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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-27
BLANKETS.

BLANKETS.
$500 Blankets, $500.
500 q 3.75.
800 :" 225.
About rs pair good Cotton Blankets,
wholesale price for next fall 623c, closing
what we have and take ehances-45c pair.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-27
CARPETS.

All Carpets at cost and cost to us is 20
per cent. less than we can buy them to-
day. Specialize pieces Toe Tapestry
Brussels, while they last Closing price
48c I'D.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-27

SHEETINGS.
Bleached and Unbleached.
Doc Sheeting 23c yd.
Zoe g zoe I'D.
10 pieces Zoe IA Bleached Sheeting,
closing price 123c yd.
All other sheetings at cost. All ready
made Utica Sheets at cost.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
Nergennes Station.

Guy Norton left Monday for Grand
Rapids.
Township Sunday school convention
next Sunday.
Warren Ford had half barrel of
pork stolen recently.
James Ford of Lincoln Lake visited
relatives here last week. ~
Segel Norman OF Parnell, was call
ing on Alton friends Sunday
Fred Ford had the chimney rebuilt
to his blacksmith shop last week.
The sewing bee for Mrs. NJ. Delaney
last week was quite we'll attended.
Silas Ward of Grattan purchased the
Carver farm last week from J. McGee.
Dorus Church sold and drew the first
load OF potatoes to be shipped from
this station, last week
Mr.. Adams of Grand Rapids, Great
Dept. Commander X. O. T. M f, was a
guest at Fred Ford S Sunday.
James Howard died at the home Of
his mother last week Monday, April
10th, at p. IN. Funeral Wednesday
at Parnell Catholic church. He was
33 years old and leaves "a mother, sister
and four brothers to mourn his loss,
besides great many friends.
Died, at the home OF her father, T.
Murphy, Mrs. T, Corrigan, (pee Mag
gle Murphy of a broken heart, Fri
day, April Doth. She leaves a little
girl about 8 years old, sisters 5
brothers and her parents to mourn her
untimely end, besides great many
friends.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
We Live or Others.

Few men see the fruition of their own
life work. One seems TO be destined 10
labor for others, pre-. eminently so for
ones own family, knowing that much
OF the good results must come in ones
old age, or when one shall have passed
away. Similar work was done for each
and every one of Us by our fathers, and
we must in turn do it for those who are
to succeed US. Out of this phase of
fate comes much that is noble and of
ever-growing betterment to the race
The rich man hopes for still greater
riches for his children, and the poor
and those in moderate circumstances
struggle along in the faith that they
are doing something to insure better
fortune for their children and families.
Il am in the workshop, at the desk, be-
hind the counter, In the field, perhaps
for life" says in effect the toiler of to-
day, ''but my children won't be so; they
will fare better, If my elf-abnegation
can make it So" And he does make it.,
so. The well-to-do OF today, in nine
cases out of ten, either knew poverty
in their early days or are aware that
they come from parents who were
originally in contracted circumstances
and who pinched themselves for the
well-being of their children. a. Our
fathers struggled for us; let US in turn
labor for our children, ever aiming to
place them higher on life's ladder than
the position we occupy upon it.--For-
ester ----- -. - ~
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26

The time is at hand for the planting
Of seed and bringing of harvest later
on for the farmer, but the time for
planting the seed for Workmanship,
is not only now, but all the time.
Sow the seed now, start the friend to
thinking of protection for his loved
ones, and gather the harvest later,
but don't only SOW the seed now for the
order, but keep on all the year, and
have perpetual harvest, have a crop
of candidates each meeting. A bounti-
full harvest always makes the farmer
happy, so with us bountiful harvest
and subsequent increase OF membership
will make all.of US feel better in every
way. Try it.and see.-Local Workman.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
AyOn-keene.


