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Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
Ladies who use Cosmetics or powders

Ladies who use Cosmetics or powders
to cover up or hide bad complexion,
do not know that White & White can
furnish them with Blush of Roses,
which IS clear as water, purifies the
skin, and positively removes black
heads and all skin diseases, takes the
shiny look from the face and whitens it
soon as applied.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

Simply apply "SwAyNE's OINTMESr.',
No internal medicine required. Cures
letter, eczema, itch, all eruptions on
the face, hands, nose, etc., leaving the
skin clear, white and healthy. 1t:
great healing and curative powers are
possessed by no other remedy. Ask
your druggists for swAYsE's OIST.
KENT"
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

The favorable impression produced
on the FIRST appearance Of the seTee.
able liquid fruit refnes;y syrup OF Flgs
a few years ago has been more thar
confirmed By the pleasant experience
of al ~ho have used u. and the sucees
Of the pfepfietoFs ard manufacturer
shs Caliisfnss flg syrup toiapAny.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
Superior Court

NoS. =. A. sURLISskxK. ygpsR.
The People W. Joseph Cummings,
larceny from the person; pleaded not
guilty John A. Fairfield spposnie 3.
defend aud witnesses subpssned az TN
expeuse of the people.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

Possibly oysters aud clans cannot
comprehend the cut in prices on our
Ito order Shirts" but men of intelli-
gence can. Only two weeks more.
GRAND RAPIDS CUSTOM SHIRT Co.
McMullen block, 10 and 2l S. Division
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

pusks ssisar~n ~ Ham MAKE Usseessiy
Merry .aa Ceme 80 Grief.

Merry sas ceme 80 arsef.
The pafraE wagon hrought in load
last evening that cast hilarious gloom
over pslice headquarters. II contained
Tom Hoiland, Angelins Johnson.
.Issses Roes snd Isabella Gross. an
Etheplen quartet reeklns With beer
ard pefspifatiota. There hsd been
A elnna Of rsxesry hy nfFfst
aus Gaisssr.st.'s nefxhhcrhuud had
gathered tAers thsss dasky rsvsi-
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

The above refers to the cut prices on
our line of ''shirts to order" Only two
weeks more.
|. GRAND RAPIDS Custom SHIRT Co.
McMullen block, l9 and Il S. Division.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

HON. WM. z. GROVE, JUDGE.
jamestown Woolen Spinning Conn.,
pany vs.. John +. Meehan, replevin;
judgment for plaintiff 6 cents and
costs (default.)
Fourth National Bank of Grand
Rapids va. Berendt De Leeuen and
Frank w. Curtiss, assumpsit; plea with
drawn, judgment for plaintiff, $l32. 2s
and costs.
Edward z. Mohl vs.. George r. Perry,
assumpsit; plea withdrawn; judgment
for plaintiff, $530.34 and costs.
Henry Van voorhis VS.. Florence Van
Voorhis, chancery; On trial.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
ARRAlcNeD BEFORE THE BAR.

a Grist of Criminals Introduced In the
circuit Court.
The bastardy case against Herbert
Yates, of Burch's Mills, was nolle pros'd
yesterday by Judge Adsit. A compro-
mise had been effected by the parties
out of court.
The case against Lyman Prichard for
keeping saloon open on Sunday was
nolIe pross'd yesterday in the circuit
court.
Matt Shetland did not appear in
Judge Adslt's court yesterday to an
swer charge against him for disturb
ing q religious meeting and his bail was
sstreated. A bench warrant WAS or
dered.
Judge Adsit appointed j. A. Fair
field, Yesterday, to defend Reed Blake
ney. under arrest for stealing sheep.
Witnesses were ordered to be sum-
moned at the expense of the people.
Edwin Mckinney was sentenced yes
terday by Judge Adsit to the Iona
house of correction Tor two years for
larceny.
John Shultz and Ludo Cunningham
each changed their plea from not guilty
TO guilty, yesterday, IN Judge Adsits
court and were remanced to jail to
await sentence for larceny from a
dwelling in the day time.
The motion TO quash the informa-
tion IN the case of John Roup, the
Cedar Springs ex-marshaI accused OF
forging the assessment rolls, was
denied by Judge Adsit yesterday.
Geo. Atkinson, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, was drunk and Justice
Hydoru sent him to the country jail for
ten days yesterday.
Another disturber in the person Of
Annie Smith was arrested at No. 81
Spring-st. yesterday afternoon. The
police have concluded either to clean
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

Attend the sale of frying pans at
Leonard's this morning, be on hand at
8 o'clock.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
Lily white.

