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A U C T I O N E E R S .

V HAMILTON. AacSonwr. WS1 attend to all A . r ->:r.< r? :n my line promptly, at reasonaWe prk’ tf?. Give me a ca.I. Addre??, Baobansc, Mich.

T EVI LOGAN, Anc:ioceer.- All basices will I j receive rrcm r: attention, at reasonable prices- i.jst OSice address, Btckanan.

D R U G G I S T S

TALL E . S. DODD & SON. Practical Druggists. JLf Hue perfumes andnseftti toHet articles. Pre­scriptions a specialty.

W A. SEVEKSON. Practical Druggist. Tins , Toilet Articles and Perfumes a specialty. Cor

EWrat and ilatu streets. Bacbanan. Ifich.

T*V WESTON. Practical Drrgrist, dealer in Drags. J .I . Medicines. Paittis. Oils.Toilet Articles. School Books. Stationery. Ac., south side o f Front street.

P H O T O G R A P H E R S .

T r CATHCAET. Photographs, Ferreotypes, Oil J 1 . Paintings. India Ink Paste!, and Photo-Cray- k->. Main Street. Buchanan, Mich.

H E. BKADLEY, Photographer. Constantly . adding all the latest improvements in the art.

Second door east ofPost-ofiice.

H O T E L S .

rvFN BAR HOUSE, Buchanan. Mleh. A . B. U Sa* proprietor. First-class !a ever respect.

i )E FIELD HOUSE, Berrien S p rin t, ilicli.

} TLe pivi-rie'cr*- will spare no pains to maintain a SrsKljiss lotel at tUe county scat.

I >EED HOUSE, Berrien Springs, Mich. Otis t Ke.aL Pivprictor. Good Livery in connection

tUe Loiue.

M U J i l N E R Y G O O D S .

YOiniE SIT. RUTH AS AS. BERRIES COUSTY. MICHIGAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881.

Business D irectory . | Business D irectory .i ! A i t n w A U t M I S C E L L A N E O U S .

1 0- O. F.—Buchanan Lodge No. 75 holds its f . regular meetiagi at Odd Fellows Hall, on each

luesdav evening. ________________ |t t & A. M — Summit Lodge No. 193 holds a teg. ' F . r.lar meeting Monday evening ou or before the !

. : . . ateon in each month.r v je A. At.—Baehanan Lodge No. dShelds a reg- r . alar meeting Fridav evening on orbelorethe ! .k m v s m each month.

F OP H,— Buchanan Grange No. 40 meets on . the second and fourth Saturday o f each month,

;t 3 o’clock r. at.

I O. G. T —Buchanan Lodge No. S5S holds Its . uvular meeting on each Monday evening.

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T fB S . P. B. DUNNING, Reliable Milliner. Al- JJL ways something new to show customers. Par- .ors, Main st., Buchanan, Mich.

Y fE S . M. FRAME, Fashionable Milliner. The J J . latest styles always otl hand. One door east ol Post-office, Buchanan, Mich.

MRS. LOT DE BUNKER. Fashionable Milliner.Latest styles constantly on hand. One door

north o f Bank, Main St., Buchanan, Mich.

M ISSES COXANT have opened a new stock of MJlkr.erv Goods. We ask the ladies o f Bu­

chanan to snvo us a call. Main street. Buchanan.

D R E S S M A K E R S . '

M RS. H-. M. WILSON, Fashionable Dress and Cloak Maker. Parlors, Roe's block, np stairs,

Buchanan, Mich.

M ISS. A . E . ATWOOD, Fashionable Dress and Cloak Maker. Cutting and fitting a specialty.

Rooms 1st door north o f bank, Main st.

T fR S . F. R. MICHAEL, Cloak and Dress Maker. aVL All work will receive prompt attention. Prices reasonable. Coiner Detroit and Third sts.

H A I R W O R K .

T fR S . M ARY BLACK, dealer in Human Hair. ,1 1 A ll kinds o f Hair Work done to order. Front street, seventh door east o f bank.

T rR S . L. ZEIDRE, manufacturer o f Switches, ilL Cnris, Puffs and all kinds o f hair work to Dr­ier. Rooms in Trcmont building; Buchanan.

OFGH BROS., Wholesale and Retail dealers in ___Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Agricultural Im­plements. Doors, Sash, Blinds, Lumber, Lath, Lime, Paints, Oilsy Glass, etc. Buchanan, Mich.

T V IK'D »t SAMSON, dealers in she’.! and Heavy TV H ardw are..Stv>v>».,Tin«ar«',ts.t'is.G la-s,

Agr:eKl:n:al Itaplenu t'ts. Ae Erven st-- uorth-ide.

M E A T M A R K E T S .

/ I HAYDEN REA. manufacturer and dealer la l. . Light and Heavy Harness. Saddles. Robes, Blankets. Dusters. Net?. M hips. Trunks. Satchels. Brushes aud Combs. No dry goods or groceries.

T fR S . MAAKIA DUTTON. Midwife and Nurse. J 1 A ll calls promptly attended. Frout Street, Buchanan, Mich.

{V 'JAXK M KRst'X. proprietor tV .it-n Melt L Mark-'t. Ou-h pate. f,.r all k'.’.v.i- oi i:\estoek

and produce. South side Frout street.oT E P H E N S BROS., preytriet. r> o f Br.eltt.uau v Meat Market, and dttriers In Slw stock. Noith side Fr>'..t street, Trcmont block.

J E W E L R Y .

1 i/IN C OOI.LVR PAD OO.. sole p-oprietors and ' I j raamtlaetarcts o f Cnrtis” Patent Zinc Collar j Pad, Bnvhanau. Fvrsa.e by dealers evorywhero.

J. SLATER, manuiaeturer o! Wagon*. Car­et . riages. Bugsies. Sleighs. Ac. lit pairing at­tended io promptly. Front stre et.

T IA R M E R S A M A N U F A C T U R E R S R A N K , B11- b ehanau. Mu ll. AH business entrusted to this

Bauk will receive prompt and personal attention. W m . Tears. Pres.; Geo. li. liichatds. Vice Pres.: A . F. Ross. Cashier.

/'iK O R G E CHURCHILL. Contractor and Bnilil-

/ V Ko. A. HARRIS. Practical Watchmaker. Re ] AT pnhi-.v promptly attended to in a workmanlike manner, t oruer'Muin A Fifth Sts., Buchanan. |

T .T. ROE. I’ raetieal WaTe’utnaker. Watches, ri _ e'toeks. Pianos. elu-ap. Trenteuit j' ::ag. itr. hauan-

M IL L E R S .

K INGERY A MARBLE, proprietors o f Indian Reserve Mill. Cnsiom grinding a specialty,

satisfaction guaranteed. Portage streetp O l ’GIl A PEARS. Proprietors o f Bnchanar 11 and Rural -Mills. Custom and Merchant grind -f.g o f all kinds. Buchanan, Mich.

F U R N IT U R E .\ r BAK^sES- A CO., di\ilors in Furniture, Pic-

Frsznes, xtc- Kcpairinsrprouiptiydone. X:v.n rfjvet, Bncbiuian.

1 >LACK xt SCII HAT, mam:faciuror? o f and deal > ers in Furniture and Orpins, Facton-near tht nver bridge*, Buciiaajia.

D U M B E R .

t i W E l^GERBER, maunfacturer o f Lumber.* I Custom sawing done to order. Mill ou Eolith «.'ak street.

( t or. and doalor in Lumne**. Lath auv! Shiu^K'^. Front >troo!. Buchanan. Mich.

TTUSi FKAXU WHITMAN. Asronr for Victor M Sowfi'ii M'whiuos. Atr:ichmout!4.ctlautluotad- L*s iumi'xhiMl lor all ranohiuo>. In BrudloyV 1'ho* to^niph rooms. Front >t.

p r c n A X A N MA1UU.E WOIiK^. Monuments I p and lloatUtom’s ot nil do iizu** and kinds of MnrKc. J. .S. UKtsTiT:.

J V. VUOKIIEE^. tnamsf'iontror of Fruit and , Flour Bamds. >poo!al attention to custom

work. Oornor West and Main streets.

T"“ riEHSON. Watfon and Carriaire Painting iV* t xeoiueti neatly, at tva-onahlo price* for cash. (tj\e me a cals. ILn V Vvenm*.

T l '" O. HAMILTON. Milk I):itn. Delivers Milk ?> , in all parts ol the corporation dally Kc*i-

dcuoc. head of Frout street.

/ i l l VS. W. SMITH, proprietor of Livery, Food V aud Sale StaMo, opposite Dunbar House. Bu­chanan, Mich.

1 FORGE BIRD, proprietor o f Onuiion* ;nu' Kx- T p n *s Lino. All calls promptly auonded to.

TACOB F. 1IA1IX. Undertaker. A full and com ^ p'ete assortmom of Caskets and Coffins eon stantly on hand. Burial Rohes a specialty.

t ~) OE xt HOUGH, manufacturera snd dealer? in t\ Hard aud Soft W ood Lumber. House funii?h- r.g in general. Oak street. Buchanan.

B L A C K S M I T H S .

BURCH a M O W HEY do all kinds o f machine Nacksmithinc. Also manufacture the 'Boss' *

side bar buegy. pLawOns, d:c., to order. Shop ou Portage street, one door north o f foundry*.

T R. BOYCE. Blacksmith. Horse shoeing at . the old price o f $~30. Shop first door south of

Dunbar House, Day's Avenue.

T A I L O R S .

O W. EFLEY', Practical Tailor. Rooms in Cen- O.^tral Mock, vup stairs), Front street, Buchanan,

TOHls FEEDER. Fashionable Tailor. Work ex- tJ tented in the latest styles, and warranted to fit. Front Street, Buchanan. Mich.

B R I C K M A N U F A C T U R E R S .

H ENRY* BLOPGETT.maurActsrerct BnRdrrc.W t F. and Pavement Brick. Y r d in Man>ficMvs

•1.: ILvn. Buchanan.T B. FULLER jc CO.. saannfaeTu.er*- o f co::-

♦ I . crcre. house, well ard cistern brick. Dav's • \. -r e . Bnchanar.

B A R B E R S . "

A A. KELSEY, manufacturer o f Artificial . Limbs, Buchanan. Mich.

V U H. TALBOT, >lnchinist. Kn-iuos. Thrcshin j \\ , and Agricultural Machine* repaired, rirttr

ujill Screw*.Vaw AF orx, Vvc.. made to order. Shop on Chicago stn'et.

T AMES CASE. F;ori>r. keep< all kiuu< of Flower and Vegetable Feints for <ale. Good plant* at

!c w price*. One mile north o f Buchanan.

T*> T. MORLKY. Star Foundry. A full line of I , South Bend VhllVd Flow*, aud repair* for

Kalauinroo. Oliver anti Three River.* Flows. Also. Iron Beam Plow*. t'a*t!«t: done to order. Corner ol Front and Portage street*. Buchanan.

I Mv'S EVANS. Graincr. Painter and Paper A Hanger. L’ ucuniau. Mnh. Good work allow prices.

T N ■ M U R n iY . rashimm’ > Birb.'r a:;d Hf-iv - Dressor. I.adios’ an.1 Ctti’.o r .r 's bair retting

v -V .'t .V.y. Front s i - opposito Dasbar H.>n*o

D E. JENNINGS. Harbor and Hair D r - - - r . i f . i h.'ioe -took o f Cigar* and t-looking Tobacco, ir. Tremoi:: bnllaSng. Luobanar..

hough Bros wagon work?.man rsA crr r e s? or ttik

ly P E C V E D B U C H A N A N W A G O NC a r r ia g e s . E n g g i e s , S le ig h s , & c .

M RS. M- J- McEWEN, dealer in Homan Hair.Switches, Curls, 4c., made to order. Booms

oTerEamiore Bros, store.

Biack and Old Gold Corsets,- Q

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4 6 4 Corsets to Select From .

Elegant Dress Plaids, Trimming Plaids,All-W ool Morale, in all Colors,

Silk and W ool Goods, Cashmeres in Colors,

, nircs & m a n ,SHIRTING, TICKING & DENIMS,

Plain and Brocade Silks, Satins, Velvets and Ribbons, Silk Cords and Tassels.

L A R G E S T S T O C K OJF

NOTIONS AND FANCY GOODS IN CITY.REMEMBER, AT STORE OF

•s. <p. # a a h ig h .J. W . R. Lister,

JOSMOFTHE PEACE.All. Business in Conveyanc*

ing, Foreclosure, &c., Promptly Attended to.

7ollections Made andMoney Prompt­ly Forwarded.

jJS^Offico in Fox’s building, ia rooms formerly occu* led by £ . M, Plimpton. 34tf

E. B A L L E N G E E ,

Notary Public & Conveyancer.Moneys collected and promptly remitted. Real Es­

tate Agent. Makes out Pension Papers as nsual.- Ten thousand dollars to loan, in sums to suit, at 8

per cent., on fire years' time.43*0ffice in Rough’s blook, corner o f Front and

Oak Streets, Buchanan Mich. 29tf

Jolin C. Dick,J U S T I C E

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heal estate agent.Attention Paid to Collection and

Conveyancing.

Office in Rough’s Block, B u o h a u a n , M i c l i i s a n .

G - A 3 T SCHINA & GLASS,

W o. 2 0 E . W a s h in g t o n S t., C h ic a g o . F A L L S T O C K C O M P L E T E !

P R IC E S L O W E R T H A N E V E R 150 stvle? Ebony Cabinets, Cut Beveled Glass, at $5. 120 Decorated Chamber Sets, $3.75.75 styles Decorated Dining Services.That Decorated Service with Six Vegetable Dishes,

at $2*2.50, is creating a sensation.Stome China Diniug Sets, 115 pieces, $9.50. Goblets^ per doz., 50c. Tumblers, per doz., $30c. The entire stock ot Fancy Goods at Unprecedented

Low Prices. S3w4

R O IH J L I -S O T 1 R E .

H i s S t r a n g e A c t s a n d D o in s :e .PAttT X.

Romulus O’Pike, as tho readers may know,Was a circus actor in a great s-how.What ctuue of O’Pike yen'll probably see,For advancement of things he seemed to agree’

Tike* used to be plumber in a carpenter's shop,But the foreman pronounced him a miserable lop Aud accordingly foreman abandoned Sir ‘Pike,Amt put in another whose name was P. Spike.

Spike used to he corporal iu a military way,But Spike couldn’t be corporal every day.So he, too, turned plumber and rooted out P ■Niul, maddened at this, Pika an actor would

Pike piked himself up to tlio first circus man That happened to pass through his sin-cursed land, Axul proposed to be an actor of much worthy note, But in history prof aue he wa3 less than a mote!Piko’s regard for tho la ws of activity was small,For, seeing, he saw ho was no actor at all,For when ho wont up he came down with a crash, And that Is why foreman said Pike was so rash.Sir Pike, as an actor, was not a success,For what he attempted was a murderous mess,For once on a tune ho wound ’round the roller— Falling, lost all belief ia tho system that’s solar!

Pike gave np the scheme, ns he ought to have done. *Twas evident to him ho was not quite tho one To *k swing round tho circle;*’ as Kasbv has said: u *Xis much bettor alivo than to bo half dead.”This showman of grit sent him home to a friend; This proved to Sir Pike a perfect Godsend;For hia spinal column had become rigidly rigid,Aud his heart lu\d become quite frozen and frigid.

2AUT XLWherein hs takes a notion to sail down the river

in search of u fair one, which ho fails to find.Contentment was not in Pike, to be sure ;His want to be great, while he was so obscure,Killed him dead as u flower in an October frost,And it came to this fish to pay all the cost 1

Pike’s predicament now was quite a sad case.For his heart almost broko with tho length of his

face;But he caught up a plan and put it iu force.This plan, had in it a fatty, of course!

Here arc rules, by-laws, and regulations concocted; *Tis strange he such rules should have adopted:I’ll sail down the river as a man of good name,And find me a lady of world-renowned fame !

Ho sailed In a craft- quite shackled with age,Whoso boiler was gono and had lost its good gaugo; Forsooth t let mo say, it drifted along.While Pike was as merry as a bird in its song!

Pike drifted to a wluvf down at New Orleans,There to look as a fool at the city’s great scenes.He met with a Quaker, who a*ked him, quite bland. ‘ * My friend, const thou tell me from \\ hat land

“ you come ? Art thou iu pursuit of riches hereiu ? If *o, return to the city again 1 For the city is overrun by the boldness of thieves, And the haughtiest man all the money receives.”Pike, maddened at this, walked down to the shore,To find his boat gone with the water’s din-roar,For the fool in hi? ecstasy lr*d eft it united,And this is the cause of the boat’s final ride.

Ife that night cursed and swore and dreamed in his steep.

And was worse in his heart than Bopcep for his sheep;

Ho drea*i.cfl of fair negro women tramping along Amid a g; cut crowd aud amid a great throng.

Pike tramped it back home, forgetting women and love.

And vainly ho “ swore by the messeng. dove;”His hopes were all gone, and so was his boat,So Pike, in his grief, had a burden to tote.Pike died m the age that has passed, passed away, And hi< t- mb to'.'.a hi? life and his age to a day;A vor>o is inscribed on his tomb, pure and white, Giving tribute to Pike that was done up all right

THE INSCRIPTION.Here lies--in honor to oue who has passed away And wont to sletp to await time for U:ul aye”— une who died in an tmsuccc.^/ul but heroic art.Died far mint t\f breath, e / ioce, and a broken heart!

*0*Pike was his real name, but he became fishy, and concluded, he wouldn't be called an Irishman, so he beheaded his name by cutting off the big %t 0.*’— Au t h o r .

B urton-, EL R obert F. D oty .

The Mmsins Wife,Ezra Newton IiatT been looking ovei’

Ms yearly accounts. “ W ell,” asked Ills wife, looking up, “ bow do you come out ?”

“ 1 find,” said ber husband, “ that my expenses during the past year have been thirty-seven cents over a thousand dol­lars.”

“ And your income has been a thou­sand dollars

“ Yes, I managed pretty well, didn’t I ? ”

“ Do yon think it managing well to exceed your income ?” said Ms wife.

“ What’s this thirty-seven cents?” asked Mr. Newton, lightly.

“ Not much, to be sine, but still some­thing. It seems to me that we ought to have saved, instead of falling behind.”

“ But now how can we save, on this salary, Elizabeth? We haven’ t lived extravagantly. Still it seems to have taken it all.”

“ Perhaps there is sometMngM wMch we might retrench. Suppose you men­tion some of the items.”

“ The most important is house rent, §150, and articles of food, §500.”

“ Just half.”“ Yes, and you’ll admit that we can’t

retrench there. I like to live w ell; I had enough of poor board before I mar­ried. Now I mean to live as well as I can.”

“ Still we ought to save somethmg against a rainy day, Ezra.”

.“ That would be like carrying an um­brella when the sun sliines.”

“ Still it is well to have an umbrella in the house.”

“ I can’t controvert your logic, Eliza­beth, but I ’m afraid we shan’t be able to save anythmg tMs year. When I get my salary raised it will be time enough to think of that.”

“ Let me make a proposition to you,” said Sirs. Newton. “ You said that one- half of your income had been expended on articles of food. Are you willing tonllnTC f.Lof. cirm fm* -fLof. r m n in a o 9”

U N D E R T A K E R .A fu ll lin e o f

CA SKETS & GOFFB^SC onstantly o n band , o r m ade to order.

Burial Robes a Specialty.A F»NE H E A R SE

Furnished to a ll ordering , on short notice .

