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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
NEWS FOR M|CH|GANDERS.
A Whole Regiment of News Items
From Michigan Towns
CAPTURED FOR BRIEF READING.
The Bav civ Manufacturers of Beet
Sugar Will Doubtless Apply to the
Courts to Obtain Bounty Los'
Watch stolen by burglar.
win Have to be settled in the Courts.

The Michigan Sugar Co., OF Bay CITY,
maintains that the bounty law OF 1877
is constitutional, but Atty Gen. oren
says it is not. Two weeks ago, Land
Commissioners French issued certlh-
cate showing that 1000 was due for
sugar manufactured in January ana
February of this year. Dix referred
the matter to the attorney general Tor
an opinion as to his right to draw
warrant for the payment of the amount
from the general fund. The attorney
general has concluded that the ex-
pense is not general expense OF the
state government on which the legisla-
lure can predicate tax under section
/, article IA, of the constitution, whlch
says that 1.-The legislature shall pro
vide for an annual tax, sufficient with
other resources, to pay the estimated
expenses of the state government the
interest of the state debt, and such oe-
fciency as may occur in the resources.
This squarely raises the question as 10
the constitutionality of the law.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Modern Mamma.

In Arabia, says a writer in La
Nature. the Arabs sometimes find in
the sandy deserts kind OF fungus
which apparently resembles the man
ma OF the Bible, and which serves as
food for both men and camels when
no better Is to be had. 1t appears upon
the sand after every rain. sometimes
in little heaps. 1t is Of grayish color
and the separate masses are about as
big as peas. 1t has swedish taste.
and IA nutritious
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
A Rig Iron Ore Bed Found.

The largest iron ore find reported
this wear has been made by Pickands,
Mather & Co., the Cleveland, o., iron
ore men, upon the land of John Grin
ringer in Stambaugh township, in
Iron county The property is located
about two miles south of the village of
Stambaugh and adjoins the Dober
mine and Oliver mining property on
the south. The discovery was made
with a diamond drill, a hole having
penetrated over 200 feet of the forma-
ton; 60 feet of clean ore was found
that gives 60 per cent in metallic iron,
and an average of the whole length OF
the hole gives nearly so per cent iron.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Through Colorado.

The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad,
with its numerous branches penetrat-
ing the Rockies, has two distinct and
separate lines across the mountains.
Tickets reading via the Scenic Line
between Denver and Grand Junction
in connection with the Rio Grande
Western Ry. between Grand Junction
and Ogden, are available over the
Denver e. Rio Grande either via its
main line through Leadville and Glen
wood Springs or via the. line over
Marshall Pass and through the Black
Canon. Tourists to and from Salt Lake
City, Ogden or San Francisco Will ma
It to their advantage to have their
tickets read in both direction via The
Scenic Line of the World, thus beng
able to use one of the above routes go
ing and the other returning. Write s.
X. Hooper. G.. p. & T. A, Denver,
Colo, for illustrated pamphlets.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Professor Worcester, one or our
commissioners to the Philippines, con-
vincingly disposes of the stories re-
flecting upon the humanity of our sol
diers. Women and children were not
ruthlessly slaughtered at Malabon aft
er its bombardment-bec there
was no bombardment. The town was
abandoned before our approach, and
there were no women and children
there to be killed" Furthermore, Pro-
lessor Worcester has personally exam
ined every battlefield from Caloocan to
Malolos-once before the wounded
were removed. and often before the
dead were buried-and women or
children, whether wounded, dead or
living, he never discovered. No pris-
oners were ever killed whether by or
ders OF officers or otherwise; wounded
insurgents have been tenderly cared
for and removed to our hospitals. IN
short. the American soldier has shown
humanity, discretion and self-control
as his friends at home would have ex'
pected. 1t seems TO us that a serious
responsibility rests upon the person!
and papers that have been so promp
to picture him as delighting in meth
DDS OF warfare which only savages pur
sue.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
STATE GOSSIP.

