LEDGER. LOWELL THURSDAY, X I I , NO. 4 0 LOWELL, .MICHIGAN, O F F I C I A L P A P E R

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Some meat markets may sell yOu a good looking plecQ of meat for a few cents cheaper than It would cost you a t a reliable market^ and vou w o n t know until af ter you have tried t o ea t It t h a t you have been deceived.

We offer you the best meats t h a t can be bought any-where—the best t ha t money can buy. We guarantee i t and charge a fair prjpe,which is cheaper In the end. You cannot get something for nothing, especially In meats. Send us your order for a nice Chicken, Fish or Beef o r Pori^Roast for Sunday. We have every-thing in the market line t h a t you can wish for.

A full line of this year 's canned goods.

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Ptvsident Charles McCarty.

CYl'LAM K?CHAPTER

E a t e r t a l a s Gues t s f rom Saraii«c{ and Beldlnc.

The meeting of Cyclamen chapter O. E. S. held Friday evening was a very pleasant occasion, and a large company were present, the to ta l attendance being nearly t w o hundred. Twenty-four repn'sent-a t ives t rom the Saranac lodge, eight from Behilngaud one from ( i ra t tan accepted the Invitations. The chap-ter room was decorated with car-nations and the dining room was prettily draped with green festoons and plants.

At seven the outshle guests were banqnetted .and received dainty menu cardsAwiUi s tars in appro-priate colors at tached. The ceremony of initiation opened at abou t eight o'clock, the candidates l)elng Messrs, and Mesdames F. W. Hinyau and Harvey J . Taylor . At the close of the Initiatory p a r t of the enter tainment JMI interesting program w a s given. In which music was furnished by the following: Quartet . Mesdames 11. A. reckham and 1). G Look. Messrs. Nicholson and Hicks; solos, Mrs N. Henry and .Mrs. Peckbam. The visiting officers were called on for Imprompu speeches, and responded very nicely. These were Mrs. S tanton. Worthy matron, and Mrs. Chapman ' of Belding: Mr. McArthur of ({rattan; and the following from Saranac: Worthy Matron, Mrs. Brally; past worthy mat ron , Mrs. Frace, and wor thy pa t ron , Mr. McArthur. After the program refreshments were served in the banquet room, and the company congregated In the anteroom for hand-snaklngs and greetings.

MARCH

CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES MOTBODUrr.

Miss Margaret >1. Bllz, S t a t e Field Worker «il the" W. C. T. U., will speak both morning and evening. The eve-ning service will IHJ union.

Mrs. David Mange will entertain the Ladles' Aid society a t a coffee Friday afternoon. March 24.

Those having Women's Foreign Missionary thank-offering envelopes may drop them In the collection box.

There will be a missionary rally Tuesda)* evening, March 28th, a t which Rev. Russell H. Uready of Orand Rapids, Rev. ,1. H. Bennett of Atia and others will speak.

COMGRKGATIONAL.

Morning subject: "Let the beauty of the Ijord Our God l)e upon us."

In the evening there will be union I service a t the Methodist church.

Christian Endeavor meeting a t the usual hour, leader Miss Fanny Balcom.

Baud No. 3 will give a picnic tea a t the home of Mrs. Agnes Wiley Tburs-

1 day, March 23. Ladles of the band and their husbands are cordially In-vited.

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BAFTIVr .

W. H. Andrews of Grand Rapids and some of the other Gideons will take charge of the services Suudsv

truing and evening. Sabbath school a t twelve o'clock. B. Y. P. U. a t six o'clock, leaders Misses Alice Griffith and Louie Wlllard. The Sunday evening service will be-gin a t seven.

Rev. Phelps will lie here t o con-tinue the meetings this week until Saturday.

SOCIBTIBS. The annual meeting of the Lowell

W. C. T. U. will be held a t the home of Mrs. S. Brower, Friday, Mar. 24, a t t w o o'clock. All Inembers are re-quested to l>e present.

The Clover Leaf club will meet with Miss Martha Perry Tuesday, March 28th.

Mrs. Mary Rolf entertained the ladles of the Relief Corps a t a ilculc dinner las t Thursday a t her lome. A pleasant time was spent

by the guests.

Wa// Papers Almost oar entire new line of wall paper ' is now here and we oonBider it the finest,

as it ia the largest, stook of up-to-date <s\re Jiere papers we have ever carried. There is

• i c a not a commonplace pattern in the lot. Every one tia new and beautiful. W e believd that we have been nn usually for-tunate in onr choice of papers and want yon to oome in and pass judgment on them.

Notwithstanding their artistic merit these papers are very reasonable in price. Yon cannot imagine what fine papers yon yon can get for a little money until you

' see them. Gome and gee them whether yon^intend papering or not.

Have all the sewest Ideas

about wall dsooratloti. Batter let ns help yon deslge the paperlai for your rooms.

Trustee R. B. Loveland.

Trustee C. Guy Perry.

A P leasant Social Evdaf. A jolly company of Lowell people,

abou t 160 in number, gathered a t Train 's Hall Tuesday evening nn guests of Dr. and Mrs. O. C. McDannell knd Mr. and Mrs. F. T. King. The hall was nicely decorat-ed for the occasion and the Lowell orchestra-of six pieces discoursed Inspiring music. In time with which the guests trip|)cd the light fantast ic until an early hour. Favors of cania t lons were distributed and dainty refreshments served. I t was a very enjoyable event and tin entertainers received the thanks and congratulat ions of their guests. The following guests from outside were present: Messrs. and Mesdames F. M. Lee. J . W. Oliver, Williams, all of Grand Rapids; Mrs. Hall of Grand Ledge; Miss Minnie Welch of P a w P a w . . | ^

Fo r Sale Cheap. Household goods couslstiug of the

following articles: One nearly new steel range with furniture; one ex-tension table; parlor table; kitchen table; Morris .chair; couch; dln(ng chairs; book-case; chiffonier; IMHI-room suits; hanging-lamp; dinner set; one velvet carpet and otiier ar-ticles too numerous to mention. These goods must be sold before April 1st.

Inquire a t C. O. Lawrence's resi-dence. lw

Flow Milch Cow for Sale. For sale—new milch cow. Will

take hay and o a t s In payment. Thos. Whltehouse.

Buy a pair of American Girl shoes for $2.15, a t W. S. Godfrey's Mar. 25.

If yon cannot eat, sleep or work, feel mean, cross and ugly, take llol-llster's Rocky ^fountain Tea this month . A tonic for the sick. There is no remedy equal t o It. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. D. G. Look.

Lowney's chocolates. Smith's.

HEARD AROUT TOWN Eat p o t a t o bread. 5c. Smith's. Bring coupons for table now here.

Smith's Cash Shoe Store. Sliced ham 30c a pound, a t Smith's

bakery. Douglas shoes for men and boys a t

Godfrey's.

Boy's knee pan t s % off a t Godfrey's. March 25, t o April 2.

All bread five cents a t the City Bakery, F. A. Behl. l w .

Dr. H. P. Snyder visited In Grand Rapids the first of the week.

Miss Florence King is home from Detroit t o spend her Spring vaca-tion.

I. D. Bergiu of St . Johns has been visiting his brother, Chris Bergln, this week.

Mrs. A. L. Spencer of Beldlni sjtent Friday and Sa tu rday wi t her husband.

Miss Lo t t a Ruben, who has been III the pas t week. Is home for her Spring vacation.

Mrs. Chas. Boyle and baby of Ionia have been spending a few days with Mrs. Will Denlck.

Married—at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Davidson, Mar. 19, by Kev. S. W. Phelps, Miss Anna Kotesky t o Silas J . Carter of Lowell.

Come t o the entertainment given by the Non Parell entertainers a t the South Boston grange Wednes-day evening Mar. 29th. lw .

George Houer was called t o his home a t Woodland last week by the illness of his father, who was some-what better when the former left him Monday.

Ice Cream for your pa r ty $1.00 a gallon. ' Smith 's bakery.

Miss Sarah Dibble has bought .Mrs. Anna Suuderland her house and lot on the west side a n d Is mov-ing Into It with Mrs. C. D. Walker.

Will Chambers is building a new house a t Elaidale and expects t o move his family there when It is completed.

Will Pullen Is raising the house on his farm, building new roof and windows, and put t ing on a new sid-ing. He Intends t o build a new barn there soon.

At the Republican caucus this after-noon the following ticket was nom-inated:

For supervisor, Leonard H. Hunt . For clerk, Chester G. Stone. For treasurer, Harold Weekee. . As we go t o press the caucus la

still In progress.

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R. D. STOCKING. Sewing Machines, Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, etc.

Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. • >

FRIED CAKES In the good old days onr mothers used t o take a piece of

bread dough and mix sugar, lard and eggs In it , let i t raise, then roll I t o u t In long, twisted s tr ips and fry In lard, and oh, how greasy and sicklsh they m o s t a lways were.

We make ours different. They are made from sugar , but ter ,

dyspeptic they do r igh t here in Lowell.

We sell them for 10 cents per dot .

WELDON SMITH, The Baker.

ffiubber Sioots is something a great many people have got to have within the next thirty days. We can't un-derstand why a few people wiU persist in buying any rubber boot other than a Mishawaka BALL BRAND, we have handled every brand of rubber goods that is made and find the BALL BRAND the best wearing one of all.

Eyej-y customer that has worn the BALL BRAND BOOTS thinks just as we do about them, and they cost you no more and less than some other brands not so good. Our line of rubber goods is full and complete, you can't ask for a size or width in any kind of rubber goods but what we have got it.

The old reliable shoe house. '

Jt. J . Jfowk 6t Son.

Harrison Sherman returned day t o his home a t St .Johns.

Mrs. Hat t le Barre t t la spen t w o weeks In Grand Rapids, her daughter, Mrs. Hawley.

Miss Ada Hoebecke w a s t o her home a t K a l a m a i o o by the death of a c a u n t

FOB HAL* CHEAP—Shoes. A t Smith 's Cash Shoe Store .

L. A. Gould and moved here from T

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Komotimes as a woman grows oia-«r she becomes less dressy and more bossy.—Puclc. .

MICHIGAN S T A T E N E W S

WILL SEEK TO RECOVER BONUS

Dr. Loeb predicts an era of "ma-chine made babies." W l y not? Look a t our statesmen.

If Napoleon were alive to-day. In might remark: "Through the Simp Ion tunnel lies Italy!"

Wall street has had another slump, but the visible supply of lambs' wool hiiE not been materially reduced.

The report that John L. Sulllvafa has lost his voice probably originated In the old proverb tha t "money talks."

Through some strange oversight no college professor has taken a fall out of the wicked bachelors for a whole week.

Incidentally, would it not be a good Idea for the Philadelphians to put in a few minutes praying for them-selves?

According to old records found In Genoa, it cost $7,000 to discover Amer-ica. And the money was certainly TPCII spent. j

People of Marshall May Take Steps

Against Railroad Company. There is t^lk among Marshall pao-

ple who subscribed money towards the building of the Toledo & Milwau-kee railroad, recently absorbed by the Michigan Central, of asking the com-pany to refund the money given the T. & M. company, as provided by act 144 of the laws of 1895. This law pro-vides that any company or corpora-tion accepting a bonus for the estab-lishment of machine or repair shops shall keep the same in operation or lefund the money paid. Marshall sub-scribed about $75,000, but if was not all paid. It is claimed that over $55,-000 was actually paid the company, one 61" the considerations being that the repair shops should bo located at Marshall. After the shops were built they gave employment to a large num-ber of men, but when the Ohio divi-sion was acquired much of the work was done at the Van Wert shops. Then the road passed info the hands of the Vanderbllt system, and was operated by the Michigan Central and Lake Shore. The1 work at the shops has gradually grown less as the changes have taken place until now practical-ly nothing is done.

Flowers will not be allowed In the senate chamber any more, the sena-to r s doubtless feeling they are sweet-scented enongh as it is.

Some recent portraits of John D. Rockefeller bear out the general im-pression that personal comeliness is t iot t h e octopas' strong point.

A New York business man has had h i s tongue removed' in order to save h i s life. But suppose, in addition to everything else, he had been a wo-m a r l

Home for Prlei'idless Waif. A home has been found for the little

waif that was left on the doorstep of | Ross Qlllett at Albion. Mrs. H. A.

Thompson of Battle Creek telephoned to Albion asking if she might have the wee girl that had been lef t out in the cold world alone by her parents.

| Mrs. Thompson has net seen the child, | bnt as soon as she learned that tliere was a poor homeless Infant in AlblOn she telephoned an application to be-come its foster-mother.

Pavlfl Wark, though 100 years of age, is s e e i n g as a member of the Canadian senate. Mr. Wark thinks Dr. Osier may know more when he ce t s older.

A class of Wollcsley girls has set ou t to "jar the professor's sense iOf the aesthetic as far as possible." Need it be announced in advance that they will succeed? .

Burglar is Foiled. A burglar attempted to gain admls«

slon, with the aid of skeleton keys, through the front door of the home of George Greening at Monroe. Walter, a son, heard the noise for about five minutes and finally awakened his father. When they arrived a t the (Joor the burglar had made good his escape. The attempted burglary was a daring one. the home being forced directly under an arc lamp.

He is an unreasonable bachelor who

Swindles Blind Man. A Battle Creek blind man who sells

pencils on the street was taken ad-klcks against the proposed tax when „ ho think., of the tax which the tall- <* 1,1 » • " e " , r / c ™ 1 >'

A man came along and handed him liners ' convention is preparing to lejvy en the married men. J

We can't help sort of wishing tl^at Oxford university would cut down Its eew professor's salary,. In view of b i s advanced age and consequent In-ability t o do full work.

what appeared! to be a half dollar to buy a pencil, and as the blind man had only a quarter in his pocket, the stranger took that in change. It was afterward found that the supposed half dollar was a beer check.

A fashionable New York club ate roast rhinoceros a t a banquet the oth-e r evening. This shows to what des-

Cuts Farmer's Wisdom Teeth. A stranger bought 20,000 feet of tim-

ber from a Portland farmer, borrow-ed what amounted to $1 a thousand on the purchase, and af ter instructing

pcrate Btmlts the beef t rus t has dl}iv- ^ f a r m e r ( o ^ t h e ^ t 0 ^ 8 t a . en even the well-to-do. t i o n l G f ( ( 8 a y ! n g h e w o u , d b o b a c k t o

Dr. Woodrow Wilson suggests the aivlsabil i ty of Jooking at the souls, of the directors of a trust before buying any ^f the stqck. This ought to make bushjcse Tor the oculists. ; • .

scale the logs. The transaction was very Instructive to the farmer in the ways of the world.

One 'woman In-in thousand has ap-peared. She received an eatable pres-ent <rom an unknowp source and took the Jn-ecantlou to have it-analysed. It contained (poison, of course.

Dr. Chaflwick's daughter has gone to work as a stenographer, in spite of the fact that there are plenty of man-! apcrs who would have b(?fen glAd to give he r . a chancc on the stage. j

"Sock" Social. Novl Methodists hadi a "sock" so-

cial. The feature of the entertain-ment was thiat each attendant was compelled to bring a sock, age not specified, and in the too was placed as many pennies as would correspond with the number Of the shtje worn. Several gentlemen stayed at home and mailed a check.

LATEST CASH MARKET REPORTt .

Chicago (-'rocfuee. BHttor—Crcanieiy, extra, lICc; prints,

flratf* W c : scconds , l i lc ; r e n o -va t ed . 33o; da i r i es , Cooleys, 23c; Ursts, 21n. ladles , pkeklnR s tock , 18c.

RRKS—Fresh stock, at mark, 14«4c; pr ime f i r s t s , loc ; e x t r a tdi lgrh-grade) , packed fo r t he c i ty t r ade . 16c.

Cheese—Full crfeam, dolslps. l3013Hc: 1 twins, 12®'12«4c: Young Americas, long honiB. 13%c: Cheddars, eastern. 12Hc:

Mall Papi.lAff. TaUaa AitAnl#* Ku* PJ. SwlSS, block. ll^ffl2Ca dl'lim. lt^(tl']2C! Mall Carrier Takes Aconite, but Re- ; Limhurner. choice. lO^^l lc ; off grades, fuses to Tell Where He Got Drug. I "!'J.ck,. i2V4c: on grades, ofoiioc.

The coroner's inquest over the boJy of Alonzo Kenny, who swallowed acon-ite in the Columbia hotel" at Traverse

PECULIAR CASE SUICIDE.

iiwsc: hi m. ... Fish—Black bass, He nor lb; ra rp and

buffa lo . 5c: p ike . 7c: pickerel , 6c: pe rch , 4c: bu l lheads , sk inned , lifcOc; ounflsh , 3c; eew, 7® sc.

Live poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 13c; City and died af ter having refused to I ^ ® i j ? " t 6 ® l 0 " p e r do*01

take nn antidote, tell where he bought i Potatoes—Car lots, on track: Wlscon-tho nnlunn nr whuro Ifr nnnnf twA i sin, Minnesota and Michigan Burbanks. tno poison 01 wnere ne spent the g o o d t 0 c l l 0 | c e i uegaw; oxtra fancy, 29c; night, failed to throw any light on I good to choice, 24026c; extra, 29c; coarse, h i . w h e r e t W . . Ho known to i have about $200, and a search of his j effects after death only showed $6.01. Ho had been drinking, but a t no time was intoxicated, according to wit-!

Snesse8. The money ho had was re- i eelved for carrying the mall f fom Ma- j pic City to surrounding villages. He j lost his position through the putting on of rural free delivery routes, and had shipped his goods to East Jordan. | There is no reason advanced why ho I should take his life other than that he lost his money in some way that j worried him and he became despond-ent. He took almost an ounce of aeon-' ito and fold his daughter he was "tired of living."

O n i o n s — H o m e - g r o w n , yel low. $1.10© 1.1ft por hu ; red. l l . lOf f i l . lu p e r bu.

S w e e t pota toes—Il l inois , cholcc, 52.50; c o m m o n , $50c(Ip$2.

New York Produce, B u t t e r - S t e a d y ; unchanKcd. Cheese--Strong; unchanged. F g K s — F i r m ; utnte , B c n n s y l v a n l a a n d

n e n r - b y f a n c y selected wh i t e . 19c; do choice. 180; d o mixed ex t r a . I8c; wes t -e rn Ursts . 17c: do seconds . 16Vic; s o u l h -on is , 15% ® 17c.

Ch lca so—No. 2 red. Tl. N e w Y o r k - N o . 2 red.

Butter Makers Would Learn. • The Grand Traverse Dairymen's as-sociation held a two days' session at Traverse City. A resolution was passed asking the legislature for $1,-000 for stato speakers and a butter scorer at the dairy association meet-ings for the purpose of instructing the members in making clean, high qual-ity butter. George Robertson, Trav-erse City, was elected president; A. E. Palmer, Kalkaska, vice president; Daniel H. McMulIen, Traverse City, secretary-treasurer.

Pay Honor to Mason. The remains of Chas. O. Deeg. a |

young and highly esteemed man who j died at Lansing of typhoid fever, lay i in state a t the Masonic temple and j were viewed by several hundred; friends. The funeral was held by • Lansing lodge, Masons, No. 33, of! which the deceased was a member. An i honorary escort of Knights Templars j accompanied the body to the grave. I

Grain Quotations. W H E A T .

m 1 5 * -Minneapo l i s—No. 1 n o r t h e r n . S1.12?4. St . IXDUIS—No. 2 l ed . $1.11%. D u l u t h — N o . 1 no r the rn , 11.07%. K a n s a s Ci ty—No. 2 h a r d . SI .0101.04. Milwaukee—:No. 1 n o r t h e r n , 11.10%.

CORN. Th lcago—No. 2. 48>4048Vc. L ive rpoo l—Amer ican mixed , p e w , 48

4d. N e w York—No. 2. 58%c. Peor ia—No. 3. 48%c. St . Lou is—No. 2. 47c. K a n s a s Ci ty—No. 2 mixed , 4G@4e!4c. Mi lwaukee—No. 6. 48,.4@49c.

• OATS. C h i c a g o — S t a n d a r d , 32%®33c. N e w York—Mixed. 37%®38%c. K a n s a s Ci ty—No. 2 mixed . 33(ft3315ic. M i l w a u k e e — S t a n d a r d . 33%®33%c. St . L o u i s - N o . 2, 8294c.

Live Stock. C A T T L E .

Chicago—$1.5006.15. Omaha—$2.00(^5.00. K a n s a s City—J2.25@5.75. . St. Louis--$2.00f?«.00. S t . Joseph-$1.90(3)5.75. N e w York—jl.80ffl6.90. P i t t s b u r g — J l . B 0 g 5 / n ^

Chicago—$4.35ffl5.27%. Omoha—J4.90@4i.10. K a n s a s City—M.20@5.10. St. Louis—J3.75©5.f:. . S t . Josoph-J4 .95ff l6 .15 , N e w York—?5,60@5.75. Pittsburg—js.oofflu. no. Buffalo—J3.25ffln.25.

