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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
Sumner Greetings.

Grin Lampson's little girl is very sick.
Miss Hattie Lampson spent Sunday
with her parents.
Mrs. Solomon is visiting her sister,
Mrs. j. Dunlap.
Ben. Avery has gone to the pine
woods to work.
Chas. Stafford and wife have return
ed from their long visit to lIillsdale.
Joe Lytle lost valuable colt Il few
days ago from the effects Of kick from
a horse.
School commences ON Monday in Dis
trict No. 7, with Miss frankie Darling
at the helm.
VIM. McFaul is building barn for
G.. Lampson. Look out viii, you will
have cold fingers.
Mrs. L. Beattie has been staying with
her sister the last week, Mrs. Thomas
Morrow, of Montcalm. BY the way,
is Tom jubilant over bic fat boy at his
house.
Some large animal has been prowling
about the premises of Ed. Delling, sup
posed TO be a bear Where are all our
Nimrods gone to when such rare game
can come to mans door without get
ting shot.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
The plurality Of each state may be
seen by the following table:
REpupLIcAN PLuRALlrIgs.
Hon. A. Il. Tuner, of Grand Ra,

Hon. \. b. Turner, of Grand Rap
ids, will be a prominent candidate
for government printer under Gen.
Harrison's administration. One of
the most commendable features of
his candidacy is the assurance that
Mr.. Frank Godfrey, of the Lansing
State Republican, will be acting
manager under him should he obtain
the position, Mr.. Godfrey has the
experience and ability to fill that
highly important position with credit
To himself and satisfaction to the
public. and his preferment will be
hailed with sincere gladness by "A
host of warm friends whose admira-
ton for the genial manager of the
state print shop" is of the most
pronounced type.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
The Official Canvass.

According to the state board OF
cinvassers, at the recent election
Harrison received 236,37O votes
Cleveland, 2l3,4O4; Fisk, 20,943;
Streeter, 2,542. The Prohibition
vote was 1927 less than that of two
years ago. In 1854 the labor vote
was 1900. In the canvass of the
state ticket the board had completed
all but four counties last night, and
Luce had a plurality of l7,l21; the
other state officers ranged from 90.
500 to 23,945.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30

1T. Louis Republican,: In the town
ship of Pine River Henry l.. Wood S
slip was used just - times over Web
ster and Gates. Since election Henry
has been keeping track of the number
of slips different workers told him they
used and knowswere voted. and by sub
tracing the % that did actually appear
on the tickets he finds a shortage of
So. There is no liar like political
liar.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
Elwell Happenings.

Mr.. Oscar Delaney is quite sick.
DR.. McLachlin has a very sore hand
John Morton was III town Monday on
business.
Nate Holiday is on the sick list,
also is his brother Reuben.
The night cap social, held at General
Grants last Wednesday was a grand
success.
Mr.. Fink died on Thursday of last
week. His funeral took place Satur-
day at O'Clock p. m.
Brit Chestnut and his sisters are Wis
iting relatives out near Lansing, where
they intend staying until after thanks
giving.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
The next house of representatives
in congress will have four ex-speak-
ers.

If Gen. Alger should take place
in President Harrison's cabinet the
Republicans of Michigan would be
not only gratifsd to have ii SO but
be glad to invite comparison with
Michigan's member of President
Cleveland's cabinet. Don. M. ID. has
been simply a political machine !;
Gen. Alger would be found at his
post of duty, faithful to his trust and
never abusing his position.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30

In 1854 the total vote cast for
Congressman in this district was
3s,427 of which 1910 were cast for
the Prohibition candidate. al were
given to the Grcenback nominee and
few were scattering ballots. Two
years ago 37,903 votes were east and
1857 of these went to the Prohibi-
ton candidate.
Thus it will be seen there has been
a large increase III the vote Of the
Eighth over previous years. At the
recent election Mr.. Tarsney received
2,70l more votes than in 1886 and
the number of votes cast for Col.
Bliss was Sab in excess of the vote
east for Mr.. Horn two years ago.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30

o. j. STILwELL. Supt.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
Elm Hall Siftings.

