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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
WHEN ANT JERUSHY DIED."

Now, Ant Jerushy lliginboom was middlin'
well ter do,
And of all her near relations was bereft.
SO everybody wondered, when they heard
that she got through
Where the money was a-goin' that she
left.
But sakes alive! she hadn't morc'n been
measured fer her shroud
When relatives sprung up from fur ana
wide,
on the ears and on the steamboat they KEEP
comm i'm "A crowd,
And they got here soon as Amt Jerushy
died.
There was her granddaughter silas that had
Jest got outer jail,
There was Hubby Ann, her niece, from
Tennessee;
There was Cousin job the parson, and his
sister Abigail
And her mas ha'f sisters husband,
Ezry B.;
There was Cap'n Isaac Goober. who lives
some'orcs down in Maine
He's n cousin on his wife Maria's side
He was goin ter sail fer Chiny but, instead,
ne took the train
Fer these diggins, soon as Ant Jerushy
died.
Well. the fun raj was big one, and the woe
was deep and grand
Whom them relatives was weepin' Q. or the
dead;
But, although they was heart broken, they
was every one on hand
In the parlor when the will was bein
read.
And there they sot and listened, like pack
OF sheepish fools,
And their tears most awful suddenly was
dried,
Fer they found she'd willed her fortune tew
the furrin mission schools,
So they all got left when Ant JcruShy
died.
If yer reckon that that fixed en-. why, yer
jest don't know their sort
That was only the begunin of the mill,
Fer they each one got "A lawyer and they
rushed right inter court,
And they tried their best at Dustin up the
will
So they fought it and appealed It, while the
years was slippin past.
And twas heard and heard. and tried, and
tried, and tried;
But the lawyers was the only ones that got
a cent a last,
OF the money left when Ant Jerushy
died
Joe Lincoln, in l.. \. w Bulletin.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

l.'nd IN. Nav < -r he Duke If Ctm.
"r"dg'' "peued lmri Kiralfl'> greater
BtItalu exhibition N EarlScuurr today.
IL the course of his speech The Duke
of cambridge emphasized the fact that
he a1d other members of the ROY al
family desired to do ever, thing to
'trengthen the ties between Great
Erlta II and the colonies. His grace
aid 1t was singular fact that with all
hr toik OF peace, all the nations are
GONG ahead with armaments. II the
CT rs conference resulted in any steps
finding TO lessen the burden upon the
people aud to insure peace, those sug-
goSliuns would be sincerely welcomed
bV England. AT the same time the
Duke Of Ctmbridge said he congratu.
ittcd AIS audience upon the pep red
uc,> OF he country and the undoubted
loyalty of the colonies.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
The Spell at Six-Mile
BY j. L. Harbour

CYRUS DRAKE had come over 10
l. our house to see if | would go with
him 10 the spell at SiX-Mile."
Cyrus was IL and | was about the
same age.
We lived at this time, which was long
ago. in the west, in "A rural neighbor-
hood. Cyrus and | walked two miles
10 school together four months Of the
year. That was all of the schooling
we could get, because our fathers were
poor men, with large families TO sup
port. and we were needed at home.
Few boys of our age ever attended any
but the winter term OF the school.
The Drake farm adjoined my ia
Tiers. and Cyrus and were bosom
friends. We sat together in the little
old brick schoolhouse in one room, in
which 10 or 50 boys and girls, OF from
five to nineteen years OF age were
crowded together during the winter
term of the school.
The school district next TO ours was
called the "Six-Mile district hard
ly know why it was given this name,
but il may have been because it was
about six miles from the nearest town.
Our social opportunities were eN-
tremely limited. Indeed there was so
little going on" at any time hat a
spelling match or singing school at
the schoolhouse partook of the nature
Of a social gathering, and was hailed
with delight by the entire district
Ii was seldom that anything more
exciting occurred than spelling con-
test between the pupils OF SiN-Nilt and
those Of our district. There had been
good many Of these contests. and
the honors had been about equally di-
vided.
They re going 10 have spell over a
SiN-Alile," said Cyrus, when ne came
over 10 our house. I've just heard
about IT, | guess its for them to kind
Of practice up 50 they'll have better
chance Of winning when when they
come over to try and spell us down
next week. But that's no reason why
we shouldn't 20 if We want to-
Nor was the fact that we lived four
miles from the SiN-Mile schoolhousc
and the night was singing cold any
reason why two sturdy. country-bred
boys should stay away from the spell
ing school. although we would have to
walk both ways.
Father said might 90. and he added:
Il have 10 go away over to Squire Ha-
gan's tonight on a matter Of business,
and I'll try to come by the schoolhouse
at about the time the spell is over with.
and you can ride home with me in the
pung."
50 Cyrus and set out on foot in the
light of "a fun moon. The snow lay
smooth and white on the almost level
stretches of prairie. and it was drifted
high in tic long lanes through which
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

