Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-10


pie of Japan, to advance, three Japan
csc statesmen have been sent to Europe
to study the details of parliamentary
system.
IT is known that informer Carey has
been an accomplish in three murders
not connected with the doing OF the SIN
vincibles In fact, everything goes TO
show that this man is one of the worst
villains in Ireland. 1t will be alur
on Justice if this man is allowed to 60
unpublished, simply because he has
made himself instrumental in convict
ing others, not half so darkly stepped in
crime.
THERE is a man employed in the
Philadelphia Gas Works whose fidelity
for almost half century deserves rec
opnition. He is hale old man OF
eighty years, and his name is Timothy
Heating. Forty-seven years ago this
month he was brought from England
10 teach the manufacture of gas in Phila-
delphia, and he has never once been
absent from his post in working hours
during that long period of service. For
twenty years his duty had been to regu-
late the pressure of gas according to the
VARYING demand during the hours OF
darkness, and he goes to work every
evening at 6 o'clock.
A YOUNG lady in Chicago has some
very practical ideas about missionary
work. She is a student in the Female
Baptist Missionary Training School and
is not yet twenty years of age. 1t has
been her practice for ue past few
months to visit the sick and destitute in
the lowest and vilest slums of Chicago,
entirely alone, at all hours OF the day.
The little figure dressed modestly In
black is known and respected by the
criminal classes of the city, and in all
her errands of mercy she has never
once been molested or even insulted.
She saws that her object is first of all to
do some practical good and next to lit
herself by actual experience for her
life-work as missionary. Wiser peo-
pie than this young girl have gone
through life without getting rs near
the ideal of Christianity.
THE recent departure of General Diaz,
who is'probably soon to be elected Presi
dent of Mexico (some people go SO far
as to say with the aid of American capt.
tall, calls to mind the reason given by
the inimitable Tom Corwin for leaving
Mexico at the time he was United States
Minister there. "Why did you resign
and return home, Mr.. Corwin?" asked
an inquisitive friend; "why didyou not
remain to represent the United States
near the Mexican Government "Well
you see, the fact is" said Corwin, :"
had to swim rivers and climb mountains
to keep within forty miles of the Mex
can Government, and as this was toe
active diplomatic and aquatic life foi
an old man, / left my court costume on
the banks of river and swan home. ,
The Mexicans had been having forty
nine Government in fifty years about
that time, as Minister Mosley said, anc
these mutations were mildly suggested
by the great humorist's explanation o.
his sudden return home.
If Dakota fails to become State a
the next session of Congress it will no
be for lack of effort on the part of some
of the newspapers of that territory
The jamestown Capital urges the adop
ton of stringent measures to accomplish
this object, even in the face of all op
position. The Capital says:-'If Con
gres should arbitrarily declare that thu
State should not be admitted to thu
great sisterhood of States it could, o
course, have no representatives in Con
gress, but it would be State, never
theless, electing its own rulers, maxim.
its own laws, as the people under tn
Constitution of the United States hav
a right to do. There would arise tn
question of jurisdiction on the part o
the United States. Denying State tn
right of representation, could the Unite
States Justly claim the supremacy G
United States laws over sovereig
State. The Capital had better stop an
think before it advises the adoption G
this hair-brained scheme. Their hope
of becoming State will be the soone
realized by conforming to the establishe
usages, and by recognition of the fac
that the United States is above th
single state.
THE present year bids fair to be fl
nous for the number and interest of il
ternational expositions. The great fis
exhibition will be opened in few day
In London. In May the worlds fair s
Amsterdam, Holland, will open. No
outstanding the public interest in th
approaching coronation of the Czal
Russia will hold an international fowe
show. Austria will be the scene of a
exhibition of electric wonders from a
lands. In July there will be. "a gres
show of animals from all parts of I'll