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A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.
VOL.XI.-NO. 47.
PROFESSIONAL.
F
E.JONES.
Attorney at Law.
AH Business attended to with Promptness and
Care.   Office on McKay street.
Saline,      -      -      migh.
q. r. williams
Attorney at Law,
Btepeciat attention paid to Pension Claims of all
kinds.   Kewcomb Block,
MILAN, - - MIOH.
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tX   A. NICHOLS, WI. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEOH.
Office atNicho s
SALINE,
1 ros\ drug store.
MIOH.
n   F- UNTERK1RCHER, HI. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office: in Hauser block, Chicago street.
MICH.
SALINE,
Q   W. CHANDLER, Wl D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Mice on Adrian Street, first door south of the
Wallace Block,
SALINE,      s - - MICH.
IT D. HELLER, D. D   S.
DENTIST.
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Headquarters for the best Tooth Powder
in the market.
Office over Nichols Bros', drug store.
SALINE,    -    -   MIOH.
f C. SLAQHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College,
Itesidencc, 1J4 miles east of Pennington s Corners..   Calls may helett ateither of the
stores at the Corners.    All calls
promptly attended to.
MACON, - - MICH.
NEIGHBORHOOD GLEANINGS.
Newsy Notes and Occasional Occurrences
From our Near Neighbors.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WATERMAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Miss Gillett's old stand.)
Trill he in Saline every Wednesday" and shall be
pleased to meet all in need of work in my line.
Call and see samples of our work.
P   CORDON,
The Pioneer Painter.
Over Forty Tears Experience.
Tarriage. Sign and Ornamental Painting, Paper
Hanging. Frescoing, Etc.
SALINE,
MICH.
W    Nl. BRIGSS,    .
Practical Painter.
Tousft painting, graining,  paper   hanging and
kalsominlrig.    All work promptly and
neatly   done,  and   satisfaction
guaranteed,
SALINE, - - MIOH.
yAN OUZER'S
Barber Shop.
iair Cutting.   Shaving,   Shampooing and   all
Work in fee Barber tine.
Bath room in connection.   Hot or cold baths at
Hy times. A. B. "VAN DUZER.
SALINE, - - MIOH.
Chicken cholera prevails near Tecum-
sej*t.
Dundee merchants hold flour at §1.40
per sack. . Rather steep.
A vault is what the people of Dexter
are taking steps to settle.
Tecumseh *s celery farms are making
large shipments.
Tecumseh wants, a lair and her citizens-will meet this week to discuss the
matter.
Nearly every farm'in the vicinity of
Manchester is decorated "with signs,
warning hunters to keep off.
Edwin Laudon, of Monroe, gets the
appointment at West Point. He stood
the examination well^ passing at 94.8.
Mr. Chas. King, one of Ypsilanti's
oldest and most l-espectad citizens and
a well known grocerymau, died at his
home very suddenly last Friday.
The potato crop in the vicinity of
Eaton Rapids is said to have been considerably damaged hy heavy rains,
causing the crop to sprout and x-ot.
The monster snake which troubled
Dowagiac 25 years ago is said to have
appeared again. It is described as being 25 feet long and its large as a stovepipe.
There were a large number of fast
stepping horses present at the fair that
did not start in the races.   They did
"not have the sand to "be in it,'' being
j in the company of hot ones.—Dundee
I Reporter.
I The enlarging of the school building
or building a new school house'seems to
weigh heavy on ihe minds of the Stock-
bridge peoiile. The Tidings comes out
strong in favor of the move while
some of tho tax payers think it will not
pay.
Carm Middlebrooks informs the Enterprise that he is negotiating with
parties who wish himself and mule to
makea balloon ascension and parachute
j drop. The fair that gets that attraction gets the crowd from Manchester
and nomistake.—Enterprise.
Wonder which mule will draw the
greatest Crowd.
John M. Kearney, who was killed by
a train at the T. &: A. A. depot, last
Thursday a. m., was himself wholly to
blame for the accident and the railroad
company have to rejoice that from five
to twenty thousand dollars will not he
asked for for damages.
