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M r s , F rank C M t t is on the sick l ist .

Masquerade skate at at the ha l l Saturday evening.

M i s s Bessie Howiet t is v i s i t i n g her brother at Poot iac .

Mesdauies Ov i t t a n ! M c C o m e y were Anderson visitors Saturday.

flemy and F r e d Howle t t at-tended the auto show i n De t ro i t .

C . N . B u l l i s and wife spent Tuesday and Wednesday in J ack -sou.,

Doro thy B u d d and k a i s y H o w -lett were Jackson callers S a t u r -day.

Eugene JELeatley and B a l p b C o l -linn were i n P inckney M o u d a y on business.

Mrs . F r e d Gr ieve visi ted at the horn* of 0 . B u r d e n one day the past week.

Vancie A r n o l d visi ted at the home of M i l o S m i t h of Stock-bridge over Sunday.

F . A . Howlett is showing some some very nice samples in ta i lor made c lo th ing for spr ing

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W . W i l l a r d has recovered from his recent i l lness.

M r s . Gates is enter ta ining her sister, B u s b a C h n r c h .

A l f r e d T a y l o r was i n H o w e l l pa business last week.

D r . W r i g h t and wife were De-troit visi tors Wednesday.

O . B . A r n o l d and fami ly spent Sunday wi th M r s . Oleve P o o l .

M i k e Roche of Ande r son was seen on our streets last week.

A l e s R e i d and F r e d A s q u i t h de-l ivered stock here Wednesday.

Gregory won the blue rock con-test from U n a d i i l a last Saturday.

Don ' t forget to ca l l and gnt a psckage of tea *t F . A , Howle t t ' s .

Beatr ice Brotbercon is absent from school on aeoouut of s ick-ness.

E m m e t H a d l s y has bought the house formerly owned by R A . K i a b y .

F . A . Howle r t j ffers special prices in bed blankets f o r J J e h -mary.

M e l v i o Wood of Det ro i t spent M o n d a y wi th his mother, M r s . W . R . Wood.

M r , and Mr* . Marcu* W a r d o f A n n A r b o r visi ted D a n W r i g h t last week.

M a y Madiuran of Stock br idge spent W^ln*#day evening w i t h Lone ta K n h n .

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D o r o t h y Hadley vis i ted h*r c^rfsin M a x i m e M a r s h a l l F r i d a y

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JSrs. Mauie Weston i s \ y i s i t i u g a t i W t U P i c k e H ' s .

The 'Mesdames : E . H a d l e y and A l e x P y p a r vis i ted M r s . W i l m e r Ccossman Saturday.

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gu«-st o r W T X ^ W l P f i r M ^ fnmi)-7 of Stockbr idge last week, |Brear ley were in Det ro i t the fore

The Fa rme *s institute was w e l l ' P * r t o f t h f t W P H k -attended here Thursday aud much M r s . L i z z i n Tay lo r and dangh-intjerest was shown by a l l . jter, Mrs . H Single ton spent S u n -

Tbe W i l l i n g Workers w i l l hold a t ° - Tavlor ' s . a conundrum social at the home . Mis s Josephine Douglas of A d -of Hc^nry Howle t t F r iday eveoihg j rian visifcad at the home of 0 . N . Feb. 7. Everyone come and have ; B u l l i s Thursday and F r i d a y , a good time, B e r t L e « of Ca l i fo rn i a and his

South L y o n w i l l have another annt, M ^ s . M a r y Holmes of BaQk-h o m e C o m i n g this year. T h e e r H l 1 1 W f e r f t 8 u e 8 t 8 Saturday at the d-ites arn Augus t 14 and 15. B S i e ^ ° m e o f G e o - A r n o l d . • ball , tennis and t « c k events w i l l J ^ ^ X . O. T M . held their i n -constitute the sports. Ittaflart^u of offi iers Saturday af-

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commiHsioner Helme, H e has! The canning factory t s lked of b^en appointed state food inspect l ^ r H o w e l l wants 100 acres of or and enters upon the duties of i sweet corn, 100 acres of peas, 30 his office at once. ;ueres of tomatoes and 30 acres of

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Does it phv to keep cows? Y s if they arf ^ood QU^H. .1 >i»n vVei meister aLd F . T . H y u e mi lked thirteen o^ their cows du r ing the month of December and the m i l k ; John Wanamaker , the man which was del ivered to the N a - grtat m roautile experience aud \ One of tfio Chelsea physic ians t ional Food Products Cfimpany in success has declared h imsel f i n had thirteen calls for his services B r i g h t u n brought them 125117. favor of the government t a k i n g in les i than a half hear on Tues-M r . Weimeister says, "Bet ter i n - over the telephone and telegraph day sftarnoon of thiB week.—Chel-

~ sea Standard. — vent one hundred xloHars^tra-gaocrtraes, W cow than take a poor one as a - i f as it c^sts as much to feed a

A n old fashioned e x h i b i t i o n Format notice has been issued . _ wi th a supper w i l l be given at t h e , b y t h d Washtenaw H o m e Tele-

poor cow as it does a good one/ ' M a c C f t b e e ha l l on the evening of phone company to its subscribers - B r i g h t o n Argus . | P e b u b y ^ e p e o p ] e o f G r e K O r y that i t w i l l go out of busines* on

Senator F i tzg ibbons has i n r r o - ' a n d v i c in i t y who are i n t h « pr ime 31 and that thereafter ser-duced a b i l l in the senate author- ! of l i fe . L o o k for futj p rg ram i n w e w i l l be rendered by the M i c h , i s ing the abate of M i c h i g a n to pay j next weeks Gazette. W S c a t e Telephone C o .

F U L M E R ' S . C O R N E R S ^ u e r J a c k s o n and wife have

bdea v^mtiog at J . S p n n g m a n ' s .

M r s . H G i l H v e r and G l e n n are viai t ingfat S. M . Smi th ' s i n Mar-ioo .

3SL Siugle ton and fami ly and ttftS. BlaDCtie Lantirf and H a r o l d were recent v is tors at the home < o f E . I i G l e n n .

iGeo, B a c k u s i s on the s ick l is t , foeo, ^ f e i e r was ca l l ed to F i i n J

Ttfe8day^by«bia mother 's i l lness, - H a r r y G i l l i t e r and F r a n k S t e v M % attended the aato show at D e -t r o i t F r i d a y .

W f l m a , the 4 } t » r o l d d w g h -^ i q f i J : S . B a c t n * o f Wefteter h i d t l i e t h n m b and four fingers o ( l i ^ I g h t hand taken off by a aat i iage g r inder w h i c h was be ing

the « p * n 8 « of each o ld veteran H o w , s t M , f o r a J a n u a U e m ^ S o m e people are .o«mp1«niDg of » h o h M resided i n the s^ate five i t J M i c h i i , f t n . Several days a K o the h i « h cost ot l i v . n « , bat i f they

years o f A t r i p to Ge t t tyshurg Q e o r t f B Riohtnaa noticed a pair of ? h . 6 ^ ° ™ * P " ° ? . ™ o,x t J u l y to attend the fiftieth d o m j w h ; c h 8 e e m e d t o b e n 6 , t i u g a d v e r t i n g columns i n this paper aoniversary of the memoriable i u b ) 8 b ^ r n . 0 a invest igat ing he t h e y W , U R e e h o w c h e * p t h e y C H T n battle. H e contends that the f o u n d t w o e ? g 8 i n t h e n P 8 t . L o o k bay.and thus rwlnce the coet. I t

srovernm^n paid expenseses o f ; i i n ^ - S u n d a y he found W« w e l 1 to r e a d t h e the boys to go down there , t w o ) i v p l y y , n D g 8 q n a b „ w h i c b &dvcrt i h ments . and fight and that now the state j seemed to be doing as wel l as i f Rapor ts of the men who have should pay their fare to go down • i t were M * v , iustead of midwinte r b o e n r e ] e f t 8 e ( j f r o n j our stare

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We make mistakes, of course; we per cent have made good and are human , l ike you. W e over- have become men who can be heard two indiv iduals t a l k i n g ab- trusted and are now engaged in out tke way we ran this paper, and U M c u l occupations w h i c h seems i t made us feel l i ke a two cent to confirm the wisdom exercised piece wi th a bole punched i n it- j by the legislature i n pass ing such W a doubled t imed i t to our den a law. mcI c r a w l i n g i n through tho sky A y e i n t e r e s t i m 9 t s # a f t o f l ight , resolved a o l to « * J » « « o f t 8 e W . 0 . T . D . was he ld a t un t i l the shadows of n igh t bad ^ o f M f 8 Q r f t o e p o o ] | a > | fallen and htt the earth. B u t

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H a l f the good qual i t ies of uor t a i lo r ing are out of sight, l i teraHy woven and sewed i n . That ' s why our garments— ta i lored >u )uur measure—-hold tht)ir stiape, look neat and dressy un t i l they are worn out.

