1895-01-03; Saline Observer

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SALINE, WASHTENAW. CO., MICH.,   THURSDAY,    JANUARYS, 1895.
VOL. XV.~NO.10.
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..BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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T W. GAUNtLETT, D. O.
Graduate of the
Chicago Ophthalmic College and Hospital
"Will efill and test your eyes if you address
.me at
MILAN',
MIOH.
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"D  F. SHEEDER, A. M., M. D.
Physician & Surgeon.
From the TJ. or M. and Jefferson Hospital College, Fhiuelphia. Late assistant to the Bliss Eye
Hospital-, Springfield;, O.
Special attention given to the eye.
< Eyes tested and glasses fitted.
Office and Residence—the Marsh house, Chica-
gri.St. .        ,
. 'SALINE - - MICH.
T")R.G. E. HATHAWAY,
Dentist
Office over Nichols Bros, drug store.
SALINE,
MICH.
F
E.JON ES.
Attorney at Law.
Business attended to with Promptness and
Care._Office on McKay street,
SALINE, - - MICH.
Mooreville.
Jack Frost has come again and the
boys are hunting up their skates.
A. 6'. Mclntyre and family have been
spending a few days in Sharon.
Mrs. Isaac Clark has returned from
her visit to Bay City.
Clarence Culver has gone to Adrian
'to attend Brown:s Business College.
Irving Clark and family spent New
Years at Dexter.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Davis, of Lansing,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ford, of Milan and
E. W. Ford, of Saline, ate Christmas
dinner with E. B. Ford and family.
Milton Davenport made a trip over
to Briton one day this week to identify
his goods that were taken some three
weeks ago.
The little daughter of Frank Haynes
who has been very sick is improving
slowly.
Milton Davis was given a surprise
by the families of the telephone line
who presented him with a fine chair.
Milan Murmurings.
Q IR. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law,
t'apeciallattention paid to Pension Claims o£ all
kinds.   Newcomb Block,
MILAN, - .        MICH.
,C   W. CHANDLER, M □.,
PHrSICIAN;and SUKGEON
'iHce on Adrian Street, first door, Hourt of the
Wallace Block,
VALINE, '■       -      'MICH.
p   C. SLAQHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
MACON, LENAWEE CO., MIOH.
Connection with Tecumseh hy  Telegraph
■ and.byMail.
AH. CAU.S PROMPTLY ATTENDED  TO.
yYATKRMAN'     .
PHQTOGBAPH GAUjEBY.
(Miss QillBtt'g old stand,)
Willlie lu Saline every Wednesday and shall be
jleused to meet all in need of work in my line.
"Jail and see samples of our work.
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SALI>
Barber,Shop
tpboii
Line.
HOMER PISH
J!"$IC.H."
lair Cutting,' Shaving,   Shampooing  and
Work in the Barber Line.
all
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^^PfilNTVE."?ANCE.B, AN*3^=r
fllotary   *   Public:.
i\\\ legal papevg flvawn an-s^prt
nptiijp ami a* prtpe? within the
reach o{ all.
_ General Fire Insurance a Specialty.
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CITY MEAT MARKET.
G. A. LINDENSCHMIDT
Is still at the old stand, where be is always pre
pared to serve his customers with THE BEST
..   ,   IN TJHE MARKET in the line of
ftvgh and-Salt Meats ol all K
Poultry, Fish, Sausage, Etc.,
fi{T POPULAR PRICES.
Gojnple'c.stgam outfit fop manufacturing sau
■■ sage,  ^xneuiber the old stand.
The Free Methodists are holding revival meetings at the Union ch urch
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sill entertained
guests from Saline, Lansing, Dexter,
and Milan New Years.-
Mrs. Wm. Hoyt has returned home
accompanied by Mary Bell and Chas.
Sill.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mains   and   son
have returned to their home in Detroit.
Mrs. H. C. Markham, of Ann  Arbor,
was  the guest of her sister Mrs. G. R.
Williams Friday.
Chas. Johnson of the U. of M. is the
guest of Miss Curtis during the holiday
vacation.
Miss Alice McMahon is entertaining
guests from Clayton.
Mrs. J. Schmitt and children have
returned from their Detroit sojourn.
Mr. and Mrs. Egner are visiting
friends in Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rouse entertained
guests at tea Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Rouse visited
friends Saturday and Sunday.
Chas. King, of Cleveland, is the
guest of his sister Mrs. Nellie Whaley.
Mr. and Mrs. Pratt who have* been
the guests of their cousin Mrs. Minto
haye returned to their home at Vernon.
Fine skating on the Saiine, river
since F.ricjay.
