V O L . X X X V . M A S O N , M I C H I G A N , W E D N E S D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 2 , 1 9 1 0 N O . 5

M O R S E

Sent the first te legram, E d i s o n t u r n e d on the first e lectr ic l ight , b u t to w h o m are we indebted f o r the i i r s t t in can ?

F r o m M a i n e to C a l i f o r n i a . , the who le country , has been s e n d i n g us its finest f ru i t s a n d vegetables in t in cans. T h e season's n e w c a n n e d goods are on our shelves r e a d y f o r y o u r use, at pr ices that w i l l please.

3 cans P e a s 3 cans C o r n 3 cans Tomatoes 3 cans H o m i n y 3 cans S a u e r K r a u t 2 cans R e d Salmon :

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" A G I R L OF T H E M O U N T A I N S "

Farmers, Take Notice. We will piiy ;ilc this week for but­

ter I'iit delivered,at crciimcry in good condition. Mason GiiKAMEiiY.Co.

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G . S. T H O R B U R N

State P h o n e 103 B e l l P h o n e 3G

B U S I N E S S D I R E C T O R Y .

DU. C. 15. lllCNDIClt.'iOK, Dentist. Over K. .1. Brown's .Shoe Stoiu.

DH. .lOH. S. IIAWI.KV, ili'lltlsL Mack

. . l''oiiii(M'ly Mackliiae Lsland and St. iKiiarn. Suecus.sor

tu Dr. SiianlilltiK'amI Ur. l.liisiey. Lawrciiaihik.

R . 11. AI.K.KANniCli, I'liyskMan ami Snii-'enii,

OIlhM! liver,i'lnnaKaii's Drnn Snni'. iicsl-ileiiuoopjioslti' llie Bii|illst Oliiiriih. Olllei' iionni 6 to ip a. III., I to-I anil 7 loll |i. III. iMiisiiii. dl-l

DU. CllAsTsrirAI.LAltD, liomeopaihiu I'liy-.•ilulaii and Sui'KOon, Dlsi-n.sus ot iho l!ye,

Kar, NusoaiKl Tlinml. a .s'peelalty. Oliino—No.-ir lilock. Hours—8 lo S a. in,, I :;iu to6 aml 7 to 0 p. ni.

DK. PUANK iS.TirO.MAS, i'liyslcliuiaiKl Siir Kooii Ollleooyur Wobh Whitman's store;

rasldoniieat aornor li and Oak streets. Mason.

O JCD.SdN COVKY. I'h. 1).. iM. 11. l'hy.sli!liMi I aiul .surncdii, u'lvhiu spi'clal iilliMilioii to

ollhio piaollco iuid tlic, eiiiii of clirotilc diseases. Jiiui. iiooiilliir, Illlllonlt Mild SIulihorn cases Hull bailie olheisor liavct lioeii iiculuoleil or lmiiroii-orly treaiod. are liivllcil. Visits iniiile anydls-laiicii lf rlHlitly arranued for, llfllee liiiiirs, 'j to fl p. in. (;iill or write, 112 Wasliliinlnii Aveiino south, Laiisliii-', WIcli. {S 'Over lleiilli's storu.

A A . IMSliOnrAN, ATTOltNlSY and COUN-. ISKLOJl AT LAW, Mason, Mlcll.

L Ji. MO/VKTUUK, Attorney aiui Coiinseloriil . Law. Olllee in Kannurs liaiik bnlUlliiK.

DUNHMOliU, MielilBun,

Ijl, A., Attornoy-at-Linv,Mason,

L T. HKMANS, Attorney anil Ooiiiiselor at . Law. Olllco In tho new i,,awrence Block,

Maaon,Mich, Moneytoloan on goodsooiirlly.

G I!O. W. tentlon

BltlSTOf.. Alloniey. I'arlleiiliir at-II nlveii 10 draiviiii; of wills ami llio

setllenieiit of eslales'. Many years' e.xiierleiice as I'robatu Ueijister nnd .liiil(,'e of I'lobiile.

0 \V. CLAliK. General Aiieiloiieer. Leave nr-I der.s al; this olllce or aililress Mason, )i, V.

D. No. (I, .Sallsfacllon gnaranteed. liell pimno Dansvllle D, 4 J[.

HENllY KUim.Cienoral Auctioneer. Satis­faction giiaraiiteod, terms right. Leave

orders at thlsolllce. J'oslollloe, Mason.

Paul Browne Is cIcrkinK Brown's boot and shoe store.

11. C. .Dart, real estate, loans and col­lections. Olllce in Lawrence Blocif. *

T l i c store with Uie largest display Q! valentines is Longyear'sdrug store.

F o r Ollicers elect Of Ma.son Tent, No. 10,/ iC. 0. T . M . M . , were installed last evening.

Today is ground liou',d!iy. The sun was out. What will tlie harvest be'? ,Si.\ weeks more of winter. \

Those who missed the bargains at Mills' store last Saturday be sure and get there next Saturday. *

A . H . I'liillips, formerly of Alaledon, has opened a real estate ollice at 317 Micliigan avenue cast, Lansing.

iJon't fail t(i read tlie ad. Of F . Brown, hont and shoe dealer,'in tills issue. Bed Oross shoes is the tlieinc.

The liaptist ladies inissifinary soci­ety will nioct iit the iHime.nf Mrs. A . J . Jiall on Wednesday, Feh.%h. iifl-.SO.

Invitatiiins have been received liore to tlic wedding of T . \V. ilanson and Miss Anna MioltliVnpc at Grayling, Fob, 2'!d. Vi,

Tl ic Loyal .Sisters will hold their regular, niiintlily meeting i.i'riday, ii'eb, 11th, at 2:00 p. m., at the home Of Mrs. Boscnbergcr. •

Get in your bid on the suit that is going to the liigliest bidder at Mills' store. It is wortli $27.5Q but sdincono is going to get it for a great deal less than that. ^

Mrs. Liz/.le Evcrett.s,whose liusband died of typhoid fever ii few weeks ago, is i'cportcd sick witli small-po.v at the home of her father, Micliacl Ilanley, in Lansing.

lieiiry Brown fell from a load of hiiy near the hay house last Friday and was ifijtirod about his head and face. J)r. Alexander took several stltciics in dressing his wounds.

On account of a change in tlie prin, our book account must be settled by Feb. 20, .1010. W c w i l l be compelled to leave for collection all unpaid ac­counts at that time.

DhNSMORE & Bl5LL. ;A11 members of the L , A . S. of the

Methodist chnrch and their families are urged to be present at the diriner and the regular meeting to be lield in tlie church parlop^ on Feb. 0th., Mrs,

i3;crs-a-R.i>^3srcE

TJIAUMEKS' MUTUAL li'lKK tNiJUKANOE Jj Oompanyof Inghamcoiinty. Safest,oliaap-ost and bust. For Intorinntlon write CoJf.H. Field, secretary, Maaon. A. T. Uarber, presi­dent,Mason. Onicoln the noiirt house.

B U Y H I C K O R Y L U M P

S o f t C o a l I

C a r now in. Best all ccal and all lumps. $3.75 per ton on

y o u r wagon, for cash.

B e s t H a r d C o a l

,^7.50 delivered and ,^7.25 on y o u r M'agon, for Cash .

P r o m p t De l ivery . B o t h Phones

D r i v e r B r o t h e r s

N e a r F r e i g h t H o u s e , M a s o n . '

Special meetings at the Mission every evening this week.

From Ic to $2.00_you can buy valen­tines at Longyear's (3rug store... 1'

Floyd Hil ton and Mrs. Al ice Wright, both of Aurellus, were married' by Justice Adams last Friday evening.

Miss Ethe l Burgess of Holt, 'a mem­ber of tlie senior class in our schools, is doing copying in the probate ollice.

A two-day farmers' institute wiB be held in this city Fob. io and 16. T h e state rouhd-up institute * i l l beheld at the M . A . O . F e b . ,22 to 25.

Paul K i n g of. Lansing, clerk of the house of representatives,'was married to Miss Sarah Bidwell at L'apeer last

•'Sallurday. They are spending- their honeymoon in Washington.

J Last Saturday A . G. Lyon sold a gray team weighing 3,200 lbs. tOi 0. Cool Of Albion for $600. They were delivered at Eaton Eapids Tuesday. W . A . Mclntyre also sold his bay sur­rey mare to the samo party.

.Lewis Sutherland of Morrice,-a for­mer proprietor of the Donnelly House Id this city, has pleaded guilty in the Shawassee circuit; court of.violating the liquor law. He sold liquor in his restaurant at'Morrice witliout taking •puta license. Sutherland -is out,'on, bail and will he sentenced tomorrow.

Becbe's division will serve.

Last Saturday C. W. Randal! sold a team to a man named Diehl, living west Of Holt. J . Waggoner of Aure­llus sold a bay and black team to Freeman & Burkliart of Glielsea. This team was delivered at Stock-bridge Monday. •

Oscar Doolittle, having, sold his farm (the G-ilbcirtDeCamp place) two miles east of Ilolt, (Ive miles north of Mason, will sell his personalproperty at auction on Tuesday, Fob. 8, com­mencing at one o'clock p. m. Kurtz' •Ss Murray, auctioneers. Ip

The annual meeting of the State Association of Supervisors is being held at Lansing tills week. A . I. Bar­ber Is treasurer of tlie association. Judge E . M . Montgomery and Lieu­tenant Governor P. H . Kelley, repub­lican candidates for governor, will be present. Lawton T. Hemans will be one Of the speakers.

C. A . Norton of Lansing is a machin­ist witli a family of six children living just southeast of that city. Saturday evening when he was away to his work and the mother at tlie home of a neighbor one of the children over­turned a lamp, setting (Ire to the house. Two of the older children car­ried out the younger ones uninjured. The house was totally destroyed.

Next Tuesday, Feb. 8, occurs the fourth number on the lecture course and will be given by Durno, "The whirlwind of; wonders," and a jolly company Of fun makers and six live animals. When you can see the Dui--no Company all sorrows and troubles will be for the time forgotten. The entertainment cStrsists principally of magic, illusion, comedy, music, imita­tions and ventriloquism.

In " A Girl of the Mountains," a new society di'ama in four acts by L e m B . Parker, we have an, extremely inter­esting picture ot social life. 'The au­thor has Chosen a daring subject and-has handled it masterly. We are taken into the life of the 'people- and s'liown the hearts of men and women. The characters are cleverly drawn and Incidents skillfully presented by ,a

A new and dilTorpiit pliiv by Lcm \i. Parkci', entitled "A Girl of tlic Moun­tains," will be seen al. f?.ayiicr opera liousc Wednesday, l''ch, lltl'i. It comes lilglily praised by critics evL'rywIlcrc. One intense sittialinn follows another from beginniiiL'to ir'iid witliout a sin­gle reaction. It is a nuidcrn love story of New Yiii-k society life and it keeps its liearers up to tlic highest pitch of interest iiiifl exciteiiuiiit. A sjilendid cast with Miss Louise i^rice as tile " G i r l " has boon cngai^ed and a mag-iiitlceiit sceitic display will be olTcrcd.

Settle Up . - \ A l l accoiln^ts not .settled by cash or

note this iiiontli (Li'cbruary) will be left for collection,

fjw-l Wjcnn & W i i m t A N .

Clara P.Smiti i will not make sittings after Feb. 25th until Apr i l Ist. 4tf

See notice of donjnl work by A . P. VanDeiiscn in business local column.

It will pay you to sec the large as­sortment of valentines at Longyear's drugstore. *1

Y o u should try those Ju Jii's for that cough. Tliey, taste good: A t Longyear .I.iros. ' *

Th ir ty barred Plyrnoutli Rock cock­erels for sale. No fancy price. Call !tnd see them. w2 L . A . Gkego.

Notice tlie specials advertised by L . W. Mills, Jr. , & Co. in tills paper. Their big clearing sale is attracting, a great deal of attention. wl

Buttermaker Watson of tlie-Mason Creamery Go. cliurned 710 lbs. nf but­ter last Saturday, tlie largest churn­ing up to tile present time.

In a brusli on tlie snow at Lansini; ast Tliursday between the pacers

Laundry Boy and, RuMi Wildman, Ruth showed lier heels to the Boy in a half milQ_lieat.

Mi'S. F . J . Brown entertained the' school teachers and ministers'wives Saturday, Jan. 29tli, at four o'clock tea. Miss Holnics sang several songs. Everyone enjoyed the aITair.,,

January 20th, at Orange, Cal. , a ittle daughter was, born, to M r . and

Mrs. , Walter Rogers.. Mrs.-Rogers was formerly Mary He'mans, a daugh­ter of Mr. and Mrs. J . !a., Hemans.

T h e Citizens'Telephone Co. during last month installed telephoties at the residences Of Wm. E . 0. McGowan, C. G. Gunn and Capt. C. E . Sayre and at the farms of Frank Severance,

.FrankE.F i 'Ost , F r a n k 0. 'Vaughn and Robert A . Osborii.

Lew Sheldon of Eaton Rapids was arrested at Lansing last" Saturday evening on a serious charge. Slieldon is 20 years of age and is said to have been living with a young girl barely 16 for several months. He was turned over to Eaton county ollicers Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. L . C. Webb entertain­ed a company Of friends last Friday evening in honor of Mr. and • Mrs. A . A . Squier of Quincy. A six o'clo^ck dinner was served, covers' being laid for 16. A t "500" Mrs: H . M..Wil l iams won the prize for the ladies and E . Culver for the gentlemen. Mrs. Wi l ­liams presented her prizet to Mrs.-Squier. ^^Instrumental and vocal music was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Squier and M r s . - H . J . Bond.

E , 0. Dakin, l iving one and one-half miles north and one mile eastot Dans­vllle, having rented his farm for a term of years, will, sell his personal property at auction; .'on :-Thursday^ Feb. 10th, ecimmencing lat-lOio'elook sharp. ;;There is a large list of stock, farming tools -and household,; goods. Free lunch at noon, G . W . Clark, auc-

Today Her SOth B i r t M a y . Mary A . Spencer, who lives with her

son, Jesse Gray, IsSOyears old today. I T h e occasion was made a surprise for her as a family gathering. Byron, j Squlcrand John Ilolt, brotliers, living | in'Ingliam and Bunkerhil l townships

I in this county and In Henrietta, Jack-j son county, Mrs. Samantha Titus of {

1. tfils city and Mrs. E l m i r a Burrell of | 'Jackson, sisters, and Mrs. Fi'cd M. I Hai l , a daughter, of this city were 'present. Gnstavus Ilolt of Ovvosso, the oldest of her brothers, was unable to be present.

Mary A . Holt was born in New York state Feb. 2, 1830, hoing.uf a family of nine children. When a girl about seven yeai'snf tige the family moved to the township of Bunkerhil l . Feb 2, 1847, slie was m a r r i e d to Manley Gray, wlio died Nov. 1, 1856, There were five cliildrcn from this Issue, two dying Willie young. On March 25 1871, she was married to .lohn Spencer Of this city, wlio died Oct. 21,1873.

Mrs. Spencer is in good health and rctiiins all Iter fncnlties. The oldest nieniber of tlic family is 83 and the youngest GS, the combined ages being 535, an average of 77 years.

H e l d Up Town W i t h a Rifle.

Sunday afternoon Ma'son had an cx-iiibltio^i of AVjIfi west manners tliat was not pleasing to several of our citi­zens. Harry Carn, an almost wortli-less fellow, i)artlcularly when he is Ills cups, had a hard cider jag aboard and ran amuck In tlic biisincs.s por­tion of the city. Harry went to A. lioedy's and wanted to get a gun, but tlie latter seeing his condition would not let him have it. Cam tlicn went to Henry Willis to get one, claiming lie v.'anted to shoot liis dog wlilch had been killing sheep. Willis let lilm take a Spriiiglleld rilleand a-15-calibre cartridge. With tlie ijun in his pos­session hc proceeded to make a gen­eral holdup, people dodging ai'oiind cornei's, into hallways and behind poles to get out o'f liis way. T l i c jail was notilled and Harry was arrested at the home of a brother on Mil l street. When the young man was ar­rested the gun was found to be un­loaded, altliough a shell llttiog the gun was found lying near. Carnwas taken to jail.

Tuesday Carn was taken before Jii.s-tice Adams. He pleaded guilty and was^released upon suspended sentence on payment of costs. C a m signed a pledge to abstain from , intoxicants and keep away from where tliey are sold for a year. If he breaks his pledge a-One Of $20 and 30 days IfT jail awaits him.

strong cast with Miss Louise Price as -tioneer, Frank Hicks, clerk. This is the Mountain Gir l . T o be presented' a bona flde sale. If stormy, sale will in its entirety at Rayner opera house be ..conducted inside. Lots of room next Wednesday;evening.' -'i r

, Mrs. W. H . Simmons has been quite ill witil asthma during the past weelc.

A joint installation of olTlcers of Phi l McKernan Post and W. R. C. Wiis held at G: A . R. hall last Friday evening, being postponed from Jan. l l t h b y a hard storm. Pitst Com­mander G;. L . Barnaby installed for the post.and Mrs. Martha Eliswortli for the W . R . 0. Fr ied cakes and colfee were served at tlie close of the exercises.,

Willis E , Stanton of this city,was' married to Miss Josephine Root of "Nuvi Tuesday forenoon at 10 o'clock, the ceremony being performed at tlie home of tlie bride's sister. They ar­rived here Tuesday evening. Mrs. Truman Gillett of Cliarlotte, Mrs, Kate Spinney of A l m a , ' M r s . Franc Witter of Laingsburg and Mrs. F . D. Stanton Of this city, sisters of the groom, met at the home and prepared a supper for the wedded couple.

The township board of Vevay met at the office of, tiie county treasurer In Mason Jim. 29th, 1910, and took pre­liminary steps in regard to changing thc-presijnt system of doing the road work Of Vevay township. The board first divided the roads of said town­ship into'five road, districts, an over seer to be elected for each district at the aooual meeting, but it being the unanimous opinion of the entire board thatthe voters of said township should have a chance,to vote on such a mat­ter. I t wiis left for the voters to de­cide at the next annual meeting.^

We take the following from the Ak­ron Times Of Tuesday, Jan. 25,1910;

A large.crowd saw ' A Girl of the Mountains' at the Grand last niglit' and the-play gave general satisfaction.; There is a vast diderence between this and the melodramas Of former days, N o attempt is made to secure thrill­ing situations and depend,:upon that solely for success There is an inter-; esting story which holds the Interest well throughout: tha^^entirc'action of the play and it arousedplenty of en-tliusiasm,. < ' A Gir l Of the Mountains' is presented by a capable company,ot players and tit is,theexcellent work of the players tliatlias much t o d d with its success." The same company has been secured by thev management of Rayner opera house for.Wednesday evening, Feb. 9th.

W A L T E R ' S G R O C E R Y 3Vhere I t P a y s to P a y C a s h

C A S H S P E C I A L S F O R T H I S W E E K

10 pounds o f G r a n u l a t e d C f l A S u g a r for . . . . . . •• U U U

W i t h orders o f $1,50 oi; more o f other goods.

. . 10 bars o f J a x o n or ')Cn L e n o x Soap f o r . . . . Z J U

Fancy .Seeded Raisin.s, 3 pkgs.. .25c Fancy Gleaned Currants, 3 pkgs.25c 25 lbs Moss Rose Flour SOc 25 lbs Gold Medal F l o u r . 85c 2 cans Red Alaskii Salmon 25c 3 cans Sweet Corn or Peas ,.25C 3 cans Tomatoes or Honi lny . . . 25c

0 pkgs,Argo Starch ..25c Shelled I^p Corn, per lb. 5c

. , 5 bars Sunny Monday Soap 23c

3 cans Lye or Chloride of Lime.25c C rolls T o i l o t P a p e r . . . . . . . . . . . . 25c 0 5c boxes of Matches. 23c 7 pkgs Nine o'Olock T e a . . . . . . .25c •1 lbs Ginger Snaps '_'5c

Fancy .Seeded Raisin.s, 3 pkgs.. .25c Fancy Gleaned Currants, 3 pkgs.25c 25 lbs Moss Rose Flour SOc 25 lbs Gold Medal F l o u r . 85c 2 cans Red Alaskii Salmon 25c 3 cans Sweet Corn or Peas ,.25C 3 cans Tomatoes or Honi lny . . . 25c

0 pkgs,Argo Starch ..25c Shelled I^p Corn, per lb. 5c D I L L P I C K L E S - , l u s t opened a

burs l^Jipttia Soup..' 2;]c QUEIDN 0L1V12S. Quart can, 30c Pint (tan LSc

BOTH PNONKS : W . 0 . W A L T E R MASON, iMICH. J

AYNERDPEBA HOUSE O N E N I G H T O N L Y

0 . E , W e e presents a N e w Soc ie ty D r a m a by L c m B . P a r l t e r

BEAUTIFUL ELECTRICAL EFFECTS SUPERB STAGE SETTINGS

A C L E V E R C O M P A N Y A N D , A G R E A T P L A Y

P r i c e s , 2 5 , 3 5 a n d 5 0 c e n t s .

Seats on Sale a t C u l v e r ' s . D o o r s O p e n at 7:30, C u r t a i n at 8:1

January Term of Circuit Court,

Following is a synopsis of. the pro­ceedings since otir last report;

Clyde •). Trucsdcll vs. Lucy H . .Tones. Court ordered tliat plalntlll' file sc-ciirlty for costs within 30 days from the 3d day Of..January, 1910.

Geoi'gc and Charles Frederick,son, charged with statutoi'y rape, were each found guilty. ,

Court adjourned Thursday noon un­til Monday,Man. 31st, at nine o'clock n tlie forenoon.

Sentences of the four who pleaded guilty liist week were tleferrcd, three until TluVrsday. morning at , nine o'clock iind one until Tuesday at: the same hour.

Cleo Moses, who was found guilty last week of abandoning his family, gave a bond to support them and sen-tcnqe'was suspended until llie further order of the court.

Orrin II. Blakely and Ira J . Ball vs. Cliarles G. Huntington.;; A motion of the defendant to vacate and set aside

previous: order and dismiss said cause was denied. ,

The People vs. Ira J . Ball—viola­tion ofiiquor law. Motion of defend-in t for continuance was denied.

Darline^ Williams, who , pleaded guilty to 'the .charge of violation, of the' liquor law, was sentenceil; by Judge Wiest to 30 days in the county a i l and pay a line of $12 and costs of

$54.05. ,,If tine and costs are not paid n 30 days she to be condned .for 30

days more.

Ti ie Peopltj vs. August Gohri—as­sault with intent to rape. Tr ia l -be ­gan Monday and will be concluded today. ,1

T h e People vs. Wi l l iam Gilbert-7 rand' larceny. Prosecutoi' 'Foster

says trial before Judge Collingwood will begin this afternoon.

The W. F . M.'S. of the M . E . church will hold its regular meeting in the cliurch parlors at 2:00 p. ra. Friday, after which tea will be sei'ved to tlie public from live ti l l seven-o'clock. Everybody welcome. B i l l , 15 cents.

Harley Ingersoll, a residentof L a n ­sing since 1855 and a pioneer merchant, died Sunday evening at (Ive o'clock of paralysis. Funeral services were held this morning at 10 o'clock with inter­ment in Mt. Hope. H e w a s born in Farraington, Mich. , Jan. 29,1827, be­ing 83 years old the day before his death. ^ ^ , . „ , ' • , . ; 1

Wlllia'fli Warren, aged 28 years, a machinist from Warren, 0., was inearly overcome by escaping gas''at his rooming house in Lansing Sunday afternoon.-^"He was- taking,; a bath when overcome. - His groans attracted the attention Of another roomer, who broke into the;bath.room and carried h im out;:; Warren was i n a n upright position in-;;the,.-tub:-or,'-heVdoubt-, lesswould have been drowned; , Doc-tors'said that in Ave minutes.more'he would have been dead from asphyxia­tion. He was'talcen to the city hos­pital.

A . L . V a n d e r c o o k

10 lbs G r a n u l a t e d S u g a r 50c, w i t h other groceries .

Potatoes, per bushel , 35c S w i f t ' s C o m p o u n d L a r d , lb, 14c 4 lbs G i n g e r Snaps , 25c 1 can L u n c h S a l m o n , 7c W i t h e v e r y sack o f F l o u r , a can

C a l u m e t B a k i n g P o w d e r F R E E

, Mason Grange.

Mason Grange No. 205 next Satur-d;i,y evening. ExemplKJcation in the third and. fourth degrees. Potluck supper. Plciise bring refreshments. •

Settle U p , , ' • • A l l account's not settled by cash or note this month (li'ebruary) will be left for, collection. .•, - .v*

5w-l Wjsbi! & WniTMAK.

, M,rs, Estel laBedfordof Williamston ' lias conimenced diyoi-ce proceedings iigalnst William Ijedl'ord of Lansing, alleging cruelty and ; drunkenness. • They were niariied in, Lansing\ lanu-' ary 1898, and separated iviarch J, 1909.; Mrs. Bedford asks the custody of theg two infant cliildrcn. , :The,ladles'aid snciety-of the First; '

Baptist Church held their annual mce'ting last week Tuesday and elect- ;

,ed ollicers for the coming year.: Presi- , dent, Mrs. A. - .L Hall; first vice presi-,; dent, Mrs. Clarence Bickert; second v vice president, Mrs, J . C. Quirk; third vice president, Mrs. Hugli Blakely;: ' secretary - and treasurer, Mrs. G. C -Moody. ' ,:'•

Wednesday night of last week occur- • red the installation of officers in the'^ Lady Maccabees. .Arpot iuck sijpper, was served at.six o'clock.^ Tliirty-five<, members from Lansing Central Hive and representatives from Dansvllle, F l in t and Pleasant lake were present. Leona Barr was Installing -officer, be­ing assisted hy Fannie Ball,, Al ice Chapman and Pearl Parker. A beau­tiful bouquet of ^carnations were pre­sented to the installing',officer at the conclusion of the work.;. , - - ,

• B U S I N E S S L O C A L S .

