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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30
MARKET REPORT.
HOME AND VICINITY.
.sh candies al Bennett's.

Fresh candies at Benefits.
Diaries for 1898 at l.. II. Hayt's.
All winter goods at cost after Jan. /,
at Delavan's
The Detroit Journal sends out fine
holiday edition.
Sole Fink, of Detroit, is spending
the holidays at home.
NJ. Pollasky spent Christmas in De-
troit with his son Max.
IN. Chadwick is entertaining two
sisters from Williamson this week.
Another large eDyoice of the Chicago
Waists coming at Mrs. Bart Miller's.
See what you can get for that silver
dollar at the Alma Mercantile Com.
pany's.
Replace that old suit or overcoat
nth new one during L. L. Pollasky &
oae quarter off clearing sale.
Miss Belle DePew, of the Alma Mer'
.ontile Co., took a short vacation this
week and spent few days with hel
.,s,er at Swartz Creek.
trhe "Merry Makers" held forth al
~ opera house last Monday night t.
- audience that was most highly de
,,rbted when the entertainment came
- : close. The company is not grea
success.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30
LIFE SIZE PORTRAIT FREE

In an elegant 2uX24 frame. If |
don't produce superior work from the
same subject to that made by any Pho
tographer in Alma and just as good rs
any Artist or Photographer in Gratiot
unity. ! will give the above portrait
to any person that gets such work.
Note THIS if any person gets dozen
pictures that fade after this date | will
give the person so in cash for the
pictures on their return 10 me.
c. f. LEWIS,
st. Louis. Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30

We will ring in the New Year with general reduction
of % yer cent. on all Fall and Winter Goods. Our
Goods are always marked down to the bottom notch,
but propose to inaugurate the New Year with
indscriminate slaughter of prices:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30
IA off SALE IA off

We have an enormous stock of Fall and Winter Goods
to get rid of before spring and propose to sell it
give it away Profit cuts no figure The stock must 60
We need the room for spring goods. We must have
the money to buy them with:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30
For Sale, Rent, Exchange Etc,

rOUND:--A cant-hook and bundle of bags.
I Owner can have the same 10y calling ut this
Office and paying charges.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-12-30
CARPETS.
CLOTHING.

Hemp and Jute, Extra Heavy, at from &c to zoe.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

PeekskilI below here. There found
my wife had gone wrong"
The poor fellow choked. A bad wife
is a black dose"
I'VE grew up together. sir. on the
Brothertoft manor lands. She was
BIlsbY, one of the old families-as brisk
and bright gal as ever stepped. We
were married and travelled just right
she alongside of me and / alongside OF
her, pullin we'll and keepin everything
DRAWN. Well, when shouldered arms
Lady Brothertoft-that's the PATRONS
widow-got my wife to go down to York
and be her maid. 1t was lettin down
for Squire Dewitt's sons wife to eat In
anybody's kitchen. But that's nothing.
The harm is that Lady .Brothertofts
house is unlucky. Women don't go into
it and stay straight. There is too much
red In the parlors-too many redcoats
round. They say that why the Pa
troon cleared out and got himself killed,
II he is killed. That's what spoilt my
wife,"
Skerrett's supernatural spirits sank q
little at this. There was an undevel-
oped true lover in the young man, de-
veloped enough to show him what
misery may come from such wrong as
Jierck's.
That's why 1 took rum" continued
the man dismally. when my company
was ordered to join Old Put at Peekskill,
and saw all the old places where my
wife and used to do our courtin, and
saw my sister Kate smilin at her sweet
heart and maxim comfortess for him, l
couldn't stand it. They all told me to
keep away from the woman. But |
didn't quite believe 1t, you know. So l
went down to the manor house and saw
her. She didn't dare to look me in the
face. That had to be drowdned some
how. l drownded it In rum. l can't
get drunk like beast-that isn't into
me-but haven't been sober one hour
since until we came up here to Fish
kill"
"Stop 1t now Jierck, and try to for
GET"
whats the use?"
"The use Is this. We were all proud
of you az a crack man. We cannot
spare you. You know as we'll as | do
what we are fighting for. The cause
cannot spare you, Stand to your guns
now like a man against King George
and Old Jamaica"
The sentinel was manned by these
hearty words and tones.
"I'll try" said he, "to please you,
Major Skerrett."
Up went his head and his courage.
That's right" said the major IAN d
4 Wneh aN
before 1 90, and spike gun for him. ;"
81 must take another sip OF October
! after that" thought Skerrett. as he
walked on toward the farmhouse.
He halted Oh the steps and inspected
| the scene.
Immediately Sergeant Lincoln ap-
peared at the corner Of the house. A
wondrously wiggy negro accompanied
| him.
Continued on Ninth Rdge.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16
WHY woMaNps
IL is Not an Art. but Natural Phenom-
euon, and Nervous One.


