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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
A Singular Misfortune.

The Building News relates to sin
gular misfortune which has occurred to
q small church in Andover, Mass. which
seems to be in process of eaten up bod
lily and swept away. The church was
erected about six years ago, and is fin
lshed with what Is said to be ash, but
has more the appearance of chestnut
which often closely resembles the coarser
kinds of ash. A year or two after its
completion the sexton noticed little
heaps of dust on the carpet near the
walls. These grew more and more fire.
quent, and appeared in various portions
of the building, so that they had to be
gathered up regularly every week, and
on searching for their cause the wood
of the base-boards and portions of the
pew was found to be completely riddled
with holes made by small, round, black
and blue worms, the debris of whose
boring fell out occasionally upon the
floor in the form of dust. Unlike most
boring worms, this species seems not TO
object to the taste of varnish. for the
polished surface of the wood is pierced
in thousands of places The stock was
regarded as completely seasoned and in
good condition when put into the build
ing, but il would seem that it must have
the embryos of the insects,
for the finish of the galleries is attacked
equally with that of the ground floor.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Signs Of Spring.


When the poet begins to burble.
When the strawberry mistakes itself
for millionaire.
When the goat has his portrait taken
for the beer-bock poster.
When the chest-protector begins to
look jealous of the fan.
When the dog looks sadly at the tin
can thawing out of the snow-drift.
When the young mans lunacy lightly
turns to thoughts of flats and an en-
gagement.
When the seedman gets out a chrome
catalogue and sells onions for imported
bulbs.
When the professional versifer begins
to build his autumn poems for the mag
azines.
When the comic paper that was
started in January announces that it
will suspend publication during the
summer.
When the undertaken circulates news
paper items about the unhealthfulness
of wearing heavy flannels too late in the
year.
When the star tragedian arrives in
Union Square after perilous pedes
trian tour from the uttermost confines Of
the Western circuit.
When the fashionable pastor begins
to develop an interesting cough and to
hint that the air of Europe is good for
incipient consumption.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
A Good Story Of a Horse.
Brunswick, Me. Telegraph.

brunswick, Me. Telegraph.
We recently published the story of a
horse whose rider was thrown and in
jured. The intelligent animal took in
the situation and trotted of, making
such demonstration at the house that
people followed him and rescued the
rider. who was unable to help himself.
Mr.. Hugh Mcclellan. of this town. in
formed us that the reading of the story
brought to his recollection an occur
renee of his youth, when living with his
father in Gorham, this state. The faith
er one evening turned the family horse
into large pasture to feed during the
night. In some way (whether from an
injury was never known) the horse COM
menced to bleed profusely from the
nose. The animal retired To the bars
which gave admission to the pasture.
These he broke down and passed up to
the farm house. Here he beat upon the
platform to one of the doors until the
father was awakened and went out TO
see what was the matter; he found the
horse still bleeding; calling the son, (our
informant,) the two worked over the
horse until the bleeding was arrested,
though he was so much reduced as TO be
hardly able to stand. There was quite
a pool of blood at the door, and still
larger pool was found in the morning at
the bars, where the horse had evidently
been detained in his efforts to escape
from the pasture. And yet we are told
that animals don't reasOnt
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
American Society.
Atlantic for April.

