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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01

The great steel steamer ri mouth OF the Fall River
Line will attend the Yacht Races in October ToRets
5000. first three Races 90; sale limited. Tickets
and staterooms at office, Pier ~, N. R.--ldp.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01

Al tho Yacht Races.
Troy Brut ChAmpARAe and King william Scotch
Whisky ". y. PO served on all tue ooas.-AdS
"SACO." r. a w. "SACO."
The "SACO" shirt.
without clay ursssints-Iav.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

A recent number of the Banker, Nor
chant and Manufacturer, of Chicago and
New York, contains very readable column
and quarter relative to the facilities of the
American Express Company for handling
it's mammoth holiday busines SIS for its mil
lions OF patrons. The greatest en- phasis is
put en- tpe character of the employees
to whom it entrusts the valuables
and the money committed Ia its
care and to the safety and convenience O.
vs. money order system aud travellers
checks, the latter of which are good for
their face value in almost every country on
the globe. No matter what the service is
which it undertakes to preform, the Ameri-
can Express Company's receipt is a guaran.
tee that the service will be performed and
is an insurance for the goods until delivery
is made.
b. Johnson is here from Ann Arbor
for brief. Christmas visit
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
Circuit Court.

VIM. j. Sax VS.. the ID. & M. Ry., judg.
ment for plaintiff of S1.95O.
A motion made by Prosecutor Chand
Ter to have the case of the People VS.
Leachman, charged with arson rein
stated, was heard but has not yet beer
decided.
In the cases of Harry Wood vs. Plat
Beebe, and Leslie Hankey VS.. Will.
Smith, plaintiffs were ordered to fill
security for costs in the sums of $50 anc
S45 respectively within 30 days.
The time to file bill of exceptions wa
extended to Feb. LIST in the case of Mar.
Oerham VS.. VIM. Derham.
Bert Collins and VIM. Olney Vs. Ar
thur Shaw and Bert Holmes, judgmen
for plaintiffs of S179.I2.
A decree of divorce was granted il
the case of Minnie VS.. Bert Spaulding
In the case of Ambrose f. Pratt VS.
Robert G. Fair, the attorneys for thu
plaintiff withdrew juror a ter part o
the testimony had been heard and Judg
smith discharged the jury.
The case OF VIM. VS.. John Chase |
now on trial.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
THE OWOSSO TIMES,
EDMUND o. DEWEY. EDITOR.
Owosso MICH, FRIDAY. DEC. %. 1899.
Saturday papers contained the announce

Saturday papers contained the announce
ment of the candidacy of Hon. Fred M
Warner, of Pennington, Oakland county, for
the republican nomination for the Office of
secretary of state. Mr.. Warner is we'll and
favorably known throughout Oakland and
adjoining counties where he has made a
name and reputation for hims elf and built
up an extensive business by his own force
of character, altho poor young man when
he began business. He has already repre-
scented his district in the state senate two
terms and two years ago gave Hon. JUS
tus 5. Stearns lively contest for the nomi-
nation he now seeks. He Is a man of
ability and has the complete confidence of
his constituents, and his business and
political associates.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Secretary of State Justus s. Stearns, of
Ludngton, has formally announced his can
didacy for the republican gubernatorial
nomination for next year. He believes that
the western side Of the state is entitled to
the nomination next and expects to find
enough others of the same opinion to en-
able him to land the nomination. Secretary
Stearns is one of the ablest Michigan re
pubicans of today, and II he secures the
nomination would not only put lots of
energy and hustle into clean, effective cam
paign, but would make governor of whom
Michigan would not need to be ashamed.
But whether Mr.. Stearns succeeds in dis
tancing the other contestants in the race or
not, he is in good company and evidently
will be up 10 the very finish.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
Gard of Thanks.

take this method to express Chou sh In
feeble way my sincere thanks for tie
many favors words OF sympathy. and acts
of kindness from friends aud neighbors dur
Ing the recent sickness aud death of my
beloved wife. They all come up before me
like sweet incense and help me bear my
heavy load. May the Lord reward you all.
w. WHITE.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

