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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
Why She Took the Paper.

81 should like to show paper which
/ have" remarked a spruce young man
in Observation-Disclosures
tone to the lackadaisical young lady
who responded to his ring.
"Agentp" she inquired.
Eyes"
The young lady turned on her heel
and walked towards the inner apart
ment. He hardly knew whether TO con-
slider this an invitation or not, but you
don't have to drag an agent in TO con-
stitute an invitation in his mind, so he
entered.
"Our paper ~ he began enthusiastic
ally, at the same time drawing Il copy
from his pocket. contains short stories,
anecdotes and descriptive articles. We
have the best serial stories that can be
procured. All the most celebrated
novelists are engaged to write for us
the coming year. Our poetry is unsur-
passed, and there is no poet of emf
nence but will be represented in our
columns during the year. We have en-
gagged Alfred Tennyson to write poem
every week ut n cost of $4,000 each.
We shall print during the year seven
unpublished poems found among the
papers of the late lamented Henry w.
Longfellow. In fact no one possessed
of literary taste can afford to be with
out our paper.
"Yes?" said the young lady inquir-
ingly.
sour paper" he continued, "was
started only six years ago, but since
that time it has reached an unparal-
leled circulation solely through its in
trinsic merit. We employ but few
agents, and those the most reliable,
bigh-minded young men that we can
find. At the present rate of increase,
our circulation at the end of next year
will be reckoned among the millions.
Our attractions for the coming year are
LUMINOSITY grand, superbly magnifi-
cent and entirely unequalled, and all
for So per year. Of course no beauti-
full and accomplished young lady like
yourself would think of being without
it. shall take your order for one year
shall notp"
"Wcll," she murmured reflectively,
half to herself, 1.-The paper is pretty
good-sized one, and bustles are coming
into fashion again; don't know but
what you may. My name is Agnes DE
Wellington, and she sank back Ian
| guidly on the sofa and wondered il
dinner was most ready Boston Globe.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

came forward TO lay down their money,
and in q minute or two the fifty guineas
were subscribed.
The gentleman was so sure OF win
ming that he placed all the money in
the students hands and prepared for
the experiment.
We selected for the purpose a small
summer house in the garden, perfectly
isolated, and having no means of exit
but by door and window, which we
carefully fastened, after placing the
young man within, together with writ
ing materials on small table
We remained outside with the gentle
man amongst us.
In a slow, solemn manner, he began
to chant the following lines:
What riseth slow from the ocean caves and
the stormy surfY
The phantom pale sets his blackened foot on
che fresh green turf.
"You asked to see your friend, Fran
els Villier, who was drowned three
years ago, off the coast of South Amer
lea; what do you see?"
II see," replied the student, "a
white light arising near the window;
but il has no form"
We Ohe spcctators) remained pro-
foundly silent.
"Are you afraidP" asked the gentle
man.
II am not" replied the student
firmly.
Then, after moments pause, the
elder commenced by three stamps on
the ground, muttering:
And the phantom white. whose elay-cold face
was once so fair,
Dries with his shroud his clinging vest and
his sea-tossed hair.
Once more the solemn question:
you, who would see revealed the
mysteries of the tomb-what do you
see nowpn
The answer came:
head is covered with long veil--it
stands stillr'
''Are you afraidp"
81 am not"
With strange and frantic gestures
the gentleman then chanted:
And the phantom said TO the smoking seer,
come from the south.
Put thy hand on my hand-thy heart on my
heart-thy mouth on my mouth.
"What do you seep" he asked.
''He comes-he pursues me-he is
stretching out his hand-'tis Francis
Villiers-he will have me! Help, help!
Save mel"
''Are you afraid nowP" asked the
other, in n hooking voice.
A piercing cry, then stihed groan,
are the only replies to the question.
Help that rash youth" said the
gentleman, walking away rapidly;
"let him keep his money and be wiser
in the future"
We opened the door of the summer
house and found the student in con-
vulsions. A paper signed "Francis
Villiers" was lying on the table.
As soon as the students senses were
restored he asked, vehemently, where
was that vile sorcerer-he would kill
him! He sought him throughout the
inn; then, with the speed of mad
man, he started across the fields in
pursuit of him.
The dark-faced man paused, as if his
story was concluded and took long
pull at his tumbler of punch.
"Wellp" said /.
"Well?" said he, nenchalantly.
There is something more, isn't
thereP The story is not quite endedP"
Quite" said he.
IL don't understand. How did it
endp"
''End" he cried. 1T did not end.
Neither of them ever turned up. They
had simply humbugged us out of our
money bv n villainous dodge. told
you the Cork people were artless and
nnocent-veryr'-Redpath's Weekly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

