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Secret of the Sea.

'Tis years since the faint nooatide beam
That filters to the chartroom floor
Last rested where, as in a dream,
The edrowned chief mutineer would pore
With orbits void and bony hands
Upon the chart, which, day by day,
Into new shapes Of seas and lands
The exploring seaworms fret and fray
Years since that semblance Of man,
That relic of unknown despair,
That symbol of past crime, began
Obscurely to be no more there,
VICTOR PLARR.
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Pride and Worth.

A weed and rose and violet grew
In garden, side by side.
AS the rose looked down on the iowiier two
She blushed in her queenly pride.
And once, as her red lips drank the dew,
The rose, in a whisper. said:
"If were as worthless as each OF you
I'd rather that I were dead"
But the weed that night made q cooling cup
For the lips OF q :evered child;
And one who had mourned for years looked ul
And, kissing the viol et smiled
FRANK g. PIxLEY
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Lines From the Breton Besear

So touching are thine eyes, which cannot see,
So great resignation haunts thy face;
i often think that behold in thee
The symbol OF thy race;
Nct as it was when bards Armorican
sang the high pageant OF their Age Of Gold;
But IS 1t is, a long tressed, omber man,
Exceeding poor and old
With somewhat in his eyes for some 10 read,
Albeit dimmed with tears and scarcely felt:
The mystery OF the antique deathless Greed,
Tne glamour OF the Celt VICTOR PLARR.
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THE coNUNDRUM OF LOVE.

THE END OF THE BEGINNING. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co. For sale at all bookstores:
price 81 25.
''The End of the Beginning" is the problem
attic title of a new story that may claim for
itself a place somewhat aside from the thou
sand and one novels of the day. It is New
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Light of Their DaY

An idle poet, here and there,
Looks round him, but for all the rest,
The world unfathomably fair,
Is duller than a witling's Jest.
Love wakes men once lifetime each,
They lift their heavy lids and look,
And 10! what one sweet page can teach
They read with Joy, then shut the book.
And some give thanks, and some blaspheme,
And most forget: but either way
That and the child's unheeded dream
Is all the light OF all their day.
COVENTRY PArMoRE
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SOME OF JHE SWEET FANCIES FLOWING FROM POETIC SOULS
Love Song From "Tke Sisters >

There's nae lark loves thefift, my dear,
There's nae ship loves the sea,
There's nae bee loves the heather-bells,
That loves as love thee, my love,
That loves as love thee.
The whin shlnes fair upon the fell,
The bithe broom on the lea;
The muirside wind is merry at heart:
It's a. for the love of thee, my love,
It's a. for the love of thee.
A. c. SwINBURNK.
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ATHIRTEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE

THE KINGS REVENGE BY Claude Bray.
New York: ID. Appleton & Co. Town and Coun-
Try Library No. Ia9; price 80 cents.
The above is Q story of the days Of King
Edward in the thirteenth century. page of
| the Earl of Pembroke tells of his career in the
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been subscribed for before a single volume
was ready for delivery.
The American Publishers Corporation has
published q cheap EDITION of Edward
w. Townsend's Daughter of the Tene-
ments," with all of Mr.. Kemble's illustrations.
1t is announced, by the way. that the story has
been dramatized ana will be produced on the
stage in November.
A book that since its publication year age
has been steadily growing in favor with the
American public is "The Sowers," by Henry
Seton Merriman (H. s. scott) In England it
is regarded as one of the best and at the same
time one of the most successful novels of the
season.
Messrs. Charles Scrib ibner's Sons announce
that through the courtesy of Rudyard Kip
lirg's publisners-Messrs Macmillan, Messrs
Appleton and the Century Company-they
have arranged to issue collected edition of
the authors works, to be sold only by sub
scription. A few copies will be printed on
paper made specially for the set in Japan,
each Leaf bearing Mr.. Kipling's autograph tni-
tials in water-mark.
Kenyon Vests book on "The Laureates of
England" has attracted considerable attention
| IN England, where 1t has had very good sale.
Mr.. Gladstone wrote a personal letter in regard
| to it, ss follows: 81 appreciate the honor you
do the 'old country in taking literary notice
| of the curious subject of the laureateship.
| There is much history connected with it. It
| seems always to have been q difficulty. de-
clined to advise filing it up. Yet, Salisbury
\ has done otherwise. Kenyon Vests selections
| from the works of the laureates, and passing
| them memories, are of much interest and
! value" Alfred Austin has also written Q let.
ter of appreciation and congratulation to the
| author.
| Among the books which the Century COM
pany will issue in November Quotations for
| Occasions is perhaps the most unique. The
custom of using appropriate quotations on
| dinner menus, programmes, etc., and the fact
that not every one knows just where to turn
! to find citation for particular purpose has
/ inspired Miss Katherine B. Wood, who had
/ charge OF gathering the quotations for the
| Century Dictionary, to make it. The reader is
| warned in the preface not to be too sure that
| the author of any quotation had in mind the
subject to which it is applied in the book.
| When Ben Jonson wrote of "a dozen of di-
| vine points" he little thought how appropriate
| 1t would be in connection with oysters; nor
did Marlowe intend 'infnite riches in little
ROOM to refer to terrapin; nor had Shake.
| speare bicycle meet in view when he wrote
! VIII guard your person while you take your rest,
| And watch your safety
| in oThe Tempest" The book will prove of in.
| terest to the appreciative reader, whether he
has dinner menu to prepare or not.
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Constancy.