BlushIng is not an art. says medical
writer. Neither is 1t an absolute sign
OF Ill breeding, as some unklnd iolK
maintain. The fact is. II is just as nat
uraI for some people TO blush on one
occasion as IL is for others TO turn pale
on another. The same laws OF nature
that govern the one rule govern the
other. The capilarIes, or small blood
vessels, which connect the arteries and
veins in the body form, particularly
over the cheeks, q network so hne that
IL is necessary to employ a microscope
to distinguish them. Ordinarily the
blood passes through these vessels In
normal volumes, leaving only the nat
ural complexion.
But wnen some sudden emotion takes
possession OF the heart It's action IN
creases, and an electric THRU instantly
leaps 10 the cheeks. This thrill IL
nothing more than the rush OF blood
through the invisible capillaries; the
color Is nothing more than the blood
lust beneath the delicate surface OF the
skin. The causes that bring about this
condition In the circulating system are
called mental stimuli. They consist or
10Y, anger, shame and the many other
emotions. Sudden horror, remorse or
fear. on the contrary, kfuences The
nerves which control the blood vessels
and the face becomes white.
Blushlng and paIlor result from the
sudden action ~ the mind on the ner-
yous system. So II the mind be fore
warned and prepar ed for emotions both
habits can at least be partially over
come. But when the nervous system u
highly strung, 1t would be lifelong, II
not a futile. task TO endeavor q perma-
nent cure. IL is the sensitive nervous
girl who bushes easily, while the giri
stolld by nature or who, oy education:
has her nerves under perfect controi
seldom bushes.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

Looking over our home paper / found
a column of advertisements offering en-
ployment at ones own home, and stating
without equivocation that from IS TO
$50. 30 per day would be paid to willing
and intelligent young men. was WILL
ing-have always been so regarded-and
intelligent-even ten years ago, with no
advantages at all, was intelligent
and so | wrote to a number OF these
men. They said that | could easily
make from $500 to $500 per month with
out publicity, and some advertised to
pay that amount anyway.
These men lied.
Most of them said they would place a
large fortune at the disposal Of most any
Young man OF good habits. Ny habits
are good enough for me, and SO l pen
ciled of a letter TO ten or dozen OF
these men who wanted TO do good.
One man sent me printed letter and
mixtures OF scroll saw with which /
was TO make SIG per day at my own
house. as and already had piece In
nv scrapbook telling how to live on
nine cents o week 1 felt sure that l
could accumulate considerable means by
Christmas, but I had TO send 70 New
York for designs-several Of these were
designs this man had on the pubIic-and
then had to buy lumber. Then when
7 got at IL there were days and days
that I did not make over SIS. / made
holly whatuot and tried tosell It, but all
nv near neighbors have all the whatnots
--or whats not rather--that they require,
and 80 had to 60 some distance from
home; but money was scarce, and so Al
last / had to exchange it for nights
lodging among the peasantry east Of
Potato hill.
Some Of the propositions made me by
.bese men were scaDdalons. Most OF
them lived In New York. One man
wanred me to take hold OF q sleight Of
hand outfit he had and sellit among the
reomz1ry Of Buncombe county; also 70
hands 8 false moustacho ana . SUD
=
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