Send §1,50 fo r the R ecord jm e year.

allow me that sura for that purpose?“ You guarantee to pay all bills out of

it?”“ Yes.”“ Then I will shift the responsibility

upon you with pleasure. But I can tell you beforehand you won’t be able to save much out of it. ”

“ That’s well. I shouldn’t relish hav­ing any additional bills to pay. As I am paid every month, I will at each month hand you half of the money.”

The different character of the husband and wife may be judged from the con­versation wMch has been recorded. Mr. Newton had little prudence or foresight. He lived cMefiy for the present, and seemed to fancy that whatever contin­gencies might arise in the future he would somehow be provided for. Now, to trust in Providence is a very proper way, but there is a good deal of truth in the old adage that God will help those who help themselves.

Mrs. Newton, on the contrary, had been brought up in a family wMch was com­pelled to be economical, and, though she was not disposed to deny herself com­forts, yet she felt that it was desirable to procure them at a fan- rate.

The time at wliich tMs conversation took place was at the commencement of the second year of their married life.

The first step Mrs. Newton took on accepting the charge of the household expenses was to institute the practice of paying cash for all articles that came under her department. She according­ly called on the butcher and inquired :

“ How often have you been in the habit of presenting your bills, Mr. Will­iams ?”

“ Once in six months,” was the reply.“ A n d I suppose you sometimes have

had bad bills ?”“ Y es; one-third my profits, on the

average, are swept off by them.”“ And you could afford to sell cheaper,

I suppose, for ready money ?”“ Yes, and I would be glad if all my

customers would give me a chance to do so.”

“ I will set them an example, then,” said Mrs. Newton. “ Hereafter, what­ever articles shall be purchased of you shall bo paid for on the spot, and I shall expect you to sell them as reasonably as you can.”

This arrangement was also made with the others, who, it is scarcely needful to say, were glad to enter into the arrange­ment. Ready money is a great support­er of trade, and a cash customer is worth two who purchase on credit.

Bortunately, Mrs. Newton had a small supply of money by her, wMch lasted

till the first monthly installment from ber husband became due. Thus she was enabled to carry out her cash plan fr'mi the beginning.

Another plan which occurred to her a3 likely to save expense was to purchase articles in large quantities. She had soon saved enough from the money al­lowed to do tMs. Bor example, instead of buying sugar a few pounds at a time, she purchased a. barrel, and so succeeded in saving a cent or more on a pound. This, perhaps, amounted to but a triflo in tho course of a year, but the same system carried out in regard to other things yielded a result which was by no means a trifie.

There are other ways in wMch a care­ful housekeeper is able to mini; expenses which Mrs. Newton did not overlook.

With an object in view, she was al­ways on the lookout to prevent waste, to get the full value of whatever was ex­pended. The result was beyond her an­ticipations.

At the close of the year, on examining her bank-book—for she had regularly deposited whatever money she had not occasion to use in one of the institutions —she found that she had §150, besides reimbursing herself for the money dur­ing the first month, and having enough to iast the other.

“ Well, Elizabeth, have you kept within your allowance ?” asked her hus­band at that time. “ I guess you have not found it so easy to save as yon thought for.”

*’ I have some tiling, however,” said his wife. “ How is it with you ?”

“ That’s more than I can say. How­ever, I have not exceeded m y income, that’s one good thing. W e have lived fully as well as last year, and I don’t know but better than when we spent §500.”

“ It ’s knack, Ezra,” said his wife, smiling. She was not inclined to men­tion how much she had saved. She wanted, sometime or other, to surprise him when it would be a service.

“ She may possibly have saved up §25,” thought Mr. Newton, “ or some trifle,” and so dismissed the matter from his mind.

At the eud the second year Mrs. New­ton’s savings, including the interest, amounted to §350, and she began to feel quite rich.

Her husband did not think to inquire how much she had saved, supposing as before that it could be but very little.

However, he had a piece of good news to communicate. His salary had been raised from §1,000 to §1,200.

He added: “ As I before allowed you one-balf of my income for house­hold expenses, it is no more than fair I should do so now. That will give you a better chance to save part of it than be­fore.”

As before, Mrs. Newton merely said that she had saved something, without specifying the amount.

Her allowance was increased to §600, but her expenses were not proportion­ately increased at all, so that her sav­ings for the third year swelled the aggre­gate sum in the savings hank to §600.

Mr. Newton, on the contrary, in spite of Ms increased salary, was no better off at tbe end of his third year than before. His expenses had increased by §100, though he would have found it difficult to tell in what way his comfort or happi­ness had been increased thereby.

In spite of his carelessness in regard to Ms own affairs, Mr. Newton was an excellent man iu regard to Ms business, and Ms services "were valuable to Ms employers. They accordingly increased Ms salary from time to time, till it reached §1,600. He had steadily pre­served the custom of assigning one-half to his wife, as heretofore, and tMs had beeome such a habit that he never thought to inquire whether she found it necessary to employ the whole or not.

Thus ten years rolled away. During all tMs time Newton lived in the same hired house, for which he had paid an annual rent of §150. Latterly, how­ever, he has beeome dissatisfied with it. It has passed into the hands of a new landlord, who was not disposed to keep it in the repair wMch he considered de­sirable.

About this time a block of excellent houses was erected by a capitalist, who designed to sell them or let them as he might have an opportunity. They were modern and much better arranged than the one in wMch Mr. Newton now lived, and he felt a strong desire to move into one of them. He mentioned it to his wife onemcrni.ng.

“ "What’s the rent ? ” inquired she. “ Two hundred and twenty-five for

corner honse; §200 for either of the oth­ers.”

“ The corner house would be prefera­ble, on account of the side windows.”

“ Yes, and they have a large yard be­sides. I think we had better rent one of them. I guess I ’ll engage one of them to-day; you know our year is out next week.”

“ Please wait till to-morrow, before engaging one.”

“ Eor what reason ? ”“ I should like to examine the house ?” “ Yery well, I suppose to-morrow will

be sufficiently early.”Soon after breakfast Mrs. Newton

called on ’Squire Bent, the owner of the new block, and intimated her desire to be shown the corner house. Her re­quest was readily complied with ; Mrs. Newton was quite delighted with all the arrangements, and expressed her satis­faction.

“ Are these houses for sale or let?” she inquired.

“ Either,” said the owner.“ The rent is, I understand, two hun­

dred and twenty-five dollars.”“ Yes. I consider the corner house

worth at least twenty-five dollars more than the rest. ”

“ And what do you charge for the house for a cash purchaser ?” asked Mrs. Newton, with subdued "eagerness.

“ Four thousand dollars cash,” was the reply, “ and that is but a small ad­vance on. the cost.”

“ Yery well, I will buy of you,” added Mrs. Newton, quietly.

“ What did I understand you to say?” asked the ’Squire, scarcely believing his own ears.

“ I repeat thatX will buy this honse at your price, and pay the money within a week.”

“ Then the house is yours. But your husband did not say anything of his in­tention, and in faot I did not know—”

“ That he had money to invest, I sup­pose you would say. Neither does he know it, and I must ask you not to tell him for the present.”

The next morning Mrs. Newton in­vited her husband to take a walk, but without specifying the direction. They soon stood in front of the house in wMch he desired to live.

“ "Wouldn’t you like to go in ? ” she asked.

“ Yes. It’s a pity wo haven’t got the key.”

“ I have the key,” said the wife, and forthwith she walked up the steps and proceeded to open the door.

11 When did you get the key of ’Squire Bent ? ” asked her husband.

“ Yesterday, when I bought the house,” said his wife, quietly.

Mr. Newton gazed ou his wife in pro­found astonishment.

“ "What do you mean ?”“ Just what I say—the house is mine,

and what is mine is thine: So the honse is yours, Ezra.”

“ Where, in the name of goodness, did you raise the money ? ” asked her husband, in amazement as great as .ever.

“ I haven’t been a managing wife for ten years for nothing,” said Mrs. New­ton, smiling.

“ With some difficulty Mrs. Newton persuaded her husband that the price of the honse was really the result of her

< savings. He felt when he surveyed the ' commodious arrangements of the house

that lie had reasons to be grateful for the prudence of Ms managing wife.

m roru igai. •In the most civilized countries of tour­

ist-haunted Europe, the beggar and the professional showman are prominent fig­ures in the landscapes. In Italy tho mendicants swarm in every gorge, re­placing the banditti wbo liavc been hunted down by tbe bersaglieri. Li Switzerland they beset yon at each pass and col, whining at your heels as yon enter the villages and leave them. Even in Germany, where the “ begging is ‘ am strengslen verboten,’ ” they make silent appeals wMle the carriage changes horses, by the fore-wheel, where they have you at an advantage when pulling np a steep. L i the rural districts of Por­tugal there is no nuisance of the kind. An excellent system of voluntary relief generally supersedes the hard imposition of our poor rates; the country is decid­edly underpopulated, and the peasants for the most part, are well to do. In some Provinces they are worse off than in others, but everywhere they are well fed and well clothed; while in the more fertile and populous parts of tho north they may be said to be relatively rich. What should you think of a laborer in tiiis country whose wife carried golden ornaments on her person of a Sunday of the value of from £5 to £20? And the good man himself has his gay fesia cloth­ing, with buttons of silver or glossy vel­veteen, and rejoices in the dandyism of a spotless white shirt-front, lighted up by a gold stud in the central frill. He works hard, to be sure; sometimes his toil, in the long days of midsummer, will extend to sixteen hours, but tben, like our own kard-worMng colliers and miners, be lives uncommonly well. He cad even afford to be something of an ep­icure, and he rejoices in a variety of diet that our laborers might well envy. His bill of fare includes beef and bacon, dried codfish—which is the common del­icacy of all classes—lard, bread, aud rice, olives, and olive oil, with a luxu­rious profusion of succulent vegetables. He is allowed gourds and cabbages a’ discretion, nor can anything be more suitable to a sultry climate. ’ And, like tho Frenchman, and Ms nearer neighbor the Spaniard, he is always something of a cook. Not that he has studied refine­ments of cuisine; but he can dress the simple ingredients of his banquets in a fasliion that is inimitable so far as it goes. The belated wayfarer, who is asked to sit down to the stew that has been slowly simmering in the pipkin over tbe embei-3—it is, in fact, the Spanish olla podrida—has, assuredly, no reason to complain. Then his wine, though it is “ green,” and potent, and heady, and only to be appreciated by one born to the use of it, is infinitely superior to the adulterated beer the Englishman buys at the village “ public.” — Blackwood?s Magazine.

Pleasant Life la Bengnl.The daily life of the family is a series

of pictures of Arcadian ’simplicity. At daybreak, when the crows begin to caw, the whole household is astir. The two elder brothers are off to the fields, while Gayaram is seeing after the cows. The women are busy in tbe huts and court­yard. Sometimes the men come home to then.’ mid-day meal, and sometimes it is carried to them hi the fields. At sun­set the labors of tbe day are brought to a close. A mat is spread in the court­yard and the men sit down cross-legged and smoke their hubble-hubbles; and at such times it is the joy of Badnn’s life to listen to the cMldisli prattle of his little daughter Malati. Occasionally the brothers pay visits to then- neighbors, or neighbors drop in and join in the smok­ing. The conversation is nearly always the same—the weather, the bullocks, the crops, and the cows; the plowing, har­vesting, sowing or irrigating. But money is ever the burden of tbe talk; rupees, annas, and pice; the zemindar’ s rent; the interest paid to the money lender; the cost, profit or loss of every transaction connected with the farm or household. The whole family is relig­ious; indeed all Hindus is religious. They may be everything that is good or bad, but they are never wanting in fear of the gods. They are constantly utter­ing the sacred names, and they offer a portion of every meal to the gods of the earth, water, and sky. They see deity in everything that exists, and omens of good or evil in everything that moves. I f they meeta cow or a wedding they re­joice over then good fortune; if they see a widow or a funeral they ore down­hearted at their ill luck. They engage in no business, or journey, or transac­tion of any sort or kind, without a pray­er to the goddess Lakshimi or an invoca­tion to the elephant-headed Ganesha. Every family or group of families has its own Puroliita, or domestic Brahman, who performs endless ceremonies of propitia­tion. consecration or purification at births, deaths, marriages, feasts, festivals, re­ligious celebrations, and family incidents of every kind. In return, the PuroMta receives all the offerings of rice, fruits, and vegetables that are made to the gods, with occasional presents of a like character. Every year the Gum, or re­ligious teacher of the sect or district, makes his appearance to receive Ms shil­ling fee from every household, and to confirm younger neophytes by whisper­ing into their respective ears the name of the god that each one is to worsMp as his own individual deity. This name is known as the “ seedprayer,” and is to be uttered by the worshiper one hundred and eight times every day until the end of 1ns earthly career.— Macmillan's Magazine.

NUMBER 50.I T N E V E K ‘PA'KS.

It never pays to fret and growl,'Wlien fortune seems our foe ;

The better bred will pu h ahead,And strike the braver blow.

For luck is work, and those who Bhlrk Should not lament their doom,

But yield the play, and clear the way That better men Rave room.

It never pays to wreck the health In drudging after gain;

And he ie sold who thinks that gold Is cheapest bought with pain.

An humble lot, a cosy cot,Have tempted even Kings,

For stations high, that wealth will bay,Hot oft contentment briuge.

It never pays! A blunt refrain,’Well worthy of a song,

For age and youth must learn this trutt, That nothing pays that wrongs.

The good and pure alone are sure To bring prolonged success,

YVhile what is right in heaven’s Bight Is always sure to blesB.

Sleep North and South.A learned German says: “ In sleep

any position except north and south is disagreeable, but from east to west al­most intolerable, at least in our hemis­phere it is otherwise. The cause of this phenomenon can obviously be found only in that great magnet which is formed by the earth with it » atmosphere, i. e., ter­restrial magnetism. This magnetism exerts on certain persons, both hearty and otherwise, who are sensitive, a peculiar influence wonderful enough to disturb their rest, or in the case of diseased per­sons disturbing the circulation, the nervous functions, and the equilibrium of the mental powers. There are per­sons whom I know, the head of whose bed is to the north, and who, in order to wake early, reverse then’ usual position in bed, from that of north to south, hut without understanding the reason why, beyond that they could always awake earlier, the sleep "being more broken. I have had it related to me that, at a mil­itary hospital in Russia, there were patients of Mghly sensitive natures who were rapidly recovering. When necessity compelled them to be removed to another wing of the building they did not get on sow ell; in fact, prostration seemed to be setting in, and it was found advisable to get them back to their former wards as soon as possible, where the heads of the beds were to the north. I have heard of horses going blind through changing their position from north to south to that of west to east.

Graveyard Literature.Soared to the memory of Lady Eliza­

beth O’Looney, first cousin to Burke, commonly called the Sublime. She was bland, passionate, and deeply religious. Also she painted in water-colors, and sent many pictures to the’ Great Exhibition, and o f such is the kingdom of heaven. She lived the life of the virtuous, and died of cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit in the full hope of a blessed immortality at the early age of twenty- years, three months and sixteen days! Reader, go thou and do likewise!—From a Headstone in Ireland.

Fly and Spider—the Tables Turned.An old subscriber in Australia sends

to the Gentleman's Magazine the fol­lowing: “ Australia is the land of con­trariety in regard to animal and vegeta­ble life—such as black swans, the duck- mole, fish which climb trees, cherries with the stone outside, and veritable wooden pears!—but one fact regarding spiders and flies is equally strange, for la-re there is a fly which catches spiders. He is a wiry, energetic, hard-looking cus­tomer; body, longish and narrow; color, literally half mourning, aud about three- quarters of an inch long; he builds a elav nest for his larvae, generally inside locks, under veranda heaves, or even in cracks of wood-work, and sometimes in the folds of curtains or clothes. In one ease, while staying at a friend’s house about twenty miles from Sidney, I left my water-proof coat banging untouched for about four days, and on taking it down there was a nest neatly builtin one of the folds, of about the size of one’s little finger and three or four inches in length. On replacing the coat and leav­ing itfor another few days, and then ex­amining it, the nest was finished; it had three compartments, with one littlewMte grub in each, and for its food several small green spiders, not then absolutely dead, but apparently in a state of coma. These spiders were evidently taken out of the orange orchard, as there were plenty of the same kind alive about tbe trees; but laist week, while up in the mountains, I watched one of the flies carrying off a black house-spider quite as big as itself; and during the course of the day saw "him three separate times, and on each occasion with a large spider. I could not find the nest; but the farmer tells me that he has occasionally done so, and found as many as twenty good-sized spiders of various Muds, all apparently dead, but not decayed, and generally five or six larvss of the fly.

“ There is also a large spider wMch actually catches small birds occasionally, and lulls and devours them! He is like a wasp in color; body, shape and size of a small hazel-hut; legs, long and wiry; and he also looks like a hard-skinned customer. The web is always double, one about half as large again as the other, aud made of such a strong yel­lowish fiber that, if accidentally W’alMng into it, you feel a sensible stoppage of your way for the moment. One bird— the wreck of wMch I myself saw left in the web—was rather smaller than the English wren, and the web was strong enough to stand allits struggles, although a little broken here and there.

“ As regards size of some spiders, we have a fiat-bodied, gray-colored one here which builds no web, but lives under bark of dead trees, behind boards, etc., the body of wMch is about the size of a shilling* and not much thicker, but the legs of which are quite as long as the fingers of an ordinary-sized hand, and the whole spread of the brute is about a hand’s breadth. TMs is for the fullest- sized ones; but the common run of them are five to six inches across, and the style in which they pounce upon and double up tbe smaller cockroaches is what our Yankee cousins would call ‘o caution.’ ”

Some Men’s Wives,Three men of wealth meeting, not long

since, in New York, the conversation turned upon their wives. Instead of finding fault with women in general, and their wives in particular, each one obeyed the wrise man’s advice, and “ gave ‘honor1 unto his w ife.”

“ I tell you what it is / ’ said one of the men, “ tiieym ay say what they please about the uselessness of modem women, but m y wife has done her share in secur­ing our success in life. Everybody knows that her fam ily was aristocratic, and exclusive, and all that, and when I married her she had never done a day’s work in her life ; but when W. & Go. failed, aud I had to commence at the foot of the h ill again, she discharged the servants, and chose out a neat little cot­tage, and did her own housekeeping un­til I was better off again.”

“ And my wife,” said a second, “ was an only daughter, caressed and petted to death; and everybody said, ‘ "Well, if he will marry a doll like that, he’ll make the greatest mistake of his life ; ' but when I came home the first year of our marriage, sick with a fever, she nursed me back to health, and I never knew her to murmur because I thought we couldn’t afford any better style or more luxuries."

“ W ell, gentlemen,” chimed in a third, “ I married a smart, healthy, pretty girl, but she was a regular blue-stock­ing. She adored Tennyson, doted on Byron, read Emerson, and named the first baby Ralph W aldo and the second M aud; but I tell you what ’tis,” and the speaker’s eyes grew suspiciously moist, “ when we laid little Maud in her last bed at Auburn, m y poor wife had no re­membrances o f neglect or stinted moth­erly care; and the little . dresses that still lie in the locked drawer were all made b y her own hands. ’ ’—Journal oj Commerce.

A Romantic Story.Loring, the Roston bookseller, told a

very romantio story, as follow s: “ At one time I had prepared boxes of fancy paper with a fancy initial or pet name embossed in it, and I pnt this up at §1 a box and advertised it widely. One day I had an order from California from aMiss S u ae------ . The box was done np,addressed to her and lay about here, when a young Englishman came in and wanted to write a letter. I gave him the material and a place, when his eyes caught the address on this box.

“ ‘ Have you the order that came for that box of paper ?’ he asked.

“ ‘ Yes,’ I replied, ‘ ’tis about some­where.’

