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The Clinton IndependentYOL. XXXV.—NO. 29. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1901.

BREVITIES.

Memorial Day—May 30th.Watch for the silk spinners.Dr. McDonald at The Steel, Thurs­

day, May 16.“One thousand silk spinners will spin in St. Johns soon.

.Dr. Walker’s next visit to St. Johns, will be Saturday, May 11th, at The Steel.

John M. Marietta, of Eagle, has been granted an increase of pension to $14 a month.

Frank Sackett, of Olive township, who has been very near death’s door with appcndlcities, was reported some better on Tuesday.

Dr. F. A. Clise has returned from settling his family in Bath, and will continue his eye practice as heretofore in the office of Dr. H. D. Squair.

Mrs. Helen M. Parr, of Maple Rap­ids, has ordered of F. F. Murdock, St. Johns, a $1,000 monument to be placed on her lot in the Sowles cemetery.

A number of the Lady Maccabees of St. Johns Tent, drove over to Ovid yesterday to visit the hive in that village and to have a good buzzing time.

Justice W. C. Lyon is tilling a few weeks’ engagement with the Grand Rapids supply Company. He can deal out justice to the people there as well as here.

Mrs. Mary J. Hurlbert, of Detroit, (formly of Olive,) entertained 32 ladies at Pedro, with light refreshments, Thursday afternoon, at Jier home, 267 Grand River Ave.

The Pan-American exposition at Buffalo opened April 1. The first ticket sold brought $5. The rest of the tickets, throughout the entire show, will bring but fifty cents.

Wallace Hungerford, a capitalist of Riley township, got into trouble here last week, which made it necessary for him to contribute to the public fund to the amount of $10, besides costs.

This being the year of state equali­zation the board of supervisors meet June 24th to equalize the several town­ship rolls and select delegates to at­tend the state board of equalization in the interests of the respective coun­ties.

The work of excavation and foun­dation for a new two story brick block by Dr. A. H. Kenyon, at the corner of Clinton avenue and Railroad street, was commenced the first of the week. It is now reported that L. J. Calkins will occupy the building when com­pleted.

FrancesE., the 2 year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Frank Burley, St. Johns, died Friday night last. May 3, 1901, from an absess formed in his neck. The funeral was held from the resi­dence last Sunday afternoon, Rev. Mc­Gregor officiating; interment in St. Johns cemetery.

A young man named Ash, of Riley township, got into trouble with Charley DeRose, the Italian fruit merchant at the lower end of Clinton avenue, last Saturday, which resulted in Ash paying a fine of $20 and $5 cost before Justice Marshall, and all about a $20 bill and 20 cents worth of ban­anas. It was an expensive visit.

J. S. Adams, of the harness and carriage firm of Davies & Adams, is get­ting the necessary materials together for the erection of a dwelling house on the Mrs. Eliza Hoyt lots, corner of Walker and Mead streets, recently purchased by him. There is a great amount of building going on and in preperation in and about St. Johns this spring.

Mrs. Dr. Mary Havens received a telegram last week to the effect that her granddaughter, who is now about 16 years old, was very sick and not expected to live, at the home of her grandmother, InthePetoskey country. She, in company with her daughter, Mrs. Janes, went by the Tuesday even­ing train, to see her. They found her better and in a fair way of recovery.

The beauties of St. Johns are fast returning from their winter quarters. The lawns have been slicked up and nature's lovelv green carpet is now well spread. The new life is every­where active, and the blossoms are sending out sweet perfumes, which, coupled with the feathered songsters, produce nature’s joys. All these cause us to thank Him who sends these earthly blessings.

The state dental laws are very string­ent and no person is allowed to practice dentistry without first showing proper qualifications before a state examining board;chief among whose requirement are that the applicant shall be at least 21 years of age and have a good moral character. Anyone can cause the arrest of a violator of the law and the penalty is severe in the extreme in the Case of mere pretenders.

Bert Morton, an employe in the Table Company’s works for many vears, had the second finger of the fight hand slitted to the second joint by a saw at which he was working last Tuesday. Dr. Weller, who dressed it says he can save the finger, but, from the nature of the injury it will be stiff. This is the third time this same hand has suffered from the machinery in that institution. First he had the upper part of the thumb shot off by a buzz saw; the next time he had the index finger so injured as to leave it stiff.

Another Bn* *lne** Change.

Louis Sawady, late of South Dakota, has purchased the grocery stock and business of Thomas Waldron at No. 17 Clinton avenue, and will take possess­ion next Monday. Mr. Waldron has established a good trade, but he has a desire to visit, an possibly, take up a residence in California. Tom has been a resident of St. Johns many years and his many friends will be sorry to have him go away.

Mr. Sawady is an old grocery mer­chant, and he was so favorably im­pressed with St. Johns and the coum- try about, that he resolved to make this his future home.

THE COLLEGE.The Divided Intercuts mid IdfHi of Our

People Will Leave the School at St. Louis.

A goodly number of the more active subscribers to the College Fund, through which to aid Mr. Yerington in removing his department college from St. Louis to St. Johns, assembled at the Council Chamber last Friday evening to listen to the reports of the committee chosen to Investigate the management, workings and value of the school under consideration.

The committee consisted of F. M. Spaulding, Prof. I. B. Gilbert, super­intendent of our schools; Thomas Bromley, Jr., J. T. Millman and E. L. Dooling. Mr. Spaulding was out of town. Mr. Gilbert in his report, said that the people of St. Louis, and those with whom he talked In Ithaca, spoke in complimentary terms of Prof. Yer­ington as a hard worker and a man of integrity and uprightness.

In their report the committee stated that the school was somewhat smaller than it was at the time of Mr. Yer- ington’s visit to our village, as the spring term is always smaller than the winter term.

The matter of erecting such a build­ing as Mr. Yerington demanded,' had been discussed to a considerable ex­tent, and it was stated by men of ex­perience that it could not be done for the $5,000, but would require, at least, seven or eight thousand dollars, and as the Professer had stated in his pre­vious visits that he would not be will­ing to contribute to the cause, and as the time given the people of St. Johns to provide the requsite building had expired, the project was abandoned.

MANUFACTURING.The question of giving encourage­

ment and assistance to manufacturing institutions, already here, was then brought up and discussed, and the car­riage and wagon works of A. T. Smith, was more extensively discussed. Mr. Smith was present and expressed his willingness to put his property and business into a stock company and build a brick building of sufficient size to work to advantage 50 or 100 men. Mr. Smith is perfectly willing to have a board of directors and financial ad­visers who are capable of managing that part of the business, elected by the stockholders.

It was also suggested that an improv- ment fund be made perpetual, that when Mr. Smith’s institution is put on a good business foundation, to pay the money back to the village finance improvement committee, with­out interest, and it be loaned in the same manner to other worthy institu­tions needing assistance.

The most important things to be considered in the line of manufactur­ing in a place like St. Johns, is the fuel question and finding an outlet, at fair prices, for the product of this or that concern. When an active de­mand is created for the goods of a con­cern at fair margins of profit, there is no trouble about building up a lasting business, and this demand can best be created by every person feeling an in­terest in the success of this or that in­industry and advocating its wares and exercise himself in the finding of a market or urging local consumption of the goods made.

Our people must work more in unison for the common good of the inhabi­tants of the village and the country about. Our flouring mills might be made to flourish if every inhabitant would demand the flour made at home and every dealer would advocate home­made flour.

What is true of the flouring mills is also true of the foundry, engine works, planing mill and lumber yard. Ask for a plow, harrow or whatnot, made at home, and keep up the cry and de­mand, and the institution will begin to flourish and with itcomes a stronger demand for the products of the farm and other industries. People buy free­ly when trade is good.

If Mr. Kniltin finds a large deposit of excellent coal at our door it will prove to be the strongest inducement for encouraging and building indus­tries in our midst, that could be well devised

Weller & Daggett, of the St. Johns foundry and machine works are mak­ing an excellent churn—the Octa­gonal—and if every hardware, bazaar, grocery and other stores that could take one and point out its advantages, they would assist in finding a market for a good thing wholly manufactured at home.

The followng named citizens com­pose the committee chosen to solicit subscriptions in aid of our present manufacturing institutions: F. M. Spaulding, Thomas Bromley, Jr., J. S. Adams, and J. T. Millman. Help those first who we have with us now, and when they are well cared for reach out for more.

Circuit Court.The following are the cases disposed

of in the adjourned March term of the Circuit Court, now in session, Judge Stone presiding:

Peering Harvesting Company vs. George E. Bliss. Assumpsit. Verdict for defendant with costs,

Henry I,. Pierson et al vs. Genre E. BlUs. Assumpslt. Verdict for defendant with costs

Wm. Barrie Pry Goods Company vs. Julietta C. Krepps. Trespass. Verdict for defendant with costs.

George M. Hoerner vs. Lena A. Hoerner,— Divorce. Decree granted.

Broke His Ann.Lloyd, the seven-year-old son of Hud­

son Sherman, one of our draymen, while playing with some children up­on his fathers dray last Saturday even­ing, was pushed in such a manner by one of his mates, as to cause him to fall from the vehicle, resulting in the breaking of his left arm at the elbow. Dr. Dodge was called, who repaired the little fellow up In good shape.

Location For the New Creamery.The prospective new creamery for

St. Johns and vicinity will be located a little east of the old creamery and now the cold storage building of Arens Sc Co., on Steel street, and the work of construction will be commenced at once.

DAN L. RYAN,A Clinton County Man Accidentally Loses

His Life on the Fere Marquette Railroad.

Dan L. Ryan, youngestson and child of the late Michael Ryan, of Bengal township, this county, met with an accident on the Pere Marquette rail­road, at Plymouth, at about 6 o’clock p. m., Thurday, May 2d, which termi­nated his life at the age of 28. He was unmarried and had recently been made conductor of a construction or work train. There were two trains in the yard at the same time, and while Dan was engaged in cleaning sand and dirt out of a patent coupler, tiie other train, unobserved, backed in upon him, knocking him down, and in less time than it would take to tell it, he was killed beneath the pondrous load.

The remains were brought to St. Johns Saturday morning, and the funeral held from the family residence, in Bengal, where the unfortunate young man was born, on Sunday after­noon, Fr. Krams, of St. Mary’s church, St. Johns, officiating, reading the regular burial service of the church. Master James Burke, and Chaplain John Goodrich, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, read from the ritual of the order, a most beautiful service. Five other members of the order, in company with those above mentioned, served as pall bearers, named as follows: Al Morris, Wm. Bettis, Dugan Smith, E. W. Fine and J. Ayers, a co-worker of the deceased. The deceased was insured in the order to the amount of $1,2U0.

It will be remembered that Dan, the subject of this sketch, accompan­ied the remains of Will Hammond, who was killed by a locomotive turn­ing over in a snow storm west of Sagi­naw in the latter part of last winter, to his home in St. Johns.

Thesurviviug members of the family are frequent and earnest in the ac­knowledgement of the unbounded kindness and brotherly lover of not only the members of the Brotherhood of the Pere Marquette, but of the various other roads, who assembled at Plymouth, to the numberof 60or more, to aid in caring for the remains and to pay their respects to the memory of th'iir highly esteemed unfortunate brother.

Here the other side of the apparent­ly tough and unfeeling railroad man was shown in all its tenderness and gentleness.

Among the surviving members of the family the following named were present at the funeral, prominent among them was the grief stricken mother, who is now past 70: M. S. Ryan, wife and son, and James Ryan, of St. Thomas. Ont.; Thomas Roche, (a brother-in-law,) wife and daughter, of Fenton; F. J. Roche and H. B. Ryan, of Toledo, O.; Miss Anna Ryan, teacher in our high school; Kate and Nora, at home, and Mrs. Mary Fay and daughter, at home. Thomas M. Roche, of Cleveland, was belated and did not arrive until Monday .morning.

All that belongs to earth of Dan L. Ryan now rests in the family lot in the Catholic portion of St. Johns ceme­tery.

The widowed mother and every member of the family have the un­divided sorrow and sympathy of every person in this community, in this, their irreparable loss.

JAMES BOYLEAn Old Resident of Gratiot and Clinton

Countie*, l» Dead.

James Boyle died at his home in Greenbush township. April 30, 1901, of heart trouble, aged 74 years.

The funeral took place from the Catholic church, St. Johns, last Satur­day, and the interment made in St. Johns cemetery by the side of a little daughter who died several years ago.

The deceased was born on the Island of Newfoundland, and was the son of a Irish soldier, who served under Wellington. James was about 30 years old when he came to Michigan and settled in the township of New­ark, Gratiot county, where he resided several years and then removed to Greenbush township, where he had a continuous residence until removed by the relentless hand of death. He was a member of a family of ten child­ren—7 sons and 3 daughters; two daughters and one son of ills brother’s family survive. Of James immediate family a widow, three daughters and two son survive. Mr«. Boyle is a very intellectual and capable woman, and her deceased husband was a kind and indulgent father and an obliging and highly honored neighbor.

His brother Stephen being the only surviving brother, and the two sons of the deceased being unmarried, the family name now bids fair to soon become extinct.

DUSINESS CHANGE.The Northern Hotel Pa**e* From the

Hand* of Zarherla* A Earl to William Tucker, and the Old Name, “Farm-

em’ Hotel,” Re-Adopted.

Wm. Tucker, formerly of Olive township and late manufacture of cigars in St. Johns, has purchased the hotel property formerly known as the Farmers’ Hotel and later ‘*The North­ern.” Mr. Tucker assumed fnll man­agement last Monday, and at once re­adopted the former name, “The Farm­ers Hotel.” He starts out with a well established trade, which we predict he will not only maintain but Increase. He will make It the home of the weary and hungry, and treat them in such a manner that they will be pleased to return when occasion requires

MRS. BY RON G. VALENTINE.After a Long and Fat lent Illne**, Died at

Her Home In Shepardavllle May 8, 1901.

Lizzie, wife of Byron G. Valentine, after a long and patient illness, died at her home in Shepardsville, at 11:15 a. m., Wednesday. May 8, 1901, aged 55 years. Funeral at 1:30 p. m., Fri­day, May 10. Obituary next week.

MRS. FRANK E. DEWITT,Not Long Since Married, Died at Her

Home In Mason. Mleh.

Mrs. Frank E. DeWitt, who had been married a little more than a vear, died at her home in Mason, Mich., April 26, 1901. Her husband was a former resident of St. Johns.

Miss Nina Simons was born in Alle­gan, this state, Feb. 6, 1874, where she lived the most of the time until mar­ried, March 10, 1900, since which time they had lived in Mason. Her sick­ness dates from September 1, last, with spinal trouble. Two weeks prev­ious to her death she appeared to be improving, and her husband and friends believed she w,mld be able to leave her bed within a month. Friday night next preceding her death she was visited with congestion of the lungs, followed by severe stomach trouble, terminating with gastritus.

Her life was one or activity, and it was due to her ambition that she neglected to take the necessary rest following an attack of cebro spinal meningitis. The result was a relapse.

She has borne her sufferings these many months without a word of com­plaint, and was constantly planning for the future, when she would again be able to mingle with her friends.

Being endowed with extraordinary musical talent she became a mast val­uable memer of the musical circle of Mason. She had a cheerful and loving disposition, which endeared her to the hearts of all whom she met

Her home life was a most perfect one. She was the idol of a fond hus­band and a devoted mother, who labor­ed unceasingly for the life so dear to them, and to the three brothers, who centered their affections upon an only sister.

She became conscious on the morn­ing of her death that she was soon to leave her loved ones, and remarked to her husband that all had been done for her that human hands could do; that she did not want to leave him, yet if it was God’s will, she was ready to go. Her last request was to be buried in Mason so as to be near her husband.

The funeral services were held from the first Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, Sunday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, conducted by Rev. A. S. Zimmerman, assisted by Rev. A. F. White.

The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful.

The husband has the full sympathy of many friends in St. Johns and vicin­ity in this his season of sorest bereave­ment.

Liquor License* Isnued.The following is a list of the retail

liquor dealers of C’linton county,, to whom licenses have been issued.

St. Johns.April 30.—Wm. Lathrop............................. frrfio 00April 90.—Frank A. Kroll,.......................... 5»<0 00April 30.—John M. Podge........................... SOu 00May 1.—O’Donell & Terry,.......................... 500 00May 1.—Peter L. Vaueonsant,................... 5 0 00May 1 —Julian J^Moinet,............................ 500 00May 1.—Howard C. I.elutid........... ............. 500 00

Wkstphama.April 30.—John J. Stump............................. 500 00April 27.—John Snitgen,.............................. 500 00April 30.—Philip Gorge................................. 500 00May 1.—Hengesbaeh & Arens.................. 500 00

Fowleh.April 27.—Michael Fedewa......................... 500 00May 1.—Bauer A Schafer............................. 500 00May 2.—Joseph H.Geller,. ...... .......... 500 00

Elsie.April 20.—Fred Wolf..................................... 300 00April 20—Paul Murray,............................... 500 00

Ovid.April 17.—Bloss & Simmons.................... .. 500 00

PeWitt.May 1.—Frank Waters,.............................. 500 00

Maple Rapids.April 30.—Punstall & Knickerbocker.... 500 00

EDWARD C. McKEE.County Clerk.

BOILER EXPLOSIONI a the Dickerson Saw Mill, Northeast of

Bannister.

About 9 o’clock last Friday morning the boiler in the saw-mlli of A. W Dickerson, five miles northeast of Ban * nister, exploded and injured five men and one boy. The chief injuries were from scalding and burning, but none fatal. The engineerallowed the boiler to get dry, and before it could be pre­vented the explosion took place, des­troying the mill, which had just been put In at that polntand runningonly a couple of days before this accident oc­curred. The kiss Is variously estimat­ed at from $500 to $1,000. No Insur­ance, which will make it hard for Mr. Dickinson. We are Indebted to Mr. E. J. Reineger. of Bannister, who was in our village Saturday, for the above facts.

CHEAP EXCURSIONTo Grand Rapids, Lansing and Battle

Creek, Sunday May 12.

The managers of the great Grand Trunk system will give another one of their cheap excursions, on Sunday. May 12, to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Battle Creek. The train for Grand Rapids will leave St. Johns at 10:19 a. m., and Grand Rapids on its return trip, at 7:00 p. m., giving seven hours In the Valley City, which is now at its least.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The Bengal Union Aid society will meet with Mrs. J. C. Owen, Wednesday. May 15, at 1 o’clock p. m. An Invitation to all.

The Congregational Church Auxiliary will have baked goods for sale at Fowler A Ball’s Saturday afternoon, May 11. Orders left with Mrs. J. T. Millman or Mrs. Thos. Brom­ley. Jr., will be filled satisfactorily.

The Woman’s Association of the Congre­gational church will meet In the church parlors Tuesday, at 2:30 p. m , May 14.

There will be a Junior class social and hop Ht Harmony Hull. Wednesday evening. May15. Supper served from 5:30 to 8 o’clock. Admission to either or both 25c. Good music.

Notice.Hours for physical culture this week

have bees changed as follows: Child­ren’s, class at 5 p. m. and both ladies’ classes at 7:30 m., Saturday. Nnlessons Friday. All who have dumb bells are requested to bring them. Every member please be present.

SUPPER AND A DANCEAround the May Foie at Harmony Hall—

Mra. K. T. Hughes and Her Class In St.John’s Sunday School Entertains.

All Saint’s Class of young ladies of Saint John’s Sunday school, under the direction of their highly esteemed teacher, Mrs. E. T. Hughes, gave their annual supper and entertainment at Harmony Hall, Friday evening, May 3.

The reputation which this class has earned in former years of knowing just how to pass a pleasant evening, for old and young, was fully sustained. The supper, which was served from 5 to 8, was well patronized, the proceeds amounting to over $4o.

This was followed by the dance around the May Pole, according to the pretty old English custom. Little Ruth Vaueonsant, crowned as Queen of the May, entering first, was escorted to the throne of honor by two little pages—Harry Mack and Edith Van- Sickle—then came two by two the ten sweet little maidens, who had been selected to wind the May Pole. With red ribbons alternating with white they wound in and out around the pole in a merry dance, producing a very pretty and picturesque effect.

A musical program was then render­ed as follows:Duet................................Misses McCabe and JuddPiano Solo.................. .................. Mrs. J. B. PodgeQuartette, Misses Clark, Buck, Judd, Foerch Solo............................................................... Miss Buck

By special request Miss Rummell recited “The Briar Rose.” the select­ion which won for her the gold medal in the high school contest.

As Mrs. Hughes announced that this concluded the formal part of the program, the young ladies of her class gathered about her and presented her with a handsome piece of cut glass as a token of their love for her, and as a souvenir of her fifteen marriage anni­versary, which chanced to fall on that date. It was a pleasant sight to witness.

Mrs. Hughes and the members of her class are to be congratulated, not only on the success of the evening, but on the delightful and intimate re­lations of pupils and teacher, which have so long existed, and which have made All Saint’s class a great clement of strength In St. John's Sunday school.

The Storm

After many days threatning, a ter­rible electrical and rain storm visited this section from the east Tuesday night, and which continued an hour or more. The farmers and travlers upon the roa<1s had been asking for rain during the last few days, and its coming has been a great blessing and confort. All manner of spring crops and gardens hereabouts are looking fine, never better.

The barn on O. W. Munger’s farm, better known as the Hathaway farm, south of the fair grounds, the in­terior of which had lately been rebuilt, and a new roof added about three years ago, was visited by the lightning and burned to the ground. Mr. Em­mons, who lives on the place, lost articles in the barn to the value of about $5. Mr. Munger estimates his loss at between $500 and $600. The barn was insured in the Clinton Coun­ty Mutual for $200.

