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SERVICES are held, every Sabbath at 10:30 O o’clock: A. M., at the Church o f the “ Larger H o p e a l s o , Sabbath School services immediate- y after the morning meeting. Prayer and confer- '.ace meeting every Thursday evening. A cordial Invitation is extended to alt.

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the faU m oor in each month.ry OF H.—Buchanan Grange N o 40 meets on I; • Ots second and fourth Saturday o f each nonth.&t 2 o’clock r . M. ____ ____

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& L. BAILEY, Homeopathic Physician and , Snrgeon. Office and residence in ImhofE's

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Tuition for fnll term, §(>. Board. §1.75 and §2 per week. For full information address,

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VOLUME XXVI,

JIOUTGAUK SAMS.First publication: Feb. 25,1892.

m H E snm o f nineteen hundred twenty dollars is | claimed to he due at the date o f this notice on

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- gan. Pursuant, therefore, to the power ofsa lein said Mortgage contained the premises therein described, to-wjt: The north-east quarter of the aOnth-east quarter of Section six (6;, forty acres, and the west half o f thg sonth-cash quarter o f the north-east quarter o f said section six (61, town seven (7) south,range eighteen(:8) west, twenty acres, containing in all sixty acres o f land more or less, in Berrien county, Michigan, will be sold at public auction, at the front door o f the Court

.U House, in the village of Berrien Springs, in said ■ “ count v, on Saturday, the twenty-first dayofjlay

1892, at eleven o’clock In the forenoon, to satisfy the amount due on said Mortgage, together with the costs o f foreclosure

DateTTFehrnary 25,1892.JOSEPH COVENEY, Mortgagee.

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W H ER E TH EY C03IE FROM.

Ho had tackled every calling.Tested every kind, ot work,

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Till at length a politlcian—Mover mind the where nor how—

Sent him out for votes a fisliin’—He’s a free trade statesman now.

A REASONABLE JOKEBY EMMA EGGLESOM.

Forty-five years old; a wealthy Bache­lor, a successful lawyer, and the guar­dian o f a way ward niece. This wasClement Bradshaw, and he was in an uncomfortable frame o f mind on this bleak March morning in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninetv-oue. The niece herself sat opposite him in a cushioned roclcer, swaying slowly to and fro, and cro­cheting some intricate pattern o f bright colored wool, with mischief i n her gray eyes and defiance on her scarlet lips.

“ You surely ought to be ready i’o ra settlement in life,” he was saying seri­ously. “You can’d expect to go on in this girlish fashion forever. A t your age people usually begin to think about matrimony.”

“And sometimes keep on thinking from nineteen, to forty-fiye,” she inter­rupted.

He frowned and went on,—“My friend, "Wallace Smith, lias all

the qualifications necessary for a good husband—character, education andwealth. He wishes to marry you, and I see no reasonable objection to the match.”

“Hut I do.”“oSTame them,” said her uncle, loftily. “ They are five in number; I thought

them all out last night, and counted them on my fingers.” She dropped her work and began to enumerate after the manner of an infant arithmetic class. “First, he differs from.me in politics; second, he dyes his hair and chews to bacco ; third, bis name is Smith ; fourth, I do not like him ; and fifth, I have promised to marry somebody else.”

“ Without my permission, Clemen­tine ?”

“ Without your permission, Uncle Clement.”

“ What is the young gentleman’s name?” he asked tartly.

“ Maurice Bayard.”“Humph! An insignificant dabbler

in short-hand— t fellow who spends one-half his time making twisted knots, pot-hooks and clothespins and the other half trying to change them over into good English. I built myself up in the legal profession without any such non­sense”

“Hut every one does not call it non­sense; and Maurice is first-class in stenography, as he is in everything. He does not smoke, drink, swear and play cards; his age and mine corres­pond, so that we can walk together on Sunday without strangers asking if I am leading my grandfather to church,”

"He hasn’t a thousand dollars in the world.”

‘ He lias good health and common sense.”

"So have plenty o f young fellows who sink both in poverty. I do not like your engagement to Maurice Bayard, and if you ever marry him, you , shall wait until you are twenty-one,”

The crochet needle flashed in and out of the soft wool, and Clementine’s eyes Hashed likewise; but she Smiled quietly. Her uncle waited a moment for the sharp retort that he had every reason to expect, and then resumed with increased irritability :—

“ Hang it all, Clementine, why don’t yon speak? It is unlike you to sit in amiable silence while I am talking. Be true to yourself, and say I won’t or I will, or—something.”

The laugh that came from her lips reminded him of a bird scattering rain­drops from Us wings. I f his disap­proval touched her at all, which he doubted, she was ready to shake it oif with unruffled plumage.

“I have no wish to quarrel with you, Uncle Clement,” she said serenely. “The topic o f matrimony being dis­agreeable to ns, we’ll leave off discuss­ing it and take up something more in­teresting. According to the calendar, this is the twenty-ninth day o f March, and the second of April is your birth­day.”

“Yours also,” said Mr. Bradshaw. “We shall be nineteen and forty-five respectively.”

“I have always been sorry for two things,” said the girl, regretfully. “ One that I was not a boy, so that you and papa could have named me Clement instead of Clementine; and that our joint birthday couldn’t have been on the first o f the month. It would have been so amusing to be called a couple of April fools.”

“One does not Viave to be born on a particular day to be a fool,” returned Bradshaw, g: uffly.

“ There you are, unde, with acid enough in your voice to convert maple sugar into pure cider vinegar 1 I wish you could enjoy A ll Fool’s Day as fully as 1 do.”

“I have had good reasons for dislik­ing it ever since you came to live with me,” growled her uncle. “ With brown paper baked in my breakfast pancakes, a sugar bowl filled with salt for my coffee, a Scandinavian paper beside my plate instead o f the Times, sawdust in my hat, molasses in my gloves, muci­lage in my inkstand, and so on to the end o f the chapter, you cannot wonder that I have a tired feeling on the first o f April that even Hood’s Sarsaparilla cannot cure. I wish you would quit those miserable litile tricks for once, and give me a re3t.”. “It is asking o f me a great sacrifice,”

said she, with a gravity.tbat extorted a sniff o f anger from her relative.

“I wouldn’t object to a reasonable joke, Clementine,” he went on with in­creased warmth. “Anything really Witty or smart could be appreciated and laughed at even i f one was victim­ized; but those senseless, idiotic little capers annoy one beyond expression. It seems to me that you can never plan, a hoax worth perpetrating.”

Clementine’s eyes opened a Jittle wider, and the mischief in their depths extended itself over her entire face, as plainly equipped for action as if cloth­ed in war paint and feathers.

“I wish I knew what a reasonable joke might be, Uncle Clement,” she

said demurely. “I th'nk I will study on that idea- for a while, and if I can: invent one you shall he benefited by it. But I was speaking o f our birthday. Before that wicked sore throat drove me from school last winter, I asked a friend to yisit me, and she partly prom­ised to come. I want her here for that occasion.”

“I do not object,” said Mr. Bradshaw, with the air of one net -interested in the subject.

“I know you do not, yet her stay may be somewhat annoying to you. She has the misfortune to be quite deaf, and you will have to speak loud in con­versing with her.”

“I will not talk to her if it causes too much of an effort. But why did you select a deaf girl for a friend ?”

“ What a question! We do not se­lect our friends—they come to us as a part o f our lives. This Miss Douglas is a good creature, and was always kind to me at school. She hasn’t any home, and I think she will enjoy a visit here very much.”

“Did you say the name was Douglas ?” “ Yes—Jessie Douglas.”“It has a Scotch sound,” said Mr.

Bradshaw, in a tone of reflection.“Perhaps,” replied Clementine indif­

ferently. “H o w l think of it I have known bar to indulge in a quotation from Burns. It may be that her father wore the plaid, and she was raised on oatmeat porridge and Scotch thistles; but ihe is not guilty o f ‘gang o o f and ‘weeldown.’ ”

“Has she always been deaf ?” Clementine looked as if this was a

hard question to answer, and finally said in a doubtful way,—

“I don’t believe she has; it mus. be lhe result of some sev< re illness,"

Her uncle did not speak again; he was industriously scraping the point of a pencil with his knife, and his face had taken on one of his most abstract­ed expressions. §0 Clementine crochet­ed on till a tall, active figure came across the street, and from tbe'windovv at her right hand she saw it ascending their own steps.

“ There’s Maurice, new !” she exclaim­ed, wilfully regardless o f her uncle’s displeasures; and springing up she tossed her work on llie table, went out into the hall, and met the Visitor at the door. “ Thrice welcome, knight of the stenographer’s quill!” she cried eagerly," as she clasped his hand, “ L have been consumed with anxiety to see you for the last half hour,”

“Only for a half hour!” he said re­proachfully. “ My vanity would be better satisfied i f it had been for hours and hours.”

Clementine escorted him into a small­er apartment opposite the one she had. just left, and closed the door carefully behind them.

“ Maurice, do men o f profession smile leni.ently on April fool jokes ?”

He hesitated a moment, as if taking the matter into consideration, and au- swered slowly,—

“Well, that depends on circumstanc­es. I f they are played on others, yes ; if oti ourselves, we omit the smile and grin and bear it ”

“I recognize your wisdom, my young student of human nature. The joke I have in contemplation is to be played on Uncle Clement, and he doubts my ability to make one worth perpetrating. Do you know Jessie Douglas, one of lhe college teachers at Fayette?”

“By reputation only.”‘ She is one of the best girls in the

world, if sbeis an old maid and a bit conventional. I am going to have her come here for a visit by way of the Burlington railway Thursday morning.I hate told uncle that she is quite deaf, and I shall write to her that he is very deaf. Then I shall be suddenly seized wiih a sore throat, and send him to the depot (o meet her. They will both shout themselves hoarse before the knowledge of the fraud dawns upon them, and uncle will bs convinced that l am capable of something beyond idi­otic little tricks.”

“Isn’t it hard on Miss Douglas ?”“She will not mind it after I have

made explanations.”“ Mr. Bradshaw will be furious.” “ Anger is short-lived, and sunshine

is brightest after a storm.”“You will not be there to see the

fun.”“Mo, but you can go in my place and

bring back a correct report.”“And share the wrath that must fall

on yonr devoted head? After that I am afraid your uncle will set his face like a slab of granite against our mar­riage.”

“He has done that already, Maurice,I imagine things couldn’t be in more crooked shape for the course of true love, so I intend to enjoy myself at his expense for one more first of April.”

Maurice looked at her soberly. “Clementine, what have I done to in­

cur Mr. Bradshaw’s displeasure?”“You must ask the weather prophet,

or the family doctor, or some other oracle. The only cause I can give for liis whims is Bradshaw perverseness. Iain really tirecl of Uncle Clement’s old bachelor notions. I f I could, I would marry him to Jessie Douglas to­morrow, and see if she couldn't teach him a little sense; but she would not take the best man in Iowa for a hus­band. She has a piece of withered golden rod and- a pressed fern leaf wrapped in tissue paper, with the ghost of a memory dried into the- stems; and she will go on worshipping it through life, and die without leaving posterity ary wiser for her love exper­ience.

Maurice interrupted her bv taking her hand carelessly in both o f his own —just then he had no thoughts for Jesse Douglas.

“ You are willing to wait for me, Clementine,” he said gently,

“ I am not going to wait for any other man,” she replied with decision. “And I can assure you that the sternness of a cruel guardian does not create any suicidal intentions- in my mind, as it might in that of the heroine o f a play. I f comedy or tragedy are to be spread for me sandwiched between the slices of life’s bread and butter, I shall choose comedy, because it, like mustard, sharp­ens one’s appetite. How, if you will mail my letter tb Jessie, I will write it this moment.”

“Be quick, then,” said Maurice, glanc­ing at his watch. “ The north bound mail is made up in forty-five minutes.”

Clementine’s letter was very brief:- - “M r d e a r Miss D o u g l a s :—I am

taking advantage o f your vacation and your promise to ask you to come to In­dependence for a week.

‘ Take the morning stage to Maynard on Thursday, and you will be in time for the train that is due at this place at one o’clock. I f I can’t meet you at the station I will send my uncle.

“Your friend, Cl e m e n t in e . “P. S.—I f my uncle should come

please bear in mind -that he is very dead, and speak to him in an unusually loud voice. C. B.”

Maurice read this while she directed the envelope. *

‘“A woman’s letter, said he,laQghicg, “ with the most important part o f it in the postscript.”

Then they parted affectionately, and he went to the post-office while Clemen­tine went to her uncle in such a bright mood that she . was really a charming companion. She indulged in all sorts o f piquant fancies at the dinner table; read a long political speech to him afterward, find won the palm for gra­

cious good-humor by playing aud sing­ing “iLorena” and all his favorite bal­lads. After a time she drifted into Scotch songs, and she finished “ We’d Better Bide a Wee,” lie a9ked abrupt­ly.—

“ Where did you find that, Clemen­tine?”

“A t Fayette; Jessie Douglas had the music.”

“ H—m ! Does that deaf girl sing?” “A little.”‘ How old is she ?” •“About thirty, 1 should say—possibly

older.” .“Blonde or brunette?”“A mixture of both; she is tolerably

fair, with blue eyes and blaek hair.” Mr. Bradshaw again attacked the

point o f his pencil with his -knife, and relapsed into abstraction. Evidently he had heard enough about Jessie Doug­las.

Mexf morning at breakfast he sur­prised his niece by saying,—

“I am going to West Union to-day, Clementine, to look after some old claims. Think I shall not be home till to morrow.”

“Dear me!” exclaimed the girl. “ How shall I get through the night ? The house will be over-run with burglars.”

Mr, Bradshaw smiled.“You have the housekeeper aud the

courage o f the Bradshaws’, To make your safety more complete I will leave my revolver.”

Clementine shrugged her shoulders. “I think I could make the carving-

knife or paper weight more serviceable; but it might be well to get a half dozen girls here and start a pow-wow that shall last till nearly daybreak, and frighten all housebreakers away.”

The program was duly carried into effect, to the discomfiture of the quiet, middle-aged housekeeper; and when Mr. Bradshaw returned oil the last day of March he found Clementine in a state of composure, and able to report that no burglars had disturbed her.

“Did you get the old claims adjusted satisfactorily?" she inquired, as they lingered over an appetising dinner.

“Yes,” said her uncle, grimly. “ Un­expected evidence made things quite easy.”

“You look wonderfully pleased,” she continued, “Is it successful strategy or the suitable reward, that brings such beaming good-nature to your countenance?”

“ The happy combination o f both, my dear; and I am also looking forward to carpet tacks in my slipper toes, and peppered ginger-snaps for my luncheon to-morrow, knowing the April fool mania that governs my thoughtful, fun-loving niece.”

“You understand me perfectly. Un­cle Clement,” she replied sweetly. “ Clear Bradshaw from the Crown of my head to the sole o f my substantial foot, I am still in active pursuit of a reasonable joke, as you suggested. I f I fail, the going down o f to-morrow’s sun will find me a s dder and more humble girl ”

Was it a smile of triumph that light­ed up the elder Bradshaw’s face? Clementine was actually puzzled by it, in spite of the promised success o f her plan; for she had received a note from Jessie in the last mail, telling her that she would be at Independence the next day at one o’clock, and Maurice was prepared to go to the depot to witness the fun. But the smile was gone in an instant, and so was her faint suspicion.

On the following morning Clementine made her appearance with a silk hand­kerchief bound like a choker about her throat, and her yoiee lost in a husky whisper. She was apparently afflicted by one of those sudden attacks of ton- tilitis that had occured s » frequently since acute diphtheria had put a stop to her scfiool-days in December. Mr. Bradshaw sympathized with her, order­ed the • customary remedies, and two hours before the time appointed for meeting Miss Douglas left the house, telling his niece he had business at the Court House, and should not return till he brought her friend with him.

After an hour spent with the morn­ing papers, Clementine, with marvel­ous alacrity for an invalid, began to arrange a dainty collation in the din- iug-roOm. to pacify the wrath of her victims when they should meet her. She was full of little smiles and grim aces and giggles which might have as­tonished Mrs. Dorsey, the housekeeper, liad She not lived witli her for the past four years and learned her ways quite thoroughly.

Clementine was flitting about the room,putting hot-house roses into vases, and arranging angel food and salted al­monds on pretty china dishes, when the hall door flew open with a bang, and Maurice Bayard strode along the passage-way and dashed into her pres­ence, red-faced and panting from haste and excitement.

“ What is the matter?” she cried.“ Oh, Tina, we are sold—sold too

Cheap even for the first o f April, Your uncle took a marriage license from the county clerk for Clement Bradshaw and Jessie Douglas, and met her at the Burlington depot with it in his pocket ! He kissed her in,broad daylight, and took a cab and drove straight to the Presbyterian parsonage. He will be here in less than an hour with his wife. Sly old fox!”

Clementine, put her plate of almonds down on the* table, sank into a chair, • and burst into an immoderate fit o f laughter.

“Bradshaw forever!” she exclaimed, between ringing echoes o f mirth. ‘T see it all, Maurice; his old claims satis­factorily adjusted! He must be Jessie’s s weetheart, the hero of the golden rod and fern, and he never went to West Union day before yesterday. He stop­ped at Maynard, where he took the stage for Fayette, and there he saw Jessie, and they compared notes and agreed upon this plan. Hotbing but hereditary pride could ever reconcile me to this checkmate. I wish I could get even with him.”

