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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
Lnck the Rinner Again.

Jack the Ripper is again at work in
London and the detectives are as much
at a loss as ever to find any clew likely
to lead them TO the Identification or
arrest of the monster. The best de.
tective talent in the three Kingdoms
has been employed in an effort to run
him Gown, but to no avail. IL he is q
mailman he is one OF the shrewdest
that the police have ever had to deal
with.
1t seems n little strange that the
Scotland Yard detectives, VINO are SO
quick TO trace crimes Of a political ma
ture and TO capture political prisoners,
should be so slow in checking the
career of this murderer. But perhaps
this is accounted for on the theory that
it is an easy matter for British de-
tective to manufacture political
crime TO order or to swear away the
liberty OF Il political offender
The good old times when the Sleuth
and Hawkshaw and Detective Bucket
of fiction used TO enthrall our minds
with admiration have passed away for
ever. 1t is plain TO US now that de-
tectives are but ordinary mon; indeed
to most OF us they appear to be very
ordinary men, and perhaps that &C
counts. for heir failure in the old
world or in this TO accomplish anything
but very ordinary undertakings
Chicago Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
Speed In Ocean Travel.

II is announced that Austin Corbin
has purchased large tract OF land at
Montauk Point, Long Island. and that
the Rapid Transit Steamship company,
which he represents, will proceed i'm
mediately to the construction of eight
steamships TO ply between Fort Pond
Bay and Milford Haven in Wales.
This announcement will renew the
interest which the public has long ie.L
in the project OF establishing an Amer
lean short line between Great Britain
and the United States. The sea voyage
will be reduced perhaps forty-eight
hours, and If Mr.. Corbins vessels,
which are to cost it is said not less than
81, 250, 600 each ana are to be the fast
est and most elegant on the Atlantic,
shall even.rival in speed those OF the
Cunard, Inman, and White Star lines
the passage from land to land ought TO
be made in little over four days. This
will DO reducing the duration of the
sen voyage between the continents OF
Europe and America to "a point not
thought of ten years ago.
Vessels have of late made the trip
from Queenstown 10 New York in about
half the time required by some of the
fastest of them during the American
war. And the speed OF these ocean
fliers is being gradually heightened
year by year until within our own time,
perhaps, the trip between Queenstown
and New York may be accomplished
in half a week. 1t seems like dream
but it is by no means among the i'm
possibilities that the trip from Fort
Pond Bay TO Pembrokeshire in Wales
in the not very remote future may con-
sumo no more time and cause no more
inconvenience than an ordinary rail
road journey. Chicago limos
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
The Kaiser's Great Activity.

What cause is there in all his wild :,
domain in which the German emperor
does not take a especial" and person
al interest. He patronizes music and
he protects art and science; he y a
country squire with the men OF many
acres, and he is the first soldier in the
land. just now he is directing his
special attention toward the cyclists
and the brewers. The former are to
have their races at Berlin in the course
of next week and William III. has al
ready promised to be present, adding
that he would be glad il more officers
in the army would take TO the sport.
A thousand brewers assistants mean
while are to-day, by special permission,
going in procession, dressed in fancy
costumes and preceded by carriages
and outriders, to the imperial palace
at Berlin to bring an ovation to the
ruler whose eye looks with favor upon
German beer.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

the next car. Bang! answered a big
gun in the coach behind us. A burly
fellow took his arm from HI girls
waist, drew out OF his trousocs pocket
heavy bull dog" that carried half
ounce ball, and. reaching across his
lady loves lap emptied the pistol with
rafting rapidity out OF the window.
Across the aisle boy not more than
l6 produced still longer and bigger
pistol, and attempted TO do the same,
but the girl objected and struggle
ensued for the possession of the cooked
and loaded weapon. which, thanks TO
that providence which watches over
fools and "fulls," did not go off. By
this time nearly every young man In
the car had revolver in his hand or
sticking half out Of his pocket, and
just at this juncture we ran into tun-
mel. From half the men on each plat
form, from half the windows in each
car, burst the noise and flame OF these
heavy guns, pulled as fast AS fingers
could work. The tunnel was only "a
few inches off-bullets were more
likely TO glance than not. The car was
lighted only by flashes of powder and
the shooters yelled like demons, while
the shrill laughter of many II woman's
voice struck the noise in sharp STAG
cato.
ltwas lively experience and it only
ended as the train gradually emptied
itself with parting salvoS Of pocket
artillery and farewell yells of riotous
mirth.
1t is not worth while to mention
names or specify localities; but nei-
Their really matters, for just such
scenes are enacted whenever crowd
of eastern KentucSisns, patrician or
plebian, get together, whether it be a
political canvass or college COM
mencement. ERNEST INGERsoLL.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
Eating Raw Fish I'm Lanan.