The farm house of L. H. Pease, in Essex, was also visited by the lightn­ing and damaged to the amount of $20 or $30, covered by insurance in the Clinton County Mutual.

Jacob Carr, who lives near the cemetery, lost a horse from electricity during the storm.Prohibition Dor* Not Prohibit—Protective

Tariff Doe* Not Protect.A farmer from an adjoining town­

ship came to town the other day with his clip of wool—fine unwashed—and sold it to one of our dealers for 10 cents a pound. When it had been weighed out and he had received the few dollars which it brought him, tie asked: “What is the protective duty on wool?” “Eleven cents a pound” re­plied the dealer. “Well, thats mighty clever of the administration to pro­tect the farmer eleven cents a pound that he may get ten cents a pound for ills wool.” This was a practical lesson In a protective tariff. The adminis­tration sees it and is now advising reciprocity. If free trade Is adopted the trusts must go to the wall, and if they go to the wall and can furnish no more money for campaign purposes, the Republican party must go out of business and a panic visited upon the already distressed producers and laborers.

SPECIAL DAYS.

The following special days at the Pan-American Exposition have been definitely fixed:

May 1—Opening Pay.May 20—Dedication Pay.June 6—Hotel Men’s Pay.June 14—Flair Pay.June 17—New England Pay. Bunker Hill

Day.June 18—Wells College Pay.June 80— Connecticut Pay.June 26—Odd Fellows' Pay.June 27—Odd Fellows’ Pay.July 2—Wellesley College Pay.July 5—New York Ltederkraiiz Day.July 10—Maryland Day.July 11—Commercial Travelers’ Pay.July 16—Chautauqua Pay. .July 18—Ohio Pay.July 23—C. M. B. A. Pay.July 24— Knights of Columbus Day.July 25—Scandinavian Pay.August I—Mystic Shrlners’ Day.August 10— Missouri Pay.August 14—Virginia Pay August 15—Red Men’s Pay.August21 -Louisiana Pay.August 26—Municipal Pay.Sept. 10—Rhode Island Pay.Sept. 12—Polish Pay.Sept. 17—Grand Armyof the Republic Pay. Sept 19— Welsh Pay.Oct 8—Brooklyn Pay.Oct. 9—New York Federation of Women's

Clubs.Oct 10—National Grange Pay.

United Brethren Brevltie*.

Services at Bengal, 10:30 a. ni.; Sutton school house, 2:30 p. m.; Bingham 7:30 p.m.

The Bengal Union L. A., will meet with Mrs. Owens, Wednesday after­noon, May 15. A full attendance is desired.

The singing class will begin Its week­ly meetings Tuesday eveniug, May 14,

RATES OF FAREBy the Grand Trunk System to and From

the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo.

The Grand Trunk system have made the following rates on limited tickets to and from the Pan-American Expo­sition at Buffalo, beginning April 30th:

Round Trip on SO Daya Limit, 915.15—Hale commencing April 30 and continuing to September 30,1901.

Round Trip on 15 Daya Limit, 911.55—Hale commencing April 30tb and continuing until further notice.

Round Tripon5 Daya Limit, 99.88—Datesof Hale: May 7, 14, 21, and 28.

Music Publisher*’ To Combine.Arrangements have been completed

for the formation of a combination of the eight leading publishers of pop­ular music In the United States. May 21 a meeting will be held in New York for carrying out the plan. The combine will be known as the American Music Publishing associa­tion and will have capital stock of from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000.

It is stated the object of the associa­tion will be to prevent the publication of inferior music. Any dealer who handles music that has not recieved the approval of association managers will not be premitted to handle association production. The price to dealers will be increased, it is un­derstood, but this will not affect the public.

List of Letter*.Remaining In the Postofflce at St. Johns Mich.. May 7. 1901:Allen, Miss Rutli E. Knickerbocker, Miss E. Corson. Mr. H. W. Lake. Miss Margarette Emerick. Mr. E J. McPrangle, Mr. Frank Harvey, Miss Ethel Turner. Mrs. Mattie Ilalvent, Mr. R. Raiin, Mr. Albert

WILL H. BRUNSON. P. M.

BUSINESS LOCALS.

Money To Loan At Lowest Rate of InterestPatterson & Moinet, St. Johns.

Stove* Stored28w3 at Jacob Williams’.

A set of splint seated Chairs for $3 at Will & Ed Osgood’s.

We show the largest and most sala­ble line of trimmed hats in the county. See our Street Hats before buying.

Mrs. H. W. Holton.A Well-kept Home Kor Hale.

I offer for sale on favorable terms, my house, barn and three good high lots, well fruited, corner of Cass and Whitmore streets, St. Johns. The property is in good condition, pleasant and near the East Side school.

Mbs. Peter Gardner.

Nothing adds so much to the attrac­tions of home as bright new Furniture. Get Will & Edd Osgood’s prices before placing your orders elsewhere.

Some good farms for sale. Enquire of ___Lewis Severance.

See our large line of Couches before buying elsewhere.

Will & Ed Osgood.Hot Weather v*. Cooling Beverage*.

Ices, Ice Cream, Ice Cream Soda and everything refreshing; also fruits and fresh-made Candies at

Glaspie’s. Candy Kitchen.Farm Kor Sale.

A choice grain and stock farm of 145 acres five miles from St. Johns. Ad­dress box 152, St. Johns, Mich.

Mr*. E. Rol»ln*on, Hair Dre**erand manufacturer of Hair Goods to order and on sale. Shampooing a specialty. Rooms in Union Block, up stairs, Walker St., East. St. Johns.

, A Good Man to Work,If you want a good man to work at

almost anything you have to do see or address E. S. Brazee, who reside in the house first east of Frank A. Hyatt’s on McConnell street.

Light and Heavy Draying.Having purchased the draying outfit

and business of John L. Lyon, am pre­pared to do a general draying business. Oders left at Parr Bro.’s grocery will receive prompt attention.

Hudson Siierman.

Wanted..Trustworthy men and women to

travel and advertise for old established house of solid financial standing. Sal­ary $780 a year and expenses, all pay­able in cash. No canvassing required. Give references and enclose self-ad­dressed stamped envelope. Address Manager, 355 Caxton Bldg., Chicago.

.St. John* Dray mid Bum Line.

Having purchased the equipments and business of Richard Gay’s Dray and ’Bus, line, we will continue the business and same good service as was given the people by Mr. Gay in the past. All orders left Gay’s grocery store will receive careful attention. ’Phone 56.

Wyman & Worden.Popular With the People.

The Pacific Barbershop, in the airy and pleasant basement under Wilsons’ clothing store, *has lately been refitted, and Is now among the best, with first- class service at popular prices. Chil­drens’ hair cutting a specialty.

W. W. Ferguson, Prop’r.

J^TATE BANK OF 8T. JOHNS.

* COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS

CAPITAL, $50,000.

NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, 1900,CO.

P. K. PERRIN, Predident.J. H. CORBIT, Vloe-Presldent.

J. W. FITZGERALD. Cashier

DIRECTORS:O. W. Munger, Otis Fuller. J. W. Fitzgerald

J. H. Corblt, J. H. Fedewa, F. A. Travla Geo W. Emmons P. K. Perrin, John J.

Reiser, Q. E.Corbin, J. Sullivan.

.1 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Tl me Depr site

CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY. MAY 9, HOI.

UK.Has Been Issued by Department

Commander Allen.

MEMORIAL DAY APPROACHINGAnd tk« Commander Take* Tkla Method

of Appealing to HU Comrades—He Asks

That All Patriotic Persons Join la Pay-

lug Tribute to the Departed Heroes

Memorial Day Order.Department Commander Allen of ths

G. A. It. has issued general order No. 7 in which he calls attention to the fact that "Memorial day,sacred to the Grand Army of the Republic, and fragrant with tender memories of unforgotten valor, is approach ing. Let the woman’s relief corps and all patriotic women, the sons and daughters of veterans, all veterans of the civil war and of the more recent conflicts, together with the school children and all civic organiza­tions be invited to participate with you in the duties of Memorial day.

“Post commanders and all officers of the posts are requested to use their best efforts in directing the minds of their fellow citizens to a proper observance of the 30th of May as a day sacred to the memory of men who were instru­mental in enabling the businessman of today to enjoy tho benefits that he calls his privileges. Let there be a proper efTort made to dispense with any attempt to mike the day one for sport und amusement only.

“Post commanders arc requested to arrange, as far as practicable, for an observance by all churches on Sunday, May 26. of an appropriate service com­memorating the soldier aod sailor dead of our country, and it is earnestly de­sired that with their colors at tho front every Grand Army post in this department will attend some inch memorial service ic a body on the Sab­bath next preceding Memorial duy.

“In ocoordance with the action of the thirtieth national encampment, it is ordered by the department com­mander that Lincoln's Gettysburg ad­dress be read in connection with mem­orial services.”

Cun runner* Completed Their Work.The state board of canvassers com­

pleted the work of canvassing the vote cast at last month's election on the 1st. The result shows that the Republican candidates had a very easy thing of it. For justice of the supreme court, Rob­ert II. Montgomery, Republican, re­ceived 219,097 votes; Allen C. Adz*t, Democrat, 124,485. For regent of the university, Frauk YV. FJetcher, Repub­lican, received 215,365 votes; Henry YV. Carey, Democrat, 215,011; constitu­tional amendment relative to the cir­cuit court of Bay county—Yes, 110,885; uo, 130.108; majority against, 19.228. Constitutional amendment relative to salaries of members of the legislature —Yes, 112,833; no, 187,615; majority against, 74,732.

Ini IJIoekade In St. Clair Hirer.Instead of improving, the conditions

at St, Clair. Marine City and Algouac, where the j m is the thickest are con­tinually getting worse, and on the 2d much damage was done. Only for a short time did the immense field of ice move, but in that time its power was supreme and no human effort could save the valuable shipping property from damage. VossUmen state that it now looks as though it will be May 15 before navigation will be open and tvlien finally the ice docs begin to move they anticipate that much more ••rious results will follow. The great­est damage thus far was done to the docks of the Marine City Stave Co. and the boats that were tied up there.

Manistee Majr Get M. N. G. Encampment.Unless the members of the state mil­

itary board change their minds while on their northern trip the next state military encampment will be held at Manistee, but in all probability this site will not be permanent. The ad­vantage of tho Manistee site lies prin­cipally in the fact that the grounds are well covered with sod, while the grounds at Newaygo and Cadillac are more or less sandy in character. It is possible, however, that the Cadillac site will be approved as the permanent camping ground of the troops.

820.000 Fire at Charlotte.Fire was discovered in Brown Bros.'

clothing store at Charlotte on the af­ternoon of the 5th and an hour later the entire stock was sufficiently dam­aged by fire, smoke and water to make St a total loss. The origin of the blaze is a mystery. Tho damage to the block is not large. The froDt end of the building was torn out by the depart­ment in order to get the fire apparatus working on the flames. C. 8. Brown estimates the loss at 820,000; insured for 812,600.

200.000.000 Pickerel Eggs.Representatives of the state fish com­

mission have been at YVest Bay City for (totne days past securing pickerel eggs for the state hatcheries, nnd later the young fry will be placed in waters in various parts of the state. The spawn­ing season for pickerel is nearly over now nnd the men will leave in a few days. So far they_have secured about 200,000,000 pickerel eggs, and they say the season lias been one of the most (successful for their work that they have experienced.

Citizens of Lansing arc hit to the ex­tent of 810.000 by the failure of the Buffalo brokerage firm of F. L. Camp A Co.

A dispatch from Algouac, dated the 20th. says that notwithstanding the fact that the ice is slushy the jam it ■till unbroken.

The River Raisin Taper Co.’s plant, at M onroe, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 29th, entailing a loss of 830,001.

I tank i nr Business ou the inarms*.The unnuat report of State Bunking

Comptissioner Malta, issued on the 6th, says that at the date of the report, Jan. 1, there were 192 state banks and three trust companies under the super­vision of the department. During the

I year six state banks, located at Benton Harbor, Blissfleld, Mt. Clemens, Flush­ing, Rochester and Saranac, were or­ganized, increasing the capital stock of the state banks 8195,000. During the year there was not a single failure of a state bank. Two national banks, at Durand and St. Joseph, were con­verted into state banks during the year. Only one bank, the Oceana County Savings Bank at Hart, has re­duced its capital stock, while the YVayne County Savings Bunk, tho De­troit Savings B ink, the Blisstiold State Bank, tho Dexter State B ink, the First State and Savings Bank, of Evart, ttie Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank, of Bea­ton Harbor, and the Commercial State Bank, of St. Joseph, have increused their capital stock. The total amount of increase in the capital stock of the state banks is 854 >,000. To this the commissioner adds the increase by or­ganization of new bunks, making a total increased capitalization of 8735,- 000. Deducting the total decrease of capital stock from this sum and the net increase, 8635,000, is shown. All but 811,576.15 of this amount lias been paid in.

MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Ouiloj or' ii. -* i-> I ucjoiun.

There is an epidemic of scarlet fever ! at East Taw as.

There lias been eight national hanks established in Michigan since March, 1900.

An attempt, is being made to organ­ize an Episcopal church society at Du­rand.

It is said that Michigan has one of the finest displays at the Pan-Ameri­can exposition.

Klatte’s hotel in Wyandotte was de­stroyed by fire on the night of April 30. Loss. 813,000.

The total membership of the L. O. T. M. in Michigan is now 59,609, an increase of 1,100 during April.

The streets in the business portion of Ludington will be macadamized. The work hus already been started.

It is said that the interurban electric line between Benton Harbor and South Bend, Ind., will be in operation by Aug. 1, as far as Niles.

Ex-Alderman Chris. Jacob, of De­troit, after an illness of less than a week, died on the 4th, aged 65. He had been a resident of Detroit since 1875.

Hillsdale has secured one new indus­try, a gasoline engine factory’, and is now hustling after another, the latter a shoe factory now located in Spring- field, O.

Genesee county farmers are just dis­covering that during the past winter mice have injured much nursery stock so badly by gnawing the bark from it that it is worthless.

Alex. R. Avery, collector of customs at Port Huron, died very suddenly at Lakelands, Fin., on the 6th. Notice of his death came as a great surprise to his family and friends at home.

Burglars operated at Luther on the night of the 4th. The safes in the two depots were blown open. Only 81 was secured iu one, but the amount se­cured at the other place is not made public.

Galesburg’s canning factory has been completed and has been turned over to the company by the contractors who built it. More than 50 acres of toma­toes alone are under contract to sup­ply the raw material for the cannery.

Meudon will be a dry town for a couple of weeks at least. The village council refuses to act on saloon bonds until its meeting May 13, and as the old licenses expired on the 1st, the sa­loonkeepers will have to take a little vac tion.

That Manistique will have a pulp mill is almost an assured fact. The coun­try tributary to the city is being thor­oughly investigated by a company which will establisn the mill if the vis­ible supply of editable timber warrants the outlay*.

Niles claims the distinction of hav­ing the only woman chewing gum “magnate” in tae world. Her name is Kate YV. Noble, and she wages war against the great chewing gum trust aod employs nobody but women in her factory at Niles.

For the ’steenth time the people of Oceana county will, on June 7, vote on a proposition to bond the county for 810,000 for a new county jail. Hart, the county seat, will give 83,000 to­ward the new building in case it ia de­cided to have one.

Benton Harbor and St. Joseph are both hustling to secure new industries but there are hardly enough houses in the cities to accommodate the present population, to say nothing of the ad­ditional families which would come iu with the new factories.

Although he lived within 50 miles of Detroit for 65 years. Alfred It, Ilustead, a prominent furmeref Groveland town­ship, Oakland county, who recently died, had never visited the metropolis but once. That was in 1836, when he walked into the city to tile a deed to the farm he had purchased from the government.

So many companies composed mainly of wind have applied to the common council of St. Joseph for franchises for electric railroad lines into the city that the council has finally adopted a reso­lution that hereafter no proposed fran­chise will be considered unless it is ac­companied by a check for 81,000 as a guarantee of good faith, the money to be forfeited in case the company does not accept the franchise in case it is granted.

In order to express their disgust over the action of the council iu suppressing saloons, citizens of Centreville sowed oats in the main street.

The following bills were passed by the house on the 2d: To restore school district No. 2 of YVaterford township, Oakland county; providing for the or­ganization of a fractional school dis­trict iu the township of Pickford, Chippewa county, and in tho township of Marquette, Mackinaw county; to in­corporate the public schools of Stam- baugli township. Iron county; to au­thorize tho making of special assess­ments for the construction of drains nnd sewers in the villuge of Highland Turk, YVayne county; providing for the relief of E I ward C. Cummings; a poro- priution Upper Peninsula hospital for the insane. 892,051; increasing amount of property that can be held by cor­porations organized for owning, leas­ing and selling real estate from two to three acres; amending law relative to corporations organized for erecting buildings, etc.; fixing telegraph tolls in the state and establishing a uniform rate of 25c for 19 words and le for each additional; Detroit public school teach­ers retirement fund; authorizing elec­tors of Pentwater, Oceana Co. to vote on proposition for the relief of II. A. Grant, village treasurer, for loss of funds due to failure of bank in which funds were deposited; amending chart­er of Kalamazoo relative to the collec­tion of taxes; appropriation state asy­lum at Ionin, 882,900; compelling hotel keepers to post rates charged in each room occupied by guests; authorizing district school boards to establish ru­ral high schools; giving members of the legist turc the authority of nota- taries public; amending pure food law relative to obtaining samples of milk by state inspector; amending pharman- ey law.

The following bills were passed by the house on the 30th: Preventing spread of tree pests; defining qualifica­tions of kindergarten teachers in the public school*; amending charter of the city of Detroit so as to create a commis­sioner of public works; amending Detroit charter so as to create commis­sioner of parks and boulevards; amend­ing Detroit charter so as to create com­missioner of police; prohibiting the spearing of fish in the lakes of Jackson county; to permit fishing through the ice with bob lines in Livingstone county; amending justice court act of Gran I Rapids to provide that in work nnd labor claims the costs shall follow the judgment; appropriation Jackson prison, 812,090; appropriation State public school, 830,500; appropriation labor commissioner’s department. 820,- 00 ; appropriation S ildiers’ Home, 8271.000; appropriation ML Pleasant Normal school, 8118,000; amending net incorporating the French Canadian So­ciety; regulating taxes to be paid by mutual fire insurance companies; pro­viding for the open sale of certain homestead lands.

The senate passed the following bills on the 1st: Permitting the catching of suckers in YVall lake, Barry count}*; relative to black bass fishing in Bear lake, Charlevoix county; to permit fishing with bob lake fishing in Living­stone county; to permit fishing with fixed lines in Kalamazio county; to protect trout in Au Sable river and tributaries; to protect the fish in Pino lake Charlevoix county; to authorize Norway, Dickinson county, to extend its »vat‘r and electric lighting system beyond the city limits; appropriation for Mt. Pleasant normal school; appro­priation for Ypsilanti normal school; to amend the law for the protection of owners and keepers of stallions; rela­tive to suits against joint defendants in different counties; to prohibit net fishing in waters connecting Lakes Superior and Huron; to amend tax law; to amend tax law; to amend tax luw; to amend game warden law; appropria­tion for Northern Michigan asylum.

The following bills were passed by the senate on the 30th: exempting from taxation shares ia foreign corporations owned by citizens of Michigan; pro­viding for the survey of certain islands by the state land commissioner; pro­viding a salary of 81.500 a year for the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house; aDpropriating 817,- 500 for the purchase of land for the Eastern Michigan asylum; providing for the settlement of sums received in the extinguishment of drain taxes; making an appropriation for the Home for the Feeble-Minded; amending the Detroit charter relative to parks nnd boulevards; amending Detroit charter relative to superintendent of public works; amending Detroit charter rela­tive to superintendent of police.

The house passed the following bills on the 1st: Empowering city of Nor­way, Dickinson con *ty, to extend its system of water works nnd electric lighting beyond the city limits; direct­ing commissioner of state land office to survey islands in Leelanau and Mis­saukee counties; providing for the pro­tection of iisli in waters of south arm of Pine lake. South Arm township, Charlevoix county; providing for con­trol of chnrtnble societies under the hospital act under certain conditions.

The house on the 1st passed Rep. C. J. Ryrns’s bill making eight hours a legal day's work for employes in all “iron ore, copper, coal or other mines in this state. ”

After a three-days vacation, the senate devoted but 30 minutes to the state’s business on the night of the 29th. Only 20 senators were present.

The senate passed tho following bills on the 2nd: F©r police pensions in Bay City; to amend the charter of the union school district in Bay City; to amend public school act of Detroit; to authorize special assessments to pay for drains and sewers in village of Highland Park, Wayne Co.; for the re­lief of Treasurer II. A. Grant, of Pent- water, Oceana Co.; to incorporate the public schools of Stambaugh township, Iron Co.; to organize Pickford school district in Marquette township. Iron Co.; to amend Grand Rapids charter relative to defaulters holding office and electing city attorney by popular vote.

COSTLY BLMEJM1111130 Blocks in the Capital City

j’ Burned Over.

MANY PEOPLE MADE HOMELESSLatest Return* 1’laoe* the Number of

Homeless at 10,000 — The Htate has

| Furnished the Unfortunates With Tents

for Temporary Shelter.