Sanilac county poor house shelters
90 inmates.
A new electric line from Adrian to
Toledo is practically assured.
Waldron, in Hillsdale county, is GO
ing to have new hotel this season.
Grand Rapids now has a population
of 100, 900 according to the new city
directory.
The celery crop around Kalamazoo
this year promises to exceed any OF
previous years.
An empty mail bag which had been
cut open was found near Niles on the
18th. No clue.
A fine gypsum mine is said to have
been struck by Joe Clotckey one mile
east of Turner.
II cost jackson county $1,000 for
the care of its INDECENT insane at kala-
mazoo during the last three months.
The inmates of Oakland county's
poor house averaged As during the past
year. The county's poor people cost
SIS, 1879.
The annual reunion of the soldiers
and sailors of Allegan county will be
held at Otsego, Aug. $40. Hon. Wash
ington Gardner will be the orator.
While the wheat crop now being
harvested in Hillsdale county is the
highest in years, the yield of oats will
I've enormous. with corn close second
Twice every six months burglars
visit Brighton. This time M. Ryani
general store was raided and large
amount of merchandise taken. M
clue.
The Mcvoy Mining Co. has been or
: ganized at Carney with capital stool
| Of $4,000. The company will conduc
: explorations for copper near that vii
lage.
, A eat at otsego recently gave brit
: To two kittens that have six legs each
In walking they do not use their extr
D legs, although they are as long as tn
others.
: The owner of the big peach orchar
!. on the island in Coldwater lake wi
reap no harvest this year, as $50 tree
have been killed and the rest will M
!. bear fruit.
: The demand for iron ore is ver
heavy and during the past 80 days,
= idle mines have been started mp net
Is Ishpeming, giving employment
IS 1000 men.
The firm OF Clayton & Lambert,
N Ypsilanti, manufacturers of plumber
a supplies, are moving their plant to D
DR. troit. With them eight families al
20 men will 60.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Little surprise was expressed at s-.e
wording in English, instead of French
Of the invitations issued by the Brit
ish ambassador at Paris to his ban
ouet in commemoration of the queen
eightieth birthday anniversary. Yet
there was time when such a pro-
ceeding would have been tantamoun'
to a rupture of diplomatic relations
In these days there is no longer any
one court or diplomatic language
while the English language is stead
ily and swiftly moving forward towart
universal usage.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
For m National Filter.

The fact that in the near future a
filtering plant to cost $4,000 will be a
necessity at Lake Goguac, the source
of Battle Creeks water supply, has
caused a novel suggestion. In the
lake, near pumping station, is Wards
island, composed of sand and gravel.
The suggested experiment is that
reservoir be dug in the center OF this
island, and the water be allowed to
filter naturally through the sand from
the lake, which process, it is claimed
would purify it, and save the expense
of the proposed plant.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Cass County,s Sea Serpent.

The Indian lake sea serpent has been
seen several times this summer. 1t
appears to be about IL feet long and
can propel itself through the water
like an arrow. Thus far very few
have been able to get a close view OF
it, owing to it's shyness. The only
danger to be felt is that it might sud
denly rise some time under boat,
capsize the occupants and possibly Kill
some of them with its tail in its effort
to get away.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
A Destructive Smudge.

Richard Foote, a farmer near Stand
ish, started fire to keep away mos
quitoes, and the blaze spread to his
barn, which was totally destroyed, to-
gether with the horses inside it. An
other occurrence of similar nature
last week was at Mason, where a man
started smudge in his chicken house
to drive out the chicken lice. The
barn gere-SNS fire, and while the man
was h9e ~. s,ss,und To put out the fire
he felbe ,vfI IN oHstairsand broke
his wrist. The fire department put
out the fire before the barn was
burned, but they also put out the
smudge, so that the chicken lice are
still doing business at the old stand.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

A
The Chicago Evening Post prints, as
a humorous paragraph, the following:
Progress In Indiana.-From Jay
County Qnd) Republican: George
Smiths house, in West Arch street, is
moving along nicely" The Post should
rather point with pride to the item,
for it indicates one of the many advan-
tages that an Indiana town has over
Chicago. How many people there are
in Chicago who would like to see their
houses moving along nicely" away
from the effluvium of the river; away
from some Of the grotesque statues
which in Chicago pass for works OF
art. and away from many Of the Ills
and immovable, they have to endure
as best they may. The Post evidently
does not understand that Mr.. George
Smith has found West Arch street un
comfortable or not to his liking, ant
so is moving along to more congenla
neighborhood.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

OF the expected influx of American
capital into Japan when the new treaty
goes into effect this month, native
japanese paper says: Japan may be
overreaching herself in inviting Amer
lean capital to invest in our fair coun-
try. The financiers in the United States
are far too clever for the Japanese
with his slack business methods and
scanty experience. Then the Ameri-
can moneyed men are consolidating
their various interests inrp trusts. "
After commenting. on the evils OF
trusts, the editorial says: Japan can
not be too careful about keeping out
foreign capital that places her thor
oughly under control.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
The Pope Approves Decisions of Bishops.

The Pope Approves Decisions Oh nishoPs'
The pope is reported as much pleased
at the success of the council of the
bishops of the Latin-American church,
which has just concluded its delibera-
tions at Rome Subjects which were
expected to show differences of opin-
ion almost impossible to reconcile were
disposed of with minimum of friction.
Perhaps the most important was the
scheme for serving the Latin-Ameri-
can episcopate from the jurisdiction
and control of the Spanish primate.
This was finally imposed, despite We
hement protests from the Spanish
church. Henceforth the church OF
South America will have an American
born primate chosen by the pope him
self. In the future. also, there will be
an identical liturgy, ecclesiastical code,
etc. for the South American churches,
irrespective of the states wherein they
are located. The councils report was
submitted to the pope and was form
ally approved. The new primate VIII
be nominated at the next conslstory,
and will be Immediately raised to the
dignity of cardinal.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
4 Rich Gold Find.

