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A Maaast.

The members and friends of Lake
County Agricultural Society, male ann
female, are requested to meet at the
Fair Ground, Saturday and Monday,
Sept. l4th and 10th, 1878, for the pur-
pose of trimming grounds and dccorsit-
Ing building.
g. w. TowNsEND,
SecY.
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That Fat Person Cannot be Found.

Not even Edison, with all his inven-
tive genius and extensive research, can
find u fat person that Allan's Anti Fat
will not reduce at the rate of from two
to five pounds per week. Those htv-
Ing uselessly tried different anti-fat
prescriptions, Including "sta,rdtion," I"
"horse-back" and "saw-horse" 'ri,l
ing" may nc skeptical, but fair triai
will convince them that Allan's Anti
Fat Is genuine medicine, and that i,
Mill speedily fulfill all promises. Sold
by druggists.
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time at this business. Address, STISsoN & Co.,
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VOLUME VI.

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Weather Report.

The following weather report was
prepared and furnished by Lee ). Cobb,
ofYates township:
D lI nm A nd
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William A. Deuress, /,

Treasurer of Lake county. Will at
tend promptly and carefully to all bus
incss relating to payment Of resident
and nonresident taxes. Address, Bald
win, Lake Co., Mich. 84
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All claims due the late firm Of Jones
& HolIister must be paid ut once.
WM. A. DEUREsS,
Assignee.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.

Only Office at Baldwin City, Mich
Located near to and northeast of the
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Netice.

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For Bargains in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
BOOTS g. SHOES,

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Reardsley a. Judkins,
r. n A~yERR HERaEY, MICH
w. R. Mott.

w. B. Mott,
Physician and Surgeon, Baldwin,
Mich. Will attend promptly to all
calls, night or day. 5-W tt
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County Surveyor, Lake county,
Michigan. Will attend promptly to
all business in his line. Charges rea-,
senabls. Address, Nirvana, Lake Co.,
Mich.
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Th0'S Smurthwalte,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor I'm
Chancery. Real Estate and Insurance
Agent. Office In Court House building,
Baldwin, Mich.
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Singular Suicides.

In the year 1900, William Darlington
threw himself from the parapet of the
Church of st. Sepulcher, in London,
leaving behind him a note, stating as
his reason that he wanted to go to
the opera that night, but had not money
enough to purchase ticket of admis-
sion"
A farmer in Allendale, Eng, got a
gun barrel, loaded it, and placed the
stock end in hot fire, and leaned his
stomach against the other. The barrel
soon became hot and exploded, killing
the unfortunate wretch instantly.
A blacksmith in New Orleans, in
1S41, killed himself in the same man
ner, blowing his bellows until the
fire was hot enough to explode the gun
barrel.
A young lady at boarding-school in
England drowned herself in rain cask
because she was made to study from an
old book. She was sweet 1871"
A Greenwich Eng) pensioner, who
was put upon short allowance for mis-
conduct, in 1916, sharpened the ends of
his spectacles, and with them stabbed
himself to the heart.
In French newspaper of 1862 We
find an account of q man who, his wife
having proved unfaithful to him, called
his valet and informed him that he was
about to kill himself, and requested that
he would boil him down and make a
candle of his fat and carry it to his mis-
tress, handing her at the same time the
following note: DEAREST THEREsE: /
have long burned for you, and 1 now
prove to you that my flames are real.
Yours, PIERRE.
A young lady 10 yaars of age, having
gambled away large fortune, hung
herself at Bath, Eng, with gold and
silver girdle. The following note was
found in her hand: "Thus tie myself
up from play" This was worthy of a
French woman
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A Fable With 10 Moral.

