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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
A GOOD SUIT OF CLOTHES.
No Man Can Afford TO Wear shabby
Garments.

a GAINESVILLE lawyer appeared before
his friends in a new and costly suit Of
clothes recently, says the Atlanta Con-
stitution. When he named the price a
bystander exclaimed:
"Whew! I haven't had that much
cash in q month Of Sundays"
CASH" exclaimed the lawyer. "Why,
l got it on credit and l shan't lose any
sleep if never pay for it. | think turn
about's fair play and the other fellow
can afford TO do without it," And, lift
ing himself to his full height and but
toning his coat across his chest, he
continued: mo, gentlemen, l never in
tend 20 wear a shabby suit. \ man just
can't afford 10 do it. Nobody has any
respect for shabbiness. Why, couldn't
gain a case il ! wore shabby clothes if
] had the eloquence of a Demosthenes or
Cicero, not if all the law and the
prophets were on my side. 4 Jury just
wouldn't respect me enough to listen to
me and the Judge himself would give
his decision according 10 my outward
appearance. No, sir, man can't af-
ford TO wear shabby clothes"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
THE CLAlRVOYANT OPERATOR.
She Buys or Sells Wheat with Twist
of the Wrist.


An odd sight is TO be witnessed daily
on the Consolidated exchange. Visitors
for some time have noted little group
of women who stand all day long in the
gallery at the Broadway end of the
building, says the New York Mail and
Express. They also notice one particu
lar broker on the floor who is continual
~ craning his neck and CHANGING at one
of the women in that group. Every once
in awhile, after glance, he jumps into
the wheat pit, which is just under the
edge of the gallery, and makes trans
action.
Only the observing will notice, how
ever, any connection between his opera
tions and the woman whom he watches.
From 10; 30 o'clock till three o'clock she
stands there, with one hand resting over
the railing. With slight movements of
this hand she gives orders TO buy and
sell wheat 10 the broker. The number
offingers extended indicates the number
of thousands of bushels 10 be done, and
a twist up or down of the whole hand
tells the broker whether TO buy or sell.
But that is not the queer part Of IL.
A stranger asked one of the brokers, a
friend of his, who the woman was.
why" was the reply, that's the
clairvoyant operator. She's a real clair
voyant all right and she reads the future
turns in the market and buys or sells
accordingly. Or at least she thinks she
reads the future, and maybe she does,
for she has lasted longer than the ordi-
nary woman Spectator She has been
at il for months"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
A COLLEGE FOR LOVERS.
such an Institution Is Needed for
Training Mon in Love Milking.


Training Men in Love Making.
Miss Lillian Bell, who has won fame
as an authoress, her last book being "a
Little Sister of the Wilderness" is of the
opinion thai some one should found 4
college for training men in love-mak
ing. This is how she expressed herself
In a recent interview:
II suggested once a kindergarten for
the training of husbands. Now l want
to change that and have college for
lovers, with graduate course for
husbands. As it is now-wel, almost
any girl can do almost anything with a
man. You know how easily one girl can
rob another girl of her lover. He, poor,
blind being never suspects it. a girl
would know in a minute if another man
was trying TO win her from her lover.
She has intuitions like antennae which
tell her the very nature of every APP
proach. But with a man it is different.
He sees only "A sympathetic soul in the
girl who leads him away by all the DELHI
crate arts of which she is mistress. But
there! one can GO on all day talking
about these things. Everybody likes 10
talk about love. People ask me if am
not 'uplifted' by the success I have had,
but l tell them il was not any great in
SEPARATION on my part. When 1 began to
talk of love I had the ear of the world"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
Try Aliens Foot-Ease.

\ powder to be shaken into the
shoes. At this season your feet feel
swollen and hot, and get tired easily.
If you have smarting feet or tight shoes,
try Aliens Foot Ease It cools the feet
and makes walking easy. Cures and
prevents swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots. Relieves
corns and bunions of all pain and gives
rest and comfort Try it to-d,y Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores for Pc
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen
). Olmsted, lie Roy, n. y.
955-4 w
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV OR CONVENTION
AT
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.


