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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
Wedding Party In . Play.

A correspondent writes: g was once
witness ia ! think, one Of the most
antique demonstrations that ever took
place on the stage, and in it the veteran
actor Howe was leading parsonage 1t
was III the days of the famous old Hay
market company, and they were play.
ing III Manchester. It's leading members
were Blackstone, Chippendale and Howe.
Kendal, who was new actor, was try
ing TO fill the vacancy which Farren's
departure had made, and Mrs. Kendall,
then Madge Robertson, was just coming
10 the front. The old Haymarket come
dies were given with delicious freedom
On a particular Saturday night there
was, however, something going on among
the actors and actresses on the stage
which the audience could not fathom-
II think, continues the correspond
ent, "the play was She Stoops to Con.
Quer. Buokstone's delivery was thicker
than usual Chippendale was superb az
the excitable father, and the twinkle in
his eye was merrier and hr hop more
erratic than its wont. Howe WAS perfect
ly buoyant, and his pointed remarks
mystified the mystery. Kendall and Miss
Robertson played with delightful-al.
most gushing-affection as the lovers.
The lessee Of the theater, who was APP
parently in the secret with the friends
around him, for long time refused TO
tell them the cause Of the exuberance on
the stage, but as the denouement Of the
play came about he let out that Kendall
and Madge Robertson that afternoon had
been made man and wife in Manches-
ter church, and that on the fall Of the
curtain in reality the lovers in more
than the sense of the comedy had been
made one. The news spread through the
theater like wildtire, and when Buck
stone, Chippepdale and Howe, each gen
erously holding each other up brought
the newly welded bashful couple TO the
front Of the stage cheers went up such
as are rarely heard IN a theater Howe
was the last Of that famous trio TO sur.
vive- "-Westminster Gazette.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
Foreign.

There is more probability of row with
England over the gold of the Northwest
than there is of an agreement with her re-
garding silver coinage. The Canadian
government is moving along a line that
leads American statesmen TO suspect that
the boundary dispute will again become
prominent in the near future. The
Canadian government IN proposing TO put
a royalty on all the gold mined al Klon-
dyke and the surrounding country seems
to assume that all the gold in that territory
is on the Canadian side of the line.
Whereas officials of this government and
experts who have been in that country
agree that there are as rich gold fields on
the Alaska side of the line, providing the
line is located as it ought to be, and as IT
was when the United States purchased
Alaska from Russia
General Dufiield, superintendent Of the
coast survey, was a member Of the bound
airy commission. The survey authorized
by IL has until recently been regarded as
correct by both countries, but in recent
years Canada, backed by Great Britain,
has been trying to change this bound
airy line so as to gather in big slice of
Alaska.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
AT The SOFA Fountain


There is nothing" said the blonde
girl in the bright red shirt waist, $50 en-
asperating as man who doesn't say
the right thing when you know precise
ly how beautifully it would fit and have
prepared the way for him.
Except" chimed in the little brun-
cite in the white pique, 1.-The man who
does say the right thing and rattles you
SO you forget your own cue and can
only smile idiotically.n
Il know man who makes cpl
grams" said the blonde, triumphantly
but | am OF revealing him to the
general public. he is too choice and
rare. Now. most men, bright enough,
too, simply cannot carry on an ordi.
nary evening conversation. For in.
stance, II | am out on the front porch
with Tom, and we are looking absently
at the sky-which is really lovely these
nights-and talk drags, perhaps | say
softly: There is nothing so exquisite as
that velvet darkness and those millions
of diamond lights, is there:' ANY girl
in her hrst season knows that Toms
response should be to turn, look up in
to my eyes and murmur: Nothing
except YOU Does he do it? Not he,
Nine times out OF ten he doesn't move
an eyelash and only says: 'Uh-huh.
Fine 1t is so discouraging! Ii he'd
say the right thing it would create a
situation and make conversation SC
much easier, while no harm would be
done, for any girl of intelligence would
understand that he didn't mean a bi,
of it and if he had any sense he'd know
how she didn't eitherr'
She stopped in angry breathlessness
'It'S dreadful" sympathized the bru.
nette, ordering another frappe. "There
ought TO be summer school for eligible
men-feminine instructors all limited
TO twenty years, no textbooks allowed
instruction by example, hours from S
to II, terms one solitaire di; mond
parties &c declare all bets off at the end
of the summer and no harm done
Think Of the innrovamant ", ba ,,,o,, go
II can't!' breathed the blonde, with
actual tears in her eyes. Its simply
too overpowering! Oh. if we only
could! Imagine all st. Louis men sc
reformed as to instantly and gracefully
rise TO q conversational situationw
But their ecstatic dream of Utopia
was shattered by rude masculine who
showed an unsympathetic soda check
before their faces.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
FAM6--AN i,..-EnUhT.
pie N tho morning light

