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Year: 1878

A large lot of popular new music
has Just been received at this Office,
direct from the publishers. 1t is for
sale at regular rates. We have also
q lot Of old music on hand yet, which
We will sell at half price. Teachers.
pupils and others will do well to call
and see it.
Year: 1878

am now selling my stock of Dry
Goods at Prime Eastern Cost. Jeans,
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and
everything in this line must be sold
by March 1st. Save money by buy
ing your goods at cost Come and
see for yourself. r. j. ROBERTSON.
Year: 1878

Happiness, Comfort and Utility


To the Old ladies, Young ladies
Misses and Children: We have for a
long time been selling you our cele-
brated brand, DarEnghaus custom
made shoes; they are the prettiest
fitting shoes we have ever seen, and
we confidently believe them to be the
very best shoe made in the United
States to day. We have been insur-
ing every pair sold and have made
the insurance good in every instance,
which we are much pleased to say has
seldom been asked.


Our trade has become so extensive
in these g ,ods that we deem further
insurance unnecessary as it might lead
to unnecessary destruction. Our Gus
toners who have been wearing them
can't afford to buy any other shoes.
Better fits they can't get, and no better
shoe is for sale. We can fit all of you
from the prattling infant to the Oldest
lady. We will from this date sell
them on their own merit. Our store
is open day and night except Sunday,
at The Emporium.
Year: 1878

The Cost mania has certainly struck
us. A stranger coming to our town
would certainly think us defunct set
of merchants. Right and left, on
show windows are posted, CAT
COST" "COST FOR 80 DAYS"
"OUR ENTIRE STOCK AT
COST" ETC. Well, if our present
set of merchants are all going out of
business we will certainly have big
trade all to ourselves. We have on
hand a complete line of all kinds of
goods and are anxious to sell them at


The Emporium.
Year: 1878

Our prices are low and have been
so all the time. We have sold goods
all the time for CASH and are in as
good fix as We were last year. We
are making arrangements for more
extensive trade this season than ever
before, and expect in the Spring to
make ours the EMPoRIUM IN FACT.
Year: 1878

so all the time. We have sold goods
all the time for CASH and are in as
good fix as we were last year. We
are making arrangements for more
extensive trade this season than ever
before, and expect in the Spring to
make ours the EMPORIUM IN FACT.
The ladies can especially find it to
their interest to trade with US; we
think we try harder to please them
than any one else, and they can at all
times find Il line Of goods in our house
adapted to their wants. Every sex
and age should examine our complete
stock at The Emporium.
Fine line of those beautiful plaids
on hand at The Emporium.
Our Ladies and Misses fine shoes
complete stock at


The Emporium.
Bleachad muslin in all grades at


The Emporium.
Black Alpaca, White Alpaca,
Slate, Blue and Brown Alpaca at


The Emporium.
Black Cashmere very pretty at


The Emporium.
1t is perfectly natural for Ladies to
like pretty neat fitting shoes. Notice
your friends who wear our neat side
Iaces; you will at once think of nice
pictures you have seen. You can all
get shoes like theirs at


The Emporium
We received a big lot of JewelrY
this week. 1t is cheap andit is pretty.
come and let us show you through at


The Emporium.
School books, Ink, Paper, Pens of all
makes, Crayon States and Pencils and
every article needed in school always
on hand at The Emporium.
Largest and best stock OF Queens
ware and Glassware we ever had
cheap at The Emporium.
Fine Razors, Fine Pocket Knives,
Shears, Knives and Forks and many
other useful things at


The Emporium.
Remember our complete Platter for
70 cts, at The Emporium.
Some of our beautiful complete
self acting window shades on hand
yet at The Emporium.
Very Respectfully,


HADptsAV DoNyrrr & TO
Year: 1878

1t is perfectly natural for Ladies to
like pretty neat fitting shoes. Notice
your friends who wear our neat side
Iaces; you will at once think of nice
pictures you have seen. You can all
get shoes like theirs at


The Emporium
Year: 1878

The ladies can especially find it to
their interest to trade with US; we
think we try harder to please them
than any one else, and they can at all
times find Il line Of goods in our house
adapted to their wants. Every sex
and age should examine our complete
stock at The Emporium.
Year: 1878




Cultivate the power 70 fix the mind
on any subject you please.


