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The morning call., 1894-10-22
OLD LANDLADY DEAD.
she Kept Hotel at OroyiIIe for
Thirty Years.

ORoVILLE. Oct. 21.-Mrs. George Fl.
Cordy. landlady of the Un tied States Ho-
tel and one of the most prominent apd
weli-known citizens of Orovlle. died last
night She had been in the hotel business
here for thirty years.
The morning call., 1894-10-22

VIM. +. LANES friends are making a strong
fight 10 elect him Supervisor OF the Sixth Wards
The morning call., 1894-10-22
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The morning call., 1894-10-22

HEAR the funny campaign songs at Odd Eel
lows Han tonight
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT.
Old Bill Bolts Had Found the Heather
Chinee Not at All Accommodating.

A good, honest fellow in his way was
Bill Bolts, but he had never had an OPP
portunity to study moral philosophy
as taught in the colleges and universe
ties, says the New York Herald. He
came from Biddeford, in Devon, and
very likely some of his ancestors had
helped Drake 'wallop" the Spaniards.
He had followed in their footsteps by
enlisting in the navy TO fight for his
queen and country whenever called
upon to do so.
When he returned from voyage to
China he brought with him present
for gentleman who had been very
kind TO his old mother during his
absence. 1t was curiously fashioned
Chinese garment made of bits of a
species of straw strung together.
PHASE, sur, you must excoos un be-
ing torn" he said, bashfully, when he
presented it, 1.-The Chinaman wouldn't
part with un aisy."
He had run across a Chinaman wear.
ing it somewhere In the streets OF
Hong Kong, and the unfortunate
celestial not understanding his sum.
mary request to "hand that over here
he had simply yanked it off him.
To the suggestion that his conduc,
had hardly been consistent with stric,
honesty he replied
"Beggin' your pardon, sur, he wu7
only haythen, an never heard that
taking things from haythen counted
as Stain"
WELL" replied his friend, 'if many
illustrious Englishmen had not acted
on that assumption 1 don't know
where the British empire would now
be; so III keep the heathens gar
ments."
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
OF MANY NAT,ONALiTIES.
The Peoples Who Inhabit the Storm Raw
aged Region of Louisiana.

OF the two thousand and eight count
ed victims of the recent Louisiana coast
floods only fifty-three were negroes,
says letter 10 the Troy Times There
are few colored people In the section
visited by the storm. They are II
miXed-up people in that part of Lou
isiana. The prcdominating races are
Acadians, Austrians, creoles, lslingues,
Italians, Manillamen, Chinese and
Spaniards, the number OF each ranging
in the order named
The Acadians are descendants OF the
people who have been immortalized in
Longfellow's poem "Evangeline. Z"
These people have large families, fire.
quently from twelve ofiftcen children
each. The Manillamen are full-blooded
Tagals from the Philippine islands;
these people had no women among
them; they had only one stove in the
whole colony, and they eat their fish
raw. They fraternize well with the
Chinese, and are treated by the whites
on equal terms The people called
Austrians are genuine Slavs, generally
Morlachs from Dalmatia. They speak
iudlidil, IL Ttllc Oh buc udNS when ven
ice ruled Dalmatia. They are all fish
ermen, and are an industrious, bold
and hardy people. The Islingues are
the descendants of colony of Canary
islanders, who came over To Louisiana
during the Spanish invasion. They
have a dash of the Berber blood of the
Canary aborigines and are darker than
the average Spaniard. Scattered
among these various people are a few
Americans and Germans and many
creoles
In spite of their propinquity these
races generally live separate, and one
can in travelling few miles find set
Elements of pure-blooded people of
each nationality. This is remarka-
BILE fact, as many families are natives
who can count their American descent
back for ten or a dozen generations.
They live in the swamps and lowlands,
and this accounts for the terrible de-
struction of life by the storm. They
control the entire fishing industry, but
the packing houses for oysters and
shrimps are owned by Americans.
There were eighteen hundred fisher
men lost in the floods; the others were
sailors, traders, storekeepers and farm
ers The absence of negroes is due to
the fact that they have been driven
out by the overwhelming numbers of
these queer people.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Tree-CIImhIng Rabbits.

