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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-10
ANNOUNCER Mt

Going of business Sale. We have decided to J
from the Dry Goods Business and close
entire stock. We also have decided give the public
whom have patronzed literally many years, full bene
fit of this sacrifice which will be forced to ma e
disposng of this large and we'll selected stock of Dry
Goods and Ladies' Furnishing Goods.
will be regarding the high quality
goods bought
could possibly The stock
All the
will public
the best and latest Dry Goods and Ladies Reaytowea Garments wholesale
below Our Ladies which
still have fine assortment will be sold for oneha off large line Of Skirts in
Ladies silk lined Rubber Coats Into this Sale goes $500 90 worth latest style
4 Shirt Waists and Ladies Muslin
Undewear shown Beng Tgeand well selected line of Hosiery on
In Dress Goods and Silks
4 Dress Goods
well assorted Closing Sale
Standard Prints ID Fine Shhng ID cents The best Feh
/ bchd LonSie Everything
II is no fake Sale of business
In our lgeSo will in an
z date Dry Goods Store 4
This Sale began the ist 0 June
II Respectfully,
J Spencer Bros.
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-10

Mable Barnum was an lonia visitor
Monday night.
Mrs A. Conklin went To Orleans,
Monday, for an extended visit.
The Misses Laura Green and Lucille
Corneya were in Detroit from Sunday
hntil Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Annis returned
Monday from 10 days visit with
relatives and friends at ST. Johns.
Frank G. Miller has opened law
Office i'm Silver-Graff Block i'm Ionia.
His many friends will be pleased to
note that he has concluded To again
take up the practice of law.
Thos. Shaw who has been visiting
his sister Mrs. Thomas Andrews for a
couple of weeks left for Albion for a
brief visit and from there will report
for service at the Government Hospital
Corps in TT. Wayne, Ind.
A meeting of the officers and com
mittees appointed at the last meeting
of the tuberculosis Society and all
others interested will be held i'm the
Congregational church on Monday
evening, June 10th, for the purpose OF
further perfecting the organization and
of considering measures of precaution
against the white plague,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-10
Let the Children Kodak

Enrich the home life with pictures
of them. They pose for you hun
dred times a day and do IL well.
And turn about is fair play. Let
the children kodak. The mystery
of photography appeals to them and
with a simple little brownie they
soon learn TO make good pictures.
No dark room needed. Kodaks Sc
To $40. Brownie cameras they
work like kodaks) 81 to $12.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-10
Satin Skin Powder
New Post Cards

A new view Of the p. NJ. railroad
bridge at kiddville. A new view oi
the Belrockton and Richardson
boarding house etc. All in colors
2 for &c or 25c dozen.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

not reach them, but, like the mariner, we may steer by them and steer alright.
 The force that has lifted man from brute creation is that of his ideals. Without that he would have been as helpless as one who tries to lift himself up by his bootstraps more helpless still, for he would have known no desire to be lifted at all.
 Darwin's theory of the evolution of the eagle is richly suggestive. The wish to as- cend was there before the wings, and through ages of longing, development and adaptation he passed until at last with his mighty pinions the eagle scared aloft toward the sun.
 With us, too, ideals are transforming forces, and wishes become wings
 Every instinct lying at the source of man s moral nature requires that there be time in the year when for at least few brief hours self may be forgotten, when the heart may turn tender and the hard passions may soften, when friends may be drawn more closely and enemies forgiven, when peace may descend upon us, and little child may lead us.
 If Christmas has no other meaning than just this-that it turns us back to the Dreamland of Childhood, that nursery of the infinite, and to the loves and longings and resolves of innocent youth-the day will still be the happiest and most useful in all the year.
 May the Star in the East guide your foot steps and Little Child lead you
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Columbus might have lived to know that he discovered a new world and have reaped some of the fame and profit to be derived from such an exploit; Moses only saw the promised land !; Calico might have lived long enough to have been praised for his discovery of the celestial pathways; Abraham Lincoln failed to taste the sweetness of reunited land; Professor Lang ley would have died happy had he been able to see the Wright brothers fly, and prophetic know ledge of his country's greatness was denied to George Washington
 These men builded better than they knew. Their efforts were not wasted but they never saw the fruition of their hopes or plans. Conf dence Tn their own efforts and the knowledge that they were working for the ultimate good
 of mankind was sufficient. What was done by
 the men who made history can be duplicated in the present day No man need be discouraged because he does not see results Achievement is glorious, but to be factor in the progress of the world is sufficient reward
 This IS an age of unexampled growth and de- Ivelopment; innovations follow each other ran idly, and no man can hope for lion $ share with the competition of today. Better to perform the task for which we are adapted, thereby working out our own destiny, and let history accord us the proper niche
 Few great men ''play to the galleries" for they are too deeply engrossed in their work to value the plaudts of their contemporaries. The
 man of today who is doing the most efficient ser vice for humanity is doing it out of love for work
 and love for his fellow man. He is content to let future generations grant his memory what
 ever need of praise it will.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23
h 7he Halls of Congress
BY TAV.
Special Washington Correspondence.

