o the la t te r .

3. T h a t tho Uni ted S ta tes wi l l oc-cupy nnd hold the c i ty , bay and hr.r-bor of Mani la , pend ing t h e conclusion of a t r e a t y of peace which shal l deter-m i n e t h e control , disposit ion and gov-e r n m e n t of t h e Phil ippines.

4. T h a t Cuba. P o r t o Rico and o t h e r Spanish Islands in t h e West I nd i e s sha l l be Immediate ly evacuated and t h a t commissioners, t o be appointed w i th in 10 days, sha l l , w i t h in 30 days f r o m the s i gn ing of the protocol, meet a t Havana and San J n n n . respectively, to a r r a n g e and execute t h e de ta i l s of t he evacuat ion .

5. T h a t t h e Uni ted S ta tes and Spain wi l l each appo in t no t more t h a n five commiss ioners to nego t i a t e ami con-c lude a t r e a t y of peace. T h e commis s ioners a re t o mee t a t P a r i s no t l a te r t h a n Oct. 1.

0. On the s i g n i n g of t h e protocol, hos t i l i t i e s will be suspended, and no-t ice t o t h a t effect wi l l b e given a s soon a s possible by each gove rnmen t to the commande r s ol i t s mi l i t a ry and naval forces.

T h e p roc lamat ion issued by Presi-d e n t MeKinley w a s a s follows:

Whereas . By a protocol concluded and s igned Aug. 12, 1398, by Wi l l iam R. Day.secre ta ry of s t a t e o f the Uni ted States , a n d h U excellency. J u l e s Cam-bon. ambiissador ex t r ao rd ina ry and p l en tpo teo t i a ry o ; t he Republic of F ranco a t Washington , respectively rep-r e s e n t i n g for t h i s purpose the govern-m e n t of tho Uni ted S ta tes and the gov-e r n m e n t of Spain, t he United S ta tes and Spain have formal ly agreed upon tho t e r m s on wh ich nego t i a t ions for t h e e s t ab l i shmen t of peace be tween t h e t w o count r ies shal l be u n d e r t a k e n : and , Whereas, I t is in said protocol A ter r ib le c loudbur s t in H a w k i n s

county , Tenn . , carr ied 32 persons lo t h t t t l l P"» «ts conclusion a n d

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P u r s a i t s o f P e a c e .

Washing ton : The White House, t h e war depa r tmen t and tho navy depar t -ment have resumed the i r usual quie-tude, a condit ion wh . J i has not pre-vailed since the Maine was blown u p in Havana harbor . Februa ry 15. T h e busy, war l ike a t t i t u d e has en t i r e ly disappeared and Washington h a s set-tled down to a peace basis.

The Pres ident believes t h a t t h e mos t ser ious problem which the peace com-mission will be called upon to dea l w i th is the Phil ippines. Before t h e commission assembles It is hoped the a f fa i r s of Cuba and Porto Rico will be found in such process of a d j u s t m e n t as to leave l i t t l e fo r the commission t o cons ider under t h a t head. The f a c t t h a t t h e Phi l ippines will present t h e difficult problem has caused t h e admin-i s t ra t ion t o give It a grea t deal of care-fu l a t t en t ion . Several su rgos t lons have been made as to w h a t shal l be done. I t Is believed, however, t h a t t he admin i s t ra t ion and the commission will b e g rea t ly influenced by the re-por t s which Admira l Dewey and Gen. M e r r i t t will make on the subjec t . No more t roops will be sent to Gen. Mer-r i t t un less he asks for them. It is be-lieved a t t h e w a r depa r tmen t t h a t t he 10.000 men now t h e r e are sufficient to ga r r i son Manila and the g round wh ich the Un i t ed S ta tes f o r the present wi l l occupy. r T h e final de te rmina t ion as t o t h e ( rovcrnment of Po r to Rico and the set-t l emen t of the government of Cuba are problems, bu t tho impression prevai ls t h a t these Is lands will become qu i t e r ap id ly Americanize*!, and every en-courngement f o r them t o d o so will be g iven . Por to Rico wi l l be under mili-t a r y control f o r the present . Cuba wi l l be s imi lar ly governed, but It is p robab le t h a t American r e fo rms in the m a t t e r of government w 11 be such t h a t t he people of Cuba wi l l see the ad-v a n t a g e of becoming annexed t o t h e Un i t ed States . The re h a s been l i t t le doub t abou t soon se t t l i ng the t r a n s f e r of Po r to Rico, and the reception which t h e American t roops have received in t h a t is land is-a jus t i f ica t ion for t h e be-l ief . Por to Rico wi l l be t r ea ted a s a n American possession. -Military post-offices will be es tabl ished a t onco whereve r t roops are s ta t ioned and a t such o the r po in t s as may bo demanded b y the Interests of Americans and t h e people of t h e i s land , if t h e present offi-ees arc not avai lable . A s imi la r course wi l l be t aken in Cuba, b u t t h i s is l ikely t o be delayed, a s t h e immedia te re-moval of the Spanish a n d t h e occupa-t ion by the Uni ted S t a t e s is no t ex-pected

t h e i r dea ths besides do ing damage t o property. Five en t i r e fami l ies were wiped ou t of existence, one fami ly n u m b e r i n g 13 persons.

Tho huge c a m p n t M o n t a u k Point , Long Is land, h a s been named "Camp Wykoff , " in honor of Col. Chas. A. Wyhoff , 22d U. S. i n f a n t r y , who w a s ki l led J u l y 1 a t Sant iago. A p len t i fu l supp ly of f r e sh w a t e r has been found fo r the camp.

A dispatch f rom Ponce, Por to Rico says: Capt. Biddle, of Co. C, F o u r t h Ohio volunteers , m u s t s t and t r ia l by cour tmar t i a l and then a n s w e r for t h e conduct of h is men d u r i n g t h e a t t ack on Guaynma. I t Is al leged t ha t dur-ing the s l i gh t sk i rmish Co. C fled panic s t r icken a t t he first fire, and the i r flight spread t h e a la rm, which almost causod a pan ic in t h e r anks .

Rear Admira l Ki rk land , command-a n t of the Mure Is land novy yard, a t Valojo, Cal., died there . He would have been placed on t h e re t i red l i s t J u l y 2 were i t not fo r the war . He w a s appointed f rom N o r t h Carolina, J u n e 20, 1850. Ho served a t sea f o r e igh t mon ths as r ea r admira l ; total sea service, 23 yea r s and n ine months ; shore or o t h e r du ty , 10 years and e igh t months .

Tho pope is aga in confined to h is bed nnd his ex t reme weakness has produced a g rea t commotion, exc i tement and in-t r igues a m o n g the member s of t h e sacred college. I t is repor ted t h a t France, Germany and Aus t r ia , as be ing chiefly concerned in t h e accession t o the papacy, have ordered the i r repre-senta t ives not to leave Rome. Dr. Lupponi, t h e pope's physic ian, t h i n k s t h e r e is no d a n g e r if tho pope is able t o pull t h r o u g h t h e hot w e a t h e r .

