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W I T H l y t u A - L I O i n T O W A R . E ) N O K T E A I S T D C H A R I T Y F O R . A L L . "

VOL II. LOWELL, K E N T COUNTY. MICH., MAY 17, 1895. NO. 99

The Talk of the Town,

WINEGARS Fine Oxfords and Walking Shoes for the

Ladies. Ask to see our Tan Slippers.

GEO. WINE&AR.

ALL RIGHT. Peach Crop Not Injured So

Far by Bad Weather.

MEMORIAL DAY TO BE DULY OBSERVED

-PREPARE i?OR A-

SPLENDID HARVEST B y P u r c h a s i n g

Reed Harrows, Oliver and Syra-cuse Plows, Planet Jr., Culti-tors, and all kinds Farm Implements.

NASH, S T U D E B A K E R WAGONS. P R I C E S SUITABLE TO TIMES.

-ALMOST-

Everything on Earth r

Bought and Sold at

Highest Market Prices Paid for Farm Pro-duce of all Kinds.

T o g e t y o u r m o n e y ' s w o r t h b u y o f

C H A S . M C C A R T Y , L o w e l l , M i c h .

ORDERED T O E NEW SUIT? Examine Our New Spring Samples

Before Purchasing.

Suits and Pants as Low as the Lowest.

« ^ S M I T H , T h e Tailor. "OLD RELIABLE."

M

—slLOWELL PLANING MII W W . J . BCMSB. hSWft, * * 0 * 3 . , A N D DBAXJULf I K

Lumber, Lath, Shingles and Cedar Fei Posts,

M A N U F A C T U R E R S OF BASH. DOOR*. BLINDS. DOOR A N D W I N D O W F R A M M A I

8 C S B 1 N 8 . MOULDING, IXHLBITLON AND S H I P P I N G COOPS. D R I E D A PPL E BOXES, ETTJ.. MATCHING. R E S A W 1 N G A N D

JOB W O R K , WOODEN KAVK T R O U G H S .

Lowell Ball Boys Dcwu the Grand Rapids Lincolns.

T H E E D I T O R ' T O H O U S E O F C O R R E C T I O N .

Notes from the Local Field. People Yon Know.

Borac pHi fruit hag

or

E C K E R & S O N , L o w e l l , M i c h ,

mm

Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats. Veal

S t a e k

B o a 8 t r

P i c n i c H a m s

C h i c k e n s

M u t t o n

L i v e r #

Lard

Baeon

S a l t P o r k

C o r n e d B e e f

P i c k l e d T o n g u e

P r e s s e d M e a t s

B o I o a

Heart

t Cash We Want Your Trade

A Little Too Much Ham Sausage is Just Enough.

-<.» y t*' -

J. J. McNaughton &

T U B X'»ACHK8 ARK ALL RIGHT.

The weither has been so very bad

for several days past that funrs were

entei tainol for the safely of ihn peach

crop, Hn(| as that has CDine to be re-

garded ni the main dcpendeuce in this

coniinun ty, the L B U U E K has taken

s to find out how the young

fared. Th ; opinion soems to

bo unaniiioUB that tbe peaches are all

right,

Mathel Hunter, who lives five

miles soujh-west of Lowell ou section

20, says liat his peachcs are not dam-

aged. His experience leads him to

believe jiat the apple crop will suffer

worse linn the peaches.

Jaraej Murphy, whoso orchard is on

Peck's lill, says his peach trees are

not injueJ, nor potatoes which were

high eipugh to cultivate, but his

grapes vere scofchcd and this year's

crop c<|npletely ruined.

L. \ j . Cogswell of this township shares (he opinion of the other gentle-

men ajlo the peach crop, and has

noticef no ^rout damage to other crops.'

J . I. Lee has not been alarmed

aboulhis orchard. IIHS not looked

it nvf but thinks it is all right.

n'l E. Prat t of Vergennes, has

d no extensive damage to fruit .p».

II. Buchanan says bis grape vines

irly black and could hardly be-

that peaches had escaped injury.

. P. Huated, last evening, added

bi|tc8timony to the above. "The

ches are all right."

EKGLI9—KDDV.

very pleasant occasion was that

the marriage of Miss Jessie M.

dy and Wm. U. Engle, which took

at the residence of the bride's

Wm. H. Eddy, Thursday eve-

7 May 9. Pastor Shanks per-ed the ceremony iu bia usual

appy manner, in the presence of

boot twenty-five guests. The L * D -

JEK acknowledges receipt of a liberal

portion of tbe oak* that graced the

ve board, and wishes the young

-ite all tbe joy and success imagin-able.

PROGRAM O F EX^RCIBES F O B ME-

MORIAL DAT*

• Tlie Mlowing is the list of officers

and order of exercises for Decoration

Day Services:

President—S. P. Hicks. Vice President®—W. 8. Winegar,

Chas. McCarty, NI B. Blain, Lowell; Newell Hfttohkiss, Boston; M. H, Trask, Eeene; Don Mann, Vergennes; W m . H. Stone, Bowne.

Orator—Rev. A. P. Moors. Chaplain—Rev. E. H. Shanks. Reader—Ellis Faulkner. Mareh&l—Chas. Althen. Asst. Marshal—John D. Crawford.

The procession will form at the

Park at 1:30 p. m. sharp, and in order

as follows:

FIRST DIVISION.

Lowell City Band. Joseph Wilson Post. C. U. Perry Citmp.

Pupils of Public Schools. Women's Relief Corps. Decorating Committee.

8KCOND DIVISION.

President of the Day and Orator. Cliaplaiu and Reader. ' Common Council. Citizens iu caniages and on foot.

On arrival at the cemetery the fol-

lowing program will be carried out:

Music—Lowell City Baud. Prayer—Rev. E. H. Shanks. Singing—Quarlelte. Recitation—Ellis Faulkner. •Singing—Quartette. Oration—Rev. A. P. Moors. Singing—Quartette. Decorating the uraves. G. A. R. services in honor of the un-

known dead. Saluting the dead, by Camp No. 9.

S. of V. Singing, "America"—Quartette and

audience. Benediction.

Should the day be rainy the exer-

cises will be held at Music Hall.

R . Q U I C K ,

B E M . MORSE,

A . P . H U N T E R ,

Committee.

A GREAT SUCCESS.

Fully 500 people were delighted by

Prof. II. Howe's phonograph concert

at the M. E. church last night. Peo-

ple who had listened to the little hand

phonograph were astonished by the

large machine which produced sounds loud enough to fill the church, while

people who had never seen or heard

any sort of a phonograph were amaz-

ed. The most remarkable part of the

program was when E. E. Lolmes sang

a solo which the phonograph after-

wards reproduced so truly that many

in the audience could even identify

the song as being sung in Lohnea

voice. The program closed with the

audience singing the doxology which

the machine repeated.—[Owosso An-

gus, April 27.

LOWELL CAPTURES T H E FIRST GAME.

The first game of ball for tbe season

was played in Lowell on Friday last

between the home team and the Lin-

coln club of Grand Rapids, witnessed

by a fair crowd of spectators. The

Lincolns proved to be an easy mark

for the home team as is evidenced by

the score 22 to 8. The following tells the story:

LOWELL. McQueen, rf McDowell, cf BaiHjer, c P a r d U 4 U (iiles, 3b Bush, ss Coona, 2b L«ne, lb Blnine, p

Totuls

UKCOLOT. Kiitrnrel, n Oniaki, 2b Htrnnan, 3b Plewher, I f HamUtun. r f Krwo, l b Rathbarn, p Croft, c KoneaM, cf

Totals at)

R 1B

0 2 0

POf A

7 27 171 13

Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lowell, 3 0 0 3 0 3 2 8 8 - 2 2 Lincoloa, 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 1—8

The next game is with the Saranac

boys this afternoon. Manager Keister

is arranging for games with the fol-

lowing teams: Perkins & Richmond

Grand Rapids City League team. Alto, Belding, Sunfield, Hastings, Freeport,

Ionia, Greenville, Valley City, Ozarks,

and Owosso State League.

The boys are putting up a good

game and deserve a royal support.

ROYALTY INVOLVED.

William Butler Duncan of New

York City petitioned the probate

court yesterday fur the probate of the

will u Alexander Duncan, deceased.

i

of Providence, Rhode Island. Thciv ^

is S2,000 worlh of real estate in thi- ;

county belonging to the estate. Then

are three heirs. The petitioners an •

Sally (Dowager) Lady Hay,daughter .

and Alex. Lauderdale Duncan, son

both of the latter living in England -

—[Sunday Herald.

The above proof of will is made t • perfect the title in and to the land south of Grand river, consisting oi what is usually known as the Cnees-bro property of which the village of Segwun forms a part.

B m m s .

A son to F . B. Clark and wife.

Monday, May 13.

A son to Frank Ecker and wife.. Tuesday, May 14.

A daughter to Mrs. Geo. T. I line.

late of Georgia, Tuesday, May 14.

A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM AND HOUSK • OF CORRECTION.

The editor of the L E D O E I I made a

business trip to Ionia last Thursday

and incidentally visited the asylum

and state house of correction. Both

institutions are kept in a marvelouslv '

neat condition. The visitor to the

asylum, is made to think better of

mankind when he observes the great

care and kindness shown to the state's

unfortunates. The surroundings and

furnishings are made as home-like as

possible and care and attention given

every inmate, better than they could

receive at home. In the asylum we

mot a lady who recognized us as an

old friend ami greeted us with:

" W h y , George! I never expected to see you alive in this world again," fol-

lowed up with a very rapid talk over

old times, with all of which of course

we professed acquaintance and great .

interest. \V« were introduced to one A..

7 gentleman who is recovering ^rom th<(

illusion that ho was vice presidei\r of

the United States for twenCy-five

years. He wanted to know *hat we

were "in for;" believed our game was

"keno," and that we had served a

terra at Memphis.

Jus t before leaving the house of

correction, our attendant opened the

door of the dark cell and asked us to

step inside, which we did and he im-

mediately closed the door upon us.

We managed to call out "What the

deuce are you shutting us in here for?'r

when the door opened and the accom-

modating guide said: " I just wanted

you to see how dar t it w." "Thanks,

awfully; but don't do it again. Your

word is good for it. No

mental knowledge, if ^

- Both o f t h e ^ / j ^ ^ ^ ssera to be in the hand^ 0 f efficient and courteous

officials and conducted iu a manner creditable g n a t ^ 0 f MicW-

gan. • A visit either or both wWI well repay a n ^ .

DEATH O F V A N A D A P I O N E E R .

Monday, aged 86 yean. k r c | identof the town-• n W w a t . h k U r es

Archibald M-cMU1m home in Ada, Mi

He h ad been a

ship for 47 years ^ highly _ teemed and respecrv^j b j t U w b o h l ( |

the pleasure of his Acquaintance. He leaves three daugh

State Oil inspector

Rr>ckford, and A.

place. The funeral

the residence Wednes

and two tons, al McMillan of

'cMillan of thist-

plaoe from

morning.

I N S ANOTHER.

Mastenbrook

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OUR GRAND OLD MAN

In the case of Jacob

vs. Frank C. Alger,

learned that Judge Adait

a decision in favor of comp'

against defendant. Attorn

ewson has added another lau crown of victory.

Special aale one day only, o t

Quick <t Son's, Saturday, M a ^ V

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Eoivell F. M JOHNSON, Publisher.

LOWELL, MICH.

Tno ancients know how to eneau Loaded dico have been found In the Rilns of Herculaneum.

I t Is said that in some parts of Japan robbers are convicted on a majority rote of the community.

Two thousand patents have been ta-ken out in this country on the manu-facture of paper alone.

The only wooden shoe factory in Iowa is a t Pella, the Hollander's com-munity, in Marlon County.

Tbe largest bible in tho world is a manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vati-can, weighing 320 pounds.

Queen Liliuokalani has a ten-acre park to walk in, but still desires more exercise. She should be given a wheel

The deepest well on our Atlantio coast is that at the silk works near Northampton, Mass.; depth, 3,700 f ee t

Two clergymen in Nebraska are at-tributing the hard times to the Sun-day opening of the Chicago world's fair .

Endeavors are being made in Eng-land to establish the Sabbatica year, one year's rest in seven, for school teachers.

The British empire and its depend-encies and colonies embrace 11,000,000 square miles, or about the size of all Africa.

Venezuela means "little Venice." The early explorers found the natives living in houses placed on piles in the marshes.

The new photograph of the heavens which is being prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows 68,000,000 stars.

Paper stockings are the latest in-vention of the day, but Jerry Simpson has a scheme to beat them hollow for cheapness and durability.

Counterfeit 1-cent pieces are in cir-culation in New York. Now, then, counterfeiting has got down to a basis where it is likely to affect us.

Recent remarriages indicate that i t is possible for people to repent of di-vorce as well as marriage, and now H is only a question of where It will end.

Notwithuluadiug fugitive rumors to the con^tacy^beie is great unanimity in the belief tha t J . Wilkes Booth is Ptlll dead enough for all practical pur-poses.

One of the attractions of the next Paris exposition will be a hole in tbe ground a mile deep. One price of ad-mission will admit one to the bole show.

It is said that Queen|LiI twangs the bango. If that is so i t changes the whole aspect of affairs and the Justice of her sentence can no longer be ques-tioned.

Colonel Corbett gives i t out cold tha t t caa be knocked out only by a chance

b l o ^ ? ~ Fitzsimmons asserts

that t t he is i

of a blow

k ) has Cw. fer for the b u u c . . . cheek. There is n f , t l l I U 6 that museum man ' s c ^ e e ' t *

f f-

fn th

' Tho European r i a t , 0 M which let Japan alone whilf* • h e d o l n « h e r

fighting would a favorable Im-pression by conp 0 0 1 1 1 * ^ P011** spectlng her enjfy®®111 ot th® ot victory. ,

To members « f literary societies: If In search of qfotstlon* about love, un-selfishness. th10 l deal life, purity, etc., you will find'an Inoxhaustible supply In the w o r k s ' 0 1 th®* f a m o u s man, Os-car Wilde. ^

PhlladelpJnia citizens are complaining because wlunows are clogging the city water s e ^ ' c e pipes. Well, what do those pi^ladelpblans want, anyway?

thes/ 1111011 t b 3 city can afford to 'three-pound bass free.

daughter of President Faure of writes poetry. This probably

ns, though it does not Justify, thb anarchist plot to assassinate the

d e n t Are the sins of the children be visited upon the fathers?

The Prince of Wales has reconsid-Wed the idea of coming over to New-

this summer. If he doesn't come h' »nj miss the treat of seeing a rare,

ion of anglomaniacs with Eng-aers totally unknown in Eng-

TELLER ON SILVER.

P L A I N F A C T S F R O M T H E C O L O -

R A D O S E N A T O R .

H* Who Is Not ia Favor of •nd Unlimited Coinage of Be la • Ware Earner) !• Enemy.

the Free SUrer (if HU Own

I like to do all the writing and talk-ing possible on the silver issue, for I feel more than ever that i t is a most momentous question, but I cannot al-ways spare the time. I do more of this work than I should. The subject la so vast; it ramifies in so many directions and the arguments are so numerous that it requires care and thought to give in a single article a single phase of the subject. ramifias in so many directions and the arguments are so numerous that it re-quires care and thought to give in a single article a single phase of the sub-ject.

The president's recent letter to Chi-cago was an appeal to the supporters of the gold standard to defend that sys-tem by proclaiming for it the merit of soundness and to declare all other sys-tems unsound and the supporters of all others advocates of a debased currency. In his opinion I suppose we are advocates ofan unsound currency. I t is to be regret-ted that the president did not point out to us some of the advantages of the gold standard as well as the possi-ble danger to the country if we return to the use of both gold and silver as such use existed in the United States prior to 1873.

Up to that time practically the whole world had the benefit of the use of both silver and gold as money of ulti-mate redemption. England was on a gold basis and Germany on a silver basis, it is true, but the mints of France were open to both gold and silver, and England had the benefits of an open mint for silver in France but a short distance from England's commercial center, while Germany had the French mint for its gold. The Englishman de-siring to put his silver Into money could do so by either sending it over to the free-coinage mint in France or sending it to Germany and exchanging it there upon a ratio of 15H ounces of silver for an ounce of gold. The German having gold which he wished changed into money had but to send it to England to be coined or to France for exchange Into French money. This was freely done, and all the gold and silver not required for export from Europe was coined into money at some European m i n t The United States mints were open to the coinago of both silver and gold a t a ratio of little less than 16 ounces of silver to one of gold, which ratio we speak of as 16 to 1.

While all the world was not on a bimetallic basis, all the world had the advantages and benefits conferrcJ, by that system, for England, France, the United States and other countries were ready to coin all the gold offered, and [Germany, France, the United States .and other countries were ready to coin .all the sliver offered, uud this gave gold and silver bullion a money value equal at all times to the coin that could

;be made out of I t Then all countries 'by the system of commercial exchange had the full advantage of the bimetal-lic coinage.

