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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
ALPENA wEEKLYAR GUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SOMEHOW OR OTTER WE GET

The good wife hustled about the house,
Her face still bright with pleasant smile.
As broken snatchos of happy song
The good man sat in tho chimney nook,
His little clay pipe within his lips,
And all he'd made, and all he had lost,
Ready and clear on his finger tips.
'Good wife. I've just been thinking bit,
Nothing has done very well this year;
Money Is bound 10 be hard to get
Everything's sure to he very dear;
How the cattle are going to BIO fed,
How we're 10 keep the boys at school,
Is kind OF debt and credit sum g
can't make balance by my rule"
She turned her around FROM the baking board,
And she faced him with cheerful laugh;
That the good, rich wheat was only chat.
And what II the wheat was only chaff,
As long as we both are well and strong;
I'm not woman to worry bit,
Somehow or other we've got along. ~,
"Into somo lives some rain must fall,
Over all lands the storm must beat,
But when the rain and storm are DER
The after sunshine Is twice as sweet.
Through every strait we have found road,
We have had to bear, and had To walt,
But somehow or other we get along.
"For thirty years we have loved each other,
Stood by each other, whatever bofcll;
Six boys have called ms father and mother,
And all of them living and doing well
We owe no man a penny, my dear,
We're both OF us loving, and well, and
strong; s,e.st )
Good man, wish you would smoke again,
And think how well we've got along" ~
He filed his pipe with a pleasant laugh,
He kissed his wife with Il tender pride;
He said: "Ill do as you tell me, love-,
Ill Just count up on the other side"
She left him then with his better thought,
And lifted her work with a low, sweet song
A song that followed me many year, :
Somehow or other we get along.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19

cry" said Lefty. ''It's rather late,
though, isn't il, to find out that Mr..
Dunn is everything to youp"
Better late than never" said voice
at my elbow, and Mr.. Dunn arms were
about me. had left the boll door open
behind me in my alarm.
IL was going away to seek my fortune
in Australia tomorrow" he explained,
still holding me fast; "but 1 could not
go without one last glimpse of you.
Linda. 1 didn't mean TO come in.
ought not to have come in"
"Oh, yes, yes" cried.
IL only meant 10 see you, il possible,
moving about your pleasant home, |
standing alone in the ausky garden out
side, only TO know that you were safe
and happy once more. l was disap-
pointed TO find the house so dark, and
stepped back into the street. could
hardly make up my mind TO go away,
and while hesitatcd Miss Lefty lighted
a lamp, and came back in time to hear
your confession" 90
"And you are going 70 Australia to-
morrow9'' | xal3scS
ave will dcfcr the trip long enough
to buy tickets for two. :, he answered. /
said Ne were shop-girls still, and SO we
are; that is, resign my situation to-
morrow I'm favor of Rose Cuthbcft,
whose husband has required only year
in which TO lose her fortune. Yesterday
l rectfvdd: the letter wrote Mr. Dunn
from the. Dead-lctter Office. had Just
directed IL 10 MIR. Dunn, Boston," rs
il there was only one Mr. Dunn IN the
world When look in his face won
der could ever have thought him too
old; when rpad his heart, wonder l
could ever n eesbelieved that romance
and he had parted company. Mary NJ
Prescott, IN Ha,per's Bazdr.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
Amusing Verbal Blmnders.

II was Richard Grant White, be-
llieve, who said that "hc had only met
three Englishmen that could speak
English correctly" 1t would be rash
to say that only few could speak their
mother tongue correctly; but as mat
ter of fact have never met one person
who did. Carelessness of expression is
the rule, and most takers are satisfied
il their utterances convey the idea they
intend to express, regardless of the
form. Sometimes, indeed, the sense
itself is sacrificed TO mere sound. An
anecdotc of Choate illustrates this. In
the climax of a long speech to jury,
he turned to the defendant, and in
highly oratorical tones denounced him
strongly, ending by declaring him to be
"a naufragous ruflian." When ques-
toned afterward in regard TO this
strange use of an obsolete word he
admitted that at the time of speaking
he had no conception of its meaning,
but seized upon it rs filling out the
phrase in sonorous manner.
On recent trip TO Wayne County,
New York, | ran across naturalized
Jrishman named Frank McGuirc, whose
oddities of expression were extremely
mirthful. His mental powers had been
nurtured exclusively on "homc- growcd
eddication," and he evidently believed
that well-roundcd sentence contained
just so many syllables, regardless Of
what they were. He took great pride
in house which he had recently built,
and in diIating upon its construction
explained that there was ''piano all
around it, condcsccnding to the road
and in opposition to the WE'LL In
speaking about his wife, who had i'm
prudently over-taxed her strength
while recovering from q sickness, and
had suffered from relapse, he said
''she had in some way got the ollapses
and he didn't know how she caught
'em, for he hadn't heard of their being
around this spring" His acquaintance
tell how he "hurried up" a neighbor by
advising him to be "as prodigious as
possible;" but perhaps his greatest Of
fort was description of the famed
Cardiff Giant, which ended in pro-
fame declaration that "any fool would
have known that il was a piece of pu-
trofied statuary. "-Lippincotts Maya
sine.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH..

