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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Beet Sugar Notes.

Senator Davis gave notice last week oil
an amendment to the beet sugar law
providing that companies which in any
manner affiliate with the sugar trust
shall forfeit all claim TO the state bounty
of one cent per pound.
Eastern capitalists will erect sugar
factory at Cass City in the spring. Al
public meeting held Wednesday even
ing the eastern parties offered 70 erect
factory if local capitalists would furn-
ish 5000. The necessary amount was
subscribed IN "A few moments and the
new industry is assured.
Rep. Lusk, of West Bay City, gave
notice last Friday of bill TO remedy the
defect in the beet sugar bounty law
found by Attorney General Oren, who
holds that the bounty was available only
for the years 1875. The Lusk bill pro-
vides that the payments may be made
during the continuance of the bounty.
The opponents of the bounty Will fight
the bill, thinking it easier to defeat that
than TO repeal the bounty. Mr.. Lusk
has faith that the legislature Will no.
cripple the industry which is just obtain
ing foothold.
+. +, Waldron of ST. Johns was IL
Alma Wednesday Mr. Waldro is al
wealthy farmer of Clinton county and
at the farmers institute held IN St
Johns last week ne was appointed as Il
committee of one TO come to Alma and
make arrangements IN regard 10 max
ing contracts for raising sugar beets by
the farmers in that section Of the state.
The farmers OF that county know
good thing when they see II and are
prompt in taking advantage of it. If
they can not have factory close al
home they will ship their product e.
the most available point.
1t looks now as though there would
be large number OF farmers here to
settle in this township, as nearly every
day someone is looking for land Five
men are in town from Indiana, at
the present time, looking for land for
farming purposes. As tins Is one OF the
best townships in Michigan, there Is no
surprise that the people have found
out that Warren township Is good terri.
tory for sugar beet raising. There viii
be a good many acres planted with beets
this year. with an increasing market
which is cause for nope that there viii
be a number OF new settlers III the
spring. Coleman correspondent to tie
Saginaw Courier Herald.
Some of our farmers have expressed
doubts about being able 10 secure help
enough to care for any large crop Of
sugar beets if planted. ON this account
some are afraid to plant over one or two
acres There Is one man though who IL
not alarmed at all over any SUCH pros
pect, although he Is not q resident OF
this county. We have reference 70
Isaac Pierce of Bay City. lie OWNS the
large farm just north of where the old
Ann Arbor depot stood and In recent
letter TO the man who works this farm
he instructed him to pillow up ten acres
of ground sowed TO wheat last fall and
plant the same to sugar beets. Mr..
Pierce lives right in the sugar beet
country and has the experience of those
who raised the beets last fall, therefore
knows what he Is doing.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Chinese Brides.

Chinese brides, when putting on
their bridal garments on the eventful
morning, stand in round, shallow
baskets during their lengthy toilets.
This is supposed to insure them placid
and well sounded lives in their new
homes
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Homesick Horses.

4 resident of Ventura. Cal, recently
drove nine horses distance Of 300
miles to sell them. a few days later
they returned to their old home hav-
ing escaped from pasture and Travelled
the entire distance without driver or
herder.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Arnh Enrrinu..

Among he Arabs the expression TO
have a ring ia ones ears" is synony-
nous with TO be a slave, and to the
present day an Arab who has been
conquered by another places a ring
through his ear as token.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Fiat Money.

An Arkansas contemporary records
queer case of financial irregularity. II
appears that young man down there
swallowed copper cent by mistake
and doctor made him cough up 81.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
speedy AIeteors.

Meteors rush through space az the
rate Of twenty-six miles a second They
are not usually larger than a pebble.
and on striking the earth's atmosphere
they Immediately dissolve into gas.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
For Sale or Rent.

Twenty acre farm, modern new house
large new barn ar d other buildings one
block from Beet Sugar Factory and three
blocks from Union School. Alma. In.
quire of +. T. POLLAsKY.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
Dogs that Never Bark.