Mrs. Marion Bozen Is very sick.
Mrs. Carrie Scott visited at Samuel
Surong's Tuesday.
Will Covert. ir., is very sick with
pneumonia Of the lungs.
Mrs. Erastus Hull and Mrs. Harry
visited Mrs. William Gibson Tuesday.
Clarence Hart and wife have moved
into his fathers house to keep house
for him.
Willie Sparks has been suffering a
great deal with the asthma for the
last two weeks.
Mrs. Willie Sparks brother from
near Barryton, Edgar Kilbourn visit
ed her last week. - 49, 49,.
The Marble Cemetery Society met
with Aunt Jane Abbott last Wednes-
day with a fair attendance.
Samuel Strong is seriously i'll with
sugar diabetis and his feet are affected
with what is known as diabetic gan
green.
Mrs. r. N. Sparks and Mrs. Geo.
Gold drove to Lakeview Friday being
called there by the serious illness of a
cousin and returned home Sunday.
Levi Peck has concluded not to
build a house and has hired out to
Lewis Cahoon for the summer and his
wife is working for Mrs. Amasa Lee.
Mrs Maggie Myers who has been an
>invalid for nine years, died last Mon
day and the funeral was held at the
Catholic church Thursday morning at
ten O'clock. ..l.Ll5..L .l.
Mrs. Gilbert Ayers and Mrs. Will
Kimbie received word Of the death-of
the formers sister Mrs. Abbey Wan
dell, OF Coral, and they left Tuesday
TO attend the funeral.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
North Orleans.

ella Wilson visited at Mrs. Glosser's
last Friday.
Homer Morris has moved his mill
home and is now sawirg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rowley have
moved in Hiram Halls house near
Long Lake.
Quite IA number belonging to the
Long Lake camp meeting association
were at the Lake Monday.
Albert Brown killed two Blue racers
last week one measuring feet s
inches and the other feet
Mary Whitford who has been visit
ing her daughter Mrs. Kern, near Me-
Brides returned home last week Tues
day.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
'ROUND ABOUT U.s. /
News, i'm by the Banners STAFF of Special
VI Correspondents.
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Fred White has returned from Wis
consin
j Livingston started for Indiana
Monday.
Rev. Puffer, of Lansing, was in town
on business Monday.
DR.. and Mrs. II. II. Mcdonald, were
visitors in Bedding Saturday.
F.eP. Hamman, was in Muir the first
.ofthis week loading patatoes.
Otto S. Taylor, of South Ionia, was
u visitor in town over Sunday
~ Mrs.E b. Hale spent Monday with
Mrs. Frank Hale, of Woods Corners.
Miss Ella Madison, Of Belding, has
been the guest of Ida Bay the past
week.
Sunday evening Mabel Palmer gave
an excellent report of the Epworth
League State Convention at Owosso.
Mr.. Chas. Ray, of this place, and
Miss Eva French, of Belding, were
married Wednesday. Congratulations.
Mrs. Close, of Palo, has been visit
ing her daughter Mrs Chas. Thayer,
are moving onto Geo. Thayer's farm
north OF Woods Corners.
The "Foreign Missionary" enter
.tainment at the church Sunday morn
Ing was very much enjoyed and the
thank Offering amounted to Sc.
Mrs. O. Purdy has been at Hersey
the past two weeks helping her sister
Mrs z. p. Magher care for her hus-
band who was very sick. Mr.. Magher
died Thursday morning.
Mrs Era Cheney and Mrs. Frank
Hopporgh, of near Woods Corners,
have been spending the past week
with their aunt Mrs. Julia Hatch and
family Of near Lincoln Lake
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
DETRoIrLIyE STOCK MARKET.

Michigan Central Live Stock Yards
Detroit, April 24.-The demand for live
cattle is active this week; receipts
have been moderate of late. The
following prices are being paid at the
Detroit Live Stock Market: Prime
steers and heifers, $450(05.O0; handy
butchers cattle, S400(d4 so: common
S2.75(d3.75; Gamers cows, 81 .5002 so;
stockers and feeders active at 1880
425 f..... e..l.,t..,g..' :
Mich cows quiet at S25(a50; calves
active at a. 100000. tt... Il"
Sheep and lambs light supply, lower;
prime lambs, So 1901 %; mixed, "a so
(d6.00; culls, 50 00(d3 so. '''''
Hogs are the leading feature in this
market, light receipts, trade is active
at the following prices: Prime
mediums, S5.60(d5.65; Workers, 50. 55(0
$50; pigs, S5.05(d5.10; roughs, 81 50(a
100; stays, 4 off; cripples, 81 per cwt
off. - ti
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
C.rattan

