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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-05-06
The Platform Adopted.

The following is the platform adopted at
the recent Republican State conventions:
The republicans of Michigan feel COM
mon pride with their compatriots through
out the Union over the continued gratifying
success of the great principles which have
inspired its energies and controlled its
actions since the organization of the party.
We review with profound satisfaction the
record it has made in the past and its un-
paralleled achievements conducive to the
welfare of the country, so creditable to its
citizens and so manifestly indicative of the
broad character of its national statesman
ship. Admiration of the uninterrupted
progress under its auspices toward an ideal
government of the people, by the people
and for the people is not less thorough nor
more gratifying than are the brightest pros
poets of further advantage and further tri-
umphs.
We most heartily indorse the glorious
work of the republican majority in the fifty
first congress of the United States, and will
do all In our power to uphold and sustain
the grand victories already won for the
grand triple policy of protection, reciprocity
and honest money. In the language of the
republican national platform in 1888 we de-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-05-06
On Time.
Vernon Argus.

vernon Argus.
The Odd Fellows celebrated on schedule
time according to the program they had laid
out for Wednesday. Upon arrival of the
morning trains they poured in from every
direction until upwards of 200 visiting mem
bers of the various branches of the order had
arrived. A line of march was formed at the
ID. G. Ii. q M. depot, headed by the Csrun-
ma Band, and after march of over mile
through the principal streets, they retired at
noon to the parors of the M. +. church
where the ladies had prepared a feast that
would do justice to kings.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-05-06
Real Estate Transfers.

BURNS.
r. Simonson to d. Gault, part W / sec
"a, $1,000.
&c. Atkins to F. E. Purdy, lot block
3, $4O0.
LAINGSBURG
B. L. Holly to G. McCarty, lot 8, block
81, $50
G. Fl. Riggs to A. B. McCarty, lot 4,
block 81, 800.
j. w. Scoutten to E. Roberts, lot 10,
block 3, $500.
NEW HAVEN.
L. T. Stewart to Spencer Wing, part
/ sec IL, $ll5O.
H.. Perkins to d. Frocksell, lot
l6, M. L. Stewart & Co.'S add $3.50.
G. Baxter ct al to G. P. Mathews, lot 4,
block 3, s. X. Barnes add, 1890.
A. Geek to M. Frawley ct al, lot IL
block IA, A. l.. & B. o. Williams add,
$2425.
M. Holmes to E. G. Passage, lot 10,
sub block 90, 1925.
E. E. GILES to T. Newson, lot on sec
Is, $500.
H. Green to d. H. Barnum, W ] of
sec. l6, $4,000.
PERRY VILLAGE
L. NJ. Calkins to E. l. Ewing, lot 3, blk
A. w. Calkins add, $25.
A. w. Calkins to l.. NJ. Calkins, lot 3,
block 3, $50.
H. Clark to Jane Fields, lots 18, 10 and
20, block 5, VanAkins add, 5000.
Woodruff.
G. M. Harlow to E. Peacock, part W
/ sec 26, $500.
Editor Singerly, of the Philadelphia Rec
ord is one of Pennsylvania's delegates-at-
large to the Chicago convention.
Milwaukee millers and those from inter-
iOr Wisconsin cities object to the lowering
of rates to Minnesota points.
Eight men are reported to have been
drowned by the flooding of mine near
Minersville, Pa.
Twenty-Five tramps who boarded box
car at Ottumwa, were switched uptown and
delivered to the City Marshal.
Returns from most of the precincts i'm the
colony of Victoria show the government par
ty have gained thirty-nine seats.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-05-06
SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.

Justus w. Sage, St. Johns, ei2 per month
from October ID, 1891.
M. G. Campbell will be at the National
Hotel, OwOsso, every Wednesday, and at
the Office of the circuit court commissioner,
Mr.. Castle, st. Johns, every Thursday.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-09-15
.FRtE TO the AFFLICTED.

All who are suffering from the effects
OF Youthful Errors, Loss of Manhood,
Failing Powers, Gonorrhoea, elect,
Structure, Syphilis and the many troubles
which are the effects Of these terrible
disorders will receive, FREE OF CHARGE,
full directions how 10 treat and cure them
selues al home by writing to the CAu-
FoRNIA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL 1NPIRM.
AIRY, l020l Market Street, tSan Fran.
cisco, California.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-09-15
H0W'S
Your Liver ?

