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TWO DOLLARS! WDX BUT A* GOOD BOLID

WORK SHOE Of-

" W " I I S T E O If you want a shoe that will give you good service, we have

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CEO. WINECAR.

Peach Growers & Farmers •

$ e have just received a large stock of Plain and Extension

L A D D E R S I I —

A PIONEER MNE. • •

ADAM YAMOKN OMK ^ REST.

•unday ^ehooi OentenOenand Ep-worth L M f u « NNfMns.

MM. N. 6. IAMBI A WRIST.

Th« Irish Oirf't Opinion • ! t h « Mud Turtl*.

MM. CTEUMAll's MffWAT PARTY.

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njceived a large consigncfent of

rioue call Mid uziming oar gaiis. No trouble to

B . B O Y L A N .

B. C. SMITH, THE TAILOR Will Give You Fits

I F H E MAKB8 YOU A SUIT O F CLOTHES.

Every Garment Guaranteed.

UTEST AND BEST STYLES, LOW PRICES.

A NIKCROOM n m M w TOUR.

baptura 'and Kaeapat^Vhat Atrful ffnaka.

AHOTTtfal P l b m o GONE. Yes, dfeath has claimed another

victim, and this b b heavy hand wai laid upon one of oar oldest and meet respected citizens. Adam Van-Deusen, of Vergennea, ia 4ead. For more than fifty yean be 1*8 lived on the old ftrm; add there fee reared bis children, two sons and three daughters; and from there hia faitfcfcl wife was taken two yean ago to the place where death opmeth nbt . Mr. VanDeusen was born in New York state in 1607, and was eigbty-sk years of age. He was one of a family of thirteen, only one of whom, GhanniDSpVaDDea&n is living. Deceased h * | been a suf-ferer from dropsy for Wfo yeah, and death came as a relief Mr^PMmsday* Funeral Services were held in Ver-ge'nnes yesterday. Conducted by the Rev. E: H. Shanks.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVEIMON. A meeting of the Union Sunday

school convention will be held at the Lowell Congregational church this afternoon and evening. An interest ing program has been arranged, and all interested are invited to be present.

EPWORTH LEAGUE. Th&e will be an JEpworth League

reception at the home of Ora Weeks next Wednesday even?ftg. AH are cordially invited.

PROGRAM.

Qnarlet—Glee Clab. Piano Solo—Ora Weekes. Recitation—EdilJi McConnell. Song—Hattie Wilson. Reading—Stella McDairmid. Dnet—Ora Weekes and Kffio McDairmid. Recitation—Beva Owen. Song-HJuincy Fisher. Qnartfe—Glee Club.

A GRICULTURAL

1 MPLEMENTS K you are going to purchase a1 Grain Drill Don't Forget the

latest SUPERIOR. Great Sales of the' L ITTLE GIANT BEAN PULLER,

the Best in the Market. • • ^ . i . ^

H. N A S H

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McCARTY ' AS UBDAL N BUTDIO r'

PE ACHES AND APPLES. See Him Before Ton Sell,

<Hr K X T M WAT TOU wn-unQtm - r r m M u i n t

BROREX WRIST. Mrs. 0. N. Barber met with a pain-

ful ahd serious aodldent Wednesday evening. She fell froiri her porch and fractured the bones of4 her wrist in a bad manner, besides receiving some bruises. ^ JDr. McDahnell attended

her. " A BULL BFCD BUG.

The story is told of a Lowell fish-erman, whbee sole catch on a recent trip was a good sized mud turtle. He took it home and qoietly "sneaked" it into the sleeping room of the hired girl, a gennine Irish Biddy. Early next morning a great din waa heard ita the'servant's room, and soon after down came B^ddy, holding out the fciile by the tail, and-saying, -Faith, Amm, and here's the otfld ball bed bog (hat's been afther biting the cbilder."

THE BAPTFFLF PAOPUT

Know a good thing when they aee H, and have ueadered their pastor, the Rev. E. H. Shanks, a Hdbkoreaee of salary. The LEDGBB thinks the in-crease in salary is oommeBsurate with the inereaae of the elder's family a n ^ confidently avures the p<Iblic that the elder iftttaocept.

BtBTBDAY PARTY. Another one of those pleasant oc-

casions in which people make them-selves happy by trying to male others so occurred Monday evening of this week at the residence of Mr. and Mre. H. A. Sherman of this village. It was Mrs. Sherman's twenty-ninth )irthday, and a number of friends formed a merry party to help her cel-ebrate the event. Croquet, cards, music, social chat and refreshments filled oat a pleasant evening, and when the company retired they left with Mrs. Sherman several mementoes of the occasion.

DRUNK ON HIS TOUR. Ah hour after midnight Sunday,

i September 3, officers Blaleslee and Edmunds^ were called to th& hons^ of Seneca Husted;, where a bad row* was in progress, the chief actor in which was John Healey, a Grand Haven bartender, who orfly the Sunday be-fore bad married Miss Bird Boles, a sister of Mrs. Husted. He had been drinking, and when the officers ar-rived presented a bad appearance, be-ing only half clothed and covered with blood. His companions stated that rough treatment had been'neces-sary to protect the bride, whom Healey insisted on ponnding with a bottle. He was lodged in the village' jail, and-the next morning tippearing rational was released. On the even-ing of the sa'ifae day; however, reports came that Healey had resumed his spree, dashing into the river with his ^clothes en adS finally insulting one or mere women' He was again arrested and on Tuesday Constable Parker took him away. The balance of the story is told by the Grand Rapids Democrat as follows:

Last Saturday night John Healey, bartender in'the Cutler house, Grand Haven, was married to a young lady of that city and last evening he was at the police station in this city, a most' pitiful looking object, with de-lirium tremens. He hkd been drink-ing heavily for some time before the wedding. Immediately after the cer-emony the newly wedded pair started fur Ldwell upon a wedding trip. The next lUbrning the groom began dr in^ ing again and continued until yester-day mbrning when he was in such a condition that a constable took him'in custody and went to Grand Haven with hi in. There was no retreat there for such' cases and he was brought to this city and waa taken in a 'bus to the police station. As he sat fa front of the station surrounded hf a big crowd that had qnickly gathered, he presented an awful sight. His eyes were glassy and he shook like aleaf in

| a storm: His hands were shackled and he jerked at the irons continually, until bis wrists were raw. He could n ^ answer a question intelligibly and could not even toll bis nanjje. He was taken to S t Mark's hospital where he will be treated.. His bride is with relatives in Lowell and is nearly heartbroken.

MARRIED, Thnrsday, at the home of Matthew

Hunter, Will H. Bement, of Grand Rapids, to Sosan B. Santord, of Big Rapids, by the Rev. E. H. Shanks In the preeence of forty guests, xhe usual gifts were made.

THE EARLY MlOBtGijlli Dome of Hnsted's Early Michigan

peaches have been sampled by the LEDGER gang and pronounced A No. 1. THb Lewis Smdling, which his been claimed as an equal, isnV'iff it"

. with this lusciouB fruit: '

A WONDERFUL SNAKE. ' , Josiah Plainliver was in Lowell '

again Saturday, and having sold his wolf pelts, was feeling very well, in-deed. Seeing a group of men talking • very earnestly he edged up to them and ascertained that the subject under discussion was a big snake, alleged to have been seen in this vicinity some weeks ago, and that President Mc- " Carty, wishing to get up a museum * for the Lowell fair, had offered $30 for its capture if fifteen feet long, and 150 if alive, and 110 for each addi-tional foot. Now, Josiah has been in' * the snake business for sixty years, a n d ' ' be determined to get the reward. ' &ow He captured th'i reptile may " never be known; Joeiah says that's ' Kis business. But' At any rate, on 1

Monday morning, he and his two sons boarded the L. & H. train for Grass-ville, bearing among them a queer, '* squirming object, closely wrapped in an immense blanket.

Josiah had captured the snake and was bearing it away to his home in triumph, " f t them Lowell fellers 1

want this snake (let 'em come when l am and hnng^ie price fur eighteen ' foot of snake," so spake Josiah, and he meant i t But alas for Josiab, * alas for t t e snake, and alas for the Lowell fair. On entering the big cot at the foot 6f the steep grade this side of Pratt Lake a mammoth boulder, *' which all unnoticed by the section men, had been hanging 6n the ragged' ' edge fqr lo these nrtmy - d^ys, j a m d by the rumbling train became de-, tatohed, rolled down the embankment and lodged squarely in the roadbed.' ' When only' half w^y up the grade the passenger car became detaqhed from the baggage car, and bnt for one Circumstance would have dished downward, carrying its human freight to destruction on the rock below. But just at tbe moment ofp tafag , Josuth's ' snake, which had shaken itself loose and started on a tour of investigation, reached the brake staff, and grasping the situation and the brake bars of J tbe parting cars, he twined himself many times about them,' and held on with a death grip.

Forly passengers held their breath! If the snake held the cars together 'till the top was' reached, all were saved; if he refeased his' hold Or'broke i& two, all would be lost fearful moment! And now as they watched, the snake grew longer and longer, slender and more slender, and the cars were separated by many feet. Lifo hung by a hair—a sort Of hair snake—and it seemed as if the break-ing point were reaohed. But/ hurrah! They had reached the top! The snake had saved the train, bnt at what a coat to himself t When cap-tured be measured eighteen feet in length and one foot in diameter; he was ' •now eighty feet long and only two in-ches thick. Joeiah looked, multiplied 80x10, and figured on bnnting Chas. McCarty's bank aoeeont; but k v re-veries were cot abort by a.:e«U to action. The lady passengers bad all fainted. When the genUemen had carried them out and down by the cool waten of tbe Pratt, and brought them baok t6 l i feand reason, they be-thought them of the snake. I t had disappeared, and is still at large. Here yon are, boys. Eighty feet ot snake at 110 a foot I t may break McCarty bat we must have him for the Lowell Mr.

About 12,000,000 must be raised for state taxes this year, and KentT

I county's share is 185,451.98.

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J£owcll j[edgp. I RONTING ANTELOPE.

F. M JonNsow, Pot)ltob«r,

LOWELL. MICH.

T H B M O S T D I F F I C U L T O F F R O N T I E R S P O R T S .

A SAN FRANCISCO m a n who l e f t b i s Home In Bntfland thirty ilx y e a n Ago, and never took tbo trouble to drop a postal card to the old folks, fcas just heard that hi* -father and mother aro dead, and ifl sorrowing

KM* BTMI and OlAotnrlM— Curiosity ThHt' Oltea Pro*M raUl— Tha Fleet and Qraeaftit AaUnal Has Oraat Tenarltj- of Ufa.

•properly,

To hunt tho antelope sucoessfully . . . requires more than Ohdlnary skill.

The ready sympathy that ^yith the exception of mountain sheep goes out to "the orphaned'he his.

AT the unlvor«lty of •Chlcaeo It Is proposed to have a cootlnuous study year, so that tho seeker after 'Tcnowledgre can find his opportunity In Augustas well as in April. I t s not a bed idea, especially as pro-vision le to bo made against overwork i n tne case of any individual student.

THE grim irony of fate has gone on record again. When the Snake river steamer, Annie Faxon, blew up (the other day one of the crew was "hurled through tho air, alighted in the treacherous current, and waa .pulled 'Out safely. Since then ho went bathing in a -shallow pool and has been drowned.

AT last itbere is some t o p e that the -nefarious traffic in labor of the Solo-mon Islands savages will be broken u p Their chiefs have 'been In the "habit of selling the captives taken in war, and their own subjects also, into practdcal slavery of the most horrible kind. But whan an Eng-

antelope are the most difficult animals of approach on this oontiaent A bear will stand up and actually seek a fight; a buffalo bull will run at first, but onoe wounded, a stand-up fight to the blU»r end is the probable outcome; an elk can be approached ahd slain without exercising .ox'tra-ordlnary precautions, and a deer is sometipios as dangerous and belllger-ant as a mount*'• lion, writes Lieu-tenant Partello in the San Francisco Chronicle. • -

On the other hand this antelope first, last and all the time depends upqn his legs for safety, and i t is fair to say they are the fleetest as they are tho most graceful of quadrupeds. There .is no fun in store for the greenhorn who attempts to huntithis animal without understanding its ways and habits. , ,

I have frequently seen an antedope with one leg shot away and hamring

1 by the tendons alone outrun and es-| cape from the fleetest plains ponies. Their race is not a long one (seldom beyond sbc or seven miles), and i t is possible that an American horse of good mettle might run them down. 'lish vessel came to get her human

cargo it was beset by canoes full of; b u t a84

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1® n o t h , n / ° n t h o P r a l r i «» natives, who killed the crew of the c a n c a t c h t*10®. a n d t h e greyhound •vessel that they knew was engaged in the business of carrying them into 'hopeless bondage.

A SINGULAR condition of affairs ex-ists in Massachusetts in that while 'more than $5,00 '.000 has been dedi* -cated to the abolition of steam rail-'•road grade crossings throughout the

is about the only four-footed boast in existence tbat can be depended upon to keep pace with and possibly out-run them. No animal in the world possesses a keener sight, except the giraffe.

In stalking antelope the principal point is to keep out of sight and next to keep out of femell. Do not

• K T L 3 . . T V imagine because a b%c4 is a couple .etate the permission is bemg granted , o f a pp a r en t ly feeding. ,to electric raiinoads by the score to- , o l l ... * cross the steam railroads at grade. Wh\le the state is attempting to abolish one great menace to human life i t is engaged in creating a greater menace. As a rule the Bay state exercises a degree of judgment about matters of this kind that is admirable, but in this case she is pur-

and all with heads down, that none are on the lookout

The chances are ten to one that you are seen first, although they may not move. Always hunt over broken ground and undulating prai-rie. If on horseback, dismount and skirt the ridge ahead, as your horse's

.. i. . head always comes into view before suing a course suggestive either of v m i v n i l . p n n f , n n you yourself can see beyond. Do all the crawling possible. Such is the red man's method, and he generally

A - . . . . . . bags three times as much game as AN effort is being made by Canada ANY TW0 w hi te men, unless the latter

to induce the inhabitants of Iceland i a d 0 p t t h e eame tactics. Ninety per to migrate from that forbidding ooun- c o n t o f a l l t h e g a t n e gecured bv in-

i 8 8 h o t w i t h i n 8J0 yards. I » * i .u i . - h a v e w a t c j j e d a n ( i studied their

methods on the frontier for many years, and know this to be a fac t

When a band scents or sees you they run across the wind for 900 or 1.000 yards, and then turn and run straight up the wind.

The species are victims of intense curiosity, and at times have walked

imbecility or of an electric railroad •lobby that is irresistible.

of the Northwest, where there Is a bonntifnl crop of cold weather to be depended on. the same as in Iceland, and in addition bountiful crops of (grain, which the land of ice never enjoyed. About the only article of 'food on which the inhabitants of Ice-land can rely, both for their own support and for etport , is fish, and ttat supply seems inexhaustible. Tbe • 8 t r a i ph t into death traps, all the time Canadians have got it in their heads . knowing and scenting danger, yet so tha t the Icelanders are tired of a , unbounded is their curiosity to in-.fight for existence in their inhospita-ble climate and are ready to abandon i t As a special inducement to mi-grate, the cost of passage to North-west Canada, a good farm and the Implements to wo. k it are oJered.

TUB recent riots in Bombay were an outbreak of tbo deep-seated re-ligious animosity between tbe Mo-hammedans and Hindoos which di-vides these two great sects throughout India. In this deep hatred which the two chief elements of the native population entertain for «ach other, tngland, which tolerate* and restrains them from cutting each ether's thtaats with severe impar-tiality, finds her best pledge for the security of British role. But i t is dreadful to think that the Moslems and Buddhists have not learned from

vestigate strauge and unusual ob-jects that they are unable to with-stand the temptation to look a little deeper and satisfy this truly femi-nine instinct.