Florida Town Gutted by Fire.The most disastrous fire in the

hiatory of Jacksonville, Fla., started there shortly after noon on the 3d, in a small factory from a defective wire, according to the best belief, and burned nearly 10 hours. Iu t <at time a prop­erty damage, estimated from $10,000,- 000 to $15,000,000, was caused. Accord­ing to the city map, 130 blocks were burned, many of them in the heart of the business and residence section. The estimate of houses to the block, is 10; hence 1.3 >0 of them went up in smoke. Many of the finest public and private buildings were destroyed, in­cluding hotels, theaters, churches and residences. The casualties cunnot be accurately estimated. That there were screial seems to be well authenticated. Among them was that of the fire chief, who sustained a bad falL The mayor ordered all of the saloons closed and has impressed help to clear the wreck­age. The muj’or, at a late hour, stated that he estimated the loss at 815,000,000, and that 10,000 to 15,000 people were homeless.

CUBA AND PHILIPPINE NEWS.After a careful consideration of the

situation in the Philippines as it now exists, the a iministration has decided to reduce the army in the islands to 40,000 men. The opinion prevails that this number will be ample for the present needs in the islands, and if conditions continue to improve in the satisfactory manuer that has been shown in the past few months the

1 force may be reduced still further.According to a report received from

! Gen. MacArthur on the 1st there are 2,586 sick in hospital in tho Philippines, and 613 sick in quarters. This is 5.86 per cent, a less percentage of sick than has been shown at any time since the U. S. troops were sent to the archipel­ago.

Gen. Tinio surrendered with his command at Sinalt on the 39th. He will deliver all men and guns in his command as soon ns they can be gath­ered together. This completely pael- fies the first d-pnrtment, northern Luzon, for many months the worst in that section.

The report that Gen. Alejandrino has surrendered is confirmed. He was looked upon as the possible successor of Aguinaldo. Padre Aglipay, the ex­communicated Filipino priest, who preached tho doctrine of a holy war against the U. 8., has also surrendered.

Quentin Bales surrendered at Iloilo, April 21, and all opposition iu that island is now ended.

CniWA WA-4 nstSA

Caring for tho Homeless.The hunger of 10,000 homeless peo­

ple was satisfied at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 5th upon the arrival of relief trains and boats bringing provisions from neighboring towns. In the early morning a commissary was established in the center of the city and thousands were fed during the day. The distress is growing hourly and every mail brings offers of assistance. An order has been promulgated under martial law requiring all merchants, whose stores were spared by the conflagra­tion, to open their doors and sell to all who asked. It is estimated that 3,000 persons have left the city and every outgoing train is crowded with refu­gees. Five carloads of tents, the prop­erty of the state, which aro to be used by the homeless temporarily, has been received. It is now estimated that the total properly losses will reach $11,- 000,000.

Family Jar ResponsibleAs a result of a domestic quarrel on

the 5th Mrs. YV. A. Martin, wife of the freight agent of the Pere Marquette railroad at PetoBkey, went to a pier on the lake shore about 4 o'clock on the morning of the 6th, taking her chil­dren, aged 4 and 7 years, respectively, with her. Mrs. Martin first threw the children into the water and then jumped in- herself. Fortunately the water was only four feet deep. The­ories of the coildrcn were heard by fishermen who dragged the mother and children out of the water. All three are in a critical condition, but all will probibty recover.

Smallpox Among Indians.The bureau of Indian affairs has re­

ceived nnoffic al report from the Tulalip Indian agency, Washington, announc­ing that smallpox exists not only in the state of YY’ushington, but also in com­munities adjiccnt to the Tulalip re­servation und in other reservations within the jurisdiction of the Tula­lip agency. Vuccination has been going on at the Fort Madison, Swino- mish, Lumtni and Tulalip reservations and a liberal additional supply of vac­cine points will be sent to the agent at Tulalip.

Morgan Want* to Control Ocean Traffic.A special cable from Loudon says

that J. Pierpoat Morgan's purchase of a controlling interest in the Leyland line of steamers is the opening move for the extending of the power of the American railway combine over tho ocean. The present plans contemplate the controlling of ocean traffic like that between New York and Chicago.

Struck by Lightning.Howard City was visited by a severe

electrical storm on the 1st, lightning striking the residence of J. N. Clark, injuring his wife. It tore her shoes off. blackened her face and body.Is doubtful if she survives the shocir. The house caught fire and burned to the ground.

Exposition a Frost.The gates of tbe Pan-American ex­

position were thrown open on the morning of the 1st. No ceremonies marked the opening of the gates, it having been decided by the manage­ment to combine t»c opening day cere­monies with those of dedication day, Muy 20.

BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Dnvid B. Hill, ex-governor, of New York, and cx-U. 8. senator, declares again that he is not a candidate for the Democratic ncmination for the presidency in 1904, and that he will make no political trips.

0. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department at YVashiugton. lias gone to Europe to collect statistics of the foreign com­merce of Great Britain, Germany, France and the old world, and to at­tend the annual congress of European colonial offices to be held at The Hague in June. The U. 8. has never before been represented in this congress.

Thousands of people aro pouring into southwestern Oklahoma and camping in and about the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache and YVichita Indian reservations, for the opening scheduled for some time in August.

TRANSVAAL WAR ITEMS.

A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated from Pretoria, May 1, says that Grenfell attacked the Boers at Berg- plantz, near llalvcrstsberg, where the last long-tom opened fire at 10,000 yards. Kitchener's scouts advanced to within 3,000 yards, when the gun was blown up aud the Boers fled. Ten of them were made prisoners. Other columns reported 10 Boers killed, six wounded, six made prisoners and 60 surrendered, and 30,000 rounds of ammunition cap­tured. The British had four killed and seven wounded.

The report that a force of Boers is concentrating under Delarey at Har e- beestefoutein is regarded with a feel­ing of satisfaction. The British force should far outnumber the Boers, and as tho latter must by this time have lost pructically all their guns, Delurey cannot have any artillery with him. This fact alone should place him at a great disadvantage.

Gen. Delarey, the Boer commander, has now 4,<*00 or 5.000 men in the hills around Hnrtbeestefontein. Gen. Bab- ington is without a sufficient force to attack, but Methuen and Rawlinson are converging hither. A battle ap­pears imminent.

NEWSY BREVITIES.

Five firemen were injured, one fa­tally, while fighting a fire at Chicago on the 30th.

The United States quarantine against the City of Mexico is in effect on ac­count of the typhus fever there.

Theodosius Secor, one of the earliest American builders of marine engines, died at his home in Brooklyn, on the 30th, aged 93.

All saloons in Kansas City, Mo., were j closed tight on the 5tli, the first tune

in six years.I Between 500 and 800 machinists in j Buffalo, and probably 300 more in Erie ! county, outside of Buffalo, struck on the 1st to secure a 9-hour day without a decrease of pay.

A dozen people were severely shocked and two seriously injured by a bolt of lightning which struck the tower of the Ozark apartment building in Chicago on the 2d.

Seven persons were burned to death, three fatally injured and several others slightly burned und otherwise injured in a fire that destroyed a three-story apartment building at Chicago on the morning of the 5th.

The census bureau on April 30 issued a bulletin announcing that the center of population in the U. 8 excluding Alaska nnd recent territorial acces­sions on June last, was six miles south­east of Columbus, Bartholomew county, in southern Indiana.

A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, dated the 2d, says that an epidemic of typhoid has broken out in the forts and villages in tbe neighborhood of Metz. The Eighth Bavarian regiment has alone lost 16 men from the disease and has 281 men sick.

The new 815,000 pier at San Juan, P. R., caught fire on the 30th and was tot­ally destroyed in half an hour. A large stock of sugar and rum was lost in the fire. The value and quantity of goods destroyed is not known.

Information has been rcooived that the Oerinan cruiser Vinetta recently completed surveys of the Island of Margarita. Officers of the ship spent 10 weeks making charts nnd soundings. The officers say a fine harbor has been discovered, with every advantage for a coaling station.

The supreme council of the Order of Chosen Friends has been dissolved by Judge Leathers, of Indianapolis, Ind., and enjoined from doing business. This was the result of a suit filed by the county prosecutor to aid Receiver Clark. Many thousand dollars worth of property could not be obtained be­cause the order was still in existence.

Thirty-five out of 42 persons who were working at a cotton press at Am- reeli, on the Kattywar peninsula, In­dia, burned to death on tho 1st The remainder were fatally burned. A similar fire has occurred at Khamgaon, province of Berar, resulting in the death of 11 persons.

A gusher of oil has been struck in tbe Aspen tunnel of the Union Pacific in YVyomlng. Much excitement pre­vails. Pennsylvania, California and Nebraska capitalists have secured large tracts of land and will bore for oil. Local parties have also ordered machinery and will sink wells.

I The latest mall from China has brought to the state department at Washington new proofs of the terrible and perhaps irretrievable conditions which exist under the foreign military rule in north China, involving a situa­tion pot hitherto fully realized, even in YVashington, and utterly unappre­ciated in tho U. 8 generally. The character of the in ormatioa which has now come into the administration's possession is summarized in the fol­lowing extracts from a communication written by one of the most trusted officials in the service abroad and mulled from Pekin a month ago; “The question of raising the indemnity, though one of the most serious for the Chinese government, is not paramount. All the pebple who are likely to know declare thut the Chinese peasant cun stand no greater burden of taxation than in the past, as the question resol-

i ves itself largely to reducing the ex- ! pense of collection, wtiico in China in­volves radical reforms. Another prop-

I osition for meeting the indemnity is to ! grant lucrative mining and indus- 1 trial conces ions to foreigners, by that

meuns bartering their independence nnd laying up endless trouble for the

' Chinese, which arc quick to recognize the fact.”

Tho report of Gen Ketteler, received at Pekin from Kuo Lu. differs from the oilier reports concerning the German- French expedition previously received. Gen. Ivettcler’s report shows that the Chinese troops did not leave the prov­ince till they were forced to do so. The entire brigade, commanded by Gen. Ketteler, met the enemy on April 23 and inflicted immense loss. The re­port does not give the loss. The Ger­mans had one officer nnd three soldiers killed and 28 soldiers wounded.

The legation guard at the American legation at Pekiu will not be sub­jected to the order of any foreign general. Official reports of the latest phases of the negotiations at Pekin, as told in press dispatches, have not reached YVashington. The American legation guard will retain its inde­pendence, even if necessary to remove it from Pekin and from China.

A dispatch from Pekin, dated May 1. says that a bloody battle has occurred between the Russians and Chinese near Mukden. The Russians lost 60 in killed and wounded. Four Russian officers were killed, and among the wounded was Gen. Zerpitzlti.

The famine stricken peope of China are becoming desperate, and are now eating each other. They have eaten every blade of grass, every bit of bark in fact every thing that can be eaten in that province.

The U. 8. cavalry and artilleiy left Pekin on the 5th to march to Ton-Ku. Imposing farewell ceremonies attended their departure.

Franco has placed the amount of her indemnity to be asked from China at 1,365,000,000 francs.

The population of the district of Vic­toria, according to the last census re­port is 1.195,874. This is an increase of 5,469 in t ie last 10 year.

The minister of tho Brazilian navy lias given an order for the construction of a submarine boat, invented by Jacinto Jonnes, an engineer of the Brazilian navy.

BASE BALL.

Below wo publish the standing of the American nnd National league clubs up to and including the games played on Monday, May 6:

AMr.RICAN I.EAOUB/ Won. Lost. Por et.

Detroit......... .. 0 3 .750Chicago......... . H 4 .G07Philadelphia. a 4 ,;»eWashington. . 5 4 •550I toston........... 4 5 .444Baltimore.... 4 5 .144Cleveland.... 4 8 2433Milwaukee... 3 • 459

NATIONAL I.KAGUK.Won. Lost. Per ct.

Cincinnati... 7 4 .63CBoston......... 5 4 .556Brooklyn. .. 0 r» .545Pittsburg.... 0 5 44.5St. Louis.... 0 « MOPhiladelphia . a 7 .162New York.... 4 5 .*41

. 5 P .357

THE MARKETS.

LIVK STOCK.New York-- Cattle Sheep Lambs Hots.

Best grades.. ,.»4 40&3 60 (4 ■0 *0 4.5Lower grades..3 ->j> 1 25 3 59 4 5J 0 2>

Chicago —Best grades.. 4 51 5 85 5 95Lower grades . 3 l>5 *4 >'5 4 2J 4 50 6 00

Detroit—Best grades. . 3 80 "i 1 rtO 4 0) 4 73 5 71Lower grade.s. .2 7ot}J < > 3 oJ 4 &J 5 OC

llniralo-Bent grades.. ...4 00711 75 4 35 5 10 0 0)Lower grades. .2 l> 2 7j 4 W 5 e>

Cinelnnat 1Rest grades.. ...5 m-S 50 4 50 • 0) 5 60Lower grades..! lj&l ?> 4 25 b 25 6 51

PittsburgBest grades.. ...5 25 {.5 7. 4 5) 5 85 « i:Lower gradai*. 3 OJi/14 59 4 0J 5 00 b 9J

GRAIN. ETC.Wheat Corn Oats

No. 2 resl No. 2 nix No. 8 whiteNew York 816 81K 34 *34 >4Chicago 73 - 73* 47 *17*•Detroit 70 i7i)’4 40 *40 3lft31*Toledo 75 J7.3* 47 *47* 28*38*Cincinnati 77?* 78 47 *47* 30t»Pittsburg 78 *78 <4 48 443 33 333*litilTalo 77&77'.i 47(*47 3233**4

•Detroit—Hay, No. 1 Timothy. 412 73 por ton.Potatoe*. 33c por fou. Live Poultry, spring chickens, lie por Jh; fowls, I ks; turkeys. He: duck*. 10c. Kwh, strictly fresh. 12c per dozen. Butter, best dairy, 15c per B>; creamery, 19a

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1901

TALM AUK’S SERMON.ANTAGONISM TO THE GOSPEL

HAS DISAPPEARED.

"Th«re Is Non* l.lk* Thai, GIt* It Bio" — (l) bwmunl szl, 9—Temptation* or th* Tn»v*l*r—l'rrsoli»r« Are More Re­sourceful than In For<u*r Uuyx.

(Copyright, 1901, by Louis Ivlopsch, N. Y.)Washington, May 5.—In tins dis­

course Dr. Talmage calls the roll of in­fluences once antagonistic but now friendly to the gospel and encour­ages Christian workers; text, 1. Sam­uel xxi, 9, “There is none liko that; give it me.”

David fled from his pursuers. The world runs very fast when it is chas­ing a good man. The country is try­ing to catch David and to slay him. David goes into tho house of a priest and asks him for a sword or spear with which to defend himself. Tho priest, not being accustomed to use deadly weapons, tells David that he cannot supply him, but suddenly the priest thinks of an old sword that had been carefully wrapped up and laid , away—the very sword that Goliath formerly used—and he takes dowa that sword, and while he is unwrapping the sharp, glittering, memorable blade it flashed upon David’s mind that th:s Is the very sword that was used aga nst himself when he was in the fight wl;h Goliath, and David can hardly keep his bands off it until the priest has unwound it. David stretches cut hi3 hand toward that old sword and says: “There is none like that; give it me.” In other words, “I want in my own hand the sword which has been used j against me and against the cause of God.” So it was given him. Well, my friends, that is not the first or tho last sword once used by giant and Philistine iniquity which is to come Into the possession of Jesus Christ and his glorious church. I want, as well as God may help me, to show you that many a weapon which has been used against the armies of God i3 yet to be captured and used on our side, and I only imitate David when I stretch out my hand toward that blade of the Philistine and cry, “There is none like that; give it me!”

I remark first that this is true in regard to all scientific exploration. You know that the first discoveries in astronomy and geology and chronol­ogy were used to battle Christianity. Worldly philosophy came out of its laboratory and out of its observatory and said, “Now, we will prove by the very structure of the earth and by the movement of the heavenly bodies that the Bible is a lie and that Christianity as we have it among men is a posi­tive imposition.” Good men trembled. The telescope, the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all in the hands of the Philistines. But one day Chris­tianity. looking about for some weapon with which to defend itself, hap­pened to see the very old sword that these atheistic Philistines had been using against the truth and cried out, "There is none like that; give it me!” And Copernicus and Galilei and Kepler and Isaac Newton and Herscbel and O. M. Mitchell came forth and told the world that in their ransacking of the earth and heavens they had found overwhelming presence of the God whom we worship, and thi3 old Bible began to shake itself from the Koran and Shaster and Zendavesta with which it had been covered up and lay on the desk of the scholar and in the laboratory of the chemist and in the lap of the Christian unharmed and un­answered, while the tower of the mid­night heavens struck a silvery chime in its praise.

The Eternal Master.Worldly philosophy said: "Matter is

eternal. The world always was. God did not mako it.” Christian philoso­phy plunges its crowbar into rock3 and finds that the world was grad­ually made, and if gradually made there must have been some point at which the process started. Then who started it? And so that objection was overcome, and in the first throe words of the Bible we find that Moses stated a magnificent truth when he said, “In the beginning.”

Worldy philosophy said: "Your Bi­ble is a most inaccurate book. All that story in the Old Testament, again and again told, about the army of the locusts—it is preposterous. There is nothing in the coming of the locusts like an army. An army walks; lo­custs fly. An army goes In order and procession; locusts without order.” “Wait," said Christian philosophy, and | In 1868 in the southwestern part of this country Christian men went out to ex- I amine the march of the locusts. There are men right before me who mu3t I have noticed in that very part of the ! country the coming up of the locust? | like an army, and it was found that all the newspaper unwittingly spoke of them *w an army. Why? They seem to have a commander. They march like a ho3t. They halt like a host. No arrow ever went in straight- er flight than the locusts come, not even turning aside for the wind. If the wind rises, the locusts drop, and then rise again after it has gone down, taking the same line of march, not varying a foot The old Bible is right every time when It speaks of locusts coming like an army; worldly philos­ophy wrong.

Worldly philosophy said, "All that «tory about the light ‘turned as clay to the seal’ Is simply an absurdity.” Old time worldly philosophy said, 'The light comes straight." Chris­tian philosophy says, “Walt a little while,” and It goes on and makes dls- eoverles and finds that the atmosphero eurves and bends the rays of light around the earth, literally "as the 0*7 to the seaL” The Bible right

again; worldly phllosopny wrong again. “Ah,” says worldly philoso­phy, “all that allusion in Job about the foundations of the earth is simply an absurdity. ‘Where wast thou,’ says God, ‘when J set the foundations of the earth?’ The earth has no foun­dation.” Christian philosophy comes and finds that the word as translated “foundations” may be better trans­lated “sockets.” So now see how It will read If it Is translated right, “Where wast thou when I set the sockets of the earth?” Where Is the socket? It is the hollow of God’s hand—a socket large enough for any world to turn in.

Worldly philosophy said: "What an absurd story about Joshua making the sun and moon stand still! If the world had stopped an instant, the whole uni­verse would have been out of gear.” "Stop,” said Christian philosophy; “not quite so quick.” The world has two motions—one on its own axis and tho other around the sun. It was not necessary in making them stand still that both motions should be stopped— only the one turning the world on its own axis. There was no reason why the halting of the earth should have jarred and disarranged the whole uni­verse. Joshua right and God right; infidelity wrong every time. I knew it would be wrong I thank God that the time has come when Christians neel not be scared at any scientific explora­tion. The fact is that religion and science have struck hands in eternal friendship, and the deeper down geol­ogy can dig and the higher up astron­omy can soar all the better for us. The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the observatories of the world’s science and from the highest towers have flung out the banner of the cross, and Christianity now from the observatories at Albany and Washington stretches out its band toward the opposing scientific weapon, crying, “There is none like that; give it me.” I was reading of Herschel, who was looking at a meteor through a telescope, and when it came over the face of the telescope it was so pow­erful he had to avert his eyes. And it has been just so that many an as­tronomer has gone into an observa­tory and looked up into the midnight heavens and the Lord God has through some swinging world flamed upon his vision, and the learned man cried ou‘: “Who am I? Undone! Unclean! Have mercy, Lord God!"

TrmpUtlonl of tlie Traveler.Again, I remark that the traveling

disposition of the world, which was adverse to morals and religion, Is to be brought on our side. The mau that went down to Jericho and fell amid thieves was a type of a great many travelers. There is many a man who is very honest at home who when he is abroad has his honor filched and his good habits stolen. There are but very few men who can stand the stress of an expedition. Six weeks at a water­ing place have ruined many a man. In the olden times God forbade the traveling of men for the purposes of trade because of the corrupting influ­ences attending it A good many men now cannot stand the transition from one place to another. Some men who seem to be very consistent here in the way of keeping the Sabbath when they get Into Spain on the Lord’s day al­ways go out to see the bull fight3. Plato said that no city ought to be built nearer to the sea than ten mi'e3 lest it be tempted to commerce. But this traveling disposition of the world which was adverse to that which is good is to be brought on our side. These mail trains, why, they take our bibles; these steamships, they trans­port our missionaries; these sailors, rushing from city to city all around tho world are to be converted Into Christian heralds and go out and preach Christ among the heathen na­tions. The gospels are infinitely mul­tiplied In beauty and power since Rob­inson and Thompson and Burckhard: have come back and talked to us about Siloam and Capernaum and Jer­usalem, pointing out to us the lille3 about which Jesus preached, the beach upon which Paul was ship­wrecked, the fords at which Jordan was passed, the Red Sea bank on which were tossed the carcasses of tho drowned Egyptians. A man said: “I went to the Holy Land an infidel. I came back a Christian. I could not help It.”