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Poincare Elected President of France. Raymond Poincare, republican, was

elected president of the Republic of France, He's the present prime min ister and was the most popular of the seven orginal candidates.

Poincare is thus made ninth presi-dent of the third republic, succeed-ing President Armand Fallieres.

Poincare was chosen on the second ballot amid scenes of the wildest con-fusion, after he had challenged to a duel Georges Clemenceau, a former premier, and after a second duel chal-lenge has been sent by Deputy Mojzie, a Poincare supporter, to former Min-ister Boncour, an adherent of Jules Pams, secretary of agriculture.

The incident between Poincare and Clemenceau arose out of a letter sent by the former premier, to Mr. Poin-care, the contents of which were con-sidered offensive by Mr Poincare.

Almost exhausted from cold and ex-posure, a boy believed to be a pupil of the Michigan School for the Deaf, was found wandering in the open road^Cve miles south of Fenton.

Officials of Kalamazoo paper compa-nies confirm,the reports that an east-ern syndicate is making overture? for the purchase of 18 mills.

The board of supervisors of Genesee county, voted an appropriation of $1,000 for the^construction of«a tuber-culosis sanitarium at the Genesee county infirmary.

A primary election wil l be held in Marshall next spring to nominate three road commissioners. The primary is said by Attorney General Grant Fel-lows to be the only means of nomi-nating the commissioners.

death. The eruption began at noon. Rumb-

lings far down in the earth followed by terrific detonations. Then a shower of lava and sand covered the surround-ing country. The railroad tracks were buried to a depth of several feet, mak-ing the passage of trains impossible. Smoke blotted out the sky and added darkness to the other terrors that drove the residents of the small towns from their homes, guided only by the light from the bewitching volcano.

A report from Guadalajara, 100 miles from the volcano, said that ashes and gases1 there caused great discomfort. If the eruption continues, it is feared several" towns will be de* siroyed.

Greeks Push War. While the Balkan peace delegates

here are awaiting instructions from their g o v m o r a s and the Turkish re-ply to the rowers' note, the Greoir^ are pushing Lcir Military operations in Epirus.

The &Tmy"^therer numbering 60,000, is advancing against Janina in a semi-circle. The Greeks have been fighting for five days consecutively. The siege is most difficult owing to the moun-tainous nature of the district and the rery nairow passes, which are strongly fortified. The operations have been rendered still more difficult by stormy weather.

If the war is resumed in the next week the allies have agreed that the offensive shall be taken by the com-bined Bulgarian, Greek and Servian forces against both Adrianople and Tchatalja. The Servians will dispatch some of their troops to help the Mon-tenegrins take Scutari.

"acre net profit. This figure should satisfy anyone having land that cost less than $100.00 per acre. Very much less return than this proves satisfac-tory to those holding lands in Iowa and Illinois worth from $250 to $300̂ per acre.

The latest Government returns give an approximate estimate of four hun-dred thousand of an immigration to Canada during 1912. Of this number 200,000 will be from the United States. Most of these are of the farming class and it Is not difficult to understand why farming lands in Canada will ad-vance from ten to twenty per cent, within the next twelve months. There-fore investment in Western Canadian lands is not looked upon as being in the speculative class. Those fortunate enough to secure free* homesteads in Canada wil l acquire m the intrinsic value of the land alone the best pos-sible start for a splendid future. Ad* vertisement.

T H E FLYING AGE.

A new state bank has been started at Omer with C. W. McPhail president, C. H . Macomber vice president and C. H . Rossman cashier. The new bank starts with a capital of $20,000, all paid in. It succeeds the old Arenac County bank there.

The members of the Michigan state tax commission began a series of hear-ings to listen to objections to the tentative assessment of railroads made public last week.

Superintendent of Public Instruction L. L . Wright is sending out bulletins calling attention to the need of bet-ter ventilated and heated school rooms.

The members of the Jackson County Bar association presented to -, the Michigan supreme court a large o i l painting of Justice Charles H . Blair, who died Aug. 9, 1912.

fhe Northern Gas & Oil Co., own^ in? and operating the newly struck oil field at Allegan, has increased Its cap* ital from 120,000 to $50,000.

Gov. Ferris has received JL letter from William Daman, a former Mich-igan man, in Mexico, asking help to settle an estate in his charge, so that he may leave Mexico. He says that the lives of Americans are in ' great danger, and they may have to flee the country at any time.

Gov. Ferris has announced that he will attend no more banquets during the session of the legislature. He says his work during the day keeps him so busy he mnst have rest at night,

A. Nelson, Jr., has started suit in Saginaw against the Preferred Life Insurance Co., of Grand Rapids, for $25,000, alleging false arrest. Nelson was arrested at Stanton^ Mich.,* Oct. 22, last, cl^rged with embezzlement of the company's funds, and was later released.

When the Indian appropriation bill is reported to the senate by the sen-ate committee on Indian affairs, it wil l carry a provision forgan appropriation Of $25,000 for a new gymnasium and manual training building at the Mt. Pleasant, Mich., school.

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Wedding Rfngs That Wear. The next time you are married—or,

if you will when you are married— don't buy a gold wedding ring. It isn't being done. Platinum wedding rings < are the newest thing. Mile. Jeanne Provost, a Trench actress, is to blame.' She thought of the idea, ana when she was married to M . Firpo, she-had one. 1 Platinum rings are more expensive than gold and wear better. Just why an actress, especiall) a French ac-tress, should want a wedding ring that will last a long while the jewel-ers haven't learned.

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Here is an excerpt fp(!im Paul West's "Just Boy" letters; which reads like a clipping from the "Little Johnny" pa-pers. by Ambrose Bierce in the early volumes of the Argonaut: "I ast my father why ministers move so much and be said he guessed they was forced to on account of thare sons. I wisht my father was a minnister."— San Francisco Argonaut. <

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Agatha Redmond, opera ginger, starling for an auto drive in Kew York, finds a etranger sent as her chauffeur. Leaving the car. she goes into the park to read the will of an old friend of her mother who has left her property. There «he is accosted by a stranger, who follows her to the auto, climbs in aad chloroforms her. James Hanahletoc of Lynn. Mass.. witnesses the abduction of Agatha Red-mond. Hambleton sees Agatha forcibly taken aboard a yacht. He secures a tug and when near the yacht drops over-hoard, Aleck Van Camp, friend of Ham-bleton, had an appointment with hinx Wot meeting Hambleton. he makes a call upon friends. Madame and Miss Melanie Key-Jiier. He proposes to the latter and is re-fused. Melanie explains that she is-of high birth in a German principality, from which she had fled to escape an unwished marriage. The three arrange a coast trip on Van Camp's yacht, the Sea Gun. Hambleton wakes up on board the Jeanne D'Arc, the yacht on which is Agatha Redmond. His clothes and money belt have been taken from him. He meets a man who introduces himself as Monsieur Chatelard, who Is Agatha's abductor. They fight, but are interrupted by the threatened sinking of the vessel. The boat sinks. Jimmy and Agatha are both abandoned by the crew, who take to the boats. Jimmy dives into the sea and reaches Agatha.

C H A P T E R VIII.—Continued. When daylight came, they found

they had not traveled far -from the scene of the night's disaster; or, if they had, the Jeanne A.'Arc had drift-ed with them. She was still afloat, and just as the sun rose they saw her, apparently not far away, tossing rudderless to the waves. There was no slgu of the shlp^-boats,

At "the renewed miracle of light.

The two in the water watched with fascinated eyes, filled with awe. When it was ai l over Agatha turned to her companion with a long-drawn breath* Jim looked as one looks whose last hope has failed.

"I could never have let you go-aboard, anyway!" He loved her anew for that speech, but knew not how to meet her eyes.

"Well, Ulysses lost his raft, too!" he managed to say.

"He saw the sunrise, too, just as we have seen it ; and he saw a distant Island, that seemed a shield laid on the misty sea.' Let's look hard now, each time the wave lifts us. Perhaps we also shall see an island "

"We must swim harder; you are chilled through."

"Oh, no," she laughed. "I shiv-ered at the thought of what a fright I mtnlf look. I always did hate to get my hair wet."

"You look all right to- me." They were able to laugh, and so

kept up heart. They tried to calcu-late the direction the yacht had taken when she left port, and where the land might lie; and when they had argued about it, they set out to swim a certain way. In their hearts each felt that any calculation was futile, but they pretended to be in earnest. They could not see far, but they created for themselves a goal and worked toward it, which is -e4-=the=

and at sight of the yacht, Jimmy's hopes were reborn. His spirit bathed In the wonder of the day and was made strong again. The night with Its horrors of struggle and its dark-ness was past, forgotten in the flush of hope that came with the light.

