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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

For twenty five years the experience OF mil
lions of sufferers. old and young, male and To-
male have gratefully endorsed miraculous
virtues of
This pharmaceutical Paradox OF the Age
a vitalizlng stimulent without alcohol a
nerve sedative without narcoucs A blood
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maker. promoting digestion. nutrition, sec, ct
ion excretion and respiration a ife-piving
tonic. pure and simple, without the disastrous
reactions of the deadly compounds OF rum and
alcohol usually sold as bitters
Was never known before in the world.
Its discovery among the medicinal fruits,
roots and herbs Of California.
WAS \ MIitACLE,
and their combination into phenomenal life
giving tonic
a TRIUMPH of the CHEMICAL ART,
The only change made i'm the formula during
TWENTY-FIVE years has been to present il In two
combinations.
The old original remain unchanged, but be-
ing stronger. more laxative and better. a new
form more agreeable 10 the taste and better al.
aptcd 10 delicate women and children, bat
comprising the same tonic properties. is now
made and the science ofthe world is chalongcd
tn produce the equal ofthis
TRULY Il ONLY TEMPERANCE BlTTERS
KNOWN
or To produce purly vegetable bittcrs or med
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safe, SO certain and comprehensive as the
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or any compound which from it, varied action
upon the vital functions is equal 10 the
CURE OF so MANY DISEASES
Their name is legion rheumatism. Neural
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skin Diseases and Bolts. Consumption. Piles
and all disorders arising from Indigestion inn
pure blood. nervous prostratiOn. and dilapi-
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TO II like midst before the sun, while its singu-
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THE DEADLY MICROBE AND OMNIPRES
ENT RA-TERIA
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BEST NERMIFUGEkNOW
No family can afford to do without Il bottle
of
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
THE GERMAN SCHOOL.sOY.
Not Quite so Overworked rs One 10 Ac
customed to Think.

Not Quite so Overworked ms One 10 Ac.
customed to Think.
The manner in which we spend our
leisure lacked freedom and independ-
ence, but it abounded in regularity and
good influences. The German gym
nasiast does not appear TO be as spirited
In his PLAYS as he might; he is often
charged with too great seriousness and
dignity. and this criticism is not unjust
/ admit that he is, on the whole, not as
boylike as we should want him TO be.
But he is, on the other hand, apt to be
exceedingly childlike. in the good sense
OF the word he is, as a rule. reveren-
tial and submissive, simple and uncon-
taminated by the ways OF the world.
with which he has come little in con-
tact In spite of the large amount OF
work he acc"mplishes. he is after all a
pretty hardy specimen Of boy. The
one hundred and eighth regiment.
which had enlisted the flower OF the
Saxon youth from the University at
Leipzig. counting hundreds OF students
in its lines. excelled by its vigorous
marches and valiant deeds in the war
OF 1870. In the history of this war we
read of regiments that marched for
twenty-three consecutive hours only TO
fall in line OF battle at the end OF such
a march; and the students covered
themselver with glory in this cam
paign.
doubt, however. whether the Ger
man gymnasiast could do the work he
does, and preserve his good health. il
it were not for the judicious disposition
of his leisure hours, during which he is
not only INDUCED, but carefully guard
ed in all the details of life. Moreover,
he is thus fitted to withstand the great
amount OF liberty that is bestowed up
on him when he is graduated and IN
tiers the university. Among the thou
sands of university students, there are
very few who succumb t" university
freedom. The habits according to
which the gymnasiast was compelled
to regulate his free hours. the self-con-
troll, the sense OF duty and love for
higher aims, which he gained not only
in the classroom. but also during his
leisure, prevail in the end. and, as a
rule, he makes final success OF his
university course. and becomes n use
full citizen. For he who has learned TO
obey in all things is most likely to
command in all things George Moritz
VAIL, in Atlantic.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
ANCIENT ROMAN NupIlALa