CnlTona'IlT of Religion.So it has also been with the learn­

ing and eloquence of tho world. Peo­ple say, “Religion is very good for aged women, it is very good for children, but not for men.” But we have in the roll of Christ's host Mozart and Han­del In music, Canova and Angelo In sculpture, Raphael and Reynolds In painting, Harvey and Boerhaave in medicine, Cowper and Scott in poetry, Grotius and Eurke in statesman s’lip, Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy, Thomas Chalmers and John M..soa in theology. The most brilliant writings of a worldly nature are all aglow Mlth Scriptural allusions.

Samuel L. Southard was mighty in the court room and in the senate cham­ber, but he reserved his strongest elo­quence for that day when he stood be­fore the literary societies at Princeton commencement and pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible. Daniel Web­ster won net his chief garlands while responding to Hayne nor when he opened the batteries of his eloquence on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the American Revolution, but on that day when In the famous Girard will case he showed his affection for the Christian religion and eulogized the Bible. The eloquence and the learning that have been on the other aide come over to our side. Captured for God! “There la none like that; give It me.”

So also has It been with the picture making of the world. We are vary anxious on this day to have the print­

ing press and the platform on the side of Christianity, but we overlook tbe engraver’s knife and tbe paint r s pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks at pictured ruins or examines the chiseled pillars of Thebes and Nineveh and Pompeii and then comfs back to tell us of the beastliness of ancient art. and it Is a fact now that many of the finest specimens—merely artistically cons.dered—of sculpture and painting that are to be found am!d those ruins are not fit to be looked at, and they are locked up. How Paul must have felt when, standing amid those impurities that stared on him from the walls and pavements and ba­zaars of Corinth, ho preached of tbe pure and holy Jesus. The art of the world on tho side of obscenity and crime and death.

Much of the art of the world has been in the possession of the vicious. What to unclean Henry VIII. was a beautiful picture of the Madonna? What to Lord Jeffreys, the unjust judge, the picture of the “Last Judg­ment?” What to Nero, the unwashed, a picture of the baptism in the Jor­dan? The art of the world cn the wrong side. But that is being changed now. The Christian artist goe3 over to Rome, looks at the pictures and brings back to his American studio much of tho power of these old mas­ters. The Christian minister goes over to Venice, looks at the “Crucifixion of Christ” and comes back to the Ameri­can pulpit to talk as never before of the sufferings of the Savior. The pri­vate tourist goes to Rome and looks at Raphael's picture of the “Last Judg­ment." The tears start, and he goes back to his room in the hotel and prays God for preparation for that day when

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ChrUt'a Social r«|i|<in.So I remark It is with business

acumen and tact. When Christ was upon earth, the people that followed him for the most part had no soc.al position. There was but one man naturally brilliant in all the apostle- ship, Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man, risked nothing when he offered a hole in tho rock for tho dead Christ. How many of the merchants in Asia Minor befriended Jesus? I thipk of only one—Lydia. How many of the castles on the beach at Gal.lee enter­tained Christ? Not one. When Peter came to Joppa, ho stopped with one Simon, a tanner. What power had Christ's name on the Roman exchange or in the bazaars of Corinth? None. The prominent men of the day aid not want to risk their reputation for sanity by pretending to be one of his follow­ers. Now that is all changed. Among the mightiest men in our great ci.i a today are the Christian merchants and the Christian bankers, and if tomor­row at the board of trade any man should get up and malign the name of Jesus he would be quickly silenced or put out. In the front rank of all our Christian workers today are the Chr.s- tlan merchants, and the enterprises of the world are coming on the right side. There was a farm willed away some years ago, all the proceeds of that f irm to go for spreading infidel books. Somehow matters have changed, and now all the proceeds cf that farm go toward the mlssiodary cause. On9 of the finest printing presses ever built was built for the express purpose of publishing infidel tracts and books Now it does nothing but print Holy Bibies. I believe that the time will come when in commercial circles the voice of Christ will be the mightiest of all voices and the ships of Tarshisb will bring presents and the queen of Sheba her glory and the wise men of the east their myrrh and frankincense. I look off upon tho business men of this land and rejoice at the pros­pect that their tact and ingenuity and talent are being brought into the serv­ice of Christ, it is one of the mightiest of weapons. “There is none like that; give it me.”

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON VI. MAY 12, XXVII.:l6-20.

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TRAIN FOOLED THEM.

Few Thrilling Moment, and Then 8°m* Fa nt l.o nr liter.

The Fulton street line of the Brook­lyn elevated road branches Just before it gets to the Franklin avenue station, one division continuing out Fulton street to East New York and the city line, the other going out to Flatbush and Brighton Beach, says the New York Sun. As a train from the bridge was approaching the station lato yes­terday afternoon a stout, elderly man among the crowd waiting for it fell off of the platform on the tracks. The train was about forty yards away, and coming at a clipping gait. Half of the crcwd screamed to tbe old .nan to get out of the way. but he seemed somewhat dezed by his fall, and made two attempts to get up from the tracks without success. By this time the train was barely fifty feet away, and coming with a rush. A half-dozen women began to scream, four or five men rushed down the platform signal­ing the train to stop, and a young fellow in overalls jumped down on tbe track, ran across it and laid hold of tho old man’s shoulders. But the old man was a load, and his struggles didn’t help matters. Most of the wom­en on the platform looked away and covered their eyes. The young fellow In overalls made a last desperate, un­successful pull, and the train turned off twenty feet from where the old man lay and rattled on to the Flatbuah sta­tion. Then, after a moment or two; the crowd laughed, but not much. Tho young fellow in overalls and several others helped the elderly man on the platform, and he went down etalra limping. A stout woman went beak into the waiting room and fainted.

16. Then the eleven disciples went Into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus h<*d appointed them.

17. And when they saw him. they wor­shiped him; hut some doubted.

18. And Je<tus came and spake unto them, saying. Ail power is given unto me in heaven and In earth.

19. Go ye, thcieiore, and make disciples of ail nations, baptizing them in the name ot me earner anu of the bon and of me Holy Gnoo,

iV. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 1 commanded you; and lo, 1 am with you aiway, even un<o the end of the wornt.

it is the very nature of living Chris­tianity to want to spread the news of salvation. Love to enrist and love to n.an both compel it. “The very soul of our re.igion is missionary, progressive, world embiaclng; It would cease to exist if it ceased to oe missionary, if It disre­garded the parting words of its Founder, ‘Go ye, therefore, and teach ail nations.’ etc. Tho spirit of truth is the life-spring of all religion; and where it exists, it must manifest itself, it must p^cad. it must persuade, it must convince and con­vert. Tlicro may be limes when silence is gold, and speech silver; but there are times also when silence is death, and speech is life—the very life of Pentecost. Look at the religions in which the mis­sionary spirit has been at work, and compare them with those In which any attempt to conv.nce others by argument, to save souls, to bear witness to tho truth, is treated with pity or scorn. The former are alive; the latter are dying or dead.'1—Max Muller.

This command includes home missions as well as foreign; our own neighborhood as well as more distant places. But mis­sionary effort must not be confined to the home field. Every nation needs the gos­pel as much as ours needs it. The same spirit impels to all forms of effort to reach men. Every church should know thoroughly its own field. But the wider outlook and interest increases the true spirit. Nothing has done more for the churches at home than a great and abid­ing interest In the .orelgn work. The grandeur of this work exalts the indi­vidual Christians who give and labor.

It is a great privilege to be engaged in the missionary work of the church. The work is so arranged that every one, even the poorest, can have some part in it. The work is like a stock company, and every person can have some of the shares.

The church is not a ciub for its mem­bers only, but is an army, an organized industry. The church that lives for itself dies, and it ought to die. The engine that has force enough merely to move itself, and can draw no freight or passenger cars. Is left on a side track to rust out Its existence.

Men gain spiritual life by Imparting It. They gain clearer views of truth by teaching others. They grow richer in all that Is best In life by giving freely of tho money God gives them.

The fountain that gives what it re­ceives is fresh and clear an- beautiful. The bog that receives and does not give Is malarious, foul, reptile-haunted. “Love exhausts not Itself by loving, but, after all its outgoings upon others, abides Itself far richer than it would have done but for the multiplying which there ever Is in a true dispensing.”—Trench.

A city grows rich by receiving and giv­ing forth. It is a focus of commerce. A desert neither receives nor gives, and it always remains barren and poor. Every heart that receives and gives forth grows rich in holiness and love and everything that belongs to its commerce.

“Lo, I am with you aiway.” Note, It Is I am. not I will be. Jesus, with his love, with his power, with his wisdom, with his willingness to help; Jesus the Saviour, the Guide, the Inspirer. the King, the Teacher; Jesus the Omniscient, the Om­nipresent, the Omnipotent, is with us everywhere, all the days. Aiway: literal­ly. all the days. It is a daily presence which is promised, not a fitful coming and going, but an abiding presence (John 15:4); a presence, too, in all days, and never, even in the darkest, to be forgot­ten. Unto the end of the w*rld. Literal­ly. the consummation of the age, the end of the gospet dispensation, when the king­dom shall have fully come. He is with them. He comes again and abides with them, till Ills final manifestation and rev­elation In the new kingdom.

A Rising or a Setting Sun. John Flske, In relating the story of the federal con­vention for the forming of the Constitu­tion of the United States of 17S9, a work of the greatest d.fflculty and Importance, says that, on tho back of the president’s quaint, black armchair there was em­blazoned a half sun. brilliant with gilded rays. At the close of the session of sev­eral months, during which the Constitu­tion was adopted, as the meeting was breaking up, and Washington arose. Franklin pointed to tlie chair and mad* it the text for a prophecy. “As I have been sitting here all these weeks," he said. “I have often wondered whether yonder sun was rising or setting. But now I know that It Is a rising sun.” The sun of Christianity is a rising cun, and is rapidly moving on to the perfect day.

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virtues, and a Japanese physician. Dr. Aoyama, owes his life to the fact that he possessed them both In high degree. He had caught the plague, and wa3 dying for need of the food which, In his dclerium, he refused to take. His nurse was in despair, but finally con­ceived the Idea of playing upon his patriotism by filling a glass with liq­uid nourishment and then offering to drink to the health of the mikado. This was repeated until, ardent patriot as he was. the doctor felt that he had honored his sovereign enough. Then his politeness was appealed to, the nurse proposing a toast and reproach­ing the sick man for not joining in it. In this way the patient’s strength was maintained until the delerium subsided and he became convalescent. —Youth’s Companion.

The temper of mind in which we meet the hundred and one tiny circum­stances of every hour determines our happiness or unhappiness far more than doeB the detail of what those cir­cumstances are. We cannot choose the circumstances, but we can choose the temper.—Lucy H. M. Soulsby.

Sardinia Is celebrated for the tombs which prove that prehiatorically It was Inhabited by great giants. Recently four new tombs have been found which contain skeletona over nine lint Ij *v«- H. BBl-

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Canadian lambs is about over with for this season, which will have the effect of strengthening the market for native lambs.

A serious malady resembling typhoid is said to be raging among live stock in the Province of Quebec. Large num­bers of both Horses aud cattle have died.

Owing to the mildness of the winter in the far west live stock are doing well and unless bad storms come later, cattle and sheep on the range will be in better condition than usual next spring.

According to the report of the Civil Veterinary Department of India, popu­lar confidence in inoculation against rinderfest, that scourge of Indian cat­tle herds, is growing. The compara­tive immunity of several herds that were Inoculated has convinced some of the most sceptical breeders.

The report of the Civil Veterinary Department of India for 1900 shows that in spite of the famine, over 3,500 foals likely to prove suitable for re­mount perposes, besides nearly 4,000 mules, were bred from government sires in British India last year., The revival of war In South Africa will mako It necessary for the British government to continue its purchases of horses for army service. The dif­ficulties of warfare In that rough coun- tiy press heavily upon the horses and few- survive many campaigns. It is said that the mortality among horses on the British side in the Boar war has been many times greater than it has been among the men, large as this has been.

Fourteen steamers landed cattle, sheep, sheep carcases, and fresh beef ai Liverpool during the first week in January from the various North and South American and Canadian ports. The total comprised 4,738 cattle, 5,268 sheep, 67,527 sheep carcases, and 33,176 qrs. of beef. Compared with the im­ports of the previous week, these fig­ures show an increase of 1,548 cattle, 44,100 sheep carcases, and 16,623 qrs. of beef, and a decrease of 698 sheep.

Signatures were affixed in Chicago last .week to a great international con­tract and a Chicago packing firm will supply tho Russian government this year with 1,500 barrels of a specialty prepared meat to feed the soldiers of the czar’s army. The terms of the contract will exceed $100,003 and it was eagerly sought by the representatives of almost every one of the great Chi­cago packing concerns, but was wou by Arthur C. Boughton, representing Swift and Company.

For the first time in history the cen­sus bureau has taken account of the horses, cows, pigs and other useful animals that are kept outside of farms and within the limits of the cities and towns of the country, and inquiry has developed some interesting informa­tion. The total number of cows kept for milk purposes in the towns and cities and villages of the United States is 1,466,970, Texas having the greatest number, 116,107. Illinois comes sec­ond, with 110.460, and Pennsylvania third, with 98,515. The other states having more than 50,000 cows are Iowa. 76,327; Missouri, 71,865; Ohio, 63,240; Kansas, 51,218; Indiana, 51,874. and New York, 60,218. The nine states I have named have 690,947 cows in captivity, or nearly 50 per cent of the entire number in the United States. Texas may beat us on cows, but Illi­nois comes out strong In tho pig in­dustry, with 155,050 porkers being brought up by hand, as you might say, in towns, cities and villages.

A case of damage to cattle done by a barbed wire fence was heard by Judgo Morgan, at Markham, Ont., recently, and the decision given may Interest farmers and others who are using that kind of fencing. His honor decided that barbed wire fences were a public nuisance, and if placed along a side line or road, the party owning them is responsible for damage done to cat­tle. In this case he assessed $10 and costs.

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A deaf mute brought before a Chi­cago court pleaded his own caue upon his fingers with such success that ha was released. He was accused of in­sanity.

Northwestern Iowa has begun ship­ping choice butter to Porto Rico. The first consignment left Sioux City a few days ago, being sent from a very large creamery.

Seven of Massachusetts’ governors were born on the 6th of March. They were Andrew, Boutwell, Butler, Cknf- lin, Gardner, Rice and Talbot All bat two are now dead.

The Increase in Coats Rica’s export­ation of bananas has been from 8,5** hunches in 1881 to 3,420,166 bunches In 1*00. The value of the 1*00 crop waa $1,864,385 In gold.

1901.

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THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSAY, MAY 9,

The Independent.GEORGS 8. COKMIT, Proprtetoi

Ik the referendum whs in force in Michigan the salary grabs and peanut bills would be laid out.

It seems to lie informally settled in Washington, now that Morgan lias bought the European ship companies, that the subside bill will pass Con­gress and nine million a year will pass from the national to the Morgan treasury.

David B. Hill announces that he is not a candidate for the nomination for president in 1904. The Republican press will have another occasion for deep regret, but no Democrat took the Republican announcement of his can­didacy with any enthusiasm.

Another salary grab passed the leg­islature last week giving the clerk of the house and secretary of the senate an annual salary of $1,500. Heretofore these officers have drawn less than that amount even when there have been extra sessions. There is practic­ally no work to do after adjournment but still these officers are to be paid a yearly salary, for two years for some six or seven months work.

The doctors in Europe have started a campaign against the long skirt as a 6treet sweeper, claiming that it is a record-breaker in the transmission of disease. As long as it is the style, the doctors will have a difficult task to root it out. A woman w ho will resent any reference to her untidiness, will sweep up the filthy streets and gather all kinds of disease in her skirts, to be taken home to her family, and she thinks she is doing the proper thing b ecause it is the style.

J. Pikkpont Morgan having estab* lished a billion dollars steel trusts and practically consolidated all the leading railroad of this country, is now i n Europe com bi n 1 ng t li e lead 1 n g Eu ro- pean with the American Atlantic Transportation Companies. One of the lines bought recently has a fleet of sixty-five vesselsin the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and a Mediterranean and Black Sea fleet. He deposited with with the Leyland Line a little check of million and a quarter to bind the bargain.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Rev. Ilermiston, the Evangelist, who is holding a series of meetings at the Baptist church, gave a very interesting talk and selection of music at the high school chapel, Monday morning.

The high school base ball team, which is to do the honors at the coming Field Day. will, on next Saturday, play Yerington’s students at St. Louis. The team, as seen in practice, is thought by many to be the strongest in the his­tory of the school. Lockwood, the new man behind the bat, with Turner, Grant. Jndd and Chick In t lie infield, should make a Winning team.

The final four year’s average in work, and deportment of the senior class has been taken, and the speakers selected as follows: Adward Albert­son, Ellen Knapp, Clark Bair, Henry Scott, Anna Harris and Florence Per­kins. Edward Albertson, w ho stands ighhest in the four year's average, is, perhaps, the youngest member of his class.

The much-talked of Junior program will take place next Tuesday evening at the high school room. The farce which has been prepared for the occa­sion is one taken from the Ladies’ Home Journal. A mixture of nobility and love; "I times when the valet looked like his lord even to the extent of being taken for his lordship by the lady he loves. Thus It is that the at­tention is held with pleasing interest to the last act where all is set right.— The characters are as follows: Mrs. Fdrrington, a widow, Lily Sprague ; Helen Page, niece of widow, Daisy Os­good; Polly Eastman and Jesse Vin­cent. guest of widow, Laura Hummel and Edith Clark; Marmaduke Craft is played by Russell Gardauier, while Fred Fleagle enacts the part of Sir Henry Tipton. James Robert Hanley. Tipton’s valet, is Jesse Smith. Donald Stephenson and Eugene Murdock fill the characters Jack Brady and Tom Boynton, who became entangled in the plot while acting as reporters: Earnes- tine, a French maid, Ethel Judd. Pre­parations are being made for a large audience, as it is by this program that the Juniors procure funds for the com­mencement exercises.

A lis of the coming year's teachers will appear in this department next week.

lni«lllK«*iio« Mingled With Health.

Mayor of Omaha orders theaters closed, baseball games stopped and drug stores confined to medicines on Sun­days.

DeWltt’s Little Early Risers search the remotest parts of the bowels and remove the impurities speedily with no discomfort. They are famous for their efficacy. Easy to take, never gripe. C. E. VanSickle._________

An electric plapt to furnish light, heat and power is to be erected at Coopersville by the company which is building an electric road from Grand Rapids to Muskegon. The plant will cost over $40,000.

Skin affections will readily disappear by using DeWltt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Look out for counterfeits. If you get DeWitt’s you will get good results. It is the quick and positive cure for piles. C. E. VanSickle.

President McKinley agrees with Congressmen Babcock that modicatlon in tne tariff must be made to meet changed industrial conditions, and be­lieve this should be done by a more liberal application of the reciprocity policy.

Mr. W. J. Baxter of North Brook, N. C. says he suffered with piles for fifteen years. He tried many remedies with no results until he used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and that qulcky cured him. C. E. VanSickle.

The trust formed bjkJackson ice com­panies to boost up the prices of their wares has evidently been scared by the reports of opposition to be offered by outside companies, and has dropped

of Iiithe price back to the figure season.

After fifty-three years beside the wheel. Carey if. Daniels, of Waooosta, will dispose of his ancient mill, with which the residents of five counties are familiar, and will take up his residence in Fort Worth, Tex.

If people only know what we know about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, it would be used in nearly every household, as there are few people who do not suffer from a feeling of fullness after eating, belching, flatulence, sour stomach or waterbrasli, caused bv indigeatioo or dyspepsia. A preparation,such as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which, with no aid from tn« stomach, will digest your food, certainly can’t help but do you good. C. E. VanSickle.

Farmers of Ionia county are begin­ning tosee that there is more money for them In poultry than in wheat, and are going in for it on a heavy scale. A conservative estimate places the amount paid to farmers of the county for eggs the past week at $7,500.

Fought For HU Life,“My father and sister both died of

Consumption,” writes J. T. 'Weather- wax, of Wyandotte, Mich., “and I was saved from the same frightful fate only by Dr. King’s New Discovery. An attack of Pneumonia left an obstinate cough and very severe lung trouble, which an excellent doctor could not help, but a few months’ use of this wonderful medicine made me as well as ever and I gained much In weight.” Infallible for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Lung trouble. Trial bottles 10c. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00 at Fildew & Millman’s.

A Clrcn* Performer Itroke III* Nerk.Wm. Wolf, a performer In Wlxom

Brothers’ show, at Bancrort, Shia­wassee county, in practicing with others of the company In the trapese act, last Friday morning, preparatory to starting out from their winter quarters the first of this week, fell and broke his neck. He lived forsome time, hut it was the opinion of his attending physician that death would soon overtake him.

You are much more liable to disease when your live and bowels do not act properly. DeWitt’s Little Early Bit­ers remove the cause of disease. E. E. VanSickle. __________

Dhhioh, Alu*ka— Lo»», 875,000.

Tacoma, Wash., May 7.—The steamer Dolphin brings news of an­other Dawson fire with an estimated loss of $75.01)0. Every building from Gondolfo.s Point, at the convergence of First and Second avenues, up to and Including Fairchild’s hotel was burned.

The least in quantity and most in quality describes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous pills for constipa­tion and liver complaints. C. E. Van­Sickle.

HISTORY OF LAST YEAR“Detroit In Nineteen Hundred" Junt I**ued.

