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Prices are right at

The Surprise

Special Sale Saturday, July 28.

Good Map of Michigan, worth $1, 50c Pair Ladies'8c Hose 5c Pair Men's 8c Hose 5c Men's Cottonade pants worth 75c, 45c

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Good 15c Suspenders Good 35c Suspenders Brownie Overalls Clothes Baskets from Bushel Basket Good Wash Boards Small sized Fry Pan 2 Cockeyes

10c 25c 25c

25c to 50c 15c

15c and 25c 5c 5c

Bggs Taken S a m e as Cash,

H. W. B U U S , Prop.

E. C. Ort was in Storkbridge the last of last week.

Archie Palmer of Unadilla called at this office Tuesday.

Casimer Lyman of Jackson is visit­ing relatives in this place.

Geo. Green and wife are visiting relatives in BUlsdale county.

Miss Ethel Graham spent Sunday with her uncle in Stock bridge.

Mrs. H. D. Grieve visited relatives in Plainfield on Friday of last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Cbas. Simpson were in Mt. Clemens the first oi the week.

The steam thresher is now going the rounds trying to find something to thresh.

Herman Reed of Unadilla, started from here for Seattle Wash, on Sat­urday last.

Cbas. Spencer is laid up with a sprained ankle received from jump­ing off a fence.

The adjourned term of circuit court will commence Monday, July 30, with judge Smith in the chair.

Miss Anna Dolan returned to Jack­son Saturday last after spending sev­eral weeks with ber parents here.

Mrs. Etta Hopkins of near Grsgory was thrown from a rake one day last week and received quite severe bruis­es.

Miss Vera McGilvery of Jackson, who has been visiting her uncle Root. Erwin and family, returned home Saturday last.

Mrs. A. C. Maxwell and Mrs. A. T. Mann of Bay City and Mrs. L. D. Brokaw are visiting with their sister Mrs. C, V. Van Winkle this week.

Miss Fannie Clinton of Crystal, who has been visiting her parents here for several weeks, started for home Mon­day, She will spend a couple of weeks in Jackson.

TEEPLE & CAP WELL General Hardware,

Have as complete an assortment of heavy and shelf hard-ware as can be found in the county, and 1900 finds us more thoroughly equipped than ever before.

Builders Hardware a Specialty. Doors and Common Sash always in stockv

Complete line of Buggies, Wagons and

Heating Stoves, K anges^ Wood Stoves

Wood and Coal.

Specials: All Dress Ginghams, Dimities, Organdies, Piques and Lawns

This Week at Cost.

10c Garments, 2 for 15c 15c Garments, 2 for 21c 25c Garments, at 21c each

nW 21c each Garment

Men$s and Boys' Straw Hats: 25c Hat 20c, 50c Hat 39c, 75c Hat 59c, $1.00 Hat 82c

Robt. Erwin is on the sick list this week.

Harry Goean was in Ann Arbor over Sunday.

Those who burn coal are busy fill­ing up their bins this week.

E. M. Field of Whitmore Lake was in town the first of the week.

Mi88 Mabel and Harold Brown of New York are visiting relatives here.

Miss Louise Eastman of Holyoke, Mass., is visiting Mr. andvMrs. V. G. Dinkle.

Mrs. 0 . Taylor of Sonth Lyon spent Sunday with her mother Mrs. Alice Greer of this place.

Mrs. A. B. Green and daughter Jes­sie spent Saturday and Sunday with her daughter in Blissfield.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis of Oak Grove were visiting their son, H. W. Ellis of the Surprise store, the first of the week.

William Ferguson of Howell, has purchased the meat market business of Seymour & Allbright at this place, and took possesion la3t week, and will continue the business at the present location. He will move his family to this village in the near future.—Fow-lerville Review.

100F excursion to Detroit under the auspices of the Unadilla Lodge No. 40 and 100F of Stockbridge, Thursday Aug. 2. ,Fare for round trip from Pinckney $1. Arrives in Detroit at 10:30a. m. and leaves at 7:00 p.m.

The state teachers institute for Liv­ingston county will be held at Howell August 6 to 15 inclusive. The work is outlined in a 50 page pamphlet which has been sent to all teachers. Every teacher in the county should at­tend this institute as it is one of the best means of keeping up with the times.

The DISPATCH acknowledges with many thanks the receipt of a pamph­let put out by the Southern Railroad Company, aptly illustrated, showing many points of interest in the south half of the United States. It is an ex­quisite work of the typbor'iaTfworlgy

S. Darfee and family spent Sunday with relatives near Fowlerviile.

R. 0 . Carlson of Oak Grove was in town Wednesday the gue$t of H. W. Ellis.

This vicinity was visited Tuesday and Tuesday night by a very heavy rain, the ground being thoroughly soaked. —

E. L. Thompson who has been in Fowlerviile a few weeks assisting in shipping the Royal Freezer, was home this week.

There will be a box social at Mr. T. Birkett's Tuesday evening July 31. Each lady is requested to bring lunch for two. All are very cordially in­vited.

We were shown this week a sample of the genuine carpet bug and are informed that tbsy are very numerous in thi3 vicinity. The housewife wants to be watching out for it takes but little time to destroy a good carpet.

We will deliver Flour direct to the peo-

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$3.80 for a barrel.

10 pounds Graham. 15 cents.

10 lbs. granulated meal lOcts

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Specials For This Week: 15 per cent discount on all Men's S h o e s 15 per cent discount on all L a d i e s ' S h o e s 15 per cent discount on all B o y s ' S h o e s 10 per cent discount on all S u m m e r Underwear 10 per cent discount on all C o r s e t s .

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Groceries: Try our Ideal Mocha and Java Coffee*

1 lb. Package, the Best 25c Coffee in the county every pound warranted to please if not your money back^

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oi preservation. Anyone comtemplat-ing a trip to the Sunny South would do well to secure one of the pamph­lets.

It is claimed that some farmers who have been houbled with grasshoppers eating their beans have been able to check the work of the pest by spraying a few rows along? the outside of the rield with paris green and water. The poison should be made somewhat weaker than for potatoes. In attack­ing a new field the hoppers usually commence next a fence or grass field and gradually work toward the enter. The above method is said to work well in stopping the damage to beans al­though no dead hoppers are discover­ed.

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We clip the following from the Marquette Daily Journal which shows that there is hustle in a former Pinck­ney boy:

**P. G. Teeple of the insurance firm of Peter White & Co., is back from Milwaukee, where he attended the annual meeting of agents of the Northwestern Life Insurance com­pany, held Tuesday and Wednesday which was an exceedingly enjoyable affair Mr. Teeple took second rank as <t writer of insurance in the terri­tory covered by the jurisdiction of D. E. Murphy, on total policies written by him individaaTryttajrthg'' the yearV the solicitor who took first having a record of policies written by him a-mounting to oyer $1,200,000 to his credit As there are about sixty so* licitors employed by the company in Mr. Murphy's territory, the showing indicates that Mr. Teeple hasn't let much grafts grow under his feet dur-

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Our Public Schools. The superintendent of public instruc­

tion has prepared a summary of statis­t ics from the reports for the last school year, which includes interesting und important data, relative to the extent, cost of maintenance, etc., of the public schools of Michigan, as well as to the number and wages of teachers, etc. T h e more important of the statistics urc as follows: Number of^o'vvhshTps-

und cities reporting, 1 «.'$(); number of graded schoo,! districts,-Uy:j; number of ungraded school districts, 0,46'.); num­ber of township unit districts, 115; *chool census of graded districts, 410,-109; school census of ungraded districts, 297,521; total number of pupils in cen­sus, 71.'»,090; enrollment in graded dis­tricts, 29:..052; v u roll men t in ungraded districts, 204,7 23; total enrollment, 498,005; average duration of school in months, H. 17; estim;ited number of pu­pils altending seleet schools, 45.56S; total number of teachers necessary to supply all schools, 12,999; total number of men teachers employed. 3.471; total number of women teachers employed, 12,09;i; total number of teachers em­ployed in all schools, 15,501. The total wages of all the teachers for the year were $4,310,030.11»

• Crushed Under u Street Can • f Mlaa Clara a Ctt f t , j r t^tro l fr frh i fc

returning home m m dhoppiag- W thn evening of the 21st, misjudged the speed of ,*n eleptrtp car Arnd was run i > w n andla^tichtly k i l l ed Her chum, l ^ ^ ^ ^ a / t f y s j a ^ . ^ r a g ^ i t h , .her at the time of the accident. Both rode wheels. Miss Kaufmann's explanation of the terrible accident was that Miss Craft was leading the way across the car tracks, hut becoming alarmed at the rapid approach of the car she (Miss Kaufmano) turned around. The next instant the ear fender struck her com­panion and when the ear was stopped it was found that she was a frightfully mangled corpse. Deceased was 35 years of age and had been a resident of Detroit for the past 23-¾ years.

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MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Gram) Jnry Cun«e co Over.

Nothing more will be heiirtl of any of the grand jury cases until the •Sep­tember term of eouit, .Judge Wiest hav­ing on the 18th adjourned court until Sept. 1. r.etween that time and the fourth Monday of the month, when the regular term will commence, the court will look after matters left.over from the present term. It has not yet been decided which of the state cases will be tried Itv.st, but there is no doubt whatever that cither<< the cas«: against Speaker Adams or that, against Land Commissioner French will be tried at tlic next term.

l' Rxtn« loterfercd.-'The weekly crop bulletin, issued by

'the. Michigan weather bureau on the 17th, says that the mean daily temper­ature for the past week was G. ?> de­grees below normal, the average pre­cipitation i).\A abovi* normal, and the sunshine an average of :vi pop cent of the possible amount. Vrequent show­ers have interfered considerably with haying. The nights have been rool and have somewhat retarded the growth of corn. Otherwise Lhc weather con­ditions have been very favorable to crop growth.

•A Bail of F i r * F«ll * t 111« Rapids. < During a heavy rain and electrical

-storm at llig Haptds on the Kith a ball of tire fell and two brothers, Hugo and Chas. Mart/, aged 'j:i and 17 respec-tively, under an umbrella JO feel, d i s - - -g r g r n , U t l N m i U U I ,,, M-ciion in the vi tant, were felled to the sidewalk, l ingo was killed instantly; Charles was knocked-insensible, but half an hour later showed signs of life. lloth were more or less bnrued. Main felt in tor­rents.

Stabbing Affray at Fort IVurnn. A neighboring vow between two Port

Tluron families, Isaac Peifter and Noah Miller, occurred on the night of the 17th. The row had raged more-or less fiercely for the past two weeks, and •culminated on the above date in a stabbiug aUray. Mr. Miller is in the hospital with a stash in his head which may result fatally, a/id IVUVrt—w- io jail.

' Dlfteaae in Michigan. "Reports to the state board of health

show that rheumatism, diarrhea, ton­sillitis, neuralgia and bronchitis, in order named caused most sickness in Michigan, during the past week. Cere bro-spinal meningitis was reported at 4 places, smallpox at6, whooping eongh a t 16, diphtheria'at 2,\ typhoid lever at 44. scarlet fever at 52, measles at i»o and consumption at 1 OS.

rdcr May be ModHi«rl. The recent order of the military au­

thorities that no member of the na­tional guard whose name was not orr the rolls June M e a n draw pay from the state while attending the state en­campment may be modi tied so as to ad­mit to cat»p sAkiieri* who have been at­tending drills for several wctiks before June 30.

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—Jlrlghton has laid 4,000 feet more of cement walk.

The Norwegians at Spruce have just dedicated a new church.

Sixty-four marriages were solemn* ized at St. Joseph on the 22d. •4Th« lii l lsdalo Screen Door Co. will

remove to Adrian. The iirra employs 50 men.

The basket, factory at Cadillac was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss, SI7,000; covered by insurance.

W. J. Raymond, the alleged embez­zler wanted at Port, Huron, was re­cently arrested at Wei land, Ont.

Hudson has decided to repeat its street fair again this year, making the 5th annual fair, i t is to last five days.

The dog warden of Tckonsha col­lected the entire dog tax without a hitch and kept everybody good-na­tured. —

Two deaths from drowning were re­ported at Monroe on the 31st. In both eases the victims were drowned while in bathing.

During a thunder storm on the 14th, lightning killed suvon line cows and a registered bid I owned by Scott Waldo, of Willianiston.

Rertha Cooper, of Kowlcr, pounded upon a can of sulphur and potash to get it open. It exploded and her hand, was badly lacerated.

The thrashing season has commenced in Tekonshaand vicinity and-wheat is yielding from two to three bushels per acre—poor ijuultty of wheat at that.

W. U iluiles. a prosperous merchant of OrtonviHe, has a ttcard that meas­ures exactly seven feet in leugth aud whcrf.be is standing drags on the floor.

The wheat crop around Flat llock is almost a total failure and what little has been cut is growing in the shock on account of the excessive wet weather.

Krnma, the pretty 5-year-old daugh­ter of Mr. and ,Mrs. Frit/. Brencck, of Muskegon, died of hydrophobia on the ISth. She was bitten by a small dog last April.

The first rural mail delivery from Alma started operations on the MiVli. It entails a drive of 2d miles and covers 49 square miles, giving mail service to 729 people.

A severe electrical, wind and hail

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Marshall and Battle Creek young-s t e w are persistent hunters. TBey <he*e tirmw* t8#0.02 out erf the county treasury for sparrow heads, in spite of thtuiaot tha i the appropriation, was

but taoa v..u. The taxpayers of Tekonsha wi l l pay

the largest tax in the history of the village this year, by nearly 50 per cent. The concll has quite extensive improve­ments in mind in the line of drainage and grading.

During a terrific electrical storm which swept over Sheridan on the 17th four barns were struck by lightning and burned. A house in the village was struck hy a bolt of l ightning hut was not badly damaged.

The Blue Ribbon races at Detroit during the week ending July 21, drew out the largest crowd in the history of the association. The weather was fair, with the exception of one day, and the races were all on the high order.

Fire broke out at Weidman in J. S. Weidman's lumber yard on the 15th and raged for six hours, burning over 5,000,000 feet of lumber. A heavy downfall of rain saved the mills. The loss will reach $80,000, with insurance for half.

The big power dam belonging to the Kalamazoo Light & Power Co., four miles south of Allegan, is in danger of going out, the constant rains having slowly undermined tho structure Workmen are strengthening it as fast as possible.

The Masons of Athens are planning to build a new hall for their lodge, which they propose to make an orna­ment to the village. It is to front 46 feet on Main street aud have a depth of SO feet, and will be built of common field stone.

