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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
Proved IL on Him.

This story, or something like 1t, was
told by Gen. Shields when he last visit
ed Boston. While in Kentucky he was
approached by portly, substantial
looking man, who said: II wish to
give you piece of advice. Never deny
anything. Some time ago ran for
office in this section of the country, and
resolved to keep quiet, whatever was
said about me before the election,
which was to take place in about a
month. The first week they accused
me of being horse-thief, but l paid no
attention to it. The second week they
asserted that had been treasurer of q
trust company and ran away with the
funds, and l received this in silence.
The third week they said induced my
right-hand neighbor to make over his
property to me temporarily, and then
refused to give it up, and still made
no defense. The fourth week they
came forward with statement that I
had stolen the chickens of my left
hand neighbor, worthy old lady, and
sent her to an insane asylum. This
made me indignant, and denied it In
public. and IN be burned if they didn't
90 to work and prove it on me. There
is a moral contained in this story which
some of our political candidates might
lay to heart. -Bost11l Courier.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
Cannda's Fur Trade Gone.

The Indians used only TO kill such
buffaloes as they could use, and did
what they could to protect the herds;
but ever since the prairies OF the North
west have been crossed by railways
two causes have led 10 the cxtcrmina-
ton of the buifalo-the occupation OF
their grazing grounds for agricultural
or pasture and their indiscriminate
slaughter for their hides and bones
alone There is now believed TO be
not a single herd of wild buffaloes upon
the prairies of Dakota or Minnesota,
where they once wandered in thou
sands.
Last year there were but 10000 robes
handled in st. Paul, where in 1881 100,-
600 robes were turned over, and this
year the entire trade has amounted to
four robes. 1t is believed that the only
remnants of these mighty herds and of
the thousands that once thronGed the
Canadian Northwest are n few thou
sand animals, scattered about the vi
cinity of the Woods Mountains In the
Northwest. In Montreal, where the
trade was of far greater importance
and of more ancient date than in st.
Paul, the same thing has come to pass,
but under somewhat different circum-
stances.
Up to five or six years ago the trade
sales of the Hudson Bay Company were
held here, and from $4,000 to $4,000
robes were disposed of, but since that
period the population of the Northwest
has so increased that it requires all the
aud III
the robes which have been used in old
Canada for some years past have been,
comparatively speaking, obtained from
the more southerly prairies of the
United States, where the buffalo is still
to be found in somewhat limited and
constantly decreasing numbers. In
fact, of late years Canada has entirely
ceased to be a fur exporting and has
become great fur importing country.
This is partially due to the fact that of
late Asiatic furs and sealskins have
been the favorites of fashion, for we
have an immense territory to the north
of us which will always produce certain
furs and but little else
The buffalo and the buffalo-robe
have, however, particularly speaking,
as far as new supplies of the latter are
concerned, become thing of the past,
and their place has been taken by the
Texas steer and sole-leather. Montreal
used to appear in our biographies as
"the chief seat of the fur trade" 1t is
but few years since we had many
large wholesale houses. These have
gradually disappeared, and the former
retail dealers take the lead in the busi-
ness, of which the volume is smaller
and the stocks far more precious. The
time was when bcaver-skin was the
unit of exchange and might count for
81; now n good beaver skin will bring
S10.-Montredt Witness.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
The wretched Italian Peasant.

Life beneath an Italian sky is popu-
larry imagined to be pleasant form of
existence. Such, however, does not
appear to be invariably the case. The
account given by Mr.. Beauclcrk-in a
report to the foreign Office, on the aa-
ricultural condition of Italy-of peas
ant life in Piedmont, is not OF n glow
ing character. Day laborers who pos
sess nothing are, he states, the major
ity of tho population; they amount. in
Piedmont, to one-fifth of the rural pop
ulation. The landlords are habitually
absentees, taking no interest whatever
in their tenants, in return for which
they have excluded almost every man
of means from the list of councillors at
the communal elections. The towns
people deride and despise the country
folk, and are looked upon by them as
proud and selfish. In Novara the farm
laborer Is said Ito contend with every
species of privation, from the cradle to
the grave" His infancy Is passed In
the care of strangers, or rolling in the
mud. At seven years old he receives a
few months per year OF elementary
schooling, and passes the remo'""a~ '"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

