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Turn the Searchlight of Investigation on our Furniture. Nothing has been left undone' to make the display attractive, and better yet, the different pieces and sets substantial and of full value at the prices asked. FOSTER & RITTER OPPOSITE POST OFPICE , f u;n eral directin PICTURE FRAMING AND S P E C I A L T Y "Prohibition Does Nut Prohibit.' IF YOU HAD A NECK FIGURES IN ARTISTIC ROMANCE. & A New Departure at Millard's Cleaning and Dye rj Works Have installed an up-to-date Carpet Gleaner And are now prepared to do all kinds of Carpet Cleaning in a mo& approved manner and on short notice. The wagon will call for and deliver all work Millard's Cleaning Dye Wks s v ? We Clean the Carpet While Wilson & Skellenger Successors to E E. Chappie Dealers in Provisions and Groceries top U otatl and bemls luna The Ideal Listener. An attentive listener is a Joy, but an Inattentive one is A trir.l to the soul. Listen with your eyes, youv whole face, your heart and your mind and yon will achieve a triumph. Ixjok di rectly at the person talking to you and never allow your gaze to be de flected to other things which may be happening about you, for this at once shows lack of genuine inteiest in what is being said to you, and 'rally gives offense. BEL I J NO MARKETS Corrected each week on Thursday morning it 10 o'clock. Wheat-i ca $1 17 Wheat-white 1 17 Corn 70 Oats 55 Flour per cwt 2 90 Bean 2 15 Hay, baled per .ton. 9 00 Potatoes, .. 75 Butter 22 Eegs 16 Apples, per bushel 751 00 Chickens-live 07 08 Dressed Chickens.... 11 Cattle-live 2504 00 Cattle -dressed 6 O07 00 Uogs-alive 4 00 Hogs-dressed G 00 Hides 08 COMING Thursday, April 1st. One Night Only The KDNG F A Yankee Doodle Comedy In 4 Big Laughing Acts Pannier Than a Circus An Entertainment for Children from 6 to 60 A Comedy With a Plot Mounted With Special Scenery Musical Singing and Dancing Specialties mOUftW You have been OIlU II waiting for. Introducing the Favorite Comedian OSCAR O'SHEA Supported by a Careful Selected Company PRICES: 26, 35, 80 cents S3 S3 S3 S3 S3 S3 S3 S3 S3 B? S3 S3 S3 S3 : : You Clean the Room & PUT BLAME ON FATHER TIME. Heroic Endeavor of Mule Trader to Squirm Out of Tight Hole. Mr. Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court, in lecturing be fore his law class at the George Washington university some years ago, had occasion to illustrate an argument regarding the flight of time, and the Btory he told in illustration was rather better than the usuai "darky" skit. "I knew of a case once, ' said the justice, "where two darkies swapped mules. One of them was an old hand at the business, and in making . the trade he represented his mule to be seven years old. This was in Febru ary, and the new possessor of the mule had not had It long when he discov ered that he had been materially cheated, on the point of the mule's age, at least But the victim did not manage to find the man who had vic timized him until well along into the month of June. Having found him, however, he at once accused his opponent of making rascally misrep resentations to him regarding the true age of the mule in question. '"You say said the former pro prietor of the mule, 'dat when you got de mule In February dat he waa seben year old huh? An' now It's June an' you 'low he's twelb year old?' M'I do!' was the angry response. "The trickster rolled his eyes and shook his kinky head. 'Ma soul, man!' he groaned, 'Time sho do fly!' " TAKES PLEASURE- IN GIVING. Contrast Between Mr. Russell Sage and Her Husband. You doubtless remember that Hus sell Sage, when alive, had a reputation for stinginess, and believe that he didn't have much fun in life. Eating an apple for lunch, wearing a straw hat two seasons, and a suit of clothes until it wore out, doesn't appeal to many people, with or without money, as a part of a good time. But, when you remember how many definitions there are for a good time, it seems possible that Russell Sage's life was one continual round of pleasure. What appeals to you may not suit yotlr friend. The man who admires grand opera may scorn the enthusiasm of the football fan. Russell Sage, per haps, had no hobby but making money. If this be triw, it was, doubtless, be cause he enjoyed making money and saving it. Life to him was one long drawn out spree of getting rich, and there never waa a morning-after head ache; he never lost money. This con trast in human nature has a striking example right in the Sage family. The wealth Russell worked so long and hard to accumulate affords pleasure to his wife only as she gives it away, never equaled by any