.If your money does not net yoti llvo percent., see n.O. Freeland. , • . jtt •

ITor Siilo. 0, I.e. swlno, both sex; also some Shropshire ^

owe lambs. All eligible to registry. Gao. P. Aif- -DitKws, six miles east or Maion. Rural plioue '

—————— • , ',::f.-.;; For Salo.

; jrorty acres of land.'all tillable, good buildings. ,-f nilt, lliifl spring with rnnnlng brook. ; Five miles' -from Mason. 1 Will exchange for larger farm.; See II. C. Freeland. M ,

Low prices on dental work this month. Desc teeth on rubber-plate, $5.00; aluminum plates at low pi ices. Low prices on lUlltig. • Extriicllng teeth wllliout pain, 25c. A. P. VakDecsen, ; Dentist, Mason, Mich. ip i

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, A good second-hand stove for.sale; , ; . •' • ctt ,JIM. L. J. Piiii,i,no. •:

,-Bofot-e buying wall paper, telephone Guy o, Koyston. Citizens'phone or B. 5tv3p

Man past SO.wltli horse and.buggylo sell stock ', " • "• l a r y W

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condition powiler in Iiigliainrconiity. • Salary S7ir per,month.: Address SOL^UnltyBldgi, Indlantip-oli3,Ind. - -

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M A S O N , - M I C H .

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F E B R U A R Y 1910

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.FEATU]{ES OF INTEIiEST

FREICfl FLOOB lOSSES

O e $21000 ,000

Situutioii Caused by the Deluge

Grows Worse, New Storm

Adding to Disaster,

T A K I N G T H E D I L E M M A B Y B O T H HORNS A N D T H E T A I L .

P L A N S F O R R E U E F IN PARIS.

A B O U T T H A T WHICH HAS B E E N A N D IS T O B E .

A l l Slileu and CoaiUtlnrin of TIilriR-s lire Shown. Notliiuii Overlooked to make it Complete.

Mil i tary Officials Are to Be in Charge

of Different Sections of the

Stricken Metroijolis.

EXPLOSION IN MINE

One Hundred Lives Snuffed Out in Colorado.

Over one iiundrod inoii arc believed tc» liavc l)c<!n killed by ii tci'rillc ex-(iliision in llio I'riiuei'o mine of Hit! Culorado li'iiel and Irtin Coiiiptiny .-it I'riiiierd, Oolo. Olliclals of the com-li.'iny .•.il.alc that Iho diKusler is tlin wur.st ill tlid lii.sloi'i- of western coal iiihiing. Sevonly-iiinii bodies of Iho victiitiK wore fiuiiid iiiliid in a mass jU, tho ffKif of Iho ;!<r Hliitfl. When file <!X(iln,sioii occurred liii! iiu'ti tivi-dciitly iiiitdi' a i'iikIi to csciii/n tlirougl: till! air .sliaft iiiiil woro .siilTiiealod as ihcy battlod witli oacli ollinr I'or free-doin. It if. kIiowii by tlio tiniokcop-or'K rociii'ds tlial llioro worcMfi mon in llie iiiiue ;il llio tiino of the o.>;-'liolhiion. None .-no boiicvod to bo alivo. 'J'lio main shafl uf Iho iiiiiio i.s cmii-phit.cly wrockod. Minors woi'O nishod •III I'rimoro from 'I'rliiidail, ;>o;;iuulo, .Sl.-irlivillo, Sojiri.s and Cokvillo, and »-iro laboiiiijj fniittioally lo oloar llu; .iiioaii .'diaft, rolioviii;; oacli nllior ovory low iiiiiiuloH. II. i.s iiiipi):;.«il)lo lo do-loriiiiiio liuw iiitioli of llio iiiuin slmfi has cavod, and il may bo days hoforo tho sliafl. ia cloarod and tlui total (loitllt ll.sl, known. There is litllo hope Vliiit any of tho mon in ilio niiiio arc alivo. The cotttpaiiy olorlr roports that .•Hovonl.y-niiio .safety lamp.s iiro niissiui,' and it i.s .sure tliat that niiinhor of iiioii are ciUninliod. Many of the iiiiiior.s, howovcr, say lliul. 15(1 men aro missiiiK. Most fit tmi victims aro tilav.s aiiif I luiigariaiis. Pit fJo,ss Wil-holm is known l.o be among the miss-hi.g. Tlio cumii is a, scouo of iiido-MU'ihablo liornir. Wliilo cviu'y able-iiodiod man is talcing liis turn with pick anil, shovel io clear the .shaft, the (voiiieti and elilldroii, kept hack hy ropes, have gathofed about the filiaft, v/COping and calling wildly Ti|inu their loved ones who liave not boon fdiiiid lOxperls from all tho coal oiLiiijiH of the slate have , .gatli-oroil In assist Superintend iit 'riuiiiipson. ,1. F. Wolbofii, prcsidont of llic Colorado 1'"'iiol and Iron Com-jiany, svliicii (iwiis the luiiio at Prim-i>ro, said that only meagre inform i tion liad boon received at lioadnu ii liu's. Mr. Welliorii said he was iiiiiiblo lo account I'or the explosion as nil iho miliars used safety lamps.

Premier nriand and Finance Minia-ter Cocliery, after a consultation in Paris, France, esliniatcd lliat tho flood losses would exceed ?200,000,000. Paris has been divided into five sections, each in cliarge of a military command­er, who will control the relief and res­cue work. Tlie Seine coatinued to ris3 nnd tlio situation was growing worso hourly.

A largo portion of France is under water and chaos is the order through­out the (loodod districts. Fears of out-brenks of opUleiiiics are entertained, and tlie situation is looked upon us ono of the greatest gravity. While tho loss of life thus far lias been small, tho property losses aro colos.sal. An estimate of tlio damage, owing to llio widespread ^-nvfusion, is iiuiiossiblo. Tlio calaniily!!; nafional.

There are n!'?;.,rts of hiiproveinent In a few provinces, but olliors are cut off from comiiniiilcatioii. Many towns and villages arn coiii|)li.>tcly isolated.

Tho doods throughout tho country continuo tlioir dcvaslation, Imt Paris und vii.'iiiily seem to be the worst lilt of all tho affected districts. 'i'liC cily facos n coriipliun lioup and daniii.m:' i;rows oiu'.li hour. The Seine roac lliri'o-(|iiai'lois of an Inch in hour.

i'"'aiiiiiio IS llireateiied in corlain dis-Irirls. In one place the bakers aro wllhniit (lour, and in anotlier the hutclier.s aro unable to oblain moat, AutliorltioH ovorywliero are liiisy de­vising remedies to meet llie silualion,

Tho goveriinioiit has voted $'100,000

T H E FOOD B O Y C O T T ,

Strikes Against High Prices Sprend-• ing to Many Places.

The "strike" on tho part of the in­dignant jieople against the outrageous prices which are demanded for .food Is spreading from city to city and Is be­ing hailed with enthusiasm.. >

More than 25,000 heads of families (representing fully 100,000 Individ­uals) in Cleveland, Ohio, have signed an agreement hot to eat meat; for tliir-ty days. An immediate result has been the closing of several meat markets and a reduction in the pHco of meat, espochilly pork and venl. The "strike" is spreading to Akron, Toledo and oth­er nearby cities. Meat orders in Clove-laud restaurants have fallen off fully 50 per cent. Union workmen In Omaha to tlie iiiiihber of over 5,000 have agreed to eat no .meat for thirty days, and It is expected tlie number will i-each 15,000. in Pittsburg the Iron City Trades Council has asked more than 1,500,000 working people in tliiit and nearby couiniunilies to abstain from moat for sixty days. Tliroe hun­dred families in Naugatuck nnd Phoe­nix, Conn., liavo joined a boycott against butter.

The assertion mado hy Ilie packers tliat tlio high price of meat is due to scarcity of cattle does not seem lo bo

Mr. Tillmiiii in the Senate Monday , criticised llie udinlnistration for fall­ing to prosecute suits against tho Sotilhurn Pacillc Railway Company for the recovery Of public laud granted to the railroad under tho coiidition that it sliould bo sold in tracts of IGO acres at not more than $2,50 an acre. The . House passed the urgent deficiency bill, after culling off tlio $125,000 horn for tlie InimlgraUon Coniniisslon. The bill carries nearly $5,000,000, which is $l,0(}t'),OPO Siiiiler the treasury esti­mates. 'J'lic House named .Mr. Clra-haiu, the Doiiiotu'atlc caucus elioico, tb succeed Mr. Lloyd oii the Lallliiger-Pincliot coniiuittee.

• Tho Soiuiti! Tuesday iiassed llie for­tifications hill currying $5,817,200 and; devoted some lime lo Iho considera­tion of a new uatloiiul forest in Mon-lanii, but look no action, i\lr. Beunot of New York made sweeping denials Of the cliai'ges made the previous day

borne out by tlic fads, A. D, Molvin, hy .Mr. Macon of .Arkansas of extrnva-chief Of liio Bureau of Animal Indus­try at Washington, presents figures Mr, Alacon refused in retract and the

ganco liy the linmlgralion commission.

$1,000,000,000 C O P P E R T R U S T .

Merger of Butto Properties A n ­nounced iu New York.

The ?LOOO,000,000 copper combina­tion Wall streot has been talking about, and the formation of which was delayed by the posslbilily ot iii-lerforcuce on the part of the govern­ment, was launched the other day, and an ollici;il staloiiuiiil by ,lohii D. Ryan, liresitleiil of the AiuMlgamated Coiijier C'ouip,iny, giving some of. the details, was l.«siied.

The Aiiacoiula Conipany will he the iiui'U'iis for the coiuhinalion. It will i.'iko over the securities of the Colc-liyan .inialgamated Copper Comiiany and also the Giig.genheim companies.

H E A R A D M I R A L D Y E R D E A D .

P L A C E S IN PARIS T H A T H A V E B E E N E L O O D - S W E P T .

IWurdocks Are Traction Kings. AimoiiiicouKMil will hc made soon

.it is said, of llio purchase by llio Mur-•fldcks, of l/afaycllc, hid., of Iho Soulli-<ifn Micliigati Traction Railway Co., ot which Arthur Kennedy, of Pittsburg, Pa., and ,T, Mr.M. Smith, of Soulli Hcnd, are the hoaviosl. stockliolders. The line runs from Soutli Hond to ,St„ Jois-

' epli, Midi, , a distance of forty miles, 'ily absorbing the lino the Miirdocks will mil througli electric cars from SI. .Toseph lo fndiaiuipolls, Tho Mur-<lncks already, own the Norlehrn In-•rtiana railway, coiiiiecting Michigan Oily and Gosheu via South Bend.

Odicor I'l-onioleil for nierllorloiiK Condiiet in 'J'avo AViir.s.

Rear Admiral Nehemlah Mayo Dyer, honored for distinguished service in two wai-s, diod at his liome in Jlelroso, Mass,, following an riillaek of acute indi.i?estIon. He was rapidly promoted I'or his meritorious conduct during the Civil War, and in the Spanlsli-Anior-icaii War was second only to Admiral Oowoy in ominent service at the bal-(lo of I\!anila flay, for which he was advaiicod seven numbers iu rank, flo was 71 years old. Tlie trip of llio vct-or.'ui luu'itl ligliter lo Washiugloii was for the purpose of learning llio result of a suit which he had hrouglit against tlie city of Melrose lo recover taxes paid under protest on the adiuirars bank account. The suit was decided against liim. ,

de ]a M a d e l e i n e - .

Lake Shore Has Wreck. With a strel.ch of straightway track

ahead, fast mail train No. ;15, on the JaIco Sliore and Michigan Soulliern railroad, overtook and crashed into a .I'fcight train near Swautoii, twelve lullos west Of Toledo, Ohio, killing one •trainman and seriously injuring two olliers. At the time of the accident tlio freight was riuuiing aliout twelve jniles au hour and the fast mail, luak-;ing at least forty miles, overtook it. n'ho engine of the fast mail jumped the track and turned over. Railway .ofhcials are puzzled over tlio accident.

Wellman to Fly Across the Ocean. It is understood lhat Walter Well-

.niaii, who sailed from New York for 'filurope recently, is arranging for a .hallooirflight across the Atlantic from Now York to England or France In his Arctic airship. This, it Is expect­ed,.wlir be eciuipped with now propel-lors and engines. The attemiit has hcon. set for ,Tuly._

Burned While Playing. The charred body of Peter Rogers,

;i. pioneer of lowa, was found iii his home at Iowa City by his grauddaugh-fteiv .The niau had been, burned,, while ,011 his knees praying, by the explosion inf a lamp. . , - ' , • '

Launch Run Down; Three Drowned, fi'loathig helplessly In a disabled gas-

.piine launch, three,men were drowned :when the launch was. run down hy «hc towboat Enterprise, Oft Hopefteld 3'oint, Tenn.

Discovered Wood Pulp Process. . Iih'ederick Marx, eighty years of age,

Hvho discovered the jprocess Of making jpaper from wood -'pulp, died at his iiomo in Marcy, aljout five miles froin' tuiica, N. Y.

Plac,? , <2e la C o n c o f ^ e

for the relief of sufferers. In many places homeless hundreds are living In tents, which, because ot the chill rain.'afford inadequal:e.slielter. The Red Cross Society is organizing aid for the sufferers. '. ''

TO L O A N G E R M A N Y V A S T SUM.

Amei-Icuii C<ii)lt»liNt.s to FnrnlHli ' .'ii1i!0,OOO,OOO to IVutlon.

Germany's" bid .for . American ..good •n'ill appiaared the : other ; day,, in the opinion of AVashington olliclals, when word was received that Germany asks for a loan Of $120,000,000... The loan. It seems, was to be announced in the flrst week>of this year, but was held, up when it became known to the Ger-; man government that eomplicatlons in the far East were to ensue. There is a disposition in Washington to be­lieve that the Morgan syndicate abroad will take a major share of this loan, placed on the market at 102.

The capital will he Increased from $30,000,000 to $150,000,000.

At a meeting of tlio hoard of direc­tors ot the Anaconda Copper Mining Conipany it was decided to call a,spe­cial meeting , of stockholtlers ot the company in Anaconda on • March 23 for the purpose of considering the proposition of increasing the capital stock of the company „froin the pres­ent authorized issue of 1,200,000 shares, having a par value of $25 a share, to 6,000,000 shares of the same :par value per share, for the purpose of acquir­ing the property, Of Other companies located in the Butte, district. >

U. S. PLANS $5,000,000 H A R B O R .

.Maijop Itee.s GiveN llluLs on OIiI<.-iii;i> l'i-o,|(rot to Uo afHiIe I'lilillu Soon. T l i a f a complete report of the plans.

Observations and recommendations of the corps of government engineers who havo been at work for the past two months mapping out a schenio for tho harbor development of Chicago will bo ready in about thirty days was tho aiinouncemenl made by Major Thomas H. Rees, in charge of the federal en­gineering department in the city.

The undertaking conlomplates tho construction of a huge, cement break­water extending approximately about a mile and a half fronrnorth to south and located about two miles from

I shore. In addition, a largo amount of dredging will bo done, andwlien the undertaking has been completed, it is asserted, the total cost easily will reach $5,000,000.

M E R C H A N T BOUND A N D SLAIN.

which sliow t.liiit more callle, calves lud sheep are being sent to the stock

yards now llian were being marketed for tlio corresponding period a year ago, Iu November, DOS, Chicago i«ck-era slaughtered 1G1,32S cattle, whllo iu Novombor, lOOlh the niiinher w.as 175,021), an Increase of 1'1,001 beeves during a period of so-called scarcity. At East St, Louis tho receipts of cat­tle for tho entire year WOfl exceeded those Of IDO.S liy 1)5,333,

Like a .suowliall rolling down hill under llie most i'avorable conditions, constantly growiii.i,' iu bulk and accel-eralln.!,' in spoiHl, the strike of tlie iii-diguant consiiiiiors against llio out-ragooiis jiricos of food nocessarios grows as each day passes. .AVliat tlie ultimate result will bo'reniains lo ho seen.

debate ul liimis heciiiiio torrid. The House passed a bill croaling a hiircau of luiiies in tho liileHor Dopurfmeiir.

" S T A N D O R . F A I L T O G E T H E R . "

T R A I N HITS BOBSLED.

Two IIiMidreil Seliool Cliliarcii Have Niirrow E.sciipe from Death.

A bobsled , carrying ;twenty: school children was struck by a fast Lake Shore and;Michigan Southern passen­ger train on North Main ,street and carried almost 200 feet upon the pilot Of the locomotive until brushed off by an engine standing upon a side track. . Not one child was killed and. none is believed to be seriously hurt.

i

llottle ot Cliloroforni Ilu.>ilile Body PouikI by Cliilil.

When little. Ferdinand Derosa, 6 years old, went Into his grandfather's wine shop at 331 Bast One Hundred and Sixtli street, New York, to get his usual daily penny something startled him and ho ran for a policeman. Po-licoman Sweeney, who hastened back with the clilld, found the old man dead on tho floor of a hedrooni behind his sliop, his hands strapped behind him and his feet tied with a gas tube. An open bottle of chloroform with a handkerchiof beside It was found In the room. , '

Miners' Leaders Dotenniiied to Ask Increase of Ten Per Cent.

"Stand or fall together" was' the sentiment of, the convention of tho United Mineworkers of America when it closed discussion in Indi.anapolls of the prospective strike oi' the bitu­minous coal miners. Union officials declared that tho biluininous miners arc determined to demand au increase of wages Of 10 per cent or more, thai no one district organization shall sign the uniform wage contract till all dis­tricts sliall sign, and if a strike is inevitable In one or more districts, ail shall strike. Francis Feehan, presi­dent of the Western Pennsylvania dis­trict, said his conviction was that the organization should issue an ultima-tujn that a strike In all districts will he called on April 1 It an increase of wages Of more than 10 per cent be not given, to go Into effect on that date.

Tito Somite spent Wednesday in con-sideralhiii of llie Ala.sknii legislative oouiicil bill and the Siimhiy closing law for the District of Coliiiiibia. The House jiassed llio .Alaiin "while slave" bill by a viva voce vote without lua-torlal auiendiiieiit from llie form ia wliich it was roporled from Iho com­mittee ou iiiterstalo and foreign com­merce. Hiiriiig a debate of two liours opposition was made ou coiistltutitiiial argiinieiil.s a,t;aiust the bill's provisions reijuiriiig keepers, of hrotliels to re­port lo the rnniinissinner general ol iuinilR'riilioii persons within llieit bouses who had conie to tlie United Stales within llireo years, whicli. It was claimed, infringed urioii state's rights.

Tiio postal savings bank bill was re-coivcd by the Senate Thursday, refer­red to coniniitleo and a bill for the disposition of Indian lands in South 'Dalcota by lot was passed, but not un-;lil Senators Gore anil ,Uurl(ell had bit­terly assailed the s.vstem. Animated debntu and political specclies wore the order of the day in the House, tho .subject beiiiB the agricultural appro-jiriation bill. Mr. Boutell upheld tho tl ayno tariff law. •

T W O BANDITS A R E C A U G H T .

GUNNESS P A B M SOLD.

W i l l Heoonio I'jirt of I loy«' SeliooI Whieh AilJoin.H It.

The fifty-acre -farm, pf,; Mrs. Bella Gunness, who was-Tiurned to* death with her three , children "in the Are which destroyed her, honie, April 28, lOOS, was soldih Laporter Ind.; to the' superintendent of,a.boys' school which adjoins the Giunness farm-and, of, whic^, it will become aspart. : ' '

WUcal Worth 9141,320,000. The total wheat crop of Canada, last

year was 106,744,000 bushels; averag­ing 21.5 bushels per acre, with a,n> av­erage market value, of 84.8 cents per bushel, according to the report of United States Consul Paul Lang, of S'herbrooke, Que. The agfgregate value Of the crop was $141,320,000. The crop exceeded that of 1908 hy 54,310,000 bushels ^

Prince Plehry of Germany is super­intending the preparation of an arctic exploring party which: In the spring will make an attempt to reach the nortli pole in a -dirigible balloon.

It Is a noteworthy fact that owing to the American superiority in the tan­ning, of leather, a large amountj; oC hide-stobk is sent to the United States for that purpose and then, returnijd > to Germany ready for use in tho shoe fac­tories.,-

.An, agitation' has,' been; started in Sweden for the reduction, if not, tlie abolition of ;the,duties, on .wheal;' and rye. The tremendously, high' cost, of bread in that country has harl much tb do w;Uh^ the,,'grro'wth'Of i',the industrial unrest.'

• Russia: Intends to; try \pro tection ;for •the buildlng-up^'of, her; Infant'; Indus-': tries m the way of agricultural , ma­chinery antj farm Implements. Under existing laws this class of manufac­tured goods Is'admitted free from iluty: and will be for another year.

Representatives of the Dominion gov­ernment are showing'sympathy •with the .movement ex-Presldent: Roosevelt launched for a great international body to discuss and suggest a systematic conservation of tho resources of the United ;States and Can-nfif

Sweetheart's Betrayal and Tale of M a n Who Saw Train Robbery.

C. 0. Eames, chief of the Missouri Pacific Railway's secret service, says llie identity of the robbers who held up the passenger train near St. Louis tlie other night is established. Clews furnished by a sweetheart of one of the bandits and information given by a tie hacker who witnessed the hold-up from behind a bush betrayed the des­peradoes. The girl is IS'years of age and lives in tho mountains near Eure­ka, In the county In which the hold-up took place. Posses are searching the northern p a r t o f the county. Night Polico Chief Gillespie received a long­distance, telephone message from Mat-son, Mo,, saying two of the band were locked up in a box car.

1 Rnilrond Url(1f;:c Stolen. Three men were arrested at Birig-

hamton,. N, Y., charged with grand larceny ifi. stealing ah Erie Railroad bridge. The bridge was a small three-ton structure oyer a creek. It had recently been replaced by, a heavii^r one and, was , placed, alongside, the tracks. When the construction train arrived to remoyo the structure it was not to be found. ^ ; :: • , :,

'I'lii-in' Wiir jlfiiy He Avertert. Nonlnsistence Of the United States

that Germany admit American meats more freely is regarded in official quar­ters in Berlin as simplifying pending tariff negotiations and removing; one of. the principal embarrassments.' On •the point of .American .cattle imports the German government,'it is declared, could not^yield.: : ' , > v'.

Woniiiu WIilii.s SCiiu Ilohlier, A highwayman''wh'q held - up "Miss

Lulu. 'Van Fleet,: tea!ciier im Lincoln high school In. Cleyoland,: was thrown, ,;intoa: snOwhanto h y the'wonianand^ trampled on. In her agitation, on leav­ing,; the man,\Mlssl;yan 'Fleet: left; her purse where it had fallen in the:snow' and.the robber'got,it in,spite of being whipped by his victim.

: Altmiin I» Acanlttca, The jury in the trial of Vincent Alt-

man brought in a verdict of not guilty in Chicago. Altman was accused of having exploded a bomb that partly destroyed • the. central • exchange of the Chicago Telephone Company on June' 27,

I The Senate spent more than two ;lioiirs Friday in a fruitless acadomlo 'disciLSsioii Of tho tariff, Mr. Lodge conteiHliug tlial the rates of duty have , no effect on the price of living; and Senator Bacon taking llie contrary 'View. Mr. Gallinger and Mr. Bailey indicated that they would oppose the ipostal .savings .liank hill.' The Gore [resolution I'or an inquiry into the co.st of transportation of second class mail: fnatter was rel'erred to the committee ion jiostofhces and post roads and atl-pournment was taken at .4:10 .ji. in., luntil Monday. Mr. Dougliis suggested,' creation of a committee on budget so ilhat war expenses could be kept down. In the Interests of agricultural appio-.priations. General debate on the agrl-•cultural bill was concluded and at •:I:3G the House adjourned till Mo.n-day.

X e " Slonoiilnne Wonder. ; .'V. :i'j. pnt'/ner, the Inventor of a mon-

fiplano radically different from any yet dovisotl, inailo a series ot successful (lights, with unparalleled short lurn.s and abrupt ascensions, at Hammonils-port, N. Y. 'Pho flight was the first public doiTionstralion of the first liome-mado monoplane to lly In America. It does not use tho warping tips nor th» rear, nulder, which the Wrights havo made the basis of numorous „,suits against monoplane liuildcrs. Mr. Pfitz-nof has not patented his unique,bal­ancing and atoering .devices, and says ho had n\lntontion of doing so, but in- , vites all who aro interested to exam­ine and make .use of his Ideas. Hla propellers: showed the unprecedented , push of 235 pounds, enabling the ma­chine to leave the ground 100 feet from : the starting point It soared into the • air at an abrupt angle of 15 and ;20 degrees.

(irniicl Oi>era l)y "IVIrelenH. Two now marvols have Just been

tested by the New York World, one:, bringing a performance of grand opera into the home of any ono having a tele-phono, and tho other: picking wireless , messages out of, tho air Ayithout, ,tho,: uso of tho .towers, which havo .hereto-:, foro been considered: necessary. ..Thov: Instruments used In both cases,are.-llt-.,..: tie boxes that;,one could carry .'inka:}!, coat pocket.>. vTwo,'of, those are placed:>; on tho stage of the theater where ithe.i'iS performance is taking place, connccteflij!,, in the one case with tho telophoii'a , i j rff"'VI wires and,in tho,other with n-wirelos's j , ; ' / ' / ' * , ! ' plant. :. Corresponding boxes nmy . ba .:fejSA^^ used in 'any number ,of homes by sim-.,4&fe!wJ: pie ^'connection , with the.telophono-tTe-':4> ceivcr. ' ,-,

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. : • SHORT NEV/S NOTES. Churches at Holland,- Mich;, 'havo

abandoned Junior ChristIan,:.'Endeavor!; evening:.meethigs,.because:: of,'tlie,:;new.: curfew law. |,:i President KrugerfOfftheiPhiladolphia.:: Rapid .'Transit Company,; has„.irefused:: tho arbltlratlon:proposition:;.of tbotrff.o-'; tion f employes.;:,,:;.:

In *;an;;'effort'to:.float 1. the:; excursion:; steameriClty of Providence, pushed ./' sishorc b y a n ;ice.gorge,: it,,was .wrecked.: and'Bunklat St. Louis. ^ >

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TO S H A E E H E R M I T ' S H O A R D .