|. Bites of all sorts are painful, and
if not treated with expedition and skill
they sometimes prove very dangerous.
The most common kinds are those re-
ceived from dogs mosquitoes and bears.
The rarest kinds are trilobites and Ja-
cobites.
2. One seldom if ever gets q bite
when out fishing.
3. IL about to be bitten by dog,
while serenading or foraging in mel
on patch, Immediately take some vio-
lent exercise in order to preserve n
good circulation. For instance, run a
mile or so without stopping.
A. Never stop running because there
is man with club apparently chas-
ing the dog--sometimes he is encour-
aging him.
8. If this. does not accelerate the
action of the heart, climb the nearest
tree.
6. Do not get down again for the
purpose of rescuing the sample OF your
trousers. This is one of the dogs per-
quisites and he wants it for his scrap
book.
z. When q mosquito begins to bite
do not slap him. Some authorities in
sist that you should let him finish and
then offer him n toothpick and an after
dinner cigar.
8. The above rule applies strictly to
mosquitoes and must not be extended
to include dogs or bears.
9. On suddenly entering a parlor
where the mistletoe hangs, you may
surprise young man apparently in the
act of biting young lady on the
cheek. The symptoms which follow
this generally include violent blushing
and tendency to talk about the wealth
err. The most popular remedy is SOL
itaire ring applied to the third finger
of the young lady's left hand.-Life.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
Showing that Poverty Pinches Hard

"Give me 3 cents worth of flour, 2
cents worth of butter, and 2 cents
worth of cheese"
Dear Mr.. Editor, / was standing in n
Boston grocery store the other night
and heard a woman come in and buy
the above quantities of the necessaries
of life. The flour, butter and cheese
were put up, the woman paid z cents
and went out. turned in surprise TO
the clerk and said:
'.Have you many customers who buy
in such small quantitiesP"
Lots" was his reply.
/ was astounded. i find, on inquiry,
1t is common practice all over the
city. How true It is one-half of the
world does not know how tho other
half live. occasionally buy flour by
the bag. but such small quantities i
never heard of.--Letter IN the Boston
"r.,5be.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
FL. S. Benedict.
In Charge OF the American, National, and
American and Canada Express Conn
panies ut Troy, n. Y.

The strength of Rome lay not in her multitude,
nor In her grain laden fleets. These we're clements
ofsrength, but her never failing lay in the
self-control ane discipline of Roman soldiers Dis
ciphne-itis the very soul to all the wonderful
meaning possessed by the word "veteran." Mr..
benedict, OF Troy, Is veteran in the express BUSH
ness Thirty three years." he said 10 your report
err I've stood at this desk" II is the discipline q
years of experience which gives him the position he
holds IN the trust and esteem OF these three great
corporations. I'VE have business Of 100000 per
year, and I've been absent from this ONCE hardly
month In ell that time, alt hough must confess that
many times I've worked here when suffering great
pain, for have been troubled all my life with bi
lousness and dyspepsia. Ny system had become so
gestion wholly dsordered. Eve tried various RENE.
dies. but almost two years ago happened hit up
on DR.. kennedys FAVORlTE REM EDY. . After
using only one bottle or so began 10 feel stronger
IN every way. The great difficulty has been with my
ulgestion but this seems 10 regulate 10 perfectly
nave, SIT great faith I'm DR.. Kennedys FAVORITE
REMEDY. have bought and given great deal OF
tito the poDr around here; those, You know who
had no money to buy medicine of any kind for there
are = great many troubled with bilious diseases and
snner on WITHOUT aid. i always keep FAVORITE
REMEDY In the house. consider IL the best med
ecine Tor the blood In tho market. Well must at
tend 70 TINS matter for the western part OF the city
say, You tell the Doctor am coming down 10 Rond-
out 20 see him In August want TO know him." /
left the veteran still at his post rejoicing Ia health
and grateful 10 Dr. Kennedy. q
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

