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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

busilv engaged In the work, he sud-
denly heard, right behind him Sup
pressedssort of a snort. and looking
around, saw to his dismay monstrous
grizzly. ambling along IN that animals
characteristic manner, within a few
feet of him.
In front, only few rods away. there
happened to DO II clump of scrubby
pines. and he incontinently made a
break for them, climbing into the tall
est in less time than 1t requi.es TO
write of it. The bear deliberately ate
a hearty meal of the cow, and when
he had satisfied himself. quietly lay
down alongside of the carcass and
went to sleep, keeping one eye proba-
bly, on the hunter corralled in the tree.
In the early evening his partner camo
to the spot, killed the bear, which. full
of buffalo. was sluggish and unwary,
and became an easy victim, and the
unwilling prisoner came down from his
perch. The last time l saw him he
told me he still had the bears hide.
which he kept rs memento of his
foolishness in separating himself from
his rifle. thing he had never done be-
fore nor since and which no hunter
should be guilty of.-Henry Imam. ia
Ha1per's WeekiU.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
CHARITY THAT PAID.
This Narrative Is vouohed for ms a True
Story of Gotham.

Young Mr.. de b. is broker. saws
Chatter, and. like most men in his
walk of life. generously disposed.
As he left his office one day last
week he was accosted by rough
looking. raggedly dressed man who re-
quested the gift of 90 cents with which
10 purchase his dinner.
"Why should give you 80 cents for
your dinnerp" asked young Mr.. de Is
What claim have you upon mep"
None" said the beggar. That is,
no more than the hungry and penni-
less always have upon those who have
something to spare.
do look as if l had something to
spare?"
You are a broker" returned the
aims seeker. II never knew broker
who had nothing to spare to hungry
man."
why don't you go to workp"
II may have TO if you decline to as
sist me-"
That is strange. What is your
workP"
'''ll tell you. ! am a pickpocket,
and have just this afternoon been dis
charged from prison. l have no mon
ey, no friends. l am. as l have said,
hungry. You see what l am brought
to. Starvation or crime. i'll can get
n good dinner / may be able to stave
off the other alternative for while"
Young Mr.. de b. was impressed
naturally so, l think. Putting his hand
into his trousers pocket he drew forth
half-dollar and handed it to the eX-
convict.
There" he said-"thcre is your
dinner. / shall be glad if / can save
you from crime even for little while. "
At this young Mr.. de B. started on
his way. but the beggar was at his ell
bow.
Il say: my friend" said he.
"Well?"
Would you mind telling me the
time?n
There is the clock in Trinity stee-
pie"
II know that-but your time. What
is ftp"
Impaticntly Mr.. dc b. felt for his
watch. 1t was gone.
II have been robbed" he cried
Precisely" said the ex-couvict
"And here is the watch" taking it
from the pocket of his greasy coat.
Il took it while you were hesitating
about giving me the half-dollar. The
Lord helps them that help themselves,
but he also helps them as helps others.
Take your watch. 1 don't need it.
You got it cheap"
And so saying, tho beggar turned
and walked down the street, and was
soon lost to view.
Then young Mr.. de b., replacing his
timepicce in his pocket. sauntered
homeward. thinking deeply all the
while and thanking his stars that be-
ing a broker he was, like most men in
his walk of life, generously disposed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.
Bad Effects OF This Vandalism ON the Cii-
mate of the Country.