Together they struck out toward the yacht, fresh with new courage. Now that he could see plainly, Jim swam always a little behind Agatha keeping a watchful eye. She still took the water gallantly, nose and closed mouth just topping the wave, like a spaniel. An occasional side-stroke would bring her face level to the water, with a backward smile for her companion. He gloried in her. spirit, even while he feared for her strength.

It was a longer pull to the yacht than they had counted upon, a heavy tax on their powers of endurance. Jim came up to find Agatha floating on her back and put his hand under her shoulders, steadying her easily.

"Now ^ou can really rest," he said. "I've looked toward the horizon so

lor/g, I thought I'd look up, way up. for a change," she said cheerfully "That's where the skylarks go, when they want to sing—straight up into heaven!"

"Doesn't it make you - want to sing?"

She showed no surprise at the question

"Yes, it does, almost. But just as 1 thought of the skylarks, I remem bered eo me thing else; something that kept haunting me in the darkness all night—

" 'Master in song, good-by, good-by. Down to1 the dim sea-line—'

I thought something or somebody was fturejy lost down in 'the dim sea-line' last night."

"Who can tell? But I had a better thought than yours; Ulysses, like us, swimming over the 'wine-dark sea'! Do you remember it? Then two days and two nights on the resistless waves be drifted; many a time his heart faped death/"

"That's not a bit better thought than mine; but I like it. And I know what follows, too. 'But when the fair-haired dawn brought the third day,

t then the wind ceased; there came a breathless calm; and close at band be spied the coast, as he cast a keen glance forward, upborne on a great

» ware/ .That's It, isn't i t?" "I don't know, but I hope it is.

'The wine-dark sea' and the 'rosy-fingered dawn are all I remember; though I'm glad you know what comes next. It's a good omen. But look

v At the yacht; she's acting strange!" As the girl turned to her stroke*

' 4heir attention was caught and held by the convulsions of the Jeanne D'Arc. There was a grim * fascina-tion in the sight.

It was obvious that she was sink-ing. While they had been resting, her hull had sunk toward the water-line, her graceful bulk and delicate masts showing strange against ocean and sky. Now she suddenly tipped down at her stern; her bow was thrown up out of the water for an Instant, only to be drawn down again, slowly but irresistibly, as tf she were pulled by a giant's, unseen hand, With a sudden last larch she disappeared entirely, and only widen* ing circles fleetlngly marked the place of her going. .- \ . _ •'•v -t- •'.«,

itself a happiness. So they watched and waited, ages

long. Hope came to them again presently. James, treading water, thrust up his head and scented the air.

"I smell the salt marsh, which means land!" He sniffed again. "Yes, decidedly!"

A moment later it was there, be-fore their vision—that "shield laid on the misty sea" which was the land. Only It was not like a shield, but a rocky spit of coast land, with flr trees farther back. James made for the nearest point, though his heart shrank to see how far away it was. Fatigue and anxiety were taking their toll of his vigor. Neither one had breath to spare even for ex-ultation that the land was in sight Little by little Agatha grew more quiet, though not less brave. It took all her strength to flght the water— that mighty element which indiffer-ently supports or engulfs the human atom. If she feared, she made no sign. Bravely she kept her heart, and carefully she saved her strength, swimming slowly, resting often, and wasting no breath in talk.

But more and more frequently her eyes rested wistfully on James, mute-ly asking him for help. He watched her minute by minute, often begging her to let him help her.

"Oh, no, not yet; I can go on nicely. H~h just rest a—little. -There—thank you."

Once she looked at him with such pain in her eyes that he silently took her hands, placed1 them on bis shoul-der and carried her along v/itb his stronger stroke. She was reassured by his strength, and presently she slipped away from him, smiling con-fidently again as she swam along-side.

"I'm all right now; but I suddenly thought, what if anything should hap-pen to you, and I be left alone! Or what i f I should get panicky and clutch you and drag you down, the way people do sometimes!"

"But 1 shan't leave you alone, and you're not going to do that!" ,

Agatha smiled, but could only say, "I hope not!"

She forged ahead a little, and pres-ently bad another moment of fright on looking round and finding that Jim had disappeared. He had suddenly dived, without giving her warning. He came up a second later, puffing and slit t ing the bluer brine; but his face was radiant.

"Rocks and seaweed!" he cried. "The land is near. Come;' I can swim and take you, too, easily. And now I know certainly Just which way to go. Come, come!"

Agatha heard it all, but this time she .was unable to utter a word Jim saw her stiff lips move in an effort to smile or speak, but he heard no voice.

"Keep up, keep up, dear g i r l ! " he cried. "We'll soon be there. Try, try to keep up! Don't lose for a moment the thought that you are near land, that you are almost there. We are safe, you can go on—only a few moments more!"

Poor Agatha strove as Jim bade her, gallantly, hearing his voice as through a thickening wal l ; but she had already done her best, and more. Shestmggled for a few half-conscious moments; then suddenly her arms gtew limp, her e/ee olosed, and her

weight came upon Jim as that of a dead person. Then he set his teeth and nerved himself to make the effort of his life.

It is no easy thing to strain for-ward, swimming the high seas, bear-ing above the surface a load which on land would make' a strong man stagger. One must watch one's bur-den, to guard against mishap; one must save breath and muscle, and keep an eye fer direction, all in a struggle against a hostile element.

The goal still seemed incredibly far, farther than his strength could go. Yet he swam on, fighting against the heart-breaking thought that his companion had perhaps gone "down to the dim sea-line" in very truth. She had been so brave, so strong-She had buoyed up his courage when it had been fainting; she had fought splendidly against the last terrible inertia of exhaustion*

"Courage!" he told>3*lmself- "We must make the land!" T&tff it took a stupendous effort. His strokes be-came unequal, some of them feeble and ineffective; his musctes ached with the strain; now and then a strange whirring and dizziness in his head caused him to wonder dimly whether he were above or below wa-ter. He could no longer swim with closed lips, but constantly threw hi3 head back with the gasp that marks

Holding edmond" Hi front of him, with her head well above the water and her body partly supported by the life preserver, he swam some-times with one hand, sometimes only with his legs. He dared not stop dow, lest he be too late in reaching land or wholly unable to regather his force. The dizziness increased, and a sharp pain In his eyeballs recurred again and again. He could no longer see the land; it seemed to him that it was blood, not brine, that spurted from nose and mouth; but still he swam on, holding the woman safe. He made a gigantic effort to shout, though he could scarcely hear his own voice. Then he fixed his mind solely on his swimming, counting one stroke after another, like a man who Is coax-ing sleep.

How long he swam thus, he did not know; but after many strokes be was conscious of a Sense of happiness that, after all, it wasn't necessary to reach land or to struggle any more. Rest and respite from excruciating effort were to be had for the taking— why had he withstood them so long? r ihe sea rocked him, the surge filled his ears, his limbs relaxed their ten-sion. Then it was that a \strong hand grasped him, and a second later the same hand dealt him a violent blow on the face.

He had to begin the intolerable ex-ertion of swimming again, but he no longer, had- a burden to _hol d safej-

that the ascent would be easy en-ough. Nevertheless, the campers did

attempt it. Instead, they had* made a fir* of driftwood on the &and out of reach of the highest tide. Near the fire they had spread fir boughs, and on tiij^fragrant couch lames was lying. H e i j ^ B a l l unconscious,, ap-parently, of-the primitive nature of his surroundings, the sweetness of his balsam bed. and the watchful care of his two nurses.

J im was in a bad way, if one eould trust the remarks of his male nurse, who spake to &n invisible (companion as he gathered chips and other bits of -wood from the beach. He was a young, businesslike fellow with a clean, wholesome face, dressed only in a gauze shirt, trousers, and boots without stockings; this lack, of course, was not immediately appar-ent. The tide had just turned after th

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The clergyman was speaking along for the story."—Lippincott's.

Advance Newt. Joseph Jefferson, the actor, tells th«

following story about his father, the late Joseph Jefferson, so well beloved by all theater goers.

For a long time before his death. Mr. Jefferson was very sensitive upon the subject of his retirement from the stage. When he was playing in one of the southern cities a paper came out with the news that he had decid-ed to leave the footlights at the ex-piration of his engagement in that city.

Mr. Jefferson resented the printing of such a story, and the reporter'who had brought it in was called upon to tell how he got it.

"Why," he explained, "the city edi-tod told me to see Joseph Jefferson and ask him if it were true that he waa soon to retire."

