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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Post season base ball games, the
great battles to which fans the
country over are now looking for
ward with intense eagerness, were
unheard of until 1884, when the
Providence team, winner of the Ma
tional league championship, and the
Nets, winners in the American as
sociation, played three games at
the Polo grounds, New York. Prov
idence won them ALT to 0, 8 to l
and IL to 2.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
PROF. ST. CHARLES.
HE WILL TELL YOU YOUR
NAME AND EVERY SECRET
an NnI1n L IIrIc

OF YOUR LIFE.
A SECRET YOU SHOULD KNOW
THE POWER TO CONTROL.
There is a power latent within
every individual which, If properly
applied, will enable each person to
attain the height of his or her
ambition.
Prof. st. Charles can tell you
how to control and use that power
to gain success and happiness. II
you wish to succeed in any bust
ness undertaking, consult him now.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
MdDSiicid-.W Wonderful p0lmiSf
THE GREATEST LIFE READER
TRANCE, TEST, BUSINESS
MEDIUM

MEDIUM
PSYCHO-PALMO ADVISER
Thorough clairvoyant sight for
sickness, health, troubles, journeys,
marriage, enemies. Sees and reads
fiuently and correctly on all affairs
OF life, love, courtship, divorce, in
vestments, changes of work, buying
or selling, lawsuits, mining, ore
veins, timber claims. relinquish.
ments, land values, farms, home
steads, any matter or thing you
may be in doubt about. Lucky days,
months. years. for success in travel
or locations, whom, when you will
marry, hastens marriage to one OF
your choice, brings back lost love,
husband or friend, makes the sick
well and strong again, overcomes
evil influence and the cause OF bad
conditions. imparts spiritual sug-
gestlve powers of control, personal
magnetism, and psychic therapeu-
tics. Teaches all occult laws and
forces OF natural selection, removes
lost ncrYe energy. strengthens tho
memory and those who are melan-
cholv or decreased Address Sl4h
Riverside, Pacific Halls.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Lots. Lots. Lots. 500. 500. $500.
East Spokane, the manufacturing
district between o. r. & N. and N.
p. r. r.; 81 cash, balance 81 week;
no interest; no taxes. Sparks Bros,
14-16 Bernard street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

CHOICE CANNON HILL LOTS
Reasonable, and monthly pay.
ments. Also choice lots in other
localities.
GRAY INVESTMENT co.
Phone 800 First Ave. and Wall
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Homestead ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We have several first class home
stead ACCOMPLISHMENTS, gapelhg in
price from $3.50 to $1,000. See us at
once If you want something good
SPARKS BROS,
Il Bernard st. Phone l947.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
Classified Ads
Miscellaneous
& Real Estate
Opportunities
FOR SALE
GOOD BUY

HEATH'S ADDITION
Corner lot, with four-room house,
on e. Ermina avenue; $3.50; $500
will handle this exceptionally good
bargain.
SULLIVAN INVESTMENT co.
Phone 2433. II Bernard st.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Soap Lake is six miles from
Adrian; stage meets all trains.
When at Soap Lake stop at Hotel
Thomas, the new hotel. Bathhouse
in connection.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

IT'S THE VALUES.
81 acres; so tillable; 80 under
cultivation; balance timber and
pasture; 6k miles from good town.
Only $1,000 per acre, and 500 cash
will handle it.
THOMPSON-GILL INV. CO.,
SIS Washington st. Phone 1880.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
HOTELS AND LODGING HOUSES
LYNNE HOTEL.

$40 Wall st., right by the rivers
no nicer place in town for regular
or transient roomers; coy, quiet
and respectable; secluded but
close in; only IN blocks from Riv-
erside av.; rear entrances from
Post St; hot water all the time;
moderate prices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Eggs, strictly fresh, for hospital
and family use. Leave orders at
popcorn wagon, First and Howard.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Spokane Artificial Limb House,
legs, arms, trusses, braces, made
and repaired. Sherwood bldg.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Choice five acre tract, close to
car line, five miles from city;
$1,000, $50 cash. balance IS per
month: sub-irrigated land; a snap;
see this. Sparks Bros. Phone
1947. IA and 16 Bernard street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
WORLD SERIES OF
YEARS GONE BY

beat the st. Louis American asso-
citation champions six out of 10
games. In the post season series of
1889 the New York Nationals won
six of the nine games played with
the champion Brooklyn team of the
American association.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Chubb prints business or calling
cards cheapest. Fone 9349.
and Golden Gate block, S24 Riv-
erside.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Any face blemish rshoved without
pain or scar; guaranteed. The
Derma Inst, S24 Riverside avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