A correspondent who dined in Japan
describes wildly the sensation produc-
ed by eating raw fish: The whole fish
was there, his head and shining blue
eyes, his tail and fins, but at n touch
the shape came apart and lay in thin
slices upon the bones, a miracle OF the
carver's art. took chopstickful.
The first taste of caviare and onions is
an event in lifetime; the unknown
olive and pungent garlic have made
episodes in every career, but to close
the jaws on slice OF cold, raw fish
and have the clammy, rubber-like flesh
culver and slip under the teeth has a
horror peculiarly its own. The sense
of its being something lately dead,
something corpsey, is sickenlng. One
slice filed me almost 10 overlooking
and l confined myself to the garnish. !"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

The rich iron deposits known to
exist in Wyoming and Colorado have
secured considerable attention OF late
from capitalists In the east. This
region, however, is comparatively un-
known, and mining operators are I'M
acquainted with the great possibilities
awaiting developments. Tho iron in
dustries of the west are in about the
same stage OF development as the rich
mines of northern Alabama were less
than ten years ago. Now a large
amount of capital is invested in Ala
bama's iron mines and will continue
to pour in so long as the resources of
that country promise so well. 1t is,
however, merely question OF short
time when the iron deposits of the
Rocky Mountains will be converted
into pig iron, and that will come with
the improved methods and facilities OF
transportation from the mines 10 the
smelters.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
KENTUCKY COLLEGE FUN.
Diplomas Within and Death With
out the Hall OF Learning.
THE PULPIT AND PISTOLS
In Bourbon Land-0ommencement Day a
Time for the Settlement of Old
Grudges. Some Vey Lirvely
Sorimmages in Which One q ;
Man Is Killed.

just where the verdant undula-
tions OF the blue grass district of Ken
lucky breaks against the low outer
most ridges of the Cumberland noun
tains stands pretty little village clus-
tered about college and preparatory
schools, whore l have just witnessed
40 most extraordinary commencement
day that America can show.
This Is the only collegiate institution
in Kentucky where young ladies take
an equal course with the men, and
where the colored people are admitted
to every privilege of the college with
out any distinction or separation so far
rs student life is concerned. There is
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

COMMISSIONER.
no other place in the state where
young colored people of both sexes can
get anything higher than the education
of the common school, and they form
half OF the whole number OF students.
Yet it is so good school, and so
cheap, that young white men and wo-
men are attracted to to it from all over
the state, and the dreadful things
which were promised when this CO.
education of the races began have
never materialized. So much to give
a hint of the character OF the little col
lege whose unique commencement day
happened on June Is.
The people began to come before |
got up in the morning and by s o'clock
were streaming along all the converg-
ing roads and concentrating upon the
grove-shaded campus.
These early arrivals were mostly on
acknowledgements of young chaps,
swearing and whooping whenever they
felt like it; young men more sober in
appearance (and in facO because their
sweethearts sat behind them. perched
! the waist OF tho gallant cavalries;
scores of women and girls Of every age,
riding singly, their light-colored mus
| lin dresses protected from the splash
ing mud by long riding-skirts of rusty
waterproof stuff and their faces hiden
in capacious sun-bonnets or else
capped by astonishing head-gear.
Interspersed among the equestrians
were wheeled vehicles OF every sort
old town omnibuses, stylish rigs OF
visitors from the blue grass town, an
tique buggies and carryalls, farm carts
and wagons, home-patched, il not
| homemade. These wagons had no
cross-seats, but instead would be set
full of splint-bottom chairs. l saw one
steer harnessed, horse-fashion, into a
rude cart; but it did not need such ex-
| travagances to make any of the fixtures
| irresistibly comic. Yet one could
plainly see that these folks we're do
| ing thei: best to be genteel and to wor-
ship at the shrines OF etiquette and
fashion according to the light they
had.
BY the time the college commence
ment was to begin there were proba-
bly, 1000 people on the grounds, and /
don't know how many horses and
mules. There was also a good many
whisky bottles which were drawn upon
with increasing rapidity as the more
seriously minded made their way to-
ward the tabernacle and left a large
average of ''toughs" in the remainder
OF the merry concourse.
The exercises in the tabernacle
were of the familiar stamp, and would
furnish by their peculiarities, material
for long letter; but to me the most
interesting part was the array OF ma
tive people who filled the seats to
overlooking and paid earnest attention.
These were, 10 all intents and pur-
poses, the same as those that came
over these hills and settled (only a
few miles away with Daniel Boone,
and they ask only the schooling in
which they now seem so much inter
ested to develop such strength as the
Clays, the Blackburns and other Ken
tuckians, after they had such advan-
tages in the lower country.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

