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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Thousands of men are making good
wages in the harvest fields Of Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota. There
is room for thousands more. Hair
rates via the Great Northern Ry. from
st. Paul. Write Max Bass, 220 South
Clark Street, Chicago.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Ask Your Dealer FOR Aliens Foot-Ease.
A powder to shake in your shoes. 1t
rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions,
Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching,
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails.
At all druggists and shoe stores, % cts.
Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen
S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Rain falls in the Andes about once
in seven years.
Buffalo has the model livery stable
of the world.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

The man who is anxious TO buy
usually gets the worst of the bargain.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

II the wages of sin is death, some
people are slow in collecting what is
due them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

The man who never tries to do any
thing and the man who tries to do
everything are both foolish.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he
pleases.
No one can neglect the poor and be true to
Christ
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Two bottles OF Piso's Cure for Consumption
cured me OF bad lung trouble.-Mrs. j.
Nichols, Princeton, Ind, March 26 1895
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

The deadly cucumber joke is now getting it's
work in.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

A man spends enough time wonder
ing why his neighbors dislike him to
make himself agreeable to them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

History continues to repeat itself in
spite of the fact that two-thirds Of his
tory isn't worth repeating.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

1--WE have never had n bottle returned" proudly
serts the proprietor OF Browns Teething Cordial.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Red pmples. botchos boils sores are danger signals
of torpid liver, poisoned blood Cascarets Candy Ca
thartic will save you. All druggists, l0c, &c 5Oc
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Whenever the Bible is read prayerfully it is
read carefully.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Gods place for Christian is where he is
needed most.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-17

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing syrup
For children eething softens the gums reduces infsm
nation, alays pain, wind collie. 20 centsa bottle
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

with bearing down pains. These are but
symptoms of womsnly disorders. Let
the cause be removed and the pains will
pass, and sleep will bring only dreams of
happiness and love.
The most effective remedy for diseases
of women is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. 1t dries up the debilitating
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera-
tion and entirely cures female weakness.
There is no alcohol, whisky or other
intoxicant contained in Favorite Pre-
scription," neither does it contain
opium, cocaine, nor any other narcotic.
1t is strictly temperance medicine.
Accept no substitute.
Sick women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, free of all charge.
Each letter is treated as a sacred con-
fdence. Every answer is sent in plain
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27
THE FIRST FIRE OF THE SEASON..

How it leaps, in dance excited;
How it sleeps, in trance delighted;
How it looms in liquid shining,
How it glooms in wan declining,
While around the hearth we gather,
One and all,
In the bleak and windy weather
OF the falll
Friendly fame, remote Chaldean
Seers of name effaced, Sabean
Shepherds in the elder ages,
Persian 5ards in mystic pages,
Thee sdored. for so divinely
Streamed thy light,
Half we follow and enshrine thee,
Spirit bright.
Dear the friends each heart remembers
AS in cheer we stir the embers,
Bid the ash renew its beauty,
Sparkle, fash and glow till duty,
Through the comfort of the hour,
Wooes our soul.
And we deem it's sterner dover
Life's best goal.
So we dream not visionary.
When we deem the missionary
Household fire, once more relighted,
Blazing higher, the whole united,
Round the hearth Of home we gather,
One and all.
In the bleak and windy weather
OF the fall
Kitchen Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

General H. II. Lockwood, who was
in command of the troops of the East
ern Shore of Maryland and Delaware
during the Civil War, died week before
last at his home in Washington, aged
"a years. He was buried beside his
son, in the Naval Academy Cemetery,
at Annapolis.
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

twenty years and have been almost in bed hve
years, and now I am able to work all day. I
have taken eight bottles of Favorite Prescrip-
ton aud four of Golden Medical Discovery
and one vial Of Pellets praise your medi-
cine to all had the headache but II Is gone.
My throat Is well and cough gone and all my
old troubles are better. tried many other kinds
of medicine and four doctors"
Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets help
Nature to help you.
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

envelope without
any printing upon
it. Write without
fear and without
fee.
81 want to praise
your m e dicine," d /"
writes Mrs. Sarah J.
Burney, Of Crescent,
Putnam Co.. Fla. II
have been sick for
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

