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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Ten Years for Valentine.

New York, Dec. civilian e. VAL
entine pleaded guilty to the charge Of
forgery in thesecond degree and abduc-
ton in the Kings county court Tues
day He was sentenced to ten years
imprisonment by Judge Hurd. Valen-
tine was at the head of a gang Of for
gers and swindlers whose operations
extended all over the United States and
Canada and involved, 1t has been esti-
mated as much az 81. 600 900.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
which System Is the Better

Ann Arbor, Mich, Dec. 4-Michigan
and Chicago university students will de-
bate on cabinet government at date not
yet fixed. The Chicago university has Of
fered the following resolution: "That
the British system of cabinet government
is better adapted to democratic institu-
tons than the American system of presi-
Dental government"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Reports Are Probably Correct.

Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 0. = Crazy
JIM" the negro who murdered one Of
the Williams boys and fatally wounded
his brother in Melton township Satur-
day. has been captured. Reports say
that a mob of farmers took the negro
from the officers and lynched him
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
NEWS OF THE STATE.
MICHIGAN ITEMS THAT WILL INTER-
EST OUR READERS.
Some of the Importans Happenings of the
State Picked Up Here and There and Re-
ported by Telegraph = Summary of
Events of the Past Few Days,

Lansing, Mich, Dec. 9.-The State
Associations of Farmers clubs met here
Monday. Governor Rich made the ad-
dress of welcome and discussed the sew
eral state institutions at some length.
He Is of the opinion that the present
convict contract labor system is the
most profitable of any yet devised, and
operates with less injury. The state
grange also holds its annual session the
present week, and it and the farmers
clubs will make recommendations for
economy in state institutions, reduc-
tions of salaries, and adherence to bus
mess principles. Appropriations for
new state institutions by the next leg
iSlature are opposed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Probate Order.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, | ss
COUNTY OF SHIAWASSEE DO

COUNTY OF SHIAwAssEE 90
At session of the Probate Court for said
County, held at the Probate Office in the City Of
Corunna on Tuesday, the Gath day OF November,
In the year one thousand eight hundred and
ninety six.
Present, Matthew Bush, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of William A.
Merrill, deceased On reading and filing the
petition of Helen o. Merrill praying that ad-
ministration of said estate may be granted to
the petitioner or some other suitable person.
1t Is ordered that the 21st day of December
next, at ten o'clock In the forenoon, at said
Probate office, be assigned for hearing said
petition.
wand it is further ordered, that copy of this
order be published three successive weeks
previous to said day OF hearing, in THE TIMES,
newspaper printed and circulating In said
County Of 5hiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH,
Judge of Probate.
BY KATHERINE e. KELSEY.
III Probate Register.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
VIII Carry the Case to Madison.

Milwaukee, Dec. 9.-Finding that
they stand little show in the school
board the advocates of free text books
for this city will carry the fight out
to Madison. A number of the members
of the legislature from out Of the city
are in favor of the change, and with
the men in the city who favor 1t there
Is some hope of success
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Sold Tobacco to- Young Boys.

Lansing, Mich. Dec. 4.--Two bust
ness men Of Lansing are under arrest
for violating the state law prohibiting
the sale of tobacco to boys under the
age of II years, and other prosecutions
are likely to follow soon. Superintend-
ent Laird of the city schools has been
investigating the matter, and he finds
a large number Of boys addicted to the
use of tobacco. Under the superintend-
ent's instructions, the truant officer has
procured testimony, and prosecutions
will follow until it will be found I'M
profitable for dealers to provide boys
with the weed
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Pingree VIII Have no "Flapdoodle.-

Lansing, Mich. Dec. 7.-Considera-
BILE disappointment and chaagrin is felt
by the people of this city because Of
the refusal of Governor-elect Pingree to
permit any demonstration Jan. /, ar
rangements for which had been going
on for several weeks. He says he wants
no such "flapdoodle."
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Alleged Crook Escapes from Jail.

Bay City, Mich, Dec. s. William
Monks, aged IL, who was awaiting trial
for aiding in the forgery operations of his
brother Richard, who was arrested in New
York last week, escaped from the county
jail last evening
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Ordered TO Sell tbe stocl.

Detroit, Mich, Dec. Judge Dono-
van in the circuit court Saturday grant
ed an order authorizing the receiver to
sell the Mably e. Co. stock in bulk to
w. II. Peck e. Co. of Rochester for
S16O 600
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
Bay City Pipe Plant Burned.