Miiiiey Koiiitil Kiiliteii In .Viirelliix lteel(iKi".s Sliiielc (J<ie.*i to IteliKIv«rs, Tho (Inai hiiaiing in regard to_ m'ov

Ing who are Ihe legal lieirs to tlu: Miirsl estate lias been held In Jlasoii, nnd the projierty sold In order io pii.v Off tho heirs, Wesley Ihirst was the Aurolhis rochise, who died a few years itgo, and iil'ler his death abonl ?2,;i0i) In money wus found sewed in his idoUios and concealed in the old shacli where ho livoil, lie owned a valnaiilo I'arni, but had denied liimsell Ihu coiii-I'orlH and even tlu; common necessities oC life In his desire to hoard his mon­ey. Mo was iiiiinarrlod and lived alone, htil during his last lllnoss was well eared I'or In a nelghlior's homo, l lnrsl h;ul lived In the vicinll.y abovii fifty years, and at tho fi.ino ol' his (liiftth nothing was Itiiown of his fam­ily, Sonifi time alter hisdeath it was learned that lio was ono ol' a family or twelve olilUlroB and that ho caiiio from Ohio. Twelve ot his no|iliews and nleco,s, till I'ar nasi, the lialf-coiitiiry mark, have been located in Ohio, In­diana and lowa, Koiir oI' them were jircaent at the recent hearing. There will he several IniiiilrPd dollars I'or each Of the heirs.

H A R D W I N T E R K I L L S QOAIL,

D.vllli:' 'i'liiMiNiinilN lit (lie lllrdN Arc fi'oni ,S(nr\-i»(ion.

When the last Lasisla.liiro enacted a law iirolilbltliig the kiilllng ot (|iiail until HIM the hiwniahers evidently I'or-got to iirovido any iirotection against, tho elements, and as a resnlt ol' tho heavy snow jiiul colli weather thou­sands of birds havo been Icillod in the past two months. Game Warden I'ierco Is receiving ro|iorts every day from various partri oC the Slatu show­ing that Iho binia nro d.viiig in largo, iiiiiiihers. Pai'lrliteo.s, boiiig a liai'ilier bird,, and hoiiig able to seciiro ciioiigh to oat whllo the ground is covered wiili snow, manage to Kiibsisl. Pierce sa.vs that niiiiiy rarniera aro scattering grain iioar their barns and the are being I'eil in this manner in soiiie districts. A I'ow win I ers lilte tho iii'cs-ont Olio ami the oii.Til i" this Slate would bo e.vterminated,

S A V E $1150,000 A Y E A R ,

Deputy A iiilltor-IJeneriil r.iidiusi-. ji.s(l« 0\'ei- lii.snnc A;.i,vlnni l.iMV, Dcinity AiKlitor General Simpson Is

ontliiisiaslic over tlio manner in which tlifi new law Is working out, retniiriiig liroliato jiulgos to lUe iiioiiUily reports Of the number of persons coinmilterl to Insane asylums, the amount of prop­erty tliey possess and tbo names of their l.mmcdiale relatives or guardians The lieads of the various State Insti lotions I'or the insane and of the iioni for the rcoblo-mlnded and opileiitic ren der nioiitbly rciiorts, and by thene statements it is possible to ascertain whether any of the Inmates of these institutions are'being supported by th State when wealthy relatives could easily alTord to pay for their main tonance. Deputy Simpson estimates t'hat tlie law will be the means oC sav-ing the state about |l,'iO,000 each year

NOW R I C H ; TO B U Y "OLD E A R M , '

ICcKired lli'iilier of CIiieiiK'o AVIU lie liirti io Doylieod Home.

William .lohnson, a Chicago broker who retired from business two year ago a inlllloiiaire, plans to return to Wadhams, a hamlet near Port Huron where ho spent his boyhood and pur chase the "old Cn.rin." His purpose lo build a country liome there to. oc­cupy, in the summertime. Ho is 52 years old. .lohnaon's father sold the farm back in tbo 'GOs, when Williain WHS 12 years old, and went to Chicago to ho a jani'tor in a brother's office. That is how Willia.m happened to bo-coine a messenger tliere, then suoceri' Kively stenographer, bookkeeper, part­ner m the firm and owner,

R E A D Y TO BUILD R A I L W A Y .

lliiiiily llroN. heeic I'orniii for C'Ky'N (Jiiro Line.

.Judge Shepherd and Thomas Handy Of I-Iandy Bros,, Bay City, called on the State Railway Commisison on a recent forenoon to arrange lor a hear­ing on the plan ot proposed organiza­tion of a company to buikl a steam railway from Bay City to Caro, a dis. tanceyof 12 miles, Handy Bros, have

;:.the details all worked out for the pro­posed organization, sale of stocks and bonds, and construction of the road.

vThey will present a map oC the pro-vposed route and the details to the com-,.,,misl&on at a conference soon. It is V,estimated the road will cost $500,000;

F I R E VISITS EOE'S H O M E .

PlnmvH Aliiio,><t Dvxtroy LiiuMliii; DcpiLrtmcill'N liotLSti. .

Valiant work on the part of the lire department, saved the local flre head­quarters In Lansing trom destruction, A visiting alderman: called, at the de-

-partraont und Informed the • firemen that-hevsmelled smoke. An investiga-^ tioni.showed a steadyvhlaze undertway dm the attic i

S T A T E NEWS LN B R I E F . Louis Phillips, a leading business

mail of Union City, died very sncldenly, aged 47 years.

After an Illness of but nine days Klwyn Corry, a Port Huron high school student, died of npjianiHcitls,

The county road institute for St, Clair anil Liipoor counties will hit hold al the courthouse in Port Huron Feb­ruary 11,

.Mrs. Henry Depew, wife of a wealtJiy fanner near Ann Arbor, was killed by the discharge of a sliolgiin which sho iwcUloiiially knocked against a cliiirn.

At Bllsslleld Earl Cheney's skull was crushed in an atteiiipl to board a friolgbt train. Ho was thrown to one side und the trucks struck bis head. He will recover. .

A horse tiriveii by Ceorgo Locke ran upon the D. U. R. track near Blrmiiig-liniii and a ear struck the rig aiiiid-slilpa, Ihrowiiig fjocke out and bi'oak-liig his arms and one lt;g.

JUcluird Varcoe was stabbed to death in llio street in Isbjicniing by two in-to.xicalcd men. .lainos Scopacasa and .lames Donate, Itttlians, wore arrested und cliargoil with the crime.

A lO-story flrepi'oof hotel will re­place the old Bnrdick hotel, which Wixs destroyed by lire in Kalamasioo r.lio llrst ol' December. The new hotel will cost 111 the neighborhood of IliOO,-000.

The','Vdrlan high aciiool graduating class has deckled In make sliiiplicity in dross tbeir slogan for tbo, 1010 coniiiiencomcnt. Simple white without frills will be worn at all the chisa functions.

Whllo walking along the .Pore Mar­quette tracks near Grand Rn.pids, fg-natz llatii.|ci(ak of Bay City and Waltei; Cooper of Covert wero run over ami severely mangled. Bolh legs of tliq former and one of the latter wero an> imtated at Buttorworth hospital. Bollli Will 'live.

.lohii Henry, '1-year-old twin son o:| Dr, alld Mrs. William Acker,, of iVlon roe, died suddenly from llie effects, ii; i.s siijiposcd. Of sulphuric jioisoning. A I'ow days ago tlie lad got hold of somq matches ami chewed tho sul|)bur ends, Ho becailio III, liut was given iiroinpl medical trealment and i l was tiioiighi he was out of danger.

Cauglit In front of a "carriage" when, hi;ariiig a heavy log, it w.as started mi, and rjuickly borne by i l into the Leeliti of a rapidly-revolving circular saw, August .lohnson me t a shocking I'atc in a sawmill at PoUston! Ills leg was severed al the thigh and death followed i almost immediately, .lohnson was 10 years old and leaves a wife'anil sevc i children. He for­merly lived at St. Ignace.

Driven to desperation over his fail-nro to rec-)ver nearly lfl,000 wliich he claimed his brother owed him and facing starvation, .lames Woordbuls, ot llolland, confessed to Chief Kamt'er-bock that he had startet] a lire in the clothes press of his home in the hope of realiiiing some money on his furni­ture, which was heavily insured. After starling the fire Woordhuis went down town, but neighbors saw the smoke and saved the structure.

The case of James Biirke, alias Bar-ten, and Charles Thompson, alias Mc-Cormink, the Mecosta county bank rob­bers, and alleged members'of the Jjake Shore gang of Toledo, went to the jury the other'morning and a verdict of guilty was returned in Ionia. .Judge Davis immediately sentenced tlKTi to lo lo 2G years In Jackson, this being practi.yilly a 20-year sentence. Tbey have uh'cady served a year there and hotli have served timo in other pris­ons.

Dr. Win. -H. Haze, tlie last, member Of thts Michigan legislature of 1S57, is dead at his home m Jjansing. He was horn hi Port Hope, Can., April 13 ISIC. In IS l l he went to Oakland county, where he resided until 1SG2 For several years he was a circuit rider in the Methodist conference preaching in both Wayiie-and Oakland counties. His medical education he •eceived at an Ohio iiiedioal school, and for a mimbor of yeai-s he practiced st .Farmlngtoii.

Because one of his children was found t0| he an iinbeeilo, a man hy ,th6 nn.me of Harris and his wife and chll dren wero held up by the Port Huron customs oflicers, who refused to allow the girl to proceed any further on the American side.; The girl was at once deported, hut the I'ather accbrapanied her hack across the river and said that 'he would arrange for her care. ;How ever, he mtide.another attempt to got her across hy another route, but his plans were again thwarted and the girl was deported'for good.

The Marshall Business^.Men's asso­ciation, elected ., officers.'as follows: President, .J. C. Beckwith; vice-presi­dent, Stephen Allen; secretary, W. T; Phelps; treasurer, C, H. , Billings.

R E C E I V E R FOR T H E HOCKING;

Iron Company with Two Al l ied Con­cerns Has Capital of $8,700,000.

•Receivers woro appointed by Federal Judge J. B, Suter in Columbus, Ohio, for the three companies comprising tho Colu.nihiis and Hocking Coal and Iron group of interests,

A. L, Thurman of Columbus and William A, Barbour of Kew York aru, named receivers for the Columbus unJ Hocking Coal and Iron Comiiany.. .A, ; T, Seymour of Columbus, receiver for tho Columbus ami Hocking Clay Con-siniction Conipan.v, and F. N. Sinks of Columbus, receiver for the Columbus nnd Hocking Brick Manufacturing Company. The bond of the first pair of receivers was fl-^ed at ?GO,000, that of Seymour at if25,000 and that of Sinks ?.15,000, The bonds furnished hy a surety company and the receivers will take charge at once.

The appoliitnieiits wero mado upon the aiiplicatlon of Henry D, Ilolclikiss Of Now York, receiver in bankruptcy for Lathrop, Haskins & Co, oC New York,,for tiie first named receivership. The Colambus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company applied for receivers for tlio other two companies, Tlie slock Of these coiniianies is lield by tho saino interests as control the Co­lumbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company. These companies aro of comiKiratlvely recent origin. The brick company Is just getting its pi'oduct?. marlceted. It has a capital of $1,-000,000 and an etiiial amount of bonds. The capital of the construction com­pany Is ,'i;500,000, Tiie, Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company has a capital of $7,'200,000, of which only tho IJ200,00O is preferred stock. It has $7,000,000 bends outstanding.

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S T E N S U N r IS L I B E R A T E D .

Totters from Prison, 'WTiilo Hering, His Old Cashier, Is Picture of Joy.

Out Into tho sunlight of a belter day than lie has known for three glooomy years, Paul 0. Stoimlaud, who wrecked the Mllwuiikoo Avenue bank in Clli­cago, a tottering, seemingly dying old man, walked from behind the walls Of tho poiiiteiitiary at Joliet eight miu-. ules after tbo prison whistle blew at noon .Alonday. Halt an hour earlier, Henry W. Hcring, rirm of step, a smile on his face telling his haiipiness to tho world, heard llio steel gates clang for the last time, and this lime from with-

'out,

Stensland was lalcnn at onco to St, Elizabeth's Hospital in Chicago, His adopted daughter, Mrs, Iiiga Stensland Sanberg, met him ;tl, tho prison and es­corted him to Chicago,

Hering's first' trougiit was of his homo. As fiuiokly as train and street car could rush him there he went to tlio cottage at SSliO Prairie avenue, where his wife and family threw them­selves into his arms in a hysteria of joy. His dinner that night, a family reunion, was the greatest pleasure of his life, he said. ^

W A L L ' S F A L L C A U S E S D E A T H .

Ruins Collapse, in .Gale, Crushing, a House—One Kil led, One Missing.

Si.x persons were known to be In the rooming house, at 428 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, which was demol­ished when a wall of aflve-story ruined distillery was blown down by the wind. Of these one is dead, another is miss­ing and four were injured. .Joseph Cassoneila was killed. .Joseph Branni-gan is missing. The rooming house was a two and a half story bricic. At the time of the accident the wind was blowing forty-fivo miles an hour. The inmates of the liouse were buried be­neath tons of debris. Police and fire­men immediately set to work and brought five out of the ruins. .Casse-nella died later.

B O R D E R F I S H E R IS S L A I N .

Henry Wilsoi . - a hrakenian on the Northwestern road, was carried under the wheels of a ear at the Calumet yards iwhile 'attempting to,.make a coupling.' Wilson:,was.dragged'30 feet along; the track; an8 narrowly escaped being crushed 'under the wheels. He was seriously Injured-.

Canadian Game Inspector Admits F i r i n g at Launch on the Niagara.

John Weyand, 25 years old, of Buf­falo, was shot and killed while. In a (ishing boat on the Niagara River. The shots came from the Canadian shore. Game Inspector Thomas Briggs Of the Ontario Fish and Game Protec­tive Department admits that he fired at a; launch, containing two men. He declares that they were dynamiting lish near the Canadian side.. He or­dered them ashore and they replied with gunshots. , Briggs sent several rifle bullets after the launch with the intention of sinking It I-Ie has re­ported to the department' at Toronto and Captain Hunter has been sent to Port Brie'to investigate.

C H A P T E R XI.—(Continued.) It occurred to him that if ho loft the

body where It was and It should be eventually discovered, it would afford the eravest suspicions of foul play; but that if ho di-agged It back again to tho road and laid It with its face In the dust, against the rook with which the deed was done. It might pass for an accident.

Once more that hldoon.s smile of cunning lit up tho face which In these few moments had undergone a myste­rious deterioration. Ho hastily remov­ed the heap of rubbish, shuddered iia he saw the loathsome thing once more exposed to view, but seized it, dragged it Imck, and placed it with consum­mate art In tho , position which his criminal prescience had suggoslod.

As it lay there hr tho road liothlng could have seomod more natural than that it had fallen from tho liorsn; ho felt another nionientnry, relief from terror, in wlileli ho cunningly conceiv­ed a still moro .sagacious ,plan, on no­ticing Romeo. They were the best of friends; It was easy to catch him. Ho did so, removed the saddle, broke the girth and placed It near the proatrate figure of the quack, Nothlnff could have moro perfectly resembled an ac­cident. A n adopt in crime could not have performed this tosk with hner skill, and ho was free now to turn to tho rcst'of the work that li.o mtist do to conceal this ghastly deed.

Approaching the buggy, he found to hla immense relloC that'.Popeeta was still unconscious. With swift and si­lent inovoinents ho freed the mare, led her out into the road and drove hur­riedly away.

As ho emerged from the wood they came to another brook, so similar to the ono by the side of which the strug-glo had occurred, that ho conceived Llio idea of stopping by its side and awak­ening Pepoota. from hor stupor-thoro. "Sho will not notice the dlfforonco," ho said to himself; "and if she did not witness the fatal blow I can persuade her that I overpowered the doctor and forced him to return while she -was in hor swoon."

Stopping the horse, ho lifted her in­animate form from the carriage, horo It to tho'side Of tho broolc, laid It gen­tly upon the bank and dashed a hand­ful of the eold water into her white face. Sho gasped, opened her eyes, and, sitting up, looked about hor with an expression of terror,

"Where am I?" she asked, "Do you not roinombor? You arc

here In tho wood whore the doctor overtook us," he replied.

"And where is he'.'" "He has returned."' "But I saw you clench with each

other, and it was awful! What hap­pened then? .1 must have fainted. Do you mean that ho has gone back with­out me? How did you persuade him to do that?" .

"I persuaded hlin with my fists. You should have seen mo, Pepeeta!"

"Did he acknowledge that ho had deceived me?" ,

"He did Indeed. Yes, ho has gone, never to return. H e made his confes­sion and relinquished his claim. And so we have nothing to do but forget him and be happy.\ Are you feeling better now?"

"Yes, I am better; but I dm not well; I cannot shake It off. It seems too dreadful to have been real. And yet how much better It is than If ono of you had been killed! Oh! I wish I oould stop seeing It. Yet us go! Let us leave this gloomy wood. L/Ot us get out into the sunshine. See! It is setting dark. Wo must not stay hero any longer." , •

"Yos, let us go," he said, rising, lift­ing her gently from the gi'ouri'd and leading her back to the buggy, in which they took their,seats and drove rapidly forward.

Pepeeta's thought were full ot glad­ness; !:|.nd David's full of. agony—they rushed tumultuously back and forth through his mind like, contrai-y winds through a forest.

"Was- It not enough that I should be an Adam, and' fall? Must I also be­come a Cain,and go forth'with the brand ot a murderer on my forehead?' he kept saying to himself.

dared to speak for fear of uttering words which would betray him and which seemed to tremble on his lips. Had he been on shore ho Would have nod to the solitude of a forest; but here ho was reslstles.sly impelled to that other solitude—a crowd. The ne­cessity of being gay with his beautiful bride and of concealing every trace of hia terror and reinorso taxed his re­sources to their ulinost limit, and In his nervousness ho kejit Popeelix mov­ing with him all day long. At lt.s close she wits comiiletoly oxhaustod; and ro-tlrod early to her stateroom. l''rocd from hor company and craving relief from thought, David made his way straight to the gnmbMiig tables wlior the nightly games woro in full swing.

, In the months -vvhlch they had spen together tho quack had indoctrinated David Into all tho best-known sccrots of this vice, and besides this, had Ca iniliarlzcd him with the use of a cor lain "liold out" of.his own Invontion with -which he hnd .achieved Inorodl bio results and which was now to tho fraternity of tho river. Having wa.tch ed the players for a long time, David convinced himself that ho could oni ploy tills trick succossfiilly, nnd took his plnco at tho table.

D.avld i'olt his iva.y along with coolness that astonished hlinsclf, and Ills very fil'st experiment with tho doll cato iipp.aratus concealed in his sleeve was such a brilliant Iriuniph that h saw it was, undetected. With strciigllicned conlldence, he made tho stalccs larger and larger, and his win nliigs increased so rapidly as to make lilm tho center nf attention. The crowd swarmed round the table. The spoota tors became broathloss. The gambler wore nrst astonished, then liowildoi'Gd, As tliolr ncrvo failed them, J3avld's as suranco increased, and when day broke ton thousand dollars lay u|)on tho la bio before him as tlio result of his skillful and , desperate efforts.

Their loss astonlslied and enraged the gamblers lo such, a degree that with a proconccrlod signal tboy sprnn at their opponent, dotorinlned to ro gain their money by violence. The move was not unexpected, nor wo.'ibo unprepared. He fought as he lioi played, and so won tho sympathies of tho bystanders than In an Instant there was a general moloo in whicirho was helped to escape with the win­nings.

Ho was the hero of the trip, and a career had opened before him. Satol-lltcs began to circlo .around him and to solicit his friendship and patro" When,ho disembarked at New Orleans ho had already entered Into a part­nership with ono of the most notable members of the gambling frater-ov and purchased an Interest in ono of those "palaces" where games of chance attracted and destroyed their thou­sands, • . . Tho newspapers mado the gay

throngs of that gayest of all cities fa­miliar with the incidents of David's advent, I-Io .and Popeeta became tho talk be tho to-\'vn. They rciltod a f.ash-ionable house, and swung out Into tho current of the mad life of the motropo-Us of,tho South. '

For a llttla while this excitement and glory softened the pain In the heart of the man who believed himself to be a murderer .and encouraged him to hope that it nilght eventually pass away. He played recklessly but suc­cessfully, for he was a transient favor­ite of the fickle goddess. When gam­bling lost its power to drown the- voice of conscience, there was the race, the play and the wino cup! To each ot them appealing In turn, he wont whirl­ing madly around tho outer circles ot the groat maelstrom in which so many brilliant .youths' were swallowed In thoso ante-bellum days.

I'luiiM Uiider-.Seii role Diixlt. Dr. Ansohutz Kemp of Germany will

try to reach the north pole in a sub­marine boat. It is said that he has been working for a decade on the proj­ect and that he will build a submarine Of his o-wn design. It will be capable, t is asserted, oE remaining under

water at a great depth for a long period. , ,

BlK- ]\re.viu)iji lliiaU CIoMex. The United States Banking Company

in Mexico City failed to open for busi­ness the other day, following a run. The directors: have askedfor a receiv­er. The run 'took i from -$1,000,000 to $1,500,000 -from: Ihe^.bank. 'Its'deposits were $4,450,000,. Branches at Oaxaca and. Parral also suspended. , , • .

; Fiitally SliootK ntau; XlMvapcN. : :; At LoulsviUe.'W. Va., William Belch-;

er shot and fatally'wounded A . H . Par-rott. Belcher.escaped. Both men were miners, and i t i s said they were threat­ening to kill' each other on Bi£bt.

C H A P T E R XIL The morning after the fight David

and Pepeeta hurried on to .Louisville, and from there took a steamer to New Orleans. Pepeeta was. radiant with Joy as they embarked. "Plow happy I am!" she cried. "It seems as if I hail left my old life and'the old world be­hind me!"

"And I am-happy to see you glad," answered the wretched youth, whoso heart lay In his bosom like lead and whose-conscience was writhing .with a torture of whose like he had never even dreamed. They embarked un­known arid unobserved; but-as soon as,the first confusion had passed, theii;; singular beauty and unusual appear­ance made them the,cynosure of every eye.

"Who is that splendid fellow?" worn-' en-asked each other, as, David passed with Pepeeta on his arm, while' under their breaths men declared that his companion was the loveliest woman who had 'ever set foot, oh a Missis­sippi steamer. ^

David was. In neeij of excitement. The thought of; his .crime was ,con-Btantly agitating his heart, the pros­trate form of the doctor with the bloody wound'.on his forehead was' never, 'absent from i 'his .:tmlnd) and through all- the i;ceaseless - rumble around, him.: he could hear s the' • dull thud Of the stone upon the.hard'sUuJl, ;Th6 efforts which-he made'to'throw off these,.horrible i, weights jithat .lortiahfd hlm-were like those-of a/man awaken­ing from a tlslumaro. He acaroely

For two years David and Popeeta lived together in New Orleans. They were years full of import,, and of trou­ble, A. baby came to, them, lingered a few weeks, and then died. David pur­sued the occupation ho hfid chosen, with the vicissitudes of fortune,usual­ly attending the votaries of ga,mcs of chance, and the moral ancl spiritual deterioration which they Invariably de­velop.,- •'-,

i Popeeta altered strangely. I-Ior bloom disappeared and an expression of sad-, ness became habitual on her face. She was surrounded by luxuries of every kind, but they did hot give her peace,

iWith an ambition which,never flagged •she sought SQlf-lmprovemo.nt,- and at­tained it to a remarkable, degree.' E n ­dowed with; an' Inherited aptitude for culture, she read and studied books. Observed and 'imitated elegant; man-, ners, and rapidly absorbed; the best: elements of such higher-life as. she had access.tb, untilher'natural beautyi and charm were -wonderfully enhanced. Yet she :was: riot happy, for her'life with :,David ,;had brought her ^nothing, but surprise and dlsappbintment;' something had come between them, she know not what -' - , r

"Dey des growed ^apaht," said the old ni3gro;,"matnmy,'^ who' .was with them:-during, those 'two; years.: ''SeCm^ ed ,to des tech jeach.:other'like, mahbltss at a single,-point,: stade of moltin' to-gedder lak two drops rOf watah runnln' down a window pane. Mars' David, he 'done. :Went .he::.own ;way, drlnkin'

i and gaml5lln;';,l;he; lakta^ midrriari:^ -when he baby die. ;-I-Ie seem skeered when he see Miss Pepeeta. I She look at him wld her big black eyes full: of wonder

-and s'prlse, stretch out her ll'l ban's, and when he run Eway or struck her, she desigo outto the ll'l baby's grave,-creep!ng along;lak a' shadder through the gyahden;' soft lak and still. .Dar sho des set, down -all alone '.and 'sigh lak rte breez« In he old pine tree. Some days;;sho..,gone ' away.iall'lalone and d« b»«^k'! folks say sho wannar):an

aroun' In df woods. When Bunflay come, she. dos slip Into do olnirelios Ink a iri mouse and nibble up de gospel crumbs and den run away before do priests cotch her. Dark days dose. In lie old BiilUmtrae manHiou! And don como do night when dey pnlitcd, Tou dono heah about dat','"

The old colored mammy was right, "They Just grow apart," ns It was in­evitable'that they should. Perfect self-manlfestatloii is the true principle anil law of lovo, and when a guilty secret comes between two lovers, suspicion and fear Ineviuibly result. They ha-como Incomprehcnsiblo lo each other.

It was a frightful discipline; but sho was sanctltlod by 11, Day by day sha became more patient, gentlo and re­signed, and in inoporlioii ns sho grew In these graces, her lover's awe and fear increased, and so they drifted far­ther and fartlior- apart. Such rcla-tionshijis' cannot continue forever, ami they goncrally terminate In tragedy.