now the Marriage Rite Was Performed
LA The Days Of Cesar.
Independent OF the legal forms there
we're tho social observances OF marriage
which were the same whatever WAS tho
legal ceremony chosen. At night all.
when the star OF Venus beyan TO shine,
the bride was fetched from her fathers
house, Sle was dressed in a white
robe. sy Dol OF her virgin purity.
bound round her waist with wooden
sash; her hair was plated into six
tresses after those or tho Vestal Vir-
gins; on her head she wore flame
colored veil and a fresh wreath of the
sacred verbena. for no wife was priest
ess in her family. Under the protection
OF Juno Domiduca, the home leader.
she passed through the streets accom-
panied by her fliends and lighted on
her way with torches. BY her side
there walked young boy carrying an
open basket, in which there lay hank
Of wool, distaf and a spindle-ior
spinning was tho great duty Of the Ro-
man matron of the republic. To be
good spinner was a gem in her crown
Of virtues, by the side of chastity and
frugality. and the emblems OF this occu-
patton were held in honor even at q
time when the chosen pursuits of wo-
men were very different
Arriving at the door of her new home
she found it wreathed with flowers in
honor OF the festive occasion. On the
doorposts she hung fllets OF wool and
anoint them with oil as symbol, it
would seem, offertility. She was then
lifted over the threshold. a custom in
which we may see survival OF the
time when wives were habitually stolen
from neighboring tribes and carried by
force TO their husbands house.
In the atrium the bridegroom re-
ceived her, handed to her a key as sign
Of her rule in the house, and offered her
Dire and water to represent the necessa-
RES Of life which were at her disposal.
Answering TO the fixed formula in
Shich he addressed her. asking who
she was, she replied: where you are
Caius there am Gaia" as we might
say, "Your people shall be my people.
your house my house, and your life my
lfe." The pair then sat side by side
on two chairs covered with the fleece
# sheep and the priest joined their
lands.
The marriage contract fixing the
amount of the dowry and the mode OF
its administration was then signed. and
banquet followed, during which five
wax candles were burned. while from the
walls the waxen masks of the husbands
ancestors, decked for the occasion with
flowers. looked down from their open
cupboards with approval. National
Review.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
t2@P0PULAR DRUG STOREzss
WHERE WILL BE FOUN]

Boxes Shaving Work Boxes, Manicure Sets
pon HdnnsB Illus
No Autograph AlmsD
Cigar CI Fancy
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
END OF A ROMANCE.
4 Loving touric Separated d.
Utility OF Occupation

L
Utility of Occupation
The voice OF the lady tembled
slightly as she looked at the middle.
aged but well-preserved gentleman bo-
fore her and said:
Can II be possiblep Is this Henry
Slumpus, the friend and companion Of
my earlier days?n
1T is, Florence-Mrs. Grampus." hs
said, his own voice betraying an ex.
citement he could not suppress. II
have come fifty miles to see you"
"How stranger she said, as she sunk
into chair. Pray be seated, Harry.
Mr.. Slumpus. How it seems to bring
back old times to see you againm
ut does-it doesw he replied TWEEN.
~ years have gone 1t seems an are.
Yet how lightly time has touched YOU,
Pardon me for saying so, but YOU look
scarcely day older than on that sad.
bitter morning SO long ago when that
foolish quarrel. in which | was to
blame; separated US"
do not speak of it, Hay-Mr. Slum-
pus." replied the lady. Il was not
blameless myself. But tell me YOU.
history. Where have you been and
what have you done in all these yearsp
Are you-are you"
MARRIED." he interrupted. in a
voice that quivered in spite of him.
mo. There has never been room in
my heart for more than one love!"
For few moments he was silent
and then he resumed:
when / left your presence tha,
memorable morning went to the Far
West l threw myself into business,
caring little whether ! was successful
or not. / prospered. In due time |
learned of your marriage to Mr.
Grampus. i threw myself still deeper
into business. / made fortunes and
lost them again, unmoved by either
success or failure. At present l am
not rich, but am in comfortable cir.
cumstances, with my means invested
in business that furnishes me a salts
factory income. l learned few days
ago, by accident, that you had been
widow for several years, and LONGING
came upon me to see you agai-, I
could not resist it, and l am here. Are
you sorry to see me, Florence?n
'I-I am not" said the widow, soft
ly. you have told me of yourself,
Mr.. Slumpus-"
Call me Harry, please"
"Well-Harry-and it may interest
you to know that Mr.. Crampus, while
not wealthy, left me competence
which is invested in business that is
In every way prosperous"
MAY ! ask what it is?n
at is an establishment for the manu-
featuring of russell shoes"
The visitor rose and took his hat.
My romance is at an end, Mrs.
Srampus, he said, in hollow voice.
II am a manufacturer of liquid shoe
backing. Chicago Tribune.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
INTELLIGENCE OF CATS.
Their Love More Delicate and Beauti.u
Than That of Dog.

