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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
Saws the Grand Rapids DemOcra

Says the Grand Rapids Democrat
commenting editorially on the pro-
posed bill to put in a furniture fac
tory in the Ionia prison; No legis
lator would go through the prosper.
Gus factories of the city, see the neat
and handsome homes Of the work
ingmen, and note what great factor
the furniture industry is in the city's
welfare and progress, and then GO
back to the legislative halls and vote
to cripple them, to place these happy
and prosperous laborers into compe-
tition with state institutions. The
board of trade should invite the
legislature to visit Grand Rapids"
The Democrat argues that the es-
tablishment of factories run by con-
victs will tend to destroy the
furniture business Of the state by
putting upon the market furniture
at reduced figure and it wants
protection against the cheap labor
During the campaign the Democrat
was pleading for chance to buy in
the cheapest market and protested,
frantically, because our manufacture
ers and their "happy and prosperous
laborers" whose "neat and handsome
homes" are such an ornament to
Grand Rapids and the other cities
of the country, were protected
against the cheap labor of other
countries. Quite contrast is there
between the utterances of the Demo.
crat on this bill and the Democrat
discussing the tariff. Then the
laborers were oppressed" ground
down by protected capital Gin abject
misery" TO whom the chance to buy
a few necessaries of life few cents
cheaper would be a godsend. Now
they are "happy aud prospero us"
have "handsome homes" and are
employed in All industry which is
ga great factor in the welfare End
progress of the country" Verify it
is hard to reconcile everything that
q democratic newspaper says.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
Eiweli.

Editor Record
Farmers are bus1 sowing their oats.
Mr.. Durfee, of Shepherd, is moving
to Elwell this week.
Mr.. Tam has just returned from a
very pleasant visit with his sons at
Lansing.
Frank Taylor has recently moved his
headquarters to Putt Taylor's where he
will spend the summer.
The M. +. people are now reseating
their church and painting it on the out
side, when completed it will be an
ornament to Elwell.
Last Friday evenining while at a
dance at b. II. Hundays. The boys
got in a whiskey row and blows were
dealt very frequently, dislocating some
knuckles and backing some eyes.
Last Wednesday evening while Will
Workman had party of six from st.
Louis to dance some fellow stole two
Of the robes from his livery rig leaving
him to foot the bill at st. Louis.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08

The present Legislature proposes,
in some way to change the existing
mortgage law. And what is just now
exciting its attention is what change
shall be made. With all due regard
to the superior intellect of the states
men there assembled might we be
allowed to suggest change which
would to a great extent do away
with one evil of the present law, the
Increased rate of interest caused by
the tax. The object of any law is
the equal protection of all classes. In
this the present law has failed, for
while it has compelled the taxation
of much more capital it has in most
cases compelled the borrower, ALREADY
crippled, to pay the tax. If our laws
makers would place upon our statute
a law saying that all mortgages
drawing not more than FIVE per. cent.
should pay no tax of any kind it
would at once guarantee to the bor-
rover a minimum rate of interest
and to capitalists an investment for
the capital, as free from any annoy
ance as q government bond.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
$snlL Un'S
C0NSU IN PTI0N
CURE.

The success Of thls Great Cough Cure is
without parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized TO sell it on pos
tive guarantee, test that no other cure can sue
cessiully stand. That It may become known,
the Proprictors, at an enormous expense, are
placing a Sample Bottle Free INTO every home
in the United States and Canada. II you have
a Couch, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for
it will cure you. If your child has the Group,
or Whooping Cough, use promptly, and relief
is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SHILOI'S CURE, Price 10 cts, so cts. and
$780, If your Lungs are sore or Back lame,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price IS cts.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
ADVICE TO w OMEN

If you would protect yourself
from Painful, Profuse, Scanty,
Suppressed or Irregular Men
situation you must use
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08

