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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25
Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident of which Mr..
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows;
81 was in "a most dreadful condition.
My skin was almost yellow, eyes sun
ken, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite-gradually
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. Forum
ately, friend advised trying Electric
Bitters," and to my great JOY and sur
prise, the first bottle made u decided
Improvement. ! continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a well
man. | know they saved my life, and
robbed the grave of another victim.
No one should fail to try them. Only
30 cents per bottle at Fisk Bangs drug
store
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

A Canadian exchange is responsible
for the story that an Indian belonging
to the Creek Nation and bearing the
hazardous name of Jack Pot is now liv-
ing in comparative peace with his four
wives and seems to be happily consoled
for the death of their 22 predecessors.
1t may seem incredible that this jack
pot could be won SO many times, but he
is I0S years old. The sound teeth in his
head are said to be the third set with
which nature has endowed him.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

Mr. r. Ketcham of Pike City, Cal,
says: During my brothers. late sick
ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham
berlain's Pain Balm was the only rem
edy that gave him any relief" Many
others have testified to the prompt
relief from pain which this liniment
affords. For sale by Fisk Bangs, drug
fri1
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

T.. G.. Blanks, of Lewisville, Texas,
writes that one box Of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve was worth 5000 To him.
1t cured his piles Of ten years standing.
He advises others To try it. IL also
cures eczema, skin diseases and obsti-
nate sores. w. /. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

Thousands OF persons have been
cured OF piles by using DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. IL heals prompt
ly and cLres eczema and all skin dis
eases. IL gives immediate relief
w. |. benedict
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

Sick headache, biliousness. constipa-
tion and all liver and stomach troubles
can be quickly cured by using those
famous little pills known as DeWitts
Little Early Risers. They are pleasant
to take and never gripe.
w. |. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25
Grand Rapids ~ Indiana *. X.

The G.. II. s. /. Michigan in Summer con
tanning maps views and descriptions OF Htcht
gdn Summer Resorts, sent on application 10
q. l.. LOCKWOOD G.. II. < Il. A.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25

Always avoid the use OF big words;
they are sometimes inconvenient to
swallow.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-08-25
DETPOIT June 10, 1897
CD. RAPIDS g. WESTERN r. r.

