1892-10-06; Saline Observer

              The Saline
A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
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SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1892.
VOL. XII.-NO. 5 _.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONAL.
rp   E.JONES.
Attorney at Law.
All Butin _s attended to with Promptness and
Care.   Office on McKay street,
SALINE,
MICH.
Q,   R. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law,
Especial attention paid to Pension Claims of all
kinds.   Newcomb.Block,
MILAN, • ■ MICH.
CT   A. NICHOLS, Nl. O.,
PHYSICIAN aud SUKGEO-l.
Office atUlolios - ros'. drug store.
SALINE,        - MICH..
p    F. gHTERKIRCHER.NI.D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office in Hauser Woo . Chicago street.
SALINE,        -       -        MICH.
C   W. CHANDLER, M  □.,
'PHYSICIAN and SURGEON..
Office on Adrian Street, first door sour . of the
Wallace Block,
SALINE, •        • MICH.
p   C. SLAQHT,
t-.
Veterinary Surgeon.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College,
Ki-sidence VA miles east of Pennington s Corners.   Calls may be left at either of the
stores at the Corners.    All calls
MACO
tromptly attended to.
MICH.
What the Editor   Gets.
fttt--&£-kA__:--~.
U/WTERIttAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Miss Gillett's old stand.)
Will be in Sal ine every Wednesday and shall be
jleased to meet all in need of work in lny line.
Jnlland see samples of our work.
¥
CORDON,
f^e. Bigneer-B§jn.1._f.
■mm . sign <_ 4 'flw?mpvM ?v\r$m& pw
fliiiigjlig. . fps.pp.ing, P.tp.
Practical Painter.
Iousl- painting, graining, paper  hanging and
kiv. oininlng.    AU work promptly and
nciUlr  doua. and  satisfaction
Buarantoed.
SALIN'B,        •        -        MIOH.
fTANDUZER'S
Barber Shop.
Cair Cutting.    Shaving,   Shampooing  and   all
Work in Ike Barber Line.
Bath room in connection.   Hot or cold baths at
„,. timos. A." B. VAN DUZER.
-AL1XE, - - MICH.
A. MILLER & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Alber).
LA-v&vjfm F <f _f 4 H?-**
First-class rijjjs at reasonable rates.
Coram. _■ ial travelers and their bag-
jag. c.irri.d to and from adjoining
.owns with promptness, and at living
rat os.
Old   Warner    House Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
When a child is born into the "world
the physician is presented and gets
about §10 for officiating at the important event. The editor heralds the advent of the stranger and gets a cursing
for making a mistake as to the sex and
date of arrival.
After a while the child becomes a
man, the minister is called to perform
the marriage ceremony and walks off
with a 310 in his pocket for his trouble.
The editor is again called upon to
chronicle this event by drawing on his
imagination to make the bride and
groom the most respectable people in
the county. His onlypayisto be asked
for a few extra copies of his paper to
send to some absent friends.
In time the once baby, once happy
groom, but now a man well advanced in
years, is brought down by death. Again
the physician is called in and makes his
bill, tho undertaker is present and
officiates at the funeral, and in time
wants $100 for performing the last sad
rites, while the editor is expected to
complete the drama by holding up the
deceased as a model gentleman,aud one
who at present is flying up the golden
stairs. The probabilities are at the
same time that the baby,the groom and
the dead man have heen so infernally
stingy that he stinted his wife and
children and had never contributed one
cent to the support of his local paper.
What does the editor get? He gets left.
—Adrian Times.
Picturesque Plant Life of California.
Iota BaumgardBgr,
. tipt._- ipMmK-KM
_____BB,\-ER VS—™=
Foreign and American
marble,
Granite and   Building
stone.
Corner oi Detroit and Catherine Sts.
ANN ARBOR MICH.