A hunter in full knowledge of this failing either flags .them or sticks weeds into his hat while crawling. So long as not seen, and particularly not understood, they will not run, but merely bound a few steps at a time, then halt, or else run around the strange object in a circle.

Get to the leeward, between them and the sun, when the latter Is about to drop behind the hills; then walk slowly toward the game with as lit-tle motion as possible. Unless Bcenled there is little danger of dls-turbance or of flight, for this partic-ular animal, gifted with such keen eyesight, cannot see anything tha t is between it and the sun. I have their old religions how to behave

themselves any better than if they often approached to within 100 yards#

were so many ChrUtians end a re a t of a band by adopting the tactics* ready to out each other s throats for named, and yet they did not become a dltrei-ence of opinion as were some alarmed. Buffalo will also pass to otf the followers of tbe meek and the windward, like their cousins of Jowly Jesus not BO long age in Kng- the antelope family, but they will land itself. stand no such foolishness as sun-

blindness. A red flannel shirt is ex-tremely fascinating to antelope, also .Tire constitutionality of the Ooa-y . .. . . ,

law is to be again passed upon at the' a handkerchief or anything else October session of the supreme court o r a c l ' l m f o n h116- a rule these i supreme court I t is quite likely tba t thii time the majority will be reversed. All will depend on the action of the justice to be appointed by President Cleve-land when congress meets. The grounds for asking a rehearing are

animals browse in small bands of fifty or s xty, and if ib large num-bers, among the foothills; on the open prairie or elsewhere a close ex-amination will discover them to be congregated in smaller groups of four or five dozen, who, amid the that tho court was closely divided on V , a o z e D ' w

1n o ' a m l d tbe

the question of the constltutlonalltv T 1 1 . e ' k e e P cidaely herded to of the law. and Justice Harlan did t h ^ , , e l v e 8 - i , not sit In the case, as he was abroad ' i y / r . C

1n o a t ' c l e a n cut.handsome

at the time the arguments were made. £ " 8 . a , a d y 1 n t b e i r d i e t ' I t is understood tba t he believes the ^ l S V y d o T t h e ^nderes t law oppressive and unconstitutional. , ? , g r a 8 8 ttnd t h e ^oligbtful I t is no new thing for the supreme court to reverse decisions in im- l o ^ Q made ammportant discovery iportant cases affecting political ^ ^ " ^ ' o h Uiave frequently tried questions. It a t firRt dAniflAfl S n ANTELOPE with marvelous success, t ha t greenbacks issued after war ^ i 8 t 0 ^ w i t h ^ " " o t s instead tfcpe were unconstitutional. Af- J?®" v ! T . ! T 1 1 l u b r i " ter President Gran* appointed Jus- c a t e d ; can ^ driven down from the tices Strong and Bradley tbis decision " u z z l e B f t e r J * 6 * * ^ loaded, or waa reversed, the new judges sidlnff i d 111 breech beforehand, wi th the old minority. '

and acts as no impediment whatever to tho proper discharge of the cart-ridge.

The method named, however, is Of no tervloe whatever except a t Bhprt ranges. .A|. distances beyond 800 yards i t proves a total failure; but within tha t range It works like a ch i rm and gives .excellent results.

.V •>' 'I ; IIN A CROW CAMP.

Brarjr-dar Life Amotif tha Tribe* of In-'« dlan*.

The great camp of the Crow In-dians is a few miles from this fort, on a lofty bluff overlooking the waters of tho Little Big Horn River. These are the Kiver Crows, the Mountatm Crows having their tepees abd lodges' back among the Big Horn range mountains. I visited the topee ot old PlfeUty Cones, tho hcM "cnfel of the tribe, but at the time of

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

GOOD WOOL AND HOW CAN BB PRODUCBB.

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Pino Wbal Is 0*6WRMC la DaataO*-About Eft*—Ro Billow of la*-tarlff on AaUtale—BMiloaUnral flints Oad BonMhold H a i f a

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nf ttt not tomt to talk. A buck Informed us that Pienty Cones was iust then laboring under bad medicine, caused by a long and fruitless chase after horse thieves, says (the Philadelphia Times.

Pe ping ihto Deaf Bttll's lodge we diccovored great exeltoment, the at-tra-iUon proving to be an old blanket spread on the ground around which were gathered half a score of.bucks playing cards. It wasn't the highly olvlllzod game of poker they wore engaged, in, but a sort of "match who can*1 game, in which the one who mated any other card took all the winnings. It was a clear case of gambling, and the stakes were per-forated elk teeth, which answers nearly all North American Indians as a substitute for money. One buck had raked in nearly all the stakes, and his last opponent was a young warrior of about twenly-fivo years of age, who was at last completely frozen o u t When that calamiiy did occur he sprang up and raad& a prop-osition in his native language which must certainly have meant business to the end, for tho 'squaws and others came crowding around and 'the game began again with great earnestness. When i t was oVer the buck arose to his-feet, tossed his blanket to the ground, then followed the balance of his clothes down to an old cotton ihlr t •Having almost denued himself,

with a whoop and a yell he leaped out of the topee in One bound, and started on a dead run toward the other end of the village, where he darted into his own wickiup out of sight and view. Few white men would have been so prompt in paying a debt of hobor.

In matters of dress the Crows are further advanced than any other In-dians on the continent Some of their younfc tfien essay dudish man-ners. For instance, they bang their hair in front, instead of wearing i t pompadour, which is tho Crow style, and let i t fall gracefully in long braids down the back. Then they paint their bodies all manner of col-ors and wear no end of eagle's feath-ers. The looking-glass {generally a small circular mirror purchased from the trader) is their constant com-panion. The maidens wear a sort of l ight and airy Mother Hubbard cos-tume, highly colored stockings or leggins (usually a flaming red), and paint the parting of their hair a bright vermilion.

Sometimes a scandal creeps into their quiet lives, as was the case of Pretty Eaglo ana the wife of Bull-in-the Water, which resulted some time since in a genuine elopement Pretty Eaglo, who Is one of the gay-est lotharious in tho camp, for a long time had been slyly paying his at-tentions to Mrs. Bull-in-the-Wator, and at last he ran away with his neighbor's wife. In revenge the wronged husband ran off with Pretty Eagle's horses, which was get t ng more than even with his advercary, for the value of all wives in Indian communities is rated at so many horses or ponies.

Bull-in-the-Water cached the horses, but the very same night a party of Piegans out on a raid acci-dently crossed the trail of the stolen stock, followed it up, found the horses, and in turn, stole every one of tho animals, and carried tbom away to their reservation in the North. Pretty Eagle and Bull-in-the Water do not speak now as they pass, and it is repmrked tha t both warriors go afoot instead o'f horse-back since their late unpleasantness.'

The Pope's SeaL The seal ring wOrn by the pope,

and used by him on official docu-ments to which his signature is at-tached, has on it the engraving of a fish, with the cipher of the wearer. Since tbe thirteenth century every pope has worn a ring ot this charac-ter, and it is shattered with a ham-mer when the wearer dies, to pre-vent its use On a torged document.

The Chlnene Lancoao0 teadn. ' German authorities estimate tha t almost a-third of humanity speak t h ^ Chinese language, thjit the Hindoo language is spoken by more than lOa-OW.OOO, the RuSsiab by 89,000, ODO, while the German is spoken by 67,000,000 tongues, and the Spanish by 48,000,000.

To Bl«ka Wool Moro Profitable. There has been a steadily inoreaa*

ing demand of late years for fine grades of wool, and while foreign growths have had a tendency to com-pete successfully .with our home grown poorer grades of wool, they have practically had no effect upon the sale of the fiber grades i t is to this point that farmers should have the i r attention drawn ^ frequently, for very many who go into the sheep buateess think tha t wool is jiut tho same, no matter how grown. ; The* secure good blooded AtOck, and nat-urally expect that these high priced animals produce good, salable wool. They are somewhat astonished when they find that af ter all more depends upon the proper care of the sheep than upon the breed. Poer and oom-mon grade wools in this country are not lb great demand. They are not proi table to the sheep grower, and i t is tbe class of sheep raisers tha t grow this wool whom we always hear complaints from.

Fine, home made woolen clothes are dally gr6wlng in popular demand here, says the American Cultivator, and the large mills are absorbing such grades of wool rapidly. People who wear these clothes are willing to pay fair prices for them, and tbe mills oonuequently offer a premium for the fine grades ol wool. We can depend upon this demand a great deal bettor than we can on any' short-lived fad for an inferior article.

There are a few points about wool tha t even the old experienced flock-master, as well as tho beginner might think about Xhe fine grade of wool tha t takes well to dfey is the one tha t has a good fifae stapte, bnt not tbo silky In fiber. The wool is graded often according to the even develop-ment of i t

U developed, evenly It wi l l \ res ls t tension equally. : This wool can be woven freely and easily by the mills, and i t ma es good cloth tha t will be equally strong in all p a r t s No breed alone will produce such wool The finest breed in this world, unless at-tended to properly will not give an evenly developed wOol fiber. The Etrength and development of the fiber depends upon the uniform good health and vigor of the animals, and if these are checked in any way the fiber will be long and strong in some places and weak and short in o thers

This production of inferior wool is oauscd by every neglect to feed the animals regularly, by starvation and by exposure to inclement Weather. I h e y all combine to injure the fiber BO that i t cannot pass muster as a fine grade. If treated in this way continually, the patches of poor fiber will increase in number so tha t the wool will degeberate , annually, iar.d finally become so poOr that it does not pay to keep the sheep

Good step e should also be evenly lubricated along in its whole length, and this can only be accompli:-bed by having the animals in perfect health. If growers would stop to think of how much this neglect injures the fiber of their wool when placed upon the markets they would give more attention to their animals. We must have good stock, but more than t h a t we must have the time and patience to grow good wool by attending to the sheep

Sotnethlnc Abunt

Authorities on scientific cooking toll us many things tha t are well worth remembering. A writer in Food tells us something about eggs. Eggs should never be cooked before they are twenty-four hours old, and they are much fe t t e r if kept forty-eight ^ours or until their whites a re s e t T h e white In a freshly laid egg cannot be beaten stiff until i t has laid on Ice for some time. The old way of testing eggs—that of putting them in water—is one of the best If they are fresh enough for cooking they will sink. On the contrary, if

whites of the eggs cooked in this manner will be perfectly coagulated, sof t tender and easily assimilated.— Journal of Agriculture.

Them h M o B e f l o w o f Sap.

Mr. Charles B. Barnes, professor of 'botany in the university of WiS-oonsin, in an address to the state Horticultural society, thus gives the 'latest accepted conclusion of science:

••Before passing from this topic of the movement of water which sup-pllas evaporation, I must allude to a very common and widespread idea —at least I judge i t to be widespread, because i t i s so frequently pro-pounded by my studente—that the ••sap goes down In winter and up In spring." J n s t where the sap is sup-posed to go in winter Is not exactly clear, since, if the roots are shsorb-ing water lb thWWir^heh the evapor-ation is diminished, they are llkely to have quite as mueh water as they can hold already, -i The Conception, apparebtly, is that&U of the water lodged'in "the trunk and spreading branches goes down into the roots. I t needs, however, only the ' mogt casual examination of trees in winter to discover that a t this time they are; c l»osV rtturatod n l t b water. The twlgs of the hickory tree, for example^ wiU be Irocen on a cold day in Winter so tha t they are brittle almost as glass, and one can snap off a twig half an inch in diameter as though i t were an iolole. The same twig, when not frozen, on a mild day will,be so tough tha t there will be no pbesibirtty of-breaking i t

••Again, if one cuts off a branch from a tree in winter and brings it into a warm room, he will quickly discover tha t water is oozing f rbm^ the cut end, showing tha t the twigs are almost saturated with it. As a matter of fact, .the water in trees in-creases from midsummer or early fall to the beginning of growth in early spring. There is thus no necessity for any "going up" Of tho sap in spring until the leaves are expanded and t h e watei" with which tho tree Is already, saturated begins to bo evaporated m>m the foliage."—Flor-ida Despatch. . . • ,

many u i lnh te b<

Decrenee In Bnmh a

a t least " in the older count y, not nearly so

many bdmblb bees as there were soon after its set t lement We grow as much clover as ever, but it is cut earlier, and the men and boys en-gaged in haying have more time to fight bumble bees than they did when all jfrrass was cut with the scythe. There are not so many good places for the female bumble bees to lay their eggs in spring as there used to be. The soil i's firmer from longer cultivation, and there are fewer rot ten s t amps In our boy-hood, pret ty much all the fun we found in haying and harvesting time was in fighting bumble bees whose nests were in danger when-ever we cut near where they were.— American Cultivator.

Hortiealiaral iSlnU.

Ruhbish around tree# harbors mice. Plums nttarally' grow in clumps,

and the seed will trorefofre bear thick planting. '

An experienced gardner says that tile drainage must precede the ma-nure for sucqessin gardening or fnr i t growing.

Some one has said, tha t when the farm breaks but into smile's of fruits and flowers i t becomes the most charming spot on earth.

I t Is not worth while to have an orchard unless it -is given proper cafe. The orcha d cannot prune itself or defend itself against insects.

The director of the Oklahoma ex-periment station recommends as a remedy for various squash bugs, spraying the vines with soap suJs in which is enough Paris green to give a decided tinge of color.

Honsehold Help*.

Thinnest and clearest of "clear soups" «re now very much in order.

A new name a t the clubs for Welsh rabbit, or ri'rcbft, I s "Cardiff h a m "

Lettuce as a cure for insomnia is more and more favored by the doc-t o r s

Those who eat inordinately of a i r :radiihe8 soon take a gloomy view of the eggs rlsb to the surface

enough ha* penetrated the shell tofl^lto-The introduction of grated pine-make the egg unfit for use. al though

its yolk may look perfect and no odor can be detected. Decomposi-tion begins when the contents of the shell are exposed to the external a r, and the fact 'of t h e Ogg floating in water is proof poBitive tha t i t has been 1 ightened by air- The digesti-bility of < h ? hard-boiled egg is a favorite theme. Eggs should never

high temperature of the water hard-ens and toughens the^wliites a t oBcc, rendering them indigmible. 14 fney,-. are submerged in water just below the boiling point and kept a t tha t temperature for one half hour t h e y will be almost as digestible as raw

e gA8good fjttfiUo* cabk^-a&s Arf & valids is to pour boiling water in a

tor five minutes

apple into cake is voted a great suc-cess

Modern codfish balls leave tha t particular kind of fish to the imagin-ation.

To be "Ibtonsely fashionable" eat your strawberries with a fork—never with a knifel

No city baker can make cake to compare with the "gentlewoman

courageous people t of season is said

by dealers to be increasing every year.

Scotch toast is the best dish ever vented for tbe pleasant and satis-

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this is what causes them.

u

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thonsanfls of hair DlniLinmaay itylea. nave been recovered frotu Pompeii.

't«iTh0nf "'/fi1!1 . " " " ' r * Z0 crush a annate ipoonds! VB 1,200 t 0 4,800

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of Cnristophor ibus. in the outer Is

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8 W B B T P E A S .

A host of dainty, wing-like flowers, ^ A b o ^ D r ^ n o k -

•ftian all the rotat/Woidrous fair, Which languish In their lory r

In atatel* vase of pattern rire, Breathing the aummer's story.

A swarm of plnk-hued butterflies, Yon seem to poise and hover

On your frail atntu, and try to rise. Seeking the wind your lover.

Sweet peasl My fancy and my heart You ohana with your faint fru.rdaca:

I t chal enges Dame Nature's art To match you, lovely vagrants.

A N O T H E R M A l W j S I S T E R

I occupied (and still do occupy) chambers which consist of two rooms connected by a tiny hallway giving on to tbo landing by one door. Tbere-foro it will be plain to the meanest mind that once the hall door is occu-pied by the enemy the only other exit is from tho window by way of tho gutter-pipe—a vertical dis-tance . of three stories There should always bo two ways, not in-

j eluding the window, out of every set of chsmbors

This need had never prefceiked itself to me until one memorable afternoon when, without knbok, word, or Warn-ing, a round-faced, golden-haired, blue eyed maiden. In an astrakhan-f u B d jacket, a gray skirt and a black velvet h a t charged into my room after tho most approved fashion of all the comedies, crying: "Dear old Joe!"