from the German.l
why, Nellie, what makes you so
late?"
81 had to stay after school, cause I
missed my lesson" answered Nellie,
with a pout. "Now suppose my din
ner's all cold, besides everything else
that's happened to me, and nobody's
to blame for it but that hateful James ~
"James?" said her mother. "Do
you mean our dear little 6-year-old
Jamie?"
"Yes, L do. This recess one of the
girls gave him the biggest red apple L
ever saw; and l only asked him for a
bite, and the disagreeable boy wouldn't
give me SO much as the teentiest bit |!
He ate every speck of it, and nearly
choked himself with the core, he was in
such a hurry when the bell rang. After
recess, instead of studying, I kept
thinking what stingy thing he was,
and SO l was marked for idleness, and
again for inattention, and then, after
all, l missed my lesson
"I'm very sorry" said mamma, that
my Jamie was so selfish, and that you
should have met with such a series of
misfortunes in consequence; but here
is your dinner, hot and nice, for Bridget
kept it in the oven for YOU"
Poor Nellie found more comfort than
she would have believed possible in her
mothers gentle words, and was quite
her cheerful little self again by the
time that Jamie came in from coasting.
please tell me a story, Mell,' he
said to her, as he lay stretched out on
the rug in front of the open fire just
before bedtime.
I'll read you one out of my new
book, if you'll never be such a bad boy
again as you were to-day"
I'll be gooder than apples, forever
and ever" answered Jamie, with his
sweetest smile.
So Nellie took up her book-and
wasn't it strange that it should have
opened of itself at this tragic story
Nellie read it, you may be sure, with
the utmost expression, calling Jamie's
attention to every picture.
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Saving and Spending.

It is not true that the great victories
of life are to the sharp and immoral
man, as a rule. Here and there, by
sharpness and cunning, men rise into
wealth, but that wealth is not of kind
to remain. 1t takes certain amount
of virtue, of self-denial, of morality, to
lay up and to keep money. In the lives
of nearly all rich men there have been
periods of heroic self-denial, of patient
industry, of Christian prudence. Cir
cumstances did not make these men
rich. The highest moral prudence made
them rich. While their companions
were dancing away their youth, or
drinking away their middle age, these
men were devoted to small economies
putting self-indulgence entirely aside.
If our correspondent or our readers will
recall their companions, We think the
first fact they will be impressed with is
the measure of equality with which they
started in the race for competence or
wealth. The next fact they will be inn
pressed with is the irregularity OF the
end. Then, if they make an inquisition
into the causes of the widely varying
results, they will be profoundly i'm
pressed with the insignificant part "cir-
cumstances have played in those re-
suits. Circumstances? Why, the rich
mans son who had all the "circum-
stances of the town has become beg
gar. The poor, quiet lad, the only son
of his mother, and she a widow, who
could only earn money enough to pro-
cure for her boy the commonest educa-
ton, is man of wealth and has become
patron of his native village. The man
who possesses and practices virtue
makes his own circumstances. The self
denying, prudent man creates around
himself an atmosphere of safety where
wealth naturally takes refuge-provid-
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EdisOn'S Raby.