The former commander of the, battleship
Texas, }. ID. Jerrold Kelley, U. 5. y,
writes with fitness of knowledge and with
great lucidity of style on the remarka5le
performances OF various craft designed for
exploring the bottom of the sea and for
making suomarlne attacks on hostile nayles.
This Is zone OF tho notable features an
nonnced by The Yonth's Companion. n
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

And now the Governor has graciously
concluded that after all, althO some men,
bers of the legislature are under Indictment
by the grand jury. he will not set the egis-
lature, TO investigating the grand jury and
Judge Person. The impeachment OF the
grand jury and Judge Person by the legis-
lature which Governor Pingree and his
friends had slated for Tuesday but which
they wisely gave up, would have been about
the biggest piece of folly with which those
gentlemen have been connected up to date.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
A Grocery in White.

The new grocery store OF Hall Bros is
ole OF the prettlest, in fact the prettesl
grocery store 1t has ever been our good
fortune to step inside of. The handsome
| ornamented ceiling, the walls, and all the
shelving and counters are of pure white,
and the appearances of perfect cleanliness
which the spotless walls and shelving make
is further helped by the neatness with
which everything is arranged, everything in
its place.
The store is lighted by two large arc
lights OF new pattern to run on the mean
descent alternating current. They are OF
such construction that they give mellow
but very white light, much steadler than
the old arc lights.
In detail many things might be mention
ed, the arrangement of show cases, the
pleasing effect OF the huge glass cover
which is dropped down with weights and
pulley over the cheese, doing away with a
big box or cabinet; the position and con.
structiOn of the cashiers and book. keepers
Office, and the separation into a separate
room of the back part of the store from
which the delivery wagons are loaded and
where vegetables, -four, and much of the
stock, which does not need personal inspec-
ton on the part OF the buyer, are kept; a
pair of scales SO delicate that the addition
of small piece of wrapping paper on either
arm will destroy the balance aud tip the
arm until 1t is removed is anothar feature
new grocery business.
The store Is to be heated with a fur
mace, tho for day or two yet large stove
will be kept in use, and large refrigerator
to be placed with its front in the partition
between the front and back parts of the
store has not yet been pat in place but soon
will be.
the display windows are of unusual at
Effectiveness as might have been expected
when the former windows shown by this
firm are remembered. Even the small
window on the west is made attractive,
while the south window, which occupies
the Whole front as far as the corner en-
trance. is partioned off into show room of
unusual size and attractiveness for
grocery, and is, as any one acquainted with
the Hall Brothers would know at once,
decorated with as handsome a display
of Christmas goods, holly, tropical fruits,
confectionery, and all that is pleasing to
eye and taste as ingenuity can devise.
The firm is certainly to be congratulated
on having the finest business place of the
kind in central Michigan. while it is doubt.
full if a nicer looking grocery could be fou I'D
in the state than the grocery in white"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Henry q. Smith, congressman from
the second, made his maiden speech i'm
the house last week, and said the demo
cratic party WAS 'lke man who sits In a
street car with his back ia the direction
the car was going and never saw good
thing until he gotby it," lie admitted the
party was sometimes right, but the trouble
was that it was never right at the right
time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

The house OF representatives and the
Michigan delegation In particular are to be
congratulated on the unanimity with which
the currency bill was passed on Monday.
While no bill which could be proposed
would satisfy all business men or students
o monetary reform the present bill must be
a marked advance over the confused no
system under which the u. s. treasury has
been compelled to do business.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
Congressman Fordney to be in Owosso
Next Week.

Congressman Fordney will be at The
TINES office Wednesday evening and
Thursday afternoon, at either of which
times he will be pleased to meet his
friends desiring to consult him on any
matters of business connected with any
of the departments and to assist all of
them in any way possible.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22
No Credit to Them-CuIpable Ignorance
or Petty Spite Work.