Fix the mind ON the elementary prin-
ciplcs ofall that pertains to life /; such
as the principles Of science, of business,
of politics, Of government, Of laws and
religion.


Obtain the power Of using language
and defining what you mean by such
terms as are in common use when we
speak or think.
Fill the mind with the material OF
thought (; such as the facts which we
read, observe and hear.


Teach the mind where to go for intor-
nation that is, from what source TO
draw.


Teach the mind how to take up a
subject, investigate it, and draw con-
clusions on which you may rely.


Cultivate the judgment as to what
facts are worth preserving, and what
are applicable in proving or illustrating
subject.


Cultivate the memory SO that the
materials which you gather may not be
dssipated and lDst as fast as gathered.


Education does not mean going to
school in boyhood, or going to college
in youth, but it means the power to
take the mind and make it an instru-
ment of conveying knowledge and good
impressions upon other minds as well
as being itself made happy. To culti'
vate the mind, then, does not mean to
read much or little, to converse aud oh.
serve but to discipline 1t in all your
| power.
Year: 1878

There vas one man on the Wood
ward Avenue car the other rainy morn
ing who felt asif the weather couldn't
be abused enough.


Don't you hate such weather as
this = he asked Of a portly acquaintance
opposite.


No. s.r.' was the decided response;
L don't bother about the weather. If
it's fair. all right; if it's foul, all
right


But you can't like such a morning as
this:'


It's Just as good for me as any other
sort o morning. was the calm reply.


And you like to see rain and midland
slush, do YOU"


Yes am perfectly satisfied
The grumbler was out Of patience,
but he secured revenge sooner than he
hoped for. In getting of the car the tat
man slipped and sprawled at full length
in the mud. to the intense delight OF the
other, who rushed to the platform and
shouted
Don't say word-it's one OF your
kind Of mornings If 1t was one OF
mine you'd have fallen on a bed Of nice,
clean. soft. white, beautiful snow
Stand up, till l look at you"
The fat man stood. He was mud
from boots to chin. H. looked at HIM
self and then at ihe ear, and lccbly
said
/ kin lick you and all the weather in
the country vita one hand tied behind
me =
Year: 1878

4 prominent physician says that ds.
case takes frmer hold of dark than OF
light complexioned people. From this
we infer that brunette may be sick
abed with the ear-ache, while a blonde
will be able to make the fires, sift the
ashes and attend TO her other duties
while going through a fever. Young
men about to selecta partner for life
will do we'll to CONSIDER this decision Of
the NJ. d. before making q choice.
Year: 1878

New York, April 1.-The police were startled by
the announcement that the well.knOWn NJ idame
Restell had been found dead early this morning
In the bath room OF her mansion on Fifth avenue.
Ex.Judge Stewart, of the District Attorneys Of.
fee, was called by the woman's family at an early
hour and informed that she retired last night feel
ing very despondent about her trial. which was
to have taken place to-day. She rose in the night
and wentinto the bath room, where she suicided,
The Madame stated to a friend last night that she
did not care what might be the result of the trial.
80 far as she herself was concerned. She only
cared for the reputation and feelings Of her grand.
children the case was called In court and ad.
journtd.


Madame Restell committed suicide by cutting
her throat with carving knife. She was found
in the bath tub, which was filled with water.


DR.. Cushman the COrOner's physician, exam.
ined the body and found that a deep cash had
been cut across the front ofthe throat severing the
jugu lar vein. slight cut on the right side ofthe
neck little below this cash indicated that the
first attempt had been Intellectual.