Prosecuting attorney Lehman, after
•j*sheriff Dwyer had arrested and placed
iu 'ail a California forger secured his
release Monday morning* on a writ of
habeas corpus. The act is making considerable comment at the county
capitol.
HARMON DAVENPORT'S  LETTER.
A Glimpse of Scotland.
A.
MILLER & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Alber).
Feed, and
Sal-s Stable,
First-class rigs at reasonable rates.
The Yellowstone Park Line.
Commercial travelers and their baggage carried to and from adjoining
towns with promptness and at living
rales.
Old American House Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
John BauMaiiiner
(Successo to Anton'Eisle,)
 DEALER IN	
Foreign and American
Marble,
Granite and   Building
stone.
Corner of Detroit and Catherine Sts.
ANN ARBOR, MICH.
S.JOSENHANS*
REPAIRING
DONE     ON     SHORT
NOTICE.
Allkindsot Forging, Eepairing Horseshoeing,
and general .lohliing.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED and prices reasonable.     Shop   on   Ann Arbor street,
near Main.
SALINE,
MICH
Every description of Edinghurgh
that I have ever seen tells one that
"This ancient city is beautifully situated within a group of hills making its
appearance exceedingly picturesque
aud whether viewed from the ramparts
of the castle, the crags on every side or
from the lower parts Of the city looking
up at the heights the scene is an exceedingly striking one." From all of
which one might infer that the
city itself is as level as the hed of a billiard tahle while as a matter of fact
every street within its precincts would
make a rare good toboggan slide.
Arthur's Seat is a hill of rock adjoining Holyrood Palace and is ahout amil-
lion feet high I should judge, making
the calculation from the answer of a
native who informed me "Shure and
*tis a lang wee upp." I found to my
sorrow that "a stasp around thae coor-
ner" means two miles at least and "a
wee het ave a wae" is meant to describe
a half day's journey, so that "being told
that " 'tis a lang wee upp'' I had no
difficulty in calculating the distance to
a geometrical nicety and am therefore
willing to take oath that Arthur's Seat
is a million feet high. Climbing this
or any other of the hills in which the
city abounds and each of which seems
higher than all the rest—when yoa are
climbing it—one can see spread out hefore him a panorama more beautiful in
its setting of historical surroundings
than anything painter ever conceived
of. These old fashioned sharply gahled
grey .stone buildings with their red
tiled roofs and old fashioned chimne5*
pots, garden walls of solid masonry,
richly embellished with green coats of
climhing ivy, narrow winding hilly
streets, all with ahackground of mighty
hills stretching away to the horizon, an
occasional glimpse of the blue Firth of
Forth and North Sea off the eastward,
forms a picture, a view of which would
enthuse a more stoic nature than that
of a McGregor.
The Scotchman is not as a general
thing judging from outward appearances, particularly anxious to publish
the fact that he is deliriously and eternally overjoyed; a characteristic frequently eoustrued,particularly by those
who erroneously imagine that a continual smile of idiotic imbecility is necessary to evidence good nature.
An Englishman (Sidney Smith) was
responsible for the remark that it requires a surgical operation to get a joke
well into a Scotch understanding" but
he probably had special reference to an
English joke. A better-natured,laugh-
provoking, more entertaining people
cannot he found. Scotch hospitality is
proverbial and I found it fully up to all
of my preconceived notions on the subject.
The principal occupation of the peo"-
ple of Edinburgh seemed to he the
carrying of extremely heavy canes and
•well filled tobacco pipes,although Iwas
informed that the majority of them
were lawyers, but whether lawyers,
doctors, tailors, bricklayers, dry goods
and grocery clerks, or laborers, they all
carry canes, which are ahout the size
of an ordinary Sledge stake. Morning
and evening they come pouring into
the streets each one solemnly striding
swinging those dreadful heavy canes
aud puffing away at the invariable
wood pipe, looking immensely self-
satisfied.