My name was n o t and never will be, Joe. There was no need for ex-planations bister, and only sister, was stamped all over the face of the maiden. Everybody who has been possessed of an only sister understands the manner in which one of the tribe enters a brother's rooms

The maiden gave a little scream as I turned. She apologized. Could I toll her whereabouts Mr. Joseph Rupard's chambers were?

I could not; for you may live seven-toeu years in chambers without knowing the face, life, or occupation of any one of your fellow-convicts I suggested t h a t she should speak to the housekeeper, and 'escorted her to tbe tiny hall aforesaid.

Yon will observe that there was nothing whatever in these proceod-ings to bring a blush to the thinnest cheek.

Tbe Imp of perversity, who is generally playing about on the land-ing fOr six shllLngs a week, met me in the hallway, saying: "Lady and gentleman to see you, sir.11

Behind him stood two figures tha t I knew, and at any other tlms would have received with joy.

Tbe maiden at my heels lost her Blngalarly pretty head, and, whisper-ing "What shall I do?" bolted back into the slftlng-room.

All this was strictly in accordance with the roles of the stage; but why i t Bhonld have taken place in my chambers I could never understand. And yet I was deeply thankful that

•she had not gone forth, like tfna, un-der the noses of my visitors. iJncle John—yes It was an ancle, even as is the case in a comedy—would have l iughed; and, since she was another man^s sister, that would have been even worse than Aunt Alice's hawk-eyed inspection of tbe maiden, and subsequent description of her face, figure, and dress to alt bet' righteous world-

I received my people ib the haU-Way. 'An Inspiration told me to get rid of my coat and rumple my hair. Desperate fear made me very wise, most courteous, and genial to oxcess

•Oh, so glad to see you," said I; "but Pm afraid you1 ve come to a reg-ular camp in the wilderness. Fact is, fey-Sitting-room is upside d o w n -that fool of a housemaid has been doing something to the fire that has filled the place with smuts, and I ve made her dust everything out again. But come into the bedroom, since you've taken the trouble to climb all these s t a i r s " Even as I spoke in the hall, I heard the heavy arm-chair wheeled up against my sitting-room ^oor, and there was a sound of em-phatlc dusting. I thanked heaven that was pleaded to afflict me that it had sent a t least ••one heart still ready to ploy out tho play."

Into my humble bedroom I led those relatives; and my aunt, after the manner of women, made search-ing inventories with her eye, and in-paired as to whether 1 was well looked after. But it was t h e auntl-pathetic kiss and the remark that followed—"My boy, how hot you aro! Aren't you well?"—that seared my perfectly innoceat soul like hot iron. Perfected crime must bring with it a sense Of ease and rest. I t Is tho un-merited impbtotion of evil that strains the nerves

My^unt would fain have had tea, "when that girl bad flnisbod clean-tog your rooms" The bedroom ooor was of coarse open. I assured my aunt t h a t the folly of that house-maid prevented her from finishing anything this side of doomsday, and that tho dust Vould not settle down till twenty minutes after t h a t

There was a crowing, choking nolBe, that might have been a smoth-ered chuckle, from the sitting-room, whereof the fanlight above the door was open.

"What a very superior voice she has!" said Aunt Alice. "Quito a lady's Is she pretty?"

•'Come and see^ quoth I. with that icy Innocence that only cunning can bestow. 1 half-opened the sitting, room door, coughea vehemently, and drew back as one, ohoked with the dust.

"Imiiosslble,^ I said- "She's not In a sweet temper to-day, because I made her do the rooms twice. We'd better not disturb her. Or she'll break my ornaments"

My aunt loft very slowly and de-liberately, mourning for the loss of her tos 1 escorted her and Uncle John down to the first floor. How could X tell that her housewifely zeal for her nephew would have led her to bestow upon the housemaid, who was Fan of the Teeth, a few hints on the best monagemeut of fires and the proper care of tbe room, which tbe fellow-servant was even then sup-posed to bo cleaning P

"You see. it all.means more work for you In the end, ' Bald my aunt.

I dasned into the . sitting-room to find, helpless with'suppressed laugh-ter, the maiden #i th the black velvet ha t I was coatless, as has been re-counted (people never Btay long wltb a man who lacks a coat), my hair was on •end, and I was flushed. But the.e was no resisting that infection it mirth. 1 laughed aloud. The air was dense with dust and all the furni-ture was out of place. "That lool of a housemaid" had lived up to her reputation.

"Haven't 1 done the room beauti-fully?" she said, with a wicked giggle; "thank you—thank you, oh, so much, for helping mel"

"Not In the l e a s t " said I; "I 've got a sister of my own. But had'nt you better "

"I'm gone," she said, and vanished at the word, to hunt for her brother's chambers.

Entered, her cap over one eye, Fan of the Teeth, boiling with rage. She was an austere woman of thirty-five, not to be trifled with.

"And I'm sure me and Lucy, too, we takes aU the trouble that we can w.th seventeen Bets of chambers to be gone through, and the bells ring-ing on every landing all day long. 'Tlsn't as if 1 was afraid of my work, for I 'ave kep1 myself ever since I was a little girl of thirteen—nor Lucy, neither. But when that lady on the staircase spoke to me an' tole me that 1 was inattentive an' Lucy, too, an' smuts all about your room, sayln' tha t I was to take extra care of you, sir, I was put ou t Do as you would be done by. I thinks, an' show no favor to any chambers more than another, for some one must lobe by it; and if i t I sn t you, i t will be some other gentleman. An' there aren't no smuts in your room not to be seen, an' Lucy, I know she 'as been on the fourth floor since I come down with the Blops; but I di In t say notbink to that lady when she said what she said-Hmd, Lor', sir, what 'ave you bin tfoin' to the Turnichewro -aall pulled across tho room? Lucy 'asn't been 'ere no more than the ca t An' you 'avin to see your friends in your bedroom—as if It was our fault!"

"Fanny," said I, "if to ere has been any f a u l t that fault is mine. Take, oh take those lips away, and—here's a half sovereign."

It was a damning confession of gui l t received as such. Fan removed herself with an unholy l ight in her eye.

Keehtored Fan. the half-sovereign in her hand, and placed it on my table.

"I've took them in their teas," she said, oracularly; "an' she was tellin' 'im • all about it. She is a real nice little lady, she is. an'—an' I don't want no 'arf-suffering for t h a t "

No comedy that I could think of had any mention of the soubrette—to bo sure. Fan was rather too angular for the soubrette—refusing a t i p

"And you're a lady, too Fan." said I. "Keep i t Few people return money. Still fewer dismiss precon-ceived suspicions."

She withdrew slightly alarmed. I stepped into the hallway to set

down the empty soda-water syphon in the place appointed. The door leading to the landing was half-open. I heard voices descending the stairs.

"He was really very nice, Joe. about i t Said ho had a sister of his own and laughed "

"ITm'p. Then I'm sorry for his sister, that's all. Ho drinks like a Ash. Why, only last night I found him on his hands and knees on the sccond floor, and had to help him to bed."

The next chambers! As I hope to clear my character before all judges, it was the man in the next chambers! l had heard the infernal din cf that episode at 2 o'clock in the morning, and a few of Joe's comments as he left the drunkard. How should the maiden know exactly into whose rooms she had penetrated? and here was Joe saddling me with my neigh-bor's booted slumbers.

I gripped the syphon-head in an agony of wrath. Tbe steps were almost opposite my landing. There was more soda-water than 1 had thought for In the tube, and the In-fernal concoction exhausted itself with a fizzle, spit, and grunt. I t seemed to roar through the house.

"There1" said Joe. "You hear, MUly? That's a soda-water syphon. He's at It again—so early."

"But he didn't look as li he took—" Tho- sweot voice died away, and I was alone with my sorrow and my syphon, i

To-day.I know something of plot and construction; and,: as I oald, I understand the verisimilitude of tho modern French farce. Yet would I sell all my insight for the single , privilege of explaining to MUly (my I Mlily—she has dusted my room) that I am not—Indeed, I am not—the villain that Joe painted me.—St James' Gazette.

OUR FROZEN ANCESTORS.

R U S S I A N C O N V I C T S .

How Thay Aro Seat to tha Mlnaa and the Treatment They Ht-aalv*.

A terrible. If true, picture of the treatment of political prisoners In Kussla is presented In a series of let-ters originally written on stray frag, ments of paper by Vasill Yakscholr and recently published In Berlin, tays the Chicago T mes YakscholT was arrested in Moscow In February, 1882. on the deiunciatlon of his house porter and was promptly con-demned to death, but waj finally sen-tenced to the silver mines of Nerts-chinks for life.

Tho journey to the mines occupied eighteen months of unspeakable misery, and In less- than a year after-ward Yakschoff went mad and killed a warder, after which he was kept In a strait-jacket until his death. One of t e letters, telling of tbe voyage from Tlumen to Tomsk, runs as fol- j lows: -T.ie prison yard at Tlumen was almost full when we arrived, but since our arrival fresh cara.ans of convicts kept coning from Perin and . Jekaterlnburg, so that we were get-ting more and moro packed together, until we could neither move nor j squat

"The same fate awaited us on board tho ship; 9 )) of us were put In an iron cage capable hardly of con-taining 4 w had one wanted to assign i a resting place to each. The strong-est of us offered to serve as bedding at nl ,'ht tlmo for the women and the children, who would otherwise have-had to ptand up; others managed somehow to support each other. At the hour of rest our cage presented the appearance of an Immense com- . mon grave or a battle-field. i

"The typhoid fever was soon upon 'us, and of the 9JJ we were at the moment of starting, wo arrived less than 700. From Tomsk we went on by land, and one night we were as-sa led by wolves; the escort and the lock ,mlth who had the keys of oar irons escaped, and when the daylight appeared we saw that 1^8 convicts, whose bloody remains hung yet chained to the survivors, had been devoured by tae wolves

"Having reached the mines in tho valley of Algafltal, near Irkutsk, the male convicts were confined la cells dug out in the verv mine and locked by iron doors eight or ten in each celL We slept on the frozen ground, unable to warm ourselves through tho contact of our bodies for we were chained each to a barrow."

Managing Pattl.

Patti was to sing on a certain date at Bucharest but a t the last moment she declined to leave Vienna It was too cold; snow ever, where:she would not risk catching her death of cold. M. Schurmann, the impresario, was in despair, until a brilliant inspira-tion came to him. Quickly he teie-graphed to his advance-agent in tbe Houmanian capital: "At whatever cos t Patti must receive an ovation at Bucharest station from the Italian aristocracy. Send me W return the following wire: -The members of the Italian and Roumanian nobility are preparing to give Mme. Patti a mag-nificent reception. Tho ministry will bo represented. Proce-.sions'. torches, and bands Telegraph the' hour of arrival.1" Tbe advance-ajfent carried out this instruction, and, when the telegram dictated to him over the wires arrived ia Vienna, i t was handed to Patti with the de-sired effect "How •harming!" she murmured; "what time do we start?" —Argonaut

Vanity of Mankind.

The annual man ifacture of looking glass in Europe at the present time, according to the latest statistics, is •ometbing like ].^&),0J8 squire yards Is the mirrors of to day the light Is relected by a layer of silver or an amalgam of tin. bat a pro-portion of light Is lost In tbe process of reflection, and the image is less luminous than the original The value of a looking glass is estimatei by the thickness of the glass, becausc the thicker they are the Btrooger they must be; b u t speaklbg scien-tifically, thick glasses are defective, because the outlines of the image re-flected are less clearly defined.

What Tom Had Landed.

A New York gentleman, whose son had gone out Into the country for recreation, received a letter from him. While the gentleman was reading i t his wife asked:

"What does Tom say In his letter?" " I c a n t make it out to save my

life. He says he has landed a speck-led beauty, but whether he means he has been fiflbing or married a freckle-faced girl 1 can't telL"—Texas Sift-lugs

Frlmevnt Mna May Y«t HO Discovered Im A, Glacier.;

••Wasthe arboreal,, and did he 11 vo upon fruit?" It bas been suggestoiL that he: was driven Irom these mild, ways by the cold of that Uhpleasanb time when glaciers covered the earth. The trees died and' thb faults per-ished. and the ancestor, climbing down, began with rats and mtce, audi flnlshod with caaniballsm, to avoid perishing Ukewlse. Also, he In-vented fire. Also, the cold ttuldehim use language. But this is rather an unsubstantial speculation, since.Pro-fessor Prestwlch, for instance, bo-llevcs that there were men before the glaciers. At any rate, he tells us that at Sevenoaks, in tho very old prb-glaciai "plateau dWft" above tho downs, lie has foand instruments of Hint

It is not imrposslbie tha t those beetle-browed persons, the paleolithic men, the remote men who chipped out weapons of unpolished stone and knew tho usesof neither battle, clay, aor corn, were less human looking than their skeletons would lead us t o fancy. There is a hint in one rude scratching on a bone that they were thickly hairy. There is a remote ehance yet—at least it is. a pleasant fancy to entertain—that we with our own eyes may yet see this hairy an-cestor of ours In the llesh. Every one has heard of the entire mam-moth. skin and flesh comnlete, frozen up Inside of a Siberian river and en-during to our days. Tho flesh waa so fresh that the dogs fell upon i t and ate It without 111 results.

Now, these preglacial men of Pro-fessor Prestwlch must have been con-temporaries with those mammotha and they may have ventured, too since they bunted the mammoth. Into high latitudes. The discovery of a refrigerated ancestor is by no means Impossible.

It is necessary for any one who has read "The Frozen Pirate" to curb his imagination here. In all human-ity we m ist hope the ancestor, when thawed, will be dead. Fancy the shock of Rip Van Winkle intens'fied by 10.0)) generations. If he Is dead he must of course, be promptly stuffed by all tbe best taxidermists in council, and placed in a command-ing poiition in tho museu n j a relic and true portrait combined.

CO-TO-BED STORIES.

Children Often Regaled With Hobgob-lin and leap-Destroying Tale*.

••I wish I were able to write all the go-to-sleep stories that are told to the little folks all over the land every night," said a tender-hearted mother to a Philadelphia i ress man the other da}-. "It makes me pos-itively iad to think of the small brains that are filled with distorted Images, hobgoblins, ogres, giants, and the like, just as reason is losing its hold upon them for several hours. I don't think mothers realize what an influence upon a child's life, and even upon its life after it has ceased to be a child, is exerted by this apparently trifling matter of how i t goes to sleep Every night when I watch my little daughter working off the big thoughts that sweep over her brain, as her ti ed body begins to relax while her mentality seems to be briefly and proportioaatoly stimu-lated, I tremble to think of the harm that could be done to her or any child—for Mabel Is not an abnormal child iu any way—by an ignorant nur e or taoughtless parent The fact that every normal child cries out for a bedtime story shows t h a t it-i mental nature needs i t just as i t s physical nature craves sweets. You want to give your child pure candy, so give him the unadulterated story. Lcnteout the fearful persobalities, the grim and gigant cfigures—these, even If they are properly vanqui bed by the gallant hero, are too distinct for tho crib-side tale, g i t down by your little one's bed and speak low and Ok only. Weave a fanciful but qu et story that tells of pretty fairies and birds and fliWers and droning bees and lovinglittle boys and girls— taese woo sleep to the weary bu t active brain, not with the suffocating pressure of the gathering storm l i t with lurid fiaihOH, but with the soft cload t of tbe sun et horizon t h a t change from rosy pink to tender en-voi .ping gray, and gradual.y deepen Into restful g loom"

Fires Canned by Water.