~ ~
upon forms of dis
ease peculiar to
W o m c n. i b c
head aches often,
or I ere are
I" spells - of dizzi-
ness or faintness,
there is pain in
the back or side,
Smyrna times., 1899-12-27

Some women don't know what it is to
sleep well. In dreams they are haunted
by the pains they bore through the day.
There is no rest and no refreshment for
them even in sleep. This condition is
only one feature Of many consequent
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-01-19
OPPOSE CONTRACT SCHOOLS.
Petition Laid Before Congress Ask
ing an Adherence TO NOnsec-
tartan Appropriation Policy.

A petition has been laid before con-
gress from Rev. James II Ross in be-
half of the Home Missionary societies
of the Evangelical Protestants Of the
United States. opposing the reopeHing
of the Indian contract school question
as urged by Cardinal Gibbons and the
archbishops of the Catholic church.
The petition asks congress to adhere to
its announced nonsectarian appropria-
ton policy and concludes: eve not
only protest against reopening the
question of sectarian appropriations,
now closed by congressional action but
we petition that the general govern
ment now adopt a definite, permanent
and uniform principle in accord with
the spirit of the United States coustitu-
ton. for advancing education among
the Indians on the basis Of he Ameri-
can free common school system. in or
der that there shall be no departure
from he American principle Of keeping
separate and distinct the functions Of
church and state"
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A POINT OF HONOR.
How Duel Between Celebrated Men
of Nearly Century Ago
Was Prevented.

Last June Mr.. Augustine Jacquelin
Smith, of New York. son of the late
Mr.. Augustine c. Smith, of Winchester.
Va, was at the University of Virginia
as the representative of Mr.. c. b. Rouss
at the dedication of the Rouss physical
| laboratory. which the blind million
aire founded. While here Mr.. Smith
met lady, descended from William
c. Rives and bearing his name. and re-
lated how his father and the states
man had once appeared on the field
of honor as mortal antagonists Re
Gently Mr.. Smith has written an ac-
count of this affair, from which the
following is taken:
my father when at William and
Mary college in 1908, had as classmates
John Tyler, afterwards president of
the United States; William c. Rives
afterwards United States senator and
minister to France, and Abel p. Up
shur. afterwards secretary of state I'M
der Mr.. Tyler. They were like broth
ers. But one day in heated discus
sion between them. the purport of
which | never learned, words of not
very amiable nature were exchanged
between young Rives and my father
| and they went out upon the field des-
| ignated by the code where wounded
honor was to be indicated. North
Carolina was selected as the place
where the battle would take place, and
| to that state the combatants quickly re-
paired. A venera ble-looking gray
haired old gentleman in the neighbor-
hood of the spot chosen for the con
test had been told of the suspicious
assemblage, and he fastened to the
scene. He reached the ground just as
| the principals had taken their positions
| for hostile action. He pleaded for
hearing. He told of his own expert
ence of n similar nature-of his hav-
ing killed a dear friend on the field
of honor for a trihing matter that
might have been so easily settled but
/ for false pride, He told of his unhap-
/ pineNs since. and of the neyer-ceasing
remembrance of the sad event and of
1 the scene upon the field when the NOR
/ tai wound had sent into eternity
/ young man in vigorous health and of
splendid ability. He spoke. also, of the
misery that came to more than one
household because a dear one had been
slain. As he told all this the tears
rolled down the burrows of his kind
| hearted but sad face. The effect may
| be imagined Each face was moistened
with the tears that could not be re-
pressed. His story was the counter
part of the case which had brought the
I two young men before him who were
| then facing each other in hostile atti-
tude They all recognized this fact,
| and halt was called. A reconciliation
took place, and both principals lived
many wears afterwards 10 serve their
country with distinction-Mr Rjyes 10
| become one of the most distinguished
men of the time in the civil department
of the republic. and my father TO serve
/ his country and state il both the milf
tary and civil service, as colonel for
years in the regular army, and after
his resignation in order 10 return to
the bar. which he preferred, to serve
with distinction in the senate Of bis
/ native state. Richmond Dispatch
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Deafness cannot BE Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies Deafness Is
caused by an mhamed condition OF the mu.
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube When
this tube gets infamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing viii be destroyed forever:
nine cases of Of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an nhamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catauh Cure
Send for circulars free
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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TAKING ASTOR DOWN.
The EX-Amcricnn Citizen Gets Dad
~ Snubbed in His Intercourse
with the English.

