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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11

ing Of her had been better than tue
lovers
At the elevated railroad station to
which Chester Sewall assembled that
night when returning home placard
fascinated his sight. It announced for
sale book bearing the seductive title,
Chow to Win a Fortune In Wall
Street" Not how to do business in
Wall street, or how to make living
there, but chow to make a fortunel''
Why, that was just what he wanted. 1t
was providential. Inside the great glass
front Of the newsstand, closed down for
the night, the tantalizing spectacle Of q
pile of the little volumes bearing that
title was presented to his eyes. He felt
as if he could hardly restrain until
morning his impotence to possess copy.
What surprising thing that so many
remained unsoldl The public must be
blind! He remembered the story Of the
man who, on wager, in % crowded
London thoroughfare, offered to sell
from basl1etful of the coins gold sover-
eigns for shilling each, but the astute
public was so suspicious Of trick that
he did not in an hour find a purchaser for
a single one. After that Chester thought
he could hardly be surprised that the
books remained unsold. But he would
be no such fool as to let slip q chance
like that. He would get the book; then
he would get the fortune.
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noblest impulses Of our natures that it is
not approvingly characterized by some
body as practical. So far as I have
been able to learn, neither lofty thoughts,
generous sentiments, soulful aspirations,
artistic sensibilities, humanizing emo
tions, ardent patriotism nor pure love
is practical Nothing is practical but
money"
lima looked up and laughed rip
ping, silvery little laugh-as she re-
plied:
Naturally, since money is practical
~ necessity. Even if we are not very
practical persons, we are surrounded by
those who are and who compel us to be
so, in spite Of ourselves. The butcher,
the baker and the candlestick maker are
all intensely practical, and so are our
requirements for their services, for which
we must make practical return. cam
not see how even the loftiest soul, in a
state Of civilization, could possibly get
alorg without practical money, OF its
pre- ctical equivalent.
''Oh, Of course you are right when it
comes to that. I did not mean to decry
money. It is necessary thing, and I
don't dream Of trying to get along with
out it. But an excessive amount of it,
more than one actually requires, is sure
~ not sine qua non to happy exist
ence."
"No, perhaps not. But what one ac-
tually requires is o very elastic limita-
ton. That depends upon ones tastes,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Addte laid her bro1o upon her mothers
knee.

Addie laid her broaD upon her mothers
| knee.
her brow upon her mothers knee and
sobbed aloud. After long silence the
widow answered in a choking voice that
she with difficulty kept steady:
81 have always made the recovery Of
the wealth robbed from us condition
before your marriage. I will do so no
longer. Let your fathers name be clear
ed, and will not stand in the way of
your marrvin0. But that is all the con-
cession can make, my child, all can
make, and I do not really know if 1
should give up so much. "
"Ah, you dear, good mammal cried
the impulsive girl, throwing her arms
about the old woman in fond embrace.
IT knew you would pity me- And you
will let John help us, will you not? He
is wise and will know better than we
what steps to take. l am sure hew .es
to give us his aid, and perhaps If he
does we may not have so long to wal F"
eyes," replied the widow after long
reflection, eff he wishes it, and can do
anything, am willing that he shall.
But I must be the judge Of what he may
know and have direction CT what he
shall do. I will only give ny consent
upon your solemn promise that you will
rigidly respect that requirement.
ST promise.
"He is not yet well enough known to
me that can trust to him the name
that even you, my child, do not yet
know, the name Of the rich and power
full scoundrel who has cursed our lives.
Against that man we must work very
secretly. IF he should know that am
plotting to bring his evil deed to light,
he would stop at nothing to crush us.
He must not suspect that we remember,
or even that we live. An incautious
word uttered by your lover might inno-
Gently betray us to utter failure. No;
cannot trust yet to his discretion.
"How, then, can he aid us?''
"By finding that missing witness, the
robbers tool and accomplice. That
mans name I will tell him. It is
Michael McCaffrey. And about him I
will freely give all the information I
can. When your lover has found him,
where he can be seized, our day will
have dawned, and we may bid defiance
to our enemy"
"And may write to John to come to
us?''
eyes,"
TCoNTINUED NEXT WEEK.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
II. G.. MORRICI
7. M. EULER,