There was time when the farmers
of the state as whole, or at least wher
in any .deliberative body assembled
with the task of passing resolutions
thrust upon them, had no good WORD
to say for the State Agricultural Col
lege 10 them it represented an enor
nous and wicked outlay of money
with no resulting benefit to them and
the entire cost of which, one would
think came out of their pockets. The
TIMES is glad to see that that day has
passed and is glad to commend the
farmers of the state who assembled in
Lansing last week, for the loyal way in
which they upheld the administration
of one of the very best agricultural col.
leges in the world, and one which is
doing more for their interests than any
other of its class. But The TINES is
sorry to see the resolution come in such
way that it appears to have been
prompted quite as much by desire to
take one more vicious slap at the
University as by any desire for honest
commentator of the college.
The attacks on the management of
the University, in which the president
of the association, L. ID. Watkins, of
Manchester, Washtenaw county, figured
as one of the most violent of the ac-
cusers, show as unfair, unpatriotic and
unwise, if not openly dishonest-on the
part of some-motives as were ever re-
vealed in any body of men or were ever
incorporated in resolutions. And this
happened in spite of the fact that the
man who made some of the most violent
attacks, the retiring president of the as
ISOLATION lives in Manchester, but q
short distance from Ann Arbor, and
could have learned the falsity of his
charges without the loss of days
time. The fact is that the system of
business management In vogue at the
University is one which was devised by
the powers at Lansing several years
ago, and, that no question could be
raised as to the manner in which the
system was applied by the University
the regents invited the
most expert accountant of the state,
man employed by all the Detroit banks
to examine their accounts, Mr. j. p.
Clegg, of Detroit, to go to Ann Arbor
and make thorough examination of
the system of business management.
Mr.. Clegg spent several weeks at the
University making an exhaustive ex-
animation into every detail of manage
ment and reported the system as being
complete and that he did not
see bow dollar could be misappro-
priated under the system.
1t is always much easier for some to |
make fierce, groundless attack on any
Institution than it is to take time to see !
# there is any ground for such attacks, !
but while Mr.. Watkins may be, and
THE TINES knows that the majority of
The delegates who passed those resolu-
lions, were intelligent citizens of more
than average ability, it cab AssGre all
that by such seemingly Malicious at
tacks they do not raise themselves in
the estimation of other intelligent
people in the state, some of whom may
be excused for knowing more about the
of the University than
they who criticised it so fiercely, nor
will they find that they have been
making friends for farmers in general
or even farmers clubs by such course
of action.
Circuit Court.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

From now until Jan. LIST we will make
our 90 photographs for So 90 Fancy
frames and mouldings always on hand at
Mclean 81 Schaible's.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Smith Rogers and II. Stewart of Venice,
received yesterday eleven fine imported
Shropshire ewes.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Special attention is called to The ad. of ID.
j. Evans 10 this issue of Saginaw county
farm lands for sale"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Joe Gerson has made an assignment to the
zens Savings Bank. Liabilities about
8 1000 Stock valued ut about 1000.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

In the assignment to committees made
Monday by Speaker Henderson, Congress
msu J w. Fordney of this district is re
galded by the entire MICHIGAN delegation
and mis- friends else where as we'll as having
teen decidedly fortunate. Mr. Fordney
was assigned to place on the Merchant
Marine and Fisheries committee and also to
the committee on Expenditures In the
Treasury Department. Both are important
committees while tile former, from the
merct ant marine, bids fair to be one OF the
very most important In the present congress.
Whether the subsidy feature In vogue in
other commercial countries and earnestly
advocated by many of the wisest statesmen
of our own country for our present adoption.
Is put In force or not the Importance of this
committee will not be small with the advent
ct me United States, the richest nation on
earth today, into the realm of world politics
sna in view of the enormous expansion Of
her commercial interests, the question OF
her merchant marine becomes Ia Itself q
more important question than some whole
congresses have had to face. Mr. Fordney
has right to feel well pleased with hi'
Do tiOn on such a committee and that ht
W. be a valuable addition to it, those who
know him for his shrewd Yankee common
sense and far sighted business instincts will
not doubt for moment. The fact, that
N Grosvenor, one of the recognized lead
ers Ia the house and one In whom the al
ma -tration relies most implicitly, was as
,ign-d 90 the charm snship OF this commit-
tee is further evidence of the imporlauce
ascrlDed to it and to the character OF the
men sought to m Ike up Its membership.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-22

