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A. J. WARREN, Publisher.
SALINE, WASHTENAW GO., MICH.,   THUKSDAY,    DECEMBER 20,  1894.
VOL. XV.---NO. 8.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
T>   F. SHEEPER, A. WI., Wl. D.
Physician & Surgeon.
From tlie U. of 51. and Jefferson Hospital College, PliMelpliia. Late assistant to the Bliss Eye
Hospital, SpiingBelil, O.
Special attention given to the eye.
Eyes tested aiid glasses fitttTd.
Office and Residence—the Marsh house. Chicago St. „
SALINE - - MI Oil.
D
Ft. G. E. HATHAWAY,
Dentist
Office over JsiVhols Bros, clru£ store.
SALINE, -       - MICH.
rp   E. JPNES.
Attorney at Law.
Business attended to with Promptness and
Care    Ottu'e"on McKay street;.
SALINE, - - MICH.
ii,       P   lR" wiLL,AIV,S
&       Attorney at Law,
Especial attention paid to Pension claims of all
kinds.   JSewcomb Block,
MILAN, - - MICH.
O   W. CHANDLER, IW   D.,
PEY81GIAN and SURGEON
Slice on Adrian Street, first; door soufh of the
Wallace Block,
SALINE, - MICH.
i i    C. SLAGHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
3UOIW, LENA-WISE CO., MICH.
Connection with  Tecumseh hy  Telegraph
a:id by Mail.
ALL CU.L-5  PKOMP-TIA-  ATfESDED TO.
VtTATERWlAK*
FHOTOGilAFU GALLERY.
tltU'S UiUelt's old stand.)
Will be in Saline every "Wednesday and shall be
pleased to meet all in need of work in my line.
Jail and See samples of onr work.
IRISH'S
Barber Shop.
lair CntltnK.    Shaving,   ShampooiiiK   and   all
Work in the Barber Line.
HOMER HSU.
SALINE, - - MICH.
A. J. WAHPvEN,
'    T-— -.-UONVEVAM'CEB AND	
Hotarf   -   Public
All legal  papers drawn  tut t-horL
notice ami at; prices within the
ft'tll-lt of Jilt.
Uencrai Fire  Insurance i Specialty.
CITY MEAT MARKET.
*
•G. A. LLNDENSCHttlDT
Is still at the old stand, where be is titwsiys pre
Hired to serve his customers with THE BEST
IN THE MARKET in the. line of
Fresh and Salt Meats of ail Kinds,
Poultry, Fish. Sausage, Etc.,
AT POPULAR PRICES.
Complete steam outfit for  manufacturing sau
sage.  Eemember the old stand.
G.   A. UHDENSCKNIEDT
vGBUYTHE-©^
WOODWORK,
OST
RMRABLE,
THE BEST IS THElHEAPEST,
Send TEN cents to 28 Union Sq., N. Y.,
for our prize game, "Blind Luck," and
y-ln a New HP"te Sewing Machine.
.: The New HomeSewing Machine Co.
."'(' "   "-      SRANCE, MASS,
IU..    80S,°i-s=3'JV§ss*- '"•      SAL-
**ixu*^'FORSAt£BY    o*iu*3Sf-
CHRISTMAS SELLS.
Bins out the merry ChrUtmns chime.
Proclaim the me.".«fre far and near,
Peace and good -will in every clime,
To rich and poor sweet Christmas cheer.
Loudly proclaim o'er land and sea
What love divine for men did plan,
The srtting of the captive free,
The li'ililei" brotherhood of man.
Surcease of srief. t'> those that mourn,
Best to the weary, heaven to win,
A fuller lite beyond death's bourne
To snch as seek to enter in..
iVal forth with no uncertain tone
That 1-ive leaves none beneath the ban,
And they alone are blessed that own
Their duty to their fellow man.
Fnxltiisn as loudly as ye can
The tidings glad to old and younjr,
Pen-■<• upon earth, goodwill to man,
TH~t by tho angel chorists sung.
JiEIL llACDOA-At,T>.
DICK HUNT'S LUCE.
CmtlSTMAa STOGY BY KDIT1I SESSIONS TUP-
I'EU.
t'np}-right, ISM, by American Press Association.]
" rTaiu't bo two," lie muttered,
' 'tuiu'tno dernedairthlyusetortryfer
;er l)o decent, A man moight jest as •well
jo an ornery cuss and dono -with it. A
leeent feller don't never git on in this
.vorld. It's only mean, low down, outrageous cattle that gits on."
Alter this outburst Dick Hunt sat
lown in his log cabin door and fixed Ms
iyes on the lofty wall of mountains ris-
ng, inexorable as fate, before time.
Peak after peak lifted its haughty,
line crested head into the sapphire sky.
in the- cold light of tho December after-
ioou glittered tho drifting wreaths of
uiaw about their bold, defiant brows.
Icy. remote, pitiless, terrible, they
browned  down  upon the man who sat
>*0. '<.
^■'■^^\t
"throw vp vorn nAxns:"
Shero alone, wondering in his dumb,
aelpless rage what it all meant-^-why
he couldn't "git on" as other men did.
