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were not only offered in the shops but purchased. They have not been worn lately or else have been early discard ed
 Fumes are thick, too, on the straw hats of late summer. and very rich they make such headwear look. To- days picture is a showy hat made of blush fancy braid trimmed with sev eral ostrich plumes lying on the brim and curling along the upturned part, while two other plumes and a para disc feather formed an aigrette-like uplift Nestling at the stems of the feathers were two very pale pink vel vet roses with a few leaves and buds.
 Frilled yelling is no longer even ad- missa hle. It has been put on the mar ket in such common qualities and color effects that even the daintiest and most expensive is vulgar by suggestion Plain white tulle is worn over black dotted tulle by young women who care more about effect than they do about their eyes. All black and dotted veil
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

Teaoher-"Now, children we will have our verses" First small child (repeating verse)-"He that hath ears to hear let him hear" Very good. Now the next little boy'' Small boy (taking his cue)-"He that hath noth to shmell let him shmell," Great con- fusion among the kinders. ."-Chautau- qua Assembly Herald
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

There is disturbance in Laconia, New Hampshire, over the fact that the city pays $450 year in car fares for stu dents at the high school. "As well send hacks for those who don't live on a car line," cries one local paper.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

The increasing desire to regulate every detail of the citizens life leads to some curious instances of interfer- ence with freedom of choice in Prussia. Thus, only a certain limited number of chemists is allowed in every town. One to five thousand inhabitants is the ratio. No doubt there are cynics who will be disposed to applaud such reg ulation, but it's practical effect is to create monopoly and to occasion much inconvenience. More curious still is the arrangement by which a master sweep is appointed in each district in a town. Him you must employ, whether you like it or not--or at least you must pay him if you employ another. He, and he alone, has legal right to the fee for sweeping your chimney. This makes him a very important and often wealthy individual Of course he has numerous assistants, and sometimes divisional sweep was reputed to enjoy an income of $7,500 a year from his should be added that such persons have to pass an examination before they are allowed to attain to these exalted posi- tions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

A Kentucky man is to get pension for a burned heel. Stephen A. Harper enlisted early in the war in Company A, Third Kentucky infantry. Some time in the course of his service he was attacked with typhoid fever and sent to the hospital. While in bed, un- conscious of what was going on around him, some attendant discovered that his feet were cold, and thought they should be warmed. He went out and got a large stone and, after heating 1t, put 1t in bed at the sick mans feet. He had miscalculated the temperature of the stone, and it proved so hot that it set the bedclothes on fire, and before the fire could be extinguished the left heel of MT. Harper was burned to a crisp. The soldier recovered from his fever and was afterward honorably dis charged Along in 1891 it occurred to him that, when pensions were being granted so freely, he might as well get paid for his heel, and made his appli- cation in the regular way. The com missioner of pensions, when the case reached him, said they were not paying pensions for burned heels. Assistant Secretary Davis of the Interior depart ment looks at the matter differently, and when the case was appealed to him he reversed the decision of the commits sioner, and Harper will get his pension with back pay until 1891, the date when his application was filed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

Spain's finances are in a doleful con- dition An official statement has been made by the Madrid government show ing that Spain's total debt is $1, 765 000,- 900; that the annual interest charge is e70, 0,0O0,000 that to this must be added accumulated interest amounting to $19,- poo, ,000 on obligations incurred in the Cuban war, and that the total Spanish revenue is $150,000, GOO. This revenue is liable to be diminished at any time but even if it be maintained at $150,000, ,000 1t is barely sufficient to pay annual fn- terest charges and the expense of car- rying on the war in Cuba, thus leaving nothing for the ordinary cost of run ming the Spanish government.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

A well-known turfman, who has travelled the length and breadth of Si- beria, has something to say of the mines there. ''The richest gold-bearing mines in the world" he said, fare in Northern Asia, in Russian territory. These mines are worked in a sort of slip-shod man. ner, without any of the modern equip ments that have made mining profitable an other regions. When the trans-Si- berian railroad is opened from the Pa cific to the Baltic there will be min ing craze caused by the gold discover ies in the Russian territories of Asia that will cause the Klondyke excite 1nent to appear like ripple on a mill pond"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