Forty-three of the 112 district schools in Newaygo county have school libraries, costing from 83.25 to $20, and representing a total of 8500. These additions to the equipment of the school have been made during the school j'ear just closed.

Additional rural free delivery ser­vice will be established at Caro, Tus­cola county,-ott- A+tg^—t,—The length of the rout** will b* 20miles; area covered, 45 square miles; population served, 810; oumber of bouses on the route. 180; carrier, .las. Pattison.

Chas. Ititliughnrst has 10 acres of muskmel»>ns growing on his farm near Albion. If frost does not come too early he expects to market between 1,000 and 3,000 bushels. How he .pio-poses to keep the small hoys away from them he has not disclosed.

Colojna was visited by a three-hours' rainfall on the l?th which left tho highways and hillside throughout a wide extent of country in a bad condi­tion; ravines and gullies to the depth of five feet being cut out. Much dam­age was done to crops and orchards.

At a special election held at Pinck-ney on the UHh, the question of bond­ing the town for lire protection was lost by a large vote The business men will probably form a company and establish a water works system, as the town is entirely without lire protection.

.los. Mitchell, a yotmg cigar maker from Kingston'. Ont., was shot aud in-

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. Severe Electrical Storm at Hatlle Creek* •iBattle Creek was visited by a severe

thunder storm on the 20th, when two, -storms, one from the west aud one from the east, came together. The

. streets were .covered with water from • curb to , curb. Telegraph, telephone and trees were, leveled tp the ground and considerable other damage was

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Er^aujfrfri'alfr*. df Mt. Clemens, who -c^Mpgflf lttttft inonth ago in a fit of

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<caW#4*to-ileet4U; Calumet on July 20.

cinity of Katon Uapids on the 20th. do­ing considerable damage tt? coin and other crops.

Tho Michigan Telephone company has begun the construction of its long­distance liue.s between Saginaw and Ludington, following the IVre Mar­quette right of way.

At Powagiae, right in the heart of a beautiful fanning country, dealers iu oleomargarine paid 8144 for licenses to do business this monl h. The six months' bill amounts to 8715.

A Detroit, man has secured optious through Flat UocU for the right, of way for the new Toledo & Detroit, electric road. The route will probably be along the old plank road.

Detroit has established means where­by poor sick children anil their mothers can enjoy free rules on the water, where such a recreation is deemed ad­visable by the attending physician.

Lightning struck the house of F. W. Bradley at Mancelona on the 18th, tearing the shoes from the feet of Mrs. Dradley and burning one of her feet badly, but not injuring her otherwise.

Special census agents ltfCve begun woih in Lansing. Charlotte and Luton Hapids, securing iigures in regard to manufacturing. The special agents in PonUac ami Flint have completed their work.

Arthur Taylor, a colored pugilist of Marshall, on the 20th shot his sweet-heat t..Mrs. Lillie Green, nnd then put two bullets An hJM»\vn brain.. She will recover but it~~is feared his wounds will prove fataL "

The Beaufort iron mine in Baraga county will be reopened on a large scale by Oglebayr Norton & Co., of Cleveland. I t is. the most wealthy mine in Marquette county und has been idle 10 years.1

Gov. r'mgree has pardoned John Cas-lin. sent from Lake City, June 11, 1900. to.the.Detroit house of conect ion for 60 days-for being di'Unk and disorderly. His father is dying

~*~SnCak thieves entered the home of ex-Supervisors Cod L. Tuomcy, a short distance east o f Ann Arbor on the 17th, and secured about $500 worth of plunder—mostly diamonds.

stAiii.ly killed on the 21st by Policeman Christopher Eck. Mitchell was intox­icated and resisted arrest. LYU claims that in discharging his revolver to call assistance, Mitchell got within range aud was accidentally killed.

The speed and force of a bird when flying were forcibly shown on a Mus­kegon county farm recently, when the farmer observed a quail flying through the air strike i* wire fence ami fall to the ground. He weut over to the spot and found that the bird's head had been severed by its sudden collision with the wires as smoothly as if done with a sharp knife.

Port Huron has a bicycle ordinance which imposes a license fee of 81 on riders, upon payment of which per­mission is granted to ride under cer­tain restrictions on nearly all the side­walks in thecity along uupaved streets. The council has now ordered that all moneys received from^bicycle licenses shall be placed in a special fund, to be used exclusively for the construction of side paths along such streets as the council may determine.

BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The gold Democrats will decide upon placing a third ticket in the licld at Indianapolis, July 25.

According to recent dispatches from the famine districts of India a more cheerful outlook is in sight.

For the fiscal year ending June 30 last, there were 26,540 patents granted, including re-issues aud designs.

Methodists have 142 American mis siouarles in China, Presbyterians, 309, and the American board of commission­ers'for foreign missions, 110.

The strike at Kotterdam is extend­ing and oyer 12,000 men are now in­volved. There arc 170 vessels iu the Mass river awaiting discharge.

Gen. Shafter on the 18th notified Copt. Humphreys of battery D, 3d ar­tillery that his battery has been se­lected for immediate service in Chiua or tlie Philippines. -••- •

. Tho excessive heat caused the death of six persons in Philadelphia and two in Camdpn, N. J., pu the 18th. Over 40 leases, of prostration were treated af the hospitals on the above date.

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number of allied now in criina is 43,000. Of these,

.. tw'ever, 20,000 *nSf1**s are located in froeeediut* Have, »een Commenced to ffciftO Tup J p«itfn»ttfe<jSJpd Kwanff Tung

Revoke the Charter of the Street. 1 p r b v i n c e W 1 ,<W> tfermaus wi th Id . Hallway ComnapfaJa St. Louie—

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Chicago, Viewed*'hr V w i a * Store* HaU, heat and hurricane struck var­

ious portions of Chicago on July 15th, and gave the city one of the most fantastic days from a meteorolog­ical point of view that t h e k»al> weather bureau has ever en^otarterecU-There were many heat prostrations during the day. hut at midnight only one death had been reported—'Paul Suckan. Of those prostrated, five are in a serious condition. In the evening the h o t wind which had been blowing from tho west all day increased in vio­lence. It tore down signs, destroyed shrubbery and shade trees, made sport with porch furnishings and played havoc with buildings under course of erection. In Lincoln park many of the small boats were driven ashore before the blast and their occupants compelled to wade to the land. None of the boats capsized, although there were many narrow escapes.

Tien Tain Caioallty Report Confirmed. The nayy department on the 16th re­

ceived official confirmation from Ad­miral Remey-of the reverse of the al­lied forces at Tien Tsin on the morn­ing of the 13th. The dispatch was dated Che Foo, July 16, and says: Re­portedthat allied forces attacked na­tive city morning 13th; Russians right with 9th infantry and marines on the left. Losses allied forces large—Rus­sians, 100, including artillery colonel; Americans, over 30; British over 40; Japan, 58; including a colonel; French. 25. Col. Liscum, 9th infantry, killed; also Capt. Davis, Marine Corps. Capt. Lcinly, Liouts. liutler and Leonard

field guns, 12 heavy guns and o ma-clrtne tfuua, a t 1 t r « € h o n . 'Now"-on the JTAX.ttm UMPWW. sFvWSft *Wi Eng­land there are ttypifc, lA\°9Q nBen* A r " rangements have been made for the departure of 57,000 with 144 guna, and altogether there will be, from present arrangements, In China by September 16,000 Oermans, 13,000 English, 66,00^ French, 50,000 Russian*, 31,000 Japan­ese, 7,000 Americans, 2,000 Italians and TWlfustrJahs, together wi in -all" guns and 36 machine guns, Geif. Von Hog-uslawsky, a high military authority, said it was quite possible that this-force of 115,000 men would prove insuf" ftcient to brjng China down.

A Chinese merchant who-has just ar­rived from Pekln, gives horrible details of the massacre. He says he saw European women hauled into the streets by shrieking Tioxers, who strip­ped them and hacked them to pieces. Their dissevered limbs were tossed to the crowd and carried off, with howls of triumph. Some were already dead, having been shot by foreign civilians. He says he saw Chinese soldiers carry­ing the bodies of white children aloft on their spears, while their companions shot at the bodies He gives other de­tails too horrible to be particularized. It seems that the Boxers leaders had organized a plan including the offering of rewards and rich loot for the anni­hilation of Europeans throughout China asd that Prince Tuan's generals-have been emphasizing the opportunity the soldiers have of seizing the bodies-of whito women.

President Mclvinley has received what purports to be a direct appeal from the Chinese imperial government to use his good ofiices to extricate that government from the difficult and dangerous position in which it has

wounded. At 7 in the evening allied hecn placed as a result of the Boxer attack on native c i tywas repulsed with uprising and the ensuing hostile atti-g re at, loss. Returns yet incomplete;, tude of the great powers. Although details not yet confirmed. the exact text of the appeal made by

the emperor of China to France, as out­lined iu the cable dispatches of the 21st, has- not been made known at Washing-ton, it is believed that the address to the President is similar in terms Uv that communication. In our case the communication was made through. Minister Wu to the state de­partment. '1'hus far a final answer has not been returned.

"If the ne-ws of a t'hinese invasion of Siberia proves true it will, of course, immensely complicate, the situation from the international point of view. As stated' in the Associated Press St. . Petors-burg dispatch of July in. the Chinese bad already peremptorily or­dered all Uussians to quit Manchuria, but uo one imagined they would be audacious enough to break out of their Own country ami attack Russian terri­tory. Such an attack, if it has been made, of course, constitutes in itself a declaration of war, rgnoWing formal notification needless.

ToaUi >m occasionc(l_bj the extremely serious import of news showing the daily developing strength of the anti-foreign movement iu the south of China comes a report from Shanghai on the 2oth that 0O mission-aries-and 100 native converts have been massacred by "Boxers" at Tai Yuan. Tai Yuan, is a fortified and populous city in'tlie province of Shan See on the Fuen Ho, an affluent of the Hoaug [io,

y <ioehet Law ttie IMOC, John W. Yerkes, of Danville, was

nominated for governor by the Repub­lican convention held in Louisville on the 17th. A platform was adopted declaring the issue of the election to be the Goebel election |uw. The speakers very unsparingly denounced the pic-cut Democratic state administration, aud the Demo­cratic legislature, thus indicating a purpose to welcome into the Republi­can party all Democrats who are op­posed to the (Joe be I election law. There was no nomination to be made by this convention except for governor to fill a vacancy*

The St. I.onlg .Street Car Situation. Atty.-Cen. Crow on the 17th filed in

the supreme court quo warranto pro­ceedings against the St. l/ouis Transit Co.. the United Railways Co. and the National Railway Co.. asking that their charters be revohcoL—on the ground that tiiey have not conformed to their charters and that a street rail­way monopoly in St. Louis has been created, The petition alleges further that the companies have violated the state law iu capitalizing for more than is allowed under the state law. The suit is against all the companies em­braced iu the St. Louis Transit Co.'s system.

Cholerw nod famine ID India.

The governor of Bombay telegraphs to the secretary of state for India that there were 9,928 cases of cholera in the famine districts during the week end­ing July 7, of which 6,4,74 were fatal, and that in the native states there were 9,520 cases, of which 5,802 were fatal. The total number of deaths on the relief works was 5,780, which was 3.9 per 1,000. There ha* been a good rainfall in Snrat, Khandcish aud the western part of the Dccoan. and rain has begun on parts of northern (lu-jerat, where the number, demanding relief continue to increase.

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Americana Mobbed< In .lupan. Oriental advices by the steamer Em­

press of India say that the American* mission at Nagaoya ha.s been attacked by a Japanese mob and the missionar­ies so severely beaten that they were left for dead, although they subse­quently recovered. The prime cause of the trouble was the interference of the missionaries in the trafficking in young girls, who it is said, have Wen openly >old. A mob surrounded the mission station and would have de­stroyed all the buildings but for the somewhat tardy arrival of the uattvc police.

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Friends rear for Their 8*<et*. A special from Austin, Test., dated

July 18, says: Three li und rod families from Austin, Sail Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston and other towns of the s ta le w-vo camping along tile UppVr courses of the Llano, Guadaloupe, Nueces and Colorado rivers, when tho series of water spout* ocenrrew i« that region t w o day*«ag<x iktt f ew of•» these- 4>ttf-» tog parties have been heard from since the ternUle rioodfc, ami friends o ( the misving, oue» arc aiairued foe tUvlv safety,

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250 miles-southwest of IVkin. (J'apt. Zalinski, iu charge of the quar­

termaster's storesatChickainauga park, Tcnu., has received urgent orders from the war depart mo lit to prepare for shipment, presumably to China, a large quantity of quartermaster1* stoics anil ambuLtnccs, which have been stored at Chickaiieiauga since the war with Spain. Tv«o train loads will leaver. under rush orders-for the Pacific coast.

It is semi-olVicially announced that Raron, von Bnelow, the imperial min-i-slev of foreign affairs, has notified the Chiuese legation at Berlin that until further notice it cannot be allowed to send telegrams in cipher or secret lan­guage, am| that telegrams in plain lan­guage must, be submitted for the ap­proval of tin? secretary of state before they can be despatched.

An official telegram from Shanghai, .lated July IS, Alates that, according to the governor of Shan-Tung, the foreign ministers aud their families at Pekiiu are safe nnd sound\ but. that the dag­ger is still very great. The viceroy, according to this^despatch, informed? the Consular corps that he bad tele­graphed to Pekin ucginVthc protection of the foreign, legatirtnsA i- ?

The quartermaster's. d\partmcut at Washington has nuuie a requisition for something over SU«©W fot \ap para pis. to>upply ,the troops, of .the Chinese ex­pedition pure drinking watcrA' fhe de­partment already has placed orders for sterilisers and ^is^Hing plants \vhieU ""will farniahifr aggregate of 32,500.gal* lohs Af pure water a day.