William Waldorf Aston, the expatriated
American millionaire, who now resides in
London, is the subject OF a lengthy biograph
ical sketch in Iit-Bits, publication issued
in the British capital Incidental TO the
sketch it is related how the duchess Of
Cleveland gently set him down on one occa-
sion. When his grand estate offices on the
Thames embdnkment were finished be gave
magnificent banquet to number of swells
Showing one OF the staircases in the building
to the duchess, Mr.. Astor is alleged to have
asked
Isn't that handsome, your grace?"
Yes 1t certainly IS, - replied the duchess
Isn't ii more so than any other staircase
YOU ever saw" Mr. Astor is reported 10
have persisted
At this the duchess back very naturally
got up.
Yes she said, gently, Il admire it very
much. 1t is much inerethan our old stair.
case at Battle abbey which has been spoiled
these 200 or 300 Years by the spurs of those
stupid old knights"
Battle abbey is probably the grandest old
place in England and compared with Give.
den, Mr. Astor's country house, is like A
battleship to a torpedo boat
Another story with a similar point is re-
lated in the same sketch Mr. Astor. it is
averred was lost in admiration of the duke
OF Westminster's lawn at CHveden when he
first saw 1t and it Is said. asked the gar
dener:
How do YOU grow turf like that"
well sir, says the gardener, rubbing his
chin and looking very innocent. you Jest
sows yer seed and then as it rolled every
day for ooyears or so, sir. Chicago Chron-
iclp
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TWO GRATEFUL WOMEN
Restored to Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"Can Do My own Work"
"Cnn Do My own Work."

Mrs. PATRICK DANEHY,
West Winsted, Conn, writes:
DEAR Mrs PINKHAM:-It is with
pleasure that l write to you of the
benefit / have derived from using your
wonderful Vegetable Compound. 1 was
very i'll, suffered with female weak
ness and displacement of the womb.
Icouldnotsleepat night, had to walk
the floor, l suffered so with pain in my
side and small of my back. Was trou-
bled with bloating, and at times would
faint away; had terrible pain in my
heart, bad taste in my mouth all the
time and would vomit; butnow, thanks
to Mrs. Pinkham and her Vegetable
Compound, l feel well and sleep we'll,
can do my work without feeling tired;
do not bloat or have any trouble
whatever.
II sincerely thank you for the good
advice you gave me and for what your
medicine has done for me
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Conclusion.
FROM NEW JERSEY.
stories of Underground Timber Tha
Is More Than Four Thou
sand Years Old.

