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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27
Michigan Central Stock Yards, Detroit.

Cattle we're easy at the Detroit Live
Stock Market, Thursday, Oct. 10Th, quality
com; prime steers and heifers, N.25 @ t475 |;
handy butchers, &.00 @ 4.50; common, 600 @
325: Gamers cows. $3.50 @200; stockers and
feeders, dull, at 80 90 90 400.
Mich cows, active at $500 90 5000; calves
easy at $500 90 6.25.
Sheep and lambs, easy; quality COM
prime lamps 400 a. $50, mixed 800 90 400;
cuhs, 81 90 "a 800.
Hogs, lower; quality, fair; prime mediums,
a 25 40 40; Workers.. S4.2 90 4.3e; pigs 100 90
IA. 10; roughs, 8l.75 90 800; stays one-third of (;
cripples 90 per cwt. of.
Receipts-Cattle, 300; calves 200; sheep $500;
hogs, 5000
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27
Lace Curtains
Small Lots at Closing Out Prices


pr White Lace Curtains, 81 inches
wide, 80 yards long, reduced from
$l.25 to SSc
21k pr White Lace Curtains, 80 inches
wide SO yards long, reduced from
$l.29 to CSC
81 pr White Lace Curtains, 54inches
wide, 81 yards long, reduced from
$3.50 to $1.19
9 Or White Lace Curtains, SO inches
wide, 81 yards long, reduced from
$3.50 to $3.50
6 Or White Lace Curtains, as inches
wide, 81 yards long, reduced from
$500 to 81 .98
IL pr White Lace Curtains, "a inches
wide, 3A yards long, reduced from
$500 to 81 .98
pr White Lace Curtains, "a inches
wide, 81 yards long, reduced from
$500 to S2.45
Lace Stripe White Muslin Curtains
with 4 TO g inch Ruff1es
All $l.l9 Muslin Curtains now...... 79c
AllE CSC g ...... 69c
All 1.25 ...... Sc
All 1.48 ...... CSC
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27

For sale. several yearling thoroughbred
Shropshire rams. also several ram lambs.
p. A. GREEN, Bancroft.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27

For sale cheap, for cash, lady's bicycle,
or will trade Tor wood, for q cutter or any
thing can use. j. A. ARMSTRONG,
4w 612 Grand Ave-, Owosso
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27
Attention Farmersl

Attention Farmers!
We will pay the highest market price for
cider apples, dryer and barrel stock.
Hall Bros.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-05-24
A Wicked Isarrot.

A parrot that had grown old and gray
and wicked was the property of mnn
who was delighted by the bird y uncanny
speeches and yet was often annoyed by
their rudeness. Ono day the rector OF tho
parish came to call on the owner, and the
bird happened to DO In tho room. The
pastor was short, fat man, with u
smooth face, clerical coat and white
tic.
For II time tho bird was quiet, but sud
denly, after some personal experience, ro-
lated by the clergyman, tho wretched crca-
ture squawked out, "Oh, what II liel"
OF course Polly was punished and
severely, too, and for time seemed to
mend her wicked ways
Ono day friend of tho family from out
of town came to make visit As soon
rs no caught sight OF Polly no ut once tried
to mako friends with hor. He was u
short, fat man, with smooth face, and
Polly looked MT him with her head cooked
on one side In II decidedly wicked fashion,
But she didn' Z say word
Finally no turned away. and then that
naughty parrot shrioked after him;
"You can't catch me, you old fool
Where's your white nccktioS Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-05-24
The Rise of pcnanu.

Tho town of Malacca was in 1907 PR
TALLY demolished in order that Prince of
Wales island, or Penang, then newly
founded, might increase in Importance.
When the East India company arrived ut
that decision, 1t was arranged that Malao.
ca should be abandoned and that the staff,
stores and population should DO removed
to Penang Orders woro sent out in 1905
to demolish tho fort, and tho intention of
the Penang authorities was Ito gradually
transfer TO Prince of Wales island tho
trade and capital of Maacca together with
the most valuable part of the population. !"
For time, however. Penang did not re-
nlize the expectations formed OF it and
was accordingly reduced for Malacca APP
poared to be doomed To excel Penang, but
at the present moment Malacea can well
he said to be In ruins--'tho fallen city of
the cast, rs II werc while Penang is one
OF tho most important trade emporiums
of tho east
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-05-24
THE "HONEST" GAMBLER.
How New York supplies Him with
Crooked Tools of Trnde.