There are three varieties of the dog
that never bark-the Australian dog.
the Egyptian shepherd dog and the
"lion.hssdsd" dog of Thirt
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17
STArE OF MICHIGAN tn. s3tD Judicial

STATE OF MICHIGAN TIL. 29th Judicial
- Circuit ia ChaDccry
NAIHAS BRADLEY
Complainant
suit pending
in the Circuit for
- the County OF
Cratic; ~ Chan
ions NJ BRYsON JOINS Gerry, at Ithaca,
w YCkOIF Massey DoUG- Mich ON thr !th
Las GEORGE PARKER. day OF February
GEORGE COOPER, AND Ed 1893
WARD ALLEMAN
Defendant.
Ia this cause, il appearing from drua1t on
III that the defendants. George Parker. George
Cooper and Edward Aneman are residents OF
this ,tatc, but their ~ her abOuts are unknown
IN, refore, ON motion O; y II Sawy cr,sOlictorf for
the above named complainant. Il is order"d
the said GcorgC Parker, George Cooper and Ed
ward Allenan enter their appearance ~ said
cause on or before thre" months from the date
OF this order and that within twenty days the
cause this order TO De- published In
the ALMA RECORD a newspaper printed and
circulating in the county OF Gratiot and stat
OF Michigan said publication 10 be continntd
once in each week for six weeks IL succession.
john ID. sPISNEY.
& II SAWYER, Circuit ourt Commissioner.
Solicitor for Com Gratiot County. Mich.
paiuaut, aud DEvERt HALL OF Counsel
1870 Nv
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17

suit pending
in the Circuit Tor
the County OF
Gratiot 10 Chan
Gerry at Ithaca.
Mich ON tn nh
day OF February
1893.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17

joins NJ BRYsON joins
WYCKOIT. NASCY DOUG
Las GEORGE PARKER.
GEORGE COOPER, AND Ed
WARD AILKMAN
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17

NArHAS Is BRADLEY
Complainant
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-17

Attorney for Assignee of Mortgage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-03-04
"DUTCH TEARS"
teresting Experiment
with Glass.

1T is great wonder" said an old
chemist in his laboratory the other
day, why more boys do not take chem
zeal experiments as an amusement.
Why, can do things with the common
materials of everyday life which really
seem to be more magical to the uniniti-
ated than any Of the wonders per-
formed by magicians on the public
stage.
Now, there are those curious little
bubbles of glass known variously as
Prince Rupert's Drops and as Dutch
Tears Apparently they are merely
little globules of glass with elongated
tails, made by heating a small glass rod
in flame and allowing the molten
drops to fall into water. After they
have cooled you may pound the thick
part with hammer or mallet, yet you
cannot break them.
ION the other hand, if you break a
little piece off their tails, or touch any
part of them with quartz crystal, they
will Immediately disappear into the sur
rounding atmosphere. To the person
who does not know the reason the per-
Torrance is most astonishing.
And yet it is all very simple. 1t is
due to what is known as surface CO.
hesion. Glass, when heated to molten
state, has naturally reached a very
high temperature, and when the drops
of melted glass are allowed to fall into
the cold water the sudden change pro-
duces stress which is really terrific.
This stress, however, must be consid-
cred as a whole.
1T is very strong when taken all to-
gether, but it is exactly as though a
piece of very thin rubber was stretched
over the surface of the glass. If you
punctured the rubber it's haste to re-
sumo its normal condition would pull; it
off the glass.
80 when you break off the tail of the
drop or cut through the film of very
hard glass with crystal its endeavors
suddenly to resume it's normal condi.
ton result in its own destruction, and
it breaks up into particles which are
really finer than the finest sand.
ut seems like wonderful perform.
ance, but it is no more wonderful per.
formance than many others which any
youngster would perform if he would
study even the simplest form of chem
ical Acknowledgement Enquirer.
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Perplexins Femininitx.

