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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
Gold In Pyrites.

Experts in gold mining agree that
pretty much the bottom fact now known
about such metal is briefly that all orig
inal pyrites of small grain texture con-
tain gold to a greater or less extent,
this, of course not covering such Sec
ondary large crystal pyritous deposits
derived from veins 1t is not yet known.
however, whether the gold in these
pyrites is in chemical combination with
the sulphide of gold, or whether each
minute particle of gold is simply cover
ed with coating of sulphide of iron,
or finally whether such PARTICLES are in
the metallic state, but alleged with sill
yer or other metal which combines more
rapidly with sulphur than the gold
does, and consequently forms coat of
sulphide Of silver over the gold. The
PARTICLES of gold are so minute and the
com binations follow so rapidly during
the splitting up Of these pyrites that
the finest instruments and tests known
to chemistry have as yet been unable to
settle this part Of the question to the
satisfaction of all concerned, this fact
showing how easy it is TO put in a mill
that will not save the values.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
stupidity Reward IL.

This story is told of Sir Walter Scott
who was far from being a brilliant pu-
pill at school: After he became famous
he one day dropped into the old school
to pay a visit to the scene of his former
woes. The teacher was anxious TO make
good impression on the writer and
put th 10 pupils through their lessons so
as to show them to the best advantage
After awhile Scott said: " But which is
the Ounce? You have one surely Show
him TO me.
The teacher called up poor fellow
who looked the picture of woe as he
bashfully came toward the distin-
guished visitor.
"Are you the dunce?" asked Scott.
"Yes, SIR" said the boy.
"Well, my good fellow" said Scott,
there is crown for you for keeping
my place warm.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
Prime Political Reason.

1t was in the Newinton ward, where
the candidate on the Liberal side was
Mr.. Ritchie. we'll known confectioner
and restaurateur, whose pies and rock
were equally famous in Auld Reekie
After the poll the TO lowing converse.
ton was heard between two working
men who had just emerged from the
voting station: "Weel, Tam, did We
vote for Ritchie?'' mo, said the 9TH
er, 81 didna And what for nor"
asked his astonished friend YOU re a
Leeberal, are ma ye, and Ritchie's the
Leeberal candidate?" II ken that fine. ="
retorted his companion impertnrbably,
"but niver could bear Ritohie's piesl"
New Century
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
Detroit to Pittsburg
Without Changing Cars.

Sleeping car leaves Detroit $3.50 p. m.
over Michigan Central Railway, runs
via Toledo Union Station and Mans
field to Pittsburg over Pennsylvania
Lines. Passengers for Pittsburg 60
through without change: those for
Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York go forward on fast
trains over the Pennsylvania Route in
GLIDING the New Pennsylvania Limit
ed, direct connection being made IN
Pittsburg Union Station. For details
address r. NJ. BUSHoNG, II. +. Agent,
66 Griswold street, Detroit, Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
PoIIticaI wit.

The repartee of the political platform
is frequently surpassed by the repartee
Of the crowd Recently. at Conserva-
tive meeting. local politician ION the
stump" declared, in viDdication of his
devotion TO truth, that when boy he
had been thrashed by a mistaken father
for telling it.
the body OF the hall who brskly re-
piled, II guessit it's cured yer, gunner"
London Chronicle
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
GUARDIAN,s SALE.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County OF Ionia, So.
- In the matter OF the estate OF Rufus II.
Morse
Notice is hereby gwen, that in pursuance OF
an order granted To the undersigned, guardian
of the estate OF said Rufus II. Morse, by the
Honorable Judge OF Probate for the county OF
Tonia, on the 22nd day OF December A. ID. 1893
there will be sold at public vendue, To the high.
est bidder at the city OF Ionia, at the south
front door OF the court house in the county OF
Ionia, In said state, on the 10th day of February
A. ID. 1899 NJ 10 O'Clock in the forenoon OF that
day, the following described property, to.wit
The west one-half IA OF the north east one.
quarter "a OF Section number seven ca OF Town
eight 90 north OF Range eight Is, west contain
ing in all eighty acres be the same more or less.
JOSEPH ID. MORSE, Guardian
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. Every pill Is a sugar-coated
globule OF health, that changes weak
ness into strength, listlessness into en-
ergy, brain-fag into mental power.
They're wonderful in building up the
health Only 25 cts. per box. Sold by
Cornell Bros. and Fisk Bangs, drug
nfcto
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
An Honest Medicine for Ia or,nn.