1t was DR.. Cushman's ;opiniOn that death was
caused almost instantly. The knife was long
carving knife which was used on Madame Res
tells table, and which she is believed to have
taken up stairs and secreted In her room last
night. The water had been left running in the
bath tub. and had run so long that the tank above
was exhausted. The overflow had passed off
through the waste pipe, and hence there was but
little blood in the water, which still filled the tub
The body was cold, and 1t was evident that the
woman had been dead for some hours.


Ever since her arrest she has manifested great
fear and anxiety on account Of a belief that the
prosecution intended to bring charges against her
in references to old cases. This belief had taken
such possession OF her that 1t almost amounted to
a halucinaton.


The members Of her family say she was very
nervous all day yesterday and showed symptoms
OF mental arrangement The suicide was discov-
cred about eight o'clock this morning by sewing
girl, and her screams alarmed the other occu.
pants Of the house, who were, in addition to the
servants, Madame Restells daughter grandson
and granddaughter and the lstter's husband. The
daughter lives in Harlem, but came to the house
to visit her mother this morning before the sui
eide was discovered.


The court room was crowded in anticipation Of
the trial Of the notorious woman, but before the
case was called telegrams announcing her death
were received, and the Judge ordered postpone
ment till tomorrow, remarking that he could
hardly believe that any one would trife with the
court In such q serious matter.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA got one of the worst
screenings last week ever known in the
history of the city. The FIRE commenced
early in the evening, and at midnight
was blazing so furiously, and breaking
out in SO many fresh places that it was
thought for time another Chicago ca
lamity was inevitable. About o'clock
in the morning, however, the flames
were got under control, and although
they were not fully subdued, there was
sssry hope that the worst was over. No
accurate estimate of loss could, of course,
be made, but there is no doubt it will be
up into the millions.
Year: 1878

WHEN we consider the Pacific Rail.
roads now owe Uncle Sam the snug little
sum of $99.96O.7O2.63, it is about time
something was being done to pay it. 1t
falls due in seventeen years, when the
total debt will reach nearly one hundred
and twenty millions. The roads pay
big dividends, and if Senator Thurman's
bill passes, some of the receipts will go
to a sinking fund.
Year: 1878

THE Repository says the election on
Monday in Canton had no Significance"
If the ticket without a name had sue.
ceeded, what a significant Republican
victory would have been Chronicled!
Year: 1878

There is great fear, on the part Of
some amiable persons who write for the
public, lest, in certain excited move


ments of reform, there should be those
who will take steps for which they will
be sorry. They argue, from this, that
it is not best to have any excitement at
all, and especially that nothing should
be done under excitement 1t so hap
pens, however, that the path of progress
has always been marked by sudden steps
upward and onward. There arc steady
growth and steady going, it is true. but
the tendency to rut-making and routine
are so great in human nature that it is
often only by wide eXcitements that
whole community is lifted and forward


ed to new level Men often get into
the condition of pig-iron. They pile up
nicely in bars. They are in an excellent
state Of preservation. They certainly lie
still, and though there is vast capacity
in them for machinery, and cutlery, and
agricultural implements though they
contain measureless possibilities of spin
dies and spades, there is nothing under
heaven but fire that can develop their
capacity and realize their possibilities.


There are communities that would
never do anything but rot, except under
excitement A community often gets
into stolid, immobile condition, which
nothing but public excitement can
break up. This condition may relate to
single subject, or to many subjects.
1t may relate to temperance, or to a
church debt Now it is quite possible
that man under excitement will do the
thing that he has always known to be
right, and be sorry for it or recede from
it afterward; but the excitement was
the only power that would ever have
started him on the right path, or led him
to stop in the wrong one. 1t is all very
well to say that it would be a great deal
better for drunkard, coolly, after quiet
deliberation and a rational decision to
resolve to forsake his cups than to take
the same step under the stimulus of So
cial excitement and the persuasions of
companionship and fervid oratory. but
does he ever do it? Sometimes. posi-
bly,, but not often. Without excitement
and a great social movement, very little
of temperance reform has ever been eff
fected Men are like iron; to be nodded
they must be heated; and to say that
there should be no excitement connect
ed with great reform, or that reform
is never to be effected through excite
ment, is to ignore the basilar facts of
human nature and human history.
Year: 1878