S H E B P A N D LAMBS. Chicago—S3.00<fp7.60. Omaha—'14.75®7.30.e K a n s a s City—$4.85®7.23. S t . Louis—S4.00ffl7.00. S t . Joseph—J5.5U@7.40. N e w York—JS.nOfflS.OO. Pittsburg—J3.00(8)e'.8 n11-

QEN.KOUROPATKIN IN DISGRACE

Leader of the Russian Forces in the East Is Ordered Home, Qen. Linevitch Succeeding the

Veteran in Command. most severo critic, and many of his own subordinates were jealous and grudgingly obedient. Many epigrams about Gen. Kouropatkin's shortcom-Itigs are being attributed Dragomiroff, and the supers^ (he former at such a crltic|li is directly attributed to Difagom advice. /

Gen. Linevitch is distinctly a ofllcer, with a long record ns a fight er. He is almost as cordially dislikor by the general staff as his prcde'ees fior, and there also' Is bad blood be

of Us flight, although bruited Inst j t w e ( . n Kouropatklii and Linevitch dat

The word "disgraco" Is written in large letters In the laconic Imperial order recalling Kouropatkln, It con-tains not a single word of praise and also disposes of the rumor that Kouro-patkln had asked to be relieved.

The Russian military apnals contain no more bitter imperial rebuke. While it was known that the war couhcil had already decided to supplant l no commander-in-chief after the Mukden disaster, the decision to confer the task of saving the remainder of the army on Linevitch in the very midst

night, came as a surpiise. It t rans plres that Emperor Nicholas, upon the advice of Gen. Dragomiroff and War Minister Sakharoff, determined that the step was necessary when it became

Ing from a personal quatrel in I ho days when Kouropatkln was oorn^ mandcr of the trans-Baikal army, which led Linevitch to demand sat-itfaolion. Kouropatkln assumed the

apparent that Kouropatkln while con-1 position that he could not flght an of-fiCGr of inferior rank. The BUfcces- ,f slon of this' ofllccr will na tura l ly inT crease Gen. Kouropatkin's dlscomflt- '

ure. Lieut. Gen. Linevitch, the now com-

mander of the Russian land and sea forces in the far East, Is in the sixty-tixth year of his ago. He was fight-ing in the Caucasus when he was 21, took part. In the Russo-Turklsb war of 1877-78, and has since then taken part in all of Russia's Aalatlc cam-paigns. Linevitch was also promi-nent In the relief of the legations at Pekln.

Even in the face of the possibility of the complete loss ol the army and the admitted fact that Vladivostok is alreadyvpossibly lost, the emperor still shows no signs of yielding. Prepara-tions for continuing: the war on aiV larger scale than ever are proceod-V ing

The dictum has gone forth I hat an-other army of 450,000 men is to be

centrating for a s tand, at Tie pass seemed unaware that the Japanese had worked around westward again, and practically allowed himself to be sur-prised.

Old reports brought by Gen. Grip-penberg regarding Kouropatkln s fall-ing mentally also had influence. Un-der the circumstances therefore it was considered Imperative in view of the exceedingly •perilous position of the army to turn over its command to Linevitch, who aione had been able to bring off his army in order a f te r the battle of Mukden. His record dur-ing the Chinese war had also demon-strated his capacity as a commandcr. Kouropatkln will return to St. PeteTs-burg forthwith.

Linevitch in Command. Decided anxiety is felt here regard-

ing the fate of the army in Manchuria under Us new commander. The only dispatches from the front are the brief announcements that Gen. Linevitch , . had assumed command and that Gen. j ('ispatchcd to the far East, and in or-Kouropatkin was departing for St. I der to avoid delay it has been decid-Petersburg. which disposes of a rumor j cd. instead of sending only reserve that the latter had committed suicide, j men, to form new armies largely of

No pause la the Japanese advance regular units, leaving the reserves to

Game Warden Loses Suit. State Game and Fish Warden Chap-

man personally conducted the case at Alpena against Casper Alpern and one of his tug captains, charged with hav-ing In their possession lako trout In the closed season. Mr. Alperh's at-torney made the point that the statute says nothing about the possession of illegally caught fish, and the jury promptly acquitted both defendants.

It Is reported In the City of Mexico that the Hidalgo railway is to be sold to a New York syndicate.

The Mexican government has 'sent a commission of telegraphers to the United States to study telegraph methods.

John J. Mannahan, grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-men, left Peoria for the south on ac-count of falling health. j

! An extradition has been granted in j May Persuade Indians to Work. | the case of A. G. Swartz, alias Louis I

Agents for the Menominee Sugar; Frank, of California, who is wanted i on a charge of embezzlement and lar-ceny. i

Horace C. Starr of Richmond, Ind., | national president of the Travelers' j Protective association, announces t h a t ' Col. John R. Harwood of Richmond, | Va., will deliver the memorial ad-; dress at the national convention in j Savannah. Ga., In May.

While playing "Indian" In the I woods at Mount Airy, a suburb o f ; Philadoiphia. James Hawthorne, aged i 17, shot and killed Warren Carr with a rifle he thought was unloaded.

King Alfonso of Spain has signed the appointment of Senor Don Emilio De Ojeda, Spanish minister at Wash-ington, as undersecretary for foreign affairs.

is probable for some time. The Rus-sians are losing heavily In the rear guard actions and Japanese columns are reported to bo pushing northward as rapidly as possible, f a complete the envelopment of the Russian forces.

Gen. Kawamura presumably is

replace the regulars-in garrison dutv at home.

A division of tho Imperial guard will be sent to tho front.

Separate a m i e s are to be organ-ized under Gens. Grodekoff, Gripen-berg and Kamaroff. Even in the most

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SHOWING RUSSIAN LOSSES OF TERRITORY DURING PRESENT WAR

Company have the notion that they can yet solve the beet labor question with the aid of Indians from the Sha-wano reservation. If they can accom-plish this they will have succeeded in something that Uncle Sam has been trying to do foj; many years, make Poor I.o work.

Explosive in the Furnace. Dynamite or some other explosive

has played hobs with a furnace in •the house rented by W. B. Ashley at Ann Arbon There was a sudden explosion in tho furnace which ruined it and shook the house as If there was an earthquake. Just how the explosive got into the coal Is a mystery.

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£ Will Vote on Bonding.

On March 28 the taxpayers of the Ann Arbor school district, will vote on

Charles B. Dillingham of New York pressing northward through the moun-has leased the Lyric theater in Lon- j tains eastward, ready to swoop down: don for the season, Maxine Ell iott! Generals Nogi and Oku are on the

(First map shows In shaded portions the territory which Russia e i ther dominated by influence or held In actual 'posaession st the outbreak of the war. Second map shows in white the territory wrested from Russia by Ja> pan up to the present time.)

optimistic quarters, -however, it is

the question of bonding the district j opening,an engagement at that house \ west, of the Russian forces, tho \ h o ; c

Held for Stabbing Man, Ira Manning, glassworker, who se-

riously stabbedi Stephen Duval at i . | Monroe. v ,as charged with assault

The New York man who beat his with Intent to do great bodily harm, wife because she sflggesfed t h a t ' h e His bond was/fixed a t $2,000, in de-should go to work had probably bpen reading Prof. Patten's argument tWt all married women should be wage •arners.

fault of which he was remanded the custody of the sheriff.

to

Burns Prove Fatal. Mrs. Marji Navarre, school teacher.

The New York woman who agreed aged 43. who by mistake used gaso-to give $1,000 a volume for the works line instead of kerosene, in attempt-of the late Charles Dickens must have ing to start a fire in the cook stove, overlooked the fact that th6 novelist the can exploding and seriously burn-wrote several of them after he was lug her, died at Monroe. She Is sur-46 years old- I vived by three children.

The Dowager Empress of China has sent the. president a photograph wlfich makes her appear about twenty years younger than she is. Every Ameri-can woman will appreciate her feeling fa the matter. Vh .K

A Boston man has proved', so lie de-clares. that the earth is flat. We no-tice. however, tha t the automobile makers continue to emphasize the hi'.l-cllmblng powers of their respec-tive machines. ' . •

— ? r r - i t Russell Sage characterizes Ihe pur-

chase of an automotiltei bir . ohn D. Rockcfellor as "n piece df Abolish ex-travapance."' 'Uncle RUBS" probably forgot that Mr. Rockefeller can get W» gasoline at a discount.

After reading a novel called "Cold as I he Grave," a woman In St. Loul8 took her life. Cue may imagine, tbo s ta te of mind produced by a novel with that name would smooth the way to any sort of place where reading matter was no longer in request.

A machine for grinding corn has bacn set up on the site of Napoleon's former gravo on the Island of St. Helena. We might be inclined to feel Indignant over this Jf it wore not for the probability that the corn grinder «ras shipped across from Americt.

' Young Lansing Offenders. Charles E. Miller, arrested for fprg-

ing his father 's name to a check for |28, pleaded guilty In the circuit court a t Lansing. Frank ' Jordan, a small boy who broke.lntoLa. popcorn stand, also entered a plea of guilty to the charge of burglary.

Indians Shoot Deer. Indians living' near Standlsh were

t aught shooting deer recently and when arrested explained that it was a •Becessity, as they were starving.

Library for Portland. Mr. Carnegie offers to ship one of

his best little libraries to Portland If the citizens will furnish a place to put it. ,

Reward for Collegiano. President I-ancaster of Olivet col-

legte believes that if young people get nothing else out of their college life, they are repaid for their four or six years' work by the big bunches of en-thusiasm pumped into them as a side issue lo the curriculum.

| Opposes Sunday Baseball. j T h e Ionia County Miuistorial asso-ciation has come to the conclusion

I that it is much opposed to Sunday i baseball and has notified the sheriff lo 'be on bend and stop such games.

for $200,000 for a new high school bti||(J||ig. Gov. Warner has signed the enabling act and the school board de-cided about holding the election.

Fish Company is Sold. The fish company that has operated

at Rogers City the past three years and was controlled by D. Lincoln" and Capt. H. Ferguson, of Alpena, was sold to Henry Platz and Charles Vogelhelm of that place. The new company will continue fishing a t Rogers City.

on Easter Monday in ' ^ l e r Own way.' V. V. Grajonsky and A. D. Pospe-

toff, officials in the Russian postal service, who have been in Port Ar-thur for several years, have arrived at San Francisco on their way to Rus-sia.

William Calne was found guilty of manslaughter a t Galesburg, 111., for .the murder of Frank Weir, a railroad brakeman, on Feb. 23.

Dr. Horace Wardner died a t La Porte, Ind., from blood-poisoning, due.

line of tho railroad ia threatened, if not already cut, and Chinese bandits are oven reported to be in the rear of Harbin. A consummation of tho Muk-den disaster is feared. Napoleon's plight in the retreat from Moscow, with Kutusoff's Cossacks harassing the starving, freezing Frenchmen, was hardly as bad or dangerous.

The war office greatly fears that more of the siege and field guns which Kouropatkln managed to save at Mukden have been sacrificed in

Big Stone In Bladdtfr. Dr. John W. Kirtland died at Lake-

view. A post mortem was held and among other things found In tho ex-amination was a hard stone 2%x2% Inches taken from his bladder. Dr. Kirtland was about 66 years of age.

it is said, to running a silver under | the hurried flight from Tie pass. The his thumb nail fourteen years ago. question^of ammunition and food is.

Revival at Alto. The little town of Alto has got the

"spirit" and Is experiencing a most wonderful religious and psychological awakening. Scores of persons have confessed thc-lr faith.

Pastor Resigns. Rev. J . Alexander Adair, for the

past six years pastor of the First Pres-byterian church at Marlette, has re-signed and will go to Homer, Mich.

Charged with embezsllng about $1,-600 from the Funeral Benefit associa-tion of the Patriotic Sons of America, former Secretary Wilson- H. Landls was hold In $1,800 bail In Philadel-phia. Pa., for trial.

W. P. Bogardus of Mount V.ernon, Ohio, was re-elected president of the Natlonr.l Retail Hardware Dealers' as-sociation at the closing session In Min-neapolis.

An alleged attempt to Influence the jurors in the Portland mining suit trial In Counbil Bluffs, Iowa, led to a conference of the court with the at-torneys of both sides and a warning to the jurymen.

Secretary and Mrs. Hay left Wash-ington Friday to be absent about two months.

President Henry Churchill King of Oberlin college was the principal

Penalty <for Deadheads. The Calhoun County Agricultural

society will do away with passes here-1 s7eake"r ^aTthe bMquetUof the 'New after and compel the deadheads to a l u m n l o f 0 b e r l i , hew a pass button on their coats. [ Boston.

Shoemaker Gathers Wealth. I J o h n Duncan, aged 61, dropped dead A Norway fehoemaker lies been j w h i l e at work In the machine shops

working industriously at his trade for j a t Princeton, Ind. some years in that village and is now accredited with being "heeled" with about $100,000 to last him until his sole flits over the river.

Plan Big Boulevard. The supervisors of Alger county are

planning to build a boulevard thirty miles long around Green Island, which

A passenger train on the P." W. & B. railroad was wrecked near North-east, Md. Three persons were In-jured.

Edward Huerman, a bartender of Sedalia, Mo., shot and killed Ruby Burton, a notorious character, and then shot and killed himself.

James R. Arthur, a wealthy farmer Is owned by the Cleveland Cliffs Com- j of Huntington, Ind., died from Injuries pany, and have set the Island apart in a runaway accident while driving a new township. to attend his brother's funeral.

also vital, as it is known that the Russians were compelled to burn fur-ther stores a t Tie pass, where the commissariat was only beginning to feed the half famished troops when the new retreat was ordered.

Gen. Linevitch, however, will have a considerable accession of fresh troops, the fourth European corps being now at Harbin and departing southward. Military officials at St. Petersburg de-clare that there are now 268,000 men at Gen. Llnevltch's disposal In Man-churia, and it is believed that this foice will be sufficient to cause the Japanese to exercise greater caution in their pursuit.

Although Gen. Kouropatkin's down-fall, was Inevitable from a military standpoint, it arouses sympathy in circles familiar with the long cam-paign that has been waged against him by the general staff. Qen. Sak-haroff, the minister of war, was his

realfeod tJiat a general mobllhatlon Is likely to be accompanied by wide-spread disorders.

The war council, it is also under-stood, has definitely decided that Vice Admiral Rojestvoneky shall continue his voyage and give battle to the Jap^ ancse in tho forlorn hope of wrest-ing control of the sea from Admiral Togo.

In the meantime the completely disheartened ranks of those who a r e crying for poace are growing, the strangest convert being Prince Mest-chersky. who, as shown by his article In the Grashdanin, has become sud-denly a zealous advocate of reform, declaring that to make an end of the ' war would not require more heroism than to conclude peace af te r vlctbry. He thanks God for sending defeat in-stead of victory, which, he' says, would only cover with laurels the gap-ing wounds and miseries of tha pov-erty stricken people and the "badly fed and badly clothed but heroic sol-diers, justified robbers of a peaceful country."

The "glorified though faithless serv-ants of the emperor" are oxhoried to' penitence after the present trials, and are urged to "give rebirth to hdn' or and duty."

Women Pallbearers Lack Streflflth. Pound. Wis., dispatch: At the

funeral- of Miss Julia Nachtway six young women acting as pallbearersv found themselves unable to carry their burden and laid the coffin on the snow while two of their number went to get men to take the remains the rest

open enemy, and Gen. Dragomiroff his i of the way fo fhe cemetery.

Passes Antiplllory Law. Sentence for Poisoners. Sandusky. Ohio, dispatch: Charles

McCauley, Indicted with Mrs. Anna Strlckfaden for attempting 'to poison the latter's husband, pleaded guilty. Judge Reed sentenced them each to fhe penitentiary for ten years.

Big Fire in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., special: A firoun

the threading department of t^c Spang-Chalfant mill, at Etna, de-stroyed machinery and stock to the \ value

n Dover. Del., dispatch: The house

of representatives has passed the sen-eto bill abolishing the pillory In this k

efate. An effort was made to repeal k the law which provides for the w h l a u f f ping post, but it failed.

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Fatal Game of Cards, War Eagle, W. Va., special: Mar-

Up. Gulcose is dead, and George Mat-thew* fatally wounded as the re-sult of alleged crooked play la a

,000; fully Insured. ['.card same between miners,

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A Prominent Topeka Rebecca Officer Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney

Pills for It.

Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner, a^ocal offl* cer of tho Rebeccas, of Topeka, Kans., Room 10. 812 Kansas Ave., writes: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills durlna^the past year s

ley trouble id r e d all-

fas suffer-lains in the ^eadaches, after the

of one box of the remedy t h a t the troubles gradually disappeared, so that before I had finished a second package I

\ was well. 1 therefore heartily e n d o r s e your remedy,"

(Signed) Mrs. C. Eri iumgardner . A FREE TRIAL—Address Foster-

Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale ^>y all dealers. Price, 60 cents.

A spinster says getting married Is almost as serious as remaining single.

Some men find i t easier to get drunk than sober.

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PHV8ICIAN AND SURGEON

DOUG NICELY 4«BlMc«8L Ltfwmn.Wle*

U. C. GREENS, M, D.

Physician and Surgeon

Ordersi. Disobeyed. The orders of "General Health have

been disobeyed, when you feel under the weather, weak, tired. Irritable, and svffer from headache, constipation, biliousness, etc. The only sure, safe and permanent cure for this condition is Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin, It has a gentle action all Its own, superior to that of rills, powders, and cathartic waters. Try It. Sold by all druggists at COc and $1.00, Money back If it fails.

The man of good memory occasion-ally lapses Into tedious ways.

^ Most of Your Neighbors will take advantage of the offer made by tho Vernal Remedy Company, of Lo Roy. N, Y., to seud free a trial bottle of Verna. Palincttona (Palmetto Berry Wine), the household remedy that is attracting the attontlou of physicians and the public at large, for the reason that It is tho best speciilc known for tho quick and permanent i ur6 of all diseases of tho stomach, livor, bowels, and urinary organs. Only ono dose

-a day. Sold by druggists. X /

Imitation Tides In Great Lakes.

The actual tides of a lako are exces-sively small. Nevertheless, noticeable alterations of level often occur,* which were long regarded as mysterious. Recent observations In Switzerland make it certain that in these oscilla-tions ere duo to differences In air pressure at different points on the lako. If the lake is largo enough for the barometer to bo high at ono'end while there is still a low pressure area over the other, water will be forced toward the place where the pressure I: lower and an oscillation of level

1 result.

Face Thou the Wind, F a c e trfou tho wind . T h o u g h s a f e r

Fromntl In s h e l t e r l o a b i d e ;

W o w e r e no t m a d o to s i t nnd d r e a m ; T h e H:IXO m u s t LLM bo t r ied.

W h o r e God tins sot Tils t h o r n s a b o u t Cry no t . '•Tin- way Is p l a i n " ;

I l l s p u t h w i t h i n f o r t h o s e w i t h o u t l» paved w i th toll a id pa in ,

Ono f r a c i n o n t of I l l s hlosscd W o r d , I n t o t h y sp i r i t b u r n e d .

Ia b e t t o r t h a n t h o whole , half hea rd . And by th lno In te res t t u r n e d .

Woe. woo to h im, on s a f e t y ben t W h o c reeps to a g e f r o m you th .

Fall l i iB to g r a s p his l i f e ' s In tent . BccauEft ho t e a r s t h o t r u t h .

Bo t r u e to e v e r y inmost t h o u g h t . And . ns t h y t h o u g h t , t hy speech :

W h a t t hou h a s t no t by su f f e r i ng b o u g h t P r e s u m e thou no t t o t each .

Hold on . hold on—thou h a s t tho rook, T h o toes a r e on t h e s a n d :

Tho t l r s t w o r l d - t e m p e s t ' s ru th losa shock S c a t t e r s t he i r s h i f t i n g s t r a n d ;

Whl lo each wild gus t t h o mis t s h a l l c l ea r .

W o n o w seo d a r k l y t h r o u g h , And .iusUfled a t las t a p p e a r .

T h e t r u e In H i m t h a t ' s t rue . —Dean Al fo rd .

Make a Religion of'Hospitality. '

Hospilallty offered to the stranger tinder, the roof Is almost a religion with tUo Syrian householder, although to bo the "stranger" is a dlAcult matter. Except among her 'own poo-1)10 tho young Syrian girl is kept IP haretnllke seclusion. There Is one way ouly in which the cntlous Amerl-

' c a n ran get into one of those homes, and that Is in the guise of a buyer.

