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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
The Uncut Lsaf.
Afar.

One of the fossilixed absurditles and iDconveniences of our time is the uncut leaf of the book or magazine. IL amounts simply to an un1nished book or magazine. The trimming of each book can Do done by . machine In the fractional part of . minute. The render k new reqHired to do this part of the publishers uufinishssi work. The custom is almost '1sarly EngIlsh'' in its origin, and datss e iav back as tho time when the Englishmsn hadn't many printed books, and was O proud and careful of his periodical as to want it sent him with the leaves an. cut e proof that no ope had rcd it before hlm. Two hundred ard odd years ego 1t was . 'big thingS to have any kind of printed Hsss4sr, anA books were then regarded with actual rsveg- ence. But the uncut lesf is ono of the many harnaeles of custom and uaxe we staEger under and enduse, atoSg with the kies still current with claSs that woman hos 10 hsad for business, or that . man can lsssn no new avt, trade or proisssaop after dfty.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
Whamas fov The ArkaRsaW TroSsisr.
 A MOUNTAIN SUNRISE.
BrT. A. REYNOLDS.

The dawn is breaking OCT the hills, The sky is gold and gray, A faint rose tint on mountains crest, Betokens coming day. Fair Luna with her silvery rays HAs glorifled the night, But now, with majesty and grace, She's gliding ont of sight Respiendent Venus calmly sits "The bright and morning star," Enthroned on yonder western hill. Monarch of worlds afari The rosy flush of eastern sky
 Mas changed to crimson hue, The fisecy clouds now upward float, Revealing picture new. An endless chain of mountains bold, Their rugged summits crowned With dazzling, white, eternal snows, The eastern landscape bound. A golden ram on noun tain's brow, With fiery rays of light, Is token of the king of day
 He comes, in power and mighti Now, upward shoot the yellow rays, The sky is all aglowi Fair Luna and the stars are gone, To Sol the earth bows low.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
He Undsss.ood.
kxohAMRA

A foreigner who learns your Ian. xnaw0 and ase& ll can nevur Rut it through Ais head that you undeFstAnd his. He wxa going travelling, aud ha stopped In the wey to the ferry to get . cheap oyercoaL There waa an old Jew and . young Jew, father and son, and the son waited ou the gentleman. He finally iound . coat to suit.
 "How much h thisg"
 "Twenty dollAre."
 "All right. I'll take it,"
 Then tho old man, using Jewish largon. held an animated conversati0n with the young Jew. This waa what 1t was, translated, and the purchaser understood it, which the Jew owl. aentiy thought he did not:
 "Yoa'tl never make . merchant, Samuel, never."
 "Why, tAtheres
 "Why, you might have got twenty. i've dollars for that coat Just as easy as twenty.s
 "Well, l think Pm \ good enough salesman. It's fittecn dollars, and l thought l was doing we'll making it twenty"
 "No, you're no good. no good at all"
 In tho meantime the coat was bcinS brushed a little for the customer. When hc put It on ho said:
 "rhat'll do beautifully. Now, aimee 1t was marked fifteen doliArs, pil pay you that and no more.s
 Tho young Jew snickercd and tho old Jew torv his hair, but the boy had the best of tho old man.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
sroRlKs AnouT A o1ANr.


 The death of Winnie Johnson, the negro giAntess who was buried re- gently in Baltimore, recalls to the New York TeiegraM another monster of oorporosity who died In Milford, Pike county, Pa, on September 2, lS41. His name was Louis Cornelius, and Ae wAa q noted hotel. keeper in his day. When in gosd health Cornelius weighed between seven and eight hun. dred pounds. His exact live weight never was known, as he had an extra ordinary antipathy to being weighed. After his death, which followed . short but extremely wasting illness. he was weighed and accurately meas ured by five of his fellow -townsmen, whase record of that performance ap- pears to this day in the following quaint chronicle inscribed on the Ay- leaf of one of the musty record books in the county clerks office:
 Louie Corneltus, died Sept VI. issl.
 Dimen slons are as foilcws;
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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
Edgar Poe's Raven.
Corr. Utica (N. r., Herald.