slowly and steadily off in opposite di-
rections, counting their steps until each
had measured fifty. They both COM
pleted the given number at about the
same instant and wheeled around. AS
the distance was great, both paused for
some seconds. The face of COL Morton
was calm and smiling The face of Deaf
Smith was as stern and impassive as ev-
er. The Colonel was in brOadcloth, the
scout in smoke tinted leather.


The two rifles exploded at the same
instant. Colonel Morton sprang into
the air and dropped to the earth dead
Deaf Smith quietly reloaded his rife,
and walked away into the forest


Three days afterward, General Hous-
ton, accompanied by Deaf Smith and
ten other men, appeared in Austin, and
removed the State papers.


Deaf Smith was one Of the most ex-
traordinary characters ever known in
the west He made his advent in Tex
as at an early period, and continued to
reside there until his death, which oc-
Cured, | believe, about 1850. But, al
though he had many warm friends, no
one ever learned where he had been born
or any particulars of his previous his
tory. When he was questioned on the
subject, he laid his finger on his lip.
His eye was quick and far-seeing as an
eagles, and his nose as keen as ravens.
He could discern objects miles away on
the prairie, when others saw nothing
but earth and sky; and the savages used
to declare he could catch the scent of a
Mexican or an Indian at as great dis
tance as buzzard his dinner He
could never be pursuaded to sleep un-
der the roof of house, or even tent
cloth.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Il. p. Bell, wife of one of the di-
rectors of the Bank of California, is
about to start on a European tour AS
her husband has an income OF 100000 a
week, it is not surprising that she should
be supplied with a wardrobe the like of
which woman has never possessed since
the dazzling days of SoIomon's friend
the Queen of Sheba In so far as the
apparel is concerned, it was all cut and
fashioned and made up under the eye Of
WORTH in Paris, and as he gazed at the
finished aud faultless fol-de-rols, he is
said to have wept for joy. Her jewels,
however, were her greatest charms, and
Of them her stock is probably larger and
lovelier than that of the Russian Car
ina The other night she appeared at Il
charity ball in New York, and created a
great sensation. From the crown of the
head to the sole of the foot there was
nothing is to say, almost nothing
but diamonds and rubies, and rubies
and diamonds, In the golden belt OF a
stomacher alone $50 diamonds flash, and
in chatelainc of exquisite workman
ship 1873 small ones may be seen.
Among other things of scarcely less
value, she has tiara made OF gold and
precious stones, in the center of which
is one huge black pearl that cost alone
$4,000. If she thinks much Of her jew
els, the dread of losing them must call
forth high old nightmare every night.
Year: 1878

quence of its mildness, was very detrimental
to the schools in our rural districts. 1t is no.
ted fact that our schools in the rural districts
have a better attendance when the weather is
so severe and cold as to hinder labor on the
farm 1t is also quite apparent that our sum-
mer schools are not patronized as they should
be, because most of our farmers keep their
children who are large enough to work at
home for the benefit of their labor. Not few
farmers are at the same time crying out about
high taxes, and that the country schools are
failures Strange it is that so many people
prize the labor of their children more than
knowledge! Our schools can never be perfect
success until we can obtain regular attendance.
A pupil who attends school every alternate
day, and perhaps only one day in a week. is not
very apt to get interested In his lessons be-
sides, it Is detrimental to the whole school, as
the teacher has to take time from the other
pupils to help this irregular pupil to under
stand principles which he had explained to the
class some time previous.