II was in the Skerrett blood to come
| out red at pinch.
Things do look little dusty for the
good cause" thought Skerrett,as, wear
| ing his buff and blue coat-far too dull
a coat for so brigh fellow-he stood
drinking October next morning, as we
have seen him, before Mrs. Birdsell's
cottage.
No finer figure of rebel walked the
Continental soil unhung.
something Is going to happen to-
day." thought the major. III bubble. l
shall boil over and make fool OF my
self before night. am In that ridicu-
lous mood when a man loves his neigh
bor as himself, believes in success,
wants to tilt at wiudmllls. Oh, October!
YOU have intoxicated me! l challenge
the world. Hold me, somebody, or |
, shall lump over the Highlands and
take Sir Henry Clinton by the
hair, Their up to Saratoga and
pick up Jack Burgoyne, knock their
pates together and fling them over the
Atlantic"
Aman's.legs gallop when his blood and
spirits are boiling after such fashion.
II did not take the major any consider
| able portion OF eternity to measure of
the furlongs OF cultivated plain between
Fisbkill village and Putnam's headquar-
ters. In fact he had need to dispatch.
He had slept late after his journey.
! The council would be- assembled and al
ready muddling their brains over the
situation.
The Van WICK farmhouse stood and
still stands with it's back to the road and
its fronts to the Highlands.
"Not much clank and pomp and pa
| oeartry in this army Of Israel Putnam"
| tbongbt Skerrett. mo tents! Men are
barracked in barns, suppose, or sleep
nnder cornstalks, with pumkins for pill
lows. No sentinels! But probably
avery man keeps his eyes peeled and his
ears paicked up for the tramp OF British
brocans or Hessian boots on the soil. J"
There was, however, a sentry standing
at the unhinged gate In the oecimateo
paling of the farmyard.
He turned his back and paced to the
end of the beat as Major Skerrett APP
"Abar thought the latter. "Jierck
Dewitt is as quick sighted as ever. he
wants to dodge me. Poor fellow! Bot
tie has got him again, l fear. Why
can't man be satisfied with atmosphere
and cut alcohol"
Skerrett entered the gate and hailed,
"Jierck!"
The sentinel turned and saluted.
A clear OF case bottle. The colony OF
Jamaica was more important any 70
Great Britain in the kevoiution 'nan -
generally known. An! II people woulu
| only take their rum latent ~ ~ mo uS
49, On tbei- heat cakesl
u'e .SSrsH major kindly. 'syou
ouId not touch it"
pl ..S he man, infiicting on
punishment Of hang
nlm I kept stiff as the
Ing got back home =
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

not Of the flesh, bat Of the spirit. This
was my hope. let It go. Why should
I longer keep up this feeble struggle
with these base people, who have ruined
my life? / have no daughter. l never
had q wife. l forget the past. God
forgive me II l abandon 3 dutyl God
give me opportunity, IL be wills that l
ever resume it againm
As be walked up Wall street, moodily
rejecting after this fashion, he heard a
voice call him.
"Mr. BrOthertoftl"
This hail came from the nose OF hur-
riee person who had just turned the cor
ner Of Smith-nOw William-street, and
was making for the wife's house when
he saw the husband.
"Mr. BrOthertOit~ twanged sharp
after the retreating figure. There was
an odd mixture OF alarm and triumph In
these nasal notes.
"Call me by some other name" said
the one addressed. turning. What you
please, but never that again."
"Waal!" says the other, speaking,
BostonCe, through nose high Boston,
you mightn't like my taste in baptism,
so I'll call you cap'n; that's safe. Cap'n, "
he continued in a thrilling whisper,
through that hautboy he played on,
"Cap'n we've shed and drawed the fuSt
blood fur independence. Aperel nine
teen wuZ the day. Lexington wuZ
wher we shed. COrncud wuz wher we
drawed. Naow, il you'll jest pint and
poOt for Bosting, you'll pint and poot
fur locality wher considerable phlebo-
tony is ter be expected oaout
these times, and wher patriots is wanted
Jest as fast as they can pile.
Cang out your alarms, bells OF Trim
ity! others may need awakening. Not
he who was named Edwin BrothertOft.
He has gone already TO fight in the old,
old battle-forever old, forever new-of
freedom against tyranny, of the new
thoughts against the old facts.
80 your husbands on his way to get
himself shot or hung. And a good rid
dance, I suppose, Madam b." said
coarse Sir Harry.
THE beautiful widow will not cry her
eyes out, " said my lord with his usual
sReer.
Mrs. Brothertoft writhed little under
this familiarity.
Like many another, who says, "Dete-
riora seQUar," she wished to go TO the
bad with a stately step and queenly
mein. That Is not permitted by the
eternal laws. All, miserable woman!
she was taught TO feel how much the
gentleman she had betrayed was above
the coarse associates she had chosen.
She missed him, now that he was
gone irreyOcably.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

scription book BY man who was bis
OVID worst enemy.
1.-TWO hundred dollars per week at your
own home; light employment; no pub
licity. Fortunes made in q few years.
Write for particulars. No capital re-
CURED"
This was one of the advertisements
that l answered, Enclosing 81 for In
structions. got circular saying that
the above wages would be paid to good,
active. conscientious man who would be
willing TO give massage treatment to
plumbers who need artificial exercise.
Much suffering" said the circular, sis,
noted In the abodes OF wealth among
plumbers who will not take exercise.
They are willing to pay almost any
price rather than exert themselves.
You can practically name your own
figures"
One man wanted me to introduce q
potato bug destroyer which "cost very
little, never failed and required very
little capital" Nine dollars would buy
the prospectus and sample with instruc-
tious. Other farmers find now have
received the same thing. 1t consists OF
two Philadelphia pressed brieks-num-
bered one and two. The instructions
say, "PIace the bug on No. and then
by pressing on him with No. death
will In most cases ensue."
1 hate people who will do that way to
total stranger.
Fodder is mostly pulled now, and
sweet potatoes in North Carolina have
arrived at their maturity. The light
ming bug now and then OF night linn
ners painfully, and with an effort Ike
Bug light in Boston harbor in log.
His days are gliding swiftly by.
Gifted think how many OF US there
are like the lightning bug. In lies
bright summer time we ''joggle 'em up, :"
as DIR. Pardee says, with lavish hand,
but when autumn comes where are WEI
AS each year goes slowly past the
grand stand where our lives are being
reviewed, we notice that we do not ny
so high, and there is less glimmer under
our wings. Looking back over my own
past see how hot headed l have been,
and impulslve too.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