Want No "Moderate" Drinkers,

"The house in which I used to work does not want men who 'can take their drink and leave It alone." This house knows that the man who 'takes his drink' does not leave It alone, and they don't want that kind of a man around tho place. My old house treat-ed me like a prince. I could be a rich man now if it hadn't been for tho saloon. And I. believe my own case made the house adopt a rule which, as a matter of fact. Is now In vogue In three out of every five business con-cerns. Tho questions asked a man nowadays- are sometbing like these: 'Do you drink?' 'No,' you say, i don't touch a drop.' 'Wore you ever In tho habit of getting drunk? When were you drunk last?'

"You are compelled to admit that you were drunk a short time ago. but you hastily add that you've quit per-manently now. No good. You are not wanted.

"Employers do not want a man who comes Into their office in the morning with red eyes, flushed face, and a breath like the back yard of a distil-lery. They want clean, bright-eyed, alert, fresh young men who keep away from saloons and whose brains arc clear. They don't care so much about religious Or moral character. They blind sonal faults ' of a man, provided ho keeps away from saloons and does not make companions of your 'temperate' drinkers. The time is coming when a man who is known to drink liquor at all cannot get a job."—George F. Ty-rone In Chicago Tribune.

Ing tho suggested course of teaching on these subjeota the committee has taken as its model Mrs. Hunt's scheme for American schools.—Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.

Temperance Notes. ( F r o m H a m ' s Horn . )

The records of tho county auditor's ofilce, Lucas county, Ohio, show t h a t j saloons paying the Dow tax have quit | business, Tho brewers have closed up some of the most obnoxious, saloons as a campaign card in the local option fight. j St. Louis, Mo., dispatch: In Its

There are five unlicensed bars In ; weekly crop report the Modern Miller tho British House of Parliament—put \ shows that winter wheat generally Is tliere to keep tho members from get-; In good condition. ting drupk at tho outside resorts. The j "Special Inquiry regarding the con-Kitchen committee reports than an i dltlon of tho growing winter wheat

Late Sown Crop Is Backward, Offlc* O r t r BoyUn'i Store, Bride*

Being in Need of Plenty of Moisture.

CONDITION IN VARIOUS STATES

Missouri Reports Fine Root Develop-

ment, Ohio Vigorous Plants, While

Illinois and Indiana Have No Com-plaint to Make.

fi. P, HICKS

Loans, Collections, Real Estate, Insurance.

LOWELL, MICHIGAN,

and

MILTON M. PERRY Attorney and Coumelor at Law

Train's Hall Block, Lowell, Mich. Special attention given to OoUectlons, OOB.

vayanclnR and talo of Real Eitaw. Has alM

Iuallfled and nsen admitted w> practice In iha nterlor Department and all tbo bureaM

thereto and is ready to prosecute cla ms for tboM that may be entitled to pension bounty.

average of $233 was spent daily at these joints during fhe last session.

In fhe seventh annual report of the Garfloch (Scotland) Lunatic Asylum, jusl Issued, Dr. W. A. Parker says that alcohol stands at the head, as

crop shows that little damage was done during the winter," says tho paper, "and that prospects In genera! are favorable for this time of year,

i The plant as a rule wintered well. | Late sown wheat Is backward, but Is

R. E . S P R I N G E T T ATTORNEY AT LAW

General Law Practice and Collections

Office, City Bank Block. Lowell

usual, of the causes of admission. 3190- healthy and beginning fo grow, yet re-bel being tho "main factor" in 25 per j quires favorable weather, including cent of the cases and the "prime fac- i plenty of moisture. Tho only com-tor" In 23.9 per cent. | plaint of Hessian fly is from Kansas.

Jay W. Seaver, the physical director 1 hut ouly In Isolated spots. Conditions of Yale university gymnasium. Is 1 are most promising In the soufhweBt-quoted as strongly against tobacco j ern and southeastern part of the win-smoking. He declares that "It is not; ter wheat belt.

DR. B. D. McQUEEN

VETERINARY 8URQEON-.

Drntisliy and Surge^- « SfieeiaUf Lhtry, Pud tnd Salt Bart* in Comuditm.

Both Phones Co. 35. LOWELL, MICH.

a question of opinion about my ma-terial; It Is a matter of fact. • • • No man Is allowed to smoke when ttainlng for college contests.''

"As a Christian minister," said

Wheat Condition Is Fine. "Details of the reports follow: In

Missouri the plant wintered well; crop backward on account of late seed-ing; condition fine, but plant small;

For Fire Insurance ...CALL ON...

F. D. EDDY CS, CO.

In the "Bishop's Saloon." A press correspondent*writes from

New York city that MISB Margaret j Cooper, 1411 Deerlng place, well-1

„ t , dressed, comely and under twenty j their eyes to all the little per- y C a r s ol. a g e i w a a a r r e s t e d for betng 1

drunk on the streets at night. At the police station she .told her story, j She says that she and two girl friends

English Accident insurance. For a trilling sum—2 cents for every

|500—the person who buys a railroad ticket In England receives a ticket en-titling his heirs to Insurance money In case he should be killed on the jour-ney. The other day a workman In-sured his life for $2,500 In this way. and his widow received the money. Now there k a great rush for :uch In-surance,

T H E S I M P L E L I F E .

Wayc That Are Pleasant and Paths That Are Peace.

It Is the simple life that gives length of days, serenity of mind and body and tranquillity of soul.

Simple hopes and ambitions, bound-ed by the desire to do good to one's neighbors, \ simple pleasures, habits, food and drink.

Men die long bdfore their time b e cause they try to crowd too much Into their experiences—they climb too high and fall too bard. A wise woman writes of the good that a simple diet has done her :

' 1 have been using Grape-Nuts for about six months. I began rather spar-ingly, until I acquired such a liking for it ihat for the last three months I have depended upon It almost en-tirely for toy diet, eating nothing else whatever, but Orape-Nuts for break-fas t and supper, and I believe I could oat It for dinner with fruit and be sat-isfied without other food, and feel much better t n d have more strength to do my housework.

"When I began the nse of Orape-Nuts I was thin and weak, my muaclos were so soft that I was not able to do

. any work. I weighed only 108 pounds. ' Nothing that I ate did me any good.

I was going down hill rapidly, was nervous and miserable, with no ambi-tion for anything. ' My condition Im-proved rapidly af ter I began to eat Crape-Nuts food. I t made me feel like a new woman; my muscles got solid, my figure rounded out, my weight Increased to 126 pounds In a

• few weeks, my nerves grew steady '' and my mind better and clearer. My f r i e n d s toll me they haven't seen me Jook so well for years. •V "I consider f?;ape-Nuts the best food on the market, and shall never go .back to meats and white bread ageln." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

There's a reason. Look in each pkg. for the littlf

booh. "The Road to Wellvillt."

A Famous Statesman's Views. Sir John Gorst, M. P., the well-

known British stafesman, who has been elected president of the Sociologi-cal society of Manchester university, in his Inaugural address, referred to the liquor question In forcible terms.

Everybody would admit, he said, that the abuse of alcohol by fhe work-ing classes was one of fhe greatest causes of all the misery wo saw mound us. But there was profound ignorance among fhe people generally upon this subject. In foreign coun-tries the use and abuse of alcohol was a subject taught in all primary schools. He was not himself a rabid teetotaler, but there was no doubt that the use of alcohol was not a thing which prolonged life. The figures of the Insurance companies proved this.

Ho had been told by the authorities of an insurance company that be-tween the years 1886 and 1889 the expectation of death among their total abstaining policy-holders' was represented by the figures 363, but tho deaths which occurred In the period were 206. The money which tho company expected to havo to pay It. this abstaining branch ot the busi-ness was in the above period £88,000; the actual sum It did pay was £56,-000. This was a real proof of tho ad-vtiufages of abstinence; but in recent

1 yc-fcrs wo had done nothing in this country to check drunkenness. The efeperience of other countries showed that by a proper administration of the law drunkenness could be greatly reduced. Norway and Sweden were at ono time drunken countries, but laws had been passed which had turn-ed them into the most sober countries of Europe.

Bishop Foss recently, "I oppose drink : early sown thin, top growth short, but | brcause it opposes me. The work I : fine root development; late sown not | try to do It undoes. It Is an obstacle ' fully sprouted, some fields now sprout-! to tho spread of the Gospel; nay, j Ing which farmers had about conclud-j II Is an obstacle which assails the j od fo plow up. Gospel and whose complete success , "Illinois crops went through winter ! would drive the Gospel from the j better than ordinary; plant Is small,] earth." ' h u t healthy and growing; along fur-;

The Northern Total Abstinence Con- rows, shallow, flat, and low places, ' gtcss which was held In Copenhagen i where fhe drainage was poor, wheat recently was attended by 1,200 tem-j suffered on account of water standing peranco agitators i rom the Scandlna- \ and freezing; much late sown wheat i vlan countries. The closing exercise | has not sprouted; the crop needs rain. 1

was a procession In which 45,000 per- j "In Ohio the crop got a late start j sons participated. A reporter who is | in the fall, but was vigorous enough j fond of figures counted 1,357 (lags and j to go through tho winter with llftlo j banners. ! or no damage; plant small, but healthy

and promising; early looks good, late needs favorable weather.

"Indiana—Prospects favorable on re-duced acreage; crop wintered well: plant small, but has long roots and will make good growth with warm weather; late sown not thrifty on thin land.

Hessian Fly in Kansas. "Kansas-Promising; Hessian fly

started out for a boat trip, but chang- jonly in isolated spots; growth back-ed their minds and took a look at 'ward on account of poor start in fall: Bishop Potter 's saloon. They though covers •ground well and Is small, frail It must be respectable, end were s^ire , and would not withstand severe there would be no herm In It. First, i weather; much that failed lo start last they took only sodas, but seeing other j fall now beginning fo grow; good rains well dressed, respectable women | would benefit crop. drinking beer, decided to try It " jus t , "Oklahoma—Plant small, but doing for fun." Miss Cooper had never fast-! nicely; crop starts well, but acreage ed beer before' and only took two j small on account of fall drouth dam-n u g s last night. Somehow the girls j age; some fields failed to germinate became separated In the crowd, and , in fall and now show poorly. realizing that she wes dizzy and be- j "Indian territory—Crop better than wildered. Miss Cooper decided tojaf , this season in a number of years; v,alk htime, rather than make e fool o f : backward last fall, but winter rains herself on the car. Soon she lost her j and snow made it promising, way and became maudlin, when an i "Kentucky—Crop got late start, and. officer found her and took her to tho 1 while plant Is beginning to grow, it police station. This is the most strik- i looks weak and small, yet has a chance Ing moral lesson which hes yet come to come out all right; smothered by from "The Bishop's," although It has ice in spots.

Salt Rising Bread

a Specialty...

BEHL'S where you will also find all the products of a Hrat ClanaBaVery-Plfs, Oakci Cookies, DonugbU, Puns, all kinds of Bread, etc.

Once a customer, alwayo a customer.

N o t h i n g h a s ever equalled i t N o t h i n g c a n ever s u r p a s s i t

Dr. King's New Discovery

A Perfect F o r All Th roa t a n d C u r e ; Lung Troubles.

Money back If It fella. Trial Bottiea fre*.

developed thet meny men heve been known to become drunk in the place end even women have gone out "feel-ing their hops."—^Ram's Horn.

"Tennessee—Prospects good; came through winter In good shape; plant small, but thrifty; some poor hillsides and other poor spots winter killed,! but this Is not serious.

"Texas—Outlook uniformly good; { crop two weeks late, but looks fine, is ; growing well and spreading rapidly: j early sown looks better than the late."

Plan to Teach Temperance.

The reports made by members of tho Mosely commission on American sys-tems of education, showing how defi-cient ere the English schtols In Im-pertlng knowledge of practical value, provided an additional stimulus to the doctors in their self-imposed task. In the report of the committee of the medical profession In charge of the matter, of which Sir William Broad-bont Is chairman, especial emphasis Is laid on the example set by the Unit-ed States. "Every one of the United States of America," Englishmen are there told. "Includes among Its educa-tion laws provision for the compulsory teaching of hygiene and temperance. Further, the laws of the United States of America require the examination of teachers in these topics."

The English physicians want the same kind of Instruction given In Eng-lish free schools that has long formed par t of the curriculum of fhe Ameri-can public schools. The movement Is onfi of the many Indications that. John Bull is bent, on trying bard to catch up vfith Uncle Sam. The lameniablo lack bi elementary literature on temperance and hygiene in England Is strikingly Illustrated by the fact thgt In oreoar-V.

Tempcrance Public Houses. Temperance advocates gathered In

strong force at & meeting held recent-ly in Birmingham, England. In con-tiLuatlon of the movement started a year ego for the provision of social PLUNGES OVER 125-FOOT CLIFF rocreations for the people and conn-ter-atfractious to the public hour.e. Man Thought to Have Ouarreled With there aro. now sixty-six temperance, Woman Before He Fell. social clubs' in the city, of which Paterson, N. J.. dispatch: After a eleven are in disused jjpbllc houses. n i,ai-rel on the top of a cliif 125 feet The city council has. offered to allow one of the public baths to bo used as a club, but declined to undertake any expenditure in fittlng.lt up. It was dccirfed to carry out a scheme of alteretlon costing $1,500. The move-

high on the outskirts of this city, in which the voices of a man and a i woman were heard in angry tones, tho j dead body of John Bennett, an insur-ance agent, was found at the foot ot i the oliff. His skull was fractured, his j

ment has tbo support of Mr. Arthur! a r m broken and there was a deep c u t ' Chamberlain and other prominent i o v c , . 0no eye. Whether he was thrown men. . i o v c r the cliff or fell by accident is nn-1

j I known, but the county and city author-1 The Work of Whisky. i jties are searching for an unknown j

"Whisky is to blame for my mlsfor- \ Womau whose voice was heard in nr-1 tune. My husband would never h a v e ' gument with a man only a little while

Jones' Livery

Will g i ro you first-class service a t mode ra t e prices.

Good horses carr iages , b o t h double.

and modern single a n d

East Bid*.

Near Hote l Lowell .

Lowell.

R T P ' A ' N ' S T a b u i e t D o c t o r s find

A gfootl p r e s c r i p t i o n F o r m a n k i n d

The S-ci'nt packet Is unouKh for UBuM oivas-slon Tin- fiinilly bottle (60 rents) contalua a supply fur a year. All dru^lsts sell iliotn.

BERNARD C. WIECK, ATTOUNEY AND COUNfcJELOU...

PoBtolHee BIdjf. Lowell, Mfch.

LTi the rcllnhle p n t e n t i iml lrlncH ad vert Isod in

ki hlHpii|ior n n ' sold by D. e*. l.OOK, the LowellDruff a n u liuok man.

J T . I > . I v o l l y ^ H o n s .

OARTAQE AND TEAMING

Moving In toVn and to nnrt from outside towns a specialty. R a t e s R e a s o n a b l e .

Sat i s fac t ion ( juarantei-d. Phone 223or I I .

OLA M. JOHNSON

Ptibllo Stenographer and Type Writer

With Tho Lowell Udcer . Phone 200

P E R E M A R Q U E T T E

Doc. 4, 10M. Trains leave Lowell as.follows:

For Detroit and East 10 60 am

For Toledo and South 10 50 am

For Grand Rapids, North and West 10 60 am 8 62 p a

For Saginaw and Bay City 7 50 sm 5 49 pm

For Freeport 4 85 pm 13.L. BiuxTon, H . F . UORIAXB, Agt. G«n. Pass. A gen

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM,

Arrival and departure of trains from Lowell WS ST BOUND.

No 17*OraDd Haven Express 9 28 turn. NolfctMail and Ex to QdRapids 12 24 p j» . No ISfMail to Gd Haven &Ch^;o4 63 p.m-No l l fMail and Ex to GdHaven 9 17 poa.

BIST BOUND No 12|Mail and Express No 22+Detroit Express No IStHvening Express No 14 •Eastern Express

• Kos. 14 and 17 Daily. f Daily except Bnnday.

A.O. HEYDiAtrrv,Agent,

7 28 a.m. 10 (0 a.m. S 13 p.m 7 64 p.m.

RESTORES YOUTH. CURES J

1ERV0USDEBII

lis tho tint wouWie to a p<i,be*ntar Ktvo capacity foe Btirglosi aad inaafil

nit mtkollfe vorth living.

Ifhe world adrntm m m *("> »ro rtron*! mental and ncrro forrej men of aTobiilm, personal roagiictlan; the tnio typeot perfcct

To attain thli — ~ 'Nttvti. which dctclotiraentan< .

BCFfER'S NERVIOOR mates Strenft < CnKs Ncrvou* Debility. filliiU ••moty.. ncis, rmtrallofi, SieaptosMraanaotB«t to OTCT worlc. Binoklne, drutc habits aaa other camifc Kakae rich, healthy blTOd Had repalrtwtBted nmrrm.

Konally pood for women. Booklet fn*. price tt.00 a box. Six focfc-OO. postpaW, With • C«a»

antee to refund. It not caiedor neneflted. REMA MCOICAL AUOCIATIOH. CMICAOO, U. & Small size 50c. Sold b y A. D . STURGIS

% BUY THE

Before Yoa Purchase Any Otbor'Wrlla TEE NEW HOME SEWIN8 MACHINE CIMPAIV

ORANdC, MASS. Many Sewing Machines are made to sell retrarth

Jessoi quality, but the '* X«w Homo" I s made to wean Our guaranty never runs out

We make Sev/fng Machines to suit all eondhloas of thetrade. The ••Itew HoimoM stands at th« head of all Hlffh-ffnide family acv/infr machlma

6*14 by an tbo r l s ed dea lers • n l y , FOR SAUC BY

O h a . 8 . A . l t h e n .

shot me or killed himself it he had been In his right senses."

Struggling between HCe and death, Mrs. John Fllckouschlld. whose hus band shot her and then committed siU cide. thinking that he had killed her sought to excuse his violence In the foregoing words.

The tragedy followed a celebration

before (hp body was found. Bennett was last seen by his wife t h ; day be-fori-, when she reproved him for drink-leg-

Stick to Stanford Verdict. Honolulu cablegram: In reply to j

P r o f . Jordan and Timothy Hopkins. ! who recently announced their conclu- Jail on...

of the twentieth anniversary of their ' gions that ihe death of Mrs. Stanford 1 marriage. The shooting occurred af ter j -.vas due to natural causes, Edmund Mrs. Fllckenschild upbraided her hus- ' Shcrey. chemist of the United States band for returning late a t night and i agricultural station, and Drs. Wood, in a disorderly condition. The two Murray and Humphris have signed a daughters, Elsie, IS years old, and Ber-1 statement in which they reiterate __ tie, 17 years old, lought to assist their 1 thoir finding that strychnine killed j '

Wood Phone 127 Office In U. B. WllllamB* J e w e l r y s to re .

s a d

Earl Hunter. ^ C o a l

mother from the maddened man, but wore ovorpuwercd.—Chicago Aiacr; can.

Supporting the State. A brewery agent writes In com-

plaint of the religious revival in Schpiioctady i h . t It Is Inlorfertag wilh i " a s a r < . s t l l t 0 [ t h o | „ s , l r r e < i . the saloon business, and after telling

Mrs. Stanford.

Martial Law Ends in Brazil.

Rio De Janeiro cablegram: A de-cree has been Issued terminating the slate of martial law which was pro-claimed Feb. 4 throughout the whole

of the revenues paid by liquor deal-ers into, the s tate treasury, he asks: "Now, how much do churches pay to-ward supporting the state?" Well, as churches, nothing; but church mem-bers support the state rather mor» liberally than hard drinkers ever did. —Brooklyn Eagle.

tionary movement in Brazil.

Wrecked Rafts Cause Big Loss. Ford, Ky.. dispatch: Five httn-

drod rafts of logs broke loose and washed away the river bank, under-mining and wrecking tho government buildings, causing a loss of $200,000.

COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO., LTD. « (Wlddh 'o in l ) nullding. Grand RapWa.

O F F I C E S - Det ro i t Opera House Block, De t ro i t . (Mil ler Block. .Muskegon.

REPORTS AND CREDIT ADVICES. C O L L E C T I O N S AND A D J U S T M E N T S

Our Red Letter, Direct Demand System col lects s low accounts 100 por cent net. Personal at tenth n to business throughout Michigan.

Cieiand, Stevenson and Minor AHys. ARSoclat* Oflces and Bonded A ttorucya Tbrourbout the United States and Oanada.

fe.

F r o m O u r

P o i n t o f V i e w .