Tobacco appears to be doing we'll in Florida. Estimates place the tobacco crop of Florida this year as the largest in the States history. It will be worth several hundred thousand dollars. Much of the planting was experimental, but no report of failure has yet come in. These experiments are likely to be Instrumental in offsetting the effects of conditions in Cuba.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

go up in fire, through rapine and plum der, Other millions are lost because of the annual floods in the Mississippi and its tributaries, to say nothing of the possible millions to be produced by the conservation of these waters that now run wastefully to the sea. To devise laws for the control and distribution of these waters and for the apportionment of land in the arid districts is one of the purposes of the congress.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

Only twenty years ago an eminent European geologist declared that the production of gold in the future would have to depend mainly on the output from alluvial deposits; that much more than half the gold obtainable had then passed through the hands of man, and that the time was coming when the production of the metal must cease to an extraordinary extent. This pre- diction evidently didn't take in South Africa, the Klondike and few other places.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE ClTY, lb CENTS WEEK, tuCENTs A MONTH, g FOR eIx MONTHS, $o A lEAR. IHE SAME TERMS BYMAH.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
Kccping "A Weathcrcock.

Old Bartlc was ~ perfect example Of the
typo which sees only the poorest and mean
est sides of life and society, and one of mis-
friends, n blacksmith, with quaint HUI
NOR, thus accounts, in a conversation with
The squire OF the English village in which
both men lived, for Bartle's idlosyncrasies:
Its NY belief, squire, y said Samson
THAT thoro old chap Bartle L.ve a-swal-
lowed the east wind and it Ia, mt agreed
with un.
"Swpllowcd the east wind9" said the
squire "Why SO, Samson?"
"Why, how else could he go on as he
dor From mOrnin To night, from one
weeks end To another, iU's nothin but
grumble, ndget and growl.
"First it $ the dreadful accidents, tho
fires and the murders. Then it's the fever
and riots i'm Ireland, the paupcrs, tho
jails and the strikes EycrytHlng's goin
wrong and there's no good news any.
whore
"Why, bless e, he come into my forge
the other mOrnin, and what's he do but
begin foragin about among my tools and
putin them To rights maxim 'em tidy,
he says--and upscttin things 20 that dc.
gree that every bit Of fire went out of the
soals and put me all of cold sweat.
" BE off, Bartle, says at last Get
away out into the sunshine there and take
q good drink Of that and see if 1t can I
clear all then, cobwcbs out Of your brains
And with that, squire, away no goes out
of the place like a mad March harcl'
"Wcll done, Samsonp said the squire
well done. If he could but take your adj
vice, that wrctched old croaker would be
a different man in month Now hc is
nothing but Il nuisance to himself and all
his neighbors Good night, Samson.
How's the winds"
West. sir-west TO everybody In the
place but old Bartle But he keeps his
own weathercock, be do, and it's nothin
but east by 7ortheast and dirty weather
1t pity such people was ever born"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
College Notes.

Miss Fannie Kenyon of Saginaw
visited over Sunday with the Misses
Bushnell.
DR.. Bruske has succumbed at last and
now appears OH our street riding fine
new bike.
Miss Elizabeth Merrill of Saginaw, a
former Alma student, was the guest of
old college friends this week.
A permanent lecture course has been
provided for by the faculty to begin next
year. Some of the best talent III the
country will be secured. A first-class
lecture has been one of the great needs
Of our institution for some time, so the
students hail the project with delight.
The young ladies of the Froebel Club
were invited to the home of Miss Eda
Blanchard last Monday evening for their
farewell meeting. An excellent supper
was served and the young ladies had "A
splendid time The following officers
were also elected for the coming year /:
Pres, Miss Nina Hannah; Vice, Miss
Evelyn Sweetland; Sec, Mis- Eda
Blanchard.
Monday night last being the last meet
ing of the college literary societies for
the year the following new officers were
elected:
ALPHA THETA-Pres., Miss Adams
Vice, Miss Peters; Sec, Miss Hunt.
ZETA SIGMA-Pres, w. H. Long Vice,
S. l.. Divine; Sec, w. f. Knox.
ADELPHIC-Pres., r. a. Eastman;
Vice, w. b. Robinson; Sec, Wilbur
Nelson.
PHILoMATHEAN-Pres Miss Vliet;
Vice, Miss Carl; Sec, Miss MacCollum.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
Frightening n Grizzly,

