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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
Easily Busied.

The business depression Of the past
few years has been the evolution of a
large crop of employment seekers. One
Of them last week accosted a gentleman
in this city. He was ragged, dirty, good
natured, evidently hungry enough to
eat cow if it were in his way. But his
soft slouchiDess of gait rendered any
active exertion on his part highly i'm
probable. This impression was strength.
ened by the dialogue that followed:
GOOD morning, sir. d" said he. I'D
like job with you, sir. -"
"Well, there is not much doing just
how-hardly anything, in fact, in my
line. / couldn't give you much to do. /
couldn't keep you busy"
Indeed, sir, it would take very lit
tie to keep me busy. New London
Telegraph.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
Punished For Their wickednesn

The St. Andrews fishermen are sup
posed, no doubt enormously, to be less
yenturous than others. A year or two
ago they retrieved their fame by very
gallant conduct III an unseaworthy life
boat. However, their marine neighbors
tell this tale:
Many years ago there was violent
storm on a 22d of November A wreck
came in; the fishers boarded it, found
some sailors still alive and "made six
ker" by drowning them. Then they
seized the cargo and fell in luck. The
anniversary, Nov. %, was bright
still, halcyon day, and the blue bay was
covered with brown sails. Not one came
home to the rocky chink which does
duty as a harbor. A fierce storm arose.
and the fishing fleet persisted. Conse-
quently a new and more or less high
land colony, mainly Of Chisholmes, came
in, and never were such good men as
the lost sailors of Fife. For long the IN
holy day of November was holiday,
nobody daring TO 60 forth to sea.
Such is the legend, which may have
no historical basis. In any case Fife
fishers and the east coast men generally
are considered to be better in boat
than the west highland-rs, and Fife en-.
terprise and capital might have left us
O more prosperous isle of Lewes. Lon.
don News
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
National Flowers.

Until flower has played an impor-
tant part in some great historical event,
as did the thistle of Scotland and the
shamrock of Ireland. or until it has
been surrounded by overwhelming sen.
timent through close and continued as
ISOLATION with some distinguished and
widely beloved man or woman, as was
the case with the cornfiower Of Ger
many and the violet of France, it Is idle
20 propose any flower as a national en-
blcm. If, for instance, Lincoln or Gar
field had been passionately fond OF a
particular flower, carried it about con-
tinuously, had it when the assassin s
bullet was fired and kept it in the hand
or by the bedside when the end came,
then that flower, whether it was indig-
enous TO this country or imported from
the old world, might, without legis-
lative enactment, without any urging
on the part OF individuals or associa-
tions, have become the national flower.
Under such circumstances il is not hard
to believe that even the blossom of a
plant, before generally esteemed nox-
ious weed, might be taken up and given
the place OF honor without word CT
protest from any one. These are the on
" conditions under which the people
of the United States or of any other
,ountry are likely TO look upon any par
ticular flower as national emblem. -
Ithaca Democrat.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
The Loves and Hates of Nations.

How short lived are the animosities of
nations A few months ago there was
no epithet too harsh for the German en-
peror. He was gibbeted in music hall
ditties, he was rallied at in the press,
and in society unrepeatable things were
said of him. Now there is a distinct re-
vival Of the patter about blood being
thicker than water. and we are rapidly
returning to the conclusion that the
kaiser is a splendid fellow. The naval
architects toasted him with enthusiasm,
and with happy tact the master of many
legions has sent gold wreath to the
First Royal dragons, of which he is
colonel, to remind England that Prussia
fought by her side at Waterloo. The
truth is that the loves and hates of ma
tions are founded, not on kinship nor
On history, but on self interest, and as
this changes public feeling changes too.
Saturday Review
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
THE MEN WHO BUY NOT.
Why NewsdeaIers Sometimes Slip Rubber
Bands Around Their Magazines.