California has become the paradise of
the rosarian, the seed-grower, the hy-
bridizer, -and the ntvb_eryjnan_ The
WH . gulps ia vifioct as a stock for wine
and raisin grapes, and, in some cases
that I know of, men have grafted Italian chestnuts upon one species of the
native oaks. All the hillsides of tbe
tree region, when not too steep to plow
nor too far above the sea-level, will
grow the fruitsand varied horticultural
products of Spain, Portugal, Italy, and
southern France. Tho pomegranate, ia
a garden shrub, in ni-iqy csisti'lct^, and
the aji^qtytj iq ^ uo.ac^side ti\ae. The
cj;;op,_)ing, acacia-like leaves of the scarlet-fruited pepper-tree grow with
magnolias, palms, i\ .d OPi-Um- of Le=
k .nop.- Qr;l_£j. a >V .4 lemons stand in
iijany an i.r_l.ai. with apples and peaches. Among the notable plants of the
State ave many adopted species, such
as the ao . .lua and oucolyptuses of Australia, and the bamboos and persimmons
of Japan.
When Americana come to California,
thoy wore surprised at the variations
that they observed iu familiar plants.
The elderberry, which is only slightly
different from the elderberry-bush of
the Atlautio slope, often becomes a
treu of from two to four feet in
diameto -and thirty or forty feet high.
This is merely a matter'">f local environment, rich soil, and shelter; the same
species is a mere shrub on the rocky
hillsides of tho Coast Range. The
bronze leaved fUeinus, which makes a
semi-tropic summer garden in tnu^ Cti
lri-iny nix AtUiDti^eoj^t Co .a'gti, grow*.
f-f?y(.iiV alio., year it. California, until
a (.tuition of its stjm a foot aid a half
in diameter can be obtained by any collector of vegetable curiosities. Get•::-
niums, nasturtiums, tomatoes, and many
oth .• plants, useful aud otherwise, escape from cultivation, modify th_r
habits of growth, aud soon b.jeo:_.
wild again. Many plants of M.-xico,
Peru, Chili, the Hawaiian Islands,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
and the Mediterranean shores have already become dangerous weeds. The
loquat, a choice fruit of Japan, is all _ac]y
growing wild in some c itio,ti^ \..t.ei-e
picniC;Tiai'fipg &$„•'.._ tip jfosO-.
-_B.fiMis, peacjies, phprvies. and Eng
lish w&lnuts have h'^n found in the
forcsts=~cTu_Q6 shadings, growing with
tho madronos and m__z_altas. — Oct.
Century,
5, JOSENHANS'
Mill lit,
REPAIRING    DONE     ON     SHORT
NOTICE.
Alt kinds of-orging. Repairing lloi. eshoeing,
and eeneral Jobbing.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED and prices reasonable.     Shop   on   Ann Arbor street.
near Main.
SALINE,
MTCH
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Council Proceedings.
Regular meeting held Oct. 3, 1892.
President S. D. Van Duzer in the
chair.
Trustees present: McKinnon, Sturm,
Marsh, Glover. Absent: Ja.skso. .
Haianon-
illUil'&S fl. ppevwws meeting read
a ne! ajipppved, "
The Aminos -Orainittee reported favorably on the following bills, and on
motion orders were drawn for same:
E. W. Ford & Son. sewer pipe and cement, $10.50
J. Lutz, street work, g.3S
M. D Wallace, street work, _ .o->
Geo. Sherman. 500 loads dirt. is 50
C". Schaffer * Son, stone and cement, 435
J. Lutz. cemetery- work. 3.75
M. 11. Wallace, cemetery work, 1,25
On motion meeting adjourned.
S. D. VanDuzer,
C. N. How, President.
Clerk.
Fresh assortment Ri fi .e *_am.ieB at
_ire_.
I am tired torn",  it, and something—
Tlie wind, maybe, or the rain,
Or the cry of the bird in tlie copse outside—
Has brought back the past and its pain.
And I feel, as I sit here • thinking.
That the hand of the dead old June
Has reached hold of myheart's loose strings,
And is drawing them up in tune.