Bay City, Mich, Dec. 9.-The Michi-
gan Pipe company's entire plant, cover
ing about four acres, was destroyed
by fire at 1880 o'clock last night. The
loss on the plant is $75,O00 and on the
contents $4,000; insurance on plant $685.
900.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
There are a great

There are a great
many wrong ways
of treating disease.
1t is easy to make
mistakes. Doctors
make mistakes just
the same as any
b ody else. The
doctors who make
the fewest mistakes
are speci alists.
They do one thing
over and over and
over, so that they
know all that there
- a. I@ -I-A "a
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-11
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
"7he Niagara Falls Route
SAGINAW DITISION.
OWOSSO TIME CARD.
TRAINS SOUTH.

TRAINS SOUTH.
Chicago Express leaves 1907 q. m, arrives in
Jackson 10:l5 a. M, Chicago $50 D. M
Chicago Express, daily, leaves s''l, p. m.
arrives In Jackson 0:45 p. M, Chicag 100 a. m,
Through Sleeper bay City to Chic .so).
TRAINS NORTH
Bay City Express leaves 900 m, arrives
at Bay City IL 10 a. m Sleeper, Gu cago to Bay
City.
Marquette Express leaves Owo,so 7:15 p. m,
arrives at Bay City $3.50 p. m.
Owosso accommodation leaves Jackson III 100
O. m :. arrives Owosso 800 p. m.
All trains daily except Sunday.
Owosso Accommodation leaves Owosso at 1870
d. M, arrives in Jackson at 7 rs p. m.
j. B. GLASGOW, Agent, Owosso
W. RUGGLEs, G. p. & Il. A. Chicago.
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SOUTH.
NORTH.

Cheap rates and good connections with boats at
Frankfort for the west and northwest.
w. H. BENNETT, G.. p. A.
Burt. s. Stratton, Agt.. Owosso.
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beehive. Her length was probably in
The neighborhood of $50 feet, but her
narrow beam and sharply sioping sides
made her appear like needle floating
on the water. She was painted an olive
green. to secure inyisibility at night.
The nest prominent objects in sight on
her deck were low conning-tower and
two elongated matches, one forward and
one eft. These were for the disappear
ing magnetic torpedo guns, and were
arranged to protect the torpedoes until
they were needed, at which time the
runs were elevated by electricity,
trained on the enemy and fired, the
whole operation requiring but few
seconds. The motive power OF lie
craft Was also electricity, obtained from
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not quickly enough to avoid dlscov-
cry. On he goes, fearlessly taking the
cambridge straight toward the battle
ships.
''Stand by" he sings out down the
voice-tubes to the torpedo compare
ments, and back comes the hearty an
swer: "All ready, SIR
Now he is but short distance from
the nearest ship. He turns two electric
switches and sees the torpedo guns
elevated and trained. Then amid
shower of shells he presses firing-key,
and the forward torpedo is launched
and speeds on its errand of destruction.
No need to watch the effect; the mag
net is as sure as fate.
Meantime, the Bainbridge's course is
changed, so that she may run parallel
to the column of battle ships, and the
empty gun is lowered. A second later
the after torpedo is on its way for the
next battle ship, and Delafield has done
| half his work.
Long ere this the brave little craft has
been the center of a smother OF foaming
water, dashed into impotent fury by the
crashing, bursting shells. But her
great speed saves her from annihilation
She tears along with search-lights flash.
ing on her like an aurora and with the
waves dashing wildly over her.
i Two more of the enemy's most power
full ships sent to the bottom complete
her errand. The only damage on thu
cambridge has happened to Delafielt
himself. A piece of shell has inflicted
an ugly wound in his shoulder, ant
: though exhausted by the intense strait
and weak from loss of blood, he steers
his victorious vessel into the protection
{ of the harbor. then falls senseless to tn
deck.
!, Not long after, while recovering nj
strength, Jack received very official
:. looking document covered with formid
!. able seals. 1t contained the informf
s ton that he had received the thanks G
c congress and that he had been promo1
I ed to the rank of captain for his gallant
e nv in sinking four of the enemy's ships
. thereby causing a withdrawal of thei
+ feet and preventing the bombardmer
It of the city of San Francisco.-San Fra.
2 cisco Aroonaut
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

