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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

them out to the bars and introduced
them 10 Gen. Rusk. They said little,
but were evidently impatient TO get
back To their work, for the machine
was silent See here. gentlemen
said Jerry, If you have any business
with my friend here | will step out
and keep the machine going They
smiled incredulously, but he walked
through the bars, took their places
and said, Start 'er upn They started
'er up. jerry was 80 years old, and
he in the prime of his strength. The
hired men whipped the horses and the
old thing hummed. Jerry kept the air
full of wheat. The brothers stared.
then drew nigh and enjoyed it. Very
seldom has so much wheat been thresh-
ed in half an hour. When he rein
quished his position one OF the broth
ers took his hand and said General
Rusk, we are glad TO make your nc
quaintan0e, sir. My brothers and
agree in the decision that you are our
man for congress, and they wish me TO
say that If you thrash democrats as
you can thrash wheat, you can thrash
'em like h Pierce county threw its
vote for Rusk, and he was nominated
and elected TO congress three success
sive terms"
William Window, who for the sec
ond term holds the portfolio of the
treasury department. was, like Rusll,
an Ohio boy and also like him far
mer's boy He had the ordinary COM
monplacS experiences of an average
farmers boy. He chopped and car
ried wood, he drove and MIXED cows,
he learned 10 build fences, to manage
horses and TO help about the myriad
labors of farm. He read as he rot q
chance attended a debating society to
his great mental stimulation, went to
school winters and finally attended the
academy in the adjoining village of
Mount Vernon-just about the geogra-
phical center OF Ohio.
Young Window made the most of
his opportunities, and without taking
college course began the study of
law with Judge Hurd. father of Hon.
Frank Hurd, the eminent free trader.
From the very first he seems TO have
carried about him great personal p0pu-
larity. for he was elected county at
torney by the wings by mojority OF
POO in u county which usually went
800 democratic, and before he was %
he was CHOSEN grand worthy Patriarch
of the sons of temperance of the state.
His youth was not made stormy by the
unusual vicissitudes but had something
of the tranquil surface that has
characterized the career of his man
hood.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

James N. Blaine, whether Tor good
or i'll, was born of family that did
not have that desperate struggle with
poverty, illiteracy and adversely that
marked the early years of Lincoln.
Greeley, Garfield and majority OF
other men who have risen TO eminence
in this land. His father was above
privation and even well-to-do for he was
worth $4,000. He was a college
graduate and member Of the bar, a
thrifty citizen and for years the proth-
onatary of the court, and he married n
lady of culture and accomplishments
who brought him SO, 600 in cash and
500 acres OF improved land. His grand
father had fought by Washington S
side and saved the army at Valley
Forge. Even little Jimmy himself.
was patted on the head and patronized
by Andrew jackson.
Blaine was born and reared in an at
mosphere OF educated refinement and
OF successful achievement. He went to
the district school young and learned
rapidly. In grammar he became ex-
pert; he reaG the Waverly novels and
Dickens; and he could spell the whole
town down at spelling-schooL He was
not precocious, but he was brainy and
plucky.. At 8 he had committed
"Plutarch's Lives" to memory.
When he was IL years old he was
sent to Ohio (where young Harrison.
Window, Noble. and Rusk were all
then struggling TO to live in the family
of his mothers cousin-a member of
President Harrison's cabinet-Hon.
Euvi, -
treasury. In the spacious home amid
elevating scenes and conversation, he
prepared for college, his instructor be-
ing brother OF Lord Lyons then
stranded in the Buckeye state-in
which at, least five members of the
present cabinet got an important part
OF their education and four of them
were born.
One event OF his boyhood, occurring
when he was II years old, is credited
to Blaine himself. His mother was a
rigid Catholic, like her mother and
grandmother, but his father, Ephraim
Blaine, was q strict Presbyterian.
When, in 1912, he was nominated by
the wings for country Office, the
Catholic priest, who was bitter
political opponent asked to certify
that Blaine was member of his
church, replied with the following:
This is to certify that Ephraim Z.
Blaine is not now and never has been
member of the Catholic church, and
furthermore, in my opinion. is not fit
to be member of any church."
This was considered certificate of
supererogation.
Commissioner James Tanner was
born and grew to manhood in
Schoharie county, just southwest OF
Albany, N. Y. His father and mother
had severe struggle with penury and
hardship, as the former was disqualif-
ed by blindness for effective work and
his wife was compelled to toll early
and N1te TO support the family. Her
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

