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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
The Primary Law.

All the primary reform. talk In the
convention of the State Association OF
Farmers Clubs, held In Lansing. was
along the line of Cancellation. ex-
pressing the feeling that the law
passed by the last legislature was an
acknowledged compromise measure,
and the best that could be passed at
that time. The hope was apparent,
however, that better law would be
PACED by he next legislature. Frank
A. Whelan, of Durand. in his address
on Our Mistakes" said
I'VE asked for a practical primary
law two years ago. Why? 1t was be-
cause we had become disguised with
conditions. A public office that was a
position of some dignity had been put
up for sale and the people were out
ragged. The legislature took plenty OF
time and passed what is known as
the administration measure. Is the
administration greater than the peo-
pie who created it? 1t is an unsatis-
tory measure. and new we are asked
TO make another mistake and try to
give this law effect. 1t is time for us
10 balance accounts with political
bosses. We demand to have our citi'
Zenship restored to us"
Gov. Warner poured oil on the
stormy waves. He said in part: "No
primary election law ever passed by
any state in the Union is perfect. More
is to be gained in this state by testing
the present law ard improving 1t than
by criticising 1t. Someone has said
they would have vetoed that bill. II
l had done that we would never get a
chance at primary election law. 1t
was the best law that could be passed
Let us work to test and improve it,
instead of criticising it bitterly. Get
everyone to turn out next June and
vote, then the governor and lieutenant
governor can always be nominated by
that system"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
STOP HAZING.

Hazing OF every kind, IL Is announc-
ed, will be stamped out OF the Naval
academy. regardless of the number OF
dismissals from the brigade Of mid
shipmen necessary TO bring about this
result. Two midshipmen will be dis
missed from the academy within few
days by the secretary of the navy, the
one for haZing and the other for coun
tenancing IL by failure while on duty
TO report its occurrence. Other dismis-
sails will follow as often as midshipmen
are found guilty OF haZing or counte-
nancing 1t.
Congressional investigation of the
conditions at the academy has already
Eeen proposed in resolution intro
duced in the house by Rep. Loud, OF
Michigan. The resolution provides that
the committee may act by sub-com-
mittee If found advisable, and may sit
at the capitol or at the naval academy
or elsewhere. and may send for per-
sons and papers and examine witnesses
and take such action as may be found
necessary.
Briefly, there are developments in
the movement against hazing in the
naval academy. When Secretary Bona
parte reached the navy department
Thursday he received an official re-
port from Admiral Sands announcing
the suspension of Midshipman Tren-
NOR Coffin. Jr., third classman, for
hazing Midshipman Jerdone Pettus
Kimbrough, fourth classman, by fore
ing him TO stand on his head until he
became unconscious, and Of Midship-
man Warren Able Van Derveer, sec
ond classman. because while on duty
he observed the occurrence and failed
TO report it.
The superintendent called attention
to the fact that Midshipmen Coffin
and Van Derveer were guilty OF vio-
lating a well known regulation for the
government of the Llva. academy and
recommended their summary dismissal
in accordance with an act of congress
approved March 3, 1903.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
East Paris Tragedy.

Webb Clark, aged As, a prosperous
farmer of East Paris township, shot
his wife in the right temple at an early
hour Thursday morning. She will die.
After defying the efforts of the neigh
boring farmers 10 enter his homo to
give aid to his wife he returned into
the house and sent bullet into his
own right temple. He cannot live and
was unconscious when two deputy
sheriffs reached the scene, after driv-
ing five miles from the city.
Clark is said TO have been insane.
His three children declare that he
spent sleepless night, having terrific
pains in the head, and that at an early
hour Thursday morning he began to
rave. About o'clock, as nearly as the
children figure it. Clark called his wife
TO his side and with her head almost
against his bosom and in the act of
caressing her, he pulled his revolver
and put a bullet into her temple.
The three children were unframed.
One. the oldest boy, named Fred, es-
capped from the house at 6 o'clock, and
conveyed the news to neighbor, who
called the sheriff.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

NEWS OF
THE NATION
THE CANAL BILL CAUSES
DEBATE, BUT FINALLY
PASSES.
FEDERAL INSURANCE LAW WILL
NOT BE ENACTED UNTIL
STATES so DECIDE.
Congress at Work.