Dick Hunt's ill luck had become proverbial in the San Juan country. "As
sussed onrnefcy as Dick Hunt" was a
comparison often bandied about in sa-
ioons and eating houses. Every dweller
.n that region knew the silent, lonely
man who had lived for years in tho desolate cabin on the windswept side of Lost
t'haueo gulch, close by Ophir trail.
Everybody laughed at him for a visionary. Dick had spent ten years locating
slaims. Tho mountains were marked
with his signposts, rude, wooden crosses,
?ach in turn marking a fresh grave of
ois hones
I    Dick saw  other men prosper—"tin,
■horn" gamblers, who cheated the min-
j srs out of their dearly earned wages;
'flancehouse proprietors in the   camps
who grew rich out of the blood and
! tears of wretched women; scamps, vaga-
! bonds,   blacklegs succeeded   where he
: tailed—he who   had   always tried to
: load a decent life and do the "square
thing" by his fellows.
*     "What's tho meaning of it?" he demanded furiously of the mountains, his
i pnly companions, his only friends. But
■ the' mountains turned, as ever, their sol-
; Bum, sphinxlike faces toward him and
made no answer.
Strange, wild thoughts come to men
in solitude. It is not good for man to
be alone. And to poor, disheartened,
; lonely Dick Hunt, away up there near
j timber line, in that tremendous, appall-
i ing wilderness, evil thoughts came
i trooping these days, thrusting their se-
i ductive faces close to his and indicating
; with tempting fingers a downward
'■ path.        «
i Money—'money—was what Dick
■wanted. He was tired of digging and
delving for the gold which ever beckoned aud allured and then mockingly
vanished at the sound of his pick and
shovel.
There aro other ways to get money be-
: sides working like a dog all yonr days.
Dick had  heard the ways and means
; canvassed too many times not to be
well up in details.    Had he not rubbed
elbows many a night with men whose
! lips could tell tales of violence and
'■. plunder   and   afterward   comparative
ease?   Those fellows did not toil in the
, mountains  year  in and out, enduring
; 'ill sorts  of privations  and hardships.
i Not they.    Thoy lived in Silverton and
; other camps and were feared and respected  of   men.     There was  Shorty
Young, for instance. Everybody knew he
was a thug aud a cutthroat.    Did anybody have  any doubts about his being
!.ho loader of the gang that robbed the
Hesperus stage and shot the driver  in
cold blood? Of course not.   And Shorty
Young was  a power in the  San Juan
and  compelled  the admiration  of all.
There were Tony Drew and Jere Burk-
1 hardt. Everybody knew that Tony was
; a "tin horn" gambler, and yet because
i he was always flush he was a favorite
: and had a mighty soft time of it.    And
, Jere Burkhardt had shot an inoffensive
Chinaman, and yet see how he got on!
[ No, there was no use in being square.
' It didn't pay  after alL
Twilight deepened into dusk, and
I one by one, the cold, white, glittering
j stars swung out above the cold, white,
; glittering peaks. Then the pale moon
: slowly  drifted   up   from   behind   the
mountain ramparts and sent a flood of
light down Lost Chance gulch and
athwart tlie Ophir trail
And Dick Hunt looked down the trail
.nil saw again that alluring, beckoning,
•eduetivc procession tossing'maddening
races in the moonlight and heard their
: liabolical whisperings: "Why work any
more? Why not take the shortest, surest
way to fortune?  Fortune is coming np
| ihe Ophir trail to you.    Seize her, cap-
| sure her, hold her by her throat and
• jompel her to be yours."
:     "By God, that's what I'll do!" said
i Dick Hunt.
He rose, went into his cabin and
iighted his lamp, the lamp which many
a night had been a beacon to the slight,
delicate boy who carried the mail across
the mountains over the Ophir trail. Dick
had always liked that lad. Someway,
when he had seen him riding by on his
sure   footed, nloddins,  patient  jitotle
burro; 'when the rider had looked up
to the cabin and swung his sombrero to
the lonely miner, Dick had caught in
the mirror of the postboy's personality
some fleeting, ghostly shadow of his
own lost youth. Glimpses of days long
dead, days when life had been one vast
possibility; when hope had shone not
like an ignis fatuns, but like a signal
nre on a mountain top; when all the
world had been his, flashed before him.
He had come to look for the boy's approach as an event. He liked to hear
his cheery whistle and halloo, to answer
back some rough, good natured greeting,
and then to watch him climb the range
—farther, farther, a speck, out of sight.
He felt an interest in the young chap
almost as if he belonged to him. He had
grown into his life, as it were.
And tonight he had made up his mind
;o murder him!
Yes, that was the only way to get
anything in this blasted country. He
had plodded like a burro just long
snough. He knew that Jack Fanchot,
the postman, would carry next morning
the weekly mail over the range. He
knew, moreover, that there would be several thousand dollars in the mailbag—
Christmas presents that lucky prospectors were sending away to their friends.
He smiled grimly as he thought that
certain people would wait long for their
Christmas present this year. By nightfall he would be in Silverton, and
then—
He had no definite plan. The lust for
gold had simply overpowered him. His
only impulse was to steal, kill and get
away. Dick Hunt was for the moment
ft madman.