ed their pipes while the gingham-
gowned daughters did the work.
A crowd of men in the road outside
the campus attracted my attention and
l was just in time TO see fight stopped
by deputy sheriff OF which forty or
fifty had been specially sworn in for
the occasion. A white and colored lad
were in fierce alteration. The white
had n pistol in his hand and the ne
gro clutched the handle of one con-
cealed in his hip pocket. The sheriff
arrested the white man and was dis
arming him, when the negro drew the
pistol as il TO use il. In an instant a
rather small, quiet-loOlSing deputy,
whom | should have said might be q
chrpel sexton, seized him by the col
lar. tripped him off his feet with a dex-
ferrous kick and thrust long % re-
volver in his face before the darkey
had time to know what was happening.
Amused ut this prompt dealing.
which reminded me of old days in
Cheyenne, / strolled back into the
campus and headed toward the brow
of the ridge, where another crowd was
thickening up, but | was halted for a
moment on the way and perhaps it was
fortunate for me that | was. With
ostrich-like innocence country
couple" had seated themselves in a
vacant buggy md opened great UNI
brella in front to ward off the evil eye
OF observation, but had quite forgotten
to drop the curtain ut their back,
where their love-making was COM
pletcly expressed. could take only II
furtive glance and hide my interest.
Nobody else paid the least attention;
it wasn't etiquette, and the code of
propriety is as strong in the mountains
as out OF them. strong enough to make
a chalk mark on the floor when
crowd are sleeping together in one
room, as often happens, divide the
men from the women like n wall of
steel. Public demonstration of affec-
ton when the mood is on is TO be no
moro repressed or taken notice of
among these primitive people than Is
public neglect OF your lady il you hap
pen TO be interested in something else
| had turned from their rhyming OF
kisses and blisses, when, suddenly,
directly aheld OF me hundred yards
or so, there began the loud barking Of
revolvers. 1t was in the thickest Of
the crowd. and how many were shoot
ing. or what at, it was impossible to
say. Smoke and flame were letting in
every direction for few seconds like
an exploding handful OF flrecrackers.
There was n vision of horses leaping
frantically and Juggling at their halt
ers; of women and children in flight;
OF noble Kentuckians scuttling behind
trees with indecent haste and OF fig
ure dancing about amid the smoke
waving his arms and fourishing
pistol. Then, with rush, as when
water returns to a cavity where some
great stone has made a plunge, the
whole crowd, men, women and chill
dren, black and white. old aud young.
heightened and low-keyed, made n
rush TO the spot where n negro lay
gasping his last breath, a bystander
was writhing with a smashed knee and
a young ruiiian, whisky influenced, and
bleeding from a terrible blow in the
face, dealt by his victim with his pis-
tol butt before he fell, was quietly sub
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