After Iho llrst few inonlhs' cxoile-menl of his new life, David's conselcno began to torment him anew. Ho he-camo melancholy, then moody, and finally felllnlo the habit of sitting for' hours among the crowds which swarmed llie Kanibllng rooms, brood­ing over his secret. From stage to singe In the evoluiloii of his remorse ho passed iinlll be at last rt^uilKid ihn.t of superfUiiioii, which attacks tho soul of the gambler as rust does Iron. And so the wretched victim of many vices sat one ovonliig at tbo close of tho second .your with his htit drawn down ; over his oytfs, rcnocting upon his paBt.

. "Whnt'.s the niatlor, Davy?" asked a, player who had lost his .stake, and wa:s whlstllni; good-liumoredly as lie left tho room.

"Leave mo itloiie," David growled, and ronehed fur a, Klass mug contain­ing a strong decoction to which ho was resorting moro and ino.re as 111 a troubles grew intolerable, A stiunge tiling hai)|)onod! As ho put It to hia lips its bottom dropjicd upon tlio ta­ble and tho contents streamed into hia lap and down lo the fioor. It was lb« straw that broke the camel's hack, for it hud aroused a snpcrstitioiia terror.

With a smothered cry ho sprang to his feet and gazed around upon his companions. Tlicy, too, had observed' the untoward accident, and to them ns well as to him it was a symbol of dis­aster. Not ono of them doubted that the bottom would fall out of his for­tunes as out ot Ills glass, for hy such signs as tliCEo the gambler reads hlH destiny.

Ho pulled himself together and madu . a Jest of the accident, but it was ini-possiblo for iiiin to dissliiatc tlio iin-prossion 11 litidinade on tho minds of his comiianlons or to banish the gloom from Ills own soul, .^iid so after a few bravo but futilo efforts to break the: spidl of apprehension, lie slipped fiiilot-ly away, oiienod thu door and passed, out into tlio night.

(To he eontiiined.)

P R E Y OE T H E T I G E R .

IllIN rulercii(!e for lliiniiiii Ar(er Oiiee 'l':iN(lnjv J l .

In the intervals of rest and recrea­tion which Mr. llees doubtless allows himself he ni-ay do worse than giva bis most attentive consideration to certain facts men-tloiied by a writer In the Indian Forester bearing upon., •the evolution of -tho forest lig&r's' taste, first for cattlo and then for hu­man meait, the India Daily News saya. .

Wien tired of the mon-olony of th* menu provided by deer or wild pis the -forest tiger develops a taa'to for domestic cattle, and then its raodus-oporandi is a very 'iiiiteresting study. Tho .menus is changed-from deep for­est to cattle-breeding ai-ea, .wlicre the-tiger leisurely canrd'es, on its depreda­tions until .ihol—'an operation which, however It might slioclt Mr. Rees, i» one of the most beneficent acts ol tha.' sportsman.

As tho -writer in. the aforesaid; periodica] .says, •the itransition triim ca;ttle.slayiihg to man slaying is nat a great step. Where caittle abound hu­man iheings are, .and, once the tiger,-,;,' has tas't;ed the liuman meat it deveIops.::\:

~im exitraordinmry passion for R. And'lf so it must luave its dully feed. It .-goes anywhere in search of f-ood.

A:tany years ago a tiger swam ; l'h»-,; Rangoon-river, nearly,a mile in widtlv • aiul landed in the heart of the local-; ity, crept under the luhsed floor of a, Burman ili'Uit, and was promptly, slaughtered. ., '

About six years ago a large tiger' : was observed on the iplatform of. the Shwe-Dogan pagoda at.Ritmgoon and'! , was, shot-by a party of soldiers toid., off for the purpose. The suiporsti'tious ,' Burmese, a,ttriibuted the. du;tbre<ak o f plague in Ranigoon to the shoo-tlng'/of-this itiger,, which they declared was som'O partl'culiai; manifestation. of tlia Buddha. It is a curiibus. fact, how- -ever, that the .plague, .ouitbreakvocr ' culrred sho-rtly .aCterwarii, and tha :,; city has not since beenyii-ee bf''th&-! , scourge. -. ' . ' ' ',. j

! A CoiuproinlKn. • "You'll have to send for another

doctor," said the one who had beeo,' called after a glance at the piitient. : ;, \:

"Am I so ill as that?!' gasped tb&'• ' •sufferer. ;: .-,

I "I don't know just how ill you aro,": , replied the man of medicine, "but I know: you're tho lawyer who cross-ex-:t' amlned me when I apepared as an ax-.-i: pert -witness. My conscience won't lot: ' • me kil l you,, and I'll he hanged if I want to cure you. Good day."—Philae delphia Inquirer. ., - ,- T——: r—. -'••. • - ,1;,,,'-.

Before anil After. Slifl was a frivolous, fash'lonahio

young -woman with beaux galore, but one man with only a small Income seemed to he the favorite.

"•you'll have to •work hard bef or* you' win that girl," said his mother.

"And a good deal harder after you win her," answered his "father, who knew virhat he was talking about.— Tlt-Blta

Kindness in ourselves the honey that, blunts the's'ting of upkindneJs ia Miother.—Peabod;

• i f f : ' ' - ' ' . ' i ' ^ ' 1 ' ' V

Jngliam dloiinty Smormt Piibllslied ISvery Wednesday by

W I L L I A M L , C L A R K , M A S O N , M I C H .

K.ntiiiud at tile I'oslnfllce, Mason, Midi . , as seeoiid-chiss tnatlt-r.

P K I C E S : ONIC VlCAK.. . , *1.00 Six WO.NTIIS .ISOn TnitKK JIO.VTII.S • SiOo

Wednesday, February 2, 1910

B i i O T j i K i t n . W . M o n o A X of the Stoukbi'icltfe B r i e f - S u n i idi i i l ts t h a t the r e p u b l i c a n p a r t y oubIiI, to be l i ck­ed, S t a n d up, please, t l i l it al l may be c o u n t e d ,

' T i s sa id thai; tnimixs and htjboea fl«lit .shy nf count ies where local op t i o n preva i l s , I f t l i is is so, luk'Hura should vote i t next sj irinK by a l l means . T l i e r c is no c o u n t y Mint has btien i ini lctct i more w i t h these iicsts t h a n InKl i i in i .

VVahden WJ!NOi!;it, who Is u n d e r i n d i c t m e n t by a .Jack.son K'rlind j u r y , wiia re-elected w a r d e n for i inotl ier yelir by the Jaclcsoh pr i son bolird last ni(,'lit. Wenk'er I'ccelvcd t l iree ou t of t l ic f i i i ir votes cast. T h e board shou ld be proud of its lictlon.

DuiuNG tlic pa.st eitjiit years state ta.ves liuve liicreasecl [A jier cent., city ta,\es 70 per cent., township tlixcs f)-! per cent, and village ta.ves (il per ceni,. A l l the time tlio republicans have luul control in the stiite iind lu the lar^e iiiajoi'ity of instances in the cities, townships iuid villages. Taxpayers, don't you tliinic it about tliiic for li clianKC';' ^

O i i A S U .S, O s i i o u N is (ino (if four rt^-p u b l i c a n s wlio ai'c scek i i iK the i; i ibcr-i iator ia l nol i i iu i l t io i i in M i d l ioai i . A t tile G r i d l e y c l u b b a n q u e t iu i o n ill lust ]i^iiday n ig l i t M r . O s b o r n poured, i t few h o t shot in to the ropubl ic l i i i ranlcs. j f vvliat lie sii,ya is t rue , aiKl lie says Ills s t i i te i i i c i i t can be i irovci i on i i ivcs-ti;,'iitioii, is it not t i m e tl l i it a pol i t ica l clian(,'c s l i i iuki be m a d e in this s t a t e ? T i l e fo l lowin i : is not a d o m o c r a t i c cl iari ie , b u t from a rep i ib l i cun wlio wants to be 1,'iivcrnor, ai;aii ist Ills own party . Ho .stii'e ;ind read tlie s ta l c -tuciits below I

,Sallyiii(,' back into a general dis cussion of state canipalL'i i issues, tlie. Sou c i tml idate ret i irnerl to his part lc i i lar I'nrm of p o l i t i c a l l l r c w o r k s .

"I t niliy he tellili(,' i i ar ty secrets," (•-ontiiiueii O d x i r i i e , " b u t 1 iiin i,'oiiin to doti l i i li few reasons why I disagree w i t h M r . .ICelley when lie says the s tate dcpartnic i i ' ts are bclnir and have been oiKirated c c o n o i n i c a l l y d u r i n g the present a d m i n i s t r a t i o n .

"1 have been duinj,' a l i t t l c f l c t c c t i v e work in beha l f of the cluises iif a l l the

\ , c c a n d i d i i t e s . .[ :fouiid tl i l it s tate eiu-ployes have been s y s t e m a t i c a l l y rob b i u g the s l a t e III a s m a l l , mean way. J l c r o are a few samples of the petty !,'raft I f o u n d ;

" O n o s tate e m p l o y e p u t up at a De-- t r o i t hote l roccnii ly. Me paid a b i l l

a i n o u n t i n K to $i;! and c h a r g e d up $;,!0 to the s tate as his l iotel expenses. A D F l i n t $7.,'30 was spent, a n d $0.,'iO was charged up; at I3altle C r e e k $!).'20 was s p e n t and $14.75 was c h a r g e d up; a l B c k l i n n iBS.iJO was pa id unci $7 was chari,'ed; in D e t r o i t ii b i l l of $5 was ciiartred up to the s ta te as $15.7,'); in P o r t ITiiron a bi l l of $i).50 broti|.;liD $14 from the state; in A d r i a n a b i l l of $8 broiif,'lit $0.75 back f rom the state and in Sat ' inavva state e m p l o y e paid out

, $4.(iO and received $(> f r o m t l i c state. "I do not Kiicss at t l iese lltxures; In-

vestit,'ati(in wi l l prove t h a t my tiliarKes lire not w i t h o u t f o u n d a t i o n . M a n y of those robberies have been of recent, wh i l e others date back two luoi i ths or more ."

Moers Damage Suit Settled. T l i e $10,000 daraa^'c s u i t of P e t e r J .

M o e r s , a d m i n i s t r a t o r , a g a i n s t the

Micl i l j , 'an U n i t e d R a i l w a y s C o . , a n d

^others, lias been s e t t l e d : o u t of c o u r t ,

and the case has been d i s m i s s e d by

s t i p u l a t i o n . E d w a r d Moei's, the son of the p l a l n -

ti ir, was k i l l e d by belni,' p u l l e d from the r u n n i n i ; board of a s t r e e t c a r two yelirs a},'0 last Septembei- , because of the piles of b r i c k alont; the t rack on M i c h i g a n avenue east. T w o o ther youot,' m e n ll|,'ured in the a c c i d e n t , E d w a r d D a n i o u , son of M r . a n d M r s . C h a r l e s D a i u u u also lusii ij; Ills l i fe, and the o t h e r 3'ounu m a n r e c e i v i n g severe in jur i e s . i

Messrs . M o e r s and D a n l o n , parents of , t l ie b o y s , w h o were k i l l e d , both s t a r t e d su i t s . I n the D a m o n case a j u d i i m e n t wiis secui'ed, a n d It was pa id by the c o m p a n y , but. in the M o e r s case in wi i l c l i a j u d g m e n t was also secured , a m o u n t i n g ,to $1,840.28, the c o m p a n y took an appeal to the su-prci i ie c o u r t and the h i g h e r courD sent t l ic ease b a c k for a new trial'.

T h e a m o u n t o f the s e t t l e m e n t w h i c h

lias been per fec ted was no t m a d e pub­

l i c — L a n s i n g . l ourna l , ,Tan. 28th,

S c l i o o l N o t e s .

T h e fo l l owing s turlents of the sec­

o n d a r y depi ir tment i r ece ived a semes­

ter m a r k above 85 per cent , iu all sub­

jects:

I F W O M E N O N L Y K N E W

W h a t a H e a p of . H a p p i n e s s i t W o u l d B r i n g to M a s o n H o m e s ,

H a r d to do h o u s e w o r k w i t h an acl i -i n g back.

B r i n g s you hours of misei'y at le i sure or at work.

I f women only k n e w t l ie cause—tl iat B a c k a c h e p a i n s c o m e f r o m sick k i d ­

neys,

' T w o u l d save m u c l i needless woe. Doan's K i d n e y P i l l s c u r e s i ck k i d ­

neys.

M a s o n people endorse t h i s : Mi's . Lcyvis C o u r t r i g h t , N o r t h and

M e c i i a u i c streets , M a s o n , M i c h . , says; "ITrom personal e x p e r i e n c e 'with Doan ' s I v i d n e y ' P i l l s , I feel j u s t l Q e d in r e c o m m e n d i n g t h e m . A b o u t a year ago I bad a severe a t t a c k of k i d n e y c o m p l a i n t a n d I sulTered i n t e n s e l y

. f r o m d u l l backaches a n d pi i lns i n ray k idneys . I d i d not rest wel l and I was a n n o y e d by a f r e a u e n t des ire to pass the k i d n e y secre t ions . .Doan's .

. K i d n e y P i l l s , p r o c u r e d f r o m Longyea'r B r o s . ' drug, store, d i d m e .a wor ld o'f good, r e l i e v i n g the acl ies a n d pa ins 'and s t r e n g t h e n i n g t h e k i d n e y s . Y o u arc at l i b e r t y to use m y n a m e as. a refci-ence." '

v F o r s a l e b y a l l dealers . P r i c e 50 cts. F o s t e r - M i l b u r n Co . , B u f f a l o , N e w Y o r k , Sole A g e n t s for the U n i t e d Stjites. E c m e m b e r the n a m e — D o a n ' s — a n d t a k e no o ther .

.lames Avery / Itoherl Ilalstcad Knlli Avery lidiia llaiaiiioiid May Uowden AliLXaiider Kunis LeiiiiiiKUiie lioi'diier Kiliia Lainhurl Dal.sy Call Murlo Madden Krud Conner Miiri-yiio MuCi'osseii Lillian Cou Lydla I'otts l''iirii Collins Floyd Hliaiv Walter Dolbeo h'nid .Searl Iva Diivldsoii Khiiviieu Taylor Kalhorliio ICIIetl iCiiiery WIiiIIl-IiI Kloroiitjd IJIIiiill Lama Voiini,' Louis (iretloii rani lluuhe Ifiiiiu lleiider.soii

T h r e e s tudent s r e c e i v i n g " E " in a l l subjects are J l a y B o w d c n , I r e n e J l e i i -dersoi i , A l e x a n d e r K e r n s .

K c p o r l , cards s h o w i n g c o m p l e t e rec­ords for the seniestcr were sent ou t oil T u e s d a y of this week. I f a p u p i l receives liu card it ia because he has neglected to re turn the sltiiic to us,

T h e f o l l o w i n g s t u d e n t s may con­s ider themse lves m e m b e r s of the sen ior class: . lames A v e r y , L c n i i a g e i i o l iordf ier , E t i i e l l.Uirgcss, L i l l i a n Cue, W i i l t e r Di i lbee , O r i a II. G i l l e t t , I v a h G o d f r e y , N e l s i u i r i u i i t l e y , h' lorcnce .Icwett, L a w r e n c e L y o n , H e l e n P l i i l -leo, . lo l i i i V . SIlilll'er, IHoreiicc T a y l o r , E r n e s t C o o k c l i ir p r o b a b l y bo cons id­ered a m e m b e r of t i l ls class, I l i s c l ia i ige of schools d u r i n g / t h e l irst s emes ter m a d e Ilis work here a l i t t l e u n c e r t a i n .

I f t r o u b l e d w i t h i n d i g e s t i o n , const i ­p a t i o n , no appe t i t e or feel bi l ious , g ive Cl i i i i i iber la in ' s S t o m a c h a n d L i v e r T a b l e t s a t r i a l and you wi l l be pleased w i t h the I'esulc. T l i e s e tablets in­v igorate the s t o m a c h a n d l i v e r and s t r e n g t h e n the d ige s t i on . So ld by L o n g y e a r B r o s . , drugg i s t s .

E U N K E E H I L L C E N T E E .

W i t h sadness we l e a r n e d of the d e a t h of Gi 'over W l i i t m o r c , son of o u r old f r i end D . P . W b l t m o r e , a n d ex­t end to h i m o u r h e a r t f e l t s y m p a t h y .

J . E . Baile ,y was In M a s o n T u e s d a y . P . H . D u n s m o r e and E . P . A r c h e r

were i n L a n s i n g T u e s d a y .

E m m e t t Cass idy a n d A n n a C l i n t o n were m a r r i e d at the O a t l i o l i c c h u r c h Tues 'day .

G . W . H o l l a n d vis i ted a t H e r m a n Bohnet ' s and C . F . Paer i ck ' s in W h i t e O a k S u n d i i y a n d M o n d a y .

T l i e r e were severa l w h o b a d on a large supp ly ot ice last week. T h e w r i t e r was a m o n g the fa l l en m e n .

T h e ques t ion , " R e s o l v e d , t h a t in­t e m p e r a n c e lias caused m o r e m i s e r y t h a n war ," was ably d e b a t e d by the p u p i l s of sc l ioor d i s t r i c t N o . 0 las t F r i d a y , T l i e negat ive s ide won.

W c a t t e n d e d the f u n e r a l of M r s . S e y m o u r at the H o l i n e s s c h u r c h in the southeas tern p a r t ot I n g l i a r a t o w n s h i p and l i s t ened to an e x c e l l e n t s e r m o n by R e v . G r e g o r y of t l i c B a p t i s t c h u r c h of D a n s v i l l e .

d i a r i e s B r i g g s has sold b is f a r m to N e l s o n D e C a m p and lias b o u g h t the f a r m of V e r n M . D e C a m p .

W e l e a r n t h a t t h e r e « i s to be a cheese f a c t o r y s t a r t e d at D a n s v i l l e th i s yetir,

P . H . D u n a m o r e wi l l s t a r t buz'/.ing wood th i s week.

, M r s . I d a B r o o k s is better. '

. N O E T H W E S T I N G H A M . E i i r l K i n g a n d wife v i s i t ed a t L .

B a r t l c t t ' s , west of M a s o n , Sunday^

Bc i ' t A n w a y and f a m i l y v i s i t ed at D . Sear's in A u r e l l u s S a t u r d a y aud

S u n d a y . - ' K . L . D a y t o n and wife of D a n s v i l l e

and George ,Shaw and wife of M a s o n spent S u n d a y at J . J . Sc . ir let t ' s .

W i n . A c k e r i ind wife of W i l l i a m s t o n v i s i t ed re lat ives in ti l ls v i c i n i t y over S u n d a y .

L i l i l i n B r a v e n d e r has recovered f rom i i er i recent Illness so as to be out .

C l a r e n c e I l ewes spent S u n d a y wi t l i R o y Ri ie .

M r s . D . P . I l u r l b t i r t is v i s i t i n g a t her brotl ier's , Isaac F i e l d , In A l b i o n .

M r s . J o h n S c a r l e t t has a new range . R u s s e l l K i t c h e n is vial t ing , at H e r n i

M a n n ' s .

A few m i n u t e s ' delay in t r e a t i n g some cases of croup , even the l engt i i of t i m e It takes to go for a d o c t o r of ten proves dangerous . T h e safest w!iy is lo Iteep C h a m b e r l a i n ' s C o u g h R e m e d y in the house, and a t t h e l l r s t Ind ica t ion of-'croup g ive t h e c h i l d a dose. P l e a s a n t to take a n d lilwayfe cures , Sold by L o n g y e a r B r o s . , d r u g ­gists .

D A N S V I L L E .

B o r n , to B a k e r D a k i n a n d wife , J a n . 27l l i , a baby g i r l . M o t h e r Is d o i n g nice ly .

Mi's, S e y m o u r , aged 71 years , d i ed at her homo In I n g h a m t o w n s l i l p last T h u r s d a y n igh t , a l t e r a l i n g e r i n g i l l ­ness. She was the m o t h e r of Jesse H u l l i ' o n e of the jui'ors In the F a r r e l l -Ila/.e case. T h e funera l was he ld S u n d a y .

M r . and M r s . Llo .yd G a y l o r d of D e ­t r o i t v i s i t ed in town par t of last week.

C o m i i i e n c i i i g F e b r u a r y ]5tl i r u r a l c a r r i e r s wi l l not be requ ired to co l l ec t loose 'coins from / I'ural m a i l boxes. H o w e v e r , if. coins are enclosed in an enve lope -or w r a p p e d secure ly In a l i iece of paper or depos i ted In a co in h o l d i n g I'cceptacle, the c a r r i e r w i l l be r e q u i r e d to take t h e m . T o o b v i a t e t i l ls , patrons s h o u l d purchase a s u p p l y ot postal cards , s tamps or s t a m p e d envelopes .

M r s . A n n W i l c o x is in .Tacksou th is week to litteiid it b i r t l iday par ty g i v e n i n l i o n o r of l ier sisl,er, M r s . A n i a n d s i O l m s t e d , wlio is 82 years o ld .

T i i c l lrsti-readiiig c irc le m e e t i n g wi l l be held at the scliool liouse F e b . 2Gth In the a f ternoon . Persona w i s h i n g books may get t h e m by s e n d i n g to D . A . W r i g h t , L a n s i n g .

T l i e B a p t i s t L . A , S. w i l l g ive a d i n ­ner Kb the h o m e of D r . L e m o n ou T u e s d a y , F e b . 8tl i . Y o u aro i n v i t e d .

' B i l l , 20 cents.

T h e ladles of D a n s v i l l e H i v e L . 0 . T . M . M . wi l l f u r n i s h s u p p e r for the d a n c e g i v e n by the Y o u n g Men' s C l u b on the e v e n i n g o L F e b , 5 t h . M e n u -B r o w n and w h i t e bread, co ld b a m , esca l loped potatoes, baked beans, as-sor ted cakes, pie, pickles , j e l l y , sa lads a n d e v e r y t h i n g else good.

A n a t t a c k of the gr ip is often fol­lowed by a pers i s tent cough , w h i c h to m a n y proves a great i innoyancc . Chainberhain ' s C o u g h R e m e d y lias been ex tens ive ly used a n d w i t h good success for the re l ie f and c u r e of th is coug l i . M a n y cases have been c u r e d a f ter a l l o ther remedies h a d fa i l ed . So ld by L o n g y e a r Bros . , d r u g g i s t s .

Ooinmou Oouncil Proceedings.

Mason , M i c n . , J a n . 31,1910. C o u n c i l m e t and was cal led lo order

by P r e s . ])ro t e i i i . -Moody .

P r e s e n t , A Id,: K e l l o g g , M o o d y , M i l l -bury and W e b b . >

M i n u t e s of last m e e t i n g read and a p p r o v e d ,

itHl'OliT Olf C-O.-^IJIITTKES.

T h e l loance c o m m i t t e e repor t the followlngc^liiinis a n d r e c o m m e n d t h e i r a l lowance t lierl Brown, 7 nlt'lus on .slreels SiO 6n H . 0. Call, slriiet coniiiilssloiier 'a no S. I). Nenly. lahoroii slfeiils.; 1 Sn

'M. C. It. U. Co., rrulKht on coal 07 77 M . C . 11. It. Co., ditto... VI 01 C. (!, Slilcklaiid, labor HI iilanl.. lll 8;i •r..I. Corner, ditto -1 On Saiii. KIkcr, ditto . . . . . . . . -I f)2 A. H. \Valkliis, dllli). . . . . . 1 i«) L.W.WhIted, ditto.... ;U Oa C. L.lilckerl, ditto K! 12 V, J . Uapp, I ino's salary, e.\press, etc...... 77 lid (i. i;. I'eok, 1 iiio's salary at; no K. M. Barker, dlllo .•• -10 00 (ieo. CiiininliiKS, ditto..... . . OO 00 (;. 1'. Mlukelsoii, lime and Ittiiibor for plant '2 J4 W. M. McCrosseii, sulphur r.O Arlo Whlpi)le, draylnt; 27 61 KIcu it Co., oil tor plant 2 H2 .1. 0. Qnlik, siiiiiilies 3 M Model I'atterii Works, ditto.... 18 ir, .larvis Jill);. & Macli. Works, ditto :i2 72 l t. Waynu Klec. Works, ditto.... 202 26 Sunday Crock Co., ditto. 106 111) Ca|i. Elcc. Eilt;. Co'., ditto 70 OS Mich, aniiply Co.,ditto. . . . IB 2:i .L K. Greve, Kfocerles for 11. Brown. . . . . . . ao Board Cemetery'rnistees..'':. Uj 60

M o v e d aud s u p p o r t e d t h a t repor t of the t i n a n c e c o m m i t t e e bo accepted and t idopted aud orders d r a w n for same. C a r r i e d . Y e a s , K e l l o g g , Moody , M i l l -b u r y a n d W e b b .

O n m o t i o n c o u n c i l a d j o u r n e d for one week.

E . l.{. K i c L L Y . C i t y C l e r k .

P r e s i d e n t H e l p s O r p h a n s . I l i i i idreds of orphans have been

h e l p e d by Miu PrRsidei ih of the I n d u s ­t r i a l and O r p h a n ' s H o m o a t M a c o n , G a , , who writes ; " W c have used E l e c ­t r i c iS i l tcrs III th is i i i s t l l i i t l o n for n ine years . I t has proved a m o s t e x c e l l c t i t n ied ic l i i e fur s i o m a c h , l i v e r and k i d ­ney tr i i i iblcs . W e reifard It as one of the be.-t f ami ly m e d i c i n e s on c a r t l i . " I t inv igorates a l l v i ta l organs, puril l i 'S l l i e blood, aids d iges t ion , creates a])-l i e t i l e . T o s t r e n g t i i e u and b u i l d up pliie. t h i n , weak c h i l d r e n or r u n d o w n people i t has no P(]iial. B e s t I'or female cumplaint .s . O n l y 50c lit L o n g -year B r o s .

