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A. j. WARREN. Publisher.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THUKSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1893.
VOL. XIII.--NQ. 18.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONAL.
V?   E.JONES.
Attorney at Law,
all Business attended to with Promptness and
Care.   Office on McKay street.
SALINE,
MICH.
p    R. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law*
Especial attention paid to Pension Claims of all
lands.   Newcomb.Bloek.
MILAN, - -        MICH.
tX   A. NICHOLS, M. D„
PHYSICIAN and SUKGEOH.
-    Office at Nichols Bros', drug store.
SALINE. - MICH.
p    F. UNTERKIRCHER, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office in Hauser block, Chicago street.
SALINE, -        - MICH.
O   W. CHANDLER, M  O.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Dffice on Adrian Street, first door south of the
Wallace BlooU,
SALINE, - MICH.
p   C. SLASHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
MACON, LENAWEE CO., MICH.
Connection with Tecumseh hy Telegraph
and by Mail.
ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
MISCELLANEOUS.
VX/TATERNIAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Miss Gillett's old stand.)
Will be in Saline every Wednesday and shall be
Dleased to meet all in need of work in my line.
Dull and see samples of our work.
pi   CORDON',
The Pioneer Painter.
Over Forty Years Experience.
Carriage, Sign and Ornamental Painting, Paper
Hanging, Frescoing, Etc.
•S,4LINE, = MIPH'
Nora Notes.
Wl. BRIGGS,
w.
Practical Painter.
iouse painting, graining, paper   hanging and
kalsomining.    All work promptly and
neatly   done, and  satisfaction
guaranteed,
SALINE, - • MICH.
tTANQUZER'S
Barber Shop.
lair Cutting.   Shaving.   Shampooing  and   all
Work in tlie Barber Line.
Bftth room in oomiection.   Hot or eold baths at
ny tiroes, A. B. VANBUZEB.
SALINE,        ■        •        MICH.
A. MILLER & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Alber).
Livery, Feed and
Sale Stable,
First-class rigs at reasonable rales.
Commercial travelers and their baggage carried to and from adjoining
.owns with promptness and at living
rates.
Old   Warner    House Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
Mrs. L. H. Cramer, of Stony Cr^ek,
called on her daughter Mrs. F, J. Sals-
bury, last week.
Quite a iall of the beautiful, Sunday
accompanied by Boreas and all his
forces.
There is a young hut full grown
Lumber camp on Chas. Wheeler's place
Logs, Logs, Logs 'til you cau'trest.
Jacob Sturm, of Saline, is going to put
his mill in there.
Deacon Gooding is no better.
The social at Wm. Buxton s was
well attended and a good time reported.
Mrs.Tunis Hqrtoa is some better.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Society of the York Baptist church
meet with the Misses Ola and Callie
Kelsey, Saturday Feb. 2oth.
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Milan Murmurings.
R. Waterman, of the Ann Arbor
high school, spent Saturday and Sunday with his grand-parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Kouse.
Win. Hooker is now running the
hack.
Miss Rhoda Fuller is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Fuller this week.
Born, Feb. 13th, to Mr."and Mrs.Geo.
Taylor a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Newcouib have
returned to their home in Carlton.
After a fourteen weeks run of revival
meetings the church is closed on account of diphtheria. The interest still
kept up and the meetings were full of
interest to many.
The inclement weather kept inany
away fi-om lyceum last week.
The I. O. O. F. of Milan visited their
I. O. O. F. brothers at Ypsilanti last
week.
The snow fell several inches Saturday
and Sunday.
The Misses Reynolds were Detroit
visitor last week.
Asa Whitehead has taken a contract
for three new houses this summer in
this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Babcock, of
Ann Arbor, visited friends here last
week.
«Rev.   Geo.   Sloan   is   entertaining
guests. frQHl abroad th^s wnelf.
Rev. C. B. Case, of Stony Creek,
assisted Mr. Sloan with his meetings
last week.
A cold wave loose iu Milan. We
doirt care for it here, thank you, and
hope it will soon tire of this  vicinity.
Our school end all other public assembles are ordered closed for two
weeks to prevent spreading and exposure of diphtheria which is already
seated in the family of James Johnson,
where one daughter has died and three
others are down with the disease.
Many others about our village have
been exposed, one scholar having come
down while in school which will doubtless act as a peper box to the whole
school.
MUTILATED MONEY.
Mooreyille.
Iota Baumgardner,
(Successo  to Anton Eisle, j
■PEELER J^—==r
Pertigf) and American
Marble,
Granite and > Building
stone.
Corner of Detroit and Catherine Sts;
ANNARBOR
MICH.
K]SpAIJtI$G_   WW.    P^    S#QRT
■£-        .UUiindsQEFQFaing.SBPTiaivinB «or<eshQeir,2,
jnd general .Fobbing.
3ATISFACTI0N;GUAKAXTEE0 and prices reasonable.    Sliop  on   Ann Arbor street,
near Main.
■   SALINE,      -      -      - MICH
HOW DAMAGED CURRENCY IS REDEEMED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Lewis Miller is sick with neuralgia.