The great strike in London is the
most extensive, in the number OF men
involved, ever known in Great Brit
ain. The condition of the deck labor
ers who originated it is undoubtedly
bad, as is the condition OF all la5orers
whose employment is irregular. The
contention of the dock companies that
they cannot pay more than they now
pay has much of truth in it. Raising
the dock charges would make London
costlier port to discharge cargoes
in, and London has to compete as a
port with Liverpool, Bristol. Sorsh-
ampton, and even Glasgow, and a
slight difference in rates would send a
vast amount of trade away from the
Thames in these days when every port
is so well supplied with inland rail-
road communication. Whether the
dock companies have right on their
side or not, the trouble with the labor
ers is the old Malthusian one, which
lies everywhere at the bottom of the
labor problem-there are in London
too many of them. If there were half
the number they would have the
dock companies at their mercy. Worse
still, not one of the schemes on foot
In London for ameilorating the
condition of the poor has in view the
permanent diminution of the labor
supply. On the contrary, most Of
them keep up the steady drain on the
unskilled and shiftless population of
the country districts, which every
year recruits and enlarges the vast
army of city poor who have no regu-
lar employment. There is probably
no city in the world in which the la
Dor problem is being dealt with in u
more improvident, hand to- mouth
way. What the philanthropists are
doing with the best intentions makes
London the more attractive to the
dependent class, and when they get TO
London they soon enlist under the
socialist banner and maintain that
somebody owes them easy work at
high wages, with pleasing evening en-
tertainments thrown in.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
Words of Wisdom.

learning hath gained most by those
books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller.
| remember that wise friend OF
nine did usually say, that which is
everybody's business Is nobo1y's bust
ness.-IZaak Walton.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old
Testament; adversely is the blessing OF
the New.--Lord Bacon.
do not know what | may appear TO
the world, but to myself | seem TO have
been only like boy playing on the
seashore, and diverting myself in wv
and then finding smoother pebble or
"a prettier she'll than ordinary. whilst
the the great ocean of truth lay all I'M
discovered before me.-Isaac Newton.
Hope is but the dream of those that
wake. Prior.
To be OF no church is dangerous.
Religion, of which the rewards are dis
tant. and which is manifested only by
faith and hope, will glide by degrees
out OF the mind unless it be invigorat-
ed and reimpressed by extreme ordi-
nances, by stated calls TO worship. and
the salutary influence of example,
DIR. johnson.
Where law ends, tyranny begins. -
Earl of Catham.
Equal and exact justice to all men,
OF whatever state or persuasion, relig-
ious or political. peace, commerce and
honest friendship with all nations, en-
tangliug alliances with none. Thorn as
jefferson.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
His Friend Skaggs.

Hello, Moneybagg, how goes it?"
Mr.. Moneybagg's whole spine quiv.
cred and tingled as u brawny hand
came down with a whack between his
shoulders.
"I-I-beg your pardon. sir, but
don't know YOU" said Moneybagg
painfully conscious that the eyes OF all
the clerks in the counting-room were
fixed on him and his caller.
What? Ye don't know me? Don't
remember Bill Skaggs?
mo, do not"
"Why, man, what's become OF your
reclomembery il We fergit old friends
like mee Can't guess, now, when and
where it was you see me last?"
'No."
'Why, dern it all, Moneybagg.
I'm the Teller We got yer wurms OF
when We was fishin' up in Maine three
or four years ago, yes / am. An I've
said ever sence that IL ever / came to
New YorrulS l allowed to put up with
my old friend Moneybagg, an here
am, by Jacks, come TO stay week
with We. Tickled to death to see me,
amt yep"-"Rex' in Time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
WHAT cLoup-suRsr
A Lake OF Water Actually Sus.
pended in Mld-Air

