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There Will Be Many Pleasant, Days Before the Snow Falls. At the MUue time, the raw ness of the air in the morning and evening is liable to star4 yon wheezing and barking. Perhaps you think you dare neglect a cough at this season. It never pays to neglect health. Nature never forgive or for gets. v COLLINS' BRONCHIAL ELIXIR Sooths, Heals, Cure. Twenty-five Cants. Will E. Collins & Co., DRUG MEN, 11S North Washington St. THE OWOSSO TlSlES. TEN PAGES. EDMUND O. DEWEY, Editor. OWOSSO, FRIDAY, OCT. 22. 1897. Charles A Dana, of the New York Sun, the best known bik) undoubtedly the ablest editor In the 1'i.ited States, died Sunday, aged 78 years. Ho was one of the really great men of the nation. Geo. T. Mason will retire on January 1st from the office of county drain commission er with a record not excelled by any com missioner in tb.e state. Bis knowledge of dram lawn, his fairness, and the impartial discbarge of every duty, has made him a model commissioner. There is no longer any doubt that the "money power" of Europe dominates this country. The "power" has been sending gold into the United States, through New York, San Francisco, New Orleans and other ports, until we now have a gold cir culation of 850,000,000 in excess of that of a year ago. with a total circulation nearly 5100.000,000 larger then a year ago. This foreign "power" is evidently determined to ruin us, if possible, by dumping a lot of gold In on us in exchange for our wheat, corn, meat, and other products. The business men of this country are again exerting themselves In thoee states where the silver issue has come into promi nence in the fall's campaign. The remark able aligning of the business forces of the country against the campaign o anarchy and repudiation of last year showed that business n.m were fully alive to the death blow which was being aimed at them by the Bryar.ites, and their present activity in certain states attests that they are deter mined to lend their active efforts to cam paigns as long as there is any vitality left in the free,Fllver fallacy. A couple of months ago the free traders looked complacently at the large exporta tion of manufactures under the Wilson law, and were only waiting to point exult lngly to the falling off of these exportation under the new law. It seems, however, that they were wrong, as usual. The first month of the operations of the Dlrgley law showed a larger exportation of manu factured articles than for any corresponding month of preceding years. So much for their statements thr.t the enactment of a protective revenue law would cut off our market abroad for American manufactures Why do Messrs. Bryan, Towne et al, con tinue to stand afar off and discuss silver in "low tones?" Do they not know that the day of election is coming and that they have many stumps in Ohio from which they most yet speak to fulfil their pledges? The farmers of Ohio are burning to hear of the beauties of free silver, and they also want to ask Mr. Bryan about that 25 cent wheat in case McKlnley were eleoted. It Will be remembered that Mr. Bryan went through Ohio last fall and said some things about wheat and other things and somehow or other it hasn't turned out Just that way and the farmers are anxious about it. The statement of Comptroller Eckels of the United States treasury in regard to the business improvement throughout the coun try try Is very encouraging. He states that "the Improvement has come rapidly and permeated all lines of industry. It began with the agricultural class. The farmers have large crops and are getting good prices for them. The cattle-raisers are benefitted by a substantial rise in the price of cattle. The same is true with the sheep-raisers. This Improvement in agricultural earnings has had Its effect on the railroads by In creasing their earnings. It has put money Into circulation and enabled people to pay off their debts, and has thereby benefitted the merchants." THE CLOTHING QUESTION IS NO SECRET. We can give you more value for a dollar than our competitors can give for two, as our goods are bought strictly tor cash and sold at a small margin that makes the other fellows shake. WE SHALL PUT ON SALE FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS : 20 dozen Dunlap Derby Hats, in black and brown, at 20 dozen Fedora Square Top Hats, in all colors, from 500 Children's Suits, heavy weight, fiom 