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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1878-07-25

Three lbs Of Young Hyson Tea for
S1.00. at JONES 4 HordIsr'fs.<
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ppVnbusiness You can enn.ge In. ~ 10 90 a
DEOIdny Inndc by any worker of either sex,
right In their own localities. Particulars aud
ss,iisplcs worth ~ free. Improve your spare
time at this business. Address, SrfSsoN q Co.,
Portland, Maine. f@ st
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Weather ReDOrt.

The following weather report was
prepared and furnished by Lee 3. Cobb,
ofYates township:
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Flour. Feed, Provisions and Grocer
| ies, always on hand nt lowest market
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The boss five cent Cigur, at
aahY JONES Il HOi.LISrER's.

A large stock of Hats anti Caps just
arrived at JOKES Il H0I.I.IxrER's. Z
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- a Gladwin county school ma'am
told one OF her scholars that he would
never be President if lie didn't study
harder. "Ncver expect to he Prcsi-
dent" said the boy, loggedly, "Pm u
Democrat. - Farrell Register.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.

Only Office at Baldwin City, Mich
Located near to and northeast OF the
depot.
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Qar Clubbing List.

SCHOOL DISTRICT OR
DER BOOKS, printed ex.
prssly for use in Lake county,
at this Office. ~ sa ,
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%. Patterson,
ATTORNEYA1 Law,
Real Estate and Insurance Agent,
Z. tek.E Reed city, Mich.
Millinery.

Mrs. E. s. Patterson, Upton avenue,
Reed City, Mich.
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Iiy lam 2p IN y p IN Average '
Elmer,

Weekly average, 70. os5 above zero.
Denotes variable.
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A. w. Jenkins, NJ. D.,
Homeopathic Physician & Surgeon.
Once and residence on SlOssOn Avenue,
Reed City, Mich 30
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Liver is King.

For Dry Goods, go TO
JONES & HoLLIsTER's.
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Buy the Choppers Delight" Of
JONES Il uoiL.ISTER.
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DR.. III. B. Peck,
Dentist, Reed City. Twcnty-four
years practice. Office, over the jewel
ry store formerly owned 10y Hubbard.
3-30
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Notary Public. VIII attend promptly to all
business entrusted to his care. Address,
Baldwin, Mich.
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Beardsley & Judkins,
a AwxERR- - HERSEY, MICI
Baldwin House,

This House has been newly finished
and re-furnished, aud will Ike kept In
firt-class style. Charges reasonable.
Good stabling. +. Indermill, Proprie-
J. tor, Baldwin, Mich. 1886
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William A. Deuress,

Treasurer of Lake county. Will at
tend promptly and carefully to all bus
iness relating to payment Of resident
and nonresident taxes. Address, Bald
= win, Lake Co., Mich. S-H
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27

added to the Stewart will contest by
the appearance on the stage of new
claimant in the person of Alexander
Stewart, an illiterate Vermont farmer,
who suddenly appeared on the court
record as plaintiff in an action against
Mrs. Cornelia Stewart ct al. in a suit
brought to break the will and obtain for
the rural claimant such proportion of
the great property as the law might be
inclined to award full blOOded first
cousin. There seems to be little doubt
that the farmer bears the alledged rela-
tiOnship to the deceased millionaire, but
the fun of the thing is, that day or
two after the suit was instituted and
everything threatened stubborn con-
test, down comes the horny handed son
of toll from his Green Mountain farm
and complains to the court that he has
been made party to suit which he is
teetotally opposed to, and which he
never intended to bring. He reasserts
his kinship, and says that had A. T.
Stewart died intestate he might have
come in to claim slice; but, as his
cousin made will, that settled it, and
he has no notion of interfering. He
therefore asks that the OfficiOus lawyers
who are seeking to make cats-paw OF
him may be "tepped on" 1t may be
that these two ambitious limbs of the
law who thought to make a nice specu-
lation la Dodson & Fogg, of Pick
wician fame, will wish they hadn't been
so bold. RADIx.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
Two Courtings.