Will sell tickets at greatly reduced rates, June
18th, 2sth, Both, July LIST and End. Apply at
once 10 their agent or tull Information.
Mr. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the
Burton House, Burton, w. v, and one
OF the most widely known men III the
state was cured of rheumatism after
three years of suffering. lie says: 81
have not sufficient command Of language
To convey any idea of what | suffered,
my physicians told me that nothing
could be done for me and my friends
We're fully convinced that nothing but
death would relieve me Of my suffering
In June, 1884, Mr. Eycns, then sales
man for the Wheeling Drug Co., recon-
mended Chamberlain Pain Balm At
this time my foot and limb were swollen
TO more than double their normal size
and il seemed TO me my egWould burst,
but soon after | began using the Pain
Balm the swelling began 10 decrease, the
pain TO leave, and now | consider that |
ann entirely cured. For sale by Bivins
q Rhodes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
ALMA. Mich June -, Is,

ALMA, Mich. June p, 1897,
Adjourned regular meeting of the Common
Council for the Village of Alma on the above
date i'm the Council fhAmher
Present. President Bagley. trustees, Glass
Tinker, Wilson. Brcwbaker.
Absent. Dean and pollHeky.
Petition of property owners in block No. 20
relative 10 the alley ana ditch running north
and south through SAID block, asking Tor n
new survey and that tilinV b. placed in the
alley para lei Herewith was read and upon
motion the same referred to the street COM
mittee.
MIR Dean and pollasky appear
Street Commission repOrtc the following
sidewalks to be IN bad condition; Walks in
front of Mrs NanDyne. Mrs StuttS MegPw,
md Mr. Pulfrey, to be repaired; Dallas and
Mrs Gould 90 be rebuilt.
Upon motion the report was acc pied and
notices ordered drawn and served upon proper
" owners.
+ A BAGUrY, EARL d. IORREY.
President. Clerk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
LORD sALIsBURYs ROUTINE.
In Spite of His ArduOus Work He
Keeps in Good Health.

II is marvel that one who does so
much mental work and takes so little
exercise as Lord Salisbury should be so
seldom i'll, says the London Sketch. 81
never meet a well-known blue brough-
am" remarked Earl Granville some
ten years ago, "but I say: See, he has
rot time TO walk even from Arlington
street TO Downing street." The blue
brougham was Lord Salisbury's. It
has been steadily in use this year. Lord
Salisbury enjoys a saunter in st. James
park or along the embankment, but for
pleasures Of this sort he has not had
much time during the Cretan crisis.
Nor at any time does he care for sport
or sports. To these he is as indiffcr-
ent as Mr.. Chamberlain. He has played
a few strokes at golf TO humor Mr.. Bal
four, but if ne entered the parlia-
mentary tournament he would require
specially high handicap. II is only
in his chemical laboratory that he finds
any congenial recreation. During his
visit TO the south of France the prime
minister will fortunately escape the
domestic worries OF Downing street.
but the burden of foreign affairs will
always be with him at such n critical
time as the present.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
UNITED BRETHREN.
From An Old Soldier

Knox. Ind, Jan. IT, 1871
Gents Il have every confidence in re-
commencing your Syrup of Pepsin |
ann - years of age and am broken down,
the trouble having been brought on by
my experience in the war. Your medi-
cine has done me more good than a hun
dred doctors and am just about we'll of
stomach troubles. Yours truly.
JEFFERSON WILHELM.
For sale by b. $ Webb.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder for the
feet. 1t cures painful, swollen, smart
ing feet and instantly takes the sting
ont Of corns and bunions. It's the great
est comfort discovery of the age. Allen :
Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new
shoes feel easy. It's "A certain cure for
sweating, callouS and hot, tired, aching
feet Try itto-dag. Sold 10y all druggists
and shoe stores. BY mail for 25c in
stamps Trial package FREE Ad-
dress, Allen s. Olmstcd, lie Roy, n Y.
bod W
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25

There ; no use in talking" says w.
H. Broadwell, druggist, La Cygne, Kas.,
Chamberlain Colo, Cholera and Diar-
rhTa Remedy does the work. After tax,
ing medicine Of my own preparation
and those of others / took dose of
Chamberlain and it helped me; sec
ond dose cured me. Candidly and con-
scientiOusly / can recommend it as the
pest thing on the market" The % and
90 cent size for sale by Bivins q Rhodes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
There is a Class Of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee The most
delicate stomach receives it without dis
tress, and but few can tell it from coffee.
Ii does not cost over rs much Child
rem may drink it with great benefit.
- and 25c per package. Try it.
Ask for GRAIN-O.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
The People of New York city.