Special Washington Correspondence
 The house committee on rules.v which is better known in congressional circles as ''Unele Joe, has startled democrats and progressives by favorably reporting resolution of investiea- ton
 Owing to the tradition that resolutions of in Vestlgatlon which go to the "committee on rnles" meet instantaneous death, the measure which has just reappeared in the zone of live legislation IS looked upon as having figuratively returned from the dead"
 The measure reported is not the Campbell resolution providing for probe of the sugar scandal, however. Nor is it the Hitchcock reso- luton which provides for an investigation of the Balllnger-Pinchot controversy, which would nee essanly be an investigation of Balinger.
 The resolution which ''Uncle Joe'' smiled un- on provides for the appointment of committee oi flVe members of the house to investigate the disposition of useless papers that have accumn- lated in the cellar of the capitol
 MT. Speaker, would like to make a remark or two" said Minority Leader Clark when tho resolution made it's appearance on the floor of the house It seems to be easy enough to get resolution reported out that has reference to useless papers in the various sub-cellars of the capitol but when there is a resolution call;no Tor an investigation of the sugar trust. to see
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

how much money it has actually stolen and who is mixed up in the thing, or to investigate the land office, there is some kind of smothering process goes on that needs to be explained either by the gentleman from Illinois Representative Mann Speaker Cannon's floor manager) or somebody else''
 Mir. Mann evidently missed the point of Mr. Clark's observations, as he proceeded to confne his remarks to the urgent necessity of investi- gating the disposition of useless papers.
 Whereupon the following colIoquy occurred between Representative John J. Fitzgerald of New York and the Cannon floor representative, Mr. Mann:
 Mr. Fitzgerald: Let me suggest to the gen tleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann) that he mis- understood the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clark) The gentleman from Missouri suggest less papers There is a great difference. ed that he (Mr Mann) explain the failure to report out resolutions that might get rid of use
 MT. Mann: The difference between the gen tleman from New York and myself is that he always talks about something that is not before the house, while l endeavor to talk about some thing that is before the house. (Laughter).
 Mr. Fitzgerald My misfortune is that can not get before the house reports which should be talked about. The gentleman readily gets before the house what is of no importance and simply wastes the time of the people GIaugh- ter)
 In one of the strongest speeches that has been heard in the house since the session opened LID. Representative Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebrasl ka explained why he had introduced his resolu- ton providing for an inquiry of the Ballinger
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

Pinchot scandal which resolution had been re- ferred to the committee on rules.
 "Only last year." said Mr. Hitchcock, 'this congress appropriated million dollars to pro- tect the public lands against these frauds, and II rumor IS true-and rumor is sometimes true "a considerable part of that appropriation so made and placed at the disposal of the general land office for the protection of public lands has been msspent and has been used for the pur- chase of expensive furniture, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars, and the addition of more than eighty clerks on the rolls of the land office, and also to double the salaries of employ ees who are compacent and willing to stand in With the ring which now dominates and controls the land office'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

