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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
Where the Babies Smoke.

The scientists. doctors and others
who condemn the use of tobacco should
visit Siam and Burmah. The writer.
while in the United States navy, visited
Bangkok once and was surprised at
the indiscriminate manner In which
the natives INDUCED in tho use of the
weed. Handsome, dark skinned young
women, in their many colored gar
ments, were walking about the streets
pulling away at their cigarettes. Old
women, men, boys and even the chill
dren were smoking.
1t was common sight TO sec little
tots. not over four or five Years old,
with q string of beads around their
necks and q cigarette over each ear,
smoking like full grown man, rs they
trotted about rs naked as on the day
they were born.
Questioning an English speaking
native learned that the children are
taught to chew the betel nut mixed
with tobacco. and to smoke rs soon as
they are able to walk. Notwithstand-
ing this excessive use of the seductive
weed saw no ill effects from it. On
the contrary, all of the children seen
smoking were sic *, fat little bodies.
who seemed to enjoy their cigarettes
with evident relish. \. Herald.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
Killing and Cooking a Turtle.

II was surprised to learn the other
day." said Charlie Schweickardt. that
very few persons not engaged in the
restaurant business know how a turtle
is killed and prepared for the soup.
Please enlighten mankind by telling
them that n turtle is killed by cutting
its head off. You know that ut the
least sign of danger the turtle will
draw his head into his shell, and then
YOU have to resort either to strategy or
brutality to make him put out his head
again. This object may be accom-
pished by hanging the turtle by the
tail. This will cause his head to drop
down and then sharp knife will do
the rest of the work. Some people
have an idea that the turtle as soon rs
he is killed is thrown right into the
pot and boiled into soup. When the
turtle is dead the breastplate is sawed
in two and an opening to insert the
securing knife is made. Then the eX.
pert deity curves the knife in such a
manner as to remove the back plate
without taking Il particle OF meat with
it. The entrails are secured and then
the real BODY of the turtle is put in the
pot and the vegetables and other
accessories added with hot water.
Then let it boil aud you will soon have
good turtle soup."-St. Louis Republic.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

THERE is scarcely an event of anthem
tic antiquity that is not disputed either
by contemroraneous writer's or by the
scholars Of Subsequent times. r If ad-
mitted in theS Gare xsstf sSch as the
result of great battles. most details
ca usative~ut-tte result are. in contro-
versy. There is no; agreement con
cerninG' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or meth.
DDS in nine OF ten great episodes.
while in commentary upon aims and
agencies writer's have been as, widely
different In their convictions al it~fs
possible for the imagination and logic
of man to differ in opinionation.. YET
how few readers 81 any historical
author ever take time or thought 10
read another equally worthy of re.
spect and credence upon the same
incident, the same character!
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

The time when good educations were
only within reach of tie wealthy has
long since passed, and to-day we are
living in aa~age Of free education" ard
free schools, And those who will not
avail theHselvesibf these ale certainly
not deservf~s.s1hA SYMPATHY and aid
which is SO literally accorded to those
who are deserving. and who are en-
deavoring TO fit themselves for a posi-
ton in life becoming the subject OF a
country holding out every induceme n t
and Offering every advantage that
~ould be desired. ~
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY.
There Are No Modern Conveniences ut
at White Sulphur Springs.

