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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19
VIII Not lie binding.

The commission to be sent Washing
ton. as the resolution provides, shall
endeavor to reach the best possible
agreement with President Mckinley,
but it is explicitly provided that noth-
ing il shall agree TO or offer shall be
binding unless accepted by the con-
stitution convention as a whole.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-Fitz James Lodg,
~ No. IS, X. Of =. hold it's regular meeting
every alternate Friday night.
j. +. SART0R, JR.. G. G..
JOHN kNoERTZER, X. OF X. & s.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19

nR. f. Il. LAMB, Physician and Surgeon.
~ Office opposite Postofice.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19
Made Governor.

Iloilo, Island of Panay, April r.
Gen. Martin Delgado, the chief insur-
gent commander in the island of
Panay until his surrender in January,
has been appointed governor of the
province of Iloilo, created by the
United States Philippine commission.
Gen. Delgado was recommended by
Gen. Hughes. his subordinate officers
and the natives, as honest, capable and
popular. His salary will be $4,000 in
gold, the highest of any provincial
governor.
select q Leader.
Paris, April 13.-The Filipino in
surgents, AgonGillo asserts here.
have selected Gen. Sandico, now
prisoner in Manila, TO succeed Aguin-
aldo as leader.
Death of Mai. Monaghan.
Gen. Macarthur has informed the
war department of the death of Maj.
William Monaghan, volunteer pay
master, who died Of heart disease in
Manila on the 18th instant. Mai.
Monaghan was soldier of the civil
war, serving in an Ohio regiment,
and was appointed from Ohio to his
present position in June, 1898. He
had been selected as a captain and
paymaster in the permanent estab-
lishment.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19
Must Accept.

Washington. April 15.-At the con-
ferences held here, participated in by
the president, Secretary Root, Secre-
tary Hay. Chairman Hit. Senator Gull
lom. Senator McComas, Senator Cock
rel and others, the opinion was ex-
pressed without hesitation that the
action by the Cuban convention could
not be considered final in any degree.
II is believed, on the contrary, that
If a commission is sent here its mem
bers will discover speedily the actual
situation, will hasten back to Cuba,
and tell the people there that, whe ther
they like it or not, they must accept
one of two propositions, the first be-
ing independence on the exact condi-
tions imposed by congress, and the
second, annexation TO the United
States.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19
Declares Ruling Final.

"By not accepting the terms Of the
Platt amendment" said Senator Me-
Comas, "the Cubans are standing in
their own light. This amendment was
necessary and ultimate. We cannot
change single one Of the provisions
of the amendment in justice to the
Cubans themselves, not taking into
consideration our own interests. Each
provision is a prop to future re-
public. II committee comes up here
from the Cuban constitutional con-
vention / think it will find that out.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-04-19

JAMES G. KREsS, Attorney at Law and So
- licitor in Chancery Also Circuit Court
Commissioner for Gratiot County, Michigan.
Office in Heath Block, Ithaca, Mich
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BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1901.
down the river without tue Ynjuns