"Well ," he was asked, "did you see him?" <

"No,"~be replied^ "I went to his ho-tel and sent my card up to his room and it was s@nt back with* this writ-ten on i t : 'Mr. Jefferson has retired'

"So, you, see, 1 had good authority the mtnrv ,f—TAntxl*******

"I was one of the Roudhteads, andi came from ttye left of Petersburg o& November 29, 1864, and our corps, the* Ninth, relieved the Second Corps, and\ occupied the lines from the Apporn^ attox river to Fort Mikle. Division; Commander Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox had his headquarters in the Friend's house, nearly Erectly back of »Fort Stedman. Our'brigade, the Third of the first division, occupied the lines from Fort Stedman to Fort Haskell, writes Phillip Crowl of Beaver Falls, Pa., in the National Tribune. In Fort Stedrcan was the first pattalion, of the ?.4th N . Y. The 69th Mass. was aearby in the rear of Fort Sted-man, in rear of Battery No. 10. In a . clump of pines on the left of Fort Stedman was the 3d Md., then Bat-tery No. 11, then the 31st Mass., thea Battery No. 12, and the 100th Pa. (Roundheads) occupied the rifle pits up to Fort Haskell.

On the morning of March 25, 1865,. just as our drum corps was getting out to beat reveille, the ball opened. It was 5 a. m. Co. F was the second company on the right when the fort was taken. The enemy filed right through to our rear, and formed iu-two lines, and came advancing upon us. Co. D ©f our regiment wa»-thrown baefc, and we, skirmishing, fell back to our workB. In the mean-time our colonel, James Pentecost, rode down to the right of the line, and said: "Boys, our brigade com-mander, Gett. Bonaparte McLaughlin, of the 57th Mass., is taken prisoner."

Col. Pentecost then ordered us to the other side of the rifle pits and into Fort Haskell. We obeyed or-ders,- and mounted on the front of the works inside of the abatis and dug right out for the fort.

We got as far as the little run that went through our works, when I stopped and crawled upon the worka to"geTTTparting shot at the Johnnies, and the first thing I heard was: "Surrender you Yank."

When I got to my feet there wen> 15 or 20 Johnnies with theigisjuns trained on us. They captured" our First Lieutenant, Ed McMillen, Fife Maj. Steward Alford and a recruit by the name of Rankin, all of Co. F, and some others of the regiment. Silas Alford, of Co. F, was killed right alongside of us. Col. James Pente-cost was, mortally wounded, just on the other side of the works, dying the next day.

Then the Johnnies started with us prisoners over to their main line of works, I was wounded and left ly-ing about 50 yards in front of our own company's works in a gopher hole with Steward Alford, who had es-caped the notice of the Johnnies as they were hustling to get out of the place when the balls were making the dirt fly.

Alford and I lay in this hole all the* time the fight was going on, and could see the enemy in our works and also see them trying to storm Fort Haskell. They would get over the rifle pits and try and get around in front of the fort, but were cut down as fast as they got over. After the fight was over, about 8 a. m., two com-rades of Battery No. 12 came out and carried me into the rifle pits. My two messmates helped to lift me over

Saving Hie Pipe. The soldiers of a New York regi-

ment, who were advancing on a con-cealed enemy, were very much amused to see a young Irishman con-tinually dodging behind his compan-ions at the sound of every volley that was fired against them, as if to avoid the bullets that were sometimes landing in dangerous proximity, when one of his Scotch companions said:

"Stand forrld, my laddie, stand for-rid. If there's a Bhot for ye, i t ' l l find ye > out, no matter whaur ye stand."

"Be the powers," replied Pat, "I don't care a hang whither it finds me out or not, if it doesn't shmash me polpe. It's the onty wan in th' rigi-v ment.'*

Rebels Hard Pushed. A butternut-clad individual, who

Bucceded in making good hfs escape, came across to our camp, and expa-tiated most eloquently on the rigid* nes8 with which the conscription was enforced south of the Tennessee river in 1864.

"Do they conscript close over the river?*' asked one of the pickets. - ,

"Stranger, I should say they do? They take every man who hasn't been dead more'n two days."

Dead According to the Doctor. Of the men gathered together for

burial at Cedar Mountain one who had been stunned opened his eyes just as the burial squad was about to cov-er him up. Realizing his position, he yelled: "Here, let me out; I'm not dead." .r

t'Go on now; lay doon. The Doc said yer dead. Would ye be knowih* hether than him?"

Daily Thought Great truths are portions of tfaftkral

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T R U T H A B O U T T H E C A S E

3¾® Experiences of M . P . Goron, E x - C h i e f of the Pa r i s Detective Police

Edited by Albert Keyzer

A H O T E L M Y S T E R Y

(Copyright by J. B. Uppincott Co.)

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HURRIED meals, taken at im-possible hours, are apt to cause dyspepsia. This I found out; and Dr. Thibaut my medical adviser and friend, fearing I might not obey his injunctions, took the trouble to escort me to a small watering-place in the Dauphine, whence, he assured me, I should

emerge perfectly cured, I did not at all relish the idea of be-

coming—even for a short- time—a fashionable idler. But afterward I had reason to be thankful, for the adventure I met with added a curious chapter to my experiences. : I went to that little place a few weeks after the execution of Eyraud, the murderer of the luckless Gouffe, a most sensational crime, which for several months kept the whole Euro-pean press at fever heat. And, in or-der to escape interviewers and ko-dak fiends, I decided to travel incog-nito, e n d i n g myself in the hotel books as M . Guilbert; a wise precau-tion, as I soon discovered. « The most important guests in our [hotel where Count M , a Russian, a fine-looking man of about sixty-five, and his wife, a pretty woman quite forty years his junior. The countess, a restless young creature, was con-stantly organizing excursions in the mountains, leaving her husband at home to amuse himself. : Two days after my arrival I noticed a newcomer at our table d'hote, Mile. Eugenie Arco, an attractive young woman with dark eyes and jet-black hair. Her hands were small and aris-tocratic, and her appearance would have been in every way refined but for her ears. These were too large and stood rather far from her head. The girl fascinated, yet at the same time repelled, me. 1 It had been raining all tha morn-Ing, and I was in the reading-room glancing at an illustrated paper, when a voice near said, 1 "Pardon mer monsieur, I see you are a Russian." ! It was Mile. Arco. "No," I replied, pi am not." ! "I thought you were," she contin-ued, "because I saw you reading a Russian periodical."

"I was not reading it," I retorted, T w a s only looking at the pictures."

"Oh, I see!" she explaimed. But the look Bhe gave me said she did not be-lieve me. ! I did not care to continue the con-iversation,-and she soon left the room, i From that moment, however, I no-ticed she never ceased to observe me, and many a time when I pretended to toe asleep in one of the armchairs in the hall her large black eyes were fastened on me as if they were trying to pierce my thoughts. I With the officials in the hotel Mile. Arco was a persona grata, for, unlike mdst women, who in money matters are inclined to be niggardly, she tipped the waiters and chambermaids most liberally. The manager of the hotel and his wife had also taken a great fancy to her, and she was al-fways warmly welcomed by them in their sanctum, where she* would sit and smoke cigarette after cigarette. I Feeling myself closely watched by

—Iiefs-I returned the compliment, and noticed that she would repair to the )office at those hours when the post tame tn, and look over the clerk's lehoulder at the letters he sorted And Jthen it struck me that no missive ever came addressed to her, although one afternoon, happening to pass her room tot £he moment the maid opened her door, I saw her deeply engaged in cor-respondence, with several letters in Croat of her. 1 . The next morning, when Mile. Arco left the hotel I went out at the back, xnade Quickly f 0 r the post office by an-other road, and hid myself behind the hedge of an empty cottage opposite. I saw her enter the post office and leave it a few minutes later. She Hooked up and down the road, and, nobody being in sight, she took a let-ter out of her pocket, opened it, and read it eagerly. . ; "Bah," I said to myself, "you are cot clever, my girl. A child could Ihave seen through your game. Now

"we shall have some fun." < That same evening after dinner rain Sell in torrents, and most of the guests i*ere in the drawing-room. A few were

Sulging in a harmless game of ds; two girls were at the piano singing sentimental songs, and Mile. Arco reclined in a rocking-chair, a book in her lap. The count, a very re-served man, with whom I had thus far exchanged only a few words, was talking to a retired naval officer who Bad spent some years in Russia. | "Yea," I heard the count say, "we frraot a thorough change. It is a dis-graceful state of things. These grand dukes-—

'Ta lk ing of Russia," I cut in, "al-Sow fide to read to you something/ that Just happened in Paris." / ' I took a paper from my pocket,^and as I unfolded it I noticed the count, whom I had interrupted in the/middle «f his speech, gaze at me with any Jhing mis pleasure. ^ •

-1 . "L^at night/' I read, , "Th^ts all right," he rejoined; "he's as deaf as a post. I have taken a week's holiday. I want to spend it with you here, after which we will re-turn to Paris together. What do you say to this arrangement?"