Two cases In which fire was caused by water are reported: In one a flood caused the water to rise h igh enough to reach a pile of iron filings in a factory. The filings oxidized so rapidly as to become so intensely heated as to set fire to tho neighbor-ing woodwork, and the factory was burned to tho ground. In the o ther case, during a fire, water from the engines found its way Into a shed containing quick lime. The heat generated by the lime set fire to the shed and the flames spread to other buildings

Paste Diamond*. The mosaic copies in the Vatican

of large plotaros by Raphael. Dom eniohino and others occupied from twelve to twenty-five years to exe-cute and required from 16,000 to 20,-000 different shades of color.

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GLADSTONB. the grand old man,

may visit America and the World 's

/ a i r . H e will receive an oration. * • •

GEN. 1. C. 8^iTH,of Grand Rapids

.has been named by the president as

collector of internal revenue for the

western district of Miph|gan.

LABOR celebrations in Michi-

gan cities were succeesful and credit-

able. If the hojliday is wisely used

i t will be of great benefit to the labor-

jnc classes.

» AN indictment is out for the arrest

of Emma Goldman for inciting a riot

among New York anarchists. I t is

. jtime these driveling idiots were taught

the meaning of "free speech.''

V OUT of eight men indicted for par-,

J i c i p a t i n g i n the Chicago riot, only

one could speak United States, the

jfent requiring aq interpreter. This

j ihows the kind of down-trodden

American workingmen, E m m a Gold-

man and Lucy Parsons are squawking

about. * • *

W E cannot forbear to call the at-

tention of our young lady readers to

the dangers incurred in marrying a

pr inking man, as illustrated in tbe

sad case mentioned on the first page.

Girls, never throw your lives away on

drinking men. Don' t do it! Better

death than dishonor! * * *

THE whiskey business is the curse

of the worldj but the men engaged in

the business who obey the laws are as

good as the laws, and laws are as

gtod as the people who made them.

- No map who favors licensing the traf-

£e has any moral right to withhold

, the right ha^d $ 1 feUo^ship f ro pi law

. abiding liquor dtealers. • • *

THE papers t h a t sang a song about

."Chicago^ Disgrace," w^en Carter

Harr ison became its mayor, a r e stag-

ing ve iy low jus t now. He has proven

to be tbe right man in t h e r ight

plaoe. T h e other day he walked

th rough a howling, raging mob of un-

employed laboring men and foul

^mouthed anarchists on the verge oj'

, bloody insurreption.juid commanding

Jheir attention, b y a few well chosen

.words of admonition sent them quietly

. to their homes, thus aver t ing serious

^trouble. I t took nerve to do it; but

r Carter Harr ison was supplied.

v" THE Detroit Tr ibune wil l probably

pr in t the following by Bil l Snort in

^Tezas Siftings as an evidence tha t the

^bloody war is sti l l rag ing:

I me t yesterday a splendid repre-sentative o f the first fiuniues of P londa .

' l i e keeps u p the old style customs. H i s name is General xancy Dixie. H e said i t was a little ear ly for fox hunt ing , bui" if I would visit him w e Would r u n down a nigger. . H e has a fine pack of bloodhounds, a n d ' the niggers a re V e r y p k ^ t i f n l in his sec-t ion . I th ink I shall a o ^ p t his hos-pitality, for I haven ' t had a chance to shoot a nigger for more than s ix months. T h e r e is also fine sport on his plantation sliootin' alligators. l i t -tle nigger ' ch i ldren a re tied to stakes on the bank of a bayo. Thei r howls 'bring out ' jhe alligators b y the dozen, and it is ra re sport shooting them

LOWELL STATE BANK, . i. KLL, |

C B P i m S T O C K P A I D U P $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 .

^Transact a General (Banking (Business j m —Interest (paid on Time (Deposits

I t is t h e aim and purpose of the management of this jto build u p its basiness b y courteous a n d fa i r t reatment , an offer to its patrons every acoommodation consistent with qound backing. W e solioit your business. A. J . BOWKS. ' DANDCL 8TRIKKR, M. C. QRIBWOLD^

j l e in the neighborhood would link the gentry was l^tt in ' down.

• •

ALLUDING to David B . Hill 's la te

speech in the senate, in which he took

occasion to j a b a t the president, the

New York Hera ld says, " H e mea.nt

innrder, but he committed suicide."

\tVhen Mr. HiU switched off from the

democratic p a r t y a n d at tempted to

conduct a campaign of personal ani-

mosity aga ins t Cleveland, h e was

told wjiat would be the inevitable re-

sult . Beaten out of sight in the na-

t ional convention a n d buried beneath

an p a l a n c h e of Cleveland votes a t

the polls, he still h a d an opportunity

to redeem himself. Instead of seising

this opportunity, he has been a t ra i tor

to his party and a t rai tor to the whole

people. I t mus t now be evident, even

to those most f f i ^ l y to M r . Hi l l ,

tha t he was never auy th ing b u t a

mere machine politician. H e c lung to

the machine and the machine lifted

him from office to office. W h e n the

country came to a question t h a t was

b igger than any partisan machinery.

H i l l was nowhere. T h e popular up-

rising which nominated and elected

Cleveland annihilated all of Hi l l ' s

calculations. jHe could not compre- '

hend it; he cannot realize it now.

W h e n he thus lost his grip upon tbe

old fashioned machinery of politics,

there was nothing lef t of him nor for

)im. H e considers himself safe in

the senate for five years more; bu t

beyond that he has no political future

a n d deserves none. • *

AN old man died in G r a n d Rapids

the other day day; died of a broken

hear t , waiting fo r " t h e letter that

never came/" His children were

away from home, and neglected to

write to the old man, who day a f t e r

d a y , waited in vain fo r the postman's

call. Natural ly of a kind and loving

disposition, he grew despondent,

sickened and died, forsaken anda lo^e .

Only a d a y . or two later came a kind

letter from a daughter , too late, ever-

lastingly too late. T h e coroner's j u ry

rendered a verdict; "Died f r o m ' con-

sumption and diarrheoa hastened by

neglect." A righteous verdict. I t is

jus t that those children should bear the

st ing of that last clause al l through

life, and happy would i t be if al l peo-

ple everywhere would learn the l eaon

f rom this every day tale:

Atwtwalkttrooffk the •trat , how OAm 4e wemMt

Bocae poor old man whoee Ufeie aancht bat woe;

Wtth ace hie f o m it bent, In Ua pocket aot a tents

Aad Tor shelter thej do not know where to%o.

With relattone by the eeore who keep them from the door,

And meeting on the straet the? pea* them br, If 70a atk them why it* done? Ther will anslrer joa and eay, "We're poor, we're old aad only in the way."

80 let ns cheer them on, they won't be wtth utlonjc;

Doo't let at tneer because they're old aad gray.

And remember while we're yoonr, the day* to n* may coma.

When we'll be eld, and only in the way.

CLUBBING EATB8. We have decided to furniah the reading

pablic with newspepen at hitherto un-heard of price*. Look the list over and see what you want:

The Lowell Ledger and the Detroit Free Preas one year for f 1.78.

The Ledger ami Detroit Tribane one year for $1.40.

The Ledger and Toledo Blade ooeyear for fl.SO.

The Ledger apd Grand Rapids Democrat ooeyear for 11.80.

Tne Ledger and Grand Sapid* Herald one year for $!.(&

Lift of UnoUlmmf Letten Remaining in the Port Office' at Lowell, * JOch, week ending Sept, 2,1693.

LADIES—Mrs. George Robinson. GENTS—Archie Anderson, Wm. Clark,

Charles Sheldon, R. R. Smith. persons claiming the above will please

say "advertised" and give date of list. LBOXABD HTHCST, P .

GIT TOUR MAGAZTNia BOUND. We have established a bookbinding

agency at the LEDOEB office, and are ready to receive orders for binding, magazines, weeklies, etc^ in elegant and snbstantial xnanber at low ftoioea. Old magazines make elegant now books. Bring in your Har-pers,' Centnries and Reviews and have tVm bound. Yqurs for good books.

F . M . JOHNSON.

Dancers a r e requested to remember the fireman's dance fair t ime. U

school at ^2 o'clock, noon. :Thi

Baptist Notes. Subject for moaning service: "Justifica-

tion." Evening theme: "Persistent Effort."

(Bible Grayer meatlng Thursday evening. All cordially invited.

ERNEST H . SHANKS. Pastor.

Ooi gregationAl Church. Usual services morning and evening. Sabbath School at noon. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at

7:30. AU are cordially invited to attend the

services. REV. JAS. PEovAN,Pastor.

Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday school at 12 m. Devotional meeting of tbe Epworth

League at 6:45 p. m. Evening service at 7:30. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at

7:45. REV. A.J?. fllooHs, Pastor.

The Great Mistake Cplumbus Made.

Schoolmaster-^Why is it that his great discovery was not properly appreciated un-til long after Columbus was dead?

Nineteenth Centorv Schoolboy—because be didn't advertise, sir.—[London-^t-B^ts.

Which is a Reflection. Jones (to intoxicated friend)—Good

heavens, man, here's your wife! Lets tupi back.

His Friend—No (hie). She'll never see us. She's looking at her reflection in the windows to «ee if her hafs (hie) on straight. --[Vogue. ^

Dick's Pen. does Dick Swiveller manage to "How

live?" "He supports himself with his pen." " I didn't know that he was a literary

man." . , , "He isn't. He writes beggiUg tyters to

his father."—[Texas Sittings. " ^ i v' — te V;

NEWSPAPKEB Twenty-five newspapers, all

no two alike, only 10 cents at the LEDOEB office.

- .f

HDSTHl 4 SOB DRUGGISTS AND BOOKSELLERS.

School Supplies TO T H 1 FRONT.

Our School Book Department is Compete. We make a specialty of supplies for Dis-trict Schools. Second hand school hooka bought and sold. 3,000 hard and soft Paper Tablets to select from, 3,000.

Don't fail lo see oar line.

johh m m , Wagon and Carriage

Maker, DOWELL, MICH.

Lumber wagons kept on hand and

tmade to order. AU kinds of wagon and carriage repairs. Paint ing and carriage t r imming, t i re setting, etc .

AU work done promptly, well and reasonable. Satisaction guaranteed.

* MURPHY 18 T B I DIALER IK

Fresh J" Cured Meat, Poultry, Etc.

•GOOD MEAT, LOW PRICES"

h i g h e s t

18 H P MOTTO.

Market Prices fw Stock,.

Paid

r f t [ CHAS. J . CHURCH & SON,

CHAS. J . CHURCH, CHAS. A . CHURCH.

Sslablisbed at 'Greenville '18Si, Zowell, '1888.

LOWELL, - MICH.

^ r o w i s —

THE fiOLDEI OPPORTUNITY! Until Further Notice We w|ll Sell .

ALLSUMMER GOODS t COST F O R CASH.

We have too many goods and we will give you bargains in all our lines.

WooJ and Whea* are Cheap, Wft we will sell you Dry Pood* Gjjieaper. Come and gee Us.

C, C. STONE * SON,

JUST RECEIVED -FROEr

* mmm » mm***? A'tULL L U k ^ f '

Ladies' Pino Footwear, Hand Turps,

Bottom Prices.

West Side Shoe8()iite.

Hand Welts and Machine

•

We are offering the^-at Rock

o. t. MURRAY. .J r i.

w.irJ u :1 i- M

i-V

D H ) NOT CLOSE OUT,

The Deal Not Proving Satisfactory after Beginning to Paok Dp, He Concluded

to Give His Onstowew the Beadttbtr

f REDUCED PRICES And so CJcse Out by Spring. He will Size Up and Complete

'his Stock for the benefit of his Customers.

U E TOU THDHne ? _ O F _

Erecting a Monument ? I F SO, C A L L O N

KISOR & ATERS, Manufacturers of Marble and

Grauite Cemetery Work.

FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP

AT MODERATE PRICES.

%(isor f I*VeU, Micb,

RA8T CASCADE. Mrs. Goorge Murray, of Lowell, made

ftV parents and many friends here a visit last week.

Emma Thompson returned to her home . f W f S a t , | nl«r after an extended visit

with friends here.

Clinton Snow and wife, Mrs. George l^owell, and Emma Thompson,

of Newaygo, made a visit to William H. Patterson and family, of McCords, last week.

VEROENNE8.

, R- W. Swayze and wife were visiting friends here Sunday. v

Edith Crakes is ^tending school in >i>»well again this year.'

E. L. Bennett and wife and Kmma Cole visited at Mrs. Barclay V, of Jewell.

a Miss Diiisy Odell, of Lincoln, Nebraska, visited at Adelbert Qd^ll's last week.

Quite a number of our young people at-.tenrled tlt« Maccabpe ball ut Ada Inst week.

Recent visitors at 0 . O. Adams', George Kellogrr and wife, of Smyrna; Mabel Burt, of Mt. Pleasant and Josie White, of Lowell.

There was a surprise party for Phil Inckson lost Friday evening, it being his eighteenth birthday. Dancing and card playing were the amusements of the even-ing.

BELIE.

ALTON. Frank Guild and wife, of fielding, visited

Sunday at Willis Purdy's.

Willis Purdy was re-elected assessor of district No. 1 Monday evening. . Mrs. Newton Coons, of Lowell, is jspend-' ipga few days at C. E. Francisco's. J School commenced Monday in the Barto •^strict with Lillie Carter, of Lowell, as teacher.

Fred Sayles is taking advantage of the tcauced rates by taking a trip to Indianap-pii«, Indiana.

^ Lost between Murray lake and S. D. Godfrey's, n horse collar, for description and further particulars enquire at i t D. Weeks'.

The dance at the Grange hall Thursdav evening was so well attended and such a pleasant time had generally that now conies the announcement for another, next Mon-day night, with Messrs Herman and Byrne as managera.

The eightieth birthday of Mrs. Maria Andrews last Tuesday was celebrated in a royal manner bv the gathering of her chil-dren. grand children and fouy great grand ohildren. Many presents were received and a pleasant day enjoyed by all.

U. No.

NUMEROUS EXCURSIONS VIA. THR D. O. H. A M. R. R.

Army of the Cumberland, Cleveland, September 20-21.

Seven Dav Adventlsts camp meeting at Lansing, September 12 to October 4. Tickets, one and one-half cents per mile each way, good to return October 4.

quite an SOUTH BOSTON.

Fjosts h'av# eat late' csior.t in these parts,

W. Johnson, of Wlfconpn, hw been visit-ing jiis son, WesU&of -Soutli LoweU 'the past week.

Mr. Bennett aad wife, of were visiting at A. P. B a m ovtt and Sunday.

It.is reported that Carl S. English will put on the matrimonial yoke the first of the coining week.

Mrs. J . Lusk spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at S t Johns, and reports a pleasant time.

William P. Smith, of Hampton, Iqwa, has been visiting his sisters, Mrs. J . Luak, of South Boston and Mrs. Sarah P. John-son, of South Lowell, and bis netoe, Mn. C. W. Taylor, of South Boston, whom he has not visited for twenty yean, when he was visiting in these puts . I t vwas rather a newer country men ana goqa roads we scarce, nothing but trails cut through the woods. He was not accustomed to following t^em and he traveled several miles o^jtof lus way, when he at last foiled his way to J. Luik's plaoe, which he thopght waa the

;-oS place. But ^uite a change.

jumning-oS place. But t made quite a change. . giwn place to good roads, the forests h^ve

years has THe' trails have

been cleared away, and ia their place are well cultivated fields.

RIVER ROAD RIVAL. Mr. HiUakar and WUQ, of Segwan, spent

Sunday at Channcey Tewnaend's. O. IL Choat, wife aad son. Earl, visited

Mrs. Cheat's sister ia loaia Tueaday. Mrs. Batev visited last Saturday with her

daughter, Mrs. Phil Krum, of Lowell. Born to Edgar Buchanan and Wife Sun-

Jay, September 3, a fine eight ponnd boy. Adelbert Coon rod and wife are visiting

relatives and friends in Campbell this week. Mae Hastings oommenoed a three months

term of school at Fox corners Monday morning.