With "Detroit In Nineteen Hundred,” Just Issued, and a few additional clippings of a personal nature or of personal Interest that from time to time appear In the dally papers, it Is no longer necessary to preserve bulky Hies of newspapers In order to keep track of last year's Important events. It Is a book of 152 pages, Including a carefully prepared In­dex which enables anyone to at once turn to the Item desired, and one of the charms of the work Is that It records both the begin­ning and ending of whatever event Is mention ed In its pages. It is a chronological record of both local and state happenings during the closing year of the century and the read­er Is able to get a good perspective of the value of the news of the year—something Impossible In the dally paper, for no one can tell. In the beginning, lust how Important a matter Itmav eventually be.

Htatlstlcal Information, is particularly well taken care of In the volume. The tax levy of Detroit, the report of the state tax com­mission. the school population, county ex­penses—these and much more in that line nave l>een preserved and presented and pre­sented In handy form which makes the vol­ume a valuable reference work for facts of this character. It Is equally valuable In giving a record of the various conventions that met In Detroit during the year, as well as brier biographies of people of note who have died, and the disastrous Area and acci­dents affecting the wealth or lives of the citizen*.

The edition of the book Is limited, only enough having been printed to supply the public libraries of Michigan and the shelves of collectors.

"Detroit In Nineteen Hundred” Is the work of 8. M. McCracken, an old Journalist, who was aided by contributions from the staff of The News and Tribune. The book sell* for (I, and can l>e obtained of The Evening News Association. Detroit, Mich.

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DR. W. C. WALKERThe Emminent Specialists, of Detroit, Mich., late from the

Polyclinic of the Augusta Hospital, Berlin, will make the following

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The Public Press say Dr. Walker is one of the Most Skillful Specialistsnow Before the Public.

Dr. Walker will take only such Cases That in His Judgement Can Be Benefited or Cured, a Candid Opinion Qiven in Each Case.

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“Our little girl was unconscious from strangulation during a sudden and ter­rible attack of croup. I quickly secured a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giving her three doses. The croup was mastered and our little darling speed­ily recovered.” So writes A. L. Spaf- ford, Chester, Mich. C. E. VanSickle.

Another powder factory, the fourth in the vicinity, is to be established neai Ishpeming soon, by a company with a capital stock of $100,000, most of which is held by large consumers of powder on the Marquette range.

“1 have been suffering from Dyspep­sia for the past twenty years and have been unable after trying all prepara­tions and physicians to get any relief. After taking one bottle of Kodol Dys­pepsia Cure 1 found relief and am now In better health than 1 have been for twenty years. 1 can not praise Kodol Dyspepsia Cure too highly.” Thus writes Mrs. C. W. Roberts, North Creek. Ark. C. E. VanSickle.

By the latest scientific researches, both bi Improved Instruments and methods,the Doc tor is enabled to discover the true nature of the disease and locate the organs or parts afflicted, and many diseases uud complica­tions which have heretofore proven most ob­stinate to the medical profession, yield like magic under his skill aud systematic treat­ment.

There is no need to live in constant misery It costs nothing to see him, for consultation is free, and his prices for treatment are within the reach of all. He Is a friend to the afflict­ed, and will turn none away unaided. The merchant mingles with the artisan, while seeking relief at his hands, and hundreds are cured every year.

Read What Grtntful Patients Say:Mr. O- H. Munsell, who resides near Lansing,

Micb.,says: ”Kor several years I was afflict­ed with kidney and bladder trouble. I have been treated at different times by good nhy-f- cians; also had taken lots of patent medicine. I received S'<uiebelp. but not a cure. Heariug of Dr. Walker’s many cures In and around Ht. Johns. 1 decided to try him Hu (lice to say the lfoc'or ha* completely cured me of those troubles. This testimonial unsolicited by him.

(.Signed) O. H. MUNhBLL,At The Steel Steel, St. Johns, Dec. 21, lww.Read the following testimonial, voluntarily

given by Mr. Kdwin Sperry, a well-known citi­zen of St. Johns. lie says; *T wish to publicly express my gratitude to Dr. W. C. Walker for the great good I have received through his treatment. I have been afflicted with Catarrh of the Head, Throat aud Stomach for years. Having tried a number of other doctors with­out any permanent relief, I decided to consult Dr. Walker, who helped ine right along, and I am now pleased to suy 1 am enjoying good health. I cheerfully recommend the Doctor to all similarly afflicted.

(Signed), EDWIN 8PERRY.St. Jobus,Mich.

Mrs. Martho Keller, of Cohocfah township, Livingston county, wno bits been seriously afflicted with a complication of diseases fc: yeitis, voluntarily makes the following state­ment. She says: "1 wish to speak a word in favor of Dr. w. C. Walker, of Detroit, who visits at Howell each month. I had been a great sufferer with catarrh of the stomach, heart failure and nervous debility. I would have peculiar nervoua spells come over me and would faint away; have been carried In the bouse more than once in that condition. My heart and stomached troubled me terribly all the time, havlug tried a number of other doctors without receiving and permanent relief. I saw advertisement of Dr Walker in the Howell papers,also hearing of the doctor’s

OUIK ItORON, AUCTIONEER—I amprepared I

nlture, andto sell farm property, household

furniture,and general merchandise.on most favorable terms. I speak English, German and French. Orders through St. Johns post- office will receive prompt and careful atten­tion.

many cures. I decided to call at tho hotel and see him. I at once placed uiyBcIf under Dr. Walker's treatment. 1 improved right along and bid now happy to say that all of the above symptoms have left me. To have iny stom­ach. heart and nerves feel natural om-e more causes me to feel very grateful I most cheer­fully recommend the Doctor to all afflicted ones. Signed. MRS. MARTHA KELLER.

M rs. 8. W. Rose, also of Ovid, rejoices being cured of catarrh of the stomach, 16 years standing.

Mrs. L. Pearl, who lives near St. Johqfcsaps also: After treating with Dr Walker, one month, I have not been so well for many years.

Among the numerous testimonials, none perhaps feel more grateful to Dr. Walker, than does Mrs. Chas. Todd, of Hamburg, Liv­ingston Co.. Mich. She says; "About four years ago tny trouble began. The doctors called my disease consumption of the bowels. From the time 1 was first taken. I steadily grew worse la spite of all medical aid I re­alized I was on the decline and that death was staring mein the face. In this condition I went to Dr. W C. Walker, of whoso skill I had heard so much. After taking a course of his treatment l am entirely cured. I feel very grateful. 8lgned. MRS. CHAS. TODD,

Keb. 6,10 e. Hamburg, Livlngton Co , Mich.Mrs. 8. W. Rodgers cured ol cancer of the

breast. She was a great sufferer .Mr. J. Preston cured of catarrh of the stom­

ach and blood poison!ug, says he would not be In the former position for $6,000.

Mrs. W, M.-----------------, after being barren10 years says : He cured me. W’e have two little children. Suffice to say our borne Is a happy one.

Eullepsy (or fits) positively cured by a re- cenVscientitlc discovery.

Mr. C. M. Stutzman cored of Blood and Skin disease of twelve years standing

Dr. Walker’s advanced methods for the treatment and cure of diseases peculiar to women Is unsurpassed. Also men suffering from the evil effects of youthful indiscretions causing impaired vitality, nervousness, heart trouble, loss of memory, dispondeney. etc., all treated by the best met bods known to medi­cal science. Consult the specialist that cures.

Remember Dr. Walker has made a specialty o'chronic diseases for many years and his Success is well knowu.

t*T~ I will give special attention to difficult cases and to cases other physicians havt tailed to cure.

Bank references.Persons applying for treatment will please

bring from two to three ounces of urine, first passed In the morning preferred- for analysts

Question blanks sent on application. En­close stamp for reply. Those unable tosee the Doctor can address.

W.C. Walker, M.D,Box 78. Detroit. Mich.

Or. Donald McDonaldTHE SPECIALIST,

IS COMING-1The Place to Get your

BICYCLE Repaired, your LAWN MOWER sharpened, or GENERAL REPAIR­ING Done is at

E. C, Whetstone’sOpposite tne M. E. Church.

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An old tinner. Thursday, May 16.

ti+r0*-IIE WILL BE IN ST. JOHN'S,

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Having bought the stock of Wm Crich, and opened up a general tin­

ning and Jobbing business in the same building, at the corner of Clinton ave­nue and Railroad street, where I will be pleased to meet my old friends, In need of anything in my line, or my services.

Yours for Business,

Jacob Williams,The Tinner.

WAKTED-TRUST WORTHY MEN AND Women to travel and advertise for old estab­lished houne of solid financial standing. Sal­ary $789 a year and expenses, all payable In cash. No canvassing required. Give refer­ences and enclose self-addressed stamped envelop.*. Address Manager, 1166 Caxton Bldg.. Chicago. 20w6

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At any place in the United States.Main Office at ST. JOHNS, MICH. ]

. jWe have a number of houses in St. Johns for sale on easy •

terms, situated as follows:House and Barn, 3 blocks west of Union school. tHouse and Barn, 2 blocks north of Railroad.House and Barn, 1 block north of Railroad.House and Barn, 2 blocks north of Railroad.House and Barn, 3 blocks north of Railroad. >.House, 1 block east of Clinton avenue. \House and Barn, 1 block east of Clinton avenue. 1]House and Barn, 4 blocks west of Court House.House and Barn, 3 blocks south of Court House. **House and Barn. 5 blocks east of Court House.House and Barn, 4 blocks west of Steel Hotel.House and Barn, 2 blocks east of Steel Hotel. jHouse and Barn, 2 blocks east of Steel Hotel.House and Barn, 5 blocks east of Steel Hotel.

JThis is a small list of what we have to offer in village property. We j also have a great many vacant lots for sale, farms and stocks of i Merchandise, etc., etc. If you wish to buy or are thinking of ?of making a change, Call on us and see what we have to offer. * MONEY TO LOAN.

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DR. MCDONALDIs one of the Greatest LivingSpecial- ista in tbe treatment of all Chrome Dis­eases. Ills extensive practice and supe­rior knowledge enable him to cure every curable disease. All chronic diseases of the Brain, Spine, Nerves, Blood, Skin, Heart. Lungs, Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, and Bowels, scientifically and successfully treated.

DR. MCDONALD’S success in the treatment of Female Diseases is simply marvelous. His treatment makes sickly women strong, beautiful and attractive. Weak men, old or young, cured in every case and saved from a life of suffering. Deafness, Rheumatism, and Paralysis, cured through his celebrated Blood and Nerve Remedies and Essential Oils charged with electricity. THE DEAF MADE TO II EAR! THE LAME TO WALK I Catarrh. Throat and Lung Diseases cured. Dr. McDonald cures Fits and Nervous Diseases. Eczema and all Skin Diseases cured.

DR. MCDONALD has been called the Wizard of the Medical Profession, because he reads all diseases at a glance, without asking anv questions. Sick folk, call on Dr. McDonald. It is a pleasure to meet him. . Dr. McDonald never turns the poor from his door.

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The Amerioan trotting register; This is to certify that Black Jerome has been duly registered as standard under rule six, in Volume XII of the American Trotting Register. Black Jerome, 23,047, was sired by Dave Jerome, 1800; Grand sire Jerome Eddy, 1,200; Grand Dam Mambrine Girl. Black Jerome Dam was Jesse R- by Louis R, 10,883 Grand Dame Flory P. Black Jerome is owned by C- E. BAUGHN. and will stand in Kenyon’s Feed Barn Fridays and Saturdays.

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PERSONAL.Ex-sheriff Dunn was Id Fowler yesterday*W. A. .Norton spent Monday evenlnir in

Owosso.Mrs. C. W. Dussett went to Owosso Monday

mornlnir last.Jay Williams spent Sunday with friends

In Pontiac.Porter K. Perrin spent Monduy and Tues­

day with his family in Detroit.R. Gould, who had been visitinir his son, E*

W. Gould, returned to Ionia Tuesday.Geo. U. Chapman went to Grayling’ last

Monday to transact business.Mr. and Mrs. 11. II. Fitzgerald spent Sunday

in Battle Creek.E. L. Dueling made a business trip to Grand

Rapids last Monday. *George Wood was transacting business in

Owosso, Tuesday.O. C. Warner was transacting business In

Ovid, yesterday.Miss Anna Gray of Sarnia, Ont., spent Sun­

day with Miss Franklin, this village.Mrs. C. C. O’Neal, of Durand, was thejguest

of friends in this village Tuesday.Tony Fox was transacting business in

Fowler Tuesday.John O. Hicks was transacting business lu

Detroit yesterday.J. J. Shindorf is transacting business in

Grand Rapids and Muskegon.Mrs. Andrew Nelson, of West Branch, is

visiting Mrs. Byron Danley.Mrs. Addle Haddon, of Holly, arrived yes­

terday to visit at the home of Dr. Knapp.Mrs. E. L. Smith went to Belding yesterday

to spend a day or two.Dr. Arthur Corbin went to Ionia Monday

morning for business and pleasure.Mr. and Mrs. G. E Ball went to Detroit Mon­

day to spend a couple of days.Wilbur C. Church, of Detroit, spent Sunday

with relatives and friends in St. Johns.Rev. A. K rants went to Ionia Tuesday, to

attend the 40 hours devotion.Miss Julia Zell spent Sunday with her

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zell lu Fowler.Mr. and Mrs. R. Loomis, of Lansing, spent

Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Norton, this village.

Mrs. Lewis Gilson left yesterday to spend the remaiuder of the week with her grand­parents. Mr. and Mrs. I.P. Dlkemun.

Rev. E. M. Blanchard, of Vernon, who had been visiting old time-friends in St.Johns for a few days returned home yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Jones went to Ithaca yesterday to spend a week visiting their son George.

A. P. Blauvelt, after spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. E. S. Brazee, McConnell street, returned to his home in Ionia Monday

J. A. Reavis, of Greenbusli, was transacting business in Owosso the fore part of the week.

Mrs. E. S. Koons, of Eureka, was called to Fowler yesterday on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. Coomer.

Mrs Carrie Bowers and daughter, of Man- ton, Mich., who iiad been visiting her aunt, Mrs. D. Hovey, returned home Saturday.

Claud Badgeron left Saturday for Boyen Falls, where he expects to make his future home.

Mrs. Mary Hinkley, of Eureka, went to Paw Paw Lake Tuesday to spend two months with her sister.

R. J. Chick and little daughter, of Durand, were the guests of his brother, A. A. Chick, Saturday.

Mrs. A. D. Gilson was called to Fowler Tues­day on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. W'atson Coomer.

Mrs. II. W. Payne, of Grand Rapids, arrived Tuesday to visit her motlier-iu-law, Mrs. T.D. Abbey, for a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coleman and little daughter, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Waldron, this village.

Geo. W. Johnson went to Three Rivers last Monday as a delegate to the Grand Encamp­ment, I. O. O. F.

Mrs. Wm. M. Leland went to South Haven* Mich., last Monday to speud a vacation witli her son Fred, the doctor.

Loring Grant, who Is representing a ma­chine Company through the state, spent Sun­day with his family in this village.

Charles Britten, James Davison and L. II* Pease, of Essex township, went to Grand Rapids as delegates last Monday.

Mrs. Dr. L. Jones spent Sunday and the fore part of the week with relatives in Grand Lodge.

Mr. and Mrs. John Fortress went to Ionia Tuesday to spend the remainder of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. Estabrook.* Mrs. Geo. Steel went to Battle Creek Tues­day as delegate to the grand lodge of the ltathorne Sisters.

Mrs. C. Kingsley, of Iiomulous, Mich., is visiting at the home of Walter Reynolds, this village.

Mrs. E. Waite, who had been visiting in Fenton, returned to her home in this village Monday,

Portland Review: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bul­lard, J. Earle Brown and Miss Wiggins, of St Johns, drove to Portland Sunday, returning in the evening.

G. W. Simpson and Frank Vredenburg, of Olive, were transacting business In Port Huron the first of the week.

Mrs. Josephine McMahon, of Sauk Rapids* Minn., who had been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. E. L. Flske, returned | home Monday.

Miss Jennie Congdon left yesterday for Holly, where she will visit her mother, Mrs,E. Congdon. Monroe Smith accompanied heras far as Owosso.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Oakley and daughter Ola, were ealled to.Ionia Monday on account of the illness of Mrs. Oakley's father, James II, Sopor.

Mr. and Mrs. II. M. Cohoon left yesterday morning for Hillman. Mich., where they will spend a few months with his mother, Mrs. II. M. Cohoon.

Mrs. Agnes Harris, of Calumet, Mich., who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs* David Stephenson In Ola, returned homeTuesday.

Dr. J. S. Corbin, of Chicago, who was visiting his brother, Dr. G. E. Cor bin and family, went to Buffalo Monday to view the ex­position. He In company with Mrs. Corbin spent Saturday with friends In Ionia.

James Purves, Sr., after having spent a season with his son James, In Olive town­ship, went to Burton Monday morning to visit a son residing there, and from thence will go to Canada to visit relatives.

Mr and Mrs. O. B. Bond, of Essex, left this station last Tuesday, for Harbor Spring, where their sou resides, and where they will spend the iummer In recuperating from the ravages of the the grippe during the winter.

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Revival Meetings.Those who have attended the meet­

ings held in the Baptist Church, have been greatly helped by the sermons delivered by Rev. HermiKton. Several have publicly acknowledged Christ as their Savior.

The meetings will continue another week.

Next Sunday afternoon Rev. Her- miston will give a confidential talk to men at 3 o’clock. All who can should attend all the services. *A SWARM OF RISES WORTH KEEPING.

B patient, B prayful, II humble, B mild,B wise as a Solon, It meek as a child;B studious, B thoughtful, B loving, B kind B sure you make mattter subservient to

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secure.

Pan-American Exposition.The Grand Trunk Railway System

has announced fares to the Pan-Amer­ican Exposition for the month of May. It allows a stop over of ten days at Niagara Falls without cost, and at Buffalo on payment of one dollar on tickets to Eastern destinations to en­able patrons to visit the Exposition.

On May 15th and 29th it will run a special cheap coach excurson to Buf­falo from,all points in Michigan. For rates, train service, and general infor­mation, inquire of any agent or write to Ben. Fletcher, Trav. Pass. Agent, Detroit, Mich.

Card of Thanks.We employ this medium through which to

thank friends and neighbors for their many kind acts and consoling words during our recent bereavement In the loss of husband and father.

MRS JAMES BOYLE AND FAMILY.

The Oklahoma Opportunity,Is a book descriptive of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservations in Oklahoma to be opened this sum­mer, with 2,000.000 acres available for public settlement. This publication contains complete information as to soil and climate, a sectioni/.ed map of the district, conditions of entry and the Act of Congress opening the Reser­vation. The Great Rock Island Route is the only line running toand through the reservation. The Oklahoma Op­portunity and the Western Trail, giv­ing more facts of interest to Home- seekers will be sent tree by Jonx .Se­bastian, G. P. A., Chicago. 24w6

DATE FIXED.Michigan Day at the Exposition Is August

20—The Michigan Hullding Will lie Completed liy May 20.

August 20 lias been decided upon as Michigan Day at the Pan-American exposition. The announcement was otllcially made by Commissioner E. E. Foote last week. “There was some difficulty,” said lie, in finding a date that would seem to he suitable, but dually the 20tn was chosen as the most desirable. It will come at a time when the exposition will be in full swing and special exercises will be arranged for the day. .1 ust what these exercises will be bus not yet been de­termined, but they will probably fol­low tlie usual plan of state exercises. The governor and his staff will be present.

Work on the Michigan building is now progressing very rapidly. The set back which the contractors re­ceived some time ago from the furious wind storm delayed the work, but from now on the work will be rushed. We hope to have the building complete on tlie day of dedication, May zo. The Michigan exhibits in mineral and agri­cultural products will be about the only extensive state exhibits that there will b&, but many private arms are already on band.”

Auction bills printed promptly atThe Independent Office.

Have You Seen Them.The greatest variety of the hand­

somest Wall Papers to be found in St. Johns, at Aldrich’s Book Store.

At Lowest ♦ Trices

Under oar new plan of telling you can buy a carriage or barne** at the lowest price ever made on good* of like quality. We are dealing direct with our cuatomers, and they are

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Lnos 6 Bradfield114 and 118 S. Division Street

Grand Mich.

DateLicensed to Wed.

Name. AgeMay 1—John Huhn. Westphalia.........................23

Bertha Tbelsen, 111 ley........................... 29May 1—George Feldpauaoh, Fowler.................24

Katherine Fedewa, Fowler................. 24May 8— Frank Hheilenbarger, Lake Odessa 29

Edith Moore, St. Johns........................ 24May 4- -A. M. Bolter, Victor.............. 24

Jennie Burgess, Victor..... .................. 10May 4— Bernard Bonn lag, Westphalia.......... 33

Louise Pitch, Portland......................... 28May ft—Wm. J. Miller. Riley.................... 27

Rosalia Schafer, Westphalia...... ....... 21

•OUT OF THE CONDITION

-----OF------IT”The St. Johns National Bant,

▲T ST. JOHNS, MICH.At theulosuof business, April 44, luul.

RESOURCES.Loans and discounts.............................. $1 IS,593 31Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. 1,414 72U. S. bonds to secure circulation...... 15,990 99Stocks, securities, etc................... .......... 3,294 22Banking-house, furniture and fix­

tures................-......................................... 7.000 00Other real estate owned.....................- U.jnO onDue from State Banks and Bankers 3.723 00 Due from approved reserve agents... 48.897 75Checks and otiier cash items................ 2,808 19Notes of other National Banks,......... 287 09Fractional paper currency, nickels,

and cents................................................... 849 10Lawful mouey reserve in bunk, viz:

Specie....................................... 1*5,444 05Legal-tender notes........... 2,5*0 09

---------- 17,944 toRedemption fund witli U. S. Treas­

urer (5 per ccut. of circulation)...... 750 00

Totul..................................................... 1220,882 33LIABILITIES.