“We can, Tina,” said Maurice hope­fully. “ You have a legal right to con­tract marriage at nineteen; just over the way stands the Court House, and the clerk is my friend. Fifteen min­utes will bring me back here with a license and dress you in cloak and hat. Then for the Methodist parsonage, and the tables are turned quickly enough to do credit even to a Bradshaw.”

Clementine stared at him in amaze-' ment.

“ Is it an elopement?”“H o; it is my idea of a reasonable

joke.”“And you will youche for its respect­

ability?”“ I will,” said Maurice with great

fervor.“ Married on A ll Fools’ Day in a min­

ister’s house, wearing a brilliantine dress, with my throat tied up with a silk handkerchief, and my winter hat on my bead! Ho wedding feast, no bridesmaids, no presents; nothing but the sweetness of a victory over Uncle Clement. I believe it is worthwhile. Maurice; you may take'me for better or worse—probably worse.”

“ The risk does not alarm me.” And hurried as be was Maurice stopped to kiss her before he left.

Clementine did not spend a moment in giving explanations to Mrs. Dorsey, who was busy in the kitchen. She slipped into her sealskin cloak, made a few rapid passes with a brush over her forehead curls, gave her hat a saucy perch above them, and with veil and

gloves in hand stationed herself at a window to watch for Maurice. And swift as her preparations had been she had hut a few minutes to wait before he came down the street in a close car­riage.

She met him at the threshold, -and laughed as he handed her into the ve­hicle.“ ‘Just twenty minutes getting ready

for the most solemn event of our lives, I hope, Maurice, that you are reflecting on the heavy responsibility you are as­suming.”

“Marrirge first and reflection after­ward. Ho repentance allowed,” said Maurice, excitingly.

Olemeut Bradshaw did not find his niece waiting for him when he escort­ed his bride into the parlor, but while he wondered and fretted at her absence Mrs. Jessie remo’ved her wraps and made herself comfortable. And by. and-by a couple came in without an­nouncement—a smiliDg, self-compla­cent pair who stood before the newly made Benedict, eschewing the faintest sign of penitence.

“ Clementine, what does this mean?” was the stern question that broke the significant sileuce.

“It meaus, my dear uncle, that In­dependence is having a boom on mar­riages and ‘reasonable jokes,’ and there is more than One April fool in the Bradshaw family. Shake!” And the little gloved hand reached invitingly ’ across the distance between them till it nearly touched his own.

Should he take it? He hesitated till the very ridiculous featiiTes of the whole affair struck him and then did better ; for he kissed her with an out­burst of laughter, and shook the hand Of the young stenographer. Then Clementine turned to her old teacher.

“Dear Aunt Jessie," she said in her pretty, audacious way. “You ought to thank me for making such a good match for you. There ate only two causes for regret, and they are that the aristocratic family record of the Brad­shaws must take into its keeping the entry of these All Fool marriages, and that the Upper Iowa University at Fa­yette has lost one of its best teachers and must advertise for another.”— Waverley Magazine.

Papa’s Reflections.Yes, we have a baby— a real boy—at

our house, Royal Eubbell, It’s strange, but nowadays a child is occasionally born even in American families. Of course it isn’t right that he should he. It is trying to the nerves to have chil­dren about. And we Americans have n’t time to rear them; we are too busy,

nevertheless, this little fellow came thus,_and I suppose we’ll have to keep him now that he is here. His board doesn’t seem to cost much as yet; but be hasn’t learned to smoke, and he doesn’t drink anything stronger than extract o f wishbone.

When people try to describe this atom of humanity, they say he is just like his pa. But I’ve looked and look­ed in the glass without finding the re­semblance.

When he cries, he says, “La, la, la!” in different keys. I hope he’s not go­ing to he a singer. Our folks have all been good srraigbt trades people, and : we couldn’t stand the dis race.

IIi3 grandma says Iris tongue is lied. It doesn’t seem possible; but if it is. I hope they will leave it so. I never could endure life were It any looser than it is at present.

A family is never complete until its members are all born, and as many as come must be eared for. W ith this philosophy I console myself, and keep from shaking the fellow too hard when he prolongs his evening serenade far into the darksome hours of the night. H e does not seem to have any idea of the lapse of time— especially o f night time— and ho forgets that when he is warmly bundled in a blanket, his pa is only clothed in night shirt and goose- flesh. I f he lives. b>-’B probably expe­rience a change of heart. After all, it isn’t so bad when you’i e used to liis eccentricities-, but rearing babies re­quires experience and practice to boot,

Victoria’s Crown.The crown of the queen ofG reit

Brittian and Ireland was made in 183S, has been estimated to he of the value of §1,500,000 says the Retail Jeweler. It weighs nearly t wo pounds, and com­prises more than 8,000 precious stones, of which five sixths are diamonds The lower part o f the band is a row Of 129 pearls, the upper part of 112.

Between them, in front, is a large sapphire. Behind is a smaller sap­phire, with six others and eight emer­alds. Between the two great sap­phires are ornaments containing 286 diamonds. Above the band are eight sapphires surmounted by eight dia­monds, ancl eight festoons containing ICO diamonds. In the front of the crown is the ruby giyen to the Black Pi •inee, King.of Castle. This is set ina Maltese cross, and forming the cross are 75 large diamonds.

Three otber crosses, containing 386 diamonds, are around the upper part o f the crown. Between the four cross­es are four orr.amen.'s with four rubies in the center, and containing respec-, tively 84, 86, S5 and 87 diamonds. From the Maltese, crosses rise four arches, composed of oak leaves and acorns, the leaves containing 72S dia­monds. The 32 acrons are each o f a single pearl and are set in cups made of 54 diamonds. Above the arches stand the mound, containing 54S dia­monds, and above the mound is the cross, containing a very large sapphire, four very large and ISO small dia­monds.

Saved B y H is W it .It 13, perhaps, not generally known

that "when he was a young man, Bis­marck was for sometime an official re­porter for one of the courts of justice. In those days his temper sometimes got the better of him, but upon one oc­casion, at least, his wit saved him from disgrace. This was when questioning a witness, the latter made an impu­dent retort, whereupon Bismarck ex­claimed, angrily:

“I f you are not more respectful, I shall kick you out of the room.”

“Young man,” said the judge, inter­rupting the proceeding, “ I would have you understand that this is a dig­nified court of justice, and that, i f there is any kicking to .be done, the court will do it.”

“Ah, you see?” said Bismarck to the witness; “if you are not more respect­fu l to me the court will kick you out of the room ; so be careful— veiy care­ful, sir!”

Needed P rayin g For.Flossie’s mother is an excellent Re­

publican woman, while her father is a pronounced Democrat, and tells it nearly as often as H ill does. The oth­er evening Flossie finished her prayer’ with “and. oh, lordie dear, do save pjipa. Amen.”

’ “ Why, Flossie,” exclaimed her moth­er, “ what do you mean by.saying that? Don’t you want anybody else saved but papa ?”

“Of course I do, mamma,” she repli­ed, very seriously, “and you and me’s all right, but papa is a Democrat, and It takes a little extra prayin’ to get him through, and we ain’t sure about it even then, mamma.”

IN K ,Black, Bed, Blue, Green,

V iolet W ritin g Fluid, Copy m g, Combined; Sanford’s, Car­ter’s, Barnes’, Stafford’s, Ar-. nold’s, T he Diam ond and "Worthington’s Inks.

MUCILAGE, &c.A lso a large stock o f w ell se­

lected

Pens, Pencils, <&>.HARRY BINNS’ .

OPPOSITE HOTEL.

u

Learn a Trade, Boys.A correspondent in the Sewing M a­

chine Hews, quoted from the Ladies’ Home Journal an article on the value of a trade, makes some remarks of his own which is practical and pertinent to the subject.

I remember years ago, when I was a a very young man, writes John CoatsIn the Journal, meeting John Roach, the great ship builder, in his ship yard at Chester, Pennsylvania. I remember, too, what he said then of the value of a trade to the average boy.

“ Young man,” he said, laying his great, broad hand on my shoulder, and looking at me earnestly with his keen, steel-blue Irish eyes, “next to a clear conscience a trade is as good a thing as any young man can have in this country. You can carry it with you ail your life long; you have to pay neither rent nor taxes upon it, and it will help you around a sharp corner when most other things will fail.”

I have never forgotten that utter­ance from a man who started in life— after landing in H ew York, from Bre­land— as helper to a machinist, who became the leading ship builder of his time, and who, up to the hour that he was stricken with a fatal illness, conld take the place of any of M s workmen, whether it was a man drivingrivets or an expert putting together the most delicate parts o f a steamship’s ma­chinery.

Something very like what John Roach said I hard another great man, who is now dead, say. This was Peter Cooper, a man of whom American boys cannot know too much.

“I f I had my way, said the venerable philanthropist, on the occasion to which I refer, “I would give every hoy a trade. Then I would have him stick to it-, love it and he good to it. I f he does, it will be good to him ."

To which the writer in the Sewing Machine Hews adds:

To an observing and interested per­son how sad is the spectacle, and how forcible is the fact, which ought to bs food for serious reflection to every American citizen, that very few o f our American hoys ever learn a trade, and as a result almost everywhere the leading mechanical positions are filled men of foreign birth.

W hy Is this? - Is it because onr hoys are less ab’e? Is it because there are no facilities for learning trades in this country ? To the last question the ar­gument may be advanced that the trade anions lay too many and too heavy restrictions regarding the num­ber of apprentices which will he em­ployed or allowed. Argument admitted and the point taken granted. But the bottom cause is Young America’s “don’t want to.” H e would rather stand behind a counter in some store, or canvass for some agency, or work in some factory at piece work, where he can earn some money, at first, per week than if put to learning a trade.

This would all be very well provid­ed he could l>e sure that such employ­ment won d last as long as he needed to work for a living. W e all Know that no substan ial building exists, or can exist, without a good foundation, therefore let us encourage our boys to learn trades. Where there are trade schools, take advantage of them, and every city should have one or more. Teach them that work is honorable. That it is no disgrace to lay brick. That it is not unmanly to be seen on the street carrying a kit o f plumber’s tools with a clean conscience. Though the work he dirty, the money is as clean as that gained in any other way.

Encourage them to learn trades and afterwards to rise iu them. Having a good common school education for a starter, their native smartness will en­able them to master their trades, and avoiding all unclean or unsteady hab­its they need have no fear for the fu ­ture, for their services will always be in demand.

Arrested for Whistling.Americans have little conception of

what may constitute a treasonable of­fense in some of the countries of the old world which are still despotic and extremely military. There recently oc­curred at Barr, in Al3ace, a trial which must have been very amusing to an American who might have witnessed if a man’s liberty has nbt been in jeop­ardy. •

One day, not long, ago, in the streets of Barr, a laborer, who was engaged in loading a wagon, whistled cheerfully at his work. A s he was thus engaged, a gendarme or military policeman came within hearing. * The workman, apparently preoccupied, kept on with his whistling.

“1 arrest you,” said the gendarme, coming u p and putting his hand on the workman’s shoulder.

“W hat for?’’ asked the man, aston­ished.

“For seditious whistling. Y ou have been whistling the ‘Marseillaise,’ ”

The “Marseillaise” being the French national air and % revolutionary air be­sides, is forbidden in German Alsace.

But the workman exclaimed, “Ob, no, yeu are mistaken! I t isn’t the •Marseillaise’ at all that I am whistl­ing, hut th e ‘Mai ch of the Brunswick Hussars’. I- used to belorg to the Brunswick Hussars, and that was our regimental tune!”

The gendarme, who was a German, and thought he knew one tune from another, took the workman under ar­rest; and in due time he was brought into court charged with disloyalty in whistling a Seditious air in a public place.

Both the gendarme and the accused told their stories very confidently, and as the workman was reputed an hon­est and loyal man, the court was very much perplexed between the two men and the two tunes.

In this prediciment the court ad­journed to the councilroom adjoining, and calling in t ie aCcustd and the ac­cuser in turn, made the workman whistle the “March o f the Brunswick Hussars” and the gendarme the “Mar- seil'aise.”

Each did his best, hut the tunes proved, in the ear of the court, to he so much unlike that it was regarded as improbable that the gendarme could have been mistaken.

The accused was, therefore, sent to prison, but liis general bearing, and above all, his excellent whistling, had affected the court so favorably that be was sentenced to onlv three days’ im­prisonment.— Touth's Companion.

A bar of iron worth §5 worked into ' horseshoes is worth $10, made into needles is worth $350, made into pen- -r' knife blades is worth $3,285, made i n - . to balance springs of watches is worth $250,000,

B u c h a n a n R e c o r d .

JOHN C . HOLMES, Editor.

TH URSDAY, A P lltL 28, 1892,

The corner atone of the Grant monu­ment, in New York, was laid yester­day. This ceremony has been a long time coming, and people had almost ceased expecting it.

By the complexion of the various state delegations chosen to attend the Chicago convention, it is becoming quite plain that Cleveland will he the next democratic nominee.

Louisiana had her state election last week, which resulted in the election of Poster, the anti-lottery democratic candidate, by over 20,000 majority. This is supposed to he the final settler o f the lottery question in that state, and the country.

The democrats of Kalamazoo county appointed delegates to Muskegon, Saturday, and passed a resolution en­dorsing, Hon. George L. Yaple to head the state delegation to Chicago conven­tion. The resolution as originally drawn contained the name o f Don. M. Dickinson, but the convention did not want it that way.

Mr. Burrows made a very neat point against the democrats who have been printing Henry Georges boos in the Congressional Record without other preface than "them's tny sentiments," They appear not to have read the book before committing themselves to its doctrines, ana. they nud tnemselves on record m favor of absolute tree trade.ihe abolition ot custom houses and internal revenue, and the imposition of all tax­ation. municipal, state and national, upon land values. This is a prettv stiff program, even f or free trade demo­crats. and those concerned are likely to have trouble explaining themselves to their constituents.

Nothing more ludicrous than tne situation o f the Henry George demo­crats can well he imagined. They have a white elephant on their hands in their six “ speeches” in favor o f free trade and the single tax. Their position much resembles that o f the ubiquitous greenhorn who “didn’ t know it was loaded.” Another time it is to he hoped honorable gentlemen will at least read their “speeches” before getting them printed.—Detroit Tribune.

Public Debt in the United States.No exhibit of the eleventh census is

as significant o f ournation n pro perity as that showing the absolute lecnre m the amount o f the federal debt and the relative decline in the amount f st ti and local indebtedness duiinsr tne rmst census decade. “The average annual decrease in the national debt o f tne United States during the decade,” says a recent census bulletin, “exceeded $ 100,000,000; the decrease per capita of combined national, state and local debt during the same period was from $00.- 73 to $32,37, While other statistics show that the value of property assessed for taxation increased mean while from $n ,- 000,000,000 to $23,300,000,000, or 30 per cent, indicating a reduction o f public debt and an increase o f wealth for the country unpree.-dented at least in modern times.’*

Analysis o f the details of the indebt­edness accentuates the statemente above quoted. In ten years the federal debt decreased $1,030,357,200, or from $3S.- 33 per capita to $14.24. For the same period: the state debt decreased $68,- 246,706, or from $5.03 per capita to 83.- 63 ; the county debt decreased but $20,- 940,018, a decline pet capita from §2.47 t> S2.32; the municipal debt decreas­ed $40,114,217, a decline per capita from $13.64 to $11.37; and the school dis­tricts debt increased $19,121,200, an in­crease per capita from $0.35 to $0.59. Population and wealth have thus de­veloped more rapidly than public debt, a fact which tells strongly not only of the frugality o f Americ in politic 1 ad ministration, but of tne continuous progress and prosperity which have en­abled us to pay off so vast a sum o f in­debtedness.

The total indebtedness o f the United States, federal, state and local is $2,- 027,170.041). o f which $891,960,104 is national and SI,135,210,442 state and local debt. Detail and. comparison fol­low :

isoo 1S-0National debt........ 5 1 tD iui 10 i 1wState and local itch 1ldj 11 i l l _ 41State................... — Jp 5 "’O .4 0QoComity.................. ......... I45.04S.043 131.103.027Municipal........... ...... 734.4U3.0BO (j84.3-ls.S4SSchool district.............. au.T0l.9!3 I7.os0.0s2

These figures give the debt less sink­ing fund. The largest increase in local debt has occured in the norih. central and western states, but even in those sections the per capita- increase lias been slight. T ie North ktl nticisouth Atlantic and South Central states show a decline in indebtedness. Of tr.e municipal debl $i 0 f44ha- been contracted by cities,of 4.000 population and over, and the average per capita indebtedness in these cities is $31 39. The combined national, state and local indebtedness o f the United States is one-fifteenth o f the total public debt of. the world less sinking fond .—Detroit Tribune.

