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The Owosso times., 1900-08-24
Local News.

Local News.
j. F. Mabin was in Holly yesterday ou
business.
Walter Amos spent Sunda, witt Dt'-oit
relatives.
Leo Moss and Bert Densmore spent Sur
day In Linden.
Geo. B. McCaughna spent Sunday with
his parents in Byron.
George Edwards wei; 10 Bate Geek
Saturday evening on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Swarthout spent
Sunday in Ovid with relatives.
Oakside schools opens Tuesday, Septem-
ber 4th, for its eighteenth year.
H.J. Daniels returned Monday from a
short visit with friends in Detroit.
Miss Matte Cheal has been the guest of
Pontiac relatives part of the week.
Mrs. R. n. Parshal returned Monday
evening from visit at Williamson.
Roy vandewater has returned from an
extended visit with friends at Ceresco, Iowa
c. W. Danforth entertained his father,
A. b. Danforth, of Ovid, the first of the
week.
The pension of Patrick Murphy, of
Hazelton, has been increased to SIT per
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schalble spent the
first of the week in Shiawassee township
visiting friends.
Cass Angle, of Houghton, has been
xuest at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. W.
Sherwood this week.
Fred Hookway, of Massilon, Ohio, has
been guest at the home of his uncle, W.
r Hookway, during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. g. Andrews went tc
Howell Saturday evening for a few weeks
visit with friends and relatives.
DIR. Carl Putt, formerly of this city bu'
now of Hart, was guest of Owosso friends
for a short time the first Of the week.
Mrs. Geo. B. Daniels and children, O
Grand Rapids, have been guests at th'
home of Il. Ii. Daniels in this city thl
week.
Supt. f. E.. Converse, of Beloit, Wis., ar
rived In the city Friday morning and ha
been visiting Owosso rrlends and relative
this week.
Miss Edith Cooper has returned to he
work at the Office of K. f. Dudley's col
storage after spending a pleasant vacatio
at Petoskey.
r. B. Holman has returned from his tri
about the lakes and has new annouDc'
ment in the advertising columns of tn
TIMES this week.
DIR. Joplng left Monday for Petroli
Ontario. to bring back his daughters wi
have been visiting relatives there for Il
last three weeks
The following is list of letters advertise
at the Owosso postofiee, August IS, 100
VIM. n. Taylor, Mrs. Ed. Knibbs, Cha
Life. Henry Stoke, Mrs Rachel Essen,
K. Broesamle.
Prin. and Mrs. l. II. Wood returned Ss
urday evening from Detaot where they h
been making a weeks visit since the clio
Of the University summer school which N
Wood attended.
Miss Nettie Matlock, assistant postmast'
left this morning for weeks vacation
Frankfort and Beulab. She was accomI
MED by her sister, Miss Lou Matlock, a
by Miss Kate Csswell, of Detroit.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24
Stumbled Another.

At q dinner in rockingham a Royal
academician stated to the company
the curious fact that sugar and sumac
are the only two words in English
where su is pronounced as shu.
There was much interest shown in
the discovery, when Rudyard Kipling
was heard from the other end Of the
table. "But are you quite sureY
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24
Relief IN Six Hours,

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease re
lieved In six hours by New Great South Ameri-
can Kidney Cure" 1t is great surprise on &c
count of It's exceeding promptness In relieving
pain In bladder, kidneys and back, In male or
female. Relieves retention OF water almost i'm
mediately. II you want quick relief and cure
this is the remedy. Sold by johnson & Hender
son, druggists, Owosso Mich.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24

The sword Of Sir William Wallace is
in the Wallace tower, stone structure
in Stirling, two miles from the castle.
II is a two edged sword of massive
PROPORTIONS and great weight. and 1t
is said four strong men are required
TO WELD II.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24
Week Day Excursion to Toledo.

Thursday August Both, the Ann Arbor
will give cheap excursion TO Toledo to en-
able the public to visit the Toledo Exposi-
ton and Tri-State Fair. Special tram
leaves Owosso at ZOO q. m. Fare for the
round trip 81 25.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24
To Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinlne Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t fails to
cure. E. w. Groves signature Is on each
box. csc.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24

Jumping the rope is suggested for
middle aged people afflicted with liver
troubles.
The Owosso times., 1900-08-24

soyM BAKING POWDER co.. 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
FOR BUGGY RIDERS.