Mr. and Mrs. Mell Barnes au.d, sou.,
have returner", frp.m. *>he4r Quincy so-
jfiHFu- '-
^Ir. and "4r.s. I. g. Ford a.re enter*
tWiflf gi"es.t3. from L.an.sing,
Chas". ""jbavt>r'dge, of Warsaw, Ind. is
vigiting friends here,
Mi"""- F- Tvnsgei is entertaining her
sister Miss Susie Hanker, of Elkhart,
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Prof. W, Babcock, and family are
spending the holiday vacation here.
Miss Mary Murry has returned from
her European trip and says she is glad
to be home once more.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Putman are in
Union City for a few days.
Our Weight.
The person who is congratulating
himself upon a gain of five or six
pounds over last summers's weight may
not he pleased to learn that Dr. Henri
de Parrvillle finds this idea to be probably an illusion. The learned French
investigator has satisified himself by a
five years' record of precise daily
weighings of his own body, that very
few persons have any accurate knowledge of their own weight. In ordinary
weighings no account is taken of the
errors of the scales, of the weight of
the clothing, of the time after eating,
of the condition of the hody as regards
heating, or of the barometric or hy-
grometric state of the atmosphere.
Discarding sources of error, the actual
weight is constantly changing, heing
subject to innumerable influen3es. After breakfast, on a warm day, one loses
more than a third of a pound an hour,
and, as 70 per cent of the body is water
our weight must constantly vary with
the transpiration of moisture. It varies, moreover, with the pressure of
the atmosphere. The mere variations
in atmospheric humidity may account
for a change of more than a pound, and
other causes may account for another
pound. For these reasons, the usual
inference of a gain or loss of a few
pounds in a considerahle interval is to
be distrusted. Accurate scales, how-'
ever, are not without value in medical
practice, lack of a certain indefinite
growth indicating impaired health in
young infants, while in adults a sudden
increase of a pound or so in a day denotes a tendency to disease, and fluctuations of not -more than three or four
ounces per day are evidence of health.
AT CANDLE LIGHTING.
I think it better to believe,
And be even as tho children—they
The children of the early day—
"Who let the kindly dreams deceive
And "oyeel sn all the iniiid may weave
Of dear conceit—"better, I say,
To let wild fancy have her way,
To trust her, 'than to know and grieve.
A poet of old Colophon
A notion held I think was right,
Ko matter how or whence he gafe it—
Tho stars are snuffed out every dawn
And newly lighted every night.
I hope to catch the angels at it.
—John Tance Cheney in Century.
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" "•£**.' is-colon, and photographs, of new
._. with-plans, enabling tnSIaera to show the
t-deslCTS anfi secure contracts. Address '
I & CO. M«w Toek, 361 Broadway.
Michigan Furniture Men Meet and Form
an Organization.
At' Grand Rapids last Friday, furni?
ture men from various sections o^ '•'fee
State met and comple'ig^ s,xi"'cfrgahiisa-
tion tpt fight "tha1'employment of convict
laoor dn'Jurnib'ure'br any other kind of
goods in competition with free labor.
They passed resolutions asking the
Legislature to submit to tlie pecn^s, j^"?.
clause on j-bisj ^^e«t ivom" the new
coaptation ofNew York State as an
amendment to the Michigan constitution. The organization is called "The
Michigan Furniture Manufacturers.1
Association.'? The officer"; w?$X '^SSAn
Geprge R. "j^'^\^'ea, oi .Holland; vice-
pres.^E. H. Foot, Grand Rapids; sec,
E. M. Hunting, Grand Rapids..
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"What Is Sleep?
The phenomena g[ ^l.e^u" t(tv,.& ueon
b5Jl iSC^V'f6!"^ ^WUiqd.'but Dr. Henry
Wurtz concludes that it is a subject for •
physiologist and chemist quite as much,
as the phychologist. There are good'
reasons, not fully tested by experiirjtfni
that  normal  sleep, }•$(} glsn^n?§?? W
4F°«§iF.?^Vapp flue te a 8Rin;H'.iaPv*K,'§'?
ovep the af epagia qftlie carbonic jtci.d,
in solution In" the blood, avlsliiS' from
its oVer-produetion from the greater
amount of muscular aud.other tissue I
tha;t' undergoes oxidation during'the,
miking hours. During ilp sleeping,
hours this overload of the anaesthetic
gas is gradually discharged until wnkej
fulnuss results.
It was long past midnight, hut the
governor still sat alone in his library,
hard at work on his forthcoming message.
Absolute quiet reigned in the mansion, and n.ot a light "was to be seen in
9(ny, pf the neighboring houses.
' The governor's wife was visiting
friends in the country, and the servants, were all asleep in their quarters in,
a, separate building.