ever gettin' on to US.
''If you're thinkin' about coming
up this spring you better bring about
eight dozen frogs along and mebbe
you better send me . telegraft mes
sage, so I kin get everything all
ready. Ed johnson was over frum
Milwaukee already and had a good
ketch. Well, good-by. until see you
again, frum
ANDY, the bum guide"
Elliot read the letter over again.
Then he laid it down on his desk and
walked over to his partners desk.
'Frawlett," he said, "I've just
found out what's the matter with
me. I'm suffering from severe at
tack of muskellunge on the brain.
I've been to the best doctor in town,
but he couldn't do a thing for me
didn't even know what was the mat
ter with me. Just now got letter
from my old north woods guide,
ANDY and he diagnoses my case to
the dot. He says muskies are biting
like the devil this spring, and he says
if I'm coming up this spring to wire
him. I've sent him message already
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ly obscure disease. I'll give you Q
tonic, and I want you to telephone
me as soon as you notice any new
symptoms"
The next day was the Wednesday
before Memorial day, and when Ell
hot got to his office he found among
the mail on his desk somewhat dirty
and rumpled letter which was post
marked at logging town in the big
woods of northern Wisconsin. For
some reason he laid aside much more
important business letters bearing
on some big contracts and tore open
this disreputable envelope. It con-
tanned a sheet of paper evidently
torn from an old account book, and
the writing was painfully crooked
and laborious.
"Mr. William Elliot, ESQ.," it began.
Dear Bill: | thought would write
you letter to let you know that the
muskies are biting like the devil
this spring in the south fork of the
Flambeau. The ice has all been out
for three weeks, and me and Murph
have JUS come back from polin' up
to the lake. We caught 1S-pound
cuss at the foot of Little Bull rap
ids, and up at Fishtrap we got about
a dozen big pike in half an hour.
There has been high water this spring
in all the lakes, so the fish could get
up through the creeks, and 1 miss my
guess if they amt the best fishing
this spring we ever seen in this coun-
try.
"say, you remember that bunch of
bass we pulled out of them sunk tree
tops at the mouth of Squaw creek?
Me an Murph stopped there last Fri
day and we yanked is out in 20 min
utes. And we got lot of strikes
casting around the shore near the
Pork Barrel with frogs the next
morning.
'Murph and me has both got a new
canoe, extry wide and 80 feet long.
We pinched the trees down on the
reservation this winter and got EN-
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YOU'D BETTER SEE DR. ROBINSON"
symptoms to the sympathetic physi-
clan.
There don't seem to be anything
definite the matter with you," said
the doctor. "We'll wait and see what
develops. Come in and see me again
In Q week"
Going home that evening on the
train Elliot sat in front of two
young men who were talking SO ear
nestly that he could not fail to over
hear what they were saying.
fought for 80 minutes" was the
first thing that caught his ear, land
when l landed him he weighted four
pounds and half"
Large mouth?" inquired the Sec
ond youth.
mo, indeed. He had a small mouth
and the gamiest fish 1 ever got q
hook into"
when are you going up?" asked
the first man.
I'm going on Wednesday evening
70 spend four days. You see, Thurs
days Memorial day, and we close at
noon on Saturday anyway, so I'll only
lose day and half, and 1 can get
iour days good fishing out of it."
That evening when Elliot got home
ne took down the big tin box which
contained his fishing tackle and over
nauled Its contents. There was q de-
hghtful memory in every reel and
spoon hook. He oiled up his favorite
multiplier and fitted together his pet
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seemed to have suffered q relapse.
He had spent an hour casting a rub
Der frog at the pool in Garfield park
and there was an unnatural color in
his cheeks. He was even more dis
traught and nervous than before, and
several times during the afternoon
he got up from the desk, and, seiz-
ing the light bomboo rod by the butt,
made vicious lunges about the office
with it and then smiled complacently
to himself. His partner looking on
in wonder half questioned whether
or not poor Elliot was mentally af-
fected.
Elliot left the Office early and Wis
tied a big downtown fish market,
where he bought half dozen black
bass, an eight-pound pickerel and q
mess of croppies." When Mrs. El-
liot demonstrated with her husband
for bringing home such a wholesale
supply of fish he was inclined to be
angry.
"You know well enough" he said,
"that have no appetite. can't eat
| UnluS, anu LII lOSluS AcSu. 1Ou
ought to be glad if 1 can find some
thing which appeals to me. You seem
to think there's nothing the matter
with me. But know I'm in a serious
condition. I'm nervous and restless.
I've lost interest in my business, and
the doctor is utterly unable to dag
nose the case. And here you are
kicking because I bring home few
fish. You ought to be ashamed Of
yourself. Now let's have the crop
pies fried for breakfast-I don't sup
pose they'll taste like anything-and
the pickerel baked for dinner"
| When Elliot went to the doctor the
second time he felt that he was fast
going into decline. The physician
listened to him and then made q
thorough and searching examination.
"It's strange, Elliot" he said, final
~, "but can't tell for the life of me
what's the matter with you. You are
certainly suffering from an extreme
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..n casting rod. His wife had to
n nim several times to come to din
, and when he came she noticed
1s' ne seemed to eat with better
appetite.
p..n now do you feel tonight, Will
aam" she asked.
oeheve | feel a little better"
saio' The doctor says he thinks
M; ueed out-of-door exercise, and /
ank I'll stop in the morning on nv
10y downtown and make a few cast .
.s,, me pool in Garfield park. But he
'ouion't decide what was the m.tter
week" I'LL" asdih IN =
., ~. when Elliot got to his Office
o''iy before noon the next day he
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and I'm going up tomorrow night to
stay over Sunday. To-morrow's a
holiday, anyhow, and we close at
noon on Saturday, so I'll only lose
half day. I want to go fishing
that's what's the matter with me. !
got to get my hook in musky. I'm
feeling like different man already"
When Elliot told his wife about it
that evening she smiled indulgently.
II thought that was what was the
matter with you," she said, "but ]
knew you'd be furious if | should sug-
gest it. Anyway, I'm relieved to
know it is nothing more serious"
Chicago Tribune.
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VOL. XL.