Why Newsdealers Sometimes Slip Rubber
Bands Around Their Magazines.
The man who gets up early in the
morning so he can have "a look at his
neighbours paper before the rightfuj
owner has chance to take it in from
his doorstep does not stand very high III
the estimation of the newsdealtr. This
Is because he spoils trade.
There is another man, however, who
is even more cordially detested by the
vender of periodicals. He is the fellow
who never buys anything. but has the
habit of dipping into the weekly papers
stand makes tempting display Of his
stock, for he knows that a strong pic
ture or even a pretty cover often brings
him a stray customer, but he expects
the mere locker on TO be content with
this much, and he is likely to frown
upon the man who resorts to all kinds
of schemes in order to get peep at the
inside pages.
The stands in the ferry houses and
railway stations suffer the most from
these penurious cranks, for there is
nothing else to attract their attention
while they are waiting for boat or
train. They run through the leaves of
the latest books and magazines and
have been known to draw the tacks out
Of papers nailed up against the stand so
that they could see what was on the
other side of the sheet But it is not
what they see and read for nothing that
worries the pewsdealer. He would be
willing to put up with that if they did
not injure his stock. Indeed, he would
much rather have a man take up mag
azine bodily and carefully examine ev-
cry page than TO have him grab it by
one corner and bend up all the leaves
in surreptitious attempt to see the
pictures. He would also rather have
you ask him to hand you periodical
than to have you shove his stock all out
Of line while trying to see the half OF
the page that is hidden by pile of 9TH
er papers. - -|1'---'"- -7S-s , s''''TT
So great is this nuisance that the
neWsdealers had to adopt schemes for
their own protection. The most success
full, so far as preventing the leaves from
being turned, consists Of placing rub
Der band around the top and bottom Of
magazine and using it on the top OF
each pile.-New York World.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

A Millionaire's Hard Fate.

How sadly deficient some people are
Of any sense of humor when the subject
is themselves! Take the Duke Of Devon
shire, who delivered a speech at the
opening of "Passmore Edwards
House" for epileptics. So long as he
kept to the epileptics the duke managed
we'll enough, but before he sat down he
must needs get on the subject Of him
self and the SORROWS Of the poor mil
lio1aire
"It might perhaps be considered pre-
sumptuous for one who was reputed to
be rich himself to offer advice TO other
rich men which he had not taken him
self or was not himself prepared to fol-
low, but perhaps he might be allowed TO
point out that there was some difference
between those who happened to be IN
the possession of wealth inherited from
several generations and those who had
created their own fortunes. Their prede-
cessors, i'll cases like his own, had gen
orally contrived TO find quite as many
channels by which wealth flowed out as
by which it flowed Ill, and those who
had for the benefit and advantage OF
their successors created great estates, en-
failing much labor in administration
and many responsibilities, had not left
to their successors legacy of unmitigat-
ed advantage.
The spectacle of the duke inviting
the commiseration of his audience for
the cruel fate which compelled him to
Keep up Chatsworth and Devonshire
House instead Of founding homes for
epileptics is indeed excruciating. West
minister Gazette.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
S,'uI culture.

Lillian Whiting, visiting the Latin
quarter" of Boston, tells Of asking
daintily gowned young woman sitting
IN a club parlor if she believed in
thought transference. "Oh, am FAR be-
yond that, " she replied airily. Il am in
the sphere of intense vibrations " Ev-
cry boy who has stolen the pie and has
afterward served as buffer FOR the ma
ternal slipper will appreciate the mean
ing of tie sphere of intense vibrations
Minneapolis Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

WHEN LoveLAce CAME TO WOO.

The feet Of time make fast their pace.
And we, like players In play.
Strut up and down our little space
And act our parts as best We may.
Alasi Alack and well day
Tho stage - digit in somber hue,
Where once that stately vogue held swap
When Richard Lovelace came to WOO.
And much we marvel as We trace
The feuds and foibles passed away.
whilo pomp Of power and pride of place
Troop down the years in grand array.
In court and camp, in fete and fray,
PICKLE and tippant, stanch and true,
Such were the gallaIts, bold and gay,
When Richard LovelGcc came to WOO.
In doublet fine and frills OF lace
The lovor sought his suit TO pay;
With such n form and such n face.
Who could resist his plea, pray.
And then that tender rounfclay,
So like a wood doves plaintive coo,
Sweet Lucy could not s-y him nay
When Richard Lovelace came 70 WOO
ENVOY.
10, Kentish towers your lorGly race
Had swords To Graw and deeds to do
In that eventful year Of grace,
When Richard Lovclace came to WOO
-Lucius HarwOod Footc III. Overland
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
The Queens Needle.

Queen Victoria is in possession of a
curious needle. 1t was made at the cell
ebrated needle mandatory at Redditch
and represents the Trajan column in
miniature. Scenes from the queens life
are depicted on the needle, so finely cut
that they are only discernible through a
microscope.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
Intermittent Ownership.

"Do you own your own homer" asked
the passenger with the yellow diamond,
who makes business of selling real es-
tate.
II do every Thursday" said the 9th
er passenger.
"Eh-whatT'
81 own it every Thursday. That
Mary AIMS afternoon out Indian.
apolis Journal
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
"The Pyramid Limp

1.-THE pyramid limp, - as it has come
to be called, is that state of body which
falls upon one for two or three days aft
er making the ascent Of the pyramids.
One is so much pulled and pushed at
the time that little or no Inconvenience
is felt. There is no sign of soreness Of
joint or muscle until after one has
slept, and then the trouble begins to
brew; the second day Of that man or
woman is worse than the first; the CHI
max is reached at the end of the second
or beginning of the third day, and from
that time the patient begins slowly to
recover. Cairo Correspondent.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
Right For Once.