Li Hung Chang and his suite arri kht Hon£ K c ^ btf'thY 17th and landeN

the following . morniixg. Li Hung' Chang slated flint he had received dell nite news that the ministers and for* eigne** at JrVUifl. wi th the exception of Baron von Kettleler? Ihe'Uercnau minister, were safe July a,

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A Fmciaating Romance

Alan Adair* »»»0

"Do you mind, my dearest?" "Yes; X wish I bad been the first,

<Alaa.*» < The two people who were speaking

. wore sitting together on a boulder by Use seashore of one of our prettiest watering places. It. was early October, •and although it had been a late season, <yet there was already a touch of cold- j Jness in the air, notwithstanding the 'brilliant sunshine. The sea was as blue i «8 the sky, tossing and little die-Curbed by the wind, yet only enough to give it color and motion. The lit­tle town looked white and'clean, smil­ing in the autumn sunshine. A thor­oughly conventional English scene, just as the girl herself was a thorough­ly conventional English girl. Her dark blue eyes were brown and of a> soft texture; her face a perfect oval, with a little square chin, into which ?there had been pressed, as by some loving finger, the prettiest dimple -in the 1^-,^-,.1,,,,,,.. world! A tall, slight figure, that g*veHf!^°*? h f u U y . promose of a fuller, ampler woman­hood; a clear white Bklti, flushed rosy; and lashes and eyebrow* many shades darker than her hair completed a whole that was very captivating. She was dressedT too, conventionally, al­though the blue serge £rees and Jacket fitted her as only a tailor-made gown can fit. A little sailor ftat was perched upon her head in Just'the:most effec­tive manner possible.

But at this minute 'the dark blue eyes looked troubled, the pretty hands were clasped round "her knees, and she was looking seawards arid away from the man by hersdoe. He, too, looked troubled, "it hart cost Alan Mackenzie a good deal t6 record the events of hi3 life, and to speak of the young wife he had lost faux years ago. He had want­ed the past to be past; and although

- Veronica's memory was dear and sweet to him, and the girl herself had been loving and tender, :yet it seemed to him hard to bring up the dead past. There was such ;a chasm between that life and this, such a difference be­tween the dark-eyed, half-Spanish girl he had wooed under the brilliant South American skies and this girl whom he was wooing beside the tumbling Eng­lish sea, that rt often seemed to Alan Mackenzie that he must be an entirely different person.

He leaned forward and looked at her. She had her face turned towards the sea, so that he could Just see the delicate profile outlined against the blue sky, aould juGt fsee the pink ear nestling against the colls of her hair. It was not for her beauty alone that he loved Joyce Grenville. He felt that she was his equal in most, bis superior in some, things. Beaand she together, he thought, could live-the perfectYnar-

Tlet t—ttfe ^ nri iyrrw -tiwrfr—wffB~~fTT^ shadow of poor Veronica to come and throw a gloom over their wooing. Ver­onica, whom he had never loved like this girl; Veronica, Ecr whom.he had had the tendeneat protective pity, but that was a i l

And now he looked at JJoyce, and felt to the full that iff he lost her he lost everything IShat .made life worth ^ving; that life without Joyce would be incomplete, ;and ;that all his success in life—and he was by no means disposed :to under­value that—would mean .nothing to him without Joyce. She was so ^desirable, was Joyce, with her highrbred, Brit­ish air, and with all the qualities.that he knew her to possess, .an;d with that fact staring him full iv- the .face that he loved her, and her Sllone.

His voice trembled as he said: "Do you mind so much, Joyce, :that [it-will be an insuperable bar? Do you mean that you cannot say 'Yes' to me?"

She turned round and faced him, and he could flee the trouble ±h '.her ceyes

r' „ and the twitching of her lips. "No," > ^ she said, in a low voice, "J don't mean

that; I cannot give you up„ Alan. You have made me love you; I cannot change my love in a day. Hut it ihas cast a shadow over me. I cannot re­joice over my love for you as I did now I know this: That life cannot give the unalloyed happines that 1 thought possible half an hour ago."

"Because you are not the first, Joyce? In one sense you are tfcesVst I have told it you all Quite truthfully —how first I felt nothing, but pity for her, and then gradually I wanted to chield her from the hardships of life, and there was no other way. I mar* Tkd her/' *~

"And she—did she not love you?" Alan did not hesitate, nor did he

prevaricate. A lees truthful man than be might have made light of Veron­ica's devotion, but he could not The dead girl's passionate eyes, fixed upon him with an,r expsesion of undying love in them,' rose up , before him. "She,"he said, in a low voice^'ahe loved me more than her life."

Joyce, gave a little exclamation, It was toot altogether pafn, but as if she had said that she; had known it well. Of course she had loved him! What woman would not have loved Alan Mackenzie?

He said nothing, but she could see his lips quivering. That troubled her. She felt that be would say no more, hut that the first words must come from her. He had stated his case; he ] had pleaded with her. It was for her to say MYes" or "No." Only ho had told her .the whole^ truth. Some men would have said less; but then she loved him for that very truthfulness, which would hide nothing from her.

"I wish you had not told me," she said. For a moment she thought that this really was so, and that she would rather not have knpwn; it was only momentary, however.

"Would you rather not haW known?" he said, and looked at her

"Joyce, I hate having to give you this pain; but I have al­ways thought that the very essence of married happiness lay in, the fact that husband and wife had no secrets.from each other."

"Did you tell her "everything?" asked Joyce, woman-like.

"No, dearest God forbid that I should wish to deprecate the girl who loved me so well; but she was not your equal. She was simply a pure, sweet, loving woman; but .she would not ha/ve understood. She had pretty ways of making a house homelike and charming; but she had but very little education. I eould not have told her everything. Joyce, you know all about our brief married life .now. I don't

[ believe that you—I don't believe that you would be jealous of the dead wo­man.' Now tell me .straight out if you will make me happy. I don't think you know or can guess what you are to me. How my whole life and 3011I are bound up in you, how empty my life would be without you. I think it' you understood that you would forget all about the story I have told you, and give yourself to me, to hold and to keep as the dearest thing in the world."

The tears were standing in his eyes, he was so much in earnest. It seemed to him as if the making ;or the mar­ring of his life was in this slender girl's hands; and she was moved, too.

"Of course I mind, dearest," she said. "If I did not miad so .much I should not lo-v e you so much. Just think how would you like it if some other man had had my .first kiss, my first words of love!"

"I should not like it .at all; I should hate it, Joyce," 2u» said, frankly. "I-! knewL^Qu would. I shQiild-have-aakert

father as ha had told i t to Joyos, and alter that he faH he had dote all that would ha asked of him. H » revelled in the thought of Joyce'n l o m and poor Veronica might never have -ag­isted for him at all. There was nosh­ing but talk of preparations for tha wedding and settlements, nothing but congratulation* and envyings of his luck, nothing in all this to remind fate of the simple preparation!. tor the civil marriage that had bean the only one possible in Rio. Joyce had begged for a six months' engagement, Alan had insisted on threerand as there wan really nothing to wait for he had his way.

He had known Joyce for more than three years, and had met her at the house of a mutual friend, had been attracted to her from the first; so that it seemed as if they had actually been engaged much longer than was the case. He was still in the firm of Dempster; only now he was a partner instead of an employe. He had been called to the bar, but did not practice regularly, seeing that he did not have much time. The three months passed 'very quickly; there was so much to do, so much to settle. It was a very happy time, but one evening Alan gat rather a nasty shock. He had been seeing Joyce, and they had spent the usual happy time together. He was immersed in thoughU and dreams of her, and was not looking very much where he was going. Turning a cor­ner sharply he ran up against a man who seemed a little unsteady in his gait.

"I beg your pardon!" Alan said. The man uttered an imprecation. At the first sound of his voice Alan thought that it was familiar to him. He gave a start. "Hutchinson!" he cried. The man looked up. A gleam of recognition lit up his drink-sodden eye3, and with the recognition there came, too, a gleam of hatred.

"It's you!" he cried, and he swore again.

"Yes," said Alan, "and I am sorry to see you like this. Can I do any­thing for you, Hutchinson?"

"Do anything for me? You? I'll trip you yet!" cried the ,.man, his hatred flashing like a knife. "Do you think I have, forgotten how you got me turned out, how you ruined me? No! And I will be even with you yet if I hang for it! And there's that girl of mine, too! I always thought that you had a hand in her disappearance! I will be even with you yet, my fine young man!"

"Well," said Alan, coolly, "I would have helped you if you would have let me; not that I regard your threats. It was your own dishonesty and nothing else that was your ruin. And as for the girl, you are right there. I mar­ried her, and she was drowned; but she v*ras no daughter of yours, and you kuew it."

Hutchinson's surprise got the better of his caution. "I brought her up," he said, "even if she was not my own. In a way she was mine. And so you married her, did you? And now you say she is dead."

"She is dead, poor soui!" said Alan. "Died in tlre-Tmn'k uf ik* 'Valparaiso'"

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four years ago; and I'm to be married again. I wish you would let me help you, Hutchinson!"

An evil sneer crossed Hutchinson's face. "Married again, are you? Soon? Well, I will wish you joy, you and your bride. You may have an unex­pected guest at yoar wedding, al­though I am not quite sure. We will see what way things will go. Good-by, my fine gentleman!**

He left Alan with a curious sense that something untoward had hap­pened, although the young man could not say what it had been.

(To be Continued.)

you to marry me a year ago if I had not had this past behind me. I have loved" you well enough .all the time. It is only now that I .have been pre­sumptuous enough to think that you love me a little that J have spoken; and if you do truly Jove me, Joyce, you will only be sorry for all that 1 have suffered in the past."

Joyce was not an ungenerous girl, and though there was a certain sting in the fact that Alan .had suffered through another woman, yet she could feel it in her heart to ,pity the girl .who had only been Alan's wife for four months, and who had died in so tragic a manner. She rose. "Shall we go in to the others, Alan?" she said/ softly.

But he caught her haavd. "Not be­fore I have had my answer, Joyce. Oh, no! not before I have .had my an­swer! Don't be cruel, darling! Put me out of pain!" ~

"Dearest,1' she said. 'Jyou know your answer. You know that I love you, and that I would never deny my love. This unhappy story ..of yours

ji has been a surprise to me* and a little shock; but it does not really nuke any difference, does it, when two people love each other?"

"Joyce," he cried—there was - the purest joy in his tone—"Joyce, you have made me so happy that J have no words to express my happiness. And you will not think of this again? It will not be a bar between us? It only comes to me now and again, when I have thought that you would ast like i t And now, Joyce, you are cheating me of my kiss of betrothal Come behind this rock."

And as Joyce was just a sweet lov­ing girl, who had promised herself to the man she loved, she made no de-tanr. hwt gjsve him his kiss; and they both walked up to the house, trying t$ forge* the thing; that had been dis­cussed between them* And; as a mat­ter of fact they did torgat i t They were so happy in each other, and «6 happy in the prospect of the new life before them, that they actually did twenty-throe summonses ware forget Alan told his story to Joyce's, in one day m a single arrondlsaemsnt.

Ingredien ts of Toilet Soap. The basis of the better qualities of

toilet soap is generally curd or yellow .soap, in the making of which special precautions are taken to insure ab-aenee of free alkali. This is most im­portant, as otherwise the soap would he altogether unsuitable for toilet pur­poses, the free alkali being injurious is> the .skin. This is the reason why ao many <Ql the cheaper laundry <*oaps produce chapped hands and similar reautts when used for toilet purposes. If, mx the other hand, there is an ex­cess of fat, the soap is greasy and does not possess the cleansing properties TT good soap should. A laundry soap may be made without much difficulty by an amateur, guit it is better to buy whatever toilet soap is required, for the reasons stated, and also because special apparatus is required to make a soap of first class quality.

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The Truth .. 4^otfTafe

"I kissed a y sister, for she is kind And loves me, but as we reached tha

gate I turned and told her I had a mind,

Nevertheless, to try my fate!" . i< —Anonymous.

It took Hanora qurte a time to find out the truth about Tobias. Not that Tobias could ordinarily be considered a mysterious individual Indeed,. he was precisely the reverse. From the cool dawn hour In which he arose to go forth and drive the team for Twist & Taffeta, of which firm he was trusted collector, until his return at 6:30 to the modest fiat where his sister—and supper—awaited him, bis life was a clean and commonplace, page, spread' wide for every casual or interested glance. His nights, if less exposed to the arc lights of public scrutiny, might as well have been so. For, after eating heartily of the food Hanora had pre­pared and referring to the same in admiring terms, he was wont to re­move his shoes as unnecessary impedi­menta, place his feet in their well-darned hose upon the chair "beyant." light his pipe, drink the solitary bottle of beer which Hanora permitted him, and read the mighty accumulation of both morning and evening papers until the autocratic spinster who ruled his abode suggested "a decade," and turned the lamp low by way of a gen­tle but quite sufficient hint.

Tobias was 40—plus five.. He had a brickdust skin, pale brows, a pugnac­ious nose, and a smile of such sudden, suffusing, apologetic radiance it ex­plained his love for his fellowmen in general and for Hanora in particular. Indeed, his was the only love that had ever come Hanora's way. She had never been guilty of that form of high­way robbery known as coquetry. Not that she was unsophisticated. She knew that a woman quick of percep­tion and adroit of finger may appropri­ate the purse of one who walks her way and suffer incarceration. And she knew also that one who possesses her­self of an unappropriated masculine

Fine M U M an B o w There is no shadow of a possible

shadow of doubt that the day of the motor car and automobile fiend is at an end in Paris and the same may be said of the scorching cyclist The roar, the hissing sound and the cloud of dust are no mora. Thoir desperate recklessness has led the police to cut down to eight kilometers, which 4s only n shade over fire miles an hour, their authorised speed, and

heart not only goes free in the sight of the law, but glories if she will in her guile and in the magnitude of her deed. Whether the bonds of inoppor-tunity had shackled Hanora Ryan or whether she had preferred maiden tri­umph to the exultation of matron-hood deponent sayeth not. Anyhow, to get back to the truth about Tobias. On one memorable midsummer eve he devoured lemon pie without protest. Hanora knew he loathed lemon pie. On the following morning he meekly ate the French -toast ehe set before him, instead of his regulation potato and rasher. This was her second test For Tobias had frankly declared only two weeks ago that he would eat no more French, or Flemish, or—no, be-gorrah—Boer toast, that was made of stale bread dipped in egg and fried! So there! She began to feel suspicious. He was a good brother, but alarmingly docile when presented with viands for which he possessed an aversion.

She was like the parrot which its owner declared "said little but done a devil of a heap of .thlnkln'!" She thought a good deal In those days. When Tobias suggested bringing a friend home with him to dinner she thought more than ever, albeit she possibly said less.

"To be bringin' j i man^ here^ for a male!" quoth^sheT "What" kind of a man might he be now, Tobias?"

"Sthraight as they make 'em!" promptly responded Tobias. "He drives the 'rush' bus. He's a good wan. He'd relish one of your raspberry rolls —that he would, Hanora?" Whereat Hanora blushed In,, a wintry sunset sort of way and said he might bring his friend.