2-for-l Overalls at THIS IS A PRICE BREAKER What were some of those remarks that were baralded around from pnpocratle stump to stump last ear. to the effect that our OtttNMf was mi limited and contracted t lat we could not do business, and that the only hope for a return to prosperity was through the free coinage of sliver at 16 to 1? It Is quite evident to observant men- that come of tliese popocrats laboring under a mistake, because by reference to the election returns of 1896 It will be seen that the free coinage proposition was not adopted, and yet here we find in the coun try today nearly a hundred million dollars more in circulation than there was a year ago, and not a dollar of it free silver. Gold alone has increased in circulation In the last year over fifty million dollars. Washington Letter. Special Correspondence: Washington, D. C, Oct 18, '97. Further evidence from Ohio corroborates the statements that the silver question has been absolutely eliminated from the dis cussions there in the campaign. And silver was practically the ouly plank of the dem ocratic platform adopted but three months ago. Mr. Bryan proposed to canvass the state thoroughly in the interests of silver and speak from every stump. Ex-Con- Kres.xman Towne entered the state with an Idea of speaking for free silver many times, but for some reason Mr. Bryan has not kept faith with his assertions and Mr. Towne has been peremptorily ordered off the stump I by Alien O.Myers, McLeau's manager, with j this action sustained by McLean. Bryan, Towne, and others, who have been for the past two years laboring in the Interests of j j the silver trust, view this "turning down" i with nothiug less than dismay, because it means to them that the democratic party is abaudoning the free coinage talk in every state where its managers see any real hope of success at the polls this fall. This gen- eral programme has been adopted In all j states where there are campaigns, as is shown by the various reports. When it came to a direct clash, as was the case the other day between democracy and Bryan; democ racy won aud Bryan was snubbed. The New Yorkers were about entering on their campaign and Mr. Bryan wrote urging them ro Keep rree suver to me iront in ineir fight: Chairman Jones, however, advised them to eliminate free silver, aud Jones' advice was followed. Silver is practically tabooed in this fall's campaigns and the free silver men are excluded from partici pation in them. This seems nothing short ot wonderful, in view of the fact that only I three mouths have elapsed since the demo-1 cratlc leaders determined that free silver ! should be the leading issue of this year where state and local campaigns were to be fought. In Ohio, Iowa, and Kentucky, as well as in other states.it was made the chief, and, in some cases, practically the only plank of the platforms. The Marylanders, under Senator Gorman's shrewd leadership, managed to save themselves from being obliged later to run away from the plat form, by straddling it at their convention, but In almost every other case free coin age was the watchword of the state and local committees as much as it was of the democratic national committee of last year. In Massachusetts, the Ueorge Fred Williams element of the democracy adopted ; It? in New York a segment of the democ- j racy declared for It, and in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and other states it was to be the leading issue of the campaigns. TUB CHANGE. But all this happened within the last three or four months, and all these ratifica tions of (free silver by various conventions were before the passage of the Dingley law and the signing of that measure by the President. This occurred later, and what was the effect? Immediately the wheels of Industry began to revolve. It is useless for calamity howlers to say they did not or that prosperity has not returned to thousands of homes throughout the land. Immediately with the passage of that law, and in some cases In anticipation of its passage, facto ries began to resume and to Increase their number ,nf employees, and thousands of men who had been looking vainly for work suddenly fonnd it, and at good wages too. The hum of industry was heard on all sides, and the factory smoke began to roll out in black volumes. Employers began paying out money to labor which they had been previously hoarding, afraid to embark In business ventures, and