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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
Defining Poetry.

"what is poetrv'" is a conundrum we
find in an esteemed contemporary. When
young lady receives n letter from her
lover, and finds at the omega Of it those
Mul-inspiring lines, "The rose is red, the
violet's blue, no knife can cut our love il
two" she is willing to make oath that
sweeter poetry was never written.
The world is full Of poetry. The little
girl of six summers, with heavenly blue
eyes, laughing dimples, fluffy golden hair
pink cheeks and pink sash, is a poem, and
ten years hence some young man will want
to metre and form COZ .)let. The yellow
cur going "kiting" down the street, with
tinware attachment, Is n poem-of the
doggerel order. The sad-eyed fisherman,
who ltanza long the rivers edge four hours
without getting bite, Il q versa verse
10 standing there any longer; so epics W
uis lines, which have not fallen in pleasant
places, and concludes to ron-deau-wn hom..
And the tuft of tender grass that appears
after the SHOWS of winter have departed, is q
spring poem-but not the kind the editor
sits down upon The man in the white
pants ut the picnic does that And new If
Tou don't know what poetry IL. we give il
up.-Norristoun Herald.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
Fall Of an Historical Relic.

The famous Pontiac tree near Detroit,
which died about a year ago after several
earsof decline. and has since stood a leaf
less skeleton, has been cut down. Thus ends
the long career of the historic old sentinel
that was silent witness of the Parent
Creek massacre OF July 81, 1863. The re-
moval of this trees destroys the most cele-
brated tree in Michigan and one OF the
most famous In the Union. The tree was
a magnificent wildwood and in its last
years figured In landscape wonderfully
altered from the damp ravine down which
il look on the dark night of the Pontiac
massacre, nearly l23 years ago. Parents
Creek, subsequently called Bloody Run,
from the sanguinary event Of which the
old tree was the only living survivor, has
long been but "reminiscences. IL has been
degraded by modern civilization from mn
historical stream TO very ordinary sewer,
I and flows as an open brook only through
Elmwood cemetery. The bridge at which
the hotterst of the fight occurred had been
destroyed, the ravine had been filed up
and even Detroit river had moved further
away.
Perhaps the next most historical tree In
the vicinage Of Detroit is the Hamtramck
| tree which grew by the side of the house
1 of Col. John Francis Hamtramck and the
grateful shadow of whose foliage thus fell
upon the first American commandant of
| Detroit. IL Is a gigantic elm near the
waters edge and is the property of Will
lam b. Wesson on whose farm IL grows.
! After the Hamtramck tree come the sur
vivors of the pear tree planted by the
French settlers of l149 These have grown
to an immense size with their age and
most of them still bear fruit. They seem
| good for any number of years yet, and If
they are left to fall of their own volition
into the sere and yellow leaf and are not
sacrificed to the march Of Improvement,
theygwill probably turn into their third
century still in the ring but slightly dis
! abled
II. +. Roberts in his "City of the Straits
recalls the fact that when he came here,
sixty years ago, 1.-The product of fruit was
in excess of the demand for the consump-
ton, and apples of excellent quality sold
! at ten cents IA bushel, until emigration
! from the East commenced about 1890
Some of the pear trees still remain, bear
! ing fruit, a single tree producing seventy
| five or eighty bushels in a season. They
| have attained immense growth, resembling
| forest oaks. their trunks three feet from
the ground measuring more than eight
! feet in circumference. They are the only
| living thing commemorative of the cult
| walton of the soil in this new world.
W. III. Coyle wrote poem on these trees
in the year ls49-wheu they were 100 years
! old. 1t closed
"Live on, old trees in your hale, green
| age,
Long, long may your III ldows last,
With your blossomed boughs and golden
fruit,
Loved emblems of the past"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