W A N T R A I L W A Y M A I L C L E R K S

i n t h e b a k i n g that is where Calumet Baking Powder proves' its s u p e r i o r i t y ; its wonderful raising power; its never-failing ability to produce tlie.most delicious balcing—and its economy. In the baking—that is tlie only way you can successfully test it and compare it with the high price kinds. You cannot discredit these statements until you have tried

C A L U M E T the only high grade baking powder selling at a moderate cost, 51,000.00 is offered to anyone finding the least trace:of impurity, in tlic baking, caused by Calumet. ' A a k your G r o c e r — B n d i n s i » t thot you get C a l u m e t

Received Highest Award World's Pure Food Exposition, Chicago, 1907.

H I G H L I V I N G A T

L O W C O S T

After having been married for 37 years, Albert J . Hyde of Onondaga has llled a bill of complaint in the circuit court asking for a divorce from his wife, Ruth. The couple were married Januiiry 15, 1873, and the husband alleges his wife deserted him Novem­ber 1, 1907,\and has never returned. There are two sons living, one 32 and the other 27'yeara'of iige.

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T h e E p w o r t h L e a g u e of the G e r m a n C h u r c h w i l l jrive a post c a r d soc ia l at t h e h o m e of M r . « a n d M r s . G e o . M o n ­ger F r i d a y e v e n i n g , F e b . 4 th , A H lad ies are reques ted to b r i n g a post c a r d .

T h e R o y a l N e i g h b o r s w i l l g ive an e n t e r t a i n m e n t at t h e i r h a l l T h u r s d a y e v e n i n g , F e b . 3d.

T h e un ion i'eviviil services c a m e to a close here last S u n d a y e v e n i n g . R e v . J . B . M c M I n n c o m m e n c e d w o r k at O k e m o s M o n d a y e v e n i n g . O v e r 90 c a m e f o r w a r d a n d m a n i f e s t e d a des ire for s a l v a t i o n . T h e r e w i l l be a recep­t ion ot m e m b e r s Into t h c M . E . c h u r c h S u n d a y , F e b . 6th, and c o m m u n i o n a n d recept ion of m e m b e r s irlto the P r e s b y t e r i a n c h u r c h S u n d a y , F e b . 13.

M r . a n d M r s . L e e j G l d d i n g s a n d D a v i d H o w e l l o t L i i n s i o g a t t e n d e d t h e Sund.ay e v e n i n g serv ice at the P r e s b y t e r i a n c h u r c h ,

M e s d a m e s J o l i n A h r e n s a n d W m . B i n k l e y w i l l e n t e r t a i n the ladies ' a id of t l ie M . E . c h u r c h T h u r s d a y , F e b . 3d, for d i n n e r a t the latter's h o m e .

T h e second n u m b e r of the h i g h schoo l l e c ture course w i l l be g i v e n S a t u r d a y even ing , F e b . 5 th .

T h e r e w i l l , be a prayer a n d pra i se s erv i ce a t the M . E . c h u r c h T h u r s d a y e v e n i n g , F e b . 3d, 0 . - D . . W r i g h t w i l l l ead the song service , and W e s l e y W e i g m a n and E l m e r P r y o r w i l l t a l k for l ive m i n u t e s each on how to s t i l l c o n t i n u e the r e v i v a l sp i r i t . S c r i p t u r e verses w i l l be c a l l e d foi;.'

The Government Pays E a i l w a y M a i l Clerks $800 to $1 ,200 , and otlier

employees up to $2 ,500 annually.

U n c l e S a m wi l l ho ld e x a m i n a t i o n s t l i i io i igl iout the c o u n t r y for R a i l w a y M a i l C l e r k s , , C u s t o m H o u s e C l e r k s , S t e n o g r a p h e r s , Bookkeepers , D e p a r t -n i c n t a l C l e r k s and o t h e r G o v e r n n i e n t P o s i t i o n s . T h o u s a n d s o t a p p o i n t m e n t s w i l l be made . A n y m a n or w o m a n over IS, in c i t y or c o u n t r y , can g e t in ­s t r u c t i o n a n d . free i n f o r m a t i o n by w r i t i n g at once to the B u r e a u of I n -a t r u c t i o u , 119!) H a m l i n B u i l d i n g , R o c h e s t e r , N . Y .

R e a l E s t a t e T r a n s f e r s .

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Ttfoman's Wloss Rose Flour at less than 820 per p o u n d , w i t h the cost of a n y other food product .

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of T h o m a n ' s M o s s Rose F l o u r .

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Saved From A w f u l Per i l . "I-never^telt ao near my grave,"

' writes Lewis Ohamblio of Manchester, Ohio, R . . R . No. 3, -"as when a fright­ful cough and lung, trouble pulled me down to 115-pounds in spite of -many remedies and the bent doctors. A n d that I am alive today is due solely to

D r . "King's, New Discovery,.,which, completely cured me. i Now I weigh' 160 pounds and can work hard. It also cured my four children of croup." Infallible'torcoughs and colds, its the most certain remedy for la grippe, asthma; desperate lung trouble and all bronchial affections.: .50c and $1.00. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed, by Longyear Bros.; • ..

Card of Thanks. WoAvlah to thiinlc- the klnil friends In Dans­

ville and Mason for Clielr help nnd .sympathy In our kite bereavQinont and tbo home nolghboi's

W h e n the bowels are constipated, poi­sonous substances are absorbed.into the bloodinstead of beingdai ly removed from for their lovlnR synmatliy and help and especial •ho K.»,tf; n.. r.; ,f„ro •^f<.n;5o.i K-n^n,!.,™ y for the ovoy floral ofllor ngs, and wo wish the body as nature intended. K n o w i n g /,go ^ the imdertalcer and doctor for this danger, doctors always inquire about tiielr lUougbtful care and kindness for us. • v • - • - - - - MBS. Maiiv Olakhn-, the condit ion of the bowels. A y e r ' s P,^ills.!

— M « i l o by tbo 3, C, Ayor Co.,'LowelI, Itaa'a.—>''

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M a r y E . L e B a r , N 1-2 of W 125 f ee t o f l o t 10, bl lc 5, G r e e n O a k

a d d . L a n s i n g - , $2600. H . C . W a r d a n d w i f e to P . L .

Y o u n g a n d w i f e , l o t 1, b l k 3, H a n ­d y H o m e a d d , L a n s i n g , $1700.

M a r y E . L e ' B a r to J . M . B e d e l l et a l . , W 30 f e e t i n w i d t h of l o t

I o f D . © . ' T a y l o r ' s a d d , L a n s i n g , $2400. ,.

P . B . W a t s o n a n d w i f e to W . B . G o r d o n a n d w i f e , B 2 r o d s . i n w d h o f W 1-2 of l o t 5,. b l k 62, L a n s i n g , $725.

0 . D o o l i t t L e a n d w i f e tO' F . R . R i c h m o n d e t a l . , E 1-2 o f N W 1-4 o f See . 19, A l a i e d o n , $3500.

C . W . M e r r i l l a n d w i f e et a l . , to C . i L . S p a u l d i n g , N 33 f ee t o f l o t a

II a n d 12, o f . E n g l e w o o d P a r k a d d , L a n s i n g , $1338.

C . L . S p a u l d i n g a n d w i f e to P . B . M c ' K i b b i n a n d w i f e , N 33 f e e t o f l o t s 11 a n d 12, E n g l e w o ^ o d P a r k a d d , ' L a n s i n g , $1338.

P . R . R i c h m o n d a n d w i f e to 0 , D o o l i t t l e a n d . i W i f e , l o t 14, G . S. F r e n c h ' s s u b o n ' b l k 1, J . M . F r e n c h J r ' s , s u b , o n Sec. 17,: L a n ­s i n g , $2000. : . .

C . B . D a v i s a n d w i f e to D . H . B u r g e s s a n d w i f e , l o t 10 a n d S 1-2 o f l o t 11, b lk ' 1-1, M a s o n , $3000.

M a r y - M . M c P h e e t o J . M c P l i e e , W 1-2 of E 8 1-2 r o d s of l o t o n

•b lk 4, O l a y p o o l ' s s u b of B 1-2 of N E 1-4 o f See . ^17, L a n s i n g , $5000.

G. B r i g g s a n d w i i e to N . J . D e -C a m p a n d wi fe , , W 1-2 fot W 1-2 of S B 1-4 a n d E 4 acs o f S W 1-4 of See . 15, B u n k e r h i l l ; $1400. , V . . M . D e C a m p a n d w i f e to C , B r i g g s a n d wi f e , . E 1-2 of N W 1-4 o f S e c i 15, B u n k e r h i l l , : $2800.

B . E . H i l l . a n d w i f e to B e r t A . S p r a g u e a n d w i f e , E 1-2 o f W 4 r d s i n w i d t h o f N - 1-2-of l o t 1, b l k 2, T o w n s e n d ' s s u b o f N ' f r l 1-2 of S e c . 20,1. L a n s i n g , $2300. •

R e b e c c a S. C o o k b y h e i r s to , J . C . M o n r o e , l o t 23, b l k 33, O w e n ' s t h i r d a d d , W i l l i a m s t o n , $15o'0'. j

J . C . M o n r o e a n d w i f e t o J ; S. H e a l d , . l o t 23, b l k 3?, O w e n ' s t h i r d a d d , W i l l i a m s t o n , $1500.

W . E . M a r l i o g a n d w i f e . to E d ­w i n H a r n e a n d w i f e , W 1-2 oi l o t 6, W h i t e ' s s u b o f l o t s 1, 2 a n d J , b l k 11, o f O l a y p o o l ' s s u b o f B 1-2 o f N B 1-1 o f S e c . '17, L a n s i n g , $1316. ;

W . C . M a r l i n g a n d w i f e t o D .

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8:56,10:26,11:49. F . VV, B R O W N . J i i c k s n n ,

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M . K . G a m p i i k l l , L o c a i A g e n t .

" E x c e p t S u n d a y . A l l o t h e r cars da i ly .

M^SGUKBriB DUN^^^^^ ' E . MuUiken and w i f e , l o t 26, J o h n ­

son's a d d , L a n s i n g , $2800.,

D . ' E . M u l l i k ( 2 n a n d w i f e to W . E . M a r l i n g , c o m at S E c o r of S 1-2 ot N'1-2 o f S e c . 5, p e l oif d e s c r i b e d l a n d , V e v a y ; $1500. ~ .„

P . W . i M a r t l n a n d w i f e ito J . G . R e u t t e r a n d ' w i f e , l o t .23 of.. O r ­c h a r d H o m e a d d , L a n s i n g , $.|00.

J . N . G r a h a m a n d w i f e to A g ­nes N . E w e r , W i - 2 o f lotsi 1 a n d 2, b l k 35, ' L a n s i n g , $1500.

W . M a r t i n a n d w i f e to J . G . R e u t t e r a n d 'wi fe , l o t s 25, 26,' 27, O r c h a r d H o m e a d d , L a n s i n g , $1500.

R . K e m p f a n d w i f e to T h o m a s R a i k e s , l o t 11, b l k 1, K e m p f ' s . a d d , L a n s i n g , $1125. ' .

A g n e s E w e r to • C a r r i e G r a l i a m et a l . , i W 1-2. o f l o t s 1 , a i i d 2, b l k 35, L a n s i n g , , $1500. L . H e n d e e to 0 . H . D i e h l a n d w i f e , W 3-4 l o f - N W 1-4: o f I Sec . 31, I n g ­h a m , $2100.

A l i c e D a w l e y to M a r y .1. C o l b y , B 17 f J e t of S 75 f e e t ' o t l o t 5, b l k 2, J e r o m e ' s a d d , a n d r i g h t to o t h e r l a n d s , L a n s i n g , $600. : -

M a r y C o l b y to A l i c e DaiAvley, l a n d i n b l k 2, J e r o m e ' s a d d , L a n ­s i n g , $600."

jC . H . , W a d e a n d w i f e to C h a a . E . , S h a w a n d w i f e , N B 1 -4 'o f S B 1-4, o f N W ' 1 - 4 of S e c . 34, a n d S W 1-o£ N B 1-4 o f S e c . 31, Inghan} , $1500.

M A S O N M A R K E T S .

Corroclod evoi'y Wo(lli«H<lay iiftornoon. OKAIN.

W H U A T , Hed.No. 2,porUushel l 1831 20 W H E A T , White,No. I, iierbtishel.... l isiai 20 ItYlS, por bushel 70® n OATS, per bushel '10® 4l) CORN.sliclled, iiorliiiiKlred OH W OLOVKlt SK15I), pur bushel . . . . . . . . . . .5 0007 oo TIIVIOTIIY SUED.porbuallol...' 2 00®2 25

aUOOERTEB AND fUOVrSlONS. SALT,SaKliiaw, per.barrel , 85 BliANS,unpicked,perbtisbel . . . . . . . . . 1 6fl®l 90 I'OTATOKS, pur bushel © 30 K L O U U , per hundred . • • • • • . • • • i i!''S BUOICWHKAT FLOUlt .por biindrod _3 (10 KGtiS, lier dozen..... ® 28 IlUTTElt,per pound.. 22® 24 LAl lO.per pound H Al'l'LHS,dried,per pound.. . . . . „^ J, PEAOUES.drleti , per pound... . 8 ® 12

LIVE B'rOOR AND MEAT. O A T T L B , per hundred 4 0005 00 BEElf,dressed,per hundred.... (i 0O@8 oo VKAf . O A L V E S , per hundred. . . . . . . . . 7 coav 50 nOGS.perliiindrod 7 5^8 25 POKK, dressed, per hundied . . . . . . . . . . a i o 60 " ' 15

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M I L L S ' C L E A R I N G S A L E G G N T I N U E S T W E L V E D A Y S L O N G E R

A L L W I N T E R G O O D S G O I N G F O R A F R A C T I O N O F T H E I R V A L U E

T H O S E W H O H A V E T A K E N A D V A N T A G E O F T H E S E P R I C E S W E H A V E ' B E E N M A K I N G D U R I N G T H E F I R S T

F E W D A Y S O F O U R S A L E HAVE G O N E A W A Y F E E L I N G T H A T W E H A V E G I V E N T H E M J U S T W H A T W E A D ­

V E R T I S E D . W E G I V E B E L O W A F E W I T E M S W H I C H A R E G O I N G A T T H E S E , P R I C E S F O R N E X T S A T U R D A Y

O N L Y , T H E R E S T O F O U R S T O C K IS G O I N G .lUS^f A S A D V E R T I S E D I N O U R B I L L .

A L L W A S H W A I S T S

d i v i d e d into two lots, i n c l u d i n g some

S i l k s a n d Wool s ,

L o t 1 a t 8 9 c e n t s

L o t 2 a t $ L 1 9

O n e lot o f ^5M an d ,$6,00 S i l k and N e t

Wais ts , at

$ 3 . 9 8

O n e lot o f $5,00 and ,$6.00 S k i r t s , now at

$ 3 . 4 8

S p e c i a l s f o r S a t u r d a y , F e b . 6

4 c 3 c

lOc I l u c k Towels each

L a d i e s ' and Gents ' lOc C a n v a s Gloves , per pair

A l l 25c and SOc P i l l o w Tops , i 7 p each : l i b

A n o t h e r lot o f those $1.00 H a n d C Q p Bags , at

6c S h a k e r F l a n n e l , per y a r d

6c C o t t o n Cha l l i c , An per yard . . . ;

4 c

O T H E R B A R G A I N S

N o w O n .

10c Bat t s 7c

$1.00 1 1 4 B l a n k e t s 69c

.$1.25 B e d Spreads ..85c

W/x O u t i n g . . . . ; 9H'C

10c O u t i n g . ..7c

10c O u t i n g , shor t l engths ...6c

A l l B a g s : O n e - f o u r t h Off

O n e lot 50e Dress Goods , p e r ' y a r d 25c

O n e lot P r i n t s , per y a r d 5c

$1.00 Comfortab les SOc

$1.35 Comfortab les ! 98c

R E M N A N T S R E M N A N T S R E M N A N T S

C O A T S A T H A L F P R I C E A N D L E S S ' A L L U N D E R W E A R R E D U C E D C A R P E T S A N D R U G S R E D U C E D

W R A P P E R S A T 79c a n d 98c O T H E R B A R G A I N S T O O N U M E R O U S T O M E N T I O N

D o n ' t foi-get to put in y o u r bid f o r o u r .$27.,50 Sui t , just write y o u r bid a n d name on a b l a n k a nd place in -box in f r o n t end o f o u r

store. B o x not opened t i l l F e b . 16th, last day o f sale.

I L L S , JR.&CO., M A S O N J

H a v e y o u seen the R e d Cross shoes,

T h a t the ladies so a d m i r e ;

T h e y are v e r y nice ai id comfortable .

Y o u r feet they w i l l not t ire.

T h e q u a l i t y a nd w o r k m a n s h i p

Is o f the finest grade ,

A n d ladies a l l , who wear them, say T h e y are the/best shoe made.

So k i n d l y cal l a n d sec them.

T h e are sold r i g h t here in town;

W h e r e y o u find the best of Footwear ,

A t the Shoe Store k e p t b y B r o w n .

A t B r o w n ' s

S h o e S t o r e

W h e r e a l l are k i n d l y welcomed

' W h e n yOu go into his store.

W h e r e people get the ir money's w o r t n

A n d j u s t a l i t t le more.

• • ' ' " " ' ' s . . . J e l l U s Y o u r W a n t s A n d wc iwiU make every effort in our power to s u p p l y y o u . W e

figui'e what y o u want, and fui-nish quality specified.

^ L a r g e a n d W e l l A s s o r t e d S t o c k to S e l e c t F r o n t s

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H i g h G r a d e S h i n g l e s a n d C e d a r P o s t s . T h e B e s t L u m b e r .

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K. li. Wllliatus vvas In l.iiii.slti(,'lii.st Ifrlday. .Tessu (ii'ay was In Owosso Tiin.sday fofuiiooh. Sliltiey llul.'iiMvas linniu from ,lacksnn Sunday.

Miss riiilines sitng In tlie i^rcsby-teriiiii, ciliircli Suiiflay cvoniili,' and everyone enjoyed the iniislc.

Kiir the month (if December tlici'c

T O T O I S T C L U B .

Mrs. Belle Updyku vislteil Laiislii),' frlcnils last week.

Arthur ICrwIii of Battle Crtjiik was In the elty Sunday.

Miss Dorrls I'ortcrof I.jiusIiik was In tho city SiiiKlay.

(l(!nrne Tallinan has rotiiriiod rroiii his soiitli-crn trip.

KiiU'iiiie 0. Thityer of AiirDlliis wits in Uio city yesteritay.

0. C. llwtoh ami wife vi.sltcil lil.s parcnt.s In tho city Monday.

Miss Iniiiu llciulersoii was In Lansini; last Sat­urday aftunioon.

Miss l.oUlii apdykc visited LiiiisinK frioiuls last Wednesday.

Mrs. 0. S. Hush visited her daughter at .lack-son over Sunday.

Mr.s. Delia Phillips ts visiting her sister .tt I aasliig this week.

W. Scott Munn ol Hitton liaplds was In the city last Wodiie.sday.

Chas. W, Gllki y niailu a husliiess trip to Lan­sing liust Wednesday.

C. Gay Casuirllii or Flint visited liis mother Sunday and Mondiiy.

C. V. 11. I'ond nt Lansing, postal Inspector, was in tho city Monday. , Mrs, MarUia Whipple ot Battle Creek visited

Jiersons here last week. / , A. A. l.ninhard ot Leslie was in the city last

AVodiiesday on hnslnesa. • G. .1. Kayner was In St. Louis the tore part i f nils week on a husliiess trip.

Miss Grace lluslonof Lansing visited her sis­ter, Mrs. A. fj. Hose, yesterday.

KiigeneT. Ifaninioiid of Lansing was In the clly on business last Wednesday.

Mrs. L. L. Irl.sh was the guest ot Lansing friends the hitter 'part ot last week.

Mr.and Mrs..L M. Collier loft yesterday to spend a few days at ilattisUiirg, Miss.

Mrs. Cliarles Northrop of Lansing visited her mother, Mrs. II. K. WinllchI, last week.

Mr.s. Oliarles Sontt of Detroit was a guest of Mrs. P. ,J. Brown last Friday afternoon.

A. 0. [.."awroiico and S.S. Dewey ot FItehbnrg were in the city on business last Thursday.

Mrs. 0. F. GrIlllii loft for riidlaiin, I'eiin., Mon­day, called by the serious Illness of a brothei'.

lUissell 0. Whlltaore was in Leslie last Satur­day atteruooii. ]fe returned to Flint Sunday.

Mrs. Ida Harlow of Wlllhiinstnn vl.slted her sister, Mrs. F. D. Stanton, last Friday and Sat--urday.

Mr. and Mrs, Arlo AVIilpiile visited the for­mer's mother In Uattlc Creek tioin Friday until Monday. i

A. IL LoildIck, toroinnn of the Clinton Demo­crat ot St. Johns, was In Uie city last Saturday afternoon.

Mrs Ray niilleii and Miss .lo.sephlno Frazello vislled their sister, Mrs. F. H. Stowitts. In Uii-slug today.

Mr. and Mrs. li. C. Dart went to New York last Sauirday evening to visit llev. and Mrs.J. A. Sullivuti.

• .Tames Sitts has returned from Lansing, wliero lie has: been for the past tew weeks huvlug his -eyes treated.

F. B.^olinson of Detroit Wiis n guest of 7L F. ' Mortz;)ast Thursday and Friday. Ills fatally

returned homo Friday.,, Mr.'and Jlrs. F. E. Hoyt will leave tomorrow

morning tor Tarpon Springs, Fla., and will be, 'v.-goiioiubout two months.

•• i.MIss Wlungoiie ISIlcttwas home from the State r,iNornial at Ypsiiantl over Sunday. She was ae-'i compauled by Miss Elizabeth Stoll of Poiitlac. ' J Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Reeves of Toledo, 0., vLs-.allied at N. H. Godfrey's last Saturday and Stin-."(lay. Mr. Iteeves Is a brother of Mrs. Godfrey.

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. 0. P. • MlokolBon, Mrs. F. E . . Densmore and Mr. and

Mrs. U. J . Boml were la Lauslng yesterday. 0..I. Rayner, H. •;. liond, F.'P. Dean, H. 13.

Longyear and L. T. Lasenby were In Detroit last Wednesday to attend the automobile show.

The Tourist Club had an extremely pleasant and prolltiiblc incetiiiK .Ian.

, 2Gtli, at the licinie ol' Mrs. Webb, who were-17 dt^aths and bli- Jis reported i . , i , , ^ nftcr tlic usual pre­

liminary exercises, ii'lrst in order

A . J . Benham of Alaledon sends the cream from seven cows and one strip­per to tlie Mason Creamery. Today

,lie drew a check for $29.80, besides

mm lii.eiiiiili county. Our rate was below the ;i vcr;i(,'c on deaths and ;ib(ive on births.

Tuosflay cven.ini: nf last week L , A . Greiiif celebrated his birtliday by en­tertaining 12 ),'entlcmen friends, six from tlie city and six from Aiirclius. In a (,'am'e of cards the men from the city took in tlieir country cousins by two points, A niidnlKht supper was served.

irarmers must liereaftcr keep stamps pn hand, likewise postal cards and all postal supplies. The (govern­ment olllces over which Uncle Sara holds swjiy have issued tlie order that after February ]5 no pennies slnill be placed in the mail boxes on the rural routes iis payment for stamps or supplies. , \

F . W. Webb received by mail Tues­day niglit nf last week a Iwx of bril­liant tropical leaves, sent him from Bermuda by his brother, who is spend­ing some time on the island. The brl^iit coioi's and peculiar marking's of tlie leaves render tlicm very beau­tiful, and they looked as though fresh­ly picked when theyarrivcd hereafter their long journey.

A t tlie .Tanuary meeting of the Micliigan Passenger Association the Michigan Patliflnder, published in Detroit, was endorsed as its olTlcial time card organ. This is one of'the most excellent and correct guides ever published in Michigan and the recog­nition given it by the transportation lines is a strong endorsement of its publisiiers in the painstaking care ex­ercised in giving to the public one of the best mediums covering informa­tion on railroad, electric lines and steambocat travel. , , \

Editor Olarkof the Olinton County Democrat and one of the few real democrats in St. Johns was passing tlie hall where the republican banquet wiis to be held Tuesday and noticed that a load of hay had tipped over in the'Street. Stepping up to some of the committee lie said, pointing at the, hay: "Why didn't you talte that around to the back of 'the building? Eow do you expect to get it through the front windows?"—Lansing Jour­nal, .Tan. 2Gth. , , i •

Editor Charles Clark of the Clinton Democrat, tlie democratic paper of the county, caused a ripple of amuse­ment in, St. Johiis Tuesday byvhiS' clever jibe at the republican bantiuet, even the promoters of the aljair en­joying the joke. As Mr. Olark was passing the National bank building in whicli the banquet was held, a • load Of hay tipped over in the street. Turning lo some of the d u b officers and otherspectators of the iiccident, he remarked; - "I should

was the critic's report by Miss Ball nnd tiio iippoititnicnt of Mrs,. Gitster-lin to take up the duty—motinifiil, and yet relieved by occasional strcahs of joy.—Hiat fiill to the critic's lot. A pianosolo by Miss i l c icn Philleo pre­ceded tlie first paper of the evening, the subject of which was "Pal-aguay, Past and Present." 'Although the ex­tent of tliat republic is only equal to the combined areas of California and Maine, and the country itself is of no great account amongv,tiie nations of tlic eartii. Miss Sherwood's paper. In weight and general inttjrest, was fully equal lu the description of a "world power." According to, II. W. Bates, editor of a national cumpendium of geograpliy, Paraguay, in regard to natural gifts, of climate and soil, is one Of the most riclily endowed of any country on earth. The fact that it is almost at the foot in the class of so-called civilized countries, is mainly due to war and Its consequences. In 1871, after eiglit years of war, the population was less than one-sixth of wliat it numbered in 1803, all the able-bodied males liad been sacrillced, and tlic inhabitants were only saved from extinction bythe maternal, instincts of the few remaining women, who to preserve the lives of tlicir cliildrcn and themselves dug up a few feet Of land upon which they planted vege­tables and thus warded oil' starvation. A t the close of the war, as there were live females to one male, tiie latter very naturally felt tliat tliey should becarefully nurtured and takcu care of without any effort upon their part, and the wotnen—its is sometimes the case upon momentous - occasions — agreeing with the men, it is said that a race of males has been reared and perpetuated that for general Wortli-lessness is only excelled' by the young men of our own wealthy classes. However, Pariigui^Si is beginning to feel outside influences, and the time is not far distant when the men will get up to eat breal(fast instead of hav­ing it served in bed.