p0ndod IN Mlu- Alrs
The phenomena of a cloud-burst,
which can only occur in a tornado or
whirlwind, are lot generally UNDER
stood, says the New York Herald.
The whirl in which it is not very
broad and shallow disk but a tall, coll
umnar mass of rotating air, similar to
that in which the Atlantic watersport
or the pilar-like dust-storm OF India is
generated. While this travelling arte-
rial pillar. perhaps a few hundred
yards in diameter, is rapidly gyrating
the centrifugal force, as Prof. Farrell
has shown. acts as a barrier to prevent
the flow OF external air from all sides
into its interior except at Or near the
base of the pillar. There friction with
the earth retards the gyrations and
allows the air to rush in below and es-
cape upward through the flue-like in
terror as powerful ascending currents.
The phenomenon, however, will not
be attended by terrific floods unless
the atmosphere is densely stored with
water vapor, rs it was Tuesday in the
Cayadutta valley. When such is the
case the violent ascending currents
suddenly lift the vapor above the level
at which they were previously floating
and hurl them aloft into rarefed and
cold regions of the atmosphere, where
their vapOr is instantly condensed into
many tons of water. Could the water
fall as fast as condensed it W ould be
comparatively harmless. But the con-
tinuous uprushing currents support
this mass of water at the high level
and as their own vast volumes of
vapor rising are condensed they add
to the water already accumulated
thousands OF feet above the earth's sur
face-making, so to speak, a lake in
high air.
AS the whirlwind weakens or passes
from beneath this vast body of water,
which its ascending currents have gen.
Grated and upheld in the upper story
of the atmosphere, the aqueous mass,
no longer supported, drops with ever.
increasing gravitational force to the
earth. In severe cloud-bursts the
water does not fall as rain, but in
sheets and streams, sometimes UNI
broken for many seconds. The cloud
burst of 1873 at Hollidaysburg, Pa,
eXcavated many holes in the ground,
varying from twenty-five 10 thirty feet
deep. In similar but milder storm
which visited Boulogne last May fis-
sures were cut in the ground eight
feet deep and openings made large
enough to inguf horse and cart
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
A Fearful Strnke Of Lightning.

There was binding blast, terrific
fire and the earth had fallen in pieces.
On Saturday afternoon the people OF
East Point, a village six miles from
Atlanta, were shocked from stroke of
lightning the like of which had never
been experienced by any OF them be-
fore. About dusk gray cloud hung
over the town. There had been no
lightning, no thunder, nor any indica-
ton of an electric storm. Suddenly a
flash aud crash came simultaneously
and people rushed from their houses
with olanched faces. The danger was
past, but the brief experience was
terrible. There had been an electric
shower. The lightning had separated
into twenty or more bolts and struck
as many places within n radius of n
quarter of a mile. The air was filled
with the odor of birthstone and a cop
per-colored cloud 1oated northward
from the city. A windmill was struck
and damaged, the grass on a lawn was
burned up, window in a house was
shattered and the carpet in a bedroom
scorched, COW was killed. tree split
open and a telegraph operator knocked
from his chair. The most wonderful
thing about the electric shower was
the rolling OF great balls of fire up the
railroad tracks. The small masses
went bouncing along the rails to the
terror OF the citizens. 1t was certainly
q terrible bolt OF lightning. and those
who were near will remember it to
their dying day. Macon Telegraph.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
Her Present.

She gave me-shall tell you what
Has raised this feeling in my breast
Made my poor heart go pit-a-pa:-
Caused many hours of broken rest.
She gave me-not n blushing rose,
So sweetly decked with pearls Of dew
The rose that yields its richest perfume,
Arrayed in natures brightest hue.
She gave me-not the winning smile
With which the hearts OF men are broken
The smile that sends thrill of Joy,
And not a single word is spoken.
She gave me-ah! shall confess it,
Shall confess how was bittenl
She gave me that which she, indeed,
Has many times bestowed-the mittenl
Willard o. Wylie In Boston Journal
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

Jerry was always rustler," re-
marked the captain, with enthusiasm
physically he was terror before
they came from Ohio-peaceable, but
could lick any boy around. And in
certain sorts of farm work he was an
expert, unexcelled and unequaled in
our parts. Did you ever hear how he
got to congress the first term? Well,
he had marched through to the sea
with Sherman and had won brigadier
generals star, and he was pretty popu-
lar. But there was another man in
the district who seemed to have the
grip on the nomination which Ruslx
wanted. 1t was evident that the thing
was going to be close. One lively
township was pretty certain to carry
Pierce county, and it was generally
understood that one family, whom |
will call Beasley, could carry the
county. One day the chairman OF our
committee drove around and said TO
Rusk, Jerry, we must go up and see
the Beasleys-I hear they are against
you. So up they drove and found the
Beasley boys threshing wheat with a
big four horse Fischer machine requir-
ing six men. The chairman cslled
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
No Further Need of the Lnmn.