He did bring his friend. And—to tell the truth—Hanora looked exceedingly well. She had given her old . black xkirt a "dip," whatever that mysteri­ous phraseology may mean. And she wore with this a shirt waist of softest lawn, whieh she had bought at quite an absurd figure because It was one of the smaller alsea. This she had duly and delicately laundered. Not that "Tha household art was the only dower fib* would bring for a gift to him aha

But the household art saona up i s resj>iesMlepce «n that party^iar night* Never, thought treaaharous Ynhfta*. with a glow at his heart had nay man* such a sister; end ifl it w e * not Cor tha —here he hsjoke oft l a j y i ajpmy oft deception which made him temporarily oblivious of the merits of tha raspberry: r o l l . ••»* •••«•'• - v * . •

"You ain't eat a bite!" asowedV Hanora. y

Tobias made a sweeping geatii: -across his Adam's apple. "Clear j here!" he declared with delicious men­dacity.

After supper they went into the par­lor. Hanora played on the o r g a n -yes, and sang, too, in a Sweet thin lit-tie voice. She sang "The Meeting of the Waters" and "The Kerry Dancing" and the "Wearing of the Green." No rag-time for Hanora.

"She's a jewel!" commented DennIK Maguire, addressing Tobias Ryan, when they parted on the sidewalk. "Ain't—ain't"—timidly, "there any-wan a-coortin'!"

"Niver a wan!" returned Tobias. He felt so guilty upon his return he-

could hardly make the proper re­sponses to the "decade" which Hanora was "giving out." He did not come home until 10 o'clock the folio wins night—nor yet the next. He explained his absences by mysterious allusions to "caucuses" and "primaries," there­by soothing Hanora and stultifying his conscience. It was not until Hanora found a rose in the buttonholle of his coat one morning and a little lace trimmed handkerchief in his pocketf that her diresf doubts were aroused. But even these Tobias explained away.

"Sure the flower cost notnm', Han­ora. 'Twas from a bush I was passin*. And the handkerchief was on the side­walk. I thought belike you could make use of it."

He was rapidly becoming a beautiful liar,

A week later he refused to go out with Hanora and Dennis on account of the night being damp. He had rheu­matism, he said. So his sister and his friend went to the theater and Tobias settled himself to the composition of a long and fervent letter, the accomplish­ment of which necessitated frequent reference to the pocket dictionary he-had bought for this purpose. To make a long story short—and it was not such a long story when all was said — Hanora married Dennis Maguire. To­bias was desolate—disconsolate. Ht> might go to live with them. Dennis-had won a treasure. Yes, he might go to live with them after awhile. For the present he would take his meals at, a restaurant until sure what could be done with the furniture—and so on.

All through her wedding journey, which lasted full three weeks, it troub­led Mrs. Maguire to determine what was the matter with Tobias. She tol<f her new made lord all about his even­ing absences, his mild -acceptance o? distasteful viands, his abrupt and eager hospitality toward Dennis—even about the rose and handkerchief. It was not uutil she had returned to Chicago and went out to the flat vhere had been passed her years of mature maiden­hood that she really discovered the. t r u t h a b p n t Tnht.ng,— _ ^ L

For the flat into which she let her­self with her tatch key was altered, decorated, illumined. There were cur­tains of rosy swissollne at the win­dows. There were a lot of flowers on the table. A canary sang in a gilded cage, and—what was that? A parasol in the corner—a hat on the sewing ma­chine! Such a frivolouus hat—all chif­fon and daisies! Hanora turned quite faint. Could Tobias—-

"0," cried a radiant little creature fluttering out of one of the Pullman car apartments which serve as bed^— rooms in the modern flat, "I did-not know any one was here. Take this chair. You are Mrs. Larch, I know. Tobias said the wife of his friend in the shipping department would call. We are not really fully settled yet. Our wedding was quite a suurprise to our friends, but really We had been considering it for some time. I was in the ribbons, you know, and became ac­quainted with Mr. Ryan while at the. store. But it seems he had an old maid sister living with him. and hav­ing a girl's natural distaste for rela-tions-in-law—though doubtless some-of them are kind enough, I suggeste T-— to Tobias that it would be better t> marry her off if possible before—why —what "

For Mrs. Dennis Maguire _had_r|sai in aghast and stately discomposure.

"I am his sister," she said. "Dear, O. dear! I'm so sorry! Y>

didn't know—nor - suspect—I wish \ had kept still! Take off your things'* Stay to supper! There—there! You'rr sweet as you can be—and I'll love yon If you let me—indeed, I will."—Chi­cago Tribune.

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COLOSSAL STADIUM AT THE PAN-AMERICAr EXPOSITION.

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900.

The work of visiting counties for the purpose of investigating complaints of excessive or inade­quate assessments is now goin on. All the commissioners will • take par t in this work, and all counties will be visited.

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T l i e Beat B e m e d y f«r s t o m a c h a n d B o w e l T r o u b l e s .

"I have been in the drug business for twenty years and have sold most all of the proprietary medicines ot any note. Among the entire list I have never found anything to equal Cham­berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea R9toedy for all stomach and bowel

gtroubles," says 0. W. Wakefield, of Columbus Ga. "This remedy cured two severe cases of cholera morbus in my family and I have recommended and sold hundreds of bottles of it to my customers to tbeir entire satisfact­ion, It affords a quick and sure cure in a pleasant form." For sale by F . A, Sigler Pinckney.

A company has been organized at Grass Lake for the manufacture of cement. t The lake near the vil­lage has an inexhaustible supply of raw material. The "Zenith" organization will be capitalized at $700,000. I t is proposed to manu­facture 1,000 barrels per day.

During last May an infant child of our neighbor was suffering from cliol* era infantum. The doctors had given up all hopes of recovery.-— 1 took a bot­tle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house telling them I felt sure it would do good if used according to direct In two days time the child hadyfully recovered. The child is noyr vigor­ous ancTbealthy. I have recommend­ed this remedy frequently and have never known it to tin 1.—Mrs. Curtis Baker, Book waited Ohio. Sold by F. A. Sigler Pinckney.

An exchange tells of thejol low-ing scHeme that is being worked o n ^ l d soldier's: Three persons

jtre engaged in the work. They approach their intended victim and offer to sell him a book contain-ing hjfl war recotd and to be ac-

Copyright, 1900, by the Pan-American Exposition Co. The completed Stadium for the Pan-American Exposition, to be held In Buffalo from May 1 to Nov. 1,1901, will offer

to the lovers of sports the most spacious and splendid arena ever erected In America. The athletic carnival to be held during the great Exposition will be the most notable in the history of American sport. The co-operation of many of the best promoters of athletic games has been secured. Visitors to the Exposition may therefore expect to witness the meeting of the most famous athletes of the world in competition for prizes worthy of their best feats. It is said that the great Colosseum at Rome could accommodate 87,000 spectators. The Pan-American Stadium will be 129 feet longer and but 10 feet narrower than the historic amphitheater of Rome. The Stadium, however, will have a larger arena, and the seating capacity is estlmajted for 25,000 people.

The result of the U. may not be known

S. census for some

monthsyet . The work of 35,000 enumerators must be examined and verified, and no less than 400 j tons of bl&nks must be sorted arranged. The cities will be en up first and the populati nounced for the benefit of press. A count will b^made , dur­ing verification, by the eletric tab­ulating m a c h i n e / a n d this work will require fiy*K)r six months.

C0MING EVENTS.

Cheap Rates Via Grand Trunk Railway System to Detroit, Niagara Falls,

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Annual Excursion to Frankfort, Beu-lali & Traverse City.

Thursday, Ju ly 26, the Ann Arbor R. R. will sell excusion t i c k e t s to Frankfort , Beulah and Traverse City at $4.00 "lor the' round trip. They will be good going on regular train, leaving Lakeland ( H a m b u r g J u c t ) at 9:34 and for retnrn on any regular train until Thursday August 9th inclusive. t-30

compained by a certificate, when properly filled out, which will en­able his widow or children to re­ceive his pension without the usual tedious process. The old soldier has simply to pay a dollar down and two more on the de­livery of the book.

H e a r t b u r n .

When the xpanity of food taken is

When you want a modern, up-to-date physic try Cbanrbertain's Stomach, and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price. 25 cents. Samples* free at F. A. Sigler's drug store.

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tco large or the quality to rich heart­burn is likely to follow, and especially so if the digestion has been weakened by constipation. Ea.t slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Alastreate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse^between meals and when you feel a Soilness and weight in the region of the stomach after eat­ing, indicating that you have eaten too mucb„take one of G amberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn rr.ay be avoided. For s a l ^ c n a m b e r ] a i l M Cough Remedy. If

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A farmer over in Oakland eomity says the Hessian fly can be easily done away with by the use of salt. The salt is scattered over the ground at the rate of one bushel to the acre. Whether the remedy will do as he says remains to be seen. I t is to be hoped tha t the experiment will prove valuable, as the IJessian fly is a great source of trouble to farmers every year.

ANNUAL 15 DAY EXCURSION TO FRANKFORT, CRYSTAL LAKE

AND TRAVERSE CITY.

Thursdayi July 26, the Ann Arbor R. R.>iU eeil excursion ticketa to the abov«kresort8, (rood for retnrn until

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the gossipers a hard rap when it says: " I t is unfortunate bu t true that public opinion is"too~Tre-quently moulded by loafers. A woman who attends every tea party or convention and allows her furniture to be covered by dust and cobwebs' frequently starts an idle gossip amoung other idlers which does a great injust­ice to some modest woman who is to busy with her housework to be present. A loafer on the street cilculates some evil report about a man who is to busy minding his own business too be~standing' a-round and contradicting the lies told about him."

A Good C o u g h m e d i c i n e .

Many thousands have been restored to health and happiness by the use of ,

Half Rate to Detroit and return from all over Michigan account of Democratic State Convention. Tickets sold for all trains of July 214 and 25 and good,to return up to and includ­ing July 27.

Niagara Falls, Toronto, Alexandria Bay and Montreal Excursions.—The first excursion of the season will be given on Saturday, July 28, from all Grand Trunk stations in Michigan and connecting lines. Special trains and coach service will be arranged to take the excursions over toe line by daylight. Tickets will be valid to re­turn leaving destination up to and in­cluding August 8, 1900 and rates will be astonishing low. Get yourself ready for the cheap and grand excurs­ions. Niagara Falls, one of the won­ders ot the world, and the beautiful Canadian cities of Canada. Af§k any agent ot the Grand Trunk Railway or ronnecting lines for information, rates train time, etc., etc.

Council Procedings. For The Village of Pinckney.

Regular. July 2, 1900, Council convened and called to

order by president Mcln tyre . Present :—Richards, Bowman,

Erwin, Love, Reason. Absent —Monks. Street Com'r report read and

approved. The following Highway bills

were presented and accepted: S. Grimes, labor, $0.63 Diul Grieves, tlraying, .25 T. Turner, 1.75 Teeple and Cad well, nails, .20 T. Read lumder etc., . 7.37

Total, $10.20.

The foHowing bills were pre­sented and accepted:

Teeple and Cadwell oil $2.54 J . Wraith Marshall services 4.17 — ( i . R-owmunB'd Review 2-davs 4-00 C. Henry watching Colby lire 2.00 W. Thompson Reason and Colby 2.75 G. Green Assesor, K'd Review 19.00

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I, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 50-cent bottle of Green's Warrented Syrup of Tai if it fails to cure your cough or cold.—1 alao guarantee j ^ 25-cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. t-30

Will B. Darrow.

afflicted with any throat or lung troub'e, give it a trial for it is certain to prove beneficial. Coughs that have resisted all other treatment for years have yeilded to this remedy and per­fect health been restored. Cases that seemed hopeless, that the climate of famous health resorts failed to benefit have been permently cured by its use For sale by E. A. Sigler, Pinckney.

After all that has been said a-bout special delivery stamps the ordinary individual knows very little about them, or if he does, he forgets the great convenience off­ered by these 10-cent stamps. There was a time when cities made their brags that they had dispatch companies in their midst. Here is something that requires no membership fee, and which is jus t as good backed by the govern­ment. All that is necessary_js a special delivery stamp on a letter, and it will be delivered by special messenger immediately upon its arrival in the postoffice. If a loc­al drsp letter, with one of these special delivery stamps affixed is put into a box or a postoffice, it is

Total, 834.46 Moved and carried that the

lighting of the street lamps be continued.

An ordinance forbiding Minors under the age of 15 years from being on the streets or alleys af­ter certain hours in the evening, was read and approved.

The resignation of Marshal, Jas . Smith was read and .accepted.

Moved that the clerk advertise for bids for the performance of Marshall services for the balance of .the year ending 2nd M o n d a y in March, read and approved.

K, H. Crane and F . H. Smi th made a few remarks relative to procuring some fire protection.

After some discussion council decided to submit the mat ter to the people b y vote in the d i sburs -ment of funds necessary to carry out the under taking and Resolu­tions for special election was pre­sented and accepted.

For a special election, the Pres i ­dent made the following appoint­ments:

Inspectors of election Reason sent out at once. Thus for 12 cents, the 2-cent regular s tamp | a n <^ Bowman; gate keepers K. and 10-cent special delivery s tamp i H . Crane and F . H. Smi th ; Board

The analysis of the water from the capus well pumped since the well was plugged, is the same as before. Prof. Campbell, will make a further analysis for valuable mineral properties, which he sus­pects the water may contain. I t is to be regreted~if this ~ mineral water should be lost to humanity.

» x a -^ • W7.*.u ««.• ^ i * water is there, and at a deph August 9 ineionve. Watch next - , v week's par^r^Wfi iheor spe<aartrair tha t pumping it cannot be very ex-pensive.—Ann Arbor Courier.

a messenger is sent out with the letter, and upon the delivery of the letter a receipt is given. If people want to know to a certainty tha t their letters are received they should use a special delivery stamp. If this explanation is not full enough, ask for further part ic­ulars at your postoffice. If the system was thoroughly understood there would be many more used than at present.

We would like a good load of-straw or a few hundred pounds of hay * on subscription. If yon are owing us a dollars or two this wi)l be an easy way to get even and pay a year or two* in advance. — —-—

of Registration Reason and B o w man. Accepted.

Upon motion council adjourned,

R. H . T E E P L E , Clerk.

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Dr. Buckley, editor of the Chris­tian Advocate, well says: "No more transparent sophism than that of the attorney-general, on which the war department glee­fully acted, was ever employed to deprive the people of what con­gress meant to give them, than that by means of which the law ordering the expulsion of the can­teen from the military Btations of the United States was interpert-

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The club met at the Mr. and Mrs. Gtto AttRJRT on Saturday last and considering the busy time of the year a large num­ber were present. The question of the August picnic was. taken up and discussed and it was decided to accept the invitation of the North Lake Grange to meet them in a picnic at Stephenson's grove, North Lake, August 7.