J.N. BARR. Teacher.
Year: 1878

The patient must with scrupulous con-
scientiousness insist on breathing fresh,
pure air, end must remember that
the air of closed rooms is always more
or less bad, impure. No man, how
ever uncleanly, would drink muddy,
dirty water. Unfortunately, for detect
ing impurities Of the air, the only organ
we have is the nose, and in most persons
the nose is of so ObtuSe a senSibility that
it is Of no service. Besides dust, injury
to the lungs is caused principally by the
products of respiration (carbonic acid
and watery vapor), which acts as poison
on tie lungs and blood. A party which
occupies room for hours, breathing the
same air, might be compared to party
of bathers drinking the water in which
they bathe. The man who on the street
cuts off from his lungs the "cold' air, is
like ruminant. If this literally true
comparison were universally accepted
and acted on, the number of cough-com.
plants would be reduced one-half.


The patient must keep the window of
his bedroom open. Night-air is fresh
air without daylight; he who fears night.
air is like a child who breads darkness;
the light in the room after the lamp is
extinguished is also night.air. In close
crowded, heated rooms, the patient sui-
fering from complaint respires con-
sumptiveIy. In winter artificial heat
may be employed, but the window must
be opened above, and thus we have at
once both warmth and ventilation. In
the city night-air is always wholeSomer
than day-air, being both purer and
stiler.


If it be objected that "what suits the
blacksmith does not suit the tailor" !
reply that may be true of a plate Of
sauerkraut. But here the case is just
the reverse. The blacksmith who has no
trouble with his lungs can stand vapor-
dust, heal, fatigue but the one who has pull
monary disease risks his life if he has
not always abundance of fresh, pure air.


So far of the What'-lung ventilation.
Next, of the WhyI


On rising, let the patient drink fresh
milk mot coffee, which will be reIished
all the more if one wakes with an in
clnation to cough. Then let him ap.
proach the open window, brandish the
arms over the head-which enables the
lung apices to inhale air more easily
and for lew minutes fetch as deep in
spirations Of air as possible. He must
frequently take such deep inspirations in
the open air.


If the lungs do not become free, let
him Introduce into them-not into the
something to act on the dry
mucous mem brane-as the vapor Of Wa
ter or Of camomiIe-tea.


If the cough is caused rather by a
"scratchy" feeling in the throat, if it is
spasmodic, let him swallow or sargIe
some substance that will quiet the nerves.
Cold water is best-in summer ice.wa'
ter; in some cases cooled fennel-tea is OF
service, but no syrup or any hot drink
POpuLar Science MORNLy.
Year: 1878

Now that cooler weather has come, the
great question everywhere is, What is to
be done with the tramp He is becom-
ing in some localities, especially the
Middle States, not only nuisance but Il
terror TO the community.
Year: 1878

The council Of Trinity College, Lon
don, have lately decided to throw open
its higher musical examinations to won
en-. The first examination under the ne"
statutes will take place early next year
Year: 1878

Farmer. OF Van Buren County will take no
tce that the Old, Reliable, and Ever Ready
Phoenix Mills has been lately thoroughly over.
hauled aud repaired, and By the addition Of
separstors, Purifiers and other improvem ents,
10 now prepared to do all kinds OF Custom and
Merchant Milling on short notice and in first
CLASS style and guarantee good satisfaction.


Remember our motto: Forty Pounds Of
A No. Flour to the Bushel."


Our facilities for grinding coarse grains are
complete, and ss We have Power Corn Shelter
to shell your corn Free OF Charge, we would be
glad to have you bring along your grain and
give us trial, and We think you viii be con-
vinced that we can give you larger and better
yield OF Hour than any mill in the county.


Then come along, come right along.


AT what they say don't be alarmed,


For when you see the yield Of Flour


We know you cannot help be charmed.


For every one will get the same


When with good grain his bags he fills;


They never will keep the grist tor toll


When YOU drive to the Phoenix Mills.
ll6iu MYRON WELLS.
Paw Paw. June 20. 1877.