COMMENTS bave been nia«ie upon the protest uttered by this paper against the proposed execution of Wil l iam Whiting, some seem-ing to think we were discussing tho question of his guilt or innooencc. Not so. An opinion on that point at this distance from the scene of aotion—Seattle—would be presump-tuous. Granted that the boy u guilty as charged, and there seems to be no doubt that he is w a hard case," we affirm that he has also been sinned against; and that tha t fact should save—not from punish ment—but his life. Ho was not BORN r ight; he was not REARED

right. The world is coming to see that its criminals are the result of social and govorninental wrongs; that heredity and training, circum stances beyond the control of their victims, are in a great degree re-sponsible for crime. So seeing, the laws oftstates and nations have been greatly changed; and tho reforma-tion—not death—of the criminal is now sought. The death penalty, once almost universally inflicted— in many oases for the most trivial offenses—is now resorted to in but few states and nations and seldom in those except in the most aggra vated oases. We say again: Wil-liam Whi t ing should ne t be execu-ted.

IF EVER a man retired from office in disgrace, that man is Governor Peabody of Colorado. As a strike-breaker he outdid all the other law-breakers. Deservedly defeated for re-election, after a campaign of the most disgraceful corruption on both sides, he has connived to unseal hie competitor by usurping the gover-norship and then resigning it to the lieutenant governor. Many of his partisans refused to endorse his high-handed course; and bis own ac-tion shows that he knows t e was not elected, and that he was contempt-tible enough to defeat the will ol the people. Mr. Adams returns to private life, vastly the better es-teemed man. The probabilities are tha t two years f rom now, the de-cent people of Colorado will so speak at the polls that no Peabody imita-tor will dare to question their man-date.

SENATOR FYFE has thought bet-ter of it, and will graciously permit the people to elect their own Board of Auditors. I t is a good thing— for Mr. Fyfe . This delegating away of the people's rights has gone to the limit. The whole nation is cursed now by a U. S. Senate of old fogy millionaires elected by corrupt or incompetent legislatures at an unnecessary and perpetual cost to the public of millions of dollars and a sacrifice of principle and decency. T h e people have enough- to do in r ight ing this great wrong without repeating blunders made 118 years ago.

THERE will be no Democratic township caucus in Lowell this year. The faithful half-dozen who have given their time and paid the bills for lo these many year* have had a plenty, thank you. Of course there should be two tickets in the field; but you can't expect a hand-tal of fellows to do it all, ALL THE TIME. The chance is good for an-other coterie of patriots to ' 'Ral ly round the flag, boys," and sacritice themselves on their country's altar. There 's nothing like it.

ATTORNET ROGERS will once more ask the Board of Supervisors to pay him $660 for his self-sought job of "knocking out" the Board of Aud-itors law, a job the people did not want, and one that he agreed to do fo r $100. Vote " N o , " Mr. Snper-yisor.

The Ledger has secured a good correspondent a t Ada. One is need-ed t o fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Fero of South Lowell. Others a t r needed a t Bowne Center, Elmdale and G r a t t a n Center. Stamps, stationery and the paper furnished. Corresponding for news-papers is excellent practice for young people, helping them in many ways. Assistance in filling these vacancies on our staff will be appreciated by the editor.

SCHOOL NOTC*.

From the Olympic, Mar. 17. The Adeiphlc aoctety gave a very

interesing program this af ternoon. Miss Eva Knee of Keene wn« i

guest of the High school las t week. Yards ot ribbon and "Ninety-nine

green bot t les" denoted the "wearing of the green" in the High school to-day .

Miss Edith Stone Is absent account of sickness.

The English 3 class has commenced the s tudy of American Literature

The members of the Glee club are progressing wonderfully in their work under the careful instruction of Mr. Thomas, and hope In a short t ime t o appear In public.

Miss Ella Curtlss leaves school to-day . While a member of the High school Miss Curtlss has won many friends who will be sorry to have her go.

The En(rlish 2 class, having finish ed "Silas Marner." will take up the s tudy of "A Talc of T w o Cities."

The following were visitors a t the High school thSs Week: Miss Maude Evans of Grand Rapids, Miss Dolly Huyge, Miss Margaret Plunkett of Muskegon and Charlie Wood of Colorado.

on

' InfUmmttory ftheaatiSM Cured. Win. Shaffer, a brakeman of Den-

nison, Ohio, was confined to his bed for several weeks with inflammatory rheumatism. "1 used many rem-edies," he says. "Finally 1 sent to McCaw's drug store for a bott le of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, a t which time 1 was unable t o use hand or foot, and In one week's time was able t o go t o work a s happy as a clam." For sale by A. D. Sturgis.

Avon. Brown is very sick with Charlie

typhoid fever. Clarence H a r t Is sawing wood for

Harley Henry. They expect t o have three or four hundred cords.

Geo. Sitzer and mother will move t o C. T. Fros t ' s farm near Millbrook. having rented it for the coming year.

Miss Ora Scott went t o Millbrook las t Wednesday, t o help care for Mrs. C. • N. Frost , who is In very poor health.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbot, Mrs. C. Scott and Mrs. Uobt Sparks attend-ed the open meeeingof the Maccabees a t Smyrna Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Rihne of Bruce Crossing are visiting relatives in this vicinity.

What ' s the mat ter with the Smyrna Maccabees? They're all right. If you don ' t think so you should at tend some of their gather-ings and you will soon join them, as there Is not a more lively or enter-taining hive or ten t in Michigan than theirs.

Philip Rhodes will have a public auction March 2.'{. Mr. Rhodes will move t o St. Johns soon.

Mrs. Belle Choate has moved her household goods t o the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie Strong, where she will make her future home.

No. of Bank 111.

Report of the Condition of

The Lowell State dank - a t -

LOWELL, MICHIGAN

At the clone ot fcnnines*, March 14, I90S as called tor by the Cone

missionerot the Banking Hepartraent.

RESOURSES

Loans and discounts Bonds, mortRBfes and socnrltlos Premiums paid on bonds Ranking house Furni ture and flxlurrs Items In Transit Due from Banks In re-

sorvo d t i M $40,337 17 U. S. and National Bank

curroncy 4.13« no Gold Coin 4.0X1 ft) Silver tV>ln 978 8ft Nickels and Cents 122 74 68,574 71 Checks, i-aRh I tems Internal

revenue account jpfi m Total

LIABILITIES

f 43.1W 04 M.ODI fift 2,000 00 4,900 00 2,200 00

10,552 !i7

211,410 41

Capital stock paid in surplus fund Undivided profits, net surplus fund

pre Commercial deposits Savings deposits Savings certificates

Total

45,863 M 103,1152 35 3MI0 04

25,000 00 5,000 00 I 3,102 .Vi

17.s.22ii 85 211,410 41

State of Michigan, County of Kent, as 1, W E. Marsh. Cashier of the above named

hank, do solemnly swear t h a t the above state-ment is t rue lo the In-sl o t my knowlc-dge and belief. W. E. Marsh, Cashier.

Subscribed ami sworn before me this isth day of March, 1005.

My commission expires Sent 18, lOort. Oavld C. Mange. Notary Public.

Correct A Uest Chas. McCarty J Prank T, King -P. VV Wnyan 1

Directors

RMC*11 Medical News

PBASODY must Even the Detroit him u p . "

be bad indeed. Jonrnal " th rows

Tort we have the Medusa brand land cement, fully guaranteed.

Lowell Lumber Co. Marshall Field, the noted Chiago

merchant who broke his leg a short t ime ago, s tar ted las t week for a t r ip through the South, accom-panied by Dr. Wilbur E. Pos t , as his physician. They were also accompanied by Robt. T. Lincoln, oldest son of the martyred president. The [tarty are now a t Hampton Terrace near Augusta,Ga.

The s tory Is told of an old bach-elor who bought a pair of socks and found attjhehed t o one a paper with these words: "I am n young lady of 20 and would like to correspond with a bachelor with a view to mat-rimony." Name and address were tfiven. Bachelor wrote and In a few days go t this reply: "MammH was marrried twenty years ago. Ev-idently the merchant from whom yon bought those socks did not advertise, or he would have sold them long ago. My mother handed me your letter and said possibly I might suit. 1 am 18.'J i

D e b i l i t y

Catarrh is clearly the cause of debility. No person free of catarrh in my opinion was ever troubled with debility. So you will readily under-stand that the cure of debility de-pends entirely on the cleaning out of the catarrhal parasites. No de-bility cure will ever cure you as long as yon have catarrh. Catarrh is the cause. Debility is the result. Then get rid of the cause. No remedy will every cure you but a catarrh remedy, and no other remedy will do il but Rcxall Mucu-Tone. 1 make this statement because I know what Mucu-Tone is and what it will do — and doesn't it stand to reason that a remedy designed for one partrc-ular purpose — as Mucu-Tone for catarrh only — is going to give re-sults a hundred times better than a cure-all that aims at every disease in the dictionary ?

Then I back up our statement wtth the broad and liberal guarantee that if Mucu-Tone fails to give you any relief we refund the price you pay me. I can afford to make this state-ment because we know Mucu-Tone will positively euro you, since Mucu-Tone acts entirely different to any other remedy we know of and we think 1 know ihem all. Mucu-Tone acts in a scientihc way by tirst of all destroying the deadly catarrhal germs — ridding the system of every trace. Then as the very name—Mucu-Tone — implies, it tones up the mucous tissues, the tissues on which the catarrhal parasites live. Then there is a chance to get well. No other remedy but Rexall Mucu-Tone will doi t . Get Mucu-Tone. It destroys every trace of the genns of catarrh. It heals and soothes the tissues. I t tones up the entire system, I have a large trial size for fifty cents that I g u a r a n t e e to give results. I want you to try a bottle on my per-sonal recommendation.

Hilly Uarber ban signed with Mauajnu' Gatigel t o catch for the Urand Rapids base ball team t his season. Hilly played with the Lake Linden team in the Copper County league hist Hoason and was regarded aw the Htar catcher of the league.

KRKMC CICXTKR. Ijola Wood spent. Saturday and

Sunday at the home of Amber Plckard a t Lowell.

The family of Anthony Kahn are all ill with grip.

Miss Mary Daller is sewing for her aunt , Mrs. Paul d'uerenstciu, this week.

Mrs. Mark l l rown of Otiseo has been s|>cndlng a few days with her mother. Mi's. T. Daniels.

School has closed for a week's vacation.

Remember the Missionary meeting at the Keene church Monday even-ing Mar. 17th. Revs. Sturgis and Holeomb of Lowell will conduct it, and all are invited.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest I'inkney were guests of Mrs. T. Daniels Thursday evening.

Mrs. ('has. Merriman of Grand Rapids, who is s|>cndlng a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. t'.. A. l^ee, lias been visiting Lowell friends for several days.

Mrs. T. Daniels is s|)cnding a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Mark Browin a t Otiseo, where she will be treated for rhenmatisin.

Mark Brown is recovering and has made a trip to Belding, though very weak.

J a k e S t a a l of (irandville is spend-ing t w o weeks with his niiele, (i. Staal .

Miss Helen Staal is visiting her sister, Mrs. Veenstra, In Grand Rapids.

Muriel Potter is working for Mrs. Dale Bo wen this season.

Our telephone line was out of order Sunday night and all the phones on Uie line and a number of others kept up an incessant ringing for several hours. The line was re-pulred Monday morning.

Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Speoialty.

Q. G. TOW3LEY, M. . Office over McUaity's store. Lowell,Mich

E X C U R S I O N S VIA THE

P E R E MA R Q U E T T E low Ra les to Iho West- One W«v. S e c

otid-CIa** Colonia l I ' a r c a t h e West, Noi-ihwcat nnd Ca l i fo rn i a .

On March 1, liWS, extremely low one-way rates will be offered t o points in the West, Northwest and to California. Tickets will be on sale every day through tlfe month of March.

Ask Pere Marquette ticket agent for particulars or write to H. .1. (iray D. P. A. (Jrand Rapids.

M. K. Moiler, O. P. A., Detroit. Sett ler ' s l a res to the Sontft and Sontli

Kaat. Reduced rate tickets on sale first

and t hird Tuesdays of each month until April. See agents for Hates and Routes.

D. G. LOOK. -*gt>nc* I T ]

FARM POR SALK—80 acres, 2 miles north and cas t of Hastings city; gooii buildings: apple and peach orchard, the la t te r 1100 t rees ; ' c lay soil: Is In a good s ta te of cul-tivation. Chas. B. Baldwin.

Hastings, Mich. Phone 164 3r. lw

F o r Sale. The Gem laundry building and the

building first door eas t of same. In-quire of Mrs. A. P. Hunter . tf

Notice. All those indebted t o tno are re-

quested t o call a t the Phin Smith shoe s tore formerly, the D. F. But t ' s store, before April 1, and sett le with Will Burdlck or myself. D. F. But ts .

Fo r Sale or Rent.

Large house and lot in village of Lowell, on easy terms. See or ad-dress Harr ie t L. DeVoe, Lowell, Mich. tf.

Fa rm for 'Saio .

One hundred acres in Vergeunes, within S m i l e s of 1 A)well Main street, 85 acres plow land, 13 acres good size second g r o w t h hard wood tim-ber. All good land, buildings, plenty of water , orchards, etc. Apply a t this office. t r

Two Farms For Sale. Cheap. 159 acres, good apple and

peach orchards, stream of water , fair buildings, 20 acres t imber, fair fences, (50 acres new seeding. 4 miles from Lowell. '

Eighty acres, 00 improved. 20 of t imber. ' Inquire of Geo. F. McGec or pbone 581 l-2s. tf

LOWELL, MICHIGAN. Offlcc a t Residence.

Accoachcment and Diseases of Chiidreo A Specialty.

Ladlf* who a re troubled with Went,MOSS will find rollof ay using my ANTISKI-TU; DoncBK Powm.R.

n i l C O i n a n y f o ^ m a ^ c < , a I 1 < r e r o u 9 • ^ , e a l t h • ^ • ^ r ^ dostroyinc. doath-doailQK. SSconta • insures your life A trial Jar ot "Hermit" Salvo will prove Its infallibility, a & Mo. AUtJni^K'isus. Hermit Remedy Co., Chicago.

Si'ATE OI-" MICHIGAN, The Probate Oourt for the (.Viunty K e n t . At a session of

said court, held in the city of Grand Rapids, (in the Itlth day Of March A. D . I90fi

Present: HON. HARRY D JEWKLL,Judge of Probate.

in the mat te r o f j ' t h e es ta te of PETER MANN doceased, Don A. Mann having filed In said court his petition praying that said court ad judica te and determine who were a t i he time of his deat h tho lotal heirs of said deceased and t-ntltled to Inherit the real (•.state of which said do>'oa.*ed died seized.

I t is orderd tha t the 17th day of April A. D.. 1005, a t ten o'clock in the forenoon, a t said probate office, be and is hereby appointed for said petition.

I t Is f u r the r ordered t h a t public notice thereof bo given by publication of a copy of t his order for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing. In the LOWEI.L LKDOKR a newspaper printed and circulated in said county I I AUKY D. JKWEIJ., Judge of Probate.

Alvln E . Ewlng (A t rue copy ) Register of Probate.

STATE OF MICH IG AN. The Probate Conrt for t heOoun tyo f K e n t . At a session of

said court, held a t the probate office In tho city Grand Rapids, In said county, on theSnd day of March 'A. II. 1906.

Present :HON. HARRY I> JEWELL, Judge of Probate

in the mat te r of the es ta te of LOniSA (TOVIi.LE deceased, Alice Covllle, now Thompson, having Hied In said court her finanl administration account, and her peti-tion praying for tho allowance thereof and for the assignment and distribution of the residue of said estate.

It is ordered that, the 3rd day of April, A 1)., 1005 a t ten o'clock In the forenoon, at said probate office, be and is hereby appoint-ed for examining and allowing said account and hearing said petition

i l l s f u r the r ordered, that public notice thereof bo given by publication of a copy of this order for three successive weeks previous to sjildVlay of hearing, In the LOWKM, LRNOER a newspaper printed and circulated in said county. HARRY I). JEWEI/L, Judge of Probate.

Alvln E Ewlng (A true copy.) Register of Probate.

NOTICE or SALFE OF REAL ESTATE. State of Michigan, the Probate Oourt for

the County of Kent. In the ma t t e r of the es ta te of Asa Fletcher,

doccasod, late of Kent county . Notice Is hereby given that , by vir tue of an

orderof said court, made on the S7th day of February, A. I>., 1005, 1 shall sell a t public auction, on t h e H t h d a y o f April, A. D., 1905. at 10 o'clock in Uie forenoon at the farm or Mitlate Asa Fletcher on Section thir ty (30) Boston, Ionia county, Michigan, the interest of said es ta te In t he following described real estate, to-wlt: Coinmenclng at the south west, corner of Section nineteen po] Town six 111] North, Ranee eight [8] West, lonlacounty. Michigan, running thence Eas t seventeen 11. j rods, thence North twelve [121 rods thence West seventeen |I71 rods, t hence South twelve [151 rods to place of beginning. 'A Iso t h e following described lands s i tua te

on Section Thirty (30) Town six (fi) North. Range eliclit. (s) West, Ionia county, Michigan to-wlt: the west half (K) of the North West quar te r (t<i) of said Section thir ty (30) excep-ting and reserving therefrom a piece of laud forty MO) rods In width from tho South end of said West half (4 ) of said North West quar-ter (Si) heretofore deeded to Frederick Slam-ma and (20 survey.

Also the North one-half (!4J of the North East fractional quar te r (NI of Section twonty-flve (25), Town six (fi). North of Range Nine (!•) West, Kent County, Michigan

i/ !•< i'K'ivi •* •M-fdfii WJ rnxji-nu* r»iniu" in Josephine Slamma containing twenty icres more or less, according to D . S.

GRAND TRUNK RAfLWAY SYSrEM WEKTBOI7SD FROM t-OWEIX.

No. 17 Grand Haven Local • «5* ^ No. ID Grand Rapids Ux al +|^ w p. m. No. 13 Grand Havon JjOi-nl i -I B» p rn. No. II Grand Haven Local t i l 17 p. in.

tARTBOtJND FROM I/1WEI.I,. No. 12 Detroit UK-AI •»728a .m No. 22 Detroit Express im 00 a. m. No. is Detroit Local + a is m. No. 14 Dnrand Locai • 7 51 p. m.

t Dally except Sunday. • lially. A. O.lllEYDLAUFF, Agent.

Also t he following described premises situ (j

. rW) . of King anil Amphlett 's Addition

ate in the Village of Ijowell, Mlohiiran. lo-wlt, "Lot one (l). Block live (6)

vent Cennty, (6)

Dated t, • LEVI FI

ml day of March, A.D., 10(15. /ETCHER, Administrator.

O O U H O I V F O R

1 v0oV

Sewing M a c h i n e

Contest

M

Write name plainly aud correctly

A n n o u n c e m e n t .

Since we opened for business here las t October,, we have lieent teadlly engaged in get t ing in a fine large stock, so t h a t we have the* most complete line in this pa r t of the s ta te , consisting of

Lumber, Lath, Sh inges Posts and Interior Finish

We make a 8i»eclalt.v of DOORS and WINDOWS of everv de-Si" 0 h A v e o n band the celebrated MEDUSA

PORTLAND CEMENT—the best and s t rongest In theworld. As we are connected with a wholesale Inmlier company we have special facilities for buying cheap, and no mat t e r ' how far a w a y you a rc nor w h a t you are going t o b illd. It would p a y you t o figure with us before you buy, as we can save you money. ^VE S H I P ANYWHERE* IN T H E STATE.

L O W E L L L U M B E R C O .

$ 3 3 t o t h e

P a c i f i c C o a s t

Every day, March 1 to April 15, 1905, from Chicag-o. Choice of routes via the

C h i c a g o , M i l l w a u k e e & S t . P a u l

R a i l w a y

Via St. Paul and Minneapolis, via Omaha, or via Kansas City. Tickets j ood in tourist sleeping- cars, in which the rate for a double berth, Chicag-o to Pacific Coast points, is is only $7.

ROBERT C. JONES, .Michigan Pa t s enga r Agent,

3 2 C A M P U S M M T I U S , DETROIT .

Send me book descriptive of

N ame

Address

I t ' s W a l l P a p e r T i m e

-Never before have wc been able to make such a showing m Wall Paper—never before have we had such a variety m designs, shades and colorings—never before were we so well fixed with paper to suit every taste— the newest and best of the greatest manufacturers.

T h o u s a n d s o f D o u b l e R o l l s

i n S t o c k .

These are not "leftovers"or old stock" but Wall Paper up to the minute"—the best thing-s of the new stylish papers for every room in the house.

Come let us show you our Wall Paper. We can save you money.

A . D . S t u r g i s

D r u g g i s t .

Farmers I Buy Cream. 1 pay Cash foT it each week.

^ I buy the actual fiit in the cream.

I pay you the highest New York quotation for it delivered at Saginaw, Owosso or Clare. Suit yourself.

A clear offer. New York prices and Cash.

Write me

E . F . D U D L E Y ,

Owosso, Mich.

O n r

Coontry Cousins

ALTO.

Ted Ellis has commenced work for Harris Brothers again Good luck t o you, Ted.