The man who creates breeze to
add to the comfort of humanity in this
hot weather deserves the thanks of
all, in addition to the more suostan-
tial return of cash. Here is shown a
new breezemaker for attachment to
wagons and any one who is compelled
TO take long rides over dusty roads on
hot, still day will appreciate the
merits of the device at once. The in
ventor is William S. Robinson of Ken
lucky, and he has SO made the device
that it can be readily secured to the
ordinary covered buggy in a few min
utes. A collar is provided for attach
ment to one of the rear hubs, carrying
toothed wheel, which meshes with a
smaller wheel. On the same shaft
with the latter wheel is grooved pull
ley, in which runs belt leading to
the top of the carriage. Here is mount
ed pulley having fan blades, and the
belt is passed over small wheel at
one end. The fan pulley is held in
place by pair of movable brackets,
which can be adjusted to the desired
height to direct the breeze in the face
of the riders. To throw the fan into
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16

and contents gone, or perhaps the
drained can is left to tell the tale of a
petty thief. Here is a cheap and simple
device which will prevent the theft OF
the milk without making it any more
difficult for the housekeeper to take
in the pail in the morning. The cut
shows small casing, which may be
attached to the door frame at the right
height to place the pail within con.
venlent reach A small opening in the
top OF the casing allows the shank oil
the angle-iron on the can to be in.
serted, while sliding catch at the rear
OF the casing engages a notch cut ir
the side of the shank The latch ex
tends backward. to the edge of the
door, so that when the latter is closed
it prevents the latch being drawn
backward 10 release the shank. Be
sides preventing theft this device also
supports the can in a position to re,
move the danger of tipping it over
with the foot, and there will be nc
milk stains to clean up, as is often the
case when the can is placed on the
steps.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
Inherited Diseases.

The question of heredity, or the
transmission of certain mental traits
or physical characteristics from par
ents to children. is one that has been
much studied, but of which as yet too
little is known. Formerly the inher-
ltance of disease was believed in i'm
plicitly by physicians as we'll as lay
men, and the list of maladies to which
children were supposed to be almost
inevitably condemned by the accident
of birth was a very long one.
Among these hereditary diseases
were reckoned consumption and scrof-
ula, leprOsy, govt, rheumatism, goitre,
cancer, insanity, epilepsy and many
other nervous affections.
AS we learn more about these NAL
aides, however. one after another of
them is removed wholly or in part
from this category and placed among
the acquired diseases.
Undoubtedly some diseases are real
ly inherited, but their number is GER
tainly not large. Many diseases run
in families, but are not on that account
necessarily hereditary
Consumption. for example, was only
recently regarded as one of the most
surely inherited diseases, and is still
believed by many to be so. But we
know that 1t is a germ disease which
while not catching" in the ordinary
sense of the word, is readily transmit
ted from the sick to the we'll when the
invalid is careless in his habits, espe-
cially as regards expectoration. 1t is
also acquired more readily by those OF
delicate constitution than by the ro-
bust.
The children of consumptive parents
are seldom robust. and so are predis-
posed to any of the germ diseases, and
living constantly in a house where the
germs of consumption are necessarily
abundant, they are very likely to be.
come victims of that disease
This is an important fact. 1t teaches
us that since, as a rule, only the pre-
disposition to the family disease is in
herited, and not the disease itself, the
chances of the younger generation es.
Gaping, if proper care is used, are very
great.
The bringing up of child in con.
sumptive family should be of a spe
cially hygienic character The best O.
food, floods of fresh air and sunlight
not too much study, long hours of SLEEP
in a wellventilated room and, as fal
as possible, avoidance of exposure tt
the contagion of the family malady-
these are the weapons by which thu
malign influence of inherited weakness
of constitution may be overcome ant
many precious lives saved.-Youths
Companion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
Photographs on Stone.