The senate passed the Panama canal
emergency appropriation bill, but the
result was not attained until after the
debate on the bill had been continued
the greater part of Saturday to the eX-
clusion of practically all other bust
ness. Set speeches were made by Mr..
Bacon in advocacy of his amendment
requiring estimates for canal commits
sion salaries; by Mr.. Allison, who de-
voted himself largely to the details of
the bill; by Mr.. Culberson, who criti-
cized the employment of Mr.. Bishop as
a press agent" by Mr. Stone, who
criticized the purchase of American
ships to carry Panama supplies in face
of the announced determination to go
abroad for vessels under the conditions
then existing, and by Mr.. Newlands,
who expressed the opinion that the
construction of the canal should have
been intrusted TO the geological sur
yey.
A substitute for Mr.. Bacon's amend
ment offered by Mr.. Hale was accept
ed. 1t specifically requires that con
gress shall be s@pplled with regular
estimates Of all salaries except those
paid TO laborers, skilled and unskilled
Otherwise the bill was passed as re-
ported from committee.
Congress will not attempt TO enact a
federal insurance law until it is settled
that states are unwilling or unable 10
handle the question, and that unwil
lingness or inability will be deter
mined at the February convention in
Chicago.
Congress has spent considerable time
considering the question of federal con
troll, and the arguments pro and cor
have been elaborated with much pre-
cision, particularly in the house
where the subject was up for nearly
the whole of today and yesterdays ses
sion.
Ii is possible from all the argu
ments TO see that no serious effort viii
be made to brino the issue 70 a focus
in either house until the Chicago con
vention has had an opportunity to reg
lister its opinion. This situation clothes
the February convention, which vii
be made up of delegates from prac
tically all states, with greater import
ance than it was at first thought L
would possess.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

SPREADING
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE ARE
RISING TO AVENGE
WRONGS.
MUTINY IN THE ARMY GROWS
DAILY AND FIRE, PlLlAGE
AND BUTcHERY CONTINUE.
Burning Everything.

The Lokal Anzeiger's Koningsber-
ger, East Prussia, correspondent says
the revolutionists are in full control
of all of Courland and Liyonia and that
the neighboring government of Kovono
Is also blaze of rebellion. Armed
bands, he says, are burning everything.
Mitau and Riga are in flames and
Libau is seriously threatened. The
lives Of all Germans are in the great
est danger. Everything is in an up
roar from Kreutzberg, on the Duna TO
Kovno, and rescue parties to save the
Germans are imperatively needed Two
gentlemen from the Baltic province,
Baron Korff and NJ. Won Rosenbach,
who were about to take train for
Kovno, were seized by insurgents and
detained as hostages.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Meriwether's Case.

Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr.,
who was tried by court martial for
causing the death of Midshipman
Branch, has been sentenced to confine-
ment TO the limits of the naval acad-
envy for period of one year and to be
publicly reprimanded by the secretary
OF the navy. Secretary Bonaparte has
ordered that the sentence be carried
out, but that so much OF the penalty
as would debar the accused from serv-
ing on any practice ship attached TO
the academy be RENTED. Midshipman
Meriwether was acquitted Of the charge
OF manslaughter and found guilty of
the other two charges, namely, viola
ton of the third clause of the eighth
article for the government of the navy.
which prohibits midshipmen from en-
gaging in fisticuffs, and conduct TO the
prejudice of good order and discipline.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
The Money Was BOGUS.

Overlooking the real thing in the
haste to get a handful Of bogus money
was the bad break made by a youthful
bandit in Lansing The "highwayman"
was girl about Ia years old, and the
victim the 9-year-old daughter of w.
n. Wilder. The latter was accosted in
broad daylight by the older girl, who
drew her into hallway and seized her
pocketbook, which was bullying with
bills. The bills, however, were only
the script used in business college,
but the bandit didn't notice this. She
seized the whole roll, overlooking a
genuine silver dollar, then threw the
purse on the floor and ran away.
The police have been unable to find
any clue to the girl, who was poorly
Ssed
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO
SUFFER
From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach
Trouble.
q what Is the beuinning Of siclnessl