At the late meeting of the geologic
al society of London most remarka-
BILE instance of evolution in the adapta-
ton of animal organisms TO their en-
vironments was demonstrated. Mr..
Tegetmeier said that the English rab-
bits imported into Australia were
gradually changing their habits and
becoming trec-climbers, the available
food for them there being largely the
bark and leaves of trees. In evidence
of his assertions he showed the feet OF
some Australian rabbits, which showed
that they are slighter than those OF
their English progcnitors, and their
claws are longer and sharper.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
THE STREET-CAR SPOTTER.
He Keeps Tab ON the Conductor by Means
of Silent Pocket Registes.


of u Silent Pocket Registes.
For several months conductors have
been watching men who habitually
stand on rear platforms, says the In
dianapolis News. That Is the spot
ter's position. Professional spoilers
never "give themselves away by
counting the passengers. The spotter
carrys small noiseless register In one
OF the pockets Of his overcoat. He is
most likely 70 appear on car that Is
TO carry big load. He takes his
place on the rear platform and always
appears To be the most unconcerned
man on the car. The first thing he
does is 10 glance at the register In the
front of the car. He makes mental
note of the number Of fares that have
been rung up. Every time IA passenger
gets on he presses the button of the
little register in his pocket. He never
appears TO be watching the persons
who are getting in the car, but he must
be careful not to miss one. He rides
on the platform until the fares of all the
persons who have got on the car since
he took his position have been col
lCCltu Ills ldSb uCI OclOTt RttIlDR Ok
is the mental registration of the num-
Der of fares indicated by the register
in the car. If he has another test to
make before making his report, he will
probably stop under the first electric
light, write down on the blank fur
nished him the number of fares regis
tered when he got on the car
and the number registered when
he got Off He subtracts one
from the other, and has before
him the number of fares the conductor
should have registered. Then he looks
at his indicator, and If there is dis
crepancy between his count and the
count the conductor registers he re-
ports the fact TO the company.
A conductor who is discharged Is
never accused of having stolen money
from the company. The charge Is ''im-
properly collecting fares" 1t is not
often that a conductor is discharged
the first time it is reported TO the COM
pany that he is improperly collecting
fares" The test Is applied to him fire.
quently, and If il is found that he is
habitually not ringing up fares for all
the persons who take passage on his
car he is dismissed. Conductors be-
lieve that the means employed by
spoilers are unfair They say that 1t
is often impossible for any man to get
all the fares on a car; that it is an
easy matter to get all the fares when a
car is not crowded. but when fifty or
sixty persons board car bound up
town it is next TO impossible TO collect
without an error. Often persons will
get off the car before the conductor
has reached them, and, hampered as he
is by the crowd, they say, he cannot
prevent this. Then persons are getting
on and off, exchanging seats and doing
other things that mystify the conductor
as he pushes his way through the
crowd in search of the nickels that are
due the cOmpany
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
AN AUTUMN REVERE.
The Happy Bride Was Entranced by
Nature and So Was John.


1t was In the month of October and
they had been married four weeks.
Four blissful weeks they had been to
her in that lovely country house among
the quiet hills, says the Detroit Free
Press.
Day after day the autumn sun had
been painting the trees in wondrous
shades of tints, and now the mountains
were great banks of rich maroon, and
the valleys, flowing silently between,
DER streams OF grass-green waves and
scarlet foam.
This afternoon she sat with him on
the long, low piazza and gazed dream
ily on the lovely picture spread be-
fore.
At first she talked TO him sitting
there so comfortable in his great rus
tic chair, but her voice grew softer and
softer until 1t died away in whispers
and she was still.
The mystic, restful touch of the
sweet October days was upon her, and
it was blissful peace TO sit idly in the
sun and look upon the beauties of the
scene-silent she, as 1t was.
The old life of her girlhood had gone
and she stood upon the threshold of
this new life-this wondrous hall, of
womanhood, extending far, far before
her, as were the valleys spread below
the mountainside.
There was upon her soul the inef-
fable calm of autumn time, and the
magic of the afternoon fascinated her.
And II was not for her alone, but
him; this man who now was part and
parcel of her life.
He, too, she felt, must feel the rap
turous thrill, the weird and witching
spirit of the hour.
John" she whispered, softly, as the
hum of bee that knocks at the door of
every honeyed flower.
But John did not respond.
All, he too, is clothed In this charm,
she thought.
John" she said, again, this time
with eager tone, as If TO call him
from his reverie and share with her
the raphsody that moved her very
soul.
But TO her ears no answer came to
lay its soft response upon her heart.
John was sound asleep
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
A PRINCES ROMANTIC CAREER.
Alexander OF Battenberg Was "A Popular
Ruler and Great Strategist.