Additional trains leave Greenville for Bedding
at s.37, and l0:55 a. IN. and sos p. IN. Leave
Belding for Greenville at 1918 a. m, 7:20 p. m
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his command, to find an outlet for that commodity.
 "I only travel with big people," said Major Pond during his recent visit here, linen such as Marion Crawford whom I am now running. The small fry of lecturers, of whom we have hun dreds on our list, are supplied from our bureau at New York. Any country town which wants to enjoy a lecture can choose whom it will to entertain them, and we will supply the article at a given price, varying, of course according to quality.
 "Yes. I consider Marion Crawford to be the biggest lecture success of the year. You see, he is such good speaker, and so many people have read his books. A man like that don't want any advertising; people just flock to hear him wherever he goes. Yet, strangely enough, Crawford's first tour in the States four years ago was not a success. He did not lecture then as he does now. but read extracts from his books. Crawford is not a good reader, and the thing did not go''
 Then you find lectures are more successful than readings?"
 Not always; it all depends on the person. There was Charles Dickens, the greatest reader we ever had on the platform Then Mark Twain and James Whitcomb Riley have both made great
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of Beecher a fact which Is hardly to be wondered at when 1t is remembered that he has travelled farther with him stories about the preachers caustic wit Is good enough to bear repetition. They were travelling once in a railway car, and by strange contrast Robert Inger- soil, the famous atheist happened to be among the passengers.
 Beecher wrote two words on the edge of newspaper and then gave the major sly nudge.
 T have written Ingersolls epitaph, ' he whispered. Here it is: Robert Burns"
 Another one of Major Ponds anec- dotes relates to the celebrated actress Charlotte Cushman, whom he met long before the days of managerial success. The major was but a call boy in a St. Louis theater when Charlotte Cushman was at the zenith of her brilliant career. Part Of his duty was to carry the ac- tress' jewels to and from the hotel. On the last day of the engagement. he fell i'll. when Charlotte Cushman. with kind thoughtfulness, hunted him up and gave him S20 gold piece.
 Tt was the first $20 gold piece I ever earned" says the major Long after ward 1 met Cushman in Boston, and gave her 5000 for one entertainment. When I paid her I told her it was the interest on that gold piece"
 Another of the majors favorite lec- turers was Stanley, whom he piloted
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turer. Yet he insists that, besides be- must be able to speak or read well.
 T have never known but one in- stance he said, "of literary celebrity succeeding on the. platform unless he really could lecture. And that was Matthew Arnold. No one could hear word he spoke, yet the halls were al ways full People just went for the sake or seeing the great man. And, on the other hand, it is very difficult for a celebrity to attract audiences unless he has already achieved literary fame. Take the case of Peary, for instance. He is famous Arctic explorer, his name has resounded all over the coun- try. Also he is a charming speaker, yet he did not draw we'll just because he has not published a book about his adventures. NanSen, who is not near ly so good a speaker as Peary, attract ed big audiences; his reputation was made by his books
 No, the report that Nansens tour was a failure was all wrong. His sea- son W as cut short simply because of a disagreement with his managers. If had been running him I would have brought him to this coast.
 My first big success" went on the major, growing reminiscent, was Ann Eliza Young, the apostate wife Of Brigham Young. That was in 1873. I took her East to Washington, and her lectures created such a furor that in forty-eight hours the anti-polygamy law was passed. But the king of all
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during the season of 1S90-91. T gave Stanley $110,000 for 110 lectures, and made nearly as much money as he did. So you can see what a great draw the great African explorer was. Besides which, he was a good speaker, his lec- lures averaged $27S0 each. In this city his first lecture brought in $3400, his second $6200''
 The major has the monetary value of every famous lecturer figured out almost to a cent. He knows just what it will pay him to give any one for tour. Beechef he paid $500 to 5000 lecture, Cough from S250 to $500, and Wendell Phillips about tL, same price. Of later celebrities Ian Mac laren ranks the highest. He received a fixed sum of $500 lecture, and Major Pond would be quite willing to renew the contract on the same terms. An thony Hope comes lower at $200 up- ward, and at one time Max O'Rell the French critic, commanded the same high terms.
 Latterly there has been a slump in Max O'Rell's value. You see," ex- plained the major, he has been lectur- ing for three years now and has passed the zenith of his success. l would not care to give more than from $100 to $200 for his lectures. In my opinion O of the most successful of Am ri an au- thors on the platform would be w. D. Howells. The trouble is that Howells cannot be induced to lecture; he ob- jectS to the travelling.
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the large bump directly back of the left ear shows where his fighting quail ities come in for their maintenance and success.
 Steve Sanguinetti's head shows at a glance that, as a caterer, he has found the vocation for which nature intended him. His well developed sides of the head indicate his love of good victuals and wine and his desire that others should likewise enjoy the good things of life
 Isador N. Choynski is the father of Choynski, of pugilistic fame, and also an editor. His head is uncommonly large and well balanced, showing by the large forehead and straight sides the philosophical tendencies of the Jewish race and the force of moral convic- tions.
 Rabbi M. S. Levy's diagram is very well proportioned. It shows a bump on the right side, which indicates a tenacity to the policy he once decides upon and a continuity of purpose.
 The head of Professor Eugene s. Bon neli is of the long class, indicating sent iment, taste and intellectual capacity in keeping with the strains of har- mony which he is so capable of inn parting to vocal aspirants
 County Clerk C. r. Curry is also
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OO0 pounds) were destroyed in 1896 and 1887 in Vuelta Abajo, and the war on the weed continues to the present day.
 In 1887 very little tobacco was gath cred, representing not one tenth of the normal crop. Even this small percent age was grown in the yards of houses in well fortified villages, and in the much talked about ZOnas de Cultivo, which were designed by General Wey- Ter for the planting of vegetables for the unfortunate reconcentrados.
 It will take at least twenty years be- fore Vuelta Abajo can again be In as fiourishing condition as in January, 1896. Not even if the war should come to an end could it regain its former wealth in a shorter period Whole vil- lageS and towns have been destroyed, and 80 per cent of the population has perished. Even genuine autonomy would not much benefit the tobacco trade of Cuba, since Spain is under so many obligations to the Compania Gen eral de TabacoS, a monopoly in that country, from which the Government derives an enormous revenue. Abso- lute independence alone can help mat ters.
 The condition of things in the cigar factories of Havana could not be more hopeless. Here is a statement made by the head of the leading cigar fac tory one year ago: In the depart ment devoted to the preparation of raw tobacco we employ 800 men and 200 wo- men. Average daily production 50,000 pounds. In the cigar-making depart ment we employ 200 men and 100 wo- men. Average daily output 100000 cigars.