The weather is fine at present and
farmers have commenced blowing.
Miss Nellie Byrne, who has been
poorly some time, isnow very sick.
Miss Lucy NAckert is visiting her
grandmother Mrs. Lowe at Greenville,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Written and son
made a two days visit at Grand RaI
pids last week.
Bernice, daughter of j. A.Lessiter
is the last to have scarlet fever. Doing
finely and now dressed.
little Kitty Lessiter has entirely re-
covered from scarlet fever, and the
house was disinfected one week ago.
Miss Sarah Clemens is teaching the
school in Dist. No. fractional of Graf
tan and Oakfield. This is her first
term.
The Grange social at the hall was
very largely attended last Thursday
night A good sum was cleaned from
the maple sugar-or rather syrup.
Several teachers from town attended
the teachers rally at Grand Rapids
April 20 and q, among them Prof.
Ralph E. Hawley. Miss Pearl Tucker
and Miss Myrtle Weekes.
Miss Porter,of Rockford, has opened
very fine display of millinery in u.
h. Lessiter's store, and will be present
Tuesday and "Wednesday of each week
TO make the ladies happy.
James Howard, the brother Of Dan
Howard, of South Grattan, passed
away the sad burial services being
held at the Catholic church last Wed
nesday. The deceased,a most estima-
bic young man, was soon to have mar
ried a worthy young lady, making the
occasion doubly sad.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
Alton.


Weather,warn and good for grow
ing wheat and grass.
j. w. Broadbent OF Grand Rapids is
loading potatoes at Vergennes Station.
Ten carloads of lumber was sent
from Vergennes station last week Fri
day. no "
Miss Edith. Converse, of Keene, Sun
dayed with her cousin Miss Nina Van
derbrock. -Io0I nt.
Mrs. Peter Vanderbrock has gone to
Stanton for four weeks visit with
relatives.
Clare Ford finished saving about 50
cords OF wood for family use. George
Ford has about GO cords to saw.
Mrs. A. S. Holmes has returned
home from spending the winter at
Grand Rapids, Hastings and Charlotte.
Mrs. Addie Spencer returned home
last week from her winters stay at
Muskegon with her brother, Clark
Ford and family.
Your scribe has been since four years
ago a strong Bliss man and we think
he will get the nomination for Gov.
He deserves it more than either OF the
other candidates.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
EXCURSION FARES
VIA THE
PERE MARQUETTE.
CHICAGO.

Admiral Dewey Reception. Sell
April 30 and 81, within $50 miles Of
Methodist General Conference. Sell
May |, 2, Z, Ia, 2l. Return juno l.
One fare plus $500, beyond 200 miles
from Chicago. One aud one third fare
within 200 miles.
CINCINNATI.
Peoples Party Convention. Sell
May Z and S. Return May II. One fare.
DETROIT. III
Mohawk Club Banquet. Sell May
and morning trains, May =. Return
May 3. One fare. .','s@N,
PORT HURON.
Democratic State Convention. Sell
April 30 and May l. Return May 3.
One fare. 47t2.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26

Drown your sorrows in a cup Of Yale
Coffee. j. NJ York.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
Suffering Rarely EquaIled.

Frontier, Mich, Mr.. w. ID.
Bailey, a we'll known merchant OF this
place, says 81 would be very migrate
full MOTTO make known what DR.. Chase S
Ointment has. done for me. For up.
wards OF years have suffered untold
misery with the piles. / have been
treated and operated upon repeatedly
without result, and for five years have
had TO inject warm water in order to
pass anything without almost killing
me. One day, seeing DIR. Chase's adj
yertisement, | wrote him about my case
and he sent me a box of Ointment.
used itas directed and now, six months
later, | can safely say that am per-
fectly cured.'' "t '<' it'hIt 0
DR. "A, w Chase s Ointment is posi-
lively guaranteed To cure piles in any
form. eczema. salt rheum and any of
the terrible itching skin diseases now
so common. a free sample box will be
given To any sufferer who will enclose
stamp for postage; Doc q box, all drug
gists, or DR.. A. w. Chase Med Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Isf., Hes
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
Tint Throhbing Headache.