"Cards and dice fixed to order, +" is the
way sign in the window of shop in "A
New York side street reads. The man who
In this open hearted why caters to men
who prefer dishonesty to fair dealing Is as
free with his tongue as his sign is candid
and with the casual visitor or would be
customer will chat checrfully about the
tricks that arc vain.
eyes, " he says, II can give you any
thing you want In the line indicated by
the sign in my window What l haven't
got in stock / Gun secure from an estab-
lishment in Union square. l keep on
hand, however, all kinds of marked cards
and loaded dice. have cards that arc so
oasiiy read by their backs that a child can
tell what the other fellow holds. And,
again, | have 'em fixed so olcverly and
intricately that 1t will take a weeks close
study for "A man to be able to read them
by their backs. / have ordinary, everyday
playing cards doetored UP to tho queen s
TASTE and I have special packs that are
printed with the markings in them. And
tho low price Mt which | sell them places
them easily within the reach of all.
AS for dice, have sets that will throw
any number desired | can sell a man
double set, which lie can manipulate to
suit himself. One set comes low. The
other comes high. The purchaser can al
low his antagonists to use the low SGT,
while he Uses the other. or course, he has
to DO very handy at palming or substitute
ing to mako the scheme work. IL NIL rests
with the man who buys l guarantee my
dice
"Then, again, have dice that are abso-
lutely square and fair They are trans
parent, and any ono can tell at q glance
that they are not loaded l may say, how
ever, that there Is not much of u demand
for this kind. Men who deal in my goods
are usually looking for n shade tho best of
the bargain, and tho loaded article Is what
they ask for. The transparent dice are
made of cellulod and are absolutely tho
only dice that can DO depended on nova
days
Crooked faro layouts or roulette wheels
do not keep in stock, but l can get thom
on short notice from man who keeps n
place in Union square. He is an expert
and is doing n rushing business both here
and in other cities. He fills orders from
Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and the
southern cities and also sells to shrewd
men in Europe. His goods arc also guar
anteod and are not at all difficult to ma
nipulate when the secret Is known.
Illegal Well, yos, | suppose so when
you come down To cases. but | never have
been molested. OF course | do not use my
own goods | merely sell them and do
not ask To what uso they are TO DO put.
Somebody will mark cards and load dice
~ long as gambling exists. | am merely
catering to IA want, New York Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-05-24

Mr., n, n descendant of distinguished
member of President Lincoln : cabinet, is
butterfly of fashion, of whom sunshine
and gaycty are characteristics rather than
rain and gloom. Ono would never think
of connecting him with anything tragic
and solemn. Not long ago Mr.. y. rode
down town In u street ear with tho fash.
ionahlo undertaken. Whom his fare was
asked for, he offered the conductor $40
bill, the only money to DO found in his
pocket, which was promptly refused.
:" Allow me, said the undertaken, pay
ing the fare.
II have enjoyed my ride with you inn
mensely, said Mr. X. when he arose to
go Many thanks for it, "
You are very welcome" replied the
undertaken, and then grimly, lit is not
the last ride You will take with mo. -
New York Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-05-24

FloIdiun ONT Hone.

Yes, the slender girl, with the pale, So
rious face, was confident she could act.
Can You sing and play the mouth or
gan at the same time I" asked the manager
of the thoater not unkmdly.
NO, sir, " taltercd thu girl,
"Thon," said the manager. "go and
learn TO do those and come back here and
] may be able to give you a job washing
windows
For he could not find it in his heart to
discourage the aspirations of one SO ear
nest. -. Detroit Journal
The morning news., 1899-11-19