Read history and tell me where there 'is anything to Justify the president in supposing that a return to the condi-tions of finance existing prior to 1873 would be fraught with disaster. The countries that have abandoned the t'.al of silver have not benefited their 4nan-cial condition, and the financial con-dition of the world toda** "^'much less satisfactory than it 'A as for many years preceding 1873. Exchange has fiuc-tuated to a greater degree since tha t •year between sliver-using and gold-using countries and now seriously •threatens to transfer the manufacturers 'of Europe and America to Asiatic coun-Itries.

I will state this as a proposition: If the gold price of silver falls i t the •gold-standard countries the price of ex-perts from gold-standard countries must either fall In the country where produced or rise in tha country to which the exports are s en t Silver-using coun-tries must pay more silver for Imports f rom gold-standard countries or the manufacturers in gold-standard coun-tries must reduce the nelling price of their wares to meet the decllae In the relative value of silver to gold. Tha t Is the situation presented the manufac-turers today. Prior to 1873 fifteen and one-half ounces of silver were equiva-lent to one ounce of gold. Then the English exporter to Asia received tha t amount of silver, knowing that he cer-tainly could convert it into gold without loss upon the, stable ratio. I t did not change by daiiy market fluctuations.

Now, mark the change. Today, ac-cording to the present price of silver, i t takes something like thirty-one ounces of silver to secure by exchange an ounce of gold, instead of fifteen and one-half ounces, as was the case be-fore 1878. If the exporter should at-tempt to maintain his old price after silver was demonetized, he must re-quire of the silver-using purchaser more than the amount If silver hereto-fore paid for his product, subject to the fluctuation based u p o n * gold meas-ure, which is now, as you know, re-duced to one-half Its former ^ c h a n g e

value. What is tho result? The silver buyer of the Engliehman's wares must either refuse to buy, must pay the in-creased silver prico or must manufac-ture for himself in his own country. What did he do? By a refusal to buy, he forced the Englishman to reduce his price. The importer continues to buy with his silver, but to the disaster of the English manufacturer, who cannot make a profit a t such reduced rates.

Suppose tho Engilohman cculd not afford to reduce his prices to the full depreciation of silver measured upon a gold standard, he must advance his prices in exchange for the foreign im-porter's silver, and then the silver-pay-ing customer complains of the rising prices. This leads to the manufacture of these articles in the silver-using countries, where the manufacturer Is satisfied to take silver at its old value, and thus the market for the gold stand-ard producer is destroyed. That has been the case in Mexico, India, China and Japan, and doubtless more marked in Japan than In any other country.

I t looks now as If Japan might be-come the great manufacturing country of the orient if not ot the world. Its population Is quite as skillful as is that of England. Japan has the advantages of a better climate, of cheaper labor, of an abundance of cheap iron and coal; her products can be sold in China and India on a silver basis with profit, and even in Em-ope on a gold basis a t a figure less than any European country can manufacture them. It may be said that her manufacturers sre not satu-ciently perfected to compete with the European manufacturfts. This may be true in many articles, but not as to most articles; and as to those not yet perfected, the patience and skill of the Japanese will soon secure for their manufactures the same excellence that has commended European manufac-tured products to both Buropean and Asiatic consumers. j

It must be borne in m M that labor has not fallen in India, jChina, Japan and other silver-standard countrl and that one ounce of silvir bullion will buy as much labor now m it ever did. This Is true oi ail the domistlc supplies and materials required for manufactur-ing in silver countries. I t l s also true of taxes and general chargts that must be met by all manufactunrk alike. In Europe, however, and in America, one ounce of silver bullion will iuy only one-half as much labor or supples and will discharge only one-half asmuoh taxes and general charges. Undo these con-ditions it is Impossible foS any Euro-pean or American manulictursr to compete with manufacturirs In the countries I have named. Illwe persist in giving the silver-using Ountries of the world the advantage ibich they now possess by reason of oleap silver we will find that in a fewi years the manufacturing of the worldlwill be ia the hands of the Asiatics, ani they will export to gold-standard counrlss their products, and sell a t prices aulte 1m possible for the gold-standard manu-facturers to moot

The advocates of the gold standard tell us that the decline in pries Is not the result of tbe disuse of slver, but Is due to other causes which hey are pleased to denominate as overproduc tion. They ignore the fact t a t the fall in prices is only in the g^l-stan ard countries. Countries havik the silver standard have not suffsrd a fall in prices, nor have they had aj-Ise in prices of articles of domestic rodue-tion. They have had the dolrable condition of stable prices. The ise of

Lpinported articles has only stinjilated their manufactures.

For twenty years and more th pro-ducer in this country has sesn th|prlce of his product lessen with eaobyear. The owner of houses and lands otside of the great cities has aeon theiame steady decline in tho selling pr|e ot his property. Wholesale prices nave especially fallen, while retail tlces have net fallen to the full extenfchat the wholesale prices have. Thus the consumer has not had the (all biefit of cheap goods by the fall In dees that has pinched and destroyed ithe producer. All the gold-standard din-tries have had this (all in prices, f i l e in the silver countries, as I have stied. prices have practically remained sMe. Now what has caused th is steadyle-d i n e in prioes since 1171? I t Is l ly to say that production has IscreaMite such an extent as to oanse this fall. Nor can It be truthfully tha t prodoctlon has been so cheape|d by Improved machinery and for manufacturing that the pi can be sold a t such greatly red prices. The fact that prodncers all complaining of the loss of is proof positive that In cheapening le cost of production prioes can e lowered. The fact of a steady increji In population ought a t least to nil maintained the prices of lt73.

Supply and' demand c e n t " ' pric. In fact, i t is demand alone that trols prices. The supply will in meet the demand. The demand pends upon a desire coupled ability to possess. In our present dltion our supplies fall off and prices fall because the demand has leu off, and demand falls off be cat* the would-be purchaser has not tl financial ability to buy.

H M. TELLBR.

N E W S I N B R I E F .

Steve O'Donnoll knocked Jake K!!* rain out in the 21st round a t Coney Island, N. Y.

Gen. Pleasanton, Rear Admiral Almy, Rep. Hitt and (.Jen. Coggswell, all of whom are 111 a t Washington, aro reported better.

A PECULIAR CASE. P H Y S I C I A N S P U Z Z L E D B Y T H E

E X P E R I E N C E O F M R S . B O W E N .

Th* KpUcopal Hotpltal Said She Had Comnmptlon.

(From the Record. Philadelphia, Pa.) Associate Justice McEnery, of the Jf?"] J u , y t h e Episcopal hospital ad-

Louisiana supreme court, handed down S S * ? * I n * « * 1 ? o s e

p f i z ? f 8 * " ? 8 t h 6 otote. Lndei this decision ffloTs con. g ive hei' name ua Mrs. Wm. G.-Under this decision glove con-tests will not be allowed.

The senate of Florida's legislature passed the bill prohibiting prize fight-ing and glove contests in Florida, ' ihe penalties for violation are heavy.

Isaac Jope, night clerk a t the First Avenue hotel, Pittsburg, was found murdered in the basement of the hoteL He had been beaten on the head with an iron bar and robbed.

James Herbert, a clerk, killed his wife by cut t ing her throa t with a razor a t New York Citv. Then he fled from tbe house and his body was hauled out of East river with the throat c u t Jealousy was the cause of the double tragedy.

Three men employed a t the Illinois Central shops a t Burnside, 111., died as tho resul t of drinking alcohol. Tho men were engaged to handle tho alco-hol sent out over tho road and drank tho raw spiri t surreptitiously in large quantities.

Oscar Wilde was released from Jail a t London on baiL His sureties were Lord Douglass of Hawick, eldest sur-viving son of tho Marquis of Queens-berry, and Rev. S tewar t Headlam. The la t ter is a graduate of Cambridge university.

Advices have reached London to the effect t h a t the Turkish outrages upon Armenians continue, because they wUl not sign an address saying tha t they have been well treated and tha t Kurd-ish troops were responsible for the recent massacres and outrages.

The Chicago Civic Federation, which put in ops ration a plan to send the un' employed people to the country. And-ing them pieces to work, are encour-aged by their success. So fa r in the neighborhood of 400 men, women and children have been provided with em-ployment

A cloudburst a t Herrington, Kaa., converted Lime creek into a raging torrent, and houses, horses, cattle and hogs were swept down stream. Tho house of Samuel MeManus was also carried away and wrecked by striking a bridge, and Mrs. MeManus was drowned.

Gov. Morrill, of Kansas, is to be ar-rested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. This ia the s tatement of Waters £ Waters, a t-torneys. The charge is made t h a t Gov. Morrill drew money from the state to pay for services given by his

Bowen, residence, 1849 Melghan St.i Philadelphia. The case was dlag-j nosed and she was told plainly that she was In an advanced state of COLI sumption. The examining physician even showed her the sunken'place in her breast where the cavity In. her lung was supposed to exist. She went home to her family, a broken, disheartened wonw an with death staring her in the face; That was the beginning of the stoxy, thd end as told by Mrs. Bowen. who not longer expects to die, to a reporter fol-lows: ,,

"The flrst symptoms of conaumptlod c*®® in the form of terrible sweatii night and day. Prom April until September I was constantly cold and kept wrapped up In blankets through: the hottest weather. A terrible cougil took possession of me, my breast w 2 sore to the slightest touch, and m l limbs were like cold clay. The hardest rubbing with the coarsest towel would not create the slightest flush, and the , e " t exertion would exhaust me. .. 1 Y.e n t t o th® hospital in July and they diagnosed my case as above stat-j , when the clouds were the darkest that the first glint of suiwhi: came. Mr. Shelmerdlne, a friend, wh'

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present private secretary a month be-fore the governor was inaugurated.

At Collingwood, a subur t of Cleve-land, an unknown man applied to the yard foreman of tbe Lake Shore road for employment On being informed there was no work (or him he ex-claimed: "My God, is there nothing a man can do to live? If not I can a t least die." A moment later he threw himself under a passing t ra in and waa cut to pieces.

The U. S. supreme court, with i ts full membership of nine Justices on the bench, for the first time in many months, began the rehearing of the in-come tax suits. Justice Howell Jack-son, of Tennessee, who has been ab-sent f rom Washington the greater p a r t of the past year seeking health, took his seat again with extraordinary in-terest at tached to his presence, since he assumes practically the position of umpire upon the vital question o( the principle upon which the jaw is biased which divide the other Justices into equal factions. Just ice Jackson ia ye t ifar f rom welL

lives around at 1844 Clementine SL, sal^ to me one day, Mrs. Bowen' did you even try Dr. Williams' Pink Pllle for Pale i i - 0 p v A l , a d n e v e r h e a r d o t t h « medl-clne, but in my condition could m l turn a deaf ear to anything tha t offered re-llef. I t was af ter considerable thought and Investigation that I concluded to «i»S?n „ a,.,. o t her medicine, in-

. , 5 c o d liver oil, and' depend "Pon P'nk Pills. J began to

take the pills, a t flrst with but little en-couragement The flrst sign of improve-

® T a r m t h and tingling een-aaUon in my limbs. Finally the cough * W l a r e d - m y c h M t lost Its soreness

r ' V M " n d - h e * v le r . All this I owe toDr . Williams' Pink Pills and I cannot praise them too highly."

B o w e n 18 a k , n d , y faced1 lady of middle age, a church member, well-

a n d highly esteemed. She looks a ? d strong and It seems al-

most impossible that she was ever given e m l n e n t Physicians as an In-

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Dun's saj-s; The event of the past week was the demoritlUalloo of toreign exchange caused by enormous sales o( bonds abroad. Besides a sale of •M.tfW.o H) Manhattan and other rail-road bonds through the syndicate, large pur^ chases on (oreigu account have been recorded for some weeks, so that the aggregate probably exceeds SV). i.e.ouo since the sale of gorera-ments.. Safety for the summer means nruch for ail business and tbe syndicate deems It so fully assured that it distributes 40 per cent ot tbe money advanced by the associates, whloh relieves a large amount to stimulate operations In securities and products. Crop prospects also have greatly Improved and this Is ofatUl higher importance, as It wiU do much to de-termine the character and volume of all busi-ness after summer uncertainties are over. In addition, basluess is reriTlng. though the gam In great industries is retarded by many strikes. The industries were distinctly gain-ing when strikes began, which have spread quite widely. The failures |he past week were

nst *08 last year. quite widely. VI in the United States,

A Victoria cross once changed hands In Durham, Eng., for |126.

A London omnibus carries on an av-erage 2,600 passengers each week.

According to English authority the bankruptcies In England and Wales average 120 weekly.

The average life of a locomotive ia said to be about fifteen years, and the •arning capacity 1300,000.

In 1898 12,188,811 bushels of buckwheat were raised, ground into meal, and; made into cakes, to be djaly served with butter.

The chief exponents of music in Japan are women. Most men would consider that they were making themselves ri-diculous by playing or singing in so-ciety.

One of the most prominent of the ex-baseball players In congress Is Con-gressman Wadsworth of New York. H e was one of the champions of the west-ern counties of the state.

According to the terms of his will, a New York state farmer was recently burled with his boots on.

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The waitresses In a Brooklyn res-taurant have been ordered to stralghter out their frizzes, tightly braid theli back hair and replace their fashionabU puff sleeves with the old-style dose-fitting sleeve. The order has caused much complaint and the waitresses threaten to strike unless the order I# revoked.

Xpworth,League, Chattanooga. The route to Chattanooga over tbe Louis-

ville * Nashville railroad Is via Mammoth Gave, America's Greatest Natural Wonder. Specially low rates made for hotel sod Cave feee to holders ot Epworth League tickets. Through Nashville, the location of VanderbUt University, tbe pride of the Methodist church., and along the line between KashvUle and Chat-tanooga where many of the moat famous bat-tles of the war were fought. Send tor aupo ot the route from Clneinnatt. Louisville. Evaas-vUle and St. Louis, and partlculavs as t» rates, etc.. to C. P. Atmore. Oeneral Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or Jaeksoa Smith, D. P. A, Cincinnati, a

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CHAPfER L—CoNTururo. sensation. Never before had he met with quite this kind of rebuff. Women commonly bowed down to him, or he thought they did. And those who he imagined deolined his acquaintance had alwaya l e f t an impression that they had been pleased to meet him— once.

"She has gone to the hotel on some errand. From the lay of the land, she must come back on this path. I may as well look about here (or a little while and see wha t happens. I ' l l go into the light-house,—I always did en-joy light-houses—and see what sort ot a creature the (ather mav be . "

The young man watched the retreat-ing fignre as It (ollowed the path on the bluff. Here was a girl o( charac-ter and with a mind of her own. How different from one he knew In ParisI

"If Jul ie had been like t h a t I shouldn' t be In this hole—figuratlvelv speaking—and I might never have seen Wilson's Holl, which would be a bless-ing."

By this time he had crossed the little yard,and.mount n g t h e great door-step, he knocked a t the green door of the house

" I wonder what the (a ther is l ike?" To his surprise, the wooden door

wi th green panels promptly opened wide, and a blond curly-haired giant in brown overalls stood before him.

"Ahl Beg pardon. Do you allow Tisltors to the light? I 'm greatly in-terested in such things."

"Visitors admitted to the tower only from twelve till one. Bead the notice on the tower." e With tha t the door waa quietly dosed in hia (ace.

"Huml Official, I suppose. Can't he her (ather; too young for t h a t Can't be her obrothar: for she's a bru-nette. I ' l l go back to the path and w a i t Wonder K he observed my galant at tentiona to the girl from the window?"

He knew very well what he intended to do. He would wait till she returned home, and thus see her again. Not the chivalrous thing to do. He also knew t h a t and said to hlmseK— ',i "A fellow must be amused; and in ;«uch a stupid place anyth ing ia allow-sble i( i t la only amusing."

He went back to the stile, and then, seeing a log of drift-wood on the beach below, he aild down the sandy bluff to the beach, lit a cigarette, and made hlmseK comfortable ou the sand with the log for a low-backed chair. Le f t alone on the sbore, he fell into a revery of the pas t and chewed the end of a scrap of bit ter reflection. He could soe the edge of the bluff for some dis-tance towards the hotel, and felt sure he would see any one who approached along the path. Should he see any one coming, ho could saunter along in tha t direction and meet them—quite by ac-c ident

Presently he heard voices, and ris-ing, he began to climb tho bluff. I t was so t very easy climbing, and when he reached the top he saw the young woman, her of the sun-bonnet, arm In arm with the young.blond g i a n t the couple laughing and ta lking together in the most familiar manner. ' They came towards him alonf the path, and passed by and over tbe stile a ' ' * through the garden to the house, ab-sorbed in each other and paying no mote at tention to him than i( he had not existed.

He looked af te r them tiU they en-tared the house, and then turned to-wards hia hotel with only one word ot ecmaen t :

"Engaged." [ l b be Continued.]

CHAPTER 1L

IB WAITER AT Ithe hotel lunch ta-i ble aealgned to Mr. Boyal Yardptickle found tbe young man almost unbear-able, and waa thor-oughly glad when he took himaeK off to the piazza for a smoke. The young g e n t l e m a n w a s

plainly ou t o( sorts, (or he quite forgot the chief duty ofV.^an—from the waiter 's point o( view. What could ha do in such a stupid p l a « ? There were pleasant people al l about him, hut Aough very n^tir, they were practical-«/ very f a r away from him. The t ru th

waa, Mr. Boyal Yardstickie bad never learned tha t "there are pleasant peo-ple everywhere,—If you aro only pleas-ant yourself."