nrunes. $4,000 and salt rising bread
three times day, cannot be overess'-
mated.
"No. 1925, North Dakota know my
ideal is waiting for me somewhere;
Should this meet his eye hope ne VIII
write. lam widow Of forty-eignt'
feet four inches, 1856 pounds; Drown
hair, sprinkled with gray; blue eyes,
good looking, tasty In dress, ana No"
taking lessons on the melodeon.
Here is a good chance for prune
farmer who never knew mothers love
and care to acquire wife ana parensa'
love at the same time. This al, Is genu-
inc. and leads one to ask why woman
who should be looking around ioI .
landscape gardener to decorate no,
grave should be paying out her snrouu
money for q six line advertisement W
attract the attention OF some towering
two legged jabberwak with billygoat
whiskers like yourself.
Here is another:
"No. 500, 541, Indlana--I am considered
a handsome brunette maiden, well edu.
Gated, refined and entertaining, aged
forty-three, 5 feet inches, weight ITO
hounds. OF good family. first class stand
ing socially, member OF the Metnouiss
church, have some means OF my o"n'
and would like to give my hand Ia mar
riage to a gent not over fifty-one or
fifty-two who has no bad habits, no vile
living, not over 210 pounds weightwnen
I'm good condition, Methodist, or Will
ing To become one and be married In
that church. A man with auburn hair
parted on the right side preferred.
Such a one who would be willing 10
pitch I'm and help me pay a slight MORT
gage of So, 900 and interest on the ola
homestead and hold my head when
trouble comes, would find q welcome
shelter in these willing arms"
Four pages OF these notices are In the
paper before me, but l give only the
most desirable. Some OF the advertisers
have means-all the way from sewing
machine or milk cow up 10 $4,000
Some say they will marry good, hon
orabls man except farmer; others bar
the barber and the barkeeper. Most OF
them insist thai there shall be no
double life" business and seem prelu-
diced against pretty men. Some drop
into poetry, like Silas Wegg. One says
she is fond OF art, literature, music, Ice
cream and corn in the ear. Another
says, "Forty-seven years OF age little
widow four feet wide experience In all
branches and housekeeping, etc.
A widow four feet wide might strike
the prune farmer as cunning little G.
to hold on ones knee of an eve
when the work was over and he
prune culturist had ceased
pruning.
Possibly, however, In the abss
punctuation we have misunderstood
and her experience is four feet sid'
she may be four feet, with wide
rience.
Another lady OF Toronto, Canadi
feet inches, with no relatives, des
TO correspond with the treasurer OF
national committees; would be willing
nurse him through long fit OF Hin
| il welded TO him; does not use tooao
| ia any form; speaks French fuently
exclusively, having come here recent
via the Scandal. She has all the cl
and bonhomie OF France, II seems,
can still read print.
She has also been fumgated
would make some man a good vile.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16
LIGHT WORK FOR NYE.
he ADVERTISES FOR EMPLOYMENT WITH
POOR RESULTS.
Letter From Correspondent! Who Wants Suit
able Wife-A Few Samples Of Ladies Who
Might Make Prune Farmers
Life a Happy One.
Copyright, 1892. 6v Edgar w. Mel
FLETCHER, 2. o. n. c.,
OCTOBER Is.

october ID.
1t has been such long, restful sum-
mer here In the glades and canyons, the
ferny moor and the breezy mesa OF this
most blessed land of recuperation, filled
as it is with tonicity oil keen desire to
cook and eat everything one can over
take, that shortly anterior to the writ
ing of this letter wild ambition seized
upon me TO engage in some light occu-
patton between haying and harvest by
which l could add more means to my
little red savings bank at home and be
IN a position to purchase pale green
plush album for the glad yuletide.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