tending goats; at ten he gains some
small wages; at twelve he sleeps away
from home, and Is regularly employed;
and at fifteen he undertakes the hard
est of farm work. The men rise in
summer at two q. m, in winter ut four
a. m.-awakened by beating stick on
an empty box. In the former season
they work from twelve to fifteen hours
per day. When i'll, the hospital re-
ceives him; when old and unfit for
work, they are forsaken and uncared
for; yet the peasants seldom take to
begging, even when deprived of all re-
sources. Girls take part in field work
at the age of fourteen or fifteen. At
night they catch frogs and fish in the
marshes. At thirty they are matured
women, old at forty, decrepit at fifty,
with bent backs and bronzed faces.
Many families lead a nomadic life. Ev-
cry Michaelmas their household goods,
worth perhaps total of six pounds,
are packed on q bullock-cart, and a
new home or situation is sought. In
the hill regions many of the villages
are notable for their excessive filth.
Throughout the plains, master and
workmen live together for years with
out the change of syllable of good
will. In every hamlet class distinc-
tons are complete, down the entire
gamut of the social scale. Laborers
usually have many children, land,
says the report of the Italian govern
ment commission that has been recent
ly inquiring into their condition, sin
deed they have nothing else. st.
James Gazette.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
POLIlCS AND p OW DER.
What 1t Costs to Run a Campaign
-.Opinion of q Fireworks Maker.
Rochester n. Y. Democrat.

Rochester N. Y. Democrat.
"Five million dollarsr'
"Yes, sir, five million dollars, OF
which two millions are spent for fro
works and three millions for uniforms,
etc, every presidential campsign."
Thus said MIR. James Palmer, the
Rochester fireworks MAKER. TO our re-
porter's inquiry.
1.-The average spent in off years fol-
fireworks is over one million dollars. -
''Do we import the bulk of our fire.
worksp"
mo, sir, we import nothing but fire.
crackers. We make the rest in this
country. There are only ten fireworks
establishments in America"
Upon invitation of Superintendent
Frederick Fitz Fichner, the reporter in
spected the Palmer establishment not
without some fear and trembling at
first. When the superintendent said
he had been blown up twice, the re-
porter furtively asked:
''Is not this business u little riskyr'
Eyes, suppose it would be so con-
sidered by outsiders, but have en-
countered greater dangers than any /
find here and don't feel concerned"
Il don't quite catch your meaningp'
"Well, have been in this business
many years and the constant, though
unconscious nervous strain has caused
greater suffering than the explosions l
have ''taken!" Many day l would
We very dizzy, and everything would get
dark. At other times could scarcely
breathe from choking sensations. Then
my appetite left me and l grew thin,
weak and lifeless. l was drowsy by
day and wakeful by night. MY side
panied me, my back ached, my limbs
burned, bloated fearfully, and one
leg got paralyxed. For ten months |
suffered desperately, aud two pronli-
nent physicians gave me up for a dead
man, sure"
"You don't look it nowp"
mo, that's SO, but it was fact, Just
the same. When found out my trouble,
| at onco resorted To Warmers safe
cure, and a dozen bottles put me in
possession of the best health l ever ex-
pect to enjoy. and Twas pronounced in
curably sick with brights disease. 1t
is the most wonderful medicine in the
world"
"lndeed. You are a fortunate man.
Is there any falling off in the fire.
works business this yearp"
"Not at all. On the contrary it grows
more popular every year, and thus year
we have done an exit aordinary business.
The American people are getting quite
rs fond of display as the mercurial
Frenchman, and they manifest it by
rockets and volcanoes, political banners,
campaign uniforms, etc. reckon that
SIC, 000, 900 won't cover the incidental
political expenses of a presidential cam,
paign."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