C. MORRIcE,
I'm. EULER,
Committee.
On motion of Supr. Morrice the report
was accepted and adopted by the follow
ing yea and nay vote:
Yeas-Crane, Cronk, Euler, Harper,
Hartshorn, Houghton, Lyman, Laverock,
F. G.. Morrice, Parker, Peacock, Reed,
Rush, Stanlake, Trowbridge, Washburn,
Young-16; nays, O.
Supr. Harper, chairman of the commit
tee on Claims and Accounts submitted
the following report:
To the Honorable the Board of Super
visors:
Your committee on Claims and Ac-
counts would respectfully submit the fol-
lowing as their report, recommending
the allowance of the several amounts as
given below, and that the clerk be au-
tborized to draw orders for the same.
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TCoNTINUED NEXT WEEK. ]
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
f. &. MORRICE,
T. M. EULER,

On motion of Supr. Crane the
report was accepted and adopted by
the following yea and nay vote: tt
Yeas-Crane, Euler, Houghton, LAYER
ock, F. II. Morris, F. G. Morrice, Parker,
Peacock, Reed, Rush, Scougale, Stanlake
IL; nays-O.
On motion of Supr. Martin the election
of Superintendent of the Poor was made
special order of business for Thursday,
the 10Th day of October, A. ID. 1896, at 2
o'clock p. m.
On motion of Supr. Parker the prose-
cutting attorney was requested to be pres
ent at the session of the Board tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock.
On motion of Supr. Lyman the Board
took a recess until tomorrow morning at
nine o'clock a. m.
j. A. MoRRIcE, Chairman.
Countersigned,
d. @. COOPER, Clerk.
At a regular session of the Board of Su-
pervisors for the County of Shiawassee,
continued and held at the court house of
Corunna in said county on Wednesday,
the fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1896.
Board called to order by Chairman
Morrice. Roll called by the clerk Pres
sent, suprs. Buell., Crane, Cronk, Euler,
Fuller, Harper, Hartshorn, Houghton,
Lyman, Laverock, Martin, F. II. Morris,
j. "A. Morrice, f. g. Morrice, Parker,
Peacock, Reed, Rush, Scougale, Stanlake,
Trowbridge, Washburn, Young.
Minutes of yesterdays meeting read
and approved.
Supr. Morrice from the committee on
Justices, Constables and Coroners' claims
and accounts submitted the following re-
port:
visors:
Your committee on Justices, Consta.
bles and Coroners' claims and accounts
would respectfully submit the following
as their report, recommending the allow
ance of the several amounts as given be-
low and that the clerk be authorized to
draw orders for the same
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!. "A.
K. w. WAsHBURN,
Committee.
On motion of supr Dish the report
was accepted and adopted by the follow
ing yea and nay vote:
Yeas-Crane, Cronk, Euler, Harper,
Hartshorn, Houghton, Lyman, F.. G.
Morrice, Parker, Peacock, Rush, Stanlake
Trowbridge, Washburn, Young-15; nays
%.
Supr. Parker offered the following reso-
luton
Resolved, by the Board of Supervisors
of Shiawassee county that the compensa-
ton of the members of the board of coun-
ty canvassers shall be 50 day while
rendering services as members of said
board. CHAs. w. PARKER.
Oct IA, 1896.
On motion of Supr. Parker the resolu-
ton was accepted and adopted.
Supr. Peacock offered the following
resolution:
To the Hon. the. Board of Supervisors:
Resolved, that the supervisors of their
respective townships and wards of this
county be and hereby instructed to levy
a tax of one tenth of one mill on each
dollar to be levied and collected as pro-
vided by law upon all taxable property
Of each of their respective town.
ships and wards for the purpose of Great.
ing fund for the relief of honorable dis
charged INDECENT Union soldiers, sailors
and marines, and the INDECENT wives,
widows and minor children of such in
digent or deceased Union soldiers, sailors
or marines. j. PEACOCK.
Supr. Peacock moved that the resolu-
ton be accepted and adopted. ~
On motion of Supr. Harper the resolu-
ton was laid upon the table until one
O'Clock this afternoon
The clerk presented the following re-
port of the county purchasing agent:
To the Honorable the Board of Super
visors:
The following is statement of purchas-
es made by us as purchasing agent for
the year ending September 30, 1896.
RUDOLPH Colby,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Irrna sat at the ptanO.