The state department at Lansing
recently sent out an absurdly ridicul-
Gus circular attempting to show that
the wheat, corn and oat crops of
Michigan cost $9,226,5lO more than
the farmers received for them, or in
other words, that the farmers were
that much poorer than if they had
not grown them. OF course the
object of this was political buncomb,
or in other words, Secretary Soper
apparently tried to prove that the
farmers were getting nine million
dollars in debt every year by simply
raising wheat, corn and oats "under
Republican rule" This peculiar
way of aiding the Democratic party
will result in more injury to the
state than can be over come in fifty
years of Legitimate booming of our
wonderful resources as people from
abroad will consider that if such is
the loss each year by the farmers
here it is mighty poor state to live
in. Verify ii is sickening spectacle
to see prominent state officer pros
titute the fair name of Michigan for
selfish party purposes.--N. w. Tri-
bune.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08

Russell Engines Separators, Oliver
Chilled Pow akes Wood Harrow
keep Engine, Boiler Mill Supplies
Pipe and Fittings Brass Rubber Goods ETC.. etc.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
Laugbabie Newspaper Mistakes.

A Syracuse printer, in setting up a
book publishers advertisement, con-
strued one of Dickens works thus: Bar
ney, by Rudge, $3.50" Misprints are
sometimes very ludicrous in their sig
nificance. A country paper gives an ac-
count of an amateur concert in which q
young lady received a well deserved en-
core by the exquisite taste in which she
sang can Angels Whisker." In Dr..
Wayland's time a meeting of the Amer
lean Scientific association was held in
this city. The doctor gave party to
the association. His friends were con-
siderably surprised the next morning to
find it reported in the newspapers that
DIR. Wayland had given billiard party
instead of a brilEant party.-Providencs
Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
1t Was Not He That Worried.

"Now, sir cried Mr.. Bagwig fero-
ciously, attend to mel Were you not
in difficulties few months ago?'
"No."
"Now, sir! Attend to my question, ]
ask you again, and pray be careful in
answering, for you are on your oath. ]
need hardly remind You. Were you not
in difficulties some months ago."
mo; not that know Of"
"Sir, do you pretend to tell this court
that you did not make composition
with your creditors few months ago"
A bright smile of intelligence spread
over the ingenious face of the witness rs
he answered:
"Oh. ali! That's what you mean, is
it? But, you see, it was my creditors
who were in difficulties, and not me-
Green Bag.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08

Eemale weakness, Ulcers, Tumors, Sores,
Abscesses, Blood Poisoning, Salt Rheum,
Satarrh, Erysipelas, Rheumatism and ali
BLOOD and skin Diseases. PRICE 81. per Pint
s2so. j. M. LOOSE RED CLOVER CO..
DETROIT, MICH. Sold bv all drugglsts.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-08
No Hurry.

Old Gentleman-My boy, don't you go
to school?
Boy-Ycasir.
ats long after o, and here you are
playing"
"That's all right. We had rather
late breakfast, and mamma was 'frsid
I'd be late, 80 she wrote me an excuse.
and I've got it in my pocket. Good
News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24

ly to overtake Father WilIems, who pro-
tests against the exhibition now. The
world has advanced since 1S45, and Father
Willems Is not alone in denouncing the
1reves affair as scandal. The Cologne
Gazette, which is strongly pro-Catholic.
denounces it as fraud. and in doing so
voices the sentiment of most intelligent
German Catholics. In the meantime
there Is another ''holy coat" to be seen at
the Argenteuil in France to which thous-
ands of the English, Irish and American
Catholic pilgrims, and nearly all those Of
France, will be diverted. There is a
prospect then that the nearly FIVE hun
dred inns and public houses" (saloonsl
for which licenses have been asked at
Treves will not be SO well patronized lis
was hoped, and that Bishop Korum 5
funds ''for the restoration of the cathe-
dral" will not come up to expectation
The doubts thrown on the authenticity Of
the holy coat will give rise to anima--
ed. if not edifying discussions. Chicago
Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
HOW TO HANDLE GUNS.
Advice Which If Followed viii Save Many
Lives