“ * W ould yon mind sending it up to my hotel? I f it is what I think, I shall leave for California to-night.’

“ I found it and sent it around and heard no more about it for perhaps three months, when one day the young man, with a lady on his arm, walked in. ‘ M r. Loring, I want to present you to my w ife,’ he said. ‘ "We could not leave this country till we had thanked you for your part in bringing us together.’ The denouement was quite a romance. The young man was the son of an aria tocratio fam ily and the girl the daughter of the gardener. But love levels all dis­tinctions, and the young man felt this girl to be the chosen companion of his life. To break off the attachment Ms father had sent litm to the Continent and dispatohed the gardener and his pretty daughter to .America, where the young man had followed them, ignorant of their address, and at last finding it through the chance of the box of paper.”

Lies.A lie will die of neglect sooner than

in any other way. The only reasonwhy some lies grow so large and stout is that every body pets and feeds them,

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A Definition of "Wit."When Lord Chatham was Prim e Min­

ister, he once asked a literary gentleman a definition of wit. The gentleman had long been of tbe opinion that his talents should receive substantial recognition. His answer was so clever that it defined wit and suggested his wish.

“ W it, m y Lord,” he replied, “ is what a pension would he if given b y your LordsMp to your humble servant— a good thing w ell applied.”

An excellent illustration o f this defi­nition of wit is the happy turn given by Sydney Smith to the casual remark of a beautiful young lady. "While walk­ing with the clerical wit in her garden, she sa id :

“ M r. Smith, Ifear I shall never bring this pea to perfection.”

“ Thenperm it me,” said the gallant Sydney, taking her by the hand, “ to lead perfection to the pea.”

The sarcastic Douglas Jerrold was noted for Uttering “ a good thing w ell applied,” albeit, the application sug­gested to the victim the burning o f lunar caustic.

W alking in the country one day, with several literary gentlemen, the party stopped to observe the gambols of a little donkey. A poet, more noted for the sentimentalism of his verses than for their excellence, said he should like to send the little thing as a present to his mother.

“ D o,” replied the caustic wit, “ and tie a piece of paper round its neck, with the m otto: ‘ W hen this you see remem­ber m e.’ ”

Jerrold’s idea of wit was a brutal one. H e felt that, like the diamond, it had two powers wMch were— “ to cut as well as shine.” One of his sparkling and wounding witticisms is his well-known retort to a com ic writer, who said to him, “ W e row in the same boat, yon know.”

“ True, m y good fellow,” replied Jer­rold. “ but with very different skulls.”

Heroism o f lighthouse Keepers.I t was a grand and heroic conception

to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone, but what shall be said of the men who first of all tried the experiment of dwell­ing in the horrible isolation of that storm-beaten edifice, cut o ff from the rest of the world, uncertain whether the building would stand the test of the storm, deafened by the roar o f the waters which sometimes would shoot right over the lantern, or dash headlong against the lighthouse with fearful vio­lence, causing every part to vibrate as though the whole fabric were instan­taneously going to pieces? I t is re­corded that only two men attended the lighthouse built by Rudyard, and that one of them was seized with sudden ill­ness and died. I t was in the roughest time of year, and although the survivor hoisted a signal of distress, no boat could reach the rock. What to do with the dead body he did not know. A t first he thought he would throw it into the sea, but he was hindered by the fear lest the friends of the deceased might charge him with the crime of murder. For a whole month tile weather continued boisterous, and for that whole month the solitary survivor kept the light all night how that his comrade could no longer share the duty, watch b y watch, with him, and for thiat whole month he kept the body of thedeadm an, although it had fallen into horrible corruption. Gan anymore terrible strait b e conceived than that in which the brave fellow was placed? Yet we do not even know his name. A ll we know is that in almost every great work of publio utility in­volving hazardous labor, if one or two men have come to the front and left their names for the admiration of pos­terity, there have always been a hundred obscure heroes who have lived and died and left no sign, but without whose strong nerves and great hearts those works would never have been accom­plished.

A Scene in a School-Room,Boy-nature was neither studied or un­

derstood in the former days. I f the modem school, taking its cue from the modem family, leans unduly to the side of moral suasion, the old-fashioned schoolmaster was a partisan of flogging. He also took his cue from the parents, whose motto was, “ Spare the rod, spoil the child.”

‘ T ve brought you our Jock,” said a Scotch mother to the schoolmaster, drag­ging forward a straggling young savage; “ mind ye lick him w ed!”

No wonder that Jock, thus consigned to the rule of the strap, should grow up a worse savage. Of course he would be­come a bully and beat his weaker mates.

A Scotch editor, commenting on the rough school of his boyhood, where nothing kept the hoys in any sort of or­der but the strap,—tause is its Scotch name,— describes a scene wMch he wit­nessed during a school session:

Jock had maltreated a son of hers on the green, and she had come to inflict vengeance upon Mm before the whole school. Jock’s conscious soul trembled at the sight, and she had little difficulty in detecting him.

Ere the master had recovered froin^the astonishment wliich her intrusion had created the fell virago had pounced upon the culprit, had dragged him into the middle of the floor, aud there began to belabor him with the domestic tause, wMch she had brought for the purpose.

The screams of the boy, the anxious entreaties of the master, with his con­stant, “ W ifie, wifie, be quiet, be quiet,” and tiie agitated feeling wMch began to pervade the school, formed a scene which defy words to paint it.

Nor did M eg desist till she had given Master Forsyth reason to remember her to the latest day of his existence. She then took her departure, only remarking to the teacher, “ Jock Forsyth will no meddle withmyJamie again in a httrry.”

mm m m ...........Humor In the Fam ily.

Good humor is rightlyxeckoned a most valuable aid to happy home life. An equally good and useful faculty is a sense of humor or the capacity to have a little fun along with the hum-drum of lif6. "Ye all know how it brightens things up generally to have a lively, witty compan­ion, who sees the ridiculous points of tilings, and who can turn any annoyance into an occasion for laughter. I t does a great deal better to laugh over some do­mestic mishaps than to cry or scold over them. Many homes and lives are dull because they are allowed to become too deeply impressed with a sense of the cares and responsibilities of life to recog­nize its bright and especially its mirthful side. Into such a honsehold, good, but dull, the advent of a witty, humorous friend is like sunshine to a cloudy day. "While it is oppressive to hear people constantly stiiving to say funny things, it is comfortable, seeing what a bright- ener a little fun is to make, an effort to have some. I t is well to turn o ff an im­patient question sometimes and to regard it from a humorous point of view, instead of becoming irritated about it . “ "What is the reason le a n never And a dean shut?” exclaimed a good but rather impatient husband, after rummaging through the wrong drawer. H is wife looked at him steadily fo r a moment, h a ll inclined to be provoked, then with a comical look, replied: “ I never could guess conundrums; I must give it up.” Then he laughed, and they both laughed, and she went and got his shirt, .and ha felt ashamed of him sdf and he Mssed her, and then she felt happy; and so what might have been an occasion for hard words and unkind feelings became just the contrary, all through the little vein of humor m at cropped out to the surface. Some children have a peculiar

. faculty for giving a humorous - turn to things when they are reproved. I t does just as well oftentimes. Laughter is better than tears. L et ua have a little more at home,

The Berrien County Record: Buchanan, Michigan, Thursday, January 20, 1881.

j$emm <£o. Record.JOHN G. HOLMES, Editor.

T H U R SD A Y . JA N U A R Y 2 0 ,1SSI.

T he great Signor Nevaro, who will accompany Porepaugti the com ing sea- s.m. is a North Lansing man.

Sarah Bernhardt has been tilling an engagement at M eYieket's theatre the past week.

MMMHEKS3E9SESSXR&

It is estimated that sixteen per cent, o f the inhabitants o f this country live in cities.

Fire made a large hole in the lumber yards in M ichigan City yesterday. A bout $130,000 worth o f lumber was destroyed.

The Californians appear to be pleased with the new treaty with China. A t least that is the way their papers ex­press themselves.

A dispatch from Vincennes, Ind.. gives a report that the grave o f the late Gov. W illiam s has been rifled, and the casket and body stripped o f valua­bles.

H a a n B H M B a M

Nineteen ladies, married, maiden and widowed were applicants fo r the po­sition o f State Librarian in Indiana. The choice fell with Mrs. Wiiisor. o f

n w a a n a a M B B i B M a

One o f the best evidences that Mich­igan made a good choice when they elected Mr. Conger to the U. A Senate is the intense howl o f abase set up against hint by the Democratic and neutral press throughout the land.

A fair specimen o f DemoratL man­agement i> found in the fact that the Democratic National Committee eaute out o f the campaign $*.15,000 in debt, and are r.ow proposing to settle w ith their Washington printer at o* cents on tin dollar.

A terrific snow storm has prevailed m the m ining regions o f Utah since Christmas, and repeated snow slides have threatened the entire destruction o f the mining town o f A lta. Several persons have lost their lives, and the damage to property is considerable.

The Supreme Court has decided that a t ity is not liable for injuries result­ing from a defective side-walk. This should put a stop to the practice o f clumsy galoots who seem to have no other means o f gaining a livelihood than by skinning their worthless shins on some broken side-walk and then bringing suits against the city or vil- lage 'for damages. Mirs.

W hat a matter o f disappointment it w ill be to all o f the vast army o f Cab­inet makers in this ec-uuuv, i f Pres­ident-elect Garfield persists in making up his Cabinet to suit himself. He acts considerably as i f that was about the way he proposed to do it.

The vote for Urated States Senator was taker, by the joint convention o f the Legislature, Tuesday. F or short term the vote stood. Henry P. Baldwin. 112; George P. Sanford, IS; Orlando M. Barnes. I. For long term. Omar D. Conger, received i n . G. Y . N.I.athrop. is.

There was a meeting o f the Board o f Regents o f tic1 State University last Thursday. The subject o f the erection o f a new building f*>r the ac­commodation o f the University library was freely discussed, and a committee appointed t-> wait upon the Legisla­ture and secure an appropriation for that purpose. The list <■;' students now shows names.

On the subject o f the speakership o f the next House of Representatives, a Washington correspondent lias the follow ing:

■■Bum.-ws • t Michigan is an uncon- dttt.-mtl candidate since the nomina­tion o f Conger ter Senator. Barrows is now ser\ tug his second term in the House. He is an eloquent speaker, is a man agreeable presence and manners, a n d ; ossesses on eo f t lie most important ie ytisites o f a presiding officer, a tine t dee. Burrows says that he has received many assurances o f support from members who represent states in which he has made cam­paign speeches, and he has traversed nearly all o f the Northern states from Maine to California on stumping tours.'

A m ong the candidates are mention­ed Dunnell <>f Minnesota. Kasson of Iow a. Judge Orth o f Indiana. Judge W illiam D. Kelley o f Pennsylvania. Gen. Henderson o f Illinois. Mr. Reed o f Maine, and Gen. K eifer o f Ohio.

That we are not alone in theceon- demnation o f the attempt to replace our present efficient liquor law by one restoring prohibition. Is evidenced by the follow ing from the Post and Trib­une:

“ The liquor traffic laws w ill undoubt­edly be the subject o f much controver­sy at Lansing this winter. Nothing ought to be done looking toward the restoration o f prohibition. Still less ought there be any modification o f the tax laws in the interest o f the liquordealers. us retain the existingtax svstem, making it as efficient as possible, and as stringent as is compat­ible with its enforcement.”

W e have the best law on that sub­ject o f any State in the Uuion, and it is to be hoped that onr law makers w ill not throw it aside. The only dif. Scnlty w ith the present law is lack o f enforcement, and the same would be true o f a prohibitory law. only to a greater extent.

The N ew Y ork Sun, which never goes out o f its way to commend a Re­publican, says editorially;Conger's name was open to no reproach

n o stain o f jobbery or trickery attach­ed to M m , and this, no doubt,' was the secret o f M s pow er among Ms associ­ates. W e observe that the Dem ocratic newspapers generally describe Mr. Conger as a man o f acrid temper, but notM ng could be farther from the truth. H e is one o f the m ost genial o f men, and his hum or is simply over­flowing. N o gentleman ever attained M s prominence in the house compelled as such a person is to go about stop­p ing everybody's schemes and tramp­lin g everybody’s toes, who had more devoted friends than th is acrid repre­sentative from MIcMgan. H e is sav­age enough in fighting Democrats as Dem ocrats, or theives as thelves; but o ff M s congressional legs he is as fu ll o f human kindness, fun and anecdote as B ob Ingersoll himself.

CONGRESSIONAL.THURSDAY.

In the Senate a bill was passed for payment to Indians for any damages which m ay be inflicted upon their res­ervations by the construction o f reser- oirs at the headwaters o f the Missis­

sippi : also providing that the appro­priation fo r a dam at Lake Winneba- gosliish shall be applied immediately. The franking bill was discussed and referred to the committee on postoffices. The army bill was taken up, and an amendment to railroad transportation moved by M r. Edmunds (Rep.. Y t. 1 was agreed to. ayes 2S, noes 1$. A fter fur­ther discussion, the Senate adjourned without final aetion on the bill.

In the House m inority reports were made on the two Iowa election cases. The bill for the relief o f Gen. Ord was reported and placed on the private cal­endar. The House then went Into committee o f the whole on the funding bill, the pending amendment being that o f Mr. Randall, tDem., Pa.t for the issue o f $630,000,000 3 per cent, bonds redeemable after — years. Mr. Mr. Townsbend tDem., 111. • moved an amendment fixing the amount o f bonds to be issued at 400.000,000 and o f cer­tificates at $1)00,000.000. Mr. Mills Rem., Tex.i offered an amendment

making the certificates redeemable in one year and payable in ten. A fter a protracted debate. Mr. Randall accept­ed Mr. Townsliend's and Mr. Mill's amendments. A n amendment was af­terwards agreed to making the bonds redeemable in five years and payable in ten. A s thus amended. Mr. Randall’s amendment was adopted. 19$ to 2. Mr. Randall also proposed an amendment relative to the interest on the six per cent, bonds, which was adopted. A number o f further efforts were made to amend the section, but they were unsuccessful. The committee m>e. and the House adjourned.

F R ID A Y .

In the Senate the House resolution authorizing the President to invite France to participate in the centennial celebration o f the surrender at York- town was reported favorably. The army bill was taken up and passed. The military academy appropriation bill was also passed. A house joint resolution appropriating $2,500 to pay the expenses o f the sanitary confer­ence was passed in spite o f the objec­tion o f Senator Carpenter t Rep.. VTi.v that it was unconstitutional. The Sen­ate then went into executive session and soon after adjourned.

In the House most o f the time was spent on the private calendar. A dis­cussion arose over a bill to pay for cat­tle taken from a settler by Indians. "When the committee o f the whole rose no quorum was present, and the House adjourned without action.

» SATU RDAY.

The House went into committee o f the whole on the funding bill. The amendment o f Mr. Anderson iRep. Ks. to retire the national bank circu­lation was rejected. Mr.DIbrell’s- Dem., lean.'- amendment providing for an income tax was ailed out o f order. A n amendment by Mr. Phillips (.Dem.. Mo. that certificates shall be o f the denominations o f $10. $20 and $50 was adopted. Several amendments and substitutes were proposed and defeat­ed or ruled out o f order. Mr. Carlisle Dem., Kv.'- moved amendments winch

were adopted limiting the expense of issuing the bonds to one-quarter o f one per cent, on the issue, and also author Izing the secretary o f the treasury to use not exceeding $50,000,000 o f the gold and silver in the treasury to re­deem the five and six per cent, bonds. A debate on the possibility o f floating a three per cent, bond followed, and the House adjourned without further action.

M O N D A Y '.

In congress the Senate passed bills for the purchase by the secretary o f the treasury t.f the Freedmen's bank and other property belonging to the Freedmen's savings and trust com­pany: for the relief of Gen. Ord: and creating the Y orktow n centennial commission. A motion to take up the Kellogg case was negatived, ayes 20, noes 54. Ten Democrats voted with the Republicans in the negative. The Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened ad­journed.

In the House a large number o f bills were Introduced, among) them one by- Mr. Newberry Rep.. Mich. ) for the ap­pointment o f a jo in t commission by the United States and Great Iiritian to investigate the alleged false and fraudulent proof and statistics used before the Halifax fishery commission: and erne by Mr. Ford 'Nat.. M0.1 in favor o f a government system o f tele­graphs. A report and tables from the census commissioner were laid before the House, explained by Mr. C ox ' Dem., N . Y."* and ordered printed. Mr. Cox then introduced an apportionment bill fixing the number o f representatives at 301. Mr. Frye iRep.. Me.) offered a resolution, which was adopted, call­ing on the secretary o f the treasury for inform ation as to the debts o f foreign governments, their rates o f interest, present market value, etc. Mr. Con­verse 'Dem., Ob introduced, from the public lands committee, a bill quieting the title o f settlers on the Des Moines river lands in Iowa, and moved the previous question on the bill. Mr. Y an Yoorhis i Rep., N . Y ,l denounced the hill as the most infamous ever presented to congress. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the hill was agreed to almost unanimously and the House adjourned.

TUESDAY.

In the Senate the complete census returns were presented. The bill to incorporate the International canal company was referred to the foreign committee. The bill fo r the relief o f BenH olladay was passed, yeas 33, nays IP, and the amount to he paid him was fixed at $365,000. A conference com­mittee was ordered on the Indian ap­propriation bill, and the Senate adjourn­ed.

In the House, the committee on elec­tions reported on the Florida bill, un­seating Hull, Dem., and seating Bis- bee, Rep. A resolution o f inquiry into the registration o f trade marks was adopted. A n additional bounty ap­propriation bill was adopted, and the naval appropriation b ill reported and ordered printed. The House then went into comm ittee o f the whole on the funding bill, the pending amendment being the substitute offered by Mr. Carlisle (D em , K y.) making the new 3

per cent, bonds the ones to be deposit­ed by national banks for the security o f their circulation. The amendment was adopted, yeas 12$, noes 101. A number o f other amendments were voted down or ruled out on points o f order. Mr. Bland (Dem., Mo.) propos­ed a substitute which was rejected by a vote o f 43 to 106. Mr. Gillette (Nat., Iowal moved a substitute authorizing the secretary o f the treasury to issue $340,000,000 m ore greenbacks; lost 9 to 160. Mr. Updegraff (Rep., Ia.) mov­ed to amend the title to make it read: “A b ill to defeat refunding,” etc.; lost, 59 to 111, The previous question on the bill was seconded, and the House adjourned without action. The bill comes up to-morrow as unfinished business.

They Ate a Sick Hog.Sprin g field , 111., Jan. 17.— Geo.

Lawrence, a fann band nine miles from here, was given a diseased pig by his employer, a Mr. Simpson. Aftei; keeping it several weeks. Lawrence killed it and himself and family ate it. His w ife became sick. Her limbs swelled and bursted, and mortification set in, causing death. Mr. Lawrence lies at the point o f death. I lis body and limbs are swollen to thrice their usuai size, have a whitish appearance, and are as hard as marble. Tiie chil­dren ate but little and have not suffer­ed severely. Portions o f the meat were analyzed and found to be alive w ith trichinae.

Tons o f free-trade trash in the shape o f a pamphlet by Augstns Mongredien were distributed last year among the farmers o f the west. It informed them that the average tariff duty on manu­factured articles is 40 per cent, and that they are being plundered o f $360- 000.000 a year through the enhanced prices demanded by Am erican mono­polists. But at least five-sevenths o f the tools and implements, goods and wares consumed in the United States could not be made acceptable in the American market unless by home manufacturers, nor could they be ship­ped or handled profitably across the ocean. Tlie cost o f protection, there­fore, is in no degree to be measured by the average duty on manufactures as a whole. In fact, some o f our own fabrics are now. or have lately been, made and sold at less than the' rate of duty only. When the tariff on cali­coes averaged 6 la cents per yard, some o f those very goods sold at 6* cents pet- yard. One such fact— and there are hundreds o f them—knocks the stuffing out o f free-trade editorials and speec hes.—Lansing Rejfublican.

