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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
New DEPARTURE
ONE MONTH FREE.

DR.. A. b. Spinney, of Detroit, a
proprietor of Reed City Sanitarium,
coming TO your town, where he "
remain for one day only to give
sick an opportunity to consult M
that cannot see him at his SAP riur
The doctor has so much faith IN II
experience he has had in treatin'
chronic diseases that he will give or
months treatment and medicine IRE
ALSO FREE SURGICAL OPERATIONS h
ALL THOSE THAT ARE TOO POOR TO PA
All that he asks in return is tina 4
every patient will state to their friend
he results obtained by his treatmen E
All forms of chronic diseases and de &
formities treated. No man in thi
State has had such extended expe
rience in the treatment of CATARHHI
EYE, EAR, THROAT AND LUNt
DISEASES as the doctor. He gradu
ated 81 years ago from Cleveland
Ohio; was Is years in general prac
tice; after that lectured as Professo
of Anatomy and Physiology in Detroi
Homeopathic Medical College for Z
years; was years Superintendent OF
Alma and Ypsilanti Sanitariums.
This experience, combined with many
years. study in the best hospitals in
the country, and examining and treat
ing thousands of chronic cases, has
prepared him to cure when the general
practitioner fails. Have you been SICK
for years2 Are you discouraged ?
Call and see us, we will tell you whether
we can cure you or not. If we cannot
cure you, we will tell you what relief
we can give you.
5Remember, one month will be
absolutely free-medicines, surgical
operations, and the benefit of all our
skill to all who are too poor to pay.
Our methods of treatment is all that is
known by all the schools, with the aid
of electricity, that most wonderful or
all agents in Paralysis, Loss of Power,
Rheumatism, and all diseases OF the
nervous system. Go early, as my
office is always crowded.
N. B.-Cancers, Tumors, Blood and Skiu
Diseases cured by new system Piles cured IN
from to 30 days without the kuife. Enma lie
and private diseases of all forms treatrYl sue.
cessfully. Many patients that cannot be treated
at home can be cured at our Sanitariun, Which
Is In charge Of the best of medical skill, under
| the doctors direction. Terms for board and
treatment the lowest of any sauitarium or hos
| pitzl In the United States.
Remem Der, we give a written guar
antee TO cure every case OF PILE , and
| RUPTURE. Also, we have lying-in
hospital department in orr Sanitar
ium. Send for Journal.
DIR. Spinney will be at Hotel Phelps
GreenviIle, Tuesday, May II, one
day only.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
SHORT NEWS STORIES.
Eugene FIELDS Joke on schurz- Kerosene
at q Wedding Two Sophomores
Routed Outbreak Of the Civil War.

Francis Wilson has written some rem
tells how Field as reporter, followed
Carl Schurz on IA political campaign
through Missouri. Mr.. Sohurz was late
at a meeting, ard tie audience was be.
coming impatient
at was suGgt sted that Field make
the introductory remarks. Field pulled
our his chest, and assuming superdig-
ni!ied manner and IA strong German ac-
cent addressed the meeting as follows:
"LADIFs AND CHENTLEMENs-I have such a
severe col. oct / cannot make me speedy to-
night but hat die pleasure of TO in. reduce 10
you my brilliant young chournalist gompan-
ion, Mr.. Eucheene FELT, who will spheak in
my blaze.
"With this Mr.. Schurz was present
ed, it is said, in no very pleasant frame
of mind. The explanation which fol-
lowed caused uproarious laughter. One
can but marvel at Field s temerity, for
he was wholly unknown at the time.
"In seeking a verification Of this sto-
ry the following letter was received
from Mr.. Schurz:
"Whether the Eugene Field anec-
dote you mention in your letter is liter
ally true | do not now remember, but |
should not wonder if it were He and
another gentleman accompanied me on
stamping" tour in Missouri in 1874,
and he constantly amused and sometimes
astonished us with his humorous pranks.
The one you speak of may we'll have
been one of them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
Chinese Candles as Russian painties


To most people a tallow candle APP
pears more in the way Of necessity
than luxury, but the Russian blue
jackets who are enjoying shore leave
just now from the Rossia and the Ad-
miral Nakimoff appear to find in assim-
Hating candles of Chinese make as much
gusto as an English child would have in
eating sugar stick. The other day a
party of stalwaTt Muscovite bluejackets
were to be seen going along Queen S
road, and the avidity with which they
polished off joss candles was a sight for
the gods. Some of the men, who were
evidently petty officers, elected to dine
off candles as thick as ones arm-regu-
lar No. joss pidgin arrangements
and streams of grease trickled from the
corners of each mans mouth. British
and American Jacks like their beer and
rum, but they draw the line at Chinese
made tallow candles. London Hong
kong Telegraph.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
The Chinese as Mathematicians.