Two Scotsmen, one an Aberdonlan
and the other man from Inverary,
were engaged in hot debate on the
correctness of their respective modes Of
English pronunciation. AT last he OF
the Granite City clinched matters by re-
marking with whitening contempt.
"Weel, at ony rate, dinua ca flush
sfaash , -
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

In 1880 the value of materials used
in the cotton mills of this country was
$102, 900, 900, while in 1890 the value
bad risen to $155, 000,0 00
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

Every West Point cadet signs an obli-
CATION to serve four years in the acad-
envy and four in the army after gradua-
ton.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

Il MUSHROOM R'N
Lv Ashley for Drtro
at 1910 p. m.
CT Sc connections a.
made at Owosso JunctH
wi.h all trains of D.. q
II. & NJ. R'v
BEN. FLETCHER. r. y. A
Detroit. Mich
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

A stylus with split point, apparently
for the purpose of writing with fluid
ink, has been found in On Egyptian
tomb
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

NEURALGIA cured by DR.. Miles PAIN
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

Nobody need have Neuralgia Get DIR. Miles
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

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JHo. w. LORD,
Traffic Manager,
Detroit. .
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

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All pain banlshed by Or. Miles Pain Pits
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04

DR.. Miles Nerve Plasters for rheumatism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17

A reader of Mr.. Bryan's innumerable
speeches must have been impressed long
ago with theautter want of anything in
them like constructive craftsmanship.
They are wholly destructive from begin
ming to end. He is the architect of ruin;
the apostle of negation and revolt. He
bears the same relation to a statesman
that the men who tear down old buildings
bear to those who plan and construct
splendid edifices like the Majestic. He is
endeavering to pull down what we have
patiently built up through years of toll.
Nevertheless there are a few cheap sem
timentalists here and there, in newspapers
and pulpits, who, while they condemn his
pestilential views, wish to have him
treated tenderly and profess to regard him
as a misguided patriot who, like Sir Joseph
Fcrter, X. c. B., means well, but he
doesn't know" The ignorance Of men
who lead in reckless assaults upon our es-
tablished Institutions is worse than a
crime. The uniformed patriotism which
leads men to do so is more culpable and
dangerous than treason itself.
Every one of our institutions has grown
out of our necessity and they are steps
in our progress. Our monetary policy, the
merit system in our civil service, the ma
tional banking system, the federal judi
ciary, the powers of the federal executive
are all the outgrowth of our needs as they
nave been developed by our experience.
We acquired these things because they
were absolutely necessary for our welfare.
and the acquisition of them was In many
cases slow and tedious. 1t was impossible
to get along without them. We could not
hold our place among civilized nations or
maintain our national existence otherwise.
What they supplanted was fraught with
evil for us. We endured the evil until it
became intolerable, and then we cast it
aside for something better. We could not
substitute the better for the worse all at
once. The substitution was gradual and it
was accomplished only through hard and
bitter struggles. The development of these
institutions is not yet complete. 1t is a
continuing process. but Improvement is Wis
ible everywhere. 1t is the part of genuine
patriotism to continue the development of
them on their original lines by adding to
them or subtracting from them, wherever
it may be necessary, and by perfecting
them always.
But the hand of Mr.. Bryan is raised
against all of them. He has nothing to
substitute for them but the evils which
they supplanted. He would not only arrest
our progress, but reverse it. Instead of
order he would give us chaos. In exchange
for our ancient political creeds he offers us
the nihilism of Russia-an exotic which
has no reason for it's existence among US.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17
A WEEK,