the employees began to demand the necessities of life from the farmers. Farm products rose in price and laborers had the money with which to buy them. Not only wheat went up, in which there Is a "shortage" abroad, but all other farm products advanced likewise. And, strange to say, simultaneously with these advances the price of silver steadily fell, reaching a low-water mark never dreamed ot by the democrats who were proposing last year to supply the country with 53 cent dollars. Things reached such a state sil ver down to nothing, and everything else up and going up that there remained noth ing to do but to drop the silver issue and forget it, although it had been made the leading plank In most of the platforms, BOSTON CLOTHING HOUSE. and the advices from all the states where there are campaigns being fought show that this plan has been adopted with singu lar unanimity. As stated, Messrs. Bryan and Towne, and others of that school, are rigidly excluded frdm all the important campaigns and only allowed to educate the people in tlitve sections where they can't do any barm, while the democrats are cast lng about for other Issues, making their campaigns on a variety of misleading and so-called Issues, personal abuses, and the like. Such "principles" as the single tax, the "governinent-by-lnjunction" idea, so cialism, and anarchism are substituted for the semi-flat-money scheme which was the leading and almost only Issue three months ago. Last year the democracy had to abandon Its old and time-honored principle of free trade for the new and attractive one of free sliver, and now, all its promises broken, and all its prognostications of a year ago unfulfilled and shown false, It Is compelled to abandon .hat new Idol for other "principles." The outlook for the democracy cannot be a pleasing one. Sound money democrats in Detroit are strongly opposed to the re electiou of Mayor May bury, audi will doubtless support Clar- nnnu Itlnelr tho retmMleHii tinmlnaii Thn , r" , .77 democrat Convention endorsed the Chicago I . ' The current issue of Uarper's Weekly contains another letter from Tappan Adney, the special correspondent to tho Klondike; an Illustration and description of the Expo sition buildings that are being erected at Omaha; an article on some Etruscan bron- ! zes recently presented to the Metropolitan j Museum, New York; and a new golf story ! by W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen. The October number of Gunton's Maga zine presents the first of a series of remat ka- bIe arUcIe8t one or more of whcn are to appear in each successive number, by ex- governor Koswell P. Flower, of New York, on "The Truth About the Truets." Men like Senators Allison, Aldrlcb, Chandler, Lodge, Secretaries Gage and Bliss, Assist ant Secretary Roosevelt, Presidents Depew, of tne CeutraI and Tuouip80Ilt of the Penn. sylvania, and others equally distinguished and equally qualified to speak with authori ty upon their own special subjects, will help to make up this notable list of contri butions to the literatue of important pres ent day questions. Q. s. Wllloughby, an expert decorator, formerly of Lausing, moved his family here this week. Mr Wllloughby is now in the employ of E. W. Peardsley. Advertised letters Oct. 16, In Owosso post office: W. H. West, Ralph Smith, Willie Elwell, G. W. Fowler. Maud Fowler, John ' A. Curtis, Frank Baker, Harry Strong. Carrie Shephard, Leone Donnell. E. W. Bilhimer states that he neyer know a time when stock of all kinds was so scarce as now. This makes business In shipping somewhat slow. Hamblin & Crawford concluded a large land deal recently with parties near Owosso, for land ueer Estey, Mich. The deal will take David S. Strceter, M. F. Goodhue and Wm. Turner with their families from this county to Gladwin county. Archie Campbell, of Bannister, will not give tobacco to minors again. His lost offense cost him $12.00. Tine Times job department has enjoyed n fine run of work this week. First-class stock, good work and reasonable prices bring us customers from all parts of the county. Geo. W. Haskell is in the Upper Penin sula this week on official business Local dealers are buying large quantities of apples, for which they are payiog from 35 to 50 cents a bushel. This Is quite in contrast with last fall, when a barrel of choice fruit could be purchased for 35 or 40 cents. A territory of 271,000 square miles, com prising Washington, Idaho