a %mple IN tho morning light
R-sse fair upon the mountain height
And shot its turrcta high
Against the yaultcd sky.
The youth set sorth, with heart afame,
Full armed with faith o. write his name
Among the deathlcss great
Who conquer adverse fate.
He leaves his homo with pouch and stan
And answers back with easy laugh
The warning ana distrust
OF those whose hearts are dust.
The mountain roads are hard 20 climb
The solemn centuries Of tino
Have pressed the wrinkles deep
On every rolling steep.
Wild hungry beasts crouch in his path,
And Shiny serpents hiss their wrath,
While from the trees the owls
Hoot III black robes and cOWls.
Then follows Night. a pilgrim old,
A miser hiding the sun 5 gold,
His dark breast dccked with stars
Won in celestial wars.
Still through the gloom the temple shed
Its radiance round the travellers head,
But in its pallld light
His brown hair turns to white.
BY colder winds his face Is famed.
He longs TO clasp some friendly hand
or feel the welcome touch
OF lips that love him much.
At last the temple gates are won
He enters in, his journey done,
Then sinks in blank despair.
No living thing is there.
He cannot breathe the sitting air.
The light, phosphorescent glare,
That round his path was shed
Falls only on the dead.
Theodore Z. Cook in New fo~K Sun
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
Germans ~ workmen.

Some years ago German bakers begas
70 be employed in London for baking
fancy bread. In course Of time they
blossomed into small employers drove
out all competitors by sweating their
countrymen, until they have now mo-
nopolized the east end business and
have nearly doubled in numbers within
the last 20 years. Just the same with
the butchers, furriers, tailors and hair
dressers. Some of these trades are fur
ther swelled by the failures-the young
fellows who cannot pass their staatsex-
amen-and are shipped off to England
70 sink or swim, as our own failures are
sent TO Australia A German publisher
IN London told me that one day he met
FIVE old university friends in Regent'9
park, and every one had become bak-
er. Hairdressing is another refuge for
the destitute, waiting in restaurants .
third.
The increase Of Germans, therefore,
does not represent any addition TO the
industrial life Of the country in the
shape Of especial skill or new trades, as
was the case with the French emigrants
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu-
ries. fThe only exceptions are few men
employed in the high class bakeries and
those connected with the fur trade. In
all other industries they are distinctly
inferior workmen and only employed
on the cheapest and commonest work.
The French, the Italsans and the Scan
dinFvians excel in every industry pur.
sued by them in this country, and in
some departments they possess certain
unique capacities, as cabinetmakers, for
instance, goldsIniths and glassblovors
The Germans are sigpalized by gener
ri incapacity for doing first rate work
Of any kind, with the exceptions men.
toned National Review
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR.

The editor of leading state paper
writes: IF you had seen my wife las
June and went to see her today yol
woulp not believe she was the sam,
woman. Then she was broken dowI
by nervous debility and suffered terri
bly, from constipation and sick head
ache. Bacon's Celery King for the
Nerves made her new woman in one
MONTH" A. 5. Mcintyre will give you
free sample package of this great
herbal remedy. Large sizes 25c and
SOC.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
The KING OF SIAN.
Great Applause as He Dro re Through
the Streets OF London.

the Streets OF London.
Chulalongkorn, king of Siam. ar.
rived oil Splhead Friday morning in
the Siamese royal yacht Maha Charkki
with the royal suite and large retlnue
of servants.
The British warships IntleXiDle, Alex
andra, Caliope, Hero and Victor, re-
ceived ms majesty with the salute re
served for royal visitors. The duke of
York and Admiral Sir NOVEL; Salmon,
commandments at Portsmouth,
went on board the Maha Charkkri and
cordially welcomed the king to Eng
land. All the shipping in the harbor
was gay y decorated with bunting.
y large crowd assembled at the VIC
toria railway station to await the arri-
val Of the king. The Scots Guards
were drawn up as IA guard of honor
and his majesty on ahghting from the
train was received by the dukes of Cam
bridge and Portland who drove with
him 10 Buckingham palace. proceeded
b. the Life Guards. AT the palace the
king was received by the lord Cham
beraln and his staff in full levee dress
He was Immediately conducted to his
apartments. His majesty was heartily
cheered by the populace on his way to
the palace.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
Sealing Conference Assured.