Of course there would be no difficulty
in managing the boy. Diek was twice
his size and then coming upon him and
surprising him—oh, yes, it would be
dead easy! All this while hewas eating
his hasty supper and clearing away the
table for operations. He cleaned and reloaded his six shooters and put them
under his flabby pillows. Then, taking
a piece of coarse white cloth, he constructed a frightfully grotesque mask
and crammed it in the pocket of the coat
he meant to wear on the morrow. When
his ghastly preparations were finished,
he lay down and slept.
He wakened at daylight, got np,
cooked his bacon and flapjacks, made
his coffee andtried-to eat. But someway
tlie food stuck in his throat. After
breakfast he buckled on his belt and pistols, put on the long coat he brought
from the east ten years back, drew his
slouch hat well down over his restless,
fiery eyes, and with the stealthy tread
of a wild beast crept through the cedars
and pines down the trail.
When Jack Fanchot came whistling
up the trail, leading his heavily laden
burro  and  striking  listlessly with his
•tip at the sagebrush, he was sudden-
Continued on the last page.
No Matter
pleasure.
Whether you ride on business or for
We desire to announce that we have purchased the Livery Business of A. Miller & Sou aud shall endeavor to work for yonr interest as
well as our own. Farming is our business, which we shall continue in,
r.nd with the livery in connection can work both ends to a greater advantage.
For a time at least, we shall remain at the old stand where we
shall be pleased to wait upon the many old customers.and any new ones
that may come our way. No pains will be spared for your convenience
and our prices will be reasonable.
In a short time wo shall add several new rigs to our stock   which
will then enable us to meet any demand for something nice that may
come.
Thomas Baty, Supt.
H. O. LAMKIN,  Prop.
^UNDERWEARt*
We have the largest and most
complete line of underwear in town.
A full line of Men's
Boys', Ladies', Misses, and
Childs' in white and colored.
Our ladies 25c Jersey is
a hummer.    Others ask 40c for it.
GOMES A2tfB SEE THEM
Chas. Burkhart
20 Main St.     Aisnsr Abbor
Why not buy your Christmas Presents in an up-to-date store?
■\\
We have such a store and every person who buys of us appreciate our stock, our prices, our enterprise, our houorab le
methods.
M"OQO n AAT\Oare alWi^5 ^p^'^iGLOAKS and PUR CAFES
Jibb ljUUJJba»d rknaTfuu!   . ,.*,-    , '" ♦    •
present.     Our   stock;      Are waiting your bidding and every garment at a price
of dress goods is the most complete in  the county and ourj£rom 2g tQ 5Q e(jnt ]QWer than  earlier in ^ S(jason_
large sales enable us to offer fresh, new goods at all  times.; ,
r>    /-ii. ■ .._ - 1       on        , ,n ..1. on    ^ {This genuine reduction enables you to buy Wraps at prices
For Christmas our specials at 8'Je and 49e, worth 20e   to,      .« j r   ■      r   •>
40c a yd. more, are attractive. {usually given only in January.    Why not make your  wife
Large variety of Fine Foreign Novslties marked downjor mother happy with a stylish Wrap?
20 to 30 per cent for this Sale. J
Especial bargains in Black Goods !
A glance at our stock will assist you.
d^ T T     \f ^^ are ever the richest of presents.
We are showing nearly 100 styles of fancy Silks, suitable for
waists, at C9e to 31.85 a yd.
In Black Silks we offer special Christmas Bargains in Peau DeSoie—Alma Koyal Faille—Satin Duchesse and
Surahs at oOe, 75c. 98e, $1.25 and 81,50.   Every piece guaranteed 20 per con t below last years figures,
evening wear iu large variety.
Silks foi
GLOVES
iJAPANESE   BAZAR!!
HANK'F'S.
J J    5000 of tliem to select from, ranging
Ever the duiight ot lb » Lv lies   look- J    Onr Japanese Bazar displays a large \ -in pC;ce from tne Initial Hank'fs at  5c
io- f„r a Ch.istmas present. {variety   of   Japanese    Porcelain   and! t0 the flDe  Duchess  Laco  Hank'fs  at
"       ' S Lacyer work at astonishingly low prices', .§5.00 each.
Sl.00, SI 25,  8150,  and 32 00  per!    In the same department Toys. Toilet j~ 0lu. Fancy Emb,d Jap. silk Hank,f3
pair for P.& P. warranioed Ivid G loves. \
(Articles and Fancy presents for every-'
«body, can be found at prices far below »,.
! those specialty stores. S
' at 12c. 13c and 19c are ■jvell worth dou-
Ribbon Sale       #
2000yds. all Silk-S:il\n Ribbons in three widths only.
No. 2 worth 01*. at 2c a yd.
No. b  worth 10c at oe :i yd.
No. 9 worth ISc at 9e a yd.
liny unir Ribbons for Fancy work at half price.
SOUVENIR SPOONS Given Away.
To i»very ensh purchaser of goods to the amount of
$2.00 we shall present a tine Souvenir Spoon, same
styles and quality as retailed at the World's Fair at
$1.00 each.
E. F. MILLS & CO.
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