"You have come at a good moment," I remarked; "there is plenty of excite-ment at the hotel?*-1 and I related to him the story of the robbery.

His eyes sparkled with delight. "That will be glorious sport to wit-

ness," he laughed. "For you, perhaps, you heartless

clear up the mystery." "It is useless to write to M. Goron,"

I replied. "Remember that this is be-yond £is sphere of action; and* that with the work on his hands In Paris you cannot expect him to attend to crimes committed in the provinces."

"I dare say you are right," groaned the old gentleman, "besides- "

He stopped, and moved uneasily in his chair.

" M . Guibert," he burst out rather suddenly, "I repeat, I am particularly anxious to lay my hands on the rob-ber. Yet, at the same time, I dread disclosures that might—that might— possibly cause annoyance to the countess. My wife is young, very young, and inexperienced; aiul only too inclined to give her friendship to people of whom she knows very lit-tle. Look at that noisy crowd who fol-low her on her long rides or drives. Who are they? She made their ac-quaintance only since we came here. Some of the women of that set are as bad as the men. There is that Sou-dier always dangling after her. What is he? Who is he? Can one find that out? I have my reasons for ask-ing you this."

"I do not know the man any more than you do, but it will be easy to find out all about him through my Paris friends."

"Please, M. Guibert, do this for me. I shall be deeply grateful." m

"Frankly, do you think of him in ccmnection with the robbery?"

"I suspect that whole fast gang, and feel certain one of them is the thief ''shouted, her face beaming with joy,

her husband says, I gather she Is con-vinced that a stranger to the place committed the deed."

"I have a theory," said Thibaut, "that the countess knows the thief, whom she does not want to compro-mise because "

"Because she loves him,?" 1 "Yes.'

"TheBe things do occur." "What about the man with the

shaven upper lip? I have not seen him within the last few days."

"No; but I have," Thibaut gazed at me intently for a

few moments. "Goron," he cried eagerly, "you've

discovered something. You have a clue. What is it?"

"My dear Thibaut, you have half-guessed the truth. Yes, I scent a mystery, and I wish to clear it up; but not from professional pride. It is from a sense of duty, for, unless I step in, I foresee a disaster."

"Is it as serious as that?" "It may become so. That is what

I want to avoid." "Can I help you?" "Yes, by not asking me any ques-

tions, even^vhen I absent myself. Un-derstand me well, Thibaut 1 must remain M. Guibert to the end. No-bedy, including M. Julien, must know I am Goron. An indiscreet word from you would defeat all my plans."

"You can rely on me." "I know I can. When, as I hope, I

shall have brought my task to a satis-factory ending you shall know all the details of the case. This much I will tell you. The necklace has mysteri-ously disappeared; I shall try to have it spirited back in the same mysteri-ous way."

A week after the foregoing conver-sation a cab drove up at the door of the hotel. Thibaut's and my luggage was hoisted on the top; and we shook" hands with some of the guests, includ-ing the count, who witnessed our de-parture for Paris.

Half-way to the station.we met the countess on her bicycle, some 50 yards ahead of her party.

"Bon voyage, M. Guibert!" she

ment~you bnyour"perspicacity^ May I ask what your profession is?"

"I am a commission a? " "Well ," he laughed, "y^u >Ia have

made a fine detective." . "You are very kind. But for every-

body's sake it wil l be well not to men-tion thiB aifair."

The count nodded assent After the spy incident the count.be-

came very friendly and talked freely to me*on many subjects.

The countess undoubtedly neglected her husband.

Visitors kept pouring in, many of them members of the so-called "smart set." I did not like the appearance of several of the newcomers, and I was glad my cure was drawing to an end. Then a remarkable incident occurred?

The countess had gone on one of her excursions with her male and fe-male followers, the organizer of the party, as usual, being Rene Soudier. Bright, witty, excelling in all sports, Soud'tr was adored by the women and popular with the men, except with the count. The latter disliked him cor. dially, and rarely or- never spoke to him.

The party had left after luncheon, and was not expected bsck before 7 o'clock. At three in the afternoon, as I returned from a walk, I saw the count walking up and down in front of the hotel. Something evidently had gone wrong. The moment he saw me he gripped my arm and led me to a secluded /spot in the garden.

" M . jSfuibert," he began in an ex-citedVone which he tried hard to con-trol? " M . Guibert, you proved yourself very ahrewd when you dealt with that

ussian girl. Allow me to apply to you for advice. Mv wife's pearl neck-lace has been stolen. Do you mind accompanying; me up-staira?"

The apartments the,couht occupied in the hotel consisted of a drawing-juom, his and his wife's bedroom, and their two dressing-rooms. Marfa, the countess' maid/slept at the end of the passage on the same floor, Tlie cou£t

hatred of him and his desire to die him with the robbery rather told against the former, and gave rise to ugly presumptions. 1 am, however, s* you know, a pretty good reader of character, and 1 did not believe the count capable of a villany. There re-mained the countess, with whom dur-ing my stay at the hotel I had not ex-changed half a dozen words. Do you. remember my three days' absence?"*

"Yes; I guessed you had gone tt> Paris."

"You guessed right. I arrived there in the early morning, and two hours later I knew that the countess' father; a broken-down absinthe-drinker, was* clerk to a money-changer and money-lender in the Boulevard St. Martin, who was once seriously compromised, in a case of stolen bonds. I k took a cab, and slowly drove past the place* when I saw our friend with Ahe shav-en upper lip emerge from the office, «. small traveling-bag in his hand, and jump on a 'bus. His name, I was told at the hotel, is Ballu. I did not hesi-tate a second. I had seen through the window that the principal's private room at the back was empty, and that in the office were only a young maa behind a desk and a girl at a type-writer. I went in and asked for M . S. , the countess' father.

" l i e has left us,' said the'clerk. "Returning to the station, I saw

Ballu on the platform, and, unseen br him, we both arrived at the hotel at the same time.

"I had already noticed that although Ballu and the countess never ex-changed a word when others were present, their eyes often met, and when on the night of my return we sat down at the table d'hote a hardlr perceptible sign passed between them. Keeping them both well in sight, I saw Ballu at 9 o'clock stroll toward the end of the garden. He disappeared in the darkness, but I felt sure he had gone to the little summer-hous© facing the tepnis-lawn.

"f soon arrived at the back of the little wooden structure, and felt re-lieved when I heard some one move inside. Half an hour later there came a light step. It was the countess.

»Tbeir conversation, carried on in whisperB, did not last many minutes. Ballu's voice sounded hard, almost threatening, while that of the countess was imploring. Although I could not catch every word they said, I heard quite enough to be able to reconstruct the whole case. The moment to act had arrive ed.

"The fstlowing morning as the futrntess crossed the haJJ~l walked up

T h e p o o r l a d y s a t m o t i o n l e s s H e r v e r y l i p s t u r n e d w h -i t e .

man, but not for the count and countess."

Having dressed for dinner, we found the guests in the hall eagerly discus-sing the aifair, trying to extract par-ticulars from the waiters and cham-bermaids. A11A at once there was a hush, for the door of the manager's room opened, and out came the count and his wife followed by a stout, red-faced, short man with gray whiskers.

"That's M . Julien, the police com-missary," some one said behind me.

"I wonder," whispered Thibaut, "how that M . Julien wil l set to work?"

"3o do I. With your permission, however, I shall remain in the back-ground. M . Julien, fortunately, does not know me, but one of his subordi-nates might; and I do not want to de-part from my position of spectator. This is M . Julien'a domajn. I also see new faces* Look at that close-shaven youth with the flower in Ibis button-hole. Do you notice anything particu-lar about him?"

"No, I don't. "Look again. "I see nothing except that he gives

me the impression of being a cad." -, "Watch his mouth."

"Well, he seems to want with his teeth to catch something on his upper lip."

"Yes, his moustache. It must have been there quite recently, and he la not yet accustomed to its absence."

"It seems strange." "This may not be of any import-

ance, but If I Were M . Julien I should take note of i t " ~

For two days I heard no news about {tie robbery, and was wondering how things .were progressing? when r was

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I hinted at this to M . Julien, but he apparently thinks that well-dresBed ladies and gentlemen cannot commit crimes."

The next morning we heard that M . Julien was looking for a man, a wait-er, discharged from the hotel for dis-honesty, who, on the afternoon of the robbery, had been seen loitering near the house. He had since disappeared; and, as be had been on friendly terms with Marfa, M. Julien would certainly have arrested the gir l if the countess had not interposed and vouched for her innocence, * In accordance with my promise to

the count I had written to Paris, and the reply I received concerning Sou-dier was:

"Heavily in debt. Loose morals. Raises money wherever he can."