Beemcr, Neb May MARY Nlach
l6-year old daughter of a farmer, COM
mitted suicide while despondent over
the death of her soldier sweetheart
George Hoar, who tell before Calocan
while fighting with the FIRST Nebraska
Hoar was IA ncighboriug farm boy, an d
the two had attended the same country
school. The sorrowiug girl took her
fathers shotgun, and retiring to her
room. went to- work deliberately To
prepare for her death. She removed
one of her slippers, and placing the
muzzle Of the gun over her heart pushed
the trigger of the weapon with her toe.
Death was instantaneous. The girl left
a letter to her parents saying she could
not bear her grief longer and preferred
death.
An hour after the tragedy the girls
father returned from the postoilce
bringing letter from youuc Hoer
which he had written just befo" 9
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

The people of Bedding have made a
careful examination of the roads they
repaired with crushed stone last year,
and find after coming through an ex-
ceptionally hard winter that the roads
are even better than before. Here is a
pointer for our common council
Grocnville Democrat.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

into batrh in which he was killed.
The letter sud n. vt, auXIpus to re-
turn 10 Nchra ka, but he would never
ask To he mustered out un'l) the enemy
had been defeated aud the Nehr * "A
regiment could return as u body with
all the honorS of conqncrors
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE
BY Telegraph Giving a Brief Re-
sumo Of the Weeks Events.
RELIABLE AND INTERESTING.
FIFTY CONCERNS IN 1T.
Federal Sewer Pipe Co VIII Embrace
Michigan Firms.

FederaI Soviet Plpe Go, VIII EmbraCe
Michigan Firms.
New York, May i.-The Times to-
morrow will say: Dos Passos and
Mitchell today gave out the details re-
garding the proposed Federal Sewer
Pipe GO. 1t will have capitalization
of $25 ,000,0 half of which is to be
perferred stock. The transaction will
not be completed for several days.
Byron X binson of Akron, O., is likely
to be- president of the corporation. The
merger will consolidate about 80 con
Gems ia New York, Ohio. Michigan
PENNSYLVANIA and Indiana.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
CarIyIe's House.

During 1s9s Carlyle's house in Cheyne
row, Chelsea, was visited by some 1000
enthusiasts. During the three years IT
has been open nearly 10000 persons
have paid for admission. Americans
formed a larger proportion at first. but
of late they have been less numerous.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

u A. BAGLEY, Physician and surgeon
II. Once. Opera House Block. Office hours 30
10 $3.50 and tos p. m. Diseases Of theeye and ear
"A specially.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

r. SUIDAN. NJ ID Physician and Surgeon
%. once opposite Chuicn blOcs.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

10 Cure a u9i5 In 0aa 9ay.
Take Warmers White Wine of Tar
Syrup, the best cough remedy on
earth. IS and so cents.
For sale by SHARRAR & MULIGOLLANp
Successors to b :. Webb
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

nH. y +. MCCLINTON. Graduate OF the
~ University Of Michigan. General Practice
once in the New Pollasky Block. once hours,
$3.50 10 II 30 a. m; 30 10 500 and 90 TO sOO y.
nj. Night calls nj residence one mile west OF
town.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
ALMA BUSINESS IIbECTORY
PROBE SSIONRl.

lar. GEO. ". PRlNGLE,
IL GENERAL PRACTICE
Office: POlasky Block. h0ur-, 2:OOto 5:OOp,m
Residence one block north Of Alma Roller Mills
Alma, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

Il A. R.-Wiliam Meyer Post, No 1872 Depart
". mcnt OF Michigan. G.. \. r., meet on I'd Sat
urday OF each mouth AT 100 p. m. and on the 4th
saturday OF each month at 2:C0 p. IL.
ORLANDO SHARP, Commander.
j. j. IhOTT Adiutant
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

EARL TOKkEl, Attorney at Law. Special
IL attention given collections. Alma. Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

4 LIMA LODGE +. Il a. M-Rpgular meetings
~ on saturday on or before full moon.
". KELLY, ". NJ.
SETH TUBES, Scc'y
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

A LIMA CHAPTER o f =. 40. l3-Regular
"A meetings on the first Friday OF each month
MRS. OLIVE II. CAPLE, ". Nation.
MARY f. TAYLOR. Sec V.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12
LODGES.