Atlantic for April.
American society, as now carried on,
is maintained solely for the benefit Of
young girls. and is generally little bet
ter than marriage mart. The parents
launch their offspring as we'll as posi-
BILE, and display their wares to the great
est advantage, but the business of the
market is carried on chiefly by the
young girls themselves, instead of by
their mothers as in England and Europe.
There is no special objection to this
method of transacting the business, but
it is preposterous that young girls and
their affairs should overshadow and shut
out everything and everybody else. The
result of this absorption in one class and
one pursuit is that American society is
often insufferably dull and fiat. 1t is
made up too exclusively of ignorant
girls and their attendant boys. Half
the education of cultivated and attrac-
tive woman is of course that which is
derived from society and FROM the
world; and yet American society is al
most wholly given up to the business of
entertaining and marrying those who
are necessarily wholly destitute of such
an education Another effect of the
prevalence of social principles of this
description is the supremacy of that
most rustic and unattractive of habits,
the pairing system, which converts So
ciety into vast aggregation OF tete-a-
tetes. This prevails all over the world
TO a greater or less extent, but it should
never reign supreme. The upshot of
the whole thing with us is to drive out
of society nearly all married people,
for marriage under such system is de-
married women over twenty-five, who
are thought TO have overstayed their
market; and, finally, considerable pro-
portion of the unmarried men of thirty
and upwards. In other words, except
at a few large balls and receptions, all
the best and most intelligent part of
society is usually lacking. II has been
pushed aside, and is obliged to find all
its social amusement IN small lotteries
of its own. This retirement is of course
voluntary. because the pairing system
ruins general society, and makes it, in
fact, impossible in the best and truest
sense. A clever young Englishman not
long ago expressed his surprise at the
fact that, whenever he asked who lady
Of certain age. as the French say,
might be, he was invariably told, not
that she was Mrs. Blank, but that she
was the mother of Miss Blank. The
girl, like the boy, is properly the most
Insignificant member of society. When
a young man goes forth into the world,
he starts at the bottom of the ladder,
and works his way up. The same rule
should apply to young,women in society.
They have their place, and it is an i'm
portant one; but they should not start
in social life at the top, and then slowly
descend. Such system is against every
law of nature or of art, and with its In
evitable concomitant of universal tete-
a-tetes makes really attractive general
society impossible. We place the social
pyramid upon its apex instead of upon
its base, and then wonder that it is a
poor, tottering, and unlovely object.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

boats, and land on that beach close TO the head
land. / will have TIE pinnace fully manned
and armed, and after our departure from the
yacht, ready TO put of and keep us In view,
cruising about within sight and awaiting sig
nal, which we can arrange, to bear down upon
US. Mervyn, Dennis, and two OF my men Will
land, while you aud remain In the boats. VI
course we must all be fully armed; but 1 do
not see that we can make any further plans In
regard to Mervyn's proceeding on shore. which
/ think must be left TO his discretion when he
lands; ignorant as We are OF the enyirons OF the
Counts abode. II he Is SO fortunate as to
meet with and rescue your daughter, OF course
he will rejoin us as quickly as he can, and we
will then put off and signal the pinnace TO
come TO our aid"
"You have devised a most sagacious plan,
Lieutenant" replied Colonel De Burgho. THE
rescue can only be affected mainly by strata
gem; though fear II the Count Is encountered
he will resist. All your plans, however, are
most excellent"
We sailed at swift rate past the island and
port OF Angistri, and towards evening put
about, and after couple of tacks anchored In
the bay we had selected; some boats came
alongside TO offer fish for sale, and through the
medium Of Beppo we engaged two OF them for
pretended fishing excursion on the morrow,
specially directing their owners to bring their
lines and nets We then selected two OF the
most athletic and intelligent men on board, and
having served out arms and ammunition, re-
tired to recruit ourselves for the serious under
taking OF the succeeding day.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Gambling College Students.