While | believe that "A grizzly bear will
IN a majority of cases wait for fight with
man and take pains TO get In the way OF
one, there are times when It will seem 20
think better Of IL and back out A remark
able instance of this heard Of once. where
famous guide couragcously advanced
upon three grizzlies, an old she bear and
two half grown cubs, and by series Of
ridiculous monkey shines and acrubatic
maneuvers on the ground within a rod Of
two of the bears filled them with such as
constituent and apparent fear that the
three hastily retreatcd into the woods. The
guide gun had snapped I'm both barrels
be having drawn on tho old bear before
the young ones appeared. He afterward
said that 1t was In n fit of desperation that
he tried the turning Of a handspring and
jumping up and down, Topping his hands
and resorting 20 ether unhunterlikc meas.
ures. He had been told once that a hunter
had frightened a mountain lion away by
similar absurd movements, and he found
that IL worked to perfection i'm the case of
the bears, although he did not encourage
any one To go hunting grizzlies armed
with nothing more than a capacity to turn
snnerSaults. SAN Francisco Chronicle
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
The Tariff In the Senate

The signs in the Senate are favorable
TO the speedy passage of tariff bill.
The attempts toward needless delay by
academic debate or by frivolous amend
ment thus far have been avoided. 1t
seems evident that there is no organi ID
opposition to protective scheme of ! g
islation
But the crucial clauses of the measure
substituted by the Senate committee for
the Dingley bill have not yet been
reached 1t is when the sugar, wool,
and tea clauses of this strange evolution
of committee work are under debate
than the battle royal will begin. 1t is
not at all likely that the House will con-
cur in tea duty; it ought not to accept
the Senate committees wool tariff, and
the sugar duties prescribed by the Din
gley bill are far more acceptable to the
people than those desired by the Senate
committee.
This is time when st. Paups advice,
Avoid the appearance of evil, is pecul-
iarly applicable. 1t will not do for Con-
gress to appear to favor trusts; and that
the Senate committees sugar schedule
is favorable to the sugar trust is proved
by the fact that the trust prefers it to
the schedule of the Dingley bill Nor
will it do to favor manufacturers at the
expense of the farmer; the one class is as
deserving as the other, and the Senate
committees wool schedule will be re-
garded as discriminating against the
farmers. 1t is difficult to speak of the
tea duty otherwise than as an irrational
ity. Mature deliberation could have
evolved no duty more obnoxious to the
people. Complaints would arise from
every household and from every retail
store were the obnoxious duty enforced.
The proposed duty only can be regarded
as a climacteric blunder, which it will
be the duty of the House to prevent from
passage into law, unhappily the Senate
at large shall be unable to eliminate it
from the programme of the finance COM
mittpe
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11

Objection is made to a tariff on wood
pulp by a free trade exchange because of
he possibility that it would only yield
a revenue of $50, 900 or S70,0 900 per year.
This possibility may or may not exist,
but there is one thing the duty on wood
pulp would do and that is TO furnish a
market for many thousands of dollars
worth of northern Michigan timber
which is now unsaleable because its dis
tance from the eastern pulp mills gives
Canadian pulp timber controlling adj
vantage. Small as the proposed duty is,
it is large enough to divert large and
important trade from New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia TO Michigan and that
is possibly why it is meeting with oppo-
sition from the eastern free traders and
some of their western sympathizers.-
Cadillac News and Express.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
rendered Him a Reception.

The reception rendered DR.. Ii. e.
Butler by Mr.. and Mrs. A. q Adams at
their residence Saturday evening was a
very pleasant occasion. Many members
of his congregation and other friends
were present. Light refreshments were
served in the dining room, and Miss
Julia Bross sang in her usual pleasing
way.
AT the close of the Sunday evening
service large number of the congrega-
ton remained to shake his hand and bid
him farewell and God speed.-Clinton
Republican.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
Tile Ass and the Tran.