Hine o f the Lowell journal says “ the legislature will have its usual biennial wrestle with the tax laws this winter. The 1 .1. generally come out ahead— we never knew a legislature to tackle them that didn’t get flopped.”

In Justice Jaminet’s court recently, it took six jurymen, three men, a wo­man, a hoy, and three lawyers, with each a barrel o f spread eagle oratory and home spun eloquence, six mortal hours to find out that one. man owed another six dollars.—Monroe Democrat.

The estimated coal output ot the Jackson county mines for 18S0 is 125,- 000 tons from eight mines, only a por­tion o f which have been open all the year, and at no time all o f them in op­eration at once. Number o f men em­ployed 500, o f whom 250 are diggers.

J. W . Roase and Wm. McGee, two colored men, entered the store o f A.Tt. Blake, at Galesburg, Friday night. One o f them, having an ax helve in his hand, made a demand on Blake for his money. Just then a neighbor entered and the parties sloped. They are now under arrest, charged with assault with intent to rob.

A singular and shocking murder was committed Sunday evening at Lapeer. W hile the people were at church Mrs. Bernard, w ife o f a prominent lumber­man at Greenville, went to the resi­dence o f the Rev. E. Curtis, attacked his wife, threw her down, poured gaso­line over her clothing, and set her on fire. The unfortunate lady was terri­bly burned, and died within a few hours. A s there was no apparent mo­tive for the crime, it is believed the. murderess is insane.

A VALUABLE POPERTY.From the Jackson Citizen.

Three sam ples o f ore from tiie W olverine Sliver Mine, situated in the “ Tin Cup” m ining district, Gunnison counts-, Colorado, owned b y our townsm en, Chas. A . Knapp, Hull T . Sutton, G eorge F. A nderson, and A . N. Per- rault, o f Colorado, was assayed by E. J . W eeks o f the firm o f E. .j. W eeks & Co., ot this city, the result o f w h ich m ust certain ly h e very satisfactory to the ow ners o f the property. The follow ing Is the assay o f M r. W eeks:

Ge st l e m e x —The sam ples o f ore given m e b y y ou fo r silver assay X am pleased to report the fo llow in g u p o n :

No. 1, W olverine L od e—General character: suiphurets o f silver and lead carbonate. Con­tains silver per ton o f 2,000 lbs., 2,391.12 troy ounces.

No. 2, same lod e—General character: Galena with lend carbonate. Contains silver p er ton o f 2,000 lbs., 1 513 29 troy ounces.

No 3, sam e lode—General character: Iron- stained quartz with Galena and lead carbon- ate. Contains silver p er ton o f 2,000 lbs., 213.70 troy ounces. E. J. W E K KS, Assayer.

The cash value o f these several ore spec!- m ens Is as fo llow s:

No. 1—$2.67S.05 per ton.N o. 2—$1,728.48 p er ton.N o. 8—$244.80.The Star has been to som e pains to ascer­

tain som ething m ore about this m in ing p rop ­erty. A nd it has learned that the ownership has been exten ded ; a com pany has been form ed, under the laws o f the State, the cer­tificates o f stock have been engraved and are on sale. The officers are as follow s: Presi­dent, A . N. P errau lt; Vice P r -sklent, Dr, Mini1 M cLaughlin; Secretary, G eorge F. A n­derson ; Treasurer, Chas. A. K n app : Superin­tendent o f M inos, H. G. Sutton. Directors— Miar M cLaughlin, Tboophilus Bnyse, George F. A nderson, M orris Knapp, Howard G. Sut­ton. In addition to the m ine above nam ed as having been assayed, there are the follow ing m ines that jo in the W olverine, with a casli value to the ton o f:

M ary Mahr, $4,592.Bonanza, $2,570.J im m y M ack, $3,501.T in Cup, $2,721.Gold Cup, $7,907.20.The com pan y purposes to put 40,000 shares

upon m arket, and begin w orking early in the spring. A nd though the stock was only offer­ed for sale on D e c .!), the Co already hare 1,530 shares sold. This augurs w ell for its dovelop- m cnt,and certain ly prom ises m inions. Messrs. Knapp and Sutton, w ho staked the claim , are enthusiastic over its prospects, and d o n o t doubt hut that in less than eight m onths the stock that now- sells tor $2.50 per share will reach par. The hooks and sam ples o f tiie ore m ay he seen at tlieir office.

For further information empire of 40m3 A. RICHARDS. Buchanan, Mil'll.

Look Here!

SEWS ITEMS.Durham, N. 0.. lost 22 stores by fire,

Saturday.Tbe United States has 230,223 cotton

looms, not including hosiery mills.

In some portions o f Florida the or­anges are said to have- frozen upon the trees.

A bill levying an annual occupation tax o f S200 on commercial travelers has been introduced in the Arkansas Senate.

Prof. IVm. C. Fowler, a son-in-law o f Noali Webster, and formerly pro­fessor o f rhetoric at Amherst, died Saturday night.

Mr. C. A . Zebuf has asked the Leg­islature to change his name to Charles Albert Burton, and they have agreed to do so.

A resolution was passed by the State Senate Tuesday soliciting from the President a cabinet appointment for John J. Bagiev.

The board o f supervisors o f Kent county have added $1,000 per year to the salary o f the prosecuting attorney under a contract that he shall attend to all the countv business, and pay the bills himself when it is necessary to employ assistant counsel.

The steamer Toronto, from Portland, lost l i head of cattle and 200 sheep on lu-r passage. The steamer Assyrian Monarch, from New Y ork for London, lost t'.l oxen overboard.

The number o f failures in the United in 15-75, were 7.740; in 1376, 9.032: in 1877. $.5-72: m 1$7$, 10.47$: in l$79, 6.05$: in is$o, 4,735. N othing better shows the prosperity o f the country. This year should reduce the number bv one-half.

STATE ITEMS.Kalamazoo has a telephone exchange.Hillsdale College accommodated 645

students the past year.The city on the lee, Saginaw Bay

contains 125 fisherman's shanties, and is ten or twelve miles from the shore.

A reward o f $125 is offered for the capture o f a thief who stole a horse in Allegan county*.

There were 240 marriages in Barry county in 1880. Six less than tiie year before.

The census shows that this State contains 27 Chinese, l Japanese, 7.301 Indians and half breeds, and l East Indian.

Hillsdale county Supervisors have fixed the salaries o f offices fo r that county as fo llow s: Prosecuting A ttor­ney, $900; Judge o f Probate, $1,200; Clerk and Treasurer, $S00.

The Ludington life-saving crew secured two men from a cake o f ice in Lake Michigan laSt week, who were trying to get ashore from a vessel which was fast in the ice 3)£ miles out.

A fifteen-year-old lad named Eisen- berg, o f Monterey, Allegan county, was thrown from a sled in which he had cltmed without leave, and striking on his head he received injuries o f which he has since died.

The Eree Press seems to think that D etroit has done with subsidizing the State Fair in order to keep it there, and advises it to go elsewhere i f it does not make enough to pay* its ex­penses in Detroit.

M m. Belden, aged 70, died the 15th inst., in Jamestown, Ottawa county, where he lias lived some years past. H e has always been understood there­abouts to he the stepfather o f Presi­dent-elect Garfield.

A gentleman representing some of the heirs o f persons lost on the steam­er Alpena was in the city Friday tak­ing counsel o f one o f our able law firms w ith a view o f instituting pro­ceedings against the Goodrich compa­n y to recover ^damages for the loss o f life . The heirs propose to jo in in mak­ing a test case, and have secured a large quantity o f pieces o f the rotten hull o f the A lpena and several life preservers as evidence o f the vessel’s unseaworthiness.— Grand Rapids Times.

Reading Notices.The three strongest and most relia

ble fire insurance companies doing business in the United States are rep­resented in this office. Carrying cheap insurance is like buying notes that can be bad at a large discount. A ll well enough until you want some money- on them. tf

Music hath charms to sooth the sav­age. Dr. Thomas' Eelectric Oil hath charms to sooth a cough, cold or sore throat, diphtheria, rheumatism, lame back. &e. Do you know anything o f it. i f not it is time you did. Sold by all druggists.

Old, T r ie d , nnd T ru e .Remember Dr. Guysott’s Y ellow

D ock and Sarsaparilla is not a new, untried compound. It has stood the test o f forty years’ use, and has proven itself to he the best vegetable com­pound ever discovered for curing scrof­ula, syphilitic disorders, skin and blood diseases, liver complaints, uri­nary troubles, etc.

Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Com­pound is a remarkable remedy* for all those painful complaints and weak­nesses so common to our best female population. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 "Western Avenue, Lynn. Mass., for pamphlets. 49w2

F or Sale .—80 acres of land within three miles o f this place, 65 acres im­proved, has a house and barn, and oth­er buildings, and one o f the best apple orchards in Buchanan township, good rich soil, will sell cheap or exchange for town property in Buchanan. Also 160 acres in Veesaw, 40 acres improv­ed, a good bank barn and house, also a good bearing orchard o f apoles and peaches. Eor terms and particulars inquire at this office. tf.

The Lion Malaria and Liver Pad.A C n r p fo r .S to H tftfb D is o r d e r * .

The prompt actiop, o f the Lion Ma­laria Pad and Body and Foot Plasters in changing the condition of the stom­ach and"correctingitsirregularities es­tablishes the fact that the cure o f dis­ease by absorption is in perfect con­cord with the laws of nature. I f you you have Indigestion, Consumption, or any Stomach disorder, try this remedy. The whole tieatment for one dollar. For sale by all druggists. 4Sml

A Cough, Cold or Sore 'ffiiroat should be stopped. Neglect frequently results in an incurable lung disease or Con­sumption. Brown’s Bronchial Troche’s are certain to give relief in Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, Consump­tive and Throat Disease. For eighty years the Troches have been recom­mend by physicians, and always give perfect satisfaction. They are not new or untried, but have been tested by wide and constant use for nearly an entire generation, they have at­tained well-merited rank among the few staple remedies o f the age. Public speakers and singers use them to clear and strengthen the voice. Sold at twenty-five cents a box everywhere.

H i n t s t o F a r m e r s .—Don’t let your horses be seen standing much at the tavern door, it don’t look right. Don’t be without Henry & Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment near at hand to ap- X>ly in case o f accident. Keep good fences—especially* line fences, it pro­motes good feelings among neighbors. Keep Downs’ E lixir always in the house, and use in cases o f sudden coughs, &c., as safe guide against con­sumption and other dangerous diseases. Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, taken ac­cording to directions, saves large ex­pense in doctor’s bills.

Tens o f thousands are suffering to-day from K idney complaint with­out knowing what it is that makes them feel depressed and miserable. Day*’s Kidney Pad is the remedy that w ill remove the cause o f your suffer­ings.

Twenty-First Annual Report------ OP THE—

F a r m e r s ’ M u t u a l F i r e I n s u r a n c e A s s o ­c ia t i o n o r B e r r i e n a n d C ass C o u n tie s , M ic h ig a n , s h o w in g t h e s t a n d in g o r s a id C o m p a n y D e c e m b e r 31 , 18 80 .

No of members in the Company................. 1,249New policies issued during the year......... 284Amount o f property at risk........................$1,732,430

RECEIPTS.Cash on hand Jan. 1,1883............................. $ 906.59Amount received from assessments............ 7,568.68

“ “ “ policy fees................ 9S.00“ “ “ Inereased and decreas­ed insurance and transfers............. 36.50

Borrowed money................ 2,400.00

Total Receipts....................... $11,009.77Assessments not collected.................. 878.17

EXPENDITURES.Amount paid for losses, of which $3,497.14

accrued in previous years................... $ 7,724.44Amount paid for officers . 527,60

“ “ “ printing and stationery. 72.29“ “ “ postage and express .'.. 121.53“ -‘ “ Attorney fees........ 25.00“ “ “ collection fees...... 198.83“ “ “ exchange „ 1.40“ “ “ overpaid assessments

returned................... 7.49“ “ “ Agricultural Society. . . 5.00“ “ “ office rent............. 5-00“ “ “ borrowed money and int. 2,203.23

Cash on hand to balance.................. 117.96

Total expenditures................................$11,009.77LIABILITIES.

Claims for losses d ue.......................................$175.00“ “ officers due___v ........................... 121.34“ “ borrowed money and interest... 648.00

Total liabilities.......................................... $944.34There have been six fires during the year, viz:

The dwelling and contents o fL . S. Gillette, o f Ber­trand township; loss $823.75. The ham and con­tents of Thomas Miles, o f Niles township; loss $481 00. The dwelling and contents o f John Vick- erman, o f Chickaming township; loss $750.00. The ham and contents o f J. & E. Butts, o f NileB town­ship, by lightning; loss 435.50. The dwelling and Contents o f j . B . Pomeroy, o f Three Oaks township; loss $1,350.00. The ham and contents o f Albert Clark, of Galien township, by lightning; loss $537-35. AJso, damage by fire to the dwelling and contents o f Albert Pierce, o f Weesaw township;IneeQO^nA

- ' ' JAMES BADGER, President.WM. HASLETT, Secretary,

a n n u a l e l e c t i o n ,The Annual Election o f the Farmers’ Mutual

Fire Insurance Association o f Berrien apd Cass Counties, will he held at the Secretary’s office the first Saturday in February, 1881, betwe'en the hours o f one and four P . 51., for the purpose Of electing one President, one Secretary and ten Directors.

WM. HASLETT, Secretary.

Estate o f Delos A . Cox, Deceased.First publication, 30tli December, 1880.

Of TATE OF MICHIGAN, Connlv o f Berrien.-ss. O Probate Court for said County. At a session of the Probate Court for said County, held at the Pro­bate Office, in the village o f Berrien Springs, on Monday, the 27th day ofDeeetnber, in the yearofnttr Lord one thousand eight hundred and civilly.

Present, A l e x a n d e r B . L eeds , Jrnlpe o(Tr«h:iu\In the matter o f the estate o f Delos A. Coy,

deceased.Jacob E. Miller, ouo o f the Executors of said es­

tate comes into Court and represents that they are now prepared to render their final account as such Executors.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Monday, the d4th day of January uext at ten o'clock in the forenoon, he assigned for examining mid allowing such ac­count, and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate*, are required to appear at a session o f said Court, then to be holdcu at the Probate office in the village of Berrien Springs, in said county, and show cause, it any there dc, why the said account should not be allowed: And it is further ordered, thar said Executors give nonce to the persons Interested in said estate, o f the pendency o f said account, and the hearing thereof, by causing u copy o f this order to be published in the Berrien County Record, a newspaper printed and circulating in said county, three successive weeks previous to said day bt hearing. *

[L S.J ALEXANDER B. LEEDS.(A true copy.) Judge o f Probate.

Last miblication 20th January, 1SS1.

For Catarrh,Hay Fever. Cold in the Head. Ac., insert with little finger, a particle o f the Balm i n t o t h e nostrils; draw strong breaths through the nose. It will be absorbed, cleansing, aud heal­ing t li c diseased membrane.For Deafness,

Occasionally apply a panicle into A back ot the ear. rubbing in thoroughly.

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The Berrien County Record: B uchanan, Michigan Thursday, January 20, 1881.

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iT'sasrootl thine: then'is plenty of snow to melt.

Cisco rK.ihu is heintr inJulsed in at St. Joseph .

Dr y cisterns are the cause o f gen­eral complaint just now.

T in ' pi!I-ho\ factory, or.ee a Kites institution, has gone to IVto-ky.

T in : youngest child of Clarence"White died Saturday afternoon o f con­gestion.

T h e whooping cough Is having a run among the children, on Fortage street.

The Niles Republican should have had one more “0” in the number of feet of side-track being built in this place, making it 3,000 instead of 300.

H e. a . B. Sabin has been consider­ably improving his ’bus by way of a new bottom, new paint and upholster­ing. Improvements that will be ap­preciated by tlie traveling public.

L o s t . — Between Buchanan and Howe's school house, Jan. 12, iSSi. a fur collar. Anyone finding it will please return to Mi's. S. E. Cadwell, Front street. Graham's brick house.

N iles proclaims herself out o f debt She evidently does not consider her $40,000 bonds recently voted, or the $ 1,200 raised for building a bridge across the river, debts.

The new law makes the taking o f a newspaper and then refusing to pay for it the same as theft, and several newspapers have commenced criminal proceedings against persons who have attempted to swindle them.— T-nia Sen- tin tl.

O n ; January thaw o f last Thursday caught a severe cold. There was a change o f OS degrees in the temp attire in Chicago Thursday night, going as low as eighteen below zero.

Me. Frank Brown, we learn, has gone to Fort Wayne, where he has found employment with his clarinet. Frank is a good musician and his friends will be pleased to learn o f bis success.

R egent Y an R iper o f this place is a member o f the committee o f Regents appointed to wait 1131011 the legislature to secure an appropriation for the pur­pose o f erecting a building for the I'n iversitv librarv.

The sleigh road between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor is run on the river and canal.

T he Hom e Mission Band will meet at J . F. Bartnore's. tti-morrow, at the usual hour.

Scotch turban caps are becoming quite fashionable among the ladies in tliis vicinity.

IsSl w ill contain fifty-three Satur- ! days, i f Mother Shipton's prophesy j doesn't com e true ’

William Hatfield, the fellow who was arrested in Chicago for being one o f those who attempted to rob La- pierre A Micks, has been sentenced to imprisonment in Jackson f<« fifteen years.

A bo et all the vacant lots in tow n are being filled with saw-logs, and more coming all o f the time. The mills run nights, but are nearly buried with work in spite o f that.

The legislature has been kept busy the past few days, with its large grist o f notaries public. The last lot con­tained forty-two for this county, only one o f whom. Mr. D. E. Ilinman, was fo r Buchanan.

I f yon haven't a bad cold yon are \ entirely out o f fashion. Nearly every- • bodv has 'em.

T he Berrien county jail is empty o f • prisoners for the first tim e in tw o 1 vears. :

They feel happy at the r. sl-.Ier.ee o f . M ilt. Fuller over the possession o f a fine girl baby.

Meetings are beh:g hi hi each even- ; ing this week in the M. E. ami Preshy- J terian chute he.-.

F or information on im einai im- provements inquire of Dr. Baker. He knows all about if. :

M r. Garret Morris has become able to be out once more, after a sick­ness o f eight weeks. j

M aste r J oseph Stephens, seven- yetr-old son o f Mr. Isom Stephens. Is very sick with the scarlet fever.

I f th e , nine or ten hoys who were playing about the ice on the race, yes­terday afternoon, had been in school instead o f running away fo r that pur­pose. it would have been more satis­factory to their parents, but not for the doctors.

New F irm .—W e learn that H. F. Kingery and W . $. How e have joined fortunes and w ill in a few days open out with a stock o f furniture in the Dempsey building, at the head o f Day's avenue. Success to the boys.

State papers are telling o f a man in this place named Sr. John, OP years o f age. who is going West to grow up with the country. Mr. St. John must have been growing old pretty fast late­ly. Ten years ago he was only 71.

T h e proprietors o f the $t. Joseph knitting works a lvertise fo r ten or fifteen more knitters immediately.

A subscription is being made to put up a telephone line between some bus­iness house on Front street and the depot.