IL is not understood why druggists keep In
stock so many kinds of medicines for coughs,
cold and consumption, when 1t is only necessa.
~ 10 keep Aliens Lung Balsam, that old, re-
liable remedy, which Is pure vegetable prep
aration, and perfectly harmless, as IL contains
no opium in any form. Sold eYerYWnere
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
A Splendid Cure for Lung disease

DR.. Robt. Newton, late President of the
Eclectic College OF the City of New York, and
formerly OF Cincinnati, Ohio, used DIR. VIM.
practice, as many OF his patients. now living.
and restored TO health by the use of this In
valuable medicine, can amply testify. He al.
ways said that so good remedy ought not to
be considered merely as a patent medicine, but
that 1t oughx to be prescribed freely by every
physician as a sovereign remedy In all cases OF
Lung diseases. IL is IA sure cure for Consume
ton, and has no equal for all pectoral com
plants.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

Constipation is positively cured by Carter's
Little Liver Pills. Not by purging and weak
ening the bowels, but by regulating and
strengthening them. This is done by improv-
ing the digestion and stimulating the liver to
the proper secretion OF bile, when the bowels
will perform their customary functions in an
easy ard natural manner. Purgative pills must
be avoided. Ask for Carters Little Liver
Pills. Price 25 cents.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

Newfoundland dogs are fast crowd
Ing out the pugs es pets to be taken out
on promenade.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

When the territory of the United
States is as densely settled as that of
France there will be 6S0,0C0,000 peo-
PIE.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
Cadillac, Nov. 8, 1883.
Dr papGally

DR.. Pengelly
am canvassing In Cadillac, and hear great
deal about your medicines. | enclose pay for
two bottles of your pile remedy. Please send
at once. Many think Zoa-Phora has almost
done miracles for them. hear OF none who
are dissatisfied with It. Yours,
Mrs o. HOLSTER.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

"a COP SEND is Ely's Cream Balm" writes
Mrs. NJ. A jackson, Of Portsmouth, n. H., on
May %, 1882. had Catarrh for three years !
had tried nearly all remedies but to no purpose.
Two or three times a week my nose would
bleed.auite freely and thought the sores In It
would never heal. Your Balm has cured Inc. "
This preparation is not liquid or snuff and
is easily applied. price so cents. See adv't.)
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

Beware of the incipient stages OF Consumption.
Take Piso's cure iu time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" are excel
lent for the relief OF Hoarseness or Sore hroat.
hey are exceedingly effective. ~ Christian
World, London, Eng. Price % cts. Box.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

"BUCIlU-PAIHA.p Quick, complete cure, all an
moving Kidney and Urinary Dlseases. 81.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

PURE CoD-LIvER OIL made from selected llvers.
on the sea-shore, by CAswELIA HAZARD * Co, New
York 1t Is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who
have once taken II prefer IL to all others. Physicians
have decided IL superior to any Of the other oils in
market.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

Darby Green of Redding is the oldest
man in Connecticut. He was born in
1879, and is now in his one hundre d
and fifth year. His faculties are well
preserved, and his physical powers are
in good trim. He wakes ten or twelve
miles every day without fatigue. He
was we'll advanced IN life when Wash
ington died.
would rather be beaten in Right
than succeed in Wrong. Garfield.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

DIR. sanfoid's Liver Invigorator. just what
anne inplies. Cathartic, Tonic, Reliable.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

DON'T DIE IN THE HOUSE. Trough Rats"
clears out rats MICE fies reaches. bed-buRs. l5c.-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