I Went to Leith, the port of entry for
Edinburgh, and took the river boat up
the Firth of Forth to the famous new
Firth of Forth bridge, which is by far
the greatest engineering feat of the
kind the world has seen. The Forth is
at this point about a mile and a half
wide, but a small island of rock thirty-
three feet wide almost in mid stream
makes it possible to span the two channels by utilizing it to support the centre pier, from which spring huge arched steel trusses shorewards in both
directions. Beginning about thirty
feet above high water mark.these rise in
a graceful curve to a height of one hundred and sixty feet aud span upwards
of one thousand, six huudred- feet.
These trusses are fully ten feet in
diameter and consist of hollow steel
tubes. Their great length.isuecessary
by reason of the depth of the water
which is upward-* of two hundred, feet
in both channels, therefore making it
impossible to erect piers between the
shores and island. The steelwork and
masonry of the foundations reach to a
depth of ninety feet in the solid rock
and as the steel superstructure rises
above to a height of three bundred and
sixty feet, the total heightof the structure from bottom to highest point is
i four hundred and fifty feetso that plac-
„ .        ,   ,,. ■   _     • . „.      ing the bottom stone of the foundation
Do not forget the Observer office ,     ,    ... ,,   .   ... .. ,.   .,-,
-       - -<■>......■ on a level with that of the capitol build
ing tit Washington, our Goddess of Liberty might shake hands with the bridge
lender by reaching up just about one
The Northern Pacific Woudorlaud
omoracesj a list of attractions simply
unequalled.
The twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis at the head of navigation on
the Mississippi, Duliilh, Ashland and
the Superiors at the head of Lake Su- j
Superior; to the westward the Lake
Park Region of Minnesota, the Red
River "Valley wheat fields. Valley of the
Yellowstone, Yellowstone National
Park. Bozeman and the. Gallatin Valley,
Helena and Butte, Missoula and the
Bitter Root Valley, Clark's Fork of the
Columbia, Lakes Pend d'Oreille and
Cceuv d'Alene Spokane City and Falls,
Palouse, Walla Walla, Big Bond and
Yakima agvieultnral districts, 'Mt. Ta-
cotna and the Cascade Mountains, Ta-
coma. Seattle, Pnyalliip Valley, Sno-
qualmie Falls, Puget Sound,the Columbia River, Portland and the Willamette
Valley, Gray's Harbor and City Willapa
Harbor and city of South Bend, Victoria on Vaueonvers Island, Alaska on
the north and California on the south.
The Northern Pacific runs two daily
express trains with Dining car and complete Pullman service between St, Paul
and raeoniK. and Portland, via. Helena
nnd Butte, with through Tourist and
"Vestibuled Pullman Sleepers from and
to Chicago via. the Wisconsin Central,
and hrst-class through sleeping car
service in connection with the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St, Paul Ry.
Passengers from the east leaving St.
Louis in the forenoon and Chicago in
the afternoon, will make close connections with the morning train out of St.
Paul at 9 a. in. following day; leaving
Chicago at night, connection will be
made with Train No. 1, leaving St.
Paul 4:15 the next afternoon.      *
XELOVVSTONE PARK SEASON, JUXE 1st TO
OCTOBER 1st.
District passenger agents of the
Northern Pacific Railroad will take
pleasure in supplying information,
rates, maps, time table', etc.. or application can he made to Chas. S. Pee, G,
P. A.. St. Paul. Minn.
Write to above address for tho latest
and best map yet published ofAlaska—
just out.
hundred and forty-four feet. Or placing the capitol building along side the
bridge as it now stands, Liberty's head
-would be some fifty-four feet below' its
topmost part. Steel to the amount of
51,000 tons was used in its construction.
Its total cost was 2,500,000 pounds or
$12,500,000, and it gave sevenyears employment to 5,000 men including those
in the steel "works. Its total water
span is something over two nundred
feet, more than that of the Brooklyn
bridge.
Of course Queen Victoria considered
the occasion of its completion as an
opportune time to create a few knights
and barons, her stock of whieh might
otherwise get exhausted, so that the
engineers, contractors and directors
were promptly honored, and now sport
a titled name.