Mr. Stewart had the second paper Of the evening, the subject being Missions in SOutli America—Nature, Extent,, Influence.' A Frenchman, it is said, once remarked of the United States,'','By Gar, what a country! A tlibusand religions,'^ and/ only one gravy.!' Leaving out the "gravy," Monsieur'sdescription Of the diversity of_ religious beliefs in our own land,

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o n a l l M e n ' s , B o y s ' a n d C h i l d r e n ' s S u i t s a n d O v e r c o a t s ,

( e x c e p t F u r C o a t s ) , M e ' n ' s O d d P a n t s a n d W o r k C o a t s .

N o t h i n g - r e s e r v e d , ^ n d r - e g u l a r p r i c e s i n p l a i n f i g u r e s ,

H e r e w i l l b e a c h a n c e t h a t y o u s e l d o m h a v e t o b u y n e w S u i t s a n d O v e r ­

c o a t s a t t h e s e p r i c e s . I t s e e m s f o o l i s h i n u s t o d o i t , b u t w e m u s t c l e a r

t h i s s t o c k o u t t o m a k e r o o m f o r S p r i n g G o o d s .

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W e o f f e r y o u r c h o i c e o f a l l U n d e r w e a r ,

S h i r t s o f e v e r y d e s c r i p t i o n . H a t s a n d C a p s ,

G l o v e s a n d M i t t e n s . T r u n k s a n d B a g s , S o x

o f a l l k i n d s , B o y s ' S t o c k i n g s , K n e e P a n t s , S w e a t e r C o a t s , N i g h t R o b e s ,

N e c k w e a r , S u s p e n d e r s , G a r t e r s , U m b r e l l a s a n d F a n c y V e s t s . ' C o m e

e a r l y i f y o u w a n t t h e b e s t c h o i c e . N o d i s c o u n t o n O v e r a l l s a n d J a c k e t s .

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A n d c o n t i n u e s o n e m o n t h , a n d i n c l u d e s a l l g o o d s i n t h e s e l i n e s t h a t a r e

i n t h e s t o r e a t t h e p r e s e n t t i m e . R e d u c t i o n s d o n o t m a k e b a r g a i n s u n ­

l e s s g o o d s a r e r i g h t . ' N O T H I N G B U T U P - T O - D A T E G O O D S H E R p .

T E R M S A R E G A S H AND NO C O U P O N S QIVEH DURINC S A L E C o m e a n d S e e U 9 < W e D o a s W e A d v e r t i s e .

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would be more cbnyenieht to Iiave tlie; hay tiiken around to the side door,"

. , . „ , , , , , , , and by the lime they hiid grasped the: vealing five calves and having milk signillcance of his remark the.derao-and butter for hisown use.- Farmers, think about^this.

cratic editor was well down the street. —State Republican, Jan. 26th.

would'seem ,to agree fairly well,with similar matters in our sister jepublics; for while, all the religions'-Imported, by ithe earlier Sou th American settlefs' bore the general impress of the Cath-

thiok it folic faith, e'acli' liad t tlie particular brand of the locality from wlafch the settlers came, and'as these the6loRica,l tenets i were gradually eommingled witirtho religious beliefs of.stlie abo­rigines, a cismpouniJ was: formed tliat

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bore very slight resemblance'to any- responses were verses from thi2 Bible, hired because of his kind and gentle thing known as religion, by either and nearly all present were prepared disposition and trustworthiness. Dur-

Protestaotor Cathol ic Still the re­sults of the work performed b y t h e missionaries and teachers sent by our Churches during the past few years, aided somewhat by newly aroused sen­timent among the more intelligent of the natives, seem to give promise that sometime in tlie neai future,

for the occasion. The meeting adjourned to meet at

the home of Mr: and'Mrs . Geo. W. Bristol, for fan open meeting, Mrs. •Ellett being the leader. .- ' .

Obituary of John P . -Wilson. -John Patterson Wilson was born

March 20th, 18G0, in New^ane, Niagara even amongthe common people of the county, N . Y . , and died Jan. 25tb, South American republicsj religion 1910,-aged 49 years, 10 months and five will be manifested by living in accord-, days. He leaves to mourn his -loss ance with the spirit of the Gospel of two daughters—Lena, aged IS'ycars,

ing the faU he worked his father's farm unt i l December last. ITc was untiring in his patience and industry; and honest in a' marked degree.' A lovingyfatheiv a devoted son and brother and withal a true and sincere man.

Eev. John IT. Stewart conducteiJ the funeral services at the home o f Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Wilson.

M a r r i a g e L i c e n s e s .

George Gruhii , De lh i -." . . . . _ L y d i a M ; Brown, Hol t 22

Christ./insteaid Of beinff as it is now and Freda, aged-12' years-and one Benj. H . ' Butler, :Mat tawan- ' 2 » said to be, mainly an exponent Of the' Bon;Tbaddeus Fisher Wilson; 10 years Sarah M . Harr ington , L a n s i n g - 2 2 influenceof tlie distilled-spirltsoMn-Voldf'wlm live with their grandparents, H e n r y Sa-vvyer,; Lansing- 30 dlan corn or sugar cane, i M r . and Mrs.'Geo. S. Wilson; also one ^S^es Phill ips Hart , Hillsdale,. 24=

A piano solo by Miss Phiileo followed devoted sister, Pliajbc Al len of Port- p°r^f^*^m^^^^^^ the discussion of Mr. Stewart's'ex-:land,.Oregon, besides many,friends. : c i eon H ^ v e r Lansi^'e"--"^ 2 i ceedingly able and instructive, paper, When taken ill he was engaged in Adeliade Warner , Ashfey-"---"-"^^^ then came intermission and .refresh-.carlnRfor a man 85 years of age, Aaron p i o y d Hi l ton, Aurelius 37 ments, and last o f a l l , roll call. Tiie Akers of Williamston, having been Alice DeCamp Wright , Aurelius,4a'.

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MUNYOMS PA\ WOI TH LIVI <O..

•PAW PILL MAKE LIFE 10 PILLS 10*

Jiliiny<m'« l*niv I'liiv Vllln coax l!ie llvor into activity hy uentlo melhoils, T)ioy do not sooui', f,Tli)o or weaken. 'J'hey are a tonic lo tho stoniach, liver and nerves; InvlKorato Instead of weaki?n. Thoy onrleli the blood and enable Iho stomach lo got all tho iioiirl.ihmenl. fi-orn food tlmt l.s put Into It. 'rhi?.':o idll.s con­tain no calomel; Ibcy aro sootliliiK, lionl-Inp and allmnlatinM:. For salo by all driij,'-Blsts ill 10c nnd ':.r,r. si/.p.-i. if von need medical ddvioe, write IMiinyon'.s'Daclor.s. They will navlHe. to the hcut of their .-ihli-lly absolutely free of Charge. llttr.V-YON'S, fjltil lliKl jL-n'er..<uu ,S(«., I'lill-otleliitiln, I'll.

Mnnyou'H Cold noinedy cures a cold In Ono day. Price 2t,c. Munyon's .Rlieama-' thsin lioniedy rellr-ves In a few hours and ctiroa In a few days. Price 2lic.

CLIP THIS OUT.

nenniviicil I)oe(i)r'« rrenerlpdon tor fMieiiiiiiidMiii iiiiil ilaeU Aeliv>.

"Ono oiinco Syrup Sarsaparllla com­pound; ono ounce Torls compound; add these to a half pint oi" good whis­key, Take a tablespoonful berore each meal and at bod time; shako the bottlo before using each time," Any drug­gist has these ingredients iu stock or will ouickly got them from bis whole­sale house. This was published pro-•vloiisly and hundreds hero have boon cured by it. Good results show after tho first few dciscs. This also acts as a system builder, ovcutually restoring strength and vitality.

nennvell a lul (liieeii nr«rj-. Dunroljiu castle, in Scotland, was

tbo scene oC a discovery a few years ago of a document relating to Mary Queen of Soots, wlilch, had it seen the light whon poor Mary Stuart was about to commit the crowning act ol folly ill marrying Bothwell, would have changed the whole aftercoiirse of her life. The document was the original dlsiionsatiou granted by tho Vatican to Lady ,Iaiio Gordon to en­able hor to marry her cousin, the earl Of Bothwell, When tho latter wanted to espouse his sovereign he declared his union with Lady ,lano Gordon null and void on the ground of their rela­tionship and Obtained a divorce. The assumption is that Lady Bothwell was only too glad to get rid of the arls tocratlc blackguard sho cidled hus band, for she must have had the dis­pensation, tho production of whicli would have made her marriage valid and prevented Mary's taking place. That she had It is proved by its being found In the charter room at Dun robin, where it liad lain tor three centuries, and whither she doubtless brought it on her second marriage in 1573 to Alexander,, earl of Suther land, ancestor of the dukes of Suther land. ,

X<» .Shlii SiibNiily Selieine. Congress should not adopt the Hum­

phreys bill,-which would oblige the na lional government to pay out in subsi­dies to tlio few American ships eligible the annual profits of the foreign mail r.ervice, which are between $5,000,000 and $0,000,000.

Foreign countries pay subsidies per registered ton of merchant marine as follows: France, $9.2S; .Japan, $7.'I0; Italy, $'1-'JS; Germany, 72 cents; Eng­land, IS cents. The nation paying the the lowest subsidy has the largest mer­chant navy,

France and Italy have been unable to Increase their lloot by subsidies, Germany subsidizes only, the North German .Lloyd and tbo Oorman Africa lino to her colonies, the total ainottttt being about $1,800,000 a year, England divides about $5,000,000 annually among 100 vessels.

But a largo jiart of hJoglaml's siih-fildy consists of llic rc.'.iii,ssion df ihe Suez canal fees lo British shl|is, and, since the r-ailal annually iiels more than the total aniotiiil of sitbslilics, the British taxpayer is not out of pocket in tiie iiiailcr,

Tho United Slates already pays siili-sidies under the exist ing ocean mail act (;o steamships carrying mails. The

not Interested in academic theories as to the rise or fall of prices and wages The consumer simply knows that each dollar of Ills earniiigs will purchasi less to-day than ten, or even five yean ago.

The real ettonoinic strug.gle in Uu United Stato.^ today is to increase thi liiiying poiver of the dollar, Thost. who are wealthy know nothing, com-pai'Rtlvely, of this struggle.

It is the average "middle-class" con­sumers—those in professional occupa­tions, artisans, small storekeepers, of­fice men generally—-that are chiefly in­terested, , Tliey have no redress.

Incomes have not increased in pro­portion to prices. That Is the keiiotc Of the struggle for relief. The dollar Is worth less than it used to be.

If you go to a country that is on a silver basis or has other depreciated currency you have to pay out for standard goods moro dollars in proper tion to the money deh.asoment.

So with extreme liigh prices in our own couiitry. High Wages may enable the consumer to handle more money. But skyrocketing jirices give him less necessaries of life In exchange.

And so tlic coming struggle for real tariff revision, and the. election of a patriotic Coii.gress to bring it about, s simply a nation-wide protest against

deci-casiiig the ilollar's buying power.— Chicago .Journal.

IjOCTOR'S BEST F O R M U L A .

'l'H-cii(:i--lt\-e I'er Celii i^lore 'I'nrln". Tlioii;;ll the rates of duty set forth in

tho liiril'f law enacted by Congress last siiiliiiler at its s|jeci;il scssiun are very guiioriilly criticised as being excessive­ly iligll, tilny are lllcely to be much lilglK'i- in many histancos as soon as

S P L I T T I N G IT.

I tiv .Itciiinrlcnniy (luleU Action on ColtlJI 1111(1 CutlK llN.

This prescription will freiiuently cure the worst cold in a day's time, uid it is a sure cure for any cough that can bo cured. "Two ounces Glyc-srine; half ounce Cbnceutrated Pine; put these Into half a pint of good whiskey and use in doses of teaspoon-fill' to a tablespoonful every tour hours. Shake bottle well each timti." Any druggist has these ingredents in stock or will quickly get them trom hla wholesale house. Tho Concen­trated .Pine is a special pine product and conies only in half ounce vials, each enclosed in nu air-tight case; but •he sure it is labeled "Concentrated." This formula cured hundreds hero last winter.

Iler Only CourNC. Lady Anno Lindsay, the author of

the old poem, "Auld Robin Gray,' was not only a deliglitful conversationalist, but sho was.a great story teller., ,

This gift made her not only a wcN come guest abroad, but a vahinblo member of the home circle, for it ia related in "A Group of Scottish, AVo-men" that at a dinner party which shq -\vas giving to some friends an oli] man servant caused some amuseineni by saying in a perfectly audible under tone: '

"liy lady, you must tell anothei story. The second course won't h". ready for fivo inl""''^'!" _

S T E A D I L Y G R E W WORSE. ' 1

DISPUTED D A VINCI BUST. t .

AM It BiiHC. "Professor, Is there any foundation

for the belief that every particle of matter is a universe In Itself' " " M y dear sir, you can found any be­

lief on human credulity."—Chicago Tribune.

H A R D TO DROP,

Rut atany IJrop It. A young CallL wife talks about cof­

fee: "It was hard to drop Mocha and Java

and give Postum a trial, but my nerves wero BO shattered that I was a nervous wreck and of course that means all kinds Of ails.

"At first I thought bicycle riding caused it and I gave it up, but my condition remained unchanged. I did not want to acknowledge coffee caused the trouble, for I w.as very fond ot it. At that time a friend came to live with us, and I noticed that after he' had been with us a week he wouUr not drink his coffee any more. I asked him the reason. He replied, 'I ")iave not had a headache since' I left off drinking coffee, some months ago, till

Typleiil 'I'aii; ,suiVeciii;;-.- from SlcrR KidiK'yN.

Mrs, L . C, Fridley, lOlil N, Main 3t,, Delphos, Ohio, says; "Five or six

years ago I began to Kuffcr with kidney t r o u b l e and grew ,steadily worse until iny health was all brolcon down. For -weeks I was in . bod and could not turn over without being helped. My back was stilt and painful, 1 was tired and lan­

guid, and when 1 was able to got around I could not do my work. Tbo llrst box of Doan's Kidney Pills helped me so -much that I kept on using thorn until rid of every symptom oi. Itidney trouble. During the past three, years I have enjoyed excellent health."

Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster-MUhurn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Dr. Bodo, who was responsible for tho purchase of tho "Leonardo da Vlncl wax bust" that has aroused so much controversy, is tho director of the Kaiser Frledrlch museum, Heriin, and it was for that institution that the work was houglit for $10,000. Dr, Bode Is as firmly convinced'that tho bust Is, in very truth, the work of Leonardo as aro certain others that It is the work ot R , 'C . Lucas, the British sculptor, who nourished in tho nilddlo Of the nineteenth century. Indeed, tho moro the doctor oxamlnos tho bust the more cortaln he is that it is a . genuino eariy sixteenth century work.

F o r B e n e f i t o f W o m e n w h o

S u f f e r f r o m F e m a l e I l l s

Minnenpolia, M i n n . — " I was a great sufferer i rora; female troubles which

caused a weakness and broken down c o n d i t i o n of tho system. I read so nitichofwhatLydia E . Pinkluim's teff. etablo C o m p o u n d had dono .for other sullering' women I felt sure it would helpme,andlmust say it did help mo wonderfully. , M y ly-jiaiiis all left me, I

rew stronger, and within titrco mouths .[ was a perfectly well woman.

"I w.mt this letter miulo public to show tho benefit women may derive from Lydia E . li'iiikliain's Vogetablo Compound."—Mrs. . l o n x O . M o l d a n , 2115 Second St., ]S''orth, iUnneiipolis, Minn.

Thousands of unsolicited and genu-ine testinioniiils liko the above provo the cniciiincy of Lyd ia E . Pinkham's •Vegetable Comiiound, whicli is made exclusively from roots and herbs.

AVoraen who siilTcr from those dis­tressing ills peculiar to tlieir sex should not lose .sight of those facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health.

I f y o n w a n t spec ia l adv ico w r i t © to M r s . P i n k l i a i i i , at L j i n i , Ma.ss. She w i 11 treat yon r lett;ei'a.s s t r i c t ly confidential . P o r 2 0 years sho has hce i i helpinfr .side w o m e n i n tills way , free o f charffo. D o n ' t hes i ta te—wri te a t once.

ScruteTied So .Sh« Could Sot Sleep. "I write to tell you how thankful I

am for tbo wonderful Cnticura Rem­edies. My little niece had eczema for five years and whon her mother died I took care of the child. It was. all over her face and body, also on her head. Sho scratched so that she couhl not sleep nights. 1 used Cutlcura Sonp to wash her with and then ap­plied Oatlcura Ointment. I did not use quite hidf the Outloiira Soap and Ointment, together with Cutlcura Re­solvent, when you coiild seo a chenge and- they cured her nicely. Now she . is eleven years old and has never been bothered with eczwna since. My friends think it Is just great the way the baby was cured by Cutlcura, I send you a picture taken when shn was about eighteen months old,

"She was taken with the oc/ema when two years old. She was cbvorod with big sores and her mother had all the best doctors and tried all kinds of -salves and medicines without effo.H until WG used Cutlcura Remedies, Mrs, H, Klernan, 663 Quincy St,, Brooklyn, N, Y„ Sept, 27, 1909,"

l i A S H F U L S T A N L E Y .

IliM Ailiiilrliijf SpoilMC. "Pardon my temporary lapse of

memory,. madam," the iirofossor said, "hut your luLSband is a man of dis­tinction, is he not'/"

' I'Tho only thing 1 can think of," an­swered Mrs, Vick-Senn, "for which ho Is distingnished is that there are moro people in this town who don't look liko him than any man 1 know of,"

annual amount is considerably more than $1,000,000, it has been stated, and we havo not seen It denied, tliat la.st year the Ward line carried 1,900 pounds of mail from lVew York to iMcx-ican and South American ports, receiv­ing a subsidy therefor of about $250,-000.

If the Taft administration wislioa to make a gift of five or six'millions a year to certain steamshi]) lines, it can do so without taxing the American iieo-plo, by securing adoption of the bill of Congressman Borland of Missiurl, which provides that on all goods brought into this country in American ships only 75 per cent of the import duties fixed by the Aldrich-Taft tariff shall be collected,—Chicago Journal,

Tliie Iteal Ciiii.se of lliK'li rr](!e.N. lu almost every State in the Union

there is a general movement to ascer­tain the cause of increased cost of liv­ing. Legislatures arc passing resolu­tions calling I'or iiivcsilgation, VVe|l-•moaning hut short-sighted enthusiasts urge boycotts of certain articles of food to force lower pi'ices, . .

All this is waste of time, and utter nonsense, Tlie cause of high prices and the means of lowering them aro n.o secret, '

The cost of living in the Uniteu States is high because the Republican protective tariff,, the tariff devised ny Senator Aldrich and tipproved by Pres­ident Taft, enables capitalists to mo­nopolize production and fix prices al

last week, when I began again, here at an exorbitaully high standard, your table. I don't see how anyone Just as long as the people tolerate a can like coffee, anyway, after drinking high.tariff they must expect to pay the

piper. The niomen't they insist on a Postum!' "I said nothing, but at onco ordered

a package Of P o s t u m . T h a t was five 'months ago, dnd we have drank no coffee siiice, except oh two occasions when we had company, and'the result each time .was.that my husband could

;, not-sleep, but lay awake and tossed and talked half the night. We were convinced that coffee caused his,suffer­ing, so ^ he returned to Postum,, con­vinced that coll'ee was an enemy, in­stead of a friend; a'dd' he isi troubled no more by insomnia. ' ' V ,

'"I, myself, iiave 'gained 8 pounda la • weight,- and 'ray nerves have ceased to. quiver. It seems so; easy nqw; .to 'auit'eoffee that caused our, aciies.'and ails, and take lip Pnstuin." .

\ , ; Read; the: little M -;'Wellyiiie."; in; pkgsi! ^'ITliere's a Rea^

son."' I

Ever read the above l e t t e r ? ' a new one npp;.-)',- i.n time to time. They are sen • true, and full Of human inie/'.

low tariff the burden will be. lightened The place .1.0 protest is at" Washing

ton, and the man to' whom to, protest is President Taft ; who harbors the de­lusion that tho American people , ar,, satisfied .with the Aldrich-Tatt tariif/ and .will tamely submit' to .continued extortion -for' the benefit of the big Eastern tariff barons. •

A nolliii'\s •Hiiylii;:: Po-»ver. ' The newspapers a,nd magazines are'

devoting much space to attempted e.x-planations o'f prevailing prices of food products. ; . , '- -r,

. It is a commentary oh'theob.tuseiiess of a certain class' of wri'tersUhifthey deyot.e-'raiich time, and.liihguag;e - to un-uecess'ary' "explanatlpris,'' ^ ^ ^ lotiklng^ the" central'faetvbhat "ing power of a' dollar:.has ;steadily de­creased in exact; proportion-tci.tJie^rise of monopoly and trusts. .'

The average American-consumerV lack of -work?

I be leatiire ol the law relating to max hium and mui'imum rates becomes op-orativo. That will be after March next.

Tho existing rates are the minimum rates. They are to apply )iermanentl to imports from countries that are hek; to make no disi;riniination against ex-ports trcm the United States, Only six Eurojiean countries have been found 10 be entitled to the minimum rates. This is shown by a recent proclania. .'ion Of the President, Tlie six are Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Spain Switzerland and Turkey. Germany and ''franco are conspicuously absent trom :lie list. Hence imjiorts troni those ountries and from all others not in liided in the President's proclamation

.iresumably will have to pay the rates if duty specified in the tariff law with :5|)or cent ad valorem added.

It will he impossible to tell the ef 'eot Of this arrangement upon the peo. lie Of the United States until it has leen in operation for a time. How. ^ver. It is certain to increase the price )f some goods, and to in.iure this na ion's export trade.

The maximu.m and minimum provis on Ot the present tariff would have een a very good feature if tlie law had aken as tho, maximum the rates speci lad m it-instead ot making them the ninlmura. As manipulated hy Aidrich, he feature in iiuestioa. has been, util-'zed as a device for making tariif rates higher by indirection than Con­gress would have dared make them by lirect action.—Chicago News.

An to niff Gun CoiiJriie.U. T.he governmeut arsenal at Water

vliet, N. Y., represents an investment of .more than $4,000,000. At lu l loa-jacity it employs: 700 men. It is now unning with 250 employes. . Experience has demonstrated that he Watervliet arsenal can assemble 1.12-inch gun for $12,000 less than it osts to assemble one at the • Bethle-eni or Mldvale-plants, and ,a 3-inch aid gun for $1,000 less than the Brlt-

3h-Amerioan Ordnance Company. - - . "why does -the government give mil-

ions Olf dollars'.worth of big gun con-raots to private concerns at:, .much

:;i-eater cost tO'the taxpayers than;: the ork could: be done for.-at Watervliet

:ind permit: the:, splendid Watervliet silant to lie Idle?

vJW'hat influence is;,strong .enough-to -.eoureEgovernment contracts at iprices snown- to ;;be,.;unnecessarily. ,hlgh;;:and jripple government..;arsenals:: byi./scat, tering their:;skilled employes through

Thoro la more Catarrh In thin .section ot tho country than all ollici- diseases put to­gether, nnd nntll the Inst few years wits sup-jmsod to he Inctii-ahie, Par a pront ninny yoitra doctor.s proaoiiiiced it a local disense. and prescribed local rouiodlos, and by coa-suintly falllns to cure wllh locni treatn-,ent-, pronounced it incurnbic. Science hns proven catniTh to lie-a constitutional disease naci therefore rcnnlres const'tutloani Iroiitmeat. Hull's Cntm-i-h Cni-e, mnnufaclnred hy l'\ ,1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,, is the only con-Klltillloaai euro on tho mnrket 11 is taken Inloninlly In doses from 10 drops to a loa-spnonl'ul. It acts dlreotlv on the blood and mucous snrfnces of the sysloni, Thoy olTor ono hundred dollars for any cn,so It f»lls to cure. Send for clrcnlnrs and teslliuonials. Address: F. ,1. Ctlii).S'l3V vl CO,, Toledo, 0,

•Sold by DrngKists, 7,10, Take llnil'» Family I'liis tor constipation.

Why He <liil(. "Why did you throw up your job at

old Spolcash's store-/" "AVoli, to toil the truth, i didn't like

his position on the labor question,' "What was his position'/" "Why—er—the last time I saw him

he was sitting in his chair lookm sternly at me, and pointing straight to Iho door."—Chicacro Tribune,

H You Are i\ TrKIc SenxUlve Ahout the size of your shoes, many peo­ple wear smaller shoes by.usins Aliens foot-IDase, the Anlisepth Powder to Klinke into the shoes. It cures Tlrod. Swollen, Aching Feet and Rives rest and 3omlort. .lust the thing Cor breaking in low shoos. Sold cvel-ywilere, 25c: Sam­ple sent h'ttl' i'l. Address, Allen S. 01m-iled. T..e Hoy, N, Y.