Cambridge university has had re-
markable proof Of the mathematical
genius of the Chinese. Some time ago
much surprise was caused among math-
ematicians generally by the discovery
among the papers of the late Sir Thomas
Wade of Chinese fame of evidence that
in the time of Confucius the Chinese
knew an equation which only became
known in Europe during the last cen
tury, when it was discovered by Fermat,
and has since been known as Fermat' s
equation. But the Chinese version re-
Gently discovered stated that the equa-
tion did not hold with regard to certain
numbers. This puzzled the mathemati-
clans, and all efforts to solve the point
have hitherto failed. Now, however, a
young undergraduate of Trinity college,
Cambridge, has demonstrated that the
Chinese were right, and his solution is
frankly admitted by the experts to be
perfect, The correspondent understands
the result is shortly to be published at
Cam bridge in an authoritative way.
Manchester Guardian.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
TINE TO BE ANGRY.

kerosene lamp, the oil of which spat-
tered all over the BRIDES dress and the
minister's broadcloth coat. To say that
the bridegroom was mad would not do
justice to his feelings. But he restrain
ed himself and supported the bride to
the front porch, where the ceremony
was concluded under the stars of heaven.
The minister has sent in bill for his
coat, but the bridegroom swears he
won't pay it, New York Tribune.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
A Mean Trick.

Not long ago The lola tMo. Register
published an article to the effect that
in excavating for cellar in that city a
workman found an old tomabawk with
the name Of the famous Indian chief
Loot Lirpa carved in the handle. After
all the papers Of the state had copied
the item The Register asked them to
smell the nam nf thpt chicf backward
The BANNER and Detroit Twice-a.
Week Journal. one year for 81. go.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
Poor Princess Clementinel

At the last court ball in Brussels
Princess Clementine danced in the quad
rifles. The princess never dances alone
with one partner, but she is allowed to
participate in quadrille. The king
probably knows the difference between
the dignity of his daughter dancing
with partner in quadrille and dane
ing with partner III polka or waltz.
Clementine has never danced waltz
in her life at these court balls. She is
now % years of age and her life is any
thing but an enviable one. She is treat
ed far more like an overgrown girl than
anything else. Her hours are regulated
throughout the day.
She rises at 6 80 in the morning
summer and winter, whether she likes
it or not. She is Obliged by the queen
to assist at the o'clock mass said ev-
cry morning in the palace chapel at
Laeken. After breakfast she either goes
for a walk or drive. One generally
meets her driving into Brussels In COM
pany with one of her ladies in waiting
Every one says the queen is really too
rigid and too eXactiI :. Princess Glenn
entine has no liberty, no will of her
own in any trifle. he cannot put ON
the dress she wishes nor can she choose
her own hats Such is her life with the
queen. But when she has the good for
tune to travel with che king she enjoys
perfect freedom as far as these details
are concerned Leopold is exceedingly
fond of his youngest daughter. London
Society.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
Almost a Mile a Minute Elevator

Ed II. Benjamin returned the other
day from a visit TO the big mines ON
the mother lode in Amador county.
81 took "A fast ride, ;" he said, "in the
Oneida mine. This company has Just
put in a new hosting gear which beats
anything on the Pacific coast, and there
are only one OF two mines in the coun-
try which have machinery to equal it. !
came mp 1000 feet in the shaft i'm 20
seconds. This is at the rate of almost a
mile minute, and by comparison the
swiftest elevators in the tall buildings
in San Francisco are slow coaches.
When the mine is i'm regular operation,
the cage will be run at the speed OF 80
miles an hour in lifting ore. This re-
markable hoist was manufactured in San
Francisco and seems to embrace no new
principle-just very large drum and
the usual cable. "-Oakland Times.
Old papers for sale at this Office
25c per hundred,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
A Bit Too DIV.