Nellie O'Neil, of South Boston, has been spending a few -days visiting with her friend, Mre. R. H. McCalL

Will Doilaway and wife, Alphonao Pant and wife and Lottie fiowen attended Labor day exercises in Grand Rajyds Monday last.

Lennan Cogswell and Eugene Hubbel and wife, Charles Heodershou ° and family visited Ed Stoiy and wife (he first of the week.

Mr*. L. Sweet visited a few days last with her sisters, Mrs. Wellington Cilley, of South Boston, and Mrs. Trowbridge, of Clarks-ville.

Guv Perrv, wife and son, of Grand Bap-ids, L J . Robinson and wife and Mr*. Frar.k Alger, of Lowell, visited at H. Ep-Jey's Sunday.

Visitors at Mrs. T. B. Hastings' Sunday were; John Hastings and family, Mr. Weeks of Grand Rapids, Ernest Godfrey and wife, of Alton. D. H. Watery and fam-ilv, Joe Shocre and family ana Frank Tarle-•-op, of Lowell.

flOGlSTC.

THOg. 1 . SRAHAH, L O W E L L , M I C H .

c j PAINTER S P A P E R - H A N C E R j )

—ALL WORK D O N E -

Neatly and Cheaply and Satis-faction Warranted.

Give Him One Trial and You will Try Him Again.

P. E. LOVETf, fiouse Painter,

Paper Hanger,

ajf.d Decorator,

'Grainingy Glazing and

.Wall Tinting,

Carriage Painting a Specialty. All work guaranteed first class,

and prices reasonable. Shop one door east of the LEDGER

oj^ice.

C. BER6IN

DEALER IN

Fine Teas and Coffees, Spices, Sugars and

,• Groceries.

LOWELl, . MICE

Business Directory.

C T A T E OF MICHIGAN—la the Cir-« cnit Conjjt for thf Conntv of Kent—In Chaneery.—Jamaa Do'bee and McGeonre Bnndy, cemplalnanta. v». Charles Locklin, Eanay Locllln and Morris a Wiseman, da. fendanta.

Suit pending la the Circuit Court for tbe County of Kent, in rbanoaiT, at Grand Raplda,

, oa the second day of September, A. D.,

In ibla eame It appearlnr from affldavH on Ilia, tbat the defendant, Charles Looklln, la not a rerident of this nut*, but realdi at Rongis, In the staU of Wyoming, on motion of Bundy and Trnvtf, compMnam's aolldtora, It U ordered tbat thb said drfendant, Charten Locklin, ranae bis mppearancc to be entered herein, within four months from the date of tbia order, >nJ in ca*e of Ua appe -ranee that be cause his answer to the oomplalnant's Bill of Complaint >o be ^led, and a ropy theivof to be serv<4 on said complainant's solicitors, within twenty day^^ftar seivlce on him o( a copy of said bill, and notice of thia order: and that in dtfaun thereof, aald bill be taken aa

— — b y th . said non resident defendant. And it is further ordered, tbat within twenty

daya the aald complainant cause a notice of thts order, to be pub'ishe i in the l.oweil Ledger, a newspaper )<r.oted. published and circulating in said county, and that such pub-lieaUonbe continued thereat least once in «seh week, for sic weeks in succession, or that they cause a copy of this order to p-r-aoaally aerved on said non resident dt fondant, at least twenty daya btf >ro the Ume above proaerilMd for his appearance.

ALLEN C. AD?IT, BUXDT & TRAYIR. Clieuit Judge.

Complainant's Solicitors

T>ROBATE NOTICE—State of Michigan, , County of Kent.—«. At a session of

the Probate Court for anid county of Kent, held at tha Probate OMee, hi the City of Grand Rapldf, on the 18th day of Auguat in thajear one thonaand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Present, CyrusE Perkins, Judge of Probate. In the matter of the esUte of Lynette A.

White and Lucy L. White, minors. On reading and filing the petition, duly

verified, of Arthur 8. White, guardian cf said minora, prsying this court for licenae and antherity to mortgage tbe real eatate of aoid minora, therein described, for reasons and purposes therein set forth

It is ordered, that Monday, the 18th dav of September. 1893. at ten o'clock In the fore-noon, at said Probate Office, be appolutrd for hearing aald petition, and that the next of kin of aald minors and all persons interested in said estate appear before said Court, at said time and place, to show cause why a licenae ahould not be granted to said guardian to mortgaget the real estate as prayed for in said petition. And It is further ordered, that a copy of this order be published throe snc-eeedve weeks previous to said dsy of hearing. In the LoweU Lanoaa, a newspaper p " and drculatinr in aald County of Kent.

CTRU8 E. PERKINS. «ipy j Judge of iVobats.

IUuhv J). JiwxLf,, Register.

J. HARRidON RICK Dsntlst. Over Church's bank.

T, well.

MILTON M. PRRRT, Solicitor In Chancery aad Penaion Attorney,

Lowell, Mich.

E E. BURT, Rotary public. Tour basiness solicited. Of-

fice in Graham block.

8. P. HICKS, ' Loans, Collections, Real Estate and Insur.

ance. LoweU. Mich.

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

street, Lowell, Mich.

M. C. GREEN, M. D. Physician snd Surgeon. Office at Residence,

E. Bridge street, Lowell. Mich.

W. F. BROOKS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office hours, 10, a.

m. to 8, p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.

FARMERS HOTEL, Lowell, Mich., G. F. Irfme, Proprietor. Rates

11.00 per day, $8.80 pel week. Good meals' and clean beds.

J . C. TRAIN, Breeder of Hambletonian Horses aud Pro-

prietor of TRAIN18 HOTEL,

Accommodations first class, rates reasonable. Also proprietor of

TRAIN'S OPERA HOUSE, Seating capacity 700, lighted by elect rlcity.

Mains & Mains, Attorneys at Law,

Lowell, Mich. We respectfully solicit your

business.

DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE

T l m o f f i f t l e in Ef feo t J u l y O , 1893 . WVSTWARD

STATIONS. ro a d ®

s £

% j «

c bod* sas > K a k

3 | l

2* •» H . a H —"O et c

S K

Detroit Lv MilwaukJc

a.m. « 40 7 0 0

a. m. 10 40 10 68

p. Ul. 4 05 4 V

p . m SOU 8 16

a. in.

Pontlac 7 4t p . m . i l 46 5 07 8 »

Holly Durand Owosso J e t Ionia

8 2 8 » S »

10 15 11 49

13 30 1 Si 2 16 3 31

6 61 n 50 7 3(i 8 SS

9 St 10 15

4 4S 6 15

Lowell 3 Raplda Ar G R d i U L v Feirysburg G haven Ai

p .m. 12 17 13 50 1 05 3 05 2 10

4 0 0 4 45 5 00 6 55 6 0 0

9 81 10 0(1 10 25 11 Ift 11 20

= ' 6

3 c * G 40 7 25 7 2; 8 2.5 8SU

Wliw by Sti Choago by"

6 84. non

0 3( p .m. 4 00

nxsTwaao.

STATIONS.

G Raven LT Ferrysburg

G R A T Jet , Gran Rapids Lowell

Ionia

Owosso J e t

Durand Holly PonUac Mlwauk Jet Detroit AV

a a

•s®

if •a m

6 10 6 U SSS TUO 7 40

•S S a *

a.ro. 540 5 44

687 045 7 16

740

897

0 85 10 I* 10 1! - 50

a.*!

SoW

10 06 10 40 10 56

H16

*1 16

I 47 I * 8 05 845) 4 0 5

a. >. 5 ® !

I ' B

" I f

Z H p- m. | p. tn.

t '.ol is 40 3 151 6 45

7 « 8 851 7 50 4 00 8 27

4 88 8 55

• 00, 10 S3'

665 7 40 8 25 0 W 0

w r r h a l r Car, BnffetCar aad Sleeping Car S«rrice.

f.nstward No. IS has Pullman Sleeper and Buffet Ox attached Chicago to Detroit daily No. 4 hm. Par-or Bafffet Car attached Grand" Haven to Detroit (extra charge 25 cents) No. 18 baa parlor car attached (extra charge, twenty - five rental.

Wes'.ward No. 11 has parlor car attached (extra charge 26 cents.] No. 15 baa ptrior buffet car atUrhed Detroit to Grand Haven extra ch r<e 25 cents. No 17 baa the finest of Pullman Sleeper and Buffet Cat attached to Chicago daily.

City omce first door east of the King Mil ling company. Open 7 a.m. to 8 p. m. Sun-day, 4 to 5 p. m. JSO. W. LOUD, BEN FLETCHER.

Traffic Manager. Trav. Pans Agent. A. O. HKYDLAUFK.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK K'Y. Trains leave Durand for Battle Creek, Chi

cagn and West at 9:&> a. ml, 1:8ft p. m , and 11:20 p. m.

Fur Fiini. Pnrt Huron and all points ca«l, 5.-OS a. m., j?:30 a. m- 0:35 p. m., and 10:20, p. m.

Cincinnati, Saginaw «fc Mackinaw R. R. trains leave Durand'for Saginaw and Bay City at 5 ^ a. m , 0:4p a. m.. and 0 50 p. m.

W. E. DAVIS, G. P A.. Ctii. ato.

T o WELL Jc HASTINGS RAlLKuA U TIME TABLE.

In Effect Sunday. May 28,1893.

So. l' "NqTB si.:5 " O 15 a mil 1 35 « ui | 4 40 p m (125 1 * 0 30 l( 31 H 35 0 45

GOIKG SOUTH Lowell h Pratt Lajie Eimdale a' Kimdale lv Logan Free port ar G'd Rapids ar Lanalng Detroit at ooiKoyoKin Dat.viaD.diL | Lansing | GrandKapidcl 7 Freeport B Locran i H Kimdale arl 7 Eimdale Ivl 7 Pratt Lake 7 Lowell I 7

8 54 11 40

No. 2'

11 45 11 55am 18 00 12 10pm 12 20 '12 45 i 3 25 15 60

N o V

4 50 1 5 00 j 5 05

5 IB , 5 25 5 40

! 7 43 110 85

No. 8 7 45ami 1 4 5 p u

10 40 ! 3 60 00am' 1 45pm , 5 40 40'am 55 00 «« 45 55

I 40 1 IW 2 00 2 21 2 30 a 40

I 5 50 n oo H 15 0 22 0 32 (I 40

Trains arrive and depart from Frout (tract psistngff depot.

DO NOT BUT INT SOOTS! / UNTIL J O U 8KB OURS AT

2 . S O KIP OR CALF.

The Old Hfidiahle.

A. J. HOWE A SON.

Fourth Annual Meeting — O F T H E —

Lowell District Fair A$$'n [ — A T — ]

Lowel Mich, -ON-

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday October 3, i, 5 and 6.

K S T l E T a

Big List of Special and Regular Premiums.

SEE LIST NOW PRINTED I AND-*—

Everybody Get Ready to Come.

Kent County Fair AT— ^

GRAND RAPIDS, O N - — -

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday —Sept. 12-13.14-15,1893.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13—MACCABEES' DAY. The largest array of Uniformed Knights of Maccabees ever

assembled in Michigan will hold a competitive drill on the Kent County Fair Grounds.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 14—WHEELMAN'S DAY. A large schedule of prices Ijas been aranged for the

society. FRIDAY, SEPT. 15-CHILDREN'S CARNIVAL DAY.

All kinds of games dear to children's hearts wiU be planned and guided by lovers of these sports.

In addition there will be Trotting, Horseback Riding and Driving by Ladies, Gentlemen and Youths every day of the fair. Halt' fare on all railroads. Admission 25 cts. Good Dinners served on the ground for 2o c£.

FEATHERJJONE CORSETS AND WAISTS. R e c o p e e e d e d b y VOlTCCl OUpCSa

Beat Materials. Lateat Myfaa .

Moat Comfortable.

1 3 ?

^ITADT-MARK RKGISTCACO. Dfeaa-Makers s ay : "They are

the beat fitting corset on the market" Merchants cheerfully refund the money after | week's trial if not satisfactory. Call for them at the stores.

FBATHBRBONE C Q t f S H T QO, BOLE MAMUFACnntsaS,

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN,

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Kldlug, Aiatchrd or Ship lapped. Turning. Mouldinga, Wiudow and ^ l>oor t ramea, and all kinds of Maehlna Work a t

KeaamaUIe Price*.

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THK SCHOOLS OF ART.

A D A V IN THE LIBERAL ARTS B U I L D I N O .

Amnrliaii Art Indllntea Msk* • Splen-did MionlnK t'hlraco—Atuerlcun Artlita Are Mncore I'ortrnyerg of >•-»nr»—Th« IUfferent Hchool*.

[World's r » l r Irft ter.1

.N EXUIBIT OF great value as one of the most im-

-]portant factors in ' / t he r e m a r k a b l y [rapid development iof* American art , land tbe unfolding of this wonderful flower, the \> orla s Columbian Exposi-tion, is tbftt of the A m e r i c a n a r t

schools, in the southern section of the gallery of the liberal a r t s building. Tho exhibit is not a very lanre one, but it is representative, and characier-istic of every feature t h a t is certainly evolving an American school of a r t

.We have waited long and patiently for

of achievement scarcely hoped f o r by foundation of art, and tho success of its founders and iriends, who are these schools strongly confirms the proud of its progress and resolved principle on which they a re based, upon greater advance in the future . I t is certain that the deve opment of T h e commendable fea ture of the 4 M the industrial ar t i e» In America baa v . w ^ —

cc£o A r t school exhiui t is the t ru th- J op ned up unusual fields of usefulness fulness of its v*ork, the absolute I to women, which ihey are enter ing

I with adaptabil ty and enthusiasm, mak ing success sure and unqnestion-

lable. In the ar t school's exhibit, woman's a b lity to do good work is so evident t h a t it confutes tbe notion so long in- nltred in that the a r t sense was limited to man. The » Oman's a r t school of Cooper union is full of sug-

Jestions and contains many happy eatures. There are a number of ex-

quisite designs for book covers of tbo sixteenth century, stained glass win-dows, Gothic lettering, tiles and tex-tile f abr cs. ^uch of the designing is based upon historic o r n a m e n t the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Greek and Byzantine. The flower studies for ap-plied designs are a very interest n g and instructive part of the e x h i b i t The pen and ink drawings a re s t rong and t h e studies in oil a re t rea ted with g r ea t rehnement and t ru thfu lness , home of the bo-t American a r t i s t s are teachers in the school, Goodyear, Van-derhoof, Wier and Gilford.

The Pennsylvania museum and school of industr al a r t is co-educa-tional, the exhibit is very satisfactory, evident pains having bt-en t a k e n to show the work to the best, advantage. T h e design an I execution of the man-tel is original and conscientious, t ie

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CHICAflO ART BCHOOI* freedom from bizarre and theatr ical effects, the puri ty and reflneme it of

hnould a trreat nat ional the birth of American a r t and a t last motive, onoma n jfreat imbiuuat we are beinir rewarded by a white school o l a r t b established in the near •Uir of promise t h a t has appea'ed in f u t u r e it would n ' t be a mistake to the western sky, whose radiance place It'in the wonderful city on the ' e l >s original and conscientious, v ie calms and charms and fills the hear t shore of a bea t i f a l inland sea where desks, chairs, and table in mahoyiny , with hopes of g rea t g i f t s for the n o t 1°"? a r t was wedded to Indus- heavily carved, were deoigned and future. | t ry and where to-day we have as the

The work of the a r t schools grouped f ru i t age of tha t union the marvelous in a section divided into small apart- i "Whi te City," the greatest t r iumph of ments, extending along the eastern a n d genius of man. aisles. The a r t institute exhib t The S t Louis s ih ol of fine arts, v.hich is regarded with much in te res t of which Ilxlsey Ives, chief of tho occupies the last space in the row. fino a r t s depar tment a t t h e Co-This school, though one of the yo ng- Inmbi n Exposition, is pres ident has e s t ranks with the first a t sch tola In a fine exhibit adjoining the Chicago the country. Its position is due to whool . I t was reorganized under the the genius of its instructors, among Washing on university in 1879 when i t whom are Lorado T a f t and F rank entered upon a s tage of rapid progress Millet whose rare gifts and unconven- and great usefulneta. I t gives a wide tional grasp cf the knowledge of t rue and careful t ra ining in ail the depar t -ar t have contributed so much to the menta of drawing,paint ing and m del-artistic beauty of the Exposition. i inlf w ' t h instructions in anatomy,

The exhibit r presents very f u l l y ' perspectiv.* and compcsition a n d h a s the work of the school; it indudea the j l i fe classes for both sexes in d rawing

c.tu:

G O O D - B Y E T O T H E C R A D L E .