Henry Arnold gave a recitation which was well received. A dolls quarrel was~then rendered by Janette Pyper, and a song by F. L. Andrews. This was followed by a few rambling remarks by Rev.S. G. Palmer as to how to make the club more successful. He thought everyone should be ready to take part every time there is a meeting. Song by Messrs. Gates and Otto Arnold and wives and an instrumental piece by little Vancie Arnold and song by Miss Mabel Hartsuff. These were followed by the quest­ion box which was found very in­teresting.

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What is the object of the Far-; mers Club? Mr. Gates—to meet together to exchange thoughts and! get new ideas.

What is the reason people do not visit as much as they used to? Otto Arnold—aire living in a fast­er age and do not have time. Mr. Glenn—In an early day there were not so many social gatherings and that was the only way of visit­ing. The dicussion was very in­teresting and was entered into by nearly all present.

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Which is the most profitable sheep to breed? Z. Hartsufi—It depends on circumstances. For me I want a merino for another perhaps a mutton sheep. Today wool is low and many people are eating mutton so that that class of sheep are the better to raise un­less we can raise a sheep that will produce both; Mr. Glenn thought

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that the Ramboulett would be a sheep for general purpose. Mr. Field thought the Shropshire the best breed to use. Sold his lambs last week for $3 each and wool brought over $1.60 per head from the mothers.

Is it good policy to cultivate beans in the blossom? Mr. How-lett—Yes, I think the ground should be stirred, especially if the season is dry.

Has the farmers life a bright side? Mrs. Gates—yes. Mrs. Crossman—it would be bette*r if we could have better help in the house. Mr. Hewlett—The larger side is bright. The farmer is the most independent man on earth.

Which should do the work in the garden, the. man or woman? Mrs. Otto Arnold would enjoy the work if she had time. j

Are farmers wives as a rule as i saving as the farmer? a chorus of I ayes carae from the women an- j swvring this.

What shall we do that we may j !n\e berries at our home? Mrs. lladley—plant 'em. A good berry patch means less_doctor, meat and store bills and the expense* is very small. " - i

The club adjourned to meet at j the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Crossman third Saturday in Sept-' ember. !

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A Story for Wee Folk.

OSE thought ^he would s'pris? me that morning and find int asleep when she came creeping in to put her presents untrer my pillow, but I was up and trying

.on the rubber boots and bath robe, and counting the six gold dollars In the nice i^d pocketbook. "'Oh, hem rich you are!" she said, making bis, round eyes.

There was something in the toe ol my boot, and I sat on the bed, and Rose pulled and pulled, and when tin boot came off she fell back and bump­ed her head. But she jumped right up, and we looked in the boot and found something worsted that jingled. It was yards and yards, and Rose said, "It is a mile long," but I kjew better. Horse lines never are miles long. They were all lovely colors, and grandma made them; she knits things I harnessed Rose, and we raced dowr to the kitchen, where Mr. Handy was putting up shelves, and he measured them with his rule and told us they were just twelve feet long. Aft r breakfast mamma asked if I would like to go to the Park to play horse, told her now I was six I was too grown up to have a nurse take me.

Mamma said, "Well, Katie can tak' Rose, and you can be their escort.' I'm going to ask papa what that means.

-We ft* un(fc»r8ig*#d, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 60 cent bottle of Down's Eli fir if it doet not cure any cough, cold, whooping cough, or throat trouble. We also guarantee Down's Elixir to cure con­sumption, when used according to di­rections, or money hack. A full dose on going to bed and small doses dur­ing the day will cure the most severe cold, and stop the most distressing cough.

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THE VILLAGE DIRECTORY.

VILLAGE OFFICERS. PRESIDENT.. ««. ~~. Alex. Mclntyre

TRUSTEES E. L. Thompson, Alfred MOQKS, Daniel Richards, vi eo. Bowman, Samuel Sykes, f\ i ) . Johnson.

CLERK ; . . . „ . . . ^ - „ «~ ,. .R. H. Teeple TRBASCRBB...'....« W, E. Murphy ASSESSOR ~ ~ ~*> W. A. Can STREET COMMISSIONER , J. Monks. .UARBAHL ~..A. E. Browa. HKALTUu?>ic£R Dr.H. r\ rsigler ATTORNEY... W. A. Carr

CHURCHES.

M' ETHOD1ST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Rev. Cbas. Simpson, pastor. Services every

Sundsy morning ac 10:30, and every Sunday evening at 7:0) o'clock, Prayer meeting Thurs­day evenings. Sunday school at close of morn­ing service. LEAL SIOLER, Supt.

CONUREGATIOMAL CUUKCH. Rev. C. W. Rice pastor. Service every

Sunday morning at 10:30 and every Sunday evening at 7 :oc o'clock. Prayer meeting Thurs day evenings. Sunday school at .close of morn-inu service. R. H. Teeple, Supt,, Maoel Swart-hout Sec.

ST. MARY'S CATHOL.IC CHURCH. Rev. M. J. Gouimertoru, Pascor. Services

every Sunday. Low mass at 7:3U o'clock high mass with sermon at 9;3Ga m. Catechism at3:Qu p. in., vespers ana benediction at 7:30 p. m.

SOCIETIES;

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In Santiago, in tbe better 1 e n s * \

of bouses, the bedsteads are sur-/" • rounded with a close kind of nft»T • ting, beglnlng at the floor andj

gathered at the top. This is In-f tended as u protection against tar-# antulas. the bites of which are4 poisonous. $

I drove Rose all the way to the Park, and she drove me around the fountain. Then Rose was so tired she went and sat by Katie, who was tafking to an­other girl about hats and things, and I had no one to play with. Far off I saw the Reed boys, and I ran to show them my lines. Rob harnessed Phil, and. snapping the whip, hollered "Gee up, Buster!" and started to run off. He called to me to go stand in the sta­ble and be the horse asleep.

While I was standing there, feeling-lonesome, the old gentleman in the wheel chair called me over to him. I know hini.. reaL-welL... He has to be pushed about and is all wrapped up He likes children and talks to them and gives them peppermints.

I told him all about ray birthday. but kept looking around for the boys\ when he asked me who I was looking for. I told him about Phil and Rob leaving me in the stable. Just then they came racing along, and the old gentleman called "Whoa!" and they stopped. "You're a first rate driver. Rob; here's a peppermint for you, and you're a good fast trotter. Phil; here's a peppermint for you; but the little colt here must be hungry, standing sc Ions in the stable, so hero are six pep­permints for him.'' The boys laughed a funny little laugh, and we all thanked him. We took turns after that, but r.o one stood in the stable.

A lot of children came up to mv house in the afternoon, and I had a party and more presents, but I like the horse lines best of all. I sle->t with them under my pillow that night and I dreamed I fell out of an apple tree and bumped my head. When T woke up I was lying on the big, round silver bells—Mary B. Florence.

Tbe A/O. H. Society of thl3 place, meets every third Sunrlav intaa ^r. Uittbew Hall.

John Tuoiney and M. X. Kelly, County Delegates

EPWORTH LEAGUE. Meets every Sunday evening at 6:00 oclock In the M. E. Cnurch, A

cordial invitation Is extended to everyone, espe­cially young people. Mrs. Stella (iraham Pres,

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY:-Meet. ini»a every Sunday evening at t>:30. President,

Miss Etta Carpenter; - Secretary, Mrs. C. W, Rice.

m H E W. C. T. U.-meets the first Pridav of each L month at 2:30 p. m, at the home of Dr. H. P.

sigler. Everyone interested in temperance is coartially invited. Mrs. '-.eal Sigler, Pres; Mrs. Etta Durfee, Secretary.

The C. T. A. and B. society of this place, meet every third Saturaay eve'ning in the Fr. Mat­

thew Halt. John Donohue, tresident.

KNIGHTS OF MACCABEES. Meet ever v* Friday evening on or before fa l l

"o( the moon at their hall in the~Swurtb;out bldg. Visiting brothers are cordiallvinvited. ,

CHAS. OAHPBELL, Sir knight Commander

Livingston Lodge, No.7*:, F & A. M. Ke»tt!»T Communication Tuesday evening, on or before

the full of the moon. H. F. Sigler, W. M.

ORDER OF EASTERN Sl'AR meets each month the Friday evening following the regular F.

iA.M. meeting, Mas. MARY READ, W. M.

ORDER OF MUDEUN 'WOODMEN West the nrst Tnursdiiy evenius; of each Mouth in the

Maccabee nail. C. L. Grimes V". C.

LADIES OF THE MACCABEES. Meet every 1st and^Jrd Saturday of eacbmonth at 3::10 p m. at

K. O. T. M. hall. Visiting sisters cordially in­vited, LILA CoxiWAY Lady Com.

Si KNIGHTS OF THE LOYAL GOARO

meet every second Wednesday evening of every month in the K. O. T. M. Hall at 7;30o'clock. All visiting Guards welcome.

C. L, Grimes. Capt. Gen.

BUSINESS CARDS.

H. f . SIGLER M. D- C, L, SIGLER M, D

DRS. SIGLER & SIGLER, Physicians and Sur>;e,ins. All calls prompt) attended to day or uight. Office on Mainstr Pinckney, Mich.

" DR. A. B. GREEN. DENTIST—Every Fridaj; and on Thurs­

day Mhen having appointmcuts. Office over Siller's l>nic Store.

Treatment of roil with lime has been sueested to the Paris Acad­emy of Science as a possible remedy for malaria, as it has been no­ticed that countries having a surface rich in lime are tree fxom'thii xnaK *dx.

J. # e MlLMBi V E T E R I N A R Y S U R Q E O N .

Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, also of the Veterinary Dentistry College

Toronto Canada. WiU promptly attend to all diseases of the do­

mesticated animal at a reasonable price. Horses teeth examined Fsssr

o r r i C C a t f t i L L . PINCKNEY.

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Boxer very clbaeiy resemble* the g o a d Indian .

Of eourM, tboae flnthugiastlcally pa-trfotfc $ l t i «e j» fwho are mobbing Chi­n e s e laundrymen would hail w i th der l i g h t . ( ^ opportunity to go to ChinA.

Reqitn^ stwddip of the ocegu bot tom n e a r t h e cdasPTine cr : cont inehts fcave Bhown tha t rivers ^of considerable s i t e s o m e t i m e s enter the sea beneath t h e surface .

Mummies manufactured in Prance e r e now be ing shipped all over the world. Prudent ant iquarians , purchas­i n g wisely, examine the m u m m y with t h e X-rays , for thus t h e spurious art i ­c le i s readily detected.

T h e employment of women in the postal service i s not an American id.^a. It was by no m e a n s uncommon in the old days , when postmasters kept post houses and were persons of some con­sequence. "In 1548, Leonard, of Taxis , appointed a w o m a n postmaster at Braine-le-Comte, an important point in France ." ~

The Delaware & Raritan Canal Com-p a n y t s - s a i d to be muster ing its mules out of service, and harness ing up the automobi le to do their work on the tow-path . If th is sort of th ing i s al­l owed to go on till the beasts of bur­den and of draft are let off from their present tasks , the Society for the Pre­v e n t i o n of Cruelty to Animals wil l be tempted to relax its v igi lance.

Consul-General John Goodnow, the .Un i t ed States representat ive at Shang­hai , whose dispatches to the govern­m e n t concerning the s i tuat ion at Pek­i n g have been printed in the news­papers of the country, is a Minneapolis man . He used to o w n the Minneapolis Basebal l club, and at the t ime of his appointment to his present post by Pres ident M c k i n l e y he w a s engaged in the coal business in Minneapolis .

Bes ides be ing' the seat of the Trans­vaal government . Pretoria Is thT moat beautiful town in South Africa. It nes t l e s In a valley. Nowhere else in &>ujh Africa is there such a "blending o f new. a,nd old or are there so many contrasts in the way of architecture. There are Quaint, low Dutch roofs, s turdy Engl ish architecture and the his government buildings completed t e n years ago at a cost of $1,003,000.

There are important dist inct ions be­t w e e n India rubber and gutta percha and in the majority of purposes for w h i c h they are empIoyecT; one can not replace the other. W h i l e t h e trees y i e ld ing India rubber are well distrib­uted over the tropical parts of the wor ld and may be c u l t i v a t e d w l t h more or less facility, the tree which fur­n i shes gutta percha is to be found only In Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay ar­ch ipe lago generally.

A fat citizen of the seacoast town of Lubec, Me., went down a ladder at .Jhe side of a schooner t o get a hammer that be had dropped overboard. He inserted h i s body between the rungs o f the ladder, that he might reach d o w n and get the hammer from the shoa l water, and became stuck there. The t |de was r i s ing and he was rescued three hours afterward, jus t in t ime to s a v e him from drowning, the water h a v i n g reached within t w o inches of h i s mouth.

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In Abyss in ia women are rulers and m e n are ev ident ly the weaker vessels . T h e house and all i t s contents belong to the woman, who may, if s h e choose, turn her husband out of doors on the s lenderes t pretext. If, upon repentance, s h e consents to receive him again, he m u s t brings as a peace-offering a cow or half the market prieu of-^a camel. T h e r ight of divorce be longs E x c l u s i v e ­l y to the wife, and, though h e r hua-

vband must n o t leave her wi thout her consent , he is obliged to go if she d e ­s ires to be rid of h i m . In fact, a s tate of affairs ex i s t s i n Abyss in ia w h i c h m i g h t wel l J u s t i f y a revol t of man. ,-.'* •.• *

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is n o w trave l ing in Europe) puts i n a n unusual l ight t h e ^ v f r a i o n o f Chris t and s h o w s h o w d i v i n e power wi l l y e t m a k e t h e i l lnes ses of the world fal l back; text , Mat thew xl , 5, "The Mind rece ive their s ight , and the lame walk , t h e lepers are c leansed and the deaf hear .""