George w. Watt OF South Gardiner,
Me-, says: II have had the worst
cough, cold, chills and grip and have
taken lots of trash of no account but
profit To the vendor. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is the only thing that
has done any good whatever. / have
used one 5O-cent bottle and the chills.
cold and grip have all left me. | con-
graduate the manufacturers OF an hon.
est medicine" For sale by Fisk Bangs,
druggist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
Same Fares
Via Washington.

Tickets TO Philadelphia and New
York via Washington are sold over
Pennsylvania Short Lines at same
fares as over direct line OF Pennsyl.
vania System. Tickets via Washing
ton are good for ten DAYS stop-over at
the National Capital. Fares, time OF
through trains and full information
free for the asking Address f. NJ.
BUsHoNG, T. p. Agt., 60 Griswold ST.,
Detroit, Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1899.
REpUsLIcAN COUNTY CONVENTION.

A Republican delegate convention OF the Re.
publican electors Is hereby called, 10 meet al
the Opera House. IN the city o. lonia, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1899,
beginning at l 80 o'clock p M. for the purpose
OF electlng IL delegates 10 the state convention,
TO nominate candidate for justice of supreme
court and two regents OF the university; also 10
elect seventeen 40 delegates 10 the eighth
judicial convention yet TO be called, To nominate
a candidate for circuit judge OF the eighth judlc
ial circuit OF Michigan, composed OF the coun-
ties OF Ionia and Montcalm; also for the pur
pose of nominating candidate Tor county com
missioner OF schools OF Ionia county, and for
the transaction OF such other business as may
properly come before the convention.
Each township Will be entitled 10 twelve U2)
dele yates. and each ward in the cities OF Ionia
and Bedding, To six 90 delegates.
Dated, Iona. Mich, January 81, 1922
GEO. Il NICHOLS, Chairman.
J. CLYDE WATE Secretary.
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CONDITION FOR A COMMISSION.
Applicant Must Have Served in the
Volunteer or Regular Army.

1t was stated at the War Department to-
day that almost every officer who served
in the volunteer army during the war with
Spain, and who had been honorably mus
tered out, has again offered his services TO
the government to meet the needs of the
Philippine campaign. Many or these men
have returned to remunerative places in
civil life and would suffer financially and
materially by turning again to the military
service. Naturally the officials feel graft
fed at this manifestation of patriotism,
while they also regard it as an evidence
that the men were satisfied with the treat
ment extended them by the government in
their first service
Altogether no less than ten thousand APP
plications for commissions I'm the new VOL
unteer army now forming have been re-
celVed at the War Department and have
been placed on the files. Yesterday alone
the applications numbered $50. The list
includes the name of almost every person
who applied unsuccessfully for commits
sion during the late war, and as already
stated, nearly all OF the volunteer officers
who were mustered out.
1t Is the intention of the President to
commission no one in the volunteer regi-
ments who has not served in the regular or
volunteer army. This has not been Official
ly announced. but Gen. Corbin told a num-
Der of persons today that such was the
policy of the President when applications
were made for the appointment of men for
second lieutenants and other higher grades
in the volunteer regiments.
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DIED.