"My wife-ha, ha-my wife, have 10
wife! Oh, curse her, curss her-and himp
He staggered forward with appraised hands
and white working face. Irving passed his
arm swiftly through his and hurried him
from the fatal spot.
Not another word did either speak until
the hotel was reached, when Irving poured
out glass of brandy and forced it TO the
bloodless lips; al the same moment Mrs.
Flynn entered. bearing the dinner.
Here ! am, gentlemen, up to time, We see !.
A good appetite and a happy Christmas To
We bothr'
With lurid eyes Heyland sprang to his feet
"A happy Christmas, did you say, ma'am?
Thank you-thank you kindly! This-this
is he-the-happiest Christmas of my life!
l say, Mrs. What's-yourname, let's have
some OF your champagne, or, better still, a
quart OF your fragrant whisky-that's the
safest brand, guess-to drink happiness and
prosperity to every Christian tireside in this
blessed land to-nightr'
Glass after glass he drained. without touch
ing the smoking meats laid before him. His
friend had not the heart to interfere; besides
he felt ii would he useless. Consequently
long before the midnight bells rang in Christ
mas morning the poor wretch was tossing on
his bed unconscious of his bitter sorrow and
cruelly-blighted hopes.
Irving did not sleep much that night, but
paced up and down the room next to his
friends fearing he knew not what disaster,
listening anNiously 10 the low meanings and
feveIish explanations which came through
the thinly-plastered partition.
When he went in 10 him the next morning
however, he found him already dressed, sit
ting in listless attitude by the window, all
the fire of anger gone from his face and
sunken eyes, leaving him haggard picture
OF worn despair
"How are you now? How do you feel this
morning, Heyland?" he asked
'I'm sober now," he answered DULY: land
want to get out Of this hole as fast as can.
Irving" he continued, in quickened accents,
tits of no use, my lad; can't enact the part
of Enoch Arden, as IL thought could It's
not In me; II must be of different blood
from him: II can, lie down and die, and 1
can't forgive her or forget her. The picture
of her, as | saw her last night, standing in
that rosy light, with the child in her arms,
smiling up t-at--that sleek hound, will
will haunt me murderously-ay, murderous-
ly!-untl the day | die, $3.50 get me out
Of this hole as fast as you can. or you may
live 70 repent tn day YOU -you-dragged me
into 1t! When is the next train?"
There's a timetable in the hall will
look Irving made reply, passing out.
The other followed him. and. crossing the
hail. a small terrier ran before him: he put
out llis foot, and with savage energy sent the
little creature yelpng amt linpng into
corner.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
Milhurn,s Idaa Of Satan.

In recent sermon at the Union
Methodist church Rev. DR.. Milburn, the
chaplain of the House of Representatives,
created quite IA sensation by the descrip-
ton which he gave of the devil. He said
the old pictures OF parsonage with hoofs
and tail, and horns. and pitchfork was
simply the wild medieval picture of a bar
barous imagination. "Such a devil does
not exist to-day" said the Doctor, "and
he could not do no harm if he did The
devil OF to-day is polished Travelled, gen
tlemanly appearing individual. He has
been in London. and Paris and New York,
and Washington and San Francisco. He
knows all about the sights and Is well post
ed on the gossip and news Of the day, He
moves in the best of society and is much
admired here. He dresses in faultless style.
His cold, gray eye looks steadily at you
and facinates you. perhaps. He has thin,
delicate lips and fine nostrils. that are
easily curved i'm scorn. One great feature
OF the modern devil is that he never be-
comes enthusiastic over anything. You
may show him the most beautiful sunset
or natural views, the most rare and valua-
bic painting or piece of statuary, and with
his cold, gray eye he will look steadily at
IL and make some disparaging remark.
You cannot point out man or a woman
that he will not disparage. He is a
cynic, mephistopholes. He enters your
dAwing rooms and your churches. He
causes trouble and discussion every where.
He disparages the brethren. The Doctor
SAYS that this is exactly the same devil
thatexisted in the days of job. That in
dividual had Travelled up and down the
earth and had been to aud fro in it, He
was very distrustful of human nature. He
was certain that no one ever had any but
selfish motives. DR.. Milburn said the Most
damage against good is now being done by
those who initiate the devil in modern
society He said 1--WE detest the stcldity
and lack of confidence manifested i'm the
savage, and yet many people in the high
est walks of life and the most cultivated
circles initiate these characteristics
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
An exchange thus tells about IL: want.