Albert Broadbent died a t his home a t Caledonia after a long Illness with consumption. The funeral was held a t the Whitney ville church Sunday Mar. 19, under the auspices of Alto lodge I . O. O.K., of which he was a member.

Our beautiful snow has changed t o a coa t of mud. x

Isaac Brannin, an Alto pioneer, died a t his home, last Thursday. Funeral services were held Sunday morning a t eleven o'clock, a t the Alto Baptis t church, aud Interment was made in the Merriman cem-etery.

Mrs. Eunice McVean of Lowell \ Islted W. W. Proctor last Thursday.

Mrs. Bond went to Salem I ant week and returned Sa turday bring-ing the doctor 's mother home with her for t reatment .

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bunker are settled In their new home, recently purchased of Ed. Smith.

rover Harr is Is In Grand Rapids a t the hospital, undergoing an oper-ation, His many friends wish him a speedy recovery.

v The Colonel's Waterloo.

Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey (Jrove, Texaa, nearly met his Water-loo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent letter, he says: "I was nearly dead of these complaints, and al though 1 tried my family doctor, he did me no pood; so I go t a 50c. bott le of your grea t Electric Bitters, which cutvd me. I consider t hem the best medicine on ear ih , and thank

tTod who gave you knowledge to make them." Sold and guaranteed t o cure Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Kidney Disease, by 1). G. Look, drngglst , a t 50c a bottle.

isKLBY CORKERS.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schneider spent Saturday and Sunday a t Ionia.

Mrs. Seeley is improving in health, af ter an IllneSs which has lasted all Winter.

Several people from Success grange attended the County grange a t Whltneyvllle l as t Wednesday and Thursday.

Chan. Wolcoti of Grand Rapids Is spending several days in this neigh-borhood. Ho haa just recovered from an illnes of typhoid fever.

A dancing par ty and sugar social will be held a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Loren l^ewls next Wednesday evening.

Several from this place attended the funeral of Isaac Brannan a t Alto Sunday.

Wm. Hesche attended the Sunday school convention a t Grand Rapids las t week.

one year with Hoberts & Windsor a t Gihralter, on Kogne river. In Septemiier, 1848, lie worked In the

Jrlst mill a t Cannonsburg. The next une he rented the grist mill and

waa in the employment of the owner nine years. Soon after leaving; the mill he purchased eighty acres ad-joining a farm he had Bought, and has owned this entire farm until his removal t o Orand Rapids t w o y< ars ago> His wife died in .Inly, 1880, and he married Mrs. Emily Thomas In 1881. One son waa horn t o this union. Clinton Nesbitt, who resides with his widowed mother a t their home In Grand Rapids. The be-reaved have the sympathy of a host of friends ami relatives in this community.

— v - -Proper Treamc tt of Pncnmoti ia .

Pneumonia Is too danRcrons a dis-ease for anyone to a t t emp t t o doctor himself, al though he may have the proper remedies a t h an d. A physician should a lways be called. It should lie borne in mind, however, t ha t pneumonia a lways results from a cold or from an a t tack of the grip, and t h a t by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the threatened at-tack of pneumonia may lw warded off. This remedy is also used by physicians in the t r ea tment of pneu-monia with the best results. Dr. W. J . Smith, of Sanders. Ala., who Is also a druggist, says of it: ''1 have lieen selling Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and prescribing it in my practice for the past six years. 1 use it in cases of pneumonia and have a lways got ten the best results." Sold by A. I). Sturgis.

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VERRRNKRS STATION.

Mrs. Alec Wingler of Eas t Lowell spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Frank Keech.

A large number attended Mrs. Ford's n ig bee a t the home of her father, David Condon, one day last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reed visited at the home of S. Norman a t Parnell last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ford Spent Sun-day wlih Mr. Norton and family in (J r a t t a n .

Mr. Oursch of Alto visited his daughter, Mrs. F. Keech, last week.

Willis Purdy went t o Grand Rap-ids l as t Wednesday on business.

Mr. and Mrs. Abner Richmond of Otlsco are 'moving back to their farm here.

Fred Miller bought John Martin's fann Inst week and Is moving on to It.

Mrs. M. Lavender went to Orleans Friday, returning Saturday night .

Mr. and Mrs. .lames Holly visited a t Belding and Orleans last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Franc Vanderbrock were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Por ter Friday.

John Denise lias rented his farm to Mr. Stouffer.

Srlfcm HMdaa Rocks. When your ship of health strikes

the hidden rocks of Consumption, Pneumonia, etc., you are lost, if you don ' t get beip from Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. J . W. McKInnon, of Talladega Springs. Ala., writes: " I ha^ been very ill wi th Pneumonia, under the care of t w o doctors, b n t was get t ing no bet-ter when 1 began t o t ake Dr. King's New Discovery. The f irs t dose gave relief, and one bot t le cured me." Snre cure for sore t h roa t , bron-chitis, coughs and colds. Guaran-teed a t Look's drug storo, price 50c and |LOO. Trial bottle free.

CAlfXONSBIJBQ.

Jas . Nesbitt died Tuesday, March 14. The funeral was held last Thursday afternoon from the Con-gregational church a t Cannonsburg, under the auspices of Gra t t an lodge F. & A. M., of which deceased w as a memlter. Rev. Hancock officiated. Interment was In the Cannonsburg cemetery.

He was born In Salem, Washing-ton Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1822. He was married Jan . 3, 1H44, t o Aillda Helmer of the sama place. To them were bom three sons and one daugh-ter, Alice Alllda, Thomas, Leroy and Theron M. The oldest t w o died In infancy, Leroy who was in the Civil service of U.S. A^ died a t Look-out Mountain, Chatanooga, 1802. The youngest son. Lawyer T. M. Nesbitt, is a resident of Ionia. In the Fan of 1847. Mr. Nesbitt, with, his family, ihoved from New York the town of Cannon, Michigan. A ter coming to this state, be work"

Mexall Medical News.

O v e r e a t i n g .

Lots of people think a big appe-tite is a sure sign of health and a guarantee of long life, when, as a matter of fact I don't know of any-thing more dangerous to a person's general health. Appetite is just the natural desire for food. Both loss of appetite and over eating are causcs for alarm. An insatiable appetite is a sure sign of diabetes. I t is not what you eat but what you digest that does you good. Some of the strongest and healthiest persons I know are moderate eaters. Over-eating" is a very common habit that ought to be attended to before it develops into a chronic complaint Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are a spe-cifi9 for that particular ailment, and I recommend them to my customers every day and have yet to hear of the first person who has not been benefitted by them. Of course the r e a s o n is e a s y to understand — Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are pre-pared for dyspepsia only. T h e y are from the prescription of a phy-sician whose whole practice was de-voted to stomach troubles, and to make the offer doubly safe on your part I guarantee Rcxall Dyspepsia Tablets to give prompt and perma-nent relief or I refund your money. I have a l a r g e trial s i z e , c o n -taining seventy-five doses for twenty-fivt ccnts. I want you to try a box

/on my personal recommendation.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Soules of Grand Rapids are visiting here. ,

Terry Corrigan was severely Injured Inst Wednesday by falling from a hand-car. 11 is face and chest were cut and Injured. He was taken t o the home i>f John Miller and on .Thursday was removed to his mother's.

Mrs. Kropf, Sr., of Lowell, former-ly of this place, was buried here Tuesday.

Star t l ln s Morlnlit.v. Statistics show star t l ing mortali-

ty, from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure these awful dis-eases,' there is just one reliable reme-dy. Dr. King's New l.ife Pills. M. Flannery. of 1-1 Custom House Place, Chicago, says: "They have no equal for Constipation and Billonsuess. •25c a t 1). G. Look's, druggist .

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KAST I.OWRI.L..

Miss Jones closed a very successful term of Schopl Friday with a picnic dinner. vWe are glad to learn tha t she will teach the Spring term.

Mrs. Bonner of Traverse City will spend the summer wi th her daughter, Mr. F. M. Godfrey.

Myron Kyser was in Grand Rapids one day last week.

Mrs. Dottle llendershott and t w o children went t o Grand Rapids Saturday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warner visited friends In Grand Rapids Sa turday and Sunday.

Little Marguerite Davis, who has l>eon very ill with typhoid fever. Is recovering.

Mrs. S A. Ware was quite ill l a s t week.

Miss Bessie Story entertained the school last Wedheday evening,- the principal feature of t he evening being a peanut hunt.

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ti^nAN.

Mrs. E.*Glldden of Grand Rapids Is visiting her parents and friends here.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Seese visited their daughter a t Freeport Sa turday.

The friends of Miss Rose Heiutzle-man aud her sister, Mrs. Glidden, gave them a surprise Fr iday evening.

Semiah Seese and family of Free-port were Sunday guests of their brother, Lewis and family.

A. Burleigh's t w o barns In Camp-bell township were struck by light-ning Friday night and burned t o the ground with all their contents ex-cepting his team. The property was Insured.

Rev. Hoffman and family of Sun-field visited friends here the past week.

Robert Ford and Wilbur Tyler went to ('ascade Wednesday with loads of goods.

Elmer Itlough of Remus visited friends here the pas t week.

Mrs. Wm. Glasgow and her daugh-ter Mrs. Blough of Grand Rapids, vis-ited Mrs. Edwards a t Odonnell last week.

Tilman Hleam has been quite ill the past week with hear t trouble.

D . G . L O O K . * | v **lnCy I

v 4

IncrcdiMe Cruelty. I t would have been incredible bru-

tality IrChas. F. l./eml»erger, of Syra-cuse, N. Y.. had no t done his best for his suffering son. "My boy," he says, "cut a fearful gash over Ids eye, so I applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which quickly healed it and saved his eye." Good for burns and ulcers too. Only 25c a t D. G. Look's drug store.

CASCADE.

Mrs. John Slater and Mrs. George Bennett of Paris were guests of Mrs. R. J . Slater last Wednesday.

Mrs. W. Dennison of Ada was able to ride out las t Friday. ,

Misses Winnie Burt, teacher of this village school and L a u r a Rureckt were guests of Mrs. W. D. Kennedy and daughters Thursday evening.

Miss Maggie Sullivan has returned from a t w o weeks' visit a t her fat ti-er's home In Grand Rapids.

Edward Annis is a guest of his cousin. Mrs. Horrace Johnson and family.

Mrs. H. A. Coger will entertain the Ladies' Aid society Thursday, March :K). A cordial Invitation is extended to all.

Bes t Remedy f o r C o a s t i p a t i o a . "The finest remedy forconst ipat ion

I ever used is Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets ," says Mr. Ell Butler, of Frank ville, N. Y. "They act gently a n d * w i t h o u t any un-pleasant effect, and leave the bo wells in a perfectly n a t u r a l con lition.-

Sold by A. D. Sturgis.

Twenty-five ladles of this vicinity held a rag carpet bee for Mrs. D. W. Lind a t her home las t Thursday. They sewed about twelve pounds.

The at tendance a t the New Eng-land supi>er. which was given by the ladles of the Congregational church at the Grange hall last Friday night, was quite small ns a result of the thunder s torm. Those few who were present enjoyed It very much.

Come to the entertainment given by t lie Non Parell entertainers a t t he South Boston Grange Wednes-day evening, Mar. 21).

W E S T I.O W E L L .

Mrs. Mary McGregor died a t the home of her nephew. Orville Austin, last Wednesday night, after a linger-ing illness.

Bert Klnvon has purchased a por-tion of the old Klnyon farm, consld-era tlon $3,000.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Pletchcr are vis-iting their daughter a t Otsego.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Oliver,of Lowell called a t the home of S. Grist wood Friday.

The Auld Lang Syne society met last Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Pletchcr. A very pleasing program was given, con-sisting of the following: A duet by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Pletchcr, a read-ing by Mrs. ,1. Gulllford and other music and recitations. Warm sugar and biscuits were served and af ter spinning a few yarns tjie company separated.

A Favori te Kcmcdy fo r Babies.

Its pleasant tas te and prompt cures have made Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a favorite with the mothers of small children. I t quick-ly cures their coughs and colds and prevents any danger of pneumonia or other serious consequences. It not only cures croup, bu t when giv-en as sunn a s t h e c r o u p y cough ap-pears will prevent the a t t ack . Fo r sale by A. I). Sturgis.

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' TARXEIX.

[Last week's letter.] Mrs. Dan Doyle, of Hastings Is

visiting her daugh'ter. Mrs. James Costello.

Miss Mollle Doyle visited relatives and friends iu Grand Rapids last week.

Mrs. William McCarthy Is verylbw at this writing.

Mrs. .lohunle Kehoe and son Thomas visited her mother in Grand Rapids hist week.

The In months old child of J . Keena was badly scalded by slipping into a boiler of hot water , having approached it so suddenly t h a t the mother close by was unaware of its presence. She caught the child as It struck the water . Both hands were badly burned, also one side of Its head.

Mrs. Mary Weeks Byrne was III with the grip last week.

Mrs. Mary McAndrews entertained her ncice and her husband from Lowell Sunday.

B o r n - t o Mr. and Mrs. Jack P. Rryne, a son.

Miss MangleMc< 'anley has had a re-lapse whii h the attending physician. l)r .I'inkliam. of Reldlng, terms a peculiar kind of grip. The advice of hr. R. Smith, her Butterworth hos-pital physician, was sought.

Miss Eva Andrews and Miss l.ynche of Mosley attended High Mass here Sunday.

Miss Rertha Keena died Monday niorning at her home at Ada. aged -Jl years. The funeral was held a t this place Wednesday morning a t 10 o'clock, Rev. Father Byrne offi-cating. She was called away in the bloom of her life. She has been an Invalid for the past six months. Her aged father, slstei-s and broth-ers have our sympathy in their sad bereavement.

« nowKE.

John Nash has commenced bulld-| ing his new barn.

Sid. McNaughton is In Grand Rap-ids as juryman.

I 'harlesSmith is on the sick list. Iva Bryant is working for Mrs.

Cur ley. Lester Godfrey is recovering from

iiis illness.

VERGBKXB8.

Mr. Compton and bride of Smyrna moved onto Ed Hoag 's farm last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Collar and Theo Bailey visited Mrs. Addie Sweet of South Lowell one day las t week.

Mrs. P . W. McPherson io quite 111 and has been confined to her bed the past. week.

Miss Anna Peters of Ada came Sunday t o assist Mrs. M. L. Bailey with her Summer work.

C. Merriman and wife were in Grand Rapids last Wednesday.

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P R A T T L A K E .

Mrs. F. W. Morton is entertaining Mrs. James Luther and daughter Ora of Grand Haven.

Miss Anna Rollins w a s given a stir prise last Wednesday evening when about thir ty of dior friends dropped In a t th.» home of her sister, Mrs. Mary Tucker, to remind the former of her bir thday. The evening was delightfully spout, a dainty supper was served and a set of silver knives and mrks feft as a remembrance.

Some of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Bovee gave them a surprise last Friday night.

Mrs. Viola Bar ton entertained her sister. Miss Hale of Lowell, last week.

James Oliver of Campl»ell has con-tracted to work for M l). Sneathen the coming yeas, and has moved in-t o l i s tenant house.

Y o u M u s t

S l e e p .

If you cannot, i t is due t o an irritated or congested s ta te of the brain, which will soon dc-vclopc into nervous pros t ra t ion .

Na ture demands sleep, and it is as impor t an t as f o o d ; i t is a part of hor bu i ld ing and sustaining process. T h i s per iod of unconsciousness re laxes t h e mental and physical s t ra in , and allows na tu re t o res tore ex-hausted vi tal i ty.

Dr . Miles' Nerv ine b r ings refreshing sleep, because it soothes the irr i tat ion and re-moves the congest ion.

I t is also a nerve bu i lde r ; it nourishes and s t rengthens ev-ery nerve in your body, and creates energy in all the organs.

Noth ing will give s t rength and vi ta l i ty as surely and quickly as D r . Miles ' Nervine,

"Durinp tho pnst wintf-r t l':'d nllncks of LnGrippo whioh Wt mo very weak, and In bad condition. I VMS so nervoim I could not sloep. My wife, after trying different remedies, went for a doctor. The doctor was nut. and a neighbor recommended Dr. Allies' Nervine, and she brought liorae a bol lie. I hnn not slept for some time, and lind tenlble pains In my head. After taking a few doses of Nerving i he puin was not so severe, and I slept. I am now taking the second bottle, nnd am verv much improved."

HENKY M. SMITH, Undorhiil, Vt Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold by your

drugnlst, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind

A competitor says

l 9 m C r a z y t o sell goods so cheap. Bu t you don ' t care so long a t yo« get the goods.

N e x t S a t , , I V , ?

the sale Is on VESTS, the fol lowing assortment:

Sizes '.V2 33 34 3!t 96 37 K 39 «

Vests 2 I , v , « u 6 12 16 19 3 v . l

t h a t run from 8 0 c to S 2 . S 6 each and a t 8 o'clock. Sat 'day morning will go a t

3 9 c E a c h .

You can look them over any time b n t yon can ' t buy one until the above date. See our West show window.

In the meantime we are showing an elegant line of new Spring goods. Take a look.

M a r t S i m p s o n .

Althen's Old S tand .

D R . M . C L A Y T O N • r a d u a t *

Q R E E N E

University of Michigan and P o s t Gradua te J o t f t e a t New York PotycUn 1, City. Medical School and Hospi ta l ,

Offloa—LOWELL. MICH.

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k Mother's Joy Is In her baby and It is with feelings of mingled pride and regret t h a t she watches him grow ou t of his babyhood. We can preserve the remembrance ot how he looked a t h i s s w e e t e s t . Bring him t o

O u r S t u d i o and let us make a dozen of our car-bonette photos of him. I t will no t take long or cost m u c h a n d y o u will h a v e s o m e -thing to show him when he dan-dles his own baby on his knee.

F.B. The Photographer.

Everybody 's magaztbe a n d T N LOWELL LEBOKB b o t h one J f e r , t l . 8 t This office.

Mortgages, Lutd Contracts, Telephone end

Bought.

JOHN N. MARTIN 6 0 Monreo St. NfaadNapWt

Tii LIWEll MAMET KNIT.

[Corrected March 38, ORA i x

t M per bnihel Oata, new 3ic ' ** Corn 56c •* M

Rye 75c 4 " r s B o

Cora and Oata $2200 per tot t Bran 20 00 " ** Middlings 22 W) M •' Corn Meal ^2 00 " "

Lyman Jo rdan of Harr is Creek was seen on our street Monday.

Arthur Godfrey and family spent Sa turday and Sunday a t Lake Odessa.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Johnson, Mrs. Volney Walton and Mrs. J . S . Thomas attended Pomona Grange Wednesday and Thursday a t Whit-neyville.

Messrs. Robt. Johnson and Clarence Morgan made a business t r ip to Lansing recently.

Will Fiynn purchased a driver of Frank Brew.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson spent Friday a t Lowell.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stauffer visited the family of Jake Ransh Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Perkins spent Tuesday with the lat ter 's sister Mrs. Markley.

The Ladies will nerve warm meals a t the Grange ball a t Bown Center on town meeting day.

About thirty-five neighbors ga th-ered a t the home of Mr, and Mrs. J . S. Thomas Monday evening t o re-mind them of their thirt ieth wedding anniversary. They were very pleas-antly entertained with music "and games, after which refreshments were served. All report a p leasant time.

ADA.

Fred Hilton was moved t o Grand Rapids Monday by Jake Deryke.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Smith drove t o Cedar Springs las t week, t o a t t e n d tho funeral of his father.

Albert Antonedes Snnde a business trip t o Grand Rapids Monday.

Miss Birdie Bennett w a s home from her school in Grand Rapids Sat-urday aud Sunday.

Miss Ada Schauck t a u g h t the pri-mary class In the school Monday, Miss LaBarge. their teacher, being copfined t o her home wi th sore eyes.

Mr. Vogal has purchased the Nelltet store, and will move i t t o c a e ol his lute west of the blacksmith shop.

Mr. Winters, who delivers mall on route 44, resumed his dntlee Monday af ter a several weeks' Illness.

The-fer ry running across Grand River west of here is blocked with ice. Our carrier delivered mail on Ine north side Monday, while bis assist-an t , Ed Winters, made the t r ip on the south side.

O. Hulbert, af ter an estended visit with his son In Jackson, returned last week t o Ada and Joined his wife a t the home of her fa ther , W. P. Carle.

We have absolutely the best mov-ing rig in t o w n . When thinking of moving your household goods give ns a call, 'phone 222. J . 1). Kelly & Sons.