Good-bye to the cr rd le . tho dear wooden cradle, Tue rude b.ind ol P r o g r e s s baa t b run t l l ar ide

No m e n ; to l u motion, o ' e r Sleep's (airy oce in. Our play-woary wayfa re r s peaceful lyRl lde

No more by tho ry tbm of slow-movln rocker Their sweet , dreamy fancies a r e fos te red and

fed No more to low singing t he cradle goes swlng-

Inif— The ohlld ot this e r a Is po t into bed!

Good bye to the c rad le the dear wooden c r a d l e -

I t lent t o the twill h t a mystical ch-^rm When bees left the cl>ver. when playtlmu was

over. How sa fe seemed this* shel ter f rom danger

and harm; How s o f t seemed t h e pillow, how d i s t i n t t he

ce,llnK. How weird were t he voices t h a t whlapered

around. W h a t dreams would oome flocking, a s rocking

nod rook In/ . We floated away i n t o a lnmber profound.

Good-bye to the cradle, the old wooden cradle. T h e babe of the day doea no t know It by

slwht: When day leaves the border, wi th s y s t e m and

ord r T h e chi ld goes t o bed and we p u t ont t h e

II h t I bow to Prosn-esslon 1 ask no concession,

Tnon h s t rewn be her pathway wi th wrecks of t he past

So off with old lumber, t ha t swee t s r k ot s lumber ,

The dear wooden cradle Is ru th less ly cast . —Ella Wheele r Wilcox.

PRANG'S EXHIBIT. executed by the pupils of the school.

Women trlenda. Men are very a p t to sneer and com-

ment unfavorably u p o n ' t h e |enul»"»-ness of women friendships. They scoff a t the ideA of a union between

I f : • T ' I " v o ftminines t h a t fa not b « a . l r c h « l

o T l e ? J i l i S S S X ' « d I ' , Th, r cannot nraetfr . i j s e e m 1 0 realize t h a t endunn.T friend-practieal application to t h e art oi | Bhip t.an anddoes exifit in thc hearl of

they made Henry's salary furnish the pantrv, the coal bin. tho * clothespres*, and the roof for their heads she had bet ter do the buying, and it was on one of these expeditions when she asked the f ru i t dealer how much his red raspberries were a q u a r t

"Fourteen centa, and they are very fine ones," he replied briskly. "Uow many will you have?"

"I ' l l take a quart, please, and you may pour them r ight In this measure." she replied, as she took the wrapper from a little parcel she held in her hand, and which proved to be a new quar t cup.

Thc dealer said never a word as he put the coutents of the two so-called quar t baskets, with the exception of a l i t t le handful , into the quar t cup and r ang up fourteen cents on the cash register. Hut a f t e r the wise little woman l e f t the store the sign on the red raspberries was changed to read "four teen cents a box."

nnnvarlao Beantles. The Hungarian women are among

the most beautiful In the world. They are not languished, dianhanous crea-tures, composed of cobwebs and the odor of musk, with a sickly pailor or a hectic flush in their cheeks. No! Erect and s traight as a candle, hearty and vigorous to the core, thev are pictures of good heal th and abounding vitality. They are (rifted with small f e e t fu l l arms, p lump hands with tapering fingers, and wear one braids. The sun has spread a reddish golden t in t or a darker tone over the com-plexion.

The Hungarian woman Is not a beauty of classical contour, nor does she, perhaps, f requent y present a riddle to the psychologist and ethereal poets wiU scarcely find a theme in her for hypersentimental reveries. She is ra ther the vigorous embodiment of primeval womanhood. As her ex- . terior, so her whole character Is en-chantingly fresh and positive. She likes to eat well, is fond of a l i t t le wine, takes naturally to swimming, dancing, gvmnastics and has not the least objection to be admire I. Grace and beauty knows no difference between high and low, and of ten bestow upon a poor bare-footed, short-skirted peasant girl (with her face framed in a 'kerchief tied v.r ler the chin) the same enchanting form, the same graceful . walk, the same magic illy attractive glance as upon her more favored sister.

CHICAGO SCHOOL OF DESIGN.

Saturday juvenile clasR. decorative de- . . , . . . s gns from o r i g na Jesigns. architect- f r ° ? 1 ^ P ® ' 1 r , i a

ure. modeling, s udlw in oil and in of flesh tones shows thorough t ra in ing charcoal. l;r«a..tli and originality a n i n t eUiRe iuand sympathetic are chiwactehstu: of the. a r t jnat i tuto nnderetanding of this branch of a r t and there are some r-peoial features i classes in comp s i r n n nend some

, excellent work, ns do also tha ekot h are some • peoial features t h a t mark its s ;M-rioril v. Tho i t i i i l ife studies in o-l of metal work are strong and bnlllant, and there is re-markable truthfulness in the glisten-

• t i M d k n o w l f d - e ol t o , , , . . , . * con-

i classes, the r e sn lu of fifteen minutes land two hours sketehin^ are remark-able for th, r bold and t ru th fu l effects. Tills work '•hows how science

The burttof l l e s s ^ a R 0 exoul- P , e d w r i t h t h « I'entiino a r t feeling Can, a social ciemor. l i / . t ion whic 1 he bunt of Hess e. an exqut w | t } 1 a few rapid. l>old, earnest strokes t imes appeirrv to tlm-atsn us.

site piece of sculpture, ref lees the nn- effet-u tha t are l>o ^nd to ex- th is reason the work of ar te* folding of an independent sp i r i t a s the labored efforts has it* value, as a oowerln

OOOPKU xraios ASSOCIATE.

necessary in a r t an in any other de-pa r tmen t of human labor and achieve-m e n t

The art institute ot Chicasro is the most distinguished and successful of a l l the underiaU ngs for an advanced c u l t v a m th" city. I t had a struggle t o maintaia life in the early j> ara of i t s existence, but has triumphed over al l t be difficulties of i ts checkered ca reer acd 3u« a t Viet reached a height

oel in every way of years. |

The school of drawinjTand painting, j museum of fine ar ts . Koe'on. has an excellent exhib i t of s tudies in black and white: there are a number of heads in oil which show by their s trength and grace t h a t thorough and honest work is the purpose of the school.

In the a r t schools exhibi t theacboois of industrial a r t have an equal share with those of h igh a n , for a r t means now something more than pictures, and the various applications of a r t to objects of use a i d o nament be n g understood and appreciated by a large maioritv of the American populace.

Industrial a r t has had a disatrree-able association, to many people i t { suggests the commercial s p i r i t t h e shop a n d t h e fa<*t'ry. but ar t . If i t is worthy to be called a r t is based on science and science is neeeasary. no t only for the most sucoo sfa l prodno-

weaving simrle and double cloths, g a u es, t r imminrs , carpet*, etc.

On the walls h a n g studiea in draw-i n g and paint ing, plane and descrip-

j t i e geometry, and pro c t i o n s . The normal class for t h e t r a i n i n g

I of teachers in the P rang course of | form, drawing and color has an exhib i t i t h a t gives one a very clear idea of t h e logical sequence of th is admirably de-veloped p lan of a r t instruction. The Philade phia School of Desien for I Women, one of the oldest schools in '

! t h e c un t ry fo r the a r t education of , women has a large and representative exh ib i t I t s various departmenta of practical design,,craypn portrai t , land-scape painting, flower painting, mod-el ng, drawing from antique architec-tu ra l , china decoration, e tch ing and normal a r t course teH the story of the g rea t breadth of t h e work, its progress a n d remarkable productive {rawer of t h e stu lente.

The Prang exhibi t occupies t h e first alcove in a r t school row. •Al though n o t in the circumscribed sense, an a r t school in Chief Peabody's j u d g m e n t t h e aims and tbe results aeompl i shed a re in the end those of an a r t school

The work is arranged very system-atically and one can very easily fol low i t from the first year thron?h t h a t of t h e last year m the grammar schools a n d get an intelligent idea of t h e progression and coni innl ty of the course of instruction. A lesson one l ea rns in looking through t b e a r t school exh ib i t is tha t there is in the Amerio:in temperament an inteUigent a r t movement which is ready to be s i m u l a t e d and (jeVeluped. Art is no longer reserved 'tor the talented few, bu t it. become a means of edu-atlon thfoncrhont the land. Art In America must be developed on the basis of a broad hu-manity. The put t ing of InduHtrial t ra in ing into >!«; s hools is a great-step in this direction, one t h a t will surely give a h i t h e r idea and a nobler purpose to th labor of common life. The fundsmentu 1 «tliic«l principles t h a t hold society together must not be lost sight of. A t c 'n at ioa, the s tudy of beauty a - the higse^t in .na iure and in human life, can bs directed aga ins t

which bome-and lor

education h a s its value as a powerinl moral force.

iPA M. Condc.

one woman for another. Damon and Pythias were a l l r i g h t of course. They were men, and in the i r mental make-up there was no desire to outdo the other, bu t modern man, in his know-it-all style of ju nping to con-clnsions, declares t h a t the question of dre-s, if nothing else, would forever preclude the possibility of two women remaining fr iendly for more than a year a t the outside.

This is a false and lowering esti-mate of woman's nature, as there are many who can testify to endur ing compacts begun in youth and lasting through all the years up to the period of old age. All the nobility and s taunch reliancc tha t cements friend-ship is not centered In the uiasculiue composition. There are many women so constituted t h a t a sent iment Involv-ing any more than fr iendship Is be-yond them, and there are again many more who can be the t ruest wives and mothers and the most loyal fr iends as well.

The true woman friend is the dear-est of all created beings, whether she be, havs the Philadelphia Times, fr iend to man or to one of her own sex. She is forgiving and t rus t ing al-ways. She is appreciative and con-genial in health, and the tenderes t nnrsc In sickness. In prosperity she does not fawn upon you, b u t rejoices with yon, and in adversity she shows the metal she is made of and sticks to you though others may tu rn the cold shoulder upon you.

Every woman no m a t t e r how much she may be beloved by husband or parents, desires a feminine confidante of her own years who is to be d e pended on when lights and shadows cross life's pathway. The relat ion of friendship t h a t exists between many women for years is one of the pleas-antes t spots in al l the rugged journey. Beal fr iends are few, and the woman who finds one and keeps her is blessed wi th a jewel as rare and

ions as those whose money value prec Is ab above computation.

SAID BY BILLINGS.

Vavto J »h Betlbrc* lllaiself of Lot ot V hll*Mpliv.

About a l l t h a t we kan na 7 OT men is tba t they are lively d i r t .

U ha t 11 t i e i kno ov other people i hav found out by studdying jnlself.

Good manne r s is simply good na tor polished up brite.

Marriage is a lottery (authorized bi the state) in which every one ia sup-posed tew draw a prize.

A competency m a y be defined as t he amount a man is competent t e w g i t

Fame, tew a dead man. iz OT Just a W -about az match importance az

acy i t fz the waat ov merit that makes

a man bashful, and it is too muteh , merit that makes him modest

« also for the full appreciation I Genuine oratory iz simplicity: bu t i t of t he tine arta. Good industrial a r t ! i* aimplicity wrought ont with tLe includes the scientific aa well a s the art ist ic elemeht. science securlnff the necessity of t rue snd pennaAsnt work-manship, a r t contributi ' g t h \ quali ty of attractiveness and beauty.

The industrial a r t schools, whlcb are a factor of no l i t t le impo- tance in modern economics, have proceeded on tha basis t h a t science is the t r u e

highest a r t One ov tbe greatest pleasures ia th i s

l ife iz to hav plenty to do, and then do i t

Philosophy seeau to bo the a r t ov t ak ing al l th ings Just a s they earn, and when they gi t reddy tew go, le t them w e n t wi thout any phusa.

JOSH Bnxxaes.

W h i t e Mocking*.

T h e flat h a s gone for th In England calling the whi te stooking back into vogue. When It comes to fashions in feminine apparel, England is particu-larly Infelicitous. Our prcttv, tas te fu l fashions all conic f rom Paris. White stockings have never gone out In Ger-many: tabooed elsewhere, they have continued In f..vor with the average Teuton frau. And in England, the older ladles have continued to wear whi te cotton hosiery. I t is well known that Mrs. Gladstone has never incased her nether limbs in any bu t whi te cotton stockings. But the white stocking Is a horror—an offense unmitigated and not to be palliated. The one art icle of fem nine dress in which man's taste is properly deemed infallible is the hosiery, and in Amer-ica mankind Is a un i t against the white stocking.

Bin. ToangrUas band's Hmrfceting. "How much are your red raspber-

ries a quart?" I t was a young wife who made the

inquiry a t one of the stores where f r u i t Is sold in g rea t variety and abundance. She had jus t begun to master the iniricaoles a n d difficulties of housekeeping, ' being recently re-turned f rom her wedding tour, and was therefore doing the market-ing in person She had heard and read something vof the way most men do marketing—over the telephone, wi thout regard to price, quality, and of ten quan t i ty -^

Hard t o Conqnar. There ' s the girl who's s t uck on fencln*:. and

the Irl who's jus t commencing to be somewhat in teres ted in t b e a r t of self-defense;

There 's the irl who 's good at riding, aud the girl who takes to strldlmr over leagues of dale and mountain wlta ener .y Intense:

There ' s the Klrl who worships rowing, and the one who's food of shuwin • a m irksm M»-ship astounding In a person of her sex;

There s tho girl who's always ready, with a nerve both t rue and steady, when woeful dangers th rea ten or dlffloultles vox

Bnt despi te the manly carriage and t ie open acorn o l m irriage whloh t h e independent ladles seem t o th ink so very nice.

You may. perhaps, have noted t h a t they ' re very seldom quoted as having ost com-pletely tholr Inherent fear of m i t e

—Detroit Tribune

P o t a t o Croquette*.

These are difficu t to make, because possessing considerable moisture, they are liabis to swell in f ry ing and either bu r s t e r aosorb grease If they are care fa ly made and covered, an i then allowed to stand fo r a short t ime be-fore frying, they should be no trouble.

T«al Guttata. Have them cut thin, cover with boil-

ing water, stand for ten minutes, drain and wipe dry, cover with egg and bread crumbs, and saute.

W o m e a Everywhere . Lizzie Franks, who years ago

traveled with Barn urn's circus for many seasons a s "Titania, the Fairy Queen," and always drew crowds be-cause of her diminutive s tature, is now an inmate, of a Philadelphia alms-house, and has been since August 28, 1877.

Mrs. Lewis Eice of Frederic. Md.. has collect d enough money to place a suitab.e monument over the grave of Francis Scott Key, author ot "The Star Spangled Banner." A flat mar-ble slab marks the place where he lies In Mount Olivet cemetery. Wash-ington D. C. There Is a t e r y hand-some monument to Key In Golden Gate park, San Francisco.

The death has jus t t aken place of Miss E. J. Crop, a t Keynsham, Eng-land. She was the first ladv who crossed the Atlantic f rom England In a steamer. On April 8, 1838, she sailed from Bristol in the Great Western, under the command of Cap-tain Hosken, B. N , who obtained special permission to command a mer-chant vesseL The voyage was accom-plished In fifteen daya Miss Crop was the only lady passenger on board.