Tho Uni ted S ta tes gove rnmen t Is no t gplng t o t a k e much nonsense f r o m Agulnaldo , t h e Ph i l ipp ine i n s u r g e n t leader . . T h e ins t ruc t ions t o Gon. Mer-r i t t and Admi ra l Dewey will be very specific on t h i s point . If Agulna ldo makes any t r o u b l e h e will be a r res ted and depor ted . Not h a v i n g the Span-ish t roops t o fight t h e United S t a t e s forces wi l l m a k e s h o r t work of Aguln-aldo If he Is incl ined t o be t reacherous .

Gon. Blanco has t endered t o t h e Spanish g o v e r n m e n t h i s res igna t ion ns cap ta in g e n e r a l of Cuba, g iving as h is reason t h a t h e does no t wish to super-i n t end t h e evacua t ion of Cuba.

s igna tu re , host i l i t ies be tween the t w o count r ies sha l l be suspended, and t h a t not ice to t h a t effect shal l be given a s soon a.s possible by each government to the commanders of i t s mi l i t a ry aud naval forces:

Now. therefore , I . Wil l iam MeKin-ley, P res iden t of the United States, do, in accordance wi th the s t ipu la t ions of t h e protocol, declare and proclaim on t h e p a r t of t he United Sta tes a suspen-sion of host i l i t ies , and do horob}' com-mand t h a t orders be immediately given t h r o u g h the proper channe l s to tho commanders of the mi l i tary and naval forces of the Uni ted Sta tes to ab s t a in f rom all ac ts inconsistent w i t h t h i s proclamat ion .

I ^ i r ^ c C . i i i i p s I l r e a k l i i R U p .

Most of the t roops now In camp n t Chlckamaugn, Fernandina , T a m p a , Jacksonvi l le nud o the r sou thern camps aro to be moved to o the r points , t h e objec t be ing to break up t h e l a r g e camps because t he i r size m a k e s t h e m unhea l thy . One division of the F i r s t

a r m y corps is ordered f r o m Chieka-m a u g a to Knoxvil le. T h i s Includes tho Second and Six th Ohio and 31st Michigan. Ano the r Chickamauga di-vision goes to Lexington , Ky., and It is p robable t h a t bo th wi l l march to t h e i r des t inat ions . Seven r e g i m e n t s will be t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m F e r n a n d i n a to Hunts -ville, Ala., Inc luding the 32d Michigan, T h i r d and F i f t h Ohio. Tho F i r s t Ohio and F i f t h U. S. cavalry aro ordered f r o m T a m p a to Mon tauk , L. I. N ine a t Manassas , Va. , and unt i l recent ly a t Camp Alger, will be t r ans fe r r ed t o Mlddle town, Pa.

Secre tary Alger js quoted as s a y i n g t h a t few if ; ny vpiu iueer troops wi l l be discharged fo r several m o u t h s to come. Not less t h a n 100,000 t r oops wi l l be required in Cuba, a n o t h e r forcc wi l l hold Por to Rico and a la rge num-ber wi l l be needed to g u a r d a g a i n s t f u t u r a cont ingencies in t h e Phil ippines.

T h e U n i t e d ' S t a t e s - C a n a d i a n C o m m i s s i o n .

T h e jo in t commission appointed by t h e United. S ta tes and Grea t Br i ta in to consider-var ious m a t t e r s of impor tance be tween t h e U. S. and Canada, wi l l mee t a t Quebec on Augus t 23. Among t h e m a t t e r s to be considered will be t h e ques t ion o l seal h u n t i n g In the Be-ing s ea aud Pacific ocean; more f r iendly fishing regu la t ions on both At lant ic and Pacifie coasts; e s t ab l i sh ing t h e Alaska-CanadiaD bounda ry ; t r anspor -t a t i o n of merchandise be tween t w o po in t s in o a e count ry t h r o u g h terr i -to ry of t h e o ther ; a l ien l abor laws; m i n i n g r i g h t s of ci t izens of one coun-t r y in t h e t e r r i to ry of t h e o ther ; recip-rocal cus toms dut ies on the products of t h e soil or Indust ry of each count ry ; a revision of the agreement of 1817. re-spec t iug nava l vessels on t h e Great lakes, so tha t , whi le the a r g u m e n t may not bo wholly abroga ted , i t will be so emended as to pe rmi t lake ship-bui lders to compete wi th p l an t s a long tho At lan t ic and Pacific coasts in t h e const ruct ion of smal l w a r vessels, which need not necessari ly receive the i r a r m a m e n t s un t i l they reach t ide w a t e r ; for complet ion of t h e m a r k i n g of the f r o n t i e r line by land or water ; provisions for the conveyance of per-sons in the lawful custody of tho offi-cors of one count ry t h r o u g h the terr i -tory of tho other ; reciproci ty In wreck ' ing and salvage r igh t s .

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A Pennsy lvan ia swi tch engine ki l led Berna rd Dunn n t Columbus.

Salvador , Honduras and Nica ragua have decided to organize a confederacy under tho t i t l e of " T h e United S ta tes of Central America." Tho first eon-gross will meet a t the provisional cap-i tal , Amapala, op Tiger island, Hon-duras; and wi l l choose e i the r Amapala , Choluteca or Chlncndaga as p e r m a n e n t capital .

The formal ag reemen t which Is t o bind tho United Sta tes and Spain to

en te r upon negot ia t ions of a t r e a t y of peace w a s prepared b y Mr. Adee. sec-ond ass is tant secre ta ry of s ta te , po in t s to bo included hav ing been previously agreed upon be tween the Pres ident , Secre ta ry Day, and M. Cambon. Some difficulty was found In t h e task , a s I t was deemed essent ia l to cover every poin t w i t h such feTielty of expression as to leave no possible chance f o r mis-unde r s t and ing I c t w e e n the p a r t i e s he rea f t e r .

10)5 Dap Star or m I Orknep's. *

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3 A Romance—By Hannah B. McKcnzic.

C H A P T E R fV.—(Continued.) "Duty aga in? Terrible word 'duty!' ,

Seems to mo the c rea t ss t enemy of all 1

human Joy and case and love." said Lilith. "Io it wicked of me. Dr. Hal-crow? hut I a lmost wish there was no such thing. We should all be so much happ er wifhout ."

"Not If duty represents to us. as it shou:d do, the will of God." said Mag-nus, In a low voice. "But I shou-d i not Walt, Miss S tua r t : It Is a matter of life and death. Let me bid you good-bye."

"You will go then? Now f know tha t my lnfliier.ee over you counts for nothing." said Lilith. She looked s t ra ight In-o his eyes, and her own weie wondrously soft aud languid.

Elspeth Troll shot one hurried, fur-tive glance f rom her work, and ci:-s j caught that look of Llllth 's. She saw, too. h-iw Maguus Halcrow first flushed and then grow pale before that look. There suddenly fiashed Into Elspeth's mind the remembrance of a scene sn-j had read about where, in the dim. long-ago woods of Brocfliande, a wily Vivien flattered and lured a noble Mer-lin to his ruin. And Elspeth's thread suddenly b ro t e , and her hand seem?d oddly unsteady for a moment. Then | Magnus released Llllth 's hand.

'•You cannot be in earnest, Miss ;

Stuar t , " he said gravely. "My honor j as a doctor, and my humanity as a j man, call upon me to go at once with help wherever it Is required. 1 must not wait . ' Good-bye."