Floods, cyclones and thoughts belong
to the same family.
The AK is father of them all. Human
stupidity is their mother. Nature is no
more to blame for them than is the
blind earth which the digger under
mines till it sAlls on him.
The AK kills trees. With the trees
killed the SHOWS of winter melt more
quickly under the rain and snow of
early spring. With the trees killed.
swamps. fallen logs and leaves that
once held back the waters for months
no longer act. The waters rush TO
their natural outlets without opposi-
ton. The rapid transit of the waters
clogs the great natural channels, and
they overflow into new ones, carrying
devastation wherever they rush. The
more the AK is used the higher rise the
waters. Bad goes on to worse. The
end no human wit can foretell.
The destruction of the forests has
eliminated the principal factorin mod
flying the movement OF the air cur
rents, according to the Cleveland Press.
Like the trade winds on the ocean. the
air currents over sections denuded OF
forests flow freely and persistently for
long periods without change. AS
change is necessary in the movements
of the air in order to have change in
the rainfall. it follows that persistoncy
in air currents caused by forest de
struction means long spells" of dry
ness at one period and long "spells" of
wet ut another Thus floods are some
times aggravated rs much by unusual
wet spells" as by the rapid transit OF
the waters to their natural channels in
consequence of conditions Just men.
toned. When both causes conjoin
terrible floods are inevitable. Destruc.
tive droughts must follow excessive
rainfalls. for the average rainfall varies
but little from year to year in n given
locality. An excess ut one time means
a scarcity at another.
So. too. cyclones, like simoons, are
only possibly where enormous areas of
country unbroken by forests exist.
The winds gather force rs they go, or
rather freedom TO move easily. which
means that they will go quicker than il
INSTRUCTED. A point of rcfraction
means that the surrounding atmos-
phere will rush in to restore equilibrI-
um. If there is nothing to oppose the
oncoming air. it will move rapidly.
The forest is the greatest of modiliers
10 wind-storms. holding them back
and checking them. and. doing so, tend
to modify sudden and rapid cases OF
rarefaction.
The flood. drought and cyclone. adj
monish the people of the United States
to be wise. If they heed not the adj
monition they must pay the penalty.
The spectacle presented in the valleys
of the Mississippi aud lis tributaries
and along the track of the cyclone that
devastated Louisville should be enough
to cause some serious thinking. These
spectacles can be eXcclled. Give the
AK time and bride it to do its uttermost
and horrors now seen will DC mcrcies
compared with horrors that will inev-
itably follow.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Vaudeville Charities.

The more notable of the Vanderbilt
gifts for plilanthropic and public pur-
poses are as follows: The old COM
modore gave $50, 600 to DIR. Deems to
purchase the Church of the Strangers
and 500, 600 10 found Vanderbilt
university ut Nashville; his son Will
liam II. added $2O0.00o to tho endow-
ment of the university. 100000 for "A
theological school. and $4,000 for :.
library In connection Herewith. $500.
900 10 the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. $250000 for II maternity
hospital, $4,000 to the Church of
Bartholomew, 500. 900 to the employees
of the New York Central railroad,
sl03. 900 for the removal of the obelislS
from Egypt to Central park. $l50 900
to the Grants. and by his will $1,000
900 to various institutions. Cornelius
vanderbilt's projected Peoples palace
in New York may require $1,000, 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

The purchase of Alaska by the Unit
ed States Government In 1867 added to
our national domain territory OF
nearly Co., 900 square miles. Little
was known Of the country at that time,
and almost as little is known OF it to-
aay. The immense coast line OF the
territory-4,000 miles in length-has.
1t is true. been followed and mapped.
put OF the interior, away from the
rivers, we are in almost complete ig-
norance. To thousands of people Alas
"A is land OF desolation. OF glaciers
and deserts. OF volcanoes alternating
with regions OF eternal snow; while a
Few entertain the idea that besides the
profitable trade in furs which is carried
an with the natives there may be con-
siderable wealth IN lumber and min
erals.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
THE SEATING or LANGsToN.