When I communicated this to the count his eyes lit up with a cruel fire.

"This confirms my suspicions, M . Guibert. Remember my words—Sou-dier i s the thief."

Thibaut was waiting for me down-stairs.

"Affairs seem at a standstill," be remarked to me.

"Very much so. M . Julien is ob-stinate. He keeps a close watch on Btarfa, and in the meantime he is searching for a poor devil of a waiter. The count is jealous, and would, if he could, at once clap the handcuffs on the fascinating Soudier. The guests eye one another suspiciously, and so do the hotel officials. What a ghastly mess they are making of this busi-ness!" *

"And* the countess? You don't mention her. What does she say?"

I have not exchanged a word with aroused i n the morning by * loud Uier on the matter. But from what

and threw a rose into our carriage. I placed It in my buttonhole and gave a sigh of relief.

"I suppose that sigh has something t d , do with the case," said £iy ob-servant friend.

We had the complement to our-selves, and the train was scarcely out of the station when Thibaut called out:

"And now please tell me all that oc-curred. You, too. must be anxious to unbosom yourself," he. added with a mischievous smile.

"Oh, I shall conceal nothing. But, although I did not act in an official capacity, the story is of a delicate na-ture and I must request you not to di-vulge i t "

"I give you my word." "It is a strange business, and was

even deeper than I conjectured. The f. . t thing that struck me as odd, when the count took me to his wife's dressing-room, was that forced lock of the dressing-bag; I wondered who the lutlAtlc thief could be wbo lost .pre-cious time over that lock, when, with nn ordinary penknife, he could have cut the leather in less than a minute.

"You wil l , however, understand my diflculty, not having had charge of the case, and not having been-—like the police commissary—able to Inves-tigate closely and question those like-ly to throw light upon the matter. I had to be guided partly by reasoning, partly by intuition; and the Inferences I drew were that the necklace had not been stolen, and that either the count or the countess—possibly both—had reasons for spreading that story of the robbefjrr

"J assure you I never for an instant suspected Soudier; and the count's

to her and said: " 'Please go to the library. I want

to speak to you at once.' "She gave me a look of surprise and

fear, and entered the room. "Madame: I said, 'to you and yon

alone I. will divulge who I am. I am M. Goron, chief of the Paris detective force. My object is to help you. know your father has appropriated— or is accused of having done so— money belonging to his employer, M . 11 . 1 know* you wanted to save him, and, not having the ready cash, you handed to M. H , through hla understudy, M. Ballu, your pearl neck-lace as security. In order to do this you have—probably at thiB man's sug-gestion—made it appear you had been, robbed. M. H , being afraid to dis-pose of the pearls, is now pressing yon to redeem them, and for a larger sunt than your father owes him. A m 1 right?"

"The poor lady sat motionless. Her very lips had turned white.

" 'Pear nothing,' I continued; 'I am here to save you. But you must prom-ise to follow my instructions implicit-ly. W i l l you?'

" 'Yes,' she whispered. L

u *Very well. Can you invent a rear son that will satisfy your husband why you should go to Paris, return-ing the following day?'

"She nodded. " Then leave tomorrow early by the

express, having first wired to If. H to make an appointment at his office. Go there straight. Tell him you have seen me—letting him, of course, think I am In Paris—and that you have come to me for advice. Ex-plain that you know from me that his attitude toward you places him In a serious position, from which he cam extricate himself in one way only. Having agreed to let you refund him the money due to him by your father —always supposing that story to be true—he must at once return you the necklace, on your promise to pay him a fixed sum on account every month. You can manage that, can you notr

" Yes, M Go; on/ she said, putting her hand on mine, 'I will.*

" 'Hush! Don't pronounce my name. Should that fellow H make any fuss, you can tell him he will sooa hear from me." '- / ; - > * :-j

"She went, and returned the follow-ing evening, i purposely stood at the door as she passed out of the dining--room, when she slipped a . note into, my band. Here it is: ia

" ' H — arcopts. Promises to* return tiling tomorrow by B God bless you."

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— A n d i t d o e s b e t t e r w o r k . S i m p l y f o l l o w y o u r p u s t o m a r y m e t h o d o f p r e p a r a t i o n — a d d a l i t t l e l e s s o f C a h i m e t t h a n w h e n u s i n g o r d i -n a r y b a k i n g p o w d e r . T h e n w a t c h t h e r e s u l t . L i g h t , fluffy, a n d e v e n -l y r a i s e d — t h e b a k i n g c o m e s f r o m t h e o v e n m o r e t e m p t i n g , t a s t i e r , m o r e w h o l e s o m e .

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tar milk the purchase of farm land and $25,000 for farm buildings and the employment of prison labor.

Cigarette B i l l . If Rep. bunn, of Sanilac, and Rep.

Bricker, of Ionia, have their way about It, there will be no more "paper pipes" sold in Michigan, as each of these members have introduced drastic anti-cigarette bills. At nearly every session some one puts in a measure placing the ban on the manufacture cud sale of cigarettes, but as a general rule the bi l l seldom gets beyond the commit-tee stage. It is thought that there is but little chance of either bill pass-ing.

Proposes Swiss Election System. Rep. Kappler, of Houghton county,

has introduced two proposals in the lower house that are considered some-what revolutionary in their character. Both are concurrent resolutions. The first and most important of these is designed to establish an entirely new system of legislative representation in Michigan and is based on the repre-sentative system in vogue in Switzer-land where the initiative and referen-dum came from. It will provide that the members of the house and senate be elected in accordance with the percentage of the vote. The resolution of course is to submit the necessary constitutional amendment to the peo-ple and it will be followed by a bill working out the details of the plan. Under this proposal districts will be established in which the representa-tives will be chosen by the percentage system. If two-thirds of the people vote the republican ticket and the dis-trict is entitled to three representa-tives, the republicans will have two of the three and if the democrats rep-resent the other third they will have the third member, the vote to be at large in each district.

Rep. Kappler declares the present system disfranchises the minority party no matter how close they come to winning and sees his plan as the only fair solution of the problem.

The second resolution presented by Kappler is addressed to congress and urges the necessary constitutional and statutory amendments to provide for the convening of the incoming con-gress and administration with the first day of January of the year fol-lowing the election. Kappler sees no reason why congress should hold over for more than six months after its de-feat by the people.

The Trunk Line Roads. Going deeper into the idea of trunk

line statS^-oads, Senator Alswede, of Bay county, finds that such a large pro-portion of the original trunk line high-way route is already improved and that he can add another north and south line to the original proposal and still remain in the $',000,000 ap-propriation.

To this end, he has outlined a third or east coast line road from Detroit through Flint, Saginaw, Tawas, A l -pena, Cheboygan to Mackinac. With this road he will have three north and south lines, one on tb^ ant ra l m ori4-an and another on the west shore starting at Niles and following the Lake Michigan coast. The cross state line is from Detroit to St. Jospeh.

The proposal calls for a total of 1,300 miles, of which 300 already is improved, b l o w i n g $2,d00 per mile and using convict labor Senator A l -swede says the work can be kept with-in the $2,000,000 appropriation that represents one-half of the automobile

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Detroit. — Fifty members of the Michigan State Millers' association attended the opening convention session of the organization at the chamber of commerce. C. B. Chatfleld of Bay City delivered the president's address; President J . H . Moores of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce, the welcome on behalf of Lansing and reports of secretary and treasurer were submitted respectively by Harry E. Hooker and J . P. Thoinan of Lan-sing. Committees were named as fol-lows : Resolutions, R. P. Henkel, De-troit, J . P. Thoinan, Lansing and G. F. Allmendinger, Ann Arbor; auditors, J Goulet, Alma, and Charles Higglns of Urand Rapids, and nominations, Frank Voight, Grand Rapids; George Amendt. Monroe, and Christian Breisch. Lan-sing.

Morrice.—The Wallace schoolhouse. which stands between Perry and Shaftsburg, was found to be on fire from the Interior. Edward Hath saw a light in the schoolhouse and investigated. A general alarm was turned in and the building waa saved. The teacher's desk, books and chair were destroyed and a hole burned in the floor, which tipped ove? the stove. There will be no school until the insurance agent can adjust the loss, and the building repaired. Miss Gladys Ketchum, the teacher, thinks that a large chunk in the stove? tipped/Over and struck the stove door Just-right to unlatch it, letting the coals out on the floor. It is thought that the insurance wil l cover the loss.