the end of the term. This gives you q
hint. Begin your work wiki your new
class in such way that at tie end Of
the next long vacation the teacher who
receives them shall not feel in regard to
them as you do now. Chicago Intelh-
2ence.
Geography, relatively. is worth about
one-half rs much rs language or arith-
metic. Usually it Is ranked equally
with the most important branches. In
stead of having children commit it to
memory, as is too frequently done. it
ought to be used chiefly as supple
mentary reading-lesson. There are so
many details in it that the greater num-
Der of them pass out OF mind as soon
rs the book is laid aside All the geo.
graphical names would fill volume
larger than IVebSter'S Unabridged Die
tionayy.. The average pupil should
make bow to them, and pass OH
NJ Greenwood, Kansas city.
Not long time ago we, in common
with several other cities in our State,
abolished mid-session recesses. Our
schools have been conducted without
receSSeS, except one III HOOn VI one anu
one-fourth to one and one-half hours,
and one of ten minutes each session in
the primary department. This plan
plcases the teachers, many of the pu-
pills, and their parents, and seems to
have the general approval of the Board
of Education. So far there appears to
be no harm to the health of the chill
dren in consequence OF the adoption OF
the no-reccss scheme. am unable TO
see any good cause for the change, and
am confirmed in the belief that there is
lurking danger in its practice. l can
discover no means by which il can be
defended, except it may make less trou-
BILE for teachers and give them a little
more time for out-of-school employ
ments. 1t is claimed by its advocates
to prevent quarrels and fights. and save
the pupils clothes; that it keeps them
from exposure On stormy days and
thereby preserves their health; all OF
which, to my mind, is but sorry ex-
cuse for the innovation, weak defense
of doubtful practice and its contin-
ce.-ChaS. M Ryon, Supt. Schools,
Kingston, ". y.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
The Vicious Character OF the 1aIiow
Candle.

The air of a room lighted by gas is
heated twenty times as much as II it
were lighted TO an equal extent by in
candesccnt electric lamps. When arc
lamps are used. the comparison is still
more in favor of electricity. You will
be surprised to know that our old
friend, the tallow candle, and even the
wax candle, is far worse than gas in the
proportion of air vitiated and the heat
produced; and you will be disposed to
believe 1t. But the fact is, that so long
ms candles were used, light was so ex-
pensive that we were obliged to be con-
tent with little of it; in fact, We lived
in q state of semi-darkness, and in this
way we evaded the trouble. 1t is only
since the general introduction of gas
and petroleum that we have found what
an evil i. is.-1he Sanitary Engineer.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
EDUCATIONAL.
The Demand for New and Early Disci-
pllne In Education.
How TO Organize Schools In Order to Teac
From Object Lessons In Nature.
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN WORDS AND
THINGS.

THE CONTRAST BETWEEN WORDS AND
THINGS.
1t is claimed by nobody in this con-
troversy that words are unimportant
or that language-studies are not ofgreat
value; but it is maintained that the
things represented are more important
than their signs, the Nature-studies OF
higher value than lingual studies, and
the whole issue turns upon the recog-
milton of this fact. Historically, this
contrast has been proved to be pro-
found and momentous. In the pre-
scientific ages, words were not only
put in the place of things, but con-
founded with them SO as to vitiate
whole systems of thought as shown in
the history of Greek speculation and
the scholasticism of the middle ages.
The investigation of truth was made to
consist in mere verbal manipulations.
The Baconian reform in philosophy
consisted in demanding that the human
mind shall no longer occupy itself in
the verbal sphere, but shall break
through the barriers of words and
study the things they represent. The
inductivc philosopy began with facts
the observation and investigation OF
things-and was n new method which
has revolutionized knowledge, created
the modern sciences, and revealed the
order of Nature. 1t is contrasted with
verbal and literary studies, which ac-
cept common notions-the loose, vague,
crude ideas of ordinary experience
and can not advance and perfect know
ledge because it refuses to make facts
first and to exercise the mind in their
close and careful study. Is contrast
so broad as this, between fruitless
method which kept the mind stationary
for centuries and a method so fruitful
as to give origin to a vast body of ac-
curate and productive truth, to be re-
garded as a pretense when it is claimed
to be fundamental in education? The
verbal system is historic, traditional.
popular, and all-prevalent in our sys-
tens of mental cultivation. 1t is pro-
posed by the reformers not to destroy
it, but TO reduce its exaggerated pro-
portions, and give greater prominence
to the systematic study of actual things.
The demand is that there shall be n
new discipline in education, begun
early and pursued thoroughly, by the
mastery of given branches of science
at first hand. The contrast between
words and things must be at any rate
held valid for the accomplishment of
this reasonable object. Il. l..
Youmans, in Popular Science Monthly
for November.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