Chicago's lady manager a t the fa i r Is Mrs. Cheltain, wife of General A. L. Cheltain, who was for four years consul-general to Belgium. Mrs. Cheltain is one of the leaders In liter-ary circles In Chicago, and her work on the board of managers is arduous. She Is pledged to receive guests with Mrs Potter Palmer in the reception room of the Woman's building twice a week. She has the charge of the press work there; the duty of making out the program of enter ta inment Is hers, and the work of receiving or rejecting late exhibits is also lef t to her.

The colossal institution In Paris known as the Bon Marche was founded by a remarkable woman. Mme. Bouci-c a u t called by Parisians " the Lady of the Bon Marche." The pension fund which Mme. Boucicaut created wi th a g i f t of Jl,000,0<-0 from her own private fortune, Is used iu the support

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and she had wisely concluded t b a t TO

of the emploves forced to through age or Blness. With aU her g rea t wealth and commercial power the "Lady of the Bon Marche" re-mained to the day of her death a plain, unpretentious woman, with a kind, motherly manner and genial ex-pression.

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WEAR LONG BEARDS.

THREE HUMAN FREAKS WHO ARE PROUD OF IT.

MarveUons Grawth o f Hirsa t* Appaa-

daga o n a Missouri Maa—Trance

and Knctand Also Have Cranks en the Snbject

(HE T R A D I T I O N that Adam was cre-ated with a beard has been for many centuries an argu-ment aud a solace to gentlemen who have d e c o r a t e d t>ielr cheeks and their chins with a h i r s u t e g r o w t h vsrytng In length liora one to six

f e e t Adam w«s the first man. and consequently took his beard as a mat-ter of course. The theory t h a t because the Lord gave Adam and other men beards they must therefore be worn and allowed to grow was a strong ar-gument in those days, bu t unhappilv does not prevail in these acienttfic times. For the Lord also gave to man a vermiform rppendage, which Is now held to be a very useless and danger-ous thing to lug about intestinally, and is removed and cast away on every possible o casion. i Sci' nee does not contend t h s t beards are dangerous, or tha t they are alto-gether useless In certain cases, where men have del 'ca 'e and sensi-tive throa s. the beard serves as a sort of protection. And in other and less f r e q u e n t cases, where a man has been kicked on the

J'aw by a mule, or las been mu1 Hated

on his cheeks by a wound, the hairy growth Is very con-venient to cover up the scar and conceal the blem sh. But

\ even in these de-plorable cases the SIR. LOUIS ICONXON. scar has its limitations and does not jus ify the extension of the beard to the middle of the body, which is cov-ered in deference to those delicate con-siderations accepted by the higher

se of t e human family. Many able treat 'ses on the subject of

beards have been put orth by indua-trious gen lemen, who both ransack and make history. I t is known t h a t in ancient times the beard had Its

fiincr, and was held in hieh esteem on religious aud other s e n t l m e n t a l grounds As, how-ever. the world grew older the world gr^w natur-ally wiser, and when peop e began to "perk up" and give more attention to the matter of diffcientation from

ROBKRT LATTEB. other orders of ani-mals one of the first atrocities to go by the board waa the long and unkept beard. I erhaps it was recorded theo-logicully thus: The Lord gave him his mouth, and his jaw, and his chin, which are recognized as great exnosi-tions of character. If in infinite mercy he gave him a beard It waa to be used with discretion, and for such excusable i urpoaes as have been cited. As soon as th is holy and sensible view .prevailed men began to use scissors and ra.or. and have been using them assiduously ever since.

I t is not essential to the purpose to go over the ground travelled by the students of beard lore to show t h a t where dvilization has reached Its highest type the beard has fallen Into d i s r e p u t e . T h e fact that certain dis-tinguished m n of modern times have chosm to wear beurds like goats ar-gues nothing more than t h a t they were indifferent or lazy, or imagined they presented a more distinguished ap-'pearaBee, which was not likely to be true. Y e t there are cases—not a few of them—where men have Worn ridi-eulously long beards, not merely because they made an idiotic vow not Ho shave until Henry U a y be ame President, bu t because they gloried in beinir a sort of Sutherland brother, as ,it were, and enjoyed the attraction that a multitude always bestows on l e p a k a ,

- " " inMis ' -ou r l I here is a county in the southwestern portion called Barton. In this county there dwells a man of the imposing name of Lagrand Larow Six cen years airo Larow lived up In Tompkins (ounty, in New York state. One day i>e resolved to let his beard prow, and knowing f i a t public senti-m e n t would not tolerate any gross ab-surdities, he quietly moven out to Mis-

s o u r i and went to farminir near the Kansas border, where the playful cy-clone would have lull oppoftun ty to sweep through his whiskers. Whether

f a r m e r Larow has been successful In raising wheat and corn and oats con-

raneoushistoriansdo notsay .but (be has been mar--vellously success-ful In cultivating a beard, which is now seven feet long and which he ex-hibits with im* pressive pri 'e and dignity to the awe-«tricken na ' lv a In fac t so daf t Is he on the subject of hair that he is making a col c tion of p i c t u r e s of I n g - FARMER LAROW liaired people, and OK UISBOITRL iii said to be particularly desirous of exchsngi'1? phot graphs with every unan in the United States with a beard over f ur feet long, and every unmar-gied ladv with hair over five feet long.

Vi thout the sUghteat desire to in-t Wil

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terfere with Mr. Larow*s personal ar-rangements, his pUture Is here repro-duced to show the public the sort of monstrosity he bss succeeded In msk-Ing of himself, says the New York World. Three centuries sgo Elizabeth imposed a t a x of 3 shillings 4 pence on beards of a 6 r tn igh t ' s growth. If tha t law prevailed to-day as a graded tax Farmer Larow woul i be compelled to pray snd labor r igh t manfully for good crops or else go out of the whiskers nusinesa

England has a hirsute freak In the . srsou of Bichard Latter, now resid-ing iu Loudon. His beard is ten feet In length From the picture sub-mitted, Mr. Lat ter migh t be taken for a snake charmer, the "snake" in Ques-tion being Mr. Let ter ' s beard, which he has ingeniously plai ed and which he is fondling w ith the pride of a man ex-perimenting for the first time with a garden hose. M. Louis I onion of Frsnce is a sculptor who Is content to worry along with a beard only 7 f e e t 6X inches in length. However, as i t is still growing, i t seems to bear out Bosalind's prediction concerning Or-lando's beard: "God will send more If the man will be thankiuL" M. Coition went out of sculpturing, with all its vicissitudes, when his neighbors befran o call at tent on to his beard, and !•« now exhibiting himself to ad-m ring crowds with all the pride of Barnum's bearded lady or the prize idiot who bet on Mr. Ciay.

Mr. Arthur U. Maavv of this citv is another gentleman with s beard. Tha t is to say. he h d a beard for Mr. Mas-sey has gone into court and sworn tha t under p, evocation of the most insig-nificant na ture one Moses Kintr did lay violent and nnscmpnlons hands on t h a t I eard, and did yank therefrom a growth to the extent of a t least three Inches, thereby cansing great bodi y pain and considerable personal disfig-u r e m e n t Wherefore Mr. Masse v prays t h s t he may be soothed and compensated in tho sum of 910,000. And this suggests an interestinsr com-putation. If three inches of chin whiskers are valued a t S10.000. Mr. Larow's beard would stand him in for $270,000 and M. Conlon's for $300,000. while Mr. Latter might justly e>pect to receive the enormous sutn'oflMOO,-000. These figures are t ruly bewilder-ing.

TWO CHILD WONDERS

SOME PARIS STYLES FETCHING COSTUMES WORI

BY CYCLINO WOMEN.

T h e Amer ican Woasea May Not A d o p

T h e m Thla Tear, B a t Look Oat f o

t h e B n m n a r af 1 8 9 4 — T h r r * Oracefo

Baits.

T I S NOT EX-peci ed that the pict-ures here shown

. ^ w i l l find instanta-%IIv neons favor with

t h ® yonng woman whose bicycle is now seen in the highways and by-ways. They sre too Original and too Frenchy. but there is good reiison for t h a t as they are

copied from the Parte journal 1'Illus-t rat ion, which makes a specialty of original French sketches.

Af te r the first severe shock the bi-cycle young woman wil l find in these

Raoul Kocxatskl and Frtda Slmunson. Remarkable Pianists.

Two little people t h a t are now agi-ta t ing the mu-ic people of London are Baoul Koczalski and Frida Simonson. I t is conceded on all sloes that the boy Baoul is a veritable wonder-child. He is only 8 years of age and was educated a t the Warsaw conservatory. He made his debut a t 4 and has since tha t time been astonishing tbe pc<-ple of Eng-land and the . cont inent ' with his virtuosity. Germany has well-nigh gone crazv over him. One musical writer declares in* earnestness tha t he, has a repertory of l,u00 pieces, bu t if he has 100 he will be distancing most other players. Last season he gave fifty-four concerts in sixty-four days—quite a f e a t indeed, and one tha t shows the little fellow to be of some material other than the stuff t h a t dreams srn made i f . t h e total number of con erts given by him dur-ing the past year is something over two-hundred. In three years and a half he has .played in !)U7 concerts. Think of i t and only eight years of a-re! How many of the older pianists have done as wel ?

Frida bimonson Is 8 years old also.

A n r c i n x G AND DAINTY TIGCBE.

cuts food for reflection and careful study. She wilt also find much ^o ad-mire. They illu»tiate the costumes worn by French women who are ad-dicted to the bicycle habit, and no one can study them carefully without real-izing how very trim and comfortable th • wearers look. There is no reason why they should not be ad.-pted in th i sconnt ry with the slight modifica-t ions which our climate and modesty may suggest

FRIDA SIUONSO . She is an anomaly because female wonder children a re not s> plentiful as the males, i-he has showed her musical ta lent a t an extremely youth-fu l a g e She coul i play when only

years old. an'l when she was 5 she

Slayed i ne of Clementi's sonatas in e r i n . Her repertory is large, and

her first Lon'lon program ranged f om Barh and Scarlatti to Liszt and Mosz-kowski. She plays everything from memory an naihlnfr seems to be too difficult for her. Both of these chil-dren will und ubtedly be heard in thia country next season—that Is. if there is anything le i t of them to be b r c ght o>er the sea. Baoul Kocz-alski is a composer as well as a p ian i s t and his compositions are said to be marked by evidences of decided genius.

VERT SENSIBLE AND IN0BNI0UB. One of the at tractions of the French

bicycle costume is its very small cost The rider In the first cut paid more than necessary for hers, bu t tha t was because she insisted < n black velvet t rousers and a deep black velvet col-lar. Had she been satisfied to have the whole costume of the plain gray serge which forms the skirt and j acke t she would have saved money. This voung person also wears black silk nose, which are not at all necessary. Lisle thread would have been quite as effective and much less expensive.

A very fetching and dainty figure is Mademoiselle ^o . 2, and her outfit, jannty as It looks, was made up for less t h a n half the price paid by her reckless sister. Plain blue flannel with sof t leather leggings to match made he r a beaut i ful object a t the trifling out ay of ttf. Of course she made the suit herself.

The bicycl'st shown in the third cut was equally sensible,and even more in

Great N a m e s A m o n g French W o m e n .

Be-ders of the Figaro of I'aris, asked to mention the women of France io whom monuments should be erected, have designate') Bachel,Georges Sand, Slater Bosalle, Mme. lionclcault and M m e Boland. Bachel should s tand in f r o n t of tbe Theater Fran-cais, Georges Sand on the Plaoe Malesherbes and bister Bosalie in the Faubourg SamtrAuto'ne, where she did so many kindnesses to the poor. Some readers also auggested Mme. do Girardln.

Don't Blame the Cook If a baking powder is not uniform in strength,

so that the same quantity will always do the same work, no one can know how to use it, and uni-formly good, light food cannot be produced with it.

All baking powders except Royal, because improperly compounded and made from inferior materials, lose their strength quickly when the can is opened for use. At subsequent bakings Jthere will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted.

It is always the case that the consumer suffers in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub-stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder. It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more economical because of its greater strength, but will retain its full leavening power, which no other powder will, until used, and make more wholesome food.

A calf "having seven legs" is the latest monstrosity reported from New Brunswick, N. J .

A married couple a t Baleigh, N. C., are aged ninety-nine and ninety-three years, respectively.

According to Canon Fs r r s r about 4,000 clergvmeu of tbe church of Eng land are ont of employment

Paris now gets Its water r ipp ly from six great springs; It travels through eighty-three miles of aque-ducts.

There are 179,000.000 Mohammedans in tha world already and 400 mission-aries are sent out f rom Cairo every year to mako fresh converts.

Telenhonemeter Is the new instru-ment t h a t registers the time of es-Ui conversation a t the telephone from .ne time of ringing up the exchange to tbe ringing off signaL

Miss Kate Levan of Backs county, Pennsylvania, a girl of 16, drives the mall stage between Princeton and Fleetwood, and can manage a four-horse team with as much skill as any man in the county.

During the last Paraguayan war i t was noticed tha t the men who had been without sal t for three months, and who had been wounded, however s l igh t died of the wounds because they would not heaL

In Russian temperance societies the pledge is taken for one year. The first time a member breaks the pledge he receives nineteen with a birch rod, and with each succeeding offense the punishment is doubled.

T h e r e Is n o t a pass ion so s t r o n g l r r o o t e d in the h u m a n hrta-,1 an envy .

I Cnre Dynpepvla an i Constipation. I>r. Bboop's P e s t o r a t l v e Nerve Pi l l s s e a

f»ee wi th Medical Hook t o prove m e r i t fo r 2c s t a m n UniRels t s 25c. Di- SHOOP, Box W. Kacine. Wis.

Otipld d o e s n ' t h e s i t a t e l o forec lose h l a mor tgaKcs .

Co«.'« t 'oagh Ralsam l»theoliI«it and brtt. Jl will bn-ak up » fold qulcla. er tliao auytUIng else. 11 la always reliable. Try It.

All of u s know how o t h e r people <hoa ld spend t h e i r ruuney.

A B i r T h i n g . "It IT tbe btRgeit thine 1 IIBTC ever (track.**

Wbttt? Why tbe builtieta ndvertlicd la anotbse cdumD b j B. F. Jobnsoo A Co, if Richmond, Va, If you are open to in cnRagcmeat write them. They can show yi>u a Kood th Ing.

Don ' t h a v e money t r a n s a c t i o n s wi th y o u r f r i e n d s i t you c a n avo id them.

Fea^ 'e Weskaen PoaUlve Core. TOTUEEDITOB:—Please Inform your readers, that

I have a positive remedy for the tboniand and onelll which arise from deranued female organs. KM a pre-scription to be Htled bm 1 will send two bottles of my remedy Free of all cost, for the medicine, ready for use. to any lady U they will send their Express and P. O. address. 1 bold eorrespoadence strictly confldeu-tlsl and forward my replies and remedy fa plala wrapper. Dr. J . B. Marchist Otlca, JT. T.

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T b e d e v i l s h a k e s h a n d s w i th t h e m a n who d r ives a b a r d ba rga in .

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A full stomach glvcth courage.

' KaH'a Clorer Woet/ fin treat flood furtfler. (rtvea freshness and slrernxei ID UM Conp.cx.on and cures CousUpaMon. 26c. AM

S p e a k k i n d l y of t h e r i c h ; t b e y need i t .

<Hanson'B Majrlo Corn Halve." WvranUxl to cnre. or money rufandwl. Auk yea*

lorlt. Prtre cenSs.

T b e rose c a n n o t Inha le I t s own f r a g r a n c e .

i r the Huby I« ratttna Teeth, Be sore and nse that old aad welVtrisd remedy. Mis. ICuutaWB BOOTHIKC BraQr tor CJilldren Testhlag.

^ l y ^ j Thompson*! Eyi f i tor .