other woman, and only surpassed by a few men of greater wealth. Atchison (Kan.) Globe. New Find" of Coral. Now that coral is becoming fash ionable again. It is interesting to learn that a diver of Algiers has recently discovered off the coast of Mansouiub rich banki of coral, situated at a depth of about 130 feet. The fishing for this curious polyp it considered one of the most difficult in dustries which exists. Since coral hag ceased to be fashionable It has not been at all remunerative, and is lit tle practiced except by the Maltese and Sicilians. Up to the present time the annual allowance of 4,000 francs decreed by the Algerian government In 1904 for distribution as prizes among the coral flsberi has not been used. This direr will, without doubt, be the first bene ficiary. " "Ten thousand barrels of liquor eousumed per year, in prohibition KansaB, according to Government re ports!" Well, that does look bad, but when you look a little further, and find by the same reports, that the neighboring license State of Mis souri consumes annually three mil lion barrels, it begins to look differ ent. Put side by side, it looks like thfc: Kansas, 10,000 barrels, or .24 of 1 gallon, (less than 1 quart) per cap ita. Missouri, 3,000,000 barrels, or 30.41 gallons per capita. In other words, the people of Mis souri drink 126.7 gallons, lor every gallon drank by the people of Kan sas. Possibly prohibition does not prohibit, but it seems to "regulate" a little more effectually than license does. It also has a very marked ef feet on crime as the following state ments show: Over fifty counties in Kansas have not sent a man to the penitentiary in ten years. Thirty-seven counties have no prisoners in any jail, either city or county. Twenty-seven counties have no criminal cases on the dockets. The State of Kansas has for ten years been renting space in the peni tentiary to Oklahoma. Since Okla homa has gone dry, she no longer needs it, so a part of the building has been converted into a binder twine plant. Kansas City, Kansas, sent two hundred young men to the State reformatory, during the last ten years of open saloons twenty-five the last year and has sent but two, in the two and one-half years since the saloons were closed. What the Liquor Traltic Costs Ionia County Annually. i careful investigation of the court and jail records for the past year, shows the following amounts chargeable to the liquor traffic: Expense in Justice and cir cuit courts $ 4672.79 Board of prisoners in jail and Detroit House of Correction 1335.50 Officers' Expenses 1050.01 Add to this, the following: One half the cost of car ing for Ionia County poor 4500.00 One half the cost of State Charities assessed to Ionia County .". . 2645.88 One third the cost of asylum maintenance as sessed to Ionia Co 4886.51 Two thirds the cost of prison maintenance as sessed to Ionia Co.... 1013.46 Total $20124.15 Revenue from saloon li censes. 16115.00 Deficit . 9 4,000.13 It is generally estimated by those in position to know, that from fifty to seventy-five per cent, of pauper expense and public charities; thirty to sixty per cent of Insanity; and six ty to ninety per cent of crime, is traceable directly to the liquor traf fic; hence the last four items above, are probably much too low, and yet on that basis of estimate. th truffle fails by over four thousand dollars, to pay the cost of caring for its own product, and therefore Increases the taxes by that amount. But to go a stfp further; according to the usual computation, the saloons of Ionia County take In about $350,400 per year, or $10 per capita. Now con sider what it will mean, to turn that amount into the regular channels of trade, groceries.meat, shoes, cloth ing, hardware, house furnishings, etc. It will mean increased prosper ity for the farmer, the merchant, the banker and the laborer alike; and this invariably results, where prohi bition of the liquor traffic exists. Michigan has 309 paupers per 100,000 population. Prohibition Maine has 163. Some difference, and Michigan Is a far richer State at that. And Maine also has over five times as much money 4n the sav ings banks. Der canita. as MIehlcan Kansas has 44 counties without a pauper In the poor house. There are now nine states where i he beverage liquor traffic is pro hibited, and nineteen more that are rrom one third to three fourths dry under local option. Michigan has 205 Insane per 100, 000 population. Maine has 125. Below is a table that every labor union man ought to studv: Every time you spend a dollar for the rouowmjc, it is divided up ax below Mater" Industry ial Labor Profit Iron 6c 15c 17c Furniture .. . ;..61c 15c 14c Woolen goods ...62c 20c 18c Cotton goods ....63c 21c ' 16c Boots and shoes.. 