When the ringdove is calling
Down the woodland, little darling,
When the hills have turned green
And all nature is new;
When the gentle rain, falling
Ger this good land, little darling.
Makes the old earth grow glad,
Then my heart yearns for you.
When the brown birds are winging
Ger the moorland. little darling,
And the gray gulls are blown
With the mist DER the blue,
Then long for the warm clasp
OF your hand, little darling;
When this old earth grows sad,
Then my heart yearns for you.
CY WARMAN in New York Sun.
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LITERARY NOTES.

wilds of Java in search of a mountain of gold
described in the tradi tions of the natives.
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One hundred and fifty copies Of the new
Thistle Edition of ]. NJ. Barrie's works were
printed on Japan paper and every copy had
been subscribed for before a single volume
was ready for delivery.
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Laird & Lee announce the immediate publi-
cation OF opie Reads new story, entitled "My
Young Master,
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The Frederick A. Stokes Company Of New
York has just published Sweetheart Travel
ers,' by S. r. Crockett.
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The American Publishers Corporation has
published a cheap EDITION of Edward
w. Townsend's Daughter of the Tene-
ments," with all of Mr.. Kemble's illustrations.
1t is announced, by the way. that the story has
been dramatized and will be produced on the
stage in November.
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Godey's Magazine for November has strong
election-time flavor, which will commend the
number to those even who are so much inter-
ested in the campaign as to neglect magazine
reading this fall. Rufus r. Wilson's illustrated
article on Conducting National Campaign
presents in highly interesting way facts that
it is the duty of all citizens to be familiar with
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Chester Bailey Fernald's stories in the Gen.
tury Magazine have begun to attract wide at
tention. Several of them have been on Chi
nese subjects; but New England story, which
he viii contribute to the November Century,
shows that he is as clever in down-east dialect
as he has proved himself in Pidgin-English.
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A book that since its publication year age
has been steadily growing in favor with the
American public is "The Sowers," by Henry
Seton Merriman III. s. Scott). In England it
is regarded as one of the best and at the same
time one of the most successful novels of the
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The article on ''Woman Bachelors in New
York" in the November Scribner's, by Mary
Gay Humphreys is written from the inside,
and describes the many ways in which liter
ary and artistic women get along in big
cities, where rents are so high and comforts
few. The illustra tions show some typical
bachelor-girls' quarters.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02

