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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-06-23
DETROIT, June 10. 1897:
CD. RAPIDS g. WESTERN r. r

Additional trains leave Grecnville for Bedding
I $751; and 1885 a. m. and 6:O5 p. m Leave
elding for GreenVille at l0:l5 "A. M, 7:2O p. m.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-06-23
An Affair of the Heart.

Clerk Ito fellow salesman)-Say,
Jim, have we got any more of them 30
cent diamond engagement rings?-New
York Journal
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-06-23

To- II WEBSTER GEO DEHAvEN,
Agent General Passr Agt.
Bedding Grand Rapids.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-06-23
Ignorance Of Naval Affairs.

81 thought not. Chicago Post.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-06-23
Grand Rapids Il Indiana X. IL.

THE FISHING LINE"
Time card IN erect Dec s, 1897.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
The Young wife's Social Duties.

To simply live alone, with no provi-
sion for the qualification of the social
instincts, is apt to prove too severe q
strain upon the reserve forces of even
the happiest marriage. There is some
excuse to be made for the man who
seeks society outside Of the home
wherein no thought is given to social
pleasure, while the wife is apt to grow
petty and personal, and so less attrac-
tive as she shuts herself away from
intercourse with others. This drop
ping out is very easy, but even when
prosperity comes and large social func-
lions are possible it is too late to gain
that most valuable possession, friend
ship, which is entirely Independent Of
financial success. To have and to hold
a place in the social life of the world is
not only the right, but the duty of the
young wife who desires to have a home
in it's truest and best sense.-Helen Jay
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
EFFECT OF COLORS

Green needs sunlight to develop the
yellow in it and makes 1t seem cheer
full.
Red brings out In a room whatever
hint Of green turks in the composition
Of the other colors employed.
II Olive or red brown be used in
conjunction with mahogany furniture.
the effect is very different from what
it would be If blue were used. Blue
would develop the tawny orange Turk
ing in the mahogany.
If a ceiling is to be made higher.
leave 1t light, that 1t may appear 70
recede. Deepening the color used on
the ceiling would make it lower-an
effect desirable If the room Is small
and the ceiling very high. Various
tones of yellow are substitutes for sun
light.
If a bright, sunny room gets its light
from space obtruded upon by russell
colored or yellow-painted houses, or
else looks out upoon a stretch Of green
grass, it should be decorated in color
very different from the shade chosen
II the light comes from only an un-
broken expanse of sky.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES,

The Y. NJ. c. A. of Calcutta, India,
will move into new quarters this
month.
John D. Rockefeller has given $1,000
to aid the Methodist Episcopal
churches on the Mesaba range, Mime
sofa.
Rev. F. B. Meyer of London will
arrive in this country the middle of
January, and remain until the end of
February.
It is stated that the car has pardon
cd a large number of Catholics in
Poland, and sent special notice Of it
to the pope.
In New York city there are about
five hundred Chinese scholars in the
Sunday schools. Throughout the coun-
try there are 271 Sunday schools TO.
the Chinese.
The two hundredth anniversary of
the completed rebuilding OF St.. Paul's
cathedral London, after the great fire,
was observed with a notable service on
Dec. 2.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
NOVEL TRADING.
Arcola Man Who Exchanged Sandwiches
for Horse.

for q Horse.
Frank Devore of Arcola, ILL.,, was the
owner Of horse, wagon and harness
which he had used for doing odd Jobs
of hauling, says the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. A few nights ago Devore
drove the rig up in front of John Shea's
restaurant on North Oak street. Shea
came out and jokingly bantered Devore
for a trade or offered to purchase the
outfit outright, providing a satisfactory
agreement could be reached. Devore
asked Shea to make him an offer, which
he did. II will give you five ham
sandwiches off my lunch counter for
the outfit" said Shea. Its trade"
was Devore's laconic rejoinder, and the
property was exchanged. During the
night the horse got loose, broke into
the corn bin and ate more than his
cash value, putting corn at 20 cents.
The next morning Shea became sick of
his bargain, sent for Devore, and Of
fered him rs cents to take the animal
off his hands. Devore was conde-
scending and took the horse and wag-
on and 25 cents. Shortly afterward he
drove the outfit around on Main street
and disposed Of it to a peddler for one
dollar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