But it is the story of Ursula's court
teasing and favorite child, that the
reader shall have as that of another
"woman who dared"
1t happened in this wise. Mr.. Mat
thew Griswold, tall, shy and awkward,
but scholarly and kind, early in his life
wooed a lady in a distant town, who
had another string to her bow in the
person of village doctor. For long
time she had kept her Lyme lover in a
state of uncertainty, in the hope that
she might draw out a proposal from his
professed rival. After some months of
this dallying Mr.. Griswold determined
to have the matter settled, and so one
day rode to town, entered her house,
and once more rendered heart and
hand.
"Oh, Mr.. Griswold, you must give
me more time," said the lady.
~ give you your lifetime, MISS"
was the indignant reply whereat the
youth bowed himself out, flung into
the saddle and gallOped away forever,
leaving the maiden, who maiden was
fOrevermOre, as her bird in the bush
never was caught.
To Matthew, discOnsOlate at his beau
tiful home amid that magnificent grove
of elms that still shelter the old Girls
void homestead at Black Hall, on the
shore of the sound, just east of the
mouth of the Connecticut river, appear
ed soon after his Cousin Ursula, little
his senior in years, but inheriting the
beauty, pride and ready wit of her
Grandmother Martha.
She "came, saw, conquered )" but
warned by his past experience, Matthew
was slow to speak, though his looks and
actions betrayed his feelings toward
his pretty cousin. Things ran on this
way for a space until one stormy day,
near the close of her visit, Ursula, de-
scending the dark, old oxen staircase,
suddenly encountered her cousin as
cending. Meeting him more than half
way, she, stopping suddenly, said sweet
ly:
"What did you say, Cousin Mat
thew ?"
"Oh, didn't speak 1 didn't say
anything"
"High time you did, cousin; high
time you did"
The future governor was not slow to
take the hint, and speedily found his
tongue and this is how Ursula VOL
colt became Ursula Griswold, and for
twenty-five years always had near
relative in the governors chair in old
Connecticut. ut.-Sunday afternoon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
Edison's Latest and Best Electrical
Achievement.

The irrepressible Edison's fertility in
invention is simply bewildering. Hard
ly week passes but what some valu-
able or curious idea in electric, acoustic
or mechanic science originates in his
busy brain and is published to an ad-
miring and dazzled world. His very
latest discovery, one which promises to
confer incalculable benefit to the in
habitants of cities, is a method of
cheaply conveying light, heat and
power by electricity. This discovery
was suggested by a recent inspection of
the dynomo-electric machine for trans
mitting power by electricity, manufac-
tured by William Wallace of Ansonia.
ct. Scientists have been long experi-
menting with the electric light, but
have hitherto been unable to render it
sufficiently divisible for ordinary house
hold uses. They have contrived to
produce as high as ten lights from one
electrical machine, but Edison claims
to have found way to make the num-
Der almost limitless. By an under
ground wire running through the streets
every house may be supplied with the
electric light, utilizing the old gas fix
lures that may be already in, by few
simple changes it may be applied to the
stores and used for cooking and heat
ing, and it may also be turned into
power for the operating of sewing
machine, an elevator or any light ma
chinery. And the cost is but trifle.
LII steam power is used to run the cleo
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27