London. July 30.-The British for.
eign office notified Ambassador haI
this morning that Great Britain accept
ed the proposition of the United States
for an international conference on the
question of pelagic sealing in the Ber-
ing sea. to be held in Washington dur
ing the coming autumn.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

HAS anybody here corkscrew"
spoke up sharp nosed old gentleman
IN the sleeping car.
~ have" was the response from
nearly every seat
Just as l thought, shouted the old
gentleman. And now who will be the
FIRST to sign the temperance pledgeT-
Providence Visitor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
DOES PAY TO BE SICK?

Besides the discomfort and suffering
illness of any sort is expensive. Hun
dreds of people consult the doctor
every day about coughs and colds. This
is better than to suffer the disease t.
run along, but those who use Otto's
Cure for the throat and lungs do better
still. II costs less and the cure is Ger
tain. You can get trial bottle free OF
our agent. A. S. Mcintyre. Large sizes
25c and SOC 3
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

The farmers complain because they
cannot find markets for all their prod
ucts. How would the doubling of prices
under free silver enable the working.
men Of the cities and factory towns &c
buy more than they do now?
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
80 IN s--Nothinp to Ate.

Pat-How dc you sthand on the silver
question, Moike:
Mike-ne; Sixteen TO wan is moi
platform.
Pat-'Tis, is it? Well, me laddybuck,
if you and the long phiskered cranks
win I'm thinking that by next winter
ivrybodys platform will be, Nothing
TO ate. Detroit Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

John Griffin, of GAINESVILLE, O.. says:
81 never lived day for thirty years
without suffering agony, until box
of De Wits Witch Hazel Salve cured
my piles" For piles and rectal troubles
cuts, bruises, sprains, eczema al d all
skin troubles DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve is unequalled.
w. II. Kennels, st. Louis; b. Webb,
Alma
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
wEsTBoUND.
: Except Sunday.


Daily
Eastbound Connections-S:57 a m train tSs
parlor car TO Detroit. Extra charge, % cent?.
Pullman parlor car Detroit to Toronto, connect
ing with sleeper for the east and New York.
Connects with G. N g. T. division at Durand for
Chicago and Port Huron and with C. : A NJ al.
vision for Saginaw and Bay City.
600 y m train has parlor car to Detroit Extra
charge, - cents and Pullman sleeping car De
troit TO Toronto, Suspension Bridge. Buffalo,
Philadelphia and New York. Connects at Du
rand with {. q. T. for Pt. Huron and Battle
Greek and with c., s. & NJ division for saginaw
and Bay City.
20 am train has through day parlor and sleep.
ing cars windsor 10 Suspension Bridge, Buffalo.
New York and Boston.
Westbound 1910 m.- train has a
parlor car TO Grand Rapids. Extra charge
% cents.
55 =. m. train has parlor car TO Grand Haven.
Connects at Grand Haven with steamer for
Milwaukee.
r. a, HUGHES, BEN. FLETCHER.
A u l.. ~, Trav. Pass Agt.
chicago. ILL., Detroit, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
, L + a RS L NFERM MED
GRAPE JUICE IN EUROPE.

Has wide reputation from is eff
cacy IN the sick room. The Juice j.
rich, tastes like eating the ripe grape
fresh from the vine; used by churches.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

They don't make much fuss about
1t. We are speaking of DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the famous little
pills for constipation, biliousness, and
all stomach and liver troubles. They
never grippe.
w. II. Kennels, st. Louis: r :. Webb
Alma.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

The Secretary Of the Treasury has
awarded TO Hennessy n Cox. Of 81 Paula
Mimi, u contract for the interior finish
~ The government building at Milwaukee
Wis, al their bid of S263.91j
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

Burning, itching skin diseases IN
stantly relieved bv DeWltt's witch
Hazel ~alve, unequallee for cuts.
bruises, burns. 1t heals without ieav'
ing scar.
w. II. Kennels, st. Louis; b. :. Webt
Anna
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

The colonels Of our army have each .
salary q e4.500. while the Lieutenant
Dolones receive $4,000. the majors
o8. 500
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

The quill pens now used in England
some from Germany and the Neither
lands
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

Like biousness. dyspepsia, headache, consul
patton. sour stomach indigestion are promptly
cured by Hoods Pills. They do THEN work
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take CaScafets Candy Cathartic i0c or 25c
II Z. e.. G. fail TO cure druggists refund money
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06

DETROIT s. MILWAUKEE DIV.
Arrival and Departure OF Trans at Owosso Jet.
EASTBCUND
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-08-06
State News.