I am tired tonight, and I miss you
And long for you, love through tears;
And it seems hut today that I saw you go—
Tou who have been gone for years;
And I seem to be newly lonely,
I, who am so much alone;
And the strings of my heart are well in_tune,
But they have not the same old tone.
I am tired, and that old sorrow
Sweeps down the bed of my soul.
As a turoulent river might suddenly break
Away from a dam's control,
Itbeareth a wreck on its bosom,
A wreck with a snow-white sail,
—.nd the hand on my heartstrings thrums
away,
But they only respond with a wail.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
HER FIRST BALL.
There was a great deal of unusual
excitement in the pretty little valley
of the Popo-Agie. There was always
plenty of excitement there. Miners,
cowboys, farmers and soldiers—put
them, together anywhere, and there
will be plenty of excitement. But this
was a peaceable excitement. It was
the first social event known in the history of Lander. It was a ball. Tom
Osborne had cleared the room of his
storehouse for the affair. The women
had been cooking good things to eat
for the three preceding days. The
men had decorated the hall with pine
boughs fresh from the snow-oovered
Wind river mountain.
Peg Leg, Mexican Joe and Dutch
Pete had promised to be on hand with
their fiddles, and they were neveji-
known to fail to be present at anything when they promised to be, although Peg Leg would have to make a
three-;day journey in' one witb bis inula
tearn, \o. keep his. promise, and Dutch
t. te would have to leave for a whole
rugbf tlie little herd of cattle that he
.oped, in a blind, trusting way, would
some clay make him rich. Oceans of
snowy clippings of spermaceti candle
had been strewn over the floor of the
storehouse under the experienced direction of the "schoolmarni," who was
no "schoolmarnx" at all, because she
was a young man from the east. And
tkere had oeen a call at the single
store in Lander fov "Wiled shirts,"*
linen (.Har?, fapcy handkei-ohiefs,
\WIS . * polared stui\- for dresses, new
Sitore eki.tlies and new boats and shoes,
that was at anco very gratifying to the
proprietor of the store and indicative
of a growing civilization.
Bnt it was a mad excitement to her.
She could hardly wait for it to occur.
It was her first ball. "Buckskin Nell"
they called her, because of the buckskin pony she rode with all the dash
and skill of a cowboy. Helen Whitti-
more was her x-eal name, and she was
tho only daughter—in fact, the sum
total of the family—of old John Whit-
timore, who had gone west iu the sixties to make his fortune and had never
made it. He had been a geutleman
once. What her mother was Nell
did not know, for she had died when
Nellie was a baby.
At any x-ate, between them they had
bequeathed a brave little heart and a
beautiful disposition to the child, who
was thereafter to be brought up almost without the society of women.
She was a lady by instinct, notwithstanding the x-emax-kable way she
dashed around on her buckskin pony1-
and the rather had grammar she nkSpf
She was sixteen, pretty .$ct fr.. a's a
wild rose, with a ele^V'QOWl .cxion and
lsu gjhiisg ty;-<*. ' .ue had read a good
^sui 'a..a' had formed some ideas oi
the groat world (very queer ideas,
some of them), and she had her ambitions.
The men of the Pope-Agie valley
saw _ttsr bud from a romping little girl
into the very prettiest girl in Sweetwater county, with a great deal of interest and more or less astonishment.
She had already caused a good many
of them to sigh and look melancholy,
but not one had ever dared as yet to
propose for her hand, or even show
her any marked attention. Even the
imported school teacher knew that he
was not good enough for her, aud kept
out of the way, which was 3 \yise thing,
for him tQ -Qiio? ha was not pa.j^cu'l4rly.
strong, and it wa^'^Qf .i-tWupi'obal)..
-htit $Ifc'_itf.#wii(_ „tai_ied*"'Buckskiri
Ifelt" wonld'Mave to'light for her more
titan' once. Jealous}7, too, makes a
man's hand awfully steady when he
aims a pistol, aud the school teacher
was not a good shot at all.