The Valley City Milling Company has
no peer in the manufacture of flour.
Try The LILY WHITE.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
LAW AND LAWYERS.
United States Court.

HON. HENRY F. sEvERENs, JUDGE.
American Bell Telephone Company
ct al. VS.. John w. Chase ct al; by stip-
ulauon OF parties order dlsmissing bill
of complaint as to defendants Moseley
and Fiuhrer without Pr ejudice and
without costs.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

Oysters and CLANS,

= axes finest pastry, bread or biscuit
The best is most satisfactory.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
Di.m,~s-d without Pr~iudice.

The case brought in the United States
court By the American Bell Telephone
Company against John Chase and the
Rev. Chas. Fluaher for alleged infring-
ment of patent was dismissed yester-
day from court without prejudice or
costs.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

Just received an elegant line of che.
mile curtains. TEN HoPE,
1874 MOnrOe-st.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30
fOUGHTFOR RADAUGHIlR
A Wife aud hothes Battles For
the Poss1sslon Of Her Child.
she EyDURES AWFUL PUNISHMENT
Administered by = Brutal Husband.
Finally eoisg Home With Him ia
fsAes-An taneeeat Woman
Persseoied-stats Asws-

A patch of woods IN Gratiot county
witnessed strange sight the other
aight. II was battle between husband
aad wife for the possession Of their O.
year old daughter. while q sprig OF the
law watched affairs in silence. Mrs NJ.
Calhoun, wife of farmer living near
St Louis, unable TO endure her hus-
bands Ill treatment, left home, taking
the little girl. her only child with her.
She was pursued and oyertaken IL the
woods by her husband and Marshal
Warren. Calhoun attempted to take
the child by force, but she screa ed
and the mother then attacked him like
tigress, clawing At his hands in an en-
deavor to make him loosen his hold upon
the girl. The mother declared that she
would kill herself before she would
give up her baby. Her frantic en-
deavors were fruitless and Calhoun
finally lifted the child, faint with fear,
into his buggy. The lash was applied
| to tho horse, but the distracted woman
clung to her child's dress with one
hand and the rail of the seat with the
other hand and was dragged III tina,
way through the mud and almost un-
der the wheels, alternately begging
and threatening, successfully resisting
all efforts OF Calhoun to loosen her
hands, until at last. after they had
| gone some distance at q rapid rate,
the marshal stopped the horse. lie
finally refusing to be party any
longer to such brutal proceedings, The
woman's face and hands were torn
and bleeding and she was covered with
mud. presenting q pitiful spectacle.
She yielded to the persuation of the
| marshal and returned home with her
husband and daughter, but the end
isn't in sight yet.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-30

