' W I T H M A L I C E T O W A R D N O N E A N D C H A R I T Y E O R , A L L . "

VOL. V, NO 48. LOWELL. KENT COUNTY. MICH.. MAY -19- 1898. W H O L E NO. 256.

A New Shoe 1 i

Need n o t b « hard to b u y if you go to the r igh t plnco f o r ^

it. T h e r i g h t eonibiuat ion is s tyles tha t please at prices

tha t a rc easy to pay . T h a t ' s wka t you' l l find here.

Our Men ' s T a n Bals, a t 2.00, 3.00 and 4.00

" Ladies ' T a n Bals, V e s t i n g tops a t 2,00, 3.00 and 3.60

" Chi ldreiU' Tan Bals , Ves t ing T o p s at 1.00

" " P la id T o p Ba l i a t 1.00

A r e all samples of the foregoing s ta tement ,

GEO. M. WINE)Gf\R.

Now Will you quit War

TALK! To Snap up a Big Bargain

in REFRIGERATORS?

• Something htw in REFRIGERATORS. Call an ex-amine them beiore placing an order.

~ We lead them all in sales of Oil and Gasoline Stoves tor We Sell the Best Kind

Yours Truly,

R. B. BOYLMN.

FIRE! LEE BLOCK (iUTTLED LAST

NIGHT.

Reliable

Clothiers.

Men & Son's Double Store.

Lowest

Living Prices.

It Is For You to Decide. We ask no favor, all we want is an even shmv. Study the

few Bargains we publish carefully. They are not all by any means, it is not necessary to occupy the whole paper. e believe in modesty in advertising as well as everything else. To our numerous friends and patrons of the past 35 years it is not necessary to remind them of the advantages to be had by dealing with us. They are standing advertisements of our liberality in dealing. If you have never dealt with us do so now.

Be Fair With Yourself. Try one of those Fine all wool Imported clay worstedfcack

Suits. Just such as all our Competitiors sell at 10 00 for fc/ DO That is a fair sample of our prices^ 10 00 worth of value r . t o r 7 5 0 .

Another Great Bargain Uoufall w o o l Cassimete Pants in fine hair line stripes and

m e d i u m c h a n d l ' 1 a i d s - T h e > a r e r i " u l a r 3 , 0 0

w o r t h e v e r v " - t o { i s a 1 1 t h a t W C a s k n 0 W ' D O n ' b u y a p a i r u n t . ! ' y o u have seen them. Ask to see this great

bargain.

Our Prices o S Children's Suits Will Be

In the Midst of Wild Storm and

Darkness .

Fire broke out in the rear of J . E .

Lee's meat ranrket last evening at

about 9:30 o'clock, and before it

could be quenched the entire block

was in ruins or badly damaged.

T h e other occupants besides Mr.

Lee were J . Tinkler, barber

shop, R. E . Quick & Co.,

shoe store, Rae Malcora, photo-

tograph gallery, Village Council

headquarters, R . Heffron, saloon.

Owing to the sheet iron which cov-

ered the entire block the fire was slow

to break through and the firemen ex-

perienced great difficulty iu getting

water in.

A portion ot Lee's stock was re-

moved and this morn ing he is getting

the remnanta into the Fox building.

B. E. Quick & CO.'B stock was

partially saved and they carried

$2,000 insurance.

The barber equipment was badly

damaged but the boys have moved

into the rear of the Church bank .

Hefi'ron's place was badly soaked,

but be is still doing business a t the

old s tand.

Miss Mai corn's photograph outfit

was ruined. An effor t was made to

save it bu t the dense smcke drove the

willing men back.

The electric Wife endangered the

lives of the workers and it was found

necessary to cut the. wires and leave

the town in darkness.

In the midst of the excitement a

a terriffic thunder storm broke and

dashing rain helped the firemen in

their work, though the combination

of fire, smoke, thunder , lightning,

rain and the yells of the firemen

made a wild time.

Some ot the firemen were overcome

by the fumes of the tar roof on enter-

the barber shop and had to be dragged

out by the fire hose.

Considering the disadvantages un-

der which they worked the firemen

are entitled to much credit for their

work. A t one time it seemed as If

the entire block and Hotel Central ad-

joining would have to go.

A t this hour Thursday morning it

is impossible to give a detailed state-

ment of losses.

Death of J o h n Husslf ls .

John Muggins, brother of Mrs.

Homer A v e r y . of this place, was

found dead in in his room at his

boarding place in Chicago, on Fr iday

May 13. M r . Avery was called to

Chicago and on Monday the re-

mains were brought to Lowell for in-

terment .

Mr. Huggins was about 63 years

of age. Some twenty years ago he

was engaged in business here with

Mr." Averyl H e was never married,

and was for many years connected

with the Palmer house in Chicago.

A brother, George, lives in Kansas.

GONE TO WAR LOWELL'S VOLUNTEERS STARTED

MONbAY.

Fourteen Brave Boys Have Gone

to Their Country's Aid.

Lowell patriotism bubbled over

Monday noon, and all ages and condi-

! tions of life were represented in the

vast throng that gathered at the Low-

ell & Hastings depot to see our brave

boys off to the war.

The following are tlie names of the

Lowell boys who went with the Sons

of Veterans organization to Island

Lake to be mi'stered in and drilled

for active service: Clarence E . Long,

Wi l l E . McCarty, Walter Gibson,

Sherman Reynolds, Uhoan H a w k

Charles Dickerson, Hayes Rolf and

Ber t Fenn ing .

T h e following went to Ionia to go

with a company from that place to

join the 34th regiment: John Clark,

Harvey Gibson, Myron Rice, J a y

Gibbs, Onie Wingate .

The volunteers were met a t G . A.

R . hall by the Lowell Military band,

the pupils of the village schools and

many veterans and citizens, and es-

corted to the depot to the inspiring

strains of "Hai l Columbia". Here

the band played "The Star Spangled

Banner ." accompanied by the voices

of the school children, Three cheers

were given tor the Stars and Striped

and three more for the boys who

were going to war; there were tearful

hand shakings, sad adieus and expres-

sions of good will and hope, then the

conductor called "Al l aboard," and

the Lowell boys were off to the war.

Gladstone Is Dead. Gladstone, Eng land ' s g rand old

man, died th is morn ing a t 5 o ' cUck .

123 for a 1 45 44

1 9 8 ' "

2 42 44

pk 'Id's Suits worth 2 00 - - 2 50

300 »« " " " , 3 75

MftiVWorking I'auU » o r t h llconlv 23c Men's l.l^k u d wHtr .tnped sh.rto worth Mc only 2><-M e n ^ g w d h w y . b i n * w ° n h • O c o , , 1 y • 5 * '

"-isfied, a hope realized, a prom-If you buy of us you are 1 , ' a ;

ise fulfilled, that is what every w ^ ^ ; { u a r e n o t Remember you can have your. y

satisfied when you deal with us.

Pullen & Son,

SITE CHOSEN

LOWELL, MICHIQAN.

For t h e New Ward School Building.

There were sixteen voters present

at Tuesday night 's school meeting.

By a vote of 11 tor and 4 against,

the John Kopf lots, one block east ot

the M. E . church, were selected as a

site for the new ward school building.

T h e property consists of two full

lota and two tractional lots and the

purchase price wilf be 8400.

Bids for the purchase of 83,000

worth of bonds are advertised for in

this issue of the LEDGES; and - i t is

proposed to have the new building in

readiness for the beginning of the

fall t e r ra .

Call OH Godfrey & Lawrence for decorated and plain dinner seta. Largest stock, lowest prices.

Crayon portraits f ree to patrons of Bush's bakery.

Klark & Klark If you love your Dollar.

We Have Something New In In Kerosene Blue Flame Stoves—No Wick. They

absolutely safe and work to Perfection. We also have

Best line of Gasoline Stoves ever offered in this section. Refrigerators? We carry the "Alaska"

Enough Said.«~

are

the

Screen Doors and Windows

In this line we have something" Entirely new and it will make your heart glad to use them.

Bicycles? You Know our Line. We sell more than any other dealer in Lowell—Prices

and Quality is what does it.

In Conclusion

Just a Sentence on Hardware It is the truth and speaks for itself and

is as follows;

We are the Price Makers on Hardware.

Klark & Klark. 4 K Hardware.

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Shall Lowell Celebrate It This

. Year?

What do the citizens of Lowell

think of having a good old-fashioned

Independence Day celebration in

Lowell this year?

W q believe it will be a good year

to reyive the memories of a noble

p a s ^ - n d tha t the people will take a

greater interest in such an event

than for years before.

Other towns near by have not ye t

taken action and the opportunity is

good for Lowell to get the crowds.

There is just time enough; but not

too much. Now is the t i « e to act.

Let a meeting be called and com-

mittees appointed and the prel imin-

ary work be done.

Shall we celebrate? Yes. by all

means.

Notice.

Sealed bids for ^3,000 ot the bonds of School District No 1, Lowell , K e n t county, Michigan, are solicited.

Said bonds to bear date J u n e Is t , 1898, with amount of annual (interest at 5^ payable as follows: 8500, Feb . Ist, 1900 and $500 annually there-after.

A forfeit of 8100 must accompany each bid as a guarantee of good faith. Bids will be opened Tuesday evening, May 24th. 1898, a t District L ibra ry rooms, Lowell. T h e success-

.ful bidder will prepare bonds. The right to reject any and all bids reserv-ed . Address Robert W . Graham, Lowell. Mich.

By order of school board. R . W . GRAHAM,

Director.

at Last Chance t o See Soldiers

Island Lake.

Sunday. May 22, will be your last chance to see the soldiers as they will all he gone from the lake before J u n e 1st. D., G. R. & W . excursion train will leave Elmdale at 8 4 0 a . m. Leave the Luke at 5:U0 |». in. Kate 81.00

GEO. D E H A V E X , G . P . A .

If Friends or Relatives did not present you with what you

desired in the

JEWELRY LINE, -CALL AT-

All the New Goods and Fads Carried in Stock.

Tie a pleasure to showi^hem.

Bench work properly and Prompt-ly Done.

East side, next to McCarty's.

Agricultural Implements

*

n of all kinds at reasonable prices, also Farm Wagons and Fine Carriages,

^ Whips, Robes, Harness, etc.

I fc-JL.

HN a c l i 0 » t h e Bridge. • Garden S e e d s In Package or Bulk,

a c

Dance.

There will be an all night dance given at Tra in ' s onera house, Fr iday eveuiug, May 27, under the auspices ot the Original Vergennes Dancing Club. Bill to dance 50c including care ol horses. Supper 40c per coup-le.

Fruit Farm for Sale. Forty acres splendid fruit land within h

mile of Grand Jiapida city limits, all clear-ed. good barns, 000 bearing peach trees, 100 youag peach trees, 7.r» plums, 2 acres raspberries. 1 acre strawberries. Sereral good acie lots can be sold off without sacrificing die fruit. Best location in Kent

Heirship property and must be

Genuine home-made bread mother makes" a t Bush's bakery.

county. . . . sold. WiU sacrifice ljl,000 on a former

Get your envelopes of us Saturday, j ofler. Address^

"l ike 1 • > IT

e x , S a t u r f l " y i 8 Envelope day at'. tI- N S ^ A h J o n t , Mich,

t he LEDGBB otnee-

Eowell gcdijcr.

P. M. Jounson, Publ isher .

L O W E L L , R MICniOAN

The SDanlah flai,—Kkull aiid crosa-bonuo.

Aa a ptiRlIlBt would rnv. It is t o " land o a " Spain in Cuba.

easy

And even If Iho Spaniards did dis-cover us, didn' t wo find ouL Spain?

Manila s t raw hats '-vlll be the cor-rect wear this summer in tho United Statba,

I N T E R E S T I N G C H A P T E R S FOR OUR R U R A L READERS.

"H A TT? V A N T ) P O T T T . T P V I M a n y exhibit a nervouanesa aa-L / i l l X t X A i l l / 1 V U U J . H » l . . d e r B U c h c | r c u m 8 t a n c e 8 that causes a

great drop in the poaaihle price. I t is a grea t th ing in m a k i n g a Bale t o be able t o drive up and atop near a mov-ing t ra in and make the horeea show no fear. Thla oi'ten goes a good way to-ward mak ing a sale. Some of the horaea t ha t have been aent to Chicago from the western rangea have not been even taught to eat grain. In some parts of the West one of the moet im-por tan t quest ions before a horse t r ade is, " H a s he been t augh t to ea t g r a in?" Yet horses t ha t have not been t augh t to eat grain have been aent U the great markeia of tho country, and of course sold a t a discount.

How BnccMsfal Farmers Operate ThU Depnrtmeat of the F a r m — A Few

HlnU as to tb* Gar* of Lira Stock a i d Foul try.

A woman's Irfea of a poreonal devil ia a nelj:liborlng woman who U U L b about her .

Tho outri 'tne of baseball games and bucKwli at caivcs Ufiuai.y depends upon the bailer.

There la a rumor tha i the United States Is getting ready to quote prices on Canaries.

I t 's a good deal of satisfaction, a t any rate, to know tha t Columbus wasn ' t a Spaniard.

Spain must fight to prevent revolu-tion and save the government at home. She is between the devil and the deep sea.

The fact that Bismarck smokes ten or twelve pipes a day is not evidence t ha t the old man Is In bad health; but It i s going to be.

Judging from the number of sur-geons and nurses who have volunteer-ed a very doleful view must be taken of the probable effects of a Cuban cam-paign.

Sagasla sa^s it wou.a cu.it a stain on Spain's honor to soli Cuba. Dear sir. there are so many stains on the th ing mentioned that an additional one couldn' t be recognized with the aid of a mlcrosrnpe.

Count Goiuouowshy, Austr ia 's p r i m t minister, who some months ago pro-posed a European all iance against America on trade lines, has been heard from again. The count has recently learned tha t It Is not an easy th ing to combine Europe against America for any purpose, more especially when there la fighting to be done In conse-quence.

James Madison's remark to Harr ie t Martlneau tha t t he United States had been "useful In proving things before held Impossible" la especially appli-cable to the present war wi'.h Spain. European countr ies can scarcely un-derstand tha t tho United States has no selfish objects In view In expelling Spain from Cuba, but their Inability to understand i t doea not a l ter the f a c t

The thir ty-one women who want to mar ry General Cassius M. Clay have n o respect for t h e divorce laws and are indifferent to the te r rors of old age. One can have no respect for the thou-sands of women who want to go to war on horseback, though they are tough enough. But as to the courage of the sex there can be no d o u b t There Is nothing they do no t dare t o do un-til they are generously given the op-portunity.

Joseph Puli tzer says he wanta a war tha t can be practically ended In for ty-• Ight hours. T h a t Is the kind of war

all want, if It happena to be Impoa-alble to end it before it Is begun. But i t la well t o omit too enormous ex-pectations. I t takes t ime to get prop-erly Into a scrape a s well as t ime t o get out of i t Mr. Seward thought of tha t quite frequently dur ing the four or five years that It took to end a s truggle tha t ho said would be over in ninety days.

According to government reports the morta l i ty of f a r m animals, both f rom exposure and from other causes, has been below t h a t of t he preceding win-t e r ; of horses 2 per cent are reported a s having died f rom disease, against 2.1 per cent the previous year; of cat-tle, a mortal i ty of 1.2 per cent f rom winter exposure, and of 3.3 per cent f rom all causes Is reported, as against 1.6 per cent from exposure and 3.5 per c«nt from all causes the preceding win-t e r ; of sheep the deaths from exposure amounted to 2.7 per cent, against 3.2 per cent the previous year and to 5.3 per cent f rom all causes, aga ins t 5.5 pe r cent the previous year. Whi le hog cholera has been more or less destruc-tive, t he to ta l losses of swine have amounted only to 9.3 per cent, against 14.4 per cent the preceding year. W i t h regard to f a rm anlmalu In general the depar tment correspondents r epor t t h e m In good condition as the reanlt of the generally mild and dry winter a n d the Abundance of feed. In California the winter has been a severe one, and its effect ia shown Juat as markedly in the mortality of farm animals as i a the poor condit ion ot winter w h e a t

The age of t h e clrcult-rider i s not so remote a s i t aometlmes aeema. T h e r e I B n o w l iving in Massachusetts a dist inguished Methodist clergyman whose first "appoin tment , " sixty-eight years ago, carr ied h i m over a circuit s ixty miles in length . He preached five sermons every week; fo r his first yea r ' s sa la ry be received ten dollars, besides his board ; and this w a s not in the dis tant West , bu t In the s ta te of Maine, where, w e m a y add,—thanks t o the labors of Juat such devoted men,— there are now about twenty-f ive thou-sand Chris t ians of his communion.

Another Bat te r Frand. From t ime to t ime various nostruma

have been offered to dairymen aud creamerymen designed to Increase t h e yield of butter from milk or cream, says New York Produce Review and American Creamery. Old dairymen will remember one of these which went by the name "black pepsin" aud which was used to some extent before Its ef-fects upon the butter were generally known and understood Only a few months ago an a r t i c k was exhibited In this market , which ac ordlng to the claims of Its promoters was to increase the yield of butter by a large percent-age. The principle upon which most of these nostruma have been supposed to work lies In causing the caaein of the milk to be retained and mixed with the but te r fa t Instead of a l lowing It to be separated In the but termilk aa In ordi-nary churning.

The effect of auch t r ea tmen t upon the but te r thus produced la not only unfavorable to Ita qual i ty, but it la evi-dent that the use of such aubatancea la directly In violation of the laws which moat of ou r s tatea have paaaed to safe-guard the puri ty of our dairy products.

According to newapaper reporta re-ceived here we note t ha t inapectora of the Pennsylvania pure food depar tment have recently unear thed the fact t ha t a number of creameries in that s t a t e have been using an ar t icle known aa "Cream Refiner" the object of which la the same aa t ha t of the nost ruma alluded to above. According to the Blnghamton (N. Y.) Herald, the sub-stance Is added In smal l quant i t ies to ut churned cream and Us addit ion in the ratio of a single ounce to three pints of cream will Increase the but-ter yield 25 per cent. The preparat ion is described as of a syrupy consistency of deep yellow color, conta ining cot-tonseed oil In which has been left some other Ingredients.

I t appears tha t the Pennsylvania food Insprc ors were compelled to pose aa purveyors of similar supplies In order to detect the use of thla fraud, and tha t they were successful In obta ining evidence against several Pennsylvania creamerymen who were using it, suffi-cient to cause their ar res t on charge® of criminal adul terat ion. The mix tu re used and tho but ter produced with II wore both analyzed by the Pennayl-r an la s ta te chemist. At a hear ing of one of the cases In Reading recently Prof . C. B. Cochran testified t ha t the sample of but ter submit ted to him by the s ta te Inspector contained about o per cent, of cottonseed oil. Undoubted-ly the Pennsylvania authori t ies will be able to suppress t h i s f raud In t he i r s ta te ; a few convictions with " lu l l penalty of the law" at tached would do as much as anyth ing to give a check t o the growth of a nefar ious business which. If carried on to any e x t e n t would damage our dairy industry more than the unreatralned use of oleo It-self Fortunately o u r laws are ample to meet the case, but It Is discourag-ing to th ink tha t the re are fa rmers and creamerymen who have so little reapect for their profession a s to resort t o such t r icks In the effor t to Increase their p r o d u c t There a re plenty of honor-ahle. lexal and praiseworthy metboda of Increasing t i e yield of milk • n d ouj-te r by selection aad breeding of da i ry ca t t le suoceaa In which will make a man Inaiead of a contemptible f r and .

r AIM AGES SiiJftMON.

" A L L E V I A T I O N S O F W A R " S U N -D A Y ' S S U B J E C T .

From t h e Text, r i a l m i 37:8, aa Followit

"Thonth War Bhoold RUo Against

Ma, In ThU Will 1 Be Conadent"—A

Reunited Coantr/ the BleMlng.

Knrthwormi and Uapea.

The quest ion of gapes has long been a live one a m o n g poul t rymen. Many have loal chlcka without auapectlng tho real catiBe of the trouble. Varloua rem-edies have been given, but few, If any, of them proved effective. One plan has been to reftiov# the worma f r o m the , . t rachea by means of fea thers or of long P r ' " t would stand at the head of steel Ins t ruments constructed for that army, and say: ' Hear 0 Israel ye purpose. But theae have generally hud •PProach thla day unto batt le agalnat little e f fec t first, because It la a l m o a l » : o u r e n e m | e « . ^ t not your hear ts faint . Impossible to remove all of t he worma, ' J ^ r n o t ' a n d d o not tremble. n o l t h e r and, second, because If they are all re- ** because of theml and moved the chicks soon become infested , t h e n t h 8 officers would give command

H E r ing of bat t le-axea, and the claah of shlelda, and tho t ramp of armlea, are heard all up and down the Old Tes tament ; a n d you find godly sol-dlera like Moses, and Joshua, and Coleb, and Gideon, and s c o u n drel^y

aoldl j rs like Sennacherib, and Shnl-manoser, and Nebuchadnezzar. The

anew. H. Carman, entomologist and botanlat ot the Kentucky experiment atat ion. has been making aome Invea-tlgatlona along this line to ascertain the infecting cauaes and to determine the remedies. He selected two fiocka of chlcka, one o t aeven and ano the r of twelve chicks. One of the fiocka, the largeat. was kept on an ear th floor and fed ear th worma. The other flock waa kept on a p lank floor and fed no ear th-worma. The flrat flock aoon ahowed algns of being infeated with gapea. and, aa they died, one a f t e r the o ther waa opened and their tracheae found to contain large numbera of gape worma. Of the aeven tha t were on plank fioora none waa affected.