61c 21c 18c Agricultural Implements .. ,43c 22c 35c Whiskey 10c 2c 70c Oakland County Drujr. Kales. A statement Is beinj; circulated by the opponents of Local Option, which, being unsigned, and uncerti fied, inaj. or may not be correct. It ttes th?t th dnirfriptv return of sale tor one week, In Oakland County, fdry) asgrcga'eB ?, gal lons. an! u this as an argument against Iocal Option. Now suppose thi Ftatrrrnt Is corrrnt: If 113 gal lons jt wppk are pold, it would equal 20.42 gallons per day. for the whole co.inty. an amount much, If ss than the daily halts of any oue su lonn, when the saloons were running; and there were 24 of them in Pontile alone. So if this state ucni of the ,"wets" piove auything, A8 LONQ A8 THI8 FELLOW, AND HAD SORE THROAT TOUSILIHE WOULD QU CKIY CURE IT. VJ 25c. and 60c. All DruoaiiU. THE T0NSILINE CO.. Canton. 0. It proves the value of Local Option, as the amount specified would be only .16 of a gallon, or about two thirds of a pint per year, for each man, woman and child in the county. LIQUOR LAW ENFOKCEMENT. Law enforcement is a relative term. Its practicability appears to depend upon the men whose busi ness it Is to enforce the law and also upon the men whose duty it is to elect men who will enforce the law. No law will enforce itself. But laws have been enforced and will be again. Even the present liquor law has been enforced, it is reported. It is therefore ill advised oi the part of the liquor interests to circulate the threat that the local option law will not be enforced. And this will be construed as a threat In many instances. in no way is it safe to say that the local option law will not be enforced in Innifi countv. Nplther la It be coming for any cftizon to make this assertion. When a man tells you that the law will not be enforced he Is making a poor spectacle of himself as a citizen. If the law is not en forced t: will be because of the fail ure of this man and his kind to do their duty. Nor is it sufficient to place a man In office on the theory that he will enforce the law. He must be put into office on this theory and sustained in his efforts to put the theory into practice after he Is there. The statement that if Ionia goes dry the law will not be enforced is an unwise statement. Who knows that it will not be enforced unless it is those who know through former experience that they can break it and have made up their minds to do so? As a matter of fact, there is every reason to believe that the law will be enforced. It is reasonably certain that the law will be broken. To complete the syllogism there is ap parently a series of fines and jail sentences in store for local option law violators. If Ionia county goes dry the law will be enforced. And it will be en forced In such a manner that there be no doubt of the fact. Was the Last Chance. Dorando Pietrl, defending at an Ita 'ian banquet his canny course in wear ing a cigarette advertisement in the race with Hayes, told an apposite etory of an Italian grave digger. "I must accumulate all I can while I am aere," he said, "for over there In Italy money Is scarce. It is with me, in fact, as it was with the grave digger. This grave digger, after digging a cer 'ain grave, put in a bill that was ex orbitant. When complaint of the over charge was made to him he said: 'Well, the corpse and I had a row five years ago over a cart I sold him, and I could never make him pay me what he owed. So seeing this was my last chance 1 thought I'd better take it.' " Real Mean. Pearl And he stole a kiss? Ruby (pouting) He did and I shall nevei forgive him. Pearl Do you really feel so bad '.bout It as all that? Ruby I should say so. He said it was petty larceny, while any other young man would have said It was grand. ft Torrance Cl Ellis I I Machineistshave jj opened a shopin t the MPn n n e r 5 5"1V '-,fl .7 ft building for all $ I kinds of general jj repair work on t bicycles,15 lawn mowers, automo- jj biles, gasoline jj stoves, and any a kind of steam 5 fitting. j 3 First-class work jj guaranteed, j (Give us a call A. J. TORRANCE BYRON ELLIS ALLI "HtheI 1 way! DOWN Church Altar Piece the Center of In teresting Love Story. There Is perchance no more roman tic episode in art than the love of Fra Flllppo Llppl for the little nun, Lucrezla Butl, and romantic, too, is the history of the altar piece painted for her convent church in Prato. Fra Flllppo, who had been commissioned to decorate this altar, asked the ab bess to allow the timid nun to stand as his model for