 All the best Havana cigars are ex- ported. Havana itself must be con- tented with a Second-rate smoke at first-rate price. Half the cigar stands. formerly fourishing, are now boarded up. Half of the cigar stands still dO- ing business are stocked, very meager- ly, with genuine lot of poor cigars.
 Moreover, a leading New York cigar manufacturer, now in Havana, tells me that half the cigars sold here and in the States as "clear Havanas" are made of Virginia tobacco The raw ma terial is sent direct from Virginia to Porto Rico. At Porto Rico it is re- packed and shipped to Havana as na- tive Porto Rico tobacco. In Havana native Porto Rico tobacco from Vir- ginia is made into cigars and sent back to the States as "clear Havanas. The natives here are unanimous in their opinion that the Cuban cigar in- dustry is doomed Their opinion is founded on the facts just given. It looks entirely probable that in few months this city will have on exhibi- tion, draped in mourning, a curiosity labeled 'Havana's Last Cigar" GIBSON WILLETS.
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successes reading from their own books. And last year I took Ian Mac laren, the famous Scotch writer, on an eight weeks tour through the States. He reads extracts from his own Kail- yard stories in the most delightful way; it would make you weep to hear him. Of course the Rev. John Wat son, as a Presbyterian minister, is trained speaker. and his Scotch accent is very slight, not strong enough to be disagreeable Maclaren is great busi- ness; at every place we had to turn crowds away"
 The majors estimate of the worth of the author is based on a simple rule on his or her drawing power as a lec-
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troubled with a large left lobe of the brain, indicating a greater receptivity of thought.
 In Judge Conlans diagram the lobes are almost evenly proportioned. The square forehead marks his Irish de- scent
 His colleague. Police Judge James A. Campbell, has different class of head. resembling that of a pear in form. The sides of the back part of the head are large, indicating athletic tendencies, love of sport and flair play in an en- counter in the manly art" It also indicates love of power and influence and desire to maintain the good opin- ion of his associates.
 The head of w. s. Barnes. the Dis triet Attorney, is likewise a large one. fairly well proportioned, we'll balanced, philosophical and equal to much men, tai labor.
 The outlines of the head of w. H. T. Durrant were made in 1885, His head is of the long class, square forehead, the left lobe is largest and the large development above the left ear indi- cates wantonness and destructiveness induced by exterior suggestion. not rom any reconciliation on his part. but capable of such when force of sud- den circumstance makes it imperative This is so indicated because the right side of the head is nearly straight.
 F. c. GETSINGER.
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T is sometimes better to make
 H money with other peoples brains
 than with your own. At least this 4 is Major Ponds experience During
 the past twenty years the gallant entrepreneur has been a wholesale dealer in other peoples brains, and the successes he has met with would make even a returned Klondiker's mouth water, The gifted author, the social or political celebrity, has a marketable value as lecturer nowadays, and it is Major Ponds business. by means of the elaborate organization he has at
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A nearly two years Cuba has not
 raised enough tobacco to sup A 4 ply the island. Tobacco planta-
 tions, like the sugar fields. lie in ruins. For want of tobacco the cigar factories of Havana are nearly all idle. Factories which formerly employed 500 men now employ only fifty. Where 200 Cuban girls used to make a living at rolling cigars, only twenty are now at work. The industry is at the point of death.
 Who is responsible? First, Weyler; second, the Cubans. The captain-gen- eral said: Thou shalt not make ci- gars." The insurgents replied: Then we will destroy the crops"
 From the palace in 1896 came the famous decree forbidding the exporta- tion of Havana leaf tobacco. In the field followed the burning of the crops and stored tobacco by the Cubans. A petition has been recently sent to Cap ain-General Blanco, asking him to re- yoke the decree of his predecessor. His answer was an emphatic ''No.'
 What actuated Weyler to forbid the eXportation of Havana tobacco? First, the captain general, always ready to adopt stringent measures, believed in good faith that manufacturers and dealers in the United States would buy up all the tobacco in Cuba, and conse- quently oblige all the factories in Ha- vana to close. In this his belief proved well founded. American tobacco deal CTS hastened to buy up all the tobacco they could get before the decree took effect. And of course, all the factor .oe
 Second, Weyler knew that the Cuban cigarmakers in Tampa and Key West each gave $1 a week from their wages for the cause of Cuba Libre. To pro- hibit the export of tobacco, therefore, would throw these Tampa and Key West cigarmakerS out of employment and deprive the insurgents of that inn portant source of revenue. Conse- | quently, in the Florida cigar towns | there were soon hundreds of idle, half starving Cubans.
 1 Third, Weyler was a gold grabber. He l loved to make money. He made it. | He was a millionaire when he left | Cuba. 1 am told that this famous to- bacco decree netted him a fortune. Many so-called American tobacco 1 firms exported several thousand bales of tobacco in spite of General Weylers ! prohibitive decree, under the pretense | that it was the outcome of diplomatic transactions between Washington and Madrid. But the real secret in the af- fair was that Weyler by charging com mission on every bale exported gra- ciously gave permission for shipments l to be made. Thus Weyler made money | as he Waged war.
 The province or county of Vuelta Abajo is, or rather was, Cubas prin- cipaI tobacco center. It might have been called Cuba's Klondike. But to- day every tobacco plantation in Vuelta Abajo is in ruins, abandoned. The di- rect cause of this wholesale destruction was Weyler's tobacco decree. All the farmers, farm hands, dealers and per sons directly or indirectly engaged in raising or dealing in tobacco had hith- erto been sacred to the insurgents; all tobacco property was respected, in di- rect contrast to sugar plantations.
 No sooner was Weyler's decree known in Vuelta Abajo than the rebels changed their tactics. The sacred plant was attacked with fury. Over 10000 bales of tobacco (approxfmating 40,00O,-
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lecturers was the temperance orator, J"hn B. Cough, whom I managed for ten years before his death. His energy was marvellous, and altogether he de- livered 9600 addresses to an aggregate audience cf nine million people.
 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was the greatest success I have ever trav- eled with. For thirteen years I took him around, and we covered over 300, 900 miles in our journeyings The aggre- gate sum taken at his lectures amount ed to a quarter of a million dollars Why, in this city, in 1S7S he cleared S160O0 for four lectures"
 Major Pond is very fond of talking
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A little fellow, talking to one of the boys at the Decatur Methodist Or phans' Home short time ago, said:
 You boys seem so happy out here I'd like to stay with you always, but my folks are so healthy I'm afraid I won't be an orphan for some time yet.' Atlanta Constitution.
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DEALS IN PEOPLES BRAINS

