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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-05-07

Special report o. the committee on salaries
was made as follows:
That the health officer be paid for duties
actually done; and that the village marshal b.
paid salary of 600 per year Upon motion
report was accepted.
Report of the street com was read aud the
walks in front of property owned by & N
sharp James Gargett. NJ NJ Copp. David Cas-.
tor. IN Clark and ] Rogers were reported to
be In need of repairs and the walks in front
of property owned by the Ann Arbor X.
being lot Ia, NJ K Ely addition,) George
Sharrar, needs rebuilding
IL was moved that the report OF the street
com be accepted and that the clerk issue
notices TO the proper owners TO rebuild or re-
pair said walks. Motion prevailed.
Report of secretary fire department was
read and accepted and ordered to be- placed on
file.
II was moved that Chas Fishbeck be ap.
pointed Chief OF the Fire Department for the
ensuing year. Motion prevailed.
Report OF the village treasurer was read and
accepted and ordered 10 be placed on tile.
IL was moved that 500 be transferred from
the general fund to the highway fund Mo-
ton prevailed aud so ordered.
President Bagley appointed for ways and
means committee for the ensuing year. trus-
tees Glass and Pollasky.
1t was moved that the time for collecting
water rents b. limitedto July lst 1891 Mo-
ton prevailed.
Upon motion the council adjourned.
Il A BAULtY, Earl q IOBRBY.
President. Clerk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-05-07
II Lends.

Wherever it has been introduced, DR.
Caldwell's Syrup PepSin leads all other
remedies in curing Constipation. Indi-
gestion and Sickheadache. 1t only costs
l0c for trial size 90 doses for 10 cents.
Large size SOC and 81 CO. b. 5 WEBB
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
Clocks i'm High Buildings.

There is one disadvantage about very
tall buildings which is just now being
noticed by the occupants. 1t involves
some annoyance to those who have not
made provision for it.
The trouble is the stopping of pendu-
lum clocks by the vibration of the
buildings. Many pendulum clock that
has kept accurate time for years in old
fashioned low structures has refused to
run at all when moved into some one of
the new tall steel-framed buildings in
the lower part of the city. On the
lower floors of the buildings the clocks
run fairly well, but when higher up in
the buildings they become more whim-
steal and on the top floors will not run
at all
Mr.. Dunn, of the weather bureau, has
fine pendulum clock in the tower of
the Manhattan Life Building, which
has not done an honest days work since
the weather bureau was moved into the
new offices. 1t has stopped so often
that it is no longer to be relied upon.
The pendulum swings continually, but
only from the vibration of the building,
as the clock has not been wound for
weeks. The only relief is in replacing
the pendulum clocks with others that
have balance wheels.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
Paine's Celery Compound Makes the Sick
Well Again.
The Wonderful Prescription that Results
from the Life Work of Americas
Greatest Physician Investigator
and Practitioner.
and Practitioner.

There is one direction, as DR.. George F
shrady, Americas first surgeon, distinctly
says, in which people seem to need enlight-
eminent at present more than they have
for many years past.
This is the rational appreciation of the
danger of quackery and fake cures"
DR.. Shrady's article in the New York
World of Dec. 9th, should be read byeyery
man and woman who is ever inclined to
listen to the nonsensical but too often plaus-
ible, ramblings of traders in patent medi-
cines.
When Prof. Edward Z. Phelps, MD. LII.
d., of Dartmouth college after long life of
study in the most recent scientific inyesti-
CATION of disease, evolves the marvellous
formula of Paine's celery compound
alter the closest possible observance by the
best practitioners 1T is found that this great
est remedy of our generation not only does
all, but even accomplishes more than the
modest doctor-the giant among men that
he has proved to be-more than he was
willing at first to claim-when thousands
OF sufferers in every walk of life, sufferers
from the ailments that come from over
work, deranged digestive organs, i'm
paired nervous systems, too poor or too rich
living, inattention to hygienic laws, have
been absolutely restored to health by
Paine's celery compound after vainly try
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04