and Oregon as they are today, was saved to the Union by one man. Be had the courage and heroism to ride on muleback for three thousand miles. The ride was thrilling, the trials and hardships marvelous, the result a glori ous one. The whole story, beautifully Il lustrated, will be given lu the November Issue of The Ladies' Home Journal, under the title, "When Dr. Whitman added Three Stars to Our Flag," the closing and most Intensely Interesting article in the Journal's successful series of "Great Personal Events." The first women to cross tho Rockies figure in the story, which proves beyond a doubt that they preceded Fremont, the "Path finder," by six years. Itching, Burning, Creeping, Crawling Skin diseases relieved In a few minutes by Agnew's Ointment. Dr. Agnew's Oint ment relieves Instantly and cures Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Eczema, Ulcers. Blotches, and all Eruptions of the skin. It Is soothing and quieting and acts lake magic in all Baby Humors, Irritation of the Scalp or Rashes during teething time. 35 cents a box. Sold by L. M. Watson aud S. K. Paiklll. 3. $1.00 each. 45c to $1,00 50c to $8.50 50c, former pric 75c to $1,00 FOR THE INI XT lOO Pair JUST RICCEIVfD. Best Values for the money ever offered. YOUR HUSTLING CLOTHIERS, Wicking & Starrer, New Stnrp fnr Wchinorton otiri Moin Qtc U UVU Tf UOUIUIUU UUU 1'lUlll SJIO OBI Miss Mary Kllpatrlck was home from Lapeer from Saturday morning until Mon day evening. Her friends will be pleased to learn that she has been transferred from her position in tho seventh grade of the Lapeer school to that of assistant in the high school. C. W. Loring was home from Lansing over Sunday. M. H. Reynolds attended a Sunday school gathering in Lapeer, Wednesday. The Times received this week an im mense stock ot ruled goods which will be printed aud sold at very reasonable prices. If you want note or letter heads, bill heads or statements give us a call. Aid. Shaw aud family spout Sunday in Duffleld. Wm. Launstein, of Owosso township, has been granted a patent on a dress stay. The rain Tuesday was general oyer the county aud will do much good. A barn on the farua of D. A. Baruum, of this city, near Oakley, was destroyed by fire Monday. Editor Austin, of tbe Elsie Sun, called on The Times Wednesday. On account of diphtheria at CoruDna it was deemed advisable to postpone the mt ing oj, the county Sunday school association, which was to have been held this Wi-ek, to a date to be hereafter announced. Castree & Shaw have built aud shipped by rail out of the city during Ibis year 526 land rollers This is a fine busiuess, but tbe firm expect to more thau double this busi ness next year. The rollers sent out have been a good advertisement for the Gnu. J. W. Hillis. or New Haven is building a horse barn 32x48 feet and hay barn 30x48 feet on his farm Made and Merit Maintains theconfidence of the people in Hood's Sarsaparilla. If a medicine cures you when sick ; if it makes wonderful cures everywhere, then beyond all question thai medicine possesses merit. That is just tho truth about Hood's Sar saparilla. We know it possesses merit because it cures, not once or twice or a hundred times, but in thousands and thousands of cases. We know it cures, absolutely, permanently, when all others fail to do any good whatever. Wo repeat Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the host In fart the Oo$ True Blood rurifler. r"fcii '"lire nausea, Indigestion, rlOOU S PUIS biliousness. 25 cents. Merit Made 75 Satin-lined Suits, in Frocks and Sacks, this week at. . . . 400 Heavy Union Suits at 950 Square Cut Suits, in gray and brown, at and above. . . . Other goods in proportion. 10 DAYS AT THE of ... READING MILLS PANTS At $2.00. i Local freight shipments on all the rail roads are large. Diphtheria was reported at Durand on Monday. The authorities at once closed the primary school rooms and will take every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. House and lot for sale cheap for cash. In quire at 416 Park St. Prof. Frederick Sellick has been engaged as organist of the Baptist church. Rev. and Mrs. C. V. Northrop, Mrs. D. M. Estey and Mrs. P. D. White represented the Baptist church at the meeting of the Baptist State association, held In Bay City, tills week. The Till Family gave a charming enter tainment at the M. E. church, Tuesday eve ning. The Epworth League netted 825. R. F. Kay, of Woodbull, was in tbe