An attendant in the Treasury De-
partment who can count 4,0CO new
notes an hour for seven hours a day is
considered unusually dexterous.
In the Colorado mountains miners
earn 81 per day, have good, square
meal served on long tables, covered
with clean, white oil-clotli. and sleep
without the luxury of sheets, but with
plenty of blankets.
A burglar at Marysville hid under q
woman's bed, forgetting that is just
where the regulation woman always
looks before retiring. When discover
ed he had the presence of mind to- pull
out mouth organ and wheeze out
"Sweet Violets. She set up the fruit
cake and wine and said she felt IN her
"bones" somebody was going to scre-
made her soon.-San Ftuncssco Past.
1.-The Frenchwoman is more graceful
and piquant than tho Englishwoman;
but she is less healthy and less fresh.
She has livelier eyes, n prettier mouth,
a better figure; but her skin Is less fair
and clear. Walking and bathing, this
is the secret of the beauty and health
fitness of the Englishwoman. They
fear neither shower-batls nor draughts.
They sleep with open windows and in
the morning they deh,ge themselves
with cold water. In winter the more
timid take a sponge-bath. and rub
| themselves from head to foot to stimu-
late the circulation, till the skin cries
for mercy. The appetite tiss sharp
cned, they go down to break, asst fresf
and vigorous, make hearty meal o.
eggs and cold meat, and then start FOL
a country walk or game of lawr
tennis. Mar O'ReEs New Bo,I.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
1t AstOnished the Public

to hear of the resignation of DR.. Pierce
as a Congressman to devote himself
solely to his labors IA o physician. 1t
was because his true constituents were
the sick and afflicted everywhere. They
will find DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" a benefcent use Of his
scientific knowledge in their behalf.
Consumption, bronchitis, cough, heart
disease, fever and ague, intermittent
fever, dropsy, neuralgia, goitre or thick
neck, and all diseases of the blood, are
cured by this world-renowed medicine.
Its properties are wonderful, in action
magical. BY druggists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
FROM THE REVEREND CLERGY

Among the many ministers of the
gospel, who have been helped by
Browns Iron Bitters, the Rev. 4. A
Spring, Corydon, Iowa, says, II used
it for general ill-health and found 1t a
great help" Rev. Jas. McCarty, Fort
Stevenson, Dakota, says, ut cured me
OF severe dyspepsia and increased my
weight twenty-five pounds" The Rev.
MIR. Offey, New Bern. N c., says he
has taken it. and considers it one OF
the best medicines known. The Rev.
Mr.. Whitney, bingham, Wis. says,
AFTER long sickness from lung fever,
I used Browns Iron Bitters and gained
strength" So throughout the states
with hundreds and hundreds of other
clergymen.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

The editor of the Posey County Week
~ Fdisifer is in trouble. A lady gave
him two young CANNES and he acknowl-
edged the favor by saying that Mrs.
Jerusha Parkinson presented us with
two sweetly interesting pugs. The
printer made it "hugs," and the lady's
husband stirred up the unfortunate ed
itor with hickory hoop-pole and a
cueuidore
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

A Wonderful Cure by Hoods sar.
sapnriIln


I'm the winter Of 1891 was attacked with Scrofula
In one OF its most aggravatng iormr. At one time
had no less than l3 large Assesses over and around
my neck and throat continually exuding an offensive
mass of bloody matter disgusting to behold and al
most iEtoerahs to m. Il is .mp ssible to fully de.
scribe my sufferings, the case was complicated
with chrome catarrh. After three years OF misery,
having been treated by three physicians was worse
man ever Finally on The recommendation of w. l.
iiunileY Druggist, OF Lockport, was induced 10 try
HOODS Sara. arilia. And now after avng taken
bottles within the last IL months, the scIofulous
eruptons have entirely ceased, and the assesses
have all d. appeared except the unsightly scars,
which are daiiy becoming less. I do know that in
my case ioods Sarsaparilla has proven effective
SPECIFIC Indeed. As an evidence Of my gratitude, I
send these facts unsolicited, and ready To verify
The authenticity Of this by personal pond
enee with anyone who doubts it."-CHARLES A
ROBERTS, East Wilson, NY.
W. Huntey. the well known druggist at Lock.
port, N. Y. yeri6es the above cure and calls it "a
great victory for Hoods Sarsaparilla."
Hoods Sars apariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S.. Made only
by c. HOOD Co., Lowell, Mass.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