An exchange thus tells about It: want.
ed one hundred and seventyfve young
men of all shapes and sizes, from the tall
graceful dandy With hair enough on his
upper lip to stuff BARRIERS cushion, down
to the little upstart. The object is to form
gaping corps, to be in attendance at
church doors on each Sabbath before the
commencement Of divine service, to stare
ut the ladies as they enter, and make deli
rate and gentlemanly remarks on their
person and Dress. AID who wish to enlist in
the above corps will please appear in the
various church doors next Sabbath morning
and evening, When they will be duly in
pected and their names, personal appear
ance and quantity of brains registered in q
book kept for that purpose. To prevent q
general rush it will be we'll to state that
none will be enlisted whopossess intellect
ual capacities above that of well-bred
donkey
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

''Sweet is revenge especially to women, y
said the gifted, but naughty, Lord Byron
Surely he was in bad humor when he
wrote such words But there are com.
plants that only women suffer, that are
carrying numbers of them down to early
graves. There is hope for those who suffer,
no matter how sorely or severely, in DR.
II. V. Pierce's ''Favorite Prescription. y
Safe in its action, il is a blessing especially
10 woBien and TO men, too, for when women
suffer, the household is askew.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Borea'S Budget, Fort Plain, ~ Y, for
March, 1856, says In the multiplicity of
medicines placed upon the market, it is
sometimes difficult TO distinguish between
the meritorious and the worthless. There
are at least two excellent remedies widely
used, the efficiency of which are unques-
toned. We refer to st. Jacobs Oil and
Red Star Cough Cure.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

PARIS GcEEs.--5reat care snoul,
observed in handling Paris Green. A case
Is recorded where a young man who was
mixing the poison for the purpose Of kin.
ing potato bugs, rubbed his sleeve across
his sweaty forehead, and In few minutes
his face swelled so as to blind Linn fI2 scv.
eral hours, threatening 70 permanently
aestroy bis eyeisht.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

THERE Is SCARCELY DISEASE, OF the hu
man system, acute or chronic, which VINE
GAR BITTnas will not retard and lessen, and
ninety nine cases out of a hundred it will
cure. In large doses the Bitters is cathar
tic and tonic, in moderate doses it is a ton
ic, gentle purgative, invigorator, and
corrector of the blood.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co, Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their Celebrated VoLTAIc BELTS
and Electric appliances on thirty days.
trial TO any man afflicted with Nervous
Debility, Loss of Vitality, Manhood, &c.
Illustrated pamphlet ~ ~aled cRUelope with
full particulars mailed free. Write them
at once.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

II there ever was a specific for any one com
plant th Carter's Lit e Liver Pills are a
sp ciic or Sex Headache, and every woman
sh )nl know this. They arr not only pos
tive cure, Tut sure pr ventve, II take VIII IN
the ap roach In felt. Carters Little Liver
Pills act directly on the liver aud bile and In
this way remove the cause of disease without
first making you SEX by q wa icning purge.
II you try them you will not be disappointed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Organic weakness or loss OF
power in either sex, however induced
speedily and permanently cured. Enclose
10 cents in stamps for book of particulars
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo. N e
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Athlophoros, which / sell, gives good
satisfaction. 1t cured of infiammatory
rheumatism a man who bought a bottle at
night and at one O'Clock the next day said
the soreness and pain had entirely left
him. +. s. Keech, druggist, Waupun,
Wis
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
An Offensive Breath

is most distressing, not only to the person
afflicted, il he have any pride, but to those
with whom hS comes in contact. IL is q
delicate matter to speak of, but it has part
ed not only friends but lovers. Bad breath
and catarrh are inseparable. DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures the worst cases, as
thousands can testify.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Solicitor of Patents, +. o. McCleary, Of
Washington, ID. c., says the only thing
that did him any good, when suffering
with a severe cough of several weeks
standing was Red Star Cough Cure, which
is purely vegetable and free from opiates
and poison.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