Their Love More Delicate and Beauti.L
Than That of a Dog.
Every one is explicitly friendly or
hostile to them, and they are like chill,
dren in their power of discovering by
a rapid and sure instinct who likes
them and who does not. II is difficult
10 win their affection, and it is easy to
forfeit what it is hard to win. But
when given. their love, although less
demonstrative, is more delicate and
beautiful thar that of dog. Who that
is on really intimate terms with cat
has not watched its dismay at the
signs of packing up and leaving home?
We ourselves have known a cat who
would recognize his masters footsteps
after three months absence and
come out TO meet him in the hall with
tail erect and purring all over as II to
the very edge Of bursting. Aud an
other cat we know who comes up every
morning between six and seven o'clock
TO wake his master, sits on the bed and
very gently feels first one eyelid and
then the other with his paw. When
sets up loud purr, like the prayer OF
a fre-worshiper to the rising sun.
Those who say lightly that cats
care only for places, and not for
persons, should 60 to the cat show
at the Crystal Palace, where they
may see recognition between cat and
owner that will cure them of so shall
low an opinion When we were last
there one striking instance fell in our
way. Cats greatly dislike these exhi-
billions; cat. as rule, is like Queen
Vashti, unwilling to be shown, even to
the mobiles, at the pleasure of an ahas-
uerus, shy, sensitive, hayward and in
dependents; cat resents being placed
upon a cushion in a wire cage, and ex-
posed to the unintelligent criticism. to
say nothing of the fingers of a mob of
sight-seers. One very eminent cat be-
longing to the masters common room
at Christ Church, Oxford. whose size
and beauty have on several occasions
entailed on him the hard necessity OF
attending a cat show, takes, il is said.
three days TO recover from the sense
of humiliation which he feels, whether
he gets prize or not On the occa-
sion to which we refer a row OF dis.
tinguished cats were sitting. each on
his custom. while their faces, when
from time TO, time visible, were ex-
pressive OF the deepest gloom and dis
gust Presently two little girls pushed
through the crowd to the cage of one
OF the largest cats. crying. Here's
Dick Instantly the great cat turned
round. his face TRANSPORTED with Joy,
purred loudly and endeavored to
scratch open the front OF the cage, that
he mightrejon his little friends. who
were with difficulty persuaded TO
leave him at the show London Spec
tator.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

Detroit, Lansing & Northern II II.
Taking effect Oct. o, 1883
Going West. GONG East
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

j. Il. MULLGKEN, cn'l Manager.
W 4 Cbo"ENTE, Traffic Man. Detro
Genera lOihces Detroit. Mich
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

To-day we are shipping Carpet Sweepers
to Africa-and 10 twenty other foreign coun-
tries more or less civilized. Yet there are peo-
pie in our own country who do not use them.
And why?
Perhaps they have never tried them. Per-
haps they have tried old styles aud abandon
ed them Yet, why not try new style when
we guarantee them You would not breathe
dust. work at drudgery and wear the surface
and beauty OF OF your carpets for the petty
cost of carpet sweeper would your
You would be delighted with our modern
sweepers IL you had one, they are SO stil, so
handsome, SO dustless and elective.
Wei mail you some pretty circulars, and
tell you of the famous Broom-action ia our
sweepers. " you drop us postal card.
pISsELL CARPET SWEEPER CO..
Crag6 8sVids, Mict.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
Torcad to Leave Home.