Mini IVotliliiK on Noiili. No.ah was Inspecting the animals as

they trooped into the ark. •'I don't claim to bo a faunal natural­

ist" he said, "but I'm making T, l i.'s Sliiillisonian Institution collection look sick,"

in due tune, moreover, ho sallea nwav w'itii the crroatost aggregation of living Wild animals over seen in cap-livit.v,

, •Sore tlironts are. not only painful but sollietimea dangerous. ITanilins Wizard Oil ls a good, honest roinsdy, prompt ana cerlain, Por aches, sprains, biuises, cuts, hums, etc., tbera is notliins better,

r.dleiiey of i'rnyor. Vjolot—Mummy, dear, are our pray-

-•rs answered? . ' : ' .Mother (in shocked surprise)—AVhy,

eg. dear!: What a question! Violet—Then, mummy,, why do you

vnack.mo? ..Why. don't you pr.ay for ne tQ-.'be a good girl—it would be so nuch more comfy?—M. A, P,

l f l« ne,n>on.Ne to n .Speeeh ot Kulo/^ry III n Tluniiuet.

• William H . Rideing tolls in Mc-Clure's Maga'/jlne of a dinner of the Papynis Club' in Bcston at which Hen-, ry iM. Stanley, tho exidorer, was the guest Of honor:

"Whether he (Stanley) sat or stood, ho fidgeted and answered in monosyl­lables—not because he was unainlabiB or unappreclative, but because he— this man of iron, God's instrument, wihoso word in the field brooked no contradiction or evasion, he who de­fied obstacles and danger and pierced the heart of darkness—was bashful oven in the company of fellow crafts­men.

"His embarraswnent grew when after dinner the chairman eulogized lilm to tho audience. He squirmed and averted his face as cheer after cheer confirmed tho speaker's rhetori­cal ebullience of praise. . 'Gentlemen, I Introduce to you Mr. Stanley, who,' etc. Tho hero stood up slowly, pain­fully, reluctantly, nnd, with a gesture Of deprecation, tumbled in, first ona and then another of bis pockets with­out flndlng what; he sought. , *

"It was sunnosed that ho was looking for his notes, and more apphauso took the edge off tho delay. His mouth twitched without speech for another

.awkward minute before, with a more erect bearing, he produced the object |ot his search and put it on his head. It was' not paper, but - a rag of a cap,

.and with that on he faced the com-,pany as one who by the act had dono •all that could be expected of him and made further acknowledgment of the honors he had received superfluous. It was a cap that Dlvlngstone had worn and 'that Livingstone had given him."

A (;iirlou« I'lxperienee. Lomliroso, the famous Italian crimi­

nologist, once had a curious experi­ence. He was In a printing office cor­recting the-proofs In his "Delinquent Man" with the chief reader when on reaching a page which dealt with a young man wilio, impelled by jealousy,, had stabbed his fiancee, he,made asur-prising discovery. Tho proofreader •n'as this man.

"Suddenly," Lombroso said In telling the story, "he threw himself at .my feet, declaring that he would commit suicide IC I published this story with Ins name. -His face, before very gen­tle, was completely altered-and almost 'terrifying, and I was really . afraid that he would kill, hlinsclf or me on the spot. I tore up the proofs and tor several editions omitted his story."

RlK>i<e<Mi.sIy IndlK'iiaiit. "Half the crime in this town," said

Mrs, Lapsllng,' "Is caused by ffie sa­loons that keep open all night. When a. saloon-keeper rcluses In close his olaco of business at 1 o'clock I think tho mayor ought to provoke hla U-sonse!"—Chicago Tribune,

Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regu­late and Invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe,

VAYA ct;ui5D m 0 TO i-t dav.s.

A t tlie l)»rL-(o«'n CiiTdiru (Jlul). .Chairman (including/an address o;

Introduction)—An' now, ladies and gentlemen, I hab de honor of presentin' to dis audience de speaker of de eben-ing—Prof, :Johnsing of do Westvillo seminary—•n'ho will proceed to define ide indefinable, depict de Indepictabla and unscrew the.unscrewtable,—Life,

Tlic rieiil -Vlcliin. Mrs, Kawler—Isn't the cost of living

frightful these days? , Mrs, Renntur—Indeed It Is, ' It's so

hard to save enough out of it to pay tho atill greater cost of moving!—ChU cago Tribune,

Only One "BIIOBIO aUIlVIIVK" That Is LAXATIVE HROMO QUININE, LboI: lor the siunature of E, W, GROVE,. Used the world over lo Cure .i Cold in One Day, 25c

It« Lnontlon. . "It's too early to look tor the comet

with tho naked eye, Johnny,"'said Mrs. Lapsllng. "If you had a telescope, though, you'd ,flnd it, I think, some­where in the oonaolation of the Can-tharldes." ,: , •

AT-I.TIN'S T,tINO ByVT.SAJir win euro not only u frofili cold, bnlotioof those stab-horn coufjlis thai nsaally hiiOKon for rnnnth3,-'GIV« It a Irlut and provo Its n-orth. Mc, fillo and (il.OO. ,

OINTMENT is KU.-iranteed to cure any Itchuur, Blind,..BIoL-dnur or rroinubnif

I'lliis in l> to U days or money refunded, SOc -

Plnelie.i A l l Mlonntl. She—My new gown Is just'lovely;

It's a perfect nt." • ., ,, ^ lie—Satlsfledon that point, eh?" , She—Yes, I know it's a good fit, bo-

c.Tuse'It pinches me so—" He—Well,' it doesn't pinch you. halt

ns much as it: does-.niy pocketbook."— Catholic Standard.-and.Times. , - ;'

If rou wisirbeaunrui,.clear,'wfilte. clothe*, n.-ip fiert Cross. Hall,; nine. - Larje ioz.pack-f-f.,; .'i r-Pnti:;, • ,V ,.,:.':,• : - ... r"..; '.:v .'. ..... ~,

: ' ;; ir,conoiuIc Ilcforiii. :.-: :. "Lbelieve in turning: over a -new.leaf

on the first ;of the, year,'.',' said;.Mra, Ardup, 'ibut I- thlnk.-my;;huaband car­ried the Idea too far when h^ aald we'd., have:ito-:awear;,:ofe--entirely.:::from fresh milk, eggs, and beefsteak." ^

^ DOCTOit TOUnSEI.P when yon feel ii ooldcominKonby taking nfew dosoi oi I'errvDtma'PainUller'it isbottor thanQuinli? and safer. .Tb-tlurgueOobottloa lira tho otaeapaat, '

A rreciueut liiNiiiccrlty. "The man's own words prove hlra a

prevaricator," said Mr..Quibbles. "In what;way?" "He writes me an Insulting letter

and signs it 'Yours Respeotfuliy.*"— Washington Star. ,; ' .

Ilel'or,.- <';ieetiou Ont.'Wemt. "Our ticket is bound to win in Froz­

en Dog." ' "A!i1 overhut the shouting, eh?" . .

"All over hut the shooting," explain­ed the native politely.—Louisville CoU' rler-Joumal.

Tho Wrong-Party . ' ,: Bill—Congratulations on, your' mar­riage, old man. ' i

'Will—Congratulate my , wife, ;• old boy; : shO; got the:best' of .men.—Har­vard Lampoon.

•••'.•••••,.,•:..• „• A-Braffgart.",,: <'Pa, -what Is a braggart?" "He's a manr my son, who is not

afraid to express, his real'opinion .-of himself."—Boston Transcript.

Riches ;have, wings, but .poverty hob­bles around on> crutches.

A-'T)fsnppoIiitnient. c: • . "Undo Jed," asked his neighbor,

"how is your hoy getting along at . college?" , , ; . ' - r

"First rate," answered Uncle; Jed. . "I-Ie hasn't co'st me a cent. He's. work-. . ing his way. through, he's winning a l l ; the class honors, and-they've/prom­ised him a professorship of;'Somo;! kind." '

"Great Soottl", gasped his'neighbor,,.; ."isthat all he is doing? With that big •"• husky frame ot his I supposed he'd be playing center by this timo!"|-Chica-;i go Tribune. ^ I

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Khun-Tnn-lliiii IVnnliitil 1 Jit'l.llnu. Inillanuiu'llf. Idil., >un\ II. ,M. U-li)l;u.i.i. Ito.uM Jlulldlui;, Toludo.uiilo. (l,;,-io lujiln-' 'K iii.'rirt:ityou).

I'kHiao ;<ay wheru you m\v UUm lulvortluciuonU

E I G H T E E N Y E A B S AGO H E H A D LESS T H A N T H R E E DOLLABS.

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If yon nnflei from Erijlopay. T'ltn, FnlllnR Blckncsa, Bpasma, or havo children that do HO, my New DIh-covury will relievo Ilieni, and all you nro asked to do Is to Bcud f or a Frco Trial tjii hottlo of Dr. iliiy'a

l E p S l o p - t l i o l c J o Cffuuro It hao cured llinneaDds whom nverythlPK olao j This VOar ho housllt hlS llrst tlireshiug

failed. Giiarnni(.i:<l by May Weiili:al Latioratoiy _f :,, „„,„ . f

l ie Is Sow Oiii! of the JliitlioNl h'Mriii-<rrn lu .SaiiUmc'henuii, CeiXnil C'liiiiiiln. Arriving iu Canada iu ISOl, jusl

eighteen years ago. E. .\. Guilleiulu, could speak hut his native lunsuagc. He is a Frenciimnn,, He had hul a little over ,$2 in his jiocltol, thus be-ln.u; short over ?7 of the ?10 required lo secure entry for a homestead of 1110 aeres. Ho eventuully horrowed tlio money, and, near ii'orgol, !=iis-hatchcwan, he started life in Canada ou the lioniestead in wliich Lo-day he Is tho fortunate possessor ol' llfly nuar-ter soiitions of html, or 8,000 acres,

.\o\v .llr. Gullleniin did not aci|iiiru all these acres as a result allogiStlier of his I'aruiiiig oporalions, which wore o.vU'iislvc. He looked with satlsl'ac-Hun upon what ho was doing on his liiiilioil area, he was savint', careful and had forosighl. SurroundingJand

; could bo had for aboiiL $1! por acre, ' ;iii(l ho continued buying as his sav-ill, 's would iiernill, until now ho litis llfty (jiiiirtcr sections, somo of which ho can .soil al . n pur acre.

'I'hr.'.sln'il V'lUy 'PliiiiiMiind IJiiNlieLs. Tills year ho was eii.n.iK'cd in tlirush­

ing on "his jiiJice for r,.|i/.j days. Ho threshed oiil 50,000 bushels of wheal, of vvliicli hi! sold ;M,000 bushels, one train load, at a price varying from S-l lo ST cciils jKir bushel. He has on hand still 10,000 bushels. In addillon to wheal he raised 30,000 bushels oC oats, 7,000 bushels of barley and GOO bu.slH3ls of Oa.v. Ho owns 104 horses and a nuniber ot catlle, but since the construction oC the railway ho has been engaged,chieOy In raising wheat.

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UruUl Oil out calhnrlici nnd pircaliTci, —Unll—unncccMory, Try CARTER'S L I T T L E .

LIVER PILLS Puri-Iy vcKclslJp. A

Syitly 00 die lirw, tininale bile, utd

Bootht; theiiclicutv mcmtrnnc of et llio bowel. Certr Cod. ftipatloa, &iIioKE<

£iclf llendsclio and ludifftBlIoo. u milTionj) Imow. Smnll Pill, Small Doao, Small Prica OJSNUIKL; Mu«t Beiir SiKiiiiturei

C h i l d r e n ' s C o u g h s ""'^^^^ Ones Much Unnccegiary Suffering

Gvcs instant relief—sootlics and heals the bttio throats and prevents more ecn'ous illness. Children like it loo—w pleosant to tjikc ond doa not upiel thcttoniBch.

Alt DruKRiitfl, 25 cents.

machine, paying I'or it tho sum of ?2,100. He estlmales that tho machino earned tor hirh tills fall $3,000, thus paying for itself in ono season, and leaving him ?900 to the good. Tho weather was very propitious for farm throshing, not a single day being lost in the two mouths which were sjjent ill this work. Tho wheat averaged 23 busliels to the aero aud graded No. 1 and No. 2 Norlhorn. In the past nine years, seven good crops have been harvested on this farm. For six successive years the returns were ex­cellent, that is iu the years 1901, 1902, ifto;'., 1904, 190.5 and 1900. In the two following- years there was a partial

Vclernn .S«rvc'<I on Kiioli Side, Amos Gloss, a war veteran of Allen-

town, Pa., has celebrated his 72d birth­day anniversary and Is in vigorous health. That, however, is, inslgnlli-caut compared with Mr. Gloss' tlirill­ing experience in the War of tho Ro-belllon, as rohited on that occasion lo neighboi's and friends. He is one of very few men who can Iruthfuily say that they served in two arniics—the Confederate and tho hVdcriil.

.Mr.Giess in his enrlier life was a bricklayer, and no man in those parts ever handled tlie trawel with greater dexterity. Late in tbo TiOs he entered the employ of the liUe Samuel .Mclloso of Alleutov.-n, renowned as a builder ot blast furnaces, for wliicli he had contracts all over ilic United States. In 1S59 ho look a force of nineteen men, most of Lliciii Croin that clt.v, lo Richmond, Yii., to build tho Wcsthnm furnace, along the .hiiuos Itivor canal. Among thorn was l lr . Uioss. The only other survlvor.s of lluil parly are .Tohu Paul of RlU-ersvi]l(>, and Levi Quier of Reading. I

The .spirit of rebellion was already high al thai time, and things wero uot any too jileasaiit I'or the gang of North­ern bricklayer.^. Thoy wero not ex­actly wanted, and lliuy knew il , with the reaull thai all of them, with (ho exceiilioii of Giess, made tracks for home before the breaking out of tiio H'ar. Air. G'ioss, liowovei', was of ;i nore vonluresomo nature, and lie do-;;iilcd lo ruiuain. Ho lissotiialed wiUi nuiiiy of iho CoulVdcralu leaders, fre-(liii'iited their councils ns liiuoli as pos-slfde and wa.s iiigbly iiilorosled in the great draiiln Ihat was uiifDlding i'solf day by day. -Mr. Giess remained in Richmond for iicafly a year after hos-ililios lictwoeii the North aud South ad coiiiiucneed.

Although a loyal IJiiion man, he, in March, lSli2, was suddenly informed that lio "liad 'the opportunity" ot en­listing in Ihe Confedcrlito army or be­ing conscripted, ff ho enlisted ho had the "o|iiiortunily" of .ioiuiiig Gen. Miir-mailnko .loliiisou's light artillery, which was then being formed. If ho refused to enlist he would he forced into the army as a conscript and as­signed to somo very undesirable regi­ment.

As he knew General .Tohnson person­ally aud found him a very hue man, he concluded Lo "enlist," donned tlio Confederate gray and joined the com­mand. They went into a camp of in­struction and for two weeks he watch­ed his opiiorliinity to escape. One night It came, and crawling through the lines ho succeeded in making his way back into Richmond.

During his stay in Richmond' Mr. Gciss luid mado the acipiaintanee of a Gorman cigiirniaker, a Northern sym­pathizer, who kept quiet about it. Gloss succeeded in ifiaking his way to his friend's house and was immeduiLe-

mer In the Fifty-fourth and tha latter In the Ninth Regiment. The former was cajitured by tho Clnfederates' In 1SG3 and died somo weeks later in AU' dorsonville iirlson. .

failure. As tho years have passed the , ^.^-^^^ 3, 3 3,, .j,,^^,,^ j^,^,,^^^^ (lutility of the buildings on tl ^^ cigars, whicli his friends after­

ward 'sold. havo boon steadily Improved, and aro '

\J)R.BURMARrsmmERFUL Cffm 3 0 l )AYsTf?EATMENT;

If you nre sulTcring-with any of the followine «yiiiptoms: patti.siti sidc,bacli:,uiider.sliaulder biiide.'i, sick sour hioaled slomneh, licnriaclie, eoii.stipatton, cntarrli, liverand ktiliteydi.scnse, rhcumntism, iiciiralKia, pnlpUation of heart, bad hlood, ro to to your dnifr.storc imd pel n 30 days trcDtmcnlol Or. Burkhart's Vogotalilo Com-pounil anil bo cured. '

"now, as good as can bo found In tho district. About $10,000 has been in­vested In this way by Mr. Gulllemin. Tho farm consists of C,880 acres, of which about G,000 acres were under crop this season.

We were visiting at Sandringhara, Sir Evelyn Wood,, who is very deaf, tirept up as near as lie could to the musicians, and in one of tho pauses ha eaid to me, "Are you fond ot music'/" 1 answered, "Yes." ",Do you play any-jhing?" I said, "No." "Well," he went on. "I am so fond of it that, would you believe it, f began to practice scales at twenty-four. But one day my sister came up and put her hand on my shoulder and said, 'My dear boy, jyou had better give that up,' and so I ,did." He also told mc that he began life as a sailor, then went to the bar and llnally entered the army. .The only profession he had not tried was the church, and his enemies say ho would, have tried that, only he did not know what church to choose.—"Life ot Sir William Broadbent." , , '

Are Your Cloilie* rndedT Ilae Ited Cross Bali lUue nnd make thorn

irhtta ajralD. Larce 2oz. package, fi cant*.

rirNt Aid . Nervous Wreck (trembling and shak­

ing)—Havo you any " Druggist—^Already? Yes. Adolbert,

hand down a bottle of bromlcle of po­tassium.

Despair and Despondency No one but a woman can tell the story of the suffering, the de.ipair, and the tlespondency endured by women who carry o daily burdeq of ill-henlth and pain because of disorders and derangements'of the delicate nnd important organs thtit are distinctly feminine. The tortures so bravely endured com­pletely upset the nerves if lonjj continued. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is o positive cure for' weakness and diseoso of the feminine organism.

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It allays inllflmmntion, heals ulceration atid soothes pain^ It tones and builds up the nerves. It fits for wifehood ^ ond motherhood. Honest medicine <iealers sell itrond

, have nothinji to, urge upon you OS ;•'just 88= good." , It is^non-secret, non-ttlcoholio nnd has a record of forty years of cures. A s r Your NnicnnoRS. They probably know of some of its many cures. ^If you want a book that tells all about woman's diseases, arid how to euro

them at home, send 21 one-cent stamps to Dr. Pierce to pay cost oJ mailing ««/.)', and he^wili send you o free copy of his great thousond-page illustrated Common Seaso Medical Adviser—revised, up-to date edition, in paper covers, la handsome c;lotb-binding, 31 stamps. Address Dr. R . V . Pierce, Buffalo, N . Y .

For a'long time Mr. Giess did not venture out of doors save in tho night. Finally, however, he grew bolder and, disguising himself ns well as he could, and passing himself off as a German, foreign born, and acting as if ho could speak English only with the greatest diinculty, ho .made his way all over Richmond, fretiuontly conversing with Confederate oOicers wlio came in from tho front.'

Ho' found a great deal of interest iu visiting the schools in tiie suburban districts of Richmond, and one day he came across a little country school house some distance outside of Rich­mond. Hearing tho ytipils singing, ha v/ent in.

Thoy sang ".Dixie," "The Stars and Bars," "The Bonny Blue Flag," and other Southern songs. Finally Mr: Giess asked them to sing "Yankee Doo. die."

The eyes of the teacher, a young woman, flashed lire; hut she made no remark, nor was the song given. Next day Mr. Giess was arrested and lodged In the Riohniond ja:I. Ho was in jail forty-eight hours. Tiien he was re. leased. Mr. Giess then came to the conclusion' that it was high time ho got out of Richmond.' He:had succeed ed in escaping from General .Johnson's command,in March and it was.no.\v De­cember. Watching his opportunity he succeeded In appropriating a pasS' be longing to another m a n whose genera! physical description he closely resem­bled, and at 4 o'clock: in the morning of a December day in 1S62 he took his leave, reaching, Washington hy way of the famous Dismal Swamp and tha Rappahannock River. ' .

. H e suffered great iiardships, not the least of them hunger and cold. 'I-Ie reaqjied 'the capital, in safety; how­ever, , and the first- acquaintance lie met was the late ,Tohn L . Stiles,; of Al-"': lentown, who was ,then-a member of Congress. , Stiles saw= that Geiss was; properly- cared 'for'and the .two suhs'e-guently: saw :tlie'battle: of Fredericks^: burg. ./

"Some time: later Mr. Giess- retiirned' to :Allontown:'and:'m:'August; 1S64, :he; enlisted'intthe Two-Hundred and: Sec-; ond Regiment:and aJarticipated ,in::the; bloody:-hattleln:.and about'Petersburg.:; ;,',-;'Mr.:,Giess'father,, the late iChristlan, Giess, and a brother, .William Giess,

, alaio served In the Union army, the for-

A I)e<lll (Jeiicnil. "J know what it is to die." Gen. H. M. Rogers, a soldier from

private to brevet major In tho Sixth Wisconsin, made Ihe remark. In one of Gen. Grant's battles about Peters­burg, In June, lSC-1, ho roceivcd a dan­gerous wound. Upon reaching Wash­ington it was found that gangrene had appeared. Within a week he was sont home, to Viroqun, to die. On the. way lio grow much worse. Diood poison was hastening tlie end.

In au interview Gen. Rogers 'tells the story.

'My higli fovcr tiirni'd to an icy chill. I heard Dr. Rusk say to Dr. Tinltcr, 'the family would better bo called.' - "My mother and sisters came to tlie bedside, took my hand, kissed my fore­head, sobbed a good-bye and left the room—left it tliat my bride of a few miinlhs miglil bo alone with her dying liusband. .My young wifo was weeping when she entered the room, reallzlu.g that in a sliort time sho would be a widow. Then came a minister. 1 lieard .somo of his appeal that the soldier's life might.be spared to his wil'e, molh-or, sisters and country. Niglit came— total darkness—my last night, yet I fought and still had just the least glimmer of a hope. I shivered with cold tliiit no artlllcial warmth could prevent, and was, oh", so tired! When lite last night was half gono I fell Into a troubled slumber. 1 thought, or ilfoaiiKul. thai I was in camp on tho .slioi'o of a river and eoiilil look across into till' lOlernal l!c.vnnil. f was wait­ing my turn 10 bo, I'crricd over. - The water was clear and willioiit a ri)iplc. War scones and hits of army life aii-licai'od. 1 saw Clnii. .lauieH Wadsworth, our brave old division coniiuaiuler, shot iiiuri'all us J luul scon, hhii fall iu llio Wilderness, llio M;iy before. I .saw tiiirty-sevon of my couipa.iiy who had lu c-ii killed at Gaiiisvilln, South .Moun­tain, Antiel.Tm, Ccl,ly.sburg and else­where, on tiic other shore. They sccincd to be waiting for iiui. 1 was not lifraiil lo go over, but still IioikhI for life aud a return to llio reginuiut. Ovor yoiuior I saw Co. ,t getting iuto line under Old Glory, as I witnessed it so many tiiiios in \''ii'gliiia. I suav the ferry coming in my direction, saw it land,'felt the angels lift mo and carry.mo to the boat; realized that I was dead. My old company waved the flag and sang a welcome as we ap­proached tlic shining shore. I was in heaven, free from paiii. I-Tow riuiot and peaceful it was, and what beauti­ful sights I saw.

"Two days afterward I aAVOlto to look into the still sober but less trou-lilod faces of my wife, mother and sis­ters, aud to hear the doctor say, 'You liavo won tho battle and will In time retinui to tho regllucnt.' When I llrst looked at tho dear ones my thought w,as to ask them wli.v they had so soon followed, but the doctor's remark resur­rected me."

A few months later Capt. Rogers limped back on crutches to his com­mand, near Petersburg, and partici­pated in the battle of Hatchor'a run, but was obliged to quit the service be­cause of tlie, unhealed wound two months bcforo Appomattox. Two years later ho was made au oflicer in the reg­ular army, but that same old Peters­burg hurt led to his return to private lil'e. In ISS.'J Gov. RusK coram issioned him quartermaster general of the state.

In spite of that ride l;o the Other Shore in ISt;.!, he Is, in 1009, at 70, erect and vigorous, but that Confeder­ate bullet gave him a hitcii iu his step that wili stay by hhn to tlio end.-—J. A. Watroiis, in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Syrup of F igs and Eli.-cir of Senna appeals to the cultured and the well-informed and tlie healthy becau.se its component parts are simple and whole-soiiie and because it nct.s with­out d i s turbing\he natural func­tions, as it is wliolly free from every objectional)lc quality or substance. In its production a pleasant and refreshing' syrup of the figs of California is unit­ed with the laxative and car­minative properties of certain, plants known to act mostbene-ficially, on the human. sy.stcm. when its,;gcntlc cleansing is de­sired. T o -get its beneficial ef­fects, always buy the genuine, for sale by all reputable drug­gists; one size only, pi'ice fifty cents a bottle 'fhe name of Ihc company — Califoi'nia F i g Syrup Co.—is always plain­ly printed upon the front of ev-el'v package of the genuine.

LOUlSVILfJ: S.\N FRANCISCO. CAL, NEW YORK.

THE! STEADY WHITE UGHT."

The RA'YO L A M P 15 a tngli-jrrade lamp, sold at a iowpricc There are lamps that cost more, but tlicrc is no belter lamp at any price. Tlic Burner, the Wick, the Cliimncy-i-loldcr—all are vital things in a lamp; these parts of the R A Y O LAMP are perfectly constructed nnd there is nothing known in tlie art of lamp-mnkiiiR that could add lo the value of the R A Y O as a light-ijiving device. Stiiinble for nny room in nny house.