city Tuesday. E. Lockhart, wife and daughter, of Nash ville, Barry county, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fifleld, Hickory street, from Friday until Monday. F. M. Whelan, of Shiawassee, made The Times a pleasant call, Wednesday. Cured of Deafness. To my friends and the public: I wish to say a word concerning deafness. O.i June 13th, 1897, my hearing left me and I was almost entirely deaf la the left ear could not hear my watch tick. I consulted a noted physician of Detroit, Mich., but ob tained no satisfaction whatever. My friends thought there was no help for me. Finally I concluded to consult Dr. Ottman, of tbe medical firm of B. S. & Co., of Muskegon, Mich., and with great thankfulness I can cheerfully say that after about two months treatment with this skillful physician my hearing has been restored to me. Hoping that many who are deaf ma consult Dr. Otfman, 1 will say to such that they will find him very reasonable in bis charges and interested in their welfare. Yours truly, M. L. Welteh, Ovid, Mich. This emluent specialist will visit Owosso Tuesday, Nov. 2, in the private parlor of the Wlldermuth Hotel, from 9 a, m. to 6:30 p. m. One day only. Consultation free and strictly confidential. The latest cross of gold, says the Detroit Free Press, amounted to 84,000,000. It came from Europe in payment for American wheat. Catarrh for Twenty Years and Cured in a Kew Days. , Nothing too simple, nothing too hard for Dr. Aguew's Catarrhal Powder to give re lief In an instant. Hon. George James, of Scanton, Pa., says: "I have been a mar tyr to catarrh for 20 years, constant cough ing, dropping In tho throat and pain in tho head, very offensive breath. 1 tried Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. The first ap plication gave instant relief. After using a few bottles all these sjmptoms or catarrh left me. It Is a great remedy." Sold by L. M. Watson and S. E. Parklll. "2. 1 FREE! FREE! TO KIDNEY SUFFERERS. An Opportunity Worthy of Youi Notice. If you suffer with kidney disease or ar ailment arising from an improper action the kidneys or urinary organs, this offer Jm make to the people of Owosso should inter est you. In the advancement of medical science, the kidneys, bei ig almost the or gans of the greatest Importance to human health, have not been neglected, and In placing before you such a cure as Dean's Kidney Pills, the proprietors recognize how far so many statements of the makers of similar preparations have fallen short of their claims, being convinced that no rem edy for kidney complaints in existence equals Doan's Kidney Pills for such ailments; strengthened in these convictions by letters that are daily received of the work they are doing for mankind's benefit, old backs and young backs are being constantly freed from never ceasing aches, and many a lame and shattered one, stooped and contracted, is strengthened, Invigorated and Infused with new life. With such a medicine, an offer of this kind can be made without hesi tancy, for while we lose the box we give to you, we make a friend that assists us in the sale of many others. -s, SEVENTY-FIVE FULL BOXES of Doane's Kidney Pills will be given away free to persons suffering with kidney ail ments at the undersigned address. First come, first served, and only this one chance offered. Remember this Is not a simple box, but a regular size box of Doan's Kid ney Pills, which retails at 50 cents. Remember, FREE DISTRIBUTION ONE DAY ONLY-on Tussday, the 2d of November, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., at tbe drug store of Johnson Sc Henderson. Marriage Licenses. It G. C. Wildermuth, Caledonia 27 Lydia Kurrle, Westhayen 23 Clyde A. White, Davison 23 Stella A. Fuller, Owosso 21 Elmer Gilmore, Vernon 24 Blanche Millard, Vernon 20 Isaac Schanlz, New Haven 25? runny ueicneu, JNew Haven 19 XNorman O. Dickinson, Owowo Mary Crivue, Owosso Albert Schultz, Middlebury TO Amelia Grafe, Middlebury 4 25 George W. Taylor, New York 51 Alta Huff, Vernon 25 No-To-Dao for Vltt rnnt. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak 1 men strong, blood pure. 60c. II. All druggist To Care CanHtlpatlon Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 2So. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money To Care Coaatlpation Forever. Take Cascarets Caadr Cathartic. 10c or 25c. It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund monoy. .$10.00 .$ 3.50 .$ 5.00 i