Thinking there might be something to be seen in the l i t t le village where he had landed the night before, he started out to find the p o r t or, as i t was commonly called, " the HolL" There were two ways in which he might reach the Holl. There waa the foot-path along the bluff, through the light-house yard, and then along the inner beach and following the line ot the curving cape till It ended In the little village. This was the longest and most popular route, be-cause of the sea-view to the south till the l ight was reached, then the pleas-an t view of the sheltered bay, with its fleet o( fishing-boats, and the pictur-esque steamboat-landing, and the ir-regular row of low white houses. The woods tha t covered the cape back of the hotel formed a green wall or hedge cut t ing off tbe view of the Holl, and the shore-path was the most de-sirable, as i t avoided the sandy road tha t made the shorter and more direct route between tho hotel and the land-ing. The settlements on the bluff were compavatively new, and a road had been out through the woods con-necting the village and the hote l Mr. Boyal Yardstickie took the road through the woods, though the road-way was soft with sand and dusty from passing teams.

As the young man came out on the north side ot the woods and in view of the p o r t he saw a large schooner yacht a t anchor in the l i t t le harbor.

"There 's one man knows how to ep Joy life. No bothers or worries about money. You Just sail away and let the world take card of itself. I wonder who i t can be?"

He walked slowly on through t H single village s t ree t past the singular one-story wooden houses with long roofs sloping down close to the ground a t the back, past the village store and postoffice, to the old wooden pier tha t extended far out over the shallow water. Seeing a number of people a t tbe end of tbe wharf, he sauntered down to find out wha t was going on. To his aurprise and pleasure, he thought he saw soma one he knew. Yes: he was not mistaken.

" Jack Manning!. Thia is a snrprise! How are you, old man? Hayen' t seen you since I went abroad."

"Oh! It 's Yardstickie! Glad to-see you. What brings you to the Holl?"

" J n s t back from Paris. Been study-ing there,—worn out—qui te used u p Old lady sent me dowrn hero for rest-cure. What brought yon here?"

"My yach t Been at anchor here for a couple of days."

'•Got a yacht? You're in luck." "Yes. Just going on board. Won' t

yon come out and see her?" "See her! Not married?" "Oh, dear, no! The y a c h t Here's

my skipper. He's going off to the boat. Come on."

With that Mr. Manning led the way to a ladder fastened to the upright plies of the wharf,and nimbly climbed down into a boat below. Mr. Boval Yard-atlokle aaw a man in the boatl bu t paid no attention to him till he had de-scended the ladder and had taken a aeat a t the stern of the b o a t

"Shove off. Captain. Let 's go aboard. Oh, excuse me. Capt Johnson, my (riend Mr. Yardstickie o( New York. Capt Johnson ia my akipper, and a man tha t i t will pay you to know."

Mr. Boyal Yardsticks was for an in-s tant surprised, bu t recovered his self-possession and bowed to the blond giant who aat before them, oar in hand.

"Morning, dir. Glad to meet yon. Come down in the boat laat night , d idn ' t ye? Thought F d seen yon be-fore. Gaesa i t was a t the landing laat n i a rh t "

With thia he bent his immense s t rength to the oars,and the l i t t le boat seemed to surge suddenly through the water.

"Easy, Captain. Don't perform your great steamboat act just now. We are not spearing sharks to-day."

The young man a t once began to paddle as qnietly as oould be desired, and kept looking ahead, as K to find the way to the y a c h t

"Dare say the brute is vexed about something. Well, i t does not concern me."

T h b Mr. Boyal Yardstickie said to hlmseK, talking absently meanwhile wi th the young owner of the yacht on things indifferent Presently the boat reached the yacht, and by the help of a sailor on deck the two fr iends scrambled aboard.

"Come bel-w, EoyaL T>e ladles must be a t InncV-"

Mr. Manning led the way to tho cabin, and there they found a merry par ty a t tho little table tha t circled the big mast that came through tho deck.

"Here we are again and I've brought company. Let me present my friend, Boyal Yardstickie. Mr. and Mrs. Van Ciiif, Mr. Boylston, Miss Hoylston, and Miss Johnson."

The voung man bowed to each in turn. Mr. and Mrs. Van Cliff seemed to be middle-aged people, well-to do in the world. Mr. Boylston seemed a young professional man, and his sister was a charming giri about 19. Miss Johnson was Mai, tho brunette he had met a t the stile, and the light-house keeper's daughter. They al l received him cordially as the guest ot the owner ot the yacht, for they also were his guests. Mai Johnson received h im with gracious dignity, and gave not the slighest h in t tha t she had ever seen him before.

Conversation (ell into sundry nautical channels, and then af te r a l i t t le they went on deck and sat in comfortable ease as i( all were quite a t home. Through the conversation the young man began to wonder why i t was thia beautKnl girl, daughter, as he guessed, o( tbe light-house keeper, should be on this yacht and apparently one ot Its most honored guests. Could i t be poe* si ble she waa engaged to Mr. Manning? He would be a lucky man indeed i( i t were true; and yet thia Miss Boylston seemed to be in some vague manner the mistress ot the b o a t Both Mrs. Van Cliff and Miss Boylston treated Miss Johnson with marked at tention, and even affection, as i( they had known and loved her for a long time.

The time flew so pleasantly tha t they hardly noticed the westering sun till the skipper came a f t and said,—

"Guess we'll have to up anchor K we want to ge t out before Che tide (alls."

"All right Captain. Have a man ready with the boat to take Miss Johnson ashore."

Then, turning to Mr. Yardstiokie, Mr. Manning added, "Sorry we can ' t take you wi th us this trip. We are going to run up to Providence, and then shall come 143k; and l( you are here I ahould like you to apend a (ew daya with us."

Boyal Yardstickie was profuse in his thanks, and said he should await the return of the party with pleasure.

"Here's Capt Glass coming in. FII hall him, and mebby he'll put Mr. Yardstickie and Mai ashore."

A fishing-boat was beating up the channel, and would on the nex t tack cross under the yacht 's atern. The

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The American Steel Casting company of Thurlow, Pa., has suocessfvily cast a depressing gun carriage weighing 28,000 pounds.

Jule Rogers of Marshall county, Iowa, was such a puny little babe that his parents despaired of raising him, but he weighs 362 pounds now, and la 6 feet S Inches tall.

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The average amount of sickness hi human life Is ten days per annum.

A divorced woman residing near Chi-cago recently acted as bridesmaid at the second wedding of her former hus-band.

In North Dakota 44.58 per cent of the people are of foreign birth; then comes Minnesota with 35.90, then Wisconsin with 80.78 per cent.

Albert Halght of Newark, N. J., re-ceived a Judgment of $15,000 against a trolley car company becauce he had been knocked down by a car and In-jured In a manner to make him perma-nently deafc

World's Columbian Exposition Will be of value to the world by Illus-trating the Improvements in the me-chanical arts, and eminent physicians will tell you that the progress in medic-inal agents has been ot equal impor-tance, and as a strengthening laxative Syrup of Figs is far In advance oC all others.

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ISA BtrBPRISB. skipper halloa ll, and with ready good nature the boatman ran up alongside, and a sailor stepped on the boat 's dock and had the boat fast In a moment There were pleasant hand-shakings and partings, and then Boyal Yard-stickle found himself In a b o a t flying over the water under the care ot a ven-erable fisherman, and Miss Mai John-son by hia aide. He called i t "hia luck."

I t was something else,—perhaps a test put upon him to see what manner of man he might be.

The sun was sinking behind the sombre woods aa they sauntered along the beach towards the llght-honse a n d watched the saila o( the yacht as they turned from gray to pink and from pink to gold as i t dropped down on the tide towar i s the murmuring buoy rock-ing idly on the purple sea. Theyoung man determined to remove any un-pleasant impression tha t might linger on the young g i r l ' i mind, and, now that they were properly introduced and he was walking with her towards her home, he exerted hlmseK to be aa agreeable as possible. He aneceeded fairly well, for he had a (und ot pleasant ta lk and agree* able manners, and Mai Johnson had not seen much o( the world. She had never been away from the Boll bnt onoe, and then only to Providence for a day. All she had seen of life lay in the village and in one or two (amiifee among the summer visitors a t the hotel. Among those were the Van Cliffs and the lloylstons, whom she had Just left on the y a c h t She had attended in her youth the village school, and in the abundant leisure of tbe light-house she bad r e M a great deal, so tha t she was practijpQly as well educated aa the majority.of girls of her age living In retired communities. She waa naturally br ight and observing, though, like all people who live by the sea, she was r r the r silent and reserved.

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United states with the principal ones of the veiy many useful and elegant articles made by thu Company, we make tuo following offer:

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' Onejar Vaseline (.old Cream. ALL THIS! OOOOB ARB Of the RIQULA* MARRIT SIZIR and •TVL1R SOLO bf UR.

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—bt— FRANK M. JOHNSON.

Bntered at Lowell post ottlco as tecond c Use matter.

^UB3CRIPTION ONE DOLLAR YEARLY.

ADVBBT1BINO KATB8. BuBinesB locals 6 cents per line each issue. Legal ads at legal rates. Cards In directory column |100 per line

per year. Ono inoa 16 per year. Bates for larrer advertisements made

known at the office.

Job printing in connection at Grand Rapids t ates. "Always Prompt," is our motto.

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L o w e l l needs more raanufactur-

y iug industries. An opportunity is

- now offered to secure one such iostitu-

t tion, and it is to be hoped that it will

j. not be thrown away. * 4c

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" N o t h i n g can prevent a victory of

the silver forces in the presidential

• election next year"—so says Hon.

! Richard P . Bland of Missouri, and

• we believe he is right. • •

* T h e assurance from leading peach

• growers, given iu our loeal eolums, . that the crop is so far safe from the

: jreceut cold snap will be a source of

• gratification to every resident of the

• peach belt. We need a year of plenty.

*

A N o n r n Sea. codman carries an

• outfit of lines which extends eight

• miles in length, and has usually fixed

t upon it the amazing number of 4,680

Ijooke, every one of which must be

' baited. This fisherman reminds one

. of a politician, Tom Piatt , for instance. • •

*

W e have received from Brother

James Schermerhorn of the Hudson

• Gazette, an elegant souvenir record of

i the twenty-sixth annual meeting at

Detroit and en route, of the Michigan

Press Association. It is a thing of

beauty and will be a joy forever, re-

flecting credit upon the Gazette es

> tablishment and its able proprietor.

— M e m o r i a l day again draws near,

: and there are more graves to decorate

: .and fewer surviving comrades to do

; the kindly work than ever before.

: Soon the last survivor of the civil war

will have gone to his reward; but

memorial day will not cease to be

. commemorated. A grateful people

will perpetuate it as long as the na-

tion lives. • » •

T h e African king stubbornly in-

: sists that there is no such thing as

ice, because he has never seen any.

' The baby ostrich rams its head' into

the sand and because rr cannot see,

imagines that it cannnt.be seen. Some

white folks who like to pose as intelli-

gent are equally foolish. Because

• t h e y have never seen or experienced,

therefore tbe thing in question can-

i not be. » *

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Some people seem to think that liv-

• eiy horses have no rights which they

. are bound to respect, and regard the

poor animals as so many machines.

A case in point is that of four Jack-

.son young men who drove a team of

horses seventy miles at a stretch, kill-:

ing one and permanently injuring the

• other. Influential parents aro trying

to save the boys from their well de-

served punishment; but'they should be

nurde an example for other offenders. * *

*

T h e Ann Arbor high school officials

made a mistake when they threatened

to expel students who became mem-bers of a fraternity, and after having

made themselves ridiculous are just

now finding it out. The officers were

trying to exercise authority that of

right belong? only to parents and

guardians. In school and during

.-school hours they of right have con-

rtftd, but the less they interfere with private rights of students, the better

will it be for officers, teachers and

•students. • »

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OVER 900 wage-earners at Nnrris-

town and Bridgeport, Pa., are idle be-

.cause their demand for a 20 per cent

Advance in wages waa refused, al-

though half that advance was offered

by the employers. I t looks as if the

employers were willing to meet their

men half way, and common sense

wonld dictate that, work at 10 per rent

advance was infinitely better than no

work at all, but if truth must be said

the element of good, "horse" sense

does not always enter into labor coun-

cils. * *

K E E P T H E C H I L D R E N I N N I G H T S .

We respectfally call the attention of our common council to the measure

adopted in numerous Michigan vil-

lages for keeping the children off the

public streets at night. Due notice

being given, a bell is rung at a given

hour—generally 8 p. m.—after which

all children are expected to be at

home, and officers are required to see

that the rule is enforced. Many

times during the past two years have

we seen little children from three

years of age upwards, playing about

the streets at ten o'clock at night.

Surely this ought not to csntiDue,

and We suggest that the matter might

well receive attention from our wor-

thy village council.

Oouncll P rooeed insa .

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Special meeting of tho Common Council ef the Village of Lowell, Monday, May IS, 1805.

Council called to order by the President. Present, Look, Leo, Collar, Winegar,

Quick, Hunter—0. L. H. Hunt declined to act as a member

of the board of review and special assess, ment committee.

Trustee Hunter moved that J . B. Yeiter be appointed as a member of the' board of review for the Village of Lowell. Yeas, 6.

The President appointed W. 8. Winegar as a member of the special assessment com-mittee.

Tijistee Look moved that the appoint-ment be^bonfirmed. Yeas, 6.

Tnrt(ee Quick moved that a committee be appointed to confer with the Lowell Light and Power Co. and get proposals for lighting thu Village, by the moon light schedule ail night and moon light schedule nntil one o'clock each night, Carried. Yeas, 6.

The President appointed tlio following committee: Trustees Quick, Hunter and Ixse.

The matter of the street fence being in the street on the north side of Avery street between Jackson street and Division street was on motion by Look referred to the street committee. Yeas, 6.

The President appointed tho following as a committeMon public buildings, grounds and parks; Irustees Winegar, Collar and Look.

The President appointed O. C. McDan-nell as health officer.

Trustee Hunter moved that the appoint-ment be confirmed and the salary be $100 per year. Yeas, Look, Lee, Collar, Wine-gar, Quick, Hunter—6. Nays, 0.

Trustee Hunter moved thai we adjourn. A . W . B U B N E T T , Clerk.

The motion made by Trustee Winegar at the meeting Muy 6, in regard to the riding of bicycles on Monroe street, should rend "on the side walks" between Bridge street and North street.

A . W . BURXCTT,

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

BANKING HOUSE OF

J. fcch and Son LOWELL, MICH.

Established at Greenville, 1801; Lowell,'88.

General Banking Business Done.

Money loaned on Real Estate or Banka-ble Pr>er. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Exchangee available in all the Comiuercial Cities of the World at cut rent rates.

W E SOLICIT Y O U B BUSINESS.

. ' VEROKMNE*.

Our very hot weather of the lost two weeks caught a severe cold last Saturday, consequently there was a froet found Sun-day morning.

Clyde Collar, wife and mother of Lowell, drove through here Sunday.

Quite a number of the farmers have got their corn planted.

D. S. Blanding and Q. W. Crosby attend-ed b meeting of the Masonie lodge in Low* ell last weak Tuesday.

Earl Nash and wife were guests of the letter's parents, John Engels and wife, in Lowell Sunday.

Maggie Duffy of near Parnell, visited her sister, Katie, of this place last Friday and Saturday.

Jumes Murphy and Chris Bergin of Low-ell, called on G. W. Crosby last Sunday.

Mm. C. Findlay and Miss F, Edmonds are now keeping house in Lowell.

We wish our friends, Clare Findlay and James Anderson, success in their new un-dertaking.

Everything looks wintry enough this (Tuesday) morning,

P a t s t .

a o o w u r a M i m o r

F I N E G R O C E R I E S , Teas, Coffees, Canned Goods.

F R U I T S A N D V E G E T A B L E S ' ' * ^ -OF ALL KINDS IN THFIR SEASON

AT BOTTOM PUICES.

Fine Food Products. R . V a n D y k e

Planing Mill and Jobbing Shop. all lands of machine work done ou abort mtlico a» KessonaMe f r c*-.

GOODRICH KOPF, Oppoelte Cutler Factory. Lowell, Ml. h PHOPllIRlOlt,

FALLA8SBURO NEWS.

Annie Potruff spent Sunday with her rel-atives.

Ada Booth is staying with he aunt, in Lowell.

Ira Gardner and wife visited at Leroy Saylcs' Sunday.

Henry Pinckney and wife were guests of Willnrd Sayles and family Sunday.

Arthur S-'ayle* and wife visited at Ben Sage's on Sunday last.

Wm. Rex ford, M. C. Dennv and Will Rexford with their wives spent Sunday with Frank Sherrard and wife.

Mrs. Manly Aldrich is entertaining b brother from Lake Odessa.

Nellie Sayla and Mrs. Denny went to Grand H^pids Tuesday, to visit.friends.