Department officials in Washington are per mltted to talk, if they talk discreetly," says the Rochester Herald Discreet talk being discus slons of Halley's comet, the hookworm and the age of Ann.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

One Lincoln penny has been coined for every man, woman and child in the country, approxi- mately. And yet the chances are that you have not yours about you anywhere
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

Opposition to the Lee statute in the capitol IS small business, microscopically small. The name and fame of Lee will suffer nothing what ever because of it, however
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

What shall it be? What shall it be? Almost cigars or near jewelry? Half hose or necktie or eke an umbrel? What most will please him you never can tell
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23
THE SPIRIT OF CHILDHOOD.

Happy is the man and woman in whom the bitter, blighting worldly passions have not utterly crushed out the childlike spirit.
 For we may rightly interpret the deep meaning of Christmas and fully sense it's blessedness, not alone through the children about us, but through the childlikeness that still fingers within ourselves
 As the Star of old led the wise men to the babe in the manager for the secret inspiration of peace on earth and good will toward men, so must the Star of Love lead us to the child like spirit of humility within ourselves for a real appreciation of the day and right un- derstanding of life.
 "And little child shall lead them"
 Therein lies the hope of humanity, not for the next world alone, but for this.
 The human Jesus, whose birth we cele- brate, is gone from us, but the Christ thought, the divine image and likeness, re- mains ever with us, and it's purest interpre- ter among us and of us is the child.
 For things hidden from the wise and pru- dent have been revealed unto babes.
 Fresh from the Creator and uncontamin- ated by selfshness or greed or malice or lust or envy, the child is the cleanest exemplar allotted us of love and truth.
 By these unfading, unfaltering stars the child ever points for our mist -enclouded souls the way.
 We may not hope to attain to perfect childlike truth and love- even on Christmas Day. But the mariner who steers steadily by the fixed stars steers aright, and though storms may carry him from his course, he some day reaches his harbor safe.
 Love for the innocent child is love for the Christ. For we are told that as we do unto the least of these we do unto the Father.
 In his love for children even the atheist and scoffer worships in his heart the God whom his mind denies
 Thus the child leads us to the stars.
 Small share of the possible blessings of Christmas Day are for the man, who, how ever freely he gives baubles to the child, ne- glects to reflect upon the love that alone can 1llumine and uplift his own soul.
 Even the precious gold, frankincense and myrrh laid by three kings at the feet of the child Jesus would have had no value or meaning ii not accompanied by the hearts of the givers
 We may give lavishly of material things but 1t is that which we give of ourselves that turns us starward
 The stars-our highest ideals.
 They are far above the earth and we may
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper in the world published in city with 12, 900 or less population.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23
" was on Christmas Day that A the Star Led the Wise Men 10 the Child. 4 is on Christmas Day that Little Chldren nou Lead us 10 the Stars.

TT SEEMS as if on Christmas Day an un-
 seen angel touches the invisible spring of an unused window ill normal human
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

-1 of an unused window in normal human
 nature, letting into our souls a flood of celestial song and sunshine, and giving us a brief but glorious glimpse outward and up ward beyond the sordid things of earth.
 This angel descending unto us on Christ mas Day direct from the presence of God,
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
JAPAN MUCH DISTURBED.
Americans and British to Build Rail-
road in China.