Prince Alexander of Battenberg's
early death has closed one of the most
romantic careers of this or any other
century, says London Truth. He was
the successful and popular ruler of
Bulgaria for several years, and he
proved himself TO be a brave soldier
and brilliant strategist. The bitter
hostility of Russia made him abdicate
in the interest of Bulgaria, and then a
new career opened before him in Ger
many. He became the prime favorite
of Emperor and Empress Frederick
and their family, was a persona graf
issima at the English court, and finally
was announced TO be betrothed to
Princess Victoria of Prussia.
Every one must remember the storm
which ragged at Berlin during the brief
reign of Emperor Frederick, in conse-
quence of Prince Bismarck furious op-
position TO the proposed marriage the
emperor, the empress and the queen
being very strongly in favor of the
match, which had also the acquies-
cence of the present emperor. 1t was
no secret that Prince Alexander was
destined after his marriage to fill a
very high post indeed in the German
empire. The match was still ION"
when Prince Alexander suddenly Tilted
the princess early in 1889, in order to
marry an opera singer, whom he had
met at Mentone.
The enthusiasm for Prince Alexan-
der which prevailed at our own court
caused infinite trouble to Lord Sails
bury for some years, as all kinds of in
trigues were. going on in his favor.
When Prince Alexander suddenly mar
ried the pendulum swung in the other
direction, and he became an object of
positive detestation at court, where his
name was not allowed to be mem
toned and his portraits were all taken
down. The queen and Prince Alexan-
der met at Florence last April, when
amicable relations were restored, but
Empress Frederick never forgave him.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
SUFFICIENT UNTO HERSELF.
The Young Woman Had No Need OF A.
sistance of Any Kind.


The kind-hearted old gen tleman
watched the young woman seated next
to him in the elevated train with in
terest, says the New York World. She
held a magazine In her hands with the
leaves uncut. She looked through the
table of contents and raised the cor
ners of the leaves so as to get q glimpse
of various illustrations. The old gen.
tleman drew out his pocketknife hest
tatingly. He opened 1t still more hesi-
tatingly. The young woman seemed
entirely oblivious of his acts and evil
dent intentions, but their fellow pas
sengers were able to arouse a great
deal of interest in the proceeding
Finally, just as the old gentleman
reached forward, extending his knife,
the young woman dexterously drew
out hatpin and began cutting the
leaves of her magazine. The old gen.
tleman leaned back and delivered him
self of confidential aside TO the man
next 70 him:
II have heard, he said, that women
can do anything with their hairpins
and hatpins, but at any rate they'd
need knife TO sharpen pencils"
And at that moment the provoking
young woman drew pencil from her
reticule bit the wood off the top of it,
and made a note on the article she was
reading The car giggled and the old
gentleman began to read his paper
with an injured air.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
GLORY SURPRISING soLoMoN's
London's Lord Mayor IL q Gorgeous Crea-
ture Whsn Arrayed IN His RObes.