~ disastrous fire took place half a
mile south of this place. Mrs Sprague
and Mr.. Lud were the sufferers, Mrs.
Sprague owning the building aud part
Of the contents, Mr.. Lud being Il tenant
Mr.. Lud and family had gone away
from the house OH Saturday morning,
Mrs. Sprague being alone in the house.
She awoke about a. m, Sunday morn :
ing, finding her home in flames and
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30

Washington territory is in the
boundless west. 1t is about as fal
west as one can get and remain il
the United States, unless Alaska j.
visited.
There, if anywhere, the American
citizen looking for opportunities fol
work should not be disappointed. Ii
looks strange, therefore, to read in
the thanksgiving proclamation OF
the governor of Washington terri
tory the sentence /: eff any home
less ones be seen standing by the
wayside on that day, / trust that
those who are more fortunate will
care for them"
A kind recommendation, truly,
and one that should be followed, bu,
what are the homeless ones to be
thankful for: That their lot is not
any worse:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
The Eighth Congressional District Vote

Complete returns from the Eighth
Congressional District show i4.024
votes were east for the Democratic
and Republican candidates, and Col.
\. I. Bliss received a plurality of
2,02s, the figures being IA, follows ::
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04

parent monastery, willingly came, but came
knowing for certain that the severity Of
the climate would speedily kill him It was
a call from the Lord, not to better living.
He obeyed it, and in few months lay down
to die.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04


parent monastery, willingly came, but came
knowing for certain that the severity Of
the climate would speedily kill him It was
a call from the Lord, not to better living.
He obeyed it, and in few months lay down
THE vow OF SILENCE.
The great vow Of silence, 50 characteristic
Of the Carthusians, was easily kept by the
self contained arrangement just mentioned
Even on festive days, when they ate in COM
mon, this rule was strictly observed It has
been so far relaxed in modern times that the
fathers are allowed to walk out together once
a week and converse with one another or
even to speak to others when spoken TO. The
time they have 10 spare from the Offices,
which are particularly lengthy, is taken up
with reading, meditation, joinery, gardening
and cleaning These fathers are mostly
aristocrats Of various nationalities. They
are at present about forty in number. The
entrance fee is large, the novitiate long and
severe. the great life vows Of fearful rigidity
The horsehair shirt and linenless rule admit
OF no exception, and, though it is taking
rather shallow and supercilious view Of be-
lief TO call these Carthusians "last OF the
people who believe,n still it seems certain
that nothing short Of an oVermastering be-
lief could make life possible here. There is
certainly nothing in the appearance Of the
monks themselves, nothing in their habits
and surroundings, to allow to indulge in
the Erasmus vein. The glimpses one gets are,
with one or two exceptions, Of pale, worn
deatblike faces, with the shadow as OF a
great sorrow upon them. They are not faces
Of the hue and expression suitable for popu-
lar cartoons for those traditional scenes
where monastic life is represented as an after
dinner nap on a fowery veranda, or the hug
einp of a claret cask in an underground
cellar.
As you leave the cells your feeling Is that
of charitable pity-pity for the narrowness
which leads men, Carthusians and others not
so logical, to think that this world and this
life are the DEVILS and not Gods But this is
qualified BY the reflection that men Of rank
NAV stay in the world and spend their money
IN worse ways than in building churches for
moor villages, or in endowing hospitals and
schools. and deaf and dumb institutions for
Door districts: spend their time in worse
vsavs than in the manufacture Of medicinal
liaueurs. the culture of aromatic flowers, in
fasting and prayer, and employ their intel
lectuai gifts, poetical and political, in worse
WAYS than in silence. The monastery library
is well stocked with books, chiefly Of devo-
tional character.-Good Words
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
what noes ..sterlinrn nrsnn2 ?