Lumpy jaw has mad" it, appearance
among herds of cattle m The vicinlly
of Union City. The affected animals
will be killed.
The Michigan Bell Telephone Com
pany will offer ~. Clair resident,
phones for 80 year in an effort To do
up the new state company.
\ big hose and baseball tournament
will be- held AZ IlaGtings on Aug. Il,
- and 10. Cash prizes to the amount
of : 900 are offered To the successful
competitors.
Counterieiters are supposed to be
operating in the vicinity Of Albion.
Much bogus silver coin j. floating
about that town. Bill raiscrs are al
- working the town.
The death Of w. b. Harris. the
manager of The When clothing house,
will mean that this old landmark in
.Iackson'S business history vii cease
10 exist after sept. l.
The annual farmers picnic for CAL
houn county will he held al Lake
Coguac. Aug. Is. This j. a biz event
among the farmers, being under the
auspices Of the Patrons of llusbandrV.
\ Lyon, lady paid cent for box
marked tc contain 200 matches. She
took them home and counted them
and found them four shy of the NUM-
Der. She returned them and got Il full
box.
Ex-Governor st. John of Kansas
will speak at Grand Ledge at the
farmers annual picnic on Aug. Is.
He will talk on politics. This picnic
usually draws from 5000 to 10000
people. 1t, John is engaged for one
week in Michigan.
\ number of Kalamazoo coffee users
have recently been swindled by an
agent who offered a fine article for
twenty-eight cents to introduce il.
He then filled an order with goods
bought of local tea house at fifteen
cents and skipped.
The cherry crop of Oakland county
has been something enormous. The
market is flooded with the fruit and
thousands OF bushels yet hang on the
trees. The farmers declare that ii
does not pay TO pick cherries when
they only bring thirty or forty cents
a I'm hal
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24
ried in death. The village of Saint
Georges was not burned.
THE BUsHMAN's TACTICS.
How the Apache of Africa Hunts the
Ostrich. v

Ostrich. v
The Bushman divests himself Of all
his incum ORANGES; water vessels, food,
cloak, assegai and sandals are all left
behind. Stark naked, except for the
hide patch about his middle, and, arm
ed only with his bow, arrows and knife,
he sets forth. The nearest ostrich is
feeding more than a mile away and
there is no covert but the long, sun
dried, yellow grass, but that is enough
for the Bushman. WOrming himself
over the ground with the greatest eau
ton, he crawls fiat on his belly to-
ward the bird. No serpent could trav-
erse the grass with less disturbance.
In the space of an hour and half he
has approached within a hundred
yards of the tall bird. Nearer he dare
not creep on this bare plain, and at
more than twenty-five PAGES he cannot
trust his light reed arrows. He lies
partially hidden in the grass, his bow
and AFRO US ready in front of him,
trusting that the ostrich may draw
nearer. 1t is a long wait under the
DAoA4HS ouA4y NlCoC OA wv AACNAN, DNN~
his instinct serves him, and at last, as
the sun shifts little, the great ostrich
feeds that way. 1t is a magnificent
male bird, jet black as to its body
plumage, and adorned with magnificent
white feathers upon the wings and tail.
Kwaneet's eyes glisten, but he moves
not a musclce. Thirty PAGES, twenty
five, then twenty. There is light
musical twang ucpon the hot air and a
tiny, yellowish arrow sticks well into
the breast of the gigantic bird. The
ostrich feels a sharp pang and turns
at once. In that same instant sec
ond arrow is lodged in its side, just
under the wing feathers. Now the
stricken bird raises its wings from its
body and speeds forth into the plain.
But Kwaneet is quite content. The
poison of those two arrows will do its
work effectually. He gets up, follows
the ostrich, tracking it, after it has
disappeared from sight, by its spoor, and
in two hours the game lies there before
him amid the grass, dead as a stone.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24
Indian Women Who Farm.