ifY DON'T know what's the matter
with me-" said Elliot to his wife
It the breakfast table. Il am rest
lass and almost feverish at times. 1t
;.n,t so bad here at home, but the
moment l get down into the city 1
h.oin to feel worse. 1 am SO restless
.na irritable that the boys in the
otRce are talking about it. I have
10 force myself to work, and this aft
eruoon l lost good contract simply
because l felt too badly to quarrel
With old man Harkins over the pre-
liminaries. I don't seem to take any
interest in anything"
"You'd better see DR.. Robinson"
said his wife.
That afternoon Elliot went over to
The Doctors Office and described his
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Springs of Misconduct.

"You haven't any manners, Jack;
why didn't you offer to escort that
young woman homer?
"Oh, have manners all right; but I
didn't have street car fare."-Chicago
Record
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Domestic Peace Assured.

Wife-And so you got your Lie in
sured for my benefit. That's lovely.
Husband-Yes, my dear; but just
remember, if you drive me to suicide
YOU won't get q cent.-N. Y. Weekly,
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Pearls Before Swine,

They are finding pearls as large as
chocolate drops in Iowa, which, says
the Chicago Record-Herald, is one Of
the greatest hog producing states in
the union.
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just q Hint,

'Let us sit nearer the music" she
said.
"But then you can't hear what am
saying to you," he urged.
"Quite true" she admitted, sweetly.
-Chica 90 Post
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Comparative Cost OF EDUCATION.
London, with 100000 people,
spends about s12.ooo,ooO year on pop
ular education, New York, with $780,
600, spends about S15.0oo,oo
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Subscribing in Sweden.

In Sweden person may go into tho
smallest post Office, and if he wants
to subscribe for any publication in any
of the countries of the postal union,
or at least of that part of it which has
united in this business, all he has to
do is to fill out blank and pay the
price. A quarterly government publi-
cation, much like a telephone book in
appearance, gives the sum to be
charged for each newspaper and mag
azine for the various periods ono
wear, six months, three months, etc.
The postmaster RENTS the receipts
from this source with his other busi-
ness returns, and his general bond COW
ers the tranactions.
Scientists Secure Rare Specimens.
The party of scientists which has
been engaged in original research and
the collection of botanical specimens
at the station maintained by the uni
versity of Minnesota, on the west
coast of Vancouver island, will finish
it's summers labor shortly. Two new
species of algae, form of marine
plant life, have been discovered by the
scientists and many rare specimens
have been collected. The party was
headed by Prof. Conway Macmillan,
of Minnesota, recognized authority
on botany. Miss Josephine Linder,
also noted as a scientist, was with the
expedition.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