tndI tney were freezing 10 Qeatn, was 10
make her believe that she had gone crazy.
and the coldness of their summer shirts,
she was sure of It.
For the land sakesI Are you bewitch-
ed3 Where have you been and what has
happened?"
Billy explained that the bottle of liquid
air had been broken, and then she was
as much in the dark as before, for she
had never even. heard of such a thing as
liquid air. But she knew what to do In
cases of frost bite and she soon had the
boys hands in basins of cold water and
had heated milk for them to drink.
Then she went to the door to see what
had happened. The pump was thick with
ice and long icicles hung from it's lips.
The hired man stepped up to ii at that
minute and the next moment he was
coasting on his trousers down the lane.
and when he picked himself up he began
to rub his ears and put for the house as
fast as he could.
In violent contrast to this. she could
see people on the piazza of the boarding
house, flaming themselves vigorously
While In the hen yard of the Leonards,
the hens were walking about with open
beaks, sure sign of unusual heat.
While she stood gazing there came a
sound of an amazed voice from the COW
lane, and then Billy's father, his black
beard coated with frost ran out in the
hall. followed by Snip, the collie, covered
from head TO foot with ice.
This beats all" said MIR. Mason. slap
ping his hands. "A blizzard in August.
Where's my Pontiac mttens?"
1t was fun hour before the uouid air
ceased TO act and by that time the fields
In the vicinity of the place where the bot
tie had broken, were covered with a foot
of hail.
1t didn't take the boys long to recover
from their chill and then they put on
warm clothes and went out and had an
ice ball fight And they yelled to some of
the city chiidfen to come out ana play
with them, but they shook their heads and
SAID mamma wouldn't let them. And they
probably would have frozen to death.
OF course all the boarders were interest
ed and several got their toes and ears
frosted and before The ice was melted. peo-
pie began to come from all over the couu-
ty, for the news had been te}ephoned
everywhere and toward night a reporter
came out from the city and Tarkus was
pointed out 10 him as the one who had
caused the disturbance. Trees coated with
ice in August are an unwonted sight and
many snap shot was taken of il all.
Tarkus found that the reporter was a
chummy sort of fellow and they became
friends at once. Il m sorry didn't have a
gallon Of the stuff, for 1 could have frosted
the whole state JUST as easy and given
you lots of pleasant work writing it up. It. $
peachy sight, isn't it?' said the 10y.
Yes said the reporter, but the joke
of it is that it was imitation liquid air.
We'll, / had just as much fun as If It
was real There wasn't any imitation about
the cold, anyhow
And there wasn't any imitation about the
sum that Mr.. Greenwich had to nav for
several barrels of frozen apples and corn
and beans, and he now feels that there
are some things that he ought to refuse
the boy hereafter. And liquid air, imita-
ton or otherwise, heads the list that he
has made out.
The morning news., 1899-11-19

ured by months. possibly by years. our
stage will have advanced so far (as to its
plays. if not its players) that it will legiti-
mately be able to look down on the sister
stage of England.
The art of a country, and the progress
of its art, is not TO be gagged only by
the reverence or irreverence with which
1t treats past masterworks.
Judged by that test indeed, we might
be found wanting, seeing that despite the
phenomenal and still inexplieable success
of Romeo and Juliet revival last sea-
son, Shakespeare is not popular here.
But, happily, progress may be shown,
even as retrogression is shown, by the at
titude of the public towards living drama
lists.
Whatever Mr.. Scott may tell us to the
contrary, in matters of art 1.-THE major
tty is always wrong at first. Later, when
the few have discovered and waged war
for the new light in art, the minority will
become the majority.
"Cyrano de Bergerao" was discovered,
not, as you imagine, by the mass but by
the chosen ana privileged cohort known
as the Tout-Paris. They-numbering some
hundreds, indeed-rose on the first night
OF "Cyrano' and acclaimed its author.
And it was their example that we imi-
tated or If you prefer il, followed here
without as l have sometimes suspected
plauded that fine play of Rostand
On the other hand, if We find we are
discarding and growing ashamed of the
lower and more trivial forms OF stage
craft, turning our backs, for example on
farce comedy and preferring comedy; or
II we are leaning TO discriminate between
the mock drama that depends for its pros
perity on clothes q have been connected
with such things MYSELF and the true
drama, that depends on nature; or IT,
again, we are showing ever so small an
appreciation Of the imaginative and the
poetc-be sure that We are progressing.
alike in taste. In wisdom and in civiliza-
tlon.
Not only in the provinces but in New
York, and in the other leading cities of
this land. ten years ago-nay five-farce
comedy, with it inanity Of plot lis pltifua
vulgarity, its mechanical dexteritv and II ;
buuoonery was popular. A playwright
who has since attained some distinction in
more worthy fields. told me-ten years aeo
that it was the hight of his ambition to
reach the great heart Of the people by in-
venting its farce comedies. Mr.. Hoyt
MADE. am toids three-quarters of a mill
ion with his wild, though usually smart
grotesqueries-clear evidence, were arv
needed that while he was earning he
money, the public. or rather than portion
OF the public which enjoyed his chair, was
grossly ignorant of art.
And where to-day is Mr. Hoyt? Wbers
are Hallen and Hart? And where, II he
stuck to mis- farce comedy, would the IN
genious author Of why Smith Left Towop
soon be?
Remember. Mr.. Dockstader was once
popular.
Heaven forbid that I should throw
etones at any Of these gentlemen Thsv
nave served the purposes Of thousands n =
and OF hundreds of thousands. Of oxcel.ept
honest, ingenious, but, 1 am afraid half
cultured playgoers.
70 too IN our innocent youth some Of
ss have reiished what to the children 81
The morning news., 1899-11-19