"A Sunday boy combated
with his teacher, holding that the world
being round, could have no end.--Chi-
.eago Times.
The Board of Missions of tho
Methodist Protestant Church have pur-
chased mission buildings in Yoko-
hama, and intend to push the work in
that country.
Mr.. John Wanamaker has added
one more to his many benefactions to
the Young Mems Christian Association
by giving the Philadelphia Association
800, 900 to pay off its floating debt. Tho
entire amount of the debt, $500, 900,
was made up by other subscribers.
Philadelphia Press.
No man has really got religion, as
the cant phrase runs, until it seriously
affects the eye and ear The religious
eye has had all the greenness of ieal-
ousy and envy washed out of it, and the
religious ear listens only to the good
that Is told of ones neighbors and is as
deaf as an adder to what is bad.--M
Y Herald.
Grace Reformed Church, Easton,
Pa, was called upon recently to curb
and pave the street in front of. its prop
erty, and as it Is not q rich organization
and could not afford to hire the work
done, the members pluckily did all the
job themselves at night, by torchlight,
the pastor himself taking a conspicuous
part in the novel scene, which lasted for
three nights. -Pittsburgh Post.
Rev. William p. Paxson, Superin-
tendent of the Southwestern depart
ment of the American Sunday-school
Union, makes this summary report OF
seventeen years work: Schools organ.
lied, 1920; schools aided, 1893; mem
bership in the same, over 400, BIZ
blcs and Testaments distributed, 3d.
538; books and supplies, papers, etc.,
S52,646; expenses of the work, $118,-
S13. IN. Y. Examiner.
AN officer of a school in Boston for
the blind saysthat sightless persons may
become the most expert piano-tuners.
Through itsconstant exercise the faculty
of hearing becomes so acute that inter-
walls in the scale of sounds, which are so
slight as to be unnoticed by other per-
sons, are readily detected by the blind.
The slightest imperfection in unsons is
discord to them Their knowledge of
the mechanism of pianos is obtained
through the use of models and the dis
section of old instruments. Besides,
they are thoroughly taught in that
branch of physics which treats of the
nature of sound and the laws of its pro-
duction and transmission. Boston Jour
,,1L
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
A Buffalo Romance.

