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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
ChronologicalIy Inaccurate.

A booksellers catalogue recently pub
lished in Birmingham, England, gives
a careful description of portrait of
Lord CORVALLIS, painted in 1888, in
which he is represented standing on an
eminence overlooking the town and
straits of Gibraltar, "while stretching
away in the background several ships
are steaming along the straits, and
emitting huge clouds of smoke. IN T.
Tribune
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
FOREST HILL.
Personal Notes of Interest.

Personal Notes OF Interest.
Mrs. Crawford and family are moving back
to their farm near Summerton. We are
sorry to lose them from our midst
James Oberlin who has been in the far west
for several years is expected home this week.
Finley Stout, of Ohio, is visiting rela.
tives here.-The Ladies Aid Society gave
chicken pie social at the residence of
Wesley Sandal. Welt, of st.
Louis, began blacksmithing here on Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. Clifford, of Ashley, visit
ed his sister, Mrs. Maggie OberIin, several
days during the past week.-There will
he a temperance lecture at the school house
next Tuesday eyening.-The missionary
society meets with Mrs. Hull on Saturday
afternoon. They are anticipating the pleas.
ure of the presence of Mrs. r. Farout, of st.
Louis, at that time.-Mrs. Harriet
Vanderbeek and daughter Nettie and Miss
Dora Wood, of st. Louis, visited here over
Sunday. Vernie Rock had one OF
his hands badly crushed at school last Mon.
day by the severe wind blowing the door shut
suddenly. Ere.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

wanted for breaking into the store at Pom
peii. On Monday he went and took lool
at them and found them TO be the ones
They gave their names as Put Dolan anc
Tom Allen. II will be ten days before the!
can be brought here as they were sentences
To the Ingham jail, for that time for beinl
drunk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

Miss Backbay-M Mamma, is the Chel-
sea family rs old as our?
Mrs. Backbay-Not quite, my dear.
They are of "Mayflower" stock, indeed,
but our ancestors preceded theirs by
five minutes in leaving the boat
pucE
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

Hotel Lafayette, Lake Minnetonka, Mimi,
opens June 30 under the management of
Capt. 4. V. Holcombe, who has been in
charge of this magnificent hostelry for
several years past. The season at the Lafay-
cite promises to be unusually brilliant this
year. S2O I'll lw
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
NEW HAVEN.
sympathy for Quid Nunc-Aeolus, The
Storm King, on a Tear-A Bag of
Potatoes Walks off-PersOnal
Items

JinDdlA44 lOT NLLlU NullC-A6Olue, Inc
Storm King, on Tear-A Bag of
Potatoes Walks off-Personal
Items.
Well, Quid Nunc, they say misery likes
company aud we will confess our hearts
'pitapated" alittle faster with sympathy when
We found one besides poor downtroden New
Haven had felt the comfort and blessing of
the Cleveland badge.-The school in dis.
trict No. opened April Both with Miss
Champlin "a teacher.-The wind storm
on Wednesday afternoon of last week, set the
store on the Seifret place off its foundation.
new post Office on the town line between
Sumner and New Haven. hard
times thicken. Robert MoNabb filled bag
with cut potatoes ready for planting.
When behold in the night the bag walked off
accompanied by a bag of whole potatoes.
-Jacob Hellman had about 30 bushels of
oats stolen.-J. Eisenlord is building a
hog pen for Frank Squires. No.
6 organized Sunday school last Sunday with
George Dueir superintendent and VIM.
Bostford assistant. Aikens found
his wife near st. Johns; she was working to-
wards home.-W. j. Everest is making a
large hen park with picket fencing
VIM. Manning is building a granary, work
done by j. Teed.--Mrs Frank Ellicott of
Alma was guest of William Ellicott on
Sunday of last week.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
Very Much Surprised

l havesbeen afflicted with neuralgia
for nearly two yearS, have tried physi-
clans and all known remedies. but
found no permanent relief until tried
bottle OF Dullam's GTeat German
Liniment and 1t gave nfe instant and
permanent relief Is cents per bottle.
signed A Is. SN1IL, Hamilton, Mich.
For sale by B. VanDen Bergh.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
NORTH SHADE.
)eath, the Reaper who Respects Neither
Age Wealth nor Condition
Common Mowers