Q. What is the beginning OF sickness
A. Constipation.
Q. What is Constipation
A. Failure Of the bowels TO carry OF the
waste matter which lies in the alimentary
canal where it. decays and poisons the en-
tire system. Eventually the results are
death under the name of some other dis
ease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever
and appendicitis, stomach and bowel
trouble al the present time.
Q. What causes Constipation
A. Neglect to respond TO the call OF ma.
ture promptly. Lack of exercise. Excess
sive brain work. Mental emotion and i'm
proper diet.
@. What are the results of neglected
Constipation
A. Constipation causes more suffering
than any other disease. IL causes rheu-
matism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel,
kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. IL IS
the one disease that starts all others.
Indigestion, dyspepsia. diarrhoea, loss OF
sleep and strength are its symptoms-piles,
appendicitis and fistula, are caused by
Consultation. It's consequences are known
10 all physicians, but few sufferers realize
their condition until il is too late. Women
become confirmed invalids as a result OF
Constipation.
@. DO physicians recognize this'
A. Yes. The first question your doctor
asks you is ARE you constipatedf" Ihat
is the secret.
q. Can it be curedl
A. Yes, with proper treatment. The
common error is 10 resort to physics, such
as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil, in
jections, etc, every one of which Is in
furious. They weaken and increase the
malady. You know this by your own ex-
perlence.
O. What then should be done TO cure itl
A. Get bottle of Mulls Grape Tonic at
once. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively
cure Constipation and Stomach Trouble in
the shortest space of time. No other
remedy has before been known to cure
Constipation positively and permanently.
Q. What is Mulls Grape Tonicl
A. II is a Compound with 40 per cent. of
the juice Of Concord Grapes. II exerts
peculiar strengthening, healing influence
upon the intestines, so that they can do
their work unaided. The process is gradual,
but sure. IL is not physic, but it cures
Constipation, Dysentery, Stomach and
Bowel Trouble. Having a rich, fruity
grape flavor, it IS pleasant TO take. AS
tonic il is unequalled, insuring the system
against disease 1t strengthens and builds
up waste tissue.
haap "A'' Gun NUN Ap' -OA'' &c
A. Your druggist sells it, The dollar
bottle contains nearly three times the 90
cent size.
Good for ailing children and nursing
mothers
A free bottle to all who have never used
II because we know it will cure you.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Chinese Ruler.

The Empress Dowager of China
was sold ipto slavery at the age OF
eleven, to save her family from star
vation. Afterwards, she was present
ed to the late Emperor, and, upon his
wife's death, became Empress. Her
,eet were never bound, and she was
taught to read after persistent plead
ing. The sterling qualities of this
wonderful woman, like those Of Pills
hury's Vitos, have overcome every OBJ
stacle. And she holds herself at the
head of China, as does Vitos at the
head Of breakfast foods.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot reach
the OF the disease. Catarrh IL blood consti
tutona disease end in order TO IL you take
internal remedies Hairs Catarrh Cure f. taken in.
ternally, and acts directly the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure Is not quack medi-
cine Itwas prescribed by of the best physicians
in this country for and Is regular prescription.
IL is composed Of the best tones known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination OF TIE
two ingredients IL what produces such wonderful
suits IN curing catarrh Send for testimonials free.
FIJI. CHENEY & CO., Props Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists. price csc.
Take Halls Family PMS for constipation.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

Unless we despise a woman when
we cease TO love her. we are still a
slave without CONSIGNMENT of intoxi-
cation.
Capt Samanski, of the 222d regi-
ment, stationed at Kaluga, has declined
TO obey the order Of his colonel to use
his company in breaking up the strike,
declaring in writing that he regarded
police work as outside the duties of of
ficers and soldiers.
1t is probable that Mlchigan's artil-
lery organization may be the first of
the national guards of the country to
receive the new light field pieces TO be
issued by the government and which
are said TO be the deadliest weapons of
their kind yet devised.
In view of the serious news from
Riga and Reval, Chan, llor Won Bue-
low has authorized the president of the
province of East Prussia TO charter
steamers for Riga, Reval and Libau
and to place them at the disposition oil
the German subjects in those cities.
Employees of the Newcastle, Pa. pot
terry works are fined or discharged for
swearing.
A number Of offers for the old frig
ate Constitution are pouring into Sec
rotary Bonaparte. A Boston man will
give $4,000. The secretary says ho
cannot legally consider the offers.
The greatest secresy is thrown over
the governments answer to Linevitch
which was sent via Vladivostok.
The mob has plundered and set fire
to some of the Jewish houses in the
Moscow suburb OF Riga. The Jews have
organized armed patrols, each a hun
dred strong. to guard the jewish quar-
ters at night.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Burned to Death.

Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. Al
bert Ingersoll, ranging in age from 8
to years, were burned to death in
their home near Fife Lake, Thursday.
The father was at work and the mother
went to visit neighbor, leaving the
children in the house alone. The
youngest child was cremated and the
other two died shortly after being TAX
en- from the burning house.
The fire was started by the children
playing with kerosene oil while the
mother was absent looking for another
child which had wandered away from
home.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Tact OF Napoleon III.

In the memoirs of DR.. Thomas
Evans appears this anecdote Of the
court of Emperor Napoleon III, in
Paris: AT ball given at the Tuii-
cries general slipped on the polished
floor fell at the emperors feet, pull
ing down with him his partner. Ma
dame said the emperor. assisting the
lady to rise this is the second time
Gen. - has fallen in my presence;
the first time was at Solferino.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
More Jews Killed.

A dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse
from Bucharest, Roumania, says: RE
ports received here through refugees
declare that since Sunday the town of
Elizabethgrad, Russia, has been burn
ing and that a mob has been killing
and plundering in the Jewish quarter.
A regiment is proceeding to Elizabeth
grad from Kishineff to restore order
there"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

1t is reported that Cressy L. Wilbur
chief of the department of vital statis-
tics, will resign the first Of the year
He has been in the department u
years.
A married man by the name OF Gorh-
man, living in Sandstone, Jackson
county. left his horse and buggy in
Jackson, came to Ann Arbor by cleo
trio car. looked up some legal matters
in the probate court, Wednesday, and
is now missing.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
.Japanese "Cornerstoncs. {,

Doing everything by contraries. as
usual, the japanese, instead OF bury
inC under a foundation stone the
names of the persons connected with
the building of a temple, inscribe
them on tablet which is conspicu.
ously placed on the roof
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Young Hanamen.

Two 14year-old boys. Earl Bowman
and Arnold Pittsburg, of Traverse City,
tried TO emulate the hanging OF Mrs.
Rogers. They put a moose around the
neck Of playmate, Will Hoxie, after
standing him on a stick Of wood, and
then kicked the wood away. Willie was
nearly dead when he was rescued by
another playmate
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

The game warden's department has
seized so deep water gill nets at Beav-
er island, in Lake Michigan, which be-
long to the Michigan and Wisconsin
fishermen, and are valued at several
thousand dollars. This is the biggest
single seizure in the history of the
department
The acquittal OF Tred Harris,
charged with murder because of the
death of Henry Week, Jr., during the
street car strike in Saginaw last July,
has led to the discharge of William
Johnson. Charles Hubert, James Sui.
Ivan and Anton Tubac. charged with
murder Jointly with Harris.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

The farmer who can read Secretary
Wilson's glowing and auroral report
without feeling alfred rich and pros
porous may be set down as an incur
able and unimaginative pessimist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Retaliation For Exclusion.