Lansing.— Senator Frank James of Hancock has received a peti-tion signed by Jacob and Marie Louh-kola of Houghton, asking that the gov-ernor and legislature direct the Hough-ton coijnty board of auditors to care for them. The petitioners are the par-ents of Elmer, deceased, a seventeen-year-old member of Company G., Third Michigan infantry, who was killed July 15, 1907, while engaged in rifle practice^

Lansing—Oh joy! Relief is in sight for the oppressed public! An antA-tipping bill probably wilMnake its/ appearance in the house in the

futurer

H E A D O F T U R K I S H A R M Y S L A I N

Peace Delegates Recalled; Many Slain in Constantinople Riots.

Prem R H E U M A T I C A D V I C E inent- Doctor's Best Prescrip-

tion Easily Mixed at Home,

tax over a period years.

of three or four

Offices and Civi l Service. Because of the fact that the senate

is slow about reporting out the ap-pointment of John T. Winship, who was the selection for Governor Fer-ris as insurance commissioner to suc-ceed C. A. Palmer the first of next July, some of the democrats in the legislature are inclined to the belief that the republicans are simply play-ing a smooth game to rob them of some of the patronage.

Senator .Verdeer* has already intrc*' duced a bill putting all state employes on a civil service basis. Governor Fer-ris is known to favor such a measure, and the democratic state platform i9: pledged to support such a bill. How-erer, Verdier's bill carries an appropri-ation clause that gives it immediate effect, and inasmuch as it further pro-vides that all the present employes shall be retained, the democrats will have few jobs to distribute. It makes little difference whether or not the senate confirms Winship's appoint-ment, as the governor will be able to put him in Palmer's place after the legislature has adjourned.

A Political Squall. Some of the members of the legis-

lature are objecting to the selection of the temporary chairman of the re-publican state convention to be held in Lansing, February 11, and announce that they will protest against Allan Frazer from the floor of the conven-tion. With two exceptions every re-publican in the legislature signed a petition asking the state central com-mittee to name Senator W. Frank

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James, of Hancock, as the presiding officer, and the belligerent statesmen announce that they want either Chase S. Osborn or Senator James.

^""kee, Clyde Leavitt of Ottawa, Can.; - - W i l l i a m G. Howard of Albany, W i l l i a m - L ^ ^

uqar—imure. Representative wood of Jackson is securing statistics and

cts regarding crusades along the like which have been conducted in otnjer states before he springs a meas-ure 0

Lansing.—Twenty-lve men attend-ed the session of the second Lake States Forest Fire association. Governor Ferris, Charles W. Garfield of Grand Rapids; Prof. S. P. Lovejoy of Ann Arbor, J . F. Devoy of Milwau-

The Michigan State Telephone Co., has reduced its rateB for toll service in Mackinac and Chippewa county dis-tricts.

"From your druggist pet ono ounoe of Toria compound (In original sealed package) and one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparllla compound. Take these two ingredients home and put them Into a half pint of good whiskey. Shake the bottle and take a table-spoonful before each meal and at bed-time." This is said to be the quickest and best remedy known to the medical profession for rheumatism and back-ache. Good results cpme after the first dose. If your druggist does not have Toris compound in stock he will get it for you in a few hours from his

wholesale house. Don't be Influenced to take a patent medicine instead of this. Insist on having the genuine Tone compound in the original one-ounce, sealr ed. yellow package. Hundreds of the worst cases were cured here by this pre-

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HABIT.

Rioting has broken out a l \ over Con-stantinople, many persons have been killed and more wounded following fae assasslnation-of Nazim Pasha, com mander of the Turkish army, during the demonstration against the declara-tion of peace with the Balkan states and the cession of Adrianople.

The new TurkiBh cabinet, organ-ized on the resignation of the peace cabinet which voted to comply with the demands of the Balkan allies, has instructed the peace delegates in Lon- j srrfption~last ^ don to return to Constantinople. The Ottoman ambassadors at Vienna and St. Petersburg have also been recalled.

Enver Bey, the most spirited lead-er of the Young Turks, was appointed chief of the general staff of the army, to succeed Nazim Pasha.

Nazim Pasha was shot add killed from a window by Enver Bey and Talatt Bey after Nazim's aide-de-camp had opened fire at the new leaders. He was nearly 60 â nd was characterized" as the best conmmander-in-chief Tur-key possessed in recent times. He was minister of war in the first Kiamil cab-inet.

The crisis in the affairs of the em-pire came as the result of the cab-injet's proposal to buy peace with the Balkan states by turning over Adrian-ople and the Aegean islands. It was against the sacrifice of Adrianople, the ancient Turkish capital, that the people rebelled.

T H E M A R K E T S .

DETROfT—Cattle—Best steers, $7.75 8; steers and i-eifers. 1,000 to 1,200, $6.50 (̂ 7.50; steers anJ heifers, 800 to 1.0Q0 $6(¾)

"That howwid Miss Giggles really laughed at me lawst evening, doncher-know?"

"Well, never mind her—she often laughs at nothing."

Neat Differentiation. Senator Lodge, at a dinner in the

Back Bay district of Boston, indicated ^very neatly the difference between a statesman and a politician.

A statesman," he said, "thinks of 7; steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to . . 700, $5@6; choice fat cows, $5.50@6; good the next generation; a politician of the fat cows, $4.75®5; common cows, $4@4.50; canners, $3.50^4.15; choice heavy bulls, $5.50(̂ 6.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $4.50(̂ 5.25; stock bulls, $4.50@5: milkers, large, young, medium age, $50@65; com-mon milkers, $20@45.

veal cavles—Others, $4@9; milch cows and springers steady.

Sheep and lambs—Best lambs, $8.50(6) 8.75; fair to good lambs. $7.50@S.25; light to common lambs, '$5(g>7; fair to good iiheO.n, $'1.50(r£5.2frT=^u -̂und common, $2.75

next election."

Married women like to board and pretend that they are doing light housekeeping.

¢2)3.25. Hogs—Light to good

pigs, $7.40 -̂7.50; light 7.50; stags, 1-3 off.

butchers, $7.50; yorkers, $7.40®

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Free Lunch Bil l ,

If the bill introduced by Rep. Koh-ler of Detroit, becomes a law, the time honored free lunch will again be in vogue. Rep. Kohier has presented a bill repealing the law passed at the ses-sion four years ago abolishing free lunches in saloons.

Drinking Cups for Sale. Railroads and those in charge of

public buildings will find themselves guilty of misdemeanors it they fail to establish drinking cup vending ma-chines at their drinking: fountains, if the bill 'introduced by Rep. Schmidt, of Osceola, ever becomes a law. The bill provides that the vending machine must be maintained near the fountains and that the cups may be sold not to exceed one Cent each. Glass, wax or parafine cups may be furnished from the machine.

B. ' PijJer of East Tawas, J. H . McGil-livray of Oscoda and Julius E . Beal of Ann Arbor were on the program.

Chesaning.—Jacob Gordon, junior partner in the firm of Fillinger &^ Gordon of Oakley, died of diphthe-ria. At first his ailment was diagnosed as quinsy, but later was pronounced diphtheria. Several days ago his daughter, Gdlda, eight years old, con-tracted diphtheria. The Oakley schools have been closed, and precautions have been taken to prevent the further spread of the disease.

Grand Rapids.—Unable to extri-cate his foot from a frog, Ray Langwortfxy, twenty-five years old, re-cently married, calmly awaited death In the Jocal yards ae a Pere Marquette switch engine bore down upon him

tJilot fortunately released bftn, throwing him aside. His a r m / fell across the rails and was crushed? He is a switchman and formerly lived in Detroit.

Kalamazoo.—An effort is being made to consolidate the F i r s f Con-gregational and First Presbyterian churches of Kalamazoo. If the deal goes through the valuable site of the Presbyterian church will be sold and Rev. H , W. Gelston wil l be made pas-tor of the combined churches. Rev Mr. Dickinson of the Congregational church recently resigned.

N. Y.,—CatfUe-EAST BUFFALO, N. Y.,—Cattle—Best 1,350 to 1,500 steers, $8.60®9; prime, 1,200 to 1,300 steers, $7.90@8.25; prime 1,100 to 1,200, $7.60(̂ 8.10; medium butchers' steers 1,000 to 1,100, $6.60@7.25; butchers' steers 950 to 1,000, $6.35@6.85; light butcher steers, $5.60®0.10; best fat cows, $4.90@ 5.35; butcher cows, $4.10@>4.60; cutters. $3;60@3.P0; trimmers, $3.40@3.60; heifers, $5@7.75; stock heifers, $3.90@4.10; feed-ers. $6.25(0)6.60; stackers, $4.50@5.60; bulls, $4.fi0@6.50; milkers and springers, $40#75.