Think of grand hotel where the
room numbers run as high as 100 be-
ing without an elevator! 1t is easier
to climb Prospect Mountain back of
the Colonnadc row Of cottages than it
is to mount the various stairways to the
top floor. Perhaps some time in tho
near future there will be further con-
cessions to the spirit of modern inn
provement. The field exists. Here is
II hotel with parlor half as large
again as the East Room of the White
House. 1t has n long dining-room
with two rows of columns. If you
stand at one end and shout YOU can't
be heard at the other end. Twelve
hundred people can sit down to the $50
tables without any sense of crowding.
This hotel covers more than an acre
of ground. 1t doesn't contain bath
room. 1t has no annunciator. Some
day the guest may be able to press n
button and make his existence known
10 the Office n quarter of Il mile away.
At present the method is to open your
door, stick out your head, and ''holler"
To the credit OF White Sulphur it can
be said that two or three "hollers" will
usually do. The servant system is pc
culiar to White Sulphur. 1t works as
satisfactorily rs such n system can.
Southerners like it, for it reminds
them of old times. Northerners do
not object to it so long as the charm
of novelty wears. TO every hallway
in the big hotel are assigned floor
man and couple Of chambermaids.
They are not pert. They are colored
men and women who learned the ways
of faithfulness and politeness when
there was $500 difference between Il
house servant and field hand in "Vir-
ginny." Most of these servants had
'ben a-comin' to ole White, sab. sence
befo' the wah." They have their little
rooms partitioned off ut the ends of the
halls or across stairway landing, and
there they live and sleep so as to re-
spond promptly to the calls of guests.
If my young lady, coming up from
the ballroom at fifteen minutes before
midnight, thinks of some message she
wants to give the chambermaid. she
taps with her hand on the doorknoh
and calls:
"Lu-cy!'
A pause. 'Lu-cyw This time a lit.
tie louder, and another pause. Then
again: 20. Lu-cy!"
From down the hall comes. by this
time, the sleepy reply.
"Ya-as'm, Use comm"
There is shutting of feet along
the hallway mating, and then con.
versation in low tone. The voice OF
the belle says a little louder at the
close:
Remember. Lucyw
The voice of the chambermaid re.
plies:
"Ya-as'm."
The door closes. The shutting sound
passes down the hall and dies away
Fifteen or twenty people in adjacent
rooms turn overin bed and try to go tc
asleep again. Nobody thinks of kick
ing. 1t is only one of the White Sui
phur ways.-White Sulphur Springs
Letter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

IT is not so strange that those who
have been born in ignorance, and
whose lives have always been subject
to the disadvantages and degrade tions
which such condition begets, should
fail to have their children grow up in
different way. For the most part,
they are too much occupied with
obtaining food and clothing for them
to think or act upon the equally i'm
portant subject, the developing and
expanding of the mind.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
His Grief Was Not Lasting.

The late James b. Fades was pass
ing up the Mississippi river one day
aud stopped ut backwoods store on
the banks of the river. kept by an old
German. The proprietor was ut work
chopping wood, but evidently in great
grief Tears rolled down his cheek
and he was sobbing as if his heart
would break. His wife. he explained
in broken dialect. Was very ill-very
i'll. Mr.. Eads consolcd him rs best l,c
could and left. Returning six weeks
later he found the crstwhile heart
broken Teuton alive and clipper as a
squirrel. -,
.How's your wife," asked MIR. Eads.
20, she vas fine!' answered the Ger
man with n broad smile.
why. thought she was very sickP'
"Oh. do vas dc odder vun." replied
the happy bridegroom rs he set up the
drinks.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

WHAT is the use OF going through
life with your eyes shut and your ears
stopped. so everlastingly meek and
quiet that you never redress a wrong
or champion a righteous but losing
cause? 1t is one thing to be patient
under merely personal injury, forgiv-
ing and long-sut1ering in the endurance
of affront, but it is quite another
thing to be polite old hypocrite,
afraid to call your soul your own for
fear Of giving offense. or to right u
wrong for fear OF losing vote.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
Mark Twain on "Kipling."

at would be good thing" said he
Ito read Mr.. Kipling's writings fol
their style alone, if there was no story
back of it. But. as YOU say, there al
ways is a story there. and Il powerfully
interesting one generally. How peo
pie have COTTON to read and talk about
his stories! Why, when young man
not yet "a years of age, succeeds in tn,
way Kipling has succeeded, it simply
shows. doesn't it. that the genera
public has II strong appreciation of ,
good thing when it gets hold of oneP
His great charm to me is the way
he swings nervous English! 1t is won
derful. That. it seems to me, is on,
great secret of the hold he takes on hi,
readers. They can understand wha
he is at. He is simple and dircct."-.
~. Y. World.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
Benevolent Mr.. Jones.