In the Indian village on the banks
of the Minnesota river, about one mile
down stream from Shakopee, lives a
band of Indians who till the soil. make
bows and arrows and moccasins, and
trade with the neighboring farmers.
Among the villagers are some interest
ing women, one of them being Mrs.
Otherday, the sister of Shakopee of Lit
tie Six. one of the most noted chiefs
of the Sioux nation. The women Of
the Shakopee colony assist in the farm
ing and make beautiful beadwork,
which they sell at the summer resort
hotels. Mrs. Otherday is a strong.
well-preserved elderly woman, much
looked up to by her own people and her
white neighbors.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24
GENERAL BLISS AS A HUNTER.
Believes In Snake Poison Antidote and
Its General Diffusion.

Its General Diffusion.
Col. Zenas Bliss, who has just been
made brigadier-generali in the regular
army. was for several years COM
mander at Fort Hayes, Kansas, where
he is well remembered for his many
exceptional qualities. He was an
enormously fat man, weighing more
than 300 pounds, and had a proverbial
good nature that turks in avoidupois.
He was a great sportsman, and fine
shot with both shotgun and rifle. He
loved to hunt prairie chickens, and al
ways went into the fields seated in
low barouche. with a soldier for a
driver. When his dogs came to 4
point he would have the driver put
his horses ahead of the dogs and flush
the game at which he would shoot
without dismounting from the car
riage. 1t was a great privilege among
the private soldiers to be permitted to
go with the colonel as a driver. He in
VariablY had a comfortable supply OF
snake antidote under one of the seats,
and was always careful to antidote the
driver every time he antidoted himself.
At short distance Off-hand shooting
Col. Bliss was undoubtedly the cham
pion of the army. The writer once
saw him win every dollar in the peck
cts of the officers of his regiment at a
picnic, where shooting was made part
of the program. He put silver half
dollar up in a forked stick at distance
of seventy-five yards and offered to
wager that he could hit it with an ordi-
nary army rife. The young lieu
tenants fell over each other in cover
ing that bet, and when the gun cracked
they lost. 1t tickled the colonel so i'm
mensely that he spent all he had won
and twice that sum over in getting
these officers and certain friends from
Hays City Mumn's extra dry supper.
There never was a regular army Off
Ger who possessed so much of the love
of his subordinates as Col. Bliss.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24

remaining so quietly at home, instead
Of going to fight for his country, and
he determined to win, by one bcld
strike, their appreciation and gratitude.
! So, taking rifle, he hid himself in the
bushes at the roadside in the forest
and when the advance guard passed he
fired and killed one soldier. The re-
suit of the deed was not long delayed.
Two hours afterward a Prussian bat
talon occupied the village and the in
habitants, men and women, were or
dered to assemble in the public square.
In fairly plain French the commandant
addressed them:
"One of you has shot one of our SOL
diers. 1 give you one hour to produce
the murderer The village is sur
rounded and no one can leave. If in an
hour the assassin is not in my hands I
will set fire to your village at it's four
corners. Now go home, and at the first
beat of the drum come back here"
The peasants turned away, asking
each other in frightened whispers who
had fired the shot. Bancroche entered
the inn of Coz d'Argent, and as soon
as he saw the white. fearful face of
Gillet he said, brusquely:
at was you"
Gillet tried to answer, but Bancroche
interrupted him authoritatively:
Don't take the trouble to lie; it was
you"
Marietta and two or three others,
who heard his words, stopped in star
tied surprise.
What would they do to him if they
knew it?" asked one.
They would shoot him. And if
they do not know it they will burn the
village"
All were silent, terrified, except Gill
let, who cried, with chattering teeth:
I'm the name of pity, do not give me
up"
Wretch, would you have us all
burned?"
At this instant the drum sounded.
Listen" said Bancroche, rising;
listen moment. You, Sylvan Gill
let, must not die, for you have wife.
But neither must the village be burned.
l think I see a way. Stay where you
are, Gll46t, anu YOU OLueIS, SWSd1 "
keep silent. 1 will take care of the
rest" And they all departed, leaving
Gillet.
who is guilty?" cried the officer. in
a terrible voice.
Bancroche made a step forward and
said quietly, at was T.
you" said the officer, "a cripple!"
THAT does not prevent my firing a
gun"
Your name?"
Simon Martin, but on account of my
leg I am called Bancroche."
You confess that you killed the SOL
der"
yes"
do you know you will be shot?"
81 do"
The commander could not but adj
mire the calmness of Bancroche's
speech. The crowd listened. breath