"Doctor/ ' . I sa id .to a d i s t ingui shed Burgeon, "do you not ge t worn out with cons tant ly s ee ing so m a n y wounds and broken bones and dis tor­t ions of the h u m a n body?" "Oh; n o , * he answered, "all that i s overcome by m y j o y in curing them. A subl imer and more merciful art never c a m e d o w n from heaven than that of sur­gery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first w a n t s of the world was a doctor: Our crippled and agonized human race cal l ­ed for surgeon and family phys ic ian for m a n y years before they came. T h e first surgeons who answered th i s cal l were min is ters of re l ig ion—namely , the Egypt ian priests . And w h a t a grand th ing if all- c lergymen were a l s o doctors, all D. D.'s were M. D.'s, for there are so m a n y cases where body and scul need treatment at the s a m e t ime, consolat ion and medicine, the ­o logy and therapeutics . A s the first surgeons of the world were also m i n i s ­ters of rel igion, m a y these t w o profes­s ions a lways be in full sympathy! B u t under what d isadvantages the early surgeons worked, from the fact that the dissect ion of the human body was forbidden, first by the pagans, and

_the i i_J^the_ear ly-XJhris t ians i Apes , be ing the brutes most l ike the h u m a n race, were dissected, but no human body aright be unfolded for phys i ­ological and anatomical exploration, and the surgeons had to guess what was inside the temple by looking at the outs ide of it. If they failed in any surgical operation, they were per­secuted and driven out of tne city, as was •Archagathus because of hi3«bold but unsuccessful at tempt to savft-a, pa^_ tient. • ' j ^ .

yhe Surjcoa In History. But the world from the very begin­

ning, kept cal l ing for surgeons , and their first skil l is spoken of in Genesi3. where they employed their art for the inc is ions of a sacred rite, God m a k i n g surgery the predecessor of baptism, and we see it again in II Kings , where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on come cracked latt icework in the pal­ace, and it brcke,TriTd he, fell from the upper to the lower floor, and he was so hurt that, he sent to the vi l lage of Ekron for aid. and Aesculapius, who wrought such wonders of surgery, that he was deified and temples were built for his worship at Fergaraos; and Epi -daurus and Podel ir ius introduced for the relief of the world phlebotomy, and Damocedes cu;redo>the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer of his queen, and Hippocrates put suc­cessful hand on fractures and intro­duced amputat ion, and Praxagoras re­moved obstruct ions, and Herophl lus began dissect ion and Eras i s iratus removed tumors, and Celsus, the Ro­man surgeon, removed cataract from the eye and used the Spanish fly; and Hel iodorus arrested disease of the throat, and Alexander bf Tral les treat­ed t h e eye , and Rhazas cauterized for the prevent ion of hydrophobia, and Percival" P o t t came to combat diseases of the spine, and in our century w e have had, among others , a Roux, and a Larray in France, an As t l ey Cooper and an Abernethy in Great Britain and a Valent ine Mott and Wil lard Parkar and Samuel D. Gross in America and a ga laxy of l iv ing surgeons as bri l l iant as their predecessors. W h a t mighty progress in the baffling of d i s e a s e a i n c e the crippled and sick- o f anc ient cfties were laid a long the streets , that peo­ple w h o had ever been hurt or disor­dered in the same w a y might sugges t w h a t had better be d o a e for the "pa­t ients , and the priests of olden t ime, w h o were cons tant ly suffering from colds, received in w a l k i n g barefoot over t h e temple Mxeweat* - had to pre­scribe for,- themselves , , a«d fractures were considered s o far:be»ond al l h u ­m a n cure tha t instead of ca l l ing in the

surgeon the people o n l y i a v o k e d the g o d s ! "•• ' - ^ . ; J ; , . ' ; , - - • . . ,

B u t nbtwiths^andinki^U: the surgl- have tried everything, cal and medical-'Sfcflr 'in the world, w i th w h a t tenaoity t t o old- d i s e a s e s h a n g o n t o the h u m a n race, a n d - m o s t of t h e m are thousands o | y e a r s old, and to our B i b l f » ^ r j e l d cQ - them— the carbuncles of Job and Hesek lah , the palpi tat ion of tfce'hefcrt spoken of in Deuteronomy, the suns troke of a child carried from t h e fields' o f Shu-nem, crying , "My head, m y h e a d ! " K i n g Asa's d isease of the feet, which was n o t h i n g but gout ; defection of teeth, that called for dental sargtr f t the akil of which , a l m o s t equal to any­thing modern, is st i l l s een in the filled molars of the unrol led E g y p t i a n m u m ­mies ; the- ophtha lmia e* owed, by, the

ju ice of t h e n e w l y ripe fig, l e a v i n g t h e people Mind b y t h e roadside; epi lepsy, as in the case of tJbe young man eiten falUng in^tttft^^aiWl Pit into the water; hyfpochondr^ as of Nebuohad-nestajA whp imagined himself aa ox and gjojag out to the fields to pasture; thefathered toad, which, in Bible times, as now, ci>me from the destruc­tion of the main artery or from paraly­sis of the chief nerve; the wounds of the man, whom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine—wine to cleanse the wound and oil to soothe it Thank God for what surgery has done for the al­leviation and cure of human suffering!

&nrg«rjr Without Pain* But the world w a n t e d a surgery

wi thout pain. Drs. Parre and Hick­m a n and S impson and W a r n e r and Jackson, with their amaz ing gen ius , came forward, and wi th their a n a e s ­thet ics benumbed the pat ient w i th narcot ics and e thers as the anc i en t s did wi th hasheesh and mandrake and quieted h im for a whi le , but at the re­turn of consc iousness distress return­ed. The world has never seen but one surgeon who could s tra ighten the crooked l imb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy wi thout a n y pain at the t ime or a n y pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the might iest , grandest , gent les t and most sympathet ic surgeon the world ever s a w or ever wi l l see , and he deserves the confidence and love and worsh ip and hosanna of al l the earth and hal­le luiahs of all heaven . "The bl ind re­ceive their s ight and the lame walk; the lepers are c leansed, and the deaf hear." <

I notice this surgeon had a fondnes3 for chronic cases . Many a surgeon, w h e n he has had a pat ient brought to h im, has said: ' "Why w a s not this attended to five years ago? You bring him to me after all power of recupera­t ion is gone. You have waited unti l there is a complete contract ion of the museies , and fa lse Htatures are form* ed, and ossification has taken place. It ought to have been attended to long ago," But Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One w a s a hemorrhage of twe lve years, and he stopped it. Another was a curvature of e ighteen years, and he s traightened it. Another was a cripple of thirty-eight years and he walked out well. The e ighteen-year patient was a wo-

_man, bent a lmost double. If you could call a convent ion cf all the surgeons of all the centuries , their combined, skil l could not cure that body so drawn out of. shape. Perhaps they might s top it from get t ing worse, perhaps they might contr ive , braces by which she might be made more comfortable, but it is , humbly speaking; incurable. Yet this divine surgeon put both his hands on her, and from that doubled u p pos­ture she , .began to rise and the em­purpled lace began to take on a heal­thier hue. and the musc les began to "elax from their rigidity, and the spin­al column began to adjust itself, and the cords, of the neck began to be the more supple, r,nd the eyes that could see only the ground before, now look­ed into the face of Christ wi th grat i ­tude and up toward heaven in trans­port. Straight! After e ighteen weary 3nd exhaust ing years , s traight! The poise and gracefulness , the beauty of heal thy womanhood reinstated. The thirty-e ight years' case was a man who lay on a mattress near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. There were five apartments where l ame people were brought, so that they could get the advantage of these mineral baths. The &tone basin of the bath Is st i l l visible, although the waters have disappeared, probably through s o m e convuls ion of nature. The bath, 120 feet long, forty feet wide and e ight feet deep. Ah , joov man, if you have been lame and helpless th irty-e ight years , that m i n ­eral bath cannot restore you. Why, thirty-e ight years i s more than the av-arage human life. Noth ing but the grave wil l cure you. But Christ the Surgeon, wa lks a l o n g these baths and I have no doubt passes by s o m e pa­t ients who have been o n l y s i x months disordered or a year or five years, and comes to the mattress of the man w h o had been nearly four decades, he lp less and to this th ir ty-e ight year's inval id sr id , "Wilt thou be made whole?

Chridt the Chief Surgeon. The quest ion asked not because the

surgeon did not understand the pro- , tractedness, the- desperateness of the case, but to evoke the man's pathet ic narrative. "Wilt thou be made who le?" "Would you l ike to ge t we l l?" "Oh, yes ," says the man. "That i s w h a t I came to these mineral baths for. r

All the sur­geons have failed, and al l the pre-scr ipt ions h a v e proved valueless , a n d 1 g o t worse and worse , and I can ne i ther m o v e hand nor foot n o r head. Oh, if I cou ld on ly be free from t h i s pa in of th ir ty-e ight y e a r s ! " Christ t h e S u r ­geon could not s tand t h a t B e n d i n g over the man on the mattress , and I n a voice tender wtth a l l s y i a p s t h y , mtt s t rong w i t h all omnipotence , h e s i y s , " R i s e ! " and t h e inval id i n s t a n t l y scrambles to h i s k n e e s and then puts out. h i s . r i g h t foot, then h i s lef t foot,

"Shoulder th i s m a t t r e s s . ; for y o u are n«* o n ^ w e l l ^ e s p u g A ^ J t o i . b u t we l l enough t o work, a n d s t a r t . o u t from these miner*} tothf. T a t o u p t h y > d

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cases n o w i . < <>.i* ,; Th i s is no t appl icable s o m u c h t o

t h o s e w h o are o n l y a l i t t le h u r t of s in and on ly for a shbrt t ime, but to' t fease prostrated of s i n tweh-e years , e ight ­e e n year*, tbirtff«tjgl»t *«*£** Heir* U a surgeon able to g f y e t o | i p r t a l M h e a ^ h . "Oh." you say , 'h^i^W-im^my over thrown V l l l l l j p f tfiilTTIft Mill that I cannot r i s j g ^ & r e you flatter d o w n than th i s p a t i e n t at the mineral b a t h s ? N o . T h e n r i se . & the nainc of Je sus of Nazareth , the s u r g e o n ;«jho offers y o u b i s r ight hand of he lp , I bid t h e e rise. N o t case s of a c u t e §>n, but of chronic s in—those w h o k m no t prayed7 for th ir ty-e ight years*, those who h a v e no t been s o church foj& thir­ty -e ight years , t b i s e w h o h a r e . b e e n gamblers , or l ibert ines , or t h i e v e a , ) o r out laws , or blosmtowexs , o iCitof i ie ls , or aethe l s t s , or a l l th.^9 togtjtfter, (for th ir ty-e ight year's. A Christ" for ex i ­genc ies ! A Christ for a: • dea8 fift! A surgeon w h o never l o s e * a ease?

In s p e a k i n g of Christ as a surgeon I m u s t cons ider h i m as a n ocul i s t or e y e doctor, and a n aur is t or ear doctor. W a s there ever s u c h another ocul i s t? That he w a s part icularly sorry for the blind folks I take from the fact that the most of h i s works were w i t h the diseased opt ic nerves . I have not t i m e to count up the number of bl ind peo­ple ment ioned w h o got h i s cure. T w o blind m e n in one house ; a l so o n e w h o was born bl ind; so that it was not re­moval of a v isual obstruction, but the creation of t h e cornea and ci l iary m u s ­cle and crys ta l l ine lens and ret ina and optic nerve a n d tear g land; a l so the blind m e n of Betfisaida, cured by the sa l iva which the Surgeon took from the tip of his own tongue and put u p o i the eye l ids; a l so t w o blind m e n w h o sat by the wayside .

Unloosing1 the Barred Tongue.

litiK'fegl' had? pever beea prostrated. WhTlihe

Our surgeon , hav ing unbarred h.s ear, wil l now unloose the shackle of his tongue. The surgeon wil l use tha same l in iment or sa lve that he used on t w o occas ions for the cure of bl ind people—namely , the mois ture of his own mouth. The appl icat ion is jnade , and lo, the r igidity of the dumb ton­gue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth w a s born a who le vocabu­lary and words flew into express ion . He not on ly h e a r d / b u t he talked. One gate of his body s w u n g in to let sound enter, and another gate s w u n g out to let sound depart. W h y is iTthat , whi l? other surgeons used knives and for­ceps and probes and s tethoscopes , th i s surgeon used on ly the o in tment of his own l ips? T o s h o w that all the cura­tive power we ever feel comes s tra ight from Christ. And If he touches us not we shall be deaf as a rock an:i dumb as a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all ar­tists , compel us to hear and help us to speak!

But what were the surgeon's fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crooked backs? The ski l l and the painlessness of the operat ions were worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do not think that the cases he took were al l money less . Did he not treat the nobleman's son? Did he not doctor the ruler's daughter? Did he not affect a cure in the house of a centurian of great weal th who had out of his own "pocket built a s y n a g o g u e ? They would h a v e paid h im large fees , and there were hundreds of w e a l t h y people in Jerusalem and a m o n g the merchant cast les a long Lake Tiber ias who would have g iven this surgeon houses and lands and all they had for such cures as he could effect. For critical cases in our t ime great sur­geons have received $1,000, ¢5,000 and in one case I k n o w of $50,000, but the surgeon of w h o m I speak received not a shekel , not a penny, not a farthing. In his^whole earthly life w e know of his hav ing had but 62½ cents . W h e n his taxes were due, by his omnisc i ence he knew of a fish in the sea which had swa l lowed a piece of s i lver money , a s fish are apt to s w a l l o w a n y t h i n g bright, and he s e n t Peter w i th a hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth w a s extracted a R o m a n s t a ­ter, or 62¼ cents , the only m o n e y he ever had, and that he paid out for taxes . This greates t surgeon of al l the centuries gave al l h i s serv ices then and offers al l h i s s erv ices now free of al l charge. "Without money and w i t h o u t price" you m a y spir i tual ly have y o u r blind eyes opened, and your deaf ears unbarred, ..and your dumb tongues loosened, and y o u r wounds healed a n d your soul saved. If Christ ian people ge t hurt of body, mind or soul , l e t them remember tha t surgery i s a p t t o hurt , but it cures, and you can af­ford present pa in for .future glory. B e ­s ides that , there are powerful a n a e s ­the t i c s in the d i t o l j p r o m i s e s (ha t s o o t h * and° a i l e v i a ^ . ^ 3 ^ ^ f i K ^ o r ch loro form-** eocafatf e v e r m w r ^ h e s o sut»erlef*t^ d i s t r e s s - « s * a t e w * tfttsps of i t h a t m a g a i f i c e h t ' . ^ t t i ^ e i . / ' A n th ings work together for good to- those w h o love OOd.'*f-**WeeplBg n t a r e n d n w for a n ight , but Joy cometh i n t h e morn ing ."

Only he w h o l ives a l i fe o f 4 i s o w n can he lp the l i v e s o f other m e n . — Phi l l ips Brooks.

T R A N S V A A L W A R I T E M f .