the monuments on CaltOn Hill, Holy
rood Palace and Abbey, Edinburgh
Castle, the National Gallery of Paint
ings, the Antiquarian Museum, St.
Giles's Church, and many place be-
side. The Queens Drive around Ar
thurs Seat was another attractive ex-
cursiOn, and for this and other trips,
the visitors fairly mOnOpolized the car
riage accommodations of the city. In
the evening there was a reception by
the Sunday School Teachers Union of
the city to DR.. TouIjee and such other
of his companions as were engaged in
Sunday School work. OF these there
were goodly numbers, and the affair
was made very pleasant to entertainers
and entertained.
The next morning early we were
mustered at the station of the "Waver-
ly Route" for trip to Melrose, where
we took breakfast Immediately on ar
rival, and thereafter inspected the ruins
of the famous abbey. Next we rode in
carriages to Abbottsford, Sir Walter
ScOtt's old home, where everything is
still preserved as he left it at the time
of his death. After four hours halt
for these excursions, the train, which
was especial first-class" that was run
wholly for our accommodation, pro-
ceeded on its way to London. Briei
halts were made at several of the princi-
pal towns, and half hours stop al
| NOrmanton gave us an excellent dinner
1t was long ride, but rapid one as
well, and we reached the Midland Grand
Station about ten o'clock.
Messrs. Cook & Son, the excursion
managers, to whose hands the details
of the European journey had been en-,
trusted by DR.. TouIjee, divided the
party into five sections for future opera.
tions, sending two of these subdivision:
to one hotel, two to another and the
the fifth to a third. Our subsequent
travels to and over the Continent were
made over the same route but on diff
ferent dates, while two of the sections
went over the line in an order reversed
from the others.
1t would be useless to attempt tt
describe the great city of London;
city that is a world in itself-or tt
enumerate the many places of interes
the American visitors were attracted t,
during their sojourn of five or six days
There were few objects of interest with
in or just without the city that wer'
not visited by sonic members of th'
party, while operas, concerts and thea
tres were also literally patronized. st
PauPs, Westminster Abbey, the Parlia
ment Buildings, the Tower of London
and Hyde PARK were, of course, visite,
by everybody, while many also foun'
their way to Windsor Castle, the Crys
tai Palace and to many other place
more or less remote. The South Kensing
ton Museum and the British Museum
also formed great centres of attraction.
ATHENIAN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
The End of the Bankruptcy System.

For eleven years the United States
bankrupt law was upon the statute
book. When enacted, in 1867, it was
designed to assist unfortunate business
men to escape from their loads of in
debtedness, that they might engage
again in business, if they so desired,
unhampered by heartless creditors. Its
theory was that creditors had right to
debtors entire property, and that the
debtor, on the other hand, having given
up his property for the benefit of his
creditors, had done all that could be
reasonably required of him, and ought
to he allowed to take another start i'm
the world for a living and fortune.
In its details the law was intended to
serve two ends, and theoretically it was
adapted to accomplish them. In its
practical operation, however, it was
found to be faulty. 1t has relieved
many honest debtors from their mis-
fortunes, and has enabled many credi-
tors to obtain from their debtors all
that the latter could pay. Had this
been its universal operation it would
doubtless have remained upon the stat
ute book for many more years, for with
in few years after its enactment there
arose an emergency which made the
necessity for bankrupt law even more
vital than it was at the time of its en-
actment. That emergency is not end
ed, and general bankrupt law, which
should do what the one just repealed
intended to do, would be valuable for
years to come.
In its operation, however, it proved
tnp iSto TO iSh
than to honest men. Thousands of the
worst rascals have taken advantage of
it, and under cover of its provisions
have robbed their creditors of millions.
1t became Oftentimes an inducement to
dishonesty, and many went into busi-
ness with the deliberate purpose of at
tanning a competency out of those who
were led to trust them by their fair
promises. The country became filled
with wealthy bankrupts, who, having
settled with their creditors by paying a
small percentage of their debts, con-
tlnued to live in style, some of them
without doing anything, while Others
entered business again at once with the
money they had saved by false swearing
and other devices.
So common had this become, that an
indignant protest arose from the better
part of the business community, coupled
with demand for the amendment or
repeal of law which put honest mer-
chants at the mercy of rascals, and
placed a premium upon dishonesty
After months of Congressional dallying,
and fruitless attempts to amend the
law, it was finally repealed.
We now enter upon a new era. The
last few weeks have brought out great
army of bankrupts, such as were never
before marshalled in the same length
OF time: 1t includes many who are
honest, but have been unfortunate, who
deserve the relief which the law affords
IL includes many more whose greatest
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27