ing every other possible remedy, and being
dosed by well-meaning but incompetent
so-called physicins.
When this is taken into consideration.
and at the same time we find hosts of peo-
pie still willing to be led astray by the
hundred and one nostrums which irrespon-
sible traders try to foist upon them on the
pretext that these preparations are "as
good as Paine celery compound Tbut real
~ because they make big profit on such
preparatlonsl, 1t is time for every one who
detests fraud, to warn his neighbors, and
take the warning to himself that when he
goes to get a bottle of Paine's celery com
pound ne must not be wheedled into taking
some other remedy.
Palnes celery compound makes people
well. These other things work harm.
Palnes celery compound is not patent
medicine. Its formula is given freely to
every physician.
These trashy stuffs that YOU are asked to
buy are made up of ingredients that should
never be taken into sick stomach.
These ordinary nervines, tones and sar-
saparlllas are no more To be compared with
Palne's celery compound than glimmer-
ing candle is to be compared with the
wonderful modern search light
III person needs true nerve tonic. a
real blood purifier, reliable diuretic, that
will restore strength, renew vitality. regu-
late the kidneys, liver and bowels. and
make one we'll, let that person try his or
her FIRST bottle of Paine's celery compound
and mark the wonderful result
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
New York Public Libraries.

The facts which The Book Buyer pre-
sents relating to the circulation of books
in New York city through free ciroulat-
ing libraries cannot be questioned. Scant
as is the aggregate number of books tax
en-, when compared with the popula-
ton, it is nevertheless satisfactory to
learn that there are some few free libra
ries which can show that, as to readers,
they have more. The following is from
The Book Buyers article:
How woefully New York is behind
other cities of the country in bringing
books within reach of thu masses is seen
from comparison of the free circulat-
ing library systems. Last year, for ex-
ample, there was circulation in New
York of something over 1000, 900 vol
umes by Libraries that received total
appropriation from the city of $65, 900.
In the same year the Boston Public
library circulated $50, 900 volumes and
received $175, 900 from the city, the
Chicago Public library circulated /, 100,
600 volumes (the passion for reading
being more general even than in Bos-
tom and received 1924, 900, the Cleve-
land Public library circulated 500, 600
volumes and received $50, 900, and the
st. Louis Public library received the
same amount for a circulation of $751;
900.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
TURNED HIS HAIR GRAY.
A SAN FRANCISCO DRUMMER'S
CLOSE CALL.
George X. Hendriekson, a Wen-knOwn
Travelling Man, Describes a Never
to-be-forgotten Experience
Thought He Was Going to
be Launched Into
Eternity.
From he Chronicle, San Fna,.eisco. Cal.

George r. Hendrickson, of SOC Mar
ket Street, San Francisco. CAL, is one
of the best known commercial travel
ers ON the Pacific Coast. Mr.. Hem
Erickson has grown gray in the service,
but his frosted hair and patriarchial
beard are due more to an experience he
had about three years ago, than to age.
There was not much to hope for, :"
said the old-time traveller when relat-
ing his experience yesterday, land /
never expected to take an order again.
1t is not pleasant thing to contem-
plate, when walking along the street,
to be seized with sinking spell and
think you are about to be launched
into eternity. That was the condition
of my existence for about six months.
The doctors told me that was suffering
from nervous prostration. Well, |
guess l was. had had an attack of
the grippe. and my complaint was the
result Of that disease. l consulted the
best physicians in the town and took
their medicine, but grew no better.
My stomach went back on me and /
suffered all the ills that accompany
nervous disorders.
while under the care of the doctors
never knew what peace of mind was.
The least sound coming UNEXPECTEDLY
threw me into a cold sweat, and
caused chills to run up and down my
back. | was subject to vertigo and
every time l had an attack l feared
that | would drop to the sidewalk a
corpse. began to think would be
better off if dead, when came across
DIR. Williams Pink Pills down in Los
Gatos. have studied medicine and
recognized the value of the pills very
readily. l threw my last bottle OF
medicine over the bridge at Los Gatos
and began to take the pills. At once my
condition began to improve. | got relief
from the start and | determined to
give the pills all the chance in the
world. / went home and stayed
there for three months, at the end of
which time | was new man, my
health being completely restored"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain,
in condensed form, all the elements
necessary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are also specific for
troubles peculiar to females, such as
suppressions, irregularities, and all
forms of weakness. They build uI
the blood, and restore the glow OF
health to pale and sallow cheeks. In
men they effect radical cure in all
cases arising from mental worry, over.
work or excuses of whatever nature.
Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never il
loose bulk at so cents box or SIX
boxes for $3.50, and may be had of al
druggists, or direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Schen
ectady, N. Y.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
Andrew Jackson's Wav.