He came to the conclualon t ha t the ear th worma In aome way affected the caae. and this la Just the ooncliiaion ar-rived at by aome experlmentora who aeveral years ago made teats under the auspices of the government . I t la aug-

The H o n e and the Market. There was a t ime when the quest ion

of marke t ing horaes was comparat ively a small one. T h a t waa when there was a good demand for all k inds of horses. Even the horae that had l i t-t le s tyle and no line breeding about him could be sold for atreet car work. But today the marke t la largely closed for horses of th i s type, and. If they be bold a t all. It muat be a t a ra te f a r be-low the coat of production. T h e mar-ket in i ts generali ty has changed great-ly since twelve years ago. It waa then a question of compara t ive prices. It Is now a question of price and no price. I t is easier to dlapoae of inferior horses by lett ing them flnish the i r Uvea In fa rm work t h a n It la to go to the expense of fitting thorn for marke t to be told a t a loaa. Good horses can be marketed to the aat lsfact lon of the man tha t has raised them. Before a t t empt -ing to marke t a horse It la bet ter to find out what kind of a horae you have. Some people have a very er roneous opinion of the value of their own ani -mals. as much ao aa they have of the ablUtlea and charac te r of the i r own children. Study up the points of a horse and fit yourself to tell exactly whe the r you h a r e a horae the marke t w a n t s or a horse t h e marke t s will not t ake except a t a price ru inous t o your-self. Th is will p revent much unneces-sary hea r t ache w h e n t h e r e tu rns tor t he an imal a re received.

Breaking horses i s not properly a part ot marketing horses, yet we know that it a horae be not properly broken he is in no condition to market. We are told by Chicago horse dealers that a great many good horses come on to the Chicago market and are aold low becauae they are "green,-" that ia, not properly broken. Some s m a r t teilowa go to t he t rouble of buying auch horaea and breaking them properly, a f t e r which they dlapoie of them a t a good price. Thla work abould be done a t home and the profit thua saved t o the original producer. Horses should be broken to drive single or double, and •n many cases should be broken to the -addle. They should be t augh t to face without flinching railway t r a ins and the mult i tudinous s ights of t h e clUes.

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gested t t is t t he eggs of t h e gape worms are in the bodies ot the ear th-worms, and are thua pasaed on to the chlcka. I t ia alao ascertained tha t the trouble is intectloua. One chick with gapes soon gives it to all of t he Pock, pre-sumably by meana ot the d r ink ing wa-ter. W h e t h e r t h e infection In the dr inking water be In the form ot egga or of minute worma in thq process of growth is not known. One impor tant point eatabllahed is tha t the gapea do no Injury to hal t-grown and older chlcka. So, if t h e little ones be kep t on a board floor till they are ha l t grown there can be no tear of in ju ry by gapea. The pa r t of wisdom, then. Is for the f a rmer to keep his growing chicks on board floors t i i l of good size. I t Is alao worthy of note t ha t digging worms for little chicks is not alwaya a safe practice. I t may be ul t imately found t ha t the gape and the ear th-worms have no connection, bu t a t pres-ent wri t ing the preponderance o t test i -mony is In favor of the opinion t h a t the ea r th -worm ia a source of Infection and should be guarded agalnat . In connection with this ar t icle we give an I l lustrat ion of the t rachea or wind-pipe of a chick Infested with gapes.

The Coloring Habit. Is there no way ot s topping thla

abominable way ot coloring but te r and cheese a rich orange red Instead of a mild s t raw yellow? Some one says coloring but ter Is a d i r ty trick and I • am much Inclined to th ink so myself, wri tes L. S, Hard in In Home and Fa rm. Coloi ing mat te r Is made of all sor t o t stuff, f rom a filthy mass of seeds called ana t t o t ha t comes In a d i r ty package f rom South America, to anal lne , a r a n k poison taken, I believe, f rom the offal o t coal oil. T h e r e should be a law for-bidding Its nse in but ter and cheese a s well s s oleo excep t perhaps, ia goods intended for exportat ion, when they should go in hand to the seashore. The fact is there Is no need tor coloring dairy goods. Any kind o t a good eow will color her milk i t you will teed her roots, green cured hay or ensilage In winter, while she can not help coloring It while on grass. Guernaeya and Jer -aeya have more color t h a n o ther breeda. I am glad to s ta te t ha t the " fa sh ion" with line but te r Is ge t t ing l ighter in color all t he t ime. Some makes of coloring m a t t e r a re comparat ively clean, but some are vile and have been known to kill chi ldren tha t ate them. Let ua get r id of the bad habit .

Horae breeding aeems to have a br ight f u tu r e before I t Nei ther the Wcycle nor the horaeless carr iage can t ake the place of the horse In the great commercial life of the nat ion.

to the troops, aaylng: " W h a t m a n la there tha t hath built a new houae and ha th not dedicated It? Let blm go and return to his houae, leat he die in the batt le and another man oedlcate it. And what man la he t ha t ha th planted a vineyard and hath not eaten of It? Let him alao go and re turn un to h is houae, leat he die In the ba t t le and another man eat of it. And what man ia there tha t ha th betrothed a wi fe and hath not taken her? Let h im go and re turn unto hla houae, leat he die In the bat t le and ano ther m a n t ake her ." Great armlea marched and fought. In t ime of Mosea and Joahua all the men were aoldlera. When la-rael came out of Egypt fhey were 600.-000 flghtlng men. Abl jah commanded 400.000. Jeroboam commanded 800.-000 men, ot whom 500,000 were elaln In one battle. Some of these wars God approved, for they were tor the rescue of oppressed nations, and aome of them he denounced, but In all casea It was a Judgment upon both victors and van-qulahed. David, knew Just w h a t war waa when he wrote in the tex t : Though war should rlae agalnat me

in thla will I be c o n f i d e n t "

David la encouraging hlmaelf In etormy tlmea, and before approaching bat t les admlnlatera to hlmaelf the \ on-solatory. So today my theme is t he "Alleviat ions of W a r . " W a r la o rgan-ised atrocity. It la the aclence of aa-easslnation. I t Is the convocation of all horrors . I t Is butchery wholesale. I t la murder glorified. I t la death on a t h r o n e of human akelctona. I t la t he coffin in aacendancy. It la diabolism a t a game of skulls. But war Is here, and i t Is t i m e now to preach on i ts al-leviations.

F i r s t , I find an alleviation In thf f ac t t ha t i t has consolidated the nor th and the south a f te r long-continued strained relations. I t Is th i r ty - three years alnce our civil war closed, and the violences are all gone and the se-veri t ies have been hushed. Bu t ever and anon, in orat ion, in sermon, in newapaper editorial . In magazine a r -ticle, on political atump. and in con-gressional hall, the old sectional dif-ference has l ifted IU head; and tor t h e first t ime within my memory, or the memory ot any one who heara or reads these worda, the n o r t h and t h e south a re oue. By a marvelous providence, the family tha t led In opposition to onr government th i r ty yeara ago, i s rep-resented a t the f ron t In th i s present war. Nothing elfce could h a r e done t h e work of unification so suddenly or ao completely as thla confl ic t At Tampa, a t Chat tanooga, a t Richmond, and In many other places the regi-men t s a re forming, a n d i t will be side by side. Massachuaetta and Alabama. New York and Georgia. Illlnola and Loulalana. Maine and South Carolina. Nor thern and southern men will to-gether unl lmber the guns and rush spon t h e fortification and charge upon thtf enemy and shout the t r iumph. The voices of mi l i tary officers who were under Sidney Johnson and Ifoaeph Hooker will give t h e command on the s a m e side. The old sectional grudge la forever dead. The name of Gran t on t h e nor thern side and ot Lee on the southern Bide will be exchanged for the names of Gran t and Lee on the same side. The ve te rans in n o r t h e r n and aouthern homes and aayluma are s t re tching their rheumat ic llmba t o see whether they can again keep step In a march, and are tes t ing their eyesight t o find whether t hey can again look along the gun-barrel to successfully t ake a im and fire. The old war c ry ot "On to Richmond!" and "On to Wash ing ton ! " has become the war cry of "On t o H a v a n a ! " "On t o Po r to R ico ! " "On to the Phil ippine I s l ands ! " The two old rus ty swords t h a t In o t h e r days clashed a t Murfreesboro and Sooth Mountain a n d Atlanta , a r e now l i f ted t o s t r ike down Hispanic abom-i n a t i o n s

Another alleviation ia t h e tact tha t In th i s war t h e migh t is on t h e side of the r i g h t Again and again have l iber-ty and Justice and suffering human i ty bad the odds against them. I t w a s so when Benhadad 's Syrian hosts, who were in t h e wrong, a t Aphek. came upon the s m ^ l regiments of Israel , who were in t h e l igh t , t he Bible put -t ing i t in o n e of those graphic sen-tences fo r which the book ia r emark -able—"The chi ldren of larael pi tched before them l ike two l i t t le fiocka of kida, but the Syrlana filled the whole count ry ." I t waa ao In the awfu l de-feat of t he Lord'a people a t Gllboa and Meglddo. I t waa ao recently when gal lant and glorloua Greece waa in confilct with gigantic Mohammedan-Ism, and the navlea of Eu rope hover-f a ? about the BoKphorus were In prac-tical protection of the Turkish Gov-

e rumenl , freah f r o m t l u s laughter of one hundred thousand Armenians. I t waa b o when, in 1776, the thir teen colonlea, with no war ahipplng and a few undrilled and poorly-clad Boldlera, were brought Into a conteat wi th the mlghtleat navy of all t he ear th and an a r m y tha t commanded the admira t ion of nat ions. I t was ao when Poland was cruahed. It. was ao when Hunga ry went under. I t haa been so dur ing all t he atrugglea heretofore for Cuban )

Independence. Bu t now It la our pow- | e r fu l navy agalna t a feeble group of Incompetent ahlpa, crawling acrosa tho Atlant ic to mee t our fiotlllaa. which have enough guns to aend th?m as completely under as when the Red Sea submerged P h a n o h ' a army. I t Ib ao In these t imes, when only a few thousand Spaniards at most can reach ou r h e m l s r h T o . and wo go out to meet them with one hundred and twenty-five thotiFand a rmed men. to be back-ed up speedily with five hundred thou sand more If needed. We do not have to aak for any miracle, but only a fair shot a t t he ships headed th i s way. and t ime enough to demollah them. Thla Is one of the cases In the world 's his-to ry where might and r ight are ahoui der to ahoulder.

Another alleviation la In the fact t h a t auch an atrocity as the destruc-tion of two hundred and slxty-slx lives In Havana ha rbor In t ime of peace cannot with Impunity be wrought In thla age of the world'a civilization. Tho queatlon aa to who did t ha t Internallam la too well aettled to need any f u r t h e r dlecuaalon. But w h a t a amal! c r ime It waa compared wi th the ayatematlc put t ing Into their gravea of hundrcda o t thouaanda of Cubana, or leaving them unburled fo r the buwarda t o t a k e care o f ! If Spain could deatroy two hundred thouaand men, women and children, t he alaugh-ter of two hundred and alxty-alx people w a s not a very g rea t under taking. But Ibis one laat deed will resul t In the l iberation of Cuba, and the dr iv ing of Spain f rom thla hemlaphere and t h e overthrow of tha t government , which will soon drop to plecea If It does not go down under bombardment of Inaulted natlone.

There waa danger tha t the long-con-tinued oppresalon of our neighbors In Cuba might be continued from genera-tion to generat ion without sufficient protest on our pa r t and the r ronminred execration of people on both sides of tho Atlantic, bu t t h a t bu r s t i ng vol-cano of destruction In the harbor of Havana fired the, nat ion and shocked the whole civilized world. All na t ions will learn t ha t such an act cannot be repeated without the a n i t b e m a of nil Christendom. As Individual c r iminals muat be punished for the public good, and we have f o r them cour ts of oyer and terminer , and perUent lar les and electric chairs , and hangman ' s gallowa. so governmentB commit t ing high crimen agalnat God and humani ty mus t be scourged and hung up for the world's indignat ion. When In c -an iph waters our batt leship. looVluc a f t e r ou r commercial lnter??ts and Intend-ing nofh inc but quietude, waa hurled Into demolition and the men on board, wi thout t ime to ut ter one word of prayer, were dasbed Into the e ' e rna l world, the doom of the relRnlng houae of Spain was pronounced In tones louder than the thunder which t h a t n ight rolled out over the sea.

Another alleviation Is t he fact that we have a God to go t o In behalf of all those of our countrymen who may be in especial exposure a t t h e f r o n t , for we muat admit t he perils. I t la no trifl ing th ing fo r 100.000 youna men to be put outside ot h o m e reatralnta and sometimes Into evil companion-ship. Many of the brave of the ear th a re not t h e good of the ear th . To be In the eame ten t with tho^e who have no regard fo r God or horae: to h e w their holy religion sometlmea idurred a t ; t o be placed under Influences cal-culated to make one recVlees; to have no Sabbath , except such Sabbath aa in most encampments amoun t s to no Sab-bath at a l l : t o go out f rom homes where all sani tary laws are observed Into surroundings where quest ions of health are never dlacuaaed: to Invade climes where peatllence holda poBses-slon; to make long marches under bl ls torlne akiea: t o stand on deck and In the fields under fire, a t t h e mercy of shot and shell—we mus t admit tha t those thus exposed need especial care, and to the Omnipresent Cod we have a r igh t to commend them, end will commend them. Postal commnnica-tlon m a y be Interrupted, and let ters started f rom camps or homes may not a r r ive a t t h e r ight dest inat ion, but however far away our loved ones may bp f rom us. and however wide and deep tho seas that separate ua. we may hold communicat ion with them via the throne of God.

tune he haa brought thla na t ion to a bet ter mora l and financial condition, and bo let ua p ray t ha t he will l i f t ua out of thla valley of t rouble un to a h igher mounta in o t bleaalng.

I t I b a myBtery t ha t Juat aa th i s conntry waa recovetfng f rom a long aeaaon of h a r d tlmea, ao many of ou r induatriea should now be ha l t ed ; t h a t bualnesa men who thought they could aee their way to pay their dobta and build up more proaperoua enterprlaea and endow their homoa wi th more ad -vantagea should have to ha l t and wait unt i l the perfidious oppressor of Cuba shall bo turned back. Bu t Individual and nat ional l i fe 1b a lways clothed with myatorlea. and we may make our-aelv <»a miserable by atabblng ourselves with sharp Interrogation points, and plying the ever las t ing quest ions of " W h y ? " and "How?" and " W h a t ? " and " W h e n ? " Whi le wo must, of course, t ry to be intell igent on all pub-lic affalra. It Is a glorloua thlnR to do our duty, and then fully and conildent-ly t rus t all in the hands of God. who haa proved himself tho f r iend of our country f rom the l ime when the Span-ish government filled out a n expedi-tion to discover It. to t h i s time, when Spaniards would like to destroy It.

Morning, noon and n ight let us commend th is beloved land t o t h e care of a gracious God. T h a t he an-awera prayer la bo certain t ha t your religion is an hal lucinat ion It ho does not anawer It. P r a y t h a t In reply to auch auppllcatlon the farmera* boya may get home again In t ime t o j e a p the harveat of next Ju ly ; that our buBlnesa men m a y r e tu rn in t ime to prepare for a fa i l t rade auch na has never yet filled the atores and factorlea with cuatomera. and tha t all the homea In thla count ry now saddened by tho depar ture of f a t h e r o r b ro the r or son may months before the Thanksgiv ing and Chrlatmaa hol idays be full of Joy a t t ho ar r iva l of those who will f o r the reat of the i r Uvea have storlea t o tell of double-quick n a r c h . anu na r -row eacape. and charges up Ihe para-peta. and n igh t s set on fire with bom-b a r d m e n t and our flag hauled u p t o placea f rom which o ther fiass were hauled down.

A atorm auch aa h a d never swept the coar.t of Eng land o r aroused t h e ocean, swooped upon the Spanish Arm-ada. Moat of the ships soon went down under the sea. while o thers were dr iv-en helplessly a long to be splintered o n the coasts of England, Ireland. Scot-land and Norway. Another Spanish Armada la croaslng the Atlantic, and we a re ready t o meet them. The same God who destroyed -the Armada In 1588 reigns In 1898. May He In Hla m i g b t e i ther through human a rm o r dumb element , defeat tho l r squadron, and give victory to the old fteft of Ad-miral F a r r a g u t and David Por t e r !

Yet wha t the .wor ld most wanta ia Christ , who la coming to take posses-f ion of all heart*. aM l^omcs. all na-tions; but the world blocks the whee s of his chariot . I would l ike to see th i s century, which Is now almost wound up. find Its perorat ion In eorac mighty over throw of tyrannies and a mighty building up of liberty and Justice Al-most all t he centuries h a v e ended ^ i t h aome s tupendoua event tha t t rana-formed na t ions and changed the map of the world. It waa so at the cloae of the four teen th cen tu ry ; It was so a t the close of the fifteenth cen tu ry ; It waa ao a t t he close of the cen tury ; i t waa so a t t he cloae of the seventeenth cen tury ; I t waa so at t h e cloae of the e ighteenth centu ty . May It be more glorloualy ao at t h ® c l 0 8® of the nineteenth century! "Blessed be the Lord God of larael f rom e W -laa t lng t o everlaatlng. and let t he whole ear th be filled wi th h is glory. Amen, and Amen,

A shipwrecked sailor was tonnd floating on a ra f t near t h e coast of California. Whi le in hospital h e told his experience, and aald t h a t he had a companion on the same r a f t fo r some time. Whi le t ha t companion w a s dy-ing of th i rs t he said to h im: "George, where a re you going?" and the dying sailor said: " I hope I a m going to God," "If yon do," said the rescued aallor, "will yon aak h tm t o send some w s t e r ? " After the death o t h i s com-panion, t h e survivor said, t h e ra in came in torrents , and slaked his th i rs t snd kent him alive until he was taken to safety. The enrviTor always thought it was in anawer to the mes-sage h e had aent to heaven asking for water. T h a n k God we may have di-rect and Inatantaneoua communication with the Lord Almighty through Jesus Chriat. hla only begotten Son, and in tha t fa i th we may secure the rescue of our Imperiled kindred. Ia not t ha t a mighty al leviat ion?

Unt i l this conflict is ended let u p be much in prayer for our beloved country. Do not let us depend upon the f r iendship of foreign irftlons. Our hope Is it: Cod. Out of «r/ery mlsfor-

For Second Thonght,

If ever, in the hea t of f u tu r e politi-cal exci tements , any- youthful citizen ot our land should feel the temptat ion to resor t to violence and appeal to a rms , let such a o n e contemplate t h i s terr ible picture ot the scene at the bat-t le o t t he Crater , near Petersburg, to-ward the close of the civil war , a s de-scribed by a confederate officer: Alter the first moment of panic, following the exploalon of the mine, the southern BOldlers rallied and infilcted on the advancing federals a severe and bloody defeat . I t was as gal lant a charge aa over I saw. W e recaptured all ou r works, dr iv ing the enemy out o t t he vast c ra te r formed by the explosion, l ike a herd o t f r an t i c buffaloes. Then ensued such a pcene a s I hope never to see again. The cra ter waa filled with a aeethlng mass of men, hund-reda and thousanda ot them, some fir-ing back upon us, all s t ruggling wild-ly to escape. Shat ter ing volleys were fired Into the th ronged abyss t i l l It became a veri table s laughter pen. The f ran t i c mass heaved and struggled l ike d e m o n s Hand-grenades were hurled down upon them, and a s these explod-ed, you could see heads and a r m s and legs go up Into t h e a i r ! Onr men a t length sickened of t he carnage and stopped. The federa ls leat tha t day more t h a n four thousand men. They left the c ra te r choked with dead. No attempt was made till long a f t e r t o t ake the bodies out tor hurlaL The ea r th was th rown upon them where they lay, covering t h e hideous s ight

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CHAPTER XXXI.—(Continued.) "Tell me," he Bald persuasively. "No—not now—some day, perhaps ,"

she anawercd. "You shall tell rae now," said Lord

Aylmer, steadily. He looked so handsome and so de-

termined lhat possibly In another mo-ment Dorothy would have given lu and the mischief would have been out, but for tunately nt that moment Eother Brand came In.

"Oh! Is that you, I/ord Aylmer?" she said pieasantly.

Lord Aylmer dropped Dorothy's hands with an Inward curno: bu t ho turned to greet Miss Brand with his blandest smile and most amicable voice. So iho opportunity waa lost for tha i dav.

"May I join you In your dr ive?" ho said, a f te r a few minutes.

"Why, surely; It la your carr iage," answered Dorothy,

"Whenever you caro to use It, It Is yours," said Lord Aylmer gallantly.