Wi th two of his long strides he was at the door. He had never even no-ticed that Elspeth Troll was present. Elspeth went on with her sewing, only her face seemed a little paler now than it had been.

Magnus was soon speeding on his homeward way. He could not drive Lilith from his mind. A subtle a t -tract ion drew him to her. and yet, as soon ns he was gone f rom her presence, something in him revolted against tha t a t t rac t ion. He hardly dared glvo the feeling words lest he should have to own tha t he distrusted her.

H e raced onwards, little guessing tha t t he man to whose help he was going was one whose fate was strangely Interwoven with t ha t of Lilith Stuart 's . There Is l i t t le prescience in human life, whatever telegraphy and spiritualism may say. and Magnus could not foresee the terrible future.

Day met him as he sprang from his machine.

"Oh. Magnus, how quickly you have come! 1 am BO glad to see you. He Is conscious, dear; but that is all. I th ink he was struck by l ightning or his machine was. more likely—and ' s dazed and paralyzed by the shock; but he may be Injured, too."

"A s t ranger?" Magnus asked, as he gave his machine Into Jamie 's hands.

Day gave him a hurried account of all tha t happened as she preceded him into the s i t t ing-room.

"I think he must have been cycling f rom Scapa to Stromness. He may have f r iends there, though 1 am quite sure he does not belong to the Island. But here he Is."

The eyes of the young man were wide open as 'Magnus approached him. Mag-n u s was s t ruck, as Day had been, by the refinement and patr lcan cast of tha face before him.

"Leave us, Day," he whispered to the girl. "1 shall come to you in a l i t t le while."

I t seemed ages to the girl a s she waited in the laboratory before her brother reappeared. In reality It was about a n hour. Then he came to her side and laid h is hand on her shoul--der.

"Brave l i t t le Day! You have saved a fel low-creature 's life. I have been able to bring back ful l consciousness tc a paralyzed brain and body, and in a week or two 1 have no doubt our friend will be as well as he ever was."

" In a week' or two?" repeated Day. "Then there In pome In jn ry?"

"His ank le h a s been sprained, but tha t was owing to the fal l ; no bad resul ts f rom the l ightning-stroke will follow." Magnus bent and kissed his l i s ter ' s soft cheek.

"Day. If you had not b rought hlai to the house and sent instantly for me. I do not know tha t fie would ever have recovered tho shock. My dear little sister, you are the bravest g i r l in all the world."

Tho soft eyes filled very fu l l a t the words of praise; but, "low in her hea r t , " Day thanked God. Never In her young life before had so i t r ango a tie bound her to a fellow-creature, and her hea r t thri l led and grew warm at t he thought of It.

"And now I th ink you might take blm in one of Bell's famous decoctions, and give h im a little nourishment ," said her brother . "My par t Is done, and th i s Is yours. Day. He Is quite weak yet, and requires something vo s t reng then h im."

" I shall have It ready in no time," •a id the girl .

She hurried away t o got It ready, whi le Magnus returned to hia patient . W h e n Day came In, bear ing her little t ray , the da rk eyes on the sofa met h e w with a look of recognition. T h e yoang man stretched out h is hand and took hers.

" I have no words wi th which to

thank you for the service you have done me, Miss Halcrow—you and your brother." f ie looked towards Magnus, who was s tanding by the window. "But for yo»j 1 might not now be conscious even that I had had such kindness shown me. I o v n you my life. I shail never forget that I do so."

"I did nothing," odd Day, blushing softly and speal ing in a low tone— "nothing but what ono human being would have done for another . No one would have left a fellow-creature ly-ing outside exposed to such a terrible storm, and not have tried to bring him a n d r r shelter. You have nothing to thank me for."

"Is if nothing to t hank you for tha t yon have saved my l i fe?" he ask-ed earnestly. His voice was a pleas-ant one to listen to—soft, mellow and flexible; and the look In h is dark eyes made Day's heart beat with such stranire emotion as she had never known before.

"I do not know If 1 can ever show you how deeply grateful I am. Miss Halcrow; but if I live, I pray I may yet be able to do so."

At this moment Magnus, who had not yet spoken, came forward.

"Do not make so much of what my sister has done for you; she would have done tha t much for any one." he said. And there was a tone In h is voice tha t the o the r was quick to notice.

"And now. as I hope you will accept our hospitality for a day or two—as, ' .rlecd. I th ink you mus t until your foot is all right—Is It too much to ask you your name? You already know ours."

Was t h e r e an almost Imperceptible pause ere the young man answered? A momentary embarrassment and hesi-tation? So at least It seemed to Mag-nus Halcrow. Then the youug man spoke:

"You mus t excuse me. Dr. Halcrow. for not hav ing mentioned It sooner. Let my unfor tuna te accident be my excuse. My name Is Evan Montel th ."

C H A P T E R V. It was a week later, and on a glo-

rious af ternoon Evan Montelth had been able for the first t ime to walk from his room downsta i rs unaided.

"I can no longer m a k e my lameness an excuse for t roubl ing you with my presence," he said laughingly to Day, as she smilingly placed an easy chair for him in the window which com-manded a magnificent view of Abbot 's Head, t h e dis tant c rag of Yesnabll, and the wide stretch of Summer-blue sea. "I mus t not t respass on your kindness much longer. Miss Day."

Day's hear t sank suddenly—sank very low and very rapidly.

"You must not go until my brother gives you permission," she said. In a low tone.

" I th ink he will do so If I ask h im," answered Montelth, In so marked a tone t ha t Day looked up quickly. "It Is easy to see when one Is liked and— and t rusted," Evan went on slowly. "Fo r some reason your brother , who Is, I th ink , one of the best and truest men 1 know, nei ther likes nor t rus t s mc, Miss Halcrow."

" H o w can you Imagine such a t h i n g ? " cried Day, her face growing first rose-red, then very pale. " I t 1P unk ind of you to Imagine It."

" I t Is true, nevertheless ," answered Evan Montelth. "I do not know who Is to blame. Miss Day, but I can hard-ly th ink It Is your brother , who Is both Just and generous. In t ha t case. It m u s t be my faul t , and. If It Is, It Is a f au l t wnlch I cannot help. Circum-s tances are aga ins t mo, and prevent me t r y i n g to remove auy prejudice there may be against me In his mind."

Day sat si lent, her sweet eyes cloud-ed and her lips drooping. Somehov she had fel t aware of w h a t Montelth now uttered since he had come to Ab-bot ' s Head. Magnus was kind and ho;-pltable to h im, as he could not help being to any one under his roof; but the re was a want of cordiali ty In his manne r which showed tha t some in-tangible, Invisible barr ier existed be-tween him and his guest.

T h a t barr ier was suspicion. How li t t le root It needs to grow this fatal plant , deadly ns a upas- t ree to every feeling of k indl iness and fr iendship! Magnus hardly knew when It had sp rung up in his hea r t ; but there U was, nnd he could not dr ive it o u t

"Do not look so sad. Miss Day," said Evan presently, In a low voice. " I s It my words t ha t have dr 'ven away the sunshine f r o m your face? I am very sorry . Heaven knows I would sacrifice a good deal of my own happiness to keep It the re . "

He bent a l i t t le nea re r to he r ; his h a n d a lmost touched hers. A thri l l , t he passion and joy of which were like " t en thousand l i t t le sha f t s of fiame,"-ran through Day. She held he r face low for fear he should see the look of love melt ing In her eyes.