News of the discovery of rich beach
diggings at Wreck bay, five miles from
Ucluclet on the west coast OF VAN
couver island has been received. With
the crudest appliances 50 day is be
inc washed out. One Prospector took
a pan TO the beach and washed out $3.50.
Great excitement prevails and farmers
are abandoning their farms TO en-
gage in gold washing.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
500. 600, 900 Worth of Untaxed Property

One of the duties of the state tax
commission is to reach the vast amount
of personal property which now es-
capes taxation. In order to do this ex-
perts must be employed. The COM
mission predicts that with an expen-
diture of from S25, 900 to $40, 200, in
GLIDING the salaries of the commits
sioners, not less than 500, 900, 900 of
property will be added to the assess
ment rolls of the state for the year
1900. If this shall be the result, and
the average rate of taxation paid by
the other property of the state is col
lected thereon, the returns for the ex-
penditure noted will be not less than
81, 900, 900, and the other property now
being assessed therefor will be re
! lieved to like extent.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
I|CK|NGS OF THE TELEGRAPH
News of the Day as Told Over the
Slender Wires.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS
A Texas Town the Scene OF One OF the
Worst street Battles Ever Witnessed
There-The Samoan Commission Is
sues "a Proclamation.
samoan High Com missions Proclamation.

Samoan High Commissions proclamation.
The high commission at Samoa has
issued the following proclamation:
1.-THE high commission appointed by
the three great powers to talk over the
government of the Samoan islands,
having, by virtue of the supreme pow
ers in them invested, and in order TO
maintain peace and to establish firm
and staple government, required ma
tive Samoans to surrender their arms
and ammunition, and such require
ments having been in part complied
with, notices is hereby given that all
arms and ammunition still remaining
in the hands of the native Samoans
must be delivered to the commission
ers at their rooms in the international
hotel, in Apia before June 20, 1899
| That receipts will be given for all arms
| and ammunition so received and the
same will me returned to the owners
| after the restoration of peace, or full
compensation made therefor, but all
arms and ammunition remaining IN
| the possession of native Samoans after
June 20. 1899. will be contiscated and
persons in whose possessions they may
be found will be punished by fine not
exceeding 500, or by imprisonment no,
exceeding 30 days, or by such fine ano
Imprisonment. (Signed)
BARTLETT TRIP,
''H. STERNBERG,
&C. ~ ELIOT"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

1t is not paradoxical, as 1t might
seem, to call the ending Of the college
or school course commencement
Every ending is also beginning.
Theory ends, practice begins. War
ends. peace begins. Life in one form
ends, life in another form begins.
Night ends, day begins. So study of
books ends, and the application of that
study to the wider study Of the world
and to the tasks Of life begins The
schoolboy ends, the scholarly man be-
gins. That is the purport of com
mencement, and for it no filter name
could be devised.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
100000 Libel Suit.

The limit of endurance was reached
when the Detroit Evening News pub
lished an article abiding that it was
Gov. III. S. Pingree's intention to fasten
a 4s-year street railway franchise on
the city of Detroit, get million dol
lars for it, and then retire from poll
tics. Accordingly the governor has
commenced libel suit against that
paper for S100 900.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The day that does not begin with
prayer does not begin right.
There is nothing the devil is so much
afraid of as the truth.
Unrepented sin is promissory note
to the devil.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

A drop of dew tries as hard to do
Gods will as thunderstorm.
Most people believe in the total de-
pravity Of somebody else
Gods peace is only for those who do
not fear the devils war.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Are You Using Aliens Foot Ease?

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions Ask for Allen 5
Foot Ease, powder to be shaken into
the shoes At all Druggists and Shoe
stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Adj
dress. Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, n. y.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Fatal Family ROW.

Following a family quarrel on the
10th Mrs. George Treider shot and
killed her mother. wounded her hus-
band and killed herself. The shoot
inc occurred at the home of the Treid-
ers mile and a half northwest OF
Long Grove. village near Liberty
vile. III. Treider was shot three
times. but it IS thought will recover.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Miss S. L. Kendall has set about 10
evangelize the New York police force.
When converted, the force should start
in on the town.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The Alaskan boundary question may
be settled Skagway.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
To the Rookie. and Beyond!