habits Of life, social surroundings. The
best rule is that the more one has of it
the safer one will be Of having what is
actually required.
"That appears to be o sound PROPOSE
ton. But to return to the Immediately
serious subject for consideration. While
your father declines to give his consent
to our marriage, his opposition seems to
be rather passive than active. He as
good as gave me to understand that you
might do as you pleased about it. And
Of course you understand what hope
you will please to do, my darling" !
While speaking he had possessed him
self of her left hand. Her right con-
tinued making the soft, dreamy music,
and she looked at him seriously, stead
lily, without reply. He went on:
II want you to become my wife at
once. Let us go out quietly and get
married. There is nothing to stand in
the way Of our doing 90, and when the
deed is done feel convinced that he
will find it quite natural and will for
give it,"
She shook her heaa very positively as
she answered:
"You think 80 beoause you do not
know papa. do. A stranger to him
cannot Judge at all what he thinks by
what he says. It is not even easy al.
ways to understand what he does do
not at all like his apparent willingness
that, I shall do as I please, throwing
all the responsibility on me. You may
rest assured that If he once meant mo-
he will continue to mean it, and until
the reasons for his negative cease to ex-
list you might as well try to push over
one Of the East river bridge towers as
to move him. It will not do to count
upon his forgiveness.
"Well, then, let us go and get mar
ried anyway"
"Now, Chester, do you think that
would be wise? You have your way to
make in the world, and in your present
position would only be injuriously ham,
pered by wife. F"
"He has told you, I presume, the
meager limit Of my resources?" asked
the young mau. flushing and speaking
m tone Of bitterness
"Well, yes, he did, and OF course,
when you come to think soberly about
It, You must recognize that it would be
preposterous for you to get married on
any such amount.
''The struggle for fortune would be
easy with you by my side. Your love
would be constant inspiration to me,
taliman to command success"
"That is not practical way Of look
ing at it. My love, Chester, dear, may
inspire you quite as much and still not
trammel you if for the present we re-
main as we are. Let my father pay my
bills, as he is well able and content to
do, until you shall have achieved such
success as will command his respect and
win his consent. Then I will be your
wife, but do not ask me to, do 30 now. :"
Long, but vainly, he argued with
her. She could not be moved from that
position, which was the outcome Of her
deliberate Judgment, arrived at the
night before. The fathers understand.
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Official Proceedings of the Board Of
Supervisors of 'Shiawassee County.
Printed By authority.
Continued from last week.)

Supr. F. G. Morrice from the commit
tee on Justices, Constables and Coropers
Claims and Accounts submitted the fol-
lowing report:
To the honorable the Board OF Super
visors: Your committee on Justices, Con-
stables and Coroners Claims and Ac.
counts would respectfully submit the fol-
lowing as their report, recommending
the allowance of the several amounts as
given below, and that the clerk be auth
oriced to draw orders for the same.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11

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Sold BY Drueeists or sent postpaid receptofprce
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Goes into the best homes
in Shiawassee county and its
contents are carefully read by
an intelligent class of readers.
the use of its advertising col:
umns convinces advertisers o.
this fact.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
HALL Caine and Gladstone.