Although the government paws the
rank and file of its employees greater
salaries than they would be likely to
command in private business, with
shorter hours and easier work on an
average, the days of the impecunious
clerk in Washington are by no means
ended. So writes a Companion CORE
spondent, who goes on to say:
The cabinet officers take the ground
that the departments cannot be used as
debt-collecting agencies, but at the
same time they see to it that employ
ment shall not be given to those who
can, but will not, pay their bills. An old
gentleman said to your correspondent
the other day that he recalled very in
teresting incident which occurred in
Jackson's administration.
Among the clerks in the Treasury
Department at that time was a young
man who had a chronic dissemination
to pay his board bill. His landlady
was widow in needy circumstances,
but was unable to get cent out of him.
He gave his notes with Micawber-like
cheerfulness, and they went to protest
with clock-like regularity. Finally she
went one day to the White House and
called upon the President.
She told her story, and as she pro-
ceeded Jackson's eyes began to snap
in dangerous manner He told her
that she ought to be paid, and request
ed her to get the clerks note for the
amount. The lady replied that she was
unable to pay the costs of the protest.
but the President assured her that this
time there would be no such expense.
She went over to the Treasury, and
had no difficulty in getting the young
fellows note for thirty days for the
full amount of the Indebtedness. Then
she carried 1t to the White House. The
President glanced at 1t and wrote on
the back, ANDREW Jackson"
"Now, madam" said he, put that in
the bank, and we will see which one of
us will have to pay you the money"
The note was deposited for cnllec-
ton, and 1t is needless to add, was paid
by the clerk, who afterward went to
see President Jackson, apologlzed, and
promised to mend his ways.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
POETRY.
what II L. and What It Appears to BE
&C VARYING Ages.

What It Il and What It Appears to He
at Varying Ages.
Ask tho first half dozen people Won
meet what is poetry" and the result
will be something like this: Five out of
the six will look hurt at your springing
such a question upon them and say
lamely, "oh. it's when the lines rhyme,
you knowf' and the sixth will be an
noyed because, for the life Of him, he
can't say what it is and is afraid you'll
think he doesn't know. As to the rhym-
ing definition. beware how you accept
it, innocent and simple as it looks. APP
piled, it will inevitably lead you to the
conclusion that Hamlet" and Evan
geline" aren't poetry, but that Little
Jack Horner" is.
The meaning Of the word poetry"
varies, too, with our own age. Five
year-old thinks "Sing n Song o. Six
pence" and simple Simon" the great
est masterpieces of poetic thought; is
won't look at either, but pores over the
"Ingoldsby Legends" the Ancient
Mariner, and, for a change, the cheer
full Burial Of Sir John Moore" 90
dreams away Sunday afternoons over
Maud" and privately determines to
be Tennyson, too. some day, while 20
'hasn' time to read poetry"
There are two well known poems that
always seem to me deserving of our
greatest pity 1.-THE Village Black
smith and "Casabianca 4" We give
them all the little disagreeable jobs to
do-all the kicks fall to their share, and
none of the halfpence.
If comic paper man is hard mp for
a joke, he falls back upon one or other
OF them, while the way they are both
hacked and mangled and tortured in the
schoolroom alone is positively cruel,
and, outside its four walls, all the re-
ward they get is general disfavor. to say
nothing of social oblivion and derision.
But long after school has been left be-
hind the boy Of the burning deck and
the smith with the brawny arms turn
round upon us and take their revenge
for all the obloquy and hard work heaped
upon them.
They haunt us and bring in their
Train thoughts we would rather not
! think. We don't so much mind the
memories of dingy schoolrooms and ink
and tears and smudged copies that they
force upon US, or even of half holidays
! spent i'll durance vile, but it is not of
these alone that they remind u.s. No.
They hint at the sad and foolish ignoble
days and the long dead loves and hopes
and aspirations that have filled our lives
since, and we find ourselves contrasting
what we are with what we were-too
often, alas, bitter thought
After all, the greatest and best poetry
is unwritten and will ever remain so.
Our sweetest love songs come ripping
over the meadows with the breeze that
rocks the grasses in the long, soft sum
mer evenings; our saddest dirges moan
through the woods in the dark Novem
Der days, when a damp mist hangs gray
and pall-like over the hills and the dead
leaves rustic as though swept by the
feet of ghostly funeral train, while for
thrilling dramas and great, grand epics
we need but to look round us into the
faces and lives of living men and WON
on -Exnhaupe
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
Two Billions for Pensions.