There are those who intimate that
Mr.. Edison's neuralgia did not proceed
from mere cold. Yesterday morning
at o'clock, Mrs. Edison presented the
professor with new edition, bound in
baby clothes The baby weighed twelve
pounds, and is said to have manifested
remarkable indications of precocity from
the moment of birth. The boy kicked
Justify when they essayed to dress him,
evidently preferring the costume of
Eden, and performed other antics indie
alive of the intellectual independence
which distinguishes his inventive father.
However, that affair was managed after
a two hours struggle, and the little fell
low greeted his paternal ancestor in the
daintiest muslin, with ruffles and furbe-
lows. such as only mothers fancy can
imagine. The professor began to mend
from that moment. Mrs. Edison sus-
poets that his improvement is due to the
excogitation of plan for introducing a
battery into the baby's lungs, and MAX
ing him cry by electricity, or for light
ing him by some such agency. The
professor disclaims any such intention,
but inventive minds will always bear
little surveillance.--NelU York Herald
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Ii you cannot do good by great deeds
you can by little ones"
The boys said nothing, but the teach
er saw by their looks that they thought
he was mistaken. They did not be-
lieve that they were of any use. So he
said:
You think it is not so, but suppose
you try il for one week."
How shall we try it? asked one.
Just keep your eyes opened and
your hands ready to do anything good
that comes in your way all this week,
and tell me the next Sabbath if you
have not managed to be useful in some
way or other" said the teacher.
Agreed" said the boys.
The next Sabbath those boys gathered
round their teacher with smiling lips
and eyes so full of light that they fairly
twinkled like the stars. He smiled as
he looked ut them and said:
"Ah! boys, 1 see by your looks that
you have something to tell me-"
I'VE have, sir, we have" they said
all together; then each one told his
story.
a." said one, Thought of going to
the well for pail of water every morn
ing, to save mother trouble and time
She thanked me so much and was so
greatly pleased that / mean to keep ON
doing it for her"
sand L." said another boy, Thought
of poor old woman, whose eyes were
too dim to read. 1 went to her house
every day and read chapter to her from
the Bible. 1t seemed to give her a great
deal of comfort. l cannot tell how she
thanked me-"
A third boy said, "I was walking
along the street, wondering what 1
could do. A gentleman called me and
asked me to hold his horse. / did so,
and he gave me five cents, and / have
brought it to put into the missionary
box"
The next said Il was walking with
my eyes opened and my hands ready,
as you told us, when L saw a little fellow
crying because he had lost some pen
MES in the gutter. L told him not to
cry, and would try to find his pennies
l found them, and he dried up his tears
and ran off, feeling very happy"
A fifth boy said: II saw my mother
was very tired one day; the baby was
cross, and mother looked sick and sad
1 asked mother to put the baby in my
little wagon; she did so, and gave him
a grand ride round the garden. If you
had only heard him crow and seen him
clap his hands, teacher, it would have
done you good; and oh! how much
better and brighter mother looked
when I took the baby indoors again !"
Rem Dr. Mention
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acquisition of territory commanding the
frontier passes. If this statement cor
rectly represents the intentions of the
st. Petersburg Cabinet, war between
Russia and England may be considered
certain; for it is impossible to believe
that England will not take some
compensation for the cost of the war, if
she is victorious. In fact the intention
to hold the mountain passes is openly
avowed, and the necessity for such a
rectifcation of frontier is presented as
one of the strongest pleas in justifica-
ton of the war.
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CIvIL-sERvIcE reform in Japan seems
to have taken decidedly practical and
business-like turn. Having perceived
that nothing in the way of reform
in the administration of the Gov
eminent would be accomplished
while the present Ministers were in
power, the reformers notified the Mika-
do of their intention to remove the OBJ
stacles by assassination, and followed
this notice by promptly killing two
members of the Cabinet. Such heroic
treatment may not be pleasant, but it
certainly has a look of efficiency to rec
ommend it, To cut off corrupt Off
cial's head is q shortcut out of the diff
entity
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The number of immigrants for the
year ending last June was 13S,469, OF
whom Germany furnished the largest
number-29 1913, though Great Britain
and her colonies sent us about $4,000,
10000 of whom were Irishmen and
$4,000 Canadians. There were 5000
Chinese, 10000 sturdy Mortimer, about
1000 each from Italy, France and Hun
gary, but only IL representatives from
the whole of Africa.
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Story of q Greedy Cock.