Here is a falling of of 7.3l0 employees
in the industries mentioned. In all
he manufactures OF the city in ls9?
there were nearly 1900 persons en-
ployed. The same proportion of reduc-
ton in force would probably not hold
in all the others as in some of those
mentioned above. but il is safe TO say
that there are from - 900 to 1000 less
persons employed in the manufactures
Of all classes in Detroit now than there
were in 1892. Similar results, on a
smaller scale can be seen in every
manufacturing city in the state
What does this mean to the farmer
and retail merchant?
1t means in every case smaller pur-
chasing power.
1t means that in many cases people
out of employment have moved to the
country and have themselves become
producers instead of consumers of farm
and garden products.
1t means that a large number of 9TH
crs who remain in the city have become
producers on their own lots, or on land
donated TO them.
Much has been said about the dona-
tion of land for the poor people of De-
troit 10 cultivate in small tracts. and
many hundred such tracts have been
ct apart during each of the last three
summers. This was movement
that grew, almost of necessity,
out of the melancholy industrial
conditions existing in the winter
and spring of 1894. But every Pin
cree potato patch was not only sig
nal Of distress from wage Garner but
1t was Il sign that the wage Garner and
his family had curtailed their buying
TO the lowest possible limits, and every
farmer and market gardener in Wayne
and the four contiguous counties felt
the effect in a contracted market or in
diminished prices.
Itwould be a good thing for the farm
ers and merchants if every man
who is now working a mendicant
potato patch was at work in the
factory. earning good wages, and buy
ing his supplies at the corner grocery.
Republican success, sound money
protection and reciprocity will open
! the way to that coveted result.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
BOMsSHELl'S BRAVE DEED.
The Dog s.ved Two Little Children From
Serious Danger.

While +. gun was being loaded Bomb
she'll would sit on the parapet and
watch the operation. That finished, he
would JUMP W and look ont to sea over
tie range and then scamper down from
the parapet and follow us into the bomb
proof.
As usual, Bombshell was on hand TO
see the test Of the new big gun
lie superintendent the leading, and
while was aiming the gun he looked
over the range Us carefully as did the
lookout and from his air Of respOns bill
ity one might have supposed that to him
had been intrusted the duty Of seeing
that the range was clear.
But when we started for the bomb
proof, instead Of following us, as was his
custom, BOmbshell remained on the
parapet, looking out TO sea and shifting
the air. IN moment he dashed off
through tie bushes which covered the
narrow beach between the parapet and
the sea.
Though thinking his actions peculiar,
was sure that he would net remain in
front Of the gun because he had done SO
once when quite young and ineXperi-
enced, and the burning grains Of powder,
which are always thrown out by the
blast of gun, had buried themselves
in his skin, burning him badly. He had
never forgotten this.
Certain that he would take care of
himself, / paid no further attention to
him, but went with the others into the
bombproof and took my place by the
electric key ready to fire mt the com
mand Of the captain.
just as the command Fire ~ was
about 10 be given Bombshell reappeared
on the parapet and began to bark flu
riousiy into the very mu2zle Of the gun
/ called to him. but he would not
come. Annoyed at the delay of the test,
l tried to catch him, but could not do
So As l approached he retreated, still
barking and apparently urging me TO
follow him.
Finally, convinced from the dogs ac-
tions that something was wrong, the
electric wire WAS disconnected from the
gun, and | followed Bombshell Wag-
ging his tail with JOY at having accom-
plished his object, he led me through
! the underbrush 70 the beach.
There, concealed behind clump Of
bushes, We're two little children quietly
digging III the sand'and entirely uncon-
scious of the danger iii which they had
been. -Lieutcnan John G. W. Brooks
in st. Nicholas.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
The Stage.

l believe that if a pastor Of a fashion
able church were to denounce any partic-
ular play as positively immoral IL would
very soon disappear from the stage. A
very large percentage of the ordinary
playgoers are communicates of the
churches. and we'll considered con
domination Of play would certainly in
juro its popularity. christian people
would not think il respectable" to sit
through a play which had been CON
demned by their spiritual pastors. All
that is needed is "a little more minis
terial courage with regard TO the stage,
and it vii very soon be seen that the
pulpit really possesses more power III
this direction than it ever had in the
history Of the modern drama One thing
is certain-if the stage is left to its own
devices, il Will become a fruitful source
OF injury 10 the moral well being of the
nation. Rev. Thomas p. Hughes in
Forum
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02

does the best she can and If a man will only
help her n little bit al the right time, he
may eat what lie likes and as much as he
likes. Dr. Picrcc's Pleasant Pellets are for
people who are troubled with indigestion.
Particularly for those in whom il manifests
itself in the form Of constipation. The
"Pellets" are quick and easy in their action.
They are in perfect harmony with Nature.
They effect a permanent cure. You need
take them regularly only little while.
After that, use them occasionally when VI
need them when you have eaten some
thing that disagrees with you. They arc not
violent in their effect, do not derange the
system at all and may be taken just as
freely as YOU would take water or any
other necessity Of life. Once used they
are always in favor. You can get the
Pellets at any drug store. If you are
careless enough TO let an INSCRIPTIONS
druggist sell you something on which he
makes more money, it is your own fault
If you do not get well.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
The Gulf Stream.