Hogs—Heavy, $7.90@8; yorkers, $S; Sheep and lambs—Top

9.60; yearlings, $7@8.50; 6.50; ewes, $5.50@5.90.

Calves—$5

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He Knew From Experience That Col-leg© Education by No Means

Unfitted Boy for Work.

"Woodrow Wilson naturally believes in a college education for boys and girls alike," said a banker at the Princeton club In New York.

"Mr. Wilson, lunching with me here, Snce said in his quaint way that the old idea afcout a college education un-fitting a lad for work had quite died out.

."We no longer hear," he declared, "stories like that of Gobsa Golde.

"When Gobsa Golde's son Scatter-good," he explained, "desired to go to Princeton, he said to the old man:

" 'Pater, is it true that boys who go to college are unfit for work after-ward ?"

" ' O f course It ain't true!* snorted the old man indignantly. 'Why, I've got a Princeton graduate runnin' my freight elevator, two of my best coal heavers are Harvard A. B.'s and a Yale S. B. is my^star truck driver. '"

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A Diplomat. Son—Pa, is a diplomat a man who

knows how to hold his tongue? Father—No, my boyi A diplomat

a man who knows how to hold his job.

Weighed in the Balance. The young man was something of a

bore and the young woman sent word that she was out.

"But he >as a box of candy with him," was the word that came back from the maid.

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Her Great Love. They had already celebrated the fact

that the mistletoe hung in the hall, sand now they were occupying not only one Bettee, but also the entire drawing room. \

"Could you love me, darling," he murmured, as the thought of that sprig of mistletoe came to him again, " i f I possessed only one coat in the wide, wide work!?"

She looked up into his eyes as she framed her reply.

"I could," she said, " i f I knew you had sacrificed the others to buy me a new dress!"

Fair to A l l . "Recently," says a Richmond man,

"I reveived an invitation to the mar-riage of a young colored couple foi? merly in my employ. I am quite sure that all persons similarly favored were left in little doubt as to the attitude of the couple. The invitation ran as follows:

" 'You are invited to the marriage of Mr. Henry Clay Barker and Miss Josephine Mortimer Dixon at the house of the bride's mother. A l l who cannot come may send."—Lippincott's Magazine.

Demagogue. William H. Maxwell, the superin-

tendent of New York's schools, said the other day, apropos of certain demagogic proposals:

"But the best definition of a demar gogue wil l always remain that of a little girl of seven, who said:

" 'A demagogue is a vessel contain* ing beer and other liquids.'

Address^ -. D r . E a r l S . S l o a n *

B o s t o n , M a e * .

8lnce October 16\ "How's things in Boston?" "I hear they have added. aUrietfe ot

baseball bats to the pubUc^lifcrauy."

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Young Mlnlatcr'a Passion for Self-Sac-rifice Had Results That Might

Have Been Anticipated.

The announcement of Miss Helen Miller Gould's betrothal led one of the charity workers of New York to say:

"Marriage itself will not be able to quench Miss Gould's passion for giv-ing. Apropos to this passion, she once told me a story.

"There was a young minister, the story Tan, who, being poor and hav-ing nothing else to give, used to give away his clothes.

"The young minister's district con-tained many needy men, and he would give them shoes and socks, shirts and coats, gloves, overcoats and trousers.

"Yes, time and again he would give away his clothe*, foolishly and reck-lessly, piece by piece, until—"

Here the charity worker smiled. "Unti l ," she ended, "he came to

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SHE K N E W BETTER.

'Did your wife give you particular fits because you come home at 3 o'clock the other morning?"

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B a c k a c h e a n d

W e d o n o t a s k y o u t o b u y —

j u s t s e n d y o u r n a m e a n d a d d r e s s a n d

r e c e i v e a s a m p l e b o t t l e f r e e . Z - M - O p e n e t r a t e s t o b o n e t h r u s k i n a n d

m u s c l e s a n d r e r n o v e s p a i n 5 m i n u t e s af ter y o u a p p l y i t .

Y o u may not need Z - M - O today, yet tomorrow pay ariy price to relieve pain!

E B O T T L E If you have Rheumatism, Backache or Piles write M . R. Zae^ef

Si Company, 901 Main Street, Sheboygan, Wisconsin and receive a free bottle of Z-M-O by return mail. At drug stores, 25 cts.

5 P E R C E N T S O L U T I O N

"No, she didft't say too near Christmas."

a word. It's

Shopping instinct. A rural postmaster tells this story

of one of the patrons of his office, a boy of thrifty, not to say penurious, stock. When the lad comes into the postoffice he will thrust hiB wizened face up close to the window and, in his slow, Yankee draw], inquire most earnestly:

"Hev ye got ony postal cards?" "Yes," the postmaster replies. "Haow much be they t'day?" "A cent apiece." Then the boy, screwing up his eyes

in the intensity of his thought over the question he has to decide, always stops for a while to weigh the con-sequences. Finally, he will reply sol-emnly:

"Wal, I'll take one."—Youth's Com-panion.

OF THIS COMPOUND WILL

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o f D i s t e m p e r , P i n k E y e , E p i z o o t i c Catarrhal Fever and Influenza, under the microsoope.

Glvon on rhr IlorsrVj Tonjrue, it nnltmi with the flaldfl of the allwriiary canal. thro\%n ii.uj Um Mood pusses through Urn l̂aodt* anc> exwMjr tbe — O r̂uisof I>l8fasi'. Absolutely safe and suru for Brood Marc», Baby Colm and ali other*. Jk> not depend on any p-mdnr In this flasu of Diseabcs. (jivo It to brood mares io time* of distemper Booklet. "I Mbteuipt-r. Causes Cures and Prevention," free, imitfgiato and Huxutsa* Shops hell Spohn'K Cure. WJ cents, C&.UU a dozen; J1U.U0 a dozen.

S P O H N M E D I C A L C O . , B a c t e r i o l o g i s t s , G O S H E f i , I N D # ^ i ^ _ _ . - . —

The Smile. The girl who smiles too much makes

as great a mistake as she who smiles too little, for though she may be only actuated by an honest desire to please, she lays herself open to the charge of insincerity. A smile can transform a plain face into loveliness, but it only does this when it is the outcome of some special emotion, and not a mere aimless parting of the lips. "Smiling to order," orTJirany "and ev-ery occasion, is fatal to charm, and should be carefully avoided.

Galsworthy Aphrolsms. Nothing that's true~1s synical, and

nothing that is synical is true. —^Fke~word smart" is the "guardian angel of all fashions, and fashions are the guardian angels of vulgarity.— "For lx)ve of Beasts," by John Gals-worthy.

Really Not to B l a m 6 . | | "Don't you know I tol' you Wi V go

swimmin' wid no white trash chillun, eh?" sternly asked Sambo Johnslng.

"But he wan' white befo' he went in," replied Sambo's small son.

Trouble for the Future. First M.^wrTfrom bedside of wealthy

bachelor)-Hle #is sleeping naturally— he wijl recover. Second M. I).—Yes, the*worst is over. First M. D.— No, the worst is yet to come. Second M. D.—How is that? First M. D.—We have yet to break the news to his relatives.—Life.

Place for Them. "Where do they try electrical

cases?" "I don't know, but it ought to be

in the circuit court."

T h e W r e t c h e d n e s s

o f C o n s t i p a t i o n Can quickly be overcome by C A R T E R ' S LITTLE U V E R PILLS.

Purely vegetable —act surely and gently on the liver. Cure Diliouoncao, Head a c h e , D i z z i -ness, and Indigestion. They do their doty* SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL FBICftl

G e n u i n e must bear S i g n a t u r e

Qf Course. "What did your lawyer say when

you stated your purpose to him?" "l ie said it was fees-ible."

Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Synip for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma-tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 26c a bottle.Atfv.

It's easy for a man to resist tempta-tion—If he has something better in sight.

A man may worship the woman beautiful, but he usually marrieB the woman dutiful. ^

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Red Cross Ball Blue giveR double value for your money, rocs twice as fur as any-other. Ask your grocer. Adv.

Just Because. "What would you recommend as the

fish diet for sailors?" "Roe, of course."

Many a girl falls to select the right husband because she's afraid of being left. \

A 2 4 i lb . sack o f H e n k e l ' s B r e a d F l o u r w i l l m a k e o v e r 37 lbs . o f b read . E v e r y t h i n g b u t flour s h r i n k s w h e n c o o k e d bu t H e n k e l ' s F l o u r grows* It costs less to beg in w i t h t h a n a n y o ther food y o u l i k e ; a n d w h a t o the r f ood do y o u l i k e s o w e l l t h a t y o u mus t have i t a t e v e r y m e a l i n the year? B u y

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