Flour

Butter Lard Wool Beans, new... Potatoes Clover Alsyke Timothy

PEODOCE

?i 20 p m w w x fcperdoM*

.16 t o 18c perponaA 8 t o 10c M " 19 t o 21c "

.1 tfptf .... 12 t o M

8 00 to • tt 8 00 t o 8 SD ^ o o t o a m

MEATS Beef, live, weigh t . . . | 2 50to S OOptr oWt Beef dressed f 5 00 t o 5 £ 0 " Veal dressed $660 t o 600 " Sheep live weight...^ OOto 4 00 ** Lambs live welgfatf6 60 t o 7 00 " Calves live $5 60 to 6 00 " Pork alive £4 00 4 40 *' Pork dressed 16 OOto 6 60 44

P O U L T R Y Turkeys, feather dressed U o MR LB Chickens " " .....10o •• " Fowl " •« 0Q « «I Ducks " •• ** " Geese " « !.!!.10B h '*

B l l C O vk5TPeroraenUyoBrea

ECZEMA Tcgdm'la free.

sufferers carodwith'' Hermit" Salve, who had lost hope of relief. ZSftSOc. AlidrunrlRU.

Hermit Remedy Co., Chicago.

SWWdliStj ts*, MABXKZTTB, WIS., JVPT 25,1908.

I'wuaHrandown nervoot-ness and overwork and had toredjA my position and take a rat. I found that I was not gaining w strength and health as tot as I conla wish, and as your Wine of Cardni wus reoommendedsfl mcha good medicine for tho Old of oar sex, I bought a bottle and benn using it. I was satisfied with the resnfts from the nse EF the t u t bottle, and took three more and then found I was restored to good heaMh and strength sad able to taksnp my work with renewed vigor. I consider i ta fine tontc and excellent for worn-ont, nervous conditioa, and am pleased to endorse it.

AGNES WESTLET, Sefy, Hocth Wlaeomin BoDand SocMy.

Secnre a $1.00 bottle of Wine ol Cardni and a 25c. package d Thedford's Bltu^k-Draught today.

W I N E M R D U I

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| ATALE OT ITS GlMN WR « j^^rS^oecz:m?73Q&er

Copj: :gfH liST. by F. Tcnnj-son Nwly.

CHAPTER XXV.

Or. the Way to the Plasa De Toros. Smirhcrp is secretly doliphlcd with

the g m l ncrre exhibiied by his pnt-rc-n. for if (hero Is anything on earth the aoercV Agent admires, it is pure Srit.

Havana is never thoroughly awake until this honr of sutiset, and lo-night the gay capital moans to outdo ever? previous effort. The horrors of war r i l l be forgotten in the grandeur of a military carnival, and until the small hours of the early morning merriment must abound.

Aroused from his reverie by the coming of a s enan t . Jack is agnin led to the dining hall, where he fiuds the aenorita awaiting him.

She looks more ravishingly boantl-ftil than before, and migh: charm the niost confirmed Lachelor: but Jack tceehes tW cardboard in the pocket over l i s heart, and lo.' before his ryestejiprars an angelic face, a brown-haired;, rosy-checked. blue-eyed lassie, and fee feels secnre. That Is his talis- j man; jhe fears no fetish in existence.

Thpy heeome Quite sociable over the djaner.

Shfc <}c-su-ibcs some of the wonderful sigh's he will gpe a t the grand recep-tion. and the nrdor with which she eaters upon the subject declares that, after all. modern Joan of Are as she has proven herself, leading the palri-cts into ka'Ue. Lola is but a woman, xvith all the love of ber sex for gay sccr.es, where music and jewels and lovely damsels, as well as dashing tnilirary gallarts. hold court with Terp-sichore.

Then Smithers bobs up serenely and proceeds to make himself qrite at home at the table of this most sir.gulsr Cuban senorita.

copyright, IKS, by Street and Smith.

Sylva, just over from Seville. In that most amazing of all Andalusian dances the bolero.

Though at another t ime Jack might have delighted Iff gazing upon these distinctly characteristic features of a Cuban holiday,, h e has too much on his iplnd just a t present to award them anything more than an artificial glance.

Other gates a r c opened, and as the people pour through to scatter about the immense Inclosure, the crush with-out diminishes.

Finally their turn arrives; there is ccmothing of a squeeze, and at length Uey find themselves beyond the bar-rfers.

In all Spanish speaking countries the one national sport is bull-baiting. Wherever the language of Spain pre-vails there will be found the Plazo de Tcros, toward which the people flock on holidays, as Brttons do to the crick-et and golf games and Americans the baseball field. That s tandard ' of 'siwrt." is a sure thermometer to the

nature of the people. Spaniards have, it must be confessed, a reputation for cruelly far in excess of their Anglo-Stxon neighbors, though they also possess many admirable qualities when you come to know them at home. One may •Wtness a bullfight in almost any South American country, although here and there an element hostile to such bloody sport is gradu-ally gaining headway.

CHAPTER XXVI,

and then joins ia the merriment "Carajo! then W tbe only Pepito

could not master the black devil, who did?" he demands.

"No one. All the purses in Havana did not tempt another matador to pick r.p the sword."

••Then tne hull Is still alive?"

TW.* a E N AT ONE SPADE. SEEDING IN PROGRESS IN WEST ERN CANADA.

Method of Etct Indian Coolies Divides the Labor.

At hill stations in the Himalayas, Ix.dia, • coolies are employed unceas-ir.gly In the care of the snake-like . . —

* — " u " 13 rc.ads which wind round and round of Western Canada aud the excellent very much so, I should imagine. ^ gjjpg 0 { t h e j,iiis. Their method prices received for the same, have

Listen; 1 think 1 hear him now.' 0 j working provides a novelty to one j been the moans of giving an increased

Mild Weather Is Bringing Thousands of Settlers. .

The splendid yields of wheat, osts and barley produced by the farmers

uuc cj-ttuc. * iujic oeing Agents oi tne Canadian Government toi'gue like that. Por Dios! this place atlac.hod to tho lower end of the have nearly coubled over those of tho may not contain the multitude of peo- wooden shaft, and pulled by one same period last year. Railroad eom-plc who will flock hither to see such coolie to assist the other In lifting janies a .e putting on increased car-a famous beast." after the latter has filled the spade, tying crpacity to meet the demand

*•11 would be a terrible thing, I am The work is done very rapidly, so made upon ihem for carrying passcn-trueh so. Indeed, as to justify the pm- gers and freight. Everything points ployment of two men at one spade; to a most prosperous year. There is but it has a decideflly comical appear- i-oom for hundreds of thousands ad-ar.ce. and reminds one of a clock- ditional settlers, much new land hav-work toy.—Pearson's Weekly. , ing been opened up for

this year. Buy on Credit in China. It jg

th'nking, if the old brute smashed down the door of his pen and suddenly entered the arena now. Good heavens! T can imagine the distracting scere that would follow. Tho band is directly in his way. We would have music in the air then, and no mis-take."

settlement

'Senor, It would not be possible." „ . . . . Quite Interest ing t o look Foreigners in China buy nearly through the letters received from the

^ " * " • u v everything on credit, giving signed Americans who have settled In West-"That door doesnt appear any too , ••chits*' for every purchase, the reason cm Canada during the past few years,

strong, and he has fearful shoulders, ^eing their unwillingness to load . and considering tho large number It themselves down with silver or native; Is surprising how few there are who ooin, while paper money fluctuates too have not succeeded. An extract from

-How a Black Bull Ran the Circus. While in Mcxico, Jack has been

a spectator at a bnllflght, and that one sight quite satisfied him. He never van t s to look upon another.

It is with a keen interest, however. Jack is struck by the fact, and J that he now glances around. The

shoots a quick glance from one fare Tplace has been gaily decorated. Pillar to the other, as a sudden suspicion 1 and post are covered with bunting;

II

much.

An Ex-Sheriff Talks, Scott City. Kan.. March 20th—{Spe-

cial.)—Almost every newspaper tells of cures of the most deadly of kidney diseases by Dodd's Kidney Pills, Bright'* Disease. Diabetes, Rheuma-tism and Bladder troubles, in fact any

a letter written by Mr. Geo. M. Gris-wold of Red Deer, Alta., formerly ol Grever, Montana, written on the 2nd ot January is as follows:

"I am located 1% miles from a beautiful lake 10 miles long, where there Is church, school, 3 stores, creamery and two postofflces, I h e fine stock, both cattle (cows and steers) horses, hogs and sheep are

gallops through his brain. Can it be -possible there is any relation between these two? Tt would be remarkable. Indeed, af ter he found himself thrown into the company of Lola at Santa Fe and Smithers in Edinburgh, to have them turn out father and daughter: and yijt. after all, not more singular I tlian som^ other chapters in "his ex-perience. At least, a mysterious tie connects them that is more cogent than the fact of their being both sworn to the service of Chba libra.

Half an hour later the two men. •having altered their usual street dress for something more appropriate to the

plain gewral ' s rcceptjon, leave the sylvan retreat In which they have" fonnd such a refuge, and with Ah Sin a •, a boayiguard. head in the direction of the Plaza de Toros.

Even Jack's phclgmatic. cold Yankee blood is stirred by the pictnre •present-ed hy the wide square thronged with people, as seen under the numerous Flittering electric lights, and a variety of glowing colored lanterns hang for effect upon the branches of orange tiees or over the booths of the street venders.

ft is a grand holiday for Havana, and her citircas desire fo make the most of it: for. in spite of the presence of so many soldiers, the, merchants are nr.easy about the future, knowing that, as of old. Cuba is proving the grave-yard for the flower of Spain's army, and it. has become simply a test o f | endurance. They sen new troops con-stantly arriving and going to the front, mcl Li Lades being brought hank sick, and shipped home or buried; while Gomez and Maeeo and Garcia still hold their own, sometimes making their PTesence known by a dosn into the very suburbs of the capital.

In glancing around with some curi-osity as they make slow progress

They become quite sociable ever the dinner.

toward the doors which have just been opened to the crowd. Jack Is strnck with the merry nature of the general assemblage, A gathering of people, celebrating a holiday throw dull care to t l i i wind, aud tliiiocgh in places the crush is ictense, the little shrieks trom senoritas and the exc'.amatlons of the caballeros are tillered in sport

"I-ook:" says SmiLbci,, pulling his sleeve.

Turning to Ihe right. Jack noLiccs & large t. tit or booth Chat has been raiser:, and under It may bo seen for a small ft < the camp ol tho Siianisli gltano. Uigeihor wiLh that mad vhirl krowri as the gipsy dance. Just beyond 1g a small pavilion, and at the entrance a lusty In aged orator annotirces the atvcurr.T^f cf lUt -iiy-ciirf Seuo-lta

bright colors meet the eye in every di.ection. Even tho ring where such spirited action, occurred only a few hours before has had all traces of the bullfight removed, and a por-tion of the crowd wanders over the li-n-bark and wonders how it would feel to be chased around the ring by a savage beast with sharp horns, a massive neck and steaming breath.

Already the vast amphitheater is beginning to show quite an animated appearance as the audience scatters to various quarters.

Jack and Smithers. having'secured a position that affords a good view cf the whole expanse, stand there to comment upon I t

Some parties are talking on the right and Jack catches the drift of what they say. The leading speaker is an American, but his two compan-ions seem to be. one a French tourist the other a Cuban merchant I

The New Yorker has evidently at-:ended the great entertainment given l-y the management the previous after-noon, and as he is still filled with the to him, unusual spectacle of a bull-fight he describes it In snatches, while the Parisian exclaims in won-der, and the Cuban nods his head ap-provingly, as though proud of the fact that his land may provide an amuse-ment unequaled for desperate valor and the shedding of gore since the cays of Roman gladiators.

"Well, sir,*' the American is saying 'Lhe black fellow overtook the bander-

Illcro who had been throwing fancy dar ts at him, and with one gigantic sweep of his superb head he sent the wretch flying through space. I never saw such a sight, Jove! he must have ^cne twenty feet high, his arms and legs flying in every direction. Over the barrier he came, struck this pil-lar, and fell in a heap. They carried him away to the Hospital San Merced, but 've since heard he is dead,"

"Mon Dieul it must have been a won-derful sight." declares the Gaul, as he surveys the high fence.

"Carramba"! what other country could produce such a rare spectacle?" a;lcs the Cuban proudly, as he puffs away at his dgarro.

"I know of nothing that can ap-proach it unless it be our annual Thanksgiving college football game on Berkeley Oval," replies the man ftctn New York with a perceptible sneer.

"Was that all?" asks Paris. "All? Not by a Jug full. Ah? Well,

I wish you could have seen i t That was only the beginning, my dear man. The bull seemed to be possessed of a devil; like a crazy Chinaman running amuck, he saw only foes around him. I h e way he tossed those chaps was a caution. Men and horses fell victims; he soon had them so badly rallied t;iat noL one would enter the ring. Tl-ey sat on the fence and deiied him, and even then if the rascals made a rush every perch in that quarter was vacated."

"And the matador—the unequaled Pepito?" asks the Cuban eagerly.

"Oh. he was game enough. I give you my word. He lacked discretion, tha t was all. But he did better than the poor banderillero who got his neck broken."

"Ah, better, say you? Pepito always excelled In anything he nnderLook," re-marks the Havana merchant, with par-donable, pride.

"Yes," continued the American drily, ' h e went some six feet fu r ther than the other poor devil; but, then, you sec. no pillar stopped his aerial flight and he dropped into the seats, thus sparing his life."

Tho Ga-l laughs, the Cuban scowls,

disease that Is of the kidneys or caus-ed by disordered kidneys Is readily rolling f a t grwzingln p a s t a T f a r t ? ^ cured by thLs great American remedy, jest a little snow, haixllv enonr t far

But It Is in curing the earlier stages good sleighing, as we just had f ^ of kidney complaint that Dodd's Kid- nook which has melted the roadc imH ney Pills are doing their greatest laid bare the fields and pasture Tht™

I work They are preventing thousands are fine whea t oats, barlev and i IHi of cases of Bright's disease and other raised here, also winter wheat I deadly ailments by curing Kidney Dis- timothy hay for export to Britfsh — ease when It first shows Its presence , U f f i b i a . This Is a nnXed

In the body. « and dairy countrv. This Is tho Speaking of this work Ei-'Sheriff time to got a foothold in the C a n a d f ^

James Scott of Scott County, says: • Wes t as it was some years aro in "I have used eight boxes of Dodd's United States. We are f r ~ f

Kidney Pills and must say that they wind gumbo and alkali here Z a E l S are just the thing for Kidney Disease, fine, clear soft well anH cr,^ We have tried many kidney medicines at a depth of from 5 to 25 f i t * V n d

lots of open everflowing springs " * but Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best of all."

Beer in the United States, The production of beer is nov more

than half a barrel for every man, woman and child in the United States.

FACE LIKE RAW BEEF.

Shake In Your Shoes. Allen s Foot-Ease, a powder, cores pa»-

w S f I , ceding has commenced ^ t b e M a k e s n e w shoe« easy. A a t Medjcme H a t Lethbridge and other core for smtauiaf feet. Sold by alt polnls. At the former place the tem- druggists, 25c Trial package FREE, perature moderated gradually until on I Address A. & Olmsted. Lo Roy, N. * . the 19th the maximum was 45 and the minimum 2€. Tfcermom r-ter readings ; To a woman there is a charm In a since then have been as follows: l o v e ***** i n v " h i c h self-sacrifice fig-20th. 47 M d 28; 2 1 s t 51 and 24; 22nd. 1 a r e s -r-c -

At the bull f ight a wonderful neck. If he came against it fu l l tiit I should expect to see the whole thing cave away."

•"Sacre! let us hope such an idea may not enter the mind of Mr. Bull." says the Frenchman, with the usual Parisian shrug.

Jack mechanically casts his eyes in Burning Up With a Terrible Itching the direction of the door indicated. I Ecrema—Speedily Cured by and makes up his mind on the spot j Cuticura. that the American is a keen observer. for there appears to be a frail look "Cuticura cured me of a terrible about the barrier which he really does eczema from which I had suffered 1 , 0 1 l i k P - a e o n J ' a E d I*111 f o r e i S h T J**1*. being Coached and h a r m ^ Smithers' thoughts appear to run in unable to obtain any help from the j . n d " E t aiiKnr lT. ' ' n a c r e 8 - 1 something of the same groove. j best doctors. My scalp was covered amona t Rev CoultPT- w m , ! I! •

"Suppose the vicious old chap should n-jth scabs and my face was like a b c e i l harrna-^P hie take a notion to introduce himself to : piece of raw beet my eyebrows and t h e ground fro*t free and i r ^ ) o r t cany off every taint ft-ora

r t o w n 1 1 - A^isr^ in town. At Harfni»r • - - -

r-€ and S»; 2Srd, 4fc and 40; 24th. 48 and 26.

During the last few days in Feb-rnary considersiblc ploughing was1

done near I^hbr idge . P. A. Pulley, a recent arrival from Montana,

the Captain General, and you were jashes were falling ou t and I felt aa down yonder at the time, what would tf burning up from the terrible itching joti do, Senor Jack?" is what he asks, m d pain. Cuticura gave me relief the

"! do not like lo say. It would seem very first day, and made a complete like boasting, and ye t with a weapon cure in a short time. My head and I know how to handle, and helpless face are now clear and well. (Signed) v.omen in danger of death down there. Miss Mary M. Fay, 75 West Main S t . i would be a coward if I failed in my Westboro, Mass." drty."

Quietly said, but Smithers realizes he means every word. LitLle does he

- -*0 At Hartney further eas t on

the 2ath February the sun was warm and b r igh t wheeled carriages were in use and the plowed fields look as if they are ready for the press drills. There Is every appearance that spring has arrived, but farmers do not wish to be deceived by anwarancer. and

dream that what he sees now in im- flie in London dies "on public charity." t " ^ * h e a t agination may be a reality ere the

v* ct/vt n . VO CTKl. A COLI5 IW ONE DAT I n . g h t pa s se s . I 5 1 0 0 K C W a r d , $ 1 0 0 . Tmtr Ltudre Itromo yirtnlnc Tubiou. ah ilm*-

"I notice some one you want to 1 Tbt re«acr. attbu «-m i.e pveunwi tn vna IL5. w* ^ *• m a n n n i c t t e i f i t i , Sonor J . c t , - be T , T T S ,

"d*1™ i ssiswaatsj? ess' t t .r."""" "Over vender you are looking. I fail belne » ci>D«ttctlon»l AlMue. require* acwdm- dlsaprccable things we heur ubout ©ur-

. v ._ ,i „,1 I UaMl iroatmcni. HiTI't C*t*rrti Cart tk taken in- selves. to discover Der, r(pl:6S the Oilier, temAlTy.T.ungiltrrctij Upon ibr lilood and innc*of AACPrlv j mimoet of tbe nymnn. ibercriif 4e«tnirtmc tbe , r tTiiii n

"Pardon; you mistake me. I meant j las aatare ladotaic Jw work Tbr proprk-tonluve u i n l - ao mnclifalih Jn lt« cnmr.c powers Him i hey dfla

"Senor Roblado—Spencer?" t h 4 t u " T h ' • happiest people are those who "No. no; the American consul. See, i Aaaren. r.j.cbesey aco.,'"Toioflo. o. iIir® < : a s l , y 3att«rM.

he is chatting with the ladies." i » T O , f a ^ m ! f c r . "You are r i g h t " "Then give me the letter, and I will 1

' c(mKt!paUan.

see that it reaches his hands." "O, yes—that is. if I h aven t made

a beastly mistake and left it in my other coat No. hero it is. Thanks, my dear fellow."

(To be continued.)

PERILS OF THE STOWAWAY.

One Part of the Game Wise Old Tramp Avoided.

"The most dangerous graf t of all is the stowaway's," said a tramp. "I wouldn't stowaway. Never."

He regarded thoughtfully a crack In his shoe. He passed his hand ten-derly over his bristly chin.

"Two lads 1 knew stowed away in 'ft? in the coal bunkers of a Portu-guese merchantman. The second day •cut the coal crushed them to death. A fireman found them lying side by side, holding each other's hands.

"A friend of mine was a sailor bo-lore he took t o the road. Once he was on a brigantlne bound for Mala-bar. In the forecastle he and his mates heard one night a scratching and they thought It was ghosts. The next night and the next day they heard this scratching, very loud and fierce. The next night it was weaker. The next it stopped. When they came to open the hatches at the voyage end they found the skinny body of a stowaway that had starved to death. Then they wished they h a d n t heen so superstitions.

•'It never pays to try t o oome Into this country as a stowaway. Cap- But Did JcDeph Know? tains are mighty careful to see that i Joseph T. Buckingham of boston, they let no stowaways land. Why? i one of the best writers and grammari-Why, because any captain that brings ; ans of his lime, said that "not one 1

in a stowaway to America is liable to : scholar in a thousand ever received be fined ^2,500. the leas t ' benefit from studying the

*Tve been brave and reckless In* rules of grammar before the age ol my t ime I've been robbed and I've 15 years."—Lynn Item. fought and I've forged. I never had the nerve, though, to stowaway."