John Muir tells us in his book Oh the
mountains of California that the Sc
quota or big tree of that country might
uader most favorable conditions live to
! be 5000 years old, but that most of even
the biggest Of these trees now standing
ale less than half that age. This is all
| very wonderful, but it is not circum-
| stance to the tale of lumber that is be-
| ING mined in a New Jersey swamp,
| which has laid buried for more then
| COO years, perhaps three times that
| ueriod. These buried trees are cedars
which were thrown down and the land
o.. which they grew submerged, so geol-
| ogists say, not less than 1900 years ago
| by volcanic action.
Some of these trees are SIX feet
through, and they are as sound when
taken out of the mud as though just
| felled The method of locating and
raising the logs is interesting because
of its ingenuity. \ man goes out with
| & pointed iron bar about six feet long
and with this he prods down into the
muck When he strikes log he begins
| TO stab around him to locate the direc-
| ticn in which it lies, and, having ascer-
tanned this, he proceeds to feel out its
| tire length in like manner, y trench
| is then dug little wider than the log,
and the root and top end cut off with
saw.
| Now, Yankee is a hard worker. bat
he is very apt to make his head save
| his heels, as the saying is, and TO get the
mcst out of nature in the way of Fits
first and last 1t would require quite
good deal of tackle to raise one of
these logs out Of an eight or ten-foot
| trench, but the man who carries on
this business does it on a small, single
handed basis, and has not put much
capital into hi outfit. His plan is TO dig
the log free of the muck and then leave
the work over night. In the morning he
returns and finds the trench full of wa
ter and the log floating up where he
can readily hitch on 10 it and haul it
out.
The timber when first cut up is as wet
as a sponge, but it dries out readily
ard makes beautiful lumber. Scientific
men believe that this lumber would
stand the weather. even unprotected 10y
paint better than any which could be
felled in the forests to-day. The city
of Philadelphia has been led to make
the experiment of putting several thou
sand hand-shaved shingles made from
this wood on th- roof Of old Independ
ence hall, recently restored These
shingles cost S12 a thousand, while the
average cedar shingles cost between
three and four dollars. 1t is believed
that these shingles will stand for full
century. \ gentleman living near this
city recently secured some pieces Of
ills cedar lumber, and he has been
making violin tops from it with great
success, the instruments thus equipped
having much mellovness Of tone.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat
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a Young Philosopher.

Now, Gladys" said a mother, "if you
wake up early Sunday be a good girl and liz
still. Perhaps you'll 60 10 sleep again" But
early Sunday morning the child was out Of
bed as usual and came pattering into hel
reproachfully, you're a naughty girl. Now
60 right back to bed again. Here, III tucl
you in. So the mother arose and escorted
the wakeful child back to her bed Gladly
crawed under the covers, and her mother
made her as comfortable as possible. 'Now.
said the child, give me something to read
please" Her mother turned to the book
shelves What do you want?" she said
Give me 'Aesop's Fables. said Gladys. Sh,
took the book with a happy smile and hello
it tightly in her arms Now" she said
with long drawn sigh, ~ read till you cal
me. And | know what I'll read-I'll reaC
The. Contented ASS And the little phil
osopher opened the magic book.-ClevelanC
Plain Dealer
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The SNOWSTORM.

From out the north last night a spirit
came
Waving wizard wand. This morn
ing, 10,
IN unreasonable vastitude of snow
Setting the earth as in a flawless framei
From hill to hill the landscape seems the
same;
The wandering rillet half forgets TO flow
Like pilgrims, standing in a solemn row.
The druid trees the sorcerer's power pro-
claim.
How silently this white magician tolls.
His feet as noiseless as the feet of Time
Whose SHOWS. relentless and remorse-
less, cling:
we may escape this necromancer's coils
When spring unlocks the letters of his
rime.
VIII Time thus yield to an immortal
Spring?
BY Clinton Scollard. in Chautauquan.
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She WIS TakIng No Cnnnces

The fast-fyng elevator in huge down
town Office building lowered for an instant
at the third floor, like an impatient and
monstrous bird then. with clang of the
iron gates few upward and out of sight.
The citizen from Sdssalras Cross Roads
turned tiercely to his wife
What made you hold me back mother?"
why. Eben Oily, who are you talking
to? Don't YOU stand there and jaw mel"
We'll you make me feel so foolish"
Foolish, eli? Foolish That's all the
thanks a woman gifts for bein' careful You
come down here to GIT your lie insured
didn't yez'
Course | did
'Yc amt done it yet, hev ye?"
Coin to. do it jest as soon as | kin git to
that 'leventh floor"
Yes! Wen, when we've done it We can
ride on all the elevators in creation if We
want to, but not till then"
And the prudent wife began the long
and weary assent of the marble stairs. fol-
lowed by her humble spouse.-N. y Her.
aid.
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Very Low Rates Via the Missouri
Kansas 4 TEXAS RAILWAY.