Mrs. ben Sage has received word of the death of her brother's wife at Entrican, Montcalm county. The bereaved husband is well Known hero.

N i m b l e .

When Buxom Women, Fair, Fat and Forty, Sit down on poor, lean specimens of

Humanity like this

It Makes 'Em

Squeal. So it is when you ^ U p ^ Buy Slices and do not do it Right. ^ 9 - ^ 1 C i C P They don't Fit, and you ruin your feet, "Breaking them in," and then they are all to pieces. Now we make a specialty of G I V I N G FOLKS FITS, and sell them Shoes that were Lasted to Last. We have been long in the business Oar goods are Guaranteed and our guarantee is Good. Buy your Shoes RIGHT, of the O L D

R E L I A B L E , A ' frOWK * S O N .

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

J . HARBISON RICKEKT.

dentist. Over Church's bank, Lo.vdl.

8. P. HICKS, Loans, Collections, Real Estate and Inst r

ance. Lowell, Mich.

O.C. McDANNEL, M. D, Physician and Surgeon. Office, 40 Bridge

street, Lowell, Mich.

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Notice Is hereby given that the Board of Review

for the Village of Lowell will meet ut the office of William H. Eddy, Town Clerk, in said village on Monday the 27th di«y of May, 1895 nt nine o'clock a. m., and will be in session that day and the next, and any persons deeming themsolves aggrieved by the assessment may .lien be heard.

Dated May 14,1895. R O B E U T H O N T E R , JN..

Village Assessor.

N o f co of Review Meet ing . The board of review for tbe township of

Lowell will be in sessidn at the office of the i township clerk on Monday, May 27, for the purpnie of reviewing the nssemment roll of said townbhip. All perenns having griev-iiuceH may then and there be heard.

C. B E R G I N , Supervisor. " •

A SMcceasful M a n u f a c t u r e r . Our lociil manufiicturer of marble and

grawite cjmetery work, Joseph H. Hamil-ton, is meeting with marked success in his business. Among other of recen'. work erected during the past week are two granite monuments in Egypt cemetery for A. Landou und Peter McLean; one for D. Easterbrook, Freeport: one in Hastings for Mrs. Olive Carpenter; also two in Carlton cemetery for Mrs. Swank and Jasper War-ner. Mr. 'Humilton has also erected in our home ccmetery a beautifo* tablet for Elijah Husted and a marble monument for the late C. C. Sayles.

GRITTAM UA FUERINOS. Wm. Leuiter and wife were in Lowell

and Grand Rapids last week. A. O. Derby and wife, of Greenville,

were visitors at J . A. Lessiter's Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Norton, of Smyrna, visited her

dauqhler, Mrs. Elmer Brooks, Inst week. Mesdames Frank FUnnagan and Jay

Mason are both sick. Mrs. J . W. And rim, of Courtland, and

Mrs. Lon Smith, of Grattan, were called lo Northville, by the death and burial of their sister, Mrs. R. H. Beals.

PRIMARY SCHOOL MONEY. County Clerk Eddy has received from the

department of public instruction at Lansing the semi-annual statement of the number of school children in the several townships and cities of tho county and the apportion-ment of the primary school interest fund at the rate of Gl cents per capita. The state-ment is as follows: Ada, 463 children, $282 -43; Algoma, 064 childruu, $465.01; Alpine. 561 children, $342.21; Bowne, 359 children, $218.90; Bynm, 449 children, $334.89: Cal-edonia, 605 children, $369.05; Cannon, 419 children, $255.59; Cascade, • 419 children, $255.59; Courtland, 380 children, $231.80; Gaines, 443 children. $570.23; Grand Rap-ids, 566 children, $344.05; city of Grand Rapids, 24,717 children, $15,077.37; Grat-tan, 292 children, $178.12; Lowell. 980 Children,''$597.80; Nelson, 870' children, $684.36; Oakfald, 307 children, $187.27; Paris, 596 chilitren, $363.50; Plninficld, 442 children, $269.62; Solon, 447 children, $272.67; Sparta, 65B children. $400.16; Spencer, 455 children. $277.55; Tyrone, 434 children, $264.74; Vergennes. 318 children, $193.89; Wnlk|r, 596 children, $863.56; Wyoming, 1,051 children, $641.11. From the total number of school children, 37,617, the library fund Is appointed among 37,034.

Money to lo/tn dBreal estite. Low rates, no bouus. jflfcrell State B a n k

Ladies clean yfrni kid gloves with Josephine Glove Cleaner, for sale only bv E. R. Collar, headquarters for dressed and undressed kid gloves in all the most desirable shade for street or evening -wear. 93 tf

M. C. URKBN, M. D. phnlcian and Surgeon. Office at Residence

Bridge stveet, Lowell, Mich.

G. G. TOW8LEY, «. D., Physician acd anrp oa. oiHce uouis, 10 am.

to 8 pm. and 7 to 8 pm.

J. M.G«K>1WPEEI», M.I>. Office and Residence on Hudson street. Offiee

hours from O to 10 a. m, S to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m, Sunday, i) to 5 p n«.

FARMfcRS HOTEL. Lowell, Mich., O. F. Une, Prop. Rates 11.00

per diy, ttt 60 per wet-k Good meals and clean beds.

' MILTON M. PERRY, Attornoy and Counselor at Law, Trahi's Hall

Block, Lowell. Mich. Special attention given to Collection*, Conveyancing, and (Ule of Real Estate.

Has also quallfled and been »dmltted to prsc-tlce It the Interior Department and all the bureans thereto aod Is ready to pmaecute Claims for thoee that may be entitled to Pension Bounty.

MAINS & MAMS. Attorneys at Law,

Lowell and Lake Odessa Mich. We Respectfully Solicit Your |

Business.

iNsSf! OAXiX. OH

P. D. EDDY & CO., Office of Town Clerk.

Cement and Tar Walks. I would announce to the cit-

izens of Lowell that I am pre-pared to construct Granite Stone, better known as cement walks, and having employed skilled labor can promise brst class results. The business men of this place; have been im-posed upon in this line and should be more careful whom they employ to do such expen* sive work,.'

Tar walks constructed and guaranteed. Yours truly,

O. O. ADA.M8.

Upholstering! I have opened an Upholster-

ing and Furniture Repair Shop on East Main street, Lowell, and am prepared to do all kinds oi work in that line.

Old mattresses cleaned, re-paired and made over; new ones made to order. All work strictly first class and charges reasonable. E . O R C V E R -

We Are Still D o i n g B u s i n e s s a t

O l d S t a n d i ' the

u i r c A A i M a B u m m t . List of lettpn remaining unctaiined in

the postofiice at Lowell, Mich., for the week ending May 11,1895:

Ladies—Lodetna Meyeis. Gentlemen—Will Boughton, Charles

Pierce, Johnney Sanborn, Jacob Steel, Jake Steele, Jolmie Woods.

Foreign—F. Croston. Persons claiming the above will please

say "advertised" and give date of this lint. M. N. HOT, P. M.

M o n e y ! oans ne gotinted on good real e#a'e se-

curity at the office<pf M. M. PEBBY.

LOW PRICES AND A No 1,

Goods All the Year Rftund—We In-

vite You to Comeiuid Examine

Our Stock.

Our grooerieo are seasoBable, Prices always reasonable, Don't be afraid We want your trade. And with all our might We'll do what is r igh t -To get it And to keep it.

Yours for business on the square,

O . B E R O X I ? , Lowell, - • » Miohr.

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$1.00 Save(l=$2.00 Earned Tnlking about saving a dollar is not saving it, but buying

$o.00 worth of goods for $4.00 IS. W e e n g a g e d in t h e HARDWARE BUSINESS a t a t i m e w h e n

the market is lower on all lines of Hardware than at any time iu the history of the Inldc. The Goods bought from our pred-ece-woi's were bought at prices that allow no comparison by COMPETITION.

REFRIGERATORS. Yon certainly need one, if you are not already supplied,

and we take pleasure in announcing that we are handling abso-l u t e l y t h e BEST REFRIGERATOR ON EARTH. W h y t h e bes t?

Because it is. In construction | T h e B e s t "j In beauty of design In power to preserve > is THE \ In all points first class In economy of ice ) A L A S K A . I In every respect.

Call and examine ihe beautiful line of Alaska Rcfrigera-now on exhibition at our store. Next in importance come

O A S O L I i V E S T O V E S !

Of course if you never used one you cannot appreciate the advantage of the Danglar Gasoline Stoves. They are the most beautiful in general construction. Have the most powerful burner and are most economical in consumption of gasoline. The Danglar Stoves are no experiment, having been thorough-ly tested by years of use, and not found wanting. Be sure and get a Dangler, then you know you have THE BEST.

In addition we wish to say that we will appreciate a por-tion of your patronage and give you the benefit of prices that defy competition. Cell and examine our goods before pur-chasing and you will be convinced that we are STRICTLY IN IT in all branches of Hardware. Our stock is bought I'or CASH. We pay CASH ior all goods and are ready and willing to give our customers the benefit of this advantage. All we ask is a reasonable profit and we are sure that you will feel it is to your advantage to call and see us.

REUBEN QUICK & SON. SUCCESSORS TO W. R. BLAISDELL & CO.

H O M E N E W S .

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D O R S attacked a couple of hogs in Murphy's slaughter yard, Tuesday night, and wounded them bndiy.

Misses Rcma and Cecelia Noble were the guests of their sister, Mrs. C. O. Hulbert, Sunday afternoon.

The. choicest trees, vines, shrubs etc. , can be had of N. P . Ilusted & Co. Packing grounds at D., G. H. & M. depot, Lowell, Mich.

Elmer Bnstoff of Ionia, has been vuiting friends here.

Mrs. John Vanderlip* has gone t j Greenville for awhile.

, ,Q^vandma ,' said Mollie, looking at the wrinkled forehead of the dear old lady. " I finks you ought to jjo to the laandwy and det your head ironed." —{Harper's Bazar.

The right refrigerator and right prices will be found a t R . B. Boy lau'a.

A "Globe" Sprinkler given away with two new subscriptions to the LE D G R R .

John Robertson, eur retired shoe dealer, made the L k d o e r office one of his frequent calls the other day. He was carrying a large, loosely-wrapped bundle, and when urged to stay, said: "Oh, no. Fve a new bonaet for my wife, and I must hasten to deliver it before the style changes."

Miss Edith Richmond of St. Lonis* will spend the summer with her cousini Mra. Mary Bailey.

For sale— the Vanderhule property. Also double buggy for sale.

J . C . E n g l i s h .

Preaching serviud at the Catholic church next Sunday morning at 10:30. at which time several of the children will receive their first communion.

WM Lawyer Perry was transacting bus-FF.-' f in CM at Ada, Monday.

Miss Nellie Torrey of Grand Rap-ids, f pent Sunday with tier sister, Mrs. John Hall.

Ionia fair dates from Sept. 17 to 20.

People in search of good laundry service, are cordially invited to give ihe Banner laundry a trial order. Money refunded if work is not right. Trade at home and your cash will re-turn to you. Chas. S k v e r t .

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The dog poisoner gave Geo. Wil-son's pug a dose, but a vigorous couife of lard dosing saved the animal's lif*.

B Q - F r u i t Treks—Don' t believe that oily tongned tree agent who tells you that N. P . Husted & Co. have in; good nursery stock, but call a t our packing grounds near the D., G. H . & M. depot, examine our trees and you will be convinced that he is a liar and the truth abideth not in him.

The attention of Lowell's enterpris-ing citizens is called to tbe notice else-where in this paper concerning a meeting to be held for the purpose of securing a valuable addition to our industries. Turn out to the meeting.

What's the matter with our Alton correspondent?

W. W. Robertson and family of Ravenna are visiting friends in * and near Lowell this week.

Mrs. Mary Robertson is on the sick list.

H. Gregory is putting extensive ad-ditions and improvements un his house on Jefferson street.

Rev. F . A. Smart of Saginaw, has been visiting Rev. A. P. Moors.

Harold Force is home from Agricultural col'ege.

The little eon of Bert Cnrr of nac, was drowned in a small pund near his home while bathing one day last week. His funeral was held at Sara-nac Sunday and W. H. Fox and Mrs. G. Carr of this place attended.

The new game law makes a uni-form season for kii.ing deer in Michi-gan from Nov. 1 to Nov. 25, and con • pels every hunter to be provided with a license which coste a resident of the state 50 cents and a non-reeident 825, and also prohibits tho killing of more than five deer by any one person din-ing the season. The fish bill prohibits the catching of bass of any kind dur-ing the month rf May. It also shor-tens tho season for catching brook j trout and grayling by cutting off ti e j Inst fifteen days of August; makes it unlawful tj* take fish from any of thp inland waters of the stato except with hook and line, and prohibits absolutely the buying or selling of speckled trout or grayling at any season of the year,

i I t changes the maximum penalty

from $50 or thirty days imprisonment to $200 or six months imprisonment.

B U S I N E S S M E N ' S M E E T I N G . There will be a meeting of the business

men of Lowell, on Tuesday evening nt 8 o'clock at the store «f U. O. Smith, for the purpose of considering what action if any should be taken to induce the Beach Manu-facturing t'ompnny to locate here.

lly Order of Citizen's Com,

McBRIUE hIBFI.Rm The long looked for rain has come at

last aud a snow storm with it that makes everybody get on their winter clothes.

A few here have their corn planted. Henry Lampinan had the misfortune to

cut his hand quite badly a. few days ago, but is getting along very nicely now.

Mr. Ensterday and family visited in this locality Sunday.

We saw Harry Force on our btreets Monday.

The South Lowell base ball boys ha v.; got into line with Will Murphy as captain again this rummer. , Mrs. Morgan Is on the sick list.

George Force has moved back to his farm. We expect he will make things boom •wniiner with two married men to help him.

G. Godfrey and wife of Bowne visited at Mr. Collins' Sunday.

Preaching at the school house next Sun-day evening.

A very hard frost Tuastlay night hurt the small fruit some. It is a good thing that it did not.hold oflftwo weeks longer.

B A P T I S T N O T E S . Pre aching at the Baptist church nex

Snuday morning and evening. Bible school at 12 o'clock. Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Readers ol the L R D O E R cordially invited.

ALL FREE. Those who have used Dr. Ring's New

Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it free. Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial bottle free. Send your name and address to H. E. Bucklen k Co., Chicago, and get n sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills free, as well as a Guide to Health and Household Instructor, free. *11 of which is guaranteed to do vou good and cost you nothing at Hunter & Son's, drug-gi»t.' 4

Lowell Markets. Invariably corrected Friday m iming.

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PROBATE NOTICE-St Conniy of Kent. ^ RS.

—State of Michigan

At a session of the Probate Court for said County of Kent, held at the Probate Office in the City of Grand Rapids, on the 11th day of May in the year one thousand eight luradred and ninety-five.

Present, Cyrus E. Perkins Jndge of Pro-hate.

In the Matter of the Estate of Alexander Duncan, deceased.

An instrument in writing purporting be a duly authenticated cony of the last will and testumentof said deceased, having l>een tiled in this Court for probate as foreign will.

It is ordered, that Monday the likh day of July, 1895. at ten o'clock in tho forenoon at said Probate Office, be appointed for proving t-aid instrument.

And it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be published three saccessiva weeks previous to said day of hearing, in the Lowell L E D G E R a newspaper printed and circulating in said Connty of Rent.

CYRUS E. PERKINS, (A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

H A R B V D. J E W CM.. Register. (99-102)

Grand Ramus E mdale Lowell Lowell Clarksvilla Lake Odessa Grand Ledge l.anslng Detroit

O O I K O wasr Detroit

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I rains run week Onyn Parlor cars on all trai< s between Grand

Rapids and Detroit, seats 25 cents. Connections made In Union Depot, Grand

Rapid* with the CHICAGO A WEST MICHIGAN RY,

for C ' H I C A O O AM> TUB W E S T AND r>H M r s 0 'N, VIANISRBB, THAVTHHB CLTT, EL.K

K U'IDS, CU AHLKVOIX AND PSTOSKBV. Trains leavn Grand Roplds fur Chicago

7:16 a.m., 1:86, p. m, ll:80n.m. Arrive Cblcairo 1:25 p. m , 6:50, p. m , 7:20, a. m

LfHve fur Manlsteo and Ludlngum 7:30 a. m ,8:15. p. m.

Leave for Traverse City, 7:80, a.m. 8:16, m Leave for Charlevoix, and ?;toskey,

7:80, a. m., 8:16, p. m. Abk our Aitents for farther parti jnlart, or

write to GEO. DaHAVEN, Gen. PA«S. Agpnt,

W.H. C L A H K , Agent. Grand Rapids

For Sale ur Kent—A good farm of 80 or 120 acres Inquire of J . C. Wilson, P ra t t Lake.

FOUR lilu eUVyCEoSES. Having the needed merit to more 'Iban

make good all the advertisli g clslmed for tbem, tlie following four remedhs Imvi-rji di-ed a phenomenal sale. Dr. Ktnu's Ntw Dht covcry, for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaranteed—Electrt'* bitters, tin; great remedy for Liver, Stomach and Kid neys, Uucklen's Arnica tfalve, the best /q the world, and Dr. King's New Life Pil s, whlc-.i aro a perfect pill- All these remedks nre guaiantced to do Jmtl v. hat Is clalnudfor tiiem and the dealer whore nam ) is attached herewith will he glad lo tell you more o( tbem. Sold at Hunter & Son's Diug Store.