Rev. Conley preached in the Baptist
church Sunday evening.
Willie Case was home over  Sunday.
M. A. Davenport, J. A. Jackson, J.
M. Clark were delegates to the county
convention at Ann Arbor.
Frank Moore is on thesiek list.
Dr. D. P. McLachlan was called to
set a collar bone for Mr. Sadler northeast of here. rzn
Mr. Cole is at Ann Arbor being
treated at the hospital.
There is a man here from Dexter
looking up the creamery business and
wants to start the factory in the spring.
Dora Jackson Jiag t^es inucnus.
M^srfpd, Feh. i$ti\, ■»* »ho bride's
b,pme in York, by Rev. G. B. Case, Miss
Emma MoMullen and Mr. Frank Otto,
of Detroit. They have the wishes of
their many friends, They will make
their home In Detroit for a while.
A blizzard Sunday and the snow is
drifted badly in places.
Changeable weather, plenty of ice
and good sleighing. The boys have a
fine time coasting.
A good many young people attended
the Free Mfethodtst meeting Sunday
evening at Milan.
A. Davenport has sold his farm to
Everett Davenport for §6,000. Mr.
Davenport will move in tho factory
house at Mooreyille, now ogi-upyjd. by
ManHn'V!iivPnpprt-
plaude Banner, was up from. Detroit
a few (lay§ lust week,
Christian Endeavor-
For the Christian Endeavor State
Convention at Benton Harbor April
4th and 5th, the Toledo, Ann Arbor
and North Michigan Ry. will sell excursion- tickets at one and one-third
fare for the round trip, going April
3d and 4th, returning April 5th.
Wonders Worked by Mrs. Brown, tlie
Treasury Expert in Washington—A Few
Cases inWhicn Bills Were Apparently
Hopelessly Destroyed.
The redemption division of the treasury department is one of the most interesting of its branches. It is here that
mutilated money comes for identification, and the form in -which it comes
tells to the chief of the division many a
romance and many a tale of -woe. There
is much that is humorous and much
that is pathetic in Mrs. Brown's public
experience. That experience ranges over
nearly eighteen years now, and in that
time millions of dollars have passed
through her hands, most of it in such
condition as to be beyond identification
by ordinary means.
There is hardly any -way you can think
of in -which money is not mutilated or
partly destroyed. Men light their cigars -with it -when they are drunk; rats
gnaw it into tatters, and fire crisps it
into brown ashes. Whenever there is a
sudden cold snap at the beginning of
•winter the redemption division has a
perfect harvest of mutilated money. One
of the favorite hiding places which, women have' for their savings is the oven.
When a cold day comes the woman
probably forgets all about the money,
builds a fire in the stove and cooks the
bills to what is known in the cookbook
as a "rich brown."
An interesting case is that of a woman
living near Hamilton, O., who was
burned to death. She had a pocketbook
-with her containing seventy dollars.
Her children sent the pocketbook with
its charred contents to the treasuiy department, and Mrs. Brown picked out
the seventy dollars and identified it. A
great deal of the inoney that conies in is
partly burned. Wherever a part of the
burned inoney can be identified and a
satisfactory affidavit is furnished as to
the facts the government restores the
amount to the owner. But if a note is
entirely destroyed the government is just
so much ahead.
Much of the money which comes in for
redemption has been damaged in railroad wrecks. When a car is burned in a
railroad wreck no attempt is made by
the express company to remove the
money from the safe. The safe is sent
direct to the treasury department and
opened there. The money is usually in
a pretty badly charred, pondition. It is
taken out, and. the treasury experts go
over It and. identify as much of it as can
be recognized. Two years ago a package containing §32,000 was taken from a
wreck near St. Louis, and all of the
money was identified and restored to its
owners.
A favorite hiding place for inoney with
men who have no faith in banks is in
their cellars. A Philadelphia man sent
$280 which he had buried in a tin box
under his cellar floor. When he took up
the box he found the money mildewed
and rotten. The package as it came
into Mrs. Brown's hands looked like a
bunch of tobacco leaves. It was almost
impossible to distinguish the character
of the notes with the naked eye. Mrs.
Brown was picking apart the pieces bit
by bit and arranging them on slips of
brown paper cut to the size of a dollar
bill. She said that sbe expected to identify the whole of it.
One man sent in some time ago forty-
two dollars which had heen taken from
the stomach, of a goat. The goat was not
worth forty-two dollars, so he was sacrificed. The identification of this money
was not a very nice task, but it was comparatively an easy one. When Mrs.
Brown dropped the sticky mass into a
basin of water the bills came apart and
were very easily identified. This is not
the only goat case which has come to the
redemption division, and it has happened
that even cows and pigs have been sacrificed to recover money which they had
swallowed. There is one case on record,
where a baby swallowed' some bank
notes, and an emetic saved the money
and possibly the. baby. Babies, do. not
often swallow, an entire pill t but many
affida'ipHaVe'xe.ceiv.ed acconipanynj po.f»
tidns'pf. spills ^Mcii say tHat the missing
p,(iEtiffns. were swaBowsd by babies and
"therefore wholly destroyed."