TROUGH ON CORNS," l5c. ASK for It. Complete
cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunions.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

nervousness, Nervous Debility, Neuralgia,
Nervous Shock, st. Vitus Dance, Prostitution.
and all diseases of Nerve Generative Organs.
are all permanently and radically cured by
Aliens Brain food, the great botanical remedy.
81 pkg, q for So AT druggists, or at Aliens
Pharmacy, BIS LIST Ave, N. Y.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
FOOLISH WOMEN
Sold by all druggists.

n. B.-Every woman, sickly or
healthy, should read DR.. Pengelly's
book. "Advice TO Mothers" Free 10 anu
Ladu. Postage in sealed enyelope: 4c
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

III afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell Il. 23c.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

Trough Gu Coughs l5c., 25c, LUe. at Druggists
Complete cure coughs, HoOrseness. Sore Throat
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28

soonest young ladies OF Port Jervis, N.
Y, was offered recently rs prize to
the young man writing the best letter
to the postmistress of the fair of Car
roll Post, G. A. R., in that village.
The prize was awarded to Isidore CO.
hen; but Judge of his surprise and cha
grin when he received the picture to
find that every pretty face had been
carefully concealed behind a veil, fan
or parasol before the photograph was
taken.
At intervals dating back over half a
century strange parties have made
searches in the bed of Wolf Creek, near
Comstock's Landing. N. Y, for ira
ditional cannon filled with guineas that
is said to have been sunk at the time of
Burgoyne's fight with Colonel Longs
American troops over that ground.
The last Intellectual searcher was n
man named Collins, from New Jersey,
who worked about n week and left n
few days ago saying that he would be
back again in the spring. He claims
to have located the ''placer" by n mag
net.
Professor c. w. Hutson, of the Uni
versity of Mississippi. who has taught
both young men and young women,
declares that the girl student is. in the
great majority of cases, sooner and
better able to acquire knowledge than
the boy student; that her mind is, gen.
orally speaking, quicker, brighter. and
more alert than that of man at the
same age-between twelve and twenty.
"The average girl student" he adds.
is also more ambitious, moro devoted
to study for study's sake, more re-
sponsive to the effort to excite her in
terest."
Among the war correspondents who
are still living are Henry M Stanley,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24

Catching Devil Fish.

Victor Hugo's description of the devil
fascinat ion, but here in Alaska, this land
of wonders, the Indians recount stories
equally startling, and almost all of them
substantially corroborated by good testi-
mony. Only yesterday an Indian hooked
up from one of the wharf posts an oc-
topus five feet from tip to tip, and to the
query. What are you going to do with
him p answered, Ne eat him, and, in
fact, with them the fish is esteemed a
great delicacy, although when alive the
animal is an object of terror. The flesh
when boiled is perfectly white and tastes
something like Gods tongues, but
while eating it the recollection of what
the dainty was when alive takes away
all enjoyment. 1t is not such harmless
amusement, this fishing for devil fish,
and one which everybody would choose
for an afternoon sport. There is only
one really skillful fisher in town: mis-
sion boy who fearlessly wades into the
~dltr near llitlI anu, SCA1iiiS bHN
animal, tears him from the rock. OF
course. his Satanic majesty resents the in
trusion upon his rights and retalliates by
winding one or more arms around the
limbs of the boy, but with quick and
peculiar motion the Indian tears them of
with a noise resembling the ripping OF
heavy cotton cloth, at the same time slit
ting open the sack of the animal. 1t is a
dangerous proceeding and one which makes
the beholder cringe to see the soft, Shiny
arm of the octopus winding itself around
and gradually taking hold with its innum-
cradle suckers, surely and gradually draw
ing its victim down. Only on one oecas-
ion, historically speaking, has one of these
creatures been found of sufficient size to
attack canoe. and one Indian was the
only survivor. Letter
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24