F. F. CRAFT, G E N E R A L

Ditching, Tile and Drainage

Contractor. Orders by mail given prompt attention, and satisfactory work guaranteed.

Public patronage respectfully so l i c i t ed . LOWELL, MICH.

D E T R O I T . G R A N D H A V E N & M I L W A U K E E

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No Cocaine! No Needles! No Danger! Twenty-five Years Experi-ence. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Office only.

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Lowell Granite Stone Works CORNER WEST W A T E R A N D R I V E R STS.,

All work in this line such as Corner Stone, Window Sills, Caps and Arches for brick buildings. Stone Walks and Drive-ways, Steps, Coping, Horse Blocks, Water Basins for Fountains, Lawn Vases or Urns, also Floor 'filing for Halls, Vestibules and Offices. Everything substantially and artistically done and fully warranted. Defective walks taken up and relaid free of charge if occuring within 6 years. Old stone work Repaired, defaced and warranted same as new work.

O. O. ADAMS* Prop*

ICE M CREAM SODA

Milwaukee and Chkago by steamer dnritg navigiilon only.

HT'Cbaircar, buffet car and sleeping car service.

Eastward No 12 has Pullman sleeper and hnlFetcir attached Chicago to Dctioit daily No 14 has parlor buffet car attached Grand Havt-n to Detroit iextra charge 25 cents'. Mn 18 has parlor car .-ttached iextra( barge 25 cental. No 89 has sleeper lo Detroit.

Westward No 11 baa parlor 'r.«r attached fex'ra charge 25 cents] No 15 has p trior buffet car aiUHied D irolt In Grand Haven (-xtra charge 25 cenUl No 17 h-«s the finest of Pullman sKeiiors itnd buffet cars attiicbed lo Chicago d»l y. No 81 has sleeper to Uraud R/iplds.

City office first door esst of th* King Mill InifCo Open 7am lo8nm. dundiy.4 to 5 pro. J.V>. W. LOUD, BfCN KLEtcHER.

Traffic Manager. Trav P..8S Ag^nt A. O. HEYDLAUFP, Loc.»j Agent

L . H . EDRf&CO.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK R'Y* Trains leave Durard f or B«l»l« Creek, Cbi

am and Wint at 0:85 a. m., 1:82 p. m., and 6:50, p. m. and 11:20 p. m.

Kor Kllul. Huron tmd all points cast 5.08 a. m., 0.80 a. ui., 6:85 p. m., and 10 20. p. m.

i inclnnMl, Saginaw Mackinaw R. R. train- leave Dnnind for Siglntw and Bay City 6:00 *. m , 0:40 «. m., and 0.50 p. m.

W. V.. DAVIS, 'i- P- A.. Chi ago.

LOWELL tt HASTINGS RAILROAD HUE T \ BLE.

In EHVct Snnday, uctober 28,1894.

a>ixn"s>rtll N;^! JJ<t.8 Lowell 1» « 16 a u j l l 80 a u. Pra t Ijtko 6 28 F.Wudalo a- 6 30 Klrndxie 1* 6 81 Logan [ Ci 88 Freeport at 6 45 G'd Kaplds u j Landing | S 54 I'droit. ai j l l 40

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T. E. LOVETT, Jiouse Painter,

"Paper 'Jianger,

"Graining, and (J)ecorator.

^Glazing a.nd

Wall Tinting.

Carriage Painting a Specialty. All work guaranteed first class, and

prices reasonable. Kesideuce four doors east of L E A G E I ;

office.

kEISS German OUGH

k i o n e y c U R E . ( D i r t a J n s n o Poison. Reid's. Certnan Pil ls cure

Constipation and Malaria. Sylvan Cum purifies the

^ea tb . K N I J U V T K I J S U N .

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menu In part payment for a high Krnde Acnu . bicycle, which wo send tbem on approval. Ko : work done antU tho bicycle arrives and proves * ialiafactory. •

Y o u n g Ladies-aSTJZi l" | If boys orjflris apply tbey must be welt reooo j

mended, write for particulan. .

ACME CYCLE COriPANY, j ELKHART. IND.

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Aey hare no eijncl. Put np express'.)- for Family and HettcUal as*

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BUCKLESM ARNICA SALVE. THR llEhT Sai.va In the world tor Cuts

{raises. Sores, Ulceis, Salt Kheum, Fever tores, Tetter, Chipped Hands. Chiidblains, Corns, and all Pkln Eruptions, and positively cares Piles, or no nay required. It Is gnarsn

It^ed to glvu perfect satisfaction or mom y re-Funded. Price ST. cents per box. FOR SALE Br HUNTER A SON. 172

H U N T E R & S O N . Leave tts tlio addresses of yimr Miil-

oi'-lown friends und we will send tlp-iii -sample copics ofllif L e D g e r free. If

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M I C H I G A N P E O P L E A N D W H A T

THEY ARE DOING.

Aananl Convention of Equal Snffragfutiu—

MlrhlRan Crops In Good Condition.—

Slick Green Goods Crook* CaptnrmL—

MlehlRan Uomeateadsn Kin • Victory

Equal RnlfraRe Association. The Michiffan Equal Suffrage asso-

• oiation annual couvention was held a t Saginaw with a good attendance. Ofllcers elected: President, Mrs. Mav Stocking Knaggs, Bay City; vice-presi-dent, Mrs. Lila E. ItlUs, Saginaw; re-cording secretary, Mrs. Melvina Root, •Bay City; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Helen P. Jenkins, Detroit; treas-

u r e r , Mrs. Emily B. Ketcham, Grand Rapids; auditors, Mrs. Helen A. Mean , Vermontville, Mrs. Jane N. Dawson, Pontiac. Resolutions were adopted

-calling upon the political parties for a declaration in favor equal participa-tion by men and women in our gov-ernment as well a s in tho exaction of taxes; advocating an educational quali-fication for the privilege of voting;

•urging the appointment of police ma-trons in city jails; appealing for t h e appointment of a fa i r proportion wo-men aa professors a t the U. of M.: urg-i n g organization of suffrage societies i n every town; tendering hearty thanks to the Michigan legislature fo r the i r a id in advancing the best interests of woman, and for legislation for the be t t e r protection of girlhood.

May Crop Report. Wheat and grass aro making l i t t le

.growth. April was a month of high temperature and l ight rainfall. Since .May 1, there have been l ight showers •in the state, but the average rainfal l •in the southern and central counties does not exceed one-seventh of normal

The average condition of wheat as estimated by correspondents is as fol-•lows, comparison being with vitality and growth of average years: South-ern counties, 77 per cent; central coun-ties, 87 per cent: northern counties, 80 per cent, and state. 80 per c e n t Very .little wheat will be plowed u p this year because winter-killed or other-wise destroyed, and very few corres-

fondents mention damage to the crop y insects. Grass is also backward be-

cause of the drouth. The meadows are •not ye t ruined, but an abundance of r a in must come soon or they will be great ly damaged. One year ago they were in prime condition. Apples and

jpeaches promise fairly good crops.

' * Orangemen'i Convention. The ffrand lodge L. 0. 1. convened

-a tS tand ish with the largest attend-anoe of delegates in the history of the Michigan lodge. The report of Worthy Grand Master Reagan, of Port Huron, was enthusiastically received, espec-ially tha t portion relating to the non-interference in politics. Grand Secre-tary Wilson, of Hayes, reports splendid financial condition and a prosperous

. growth for the order. The election of officers was spirited

and resulted as follows: Grand master, Chas. Ctfchran, of Detroit; deputy grand master, Jos. McLean, Ba City: secretary, J . W. Wilson, Port Huron; treasurer, Jerome B. Davis. Standish; chaplain. C. H. Terhune, Tawas; lect-urer. John A. Coombs, Saginaw: di-rector of ceremonies, 0 . ! H. Lloyd, Manistee; inside tyler, John W. Hall, Alpena; outside tyler. F. G. Cuyken-dall. Port Huron; grand trustee R. B. Ailes, Muskegon. The next meeting is to be held a t Jackson.

Michigan Frn l t Not In ju red . The flsudden and severe cold snap

which followed the hot weather of the first 10 day* of May caused f ru i t rais-ers and farmers to tremble lest their crops would be injured by frost, but a mumber of telegrams from various sec-tions say tha t while the weather was very cold high winds prevented seri-

•ous f ros ts and the various crops were n o t harmed.

Reports from Illinois, Iowa, Wiscon--sin, Minnesota, and Missouri and f a r the r west are not so reassuring, heavy frost having caused serious •damage.

Costly Fire at Port Huron. McMorran & Co.'s large grain ele-

vator a t Port Huron burned. I t was filled with about 300,00J bushels of grain, and the loss is estimated a t be-tween $175.01)0 and $225,000. The Davidson &, McMorran fionring mills, which were run in connection wi th tbe elevator, are also destroyed. The fire started in the blower, which connects wi th the elevator and the engine house, and spread rapidly to t h e grain bins, where i t was almost impossible

.-for the firemen to work.

MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

Shot a Convict. James Hall, a convict f rom Tuscola

county, with his par tner , Frank Wal-ton, made a break for l iberty a t mid-n i g h t as tbey were taken f rom the t ra in a t the prison gate a t Jackson. A bnl le t from Sheriff Lenox's revolver brought Hall to the ground. De was «hot in the hip, and is now in the ci ty hospital. The wound is serious.

Hillsdale society ladies dramatized and performed Trilby, surprising everybody with a splendid enter ta in

.ment . Henry Ward, of Pon tun . has sold

"2,000 fine grade sheep, which will be t aken to tbe. upper peninsula. The

>sheep industry in this section of the istate is a new industry, bu t i s rapidly ;gtowing.

Maurice Kimberly, of Bellevne. ;hasn t been able to ta lk for three :ye8r8. While washing his face in cold wa te r , be accidentally snnffed some up .hi t nose an.l was about to whisper his displeasure, \vben his voice came out

.full and strong.

Por t Huron has le t tho contract for i ts first brick pavement

Owosso Baptists have tho money to build a 530.000 church.

Low water hung up 260,000,000 feet of logs on the Ontonagon river.

W. L. Pierce has dlaftnvered mica in Gogebic county and wiU mine I t

Col. A. T. Bliss has been elected president of the Saginaw board of trade.

S t Johns Methodists will lay the corner stonn for a new church on May 25.

Murdock Mclntyre's 18-months-old boy drank bedbug poison and died, a t Lansing.

Michigan State Firemen's associa-tion convention a t Traverse City, Hay l&^nd 16.

James Colter, aged 16, was drowned while ba th ing in Muskegon river, near Muskegon.

Woodruff Parmaiee was held for tr ial for the murder of Ju l ia Curtis* a t Traverse City.

Just ice J . H. Robertson, of Pewamo, was instantly killed by being th rown from a mustang pony.

J o h n Lutz, a Constantino farmer, hanged himself in bis stable a f t e r a quarrel wi th his family.

Richard Plink, a prominent Saupa-tuck merchant, was accidentally drowned in Goshorn Lake.

Game Warden Hampton has presented the Soldiers* Home a t Grand Rapids with two deer for the "zoo."

Crope throughout Michigan are suf-fer ing for rain. The rainfaU this spring has been extremely l i g h t

The Cleveland Cliffs company re-fused to advance wages and closed their Ishpcming mines for the season.

Three million feet of lumber, valued a t $10,000, belonging to Partridge Bros., of F l i n t burned a t Greenwood.

The residence and barn of George Waldo, a t Douglass, were s t ruck by l ightning and totaUy destroyed. Loss $1,000.

The Millie & Trader mines, a t Iron Mountain, which have been idle "for some time, will resume operations shortly.

The factories of Buchanan have a monthly pay roll amounting to over $9,000, and there is but one saloon in the village.

Because his fa ther is in an insane asylum Michael Curtain, aged 26, thought himself disgraced, and sui-cided by shooting near Elkton.

Mrs. Addie A. Randall, of Bay City, recently released from Pontiac asylum, announce/i she will prosecute those re-sponsible for her incarceration.

The miners in the different workings a t Ishpcming have presented requests for increased pay aud a str ike will fol-low refusal to grant their r eques t

Lightning struck the house of Frank Wierdas a t Holland, shat ter ing the bed jus t as he was about to ge t into i t Considerable other damage was done in the same town.

A Hillsdale farmer says h e has made a discovery. In each potato hiU he

giants a bean and he has never been othcred by potato bugs. He has also

raised a good crop of bcaos.

Miss Anna Schroedcl, a highly es-teemed young lady, about 21 years of age, committed suicide a t Saginaw by shooting herself in the temple. No reason can be assigned fo r the rash act.

Three prisoners held fo r burglary broke out of their cells a t Gaylord. The sheriff's wife grabbed one. but he knocked her down. She gave the alarm, and in 15 minutes al l thiee were back in jail.

Several hundred miners have been added to the force of the Chapin mine a t Iron Mountain. Skilled miners are becoming very scarce, as thousands le f t the iron range during the depres-sion of the past two years.

The Woman's League of the Dniver-Bitjy of Michigan has already secured $^,000 in subscriptions toward the fund of $15,000 now necessary to complete the sum needed for the erection of the woman s gymnasium.

The fee-holders of Kiles voted 210 to 9 in favor of bonding the city for $50,000 to complete the water works and liquidate fioating debts. This makes a total of $116,000 voted in a year for public improvements.

Nearly 150,000 peach trees have been set in Oceana county this spring, be-sides large quantities of small f r u i t The refreshing rains came just in time to help the new trees and f ru i t glow-ers are inbilant a t the prospects of a heavy crop.

F. W. Wheeler, the Bay City ship-bnilder. has practically closed a con-t rac t with a syndicate to build 20 tow-boats and four steamers, of the regular Erie canal size, to trade between Ohio ports and New York. The boats are to be completed early next season.

Mrs. Addie A. Randall, of Bay City, confined in the Pontiac insane asylum for 15 months, and declared by many people to be of sound mind, was re-leased by Dr. Christian, the medical super in tendent She l e f t the institu-tion with her brother, Charles Eagan, of Petrolea, On t , and when she real-ized t h a t a t last she was liberated her joy was unbounded.

Michigan's f ru i t bel t will yield one of the largest crops ever known, says a Fennville correspondent The warm weather has pushed everything, and this section looks like, a beautiful fiower garden. The apple crop will be light. Thousands of acres of smUl

I f ru i t s have been set this spring, to : t ake the place of pt^ch orchards de-j stroyod by the yellows.

S T A T E LEGISLATURE. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS B K R A T K . — 7 0 t h day.—Bills passed: Croatlnr

s a additional judicial circuit composed ot Insham county alone, placing of Genesee by ItitoK ant. KrouplnK Shiawassee and Livingston counties toxoiuor for judicial purposes: pre-scribing aUUitlonal police regulations in oe-troit parks and boulovards: special appropria-tion of *3«.aoo for tbe M.cbigsn asylum tor in-sane at ICalamn/.oo; aatborhlng tbe sale ot r^tnHlnu lots owned by tbe state and the ereo-tloo with tho proceeds of au oiWUtlTO man-sion at a cost not excerdlnf JS.WO. regulating primary elections In cities of from I5.ii00 to iw.ooo inhabitants. The Detroit street railway terminal ouestion was again under discussion this time In the senate and before 11 Is hnaily settled a warm Bght Is sure to take place. The bill was taken up to repeal the special charter o( the Mlehlgan Central railroad In order to bring It under the two cenu per mile passenger rates law. After spending a great deal of time In debate s vote was taken result-ing, yeas ^0, nays IU, Just two votes looking to puss the bill A reconsideration was secured and the bill tabled. The bill to repeal the Detroit k Saline plank road charter again failed ol passage. Buusa—The bill, providing tor a constitutions! amendment g lmg woman equal rights with man, was the •most Interest-ing feature of tho da*. Hep. Waldo, of Detroit, the a n u o r ot the bill presented some impor-tant facts and ttgures, but the bill failed to pass, lacking only four votes. I t was reconsidered and tabled. The bill authoritlng a reoomplla-tlon of Ute laws ot the state and supreme court decisions thereon was oassed. Other bills passed: Kegulatlng primary elections In Wayne county: authoritlng the state board of auditors to adjust the claim ot the Grand Lodge. L CK (X P.. tor rent ot the state Mind school building before Its purchase by tbe state.