II would probably be safe for any
man 10 promise 10 pay another one ST.
600, 900 on demand whenever you could
walk on the bottom of the river just
above the Falls of the Niagara. But
unless Buffalo man is quite out of cut
lery and has not so much as n little
Ratchet in his possession, this happened
in the spring of 1919, and may happen
again. The river began reccding, until
for nearly day there was absolutely no
water flowing through the rapids, OK
cept small stream in the very middle
of the river bed. Somebody remem-
bcred tradition that there was gas
well in the river channel. A few men
obtained an old iron kettle, turned it
upside down over the well, put a pipe
through the bottom of the kettle into tho
well, and fastened n lamp OH top. The
gas blew the lamp into fragments, but
the gas continued to burn from the end
of the tube, making a brilliant light ut
night, for long time afterwards and
until the tube was carried away by ice.
Some stout poles TO which flags were at
ltached were taken out into the river a
short distance above the falls and the
sharpencd end driven into the crcviccs
of rocks on a line with the apex of the
Horseshoe proving that the channel
must have been nearly dry) They re-
manned in position for many weeks. A
large quantity of old guns, and cartridges
and camp equipages, which was dumped
into the river during the war of ~, was
also brought to light and recovered. This
curious phenomenon was caused by an
ice gorge at Buffalo which kept back the
water. Detroit Free Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"You must be quarrclsome fell
low," said q phrenologist to man
whose bump he was examining. "Say
that again and I'll knock you down."
was the response.-N Y. Ne,0s.
"A Southern gentleman has trained
a pair of pet snakes to catch mice.
His premises are free from mice, and
the snakes are family pets, taking food
from the hand fearlessly.-DetroH
Post.
Young George Vanderbilt, fourth
son of the millionaire, wants to be
newspaper reporter. There it crops
out again-the natural, educated and
hereditary greed for gold; the insata-
BILE thirst for wealth, the passion for
amassing millions by the easiest and
quickest methods, and reaching fabu-
lous competence by the shortest ways.
It's family trait.-Burlington Haeot-
eye.
To Oscar
Over the sundcring sea, whose wind-blown
sweeps backward to his home a fond adicU,
Comes a tall stranger; once by much the
Esthete in England. Though the hair is CUT
Round his mild face, even the stern shampoo
Will not wear out the brains that yet remain.
In former times our voice must pierce be-
Locks that hung thick as the white winter
Down the calm front of sheep on stormy LEA,
Ere we could guess what treasure there lay
hid.
Life.
"A Concord school philosopher has
shown that ''reality signifies existence
i'm and for the world of phenomena,
while actually is reality, plus possibl-
ity of potentiality. That's plain
enough now. These Concord philoso-
pliers are pretty smart, but we don't
believe they can tell the age of a dough-
nut from the corrugated appearance of
its observation-disclosures Herald.
81 brought my aunt inter the city
to-day to show 'er round" said rustic
to Boston police officer, land she's
got kinder tired walkin', so | wanter
find some place where she kin sit down
an rest bit an have bite of suthing
to eat Kin yer direct me ter any placer"
Certainly" responded the representa-
tive of Boston's aesthetic and literary
police force. "What you want is rest
your aunt. Go right into that eating
saloon" The pair went in.-BoSton
Transcript.
Mr. Brown took home splendid
doll one day for his little daughter. 1t
was provided with that wonderful piece
of mechanism which enabled it, on be-
ing squeezed, to emit the squeaking
sound supposed to initiate the human
voice, so dear to childhood. That same
evening the little puss was sitting on
her fathers knee, and several times
pressed her small fist upon her parents
shirt front. Producing no effect, she
looked up in the paternal face, saying:
"Papa." Eyes. What is it, my childp'
he replied. "Why don't you squeak,
papap"-Hd,pcr'S Bazar.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
MORTGAGE SALE.


Default having been made in the terms and con.
dtions of certain indenturc of mortgage, bearing
date the 9th day of May, A. ID. 1881, and executed
by and between VIM. w. Hicksand Cathrlne Hicks
his wife, of the first Fart, and Henry r. Morse and
Franklin s. Dewey of the second part, and duly re-
co tded in the office of Register of Deeds for the
county of Aipena, on the 18th day of May, A. d.
1891, in liber of mortgages, on page %, and by
which said default tho power of sale in said mort
gage contained has become operative, and II being
claimed that there is now due and unpaid, at the
date hereof, on said mortgage, the sum OF one hun
dred and cighty-ono dollars and ninety-six cents
tsS.96l for principal and interest, together Will
an attorney fee OF twenty-five dollars g.0Ol pro-
vided for in said mortgage, and no suit or proceed
ed TO recover the amount secured by said mortgage
or any part thereof, now, thereforc Notice isherc
by given, that ON
The 2ith day OF january, A. ID. 1854
Mt two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
front door of tho Court House, in the city of Alpc
ma, county of Alpena, and State of Michigan, that
being the building in which the Circuit Court fol
said county in which said mortgagcd premises arc
situated is held thoro will be sold public auction
TO the highest bidder tho promises described IN said
mortgage, so much thereof may be necessary
10 satisfy the said debt the interest thereon, and
said attorney fee and all costs and charges allowed
by law. Said mortgaged premises are situated IN
the township of Long Rapids, county of Apena
State Of Michigan, and described as follows; Al
gage as follows, TO wit the southwest quarter o.
the northwest quarter Of section twentyone, towr
thirtytwo north, range six east, containing forty
acres, more or less.
HENRY II. MORSE,
FRANKLIN $. DEWEY,
Mortgages
Dated Alpena, Oct. 20, 1883. 63swi;
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DRoBATE ORDER.