Il lmcs-Star.
1t is well known that students at
college are subject to a variety of temp
tations, varying at different colleges,
but gambling has not until recently
been supposed to be one of them. Not
long since the Police Commissioners of
Boston issued an order that all gaming
establishments should be closed. This
order was issued upon the complaint of
a number of reputable citizens of Bos-
ton, of whom one was the President of
Harvard University, DIR. Elliott.
1t is said that while ten years ago a
gambling student at Harvard was I'M
known, the number who now frequent
gambling saloons is comparatively large,
and that among certain sets the games
and losses in the Boston gambling
houses are a frequent subject of public
conversation.
The New York Independent has had
several correspondents investigating
student gambling, visiting the saloons,
conversing with various persons, and in
other ways searching into the extent of
the evil. One correspondent made three
visits on different days of the week, and
at least one week apart, to one of the
most fashionable saloons. On the first
night he found present two freshmen,
four sophomores, and three seniors; on
the second night, three sophomeres,
two juniors, and two seniors; on the
third night, four freshmen, two sopho-
mores. and five juniors. OF the twenty
seven known to this correspondent (and
it is presumed there were others present
unknown to him), eighteen were differ
ent students.
The scholarship of the gambling stu
dents of Harvard has varied in excel
lence, but among them have been some
of the finest minds and highest ranked
men of the university. A few of the
student gamblers being poor, play to
pay their college expenses; but the ma
jority are wealthy, and play solely for
the excitement.
The Independent also declares that it
is satisfied, from careful Investigations
made during the last five or six years,
that certain Boston faro banks, policy
shops and roulette rooms have been
regularly resorted to by students not
only of Harvard University, but of the
Phillips, Exeter, Andover, and other
academies near that city.
If the statements of the Independent
are true, and it declares that they can
be more than verified by any one closely
identified with Cambridge student life,
the raid upon the gambling shops has
taken place none too soon, and every
one interested in colleges and college
students will hope that the recent sup
preston of the demoralizing and de-
basing establishments of Boston will be
permanent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
HattOn's Pants.
Peck's Sun.

A man who has got fun in him will be
funny under the most distressing cir
cumstances. This was illustrated re-
Gently in the case of Mr.. Frank Hatton,
Assistant Postmaster General, and ed
itor. He was on sleeping-car from
New York to Washington, and when he
got up in the morning, at his destination,
he found that his pants had been stolen.
The passengers were getting off the car,
and all sympathized with Hatton, but
none of them offered him their pants.
He wrapped red sleeping-car blanket
around him, took feather buster and
placed the handle down his back, so the
feathers stood up over his head, and
stood in the aisle of the car, when
everybody laughed except the car por-
ter, who turned pale. A friend said
"Well, Frank, what are you gong to
do?" Frank looked at himself in the
glass and said, "Well, guess l will
take hack and 60 up to the Secretary
of the Interior and ask to be sent back
10 my reservation" The oldest man
in the world could not have studied up
funnier answer In week. President
Arthur, who happened to be on board.
lent Mr.. Hatton the flannel case to his
double barreled shot gun, for pants,
and he got home all right.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

disregarded, exacts terrible vengeance;
Emerson preferred to think these laws
full of benefcent purpose. and that
compliance with them inevitably leads
to human development and happiness.
While Carlyle despised the majority of
mankind and maintained that they
could be saved from disaster only by the
predominance of individual minds, EN-
erson had an almost passionate faith in
the virtues of ''the people" and regard
ed freedom as the most fundamental of
all the conditions of social progress.
Carlyle's modes of expression were
marked by impetuous energy; Emerson
had vigor too, but it was vigor which
revealed itself in calm and simple forms.
Abstract principles were presented very
Intellectually by Carlyle unless he hap
pened to deal with them in connection
with concrete illustrations of their work
ing; Emerson was never so powerful or
so persuasive as when, forgetting the
contradictions of reality, he abandoned
himself to the contemplation of a purely
ideal world.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
A bater of tobacco asked an old

A hater of tobacco asked an old negro
woman, the fumes of whose pipe were
annoying him, If she thought she was a
Christian. Eyes, brudder, 'spects
is" do you believe in the Biblep"
Eyes, brudder." "Do you know that
there is a passage in the Scriptures
which says that nothing unclean shall
inherit the Kingdom of Heavenp" "Yes,
I've heard it." "Well, Chloe, you
smoke; and you cannot enter the King
dom of Heaven, because there is moth
ing sounclean as the breath of a smoker.
What do you say to thatp" "Why, l
'spects to leave my breff behind when /
90 dar. Boston Globe.
Elliott, the prize fighter, was buried
Mt New York with as great honors as any
statesman has ever had. But the honors
were conferred by different class of
people from the class that honors states
men. II is more honorable to be buried
by hundred respectable citizens than
by hundred thousand thugs, thieves,
prize fighters, burglars, shop-lifters and
blacklegs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
ANGRY WORDS.