Leaving the bridge with my head
crammed with facts and figures I was
glad to find a four horse stage coach
ready to start on the return trip to Edinburgh distant about twelve miles,fare
one shilling and I never got such good
value for my money before. These fellows drive a four in hand with the
greatest of ease, judging from the speed
maintained up hill'and down. I finally
reached the conclusion that our man
imagined that I was late for a balloon
ascension or something of the kind and
was endeavoring to give me the consolation of seeing a man killed in some
other way. If such was his motive it
was not appreciated for seeing killed
and being killed produce widely different sensations, I should imagine, but I
believe I managed to look as if accustomed to that sort of thing and as
nonchalant as a kicking heifer Internally vowing, however, that when I next
got into the front seat of a four in hand
Stage coach with a crazy driver, it
would be when walking was extremely^
bad, and the rear seat was over-crowded.
Harmon F. Davenport.
Sunset in the Alps;
Headquarters for Largest Stock
Headquarters for Lowest Prices.
By actual count we have placed on sale 185 Men's
Suits to be closed out at one-third off selling price, also
76 Boys' Suits and 150 Children's Suits at one-third off,
suitable for school wear.
We have a Large Line of Men's light weight Overcoats, just the thing to be worn up to December. They
can be worn with comfort more days in the year than
any other garment. By owning one of these Coats you
may be saved an attack ofthe grippe. They will be sold
at greatly reduced* prices 'till Sept. 15th, Such a sale
has never been known in this country at this time of the
year, but we mean business.
THE J. T: JAOBS CO.
It had been a day Of excitement and
fatigue, and it was a luxury to rest upon the bench in front of the house
where we were stopping, and listen to
the sweet-faced old woman,our hostess,
who was knitting by the door and trying to talk to hs, writes Mary J.
Holmes, the novelist, in the September
Ladies' Home Journal. The streets
were full-of people, thousands of them
who had come to see the play and were
now going home. The high and the
low, the rich and the poor, Americans
and English, German aud French, jostling against each other, and anxious to
get away: the titled lady in silk and
and satin, whose destination was Munich or innspruck, and the lowly petis^
ant woman in her cotton gown and
wooden shoes, who thought nothing of
a walk of sixteen miles which must be
accomplished before she reached her
home far np among the Tyrolese hills.
On Mt. Kofel, where the huge cross
was standing, the sun was still shining
with a brightness which the old woman
pointed out, with the-words, "See the
glory showing."
And truly, it was a glory which that
sunset threw over all the fir-clad sides
of the mountain; and when the red
disk disappeared behind a tall gray
peak, and the purple shadows began to
creep across the river and the valley
and up to the heights where a few
white, misty clouds were floating, it
was easy to understand why to the
superstitious fancy of the woman- there
was in every cloud an ang'el's face come
to view the scene of the great tragedy,
and to keep watch over the tomb
which, to her, was more really in
Ober-ammergau than in Jerusalem.
How the colors deepened and changed
as the daylight faded, until, at last,
there were only a few bars of crimson
and gold mai-king the spot where the
sun went down. Then suddenly, on
the opposite side of the valley, where
the jagged peaks were piled high
above eaoh other, there came a luminous light like that which heralds afire,
except that it was soft and silvery, and
the rocks and trees and bills grew white
dnd ghostly as the moon rose higher
and higher in the heavens and brought
Into greater distinctness, the little town
with its humble, low-roofed houses,
nearly each one of which held anafitor.
who was either sleeping quietly after
the day's excitement or praying for
grace and strength for the morrow,
when the worlr must begin again.
"'Tis like where He has gone,"' the
old woman cried, dropping her knitting, and folding her hands reverently
as the moonlight fell upon her upturned
face, while I wondered if the city which
needs no sun by day nor moon by night,
could be fairer than this s^ene on which
I was gazing.
when iii need~of stationary.
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For Photo Enlargements in cl-ayon
and water colors call oh G. L. Parsons,
American Pork Goes to Germany.
