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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-11-27

Ghrlsfian 1CinuCn snrNtcn@l O'Clock
ever Sunday murnanE. Chiidruna Huuany
school fQ1n a. fuhnauu. Cruce a Crucn
huildlnE. up stalra- Friday eveninE mest-
% stairs Every uze cordially inulfcd O.
worship wlth ~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-11-27

First Baptist Church-nruadway street
services every Suudav az a 90 a. ~. and u
.. n Prayer mectinE wednesday rucninFs1
az o'clock. Snudng Hchnul nf@sm a. al
Choir practice Friday eveninEas af u'ciuck
ur. Young. Pastor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-11-27
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Episcopal rhmrrh-EnrwHrna mvnrW Eunaa
az 10 nscinrE e. r. anf = ~ r. NJ rshnfr - =
ticc Friday cveninE
Ayers. Pastor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-11-27

-. 4. Church suuth-Curncr nruaduay azd
Church street rrwnchinE every Snhhnah
morning af ~ a. m. and raa1 4. n PRAYER
meNtinE "wednesday mWumiuE AZ go SEA.
day school every sabbath af % a. o. Ep-
Al. woriry. Pastor.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Two Boyish Warriors.

1t was only IA little shepherd boy, you
will remember, who delivered the Israelites
from the hands of the Philistines and saved
his nation in time of serious peril The
youth David went out alone and almost
empty handed when all the warriors of the
army were afraid, and he slew the great
giant Goliath of Gath, whose height, the
Bible tells us, was six cubits and a span.
This boy was "A born fighter, for before he
slew the giant lac had killed bear and a
lion when they tried To steal his father S
sheep
But in later times rs well there have
been several young warriors who made
great names for themselves, such, for in
stance, as Alexander, who won the battle of
the Ceranicus at % years of age The great
Napoleon was lieutenant of artillery be-
fore he was Is and young man when he
commanded the armies Of Italy Think of
it At the age when our West Point cadets
are graduated this young Corsican had held
an important command i'm the French
armies, winning victories and laying the
foundations OF the most famous military
career the world has ever seen Arthur
Hoeber in St Nicholas
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
The Doctors Extend Their Time.

Services first three months free.
staff Of eminent physicians and sur.
geons from the British Medical lnsti-'
tute Of Detroit have opened perma-
nent Office in Grand Rapids,in the Wild
dicomb Building, "a Monroe ST. All
invalids who call upon them before
Sept. LIST will receive services for three
months free Of charge. This will not
only include consultation, examination
and advice, but also all surg ical Oper-
ations. Under no consideration will
remuneration in any form be accepted
for any services rendered; therefore
the most humble in circumstances can
avail themselves Of the most expert
medical skill and without cost.
The object in pursuing this course Isl
TO become rapidly and personally ac-
quainted with the sick and afflicted.
The doctors treat all forms of chronic
diseases, but will not accept incurable
cases III upon examination, you are
found incurable, you will be kindly and
frankly told so, also advised against
spending money for useless treatment.
Male and female weakness, catarrh
and catarrhal deafness, and all dis
eases of the rectum are positively
cured by their new treatment.
Office Hours: a. IN. till 8 p. M
Sundays, 10 a. m. till p. m.
Physicians in charge, Drs, Hale and
Brown.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Immense Fortunes In Trees.

The timber wealth Of the United
States gives yearly product of over a
billion dollars. or twice the value Of
the entire output of all the mines put
together-gold, silver, coal, iron, cop
per, zinc and the rest. This is a re-
source worth keeping, and yet we are
cutting into our capital at the fearful
rate of 10 per cent each year, rs only
about % per cent of the timber market
is represented by new growth. As for
losses from the fires that are started by
locomotives, cattlemen, berry pickers,
hunters and incendiaries, it gives suffi-
cient idea of what they cost us, to be
told by the forestry commissioner of
Pennsylvania that his state alone prob
ably suffers to the extent of $50, 900, 900
annually from this one cause. Not only
the trees are lost in these mighty con.
fiagrations, the vegetable mold which
would supply fertility to the soil for
future agricultural purposes, or food for
the roots of a second growth of forest,
is burned, and the first step is taken on
that easy descent TO a landslide or flood
bed -Scribner's
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
In Sargent's Studio.