Then suddenly a s tep sounded out -side, the low m u r m u r of voices. J lvan sprang erect, and his hand fell f rom Day's.

Tho door opened and Magnus en-tered; but he was not alone. Day rose quickly as she caught a glimpse of tho figure of Lili th S tua r t tha t followed his —the slim, sinuous, graceful figure, a r -rayed In a smar t cycling costume of pale green, t r immed with a darker

shace—-which rrrvle her liker th.-.a than ever that wily enchantress Viv-ien.

"Miss Stuart has cycled over to pay you an afternoon call ," said Magnus. He loo: il bright and elated.

Day -s not one of those who aro easily ttered or put about by an an-expec: 1 visit. She was a lady t o her finger hps ; nnd she was, moreover, too true a child of na ture to wish to ap-pear different f rom her usual self. She rose and went forward at once.

"How are you. Miss S tua r t ? You must have had a del ightful sp in ; It 1« such a fiae day."

Evan Montelth had also r isen, and was standing behind Day's chair . Miss Stuar t shook hands with Day, with a murmured, languid answer. She never took much t rouble to make herself agreeable to her own sex. But, as she dropped Day's hand. Day saw an -iX-presslon of such terr ible surprise , fear, and horror spr ing Into he r languid blue-black eyes as struck Day herself dumb with as tonishment . Involuntar-ily she looked round to see what haJ b^en the cause of tha t sudden change which froze the smile on those beau-tiful lips, and made the whole faca coid and hard , with only a great terror looking out of it.

Then Day saw tha t the direction of Ll l l th 's eyes turned towards the face of Evan Montelth, as he stood behind her, and t h a t he was regard ing Lilith with something like the counterpar t of her look—one, however. In which a s t range embar ras smen t mingled with one of astonished recognition. Mag-nus, who could not see Ll l l th 's face, stepped forward

"May I Introduce Mr. Montelth to you. Miss S tuar t—the gent leman whom I told you had met with so unfor tuna te am accident? Mr. Evan Montelth Miss S tuar t . "

Lilith S tuar t had undoubtedly a great command over herself. Whatever her feelings were, she suppressed them cleverly. She stepped forward , holding out her hand , and looked s t ra ight into Montelth 's face with those dangerous 'y beautiful eyes of h e r s - a look which made Day feel as If a dagger had passed through her very heart .

"Mr. Montel th! 4s It possible. I hardly expected to see you here."

"No. Miss Stuar t , I did not flatter myself t h a t you would," Montelth an-swered. His words were ambiguous; so was his tongue. Magnus looked from one to the o iuer In as ton ishment ; then he saw tha t s t range pallor on Ll l l th 's face, a s d the s trained look abou* her eyes, nrhlch even her wonderful self-control was not quite able to hide.

"You know Mr. Montelth, then. Miss S tua r t ? " he said. His voice sounded rough and hard even In his own ears. A great anger possessed him. H e fel t that Evan Montelth .had grossly de-ceived him.

"Y0s—we knew each other—years ag-;.- said Lilith, wi th an odd l i t t le halt between each clause, as If she were doubtful of what to say. T h m suddenly she flashed he r radiant smile on Magnus. " I t Is a surprise to you, of course—you did no t know tha t Mr. Montelth knew me; but It Is so long since we met that we might almost say we a r e s t rangers—might we not, Mr. Montel th? You have been so l o n g -abroad, was it not? And when did you re turn to this conn t ry?"

Sne had accepted the chair Magnus gave he r by th i s t ime, and she and Day were both seated, while the men stood.

Montel th turned to answer her ques-tion, and that brought the two of them Into a dialogue, which seemed to ex elude the others. Magnus turned tc Day.

"Can we have t ea?" he said. In a low voice. Day looked up swif t ly In his face, and her h e a r t sank with pain —a pain tha t was more for him than for herself , a f te r the manner of her k ind ; and yet the re was a bi t ter pain tor herself also.

(To be Continued.)

T Of THE he Knignts Will Make a Gala Time Of It In Indian-

c'polis.

Inflnnnpolls .—Four biennial Interna , tlonal convect ions will bo held here In connection with the encampment of the Uniform Bank, Knights of Pyth-ias, dur ing week of August 21!. The principal of these Is, of coarse, tha t of the Supreme Lodge, which consists of representa t ive delegates elected by the Grand Lodges of the various Sta tes nnd Terr i tor ies and districts. It begins two or three days a f t e r the eocampm nt Is over. At the same t ime the Uniform Bank Is in camp tho Supreme Assembly of that branch of the order will be In session. It Is the highest t r ibunal of the Uniform Bank, ( 'ommenclng Monday. Augus t 22. will occur the biennial meeting of the lul-piuial Palace. Knigh t s of Khorassan . It will continue until Thursday . Con-t inuing f -om Monday until Sa tu rday the meeting of the Supreme Temple of

campment . Th is closes tho entr ies so f a r a s the companies and bat ta l ions are concerned and It gives a good field of competitors, a s all the crack com-panies of the order a re among those

| entered. The battal ion drill will he j competed for by the following bnttal-| ions: l First Battalion, Secf-nd Beglment, } Ohio. Major G. K. Bluchofski . com-, mnm'.ing: First Battalion. Second Beg-| Iment. Colorado, Denver, Colonel Kd j Verdlckbcrg. commanding: First Bat-j tnllon. Second Beglment, Waco. Tex., i Colonel George P. Mann, commanding, j The company drills wijl begin on the

morning of Wednesday. August 24, and continue each af ternoon aud morn-

1 ing, except ing Wednesday af te rnoon. ! until concluded. Bat tal ion dril ls will j protmoly occur T h u r s d a y af ternoon 1 and the cavalry dri l ls Fr iday morn-

L O V E D F O R H I M S E L F .

^nee r Marriage Keiinitlng f rom a Poca-liar Will.

He re Is a s tory told without saying whe the r It Is fac t or Action: Hawkins was an eccentric old man, and In h is will It was found that he had made his youngest son, Henry , his solo heir, on cond .»un t ha t he should mar ry within two j ^ a r s . It was a surprise to the communi ty , as Henry was a worthless fellow and rare ly on friendly te rms with h is fa ther . Henry a t once be-came the topic of conversation. Ev-erybody was wonder ing what mystery would develop f rom such an odd be-ginning, and there were dozens of s tor ies afloat t o the effect that Haw-k ins was a miser and had left bundles of money hidden In odd corners of his r ickety old shan ty tha t had become the sole proper ty of his SOB. Henry 's n a m e soon dr i f ted Into the papers all over the count ry . As a result, bush-els of le t te rs f r o m marriageable wom-en and wlld-vlsloned girls came to him In tiie form of proposals. On the last day o t t he al lot ted two years Henry H a w k i n s and Belinda Scones stood In the registry office, where It was a r -ranged the ceremony should be per-formed quietly. "If I could only feel su re thr^ you love me and that you a re not to mar ry me for money, how happy I would be ! " said Henry. "But you ought to know," protested Belinda, " t h a t i t Is because 1 love you, for you know I have J25.000 of my o w n -though, of course, that Is no th ing to your for tune ." The ceremony was performed. "So you love me for my-self, alone, Belinda?" said Hawkins . " J u s t you and nothing else," Insisted the orlde of a moment . " I 'm so glad, ' ' said Hawkins , tenderly. " I t ' s a great relief, for my money Is all a myth. Belinda. Will you please pay the fee?"