The Poultry once brought Petition 70
the King of the Barnyurd, praying foi
Protection against the Fox. The Case
was referred TO the Kings Learned Coun.
solor, ths Donkey, who set about dovisinq
a means Of restraining the Fox. IN dLC
time he produced a Trapof his own inven-
ton, which he brought in triumph to
Chanticleer But are you certain it will
catch the Fox" asked the King Sire "
replied the Donkey, Il have not merely
my own opinion of its merits, but the Fox,
who has carefully examined it and seen il
work, is greatly in favor of it as well. -
lin that case, replied King Shanghai,
lit won't do Whatever suits the Fox ia
a good thing for the Poultry TO avoid. "
Moral. 1t is IA good thing TO find oua
what your Enemy wants you to do and
then do tho Opposite. The Prohibition
AIsop A Book Of Fables" by J. W. Beh,
couch
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
HURRAH FOR ALMA.
We Hold the Championship OF
Saginaw Valley Another
Year,

Alma Scores 60 Points Out of IOS.
With very pleasant afternoon the
Saginaw Valley Meet took place at the
race track last Saturday afternoon. a
large crowd attended and showed their
appreciation of the excellent work of
the Alma team by loud demonstrations
and applause.
Alma had comparatively easy time
winning every running event, the pole
vault, running broad jump, one-half
mile bicycle Long again showed his
ability as an athlete by winning the 100
yard dash and breaking the college
record on the jump.
Sidebotham was the man to break the
mile record, bringing it down to 800
with Eastman close second.
Cooper, the crack rider for the Nation
al Bicycle Company, was not little
chagrined at his defeat by Bruske i'll the
one-half mile bicycle while Alma people
cheered loudly for the winner.
Saginaw East Side secured second
place scoring thirty-five points which
was an excellent showing considering
the fact that she only entered five men
in the contest.
Saginaw West Side was badly crippled
by the loss of some of her best men who
could not get away, so only scored thir
teen points.
1t might be safe tol conjecture that
Bay City stood so poor show that she
preferred staying at home to a humiliat-
ing defeat which is probably correct.
Too much cannot be said of the praise
worthy conduct of the visitors while in
our little village. All were true Y. NJ.
g. A. men in every way and Alma
hopes to welcome them again ere long
Below we give the summary of
events:
Alma, No. /.
Saginaw Il. s. NO2.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11

Our Spanish American friends at the
south of us evidently recognize the fact
that the republican party is again in
control in the United States. They are
sending delegation of business men
here to encourage trade, step which
they carefully avoided taking during
the existence of the Cleveland admins
tration, which cut off the reciprocity
treaties and thus closed to the United
States the markets which those treaties
had opened in those countries.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
CHANGE THE DRAIN LAW
Township Drain Commissioners
Legislated Quito office.

Township Drain Com missioners
Legislated Quito office.
The legislature just adjourned has
made a very important change III the
drain law. There are several minor
changes, but the most radical one is the
adjustment of the office of township
drain commissioner The bill was given
immediate effect, and as last heard from
only lacked the governors signature.
The new law provides that all records
Of old drains III possession of township
clerks and township drain commissioners
shall be turned over TO corresponding
county officers also, all funds IL hands
of township treasurers shall be turned
over to county treasurer. For time, at
least, the work of county officers will be
largely increased. The county drain
commissioner now has all he can attend
TO, and with the work now done by town.
ship drain commissioners on his hands,
he will undoubtedly have to employ an
assistant. The other changes i'll the law
are mostly technical as to specific direc-
ton for conducting the business
The last section of the law provides
that township drain commissioners can
complete drains begun by them as though
the law had not been enacted.-Gratiot
Journal
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
In Opportunity You Now Have

of testing the curative effects of Elys
Cream Balm, the most positive Cure for
Catarrh known. Ask your druggist for a
10 cent trial size or send 10 cents, we
will mail IT, Full size 30 cents.
ELY BROS, % Warren St., n. Y.
City.
My son was afflicted with catarrh. |
induced him TO try Elys Cream Balm
and the disagreeable catarrhal smell all
left him. He appears as well as any
ONE. Z. Olmstead, Arcola. Ill.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11

Great progress has been made with
the tariff bill in the senate thus far.
Senator Vest shortly after the measure
was brought up said that more ground
had been covered by the senate in three
days on the Dingley bill than in three
weeks on the Wilson bill. There has
been no "let up" in the speed since.
There is strong probability that the
bill will pass the senate before the
Fourth of July. The democrats have
promised not to resort to any obstructive
tactics against the bill and they have
kept their word along TO this time.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
VASSAR GIRLS FOOD.
Immense Quantities of Provisions Devour.
ed at the College.