A Secret It is often very desirable to knew -

bow to seal a letter so that It cannot be opened without betraying the f ac t Steam or hot water will open enve-lopes closed with mucilage and eve® a wafer. A hot iron or a spirit lamp dissolves sealing wax, an impression in plaster having been taken of the . s e a t By the combined nse of water and sealing wax, however, all attempts to open the letter otherwise than by force can be frustrated, All that is necessary is to close the letter first with a small moist wafer and to pierce tbe latter with a coarse needle (the s a n e applies to mucilage), whereupon sealing wax may be used in the nsoal manner. »This seal can neither be opened by dry heat nor by moisture.

What "So Long" Means. T o n may have wondered, pethaps.

how the slang expression, *so long," came to be so generally used." said a Columbia college lecturer the other, day, "It ia usually used in dosing a ! conversation, and is simply a form of j good-by. Tbe Norwegians brought It to this country. In that land cf the, midnight sun. 'saa laeng' is a commas • form of farewell. I t means the same i an the 'au revoir* of the Frendi.! Among the early settlers In America were many Norwegians, and the phrase was picked up from them. They pronounce it with the 'g' soften-1 ed and accompany it by a wave of thi hand.

I a a sure PIso's Cure tor Consumption saved n y life throe years wo.-JJek. Thos. Eobioxs, JJnplc Street, Norwich, X. Y., Feh. 17.1800.

. Czarina's Coronation Robe. The coronation robe presented to

the Empress of Russia was of fur. I t weighed only sixteen ounces, yet waa «rorth 12.000, cr ^275 an ounce.

To Soothe a Braised Finger. If In hammering in a nail yon by

jnistake hit your finger o r thumb, hold the injured member in water as hot a s you can bear for a few minutes. This 1

draws out the inlammatlon and re-1

licves the pain In a wonderful way, j

Worms .Cor.vulsions

A l b i n o j i tb-s o l d

] ) S - I N • s

Advancing Old Age b detetfcJ by a giaAal lo* o£ dajbeky in die eater skin which nbtly turat rijntann ian into wrinLle*.

FflClflL 60flP WOODBURY'S

• keeps die dan firm x^elewme ana wt3 aoar ; iihed, thw rcUiumg die ravaget erf tnae. Fo*

o m 30 yean diii Face Soap has

fensable lo its acquaifitaacn.

25 cert, A CAKE.

Woodbury's Fadsl Cream appbrd rcplsriy

whitens and pnaems the natural roodaWai of

diefaceskin.

i n ( V i a l o f f e r . In case your dealer caatiot atippty you

send ut his sa=>e and we witl send prepaid, to any address for $1.00 the followinf toilet reqnrites.

1 Cake Woodbury s Facial Soap. 1 Tube " Facia! Cream, 1 " " Denial Cream. 1 Bo* " Face Powdtr.

Together with our readable booklrt Beauty's Masque, a careful trealine «3 the care of the "outer self.

Booklet free oa applies:ion.

T H E A N D R E W J E R G E N S C O , CINCINNATI, a

When a man asks you for"jour"hon-est opinion you sometimes have to lio to him or lose his friendship.

SoaieUBMs boys are like wheat: Valuable o' csurse, but more er 1 improved by thrashin".

A laxatire t h a t win

eOa Such is Oolory Kiac, the great taBioJaxative. 1! aJways cores constipa-tion. Herb or T a b l e t form, 2Se,

Around the World aSlSS.'S^S! In the Hawaiian istaa* «ai toond them the only •rtJda tfcs* nitert. I r a m w l a this caaatry

Tbe wof1d.wMe repute-tlofi t t Tower's Water-

o,£'szn

4. a. Tora ca, Bott* u.s.1.

I TOWER CANADIAN CO., LUUTEQ. IB Taronte, Caaada.

mm For Infants and Chfldren.

The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought

Bears the Signatare

of

In Use

For Over Thirty Yeers

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W O M E N NOT T R U T H F U L This Statement Has Been Unjustly Made, Because

Modest Women Evade Questions Asked By Male Physicians.

WHY SHE COULDNT FIND IT.

m

Mrs. M l a r m e r ^ f l M r s . Ella Lee

An eminent physician says tha t ] Mrs.EllaLc«,Frankford,Ind.,writes ••Wotne-n arc not t ruthful ; they will lie Dr*r Mr*. Pinkhaw— to their physician." This stalt nirnt ••! wart to thnak j-ou tm what your nwll-rfjould-be qualified; women do tell the cine has done for n*-. t ruth , bu t not the whole t ruth, to a " Three vean, ago 1 had inflan-.m&tioij of tba male phvsieian, bu t this is onlv in re-1 f™?'* u l m 3 0 1 1 » r o « n b - I under

disorders peculiar to their sex. | andw the influenoe of morpbins. Tbo doctor

to a de.icate, senwtiye, refined w oman giv o n Up i n despair, hut one eveiiin- I came than t o be obliged to answer <*rt«n of vmn-ndvcTtiwnents and decided questions when those questions are to write yoa for advico. 1 did »o and com-

This is the reason why thousands sad thousands o i *• omen are now eorre-Kpondir.tr wilh Mrs. Pinkham. To her

eo t h a t she really knows more about the t rue condition of her patients, through her correspondence with thc.m than the physician wlio personally questions them.

If you suffer from any form of trouble

Kliar to women, write a t once lo Pinkham, Lynn. Mass,, and she

will advise you free of charge. The fact that this great boon, which

ia extended freely to women by Mrs. Pinkham. in appreciated, the thou-cands of letters received by her prove. Many such graicful letters as the fol-lowing are constantly pouring in.

A* Ira. Ifektart Mrioe-A .ynn, Mass. •est (McntMfe

La grippe, pneumonia, and inflt:-e m a often leave a nasty cough whea they're gone.

It is a dangerous thing; to neglect. Cure it with

S h i l o h ' s Consumption C u r e

ITbo cure that is guaiatteed by

your druggist. IViocs; 8. C. Wctxc ft Co. «

C c 50c f j LcRoy.N.Y.. Toronto. Can.

Saber's National Oats Omitesi oat of tfea oentotr. Tjeided In Ohio JK, iu Mich.

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P. S-TWs is i mm wbf yn disiili tranl ai dup fwrfreiglt lit 'Tli Kity'

Inquiry Into Germany's Early Hiator> Developed a Puzzle.

In tho state department, where a fair knowledge of history Is the one requisite above others, information concerning the earlier history of Ger-many was desired, says the Washing-ton Post. The employe upon whom the task of finding this devolved is a ycung woman *ho passed the civil scrvlce examination with an At grade. She went lo the bookshelves and looked in that section where the his-torical data cf this country are kept.

"That's funny," she murmured after rummaging through the volume. "Here is Germany in section J. Yes, that 's right. I know. But these bocks don't q o back far enough."

After another desultory search through the volume, she came and stood beside an older woman, whose early education, though by no means a;; comprehensive as that of to-day, •onslsted In learning what she did icarn well. .• ,

"Do you know where the rest of Germany Is?'1 tho girl asked.

"It s all there," was the answer. "But it's can't be, because It doesn't

go back as far as I want." The older v.cman looked at the slip of paper in the girl s band on which a date prior to the time of Frederick the Great

; was written. "There was no Germany as early aa

t h a t " she said promptly. "Then how can I find it?" the girl

helplersly asked. "Look under Prussia, of course," the

older woman answered. "Oh!" said the girl.

PE-RU-NA CONQUERS CATARRH IRE WORLD OVER.

NOT TROUBLCD WITH INSOMNIA,

— | it in all due to your cdrice and mndidnc. I s i t any wonder, then, that women | . . , p _ _ „ 0™, P 1 1 .

continue to suffer and that doctors . ^ JK . H

f 0 ' O * " 4 4

fail t o c m v female disease when they A v c n»< ' - ^ J f m s - M o - ' w n t e s . proper i n t e r a l f c . u . ^ ^ ^

advice and roedi.-ines have don*; for *iae. They havo done rao more good than all tba doctors I over had,

•• For the lart eight years I have soffered , . . ' " " with fetnal" tmibles; was very wnaV; had yean and do give every s y m p t o m . , a o d ^ ^ ^ ^

l i s t she resinv knou-s 1 W ( , r k ; b a l , ^ bappv to say Lydia E. Pink-barn's Vegetable Compound has made a di.Twrent woman of me. I am in perfect health and bave gained in weight from VS jKiunds to l i i pounds.'1

No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqnali-lied endorsement. No other medicine has such a record for actual cures of female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound.

Mrs. Piqkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address,

A Warn* D i .

Provided for Pet Alligator. Some twenty jears ago a rich

South American died who left a con-fiderable sum of money in trust for a pet alligaior. which for some years had lived in a small artificial lake which had beer made in his owner's grounds for the purpose, the speciai provision being that his scales were to be cleaned at least twice per an-num. and he was to be well fed, and when ill to have the attention cf a veterinary fu:geon.

Indian Matrimonial "Ad." Babu matrimonial advertisement:

"Wanted—A match for an Independ-ent. beautiful j-oung widower of SC years, of respectable and very rich family.' Possesses handsome amount of thousands and numerous golden or naments cf his previous wife."—La-hore Tribune

StUlIC TOfiTOBE PAIS SUTFEEED B I MR. MAEST05 AS GSEAT AS HOiiTAL CAS STABD.

Small Thing Like Train Wreck Could Not Awaken "Mammy.'*

Some of the neurasthenia cranks and other victims of their own nerves might consult an old colored "mam-my" who works at the Tuxedo club concerning a cure for their troubles. She has the ar t of sleeping, down so fine that not oven the rush of modern New York life has yet awakened her from her peaceful state of somnol-ence. The medicine she takes is Just ordinary hard work, for she Is a scrub woman and works at night.

She happened to be on the train which jumped the track at Fairlawn last Monday and rolled down the em-, t ^ 0 ^ - 0 ^ o v c r #

bankment. But she had just finished | t c t u r r h a hard n ie t t ' s labor, and she knows no more of what happened that morn-ing than the man in the moon.

Most of the victims had been taken out of the wreck, and the cars lay turned over and piled up where they had fallen, whea some men working to clear away the debris climbed into a tipped car and began feeling their way down its side over the seats. Suddenly one of them felt something soft and warm against his foo t He stopped and grasped a human form.

With a cry he caught at its clothing and tried to drag It from between the two seats where It lay huddled. There was a loud snort, a distinct yawn and then a shout of "Glory!"

"Fo' de Lawd'a sake! Whcah is 1?" exclaimed a scared voice, and up sprang "mammy," as good as new.

She had been sleeping during all the excltrment as sweetly as a new born babe in his trundle bed.—New York Press.

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The Population of fhe Earth is

1,400,000,000.

One Million Die Annually of

Catarrh.

LL ovcr tho world Peruna It . known and used for catarrhal

diseases. The Peruna Girl has traveled 'round the globe.

Hor face is familiar everywhere that civilisation reachcs. Lnirtnally Praised.

From Africa to Oreenlaad, from Man-churia to Patagonia, the face of the 1 Vruna girl is familiar and the praises of Peruna as a catarrh remedy are heard. Snsctsshl la Sulk eadSoatb.

Peruna croSscd the Equator several ysars ago, to find in the fiouthern Hemisphere the samo triumphant suc-cess that has marked its carecr ia '.he Northern Hemisphere. A SUaOanL

Peruna is a standard catarrh remedy

by eradicating it from the system. Permsaeat Care.

I t obviates the necessity of all local treatment and ita relief is of permanent character. WTtboatmPeer.

No other remedy has so completely dominated the whole earth as Peruna. laEi-erjr Toogoe.

In all languages Its glowing testi-monials arc written.

•'a Exieastre IMantHy, •fo supply this remedy to tho whole

world taxes to the utmost one of tho best laboratories in tho United States. A Wcri Przm Anstrtlie.

Walter H . Woodward, Bomadier Royal Australian Artillery, Hobart, Tasmania, writes:

" I suffered for several years with a distressing condition of the head and throat, caused by continual colds.

"My head and nostrils were stopped up most of the time and there was a discharge, and my sense of smell was affected badly.

"After two weeks use of Peruna I found this condition quite changed, and so I continued to use this remarkable medicine for ovcr a month.

" I am very glad to say that at the end of that time I was cured and felt In fine health generally, aud am pieasod

in all dimes the demands for Peruna to give Peruna my honest fncresse. i ment."

Prtm HswmtL Prince Jonah Ealanianaole, delegate

in Congress f rom Hawaii, writes from Washington, D. O., as follows:

" I can cheerfully recommend your Peruna as a very effective remedy for coughs,colds and catarrhal trouble." A Cmkaa MUalster.

Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, writes from Washington, D.C., as follows:

"Peruna I can recommend as a very good medicine. I t is an excellent strengthening tonic, and is also an efficacious cure for the almost universal complaint o t catarrh."—Oonxalo De Quesada, Promt AH Qcarttra 0/ tba iWin

We have on file thousands of testi-monials like those given above. Wo can give our readers only a slight glimpse of tho vast number of grateful letters Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving

endorse-1 from all quarters of tbe globe in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna.

PERSONALITY OF "AUTOCRAT."

If Kntooed wlili I •err ryr«. t 'f Eye Water

W . • . U . — O E T R O l T ~ l l o . 1 2 - 1 9 0 5

Whea answering Ads. kindly raenlion this paper

r i s e s c u c ? e f o r

tattne. Sa&krenaisM. M O - M F U .V P T J O N

For Kir Monllis Could Xot Tnrti in TVl'.s t f a ItrNtrdjr Which

Has (ilvru IVi f«-< t lU-licf.

The caw of Mr. Marston show® that

(, sciatica can l»e cured, and no one afflicted ! by it hhould allow himself to be dis-j heartened. He was first strickwi aliout a 1 year ago. and for kit months ho suffered j pain which ho thinks the must intense that any man could possibly siand.

Asked about the details of his remnrV-aUe recovery, Mr. Marstou gave the fol-lowing account; " I was attackod by a numbnossor dull feeling just liaek of my right hip. I didn "t know what t he mat -

i ter was, bnt thought it was simply a ; stiffness that would wear away iu a short time. I t didn't, however, aud

I soon the pain became so very bad that 1 every step was torture for me. When I finally succeedert in gettiiighome.it was

j just as much as I could do to reach my mom aud get to bed.

••The doctor was wot for, and when he ! had examined me he said 1 hail sciatica. I Ue prcscribod for tne, aud advised me not 1 to t ry to leave my bed. Tbe advice was unnecessary fi»r I oouldu't get out of bed if I wanted to. It was impossible for me to turn from one side to the other. The moment I1 attempted to move any part of my body, the jiain became so ex-cruciating that I would have to lie pcr-fectiy uiotioulef-s.

" I suffered this torture for six mouths without getting any relief. Then I dis-charged the doctor, and on the advice of , a friend I bought a bos of Dr. Williams' .Pink Pills aud begau to take them, three at a dose, three times a day. I was de-tenalnod to give ihem a thorough trial.

" T w o months after I began to use th< m I was aide to leave my bed and

; walk about the house, and a month later I was entirely curod aud aide togoabout

. ' my work as usual. I think Dr. Williams' | Pink Pills are the best medicluc I ever used, and I h w t i l y recommend them to anyone who suflVrs from sciatica-"

Mr. Marston is a prosperous fanner and may be reached by mail addressed to Charles P. Marston, Hampton P. O., N«w Hampshire. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured other painful nervous disorders, such as veuralgia, partial par-alysis and locomotor ataxiv Thev aie sdd l<y all dru^fifclk.

Don Quixote. Advents we preet of jrreat anil Ftrall.

Much we extol t h a t m a y not live. Yet to i he new-born t y p e we give

No ca re a ; a l l !

Tills year , three centur ies past , hy age More maimed than by Lepanto 'e flitht.

This year Cervantes gave to light * His matcblcsa page.

Whence f r s t outrode tb" IniTrnrtal P.'itr— The hs l f -c rared H e r o an.l his hind— To m a k e snd l augh te r for mankind;

And whynee they fare .

T b r o n r h o u t all Fic t ion still, where chance

Allies I-lfe's dul lness with i ts drerun*— Allies wha t is with wha t bu t seems-

Kact and Romance—

O KnlRht of fin* and SVjuire of enrili! O ch^ngin? cive-atid-take between The aim t o " higli. t he aim too meun.

1 bail your b i r th ,

T i r e e centuries pas t . In sunburned S;>atn.

*nd hansr. on Time 's Pantheon wall. Uy votive tablet to recall

T h a t las t ing ga in ! —Austin Dobsea

Romance cf Silence. A breach of promise of marriage

action a t Sydney, presenting circum-stances. Justice Prir.g remarked, "such as the most daring novelist would hardly put forward," has dis-closed that after the engagement the parties allowed a period of twenty years to elapso without writing or visiting.

Yet for six years of this silent period thoy had lived only a quarter of a mile apart.

The lady said she had rejected three offers of marriage during the twenty years.

The judge and jury thought the twenty yeais' silence indicated recis-sion of the contract, and found against the lady's claim for £10,000 dam-ages.—London Express.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Described :

by One Who Knew Him. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis writes 1

of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Physi-cally. he was a very email man. hold-ing himself erect—his face insiguifi- 1 cant as his figure, except tor a long olstinate upper lip ('left to me." he said one day. 'by some Ill-conditioned great-grandmother ), and eyes full of a wonderful fire and sympathy. No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked with interest ever forgot the look—or him. He attracted all kinds of people as a brilliant, excitable child would attract them. But nobody, I suspect, ever succceded ia being fa-miliar with him. I remember one evening that he quoted one of his po-ems. and I was forced stupidly to ac-kccv. ledge that I did not know I t He fairly jumped to tbe beol:casct took J out tho volume and read the verses. 1 rtanding in the middle ot the room. Us voice tremblltg, his whole body | thrilling with their meaning. 'There!' 1 he cried at the end, his eyes fiasbiig, , 'could anybody have said that better? Ah-h!* with a long in drawn breath of delight as ho m t back "

mi l loa* of \ v-seiablpa. Whet tbe Editor read 10,000 plants tot

16c. he o u l d hardly believe i t , but unon second rewiing finds that the John 'A. Sakcr Seed Co., La Crotse. Wis., than whom there are no more reliable and ex-tensive seed g; owets in the world, laaktb j

Let Common Sense Dec ide D o you h o n c s t l j believe, t h a t coffee sold loose (in ba lk) , exposed

t o dust , ge rms a n d insects , pass ing th rough many hands (some of them not over-clear.), ' ' b lended,* you don ' t know how or b y whom, is fit for your uso ? Of course yon don't . B u t

w c LION COFFEE Is another story. The green berries, selected by keen fudges at the plantation, are slctiltnlly. roasted at onr fac-tories, where precantkms yoa would not dream ol are taken, to secnre perfect cleaaUaess, flavor, strengtb and anlfenntty.

From the time the coffee leaves the factory no hand toHches it till it is opened in your kitchen.

I M s tes M d c LION COFFEE UAM* « *11 PMXKT CWTOS.

Millions of American Homes welcome L I O N C O F F E E daily. There is n o s t ronger proof of meri t t han continue*! a n d increas-ing popularity. "Quali ty survives nil opposition."

(Sold only in 1 lb. package*. l ion-bead on every package.) Save y our Lion-heads for valuable premiums.)

SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHEBE WOOLSON S P I C E CO., T o L d o , Ohio.

thia offer which is made to

T h e r e mus t be a c e r t a i n a m o u n t of K i t i t f ac t i on In t he k n o w l e d g e tha t you h a v e m o r e money t h a n b r a i n s .

test Baker's Warranted Vecetable Seeds. ir u.g plant and Hetber Orav's Sweet P s w d e n farCMUhee. They will eerd jou the _ .

wed catalog, together with enough teed t o grow

1,000 fine, oolid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips, 2.000 blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1.000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Kidishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowez% AIX FOE BUT 160 POSTAGE,

Successfully used bj Mother Gray, narse in fbe Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation. Fererishaess, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, more sad regulate tbe Bowels and Destroy Worms. Orrr 30,000 testimooial*. At all druggists, 2Sc Sample FREE Address A.S.01mstcd.Le Roy,M.T.

providing yon will return this notice, and I man"* pot ket au ickcr tf you wSl

Pen Picture cf Louise Michel. A Paris correspondent gives the fol-

If.wine vivid description of Louise Michel, the "Red Virgin." whose death war chronicled pome time ago. "In appearance. Ixulse Michel was n;)t pltasanL Back from a high but curi-cusly curved forehead streamed her grayish, disheveled hair that the wind leased r s the spoke. High choek bones, small, fiery eyes, a heavy jaw. a big nose, a straisht, harsh mouth, whose Hps bore traces of an incipient irustache—all this gave her a sinis-terly masculine look. Added to which, her dress of black, her tall, bent, snarled, lean, ungraceful figure, her long arms, her shrill, penetrating voice and her stride like that of a peasant soldier, made her a forbidding person-ality.-

Moner irenerallv burn* a hole In a than In a wo-

— .— — send them 30c in postage, they ; man's s tockins . will add to the abort % parkjpe of fa- { mous Berliner Cauliflower. [W. X . U.J ; a CCABAATEKD CTRE FOR PILE*.

t u M c . BUao. BWeAlac <* Pile*. Vvci Some women show a decided Ind i r a -

t ion lo be l i t t l e even t h e i r best e f fo r t s . 1

. . , , : A man w h o wi l l only be a s hom-st MrwlmiSKrtcklVDInucutaura^.ablfpbyriflMH j a R h e l i a * t o b,•' w i , , be a s disbom-M

Mn- e. r. auan-. porrtau, o. nas a bouta. | ax h e can be.