 Edgar A. Poe once lived in small house at New York, situated in Eighty fourth street, near the present boulevard. The house has remained standing alone for some time past, but quite recently it was torn down to make room for other buildings that are to be erected on the same adjacent land, or rock, we should say, more properly. Although Poe only board ed in this house part of two seasons, there was especial interest belonging to 1t, for the reason that 1t was there he wrote "The Raven" This fac: was known by hearssy to many of his ad- mirers, but when 1t was disputed by one of the Sunday papers, they found 1t difficult to establish the fact. One of them, however, has hunted up a Mrs. UBeirne, . sister of Commis- sioner Thomas Brennan. Her family lived in that cottage, and accepted Poe and his wife as boarders in the summers of 1S43 and 1844. She was then a child six or eleven years of age, but she distinctly remembers them both, as Mrs. Poe was fond of her and often hsd the child ;n her room. Her mother often told her how Poe read the poem to the family, in manu- script, and how she always kept the room just as it was at that time, down to the period when the family left the house. Speaking of the room, Mrs. O'Beirne says: "I remember very well the old plaster bust above the door," 1" where there was little shelf upon which it stood, that "psllid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door. l" "Several persons came to interview mother" she says, about The Raven, and in that way I have always asso- ciated the poem with that room, ss;a continued it in my memory" The poem was first published in ColtOn's WRig Reciec for February, 1s46, and was probably elaborated the summer before, which was the second season that Poe spent at the Brennan cottage. As we have nid, his admirers believed that the poem was written there, and when the house was taken to pieces lately, many relics were purchased by them, such e the "chambcr door" the mantel- piece of Poe's raven, pieces of moldings, and the window easements within which "there stepped stately raven of the saintly days of yorc." The manteI has gone to adOrn the fire place of . handsome library in Brook lyn, = t was quaint and oid-fashi0Bed, with carved fruit and viDes and Ieaves."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

and come home, and that ends the ven- ison business with mes and the old kicker looked around and found that his audience had all gone out, and he was telling his story to the bar tender, who could not understand English. PeckSs SAa.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
ceass.psiss sssssy csssS.

To THE EDsFos: Plsass inform your readers that ! ksve . po16ttve rsmsdy for the above nasned disooM Dy it. timely nc thounnd1 of hopslaD cAss havs ben pswnAn1st1y soDSA ! shsli be glAd e ssn1 two bottjO q my remedy fbse ~ any Gf your reads9s who havs eonSunp11en Y fhsy win send me thsis exprow and pos(- (-ollcs addresA Rspss(lul1y,
 T. A. GEOcUn, IT C., fo1 RGari stsSss,
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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

Thoumnds ass ioA1zg advaslags q our O1w e the tteo fy1at books- -thl Aod1j Essyslor0 a, 9hs Nodal Beet of Natuni Hia1ey, fhS 1oda Histosy ol ihs usite1 q1s1s1 and ons yaasil subscFiptkOs = fAls papg iog 0nly o7. Rcd tke or lp fh6 fanne.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
Lsss Impsevsmsnfs b Printing

Lsts Impsevsmsnfs h Printing
 Have greatly reduced ths eost in books, and we now o6er our readers the beDezit of this reductaOn- Rasd our OlEer of tho thrse 1odel BOoks in this issue, and don't fbil to taks ad- vantage of the wonderful bsrgains
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

Feminine imitation of mAscaiinfty is sesn h the fAct that pink is ths fsv. osits color for evssisg wear. Tn wo4en are tsyfng to lmitate tho men who paint the town red.- KxcAa11e,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

@C0me and have . qriet gams of teu- nis," nid Johnson. "CaD't, replisd Thompson. Hnever could play tennis without . racket. B0stoA Bw1yefkH.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

1What 1penas ef ths old nooas par" I'll eA moona, ny sonf Why thsy diso ppwmoenja, to hsass."- Kx
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

A martyr to the csws--the snre- crow.-Bxy16sEfos TreePyess.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

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 exees. Ai1s Diees11ee. .nAa16pas Mssp. rneslSw e ussuine m0&hesA esesstes ts say i9- S1fe1 akNMA l1 eff9g1ses seli H nAsafne1sfRe ET Tsszsss:d. q. T i'..sE::. ls INV M MD'''''-'''
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

tell me there had not been running fight with Indians, and they looked at me with astonishment and ordered the guides to hide the rest of the whisky in the woods % I couldn't find it. l would swear there was . fight with Indians, but have since learned that the boys were playing tricks on me. Do you know they sent me to spring one night after . pail of water, and while was gone they fixed up one of the party in . bear skin robe and he bid behind . tree in the path, and when I came along he rushed out on his hind legs and with . growl he grabbed me around the body and started of to the jungle with mel Say, my hair raised my hat oil my he'd and for . minute I could not breathe, but when my voice came back to me I yelled bloody murder, and when the boys came out with guns I sid bear was carrying me oil. They began firing, and every time they fired they threw stones at me, and l thought I WIS being riddled with bull lets, and I yelled to them to let up. The last shot evidently killed the bear, for he let go of me and dropped dsad, and | rushed into the te1t and packed up my valis. I found out that 1t wns not . bear and that the boys were shooting in the air. 0, it was i'm, I suppose. The next day VI startsd back for the raiIroad, and after two days of the hardest work I ever did in ny life. we hit . freight train
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