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ho Bathbone Sisters, the woman 's lug. There Is a long list of cash auxi l iary to the Knights of Pythias , prizes which a re to be given from the will occur. fund contributed for the entertnln-

The meeting of tho Imperial Palace, ment of the Knigh t s and besides there \ n igh t s of Khorassan will be a n im-1 a re some spec ial prizes. Major Gen-

jo r t an t one. a s it will be the first gen - ' o r a l J a m e s B. Carmihau offers a cash •ml representat ive ga ther ing of mem-i prize of MiM) to the company bringing ters of the youug order. With an ex-1 to the enea iupment the largest per-stence of only a little over year, its j cent age of Its membership, the per-nembers a re counted by the thou- ; centage to bo es t imated on the report amis, and it Is expected that fu l ly of" Februa ry 10. 185)8. T h e prize is hree thousand will be here dur ing the open only to companies outs ide ludlau-veek of . .ugus t 22. The sessions of apojls. The regular prize list Is a s he Imperial Palace will coiitluue follows: rom Monday to Thursday , morning ( ' lass A.

md af te rnoon. Each night Yakoot Open ami f r ee to all companies of remplo. of this city, will couvene f o r . the Uniformed Bank. he purpose of eo i i f en ing the degree j First prize for proficiency In pon candidates, of whleh It is ex-, drill JL.iOO

lected there will be three classes, o f !Second 1.200 mt less than a hundred each. A spe- Third 1.000 • •lal dispensation permits the init la-: Four th StK) tlon of candidates f rom all pa r t s o f : F i l th 1>U0 'he world. They will be allowed to For best company c o m m a n d e r -ake wi thdrawal cards, to 'M> deposit-1 jewel of honor 100 •d wi th the temple In the jurisdict ion I Open to all companies Ihat have yf which they reside. The local tern- j never won a prize at a Supremo Lodge pie will be assisted lu the Initiatory 1 encampment : work by teams f rom Chlongo. Detroit . First prize fo r proficiency In Goshen. Evansvll le aud Bat t le Creek, i drill

Second Third Four th F i l t h For best company commander—

Thnrsda • night the Knights of Kaor-assan will have a big jollltlcatlon, which will take the form of a gro-esque and spectacular street parade .

followed by a banquet , .lohu A. Hln-sey. of Chicago, Is Imperial prince, the 1 jewel of honor highest officer of the order, and Dr . j Distance Prize. S. E. Eary, of this city. Is Imperial • For company composed of not nawab . I less than tweii ty-ulue ofilcers

Twenty-s ix companies of In fan t ry . ] and Sir Knigh t s t ravel ing the four bat ta l ions and one troop of cav- j longest dis tance by most direct airy have entered the competi t ive i dril ls lo be had here dur ing the en- '

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route to reach the city of lu-dlanapolls flOO

Tho Starfy of nar ter la . Prof. E. E. Klein, speaking of "Mod-

ern Methods in Bacteriology" bcfor« the Boyal Inst i tut ion of Great Brltata a short time ago, alluded to tha great advances that have been made In thla science since Its Inaugurat ion by KoeA In 1881-18S2. So fa r has tho study of bacteria developed tha t U Is now pes-alble not only to count, but also to walgh thom. A postage s t amp 7-8 Inefe long, and 3-4 wide would carry 600,• 000 000 of the typhoid fever bac im. and If the layer were made a tenth of aa Inch deep, there would be 2.003.000.000,-000. If fifteen drops of bacteria war* let fall In a cup of broth, they would produce In twenty-four hours 80,000,-000. Tho degree of refinement mani-fested by the bacteriologist In h is rs-searches Is shown by the s ta tement o l t h e same author i ty that It Is now poe-Blble to detect one part of sewags when contained In 1)00,000 parts oi wa* t e r .

I t Is t he easiest t n l n g in the world t o forg ive yourself the s ins you condemn in others .

"Both my wifonntl injself have been n a l n g C A S C A K E T S a u d t u e y a r e ibo b o i l m e d i c i n o vre h a v e e v e r h a d in t h e h o u s e . L a a l w e e k ray wi fe w a s f r a n t i c w i t h b e u d a c b e fo f t w o days , s h e t r i e d s o m e o f y o u r C A S C A R E T S . a n d t h e y r e l i e v e d tho p a i n in h e r h e a d a l m o s t I m m e d i a t e l y . W o b o t h r c c o n i m e n d C a s c a r e t a . "

CHAS. STEDEFOUD, Pittsburg Sate & Deposit Ca, Pittsburg, P ^

C A N D Y

F C A T H A R T I C J *

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P l e i m n t . Pa la tab le . Po ten t . Tnsto Oeod. D e Good, Merer Sicken. Weaken , or Qripc. 10c. 2So.iO»

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E D U C A T I O N A L .

TUB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRB DAftG, INDIANA.

F U L L C O U R 5 B S IN Clats lcs , U t t e r s . S c i e n c e , L a w . C iv i l , Mechanical a r .d Electrical Hnel> neer ing . _ .

Thorough Freparatory and ComtnerclaS Courses.

Mooms Free t o a l l S t u d e n t s w h o n a T o c o m -p l e t e d t h o s t u d i e s r e q u i r e d f o r n d m l s s l u n i n t e t h e J u n i o r o r S e n i o r V e a r , of a n y o l t h e f o l -l e t r i a te C o u r s e s .

A l i m i t e d n u m b e r o i C a n d i d a t e s f o r t h e E c c l ^ s l a s i l c a l s i a t e w i l l b e r e I f e d u t t - p e c l a l r a t o a .

5 t . hdward's hall, for boys under 13 a m . Is u n i q u e i n n mp!- t e r e - s u. i t s e q u l i m e t i .

T h e l ootH t e r m w i l l o ' n September 6 t h , 1808. Catalogue s e n t Fre« on n p ; l i c ; i ' l « i t o

R E V . A . n u R l M K 1 v . c . S . C. , K c s i d c n t .

BARONESS VON SUTTNIIR.

St. IMP'S flcadtmp,

One MSk Veil ol the UoWtmiy ol Notre Dm»

ST. MART'S ACADEMY for young l«dle». now la tine UP>">111 furiy-fourth ye»r o( active edue* UODII w.»rk. ha i c t rned iNo w p o u i i u o of

one of the roost ihor-uuhly cqulnped j n a tucceMfol Institution* In tho United Stales. The Acsdemy hulldlntj* are be<iitifully •ituated on an emlnenoj over-louklnB the plcturmque banks of tua bt. Hirer. All the branches of

A Thorough English and

Classical Education, •ncludlnst Greek, UHn. French and Rerman sra MUKht liy a Kaculty of coiupeicut te*i her». Ou com-pietlnu tiio full courts of tiudioi ituilouu recslva

Reoular Collegrate Degree of Lilt. B., A. B. or A. M

The Conservatory of Muslo Is conducted oa UIB nun "f ill" be t Cla-nlosl Comurvatorle. of hu-ivpo. Three la» rmneatal lessen', anil "lie la Uicorr, weekly, are Included In the regular tuition; extra i ricllce pro rata. . t The Art llopnrtmcntlsraodelledaftertbebart Art Schoola in burope. „

Preimratory and Minim Department*.— Piinlla nhoneed prlinsry tralulnu.and those of tea-der SKS, are here carefull/ prepared for lbs Acai domic Conr»e and Advanced Course

HooU-koeplnj. Phonouraphy and TypewrUlnir s» tn. Kvery \ arlety of Fancy Needlework uuitht.