One of the most striking facts in the
report Of the Interior Department is
that during the last thirty-one years, or
the government has paid out for pen
sions, including the cost of distributing
them, the enormous sum of $2,034, ST.
100.
The amount paid last year, $13S, 214,-
1914, was nearly 100000 less than
that of the previous year, and far below
that of 1893 Still, once more the pro-
digious annual sum of Sal, 100000,
which is more than double the average
of the thirty-one years, is required, that
being the estimate for the twelve
months beginning July 1, 1897. 1t is,
therefore, absolutely certain that the
aggregate pension outlay since the war
will, within three or four years, have
exceeded the amount of the whole in
terest-bearing public debt, when at its
climax. In fact, two and half years
more at the present rate of appropria-
lions will put the pension expenditures
at the top.
How Is 1t that, nearly generation
after the close of the war; the pension
outlay is fivefold greater than it was a
dozen years after the war? For, in
1875, it was, If we have the correct
figures, only 500, 456,212; the next year,
sos, 257 1896; the year following, $27,-
963, 1852; the year after that $27, 1877 ,019.
The causes are three, one being the
introduction of the policy Of paying ar
rears of pensions to those who were put
on the roll, as established under Hayes;
a second, the opening of the rolls to new
classes of pensioners, scores or hun
dreds of thousands strong, as, for ex-
ample, in the dependent pension act;
finally, the raising of the rates of pen
! sions, which is a constant process, Sec.
rotary d. R. Francis, In his annual re-
port, proposing to increase by 80 per
cent one such class.
Commissioner Lochren long ago esti-
mated that, in the ordinary course, the
pension roll would be decreasing in
number by the year 1895. But here is
1897 at hand, and ebb tide has not yet
set in. There are now more pensioners
than ever before. The latest figures
give us ghosts names on the roll; and,
If table before us is correct, the num-
Der for last year was 970,524; for the
preceding year, 969,544; for the year
before that, 966, 012.-New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
Delicious snails of Provence.

The Provencal snails, which feed in
a gourmet fashion upon vine leaves, are
peculiarly delicious, and there was a
murmur Of delight from our company
as the four women brought to the table
four big dishes full of them, and for a
while there was only the sound of eager
munching, mixed with the chatter on
china of the empty shells. To extract
them we had the strong thorns, three or
four inches long, Of the wild acacia, and
on these the little brown morsels were
carried to the avid mouths and eaten
with bit Of bread sopped in the sauce,
and then the she'll was subjected to q
vigorous sucking, that not drop of
sauce lingering within it should be lost
-Thomirs A. Janvier in Century.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
How Gran. g. tI.e Same OF Ulrs.e..

The story was curious As related by
the father afterward, it appeared that
the common difficulty Of choosing a
name for the babe arose. Multitudes Of
suggestions only confused the young
parents the more, until at last it was
proposed to cast the names into a hat
This was done. A romantic aunt sug.
gested Theodore. The mother favored
Albert, in honor of Albert Gallatin.
Grandfather Simpson voted for Hiram,
because he considered it handsome
name. The drawing resulted in two
names, Hiram and Ulysses.
Ulysses, IL IS said, was cast into
the hat by Grandmother Simpson, who
had been reading a translation of Fene-
Ions "Telemaehus' ard had been much
impressed by the description of Ulysses
given by Mentor to Telemachus. HE
was gentle of speech, beneficent of
mind. - ''Ihe most patient of men. -
''He is the friend Of truth. He saws
nothing that is false, but when it is
necessary he comedies what is true. His
wisdom is seal upon his lips, which is
never broken save for an important pur.
pose, "-Hamlin Garland in Mcclure s.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
MOTOR AND MISERY.