since June.
Muskegon's diphtheria epidemic is
decreasing.
Sixty to eighty tons of grapes are be-
ing shipped daily from Lawton.
Mrs. John Sparks, an eccentric char
acter of Coldwater, died Sunday.
Rev. w. Franklin Smith, Unlversalis,
pastor at Lapeer, was ordained Monday.
There are 275 pupils in attendance at
the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Flint
Derk Pauls, Iceland farmer, was
killed by freight train in that village
Monday.
The army worm has completely
| stripped the trees in the vicinity OF
Unadilla.
John Jacobs, of Hudson, is under ar
| rest because he assaulted his wife with
jack-knife.
Ithaca has decided by special cleo
ton to bond the village for $4,000 to
erect water works.
Mrs. Lew Allen, wife of farmer liv
ing near Stanton, committed suicide by
taking dose of paris green.
Thos. J. Merriet, of Ionia, who wa.
kicked by horse some time ago, died
Sunday. Mr.. Merriet was SO years old
Mrs. Agnes Ziscusky, ~ years old
fell down stairs and broke her neck al
Detroit, Sunday. Death was instantan
| eous.
| Willie Gill, IL years old, while walk
ing on the dock, at Bay City, Monday
evening, stumbled, fell III and wa
| drowned.
1
Miss Mamie Plunkett, teacher of /.
school at Williamson, has been arrested
for assault and battery because sh,
whipped pupil severely.
Henry Deliman, IL years old, ha
been sentenced TO the House of Cor
| rection for ninety days for assaultins
an il-year-old girl at Utica.
Samuel Griffin, of Flint, has beer
found guilty of attempted rape. Fl,
has been sentenced to pay q fine of $5,
and serve 65 days in the Detroit hous,
of correction.
Appointed postmasters by Uncle Sam
c. NJ. Chase, vice d. Horn, resigned
Arthur Bay, Memominee county; Z
w. Caldwell, vice A. Myrick, resigned
Berryvllle, Otsego county;J. c. Boyle
vice d. B. HeanIy, resigned, O'Bnen
Ontonagon county.
Some horse traders got drunk a
Hudson and while they were paralyze.
they were pelted with boarding nous,
eggs by q gang Of urchins. One of tn
horsemen pulled revolver and begaI
to shoot. A boy named Bowen was hi
in the back, but his injury Is not serious
Lightning struck a well filled elec
trio car at Jackson Monday evening
The motor-man and conductor iumpe,
without setting the brakes, and the ca
sped along at . furious pace until Q
level-headed passenger turned on tn
brakes. The car WAS badly damaged
buI only one passenger was severel,
shocked.
The State Sunday School conventio,
will be held at Muskegon Dec. 1-3 in
elusive. The people of Muskegon hav
promised free entertainment to all &C
credited delegates. and 1T is expecte.
that 1000 Sabbath school workers will
be present. Every Sunday school il
the state is requested TO send repre-
sentative.
A meeting OF the Michigan associs
ton of city superintendents of school
| will be held in the senate chambers q
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
HEARTY LAUGHS.

The story of DeWolf Hoppers first
meeting with his wife is Characteristic of
the eccentric comedian. The Epoch,
which tells the story, says that the Nc
Call company was rehearsing some comic
opera when the stage manager grew in
dignant over the lack of life in certain
laugh to be given by the chorus. The
scene was tried several times, but with
out success. The manager declared that
such mockery of laugh would make
camel weep. "Try to think of some
thing wonderfully strange and pleasant"
he shouted. "What would you do if Col.
Mccall was to double all your salaries !"
"Drop dead" said a girls voice from the
back row of the chorus, response which,
in view of Col. McCalrs rigid economy,
was received with shout of laughter
that the stage manager declared admira-
BILE. DeWolf Hopper, who was on the
stage at the time, was so pleased with
this retort that he made the acquaint-
ance of the girl, and eventually married
her
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
THE BILLION CONGRESS. !"

Our Democratic and Anglo-Mugwump
contemporaries are making or trying to
make great deal of the alleged fact that
the appropriations of the late Republican
Congress amounted to more than five
hundred millions of dollars for each of
the two years of its existence. AS mat
ter of truth, considerable share of this
money was appropriated to pay up ar
rears of the former Democratic admins
tration.
But, setting that aside, there is not a
pretext, hint OF intimation by Democrats,
or anybody else, that any of Che money
thus appropriated has been stolen, or is
to be expended dishonesty. The great
bulk of it goes out in wages to mechanics,
soldiers, sailors, pensioners and so forth,
makes comfortin the families of the poor
and keeps money circulating among bust
ness men in the South and North. One
of the largest appropriations was made
for the much-needed improvements in
Galveston harbor, the important seaport
of State which gives something like
100000 Democratic majority.
And the bulk of this money, thus cir
culated among wage earners, is collected
through the custom houses, from men
and women who are rich enough to wear
imported clothes, indulge in imported
jewelry and fill their houses with Euro
pean bric-a-brac. Such is the truth about
1.-The Billion"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
CHICORY.