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"Who Is tha t?" asked Esther . "Oh, some young man er other—I

really cannot toll you," he answered. And Dorothy sat back In tho carriage

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OH! IS THAT YOU?

Why did you come out, then , eh? You got tho post that was meant for mc."

"Lord Aylmer got tho appoin tment , and I had to come—I had no choice. I shouldn' t bo here If I had, you may be euro," Dick answered.

"Ah! Lord Aylmer. Queer old chap, oh?"

"Awful old brute," said Dick, with a sigh; "bu t ho happens for the present to bo tho rulor of my fortunes, and a thorough-going old mar t ine t ho Is, too."

"Ah! I saw him the other day." Dick looked up with some lutercst .

"Did you. though? In town?" "Yes." Now, town to Dick meant where Dor-

othy 'was, and for half an Instant he had a wild Idea tha t this man might bo able to give him news of her. I t died almost in its bir th, however, nnd ho said, indifferently enough. " W e r e you In town long?"

"A for tnight al together. My sister lives In town, you know."

"No, I didn' t—didn't know you bad a filsler."

"Oh, yes ; she 's a widow—had a l i t -t le flat."

"A llut!" Dick pricked up his ears , "Yea. Where?"

"In Kensington. Palace Mansions they ' re called."

"In Palace Mansions?" Dick man-nged to repeat.

The whole world seemed to be blot-t ing out In n s t range and Insidious fashion, nnd It was two or th ree minutes before Dick came to his full senses again.

"1 don' t th ink sho ought to live there ," Marston went on. not looking a t Dick, but a t tending to his pipe. "Liv-ing alone except for tho child. You never know what the other people are, don't you know. Now, there 's a pret ty l i t t le woman living in the Hat below her "

" W h a t number Is your s is ter ' s?" Dick asked in a harsh, strained voice.

"No. 6," Marston answered. in iho Hash of an Instant Dick had

made a wild calculation. Yes, he meant Dorothy by "a pre t ty little wo-man ." "Well?" ho said.

He felt sick and faint and cold; bo knew that now he was on the eve of news, and Marston's tone had made h im dread to hea r it.

Marston, all In Ignorance, went on speaking. "Such a pret ty girl. I saw her several t imes—fairish hair nnd delicate-looking, almost like a lady. Well, she went to live In the flat below my sister 's and was very quiet. Hus-band came and went. My sister f an -cied It was a bit suspicious, and was careful to get no .acquaintance wi th her . Well, for some months all went smoothly and quietly enough, then she heard, th roush her servants , I sup-pose, tha t Mrs. Harris* husband had gone off to India, and tha t she was going out later when the child was

serene eyes who occupied the flat above her ov^n. But Esther , who had a dumb and ludeflnable sense of something wrong, and bad seen the look of In-tense annoyance on his face, chose t ha t moment, of all others, to a sk Lord Ayl-1 f U I U 6 ; ,

miAaf Inn u-hloh III AH Hi ! "Orn, Was there a child?" Dick asked. He mer the one question which, though

she did not know It, was the most awk-ward of any t ha t she could have asked

him. "Is Lady Aylmer In town?" she ask-

ed abruptly. Yes." He was positively surprised

Into making the admission. Oh! then I suppose she will be call-

ing on my cousin before long?" Es the r scarcely put the r emark in the

form of a question, and yet It was a question. Lord Aylmer found himself In t h e face of a difficulty fo r which he was not prepared. Yet he made has te to answer , fo r Dorothy's cousin was emphatical ly a young woman who could not he Ignored. "I do not th ink 1 can answer fo r Lady Aylmer In t ha t re-spect ," he said, with h is most punctil i-ous a i r . " S h e and I do not in any way live the same life, do no t visit In the same society, except so much as Is un-avoidable a t Aylmer 's Field, I n fact , we do not got oa very well t o g e t h e r -more ia tho pity—and she goes he r way

I go mine, wi thout one in any w a y t ry ing to influence t h e other . I t is jus t possible t ha t Lady Aylmer may call on Mrs. Har r i s ; bu t , again, it Is exceedingly probable tha t no th ing would Induce her to do so. Really. I cannot answer for he r one way or the o ther ,"

was t rembling so t ha t he could scarce-ly force h is lips to f r a m e the words.

Marston noticed nothing, but went on with the story. "A child. I don ' t know If the re was one then—there 's one now. I 've seen It ."

Dick sat still by a mighty effort, "Well ," be said.

"Well, only a few days a f t e r t he poor chap had k o u o my sister saw her hand-ed Into a smar t carr iage by an old gen-t leman—heard the footman call him 'my lord'—iwiir of hlghstepplng horses —all In grand style. And now tha t car-riage Is always there, and who do you th ink the old gentleman Is?"

"How should I know?" answered Dick, who was going over and over the postscript of his uncle 's letter.

"You'll know when I tell you." said

seen ray Dorothy, nnd wanted mc out of tho way. and ho got mo out of the way, and my darling—but no, no —I will believe nothing—nothing until I have seen her .

As soon as Lord Skevvcralelgh re-turned to the house Dick sent to ask If bo could see him, and to blm ho ex-plained something of the position of affairs, ending with, " I must go home. If it costs mo all I have In the world."

Now, It happened tha t Lord Skev-verslelgh, though he liked Dick very well, had part icularly wished to make Marston his l i terary secretary, and had ho boen able to refuse his old friend Aylmer ho would certainly have done so. There were, however, certain pages of past history which practically pre-cluded this possibility, but Ihey did not preclude him from allowing Dick to throw up his appointment and betake himself homo as soon as he l iked; and with iho very next s teamer Dick said good-by to India and to Government House and sot pall for his nauve coun-try, hurrying off Iho boat at Brindisl nnd Journeying homeward overland like an avenging spirit with whom the wicked old man who waa the head of his house would have a very bard reck-oning nnd but scant quarter .

For always In his h e i r t there was tha t piteous app ta l : "Th i s long si-lence Is kill ing me—for God's sake put mn out of suspense, one way or the other."

CHAPTER XXXIII , Y dint of hard travel ing day and night Dick accom-plished his Journey home from India in fi f t e o n days—a Fhort t ime In which to Iraverse such a distance; but oh, how long It seemed lo Dick's anxious hear t and feverish

Imagtnatlon! The fast P. and O. boat seemed to be s tanding still, the pas-sage through the Suez Canal was mad-dening. al though they went s t ra ight through, which was as lucky ad un-usual. Then there wrro the seemingly endlcps delays in get t ing off the steum-er and Into the train a t Brindisl, aud when at last they were fairly off tho train seemed to crawl along no faster than Hie boat. Yet, In spite of all this Impatient and vexatious anxiety. Dick made an unusually quick Journey homo, , and In fifteen days f rom touching a t i Bombay he found himself walking j along the platform of the Victoria s ta- > tlon.

It was hard on the t ime of Christ- i mas—crowds of people were hurrying to and fro. moat of them with tha t 1

busy and impatient look upon tbel r | faccs which even the dullest persons generally assume a t the approach of the festive season. But Dick did not trouble himself much about them. He had very l i t t le luggage to Impede him, all his heavy baggage having been left In the s teamer to come by sea— In fact, ho had only his ordinary port-manteau and his hat-box, a couple of n igs and hla st ick; all of these he bad with him In the carriage, so tha t he was almost the first passenger to get his luggage passed.

"Cab, s i r?" asked his porter. " l e s , hansom." Dick answered. The man shouldered the portman-

teau and went off to tho c.ib rank, Dick following: but he was not destined to reach It without Interruption, for a s he crossed the less crowded part of the platform he heard an exclamation of surpr ise and found himself face to face with Lady Aylmer.

"Dick, Dick, Is It you?" she cried, s t a r ing a t him.

Dick put out his hands to her. "Yes, Lady Aylmer," he said; "I 've come back. I'm In trouble—horrid trouble!"

"My dear boy, h o w ? " she cried. Dick looked about h im; he was anx-

ious not to waste a moment In ge t t ing to Palace Mansions. "You are going away ," he said, uneasily. " I am keep-ing you. I t Is a long story, and I am anxious to get home to. my wife."

(To be Continued.)

T R I A L S OF S A L E S W O M E N .

Mra Plnkhnra Says Standing Still la One Woman's Most Trying Tasks.

ITave you over t h o u g h t w h y i t Is t h a t so mauy women or gir ls r a t h e r walk for an hour thau s t and still fo r ten m i n u t e s ?

I t Is because mos t women sufTcr f rom some d e r a n g e m e n t of the i r del icate organism, the d i scomfor t f r o m which Is less t ry ing when they are in motion than when s tanding .

So serious a re those t roubles and ao clangorous hea l th t h a t the l aws in Rome s ta les com-pel employers to provide res t ing places fo r the i r female employees.

But no a m o u n t of law can regu la te t h e h a r d t a sks of these women. Cus-tomers arc exact ing, nnd expect the saleslady to bo a lways chee r fu l and pleasant . How can a gir l be chee r fu l when he r back is sailed by lass i tude and bear ing-t e r how swee t tempered she i s w a y unde r the pain a f t e r awh i l e . w a n t cross nnd imappy ualcswo

aching, w h e n she Is as -down pains? N o m a t -

nn tura l ly , h e r nerves g ivs Employers , however , don ' t men . Cheer fu lness is very

Impor t an t capi ta l , and no one can be J ' amiable when racked wi th pain. If you a re ill or su.Tering, wr i t e w i thou t de lay to Mrs. r i n k l i o m , a t

L y n n , Mass., and tell he r all a b o u t yoursel f . Your s to ry will no t be n e w t o her ; she h a s heard i t many thousand times nnd will know j a s t w h a t you need . W i t h o u t doubt , Lydia E. P i n k h a m s Vegetable Compound will h e l p you. i t haa done such wonder fu l t h i n g s fo r sulTering women. Do no t hes i ta te to wr i t e h e r all t he l i t t le t h ings t h a t make you feel miserable . Your le t te r will no t be seen by any man, and Mrs. P inkhatn ' s advice wi l l cost you nothing.

Read this l e t t e r f rom Mrs. Mauoajiet A x n E U S O S , 403 Lisbon St,, Lewis-ton . Mo.

" D e a r M a s . Pink;iaii:—For years I had snficred wi th pa infu l mens t rua t i on every month. At the beginning of mens t rua t ion i t was impossible for m e t o s t and up for more than five minutes , I f e l t so miserable . One day a l i t t le book of Mrs. P inkham's w a s th rown in to my house, and I sat r i g h t down a n d rend it. I t hen got some of Lydia E. P inkham's Vegetable Compound and

Liver Pills. " I can hear t i ly say t h a t to-day I feel l ike a now woman ; my m o n t h l y

su f fe r ing is a t h ing of the past . I s h a l l a l w a y s p r a u e the V e g e t a b b Compound fo r w h a t i t has done fo r me."

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CHAPTER XXXII . N a veranda of thf Government House a t Madras, Dick Aylmer sat smok-ing—smoking and brooding over the Inexplicable tangle which we call life.

He had now been three months with-out one word f rom Dorothy, He did

no t know If t he child had been born or not. If mother or child were l iving or dead. If Dorothy, h is dear little wife, were false or t rue. H e had heard f rom he r once af ter reaching India, when i she h s l writ ten in good spir i ts and wi th m a n y words of love fo r h im. and In fondest anticipation of the i r meet- | Ing in a few months ' time.

Whi le h e was s i t t ing the re brooding over h is thoughts, a young man dress-ed in whi te ga rments came th rough a doorway behind h im , and pulled u p a big chair a little nea re r to Dick's, in which he carefully disposed himself.

"Really, Dick," he remarked, " I don't call th i s half a bad place. Not so Jolly as London, of course, but still not half

bad." "I ha te i t ," answered Dick, short ly . The other, f resh from home, looked

at h im with amused pity. "Poor old chap! like town better. Yes. of course.

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Marston with a chuckle; " i t was your old uncle. Lord Aylmer ."

"Imposflible!" Dick burst out. "Not imposnible at all, my dear

chap." said Marston coolly. " I saw , her d r iv ing with h im myself, and jolly ' wretched she looked over i t . I mus t say i pitied the poor devil out here; but I dare say he is having a very good t ime all tho same. Hh? W h a t ? " he asked of a na t ive servant , who had nuir.clchs': approached him.

"My lady wishes to speak to you, . ( sir." F.:'.'. ' Lian. trho .cro!-:e .very

good Enf.iish. "Oh. all right, I'll come." and Mar-

ston went In. leaving poor Dick to fight his batt le of pain alone.

So t ha t was It. a f te r all. No, h e wouldn' t believe it. and yet—yet—how-could he help believing it? Marston hud told him the plain, unvarnished facts, not knowing that- Dick Aylmer and Mrs. Harris" husband were one and the same man. So this was why his uncle had suddenly taken a guiding h.'.nd In h is fortunes—this was why he shipped him oif to India, a t what might be called n moment 's no'.lce. "He had

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The Port land Express Is responsible for th i s story: A lady on Pearl s t ree t purchased a dozen eggs at Wi lson ' s grocery store the other day. On one of the eggs she found the cabalis t ic letters, G. S. H. The event was noised among the neighbors, and it c rea ted a great deal of excitement.

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I I

AMONG the rejected volunteers,

were 90 per cent of the habitual u s -

ers of cigarettes. Still the boys must

have the nasty things.

* * *

IT IS now said that but few of the

recentrados for whom the Cuban war

is waged are now living; most of them

having starved to death. I t is hard.

* * *

EVERYTHING seems to be going u p

but wages. While wheat and potatoes

Bre soaring skyward we learn of a

Lowell fa rm hand working tor $10

per month. I t a poor rule that does-

n ' t work both ways, * *

*

AFTER the supply of general's

eons gives out, our a rmy authorities

may be able to make use of some of

the country's experienced military

men. Of course the Alger, Grant ,

McCIellan, Garfield, Blaine, Allison

and Logan, boys must be taken care

of on account of their illustrious dada;

bu t there will be a few minor appoint-

ments le f t for men of brains and sand.

Le t us have patience.

* * *

THE old feud between Generalc

Alger and Merritt dating back to the

civil war seems to have broken out

afresh and the latter refuses to go i

t o Manilla with 1,000 regulars and j

14,000 volunteers. H u m a n enmity

has more lives than the proverbial

C»»̂ . Since the aboye was written

' \ r a l Merrit has denied that he

*used to go to the Pbillipines;

\ Aes that he feels tha t his rank !

^ f s him to the command of more j

Are. »

* *

THE daddy's boy has shown his

windy bigness even now. Fred Gran t

who was made a colonel because of

his illustrious father, has developed

into a contemptible ty ran t already.

The msther of a volunteer private

was dying and because the boy in-

($8ted upon going home to see her,

this creature of circumstance ordered

h im drummed out of camp. Tlie colo-

nel deserves the scorn of every moth-

er in America, if the newspaper ac-

count ol the affair proves correct. »

x * THIS will be a good year for Low-

ell to cuiebratc; and now is the time

for action. One hundred and twenty-

two years ago this coming Ju ly 4ih

was begun the war for American in-

dependence from wrong and oppres-

sion. Our Cuban brother have for

years struggled ̂ against tyranny fa r

worse; and now that our good Uncle

Sam has expoused their cause there

is no doubt of Cuban independence.

I t may come before the dawn of Ju ly

4th aud soonja new star may appear

in the American banner. This is the

• year of years fo r a display of old-

fashioned patriotism. Let us have it i

in Lowell.

"WHAT are they holding back the

Cuban expedition for?" Wa i t i ng for

the yeliow fever to get a good start .

Maybe.

* * *

THE Toledo woman, who sued for

divorce on the greund of non support,

wore a 814 ha t ; and her husband

hasn't got rid of her yet, poor thing.

* * *

THE proposition to build a county

insane asylum is one that our tax-

payers should ponder upon. I t means

the payment in taxes of $50,000 in

$10,000 annual installments. •

* *

REV. DR. BRADLEY, of Grand

Rapids, says that God's side in war

is always that of the weak and op-

pressed, ra ther than that of the

heaviest battal ions. If this be so, will

the Doctor please tell us what God

was doing during the recent war be-

tween Turkey and Greece? I t is a

pre t ty sentiment, bu t very poor

sense.

A

LOWELL has sent fourteen volun-

teers to the war; and there are more

to be had whenever their country

needs them. I t needed not Monday's

demonstration to prove the patriot-

ism of our people, from the gray-

haired men and matrons to the little

tots in the primary schools. If good

wishes and prayers could avail, the

boys would all come home safe and

sound and with credit lo themselves

and honor to their country. Tha t

such may be the case is our fervent

hope and trust.

* *

A G R A N D R A P I D S c l e r g y m a n

preached a sermon on truthfulness,

in the course of which he spoke of the

mothers who ran to their rooms when

the door bell rang, telling their l i t t le

children to say to their visitors,

"Mamma isn't home," and of others

who, while little children were pres-

ent, would tell ^heir guests how de-

lighted they were to entertain them,

and then, when the company had

gone, contradict themselves by e x -

pressing a wish that the visitors had

stayed a t home. There is a great

deal of this sort of falsifying among

ladies who consider themselves the

"cream" of society; but if the preach-

er will get out among God's common

people, he will hear fewer polite lies

and will get a better idea of Ameri-

can women, whose circumstances have

saved them from the follies and sins

of the upper ten.

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Deroy Wood and daughter, Myrnia, were in Grand Rapids, Saturday.

Visitors at John Ellis' Sunday were Messrs. Shepard and Carter, of Lowell.

Mrs. Stephen Gale, of Grand Rapids, at-tended flag raising exercises at Morse Lake school Friday afternoon.

S. Yeiter and little boys are numbered with the sick this week.

Ella Streeler, of Clarksville, spent Sun-day with her parents, F. Streeter and wife.

"Uncle" Clint Wood and Winnie Patter-son, attended the flag raising at Alto Satur-day afternoon.

Miss Eunice VanWormer, of Vergennes|

was the guest of Winnie Patterson Sunday. Mrs. George Clark is visiting friends

and relatives in Grand Rapids.

Discovered by a Woman. Another great discovery haa been made,

and that too, by a lady in this country. "Disetse fastened its clutches upon her and tor seven jCyars 'sho withstood IU severest tests, but her vital organs were undermined and death seemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly, and could not sleep. She finally discoyered a way to recovery by purchaslag of us a bottle of Dr. King's New Dlscsvury for Censumption and was so much relieved on taking first dose that she slept all night; and with two bottles has been absolutely cured. Her name ia Mrs. Luther Lutz. Thus writes W. C. Han-nick. & Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial hottlea free at L H. Hunt A Co'a. drug store. Reg ularsizeSOcand 00. Every bottle guar-anteed. 4

AltOll

E a s t Lowell.

H. L. Godfrey and family, of Bowne and George Christie were guests at F. M. Godfrey's Sunday.

J. Filkins and wife, of Bowne, spent Sunday at J . N. Hubble's.

Mrs. W. Pullen, Nettie Pullen and Lynn Crawford, of Lowell, were callers at John Gary's last week.

Mrs. J . Cary and Nora Fenning took dinner with Mrs. Will Pullen Saturday.

Will Howk and wife, of Lowell, were the guests of T. W. Nelson and wife last week.

Hattie and Ethel Weeks, of Alton, are visiting their sist«r, Mrs. Emily Godfrey.

Mr. and Mrs.'Cary were iu Odessa last Sunday.

Dan Shcp.ird is working for S. Cary. Orrcl Hendershott has boen having the

measles.

Biliousness Is caused by torpid liver, wliich prevents diges-tion and permits food to ferment and putrlfy fa the stomach. Then follow dfzzfness, headache,

Hood's Insomfna, nervousness, aud, • • • if not relieved, bilious fever - I I ^ or blood i-olsoninp. Hood's I I I Pills stimulate the stomach, • • • • rouse the liver, cure headache, dfzzfness, con-8Upatfqn,etc. 25 cents., SojiHj all druggists. The only PUls to take with ] i Sarsaparillik

A large turnout to Sabbath school Sun-day, if there was so many that attended quarterly meeting.

Frank White was at Greenville Monday. Mrs. Fred Basom is sick with the meas-

els. Z. H. Covert, oi" Lowell, is assisting D.

Church. Mrs. Peter Keech has been very sick

with measles. E. Ring and wife spent Sunday at Ann Ring's in Keene.

L. R. Andrews visited in Lowell Satur-day.

Myrtie Sargent is assisting Mrs. P. Keech while she is sick.

Mrs. Wm. Andrews, of Bowne, visited relatives here last week.

Dorus Church had a cow get mired Wed-nesday night.

E. Ring and C. Porter were at Whitney-ville Saturday.

Ralph and Dell Ford visited at Wm. Rennels, at Cook's Corners, Sunday.

J. Hapeman and wife were guests at C-B. Francisco's, in Grattan, Sunday.

Mrs. E. J. Mosher was called to Green-ville Monday as her brother, L. K. Alger» was worse.

Perry, Willis and Clyde Purdy, C. K. Porler and Fred Basom took in the ball game at Grattan Sunday.

Mrs. Hannah Culver is visiting at J . Frost's.

Mr. and Mrs. R. McGee went to Grard Rapids Salurday.