Announcements have been and are still
bein9 made for republican nominations for
the state Offices, and while it is too early for
any man to secure a walk over with the
convention, it is interesting to note the
character of the various men who are not
afraid TO state thus early in advance what
they wish 10 ask from the party and the
people. nor to invite the most careful in.
spection of their records and their claims
for the nomination and the Office they seek.
So tar there have been announced the
candidates. of number of men for various
Offices and the character of nearly all Of
these has been of gratifyingly high
standard. Gratifying, because for all public
spirited citizens there are more reasons fo.
taking a keen interest in such matters than
mere idle curiosity or the satisfaction In
being able to point out the successful man In
advance, t.:en, too, all good republicans
should remember that it is much easier to
discourage an unworthy candidate early in
the inception of his boom than 1t Is after a
state convention is already in session, while
on the other hand proper personal en-.
couragement of good men, even if not
backed by absolute guarantee of support
against any other equally good OF better
candidates who may arise alter for the same
Office, has a moral effect of weight as
great or greater than that Of the ballot It
set. fhe announcements should be watched
with the keenest interest by all republicans.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19
PHILIPPINE PEARLS
Some Valuable Fisheries Amongst inc
sulu Islands Not Worked.

In the p.cturesquely miscellaneous COZ
lection OF Suitans, actiNe Noica"0e9'
raiahs. Dyak pirates. and 30 Forum manu-
ed over 10 the United States in the Tar
Pacific as one result of the spanish war
are the important pearl fisheries allacned
10 the Sulu isdnd5-pear fisheries '"al.
since the decline OF those OF Ceyioh anu
the Persian Gulf. divide with the north
coast of Australia the reputation OF De-
ing the most valuable To the wofli.
The Suiu pearls grounds have tor some
time been controlled 10y mon or com
panies with large capital, of which the
chief Is great London Jewelry nrnl'
These capitalists equip and send out meets
OF from tweny TO thirty m0derate-sl2ed
schooners upon annual cruises, ana en-
ploy On tho pursuit. besides European
officers and supercargOes, many humorous
if not thousands. OF native divers.
Il may be Information 20 many thal
the chief revenue Of the pearl fishing In
dustry Is derived not from the pearls
a very uncertain cOntingency-bu from
the pearl shells. or mOther-Of-pearl, whicn
brings IN the market 500 ton ana up
ward. As an illustration OF this "niie
the West Australian pearl fisheries ne.t7'
I'm one year 10000 from the shells ~
returns from the lind Of pearls was val
ued at a little more than $4,000. or about
one-third In this respect. while tht
pearls found in the Suius are OF the I'm
est quality. the mother-of-pea Is some
times characterized by yellowish tint
which renders it less valuable com
mercialy than that obtained on the ad-
iacent Australian banks.
The actual diving operations are car
rled on chiefly boy the natives, though or
late years Europeans. with diving apna-
ratus have i'm some instances been em-
ployed The former method is simplicity
itself The diver being dcnudod OF nis
clothes and provided with a knife and a
small net bag fn which 10 gather tile
shells. and having a forty-pound stone
attached 10 his feet draws a deep breath.
ana IS let rapidly down by a rope into
the transparent waters. The depth az
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19
THE LANORAlL.
It's Extraordinary Instinct for Long
Distance Nigrations.

It's Extraordinary Instinct for Long
Distance Migrations.
Themost remarkable thing about the
iandraH is it's extraordinary instinct or
passion for migration. Whence comes 20
Il that overpowering desire which. twice
in the year impels &c.. Weak-winged
though IL IS, TO change its quarters to
range during our English spungtime rs
far north as the bleak and frozen shol es
Of Arctic Greenland. TO descend IN the
fan OF the year away south into Africa
and eastward into Asia reaching I'm its
return migration countries so distant
and so widely sundered as Natal md
Afchanisfan? At present-in spite Of
theories and submissive have no sat
isfactory reason offered to us for the
wonderful notwithstanding steadily.
persistcntly and unfailingly year after
year-of bird like the landran. whose
weak wings and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS legs
plainly attest tho fact that its natural
powers Of progression lie far more in
walking and running than IN flying.
The extent OF tho migration Of the
landrail. although not yet peri city as
cortained. is reasonably well known. In
its northern passage IL reaches, during
April and May. England. Scotland. Ire
land ard the Hebrides, the Orkney and
Shetland Islands. The far Faroes-nay.
even such solitary and remote Atlantic
rocks rs the lonely islet OF St Kilda. It
is well known in North Europe. resort
ing in SIS sprinr passage 10 Norway.
Sweden and Denmark. But. beyond even
these great misratons there is estaD-
nshed the fact that this feeble-winged
creature, which H. September seems
scarcely capable Of Mapping heavily for
thirty PAGES before the gunner, can and
does summon up powers OF flight suf-
fcient TO carry Il across stormy and
trackless seas as far north as Greeland
and a. far northwest as ihe Bermudas
and the eastern shores OF North Aneri-
ca. Wonderful as are the facts ond
records Of migration. the case OF the
homely laadrail is certainly one OF the
most remarkable among tina instances
OF o. tais oveTgQYg,pg ipssipst.--sayxsay
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19
ManiIa Snrrriscs Amerlcnns.