A small boy of my near acquaintance
stood the other day taking lesson in
feminine human nature-not his first
lesson, but a bitter one-with quiverine
lip and deeply perplexed face. He cx.
claimed, having reference to his still
smaller sister:
Dolly cries because / don't do q
thing, and when / do it then she cries
because do it!'
This was true and natural, but the
boys remark was not so profound as
was an anecdote which / once read in
French. A wife, so this story related
was Weakened by her husbands weep.
ing and bowling in the middle of the
night. He was evidently having q
dream, and she woke him and asked
what was the matter.
"Oh, my DEAR he said, rubbing his
eyes, II dreamed that you were dead.-
"Ha!" she said, bitterly, and turning
away from him, great griefs arr
mute. Boston Transcript.
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She-"What is kiss in French?',
He-"I can't tell you, but can show
you."-Yonkers Statesman.
1t Never Fails.-Askins-"W kind
of alarm clock have your" Cynic-"My
wife's eIbow."-Tacoma Ledger.
He OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have a
bad cold" She (huskily)-"I have.
am so hoarse that if you attempted to
kiss me couldn't even scream. Boa
ton Journal.
II always believe in giving every man
his due" "Yes, but you carry it to an
extreme" "How 500" "You never give
men anything but due bills for what
you owe them. Cleveland Leader.
did you fall?" asked the officious
one of the man who had slipped on the
ice. "Fall!" roared the man whitening
ly; mo! l merely sat down to think
over this expansion question. "-Phila-
delphia North American.
'And were you homesick in Porte
Rico, my son?" asked the Chicago ia.
Their of his soldier son. mo, father,
was not. As soon as heard the island
had been annexed to the United States,
l felt as If it were already suburb OF
Chicago. "--Yonkers Statesman.
The Editors Denial.-Reporter, te
editor-"The manager of the Uptown
theater demands denial of our state.
ment that rotten eggs were thrown al
the troupe that played at his house last
night" Editor-'I suppose we ought
to do it for him. Just say that the eggs
were strictly fresh. "-Roxbury Gazette.
Mrs. Fogg-"Mr. Selan preached
beautiful sermon this forenoon. So
helpful, too! He said we should make
our calling and election sure" Mr.
Fogg-Election sure! What does ht
know about politics, anyway? You
never can be sure now that they have
the Australian ballot."-Boston Tran.
script.
Miss Strut" said young man to an
acquaintance, with whom he was TAX
ing walk one evening, II hope this
cigarette will not be offensive to your"
Not at all, sir" she replied, slowly and
with emphasis, unless you light it,"
And not word was spoken for the next
half hour.-Sydney Town and Country
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-03-04
HERE AND THERE.

If your boy wants to be lawyer
you send him to a law school; if doc
tor you send him to medical college;
if he would rather be farmer you
keep him at home and work the life
out Of him.
Cover peek of refuse potatoes in
the hole where you are to set your
trees, and they will provide what mois-
ture the tree may need in dry time,
and keep it alive until its gets rooted.
Spraying gives not only better
quality of fruit but that which is more
perfect, and it also reduces the wide
difference between fruit years and OF
years, and this helps to the profit
Germany takes from this country
nearly 81 .OO0, 600 worth of corn annual
ly, nearly the whole of which is used
as food for cattle and hogs. Their ag
riculiural education and economical
habits enable them to pay freight and
charges on the corn we raise and feed
il at profit.
The raising of artichokes for hogs
is worth trying, and ii may be well to
have it in mind next spring. They
can be planted as early as the ground
can be made ready. They certainly
are an aid toward the economical feed
ing of hogs.
Hens are frequently made too fat
to lay, but not too fat for the table.
Old hens will become too fat for lay
ing almost without provocation-just
is done. Oftener, however. hens are
too lean to lay. Liberal feeding with
pitrogenous food % what b aesdsd,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-03-04

HOLLY CUNNINGHAM lived in a

holly CUNNINGHAM lived in a
quiet country neighborhood and
nourished on Walter Scott's stories
from the time she could read, had al
ways longed for excitement and adven-
lures; now she had great deal more
of them than she wanted. Her home in
Culpeper county, Va, was near the very
center of the battle-ground between the
union and confederate armies; so near
Brandy Station that the roar of the can
non echoed through the house and the
smoke of the battle was plainly to be
seen.
Her father and her brothers were in
the southern army. But she and her
mother remained in the old homestead.
A few Of their old slaves still chung to
them, notably Polly's NANNY" and
her husband, who, trusted and confiden-
tial house servants, had never felt the
yoke of slavery as CALLING. What they
could have done without nanny Polly
never dared to think.
She came into the dining-room,
where Polly was washing the dishes
after the frugal dinner, meal which
her mother, suffering with an acute at
tack of neuralgia, was too i'll to share.
swell, honey" she said, "yo' ma
pears to be easy now. gave her a
hot foot bath an q mustard plarster.
an she went to sleep, so put the bell
whar she could tech it an crep' out. /
reckon mout as well take my ole man
his dinner" Nanny went to the win
dow and looked out, craning her neck
to catch glimpse of the drive lead
ing to the front of the house. "Great
Marster," said she, "here's Yankee Of
ficer ridin' up to the do. Yo' keep still,
chile, while ! 60 an sees what he
wants."
In moment she was back, smiling.
followed by young man in the uni
form of a United States lieutenant,
whose "Helio, Pollyl" startled her so
that she dropped the cup she was WHIP
ing on the floor. She looked at it rue
fully, then her face lit up.
"Why, Frank!" she exclaimed, "where
did you come from?"
"Stuart's headquarters, of course;
want to find out what Sheridan is do
ing. I've letter for your mother from
IL, major. Can you get me q mouthful
to eat?"
"It won't be much MORE" said Polly,
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NERVOUS DEPRESSION.