A Georgia rural editor thus describes
an accident that occurred during we'd
ding ceremony: 1.-THE bride, looking
the picture of loneliness stood under
the swinging chandelier. So did the
bridegroom. The bridegroom was over
feet 2, and in bowling his responses to
the minister's questions he accidentally
tilted the chandelier, which overturned
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12

Extraordinary Fire Sale" read the
advertisement. customers are invited
to call and examine goods. which will
be found still warm. "-Philadelphia
North American.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
One Low Price

"Means" we are right on
every article.in the store.
"Means" our goods are
right.
"Means" you all get the
lowest price.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
Looking Ahead.

New Boarders-That beds rather
narrow for two.
Landlady-Three have slept in it.
New Boarders-Yes, but we haven Z
boarded here long enough yet to get
that thin. -Harper's Weekly.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-12
ChalkY Rad of the Atian4i.

The bed of the Atlantic from 400 TO
1900 fathoms is covered with an ooze
or very fine chalky deposit, consisting
to great extent Of minute broken shells.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25

The Church Economist prints the fol-
lowing letter. recently sent by a Penn
sylvania church to a business firm IN
Chicago. Gentlemen: A cafe chant
ant, together with a market, will be
given in the spacious rooms of the par
ish house, Dec and 10, for the benefit
of -- church of this city. The object
of the market is to display and dispose
of the wares of the leading manufactur-
ers throughout the country. We, there
fore, write to ask if you will kindly
contribute something in the shape OF
sample packages, or the like, sending
them by mail, freight or express, pre-
paid. You can readily see this will be
a unique as well as very good way OF
Very truly yours" etc.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25
Brevity.

DR.. Abernethy was notoriously one OF
the most lacOnic of men. 1t is said that
one day there was among his patients
woman who had burned her hand.
Showing him the wound, she said, "A
burn, ," "A poultice," answered the die
tor. Next day she called and said Bet
ter Repeat said the doctor. In a
week she made her last call, and her
speech was heightened to three words.
We'll, your fee?' Nothing" said the
physician, you are the most sensible
woman | ever met
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25

must be told, her troubled heart found
little comfort in the thought of a meet
ing with Miss Hetherington. r!r
At last, after long reflection, she
spoke:
Il know my mother-she is my
mcther-is very good; but it has all
been fatality since | was born, and /
can hardly realize yet that we are so
close akin. All! il / had bnt known,
madame! If she had but told me at
the first, should never have left Scot
land, or known so much sorrow"
Miss Dove sighed in sympathetic ac-
quiescence.
"It is sad story" she replied.
"Your mother, proud lady, as she is,
has been a great sinner; fbut she has
been terribly punished. Surely, my
child, you do not bear any anger
against her in your hearth"
"None, madame; but she is so strange
and proud. / am almost afraid of her
still"
"And you have other loving friends, "
continued the lady, smiling kindly,
''Do you remember Mr.. Sutherland"
Johnnie Sutherland" cried Mar
jorie, joyfully. Who told you of him?''
Himself. He is back here in Paris. "
Marjorie uttered cry of delight.
you have seen him? You have spok-
en- to him? He Knows
''He knows everything, my child; and
he is waiting below till l give him the
signal to come up. Can you bear to see
him."
There was no need to ask that ques-
ton. Marjorie's flushed cheek and
sparkling eye had answered it long be-
fore. Miss Dove stole quietly from the
room, and almost Immediately reap
peared, followed by Sutherland him
self.
Marjorie! my poor Marjoriew he
cried, seiZing her hands and almost
sobbing.
But who was this that Marjorie saw
approaching, through the mist of her
own joyful tears? A STOPPING figure,
leaning upon a staff, turning toward
her haggard fa e, and stretching out
trembling palsied hand. 1t was Miss
Hetherington, trembling and weeping,
all the harsh lineaments softened with
the yearning of mothers love-
my BARN! my bairn!"
ooh, mother! mother!' cried Mar
jorie; and mother and daughter clung
together, reunited in a passionate en-
brace.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25
BATTLE WITH SPIDERS.
As Result of 1t st. Louis Man May
Die-Peculiar SYmptoms.