hitting to be handcuifed. Scores OF
men, pistol in hand, stood by; and one
fellow turned loose" q few careless
shots and yelled "kill them alln 1t
was supposed he meant the "niggcrs,h
yet anyone knew that this was not q
race squabble at all, but an old quar-
rel between two fellows from the same
town, over a horse trade, which had
been re-opened here. 1t is known that
more than once tough characters
have made a regular appointment with
their feuded enemies to meet them at
this commencement and settle the row
vi ct arms. In this case the darby
had drawn his pistol, but was leaving
the spot, when the white boy, who I'M
armed, borrowed a revolver, ran after
the negro and shot him in the back
after which "the engagement became
general" as war reports say, oblivious
OF the fact that several hundred per-
sons were standing close by and that
the most moral and peace-loving ora
tons and prayers were going on just
the other side of half-inch board
wall.
Five minutes after the arrest the
crowd had dispersed, the booth trade
and pickniclSing went on and lot of
us ate Jolly little lunch in school
house, while the surgeon attended to
the knee wounded man, who lay
stretched under the window outside,
his head in his girls lap and his arte-
ries emptying their blood on the mat
ted oak leaves.
After o'clock the country people,
some OF whom had come more than fifty
miles, began to climb into their big
wagons and to remount their patient
horses.
Half dozen young savages would
gather at the corner OF the road and
taking a last drink, would jam their
tapping broadbrims down upon their
long hair, and flashing their nags, clat-
ter away yelling like mad. 1t was not
shout, nor a scream nor a hurrah.
1t was the shrill shrek that has
passed into history and often it would
be accented by pistol fusllade-b
cartride let go in almost any direction.
A large number OF visitors, how
ever, had come by rail, divided into
two classes by the direction. Those
from the north were from towns, and
mainly from one of the large blue grass
centers formerly distinguished by its
ku klux performances. and / shouldn't
wonder II they had a livelier time than
Gid we in the south-bound train, which
penetrated the mountains.
1t was not long after starting before
the fun began. Everybody was more
or less wild with tanglefoot and anx-
ious to make a noise. Crack! went a
pistol shot somewhere forward
! Cr-r-r-ack! ratified whole volley from
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
ErndIng the Exclusion Act.

1t is announced that the Chinese
Six companies are evading the exclu-
sion act by bringing coolies over the
Mexican line at Tia Juana, a few
miles south of San Diego. The bound
airy line is 200 miles long AID there is
only one United States officer to watch
il, with his Office at Tia Juana. The
Chinese colony in San Diego il :..ys-
teriously increasing with great rapid
ity and the attention of the govern
ment has been called to this singular
invasion.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

firing OF it after two or three hours
| stole out into the sunshine TO find a
much more lively scene under the great
oaks. Three or four booths for the use
of eatables, mild drinkables and sweet
meats, had been erected and were now
surrounded by scores of customers of
all colors. sexes and sizes, laughing,
singing and howdy'ing, munching GIN
ger bread and candy and treating one
another to lemonade and peanuts in
true holiday style. Here and there
family groups had spread on the ground
the luncheon they had brought from
home, adding to the homely fare some
luxury bought at the booth. The
splint bottomed chairs were brought
from the wagons and given to old
ladies, who sat contentedly and smok-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

While Texas with her millions OF
rich acres and other southern states
with their rich mines and great forests
of lumber are settling" negroes with
the shot gun and declaring for white
supremacy, millions of capital are
steadily moving toward the new states
in the west and northwest, and these
states are prospecting as never before.
Possibly during the next century the
south will discover its mistake.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
Liberty Of the Press in France.

The liberty OF the press has received
its first severe attack since 1876 in
France. A newspaper manager has
just been sent to prison for a month
for presuming to criticise the pro-
encouragement. In order to secure a
conviction the procureur had to take
the case away from jury and give it
to a simple police court. BY this pro-
ceeding he virtually holds the press %
his disposition.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

the great English actress, who, with
her husband, will soon come to this
country, is forty years old, but, like
Patti, age does not seem to exist for
her. She comes OF theatrical family,
the Robertson family, which has been
on the stage for seven generations,
and is the youngest OF twenty-five
children, all of whom became associat-
ed with the footlights. Mrs. Kendall,
or little Madge Robertson as she then
was, played a child's part on the boards
when she was only five years old, but
more beautiful Madge Robertson really
dates from her first appearance in
London, in 1865, when she played
.'Ophelia" and "Desdemona. There
after those who spoke OF English act
resses, must count with her. In 1869
she married William Hunter CRIMSON,
an actor, who wore the stage name OF
Kendall, and since then she has
achieved the undisputed rank as the
best CT English actresses, within the
lines laid down by herself, and she
has done nothing since that has not
added more or less TO her triumphs.
The company which is coming with
the Kendals holds in England the same
position as Wallac1's used to do here
and Days actually does now hold.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