Several from here attended quarterly meeting at Chapel church Sunday.

F. J . Ford's wagon shop burned last Thursday morning at 3 o'clock, partially insured. It is a heavy loss to Mr. Ford Now is an excellent time for those indebt-ed to him to pay up.

E. Ring was out last week filling his rake orders and has gone again this week.

Guy Morton and wife spent Sunday in Grattan.

Matilda Pentler, of Stanton, visited her brother, Ernest Godfrey a part of last week.

Hattie and Ethel Weeks are spending the week with their sister, Mrs. Godfrey^ in East Lowell.

Elder Hudson, ot Lowell, filled Elder King's place Sunday as he was at Jackson assisting Elder Cromwell.

F. Keech and wife, of Johnstown, were guests of his parents Sunday.

Dick McGee has bought the Devine place.

Fred Basom's little son has the meales. Wm, Delaney's little boy strayed from

home Sunday evening causing them great uneasiness.

Mrs. P. Byrnes is very sick as tlie doc-tor was called twice Sunday.

Warren Ford and son, Kirk, were at Grand Rapids last week.

E. Campbell, of Lowell, called on friends here last week.

Mrs. K. L. Pierson, of Wood's Corners, visited her son Fred Basom several days last week.

John Andrews is expected home soon from the west.

Mrs. S. Coons and Mrs. S. Purdy called at Mrs.Geo. Ring's near Smyrna last week.

Mrs. Wm. Delaney's sister is visiting her.

T h e best 40c tea in Michigan a t Bergin's for 250' T r y a pound and if not satisfied get your money back. This is "s t ra ight goods." 254tf

T r y Rose Cream for the teeth.

Linolouns cheaper than ever at Blain 's .

Yellow Jaund lco Cured. Suffering humanity should be supplied

with every meaPn possible for its relief. It is with pleasure we publish the following: 'This 1h to certify tuat I was a terrible suff-erer from Yellow Jaundice for over six months, and was treated by some of the best physicians in our city and all to no avail. Dr. Bell, our druggist recommended Elec-tric Bitters; and after taking two bottles I was entirey cured. I now take great pleas-ure in recommending them to any person suffering from this terrible malady. I am crat* fully yours, M. A. Hogarty, Lexington, Ky." Bold by L. H. Hunt & Co., druggists

To Whom !t May Con-cern.

W h y pay a fancy price for foreign Peach trees when you can buy the genuine home grown a t living prices. I have the E lbe r t a Crosby, Tr iumph, Oceana, Barber . Engle 's Mammoth , Hill 's Chili, Kalamazoo, Snow's Orange, Barnard , Late Craw-ford, Improved Late Crawford, f l m -proyed Chili, Wager , Ea r ly Michigan, Ear ly Crawford, E a r l y St .John. I sell for from 1 to 6o. a tree for any and all varieties. Pack ing ground 1 block east aud 1 block south of the Swiss church.

R . D . B E R O I N .

Certificate of Nursery Inspection No. 113, Lowell, Apr i l 5 ,1898 . T h i s is to certify tha t I have examined tne nursery stocks premises of R . D . Ber-gin and find no indication of the pre-sence of and dangerous insect,'pest or fungous desease.

D . W . T R I N E ,

State Inspector of Nurseries.

m m w m m r m m m m t m K t Oiir n e w Stock of |

I ttiail«Paper 1 s Palm

• Splendid New Line of

Bed Room At From

Suits •

NOW READY

FOR INSPECTION.

We shall be pleased to have you call and see ^ our line.

Also a complete line of

$10.50 Up Goods delivered free of charge to

A any part of the city.

• McCONNELL.

No* trouble to show goods

; L. H. HUNT & CO. m m m u m m i m K

Lowell Planing Mill, W. J. ECKER & SON PROPRIETORS, AND DEALERS IN

L T J 3 V C B E R , LATH. SHINGLES AND CEDAR FENCE POSTS. ^

Matiufacturers of—Sash, Doors, Blinds, Frames for Doors, Windows and Screens, Exhibition and Shipping Coops for Poultry, Dried Apple Boxes, Wooden Eave Troughs, Etc.

M A T C m r O , R E - S A W U r O A N D J O B W O R K .

Ecker & Son, Lowell, Mich.

Business Directory. MUSIC AND FRENCH.

Mrs. Clara A. Blade, teacher, Lowell, . . . . Mich.

J . HARRISON RICKERT. dentist. Over Church'i bank, Lowell.

8. P. HICKS, Loans, Collections, Real Estate and Insuxv

ance. Lowell, Mich.

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

street, Lowell, Mich.

M. C. GREEN, M. D.

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

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

to 8 pm. and 7 to 8 pm.

E. H. CAMBELL, INSURANCE, LOANS, Notary Public, Real Estate Agoi.i and Col-

lector. Over Roylan's store, LoweJ1

MILTON M. PERRY,

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

Has also qualified aud been admitted to prac tlce In the Interior Department aud all the bureaus thereto and is ready to prosecute Claims for those that may be enUtled to Pension Bounty.

Edward 0. Mains, Attorney at Law.

Y O U R P A T R O N A O E S O L I C I T E D .

F O B FZBXI

INSURANCE! CALX. OIT

P. D. EDDY & CO..

A. E. Cambell, Dentist,

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

the latest improved methods. Sat-isfaction guaranteed.

Gas administered.

LOWELL MARKET luvariably corrected Thursday morning.

Wheat 1 22 Buttec @ 10 Onion © 40 Corn

© 45

Oats © 50 Rye 65 Barley perjewt ® 60 Flonr per owt

0 3 60 Bran per ton

0 16 00

Middlings per ton

@ 18 00

Corn meal per ton @ 20 00 Corn and oats per ton 0

0

21 00 Egg"

0 0 8

Potatoes 40 0 50 Beans & 1 OO

6 00 Beef 6 50 Q 1 OO 6 00

Pork 4 25 @ 4 50 Chickens 7 ® 8 Wool washed 18 & 28 Wool unwashed 10 @ 16 Apples 50 0 80

3 3

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Cothcs Don't Make The man

But tbey certainly do make a great difference in their appear* ance, as in the ease of these two men. My suite, pante and over-coals are made from goods of your own selection from hun-dreds of the best aud latest styles of goods on t H market. The (roods, fit and workmanship are guaranteed with a guarantee that guarantees.

SMITH, Fall and winter samples flow in.

£ S r

§ fc

r Sr. r r

FRUIT TREES. N. P. Hnsted and Co's. stock for thi»

spring s sales, is the best we have ever off ered. It is grown on new land where nursery treees have never before been raised, warranted healthy and free from scale, rout knobs, root aphis, or other pests. Buds are cut by our N. P. Hnsted from ht-anug trees, thereby inanrin? onr customers v a r i e t i e s t r u e to n a m e an important item. See the leading standard sorts in stock; also the approved tested new varieties of value.

No Agents Employed. We find it more satisfactorv to deal di-

rectly with the growers, relying on the mente of onr goods, sqnare dealing and eai ibfied customers for our trade. Call on us, took over our stock and be convinced of the truth of this statement. If you can not caU. write us for twelve page circular* mailed free. It gives valuable inform-ation in regard to new sorts. Our spec-ialties they will please you, if you plant them they will make money for you. *

Certificate No. 48, State Board of Agriculture,

, November 15,1898. This is to certify that I have examined

the nursery stock and premises of N. P. Hnsted & Co., Lowell, Mich., and find no indications of the presence of San Jose scale, nor of any dangerous insect pest or fungous disease. N. P . Hbdbick,

State Inspector of nurseries and or-chards. N. P. Hosted, & Co.,

T-owell. Kent connty, Minh.

This paper on trial to new subscribers 10 weeks 10 cents.

'Spring & Go. A CLEW BY WIRE Or. An Interrupted Current.

This is a

BY HOWARD M. YOST. Copyrlcht ^ 1 B Liaplncott Co.

wuwmv"" " " w v w w w w f e SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I—Nelson Conway, auspected jf a Philadelphia bunk robbery, reaches Siding ton on his way 10 the old Nelson

, homestead, geta Jake Uunslcker to drive film to nia boyhood home and recognizes : In Jake's wife Sarah, a servant 18 years before to hla grandfather Nelson.

CHAPTER II—A year previous Conway, paying teller In a PhUadelphla savings bank, waa invited to the home of Florence Morley to a party. Knowing this would not allow him to return to bank as early next morning aa usual he arranges with Horace Jackson—a fellow employe—to be on hand when the clockwork should release combination of vault. Returning to bank next morning Conway discovers the cash reserve of WO.OOO missing.

CHAPTER III—Conway Is accused of theft, but Mr. Morley, a trustee, proves an alibi for him, without however removing

; the general suspicion. i CHAPTER IV—Perry expresses his con-1 fldence in Conway, but says ofllcially he I must hold him in doubt, whereupon Con-

way resigns his position. Mr. Morley also believes in Conway's innocence, but be-cause of public distrust exacts a promiso that friendly relations between Conway and Florence Morley be discontinued until Conwav nrnvca bin ItltlfutQlira.

CHAriER v—Floi-ence shortly after this i writea to assure Conway of her continued I respect and trust. In the old Nelson home, I so long deserted, Conway hears strange | noises: sees a ghostly figure in the moon- 1

light, shoots at it, only to find it a reflec- • lion of himself. Unearthly voices are heard ' even after daylight comes speaking In dis- ' Jointed unmeaning phrases. Conway learnt from Sarah that Sylvester Morley and his , daughter have a summer residence In near i neighborhood.

CHAPTER VI—Discovery Is made that i both doorways lo one of the cnl'ars have been walled up. Florence driving by with | her father sees Conway, but offers no salu- i tatlon. Jackson has frequently been com-ing from city and sometimes calls on the < Morleya.

•jxiAiTEit vin—Meeting netweetmor-•nce nnd Conway results in promise to mar-ry. Jackson had proposed to her, been re-fused. but upon accusing Conway of rob-oinp a compact had b?en made that she would marry Jackson in case theft could he traced to Conway

CHAPTER IX—Again mysterious nolsea are heard at nlpht. and Conway spends many reRlless hours trying In vnln to locate i them. A pistol shot from the room below | Is heard, whereupon he decldcs to cut through the floor to gain access to the barred-up cellar, and In tho morning pro-cures tools for thttnnriwu. .

CHAPTKR X — HonnCag discovers that ] stones used In walling up doorways corre- , spond to those of ruined sohoolhouse n<vir | where Jnckson has taken a plnee. The i mysterious voices are heard, and by com- I

Faring notes with Conway traces them to a | elephone nrrangement. nnd an Important i

conversation Is put together from the de-(nched phrases heard. Conway learns that Huntpr. s'ntlon agent at Aldington, Is an alias for Rk'nner.

0 ^ A r - r r r r .-i—ronwsy witnessol mepf-Ing between Skinner and Miss Morley, who ride up from opposite directions, converse

• ride "

Busy Store Price is the power that is

forcingf business far in excess of the normal trade. Condi-tions exist here which in all probability will never exist again in Grand Rapids—the determination to reduce a great dry goods stcck at the begin-ning of a busy season—the car-rying out of new plans con-ceived for the betternment of both buyer and seller. That we are keeping faith with the public—that every reduction advertised is found exactly as as represented, many addition-al salespeople and the crowded condition of our store six days in the week will testify.

The Latest in Dress Goods.

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Beautiful Serges and Chevi-ots, in new blues, tans, greens, wines and reds for tailor suit-ings, 64 and 56 inches wide. Per yard ^*25

New all wool checki for spring wear, 36 to 40 inches wide *50

Novelty patterns suits, high class materials, beautiful shade ings, at, each 1 0 . 0 0

Ladies' Vests Fine 50c Lisle Thread

Vests sleeveless or with long ^ ' sleeves, sale price .19

Ladies' 50c fancy lisle thread vests, lew neck, short sleeves, silk tape draw ribbon, tole price

Neckwear tor Ladies. Large, handsome black satin

pnffs * 5 0 Ascots in China Silk, black

red, white and Cerise . 2 5

Another Great

Sale of Carpets.

Royal Wilton carpets with borders to match, regular price 2.00 a yard, this week 1.50

Bigelow Ax minister carpets in medium and dark patterns

ilar price 1.85 now i , 2 5

[artford Axminister car-the regular 1.50 grade

now I n O O

• • • • Mail Orders.

We rightfully claim to be the quickest mail order house in Michigan and the best or-ganized for practical and relia-ble service. Shopping by mail

. is a delightful experience with We carry out in-

s faithfully and en-jO do even better than d or expected of us. ch service and satisfac-1 wonder we are the of mail order houses.

Ing & Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

e a r n c s t l v a n d ways, appearing, addressed

"back their respective Skinner approaches house; Conway

he shows confusion, nnd when as Skinner flrrs at but mlssea ressei

Florence henrkened, with htimls clnsped across her bosom, her eyes suiriii^ in terrified amazement.

"Oh, do not be alarmed." I added. "IT* did not hit me. A miss is as good as a mile, you know."

Hut -she still stood pnzing nt me, doubt nnd fear upon her fnce, too duin-founded to apeak. Finally, fihtf burst into tears, nnd. in n most pathetic way. held out her hands nppealingiy to me.

Stirred to the heart's core by her grief, I caught the dear form iu my

count on my nerp and sympatny.— "Yes, yes, I know that . Nelson. And

I do need your help. I t seems as though I were walking blindfolded on the edge of a precipice." The loved form nestled closer to me. I t made me fool-ishly happy to hold her in my arms and know they were as a haven of refuge to her.

"Then, too," Florence went on, " I am BO worried about father ."

"So you said yesterday. Have yon any reason to be?"

"Maybe not; a t least I know of none, except tha t he is so changed of late. But a woman's instinct of ten divines causes for worry when none are per-ceptible."

"You cannot mean tha t he Is changed toward you?"

"Oh, no, nol Not in his love for me. Indeed, there seems to be an augment-ed tenderness toward me. And i t makes me feel as though, somehow, I was partly the cause of the trouble. Why, I know there is something wor-rying poor father. He is even chang- (

ing in appearance, and is becoming so haggard. There is some secret sorrow he is enduring. I spoke to him about it only the other day."

"What answer did he give you?" I asked.

"Just laughed, and said I was gifted with a vivid imagination."

"There, you see, i t mus t be only business worry. If i t were anything regarding yourself, he would not make light of it."

Florence was partly comforted by my assurance. She glanced up Into my face and smiled. But the troubled and perplexed look came bock when she answered:

"Perhaps it is as you say. But I can-not get it out of my head that Mr. Jack-son is somehow conriectc :1 with i t all ."

"Jackson ? How could he affect your father 's life so seriously?" I exclaimed.

" I do not know. He used to come here frequently until lately. And a f t e r every visit fa ther seemed to be so troubled nnd worried."

Being satisfied in my own mind tha t the difference between Mr. Morley and Jackson had arisen over business af-fairs, I sought to lead Florence away from a subject which seemed to cause her distress.

"And what can you tell me about the station agent a t Sidington?" I asked.

"Oh, Nelson 1 how puzzled I am over what you have told mel You say he tried to shoot you?"

"Yes; but do not agitate yourself j over that . He did not hi t me, you

know," I answered. "But why should he want to shoot

j you?" she exclaimed. "That is as much a mystery to me as

I to you. Who is the fellow, anyhow? I Where did he come f rom? His real

name, 1 understand, is Skinner." "Yes, tha t is his real name," was

Florence's answer.

UWMCO

THIS MAN bM been making shoes for forty years and learned to make them

bettor and better every year.

J. B. LEWIS CO ' S "Wear Resisters" have become famous everywhere for their comfort, stability and beauty. Made In all styles and sizes i for men, women and children, j Look for "Lewis" on each shoe. ;

Mtde only by I. B. LEWIS CO., Boston, Miss. t

L E W I S " W E A R R E S I S T E R S " are sold by all shoe dealers.

CEO M. WiNECAR LOWELL.

tunnte fellow 1 was, a f t e r all, to be per-mitted to inspire such devotion!

"But if Skinner is in your employ and therefore working in my interest, why should he endeavor to shoot me?" I finally remarked.

"Oh, Nelson, I don't know. I cannot understand it," she replied, as deeply perplexed ns 1 was.

"How does It happen tha t he is sta-tion agent a t Sidington? Why does he remain here a t nil?"

"Father procured the position for him a t my request. The detective said i t was tho best place to watch tho rob-bers from, for absolute secrecy was necessary, and no one would suspect the station agent a t a retired place like Sidington of being a detective. Of course I did not tell father that the man for whom I desired the position

Saturdnv leaving Iter a iitlle better. Mrs. Kd. Ryan and daughter nnd Zela

and Mabel Avers are recovering from the measeis.

Mrs. Alex Hnwley'syoungest son came near having to sleep out on E. Hull's lake

the other night. He started out to BNII in the boat and the boat got the start of him without any paddles. People f were going to bed and he had to do some loud calling. He was so far out lhat it was hard work to to gel him to land.

The students of the Sayles school will give nn entertainment at the school house, Friday evening, May 27, assisted by Miss Lucin Bellamy, nn elocutionist.

Y p U N E E D Hood's Sarsaparilla • if your blood is impure, your appe-

tite gone, your health impaired. Noth-ing builds up health like HOOD'S ,

F a l l a s b u r g -George Rouse nnd wife, of Lowell, spent

Sunday at Wm. Rexford's. Omar Scott and family visited at Ira

Pottrofl's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sears were at Mr. Scott's

Monday. Mrs. Sears helped his mother clean house.

Mr. Lilly lost another horse. Bad luck for him.

Arthur Sayles and wife were at N. C Denny's Sunday.

Died, May l l th, at .Spencer, Henry Scott, aged 11 months, baby of -Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, formerly of this place. They moved to Spencer about two months ago. The remains of tlie loved one was taken to Oakfield Friday for burial. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have the deepest sympathy

of their many friends in their sad bereave-ment.

Mr. Towaraud Mr. Siecketee went to Island Lake Sunday to the see Boys in Bli:'. Mr. Towar said it was a sight to see foLs bidding their friends good bye.

Mt>. ('opelan has been having a hard time with the measles.

Mrs. N. C. I'inny spent a few days with

most prolific and there is no reason for any prejudice against them. Success depends tn a great measnro in getting fine, healthy plants, strictly pure and true to name. This we know our plants to be.

Read this List Sharpless, {P)Greenville, (P)Arrow. Mar-shall, Cyclone, (PjEpping, Big Bob, Robin-son, Wolverton, Weston, (P)Bi«e| Pend Parry, Rio, Dew. Bart, Cumberland, Parker Earle, (P)Warfieid, (P)Haverland, Beder-wood. J . A. ROBERTSON, P. P., Saranac, Mich. Residence, Keen

LOWELL ^ ' A HASTINGS TIMETABLE.

RAILK"AD

In Effect Sunday, May SU, 1807.

OOINO SOUTH

Lowell Iv Pratt Lake iSImdale ar Elmdale Iv Logan Freenort ar G'd Rapids ar Lansing Detroit ar OOINO NOKTH

Detvla D.&L Lansing Grand Rapids Free port Logan Elmdale ar Elmdale Iv Pratt Lake Lowell

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8 154 II 40

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8 82 5 85 5 40 5 50 6 00 6 15 0 20 6 80

Trains arrive and depart from t,out street passemrcr denot

D E T R O I T Nov. 21, i,si;? ^ GRAND RAPIDS & WESTERN R. R Lv. Uoiuir East " Grami Kapids " Elmdale

A. M. 7 00 7 85

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was a detective." I made no reply toiler last words. In- ] her sister, Mrs. Sherarrd, last week,

deed, I could not. My mind was in a : Mr. 'Jowar drove out to Prim "hW* brook's Mondav nnd got a load of

"I t is all so mysterious, and now | t r e e s

your dear life is threatened!" Florence exclaimed, the tears again cor;ing to her eyes and falling down her cheeks.

While again endeavoring to calm her the sound of approaching footsteps reached us.

West-peach

CHAPTER XIL Mr. Morley came down the path from

the house. At first he did not see us, and Florence called, which caused him to turn and approach. As he drew near his glance rested on me. Then he scanned his daughter 's face anxiously.

, , , . His face grew white, and a drawn ex-"Why, what reason could he have had I o n v.nm<, o v e r l t . i i e tottered in _ .%%.% 1%!« •« •> ota t\ «»-n o TillTOfoVr 4 , - , . t l x

his walk, and seemed to keep upright bv an effort of will.

Bucklen's Arnica Salvo. TIIK BEST SALVE in tho wor ld f o r C u t s .

Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns nnd all Skin Eruptions, and positive-ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2o cents per box. For sale by L. H. Hunt i Co.

Ar Lowell 2 : 1 0 (i 3 0 " " L v Lowell 1150 A.M.4 1 5 II Lans ing S 54 8 2 0 7 8 8

Ar De t ro i t 1 1 4 0 5 4 5 10 2 0 A. M. P .M. P .M.

r.OIXd WEST A. M. P. M. P. M.

L v De t ro i t 8 0 0 I 10 0 10 Lans ing 10 6 0 8 8 4 8 4 8

P. M. Ar Lowell 2 .'to 6 8 0 Lv Lowell ' 1 1 5 0 4 16

" Elmda le 1213 4 4 8 10 18 Ar Grand Rapids 12165 5 2 0 10 5 5

P. M. P .M. P .M.

Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rapids and Detroit, seats 25 cents.