BATES. On Friday July I, 1899. at 1913 am.
Mrs. sARku \. BATES. reliet Of the late
Joseph 5. Bates of Elmira, y. Y.
day, July ., 1880 pm. -
HEATING. On Thursday morning July G. 1892
at s:l5 o'clock, MARGARET L. A, beloved
ing. aged eighty years.
Funeral from her late residence ard that Of her
Granddaughter, William 4. Johnson, No. 633 u
street southwest, saturday July 5, .
am; thence to st. Dominic's Church. Inter
ment at Mount Oliyet. ?.
LINKINs. On Thursday, July a. 1922 NELLIE T..
youngest daughter OF the late Francis and Ma
haley Lihkins, in the twenty-hfth year OF Der
Funeral from her late residence, 4e9 Warner street
northwest, Saturday, July s. at pm.
JOHN VI. LONG, beloved husband of Agnes
Long nee Doran and beloved son Of Cathorinc
Funeral from his late residence 9I5 9th street
southwest. on Monday, July 10. High mass at
friends invited 10 attend.
O'Clock am, WILLIAM A, beloved husband OF
Lottie Mawrsy aged si1tyeight years
pm. RELATIVES and friends invited; Interment
private. tWIlkesbarre, Pa, and philadelphia,
Pa, papers please copyD
o'BRIEN On Thursday. July g. 1899. BERNA-
DETTE. the beloved wife cf William 4.
O'Brien. in the twenty second year Of her age.
2444 street northwest, at O'Clock pm, sun
day. July o. Interment at Newtown, Md.
UeonanitOwn papers please copy.D
oMEARA Suddenly. on Thursday evening. July
q. 1879. at 10:40 o'clock. MARGARET, beloved
wife Of the late John OMcara.
Funeral from her late residence. 2ig G street
northeast, Monday, July 10, at $40 am. RE-
QUEEN mass at st. Josepl's Church, corner ID
aud g streets noytheast, at O'Clock. Friends
and acluaintancas Invited. =
RICHARDSON. On Wednesday, July g. $500. at
IL IS O'Clock a. m. after lingering illness,
WILLIAM r., beloved husband Of Sarah ].
and beloved nd only son Of Marcus aud Char
lotte Richardson, aged forty-one years.
Gone, but not forgotten.
Funeral from her late residence 4o4 10th street
southeast. Saturday, July s. at O'Clock Il. m
Interment Congressional cemetery. e
SHERWOOD. ON Friday. July I. 1899. at 2:30
am. ALBERT T., eldest of Albert T. aud
Maggie Sherwood. aged seven years and six
months.
Funeral will take place from parents residence,
S07 oath street northwest. at pm. Saturday.
THOMPSON. At Tacoma. Oswego county, y. Y. on
"Wednesday. July 3. 1899, MARIETTA THOMP-
son. beloved mother Of Frank l.. Thompson
and Kitty Thompson Berry.
Funeral services at Rock Greek Church Saturday, at
O'Clock. Ioswcgo county, y. Y, papers please
copy.)
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THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Wedding Day Set for Miss Powell and Lieut..
Haeffner.
Echoes of Summer Journeys -
Personal Notes of
Interest.