The religious editor" In one of the
local newspaper Offices came rushing
through the editors room one day her
proofs flying like ribbons from both
hands which she held up in horror. She
was new member on the staff. Evil
IDENTIFY she was excited.
''See there, just look at that!" she
said to the editor-in-chief.
She threw the curls of paper upou
his desk, put her finger on spot and
glared.
Sand look at that, and that, and
that"
She pointed at other spots.
what is it?" asked the chief, study
ing the spots.
"Why, slug religion, somebody has
written at the head of every paragraph
the words slug religion and the
printers have printed it too. Think II
it had gone into the paper. won't
stay"
1t was not easy to explain that slug
religion and slug society and slug
sport were mere composing room signs
to indicate in which department Of
the paper the blocks of type were to
be set
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

: Good and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful. No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
IL ringing laugh" were omitted from
the list of her charms; and in real life
the girls who do not laugh now and
then are seldom trusted or liked by
their companions. Even beauty will
not save them. A belle who fails to
understand the jest of her admirers
and smiles in amiable bewilderment
while other people are laughing is soon
left with no consolation save to Won
der what anybody can see in her rival
"a girl with "tip-tilted" nose perhaps,
and a large mouth and freckles, but
the happy possessor of pair of merry
eyes and cheerful mind. The gift OF
gayety is indeed Of great value; but
1t must be gayety which originates in
kind and CHEEKY heart, not that
which is born of mere excitement or
gratified vanity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

1t is better, think, to give them
away than to sell them. Those that
have tried to sell clothes know that
not even books descend in value quite
so rapidly. Five minutes wear makes
a coat second hand and reduces its
worth by some 80 per cent. Nothing
is quite so Disseminating as the offer OF
the dealer who looks over ones war
drobe. 1t is cataclysmic in it's pau.
city. Finding a dealer should be an
easy matter to the peruser of adver-
tisements. "Wardrobes purchased" is
one of the commonest lines to catch the
eye, and every one knows the ambigu-
GUS wording of the announcement:
"Mr. and Mrs. Resartus respectfully in
form the public that they have left-ofr
clothing of every description. Inspec-
ton invited. "-Cornhill Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

II have kept a horseshoe over my
door for years. said a man whom
good luck has never oppressed. but
luck has never come along my way
very much, and 1 had almost begun to
lose faith in the horseshoe. But this
morning friend of mine comes along
and sees the horseshoe over my door:
Hello, you have got your horse
shoe wrong end up" he says.
"What?" says L
And he says I've my horseshoe
wrong end up. I've got it hung up with
the point up and the ends down; and
it ought to be hung with the point
down and the ends up Hung the other
way the luck runs out"
"And he says this is as old as the
hills and he thought everybody knew
that. But didn't. never heard of 1t
before.
But have taken my horseshoe down
and hung it with the ends up, and
now l am waiting"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

Moral beauty cannot co-exist with
radical defects of principle. The char
acter that is unable to resist tempt
alton, or unwilling to stick faithfully
to duty, is no more truly beautiful,
whatever be its generous impulses or
amiable traits, than figure which
cannot support its own weight. Parts
OF 1t may be admirable; but, as
whole, a unity, 1t cannot be rightly
called beautiful character, for 1t
lacks the foundation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
Hoods pills cure all liver ills. Is cents.
She wouldn't DO.

The telephone bell in the Office Of
Blank, Dash & Co iingled noisily.
The young woman who attends to the
typewriting responded.
lis this Blank, Dash & Coz" came .
far-away voice.
yes"
II Want Blank, Dash & Co."
"This is Blank, Dash & Co" e..
"Who is this talking?" ~"
''It's Blank, Dash & Co."
us this Blank?"
mo. it is Blank, Dash & Co"
"Say, this is lady talking isn't it?"
II tell you it is"
Its lady isn'tit?"
The young lady hesitated. She was
annoyed by the callers persistency.
YES, it is lady, but"
well, will you please have man
step to the phone?" said the caller.
"a man?" repeated the typewriter
Eyes, 1 want somebody can
damn"
The young lady put down the re-
ceiver very suddenly and called Mr..
Dash to take her place.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
PEDDLERS IN MEXICO.
Why an Old Woman Wouldn't Sell An
Her Honey at One Time.