SRiran—Wth day.—Bills passed: For the preservation or furniture In U e state eaoltol: for the further geological survey ot Michigan; creating a commission of nine persons to regu-late the practice ot medicine and surgery la Michigan: appropriating •IIS.W) for onrrent expenses at the Mlchlgaa state normal school and *>,«» for a training school: appropriating •UIMO tor the s u t e Industrial home tor boys; appropriating 181.021 for the state school for tbe deaf and dumb; relative to the ooUection of delinquent taxes: appropriating W ' M i for Improveuisnts at the Michigan asylum for dan-gerous and orlmlna! Insane: Blsly bill reorgan-izing the state health department. Mr. Jami-son's bill was sgraed to In oommlttee ot the whMeprovldlne tor a jury to determine the mental eompetency ot persons against whom the charge ot Insanity may be brought, also, providing that the estate ot an Insane person committed shall pay such proportion of the cost as it may be found able to pay. The bill providing ibat the value ot municipal fran-chises shall be assessed and that taxes shall be paid thereon, the same as on other property wa* also agreed to. The oommlttee on legisla-tive reapportionment made a favorabls report on a bUlcuttlng down the number of Represent-atives In the state legislature from 1M to i l The state sffslrs committee reported tbe Smslley hanglcjf bill as providing for the In-flicting of the death penalty when reoom-mended by the jury. HOUSE.-Bills passed: Relative to the apix>intmcnt ot boards of county canvassers: regulating the practice of medicine and surgery In Michlirsn: 141.9M for the nor-mal school a t Ypsllantl; IMiAiOO for the Industrial sehooi tor boys; <131,031 for tbe school for the dest aad dumb. In conimltipe of the whole a measure was

Sfteed to which-will put a stop to the forma-on of drinking clubs to avoid paying 11 mor

license. The measure Is an amendment to the bill providing that liquor bonds may be ob-tained In the township where a village may be located and itf as follows: "All clubs, eocletles or ether associations or organisations, whether Incorporated or ualncoraorated. that shall sell, dispense, or In msnner furnish any splritnous, mait.brewcd. fermented or vinous liquors to Its members or any other person or persons, shall for the purpose ot this act be decreed to be en-gaged In the business ot selling o r offering for sale such liquors, and shall be sub ect to all the

fmvlslons. requirements, restrictions or penal-les of this act.snd the possession bf such club,

society, assouiation or organl ation ot U. S, license shall be primr facie evidence that such persons or organl/ations are engaged in the business of liquor sell ig as defined by this act."

SBNATC.—81st day.—Bills passed: Authoriz-ing the unelaimed bodies of pauper dead to be sent direct to Detroit modlcsi colleges Instead of being urst sent to the University: appro- j priating •IOS.OIO tar contlnuiux the work ot construction at the asylum a t Newberry: pro-viding toat members of the Detroit school board may by two-thirds vote ot the body be expelled for Improper conduct: author!'.Ing corporations to change their names: re iu!ring inbtruotlon to be glvea In '-he pub.io schools on the beet method ot preventing the spread ot communicable diseases: establishing courses of reading and lectures on agricultural branones under the ulrectlon of the state board of agri-culture; relative to fraudulent conveyances: amending the law relative to the maaabement of asyiums lor insano so as to require a charge or insanity to be determined by a ,ury in cer-tain cases; providing for serviee of notice on prosecuting attorneys In certain prooeed'nta relative to deitn tuent taxes: author! ing the auditor-general to procure certain land plats; authorizing boards of supervisors to acquire by condemuatlon the rights of toll toad com-panies in highways. There was a sensut'oa when, in committee of tbe whOie on a bill to muke (irosso He, Wavne county, a seper ite township. Senator Brundage stated tha . un a t -tempt hud been made to uribe senator Smalley to vote for tbe bUL senator McLaughlin de-manded that an Investigation be made Then Mr. Smalley said that tbeeffort wouid be f ra l t -loss as the attemot was so indirect und inde mte taut n jtning oould be proven. The bill was defea'ed. Gov. • Klch objected to tho »ai.noo appropriation for tbe Michigan mining school and senator M Sheldon bad It recalled to reduce I t Hoosa.— Bills passed. Uaxing the bounty on Knglish sparrows payable all the year round Instead ot oaiy In tuc winter ment is: regulating the manner In whloh town plats may be vacated: amending the drain .aw: relative to authenti-cated copies of probate court records. A futi le attempt was made to pass tbe bill prescribing that publishers shaii be entitled to no -ompao-sation for periodicals sent for a longer period than the subscriber specl.iea. The ways and means oommlttee favorably reported the bill levying a tax of one-eighth of a cent lor tbe support of tbe Michlgao naral reserve. Keps. Ferguson, beooit and Latimer were arrested down-town by the aewesot-al-anns for leaving the Hon e without a quorum on the bill pre-scribing that the entire amount of liquor taxes collected shall be turned into tbe municipal treasury Instead of being divided eiually be-tween the o.ty or village and tbe county. The guilty trio was lectured and released. No action was ta«en oa the bill.

Eigbty-eeoond day.—No session of the Sen-ate. HOUSE.-This was the flrst attempt to pa t in six legislative days !a a week aad it was not much of a success. Tbe bill prescribing tha t the entire receipts from liquor taxes shau

Kto the tomshlp . village or city instead of Ing divided with the county, which bad been

i e i t ln the air on tbe ad .ourameat the prevloos day was referred to the judiciary oommlttee. The factory inspection bill was again agreed t o l a oommlttee of the whole. A f t e r a a h a r p tight, tbe appropriation for inrnectors was in-creased fro-n -e.OOii to $8.0>o and Che clause re-lative to the employment of p e - o n s under 11 years of age. Which had been i trie ken out was restored.

Desperate Grren Goods Gang Oaaght. Seven green goods men were cap-

tured by United States officers a t Hills-dale, the resul t of several weeks of work on the par t of Postoffice Inspect-ors Larmonr, Mercer and Frazer, and Assistant U. 8. Attorney Wilktna. The hun t for this gang was begun a t the end of last year when Mr. Larmonr re-ceived a number of let ters f rom vari-ous persons, who had received propo-sitions from green goods men, operat-ing under many different names. The gang as arre t ted consisted of Dan O Meara and Ohurles Ellis, Hillsdale, sharpers a n d gamble r s ; Charles Dob-son, day clerk in Reefer 's hotel, t he place where the raid was maJe; J o h n Tread well. J . C. White and W. W. Marsh. The detectives laid a clever t r ap and caught the gang with $100 in marked bills which they had secured from Frazer, as the supposed victim.

BRIEF CHRONICLE OF VARIOUS

OCCURRENCES.

ICatlonal Convention of Several Organisa-

tions nt Vsrtona Places.—A Strike Is

followed by Serions Blots at Chicago.

—Boys Killed In au Ohio Wreci. *

National GoaveatloaN The American Medical association

meetings a t Baltimore were largely a t t e n d s and tbe matters discussed of extreme in te res t The address of President Donald Maolean, of Detroi t was listened to with marked at tention by the large audience, and v a s fre-quently punctuated by loud applause.

The tenth annual convention of the National League of Mnaiciana met a t Cleveland with about 75 delegates in attendance, representing aU par ts of the United States and Canada. Mayor McKiason delivered an address of wel-come.

The American Trot t ing association meeting was held ut Cnioago. The secretary's report shows a total mem-bership of the anociat ion of 818. Mr. P. W. Ijams. of Terre Hante, was elected president; G. B. MoFall, of Oskaloosa, la . , first vice-president The following board of directors: C. L. Benjamin, Saginaw Mich.; N. J . Col-man, b t Lonis; George H. Ely, Elyria, O.; M. J . Gones, Red Oak, la. ; and E. (X Lewis, Ottawa, III. The next meet-ing of the association will be held in Chicago in May, 1808.

The seventh annual session of the supreme council of the A. P. A. was held in Milwaukee with 400 delegates present President Tray nor, of Detroit, presided.

Ooldltes Try to Force Another Bond Iscne. Waahlngton: While the report t h a t

the Morgan-Rothschild bond ayndicate ia securing a corner on the gold market is not quite correct, yet i t is a fac t t h a t brokers have, fo r this syndicate, been paying a premium for the refined gold output of the private refineries m the west during the last two months and tha t they are accumulat ing fine gold a t the ra te of $3,000,000 per month, which represents fully two-thirds of the entire output of the United States. Well-posted financiers who a re familiar with the methods of the parties com-posing the syndicate have reached the conclusion t h a t the foundation is being laid for another bond deal before con-gress meets again. The las t bond deal of $12,000,000 has been pret ty well closed o u t and, as under the terms of the contract with the treasury depart-ment the syndicate has an option on any new bonds tha t may be issued by the government prior to October, the treasury is absolutely in their power.

5,000 Steel Workers Strike. Twelve hundred blast men employed

by the Hlinoia Steel company a t Chi-cago struck, and the str ike is expected to extend to other departments. The men demand better wages and asks for more help, claiming tha t they a re compelled to work unnecessarily bard. The strike will result in throwing about 5,000 men out of employment A small s tr ike is also on a t the com-pany's works in Joliet, and the p lan t there will probably be closed, affect-ing 1,500 men. A r iot occurred when the strikers tried to persuade others to quit work. Officers were called and in a fight which foUowed four men were badly injured.

One Killed and Fonr Injured In a Blot. Four policemen were injured and one

str iker killed in a r iot a t Uliuoia Steel company's works, a t South Chicago, where 3,503 men aro on a strike. The riot followed a big mass meet ing where the men became so violent tha t the police were called. This enraged the men and hot a fight ensued before the rioters were dispersed.

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Fatal Wreck Near Cellaa, O. An eastbonnd f re ight on the L. E. <fe

W. waa wrecked near Celina, a Ote Bierely of St. Mary's and Peter Finch of Portland, Ind., were instantly killed. George Anderson and William Depew were seriously injured. Ander-son fatally. They were atealing rides. The wreck waa caused by the engineer suddenly pu t t ing on air brakes while coming down a steep grade and l i f t ing an oil t ank car ear off the t rack. The car turned and fel l across the t rack and the next nine cars were thrown in al l directions. No train-

injured.

#apoa Gets Mora Cash. London: I t is reported tha t i a con-

sideration of Japan a abandonment of the Liao T u n g peninsula ahe wil l re-ceive an additional indemnity of $50,-000,000.

Paris: I t Is s ta ted t h a t France b negotiating with J a p a n regarding the secession of Formosa and the Pesca-dore Islands to China. France insists t h a t in the event of J a p a n holding the islands t h e s t rength of the Japanese garrisons and the number of warships be limited.

T H E KENT CASE.

A Doctor Pronounces an Oplalon on^hs Merits Of the Cure.

Otlawa, Ont: A conversation held a few days ago a well known Ottawa physician revealed the fact that a far larger percentage of the community than generally believed are Suffering from the incipient symptoms of Hright's disease. He also stated tha t he had taken a considerable interest^ in the reported case of Mr. G. H. Kent of this city, and admitted tha t in view of the published interviews and the affi-davit of Mr. K e n t he had no hesitation in ascribing tha t gentleman's recovery from a very serious condition to Dodd s Kidney Pills. I t is impossible to get over the fact t h s t Mr. Kent had taken no other remedy.

Dodd's Kidney Pills arc nut up iu round, flat boxes with bins labels and red band. The publlo is cautioned against imitations and substitutes. If your druggist has not the genuine they will be forwarded on receipt of price, SOoentsabox or 6 boxes fo r $2.50 by addressing the proprietors, the Dodd's Medicine Co., Ltd. , Buffalo, N. Y.

Mora Trouble la Nlearagna. NewYork: A cable from Tegucigalpa,

Honduras, says fighting has begun in Granada, Nicaragua. Disorder is also reported from Leon. The Hondurian troops concentrated a t Cape Graclas wiU remain there, aa i t is feared tha t the threatened outbreak on the Mos-

Suite reservation may extend here. en. Bonilla will take 4,000 men and go

to President Zelaya'a aid if requested. Washington: The fact tha t the rev-

olution IS along the east shore is re-garded as significant T h b is the Mosquito region In which British in-fluence has long been dominant I t has been apprehended by Central American diplomata tha t if the Mos-quito nativea made fur ther trouble i t wonld afford opportunity fo r fur ther British intervention and probably an a t tempt to restore Chief Clarence.

Jap»a sarreaden tfea Frulta ot Victory. Tokio: Japan precipitately aban-

dons aH Manchuiia. Even the whole peninsula of Liao Tung, including Talienwan and Port Arthur, is to be given up. I t is doubtful whether there will be any increase in the cash indem-nity. The facts are being kept secret here, bu t when the t r u t h becomes known a universal public revulsion is oertain. The present ministry is as-suredly doomed. The government is anxionsly guarding the foreign en-voys. The diplomatic situation is unparalleled. The American op-portunity is immeasurable. I t is apparently no t realized a t Wash-ington t h a t supreme influence in the east for the next half century is ea&ily obtainable through prompt, energetic action. The ratiflcation of the t reaty by China is sti l l deferred bn t is promised.

Don M. Boasts England. The Loyal Legion banquet a t the

Russell house, Detroi t was one of t h e -beat meetings of tha t organization. The feature was the response of Hon. Doa M. Dickinson to the toast "Our Veterans, Can They Hear a Bugle Call'/" I t was a hot philllpple against Great Britain, with impassioned voice and Impetuous eloquence he pointed to what he considered the menacing a t t i tude of England toward this conn-try. He made strong appeals for in-creased mili tary and naval forces. A number of other splendid toasts in-cluded a pret ty t r ibut to the women, "The Sweethearts of '61 and '65. the Grandmothers of '95" by Judge FraMr-

Wreckad a Train to Kill tbe King. King Humbert and Queen Margaret

of Italy, bad a narrow escape from death. They were on their way by rail in a special train from Florence to Rome attended by their suites. Sud-denly near Incisa Lake there was a violent shock, one of tbe carriages was derailed and everybody on board the train received more or iess serious con-cussions. An obstruction of some description either fell across the track or was placed there by evil-minded persona. The king and queen escaped with nothing more serious than a bad shaking up.

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Dan Dana's Mordorar Pardoned. Gov. Rich has pardoned James Har-

e o u r t who was in September 1891, con-victed of killing t h e notorious Dan Dunn, of Seney stockade fame, a n d sentenced to *iarqnet te prison for ten years. The charge against Hareourt was manslaughter. I ate rested parties have raised Jioney to aid Hareourt to s tar t anew in life f a r f rom the scenes of his past life.

Judge Hnbbell, fined 12 saloonkeep-ers *70 each a t Houghton, for keeping their places open on Sundays.

Willie Yazel, aged 12, was bitten by a massasaug* while playing barefoot in bis fa ther 's fields near Battle Creek. He can scarcely recover.

Severe Forest Plres la Penasylvanta. The forest fires which have raged in

the vicinity of Bradford, Pa., f o r eve r a week have caused immense damsgs. Sparks ignited Dollvar a big sawmill a t Kethers. I t was destroyed, together with 10,000,000 feet of lumber, e ight dwellings, several thousand acres o f ' t imber l a n d , 11 ears of lumber and coal and a n engine house. The l anes foot np $200,000 in t h a t vicinity alone.

Bold np tM Stag* la tha Goad CM Way. Two masked road agents caught a

stage load of Sao Franciscans near Calls toga. CaL, on their way to tha summer •resorts of Lake connty and stripped them of their valaables. The robbers aeonred about $1,300 f rom the paaaengera and looted the Wells-Farga treasury box as well, bu t how much they go t f rom i t Is not known.

•150.000 Blase at BnFeto. Fire destroyed M. Strauss A Son's

tannery, postal s tat ion A., Q r o b w V coal yard, barns, several f re igJ^caraT ' two dwellings, a number of horses, a n i a large amount of stock in Bask Buffalo, N. T . The loea la u l t o i ted a t $250,000.

No saloons or gambling devices wiU be tolerated a t the s tate fair th is year.

By the collapae of a brick buildinf being torn down a t 53 Market t t r e e t Chicago, five men were injured, while nearly a dozen others had narrow es-capes. The injured were buried under a mass of bricks and mortar.

A party of workmen were drilling on the rock a t tbe foot of a 30-foot precipice «t Oniontown, Pa., when a ledge became loosened and fell, bury-ing three of t h e m One was crushed. to death and two fatally injured.

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SpringMitas MeT in i i To many people Spring and its duties

mean an aching head, tired limbs, and throbbing nerves. Jus t as the milder weather comes, the strength begins to ^ane, and " t h a t tired feeling" is the complaint of all.

The reason for this condition is found in the deficient quality of the blood. During the winter, owing to various causes, the blood becomes loaded with impurities and loses its richness and vitality. Consequently, as soon as the bracing effect of cold air is lost, there is langour and lack of energy. The cure will he found In purifying and enriching the blood.

Hood's Sanaparil la is the greatest and best spring medicine, because it is the greatest and best blood purifier. I t overcomes t h a t tired foeling because

It makes pure, rich blood. I t gives strength to nerves and muscles because i t endows the blood with new powers of nourishment. I t creates an appetite, tones and strengthens the stomach and digestive organs, and thus builds up the whole system and prepares i t to meet the change to warmer weather . '

Hood's Barsaparilla Is a medicine upon which you may depend. I t Is the only t rue blood purifier promi-nently before the publlo eye today I t has a record of cures unequalled in the history of medicine. I t is the medi-cine of which BO many people write, "Hood's Barsaparilla does all t h a t it is claimed to do.w You can take Hood's Sanapari l la with the confident expectation tha t it will give you pure blood and renewed health. Take It now.