The contest which has Just settled the
question of representation in the Fourth
Congressional District of Virginia was one
Of Che most protracted and interesting
events of its class which has occurred in
recent years. John M. Langston was the
regular Republican nominee in that dis
trict in 1883, but not being pleasing to Gen.
Malone, a nominee named by the latter
was put in the field. Langston, however,
received 1867 votes, or four times as
many as the Mahonitc, while E. c. Vena-
BILE, the Democrat, led Langston by only
G42. Had the Republicans been united
their majority would have been almost
5000. Fraud, however, which much more
than swept away Venable's narrow mar
gin, was proved against the Democracy,
yet that did not give Langston any Demo
cratic support in the House in his efforts
TO get his wrongs righted. Right up to
the close of the fight, which has just re-
suited in his admission TO the seat TO which
he was legally chosen two years ago, his
claims at every point were resolutely
fought by the Democratic party.
For nearly a week past the Langston
contest blocked the wheels of legislation
III bhO AiouoCs lNtNOEnlAiuB luC ANSpuOii-
can purpose to seat him at the earliest
opportunity, the Democrats employed
every parliamentary resource within their
reach TO delay or defeat this project. The
absence of quorum on the Republican
side enabled them to triumph for the time
being. BY the childish bit familiar de
vice of DESERVING the chamber at critical
moments they postponed the accomplish
ment of this task TO the time at which the
Republicans succeeded in mastering enough
of their own members to constitute ma
joritv of the House, and thus virtually sus-
pended all important work in that body.
The seating of Langstou. however accom-
panied as il has been by tho admission Of
Thomas +. Miller, another Republican,
who was elected in the Seventh District
of South Carolina, but who was counted
out by the Bourbons, will make the Re-
publicans masters of the situation. 1t will
give them a sufficient lead in the House to
make all Democratic obstruction hereafter
impossible. From this time onward TO tho
close of the term the Republicans will
have complete and continuous control in
the lower as well as the upper branch OF
Congress. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
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Charity Of tho Persian.

A Persian of rank always keeps open
house. In addition TO the frequent
and sumptuous entertainments of such
an establishment traveller of distinc-
ton may always find comfortable
lodging in the chief houses of a town
or village. More than this. the poor
can generally obtain meal there. 1t
may be merely meal of bread
aud rice or ragout; but when the
poor man at the gate asks for it it is
not refused. While naturally many
would hesitate to beg even when needy.
yet in every place there are some who
are dependent on charity and they are
not likely to suffer in Persia as. some
times with us. The reason for this
custom is partly because the Mahome-
tan religion inculcates charity to the
faithful as means of promoting a
sure entrance to the realms of bliss;
it may also be in part because the posi-
ton and reputation of grantlee are
enhanced by the ostentatious charity.
But in many cases the custom is un-
doubtedly practiced because of the
genuine kindliness of heart of the
giver. for there is such thing rs true
benevolence in Persia. and man who
might be cruel selfish. or treacherous
toward rival may be found to show
unaffected kindliness toward those
from whom ho has nothing to fear.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
WORKING HOURS ABROAD.
The Length OF the Laboring Day In Va
rious European Countries.

A Turkish laboring day lasts from
sunrise to sunset with certain inter-
walls for refreshments and repose, saws
Chambers Jodrudl. In Montenegro
the day laborer begins work between
and in the morning, knocks off al
for half an hour. works on till noon.
rests until 2. and then labors on until
sunset. This is in summer. In win.
ter he commences work ut 1880 or 8.
rests from ~ to l. and works uninter.
ruptedly from that time to sunset
The rules respecting skilled labor arc
theoretically the same. but considera.
bic laxity prevails in practice. In
Servia the principle of individual con-
veniencc rules in every case. In Port
ugal from sunrise to sunset is the
usual length of the working day.
With field laborers and workmen in
the building trade the summer work
ing day begins at $50 or in the morn
ing and ends at in the evening, two
or three hours rest being taken in the
middle of the day. In winter the
hours are from 1880 to 5. with short
er interval of repose. In manufac-
tories the rule is twelve hours in sum-
mer and ten in winter, with an hour
and half allowed for meals.
Eleven hours is the average days la
Dor in Belgium, but brewers men
work from ten to seventeen hours;
brickmakers, sixteen; the cabinet.
makers of Brussels and Client are oft
en- ut work seventeen hours, with an
hour and half off at noon; railway
IL I,t 10 = %
work nineteen and half hours at q
stretch. and in the mining districts
women are often kept at truck-load-
ing and similar heavy labor for thir-
teen or fourteen hours.
The normal workday throughout
Saxouy is thirteen hours. with two
hours allowance for moal-taking. In
Baden the medium duration of labor is
from ten to twelve hours. but in some
cases ii far exceeds this. often rising to
fifteen hours in stonewarc and china
works and cotton-mils; in saw-mills
to seventeen hours; while the workers
in the sugar reiinerics. where the shift
system is in vogue, work for twenty
four hours and then have twenty-four
hours free. and in many of the Baden
factories Sunday work is the rule. In
Russian industrial establishments tho
difference in the working hours is
something extraordinary, varying
from six to twenty. 1t is remarka-
BILE that these great Emergencies occur
in the same branches of industry with
in the same inspectors's district and
among establishments whose produce
realizes the same market price,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Cast-oh Clothing for Negroes.