The Chinese are slipping into this
country through Lower California and
other points along the Mexican and
Canadian frontiers. While it may be
the duty OF the government to prevent
this violation of the exclusion act, the
United States will have to build n YER
liable Chinese wall around our bound
airy line before the willy Mongolian
will be effectually barred from SNUG
Cling himself into free America.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12
A HokeY.PokeI TransactIan.

A Hockey -Pokey Transaction.
Every day during the hot weather
from fifty to 100 hokey-polcey ice cream
carts can be seen in Park row, says the
New York Sun. The dealers are Ital-
ians. The holSey-pokey is made large
ly OF corn starch and milk. The prin-
cipal manufactures are located in
Goerck street. On hot days many of
these itineraut vendors retail twenty
five quarts of holsey-pokey at cent
plate. Tho plates are made Of brown
paper.
This morning at about 10 o'clock a
swarthy son of Italy stood between the
shafts OF his hoi1e-pokey cart in front
of the Potter building, when phila n
thropical old gentlman with bald
head, "a suit OF light clothes, ban1ana
handkerchief, and n kindly face top
ped before the cart and wiped his per-
spring features as he asked this ques-
ton:
"How's business, my friend?"
The vender's face lit up with an APP
preciative smile at the old gontleman's
condescensiOn as he replied, with a
deprecatory wave of his hand:
"Ah, not wanna toda. No sell-a de
crem-a. No sell-a dc crem-a, no
mon-a!'
ii see, / see. The boys to not pat
ronize you unless the weather is very
warm" continued the old man, mop
ping up rivulet of moisture running
down his left cheek.
I,,ct than ttun littla ho fontad irlo
came up. Beaming down upon them
with a fatherly smile, the philanthro-
pist said
Little girls. would you like to have
some creamp"
her month long enough to bashfully
reply:
"Yes, sir; we likes it."
Turning to the Italian the old gentle
man placed so cents in his hand, saying
as he did so:
"Give the girls all the cream they
can eat"
The Italian smilingly complied. So
eager were the girls TO profit by this
unexpected chance that they ate greed
lily and attracted a crowd Of newsboys
who were asked by the good-hearted
donor TO eat some hokey-pokey at his
expense.
The scene that ensued surprised the
old gentleman and the Italian. A score
of the boys climbed over the cart and
insisted on the first service. No sooner
was the lid OF the can lifted than a
dozen grimy hands were thrust into the
yellow mixture. The Italian tried to
thrust them back but they swarmed
over and around him like hIving bees.
Here. Yaller, gil me dc cream!
Didn't de ole bloke pay We fur it?"
shouted one.
Hey. mister, l didn't git none!'
sniveled young bootblack, appealing
to the old gentleman.
"Why, bless my heart" he replied,
al can't help it. 1t isn't my fault, my
boy"
As the Italian took out long Climb 20
clear his cart of the swarming crew
policeman touched the philanthropist
on the shoulder with the remark, as he
pointed down Park row:
Say old chap, you can be up to
better business than creating riot on
Park row. Now. you move on or I'll
take you in. Git along, now; git
alongH' he continued us the lsind-heart-
ed old chap piled his bandana and
spluttered out:
"Why, bless my heart. officer, I"
"Never mind your heart If you
don't make yourself scarce the trouble
III be in your head"
AS the az gressor moved on his way
toward the big bridge he caught fleet
ing gimpses OF the Italian hokey-polsey
vender fleeing over the cobbe-stones,
pursued by yelling horde of street
arabs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

The English brewery-buying syndi-
cate most graciously Informs the
thirsty public that it does not intend
to create a monopoly, nor to increase
the cost OF the foamy, brain-fuddling
fluid. The loyal subjects of King
Gambrinus care not who controls the
fountain so long as it continues to
yield plentiful draughts OF the amber
beverage at n nickle schooner.