The next year the Chicago Ma
tionals and the st. Louis Browns
winners respectively in the Ma.
tional league and the American as
sociation-played seven-game ser
les, the first being played in Chi
cago. the next three in St. Louis,
the fifth in Pittsburg, the sixth in
Cincinnati and the seventh in Chi
cago. Each team won three games
and one was a tie.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

If your feet ache and pain, wear
Kushien Komfort shoes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22
ATTORNEY
RESTAURANTS

Best, biggest and cleanest 10 cent
meals in the city; coffee fit for
Governor Durkin to drink. Queen
Coffee House, 337 Front avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Pine wood, $4.00. Sparks Bros,
IA and 16 Bernard street. Phone
1947.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

We buy your secondhand bicycles.
California Cycle, 8 Riverside.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Spokane Trunk Factory-Trunks.
travelling bags and leather goods.
Store 8 Stevens st. Phone 3248.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

In 1888 the New York Nationals
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

Detroit, winner of the National
league pennant, and the self-same
st. Louis Browns fought it out in
1887, and Detroit won 10 of the IA
games, which were played in ST.
Louis, Detroit. Pittsburg, New
York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Washington and Baltimore.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-22

In 1856 Chicago and St. Louis
again played off, and Comiskeys
team won four games to Arson S
teams two.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28

A few weeks ago we told of Cali
foinia shoemaker who nearly strangled
himself with the fumes of old shoes
under the hallucination that IL would
cure his rheumatism. and here comes
along a Tacoma man with another
bizarre theory about rheumatics. His
name is Jack Smith, and he discov-
cred his novel cure accidentally. He
has been an inmate of the county poor
farm for some time and recently de-
cided he would kill himself by throw
ing himself on the third rail- of an
interMban train. Mr. Smith expected
to be electrocuted. but instead the
current knocked him senseless and
he lay beside the track until picked up
in the morning. And Jack Smith
swears that the shock did him so much
good that another one would undoubt-
edly cure every ache he has. The
county authorities think differently
and have sent Jack TO the Steilacoom
insane asylum TO get over his belief
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Dartmouth Tale revlvso.

Awhile ago an item started the
rounds Of the college papers, begin
ming. 1t appeared, with the Daily illini.
at the University of Illinois. and
working like soft-nosed bullet both
ways through the college publications.
The story was about what was called
a recent happening at Dartmouth. II
detailed, how the tax assessor of the
district of Hanover. N. H.. decided re-
Gently that the students of Dartmouth
college ought to pay taxes. There
upon the students decided that II they
could be taxed they also could vote.
So at a town meeting the students.
who far outnumbered the other resi-
dents. united in support of two prof
ects. One was to have erected a
schoolhouse 500 feet long and one
foot wide. and ne other to have laid
a boardwalk from Hanover to- Leb.
anon about i've miles away. Immedi.
ately thereafter the tax assessor made
up his mind that the students need not
DO taxed.
WELL" said Dartmouth '95 man
when he was told about the anecdote
that used to be favorite story when
/ was In college. wonder who started
that up again"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
CUTTERS PROSPECTS GOOD

The election for officers Of the Grand
lodge Of Oddfellows, which takes place in
each subordinate lodge of the state during
the last week in June, will be of special
interest to lonia county and Iona county
Oddfellows this year, by reason Of fact
that Fred Cutler, jr., of Ionia lodge. No.
us, who was appointed Grand Treasurer
OF the order in December last to succeed
the late Gen. Pritchard, comes up for
election at this time.
Every past grand has vote and it is a
foregone conclusion that Ionia county, in
fact this entire section Of the state, will
be practically solid for the retention Of
Grand Treasurer Cutler in his present
position of trust and honor.
His well known ability, integrity and
peculiar qualifications for the place are
SO generally recognized that there would
appear to be little or no doubt Of his sue
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Send Wives TO coIonlsts.