offense against the business community
is incompetency. These men came to
the surface during the years immediate
ly succeeding the war, were smart,
ready, quick-witted were caught up
by the wave of seeming prosperity, or
of speculation, and rode for while on
its top, making themselves and others
believe they were financiers and busi-
ness men. But when brains and real
business talent were required-when
they had to row instead of floating,
their utter incompetency was seen, and
they soon drifted to destruction. Some
of them surrendered all and took their
proper positions. Others, made reck
less OF desperate as they saw their for
tunes slipping away, put their property
into the hands of their wives, or some
where else out of sight, went into bank
ruptcy, and came out with ample for
tunes.
The hardest part of the struggle of
the last five years in business has been
that of strictly honest business men,
who have had rascals for competitors.
They, paying hundred cents on dol
lar, have been compelled to do business
in competition with men who paid but
small percentage of their debts. With
the end of the bankruptcy system the
honest man will have better chance
of success. The incompetent and the
dishonest will take back seats for a
while. The unfortunate who have real
ability will easily obtain assistance
when they need it, and with laws sub
serving their true purpose, which, as
Gladstone has well said, is ''to make it
as easy as possible to do right, and as
hard as possible to do wrong," we look
for renewal of business confidence
and for increasing prOsperity.-Boston
Com. Bulletin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
Noise by the Box-Full.

Before the New Yorkers got theiI
elevated railroad, they were all the
time growing about being crowded.
Now they have got it, and they growl
still louder because it makes a noise
Accordingly, Mr.. Foster, the president
OF the road, is pestered to death by peo-
pie who propose to stop the noise by
some tOmfOOlery of invention. He says
Several hundred plans have been
suggested. One man suggested putting
rubber under the track. We didn't try
that. Another suggested muff1ing the
rails by the use of felt or hemp. We
didn't try that either. A third recon-
mended the muff1ing of the rails and
wheels with YOOd and felt. We tried
that. But it didn't work. Another mal
proposed mailing felt on the bottom Of
the car, another inclosing the space be-
tween the track and the bottom of the
car with felt apron. Both these ex-
periments were tried, but were unsuc-
cessful. Some other man says the noise
is caused by running against the atmos-
phere. He suggests sharpening the To-
cOmotives in front. We haven't tried
that"
But the smartest and most ingenious
device of all was that of ''Mr. Kuntz-
man, inventor" This suggests ''the
collection of the sound in boxes as the
trains go along and discharging the
concentrated noise through a funnel
into the upper atmosphere" The plan
is to attach two boxes to each car. one
in front and another in the rear, botl
to be underneath the bottom of the cal
these boxes to he in communication
with funnel in the centre of the car
through which the noise can be at pleas.
ure discharged into the upper atmos,
phere." 1t can be let off at the station,
or it can be let off at the end of the
route, and it is claimed that it will not
be heard as it escapes, by the people
on the street, "That we haven't tried,
Mr.. Foster said mournfully.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
A Good-Sized Dairy,