The, governor.'-g. pen moved rapidly
p,ver sheet after shee'i of paper.
■finally the -writer paused and for a
moment was absorbed in profound
thought,
"Then he rose and slowly paced the
room, occasionally stopping, apparently
to listen to some real or imaginary noise
in another part of the house.
He felt that his work had overtaxed
him, and a nervous feeling came over
him, due partly to physical exhaustion
and partly to his sense of utter loneliness.
"I wish that I had told John to sit
up," he said to himself, "but he is like
all the other servants, too sleepy headed to be of any use.''
He resumed his chair and took np his
pen.
What was that in the hall? Was it a
footstep?
Nearer and nearer came the stealthy,
shuffling steps. - "*"
The governor- eon.ld, ft^ laager, douhk
the testimony; o$ ft'ijs' own' e'ars,' but a
s^age'MumWess 'seized him, and he
^lt'unable to rise from his chair.
' * In another moment it was too late.
The door opened softly, an4 "\ "(ft'JitV
walked in—a big, stout; f^,9,v^ "EOVghly.
clad, with hardj ^j^d.' "face and bold,
daring ay.^a.    '»    * *"
'"J^'juti'uder quietly locked the door
and took a chair on the side of the table
opposite the governor.
"Keep your seat, governor," &e ^^
with a peculiar leer. >^y. feusiness
won't take long   ^en minutes will be
*a?M^'.u
•■'Who are you," gasped the governor,
"and how did yp'u get in?"
"Red: Rube is what -they ca.U in&M
was the reply, "and I wajljf^ ^» af the
hack door. I kjl-ja^^QvW"aigge>* down
WA §i\^A iW® a*'^ took the key away
ij?K,ft mmn ago, when he left the house,
and then I waited until everything was
quiet/  Any more questions?"
The governor's face turnetVpa.l'*.. Ift&Cl
Rnbo Was ono of i[\§ *ft'{ffiSt "S^QWB'loea
that have |]r.(.y sst^"- fcj ijtie.npwilontiary in
^fSUiji^av.^ ftu"4 ^5 i»idnight visit cer-
fi»in|y. meant robbery {md perhaps mnr-
&i-'
s''So yon hfive escaped from prison,"
gntd tho governor.
"Yes; I skipped ont last night. Then
I came to town, called on a friend and
got some clothes and these."
As he said this he exhibited a large
bowio knifo and a pistol-,
"Yon see, lam. wellflxgA au$ l"iaeai\
bnanpss,' '• laflgheci |ha.'rriffla'nl'"
.'' .vBu^'vrh'at #Q you. want, and why
-we you herb?''' asked the other. , ,„ ^ u= FU1iUuiy growi
^'•Welltgovernor, tpmakealong storjj gsteaat of western territory.
short, I'want yon to write me a pardon
and let me have enongh money to pay
my way out west."
It was an outrageous request. Should
the ruler of a great state allow himself
to be bulldozed into pardoning a murderer and supplying him with funds?
And yet what was to be done? It was
impossible to raise an alarm that wonld
be heard. If the intruder's demand was
refused, the governor wonld be a dead
man, and the convict would rob bis person and make his escape.
The heroic thing wonld be to resist to
the end, but the governor thought of
his young wife, and he felt that he
must save his life at any cost It was
ont of the question for an unarmed man
in delicate health to struggle with a
giant like Red Rube, who could finish
him with his knife in a second.
"I won't he hard on you," said Red
Rube, "but I must have the pardon,
and I must have at least $100."
"I will summon help," said the governor.
"Excuse me, but you can't," replied
Red Rube. "The servants and the
neighbors can't hear you, and if you
raise your voice or try to ring a bell,
why, I'll have to use this," and he
pointed to his knife.
The helpless man on the other side of
the table could hot repress a slight
shndder, bnt he made an effort to appear
calm.
"You are drunk or crazy," he said
sternly, "hut I will give yon one chance.
Leave the house, and I will say nothing
about your visit."
Red Rube laughed heartily.
"You don't size up the situation," he .
said.   "I have got to make this deal or |
go back to prison, and I will die before '
I will go back.   Now, if I kill you and
they capture me, they will not hang
me."
"I wonld like to know why," said
the astonished governor.
"Because they have sent me to the
insane ward,"was the answer, "and
they were getting ready to put me in
the asylum. I am no longer a criminal,
bnt a howling lunatic, don't you see?
Well, if they try me for killing yon,
all they will do will be to send me to
the insane asylum."
The governor sank back in his chair,
and Rube grinned.