IA TALK WITH mrs. pfNKHAH.l
A woman with the blues Is . very un.
comfortable person. She Il illogical,
unhappy and frequently hysterical.
The condition of the mind known -
1.-THE blues,S nearly always, with wo-
men, results from diseased organs Of
generation.
It is . source of wonder that in this
age Of advanced medical science, any
person should still believe that mere
force OF will and determination will
overcome depressed spirits and nerve
business in women. These troubles arc
indications of disease.
Every woman who doesn't under.
stand her condition should write to
Lynn, Mass, to Mrs. Pinkham for her
advice. Her advice Il thorough COM
mon sense, and il the counsel Of .
learned woman Of great experience.
Read the story of Mrs. r. 8. BExHxrr,
Westphalia, Kansas, % told in the fol-
lowing letter:
"DEAR MRS. PMKHAM:-I have suf.
fered for over two years with falling,
enlargement and liberation of the
womb, and this spring, being in such
. weakened condition, caused me TO
Cow for nearly six months. Some time
ago, urged by friends, / wrote to you
for advice. After using the treatment
which you advised for . short time,
that terrible dow stopped.
81 am now gaining strength and
Aesh, and have better health than l
have had for the past ten years.
wish to say to al distressed, suffer.
ing women, do not suffer longes. when
there Is one 90 kind and willing TO
aid you"
Lydis 3. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound il . woman's remedy for wo-
mans Ills. More than . million wo.
men have been benefited by t.
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There 4 more Catarrh in this section 81

the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For . great many
years doctors pronounced it . local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
SANITY failing to cure with local treatment
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Cheney 4 Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It n
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to .
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case Il
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address F. j. Cheney h Co, To-
Lido, o. Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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~ she set out the remains of the din
ner az quickly as possible. Mamma
has one of her bad streaks of neuralgia.
OBJ, Frank, how are papa and brother
Ned, and Jack?"
"All well and fiourishing two days
ago; why, this does famously, Polly"
and he set to work at bread and butter.
beef and potatoes with the hearty relish
Of hungry traveller.
Nanny had taken the letter upstairs,
sure that no other medicine would do
Mrs. Cunningham SO much good. Now
she rushed back. ashy with fright. "For
de Lawd's sake, Mars Frank, run oud
de back dol Here comes whole troop
of Yankees"
no. Frank" said Polly. who had
flown to the back window as he started
up, and, seizing hat and overcoat, made
for the door. "They are coming that
way. too. Quick! here! upstairs! can
hide you'll"
The rear of the house was one and
half stories high, with sloping roof;
and where the newer two-storied front
joined it on either side Were closets
in the wall. They had been weinscoted,
instead of plastered, and one Of them
had been given to Polly in her baby
hood for doll house. After reaching
Woodstock Polly had begged her father
for sliding panel in this closet, OPEN
ing into the cuddy under the caves of
the old house.
Mrs. Cunningham had protested. say
ing itwonld only be q rat hole aud do
Polly no good. but the husband had
laughed and yielded. 1T was as good
us any other top" be said. and under
PoIIy's supervision copntry carpen.
~ asd doas sbt lob 70 eltvsrlx taat ~
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''I'he fellow who runs the dairy asso-
Citations and prints the dairy papers
seems to neglect one of the machines
dairymen use, and one of the most i'm
portant of Them" said an old dairy
farmer, as he waited for his skim
milk.
"What machine is that?" asked the
man spoken to, who belonged to the
party accused. We pay great deal
of attention to separators, aerators,
milk watts, churns, workers and tubs.
and 1 don't remember any more ma
chimes that are intimately mixed up
with dairying, unless it be the cows.
and I'm sure we talk enough about
them
Its been SO long since 1 saw a
word in print about the milking ma
chine that I've forgotten when it was, )"
asserted the dairyman.
"Oh, they are not common enough
to require very much space" was the
reply.
II wasn't referring to the milking
machines that are turned like grind
stone or work like suction pump"
said the dairyman. II was thinking
OF the man who does the milking. We
hear all about having the stables
swept and garnished and the milk pro-
tected from contamination from dust
in the air and all that sort of thing,
but it isn't once a year that we see u
word about the kind of man that
should do the milking 1 tell you, a
good mixer is a treasure. I'd rather
give a good man double wages than to
keep poor one for his work. 1t makes
all the difference in the world whether
a man speaks kindly to COW when he
goes in beside her to milk her or yelIs
at her to ''stand over" as If she were
a mile away and slightly deaf. The
fellow l like is the one the cows like
tn hang around. He talks to them as
if they were human beings and pats
them like he would baby, and they
will turn around and look at him over
their shoulder in kind of way that
means good deal. When see lot of
cows stick their ears straight back and
stiffen up as soon as they hear the
mixers voice, know they keep their
off eye on him all the time for fear of
a lick or a kick, and they won't give
down worth cent. The mixer who
whistles or sings is the one whose
cows give the most milk the year
through, and such man coaxes his
wages out of the cows every month.
That's the machine i was thinking of
that you folks seem to forget. There's
as much difference in mixers as there
is in machinery, and not sure, but
morc.'-Farmers' Voice.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-03-04