We were waiting at the depot ut
Texarkana when n young man pulled
out a thimblerigging outfit and began
to call for bets against his game. If it
was against the law no one interfered
with him, and in few minutes he had
worked up quite an excitement. Twas
with friend from Buffalo. and We
we're not ''in." However. rs we sat
apart from the crowd a benign and
benevolent-looking man about 90 years
old came over to us and said:
Gentlemen. / am Mr.. Jones of St.
Louis. l have four sons. This is u
wicked, wicked world. and take every
precaution to guide them in right paths.
1 have heard of this game. but never
saw it before. | want to play it-just
q little. / shall lose, of course, and that
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

1T is a grave mistake that people
mako nowadays when they assert that
no young man s,can' any longer sue
coed in 1busipsss without capital.
There are scores OF cases OF young
men who, entirely unassisted by other
capital than their brains and charac-
ter. are rapidly achieving success in a
financial way as we'll. The same
qualities which it took to succeed in
the days OF yore will still lead on to
success to-day.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

Few, very few realize how much
can be gained by one winters system
attic course OF close reading; by the
choica of topic and the dilligent pur-
suit of it after working hours in a
single season. And one reason why
thy don't realize it is, that they never
take the trouble TO select topic but
aimlessly read here a little and there
little, just as their fancy for the mo-
ment prompts them. Reading as with
everything else we undertake, should
have a purpose.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

TIE people OF an American town
will live in disease-breeding filth and
drink poisoned water; they will allow
foreign emigrauts to come among tn EN-
with infected clothing and rags. Then
when typhoid fever or diphtheria,
scarlet fever or smallpox, yellow
fever or cholera breaks out, they lay
all the blame on Providence, instead
OF removing the cause and thus stop
ping the disease.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

The statistics Of passenger railroad
service in England illustrates as we'll
"a anything, perhaps, the difference
between the English and American
working man. In this country few
railroads find that it pays to run
second class cars on their trains.
Mighty few citizens OF the United
States unless very recently over from
the old country, will condescend. to
ride any way but first class. Not so in
England. There they have three
classes first, second and third class
carriages and. +ates' TIL" rate In the
first class Is higher than the CORE
spending rate in America, and the ac-
commodations are about y, g0eds ex1
cept there is no fire. E t6d 81 ed d
class there is u great failing 6f In
comfort and slight qmipution of the
price. Ihe thEH ciasksS. cheap and
nasty.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

you could change $40 bill for me l
think I'd lose about 50 for the benefit
OF my boys"
The Buffalo man said he'd be only
too happy to oblige, and he gave him
four tives.
The benevolent Mr.. Jones disap-
peared ut once. but we didn't worry
about that. 1t was only when my
friend went to the ticket Office and had
the $40 thrown back at him as II. 9.
that we went out to look for the benign
father of four sons. The earth had
swallowed him up.-N y. San.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
Pacific Cables.

An English syndicate will soon be
formed to lay a cable from San Fran
cisco to Honolulu. and then to extend
1t to Auckland and Sydney. 1t Is
thought that the large sums which
syndicates are putting into Australia
and many South sea islands will make an
ocean cable to this country necessary.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12
THE advantages Of scientific educa-

THE advantages OF scientific educa-
tion APE beginning to be abprsciated
in all Branches Of Industry. 1t is now
acknowledged that successful brick
maker, these days, must be good
chemist or he will not be able to COM
pete in the market Brickmaking is
beginning to take its place among tho
sciences. In old times it was mat
ter OF experiment.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

City Dame Cooking Tor countrI
board)-"Do you object to childrenp '
Mrs. Haysced-"That depinds, num-
City Dame-"Depends on the sort a
children they are, / supposeP" Mrs
Haysecd-',No'm. Depinds on til,
sort Of mothers they has."--Good Ne,os
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

THE bondage Of the opiuni habit is
rs hopeless as the bondage OF death.
The professional man who carelessly
leads patient into this bondage is as
much destroyer as If he had blown
out the victims :brains.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

The population Of the United States il
given as t2, zee, ESQ by Porter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-12-12

will make strong point for me when
warning my boys against such tempta-
, tons. | can prove to theh that,it is a
, skin game" q
, "%siI! Iahavs no Mana mson(v. =,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06
SUN SHADES.