Monday evening Charles Edwards "Welch, colored, o f Niles, came before Justice Alexander, made complaint and gave security for costs, for the ar­rest o f Dr. W . II. Smith, o f Niles, for assault with deadly weapons. A* war­rant was placed in constable Palmer's bauds and he brought Smith here. Smith gave bonds to appear Wednesday for trial. Smith seemed to be pretty wrathy, between drinks, at having to come to Buchanan, especially on the night o f the meeting o f the city coun­cil, o f which he is a member, and he hardly know how the council could mee: without him. The case was call­ed yesterday and Smith demanded a jury. The case was adjourned to nine o’clock this morning, and is now in progress.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

The R ecord Is informed o f an ex­ample o f Immaculate purity o f the Prohibition party,*in the story that of the seventeen votes cast in Berrien township by that party, sixteen were for Sam Bishop, for township treasurer, with full knowledge o f his forgeries. This can be accounted for very easily by the timeworn claim of the party, that they vote for principle and not for men. To some people belonging to parties o f less pretentions to purity, it would seem that Bishop formed a combination o f principle and man.

L ast week H. G. Samson had some hams and wheat stolen and sent for constable Palmer to find thf-m which he promptly did,, loeatir gtne th u f al o When this was done Mr. Samson did not appear to go farther v ith tne e e and: it was likely to drop, but Monday morning, on complaint of Iiss lari a Samson, Mr. Palmer are t d III rv Samson, Henry Spoor, James Madron and Ulysses Bristol, and brought them before Justice Dick to answer to the charge. Bristol gave bail to ap­pear Friday for examination. The others went to Berrien jail to wait.

H . M. R ose, formerly o f Niles and Beaton Harbor, has charge o f th e ad­vertising for the Michigan branch o f the Kecley institute, and reports that a branch is soon to be established in this part o f the state. The Palladium says it will be either-at Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Hartford, or South Haven. Mr. Rose's statement for it is, that the blanch, would be where the chief busi­ness o f the town was not centered in the saloon, but the sentiment rather in favor o f temperance. The Detroit Times says Niles has been selected as the proper place. This selection is doubtless made on the principle o f counter Irritant in medical p ra ctice - placed as near as possible to the sore it Is intended to heal.

Rev . M. L. T resslhr attended the meeting of Urn Kalamazoo Presbytery, last week, at Kalamazoo, and was hon*' ored by being chosen moderator.— Sturgis Journal.

“ Whisperings o f True Love,” Yalse Lente, by Fischer, is one of the most pleasing waltzing waltzes that has come to our notice for many a day. It is from beginning to end fresh and melodeous, aod has all the features of bright and sparkling composition. Price 30c. I gxaz F ischer, publisher, Toledo, O.

--------------------------------------The May number of the North

American Review contains “The Man, or the Platform?” by Senator Quay,- o f Penn.: senator T est.o f Mo.; Rep- lesenutive Boutelle.of Me.; Represen- ta ine B irri ws o f Mich.; Representa­tive "Wilson, o f W. V a.; and Represent­ative Kilgore, of Texas.

-----------Tow Cottrell , who has already

~ei\t 1 sixteen years in the penitentiary, h -vm«r been sent from Berrien county tor thirteen years, w'as arrested in Chic tgo last week on a charge of as- ault w ith intent to do bodily injury,

the complainant being his niece, Mrs. Ida Lefevre. Cottrell, who was in­ti vicated at the time, threw' his niece, v mlentiy to the floor, breaking her arm. —Edtrardsburg Argus.

We are rousing mad here, for It is stated on good author! y that Fairland, Berrien Centre and Hartman are to be faked up by the Big 4, the stations blotted out and the cars will whizz by us at lightning speed, Mr. Mathews, the postmaster at Fairland, has orders not to plant any more seeds on railtoad ground. The taking up of these sta­tions will depreciate property very much, and. there is much ill f eeling here.—Niles Star, Berrien (Jt litre Cor.

Ain. F o l e y , a trackmaster, and Mr. Fiuen. a bridge man, from the M. C- it I cu re down over the St, Joseph Yal- l P E„ Monday. They took their time and looked at the bridges and everything else. Their inspection was o f no great importance to anybody ex­cept mat they report the roacl in much better shape than they had expected to find i t —Era,

Parson J. W . Arney has withdrawn from the charge o f the Saranac M . E , church, Ho has become tired of the nagging and fault finding about his liking for a good horse.

Tbe Patrons of Hartford, Y an Buren county, have, boycotted the post-office by mailing all of their letters at the train, thus cutting off his salary which is not of the most munificent in the world, at best.

A ten-years old boy had all Duwagiae out searching for his body, and when found it was snugly tucked in bed at a farm house three miles in the country, where he had gone with some school­mates to see some rabbits.

Eight farm mortgages, amounting to $5,302, were recorded in this county last w*eek, and xl, for $10,710 were dis­charged. Seventeen mortgages on city properly, amounting to $20,305.10, were rcc.tided, and 13, for $Ui,SO0.0G, were discharged.—Kalamazoo Telegraph.

The fireman o f Michigan Central loco­motive 202, when oiling his engine at West Branch on Friday last, discover­ed tdood and pieces o f human flesh on the ash pan.. L iter it was developed that an unknown man had been run over at some point on the road north and ground to pieces.—Detroit Free Press.

A horsey individual down in Van Buren county wauls a kitchen lady, and wants one had. He advertises as follows in the, country press: “ Wanted, a hired girl about 14 hands high and weighing 140 pounds, sound in mind and limb, and wearing No. 4 shoe. Color no object, but bright bay with daik points preferred. Must be able to wash and bake.—Detroit News.

N o vorxc , man and attorney has more rapidly come to the front in Ber­rien county than V, M. Here o f Bu­chanan. Those who heard him here at tiie Young People’s picnic gathering will remember what an interesting, pleasant and forcible speaker he was Buchanan pei pie, republicans especial­ly, are quite proud o f him and hint that there are possible contingencies which might provoke them to suggest his name for higher honors.—Niles Re­corder. ■

B cciianan has a sensation. Two disguised men are emulating the ex­ample of the many cranks around the country, and have started to gain a r eputation as Jack the buggers. Women, defenseless women, are caught upon the Streets at night by these worthies and hugged, and thereat all the good people o f Buchanan wonder. Come to Niles, ladles, where electric lights shine and you, will not get hugged on tbe streets,—Niles Sun.

County Sunday' School Convention.An interesting program is being ar­

ranged for the Berrien County Sunday School Convention to be held at Three Oaks, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 3 and 4. Free entertainment will be provided by the people o f Three Oaks for those who attend. A ll persons a'e- siring entertainment are requested to write Miss Franc Sheldon, Three Oaks. Luncheon will be served to delegates at the churc-h at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening.

Joseph Bertrand .a half-breed o f the Pokagon tribe of Pottawotamies of Cass county, died last night at South Bend. He had suffered from grip and paralysis for several weeks. Joe Ber­trand was a noted character in North­ern Indiana and Southern Michigan, and was without doubt the oldest man in Indiana. A t the time of his death he claimed to be 110 > ears okl, and it is positively known he had lived 105 years. For many years lie lived at Crumstown. Bertrand, Mich., was named after a nephew of his. Bertrand was of small stature and wiry frame, but for many years had been in feeble health.—Detroit Free Press. ■

A TYPE OF HUSBAND.HIS IS A NATURE WHICH MOST

YOUNG GIRLS SHOULD AVOID.

W e have received from Richard A. Saaltield. 704.790 and 798 Tenth Aver nue, N. Y.» the first number f a mu sical monthly entitled. The New Ym k Musical Monthly. It is a marvel <h cheapness and excellence. We all know what music costs, hut here is a publication of 32 pages o f music, large size, large print, equal in every respect to highprieed music, which is < ff red to the public at 15 cents per copy; or, $1,50 per year, postpaid. The number to band contains “Nightingale Song” from the Tyrolean, by Gene,: “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,” by Aseher: “ Love and Duty,” Song, by Drvden; “Serena'a” (Italian) W al'z, by Jaxone; “Kitsmin Schottisehe MilUaire,” by Legeett; “Darkie’s Dream ” by Lansing; -‘Tyro­lean” Waltz, by Pratt, any one of which is worth the price asked. Our subscrib­ers would do well to send 15 cents for a sample copy, or. better still, $1.50 for a yearly subscription to the publisher.

niate Items.Van Buren county dogs are doing an

extensive she- p business.S\ Joseph county people are oireu-

iatlug a local option petition.The largest peppermint refinery in

the United States is to be erected in Kalamazoo.

Frank Butler, o f Decatur, has be n sent to jail thirty days for violating the local option law.

Local option will fake effect in Gra­tiot county May 1, and the saloonists are preparing to fight it.

Eaton county local option law is in the supreme court, for a decision on the correctness o f the election.

Marshallltas just voted almost unani­mously to issue $40,000 bonds to secure water power and electric lights,

Detroit’s typhus patient has been re-, leased from quarantine, his bed burned and the board Of health happ,yv’ m the. belief that the disease is disposed of.

George Wells, o f Dowagqie, threw a half brick through a window of the North Shore Limited train on the Michigan Central, and is in the-hands of the law.

Dr. F. B. Brewer.I'roiri tin* Berlin Cournnt.

“Personal—We know of n*i travel­ing physician that has obtained, and yet maintains so good a reputation as does Doctor Brewer, the Analytical Physician. lie has made regular visits to Berlin for years, while others mak­ing great pretentions, have came once.

a little longer, seemingly to

Tito Solf Im portance o f n Typical Young UTarrxcd Man W ho Has for a W ifo a Sunny Toni pored W om an W ho Cannot Bo Suppressed In Her ICilorts to Bo Happy.

“ 1 pity that woman.”“Pity her?”“ Yes, with all my heart; watch them.” She was a bud of a girl wife, and as

she sat crazily ensconced in her light gray mackintosh, with its cape and big- though inoffensive plaids—the picture of perfect loveliness intrenched against the pierc­ing dampness of the stormy night—one might well marvel at the alien thought of pity-. There was the unmistakable suggestion of an exquisitely rounded and graceful figure.

Her eyes were of a deep blue, shaded by dark brows and lashes, and the wavy strands of hair, a shade fainter and more dull than golden, were pressed about the shell-like ears by a light veil, which also seemed to hold the pretty little bonnet firmly in place. The face was refined, beautiful and more lovable than intel­lectual in its outlines; the complexion was fair but colorless—the unimpeach­able evidence of an habitual and harm­lessly mild dissipation.

They had been to the opera. He sat stiffly and uncomfortably by her side. He was tall and lank and angular, and as he unfastened the two top buttons or his black overcoat there was shown the immaculate front of evening dress. His silk hat leaned, perhaps involuntai-ily, a little to one side and his little dark eyes increased the impression of a self con­scious uneasiness. A thin, dark beard, which evidently wasn’t on speaking terms with the mouth, had also defied successfully any artistic intimacy with the barber's shears, and a hectic flush heightened the cheeks.

He occupied only the forward part of his seat, while she cuddled back as far as possible and inclined slightly toward the vacancy behind him. It is needless- to add that they were going to their home in Brooklyn,

BRAVE LITTLE WOMAN.She evidently enjoyed the opera at

least, and was anxious to dwell with him upon the scenes which pleased her most. Her mood also was a friendly critical one. He seemed to have a chronic grudge against himself andtwice or ______ _________ ___ ______ _____ __

live, until_ found out, then leave for j everybody else who presumed to inter- other localities. . ; rUpt His profound communion with his

Dr. F. B. Brewer has but certain -places that he visits, those he has vis- -! ited for years, and those he intends tocontinue to visit.

Treating as he does chronic disea es wholly, lie finds not enough in any one locality to ingacte his whole time; for tills lie lias established various offices. He professes to no more kt owledge than any good physieian may acquti e with the same devotion, study, eppor- tunites and experience in one b aneh of the profession. W e haveeonfidenci m Dr. Brewer, know to him to be re­sponsible, has proved bv years that he can be depended upon.”

Invalids will observe that Doctor Brewer is to he for consultation upon all chronic diseases, at the Bond House. Niles, on Tuesday, May 10.

The W o rld ’s E xposition is already one o f the world's great sights, as the eulcssai buildings are now rapidly ftp- : preaching c unplelion. The Woman’s • Building, Horticultural Hall, and Use ! Transportation Building, each several acres in extent, are in the. immediate. ; foreground as one parses by, while a | little further off rise the stately dome of the Administration Building and the. fresh steel arches of theHalLof Manufactures and Liberal Arts, the largest in the world,

Nt.uiARA F alls is the gn atest nat­ural wonder i-f toe world, T. e world’s greatt st writers have found language too weak to picture it. One o f them briefly wrote: “I know no other onething so beautiful, so glorious, and a great organist declared that its voice was “ the divinest music upon earth.”

T h e M o h a w k Y a l l e y is through­out its extent a ioug scene o f surpass ing loveliness, whose prominent fea­tures are rich, broad me.idows, clpar rippling streams, blue masses o f dis­tant hills, that sometimes converge their wild rugged anus, confining within narrow- limits river, canal, rail­road.

T h e H u d s o n is ‘ the one river, which, from its source to the ocean, niuMlls a long chain o f landscapes wherein there is no tam e feature,but each successive view presents new combinations o 1 beauty and majesty, which other riv- ‘ i‘s may surpass in section?, but none, rival a whole.

A l l t h e s e the Irav. ler sees in go­ing from Chicago to New York on the North Shore Limited, or any of the other fast and perfecily equippnl trains o f the Michigan Central , o f which a distinguished railroad official has said, that as a whole it'possesses no superior in its construction, equip­ment and operation. 14w3

An Iiupoviant New Publication,The issue of “ King’s United States

o f Today; a Handbook Of all the States and Territories,” marks the com­pletion of a great enterprise. it is u marvelous summary of every fact cov­ering the beginning, the growth and especially the present development ai d resources o f each state and territory. Prof. Greenwood, a prominent educa­tor, says it is “ tiie most complete, com­pact, solidified,'instructive and useful mass o f information of all the stales and territories that lias ever been put - lishe.l ” It is commended in simihu terras by such men as P;es, Dwight t f Yale, Pres. Patton o f Princeton. Vv m. M. Evarts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cardinal Gibbons, and many o'.be-s.

It contains complete maps of eveiy state and territory, and about :!,u()o fine, engravings, situ wing the chief ob­jects o f interest, including grand scen­ery, chief cities, p-iblie buildings, td i- catioiiai institutions, m um fat-tone-. eu\, etc. The.-e with the array o f sta­tistics aiid vivid, e incise narr.itiv" pr • sent a glowing picture with p,n and pencil o f the greatness and glory o; our Republic, while the mass o f in- fbrmatum given is just what is needed for quick reference ifi * very office, store1, factory, shop and home in the laud. It is sold by subscription, and as the prlc- is only $2.50 it must meet with an immense sale. Agenev mar be secured by addressing C. II. Beach & Co., Publishers, Lakeside Building, Chicago.

thoughts.She sat a few moments in silence, then

looked up into his face with childish confidence and said something in a loud voice.

His features relaxed, the crease be­tween his thin brows deepened and iris face was petulant and fretful as he roll­ed his eyes toward her, more to let her understand he was about to address her than to look into hers.

“ I'd like to . know what you know about it, anyway.

She drew back a little in silence at his rough retort, but presently she forgot her chagrin and said something to linn again.

“ Well, you're a nice person to criticise anything like that, aren’t yon? Haven't you got any sense at all?”

The little woman blushed, her eyes dropped, the faint smile of interest faded from her face and she sank hack again to hide her embarrassment.

A CHRONIC NATURE.But hers evidently was one of those

sunny, open temperaments which soon forget a wrong, especially when perpe­trated by a loved one, and it was not long before her countenance was again serenely tranquil, and her happy eyes told of the pleasant thoughts which were flitting through her mind. Soon she looked np again and spoke to him.

“ Yes, that’s just about like yon,” he ejaculated sarcastically. “ Why don’t you wait till yon know something of what you are talking about before you begin to criticise? What do you sup­pose people go to hear it for, anyway? Do yon think every one’s a fool bnt you?”

And the man rattled on with his harsh reprimands, seeming to take a supreme delight in verbally chastising the sweet, shrinking little innocent at his side for presuming to exist or endeavoring to make the evening pleasant for him with her inoffensive prattle. As she shrank further and further back in her seat a paleness drove the blushes from her cheeks, and she had not recovered her

tie shade of blue is permitted. 'Other tints ate not desirable, neither are they proper. Do not nse paper that is ragged at the edges nor envelopes with curious flaps. The best linen paper may he pur­chased at the same price as is paid for t the fancy varieties, and the best is the cheapest; it is a guarantee of refinement.

If a monogram is desired, have it en­graved—neverI>rinted. In this country coats of arms awl crests are out of place, bnt yon may have a neat monogram or your initials for a heading with perfect propriety, only he sure that the work is in keeping with taste and not toq promi­nent or glaring. The name of your country place is very good, the name of the village in which you live, or the street number if yon chance to reside in a city. In the latter case, however, omit the name of the town, and in rither case the state should not be given.

This is bnt a glance at the etiquette of note paper; it is very simple when you think of it, but so many people seem to be ignorant of the rules. The one great thing in note paper is to avoid vulgarity or show in any way, and then you Imow that 3rou cannot be wrong. The sim­plest is the best. Oddities of tint or or­nament which are the caprice of a day should be used with caution.—Harper’s Bazar.