WOWcib
Within the last two weeks two of North
shades residents have passed TO that home
| from whence none ever return. Floyc
Glover, worthy young man. aged about 30
years, who resided on section 3G with his
widowed mother, was buried week before
last, the funeral services being held at the
Christian church at Maple Rapids, and his
remains were followed TO their last resting
resting place by a large concourse OF people.
He was buried by the side of his father in
| the Payne cemetery, near where he was
born. On the 30th nit. Moses G.. Tyler,
who lived on section 80, died, and was buried
in the same yard on the 81 inst. Mr.. Tyler
was born in Genesee county, n. Y, III June,
1922, and was nearly ~ years of age at the
time Of his death. Mr.. Tyler settled Oh the
farm where he died in 1868, when the town
and the county were almost an unbroken
wilderness, and had to undergo the privations
incident to the settlement of a new country.
Although his path was never strewn with
roses, yet he was never known to complain,
but always met his friends with a smile and
a warm grasp of the hand, and was ever
ready to lend a helping hand to those in
distress. Nearly forty carriages followed
the hearse 10 the grave, thereby attesting
their sincere respect. IF blossoms are
an indication of plenty of fruit we shall have
it, if nothing happens to injure or destroy it.
Oats are up. and farmers have their corn
ground well under way.-The common
wealers aud industrial army ought to be
called common wowers or lazy army, if we
may judge them by their acts. The proper
thing for them to do is to disband, go home,
and go to work as the rest of Us have to do,
and wait patiently for another opportunity
to vote the Republican ticket, and thereby
atone for the political sin they committed
in 1892. PIONEER.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
/ Intended for last week.
CLARENCE.

The beautiful summer weather. its bright
flowers and warm showers, Is here again. We
have plenty of the fragrant Trailing Arbutus
here.-Geo. Payne three miles out lost
valuable horse, with collie, last week, and
hrs gone down near Alma to buy another one.
We had fire here Monday; one of the
carloads of logs got on fire from the loco
motive. The alarm was given and the boys
tarned ont with will; Hart, Baker and
Harry Parsons among the rest. Just like a
couple of spring chickens they got to throw
ing water after the fire was out, and distrib-
sting a few pals toward each other, at
short range with good precision, they crap
yaed. The first fall was in Harris favor and
Marry vent in kerplunk and came up with
GA Ugh, but out and at it again with the same
result. By this time Hart got laughing so
bard that the next grip was Harry's and
Hart took Harry's place in the pond and
came up with the same doleful ugh. Then
like good boys they went away arm in arm
70 look for dry clothing. Griffin
has moved his family into house at Knowles
siding wfie he works here in the yards. We
-eJpect to tell you of more moving into town
an our next.-There is some fine fishing in
the trout streams near here but our city hotel
has no landlord, 80 there is no place for the
tourist to lodge, though today is the beginning
of the season.-Our agent reports twenty
Ave carloads billed out from this station
during the month of April, while the ticket
sales nave amounted 20 one hundred twenty
Eve dollars and forty-five cents, the freight
received to fifty nine dollars and fifty nine
cents. A far showing Tor a station only a
very little more than month old.
An awful accident on the "Dinkie" line last
week by which life was lost in very short
time, the train cutting the body nearly
Iengthwise aud mangling it in bad shape
snd there was one dog less.=-Wm. circuit
of Lake George, while handling 80 calibei
revolver, accidentally discharging the bal
passed along side his fore1nger 40 close thai
&c touched in two places. Utley
has opened up as practicing veterinary
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
RAINS LEAVE AIM

TRAINS LEAVE ALMA
NORTH SOUTH
No I'LL rs, "A, IN. No. s--S:55 a. m
No 5-9.i4 y. IA No 1-4;i3, p, III.
II BENNETT, V. = HOLLENBECK
Gen. Pass Agent. Agent, Alma.
Toledo Ohio
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

+Daily. tDaily with Sleeping Car.
Drawing Room Cars between Saginaw and
Detroit
Pullman palace sleeping car between Saginaw
and Chicago daily
W. c. BRITToN, Agent
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

sDaily.
Connecting at Detroitin Union Depot with all
Trains OF Grand Trunk R'y fer Canada and the
East.
$50 p. m. west, and 9:35 a. m and
ached. Extra charge only 25 cents for any dis
lance.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
This SAFE LASTS only Is Gays,
from .llau Is to .n0y 10.