In writing up the markets of San
Francisco, a paper of that city gives
some interesting figures in regard to the
dairy and farming operations of Mr.
Charles Webb Howard, a brother of Mr.
T. M. Howard of this place, and a gen
tleman widely known. We copy below
from this article:
The Point Reyes Ranch is located 35
miles from the city and just north of
the Heads, is owned by Charles Webb
Howard, Esq, President of the Spring
Valley Water Works. 1t contains 9S47
acres and is divided into seven dairies
-one of 200, one of 225, one of us, two
of $50, one of 185 and one of l6U cows.
making total of 1245 COWS. 1t is cal
culated that 18 cows require the con-
slant care of one man, and that each
cow produces 180 pounds of butter.
The situation of the Point Reyes ranch
is peculiarly adapted for the purposes
for which it is used. Located in the fog
belt the grass is kept green the wear
round, and even last year, while the
whole coast was drying up, at Point
Reyes there was plenty of feed and the
COWS did finely. On the head of the
peninsula made by the ocean and To-
males Bay Mr.. Howard owns an addi:
tional patch of land, which contains
7739 acres of excellent grazing land,
where $50 cows are provided for in dai-
ries OF 300, 100 and $50 cows. On the
same peninsula the heirs of o. L. Shat
ter own ii 155 acres, and their interests
are managed by Mr.. Howard. Here are
seven dairy ranches--One of 200, one OF
l6O, four of $50, and one of I40 COWS.
At the south of Olema the said heirs
have another tract of land of 67I2 acres.
on which there are already established
two dalries-one of 100 and one of l5C
cows. These dairies are managed on
regular business principles. Each at
tache has his place to fill and duty to
perform, and the result is, that the but
ter that is brought from these ranches
is as pure as can be made. The air the
cows breathe, the water they drink, and
the food they eat, are all the very best
that can be found on earth and tn.
greatest care being taken with the milk
and in the manufacture of butter. it i.
not to be wondered at that the butte
from these dairies commands the high.
est price in the market and is alwavs i,
demand.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27

The Portland Press says: 'The dele
gates from Maine consists of three hon
est-money men, one soft-mOney dema-
gogue, and one wild-eyed communist.
Shame, indeed, that so it must be p'
The Press also thinks it nearly certain
that enough hard money democrats will
act with the republicans to send up the
names of Connor and Garcelon to the
Senate, which will elect COnnor.
The celebrated case of the town OF
Hanover against nine Dartmouth Col
lege students was decided in favor OF
the town at the August term. The ques-
ton was whether the town had the
right of action. The suit grew out oi
the famous book auction riot by the
students against j. b. Barker in No
vember, 1875. The town paid Parker
$500 dollars under the statute making
the town liable for damages arising
from riots.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-27
Passumpsic Railroad.---July L, 1878.
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

ADvENT-Paddock Village. Rev. VIM. j. Warner,
Pastor. Sabbath Services at 1045 a. m. and las
p. m. Sabbath School IL m. Prayer Meeting 6:3O
p. IN. and on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
BAPTIsT-Railroad Street, Corner Maple. Rev.
E, L. Sanford Pastor. Preaching 1890 A. M. S.
School 12 m. prayer meeting $3.50. Prayer meet.
ings Wednesday evening at 1880
FREE BAPTIsT-Main Street. Corner Prospect,
Rev. e. S. Frost, Pastor Residence at ID. Street
ers, Prospect st. Sabbath services at 1890 A. M.
nesday evening prayer meeting at 1880
CHURCH OF THE MEssIAH-( Universalist). East
ern avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. B. M. Til
lotsOn Pastor. Sabbath services at las and 6:3O
p. NJ. Sabbath School at 12 NJ Wednesday even
ing prayer meeting at 1890
METHoDIsT-Central, street. Rev. H. F. Austin
Pastor. Residence head of Summer Street
Sabbath services at 1890 A. M, and 6:3O Z. M
Sabbath School at 1900 NJ. Wednesday evening
meeting at 1880.
social meeting at 5:00 Sunday school at 1890 D. m
Thursday evening meeting at 1880.
north CoNGREGATIoNAL-Mai street. corner
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1870 A. NJ. and 6:3O P. NJ. Sabbath
School at Ids P. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 7:30
SOUTH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Mai street. Rev
Edward L. Fairbanks, Pastor. Sabbath services
at 1920 A. M and 6:30 p. M Sabbath School at
1900 NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at 7:30.
ST. ANDREw's-(Episcopal,I Main street. Rev
N. F. Putnam Rector. Services at 1890 a. m, and
p. m Sunday School, $3.50 p. m. Wednesday
evening meeting at 1880.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Cherry Street RevJ A
Boissonnault, Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. m
VespeIs and BenedictiOn at p. On the
second Sunday of the month"; service at $50 a. m.
and p. m. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. m
NOON PRAYER MEETING-Every week day, from
| IL to 1890, in the Y. NJ. C. A. Rooms over Z. F
Browns Store.