is runnin' her knee-sprung and fod-
derin' her to beat the band?"
Adelaide's crisp duck morning skirt
rustled. Adelaide's pink hat of shirred
liberty silk slipped back on her neck
Adelaide's two big gold-brown braids
were suddenly whisked over her shout
der in the agitation of her swift sweep
around.
mo! Is he though? I've a mind
"a good mind to give him talking"
"Sho!" calculated Reggie loftily. "As
though he'd mind a girl"
But that night when Adelaide had
turned her pretty ringleted head
dozen times on the pillow, and finally
succeeded in cantering off to the
pleasant world of dreamland, il was to
find that Williewinkie and Regalia
were both there before her and were
having a glorious gallop down slope
of sunny sward, quite ignoring the
imperative cries which followed them
to halt!
And suddenly she was sitting up in
bed, with Reggie's voice in her ears
and queer smell of smoke in her nos
trils.
II say-oh, AIDE, 1 say the Harland
stables are on fire. Don't you hear
the men shouting? What did you
want to bolt your door for? l
thought I'd never get in. They're
bringing the volunteer fire department
up from town, but it will be too late
Il know it will. Sayl What are you
doing-where are you going?"
For Adelaide had promptly plunged
her head into basin of cold water.
tossed the mass of heavy wet hair
back over her shoulders, secured II
with heavy bone pin, and-tumbling
into the golf costume which happened
to be the nearest clothing at hand
was tugging at her shoes and jerking
out the laces by way of saving the
trouble of securing them.
For Regalial" gasped Adelaide, and
then she was gone.
When Reggie got back to the Har-
land stables never glimpse could he
catch of his daring sister. His father
was there, as was his big brother, and
they were half-distracted. Some one
had seen Adelaide enter the burning
building. She had not emerged as far
as was known. And the place was
doomed. For over the puny streams
OF water, over the blaze that LIT the
surrounding spaces, over the harsh
and exultant crackle Of the flames.
rose the agonized and half human
neighs and trumpetings Of imprisoned
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

beasts. Colonel Bartender tore around
like a mailman. MY daughter is in
there!" he screamed. "A thousand
dollars to the man who brings her
outi"
But the man who attempted the
rescue, the man who had ridden out
from the town depot where he had
Just left his train, at sight OF the
flames, and who now dropped from
his horse only to rush into the burn
ing building, was beaten back-con-
quered
"She had a knife!" cried a stentor-
ian voice.
81 seen her dip a horse-blanket In
trough and cover her head with 1t,
howled another.
"Who was she?" shouted the new
conner, who had attempted to enter
the building. "Who was she?"
A hundred voices in unison answered
him: Squire Callenders daughter!
they said.
Just then a cry of horror rent the
air-the cupola had fallen with
crash. Anu just lnSu, do thS ~
ISLANDERS banded In an attempt to keep
the stranger from again attempting an
entrance, two muffled figures were dis
tinguishable through the smoke. One
they seemed, for the heads of both
were covered by the folds of a blanket
already blazing, and down dropped as
they staggered out the knife with
which the halter of Regalia had been
cut.
Save him!" painted Adelaide, as she
fell in her fathers arms. Its his
housewives. l saved-Regalia!
When she regained consciousness In
the blue calm of the summer dawn,
1t was not in those same arms she
awoke. For her lover was holding her
as though he would never let her go.
and his adoring eyes were beaming
down upon her. "My brave darling
he said. Il had just got in on the
midnight train. My first thought was
for Regalia. But when l knew you
were there-you-No, no! You will
not be dishgured at all, thank God!
But, even if you were-oh, my gallant
girl-oh, my best beloved"
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28
HOW THE FISHES BREATHE
Water should BE Asrated to Give Them
Vitality.

The gills of fish are situated at the
back part of the sides of the head,
and consist of number of vascular
membranes, which are generally In
double, fringe-like rows, fixed by the
base only; sometimes these are feath-
er-like, and sometimes they are mere
folds of membrane attached at each
end over the gill cavities. In general
there are four gills on each side,
though in some fish there are more
In fishes that have bones the gills are
attached to the outer edge of bony
arches connected with the bone of the
tongue and with the base of the skull
the connection at each end being by
intervening small bones, while the
cavity containing the gills on each side
of the head is covered by bony plate
with two subordinate pieces. 1t is by
the movement of these bony plates that
the water is expelled which is taken
in through the mouth, and which, after
passing among the gills and supplying
them with air, passes out by the gill
opening at the back of the head. The
fish is a cold-blooded animal-that is.
its temperature is very slightly above
that of the water in which it lives,
and it therefore needs but little oxygen
to keep the blood warm enough to sus-
tain its life. This oxygen, supplied to
the blood by the gills in respiration, is
rot obtained by decomposing the wa
ter, but by separating the air from it
1t is, therefore, necessary that the wa
ter in which fish live should be sup
piled with air, and this is one of the
direct benefits of the agitation OF
oceans and lakes by winds. Fishes
confined in aquariums often die for
this very reason-because the water is
not aerated. They consume all the
oxygen in the closed vessel in which
they are placed, and no more being
supplied, they die, and may be said
to be drowned, because they perish
from the same cause that occasion
death by drowning in lung breathing
animals-that is, want Of air.-Golden
Days.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