She Tlamj tiie B e ll o il Thom .Two burglars caught a tartar in Bos­

ton one night recently, through which they were themselves caught to their sor­row and pain. While ransacking a house in Cambridge, Mass., they entered ike bedroom of Miss Margaret E. Russell, who owned the place. That lady, who kept a large bell on a chair by her bed­side for just suck visitors, jumped up,- seized the bell and not only used it for ringing purposes,- but banged the bur­glars over the head with it at the same time so effectually that the wounds thus made rendered their identification com­plete when captured shortly after on the street, whither they had hastily fled from the attack made on them,—Philadelphia Ledger. _•________________

She Goes 7,000 M iles to B o 3Iavi-ie<I.Miss Hibbert, daughter of Captain

Hibhert, o f Yarmouth, purchased at Dingy the first through ticket ever- issued at that station to a person going 'to Hong-Kong. She goes via Vancouver, and she is to wed Captain Brown, of Hantsport, who is now in charge of the docks at Hong-Kong. The particulars of the case are very romantic. Miss Hibhert visited Hong-Kong early last summer with her father. There she met Captain Brown for the first time. She promised to return and marry him and she will keep her word. She will have to travel 7,000 miles to reach her pro­spective husband.—Nova Scotia Cor. Chicago Tribune,

ttW llM K P '1' ' 1* " — — i M M i

P ractices TFUat Sho Preaches.Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is one of

the few literary women who practice wliat they preach with their pens. She is up at break of day, at her desk hard at work, and her home is a model of wliat a home should he—filled with sun­shine, flowers, birds, books and pictures. We have become so accustomed to old maid and old bachelor litterateurs who try to tell ns how to bring babies up by a two foot rule that it is refreshing to find one of the great army of “ home” writers whose life is in accord with her professed principles.—New York Herald. _________________

Victoria to 0»>cn Parliament.i The queen will opc-n parliament in I person on Tuesday, the S)th of February.

The queen informed Lord Salisbury of her intention to open parliament nearly a month ago, and an unusually late day for the ceremony was fixed expressly to snit her majesty's convenience. The ar­rangements on the occasion are to he precisely the same in every respect as they were in 1886. The queen will not stay at Buckingham iialaeo for more than two nights.—London World.

Plniils foi- “ Grottn Hp’ * P eop le .There was a time When plaids were rel­

egated to the nursery, but tbe revival of the plaid for “ grown np” uses lias been more than marked for a season or two past, and the modiste who first hit upon the happy idea of biasing- plaids, thus making it possible for them to sug­gest something more artistic than the first principles of geometry , deserves a medal from the decorative art societies. —Buffalo Express.

JMIES OF s t a t e s .j corn-age to speak again when the train H0W THE different STATES OF : stopped at the City Hall station, and { they hurried across to the bridge cars.I He is the same, probably, in every­

thing. His is a nature which does not change. They are young, and evidently have not been married more than a year or two.

How lon g Will she endure it?And at the crisis, which of the two

dark crossroads will she take?“ Yes, indeed; I pity that woman.”—

New York World.

THE UNION WERE NAMED.

The Family Scrap Basket.•No man ever lovedh woman while,

he was busy,'N o man can be a hero When his liver

is out of order.Th8 hardest-headed man was born

with a soft spot.16 is not always the man who looks

hk“ a fool who is one.It is hard to find fault with people

who think just as we do.It is gentle manners which prove so

irresistable in women.The ugly temperof a pretty woman

always shows through.We find happiness while we are pur­

suing it,and lose after we r.each it.It takes some people a h--ng time to

find out that poor health i «tint religion, — Good Housekeeper.

To Avoid Mistakes.• “John, how much whisky d ilyou take for your grip, last night ?”

“ A pint, and a h a lf.”“ W hat!”“Y e s ; you see i f I had only taken

a pint my stomach might have mistak­en my motive, ‘ I wanted to impress on itf the fact that this was medicine.” -^■Washington Star. . -

Kow Yorlc’s Old Bebtors* Prison.It is not generally known that where

the Hall of Records noxv stands was formerly the site of a debtors’ prison, In 1832 it was used for a cholera hospital. Asiatic cholera made its appearance about July 1 of that year in Cherry near Janies street, and continued until the last of 'October, a period of four months. Its principal ravages w-ere in July and August, during which time there were 5,833 cases. From July 1 to Oct. 29 there) Were 8,499 deaths.

The sum of $118,153 was disbursed for drags, salaries, etc.

The six marble columns which sup­port the portico of the Hall of Records were brought from the Sing Sing quar­ries. The style is Grecian, from the model of the Temple o f Ephesus — New York Herald.

Italy’s A Tiny.The Italian army contains nearly

2.000,000 men. or. to give the exact fig­ures, 1,928,072. Among them are 83,000 Alpine soldiers, trained and inured to the hardships of mountain warfare.—Detroit Free Press.

E T IQ U E T T E iN N O TE PAPER.

Cautions T h ai t'if>c I)(*5irate ami Refilled « W om an Sltowld ncaiemTier.

If there is any one thing in the world that may he, said to denote the breeding of a person it is in the taste displayed in the use of note paper. Fashions change bnt slightly in that line, and artistic simplicity is the form to be sought after. There is nothing so offensive as eccen­tricity in styles of paper, for it is one of the little things that seem so trivial and count for so much in the eyes of tho world. The height of bad form is in tho nse of anything startling or pro­nounced, Paper that rivals the sunset in gorgeousness of hue, odd shaped sheets and envelopes or gilt edged paper stamp the riser at once as one who is not familiar w'tlr the precepts of fasliiOn. And not fashion alone, by any means: ft is refinement that is shown in the use of proper- stationer j', and refinement and fashion may not always mean the same! Nevernse apanerthatis decorated with flowers in One comer, the leaves of which wander all over the sheet. Avoid anything in that way. A landscape re­sembling a Christmas card or fancy figures for headings are not in their proper places on note paper. There is nothing artistic in such forms, nothing refined, simply a display of had taste and ill breeding Quit is shocking to the person web informed on such matters. ..

The etiquette of note paper is dictated by taste- Ladies should use only the smaller size of paper, requiring but one fold, and the envelope should be square, The single correspondence cards have gone out of style and are seldom seen nowadays. The paper is generally linen or cream lard, as best suits individual taste qud should be unruled. White or egeam paper is the best, although a gen-

M any o f tiie A ppellations A rc o f English Origin—M any Others A re Derived from Old Indian W ords—Som e P eculiar Mean­ings in Fam iliar Terms.

Maiue takes its name from the province of Main, in France, and was so called as a complilnent to the queen of Charles 1 Henrietta, who was its owner.

New Hampshire takes its name from Hampshire, England. New Hampshire was originally called Laconia.

Vermont is French (verd month sig­nifying green mountain.

Massachusetts is an Indian word, sig­nifying “ country about the great hills.”

Rhode Island gets its name because of its fancied resemblance to the Island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean.

The real name of Connecticut is Quon- eh-ta-but. It is a Molregan word, and means “ long river.”

New York was so named as a ‘compli­ment to the Duke of Yuric, whose brother Charles II, granted him that territory.

New Jersey was named for Sir George Carter, who was at that time governor of the Island of Jersey, in the British channel.

Pennsylvania, as is generally known, takes its name from William Penn, the “ sylvania” part of it meaning woods. Literally it is “Penn’s Woods.”

Delaware derives its name from Thomas West, Lord de la Ware.

Maryland was named in honor of Hen rietta Maria, qneen of Charles L

Virginia got its name from Queen Elizabeth, the “ Vii-gin Qneen.”

The Carolina:; were named for Charles (Carolus) II.

MEANINGS WORTH REMEMBERING-. Florida gets its name from Kantmas

de Flores, or “ Feast of the Flowers.” Alabama comes from- a Greek word,

and signifies -‘Land of Rest.”. Louisiana was so uarned in honor of Louis XIV.

Mississippi is a Natchez word, and means “ Father of Waters.”

Three or four Indian interpretations have been given for the word Arkansas, the best being that it.'.signifies “ Smoky Waters," the Fvench prefix “ Ark” mean­ing bow.

- Tennessee, according to some writers is from Tenasea, an Indian chief; others have it that it means “ River of the Big Bend.”

Kentucky does not mean -‘Dark and Bloody Ground," bnt is derived from the Indian word "Kain-tirk-ae,” signifying “ Land at the Head of the River.”

Ohio has had several meanings fitted to it. Some say that it is a Suwanee word, meaning “ The Beautiful River.” Others refer to the Wyandotte word, Oheza, which signified “ Something Great.” ’

Indiana means land of Indians.Illinois is supposed to be derived from

an Indian word which was intended to refer to a superior class of -men.

Wisconsin is an Indian word, meaning “ Wild, Rushing Waters.” .

Missouri means “ Muddy Waters.” Michigan is from an Indian word,

meaning “ GreatLake.”The name Kansas is based on the same

as thuf of Arkansas.»■ A VALUABLE LIST.Iowa is named from an Indian tribe,

the Kiowas; the; Kiowas were so called by tbe Illinois Indians because they were “ across the river.”

The name of California is a matter- of much dispute. Some writers say that it first appeared in a Spanish romance of 1530, the heroine being an Amazonian named “ California.”

Colorado is a Spanish word, applied to that portion of the Rocky mountains on account of its many colored peaks,

Nebraska means shallow waters. Nevada is a Spanish word, signifying snow covered mountains.”Georgia had its name bestowed when

it was a colony in honor of George H, The Spanish missionaries of 1524 called

the country now known as Texas ‘ ‘Mix-3 tecapah,” and the people Mixtecas. From this last word the name of Texas is sup­posed to have been derived.

Oregon is a Spanish word, signifying ‘vales of wild thyme.”

Dakota means “ leagued” or “ allied tribes.”

Wyoming is the Indian word for “ Big Plains.”

Washington gets its name from onr first president.

Montana means mountainous.Idaho is a name that has never been

satisfactorily accounted for.—St. LouisRepublic. _________________

EXCEEDINGLY EMBARRASSING.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report

P erp lex ity o f r- P o lite Man W h o t o s t Elis Equilibsvflm in a Street Car*

I took them for a newly married cou­ple. Certainly if she had been married very long she would have known bet­ter.

They got on a south bound Clark street car at Goethe street. She was slender and graceful,, and had large, fetching dark eyes. He was extremely polite. He helped her on the car very tenderly, and after riding two blocks he jumped np the instant a very fleshy old lady entered the car and offered her his seat, with a low how—a sure indication that he was just married and doing it for effect.

Then he hung on a strap and bent down and kept up the conversation, which seemed largely made np of irrele­vant remarks and highly relevant glances. Presently he discovered that lio could stoop lower i f he let go tbe strap.

He had just availed himself of this discovery when the train swooped around the curve at Illinois street. He flung up his arms, made one frantic, ineffectual grab for the strap, swayed gracefully half around, and sprawled out oyer tho fat old lady’s lap as the car stopped. His pink and white cheeks turned scar- lel. He scrambled half way to his feet and began. “ I beg”------

Just as he was in the act of re-estab­lishing his equilibrium and simultane­ously uttering the apology, the car gave the sharp jerk and quick, strong pull of starting. He eluteked the incorporeal air and went down with the words bn his lips—flat, full length on the beastly, muddy floor. It was too bad, but every­body laughed.

Yes, she laughed. She put her slim, black gloved hand, with a film of scent­ed handkerchief in it, up to her mouth and her hlack eyes danced at him.

He got up, scowled very darkly at the gentleman who had said “ "Whoop-e-e!" as he went c dwii, and washed a patch of mud off his coat sleeve. Then he looked at her laughing eyes. For an instant lie tried to look amused; then he straight­ened his face out severely and went over and looked out of the door.

As he started into the tunnel he looked around. The handkerchief was still at her mouth and her hody swayed slightly as from a repressed emotion, A deep, straight line came into his forehead and he stepped a little farther away. Half way through the tunnel he looked around again. The instant she met Ms eye she dropped the handkerchief to her month just in time to suppress a ripple of laughter. He Went oitt on the plat­form and hanged the door behind him.

At -Madison street he opened the door and stood stiff as a statue until she walked out. She looked over her shoul­der into Ms face as she passed him, hut there was an irrepressible twinkle in her eyes, and he stepped to the ground after her without unbending.—Chicago News.

A Novel IIIeu.

PowderA B S O L U T IO N P U m

Har<l on Cam bridge.Tins is a short story that Cambridge

people may not find exactly humorous. It is told, however, concerning a bright youngster who lived among them for his nine short summers, and by reason of the cultured atmosphere he breathed and the experimental systems lie was brought up on ought either to have been dead or one of their own. But he defied both these fates and in due course received Ms reward by moving into Bos­ton. Here he at once found congemal companions and no doubt began to contract those unfortunate habits of speech that indirectly led to this tale. One day bis papa beard him using lan­guage that no nice little boy, especially a university town boy, is supposed to know the meaning of.

“ Teddy,” said his stern parent, “ never say that again; it’s swearing, and God Will hear you and be very much dis­pleased."

“ “Well, I’ll go down cellar," said the youngster defiantly, “ then I guess he can’t her me.”

“ Yes, he can,” insisted the devout man.

“ Is he in the attic too?”“ Yes,”“ Then,” announced the youngster,

with the triumphant air o f one who set­tles the question, “ I’ll go to Cambridge, for I’m sure he’s not there.”—Boston Transcript.

Mrs. L angtry Advises E xercise.Any one who wishes to see what per­

fect physical development means in a woman should see Mrs. Langtry as Rosalind sporting tMrongh the glades of Arden—light, agile, graceful in every movement, hearing -herself with con­summate grace and beauty. ' The great actress is a firm believer in physical ex­ercises, and is herself a splendid fencer. Mrs. Langtry has favored me with her opinion regarding the value of physical exercises for women, and 1 give a few sentences from her letter:

“ I certainly believe,” slie says, “ in physical exercise for women. I am more especially able to speak in favor of fenc­ing, as I found it of immense value to my health and firnre. It gives one a good balance, and therefore a good car­riage.”

I have little doubt that not only the writer’s fine physical development, bnt her good health, vivacity and abounding spirits are greatly due to the exercises by which she trains herself with unre­mitting ardor.—Dundee Telegraph.

T eat o f St. L ou is County Ladies.The ottar of roses is supposed to he a

peculiarly oriental production, hut I saw the other day a small bottle o f genu­ine ottar made in St. Louis county hy two ladies, in whose yard there grew an immense quantity of roses. Early in the spring they conceived the idea of manu­facturing some of the ottar. They gath­ered all the roses they could find on the place and followed the method as de­scribed in books of eastern travel. They were somewhat discouraged at finding how little ottar could he made from so large a quantity of roses. It took, in fact, about a barrel of rose leaves to make less than half an ounce of the ottar, hut it is genuine, as fragrant as the oriental product, and made them veiy proud of their success. The genu­ine product sells for from forty dollars to fifty dollars an ounce, hut theirs is not for sale.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The total num ber o f newspapers published in the world at present is estimated at about 47,000.Children Cry for-Pitcher’s Gastoria.

Children Cry for’ Pitcher’s Gastoria.

Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.To become wise, is to find out how

l i t i le yjni Know.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.

Coffee pounded in a mortar and roasted qn an iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals and vinegar boiled witb myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sickroom are excellent deodorizers.

Some member of the Berean Mission Sunday school on Manhattan avenue has Mt upon a novel idea in the way of a general birthday reminder: It lias been a pleasant habit in the Berean Sunday school to endeavor to recognize in some graceful way the birthday of every offi­cer- and teacher of the school, bnt this endeavor was often frustrated by the natural modesty of some o f the intended recipients and the equally natural for­getfulness of the other members where so many dates had to be kept in mind.

In order to remedy this and to make it certain that no one can byauypos sibility be forgotten, a reminder lias just been printed on cards and distributed.

These cards contain the names and ages of every officer and teacher, to­gether with the day of the month on wMch they were horn.—Brooklyn Let­ter. '_________________

A Princess’ Palm.The Princess Mary of Teck, like most

.young women of high and of low degree, has been to the fortune teller. She be­lieves in palmistry, and more than three years ago had her hands examined, not hy a professional, hut by a" woman well known in society and famous for her powers as a chiromancist. Among other things which the latter predicted was that the princess' engagement would greatly depend on the maimer in wMch she acquitted herself during the few years following (wMch have now passed), and that her marriage would raise her to a Mgh rank, in wMch the greatest tact, care, and policy would he required. The princess believes in palmistry now more than ever, and thinks of studying it for herself .—London Star.

A G roup o f N oted W om en.The Princess of Wales has thirteen

wigs.Miss Ethel Mackenzie, daughter of the

great throat doctor, is the London cor­respondent of a Chicago daily.

Kate Field treasures among her curios a lock of Browning’s hair.

Princess Beatrice is writing a book on lace, to be illustrated by herself.

Queen Victoria firmly - believes that objects made by blind persons bring luck. . *

Tho title, . ‘.‘Her Royal Highness,” means something in the case of the Crown Princess of Denmark. She is 6 feet S inches tall.—-American Lady.

The short, stont woman will do well to flee from the fur sleeves which are a feature o f midwinter costumes. It takes a tall woman of commanding presence to successfully wear them.