In France, Monsieur Leboyer, trying
to solve the problem of how to make
photographs permanent and free from
all change, has resorted to the plan OF
firing them in furnace upon enam-
eled stone. He finds that the best
stone for the purpose is the basalt
found in prisms in the extinct volcanic
district of central France. This rock.
which is extremely hard and fine.
grained, receives the enamel without
cracks. The Photographic film is de-
posted on the enameled surface, and
after the photograph has been made
it is fired until the image becomes un.
alterably incorporated in the enamel
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
Uses of Birds and Bees.

Isaac w. Brown of Rochester, N. Y.
addressed the Audubon society recent
ly at it's meeting at the Commercial
club on Birds and Bees. The address
was one of a series which has been
planned by the society for the fur
therance of it's object, fostering and
protecting birds, bees and trees. Mr..
Brown contended that poor crops of
farmers and gardeners are in a great
measure due to the destruction of the
birds and bees, which, if allowed to
live unmolested and with proper pro-
lection, would make their entire liv-
ing off the worms and insects that
do SO great damage to growing crops.
He cited instances where there had
been great increase in crops on ac-
count of the protection thus afforded,
and said that a hunter was endanger-
ing his personal safety to attempt to
go on some of the farms to shoot quail
and other birds. He favored the
building of hives for the accommo-
dalton of the bumblebees, which he
claimed would greatly increase the
yield of clover.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16

him had offended him. and decided
him to act more merciful part than
he had at first intended.
Meantime, too, they had heard no
further news of the invading Beers.
One night Bluebell had gone to her
own room rather earlier than usual.
She had had headache-an uncom-
mon ailment with her-and, saying to
her aunt that she felt sure that there
was thunderstorm coming, she babe
her goodnight and went to bed; but
for long time she could not sleep.
The night was very hot-an unusual
thing at that season, when, though
the days are swelteringly warm, the
nights are correspondingly cold-and
there was the strange stiffness in the
air which precedes a thunderstorm.
Bluebell lay waiting for the first sud-
den clap of thunder, the first dazzling
blaze of lightning, all her nerves I'M
strung, not by fear, but by the over
charged electricity in the air, and her
own throbbiEg temples.
At last Bluebell's ears. strained to
catch any noise, detected a strange
throbbing sound; but it seemed to be
very far away. 1t was certainly not
the rumbling of thunder Was it a
real sound, or did it exist only in her
fancy, in the throbbng tympanum of
her ear? Bluebell lay still and lis
tened.
No, it was no fancy: She heard it
again, and this time more distinct.
1t was the sound of horses hoofs-of
many horses hoofs-Bluebell we'll
knew, though the noise produced was
not that of several distinct sounds,
but of one galloping along the wagon
path of the veldt.
Bluebell started up in bed, a sudden
trembling selling her. The Beers! OF
course it was the Beers! She did not
have a doubt on the subject But in
what direction were they going. All!
they were coming towards New Kelso!
She could hear their horses approach
ing every moment
Almost mechanically Bluebell threw
herself out of bed and dressed herself
quickly, then thrust her feet into her
slippers. All the house was silent. 1t
was about 1 o'clock in the morning,
and every one was in bed. Should
she go to wake them? Bluebell hest
tated. Perhaps the horsemen would
pass right on; they must be going
towards Ladysmith. Was it not bet
ter that her father should sleep on in
Ignorance that the hated Beers were
so near. If he knew of their prox-
unity, who could tell what bad step
his hatred of them might induce him
to take?
Bluebell determined to remain where
she was and watch. She stood behind
the muslin curtains, which alone pro-
tected the unshuttered window, watch
ing. Her heart beat fast and un-
evenly, and nervous little shoots of
pain ran through the palms of her
hands.
ITO he continued
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
and out of gear a lever is provided
within easy reach of the driver.
Japanese Tops.