Having been asked by friends frequently
for advice for their boys in handling guns,
send you digest of same. Perhaps, as
the shooting season will now be on soon,
you might think them worth publication:
l. Empty or loaded, never point gun
toward yourself or any other person.
2. When a6eld, carry your gun at the
half. cock. fin cover. let your hand shield
the hammers from whipping twigs.
3. When riding from one shooting
ground to another, or wherever you have
your gun In any conveyance, remove tie
cartridges, if breech-ioader, IL being so
easy to replace them. If muzzle loader
remove the caps, brush off the nipples
and place a wad on the nipples, letting
down the hammers on wads-simply re-
moving caps sometimes leaves little
illuminate On the nipple, and a blow on
the b MINER when down discharges it.
4. Never draw gun toward you by
the barrels.
5. More care is necessary in the use of
gun in boat than elsewhere; the linn
tied space, confined action and uncertain
motion making it dangerous at the best.
If possible. no more than two persons
should occupy boat. Hammerless guns
are constant danger to persons boating.
6. Always clean your gun thoroughly
as soon as you return from days sport,
no matter how tired you feel; the conse-
quence of its always being ready for
service in ample return for the fe II min
utes' irksome labor.-FOrest and Stream.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24

in st. Paul several people were injured,
three perhaps fatally.
The Denver express was derailed Sun
Col. and thrown down an embankment,
Twenty-six people were injured. FIVE
fatally.
FIRES at Braton Ian ling, Vt, Friday
night DESTROYED Buchanan store and ad-
joining buildings. Loss $4,000.
4 COLLISION occurred on the PhiladeI-
phia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
near Newport, Del, Friday An engineer
was killed.
MKs. CHARLES SCHULTZ, of Danvile,
H., set her clothes on fire Sunday by the
explosion of an alchooi lamp, and was so
badly burned that she died few hours
afterward.
A WRECK occurred on the E!khorn rail-
road. near Fremont, Neb., Tuesday morn
ing. and a fireman named Wilson was
killed. A light engine run into freight
train, causing the accident
Miss ANNA COHEN, age twenty, the
daughter of a Chicago merchant, has been
found drowned at Lynn, Mass. She was
to have left for home Wednesday to pre-
pare for her wedding next month to a
prominent young Society man of Mil
waukee.
The hosiery factory OF Klein & Sons,
at Cincinnati, burned Tuesday morning,
with loss of $4,000 Mrs. Col. Sellers
who left Der home near by, fearing it
would be burned. died suddenly of heart
disease. aggravated by the excitement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
CRIME.

Two Mexicans attempted to run a town
in Texas and were killed by rangers.
EDWARD ALBERTsoN, secretary of the
Fidelity I1u-t bank, Tacoma, who robbed
that institution and disappeared, got away
with nearly million collars.
MARKET CLERK DAVID HASTINGS, of
Allegheny, Pa, is reported $32, CAT short
in his accounts.
THE coroner's jury has found NJ. r.
crtis. 'Saml of Poseng guilty of the
MURDER of the San Francisco policeman.
THOMAS MCARDELL, a saloonkeeper Of
Shulsburg, ILL.,, was fatally shot Tuesday
night by Tony Baldwin, a notorious
gambler.
MICHAEL McARDLE, young farmer of
Mount Pleasant township, near Atchison,
Kan, Tuesday night shot and killed
Dampbelt Perry, yodng farm hand who
had called to collect $50 due him for labor.
MCArdle was arrested. He pleaded self
defense
A NINE-YEAR-oLD boy set fire to nine
ice houses of the indianapolis lind ice
company, Monday, and they were destroy
ed. causing loss of S120,O00.
AT Bay City, Mich, a man named
Nevins, aged 35, Tuesday morning, shot
and killed his wife, aged II, and then
fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
WESLEY MCDONALD was shot and killed
by Thio kyne, at Port Huron, Mich,
Tuesday morning. Kyne fed to the woods.
and d detachment Of police has been called
out to assist in his capture.
OF twelve workmen buried by the falling
in of railway tunnel near Messina Wed
nesday, ten were taken out alive and two
were found dead
JOHN TURToN, a well-known naval
stores operator, has left Savannah, GA.
with $500 Of the Southern Banks
money.
A YOU'VE man of Marshalltown, Iowa,
killed himself because girl with whom
he was in love Refused his attention
owing to his bad habits.
VICToR BURNwoRTH was mortally
wounded in a struggle with FIVE burglars
in his store at North Washington, Ohio,
Wednesday morning.
lHE Baptist book concern me urns the
disappearance of salesman Charles Miller
Of Kentucky, together with S25, ZOO of the
firms funds.
AMI olLbS1 prosperous yOuuE
farmer VINO lived near Port Huron, Mich :,
committed suicide Friday because his
sweetheart married another man.
WILLIAM H. HEMMING HOUSE, former
resident of Peoria IT,, hanged himself at
st. Paul Mimi, Saturday. He had com
planned of trouble with his head for several
days.
CLARENCE T. JENKINS, middle aged
and d prominent member of the Plesby-
terrain church, has been arrested in ST..
Louis, charged with embezzlement of
nearly $4,000. He was the trusted
cashier and bookkeeper of Armstrong,
Gilbert & Co.. cork manufacturers.
AUSTIN B1DwELL, the noted American
forger, who was one of those who secured
81 900, 900 fr1m the Bank of England 90
forged bills of exchange, over twenty years
ago, will be released f1om prison III Feb
ruary the English government having cut
down his time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
FOREIGN.