Remarking upon some Of the geo.
graphical charts now available 10 the
student OF physical science 1t is pointed
ont by a writer that elsewhere i'll the
world there is not SO majestic a flow Of
water as the gulf stream, Il remarkable
body having its headquarters III the
gulf of Mexico. from thence flowing
northeasterly along the shores of the
United States 10 the banks Of New
foundland. Then, rushing across the
Atlantic ocean TO the British isles, it is
divided into two currents, one flowing
uorthward TO the Atlantic ocean, the
other southwark 10 the Azores, and the
velocity of this immense flow being also
more rapid than that of the Mississippi
at New Orleans or even Of the Amazon
at 100 miles above its mouth. Phenom-
email, too, Is the fact that, although its
bed and banks are cold water, yet the
vast stream is very warm, and SO great
is the absence of affinity or commin-
Cling between these waters that their line
Of junction is distinctly visible 10 the
eve. Further, the waters of this Won
derful stream do not III any part Of their
course touch the bottom of the sea- They
are defended at the bottom and sides by
what has been termed trough Of cold
water, one Of the hest nonconductors
Consequently very little heat is lost,
and the warm water is carried thou
sands Of miles, losing only four degrees
Of heat on the journey from the gulf of
Mexico TO the British isles.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
Draining a lake.

Tne Fanfulla of Rome announces
that the project of the draining OF the
Trasimenian lake, which has been
talked about for more than two thou.
sand years. viii at last become fact.
\ syndicate of capitalists has bought
up the territory surrounding the lake.
and the immense undertaking will be
started this year. The circumference
of the lake, in which there are three
small islands. is more than thirty
miles. Its depth averages nine feet.
II is proposed 70 finish the work inside
of two years, and it is TO cost twelve
million lire two million four hundred
thousand dollars
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
Painless Execution.

In Germany the view obtains that the
execution of criminals should be by
some means moro certain even than the
electric chair. D1. l.. Cuhmann, cele
brated chemist, suggests the use Of car.
bolic acid. According TO his plan, the
criminal would be carried to a cell,
which can be filled noiselessly with car.
bolic acid in gaseous form from floor &c
ceiling. When the gas reaches the de-
linquent's mouth and nose it causes in.
slant paralysis of the lungs and uncon-
seriousness, and life departs without pre-
vious pain.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
AGREAT BOOK o r15r%l Away,

Few books printed in the English Ian
guage have reached so great a sale as
has DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser. II is a BOOK of 1908 large pages
and contains over 900 illustrations - some
OF them in colors 1t is a complete family
doctor book. IL IS written simply and con-
cisely, and is indexed so that reference to
II is made easily and quickly. over $50. 900
copies have been sold at the regular price
OF 81. so. The profits on this enormous sale
enable the publishers to distribute 500. 900
copies absolutely FREE. a copy bound n
strong paper covers, will therefore be sent
FREE 20 any one who will send q one-cert
stamps 90 cover cost of mailing oHiV
Address, WORLDS DIsPENSARY MED
IcAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo. ~. Y.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
LJ, DILL are the only pills TO take
1000 S Fills with Hoods Sarsapariila.
ANeicht. Of nrlli.h Cnins.

II is not generally known that the
bronze coins issued from the mint. like
i classical piece of furniture. "coI trive
a double debt 10 pay" In addition 20
oeing coins of the realm, they will
serve as weights and measures. y PEN
ny is one-third Of an ayoirdupois ounce,
Vie halfpcnny onc-tifth and the farthirg
oue-tcnth. Thus five farthings, or a
halfpenny and farthing, make haff
III ounce. Moreover. the diameter of
he halfpenny is exactly an inch.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02

Many lives of usefulness have been
cut short bv reg'ecr - break up an
ordinary cold. Pneumonia. bIorchUis
and even consumption can he averted
10y the prompt use Of one Minute Cough
ire W II. Reuuels, - Louis: i. :
Webb, \ una
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
CASTORIA.
TIE ias- II
''; y: !. 2xHzz1z1 l 81; &
Doabie Back Action.