BARRIERS near Mono lake, California,
whose water is heavy with salts of sodium
and borax, use it As a natural shampooing
erS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

LYONS Patent Metallic stineners prevent boots
and shoes from running over. ripping In the seams
OF wearing uneveIly on the heels.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Best easiest TO use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh BY druggists. SOC.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

IL is pleasure and satisfaction to many
to learn that Aliens Lung Balsam, that
standard family medicine for coughs,
Group and all lung diseases, can now be
procured at 25c., SOC and $1.00 bottle at
any drug store.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Holiness, as well as pardon is TO be had
from the blood Of the cross. - Berridge.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Goat Island at Niagara Falls is said tc
be worth 81 900 600
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Crude petroleum is a recognized specific
for the growth and invigoration of stunt
ed eyebrows.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
MOST Liberal OFFERi

The keynote of good breeding Is 'E
natural
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Houses painted white are again coming
into fashion, and no other adornment IL
prettier or more lasting
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Stern parents beat carpets with impun
ity, but they take II stick to their children
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Linen dresses trimmed with lace, are
sweet
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

IL afflicted with sore eyer, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Is it any wonder in these days that the
blind staggers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Cannot be washed OFF. The color pro.
duced by Buckinghan's Dive for the
WhiSkarS
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

Birds, blossoms, balmy bresssa blend
sautifully.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

There are still some Seminole Indians
living in the everglade region of Florida.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10
Especially to Women.

One little Greece spot worries all the
European housekeepers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-10

AS an antidote for malarial disorders,
Ayers's Ague cure has no equai 1t never
fails.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
Lynch Law in England.
From the Pail Mall Gazette. I

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The sacking of seducer's house in
the Midlands, after the suicide of his
victim, however much it is to be re-
GREETED, is a salutary indication of the
growth of a healthy spirit of indigna-
ton against the basest of all crimes.
Without in any way approving of the
introduction of lynch law into this
country, there can be no doubt that
if one or two of these scoundrels were
well hanged it would do q great deal
to deter others from following in their
footsteps. Only the other day, at a
London police court, a poor girl of l 9,
who had been ruined and deserted by
her sweetheart, was charged with at
tempting to commit suicide by cutting
her throat. The author of her ruin
told her that if she wished to make
away with herself she could do so.
She cut her throat in his presence and
he made no effort to prevent her. In
Ashantee there is q custom by which
anyone who has been injured by
q neighbor and fails to obtain other
redress has only to commit suicide at
his door in order to secure his sum-
mary execution. Unless our law
makes some provision for Furnishing
seduction when it is followed by de-
sertion, the custom Of ''killing oneself
upon another's head" as is called in
Coomassie, may yet be acclimatized
In this country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