Capt. A. G. Baker. OF the cruiser
Raleigh, who has been detached for
several months 10 study commercial
and political conditions in China, was
a passenger on the Manchuria, arriv-
ing today from the orient, on his way
TO Washington to lay before the presi-
dent and his advisors the results OF his
investigation. He says:
1T is nonsense TO talk of the boycott
as dying out. The commercial situation
in South China is absolutely at the
mercy of the guilds. There are II of
these, and they control trade with an
iron hand and they have given orders
not to handle American goods. 1t is al
most impossible to get at them. OF
course, we have treaties guaranteeing
the free circulation of our goods, put
supposing the coolies on the docks, the
carriers on the streets and everybody
connected with the handling of goods
refuses to touch them. what are you
to do?
american houses in Canton are full
TO the roof with -four, and they cannot
bulge it, In the meantime, Australian
merchants are charterlng everything
they can get their hands on TO rush
their inferior flour into the market TO
take advantage or our difficulty.
The Chinese merchants admit that
the flour is not as good as ours, but
they are committed to this war on
American products and are prepared
to make sacrifices 10 carry it out.
"Not only the Australians, but the
Japanese also, are taking advantage or
| the boycott to get our business. Cotton
mills are being established in China by
| Japanese houses. and with cheap labor
and no transportation charges they are
| in a position to drive us out of the
| field They will also develop the steel
ere of Korea and probably the OIL In
this way our vast kerosene and steel
business there will be taken over by
the Japanese.
THE only thing that could raise the
boycott would be to rescind the Chi
nese exclusion laws, and this, OF
course, will not be done. 1t looks as
though our business relations with
| China were doomed. The boycott is
getting worse every day there"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21
Power of lntellectuaIlty.

A great soul draws and is drawn
with more fierce intensity than any
small one. BY every inch we grow in
intellectual height, our love strikes
down, it roots deeper, and spreads out
its arm wider.-Olive Schreiner.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

The leading man in San Franchises
Chinese theater says his enemies
have offered $500 for his assassina-
ton. They are not necessarily his
enemies; they may be lovers of act
ing
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

King Edward has decided to confer
the Order of Merit on both Field Mar
shall Oyama and Admiral Togo. Does
this remind you of the Rewards Of
Merit that you used to get at Sunday
school?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

The car of all the Russians would
probably be willing to give a consider
able part of his s12,000,000 salary to
know just what is going to happen to
linn in the next few weeks.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

When a high fnancier gets bun
Soed by his associates. the public
does not demand that the offenders
be hailed at once before the bar of
legal justice. There is a general sus-
pieion that justice has already been
done.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

There is rumor ahoat among the
midshipmen that when congressional
investigation of hazing commences all
the upper class men will join In an ac-
knowledgedment that they have taken
part i'm hazing and, in sense, defy
the investigators.
Rep. Payne, Of New York, argues
that the only way congress can con
troll insurance is through the taxing
mower and in a discussion of the rec
lamentations in the presidents mes
sage in the house yesterday urged that
the question be referred TO the com
mittee on ways and means.
Claude Livingston, New York coal
dealer. has been arrested on the
charge Of attempting TO bride Chief
Boatswain w. II. johnson, of the gen.
eral storekeeper's department of the
Brooklyn navy yard. to certify To the
delivery of more coal than was actual
~ received
When a delegation from Oklahoma
and Indian territory called on Senator
Beveridge to urge state hood for tho-+
territories. Helen Renstrong, aged 10
of Oklahoma City, sang three verses
from "Oklahoma," the joint statehood
song. attracting many senators and
capitol habitues 10 the corridor, where
the reception was held.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

Several Korean officials have COM
mitted hara-kiri, thus showing, as
Japan desires the world to note, their
thorough sympathy with japanese in.
Stltutlons.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

Gen. Horace Porter's thought for
Sunday: when yere goin' tae kirk,
lassie." said the Scot, "droop yer eyes
on the sidewalk It's piCus like an
mebbe yen find purse or some
thing like"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

The best time in the year to eat
eggs, Constant Reader" is when the
relations subsisting between your
pocketbook and the price of eggs are
most harmonious.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

King George of Greece. while stroll.
ing about, incognito, failed to answer
the challenge of a sentry and was fired
at, the ball tearing rent in his over
coat. Next day the sentry was sum-
moned to the palace and decorated by
the king with one of the minor mill
tary orders. for his attention to duty.
81 cannot combat the growth and
spread of the revolutionary movement
in the army, already more than half
mutinous," Gen. Linevitch telegraphs
from. Manchuria. The reserves de
mand to be sent home Immediately,
and refuse to take paper money. Tele-
graph instructions Urgent"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-21

Paderewski is entirely recovered,
after two operations. from the effects
Of his American railway accident. Il
is said not to be safe yet, however,
90 call his dog Syracuse" in the plan
lists presence.