Sargent's studio is always a sociable
place Unlike many artists. the presence
of visitors or companions does not dis.
turb him when he is painting. He seems
to work without obvious exertion even
in his intensest activity. when his
models are resting, he fills up the gap
by stunning on the piano or guitar, -
says one of his friends His manner
while at work is that of a man of con-
summate address and does not show
physical or mental effort. " He knows
thoroughly well what he is about and
what his capabilities are, so that while
he searches the truth III his pictorial
rendering of what is before him, and
often repaints part of his picture en-
tirely i'll the effort 10 make il rs perfect
as possible he works with confidence
He has never been allied with any revo.
lutionary movements in art, and, while
novelty appeals TO him i'll things seen,
he shuns all passing crazes or new doc.
trines. William A. Coffin in Century.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
why England Stays In Egypt.

But though much has been DONE
much still remains to be done, and even
if it did not, the necessity for our con-
tinuance III Egypt depends on some.
thing more than the completion of a
programme When we have exhausted
the list of improvements of which the
country is capable, our mission will be
only half fulfilled The pashas and the
whole tribe of fatteners on corrupt
system are still on the spot, only watch
ing for favorable opportunity to inau-
gurate counter revolution and repos-
sess themselves of their lost fleshpots
The people have not yet learned to rely
on any protection against their former
oppressers, except what is afforded by
the English.
Take away this support and the whole
machine of progress would run down
hill again. and the great work of the
last ten years be completely undone.
The old corrupt system would at once
reassort itself, and the second state of
Egypt would be worse than the first.
The appetite Of the bloodsuckers only
whetted by their enforced abstinence,
and the hapless fellaheen. instead of
feeling. as they feel today, deeply CRATE
full for the Intervention of England,
would only curse the hour when they
first listened to her counsels Black.
woods Magazine.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Brave Captain Cock.


A terrible trial came for the packets on
the outbreak of the American war ia 1912.
The. French privateers well found though
they were and manned with desperate men,
were child's play to the American, which
We're twice as powerful and manned by
English deserters. Where English frigates
were overmatched it is hardly surprising
that the little packets should have gone To
the wall And yet they fought even
against overwhelming odds with desper
ate courage and an obstinacy remarkable
even among British seamen. Captain
Cock, in the Townsend, with crew of 80
men and four passengers, fought against
two American privateers simultaneously
for more than three hours before he would
consent TO surrender.
Each of his ASSISTANTS was superior t.
him singly in strength, and the two car.
ried together nearly five times his weight
of metal and seven times his strength OF
men. Yet even when they had battered
the packet into "A wreck, when half its
crew was in the surgeons hands and when
she was actually in n sinking state Cock
only with great reluctance hauled down
his colors He had repealed countless at
tempts to board, and it was hard TO have
to yield to sheer weight of metal The
Townsend was so heavily shattered that
the Americans, finding her not worth
keeping restored her for a small sum 10
her captain, who duly brought her into heI
destination, though without the mail for
which he had struggled SO gallantly. Cock
lived TO fight two or three more actions be
fore be died, worn out with wounds and
hard work His name should be remem-
bered at the postoflicc, for no man ever
made nobler fight for his mail. Mac
millan's Magazine.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
A LOOK AT ETERNITY.
Gladstone's Views on the Relation OF the
Bible to Infnity.


Look for moment at eternity under
the view of its being an unreasonable ex-
pansion of time. Consider for a moment
the very large meaning involved in this
proposition The contemplation even of
our own narrow span Of life as whole
when seriously attempted seems to I'll tho
mind nearly up to the limit of its receptive
power A million is "a numerical accumu-
lation which, If regarded at once as
whole and in its units seriously battles us
But now we are called to heap together
millions, billions and quadrillions without
limit and to recollect that in doing il we
do nothing and however often we repeat
the process it is the same totes QUOTES
the score Is undiminished. In dealing with
such a conception we pass beyond our
depth If all this may be so, yet 1t seems
hard to compel every mind into the belief
that it must be SO, and there is something
to be said here also in favor of taking refuge
in our ignorance.
This much we may presume to say: Had
the divine revelation been intended TO con
yey to us that time Is an inseparable Incl
dent of the future life, and that eternity is
no more or less than the unfolding of an
unreasonable roll of time, it seems prob
able that the Bible could and would have
employed some Technology evidently
adapted TO that purpose. But such is not
the technology actually given us, for in
dealing with the condition of the righteous
in the world To come our Saviour builds not
upon terms of time, but upon reunion with
deity. And in touching with greater re
serve upon the condition of the wicked the
image presented To us is either simply neg
ative as in the case of the five virgins or
IL Is one of suffering without reference to
duration, as in the outer darkness where
there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth, or il is associated with words which
etymologically and by use signify the in
definite rather than the infinite. Some of
the passages without doubt introduce the
awful image of fnality. But such presen-
tations are held by some to be of extinction
and total disappearance rather than of a
miserable existence coeXtensive with that
of diety, and they may be possibly suscep
tible of other explanations at present hid
den from our view. In any case this great
diversity of dclineation may be thought TO
indicate purpose of reserve. Right Hon.
w. f. Gladstone in North American Re
view
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30