T o N ervous D eb ilitated Man-If yoa will scad us your address, we

will mail you our illustrated pamphlet explaining all about Dr. Dye’s Cele­brated Eiectvo-Voltaie Belt and A p­pliances, and their charming effects upon the nervons debilitated system, and how tiiev will quickly restore jou to vigor .mil manhm-d. Pamphlet free. If you are thus afllicied. we will send you a Belt and Appliances »n a trial

V o l t a i c Be l t C o .. Marshall, Mich,I f I wanted to punish an m*uny I

would fasten on him the torture of. continually h iting some one.

Good Looks,—4Good looks are more than sk in keep

depending upon a healthv condition of all the vital organs. I f the liver he i active, you have a bilious look and if your kidneys be affected you have a pin bed look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alterative and tonic, acts directly on these vital o gans. Cures pimples,blotches,boils and gives a good complexion. Sold_ at W, F. Runner’s drug store, 50c pef bottle.

Man must have more than the world before he can get any real good o f it.

Rnckien's Arnica Salv^-.„ The best Salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, and all Skin Eruptions and po-viiive-ly cures Piles, or no.pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund­ed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale bv W. F. Runner. Druggist. 2iiyl

Dr. ssing c nspieuously is a confes­sion of inferiority.

Eronouncetl Hopclesss, Yet Saved.—£.From a letter written by Mrs. Ada

E. Hurd, of Groton. S. D . we quote: “ Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my lungs, „ cough set in and terminated ill consuinp’ ion. four doctors gave me up, saying 1 could not live but a short Lime. I gave mysi-If up to my Saviour, determined if j could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband Was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for coli- sumpiion, coughs and colds. 1 gave it a trial, look in all, eight bouhs: it has cured me. and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman.” Trial bot­tle free, at W. F. Runner's drug store, regular size 50c. and $1.00.

Estate of Jeremiah Painter.Eiret publication Apiil 14,1892.

QlgAYE OF MICHIGAN, County ofBerricu,—«§, D Probate Court for enitl County.

A la Mission ofthe Probate Court for said Coun­ty, held at tbe l'roljau- oiiicc*, ill the village orile). rleu Springs, on Wednc-day, the 6th day ot April, In the year ol onr Lord one thousand t-lghi hundred and ninety-two.

Present, David E. Uissan , Judge of Prohate.In tbe mailer of the estate of Jeremiah Painter,

deceased.Andrew J. Painter,. Administrator or said es­

tate, comes into court nud represent rlmi he is now prepared to render his final account as such Ad­ministrator.

Therenpon it is ordered, that Thursday, the 5:h day of May next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, be assigned for examining and allowing such account, and that the heirs at law ot said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate, are required to appear at a session of said Conn, then to be itoldeii at the Probate Ottice, in the tillage o f Berrien Springs, in said county, and show 'cause, ITany there be, why the said account should no,, he allowed: And it isfnrlherordered, that said administrator give notice to tho persons interested in said estate, oftbc pend­ency o f said account, and the hearing thereof, by causing a copy o f ibis order lob e published in the Buchanan Record, a newspaper printed and cir­culated in said County three successive wet ks previous :o said day o f hearing.

(Atrne copy.) DAVID E. HINMAN,[sEAt„] Judge of Probate.

Last publication May 5, IS92

Notice of Sale of Real Jit-late.First publication Apiil 11, lfc9iL

QTATE OF AlICillGAN, Conniy o f Berrien—Q 111 Ihe matter ol the estate or 2Se%vton 12 Smith, tieceaseii.

Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of an order granted to the undersigned, Sarah E- Smith, Administratrix o f the estate of said deceased, hy the Hon. Judge of Proibate, for the county o f Berrien, on tbe seventh day o f March, A. 1>„ 1692, there will he Fold at public, vendue, to the highest bidder, at the premises at I'nlou Pier, in the county ot Beiritm, in said State, onlTriiiay, the 27th day o f May, A. I) 18.92, at owe o'clock ia the afternoon o f that day, i subject to all en­cumbrances hy mortgage or otherwise existing at the time of the death of $:ud deceased, or at the lime of said sale, am! also subject to the right of dower and the homestead, lights o f the widow ol said deceased therein* the following de­scribed ieal estate to-wlt: All that certain piece and parcel of land, situate and being m the town­ship of New Buffalo, county of Benien and JSlate o f .Michigan, described as follows, to-wlt: A llthat portion of the north-west quarter of section thirty-six '3t>) township seven *7) south, range iwenty-one t£l) west, lying north o f Ira Smith's private road, and west or the center o f the ditch known, as the Lake Shore Bitch, running across said north-west quarter o f said section, and con- taining forty-one and three tenths acres o fland more or less. Fifteen and three-tenths (15 d- It) acres o f said land being the same land Alary A . Gowdy and John F. Gotvdy deeded to Few ton !E. Smith, April IS, 3878, and recorded May 1,1878,in

1 Liber frixty-one (611 of Deeds, on page oue hundred j ninety-seven (XiMU Bt'rnen conniy i and uvenly- I five i^5) acres of said land being the same land Ira j Smith and Elizabeth his'wife, deeded to1 Newton 32. Smith, November », 1868, and record- ’ ed November 17, 1SH8, in Liber thirty-one t3l i of Deeds, on page six hundred twenty-?our <G24L

SARAH E. SMITH, Administratrix.Last publication May 26,1893.

Chancery Notice.Fiist publication April 11, lffii.

STATE OP MICHIGAN, County of Berrien,—p.-s. Second Judicial Circuit. In Chancery.

Belle Bollin, Complainant, ve. Etl. U. llollin, Defendant.

Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the Coun­ty of Berrien, m Chancery, at Beiricu Springe, on the 7th day o f April, A. D. J892. In this cause, it appearing from affidavit on file, that the defendant. Etl. H. Eollin, is not a resident of this State, hut is a resident o f the State ot 'Washington* On mo­tion o f complainant's solicitor, it is ordered that the appearance of said non-resident .defendant, Ed. H. Bollin, he entered herein, within four months from the date of this order; and that with­in twenty days the complainant cause this order to be published in the Buchanan Record, said publication to he continued once in each weekfor six weeks in succession.

THOMAS O'HARA, Circnit Judge. VICTOR 3T. GORE, Sole forCompI't.

Last publication May 26, JS&L

MORTGAGE SALE. .First publication April 7, IS!)’ ,

r t OTICE is hereby given that the sum of three i ’ll hundred thirty-three :mdl3-li 0 dollars is claim ed to he due and unpaid, at the date ol this notice, on a Mortgage made and" executed by Addie Strif- leng and Benjamin Striflenglo Isaac 31. Vincent, dated the 20th day of November, 1S!>0, and recorded the Teh daj’ o f 3!ay, 1S9I, in Liber 53 o f Mortgages, on page 340, in the Office o f the Register o f Deeda of Berrien county, 31ichigan. Pursuant, therefore, to the power of sale contained In said mortgage the premises therein described, to wit: Lots five(5) and six (fi) in Block “D” in A. B. Clark’s Ad­dition to the village of Bnehanan, will be sold at public auction, at the front: door ofthe Court House, in the village of Berrien Springs, in said county, on Friday, the 1st day of July, 1S92, at It o'clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the amount due. on said mortgage, together with the costs of fore­closure.

Dated April 7th, 1S92.ISAAC 31. VINCENT, Slortgagee.

A. A. WORTHIN GTON,Attorney for ilortgagee.

Last publication June 30, If 02,

ALESMSE•O- W ANTED -O-

S S A T 02STCS E2JTo soil onr Choice Nursery Stock. Salary or commission and steady work for eaniestworkvrs,

ELLWAMSER .& BARRY,Sir. Hope Ncr.sEr.n3s, Rochester, W. Y .

ESTAnustiEU 1840.

Speaking of J. & C. F IS C H E R P IA N O S , we can say, tLe factory lias been established since 1-840, They have made and sold over 9p,000 Pianos, They have produced more Pianos than any other factory in the world. They are still making more Pianos every year than any other factory. Their Pianos are all first-class in every respect. The Fischer Piano is Sold at an honest price and on terms to accommodate all circumstances. I f you "buy a Fischer you will own the m ost popular Piano made, and will "have full value for yonr money. John G. Holmes has the selling o f the Fischer in this vicinity.

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Largest Stock, Latest Styles, Most ► Beautiful Patterns,

B E D R O O K P E I C E S .

B u c h a n a n R e c o r d .

^ T IirE S D A T , A PR IL 28, 1892.

VnMOd at tl e Poftqfflce ft Buflanar , Hit It. as sect rtd-class matter.

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CARRIES TIIE LARGEST STOCK 01?

s u i t i n g s ,Pants Goods,

to lie funnel in Berrien county, at the low­est living prices for good work.

k Inspection is Solicited.Front Street, Foot of Day's Avenue,

B U C H A N A N , M IC H .

B en to n H a r b o r had a booming time yesterday, the day set for the sec­ond auction sale of lots by the Improve­ment Association.

At the meeting of H ilts City Coun­cil. Tuesday, nine saloon keepers pre­sented bonds for approval, and had ttiera referred to a committee. ' ' '

M rs . M it c h e l l . living in Fulton’s Addition, solicits laundry work. She will call for the work and deliver after it is done.

Th e Democrats o f this county think they want K. .1, Jarvis, ot' Benton Har­bor, to be their candidate for Con­gress in the new Fourth District,

Da v id Montgom ery has sold his farm o f seventeen acres, lying just west o f the village line, to Abram Bro- ceus, and expects to locate in town.

D r king the storm, last night, l ’ght- ning struck the Michigan Oen’ ral pas­senger house in Dayton, and the build­ing was burned.

Y e ste r d a y ’s Niles Sun contains a column a half write up of the Dr. Smith matter, while the Star is mum. What’s the matter?

Buchanan Markets.Hay—-Si0 @ 812 per ton.Lard—Sc.Salt, retail—81.00Flour—-35.20 @ SO.OO per bb l„ retail. Honey—1-tc.Live poultry—Sc.Butter—16c.Eggs—10c.Wheat,—SOe.Oats -30c.Corn—40e.Beans—81.50.Live Hogs—84.00.

The wing social: given last evening a t v the residence » f Mr. James De Viney, by the Methodist ladies, netted the society over 318.

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Miss W in ifred H ig bee , after a visit of :i few days with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Henderson, returned to Ann Arbor, Tnesday, to resume her studies in, the University.

Ma r r ie d — Mr. George McCoy and Mrs. Maggie McCoy, his brother’s wid­ow, were married in this place last Thursday, Dr. F . II. Berrlck officiating. They left at once for New York.

Avoir fell here Sunday morning.

N elson Pa r k e to n 's sheep barn, on ins farm in Oronoko, was burned, Fri­day night. Several sheep were killed and others injured. Insured in Farm­er’s: Mutual o f Berrien county.

T w enty six pupils in Sawyer school. Spring term.

Garden m ak ers are beginning to long for the plow'.

Charles E F rench has been com ­missioned pcs master, at Hinchman.

F ound , a gold tipped pencil. Call at this office.

Ho e & K in g e r y have a new adver tisement in this issue.

Miss A l f r e t t a Co n rad went t> S nitli Bend, Monday.

Mrs M innie Ben n e tt , o f S<uth Bend, was in this place Tuesday.

Miss T. F lowers, of Chicago, came Saturday evening, for a visit with her uephew, Mr. IT. Flowers.

Q teiCa Oy n y county supervisors will

call a special election t o vote on local option. Berrien cou n ty ------ •

Benton Ha r b o r b icyclists have been ordered to keep off from the side­walks.

The Watervliet Record seconds the candidacy of Dr. W. A. Baker,of Coloma, for the nomination for Congre-s.

M rs , Sa r a h T a n Z a n d t went, Mon day, for a short visit w ith velativt s in Galit-n.

M r . Scuitylek Sm ith , o f Chicago, form erly o f this place, visited f riends here over Sunday.

Ja k e Rough now rides a brand new Columbia, pneumatic tire. 8150 safety. It runs as smooth as warm oil.

AIR. J. I m iio f f has been having the tumble down shed in the rear o f his building, occupied by Bulks’ saloon, torn out. This removes a good part of the dangerous tinder-box that lias long existed in that part of town, and it is to be hop- d that more o f it will be re­moved, and when rebuilt be of brick.

Constable P a l m e r has discovered where Fleming, the harness thief, sold the harness belonging to Judge Hin- uian, stolen from Mr. Palmer's barn, in Michigan City, and lias recovered the property.

Tw o members of the Uncle Tom's Cabin Company engaged in a chewing match before the parade, Saturday forenoofi, and as a result one o f the white men had his clirek badly bitten by one of the darkeys.

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THE regular meeting o f the Common Council will be held tomorrow evening, and promises to be an interesting meet­ing. It is expected that the liquor bonds of tbe druggists and saloon keepers w t l be presented.

The ten month’s old son o f Mr. and Mrs. Barney Rynerson died yesterday, resulting from an attack o f the grip. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Cook, at the house, at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

The Evangelical Sunday school of this place, on Sunday, elected Mrs. J. A . Frye, Dr. M. M. Knight and Miss Minnie Housewert as delegates to Hie County Sunday School Convention to he lield at Three Oaks, next Tnesday and Wednesday.

Sutton ’s Uncle Tout’s Cabin Com­pany gave their last entertainment for the season in the opera house in this place, Saturday evening, to a fairly well filled house. Their rendition of the slave play was good, barring the extras which do not belong to the story.

L ast wreek we mentioned that a ladies’ pocket book had hem lost, con­taining money and other articles. Yesterday Miss Addie Blake, the loser, received the money by mail. The pocket book and other contents will probably come later.

F ra n k Se a rls was fined 31 by Justice Alexander, Saturday evening, for being drunk. There were fifteen or twenty other young chaps in his vicinity who should have had some kind o f punishment for the same offense.

W il lia m H am ilton , an old citizen, dropped from his chair while eating his supper Sunday evening, dead. He has been troubled with dropsy several months, and this is supposed to have been the immediate cause of his death He was 04 years old.

S P R I N G I S C O M I N G ,-AND OUR-

SPRING JACKETSABB'HERE.

Call and T ry Them On.A n d w h ile h ere y o u call examine, our n ice line, o f

W a l l a c e ’s lumber yards in St. Jo­seph were damaged about $3,000 by fire Sunday night.

N a t e J ones has a new street sprink­ler that looks like an improvement over the old one.

F red W etsgerber ’s little girl, m en­tioned last week as being sick at Mr. 11. N , Hathaway’s, is much improved.

c ER.T h e installation o f Rev. O. J. Rober ts

as pastor o f the Presbyteiian church will take place on Tuesday evening, May 8, at 7:30 o’clock. The public are cordially invited.

M rs, H a t t ie M iles, o f Willow I.aki s. S. Dak., arrived this morning for a sum- mtr’s visit with her mother, Mrs. L* uisa Marble, and other relatives.

M an a g e r Simon, o f the Yore Opera Hoti e, in Benton Harbor, has secured a five years’ lease o f Peak Hall, ir Niles, and is having it considerably improved before taking possession.

Me . A a r o n M il l e r expects to be­gin next week the work of cement •walk Building. The first will be along the east side of Oak .-treet, south from the Advent church. It is altogether likely that he will be kept busv the greater p irt o f the summer with that work.

P reparations are being made in all parts of the country for the appropri­ate obr-ervance of Memorial day. Will Buchanan celebrate?

Six wheelmen from South Bend rode to this place Tuesday evening, stayed over i i<_ht and were off for home at fom next m* rniug.

Miss Ma b e l Ca r r Ol l has gone to Rochester,Nt w Y er’-, with the expecta­tion o f making her future home with relative- living there.

.T. B oyd T homas was in this place, yesterday morning, visiting liis daugh- ler who is trimming in Mrs. Binns’ millinery store.

The new- county di-ectorj o f Benien county is being delivered to sub crib- scribers in other parts o f this county, and may be expected in Buchanan shortly.

T he dog ordinance takes effect May 1. I f you own a deg and do not get a tag by that time you may expect your dog will be killed. The dog catcher will be on the war path.

M r , a n d Mbs . J oseph Spa rk s left. Friday morning, to pay an extended visit to their children in Valentine, Neb.

Mr . R o bert Me a d has been giving his house, on Main and Fourth streets a dressing with paint, which material­ly improves its appearance.

T he Supervisors must certainly have had a gw tl time at their special meet­ing last Thursday. They did no busi­ness, even so much as to organize. The meeting resulted in a good visit only.

T heodore L o w e r y , arrested for guilty knowledge o f the attempt to murder Mayor Hobbs, of Benton Har bor, has been discharged and rearrest­ed on a charge o f larceny and bur­glary.

Ro bbie H enderson entertained a large party o f his friends, Friday even­ing. To say that they had a good time, would be making it mild.

N il e s c it y is defendant in a 3uit for 85,000 damages on account o f defective sidewalk, in the United States Court at Grand Rapids, this week.

Y e ste r d a y was the first day of real spring weather, when vegetation felt like growing. The thermometer reg­istered 79 in the shade.

M rs. J ohn Ma r b l e , o f South Bend, formerly o f Niles, dropped dead in her room, Tuesday afternoon, The remains were buried in Niles. Mr. Marble is a* son o f Isaac Marble, o f this plage.