During the past week there has been
every indication that the political tide in
Indiana has set strongly in favor of Repub-
licanism and sound money. During the
week that Mr.. Bryan was in the State Re-
publicans exhibited some nervousness as to
the effect of his visit. There were also
rumors of OBJECTIONS, which proved to be
rumors only. 1t has now been discovered
that Mr.. Bryan did not shake the Repub-
lican lines, and that the most that he did
was to bring Democratic s~tragglers into
line in a manner to make a demonstra-
ton. Following his visit the Republicans
in all parts Of the State put forth renewed
efforts to strengthen the cause. The result
publican week. The tour of the Union gen.
erals and veterans throughout the State
has aroused the spirit of patriotism. Thou
sands and tens of thousands gathered to
meet these distinguished men and were en-
Unused with their purpose to save the coun-
try from Bryanism, Altgeldism and Till
manism. All Republican meetings nave
been unprecedentedly large and enthusiast
tic. Speakers OF large experience, return
ing from rural meetings, bring reports to
the effect that the loss of Republicans to
the silver movement will be insignificant
compared with the gains which will be
made from sound-money Democrats aban-
doning Bryan and Populism. The demon
stration of the sound-money Democrats in
this city and the surprising display made
by the railroad organizations have given
courage to the friends of sound money and
of good government and corresponding dis
couragement to the Bryanites.
The policy of the Democratic State CON-
mittee in taking the names of five Demo-
Gratis from the electoral ticket and substi-
tuting for them the names of five Populists
has disguised and angered a large number
of Democrats who lave silently chung to
the ticket because it was Democratic and
regular. Now 1t has been made one-third
Populist and is no longer regular, but a
combination suggesting a humiliating sur
render to the dictates of the free coinage
The dissension which this action has caused
has interfered with the work of the cam
paign all over the State.
A little over two weeks remain. If the
Republicans and the friends of good goy-
eminent and sound money press the work
week Indiana will repudiate the conspiracy
of the silver barons and the heresies of Alt
geld and Tillman by ar emphatic majority.
Therefore. they should increase their ef-
forts as Nov. 8 draws near.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17
THE STOVE-FACTORY FAKE.

The Sentinel, in it's issue of Oct. 8, printed
an editorial on the promise of the presi-
dent of a stove works company in Newark
O., to increase the compensation of his
employees 10 per cent. in the event Of the
election of Mr.. Bryan. 1t was further stated
that the president of the company, a Mr..
Cunningham, and nearly all his employees
had been lifelong Republicans. In its
editorial the Sentinel called the attention
of the Parry Manufacturing Company, of
the proprietors of the Atlas works, and
other manufacturers to the Newark in
stance.
The reference to the Parry Manufacture
ing Company led one of the firm to write
Newark making inquiry. This firm writes
in reply that sit is not the concern that is
foolish enough to make such a claim. We
are not in politics" continue the Newark
manufacturers of stoves and ranges, but
are strictly attending to business, and as
far as our personal opinion goes, we, of
course, favor the best money on earth,
which we believe we have" The firm
sends the Parry company a copy of the
local paper, the Newark Tribune, which
says:
The Central City stove works sin all its
departments is a small foundry, in which
two men and a boy are employed to assist
the two proprietors. The works are
situated three miles west of Newark. This
concern in its palmiest days never en-
ployed more than seven hands and then
was a sort of a cooperative concern with
three partners, one of whom has since quit
and is in the employ of Moser, Wehrle &
Co. The Democrats have advertised this
as a large foundry, employing a large num-
Der of hands, and one Popocratic paper had
hands filing out of it. Now, if they will
make a picture of a little one-story build
ing at a railroad crossing in the woods with
a telegraph ONCE and signal tower as the
prOprietors, two other men and a boy with
a reduced wage of 10 per cent. coming out
of the foundry. they will have a true pic
ture. Cunningham was never known as a
Republican and voted for Grover Cleveland
four years ago. So much for the CONVEX
sion to Democracy.
This fake was exposed several days
since, yet on Thursday the Sentinel
paraded the action of the Newark
Stove Company in double column and large
type. Doubtless it will do so again. At
best, it is of no Importance, as it would
be singular, indeed, if now and then a
reputable company doing a fair business
should not see the merit in the silver mine
owners scheme. Even if it were so it
could not nave weight in the face of the
fact that nine-tenths of all the successful
manufacturers and employers of labor be-
lieve that the free coinage of silver would
be disastrous to business and paralyze in
dustry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17
THE SIGHT SHIRT IN POLITICS.

At st. Ignace. Mich, the people who went
to the train at $50 in the morning with the
hope of seeing the ~peripatetic Popocratic
candidate were not disappointed, for that
gentleman, according to the Associated
Press report, appeared on the back plat
form in his night shirt and greeted
them graciously. 1t is not on record
that any presidential candidate ever before
came into the presence of the public in his
night shirt, but then, no other candidate
ever gadded around the country
up votes as a peddler OF patent pills hustles
for dimes. and that part of the community
which does not like such canvassing cannot
be expected to approve of the negligee cos
tune and need not be taken into consid-
GRAFTON here. If these DIRECTORS were to en-
ter protests they would be classified by
Bryan admirers as a 'leetle too nice 10
live." and frowned upon as aristocrats. but
the word "aristocrat' suggests another
phase of the matter. What view will the
Populist supporters of the Chicago ticket
take of this night shirt? What does this
self-styled Representative of the common
people" df the .down-trodden. telling
Masses jnean by wearing = nightf shirt.