immense Quantities of Provisions Devour.
ed at the College.
A New York Mail and Express reporter
has discovered a down town house that re-
joices in the honor of supplying the sweet
Vassar girls with what they eat. 1t Is
quite a serious affair, the educated appe.
titles of these young ladies. They have in.
creased steadily the past five years, and
the merchant who furnishes ga few fig
ures" says that If the increase goes on it
will become necessary to include the daily
food purchases of the college i'm the mar
ket reports To see what effect they may
have upon prices This merchant would
not give his own personal figures but ne
exhibited an annual statement of the col
lege that had just been issued.
What will Boston culture and other
things aesthetic say to an army of young
women who will so far forget all conven-
Gonalism as To eat 125 900 buckwheat
cakes in one year, Nothing surreptitiuus
about this, either; all done openly and
above the table board. Looking along the
list, 10 will he found that the young ladies
consumed 2j0 barrels of flour 80, 600
oranges and lemons, 1900 bananas, 105,
600 quarts of milk, /, 200 bushels of pota-
toes, 81, 600 pounds of fresh meats, 10, COO
pounds of smoked meats 5000 pounds of
chickens, 5000 pounds Of turkeys. 5000
pounds of fish, 40, 600 clans, lG5 gallons of
oysters, $4,000 pounds of butter and, last
but not least, by any means in "A Nassar
girls composition, 81, OO0 pounds of sugar.
In the above no allowance is made, IL
will DO noticed, for the stolen fruits, "
such as forbidden lunchcons and candy
smacks after retiring, nor is any attention
paid To the tea, coffee vegetables and
sweetmeats. surely these young ladies
have educated appetites.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
GRAND MAS TEA Ioc, all druggist
Special Notice to the Public.

The Sanitarium Company find that
their request, referring to the proper use
of the Sanitarium Park, is UNDECIDED by
some and especially is this true of bicycle
riders OH Sundays. The noise and dis
turbance created has proven very objec-
tionable. and as we cannot ADMIT one
and not another, we are forced to an
nounce that until further notice, CARR
ages and wheels will not be admitted to
our Park on Sundays.
On other days, as long as the rules are
observed, wheels and carriages will be
admitted
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
AN AMERICAN POETS REPLY TO ENG
llSH CRITICS.

Of Briggsville and Jacksonville
j care not now 10 sing.
They make mo sad and very mad
My Utmost soul tboy wiring.
III HE me back 60 England,
And straightway ! will 40
To Bedford and 10 Swaffham,
To Plungor and Loose Hoe.
At Scrooby and AT Gonexby,
At Wigton and at Smeoth,
At Bottesford and Runcorn
need not grit my teeth.
Al Swineshead and at Crummock
AT Sibsey and Spithead,
Stoke Pogis and Wolsokon,
will not wish mo dead.
At Horbling and at Skidby,
AT Chipping Ongar, too;
At Botterel Stottcrdon and Swops,
At Skellington and Skew,
AT Piddleton and Blumsdown,
At Shanklin and at Smart,
AT Gosberton and Wranglc,
III soothe this aching heart.
From "The Poetry of Place Names" Quotoe
by Professor Brander Matthews in Scribner' >
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11

Fifty million dollars is large lump
of money to put into the pockets of the
farmers i'll less than years time. That
is the increase. however, in the value
of breadstuffs exported in the past ten
months of the preceding year, the ex-
ports of the breadstuffs in the ten
months ending with April, 1891
amounting to $l6I, i2J,031 and i'll the
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
For Sale.

Two farms near Alma 40 and 60 acres
100 rods apart. All improved choice
land. On account of indebtedness will
sell one or both; exchange for good
mortgages, improved or wild land; part
town property, here or elsewhere. See
or write. W. ;. BANGS,
O53-l IT Alma, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
Strayed or Stolen.

A two year old steer light red with
some white and brown on, small horns,
one yearling brindle heifer and one
yearling heifer dark colored. A liberal
reward will be given for their where
abouts. GILBERT CHAFFIN,
953-tf Cedar Corners.