Manila is surprise TO most Americans
when they come here and lind many
weii-pavcd streets. large commercial
houses beautiful drives. magnificent resi-
dences, and evidences Of thrift every
where. 10 is true that dirt and filth exist
90 lamcntable extent but even those
conditions are being improved. and what
General Butler did for New Orleans. Cen
erai otis is gradually accomplishing for
Manila To has never been the custom
TO use the first story Of the residences.
or even the commercial houses. for a
place of living or business The FIRST floor
is "a sort Of cellar which IS usually used
for the stables and store-roOms. This IS
true even IN the best houses. The damp
ness Of the climate and the thievng and
lncendiary prOpensitles of the natives
have made the style Of architecture a
necessity. The windows Of the houses are
barred with great cage-like iron struc-
lures that swell out over the street. and
a house is usually surrounded by a high
iron picket-fence or stone-Wall studied
with broken bottle-glass Embedded IN
mortar
The native IS in evidence everywh here.
He is YOUR servant. your day-labOrer.
your blacksmith. carpenter. farmer.
stonecutter. cook. and. in fact, represents
7
does to China. tho negro to the South;
only, as you study his character and take
note OF his works I'm artistic. intellectual.
commercial, and musical lines. you are
compelled 10 admit that possibilities exist
IN his makeup that do not IN other ma
tive races. IL is continually dinned into
your ears that the Filipino Is hOpelessly
lazy. ! am willing 10 admit that he is
lazy, bat not hopelessly. This is a eli
mate OF lazy conditions. The English
man who has become acclimated never
thinks Of raising his hand. except for
tifin and a whiskey-and-soda from
twelve until three o'clock lie never
walks a step outside OF his office during
business hours or after His carriage IS
always at his door and. II not the streets
are lined with two-wheeled gigs called
calls that stand ready 90 bump You oyer
the payements and drag you diagonally
back and forth across the street-car
tracks for thirty cents Mcxicau) an
hour Tho American q about the only
one who walks in Manila. ana be 81 apid-
ly learning better While the sun o. i'm
evidence 50 IS a foolish undertaking TO
brave fits RAYS. Indoors with or without
"a punka. the heat ls not oppressive al
this season. Tho natives. however. do
not notice This condition They work.
heads barred. am day in tho streets and
riCc-foids Indifferent % the burning sun.
ITS only effect upon them IS 20 make
thom move slowly ana 10 moderate their
vi.y-EdW1n Willman's Manila Let
ter to Lcsle's Weekly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19

has Il that he is very feble and MS VIE
has ben spending All her days WIN MN
TO the great exclusion OF ner Du''ue >
interests Ihe same rumOr whispers '"il
ne IS eighty-two years old ana thal H'
cannot possibly live long. ..
Public tongue is always misc
about this interesting couple, ana year
ago when Mt Green had ar attack o. III
tueuza and required trained nurse .ne
pul Ne told a queer story OF Mrs IIeci. ,
iealOusy-of now she discharged lHe
nurse and went out and hired one 81 hel
own selection. an ugly faced girl 10
whom Mr.. Green would not make ioFe'
40 is considered very smart TO-DAY 20
20 20 the Philippines. The first man VINO
comes back from the Philippine co'gu
with the newly earned million IN h'
pocket will be famous. but forty ys,lla
ago Edward Green cid that same l"iH5
and nothing was thought OF No. r,,,
Besides earning q million IN me IN, M
ippines he made forty millions by ma
rviug the riaht kind OF girl, and tha1
is a pretty good record for one man.