On t h e 16th t h e Boers m a d e a d e t e r ­m i n e d a t t J i f e k ' b n t h e ^ l o f t o f P o l e -Carew's fpste lof lNMd a h m * the l e f t 4*n) i , c o m m a n d e d by B u t t o n . T h e pjMjta heisV b y Ab**Ir i»b ' f u s i l i e r s and ( teaadian motw.teoVu i n f a n t r y u n d e r L ieut . Col. Aidereoa w e r e mo«t ga l* l a s t l y defended. T h e , Boers made re* pea ted a t t e m p t s to a s s a u l t t h e posi t i oaa , c o m i n g in. c lose rouge and c a l l ­i n g t o t h e Fusi l ier* t o surrender . T h e Bflers suft^ej^wfOTftlJf. i . T h e y had 1» k i l l ed a n d SO wo«n«iod, a n d foar w e r e t a k e n prisoners . Th^j IJritisU casual­t i e s w e r e w^yen killed^ i n c l u d i n g th«> Canadian l i eu tenants . Bordpa a n d Birch, 30 wonudod and 2 i m,i&sing..

T h e Boers made a de ter mined) a t tack on tbp 2i_st tp d e s t r o y , J J ; . J N S ^ a ^ t h o Rail Head, 1¾ m i l e s c a s t o f j lc idejpcrer , w h i c h t h e y attacked, wit^i" t h r e e . g u n s and a pompom and surrounded. T h e y weris, however , b e a t e n off af ter a aharp e n g a g e m e n t , before re in forcements summoned from Heide lberg had ar­rived-

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More t h a n "0 pc i sons s u c c u m b e d and m a n y more werw fata l ly pros trated by heat in N o w York city o n the 18th. A b o u t half of t h e f a t a l i t i e s occurred a m o n g bab ie s a n d l i t t l e cjUildren.

I n d i a n s hunting1 on the e a a t coast of Hudson bay recent ly found t h r e e bod­ies and a vast q u a n t i t y o f wreckage . I t is bel ieved by officials t h a t i t w a s the remains of And reft and party , w h o w e r e t r y i n g to reach the n o r t h po le by-bal loon.

In t h e pre l iminary e x a m i n a t i o n of Jess ie Morrison, a t Eldorado, Kansas , on the IHth. charged w i t h the mur­der of Mra. Olio C*-stle, i n t e r e s t cen­tered in the tes t imony of Glin Castle, w h o s e y o u n g wi fe w a s s l a i n a w e e k after her wedding .

Capt. Mcree iv Indian a g e n t a t Sol-w a y . Miun. . says that the U l a n k e t In­d ians have w i t h d r a w n the ir oppos i t ion to the bui lding of a s choo l house on the ir reservat ion, and ever)'thing" is now a111 ica l>ly sc111 <;< 1. _ ~ A cuhictfram w a s ivccivorl from V. S ' Minister Conner from I'ckin on the '.'Utij s tat ing , llt.'il t w o days previous to that t\nU-, ho was alivo ami that the foreigners wore fiyhting" for the ir .>afoly.

Tin*, jjovn.roniont. depot a t - JcfTerson-vi l lc . J ml., has nci.'ived orders from Wash ington to hog in making1 150,000 flannel blouses and 300,OOD pairs of drawers. This is in a o t i e i p a t i o n of mil i tary operat ions ill China and to i lo lhe the soldiers in the Ph i l ipp ines lor the ehanjjiiiK" seasons.

The c a s u a l t i e s - o f I tie a l l i e s in the llsree days' liVht.inj*' before? 1 he nat ive oily ot TiOn Tsiuexuecd**! 1.000. I t is now certain thai, there w e r e several IJiissians and I'lVnehn'oii fighting" on the Chinese side. The Chinese ki l led their own women who le sa l e to prevent ihem fal l ing into the i iumls'oi the Rus­sians. On the t?th the w h o l e nat ive city was in Haines', ami the s t e n c h of 1 he hurtling t housapds of corpses was unspeaUahly horrible. ,. .

.Secretary of War RpoL o n tho -0th made the s t a t e m e n t that the i'. JS. had not ordered any m o r e troops to, China, ami added" The chief effort of our •Hivornment. jus t now'mus t be directed lo a id ing the friendly Chinese ollieials. It i* ev ident from the d i s p a t c h tha t the imperial government l ias been net-iny ui yood faith, and on J u l y IS w a s stil l u.sin<»- i t s best oiVorts t o protect the leyntions. We must do,everything 1

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"I am alwaya, >•>§<• a lot of tue*> tlona about: the i»eeTege," M U ^ A i t i Jamieeon, of Load©*, art the W&14off» Astoria, to awNe* York Tribune man, "whenever I am in America. One thing that eeema especially to bother you people la that while a house of lords exists nevertheless lords, earls and even marquises are to be found among members of the house of com­mons. This conjee about from the so-called courtesy titles borne by eldest sons and heirs. For example, take the case of, thef,Mar<lu1« of Lome, now

—ninth Puke of Argyll, who married the Princess Louise. He bore the title of marquis during his father's life by courtesy. The peerage is divided in­to dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons, and the'Spiritual peerage into archbishops and bishops. The title duke is very old. Hannibal was called Duke of Carthage. The Doge of Vea-lce was a duke. A duke is addressed as 'His Grace and Most Noble,' and by the crown as 'our right trusty and right entirely beloved cousin.' Mar­quises were formerly military leaders, who guarded the limits or marches of the kingdom.. Hence; they were called Lords of the Marches, or _Marquises. They are addressed as 'Most Honor­able,' and by the crown a6 'our ripht trusty and entirely beloved cousin.' Viscounts, or vice countesses, were sheriff*, in earlier days. They are ad­dressed as 'Right Honorable,' and by the Crown as 'our righty trusty and •well beloved cousin.' JBarons, origin­ally by tenure, then by writ and now by letters patent, are bearers or sup­porters—from the etymology of the word—and- are styled 'Right Honor­able,' and addressed by the Crown as 'our righty trusty and well beloved.' The royal addresses sound like a game where you go on losing a word, .don't they? The only title by tenure, i

—think, now existent among us is the •Earldom of Arundel, which the Duko of Norfolk holds by his tenre of Arun­del Castle, but this was confirmed by a special act of Parliament. Baronets and knights are both addressed as 'Sir,' but while the former is a title that holds with and descends in the family, the latter exists only during the life of the holder. Sir William Van Home, who built the Canadian Pacific, is a knight."

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CALIFORNIA P R U N E S .

Variety Said to Be Superior to the French Article.

According to a statement made by United States Consul Joseph I. Brit-taiu, stationed at Nantes, France, the quality of the California prunes is su­perior to the French, and the duty is not excessive, being but 10 francs jscr kilograms, or less than one cent per pound. If the prunes are carefully se­lected and tastefully packed in sub* stantial boxes, and are always as rep­resented by the samples, there will soon be a much larger demand from this part of France. I was recently shown samples of California apricots packed,in five-pound boxes. The first layer was composed of large yellow fruit, while underneath the fruit was not only small and inferior, but it was very irregular in color. The effect oi such methods can be imagined. The French people are not easily deceived, and the California fruit dealers who anticipate orders after sending such samples are making serious mistakes. One of the Nantes importers recently received a consignment of California prunes from New York City. He told me he could buy them cheaper in Cal­ifornia, but he wished to have them guaranteed by some one with whom he was acquainted; hence the order was given through the New York house. These prunes were nicely packed, but the dealer says he lost about 20 cases in consequeuce-of_Jthe boxes having been made from very thin lumber. I measured one of the covers, and found the lumber to be less than one-fourth of an Inch in thick­ness.'*

Mary J. Kennedy, manage* P* toour A Ca's B i f i b i r a t flK ^TraL Mississippi-Exposifttota at Omaha, K^L., writes the fol lowing of Perns*, a* q.

cure for that common 'pha** of, summer oa-tsrrh, known as indigestion. Miss Kennedy says:

"I found the c o n t i B U S 1 change of diet incidental to e i g h t y e a r s ' traveling com-, pletely u p s e t m y dl^restive system. Irteon-sulting several physicians they decided I suf­fered with ca­tarrh o f t h e stomach.

"Their pre­scriptions <*did not s e e m t o help me any, so, reading of the remarkable cures effected by the use of Peruna I decid­ed totry it and soon found my­

self well repaid. "I have now,used Peruna for about

three months and feel completely re­juvenated. I believe I am permanent­ly cured, and dp not hesitate to give iinstinted praiso to your great remedy, Peruna."

The causes of summer catarrh are first, chronic catarrh; second, derange­ments of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood.

buch being the case anyone who knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It eradicates chronic catarrh from the system, invig­orates the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and there­fore permanently cures by removing the cause—a host of maladies peculiar to hot weather, The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves.

"Summer Catarrh" sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.

T h e N e w Railroad t o San Francisco.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. has completed an exten­sion of their route to San Francisco, and opened it up recently for passenger business, opening for freight business having been made several weeks ago. Heretofore, San Francisco and the other cities of central California have been_ con­nected with the east by only one trans­continental line, and the entry of the Santa Fc route to compete for public patronage may be expected to result in much better freight and passenger transportation for those cities. ,The Santa Fe road is now the only railroad under one ownership and management all the way from Chicago to San Fran­cisco.

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HleVT BRKAK9 T ^ f t M a M K T K f c .

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storm, mesquite wood has fiDen fn price, Indians are selling bows and arrows, the rose and the oleander have long been out. oranges art In b loom/ the umbrella tree is putting out its leaves, last summer's suit has been cleaned and pressed, the small hoy has gone swimming in the canal, the wise man stays up nights and stealft irrigation water from his neighbors, alfalfa is almost readjr t o | cut, strawberries have been #hipped> mulberries are nearly ripe, summer will soon he here and the Phoenix summer bedroom will soon be nec­essary. Phoenix sleeps out of doors in the summer and the bedroom is born out of that necessity. . It is on stilts, b built of wire screen of fine mesh, for the Phoenix mosquito is microscopic in size. It is furnished according to the taste of the occu­pant, with interior curtains" to keep out the morning sun, the gaze of the curious and the sand storm. The bed is a cot of canvas or wov,en wire, cov­ered, perhaps, with a sheet, but even a sheet feels like a featherbed on a Phoenix summer night. The bed cov­ering is the roof of the bedroom, and careless folks who consult their com­fort only don't wear nightshirts. Phoenix is proud of Its climate dur­ing eight months of the year, but it doesn't talk much in public about its midsummer. It is a right warm day when the government weather bureau doesn't know what the sun tempera­ture is and is unable to determine it, and that 13 how hot it gets in Phoe­nix. I called on Observer Burns one day last July and asked him what the "official" temperature was in the sun. He said he did not know and that the government couldn't afford to experi­ment to that end. He said he had at­tempted to catch the sun temperature 'during" the summer of 1898 and had broken a $3 thermometer in the at­tempt. To please my curiosity he hung a thermometer in the sun, watched 4t-until it registered 136 de­grees, and then took it in, fearing it would break. The dryness of the at­mosphere relieves this great heat of any terrors to all living things except women and cats.—Phoenix Graphic.

The'^rn&rf lmpoxtent change made at the recent provincial chapter of the ComjrsspUionief tho- Holy Cross at* the University of « # o t « - Pame, Indiana, was the transfer of Rev. James A. Burns from the head of the commun­ity a d a s e * ^ thVprssiAtfeV of H « 7 Cross college,- which is situated in Washington in affiliation with the Catholic University of America. Father Burns, who has been professor of chemistry at Notre Pame after bril­liant work at Harvard and Johns Hop­kins, Is one of the ablest as well as one of the youacea* of the Catholic sdncators of America, and as head of the post graduate institution in Wash* ington he has a great field for further progress. •

Deer Avenged Harder <kt fawn. In the park of Lord Orantley, at

Wonersh, near Quildford, a fawn, drinking, suddenly was pounced upon by one of the swans, whldi pulled the animal into the water and held it un­der until drowned. This was observed by the other deer in the park. Shortly after this swan, which had hitherto never been molested by the deer, was singled out when on land, and furious-ly attacked bj & herd, which sur­rounded and killed it.r-Wcekly Tele­graph.

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Marquette , oo L a k e Superior, is one of the mest charming summer resorts reached via Chicago, Milwau­kee & St. Paul Railway.

Its healthful location, beautiful scenery, good hotels and complete im­munity from hay fever, make a sum­mer outing at Marquette, Mich., very attractive from the standpoint of health, rest and comfort.

For a copy of "The Lake Superior Country," containing a description of Marquette and the copper country, ad­dress, with four (4) cents in stamps to pay postage, Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111.

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Supremo Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade-Mark.

Justice Laughlln, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunc­tion, with costs, and a full accounting of pales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder culled "Dr. Cftirk's Foot Powder," and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which" is dodged, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of "Foot-Ease." the powder to shake Lo£o your shoes for tired> aching foet, now BO large­ly advertised and sold all over the coun­try. Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. Y., is the owner.of the trade-mark "Foot-Kase,'* and he iR the, first Individual who ever advertised a fotrt -ptowder efctenatVety over the country. He win —ad* »-sam­ple Free to any one who writ**.him for it. The decision in this case upholds hi? trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudulently attempt to prof-It by the^extenslve "Foot-Ease" adveH Using, In placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing prepara­tion. l«,b*letf*nh6 put * .'tip* lw> «rrYe**pes and boxes like Foot-Base.- Similar suit* will be brought against others who. are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade* mark and cottrawn law rights. ' ' • ;

Many a woman haaf tcured a life­long Job ty *ma*iwtaf a man t o reform h i m . • •* '

The man w W » a * t » fojgeta that he is a gentfeuaan alao remember* thai there art otkan,—CbJoafo Newa.

Il l i teracy in Nor th Carolina.

Illiteracy in North Carolina is In­creasing, particularly among the whites. By the census of 1870 there were 38,111 illiterate white voters in North Carolina; in 1880, 44,420; in 1890, 49,570—an average Increase of S00 illiterate voters a year, and a total of 21 per cent of the entire white vot­ing population.

Hall's Catarrh Card Is taken internally. Price, 75c.

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To Car* Dandruff Quickly use Coke Dandruff Cure. Money refunded if it fails, so why not try it?

WANTU) 50© Men, Women' and Children to try the best and cheapest preparations ever offered the public. You don't take any chance* m tryia* them, as your druggist guarantees Knill's Bed Pills for Wan People. -Pale and Weak," the women's remedy of the day (the only genuine). Knill s White LiveT Pills, the great Ldver Invtg-orator, System Renovator and Bowel Regulator. 25 doses, 23c. You can work while they work. Never gripe or make you sick, Knili's Blue Kid­ney Pills cure all Kidney Ills. Backache, etc. Knill's Dyspepsia Tablets cure Indigestion, cor­rect all Stomach Troubles, destroy all foul gases, make pure sweet stomachs and breaths. To do as advertised or money refunded. The only sruaranteed preparations on the market. Knill's Pills or Tablets cost 25c. Half price of others.