Hours are saved when you take the
Missouri Pacific-Rock Island through
sleeping car leaving st. Louis a. M,
arriving Denver IL o'clock next morn
ing
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Life is a peculiar thing. Three
quarters of it is a lie and hall OF IL
is an eff"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

When a bachelor declares that he Is
welded to his profession the right
woman can make him commit bigamy'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The proudest moment in the average
mans life is when he is telling how 1t
happened afterward.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Every newspaper in the country
will be given an opportunity to partic-
mate in New York's reception TO Ad-
miral Dewey.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

For disobedience the small boy ire'
quently takes the palm.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Flies seem to know that red-noseA
man is liable to make something with
sugar in it at any moment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
Indians Looking After Their Cash.

A band Of 20 Pottawatomie Indians
went to Kalamazoo recently from
southwestern Michigan to make affida-
Wits to establish claims for money
which had once been granted them by
the courts but was either mislaid or
misappropriated. The lands for which
they were to receive pay were ~ Sec
tions near Niles, 16 near Mendon and
81 around Schoolcraft. The money
Sl60, 900, it is claimed was paid accord
ing to an old census roll, consequently
362 members of the tribe received nc
pay and 272 received the money.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The automobile never gets Its tan
over the reins in fly time.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

I 1t is so dry in Cass county farmers
have been obliged to stop cultivating
corn.
The OVERLOOKING of the Muskegon
river has caused great damage to Gel
cry beds. One man estimates his loss
at $4,000
Farmers in the vicinity OF Three
Oaks say that few of their wheat fields
will ny for harvesting. Other crops
are all right.
The city fathers at Albion believe IN
good roads, and have purchased
gravel pit to supply the material io'
improving the streets.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The man who tries to deceive others
is himself deceived by the devil.
A he feels easy only when it forgets'
that it has truth on its track
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The luck of the fool is proverbial,
but you never hear lucky man speak
of il.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Many man who seems dead to the
world is only buried in thought
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

The man who goes through life alone
generally has poor company.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

Mrs. Lester Lylxe, of Worthwhile, was
knocked down by tramp on the 10th
because she refused the fellow admit
lance to her house while she went to
pet him something to eat. Mrs. Lyke
was felled to the floor from the effects
Of the blow, but her little daughter
came TO her rescue with revolver,
which the mother used and was sue
cesseul in frightening the tramp away.
Mrs. LIKE thinks the bullets must
have taken some effect as the tramp
fell at each shot, but he finally sue
ceeded in reaching the woods and dis
appeared from view.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

You can't always tell the amount oil
gas the poet consumes by his meter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFoRNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. IL
is the one perfect strengthening Taxa
tive. cleansing the system etfectually,
dispelliug colds, headaches and levers
gently vet promptly and enabling one
TO overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. It's perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and SUBJ
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or Irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing hgs
are used, as they are pleasant TO the
taste. but the medicinal qualities OF the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by methoo
! known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRuP
| Co. only. In order to get its benehclal
! effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
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SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1899-08-26

The Convention of the Lafayette
Parish S. S. Association wifi meet
at the M. Z. Church, South,
Thursday, Aug. 31st., ale O'Clock
A. M. under the leadership OF Mr..
"A. M. Mayo, president OF the
State Association.
The convention will have two
sessions during the day and one at
night. Morning session from 9
to II; afternoonafrom 2 to 4;
night 7 to 9.
The following program has been
arranged.
Op. exercises. Rev. l. T. Reams,
Address Of welcome ]. w. Clifford,
Response...-.Rev. H. A. Abney,
Reports of Sabbath Schools.
Appointment of Committees.
The Country S. S. Silas Hoffpauir
S. S. Finance ...... Ben Avant
use and Abuse OF ). s. Help
Rev. l. I. Reams,
IS. S. Teacher Rev. C. M. Atkinson
Necessity of the Holy Spirit, In
fluence...... H. A. Abney,
Subjects optional Rev. c. w. Car
ter and Howard Hoffpauir
Mrs. Crow Girard and Miss
Lizzie Mudd will have charge o1
the music.
President A. M. Mayo. OF the
State Association will lecture on
subjects pertinent to S S. work
and discussion will be open at all
A cordial invitation is extended
to all interested in this important
work to participate in the exercises
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1899-08-26

"A regular meeting OF zen
Frank Gardner Camp U. Z. V.
will be held next Saturday Septem-
Der 2. for the election OF ofhcers
and Tor considering other business
Of vital importance to the camp
A full attendance is earnestly re-
questcd.
The soo,hing and healing properties
q Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Its
pleasant taste and prompt and Perma-
nest cnres, have made it great Ia
vorile wirh the people everywhere.
For esle by j. Couvillon aud all deal
ers in medicine.
III YOU intend to purchase a suit
OF clothes or pair of shoes, or
anything in the Gents furnishing
line; wait until our popular clothler
Mr.. S. Kahn, receives his new stock
Of goods. "A visit to his emporium
in due time, will convince you
That his store is the only enc IN
LAFAYETTE where you can be httee
up at reasonable prices.