Mr . J. M. P l a Tt . tw o miles east of this place, on the Niles road, will sell a lot o f stock and farm tools at auction, on Tuesday, May 10. N . Hamilton, auctioneer. One o f the fines t Hocks of sheep in the vicinity is included.

A t il e ; has been laid in the gutter along the east side of Day’s avenue, just south o f the express office, and the street greatly improved by filling. There is still great opportunity tor im­provement by more filling.

James B oon has sold his home, the north half o f l o t i , block “ H,” A . C Day’s Addition, to Elden Holliday. It is Mr. Boon’s expectation to move to South Bend and work for the Koontz Brothers Windmill Co.

B icycle riders of Benton Harbor in sist that if they are to be kept off the sidewalks,’ the worthless’ dogs which infest the town and "occupy a gobd share of the sidewalks must be dis­pensed with, and there are hosts of people who will say amen to that propo sition.

A t tiie election of the W. R. C. of Michigan, held in Ann Arbor, last week, Mrs. Cornelia Perry, o f Bellevue, was chosen President. The sia‘ e was m li st rioted for the purpose o f elec­tion of delegates to the National Con­vention The Fourth district comprises Calhoun, Branch, St. Joseph, Cass and Berrien counties, and contains 103 members.

T h e managers o f the Michigan Cen­tral conclude that it is necessary to bring a light locomotive they have been using on a logging tramway, on the Macinaw division, here to draw their cars off from the St. Joseph Val­ley road, that being the only one they have which they feel like trusting to run over that road.

F r id a y m orning , George Niles’ horse and phaeton were noticed com­ing down Front street hill and stop at the front of Morgan &,Co’s grocery, with Mr. Niles lying in the seat o f the phaeton, insensible, having been at­tacked by a fit. whi e riding. He re­mained insensible a few minutes after the horse stopped, when he recovered consciousness and went about his busi­ness.

A l r e a d y the reckless driving on the streets in this place, so much complain­ed of, has commenced. It is the duty of the Marshal o ra y constable to promptly arrest any person found en­gaged in that business, and of any citi­zen who knows of it using done and knows the parties to, make complaint. This is the way to stop the’ nuisance, and the only way. But few arrests will be necessary to make known what is intended.

A c o l o r e d woman named Alexander, living on the south side of the Michi­gan Central tracks in Michigan City, recently dug up twenty-one neckties from the sand in the back part of her lot, bearing the name o f G. W. Noble, Buchanan. They doubtless formed a portion o f tbe. booty taken by the bur­glar who bi oke into Mr. Noble’s store last winter. The neckties were so soiled as to render them worthless.

A special meeting o f Buchanan camp of Modern Wocdmen of America will be held to morrow evening f r the pur­pose of adopting new neighbors, and for the transaction of such other busi­ness as may come before thecamp. A ll neighbors are requested to be present.

H. Gro ver , Clerk.S. A rney, Consul.

T h e soliciting among the farmers for tbe opening of the Rough grist mill Is progressing finely, and it is now the expectation o f Mr. Redden to be able to commence the work of putting in "his machinery next week. He expects to put in a full set o f rolls for making the finest flour and to get the most the Wheat will make. This will bring a good amount o f business to Buchanan that now goes elsewhere, and will be a lasting benefit to the town.

A new volume of The CentUTy will begin in May with a number of unusu­al interest. Three important serial

“features will be commenced in this number, namely—Senor Castelar’s “Life o f Christopher Columbus;” “ The Chos­en Valley,” a novel of western life by Mary Hallcck Foote; and the series of articles describing the architectural features o f the "World’s Fair, which a well-known architect is to contribute.

W i l l E stes sends us a copy o f the Buffalo, Wyoming, Bulletin, giving a full account of the raid recently made in that county by what that paper terms “ the cattle barons,” in which several lives Were lost, and consider­able property destroyed.

M arriage Licenses.NO.

( WlUis Taylor, Buchanan, ibis j Lydia M. Kramer, Lake.

( Henry Ender, Weesaw.1844 { Lizzie Hess,, „. j Albert Dedrick, Three Oaks.10 ■( Jennie Friedel, “ “

j Alonzo L. Hudson, South Bend. ( Nellie Stoney,

1S4_ j Jacob E. Yite. Bertrand.

1S4SAnna L. Brown, Weesaw.

f Aaron J. Barga, Lincoln."j Mary E. Andrews, St. Joseph.

Otto F. P. Kolberg. Lincoln. 1C4J -j Qllie xburne,1 «-n j Win. Mikesell, Berrien Springs. 1800 J Genie Jordan, Buchanan.„_1 j Wm. Heabner, Stevensville.

L&O L ( Eamestine Wohlgemuth, Bridgman. i o-o 5 George B. McCoy, Buchanan, iso-. Margueiette McCoy, “

, < Emil Scliultt, St. Joseph.18u* ( Bertha Krick, “. __( Ellsworth L. Curtis, Niles.1800 ( Anna P. Cousins, “1 o-.' 5 Wm. E. Boyle, Buchanan.

| Carrie Hess,j Phillip Russell, Bainbridge.

1801 | Emma Miller, Royalton.

In connection with, ten thousand other articles which I carry in stock, have just added a fine line of

Citizen’s National Bank,NILES, MICH.

OF THE LATEST STYLES.Y O U C A N SU R E L Y B E S U IT E D B Y C A L L IN G A T

M ORRIS’ T H E FAIR,

D e a l e r in AlmostEverythingBUCHANAN, MICH.

5 D I T 3 E O T O T 3 S :

A. G. Gage, J. L. Reddick, I. P. Hutton, H. M. Dean, J. H. Richardson,

L. H. Beeson, E . F. Woodcock.

C E N T IN T E R E S TF L A W E D C O S T D E P O S I T S .

A delegation from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph went to Washington to

ibor for an inc rease in the appropria­tion for their harbor, but Senator Stoekbridge attended to the matter be­fore the arrival, yesterday, and had it Tiiised from §50,000 to 370,000. in the Sinai e committee

L ist o fl;1 tors rein lining uncalled for' in the post-office at Buchanan, Mich, for the week mcling April 20, 1S92: Mrs. Mary Murdock, Mr. Hugh Lynn, James Hemmingw iy, Charles Gordon, Mrs. Ellie Griffen, Edward Gray.

Call for letters advertised.J ohn Gr a h a m , P. M.

J udge Pe a l e r , of Three Rivers, has been announced as a candidate for Congress, in this District, who is in the race to stay. Allegan has one can­didate, Barry one, Van Buren and St. Joseph each one, and Berrien six or seven. This ought to .be enough to hold the balance o f the District level.

-----------►The Michigan City News, o f April

20, tells that Mrs. Fred LaFlair has “ skipped,” taking all o f- the money there was in the house, about 3-15, and leaving her husband and little girl. She is a daughter of Lyman Sherwood, of this place, and at one time lived with h'er husband in Buchanan.

Soutii Ben d has several streets paved with brick, made there, and laid with­out the flat layer, consisting simply of. one layer set up edgewise. These,are made 2 by 4 by 8 inelies, and cost SI cents per square yard on board the cars in South Bend, The authorities o f that place have decided that this is the proper kind o f material to use for paving, but continues to use cobble­stones for gutters, while in Jackson the brick is continued to tbe curb­stone.

R eal Estate.F or R ent.—A nice new eight-room

house, fine grounds, good garden and orchard, in limits o f Buchanan. Rent cheap. Inquire Of

J no . C. D ick ,t f Buchanan. Mich.F a r m fo r Sa l e — i 40 acres, \XA

miles from Buchanan. Price l o w - terms easy. For particulars address ‘ Farmer,” in care of R ecord office, Buchanan, Mich.

B U Y TO UR DOG COLLARS, AT MORRIS’ THE FAIR .

LOST—A Fountain Pen. Finder please return to C. H. Baker’s stored

Remember that A . T . Y oungs is still in the undertaking bnsiness. Resi­dence, corner of Main and Fourth streets. Office over bank.

Ladies always find the largest and best assortment o f N . Y . styles at A

MRS. BERRICK’S.Candy, Ca n d y , CANDY, at

H A R R Y BINNS*.Stra w work done. Bring in your old

bats. L . DeBUNKER.4«.Toy and Juvenile Books, at

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H A R R Y B I^TS .’

1 am selling Corsets cheaper than ever. Come and see them. 'L -

H. B. DUNCAN.I have a fine lot o f Room Moulding

to suit any size room or color of paper.BARMORE.

M rs. Berrick leads in Millinery.y Ladies, come and see my Dress

Goods. I will not be out done. /* - H. B. DUNCAk

ICE! ICE!! ICE!!! Delivered to any part o f town. Leave orders at tbe store. £

SPARKS & HATHAWAY. BUY YOUR DOG COLLARS, AT

MORRIS’ THE FAIR. £LOST.— A Fountain Pen. Finder

please return to C. H. Baker's store, jg I have a good Black Ladies’ Hose,

cannot be beat, for 10 cts. *~JH . B, DUNCAN.

An Ash Bedroom Suit with good German plate mirror for SIS 50.

GEORGE B. RICHARDS.All kinds o f Straw W ork neatly and

promptly done,at Mrs, R edding ’s Mil­linery rooms.

A Writing Desk and Book Case com­bined for 39- A—

GEORGE B. llXCnARDS. BUY YOUR DOG COLLARS, A T

MORRIS’ THE FA IR ,The ladies are invited to see the new

goods at M rs, R edding ’s Millinery rooms. fa

F o r sa le .— 40 acres within two miles oi Village of Buchanan, also boose and lot, in town. Call at this office.

The best line o f B A K E R Y GOODS in town, at MORGAN & CO'S.^.

LOST, A ladies’ pocket book, o f red leather, containing two $5 bills, one silver dollar, some change and a sachel key. Return to Baker’s store.

B U Y YOUR DOG COLLARS, AT MORRIS’ THE FA IR .

New Dress Goods and Trimmings to match, White Goods, Lace Curtail.s, Embroideries and Notions; Gloves, Mitts, Hosiery and Underwear for_ adies, gents and children. Umbrellas

land Parasols for every one cheaper than ever. S. P. HIGH.

Shelf Paper 5c per dozen sheets.H A R R Y BINNS.

Decorated Chamber Sets cheap, apt/ MORGAN & CO’S /

Stock ve;y complete, and prices that will make you want to buy your Spring and Summer goods of S. P. HIGH {{)

B U Y YOUR DOG COLLARS, A T MORRIS’ THE FA IR .

A large and well selected st ck of Memorandum Books, at

H A R R Y BINNSjMrs. H ow ard Sm ith will open a

dressmaking establishment in Mrs. Morgan’s house, on Lake street, next Tuesday, and she will be pleased to see her old customers and many new ones.

A new rag carpet, 25 yards, for sale. Inquire at residence of

JOSEPH B L A K E . When you want a good Buggy look

fo r this name-plate at E lson ’s................................. ******* X

; MICHIGAN BUGGY CO,, .I KALAMAZOO, MICH, 1 X . ................................................X

WANTED.Men to work in our finishing room,

Michigan City, Ind. No experience required. Apply to Superintendent.

J. S. FORD, JOHNSON & CO. Fancy Barley Seed Oats for sale. Als »

Millet and Grass Seeds.THE C. BISHOP GRAIN CO.

No, sir, I cannot sell gold dollars at SOc. ‘ This I caii do—give you 1(5 oz. to the pound, 30 in. to the -yard* full weight and measure, I can give you the best Buggy for the money sold in any mar ket. A gSod square deal and warrant my goods. Come and see me and I will do you good. T C. ELSON.

Men’s and Boy ’s Bicycle Shoes cheaa at J. IMHQFF’S /^ t

House to rent, on Poitage street, close to town. J. G. HOLMES,

New styles in Upholstered Furniture, at GEO. RICHARDS’.

A large and nice line o f Millin' will now be found at

MRS. J. P. BINNS’.A nice assortment of Lace Curtains,

at " S. P. HIGH’S . / iL ook H e r e ! A good Flannelette

Shirt for 25c, at J. I mhoff’s. Call and see them before they are all gone.

Torchon Laces. A new and nice

S.P . h i g 4 ^Timothy Seed, at

SPARKS & H A T H A W ftY ’S.-If you want nice Dried Fruit cheap,

call at MORGAN & CO.’sA

HULL’S SUPERLATINE is a posi­tive cure for liver and kidneys, nervous prostration. Bad results from la- grippe. Warranted to give satisfac­tion. Sold by W . F. Runner.

E nos H olmes has a good W ork H orse fo r sale.

For all kinds o f Monuments, in Mar­ble or Granite, apply to

J. P. BEISTLE, Buchanan.I f you would have your clothes that

delicate clear white, so desirable, use Russ’ Bleaching Blue. Sold by all grocers. 39

Don’t forget that I still sell Pianos and Organs, I f you contemplate buy­ing either, see me before buying.

J .G HOLMES.JFor Window Draperies, go to H, B.

Du n can for styles and prices. C?Do you want a small Engine? 1

have one four-horse power, vertical Engine and Boiler, in good order, and am willing to sell it at a bargain. The inside or exposed parts o f the boiler are new. J. G. HOLMES.

M o r g a n & Co.’s 25c and 30c Coffee BEATS THEM ALL.

W a n te d .—10,000 feet of second- growth White Maple, delivered at Rough Bros, Wagon Works, Buchanan.

KOMPASS, STONE & STOLL.

SCREEN DOORS,WINDOW SCREENS,

OF

Barrel Churns, atSPARKS & H A T H A W A Y ’S.

Ladies, my Hosiery Stock was never better. I have just wbat you want, x

H .B . DUNCAN*^ Persons contemplating purchasing a

new Threshing outfit for next season, may learn something to their advant­age by seeing J. G. HOLMES.

I will sell you a new Upright Piano ] for 3175. A better one for 3200. Still ] better for 3250. Better yet for 3300, j but 3400 will get you a still better one; but i f you want as good a Weber Up­right as was ever made, it will cost you more. See me before buying. I sell the Weber, Hazel ton, Fischer, Mason & Hamlin, Kroeger, G. D. Pease and others, and can sell you a Piano to fit your pocket-book, and will not charge you first-class once for a fourth-class piano. JOHN G. HOLMES.

ROE & KINGERY.

WALL PAPER!SPRING, 1892

Is soon coming, and most everyone is going to do liouse clean­ing and w all papering, and I want to impress on

your m ind gently that

Hare the Lafgesi and finest Stool of [

in the County, from cheap to best, a ll styles and grades,’ and w ill not he undersold. Call and examine our

stock before purchasing.

Geo. W ym an & Co. will offer for the month of April a variety of goods at a price that will, when you see the goods, make your hair curl i f it is straight, and if it is already curly it will take the kink all out o f it. W e do this just to keep our clerks from getting sleepy.

First Door East of Post-Office.

No more complete assortment of Millinery to be found in the city than^ _line of them very cheap, at at MRS. LOUISE

Popular Millinery and po] at MRS. BERRICK’S.

A good second-hand Piano of first- class make, for sale cheap.

* J. G. HOLMES."B U Y YO U R DOG CAJSLARSj A T

MORRIS’ THE F A IR , A )LOST.—A Fountain Pen. Finde}

please return to O. H. Baker’s store^-'/A d am K ern nas moved- into the

“Marble building in Dayton, and will continue bis business in Boots and Shoes and Furnishing Goods as hereto­fore. He will be found on tbe west side of the street hereafter. He is

’ putting in a fresh stock of new Goods, and invites people to call and see them.. Barley Coffee* at .Sparks & Hath­

a w a y 's. * 10c a pound or 3 pounds for 25c.

Sweet Pickles, Mixed Pickles, Pick- led Onions, Pine Apple Preserves, Bot­tled Catsup, and a full line of Canned Goods, at \ /i

"SPARKS & HATHAW AY’S.B oardm an & W eitrle keep 8 brands

of Flour, including “Pillsbury’s .Best.”T- The Milwaukee Harvesting and

Mowing machines may be had the com­ing season of John -Dempsey, who has the' agency for Dayton and vicinity. He also has the. agency for the Russell Threshing machinery, made at Mas- silon,Ohio.

A 'full line of Jackson Corset Waists for ladies, at S.P . HIGH’S./ /

DRESS GOODS.W e offer Plaid and Stripe Cask-

lners, all-wool Plaids, Snow Flake Diagonals, goods worth up to 40 cents a yard for 12-1- cents.

W e offer 39-ineh colored all-wool Caslimers, Striped Bedford Cords and wide W ale Diagonals, all-wool Trecots, half-dollar goods for 25 cents.

W e offer all-wool Bedford Cords, fancy pattern Suitings, 46-inch wool Surges, also black all-wool Nuns Yeil- ings, 44-inch wide, goods worth up to $1,00 per yard, for 50 cents.

W e offer a large lot cut pieces Silk Velvets, $1.50 quality, for 75 cents.

A small lot o f fine Silk Plushes, worth $1.00, for 25 cents.

One lot black China Silks at 50 cents.

One lot Surahs, 25 cents. W ash Surahs for blouse waists, for 50 cents, and one lot Faille Fraineaise colored Silks, $1.25 quality for 75 cents.

W e offer in our Cloak stock Ladies’ Cloth Jackets, Blazers and Reefers, crlored and black, for $5.00— worth up to $15.00, this seasons make.