The Haberdasher, a monthly Journal Of the
mems furnishing trade, devotes prominent
space to the abuse which has steadily grown
till the word sterling which, when
stamped upon what purported to be a silver
handle for "A stick or umbrella, used to be
guarantee of coin metal, has now absolutely
no meaning whatever, and is simply and
solely devils to deceive the public when
that public tries to buy massive silver knob
for 81 IS, including a silk umbrella or hand
some cane.
English law makes the use Of the word
"sterling" upon plated ware felony. There
is no law in this country that covers the
ground. And it is not a creditable state Of
mercantile morality under which men split
hairs so dexterOusly, as do certain manufact-
urers, in justifying their use of the stamp.
The average retail buyers undoubtedly be-
lieves the sterling" stamp to warrant the
metal coin silver But the outside coating of
even a merely 'Washedn handle is of course
silver, and on no better ground than this do
some manufacturers base their claim of fair
dealing and honesty But while compare
lively few Of the heavy handles are made
wholly of coin metal, since few people will
buy so expensive umbrellas, yet the pur-
chaser has a right to expect that the silver
head which bears the word Sterling should
not consist Of a mass Of lead or other base
metal with merely thin varnish of silver
But it is plain that it is no easy matter to
draw the line between honesty and fraud
II plate Of silver of even quarter Of an
inch in thickness, everything base metal can
properly be stamped STERLING" at what de-
gree of thinness in the silver docs the use Of
the word become misleading and wrOng!-
New York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Not contented; but Aspiring.

"Contentment is better than riches" That
sounds like the despairing wall Of disap-
pointed man. It is a patent medicine, in
tended for those who have tried for success
and have failed. 1t is warranted to have
the same soothing effect that the conclusion
about the grapes had on the fox. htaken in
sufficiently large doses it viii make man a
helpless nonentity. 1t is a narcotic that does
more harm than good. 1t puts to sleep the
very ones who need waking. The fact is,
contentment is satisfied laziness. Those who
better themselves and get the grapes do not
think they are sour. A true man is not
necessarily discontented, but he is ever as
piring. He would do more-be more-get
more. He does not care for absolute con-
tentment. The utmost he will admit is that
contentment, with riches, is better than
without them.-Walter Gregory in North
American Review.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
M0NASTIC LIFE.
ROUTINE AT CHARTREUsE FROM
MORNING TO NIGHT.

Peep at a Carthusian Monks Abode.
Furniture Of the Baresf Description.
One Meal Day-vOw of silence-The
Rules Relaxed.
After breakfast guests are conducted
round the monastery, and even ladies-who
are not allowed to stay over night within the
walls, but get shelter at the old hospital near,
which is superintended by the Sisters of
Mercy-may, if armed with a papal license,
come across and have a peep at the arrange
ments of this misogynist household. The
Chartreuse has no architectural glories and
would never make picturesque ruin. In
deed the churches which the Carthusians
have generously built in the neighboring vii
lagos are far richer in decoration and more
elaborate in style than their own chapels.
There is, however, plenty to interest if you
care to take look round.
THE cARTHUsIAN's ABODE.
Each pere has two little rooms, with a
workshop and garden attached, all in one
place, so that, unlike the usual monastic
arrangements, the Carthusian's abode is self
contained, Every Carthusian is, in fact,
practically hermit, with just a little more
accommodation than the traditional hermit
usually had. That may help to account for
the remarkable fact that this order was
about the only one which never degenerated
50 far from the primitive type as to need
reformation. Dormitory gossip, drawing
room scandal mongering, hanging about the
pantry doors, quarreling, swearing and steal
ing pastry were not possible under such social
conditions The furniture is of the barest de-
sciption. 1t consists Of a wooden bed:
That wooden bed
Which shall their coffin be when dead,
chair, writing and dining table, joiner's
bench, plain bookcase, the usual helps to
devotion, ''the suffering Son of Man upon the
wall, n and few religious pictures.
A monks food consists of one meal day.
This is pushed in by sliding grating in the
cloister wall, so that he never sees the person
who brings it. It is made up Of soup, fish
and vegetables onsordinary days, and on Fri
days and during Lent Of simple bread and
weter, though this prison fare was, in stricter
times, the rule for three days in each week.
I The silent fathers are now allowed the great
/ luxury Of fire in cold weather, though that
I is a worldly concession to modern ideas Of
comfort The severity Of the old fireless rule
may be imagined when it is remembered that
I the monastery is over 1000 feet up and i:
/ buried in snow a great portion Of the year
/ There is pathetic story Of father belong
7 ing to the other great Carthusian house il
sunny Calabria who, when elected to the
highest Carthusian dignity Of prior Of th'
-u
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
AnerIcana 4 chivaIrons Race.