Sir Rutherford Alcock, in his
Japan" devotes some interesting
paragraphs to top-spinning, which the
Japanese carry to a point of great
perfection. The tops are of delightful
variety, both in size and construction.
The largest, or father of all tops, is
more than a foot in diameter, and
proportionately heavy.
Some are solid; others contain a
flock Of little ones which fly out, when
the top is lifted, and spin away by
themselves. Others pull into a spiral
or ladder of successive tops. One
draws up into lantern, and spins
cheerily in that form.
The methods of spinning are almost
beyond description. Even a very large
top is sometimes thrown as the Aus
tralian casts the boomerang, so that
while 1t appears to be going straight
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
COULDN'T MAKE THE CHANGE.
North Side Woman's Embarrassing Eek.
perience in Carrette.

perience in a Carrette.
She was a woman with a knowledge
of arithmetic, which consisted mainly
OF remembrance of the multiplication
tables and the simple process of addi-
ton, subtraction and multiplication,
accompanied with the aid of a pencil
and paper. She had always openly
confessed that figures were beyond her
capacity. She never added her own
card scores, and always trusted to her
husband to straighten the tangled
problems of the monthly meat bill. So,
when the necessity occurred for MAX
ing change in the carette she began to
be yisibly nervous. In the first place
she had nothing smaller herself than a
5O-cent piece, which she passed through
the little hole to the driver, and was
Just opening the small envelope con-
tanning her change when lady nearer
the door asked her to change 10 cents
for her. The carette was very we'll
filled, and, of course, every eye was
upon her, or else she felt it, and so
her nervousness increased. She opened
her own packet first, holding the addi-
tional ten cents in her hand. She spied
cents, which she hurriedly dropped
into the money receptacle with little
sigh of relief that at least her fare
was paid Then she passed the second
and only remaining nickel to the wait
ing passenger with a second little sigh
of happy consciousness that anyway
she owed no one anything. Then, with
gasp, she remembered that she had
not paid the additional fare, although
she had accepted the additional money.
Hurriedly she looked at her change to
discover an interesting collection Of
dimes without single break in the
silver monotony. She looked up and
found the passengers smiling at her
predicament, and, though the color
rose in her face, she laughed herself
when the driver in return for her timid
knock requesting change for a single
additional dime, tersely ventured,
why didn't you put the 10 cents in
the box in the first place." But she
never will ride on the carette again
without the exact amount of the nee
essary fare, and she never will accom-
modate beseeching strangers.-Ch
go Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16

toward the head of the spectator. it
returns to the thrower and is caught
on his palm. When it arrives thus,
the performer takes it by the spindle,
apparently stops it, sets it down, and
it recommences.
Turn it upside down, and it proceeds
just as merrily on it's iron-spiked
head. The spinners balance it on any
kind of surface, round or flat. on the
edge of a fan, the sharpest Japanese
sword, along thin cord; and after
some moments of unconcerned spin
ming there, it is tossed on the table,
with apparent carelessness, when il
goes on working, unexhausted and in
eXhaustible.
One of the most delicate perform
ances consists in spinning top in the
left hand, up the left arm, round the
edge Of the lobe at the back of the
neck, and down the other arm into
the palm of the right hand.
Another is to toss it spinning into
the air, and catch it on the hem of the
sleeve, whence it runs down into the
hand,
A third is to fling it up and catch
it on the bowl of pipe, pass it be-
hind the back, toss it to the front, and
there catch it again.
A large, heavy top is sometimes set
in motion by rolling the peg in the
bite of cord, one end being held in
each hand, then flung ten or twenty
feet in air and caught with the same
cord, spinning always. This can be
done ten times in succession.
But the grandest display consists in
sending top spinning up a rope to the
head of mast. and then recalling il
again.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
coLoREDvoTE AoAlNsrTEDD,

Against Roosevelt and his false
hoods!"
This is to be the campaign cry or
the colored voters of the United
States. From Maine to California
they are organizing to accomplish the
defeat of the Rough Rider. They pro-
test against Roosevelt's statements
about the colored troops who fought
SO nobly at San Juan hill. 1t was
the Rough Rider of Mark Hannas
ticket who declared over his sigma
ture that his men had been forced
to prod the colored soldiers up San
Juan's slopes at the point of the bay
onet in order 20 get them into ac-
ton.
G. w. Chivis, one of the leaders of
the colored voters. had this to say:
"The colored men are organizing
solidly along the Atlantic coast. In
Atlantic City alone there is club
of more than 5000 colored men. Down
in the coal mining districts the COL
ored vote will be for Bryan solid. In
Indiana alone there are II 900 miners.
They will aid in carrying the stare
for Bryan and Stevenson. The same
condition exists in Illinois. | believe
that Pennsylvania will send Bryan
electors, for the Democratic sentiment
here is gaining rapidly. Colored voters
are against Roosevelt first, last and
all the time. His statement about the
conduct of the colored troops at San
Juan was false. This falsehood will
he his epitaph.' I,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16

