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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
co TO SERVE FRANCE.
Description OF Conscripts on Their
Wav TO Barrack Homes.

"They are a curious C. Jwd." says
writer describing the conscripts or
the French army, "these boys OF 20
and 81, In various stages OF sobriety,
as they throng on to the platforms OF
the railway stations and under the
fire of gentle and superior sarcasm
from the young men in uniform who
have already done year or two.
climb into the third-class cattle pens
which are to take them to the tbresh-
old of their lives in barracks. The
sons of wealthy men elbow the scour-
ings OF the streets.
"All wear their worst clothes, ex-
cept those who do not possess sec
ond suit. The chief popularity about
the whole of them Is an entire alb
sence of luggage. A young friend OF
Tea Growing in South Carolina.
DIR. Charles A. Shepard OF South
Carolina has proved on his own plan
tation at Summerville, 20 miles out OF
Charleston, that the growing of tea
can be carried on successfully and
proftably. He has been doing this for
the past IL years with such good re-
suits that the secretary of agricul-
ture and the congress OF the United
States highly approves his deeds, aud
both are extending him liberal assist
ance.
my idea from the start" said d..
Shepard, was to add an additions
crop to the farm products Of the coun-
try. The road to agricultural supren-
acy Is through diversifying. My
friends seem to think have been SUI
cessful. and | have every reason -
be gratified with what has been ae-
complished. Tea raising in the UnL-
ed States is certainly practicable. 1
is no new thing in this country. f97
in the old days a French priest plan.
ed tea on the banks of the Ashley rir.
or. But owing to the difference in the
cost of labor the United States cannc
compete with the orient in low grace
or cheap teas. 1t will pay us to prs
Guce only that of the highest quality
and which brings a high price in ma
ket. The tea grown on my place *.
South Carolina compares with tia
best that Is imported from the EASTER
lands. Washing Post.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
BALD MEMS HAIR CUTS.
Less Hair a Man Has. the Oftener
Does He Have II Trimmed.

The secretiye. taciturn barber was
finally induced TO talk. He Remarked:
I've noticed one popularity about my
customers that could never quite ex-
plain. The less hair man has the
more attention he pays to It.
There's real estate agent who
comes in here nearly every week for a
hair cat. and If shave him clean
from the back OF his collar to his fore
he you'd never know that I'd
touched him.
He S got short, light-colored fringe
that plays around the rim Of his hat.
like the soft, fluffy fringe you see on
those shawls the women wear over
their shoulders. but you'd think to
hear him. that he could braid 1t and
do il up in coils. Wants me to be par
ticular and trim it close on the neck
and around the ears.
II humor him. of course. take a
handful of somebody else's hair and
sprinkle it on the cloth | put on him,
and then l snip the air gently for 10
or 10 minutes and make a great ado
when | whisk him off.
Nine out OF every ten OF the bad
heads are that way, but men who've
got plenty of hair will keep away
from here until they look like the
edges of an old-fashioned hayloft It's
curious, and. as said, never could
account for t."-Providenca Journal.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
When You Have "A Cold.

The first action when you have a
cold should be to relieve the lungs.
That is best ACCOMPLISHED by the free
use of Chamberlain Cough Remedy.
This Remedy lique6es the tough nue.
us and causes its expulsion from the
air cells of the lunfs produces free
expecteration, and opens the secre-
tions A complete cure soon follows.
This remedy will cure severe cold in
less time than any other treatment and
1t leaves the system In a natural and
healthy condition. 1t counteracts any
tendency toward pneumonia. For sale
by Connell Bros. Pharmacists.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
n. C.. Tricks Modest Gifts.

Perhaps one of the quietest and
least spectacular cases where giving
has begun with and kept pace with
money making is found in the many
charities and generosities Of Henry G.
Frick. In a quiet way Frick has given
tens of thousands of dollars to libra
RES, churches. schools and other insti-
tutions. He has been generous, also,
not only to his friends, but even to his
old enep es. David ynch was his
old and bitter opponent in the days of
the Home ,tead iron riots. After that
time Lynch had been blacklisted in all
the Carnegie works and found it i'm
possible to get work. Through Frick,
however, assistance came, and
through Frick his two daughters have
since been educated and made self
supporting.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Drunken Painters did II.