Angry words are lightly spoken
In a rash and thouehtless hour;
Brightest links vi life arc broken
BY their deep insidious power.
Hearts inspired by wag..-st feeling,
Meier before by anger stirred,
Oft are rent, past human healing,
BY single angry word.
Poison drops Of care and sorrow,
Bitter poison drops are they,
Weaving for the coming morrow
Saddest memories of to-day.
Angry words oh, let them never
From the tongue unbridled slip;
May the hearts best impulse ever
Check them, ere they soil the lip
Love is much too pure and holy,
Friendship is too sacred far,
For moments reckless folly
Thus to desolate and mar.
Angry words are lightly spoken;
Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred,
Brightest links OF life are broken
BY single angry word.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Carlyle and Emerson.
st. James Gazette.

They agreed in loyalty TO what they
held to be true, in courage and in indie
pendence; and they had essentially the
same convictions as TO the enduring ell
ements which have given vitality to
every manifestation Of genuine religious
feeling. 1t would be difficult, however,
to name any two writers of their time
who diverged from each other more
widely in the spirit which pervaded their
teaching. Carlyle conceived the laws
of the universe ~ a system which, II
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

A granger whose name is Bob Shield,
Was moving the grass in his field,
BY snake he was bitten,
And he has just written,
"St. Jacobs Oil has the bite healed. 7"
A lame Chinaman on the Pacific,
Ofpains and aches was prolific;
He limped all around,
Until he had found
st. Jacobs Oil, the great specific.
All that is human must retrogade if it
do not advance.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

The art of being able TO make good use of
the talents you have is ability, but evay body
has the ability TO use Carboline, the perfection
OF all Hair REVIEWERS, made from pure Petro-
laum
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

The total number of newspapers and
periodicals in the United States and
Territories is now 11,196, an increase
of $50 in twelve months. The most re-
markable change has occurred in the
Territories, in which the daily papers
had grown from 43 to 90 and the
weeklies from 1863 to 243. The number
of monthlies throughout the country
now number 1854 as against go last
year, while the dailies have grown from
996 to LOOP.
Great minds like Heaven, are pleased In doing
good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors
Are barren In return.
Il Rowe
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

OF the many remedies before the public for
Nervous Debility and weakness of Nerve Gen
erative System, there is none equal TO Aliens
Brain Food, which promptly and permanently
6 for Sat druggists, or Aliens Pharmacy,
Bis First Ave New York
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
APRIL.

There are probably hundred or
more persons in this and neighboring
towns who daily suffer from the distress
ing effects of kidney troubles, who do
not know that JohnSon's Anodyne Ltni-
nlent is almost sure cure. In severe
cases great relief may be obtained, if
not perfect cure.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

Gentlemen The demand for ALLEN LUNG
BALsAM is increasing constantly. The ladies
think there is no medicine equal to 1t for Group
and Whooping Cough.
Oakland Sta Ky c. 4 MARTIN Druppist
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

We notice that agricultural newspap-
ers all over the country are now expos
ing the worthlessness of the large packs
of horse and cattle powders. We put
the ball in motion and claim the credit
of it. Sheridan'S Cavalry Condition POD-
ders are absolutely pure, and are the
only kind worth buying.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Liquor always fires mans brains-iires them
,noranc9 is the mother of all evil.

THE most comfortable boot In town is that
with Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

To do good which is really good, a
man must act from the love Of good, and
not with a view to reward here or here
after.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

An elegant song book free OF charge containing
humorous, and sentimental songs, sung by Wizard
OIL Companies, In their open air concerts. Hamllns
Wizard OIL Co., Chicago Ill. WIZARD OIL cures rheu-
matsm, lame back, spruins bruises burns, scalds
Ulcers fever sores inflammation OF the Kidneys neu-
ralga headache toOthache, earache sorethrOat
catarrh hayfever, allays inflammation and relieves
pain In any part of the system Sold by druggists
% cents don't forget to use It, And you will Danish
pain and be happy.
Men often plush to hear OF what they were
ashamed to act
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
All Admire a Handsome Face.