The wedding day for Miss Louise Douglas
Powell and Lieut.. Wilhelm G. Haeffner Of
Wiesbadcn. Germany. has been set for
Wednesday, July l.. After a tour in this
country the couple will sail for Germany
Miss Julia Grant. who has been at Sara
toga with her grandmother, Mrs. Grant
and her mother, Mrs. Fred Grant, arrived
yesterday at Beaulieu, Newport, where she
will remain all summer with Mr. and Mrs
Potter Palmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Anderson are expect
ed at Newport tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Herman are at ATTAIN
tic City for the summer.
Mrs. IL. p. Berkeley and son Norris are
sojourning in Virginia, spending the month
of June in Front Royal.
Mrs Harvey Galpin and little daughter
Lillian returned yesterday after a pleas
Wheeler of North Eden street While
there the ElSinor Socials rendered bus
party in their honor to Walnut Grove. The
party consisted OF thirty young folks. chap
eroned by Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Lauer.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Barker of the Dresden
Washington. and Mrs. E. A. Foote of Phil
adelphla are sojourning in the Blue Ridge
mountains at the Buena Vista Spring Hotel
A pretty home wedding took place at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ashford on We'd
nesday, June %. at 8 o'clock, the contract
ing parties being Miss Edith Ashford and
Mr.. Andrew ]. Scott. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. c. c. Meador and was
witnessed by about thirty relatives and
friends of the couple. Later in the evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott went to their home on
e street. where they will be pleased to see
their friends.
Mrs. William Fl. Mathews and children
are spending the month of July at White
Sulphur Springs, Fauquier county, Va.
Miss E. Boessers cousins, Miss Laura
Boesser and Miss Bessie Tucker of New
Bern, are her guests.
There was pleasant surprise party given
10 Mr.. Charles Muller at his residence 402
X street Monday evening, the occasion be-
ing his eighteenth birthday anniversary.
Music and games were the features. In the
donkey game the first prizes were won by
Miss Mabel Flowers and Mr.. Charles Null
Ter, and the BOBBY prizes by Miss Annie
Hines and Mr.. Hilliard. Afterward the
guests returned to the dining room, which
was decorated with palms and cut flowers,
and partook of refreshments.
Mrs. Sidney 1. Besselievre and daughters
Nellie and Jessie are spending the summer
at Round Hill, Va
Misses Lottie and Belle Trouland, Miss
Leda Hammer and Master Elmer Kraft are
visiting their uncle, Mr.. Bergman in Prince
Georges county.
Mrs. George c. Samson and Miss Kate E.
Polkinhorn are at the Blue Mountain
House, Snickersvlle. Va
Miss Sadie Bernheim and NJ. ]. B. Perry
of Bramwell w. Va, who have been guests
of Miss Topham of Mt. Pleasant returned
this morning, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs
They will visit Mrs. ]. A. Oldfield of Welch.
w. Va
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by the veranda. The mainyards of one of
these webs, as the sailors would call them,
We're broken that the web was blown
hither and thither, like a slack sail in
storm.
THE spider made no fresh threads, but
tried to help itself in another way. 1t let
itself down to the ground by thread. and
crawled to PLACE where lay some splin-
tered pieces CT a wooden fence, thrown
down by the storm. 1t fastened a thread to
one of the bits of wood. turned back with
it and hung it with a strong thread to the
lower part of its nest about five feet from
the ground The performance was won
derful one, for the weight of the wood suf-
feed to keep the nest tolerably firm, while
it was yet light enough to yield to the
wind. and so prevent injury. The piece of
wood was. about two and one-half inches
long and as thick as a goose quill.
"On the following day careless servant
knocked her head against the wood and ii
fell down. But in the course of a few
hours the spider mended her web, broke
the supporting thread in two, and let the
wood fall to the ground
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storm The building was lifted from the
foundation and turned one-quarter of the
way around and set crosswise of the foun-
dation, and the plastering on the walls was
scarcely cracked. This storm struck a
farm house where a family of five had just
seated themselves to eat supper. The frame
of the house was jerked into the air, but
the floor was uninjured and the family sud-
denly found themselves eating supper in a
driving rain.
Among the other animals owned by Dr.
Bond of Elk Dale was a colt that promised
to be a world beater on the track. The
storm forever settled the fate of that colt.
1t picked the animal up and carried it two
miles, and then gently deposited it in the
crotch of an oak tree thirty feet from the
ground This story would sound better if
1t went on to relate that the colt was I'M
injured, but truth compels the statement
that the colt was as dead as Julius Caesar.
The strange part of this incident is that
there was neither mark, bruise nor broken
bone about the animal. DR.. Bond insists to
this day that the colt died of. fright. In a
barn few miles from Elk Dale three
horses and three cows were housed. the
horses on side of the partition the
cows on the other. horses and cows facing.
The barn demolished, but not scat
tered. and the middle horse and middle COW
killed. The rest of the animals were unin-
jured
The steeple of a church that happened
to be in the track of the storm was jerked
upward turned upside down and driven
through the roof OF the church, the point
OF the steeple resting on the spot where
the minister was wont to stand when read
ing the Sunday lesson. The pulpit CARPET
could be shifted under the point and the
steeple itself could be swung foot or more
in any direction.
Milt Laughlin's well on his farm was at
tackled by the cyclone Water was drawn
by means of an old-fashoned wooden
pump, and that pump, tubing and all, was
snatched out of that well and no trace was
ever found. The well. however. still re-
manned.
This storm was not noted because of its
destructiyeness of human life, no one being
killed. although number were severely in
5ured: But 1t was destructive of property
demolishing houses and barns, killing stock
and blowing the newly harvested wheat
crop INTO the sweet subsequently. You can
tell the people living in its track any kind
OF a cyclone story and they will believe
1t with all their hearts. They know what a
cyclone can do when 1t tries
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Pursued by Whirlxvinds.