SDecaI low price sale this week. Superb assOrt-
aat elegant styles and sublime qualities at prices
.bot are absolutely irresistible. No such stock of
sbaSe ever before displayed in this city. Call and
make YOUR selections while the variety is unbrOken.
Tbe Drices will delight you.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06
EANS,

In this depaftmsnt we are now showing some
lovely styles d entirely designs of the latest
imperialism. They are perfectly exquisite and the
prices certainly very attractive. We have Just
resolved an immense line of Ladies' Handkerehiefs,
rare bargains, at zoe, 25c, &c., 4Oc, soc, 6Oc, 75c
|and ST..
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06
B.C.EVanSG 90
ATTRACTIONS
Freign and Domestic Dress Goods, Silk
Novelties, Trimmings and Mill


SPEUIaA On pfcethI week
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06

Hold seve< 6ins6mas and three gold medals
from 4ks 4Elias and San Antonio fairs. These
f2nE14s colleges stand pre- emi1ently over al
36tnern institutions. Catalogue free. Ad-
dress &. h HILL. President. Waco or Dallas.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
WATER MONOPOLIES.
Great Companies Organized to Control
the Irrigation of Arid Lands.

Great Companies Organized to Control
the Irrigation of Arid Lands.
The laws of the Western States and
Territories everywhere recognize and
protect the right of the first or prior
appropriation of water. If the first set
tier on the banks of stream draws off
in his ditch. one-half or the whole of the
customary flow to irrigate his farm, he
has the right to take this one-half or the
whole flow forever, to the entire exclusion
of any subsequent settler. But the same
rule applies to rivers of large size. As
the quick-witted Westerner stands by
the side of one of the great rivers and
looks over thousands of acres of deset
land along it's banks he sees fortune
in the situation. Only get capital
enough toge Their, organize great COM
pany, dig an immense canal which will
appropriate" all the water in the
river, and you command the whole val
ley 1t is the position of the Western
railroads repeated Instead of waiting
for settlers to come and dig little
bitches as they need them, an immense
capital digs one huge canal watering
thousands of farms, and then draws set
tiers by advertisement and boom. SO
all over the West, throughout Colorado,
in Central and Southern California, in
Montana and Idaho, on the Salt and
ella rivers, in Southern Arizona. there
are great companies, with capitals rum
ming into the millions, putting this idea
into effect. The canals they dig are
twenty. thirty or even fifty miles long.
The largest are hundred feet wide
and ten feet deep, very rivers in them
selves. They follow the contour of the
country, running back further and fur
Their from the river as the latter falls
away. The main canals give off later
al branches at frequent intervals, and
by an ingenious system of gates, cross
ings and bitches sends water to every
foot of arabic ground between it and
the river The land belongs to the
Government, and is taken up by individ-
ual settlers at merely nominal prices
under the Desert Land act" But the
water belongs to the Canal Company,
and it is this water that the settler
really pays for.-Walter Gillette Bates,
in Scribner.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
ECONOMICAL BUYING.
BE Guided More RT the 0uer.-' Than II
the Price of Goods.