One shipper of Curry county, Ore..
has sent away 1000 head of sheep this
season, and expects to ship 5000 IN all.
Salmon to the amount of 40 tons,
for which the fisherman received four
cents a pound, have been shipped by one
firm at st. Helena, Ore, this year.
Kites will likely be used in future
warfare for carrying such explosives as
dynamite. For this purpose a series
of seven kites, built on light bamboo
frames, will be employed, and the ex-
plosives could be carried to an enormous
distance and then automatically
dropped by pulling string-Miiitary
Gazette.
Rifle bullets are now photographed
in their course by means of the electric
spark. The camera is taken into dark
room, which the bullet is caused TO
traverse. As it passes the camera it is
made to interrupt an electric circuit
and produce spark, which eliminates
it for an instant, and enables the inn
preston to be taken.
Quality Knob, near Hawesville, KY.
is likely to be chosen for the site OF
rabbit farm which some Kentuckians
are talking of establishing on 30 acres OF
land. They propose to cross native rab-
bits with the Australian breed to secure
larger animals. They estimate the
progeny of each pair at 80 year, worth
ten cents each during the four-month
season.
The great advance that has taken
place in the methods of lighthouse IL
Elimination is strikingly shown in
comparison of Smeaton's light OF 175s
with the present installation. The
chandelier of Smeaton's far-famed tow
er in the Eddystone was lighted in 175'
. by tallow candles of 81 modern standard
) candle power, unaided by any optica
apparatus, while the power of the bean
, from the present tower is equal to 90
, candles.
Z -Cryotase is the name of new sub
p stance discovered by German chemist
5 It is a remarkable compound substanc
: and has some curious properties. amon
{ which is that of solidifying under tn
= influence of heat and again becomin
!. liquid at temperatures below the free;
o ing point. 1t is the only substanc
r. which possesses the property of liquef!
ing when cold and becoming solidifie
I. when hot, for although some substance
l. like albumen harden at slightly hig
,e temperature they cannot be brougi
e. back to liquid state even under the II
v. fluence of very low temperature.
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THE BAeooM REPLACES THE DOG
An Instance of Its Superior Mental At

An Instance of Its Superior Mental At
tainments.
Speed is form of equipment in which
the dog excels the babcon, and as ar aid
in the direct pursuit of animals it must
always be inferior to what DR.. Caius
calls the ''leoparii''--the chasing
dogges." But in the great and Justly
priced gift of scent, the monkey has the
advantage, though dogs have for CEN
turtles been bred with view to the de-
veiopment of that particular gift, and
have both in sport and in their use as
detectives and watches become almost
indispensable aids to man. Among the
very few instances in which the animal
has been taken wild and used int lii
gently as a servant, it has been found
that he cannot only find edible plants by
scent, which the truffle hunters poodles
are trained to dc, but can be used to dis
cover hidden water-an unique instance
of animal service. LIE Valiant, the
African traveller, gives an account OF a
tame baboon-probably chacma, from
South America-which illustrates its
fitness as a watch, a hunter and pro-
curer of food and water more fully han
any others record.
This monkey, by sheer force of bruins,
took command of the dogs kept to pro-
tect the camp, and used and directed
them just as the older balloons command
and direct the rest of their tribe. by
his cries." says LIE Valiant, "he always
warned us of the approach OF an enemy
before my dogs discovered it. The dogs
were SO accustomed to his voice tina
they used to go to sleep, and l was a
first vexed with them for deserving thei
duties When he once had given tn
alarm, they would all stop to watch TO
his signal, and on the least motion o
his eyes or the shaking of his head
have seen them all rush forward to tn
quarter toward which they observe.
that his looks were directed.
Magazine.
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PIiNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