The trolley in Cincinnati appears 10
have a double back action, so that when
Q man is struck he is liable. in the words
OF local paper, TO be fatally wounded,
and perhaps may die" A man in that
city was recently struck by motor,
and on being dragged back behind the
motor 10 save him from being run over
by a car on the other track was again
run over by the reversing of the motto,
that first hit -
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
CASTOR!A
For Infants and Children.
The fac II
'''':sii'"G&<XzA1xNa T i.;iI
-DLI culture.

Lillian Whiting, visiting the Latin
quarter" OF Boston, tells Of asking a
dainJily gowned young woman sitting
III club parlor If she believed in
thought transfcrcnce. "Oh, am far be-
You'd that, She replied airily. Il ann 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, 1896-10-02

UNDER THE M'KINLEY ACT
Customs All sources
sept 81. ls9i :l96sgi35zso sS7l %! 536 81
sept 30 SD Is5,s3s, s59l9 s6isi7 5ol72
- months ending
sept 30 1913 Iso,IS!9o5 40 36o53l6j955
Aug I,is.'' 81. ls5i.. ile59o9Nn 2@o7sSiam
UNDER THE WILSON ACT
Customs All sources
- month, ending
Aug b. l-g5 " .l6l2lI 1863 IS .2g5.OjI .O22 IL
- months ending
Aug 81 1890 I5i!ls,si3si S4l7s6.8ie87
The figures they point to especially
are those for the months ending Aug
81, 1894. and those for the l. months
ending Aug 81. 1896. They ignore
one very important fact During more
than seven mOnths OF the year lN9i the
Wilson tariff bill was under discussion,
with the certainty that it would pass.
in some form that would give a re-
duction of Duties. II passed its final
stage about the first of August. and
became law without the Presidents
signature Aug. 10. though not taking
effect till sept !.
During this whole period Of discus
sion il was considered certain that
duties would be materially reduced
itlN lltl Il''l TT Al'ltiN Ntlt ia hfIll
down to the actual requirements of cur
rent trauc Stocks were reduced to
the lowest possible point, and goods
were held bac.> tO await the operation
Of The new law
a more just comparison would be to
take the second full year of each tariff
after business had had time in each
case. to 'liuot itself 10 new schedules
These show the following:
Customs duties for second full year
Of the Mckinley tariff. ending Scptcm-
Der 30. lsg2 . =. SIS. $50. 49,
Duties for second full year Of the
Wilson tari.r. ending August 81, 1896
~lj4.2ls. ~l3.g4.
Difference in favor Mckinley tariff -
S3t go. O4i.t5.
This fact also remains true that dur
ing every year of the Harrison admin
istration. including the period when
the Mckinley act was in force. receipts
exceeded expenditures and the public
lcbt was reduced; and during every
year of the present Democratic admin
stration including the period covered
by the Wilson act, expenditures have
Exceeded receipts and the public dc bt
.as been increased.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02

They are 81 li'tle Won hardly know
on are taking them. They Cause n,
they cause No grIping
1T they act quickly and mos' thorough
". Such are the famous llttle pills
.roWn ~ DeWiu's Llttl.. Early Rr,trs.
small IN 5 u. great in resu'ts W. h
Kennels. 81 l. mis: u S.W-bb Alma
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
Indian Lands to BE Opened Up.

The president will soon issue proc
lamation opening for settlement 540,-
900 acres of land in the Nez Perez In
dian reservation in Idaho. There
are about 1000 of the Indians. The
price the settlers viii have to pay for
the lands has been fixed at 1913 per
acre for agricultural lands and s. per
acre for stone, timber and mineral
lands.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
, "n,iugeu" Testament.

y midget" Testament, three-quar-
ters Of an inch long and half an inch
wide, weighing only 26 grains. and n
mite" Bible, one and three-quarters of
an inch high by one and one-eighth
wide, containing $50 pages and weigh
ing so grains, have lust been published
by Glasgow firm. They are said to be
the smallest Bible and Testament in the
world
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
Discerning.

Dearest girl OF all, was the way the
ettcr began.
Right there, 80 10 speak, he queered
himself
"Of all she said softly TO herself
Then there are others indianapolis
Journal
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
He Won.

"Your little brother is better, hopeS'
Eyes, but the wotting he got gave him
a severe cold Some more boys and he
were playing at who could walk nearest
the edge Of the canal with their eyes shut
and he won. PHILADELPHIA American.