The American men are chivalrous race.
They respect women; they are the noblest
men in the world. There are, to be sure,
American savages One class who use the
bowie knife, who drink like the hippopota'
mus, play cards, fight duels, are wildly furi-
Gus. passionate, unsafe and desperate, there
is another class who pretend to despise fash
ion and etiquette, who dress like fiends, wear.
ing conglonerates Of frock or coat and white
tie in the evening; dress coat in the morning.
They neither know nor care for etiquette and
they think it is noble to be thus ignorant.
But even these two classes have a respect
for women. Their speech becomes decent,
their manners kind and their excesses are re
strained il a woman approaches them. Il is
a splendid national popularity. The London
rough has no such soft spot tits to be feared
that the London man of fashion is not sufi
GENTLY imbued with it. As for the polit,
Frenchman, his external politeness toward
the beau sexen is very marked when hi
wishes to propitiate them, but his contempi
for them is equally marked when he does not
His cruelty is enormous.-Mrs. John Sher
wood
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Postponlng the NuptIals.

That was a very sensible old gentleman
who in Greenpoint tho other day sent word
to the invited guests that his granddaughter
aped IS would not, on a certain day
appointed by her, wed a young man Of
10. said the grandfather, according to
The Times: Herbert is a good enough boy,
and / am perfectly willing he should marry
lille. but not now. lie IS a clerk in a coffee
house and earns very little money. Besides,
he is only a baby vet and viii have to wait
several wears before he is fit TO become a hus-
band. y to which we may add that there are a
good many babies, both groom babies and
bride babies, who marry nowadays, whose
nuptiais might well he postponed until they
reach years Of discretion. The Epoch.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Where n1lstnlea nre Fatnl.

''Talk about the responsibility Of a train
Dispatcher said a man in the waiting room
Of the Palmer house; ''if you want to see a
man who has on his shoulders a responsibility
tar exceeding that of any train dispatcher in
the country look over there That young
man is the room clerk of this hotel 1t is his
business to assign rooms to guests; he must
know when a room is vacant and when it is
occupied. Can you not at once sec what a
fearful responsibility rests upon him9 What
If he sends late and sleepy arrival to room
already occupiedl What if-well, it is not
necessary for me to enlarge upon the horrible
possibilities. No wonder the room clerk,
though young and strong, is getting look Of
care on his face and few gray hairs in his
head. .n-Chicago Herald
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Florrlnr the Russlan Peasant.

Personal dignity is something unknown in
a Russian village. If a peasant cannot pay
his taxes he is flogged. If the elected COM
munal and Volost authorities cannot collect
the amount for which they are assessed at
the district treasury Office, they are forced to
call in the assistance of the police There is
a good deal of truth in the assertion that in
the neighborhood Of poor villages in Russia
the birch trees are bare Of twigs, sacrificed to
tho beating out of the poor peasants arrears
and taxes The village and district police
not only fog, but they march off the poor
fellows to the estates of neighboring pro
prietors and hire them out as laborers, on
the understanding that the wages shall be
paid to the treasury officials.
Once in a while the moujik gets impatient
and revolts. Then he destroys everything he
lays his hands on. Such was the case with
a stanovoi-chief of the rural police-in the
province of Kazan, who, between 1S76-7S,
had caused 745 persons to be fogged. He
was besieged and killed by an angry crowd,
some Of whom were forthwith tried and con
demned as seditious rioters. The village
chronicles are full Of such tragedies
Michael Malkoff in Chicago News.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
flsherfolk who have no reputation for learn.

fsherfolk who have no reputation for learn
ing TO keep up, and who call it the sea egg.
But all along the shores Of the Mediterra-
mean the five celled rosstte forming the inside
Of the prickly creature is esteemed one Of the
fastest morsels yielded by the sea. Strangers
visiting the Marseilles fish market will see
basket after basket there filed with these
browny green and violet colored hedgehogs
Of the deep They are deftly opened by the
fishwives the left hand being projected
against the sharp prickles by stout cloth
wrapped around 1t, the stomach sack is cut
out, and the fine orange colored eggs in the
center exposed and handed upon the shell to
the customers ever ready for the dainty.
These eggs are only to be found in the urchin
between the months CT October and May,
that is about the same time as the oyster is
in season. At other times the eggs are miss
ing and many worthy people have pro
nounced the creature good for nothing be-
cause they happened to capture and open It
at the wrong season Of the year.
The urchin fishery, owing to the great de-
mand for the crustacean in southern Eu-
rope, is one Of the most important in the
Mediterranean. The creatures frequent
rocky ground, and in the form Of round,
prickly balls, they are found, hundreds to-
gether, few feet below high water mark
in the shoals Of the Spanish, French and
Italian coasts They are captured by means
of a cleft stick, with which the fisher pokes
about their haunts, and often, too, by divers.
In the bay Of Naples nothing Is more anus
ing than to watch the urchin fishers at work
in search Of their prey Rowing TO the spot
where they are carrying on operations one
may see some scores Of heads bobbing about
in The water, and probably an equal number
of pairs of legs, all belonging to bodies that
are invisible. Suddenly head will go down
and a pair of legs come up; then, as unex-
pectedly, one Of the pair of legs viii go down
and head bob up "A puzzling spectacle, y
says Mr.. Jones, who has well described the
fishery, "and a constant vicissitude from
heels to heads and from heads to heels. -
London Post
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
SUNSET.