-~O~y
while travelling in Mexico few
years ago I had funny experience
with a Mexican vender which goes to
show what little business ability the
lower classes have" said e. F. Guig-
non Of st. Louis. II was en- route to
look at some mines away up in the
mountains. At the station where we
left the train u take the stage saw
an old Voman selling some honey. She
did not have more than ten pounds Of
II altogether and as 1t looked SO good
wanted to buy 1t all to take along with
us. I asked our interpreter to buy 1t.
Much to my surprise the old woman
would sell him but two boxes, claim
ing that II she sold 1t all to him she
would have nothing to sell to other
people. neither would she have any
thing else to do during the remainder
Of the day!"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

Rev. Edith Booker is delivering a
lecture through Kansas on What Is a
MANI" A man, dear Edith, is a ten
der, shrinking creature, whose wide
fawn eyes look out into the great whirl
about him with startled inquiry-an
innocent, trusting dove, nesting upon
the neck Of hard world-a sweet field
flower, lifting up its face for the sun
shine of your womanly affection. That
Is what man is, Edith. You your
that.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

Rational protests against legislative
invasions of personal liberty are never
untimely. The disposition to run to
the legislature for law to cure evils
that are not to be cured in that way is
a growing thing In vast majority
Of instances a law to cure an evil af-
fecting private persons causes graver
faults than it is intended to cure. 1t
is nonsense to say officials will never
take wrong advantage Of unwarranted
authority placed in their hands. HUI
man nature has not changed in all
the centuries and men are as ready to
abuse or usurp authority now as at
any time in this worlds history.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
ARE YOU TO LIVE IN ALASKA,
Some Requirement. That Wiu ne TeunA
Indispensable.

Indispensable.
The universal article Of diet In that
country, depended upon and indispens-
able, is bread or biscuit. And to make
the bread and biscuit, either In the
camp or upon the trail, yeast cannot be
Aed-it must be baking powder; and
the powder manufactured by the pro-
cesses Of the Royal Baking Powder
Company, miners and prospectors have
learned, is the only one which will
stand in that peculiar climate of cold
and dampness and raise the bread and
biscuit satisfactorily.
These facts are very important for
every one proposing to go to Alaska
and the Yukon country to know, for
should he be persuaded by some out
litter to take one Of the cheap brands
Of baking powder, 1t will cost Just Is
much to transport 1t, and then when
he opens 1t for use, after all his labor
In packing 1t over the long and difficult
route, he will find solid caked mass
or lot of spoiled powder. with no
strength and useless. Such a mistake
might lead to the most serious results.
Alaska is no place in which to expert
ment in food, or try to economic with
your stomach. For use in such .
climate, and under the trying and
fatiguing conditions Of life and labor
in that country, everything must be
the best and most useful, and above
all It is imperative that all food sup
plies shall have perfect keeping quail
ties. 1t is absurd to convey over such
difficult and expensive routes an arti-
Gle that will deterlorate in transit, or
that will be found when required for
use to have lost a great part Of its
value.
There is no better guide to follow in
these matters than the advice Of those
who have gone through similar expert
ence. Mr.. McQuesten, who is called
"the father of Alaska" after an expert
ence of years upon the trail, in the
camp, and In the use Of every kind Of
supply, says: 1--WE find in Alaska that
the importance Of a proper kind Of
baking powder cannot be overesti-
mated. A miner with a can of bad
baking powder is almost helpless in
Alaska. We have tried all sorts, and
have been Obliged to settle down to use
nothing but the Royal. 1t is stronger
and carries further at first, but above
all things. 1t is the only powder that
will endure the severe climatic changes
Of the arctic region"
It Is for the same reasons that the
United States government in its relief
expeditions, and Peary, the famous
arctic traveller, have carried the Royal
Baking Powder exclusively.
The Royal Baking Powder will not
cake nor lose its strength either on
board ship or In damp climates, and Is
the most highly concentrated and eff
cient of leavening agents. Hence 1t Is
indispensable to every Alaskan outfit.
It can be had Of any Of the trading
companies in Alaska, but should the
miner procure his supplies before leav-
ing, he should resist every attempt Of
the outfitter to palm off upon him any
of the other brands Of baking pow
der, for they will spoil and prove the
cause Of great disappointment and
trouble.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