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DEATH AND TAXES.

A favorite method of municipal tax-ation In France Is the octroi, or tax on food or supplies brought into the city. In Parts one-third of the t a . e s are raised in this way, which accounts for the high prices charged for food in that city.

Lyons, the second dt j r In France, has had the same system, but Is to abolish It altogether as an experiment making up for Its loss by higher direct taxation. Of course, one effect of the octroi is to encourage the building up ot untaxed suburbs.

The Journal des Economlstes ciphers out that Prance pays $150,000,000 a year In import duties on whea t But France 1* a great nation and keeps an a m y !

The income tax in Great Britain has varied all the way from 14 pence In the pound in the Crimean war to 2 pence In 1874. I t stands more recently a t • pence, or 2H per cen t on Incomes over 1750 a year. That lets out all working-men in England. I t wouldn't here.

In Prussia, Incomes above 1100 a year are taxed, and even then a good many are exempt

A tax on theater tickets has worked well In Russia, producing a million rubles, a t a slight expense for collec-tion.

Strained relations -Those whom we Invite.

TVVORE E V I D E N C E . D E T R O I T .

Mr. A Manvartag, 414 Lafarotte Are., has Beelded la Datrolt ever SO Teata.

(From tae Detroit News.) Many a reader of tills must know

•Hr. J . Manwaring, a resident of Detroit for over 60 years. He has many inter-ests in the lumbering districts and t h a t

. has been hia bnsinesa. Mr. Manwanng has reached pret ty well np the span of life; his has been a busy and honorable career, and he can now be found a t his beautiful home. No. 414 Lafayet te ave-nue surrounded by the comforts which he has gathered round about him.

Mr. Manwaring has the following to gsy about a 16-year-old trouble and its final cure. He says: "About 16 years «go I hod an abcess of the kidney which lef t roe with a weakness of the kidneys and this has f rom time to time given me Ifreat trouble. To aggravate my condi-tion 1 was continually gett ing colds, as I was exposed to the weather a great dea^which rendered my case worse. I had pains in the small of my back and the urinary organs were affected. Souietimes the urine was scanty and dif-fiult of passage. Hearing about Doan's Kidney Pills 1 got some and I gladly tes-tify to what they have done for me. They have rendered urination na tura l and froed my back from all its pains and aches. The pills are a mild medi-cine and work in a mild way. I wonld reciimmend them to all old men They will soon learn to prize them highly. I have never in al l my experience come acros1- anything which seemed to fl"J my need like Doan's Kidney Pills."

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B A T T L E C R B E I C .

la a Case that Is Fast Boeomlag Fame la Battle Creek.

(From tbe Battle Creek JoarnaL) Our representative called the other

day a t 103 N. Division street , where lives Mrs. Emery O. Coras toe ic. Mrs. Comstock is a Battle Creek citizen and It is easy for any reader of this to prove i ts correctness. Mrs. Comstock has suffered with kidney complications fo r as much as IS yeara. The physicians t h a t she has consulted a t different times have called her disorder inflam-mation of the bladder, congestion of the bladder, and other things, a l l agreeing, however, tha t the seat of t h e trouble was the bladder and kidneya. When she had bad spells the pain was most excruciating, the dreadful pain in her back and elsewhere caused n igh t swea t ; to snch an extent tha t the clothes wonld have to be dried. This was an awfnl way to live, a t times suf-fer ing the greatest agony. The doctors and any other means she used only afforded slight temporary relief. Fi-nally she hears of Doan's Kidney Pills and her husband got a box in hopes they may help her. She commences their use and from the Urst dose expe-riences g rea t relief. She continued to take them and they seem to have estab-lished a permanent benef i t Mrs. Com-stock regards her case as chronic and incurable, but says tha t she is feeling bet ter now than she has for a long time and t h a t Doan's Kidney Pills have done more for her t han any other treatment tha t she has ever used, and she adds, tha t the world should know what a good and valuable medicine can be found in Doan's Kidney Pills.

A FEAEPUL MISTAKE. H E CASE, AS RE-ported by George Red acre, sheriff of

county, Mis-souri, is one of the most remarkable on record, and shows that too much care cannot

M , . be exercised in the reception ot cir-cumstantlal evi-dence.

We give the facts as nearly as pos-sible in the words of the narrator.

In the summer of 1872, Ida Carlton, daughter of a weU-to-do farmer, left home to gather a basket of berries from a pasture lot about half a mile fro/n the dwelling, saying t h a t Ehe would be bock before evening.

When night set in she had not re-turned. her family became alarmed and instituted a search for her.

She was not found that n i g h t and the next morning the searchers were increased in number.

She was a t last discovered, d e a d -murdered—under circumstances calcu-lated to excite the greatest wrath and horror. There had evidently been a long, fierce struggle; her face, arms and hands were scratched and bruised; her clothes were torn and a portion of them missing; some gold beads which she had worn around her neck, were also missing; two gold rings had been taken from her fingers, and she had apparently been choked to death by human hands.

The news spread rapidly, crowds gathered a t the farmhouse and about the tragic scene, and the citizens In the vicinity became almost wild with ex-citement and rage.

Who had done the foul deed? What fiend in human shape had dared to come into that peaceful vicinity and perpetrate snch a horrid crime? If they could find him they would tear him to pieces!

Ida Carlton had been much beloved by all who knew her. She was 20 years of age, tall and handsome, and was engaged to be married to one Eben Staver, a young man of 23. who had bought a nice farm about a mile f rom her father's, and was to take posses-sion immediately a f te r the nuptials, which were to be celebrated the fol-lowing spring.

He was not a t home a t the time of the murder. In f a c t he had left that very day, and could not be found. His anxious family could give no clew to his whereabouts, and were much wor-ried in consequence.

On the third day, however, he ap-peared at the coroner's inquest, nearly prostrated with grief, and said he had been to look a t a quarry about three miles from home, and had fallen down and injured his head so badly that he had been delirious for two days, and knew nothing of what had happened meantime.

His family also stated that he had come home weak, gaunt and nearly starved, and when Informed of the aw-ful tragedy and loss of his beloved, he had taken the matter so deeply to heart tha t for a time it was feared he would lose his reason.

I t is possible that in the minds of acme, under the circumstances, a tron-

LEAVING WHAT APPEARED TO BE A DEAD WOMAN.

blesome suspicion might have been ex-cited against tbe unhappy lover If it had not suddenly been diverted to an-other nuarter.

A dirty tramp, though a young man, had been found two milM from the aoene, lying a t the foot of a large tree a snort disuince from the roadside, so weak and 111 that he could not travel any farther. Hia face waa bruiaed and scratched, and swollen, his clothes w re torn as if in a struggle, and, a s if to complete, the chain of suspicion, a missing ring of the dead girl was found on his little finger.

Fortunately for the ends of justice, the finder of this tramp was a respect-able, law-abiding fanner , who. Instead of flrst proclaiming his discovery to the furious mob, and having the fellow torn to pieces without a trial, brought the news to me.

As sheriff of the county, I immediately summoned ail my deputies, and swore In a large posse of tbe best citizens to aid me in protecting the man from the violence of a mob, who would seek to murder him as soon as the facts should become known.

After flrst lodging my man in jail far security, I summoned a physician, who soon discovered that the fellow had been badly handled, had probably been unconscious and delirious a part of the time in consequence, and that his Im-mediate weakness was due to a total lack of food—In fact, | ^ a t he was half dead from starvation.

Under proper treatment he rapidly recovered, so as to be able to sit up and converse.

He then gave his name as Adam Wheeler, said he wae troui Indiana, was a Joiner by trade, and, being out of work and money, was trying to reach Fopeka, Kan., where he had a friend, i boss carpenter, who had promised to (Ive him steady employment; t h a t on

his way he had turned into the lot where the tragedy had occurred to pick some berries; that while thus engaged he had been startled by faint cries of murder in a female voice; and on hur-rying to the place whence the sounds had proceeded, he had discovered a young man in the act of leaving what appeared to be a dead woman; that the man, seeing him, had at once assaulted him. and a fierce struggle had taken place; that he had been overpowered and lost consciousness for a time; and that on coming to himself he had seen the woman dead within a few feet of him; had becomc alarmed lest he should be taken for the murderer; had fled in dismay, and from that time to the present he could not remember any-thing except as a wild, troubled dream.

This improbable story, of course, was not believed by any; but as the man. however guilty, was entitled to a fair trial. I determined he should have one, and took every means in my power to give him that protection which the law guarantees to the vilest of criminals.

"If your story is true. Adam Wheel-er." I said, af ter he had made his state-men t "how do you account for the fact of having one of the murdered girl's rings on your finger a t the time you were discovered and arrested?"

"What ring?" he asked, in what ap-peared to be s frightened and guilty way. "I don't understand you. sir!"

"This." I said, displaying the jewel. "I^uppose you recognize it ; though, of course, you are not bound to criminate yourself."

'TU take my solemn oath tha t I don't know what yon mean, sir!" he said, in alarm.

"Well, then," I replied, "this ring, which belonged to Ida Carlton, was found on your little flnger when you were arrested."

"Before God," he now exclaimed, with a bold, innocent look, "I don't know anything about tha t ring! I don't remember ever seeing It before; and, if it was on my flnger it roust have been put there by the villain who left me for dead, in order to make it appear as if I had murdered and robbed the poor girl!"

Of course this denial was no more believed than the other statements of the prisoner, who was regarded by the populace as a wretch too vile to be al-lowed the honor of a respectable trial. And only for my precautions and con-stant vigilance night and day, his case would never have come before a court of Justice.

So great was the excitement—in f a c t so clamorous was the great body of re-spectable citizens for a summary execu-tion of the fellow, that i t was not deemed safe a t flrst to bring him out-side the jail; and in order to have him present a t the inquest the coroner sa t with his jury within the walls of the prison.

Of course the verdict of the coroner's Jury was dead against him; the next grand ju ry found a true bill, and in due course of time his trial came on.

By tha t time the murderous excite-ment had so f a r subsided that there was no longer fears of his being lynched in case of conviction, though a verdict of not guilty by the Jury might have resulted in a fearful riot

The trial waa a long one. The pris-oner was defended by one of tbe ablest lawyers in the county, who, for some cause (let us suppose it to be in the way of humanity, for the culprit had not a dollar to fee him), had volunteered his services, and who told me privately a t the conclusion of the trial, with the verdict of guilty ringing in his ears, that he believed the accused to be as innocent of the murder as himself.

One incident during the progress of the case, had made a deep impression on me, and set me to thinking, won-dering and speculating in a very serious manner. I t was when the lover of the murdered girl, Eben Staver. had been placed on the stand to give some not very important evidence. I happened to be standing near the accused when he flrst put eyes on the witness; and I saw bim start , clasp bis hands, turn deadly pale and sink back in his seat in a fainting condition; and on his counsel hurrying to him with a glass of water, I heard him gasp out:

"That 's the man I had my flght with, and who'd Just murdered the lady!"

"Hush!" said the lawyer. "Say noth-ing more now."

When he came to cross-examine the witness, who had been called for the prosecution, 1 noticed that Walter Graham put some very curious ques-tions, which the other side objected to as irrelevant and that the man on the stand became very much agitated, per-fectly pallid, and once or twice seemed to gasp for breath.

Of course everybody was surprised; but probably outside of the prisoner, his counsel, myself and a couple of confidential friends, not a soul in the courtroom suspected the real cause.

"My client is innocent aud Eben Staver, the lover of the murdered Ida Carlton, is the man who committed the foul deed and ought to swing!" said Graham to me af ter the verdict of guilty had been rendered. "Mark you. Sheriff Red acre, we must save this in-nocent man, even if it be by hunting the guilty one down," he said impressively.

I confess that when I recalled the fact of the absence for two or three days of Eben Staver, his personal condition when he appeared a t the inquest, and the improbable story that he had told of his accident and wanderings, and thought how easily it might all glide Into a sequel to the statement of the prisoner, I was a good deal shocked and staggered, and inclined to side with the lawyer.

"But we have no proof that .Staver was there and did the deed," I replied to Mr. Graham. "On the contrary, everything seems to point the other way. This young man was the accept-ed lover of the girl, remember—they were actually engaged to be married— the farm on which they were to live had actually been bought—and there is no evidence of a quarrel, or of Jeal-ousy, or of any motive whatever for taking her life. Tou see at once that the idea of accusing this man is pre-posterous!" ,

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"Notwithstanding," returned Graham positively, " I believe him to be the-guilty wretch! Hark you! Why did m y client tell the tale ho did, and then, when he saw this man in court for the flrst time af ter the murder, become so affected, and make that horrible ac-cusation against him of all others? What did he know about him? 1 tel l you. sheriff, there is some awful mys-tery hidden which It is our duty to-bring to light."

"But how begin—how set about i t?" I queried.

" I see," smiled Graham, "you are a sheriff, not a detective. Very well; we both have power to set a deteotlye to work. You will bear in mind that , though only one poor ring waa found on the person of my client, other jewels were taken from the person of the dead, girl. What became of them?"

"Ha! Yes, I see!" "Let us find them. Sheriff Redacre."" "So we will. Lawyer Graham, if i t

be possible and there Is my hand on i t " "Not a word of our suspicions t o at

living soul until we arc ready to strike.''* "Not a word," concluded I. -Adam Wheeler, the condemned man*

was, a few days later, sentenced to* death.

An effort had been made for a new trial, which had not been granted. Ai» appeal waa then taken to the Supreme court, and In due time the sentence o r the lower court was afflrmed. The g o v -ernor was asked to grant a pardon, b u t he refused.

Nothing was left for the poor m a n . but to swing, unless we could find evi-dence that would clear him In the eyes of the public, who were loudly clamor-ing for his death, and would have lynched him in spite of us if a rumor had gone abroad that he was to be se t free.

Meanwhile I had sent for a Chicago detective, a man not known in those parts, who succeeded in getting em-ployment on the farm of the elder Stav* er, and was thus brought more or less in contact with the suspected son, wbo still resided with his father.

But nothing came of this till the day fixed for the execution came so near that I became wretchedly nervous lest I should be compelled in the line of my duty to hang an Innocent man, for I now, af ter many conversations with the condemned, came firmly Into the belief that he was not guilty of the heinous crime.

At last the dreaded death warrant arrived, which my duty compelled m e to read to the prisoner, aud a t the same time assure him there was no-longer any hope; and in the painful performance of this requirement I fair-ly broke down and wept like a child; and so did his coun^ l ; though the poor fellow himself bore up bravely, and-even tried to console us.

As I left the prison with my friend: Graham, I was met Just outside by my detective, who brought the wel-come news that he had actually d i s -covered the dead girl's missing Jewelry on the person of Eben Staver—that he carried it carefully concealed in his bosom—{tnd that he had caught him in the act of examining and weeping over it when he thought himself con-cealed from human eyes.

Upon this information I lost no t ime In acting. Graham at once swore ou t . a warrant, and I served it myself.

"All is discovered, Eben Staver," I"-sald, as I placed my hand upon his shoulder, "and I now arrest you fo r the murder of Ida Carlton!"

Ghastly and quivering, he sank d o w ^ . dumfounded. at my very feet.

I immediately searched him, and found the missing Jewelry.

"Behold." said I sternly, "the proofe^ of your crime!"

As soon as he could command his voice he Immediately confessed that he was the sole author of the foul deed, for which an Innocent man waa on the point of being executed.

When taken before a magistrate, he-persisted In his confession, though r e -peatedly cnutloned against incriminat-ing himself.

As thio news began to spread, and a-new cxcltement to agitate the public, I hurried him off to prison, to protect him, as I had previously done Adam Wheeler, from summary vengeance.

When questioned as to his motive f o r killing his afllanced, Staver declared that he knew of none, -*'except t h a t Satan had got possession of him."

He was never brought fo a trial; for. a week later, he waa found dead in his cell, hanging by his suspenders to the bars of his window. '

When, in consequence of this timely revelation. Adam Wheeler regained his freedom, the same people who were lately so eager to tear him to pieces vied with each other in doing hon-or.

He was earnestly urged to take u p his abode in the county town, a n d flnaily consented. .

By means of public contributions, » fine shop and set of tools were f u r -nished him; and being a good, honest , industrious mechanic, he a t onoe s tar ted upon a prosperous career, which he h a s continued to this day, and is now-known and respected as one of the bes t citizens of the place.

I have only to add. In conclusion, that I am the happier to-day for having* been the means of saving an innocent man from a degrading death, and t h a t I shall always lift up my voice against the evil practice of lynching, a n d against the assumption' of absolute certainty in any case of mere circutn-stantlal evidence in which there is ft. possibility of a fearful mistake.

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Robert Benton Endon of Sheffield, England, >8 Ao guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Oliver of 36 Eiglith street. Mr. Eadon is one of the largest steel raanufaotureri in 'England and for the ppst 125 years the Eiadons have'made the celebrated brand of ^ tool steel known as the pnraident steel from which the finest of the Sheffield cut-lery is made. Mr. End on is touring through the Ueited Slates and Canada eujoylng ihe Yankee's land in its pictureoqueness from his standpoint While in England last year Mr. aud Mrs. Oljver were his guests at Man-drake house. Mr. Endon's Sheffield estates adjoin the duke of Norfolk's countrv seat and are considered among'the finest in that part of Eng-laBd.-—[G. R. Democrat, May 8.