over go people were forced 10 leave their
homes yesterday to call for u free trial package
OF Lanes Family Medicine. Ii your blood is
bad. your liver and kidneys out OF order, ii you
are cOustipdtCd and have headache and an I'M
slightly complexion. don't fail To call on ana
druggist to-day for free sample Of this rand
remedy. The ladies praise il Every one likes
{. Large size package so cents.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan

Taking effect Nov. IL 1899.
North Bound. Standard Time South Bound
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

For twenty tve years the experience of mil
lions of sufferers, old and young, male and To-
male have gratefully endorsed miraculous
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

An immigrant who recently landcd
ct Castle Garden had with her ffteen-
nonths'-old baby which weighed azty
eight pounds.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

The best suve i'm the world for Cuts Bruises
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
On Dangerous Ground.

They were getting kidergarten
lesson. The teacher took them as verv
simple subjects. She touched table
What is this?"
"Wood."
What is this'" she asked, as she
touched the fender
"Iron."
'What is this?' and she took up an
.cid bottle.
Glass"
"What is this'" and she touched her
watch chain.
Brass" said one small boy. and she
changed the subject. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
THE HERICHN.

The original African has managed to attain
distinction in one way and another. For one
thing, he invented the broom. The Zulus,
race of Africans, were using brooms-practi-
cally as good as modern brooms-6ve hum
dred years ago.
But the African has repented.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

A man never knows hat woman
hus any old clothes until he has married
her. -AtChis0u Globe.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
The Black and Tan.

Tazewell Branch, of Prince Edward
county, is black man, one of the most
intellectual of his race, and of as good
character and reputation as any man in
Virginia. Though black, he is free
man. of Capt. Newberry's sort. He says
publicly 81 will not vote for Malone
and shall do whatever can to persuade
others not to do SO. In my heart of
hearts | believe that the election of Ma
hone would prove the greatest moral
and political curse that could befal this
Commonwealth" He said much more
to the same effect.
John M. Langston is Ii mulatto. He
boasts of the aristocratic blood of his
white father who educated him, and of
his nearly white mother, of whom he is
not quite so proud
He got his education in Ohio, and has
spent much of his life in the North. He
is very little of the negro either in blood
or association. This mixture of white
and black, who is about as bad an egg in
the Republican party of Virginia as the
Boss himself, has been blowing hot and
cold with Malone, for some time past.
He fought the machine in 1888 and got
himself nominated for Congress in the
4th district against Arnold, the machine
candidate. But he became servitor of
Malone in the Chicago Convention and
did his bidding for Sherman Then he
quarrelled with the Boss and was beaten
In consequence of large instalment of
Republican votes having been trans
ferred by the machine to Venable on
election day. This produced war to the
knife between Malone and Langston.
But the latest announcement is that
Langston, having "been seen" in Wash
ington, where he went to be looked at,
will soon take the stump for the boss
The pliable character and career of
Langston is not very creditable to the
mixed blood In respect to the machine
which has been the Illiad of all his
woes, Langston's conduct brings to
mind the lines of Pope, changed in but
one word Malone
'Sin is monster of so frightful MEN,
As, to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft. familiar with his face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace
The Master and Langston have evil
IDENTIFY seem each other.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
Tricks of Mahoneism.

The New York Hcrazd's Alexandra,
Va, correspondent, under date of the
18th, has the following interesting inter
view:
The most active Kicker in this place
against the Malone methods is NJ P
Graver, the grocery merchant. Mr..
Graver was a private in the First Wis
consin regiment and afterward in the
Eleventh Wisconsin. He remained in
Virginia after the war, and has been one
Of the working Republicans. He had
no hesitancy in declaring his oppositisn
to BOSS Malone and in giving good
reasons therefor.
81 am anti-Mahone,n Mr.. Graver said,
land will tell you why. A year ago
started out to be elected delegate for
this ward to the city convention. The
chairman right over there in that gov
eminent hospital. In that ward conven-
ton beat Dearborn, Mahone's tool and
chairman, by vote of 40 to 5. He i'm
mediately took three of his partisans to
his own kitchen and elected delegates to
the city convention, after participating
in the regular convention. The same
scandalous action was done in the other
wards Of the city by Chairman Dear,
born's direction, and, of course, he was
only carrying out the pirates instruc-
tions. Five Of the delegates wouldn't
take their credentials from him. The
city convention met at the time
and place called by Dearborn He
came to the doe: and we invited him in
to preside, He bolted again; would not
serve, but went to another hall and elect
ed his delegates to the Petersburg con
vention, which convention named the
delegates to Chicago.
"At Petersburg we were put in the gal
lery and the Dearborn delegates were
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
Malone as a Democrat.