Our furniture stock is complete and prices down to
meet Coxey's Army. Come and see us, and we will
save you DIMES and S S S s SIS SIS
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
Arisen From lis Ashes.
The New Mill of c. w. Alt
house at Ithaca

rne Finest OF Its Kind and the Beet
Equipped OF Any ia the Country
Built and Running In n Sinsle
Month from Time of Beginning
Reconstruction
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK
lneonnection with trains of T.. A. A. & y. MR'y

Elegant Pullman Seepers from Durand to Chi
cago. and east TO Toronto, Montreal. Niagara
Falls. New York and Boston
W. T.. DAVIS G, c. CRAIGlE
zen. Fass Ileket Agt, Trav. Pass Agt
chicago. Ill Detroit. Mich
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
TOLEDO, SAGINAW & MUsKEGoN R'Y

Leave Ashley. Lv. Ashley for Detroit
8 80 a. IN. for Muskegon. at 1910 D M
3:05 p. m for Muskegon. Close connections are
JSO. w. LORD, made at Owosso Junct'n
Traffic Manager, with all trains of d. q.
Detroit. III. Il NJ. R'y.
BEN. FLETCHER T. p. A.
Detroit Mich
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
Tote Not an African Word.

In nothing is the student of Ameri-
can folk-speech so liable to error as in
assigning geographical limits to word
or phrase. The English local dialects
were pretty thoroughly mixed. One
gained little more dominance in one
place, another in another, but stray
provincial term is prone to turn up in
place the most unexpected. Tote
has long been regarded as word Of
African origin. confined to certain re.
gions where negroes abound. A few
years ago Mr.. c. A. Stephens, in a
story. mentioned an 'old tote road' in
Maine. wrote to inquire, and he told
me that certain old portage roads, now
abandoned. bore that name. l find the
word used in "Remonstrancen from
the people of Gloucester county, Va,
preserved in the public record office in
London. This paper bears date 1877,
when there were four times as many
white bond servants as negroes in Vir-
ginia. Tote" appears to have been q
well-understood English word in the
seventeenth century. 1t meant then,
as now, to bear. Burlesque writers
who represent negro as "toting a
horse to water" betray their ignorance.
In Virginia English, the negro scar
ries" the horse to water by making the
horse s.tote" him.-Edward Eggleston,
in Century
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
Painting on a Kernel of Corn.

II is said that the smallest piece OF
painting in the world has recently
been executed by Flemmish artist
It is painted on the smooth side of a
grain of common white corn, and pic
lures mill and miller mounting q
stairs with & sack of grain on his back.
The mill is represented as standing on
n terrace, and near it is horse and
cart, while group Of several peasants
are shown In the road near by. The
picture is beautifully distinct, every
object being finished with microscopic
fidelity, yet by careful measurement It
is shown that the whole painting does
not cover a surface Of half an inch
square.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
TRAINING HINDoo GIRLS.
Beginning at Seven, She's an Accomplished
Housewife mt Fifteen.

Beginning at Seven, She's ar Accomplished
Housewife mt Fifteen.
The greatest care and anxiety of the
Hindoo mother is to bring up her
daughter to home life and to make her
a good housewife.
When girl is seven years of age the
mother teaches her to cook and to wash
the pots. Hindoos have two kinds Of
washing. One is the daily washing of
everyday apparel, for the clothes
are changed every morning after bath
ing. Every Hindoo must bathe before
he takes his meals. Religion requires
that no food be cooked before the per-
son who cooks it has bathed. Hence
every woman must bathe before she
cooks. A woman first gives bath to
her children, then she takes a bath
herself and thereafter goes to cook.
The clothes are changed and washed
every day.
The little girl washes the smaller
clothes on stone and hangs them for
drying. She assists her mother in many
small things; she sweeps the kitchen,
she fetches the utensils, she cuts and
slices vegetables, she pounds and grinds
the spices, she takes out the small peb-
bles from the rice and cleans it in
water, and, in short, she does all the
petty work, assisting her mother. If
she has an infant sister or brother she
feeds it and lulls it to sleep in the era
die. She gathers flowers and weaves
them into wreaths with which the Hin
doc women adoSn their hair.
The mother teaches her to sew and
to embroider and to make her toilet,
which is simple. She has no paint for
her cheeks and no hooks and thorns in
her hair. She adorns her hair with or
namental flowers made of gold. These
are fixed on the knot Of hair. A small
round mark of red paint is made on her
forehead. The absence of this mark
from the forehead of a woman indicates
that she is widow, for widows have
not the privilege of wearing it. By the
time she is fifteen she learns all things
pertaining to general housekeeping
and cookery. News.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
HOPKINS AND HIS HAIR.
Wearing His Hat Put One Mans Locks In
Peril.