Thousand of southern negroes wear
the cast-off clothing of New Workers..
Such clothing is bought for little or
nothing 10y peddlers. who sell it to
wholesalers in the central European
quarter. The wholesalers clean. patch.
and press the garments. arrange them
according To sizes in dozens, and
await the southern merchants Tho
latter come from Washington. Rich-
mond. Charleston, Mobile. and half a
dozen other convenient cities and buy
as best they may. The wholesalers
sell on ninety days credit, and if one
merchant does not offer fair prices
they wait the coming of others. No
body's profits are extraordinarily large,
but those of the southern retailer are
proba oily the best.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

THERE is no doubt that OF the 500. :
300. 600 OF property burned up annual
~ in this country, large amount is
Intentionally destroyed by Its owners
for the sake OF the insurance money.
The insurance companies igure out
that from one-third 10 One-half OF the
fires are attributable 10 incendiarjsm.
and the majority Of these. according to
their suspicious rather than anything
like legal proof. are kindled to get the
Insurance In the classification OF In
cendiary fires they always put tho Sc
due to this cause at the head. British
statistics seem TO show that they have
some reason for so concluding; and yet
the fact is not established. One OF our
own statisticians on the subject ex.
presses the opinion that nceniiary
fires for the sake OF collecting insur-
ance are few and large comparative
with other fires OF CT. minal origin. BI,
undoubtedly overinsurance caroessly
granted in the competition for bust.
ness. and the recent leg station OF some
states mating tho I CT OF the pol cy
the measure OF the collscbiolo damage.
exercise III in1usncs {, encDuraye ia
cendiarism on tho part Of scouldrsls
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
The Wind on tho Eirel Tower.

Wind observations ut the Eilrel Tower
show that ut low velocitics of fifteen
miles per hour or less the velocity of
the wind at the top of the tower is
from four to live times Us great rs at
the top of IN ordinary building sixty
nine feet high; but "a the velocity in
creases this difference decreases. until
at high velouit.es the difference is only
as two to one. NJ. L.fel assumed the
pressures to be forty-one pounds per
square foot ut the base, increasing to
eight,-two pounds per square foot ut
the top. which seems TO be rather less
difference than the facts called for.
although fair approximation, il the
above stated decrease of ratio continues
up TO maximum wind velocities. -
Engineering EetoS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Cigarettes in Austria.

The cigarette habit is tlourishing ire
mendously in Austria. The number
of cigars smoked'in that country dnr-
ing the last year was 1883 900 900.
showing reduction of 72.000.O 900 on
the previous year. On th- other hand
the consumption of cigarettes rose to
sos, 0OO. 900. or an increase of la. OO0.-
600. The quantity OF tobacco sold by
the government, which .monopolizes
the market, has neither increased or
diminished. although the consumption
Of snuff is steadily declining. Cigarette
smokers IN Austria take the ready
male article.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Adventures on the Plains.

Early in March. 1867, party Of
friends, all old hutfalo-hunters now
living and prominent citizens of
Wichita and Great Bend. in Kansas.
were camped in Paradise Valley. then
u famous rendezvous OF the animals
they were after. One day. when ont
on the range stalking, and widely
separated from each other. an awful
blizzard came up. Three reached camp
without much difficulty. but lie who
was the furtilest away was fairly
caught in it. and night coming on. was
compelled to resort 10 II method fire.
qucntly employed by persons lost on
the plains. Luckily he soon found u
superannuated bull that had been
abandoned by the herd, and killing
him. took out the yiscera, and him
self crawled inside the huge beast.
where he lay comparatively comforta-
Bile until morning. the storm having
cleared off. aud the sun shining bright
ly. But when he attempted to get out,
founu himself prisoner, tie immense
ribs of the creature having frozen to-
gether. and locked him up ms tightly
rs il he were in cell. Fortunately
his friends. who were searching for
him auh firing off their rilles-which
he heard. and yelled out to them-dis-
covered aud released him from his
peculiar prcdicamcnt.
AT another time two cd plainsmen
were away up the the Platte among
the foot hills hunting buffalo. and they.
as Is generally the case. became
separated. In an hour or two one
one killed n fat young cow. aud. leav-
Ing his rfe on the ground. went up
aud commenced to skin her. While
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