FROM the Detroit tIee PrtSS.
1t is not often that farmer moves from
the wind-swept plains of the west, where
he was raised, to resume his occupation in
Michigan, but there is one such in Wayne
county. And he brought his traditions with
Kim. He put bells on his cows to keep the
coyotes away, and built cyclone cellar
while the women were setting the house.
"We'll have EN- he replied to the neigh
bors who laughed at him for this latter pre-
caution. Cyclones have chased me all my
life, and they won't let up just cause 1
changed my base
And the character of the storms this sea-
son have converted most of those to whom
he talked.
But for cyclones" he tells, 81 would be
rich. Two years ago / had as fine piece
of wheat as ever laid outdoors, except in
one corner. where it was wet and the grain
was winter-killed. That corner / plowed
for oats. Along came a cyclone. dipped in
to the last furrow had plowed. went right
ahead. eight inches under the surface, and
left that forty-acre lot as bare as a bone.
But 1t wasn't all hard luck. Lots o.
things blowed in that we could use, hut in
the long run cyclones has give me good
deal the worst Of i"
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TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.
A Curious Insect That Possesses
Large Amount of Intelligence.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A curious species of insect is the trap
door spider. whose nest consists of a tube
excavated in the earth to the depth of six
or eight inches. 1t is always lined. with
silk and 1t is closed with an ingeniously
constructed door One sort of door closes
into the nest like a cork in a bottle; an
other is as thin as a piece of paper.
In all cases the door opens outward, and
when the nest is placed, as it usually is,
on a sloping bank. it opens upward, so that
there is no fear of its gaping. The object
of the trap-door is to conceal the nest, and
consequently it is always made to resemble
the general surface OF the ground. Some
times however an enemy attempts to open
the door; and then the inmate braces Its
legs against the sides of the nest and holds
1t as fast as possible
Still other spiders have inner doors be-
sides outer, 50 that If their first defense be
carried they may have another behind
which to retreat. More curious still is the
ingenuity of the branch trap-door; that Is
to say a door that opens from the main
tunnel of the nest into u side branch, which
the spider knows, of course, but which no
stranger could discover. since there is moth
ing to distinguish 1t from any other part of
the main nest So. then, if an enemy
should effect an entrance. the lawful &C.
cupant of the nest can quietly slip into the
side branch. close the door and there re-
main in security. while the intruder won
ders what has become of her.
If all these wonderful things are done by
instinct, have We any proof whatever of
individual intelligence among spiders? Most
assuredly. IL We remember that intelii-
gence is proved whenever we observe
manifest application OF means appropriate
to the accomplishment of particular ends,
1t is hardly possible to deny that there is
some evidence OF the intelligence of spiders
Many instances have occurred more or less
like the following:
lone of my friends was accustomed to
grant shelter to a number of garden spi-
ders under vacant veranda. and to watch
their habits. One day i sharp storm broke
out. and the kind ragged so furiously
through the garden that the spiders suf-
fcrsd damage from il although sheltered
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a CYCLONES FRANKS.
1t Did Not XIII Any One, but 1t Had
Plenty of Fun.


From the Omaha World Herald.
People who have never travelled over the
track made by a cyclone always look in
credulous when told "cyclone stories" But
those who have had experience with the
dread twisters or been privileged to note
some CT the queer freaks perpetrated by
the storms are prepared to believe any
thing. A cyclone can Eerform most Won
derful freaks. Their power is not alone
demonstrated by their destructiveness, for
often it seems that the storm is possessed
of a humorous bent
In the Grinneli, Iowa, cyclone about
eighteen years ago the Storm perpetrated
some queer jokes. One victim of the storm
was a gentleman Whose residence was
blown into space He was the possessor of
a new frock coat. which he had hung upon
the wall of the sitting Vroom few mo-
ments before the storm struck. In the
pocket of the coat Was a big silk handker-
chief. After the storm the coat was found
two miles from the SPOT where the house
had stood, but the handkerchief was gone
and in its place wasea brickbat.
About fifteen years ago a cyclone passed
over a portion of Andrew county. Mo. 1t
struck near Elk Dale, a country post office,
and played some queer pranks. 1t struck
an orchard and proceeded to show what
1t could do. There were sixteen rows of
trees in the orchard. Every other row was
untouched, and In the rows struck every
other tres was twisted off at the roots, but
every other tree in the stricken rows was
left uninjured Seated under walnut tree
near the Elk Dale post office was a woman
engaged in churninS with an old-fashioned
dasher churn. The cyclone snatched the
dasher from the churn, and drove it
through the woman's thigh. but the churn
was not overturned and not drop of the
milk was spilled
A stretch of pine fence about fifteen rods
long was blown to places by this storm.
Broken bits of board were scattered all
over the surrounding territory. Wheat had
just been harvested and that storm drove
the ripened wheat siraws through those
pine fence boards like SO many nails, splin-
tering the boards and remaining stuck
therin. A. country schurch several miles
northeast of Elk Dale was struck by the
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Spain TO Reduce Sugar Duties.

AS a result of the loss of her colonies,
Spains sugar factories. with a yearly pro-
duction of 60.0Oo tons, have been unable 20
satisfy the home demand, amounting to
about 10000 tons per annum. According to
Consular Agent Mertens, at Valencia, the
government has been petitioned to reduce
the high prohibitive duty of 102k per cent
to 80 per cent, and in spite of the opposition
of the refineries the reduction will probably
be made as a r. venue-producing measure.
Mr.. Merens urges our dealers in refined
sugars to be ready with samples to Sc
cure contracts before the competition of
other countries becomes too keen.