A number of the county conventions
which have already been held have set
a good example for those which arc to
follow in selecting rs delegates To the
state convention at Grand Rapids, some
of the strongest men and most reliably
Republicans in their localities. They
national convention framed platform
on which the loyal Republicans OF
Michigan can stand and win and the
national committee has outlined a good
general plan for the canvass. But in
a campaign where SO many attempts
are made to break into party lines,
and where issues are presented in some
new forms we need to bring our best
men To the front, both as delegates
and as candidates There will be
no equivocation or evasion, we
take it, about the platform There
should be wisdom shown in the
choice OF candidates To make the can
vaSs, and for a starter nothing is better
than rousing state convention. Let
us have as delegates men of the stamp
that gave character To the meeting
under the oaks in 1854, and to the hon
est money convention in Detroit in 1878.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Legal Tender Functions OF Coin aud Paper

Gold coin is legal tender in all pay.
ments without any limit as TO amount
The silver dollar Of 1902, 1887 and
1878 is a full legal tender to any amount.
The trade dollar was a legal tender to
the amount of five dollars, but has no
legal tender qualifications now.
All fractional silver coin now min ted
is legal tender TO the amount OF $40.
Minor coin is legal tender to the
amount of IS cents.
United States notes 'grecnbacks)
are legal tender in payment Of all
debts, public aud private. except for
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt.
Gold certificates are not legal
tender, but may he issued IN payment
of interest OH the public debt, and are
receivable in payment for customs,
taxes and all public dues
Silver certificates are not legal
tender, but are receivable for customs,
taxes and all public dues
Currency certificates are not leg al
tender for any purpose, but may be
counted as part of the lawful money
reserve of banks and may he accepted
in the settlement of clearing house
balances
United States treasury notes Of 1890
are a legal tender in payment of all
debts. public and private, and are re.
ceivable for customs, taxes, and all
public dues They may he counted as
a part of the lawful reserves of the
banks, and are redeemable in gold or sill
YER coin in the discretion Of the secretary
of the treasury.
National bank notes are not legal
tender except that they are receivable
for all dues to the United States, ex-
,cpt duties on imports, and for all debts
and demand owing by the United
States, except interest on the public
lebt and in redemption Of the national
currency. Each national bank is re-
Iuired To receive at par. for any debt
or liability TO it, the notes Of every
other national bank.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
MORTGAGE SIZE.