W e offer one lot Ladies’ Balbriggan T ests and Pants, C & G. goods, $ 1 - 25 quality, with long sleeves, at 75 cents. H igh neck and short sleeves, 25 and 50 cents.

W e offer half-dollar qual ity Ladies’ black Stockings for 25 cents.

W e continue the sale on carpets.W e continue to give 25 per cent off

on Boys’ .Clothing.W e continue to sell Ladies’ $5.00

Shoes for $3.50.I don’t know as we ever spoke of

it to you before, but our goods don’t cost us much o f anything and we are willing to part with them— if you are interested.

COM E A N D S E E U S.

W e are in tlie m a rk e t “w ith, th e la r g e s t

line of

ever brought to this market, and they

w ill be sold at prices that w ill defy competition. Every buggy warranted first-class in every particular. Gall

and see us and we will save you money.

TREAT & 8IIF IE Y ,Dealers in Shelf and Heavy Hardware,

F o r Spring Dyeing.

For Spring Feeding.

TOILET SOAP, For Spring W ashing;

South Bend, Ind.

P. S.—D odd’s German Cough Balsam is the best a li around coiigh^mediciiie in the market. W e still sell lots of it.

Dodd’s Liver Pills, the thing for the Liver.. N . B .—W e keep a ll the other Patent Medicines.

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CRANKS AND PHARISEES WHO CRY OUT AGAINST REFORM.

Rev. Thomas I>«ont Jr., Pays B is Com­pliments to- Certain, ministers TVZio Con­demn Dr. Parilm rst—An A lien W ho TsToo Good, to Become a Citizen.

N e w Y ore , April 24.—In Ms review o f current events ‘before tbe sermon this morning, Mr. Dixon commented upon the action of certain ministers who have recently reflected severely on the work of Dr. Parkhurst, also paying his respects to the distinguished alien who draws Ms salary from an American church and at the same time scorns American citizensMp. He said;

Human nature is human nature, find it where yon will, in the dust o f the po* litical arena or rigged out in Moth and white tie, perfumed with traditions and conventional pretenses.

It looks like preachers ought to he better than ordinary men when it comes to petty jealousies, envyings and world­ly ambitions. But they are not always.

Let a great man do a great tMng for the cause of truth and righteousness to­day, and immediately yon wiU hear the cackle of geese who disagree with every­thing. Immediately yon will hear the Whine of the chronic sniveler and yon will observe tbe upturned nose of tbe modem Pharisee.

GABRIEL SENSATIONAL.Kothing ever suits these men. The

angels o f heaven couldn't devise a plan |rr the salvation of the world hut that they would attack and denounce it in twenty-four hours after its announce­ment. When the angel Gabriel blows Ins trumpet these sacred dudes will ad­just their eyeglasses and cry with horror, “ How sensational!"’

The funny thing about it, too, is that the very men who thus hasten to de­nounce sensationalism, in the very act o f denunciation try in the most sensational manner to lift themselves from the ob­scurity o f mediocrity and failure by attacking the successes o f men of action and real power.

POPGUN ARTILLERY.An analysis of the assaults from the

pulpit upon the men who are thus do: ing their duty in spite o f the world, the flesh, the devil and the church will in nine cases out o f fen reveal tMs motive hack of their assaults. Nothing is too good or great for them to attack. I f their noses were not consult­ed they are forthwith elevated and their little popgun artillery opens fire. And i f the promoter of the good work had been fool enough to consult them in the first place, they would have prompt­ly strangled the enterprise at its very birth.

Understand me, I am not personal, 1 am speaking in general terms—I have no personal grievance. My own per­sonal feelings have long since passed the point o f sensitiveness when attacked by dudes, sacred or secular, or peanut politicians of church. or state.THE AMERICAN COLONY OF SACRED DUDES.

A distinguished member Of tbe Ameri­can colony o f sacred dudes in addition to illustrating tbe above mentioned prin­ciple also gave birth recently to the fol­lowing: “ I have refrained from taking out papers as a citizen of New York be­cause the city is so wicked and corrupt that I would not wish to be identified with it even as a vote . Until it has rid itself o f an administration that is vile from top to bottom I w ill remain an alien. The entire municipal macMne, 1 believe, from Mayor Grant down, is ab­solutely corrupt.”

Eight you are, Mr. Alien, about tbe corruption of our city. I am not an ad­mirer of Mayor Grant, nor do I aspire t<? office under bis administration, but I would like to make a remark or two to you concerning tMs utterance, which. 1 hope yon will receive in good part, for I have no desire to be personal, but to ap­ply a general principle to a class,

R3frMr4‘RTrS TO TTTP. ALIEN.Is it just tbe thing for a man to draw

Ms support from a city whose citizensMp he considers a disgrace? W hy not dis­solve such alliance or else take the means at hand to remedy the disgrace and save the city?

Is not such, a man a leach that simply draws the life blood from the body poli­tic and gives nothing in return?

W ill not enough barnacles sink tbe greatest ship that floats?

Is it not precisely this disease that af­flicts the city today? The corrupt ele­ments have always been a minority. Tbe trouble with ns is that we are suf­fering from Pharisaical smallpox and dude paralysis. W e have now about 40,000 such criminal loafers on the day Of election. These apologies for men are the secret of Tammany’s deadly grip.• In fact, is not the alien who lives on

the city and refuses to bear Ms burden as a citizen both a deserter and a traitor? I ask simply for information. Has he not deserted Ms own nation for a better field and then betrayed the solemn trust imposed by the country of Ms adoption?

In America the citizen is the king. No man in this nation can live a consist­ent Christian life and betray that sacred trust. I f a Christian, he m u st take an active part in politics.

THE BIBLE A HISTORY.

Ye seaTCh the Scriptures because ye think thatin them ye have eternal life; and these are they which hear witness o f me; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.—John v , 39,40.

This passage o f Scripture has been given many misinterpretations. A cer­tain class of minds involved in its inter­pretation omitted the clause “ ye tMnk,” which is the very clause that gives meaning to the sentence. It has been used sometimes as a text to prove that tbe Scriptures contain eternal life itself. Jesus meant to say precisely the oppo­site o f this. He turned to the scribes and said to them by way of accusation and answer: “ Ye search the Scriptures because ye tMnk that in them ye have eternal life—whereas it is not a fact— for these are they wMch bear witness of me; and ye wiU not come to me, that ye may have life.”

One o f the burning questions concern­ing the Bible wMch the modern world has asked, and Which must be answered, Is whether the Bible is a revelation it­self or whether it is the history o f a revelation. Does the Bible Contain the essence of salvation? Does the Bible save or is it God that saves? Modem destructive criticism has caused many who loved the Bible to shudder with fear for its future. They have resented the process, o f historical criticism with vehemence, with untiring zeal, but often with little judgment.

DELUGE! FLOOD! KOAHlThe author o f “ Smith’s Bible Diction­

ary,” for instance, secured a scholar to write the article fo r the dictionary on the deluge. The scholar prepared the article and sent it to the editor, but the editor discovered that the result of scholarship did not harmonize with the traditional theories regarding the del­uge, so he rejected the article and en­tered in Ms dictionary—for the time had come for that part to go to press: “ Del­uge, .See Flood.” This would give them time to find a scholar who would prepare an article in harmony with tra­ditional ideas. He engaged the scholar and told him to write the article on the flood. The article was written and handed in. It was worse than the first, & he had to make another entry : “Flood. See Noah.” He hoped by the time ho would get to the notes he would discover a scholar who would harmonize tradition.

How foolish such methods o f defense, i f truth, rests .upon so flimsy a basis as traditional conceptions and cannot stand the blazing; light o f the full knowledge o f the century. W e needmot worry. It is not truth. Truth fears no inveSti^a.

Son. The triiUi IsTTfi own vindication. Let no man be nervous about tbe truth. Criticism may for the time be apparent­ly destructive, biit i f the truth is re­vealed by it richer treasures will be fgjond than those lost.

PYRENEAN MOUNTAINS.Yen know the old legend tells ns that

a fire swept the Pyrenean mountains. The fire consumed the vineyards, wrought great destruction. But the

; heat of the flames, it is said, burst open the veins of the rocks and discovered Mdden treasures of richest silver. Again, the legend tells us of those who sought for Mdden gold upon an island. They dug up the earth, searching for the treasure. They did not find the object of- their search, but in upturning the soil the seeds found lodgment and a rich harvest was bom, and man found food. I f tbe destructive methods of modem criticism rob the world o f certain tra­ditions, we may rest assured they will give to the world greater treasures than those of which they have robbed us.

In fact, it may be pertinent to inquire if in the past we have not made the Bible an unreal book by unreal, conven­tional methods of interpretation. I f we can come back to fact and face men. heart to heart, with the methods of common sense, in interpretation and ap­plication, we will get nearer to the se­crets of the world’s motives, the world’s actions, the world’s life. A little girl asked her father, who was a preacher, a very pointed question once. He was telling a very large story. The little one listened with intense interest. When the story closed she said, “ Is that true, papa, or are you just preaching now?” A ll preaching that is enveloped in a veil o f conventional tradition is just so far removed from the real world inwMch men think and will and act.

Our text teaches us that the Bible is simply the history o f the progressive rev­elation o f God to man.

A PROGRESSIVE REVELATION,First—TMs progress in revelation is

clearly marked both in the method and the matter of revelation. The Bible is not a revelation itself. It is simply the Mstory o f a revelation. Every book of the Bible first has its local purpose, its local Mstoric setting, and has its univer­sal application o f truth in and through that local, primal purpose. The Book of Genesis must he read in tMs light. We have here an account of creation. It is simply absurd for one to maintain that it was meant for an exhaustive and com­plete utterance upon the subject for all time.

We must ask the question: “ For what was the book o f Genesis primarily writ­ten? To whom was it primarily ad­dressed?” We find it was the first les­son God taught the infant class of the human race. It was written for the purpose of this primary instruction. It teaches one grand thought, teaches It completely, and that thought Is the one God in the midst of nations thatwor- sMped thousands o f gods. The first lesson to he taught was the grand con­ception o f the one. eternal, infinite God. Not only the one God, but tbat God im­minent in nature. God said, “ Let there be light, and there was light." That is, Ms breath is the law. I f we say that this account of creation is the last word and covers the whole field for all time, we claim for it more than the hook claims for itself, and involve ourselves in hopeless contradiction and hopeless confusion. TMs Is precisely what oc­curs to those who make such claim.

There is a sect in the state of Texas, for instance, that have declared that there must have been two original pairs. There must have been, in the beginning, two separate creations of man, and they argue that otherwise it would have been necessary for brother and sister to have intermarried from the first pair. This o f course raises a problem wMch con­flicts with every conception o f the hu­man. But it is a serious problem for him who asserts that the Book of Gen­esis gives a full and complete account of the origin of the human race; and to the mind which understands that the Book of Genesis had its primal purpose, and that purpose wirs to teach the infant race the one God and Ms Immediate touch through nature, such problems cease to be problems.

MURDER OF INFANTS.W e notice also progress in the idea of

God. The early races thought of God simply as the Lord. TMs was the only name under wMch they knew him or spoke o f him. But as the}’ made prog­ress we find the name Almighty occur­ring—not simply Lord, but he is the Lord whose power is limitless. Farther centuries roll on; they grow in knowl-

i edge of this God; they choose tbe name Jehovah, covenant keeping God. And when they ar> led out of Egypt through the Eed sea sad fed with bread from heaven they grasp the conception, the Holy One.

There is progress in the knowledge of the attributes of God unfolded in this revelation progressively. What’ a gulf Separates the God of Samuel who gives assent to the murder of infants, and the Christ who became angry when his dis­ciples turned the. children away and said, “ Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” There is cer­tainly progress from the God who is repenting and turning in the past to the God who is the same yesterday, today and forever. There is certainly prog­ress in the knowledge o f God from that conception wMch declared that God walked in the garden in the cool of the morning t i that thought of Trim wMch declares, “ Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard; it is impossible for a man to behold him.”

Certainly there was progress from the God of ’Leviticus, who was particular about the cut of the garments, the fringes and the tassels, the wash of the cups and pans, and all the paraphernalia of tbe priesthood and of the people, up to the God of the New Testament, whose place of worship was found neither in the mountains of Samaria nor in Jerusalem, but who is spirit, and must be worshiped in spirit and in truth.

NOT ORACULAR.Second—IftM sbooktben be tbe rec­

ord, of a progressive revelation it cannot be a book o f oracles, each sentence of wMch is o f authority for all time. We find in fact- that the Bible is no such book o f oracles. It is the impartial rec­ord o f the conflict of good and evil in life. The record of the movement of God through human life. "tee have tho impartial story of life told in tMs book. There is the record o f the liar, and the tMef, and tbe murderer, and tbe trick­ster. There is tbe story of cMcanery, of fratricide, of war, of brutality, o f lust, o f cruelty, o f slavery, of wife capturing and polygamy. There is no attempt to varnish it over. There is no attempt to make a hero and a saint out of a man who bad bis faults and bis weaknesses. Tbe record o f a man as man lived in life is given. Tbe movement o f the king­dom of God thus through time is given true to life, true to fact.

There is one fact that is always ob­servable in this record; tbat is, that the fault is always tbe fault o f the pupil, not the teacher. There is no attempt to varnish over the lie which P ete told, There is no attempt to make the apostles perfect men. W e see their petty quar- : rels with one another about precedence in the kingdom. Our Bible is the im­partial record of the conflict of good and

: evil,, that man may know that good does triumph and evil brings the seeds of death and ruin. David and Jacob and Solomon lived in tlieir own day and own time lives above the standard of theiv day. Therefore were they men after God’s own heart. In spite of all their weakness and sjn, their faces were 1 turned toward the right. They lived by the best light they had. ■ They were the’ pioneers. They knew less o f Gofl than the child o f today, but they blazed the W ay through the forest,- they Jived in log

~ cabins and Sleot on the ground! in1 the -•

open air, while we wEcT come aTteFUve in palaces and reap the result of their labors.

THE MEANEST LIE.Colonel Ingersoll recently declared in

'Cooper union, before a crowd of unedu­cated colored people, that no negro should ever bow to tbe name of God, be­cause the God of the Bible bad begin the God o f slavery, who had'upheld it through all the ages of the past. Id o not wish to be personal or unkind To­ward the colonel, hut that is the mean­est lie I ever heard any man utter. The man who would make such an assertion would knock the crutches from beneath a crippled wayfarer in a crowded thor­oughfare without a tear or a moment’s hesitation. Whenever a nation is to he enslaved, it is necessary to first put iron clamps on the lids o f the Bible. When­ever the subject o f slavery is touched in tbe Bible, it is always in the benefit of the slave. Whenever the subject.of any man’s sins and weaknesses is touched in tbe law or the prophets, God speaks the word in behalf of weakness and those who are oppressed, and points forward to the day o f deliverance. In times o f ignorance he sometimes overlooked, men’s faults; but in the fullness of time he calls upon all for repentance.

To deny the Mstoric setting of the Bible Is to stultify tbe book and involve ourselves in hopeless contradictions. If we say that the Bible is a book of oracles and has no historic setting, we have at once our license for tailing a sentence from the Bible and making a spear of it with which to gibbet our enemies. This has been a favorite pastime of many theologians In the past, and this was the point of view of the yonng theologian who took the text, “ Enoch was not.” He took that “ not” and sharpened it until he could run it"through all life oppon­ents. He said Enoch was not a Metho­dist, bocanse lie did not believe in fall­ing from grace. He was not a Presby­terian, because he did not have any Westminster confession o f faith. lie was not an Episcopalian, because he did not believe in ceremony. He was not a Universalist, because be did believe in a hell. He was not a Baptist, because he did not believe in much water. Enoch was a Congregationalist, because he walked with God. The young man was of course a Congregationalist.

SUPERLATIVE NONSENSE.If the Bible is such a collection of

oracles, such a process of exposition is legitimate. I f it has its historic setting, such a process is superlative nonsense. Being a progressive revelation, and not a book of oracles of equal authority, we cannot tear from its historic setting a text in Genesis or Isaiah and attach it to a sentence from, an epistle in the mew Testament, and on these two build a scheme of theology. Let ns try it. Take a sentence from Genesis, “ It is not good for a man to he alone;” attach it to a sentence from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, “ But I say to the unmar­ried and to Widows, it is good for them if they Jtbide even as I.” WMch will yon believe? How can you reconcile two such statements, if yon have a book of oracles, of equal authority in all time, in all ages? Take another illustration, take Numbers xv, 32-30;

And while the children o f Israel were in the wilderness, th^y found a. man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because i t was not declared what should be done to him.

And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall 1 e surely pur to death; all the congrega­tion shall stone aim with stones without the camp.

And all the congregation brought him with­out tl.e camp, and stoned him with' stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

What would Jesus Christ have said to this? Let us see. Turn to John viii, 3—11.

And the scribes and Pharisees bring a wom­an taken ia adultery; and having set her in the midst, they say unto him. Master, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act. Now in the law Moses commanded ns to stone such: what then sayest thou o f her? And this they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. But when they continue;^ asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, iffo tha t is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from tbe eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst. And Je­sus lifted up himself, and said unto her, W om ­an, where are they? did no man condemn thee? And she said, No man, Lord. And Je­sus said, Neither do X condemn thee; go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.