81 put on green country boy" said
the delivery boss OF big crockery es.
Enlistment the other day. "He had
been used to horses all his life and
was a good driver, so | tried him.
Now said l, don't give way to
anything but a cop or the fire depart
ment, and give them the right of way
every time"
1.-THE boy got caught in fire his
very first trip out. He turned out
promptly and watched the fire en-
gines, the chemicals and the chiefs
auto go by. Then, thinking all danger
was past, he started again; but the
hook and ladder truck came along and
nearly wrecked him.
when he got back in a demolished
condition | sized up the situation at a
glance and said: "Weli, told you
TO look out for the fire department.
Why didn't your
:" i did, boss said the boy, almost
blubbering. L let the whole fire de-
partment get by, and then a lot of
drun''en painters came along and
smashed me. New York Press.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23

All efforts have failed to find better
remedy for coughs, colds and lung trou-
blcs than Foley's Honey and Tar il
stops the cough, heals the lungs and
prevents serious resulns from cold J
N. Patterson, Nashua, Iowa, writes:
Last winter had bad cold on my
lungs and tried at least half a dozen
advertised cough medicines and had
treatment from two physicians without
any benefit A friend recommended
Foley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds
of a bottle cured me. l consider il the
greatest cough and lung medicine In
THE world. Sold by W. I. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
City Troop to Maintain Record.

Announcement is made that on the
occasion of the visit of President
Roosevelt to Philadelphia. on Wash
ington's birthday, to attend the annu-
al exercises of the University of Penn
sylvania in memory of Washington, he
will be a guest at luncheon of the
First troop, Philadelphia City cavalry.
The City troop has escorted nearly
every president that has come to Phil
adelphia from the time of Washington
to Roosevelt. In 1887 Gen. Washing
ton was a guest of the troop at lunch
con, at which ffty-five covers were
laid. At the coming function there
will be covers for eighty. There will
be no speeches and the only cast will
be THE Memory of Washington.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER.
Refuge There an important Step To.
ward Old Ace.

Years are but fool 5 measure for
youth, which is divine; they bring eau
ton more often than wisdom. and a
certain belief in the unre ality of Joy.
A man is quickly disillusioned, which
commonly means that he has set up
his own idea of what things should be
by the side OF what things are, and
sulks forever at the result. He then
commits the folly of becoming old, and
prefers existence to life He chambers
into one or other of the many shelters
that line the way, curls up within and
smiles pityingly at the young of all
ages pressing on to some end, no mat
ter what, alive to the beauty of the
sky and the clouds and the birds and
the trees, alive even to the beauty to
be seen in one another, breathing
deeply OF the air OF strength, living
and loving and beloved, until at last
they are made one with nature. But
the heart, like the liver, grows torpid
without exercise a gradual decay
comes to the man in the shelter, a
decay from which he Is released, much
against his will, by death. There are
too many shelters.-Hugh de Selin'
court
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Holman Hunts First Portrait.

One day when Holman Hunt. in his
office boy days, was alone in the Of
fee, gentleman called and asked for
the principal on business. On the
principals return poor Hunt could not
remember the callers name, but he
said: Il can't remember the gentle
mans name, sir. but this is what he
was like" And he promptly drew a
picture of the visitor which was so
striking a likeness that the principal
forgot his annoyance in his astonish-
ment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
A Sickly Joke.

Hereafter the preachers Of Atchi.
son will be required to diagram their
Jokes and give plans and specifications
for their long range figures of speech.
says the Kansas City Journal. One
of them said of woman recently
that "she ought to go to hell" 1t
raised terrible commotion in the
church. Then the preacher explain.
ed. He said his idea was that IL such
a good woman went to hell there
would be no hell.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Senators Once Cabinet Members.