neAdaehs yst Usstw'sL t.isss i'ls are eqaAiiy yaisahis ih Cesssiestieu, eafiag sad psSsentiae tAis eaaeyinE complaint, Whlts lhsy also eetfeet al eiser4srs ef the sioAssh, stspsniaie tAa ilvs
 esd sesatAl4 the hoxsls, k.sa it tity onty eaFsa
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

aiek nsaaasAs saa relieve ail the troubles Inei. aeat so hslaeas ssaas sf the eyssssa. sash as Dss slnsse. Naneea. nfewsipnsa, pie,ssss aftur ealing faia in the Side, Ae. while their mess sssaasE able sacesss has bexn aAawn ln safIng
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20

Louie Corneltue, died Sept. x1. iszi. Dimen slona are as foiiows; Height, c feet.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11

pupils, caught fire from defective chin
ney the other morning and rapidly burned
TO the ground. The building was brick,
built about five years ago, and Is fully in
sure1. The children all moved out in safe.
ty and good ord r.
The residence Of w. G. Wiley, in Green
vile, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. This makes the second residence he
has lost within year.
John McLeer, aged As, single man en-
plOyed as night Waterman in Carlkin,
| Stickney & Grams ship yard in East Sagi-
nav, was found the other morning dead in
the yard lying on his face. 1t is supposed
he had an epileptic fit and fell in such q
manner that he suffocated.
w. Mills Of Croswell has written letter
accepting the nomination for governor on
the union labor ticket. In his letter Of ac-
ceptance he discourses learnedly on the
currency and coinage, land, convict labor,
schools, taxation, salaries, surplus ana
trusts, and says that the true road to pros
perity is that mapped out by the union labor
party.
The fourth annual reunion of the 9th
Michigan infantry was held in Ovid on the
4th inst
Isaiah Crumb, farmer of Liberty, Jack
son county, was shot and badly wounded by
has son as they were engaged in hunting
partridges for a sick friend.
John Chisholm's house at Alpena was en-
tered by burglars and SOB and all his pri-
vate papers were stolen. When leaving they
fired several shots which gave him his first
notice Of the unfriendly visit.
Two well known Battle Creek ladies have
been trying to sell the false teeth of de
ceased relative. The grinders originally cost
$40, but the ladies have refused 10 sell them
for rs cents
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
THE STATE.
Several Lives Lost.

The norwesterly gale on the lst inst. was
the seVereSt experienced on Lake Huron for
number Of years. In spite Of the falling
barometer and cautionary signals, several
lows pulled out of Sand Beach in the after
noon, among them being the steam barge
Lowell with six barges in tow. She return
cd late in the evening and attempted to
get into the harbor OF refuge, but just at the
entranc0 the tow-line parted and the whole
tow went adrift The barges st. Clair,
Lilly May, Oliver Cromwell and William
Young came TO anchor near by, but the Sea-
gull and Magnet went adrift.
The life-sawing crew went to the st.
Clair and offered to take of her crew, but
they refused, though they agreed to signal
for help if they required it. At IL p. IN. she
showed her signals and the life-saYers went
out TO her. The st. Clair, being heavily
loaded with coal, went TO pieces during the
night, and nothing was heard from the life
crew until next morning at 1880, when they
were reported at Port 5 anilac. The life
boat had succeeded in taking off the barge's
crew, but could not face the heavy sea, so
she was put before it, In attempting land
ing at Port Sanilac the boat was capsi2ed,
and four men and the woman cook of the
st. Clair crew were drowned The life
saving crew are all safe.
The names of the lost are Capt &. H.
Jones of Bay City; sailors Henry Ander-
son OF Australia; George Mctarlane of
Cleveland; Louis Fcrtaw of Bay City, and
the cook, Julia Greawreath of Sebewaing.
The rescued are Maurice McKenas Of Bay
City and John Rose of Detroit. The bodies
of the lost have not yet washed ashore.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
FOREIGN.