M e . I ra L ong is teaching a class in penmanship In the old school building. Mr. Long displays a lot o f fine speci­mens in a fram e at the post-office, and ought to be o f great benefit to his class i f they make use o f the advantages.

T he Cass county Board o f Supervi­sors passed a resolution, censuring the Prosecuting Attorney o f that county for not notifying them that their Sher­iff hadsued the county .when they knew It as well as he did. and lienow retaliates by publishing a letter accusing them o f not knowing their own business.

M iss Sarah K ann. o f Dayton, lias j been very sick the past week, the j effect o f a long ride hi the extreme i cold.

Malan. the chap who was shot in the attempt to rob Lapierre and Micks, in Niles, gets ten years in Jackson as his reward.

Mr. Thomas IIayes, form erly o f this place, now In the dry goods busi­ness in Rankin. 111., is making Buchan­an a visit.

M r . IIosea Hamilton emptied hot ashes into their smoke-house, in Day- ton, one evening last week. The whole thing is ashes now.

Miss A bbie Spallding . o f this tow n­ship, was married last evening to Mr. Thomas Crandall, o f Joliet, 111., Rev. J. J. R oe officiating.

F armers and others who drive irongh town are specially requested > use the whip on every boy that imps on the sleigh to ride.

M r . H . D. B a d g l e y m oved his fam ­ily to Cassopolis yesterday, where he has the position o f agent fo r the M ich­igan Central Company.

T h e revival m eetings at the Mead seftool house, conducted by Eld G. W. W right are being conducted with a rising interest.

Cook very graciously gives the other papers In Niles the privilege of copy­ing items from his papers without credit, i f they change the phraseology, and in the same paper lias over a doz­en items taken from the Buchanan papers, without giving credit.

A b o e t thirty-six years ago Mr. J. D. Ross sold a saw-mill that he was running in this vicinity because he thought he had sawed up all the logs that were worth bothering with. One would think by the appearance of the mill-yards in this tow n now, that lie was probably mistaken.

There appears to be considerable complaint that the wheat crop in the eastern and central parts o f this State is injured by the ground being bare from snow,and hard freezing. In this vicinity there is no such difficulty* there having been, a good covering for the wheat during all o f our cold weather.

W e learn from the South Bend Tri­bune that Mr. George I. Blowers,of the firm o f W olverton & Blowers, who lately advertised in the R ecord as being in the tubular well business, has bought out Charley W olverton, his partner, and now manages thebusmess himself.

L ecttre for the boys, next Sab­bath afternoon, at S o’clock, in Kin- yon's Hall, on Billiards, Cards and Beer, by R ev . J. D . McCord.

The annual report of the Secretary of the Berrien County Mutual F ire In ­surance Company, o f the business of 18SD, appears in this paper.

Mr . M m. B est, who went from this place to the West several years ago* has returned, and we learn intends set* tling in Buchanan for his home.

A lad t from Lansing has rented the rooms in Ivin yon's building, for­m erly occupied by Dr. Slocum, fo r the purpose o f opening a millinery store.

Read this from Clinton county:"There is yet a prospect o f sleighing.

Snow_ began falling yesterday, w ith a promise o f something besides the ordi­nary 'squall.’ "

W e are receiving several orders for binding that we have done in a neat and substantial manner. I f any of our readers have any pamphlets or magazines that they wish to have hound they may have the work prompt ly attended to if they w ill bring it to this office.

Proposals for W ood.—Proposals will be received by the School Board o f Buchanan District No. l (graded) of Buchanan, up to noon, Monday, Jan. 81,1381, for 150 cords o f wood, three feet long—good sound body wood— beech and maple, or either, for the use o f said District. Sealed proposals may he addressed to the School Board, en­dorsed thereon, ‘‘Proposals for W ood.” The School Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

*L. P. A lexander, Director.

People who have property to in­sure should not forget that John G. Holmes represents the three strongest and best companies doing an insurance business in Am erica: The iEtna.Home, and Insurance Company of North America.

On e o f the series o f illustrated ser­mons, which- have been given by the pastor o f the Oak street church for several weeks past to large and atten­tive audiences, w ill be delivered next Sunday evening, at 7. Subject—"Fly­ing for Refuge.”

T he verdict o f the jury in the ease against A . D. Hicks for selling liquor to Charles McCoy, a minor, given as we were at press last week was "not gu ilty " Saturday Mr. n ick s had McCoy arrested for obtaining liquor under pre­tense o f being o f age, and took him to Niles for trial.

A l a r g e addition to our stock o f fine ruled papers, envelopes, card board and fine job papers has just been re­ceived, and w e are now betterprepared to furnish that kind o f work than we have ever been before. W e buy the best stock and propose to furnish only good work.

Dr. W aite of this place intends go­ing into the newspaper business in a short time, and has selected I.ogans- port. Iml.. as the location for his first attempt. There appears to be a good opening there, and onr best wish for the Doctor is that he may do well in his new venture.

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It is not often that we have a winter with more good sleighing than we have been having this winter nor one in which the sleighing is better used. One peculiarity however, is that while we have been having good sleighing al­most continuously since the middle o f November, by going twenty miles either way bare ground would be

und.

Wm. Rofgii, o f Buchanan, must have an enormous family, at least one would judge so i f the Buchanan R ec­ord can be relied on for veracity, for it says there were over 8,000 presents on the fam ily Christmas tree o f Wm. Rough .—Xiles Democrat.

Well, Doctor, don't know that we can swear to it, as we did not count the presents or members o f the fam­ily to see i f they tally.

A notable physician o f Boston wants a wife, and sends us about two colums and a half o f advertisement setting forth his wants. The trouble with liis proposition to us is that he does not want to pay for that much advertising. W e will preserve his letter and adver­tisement. and i f any o f our lady read­ers have longings in that direction, tliey may read them by calling at this office.

B y a resolution, the Board o f Super­visors in this county, at their last meet, ing. avow that the section o f the com­piled laws, which says that live stock o f no kind shall be allowed to run at large, shall be enforced in this county. We have been trying fo r some time to get our T illage Council to enforce that provision in tliis place, but now ttie Supervisors save them the trouble by doing so themselves.

W e have now learned why it is there is so much complaint of empty houses in Niles. The editor o f the Mirror says that his school tax alone has been increased ten dollars on the hundred (ten per cent.) during the last year. Our citizens should not complain with taxes at less than two per cent, for school, and all other purposes when compared with this showing o f the Mirror.

T he very many friends, in this city, o f the Rev. J. W . Robinson will bo pained to learn o f that good man's death, which occurred at his home near Ililliards. in Kent county, yesterday. Mr. Robinson was a pioneer in this section, having located in Cass county, with his parents, when a mere boy. He entered the Methodist ministry and was a faithful, able and zealous laborer in liis Master's service until a few months ago, when he retired to a farm some distance from Grand Rap­ids in the hope o f restoring impaired health. Mr. Robinson was Presiding Elder o f tliis District four years, and two years ago was sent to Grand Rap­ids, where he labored until his failing health necessitated his quitting the pulpit.— Xiles Republican, Jan. 13.

W e see that Senator M arshas pre­sented a petition to the legislature, signed by 20S citizens of Berrien county asking that a law be passed freeing all property o f churches and minis­ters in this State from taxation. The petition was refered to a committee and it is to be hoped that w ill be the last heard o f it. The laws o f the State already free the churches from taxa­tion on their property and with this they ought to be satisfied. But a short time since there was a move made for equal taxation o f church with other property and we are glad to say that this also failed, but an agitation of the present petition w illbe apt to have the opposite effect by renewing the other.

t h a t r a u m s c i tW e have, at some expense, secured

the follow ing interesting extract from the record o f the w ork o f the Super­visors during part o f two days, at a cost to the county of about $S0 pet- day, trying to comply with the law in regard to publishing their proceedings.I f the rest o f tiie proceedings for the year read anything like this part of them we think we understand why they do not went them published. It reads more like the play o f a lot o f boys than o f the work o f a gathering of wise law makers:

J a n e a r y 5 ,18S1.The Board of Supervisors of Berrien

County met pursuant to adjournment o f last evening. Upon a call o f the roll a quorum were found present.

Supervisor A lbert L. Drew offerred tlie follow ing resolution:

Resulted, By the Board o f Supervisors that the Clerk he and is hereby in­structed t o have the proceedings o f tliis Board published m some one o f the papers o f this comity in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided, and for that purpose lie give the respective papers a chance to bid for the- work, and to let the job to the party wlio w ill do it for the least mon­ey. W hich resolution was, on motion, adopted.

On motion o f J. W . 11. luster, the foregoing resolution was reconsidered, and Supervisor H ow lett offered the follow ing substitute:

Resolml, That the Clerk o f this Board be and he is hereby instructed to have the proceedings o f this body published in one o f the papers o f this county in compliance with the statute in such case made and provided.

W hich substitute was not adopted, and on motion o f E. L. Kingslaml the original m otion was laid upon the. table.

O11 motion o f Albert L. Drew tlie resolution was taken from the table, and Mr. Drew offered the following resolution as a substitute:

Resohed, That the County Clerk be and is hereby authorized to cause the proceedings o f the Board of Supervi­sors for the year 1880, as required by the statute. {0 be published in one of the county papers of Berrien county, who shall furnish each of the weekly papers in said county with 300 supple­ments containing the report above re­ferred to for tlie purpose o f distribu­tion by the several editors among their patrons. The work being let by the County Clerk to some responsible per­son who will do it for the least money, and when the work is done the County Clerk be and is hereby authorized to draw an order on tlie county treasurer for the contract price.

Rending the consideration o f which, Mr. H owiett offered the follow ing sub­stitute in the plaee o f the substitute offered:

Resohed, That the County Clerk he and is hereby authorized to cause to he published in the St. Jo. Traveler and Herald and the Niles Republican the proceedings of this Board as requir­ed by statute.

W hich resolution was adopted.[The statute does not require it to

he published in tw o papers.- -Ed . | THURSDAY, JAN. 6, lS S l .

The Board o f Supervisors o f Berrien county met pursuant to adjounment of laft evening. Saunders Y an Camp in the chair. Upon a call ox the roll a quorum were found present.

Mr. Chamberlain moved that the record be corrected in so far as relates to the fact recorded that the resolution o f Mr. Howlett in relation to printing carried. Motion lost.

Supervisor John M. Glavin moved that the name o f the Berrien Springs Journal he added to the resolution in relation to the printing o f the proceed­ings o f this Board, which did not pre­vail.

Supervisor Orson Ingolsbee moved to reconsider the vote heretofore had on the adoption o f the resolution in relation to the publication o f the pro­ceedings o f this Board. W hich motion prevailed.

Supervisor A . L. Drew then moved to rescind the vote heretofore taken m relation to the publication o f the proceedings o f the Board. W hich mo­tion prevailed.

Supervisor A. L. .Drew then moved the adoption of the resolution as offer­ed by him yesterday as a substitute for tlie substitute offered by Supervisor Howlett. W hich motion did not pre­vail.

Supervisor H owlett then moved the adoption o f the substitute as offered by him yesterday as a substitute for the original motion offered by Super­visor Drew.

Supervisor Edwards moved to amend by striking out the words “Niles Re­publican" and inserting the words “Niles Democrat.”

Supervisor Sterns moved an amend­ment to tlie amendment by striking out the words “Niles Democrat” and inserting the words “B em en Springs Journal.”

Tlie question occurring on the amend­ment to the amendment it was lost. The amendment was carried.

The question occurring upon the adoption o f tlie resolution o f Supervi­sor Howlett as amended, and the yeas and nays being demanded the resolu­tion was lost by the follow ing vote:

Yeas— A . L. Drew, N. E. Landon, Henry Stem, Philip Dewitt, A . II. Carl­ton, Ilenry Chamberlain, A . J. Norris.

7.Nays—S. L. Yan Camp, J. W . E. L is­

ter, -Tuan Gay, Charles F . Howe, D. H. Ullery, B. R. Sterns, E. L. Kingsland, J. M. Glavin, II. A . Edwards, J. Crock­er Brown, 0 . Ingolesbee.— l l .

Supervisor E. L . Kingsland offered the follow ing resolution:

Resohed, That the County Clerk be authorized to publish the proceedings o f the Board of Supervisors o f 1SS0, according to law, in any paper pub­lished in Berrien county, except the Buchanan Record and Berrien Springs Journal.

[He proposes that the job shall be let to tlie lowest bidder, but tlie R ecord and Journal shall not be allowed to bid. W hat have we done, Mr. Kings­land, to warrant this display of your intelligence (?) and that we should be ruled out ?— E d .]

Supervisor Brown moved to amend by striking out the words “ Berrien 'Springs Journal.” W hich amendment prevailed.

[Tliis^pian appears to like all o f tlie county papers pretty w ell excepting tlie R ecord .—E dJ

Mr. Chamberlain moved to amend by striking out tlie words, “Buchanan Recortl.” W hich amendment prevailed.

]V,£r. H ow lett moved to amend by striking out all after the word “ in” and

Glieese factory and put in machir for work as soon as it can This is a business that w ill brifig $ 20,-

Th e case against Charley McCoy in Niles turned out to he a rather peculiar affair. H e was arrested twice, and dismissed each tim e on account o f de­fects In the papers. Papers were issued fo r Ills third arrest hut before they could be served he made up his mind that sort o f thing was getting monoto­nous, and so made it a point to he out o f the way and they were not served. H e was in Buchanan again next day, apparently as liappv as ever.

OOO^or more into Buehamjjf’’each year, the entire recei pts ofJiWsestablisliment being eSpendedrTiere for labor and stock. This w ill furnish employment for, from ten to forty men, continuous­ly and add that much to tlie wealth and population o f the town. W e can not have too many such establishments here and we hope to see more o f them under headway ere long. W e learn that a man is already away looking after the purchase o f the machinery for this one.

[Riles Republican. |Nettie, a five-year-old child of Jas­

per Frye, accidentally sat down in a kettle o f boiling water, on Tuesday last, and was badly scalded, her thighs receiving the worst scalding.

I1K M S I 'K C H D A Y T O V .Jan. 10, lSSl.

The general health o f our town is good, and this, to a great extent, may be credited to our being blessed w ith a good man o f medicine. The doctor is a fine, genial fellow, is fu ll o f fun and life, and long may lie abide with us.

Sleighing is fine over here, and tlie mill company are just more than get­ting in the timber.

Tlie merchants, Johnson, Redden & Boyle, and Kern, are getting their shave o f trade from all tlie country around.

Our railroad agent, Stow, is alive, with I-Ienry and tlie night operator to look after their part.

Our grist mill has been all refitted with new wheel and other improve­ments, with Bough at tlie lookout and Iloffer at the wheel.

School still continues with a Buehan- anite for teacher.

A protracted effort here and at Mt. Zion is in progress with good results.

A lap soeial was held at G. Stryker’s last week, and a large crowd were out. A ll had a good time. Reporter.

^ * |M &IT E M S F R O M H IL L 'S CORN ERS.

Jan. 14,1881.Some o f the good people in our

midst are finding fault for the reason that H ill’s Corners is not represented in the columns o f the Record. Now, for one, I should like to see an article from tliis locality in the Record every week, stating how matters are, and how our merchants, lawyers, doctors, preachers, mechanics are getting along. [W rite ’em up.—Editor.]

Our school is progressing nicely, with W . J. -Tones manager, and lias the reputation of being the best school taught here for years.

The new store occupied by M . J. Hanover is running at full speed, and is doing the solid part o f the business in this place.

Our U. S. mail goes when tlie weath­er is fair and Billy has nothing else on hand.

Dayton says he expects we will have snow more or less all winter. W.

L ost—A note o f $100 given by Mrs. Isabel Knight and Mrs. Barbara Dragoo to E . L . Trevette, dated on or about June 30,1880, and due one year from date. A ll persons are warned not to purchase said note, as payment thereof has been stopped.

Moses L eGore.Buchanan, Jan. 5, lSSl. 4St3*I have for sale 104 acres o f good

farm ing land within one mile o f a M. C. depot. W ill sell it for $40 per acre, and w ill accept desirable village prop­erty in Buchanan as part payment.

J. G. IT o l m e s .

M o r e B usiness f o r B u c h a n a n .—A stock company consisting o f Messrs Wm. Pears, Geo. H. Richards, S- W.Redden, J. D. Ross, A . F . Ross and Wm Osborn, lias been formed under the name o f the Excelsior Manufacturing Company of Buchanan, for the purpose o f manufacturing Excelsior in thisplace. They will erect a building suit- „td in g1h e words “ St. Joseph Repnbli- able for the purpose, about 30x50 feet Jfcan,” which amendment did not pre-dii the vacent lot next north of ther vail.

Mr. Henry Chamberlain moved that the consideration o f the resolution be indefinitely postponed, which motion prevailed.

This man proposes to indefinitely postpone what the law says they shall do, directly in violation o f the laws he is sworn to enforce. W e venture the assertion that there is not a publisher in the county but would gladly do the work for half o f the cost to the county o f this lot o f nonsense.

Mr s . T r a v is , teacher o f Instrumen­tal and Y ocal Music. Also, agent for Pianos, Organs and Sheet Music. Hav­ing an extensive acquaintance with leading dealers and manufacturers, most satisfactory arrangements can be made with parties who desire to purchase at low prices or on .easy terms,. 50tf

COUNTY PRESS.[Niles Mirror.]

J. B. Millard, o f Three Rivers, has purchased o f the dam company $ 11,000 worth o f stock, which, w ith the inter- terest lie had before, gives him control, and matters will boom ere long. Mr. Millard is a man o f means, and means business.

[Benton Harbor Palladium.]Tlie railroad is a tiling o f the future.

A n unknown quantity___ Tlie trusteeso f the M. E. Church propose to provide against accidents. They have insured the church for $4,000 and “w ill add to this as soon as the furniture is in.

[Berrien Springs Journal.]The Board o f Supervisors o f Cass

county ordered their proceedings and financial statement printed in one Re­publican and one Democrat paper of tlie county at the rate of tbirty-centsper fo l io -----Thursday noon the wood-bowl factory at tliis place, near the bridge, belonging to and operated by Geo. Carothers, was discovered to be on fire, and in half an hour was totally destroyed, not a thing being saved. The value o f the building was nomi­nal, but the material, manusactured goods, machinery, boiler and engine, will probably entail a loss o f some­where near $1,500. N o insurance. Mr. Carotliers wlio had all liis capital in­vested in the mill, has tlie sympathyo f the community___ The suit o f thesteamer Dr. Hanley against Oronoko and Berrien townships, for damages alleged on account o f the bridge across the St. Joseph river at this place, was decided in the. United States Court against the steamboat. Theodore G. Beaver, Esq., was tlie attorney for tlie townships. The decision of the court proves that the township author­ities wasted money in raising the bridge last fall on the demand o f the Mav Graham.

Tlie M idwinter (February) Scribner lias always been a special number, as rich as the choicest literary matter and the m ost beautiful wood engrav­ings can make it. Of last year’s mid­winter number tlie London Times said: “It is a really magnificent triumph of American pictorial art and literary genius.” Tlie English publisher of Scribner has telegraphed for 17,000 copies o f the present number,— an ad­vance of 6,000 upon his orders last year, and the largest edition of an American magazine ever sent to Eng­land:—in fact, it is said to be larger than the monthly sales of any English magazine. The American edition of Scribner has grown during 18 SO about 20,000 copies.

Locals.

Coffee and Su- F u l t o n ' s .

The Excelsior Manufacturing Company want to buy 1,000 or 1,500 cords of Basswood Bolts for cash. Ask S. W. Redden for par­ticulars.

\Ye will, after one week from this date, give our accounts into an officer’s hands for collection.

Yours respectfully,• D r . E . S. D odd & S on.