Capital stock paid In..... .........................$50,000 00Surulusfund................................................ 10,000 00Undivided profits, less expenses and

taxes paid................................................... 1,829 96National hank notes outstanding.... 15,000 00Due to other national banks................Due to state banks and bankers........ 4.070 74Individual deposits subject to check 103.578 56 Ilemand certificates of deposit........ 42,383 07

Total............. -...................................... $276,862 33

State or Michigan. County of Clinton, ss:I, P. E. Walsworth, cashier of the above-

named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

P. E. WALSWORTH. Cashier.Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th

day of Muy, lool.H. B. WASHBURN,

Notary Public.Correct—Attest:

O. PENNELL.WARNER BUNDAY.C.O. VAUGHAN. -

Directors.

Legal Notices.

PROBATE ORDER.—8T4TB OF MICHI- gau. County of Cllutou, ss. At a session of the Probate Court for the County of Clin­

ton, bolderi at the probate otlice. In the village of St Johns, on Monday the 29th. day of April, intbeyearonethousaud nine hundred and one

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Pro­bate.

In the matter of the estate of EDWARD M. NAUMES, deceased. Peter Pung. Ad­ministrator of said estate having made ap­plication for the allowance of hlB final ac­count and for his discharge.

Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday.the 23d day of May A. 11., 11)01. at one o’clock in the afternoon, lie assigned for the exami­nation ol said account at the Probate Office lu the villageof St. Johns.

And It Is further ordered, that notice be given to the persons Interested in Maid estate, of the time and place of said hearing, by caus­ing a copy of this order to lie published in the Clinton Independent, » newspaper printed and circulating in sHid county of Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

CHARLES M. MEKKILL.Judge,of Probate.

A true copy )

IjKOttATE (IHDKK—oTATK OF MICHI­GAN, County of Clinton, ss. At a session

of the Probate Court for the County of Clin­ton holdcn st tlie Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns, on Tuesday the23rd day of April in the year one thousand ulne hundred and one.

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Pro­bate.

lu the nuttier of the estate of ISAAC K. BKOWN deceased. On reading and filing the petition, du*y vertlfled. of Ezekiel F. Brown bvJ Earl Brown his attorney, praying that Danforth Shaddock or some other suitable person inay be uppoluted administrator of said estate.

Thereupon It is ordered, that Thursday, the 16th <lay of May, A. !»., 1901, at one o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition, at the Probate Office in the Village of St. Johns.

And it is further ordered, that notice be given to the persons Interested in said estate, of the time and place of suid hearing by caus­ing aedpy of this order to be published in the Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Clinton for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

CHAItLES M. MERRILL.Judge of Probate.

(A true copy.)

MOUTGA4iEHAl.E-DEF.ULT HAVING been made in i he conditions of a Mort­gage. executed by William H. Cwtle and Alice

E. Castle to Mary Cowell, dated November 13, 1899, and recorded November 14, 1899, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Clinton county, in Michigan. In l.lbcr93of Mortgages, on page 409; on which Mortgage there is claim­ed to be due at the date of this notice, one hundred and twelve dollars and forty-five cents, besides un attorney fee of fifteen dol­lars stipulated in said Mortgage to be paid should any proceedings be taken to foreclose said Mortgage; and no suitor proceeding at law or in equity having been instituted to re­cover any part of the debt secured by said Mortgage; therefore, by virtue of the pow»r of sale contained in said Mortgage, and of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is hereby given that on June I, idol atone o’clock in the afternoon, at the west front door of the court house for Clinton county in Mich­igan, In the village of St. Jobnsin said county, there will be sold at public vendue to the high­est bidder, the premises described in said Mortgage, via: The North Half of Lot Four in Block Ten in the village of St. Johns, in Clin­ton county. In the state of Michigan, together with the right of way for ingress and egress over the north one-fourth of Lot Ten, also the right of way over the east twelve feet in width of south half of Lot Two and the enst tweive feet in width of Lot Three In said Block Ten. Said sale will be made subject to the payment of the remainder of said Mortgage not yet duo, being $2,500, and interest thereon at six per cent per annum from November 13. 1990. Dated St. Johus, Mich., March 1991.

MARY COWELL.Mortgagee.

Perrins A Baldwin.Attorneys for Mortgagee.

A Varai Ion In Colorado.Do you realize that Colorado, with

its grand mountain scenery, is the most attiactive health and pleasure resort in the world, and that by using the Burlington Route Fast Denver trains from Chicago to St. Louis, it takes only one night on the road to get there.

The Colorado air is so delightful, the water so pure, and the nights so refreshingly cool. Then the hotels are excellent and the cost of a few weeks there is very moderate.

We publish a book about Colorado, most Interesting and informative. It is beautifully illustrated and has a valuable map. Price Rc in postage. Send for it today before you forget.

Address P. S. Kustis. General I'as- sanger AgentC. B. R. R., Chicago, Ill. _____________

IMPORTANT NOTICE

To Persona Contemplating Having Auction Sales.

Before having your bills printed IfRte the date or Sab* at Ti pendent office, St. Johns, so that it will not euufllct with other engage-ineoi Your* truly.

Louis Boron, Auctioneer.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.Attorneys.

KARL DROWN, Attorney at Law, St Johns .Mich. Office lu the Clinton block*

MSNET TO LOAN on real estate security by Henry B. Walbrldge, St Johns. 1*>nA

Counselor and Solicitor. Ht, Johns, Mlel

EDWIN H. LION, Attorney at Law, St. Johns, Mlob. Office over Cbapuian'sstore

PAULDING, NORTON A POOL) Miv Attorneys at Law. Office over St. Johns

National Bank. 154)6

WM, 11. CASTLE, Attorney at law. Money to loan. Offioe head of Clinton avenue, east side. ____________________ lllfc

liriLI. II. RHUNMON, Attorney at Law and VV Solicitor in Chancery. Office over the

post-office, St.Johns, Mich.__________ 1516

IIKNKY E. WALD RIDGE, Attorney at Law, St. Johns, Mieb. 1387

PERRINS A BALDWIN, Attorneys st Law, Money Loaners and Heal Estate

Agents. Office over Chapman's, Clinton Ave., St. Johns.

Dentistry.H. KENYON, Deutlsts. Over Weils'

„• Grocery. St. Johns. Mich.G. H. MANN, D. D.S. Officeovei

Spaulding A Co.s hardware, op­posite The Steel Hotel. Surgery a specialty. Office hours.8 to 19 a m., 1:3b to 5 p. in.. 7 to 8. eve’f

( 1 K. CORDIN', M. D.. D. D. 8. To get the vX s benefit of the experience, medical know­ledge and surgical skill which are indispensa­ble to perfection of results in dentistry, apply to Corbiu A Son, St. Johns.

Thomas m. mann. d d. s., middle 01 upper block, same floor as Perrin A

Baldwin, St. Johns, Mich.

Physicians.V. DOOLING, Physician and Surgeon Office over Allisou’s store. St- Johns.

E,1 N. LEONARD, M. D.. Phvs*clan, Sur- • geon and Kleetrologlst.Ovid, Micb.

JR. DODGE. M. D., Surgeon and Homeo • pathlo Physician. Offioe and reaidene« over Spaulding &Co 's hard ware, opp the Steel

n C. DUNN, M. D., Physician and Sur* r • geon. Office over Spaulding A Compa­ny’s hardware store, St. Johns, Mich. Offlct

hours 1 to 4. 7 to 9 p. m.

il HART. M. !>., Physician and Sur • g**ou. Eureka, Mieb. 1217

f W. POLLARD, M. D. Physician andSur • geon. Office ovortbt* State Bank of St

Johns. Residence corner Cass and Ottawa sts.

WM. HA VENS, M. D., Homeopathic Ptay* sioian and Surgeon. Offlceover Heller’f

Bazaar.

DK. 8. E.GILLAM, Physician and Surgeon Offlco at residence, opposite court house, west. Office hours 1 to 4 p. m and 6 to 9 p. in

Dr. ERNEST nchkmkr, Physician and Surgeon. Offioe in rear of E. S. Koons’

eloibing store. Fowler, Mich. 1461

Undertaken*.

W ILL A EDI) OKGOOD, Undertakers, opp. post-office,St. Johns, Mich.

Earle & Son’sNEW LIVERY,

FEED AND SALE STABLES.IN CONNECTION WITH

The NORTHERN HotelFORMERLY

FARMERS’ HOTEL,Railroad St.,

ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN.

TTE Livery Business Is a new feature In connection with the above named hotel. The carriages are new and of most desirable

styles. A good trunk WSffOS for commereia travelers. Charges reasonable and service first-cluss....................... ......................................

Grand Trent Railway SystemWest-Bound from St. Johns.

No. 19— Morning Exp.to Gd. Haven, 10:51am No. 13—Mull and Chicago Exp. to

Gd. Haven....................................... 3:30pmNo- 17—Express to Grand Rapids 7:57 pmNo. 11—Western Exp. to Gd. Haven 7:55am

Nos. 19.13.17, Daily except Sunday •No. 11, Daily.

East-Bound.No. 12—Express to Detrol and East R :28 amNo.20—Mail to Detroit.......................... 11:46 amNo. 18—Evening Exp. to Detroit and

East...... -........................................... 5:20 pmNo. 14— Eastern Exp. to Durand and

East................................... -.............. 9:09 pmNos. 20. 18. 12. Dally except Sunday.

No. 14, Dally.W. H. Brrkr. Agent. St. Johns.

nTPIctnresqu® Pan*Amerlcan Route to Buffalo, N. Y.

TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONSFOR 1900 AND 1901.

St. Johns high school room, beginning third Thursday of August.

St. Johns eighth grade room, beginning third Thursday of October.

St. Johns high school room, beginning last Thursday of March.

St. Johns seventh grade Iroom, beginning third Thursday of June.

Examinations will commence at 8:80 stand­ard time- - ‘

R.M. WINSTON, Commissioner of Schools.

CHI CHESTER'S ENGLISH ^

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Safe. A1 way» reliable Ladles, auk Prugrliit for<’Hit’ll KMT S;it'N BNGLIMH In Rei and Gold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon. Take no of tier. Refuse dangeroas sahatl* tut Ion* and Imltallons. Mur of your Druggist, or send 4e. In stamps for Particulars, Testi­monials snd "Heller for Ladles." in Uilrr. by return .Wall, lo.ooo Testimonials Sold by all Druggists. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. Madison Ngoare, PIIILA., PL

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FARM IMPLEMEHTSjI wish to say that I carry a complete

line of FARM MACHINERY, consist­ing of MAUD S. WINDMILLS and PUMPS, which are seldom equalled and never excelled, Tanks of all kinds, BE- MENT PEERLESS PLOWS, spikeand spring tooth HARROWS, different kinds of one horse CULTIVATORS. THE HAMILTON pivot axle and spring treadle CULTIVATORS, second to none on the market to-day. The HAMIL­TON Sulky Disc Plow, with one-half the draft and one-tenth the expense of re­pairs, will soon be in the hands of many up-to-date farmers. THE SUPERIOR G-rain Drill, the best on the market, needs no recommend and can be seen at my store. THE THOMAS Hay-Loader is something that any farmer with a reasonable amount of haying cannot afford to be without.

In Our Harness Shop you will find a complete line of light single and double and heavy work har­ness, everv .strap made in our shop, from first-class stock and warranted.

Stable Blankets, Whips. Gall Cure and Axle Grease. A full line of Horse furnishing goods at as low a price as first-class goods can be sold for.Call in and see me.

J. H. Granger,JR Higham St., West. St. Johns, flich.

P. S.—Agent for Peering Binders, Mowers, ifijj Rakes and Twine.

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WILKES WTAIAHOA

9493.Standard Bred and Registered.

SIRED by the great Jay Bird 5060, sire of 83 from 2.091 to 2.30,'sire of Tlie Tramp, who sold in 1899, in his 2-year-old form, for $10,000.

Bell Bird’s half brother, Allerton, 2.091, tlie greatest sire of his age. that ever lived. Champion sire of 1896. 1897, 1898, and 1900. Sire of 83 from 2.071 to 2.30. Sire of Gayton 2.081, selling this winter for $9,000 at auction. Keeler, 2.161, 3 years old, selling at auction, in 1899. for $6,200.

Jay Bird is sired by George Wilkes 519, sire of 83 from 2.134 to2.30 Geo. Wilkes is errand sire of over 2,500 from 2.011 to 2.3o.

Bell Bird’s dam, Mag Lock by American Star 37, is also dam of Hamiltonian Wilkes, sire of 20 from 2.08i to 2.30 5 in 2.15 list. Second dam Lady Irwin by Hambletonian 10; grand dam of Lamps 2.21; sire of 26 in 2.30 list.

Bell Bird is a very rich maliogony bay, star in forehead, hind ankles white. He is a horse of great bone and substance; stands 16 hands, and weighs 1.300pounds in flesh; is of tine carriage, well formed, handsome and a line gaited trotter. He was shown at the state fair as a 2-year-old, and again as a 4-year-old ; once at the North western at Saginaw and Clinton county fair for 1900. and was awarded first premium whenever shown. Common mares bred to a horse of this class cannot fall to produce a foal that will fii.d a ready market as a carriage horse or roadster as well as a generrl all purpose horse. Bell Bird’s weanlings sell readily at $50 and upwards. A 2-year-old selling lit $500. etc.

Terms $10.0o to insure mare in foal with return priveliges. Mares not returned regularly or if disposed of, will be considered in foal and owners held responsible for service fee, which will be due at once. Bell Bird will make the season of 1901 from April 1, to Aug. 1. At Kenyon’s feed barn, St. Johns every week day. For tabulaued pedagree and further particulars address

JR. H. SHAW, St. Johns.:<****

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per out so persistently, and what on earth its contents were all about, he could not say.

OtlAi'TJ&K XII.—(Continued )“I rose, pale and weak, and trem­

bling, and gained the shore. Striking Inland, the old Hall was Just before | rat I walked s'owly up the long ave­nue and ascended tho granlto steps. As I reached tho last step, I stumbled and fell upon my knees. Looking round to see the cause, I found an Iron gauntlet, rusted and eaten away, and half buried in the moss that grew J around it. I took it up with a strange thrill of two. How many years had it awaited me, since the fiery lover hurlel It, like a curse, back in the face of his pursuer? The door before me was of carved oak, but worm eaten and de- | caying. With a sudden Impulse, for which 1 could not account, I struck upon it furiously with the iron g ove. The frail fastenings, already half un­done by the hand of time, gave way at <ny impetuous summons, and, umid a thousand echoes, the door swung slow- ; If on its hinges and the castle wa3 won. When the cloud of dust raised by my sudden entrance had subsided,1 passed through the portal and stood upon tho floor of the hall. The e, | where the lovely lady’s flying foctstep3 had rested last; there, where the lov­er had thrown down the Iron glove, la

■defiance of the wronged and deserted husband; there, where tho feeble o’.d man had sunk down In agony, when,

•hearing their horses' hoofs beyond ths outer court, be learned the full extent

•of his dishonor and despair; there, where bis menials bad ra sed him,

.shrieking and cursing in impetuous madness; there, where they had bsrns him slowly up the long stone staircase that wound around and around and fir above my head to tho lonely room that was to be his prison and h s tomb. The stone flags were no longer shoul­der to shoulder, like firm friends and true. Time had como between them, as between all other things, and ths dark, deep crevices on every side ware ■only hidden by the long grass that .sought to bridge them over.

“While I stood in the hail I thought I heard a faint, distant noise above «ny head, and looking up the staircase,I saw------"

“Yow!“ yelped Mr. Cowley, flinging •the book to tho other end of the room. '"I’ll read no more of that. I’ve got to whore the ghost comes In. I looked up and saw—Oh, yes, of cour e you did. But if you imagine you are go­ing to Induce me to read your raw-

' beaded and bloody-bone rubbish, you are grandly mistaken. Strange that everything one takes up In this wretch­ed place turns into a ghost story on

“Biers me! what a rigmarole it ell )s, to be sure!” he muttered to himself. "How on earth did she get here? and what can she want? I wonder if chs can speak English? I'll try her. at a'l events. Madam, can I bo of any ser­vice to you?”

The figure turned. The very move­ment struck a sudden chill to the worthy banker’s heart. What if she was not alive, after all! Gracious pow­ers! what if he had been call.ng a ghost ‘‘Ma’am!’’

The figure moved. It made no uo'se, and yet It came nearer and nearer. He put out his hand to arrest it) progress and an ice-cold touch met his own. Ho turner faint and sick. He would have fled, but his feet seemed rooted to the floor.

‘‘Go—go from the house anil bring my husband back!” said a hollow voice; then the veil fell aside, and a white, hideous face glared upon him. He uttered a loud shr ek. and fainted.

The next instant, Mrs. Cowley, Rose and Catharine were in the room, and Cousin Charles stole out of the cup­board, where he had witnessed tin scene.

‘‘I hope he is not hurt,” whispered Mrs. Cowley. “I shall never forgive myself for the trick If he comes to harm.”

‘‘Make yourself easy, aunt, he Is re­covering,” said Mr. Cowley; and. snatching his uncle up in his strong arms, he laid him upon his owu bed, and vanished before the banker had seen him.

There was not much danger, nfter that, of Mr. Cowley’s remaining in the haunted house a day longer than he could help.

CHAPTER XIII.It is strange how ultimately scenery

becomes connected with some of the strongest emotions and passions of the human mind. We gaze out upon a fair and sunny landscape in midsummer, as we lie beneath the trees, and a vague sadness steals over us, because the eyes whose beauty has sunk into our hearts cannot look upon it too; we look up at the moon as she floats se­renely through the deep blue sky and sigh, thiuklng of the days that are no more. Nay, even the storms that roar loudly over land and sea, set us brood­ing over the past, and our tears fall wi‘h the rain.

So thought Rose Cowley, as she sat, , .. . , , . alone in her dressing room one gloomy

your_ham5,M-- / be surprised j morning. Poor Rohp. she had bt59nwashed in many a shower of tears, in spite of all her present gayety.

Her father would as soon have be­lieved that Gog and Magog would come down from their pedestals and fall !n love, as that his merry Rose had faPeo a victim to the ll:tle urchin with the bow. Yet it wa3 true. A year after she left school, she had paid a visit to one of her mother's relatives—a genu­ine, old-fashioned, hearty English squire. It was at his house that the mischief was done—under his protec­tion that she met the man who was to be at once the blessing and the tor­ment of her future life. She had flrat seen him at church, where, I am afraid, his blue eyes and regular features and golden hair had attracted more of her attention than she gave to her prayer book. And when, at the end of the service, her host came up to her and introduced the handsome stranger as the son of his oldest and dearest friend there were not wanting those who marked the shy smile, the slight blush, and the bashful drooping of her eyes as she greeted him. Rose was a free, wild Rose no longer. Love, even at first sight, will be lord of all; and there Is no time on earth, I think, where he plays so many vagarlees as during the visit of a pretty city girl to an old-fashioned English country- house.

Mr. Vere became a constant visitor at the house of his friend, and Rose entered upon a new phase of her life, and that sw’eetest, happiest and most foolish of times, when a young girl’s heart first finds out that it has other work to do besides beating. She would sit for hours, when her lover was ab­sent. recalling every trivial circum­stance of their last Interview; and then with a blush at the thought of her employment, welcome another Idea, touching in its tenderness, to her heart, and weep for Joy that she had reserved the first fond love of her yeung spirit for him.

In such musings—such happy com­panionship—a month passed rapidly away. No word of love had been spoken between the two; yet enough had been said (though something al ways seemed to check the avowal upon his lips) to leave her happy in the belief that she was very dear to him.

True, he had never asked her to be his—had never told her definitely that he loved her. But he had kissed her hand; and a lock of that beautiful golden hair rose and fell with every pulsation of her happy heart.

Alas for that first sweet. Innocent joy! Ere long that sunny curl was wet with bitterest tears, and hidden carefully away—the first of the lost treasures which she, like every other woman, was to gather around her as she went through life.

It was her own folly that first came between them. She was young and

any morning to find the leading arti'li In the Times taming into a tale of a haunted house right under my cyei. •dt's unbearable—positively unbeara­ble?”

He finished his grog and looked at his watch.

“Eleven o’clock ard the home as fti'l I as death! I wonder if they are all asleep. High time for me to go—Oh, fiord? what’s that?”

The souud was In the room exactly overhead—a eteady. continuous knock­ing that seemed to summon him to the place without delay.

"What room is that? The turret chamber! Rose said there was some­thing there and that was why she moved her room!”

For a moment or two the worthy banker sat like ono paralyzed, a cold moisture on his face and h s heirt. beating a muffled march w thin his breast. At last his “British pluck” came to his aid.

“By St. George of England, I won’t turn cowar’d in my old age!” he ex­claimed. “Man. woman or ghost—let It be what it may, I’ll go and meet it!”

He took the candle and left the room. All was quiet on the stairs, in the hll. In the gallery above. The knocking ceased.

With trembling hand he opened the door of the turret chamber.

A tail and slender woman stood alone In the center of the room. Her face was bidden by a black mask. A full mantle, or robe of crimson cloth covered her from head to foot. It was girded at the waist by a cord of varie­gated Bilk' and the full sleeves ware embroidered with threads of gold. Tlpon her breast something shone and Sparkled in the shape of a star.