In the German colonies there are
large tracts of land. larger even than
Germany, where men and women could
make a good living. At present there
are about 10000 men In these colonies
and only 1000 women. The Woman's
German Colonial union has been or
ganized under the patronage of the
grand duke of Mecklenburg. nearly
every member being the wife of a
government official or army officer.
The union is working to interest WON
en- In the colonies and to help them to
emigrate. Many German women have
been sent to make wives for the colon
lists. The union also looks forward
to helping families by establishing
schools and other necessary aids tc
good living.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
He Understood.

During a financial furry a German
farmer went to the bank for some
money He was told that the bank
was not paying out money, but was
using cashiers checks. He could not
understand this, and insisted on
money. The officers took him in
hand, one at a time, with little effect.
Finally the president tried his hand,
and after long and minute explana.
ton, some intelligence of the situation
seemed TO be dawning on the farmers
mind. Finally the president said:
You understand now fully how it is.
Hans, don't your" YES" said Hans,
II tink do It's like dis, ain'dt? Ven
my baby wakes UP at night and wants
milk, gif him milk ticket"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Misunderstood.
career"

OF Henry James. who to the dis.
tress of many of his admirers, is re-
vlsing DAISY Miller" the Portrait OF
a Lady" and his other early works,
a Chicago publisher said the other
day:
Here is something funny that hap.
pened during Mr.. James visit to Phil.
adolphia.
Two housemaids in the downtown
house where he stopped wers dis
cussing him.
He's a very fnicky. tussy gentle.
man. said the first.
Indeed, you're right, he ia' the
other agreed. warmly. He caught me
using one of his razors one morning
TO pry open a stiff window with and
kicked up an awful row. Some folks
hate a bit of fresh air."
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28

No feature OF modern China is more
remarkable than the growth of the ma.
tive press. DIR. Morrison. who is per-
haps the hsst authority on this sub
iect. says that every city now of any
Importance has its newspaper, there
being about 200 journals boldly con.
Quoted and publishing Reuter- tele.
grams and other messages from Euro
pean agencies. so that tens Of thou.
sands Of Chinese could now read
every day OF the progress and reforms
of Europe. and of all the most stirring
events in distant parts Of the world.
They even have their political car.
toons. showing considerable ingenuity
and invention.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
GAVE HIS VANITY A SETBACK
Business Man Not as Fascinating as
RE Thought He Mas.

Speaking OF -nlindedness :
there are q lot of men who don't mo-
tice things. They may not be absent
minded. but there are lot of things
that get by them.
The other day prominent steam
ship man here in town passed an at
tractlve young woman on the street.
She bowed pleasantly and spoke to
him. And yet he didn't tnow her from
bale OF hemp.
Huh! / guess l must be pretty
good" he reflected II must be hold
ing my age pretty we'll when strange
young women begin to speak up to
me like that. Well, l wonder,"
The next day the steamship man
was riding down in the elevator with
bis partner, and that same trim little
girl was aboard. Once more she
beamed upon him.
Say, I've made n hit with that little
girl that was on the elevator" the
steamship man confded to his partner
after they got off. Not so bad look
ing either, is she? l don't know who
she is, but she's mighty pleasant and
clipper to me. Funny how fellow II
make hit that way with somebody he
never even talked to. Makes man
feel good to think that he still looks
young enough for the girls to take no
tice OF him, eh?"
The partner was looking at him with
an amused expression.
Maybe 1t would interest you" he
suggested, ito know that that girl has
been the telephone operator up In our
office Tor about a year and half.
You've talked to her thousand times
md passed her 40 times a day.
Cleveland PlainDealer
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
NUMBERS rHAr hRE usl scKY.
Two Foundations Tor the supersssion
About Thirteen.