Jan. 20, 1881.FARM ERS, if you want a good

Harness don’ t, fail to see Stephens’ work.

Do not forget that Mrs Dunning is selling her stock of Millinery Goods at cost, to make room for spring styles.

B oom at Fulton’s on Syrup.A large stock of Coffee cheaper

than ever, at Barmore mio&VCall at A . 0. Stephens’ and see

his fine strings of Sleigh Bells, AT COST. . ^

A s k for Noodles, at K in y o n ’ s .

Just received a Lot of Gent’s fine Black suits in all sizes, at -

W e a v e r & Co.N ew goods at Fulton’s this week.A. C. Stephens, opposite hotel,

will sell Bells apd Blankets AT COST to close out.

Something fnew in Glass Sets,at B armore Bros’ .

Lowest prices on gar, at

Everybody says the kicker 5 is the best Cigar in town.

B armore Bros.OVERCOATS at, Cost for the

next Thirty Days, at Noble’s.A good set of teeth for from $5

to by Dr. Minefield, Buchanan.Celery every day in the week at

Km yon sFEATH ERS 1 F E A T H E R S !To arrive at High a. Best you

ever saw.Cash Wins—No Credit—but very

low prices, at K inyon'b.ALL LINES of W INTER

GOODS at LOW PRICES, atNobles’ .

. Call and interview Chas., at No­bles, for prices.

You will find the bottom price first at Iliglis.

Please fork over wbat you owe S. & W. W. Smith and oblige.

Holiday goeds all gone and a large stock of Crockery and Glass­ware instead, at Kinyon’s. Prices away down.

BARGAIN S ! B A R G A IN S ! in Highs Remnant Box. It will pay you to look in it.■ 1700 Rolls Wall Paper Arrived

at High’s Wednesday, and DON'T YOU FORGET THAT.

Money to Loan on easy terms with good security. Enquire at News Depot.

Come in and see How, Nice High’s Look with White Ceiling.

Try Weston’s Condition Powders, Best in market, lib for 25c.

Millinery goods AT COST, at Mrs. Dunning’s.

You will find bargains at Highs, as they are going to invoice.

You will find Eargaius in High’s Remnant Box very cheap,

Go to High's audget your Christ­mas present.

1,800 Rolls o f Wall Paper arriv­ed at High’s, last M ONDAY AND ‘ •DON’T YOU FORGET IT .”

Our usual fine o f H ose at 10, 12J, 15, 20, 25 and 30cts. aro B ar gains, only at ’ H ig h ’ s .

Large fine of French Candies, at Morris’ .

I f the feathers are not satisfac tory , you can return and get your m oney. H ig h ,

Foreign fruits are kept on sale at Morris’ .

Germantown at High's only 8ct. per ounce.

Best 5c cigar in town, at Weston’s Drug Store.

Fresh Oysters every day, atBarmore B ros’ .

$2.50 will buy the best Spring Bed made. 140 springs. Call and see. E. A. S m it h , Main St.

The Boss 50c Tea, at S m it h ’s .

A new stock of Stationery, A l­bums and Blank Books, at Weston’s Drug store.

Be sure and buy some of those splendid Spring Bede before it is too late. I am closing out and sell­ing cheap. Only $2.50 for the best Bed made. 140 springs. Call anc see. E. A. Smith* Main, St.

Call at Rough Bros’ hardware for Heating or Cook Stoves.

The best Cigar in the nqarket is Batmore’s Favorite. Try offe. 5 ct.

F armers, I am prepared to insure your buildings, giving you a policy covering damages from lightning, whether fire occurs or not, and give you permit to use thrashing machine, without extra charge. Call and see.

John G. Holmes, Agpnt.Change.— I have moved my

Boot and Shoe business into the Tremont building, first door north of meat market, where I am prepar­ed to do all work in my line and guarantee satisfaction in every res­pect. I have, and will keep, a good assortment of men’s and boys’ ready made boots. Bring in your repair­ing and have it neatly done. Charg­es reasonable. W m . P owers.

10,000 Hickory Hoop Poles wanted, for which the highest mar­ket price will be paid.

47w3 J. V. V oorhees.

Mrs. Dunning has a few Pattern Hats that she will sell at a bargain. Call and see them.

New stock of Glassware, atSmith ’s.

Ladies Rubber Gloves, at Wes­ton’s Drug Store.

Buy Wall Paper at Fulton’s.We have another large sfcook of

Crockery and Glassware to Sell cheap, as usual. Barmore B ros.

A good String op B ells for $1. at Stephens’ .

Don’ t buy any Groceries, Crock ery, or Glassware until you get prices at Kinyon’s. Everything away down this year.

Ladies & Gentlemen:L et us lift our hats and bow our

compliments to you for the large trade with which you favored us during the Holidays, and wishing you all a hap­py New Y ear, assure you that in the future, as in the past, we shall be pleased to supply you with Drugs, Dye Stuffs, Patent Medicines, Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Toilet Articles, Per­fumery, in fact all goods kept in a First-Class Drug Store.

Kespectfdlly Y ours,

Dr. E. 8. Dodd & Son,

Dunning is sell- Winter Hats AT

to make room for Spring

L adies.— Mrs ing her stock ofCOSTgoods.

When visiting Niles, if you have any old jewelry, take it to J. Crock­er Brown, one door east of the Cit­izens’ National Bank, with W. G. Blish, and have it worked over into new.

All kinds of builders materials at Rough Bros’ , hardware.

Headquarters for Paints and Oils at Rough Bros’ , hardware

All kinds of builders’ supplies at Rough Bros’ , hardware.

Powers keeps the Celebrated Walker Boots.

Oysters by the gal., at Barmore Bros.

qt. or can,

Headquarters for cultery of all kinds, at Rough Brother’s Hard­ware.

SCISSORS and SHEARS, at ROUGH B R O ’S.

Mrs. Whitman wishes to announce that she has the agency in this place for the Victor, Reminington and New Howe sowing machines, three of the beat in the market and thinks she is prepared to please any one in need of a first class sewing machine. Nice for a holiday present. 43 w3

Fine Toilet Sets, at Rough Bro’s. Hardware.

I f you want to keep you r feet warm, get a pair o f wool-lined boots at . W m . P ow ers ’ .

Remember we still eat people at our Lunch Room.

B a r m o r e B r o s .

Come and see our new stock of Majolica Ware. It sells readily.

B a r m o r e B r o s .

A PRESENT. BEATTIFU L AND DURABLE.

J. S. Tuttle, Niles, Mich., man­ufactures Mink Furs, Muffs and Hats. Old furs refined und made over.

I have the selling o f several farms, ranging from 15 to 100 acres, .and in price from $700 to $5,000, and o f a number o f desirable bouses and lots in this place, ranging in price from $500 to $7,000, and am prepared to ac­commodate any class of customer.

John G. H olmes.Opinions.

The nakedness o f this indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings o f tlie vain “ Goldsmith.”

.Sufferers from disordered Stomach, Biliousness, etc., c a n . be cured by Spring Blossom. “Foster, Milburn & Co.,” .Buffalo. Price, 50 cents, and trial bottles 10 cents. W. A . Severson.

There is a general complaint that while prices of commodities have in­creased in some cases fifty per cent, wages have not advanced anywhere near in the same porportion. M e know o f no complaint in the shape of a cough, cold, sore throat, rheumatism or nuraligia that Dr. Thomas’ Eclec- tric Oil will not immediately relieve. Sold by all druggists.

I cheerfully add my testimony to the value o f E ljr’s Cream Balm, as a specific in the case o f my sister who had ben seriously debilitated with ca­tarrh fo r eight years, having tried in- effectuaHy other remedies and several specialty doctors in Boston. She im­proved at once under this discovery, and regained her health and hearing, which had been considered incurable. Robert W . Merrill, Secretary o f the Pheoenix Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich,

The past has done much for human­ity, hut still more remains to he learn­ed. The average o f human life, among the most enlightened nations instead o f being threescore years and ten is less than twelve years. There are sev­eral causes for this excessive mortali­ty. To increase the average o f human life and lessen the tendency to suicide, we present to tlie public Dr. Bosanko’s Rheumatic Cure and Dr. Bosanko’s Pile Remedy.

In one week E ly’s Cream Balm open­ed a passage in one nostril, through which I had not breathed in three years, subdued an inflammation in my head and throat, and relieved a dry cough which was the result o f catarrh. Col. O. M. Neilliay, Owego, N. Y .

E ch oes.There are few voices in tlie world, bu

many echoes,There are few, i f any, medicines in the

world that are better for Billiousness, Indigestion or Sick Head­

ache than Spring Blossom.Price, 50 cents, and trial bottles 10

cents. W . A . Severson.Jabesli Snow, Gunning Cove, N. S.,

w rites: “I was completely prostrated witli tlie asthma, but hearing o f Dr. Thomas’ E electric Oil, I procured a bottle, and it did me so much good that I got another, and before it xvas used I was well. M y son was cured of a bad cold by tlie use of half a bot­tle. It goes like wild-fire, and makes cures wherever it is used Sold by all druggists.

T h e F rien d o f D elica te L a d les .

Marner’s Sate Kidney ai:(l Liver Cure is the remedy that will cure the many diseases peculiar to women. Headaches, neuralgia, disordered nerves, weakness, mental shocks and kindred ailments are effectually re­moved by its use.— The Mothers’ Maga­zine. 42 m3

A G rand R ep u tation -

Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has reached a reputation that is not limited by the confines o f section or country. There are no injurious substances, nor false and temporary stimulants in the preparation. It is purely vegetable, and compounded un­der a form ula that has passed severe tests, and won endorsements from some o f the highest medical talent in the country.— Xew York World.

42m3A B a c h e lo r .

Free from satiety care and anxiety, charms in variety fall in his share,

Bacchus’ Blisses and Yeuus’ kisses, this, hoys, this is the bachelor’s fato,

But when Indigestion assails, and you cannot get rest,

M ho hut w ife can administer Spring Blossom best.Price, 50 cents, and trial bottles 10

cents. M . A . Severson.T o T h e A fflicted ,

Since the introduction of Kellogg’s Co­lumbian Oil it has made more permanent cures and given better satisfaction on Kid­ney Complaints and Rheumatism than any known remedy. Its continued series of won derful cures in all climates has made it Known as a safe and reliable agent to em­ploy against ail aches and .pains, which are the forerunners of more serious disorders. It acts speedily and surely, always relieving suffering and often saving iife. The protec­tion it affords by its timely use on rheuma­tism, kidney affection, and all aches and pains, wounds, cramping pains, cholera mor­bus, diarrhoea, coughs, colds, catarrh, and disorders among children, makes it an inval­uable remedy to be kept always on hand in every home. No person can afford to be without it, and those who hate once used it never wili. It is absolutely certain in its remedial effects, and will always cure when cures are possible.

Call atD. Weston's'and get a memorandum book giving more full details of the curative properties of this wonderful medicine.

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Interest 7 Per Cent.S IX S t W ILKINSON,

50w4 Berrien Springe, M ich.

P LAIN and FANCY JOB PRINTING promptly executed aYthe IRECORD OFFICE.

F o r X li ir ty Y e a r s .F o r thirty years M istar’s Balsam o f

M ild Cherry has been kept fo r sale by druggists generally, and in all that time there has not been a single com plaint made, but on the contrary the druggists and the people acknowledge it to be the best remedy fo r th e cure o f Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Bron­chitis, Asthma, and all Lung Diseases.

On e o f the finest homes, a lot o f fif­teen acres with good buildings, an ex­cellent well, good orchard, and in one of the most pleasant situations in Ber­rien county, within one mile o f the bank in this plaee, can he bought at a reasonable price and on easy terms at this office. Call fo r particulars i f you mean business and want just such a home. t f

A good fruit farm of 100 acres near the Lake Shore, in the St. Joseph fruit region, can be bought at this office fo r $15 per acre cash. There is a good orchard o f apple and peach trees, a good bank barn and fair house on tlie place. A bargain for any one who wants to make fruit-raising a business.T lie V o lta ic B e l t C o., M a rsh a ll, M ic h .

W ill send their celebrated Electro- Y olta ic Belts to the afflicted upon 30 days trial. Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what they say. W rite to them without delay. I9 tf

W ow is tb e T im e .Don’t wait until you are nearly dead

and bed-ridden. Don’t wait until you have found, to your sorrow, that m in­eral poisons and alcoholic stimulants, hitters, etc., will only agravate diseas­es o f the blood, kidneys and liver. But now, before another day passes, make haste to procure and use Dr. Guysott’s Y ellow D ock and Sarsapa­rilla. I t never fa ils to cure all blood and skin diseases, all liver complaints and urinary troubles.

A lo t with a good frame house, situ­ated in a pleasant part o f this plaee, can he bought at a bargain by apply­ing at this office. Terms very easy and price exceedingly low.

A Q ueer N o tio n .Many people think it cheaper to buy

25 cent sizes o f a proprietary medicine. But they make a mistake. F or in­stance, Dr. M istar’s Balsam o f M ild Cherry contains about eight times the quantity o f ordinary 25 cent cough balsams. Besides it takes a less quan­tity o f Mistar’s Balsam to cure a cold. A single dose is often sufficient. F or deep seated Golds and Consumption it has proven itself to he the best and quickest cure ever discovered.

D on ’ tM a k e a M ista k e ,W hy will you use salves and lotions,

and other outward applications for the cure o f skin diseases? The re­lie f thus obtained can only be tempo­rary. W hy not strike at tbe root o f all skin diseases by getting your blood and liver in a healthy, vigorous condi­tion? This can only be done effective­ly and thoroughly by the use o f Dr. Guysott’s Y ellow D ock and Sarsapa­rilla.

M oth ers J M o t h e r s !! M oth ers ; 11A re you disturbed at night and

broke o f your rest by a sick child suf­fering and crying with the excruciat­ing pain o f cutting teeth? I f so, go at once and get a bottle o f Mrs. W in­slow’s Soothing Syrup. I t w ill relieve the poor little sufferer immediately— depend upon i t ; there is no mistake about it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever used it, who wifi not tell you at once that it will regu­late the bowels, and give rest to the mother, and relief and health to the child, operating like magic. I t is per­fectly safe to use in all cases, and pleas­ant to the taste, and is the prescrip­tion o f one o f the oldest and best fe­male physicians and nurses in the United States. Sold everywhere. 25 cents a bottle. 42yl

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specialty o f Epilepsy, has without doubt treated and cured more cases than any other living physi­cian. His success haB simply been astonishing; wc have heard ol cases o f over 20 years’ standing, successfully cured by Mm. He has published a valuable work on this disease, vvMch he sends with a largo bottle of wonderful cure free to any sufferer who may send their express and P. O. address. We advise anyone wishing a cure to address Dr. AB» MESEROLE, No. 96 John st., New York.

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Berrien - County ^Record: Buchanan, ' Michigan, January 20, 1881,Observation.

No line can be drawn between common, knowledge o f tMngs and, seientificknowl- edge, not between common reasoning and scientific reasoning. In strictness all ac­curate knowledge is science, and all exact reasoning is scientific reasoning. The method of observation and experiment in which such great results are obtained in science is identically the same as thatwhich is employed by eyerv one every

------- ' ’ redday of his life, but refined and rendere< precise. I f a child acquires a new toy, he observes its characters and experi­ments upon its properties, and we are all constantly making observations and experiments upon one tiling or another. But those who have never tried to ob­serve accurately, will be surprised to find how difficult a business it is. There is not one person in a hundred who can de­scribe the commonest occurrence with even an approach to accuracy. That is to say, either he will omit something whidi did oceur and which is of import­ance, or he will imply or suggest the oc­currence of something which he did not actually observe, but which, he uncon­sciously infers must have happened. "When two truthful witnesses contradict one another in a court of justice, it usually turns out that one or the other, or some­times both, are confounding their infer­ences from what they saw with that which thev actually saw. A swears that B picked his pocket. It turns out that all that A knows is that he felt a hand in his poeket when B was close to him, and that B was not the thief, but C, whom he did not observe. Untrained observers mix up together their inferences from what they see with that which they act­ually see" in the most wonderful way, and even experienced and careful observers are in constant danger of falling into the same error. Scientific- observation is such as is at once full, precise and free from unconscious inference.—Professor Hurley.

Seven Troys.The famous archaeologist, Sebliemann,

wrote from Athens to a Bussian paper, as follow s: “ I have just returned from Asia Minor, where I have at last finished that digging out of Troy which I began in 1870. During ten years I have strug­gled with. great difficulties, among whichthe most troublesome has been the largeamount of debris under which the an­cient city was buried. I t has been neces­sary to dig down and dig up the ground for more than sixteen yards below the surface. But I am fully recompensed for all my trouble. I found the remains of seven different cities; the last of them was the Ilion o f Homer. That city was built by the iEolians, banished from Greece by the Dorians in the eleventh century before our era. In one of the buried cities I found many statues of Minerva with the owl's head, whence her name of Glaucopis. In another city were found many images o f the di­vinities. But the most interesting and important of all the discov­eries is,, of course, the city of E n g P riam. Every article found in the ruins of that city bears unmistakable signs of having been destroyed by fire and in tuna of war. There were discovered many remains of human bodies in full armor. I dug out and cleared away the debris from the entire wall that sur­rounded the cify. and also from all the principal buildings. Now I am finishing a large volume in English describing with full details all my discoveries, and containing 200 illnstrations of the most important of the discoveries. M y Trojan collection is now in London, but at the end o f this year I shall take it to my villa in Athens, whieh is fire­proof, built only of marble and iron. I have received large offers for my collec­tion from the United States, England, Prance and Germany, but I cannot part with it for any money in the world.”

Popular Ideas o f t ie Cross.In the "West of England there is a tra­

dition that the cross was firmed of the mistletoe, which before that event used to be a fine forest tree, but has since been doomed to lead a parasitical exist­ence. The gypsies believe that it was made of the ash tree. The nails used at the crucifietion, said to have been found by Helena, are reported to have worked many miracles. One of them was thrown by her into the Adriatic during a storm, and produced a perfect calm. Another placed in the crown or helm of Constantine, was found in a mutilated state in the Church of Santa Croce. The third is said to be in the possession of Duomo of Milan, while that of Treves claims the fourth. In the time of Char­lemagne a new relic was discovered in the shape o f a sponge soaked in the blood of Christ. In Cheshire the Arum maeulafitm is called “ Gethsemane,” because it is said to Lave been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have re­ceived some drops of blood ou its petals. The dirpe of Mamre died at the orucifie- tion! “ Christ’s thorn*' is a very com­mon plant in Palestine. In Scotland it was formerly believed that the dwarf birch is stunted in growth because the rods with which Christ was scourged were made from it. These are the popu­lar ideas of the material of the cross, some of which will, perhaps, never be entirely obliterated until the last great day, when “ all things shall be mad* plain. ” —All the Year-Round.

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TYliat to Say.Say “ Iw ould rather walk,” and not

“ I had rather walk.'*Say “ I doubt not that I shall,”

not “ but I shall.”Say ‘ ‘for you and me,” and not

you and I .”Say “ whether I be present or not,”

and not “ present or no.”Say ‘ ‘not that I know, ” and not ‘ ‘that

I know of.”Say “ return it to me,” and not “ re­

turn it back to me. ”Say “ I seldom see him,” and not “ sel­

dom or ever see Mm.”Say “ fewer friends,” and not “ less

friends.”Say “ if I mistake not,” and not “ if I

am not mistaken.”Say “ game is plentiful,” and not “ is

plenty.”Say “ I am weak in comparison with,

you,” and not “ to you.”Say “ it rains very fast, ” and not “ very

hard.”Say “ in its primitive sense,” and not

“ primary sense.”Say “ he was noted for his violence,”

and not “ he was a man notorious for violence.”