turo Whsn Arrayed In His Robes.
The fountain Of municipal honor in
England undoubtedly springs from
the Guildhall, London. which Justly
claims to be accounted the most an
cient of our municipal halls, seeing
that the lord mayors of the last eight
centuries are with justice assumed TO
have had prototypes in the Roman
project and the Saxon fortreye or port
grave. For q considerable number Of
years, says the London Telegraph, the
robes of the lord mayor, the court OF
aldermen, and the common councillors
have been settled with a precision that
none save the most reckless of limo
vators would presume to disturb.
The lord mayor himself has his
gold" robe for the occasion of the an
nual Guildhall banquet, and for the
times when he proceeds in state either
TO the new law courts OF TO the houses
of parliament. The aldermen have
their scarlet gowns, the sheriffs their
distinctive and very handsome robes
and chains, while the common coun-
cilors rejoice In gowns called 'mazar-
ines" 1t being generally understood
that mazarine Is term for dark blue
color, although, according to some
photographers, mazarine also means
drinking vessel and an old way of
dressing fowls. Then, again, when
the sovereign comes into the city the
lord mayor is bound to don a robe of
crimson or purple velvet trimmed with
ermine. At the time of his investi-
ture he wears q massive gold chain,
but when he Is honored by reelection
at the expiration of his term of office
he wears two chains.
The mace Of silver gilt, surmounted
by royal crown and the imperial
arms, is carried before the mayor by the
authority ofthe charter of Edward I'LL,
while the city possesses no less than
four swords-one called the pearl, pre-
sented by Queen Bess when she opened
the first royal exchange, and SO called
from It's being richly set with pearls.
The sword precedes the chief magis-
trate on all occasions of rejoicing and
festivity. The sword Of state is car
ried before the lord mayor as an en-
blem Of his sovereignty within the city
proper; the black sword Is used on fast
days In Lent and at the death of any
member of the royal family, while the
fourth sword is that placed close TO
the lord. mayors chair at the central
criminal court.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
THE TAME GROW.
Little Love Wasted on Him by His Wild
Brothers.


Brothers.
It is well-known fact that wild
animals and birds do not care TO re-
ceive back into their society member
that has lived a season with man as
pet. This was illustrated in noisy
manner out near Pleasant Ridge, &C.
cording to the story told by witness
TO a Cincinnati Times-Star reporter
"a tame crow" said he, had for sew.
eral years cawed around the farmhouse
of our neighbor, and was seated on a
fence away out on the farm cawing
when great flock of crows came along
and settled in the field. The tame one
grew frantic, cawing and scolding till
the attention of the flock was attract
ed 70 II. Rising en- masse the flock
circled around and alighted on the
fence about the tame one, which be-
came frightened and flew up. 1t was
followed by the others, which crowd
ed about 1t In its fight and forced il To
fly farther and farther away from the
farmhouse and over a great wood.
There they all set on IL and pecked IL
and clawed the poor thing till its flight
was marked with feathers falling. AL
this time they kept up a terrible cav.
ing and calling. They would undoubt-
edly have killed the poor bird, but 1t
spied man at work in the woods and
dropped down to him. He proved a
friend, and Jim Crow was soon perched
on his shoulder cawing defiantly at his
relatives who had cast him from
among them, but who now few to a
respectful distance"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Velocity of Electricity.

The idea that a signal passes
through the cables between Europe
and America in an inappreciable
space of time is erroneous; the time it
is in transit probably exceeds one
tenth of a second. In 1888 Wheat
stone estimated the velocity at two
hundred and lightweight thousand
miles per second, but his number is
now known to be ten times too high.
Prof. Gould has ascertained that
aerial telegraph wires on poles trans
nit electricity at the rate of from
fourteen thousand to sixteen thousand
miles per second, and that the veloci-
ty of transmission iScreases with the
distance between the wires and the
earth, or, in other words, with the
height of suspension. Subterranean
wires, like submarine cables, transmit
slowly. While wires suspended at a
feeble height transmit signals at a We
locity of twelve thousand miles per
second, those that are suspended
higher give velocity of from sixteen
thousand to twenty-four thousand
,,i1ac
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Rhode Island is not very larg

Rhode Island is not very large
state, having only 1880 square miles
of territory, as against Michigan's
$4,000; but its people have very
definite idea of their political pre-
ferences just at present. In 1891
they had democratic governor, but
last week they elected republican
by over 5000 plurality. The state
assembly will stand, on joint ballot,
republicans, 100; democrats, 6; in
dependents, /. Little Rhody has
apparently been displeased with the
conditions which have prevailed
during the past year.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

His Mother-in-law.