GEO. DislTAVEN.Gen. Pass. Agent, W.H C'LAKK, Agent Grand Raplaa

Lowell.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM,

Arrival and Departure of Trains at Lowell

Time T a b l e IN Effect May 15 ,1898 . WBSTWARD.

for telling me his name was Hunte r? Tell me what you know about him, my dear," 1 demanded, for I thought she

arms. Wondering what could be the r e a i i y appeared somewhat reluctant to give me the desired information. cause of tlie sudden and overwhelming

expression of sorrow, and heartily ashamed of myself for having ad-dressed her in cold, formal tones, I sought with many endearing terms to console her.

What is it, my love, that so dfetresses you? Tell me abo i t it . You do not

"DmpwwU ylUalnr* Bh# reputed. know how happy it would make me to be allowed to share your troubles."

" I am troubled. Nelson, deeply troubled." she replied, raising her tear-stained face. 'There are so many in-explicable things going on about me, so much mystery, such forebodings of dreadful happenings, in my heart, tha t if it were not for your love existence would be mieery. And now your own dear life is threatened, and all my fault , too. I cannot understand it a t all. Why should anyone want to kill you? Oh^ Nelson!"

She laid her head against me, and I gently stroked the solt tresses which fell back behind her ear in such beau-t i ful waves. For a few momenta I could not answer. Her words startled mc be-yond expressinon. What,inGod'sname. was there about this back-country place? Had its uncanny mysteries even entered my darling's sweet life to taint its happiness?

"Do not give way to an unreasonable terror, dear heart." 1 finally said. "What possible harm can reach you?"

" I t is not for myself tha t J am fear-ful, and I suppose it is unreasonable; but think. Nelson, if he had shot you!"

She shuddered, and then with an ef-for t be ame calmer. .

"Do not worry about me. Be sure I am able to take care of myself; and forewarned is forearmed. What else Is there? Tell me. You knowj-ou may

"Florence, who is he?" "He is a detective," she answered. "A detective! He! What is he do-

ing about here?" J asked, in astonish-ment.

"Promise me you will not breathe a word," Florence said, earnestly, hold-ing up her forefinger in emphasis.

" I promiso solemnly." "And promise you will not think me

a very foolish girl?" "Never!" "Well, then, a f te r the bank robbery

I used to read all the papers to ascer-tain if the robbers had been discovered. The time went by, and you, poor boy, were still under tho cruel suspicion. Why, Nelson, nearly all of your old friends believe you had a hand in the affair."

"Oh, I know tha t ! " I answered, gloomily. "And I was foolish to give up the trust and love and confidcnee of the only true friend I seemed to have at that time," kissing the fa i thful glr l ' i forehead.

"Indeed you were foolish, and cruel, too," Florence murmured. "Six months went by, and you went to Europe. Nothing was discovered regarding the robbery; and, what was worse, noth-ing seemed to be donej in the matter . Every one seemed to have forgotten all about it, except that you were the guilty one; that was not forgotten. Oh. Nelson, I felt so sorry fo r you! I knew how honorable you were, and how heavy your heart must have been. So I made tip my mind to do something myself."

"You!" "Yes. It was foolish. I know, but

I could not rest until I determined to t ry and clear you."

For a few moments my heart was too full for speech. "And what did you do?" I asked, gently.

" I did not want father to know, so I asked Mr. Jackson to send the best de-tective he knew of to me. Mr. Jackson seemed very tcindly disposed toward you a t that time; he did as 1 requested, and asked mo no questions about my intentions."

"So you hired a detective to trace the robbers?"

"Yes." "And that fellow Skinner—is he the

one?" "Yes. I suppose It was a foolish

tiling to do, for nothing seems to have

"Child, why have you tears in your . eyes?" he asked, in low, husky tones. :

t h e n , without pausing for answer, he j went on: "Retire into the house, , daughter. I wish to speak to Mr. Con-way. Change your habit if you wish. I do not think I will be able to ride with | you this morning."

"Ob, father, you are i l l l" Florence 1 exclaimed, in deep concern. "What is i i t? Do come with me into the house ] and let me do something for you." In ; r loving way which was all her own | gi.o drew his arm through hers.

The parent glanced down a t the beautiful upturned face with solicitous love shining upon it, and his face lost some of its haggardncss. He smiled and replied: "I am not ill, Florence; only a triile worried. Do as I requested, please."

In obedience sho slowly withdrew, sending back to me an appealing glance.

When she had gone I turned my gaze upon the father. There was no wonder tha t Florence had expressed concern for her parent. Even tho momentary glimpse I had caught of him on the morning af ter my arrival showed me a change. And now tha t a closer In-

|TO BF. CONTINUED. 1

G r e a t C u r e s proved by thousanda of teBtiuiouiaU show Uiat Hood's Sar-sapariliH possesses power to purify, vitalize aud eurich the blood.

H o o d ' s P i l l s w e the only pills to be taken with Hood'* Sarsaparilla.

CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY.

THIS PRIVATE SCHOOL OFFERS THE FOLLOWING COURSES OF STUDY.

Commoti School Course... This course gives the regular work ol all the ctiiniuou branches of study. Tuition for term of 20 weeks, $8.00.

Course... (lives shorter or review work of com-mon brandies and all academic studies leading to fimt. second and third grade teaciu-'i's••criiiiratcs. Tuition for term m 20 weeks, 5* 10.

Academic Courses. . . Prepares the student for state certili-cate or university. Tuition for term of '20 weeks, $10.

Normal Course.. . Includes kindergarten and professions 1 studies for all grades of teacher's cer-tificates. Tuition for term of 20 weeks $10.

B u s i n e s s Course.., Gives book keeping in all'its forms and ether branches necessary for a complete business education. Tuition for term of 20 weeks, $15.

Announcements for 1897-98 .

Summer School Begins

A P R I L 11, 1898, %

G d R a p i d s , G d H a v e n LEAVE and Muskegon t l 2 10 pm

Gd Bamds,Gd Haven Muskegon aud Chicago. f 4 55 pm flO -17 am

Gd Ranids,Gd Haven and Milwaukee ate Stations f 9 19 pm

Gd Kapids,(id Haven and Muskegon * 5 4(i am

Mixed Gd Kapids f - 15 pmf

A a id vi-: t 3 SC pm

t 7 15 am

*9 19 pm 12 10 pm

^EASTWARD.

De t ro i t , C a n a d a a n d LEAVE East t " 15 am

Detroit and Chicago via Durand flO -17 am

Detroit, Canada and East t 3 5G pm

Detroit, Canada and East * 9 19 pm t Except Sunday. * Daily

Mixed Owosso f l - 10

ABBIVE t 9 19 pm

f 4 55 pm

t l 2 10. pm

* 5 4(5 am

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SLEEPING AND PARLOR CAR WESTWABD.

12 10 pm train has parlor car lo Grand Haven. Extra charge 25 cents.

9 19 pm train lias parlor car lo Grand Haven. Extra charge 25 cents.

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Keene.

| Mrs. Mark Hull is sick with the measles. | Judge Davis, of Ionia, and his sou E. M.

j Davis, of Detroit, L. C. Hunter and wife' of Saranac, and H. M. Trask and family' spent Sunday at C. E. Trask.

| Mrs. F. S. Brower is gaining slowly. | Tlie Warble Cemeterv association will l meet at the cemetery May 28 and decorate j for decoration day. We hope all that have

friends there will remember them and come. Let us try and remember those that are laid there who have no one to remember them. This should be looked after

Milton Wilkinson, lilanche Lee and Lee Junes were the guests of Grace Blakeslee, of South Lowell, Sunday.

L. Hunter I m a very sick horse. Dell Welch, of Grand Kapids, was the

come of it, although Mr.' Skinner keeps guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hunter, one telling me ho is on the right track now, and will soon have them.

"Foolish, was i t ? Oh, my darling!" I exclaimed, as I caught her hands in mine nnd gazed down into the sweet face. I could say no more then, choked as I was Iby my emotion. The noble,

f m O O K ! At Our

100 piece decorated dinner sets $12.00. $10.00, $7.00. 10 piece toilet sots, S2.75. Brooms, 10, 15, 2'">c. 17 quart enameled dish pans, 60c. 14 quart enameled dish pans, 50c. 10 quart enameled dish pans, 40c. Tea and Coffee pots, 40, 35 30. See my 10 and 15 cent counter before buying odd pieces of

hina and Glassware. Nice line (if Lamds and fancy China-ware.

C. H. ALEXANDER. day last week.

A mariage license was granted last week week to George Raymor and Eva Stall, -of j Keene.

We had forgot to say that Allie Pinkuev | has taken a better half to support. iie

true-hearted girl! Impelled by her love 1 ^ ™'"ied to Money Hull, a daughter for me and her absolute faith in my i Mark Hull a few weeks ago.

Strawberry Plants for Sale Cheap.

^2 00. to $4.00 per 1000. Great chance "11 to set plants in either largo or small quan

1 titles. flayThe blossoms ••fall varieties are bi-

integrity, undertaking alone to estab-lish ray innocence, while all the world remained indifferent! I saw the noble-ness, the willingness to make sacrifice for her love, back of it all, and tears came Into my eyes ond a great thank-fulness into my heart. What . a for-

Mrs. I.amberton and Mrs. Wilkinsor ' sexual or perfect. Those marked (P)nu took a trip to Grand Rapids last v. clue. , of stamens and are termini pistil

late or uuperlect, as shown bv the tollowin" day. Mrs. W. was called there to see her daughter's children who are very tick with malarial fever. The oldest child's turned

i into typhoid pneumonia. She returned

figures. Imperfect varieties must have a row of perfect flowered sorts planted every third or fourth row at least to pollenize heir blossoms. When the imperfect bloo-

mers are properly fertilized they are the

EASTWARD. i loam train has parlor car to Detroit

Extra charge 25 cents. Pullman palace car iK'tmit !<• Toronto connecting with sleeping car for the east and New York— connects at Durand with C & G T division for Por". Huriui and Chicago and with O S & M for Saginaw and Hay City;

o Hi pm train has parlor car to Detroit. Extra charge 25 cents, and Pullman sleep-ing car to Toronto, Suspension Bridge, llutliilo, Philadelphia and New York connects at Durand with C & G T divisioa for Port Huron and Battle Creek aud with C. S. & M. division for Saginaw and Ba; City. • L_ _

A. O. HETDLAI'FF, agent, Lowell, Mich. E . H . HUGHES, As^t G e n P A T a g e n t ,

Chicago, 111. ^ BEN Ki.ETCIIEB, Trav Pass agent Detroit

Mich.

A NEW TRIlfMJPH.

The Dreaded Consumption Can Be Cured.

T. A. Slocum, the Great Chemist and -'Jh-tist. Will Send to Suflerers, Three i ruo

Bottles of His Newly Discovered Remedies to Cure Consumption

and All Lung Troubles.

Nothing could be fairer, more philan-thropic or carry more joy to the alllicled than the generous ofler of the honored aud distinguished chemist, T. A. Slocum, M.O., of New York City.

He has discovered a reliable and abso-lute cure for consumption, and all bron-chial. throat, lung and chest diseases, ca-tarrhal affections, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and conditions of wasting away: and lo make its great meriu known, will send three fretj bottles of his newly discovered remedies to any alllicted r e a d e r of t h e LOWELL LEDUEK.

Already his '"new scicntific system of medicine" has permanently cured thous-ands of apparently hopeless cases.

The Doctor considers it nol onlv his pro-fessional. but his religious duty—a duty which he owes to sutlering humanity—to donate his infallible cure.

He has proved the "dreaded consump-tion" to be a curable dii-ease beyond a doubt, in any climate, nnd has on tile in his American and Euro pi m laboratories thous-ands of "heartfelt te*: imonials of gratitude" from those benefitted md cured, in all parts of the world.

Catarrhal and puim -narv troubles load to consumption, i^l tou-umption uninter-rupted, means sp«;iii\ and certain death. Don't delay uiiill ii is loo late. Simply write T. A. Slocum, M. C., 98 f ine street, New York, giving expnts and postofSce address, and the free medicine will be

1 promptly sent. Please tell the Doctor yoj saw h i s ofler i n t h e LOWELL LEMJEB.

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'Ofllngs of the Week Recorded in a Brief Style,

CONCISE A N D INTERESTING.

Thlrty-nn-t MlcMpin Volnnteer* Muiitercd Info UIICIP Sam's Scrvlco :in«l LCRTO

Camp Katun for C'lilrliuiiiauea—Bail Double Piitnlity at l.upcor.

3l(it. .Wiclilcuu to CI>lckniii!ius:;i. Uichigan's first voluntcpr troops l iarc

becu rent lo tho front. The 31st Mich-igan Volunteer regiment, under com-mand of Col. Qnrdoncr, hid adieu to Camp Eaton and hoarded their t ra in which was to carry them to tho sunny sonthhind. their immediate destination being" Ohiokamuu^n. There was not Hio.spiriUif livolines, manifested by the Holdlcr hoys and tho thousands of vis-itora on the day of their departure as there h;id previously heen. There was tlie sorrow (»f par t ing with parents, wives, sislvj-.s and swcctheiirlH. hut be-neath that was the soldierly enthusiasm lyhicli made it a thri l l ing speetaelo to see over 1,000 strapping young follows bid their comrades good-bye, and make tho final preparations to s tar t for tho front.

The soldier boys of the 31st fel t proud of being incmbcro of Hie first repimcnt sent out from Michigan. The first bat-taiiou was heartily cheered when it l e f t tho regimental headquarters to .board tho cars. Col. Gardener made a short spccch to the men, and told them to act like soldiers while they were on their jonmoy. Gov. Pingreo and his staff bid tho boys good-bye and wished them Godspeed. The first section was in command of Col. Gardener, the sec-ond Licut.-Col. Shubcl, and the third section Maj. Charles II. Ilarrah. The first section, carrying companies D. B, F u n d FI, (Jackson. Lansing and Mason) departed a t 11:55 p. m. standard time. The sccond section, containing Cos. A, B, 0 and G, (Ann Arbor, Adrian, Tc-cumsoh and Ypsilnnti), left at 12:21 a. m., third scction, Cos. I, K, L and M, (Detroit and Monroe), lef t a t 12:40 a. m.

I t was a scene to make the patriotic spiiit rise to the highest point. Only two men were loft behind by Col. Gar-dener. One was 11. A. Sweet, of Car-son Citv, member of Co. C. who had a hemorrhage while out dril l ing and he has been sent to Detroit for hospital treatment. The other secured a leave of absoQCo, as h is mother refused to al-fc)W him to go. Doth wil l probably re ccive their discharges.

Tho companies of the Sccond Indepen-dent battalion (Detroit Light Guard), tha t were attached to the Gist rcgi-aucnt have had their le t ter changed. Co. A will now be known as I, Co. 1J as K, Co. P as L, nnd Co. 0 , of Monroe, as M. They were mustered in as fol-lows: Co. I, (Detroit), Cant. Duncan Henderson; Co. K (Detroit), Capt. W. II. Sink; Co. L (Detroit),' Capt. Chas. S. Darter ; Co. M (Monroe). Capt. John M Gutanan.

001. Gardener has appointed the fol-lowing non-commissioned oflicers of tho Slst: Hospital stewarts, Allen Mc Lcau, of Detroit; Grin 11. Predlarid of Mason, and W. U, Palmer, of Ann Arbor; sergeant-major, Sanford Hunt of Jackson; Quartermaster sergeant Ilobcvt L. Scott, of Jackson. Col. Gar dener has appointed Lieut. Fred A Abel, of the old Fourth, ad ju tan t of the ncvl' 31st. The colonel's choice for the place was Sergt.-Maj. Dugger, of tho ttth infantry, and the lat ter re ported f i r duty, but Gov. Pin^ree in-sisted on Abel's appointment in obedi-J enco to the wishes of members of the old rou r th regimenf.

Grand Conurll K. of 1'. The 25th annual convention of the

Michigan grand council Knights of Pythias opened a t Port Huron with over 800 delegates in at tendance, he-hides nearly 200 visiting members of the. order. The grand chancellor's re-port showed the K. of 1'. in a very flourishing condition, the past year having been the most prosperous for a deoado The treasury of the grand lodge shows an increased cash balance on habd. The election of officers re-sulted: Past grand chancellor, Daniel f McMullen, of Cheboygan; grand ehanoollor, Chas. H. Fisk, of Detroit; vice grand chancellor, A. W. Dennett, of Dig Rapids; grand keeper of records and seals, Miles S. Curtis, of Battle Orcekj grand master of the exchequer, J . B. Thorn , of Hudson. The next convention will be held at Grand Rapids

Tho Knights of Khorassan held high, revel, giving an unique street parade and in i t ia t ing a class of 40 members.

The Rathbone Sisters held their con-' vention simultaneously with the

K. of P. and elected the following offi-cers: Grand chief, Fanny E. Tompkins, of Slurgis; grand senior, Mrs. Hall, of Hudson; grand junior, Lydia M. Peat, of Ithaca; grand mistress of records and seals, Adelaide Kern, of West Brandt; g rand mistress of finance,

Th« .'IS<I Mlrlilffan Volunteer* Ready, Col. McGurrin, of the 32d Michigan

Volunteer infantry, notified tho war department that his command was ready to move as soon as orders arrived

The staff and field officers and cap-tains of tho 32d Michigan Volunteers arc as follows:

Colonel, Wm. T. McGurrin, Grand Rapids; lieutenant - colonel, John J . Vos, Grand Rapids; majors, Thomas H. Reynolds, Detroit, Pcrlcy L. Abbcv, Kalamazoo and Wm. B. Kalmbach, Grand Rapids; adju tant , W. G. Hardy, Grand Rapids; quartermaster, W. 8. Kinney, Grand Rapids; chaplain. Rev. Francis Kelly. Lapeer; major and sur-geon, L, 1). Knowles, Three Rivers; assistant surgeons, J . L. Burkhart , Grand Radids, rank of coptain, aud John L. Chipman, Detroit, rank of l ieutenant: sergeant major. Earl Stew-art. -Grand Rapids; quartermaster ser-geant, .las. M. Campbell. Grand Rapids; chief musician. F. Millard. Grand Rap-ids; principal musicians, M. M. Marrin and Fred Idema. Grand Rapids; hos-pital stewards, i". Kipp and George J . Swectlnnd, Grand Rapids, and W. D. Hawloy, Cohlwater.

Co. A, Cohlwater, Capt. Frank D. Newberry; Co. B, Grand Rapids, Capt. Fred W. Morrison: Co. C, Kalamazoo, Capt. J . B. Westnedgc; Co. D, Battle Creek, Capt. Wm. M. Hatch; Co. E, Grand Rapids, Capt, J . L. Boer; Co. F, Grand Haven. Capt. Edward H. Andres; Co. G, Grand Rapids, Capt. E. Berkey Jones; Co. II. Grand Rapids. Capt L. C. Covell; Co. I, Detroit, Capt L. F. Hart; Co. K, Detroitj Capt. J . Edw. Dupont; Co. L, Detroit, Capt. II. B. Lothrop; Co. M, Detroit, Capt. J . Considine, J r .

Fortifications Reduced bythe Amer-ican Warships.

THE SPANISH FLEET ARRIVES.

Only Iteqnlreil a Few Itoiintla from the

United State Fleet to I'laoo tlio City

in a DefoneeleM Condition— Small

DamaKO to Kamiwon'H Fleet,

Two Prominent Lapeer Men KltletL Capt. II. K. White end Phincas

White, brothcra, were killed by an cast ound Chicago & Grand Trunk ex-press a t Lapeer. Tho bodies are both badly mangled. H. K. White was president of the Firs t National bank, and Pldncas White was one of the trustees. Both of the unfortunate men were pioneers'and prominent in busi-ness circles. They were on their way home to dinner in a buggy. The horse was killed and the buggy smashed.

This makes the third fatal accident a t the same crossing. A creamery on one side and a high embankment on the other make it almost impossible to see the track.

War Ne\v« From Camp F.nlon. There are sore hear ts in the Third

regiment. Of the line officers. Firs t Lieut. W. T. Harms, of Co. E (Saginaw); F i rs t Lieut. Louis G. Hcycr and Second Lieut. Zcnas II. Ross, of Co. G (Owosso), failed to pass, while Co. A (Flint), lost 33 out of 05 men.

There is wailing and gnashing of teeth in the old Fif th regiment. Eight of Col. Peterman's captains went be-fore the examining board and six were rejected. They are Falardeau, of Big Rapids; Whitney, of Muskegon; Cudlip, of Iron Mountain; Millar, of Houghton; Supc, of Sault Ste. Marie, and Bates, of Ironton. Only Hodskin, of Manis-tee, nnd Fliege, of Calumet passed. Col. Pcterman is heartbroken, and will probably insist on having the men ex-amined a sccond time. The methods of the board are openly denounced by some of the rejected.

MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The heaviest crop of frui t ever known along the lake shore in Berrien county is now assured.

A bill was passed by the Senate au-thorizing the establishment of a life saving station at Charlevoix.