Chicory is vegetable, and has numer-
Gus legitimate uses. 1t is native of the
East, as far as can be ascertained, but is
found growing wild in many portions of
the world, including Europe, Asia and
America Like other plants, it has a
number of names, and is more generally
known as endive or succory than by its
proper designation. However, each Of
the names has field practically to itself.
"Endive" Is known to many housewife,
and especially in England, as salad of
considerable merit, and it is occasionally
mentioned in this country in recipes, as
readers of Good Housekeeping will have
noticed. 1t is a perennial, herbaceous
plant, having a thick, milky juice, and
grows to the height of from two to five
feet, its leaves resembling those of the
dandelion. The blossoms are quite beau
tiful, being large, axillary and borne upon
the main stem in pairs. They are usu-
ally of a rich blue, but sometimes appear
in pink, and still more rarely are pure
white. 1t is hardy plant, easy of cult
walton and is much raised in Europe for
the leaves, which are valuable food for
cattle. 1t is consequently easy to obtain
rs a sailed, since the root may be trans
ferred to the cellar in little earth, and
the leaves are then available for the
kitchen during the winter. Where the
plant is raised as a cattle food, it is more
generally spoken of, perhaps, as "suc-
cory"
It is the root of this plant which sup
plies so large part of the world with a
considerable portion of what is drunk as
coffee. The root is long, and somewhat
resembles an ordinary carrot, both in
shape and in color. 1t is pulled, washed
and cut into small pieces preparatory to
its manufacture. Where the business is
extensively conducted, the cutting is
most economically done by machinery;
otherwise women and children are en-
ployed, and are able to "hash up large
amount in the course of day. The next
process is drying, which is best accom-
plished in kiln, and when the shrun'- EN-
sections are taken out, at least seventy-fNe
per cent. of the weight has been evapo-
rated.-Good Housekeeping.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
FOOD ADULrERArIoN.

Adulteration of food is an industry
carried on in Massachusetts to an alarm
ing extent. The State Board of Health
finds that in list of twenty of the most
common articles of food used in every
household, the adulteration amounts to
thirty-two per cent. 1t examined 434
specimens gathered at random, and of
these 139 were more or less aduulterated.
Canned goods were the especial prey OF
dishonesty, only one-seventh of the speci-
mems being worthy of the seal of APP
proval. Milk was also found to be badly
adulterated. Curiously enough eight of
eleven samples of coffee were reasonably
pure; also majority of the samples OF
spice, cream of tartar, molasses and
drugs. The samples of tea, cheese and
maple sugar were not adulterated. Well,
very fair meal can be made out of tea,
cheese and maple sugar. But contine
yourself TO fruit! Unprincipled dealers
cannot adulterate that.-BUfalO Com
nnercial.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
THE TRADE DOLLAR.

One of the annoyances of business men
is the trade dollar" says the Kansas
Citl, Star A man will come in hurriedly,
make purchase, throw down disc OF
silver that looks and rings like dollar.
After he is gone, the merchant finds
trade dollar in his till, and 1t has ten
dency to make him irritable.
The trade dollar was a commercial con-
venience when first coined, but is now
commercial nuisance. In 1873 the trade
dollar was issued for purposes OF trade
with China, and other Asiatic countries.
Before that time Americans had been
buying Mexican dollars, and shipping
them to the Orientals in payment OF mer-
chandise. The trade dollar was never
intended for circulation in this country,
but for expectation abroad. For five
years they were coined and largely used.
The act authorizing their coinage re-
pealed the act authorizing the coinage OF
the standard dollar, thus making them
for time the only dollar coins issued by
the United States. The mel chants might
as well have used silver bars for eastern
trade, but it was thought that the stamp
of the government certifying that 42O
grains of silver 900 fine would give other
countries greater confidence than to use
simple bars of silve' lnstamped and I'M
certified. From 1878 to 1876 they were
legal tender, and Is, 000,o 900 of them were
coined. From 1876 to 1878 all trade dol
lars coined were not legal tender, but it
is the opinion of eminent lawyers that
the 100000 already coined were legal
tender, while those coined after were not.
Their coinage was discontinued on Feb
ruary 22d, 1878, up to which time there
had been %, S5S, 1850 coined. The exact
value of trade dollar is seventy-seven
cents, although people get as much more
than that for them as the can.
February 10Th, 1887, an act was passed
by Congress authorizing the redemption
of trade dollars for six months, dollar for
dollar. At that time statisticians esti-
mated that there were about 100000 in
the country. AS 1859, 037 were redeemed,
it is probable that there are not many
now in the United States, although they
do not command premium as rarltles.
Like all the other coins of value, the
trade dollar has been counterfeited, most
of the counterfeits being made of type
metal, and circulated in China, Japan and
the East Indies. The inhabitants of the
east have learned to be wary and watch
full when handling coins that come from
the occident. Most of the trade dollars
that went to the eastern countries were
melted and recoined in the currency OF
the orient. The trade dollar contains
four more grains of silver than the stand
ard dollar, and has eight one-thousandths
the less of alloy.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
THE SCARCITY OF WORK AND
WORKERS.