II is easier TO suppress the first desire than
10 satisfy all that follow H.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Ability,

Less time spent in idle dreaming, and devot.
ed to the duties of life would give us wealth
and contentment.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Youth should be q saving bank.

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, Depression of
Spirits and General Debility, In their various forms
also as preventive against Fever and Ague, and
other Intermittent Fevers the "FRRRo- PHosPHo-
RATED ELIXIR or CALIsAYA," made by Caswell
Hazard x CO., New York, and sold by all Druggists
s the best TONES and for patients recovering from
Fever or other sickness. II has no equal.
Whoeyer he snanicIons incitna troaso,, Nol
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

That for lameness, for rheumatism, for aches,
for pains, and for sprains Dr. Thomas Electric
Oa Is positive and reliable remedy. DR..
Thomas Electric Oh can be purchased OF any
druQQist
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
IN CINCINNATI

Treating Consumption, Asthma.
bronchitis, Nasal Catarrh, Sore
Throat. Loss of Voice, and other
Maladies of the Nose, Throat and
Lungs.
DIR. WOLFE treats the above named diseases
by Medicated Limitations. When thus administer
cd, remedies brought face to face" I'm contact
with the disease; whereas, II they swallowed
they mix with the contents of the stomach and
never reach the organs OF respiration.
DIR. WOLFE has, by the judicIous employment
OF Medicated Limitations. assisted thousands to
regain their health, many of whom had been pro-
nounced incurabe, and given up 10 die by their
family physicians and friends
DIR. WOLFE has prepared n list of questions for
sick people TO by mail. They are In charac-
ter the he would ask he by the bedside OF
the invalid BY writing answers TO these questions
any one can send accurate statement of his dis
ease and receive and use inhalng remedies Mt home
I'm any part of the United States or Canada without
mourning the expense and discomfort of making a
visit TO Cincinnati. Any one sending his name and
post-office address with a three-cent postage
stamp, will receive copy of the Circular OF
Questions" by return mail.
DIR. WOLFE has publisheda medical book called
Common Sense, Cause and Cure OF Consump-
tlon Asthma, etc." copy of which he Will send TO
any body who orders IT, by mail, and incloses nine
cents In postage stamps with his and ostofice
address. The book is of great value to any one af
hicted with any disease of the Nose. Throat
Lungs.
DIR. WOLFE has also published another book
o. pages entitled Light about the House we Live
in" which every healthy person us we'll rs sick
ought 10 read. This book has a special interest to
persons who have weak lungs OF any symptoms of
Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Catarrh
Sent to any address free by mail. on recelp
cents In postage stamps.
Address, DIR. n. IL. WOLFE
1B Smith st.. Cincinnati
NJ NJ
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

pure, clear skin will make any face hand
some. Manifestly anything which strengthens
and enriches the blood will directly affect the
whole person. All eruptions OF THE skin disappear
They are a vegetable remedy of inestimable
value.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand
Central Depot.
Elegant rooms, fitted up at cost of one mil
lion dollars, reduced TO 81 and upwards per
day. European Plan. Elevator. Restaurant
supplied with the best Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depots. Families can
live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other frst-class hotel in the
city'
To get few flowers one must sow plenty OF
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

The cheapest and prettiest collars and cuffs
are the Chrolithion. Try them and see for
Yourself
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

An idle man is like stagnant water; he cor
rupts himself -Iatpna
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Free OF Charge.

Better a man with paradoxes than man with
preiudices -ROusseau
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05

To select well among old things is al.
most equal to inventing new ones.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
Thunder IL Down the Ages,

II you wish TO be as happy as a king, look at
those who haven't as much as you, not at those
N huu