4 LIMA HAPPIER 40. l23. T. A. VI Regular meet
y ings on Monday night on or aiterfull moon
u. POLLASkN, II +.
g. ;. YoUNG. Scc'y
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

DIRE RlTER!AN CHU RCH- Morning service
l .030: sunday school II 90 ftcuiug service
, 30 p. ~. Etv. ~. *. SPEs GER. Astor
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

AVN MpNER RELIEF CORPS. No ls3, meet
w every second and fourth Wednesday in the
month.
Mas. SARAH TAYLOR. President.
Mrs. MARY THOMAS Secretary
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

BAPTIST CHI r. H-Morniug service 1O:30;
- Sunday school l.t5 Evening service 80
Young peoples meeting 6:OU sunday evening
Prayer meeting Thursday evenings
Ray II. ". tLoUGH. Pastor
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

EhEE METHODIST CHURCH Services every
Il Sunday al II 90 "A. NJ uud GO p. IN. sunday
school at 1890 "A M Prayer meetings Tuesday
aud Friday evenings All ARE cordially invited u
attend. j. \. WATSON. Pastor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

Ahto q. kkE. Attorney NJ Law ana So
~ licitOr Ia ChanceIy. Alro Citcutt Court
,ommissiOnor for NralOt Comfy, Michigan.
Ofhce I'm Heath block Ithaca. Mich
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

1 MA ODGk 40. 23s. / o o. F. meets every
y Monday evening. JAS t. WILSON n G
j. ALvEtsON h. =
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

- OVAL ARCANUM-Arcada Council No. 1898
IL meets every other "Wednesday night at l. o.
. Hall / y. BRAlNEhD, Regent
y. w. BECKNER. Secy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

The contest went forward amid sup
pressed eNcitment. No one whispered.
and the silence was so intense that
the lowcst-voiced speller could be
heard in every part Of the room.
When all but six of the contestants
had missed the words pronounced 10
them and had sat down, Cyrus was still
standing. Miss Ware. the teacher. now
began pronouncing the most difficult
words in the book and ten minutes
later every contestant had been spelled
down but Cyrus and his cousin, Louis
Drake. boy about the age Of Cyrus.
This was rather a singular coinci-
dence, and one with n sorrowful side
10 it, for. although Cyrus and Louis
were own cousins. they were at bitter
enmity and did not speak to each
other. Their fathers. who were broth
erS. had Quarreled over the division Of
their fathers property several years
before the time this story opens. and
the quarrel had extended TO the mem
bers Of both families. They held no
communication with each other. al
though each brother. in the calmer
reflection that had come after the quar-
rel, had seen wherein he had been in
the wrong. But they nursed their Bit
terness and gave no token OF regret
or Of n desire for a reconciliation.
Cyrus and Louis looked deiiantly into
each others faces. They held their
heads erect. with their arms folded on
their breasts. The enmity existing be
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-12

X NIGHTS or pYTHIAS-F itz James LODGE
No. ~ Of I. hold it, regular meetings.
every other W Wednesday night.
- {
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
Exports and Tariff Provisions.

It is not surprising that foreign coun-
tries are becoming alarmed at the enor
nous increase in the sale of American
manufactured goods. They doubtless
thought, if they read Democratic
speeches at the time, that the passage
Of the Dingley law would somewhat
curtail our exports and they would
have this advantage in being able to
keep their home markets intact, even
if they could not proitably scale our
tariff wall, but they find not only the
American market fully protected, but
Democratic prophecies unfulflled and
American goods invading their own
markets in every branch. AS a mat
ter of fact, tariff regulations have in
themselves little if anything to do with
exports, except that under protection
manufacturing f1ourishes and there are
more factories in operation to export
goods.-Oswego On. W Times.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
What the Elections Mean.