Yes, hard luck, and mean just what the
term implies; that is to say that by the
words ''hard luck | mean hard luck
Did you ever see man who looked as if
he had just returned from attending the
last sad rites and obsequies of his father
maternal ancestor, and keenly felt the
enormous weight of being the sole survivor
of the family bearing his name, when all
the while you know that his grandmother
is hale and hearty old lady, still living ?
Well my boy, if you ever meet with such
woe-begone specimen of the family to
which you and belong-I mean the hui
man family, you know-you may safely
jot down in your notebook that that man
is victim to that fearful seourge, hard
luck. To make it palmer, we mean--well,
hard luck!
The disease may be contracted in many
different ways, under many different cir
cumstances, and assumes many different
phases; but can only tell you of few,
to-day.
off horse for fine young colt, and after
ward learn that his colt has proven to
be about ninety-nine and half or a humid
red years old, and has had its teeth filed
down, you may decide (for your own per-
sonal benefit, of course) that that man has
caught the hard luck disease.
When you see man come rushing along
the platform of a railroad station, with his
in convulsively wrestling with refractory
collar-button. which is immOyably lodged
halfway in the orifice in his collar for
which it was intended, about two seconds
and sixteenth Gas near as can be Judged
after the last train has meandered off, you
may be pretty certain that that poor soul
has met hard luck.
When you see a man issue from his
home in the morning, at velocity which
would put JUG to the blush, and his era
mum barely escapes soaring tea-kettle Oh
rolling pin which accidentally slips from
the hands of tender wife, you may know
that that man has got it-got hard luck
and got EN- bad
Then, again, there is the careless, can
help-it, take-it-as-it-comess sort of hard lucl
such as bestows its caresses on that gentry
vulgarly known as ''tramps." when they
like the proverbial transitory tourist of the
order just mentioned, are obliged to subsis
on hope and hash-ninety- and nine
tenths parts hope and one-tenth part hash
poor souls!
But, after all, my boy, the hardest kline
of hard luck is that which comes to MAJ
when he is down and will not let him ge
up again, but which, instead, assists hin
still further down ON the boot-toe of ever,
sympathetic friend who comes that way
But then it serves him right; he's got har,
| luck. and ,ce can't help it. no matter how
| long he has it.-Cdrl A. Ludtciq.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24

The question of usefulness of torchlight
professions. and other parades, in stimG-
lating political zeal, is open to debate: but
while they cost great deal of money. and
may not, after all, amount to much, it is
certainly question more easily answered
in the negative whether lads of tender years
are any part whatever of a political organ
ization There are boys. we believe, repre-
senting both parties, who make night hide
GUS with doleful music, and run the risk OF
their lives marching through the cold, mud
dy streets, bearing torches that would serve
a more useful purpose in lighting them to
bed. Certainly neither party is in such a
comatose condition as to require children
to wake it up; and while even early patri-
otism is to be admired, it would be well
for boys to learn their duties in school, and
save both their physical and mental forces
for active use when they are men. Coa-
rier.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-24
NO.39.
ABOUT POSTAL CARDS.

Postal card correspondents make good
many mistakes. If they knew what pile
Of cards are tn rown away. they would be
more careful, said post office clerk, as
he pitched handful of postal cards into
the waste basket.
Nv hat is the matter with them ??
Every one had something pasted on the
correspondence side 1t is allowable to
paste ON the mailing side the address of
the person to whom the card is sent, but
anything pasted on the message side rem
ders the card unavailable On the mailing
side there must be nothing in the form of
an advertisement.
'If pictures are drawn on the message
will the card be sent -
eyes unless the picture is of character
which would send the artist to Sing Sing
However, there is good deal of complaint
about dunning and abusive messages. 1t
is popularity believed that it is violation
of the law to send scurrilous epistles in this
way, but it is not. The belief is founded
on Judge Benedict's decision. where five
thousand dollars fine was imposed several
years ago. The law is not now in force,
and man can abuse another to his heart S
content
''Can postal card be returned p
Correspondents often try to do that,
but it is against tine rules of the office. To
make sure, they often stick on a one-cent
stamp. That won't work either. If a
two-eent stamp is put on, it will pass inspee
ton. By putting on one-cent STAMP
however, postal card may be remailed to
the person to whom it is addressed, if it does
not find him in the first instance. One thing
about postal cards ought to be know to poor
people who have friends abroad. We have
stacks of international postal cards unused
that may he sent to almost any city in Great
Britain or on the Continent. Even in the
few instances where they are used, they re
apt to be sent to the country which issues
them. This is not allowed. They can only
be sent out of the country which issues
them.