Tor cataluguo caataluln< full Informatloa, address

DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy,

NOTRE DAME P. 0., INDIANA.

CURE YOURSELFI Use Big <1 tor annatanl

, discharges, InBamtuatluas, | irritations or ulceratioae of ui u c o a s mem brans*. Painless, and not i

THEEUNS CHOttCttCO. C"T or poisonoot. ^0!IIONUT1,0^~~I by I

Circular sent OD RAQOASW

P ENSIONS, PATENTS. C L A I M ;

iynua uul war^ftaojuiucauiut ciaiuu^m aum

H i D O D C V NEW DISCOVERY; <•»« | V I r C 9 I quick reliel an i cures won

caaea. beuJ for book of Uatlmonlals nnd 1 0 d a y t r e u t m c u t F r u o . ur. it.u.UKkKS'abOSS.

WANTKD—Case of bad health Hint IM-P-A-N will not benoiU. Send S ccms to Ulpans Chemir Co., New York. for 10 sample* mid 1,0U0 t e i t lmon la

" i K ' S i " . " iThompson's Ey» Matsi

. , FI S .OvS x m I F O R r—• t_> CURES Wntlit All t ia t NVIUu _ _ I

Best Couirh tiyrup. T a s t e s Good, u s e I In t lmo. Bold by druortsts.

s n s r f f r a *

LOWELL STATE BANK Capital, — $25,000.00.

L O W E L L , M I C H .

•f FRANCIS KINO, Piesident,

('HAS. McCAlU'Y, Vice President M. C. GHI8W0LD. Cashier.

DI HECTORS:

Fnincis KIIIK. Chas. McCarty, Geo. W. Parker, F. T. King, G. H. Force, E. L. Bennett, M. C. Oriswold C. Pergin.

A Guneral Banking Business Transacted Money Loaned on Real Estate Security

H o w about tlmt farmer 's picnic?

Icc cream nt Behl's city bakery.

Cull »«i city bakery for your lunch

S. T . I l icks was in Grand Rapids Tuesday .

I have a few good horses for sale H . N A S H .

M r . Cole and wife were in Ionia

Thur sday . Minnie Blakeslke is visiting in Car-

Bon Ci ty ,

Bicycles cheaper than ever at Stock-Vlg'R.

Miss Lizzie Hardy is reported very ]ow again.

LeRoy H i l l has returned from G r a n d Ledge.

• Jennie F rench is visiting friends in G r a n d Rapids.

Go to Mai corn ' s new Studio for l i rs t -c lass v o l I-.

Gain Ban;? hns secured employ-juen t a t Math' rton.

Crayon pon aits f ree to patrons of Bush's baki y.

Chas. H u r h • of Grand Rapids vis-i ted in Lowell Sunday.

A nice line of 5 cent plants for t a le by Miss P uison.

Miss P r a t t • f Grand Rapids is vis-i t ing M r s M c Q itcu.

M y prices tU same to all. Rae Malcolm. Phc i tgrapher.

G . C. McCcin ell of Rockford is at the bedside o: lii- son, G. V.

Finest etool; ol organs ever in Low-ell a t R . D. Slocking's.

J . Vauzan l and wife of Spencer visited Lowei ' friends last week.

Strings for violin, banjo, mandolin : nd Guitar at Oliver's. 1 tf

Miss Fern Clark has returned from J v Isit a t Oakley and Owosso.

\11 kinds ot wood promptly deliver-<.i by R. B. Boylan.

Myrt ie Taylor spent Sunday with her fr iend, Miss Moon, in Keene.

Dan Bush is serving the finest kind ef ice cream a t his restaurant.

Miss Grace Gardner is spending a few weeks with friends in Muir.

Theodore Lott of Fal lasbnrg made this office a pleasant c 11 yesterday.

Shipping tags printed "while you wai t" a t this oflice. cheap and neat.

W i l l Leary nnd wife of Watervilie were guests of Joseph Jones Sunday,

Mrs. J . Robertson leaves to day for t h e Adventist campmeeling an Owos-so.

Get yonr watch and jewelry repar -ed at Oliver 's and you will be satis-fied. . I t l

J . E . Transue of the Clarks-ville Academy made us a pleasant call Tuesday.

W a n t e d , 10,000 people to send the i r Luundry to the L..well Steam L a u n d r y .

U . B. vVilliams and Willie Kopf m a d e a wheel tr ip to Grand Rapids Tuesday.

M r . and Mrs. Orrin Stair of Grand were guests of I/)well friends last F r iday .

Mrs. G. W . Crosby has the thanks of the LEDGER for a banket of fine cherries.

Miss Ber tha Robinson of the pro-hate oflice, spent Sunday with Lowell f r iends.

Mrs. S. P. Hicks has been making Grand Rapids friends a visit of leveral days.

Stocking has the best sewing ma-chines mnnufaolured and prices are r i gh t .

Covert litis returned from a sojourn in Colorado and Okla-

U 1 See"

Said Sagasta . " T h a t it \t> get-

t ing t ime.

If the Spanish premier

had been provided with a pair

of our o rd ina ry speotacles he

could have seen t h a t " q u i t t i n g

t ime was some t i m e ago.

W i t h a pa i r of our

glasses h e conld have

t h a t q u i t t i n g t ime was a

u te b e f o r e beg in ing t ime .

best

seen

min-

Williams prices make it expensive you to buy elsewhere.

Clean vour teeth with Rose Cream

Supt. W . A . Ludwig has returned from Aim Arbor .

Send your work to the Lowell Steam Laundry .

Vern Carver, of Freeport , is visit-ing in Lowell and vicinity.

Miss I v a Zeigler of Ionia is mak-ing Low ell friends a visit.

Mrs. Wil l Adzit, of Grand Rapids is visiting friends in Lowell.

Detective J akeway of Grand Rap-ids was in town last Saturday.

Miss LaVanche Moore attended the band convention at Greenville.

Genuine home-made bread "l ike mother makes" a t Bush's bakery.

Good work twice a week and fair treatment a t the Lowell Laundry .

Mrs. II. Horton, of Saranac, visited in Lowell the fore part of the week.

Robert White , of Grandville, visit-ed his parents the fore par t of the week.

Housekeeper wanted for quiet home in the country. Address \ Y Z this office.

Miss Myrtie Hatch, of Keene. spent Sunday at the home of her uncle, S . Finch.

Ice cream by the dish, quart or sup-plied lor socials and parties in gallon lots, D. T. Bush.