Is the Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy Liver. When the
Liver is torpid the Bow
els are sluggish and con-
stipated, the food lies
in the stomach undi-
gested, onin G the
blood; frequent headache
ensues; a feeling of lassi-
tude, dependency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system is de-
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
means of restoring more
people to health and
happiness by giving them
a healthy Liver than any
agency known on earth.
It acts with extraor-
binary power and efficacy.
NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED.
As general family remedy for dyspeps
'orpid Liver, Constipation, etc, hardly c,
SO anything else, and have never been
ppointed In the effect produced; 1t seems
Q almost perfect cure for all diseases OF
tomach and Bowels.
w. j. McELRoY, Macon, ia
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-09-15
NOTICE.

~roTIoE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT HAVE
N received the Assessment Roll and Original
lists Of property for the year A. d; isss, ron RON
the same ia in my office for public inspection.
The IN Board Of Equalization will meet at the 81
1 $500 ~ ~ flock a. M, for the purpose OF
eoualizipg said roll, and will continue IN SEES s%s
sion from day to day until and tnclndihg .ne
LIST day of September, A. d. lsss, anu a., ssess
ments must present the game to said Board
when in session. noorEv
County Clerk and ex-oficio Clerk oil tine po'ro
OF County Commissioners.
Phoebe, New, Aug 4, 1892,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-09-15
NOTICE.
TO nj. &c. PHILLIPS

No,;ce ia hereby given that suit has been
o mvuo and il now pending in the District
Court of the state OF Nevada. In aud Tor tn the
County of Lincoln. by Joseph Phillips against 81
0 vou ssid NJ u. Phillips. to obtain decree OF
ssbso,nte divorce from the bonds OF matrimony
mon the ground of willful desertion, ana rha1
application for said decree VIII De maui s durine
the,month Of November, A. d. 1892.
th'ir''"' BY order of said Court.
Dated Phoebe. Nevada, August 4th' iss2'
au4 st
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
The Widows Cap.

Widows caps are said originally to
have been neither more nor less than
nuns colts. In the wild old days,
when might was right, women's lives
and honor often, their possessions
certainly, depended greatly on the
strength and position of their male
defenders; so whe ma woman, be shI
wife or daughter, lost her natural
protector, she usually retired, for the
time of her mourning, to a convent,
and, without taking the VOWS,
adopted the habit of nun.
A woman being in those days as
much piece of property as a horse OF
a COW, was seldom, if ever, allowed
to remain unwedded, unless under
the protection Of the Church, es-
pecially if rich. So, until she felt
able to return to the world, and take
her chance Of her guardians pleas
ure, she stayed on at the convent,
from whose protection no one could
remove her against her will.
Later, in more settled times, wild
ows, without leaving their homes,
adopted the nuns dress, as symbol
of the Church's protection during
their widowhood, and little by little
the dress lost its conventual charac-
tor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
The Localities Of Birds.

All our permanent residents among
the birds, both large and small, are
comparatively limited in their ranges.
The crow is nearly as local as the
woodchuck. He goes further from
home IN quest of food, but his terri
tory is well defined, both winter and
summer. His place of roosting re-
mains the same year after year. Once.
while spending few days at noun
tain lake nearly surrounded by deep
woods, my attention was attracted
each night, just at shutdown, by an
osprey that always came from the
same direction, dipped into the lake
as he passed over it for sip OF its
pure water. ard disappeared in the
woods beyond. The routine OF his
life was probably as marked as that
of any of ours. He fished the waters
of the Delaware all day probably
never going beyond certain limit,
and returned each night at shutdown,
as punctual as a day-labOrer, to bis
retreat in the forest The sip OF
water, too, from the lake ne never
failed to take.
All the facts we possess in regard
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Small, But Brave Fishes.

