Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
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IN 1T, and you'll have less to say about
the evil in it.
1t isn't so much what a man is in
this world that makes him happy. It's
what he thinks he is.
Happiness consists, not in having
much, but in being content with what
we have. To want little is to have
much.
The police of Washington discovered
a poor but respectable and hardwork-
ing woman in dying condition in that
city on ednesday. She could not OBJ
tain employment. was given notice to
leave her house, and on the verge of
starvation she took poison. The ply
slcians say she will recover. She was
found in the nick of time.
Mrs. Norman Taylor, of Norborne
Mo-, has three married daughters to
whom twins or triplets are not novel
ties. Mrs. Taylor herself has twice Civ
EN- birth to twins, boy and a girl OH
each occasion. One Of the daughters,
Mrs. Preston 5. Pounds, of Norborne,
is the mother of eight children, three of
whom are triplets. Her sister, Mrs.
Henry Shafer, is the mother of girl
twins, now 0 years Old. The third Sis
ter, Mrs Robert Turner, of Stafford Co.
Kan, has son and daughter born on
the same day.
Cedar Springs Baptists are anti-ma-
sons from away back They believe
that Masonry is anti-Christ, and that
the church must combat the growing
evil. The good people were without a
pastor recently, and they quietly vowed
that no mason should break unto them
the bread of life; but they neglected to
make known their feelings to the Rev.
j. p. Islip. whom they called, and there
was considerable feeling when it was
announced that Brother Islip delivered
the address at the installation of the
Masonic officers. Cedar Springs Bap-
lists are now blue enough to start a
blue lodge.
An adroit combination of religion
and business was carried to a profitable
issue by missionary in the Sandwich
Islands. In sermon to his congrega-
ton he emphatically informed his hear
ers that they were doomed to eternal
fire if they persisted in the disrespect of
coming to church without hats on their
heads. He was SO earnest in the matter,
thathe good-naturedly told them just
the style of hat they ought to wear to
insure their salvation. Next morning
his flock, going to buy hats after his
commands, found that they could be
procured at only one place, which was
the store i'll which the missionary was a
partner
1t is now possible to construct a
complete sewing machine in minute
or sixty in one hour; three hundred
watches in day, complete in all their
appointments; a reaper every fifteen
minutes: or less. More important
than this even is the 'act that it is
possible to construct locomotive III
day. From the plans Of a draughts.
man to the execution of them by the
worlimen, every wheel, lever. valve
and rod may be constructed from the
metal to The engine entact. Every
rivet may be driven IN the boiler
every tube in the tube sheets, and
from the smoke-stack to the ash-pan
a locomotive may be turned out on q
working day, completely equipped,
ready to do the work Of an hundred
horses:-Boston Transcript.
The bill for the expulsion from the
country OF dangerous aliens, which
Congressman Adams proposes to i'll
troduce during the present session
provides briefly that all aliens who aid
advise or encourage the destruction of
property or the murder of any officer
OF the law, or who attempt to over
throw the law or excite violence, shall
upon proper information to the Presi-
dent be ordered to leave the United
States within given time, and if they
refuse to obey they shall be arrested
and conveyed out of the territory; and
if they return shall be imprisoned for a
term of not more than three years, at
the expiration of which they shall
again be forcibly expelled. Section s
of the bill provides that whenever. in
the judgment of the President of the
United States, the public safety shall
require it, it shall be lawful for the
President to cause "a alien to be arrest
ed without notice, and conveyed out of
the United States. The principal in
volved in the bill is likely to meet with