Dear. faithful old colors! They never
appeared more brave and trusty than in
Major Skerrett's coat-a coat OF seven
teen hundred and Seventy-seven.
"White at the seams OF the blue,
solled az the edges of the buff" said the
major. inspecting himself in triangu-
lar bit Of looking glass. Il must have
A new one, If can find a soldier who
will take an order on the Goddess OF
Liber9 Ia pay. Good morning, Mrs.
Birds6l."
This salution he gave rs he passed out
OF the little house in F.shkill, where
he had been CHARTERED last night.
GOOD mornin, sir" returned Mrs.
Birdsell, rushing out OF her kitchen,
with a rolling pin in hand, and leaving
her pie crust Hat on its back, all dotted
with dabS OF butter, as an ermlne cape
is with little black tails.
She looked after him as he stepped
into the village street. His first emo
ton was feminine sdmiration-her sec
ond feminine curiosity.
"What a beautiful young mani! she
said to her respectable self. "Seeh legs!
Sech hair-IeSt the color of ripe chest
nut burrs-only 1 don't like that streak
of ia on his upper lip. I've Olluz under
stood from deacOus that the baird OF
man cum in with Adams fall aud waz
10 be shaved of. NaOw, I'd give a hui
pie 70 know what Gineral WaShlngton's
sent him on here for. It's the greatest
kind of pity he didn't come few days
before. That old granny, Gineral Put
man wouldn't hev let SIR Henery Clln-
ton grab them forts down 10 the High
| lands II he'd he'd Sech young man as
this TO look arter him and Spry him mp.
Before he continued his walk Major.
SkcrriJt paused moment for long
hearty draft OF new Octooer-neW
American, a finer tipple than old Eng
liSh October. Finer aud cheaper! In
fact, it was on free tap. No cask TO
bore. No Spigot % turn. No pewter
Dot TO tl. Major Skerritt had but to
open his mouth aad breathe. He In
hailed. and he had swallowed science
knows how many quarts Of that mellow
golden nectar, the air or an American
October morning.
While he is indulGing in this harm
less QtpduCus ltb MS hAAN = 49,
ton. What did General Washington
send him on for2" be answered.
Peter" said Washington Familiarity
to Major Skerrett, his aid-de-eamp, Vi
have written peremptOrily several times
TO General Putnam TO send me re-in-
forcements. They do not come"
The chief was evidently somewhat In
the dumps there at his camp. near Pen-
nibecker's mill, on the Perkiomy creek,
twenty miles from Philadelphia, at the
end Of September, seventeen hundred
and seventy-seven.
IT suppose" the major suggested,
''that Putnam cannot get out OF MS
head mis- idle scheme for the recapture
of New York-that suicidal parade as
Aleck Hamilton calls IL.
II must have the men. Our miserable
business OF the Brandywine must Dc
done over" -,
ayes: Sir William Howe is bored
enough in Philadelphia by this time.
lFvsrvbody always Is there. 1t would
s - onlv the courtesy Of war TO challenge
n ant and then beat him away to 1oi-
quarters. r..h,u rn,oss
compile OF thousand more men.
1st tl.ke little ride, major, %
put. lat Peekskill, and see
soldier obeys. But he signs
mlssla battle or an adven
~ les sprout Under ms
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-23
CANADIANS TO TRY HIM.
s.Nosey" Ford Held for the Murder OF
Old Man Mahen.

GREAT FALf.s, Mont, Jan. 22.-Frank
Ford, better known az "Nosey" Ford,
is low held n prisoner at the Biackfo0t
agency on the charge of numbering an
old man named Mehen, and an appli-
cation has been made Ivy the Canadian
authorities for his extraditiOn on the
grounds that Mehan died on the Cana
dian side OF the line. Ford, who has
long been engaged in smuggling con-
traband goods along the line, one night
in December started from a ranch in
the Milk river valley, about fifteen
miles from the border with load OF
whisky. Mahen wished TO visit Cana.
dian friends and accompanied him.
On the way, according 20 Ford's story,
Mahen drank a great deal and fell
out of the wagon three tmss- Twice
Ford helped him in, but the third time
he could do nothing with him and left
HIM lying in a snowbank. He went to
ranch few hundred yards across the
line and got ranchcr, whose name
was Aldrich. to 90 back with him and
get the man. They found him in on
Unconscious condition and took him to
the ranch, where he died that night.
Next day Ford took the body to = po-
lice camp. The police. suspecting
something wrong, put Ford under sur
veillance. Watching his opportunity,
he seized his horse, mounted bareback
and got safely across the line. lie was
captured, however, shortly after, al
the Blackfoot agency, where he is now
held