He (Hall Caine) left school at the age OF
10 and was apprenticed by his father to
John Murray, architect and land surveyor.
The lad had no special faculties Tor archl-
lecture beyond possessing fair knowl-
edge of drawing. Whom only l3 he drew
the map of England which appeared In the
first edition Of Gill's Geography"
John Murray was agent for tho Ian
cashire estates of w. K. Gladstone and ID
was In this way that Hall Caine first be-
came known TO the statesman, who from
the first has been among his kecnest ad-
mirers. One of the first occasions on which
no attracted Mr.. Gladstone's attention was
one day when he was experimenting tho
surveying of Seaforth, Gladstonc's estate.
Gladstone was surprised to sec SO small a
lad in charge of the chainmen and began
TO talk with him. He must have been inn
pressed by the lads conversation, for he
patted his head and told him he would be
n flneSnan yet. Mr.. Gladstone has never
forgotten this incident. Some years later,
John Murray having failed in tho mean
while, an offer was made To Hall Caine
from the Gladstones of the stewardship of
the Seaforth estate at salary of Gl2o a
year. Although the thought OF SO much
wealth, - he relates, overwhelmed mo- l
did not see in this offer the prospect of any
career-indeod this had been pointed out
To me---and / determined To continue in
the architects ofi.Ie" He accordingly ut.
tached himself rs pupil or apprentice to
Richard Owens, tho architect. - Mcclure S
MagaZine.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
Mountain Mahogany.

One Of the most remarkable products Of
Nevada is species of wood known as
mountain mahogany, which, when dry, is
rs hard as lockwood, very fine grained, OF
rich rod color and in weight very heavy.
1t has been used for boxes for shafting,
and in some instances for slides and dies
In quartz batteries. 1t burns with a blaze
as long lasting as ordinary wood, and II is
then found almost unchanged in form.
converted to "a charcoal that lasts about
twice as long Is ordinary wood, giving
also an intense hoat greater than coal
gives. Another notable species of wood
having extraordinary durability is said to
be the quebarcho wood Of Argentina.
Posts that have been In the ground $50
years, In soil alternately soddon 10y trop-
teal rains or parched by intense heat, are
found to be In sound condition. The wood
Is also described as free from attacks of
Insects, does not decay and is not com
pressible, and weighs nearly 80 pounds
per cubic foot.--New York sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
Solving a Problem.

The covering of "a sofa cushion had been
embroidered and the rufllo sewed on and
tho young wife, proud of her needlework,
showed IL to her husband
"Tm bothered about tho size, I" she re-
marked. The cushions are 30 and "a
inches square. This is just "a inches
square, and l don't see how / can spare
enough To turn in for "a inch cushion
"Cut IL down 10 23 inches and got 90
inch cushion. You can't get "a inches In
side of 20, you know" the husband OK
planned, his superior knowledge coming
To tho rescue.
The noxt day the wife brough. home the
cushion
What size did you get9" the husband
asked.
"Twenty-six inches"
"Twcnty-six You can't get GO inside
of 23."
"Of course I can. It's SO flat and fluffy,
you see, that | can stug IL in. Tho sales
woman said everybody docs that. New
York Time
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
Fiction Stranger Than Truth.

There is now. living at Plymouth an old
man, named William Lawson, who has
had remarkable career. Mention is made
Of the fact that he is the father of the Cap
tain lawson who wrote very successful
book, some years ago published by Chap
man & Hall, entitled Wandorings In New
Guinea" This book had "a remarkable
history.
1t was really skit on Stanley's TRAY
els In Africa, the secondary idea of the
author being that it would serve as an in
teresting book Of adventure tor boys
There was hardly spot In the civilized
world from which Captain Lawson did not
feceive congratulations upon his work
People took II quite seriously. Among 9TH
ers Professor Goldsmith of Berlin wrote
for extracts. DR.. Ferrara, who accompanied
tho Prince Of Wales in India asked to be
allowed TO use an extract from IL, eontain-
ing an account OF n tiger fight, for publi-
cation in one of his own books. Sir John
Lubbock, who was at the head of the Royal
society at the time, wrote TO him and ask
ed him 10 go TO London and give a lecture
on his travels Mono Of these eminent peo-
pie was aware that what Captain Lawson
had written was, in fact, a very fine work
of fiction, and that he knew no moro from
personal experience about New Guinea
than they did themselves.-W Western Week
ly Mirror.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
The Beetle and the Grasshopper.