II is said that more than &c per cent.
Of those who people New York city tI-
day were born Of foreign mothers,
while more thsn 40 per cent. were
themselves born on foreign soil Peter
Stuyvesant ruled in his day over 1,4OO
New Workers, who conversed in 10 diff
ferent tongues.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
VERY Low r Il -
To
WESTERN POINTS.

On account of the G. T. L Convention ~ san
Francisco. tickets will be sold by the &. n W. NJ,
and ID. G.. u. a W. lines az very lOw rates on
juno -, 80. July 1, ? Hnd
To all western points tickets will also be 50
at rates not higher than TO IAN Francisco.
Ask agents for full Information or address
gro behaves. G.. y. A,
Grand RaDids
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
ALMA. Mon juno Is ~

ALMA, MIN Juhc TO- l'''s
Adjourned meeting of the Common Counct'
or the Village Of Alma on the above date in
the Council Chamber
Present President Bagey. trustees Glass
Tinker. Dean. Wilson, POllasky and Brewbakcr
1t was moved and supported that the presi-
dent and clerk bc instructed To execute the
contract made with A w Wright a 20 for fur
nishng the village with water and lighting
with electricity as soon as the proper ordi
nance shall have been passed and becomes
operative.
Ayes Glass, Tinker, Dean, Wilson, Poiasky,
Brew baker.
Nays, none.
Upon motion council adjourned until June
-. lSGi.
f.. a BAGLEY, EARL TOBREY,
Presid mt. Clerk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25

Roses discovered in tombs containing
Egyptian mNnmies often have their
colors perfect, even though some Of
those found must be over 5000 years
old
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
Tried And Trna

Thousands have tried DR. Caldwells
Syrup Pepsin for constipation, indiges-
ton and sick headache and have found
il true 10 the claim made for it. viz: that
it il the best remedy now before the good
people for the relief of stomach troubles.
Trial sizesl0c, large sizes soc and 90
of b. ;. Webb.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
Religious Notes.
METHODIST.

Children's Day in the morning. An
excellent program has been prepared
Pastor will preach in the evening Ep-
worth League Tuesday evening at which
Rev. y. @. Barclay will give a lecture.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening
PRESBYTERIAN.
The pastor will preach next Sunday
both morning and evening. Morning
subject, The Three Crosses; evening
subject, Thomas the Doubter. Every.
body most cordially invited to each ser
vice.
BAPTIST
Preaching morning and evening by
the pastor. Evening subject, Herod' 5
Birthday Party. All are cordially in
vited
ST. JOHNS CHURCH.
Second Sunday after Trinity. Sun
day school at 3 30 p. IN Evening SER
vice at 80 p. IN.
UNITED BRETHREN.
The United Brethren people will hold
a meeting on the farm of John Rush,
three and one-half miles south east
of this village, beginning on Saturday
evening, July ,, and continuing over
the Sabbath 1t is expected that several
ministers will be present and cordial
invitation is extended to everyone to
come and enjoy the meeting with US.
There will also be il baptsmal service at
Alma on Sunday at 3 30 p. IN.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
WantedAn Idea ! $%s s. 5 : i$'S;

Protect your ideas they may bring. you wealth:
Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO, Patent Attor.
neys wsshIngten, y. T., FOR their $40 prlae offer
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
Village Council
ALMA MIru Innn