Peril.
mo wonder we get bald while we
are young" remarked Hopkins to q
group of friends who had met in the
office of one of their number. There's
Whittaker"-pointing to a man at q
desk-''Tll bet his hat hasn't been of
his head to-day"
That's right" said Whitaker, cheer
fully II put it ON at seven, when 1
left home this morning, and ate my
lunch down town with it on, and it's
beginning to feel as If had brick in
it, too"
why do you wear it in the Officer"
asked one of the boys.
0"Habit, that's all. feel more ut
home with it on. However, might as
well take it off now and give my head
rest"
He removed it suddenly and batch
Of letters fell to the floor. He stared
at them moment, as if he could not
quite comprehend what they we're do
ing there; then he laughed, but rather
family.
my wife gave them to me to mail
this morning. They are to invite some
Of her lady friends to five o'clock tea,
or something, tomorrow afternoon.
Say, boys, I'll put a special delivery
stamp on each blessed one, and they'll
be in time"
You'll be bald, just the same, old
boy" said Hopkins, maliciously.-De-
roit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
Bub'a Special Hat,

A few days since woman entered a
certain hat store. She had in tow a
boy of about ten years Of age-that is,
his body was ten years old. but his
face looked like man of thirty.
II want cheap hat for this boy.
don't care what it is SO long as it is
cheap"
The halter pulled over his stock and
finally presented to the woman hat
worth about fifty cents.
II guess this will satisfy you," he
said. 1T is fifty cents"
"All right; I'll take it. l wanted
something cheap for the boy to have
Ats in," and then she went out.-Syra-
cuse Post.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
No Life in Mummy Wheat.

An experiment on Lord Winchelsea's
"Cable" farm has just decided the oft
mooted question whether or not the
mummy wheat found in the Egyptian
tombs really possesses the germs of
life. A few months ago Lord Sheffield,
on his return from Egypt, gave Lord
Winchelsea handful of wheat which
he had himself taken from sarcopha-
gus containing a mummy. One hun.
dred of these grains were carefully
planted under a glass frame. The re-
suit was awaited with interest by
those who knew of the experiment,
covered to have rotted away.-London
News.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
THEY KNEW.
And What Was the Use OF Any Yermali.
ties?

tleAT
AS rule women have no use for par
liamentary law, and very few ideas Of
organization. This was humorously
illustrated the other day, when half q
dozen ladies met to organize church
charitable society. After they had
sat looking at each other trifle
nervously for awhile, one of them said:
ut seems we are here. Now, what
are we going to do?"
"Oh, DEAR" said another, 81 don't
know, but do let us do something"
What they did was to fall to talking
voluminously upon the work they ex-
pected to accomplish and the poor
folks they knew in the congregation.
They spent two hours or more at this,
and discussed a good many plans. As
they were adjourning one of them said:
.'Oh, / suppose we ought to have a
president"
"Why, of course we ought" the rest
assented.u
II don't suppose anybody will object
to Mrs. Smith? Let's have her."
"All right. let's" chirruped the rest.
And nobody objected to names pro-
posed for secretary and treasurer.
The secretary few days afterward
consulted her husband as to how she
should write up the minutes.
''You should begin" said the man,
"by saying who was chairman of the
meeting"
"Why, we didn't have any chairman,
broke in his wife.
"Who, then, put the motions before
the meeting?"
''Oh, we didn't have any notions
said the lady, laughing. Somebody
would say she thought such thing
would be nice, and the rest would say
they thought SO, too. That was all. >
''In that case" said the man, some
what perplexed, ''you will have to set
it down in the minutes that such meas
ures were informally approved. But
you must state clearly the name of the
club, the constitution and bylaws you
adopted and"
But" interrupted the lady. 1--WE
haven't got any name, and we didn't
adopt anv constitution and bylaws.
What was the use? We all knew what
we were there for. Besides, we didn't
think of tn. Y. Herald.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
USELESS DRUoolNo.
The Misappllcation of Medicine by Many
Patients.