Motor Car for Warfare. A patent was issue recently for a

"motor driven car for use in war-tare." It is nothing more than a bat­tleship on wheels, or an armored au­tomobile full of guns and other terrj-fying weapons, and ateb adapted to be so charged with electricity that rash storming parties attempting to board it will instantly be electrocuted,

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Some people have faith in odd numbers—and the favorite is number one.

Mrs. Witulow'a 800thing- Syrap. For children teething, softens the jrum», reduces in-flauunatlofi, allays pain, cures wind coUc 33c a bottl*

Givo the business man plcaty of vopo and he'll form a cordage trust.

Indian Crows Railroading. The Chicago, Burlington & Quiney

Railroad is building a line in Montana down into the Big Horn Basin toward Yellowstone Park, and as the Crow In­dian reservation is near at hand, a con­tract has been made with the red men for grading a section of roadbed. The managers of competitive lines threaten to enter a complaint to the Western Passenger Association, making the charge that the Burlington has made a deal with the "Scalpers."

The true pessimist would rather be wrong than happy.

Worry ruins more business men than bad deals 4 o .

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HujosacouHs, the best cure for corn*.

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Piso's Cure is the best medietas we evet us«d for all affections of the throes aad laags.—WM, O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen. la*., M , Mt 1900.

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WEST PUTNAM.

Miss Katherine Connoy of De­troit is visiting at Coopers.

Wellington White visited friends in Marion last week.

Blanch and Mary Kuen of Jack­son are visiting at Win. Murphy's.

Miss Addie Burkhart of Cohoctah visited at Wm. Sales, last week.

Mrs. Chas White and Mrs. D. B. White visited in Hamburg last week.

Wm. McQuillan and family of Hamburg spent Sunday with P. Kelly's folks."

Mrs. Maxwell, wife of judge Maxwell of Bay City is visiting at

,C. V. Van Winkle's.

Blanche Graham of Pinckney spentthefirsiTbf the week with friends in this place.

Herman Beed left last Saturday for Washington where he expects to secure a position as teacher. Success to him.

Those desiring instructions in croquet are cordially invited to H. B. Gardners; H. B. lays claim to the championship.

K V. and C. V. Van Winkle S. E . Barton, H., B. Gardener and Wm. Sales attended a ma­sonic gathering at Stockbridge last week.

H. B. Gardner aud C. V. Van Winkle attended the Democratic

News of the newspaper kind is quite scarce—plenty of gossip.

Mrs. Morgan of Milwaukee Wis. and Mr*. Cox of Detroit are visit­ing their sister Mrs. Clinton Spal­ding of Parshallville.

Thomas Bidleman has resigned his position with Wm. Wolverton and Floyd Wolverton begins work this morning in his place.

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Sirs. Alex Pearson spent the past two weeks in Hamburg.

Mrs. Will Schiefle of Camp­bell Mills visited here Sunday.

Mr~Burr Fitch of Stockbridge spent Sunday with his sister Mrs. Bert Hicks.

Fred Lake of Marion spent one. day last week at the home of R. W. Lake.

Mrs. Bert Hnuse and children of Hamburg spent Tuesday with Mrs. Geo. Brown.

Miss Sarah Pearson who been in Ann Arbor for the month is home now.

Mrs. Hattie Browra who has been;, visiting at Holly for a fort­night returned home this week.

Rev. N. W. Pierce of Chubbs Corners will lead the~C. E^-service at this place next Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock topic—Cumber-ers of the grouni.

has past

HAMBURG.

J. L. Kisby was in Brighton on business one day last week.

Miss Etta Jones of Dimondale convention at Howell on Monday. I visited Miss Cora Olsaver last C. V. 'was elected a delegate to the week State convention.

Mrs. F. A. Sigler and Miss Villa Mrs. Frank Dunlavey spent

part of last week with relatives in Martin of Pinckney called on Mrs. I Dexter. S. E. Barton the first ofjilie week. Mrs. Barton is seriously sick but at this Writing is reported slightly improved.

PETTYSVILLE.

Miss Maude Culy is visiting in H amburg this week.

Ruel Coniway visited in Howell Saturday and Sunday.

Miss Nella Cady -. called on Thressa Melvin Sunday."

Miss Ella Mercer visited rela­tives in Howell the past week.

Mrs. Wm. Hooker was in Dex­ter Monday to see her daughter who is sick,

Miss Lucy Schneider of Howell spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. A. Rohrgass.

Erma and Lura King of White Oak are visiting at their aunts, Mrs. J . W. Placway.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Schoenhalls of Hamburg visited at P. Coniway's the first of the week,

Mrs. Lee who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Art. Flintoff, the past few weeks, left Saturday for Detroit.

PARSHALLVILLE.

Our new store of Wolverton Brothers is doing a lively busi­ness. _

Mrs. Gub has moved to Oak Grove where she lived before coming here.

Despite the threatening weath­er there was a. good company at the ice cream social a t Dr. Park ex's Pri4ay evening, reeiepte $6.50.

Mrs. J. Newberry of Detroit is visiting with-lier parents in Cun­ninghams.

Mr. and Mrs.. Wm. Featherly are entertaining relatives from Toledo this week.

Quite a number-from this place will attend Gala Day at South Lyons next Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo Wimbles of Howell visited at the home of Jas. Hayner the first of the week.

Miss France Streeter of Fow-lerville spent part of last week at(

the home of her aunt Mrs. Chas. Burnett.

The Free Mail delivery route will open July 30. I t extends north from this village to Pleas­ant Lake and south to Dexter.

Miss Laura Becker accompan­ied by her aunt and uncle, Mrs. Sam Jones and Jas. Jones started last Wednesday for a visit with relatives in New York.

At the M. E. parsonage at Whitmore Lake* on Tuesday, July 17 occured the marriage of Miss Lena Olsaver to Mr. Wm. Leice, both well known young people of this place. The happy couple are now visiting at Harbor Springs.

ANDERSON.

Jas. Birnie Sundayed at home. Threashing has begun in this local*

itv. Floyd -Durkee of Iosoo Sundayed

with his mother. Harry Keusah visited his parents in

Chelsea Sunday. He was accompan. ied bv Charley Poole making the trip on wheels. v —"• ~~~ —

Mm Dora Buillis is visiting friend? and relatives lp Lansing.

Mrs. Eugene Smith made a flying trip to White Oak Toes Jay.

Geo. Walton and friend of HoweU visaed Burr Smith Saturday.

Jas. Roc be of Pinckney called on friends in this place Saturday. .

Thany and Nora Durkee visited at Jas. Roches in Pinckney Friday.

Nancy May of Unadilla spent Fri­day niffht with Mrs. E. J. l>urKee.

Dave Smith and wife eutertained friends from Mecosta County Sunday.

jars. Chas. Hoff and daughter Kit-tie were in Stockbridge one day last week.

A couple of our energetic young men were out among them Sunday night.

Nelson Bullis and Samuel Placeway attended the convention in Howell Monday.

A few. of the young people from this place spent Saturday fishing near Unadilla.

Mr. and Mrs." John Birnie visited their daughter Mrs. Harry Moore in Howell Saturday.

Lester Williams and wife of Wil-liamston called on friends here the first of the week.

The Ladies Aid that met at Mrs. Nelson Bullis's Wednesd*y, July 18 netted the Society $3.00.

Little Susie and Maudie Smith are spending a week visitin at the home of Mrs. D. Walters in Howell.

Wirt Barnum and wife and Ales Piper and wife visited Thos. Bud.il at Stock bridge Saturday last.

Howard Sweet and wife. John Budd and Vema Lyon * from Sjtockbridge spent the last <• last week on the shores of Brnin Lake.

Eev. Swift from the Temples home Chicago will talk in the- Presbyterian Church Sunday evening in' behalf of the homeless boys of that city.

A. C. Watson and wife accompanied by J. D. Coulton and wife and John Watson and wife from Chelsea spent the iast of last and the first of this week with Sturgers.

MORE LOCAL.

UNADILLA.

Gertrude Webb Sundayed under the parental roof.

Chandler was home from North Lake over Sunday.

Unadilla goes to Iosco to play ball next Saturday after noun.

Seymour May returned to his home in Grand Kapids last week.

Jennie Harris from Chelsea Sunday­ed under the parental roof.

J. D. Coulton from Chelsea visited at A. C. Watson's last week.

Will Singleton from Anderson call­ed at Edd. Cranna's Tuesday.

Miss Addie Burkhart of Cohoctah visited at Will Sales last week.

A number from this way took in the show at Jackson last Friday.

A. E. Palmer is spending part of the week with friends at Portage Lake.

Lon Clark from Stockbridge spent Saturday and Sunday at L. K. Had-ley1s.

Don Harris has hired out to work tor John Bradley near Parkers Cor­ners.

Clarence Hartsuff from Waterloo spent last week with his grandparents here.

D. M. Gvieves and wife from Pinck­ney visited at Wm. Pyper's last Safc" urday.

Mrs. Ales Pyper and Gertrude Mills visited with friends near Munith Tuesdav,

Silas Hemingway and wife from Gregory visited friends in this place Tuesday.

Gerturde Mills was home from her work in Chelsea last week and the first of this.

Wm, Liverraore and wife spent last Sunday with their, their daughter in Stockbridge.

The Sunday Schools in this vicinity will hold a Basket Picnic at North Lake August 2.

Mrs. Chas. Hill and son Cecil and Lloyd are spending a few days with her parents here.

Bert Hartsun' and family from North Waterloo visited his parents here over Sunday.

Mrs. Eugene Smith returned to her borne in Ionia last week after a three weeks visit at Ryal Barnum 1s.

Geo. Hoyland and wife from Howell spent the last of last week and the first of this at Wm. Pypers. -- t-

E. Everett Howe author of Cronicles of The Break of Day on friends in this place Sunday. .

The Unadilla Farmers Club will join- with the North Lake Orange hi a Basket Pi cmc at Stevensons Grove August 7, a number of good speakers bave, been engaged and the Stock-bridge Band will furnish" music for them. Everybody invited to come.

Wm. Ferguson of Fowlerville, was in town Tuesday.

H. Harrington of Detroit, is spend-a week in this vicinity.

Mrs. Andrew Wilhelm spent the last of last week with relatives in Stockbridge.

Chas. Grimes is spending a few weeks in Ohio. Ind. and 111., making the trip on his wheel.

W. W. Barnard and wife spent Wednesday at Whitmore Lake with a sister of Mr. Barnard.

J. W. Placeway has our thanks for a dozen ear-1 of early sweet corn from his garden. We think this is about the first of the season. —

Subject at Cong'l Church Sunday Morning—"Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch" or Diverse destinies in life.

While camping at Portage lake the past week a horse belonging to Dick Reason was badly marked up by marsh flies(!)or else kicked the paint bucket. He was m arked "polka dot" all righ t.

Master Luke Cole of Owosso, who is visiting his uncle, F. L. Andrews at this place, has improved the time by commencing to lea,rn to set type in the DISPATCH office, having set nearly a column for this issue.

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There were W> on; the morning train bound for Zukey Lake for a pic-mo. Taey were from Stockbridge.

I. J." Abbott and daughter Oreasa of West Marion, and Lyie Abbott of Fowlerville are in Bowling Green, 0., attending a family reunion.

GRANGE PICNIC, NORTH LAKE,

the. Qrange picnic at North Lake 1st 7, tne rollowing speakers will August 7, Ine ftliowing speaket

he present: Geo. B. Harlow, master of State Grange; Hon. H. C Smith, and Chas. Rilley, D. D., Adrian; Thos. E. Bark worth, Jackson; Rev. 0. S.

ftiends—and~-relativesTn|,lones, Chelsea; and others. Hay furnished on the grounds, also*

refreshments. Plenty of boats for hire, also a gasoline launch. A good band will furnish music and there will be vocal music.

Business Locals.

Fo< Service. One thorough-bred Jersey bull.

Inquire of J. W. Placeway.

For Sale.

Extra good road horse and carriage; W. H. Sayles, Gregory, ;

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received tor che perform­ance of Marshall service by the month for the remainder of the year ending on second monday in April 1900. All bids to be in the bands of the clerk on or before next regular meeeting. The council reserve8 the right to rejecit any or all bids. Dated Aug. 2,1900.

R. fl. Teeple, clerk.

Notice. Sealed bids will be received from

now until Aug. 1, for the furnishing of 25 tonb of furnace coal for School District No. 2, to b(e delivered in the basement of the school -house on or before Sept. 1, 1900.'

D. W. Murta,Sec. Hi 1 " MM J

This store closes Friday afternoons at 13:30 un­til Sept. 7th. I*. H. FIELD.

The Red Mark Sale Has Only Another Week .

TO RUN:—This sale has been from its very start full of satisfaction to our customers. We have given such big dollar's worth for every dollar that the reputation of this store for fair, square, honest dealing has been incieased. Make the best of your Red Mark chances this las*, week.

Best bight Percales , 9 l-2c. We have an ovor-stook of 12|c Light Percales. They are the very

best of cloths and the choicest of the new patterns. We must clean tlem up however, and to do this we mark the prices from 12.1c tc 9Jc per yard.

Closing Prices on Wash Goods. One lot of best 12Jc Ginghams*, 6¾. _^__._ One lot of 18c and 20c Dress, Ginghams, 12£c Lot of 25c, 30c, 35c and 40c Madras and Ginghams, 15c. All our best Dimities in fancy colors up to 20c per yard are now on sale

at 10c.

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Price on all roideries.

WeV^going to clean up the entire stock of Allovers this week, and here's how we take to do it. We take one piece at $2.00, 15piece .at $1.75; several pieces at $1.65 and $1.48 and a few pieces at $1.25 and make a uni­form price on the whole lot

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Closing Out Sa le of Hammocks* All bur Hammocks previously up to $1.75, now in a lot of 98c. All our Hammocks previously up to $3.50, now in a lot of $1.98.

The way W e Gut the Price on Belts Is really reckless. All our Fanoy Pulley Belts, our Beaded Elastio Belts, ou r Fine Leather Belts are cut to close.

Half price on Jetted Elastic Be UP. Half price on Fancy Pulley Belts. 25c for 50c and 75c Fine Leather Belts. 48c for 98c and $1.25 Fine Leather Belts.

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