The Manchester Guardian, which
has the reputation of being one of the
best informed of English journals,
gives the world to understand that
John Bull is still doing business at
the same old stand, and proposes to
protect his patents and copyrights with
his accustomed intelligence and vigor.
All he demands now is that, If China
is hanged, drawn and quartered, he
shall have slice for every slice taken
by every other power For example,
Germany grabs, then England grabs as
much; Russian takes something, then
England takes a portion; France alb
serbs province, then England appro-
pirates one equally as large and pow
erful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

A fireman went into cellar in Co.
lumbia, S. c., to make fire in the
furnace. He didn't make it, for he
nearly stepped upon a 19foot boa con-
strictor. He yelled and help came. and
the snake finally was chloroformed
and put in a box. The snake escaped
from show early last summer, but
the event had been forgotten.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
The Bible prohibits perjury agains

The Bible prohibits perjury against
God and against man and forbids Sian
der. Slander is defamation of charac'
fer. malicious gossip, injurious tall
against ones neighbor. 1t is the In
vention and propagation of an evil re-
mort. A fool can give currency to re-
mort that will villify a prince. nc
sword bites so fiercely as an evil
+onoue SANDER cuts honest threats by
whispers. SANDER is the pestilence
which RACES at MONDAY, an arrow
which is shot in the dark, the revenge
of q coward.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

The dogs in the United States kill
nearly Q per cent of the sheep of the
country every year. They killed more
than 100000 sheep in the year ending
June 1, 1890, when the last statistics In
regard to the flocks we're gathered.
The damage done by them Is greater
than that from any other cause except
unexpected storms, in which whole
flocks Of sheep are killed, and disease.
In six states more damage was done
to the fiocks of sheep by dogs than
by anything else. In Florida 1888
sheep were killed by dogs, and only
4.750 by the weather and disease. The
number killed by dogs was about 8
per cent of the total number OF sheep
in the state. The Florida sheep are
not exposed to such changes in tenn
perature as those on the farms in Ne
vada, where 12S,S50 died of cold and
disease. Only 1872 sheep were killed
by dogs in Nevada in the census year.
The enormous number of deaths from
changes in the weather was due to
unprecedented storms, which caught
the breeders unprepared and almost
halyed their focks. In South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and
Arkansas dogs do more damage to the
sheep than anything else, and more
than weather conditions and disease
combined. In Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Connecticut the number OF
deaths in the flocks due to dogs is al
most the same as that due to disease
and the weather. The record Is al
most as bad in all other states where
dogs and sheep are caught.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
FADS IN FLOWERS.

Florists shops abroad are much dr.
ferent from the ones In this
country. In London. for ex-
ample, funeral freaths and en-
blems are displayed in the windows
with their prices attached. Some are
attractive, others very hideous. Lichen
IA fashionable there for crosses and
wreaths, and from this grisly-gray
background calm lilies and white roses
peer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

Some physicians at Bellvue Hospital
New York, regard as great curiosity
a woman patient who is unable to
stop talking. They are very young
physicians with small experience Of
the wide, wide world outside. Phila-
delphia Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
Girl Has Electric Spasma.

Ida Stahl, aged 10, Of Winesburg,
Ohio, has daily commissions which the
doctor calls electric spasms. She was
shocked by lightning last summer, and
these spasms affect her in just the
same way as did the lightning.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
No Improvement.

Humorist-"It is impossible for me-
to think and operate the typewriter at
the same time" Editor-"Then vow
are no better off than when you used
a pen."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
1t Wasn't Rye.