Over beyond Hates mount lin the
colored brethren were holding a series
OF shouting services" in a little meet
ing house with one big lamp. Late one
evening big youth got up to "fess his
sim" He made the frankest and full.
est confession of the series. lie owned
up to every crime in the calendar and
every sin in the Decalogue. He kept
on and on with a horid fluency which
reused his hearers to the hysterical
point. Suddenly a voice from the rear
broke in: ''Put out dat lamp" 'Why
for?" demanded the presiding clergy
man excitedly. "Kase the viles' sinner
done return" said the voice. And
there the confessor collapsed. WASH
ington Letter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

Among leading actresses OF renown
Ia this country at the present day is
Miss Kate Forsythe, who is contem-
plating making professional tour in
play entitled 1.-The Wife of Miletus.
Although hardly as youthful as her
appearance would suggest, Kate For
sythe may be numbered among the
comparatively young women of the
stage. She is an unusually clever
actress, giving promise of some future
starring which may prove unequivo-
cally brilliant, and that she should
feel confident of future success in her
chosen vocation, is not at all surpris-
ing.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
WHEN THEY WERE BOYS.
The Infancy and Youth OF the
Present Administration.
WHEN BLAINE WAS GROWING.
Jerry Rusk as a Rustler Window on q
Buckeye Farm-Oommissicner Tan
ner's First Dollar-At Lin
coins Death Bed.
Special Washington letter.

special washington letter.
Nobody knows who will be elected
president forty years from now-say
in the quadrennial summer of the
year 192S-but it is safe to allege that
that future functionary is now poor
boy, from to 10 years of age, born of
poor parents and possessing few friends
and few dollars. And majority of
the eight or ten members of his
cabinet are also friendless and pen
niless, and their fathers are struggling
farmers or bricklayers or car-drivers
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

The theory that "the only good
Indian is a dead Indian" was never
more forcibly illustrated than in the
case of District Attorney w. c. Jones
of Washington Territory. who refused
to prosecute certain Indian murderers
of the Colville agency in that terri
tory, on the ground that no grand
jury in the territory would indict an
Indian for so unimportant an act as
killing a fellow redskin.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19
Brought Down the House.

Miss Limpisonnet-What do you cor
slider your strongest piece OF prose
writing, Mr.. Blankvcrs? Mr. Blank
versa sixty day note, my dear; /,
carried away nearly all my furnitur
and drove me out of the state until /
was outlawed. l didn't consider my
self safe within its reach. Burdette. IL
Brooklyn Eagle
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19

A novel exhibition is to be inaug-
urated in Boston in November, which
Is designed to be a great object lesson
of the maritime industries of the
world. In the exhibit will be present
ed for contrast American and foreign
machinery and appliances, models of
war and merchant vessels. There
will be exhibits of the skill and ma
terials at the command OF the Atlantic
and Pacific shipyards, as we'll as n
museum OF relics illustrating the prog
ress made in ship-building from the
earliest time. There is no question
but that this nautical display will at
tract universal attention. The reviv-
al in naval ship-building, as well as
tho interest taken in the restoration
of a merchant marine, mas aroused
public enthusiasm, and the exhibition
cannot fail to encourage and stimulate
this feeling.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-07
Conscience Money.