The sticklebacks are Insignificant
in size, but mighty in valor. Thet
are always ready and anxious to fight;
one provoking glance from the eye OF
rival and straightway the battle
RACES In contradistinction to the
human race, the male stickleback
monopolizes all the gay cOlors, Mrs.
Stlckleback being condemned to a
sober, Quakerish dress But she has
one compensation for this selflshness
on his part, and that is that when
her liege lord is thrashed by q
stronger or more skilled foe his coat
is thrashed likewise, losing all it's
bravery and becoming a dull gray;
nor does it recover its splendor until
its. wearer, the worst pangs of the de-
feat over, energies from the corner
where he has hidden himself, as pug
nacious as ever. The stickleback is
one of the very few fish that build
nests for their young. In addition to
its instructive skill and intelligence,
the stickleback may be trained and
instructed by man. At an aquarium
which have often visited, by the aid
of an ingenious but simple device,
the sticklebacks had been taught to
ring a bell when they wanted food.
The bell was suspended above the
tank where they were kept, and the
connecting rope, a fine thread having
been baited. was lowered into the
water below. The nibbling of the
bait rang the bell. Care having been
taken to add fresh bait when the cord
was pulled, the sticklebacks soon
learned to summon their attendants
by this means.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Climate and salutations.

The climate of the Persian is the
background, we are told by con-
temporary, of his salutations, "May
God cool our eye" and "May your
shadow never grow less''-wishes that
would sound strange indeed among
the frosts of Siberia.
In these the poetical sense also is
revealed, as we'll as in the common
Oriental salutation, "Peace be upon
thee" instead of with thee" the
''upon thee" reminding us of the
gentle descent of the dew.
The hyperbolical and poetical salu.
tatiOns of the Persian stand in direct
contrast to those of the grave, proud,
laconic Ottoman-hithertO ruler
over conquered races-whose only po-
etical salutation seems to be, ''Thy
visits are as rare as the fine days. "
MAY your shadow never grow less, "
if it be genuine reminds us of the re-
spect which the Orientals entertained
for obesity.
In the melting, sweltering climate
none could venture to aspire to i'm
posing proportions unless plenty to
eat and little to do enabled him to
repair his daily losses. Hence a fat
man meant a rich and prosperous
man, and a never-decreasing shadow
stood sponsor for a never-decreasing
opulence.
The Egyptians take another view
of the melting process. The pores in
that feverish climate are the loop
holes of quotidian, tertian, and quar-
tan; and hence some of their saluta-
tions take the shape of an anxious in
quiry, "How goes the perspiration?"
'sDo you sweat copiously?"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Must Serve in the French Army.

A very important nationality case
was decided short time ago by the
civil court at Bordeaux. The we'll
known brandy manufacturer, Mr. Elk
shaw, who resides at Bordeaux,
though admittedly British subject,
was born in France. He has son,
Alfred, who was also born at Dor.
deaux on Feb. "a, 1871, and under
the nationality law of 1889 he was
inscribed on the CONSUMPTION list,
and, after the usual drawing of lots,
was adjudged to serve in the French
Army. He and his father protested
on the ground that on his coming of
age he had elected for the British ma.
tionality, and, secondly, that by ar.
ticle of a convention between Eng
land and France, concluded in Feb.
ruary, 1882, it was enacted that "the
subjects of each state, when residing
in the other, shall not be liable to
military service" The convention
had never been repealed, and it was
commended that the law, of 1889 could
not have retroactive effect and de-
prive him of his foreign nationality.
The court, however, held that, as
both father and son were born in
France, Mr.. Exshaw, Jr., must be
held to be a Frenchman, and that he
was bound to serve in the army
London Standard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Not In the Soup.

They had a half dozen or more
kinds of soup at the hotel and the
guest, an experienced hotel food sam
pier, looked over the menu.
'.Bring me some chicken SOUP" he
said to the waiter.
1t was brought and he sent it away
after tasting it.
'tBrihg me beef soup" he COM
manded.
1t was brought, tasted and sent
away and so on with all of them.
'.Bring me some water SOUP" he
requested finally.
"What kind of soup is that, sir, ~
asked the startled waiter.
''It's the kind 1 want" explained
the guest, ''if it is made as the 9th.
ers are. There is no chicken in your
chicken soup, no beef in your beef
soup. no vegetables in your vegeta.
BILE soup, no beans in your bean soup,
and, on the same principle, sup
pose there's no water in your water
soup. Do you understands"
A few moments later the landlord
came in and heard a few incongruous
remarks on the subject of soups and
their constituent elements.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
No Soap at the Posada.