Say “ thus much is true,” audnot “ tMs much, is true.”

Say “ I lifted it,” and not “ I lifted it up.” *

And last, but not the least, say “ I take my paper, and pay for it in ad­vance.”

What Is N ickel!Since the convenient five cent coin

which in common talk is called “ a nickel,” has come into general circula tion, the question above is asked, eifliei mentally or orally, hundreds of times every day, and but few get nix intelligent answer. In China and India, a white copper, called pack-tong, has long been known and has been extensively used both there and in Europe for counterfeit­ing silver coin. About the year 1700 a peculiar ore was discovered in the copper mines o f Saxony whieh had the appear­ance of being very rieli, but in smelting, it yielded no copper, and the miners called it kupfer-nickel, or false copper. In 1751, Cronstadt aunounced the dis­covery of a new metal in kupfer-nickel, to wlnc-h he gave the name of nickel. It was in combination with arsenic from whieh he could relieve it only in part The alloy of nickel and arsenic which he obtained was white, brittle, very hard and had a moltiug point nearly as high as cast-iron. It was not until 1823 that pure nickel was obtained by analysis of German silver which had for a number of years, been produced at Suhlin Saxony. Its composition was ascertained to be copper 10 parts, zinc 5, and nickel 4. If more nickel be used the alloy is as white as silver and susceptible of a very high polish, but becomes too brittle and hard to be hammered or rolled, and can be worked only by casting. Pure nickel is a white metal with a tarnish readily in the air. Unlike silver, it is not acted on bv the vapor of sulphur, and even the strong mineral acids attract it but slightly. Nickel has the hardness of iron and like it, lias strong inagnetio I r parties, but cannot be welded aud is soldered with difficulty. Pure nickel lias heretofore been used chiefly for plating, for wMeh purpose its hardness aud power to resist atmospheric influ­ences. admirably adapt it. 'Within the last year, the French have succeeded in rolling tile metal into plates from wMdi spoons and other table furniture may be pressed. Nickel bronze, which consists of equal parts of copper and nickel, with a little tin, may be east into very delicate forms, and is susceptible of a Mgh polish. Mines of nickel are worked at Chatham, Conn., aud Lancaster. Pa., and it is said to he found at Mine Le Motte, Mo., and at several points in Colorado, and New Mexico, where but little attention is paid to it. It is extensively mined in Saxony aud in Sweden, but the late discovery of a uew ore (a silicate of nickel! in New Caledonia will probably supersede all the other ones. The inexhaustible supply of this ore, the ease with which it can he smelted and the richness of the ore will probably suspend the use of the arsenical ores, and yet bring nickel into common use. Switzerland, in the year 1852, made a coin of German silver, wMeh is identical in composition with our nickel coin. The United States made nickel cents in 1858, aud eight years later, coined the five cent pieces. Belgium adopted nickel coinage iu 1860 and'- Germany in 1873. England has lately coined nickel pennies for Jamaica, but at home she and France adhere to the clumsy copper small change

Buoyancy o f Water.Another terrib’ e steamboat slaughter !

Presence of mind and a slight knowl­edge of the specific gravity of the human body would have saved much of this frightful loss of life. There was loose wood enough about the boat to have floated ten times the number of passen­gers on the ill-fated vessel, if it had been used with judgment. The human body weighs about a pound in the water, and a single chan- will carry two grown per­sons. That is, it will keep their heads above water, which is all that is neces­sary when it is a question of life or death. The burning vessel was close to shore, the water was calm and warm, and all these passengers might easily have jumped overboard and paddled laughing ashore, if they had only possessed and used the simple knowledge that one fin­ger placed upon a stool, or a chair, or a small box, or a piece of board, would easily keep the head above water, while the two feet and the other hand might be used as paddles to propel toward the shore. It is not at all necessary to know how to swim to be able to keep from drowning in this way. A little experi­ence of the buoyant power of matter, and faith in it, is all that is required. We have seen a small boy who could not swim a stroke propel himself back and forth across a deep, wide pond by means of a board that would not sustain five

Eounds. In fact, that sometime small oy is now writing this. Children and

all others should have practice in the sustaining power of water. In nine cases out of ten the knowl­edge that what will sustain a pound weight is all that is necessary to keep one’s head above water will serve better iu emergencies than the greatest expertness as a swimmer. A person un­familiar with the buoyant power of water will naturally try to climb on top of the floating object on which he tries to save himself. I f it is large enough that is all right. But it is generally not large enough, and half of a struggling group axe often drowned in the desperate

How to Boil and Stew.To do either properly the food must

be immersed at the beginning in actu­ally boiling water, and the water must be allowed to reach the boiling point again immediately, and to boil for five minutes. The action of the boiling water upon the surface o f either meat or veget­ables is to harden, it slightly, but enough to prevent the escape o f either juice or mineral salts. After the pot containing the food has begun to boil the second time, it should be removed to the side of the fire and allowed to simmer until it is done. This simmering or stewing ex­tracts all the nutritions qualities of either meat or vegetables. The pot should be "kept closely covered unless for a moment when it is necessary to remove the Scum. The steam will condense upon the inside of the cover, and fall back into the pot in. drops of moisture, i f the boiling is slow. Do not think that rapid boiling cooks faster than the gentle process I recommend. After the pot once boils you cannot make its con­tents cook any faster if you have fire enough under it to run a steam engine. Remember if yon boil meat hard and fast it will be tough and tasteless, and most of its goodness will go up the chim­ney or out of the window with the steam.

“ I o n l y want to show yon one thing more, professor; I have invented a short way of boring mountains, which I think will prove valuable.” “ M y dear sir,” burst forth the wearied listener, “ if you would only invent a short method of. boring individuals, yon would indeed confer ft lasting benefit upon the race.”

scramble of a life-and-death struggle toclimb on top of a piece of wreck or other floating object, not large enough to I jeep them all entirely above the water. This often happens when pleasure boato cap­size. All immediately want to get out of the water on top of the overturned or half-filled boat, and all are drowned ex­cept those whom the wrecked craft will wholly bear up. I f they would simply trust the water to sustain ninety-nine hundredths of the weight of their bodies, and the disabled boat the other hun­dredth, they might all be saved under most circumstances. An o v e r tu rn e d or water-filled wooden boat will sustain more people than it will carry. It would keep the heads above water of as many people as could get their hands on the gunwale. These are simple facts, easily learned, and may some day save your life.— Trenton (_BT. J.j Gazette.

A Nice Infant,Infancy has its privileges. A woman

was arrested in Presburg, Hungary, for receiving stolen goods. She was by birth a Jewess, but six months previous to her detection had been baptized in a the Boman Catholic Church. "When put on trial she pleaded that she was no infant, and could not, therefore, beheld answerable for what she had done—the date of birtli in Hungary running ac­cording to the date of baptism—aud after serious cogitation the tribunal declared the defense a good one, and that she, a woman of 40, was legally but 6 months old, with a score of years before her which she might turn to dishonest ac­count with impunity.— Chambers' Jour­nal.

W. H. TALBOT, M A C H I N I S T .

’ Hallucination o f the Senses.Professor Maudsley remarks, in a re-

cont lecture, that one striking feature observed by medical men who have had cases of hallucination under their charge is that the patients cannot be convinced that the objects they see, the sounds they hear, and the smells they perceive, have no real existence, aud that the sensations they receive are the result of their excited nerves. It frequently hap­pens, too, that a person who suffers from hallucination in respect of one sense lias the others unaffected, and is, on all other matters, perfectly normal. Hallucina­tion may arise either from an idea on whieh the mind has dwelt, appearing as something exterior, or from excitement of the sensory ganglia. It is said that Newton, Hunter, and some others of equal professional eminence, could, at will, picture forms to themselves till they appeared to lie realities.

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About Leeches.They live from fifty to 100 years, and

are sometimes even older than that. Most of the leeches used by medical men of this country are brought from Northern and Northwestern Europe, where they abound in the swamp lands in great numbers. They are imported to this country by Dr. White, who lives in Rhode Island, and who has great purging ponds,where he prepares the dis­gusting little creatures for the market. Cleveland dealers get their supplies from him and from wholesale houses in New York city. There are two or three firms in this city who wholesale them. Tney sell during a single year to the small drug stores and the physicians through­out the city not less than 2,000 leeches. They bring a price of about §1 per dozen, and are easily and cheaply kept in supply. The American leech is found in parts of Mississippi and Pennsylvania, but for bleeding purposes are considered worthless, the foreign, or rather the Swedish leeeh being the best and conse­quently the highest priced. At Bordeaux, France, is an immense piece o! swamp land, where the leeches are captured by the million. Here there are large num­bers of aged andinfirm horses and cattle, brought thither from the surrounding cities. These animals are driven into the swamps, the leeches fasten them­selves on the beasts in great numbers, the animals again reach dry land, and the leeches are gathered from their bodies, packed in rich, black earth, and skipped to this country. Not less than 20,000 horses were engaged in this won­derful business during last year alone. The leech itself is a queer creature. It taxes an entire year for it to digest a

. meal, and if properly taken care of it will five wonderfully long with nothing to eat. But they are very delicate, nevertheless, and are often afflicted with diseases peculiar to the leech. Among these afflictions is a fatal skin disease, which often carries off large numbers before its ravages can be stopped.— Cleveland Press.

Cathartic FillsC om bine the choicest cathartic principles iu m edicine, in proportions accurately ad­ju sted to secure activity , certainty, and un iform ity o f effect. T h ey are the result o f years o f careful study and pract ical ex ­perim ent, and arc the m ost effectual rem ­ed y yet d iscovered fo r diseases caused by derangem ent o f the stom ach, liver, and bow els, w h ich require prom pt an d effectual treatm ent. A y e r ’ s 1’ ilt.s are specia lly applicable to this class o f diseases. T h ey act d irectly ou the d igestive an d assimi­lative processes, and restore regular h ea lth y action. T h eir exten sive use b y physicians iu their practice, and b y all civ ilized nations, is on e o f the m any proofs o f their value as a safe, sure, and p erfectly reliable purgative m edicine. B eing 'com pounded o f the concentrated virtues o f purely vegetable substances, they are positively free from calom el or any in jurious properties, and can b e adm in­istered to ch ildren w ith nerfeet safety.

A y e r ’s P il ls are an effectual euro for Constipation or Costiveness, Indiges­tion, Dyspepsia, Loss o f Appetite, F ou l Stom ach and B reath , Dizziness, Headache, Loss o f M em ory, Numbness, B iliousness, Jaundice, Rheum atism , Eruptions a n d Skin Diseases, D ropsy, Tum ors, W orm s, Neuralgia, Colic, Gripes, Diarrhoea, D ysentery, G out, Piles, D isorders o f the L iver, and all other diseases resulting from a disordered state of the digestive apparatus.

A s a D inner P ill they have n o equal. W h ile gentle in their action, these PrLLS

are the m ost thorough and searching cathar­tic that can be em ployed , and never give pain unless the bow els are inflam ed, and then their influence is healing. T h ey stim u­late the appetite and d igestive organs: they operate to purify and enrich the b lood, and impart renew ed health and vigor to the w hole system .

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chitis, Asthma, Consumption,And A ll IMscaacs o r T H K O A T and I.H X G S.

Put up in Quart-Size Bottles for Family Use.Scientific llv prepared of Balsam Tolu. Crystallized

Rock Candy, Old Rye, and other tonics. The Formula is known to our best physicians, is highly commended by them, and the analysis of our most prominent cnemist, Prof. G A , M ARINER, in Chicago, is on the label of every battle. It is well known to the medical profession that TOLU ROCK and R YE will afford the greatest relief for C-onghE, Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, AYeak Lungs, also Consumption, in the in­cident and advanced stices.„ Used as a BEVERAGE and APPETIZER, it makesa ae’.j-htful tonic for family use. Is pleasant to take; if

or debilitated, it gives tone, activity and strength to th«» whoV Inman ft? me.

( P A l T H n i D O N T B E D E C E I V E D V• by unprincipled deal- \

ers who try to palm off upon you Bock and Rye in a place of our TOLU ROCK AND RYE, which is | the only medicated article made t.V genuine h*iv- g ing a GOVERNMENT STAMP on each bottle .^

L A W R E N C E M A R T IN , P r o p r lc t o n , 1 1 1 M a d b a n S tr e e t . C hicago.

fci? 1 A slc y o u r D n i s z ^ t fo r I t !A « k y o u r G r o c e r fn r i t !

y o u r W in e .U ere h n n t Tor I t ! C aUdven, a » k v o u r fo r i t !

C ^ S o ld h r D R r G G W T S , G R O C E R S and W l X E M E E C H A A T S e v e r y w h e r e . *

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A pedagogue told one of his scholars, a son of the Emerald Isle, to spell hostility. “ H-o-r-s-e, horse,” com­menced Pat. “ Not horse-tility,” said the teacher; “ hut hoss-tility.” “ Sure,” replied Pat, “ an* didn’t ye tell me, only the other day, not to say boss ? Faith! it’s -wan thing wid ye one day, and an­other the nixt.” _

N O T I C E .

S o u t h B e n d ,

Have the facilities for selling

goods cheaper than any one that

has not a similar system. W e

are selling goods cheap now.

sell goods cheap all the time

W e

W ill you call when in South

Bend and see the cheapest goods

m the market, and the largest

stock in each department we ever

have shown ?

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S e t hPopular Monthly Monthly Drawing o f the

OommoD wealth Distribi tionCoA t WACATTX/EX S T H E A T R E ,

In the City o f Louisville, onM ON DAY* JA N . 31 ,1881 .

The*© drawings occur monthly (Sundays except­ed) under provisions ol an A ct o f the General As* ernbly o f Kentucky, incorporating the Newport

Printing and Newspapar Co., approved April ff,j p ^ T m s IS A SPECIAL ACT, AND HAS NEVER BEEN

KEEN RE PE ALA D.The United States Circuit Court ou March 33 ren­

dered the following decisions:1st—-Th at t h e Com m on w ealth D istribution

Co m pan y is l e g a l .2d— Its d r a w in g s a r e f a ir .

The Compauy has now on hand a large reserve fund. Read, the list or prizes tor the *

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Express. Don’ t send by ltcgietcrcd Letter or Post- oflicc Order. Orders of $5 and upward, by Express, ran lie sent at our expense.

Address all orders to 11. 5f. BOARDJfAN, Cour-t- ____i v*..siji__ r ........... - — rr-- m tiei-vTournal Building, L ou isville , Ky ., or T. J.COMMERFOKD, 212 Broadway, N e w Y o r k .

os that cause pains in the lower part o f the body- for Torpid Liver—Headaches—Jaundice—Dizzi­ness. Gravel, Malaria, and all difficulties o f the Kidneys, Liver, and Urinary Organs. For Female Diseases, Monthly Menstruations, and during Pregnancy, it has no equal. It restores the organs that make the blood, aud hence is the best Blood Purifier. It is the. only known remedy that cures Buigut’s D isease For Diabetes, use ^Varner 's Safe D iabetes Cure.

For sale by Druggists and Dealers at S I .2 5 per bottle Largest bottle in the market. Try it.

Dr. T. Clarence PriceH A S

VISITED NILEST W E N T Y Y EA R S.

JJASm et with unprecedented success in the treatment of all

Chronic DiseasesOF TEDS

THROAT, LUNGS,

HEARTSTOMACH

LIVER.Head, nerves, kidneys, bladder, womb, and blood. Affections oftho urinary organs, gravel, scrofula,

The acid B lood is the p rim ary cause and sustaining pow er o f Rheumatism. W here there is A lk a li there can be n o Rheumatism. The “ DR. BOSANKO RHEUMATIC CURE,” is a chem ica lly prepared A lkaline, neutralizing tile a c id ity and rem ov in g ch ron ic inflamma­tion b y absorption . I t is n o t claim ed that the cure is a panacea fo r a lon g catalogue o f d is­eases, like m any others, b u t fo r Rheum atism an d L am e B ack a lone it is a sovereign rem e­dy. P rice 75 cents.V 3 T T I D S ! ( d r . b o s a n k o ’S p i l e" X J j J C i S • REM EDY has been tried ,

tested, and p rov ed to be an in fa llib le rem edy fo r the cure o f all k inds o f P iles. P rice 50 cents. F or sale b y W . A . SEVERSON, B uchan­an, M ich 27vl

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SUCH o f our readers as desire steady omploy- ............................ " ’ ’ ”ment, or valuable reading matter cheap, should

address T H E F B A W K L 1 3 S L IE P U B L IS H - I X O CO.. 15 D e y S treet. N e w Y o r k . They will send TnE F a m il y J ou rn al (an Illustrated lit­erary and tashion paper) for three months for SO cents, or chibs o f four, for three months, for $1.00, together with a valuable book containing over ISO pages o f neefnl information for the million. To each subscriber Samples and Illustrated Catalogue will be sent on receipt o f 6 cents in stamps.

Bespeotfully yours,L . D. JENNINGS.

A £V1 fi? A competent business man in etch WV # % l «l 1 CSt&J county in the U. S. to sell thewVyclopedla of Thing* Worth Knowing” by subscription. To inch men. with good references, we furnish the outfit free, and rive terms that will Intnrv a worker over $IOO n month. A.Un*s INTERNATIONAL I*LB. COuBox 2482.St. Louis Mo-

THE BERRIEN COUNTY RECORD

n m i r n u n u n i i p rS T E A M Hi

i m i l i m u iiu u l j lThe Larges! in Mfestern M ie n

- A N D T H E -

Otily Steam Printing Office in Berrien Comity

Our M achinery is o f the m ost approved and host m ake, anil our fa cilities for turning on First-Class W ork are unsurpassed in this section.

I M F

Remember, a sharp razor and a light hand take the cake.

Books,Pamphlets,

Catalogues,Price Lists,

Posters,Iland-Bills,

Programmes,Sale Bills,

Circulars,Show Cards,

Business Cards, Ball Tickets,

Envelopes, Statements,

Lawyers’ Blanks,Justices’ Blanks,

Pal. Medicine Labels.W edding Invitations,

Lawyers’ Briefs,Blank Notes,

Blank Receipts,Blank Orders,

Druggists’ Blanks, Box Labels,

Bill Heads, Letter Heads,

Note Heads, Banners,

In Fact Anything in the Printing Line, Give Us a GallA nd le t us show you what w e can d o for you .

Kidney1 PAD

T H E B E R R I E N COUNTY RECORDIs the best, and g ives the MOST LOCAL NEWS, o f any p ap er In the Comity.

Terms:—$1.50 per Year; Six Months 75c; Four Months50c.

J. G. HOLMES, Publisher.

TAKE NOTICE! LOOK HERE!BSZS&g

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AT THE POST OFFICE

N e w s D e p o tYOU MAY SEE A NICE LINE OF

SI. IS, POCKET USEAnd n large assortment of

Juvenile Books & Pamphlets.You would do well to call and examine before

buying.G* R> H A L L ,

P ost O ffice B u ild in g .

FOUND AT LA S T !

THE BEST ORGANS

IN T H E MARKET.

F . S C H R A Y & C O .B U C H A N A N , H 1 C U . ,

Are manufacturing Organs that cannot fail to *mt tbe finest musical ear. All who M*e and hear them pronounce them grand. u All oram* o f our manufacture

WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS.355^Do not tail to sec them before buying.

J. J. EOE, Gen. Agent.

B i g g i n s & H a v e n e rHave fitted up a neat little

BARBER SHOPOver Morris’ Restaurant, where you can always find them with smiling laces ready to wait oil their customers. It being off the street it makes it con­venient for the Lady customers, whom they cordi­ally invite to call.