W K e n

St. J a c o b s O i l Tbe old monk cure, strong, straight sure, Uckles

Hurts, Sprains, Bruises The muscles flex, the kinks untwist, the soreness dies out. Price 2Sc. and 50c.

It Cores Golds. Oougta. Sore Inflixma, AVbooping Oovsh, 1 A-ihma. A <T.alB cure tor OtmsumpUon in flrrt v t a s ^ acdasuiy i r l le l lncdTanoedaUce^. Use at once. \ o n will seethe exoeUesteRectafter taklns the flrst do* . Sold by dernier* CTcrj-

j where. Larc« botUeaSS cents and 50 teals.

EXCURSIORS TO THE

Free Grant Lands OF

Western fswii Dorin- the months of March and April, there

will be e s r m i o u o D the varioaa lines ot rmjl-way to thcCssadtaa W e s t ^

^ o f s c m of the b « » S S ^ t h f t ^ ^ OonUnen

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j r e s s : •ration Ottawa. Chnada. or *~ adiaa Gi Avenue A. Laurler,

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Certificates •f Deposit

THE LOWELL STATE BANK LOWILL, MICH.

P r t l D IN O B P I T R L # 2 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 .

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The Financial Condition

of this bank u reported to the OommlMlooer of Banking of the aUUt of Michigan Is bhown elsewhere In this paper. We beg you to toru-llnlie our statement closely and If you ai«Im-pressed with the same and hare.any banking business to be done, we would be pleased to care for you; wants.

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3 Per cant Paid on Savings Deposits

HEARD ABOUT TOWN. Dr. Hodgea. dentlBt. tf WANTED—1500 new ciiRtomcra a t

Smi th ' s Gash Shoe Store. Mrs. C. Moffit spent Sunday a t

Car l ton . £ . A. King of Elmdale is building

a new house. J o h n Lasby was home from " t h e

r o a d " dver Sunday. March 25 t o April 2, boys ' knee

p a n t s V off a t Godfrey's.* A. W. Weekee has been in Chicago

on business this week. H o w t o get nex t -Wear Fiorsheims.

F o r eale a t Smith 's Cash Shoe Store. Miss Gertrude Powers of Grand

Rapids spent Sunday wi th Miss Irene Murphy.

Born—In Batt le Creek, Fr iday, Mar. 17, t o Mr. and Mrs. Harold

Hller, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Gunn have

- returned from a t w o weeks' visit in Grand Rapids.

C. O.Lawrence waa home from Grand Rapids to spend Sunday wi th his family.

Mrs. Phil Althen(nee Allle Beery)

Bread 5c, a t Smith's bakery. Athletic cob test tonight. Snag proof that 's all.

Is very 111 wi th typhoid fever, a t t h e hospi ta l in Columbus, O.

Cnas. Triphagen of Por t l and has lieen spending a few d a y s wi th Mr. and M rs. Chas. Francisco. •

Godfrey's seven days special sale of American Girl shoes begins S a t u r day, March 25. See ad . on page 8.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Bergln were recent gueste of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Anderson in Grand Rapids.

Look here and you will never look any where else. Our p a t e n t leathers will dazzle you.

Smith 's Cash Shoe Store. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bateman of

Grand Rapids spent Sunday wi th Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hlnyan.

F r a n k Gramer left Tuesday for Valparaiso, Ind., where he will a t t e n d Dodge's Ins t i tu te of Tel-egraphy.

Mr8.L. Eggleston spent Sunday w i t h Mina a t Ann Arbor, and is making a business t r ip t o Toledo th is week.

R. -B. Boylan has purchased of Miss Fern Edmonds and sold t o Elmer Ba r r the house and lot nor th of the Lowell house. Mr. Barr and hia family will move into It.

Miss K a t y Murdock, who has completed a course a t the Big Rapids school, has been spending a few days with her cousin, MIm Hallle DeVoe.

Complaint was made Sa tu rday by t h e village marshall aga ins t Chas.

' Wesbrook for disorderly conduct. The l a t t e r appeared Tuesday, pled guUty and was flned $10 and costa.

Warren Ford has exchanged his forty-acre farm a t Alton with Mrs. Mlra Gates of Home township, New-w a g o Co., aud expects to move ( to his new home In the near future.

Mrs. Ed. Flynn was given a royal suprlso par ty by twenty-five friends In honor of her forty-ninth b i r thday anniversary recently. The evening waa spent with pedro and a dainty picnic nupper waa spread.

I t will bring rich, red blood, firm flesh and muscle. Tliat 's w h a t Hoi-lister 's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. Taken this month keeps you well all summer. :{5cent8, Tea or Tablets .

D. (i. Look. Mrs. W. A. Wat t s entertained a

company of the girl friends of her daughter , Lueile, lam evening In honor of the lat ter 's fourteenth b i r thday. The time was enjoyably spent wi th music and games aud da in ty refreshincnt« were served.

Dr. and Mrs. 11. 0 . Barnes leave Sa tu rday for a short visit a t Lan-sing. The doctor will a t tend the meeting of the Central Michigan Association held In t h a t city Tues-d a y and Wednesday. They expect t o return t o Loweli Thursday.

W. A. Covert, w h o has been a fai thful employe of Marks Ruben for a number of years, haa pur-chased the dry goods s tore of Henry Frace a t Saranac, and his family have moved there th is week. Ar thur Wesbrook has gone to clerk for 'hlm.

If taken this month, keeps you well all summer. I t makes the little ones ea t , sleep anft grow. A . tonic for the whole family. Hol-lister 's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35cents TJea or Tablets. D. G. Look.

Any one wishing to buy a full blood Poland China brood sow eith-er with litter or ye t to f a r row can buy one right f rom John VanBaicum on the Martin farm Just south of Fox'es Corners (^mile N. W. of Lowell.) Registered boar also for sale a t f25.00. Herd is t o be reduced.

Mar 2a E. H. Cambell Is president of the

Alice K. Mhiiug company, recently organized, has purchased a mining property In the Phoenix district near BolUnavlile, Colorado, for ty miiea west of Denver. The company Is preparing for active devolop-menta. Mr. Cambell has specimens of the ore taken from tbe mine which asaay $200 dollars per ton. Dr. P. L. Cambell wove from Ulendo, Wyoming t o Denver, to officiate aa necretary of the company.

Walk over and seeonr Walk Overs. At Smith'a Caah Shoe Store.

NOTICE. All those who are indebted

to me will confer a favor by payign same, as I wish to close my books. CHAS. ALTHEN.

Smith 's Cash Shoe Store. All kinds of bread a t 5c per loaf.

Smith 's bakery. T ry the Woodpulp plastering.

Lowell Lumber Co. ' Dr. H. P. Snyder, dentist . Citizens phone 156.

House t o rent. Apply t o Austin Miiea. tf

Ladies, see Godfrey's shoe ad. on we 8. For the World's best coffees go t o

John Giles & Co. A full line of baby shoes.

At Smith 's Caah Shoe Store. Stocking la giving away sewing

machines too . Boys' knee panta % off a tGodfrey 's

Mar. 25 t o April 2. • Crazy t o get rid of the goods. See

Simpson's qd. on page 5. Stack of rye s t raw for sale; also

some hay. G. M. Parker. Phone 181. Thir ty dozen boys' knee pan t s

off March 25 t o April 2 a t Godfrey's. Pure bred white Leghorn eggs for

sale. 50c per setting. W. F. Howk.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Howk gave a pa r ty laat Thursday evening in honor of the Hon. A. S. S tannard .

$200—Will s t a r t you In business paying $7.00 t o $10.00 daily. Pres-ident, Carrier 30, Grand Rapids. 4wp

See the bargains In our window this week.

Smith's Cash Shoe Store. Lost—$5.00 bill Friday evening a t

F. & A. M. lodge room or a t Jones' livery barn, n u d e r please leave at LrdgeH office and get reward. 1 wp

Regular $27.50 Wilton Velvet 0x12 rugs for ten days a t $21.00. We have them In stock.

J . B. Nicholson. The Horace Hatch 80 acre farm in

Keene, 2 miles north and 2 miles east of Lowell, good land, well water-ed, fruit, 8 acres of timber, will be sold a t auction on Friday, March 31, a t one o'clock, P. M.

If troubled with weak digestion, belching or sour stomach, use Cham-berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will get quick relief. For sale by A. D. Sturgis.

Having purchased the Dry Goods Stock ofHenry W. Frace of Saranac we wiU continue the business a t the same place and we extend a hearty welcome t o you all.

% W. A. Covert Dry Goods Co. CABD o r THAHKI.

We desire t o express our sincere thanks t o the singers, to the friends who sent flowers and to the neigh bors and friends for their kindness during our late sad bereavement The children of Magalena Kropf.

Reglstratloa Notice. To the electors of the township of

Lowell. Notice Is hereby given t h a t a meet-

ing of the board of registration of the township of Lowell will be held a t the office of the township In said township, on Saturday, the first day of April, for the purpose of register-ing the names of all such persons as shall be posessed of the necessary qualifications pf electors In said town-snip and who may apply for tha t purpose, and t b a t said board of regis-t ra t ion will be In session on the day and a t the place aforesaid from nine o'clock In the forenoon until five o'clock In the afternoon for the pur-

Sose aforesaid. Dated thla 21 day of f arch In the year 1905.

L. H . H u n t ) Inspectors H. J . Coons [ of C. G, Stone J Election. ,

Fine aasor tment of cake. Smith '* bakery.

Regular $27.50 Wilton Velvet 0x12 rugs for ten days a t $21.00. We have them In stock.

J . B. Nicholson.

SEWING MACHINE CONTEST. The vote as counted a t noon on

the date of this paper Is aa follows: Mrs. Frank Finch 5280 Mrs. John D. Crawford .*. 3452 Mrs. Cora Chase 1859 Miss Anuabflle Davidson 1092 Mrs. Blanche Dickson 159 Mrs. F. .1. Yelter 260 Mrs. Mlna Hammond 128 Mrs. Minnie Bell 125

The contest will close Wednesday evening, April 5, a t 7.30.

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Mary Taylor. Mrs. Mary Taylor died yesterday

morning a t the home of her daugh-ter, Mrs. J . A. Mattern, after a five weeks' Illness. Funeral servlceH will be held tomorrow afternoon a t two o'clock a t the house, conducted by Rev. A. H. Sturgis. Interment will be made In Oak wood cemetery.

Mary VanRlper was born Jan . 2, 1834, a t Flat Rock, Wayne county. On the fouteenth of April, 1859, sfie came t o Lowell, where she has since resided. August tenth of the same year she waa married to Samuel J Taylor . Four children were born to them, of whom two, Everett L. and Ella M., are dead. The others are Mrs. J . Mattern and Frank Taylor, both of this village, Mrs. Taylor waa a member of the Methodist church and also of the Hooker Pioneer society. She has made a

themselves deeply regret her loss. She suffered a grea t deal during the laat of her sickness; though having the beet of care and sympathy, ahe had expressed herself willing and ready t o go when she was called.

Besides the husband and children she leaves four grand-children, aud three brothers: Alec VanRlper of St. Charles, Mich., Garry VanRlper of F l a t Rock and John C. VanRlper of Detroit. •

v Mrs. Magdaleaa Kropf. Mrs. Magdalena Kropf died Sa tur -

day, March 18th, a t the home of her son, John Kropf. In this village, aged nearly 69 years. Funeral services were held Tuesday and interment was in the Alton cemetery.

Magdalena Oesh waa born April 2. 1837, In Steppsburg, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. In 1860 she was united In the bond of matr imony to Samuel Kropf. Nine children were born to them. The husband and father passed before her Into eternity about nineteen years ago, leaving her to bat t le life's bitter struggle alone. In 1889, with her children, she im-migrated Into this country and set-tled In Vergennes township, Ken t Co. She made her home with herchildren though most of the time she re-mained with her son John. The laat few years she suffered much through sickness, bu t she bore It bravely, though a s she grew older and became more feeble she had a sincere longing for the bettep home above. She loved her bible and be-lieved In Christ and trusted In him for salvation. During her las t 111 uess she received the most tender care from loved ones. She leaves to mourn her death seven isous, t w o daughters and fifteen graadchlldreh, besides many friends

u grti . - [ C om.

Mrs. Mary McGi'bgor. Mrs. Mary McGregor died lust

Wednesday night, af ter a lingering Illness, a t the home of her nephew, Orville C. Austin, In West Lowell. The funeral was held a t the home on Saturday, Rev. 1). B. Travis officiating. Her burial was In the Oak wood cemetery In this village.

Mary J ane Austin was born May 13, 1S38, a t Pi t tsford, N. Y. Her mother died when she was eleven years old. leaving her to care for her father and her three-vear-old brother.

Soon af terward ' they moved to Penfleld, where her early life was spent. In 1869 she came to Michigan with her father and brother. She married Hiram C. McGregor Dec. 22,1874, and they lived for a time at Marqdette. From there they moved t o Almont, Mich., and In 1881 moved to Columbia, S. D., where they lived, nn til the death of her husband in 1893. Since t h a t time she has made her home with her nephew, Orville C. Austin. She was an example of faithful devotion t o her work aud those she loved. Deceased was a member of the Baptis t church a t Penfield, N. Y., a f terward uniting with the Columbia Methodist church al though her letter was never pre-sented t o any society here.

She was ono of a family of four and leaves t o mourn her loss a brother, C. V. Austin of Lapeer, a step-son, H. B. McGregor of South Dakota, her niece and nephew, Bertha M. Austin of St. LQUIS, Mo., and Orville C., besides many friends.

COLLNCIR PROCEEDINGS. Regular meeting of the Common

Council of the Village of Lowell held In the Council rooms on Thursday evening, Mar. 16,1905.

Regular charter meeting held to

grea t many friends, whose sympathy u wi th the sorrowing ones, ana who

dentJUakes. Present, Trustees Col-l a r ,# lcks , Lee, Nicholson and Wln-e g a r Absent,Smith.

The Board of Election Inspectors submitted the folio wlog report:

"The annual Village election of the Village of Lowell was held in the Merritt Wright building opposite the Pos t Office on Monday, the i:Jth day oi March. President Hakes, Trus-tees Collar and Wiuegar present ns inspectors of election, Trustee Nich-olson and Village Clerk Murphy pres-ent as clerks of election. Chas. D. Blakesleeand E. B. Hakes appointed gatekeepers. Inspectors, clerks aud gatekeepers sworn.

Polls opened a t 7.45, a. m., a t 4.00, 4.30 and 4.45, p. m„ proclamation was made of the closing of the polls In one hour, th i r ty minutes, and fif-teen minutes, respectively. Polls closed a t 5, p. m. Ballot box opened and ballots counted and proper proc-lamation made of the result. Ballots one and tally sheet one. register of voters and report of Board of Election Inspectors placed In ballot box. Ballot box closed, locked and sealed. Seal delivered to Trustee Collar and key t o Trustee Wiuegar."

On motion by Trustee Hicks the report was accepted aud adopted and in accordance with the proyis-

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Co$t Sight O R -

"OK Light thiii mr Kiplin's pathet ic tale of t h e a r t i s t who lost his sight,, teaches a moral—The eyes are tbe bread winner.

Take care of them. Have them examined. Know they are right. We a re eye experts. La te s t method in fitting

Special Opening March 25th We shall make a special effort on the above date to put before our customers

•the finest line of— New Spring Dress Goods—Mohairs, all colors

New Trimmings—fancy effects New Embroideries—all * grades

Hosiery, Etc. Ever shown iu Lowell.

F O R ONE D A Y ONLY We shall sell ail our fancy polka dot and

plain silk 20o ribbons f Q l x j ? - v r / l for the low price of ^ j l * a

^ I s o some of those $1.00 and $1.26 Wrappers we are selling at 64o and 88c each.

W o have lef t about 00 pairs of those 16o hose for children (all sizes) to go at •

barrpn?e0"e 4 p a i r s f o r 2 5 c J ever saw.

J. B. NICHOLSON, Lowell Michigan

Beautify Your Homes With

Ulall 0£esl Paper Design

Miuve t he l a iyes t nnd mus t complete Ntock of Wall P a -pers I h a v e eve r bough t and If you a r e R O I I I R t o pape r this Spr ing I am s u r e It will be t o y o u r a d v a n t a g e to look oVer tho Une w h e t h e r you buy or no t a s It Is a p leasure t o show them.

All Grades and Prices.

(U. $. (UiiKgar Wlnegar's White Piue and

Ions of Section 9 of Chapter 3 of the Pnhiie Acts of 1895 tbe following offi-cers were declared elected:

President, Charles McCarty; Clerk, Thomas A. Murphy; Treasurer, Uriah B. Williams; Trustees for t w o years, Ralph B.

Loveland, Weidon Smith and C. Guy Perry;

Assessor, Joseph B. Yelter. Yeas. Collar, Hickb, Lee, Nicholson

and Wiuegar. Absent, Smith. The Finance Committee submitted

a report recommending t h a t the re-por t of the Village Treasurer of tax-es collected be accepted and placed on file.

On motion by Trustee Wiuegar the report of tlie committee was accep-ted aud adopted and the recoiumen-datiou concurred iu. Yeas, Collar, Hicks, Lee, Nicholson and 'Wiuegar. Absent, Smith.

Minutes of February meetings, t w o March meetings and th is meeting read and approved-

On motion by Trustee Hicks, Coun-cil adjourned.

T. A. Murphy, Clerk.

Regular special meetlug of the Common Council of the village of Lowell, held In the council rooms on Monday evening March 20,1905.

Meeting called to order by Presi-dent McCarty.

Present Trustees, Collar, Hicks, Loveland, Perry, Smith and Wlnegar.

President McCarty announced the follow lug stand lug committees for the ensulug year and on motion by Trus-tee Collar the appointments were con-firmed.

Lighting and Power Com.—Wlne-gar , Perry. Loveland.'

FlnanceCom.r-Hlcks.Smlth,Collar. Sewer Com.—Perry, Loveland and

Wlnegar. Street Com.—Smith, Collar, Wlne-

gar . Fire Com. -Collar , Smith, Hicks. Public Building aud Pa rk Com.—

Loveland. Perry, Hicks. / On motion by Trusted Hicks the

following bills were allowed. Yeas, Collar, Hicks, Loveland, Wlnegar, Perry, and Smith.

UISNBRXL FUNU. J . H. Godfrey f 2 50 J . H. Shults 1 66 M. Connelly 1 75 T. A. Murphy 4 00 R. W. Swayze 1 75 Mrs. M. L. Wright 2 66 E. B. Hakes 2 00 C. D. Blakeslee 2 00 Clyde Collar 2 0 J . B. Nicholson 2 00 \Y. S. Wlnegar 2 00 wfcldon Smith 2 00 H. W. Hakes f 2 00 J . E . Lee 2 00 J . T . J o n e s 3 00 C. Alexander 19 00

Total f52 32 L. & P. FUND.

M. B. Austin & Co I 6 86 Cent. Electric Co 6 56 E. Appliance Co 27 72

Total v f l T I i On motion Trustee Smith the clerk

was authorized t o purchase such stationery as may be needed during the year. Yeas, Collar; Hicks, Love-land, Perry, Smith and Wlnegar.

On motion by Trustee Hicks, couu

T. A. Murphy, Clerk.

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The Clothing and Shoe Ma

LOWELL, MICH.

Befbre Investing ^Investigate. The English Language belongs to t h e man using ItA

All Labels are Attractive, All Color Cards Read Well.

BUT WHEN YOU BUY PAINT. YOU SHOULD

See the Paint Itself. The Slip Top Cover shown above gives you a

chan.ce to do so. Call and have the paint question explained intelligently and to your satisfaction.

Scott & Wlnegar

Beginning Saturday Morning March 25 and Ending Saturday IWght at 10 O'clock, April 1

We Will Sell

TRADE

UA SHOE AS GOOD AS ITS NAME." Equal t o any other shoe a t 13.00.

Oir Special Offer $2.15 Per Pair

Ladles! These are rare shoe bar-.

?fains—284 pairs t o select from, sizes rom 2% t o 8 on A, B, C, D, E, and EE

lasts. '

Yours for business

W. S. 60DFI