'The first night in Barcelona, ~
says an American artist, 81 went to a
sort of posada in one of the by streets,
and managed to get room by paying
in advance one peseta, which was
rung on the table with an evident
suspicion of its genuineness. Having
two days railroad Crime upon me
thought it a comparatively small IA
vor to be allowed TO wash my bands
On timidly inquIring of one of the
servants l was led to little toy tin
affair containing water, and was fur
nished with a towel about large
enough to dry the hands of a medium
sized clock. But when / asked for
soap l was stared at in manner that
made me very uncomfortable. Ihave
not asked for soap since in Spain, for
do not wish to lose my life by vio-
lence, having voted for slow death by
starvation in the cause of American
art
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
A Word to Fathers.

We have read a story of a little boy
who, when he wanted a new suit of
clothes, begged his mother to ask his
father If he might have it. The
mother suggested that the boy might
ask for himself.
II would" said the boy. "but I
don't feel well enough acquainted
with him."
There is a sharp reproof to the
father in the reply of the son. Many
a father keeps his children so at
distance from him that they never
feel confidentially and lovingly &C.
quainted with him.
They feel that he is sort of mon
arch in the family. They feel nc
familiarity with him. They feaI
him and respect him. and even love
him some-for children cannot help
loving some everybody about them
but they seldom get near enough to
him to feel intimate with him. They
seldom go to him with their little
wants and trials. They approach
him through the mother. They tell
her everything. They have a high
way to her heart on which they 60 in
and out with perfect freedom. In
this keeping-off plan fathers are to
blame. Children should not be held
off. Let them come near.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
The Cheapest Drunk.

Besides the 'dronk" grass-that is
drunk grass-of the Dutch colonists
in South Africa, there is in Mon
golia another plant with correspond
ing native name and similar proper
ties 1t is a new species of stipa,
which was brought from the Alach-
ian Mountains by Roman Cath
olic missionary, whose horses were dis
abled by its inebHiatiLg qualities. In
Kamtchatka an intoxicating plant
is found of considerable sire myth.
The most common method of using
it is to roll it up like a bolus and
swallow it whole. Tib-B Bits
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Green Roses.

Green roses have been known in the
vicinity of Philadelphia for probably
a century. There is no difference
theoretically between the petals of a
rose and rose leaf, and the transfer.
nation of one to the other is very
easily accomplished. A green rose,
therefor, is nothing more than rose
in which in forming the flower, the
rose has persistently refused to allow
its leaves to be transformed to petals
they still continue as leaves. The
petals of the green rose are, there.
fore, nothing more than green leaves.
Outside of its interest as showing the
relation between leaves and flowers,
there is no interest in the green rose.
Certainly it has no beauty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

Every one knows. in a general way,
how fatal habits of carelessness may
prove. Yet few mothers-we say
mothers, because the training of the
young is mainly in their hands-are
sufficiently impressed with the i'm
portance of vigorously training their
children to habits of carefulness.
An old Latin proverb said, 1.-THE
mothers Of the timid seldom weep -
We do not wish children trained to
timidfty, but to thoughtfulness-to
considering the probable consequences
Of their conduct. Certainly, in the
transition period from childhood to
youth the formation of right habits
In this respect can be begun.
II didn't think" should not be a
full excuse for many little misdeeds,
or for a costly piece of carelessness.
II the habit of negligence is once
formed, it will assert itself through
life possibly in a disastrous way. II
habit of carelessness is formed, it
will be a lifelong probably
beyond all that its possessor may
realize.
Stagings are constantly giving way,
resulting in death or broken bones,
because those who put them up were
careless in their construction. A
friend Of ours, a retired householder,
never had an accident of the kind
during his long life. He had formed
the habit Of assuring himself that
every stick of timber and every nail
was sound, and that every nail was
we'll driven home.
A gentleman who had gone to
watch with sick friend opened a
door which led to the cellar, but from
which the stairs had been removed.
He fell and was killed. What a
wicked neglect to have such door
unbarred in the front hall!
A mother stepped out for a mo.
ment, leaving tub of boiling water
on the floor and young child in the
room. She was detained somewhat,
and returned to find her child scalded
to death.
At camp-ground last summer a
1ouy w OO
filed her stove with wood and went
to a neighbours while the irons were
heating. The stove door opened,
Goals fell out, the cottage and several
others were burned, and the utmost
exertions barely saved from destruc.
tion all the other cottages and public
buildings, with many grand and
priceless trees.
A physician left his horse and
buggy in lane short distance from
his patients house, where he thought
he could see them from the window.
The horse was well broken, kind,
tractable, and accustomed to stand
united for hours. But it quietly
backed out of the lane and ran, and
killed another horse. The law held
it a case Of gross neglect, ana the
physician had to pay for the :@hel
horse, besides the cost of the .~D-
Youths Companion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Want of Sense.