There are now in the senate five
men who have at one time or another
held important positions in presiden-
tial cabinets and each is a lawyer
of enviable reputation. Philander
Chase Knox gave up the attor icy gen.
eralship that he might sit in the SEN
ate with Senator Penrose as repre-
senting the state of Pennsylvania.
Henry NJ. Teller of Colorado sat at
the table Of President Arthur's official
family as secretary Of the interior.
Redfeld Proctor of Vermont. Russell
Alexander Alger of Michigan and
Stephen Benton Elkins OF West Vir-
ginia. all have served as secretaries
OF war-Alger under Mckinley and
the two others under Benjamin Har-
rison.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Interesting Items
Twenty-Five Years Old y Clipped
From The Bsldlns Home News

The Ionia Daily Telephone has been
swallowed by the Daily Sentinel. The
Telephone was the pioneer daily in
that place, but the Sentinel could be
run without additional expense for
rent or printing material, besides
much of the matter put in type for
the Daily could be used in making up
the weekly. The Daily Sentinel is
sprightly five column paper, it as the
Sentinel is the only daily published in
the county, and ought to receive a
generous support.
Died at his residence in this town.
ship, Feb 81, after a severe illness of
one week, Mr.. ]. Riker aged rs years.
Several persons, who, heretofore
have been in the habit of using intoxi-
eating drinks, spoke eloquently at the
meeting Monday night.
The basket collection for Mr. Coop
er, the temperance laborer, on Sun
day evening last, amounted to the
sum of SIS 40 which is a good evidence
of the high estimation of his services
in his chosen work of reform.
1t is noticed by some of our citizens
that both of our village looms were
closed on Monday evening. Can it be-
that want of custom was the cause?
If the temperance revival continues
he, may be compelled to close night
and day
Rev. J w. Reid, pastor of the M.
Z church, Greenville, astonished his
congregation on Sunday morning last
by announcing that he should occupy
the pulpit 10 more until certain
charges made against him to the Pre-
siding Elder of the district by officia
mem hers of his church we're fully in
vrstigated He demanded immediate
and thorough inves igation and dis
missed the congregation without the
usual service, nor even pronouncing
the benediction.
George Agogo, missionary among
his tribe located near Pentwater, but
temporarily residing near Kiddville,
was at the temperance meeting a few
days since and signed the pledge. He
is enthusiastic in the cause and is
constantly in attendance.
On Saturday, Monoay and Tuesday,
three big wheatrdays in our village,
Leonard & Divine bought nearly 1,4O0
bushels each day, and Willard & Son
bout 500
Our village has been all ablaze dur.
ing the past week upon the subject of
temperance. 1t is the almost univer-
sal topic of conversation in stores,
hops and npon the streets The
meeting on Thursday evening, Feb. 10,
was participated in by the Juvenile
Temperance Club, and was an inter
esting and enthusiastic occasion The
Belding Cornet Band was present in
force and did in door as we'll as open
air playing The address delivered
by Frank Jersey was carefully prepar-
ed and was in every way commend
able production.
In the SANDER suit before Justice
Elliot, at Stanton, on Friday after
non, Prosecuting attorney Harm
Smith made sudh personal reference
to NJ. G. Palmer, the attorney on the
other side that Palmer gave him lone
on the ear" The astonished justice
fined the puglistic attorney IS.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Commissioner. Notice

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County Of Ionia, 8 :
= Probate court for said County.
Estate of oliver Osborn, deceased.
The undersigned having been duly appoint
ed by the Judge of Probate of said County
Commissioners on claims I'm the matter OF
said estate and four months from the 18th
day of January, A. ID. 1905. having been al
lowed by said Judge of Probate to all per-
sons holding claims against said estate, In
which TO present their claims to us for ex-
animation and adjustment:
Notice is hereby given that we will meet
on Monday. the 18th day of February. A. ID.
905 and on Saturday the 18th day of MAY,
A. d. 1905 at O'Clock m. of each day at
the once of Frank Chase. in the village of
Smyrna, in said County, TO receive and ex
anime such claims.
Dated January 10th, A 1908.
CHARLES r. BRINK,
WALTER l., RBEvEs.
Com f1isGiouers
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
The Difference.