ALMA. MIcH, June 1G, 1sgc
Adjourned regular meeting of the Common
Council for the Village of Alma on above date
at the council chamber
Present, President RaVlcy. trustees Glass.
Tinker, Dean Pollasky Wilson and Brewbaker
Minutcs of last regular meeting were read
and approved.
The following claims were presented aud
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25

special committee appointed AT the last re"-
uar meeting to examine into matter OF water
aud light FOR the village ask for moro time to
conduct their cause of examination. Time CX-
tended L. next NEE ting of council
Petition of residents on Orchard street ask.
ing for an extension of water mains along said
street was read and upon motion laid upon the
table
The petition of \ w WriVht Il Co relative to
furnishing the village 90 Alma with water and
electric lights was read and upon motion laid
upon the table.
Trustee Btcwbaker gives notice that at the
next meeting Of the council he will present
articles tor an ordinance relative 10 granting a
franchise for the establishment of a system of
electric lighting and power in the village OF
A Ina
Upon motion Council adjourned till Friday
evening, juno 49, 1897.
e A BAGLEY. EARL q. TORREY.
President Clerk
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-25
BAPTIST.
ST. JOHNS CHURCH.

Second Sunday after Trinity. Sun
day school at 3 80 p. III. Evening ser.
vice at 80 p. IN.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

I VIII not doubt. though 40 MS ahIns 20 son
Come drifting home with broken maais
aud uila
! VIII believe tho hand which never
falls
From seanIng own workoth good for me-,
And though ! wcHp because those sails
ara lHtlefrd.
SIM win cry while my best hopes are
shattered
"ttmat 90 Thee"
win not doubt though an my prayers re-.
Unanswered from tho atm white realm
above.
IwJll believe % san all Wise love
Which has refused those things for which j
FslFr.
ArdtboaFb az Times canno. keep from
Yet sba purr arlor OF my Fixed believing
uud.mmei shall burn.
Twill ae' doubt. though sorrows IAN lika
FHIn
And troubles swarm naa bees about 90
E.ge.
1wIll believe the heights Tor which ]
strive
Are 1aIy reached by anguish and hy pain.
AVID, though g-oau and Wrlthe beneath
mV crosses.
Iye. shnil soe through my seyerast losse.
The greater gain,
I viii not doubt. Well anchored IN thi.
faith.
Like some Ftauch ship. my soul braves
every gale;
SO strong lts courage will not quail
TO breastthe mighty unknown sea Of death
OH may 1 cry, though body parts viii
spirit.
al do not doubt, so listening worlds MAJ
hear o.
with my last BREATH
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

The "cfrete East" can, it seems, in.
dulge in the extravaganza of destruc-
tive storms as well as the wild and
woolly West, observes the New York
Tribune. The hailstorm of a fort
night ago in England utterly desolated
an area Of a hundred square miles in
Essex The hailstones killed poultry
and game, seriously injured cattle,
cut branches from trees and riddled
roofs Of corrugated iron. Cyclone and
flood accompanied the hail, and in an
hour or two damages Of more than
81, 800, 600 were inflicted Truly, an
anti.Jubilee storm.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

The fact that so many mathemati-
clans have failed in finding an equa-
&ion to represent the law of growth OF
population in the United States for
any length of time has not deferred
others, with the exact data for eleven
decades before them, from attempting
such forecasts, which are curious
though of no practical value, for we
can have no possible interest in the
population of the country 100 or 1000
years from now. A friend of mine,
Professor Pritchett, professor Of
= mathematics and astronomy at Wash
ington University, once called my at
tention to his formula, which hit off
the population of 1890 within So, 900
OF the actual count This was apretty
close estimate. The general law gov
erning the increase of population, as
usually stated, is that, when not dis
turbed by extraneous causes, such as
wars, pestilence, immigration, emigra-
ton, etc, the increase Of population
goes on at constantly diminishing
rate. BY this it is meant that the per
centage Of increase from decade to de-
cade diminishes. For example, in
1890, the percentage Of increase pen
decade was thirty-two per cent; il
1880, twenty-four per cent. in 1896
it will be thirteen per cent, and, &C
cording to Professor Pritchett, in 1901
years il will have sunk to little les
than three per cent.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