St. Margaret. The abbess consented (this circumstance Itself speaks for the curious manners of the times), and thus in the long hours of posing and tete-a-tete an in timacy sprang up between the pair. Upon the occasion of a church fete and under cover of the crowd, Fra Flllppo carried off the no longer un willing Lucrezla and she went to dwell In his house, where her son Fllippino was born. The affair caused much talk, even In those days, the more so that several of Lucrezla's sister nuns followed her example and Flllppo's house became the center of revolt. The pope's intervention and that of the powerful Medici were finally in voked, with the result-that Lucrezla and her companions were forced to return to the convent, and by a curi ous Irony' of fate they were put to do penance before the very picture which had been the cause of their downfall! This altar piece now hangs in the municipal gallery of Prato and i known as the "Madonna della Cinto la," Helen ZImmern in Metropolitan. BORDERED ON THE SARCASTIC. Barber's Comment Certainly Not Re markable for Tact. Bentley had been out late the night before, or rather, he had stayed in late in a little affair at bridge, and about all he had left to show for it In the morning was an old-fashioned away-from-home-mado headache. In hope of relief, he had sought his old friend the barber, and the latter had been busy on Bentley's head and face for the past hour. "By Jove! Karl," said Bentley, as the barber rubbed the top of his head, "that feels mighty good, I can tell you. The man who invented massage was rot only a genius, but a benefactor to the whole human race. They ought to put up a statue to him. There's noth ing like it when a fellow feels seedy. There's only one trouble about It." "Vot las it?" asked Karl, hoping that perbaps h might overcome the dlfll cuKy. , - "Why, it's all on the outside," said Bentley. "If there were only some apparatus that would enable you to get inside a fellow's head and clear out the pains of the morning after, what a blessing it would be." "Veil," said Karl, "I fink that may be tome day dose vacuum- cleaner fel lers vill do dot already yet Vot?" Harper's Weekly. Not to Be Forgotten. Mr. Hammond's face was so ugly as to be almost grotesque, although no body ever thcrught about his looks aft er hearing him talk. "If I hadn't known I was one of the homeliest peo ple In the world I might have been sur prised at a remark made by old Pomp, the body-servant of one of my south ern friends," he once said. "I hadn't seen Pomp for 15 years, and as I had grown from a boy to a man in that time, I did not expect him to remember me, but he said: 'Howdy, Marse Hammond, sah!' the moment he caught sight of me. "So you-remember me, Pomp,' I aid. " 'Couldn't nebber forglt yo' face, Marse Hammond, Bah,' grinned Pomp, hit's so kinder complicated!"' Youth's Companion. Remunerative. In the sheep raising district of Eng land," remarked an Englishman now living In New York, "there was an old man who used to wander about pick ing up and selling wool which the beep scratched off their backs by rub bing against the hedges.1 The old fellow was somewhat of a butt in the neighborhood, but he stuck to his work, unmindful of jeers, wandering mile over the downs every day silent, ab sorbed, untiring. "Well, bow much do you suppose Chat old boy left when he died? Just guess, now." "One thousand pound a," opined one auditor. "Five hundred," said another. The raconteur shook his head. "Net a detnned cent," he aaid. Idea by No Means New. The object of New York's newest elub la to eat wisely but not too well. That Is, to educate housewives in the domestic sciences. But this Idea It as eld as the bilk and was tried by Bos ton years ago with more or less fail ure. Clubs of domestic science are all over the United States now and one can determine their value to aociety by harking back to the old days of the imple life when eating and the prepa ration of food was not the main object and the servant problem had not started on Its wild career. The Banner and shears, only fl.GO. Bridge Stree C. H. KEENEY, Prop'r We have just added a fine line of canned floods to our market, including- Canned Corn, Beans, Peas, Spinach, Tomatoes, Beets, Pine Apple, Sour Kraut, Salmon, Sardines, Pickles, Catsup, Mustard, etc. Full line of Bridge St Market Coal Coal ANTHRACITE Stove, No. 4 and Chestnut. BITUMINOUS Domestic Lump, Virginia Splint and for the range Washed Nut better than hard wood. Burns up clean. $4.50 for 2000 pounds. The L. C. Upson Co. Office 2d door west Tuinstra Hardware Co. 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