AS the canvass progresses, there are
developing facts which throws calcium
light upon Virginia politics and the meth
DDS invoked to defraud Republicans,
in past contests in the State. 1t would
seem that Malone, when Democrat,
was the inventor of all the devices EN-
phasized to defame Republicans out of
their rights, some of which devices, his
apt scholars in that party continue to
practice. In the Lynchburg Virgi71ian
of the 10Th, Mr. G. W. Button, formerly
editor of that paper, but now Temporal
rily residing in Boston, writes fve-col-
umn article, reviewing the public life of
Malone, and in it unfolds some facts
which it would be we'll enough for the
colored voters of Virginia to read and
study. We quote from it the following,
which will prove interesting and instruc-
tive reading as showing his love for the
brother in black" and his respect for
his political rights. 1t reads
When Democrat he was one of the
most extreme type; holding that negro
Republican voters had no rights that he
was bound to respect AS president of
the railroad company, he so directed the
running of freight trains on election
day as to put it out of the power of such
voters as were employed by his company
to be at or near their voting places on
such occasions. In 1863, at the election
that was to determine whether Walker
or Wells should be Governor of Virginia.
the Republican ticket, which bore the
name of Wells and his Republican asso-
ciates, was Autographed, with the head
ing, Republican Ticket in large illu-
minated letters of red, white and blue,
SO as to be distinctive, that the ignorant
negro voters, unable to read, might not
be deceived. 1t was the duty of this
writer, then chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Conservative party of
Lynchburg, to provide tht tickets for
that party, and he did so. But on elec-
ton day, it was discovered that bogus
Republican ticket was being imposed
| upon the negro voters. 1t was a skill
full imitation of the genuine ticket and
headed Republican Ticket" while it
bore, from first to last, the names of the
| opposing candidates. That was one of
| Mahone's tricks, perpetrated without
the knowledge and consent of the chair
tickets until they were being voted by
deluded negro Republicans. Some of
| them are in my possession now.
But that was not all of Mahone's meth
DDS of illustrating his idea of "a free bal
lot and fair count - for in day or
two thereafter, he discharged from the
service of the company, all of the ne
groes in their employment at Lynchburg,
who had voted the Republican ticket.
He did this in the face of remonstrance
from some of his subordinate officers who
plead that they were good hands that
could not well be spared,n saying
"D-n them; everyone of them shall
go!"
That is the kind of Democrat Malone
was not the best and highest type to be
sure not even an average specimen, by
a great deal, but a Jealous one, neverthe-
| less.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
VALUABLE SUBURBAN FARM FOR SALE

"Edgewood." the beautiful and fertile farm
belonging to the estate of the late Joseph P. Asst,
located on the northeastern limits of the cOrpo-
for sale. 1t will be sold reserving 27 acres and
the handsome brick residence and improve
ments, OF including improvements.
The farm is beautifully located; is in high
state of cultivation, well watered with springs
and steams, and adjoining the corporate limits.
1t will not be long before it will have to be APP
propriated to building lots to accommodate the
growth of the city,
1t offers rare opportunity for any one who
desires to make safe investment either for a
suburban home, or for future advancement in
values.
Parties wishing to examine the property can
see a plat of it and obtain all necessary in
formation by applying to the undersigned, who
sides on the premises.
rejuly25 Mrs. JULIET asst
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
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