E. 0 . Mains and family spent Sun-day with Mrs. Mains' parents near Saranac

Everybody k n o w s / v 3 a t Bergin's coffees are, and the the world at the price. f 254ti

Mrs. Gillingham,of Grand Rapids, was the guest of . F r e d Oliver and wife last weak.

Miss Edi th Man^e leaves to-day for Ypsilanti where she will attend school the coming year .

The LEDGER wants good corre-spondents at Elmdale , Smyrna , Chandler, Alto. Br ight young school girls preferred. Inquire at this office.

Times must bu hard at Cedur Springs. The Clipper we yet consists of but two lone pages,which is Clip-ping it ra ther close.

S. P. Hickf, Messrs. and Mesdames R . J . Flanagan, ii E . Quick and W; S. Winegar and E . 0 . Mains and son, I 'has, .McCarty, F . M. Johnson, and Mf-'lames 0 . C. McDannell , Ort-an Hill, R . W . Swayze, James Nick lin and A . L. Peck, spent last Thurs-day afternoon and evening a t Grand Rapids. T h e ball game and opera furnished attractions.

n

r i gn t .

I5ert Cc^ v e \ r s sojon i - ' - r th

tie sure and-see R. D. Stocking's ) • of wheels before purchasing els-e-> re.

• . V. McConn. H has been very ill v a iutiammaiion oi ill. Inwels for 11«; past ten days and In- e mdition has1

1 <i very serious. At this writing In- Is somewhat improved.

•Strictly fresh and pure Par is creen wld and guaranteed by D. G. Look also London purple, insect powders and white hellebore.

A tremen I >11.4 thunder storm visited this locality Tuesday night and light-n ing caused si-veral lire.-. The barns of Widow Piuckney and Widow Parks in Keene were destroyed. II . N. Lee's barn was struck and partia!-y destroyed. Ho also lost a horse and icow, A great amount of water 'ell and F i a t river rose two feet dur-

ing the night and Ring's dam near Al ton was torn out.

t

'ME personr. say it is natural for them to lose flesh dur ing summer .

But losing flesh is losing g round . Cai you afford to approach another win-ter in this weakened con-dition ?

C o u g h s and colds,weak throats and lungs, come quickest to those who are thin in f lesh, to those eas-ily chilled, to those who have poo r circulation and feeble digestion.

Scott's Emulsion

of cod liver oil with hypo-phosphites does just as much good in summer as in winter . It makes flesh in August as well as April. You certainly need as strong nerves in Ju ly as in J a n u a r y . And your weak throat and lungs should be healed and strength-ened without delay.

All PruRBUU. Mc. MIII Ji. SCOTT ft noWXK, ChcmlsU, New Tork

T r y Rose Cream for the teeth.

Call ut Behl 's city bakery fo r b a k -ed g i(ds aud lunches.

A tinted photo free with each dozen m itt photos at Malcolm's new Studio.

Mrs. Geo. Coppens, of Grand Rap-ids, is visiting her many Lowell-friends.

Victor Ingersol returned to M il waukee af ter a three weeks visit a t Mr. Fletcher 's .

Mrs. Chas. Hur ley went to Grand Rapids Tuesday where she will make her future home.

Mrs. Mary Robertson is visiting friends in Coopersville and Ravenna a couple of weeks.

Mrs. Fremont Cotton, of Grand Rapids, visited Lowell relatives and friends last week.

Miss Bonnie Bowls of Grand Rap-ids has been spending the last week with Lowell friends.

W A N T TO SELL Q U I C K — D r i v i n g

and riding horse, harness, buggy and cutler. This office.

Mrs. J . C. Cotharin of F l i n t return-ed to her home Tuesday a f t e r a visit with Mrs. R. B. Boylan.

Johnnie Mills returned home Tues-day after an eight months stay in Col -orado where has been employed.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Troll of Belding and Miss Nellie Hellen of Detroit vis-ited at H . S. Schreiner's Sunday.

Ourguarantee wUh,every purchase: "Goods the best, t r ices the lowest' Bergin, the re l i tWe^rocer . 254tf.

A Beld ingf i rmisadver t i s ing rasp-berries yet. Must be a late variety, 1

Perhaps advertising next year 's crop. |

W e give the very lowest prices on watches and our watches are the best in the market at A. D. Oliver's. I t f

Mrs. A. H . Bolinger and daughter , Clara, of Concordia. Kas . , are the the guests of Mrs. E . M. Alger of Vergennes.

T h e best 40C /QI in Michigan a t Bergin's for 2 p L / . T r y a pound and if not satisfiedim^your money back. This is "s t ra i i i f r goods."' 254tf

Mrs. D r . Clark, who has been spending the past few months with her daughter, Mrs. Dyer, has return-ed to her home in this place.

11. A. Peckham and R. B. Boylan have had tar walks laid in front of their residence properties. Several other such walks are in prospect.

Advertised letters—Miss Lotty Vargson, J . B. Branat , W m . F. Douglass, Garfield Davis, James Enoch Goodon ami Geo. Pa lmer .

Will Grainer, who is employed on a l ightship on Lake Huron, spent last week with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Randa l l . Whi le here, she had a pleasant supprise party for him.

You can send your news items, ad-vertisements and orders for job print-ing by telephone al all hours of the day and night. Office, No. 52, rest deuce. No. 53 Boll telephone. if

The Democratic county convention is called for September 1, and the Lowell township caucus will be held Saturday, August 27, at which time delegates will be elected to the county, senatorial and legislative convelions.

F o u r Brothers axle grease better than castor oil t u r ^ r v t g y use. If i t Joes not provii/ |s.\<«ei your money »ack. It is aIf i ' i 'aortal healer of all lores on man Wmcfoeast. Excellent tor cracked hoofs, cuts, burns, bruises and sure death to cattle flies. Sold by C. Bergin, Lowell. 259 t f

Yo^.r aitention is called to the pro-•jrnin of 1 he recital to be given by Ed-ward D. Misner's vocal class. The Lowell Mandolin club, recently organ-ized, composed of Ltwell young peo-

L. i t H. fruit train started on Tues-day. Leaves Lowell 7:00 p . m, every day but Sunday.

Dr. Goodsell spent afew days last week al Grand Ledge and Ionia r e -turning Monday.

Mrs Goo. Gulliford leaves Saturday for Mancelona where Geo. has secur-ed a position.

Morris Johnson and wife visited Lowell friends last Sunday.—[Sara-nac Advertiser.

Mr. and Mrs. Simpson of Ionia took dinner with Mr. Terwilliger aud family Sunday.

Clare Althen and wife started for Denver, Col., Monday, where he has secured a position in a store.

Wilbur Post 01 Lowell is the guest of A A.Crippen of 608 South Divis ion street for a few days .—[Grand Rapids Press.

Geo. Winegar and family, were heref rom Safanae yesterday calling 11 Lowell friends. Mrs. W. has quite ocovered her health.

Can you afford l o g o wi thout fire insurance? You cannot . See me be-fore you burn . I represent the best companies on ear th . P r o m p t sett le-ments in case of loss.

C . G u v P E U U V , A g t .

Visit t h e Sp l r l t uoMst s ' C a m p r a e e t -

iuK ot Gratid Lodge, A u g u s t

2 1 s t .