Shadows are falling on a glorious day,
As shadows fall at length on all things fair.
The chirping sparrow to its nest has flown,
And life seems like one sweet and silent prayer.
The western sky Is but one mass Of gold
With streaks Of red that soften with the gray.
1t Is that gate OF heaven open thrown,
To welcome souls, whose tears have ceased this
day.
The golden light is what our crowns shall be;
The red, the blood that gainec US entrance
there;
The gray, the sorrows that are left without,
Now quickly fading In the golden glare.
The music that steals softly DER the soul,
Soothing the troubled, agitated breast,
Is but the echo Of the heavenly choir
Welcoming at eventide the souls at rest,
Eleanor II. Abbott.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Not worth a sacrifice.

People buy everything except books, y
said the euthor of Queen Money! ''They
draw the line at that extravaganza. Say a
book costs 81, s1.5O, s5-nobody can afford
such an outlay. They will wait six months
to get soiled copy from a library-win
humiliate themselves to the last degree to
borrow it-meanwhile, win spend $40, SEQ,
$50, $40, 500 and S5O0for greenhouse plants
or cut flowers; they will purchase trumpery
dishes for tables and walls-adorn their own
persons with dead birds, feathers, bits Of tin
sci, glass; they win eat, drink and be merry;
take pains to crafty to the fullest every
sordid material and sensual inclination they
feel. But booksi-books are out Of the ques-
ton Books, representing, as they'd not the
material but the indestructible essence Of
human life and art are not worth making a
sacrifice for. "-The Argonaut
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
Wonderful Cures.

W. D. Hoyt & Co. Wholesale and Retail
Druggists OF Rome, Ga, say We have been
selling Dr. Kings New Discovery, Electric
Bitiers and Bucklen's Arnica salve for two years.
Have never handled remedies that give such
universal satisfaction. There have been some
wonderful cures effected by these medicines in
this city. Several cases Of pronounced Consump'
ton have been entirely cured by use of few
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery. taken IL
connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee
hem always. Sold bv G. ". Marshall.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
rHE sTRoNeYLocENrRoTUs.
/ New Edible for. Commands that Is
Yielded bv the Sea.

A New Edible for Commands that Is
Yielded by the Sea.
A new delicacy Of marine origin, and sur
passing, In the opinion of many southern
gournands, the finest oysters is about to be
introduced into this country. A supply Of
the true Mediterranean sea urchins, in good
condition, is to be consigned to our market,
and English epicures viii be asked to try the
eggs Of the echinidean after the fashion OF
Marseilles-that is, by eating them of the
shells, raw and uncoolzed. The sea urchin,
which scientific men with the playful simpli-
city characteristic OF the kind, have agreed
to designate the strongylocentrotus, is an
article Of food in many parts Of the world,
as most people are probably aware Hence
one Of the common names it bears among
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-04
seeds of Groat Age.

It has been claimed that the seeds taken
from ancient Egyptian tombs are capable Of
growth, but proof of the claim is lacking. It
has been demonstrated, however, that seeds
of very great age are still capable Of devel-
opment. Raspberries have been raised from
the seed taken from the stomach of man
who was buried near the time Of the Emperor
Hadrian, and seeds taken from the founda-
tions of one Of the Oldest houses in Paris GER
minated and proved to be the seeds Of a
plant indigenous to that soil-San Francisco
fshroniaia