Those who have ~
for Bryan and Stevenson
the ranks of the anti-impef(4l
league. At the leagues ''liberty"F
congress at Indianapolis almost SO
per cent of those in attendance will be
Republicans, if indications point cor
rectly Men who have voted that par
TVS ticket for years, who fought for
the cause of liberty in Cuba and who
were sent to the Philippines with the
IDEA that they were 10 continue the
effort to deliver sovereign peoples
from bondage, are up in arms against
Mckinleyism as it is dictated by the
greedy manipulators of the trusts and
the stock exchanges.
This protest against the Mckinley
war of conquest has been voiced in
hundreds of letters received at the
headquarters of the American Anti
lmperialist League. A letter re
ceived last night is typical or the
scores which are coming in from all
sections of the country. This lette,
was written by S. j Shivel of Paola
Kan, who served as an officer of the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment in the
Philippine campaign. He went to tne
islands under the belief that the FIJI.
| ipinos We're to be relieved of Spanish
| tyranny.
| When the veil was lifted on the Dol
icy of the Washington government
course which favored the trusts ana
the men who sought to gain a griI
on the islands for their own financial
galn-he resigned his commission ana
returned to the United States. Since
that time he has been stumping the
Western states, teaching the people of
the exact condition of affairs in the
East. He will attend the anti-im-
perlallst conference at Indianapolis,
and his letter continues as follows:
Il have been a Republican all nv
life and Joined the army at the Presi-
dents first call in 1898. | was a mem
Der OF the Kansas regiment of VOL
unteers that went to the Philippines
| was in all the engagements of that
regiment. The greatest wrong ever
committed by this nation is the forci-
BILE annexation of the Philippines.
Those people ought to be free. They
are entitled to freedom. They are
capable of it,
This is but one of the many let
tiers we have received" said Secretary
Mize of the league. I'VE regard them
as most important because they come
from men who know from practical
experience of the actual conditions in
the Philippines.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
New Rubber Substitute.

From shrub called yule. growing
wild in central Mexico, new substi.
tute for india-rubber has recently been
produced. The bark and wood are
ground up and macerated with gaso.
line, oil of turpentine, naphtha, OF
some other hydrocarbon solvent, ant
the gum thus extracted resembles
crude rubber. 1t is free from impur.
tiles, and can readily be manufactured
into various commercial forms. TIL.
shrub yields 40 per cent of it's weight
in gum
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
Many Like Him.

We're just getting our new CON-
pany in shape" said the business man,
DO you happen to know of any one
who is particularly good book.
Keeper
Yes. do. There's Jimson,' prompt
~ repliesl the bibliophile; 81 loaned
him my copy of To Have and to Hold
early in the spring, and he seems to
think he's to have and hold it to the
end OF time. philadelphia Press.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
a..s " ~ " " " " " " " " ~

By H. B. Mackenzie

You can reach Ladysmith by o'clock.
So then, without more ado, go!"
AS Adam Leslie. full of the design
that was to deliver the very leaders
of the Boer army into the hands of
the enemy, hurried within his stead
ing, the other man looked after him
with smile.
$50 you have worked into my hands,
friend Leslie" he muttered. And he
rubbed these useful members together
as if Leslie were literally between
them.
Now my path will be easy. Yes,
my charming Bluebell, you will find
Gerald Moore is capable of revenge as
we'll as Lowell" And he laughed. "And
if you will not yield to persuasion, my
dear young lady, why. then, we must
needs try force!"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
Best Form of 1nstantaneous sbutter

According to Monsieur Sigriste of
the French Academy of Sciences, the
only thoroughly scientific shutter for
instantaneous photography consists of
a slit moving rapidly across the sensi-
tive plate. But to obtain good results.
the space between the plate and the
shutter should not exceed one-tenth of
a millimetre, and the edges of the slit
must be sharp and carefully beveled
to exclude reflection.