Reggie's contempt was ill-concealed.
you goose!' he said to his sister.
Here you're blubberin' all over Will
liewinkies neck"
Miss Adelaide Bartender, still young
enough to quarrel with Reggie.
promptly whisked her handkerchief
into her sleeve and Strengthened up
with much dignity. She had given
Williewinkie her own little black
pony to Reggie the fall before when
she and Give Harland had decided
they were quite unsuited to each 9TH
er and that there was no earthly use
in attempting to patch up this latest
quarrel.
For / never shall ride again,
Adelaide had said heartbrokenly.
'Never!" Now, when once more the
roads were white and firm in the city
boulevards, and the bougeoning trees
on either hand spoke of the summer,
and all distant lanes in emerald leaf
invited to joyous freedom and bound
ing activity, there had come to Adel-
aide queer heartsick feeling that was
almost like nostalgie-a longing for
what had been-for what might never
be again. Oh, the rides they'd had
just year ago-she on Williewinkie-
Give on Regalia. The dewy morn
ings, with the incense of earliest way
side blooms rising fragrant to greet
them. Brown buds of oak and maple
were swelling then. And in the city
parks were the delicious signs of COM
ing summer-those parks where al
ready the grey-coated sparrows and
the relocated robins held glorious
mathis!
Now, Give had gone abroad with
his people. The fine home to the right
was closed The society journal de-
clared the family might return in the
fall. There were some hints thrown
out of Gives enthusiastic reception in
English society, and of his engage
ment to the daughter of an English
baronet All this Adelaide learned be-
fore she had come down here with her
parents to open their summer home.
But IL seemed to be borne in upon her
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

wife OF sidkey Hey from Turkey Pop
ular at Capital

wife of sidkey Hey from Turkey Pop
ular at Capital.
The ladies of the Turkish legation
have not heretofore. taken any part In
the social life of the capital. Nine
Ferrouh, wife of the recently recalled
Turkish minister was an orthodox Ma
hommetan woman. and received only
q few women, wives Of diplomats, and
no men at all. She drove out once
in a while yelled to the eyes. and
shrouded In a long silken coat. Her
only companion was her younger sis
ter, who, by special permission OF the
sultan, accompanied her to this coun-
try. Neither woman would have been
allowed to leave Turkey II they had
any idea OF adopting American GUS
toms. Ferrouth Boys successor, Shek-
all events he is unencumbered with
womankind. The second secretary,
Sidky Bey, has a wife, however, and a
charming one, who promises to be-
come extremely popular in the diplo-
matte set. She is an Armenian, and
consequently kind of Christian. She
is tall and finely formed, with mass
of Jet black hair and fine dark eyes
Nine Sidky, as she is called, was edu-
Gated in the Soutari college in Con-
stantinople, and is highly accom-
plishod woman, speaking five Ian
quages and conversing extremely well
in all of them. Her English is alto
gether perfect. Nine. Sidky is also a
fine singer, her voice having been care
fully cultivated In Italy, where she
lived for several years. Nine. Sidky is
delighted with the freedom of Ameri-
can society, and takes naive delight
In each new custom with which she
becomes familiar. Her latest fad is the
bicycle, and as she is probably the first
woman of her nationality who has ever
mounted wheel, her daily appearance
in the park is watched for with consid-
cradle interest She Is graceful rider,
and wears most distracting bicycling
gowns.-Chicago Tribune.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

Buttons are being used much nc;
than the invisible hook-and-eye tina
was always striving to creep into nc
tice-of the past few years. No one e
pecial kind of button is in vogue. The,
are used with due reference to til,
material of the dress. With figure;
silk, brocade or velvet small fancy
button of enamel, metal or jeweled is
good. With plain silk or satin sinai
crochet button is preferred. Smoot
cloths have tailor buttons of the same
material, and eheviot, tweed, home
spun, ETC., are fastened with horn, bone
or smoked pearl buttons.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28

Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces in
nammation alays pain cures wind cole 20c abottle