It was merely a. quiet amusement to
Lieutenant Hardy. He would stroll
over from his camp, leaving his soldiers in charge of his first sergeant
every day, and take a look at the preparations. Occasionally, in a lazy
way, he would offer a suggestion or
two. He had been a hop manager at
West Point in cadet days (a tremendous honor), and after his graduation
had led many a germaq. and figurdcl-i'H
inany -fth-^tiotis?' Tf.wa-iidrdly'-to'b-
g^QCt&Vl tfcit' .e. would condescend to
danoe at this backwoods affair, but his
suggestions were considered invaluable. Even the school teacher listened
deferentially when he explained a few
pretty figures for the opening and
closing of the ball. He was considerably more interested in it, however,
because it was to be her first ball. He
had acquired quite a liking for her. He
had discovered the latent ladyhood in
her, and for the few weeks he had been
in camp near her father's ranch he
had made quite a study of her.
_ A fellow has to do something tp keeps
his mind busy when ha is away.frpm*
his books jind pq$ti^t$itRj_!-di(d' ffie.it
she wag..'avifoUiy'fcr-etty.' Ije liad adr
feed;^Her .fbstt to. {yea. and had given
her a few lessons in the waltz. By his
advice she was to wear a simple dress
of  white muslin, with, a sash.   The
other women would look horrible with
their gaudy colors and ill cut dresses,
he knew, and he expected her to make
a sensation. He quietly gave the
young school teacher the hint to escort
her, for he himself merely intended to
look on. It would hardly be in keeping with his social position as an officer
of the army, in fact, as the most dashing young lieutenant in his regiment,
to dance a. such an affair as that. He
was a trifle surprised when she asked
him if she should accept the school
teacher's proffered attentions. From
her manner he saw that it was rather
a hroad hint to him, and he was aware
that it hurt her a good deal when he
told her to go with that young man.
Evidently she had expected his"courtesy for the occasion. But he did not
pay any attention to the fact. It was
nothing to him.
He did not go near her on the day of
the hop. He knew she would'expect
him, and he had what many a liner
lady had called a "most contrary disposition." Along in the evening he
"H_lked leisui_ly over from his camp.
The ball had already begun, and he
smiled as he entered the room- The
crowd was even more interesting than
he thought it would he. The awkwardness of the men and the feeble
attempts at style of the women, the
three fiddlers sawing away for dear
life—even the nproariousness of the
crowd were more absurd than he had
hoped. He leaned up against the
doorwa\r, well aware that in his faded
blouse and cavalry boots he looked
more the gentleman than any man in
the room, would ever look or ever had
looked in his life. He did not see her
at first, for she was standing near the
door at which he entered, and bnt ten
feet from his side,
As l.e looked calmly around he
eavtght sight of her and' knew from
her inannor and her blush that she
had been looking at him aud had
turned away her eyes in a little lit of
angex-. He repressed an exclamation.
If he had been in a civilized hop room
he would have said quite aloud: "By
Jove! What a beauty!" He had not
expected her to do half as well with
her white muslin and blue ribbon.
He did not know what exquisite beauty
she in reality possessed. The old excitement of the dance, spurred on by
the presence of vouth and beauty,
came hack to him. Should he dance
with her? He confessed that he would
like to, after all. He would make her
still more of a sensation if he were to
dance with her and no other woman
in the room. But he would have to do
it in a rather patronizing way or she
might think too seriously of it. He
concluded to do it. It would be a
clever thing to tell the ladies at more
pretentious affairs, when he should go
east on leave of absence.
He walked gracefully over to her
and bade her a good evening in a most
gallant way. She blushed a good deal
more, but could not even reply. The
school teacher had the modesty and
discretion to retire from her side, just
as he had expected he would. He
knew that all in the room were looking
at him. He had to admit it was a bit
exhilarating. He did not forget his
patronizing way, however.
"How pretty you are to-night," he
said. - *
"Am I?" she answered, blushing
again. -•";-   ""     ' '   .