A delegate from Boston to recent
educational conference in Philadelphia
told of the answer given by a certain
pupil in one of the public schools of
the Hub in answer to question put
by a professor of natural history.
The question was: What is the
difference between biped and quad
ruped?"
The pupils answer was: "a biped
has two legs, quadruped has four
legs; therefore, the difference be-
tween a biped and quadruped is two
legs" -Woman's Home Companion.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
IaGrippe and Pneumonia.

Pneumonia often follows LaGrippe
but never follows the use of Foley's
Honey and Tar 1t cures lagripple
coughs and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Ask for Foleys Honey
and Tar and refuse any substitute of
fered Mr.. G.. vacher, of 157 Osgood
st Chicago writes. my wife had Sc
we're case of lagrippe three years ago,
that left her with terrible cough. She
tried bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar
and it gave immediate relief. A so cent
bottle cured her cough entirely" Re-
fuse substitutes.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Give Your stom ,ch "A Fest.

Your food must be properly digested
and assimilated to be of any value to
you. If your stomach is weak or dis
eased take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t
digests what you eat and gives the
stomach a rest, enabling IL to recuper-
ate, take on new life and grow strong
again. Kodol cures sour stomach, gas,
bloating, heart palpitatation and ali
digestive disorders. l.. A. Soper, of
Little Rock, KY, writes us; 1--WE feel
that Kodol Dyspepsia Cure deserves all
the commentator that can be given it
as it saved the life of our little girl
when she was three years old. She is
now six and we have kept it for her
constantly, but of course she only
takes IL now when anything disagrees
with her" Sold by w. l. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
That Tickling In the Throat.

One minute after taking One Minute
Cough Cure that tickling in the throat
is gone. 1t acts in the throat-not the
stomach. Harmless-good for child
rem. A. l.. Spofford, postmaster. at
Chester, Mich, says: "our little girl
was unconscious from strangulation
during sudden and terrible attack of
Group. Three doses of One Minute
Cough Cure half an hour apart speedily
cure her. cannot praise Ore Minute
Cough Cure too much for what IL has
done in our family" 1t always gives
relief. Sold by w. l. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Preserves Corks.

A device to prevent the drying out
# corks in liquor and wine bottles
-hich has the effect of making the
ontents of the bottle fiat and stale
to be seen at a ST. Louis whole
ller's establishment. 1t consists OF
cork which is supplied with cell
to which some moisture-saturated
aterial is placed before the corking
Grafton is performed, and it is said
at this will keep the cork in the
roper condition indefinitely.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Changed His Opinion.

See this lovely tidy" said Mrs.
Bargen, sit was SO cheap"
HIM" interrupted her husband. 81
want to recall my remark of this morn.
ing that you were always wanting
something you couldn't get"
ooh. l didn't want this particularly,
you see, bought 1t because it was
So"
81 was wrong this morning. I should
have said that you were always get
ting something you don't want
Philadelphia Press.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23

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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Fails to Arnreclate Joke.

Failing to apI rebate a recent New
York newspaper joke. the London St.
James Gazette gravely announced:
IAN Irish schoolmaster on a visit to
New York a week or two ago was dis
covered by policeman in a sewer. At
tho police court he explained that he
thought it was the entrance to the
new underground railway"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
SUGGESTS Church. Costume.

In Longman's Magazine Andrew
Lang suggests that there should be
church costume-some garment of
cheap material covering the wearer
from head to foot and cape to CORE.
spond. Then. says Mr.. Lang, nobody
will be ashamed to go to church be-
cause he has not frock coat and tall
hat"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Ml1MoyKoehne

Nervous exhaustion invites disease.
This statement is the positive truth.
When everything becomes burden
and you cannot walk few blocks with
out excessive fatigue, and you break
out into perspiration easily, and your
face Pushes, and you grow excited and
shaky at the least provocation, and
you cannot bear to be crossed in any
thing, you are in danger; your nerves
have given out you need building up
at once To build up woman's nerv-
GUS system and during the period Of
change of life we know of no better
medicine than Lydia z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. Here is an
illustration. Mrs. Mary L. Koehne, sT1
Garfield Avenue. Chicago, ILL.,. writes:
"yhave used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound for years in my family and IL
never disappoints so when felt that wAs
nearing'th change of life commenced treat
ment with It, l took in all about SIX bottles
and it did me great deal Of good. IL
stopped my dizzy spells, pains in my back
and the headaches with which had suffered
for months before taking the Compound. I
feel that IL it had not been for this great med
icine for women that should not have been
alive to-day. 1t is splendid for women, old or
young, and will surely cure all female disor-
ders."
Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn. Mass. in
vites all sick and ailing women to write
her for advice. Her great experience
is at their service. free of cost.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
White Cattle Herd Ia Sold.