Washington, Oct. 15.-American and
British capitalists have about completed
arrangements with the Chinese govern.
ment to build railroad from Chin
Chow Flu through Mongolian territory
to Tsitsihar, a distance of about 400
miles. This fact seems to have dis.
turbed the equanimity of Japan.
Published reports from Pekin indi-
cate that Japan has given China notice
that it will maintain its right under
the two treaties concluded last month
to be consulted with respect to Man
churian railways. Japan says it re-
serves decision with regard to subse-
quent action.
Among officials here it is regarded as
doubtful if Japan will be permitted to
interfere, without objection, in this or
other enterprises in Chan or Man
churia in which Americans are inter
ested. The fact that an objection to
the construction of the proposed Chin
Chow Fu-Tsitsihar road is limited at by
Japan is regarded here as tending to
support allegations of monopolistic in
clinations on the part of Japan.
The proposed railroad through Mon
golia will be about 400 miles in length
to Tsitsihar, and, if extended on the
Amur, its total length will approximate
600 miles. The fact that it will tap the
Russian Trans-Siberian road at Tsitsi-
har is thought to explain the supposed
uneasiness of Japan, and, inasmuch as
the Chinese Eastern and South Man
churian line, because of its more direct
route and shorter distance to the south,
would be likely to become a strong
competitor to the latter road, which is
now controlled by Japan.
Government officials here regard ia
pans opposition to the Hsinmintun-
Fakumen line as retarding the develop
ment by China of a portion of her ter
ritory, and as in direct violations of ar
ticle a of the treaty of Portsmouth,
which states that "Japan and Russia
reciprocally engage not to obstruct any
general measures common to all, or
steps which China may take for the de-
velopment of commerce and industry in
Manchuria.'
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Great Northern Exhibit at Billings.

Billings, Oct. 15.-G. J. Ryan, general
industrial agent of the Great Northern
has applied for space 80 feet long in
the exhibit hall of the international
dry farming exposition which will be
held at Billings in connection with the
fourth dry farming congress, October
26-2S. The Great Northern is expected
to have one Of the largest collective
exhibits of dry farmed products dis.
played. 1t will be representative of the
crops that are being produced on the
non-irrigated lands along the line of the
railroad.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
vIvIANo CHILDREN FOUND
On Vacant Lot, Benumbed by Drug.
and Hungry.

Chicago, Oct. 16.-Tomasso Viviano
aged 5, and his sister, Grace viviano
aged 2R years, abducted from theil
home in st. Louis August 2 by the
Black Hand society, and for whose dis
covery reward of $4,000 was offered
were today found wandering the
streets here, nearly starved and evi
IDENTIFY recovering from some powerful
drug.
As nearly as they can remember, they
have had no food for two days and
nights, and found themselves sleeping
in vacant lot, where they had evident
ly been placed after being drugged by
their abductors.
For week Chicago and st. Louis
detectives have been raiding Italian
colonies here. All loopholes for escape
had been closed, and the chase had
been so hot that it is believed the alb.
ductors drugged the children and
turned them loose, fearing to kill them
with the officers close to their heels
There is absolutely no trace of the alb
ductors.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Burlington Reaching for Coast.

New York, Oct. 16.-Rumors were
prevalent today in railroad and finan.
cial circles to the effect that negotia.
tions are pending whereby the Burling.
ton may secure an outlet to the Pacific
coast through the purchase of an inter
est in the Denver G. Rio Grande rail.
road. This would carry with it part
ownership of the Western Pacific,
which is the Gould Pacific COAST ex.
tension road. The Hill line, it is stated,
is not looking to secure control of the
Denver & Rio Grande, but joint owner
ship of that road.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
wu TALKS WITH SPIRITS.
Eminent Chinese Minister Attends Sc
ances in Washington.