The original package act shut up fifteen
thousand drinking places in Iowa very sud-
denly This is Republic IN measure, and
accomplished more in restriction of the
liquor traffic than the professional Proli
bitionsts ever accomplished d. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
It was the Democratic New York Herald
that said the Republicans had both money
and brains in the contest of 1855, while the
Democrats had mouey only. The Herald
must be thinking it is about time to pre-.
pare the minds of its readers to accept
another defeat in 1892. Its party certainly
has 40 more brains now than IL had two
years ago.-Detroit Tribune.
Democrats who hitherto thought thers
could be nothing so oppressive to their
party as Speaker Reeds gavel, now find
his majority 10 be several degrees more
oppressive. philadelphia Press.
The agitation in Europe against the
pass age of the Tariff bill by the American
Congress has simmered down considerably
within the list fortnight. The foreign free
traders must have received quiet hint
from their American brethren that their
mouthy demonstrations against the Till
were regarded in this country as solid
arguments in favor of the measure
Philadelphia Press.
This thing of bringing two prominent
issues into the next campaign is likely 10
prove confusing TO the newspaper end Of
the Democratic party. How is the able
editor to determine hereafter whether the
hard times are due TO the ''robber tariff
or to the Fierce tilP'-Indians.o oils
journal.
The Democrats will go before the country
this fall upon record which has been
that, and only that, Of filibusters. They
have not attempted to meet this majority
in argument or to accomplish. any useful
work by honest suggestions. They have
done nothing but ilibuster. = Leavenworth
(Kan) Times.
The Baltimore Democrat who says he.
ais prepared to ruin Postmaster General
Wanamaker and drive him from the Cabi--
metz may be right, but one would mag ne-
that the statement of Baltimore Demo
crat on any question OF good morals might.
be received incredulously by the people OF
the rest Of America-unless, by chance, it
was Endorsed by some other Baltimore,
Democrat Chicago Tribune.
Croker having reached New York, Tam
many will only wait for the arrival OF
Cleveland 10 fix things--Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
FREE TRADE CONFESSIONS.

Irish linen manufacturer shipping big
cons gnmente 10 cvade the new tax.-Star
Wha-a a Il the tax is on tho foreign man
ufacturer after ala Well, well
And away down at the foot Of the Stars
article of which the above is the head is
the little dispatch:
Several manufacturers of toys in
Thuringia have given notice u their WORK
people to prepare for emigration to Ameri-
ca.
In other words, we are going to import
another industry. even If we don't allow
the contract labor to come in. Again, well,
WE'LL
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

WHFN England. by her laws, made
the deversiication OF industries in
Ireland impossible. she reduced the
people OF that unhappy island to a
condition OF constantly threatening
famine. They no longer had the
means to buy from abroad. and they
turned to the potato as the cheapest
article OF food the situation allowed
them. 1t is an agricultural impossi-
bility to continue growing potatoes on
the same land year after year. An
anfavorabie season is sure to- bring
disaster to the crop, and when it comes
famine necessarily follows.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

THE vast majority OF the people live
oy wages, and upon any plain state
ment of wrong to railroad hands, or
any other wage workers. the pressure
Of public sympathy is with them. Rail
road companies have no right to re-
gard themselves as engaged in an ex-
elusively private business. They arc
bound to act with regard to the proba-
BILE effect OF their action upon the pub
lie. from whom they have received
franchises, and with whom they have
made contract There is a similar
obligation upon the employees OF the
road. Both companies and employees
have assumed duties 10 the public
which they cannot honorably disre-
gard.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

IT is proposed to pass federal stat
ute requiring the railroad companies
OF the United States to make their
freight service safe for employees by
the adoption OF a system of automatic
coplers and OF air brakes. II this is
not done the stetes are likely to ac-
complish tho same results by fixing the
responsibility OF the roads for the death
Or injury of employees resulting from
failure to properly equip the cars. AMI
doing this beyond all peradventure.