Hostetter's Sto n
ach Bitters 10 the
article for you. it
stimulates the fall
ing enerstes; inviR.
crates the body and
cheers the mind. II
enables the syste m
TO throw OF the de-
BIZ Eating effects OF
undue fatigue,gives
rene wed visOr TO
the organs OF diGes-
lion, arOuses The
liver when insctive
rene~s the jsoed
appetite. ana en-
cOur AGES health'ul
repu Sc. Is ingredi-
ents are safe. and
It's cred INITIALS.
which consist In the
hearty Q n d orse.
ment Of persons of
every class OF o. ci-
ETY.. are most con-
vlnciDg. For sale By
Lltv
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

When you visit or leave New YORK City, via
Central depot, save Baggage Expressage and
% carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand
dred elegant rooms fitted up at cost Of one
million dollars; 81 and upwards per day.
Fun opeau plan. Elevator. Restaurant sup
piled with the best Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depots. Families can
live better for less money at tie Grand UNION
Hotel than at any other hrst-class hotel In the
ctf
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
The Worst Urethral Stric,nres

speedily cured by our new radical meth
DDS. Pamphlet, references, and terms,
two letter stamps. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo. N. Y.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
Home Items and Topics.
All your own fault


All your own fault
IL you remain sick when you ca
Get hop bitters that never-Fail
The weakest woman, smallest child, a
sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safe
and great good.
Old men lettering around from Rheuma.
tism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be
made almost new by using hop bitters.
I'd My wife aud daughter were made healthy
by the use OF hop bitters and ] recon-
mend them TO my people Methodist Clergy.
man.
Ask any good doctor II hop
Bitters are hot the best family medicine
On earthii!
Malaria fever, Ague and Billousness, will
leave every neighborhood as soon as hop BIT
tiers arrive.
my mother drove the paralysis and neural
gla all out OF her system with hop bitters."-
I'd. OssoeQo Sun
cB- Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit
tiers and you need not fear sickness"
Ice water Is rendered harmless and more
refreshing aud reviving with hop bitters In
each draught.
The visor Of youth for tie aged and infirm
in hop bittersllI
AT the change Of life nothing equals
hop bitters to ailay all troubles incident
Thereto"
THE best periodical Cor ladies TO take
monthly, and from which they will receive the
greatest benefit is hop bitters"
Mothers with sickly, fretful. nursing
children, Will cure the children and benefit
themselves by taking hop bitters daily.
THOUSANDS die annually from some form
OF Kidney disease that might have been pre-
vented by timely use of hop bltters.
Indigestion, weak stomach, irregulariti
OF the bowels, canno: exist when ,p,
are used.
A timely use OF hop
Bitters will keep whole family
In robust health year at little cost.
TO produce real genuine sleep and child
like repose all night, take little hop Sitters
on retiring.
icy None pennine without a bunch of green
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
Dairymen Getting Rich.

Progressive dairymen who only satisfied with
the best results, adding to their wealth and con-
ierrng benefit on socety,oy the rapid improvements
they arc making in the art OF butter making. This
class use Wells. Richardson & Co.'S Improved But.
ter Color. and know by actual test tina, it fills every
claim made for Il.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

We suppose if any street-car con.
ductor ever gets ''stove in" it will be
the result of accident, and no blame
will be attached to either the conductor
or the driver. Chicago Sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

"No, sir" said the practical man,
"no bric-a- brac on the mantel for me.
It's nuisance. Where's mar to put
bis feetp'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

The Indian OF falcon glance and lion bearing,
the theme of the touching ballad is gone; but
the Petroleum. they discovered now made into
Csrbolne, the Natural Hair Restorer, viii live
forever.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

ryRK CoD--LrvER OH made from seectod nyers
YORK. tits absolutely pure and sweet. Patients
Who have once taken II b all others Physicians
nave decided II superior TO anv Of the other oils IN
market
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

Unanently cured By Coles CARROLL oetthe Cen
vine q espss End g cent? p drfsssF e n VIA
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01
INDIAN HISTORY

Twenty-one thousand houses have
been built in London during the year.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-01

During the last week of October Lon
don had 80. 22l paupcrs on the books.