IA H A I B L E W p e o p le are uotohHna to remain BO. Please send for circular: Ssa ca Coaaty 1S*C a Coup. Oa., TUBa.O

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• lyratnlanlwar, 15«ijuilJcaUucclainn. atiyaktca.

a T C Kl HP C Procured In C.S.aj»d an A I C I S I O fnretca cmratrtea. Ten year*' rxperlem-e iim rxanilii'-r In U. B. Pal-ei.t Oflli-e. Patitu uuxiuutred or no lee, S. BKAKHEARS,«187tbl>i.,WinihlUBtoa,D.O.

$100! T h e bes t men neve r k n e w hew coed t h e y

are .

Tew b e able t ew t r ea t p i ol'ts wi th a .mil lar i ty and f t i l l retain thsir re-s p e k t i s sum pumpkins.

JAUKTT AND ECONOMICAL,

genious. She wanted variety, and got i t by adding to her gray flannel outfit a very bril l iant red Spanish j a cke t

ShilohH Cnttnarmptton Car* IsanMnnHCuamnn*. It enres InrMeol i tooo. U la Uie 1ml coush Cure. STitU., Klcla. C (UIO,

m i l l o n s ef toiil*"r"lf« a r e e a t e n e v e r y y e a r by t n e A u s t r a l i a n abor ig ines .

FITS-All nu iree uy aa. i t n r s a M i i R a r e Kntiuasr.. So m alter a m dsy t ase. Mar Teloua Hun-!. 1 reitl-<. and U 00 trial Cot »• free le ni 1 Urnil So Dr HIlDe.vai ArcliSt..I'blladelphla,fa.

ItfllfTU Wanted m U n 1 cl good buttllnx agents

n every wwn uu 1 cou ity In llk> .'nltod t j i n f s u> «"ll our pare leas,

•alfee. sploes. h iklns: powdes and ettructi . Soud to tn stamps tor o ir wholssali'. prlcj; Unt. Aiuesican Tea Co, M>c.ilKsn Ave.. Ue.trJU. Mich.

Heat, Kajj.« My tor to ana Cheapc*.

C A T A R R H Bolll by arnKclsiK or mail by mall,

0 c . K.T. HaWflilne. Warien, Pa.

f t la alwavc w'^e to dlacount the t a e e value of a woman.

Ov the two, i would ra ther see an old horse t h a t has got konside' able ov the c o l t than to see a colt with toe mutch old horse In him.

Drowning Man—H ''pi Do throw me a life belt! Passenger (a tailor i— Most hapuy to oblige. What siM ground the waist, please? i

I b a d bt-en sonon^ ly t r o u b l e d f o r s o m e t i m e with liMllrea-lun, c m s r l i m t l o n and a weak s tomach , niv hv-mun bocomlng al l r u n (lowu. and loslnu t lf ty p o u c d s In > e luh t . I bad a l u u t p h e n u p Imp^g of aga in be In'.' a v a i l m a n . vh i n r a m e a e r o a Ur. I e a n e ' s 1 yciM-p la f i l l s which aoun reatored m e to b e a l t h I gah i lne iwemy- t lv t i p o u n d s In t h r e e ^eeUa. O h o t h e m a t r i a l a n J a e e v h a t the1* will do fo r y o u , ( U n . U O B T . COOK. Camden . N. J . . m « W r i t e Ur J . A. Uuane & C a , CatakQl, N. 7.

When your son's beard ifi grown It is time for you to 6ha> e your chin.

Oo to Oraaal

T b a t te wha t you ontfht to Tet your pastures go to. t- ome pastures haven't enough grass but wiiat a few old hens would f ick dean, t'on if yen want luxur iant pastures or w l n t r whea t t e l d s sow SaLer 's seeds. Think of i t ! bix tons of hay per acre and sixty-five bus els of w h e a t Such yields make farming p y. Cut this out snd send 4 cents & stamps to-day to John A. Sal ter herd company, LaOosse, W i a , and receive fr>e a package of World's Fair Winter Wheat and h is tall daUlogae,

TVr^tn Ihe WOTM fnrYoiin / / ' J » end Women to S w o t a Bt

/ / A z y . s » FilnmJInii.Sborlbaml, Ftc . / f f J /'4/7\ i PusliM'w Unlrffull; f ' lrnli,MI> !r._ Illn«tr»ted ('aU

W.F.JCWBLL, President

1,000.000

Tlae*tn theWnsM rnrY'iencKa Busluf c, Is lh«

irfinliy, I>e-I lednaialosn*

„ . Free, PelWnrw All llelrott. W.F.JEWELL,PnsldfuL P.R.bl'ILSCER.Sesretary,

ACRES OF LAND for sale hy tbe S a m PATH A D r u m i RAILKOAD

COarAVT la Minnesota, head for Maps and Ciieo* I m They will be sent to yon

Address HOPEWELL CLARKE, U n d CoauBlaaloMr. Bt. Paai ,

This TraSs MaiktsonflMbest

W A T E R P R O O F COAT SSTSS? In the World I

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< LOWELL. 1893 The Celebrated Work of Lowell is Now Complete.

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History of Lowell from Over 200 Origi-nal Photographs. i,

sSSwss

It contains pictures of ninety of the busineps men, every business block, churchc^ school houses, all the mills and facto-ries, Post Office, scenes tfn the Grand and Flat RiVers, park, L. & H. railroad bridg^ across Grand Rivdr, thirty of the finest i-esidences, upper and Irfwer bridges. I t has also the officers of fifteen secret societies with names of full membership of each, the Women's Relief Corps, Glee Club, Young Ladies Social Club, and many other interesting features.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT IT.

"Everybody in Lowell should have one."—L. H. Hunt. "The book is very well gotten up and is a fine work."—

Dr. McDannell. * "A Souvenir that every person in Lowell^hould owm"—

J. H. Rickert. "Every member of every secret society should order a

hook."—Chas. Quick. "The book is a valuable one, and the older it gets the more

valuable. Every family should have One."—C. J . Church. The l)ook is now on sale at Wilson's gallery. Call and

see them. Farmers, Laborers, Merchants.

MOTHER m s s m m w o i f c

You can get a Life Size Picture, Frame and All, on pay-

ment of $1.00.

v This work is far aiead of crayoiis. Call and examine them and see my grand display of artistic work.

I have a grfeat line of new* and originalf cute, fftney and artistic positions fbr Children. Young Ladies And Gentlemen, and Groups.

You could not spend 20 minutes better thikn iu my studio. If you do not wish pictures come and see \fhat I hive.

M. D. WILSON, P. 0. BUILDING. - a * .

>(ill no rain.

M re. C. P . Ellison is on the sick lisi,

Kiitlace Anderson spent Sunday , in Ionia.

Maude Young is visiting Lowell Iriends.

H . N. Stone was at the county seat over Sunday.

John Yiarger, of Freeport, was in town yesterday.

Dealers in school supplies are hav-ing a brisk trade.

Irve Young was down to Grand llapids Saturday.

Wanted—A girl for housework. J . K . Mathewson.

0 . J . Church, of Greenville, was in the village Tuesday.

Mrs. A. Sinclair went to West Branch Wednesday.

Otto Husted, of Grand Rapids, has Ixjon visiting relatives.

Hunter & Son have a new an-nouncement in this issue.

Miss Katie Kadwell, of Chicago, is calling on Lowell friends.

John Hastings, of Grand Rapids, v.'a/i in town over Sunday.

Arthur Coakley visited his uncle, <*. F . Lane, the past week.

MJBB Sadie Lyon, of Grand Rapids, vm in town over Sunday.

Miss Irma Page, of Ionia, spenulast week with Mias Minnie Rouse.

William W. Robertson, of Ravenna, vi-ited his parents over Sunday.

Attend the dance at Train's opera house fair week. Fireman's. 14'

Mrs. Phebe Newton visited Grand llapids friends Monday and Tuesday.

Married Paul E . Dehoer, Gnmd Kapids, to Minnie Livingston, Lowell.

Mesere E. Anderson, J . Clark and G. Jury drove over to Ionia San day.

The firemen will have a danoe in IVain's opera bouse during the ftir.14

Secretary Hooker was at Ada the Jafct of the week in the iatermt of tbe iair.

! f a rk Ruben# made a busmen trip tb Detroit Monday, returning Tu«-<hy.

Tbe school census shows 708 chii-Arno of school age at ngnjuBt G75 last year.

George Taylor aud wife, of Grand 1 Rapids, are visiting his' father, Lon j Taylor.

Thirteen new members were added to the Congregational church last Sunday.

Misses Annette Pollen aud Ella Wiley went to the World's fair last Tuesday.

Mrs. F. M. Johnson has returned ftoni a months visit at Almont and Mayville.

Remember the firemen's dance dur-ing the fair. 14

Lew Morse and wife of Grand Rapids, are visiting LoweU relatives and friends.

Misses Bertha Robinson, May Davis and Agnes Wiley went to the" World's

j fair Tuesday.

Congressman Richardson has the thanks of the LEIJGEE for public doc-uments tent.

Secretary Hooker reports entries coming in fast, and some stock already on the ground.

Before buyfogf-a sewing machine call and examinfc the new Empress at R. D . Stocking's.

A. F. French, ol Cascade, and John Bryant; of Grand Rapids, were Lowell visitors Wednesday.

Miss Eva Harmon, of Grand ids, \isited R . E . Heffron last w and returned Monday.

Mrs. B. A. Speaker entertained Mrs. J . W . Reynolds, of Grand Rap-ids, a part of last week.

Mrs.Perryof Collins ran a sliver un-der her thumb nail and will pro die from blood poisoning.

Mrs. William Barnes is at port attending the sick bed of her sis-ter who lies very low at present.

Edwin C. Ap^ey has been appointed postmaster a t Caledonia Station in place of J . C. Spanlding removed.

Doctor McDannell and Charles Church attended a meeting of the electric company at Grand Rapids last week.

From all directions come continued and multiplying reporte of resumption of operations in manufiictyring estab-lishments.

Work on thc Soldiers* Home annex for women was begun Monday and will W pushed so as to get tbe building enckwed before snow flies.

R. Quick and E, R. Hur ley with wives were attending tbe national ea-carapmest of the G. A. R . at Indiaa-apoHs.

Frank Corrigan, Ada; F . J . Rich-mond, Otisco; D, F. Hunt and Lotta W. Hunt , Grand Rapids, wen? in town Tuesday.

John Robertson has decided not to retire from business until spring, and wili sifce up llis stock for the accom-modation of customers.

D. X. Murray and family went down to Grand Rapids for Sunday, and Mr. M. returned alone Monday, leaving the rest for a visit.

Chicago's grain markets had an-other boom in prices Wednesday. The close was strong, • firm affd with prices still tending upwlrd.

Mrs, E . L. Kinsley and 8on,'-Harry, wcrfe called home from Petoikey by the serious illness of Mrs. C. P . Elli-son, Mrs. Kinsley's mother.

Charles L . Wilson and wife, or Greenville, spent Sunday in Lowell. Charlie reports quite a number of en-tries from Greenville fbr the fair.

Precocious small boys in Bolding set fire to a b a m in order to satisfy a burning curiosity as to how quickly the fire department could turn ont.

The many friendi of George Wine-gar's family will rejoice tffat Mrs. Winecar and little sou, who have been dangerously ill, are each imjrtfeving iu condition.

Lake Odessa authorities ate grimly determined to break up horse racing on thc main street and are arresting luckless drivers right and left under a new ordinance.

The rfteamer Belknap was destroyed by fire a t Reed's Lake Wednesday evening* Loes, $10,000; partially in-sured. Fire thought to have been of incendiary origin.

J a p Waterman nearly took another walk tbe other i ight . H e drove down to Ada and his horse going lame, be was forced to leave him and oome home as a passenger.

World's fair excumon toJay via. D., H. A M. Leave Lowell a t 4 p. m. Tickets limited to return Sept 18. Fare for round trip $4.50. A 0 . Heydlauff, local agent. •

Secretary Hooker bas a force of men and teams working on tbe track MM! fair grounds, aad reports that with a litUe expense he wty have it in the best p o « b l e condition.

Thdto * b o attended tbe tional a^ans tawn last wednesdayevening

The male

Our local dealers are buying and shipping large quantities of peaches

id othe

beans, $2; peck of hole lot more, sec list.

and "other fruita. A. B. Johnson has i F D. Waldren, traveling a r a i t A r bought some 1,5(W basketo of peaches the Grand llapids Democrat, visited thus far. The Airly Crawfords are Lowjll this week iu the interest of ' now coming iu. i that paper. There » no better paper

D. W. Pitts, who has handled the i in the state than the Democmt. I t tonsorial tools in Silsby's shop since j contains the full Associated Press January, left for Olivet oil Tuesday, i dispatches, first class editorials and a where he has secured a situation. Mr. j good market report. Sent by mail or Silsby has engaged Charles Booth to \ delivered by Floyd Peckham

social on Robert last Wednesda

bad aa < amoyable time. qaarMt bafaveoed tbe occasion mfah its sweet mfanc.

fill the vancancy.

A Lake Odessa man bccame so mad at the editor of t h l local paper that be went to a lawyer for legnl advice as to how he could wreck the publica-tion. He was advised to buy the paper and run it six months and was charged $2 for the tip.

The following names are among those who sit as jurors a t the next term of the circuit court: Maxim Denny, Ver^onnes; J . R. Hamson , Spbrta; Fred Hin1 yon, Lowell; C . L. Morgan, Bowne; A. W. Slayton, Grattan"; J . Z. Stow, Cascade; Myron D. Winters, Ada.

The Kent Co-operative association which was organized iti 1890 at Gfand Rapids with the idel of buying'sup-plies a t wholesale prices and selling direct to the farmers and workingmen, and waa also to be an exchange for products of the farm, shop and fo*ge has come to grief as such schemes almost invariably do.

U . D. McNaughton, postmaster of Ada, was in town Thursday. On ac-count of ill health he has decided to spend tbe winter in Cal&rnia, and oa Saturday next a t 1 p. m.'will sell at auction two horses, double light har-ness, three single harnesses, top buggy, road wagon, meat wagon, cut-ter, blankets, ete. Turns as usual.

T^tf'se persons" who receive a paper with thfe item marked are informed thatthfeir names have been habded to us b y friends of theirs, with tbe re-quest that we send them sample copies. Hie friends who gave us tbe names think you ought to take tbe LEDGER. We think so, too; don't you?

Special premiums for tbe Lowell fcir: N. P . Hnared A Co., best col-lection of fruit, 50 apple trees; second beet, 50 peat* trees. B. C. Smith, b e * "Morris H " yearling, $5. D . E . Murrty, fat men's race, aver 200 Pouada, $3 and $2 shoes. H . a Schreiner, frrmers race, $5 Maaket, $4 whip, $8 bridle, $2 bailer. $1 «ur-Ctogle. - A B . Johnson,bnttei, $6 ,*4 , ft. A L Coons, apple pie, $2; l u ^ s t

__ , a t 10* centa a week without Sunday edition, 12J cents a week including Sunday paper. The Weekly Democrat aud the I/)WELL LEDGER one t e a r for $1.75.

The Kent County Agricultural so-ciety is ptanniBg to amuse tbe chil-dren on onVday of the fair next week. A. B. Cheney has contributed ibe use of 'a lifting machine for the Ixfys aud girls to fcfct their muscles o&Vand a man will be iti* charge to record the amount of pull each one has. All the entertainment and amusement for the children will be free. Tbe society h a s ' secured an exhibit from the Michigan state experimental station of all the fruits that will be in season next week. The display will be very instinctive because of the oppaitunity it will give fruit growers to identify varieties, a» tbe nomenclature of tbe exhibit will be perfect.

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Ladies, please call at the LKDOBR office «hd examine oar new line of calling oanls.

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SUBSCRIPTIONS DUB. Those who robscribed for thc Lnwfea,

and have not paid for the Kame. are re-imnded that sawcriniiong were to be p A j immediately after the firet i»oe. Thui&a njoematy or it would not have been aiUM. Plea* comply at once.

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