The farm house of A. A. Peck, of Emmett township, Calhoun county, burned with contents. Loss 82.000.

Frank II. Winston shot and killed himself a t his home a t Bay City. He had had sonje trouble wi th his wife, and first tried to shoot her.

The residence of J . Arnold, six miles northwest of Clare, was destroyed by fire with most of the contents. The family was away from home a t the time.

Chas. Golling, of Alpena, frrand mas-ter workman, A. 0. U. W.,of Michigan, states t h a t tho families of all members of tho order who enlist will be pro* teoted to tho extent of their policies.

One of the big dry klins of the Lud-ington. Wells & Van Schaick Co.'s lumber plant a t Menominee, which was filled wi th h igh grade lumber, burned, entail ing a loss of about 83,000.

Gov. Pingree has definitely decided to l)egin numbering Michigan regi-ments a t 31, where the numbers ended dur ing the la te civil war. CoL Gar-dener's will be the 3l8t, Col. McGurrin's the 32d, Col. Boynton's the 33rd, and Col. Peterman's t h e 34th.

The U. of M. calendar for '07-8 states that college work will begin two weeks earlier next fall and close correspond-inglj- earlier. The total enrollment is 3,223—the largest to date. Michigan leads with 1,808 students. Of the de-

Port An Prince, Haiti: The American dcet, under Rear Admiral Sampson, be-iran the bompardmcnt of San Juan dc l 'orto Rico a t daylight with nine war-ships. Tho bat t leship Iowa fired the first shot which took effect. Then the battleship Indiana opened fire; in a few minutes Morro for t was reduced to a heap of ruins. The fort made li t t le effort to respond and was silenccd al-most immediately.

The Iowa. Indiana. New York, Ter-ror, Amphritri te and Detroit had .steamed in before the Spanish for ts and opened lire. Twenty or thir ty guns replied. The fleet's first round was aimed too low and did little damage. In the second, however Sampson's ships got the proper elevation for their guns. This round silenced Morro for t and fired the town. The Spaniards in the fortifications were driven from their guns repeatedly before the works were finally reduced. The fire from the De-troit was excellent a t all times and though she went closer to the forts than the other ships, not a shot hi t bur. During the bombardment the torpedo boat Porter, which had been on a scouting tr ip af ter tho Spanish Capo Verde fleet, arrived and daringly steamed in close to the forts and poured in a terrible lire.

Admiral Sampson" then directed tho attention of the ships to the land batteries. Soon the postofilce and governor's palace wore demolished and the guns in the for ts dismounted, nnd fire from tho small guns made it so hot t h a t the Spaniards were forced to run or keep under cover. Gov.-Gen. Maoris ami his danghter Paulina refused to desert tho city until the ruin was al-most complete.

The forts fired hundreds of shots b u t only hit the New York once. That killed Seaman Frank Widemark, broke the leg of Samuel Fcl tmanand slightly injured three other seamen. The bat-tleship Iowa was hit onco and Marine M. (!. Mcrklc, Seamen R. C. Hill and John Mitchell wore slightly wounded. These were the only casualties on the ships of the American fleet.

The bombardment reduced the forti-fications in three hours. Reports say that the bombardment created fear fu l havoc in the city. Many Spaniards were killed and wounded.

The Spanish steamer Rita was cap-tured by the U. S. auxiliary cruiser Yale,-which took her crew on board. Thou-sands of the population and the foreign consuls sought refuge in the interior of the island.

Admiral Sampson sent word in ad-vance tha t he intended to bombard the fortifications, in order to give the men, women and non-combatants time to get away.

San Juan Capitulated. Washington: President McKinley re-

ceived a dispatch from Haiti, announc-ing the complete capitulation of the city and forts of San Juan de Porto Rico. Gov. Macris pulling down the Spanish flag himself. I t is said t h a t terrible damage was done to the town by the guns of the American fleet, and t h a t the loss of life on the Spanish side was very largo.

Clara Merrill, of Uhaca. , partmcnts the l i terary comes first with leal \ 1,332; Iho law has 705. medical 437, Capt. Edward M. Klein, a West

teflfhlcr, and Lieut. John M. Paine, both of Detroit, have rccuited a troop of cavalry a t Detroit for the Second rrtdaient UlinoLs Cavalry. The troop m i l proceed to Springfield, 111., and jbtn Sic rest of the regiment of volun-toera !n opmmand of John A. Logan, and i t is expected t h a t the entire regi-ment will move to the f ront almost im-mediately.

Sta te Labor Commissioner Cox ca au-to camp to take home his 18-year-old son, who has enlisted in the Second regiment, but the boy refused to resign.

Clipl. Fred M. Hodskin, Co. B (Man-istee), F i f th M. N. G., has been ap-pomied major to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Maj. Edward F. Douglass, of Houghton. On account of the expense involved no fur ther at-tempts will be made to bring recruits from the upper peninsula, and the Fif th will be filled out by assignments of volunteers.

dental 223. Capt. Vernon, formerly army inspect-

ing officer of the M. N. G., opened a rccruiting office a t Grand Rapids. He desires 750 men to fill out the comple-ment of the Nineteenth U. S. infantry, stationed at Mobile. Alu. Lieut. Win-ston. of the same regiment, is a t Sagi-nnw. Ba" City. Lansing and Kalama-zoo will be called upon.

The state of Michigan has Si50.000 of war bonds to v.*il. and already citizens have sent in applications aggregating 8150,000. These range from 8150,000 down to 8100. The small bidders are being accommodated, but the big fel-lows will have to wait, i t being the purpose to make the distribution as popular as possible. The bonds will not be ready for delivery before June 1.

Four large fishing firms which lef t St. Joseph two months ago and went to Michigan City. Ind.. on account of the str ingent Michigan fish laws, have returned on account of the scarcity of fish in those waters.

Dewey'M LatOHt Capture. Dispatches f rom Manila, via Hong

Kong, say the Spanish gunboat Callao steamed into the bay from the southern islands of the Philippine archipelago. Her commander, Lieut. Francisco Pou, did not know t h a t war had been de-clared and had heard nothing on his way up al)out the batt le of Manila. He steamed straight for Cavite, expect-ing to find the Spanish fleet anchored there. He arrived off Cavite a t 7 in the morning wi th the Spanish flag fly-ing and signals for the admiral up, Dewey's flagship the Olympia opened fire. The Spanish commander supposed the shots were for target practice and turned to get out of range, but con-tinued on. The Boston and Raleigh joined the Olympia, and shots were throwing spray on the Spaniard's deck, when her commander began to realize tha t it was no joke and pulled down his flag and hove to with a white flag on his foremast and the Raleigh steamed out to intercept him and the situation was explained to him. Then he surrendered peacefully and the Cal-lao was brought to an anchorage near tho flagship.

She was an iron gunboat of 208 tons, quipped with four modern guns and

carrying a crew of 35. The ship was sptoU nnd span for the admiral 's in-spection oil Arrival. The American flag was promptly hoisted on the Callao, and she was added to Admiral Dewey's fleet.

S P A I N ' S F L E E T A R R I V E S .

Tho Cape Verde Hqnadron Reported off « tlie Inland of Martlnlqae.

St. Pierre, Martinique, via Hayti : The Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Furor arrived at this point late a t night, but immediately put to sea. Her arrival caused great excitement. The next afternoon the Spanish destroyer Terror nVrivod. As this dispatch is sent five Spanish war vessels are in sight, bound northward, apparently in the direction of Cuba. St. Pierre is 400 miles from Porto Rico.

Madrid: Admiral Bormojo has ad-mitted that the Cape Verde .squadron was a t Fort do France. The govern-ment has received Information that Admiral Cervera's voyage to Martin-ique was uneventful. The route to be taken to Porto Rico is not known here, bu t it was embodied in Admiral Cer-vera's secret instructions. lie was in-structed to coal at a neutral port, and probably selected Fort de France for tha t purpose.

The fleet that left Cape Verde con-sisted of the first-class cruisers Viz-oaya, Almirante Oqucndo, In fan ta Maria Teresa and Cristobal Colon and three torpedo boat destroyers—Terror, Furor and I'luton. The distance from Capo Verdo to Porto Rico is approx-imately 2.480 'niles, and, according to the above dispatches, tlie squadron pro-ceeded across the Atlantic a t the ra te of about 14 knots an hour.

Martinique is one of the French West India islands, of which For t do Franco is the capital and St. Pierre the prinoipal town. The la t ter is on the northwest coast of the island.

There was much rpsentuient aroused against France when it became known tha t tho French olllcers a t St. Pierre had delayed for 24 hours an official telegram from the U. S. consul to Washington notifying the government of the arrival of the fleet. There was a bettor feeling later, however, when the French authorities granted the U. S. cruiser Harvard seven days in harbor at iMurtinique while making re-pairs, as there were Spanish vessels wait ing outside to capture the Har-vard, which under ordinary circum-stances could not remain in a neutral harbor over 24 hours. Spain made a protest, bu t to no avail, and then the fast Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror entered the harbor under an ex-cuse of being in need of repairs. I t was believed that she was merely watching the Harvard and the French officers notified the Terror tha t if the Harvard left first the Terror could not leave for 24 hours thereafter. This in-sured the softy of the Harvard if there were no other Spanish warships about as she 5.s very fast.

By the time the news of the presence of the Spanish fioot at Martinique had been published iu the United States the fleet had again sailed and was next heard from off the island of Curacao, off Venczula. This information was regarded ns of vital importance at WnChington,as it not only fixed the posi-tion of the enemy, but disclosed tho purpose of the. Spanish admiral to elude Admiral Sampson's fleet and make his way through the Caribbean sea, probably to Cuba. The Spanish admiral's course was influenced by the fact that tho French cable.starting from Curaco, Venczula, touches a t the island of Curacao, then proceeds northward through the Caribbean to Haiti, with spurs runn ie r pJist and vrost to Porto Rico nnd Cuba respectively. He is thus enabled to get in touch from Curacao with the Spanish authorities in Cuba nnd Porto Rico, and through them directly with the Spanish admi-ralty at Madrid.

The island of Curacao was originally Spanish and is peopled mainly by de-scendants of Spaniards, though it is now one of the Dutch possessions.

Reports from Willemsted, Curacap, states that af ter taking a small quan-t i ty of coal, provisions and medicines the Spanish fleet sailed, the destination being unknown, of course. Their de-par ture was due to the Holland gov-ernment's requesting them to leave as provided in the decree of neutrality.

11 The Fortifications at Those Cuban

Ports Shelled.

WINSLOW'S . DEAD AVENGED.

The Wilmington Did Terrible Ksecntlon —Cable Cut, Datterlen Sllenocd and Fart of the Town of Clenfnesoa Burned—Heavy 8panlnh Louei,

Naval Rattle at Clenfaei;oR, Tho U. S. warships Nashville, Mar-

blehead,Montgomery and Windom were sent to Cienfuegoa to cut the Spanish cable there. As tho cruisers ap-proached the bay. the new fort a t the entrance opened firo. The Windom re-plied and soon the fortifications were a mass of ruins. The Nashville and Marblehead, meantinic, had endeavored to draw the lire of the masked batter-ies. The Spaniards refused to un-mask. however, and under cover of cannonading the Nashville and Mar-blehead launched their bouts nnd the crews pulled into shore where the cable landed, cut the cable and started back. Then the masked batteries on either side of the harbor opened a mer-ciless flro of shrapnel. Tho boats were riddled and the occupants thrown struggling in the water. This was quickly atoned for. The guns of the Nashville and the Marblehead rained shot and shell on the masked batteries. Every shot went t rue and earthworks, guns aud Spaniards were seen flying in the air, a s each shell burst . Tho Marblehead lowered boats and picked up the men struggling in the water. Six of them were wounded. Two bod-ies were also rooovered.

The ships then bombarded the city aud created fear fu l havoc. Capt. May-nard, of the Nashville, barely escaped a solid shot, but the missile glanced and inflicted only a slight wound. Eight Americans were wounded iu the engagement, two of whom died. The Cicnfuogos lighthouse was destroyed, one fort was leveled, the arsenal was blown up, and the town set ou fire. The Spanish loss was over 400.

F I V E A M E R I C A N S K I L L E D .

Flying Squadron Hall* for Cuba. The news of the presence of the

Spanish fleet in West Indies waters caused Secretary of the Navy Long to order the flying squadron under Com-mander Schley, a t Hampton Roads, Va., to sail at once. As soon as possi-ble five vessels, led by the flagship Brooklyn, steamed out of Hampton Roads and took a southerly course, going, i t fc said, to augment Admiral Sampson's fleet. The veswds which sailed were the Brooklyn, the battle-ships Massachusetts and Texas, dis-patch boat Scorpion and collier Ster-ling. A few hours later the cruiser Minneapolis pulled out a t full steam to overtake the squadron, and was soon followed by the cruisers St. Paul (Capt. Sigsbce) and New Orleans.

The four vessels of war comprising the major portion of the flying squad-ron under Commodore Schlcy, anchored off Charleston, S. C., for ornors having been a t sea two days and with no sign of Spanish cruisers or torpedo boats said to have boen in t h a t locality. Or-ders were roceived to proceed to Key West and the squadron again sailed southward.

Blanco i- til n ' l n v about li:;v...... .. J miios nut.

The second .Sinn^i fleet now at Cadiz oiK.is' • o : Sxit'e-ihip Polayo, the armored cruis. .• Umperador Carlos V,, the cruiser Alfonso AIIL, tho Rapido and the I'atria. auxiliary cruisers, formerly the Hamburg-American line steamers Columbia and Normannia, and three torpedo boats. I t is reported tha t a s t rong military expedition is be-ing organized a t Cadi/, and tha t it will shortly proceed to the Philippine is-lands.<escorted by the Cadiz fleet.

A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch re-ports a batt le between the Spaniards ami insurgents in Cuba in which nearly U00 Spaniards were killed.

in as in the roftds I T h ; fir-' " " day in Catnn Eaton saw Al 4...> •nii/kTAir t hi* I if IV s £00,000 distributed among the boys.

Under the naval bonnty law the men of the fleet under Admiral Dewey will be entitled to about .M 87,000 fo r the destruction of the Spanish fleet a t Ma-nila. This will be divided about as follows: Olympia. 845.000: Baltimore, 840,000; Boston. 825,000: Raleigh, 822,-000; Concord, 820,000; Petrel, 812.000; McCulloch, S!t,000. To the commander of each single vessel there will go one-teuth of the amount assigned to be dis-tr ibuted to tha t vessel and the remain-der is distributed among tho other offi-cers and men iu proportion to their rat-es of pay on the day upon which the engagement wuh fough t

Hot FlRlit n t CardenaH, Ciitiu, In Which W c Suffered O n r F i r s t I-onn

An engagement in which the first Americans victims of the war fell took place inside the harbor at Cardenas, about 75 miles east of Havana. The U. S. gunboats Wilmington and Hud-son and the torpedo boat Winslow, en-tered the harbor for the purpose of rcconnoitering to determine the posi-tion of marked batteries known to have been recently constructed and to sink throe Spanish gunbotits which had attacked the Winslow a few days he-fore. The Spaniards permitted the Winslow to get within 700 yards of the shore and the gunboats within 2,500 years before firing. The land batteries of Cardenas supported the fire of the Spanish gunboats, and there waa a very hot engagement for nearly two hours. Many of the American shells dropped in the city nnd a number of buildings burned. Tho Spanish gun-boat Lopez was sunk and the Lijeria burned. Shots from tho shore bat-teries fell all around the American ships, and one shell burs t directly over tho Winslow, af ter she had been disabled by a shot which went through her boilers. The Winslow was appar-ently the ccnter of the Spaniards' fire and had it not been for the courageous work of the Hudson in rushing into the thickest of the fire and towing hoc Out of range the torpedo boat would have been sunk. As i t was t h e Wins-low was badly riddled a id five of her crew killed. The dead: Knsign Worth Baglcy; John Varvoris, oi 'er; Elijah B. Tunnett , cabin cook; Ueorge B. Meeks, fireman, and John Denfee, fireman.

The American vessels drew off a f t e r the disaster to the Winslow. Five men were quite badly injured besides tho killed. They were taken to Key West by the Hudson.

Th< Wlnalow and Her Dead Avenged.

The gunboat Wilmington returned to Cardenas and terribly' avenged the de-struction of the torpedo boat Winslow and the killing of five Americans, by at tacking the masked batteries of the Spaniards. I n 55 minutes t h e batteries were silenccd and a portion of the town burned and when a landing party ex-plored the shore the mangled bodies of nearly 120 Spaniards were found, and i t is thought tha t a t least 300 were killed in the town. All the damage the Spaniards infilcted upon the Wil-mington in return was to make two slight dents in her side. The l ight-house and the signal station on Diana Cay were destroyed, the station being burned by a landing party from t h e Machias. The Wilmington entered the harbor of Cardenas and steamed to and f ro slowly, and fired shot into t h e town as fast us the men could handle the guns. Every time she turned she let the Spaniards have an entire broad-side. Many of tho Wilmington's shells went over the land defenses and ripped their way into the town. Fires started in many parts of the city and for half the night the flames reddened the sky. The men of tho Wilmington examined the "entrance lo Cardenas harbor for evidence of sunken mines, but found that the only sabmarino defemes were two schooners sunk in tho channel.

SUPPLIES AND TROOPS*

Sent to Help Admiral Bstabllth • Oov emment In the Philippine*.

Troops and supplies will bo Bent a t once to assist acting Rear Admiral Dewey in holding tho Phil ippines Tho volunteers to be sent will include two regiments of infantry and two batteries of heavy art i l lery from California, one regiment of infantry from Oregon, one from Washington, and one battalion of infantry and Senator Shoup's troop of riflemen from Idaho. From Wyoming, one battalion of infantry; Colorado, one regiment; Kansas, one regiment; Montana, one regiment; Nebraska, one regiment; Utah, two light batteries and one troop of cavalry; North Dakota, two battalions of infantry; Idaho two battalions. In addition t«y those volunteers the war department has about 5,000 available regulars on the coast which will also be scut. The Cal-ifornia naval militia is anxious to go and will probably be accepted.

Tho navy department hurried to-gether an exceptionally large stock of ammunition to go forward torcpien-ish tho ammunition of Dewey's fleet. The quartermaster general of Califor-nia promptly engaged the necessary transports for 10,000 men and the sup-plies, all the splendid fast vessels of tho Panama and Pacific mail ship lines having boon placed a t the disposal of the United States.

The cruiser Charleston has a crew of 287 men and can accommodate the ma-rines which are to be sent to reinforce Dewey's naval force. Orders were given for the Charleston nt Marc island . to rush her stores and provisions on board and have her ready to proceed to Manila as a convoy for the transports.

Later.—The Charleston sailed from San Francisco ahead of the transports, bu t as the lat ter are the faster they will overtake the cruiser. The Charles-ton will carry supplies of provisions and at least 150 tons of ammunition, including 500 rounds of 8-inch shells for the big guns of the Olympia. 20,000 6-ineh and 10,000 5-inch shells for the rifles of smaller cruisers, and an enor-mous quanti ty of powder, estimated a t 170,000 pounds.

The President has appointed Gen. Wesley Merritt of the regular army lo the command of the volunteers from the Pacific coast. Gen. Merritt will rank as brigadier-general and will lead the invasion of tho infantry upon the Philippines. He will be proclaimed gov-ernor-general of the Philippines and as soon as possible wil l establish his posi-tion as such a t the capital a t Manilla.

Tho First Troop* Sent to Calm. The lisst U. S. regulars to land on

Cuban soil sailed from Tampa, Flo., on the steamer Gussie. They were Cos. E and G of the First infantry, Maj,-Gcn. Shaftcr 's old regiment. Dr. F. Gaudy of the First, two hospital stew-ards and four hospital attendants. A small party of Cuban veterans went along. The expedition was in charge of Capt. Dorst, who bad just returned from a conference with Gen, Gomez. The Gussie carried arms, ammunition and supplies for Gen. Gomez's army; four field guns, wi th cartridges, 10,000 Springfloid rifles, cartridges, powder, etc., 30 days' rations for the U, S. reg-ulars, some medicine stores and sup-plies and 80 pack mules and trappings. Dr. Gaudy and his hospital staff arc to be conducted to Gen. Gomez. The Cu-ban veterans will handle the pack train nnd the necessary guard is to be furnished by the insurgents a t tho landing place.

I.nndlnR of Troop* lu Cnha Delayed. Washington: A complete change h^s

taken place in the offensive plans o l the government. The presence of . the Spanish fleet in the vicinity of Cuba has caused a delay in the departure of the army of Cuban invasion until Ad-miral Sampson and and Commander Schley have met and crushed the Span-ish fleet or driven i t from West Indian waters.

Revolutionary outbreaks and bread riots in Spain have caused eigiht prov-inces besides Madrid to be placed under martial law,

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A dispatch from Kingston. Jamaica, says that in anticipation of an invasion the Spanish troops have been concen-trated in the larger seaports of Cuba, mostly a t Havana, and have abandoned the interior to the insurgents, a f t e r burning many towns and country places.

lion. Teddy Roosevelt has formally resigned the assistant secretaryship of of the navy and goes to San Antonio, Tex., to serve as lieutenant-colonel of the cowboy, rough-riding cavalry regi-ment recruited on the western plains by Col. Wood.