Great learning is not always &C
companied by large measures of ''com
mon sense" The celebrated Doctor
Chalmers came home on horseback
one evening, and as neither the mar
who had charge of his horse nor the
key Of the stable could be found, hi
was puzzled as to the best temporary
residence for the animal
At last he fixed on the garden, and
leading the horse thither, placed him
on the gravel walk When Miss
Chalmers, who had been away from
the house, returned, and her brother
told her he had been unable to find
the key of she stable, she inquired
what had been done with the horse.
II took him to the garden" said
the Doctor.
ITO the garden" she exclaimed
Then all our flower and vegetable
beds will be destroyed!'
Don't be afraid of that, said Doc
tor Chalmers. 81 took particular
care to place the horse on the gravel
walk"
"And did you really imagine that
he would stay there?"
Il have no doubt of it," replied the
Doctor, with calm assurance. $50
sagacious an animal could not fail to
be aware of the proprlety of refrain
ing from injuring the products of the
garden"
Il am afraid" remarked Miss
Chalmers, shat you will think less
favorably of the discretion of the
horse when you have seen the gar
den."
True enough, the horse had rolled
in and trampled upon the beds till
they were a scene of pitiful devasta-
tiOn.
II never could have imagined, p"
remarked the Doctor, in deep dis
gust, that horses were such sense
less animalS."
A retort about the surprising lg-
nOrance of a certain other order OF
animals must have been on Miss
Chalmers tongue, but no doubt she
kept it back.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
A Terrible RI de.

The very latest invention in the
way Of magazine small arms, and one
not yet submitted to the United.
States army board, is the gun that
has just been put in test by the Ital-
ian authorities The rife is four feet
long and of the smallest caliber vet
attempted, two hundred and flfty-six
inches The speed Of the bullet ia
two thousand three hundred and sixty
foot-seconds, and as regards its pene-
trative force it is said that the ball
will pierce two mattresses and two
planks five inches thick at distance
of nearly mile. Loading is effected
by means Of chargers containing Ave
cartridges arranged so that repeat
ing fire may be obtained until the
magazine Is exhausted. Many of the
experts who attend the trials are of
the opinion that the weapon is the
most destructible at present existing
among European armies.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

to the habits Of the song birds in this
respect point to the conclusion that
the same individuals return to the
same localities year after year, to nest
and rear their young. am convinced
that the same woodpecker occupies
the same cavity in tree winter after
winter, and drums upon the same dry
limb spring after spring. I like to
think Of all these creatures as capable
Of local attachments, and not insensi-
BILE to the sentiment of home.-Cen-
tury.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
Backed With Bank Notes,

Charles w. Duntz lives on the
Landing road, Undertook. N. Y,
near the Halfway house. One morn
ing recently, while his wife was en-
gagged in cleaning portrait that had
been In their possession more than a
quarter Of a century, she accidently
broke through the cover on the back
and saw underneath it a piece of
paper. She pulled it out and found
that it was an old 90 bill She called
her sons attention to it and the lad
took the cover of. Underneath it
they found two $500 bills issued by a
bank in Massachusetts,, one in 1856,
the other in 1861. During the day
Mr.. Duntz took the bills to the Union
Bank and learned that the bank OF
issuance was still in existence, and
that the bills were probably genuine
and worth their face value. Mr..
Reynolds teller of the bank, COM
municated with the Massachusetts,
bank people and learned that it had
$500 bills of the old State issue still
out and was ready to redeem them if
they were genuine. About twenty
eight years ago says Rough Notes,
this picture was sent to Mr. Duntz
BY wealthy relative. who requested
that it should be carefully kept in
the family, the portrait being that of
a daughter who is still living. Mr..
Duntz thinks that the donor placed
the money where it was found, ex-
pecting that it would be discovered
some day when it would be of some
real benefit to the finder. She was
very peculiar in her ways at all times.