Jones (ar l repeat, Is relative) have
taught the more intelligent of our play
goers that truth is not necessarily TO be
dissociated from comedy-may even in it,
self and for its own sake be interesting on
the stage.
Soon-much sooner, maybe, than you
faney-we shall go deeper into realism;
and charming comedies like the "Prn.
cess and the Butterfly of Mr.. Pinero or
the equally charming and more natural
Tyranny of Tears" of Mr.. Haddon Cham
bers, will seem hollow. Not that they are
false. So far as they go they are real
But they will soon cease to seem real
enough AS we become more accustomed
TO good plays. we shall become more crit
ical, clamor for more logic, long for more
humanity.
Then
All, you see what I am slowly coming
TO. Yes. Then we shall swear by the real
realist; by Beoque and Porto-Riche and
Sudermann and Ibsen and Bjoernson and
Gerhart Hautpmann.
To nine-tonths of the American critics.
to ninety and nine-hundredths of the
American pGblc, and to al the American
managers, these men Qamiliar 10 the D ay-
goers of Germany and Austria, and of
Norway, as household words are stin an
athena. They do not ray"
What of t?
=
im's' has not paid either my limo
cent Boy" was not huge success. Coli
nette" has not proved all il was cracked
up to be.
Art, a the ou set, may have lit Se enough
TO do with commercial prosperity. "Cyra-
no. is an exception. And, admirable hou h
il seems, perhaps "Cyrano' viii be forgot
ten after a season or two. To love art, YOU
must see il and hear it frequently How
n
come popular if our managers persist in
not producing them2 How could Wagner
ever bave won his hod over us, 4. brav-
ing ridicule. and indifference. which is
worse than ridicuse, our impresarios had
like so many of our music critics, refused
him a hearing?
Yet Wagner resns, where once-a quar-
ter OF a century ago-Belhni and Rossini
reigned. We have lost our fancy for
coarse chromo-lithograp And we are
bu lding permanent arches.
The production of good plays wiR lead
ere long TO the popularity of good plays.
Then our manager win gradually he edu-
Gated. And our critles-Ah, who knows?
a beginning has been made. In a small
way, ! know. In the teeth of der.sion
Chat would not natter and Of apatbv
(Which, unless shaken, would mean ev-
erything).
Five. years ago-I speak shamelessly-did
we NOT see hanneie at the Fifth Ave
nuo? And, though it failed: though that
is TO say, ii cost money to the managers
who produced it; who that then saw n has
ever forgotten the impression il made on
him?
More recently-and once more speak
very shamelessly, openly glorying in The
share I had in the offense-did we not see
some sort of au attempt 10 found an in
dependent theater?
Brief as was the career of that enter
prise II lasted only long enough to give
Us those two marvellous object lesons-tAe
| John Gabriel Borkman" of lbsen and the
"sran Gaienfn" of I1cheaarav -.a. --es-
The morning news., 1899-11-19

pleasantly and said, 'I'I get you some
next Saturday when I come up again ="
Tarkus and his mother were boarding for
the summer up in the country.
The clerk in charge of the store was
all out of liquid air, but he had something
else Just as good" So if the effects OF
this fluid are not according TO Tripler, it
Is no fault Of the real liquid air. The
clerk was in a hurry to shut up shop
IL was Saturday afternoon and he wanted
to go to the ball game, and he did not
ask Mr.. Greenwich a single question or
make him sign any receipt He told him
not to drop the bottle, and then followed
him out to close the shutters and shut up
shop,
Mr.. Greenwich lastened to the train and
was soon hurrying up into the country.
The cars were 50 hot that he longed 10
open the bottle and pour a little air on
the floor, but he knew that Tarkus
wouldn't want any one to use the air but
himself, so he refrained.
AS soon as he reached the boarding house
Tarkus ran out to the wagon and said:
did you get my liquid ARP
Ssh. Yes, I did," said the old gentle
man in a low tone. He must have felt
that the other men who had come up to
spend Sunday would feel nervous if they
knew that Tarkus was to have a bottle
of unlimited mischief about his clothes.
There were two or three choice spirits
known of Tarkus and with the bottle rest
ing securely in his hip pocket he went
forth to find them. They were country
boys. There were city boys az the board
ing house, but they were fretful, sickly
fellows and Tarkus avoided them when
he could.
He found Dick Leonard and Billy Mason
out behind the Mason barn, smoking corn
silk cigarettes. Say, fellers I've got
her. Maybe we won't be hot any more"
1t was intolerably hot The thermometer
was up in the 90s and the air was damp
and muggy. Just the day for a moderate
application of liquid air. Tarkus had
read the article about Tripler's liquid air
to the boys and he supposed that ne had
a bottle of the real thing. What say
The morning news., 1899-11-19