The Louisville Air Line has inaugurated
for the season through sleeping car route to
Jacksonville, Fla, in competition with the
Southern Railway, Queen 4 Crescent Route
and Florida and Central Peninsular railroad,
passing through the important c,t'e' al E.
lanta. Macon. This line affords passengers
for Florida trip via Asheviile, N; c., the
greatest American all-year-around resort.
Correspondence solicited and information
promptly furnished. r. A. Campbell, Gen.
eral Passenger Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
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1t will be seen that the amount OF

III Will be seen that the amount OF
cotton raised has gradually increased
in the last % years, until now, when
four times more is grown than in 1872;
and druing this time the price of the
staple has diminished almost four
times, and also the price of the stand
ard goods manufactured from it. Now
what does this argue-that too much
cotton is grown, does it not? And what
is the remedy--to grow less, is it not :?
But, AYE, there's the rub" Five cent
cotton and two-cent prints is enough
to give the cotton grower the night
mare, which Webster defines as "a
sensation of weight about the breast
in sleeps" and l will add, in the case
of the cotton planter at this time, a
sensation of lack of weight about
the pocket in wakefulness.
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IN ANpALusIA.

Beneath the brilliant Spanish sky tower.
Lofty and lovely. rears its graceful height
Near the fair palace where by royal right
The noble ARGOS ruled In feudal power;
Here Ponce de Leon. of his race the flower,
Set forth upon his quest in all mems sight
To seek but never find = oh, happy
knight
A more than kingly. more than mortal
dover.
Above the vegas still the palace stands;
Vast olive orchards sweep about, ana
fields
OF waving grain where peoples bloom
In fame.
Here pilgrims come from distant western
lands,
And of the vital Joy that beauty yields
Quan youth renewed In Ponce de Icons
name.
-Minna Caroline Smith. In The Puritan.
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Husband Cat the breakfast table)-
Oh, for some of the biscuits my mother
used to make.
Wife (sweetly)-I'm sorry YOU
haven't got them, dear, They would
be just about stale enough by this time
10 go well with that remark Chiesgo
Evssinv News,
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Through sleeper from St. Louis to Port
Tampa, Fla. (Shipside), via Mobile 4 Ohio
to Montgomery, Plant System to Port Tam
pa. Direct connection made at Port Tampa
With Elegant Steamships Of the Plant
Steamship Line, for Havana, Cuba. Short
est and best route to Havana. Address F.
L. Harris, 40 Olive st., St. Louis, Mo-;
Chas. Rudolph, 35l Marquette Bldg, Chica.
60; e. E. Posey, G. p. A., Mobile, Ala.