In ono hand sho held the casket an:l the treas of hair; in the other, a paper an which the astonished banker saw written in large letters;

Thi that day, I, a child of three gears, had lala speechless and secse’esj Cor more than twelve hour.:. The Otrange and sudden illnoss terrified every ono around me—they thought me dead, and a veritable resurrection from the tomb could hardly have created more excitement than my recovery. I •remombered the recovery perfectly, but all before it wan a blank. Now. ‘however, as I stood gazing on that pic­ture, f seemed to remember dimly some 'other stage of existence, some lost life ■In which I had loved or suffered in this, it was the old mystery that had puzzled so many minds far stronger Chan mine—the mystery that we shall «ll. perhaps, see one day was but the dim working of a veiled and hidden truth."

Mr. Cowley read these words with •n air of the utmost perplexity. His terror was gone, for he believed the mysterious old lady to be human and living like himself. But what ahe wanted of him—why she held that pa-

CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1901

PERIODS! PUN.How Three Women Found Relief.

While no woman is entirely free from periodical suffering, it does not seem to have been the plan of nature that woman should suffer so severely. Lydia li. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the most thorough female regu­lator known to medical science. It relieves the condition which produces so much discomfort and robs menstruation of its terrors.

The three letters here published should encourage every woman who suffers:Aug. 6, 1898.

"Dear Mbs. Pinkiiam : — I have suffered since the age of sixteen with painful menstruation. I have been treated for months, and was told that the womb had fallen a little. The doctor says that is now in place again, but I still have the same pain. Please tell me what to do.”— Mrs. Emma Kukkl, 112 Trautman SL, Brooklyn,E. D., N.Y.

Jan. 19, 1899.“Dear Mns. Pinkiiam : — After re­

ceiving your reply to my letter of Aug. 6 I followed your kind advice, and am glad to tell you that I have been cured of the severe pain at time of menstruation through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com­pound. I have taken six bottles of it. felt better after the first bottle, and nfter a while had no more pain or womb trouble.

“ 1 had doctored from the age of six­teen to twenty-six, and had lost all hope, but your medicine has made me well.

“ I would like to have you use my testimonial, so that others may see, and be inspired with hope, and take your medicine.”—Mr*. Emma Kuehl,112Trautmanb*_,ILrooklyn,il D..N.Y.

Feb. 20, 1900.“I saw your medicine so highly

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“ My menstruation occurs every two weeks, lasts a week, and is painful. I have been troubled in this way for some time. I suffer from sick head­ache and backache all the time, appe­

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“ 1 have tried a doctor, but he did not seem to do me any good.”—Miss Maggie Poi.lard, 319 So. 4th St., Richmond, Va.

April 23, 1000.“ Since receiving your answer to

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I childish; perhaps vain and trifling at times. She loved him dearly, and yet, secure in her possession, she was at times very cruel to him. For when a man loves a woman truly, she has It In her power to hurt and torment him In a thousand different ways.

Rose took the heart that had been given her; and, half carelessly, half maliciously, wounded it very grlevous- 1;\

Among the guests at Howlet House was one who had been seriously In­clined to worship at her shrine before Mr. Vere had made his appearances. That he loved her sho could not help believlug; that he was unhappy about her, she and every one else around her knew. And yet she allowed him to hang over her chair—to talk to her— to bring her Ices—to hold her bouquet when she danced,giving him encourage­ment (in the countless ways a woman knows so well), without seeming to do so.

Mr. Vere looked on anil Bald nothing. She was not engaged to him, and he 1 had no right to Interfere. It may be that he might have asked for such a right; but In his heart he disapproved so strongly of her conduct, that he preferred to watch the drama to Its close before ho committed himself In any way.

The crisis came at last. They were at a party ono even—this man and Rose. Mr. Vere was absent, but wa3 expected later in the evening—a pro­ceeding on his part which did not please hi3 wilful lady-love. But she would not show her displeasure. She listened to the passionate words that were breathed In her ear, and said to herself that she would not “wear the willow.” Come what might with that thought, some chain that bound her spirit seemed suddenly unloosened, and she became the gayest of the gay. The band struck up a waltz—couple after couple glided easily away from tho ground around them, till she was the only lady left.

“One wal:z—only one!” breathed that voice in her ear.

She shrank back at first, well re­membering in what terms Mr. Vere had expressed his opinion of the dance a few days before.

“Oh, I cannot!”“Surely you are not afraid of Mr.

Vere? He Is not here—he will not know. Will you not grant thi3 favor —perhaps the last 1 shall ever ask of you ?"

The pleading glance of the sad. dark eyes prevailed. She rose from her seat. His arm was around her waist; his breath upon her cheek; his voico breathing passionate words of admir­ation in her not unwilling ear; and tho absent lover seemed almost forgotten. People made a circle around the room to watch them; for both were young, and graceful, and beautiful, and they moved as if they had but one soul be­tween them. Rose’s vanity was roused by the flattering exclamations she heard on every side. Flushed and smiling and happy, she floated around; when, as she passed the door, she looked up and saw a gentleman stand­ing thero with folded arniB, and his eyes fixed intently upon her face.

It w?.s Mr. Vere.She was proud—too proud to show

how frightened she was. though her partner felt her trembling from head to foot. She said that she was tired, and they left the circle and sat down.

Mr. Vere did not come to her. She saw him talking to a lady near the door, as grave and calm as ever, only that he never trusted himself to look that way until the party was breaking up. Then he crossed the room and stood before her.

“The carriage waits,” he said quiet­ly. “Will you allow me?”

He offered his arm. He did not seem angry. No man could have beeu more courteous than he. He never spoke as they descended the stairs together; but at the carriage door he stopped a moment and looked at her very gravely.

(To be continued.)

HOW HE SCARED THE TIGER.

Bluff Play**! Successfully by aa 1'otrnird Traie'tr In India.

If not Interfered with the tiger will generally run from, rather than attack, a man. A writer from India tells a story of how. having sent his guns and luncheon on before him, his attention was arrested by a rustle In the jungle, and looking that way, he saw a tiger crouched low, coming rapidly toward him. He says: “My first feeling was one of horror, for it seemed all up with me, the tiger being very close and in a rush. Of course, it was not me, but the pony, that he wanted, hut had he knocked out the latter his own fears at finding a man under him would have made him maul me, too. There was but one thing to bo done, namely, to put a bold front on it and try to frighten him, and I, therefore, instant­ly wheeled the pony’s head toward him, shouting at the same moment The tiger stopped short and stared at me. but he did not offer to retreat. I then moved the pony toward him, shouting loudly as I did so, and the tiger then turned his tail to me. and, having retired about thirty yards, he sat bolt upright on bis haunches and stared at me. I was naturally desirous of withdrawing from an interview do unpleasant to me in my unarmed con­dition. I therefore rode straight in at the tiger, waving my arm and sternly ordering him off, and before I reached him he decided to move himself, this time somewhat hastily and In marked contrast to his previous orderly, not to Bay dignified, retreat, and. having nt last routed him, I lost no time in can­tering over the remaining portion of the jungle cart track until it emerged upon the high road.—Chicago Chron­icle.

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Garfield Tea is the most used, the best liked, and is the original herb tea for the cure of constipation and sick headache. It strengthens the di­gestive organs.

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Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is t:\ken internally. Price, 75c.

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Parents first teach a child to talk, then try to teach it to hold Us tongue.

Plso’s Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of ns a cough cure.—J. W. O’Bkikn. 3.'! Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, KOI).

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The friends of the opposition candidate are always “heelers "

DOUGLAS FACTORY

To He Enlarged llcfore the First of July.Will Make fl.OOO Pairs Dally.

Advertising pays.W. L. Douglas Is going to increase

the capacity of his factory to 6,00J pairs of shoes per day. The addition will add 16,000 square feet of space for manufacturing purposes. At the same time a new 400 horse-power engine and an additional 150 horse-power boiler will be Installed, which will afford ade­quate power for the present and an­other addition to the factory, which will no doubt be necessary later on.

When the factory starts up the first of July it will be on an output of 500 dozen or 6,000 pairs of shoes per day, and the weekly pay roll, exclusive of office help, superintendent, foremen, etc., will be >22,000 per week. The Douglas salesmen on the road are sell­ing 25 per cent more goods than last season. The increased sales is the di­rect result of good shoemaking and ex­tensive advertising. The advertising expenditure of Mr. Douglas is now larger than at any period of his busi­ness, and th.s Is to be still further in­creased. Beginning this week half­page advertisements of the Douglas shoe will appear in all the. principal newspapers of the large cities, as well cs such papers as the Youtu’s Compan­ion.—Brockton, Mass., Times.

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Tirana's (lab of (bo t>lvoree<t.

Vienna has a new society which ahou’d rouse some American cities to noblu emulation. No woman not di­vorced Is eligible to membership, but there Is nothing frivolous about the or­ganization. It is to be called the Hu* manity club, and its badge is a silver ring, engraved with thnt word, and worn on the woddlng ring finger. The appropriateness of the name seems a trifle occult; but, presumably, a divorc­ed woman has more troubles of her own, iu Austria, than here and needs moral support The idea of a band of divorced women meeting weekly “for mutual entertainment and support” will probably strike the average Am­erican citizen as distinctly humorous; tut it is a serious matter in Vienna, and the club proposes building for Itself a permanent home.—New York Bun.

Wh*r« In(|l,n V.nrn Orl-lnat-d.The earliest specimen of Indian corn

grew, it i3 beli:ved by botanists, on the plateau of Peru, where this plant has been found growing In a condition which indicates that it 13 indigenous to the soil.

A DOCTOR THIS TIME.

Portland, May 6th.—Dr. E. A. Rose, a practising physician, formerly of Yates Center, Kans., was on what everyone supposed wa3 fcls dea.h bed. He had Diabetes, ard six of his brother doctors wero ia attend­ance and consultation at his bedside They had done everything that medi­cal skill could suggest to save his life, but they were at last reluctantly forced to tell him that ho must prepare for death.

Ills aunt had been summoned to his dying bedside. After the doctors bad given her nephew up. sho Insisted that as a last, resort, he be given a treat­ment of Dodd’s Kidney Pills.

From the very first dose, the tide turned in his favor. His life was saved, and ho is bale and hearty to­day.

This case and its cure has amazed the physicians, and is the sensation of the hour. It is interesting to note that while many others are being cured this great discovery in medi­cine, the physicians themselves are among the first to benefit, and that while the simpler and more prevalent forms, such as Rheumatism, Sciatica, Bladder and Urinary Trouble and Fe­male Weakness disappear before it, the more malignant forms, such as Bright’s Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy, which have always been regarded as Incurable, are yielding Just as easily.

Dodd's Kidney Pills are fast super- ceding all other treatment for Kidney Disease, and as nearly ail human sick­ness and suffering has its origin in the Kidneys, the use of this wonderful medicine is becoming almost universal.

The molahses output of the twosuyar companies at May City will be eon- verted into alcohol and chemicals.

Failure is one of the things that arc spoiled by success.

An astronomer reports that his busi­ness is looking up.

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Fact* and 1 Is tree Thai Ought to Stagger ttia Pn*MiuWv.

1 hero is a more general feeling now than formerly that the world Is grow­ing better instead of worse. Optimists :ertalnly have a pretty substantial bas­is for thinking so when the financial statistics of the church work going on in every community are considered. According to tho latest figures obtain­able from the religious bodies, it is found that the annual expenditure for Christian churches throughout the world Is a little over $1,009,000,000. It is impossible to conceive that any con­siderable portion of this large sum Is being wasted. Tho hospitals, orphan­ages, new churches, institutions and missions must be productive of good csults, and ' therefore bettering tho

religious and moral conditions of tho masses. In tho United States last year tho cost cf maintaining Christian in- ‘crests is reported as being nearly 1300,000.000. says the Boston Globs. In 'ound numbers the Catholics head the 1st with $31,000,000, then come tho Methodists, $26,000,000; Presbyterians. $20,000,000; Episcopalians, $14,000,000; Baptists, $12,000,000, and so on. down to the Salvation Army, with $750,000. Other important items are new build­ings, etc., $37,000,000; hospitals, $28.- 000,000; education, $21,000,000, and Sunday schools, $7 000,000. What a contrast is presented between the above amounts and the fact that in 1800 the value of the 2.340 churches in America was $1,500,000. Today wo have in thi3 country 187.481 churches, with a value cf $724,971,372. Every re­ligious denomination seems to be mak­ing good progress in its work, and tho world eanuot help being better for it. —Chicago News.

AS TO NERVES.

They Are a T»'liable A.vrt When Di­plomacy I* Needed.

Some friends of mine live in an apartment house—the housekeeping apartment kind of house—down town. The arrangements for laundry work are limited and the occupants of tho flats take Mondays turn about. If Mrs. A. washes on Monday this week, she lets Mrs. B. take that day next week and contents herself with Tuesday. Mrs. C., whose linen is laundered on Wednesday this week, has washing done on Monday week after next. The arrangement is complicated, but gave great satisfaction till Mrs. D. moved Into the top flat. On the first Monday she took possession of the laundry in person, for she had no maid of all work. The second Monday she pre­pared to do the same thing, though it was Mrs. A.’s turn. Mrs. A.’a maid Is Irish, nearly 6 feet tall and weighs about 200. She refused to vacate the laundry. Mrs. D. went upstairs in tears. Presently Mr. D. came down to claim the place for his wife. He up­braided Mrs. A.’s maid for her con­duct and insisted that his wife must have her way. “Mrs. D. is so very nervous,” be said, “that I can’t have her annoyed. You must give way to her. She’s so exceedingly nervous, yon see.” Mrs. A.’s maid reported tho conversation to Mrs. A. later. "And what did you say to him. Anne?” asked the mispress. “Faith, mum, said the maid, “I told him I was tho most ner­vous lady on the block. ‘Indeed,’ says I, ‘I’m that nervous that I can’t an­swer for the consequences if I bes crossed.’ And It’s my clothes are out now, mum.”—Wasnington Post.

Sewed Lp fur *•>• turner.

This is a true story, and it was told to the reporter by a prominent worker in one of the east side settlements. The other day & woman living in Rlvlngton street brought her litt'.o boy to the set­tlement house and expressed a desire to have him enter the kindergarten. The child had a bright face, but It was woefully dirty, and one of the set­tlement rules is that all pupils must present at least a clean exterior. So the teacher lcokod at the little boy and said; “Why, ccrtpialy he can come to the kindergarten, but we want all the chi'dren to be clean. Give him a good bath tonight and send him to us in tho morning.” “Bath," gasped the mother. "How can I bathe him? I’ve sewed him up lor tho winter.”—New York Mail and Express.

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A UNITED STATES MARSHALThanks Peruna For His RtpU Recovery

From Catarrh.

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EX-UNITED STATES MARSHAL MATTHEWS, OF MISSISSIPPI.

Hon. S. S. Matthews, ex-Unitcd States Marshal of Mississippi, in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus, Ohio, written from Hazelhurst, Miss., says:

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••Ism happy to say that Iam cured of catarrh and need no more attention from you. It Is a great satisfaction that I am able to write you that Peruna has In my case done ell that you claim, and that I will need no more medicine.**

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Hon. J. F. Crooker of Buffalo, N. who was for years Superintendent of Schools at Buffalo, in a letter datod Oc­tober 16, writes:

•• I have been a sufferer from or- tarrh six or seven years, and after trying many remedies was induced by a friend to take Peruna. The results have been highly satisfactory. I take pleasure in recommend­ing Peruna to

Bon. J. F. Crooker, isupt. Buff a lo, N. Y.

Public Schools.

any one suffering with catarrh, as my case is completed*

Hou. B. B. Dovlner, Congressman from West Virginia, in a letter from Washington, D. C., to The Peruna Med­icine Co., says the following of their catarrh remedy, Peruna:

“I join with my colleagues In the House of Reprosentativeo in recom­mending your excellent remedy, Pk- runa, as a good tonic and also an ef­fective cure for catarrh.”

Mrs. Mary C. Fentress writes from Paradise, Tex., the following: **I think I can say that yonr good advfcb and medicine has cured me of chronic catarrh. I have had no pain3 In my head since I have taken Perirno. I have been in bad health ever since- '59, and have taken a good many med­icines which were only of temporaiy relief. Peruna is tho catarrh euro. The Peruna stopped my catarrh of the head so that it did not become chronic, and I am very thankful for Dr. Hartmab’u advice and medicine.”

Peruna is a specific for all catarrhal diseases. It acts quickly and bene­ficially upon the Inflamed mucous membrane, thus removing the cause of catarrh.

Catarrh Is catarrh wherever located. Catarrh is essentially tho same every­where. The remedy that will cure ca­tarrh In one situation will euro It In all situations.

If you uo not derive prompt and sat­isfactory results from the use of Pe­runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you hfcs valuable advice gratis.

Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, D.

How II- Ilernmo a Pa'nt-r.It is related of a former president ol

the Royal Academy. Sir Francis Grant, that, in spite of his early love of paint­ing, he made law his first serious study. But when his youngest brother joined the army he painted a portrait of him in full uniform and on horse-back, which was so greatly admired In the family circle that he suddenly resolv­ed to abandon law, for which he had no liking, and take to art. When his “coach” came next day Francis told him of his change of plan. The tutor took it as a good joke, and, sitting down, opened the book9 for a course of “cram.” Grant thereupon flung books and papers luto the fire, to the astonishment of his teacher, who left the house angry and annoyed, and was paid off next day.

For 50 Yearsmothers have been giving their children for croup, coughs and colds

Shiloh’sConsumptionCureMothers—have you Siiiloh in the house at all times? Do you know just where you can find it if you need it quickly— if your little one is gasping and choking with croup? If you haven’t it get a bottle. It will save your child’s life.

“Shi'oh e’w*y* cur*d my b*by of croup, i coughs and cold*. 1 wo^id not lie without it.” 1

MRS. J, b. MARTIN, Huntsville, Ala.Shiloh’s Conanmpllon Cnra I* *nM liy *tl

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< Mleneril W. I.. Don (tin*.Take no *nb«tlfnfe * Tn lst on having W. L Douglas ahoes

with name and price *tam|>ed on Itnttotn. Your dealer should keep them ; I give one dealer exclusive ralo in each town. If ho doc* uot keep them and xvi'l not get them for you, order direct from factory, eneloalng price and 2Sc. extra for carriage. Over l.Otiu.liOl) satisfied wearers. New spring Catalog free.r«*t Color Ey*i*t* wd *xoiiuiv#iy. 17, L D0UGLA3, Brockton, Max*.

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An A*hnnv«td Cltv.The Chronicle states that gold was

first found in Bendigo by an old shep­herd, who being pugnacious, was chris­tened by his comrades Bendigo, after the pugilist. We believe, says the Ath­enian, that the place was called Bandi­coot crook; that, when the rush oc­curred, the diggers, mostly Californi­ans, not acquainted with the Australi­an animal after which the creek was called, corrupted the name into that of the well-known Nottingham pugi­list. The most interesting fact about the place, however, is that when It grew respectable It became ashamed of Its name, changed it, and, lately, thinking that the earlier name was, after all, racy of Australian life, de­liberately reverted to It.—San Fran­cisco Bulletin.

Mlntater* of Italy.Ministers succeed each other In Italy

with remarkable rapidity. During the last ten years, 1891 to 1901, there have been thirteen administrations, Crlspl, then Rudlnt, then Glollttl, Crlspl again, and Rudlni, who reconstructed the cab­inet and changed its programme four limes; Pelloux, the head of two distinct successive administrations; Saracco, and now Zanardelll, whose tenure of of­fice is expected to be very short.

Life Is like hanging suspended In a well; we must either climb to the top. or slide on down to the bottom.

THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1901.

Clinton Co. Savings BankST.JOHNS. MICH.

1**78 8 Per Cent, lutereston Deposits.OANIMONEY ON APPROVE DBONDSAND

ftCAL ESTATE SECURITY.

OFFICERS:A. J. Baldwin. Pres- P. K.WALSwoaTH.Prea O. PiNHBLL, V-Prw. R. C. Obxtbr. Asst.Trea

THE LOCAL MARKETS.

j3r“St.John« elevators open ml 7 b. m ado elose «t 6 p. in.

St. Johns. Mlob. M»y 0, 1001.The followlnK Arc the price* paid in caab

for produce In thla market:V7 beat, white................................. ©Wheat, red................— -------data, new..............—■ ..........— ®Clover Seed..................................... © 5 60Alalke----- ------------------ -----* 00 44 • 00Hay. new............................ ———• * oo © a ooBean*.................. .......... .......... ........ 1 © © I 60Barley.....-................... —.............. 75 a MRye................ .............- -.........- _Potato.**.........................-............... © *Butter..... ........................................Brfir*_ tllOYTallow.....—...................flora, ear..—............... —......... . *“Lard —................................. -......Hides ........................ ....................... *Peita...... ................... ...................... 5Beef, lire....................-.........— * <»Beef.dreaaed............................... .. 5 00Pork.live................—.................- » 00Pork.dressed................................ 8

4 00 7 00Veal oalf. live........

Veal calf, dressed........................Wood,dry bard.......... .................»V/»nd . soft.......... —....... —..........WOOL—Medium, washed.......

“ unwashed.Fine, washed,............

** unwashed........ **LITE POULTRY.

Spring Chickens, fat..............................................

Ducks fat....................................................................

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DEL-WATER.From our Correspondent.

Frank Easton Is laid up with Inflam­matory rheumatism.