"My mother-iD-law never understands
q joke, says correspondent. ~ finish a
good story, and she always looks up and
asks, We'll, what did the other man ssys'
AS she can't appreciate wit, was sur
prised to receive letter from her few
weeks after my little boy had swallowed a
farthing, in which the last words were,
HAS Ernest got over his financial difficult
ties YETI London Tit-BitA.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
MONTAGUE. Mich, Nov. 10, 1898.

MONTAGUE, Mich, Nov IL, 1898.
w. Wmdecknecht, "A wealthy farmer
of Muskegon Co., personally appeared
before me, this day, and says: THAT
for the past year or so he was afflicted
with weakness. trembling heart failure
extreme nervousness and headache:
that he consulted with Physicians but
received no benefit He was persuaded
by friend to try sample bottle or
DIR. Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer, and he
says the trembling and nervous feeling
was Immediately stopped by its use.
Afterwards he used two bottles Of the
same medicine and saws he is entirely
cured" Signed, w, WINDECKNECHT.
Sworn tn and subscribed before me a
Notary Public for Muskegon County,
State of Michigan.
JAS. MORRISON.
This medicine sold by B. VauDen-
Bergh. 7S4-l3w
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Lumon Gee,
Ie| U. s. Pension Attorney
l.| Justice Of The Peace
Insurance and Collections

Prosecutes all claims against the
GOyernment-rejected and suspended.
Claims reopened and successfully prose-
cuted. / have all the rulings of the
department as fast as issued.
Give your business to an old soldier
that is right here where you can see
and talk to him. If you want advice
come and see me.
No fees unless successful.
Office over Vermeulen's Grocery,
Alma, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Notwithstanding the kicking oul

democrat friends have always done
over Reeds rules in congress, they
have practically been compelled to
adopt them. 1t is nothing new for
them to follow in the footsteps oil
the republican party, but they are
usually about ten years behind.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20


Probably the most potent factor a pres
ant day ailments b The allegiance INTO which
the muscular system IL permitted to fall
by jewellers tn cities, who are daily becom
ing more dependent ON artificial means on
locomotion aud on labor saving apparatus
until disorders of digestion aud nervous
maladies are now az common among the
comparatively poor members Of the com
munity as thoy are among those who
wealthy. Indeed, while the rich man en-.
deavors to overcome the mischief wrought
by his seientary life by riding in the park
or playing golf, the poorer man, who is un-
able to afford these pleasurable exercises
neglects his muscular development and In
variably mounts his omnibus or tumbSes
into his train rather than waste the time
necessary for brisk walk or q half hour
in the gymnasium.-Nati0Ul Review.
Claims DaaAgss For bad RosdA
Harvey NJ. Hsafoos, . mflkman red6
ing near CarpentsrvilA N. Y, while
driving ON the pubic highways leading
to Phillipsburg recently had bis axrA
broken by the upsetting Of bis wagon,
which he alleges was caused by the bad
condition Of the public road Mr.. 6iga-
Zoos has employed ex-Judge 6ilas N.
Dewitt Of Phillipsburg to bring suit
against the Greenwich township suthost-
ties Tor d 500 damageA The sutt wfll
be toet casa
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

Dated at Alma, Michigan, March 30, 1894.
Ely BREwBAKKR,
Village Treasurer.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
VILLAGE TAX SALE.

So much Of each OF the following described
tracts or parsels of land situated in the Villag,
delinquent for unpaid taxes for the years Is9
and 1892 as will be sufficient to pay taxes, in
terest and charges thereon, will be sold at pub
lie auction, by the Treasurer Of said Village, a
his office. in the banking house of w. =. Turcl
q Co. in Village of Alma. Michigan, on We'd
nesday, May III, 1894 commencing at ten o'clocl
a. IN and continuing until the same shall
have been disposed Of according to law.
Tax Int ChQs To'l