A writer in Nature of London. ref
erring to the sale Of Charley Park.
Staffordshire. the hereditary seat OF
Lord Ferrers, says that the sale in
wolves also a change of ownership OF
the remnant of the celebrated herd OF
white cattle which had been kept
there for 700 years.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
TippIinu in South Carolina.

TIE Columbia Is. c. State notes
that "the dispensary sales in Sumter
(porulaton $500 for the six days
ending Dec. "a aggregate ss.442"-
more han s1.00 worth of rum for each
inhabitant.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
via. London Spends on Cabs.

A s.. istician has arrived at the
conclusion that s25,OOO.OOO is spent
yearly by the public OF ondon on
cabs. He also estimates that OF that
great sum perhaps s7.5oOO00 repre-
sents tips and overcharges.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
ZuLus Swift Runners.

The rate at which the Zulus can
run in an emergency is a. 'onishing.
Some will cover as mr"h as fifty
miles in six hours. Eight miles in an
hour is an ordinary feat
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Another Case OF Rheumatism Cured by
Chamberlain Pain Balm,

The efficacy of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm in the relief OF rheumatism is be-
ing demonstrated daily. Parker Trip
lett, OF Grigsby. Va, says that Cham
berlain's Pain Balm gave him perma-
nent relies from rheumatism in the
back when everything else failed, and
he would not be without 1t. Ter sale
BY ConneA Dcos-, Pharnssfsts.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Qualifications for RaIIoonlsts.

British officers can not take course
in ballooning unless they ere good
sailors" and not over 100 pounds In
weight.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
Where inventor Got Idea.

It was from watching his wife fold
up a pair Of stockings that the In
ventor OF the modern india rubber to-
bacco pouch first got his idea.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23
A healthy Old ACE
OFTENTHE BESTPARTOFLIFE
Help Tor Women Passins Through
Change Of Life

Providence has allotted us each q
least seventy years in which to fulnal
our mission in life, and 1t Is generally
our own fault II we die prematusely.
Cañon City record., 1905-11-23
Strawberries In October

II is not every community that pos
sesses the requisite soil and climatic
conditions to produce two crops of
strawberries year. but there are ex-
ceptions to the rule and this is one
of them. in consequence of which it is.
possible for Canon City people to
regale their appetites with this very
delicious fruit, the product of home
gardens, for a longer period than is
known almost anywhere else in Amer
ica-
OF course. i, would be mistake to
assume that strawberries grow spon-
taneously here for Eve or six months
every year, but by proper care and
cultivation they can be produced for
about that length of time, taking one
year with another. Frosts in Septem-
Der would have the effect of arresting
their growth and thus end the season,
but as we practically have no cold
weather until after the first of Janu-
ary Strawberries will, ordinarily, RI
pen in the open air until within few
weeks of Christmas on vines that are
not exhausted as result of a too
prolific bearing earlier in the year.
Second crop strawberries were un-
known here until ten or twelve years
ago when the possibilities in this line
of horticulture were discovered by
few shrewd growers. but since that
time they have become so common as
to excite no special comment, except
among strangers who see them ex-
posed for sale in grocery windows.
The first home grown Strawberries
to amount to anything ever sold in
this city as late as the middle of Sep
tember was about fifteen years ago
when over one hundred boxes of them
brought the grower fifty dollars,
which was at the rate of little over
four dollars a gallon Although.
perhaps, a trifie smaller and little
less sweet than those of June and
July they arc still a delicious berry
and invite the appetite of the plebian
as well as the epicurean.