Once upon time little cock and
hen went to the nut mountain in search
of nuts.
The hen said, "Now, my dear, when
you find one, do not eat it all by your
self, but give me half, and I'll do the
same by YOU"
The little cock made no reply, but
chuckled as if he had his own opinion
about that. Presently spying good
big nut, he cast one eye toward the hen,
who was busily scratching, and thought,
"Now's my chance; she'll never know,
and he gobbled it up in the greatest
haste. But, alas! being very big, it
stuck fast in his throat.
In great agony he fell back, and,
holding up his claws, gasped out, " o
my dear little -water-water!
shall choke!"
OFF flew the hen, half distracted, to
the brook, and, filling nutshell with
water, back she ran to the mountain,
but imagine her disinay when she
Jound the poor dear little cock was
dead
In her grief she cackled so loud that
all the neighbors heard, and came from
far and near to condole with her, for
the cock had been a general favorite.
-Four small field-mice brought q
funeral-car and laid him on it in great
state.
Scarcely, however, had the procession
started on its melancholy way, when a
fox came sneaking out of the woods.
Where are you going, little hem? >
he cried.
To bury the poor dear little cock,
sobbed the han.
ALLOW me to save you that trouble 7
and, seizing the cock from the car, he
gobbled him up, right before their very
eyes, before anybody could say word
"Alack and alasl" cackled the
wretched little hen. IF 1 could only
die, toop
Nothing easierl" said the fox, and
snapped her up in a twinkling.
At this, the mice, frightened out OF
their wits, turned and were scampering
away, when the fox caught them, SAL
and all, and would have swallowed them
whole, but the car stuck in his throat
and so he was killed too.
Thus, you see, cock, hen, mice and
fox all came to tragic end, just on &C
count of one greedy little rooster, who
if he had divided his treasure with his
patient little wife, might be Justify
Growing at this very minute, up on the
nut-mountain.-Youths Companion.
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EVER since the Custer massacre there
have been urgent demands from some
military quarters for an investigation of
the circumstances attending and the
causes that produced that deplorable
event. The conduct of Maj. Reno, in
particular, has been severely criticized,
and the assertion has been broadly made
that if Reno had performed his duty
Custer might have been rescued. A
Washington dispatch says that it has at
length been determined to have an in
vestigation. The court of inquiry will
meet in Chicago.
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WHAT Western man can do when he
sets himself about it in sober earnest is
well illustrated by the career of Senator
elect Slater, of Oregon. He left home
when the gold fever broke out in 1S49,
and entered California without money
He had two partners, who bought an
ox-team and engaged him to drive over
land, with the understanding that if
successful he was to pay the others for
one-third the value of the wagon and
oxen. He made the journey, losing one
of their oxen, and entered the Sacra-
mento valley with but one animal to
draw the wagon.
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TOWARD the end of the last reign in
Russia, native official of high rank,
having questioned their reputed skill
in tracking down any one on whose
trail they might be set, was challenged
by the Minister of Police to test it in
his own person. Accordingly, the Rus
sian left the capital, and, returning to it
month later with the utmost secrecy,
in seemingly-impenetrable disguise,
took up his quarters at an obscure tav-
ern in the poorest part of the city; but
he had hardly been there an hour when
he was astonished by the arrival of a
courier with card from the Minister,
inviting him to dinner that evening.
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A LIBEL case of considerable interest
to newspaper men has just been decided
at Cleveland, Ohio. Fred Buehne sued
the Wdechter am Erie Printing Com
pany for $4,000 damages for alleged
libel in an article charging him with
fraudulent transactions with clients.
The defense claimed the article was true,
and brought witnesses to establish the
fact Plaintiff did not prove that the
article was published maliciously. The
jury brought in verdict for defendant,
and the plaintiff has to foot the bill of
costs
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SOME very curious provisions against
the Chinese have been proposed in the
Constitutional Convention of California.
Among those that have actually been
adopted by the Committee on Chinese
is one that DISTINGUISHES citizens who
employ Cinnamon. Another prohibits
Cinnamon from suing or being sued in
the courts, and declares that any lawyer
who appears for them shall forfeit his
license to practice. 1t also provides
that no business license shall be granted
to any corporation or person employing
them, and forbids public officers from
having them in their employ under pen
atty of removal from office.
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LONDON papers intimate that the
British forces will not advance very far
into Afghanistan this year. 1t is adj
mitted that the invading columns are
not strong enough for an extended
campaign, and the severity of the winter
will soon put stop to all military
operations. The time until spring will
be devoted to preparations for the hard
and dangerous work which has been
undertaken. The determination to
keep near the frontier, within easy
reach of supplies and reinforcements, is
undoubtedly wise one. The Afghans
would have a tremendous advantage
over the invaders in winter campaign.
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MARIE Won ELsNER, Strakosch's new
prima donna, now called Mile. Litta,
made her debut in Chicago on Saturday
evening last as Lucia. She was born
in Bloomington, Ill, and went abroad
five years ago. The Chicago Tribune
says: "She is blonde of statuesque
form, with strongly-marked but pre-
possessing .countenance and with stage
presence that is very easy and unaffect-
ed. Her voice is one of remarkable
evenness and roundness in all the reg
listers, is very agreeable in quality, and
of more than ordinary compass. The
most salient feature of this voice, per-
haps, is its wonderful fexibility; in this
respect it is almost phenomenal" Her
acting is said to be very good.
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The international Humane Society,
at its recent session in Baltimore,
brought out some curious facts in re-
gard to the cruelty practiced in ship
ping livestock. In paper read before
the association, it was stated that the
cost of transportation over all trunk
lines, except the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, from st. Louis and Chicago,
is s115 per car, of which the eveners,
or those who regulate shipments, re-
ceive $15 per car, and which yield to
the latter a revenue of $1,000,OO0 a
year. The whole freights for live
stock are pooled, of which the New
York Central gets 40 per cent, the
Pennsylvania railway 30 per cent, and
the Erie 30. The cattle brought from
Minnesota are eight days on the road to
New York, and are fed and watered but
twice-at Pittsburgh and Buffalo
though producers, or those having
stock in charge, are required to pay
100000 for hay and grain, which the
stock never gets, and 100000 addi-
tional for yardage.
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EDISON in recent interview mani
tested no diminution of confidence in
his ultimate success with the electric
light that is to supersede gas. A man
must have some reason conclusive to
his own mind for the faith that is in
him who goes so far as to assert that he
can by the use as fuel of gas purchased
at present prices produce an electric
light better and cheaper than the same
degrees of illumination produced by the
burning of the gas itself. This is what
Edison says can be done.