Compressed air as a motive power for
street railways will in time supersede cleo
tric wires and the trolley. Necessity and in
vention make rapid changes, but some Old,
sure, unfailing methods will hold good for
all time. The nerves are the electric wires
of the human system, and often ''jangle ont
of tune" as when neuralgia slips the trolley
of the system and il grinds and groans with
pain. The old motor for the cure of pam,
ST. Jacobs Oil, will always act as electric in
fluence on the pain stricken nerves, and will
send a current of cure through the disor-
dered wires, and bring about a perfect restO-
ration. Nothing new can improve upon
what is known TO be the best and surest in
the treatment of painful diseases
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04

"Why don't You go into bankruptcy?
asked Judge Emden of the Lambeth
county court, when Mr.. Casswell, a
sausage manufacturer of Camberwell,
candidly admitted that he could not pay
his debts except by small installments
II am poor man and can't afford it, y
replied the latter, who seemed to regard
his honor's question as tantamount to
asking man with only twopence in his
pocket why he did not treat himself tc
turtle soup and milk punch. Such lux.
nries as bankruptcy are not meant for
the poor, and he sighed as he added,
You can't become bankrupt unless you
have money" "Ah, yes, replied his
honor, quite truel A man in your po-
sition cannot indulge in the luxury OF
bankruptcy. So the unfortunate sau.
sage maker was ordered to pay up al
the rate of 10 shillings per month or &c
to Jail for IA days. Telegraph.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04

kept BY an old gentleman VINO delignrs
to have all his plants labelled with
highsoundlng botanical names"-lt
does not matter in the least what; and
SO some of his more learned friends
nave helped him to distinguish appel
lations.
He has, for instance, a bank of roses,
the plants in which bear these labels:
Nux vomiea, Nisi prius. Ipecacuanha
peruyiana, Particeps crimininis.
1t Is easy to see to what professions
the friends belonged who supplied the
worthy gardener with these eminently
scientific names. The gardener is
proud of them, and they undoubtedly
answer every purpose of the planter.
They remind one Of the story of the
Rev. Sydney Smith and the new-rich
Lady OF Kensington. She was quite
ignorant of either Latin or botany, but
she had a fine conservatory, and she
considered it proof of her own cul-
tivation to know the botanical names
Of all plants.
These names she committed careful
ly to memory, and one day, when Mr..
Smith called, she took him to the con
seryatory and reeled them all off to
him. She showed him the Pelargonium
quercifolium and the Chelranthus lean.
us and the Mezembryanthemum and
the Amygdalus perslca, and scores OF
other such high-sounding names
which were. after all, but common
flowers and fruits.
Sydney Smith listened until he was
tired, and then, turning to the lady
asked:
Madam, have you the Rubeola NOR
billis?'
The lady stopped short. What in tn,
world might the Rubeola morbillis be
She had not the slightest idea. Blu
she did not wish to display her ignor
ance. 1t might be something familiar
of which she had not learned tn,
name-and the name was pretty, any
way. So she put on bold face and re
piled:
| mot just now; but had 1t last year
and gave 1t to as many of my neigh
bors as l could"
"Ah! Did you, indeedY said thu
great clergyman, and left her ignor
ant of the fact that he had simply
asked if she had had the measles!
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04

MARIA" said Mr.. Dawson, "why do
you always keep the window shades
down? The house looks like dungeon
to me-"
Il want to be able to say" his wife
replied, that my neighbors have called
on me. You don't suppose that any Of
them would come if they could see from
the outside what we've got, do your
Cleveland Leader
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
THE LIVERY OF RILInnsNrss

Is a pronounced yellow. 1t is visible in the
countenance and eyeball. 1t is accompanied
with uneasiness beneath the right ribs and
shoulder blade. sick headache, nausea AM
irregularity of the bowels. To the removal of
each and all Of these discomforts as well as
their cause, HOstetters Stomach Bitters is
admirably adapted This pre- eminent family
medicine also remedies maarial rheumatic
aud kidney complaints, nervous ness and de-
bility 1t promotes appetite and sleep.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-04
"RotanicaI Names"

Some people whose botanical learning
is not very deep are passing fond of
using Latin names for plants and flow
ers. A London Journal tells of gar
den In Brixton, near that city, which is