-.Bill is in great trouble" Whats
the matterr' He finds that bc,th sum-
mer girls to whom he became'engaged
really meant marriage. "-Philadeiphia
North American.
When people move into ne"
house they notice only its advantages
over the house just vacated. It's disao-
vantages are hidden by just little en-
thusiasm.- Atchison Globe.
-Mistress-"Why, Bridget, what on
earth are you doing with all the broken
dishes on the shelf?" Bridget-"Shure,
mum. yez fowl me Oh wur to replace
livery one OF broke."-Up-to-Date.
-"That's brilliant son of yours" re-
marked the visitor. Hes been to con-
Dress. hasn't he?" Eyes, believe he
was an inmate for couple OF years.
replied old Farmer Mossback, dryiy.--
Buffalo Express.
l. Live and Learn. = First Tramp
"Dere's difference between an anar-
chist an socialist. A man what's an
anarchist can't be socialist" Second
Tramp-"Yer don't say! An l thoughf
Iwuz both."-Brooklyn Life.
! A certain minister while preach
! ing said that every blade OF grass was
sermon. The next day he was amusing
himself by moving his lawn, when
parishioner said: That's right, doc
tor; cut your sermons short.
per's Bazaar.
"A Possible Reason.-'I wonder WIN,
It is" remarked the man who has tim
for idle thoughts, shat people are no
permitted to shoot reed birds earlier il
the year," "It's to prevent mistakes,
replied his wife. who had suffered at
summer resort. ''They have to wal
until the mosquito season is entirei
over."-Washington Star.
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:. n;rh, fell. Delafield, from tho

AS night fell, Delafield, from the
Bainbridge, and the officers on the coast
defense vessels, inside the bar, sighted
the remnant of our feet standing in.
still stubbornly fighting and protect
inc the weaker or more disabled ships
Shortly the enemy was uncovered, ard
monitors opened fire, compelling an
abandonment of the harassing pursuit.
The enemy remained just out of range
while the fearful wreck of what re-
NAMED of Admiral Woodbridge's force
crawled slowly into the harbor.
AS the Oregon, guarding the rear.
passed the cambridge, the admiral
signaled briefly, but significantly: DO
your duty"
The night is dark and windy. An
luminous stiffness in the air presages an
on-coming gale. No moon or stars are
shining to aid the enemy, but instead
the sky is covered with hard, leaden-
pray clouds, and low bank of fog Is
sweeping in from the westward.
The conditions are propitious, and
Delafield prepares for his dash. He
takes the cambridge close inshore
through Bonita channel, and barely es-
capes being caught by one of the enc
my's gunboats, but, turning on more
current, he rushes silently ahead and
clear of danger. When almost within
hearing of the breakers on Duxbury
!, reef. he makes wide detour in order
! TO approach from seward, for from
8 this direction an attack is hardly to be
, expected. Nevertheless, he has to go
considerable distance out to reach q
! favorable position.
. He reaches his station at IL: Is o'clock
= and in another quarter of an hour ths
:. monitors will open fire toward tina
: flank of the enemy opposite to which
= is Delafield. They will keep up thu
:. cannonade for ten minutes, to effect
: diversion. As soon as this firing ha
- ceased, Jacks work will begin.
= Boom! bang! go the great ten-lncl
= and twelye-inch guns. 1t is tryin
!. time for Jack, but he sees the effect
!. the ruse, and is again congratulatin
:, himself on his luck. The search-light
are all playing inshore of him, the enc
- my. entirely oblivious of the fact tina
- danger is lurking in their rear. Hal
past eleven! As suddenly as 1t Degal
:, the firing ceases, and Delafield, takin
- his stand in the little conning-towe
orders the crew to their stations.
- Slowly the cambridge starts ahea
- then faster and faster she goes, unit
- fairly flying, she brings into view u
:. weaker vessels forming the outer lin
= But Jack disdains such pigmy pre-
;. Safely she flies past the gunboats, D.
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CRUELTY IN PERSIA.
Malefactors Are Punished In an Inhuma.
Manner.


Manner.
Most travellers in Persia have seen by
the roadside the little pillars in which
robbers have been built up and left to
starve, and must have heard fairly cred
ible accounts of crucifixions and other
cruel punishments. Nowadays these
things do not happen, but there seeems
no reason to doubt that extraordinary
barbarities attended the execution OF
the Babees in Teheran. l have been
myself told by nominal chief, who had
been an eyewitness, with whom !
camped in Ears, that some were sh'd
like horses, some cut to pieces with
knives and whips and some made to
carry torches in apertures made fol
the purpose in their bodies. My in
formant may have exaggerated, but il
is certain that extreme cruelty was the
rule. Nothing that is related is beyond
belief. To this day robbers are starves
to death in cages in China and patri
cides are sliced to death Qing-chih)
while the purest and highest morality j
the ideal set before the individual Chi
naman and the imperial government
alike. No fortunes that ingenuity coult
| devise sufficed to shake the constanc.
of these martyred men, women ant
children, who died repeating the ia
miliar Arabic text: ''verily, we ar
! Gods, and to Him we return" In tn
provinces, as well as in the capital, al
suspects were hunted down. A relativ
of my friend, the nomad chief, was par
ticularly active in this service and cor
ceiyed the idea of handing over >
many captives to tradesmen OF dii
fcrent guilds, whose professional II
s:incts might devise some distinctly
aad characteristic torture.-Nineteent
| Century.
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wAsPs' NESTS.
How the Insects Proceed with Thor Con-
struction.