Russia is alarmed at China's hostile at
tude.
TWENTY, NINE men were killed by a
mine explosion In Belgium
BALMACEDA has been safely carried
away from Chill by United States man
of war.
A GREEK and an Italian steamer collid-
ed in the Bay of Gibraltar, Tuesday, IS
lives being lost.
GERMANY, following the example of the
United States, has recognized the new gov
eminent In Chilli.
2 RUSSIA makes pacific overtures to Eng
land and disclaims any desire for special
privileges in the Dardanells.
AN ursuccessful attempt was made by a
mob in Paris Friday night to break up the
performance OF "LOhengrin. Three
hundred arrests were made.
SEVERAL settlements and missions in
the German East African territory are
said to be in danger from an uprising Of
the Wadigo tribe of natives.
CARDINAL RoTE1LI, papal nuncio at
Paris is dead. The pope is deeply affected
over the news of the cardinals death.
The news comes from Paris that Henry
NJ STANLEY Is preparing lot announcer e& Pc
dition to the headw waters of the Congo.
News has reached Madrid that 1000
people have persisted in the foods in the
province of Toledo alone.
A SWEDISH captain has started in row
b DAT to row from Gothenburg to Ham
burg, and thence to London. The attempt
was considered very foohardy and at
tempts were made to prevent it.
MONDAYS report that England had
seized the island of Mitylene. near the
mouth of Dardareles, is denied from Lon
don, Paris and Berlin. The report arose
from British naval officers landing off
Cape Sigrl for picnic.
LATER reports from the engagement in
East Africa between the German corps,
under Captain Zelewski and the natives,
contradict the first news of the battle
Three hundred black allies were killed
and Z4lewski himself and most of his Off
GERS are missing.
A PARIS dispatch says that Minister
Constans has instructed the authorities in
southern France to take steps to restrain
bull fie hting, which has become a very
popular amusement attended by much
cruelty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
irrigatinc-ditehss have eeassa - ,,a

lrrlgating- bitches have ceased to pnaw al
Their banks and the men are often at
lelsnr". Then, ofan evening, if 90 over
to visit some vecino tneighbor), an like.
ly to find In the great adobe living room
group of very old men and very Young
boys gathered about the queer little corner
fireplace with its blazing upright sticks.
They, too, have come a-yisiting. The
young men are gathered in another cor
ner by themselves. eating roasted corn,
and talking in whispers so as not to dis
turb their elders. for respect to age is the
cornerstone of all Indian training. They
are not required to listen to the stories,
being supposed to know them already.
As l come in, kindly old Tata (grand.
father Lorenso is just beginning a story
IN the musical Tee-wahn, ana one of the
boys runs to bring me a little hewn
wooden stool that | may Join the circle.
Lorenso paused to make cigarette from
the material In my pouch (they call me
For todos, because | have tobacco "for
all J, explains for my benefit that this is
story of the beginning of Isleta. pats the
bead of the chubby boy at his kI.ee, and
begins again.-B. F. Lummis. in st.
Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
THE "HOl Y COAT"
No Positive Evidence that the Coat was
Worn by Christ.