BE Guided More RI the Ouert- Than BY
the Price of Goods.
There are two golden rules in buying.
The first is familiar: "Do not buy a
thing because it is cheap" This is ap-
plicable in more ways than one, but
would place beside it another: Do not
buy a thing because it is high-priced.
The sum of both rules is: Be guided by
quality and not by price Cheap goods
are, as a general rule, of poor quality.
Let the shopper remember always, she
can not get something for nothing"
To be sure there are quite often bargains
in goods and it is part of the art of shop
ping to look out for these, but one must
be wary and use careful Judgment here.
If one be not sure of herself she would
better avoid them altogether.
1t is poor policy to buy things that will
soon look shabby. Better have one dress
of good quality than two of poor quality.
1t is bad economy also, and worse taste,
to buy cheap limitations of costly goods.
Better buy good wool dress than a
cheap silk. Better buy no embroidery
at all than that which is coarse and on
poor material. 1t will add no beauty to
the garment on which it is placed, and
1t certainly will not be durable
Again, high-priced goods are not al
ways the most serviceable. Dress goods
at dollar and half per yard are often
no more dura BILE, and sometimes less so,
than those at dollar. The extra price
is often charged for fineness of finish or
novelty in style. This is especially true,
also, with reference to shoes, hose,
handkerchiefs, etc. If one can afford to
pay the extra price for finish or style,
no doubt she will take pleasure in so do
ing, but we are now considering the
subject of economical buying for fam
lily. If one is in the habit of buying ex-
pensive goods, only such ones will be
shown her by the clerks who know her
taste. but no false pride should prevent
her from asking to see the cheaper
articles.
The habit of rapid calculation is valu-
able in shopping. For example, we are
shown piece of goods at dollar and
another at dollar and quarter per
yard, the difference in quality being
slightly in favor of the latter If no
calculation in the matter is used, prob
ably the first piece would be taken, the
difference in quality not covering the
difference in price; but when we stop to
consider that the first is only thirty-six
inches wide, and that it will require
twelve yards, while the second piece is
forty-four inches wide and only nine
yards will be required, thus it is really
cheaper to buy the better piece.-Good
HnnSnZaaninn
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
Books for the little Ones.

Let the baby have books even before
ne can talk. If he cares for them at first
,nly for the pictures, he will in time
earn to love them for what they can
ell him. Children should be encour-
lged to keep their books neatly on little
helves of their own. Very neat hang
ng sets, containing from one to four
shelves, can be obtained at the shops for
N extremely moderate sum, and will be
ound source of much pleasure to the
hid, who is certain to glory in the pro-
rrietorship, and to take pleasure in ar
angling his small library. 1t will also
each him to take good care of his books,
which is a lesson he can not learn too
oon.-N. Y. Ledger.
There is more real charity in get
ing one man job than in feeding -four
! in ness.
Few consider how much we are In
1ebted to government, because few can
realize how wretched mankind would be
without it.-Atterbury.
How hard some men will struggle to
Guild up little reputation, and at once
give up the ghost when it comes to
building the kitchen fire.
If your heart is larger than your head
you iniure yourself, and if your head is
larger than your hears you injure your
1eighbors. -Atchison Globe.
-Truthfulness is a cornerstone in
character, and if it be not firmly laid in
youth will ever after be weak spot in
the foundation.-Ru New Yorker.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22

A very valuable reflector for the light
of the incandescent lamp is now being
used. 1t consists of conical globe OF
fine flint glass, rounded and frosted a.
the base, the upper sides being of clear
glass, covered by hand with FURNISHED
silver in such way that it will never
tarnish or oXidize. The convex base is
of frosted glass, which so breaks up tht
rays that, although the mass of ligh
proceeding from it is considerably NOR,
than twice as powerful and bright
that coming from the light ordinarily
it is not only less dazzling, but it is alb
solutely soft and pleasant to the eyes
1t is stated that by hanging the reflector
over Office desks, and using eight or ten
candle-power lamps, far superior light
is obtained than by using a sixteen
candle-power lamp with ordinary fit
tings.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
Rordered Nuns yaiIinp.

Nuns vailing of heavier quality than
that worn last year is wide enough to
serve for the length of the skirt, and has
border on one selvage in self-colored
and black stripes or figures, as beige
with brown border, mauve with black
border, green with black, or Suede with
black. A novelty in vailing is vandyke
border at the foot finished with fringe,
as green vailing with brown vandyke
points, edged below with green velvet
lines and completed by brown fringe; or
else broche vandykes on beige vailing
with black velvet stripes along the
straight edge and black fringe at the
foot. Striped vailings are also new, with
plain stripes of mauve gray, Suede, or
violet alternating with broche stripes Of
flowers on cream-colored grounds
Printed vailing for tea gowns has very
large flowers all over the surface, or
merely border of flowers to a solid
.,olored fabric. IIarper's Bazaar