The Democratic party is welded to
it's idols. 1t stands and will continue
to stand for antiprotection, for free
silver, for antiexpansion and for ev-
erything else implied by the term Bry-
anism. The people, wherever they had
an opportunity to speak and where the
issue was drawn, have declared that
they want none of it; that they are
content with the prosperity the Repub-
lican policy of protection to home In
dustry has brought to their doors; sat
isf1ed with 100 cent dollars Republic
an financial policy gives them; that
they glory in the extension Of Ameri-
can independence and American civil
zation to the West Indies and the far
east. There is no hope for the retro
gressive Democratic party. That is
what Tuesdays elections mean
Wilkesbarre Pa.) Record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28

through constant exposure to it rather
than pure recklessness.. 1t is stated
that he has so often ridden up and
down his lines on a big white horse,
wearing white uniform and a big
white helmet, making himself a target
for the enemy, that it is a wonder that
he was not killed long since. While
such daring and fear1essness is admir-
able, when it jeopardizes the life of one
of so much Importance to the country,
it is but natural that it should arouse a
bit of regret.
But aside from what the army 1ooses
by this kind of unnecessary exposure
in the death of Lawton himself there
is the influence on younger officers
both of the regular Army and of the
volunteers, who are filed with a great
ambition and are only too anxious to
emulate the examples of the senior
officers. 1t had always been the popu-
lar notion that an officers place was
rather in the rear than in the van of
his troops while in action, both in
order that he might the better survey
the situation and that he might be the
less exposed, but so different was it
among the Americans that in the
Spanish war more than one Spanish
general was known to remark it with
amazement. While all this speaks
very well for the bravery and spirit of
the American soldier it may be justly
questioned, as it has been by the best
generals in our army of veterans,
whether in the end it is the wisest
policy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
HOW TO GET STARTED.
Austra1ia's Interest In the Results OF
Protection.

Australians Interest In the Results of
Protection.
The statistical returns recently is
sued at Washington showing the mar
velous development Of the American
export trade attract much attention in
Australia, where the question Of pro-
lection or free trade as a colonial poll
cy remains to be decided. The Daily
Telegraph Of Sydney, Sept. 80, is great
ly impressed by the statistics, which
show that our manufactures sent
abroad have more than doubled in val
ue in the last six years and that for
the last fiscal year the manufactured
goods exported have averaged more
than a million dollars for each business
day Of the year. For the current cal
endar year they average a million dol
lars per day, including Sundays and
holidays. The Telegraph says:
''It is in the export Of metals that
the United States manufacturers have
made the greatest strides. In ten years
the percentage Of metals exported as
compared with the total exports has
increased from 20 to A per cent. How
rapidly a country can come to the front
in a new line Of business is shown by
the export of bicycles, Of which there
was none from the United States in
1888, while in 1898 the total value of
cycles exported amounted to 1859, 105.
This remarkable progress argues that
Australia, once started as a manufac-
turing nation, will find that progress
in that direction is made by leaps and
bounds"
"Once started" is a judicious phrase
in this connection. Will Australia ever
get "once started as a manufacturing
nation" until she drops the folly Of
Cobdenism and takes up protection as
permanent policy2 There is no rea
son to think so.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28

DWIGHT L. MOODY is dead. It has
been said that he was the greatest
evangelist since Wesley. He has Civ
en- his life to serving the world. His
name is known and revercd wherever
the English language is spoken. He
is mourned by millions. He was great
personality and has left an impress on
the age that will not die with the CEN
fury. Still Moody was not intellect
ua11y great. He derived his strength
from his sublime faith in the cause
he served. His devotion to his religion
and the zeal with which he 1aborcd in
it's interests knew no limit. Christian
and non-Christian speak his name with
reverence and all, regardless of sect
or creed, regret his death as that of a
man whose sterling goodness has been
potent factor in the regeneration OF
the world.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
SOME DRAWBACKS.
Inconvenience Resulting From the
Present Prosperity.