Washington, Oct. 15.-Taking his
first nibble at the mysteries of spirit
ism last Sunday night, Minister WI
Ting Fang, thesbest educated Chinaman
in the world, returned to the "medi-
ums" last night for a full bite. He
left the seance' chock full of infor-
nation from the spirit world, for
through the "medium' he is supposed
to have consulted the spirits of the late
President Mckinley and his own dead
mother. And the latter talked in real
Chinese language.
Minister WI doesn't say he is con-
vert to spiritualism. In fact, he tries
to avoid the subject entirely while talk
ing with newspaper men. He admits,
however, that he is interested, and that
he may attend other seances" before
retiring from his post in the near fu-
ture.
His first experience occurred last
Sunday night at public meeting,
where anonymous Chinese spirits were
described to DR.. WI by a "trance
medium" as lowering in the distin-
guished diplomat IS immediate vicinity.
DIR. WI exhibited great interest.
Last night he went again, this time
to smaller seance at a private house.
DR.. WI refused last night to discuss
his experience or impressions, and even
showed solieitude lest his presence at
the seance should be the subject of
newspaper mention. The woman me-
dium who officiated-a different one
this time-brought to him messages
purporting to come from the late Presi-
dent Mckinley, who was an intimate
friend of DR.. WI, and also from the
minister's own mother. The latter was
the more startling because, apparently,
delivered in the Chinese ,aAguage.
These messages are claimed by the
spiritualists to be brouaht to the me-
dunn in trance by the spirit of 16-
year-old American Indian girl, under
whose "control" she speaks in broken
English; yet the conversation between
DR.. WI and the medium, while osten-
sibly under this control,'' was some
what extensive, lasting fully five min
utes, and seemed to be in the Chinese
vernacular, question and answer, unin-
telligible to the auditors, passing back
and forth with considerable freedom.
There was every evidence that the dip
lomat perfectly understood the commu-
nication which apparently appeared to
come from the spirit of DR.. Wu's own
mother. 1t was asserted that the
medium and her "control" are both
absolutely ignorant of the Chinese Ian
guage
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
OnOm atOpoetfc.

One of the charms of music is that
the musically uneducated person does
not have to understand" 1t. With
initiative" music, however, the case
Is quite different. and every passage
has either an obvious or a thinly con-
cealed meaning, Occasionally 1t is hard
to decipher certain unusual noises, as
the following story from Fliegende
Blaetter indicates:
The composer had just played his
last piece to his friend, the critic.
Very fine, indeed" said the critic
But what is that passage which
makes the cold chills run down the
back?"
Oh" returned the composer, that is
where the wanderer has the hotel bill
brought to him."
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Took Him for Tom.

George. Moore, the author of Esther
Waters, likes to- talk" said a magazine
editor of New York, about his owr
cbscurity, very obscure. Lunchins
with me one day at Claridge's, he. said
he had recently met a young American
girl whose warm praise had pleased
him much.
"'We think heap of your writings
out Kansas way, Mr.. Moore the young
girl said.
How iolly!' cried the novelist
And what story of mine do the good
people of Kansas like best?
"'Oh, Lalla Rookh, far and away!
said She"
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
A Useful Remedy.

Little Jamie, aged 3, was playing
with his little friend, Jack. At the
time jamie chanced to have a rather
heavy cold and was sneezing quite
often. Jacks mother heard him sew.
sral times and sympathetically asked: {:
why. Jamie, what cold you have!
Doesn't your mother give you any.
thing for it?" Eyes. ma'am," Jamie
very respectfully answered. "she gives
me clean handkerchief" whereupon
he produced the prescribed remedy"
The Deljneator
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Recount sustains Heney.

San Francisco, Oct. 15.-Francis J.
Heney was sustained today as the can
didate of the Democratic party for dis
trict attorney at the coming municipal
election, when the recount demanded
by Charles Fckert, Republican and
Union Labor nominee for the same Of
fee and Heney's only opponent, was
completed.
The vote in IL precincts was contest.
ed by Fickert. The recount resulted in
gain Of GA votes for Fickert, reducing
Heney's majority to "a.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Separate Ideals.

''Why did you never marry, Tom?"
inquired the young Benedict of the
old bachelor.
well, you see," replied the single
one, when l was quite young I re-
solved that I wouldn't marry until I
found an ideal woman. l was difficult
to please, but after many years I
found her."
Lucky beggar! And then"
"She was looking for an ideal
man." replied the bachelor. sadly
Tit-Bits
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-10-20
Biliousness

81 have used your valuable Cascarets
and l find them perfect. Couldn't do
without them. l have used them for
some time for indigestion and biliousness
and am now completely cured. Recon-
mend them to everyone Once tried, you
will never be without them in the
family. Edward A. Marx Albany, NY.
Pleasant, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken or Gripe.
l0c, Csc, Soc. Never sold in bulk. The gen.
une tablet stamped &C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. 929