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s ,: ,: 5: HAVANA0 ,: ;. ;; LAST CIGAR : os A special correspondent of The z
 s5 Call tells how Cuba's magn1heent os cigar trade has been completely .. ruined by the present war. z & s2sa2:2 s2s2 s & S 8 g 8.
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' AVANA, April 21, 1S9S.-For I nearly two years Cuba has not
 raised enough tobacco to sup 4 4 ply the island. Tobacco planta-
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CHARACTER TOLD IN THE SHAPE or THE HAT THAT YOU WEAR
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. NLY four in every one hundred
 heads of men prove to be we'll
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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-26

hazardous in Mexico as has been pic
tured, and in fact few countries in
America are showing more advance
ment than that.
Special interest is being awakened
in the matter of wooden and cotton
factories, the production of machinery,
linen, leather, iron, rubber goods,
candy, etc., the traffic in hides and the
growing of fruit. The railroads in
that country are doing an enormous
business, and withal Mexico is forging
to the front as a competitor that can
not be ignored. AS to wages skilled
labor is as we'll paid as in the United
States, but q great deal of work is done
by poems who work for very little but
W 10 receive more in the aggregate
throughout the year in the shape OF
good food and physical comforts, than
the hundreds or thousands of idle
American citizens who have been
thrown into abject poverty by the
operations of the single gold standard.
To "Mexicanize" the United States
would be a great improvement upon
present conditions, to say the least.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-26
KEEPING HANDS OFF.