ANY one who knew nothing Of the fact
except by reading newspapers might nat
urally suppose that this whole country
was suffering severely from scarcity OF
work. Hardly paper can be glanced at
without some item going 20 show that
condition of things being noticed. a re-
port from one place tells of a strike be,
cAuseR women has been set at some klnu
az work heretofore done only by men.
From another place comes the tamlllar
story of trouble over the apprentice mat
ter.employers want more and employees
less of them trained. Again there comes
the old story of row because OF the IN
PRODUCTION of labor-saving machines.
The contract labor law, as Is well known,
was made because of demand from
trades unions that the supply OF the la
Dor market be checked in that way.
And Tennessee is just having a fuss be-
cause convicts were set to work in a mine
where free men had quit. So 1T is all
around. The impression is given that
the world is running over with hardy
toilers who have great difficulty IN hnd-
ing honest work for their hands to do.
The factis, however, that what scraclty
of work really exists is tremendously
magnified by noise, and that in the larg-
est field of all there is great and con-
slant scarcity of workers. Farm labor
ers are everywhere in demand. Vermont
farmers say that the difficulty in getting
help increases from year to year, and that
it is becoming very serious matter, and
similar reports come from all quarters.
Detailed reports recently gathered show
a troublesome scarcity Of help on farms
all through New England, and practically
the same state of things exists in all parts
of the country. And, moreover, the
scarcity on farms affects all rural COM
munities, and laborers are hard to get in
villages. 1t is only in cities that the
workers are in excess of the demand.
When the facts in the lives of men who
|. work in town and country are considered
Tit seems very strange that the former
should be preferred, but it is. Thousands
of men who might get practically all that
the country can give by working on farms
nevertheless stick to the city, earning
only enough to live on from day to day in
narrow and repulsive quarters, and bring
up their children, or such of them as sur
vive their pestilential surroundings, IN
frowsy rooms and filthy cutters. The
thing is utterly unreasonable, but 1T is
true.-HeFdld.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
THE SYSTEM oF TIPS.

The new sleeping car act just brought
to light leads the Waterfront Times to re-
to remark that eighty cents is enough for
berth, particularly as the public is ex-
pected to pay the salaries of the attend
ants" Why should the public be expected
to pay the salaries of the attendants !?
The practice of clipping" sleeping car
attendants has become so general that
the traveller rarely expects to be more
than half civilly treated, if he does not
shell out half dollar-for what? Sim
ply that he may receive the service he
has already once paid for. The attend
ants often expect the tips, and rather
neglect their duties if they do not get
them; the companies regulate the sala-
ries of the attendants, in part, by what
extra they count upon being from the
public. So these tips are of commercial
value to the companies; the companies
pay smaller salaries because of the exist
ence of the tips. At the same time they
charge the patrons of the road full price.
In reality, thus, the companies, though
indirectly, are the beneiciaries of the
generous custom of feeling. - Rome
Sentinel
The logic of tipping sleeping car at
PENDANTS is we'll set forth in the forego-
ing. 1t is simply making gratuities to
wealthy corporations, which ought to pay
fair wages, and not rely upon their en-
ployees to extort money from the patrons
of the road. Tips are degrading to their
recipients, and the custom is one best
honered by its omission.-TrOy Press.