''Full as usual" remarked Mira.
Jaggs, as her husband staggered up
the front steps. II (hic) knowledge
tn corn, m DEAR" replied the jovial
Jaggs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

Greater New York contains many
wonders, but not one of them Is more
remarkable, certainly none is more
amusing, than the snobbishness which
Is displayed by the leaders of "soci-
ety."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04
ANYTHING but Pleasant.

Ogden (at depot)-"Hello, old chap!
Going on pleasure trip?" Wabash
(sadly)-"No; I'm going to st. Louis"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-04

The true culture Of personal beauty
is not external; 1t is heart work.. r.
Miller.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-23
CHURCH SERVICES.

Church services will be held in Butte to-
day as follows:
First Baptist church. corner of Broad
way and Montana streets-Rev. J. T..
Noftsinger. pastor. Residence, Ga West
Quartz street. Worship at IL a. m. and
1880 y. m. Morning subject. "City Evan
gelization." Evening subject. "a False In
~heritance." Young mems prayer meeting
at 1910 a. m. Sunday school at 12:15 y. m.
Young peoples meeting at $3.50 y. m.
Prayer meeting at s y. m. Wednesday.
Teachers meeting Thursday at 1870 p. m.
Junior meeting at 4 O'Clock Friday after
noon. Tn Offering for city missions will
be taken at the close of the morning wor-
ship. Everybody welcome. Men especially
invited to each service. Come thou with
us and we will do thee good.
Calvary Mission. Ss East Mercury street
L. II. Foote superintendent. Sunday
school at 3 p. m. A cordial welcome ex-
tended to all.
Zion Mission. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
school at 2:So y. m. We welcome all. Come
thou with us and we will do thee good.
NJ. +. Church South. corner South Ida
no and Galena-J. NJ. Settle pastor. Reg
ular services at II a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Subject OF morning sermon, Upward and
Onward" Evening subject. 1.-THE Sower."
sunday school at 10 a. m. Epworth eague
at $3.50 y. m.
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church.
No. lis West frantic notwithstanding at
II a. m. Sunday school at 1910. Services
at s p. m. Young Peoples Society will
meet on Tuesday evening at $3.50. A spe-
cial programme will be rendered. All well
come. A.. T.. Gustafsen pastor. Residence
J05 South Montana street.
German Evangelical Lutheran chutch.
on Silver street. between Dakota and Col
orado-M. Hudtlon pastor. 60 West silver
street. Services to-day al n a.. m. and :
n m malay GAhnnl nj In a IN
Grace Nj. T.. church. corner Second and
Arizona streets-Preaching at IL a. m. and
1:@ y. m. 10y pastor. Sunday school at 2:3o
y. m. Epworth league at 6:i5 p. m. A free
Halloween social will be given in this
church Monday evening. Oct. 81.
Unity NJ. T.. church. Meadcrville-J
Hosking pastor. Residence sS5 Arizona
street. Glass meeting at 10 a. m. Sunday
school at 2:a y. m. Epworth league at
$50 y. m. Preaching by Brother George
Tfppett at 1:3o y. m.
Preaching to-day at ; p. m. I'm the
Swedish language i'm the Baptist church.
corner Broadway and Montana streets. J.
:. Cederberg pastor. All Scandinavian
are welcome.
Mountain View Methodist Episcopal
church,. l.. Aibritton pastor. Preaching
at II a. m. and $50 p. m Class service a,
10. J. l.. Williams leader. Sunday schoo
at 1878. A. +. Bruce superintendent. Jun
Tor Epworth league at $3.50. Miss Foreman
teacher. Epworth league devotional ser
vice at $50. Rev. W. II. Il,n. ID. d.. chan
cellor of the Montana Wesleyan unlver-
sity. will preach at II and the pastor at
100. Subject Of evening sermon. Living.
Not Dying"
scandinavian NJ +. church. corner o,
Copper and Alaska streets-J. J.. Field
pastor. Services on Sunday at n n. m. and
7:f5 p. m Sunday school at i2.5 p. m.
First Presbyterian chu>ch-E. J. Groen-
eveld pastor. Preaching at n n. m. and
40 p m. Sunday school at Is:l5 d. m