N sysbpAoutsa
John Held. who had a battle with
spiders at j. A. Patterns grocery store,
81 Market street. is much worse, says
the ST. Louis Post-Dispatcb. Dr. Kear-
neJ OF the city dispensary staff fears
the victim of the venomous insect is
coomed man. Deadly poison is cours-
ING through his veins and symptoms OF
lockJaW are developing. A peculiar
feature of Held's affiiction is that he
is able to be about and attend to his
duties. He apparently does not realize
his danger. Three unsightly marks,
TWO on the left side of his nose and one
on his chin, show where he was bitten.
His jaws are becoming rigid. He talks
with difficulty. Il am feeling pretty
well this morning." said Held to re-
porter, but I can scarcely open my
mouth. There seems to be big Jumps
IN my throat and my jawbones ache.
MY arms and shoulders are covered
with red blotches, which seem to grow
larger all the time. | am sure | was
not bitten on the arms or shoulders,
Tor L wore my coat when the spiders
attacked me. The poison must be COM
ing to the surface. When l went to
the cellar to pack a case of goods
Thursday night I removed a lot of
rubbish to get box. | felt something
run across my face and brushed it Off.
when 1t dropped to the floor l saw it
was black spider. | stepped on it. In
an instant the place seemed alive with
spiders. They ran across my face and
hands. | did not know | had been
bitten until | came upstairs. A friend
asked me what was the matter with
my nose. | looked in mirror and
saw there were two big blisters on my
left nostril. When | touched them they
burst. | was feverish all night. Friday
morning | found third blister on my
chin. | went to the dispensary and
had the wounds cauterized The
blOtches on my arms and shoulders
nave appeared since" A reporter ac-
companied Held to the dispensary Sat
urday morning. DR.. Kearney examined
him and expressed surprise at the
progress of the virus through the sys-
tenn. This man has a clear case of
poisoning" he said. Even if
lockjaw does not set in he may die"
After the wounds were dressed Held
went back to work, still refusing to be-
lieve in the doctors diagnosis. The
spiders which bit Held are known as
black spiders. Their engine of de-
struction is mandble or claw, which
when not in use is folded between the
jaws. When the black spider settles
on his victim he opens his jaws and
extends the mandible AS the claw-like
organ enters the flesh, poison sac in
the tip of the mandible is opened and
the deadly virus injected.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25

He rose from beneath the elm with n
firm determination. II am but nineteen
and have two years to work for tho
abolition OF this curse. Most of my
schoolmaies like me. and by explaining
the lawleSsness. corruptness and base
ness of this legalized curse. surely
can persuade them to- join me"
He went to work Immediately with
a perslstency that showed his heart
was in the cause
Two years passed as though they had
been but two weeks.
Behold now our hero! BY the vote
of his townsmen he is magistrate of the
little city. He holds the edict which
Is to Danish the brewery and the con-
tents of the casks will bathe the rocks.
as of old blood bathed the mountain
side.-Union Signal.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25
Mans InfaliibIe Guide.

Conscience is the voice of the soul;
the passions are the voice of the body.
1t is astonishing that often these two
languages contradict each other, and
then to which must we listen? Too Of
ten reason deceives us; we have only toe
much acquired the right of refusing TO
listen to it, but conscience never de-
ceives us; it is the true guide of man;
it is to man what instinct is to the
body, which follows it, obeys nature,
and never is afraid of going astray.-
London Echo.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25

EVerglade High School, and he now lay
beneath a shady elm thinking of the
hard lessons he had learned, of his lit
tle misbehaviors in the past, and what
he meant to do in the future.
He was light-hearted, good natured.
boyish, but by no means thoughtless
or careless. His mind wandered from
one thing to another until his thoughts
were centered on the NEUROLOGICAL tale
of the strange young man of old whose
name he bore.
He slept-and this is the dream he
dreamed:
He saw the mighty Siegfried at the
ancient forge. He heard the clang of
the great hammer as it fell ON the an
vii
He watched the skillful hand put the
finishing touches on the powerful Bel
mung.
The scene changed. He found him
self in the midst of a large assembly.
Again he saw the man of valor with
sword poised above the figure of man,
seated on a rock. clad in armor, an
cient but well made.
The sword remained but an instant.
1t fell with the force of a thunderbolt
from the hand of Jupiter. The armor
t>irst asunder and blood bathed the
mountain side. Ah where was the
boasted armor? where the conceited
man who made it?
Siegfried awoke. Drops of cold per-
spiration stood on his forehead.
What did it all mean? Had he really
seen the mighty warrior he had read
so much of? Where was he?
He sat upright and looked about him.
He found himself on the bank of the
Everglade mill-stream which swept
swiftly toward it's outlet
The lofty elm still stretched forth its
protecting branches to shade him from
the suns fury.
Siegfried gazed dazedly about him,
reiterating his dream time and again
with an endeavor to interpret it.
Across the stream and farther down,
a dense black smoke rose from the
chimney of large brick building, stu
ated on a rock elevation not far from
the village center. 1t was the village
brewery
Siegfried was nineteen years old. yet
it had never occurred to him that in
two more years he, with several others,
would have a voice in the village poll
tics. He lay for some time engrossed
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
COAL AND IRON.
Showing That Great Britain Is Not
Holding Her Own.
Castle.