Oh, what- a gulf separates these two incidents! What a gulf between the conception of God which could stone a man to death for lacking up sticks on the Sabbath day and the God who said to the woman taken in sin, “ Neither do 1 condemn thee; go and sin no more.” WMch of these contains the truth of God’s nature? They cannot both be oracular utterances good for all time. Try another combination: I Kings xi, 3, “And Solomon had seven hundred wives;” Luke vi, 13, “ Do ye also like­wise.” Combine those two passages of Scripture and yon have the code o f the Mormon world. It will not work.

CLIMAX OF GOD’S REVELATION.That is to say, the test of all progres­

sive revelation is the end of the revela­tion , not the process. There may he im­perfections and incompleteness of neces­sity in the process; hut the test must he sought in the end, not the process. The question is, What ia the result of this revelation, which extended over 1,600 years of time? Does it tend to make slaves, does it corrupt men, or does it purify, ennoble, strengthen, save? Sup­pose I want to investigate the spirit of the civilization of the city of New York.I want to see whether Hew York is a fit place in which to live. The fol­lowing advertisement I read, which ap­peared in a Now York newspaper:

Just arrived from Great Britain, and are to be sold on hoard the ship Alice and Elizabeth. Captain Paine, Commander, several likely Welsh and English Servant Men, most of them Tradesmen. Whoever inclines to purchnso any of them may agree with said Commander or M r. Thomas Noble, Merchant, atM r.Hazard’s. in New York, where also is to he sold several Negro Girls and a Negro Boy, and likewise good Cheshire cheese.

I read this advertisement in a Now York newspaper, and I say that is all I want to know about New York. A city in which men and women are sold on the block along with Cheshire cheese as a commodity is certainly the embodi­ment of barbarism and cruelty. It is not a fit place for a Christian to live. I denounce and curse the whole city of New York, and charge the city with being the rendezvous of slave traders and its citizens as the oppressors o f humanity. But' the trouble with that conclusion is that there is a date to that advertisement, and the date it hears is September 4,1732. The date of- the ad­vertisement gives the key to the situa­tion. My conclusion is wide of fact be­cause I have lost the sense of Mstoric setting. Such is the condition of the man who charges the God o f the Bible with responsibility for slavery.

Lot ns remember these facts: .First—The morality o f the Bible is its*

final morality. The book must be taken thus as a whole. That final morality is the morality o f Christ, who was the cli­max of God's revelation. .

Second—That eternal life is found; not in the Bible itself, but in the Christ which the Bible reveals.

Third.—That the Bible, and the Bible alone, is the religion o f Protestants sim­ply and only because the Bible reveals Jesus Christ the incarnate word.

Fourth—The character of revelation must be judged by the results that flow from the revelation.

A MORAL GULF STREAM.The Bible may well be compared to

tbe Gulf Stream of the ocean of human Mstory. The Gulf Stream is a river that flows through the ocean of water-. It has its own peculiar history, its own warm, life giving current. There are doubtless eddies that..burst into tMs cur­rent from the cold water without. There are vigorous currents tbat some­times collide wtthJt_andjaiak.e-imDres-

ieiS iti issions upOnlfT it is thus affected by the impurities and chill of the water through wMch it passes, hut the Gulf Stream in its character is to be judged not by the imperfections,- but by the results. What is the result? The result is that conti­nents that otherwise would be frozen blossom with beauty and bear their glorious harvests for the world. It washes the shores o f America and brings warmth and civilization. It Washes the shores of Spain, of England, and on into the far north, carrying with it the Ms­tory of civilization. Its results are gar­dens, fields waving with harvests, flow­ers, spring.

Into this stream of sacred Mstory there may ho now and then found cur­rents projected from the ocean through which it has flowed. There may he i ountercurrents of chill waters thathave made impressions upon it here and there. But what of the result? Here is the test. Where it has flowed deserts have been made into gardens. Harvests have been reaped from desolate wilds. The law of brute strength has been re­versed, and weakness has ruled strength and love become the supremo principle of life. Men have become free whero they were once slaves, and the great, dark, vulgar masses of mankind have been lifted up by its power into new lifo and new hope. We will Cling to tho Boob, therefore, as the source of life, and of beauty, and of hope, of cheer an4 of salvation.

A ’W om an ’ s G am e o f C onversation-.“ The women at our boarding bouse

have taken up a little game,” said a New York wife the other day, “ fromwMoli they derive considerable amusement. The men at our house l am sorry to say are not very entertaining. Our husbands are deeply engrossed in business and are generally too tired wben they come home to dinner to engage in small talk without a manifest effort. • There are two or-- three unmarried men who aro talkative enough, often too talkative in tact, but their conversation is not half is entertaining to us as it is to them­selves.

“ So six of ns hit on this plan: We gather in the parlor before going down to dinner, and there we agree upon some well known proverb or familiar quota­tion. Our object is to bring tbe conver­sation of these talkative yonng fellows around a point where we can intro­duce this quotation appropriately.

“ Whoever succeeds in getting Off tho quotation first is tho winner, and when each tries to win she also tries to head off the others, if she see? an opportunity coming. It is rare sport and affords us plenty Of fun. To drag the quotation in badly, inappropriately, does not count; it musticome in aptly so as not to excite the suspicions of these youths that we are playing with them instead of at them, as they fondly imagine. Take, for in­stance, the quotation: ‘A prinrrose by the river’s brim, a simple primrose was to him, and it was nothing more,’ and try to bring around to tbat connection the convevs'atiou of a young iuan which “begins with ‘shop,’ takes a flight into flirtation, and ends with the theaters or horses.

“ It takes some ingenuity, I tell you, and the little mystery underlying all our remarks, which Is known only to our­selves gives the game additional inter­est for a woman, of course.”—New York Tribune.

Life ia Crectle Is Expensive.Living in Creede is about 50 per cent,

higher than in an ordinary town. Ho meal fit to eat can be obtained for less than-ono dollar. A cot in a room with fifty-or 100 others costs from fifty cents to one dollar per night. The water that courses through the town looks clear and sparkling, but as it is used as a sewer tbe doctors warn every one not to drink it. Beer costs fifteen cents a glass, or thirty or forty cents a bottle. Whisky that will not kill cannot he got for less than twenty-five cents a drink, and the bartender is careful that your libation is not too large at that. Horses and burros to ride over the mountains are hired at fifty and twenty-five cents an hour.

The streets are so terribly sloppy tbat one glares not walk around inneb, and a ride-to any part of the city will cost you fifty cents. Cabmen have driven over from Pueblo, a distance of twenty-five miles, with their rigs, and are reaping a ricliei-liarvest than the prospectors. La­bor is Mgh. Any man who can drive a nail can command four dollars a day, and in some extreme cases they are paid one dollar an hour. Boss carpenters get eight dollars a day, and are talking of raising the scale of wages. Laundry costs three times -as much as in St. Louis, and no Chinamep are allowed in camp. —\Creede (Colo.) Letter.

The B ook s B oys Head*The truth is that it is not the boys who

read “ had books” who swell the roll of youthful criminality, it is the boys who do not read anything. Let any one look over the police court of a busy morning and he will see that the style of youth gathered there have not fallen into evil ways through their depraved literary tendencies. They were not brought there by books, but more probably by ignorance of books, combined with a genuine hatred of books of all kinds. There is not a more perfect picture of innocence in the world than a hoy buried in Ms favorite book, oblivions to all earthly sights and sounds, scarcely breathing as he follows the fortunes of the heroes and heroines of the Story.—

.Kansas City Star.

The Qualification.The late Patrick Henry Cowen, a

prominent Saratoga lawyer, was fond of relating the story Of his admission to the bar. The committee met at Bailston, and young C ow en was the only candi­date. A member of the committee re­marked: “ I tMnk a single question will determine the legal qualifications of the candidate Yonng man, can yon name the best brand of champagne?” “ I can,” responded Cowen, “ but for fear that your honors may suspect I. am in error, I will forward to each of you • ^sample that will vindicate my judgment.” This satisfied Jhe committpe. and Q.owen_was admittecT, He kept his promise.—-Troy Press.. - ■-----------

Several Butlers.Ward McAllister's daughter was vis­

iting not long ago in Philadelphia, and at a luncheon given in her honor re­marked in an affable tone to a bright gffl. on her right, “ Ah, have yon anyone here who fills the somewhat important place in society that papa does in New York?” “ Oh, yes, several,” sweetly re­plied, the girl addressed, “ but they’re-all colored men.”—Chicago Tribune.

** O ne C ause o f C ranks.Clerk—Man in front office says he’s

starving and needs assistance,Mr. Billion—Um! Has he “a satchel or

bunclle of any kind? ,“ Ho, sir; no signs of dynamite.”“ Kick him out.”—New York Weekly.

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The question of circulating disease by geijns has been so widely discussed in th% nineteenth century by both physi­cians and sanitarians, and the theory so generally accepted, that it seems strange that the danger from infection arising, from the custom of administering the sacrament of communion by one gen­eral cup lias not yet been considered by • tbe profession at large. While fe'eling the greatest, reverence for a custom made sacred by time and usage, is-it ' not the duty of each of u’s to do oiir part toward diminishing the prevalence of disease? ’

One church in tbe United States has, after much careful thought and deliber­ation, rejected the practice of serving, communion wine - from one general drinking vessel, and substituted individ- nal cnns for tMs service. TMs was in a

Methodist church in Cleveland, where a few Sundays ago the innovation was made.

Did the present custom of dispensing wine to persons from one general cup prevail anywhere hut in a church, sani­tarians would have condemned the prac­tice as dangerous long ago, but the fear of being thought, sacriligious has kept them from expressing their opinion. Under no other circumstances could anybody be induced to make use of a drinking utensil that had been touched by a dozen, a score, a hundred, perhaps, other lips. ’ The drinking cups of public places are in reality more cleanly than the communion goblet, for each new­comer at least rinses out the vessel be­fore touching it to his moiith.

Ho one, diseased or not, is denied par­ticipation in the sacrament of com­munion. Tho cup that is held so rever­ently has perhaps but a moment before been contaminated by a fellow communi­cant just recovering from malignant sore throat or some incipient disease far more infections. And ia the carved decorations which usually ornament the edge of the communion cup, no better breeding place for bacteria can be found. Are we tbe less Christians because we desire to Obey the ordinary laws of hygiene?

Is any of tho sacredness o f the sacra­ment taken from it by the introduction of as many cups as there are communi­cants?

“ Drink ye all of this.” Where does the theologian find Ms authority for the manner of administering? Hot in any words of the Scriptures, There is no reference to one cup from which all should partake. Whatever teaches clean­liness, whatever tends to purify the body, advances the cause of Christianity. It is surely “ the spirit that giveth life” and not the form.

Not many months ago Judge Arnold, of Philadelphia, decided that the kissing of a dirty and therefore germ breeding Bible was not necessary to tbe taking of an oath. He claimed that it savored of the days o f Idolatry, and that we, as a people wise in our generation, should abolish a custom so fraught with dan­ger; that the laying on of one’s hand was just as binding as touching the hook with one’s lips and far more conducive to the public health.

Surely the sanction o f administering the wine of communion, as it now pre­vails, comes from ignorance and super­stition rather than from willful blind­ness to its evident dangers, and it is to be hoped in the next few years that priest and congregation, sacrificing the wish of a few to the good of many, and recognizing the necessity of scrupulous care and cleanliness in preventing dis­ease, will substitute individual cups for the administration of communion wine, and do away with the present plan of. using one utensil without cleansing it as it passes from lips to lips.—Hew York Advertiser:

Roseau Colliding’ Son-iii-la'W.Did you read in the news columns that

W. G. Oakman was elected president of the Richmond Terminal road the other day? Well, he was. I’ll tell you a story about him. He is the son-in-law of Ros- coe Conlding. At the time of his mar­riage to Bessie Conlding her father op­posed the mating, and so accustomed was Mi-. Conkling to have Ms own way about what concerned him that he never forgave his daughter until he came to die for thwarting his wishes. The ob­jection Conkling had to the match was simply because of the obscurity of Oak- man, who at the time was a humble superintendent o f a minor division of tbe Delaware, Lackawanna and West­ern railway, and probably did not show up on the payroll for more than twenty- five dollars a week.

Oakman was always a popular yonng man and was thought by Ms friends to have some future. Mr. Conkling did not think so. On the occasion of the wedding Horatio Seymour, uncle of the bride, threw open the doors of Ms house in Utica and gave the yonng woman an opportunity of making a social stir •which her father’s purse would not have permitted, though he had been willing to the match. Mr. Conkling never spoke to his daughter after until he was on his deathbed in the Hoffman House. He sent for her, and the supposition has al­ways bees that there was a reconcilia­tion.—Interview in Chicago Tribune.

TCnglaiul a Vampiro,It is many years ago since Baron Lie­

big wrote:England is robbing all other countries

of the condition of their fertility. Al­ready, in her eagerness for bones, she has turned up the battlefields of Leipsie, of Waterloo and of the Crimea; already from the catacombs of Sicily she has carried away the skeletons of several successive generations. Annually she removes from the shores of other coun­tries to her own the niairarialequivalent of 3,500,000 men, wdioin she takes from us the means of supporting, and Squanders down her sewers to the sea. Like a vampire, she hangs upon the neck of Europe—nay, of the entire world, and sucks the heart blood from nations with­out a thought of justice toward, without a shadow of lasting advantage to, her­self.

Statistics About tho Lakes.The following figures obtained from

reliable sources show the mean level of the lake surfaces above the mean tide at Hew York and their maximum depths, respectively: Lake Ontario. 340.01 feet, 788 feet deep: Liike Erie, 572.86 feet and 210 feet deep; Lake Michigan. 581.2S feet, 870 feet deep; Lake Huron, 581.28 feet, 750 feet deep; Lake-Superior, 601.78 feet, 1,008 feet deep. The deepest •wafrer runs very fairly in mid lake through­out the chain.

The area of water surface in square miles according to • Crossman's delinea­tion is as follows: Lake Superior, 31,200; Lake Huron, 23,800; Lake Michigan, 22,450; Lake Erie, 9,960; Lake Ontario, 7,240, or a total area of 94,650 square miles.—Maine Record.

Ho\v.tlie Peacli Was Produced.That the luscious peach has been de­

rived from the hard shelled almond can no longer be successfully denied. It is said that tbe peach in its original Soil was a virulent poison, and that the Per­sian warriors brought to Persia some of the seeds and planted them for the pur­pose of poisoning the points o f their ar­rows so as to render wounds caused by tbem to be fatal, but a change of climate an^#soil produced a fruit wMch is not onlf luscious, but is esteemed exceeding­ly healthful.—CMcago Tribune.

^ ---:---Rather 111 Timed.

At a recent ’wedding, at wMch tbe brifie bad retained ber “ maiden xuedita- tibli fancy free” a number of years be­yond tbe usual marrying age, tbe organ­ist most thoughtlessly or most ungal- lantly played as a prelude to the arrival o f the wedding party, “ ’Tis the Last liose of Summer,” thereby causing a visible smile among the listeners.—New York Times.

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E s ta te o f S a m u e l B r o w n .First publication, April 7,1852.

S“ TATS OF MICHIGAN, County o f Berrien.—As.At asession olfhc Probate Court for said County

ol Berrien, held at tbe Probate Ofilce,in tbe village of Berrien Springs, on the 3 th day c f March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine­ty-two.

Presen t, David E . JItshjlk, Jndge ofProbate In the matter o f the estate o f Samuel Brown,

deceased.On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,

of William F. Brown, son o f deceased, praying that administration o f said estatemny be gianled to Nathaniel II. Bacon, or some uthersnitabieper- son.

Thereupon it is ordered that Monday, the 2d day o f May next, at 30 o’ clock in the fore­noon, he assigned for the hearing o f said petition, and that the heirs at law o f said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate, are re­quired to appearat a session o f said court, then to he hoiden in the Probate Office, in the village ol Berrien Springs, and show cause, i f any there he, why the prayer of the petitioner should not he granted. And it is farther ordered, that said pe­titioner give notice to the persons interested in said estate, ol the pendency o f said petition, and the hearing thereof, by causing a copy Of this or­der to he published in tho Buchanan Record, a newspaper printed and circulated in said county, three successive weeks previous to said day ol hearing.

[L .S J DAVID E. B IS S A U ,CAtruecopy.) Judgeof Probate

Last irablicaiioa, April 28,1832.

■Notice for Hearing CSainis.First publication Mar.31,18512.

QTATE OF 511 GIMGAN.Coinify o f Berrien — ss. 0 Probate Court for said County.

Estate of Christian Meffert, deceased The undersigned having been appointed by tbe

Judge of Probale o f said County, Commissioners on Claims in the matter of said estate and six months from ihc seventh (Tib) day of March, A. D. 1892, having been" allowed by said Jndge of Probate to all persons holding claims against said estate, ia wideli Ip present their claims to ns for examination and adjustment: Notice is hereby given, that wo will meet on Saturday, the Kill day of May, A. B- 3892, and on Wednesday, the 7th day of September, A.D,iS92,at ten o'clock a. m. o f each day, at John O. Dick's office in the village or Buchanan, in said county,to receive and examine such claims.

Dated Match 28,18S2.S i l S ; {•Commissioners.

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