Admiral Sampson'* Fleet. After reducing the fortifications a l

San Juan, Porto Rico, Admiral Samp-son le f t one ship there and t h e res t sailed westward and were next reported from Puerto Plata, a small town on the north coast of San Domingo, 250 miles f rom San Juan and 760 from Havana.

I n consequence of the publication of important naval movements an order has been issued by Secretary Long di-recting tha t all matters concerning naval movements be withheld from the press except such as he himself may nee fit to announce.

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Thing. Many extraordinary canes of the work

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House hunt ing is not reckoned by the average man as pastime.

Wearing Christ's voke docs not moke a man round-shouulered.

AN ANCIENT CUSTOM. PTOm Ropubllcun Traveler, Arkansas CUT,Kan.

Pilgrimages to soma shrfna ot St. Vitus, to oar* the diieas* known as B t Vitus* dauca ar* no longer mad*, Tho modern way of treating this aflUctioa is within each of avery household, as is showa by h* «xporianc* of Kurl A, Wagner, the

j dovea-yoarold son of Georg* Wagner, of I U6 9th St., Arkansas City, Kan, Tho (other talis the story as follows:

"Over a year ago," he says, "Karl was taken with Bt. Vitus' dance and continued to grow worse during flv* months h* was inder a physician's car*. His tongu* be-

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"1 boucht a box of them at once and soon n o t i o e d u c h a n g e for th* belter lu Karl's c o n-ui ion. 1 won , sa wo 1 pleas-/ ad t h u t bought mora of tuoiu, a n d when ho hud

; t a k o n five ' b o x e s t h * j diseate dis-| appeared. i "That was 1 six m o a t h a A Uopelm fnvaJtd. atio aud there "hjis boen no return of tho di»saM. The cure wai effectual and per-manent, and I feel satisfied that no other madiciue coiild h.wo produced so marvel-ous a rasult. We feel rejoiced over the rertoratlon ot .our s <n, aa.l ennnot be p but f**l that Or. Willlnms' Pink Fills for Pal* People are tho most remarkabl* medi-cine on to* markot."

No(liBoov*ry of modern times haa proved snch a bleastarto mankind as Dr. Williams' Pink PiUs for Pal* PeopI*. Acting dii*ot-ly on th* blood and nerves, invigorating tn* body, ragulating th* funetlons, they re-stor* th* strMgih ond health in tb* ex-

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These pills ar* sold in boxes at 60 cents a box or s.x'b0x*s for li.50, and may be had of all druggl ta, or dl'act bv mail from Dr. Williams* £*dicin* Co., Bcheueclady, N.Y.

| A msa novor tries to convince you tha t ho Is perfectly sober unless ho Is partially drunk.

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S^pvume Court Sustains the Foot-Ease ' TrHde-mark.

Just ice T.aughlln, In Supreme Court, Buf-falo, N. Y.. h a s j u s t o r ii-nied a p e r m a n e n t lu-Juuctlon, with cost-., an.I a lull account ing of saies. to issue aK<>inst Pau l HnUson, the m a u u t a c i u r c r of the loot powder called "Dr. Clark 's Knot Powder ." and also ag.iiust a re ta i l dc 1 r of Hro-iklyn. r c s t r a iu lug thi-m f rom making or aelh.ig the Dr. Uarlc s Foot Powder , wuicu is declared. In the de-cision of ihe Court , an I m l u t l o n and In-tnnKemeni of "F-wt-Kase," the powder for t ired, aching teet to ^h.ike Into ^ our shoes, now so largely advertise.! aud sold al l over the country. Allen Oliustcu. of Leltoy, N. Y.. Is the owner of the t r ade -mark "Fool-Kase," and he is the n r - l i n d u l d u a l who ever advertlxi d a foot po.vdcr exlen. lvely over the couiitry, l ie will send a sample FlitClC. to anyone who writes him for I t The decision in th is case upholds his t r ade -mark and renders ail p a n i c s l iable wl.o f r auduen t ly a t t empt to prottl by the ex-tensive "Foot -Ease n advert ising, in p.aclnK upon the m a r k e t a spui ious and s imilar ap-pear ing p repara t ion , lab led and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot-Kase. Sim-i la r sui ts will be b rough t aKalu-* o the rs who a r e now I n f r l n c m g on t ae Foot-Ease t r a d e - m a r k aud common law r ights .

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. t in the courts our right to the

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J, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannls, Massa-chusetts, was tho originator of "PITCHER'S CASTOR1A," the same that has borne and does now bfar tho fac-slmlle signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This Is the original "PITCHER S CASTORIA" which has been used In the homes o( he mothers of America for over thirty years. Look carefully at the wrapper and see that it la "tho kind you hove always bought," and haa the signature of CHAS. H, FLETCHER on tho Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name ex-cept Tho Centaur Company, of which Chas H. Fletcher la Prosldoni.

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A FRIEND'S ADViCE. And what it led to.

It Is net • ee«»oa occarence that a friendly word ahoald be the means of giv-ing nearly lorty yeara of happiness and health to the aersoa heeding the advice it carried. This was the case with Mary Liagard. At twesty-Ave aha was dragging oat her days la misery. At sixty-one she finds herself se active and atrong she can do work that would shame many a younger womaa, and looks back on thirty-six happy, healthful yeara of industry. But let her tell her story:

Thir ty .six years eg* t had great trouble with my liver. The doctors allowed that there were tamers growing on it, and thrv blistered my side in aa effort to g.te me relief. 1 was at that time esrni.is » y living as a tailoress, bat lor five years, between the pain in my side and the blistere I was in constant misery, and work was a drag to me, with no prospect of relief; fortunately for me, however, a friend advised me to take Dr. Ayer's Sar-saparilla, and finally persuaded tne to take a regular course of it. When I first com-menced taking the Sarsaparilla mv aide was so psinfnl that I could not fasten my dress, and for a time I did not get any reliel, but my friend advised me to per-severe and relief was sure to comc, and come it did. This happened, as I say, thirty-six yesrs ago. My liver has never troubled rae since, and during these years I have passed throuch the most critical Seriod of a woman's life without anv per

cular trouble, and to-day, at sixty-one years of age. I am active and strong and able iv uu a day'> wvik iuul would upset

many a yeanger womaa. Ever aiace my recovery I have taken a couple ef bottles of Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla each spring, airl am qaite satisfied that 1 owe my gool healtn to this treatment. I give this testl. monlal purely la the hepe that it may meet the eye of aome poor sufferer,"— Maav Linoaro. Woodstock, Ont.

Dr. Ayer's Saraaparilla has wen its way to every corner of the world by the praise ef ita friends; these who have tried it and who know they were cured by the use of the remedy. There is nothing so strong as this personal testimony. It throws all theories aud fancies to the winds si:d siuudk solitlly upon the icck oi expeu-cuce challcujriiij; every skeptic with a positive "J Ajer's Sarsavarillr with Us purii>iug and vitalizing action oM the blood ia a radical remedy lor every form of disease that begins in tainted or impure blood. Hence tumors, sores, ulcers, bolls, eruptions and similar dis-eases yield promptly to this medicine. Some cases are more stubborn than others, but persistence with Dr. Ayer's Sarsspa-rl l la usually results in s complete cure. Mary Lingard began with a bottle, and went on to a course oi Dr. Ayer's Sarsapa-rilla. When she was cured she realired tl-at a medicine tha t could cure disease could also prevent it. So she took a couple of bott les each spr ing and kept in pcr iect heal th . There are thousand!, ol s imilar cases on record. Some of these are

Eathered into Dr. Ayer 's Curchook. a little ook ot ico pages which is scat free by the

J . C. Aycr Co., Lowell, Ma-s. Write for i t .

FLYING SQUADRON. WONDERFUL FLEET UNDER

COMMODORE SCHLEY.

Could Give nettle to Any Eamp*an Na-tion nnd Come Out with Colors Fly-ing—Two Uuudred and Forty Four Guns la All.

The function to be performed by Commodore Schley nnd hla flying squatlrou at Hampton Roads in the naval campaign to be wiged by Undo bam against Si ain ns pl.iiin -d by the strategic board of the navy depart-ment at Washington la a very Impor-tant one. Tiie commodore has at his command the cream of Americ fighting shirs, 8a;.8 tho Philadelph* i Times of May 7. \V:tli them he could at short notice strike a blow at any ; of Spain's Atlantic possessiono which would be paralyzing in its force. HP could as well concontrate his Host (»t any point alorr; tho Atlantic coast that might be threatened by Spanish bom-bardment and Inv.ision. He could If necessary hurry to the aaslstance of Admiral Sampson before Havana aud reinforce 'he blockading squadron be-fore any attack could be made upon It by any considerable Spanish fleet. Ho in short, occupies with his ships tho central position In the Atlantic field of action and is bound to be called upon to engage In the first battlo of Importancf that Is fought here. On htm, therefore, the attention of the American people will be centered. His action will Indicate more truly than any other symptoms tho approach of a crisis.

In his present position ho stands really as the defender of the Atlantic coast line. His two scout ships, the Minneapolis and the Columbia, have been engaged off New England In pat-rolling the couree of the Paris. They have not lost sight of their primal duty In this particular assignment. Had the Paris not been expected to ar-rive fhey would still have snent the past week enfaeei1 in some such work. They wl'l continue In the next fort-night unless some more active duly presents on tbe s^me line and will sound the warn'ng to their fellows In

moat formidable of any six vessels in the American navy. The Brooklyn stands flrat in tho list of American vessols, carrying twenty guns in her main batter'.es alone, whllo the Mossa-chusotts follows closely on her heels. Even tho Minneapolis and the Colum-bia have eleven guns In their main batteries and compare very favorably with th- other flrst-claes American ships. * Katahdln, of course, is not mea ' " ' - ' . In strength by her arma-mei. rihe is still acknowledged to be ono of the moat terrible engines of de-struction which modern naval con-struction hrs evolved. Her turtle bia-k mm could do a marvelous work in a battle where the larger ships would he powerless. She completes a mo?t rrmarknhle squad.

Outside of a battle in the vicinity of Havana Iho squndron does not. look for any severe actions in the near fu-tiiro. A bombardment of any of the ncr'.harn ports would be attempted if r.t vll by a com pa rati vol y small num-ber of Sppnir.h fhlpe. The approach of the Am-rican fleet wruld doubtless drive t' em cfT in speedy retreat.

Tlie possibility of an attack on Span-Ifs possessions Is the only other likely. Porto Rico might become the object of atttack and attention might even be distracted to the Canaries. Neither seems to be more than remotely pos-sible. This work will devolve, should It bo decided upon, on Schley's fleet, and an attack on Spain Itself would be led by them.

The new squadron under Commo-S doro Howell, which will relieve Schley of the work of defending the coast. Is also a strong fleet. Its duty will be, in addition to defense of the coast, the destruction of Spanish commerce on the high seas. Tho San Francisco and the New Orleans will be the main lighting ships in the squadron, while the Oregon and Topeka will doubtless he added to It when they are home ready for service. The liners—the St. Paul, tho St. Louis, the Harvard and tho Yale—aro four more of Howell's boats, while the Panther, the Badger, the YanV-e. the Dixie, the Yoaemlto nnd the Prairie complete the list.

The uew ships o( this auxiliary fleet are most Interesting. The New Or-leans was the former Brazilian war-

ALASKAN INDIAN V/OMEN.

They Uavo Artlallo Ability Despi te T h e i r

Toi lsome Lives.

The huge, cxpresaionioss face of an Alaska Indian woman shows but little evidence of auy ambition or ability to perform even the simplest features of domestic art, and yet the skillful and artistic reoultii ot the handiwork ot these untutored aborigines is much sought aftor by tho tourists who visit their villages during the summer. Mftreover, though the women are all fat and lazy-looking, their lives are not unlnternipted ease, notwithstand-ing that their needs are few. Abuud-anco of fuel Is nil about them, and fond, which with thorn ia synonymous with fish, swims almost lo their doors. Put tho procuring an well as the pre-paring of this food is all accompllBhed by the women. During the summer they leave tlio villages and towns for tho islands in less frequented waters, where they camp for weeks at a time, catching and curing the fl^h for winter use, while the men laiily watch them or paddle and canoe, or otherwise amuso themselves.

If an Indian's wife Is In ill health or too old to work he marr'es another younger wife, usually a relative of the first one, who is exnected to provide tho food, while the first wife cares for the house and children. Fish and ber-ries furnishing almost the only food of these people, tho women have little scope or ambition for developing culin-ary art, but In matters of personal adornment they take keen delight. Dur-ing the long, dark winter they weave beautiful blankets and baskets for their own use and to sell. The blank-ets are made from the strong rough wool of tho wild mountain sheep. Yet some of these are as soft as silk, and : In beauty of coloring and intricacy of desirn rival the oriental nigs and hangings. It usually takes a woman six months to complete one blanket, but many of them sell for prices rang-ing from $50 to J200. The much-soueht-affer. genuine Chllket blanket is about four fret long and two and one-hnlf feet wide at each end. but as ono s i d e ' s pointed the centor Is a foot wider than tbo ends, and on this sMe is ornamented w'th a 10-lneh fringe. Tl>ooo fi'"" vrr.fr) In tho dincft. thrr>*vn i

OUR BUDGET OP FUN.

SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Flotsam and Jetsam from the Tide ef Jokea—The Itcaaon Why—Giving I t a Trial—Some Pleasant Smile* for Vonng and Old.

Set t ln ' dy t h e F f r e . Never much on stlrrln* roun ' ,

(Slch w a r n ' t h is desire), Allers certain ter bo fouh'

tieilln' by iho lire.

When tho f ros t wuz comln' dowiv— Col" win" creeping' Higher,

Spent each day Jest t ha t away— Sett lu ' by the tire.

When tho dancln ' Hbook tho groniV— liaised the ol' roof higher .

Never swung the gals eroim'— Sot l ha r by the tire.

Same ol" corncr night an ' d a y -Never 'ponred ter l ire;

Not a blessod word to say! Jes t sot by the lire.

When ho died, by slow degrees. Polks nald: " H e ' s gone highe*',"

Bu i i t ' s my opinion he 's Set t in ' by tho lire.

- F . L. Stanton In Chicago T l m c s - H e r -i aid.

i An Artlllclul S t l m u l u i t ,

Invalid—Your climate here in Cactus' ' Gulch ia certainly very invigorating. I understand several people have como

, here for their health. Did they ex-perience very rapid improvement?

| Coyote Sam—Some of 'em did. Thero1

was a chap a good deal like you camo here last fall. When be camo here ho was so feeble that he couldn't walk a rod without his shoulder braces on. But, young man, when that feller went oway from this delightful little city ho ran a couple of miles quicker than any of our liveliest citizens.

Invalid—He did? Why, that's won-derful.

Coyote Sam—Not very, mister. He had to.

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THE FLYING SQUADRON AND ITS COMMANDERS.

the Chesapeake of the approach of any-Spanish force upon any portion of the American coast.

Meanwhile the four big fighting en-gines, the Brooklyn, tho Texas, the Massachusetts, and the Katahdln, have nothing to do hut wait develop-ments. This condition will continue until the new fleet being organized for flommodore Howell is ready to relieve the fiying squadron of tho task of coast defense. Commodore Howell is ready to relieve the flying squadron will never be withdrawn a consider-able distance. Their operation may Include eorne work at Havaaa, but as long as there is the possibility of a Spanish attack they will l e t crow the Atlantic to engage in eay aggressive campaign.

Tlie action of the Spanish forces will uadoubtedly depend en the state of Blanco in Havana. Spain will certain-ly not abandon Cuba withsnt a severe straggle. Her only chance of holding it i i to defeat the American forces In Cuban waters. Unless the United States prit'ipilatefi a Cuban crisis by invasion aud oecun.itinn her action will be delayed as long as possible. When the time comes for the United States to strike such a blow Spain's first idea will be to divert our naval forces so thai co-operation will be impossible. Gaining this end the na-val and military forces would clash separately, but failing, Cuban waters would still see the first naval engage-ment of consequence.

In such an eng.Kemcnt Commodore Schley would fleur* promirently. Th" armament which h:.i fleet carries Is ;b-

ship, the Amazonas, while the Topeka was formerly the Diogenes. The others were all transatlantic liners.

The following list of the fleet will be uioat iniereating.

Ship. Former Name, f loss. Gura. Pnn Francisco !Cruiser *12 New Orleans Amazonns !fr;ii.«er Topeka St. Paul St. Louis Harvard Yale Yorktown Badger Yankee Yosemiie Dixie Prairie

•Main cruiser.

Diogenes Cruiser Cruiser Cruiser

New YorV Cruiser Paris

viimurl El Nerd El Sae El Slid El Rio

battery only.

Cruiser Gunboat Cruiser Cruiser Cruiser Cruiser Cruiser

•12 • I ' '

24 24 24 24 14 12 22 22 22 22

! Protected

An Awfnl FosslMllty. Wandering Willie—Great Scott,

pard, y' look all broke up. What's the matter? Thirsty Theodore (drawing a deep sigh)—I went inter that there Mamed dr"g store ard — v - n the e'erk wasn't leclUn' 1 drank a lot of stuff I thought was whisky, an' den 1 seen by the label that It wuz bichloride of gold. Wandering Willie—Pshaw! Dat won't kill yer. Thirsty Theodore—I know dat. but s'pose I shouldn't want ier drink any more!—Harlem Life.

Elec t r i c Rut Tran .

A email piece of cheese and an elec-•rlc wire form the lnln,;t rat trap. The eheese is treed to tho wire, and the . ".stant the rat tomh-s tho cheese Le 1

-i-ceives a shock v.". Ich kills him.

around the shoulders, with the pointed fringed side hanging down. The de-sign Is grotesque, consisting of conven-•ionalized faces of men and animals in nale green outlined with black on a white ground. Sometimes dull blue •akes the place of the pale green. A pe-culiarity which stamps their genuine-ness ia a fine thread or shaving of deer-skin In the center of each hard twisted strand of wild sheep's wool yarn, of which tbey are made, rendering them almost indestructible.—Woman's Homo Companion.

Reduced to Flcarec. A Glasgow paper thus analyzes the

music of the bagpipes: "Big files on window, 72 per csnt; cats on midnight tiles, 11^ per cent; voices of infant puppies, 6 per cent; grunting hungry pigs In the morning, 5H Per cent; steam whistles, 3 per cent; chant of cricket, 2 per cent."—New York Trib-une.

Against nim. He was a great bore, and waa talking

to a crowd about the coming local elec-tion. Said he:

"Gibbs is a good man; he is capable, honest, fearless and conscientious. He will make the very kind of representa-tive we need. He once saved my life from drowning."

"Do you really want to see Gibbs olected?" said a solemn-faced man.

"I do, indeed. I'd give anything to see him elected," answered the bore.

"Then never let anybody know ho saved your life," counseled the solemn-faced man.

Spellbound. "Yes," said Senator Sorghum, " I

think 1 may say that I held my hear-ers spellbound." "I don't doubt it," re-plied Miss Cayenne. "When I left the capitol the other day I felt exactly as If 1 had experienced a hypnotic Influ-ence. And. to tell the truth, ] was drowsy all the next day."—Washington Star.

Tho Dlfferenoo. "You have caded me a liar," shouteA

the angry citizen to the offensive citi-zen, "and you will live to regret t h a t speech, sir." "That jest shows tho dif-ference In fellers," remarked Cowboy Bill, who happened to be present, "when a man calls me a liar, he doo't live to regret i t No, sir!"—Life.

Wanted a Watch. A prison visitor recently asked one

of the prisoners how he came to bo there. "Want," was the answer. "How was that, pray?" "Well, I want-ed another man's watch. He wasn't willing I should have it, and the Judge wants me to stay here five years."—TM-Bits.

Just Thrown In. "Where on earth could she have pick-

ed up so Insignificant a man for a hus-band?"

"I haven't any exact information, hut he looks as If he might have gone wl tb a pound of tea."—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Depends.

Glvlnr Blm Hla Choice. Tit-Bits: Mother—Johnny. I see your

little brother has the smaller apple. Did you give him his choice, as 1 sug-gested? Johnny—Yes'm; I told him he could have his choice—the little one or none—and he took the little one.

Madge—I am going to buy the trim* mlng for my new dress. Molly—What is the dress going to be made of. Madgo —I don't know; it Just depends on how much money I have left.

A lletter DemnnstrnMon. "Newton discovered tho law of gravi-

iation by noticing an apple fall f rom a tree, didn't ke?" "Yes. If he hadn't been so previous somebody might have discovered it by seeing a beginner fall from his bicycle."

She Had Been Deceived. "Jane, did you break this valthtble

china plate?" "Yes'm. You were taken in over that plate, mum. It's a weak 'un I t broke the fourth time I drop* p e l it."—Punch.

What Really Connts. "They say you never know how much

a man is worth until he dies." "But that 's not the question. It 's how much he Is thought to be worth."

"Ever HIirher." Practus—What became of that fellow

whoso motto was "Excelsior?" Cactua —Oh they hung him, finally.