1t Is fortunate that most people are
In the enjoyment of some natural ahil-
ity to withstand disease, since they are
thus freed from much useless expert.
menting with drugs.
Even when one is suffering from a
rather serious disorder, it will general
ly be found that attention to the nat
ural laws of health is more rational
mode of treatment than dosing.
Aside from the uselessness of endeav-
oring to find something for every all
ment, however slight, the practice sets
up in the patient an appetite, as it
were, for various connections, and pre-
disposes him to the habit of being on
the watch for cure-alls
Not that we should omit treatment of
Serious illness, or cease our efforts to
provide what are recognized as specifics
for them. Prompt recognition of the
urgency of case and careful attention
to the prescribed treatment have doubt
less saved many lives.
But to confound case which is real
ly deserving of sympathy and careful
treatment with one whose only claim
to attention is that the patient is '.mis-
erable," is highly inexcusable. To
give medicine to such person may al
most be called crime, since, as we
have said, drugs are useless and posi-
lively harmful when they are not di-
rected against a specific disorder in an
intelligent manner.
A person who has long been suf.
ferer, or who has shown signs of being
'spleeny." should be encouraged to do
without drugs as far as possible. He
should be led to look upon medicines
as in the main simply mixtures of poi.
son, the use of which is to be avoided
except under the most urgent circum-
stances.
In this way the moral strength of the
patient is reinforced, and he is ena bled
to get away from his own troubles, and
out of himself, into more wholesome
and unselfish sphere.
But what is of far more Importance,
and more in line with the point which
is aimed at in this paper, is that a large
proportion of the troubles which so
weighed down the body of the sufferer
will be found to have taken flight
N. Y. Ledger.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
COL. GiLDER'S MISTAKE.
He Ordered His Man to Get Load" but
Neglected to Add, ..Of Wood"

lie OrOereQ HIS man To Uet "LOa0,' Out
Neglected to Add, "Of Wood"
Col. w. II. Glider in his spare mo-
ments indulges in homestead. This
homestead in in quaint old Borden.
town, n. j., and revels in "hip" roofs,
large, open tireplaces and antique
mantels. In charge of the old place
are Mrs. Watson and her husband.
The latter is born and bred Jersey.
man, but, strange to say, served in the
confederate army. He happened to be
in the south when the trouble arose,
and he just mixed in with the ''secesh. -
"For which, +" says the colonel, when
ever look at him l feel like shooting
him, for old associations sake"
Watson is skilled mechanic, but has
a disposition which divorced him from
work years ago. He also has thor
ough Jerseyman's thirst for liquor.
81 went down to the old place several
days ago." says Col. Glider, ''just to
look around and have good chicken
dinner. l took friend along, enticed
him by my descriptions of Mrs. Wat,
sons cooking.
''Now, have those old fireplaces, and
l concluded to secure some wood for
winter use.
How much wood will need?" I
asked Watson.
"'Well, replied that worthy, you can
get one-dollar load or two-dollar
load reckon a two-dollar load will
about carry you through
"'Well, here's two dollars; go and
get two-dollar load,' l answered, and
he disappeared. In doing this l broke
practice of never giving this man u
cent.
about two hours later looked out
of the window, and there beheld Wat
son with maudlin gravity trying to
navigate his way through the gate into
the grounds.
81 had neglected to tell him what
kind of two-dollar load wanted him
to get."-N. Y. Recorder.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
Making It Serious.

He had fingered at the gate in the
enhancing presence of the girl who is
all the world to him. Her father had
slammed the front shutters several
times, but in vain. At last she muir
INJURED.
''Herber t."
what is it?'
"You have said good night several
times.
"Why-er-so have"
Il want to trust you-but | can't
help wondering whether yon mean
other things you say to me any more
than yor 10 that. Washington Star.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
A Welcome.

Senator Sorgham," said the constit-
uent, "we're mighty glad ter see We
home agin."
"Thank you" replied the senator, his
bosom swelling with appreciation.
''Yes, sir, we're that glad ter see We
home agin that we're goin' ter do the
best we kin ter fix it SOS yen stay here
the rest o. yer nat'ral days. Washing
ton Star
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
A sbrewd Match breaker.

Pater-No, sir; can not allow you
to marry my daughter.
Suitor-But love her!
Pater-There's family secret must
tell you.
Suitor-Speak, speak!
Pater-There's insanity in the fami-
ly. She is deranged.
Suitor-What is her mania, then?
Pater-Her desire to marry you.-
Puck.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
Not Very Graceful.

Little Ethel-At the circus saw
monkey riding dog. but he didn't sit
up like a man on a horse.
Mother-How did he ride?
Little Ethel-Oh, he screwed up his
legs, and stopped way over so his head
most touched the dogs ears. He looked
most as funni as boy on n bicycle, =
Good News
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
HIa Refuge.

Mrs. Fussy-I see the papers say that
hats will be trimmed higher than ever
this season.
Mr.. Fussy = All right; remember,
now, that whenever you want to go to
the theater again we must take cheap
gallery seats!-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Van Buren press., 1894-12-08
The Proper Thing To Do.

Stranger-For heavens sake, what's
that unearthly noise?
Host-Oh. that's my neighbor's old
est daughter. She has desire to be-
come an opera singer.
Stranger (meditatively)-Poor thing!
Poor thing? And is she being treated
for it?-Somerville journal.