Would quickly leave you, if you used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Thousands
of sufferers have proved their match
less merit for Sick and Nervous Head
aches. They make, pure blood and
build up your health. Only % cents.
Money back if not cured. Sold by Con-
nell Bros. and Fisk Bangs, druggists.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26
Fountlat Last.

An article which pleases IS per cent.
more OF the people than will any other
kind OF brand of the same product; this
IS Yale Coffee If it is made right a
trial will convince you that it is the
richest, smoothest, most delicious cof-
fee you ever drank. 1t is sold by
j. Nj. York.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26

No breakfast, dinner or supper Is
complete without cup Of tho Famous
a. H. & highrgrRde coffee, which is
sold by the w. $ Garfield Co, the
leading dealers in fine goods.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26

To live content with small means; to
seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashions; to be
worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,
not rich; TO listen to stars and birds,
babes and stages with open heart; to
study hard; to think quietly act frank
~, talk gently, await occasions, hurry
never; in word, to let the spiritual
unbidden and unconscious grow up
through the common-this is my sym
phony William Henry Claiming.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-03

was much opposed to me in the last
campaign, made an affidavit that he
believed it was my signature" Why
does this man over his signature write
that HairgrOve swore he believed the
signature to the agreement was
Thompson's: The searcher after truth
will hunt long before he find an ap-
probable quantity in Mr.. Thompson's
'plai7 letter."
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-03

ing TO state pride when the university
catslog announces that freshmen in
the Nebraska university have passed
the same exam ination offered to ap-
plicants for admission to Ann ArbOr
and Princeton. The national stand
ing OF the university would be low
cred IL the entrance examinations
were made TO fit the actual educa-
tional conditions in Nebraska and
without reference to what other uni
versities exact But in building from
the ground on a solid foundation
there are substantial advantages. In
order to fit the public school scholars
for the university, which is only the
last and the highest four grades Of
the public school system. more work
Is assigned to each grade than its
average pupil is capable OF perform
ing well. The lack OF sincerity in the
school curriculum, its variety and the
consequent hurry and superficiality
of the training produce just the sort
OF pupil who without knowledge Of,
or practice in goud English, ap-
plies for admission into the state uni
versity. Their general education be.
ing what is called tioished at the
state university, they erect legal,
0edical or commercial career on the
shaky foundation built for them by
the public schools under the stimu-
lating influence OF the university.
Thus it happens that the court must
contend with ambiguous legal papers.
and that all sorts of misleading COM
munications and documents drawn
up by young gentlemen to whom Ne
braSka has given her most munificent
gift, are daily annoyances Of CONNER
cial intercourse.
When great university like the
one ia Chicago begins to perceive that
her alumni do not think or write
lucidly or spell correctly, there is
some hope that the unnatural system
may be corrected. And in time. of
course, the Baconian method of max
ing q school system conform to the
needs and capacities of the scholar,
instead OF crowdiDg the scholar into
the system, may appeal to the Ne
braska educators who have induced
school boards to bring high schools
into tho occroditod lict .itbouf m
gard to the overwhelming majority
who never go beyond the high school
grade and without regard to the edu-
cational needs and conditions Of a
new state.
= =
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-03