"Wonderfully," he ausvyer.e.d., lu.rd;ly.
knowing whether' life tyyu, adi&ir .1 tic. 4*
was moclc,-as'"he."w'8,nted i. to be, or*
honesij,'  "   " ' ''
:: :.ll_-'I ioo_ like girls in the east when
thoy go to dances?" ishe asked him.
"Just exactly, although much prettier" he replied. He noticed that he'
was beginning to he overgallant in the
good old army way. He concluded
that he would dance with her.
"What," said he, "in all this world
would you rather have me do this
evening than anything else?" he asked
her.
"Will you do it?" she asked in turn,
but with a stx-ange earnestness.
"I solemnly promise," he answered,
laughingly.
"Then take me and dance with me
aud talk to me just as if I was a live
lady in the east, and as if this was a
great ball, with eyerv thing just as nice
as it eoxiVl ha, and as \\ t* . asjii—was
a girl tiiat; ybi\ 1-T-Jik'ed,. she said.
' He' 'did "it. "it" "sefenicid like a challenge and he was a gallant. It was a
great temptation, he felt thd intoxication of her beauty and he was human.
He danced with her: he paid her eom-
pitments by the score until she was
ecstatic; he*talked to her just as he
would if ske had been a countess; and
she was delighted. He monopolized
her until the little school teacher went
home pale with rage and mortification, and the other men'tiegan to wonder if the lieutenant had fallen in love
with old Whittimore's daughter, and
the women became as envious as. wo^
men can become, which is a gvc^t'HoaY.
He meant not a word of it.'fiiit h?'Was*
sonn talking a£ Bia-dv6' fbt l_r.""'''Pi-e-
tem3. ng^-i-feei-ty jtt'love-rnaking was
a trick" he" had learned to perfection at
West Point He took her out into the
moonlight, aud talked about being as
true as the stars are to the sun. He
told her that even the trees and the
mountains and the flowers were in
love with her and jealous of him. He
told her that the bubbling Popo-Agie
was singing her a serenade. He enjoyed it a great deal. It was more
than enjoyment to her.
He walked home with her, too, wtion
the affair was over. The rof.d seamed1
never before so short tolier.'.lnil uWer
before so king-to htiti/f6i\he w-as'ha;
ginning* to'-We- nf 't!i .ffirftjtion," lie-
sides* that' if rgt_,inded" bim of the
rt'a.ig_4fu*l tinies the fellows in the artillery- and engineers stationed iu the
east "and near the great cities were
having all the timerwhiie he and all
the rest of the cavalrv fellows were
Continued on last page.
2 Special Lines
Underwear and. Shirts
Saturday,   October   8th,
I will place on the tables a line of
XT _c^r _o E2 __=_: "vkt us: _a_. hel
That for price and quality  cannot be  surpassed   This
line is positively the best and most complete assortment ever shown in Saline    I have just received
from New York a line of
Shirti ia tali, toi, ta| life i
that are the newest styles the market affords.   Early  buyers get the best
assortment to select from as the sizes and styles are now complete.
Watch Window display for prices and styles of Underwear and Flannel Shirts
PARSONS, The Clothier.
THE STORE
O-.ir buyer, Mr. Walter C. Mack, is now in New York City making a
Second   Fall   Purchase
for T.iH S-.or •.     O via r i, > tli > pr. _;it f iv ><• I'llo oo-vlitiOii of th? market  for
buying the purchases will be very large.    To make room for these pur-
.l.ases we will greatly reduce our present stock by giving
Extraordinary ^Bargains for tlie next Ten Days
DO YOU WANT A DRESS
DO YOU WANT A  CLOAK
S
DO YOU WANT BLA__i€ ..TS
90 TOO WA_T UNDERWEAR
DO YOU WANT CA'kPETS '
SO YOU WANT DRAPERiE.
1. > you w.-iin Fiaiims .. Shit-iin,? . I.■->a (i.ols. Hosiery. QioviK—JJoti^x. of
any kind.    Get thi'in :tt a Great Bjirgajr. lUia week
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