Some time since the Associated
Press sent out dispatch from Wash
ington stating that the campaign COM
mittee of the democrats, populists and
silver republicans had undertaken to
dictate to the distribution of Offices in
Oregon, by giving the senator to the
democrats, governor to the silver re-
publicans and the two congressman to
the populists. The dispatch was dis
credited at the time, for it was not be-
lieved the different campaign COM
mittees in Washington were seeking
to pose as bosses, or to dictate the
policy to be pursued by the reform
forces in Oregon. The following letter
from the chairman of the national dem
ocratic committee under date of Feb.
ruary 10Th, and addressed to Hon. j.
c. Cooper, brands the dispatch as
pure fake, and intended to divide the
silver forces:
"Yours of February 9th is received.
had not before heard of the Associated
Press dispatch that it had been agreed
in Washington that you should have a
democrat for senator, silver republican
for governor and swo populists for con-
gressmen. 1 have never heard sug-
gestion as to what should be done
in Oregon. Ifthere is a man in Wash
ington City who proposes to attempt
to interfere in any way in that matter,
have never heard of him. The As
sociated Press dispatch is fake, pure
and simple. We believe that you
gentlemen on the ground are compet-
ant to take care of your state, and we |
look to you to exercise discretion and |
patriotism necessary to make success
certain. There will be no interference
rom here. Very truly yours,
JAMES K. JONES,
Chairman"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-26
LOOKS LIKE VAR.

The blowing up of the Maine in
in Havana harbor, while it may yet be
proven to have been an accident re.
sulting from carelessness, has served
to arouse bitter hatred for Spain in
most Americans, and it is going to be
difficult matter for the government
to longer quell the belligereut spirit.
From all sections of the country comes
the news that men are willing to
buckle on the armor and go to war
with Spain on the slightest provo
cation. The administration too is pur-
suing rather more vigorous policy to-
ward Spain than at any time in the
past, and is getting ready for any emerg-
encv that may arise. Fortifications all
along the Atlantic coast are being re-
paired, and the navy is being put in
readiness for action, so that if the de-
structlon Of the Maine shall prove to
have been due to Spanish treachery
the injury can be avenged. At present
everything points to an active .prepa-
ration for war with Spain, nd
should it come there will be few re-
grets.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-26
MAY COST SPAIN DEARLY.
Indemnity, If Any, Will BE From Thirtee
to Fifteen Millions.

Indemnity, If Any, Will BE From Thirteen
to Fifteen Millions
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-'rhe Journal has
the following special from Washing
ton:
Should it be proven that the Maine
was destroyed by an outside explosion
with the knowledge of Spanish Off
cials. President Mckinley will de-
mand an indemnity of from Sl3, ,O00, 600
to $15,OOO,OO0. This statement was
made today by an officer of the navy
department, who is thoroughly conver-
SAINT with the present Spanish situa-
tion.
ut was decided at conference of
the president and cabinet officers to-
day." he continued, that the Spanish
government was bound to protect the
vessels of friendly nation in one of
its harbors, and that if the Maine was
destroyed by submarine mine or
torpedo, whether with the knowledge
of officials or not. that the government
must he responsible. The value of the
vessel is estimated at $4,000, 600. The
rest is to be paid to relatives of the
officers and men who lost their lives
by the destruction of the vessel.