, we do. Just get cool or try coasting?"
"Coastingr yelled Billy "You forget
you're hot If you're coasting.''
The Mason's pump stood at the brow Of
steep hill that ran down in the form
of a lane to what they called the might
lot" where the COWS were turned after
evening milking.
Now, you two boys pump for all you're
worth and I'll freeze fhe water until we
have coated Inc whole hill with a sheet
of ice," said Tarkus. ft
The boys threw away their half smoked
cigarettes and sprang to the pump The
water poured forth in a copious stream
and trickled down the hill. but not nearly
fast enough to suit the boys. so they over
turned the drinking trough which was fun
of water. Then Tarkus poured a he OF
the imitation liquid air out. If it had
been the real thing it would have rolled
out like smoke and would not have frozen
the water, but as it was, the water froze
solid, so for the boys purposes the imi-
tation was better than the real article.
Then they filed the trough once more ana
again upset it and after a while the whole
hin was a glare Of Ice. Then Billy got his
double ripper out of ithe barn and with
loud cries Of joy they coasted down hill
on ice in midsummer.
II the affair had ended there all would
have been well, and old Mr.. Greenwich
wouldn't have gotten into trouble for the
ice would have melted in a little while.
the boys would have had their fun and no
one would have been hurt in any way,
but Tarkus, instead of putting the Bottle
in some safe place, carried it in his hip
pocket and at the fifth or sizth coast he
tumbled off the sled and broke the bottle.
In an instant the mercury in that vicinity
dropped hundred degrees.
AS bad luck would have 1t, a summer
shower had just begun and the rain turn
ed TO hail in a twinkling The boys gazed
al each other in silence for a minute, ana
then looked at the fields on either side
of the lane. On one side had stood tas-
sled corn, on the other pole beans while
al the extreme foot of the hill was an an
pie orchard. They would have waited to
watch the leaves and the corn and fruit
blasted in the bitter cold, but they were
afraid of getting blasted themselves. They
we're freezing and were almost too benuno-
ed to get up the slippery hill and into Billy
Mason's house.
Mrs. Mason, Billys mother, was putting
up tomato ketchup and the perspiration
was rolling from her forehead as she
hustled about the hot kitchen, with oil the
windows open and the torrid sound of the
locust filling the air with its shrililng.
To be confronted by three blue-lipped
hnvE. who with chattering teeth told har
The morning news., 1899-11-19

England is still dhe greatest Of all plays,
our Punch and Judy"
To Matthew Arnold (who. in everything
except drama, undoubtedly had taste) Mr..
Barrigan was a genius.
And where is Mr.. Harrigan2
Gone. Gone with the old moons and
SHOWS of yester-year.
For, surely, surely, despite our manag-
ers and despite the bad majority Of our
pretended critics, the world moves. And
art moves. Drama, the most readily ap-
preciated, and withal not the least noble,
of all arts, moves also.
In the idyllic and the pastoral drama,
es in other fields, there has been pro-
gress.
Again. For several seasons passed after
a long plunge into crude melodrama of the
Sims and Pettitt variety, we have an un-
questionably real, II slightly foolish, fond
ness for what some Of our managers per-
sst Ia calling romantic drama. Costume
plays. Under the Red Robe" The Pris-
oner Of Zenda," and the like. have ous2ed
melodrama from the place It enjoyed in
many of our leading theaters. Poor as
they were. ridiculous as they seemed, II
we tested them by logic or art, they gave
evidence of a desire for rather higher
things.
And now they have almost had their
turn Romantic drama has not ceased to
interest us. That it can never do. But
the popular costume play of the hour is
not "RuDert Of Hentzau" or '"fhe King
Musketeer." 1t is "Cyrano." II is Becky
Sharp" It is 1.-THE only Way" Tomor-
row 1t may be Ben Hur.'
Take comedy. Once mot so long since)
we swore by the poor, cheap, and usual
ly unsprintable, because unreadable, works
Of Mr.. DeMille and Mr.. Belasco. At this
moment, doubtless millions OF Americans
who imagine themselves judges of plays.
would tell you that they admire The
Wife" But you will not find them in
New York, or in Boston, or in Chicago.
Why?
Because there the examples OF Mr.. Pin
ero and Mr.. Hadden Chambers. ana 0s
you insist I will add Mr.. Henry Arthur