Usually when mutilated money is sent
in for redemption the owner has a close
if not perfect idea of the amount which
is represented, but one old German in
the west sent in some years ago what he
claimed to be the remains of $5,000, and
after a long, long investigation Mrs.
Brown fully identified $7,100 in the
package. A secret service agent was
sent out to investigate the case, but he
could discover nothingthatwould throw
light upon the mystery, and so the mistake was charged up to the old man's
stupidity, and the department sent §7,100
to him.
The redemption division, receives very,
frequently pieces tp£J}"^.oin, bills, ac-
HEALTH   AND   SQUALOR.
&d"*V>y'Vmcft. ' BtU" *tjhft "expert^ pf'tnV
treasury department "can f eft in a minute
whether a piece ha.?,been torn off or eaten
off, and these petty frauds are never successful.
Treasurer Nebeker has a five dollar
bill in his office made of sixteen pieces
cut from five dollar notes matched so
nicely that the ordinary eye would not
detect the fraud. This composite note
was sent in by a bank clerk in New
York. The treasury experts detected
the fraud immediately, and of course the
bogus note was not redeemed.—Washington Cor. New York Press.
A   Very   X.ow   Death.   Kate   in   the Most
Crowded Ward in New "STorlt City.
"Appearances aresometim.es deceptive
ubA popular impressions erroneous," said
Dr. Tracy, of the health department.
"What now?" I asked.
"I had a friend, a physician from Connecticut, call on me the other day. On
one of his tramps about town he had
strayed down in the Tenth ward, which
is bounded by Division, BAvington and
Norfolk streets and the Bowery. It is
the banner tenement house ward of the
city. There may be a dozen houses in
which less than three families live, but
most of the dwellings are double decked
tenements, holding from twenty to sixty
families to the house. Children swarm
like bees, and it is probably the most
densely populated spot in the United
States, perhaps the globe. My friend
thought that the mortuary record must
be frightful.
"When I told him that it was about
the most healthful district in New York,
and with nearly the lowest death rate of
any ward, he would scarcely "believe me.
Take the Nineteenth ward, between Fortieth and Eighty-sixth streets, east of
Sixth avenue, which is mainly filled with
the homes of the rich and well to do, the
death rate is 21.82, while in *the Tenth it
but 18.73. The death rate in the old
Ninth, or the 'village,' which contains
but comparatively few tenements, is
23.34. The First, Fourth and Fourteenth
are the three most unhealthful wards in
the city, the rate being 35.02, 36.80 and
86.84 respectively. In the Twelfth ward,
which comprises all of Manhattan Island
north of Eighty^sixth street, and which
contains the largest population, having
within its borders about 225,000 souls,
the rate is 19.28.
"As I said, a casual observer would
consider the Tenth ward the most un-
healthful in the city, owing to its crowded
tenements and its geographical situation.
The Twenty-first ward, bounded by
Twenty-sixth street, Fortieth street,
Sixth avenue and the East river, contains much of the aristocratic quarter of
the town, but the death, rate is 26.60. In
fact, the Tentli ward, with its 60,000
Russian Jews and Germans, has the lowest death rate of any ward except the
Third—a small ward, containing but
1,300 population, and whose death rate
is 16.85."—New York Herald.
Sailed "Without Her Husband.
An interesting story is told of Mr. and
Mrs. Haggard while they were traveling
in this country in tlie spring off 1891. It
Tg said, ihat \rfiile, in Mexico, at Yera
Cruz, they arranged to sail north along,
the Atlantic coast to New York. While
waiting for the steamer Mr. Haggard
took a small coasting boat and made
several voyages up and down the Mexican seaboard in search, of curiosities and
traditions, and became so interested-that
he forgot the flight of time and the sailing day of his vessel.
Sirs. Haggard thought her husband
had been captured for a ransom, but
with the courage so characteristic of
her felt certain that he would turn np
all right somewhere; so when the steamer was ready to sail for New York she
went aboard, and proceeded on her way.
When Mr. Haggard reached Vera Cruz
and found neither steamer nor wife he
took the railroad, and as fast as steam
could take him returned to New York.
There in the corridor of a hotel husband
and wife were reunited.—Ladies' Home
Answered at Xast.
"What are tho wild waves saying?"
murmured the woman as she stood on
the silver lining of the mighty main.
"Nothing, Maria," replied the man
hoarsely. "They are like some people
we know; they make a great deal of
noise, but don't say an3-thing."—Exchange.
WIICOX Beard Crower produces a heavy moustache or
beint ou Ike smoothest face in fnmi two to six mouths.
The above cuU are from l'liotopniphs of Mr. Henry Johnson, of
Sault Ste. MirJe, ^lkn., the hearv moi^larhe lH-inc produced on a
smooth fax In live months time, W WILCOX 11EA1ID filiOlVEtt.
Sent sealed 1n plain packages with, directions to any'address up'tn
receipt of price,§I.W per box.   SixlKuces for SS.0Q postpaid. *
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