How the Insects Proceed with AncAr SOn-
struction.
Social wasps have two principal
modes of notification. Either the combs
are enveloped in covering OF simple
leaves of generally slender paper,
analogous to that which serves for the
cells; or the covering is OF cardboard,
composed of only one layer of material,
of a consistence at times extraordinari-
" thick and resisting, at others slight
and supple.
The common paper-makers build in
the open air, on trees or bushes, under
the roofs of outbuildings, on beam, or
in some such situation; the construction
corresponds with that of the ground
wasps, but the texture of the foliaceous
envelope, which is fabricated with per-
feet art, has all the appearance OF she'll
work. 1t incloses an infinity OF cells
arranged in many tiers. A nest is in
yariably built from above downward.
The start is made by accommodating on
the determined site a good supply OF
paper, forming it into an umbrella-like
canopy. To the under side of this cap
the ceiling, SO to speak-the first comb
is attached, and the rest of the work
consists in prolonging the canopy more
OF less in an egg-shape, and in establish
ing additional combs, free, as rule,
only pendent to columns OF paper, which
pass from the upper surface OF each
comb to the comb Immediately above;
entrances is obtained at the lower end.
Toward the summit of the envelope is
a thickened cellular mass, but this por-
ton excepted, it is made up OF number
of separate leaves or layers OF paper,
limited in size and intoxicated, and in
contact together merely at the points
of imbrication, leaving large cellular
spaces between the sheets; moreover
! the points of fusion of two successive
: sheets never fall one over the other
Each sheet therefore lies on stratum
of air, with the result that the exterior
, levers may be soaked with rain without
soiling in the least the ones beneath
! Tree wasps increase the size OF tn
1 combs by cutting away the inner lay
Y ers of the envelope, taking care to adj
layers externally SO as to maintain, ant
= even to slightly augment, the thick
ness of the walls, in proportion to tn
t greater magnitude now assumed by tn
t edifice.-L. N. Badenoch, in Appleton'
r Popular Science Monthly.
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DESIGNED FOR SPEED.

some of the Strange Ideas In Marine
Construction.
A curious vessel was finished last
June, and lay at private wharf in Vir-
Qinia for some time. She was named
the Howard Cassard and nicknamed
the "Razor-back." With a length of 222
feet, she had only 16 feet beam. Her
equilibrium was maintained by an ex-
tremely heavy keel and some $4,000
pounds of machinery below the water
line.
The razorlike sharpness of the boat
gave it a curious look, and it was en-
pected that when moving through the
water the sharp prov would cut it like a
knife, thus reducing the resistance to
minimum. The narrowness Of her
beam necessitated some economy in her
interior arrangements, but this was
successfully overcome by adopting
somewhat the idea of a sleeping-car. Blu
the Howard Cassard was an experiment
that evidently has not been successful
as the claim of the designer to cross thu
ocean in three-ffths Of the time now re
quired has as yet not been fulfilled BY
his odd craft.
Probably one Of the strangest ideas il
| marine construction was that of thu
man who proposed placing in the sterI
of a vessel number of compressed-ai
csnnons. These were to be fired on
after the other, the force of the air strik
ing the water and driving the yesse
forward. Somewhat similar is the ide'
of another engineer and inventor. 1t
to run a series of hollow pipes throug
the entire length of the keel. The pipe
are to receive the water at the bow an
carry it to the center Of the vesse
where il is shut of. Then a powerft
pressure of compressed air is brougf
into play and the separated body Of WI
ter is shot out Of the pipe in the sterl
the power of the contact driving til
vessel forward. As the water is to /
received and discharged alternatel,
there would be no jerking notion
HsIper's Round Tsble.