Mr. Eadon made Lowell a visit last

week Thursday and was shown about

town by Chas. A. Church. Our

' townsman, A. D. Oliver, previous to

coming to America, lived within ^

half milt of Mr. Eadon's Shoftieltf

residence. A picked team from Alto, Freeport

and Caledonia will play the Lowejl hojs on the home grounds next Thursday.

Min Minnie Blakeslee spent last week with friends in Grand Rapids.

Miss Mate Newcomb is visiting in Grand jUjflds.

Brother Compton, of the Clarkn-ville Record, made this office a call Thursday.

Mr. Deal of Albion, has been spend-ing a few days in Lowell.

John Clark spent Sunday with his Iiarento at Saranac.

F . T . King, Chas. McCarty, Geo. Rouse and R D. Stocking were iu Grand Rapids Wednesday.

Papa Clark says that Frank B., J r . , weighs 16 pounds, b n l f l p n d m a Clark aays that he does not W^j^More than one-half as much.

Ira J . Buck bid in the A > h . Q. VanValkenburg fruit farm I n t Satur-day at a mortgage foreclosure sale held in Grand Rapids.

Special sale one day Quick & Son's, Bate

, A contribotor says that "Mrs. Monty Saylcs of Alton set a hen on aeventeen eggs and was rewarded by a hatch of twenty-one chickens," ami leaves the unsophisticated type setter to believe that the twenty-one chick-ens came from seventeen eggs. You oan't fool the L E D G E R man that way, lie is up in the hen business, as sure as "eggs is eggs."

Mrs. J . H . Dumon of Centralia, W.,8U., is visiting her parents, D. P . Watiers and wife, and other relatives Mere.

Wheat 67 cents.

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day { " l y at R . r d ^ J k y 24.

J . C. Scott and wife have returned from their trip throughl the west.

Mrs. W. H. Clark has arrived home having spent the time since her return from the south, in Grond Hauids.

H. H. Dyer has returned from Arizona. r

Special sale one /day only at R. Quick & Son's, S a w & y , May 24.

John Devoe reported fruit injured by Tuei«day nights frost at his place on the Peek hill.

Mrs. Shear is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Whitlow, at Trufant.

Guerney Feekham has returned from his eastern, trip and reports busi-ness generally "looking up." His trip in the interests of the Lowell Cutter Company was very satisfactory.

P. L. Cambell of Alton, has settled down just east of this village.

Buy all kind of wood of J . W. Ecker & SOIL

Umbrellas and parasols repaired and covered with new cloth at E. Gra-ver's repair shop, one door west of bakery.

Little Edith Stone, after reaching almost to death's door, is now rapidly recovering. The bright little twins are great favorites and all will be re-joiced that they are not to be parted so young.

J . W. Walker ia doing business with the probate court today.

Tbe art exhibit and entertainment given by Band No. 2 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Winegar, Tuesday evening, was a very pleasant, successful Bid well attended affair.

Mrs. L Mitchell has been spending the week in Ada with relatives and friends.

Farmers and others desiring lo purchase good; cedat fence posts can save i^ lHiy ing them of J . E.

.Waterman ia home from Dav-Iowa. He made the .trip

lake Michigan Friday last, and says that he has had enough of lake travel. The passengers wore .badly frightened, many of them praying for safety.

Byron Nixon of Bdlaire frith hip wife and child aro v i s k i ^ relatives here.

Phil Reutelster has been making improvements on his home by build* ing a new kitchen and giving hU house a new coat of pain t.

C. Bergin was doing business at Grand Rapids Wednesday.

Miss Bessie McCarty visited Mies Kittie Clark in Saranao Sunday.

The Lowell W. C. T. \J. will meet with Mrs. S. Brewer Friday, 24.

Program: Paper on Social Puri ty , Mrs. K. Graham.

Select reading, Mrs. H. Peck. Question box.

All wishing salt rising bread call for Lawrence's, made at the city bakery.

Mrs. Susanna Irons has been granted a widow's pens'um under the new law at the rate of $8 per month.

Union memorial services will be held at the M. E . church on Sunday, May 26, at 2 o'clock, p. m.

S. P . Hicks has a handsome new sign.

To-morrow is moving day with the LEDOKB. After that date look for us one door south of Lowell State bank.

Decoration day will be duly ob-served in Lowell. Read the program elsewhere iu this paper.

There will be a phonograph concert at Music hall on Saturday evening, May 18th. Tbe program announced is a fine one and is highly recom-uieuded.

See Ecker & Son for wood and kin-dlings.

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Maud H. spray pnmps excel all others. R B. Buylan, agent.

Norton H in ry visited Saranac Sun-day

Glen Gould of Saranac, visited Lowell last Friday aad took in the ball came.

A "pick-up" ball nine from Lowell went to Alt in Sunday and defeated the AltoiiH 21 to3. Batteries, Low-ell, McMahon and Krum; Alton, Hateman and Houlihan.

Walter Weeks of Grand Rapids, vUited Lowell Wednesday.

. Money to loan to) n£il estate. Low rates, no bonus. I w e l l State Bank.

For Ringling Brothers circns at Grand Rapids Friday, May 24, the D. G. H . & M. will sell tickets from Lowell good to admit to show for $1.05. Children half fare. Buy of ageii'is. Full fare will be charged if collecte l on cars. Train leaves Low-ell at 8:15, returning leaves Grand Rapids 6;30 and 11 p. m.

Circus at Grand Rapids May 24. The L & H. R. R. will sell excarsion tickets on train leaving Lowell 11:30 n. m„ at 81 05 which includes ticket to show. W. H. C L A R K , Trf, man.

Oet Lawrence's salt rising bread at the bakery., or at the west side stores.

J . M. Mathewson and S. P. Hicks were in Grand Rapids last Monday, on Ie|;al business.

Rhoda Barney was granted * di-vorce from Corkins Barney one day last week. Desertion and non-sap* port the plea.

Quick meal gasoline stoves are much fmprt ied this season. Call and see them at R. B. Boylan's.

Doeforand Mrs. McDannell and Miss Ethel returned from their eastern t r ip last Friday.

While Mrs. Allle Olmstcad and little son, Max, were visiting at Ernest Bailey's, one dav last week, the little fellow overturned a onp of hoi tea, and his breast and one arm were badly scalded. He is doing nicely now.

Tom Marphy and Harry Lee wit-nessed the Indianapolis-Grand Rapids ball game at the latter citv last Sim-day.

Lovers of high class music should not fail to hear the phonograph con-cert at Music hall Saturday evening.

If you wish to see a splendid collec. tion of nursery stock call at N. P-Husted & Co. at D., G. E . & M. de-(o t , Lowell, Mich.

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LOWELL LEDGER SUPPLEMENT The Captain's Money.

A Tale (tf Buried Treasure, Cuban Revolt

and Adventure Upon the Seas.

r c g - H ' O t J n I W K T S .

BY JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS.

{Copyright, 1SS7% by Th* A, N. Kdlorj'j Xeuspaper Company. ]

"Wait, Hardy," tho Captain saic, almost touching tho woolly hwul with the m u z z l e of his pistol. " You black scoundrel, you are well known to us, and I should se iTe you right by put-ting a bullet straight through you. Why should I not?"

The man answered only by. a stolid look of hate. His grasp on the wheel relaxed, and tho vessel fell off a point,

"Keep her cast by northeast, or. you're a dead man!" roared the Cap-tain. "You're an Isle of Pines pirate, and you've shipped on this^bark to plunder it. Purvis here, take the helm again. Mr. Hardy, put on tho irons."

Tlio mulatto sullenly gave up the nelm, and yielded his wrists to the shackles. ' The mate marched him forward before tho muzzle of his pistol, and down the ladder into the fore hold. All the crew saw it, and there were some black looks; but no man dared to lift up his voice.

In a few moments the mate returned with the intelligenco that he had con-

fined the mulatto below, and had put on him heavy leg-irons.

Captain Willis walked the deck for half an hour with the mate, advising as to what shoul.l be done in the grave situation in which the sh ip Was placed. Every hour seemed to develop new and more imminent perils; and what was yet to come, no man could foresee. - It was finally agreed that both Cap-

tain and mate should pass the night on deck, and that one or the other must be constantly awake to superintend the watch and the man at the wheel.

"I'll go below again, and make some preparations," said the Captain; and he proceeded to do so.

Could he have known what ha4 transpired in his cabin in his absence, something like despair might well have seized him.

In the conversations between the Cap-tain and his nephewr ashore, reference had been made to their occupying the cabin of the bark together.

This was true, but not strictly eor-rect. Both had taken tVir meals in

the cabin, and sat there; Out tbe Cap-tain had a berth there, while Louis slept in a little cuddy off from it.

In his casual search for his "nephew, upon coming down after the shooting of the negro, the Captain had opened the door and glanced into .this cuddy. It was dark; nobody appeared to be there.

a u k

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THE CAPTAIN AND THE CONCBALBD WATCHEE.

^ i ie nart caiiea ivoms ny name; out no

one answered. "Strange that tha fellow acts so," he

soliloquized. "What can he be do-ing forward?"

But he was not forward, nor any-where on deck. He was concealed be-hind a curtain that covered the side of the place.

The door was left ajar; and a little later the concealed watcher saw the Captain bring the canvas sacks of gold to the cabin table. He heard the ring of the metal as the bags were put upon it.

He heard every word that was spoken between the Captain and the mate. When be heard their feet ascending the cabin stairs, he thrust ..aside the cur-tain and came out into the cabin.

Now was the inan revealed! In the seclusion of those few moments, he ex-ulted with a glee like that of a demon. He clapped his hands; he laughed; he patted the door of the locker that con-cealed the treasure. His savage re-joicing broke forth in Sililoquy:

"At last I have seen it—I have found it! He would not trust me with his se-cret! 1 knew I should discover it—1 have discovered it!"

He listened to the footsteps on the deck. He heard the heavy tread of the Captain and the mate.

He struck his forehead with his palm.

"But there is more—this is but a trifle. Where is his wealth, I wonder —where does he conceal it? He talks in his sleep about it; it's! .rded some-where. By Heaven, r r . now where!"

So the strong ruling passion of the man raged and possessed him in those moments. Here was the key of his strange conduct—covetousness of his benefactor's wealth and the determi-nation to discover and seize it.

When the Captain's steps were again heard descending the stairs Louis dart-ed into the cuddy and concealed him-self again behind the curtain.

PART I.—CHAPTER VIL JOSS GARDEZ.

Captain Willis entered his cabin aerain, closed the door, seated himself

by the table and l eaned ins head ou both hands .

He had said to the mate that he wanted to go below and make some preparations before he came np to share the night-watch with him.

What he really wanted was a few moments' solitude for deliberate thought. And when this man needed to go away by himself and think, there must have been some serious trouble.

He had not been accus tomed to take serious thought about any thing. His judgment was generally good, his will was always strong, and he was apt to decide upon what seemed the proper course off-hand.

Thus he had done now. Because of the vexations and annoyances that were besieging him as an American in Ha-vana, he had decided without reflec-tion that any thing would be better than another day of such petty miseries. Deliberately, he could hardly have gone to sea with a crew of thieves, pi-rates and refuse of the city. The pos-sible consequences of such a step ought to have occurred to him. But he had acted hastily, almost passion-ately; and the serious consequences were upon him before darkness of that day. One man necessarily slain by his own hand,* as a mutineer; another in irons below; with mutiny crushed for the moment, but likely to break out again at any hour; with but two men in the vessel upon whom he could de-pend. and he and they likely to be

worn out by the watches which this state of things rendered necessary, and thus to fall an easy prey to the others— this was the wretched prospect that appeared to the Captain r.s he sat in his cabin.

He was not given to useless repining. If he had been, he would have con-demned himse.f severely for his precip-itancy.

His reflections were interrupted by a rap at the door. He said-. "Como in," and Jose Gardez entered.

Capt^jn Willis was of course in bad humor at th's moment, and the sight of this man added to the flame.

"Wha'j the deuce brought you here?" he shouted. "Haven't you learned that you've no business in my cabin till you're asked?"

"I was asked, sir," the man replied. 'Who asked you?" 'Mr. Hardy, Sir. I went up to him

a few minutes ago, and told him what I am going to tell you now; and he said he couldn't leave the deck, but told me to come right to you."

The manner and tone of the man were perfectly quiet, as well as respect-ful. The Captain's heat was over. He eyed his visitor curiously.

"I thought you couldn't speak En-glish?"

"1 could not, yesterday, bccause I was in Havana. Now we're at sea, the language has come back to me,"

A faint intimation of more strance

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LOWELL LEDGER SUPPLEMENT. happenings in store agitateU, the Cap-tain's mind. Ho passed his hands through his hair, shook his hoad vigor-ously, as if to dear it, and ihen looked* the man straight in tho eye.

"You've something to tell me," he said. "Say it —quick!"

"Captain Willis. Iwant to tell you, in the first place, that you can depend on me to stand by you against tho lot of ruffians you have shipped. I'm in. earnest about this; I mean it. Yet I must tell you that not one of thom, nor all of them, deceived you as I have."

The Captain answered not a word. A suspicion of the strange truth broke upon his mind and held him dumb.

"I shipped on your Vessel by the name of Jose Gardez; that is not my name, it is Henry Crawford. I said I was born in Cuba, of Spanish parents, I am in fact an American, a native of New England. 1 said I could not speak English; it is my native tongue, though few Americans can speak Spanish better. 1 pretended to be an able seaman; all I know of seamanship is what I picked up by observing sail-ors on several voyages as a passenger. 1 was never aboard the "Cid Campca-dor" iu my lif^ 1 was never at Cadiz. In fact," and the speakei-'s voice plainly showed his appreciation of the drollery of the idea, "if I had been the Spaniard that I claimed to be, I could not have told vou more lies than I did yester-day."

"But what for? What object had you in all this masquerading?"

"The truth is. Captain Willis, I wanted to leave Havana immediately; in fact, there was the most pressing necessity for it. I knew you—or at least, I knew who you were; I had seen you and heard you talk, aud I greatly desired to leave in your vessel. You never would have taken me had I frankly told you who I was; or rather, I never could have been so selfish as to put the burden of that knowledge on you. Hence the need of my masquer-ading, as you call it."-

"Do you tell me that you have seen me before, and heard me talk? Where, pray?"

"Yesterday—at the Paseo." - Captain Willis rose excitedly from

his chair. The man before him removed the grizzled hair from his head, took the patch from his eye, produced a handkerchief from his pocket which

was stained with some brown liquid, and wetting it in the water-jug, rap-idly removed every trace of the bronze tint from his face. Then he straight-ened up his shoulders, folded his arms, and looked quietly at the Captain.

"Great Heavens—the escaped pa-triot for whom all Havana is search-ing!"

'"The same, at your service," said Henry Crawford, with a smile.

PART L-CHAPTER VHL A GOOD UNDERSTANDING.

The cabin-table had stood between

THE ESCAPED PATRIOT REVEALING HIMSELF.

the two men during this interview. Captain Willis walked round it, seized his visitor by the right hand, aud with his left clapped him heartily on the shoulder.

" Welcome, sir — welcome to the hospitality of the • Nellie Willis' ' he exclaimed. " I am at your service; every thing on board is at your com-mand. I admire a brave man, and a braver than you I never saw. I feel as though you'd done me a favoi by making me the means of your escape. Perhaps it's hotter that you came in disguise; perhaps you couldn't have fooled those hawk-eyed officers any other way, but you wrong me, sir— you do, indeed!—when you say I wouldn't have received you had I known who you were. You don't know Aaron Willis as you will before you see Boston light. The man who

v can dare and suffer what you have for Free Cuba—the fellow that has the blood and pluck to do what you did yesterday, and do it successfully—I tell you, sir, he's welcome to my friendship all his life and my life, if he will have it."

The Captain's eyes moistened with the warmth of his enthusiasm. Henry Crawford j^as greatly moved by it, and strongly returned the grasp of his aand.

The continuation of this excellent story will be found in the Lowell LEDGER of May 24th. Please regard thia circular as a^cordial invitation to give our paper a trial. It will be sent to you 13 weeks for 25 cents, 6 mouths for 50 cents, or one year for $1. The paper appears in au enlarged form, and the enstant effort of the publisher is to maks the paper such that the people cannot afford to do without it. Ask your neighbors about the LEDGER, and see what they say. You'll regret it if you don't read "The Captain's Money." Give us a trial, is all we ask.

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which is one dollar. The Globe

S p r i n k 1 e r shown in the cut is ack-nowledged to be the only perfect Sprin-kler now on the market. It holds water e n o u g h to sprinkle 350 hiils of pota-toes and will work effectu-ally as fast :vs a person can w a l k . N o

stoo p i n g or bending over the row. It is the best and simplest sprinklep.

Both these valuable implements are the inventions of our townsman, C. W . Parks, and may be seen at this office. Get your neighbor to "sub-scribe for T H E LEDGER and carry off one or both of these prizes.