Our Motto.—D o'Yimto! others ns you wish, to be done by.

When e’ er you wish an easy shave,As good as o Barber ever gave,Just call on us at our saloon At morn or eve, or busy noon.We cut and dress tbe hair with grace,To please the customer and suit the face.Our shop is neat, our towels clean,Razors sharp aud scissors keen.To make both ends meet we cannot trust, For when we do we are sure to bust.We work for cash and give satisfaction,And make yon have a different complexion. So with all our art. and skill can do,I f you’ll just call wu’U do for you.

R espectfully Youna,C. C. DIGGINS,

36tf W. II. HAVENER.

MRS. DR. DUTTON,ELECTRICIAN,

W ould recpectfu lly announce to the citizens o f Buchanan and v icin ity , that, having re- turned from Chicago, where she has been re­ce iv in g a thorough course o f ins m otion in the treatment o f diseases b y electricity, she is prepared to g iv e attention to all w ho may need her serv ices .

txiiuLuuuc vituu uiiiiiu t vi^aub) dviuiuiu,rheumatism, catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, dyspepsia, <fcc.

Dr. Price’s reputation has been acquired candid, honest dealing and years of successful practice.

Mv practice, not one o f experiment, but founded on the laws o f Nature, with years o f experience and evidence to sustain it, does "not tear down, make sick to make well; no harsh treatment, no trifling, no flattering. W e know the cause and the remedy needed, no guess work, but knowledge gained b i years o f experience in the treatment o f Chronic dis eases exclusively; no encouragement withott a prospect. Candid in our opinion, reasonable In our charges, claim not to know everything, or to cure everybody, bnt do claim to reason and common sense. We invite the sick, no matter what their ailment, to call, investigate before tbev abandon hope, make interrogation and decide for themselves. It will cost nothing, as consultation Is free. Visits made 'regularly.

Dr. V. Clarence Price can be consulted at Niles, Bond House, Saturday the 12th o f March. At Laporte, Ind., Myers House, on Saturday, the 12th o f February, and Saturday, the 9th o f April.

Patients will address all letters to Dr. V. Clarence Price, Wankcgan, 111., with stamp.

Old papers-for sale-at thiB office

Piles, Rheumatism, Ner­vous Debility, Headache,

A nd all sim ilar diseases

Successfully Treated.Special attention p a id to

INSURANCE.The undersigned now renresenis the following

Insurance companies in Buchanan and vicinity:

Aetna,Home,

Phenix,Underwriters,

Niagara,North America,

Detroit Fire & Marine, British Amerie"

and Manhattan.Special attention given to Insuring farm property.

Call nt the Record office, Buchanan, Mich.

JOHN G. HOLMES, Agen.

N. H. DOW NS’VEGETABLE BALSAfoliO

E L I X

F e m a le D ise a se s .

Prompt Attention Paid to All Cases,C A L L A N D S E E .

Front treat Buchanan, Michigan

To Nervous Sufferers.—The Great E u­ropean Remedy.—Dr. J. B . Simpson’s Specific Medicine.

It is a. positive cure for Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness, Impotency and all diseases resulting from Sell-Abuse,as Mental Anxi­ety,Loss o f Mem ory, P a i n s in Back or side,and Diseases t h a t leadtoConsump tion, I n s a n i t y & an early grave. The S p e c i f i cMedicine is being nsed with wonderful success.

Pamphlets sent free to all. Write for them and get fall particulars. Price, Spec’ fie, $1.00 per pack­age, or six packages for $5.00. Lldress all orders to

J. B. SIMPSON’ S MEDICINE CO.,S9y No. 108 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y .

OPIUMand M ORPHINE habit abso­lutely and speedily cored. Pain­less. No publicity. Send stamp for fttll particulars. Dr CarUoo 203 S. Clark St„ Chicago, Ilk

Is a sure cure for Coughs, Colds, i Whooping-Cough, and all Lung j Diseases, when taken in season.People die o f consumption simp- j

ly because o f neglect, when the £ timely use of this remedy would | have cured them at once.

F if& y -o m e y e a r s o f con­stant use proves the fact that no j cough remedy has stood the test | like i i o w n s ’ E l i x i r .

Price ode. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle.For Sale Evciy where.

D r . B axter’s M andrake

Will cure Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, Indigestion, and all diseases arising from Bil­iousness. Price 25 cts. per bottle.

For Sale Everywhere.

H E N R Y &> JOH NSON’SARNICA AND OIL

ILINIME.NTIF o r Jflan. a n d J S easl.

[The most perfect liiiiment everS j compounded. Price 25c. and 50c. [

For Sale Everywhere.

$ 5 0 0 R e w a r d ?WE will pay the above reward for any case of

Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Indi­gestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot cure with West’ s Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly complied with. They are purely Vegetable, and neveriail to give satisfaction. Sugar coated. Large boxes, coutaiulng SO Fills, 25 cents. For sale by all druggists. Beware of coun­terfeits and Imitations. The genuinemanufacturcd only by JOHN C. WEST & CO., “ The Pill Mak­ers,” 181 & 183 W. Madison St., Chicago. Free trial package sent by mail prepaid on receipt o f a 3 cent stamp.

A discovery which cures hr tlie natural process, ABSORPTION

all diseases o f flic K idneys, B ladder, Urinary Organs and Nervous System, when nothing elseeun. It is com fortable to tlie patient, pos­itive in its fleets, and the first euro fo r those painlul mid m uch <!' ended affections iM .-b . _1 ...Mt K r i a l i t ’ s ’ ) w hile it cures OfGravel, D ropsy, Catarrh o f the B ladder, Brick- dust, Deposit, 1'ahmil Urinating, High Color­ed t vine, Nervous W eakness and Pain in the Back seem m ore like m iracles than cases o f natural healing.

DELICATE FEMALESor v ictim s 01 wasted or prostrated energies, caused l»y irregular liabits, the abuse, o f nature, anil m ental or physical over-exertion , find tlioir greatest roller in the use Of DAY’S KID­NEY l’ AI), which strengthens and invigorates the invalid ami restores the. v igor o f health.

PAIN IN THE BACK.» 0 say positively and without fear o f contra­diction, that DAY’S KIDNEY PAD is the on ly pertain ami perm anent cure fo r every form o t this prevalent am i distressing com plaint.

' YOUNG MEN.Hunernig from nervous am i physical debility, loss o f m em ory, or vita lity im paired b y the errors o f youth or too close application to bu>iness o r w ork, m a y b e restored and m an- nood regained.

A void all k idney m edicines whieh are taken into the system liy w ay-o f the stom ach ; it is an old treatm ent well tried and proven ineffi­cient, though som etim es effecting apparent cures o f one com plaint they sow the seeds of m ore troublesom e and perm anent disorders. The price o f our L’ AI) brings it w ithin the reach o f all. audi t w ill annually save m any tim es its cost in doctors bills, m edicines and plasters, which at host give but tem porary relief. It can he used w ithout four or harm , and

certainty o f a perm anent care. F or sawith certainty o f a perm anent care. F or sale by druggists generally, or sent b v m ail ifree ol postage) <m receipt o f the price. Regular Pad, $2.ot*. Child's Pad fo r incontinence o f urine in children . $1 5*; Special extra size ,

0». Our b ook , “ H ow a L ife was Saved, y giv­in g a history o f th isn ew discoveryand a large record o f m ost rem arkable cutes sent free. W rite fo r it. A ddress, P A Y H I D 5 B X P A » C O . T ot4M ?o. O .P AHTIFiM Owing to the m any w orthless U A U ! K i l l . K idney Pads now seek ing a sale on ou r reputation, w e deem it. due the afflicted to warn them . A sk fo r P A Y S K IIW VE Y PA T), and take no oilier. 2ffy

Children

CRYF O R

Pitcher’sOastoria.

M oth ors lik o , and. P h ysician s recom m en d it.

IT IS NOT NARCOTIC.

C E H T A IJ K L T X I M E X T S : t l ie TTorltl’ s g r e a t P a ia -K e lie v ii ig re m e d ie s - T J ie y h ca l, s o o th e a n d cu r e B u rn s ,W o u n tls , W e a lcB a e h a n d l ih e a m a t is m ui>03i 31 an , a n d F y ra ia s , G a lls , a n d L a m c- iic .’s u p o n B e a s ts . C heap , a n d re lia b le .

ASK the recovered A - - - S D y s p e p t i c s , BilioustX— ____h Sufferers, Victims of

Fever and Ague, the Mercurial Diseased Patient, how they re* covered Healih,ckeer- fnl Spirit!* and Good Appetite— they will Tell you by taking

Sim m ons L iv e r R e g u la to rFor DYSPEPSIA. CONSTIPATION. Jaundice, Bilhm* attacks. S ick H e ad ach e , Colic. Depression o f Spirit <. Pont S tomach . Heart Burn. «fce.,

I r H A S N O i d F A L ,Tin* unrivalled Southern Kemedv is warranted

not to contain a single parrieal o f Mniu rn\, or any injurious mineial substance, hut is

P Y R E L T V E « E T A B L E I f you feel drowsy, debilitated, hate jieijnent head­ache, mouth tastes hndly, poor appetite and tongue coated, you are suffering from torpid liver or “ hil- ion«nesA.~ and nothing will cure you so speedily and permanently as to t ake

S im m o n s I r iv e r R **s;n1ator.It Ij* given with safety aud the happiest results to

the mos«t delicate infant. It takes the place o fquinine and bitters o f every kind. It is the cheap ost, purest and best family mcdic-uc in the world.J . IT. Z E l I i lN fO . ,P ls l la C e l| ih ia ,P a .

SOLD BY ALL DBCGGISTS. fiy

MRS. LYQiA I. PiNKHAM.OF LYNN, M ASS.

DISCOVERER OF

LYD IA E. RS\3KHAfyi’SVEGETABLE COMPOUND,

The Positive Cure

For all Female Complaints.This preparation, as its name signifies, consists of

Vegetable Properties that are harmless to the most del* icate invalid. Upon one trial the merits o f this Com pound will bo recognized, as relief is immediate; and when its usois continued, in ninety-nine casesln aliun. dred, apcrmanontcurois effected,os thousands will tes­tify. On account of its proven merits, itisto-dayre- commended and prescribed by the best physicians in the country.

It will cure entirely tho worst form of falling of the uterus, Leucorrhcea, irregular and painful Menstruation, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation aud Ulceration, Floodings, oil Displacements and the con­sequent spinal weakness, and is especially adapted to the Change of Life. It will dissolve and expel tumors from the utcrusin an early stage of development. The tendency to cancerous humors there is checked very speedily by its use.

In fact it has proved to bo the greatt- est and best remedy that has ever been discover­ed. It permeates every portion of the system, and gives new lifeand vigor. It removes faintness,flatulency, de­stroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach

Itcurcs Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi­gestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by its use. It willat all times, and underall circumstoc ces, act in harmony with the law that gpverns tht femalesystem.

For Kidney Complaints o f either sex this compound is unsurpassed.

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable CompoundIs prepared at233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price ShOtL Six bottles for $5.00. Sent by mail in the form of pills, also in the form o f Lozenges, on receipt of price, SL00, per box, for either. Mrs. PINKHAM freely answers all letters o f inquiry. Send for pam­phlet. Address as above mention this paper.

No family sbouldbe without LYDIA E. PINKHAM* LIVER PILLS. They cure Constipation, Biliousness and Torpidity of the liver. 55 cents per box. MORRISON, PLUMMER & GO., Chicago, HI-

H ealth is W ealth !D r . E. C. AVest ' s ^ ehv .e a n d B u a ix T jieat ient ,

a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Ner vous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss oi Memo* rvj Spermatorrhoea, Impotency, Involuntary Emis­sions, Premature Old Age, caused by over-exertion, self-abuse, or over-indulgence, which leads to mis­ery. decay and death. One box will cure recent cases. Each box contains one mouth's treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes for five dollars; sentbv mail prepaid on receipt of price. We guarantee sfx boxes to cure any case. With each order re­ceived by us lor six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return thcm oucyif the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued by Daniel Weston, sole authorized agent for Buchanan, Mich. JOII*S 6. WEST & CO., Sole Proprietors, 181 & 183 W. Madison St., Chicago, IU. Frizelle & Co., Detroit, Mich., Morrison, Plummer & Co., Chicago, IU., wholesale agents. lflyl

P E N S I O N SProcured for nil soldiers disabled in tho TJ. S. ser­vice from any cause, also for heirs o f deceased sol­diers. The slightest disability entitles to pension. PE N SIO N S IN C R E A S E D . Bounty and new discharges procured. Those in doubt as to whether entitled to anything, should send two 3- cent stamps for our “ circular o f Information.” A d ­dress, with Stamps, Stoddakd & Co., Solicitors o f Claims and Patents, Hoorn 8, St. Cloud Bjiilding, ■Washington, D. 0. '44m2*

Surpiiscd to Death.Old Jolm Morris, aLittle Dock negro,

hit upon the idea of Tanner anti-bilious pills, compounded, ashe declared, accord­ing to a recipe obtained of the long faster. He sold some to a -woman -who died soon after taking them. John -was arrested and taken to the court, -where the following dialogue took place : “ Where did you get the medicine you gave the woman? ” “ I made hit from d’rections sent ter me l>y Dr. Tanner.” “ What are its component parts?” “ Hit’s made outen roots from the groim’ and leaves frum de trees. Does yer wanter buy a bottle, Jedge?” “ Ho, sir, I don’t. The charge against you is a serious one. What made your medicine kill the -woman?” “ Why, Jedge, de medicine didn’t kill the ’ oman.” “ What killed her? ” “ Why, Jedge, d e ’oman died ob de surprise. Ter see she had been taltin’ eberything in the medical market an’ hit didn’t do her no good. She ditlu’ hah much confidence in my medicine, and when she luck hit an’ foun’ that hit went right ter wurk fl-avin’ at the corners oh de biliousness, hit sur­prised de ’oman to death. Ter can’t hole a man for surprisin’ anybody to death. E f I come an’ tells you a good piece ob news, an’ yon falls dead, de law can’t hold me ’sponsible. An’ ’cordin ter de same ’stonomy, if I gins a woman a dose ob medicine and hit surprise’ her ter death, de law can’t put de clamps on me.” The Justice is considering the points of John’s argument, hut John is still in iaiL

The Sad Passenger.“ Once, over these boundless prairies,”

the sad passenger said, “ over these prairies—” “ They call them ‘prurries’ over in Indiana,” the fat passenger said. “ And down in Illinois,” said the cross passenger, “ they call them ‘perarries.” “ And up in Michigan,” the brakeman said, “ they call them ‘pairs.’ ” “ And down, in Kentucky,” the man on the wood-bos remarked, “ they call them ‘pernrs.’ ” “ Well, anyhow,” the sad passenger resumed, “ once over these plains—” ‘ ‘Tou said ‘prairies’ before,”said the passenger ndth the sandygoate& “ Tes, and started a very proiound philological discussion by it. Weil, once over these verdant prairies—” “ The first time,” said the cross passen­ger, “ yon said ‘boundless prairies.’ ” “ Well, then, over these boundless prai­ries once—” “ Only once ?” asked the fat passenger. The sad passenger sighed, but went o n : “ Once tlie painted In­dian roamed—” “ What for?” croaked the woman who talks bass. And the sad passenger went into his shell, and said he would tell that story yet if he had to hire a hall to toll it in.

4Ssop as a Reporter.The first mention made in ancient his­

tory of the crab is by one iEsop, who was a Greek newspaper man, and who lived about the year 600 B. O. Like the man who stuffed the ballot-box, he is much involved in a great deal of ob­scurity. iEsop heard the paternal an­cestor of a promising young crab, who was inclined to associate with fast horses and the like, give the latter some good advice. Said the old crab : “ M y son,you are bringing disgrace cn the* fami­ly. Ton run around too much, and have contracted bad habits. Ton must walk straight from now on.” “ Perhaps I will, governor, if yon will only manage to keep out of the saloons yourself.” The elder crab grew pensive, and, hav­ing resolved on reformation, never again was seen to enter a saloon through the front door. iEsop says heaetually over­heard the foregoing conversation, which only goes to show what kind of a news­paper man iEsop really was. Unfortu­nately, there was no stenographer pres­ent, so iEsop can pahn off ns many fa­bles as he })leases on the public.— Galveston Heics.

Privacy. '|jA worthy wife ol forty years’ standings

aud whose life was not made up of sun­shine and peace, pave the following* sensible and-impressive advice to a mar? ried pair of her acquaintance. The adi vice is good : “ Preserve sacredly thaj privacies of your own house, your mai-1 ried state of your heart. L et no fatherl or mother, sister or brother ever pre-| sump, to come between you two, or to | share your joys and sorrows that belong | to you two alone. Build your quiet k world, not allowing your dearest earthly f Mend to he the confidant of aught that t concerns your domestic happiness. Let moments of alienation, if they occur, be healed at once. Never, no never, speak of it outside, hut each other confess, and all will come out right. Never let the morrow’s sun find you at variance. Beview and renew your vow—it will do you good ; and hereby your souls will grow togetlier, cemented in that love which is stronger than death, and you will become truly one.”

A City Bnilt o f Shells.Perhaps you do not know that the

city of Paris is built mostly of shells,the cast-off houses of uncounted mill­ions of little creatures. Each shell is not as big as a millet seed, and the lit­tle creatures lived in them ages ago. There were so many of them in the sea that they settled into real mountains became cemented together, and now the mountains of shells form the quarries where most of the Paris building stone is procured. The shells are shaped like that of a snail, and are so plentiful in the Paris stone that one (cubic) inch is said to contain 58,000 of them. Besides this they are found all over the world, not only in stone, hut in the sands on the shore.

A L L S O R T S .

Tou mustn’t think a dentist is mad be­cause you cateb him grinding his teeth.

A m a n who fights a duel in the South is ever afterward dubbed a “ majah.”

It is on record in the United States Court in New Orleans that a negro in Grant parish fasted sixty days.

S omebody has observed that farmers have learned that it takes the best of soil to raise a mortgage.

A woman who has four sons, all sail­ors, compares herself with a year, be­cause she has four seasons.—Kokomo Tribune.

Act one, tliey meet as in a pleasant dream;Act two, he’ll treat to soda and ice-cream;Act three, his cash, alas! is nearly played;Act four, his girl grows cold, sedate and staid;Act five, just as bis love is ripe and yellow,His girl is ‘porting with another follow.

W hat is the difference between a le­gal document and a cat ? One baa pauses at the end of its clauses, and the other has claws- es at the m d of its paws-es.

A s a t ir e should expose nothing bnt ■what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that ate and those that are not the proper objects of it.—Addison.

Seven doctors gathered around a man who fell on the walk. Four called it a cake of sunstroke, and the other three said it was a fit. Along came a small boy and proved it was banana peeL

F a t h e r H G e ttin g W e ll .M y daughters say, “H ow m uch bet­

te r lather is since he used H op B it­ters.” H e is getting w ell a fter his long suffering from a disease declared incurable, and w e are so glad that he used vour Bitters.—A lady o f Roches­ter, N . Y .

A c l e r g y m a n ’ s wife had impressed upon her little hoy Hie necessity of ejecting the skins of grapes, and a few days afterward she told him the story of Jonah and the whale. “ The whale is a very large monster,” said the mother, “ and he swallowed Jonah." “ D id he swallow other men, too ?” asked the lit­tle boy. “ Well, I suppose he did,” continued the mother, who was some­what in doubt; and, while she was hesi­tating about the continuation of the story, the hoy interrupted, “ And, mam­ma, did he spit the skins out, too ?”

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