Central Michigan Spiritualists Camp will have special exercises on that date and visiterB Will be cordial-ly welcomed there as well as nt the delightful "Seven Islands" resort near by, where a brass- band will furnish music all day to the many attractions of the resort. D. , G. R . & W . R . R . train will leave Elmdale nt 9:16 a . m. nnd leave Grand Ledge at 6:45 p . m. Round tr ip rate $.50. 9

G E O . D E H A V E N , G . P . A .

Those Vile, Nasty, Fake Nostrums which arc ndvcrtlsed BO gonerally are ruled out of T H E DETROIT JOURNAU

Tou are In Good Company If

Your Advert Iscmcnt Is tn The Detroit Journal.

Xl this the sort of literature you ore paying for? You can have a decent, clean, daily newspaper.

Try The Detroit Journal. I t Is not Quite BO BenBational, but

you can bring The Journal into your home and you can believe The Jour-nal.

AN AGENT IN EVERT TOWN. Delivered for 10 cents per week. By Hall, 8 Months for (1.25.

Lowell Planing Mill, w . J. ECKER 5 SON. Props .

nnd Dealcrn in

Lumber , L a t h , Sh ing los , C e d a r F e n c e P o s t a l

will jiarticipate and Mr. Misner will sing a new solo.

HE CARUTHERS AFFAIR

is a tale of surpassing interest, and relates a series of adven-tures and mysteries which

POPULAR EXCURSIONS GALORE; BAST

AND WEST.

Tho Grand Trunk Railway System will give a series of popular low rate excur-sions from stations on their lines west of Detroit and St. Clair Rivers. The rates are the lowest ever offered, the limits al-lowing ono day to enjoy or visit relatives or friends at greatly reduced rates. Special trains and extra coaches will be run for those excursions. Tho following aro the points to which excursions will be made:

To ALPENA, TAWAS, AuSABLE and OSCODA August 19th, via Ray City and Detroit and Mackinap Railroad.

Tickets for this excursion will be sold at principal stations on tho different divi-sions of the Grand Trunk System. Rates not higher than §4.00 and tickets will be good np lo August 29th.

An Unparnltod Oppor tun i ty For a S u m m e r

O u t i n s To t h e M u s k o k a L a k e s a n d

H l s h l a n d s of N o r t h e r n O n -

t a r i o A u g u s t 19.

The Muskoka Lakes are reached by the Grand Trunk Railwy System from Musko-ka Wharf (Gravenhurst) about 112 miles north of Toronto. The principal Lakes Muskoka (22 miles), Rosseau (34 miles) and Joseph (45 miles) are reached by steamers of the Muskoka Navigation Com-pany. Tickets for this excursion will be sold from points on* the Grand Trunk Railway system in Michigan, and will be good to return up to and including August 29th., Rates are very low ranging from $4.00 to $C.OO only. The above excursions are the most attractive and at lowest rates for a summer's outing that have yet been made. aug20

Day L i s h t E x c u r s i o n to M i l w a n k e e o n

AnKHBt 2 6 t h .

Tickets will be sold for this excursion from principal stations on our lines. A special train on the Detroit and Milvau kee Division, connecting with regular trains on other Divisions will reach Grand Haven about 12:S0 noon and arrive at Milwaukee by steamer about 7 p. m., af-fording a magnificent cool ride across Lake M.chigan. Rates are very low, rang-ing from $4 to &». Tickets will be good to return on all steamers and trains up to and including August Slst (steamer leav-ing Milwaukee Wednesday, August 21st.

Pamphlets of the Muskoka Lakes with full description can be obtained by ad-dressing Ben. Fletcher, Trav, Pass. Agent., Detroit.

Ice Cream

SEEMS INCREDIBLE.

THIS wonderfully interesting story

will begin in the next issue of

this paper. Copyrighted, and published

by spccial arrangement

a n d

Ice Cream Soda

Better than ever, favorite flavoring's.

A l l

Choice Confectionery.

A fine lot b usiness cards jus t received at this office.

A fine lot business cards just received al tM; cflioo.

Foreign and fruits, nuts, etc. line of Cigars.

W, B. Rickert,

native Fine

o n t h o B r i d s c .

ttATCHttfG

^ - S A W l t f o

M a n u f a c t u r e r s of%

Sash, Doors, Bllndsn

Frames for Doors, Windows

and Screens, Exhibition and

Shipping Coops for Poultry,

Dried Apple Boxes, Wooden

Eave Troughs. Etc.

ECKER & SON, PROPS,

Clothes Don't Make The man

But they certainly do make a great difference in their appear-ance, as in the case of these two men. My suits, pants and over-coats are made from goods of your, own selection from hun-dreds of the best and latest styles of gcods on tJ ,n market. The goods, fit and workmanship are guaranteed with a guarantee that guarantees.

SMITH, T h e Lead ing T a i l o r .

Fa l l a n d w i n t e r s a m p l e s now In. » - • •• • • V* TV m MM au MV*T I I

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ex-County Clerk1

Cornelius L. Harvey Has sold his interest in Harvey & Heystek Co., and is no longer connected therewith in any way. H e is no occupying the store at 59 M o n -roe street, with a

New a n d Comple te S t o c k of

Wall Paper and Paints. and will he pleased to h ive his friends call on him when in Grand Rap ids .

CORNELIUS^ L. HARVEY, Grand Rapids, Mich, R9 Monroe,

Bug Finish

Finishes Potato Bugs, ('ahhnge ! Worms and Curculio of all j kinds. Worth its price as fer-1 tilizer. Ready for use and safe I to handle-

Watery and

Soggy Potatoes

are now chorged to the contin-ued use of Paris Green. Bug Finish kills the bugs without injuring the vines, in fact acts as a fertilizer and insures the ripening of the potato. Better in every way than Paris Green.

For sale by

CHAS. MCCARTY.

PAY WHEN CURED G. A. MUNCH. M. D.,

the Eminent Specialist, who ha& five diplomas and two honorary dip-•omas can name and locate a disease or weakness without ••• asking questions.

All Chronic, &(trveus and Privah . Distasts, Catarrh, Asthma, Bron-chitis, Rheumatism, Ec-zema, Scrofula, Ulcers, Tumors, Cancers, Rup-

tures, Epilepsy, Fits, Paralysis, Heart, Lung, Skin, Blood, Kidney Bladder and Special Diseases, etc., cured by Ntw Rmedits, Nito Troctss and Ntw htuntions. No matter what your disease or who has failed to cure you, consult him. Consultations Frtt and Strictly Confidential, and if wa take your case, will guarantee a Cure or V(o Toy and M) Pay will be required Until Cured of any one who gives satisfactory security or deposits money In the bank. If impossible to see Dr. Munch, write fully, enclosing stamp for Information and circulars to Detroit Medical and Surgical Institute, 145 Finest. , Detroit, Mich. To accommodate patients and others Dr. Munch will visit monthly.

Haranac, Wheeler House, Monday Aug. 29.

Lowell, Brace Hotel, Tuesday. Aug. 2 0 .

Lake Odessa, Minor Hotel, Wednesdoy, Aug. 31.

Go to McCarty for your Bug F i u -h and Par is Green .

Thi s paper ou trial to new subscribers 10 weeks 10 cents.

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