into the union of United States. Was
their consent to such incorporation
asked? Never. History records that
the people of Louisiana were opposed
to the transfer and that in New Or
leans many wept when they saw the
flag to which they had rendered allie
glance pulled down. Suppose Jeffer-
son had waited for the consent Of the
governed before acquiring Louisiana,
when would the state of Nebraska,
carved out Of the Louisiana purchase,
have furnished a presidential candi.
date? Having concluded the purchase
of Louisiana without waiting or car
ing for the consent Of the governed,
President Jefferson on the 3lst day Of
October. 1903, approved an act Of con-
gress which gave him imperial power
over the newly acquired territory.
That act is TO be found in the second
volume Of the United States statutes
at large, page 245. 1t authorized the
president to take possession of the
newly acquired territory and to main.
tain order therein to employ any part
of the army and navy Of the United
States or Of the militia authorized
by the act Of March LIST of that year.
The act provided that until the ex.
piratiOn Of that session of congress,
unless provision for the temporary
government of the territory should
sooner be made, by congress, all the
military, civic and judicial powers
exercised by the officers of the exist
ing government Of that territory
should be vested in such persons and
exercised in such manner as the presi.
dent should direct, for maintaining
and protecting the inhabitants Of
Louisiana in the free enjoyment Of
their liberty, property and religion.
What greater power could be con-
ferred upon an emperor than all the
military. civil and judicial powers Of
a government Jefferson derived
none of these powers from the gov.
erned nor did he acquire them by
their consent. They were conferred
upon him by congress and without
any carping about imperialism" or
the consent of the governed" that
man who wrote the Declaration Inde-
pendence accepted these powers and
them.
When we acquired Florida by the
treaty of February, 1919. and thereby
added to the national domain 56268
square miles Of territory, the presi-
dent sent Andrew Jackson to occupy
the country and to make and execute
laws for the government of the in
habitants: was the consent of the
governed asked or solicited? Not at
all. We never sought nor obtained
the consent of the Mexicans to the an.
nexation of the 5000 square miles
of territory acquired from Mexico.
Upon the people of that territory we
imposed government of force and
when they revOlted and murdered the
governor appointed over them by
President Polk. the army inflicted
severe and merited punishment with
out waiting for the and or consent of
any other nation on earth.
The 81, $3.50 square miles Of Alaskan
territory we purchased from Russia
for 81, 2OO, 900 and we never thought to
enquire whether the people consented
to the government which we imposed
upon them or not.
And now we have acquired from
Spain by the treaty OF Paris 1855
square miles of territory for $40 ,OOO,O 600.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-11-03

pTeCldOle qudntipf III MT. InOInpSou
''plai1 letter"
ivan Women"
Mr.. Bryan said in a just.before cleo
tion speech to a yelling. inter-ogative
INSTRUMENTATION crowd. that as lie
travelled up and down and across
America, he had noticed what a lot
OF wan faced women there were. He
attributed their wanness to a repub-
lican administration. The poor, wan
women in the crowd he was address.
ing at that time were doubtless en-
couraged TO believe, that when Bryan
was president all the conditions
which make women pale, such as the
constant care Of brood of children
and inceSsant house work, would be
changed. Women under a Bryan adj
ministration, they inferred, would not
age nor stale with time. Bryan alone,
of all presidential candidates. that
ever ran, is willing to promise to
change wOman's woe to gladness.
His promises read like the confident
ones of the travelling patent medicine
fakir, but as there are hopeless ones
who believe the latter and buy bis
bread pills, SO these wan women, suf-
fering from one knows not what pre-
disposition to melancholy or real
misery cheered Mr.. Bryan and longed
to vote for man who could promise
So much so prettily.
The Westen Woman Voter.
The statement that women do not
vote where the state constitutions
permit them the privilege is disproved
by the facts in the case. Some prophet
who is the author of a long article
upon the history of female suffrage in
the four states where it has been tried
says:
"Very few of the western women
take much interest in politics, and
not more than fifty per cent Of the
female vote OF these four states will
60 to the polls this year." The rea-
son. he alleges, is that ''the novelty
has worn off"
Nearly every paper in the United
States has repeated in substance his
prediction and the belief obtains that
women in the west take very little in
terest IN politics. In Wyoming wo-
men have had full suffrage for thirty
one years. The novelty might be sup.
posed to have worn off there if any
where. Yet the official statement of
the Wyoming secretary OF state says
that at the last presidential election
ninety per cent Of the women voted.
In Colorado, not long ago. a joint res.
olution was passed by an almost unan.
imous vote of both houses Of the legis-
lature declaring, among other things,
that ever since the suffrage was
granted, women have exercised the
privilege as generally as men," Gov
ernOr Frank Steunenberg Of idaho
says in recent article in Harpsr's
Bazaar that the women cast forty per
cent OF the total vote Of that state at
the last elections, and that their vote
promises to increase.
Any one who has been reading in
the newspapers from day to day the
accounts Of the enthusiastic crowds of
men and women that have greeted
both Roosevelt and Bryan in the en-.
franchised states will hardly believe