State of Michigan, county of Apena
At u session of the Probate Court for the count y
of Alpena holden at the Probate Office, in the city
of Alpena, on Friday, the 23rd day of November
in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
Present-Hon. Geo. S. Lester, Judge of Probate.
In the matter OF the estate of Henry Nj. Robin
son, of establishing his will during his lifetime
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
of said Henry NJ. Robinson, praying that certain
instrument annexed to said petition, and now on
file in this Court purporting to be the last will and
testament of said Robinson, may be admitted Ia
Probate aud admitted and established his last
will and testament.
Thcreupon it Is ordered, that Monday, the 3ist
day of December A. d. 1888 at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition
and that the wife and hors at law of said Robinson
and all other persons interested in said estate and
matter are required TO appear ut session of said
Court then to be holden at tho ProbateOee, in the
city of Alpena, and show cause, ii any there be- why
the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted
And il is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice to the persons interested in said estate OF tn,
tendency of said petition, and the hearing thereof
by causing copy of this order to be published n
| the Alpena Weekly ARGUS a newspaper printed
and circulated III said county of Alpena, three sue
cessivc weeks, and also by causing the same TO b,
personally served at least ten days previous 20 said
| day of hearing upon Harriet Robinson, Emms
| j. Robbins. Henry S. Robinson, James l. Robinson
and George j. Robinson il they be found in said
county or said State of Michigan.
| "a true copy.l GEO: ;; LESTER,
603wl Judge of Probate
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
CHICAGO
WEEKLY NEWS
AND THE
ALPENA ARGUS,
So a Year.

The CHICAGO WEEKLY NEWS Is reoog-
nized as a paper unsurpassed In all the re-
quiremonts OF American Journalism IL
stands conspicuous among the metropol-
itan Journals OF the country as complete
Newspaper Tn tho matter OF Geographic
service having the advantage OF connection
with the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, IL has
at its command all the dispatches OF the
Western Associated Press, besides a very OK.
tensiyc service OF Special kilograms from all
important points. AS Newspaper II has
no superior II is INDEPENDENT in pol
itics, presenting all political news free from
partisan bias or coloring, and absolutely
without fear or favor as TO parties. II is, In
the fullest sense, FAMILY PAPER. Each
Issue contains several COMPLETED STO-
RIEs, SERIAL STORY OF absorbing in
terest, and rich variety Of condensed notes
on Fashions, Art, Industries, Literature,
Science, ETC., etc. Its Market Quotations
are complete and to be relied upon. II is I'M
surpassed as an enterprising, pure, and trust
worthy GENERAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
We republish here from the columns Of the
WEEKLY NEWS a few of the voluntary
concentrations 1t has received:
WHAT OLD SUBSCRIBERS SAY
About the ''Chicago Weekly News" when
they renew their subscriptions.
William Cnnnons. Pontiac. Oakland County
Mich. saws: 81 think A. liz the best paper in
America -
LA. welch, Sullivan, o., says; ut Is better
than many of the 81 papers"
james +. Malone, 253 St. Charles street. New
orleans, La says; In comparing your paper
wsn o.ne,s reee w. mus 30" s ,vu'S ,n0
.,oniS soonar ,,iss n meal tnsn numhcr Of
the NEWS. IL ia me newspaper OF the day. IL
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19

NO" said the high school girl to
her dearest friend, "it is not allowable
in polite society to say, 'he. bit of
more than he could chew The cor
rect expression is, He severed with
his .incisors more than he was able
to masticate with his molars. '"-Oil
City Derrick.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
DROBATE ORDER.

State of Michigan, county of Alpena,ss.
At session of the Probate Court for the county
of Alpena, holden Mt the Probate Office in the city
of Alpepa, on Wednesday, the 18th day of December
in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty
three
Present-Honorablc Frank limerick, Circuit
Judge, and acting Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Anna NJ Thomp-
son.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
OF Charles Thompson, praying that he may be ap-
pointed administrator of such estate.
Thereupon il is ordered, that Thursday, the 10th
day of January 1884, Mt 10 o'clock in the forenoon be
assigned for the hearing of said petition md that
the heirs ut law of said deceased and all other per-
sons interested in said estate are required to appear
ut session of said Court, then TO be holden at the
Probate Office. in the city of Alpena, and show
cause if any there be- why the prayer of the petit
toner should not DO granted; And IL is further
dercd, that said petitioner give notice to tho persons
interested in said estate, of the pendency of said pc
tition, and the hearing thereof, by causing copy
of this order to be published in the Apcna Weekly
Argus, n newspaper printed and circulated in said
county of Alpena, four successive weeks, and also
by causing the to be personally served ut least
ten days previous to said day Of hearing, upon
Charles L. Thompson.
"a True Copyl FRANK LIMERICK,
Circuit Judge, and acting Judge of Probate.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19
NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT.