Showing That Great Britain Is Not
HoIdin. Her Own.
Statistics show that, whereas Great
Britain in 1910 produced Is per cent Of
the worlds supply of coal, at the pres
ct time it produces only "a per cent,
says Nature. Atlantic liners no longer
carry coal from Great Britain for the
return journey; they now take in
American coal, and no less than 1,5O0,-
900 tons of American coal were thus
consumed in 1895. The condition of the
iron manufacturing industries has al
ways exercised most important inf1u-
ence on the production of coal so that
a large demand for iron draws with
it large demand for mineral fuel. Dur
ing the last twenty-five years the
worlds production of pig iron has in
creased from 100000 to 26,OOO,OOO
tons; but the share taken by
Great Britain has fallen from
1873 per cent to 80 per cent,
while that of the United States
has increased from 141 per cent to
26.2 per cent, that of Germany from
ia per cent to 21.4 per cent, and that
Of Russia from 8 per cent to AZ per
cent. Indeed, iron is now being i'm
ported from the United States into this
country, and, incredible as it may
seem, the railway station at Middles-
borough, the center of the iron trade,
is built of iron brought from Belgium.
Surely, then, the author of Our Coal
Resources at the Close of the Nine
teenth Century" is hardly right in
thinking that British coal and iron
still hold their own He argues that
other countries of Europe are exhaust.
ing their coal supplies just as Great
Britain, yet the figures he gives show
that Germany has in reserve, within
depth of 5000 feet, 109, 100000 900 tons
of coal, as compared with our 81 .6S3,-
OOO. coo tons within depth of 1000 feet.
And this estimate does not include
brown coal, of which Germany raises
25,000,000 tons annually.
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25

in deep thought. What did his dream
mean? He raised his eyes, and as if
divinely directed, they fell on the brew
cry. What a pitiful sight he saw,
Schoolboys stood at the door watching
the manufacture OF the poison with in
terest; others carried pals of it to
their fathers.
Although the brewery had been there
but short time, its influence was felt
sadly. In the back room of the village
store stood a large hardwood barrel
on end, drained by faucet at the low
er end. The grocer sold more of the
contents of this barrel than he did of
his staple articles. He had less de-
mand for -four. potatoes, fruit or any
garden products. The mill had dis
charged three men for lack of work.
The old gray-haired cobbler was able
to carry his now small business alone,
and therefore dismissed his assistant.
The once thriving town was waning.
Factories weakened. Men who were
thrown out of employment spent their
remaining wages in trying to drown
IAClk SOiiO" III TIC DONl, dllCl
so we'll did one succeed by walking off
the bridge after drinking eight glasses
Of the cooling beverage, that except for
the timely aid of a few high school lads,
his sorrows on this earth would have
been at an end. Yet-all of these
changes were to the interest OF the
brewery; and how il thrived..
Siegfried noted this and determined
that yonder brick building was an
armor encasing a conceited boaster.
Boaster of the ruin and misery he had
brought; of the crimes he had commit
ted and Of polluted politics he had
made
This boaster must be humbled and
silenced." vowed Siegfried. 'and my
hand shall be the first to grasp the
Belmung of to-day to accomplish it.
But what is this Belmung. where is it
to be found and how used?" he soli-
loquized.
Quickly the answer came. This
sword il the vote Of the people, it is
to be fonnd at the voting polls and is
to be used for Prohibition!"
The McCook tribune., 1898-02-25
Too Much Roast Shoat.

The following paragraph appeared
the other day in the Harrisburg (MoJ
Enterprise: The editor of this paper
and his estimable wife boarded the pas
senger train Thursday morning for Ne
vada, where they will spend several
days visiting fritnds. The editor will
also spend few days at EldoradO
Springs, to restore his failing health.
as he has been suffering Of late with
dyspepsia, caused by overindulgence in
roast shoat. which was served at ban
uuet given in this town recently"