nEFAULT having been made in the condi-
~ tons of certain mortgage whereby the
power therein contained TO sell has become op
perative, executed by Richard g. Coryell and
Hannah G.. Coryel his wife of the township OF
Otisco, county OF lonia and state of Michigan.
to John Rogers of the township OF Grattan,
Kent county, Michigan bearing date the eigh-
teenth day OF June A. d., eighteen hundred
and ninety one, and recorded In the ofice of the
register OF deeds for the county OF Iona I'm said
state of Michigan, on the 10Th day OF June, A.
d., one thousand eight hundred and ninety one
in liber (79) seventy-nine, OF mortgages, on
page (32D three hundred and twenty one, upon
which mortgage there is claimed to be due, at
the date of this notice, the SUN OF 81 1883
eleven hundred and forty five dollars and eigh-
ty.three cents az principal and interest, and the
further sum of (SO39) ten dollars and thirty
nine cents being the amounts paid for state,
county. town. and school tax, for the taxes for
the year, A. d., 1895, and no suit or proceeding
at law or in equity having been instituted To re
cover the same or any part thereof.
Notice is therefore hereby given, that on Mon
day, the twenty eighth day OF September, A. d.,
1896 at one O'Clock in the afternoon, shall sell at
public auction to the highest bidder (sale to
take place at the front door OF the court house,
In the city OF Ionia, that being the place where
the circuit court for Ionia county Is held the
premises described in said mortgage Tor so
much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy
the amount due on such mortgage with interest
at seven per cent and legal costs together with
an attorney fee OF twenty five dollars, being
the amount named in said mortgage and as
provided for by statute
That is to say the following pieces or parcels
OF lanu, VIZ. the west one halI IA OF the north
west quarter ~ of section number three 90,
except the north forty (40l acres OF same, and
enough land on the east side OF the east half
ga of the north east quarter "a OF section
number four ca. except the north forty (40)
acres of the same, To make eighty 800 acres
with the above parcel on section number three
49,. The whole parcel herein described being
eighty acres OF land on sections number three(3)
and four 4),as aforesaid In township eight 90
northof range eight 90 west, situated in the
county Of lonia and state OF Michigan
Dated, Bedding. Mich, June 18th A. d. 1896
GEO -. ROSENFIT. JOHN ROGERS
Attorney for Mortgagee Mortgagee
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Why the Distinctions?

In a large proportion OF the mines
now worked in tins country silver can
be proftably produced at 60 cents an
ounce, and IL is now selling at a trihc
over 90 cents. The free coinage people
propose that the government shall take
this silver, and by coming it, give it
purchasing or debt-paying power to
the owner Of Sl.29 Who gets the ben
eft? Not the government as it did
under the old coinage acts Not the
people generally The mine owners
alone Why should the government,
that is, the people, confer such bene-
tit upon this one class Of producers?
The silver product Of the country in
1895 was actually won tn about $50, 000,-
300. The copper product was worth
S3S, 900, 900, pig iron sos, 200, 900, soft
coal Sll5, 900, 0OO and the wheat product,
even with small yield and low prices,
was worth, in the New York market,
over $500, 900, 600 Why should the gov
ernmcnt double the value of silver to
the mine owner and leave the other
products To- take their chances at com
mcrcai rates?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30

The number OF individual Democrats
and Democratic papers that have
bolted the Chicago convention and
platform is constantly on the increase.
Early last week a list OF so such papers
was published and others have been
added since then. A few OF them sup
port Mckinley, but most OF them advo-
cate the calling of another Democratic
convention. The list includes % south
ern and II western papers, among the
latter being the Chicago Chronicle,
Abend Post and Stats Zeitung, the
Davenport, Iowa, Democrat, Detroit
Free Press, Lansing journal, Lacrosse,
Wis. Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal,
Minneapolis Times, st. Paul Globe and
St Louis Anseiger.
The list of individual Democrats in
Detroit who repudiate the platform
and ticket includes such prominent
party men as q. " N. Lothrop aud his
sons. John &. Hawley, T. p. Hall, Robt.
T. Gray, s. L. Smith, VIM. b. jackson,
w. j. Gray, Sidney T. Miller, Post
master John j. Enright r. w. Gillett,
and many others. Some of their utter
ances are quite pointed, as for instance:
John q. Hawley: II think very badly
of the Chicago convention. 1t violated
all the historic traditions of the Demo
cratic party, and went over, body and
breeches to the Populsts and anarch-
| lists"
Cyrus G.. Lothrop: 81 think that
| speak the sentiments of the whole fam
| lily when / say that we cannot vote the
Democratic ticket on the platform
adopted at Chicago. We want nothing
to do with that crowd or their ruinous
policy. hope to see the Democrats
defeated in every state in the union.
With the Democrats on free
silver platform | shall be obliged to
vote the Republican ticket entirely"
VIM. j. Gray: Neither the candidates
nor the platform will do at all can
not support either one. :"
Robert T. Gray: Get the strongest
denuniciation Of the platform and
ticket that you can find and credit il TO
me-
James ID. May: 81 don't biz nc the
Free Press for boiling Every aspect
able Democratic paper in the country
is doing the same thing"
VIM. Il. Jackon: II cannot accept
the fallacy of the free silver doctrine
in the Democratic party | cannot
vote the Democratic ticket on that
basis"
5. l.. Smith: Il do not think the
Democratic platform is sound Demo-
cratic principle and | do not purpose to
vote for it,"
Postmaster Enright: Il would not,
on such a platform vote, for Thos. JEFF
ferson If among u.s..
| Il. u. Hall: "The tariff question is
not the issue, neither is it the silver
craze, for that is but a stepping stone
to something worse, the utter de-
struction of free institutions These
revolutionists are striking at the very
foundations of society"
These local utterances may very
properly be supplemented by one from
Jas. II. Ecllles, controller Of the cur
rency: The larger the contribution
of Democratic votes to the defeat of the
Chicago nominees the better in the end
! for the Democratic party"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Touching Consistency.