why is 10 unluelE 1T Is usually
stated that the supersutious objection
to sitting Is at table in Christian
countries was based on the fact of the
last supper, when Christ and His III
disciples sat down ID eat together
Immediately before the Saviour Was
seized by HIS enemies. But In the
Morse mythology, which IS supposed
70 antedate the Introduction of Chris
tianity among the N0rthmen The
superstition referred to the fact that
at the banquet of the gods. 'Loki. the
spirit of mischief intruded himself
making 10 at the table wherefore
there was fight. and Balbour a
Young hero especially loved by the
gods was killed
So far as France is concerned. II Is
the number "a that has played a con
spicuous. and generally portentous.
part in her history On May IA 1854
the Rue de Ia Ferronnerie was en-.
larged by order Of Henri IT., and four
times 10 years later Henri IN. was as.
sassinated thcre By Ravaillac, namely.
on May rs 1910 Henri had lived four
times DAYS. l. e.. IS years and five
months. Then Henr's son, Louis xiii.
died May IA, l643 the same day and
month as his father) And 1913 added
together makes IA Louis XIV. as
cended the throne l643. which, added
together makes u, and similarly the
pear of his death (1715) makes la
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
WHY CONGREGATIONS DwINDLE.

THE MINISTERS Of America profess an
inability to understand why so many con-
greg atoms dwindle." says the Grand Rap
ids Press. 1T may be that many minis
tiers do not believe it is their function to
preach civic righteousness. But no min
ister who has studied the life of the found
or of his religion can persuade himself
that it is not part Of his duty to keep in
touch with the spirit of his time, to know
and to feel the great movement which is
sweeping US all to higher standard Of
civic life. For unless he is in touch with
the spirit OF his time, unless he can inter
pref that spirit to his congregation, he will
be deserted. The principles of christianity
are everlasting, but the language and the
works by which they are expressed vary
from age to age. And the minister who
seeks his inspiration, not in the life and
aspirations of his own age, but in those of
the past, cannot make himself understood
by his people.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Too Strenuous ) Lover.

Girls, and an you love sick SWANS
listen 70 this happened 60 Bob
McGregor Of Brooklyn lie Is locked
up on Bellevue island because he per
sisted in writing love letters TO Mrs.
Mary stroker, a pretty typewritist OF
81 Broadway This wasn't so bad,
but McGregor got to writing five let
ters a day and then coming around in
the evening TO see why Mrs Stroker
hadn't answered All of them. This was
too much for Mrs Stroker and She
told the police The police decided
that Bob was indeed too amorous with
his messages and that he'd have TO
restrict the output Bob declined to
listen and after Mrs. Stroker had re-.
ceived more than 100 letters, each
getting more fervid than its predeces-
sor, she went TO the police again and
now Mr.. McGregor Is locked up-to
consider the course OF true love.
Highest Pile Driver Built.
q pile driver at New Orleans Is los
feet high, the highest ever built
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
COUNTRY AS MINE OF WEALTH.
Paid Agents Mlsrepressnt Conditions
10 Secure immigration.

Misrepresentation on the part of
bald agents is the chief reason for so
much Of the undesirable immigration
10 this country" said George F. Wag-
ner OF Chicago. who has recently re-
turned from q trip to Germany and
Austria. The agents go amons the
peasant classes and tell them OF the
money that caa DO made by coming
TO America The standard of wages
Is 50 much lower there and the
money itself divided into smaller do
nominations that these promises are
aluring The agent. however. falls
% tell them that living expenses are
proportionately higher IN this country.
SO the peasant sells what property
i've has. and with his family takes pas
sage for America. the land Of quick
fortunes. Arriving here they soon
discover that while the scale of wages
Is all that they have been promised
and that work is plentiful. they can
make no more and probably not as
much in this strange country. Their
idea Of America is about tho same
/ rs that of two IrishmeR who came
over not long ago. They had been
told that in America gold was found
lying around on the streets and all
man had to do was to go out and pick
up as much as he wanted. AS luck
would have 1t they had no more set
carneule-"scoteh Devil"
Il remember l attracted some at
tention one day. l was telegraph
operator down in Pennsylvania" said
Andrew Carnegie. "Over my head
vas T. A. Scott, that great railroad
man. He was supposed to direot the
movement of the trains on that divi-
sion, giving orders at his command.
( signed his name to the orders.-T.
A. S.
"One day he was away. The trains
we're all late. The eastern express
vas three hours late. The freight
boys were lying about the yard wait
ng for orders. Remembering Nelson.
{ said to myself: Death or Westmin-
ster Abbey began getting out the
trains, signing oil orders IT. A. S.
Then the chief came In.
Come, come. Andy, bow did these
trains get out?'
Why, gave the orders. couldn't
sit here like a dummy with things
getting behind and all mixed up. !
have given the orders many time
with you standing over me. knew
what you would have done
We'll, he didn't approve at all OF my
action to me. But heard him say
day or so after to a big man. with
little dlsapproval in his voice:
:" DO you know what that little
white-haired Scotch devil did the 9TH
or night? lie ran every train on the
division himself
That was the turning point in my
career"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Nut Loaf Substitute for Meat.