LOWELL STATE BANE $25,000.00.

MICH.

Capital, — LOWELL,

FRANCIS KING, Piesidont, CHAS. McCARTY, Vice President.

M. C. GRISWOLD.Caahier. DIRECTORS:

Francis King, Chas. McCarty, Geo. W. Parker, F. T. King, Q. H. Force, E. L. .Bennett, M.C.Griswold. C. Bergin.

The Cock's

Shrill Clarion

A General Banking Business Transacted Money Loaned on Real Estate Security

Lowell

Call ut city bakery for your lunch.

'ChnrleP Quick was doing business

in Detroit Monday.?

Send your work to the

Steam Laundry. Z ' - - ' . - _ _ D. V. Denick spent Sunday with

friends in Grand Rapids. r.

Mrs. L . Schopp of G i a n d Rapids visited over Sunday at Wi l l Denick s

Ray Covert is visiting bis cousin, Norma B. Church at Alton this week.

The program for Decoration day exercises will be published next week.

Good work twice a week and fair treatment a t the Lowell L a u n d r y .

C . K r u m and wife of Grand Rapids spent Saturday aud Sun.lay with old

Lowell friends.

Wan ted , 10,000 people to send their Laundry to the Lowell Steam Laundry .

T h e Cuban flag is displayed a t sev-eral places in town along with the Stars and Stripes. ' ' ^

" E y e r y I k id y knows what Bergin's coliees are, uud the best iu the world at the price. 254tf

Mrs. P t n tIer from the vicinity of Stanton is visiting her sister, Mrs. Al-ice Brown. i^S

Mrs. F . D . Stocking, now of Ionia, is making Lowell relatives and many old friends a visit.

"^MrsT J a m e s Blanding of Vickery-ville spent last week with her sister, Mrs . A. J . Brower.

Godfrey & Lawrence have a ; fine assortment of both American and Cuban flags. ""Lon and J a y Taylor have our thanks for a line mess of fish, deliver-ed jus t in time for our Sunday dinner.

Own a home, stop paying rent . The Lowell Bui ld ing & Loar. association will tell you how. ; t* •: • ' r '• *

List of unclaimed letters— Gilett Bruse, Samual T . Cour t and Syl. Tracy.

Isn ' t in it a t this day and ago

as a sleep disturber.

Be up to date and have some-

thing tha t will do the triok any

time you wish. Jus t the thing

for an early excursion or a fish-

ing trip. I t will co«l you only

99c and will save a lot of nervous

energy as woll as serving the

purpose of an accuaate time

piece,

O u r nickle Ala rm Clock's

guaranteed for 1 year .

are

TmJtwjzuHL.

Mrs. Myrt ie Graham has iiuished her work a t Freeport and returned to Lowell again.

Rev. Mr. Marshall attended the 'Cong'l State Association a t Grand Rapids this week.

One hundred good white envelopes with your card nrinted thereon only 25ft a t this office, Saturday, May 21.

Mrs. I. A. Anderson spent a couple of davs last week in Grand Rapids last week with Miss Anna He ld .

Our guarantee with every purchase: "Goods the bi«i, prices the lowest" Bergin, the reliable grocer. 254tf

Dr . G. G. Towsley attended a two • days session of the State Homeopathic Medical s'iciety at Grand Rapids this week.

A new t imetable went into effect with tho Grand Trunk Railway sys-tem May 15. Note the changes in this issue.

L. \V. Cogswell is l imping some as a result uf his runaway accident, bu t considering the natuiv of the iracas, he escaped very fortunately.

Lena, the ini'ani daughter of Charles Durkee and wife, died in Cascade Sunday. The inlennent took place on Tuesday.

Marks Ruben's store front is suits ably adorned for these stirring time-by an elegant new flag upon a hand-some staff.

Mrs . Lane, of Lowell, who has been visiting her brother, C. F . Bell and family, has returned to her home.—[Cedar Springs Democrat.

Trees kept in dormant condition in cold storage can be safely transplruted for some weeks yet . Call and see our trees. W e can please you. N. P . H U S T E D & C o .

D . V. Denick is having his house ra ised;and will place a substantial stone wall under ii and grade up his lot . All these things look suspicious. W h a t ' s Dave want to fix his cage up so. nice for. unless ! gets a bird to pu t into itr

Some of the friends of E . Moffit guyed him considerable since the col-lision with a load of logs recently be-cause he thought it would be just as safe to walk, and jumped off the en-gine just before it struck, l i e says tha t i t was fortunate that he did not j u m p any sooner or he would have landed in sink-hole a n d been going down yet. H e wasn' t ftfraid to ride bu t jus t got off to see them come to-gether, as he cauld get a better view f rom the ground.—[Freeport Hera ld .

I have a few good horses for sale. H . N A S H .

Lace Curtains cheap a t B l a i n ' s . ^

Clean yourj teeth with Rose Cream,

All kinds of wood promptly deliver-ed by R . B. Boylan. ^

Remember the B. Y. P . U . ex-

Eerience social, F r iday evening a t the iaptist church.

T h e Lowell W."(j . T . U . ladies will meet in the Y. M. C . A . room Fr iday afternoon, Mav 20, at 2p. m. ^

T h e C . ' E ! society of the Cong'l church will serve ice' cream and cake Decoration day in the Fox building, for only 5c. Come out and help the

Misa Florence McDannel is" dele-ga te to the Congregational State As-sociation held this week in the P a r k Congregational church a t Grand Rap-

Judged by its street parade, Perr-ine's new show, which exhibited un-der canvas here last Saturday is not a dangerous competitor for the Barnum and Forepaugh aggregation.

Charlie Filkins, who has been em-ployed in Lowell printing offices for nearly two years, secured a situation in a job printing office in Grand Rap-ids, and left Tuesday to accept the same.

Envelope day a t the LEIKJER office last Saturday was such a success that the enterprise will Ims repeated this week. No one should go without printed envelopes when they can get a hundred a t this office lor 25c.

Robert Jones, whose enlistment with the Grand Rapids volunteers was delayed on account of a slight defect in one eye, was afterward accepted and left Island Lake for the scunu of action with the other Kent county boys.

Of the Ionia county pr imary mon-ey, amounting to 84,816.50, Boston geta 8284.50; Campbell, $259.50; Iveene, 8141.50; Otisco, $173.00. There are 9,633 school children in the county, of whom Boston has 589; Campbell, 519; Keene, 283; Otisco' 346.

Lake Odessa is making great pre-parations for tho ninth semi-annual band convention on Wid. , June 8 . Lowell will be represented by but one band, the Miliiarv; the Ledger band having long since gone ' in to a state of "innocuoue desuetude."

Humane Agent Randolph made a visit to Lowell the other day. H e noticeii that several merchants, not-ably one Alexander, had placed dr inking pans for .logs on the side-walk in front of their establishments. He says Grand Rapids could follow the example with profit. Dogs in this oily suffer lor drinking places in warm Pre**.

weather.—[ Grand Rapids

Q e n c i a ! D e b i l f t y

a n d L o s s o f F l e s S i

Scott's Emulsion has been the standard remedy for nearly a quarter of a century. Physicians readily admit that they obtain re-sults from it that they cannot get from any other flesh-forming food.

There are manv other prepara-tions on the market that pretend to do what

SCOTT'S EMULSION

does, but they fail to perform it« The pure Norwegian Cod-liver Oil made into a delightful cream, skill-fully blended with the Hypophos-phites of lime and Soda, which

are such valuable tonics, makes this preparation an ideal one and checks the wasting tendency, and the patient almost immediate-ly commencei to put on flesh and gain a strength which surprises them.

Be sure you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. See thit the fuh i nan and are on the wrapper.

50c. and It.oo, all druggiiU. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemlm, New York.

Blain sells Carpets from 10c a yard

up . F . J . Byrne, of Ionia, was in town

Sunday. R . B. Boylan has a change of a d v .

this week.

Reva Owens was in Grand Rapids

last week. Mrs. Barnes visile-1 friends lu Ovid

last week. Mrs. M. Bisby was in Grand Rap-

ids Fr iday . Will Ellison, of Easton, visited in

Lowell Sunday.

G. M. Phe lps , of Ionia, was In

Lowell Sunday.

Seigel Kopf of Grand Rapids was in Lowell Sunday.

Mrs. Peter White was in Grand

Rapids Saturday.

Mrs . Kied Hodges was iu Grand

Rapids Salurday.

F . H. Johnson of Grand Rapids was in town Monday.

J o h n N. Wilson, of Grand Rapids, was in town Wednesday.

Charley Culver of Carson City is visiting friends in Lowell. ^

" M r s . ' M r s . Kopf has returned from her visit at Cincinatti.

Bir th in Lowell, May 17, a daugh-ter to James Gibson and wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Trask of Grand Rapids is friends in Lowell .

Pearl Collier of Saranac is visiting her grand parents, Mr . and Mrs. Duf-

J i m Johnson of Lowell spent Sun-day with S. M. Cook,—[Belding

New?.

The Board of Review has been in session a t the town clerks office this week.

W . J . E rns t and W . R, Compton, {;f Grand Rapids, were in town last

Fr iday,

L . T. Burdick and J . O. Reeder, of Grand Rapids, were in Lowell last Fr iday .

J . M. T o d d and W m . D. Crueke, of Grand Rapids, were iu this village Tuesday.

Roy Risley of Oyid was the guest of his cousin, Miss Lizzie Thompson, this week i

B . 8. Davenport and W . * J W . Smith, of Grand Rapids, were in town Monday.

J . P. Headley, C. F . Antisdell and J . C, Bush, ol Grand Rapids, were Sunday visitors in Lowell.

A stoppage in the Monroe street sewer has been engaging the atten-tion of Marshal Edmons and two or three assistants several days this week.

J . J . Ramsdell, W m . M. Phelps, H. H Olvin, O. G. Olvin, A. C. Hor-ton and A . C. Horton, J r . , all of Grand Rapids, were in town last Sun-day.

The Rockford Register says: "The I Rockfbrd boys went to Gra t tan , Sun-day, accompanied by quiet a few of their fr iends, and had a ball game with Gra t t an , resulting in a score of 11 to 3 iu favor Grat tan .

John A . Andrews, who went to Pueblo, Col. last September for the benefit of his health, returned to Low-ell with his samily this week. He is iu very poor health, and will rent a house and settle in the village.

A little Sturgis tot, according to the Times, asked her moiher "if Jesus knew about the war," and upon being told that he did, astonished her parent by remarking; "Wel l , if he does, then why don't he hang out his flag?"

A man might as well try to put a quart of water into a pint measure as to make a better harness than our famous Oak Tanned hand made har-ness. Before purchasing it is for your interest to call and look at our goods. Brown A Sehler.

There will be a special business meeting of the H igh School Alumni Association, consisting of the classes of '94, '95, '96 and '97, at the home of Miss Jessie Tilden, OJJ Saturday eve-ning, May 21. Each member is earn-ecily requested to be present.

The Grand Rapids base ball team is now playing good ball. They oc cupy fourth place in the league now. having passed Dayton. Mansfield, Fort Wayne and Youngstown. Newcastle, Toledo a n d ' Springfield lead in the order named.

The "funny m a n " of an exchange was recently assigned to write up the market report, and produced the fol-lowing: "But ter is strong a t 12 cents and is able to hold its own. Yeast cakes are rising steadily. Bananas are slipping along al same old price, with nn occasional drop. Cheese is lively and stirring. Syrups are stick-ing to the former price and are about a pint more to the quar t than they were last winter. Green apples are gradually growing less. Dried ap-ples are swelling the market. Chick-ens are picking u p a little.

C. A. Preston has the bound vol-umes of Harper 's Weekly for, '61, '62, '62, and '64-—during the w a r of the Rebellion. There are, it is said, only ten of these complete sets known to be in existence, and their value is put a t 8100 per volume—8400 for the set,— [Ionia Standard. This sounds a little fishv, in as much as the volumes could b e easily reprinted and placed on the market a t the expense if but a few dollars each . If the demand were sufficient to create such a price the Harpers are sharp enough to have profited by it long before this.

Peacu trees—The best in the world in cold storage. Come and* examine our stock. W e can please you in grade, variety and prices.

N . P . H U S T E D & C o .

Rudolph V a n Dyke is going to giveaway a Graphophone, one of the wonderful ta lk ing machines, to h s customers. Purchasers of groceries will do well to call and investigate.

256 tf.

Time is money. Set out your trees now and gain a year's t ime. N. P. Husted & Co. can furnish the best trees on earth and in good condition at reasonable prices.

N . P . HUSTED ACo*

Some people will never tell all of the news item, ns newspaper report-ers will testify; they always tell what they did, but forget do mention tha t , anybody else was conneoted wrtii the j affair or event; they visit, but neglect | to tell who else went; a member ol j their family returns, but they fail t • j«« mention tha t he or she was at-compa . J nied home by a visitor; tbey are inter J ested in a trade; hut f i r g e t to men ^ tion that they had partners in the | ft transaction. All this neglect - r ^ 1 * lessness is born of selfishness S .11 e J people have visions and niiii'ls s'i narrow that only the cirule <•[" their, immediate families i- inrimled in iheir 01 servations and thmijjhw.—[Dunklin

Democrat.

Real Es ta t s Transfers , s

RusscI J . Enos et al. to Richard McGee, si se i and sw* set sec 9, Vergennes 4,200

M. C. Grhwold e t a l . to Daniel W . Layer, land on sec 23, Bowne 3,000

Uriel Snow and wife to Emi ly A . Murray and children, land on sec 13

Cascade ^^0

Ariel Boulard et al to Lewis J . Boulard and wife, land on sees 9 and

g, B wna 2,000

Seth P , Stonebreaker to Wil l iam P. Stonebreaker, e i . swJ sec 13 Ada

4,000

Best Papers the Best Mediums.

There Is much good solid tense for t r t r r advwttier la the following paragraph from a thoughtful cutem advertUeri

The dally paper ta by for the safest and most certain method of reaching the public^ It should not be dlfflcult ft* any In-telllgent man who haa lived for any Urn* In a community to know Just what papers wlU»aervo him as advertising tne* dlums. It Isn't at all necessary to examine the books in the newspaper's counting room or to ret their affldavltfl of olt> culatlon. A paper that you read yourself and that your neigh* bors read and respect and that you know to be widely read and rcspected, you can safely rely on as a satisfactory mo* dlum for reaching people of your own kind.

TOU HAVQ BEEN QETTINO BETTER RESULTS FROM The Detroit Journal WETRB GIVINO TOU MORS CXRCUXiATlOft

Did You Ever Notice? The best business houses In Detroit oat

THE. DETROIT JOURNAL largely-mor»

advertiser

Some advertisers are not allowed In TBB DETROIT JOURNAL.

a poor1

brother

recently

S h e Saw the Point .

It is ut ter ly impossible for

editor to avoid trouble, A

editor in a neighboring town

stated in his paper that "si lver garter

buckles were becoming fashionable

again aud h e hoped to see mofe of

t hem." A n old maid, the only woman

in town who wore silver garter buckles

immediately called a t his office, broke

an umbrella over his r ight ear, | t o r e

two sheaves of hair out ol l i is head,

coaxed his wife to sue for a divorce.

And still people will wonder why ed-

itors look so sad.-—[Ex

Men M a s t Smoke all t h e Same.

A very singular accident occured

in the vicinity of Akron last Satur-

day evening between 5 and 6 o'clock,

relates the Caro Advertiser/ Chas.

A . Jones was driving along thp read

with a load of straw. H e lighted his

pipe and was taking things Very few-

urely, when he discovered that his

load was on fire. I n t ry ing to ex-

tinguish i t bis team became frighten-

ed aud ran away, throwing him off

the load and scattering the burning

straw iu every direction. The sight

was a bril lant and thri l l ing spectacle»

with the horses whirling tlie load

of burning straw down tho road.

When the round up was made the j

wagon had been practically destroyed r

one horse was quite severely burned,

its tail having been almost burned

off, and Mr . Jones face and chest

was also badly burned. The next

time he takes a smoke upon a load

of straw lie will doubtless be very

careful na to what disposition he

makes of a lighted match.

Here is another of the same sort:

A farmer in Mendon township was

driving home the other day with a

new mattress in Infr wagon when a

spark from his pipv set lire to the

mattress, which • was ruined before

the >>la7.e could be extinguished.

Men will make smoke stacks of

their noses no mat ter what happens. ,

Bowne Center .

Mis. F. M. Aldrich entertnined her mother of Grand Rapids recently.

Lula cole has been visiting relatives and friends in Carlton.

Born—To John Cuddihy and wife a 12 pound son recently.

Richard Buxton's family are atllicted with the measles.

Shenn White and wife, of West Bowne, were guests of Wilder McDiarmid and wife Sunday.

Mrs. J . Morgan was called to Uulliken recently on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Barnes.

J . Henry has sold his farm to parties in Lowell and will move his family to Marsh-all where he has purchased a small farm.

Children's Day will be observed at this place June 12th.

WHEN CURED. Q. A. MUNCH, M. D., the Eminent Specialist, who lias five Di-

plomas and two honorary Diplomas, and

who can name and locate a disease with-

out asking a question, will be at

LOWELL, HOTEL M M , Tuesday, June 7.

N o m a t t e r "WHAT you r disease, or who has fa i l ed to cure you Consul t h im. I T C O S T S N O T H I N G and is s t r ic t ly conf ident ia l .

W p ( " I l l T A Chronic, Nervous and Private Diseases and Diseases of ^ ^ ^ women Catarrh, Asthma. Rheumatism, Fits, Paralysis,

Catieers, TuinoM. Bladder, Kidnef, Heart and Bl<>ood Diseases, etc., by our speciul system of treatment.

OLD AND YOUNG MEN suffering from any defec^ of a private nature consult us. It costs you nothing if not cured,

Diseases'of Men

If you have been deceived by FBAI'DS, HT'Muuds, QUACKS and co-called

"SPECIALISTS" call and investigate. We can furnish plenty of references.

Our best inference: "No Cure No Pay." Why will you pay out money when we ASK NO PAY UNTIL CURED, For further information or circulars see Dr. Munch, or adafiss with stamp,

Detroit Medical & Siifglcal Institute, 145 Pine Detroit Mich

LAKE ODESSA, Miner Hotel, .Wed. Jifne 8. SARANAC, Monday,- June fl.

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Cornelius L. Harvey Has sold his interest in Harvey & Heystek

Co., and is no longer connected therewith

in any way. He is now occupying the store at 59 Monroe street, with a

New and Complete S tock of

Wall Paper and Paints, and will be pleased to have his friends

call on him when in Grand Rapids..

Cornelius L. Harvey, 59 Monroe Street ,

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{ S t r i n g : O u t . • J is well said that- manners make the I b n ? a n ' b u t t h e m 0 T * solid ingredient of

^ character is also necessary to a true type of manhood. If a man has these both, and also has the good sense to dress well he will find the "Tatchstring out" for him

- all over the world.

FOR REALLY CORRECT DRESS

i 'n Material, Style, Fit, Finish, and Gentle-

tagof' 5 , 0 0 , h o u ' d o r d ( r your tailor-

" k B O R N & C O . , The Great Cklcago Merchant Tailors

**•>» the l*«der» In the Coatoar lbM~. "BORN" Salt or OvncoS

P I T AND FINISH GUARAIfTBBD. * Chtim Bamptsa lo hhilJVnin.

Town Linen Tidings.

S. Sargent and wife, of Whitneyville, Bnndayed with Mrs. Loren Sargent.

Fred Wood and wife, of Lowell, visited Charlie Reynolds Sunday.

Dan Lewis and wife are visiting Jamee Lewis and family.

W M . P T J L . L . E I V & S O I V , . L o w e l l .

Fred Reynolds and wife drove down from Ionia Satarday and returned home Sunday.

Sherman P. Reynolds said good by to home and friends Sunday. He left for Island Lake to don the bine.

Clint Snow and wife went to Saranao Saturday.

Mrs. Clinton Snow has bought a horae. Mrs. Weatbrook and Mrs. Emily Mur-

ray visited Mrs. Levi Bnrras Wednesday. Wilber Bnrras and sister, Florence, vis-

ited in Grand Kapids over Sunday. L. Bnrras visited his son, Fred, of Alton,

Sunday.

The ladies' aid will give an ioe oream social at the home of Mrs. Westbrook next Friday.

One hundred envelopes printed for 25c. at this office, Saturday.

Grattan-Vergennes.

Mrs. P. W. Byrne is on the sick list. Misses Ora W.tkinsand Eleanor Em.

mens attended church at Parneli Sunday. H. D. Weeks, wife and Bon visited their

daughters, Mrs. Hapeman and Mrs. God-frey of. East Lowell, last week.

P. W. Byrne, while building a fence last Wednesday, killed two rattle snakes, one measuring three feet aud the other three and a half feet.

Misses Madie and Sadie Jakeway called on their cousin. Blanche Jakeway, Sunday.

Mrs. Ella White and two children, of Grand Rapids, spent Sunday at John Jake-way's.

Mr. Miche is working the Lally farm. Misses Ethel and Hattie Weeks are v is-

iting at their sister's, Mrs. Allen Godfrey.

Get your envelopes Saturday cheap.