Semi-m0nthIy Excursions TO The south
west. The greatest opportunity to visit
Texas, the Empire state of the Union, un
paraleled as to resources and products anc
with an area exceeding all the Eastern and
Middle States. The statistical reports OF
products, as compiled by the commissioner.
of Texas, Indicate this section as having the
greatest possible advantages in its mild and
equable climate and in the variety and pro
ductiveness of its soil. For further infor
nation, descriptive pamphlets and dates Of
excursions, apply to I. b. Cookery, Dist 7.
A., Dies Moines. La.
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Feminine view of 1t.

Mrs Diggs-T was too i'll to attend
the Woodbe-Uperton wedding. We're
you there?
Mrs. Biggs-Yes, indeed.
"And what did YOU think Of the
presents? The papers praised them
very highly"
They were just too lovely for any
thing / do wonder of what firm they
rented them. Chicago Evening News.
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Germany ana Asia Minor

1t is inevitable that Asia Minor shall even
tually pass from the possession Of NOLAN.
mechanism, and whether Germany accom-
plishes the task or not, the Sultan must yield
to Christian nation. 1t is just as inevitable
that diseases of the digestive organs must
yield to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters The
disorders Of this kind are usually called dys-
pepsia, constipation and bilIousness. The
Btters are equally good for all such com
plants, regardless of the name.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-01-19

Tommy-Papa, what is that Diplomacy
the papers talk so much about?
Papa-Dplomacy is the art which en-
ables one man to inform another that he is
a scoundrel without giving him a chance to
get mad about it.-Chicago Evening News.
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Arab tokens OF Friendship.

The Arabs show their frienciiness
when meeting by shaking hands six
or eight times Arabs Of distinction go
beyond ihis-they embrace each other
several times.
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Cannot Praise 1t Enough"
Miss GERTIE DUSKIN

Miss GERTIE DUSKIN,
Franklin. Neb, writes:
"a suffered for some time with pain
Ful and irregular menstruation, falling
of the womb and pain in the back.
lried physicians, but found no relief.
Twas at last persuaded to try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and cannot praise it enough for what
it has done for me- feel like a new
person, and would not part with your
medicine. l have recommended it to
several of my friends"
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1t All Depended.

The General have stood unmoved
when shells were bursting round me. Could
YOU?
The Actor-Well, that would depend a
great deal on the age of the eggs.-Stray
Stories
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No Use at All.

"Mistetoe is awfully scarce this year"
she said I'm afraid ma won't be able to
get any"
And the sounds which forthwith ensued
indicated that it was absolutely useless
Philadelphia North American.
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Mean? He's the meanest man l ever
knew she asserted.
I'm what way?"
"Why his wife says that the very. day
after their baby was born he shaved of his
nice. long beard and hasn't worn one since.
-ChIcago Post.
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If the engagement lasts long enough, the
girl grows careless and makes her appear.
ance before her steady in her kitchen
clothes, and with her hair uncombed. Then
Love. in the mans heart, folds its tired
hands on its breast and breathes It's last
Atrhison GIOha
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Looks Like Rain.

1T looks like rain today" said the
affabc milkman, as he dumped the reg
ular quart into the pitcher.
ut always does, said the woman. and
the milk man drove off wondering why
some people take such gloomy views Of
everything keystone.
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Bil-What do you reckon that doctor
Jumps me all over de chest fer?
Jake-Tryin' to see how much dough you
had in your inside pocket, Of course-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
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IF you lend your money you may lose your
price. Topics
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/ believe Pisos Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-Mrs. Allie