Prison Visitor-Ahl Here is a cell
that is so tidily kept that it reveals evi.
dences of refinement And that beauti
fully worked motto of Home, Sweet
Home, OH the farther wallis il pos
sible that that is the handiwork of the
occupant of this cell2
Warden-It is, sir
Prison Visitor Wonderful And for
what offense against the law can such a
man be confined?
Warden-Just wife beating: that s
all. Boston Courier.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
TIE poesIA OF RAPHAEL.

All, not as Raphael knew her have We known
The queen OF song in such blissful mood
Nor with such calm divinity endued,
But as another youth her soul has shown.
The youth who voiced our sufferings i'm hi,
own
And lived with his life's love at deadly feud
Half "a stormcloud and half an eagle mewed
He saw no seraphs lowering round her throne
His was no muse that sat Indifferent
To the dim worlds beneath her faultless feet
The muse of Musset was an angel sent
To pluck all anguish out Of all the year
To make the promises Of May more sweet
And waken hope when autumn leaves lie scar
Alfred w. Benn in Academy
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30

The old Talmudists had q queer leg.
end concerning the first pair created
by the Almighty. According to the
story, Lilith was Adams original
"helpmeet, and Eve was the after con-
sideration. The Talmud says that Lilith
was created Just as Adam was-out of
the dust of the earth. Soon after the
breath of life had been breathed into
her ears (you will remember that the
Bible says ''nostrils" in Adams easel
her entire nature changed to such an
extent that she became veritable de-
mon. About this time the devil came
along, and, recognizing in Adams wife
all that was necessary TO make q first
class govcrness of the Internal regions,
persuaded her TO quit the first man and
go with him into the upper regions Of
the air. To US this seems like queer
place for the location of hell, but that
is the direction the pair are said to have
taken when they left Adam AS the sole
occupant of the garden. At home with
the king of the sulphurous domain. she
became the mother of devils, and then
deserted Pluto and became ''specter Of
darkness. "
After this transformation her sole de-
light appears to have been in the de-
struction of innocent babes. 1t is even
said that our word LULLABY" is cor
ruption of an oriental term, ella abb, I"
which means "Avaunt," or "Begone,
Lilith. The ignorant and superstitious
Jews of the far east still tie amulets or
charms around the necks. waists, wrists
or ankles of their babes in order to pre-
serve them Srom Lilith evil intentions
st. Louis Republic.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-30
Twice Daily Steamers TO Chicago, Con-
Meeting at ~. Joseph with C.& W.M.Ry

Beginning May 25th and continuing until
about sept Goth the steamers Of this line make
two trips each way daily between ST. Joseph
and Chicago on the following schedule:
Leave St Joseph at 30 y. m, and 10 30 D. m,
daily including Sunday. Leave Chicago at g. ~
a. M and n 30 p m, daily including Sunday
Extra trips on Saturday leave 81. Joseph al :
a. M and leave Chicago at ? D. m. Running
time across lake hours. Tri-weekly steamers
10 Milwaukee, leave 81 Joseph Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday evenings
The equipment OF this line includes the side
wheel steamers city OF chicago and City 81
Milwaukee. fthe largest and finest west OF De
troiti and the newly built propeller City OF
Louisville Service first class. Connections
with all g. & w. NJ. trains. Ticket on sale al
all g. 4 w M and ID. l.. q NJ stations. Chlca
90 dock foot OF Wabash Ave.
j. II. GRAHAM, Prest
Benton Harbor, Mich