• "You see," said Rube, "I was once
acquitted of a murder in Texas on the
ground of insanity and was locked up a
year in an asylum, but I got out, and
here I am. I can prove that insanity
runs in my family. My father and two
of my brothers have been crazy for
years. When I am disappointed in anything, my fit cornea on, and I- try to kill
everything in sight.''
Re looked like a madman, with his
glaring eyes and unkempt hair.
' 'Thero is no glory in being killed by
a lunatic," thought the governor.
But he tried one more appeal,
"I am sorry for yon," fee said, "if
yonr mind is «\'spr-f|ere^.. Here is a $10.
hill. Take it and go. Follow tho coun-
tiy roads and get Out of the state and
try to lead a better life."
"Thanks!" sneered the robber.
Then, firmly grasping his knife, he
walked to the governor's chair.
"Time flies," he growled.  "Fix that
pardon, and fix it d d quick, and hand
me that §100!"
His look was that of a wild boast, and
a white froth stood on his lips.
Tho man in the chair looked up into
the pitiless face above him. Red Rube
came closer -with his big knife.
"Yes or no—say it quick!" he muttered.
"All right," was the hasty reply,
"Here's the money, and nowI'll fix^b.9,
pardon."
He opened a drawer in Ms "5ss& and
took out a printed form, partially filled
out.
"I wa,s, g^ng-k),visit the penitentiary
\oms^sayf,^' \e, explained, "and I had:
| several pardons filled out by my seere-
^ary, with the great seal affixed^ and alii
that I have to do is to pnii ia yonr nams,
and sign my own."
In a morqea.if ^he-. blanks were filledi.
andl Rod, ^vibe- had. the precious, doon^
:yjej« in his pocket.
'•'Much obliged, governor," s&Jdihe,.
with a smile, "but you won't play an?
tricks, will yon?"
' 'Not if I can help "& "> was-the answer.
"I don't wani", yon, caught I am the
last;,m,ai\ ^a, fhe world to make this busi-
^esa public "
' 'I thought so,» repliedRuba ' 'That
suits me. If yon offer "ttOi reward, I can
get away, and if they ever find ont who
I am when. I get ont west this pardon
VtiXk "PSOSeot me. Walk to the door with
ipas, governor." fH
The other followed without award to
the back door of the halL
' 'Goodby, old man," whispered Rube.
"No tricks, you know."
"I shall say "nothing and offer no ro-
■wartV saifi the master of the mansion.
Sed Rube disappeared in the darkness,'
softly chuckling as ho went.
"Pardoned hy the governor!" he kept
repeating to himself.
The governor locked the door and returned to the library. All night long he
walked the floor, and it was not until
morning that he sought his bed after
a short talk with the servant who had
given up tho key.
- Fortunately for hi"M» R.ed Rnbo was
never heard P$ again. If he had been
oap.fured,. the developments might have
\>.een. very sensational.—-Wallace P.
I?eec3 in Atlanta Constitution.
It has been decided that uvimson clover can he profitably grown over a-large •
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INVENTORY SALE
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E. F. MILLS & GO.
20 Main St., Ann Arbor.
We take our annual inventory Jan. 31st, and until that date we shall offer
everything in Winter Goods at prices tlitat will speedily close them
In addition to the above we shall offer during the month of
January everything in
CARPETS
Including Axminister. Moquette, Velvet, Body and Tap Brussels,
Ingrains,Etc., at
ONE-FOURTH   OFF   FOR    CASH.
If you desire to furnish a room or a house this will prove an   opportunity
which you can ill afford to miss.
IN OUR-
CLOAK DEPARTMENT
We shall close all the latest cloaks and fur garments at one-third off
and give still greater reductions on all goods in the department.
E. F. MILLS & CO.
No Matter
Whether you ride on business or for
pleasure.
We desire to announce that we have purchased the Livery Business of A. Miller & Son and shall endeavor to work for your interest as
well as our own. Farming is our business, which we shall continue in,
and with the livery in connection can work both ends to a greater advantage.
For a time at least, wo shall remain at tho old stand where we
shall be pleased to wait upon the many old customers,and any now ones
thafmay come our way. No pains will be spared for your convenience
and our prices will be reasonable.
In a short time we shall add several new rigs to our stock which
will then enable us to meet any demand for something nice that
come.
may
Thomas Baty, Supt.
H. O. LAMKIN, Prop.
^UNDERWEflR^
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
Others ask 40c for it.
COME iU&D SEE THRIVE
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a hummer.
Chas. Burkhart
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Heavy and Fine Harness,
TffVTvsaw*'^!'**.--*- .-■*-'
Oaa?3?±aig©s a-xLcl
ways on hand'
iRepairing Promptly ^m^^^W^