A beetle and grasshopper met In a
path one day, and, although there was
plenty of room for both, neither would
turn aside.
"Como, now, but why don't you give
wayfv demanded the beetle
'Who are you that must give up my
rightsY" replied tho hopper.
"Be careful OF your llnguagc, sirl"
"And don't you rub against mel"
And they were on the point OF combat
when a turkey coming along the path
espied them and gobblcd mp both.
Moral. Men who 90 20 law for their
rights become the victims of the lawyer
Detroit Free Press
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
The Ouadrille.

The quadrille, which for many years has
enjoyed full and vigorous life, was In
troduced into France by an English pro-
fossor in 17I0, being borrowed from the
English country dance. Ii did not gain
the favor Of the Parisians until 17i5,
when Rameau inserted It in his ballet
s'Les Fetes de Polymine. The first
quadrille danced at Almack's was in 1915.
The origin Of the names Of the figures
from "a History of Dancing" ("Ge-
schichte de Tanzkunst,' Won Albert Ger
winski), Weber, Leipzig, 1861, deserves
quotation
Pantalon was so called because danced
to the tune of fsvorite song, beginning,
lie Plantation
DE Toinon
Ma pas de fond,
a contre danse very fashionable in the year
1900.
Pas Etc was, however, soon given up,
through its difficulty, though the name OF
LITE was retained. In 1902 contre
danse was produced by Julien, the second
part Of which began with the imitation OF
. cocks crow.
La Poule was retained, although the
original melody has long been forgotten.
Trenise was celebrated dancing mas
ter, who, in 1900, invented the figure that
bears his name. Whenever he danced, ev
erybody ilocked up TO see and admire
La Pastourolle was so named on account
of the melody and the accompaniment,
which resernbled the vilanelles, or peas
ant, dances.
Finale requires no explanation n. Notes
and Queries.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
HAD NO "FACE VALUE"
xevIy Engaged Girl Put 60 Confusion by
= Mistake at tho Bank.

She was a shrinking, timid blond girl,
IN the first Tutoring springtimo OF her
0ret engagement. She had been wooed
and won by stalwart young dry goods
clerk. He, with the complacence of man
who had looked bolts OF dress goods and
rolls of gorgeous calicces full in tho face
for years, had bent his naughty gaze on n
camera one day. And the fiuttering blond
girl was happy, for now she was carrying
the portrait of her lover with her wherever
she went.
Although riches was a small matter un-
der the circumstances, sho thought IL wise
20 have little pin money Of her own, and
she had begun 90 put money Ia the savings
bank.
The other day she tripped into the par
ticular bank she patronized, her handbook
and several other little things in her hands,
Including the last paper back novel and
few patterns of volyeteen.
Several people were crowded around the
cashiers window, but as they were all
men, and she was pretty, they allowed her
TO get TO the window first.
"How muchg" asked the cashier briskly
indeed rather too briskly for strict po-
liteuess.
s'Three dollars" she answered, trying
not to blush, as she saw thai redneadcd
man was taking warm personal interest
In her affairs.
s'Three dollarsg All right" said the
cashier. He gathered in the three bills
and the handbook in It's envelope with "a
flourish, sloshing around as ostentatiously
as butcher selling chuck steak.
AS he pulled the book from the envelope
there was heartless grin on his hitherto
blank face and he rasped out TO the
shrinking blond:
II beg your pardon. This amt the
book.
The cashier was holding up, for the gaze
OF the redhoaded man and others, the por-
trait OF the man to whom the blond had
given ber heart She had slipped the
portrait into the big envelope to keep it
from the profane gaze of the world and
had handed it To that cashier by mistake.
The blond Is thinking Of retiring TO
convent and the naughty young man at
the dry goods store, innocent of what has
abashed his flancee is spending all bis sal
AIRY on flowers and theater tickets in tho
endeavor TO overcome her settled melan-
holy.--New York Press.