One phase in business life which is
not an uncommon one, and which
shows that the world wags not as
badly as il is said TO do, is tho return
ing 10 the merchants Of conscience
money II very often comes under
vi notice. The last occasion | OBJ
served was the other day at Barr's,
when a well known Catholic clergy
man came up to Mr.. Franklin. by
whom / was standing, and handed him
$50, which n penitent of his had asked
him to restore 10 Bars. Whether the
amount the repentant creature re-
turned had been taken in money or
goods of course no one knew, and
equally so Of course only the priest
knew the name Of the person making
restitution. Not very long ago a
widow who had been very wealthy,
but had been robbed Of everything,
was surprised by a visit Of a gentle
man who had formerly known her
husband. He handed her 500, which
he said had just come TO him directed
10 his care TO be delivered 10 her,
simply labeled Conscience money!
You have heard the story Of the man
who sent $50 anonymously 10 a shop
keeper, with this laconic notes Here
is go Of money, which ] stole from
you. send IL because my CONSCIENCE
'naws' when il 'naws' again | will
send the other $50" This p~hilosophic,
II i~lliterate, penitent is a fair sample
Of the kind we run across. st. Louis
Globe Democrat
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-07

Professor Bickmore, in a lecture on
'The Period Of Reptiles and Mann
mails" in the Museum of Natural His
tory, New York city, presented on a
screen illustrations Of the footprints
sme of the amphibians Of the coal
period. The illustration was a draw
Sng from the great slab of bluestone
which belongs TO the museum, and
was taken from the stone quarry at
Turner's Falls, Mass. The animal
itself, Mr.. Bickmore explained, was
one of those which roamed in great
numbers along the Connecticut valley
during the carboniferous period. This
one had left its footprints in the mud.
and the impression having been sub
sequently filled with sand, the cast
was preserved when the clay became
hardened into stone.
From fossils of the animal, which
have been obtained in other portions
of the valley, it appears TO have had
m elongated body, about fourteen feet
long, on four legs. IL moved mainly
an the hind feet. the fore legs being
shorter, and lived partly in the water
and partly on the banks Of the stream.
Scientific American.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-07
Tho Bronco.

Some years ago | drove up to stage
station in the San Pedro valley in
Arizona, and the Mexican stock tender
had had "A hard time in rounding up
his stage stock. His herd pony had
been run until. as he stood there under
the shade Of a brush corral, covered
with foam and dust, with his belly
drawn up almost TO his spine, and
gasping occasionally as though il was
his last, | felt sure ] should see him
die before / left the station. | was
afterwards told by the stage boss, in a
bluff, matter Of curse way, in answer
to my inquiry, that he had pulled
through all right; you can't kill them
critters" and now | am perfectly posi-
tive that you cannot
As a saddle animal simply, the
bronco has no superior. The Hope"
is q term which should never be APP
piled to that motion in any other
breed of horses. / have watched a
herd of COW ponies being driven over
the prairie. where the undulations of
the backs in the moving throng were
as regular and easy as the rise and
fall of the watery waves, The fox
trot which is the habitual gait Of all
~plainsmen, cowboys and. Indians, is
easily cultivated in him, and his light,
supple frame accommodates itself
naturally TO the motion.
This particular American horse lays
claim to another quality, which in my
estimation is not least, and that is his
wonderful picturesqueness. He graces
the western landscape, not because lie
reminds us of the equine ideal, but
because he comes Of the soil, and has
borne the heat and burden and the
vicissitudes of all that pale of romance
which will cling about the western
frontier. As we see him hitched to
the pillow or the wagon he seems a
living protest against utilitarianism;
but, unlike his red master, he will not
60. He has borne the Moor, the
Spanish conqueror, the red Indian, tho
mountain man and the vaquero
through all the glories of their careers;
but they will soon be gone, with all
their heritage of gallant deeds. The
pony must meekly enter the new
regime. He must wear the collar of
the new civilization and carn his oats
by the sweat of his flank. There are
no more worlds for him to conquer;
now he must till the ground.-Ered
erick Remington in Century.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-07
He Gave Tier a Chance to Choose.

From Brownsburg, Ind, comes the
story true, Of coursel, that a young
lady sent a note TO a discarded lover
requesting the return Of "A lock Of hair
which, in the whilom hours OF court
ship, he had clipped from her dainty
tresses. Rumagng his trunk he. col
lected a number oi locks, culled from
various best girls" during his love
making career, and forwarded them in
q bundle 10 the girl, inclosing a note
10 the effect that he had really forgot
ten which was hers, but she might
select il from those forwarded and NJ
turn the rest at her convenience
PittsburQ Dispatch.