An investigation of the question Of
over-exertion in bicycle races has been
reported to the Berlin Medical Society
by Dr. Albu. Observations on twelve
professional riders gave such evidence
of the strain upon the heart as difficult
breathing and strong pulsation Of the
heart and arteries, the most remark
able effect being an acute dilation of
the heart, especially Of the left ven
tricle, which disappeared with rest
and reappeared at the next race. The
dilation may become permanent if the
over-exertion is frequent, resulting
in irreparable injury to a weak heart.
These effects, remarks the Trenton
IN. J) American, with kidney dis
turbance, are dangers encountered in
racing and excessive bicycling, mod.
crate riding being found, as others
have affirmed, very beneficial exercise.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

Says Law Notes, "after an animated
trial, consuming ten days, the police
Judge Of Omaha decided that it was
not criminal libel to accuse a man
falsely Of being an A. p A. man. One
Bennett was accused Of branding State
Senator Howell as q member Of that
order, TO which charge Howell at
tributes his defeat for election as Mayor
Of Omaha"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

Apropos Of the recent death of Cap
tain Boycott, the fact is noted that
the word boycott" first came into
use at the end of 1880. Thus in THE
Daily News" of December 10, 1880,
may be read. already the stoutest-
hearted are yielding OF every side to
the dread Of being 'Boycotted At
that time, it will be seen, the word
had still a capital letter, and was
placed in inverted commas. Gradual
ly these marks of neologism disap-
peared, and by 1886 1.-The New Eng
ish Dictionary" recorded that the
word no longer required capital
letter. To boycott, to be boycotted, a
boycott had all become common forms
in English. The verb made the tour
of the world, and appears as boycotter
in French, boycotten in Dutch, boy
cottiren in German, and in Russian
hoiknttirovat
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

A writer In the Nineteenth Century
contends that France is fast falling be-
hind her hereditary enemy Germany
and will soon be in a hopeless condi-
ton for O clash with that Power.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

To what extent Jogging is still toll
Grated by English law is shown by
certain prison returns Just presented
to Parliament, from which it would
appear that no less than sixteen hun
bred hoggings per annum take place
in the local and convict prisons Of the
United Kingdom. Besides these,
there are six hundred and seventy
hoggings year in the military pri-
sons, which means that the foggings
of soldiers belonging to the British
army average nearly two day.
Paris has voted $40, 900, 900 to the
Exposition of 1900, or more than
double the amount appropriated for
its last exhibition. Two great palaces
will be erected in the Champs Elysees,
and the Seine, crossed by a monu-
mental bridge, is to be transformed
into Venetian canal, with terraced
banks and ornamental payilions.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

Now the total white population Of
the four northern states is Is, ATT, 900,
and the total white population of the
four southern states is 3,000,400, be-
ing about one-ffth.
The negro has been eliminated in
both statements, and as the popula-
ton of the four northern states is five
times that of ours we will multiply
our convicted white prisoners by five,
which would give as 4,330 against
81, 745. I said in a recent letter that
there were so per cent more Of felo-
MES in New York or Massachusetts,
than in Georgia l was mistaken.
There are five times as many, which is
500 per cent, and this is the ratio ac-
cording to white population. l tell
you, my brethren, this census com
pendulum proves an alarming condition
of things up north, and it is high
time our southern churches were or
ganizing boards of missions and send
ing missionaries up there. We send
them to Mexico and China and
Brazil and to the Indians in
the west; why not to Massa-
chusetts and New York and Ohio,
where crime and immortality prevail
to a greater extent than in any civil
lied country? That is just what Mr..
Stetson said-the statistician of Mas
sachusetts. His language as published
was: ''There is no country upon eartl
where crime is so fragrant and so fire
quent as in Massachusetts Her pop
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10

A bronze statue is to be erected to
the memory Of Benjamin Franklin, on
the very spot, near Philadelphia,
where he sent up his kite to "wrest
the Lightning from the skies.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-10
AN ADVENTURE
IN Morocco.

= all the Barbary
states, Morocco is
the most Oriental
in character, and
to day retains al
the usages and Gus
toms of the time of
Mahomet Tripoli,
Tunis and Algeria,