Two more women have been brutally
murdered and mutilatcd in Whitechapel,
London. Both were mutilated as in the pre-
vious murders, and both were women Of the
town.
Prof. Gesfcken of Berlin who has been
arrested for revealing state secrets in fur
nishiug the Deutscho Runschau with OK
tracts from Emperor Frederfck's diary,
stated that he had the EmperOr's permits
sion to publish the diary three months after
his death.
The expedition for the relief Of Emin
Bey will not be sent out until tho rising of
the natives in East Africa, has been
quelled.
The boiler and mud carrying steamer in
Aspinwall exploded the other morning, in
stantly killing six men.
The Dowager Empress has gone to visit
her mother Queen Victoria.
News from Moisic, 202 miles east OF the
Saguenay, is Of the most appalling descrip-
ton. The whole population Of that district
are on the point OF starvation. The fisher
les this season have signally filed, the
crops, of no great account ut any tine, have
also turned out badly, and the few provi-
sions Of the place are high, and the unfor-
tunate inhabitants do not know which way
TO turn for food and clothing.
The loss throughout Mexico by cyclones
and floods this month exceeds s., O00, GEO
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
THE WORLD OF TRADE.
Detroit Markets.

WHEAT-Market strong, quotations rang
ing from $l0i1{ TO l.04l2 for No. red, and
No. l white 81 03Cc1.03l(.
CoRN-A fairly active market at prices
ranging from 81 to ~ &c.
OATs-A nominal market, 2G@27c being
quoted.
CLOVER SEED-Quotations range from
so 10 $50.
FLoUR-Michigan patent, s5.50Q5,75 per
Dbl; roller process Sj@5,25; Minnesota
patent, $3.50; Minnesota bakers, 1925; rye
-four, S360(6375. Firm at these figures,
with an upward tendency.
PRovIsIoNs-Mess Pork, $l6dl6.5O per
Dbl; family, slS.50dl9; short clear, $l9CGl9.-
%; tierce lard, l0A@l0Lc; half bbls, 1890
10@c; pals, ll@ll4c; hams, 124@l21Gc;
shoulders, 9(dyl4c; bacon, 1l4dll3c;
dried beef hams, 924@l0c; extra mess beef,
$7.50d775 per Dbl; plate beef, SS.JOtdS.75.
WooD-Hard maple, 1915 per cord hicll-
DRY, 1878; beech and maple, 1925; soft
white ash, $3.50; soft maple, s.. For saw
ing and splitting 81 per cord extra.
WooL-Fiue, 24626c per ID; coarse, goo
27c; medium, 26d2Sc; unwashed, Is off.
Demand strong and sales large.
HAY.-SS(q15 per ton in wagon lots; loose
pressed, SIS; straw in wagon lots, S7dlO
per ton; do loose pressed, So(d1l; bundles,
1904 per 100. In car lots, baled, timothy,
S11; No. 2, go; clover, $500; straw, S5@6,
HDEs.-No. ! green, &c per h ; cured do
63%c; No. do &c; No. calf skins, &c; No.
2 do &c per 10. Hides active, calfskins
dull.
PoULTRY.-Roosters &C per ID; fowls, Sc;
spring chickens, 9; turkeys, 90l0c; ducks.
78Sc; pigeons, 25c; squads, SOC per pair
GANE.-Partridges Coo per pair; wood
cock, 81 50d3 per doZ; common ducks, 300
CSC, and Mallards, 75c per pair; rabbits, 10
Ia - nor
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
CHINESE EXCLUDED.
The President Signs the Bill, and Gives
His Reasons for Doing So.

his reasons lOf Dong 80.
The President has signed the Chinese
exclusion bill and sent a long and somewhat
perfunctory message to congress on the sub
ject. In this paper he recited the well-known
and oft-repeated fact that the experiment
of blending the social habits of the Mongo-
lian laboring classes with those of the great
body of the people Of the United States has
proved an utter failure, and goes at length
into the legislation enacted to restrict and
prohibit the coming of the Chinese, from
the Burlingame treaty to the treaty Just re-
jected by China The failure Of the efforts
TO stay the tide of Asiatic immigration in
duced Mr.. Cleveland to find an es-
ffectual remedy for the evil. This re-
suited i'm the framing of the recent
ly rejected treaty. He received no def
mite information regarding the fate of the
treaty in China until the day the bill Just sign
cd came 10 him from congress. The ground
of the rejection was China's desire to short
en- the period stipulated for the exclusion
of the Chinese laborers and to permit
laborers in the United States TO return to
China on visits. The president argues that
| the United States possesses the undoubted
| right in self-defense to exclude from its
borders foreign population detrimental to
| its moral and physical well being and
that by the rejection of the treaty China
has virtually abandoned indefinitely any
attempt to cooperate with this country
upon the subject.
| The only suggestions made TO congress
in the message are the payment Of the
Rock Springs indemnity (already provided
for by congress and now in conference)
and the following remarkable PROPOSE
! ton:
Justice and fairness seem to require that
some provision should be made by act OF
| joint resolution under which such Chinese
laborers as shall actually have embarked
| on their return to the United States before
! the passage Of the law this day approved,
and are now on their way, may be permit
| ted to land, provided they have duly and
lawfully obtained and shall present certifi-
Gates heretofore issued permitting them to
return in accordance with the provisions Of
existing law.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
The Inst of the Season.