Father Willems. Cologne priest, for
getful Of The fate of Father Jonathan
Rouges in 1e45, has had the courage and
the honesty to denounce the exhibition
of the ''holy coat of Treves" as an i'm
posture. He holds that there is no evil
dence that the coat was worn by Christ,
while there is much to the contrary. 1t
is shorter and of much finer material than
the coats worn in the Holy Land in the
time OF Christ. Father WIIlems intimates
that it is catch penny affair, and proba
bly, thinks With Father Rouqes that if the
coat works miracles, cures diseases, re-
stores sight the blind and speech to the
dumb it ought to be exhibited more than
once every forty-fve years.
1t was last shown in 1845. At that
time, when the means of transit were not
what they are now, over 500, 900 pilgrims
visited Treves, and while the pilgrimages
were in vogue Father Rouges addressed
letter to the then bishop of Treves in
which he said:
Five hundred thousand men-fve hun
dred thousand intelligent Germans-have
gone to Treves, either to see or worship
the relic! Bishop Arnold, | turn tc you,
and demand from you, by my authority as
German teacher and Catholic priest
yea. IN the name of Christianity,
IN the name of the German natlon-to
put stop to this abominable exhibit
ton.
He added ii the coat worked miracles,
as was claimed, it was shocking to collect
money fer the exhibition. The Bishop of
Breslau. in whose province Father
Rouges was stationed, asked him to re-
tract or to deny the authorship of the let
ter. The good father wrote in reply:
The letter is no forgery. | shall ex-
pose iniquity even though it is concealed
behind affairs that nave stood thousand
years. have only done my duty in CIV
ing expression to the indignation which
the greater part of my country men felt in
common with myself in view of the holy
coat. Indeed, one should be greatly
astonished that high spiritual authority
should seek to defend SO obvious an
ALTO nination.''
Father Rouges was suspended and ex-
communicated and banished from his do
cese. The same fate, however, is not like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
A NJ AN AND A HALF.
An Interesting Freak From Hindoostan
Arrives in New York

From HlndO0stan, the country of queer
things, the country. according to Kipling
of 1.-The man who was, came recently tC
New York ''the man who is, or are" His
other name is Lalioo Ramprasad Bhikaree
His forefathers have been for generations
the subjects of the king of Oudh. He OF
they is, or are, bright and intelligent
enough apparently, to set up an Indian
mutiny among the native troops of the
queen, but he or they cannot tell YOU
whether he or they are, for he or they is a
man and a half, OF three quarters OF
twins, as you choose to call it. Take Lal,
loo in the singular, as he stood in Room
No. 233 OF Metropolitan hotel this after
noon, and he was clever but unfortunate
Hlndoo boy who was doomed all his life
TO carry his little brother around with
him. Lalloo seemed to like it, but IL was
most uncomfortable way of carrying a
little brother. It seemed as if his little
brother had plunged his head through
Lalloo's breast bone and chung to him
with his legs and arms sticking number
of ways.
They were born in Oovon Oudh about
twenty years ago. Their mother has borne
four children, all of whom but Lalloo' s
half twin were healthy and we'll developed.
Their father is now ffty-one years old,
their mother forty one. Lallco and his at,
tachment are the second and half chud.
When Lalloo was born mis- little half
brother had his arms around his neck. He
has not at present, for he has not grown as
fast as Lalloo, but Lalloo can swing them
up and put them almost there without
splitting the back of his red jacket -Four
doctors pulled Lalloo's half-brothers legs
and arms about and asked questions about
him. They found q distinct pulse in one
of the arms, but this is almost the only
semblance of individuality that the little
haIf-brother possesses.
He and Lalloo had small pox together
once, but Lalloo's other ills and wells he
has not shared to any great extent, and
the little legs and arms do not move by
the little half brother's Volition. In fact
Lallo has to take them bodily in hand in
order to make them move. When Lalloo
is cold he is cold and when Lalloo per-
spires he perspires, and the prick of pin
near the foot of the origin Of the little
half brother in Lalloo's breast bone is felt
by Lalloo.
The little half-brother has, too, what
the doctors call a foral heart, into which
Lalloo's heart pumps blood but it does
not beat with intelligent sympathy to Lal.
loo's joys and sorrows, for the further at
tachment of brain is necessary for this,
and brain Laloo's little brother does not
possess. All the doctors who saw LaIoo
and his half-brother said that they could
he separated safe.y. They named New
York surgeon, in fact, who could do it.
This, it was said, is where American
surgery is ahead of European, for Laloo
and his little lf-brother have been
through England, Scotland and Germany,
as Hindoostan, and all the foreign doctors
have decided to leave them together