In rmE Cmcuir Counr ron 1nE Cousry OF ALrE-
NA.-In ATTACHMENT.
Augustus Johnrowe and Robert NJ. Donnclly, plain
tifis, vs.. William Green and James Green, defend
ants.
Notice Is hereby given that on tho 10th day Of
October A. ID. 1884, writ Of attachment was duly is
sued out of the Circuit Court for the county of Al
pcna az the suit OF Augustus Johnrowe and Robert
NJ Donnoily, the above namedplaintifs, against the
lands, tenements. goods and chattols, moneys and
fendants above named, for the sum Of two hundred
dollars and fifty cents which said writ was return
able on the 9Th day Of November, A. ID. 1888.
Dated this 18th day of November, A. ID. 1885,
CARPENTER 4 WILLIAMS,
Govt Attorneys for PlaintifA
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-19

Lydia Pinkham started with wash
kettle and mess o. YARDS. She ended
one Of the richest women In New York.
Advertising did it Chicago Tjmss.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-17

In order to evade these inconvenience
chemists have long ago searched, to inpart
the spongy structure of the dough by other
means than yeast, respectively by substances
evolving gaseous bodies, or which, in the
oven, are transformed into gases themselves.
To the best known belong the bicarbonate of
soda and cream of tartar, certainly we'll
known to ell housewives. And with regard
to most of the baking powders of the trade,
they are mainly preparations containing these
substances. However, it cannot be said Of
any of them that they exert beneficial in
fuepce on the system, not to speak Of the
authorizations 20 which most of them have
lately been uhjscted.
We are glsd 10 learn that Professor z. ".
Horsford, OF Cambridge. Mass, who held the
chair Of chemistry in Harvard University,
invented, some time sirce, baking prepare
ton forming an exception to those spoken of,
which has already attained universal reputa-
ton.
The idea by which Professor HoTsford was
guided was not only to furnish substitute
for brewers yeast, but also to provide those
nutritious constituents Of the flour Lost in the
bran in the process of boiling. These are the
so-cslled phosphstes, which ara also the nu-
trisive salts Of meat, and of the utmost in
portance fer he building up of the organism.
IL we take into consideration that the nutri-
tritive value Of wheaton fl ur is from twelve
to fifteen psr cent. less than of the wheat
grain, and that this loss is now restored by
Professor Horsfcrd's invention, then we must
look upon it as Of the greatest national
economic Importance. AS Iustus Won Lie
big said: ''The result is the saiue az il tie
fertility OF cur wheat fields had been increased
by one-sevensh or one-eighth."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-17
mortality Report,

For two weeks ending August Is 1888, made by VIM.
Laufkotter, Superintendent of the City Cemetery.
Office at the Chapel, City Cemetery:
August l-wm H. Renwick, years, months and
u DAYS California. Clarence c. tedman, %
years Illinois. Philip Dauber, 81 years,
month and days: Germany.
August John H. Fisher, q years. months and
% days; California. John S. St0ber, AZ years, 9
months and IL days Germany.
August SD. P. Cakes, IS years and months
Massachusetts,
August A. Fong Juo Daro, 80 years China.
August 5-John Speaker. 50 years Pennsylvania
August 6-Mary Hanlon, So years and 20 days
Ohio. Maud sherman, Is days; California. Ju-
fus W. Schaeffsr, SO years, months and days
Germany.
August 9.Infant Of Patrick York; California. Pat.
rick Hill, Sc years, months and % days; Ire
land.
months; California
August II Margaret welch, so years England.
August Lima Frees, 81 years and Z months
Missouri.
Besides the above there were brought here fol
interment the following:
August 2-Fong Ham, 80 years; China.
august Robert W. Mcgowan, SO years, 10 months
ard days; Kentucky.
August Mrs Margaret Taylor, 50 years. Penn
August Io-Joseph Her. Z. SO years; Germany.