Sergt. Congcr closes his very valuable
series of weekly crop bulletins for the sea
son with the issue of the week ending Sept.
90. That part of the closing bulletin relat-
ing TO the results of the weather is as fol
aows: The weather conditions have been
favorable to all growing crops. There is
still a deficiency in rainfall, which will
probably make the new sown wheat come
up unevenly. Wheat sowing is about fin
ished. Corn husking has begun and, as
before noted, the kernel is somewhat
shrunken. Root crops are now being gath
cred. The crop is better than anticipated.
Frost has done but little damage to crops
in the south half of the state, but it nipped
vines badly in the northern section.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
Yellow Jack Conquered.

Fair cool weather has been the great
blessing OF Florida the past week, and the
yellow fever epidemic may be said to have
ended. There is courage in every face. The
weather Is favorable to those who are sick,
and those who are in health are invigorated,
while the microbes are taking a rest.
The loss incurred by Jacksonville through
the almost complete closing of the business
houses the past six weeks will be something
enormous, though tho figures cannot be ap-
proximated now. Many storekeepers and
clerks, who have had the fever and are re-
covering, will reopen their places Of bust
ness in a few days, though there is almost
nobody to buy yet. In the mean time there
is feeling OF returning confidence in the
neighboring cities. Quarantine regulations
are being relaxed or removed, and the panic
Is subsiding.
Contributions are still coming in daily,
and ore needed. In other places than Jack
sonville every available dollar has been
spent to keep the fevor out. Business is al
most at standstill, and there are thousands
of dependent people who must be cared for
until trade with the outside world can be
resumed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
To Hunters.

The state game warden has issued a no
tice to deer hunters, in which he quotes
some points Of law to them. He says:
The open season in the upper peninsula
is from October to November Is, and in
the lower peninsula during the month of
November only. The bounding of deer is
unlawful at all times and subjects the
owner Of the dog TO punishment and under
the statue the dog may be killed by any
person without liabilities for damages No
deer shall be killed when in its red coat,
and no fawn when in its spotted coat. No
deer shall be killed while in any waters Of
tbe state, nor by means of any pit or trap,
nor the use Of any artificial light Trans
portation of deer, or any part Of the carcass
of the same, beyond the limits of the state
is prohibited at all times. A violation of
any one Of these laws subjects the offender
TO a fine $50, and deputy wardens are in
structed to prosecute every offender.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
WhitAacre's WAYS.

Allen Whteacre, 10 years of age, acting
assistant bookkeeper in the Hutchinson,
Kansas, national bank, had a preliminary
examination the other day on the charge Of
embezzlement. His populations amount 10
about 81 900 and have been carried on for
n year. He would get check, drawn by
himself upon the Hutchinson national bank
cashed by merchants who did business
with another bank. In the clearing which
was done by Whiteacre the check would
fall into his hands and be destroyed. He
would then charge the amount 10 depos
itor to make the cash balance at night. The
amounts were credited back to tho depos-
itors' accounts, and their accounts made
good, and the whole amount charged to the
certificate account. The court held the de-
PENDANT in the sum of s 1000 for his appear
ance al the district cnnrt
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
Ii Effects Tariff Reduction of Nearly
S75, 100000.

In the senate the other day Mr.. Allison,
from the committee on finance, reported
back the house tariff bill, with amendments
in the shape of a substitute. 1t was placed
on the calendar and ordered to be printed.
According TO the estimates made by the
committee tho bill provides for total re-
duction of about $40, 100000, made up APP
proximstely as follows Sugar, S27, 759, 900
free list 81, 800, 900; tobacco Qnternal rove
nue), S24, SOC, 900; alcohol in the arts s., 900,
900; other reductions in customs, 8, OO0, 900