pale-gray sky, and felt something of
the tranquility.
A spark from the subsidino fire
snapped into q little pile of drv stalks
half rod distant and they famed m.
A twig took fire from them and burned
to it's end, and loose splinter blazed
in it's turn. He watched the curious
line Of light as it ate it's Pickering wav
along. There was deep deposit of
dead leaves drifted up against the tall
fence; they took the alarm, and glowed
and cracked smartly. And then the
flames mounted up, and grew broader
and redder-the fence had caught fire.
Mr.. Talcott got up and walked over
to it. Then hereturned, with scarcely
the haste that might be looked for.
and started for the pump. He seemed
rather to llnger on the way; when he
reached it, he stood a moment with
out doing anythingin particular before
he filed a wooden pail, which Law near,
and went back with it. The fence was
flaming brightly; but he stopped to
pick out chip which had got stuck in
the sole Of his boot, and tied the old
wooden muller he wore around his
neck with hands which were not quite
steady. Then he peered all about
him, in an odd guilty way, emptied his
pail of water on the ground, and went
and sat down on the stump again.
He looked cold and cross and uneasy,
and anything but heroic; but there was
a new-found warmth within him.
There was quite q crowd about the
place half an hour later, looking at the
biackened remains of the line fence
several men, attracted by the flames,
and few women hastily wrapped up.
Mr.. Long had come out and watched
the cOnhagration from a discreet dis
tance. But he had drawn gradually
closer, till he finally stood poking over
the warm cinders with one foot. Mr..
Talcott stood near by. They did not
look at each other for g. moment.
Then the latter spoke, in voice made
high and sharp by the greatness OF the
effort.
event down jest like paper, be said.
81 guess there couldn't anybody
a-stopped it. [ couldn't do nothing
against it-nothing at ALL" He felt
that he regained by this some of the
dignity he had lost in his own concep-
ton; he looked relieved.
His neighbor did not reply directly.
The darkness hid his softened, per-
turbed expression, and he was not the
person to make it manifest. His tone,
when he spoke. was composed and
even condescending.
According to law" said. "Isup-
pose I'm called on to put up the next
one, seeing as you put up this here
one. Is'pose might do it any time;
l amt SO terrible busy just at pres
ent."
"Well," said Mr.. Talcott, looking
down the garden, 81 rather guess you
better build picket. l guess pick
et'd do full as well. You h'ain't heard
how old Lem Pearson is, have your"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
She Paid Too Much.
From the Providence Journal. !

Late on Friday evening a man
about 40 years of age stood upon the
Globe bridge, at Woonsocket, with his
wife beside him, threatening to COM
NIT suicide by jumping into the
Blackstone River if she did not give
him twenty-five cents. The wife
pleaded and begged, saying she needed
the money to purchase food with,
and he would only spend it for drink
should she give it to him. He placed
his hand on the railing to the bridge
and again shouted to his better half
to give him the money or over he
would go. She implored the crowd Of
people who had gathered near to save
him, but no one interfered. A voice
from the crowd sang out: "Let him
co." but she still chung to him. Final
~ she released her hold, and, putting
her hand in her pocket, brought Gorth
silver quarter and placed it in his
hand. He seized it eagerly, and start
ed on lively run for a saloon near
by, while the poor woman started for
her home to offer prayer for him
whose life she thought she saved for
twenty five cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
GEMS OFTHOUGHT.

IT is a. prerogative of God alone to
truly comprehend all things. To Him
there is nothing past or future. Ev-
erything is present. tes.
THoUGHTLEssNEss is never an ex-
cuse for wrong-doing; our basty &C
tions disclose, as nothing else does,
our habitual feelings. z. Fields.
DEATH is the liberator of him whom
freedom cannot release, the physician
of him whom medicine cannot cure,
and the comforter of him whom time
cannot console.-COltOn.
FATHER, it is great gift of the gods
to be born with hatred and con-
tempt of all injustice and meanness.
Yours is a higher lot, never to have
lied and truckled, than to have shared
honors won by dishonor-George FL
lot.
THE brain is the palest of all the in
ternal organs, and the heart the red
dest. Whatever comes from the
brain carries the hue of the place it
came from, and whatever comes from
the neart carries the heat and color
of it's hplace.-Holmes.
No affection that can ever come
through children ever equals that
which comes with their utter absence;
while the heaviest affection to most,
the death of the little one, often casts
shadow of healing that could come
in no other way.-Robert CoHyer.
EVERY act Of the man inscribes it.
self in the memories of his fellows, and
in his own manners and face. The air
is full of sounds, the sky of tokens,
the ground is all memoranda and sig
natures, and every object covered over
with hints, which speak to the intelli-
gent.-Emerson
THAT which we are we shall teach,
not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
Thoughts come into our minds
through avenues which we never left
open, and thoughts go out of our
minds through avenues which we never
voluntarily opened. Character teach
es over our head.-Emerson.