To one pint dry crumbs add one
teaspoon of parsley, half teaspoonful
sage. one cupful finely chopped celery.
one-half sour apple. one heaping tea
spoonful finely minced onion fried to a
golden brown I'm two tablespoonfuls
butter. one and one-half cups milk.
two eggs. and one cup chopped nuts.
Form into long loaf and bake for
one hour In baking pan, basting 1t
frequently.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
NEEDLE TRAVELLED OVER BODY
FOR seventy-Five Years Had Bothered
Connecticut Man.


The oldest man in Norfolk. Conn. is
Egbert +. Butler. who is 90 wears
old, and for 75 Of those 80 years has
had needle travelling about ali over
his body Although Mi Butler says
that he has never been sick a day in
his whole life. he had often been vis-
tied with strange pains ia various
parts Of h. body When the pains
came in his arms or legs he thought
them pleurlsy, and when they came In
his stomach he spoke of them as "a
'crick But the doctor who took the
needle from the old mans foot said
that All of these pains were caused by
the travels Of the needle FOR surgeons
have found ont that a needle trave-s
through flesh by going alternately
backward and forward, like a railroad
train switching Thus they were able
70 trace the course Of the needle,
which passed twice very close to the
heart and through the lungs. At last
1t lodged in his foot, and it was there
the doctors found It. "Well. | de.
clare, said the old gentleman when
be saw Il. and he az once remembered
how when a child his mother had been
frightened because he had swallowed a
needle. i had remained in his body
for IS years.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Couldn't Be Snobblsh.

Mrs. De style-Tve been sending
Mary TO a fashionable academy, but
she doesn't seem to get on very well.
Uncle Jerry-No? She's a pretty
bright girl.
Mrs. De Style-Oh! she's bright and
very sensible. but
Uncle Jerry-Ah. guess that's II.
She's too sensible TO be affected by 1t.
Catholic Standard and Times.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
Hardshlps Of the Rich.

They say old Gotalotte was pretty
hard hit during the recent panic.
Yes, poor old chap; I'm mighty
sorry for him. too. He is SO hard up
that he can't afford to smoke anything
better than three-for-flfty cigars"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
On the Pier.

Don't you think 1t is crazy thing
for us to come down here just to
watch them haul out lot of poor fish
in a big metz"
Perhaps so. The whole affair Is
conducted on In seine methods"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
a Far.Fetehed ARGUMENT.

1.-THE earth" remarked the profes.
sor. 'pursues its mighty pathway
through space without interruption
and on what you might call schedule
time"
Which" remarked Mr., Dustin Stax
with confident emphasis. goes to
show what good thing a perpetual
franchise Is,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
A sublect of common Interest.

He had sent for the two sisters.
They hadn't met before in years
There was property division that
necessitated their agreement.
When they came together in his
private office he softly stole out and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28

cess in the present contest tno7gH
there are a number of other candidates
in the field
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28
An Unsought encouragement.

I'm awfully stupid at repartee,"
said the young woman who didn't
mean IL.
Il know girl who was just as stu
pid and got over it by practicing,"
said the young man who thought she
meant II.
Questionable the young WOMB n
smile at this encouragement?
Answer-Not so you could notice e.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-28

State OF Michigan, County OF Ionia, S.
l. w. 8 Lambertson, Cashier of the above
named bank do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true To the best OF my knowledge
and belief. w. =. LAMBERTSON,
Cashier.
day OF May, 1908.
My commission expires Nov. IL, 1909.
WM. f. SANDELLr
Notary Public.
Corroct--Attest:
H. j. LEONARD,
T.. f. CHAPPLE,
r. M. WILSON
Directors