inconvenience Resulting From the
Present Prosperity.
Such an enormous and swift coming
wave Of prosperity as has struck this
country since our return to economic
sanity has it's little Inconvenience.
The business world is not used to such
sudden and complete changes in the sit
uatiOn Of affairs as a change from free
trade to protection implies. Consequent
ly present prosperity finds US not wholly
prepared for it. The manufacturers Of
eastern Pennsylvania are suffering just
now from the inevitable inability Of
people to realize beforehand what a
great change was to come. Many con-
Germs in that section are threatened
just now with the necessity Of tenn
porarily closing down on account of
the lack of fuel and raw material. Sew
eral Of the large iron furnaces, more
over, are using anthracite coal instead
of coke, because their supplies Of the
latter are exhausted, and other furnaces
will be forced to do the same unless
large quantities Of coke are soon re-
ceived from the western part Of the
state. The cause Of all this trouble is
that the railroad companies have not
a sufficient number Of cars with which
to meet all demands for transportation.
We have not yet learned to live up to
the commercial greatness which the
protection Of American industries i'm
plies. But we are willing to keep on
fruinU
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
AMERICAN WAGES.
Why the WOrkingman Votes For a.
Protective Tariff.

Why the WOrkingman Votes For a
Protective Tariff.
The supporters Of free trade prate
about their belief in the American la
borer, their belief in his ability to cope
with the foreign laborer, and they claim
that because of his superior intelli-
gence he does not need the protection
of the tariff. No one doubts that the
American laborer could outclass the
foreign laborer every time if the two
stood on equal terms. If the American
laborer is willing to work for the
wages paid to the foreign laborer or for
wages not so low as that, but yet con-
siderably lower than the wages which
he now receives, the American manu-
facturer could undersell the foreign
manufacturer every time.
But the American laborer won't work
for such wages and could not live on
such a pittance. 1t is that he may not
be brought down to pauper wages
which leads the self respecting Amer
lean workingman to vote for protect
i've tariff on competing products from
foreign countries. In one thing. If only
in one, the free traders are right The
American laboring man, as rule, is a
man OF ability and of intelligence, of
intelligence sufficient to protect him
self against the repetition in this coun-
try of the labor evils of Europe
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-28
BALM FOR HURT SOULS.

Free Traders Take Comfort In Say
ing Prosperity Is Fictitious.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
has found way to mitigate the pangs
produced by the statistics of our vast
~ increased export trade and by the
fact that through the workings of the
Dingley tariff the United States is pill
Ing up huge trade balances ct a rate
that If continued a few years longer
will shift the financial center of the
world from Europe to America. The
figures as to exports and trade bal
ances have caused much agony among
free traders, but they have mostly suf-
fered in silence and have mostly not
attempted to explain things so as to
tally with the theory that the country
which buys more than it sells grows
rich much faster than the country
which sells more than it buys and ac-
cumulates surplus in the shape of in
creased national wealth. The problem
has been a hard one of late for the
superior minds" and they have "pass-
ed' it for the most part.
Not so the Springfield Republican of
Nov. IA, which has discovered pallia-
tive for it's miseries in the alleged dis
covery that our export statistics are
padded so as to represent fictitious
values and that our big trade balances
are in fact very small trade balances,
if, indeed, there be any trade balance
at all. 1t sums up the case as follows:
Taking all these things into consid-
GRAFTON, we are forced to conclude that
the current export trade figures are
materially in excess Of what the goods
have really been sold for. 1t is pad
ded account, which must be scaled
down considerably to reach the true
export value. And when this has been
done and when to the import, or
debtor, account has been added the
$15O,OOO,OOO to $25O,0O0,OOO which
should be added we cannot suppose
any very large sum remains unpaid to
the United States on account OF the
great trade balance which has been ac-
cumulated on paper during the past
ten months"
There's Cobdenite comfort for you!
1t is cheerful school OF economic
doctrine that finds it's only content and
consolation in calculations of this
kind. Big exports and big trade bal
ances are to the American free trader
gall and wormwood. Smaller sales to
and larger purchases from foreigners
are much more to his taste. If the
treasury statistics show a contrary
state of things, If they show that I'M
der a protective tariff we are selling
to the outside world $600,00O,O00 per
year more of American products than
we are buying Of foreign products,
then the statistics must be wrong.
Mr.. Austin, the very accurate and
trustworthy chief Of the treasury bu-
reau of statistics, will never stand well
with American free traders so long as
he persists in putting out figures Of
foreign trade which show phenomenal
gains for the individual and aggregate
wealth Of the United States. Still, he
may have the consolation Of knowing
that he will stand extremely well with
the balance of the people, those who
rejoice and are glad at their country's
great prosperity.