Headquarters for Clothing,
27 aud 29 Main st., Ann Arbor
Mr. Wharton, acting secretary- of
the state, a few days since received the
following telegram from Minister
Phelps, at Berlin: "Pork -Admitted on
American inspection certificate. Germany imposes no other condiliou."
One Price and that the Lowest.
CURTAmS[lS~^
sd A "nTYSjimCI ) Ingrains from 85c up.
I 1 A KrH N Brussels from 49c up.
\J£1.Jl\)JL ±dJ.KJ) Fall stock now in.
DRESS GOODS
1 oOc Summer Checks now 29c.
-Elegant Line of Fall Goods at 50e.
) Novelties arriving daily.
"BRr 1 » XT       1 ) Most complete line in the city
Muslin Underwear (s= sssz
E. F.  MILLS & CO.,
20 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
ANN ARBOR.
P. P. MAST & CO.'S TRAIN.
Description of .the Great Train which will
Leave for the West July 4th.
(Frouvtlie Springfield, Ohio Daily ltepnblie-Titues, Juno 23, 1891.)
At S o'clock on the morning of the
.Fourth of July a remarkabl e trail will
leave the Arcade depot over te Big
Four, the I., I. & I., and Santa Fe routes
for Kansas City and the Great West.
II. will consist of forty cars, all exactly
alike in size and color, each Of a carrying capacity of 60.000. lbs. loaded with
BCCKEYE LOW DOM'S DHHIS
of all styles and sizes, over 1,600 in
number, including pin hoe drills,spriii£,
hoe drills and shoe drills of from eight
to twenty-four Shoes or hoes, some
with press wheels and some without,
nnd rigged for from two to six horses:
anil iucluding quite a large lot of the
combined grain aud grass teed fertilizer
rhills, whieh the people of Kansas are
beginning to call for, and which have
for years been used in the East.
This will be the largest shinment of
drills ever sent out by any factory, and
will be greater than the entire product
of some good-sized factories. Some
idea of its magnitude may be gathered
from the facts that the weight of the
drills will be about 1.450,000 pounds,
their value, at wholesale, between §80.-
000 and S90.000, and theftvight charges
^between S9.000 and S10.000.
Each ear will be elaborately decorated with banners, flags, and bunting and
will be made otherwise attractive.
A special feature of the train  will be
T"WO ADVEUTISISG CAliS.
One, an open platform car on which
will be a pairof handsome dapple-grey
horses, 15J hands high, harnessed to a.
Buckeye Low Down Shoe Drill, and at
all stops the people will be given »n
opportunity to examiue. the drill, and,
by competent attendant, will be shown
the advantages of the low-down principle, the four wheels, the limber tongue and the single lever. 'Both the
car and the horses will be decorated
and will make au exhibit worth going
miles to see.
From the;otber advertising car, which
will be tbe last in the train, will be distributed, very liberally. in the town
en route, souvenirs of the great shipment in the form of an elegant, special
ly imported picture sards eommemor
alive of the occasion; also other advers
tising novelties'in useful and attractive
forms. The train "'ill not be run at
night in order that all towns may be
passed in daylight.
The drills in thjs are sold to dealers
in Kansas and Western Missouri, and,
wilh the exception of a few car loads,
which will be set out at different points
in Missouri, the solid train will be run
through to Kansas City, where it will
be divided, and each car fordwarded to
its destination.
This shipment is the opening of the
season, only a starter for the tremendous fall trade which is already assured
and another large shipment will soon
follow to St. Louis, to supply the trade
tributary to that point in^Sonthern 111
inois and. Eastern Missouri. Still another will soon be started for Texas,
and later on another for Kansas 'and
Western Missouri, as this lot does not
fill nearly all-the orders from that section, and many ear loads are not to be
■shipped until Aug. 1st to loth, or later.
This shipment dearly breaks fhe
record in the drill business, and shows
the popularity of the Buckeye Low
Down Drills throughout the West.
E. W. FORD & SON,
Agents    fos-    Salius    and.   UlGi*a£t*y,
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