Frank Kind’s little girl Is getting better of a very severe attack of indi­gestion.

Julian Benton came home last Sat­urday from the hospital in Lansing, where he had been for a few days to have a diseased eye removed. He is doing well now.

There is quite a large number of men in this vicinity who are in an uncomfortable state of mind superin­duced by the house cleaning which is prevailing all along Sidemic

ic line.

WEST RILEY.From Our Correspondent.

Mrs. A. B. Kincaid has an aunt visiting at her home this spring.

A Sunday school has been organized at the Kincaid school house with Mr. F.verard as superintendent. We hope the school will be well attended Sun­day morning, at 10:30.

John Ripple arrived here from the north, where he has been at work. His family have made this neighbor­hood their home for a number of months.

Mrs. George Nourec, widow of the late George Nourse, of Watertown, an old resident of that place, died at the home of her nephew, Albert Crawn, of Riley, last Friday morning, May 3, 1901, after an Illness of several weeks. Mrs. Nourse was about 75 years of age. Funeral services were held at the house Sunday morning; interment in the Wacousta cemetery.

EUREKA.

FOWLER.From Our Correspondent.

James Briggs spent Monday in St. Johns.

Mrs. James Lance is quite sick at this writing.

Mrs. Joseph Cooper and Mrs. W’heeler spent Thursday in St. Johns.

Mrs. Mary J. Smith, of Lebanon, called on friends in town Saturday.

John Williams spent Sunday with friends In Muir.

Fred Oberry, of Merle Beach, called on friends In town Tuesday.

Slmmle Fedewa, of St. Johns, spent Sunday with friends in town.

Fred Gruler was in Durand Monday on business.

Mrs. Henry Case and Mrs. Wm. Case spent Thursday in St. Johns.

Mr. and Mrs. James Briggs and daughter Blrtha spent Sunday with friends in Maple Rapids.

Mrs. C. B. Haynes and daughter, of Lowell, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Haynes during last week.

Charlie Schafer, of St. Johns, spent Sunday with his parents and friends of this vicinity.

D. G. Baxter, of Shepardsville, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Charles F Meyer.

Miss Katie Rademacher, of Milwau­kee, is spending a few days with her cousin, Miss Luvena Feldpausch.

Married, at the Holy Trinity church, Mav 7, 1901, Mr. Gregory Feldpausch and Miss Katie Fedewa.

Mrs. O. C. Russ, of Lake Odessa, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Lance.

Mrs. Woodmancy, of Muir, spent a few days of last week with friends and relatives in this vicinity.

Miss Etta Sutton spentSunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Minor Sut ton, of Bengal.

Miss Rose Weller was called to St. Johns Saturday evening on account of the illness of her neice.

Miss Sallie VanAmburg spent Sun­day with her aunt, Mrs. EvaBreakins, of Pewaiuo.

Fred Townsend and wife, of Leban on, were in town Wednesday evening on business.

Mrs. Joseph Cook and son Josie have gone to Muskegon Heights, where she will join her husband and there they will make it their future home.

Little Nora Kaiser had the misfor­tune to break her arm Friday night, while teatering she fell from the teater-board.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thelen and children, of St. Johns, spent Sunday with Mrs. Thelen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Gross, this village.

Mrs. Isabelle Mundell and daughter, Rose, have returned from DeWitt, where they have been spending several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Waters.

Mrs. Levi Baldwin, accompanied by her son, Jesse, spent Sunday in De­troit. Mrs. Baldwin intends to spend a few days with her daughter, Mrs. J. F. McPherson, returned Sunday evening.

MAPLE RAPIDS.

and little Ingersoll’s

From Our Correspondent.Mr. George Biddle is very low at

this writing.Rov Turner, of St. Johns high school,

spentSunday with his parents here.Ell Kirby and family went to Buffalo

Saturday, where they expect to spend the summer.

John Tripp and wife, of Ovid, were guests of J. N. Eaegle and family Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll son, Austin, visited Mrs. sister, at Ashley, Friday.

The U. B. Mite Society icecream and cake at Dennis’ Saturday evening, May 11th. public is cordially invited.

Rev. George E. Hicks, of Macy, In­diana, will preach at the Christian church, Sunday, at 3 p. m. Subject: “The Church of the Twentieth Cent­ury.”

Last Saturday afternoon the Eaegle school gave their teacher. Miss Edna Simmons, a very pleasant surprise. They presented her with a very nice water set as a token of their affection.

will servehall,The

SOUTH OVID.From Our Correspondent.

MissG. Dowse visited her sister, Mrs. G. Dllts, last week.

Mrs. C. Baker spent Saturday night with A. Parker and family.

Philip Cline and son Clarence, took dinner with C. Perkins and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Crane spent Sun­day with Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Tompson.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Munson spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Chatham.

A new monument was erected last Friday in South Ovid cemetery for Mrs. Catharine Owens.

The Ladles’ Aid Society of the U. B. church will meet next Wednesday, May 15, witli Mrs. George Suttin.

R. G. Waters and family took dinner Sunday with A. Parker and family, of Victor.

A number of Miss Mae Stitchler’s friends gathered at her home last Friday eveningto celebrate her birth­day and enjoy ice cream and games.

The D. B. Quarterly meeting was held last Sunday at the Victor ap­pointment. Bev. Bradley and Rev. Cunningham were present, Iwside the presiding elder, Rev. C. R. Whitaker, of Charlotte.

Old Soldier’s Experience.

M. M. Austin, a civil war veteran, of Winchester, Ind., writes: “My wife was sick a long time in spite of the good doctor’s treatment, but was wholly cured by Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which worked wonders for her health.” Thev always do. Try them. Only 25c at Fildew & Mlllman’s drug store.

From Our Correspondent.Rev. Sincleir is improving.Will Ryker, of St. Johns, was in town

Sunday.Otto Rullis and family visited in

Bengal Sunday.Charles Allor, of St. Johns, spent

Sunday in town.Roy Roberts and wife spent Sunday

in Pewamo.Abel Skinner lias been on the sick

list.Ransom Cook, an old and respected

citizen, is lying very ill at his home.Frank Redfern and wife visited in

St. Johns Saturday.Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, of Detroit,

has been in town the past week.Fred Parks is preparing to remodel

his residence on East Main street.The Misses IIubbell, Butler, Merritt

and Daniels spent Sunday in Carson.Helen Flint, of Carson, is visiting

her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S li ubbell.

Dr. Hart returned Sunday from Chicago, where he visited his brother Eugene, who has been dangerously ill

Frank Walters and family visited in Ovid Sunday. Mrs. W. will remain for a week.

Mrs. Bertha Youdan, formerly of this place, recently fell and sustained injuries at the home of her son in Crystal. Mrs. Y. lias been rattier un fortunate in that line.

Botli churches in this village are preparing for a rousing Sunday school rally next Friday and Saturday in which all the schools of the county will be represented. A tine program is as­sured.

RILEY.

From Our Correspondent.Miss Minnie Engler has anew wheelMrs. Webster is no better at this

writing.Florence Keeney and Bessie Wil

liams have the mumps.Robert Landers did business in Ovid

Friday.Mrs. C. N. Cowles was in Detroit on

business last week.C. N. Cowles and Mr. Bush did busi

ness In Ovid Saturday.S. II. Williams is improving under

the skillful treatment of Dr. Bunta, of Westphalia.

Mrs. H. Watson and Miss Milliccnt Temple spent Sunday with Miss Temple’s parents in Duplain.

All Ejrti On Texas.Great Is Texas. Her vast cotton

crops and marvellous oil discoveries amaze the world. Now follows the startling statement of the wonderful work at Cisco, Tex., of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. “My wife contracted a severe lung trouble,” writes editor J. J. Eager, “which caus- ed a most obstinate cough and Anally resulted in profuse hemorrhages, but she has been completely cured by I)r King’s New Discovery.” It’s positive ly guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and ana all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles 10c Fildew & Mlllman’s.

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To The Farmers!Having succeeded M. L. Kenyon in the Farm Machinery

and Implement business, at the old stand—Kenyon's Feed Barn—we would here invite the attention of farmers to our complete and superior line of

FARn HACHINERYIncluding the McCormick Harvesters and Mowers. We

will sell you perfect goods and such will give you perfect satisfaction. An inspection of our goods and peices will please you.

TUBBS i ARNOLD.In Kenyon’s Feed Barn. St. Johns, Mich.

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For the best Cement Sidewalks use

MEDUSA BRAND ..Sandusky Portland Cement...

Unsurpassed in fineness, strength and uniformity GUARANTEED.

Equal to the best imported brands.

Over 100.000 barrels of Medusa Portland Cement used by the United States Government in the construction of breakwaters at Cleveland, Ohio, and Marquett, Mich.

JOHN HICKS,

UNION HOME.From Our Correspondent.

Mrs. L. G. Loomis will entertain the U. II. Society, Thursday p. m., May 10. All are invited.

Mrs. I. J. Quigley and little sons, Wayne and Richard, of Grand Rapids, are Visiting at L. G. Loomis’.

C. P. Barrus has been ailing from a severe cold for some time, which re­sulted in lung trouble.

BENGAL.

ill with theFrom our Correspondent.

Leroy Pope is very mumps.

Mrs. Root and son, of Lyons, visited n the home of Allen Mosher, bust week.Adelbert and Della Mosher visited

at Lyons part of last week.A much needed rain visited this sec­

tion Tuesday night.Fred Georgia and family now ride

in a new surrey.Mr. and Mrs. II. Gray visited Mr.

and Mrs. Bird in St. Johns, Sunday.Mrs. May Harper lias so far recov­

ered from her injury as to be out again.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry St. Clair, of Ovid, visited J. II. Bare and family Tuesday.

Bengal Grange was well attended Saturday evening. Ice cream and cake was served and a good time was enjoyed by all.

Lightning struck tlie house on the farm of Elder Mowers, Tuesday night, doing some damage to the house and shocking Mr. Parker, who resides there.

ELSIE.From Our Correspondent.

L. G. Bates was in Detroit Sunday.Mrs. H. J. Haukins was in Ovid

Friday.Mr. Frank Weinburg is very ill with

pneumonia.Born, to Mr. and Mrs. 1). Bennet,

Monday, a 10 pound son.Fred Wolf is now running a saloon

at the New Elsie House.The D. of R.. from Ovid, spent Tues­

day evening with the Elsie lodge.The Elsie laundry has established a

laundry basket at Bannister.Mr. Kioty has gone to Detroit to

enter into business for the future.Warren Culver, from near Shepards-

ville, called on Elsie friends Tuesday.Miss Lizzie Kregcr spent Sunday

with Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, of Bannister.J. Mycr has moved his family In

Austin’s house on East Main street.Joe Clement has bought the H. N.

Tuttle residence on West Main street.Mrs. Fisher and daughter, of Ovid,

spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. II. Ilaukins.

Mrs. Fred Mead is sulTering with a very bad hand, caused by a scratch from asparagus.

J. T. Thomas, of Perry, was in town Tuesday. The gentleman was a com­rade of L. A. Chase.

W. W. Wool and three gentlemen friends, of New Latbrop, spent Sun­day with Elsie friends.

Miss Bertha Harrington was the fortunate lady who had the most votes (147) for the 27 pieces of silverware given by the Claman Concert Co., Sat­urday evening.

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Bargains in Carpet Remnants and Rugs.

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STANDARD PATTERNS W. B. CORSETS. JUNE DESIGNERS. "J Fine Silk Umbrellas, colors and black. Bargains in Tailor-made Suits, Jackets,

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WESTPHALIA.From Our Correspondent.

The Arbeiter society held its annual meeting last Wednesday evening. There were present a large number of members, and the following officers were elected: , •

President—C. Nalisra*.Vice President—Theo. Bengal.Secretary—Tbeo. HenirMMOb.Treasurer—.John Stump.Trustee—Casper Cook.Physician—Dr. Cook.Mtandlntr Committee—John Rademacher,

Win. A. Rademacher, Wm. Femol*.The society is prospering. It was

voted to do away with sick ben I tits, which will make the dues lighter. Fred J. Mauren. a member of the society, and Deputy Warden Brewster, of Portland, were in attendance.

New Train lletween ChlraK<>. Detroit and New York.

The new fast train to be put in ser­vice June 2d by the Grand Trank Rail­way Svstem and the Lehigh Valley II. R. between Chicago, Detroit and New York will be of the finest in the country, consisting of Vestibule Coach­es and Pullman Sleepers of the latest type and will be as tine as any train now run. Connections will be made with most of the Grand Trunk Rail­way System’s trains in Michigan and connecting lines.

Real Estate Transactlou*

Emily L. Dart to Luther F. Conrad.ne H of ne X of sec. 38, Watertown #2,800 00

Helen R. Rradento Ida E Stllson.lots165 and 166, block 24. DeWitt............... 100 00

Spencer M. Stllson to Ida E. Stllson, lot 1!« and e \ of lot 196, block 24,I)eWltt(q.C.)................................................ 139

Martha J. Wlllets to Rertle C. Sbiffer. e H of nw fr’l 14. also nwfr'l k of nw fr’l f4. section 5. Duplain, (q. cj.. 800 00

Edward Willis to R. H. VanDeusen,3 a on w I, of sw !4 of section 12. _____Duplain. ..................................................... 390 00

Frances ltarringrton to Milford H. Set- terlnjrton. 6 a on a side of nw ofn w H of section 12. Greenbush....... 100 00

Georjre P Pierce and wife to Almeron Z. Squires, lots II and 12. bi'k 9 and part of lots 7 and 8, block 3, St.Johns (q. c.)—.............................................. *

R. H. VanDeusen and wife to Edward Willis, 3 acres ou w K of sw J4 ufli, Duplain.................................................. 300 00

David Pheubotton aud wife to David G. Fit/., it piece of land on e H of so^4 of section 3>, Oil ve_............................ 20 00

Willard Lyon and wife to Adln W\ Skinner, part of nw if of sw A4 of _section 25, BcnKal..................................... f "5 00

Lyman S. Reed and wife to IsaiahMock and wife nw M of sw )4 ot sec-___tlon 17. Ovid................................................ 1,400 00

David II. Rheubottom and wife to Harriett M. Ward, e ^4 of n V6 of ne fr’l ‘4 of section 2. DeWitt also partof e of se 54 of section 35, Olive.... 1,500 00

Edwin B. Lyon and wire to Harry H.Wilson and wife, lot 7, block 117,St. Johns..................................................... 890 00

Anna W. Parks to James Parks. 6 a on nw H of ne 14 of sec. 19, Beniral.... 180 00

Barnard Norton to Adell VanderholT, lot 1 and2. block 30. Maplo Rapids... 400 00

Ell Kirby and wife to George W. Mannlnir aud wife n X of lot 4, brk5, Eureka.................................................... ©0 00

Dexter II Propher by heirs to LeviW. Wesner. lots I, i, and 3. Patter- __son’s add. Ovid....................................... 177) 00

Helen C. Hewitt to Bernard Norton,.lota 1 and 2, block 30, Maple Rapids 375 00

Estella E Hewitt to Samuel J. Price and wife lots 3 and 4, bblock 17,Maple Rapids............................................. 325 CO

Willis McLouth and wife to Floyd R. Richmond, w % of w % of se 14. ex- cept 10 a off 8 end of sec. 15, DeWitt 900 00

Jesse D. Janes and wife to Viola M. Kendrick, lot 12. Brown’s sub. div.out lot J. 8t. Johns (q. o.)^.................... 5 00

Fred Touse to Mary A. Barnes, n H of ne 14 of sw of section 26. Olive.. 50 00

DUPLAIN.

From Our Correspondent.Miss Louise Tuller returned to her

home in Detroit last week.Will Town and wife of Owosso, spent

Sunday at Frank Heall’s.Mr. and Mrs. Horace Tucker, of St.

Johns, spentSunday atB. B. Tucker’s.Mr. and Mrs. Will McCullough, of

Mancelona, are spending ten days with relatives here,

Mrs. Joe Hainer and daughter, of St. Johns, visited relatives here from Friday till Sunday.

Erman Hie and wife, of Shepards­ville, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Anne Hainer.

It Saved His L»g.P. A. Danforth, of LaGrange, Ga.,

suffered for six months witli a fright­ful running sore on his leg; but writes that Bucklen’s Arnica Salve wholly cured It in five days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Piles, It’s the best salve In world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c IkilH hv Filrlsw \ Mill man.

School i Shoes.

THERE IS a vast difference between Good School Shoes and just Plain School Shoes. Our School Shoes are made by the best makers in the country.

We won’t have a School Shoe that is not a good one. That’s the reason why we sell so many. It’s time for School Shoes now. Bring the Boys and Girls here—you will be surprised at our values. Spring styles are all ready—School Shoes $1.00 to $2.00 and every Shoe is a good one.

Tromp Shoe Co

■ BLACK JACK.The fine large Spnnieh Jack will make the season of 1901,Monday and Tueeday..............at my farm

north of Ovid.Wednesday aud Thursday....;........at myplace2%tnilee nouthweet of Hbepardeville.Friday and Saturday.......... 8t. Johns, at

Kink Barn on State street.Black Jack in a fine large yonng Jack,

fine etyle and action, cun travel like a road horse, extra good leugth.good bone and feet, and a fine large breeder. Come and see him. Bred by H. L. Kreckler, Peb-

kble county, Ohio.Pedigree—Black Jack’s sire Billat Jr., which w’ae 10 handn high and weighed

1300 lbe., hie eire Ilillat and be by Black Bill. Black Jack’s dam Maggy B, hereire Block Star, second dam Big Net and she by Woodland.

Some of the reasons why It pays to raise mules—Animals will work when 30 and 00 years old.Ready for work at two year* of age.Live on % feed I hat horse requires.Free fronPheavea, ringbone and spavin?.More easily broken, and no more liable to kick than horaea.

I will contract all of hiacolta for $35 to $55 per head when ready to wean.Terma, $10 to insure in foal, money due when mare is known to be in foal.

W. IT. Yariger.

SUPPLEMENT. CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, MAY H, l«OL

HAINBOW CITY.ffaa-Aiwerlean I'lpoilllon A slow

With Hriatlfal Color*.Perhaps uo thine has been more talk­

ed aitout t tin 11 the rotor scheme of the I’an-American. It was a daring thing to attempt to array in colors the ex- lenslve buildings of this Exposition, for kcarcely any precedent existed for such in undertaking, and to attempt It and tail would be disastrous Indeed. It was out of the question to duplicate the White City at Chicago. Something ab­solutely new must be devised for the Pan-American at Buffalo. Happily the Spanish renaissance architecture fur­nished the bint for the solution of this problem, and now that It has been solved and the color scheme Is seen to be so well adapted to the purposes of exposition architecture It Is realized

With the buildings arrayed in colors which will harmonize with the general scheme of the Exposition and please rather than offend artistic taste, the Rainbow City cannot fall to become popular in a degree scarcely hoped for by those who planned its construction.

The Director of Color, Mr. Charles T. Turner, N. A., of New York City, stud­ied the requirements of the situation and In bis studio In New York by means of models carefully worked out the designs and drawings for the mural decoration. The experts experimented with paint and obtained an article that may be used without fear that It will lose Its staying qualities before the Ex­position Is over. The test already made shows that the paint after being once applied to the staff la going to hold Its color well.

In 1881 the largest arc light machine made supplied current for 16 lights, and when Mr. Brush made a 50 light machine It was a giant. In the elec­trical exhibits of the Pan-American Ex­position the largest type of Brush arc light machine will be shown, and this will afford Interesting comparison with the machines of 20 years ago.

The Ohio Building.The Ohio State building has a promi­

nent place at the Pan-American Expo­sition to be held In Buffalo next sum­mer. The design Is plain Oreclan

OHIO STATE BUILDING,Doric, the beauty of which lies mainly In Its classic proportions and com­manding position. It Is designed ex­clusively for social purposes and will be the rendezvous of Ohio visitors to the Exposition.

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Department of Public Instruction.

Office of

R. M. Winston,Commissioner of Schools,

Clinton County, Mich.“All are architects of fate,

Working in the walls of time; .Some with massive deeds and great.

Some with ornaments of rhyme. ”—The Builders,

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Final Examinations forCOUNTY DIPLOMAS

Last Series for 1901.Eighth grade pupils, who have completed their work from schools having two or

less teachers, are invited and expected to attend. Pupils from schools having more than two teachers may attend on invitation from their teachers or by direction of their school boards. The examinations will be held as follows:

Fowler,Maple Rapids, Shepardsville, Wacousta, Bath,St. Johns,

Thursday, May 16. Friday, May 17. Monday, May 20. Wednesday, May 22. Thursday, Hay 23. Saturday, flay 25.

Rules and Regulations.These examinations will commence at 8:30 a. m. and continue until 5 o’clock p. m.

All diaploraas must be obtained at these examinations.Teachers are expected to make these examinations popular with their pupils and

patrons, attending with their pupils, to aid the commissioner in conducting the examina­tions and in marking the papers. School boards are requested to make it convenient for their teachers to attend with their pupils. No pupil who has not completed the work as outlined in the new course of study, should expect to receive a diploma. Pupils to bring pen, ink and pencil. •

Teachers should keep in mind that the diploma received by the pupil at these ex­aminations is a reward of merit, a promotion card to a higher grade of work. In no sense is it a completion of work; but rather, we have endeavored to make it a force and a direction, causing the pupil to look higher and to look farther.

With this in viewr, I trust you will hold closing exercises; having the exercises of such character as will suggest a continuation rather than a closing of school work.

Yours very truly,R. M. WINSTON, Comm’r of Schools.

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