Mvery d.-nler oTeryivlierii. if not at. viiurs,.\vr.lle furdesurlptlvoelrculunu Ihoneiiresl Ai.-ciney otUio

S T A N D A R D O I L C O M P A N Y (Incorporated)

,Caa ho handled very easily. Tho elck are cured, and all othent In luaiostable. nonmuer liuw "exposed." kept froia liavlair tlio dls-toaao, liy ualnpr KI'OIIN'S LtQUlu PlSTEAiPKIi CUKE. Olvo on 'the tougrue.or hi feed. Ait In oa tlie hlood and expolB Kcrins of all forms or dluteinpor. Reatroniody ovor knowa for mares In foftl,

, OnolioltloRiianinteed (o euro ono case. Wtaanetia tKirtloifiSanJ I $Hldo7;Qn oidnii 'lstaand lianiessileitlors.orHeiit e.xiiroimpald li/ / nianu('.neturere. Out allows how to iioiiltleu tliroiila. Our freu { hookiot drives evoryUilnif. Ixical «Konw Wttat<Kl. Jjirjfoat aollln f

liorsu remedy Iu existence—twelve years. SPOHN MEOICAb'CO... CioeiUig and nactorioiosiitu, Coshon, Ind., U. S. A.

aralclns nioiil Timu J'Ica.Nnut, A Harlem mother has struck upon

a plan which adds greatly to the gen-oral good humor of the. household over which she presides. A son works with ills father down town, and there are throe girls and a boy at school. At dinner every night each member of the little circle i iust tell the fun­niest Incident in his or her personal experiences of the,day. Tried as an exiierlnient, the idea h.as been made permanent, and Is provides a barrel of fun every 24 hours. It also has increased the powers of observation ot every, member of the family, and now the plan Ilnds a natural develop­ment In a scrapbook in which the picjc Of the crop of stories is jotted down:

Occasionally, an, English railway section laborer cooks a I'abbit with­out the aid of a Are. A l l he does is to cover it with a thick crust of clay and immerse it in quicklime. In about twenty minutes he takes it out, cracks the" clay .(which has halted hard)'and inside-is his meal done to a turn. . •, :,.: > . • --,

A fiencroiiM Clft. Professor Munyon has just iasuod a

nio.st beautiful, useful and complete al­manac. It contains uot only .ill tho sci-entillc information concerning the mooti's phases, in all the latitude^, but baa llliistrafod articles on how to read character by plirenoloffy, palmistry and birth month. It also tells all about card reading, birth stones and tholr mean­ing, and gives the Interpretation oC dreams. It teaches be.auty oulturo, man­icuring:, gives weights and measure:: and antidotes for poison. In fact, it Is a Magazine Almanac, that not only gives valuable Information, but will af-

= ford much amusement for every mem-bar of the faiiilly, especially for parlios and evening-entertainments. Farmers and people in the rural districts will find this Almanac almost Invaluable., .

It win be sent to anyono absolutely free on application to the Munyon Remedy Company, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dollar

His-Face Was Turning Yellow . Someone told him that sallowness was caused hv an Innetivo liver. .--'He hesnn l.iik-liiK NATOIIB'.S liliJIBDy, his natural color returned, his brain cleared. His liver :vvas at'iiin active. JSMl, tnblots never fall to cor­rect tho liver, Iho.v I'omovo the lillo, aid dl-Kcstlon and tone the sysl:oni. Hatter than Pills for Iilver Ilhs. 't'liko one tonight aud you'll feel belter In the morning. Get a 2nc hox. All DrugKlsls. The A. II. Lewis Mcdl-

lo., St. U

Why Rpend a dollar when lOo buys a box of C A S C A R E T S at nny drug store? Use ns directed—get the natural, easy result. Saves many dollars imsroc/ on medicines that do not cure. Millions regularly use C A S C A R E T S , Buy a jjox now—lOo wc'ck'.i Ireaiinent—proof in the morn- -i n g . : ' <)o6

CUT THIS OUT, mall it With your ad'-drcss to Sterling .Remedy,,Company, Chlc.aso, 111., and receivo a handsoma

uouvcnir gold Bon Bon , Box FEEli!.

clue Co., Louis, Mo.

F A S H I O N H I N T S

Electricity-, lias at last been applied 'to • the Teddy bear, .a Maryland man having patented.: one , that;opens' its jaws and flashes.lights from its eyes, nose -and mouth,, when a hattery^ in its interior is pressed.

Tliough hj'drophobia: has been stamped out of Britaini it is still, ram­pant ilii, Germany, where every year over 2,500 dogs and cats aOlIcted witli tlie'aisease are destroyed.

Argentine ,:Republic;:,iSr::, larger-: than the-United'i States- east::ofvtlie:'Missis-' sippl; 12 times larger than England. Every third man there is a foreigner. Pullman cars cross it in 24 >ours.

Only 5 % i per - cent - of: the - total, area of tlie ..world;:is, tillable;

Let us do your Printing • using •

f»r your offlct stationary. You can gat tho paper and anoelopes ^ to match.

l lJLa • r««i thing. Takm a* oi'nar.

P A Y IF C U R E D

aod riiluia Cur*. ; - . R E A C O . , DEPT. BS, MIHHEAP0LI3, UlIiB.,

V E T E R I N A R Y C O U R S E A T H O M E ( -4 O/^nXear and upwards can ho made taking oar 3>l-t,tJV.* voterlnary Conmo at home durlnn siiaro timo; tauEhtlnslniploat Enctlli'h; Diplomaernnted.po* sttlonBohtalnedformK'ce?sfnIfllU(tent8;ooBtwltliInrciicU ofall! satisfaction jinaranteed: partlciilara free. Oaliii1» ., Velflflonry Corr Bpondnncs Rct---'l, Ilopl. 10, Iinnaon, Canada

l!'01t SALE.—Sickness causes mc to sell my forimila for -tanning hides. Coinploto

foriiiuln. for inn king leather, for 20c. sliver. Tuaiiors inako, .lo weekly. Why not you'J-l! )rauihi tells vo" bow. li, I5i-:uitm, 3-1 Heck-cf St., Newark, N.-J.- . - ? :

A deep pointed -waisti line, -back and : ftont, is the feature of this dinner, gown. The overskirt is gathered; on in somewhat generous fullness, and the trimming for tin' entire gown is the material corded. - I t a.vcry, dashing styl« for « ilendet figure

Mrs./WlnsIow!8;Sootmint syrup for Chll-dccB:teotblng;:softens the Kums,: reduces in-

WatHonI!.CoIninnn,Wa«h. Ineton.CC. Hooks free. Tllgh-eel refereueeu. lieut resplta.

W y S N T E D (''•"' "'•-''ennemiiiiot falrodnca-tlon to travo] for Ilria of larco capt lai. Daiaryi!ii,u(i£aoryoar,pa3:iil)lo weekly.. ExpoDBOSad. vanccd. Addretsueu. Olotvs, iUUladelpiUti, l u.,'Uepi. u

Learn Piano by E a r Ssor.1l7'Siite1S

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-UoexccIIcdrior:clcartn; the volca. 'Aia»> fx*irom opiatw or anrlllitng'banniut ., , 2S:e<itti, 50 ccnta and 4t>00 jxc Imbj;'':' <;{

. < acat on rsquaat.'i :

rid is tillable. flammatlon, allays pain, cures wind coJlc.::i;iiS •-v^V-aKU' HBMyAiJC-gHtb.aMMB, 1 cents a bottle, n /

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E V E R Y F I F T H Y A R D o f G O O D S

- f o u r t h O f f S a l e

o f C L O T H I N G F o r G a s h

I f y o u buy five yards , you get tlie fifth y a r d absolute ly F r e e .

I f y o u b u y ten yards , y o u get the fifth a n d tenth yards Free .

T h i s applies to a l l goods measured by the y a r d . T h i s is y o u r

opportun i ty . R e m e m b e r the days.

. O u r weekly d r a V i n g o f the F u r n i t u r e w i l l , take place

af ter this sale on Wednesday , F e b . 9th.

H . F . M E R T Z

C o u n t y N e w s I t e m s

H A P P E N I N G S 01= I N T E R E S T G A T H E R E D

FOR T H E B E N E F I T O F O U R R E A D E R S

Jtrgliaiir County ^motml -BY-

W . L . C L A R K .

Wednesday, February 2, 1910

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

Mrs, ,T, W, Wilcd.x lias been visiting licr clauKliters in .latihson l.lie past week,

Mrs, fSariili Slieriniin visited lier son iitj Lansing I\ronclii,y and Tuesday,

Mrs, Geo, McArtl iur wiis in Jacicson Monday, •

C, L , Oriiwforcl, wife and ditilKlitcr Of Jackson visited relatives liere from

, Wcflnesrlay until .Saturdiiy, Mrs. Cridlerof Lci l le spent partof

last week witli Mrs. .Slierman."" Born, to Ernest Slierman and wife

of Lansing Thursday, Jan. 27tli, an S* lb. daughter. ,

M E R I D I A N .

M . Iv. Cilmpbcll of Mnson made a business trip to Williamston and vi.s-ited fricnfJs at tills place a couple of

•days last week, li'nink Robackt i f this place and

Artl i i ir Matthews of Okemos, with their families, spent Sunday at Rob,

• Osborne',s, Norman Cook of Mason visited his

•daub'litcr, Mrs, B. J?, Wade, last weelf, Charles Kobaek and wife are visit­

ing friends in Jackson. Mrs, W. II. Wade and Mrs. J . M .

.Turner were in Litiisini,' last Jfriday. A r t Webster and family visited at

Jay Burgess' Siindiiy. A Gleaner social will be held at the

home of J . VV. Driver Saturday even­ing, ireb, 5th. A debate will be lield. Question, "The meat boycott."

E A S T A L A I E D O N .

A n infantchild of Mr. and Mrs, John L o t t is very sick with pneumonia.

Misses Vio la Kurt/ , and Lydia Cole visited relatives in Lansing Sunday.

Charles Button was in Lansing last Saturday,

J . T . Green, wife and daugliters were in Lansing one day last week.

Dora Cole, who is attending school in Williaraston, was liome last week.

Rev, and Mrs. ICuster of Holt, M r . and Mrs. Win. Voss, daughter and son, Mrs, George BIckert and little daugh­ter and Mrs. Andrew Stuller uf Wheat-Held spent last^ Friday with August Wolf.

:Will Schlosky is visiting relatives -in Saginaw county.

Nathan Weston is getting out the timber for a barn, which he will build in.the spring. » . , Ernest Kurtz and Charles; Potter drew stone to Lansing Mast Thursday and Friday,

L E S L I E and B U N K E R H I L L L I N E

Revival meetings are being held the irelt I'liiins church. Let every body come, as much good will be done

Art ie Wlieaton and wife of Leslie spent Friday at Arcl i ic Barr's,

Tl ic woman's for^iign missionary society will meet with Mrs. Belle Kclley Wednesday, Feb. iltli, for din ner. .Everyone is invited to attend tills meeting.

Miss Mary Burr has liccn spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Jas Wlieaton of Leslie.

Jack Barber visited his brotlier i Wiiterloo last Sunday.

Mrs. E m i l y DuBois had the misfor tune to fall and hurt herself quite badly last week, but is getting along nicely now.

B R E A K 0' D A Y . ' Miss Fern Ackley is recovering from

a severe attack of appendicitis. It was feared for several days that, an operation would be necessary, but she is doing nicely now,

Mrs. Clias, lilscli fell down the cel lar stairs and hurt iter back, but better now,

Joiin RIsch, Sr., sold a horse to Con way parties one day last week.

Mrs.^^Jiiary Patrick fell on the ice and hurt an arm quite severely.

E . A . Oluircli, wife and son took dinner with Fred Holland last Sundiiy

M; R, Foster has been boarding witli Mrs, E . A . Cliurch the past week

Arthur Riker is lielpiog Chandler Doty husk corn.

The meat boycott will have no elTect on the farmers of -this commu­nity as tliey have disposed of their fatted stoclc.

Fred Bolinet and Charles Spray arc attending court at Mason as jurors from Lei'oy and White Oak respec­tively. '

J s now on a n d wi l l cont inue u n t i l the stock is sufficiently

reduced lo m a k e r o o m for p u r new s p r i n g goods. T h i s

sale o f ours has, for m a n y years, been considered the

greatest money-sav ing sale in this county . N o t h i n g in

the ent ire stock but dependable merchandise , no o l d

stock to w o r k off, b u t the surp lus part of one o f the

cleanest C l o t i i i n g stocks i n M i c h i g a n . L o o k this over

carefu l ly a n d see i f y o u do not t h i n k th is is the place to

sbend y o u r money.

W e sha l l sell a l l M e n ' s , B o y s ' a n d C h i l d r e n ' s Sui ts

a n d Overcoats , L i n e d Blouses , Sweater Coats , O d d P a n t s

a n d Vests , H a t s , Caps , U n d e r w e a r (except Staley's) , a l l

T r u n k s , Bags , S u i t Cases, Neckwear , N i g h t Robes , a l l

H o r s e B l a n k e t s , Robes, R o b e L i n i n g , etc., at One- four th

OH' o u r r e g u l a r prices; a n d a substant ia l reduct ion on

a l l Overa l l s a n d W o r k S h i r t s .

W e have left at the present t ime about 50 F u r Coats

a n d whi le the price on these goods is g o i n g h igher every

day, we have decided r a t h e r than c a r r y them over, to"

close them out at O n e - f o u r t h Off. N e v e r aga in wi l l you

have such a n o p p o r t u n i t y to get a F u r C o a t at less t h a n

t h a n the ac tua l cost, a n d m o r e cats to select f r o m than

a l l other stores in I n g h a m county can show you .

W e a r c a r r a n g i n g a . table o f O D D S A N D E N D S ,

where y o u w i l l find p lenty o f B a r g a i n s a n d m a n y th ings

that y o u need, a n d a l l at L E S S T H A N H A L F O F F .

D o not miss this.

R e m e m b e r ! O u r s is the L a r g e s t S t o c k o f C l o t h i n g

in y o u r county; Ave keep o u r stock complete at a l l t imes

a n d when y o u s tart tbr one o f tiiese sales y o u are never

in d o u b t about f ind ing w h a t you want. W e fit the l a r g ­

est men a n d the smallest boys. B e here in t ime a n d get

y o i i r choice. W e sha l l have plenty o l help to wai t on

y o u . W e are open every even ing .

W e pay y o u r r a i l r o a d f a r e i f you trade ^IQ.i

o r m o r e at o u r store.

Rheumatism Readi ly Cured by a Simple Vegetable Remedy.

Mr. Longyear,the druggist, says that j-eraedies of vegetable origin produce the best results and that through his conQdeoce in this class of remedies, he has added E U M A X to liis stock, a vegetable remedy fur rheumatism. R U M A X has made many remarkable -cures Of rheumatism, lumbago and ;goub and. no>peraon who is, suilering from any of: ithosc:ailments should hesitate to give R U M A X a trial. -For

..^aleat Longycar Bros.' drug store.

Took a l l His Money. Often ail a man earns goes to doc-

,tors or for medicines, to cure a stom­ach, liver or kidney trouble that Dr. King's New Life Pills would quickly cure at sligiit cost, Best for dyspep­sia, indigestion, biliousness, constipa­tion, jnundice, malaria and debility. 2nc at Longvear Bros. \ .

V E D E N . Mrs. W. II. Overholt and daughter

Jennie visited in Lansing over Sun­day.

Mhss Cora Neely was a guest of Mrs. Lucius Olds over Sunday.

Mrs. George Owen and niece, Gladys Litt le , were In Detroit Saturday.

Mrs. A . 0. Sanders, was In Leslie Saturday night and Sunday.

Douglas Hal l was home from Lan­sing over Sunday.

Mrs. Charlie Sumner returned from St. Louis Saturday night, afte^an ab­sence of four weeks.

Wm. Laxton and • wife visited in Leslie Friday. • ' ..

Jolin VanDeusen and wife wore, in Jackson Sunday.

The L . A . S. Of Eden to the number of about 30 were very,pleasantly en­tertained by -Mrs. Irving Sanford of Alaiedon last Wednesday.:;

Curlcton rSwift and wife were at. Tompkins last Saturday toattend^tlie wedding of her brother.

E , n . Hazeltonand wifevisited her .brother in-Aurelius Tuesday. >

M A S O N , M I G H I G A N

W E S T C O U N T Y L I N E .

R, P, Dunham and Mrs. D. Tooker were called to Lansing last Friday by the death of Mrs. Charles Arnold, a relative,

H , Leonard and wife visited Amos Meddaugh Sunday,

Cliarles Buck and wife of Holt and D. Tooker and family spent Sunday with B . P. Dunham. •

Mrs. Fred Stroble and Ellie Hil l iard were visitors at Adelbert Melton's ast Friday.

Cliir Dorr and raotlierspent Monday at Burt Wilson's.

Fred Stroble was In Grand Ledge Monday.

Mrs. Ilalsey is no better at this writing. , , Mrs. F . J . Hochn spent Tuesday at Aubrey Tooker's.

Won't Need a. Crutch. When Editor J . P. Sossman of Cor­

nelius, N ; 0., bruised his leg badly, It started an ugly sore,' . Many salves and ointments proved worthless. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it thor-ougiily.. Nothing is so prompt and sure for ulcers, boils, burns, bruises, cuts, corns, sores, pimples, eczema and piles. 25c at Longyear Bros.

M I L L V I L L E . ^ D. II. Burgess of Mason visited his

.family at his old home over Sunday. II. Bravendcr visited his sister, Mrs;

P. Swan, near Dansville last Saturday. Misses Pearl and Luciie Ostrander

entertained Miss Barkham of Stock-bridge last Saturday and Sunday, '

Rev, W, Ostrander began special meetings at Mlllvil le last Sunday.

Henry Bravendcr had the misfor­tune of ciiopping his foot very badly with an ax last Saturday while chop ping wood.'

F . Burgess is in very poor health.. F . Gauss will soon move to Idaho. Mrs. Thed Owen visited her brotli-

er,.Rev. Swan, Sunday. : II. Bravendcr and T . Risdon were

n Mason last Thursday. Owing to the meetings this week

the Gleaners will hold tlieir meeting Saturday evening instead of Wednes­day evening.-

D. T.i.Dutchcr bought a horseot.-Mr. Mapcsab Stockbridge last Saturday.

C. Moon and wife visited at G. M . Burden's Sunday afternoon.' ..

Orrin Hedglln and wife were Sunday visitors at n . Bravender's.

0, Po.xson has bought the farm of George Thompson, known as the C. Osborne farm, and will take possession this spring.

Do you know that croup can be pre-venlea ? Give Cliainberlain's Cough Remedy as snon as. the child becomes hoarse orevenaf ter the croupy cough appears and it will prevent the attack. •It.is also acertain cure.for croup and lias never been known to fail.' Sold by Longyear Bros,, druggists.

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

Mrs, Edgar Allen of Portland, Ore­gon, is visiting lier parents, Geo. S. Wilson and wife.

Wert Every and fiimily visited at Willard Upton's Sunday.

George ytowc and wife visited in Lansing Saturday and Sunday.

M, Specr.vyas in Lansing Tuesday. Mrs. Alv in Bygraves visited Mrs.

Geo. Wilson last Friday. Mrs. Irvin Sanford entertained the

ladies' aid of Mason last Wednesday. Alv in Campbell and wifevisited Mr.

Sted last Thursday. ' . Roy Collar and wife visited at Frank

Deyo's Sunday. , ' M. Speer is sulTering witli a very

sore liaud. ' . Ralph Davis visited his sister at

Ypsllanti over Sunday. Miss Jessie Steinhoir visited at H .

Every's last Tliursday. , ' Bert Hart and'-wife visited at H .

Every's last Saturday. Alv in L inn and wife visited at Clias,

Collar's Sunday,

S O U T H A U R E L I U S and N O R T H O N O N D A G A

There are quite a number here on the sick list, A

Mertie Field, entertains the flinch club Tuesday,

Lois Marshall spent a couple of days this week in Detroit,

Ernie Isham, who has been in the Detroit hospital for some time, re­turned home Friday.; .

The Aurelius basinet bull boys went to Eaton Rapids Friday evening and were beaten 34 to 4 by the E , E , boys, .'Mrs, Anna Rider and son ElHs were

in Jackson Saturday, where Ell is takes lessons on the violin, ••

Mrs, ITabtle Crane spent Saturday with Jackson-friends.

Mrs, John Davis and daughter spent Saturday at Eives Junction with her motlier. . , <

C. M. Casler and wife now ride in a new cutter, purchased of Ciiicago par­ties.

B. H . Field -and wife spent Friday at John Meacham's of Petreville, '

James Russell is on the sick list. H a r r y Covert spent Wednesday at

J|Ulius Bardep's of.Leslie,..

' H o w to Cure Rheumatism. • Tlie'uric acid thatcauscs tlie,dlsease

must be driven from, the system be­fore any person Clin be'cured of ;rlieu-matism, : R U M A X is |a' liquid .yege-table-preparation.for.internal use, by acting on the kidneys will-idrive from the system the uncac id and otiier im­purities, thatcause.; rheumatism and: kindred ailments. In this way

• R U M A X w l l l ; c u r e ' anycase'of-'rheu-matism, ::lumbago, gout:;or: :kidney trouble....Mr.:;Lnngyear,:the druggist, .endorses•;a nd,:rccommends R U M A X ; • F o r sale at •Longyear; Bro3;i;d riig;store.;:

W E S T A U R E L I U S .

.Tohn Wheeler and wife of Spring-port visited at M, E . Batcuian's and Mrs. Ann Watkins' over Sunday,

Mrs. A . R, Brown is sick with tiie Rrip, .

Mrs, E . D, Curtis and daugliter vis­ited her parents.|ii Petreville Sunday.

E . J.. Topliir and wife cnterta,ined about 60 friends from Eaton Rapids and this neighborhood, last Friday evening. After supper the evening was well spent playing Hindi and with music.

A . J . Butts and wife, L . E . Jewett and wife, W. H . Townsend, M . 0 . Brown and wife, F . C. Jewett and wife attended the funeral of Mrs. Butt's' father at Tompkins last Saturday. :

John Miers and wife of Kingsland visited at Wra. Randall's Tuesday. •Twosleighloads from this place were

entertained by Will Horner and wife at Eaton Bapids Monday evening. A chicken pie supper was servedrt,after which flincii and music were in order. A l l enjoyed a good time.

Frank Jewett had the misfortune to lose a brood-SOW Monday night.

Frank Simmons was at his place the first of the week.

Mr. Wincliell and son Aubrey were in Leslie Sunday. ^

The Y . P. C.-will meet with Harry Brown Saturday evening.

Harry Brown spent Sunday at Ray­mond Clark's. /

Mrs. IL Ilalscy entertained the W. F . M , S. Wednesday for dinner.

Wm. Mix and wife were callers at L . E . Jewett's Monday.

Geo. Bunker and wife spent Sunday at Dan Ecidiart's . ' /

Dani/Eckhart and wife visited at Frank Jewett's Tuesday.

George Smith of Holt spent Sunday at James Haynes'. ,

E l l i s -Hayncs , and-wife visited her parents Sunday.

While itds often impossible to .pre­vent an accident, it is never impossi-. bleto be prepared—it is not beyond anyone's purse.. Invest 25 (lents in a bottle Of Chamberlain's Liniment and you are prepared for sprains, bruises and lilfp injuries. Sold by Uongyear Bros., druggists.

N O R T H A U R E L I U S .

Mrs. Orrm Nichols is the proud pos­sessor of a new $34 cook stove. /

Janiosi He'rrick : and wife were in Lansing Friday.

Clyde.:Eckharfi and wlfeivisited at John Collins'Sunday. '

IT;:D.''Osbom::and daughters were in Lansing Friday^ ,

rWilliara Wllsohwas i n Lansing Sat­urday. -..Mrs, John Rhinchard visited lier daugh ter,' -Mrs.-,.'James •:.nerrick,'i. last Tluirsday.

Miss Edi th Potter entertained Miss Ilu/.el Webb last Saturdiiy, it being her IStli birtliday. ,

Theodore Roysbon lias returned to his work In ,'lackson, after a visit with ills sister, Mrs. Will Lyon, . . ^ Mrs, Ward Bullen entertained her Sunday school class last Saturday afternoon,

Alva Howo and Frank Robinson of Lansing \vero guests at Allen Potter's last Sunday,

John Clark and wife were In L a n ­sing last Saturday. ' ^ . Mrs. Dean Howe of Aurelius visited her sisters, Mesdames Jolin Webb and Albert Fiester, two days last week.

Bort Webb delivered his lambs to Mr. Lincoln last Friday. .

Edwin and Fine El l iot t were called . to Lansing one day last week by the sickness of their father,

Mrs, George Bullen's school will give a string social, at the home of John Avery Feb. '1th. .Ladies please bring cake. • . ,

David Glieney visited at R. J . Bul­len's Friday.

Bert Anway and wife visited at Dan Sear's last Saturday and Sunday,

M r . Haynes and wife of Mason vis­ited at Robert Osborne's Sunday,

Herman Bullen and famil^ visited •at James Haynes'Monday. ' : ;

Nellie Osborne visited at Dan Sear's Tuesday.

(E. T . El l iott and wife vls.'ted at Dan Sear's Sunday." i ;

A U R E L I U S . ;

Claude Edgar and wife were in Lan-singSaturday evening. . _ .V,.- ,

Several valuable dogs In'this vicin­ity have been poisoned. ' ;•• •

Mrs. M. 0. Mead attended Pomona Grange in Leslie last Thursday.;

Jesse Cole visited in Lansing tho; ? latter part of last week. .

Mrs;.James Parish and Claude visit-' : ed E d d Eckhart and family in'Ver-.v montville recently. , "".

-Mrs. John Davis and daughterLou-;. , ise visited in Rives last SaburdV-'; - '

J . D . Waggoner has sold hlsVteam to a Chelsea horse buyer, ¥y, ,

T h e Fl inch club, will meet Vifch Miss Myrtie ,Field Tuesday afternoon. -' . ^ [I

Mrs. A l i c e , H u n t is visiting her', ,>!.,' daughter in Lansing. ' »J . i - .

Miss Nora Eckharb is visiting in."'" > Battle Greek.. * '

Misses 'Godfrey, and PhiUeo.' were.:f guesbs of Miss Bernice Dlsenrobh over Sunday. '

Aurelius Grange w i l l ' meet wibh , ' i, Lotble Phillips Saturday evening, / ' Feb. 5bh.

Frank Jewetb and wife atbended tlie funeral of an uncle near Jackspn Saburdriy afbernoon.'' , ' ' " ,

Mra^Chas Haynes, Sr .'Vlsibed her i j- j :-;;d in Sb, Charles liisb week. ' . 'm