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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
DRIFTING AWAY FROM GLORY.

They talk about the power of the
press" said the editor, publisher, pro-
prietor pressman and compositor COM
bined. as he put his feet on the pine ta-
BILE and leaned back in his splint-bot-
toned chair, but | think l can see that
that power is on the wane. Yes, hang
1t. I'm sure it has decreased 80 per
cent in the last three years"
lin what respect" was asked.
"Well, mostly in respect to railroad
passes. Look a-here! Five years ago l
had passes over dozen different rail-
road lines-annual passes, understand
while to-day I've got to pay my fare
the same as ditch digger. Doesn't
this prove that the power Of the press
is on the wanep"
Possibly"
"Why, man, its conclusive evidence,
and if something isn't done to restore
our prestige the day will come when we
won't get burned cent knocked Off
our hotel bills, nor a free ticket to a
theater. Yes, I've seen the day that /
could send friend to New York and
back on passes by four different routes,
but to-day I'd have to take the tow
path myself"
That seems sad"
Its sadness boiled down. sir. 1t
isn't the loss OF the pass so much as
the spirit which withholds it. It's that
breaking away Of the railroads. that
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

lnsubordInation and independence,
which i bemoan, and which can lead
to nothing but disaster to free press.
For instance, in days gone by I'd sit
down with railroad guide and write
TO adozen different passenger agents
for an annual. might have no earth
ly use for some of them, but it was to
maintain our prestige, you see. Every
agent would respond and announce
that he took great pleasure in SO do
ing. He'd even ask if l couldn't use
two"
And how is it nowp"
Here is letter to answer your
query. / wrote to the X. and X. folks
for trip pass to Albany and return,
and it was refused. / then sent an
other letter saying that l did not pro-
pose to pitch into the management of
the X. and X. unless driven to it, but
if driven to it they must abide the con-
sequences. Here is the letter in re-
ply. and they tell me to pitch in and
be BANKED, and add insult to injury
by putting my circulation at $50 copies,
when l have been working 800 right
along for month past. You see the
spirit, sir. 1t is one which can not be
curbed and qucnchcd too soon, and l
am thinking seriously of issuing cir
cular and calling a meeting of the
State editorial fraternity. We are
drifting, sir-drifting away from the
glory, honor and power which once
surrounded every editorial sanctum,
and unless We put on the brake. the
daV will come when even no farmer
will bring us bag of apples, and no
circus feel it obligatory to leave free
tickets. IN. y Sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
Love Among the Offers.

An old sportsman is quoted in the
n. Y. 1ribtne. as follows: I'm Choke
Creek last summer one day came up
on two offers, one larger than the
other. l soon saw that the small one
was a female. and the other a male.
She was shy of the big one, and when
ever he tried to be friendly by getting
nearer to her she acted SO cross that he
went back. He got so near once that
she cuffed him and then plunged into
the stream and swan around for a
while. Then she returned to the log
and drove him back to his own spot.
1T went on in this way quite while,
and then another male otter came puff
ing and padding up the creek till he
struck the pool. Seeing the female, he
crawled upon the log and caressed her
She seemed to take kindly to him, but
the moment he sped the other male
there was war in the camp. One was
Just as ready to fight as the other, and
while they had it hot and heavy on the
shore the female dived and swan up
and down aud squealcd.
lit didn't take the newcomer long
to licS the other male, and the whipped
one turned tail and scampered into the
bushes. Then the female Joined the
boss and appeared to be proud of him.
Instead of trying to NEEDLE with them
the desperate otter dived into the
creek, caught large trout and swan
TO the opposite bank"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
A Severe Rcbukc.

A severe but well-merited rebuke
was administered not long ago, says
the NY. EUening Suns Woman-About-
Town, to a society girl by young
man who has the courage of very cred
liable conviction upon certain COM
mon lack of the incest courtesy among
young women who are really very
well bred, and who would not offend
for the world if they stopped to think.
He told the story himself as follows:
During one Of my busiest weeks l
invited a young woman TO 60 with me
to the theatre on a certain first night.
When the evening came | reached her
home shortly before 8 o'clock. wait
ed in the reception-room for some
time. Then the mamma appeared
We chatted for a quarter of an hour
longer. Still no signs OF the young
woman. / looked at my watch; it was
just time for the curtain to rise at the
theatre. l particularly wanted to see
the opening of the play.
Then / rose and took one of my
checks from my pocket. Madame. /
said to the mother, here is the check
of Miss DIS chair, and the carriage is
at the door Will you be kind enough
to ask her to come when it suits her
best. For myself, l want to see the
opening of the play And l walked
out.
And what did the young woman
do?" asked three breathless listeners
all at once.
she came in the course of half an
hour. She had good sense enough to
take the rebuke in the right way. She
knew she deserved il"
''Oh, but l would never have for
given your sighed the chorus.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

ANOTHER French canal enterprise
has proved a failure, aside from the
gigantic Panama fiasco. This is the
canal across the isthmus OF Corinth in
Greece. Its estimated cost was Sc. 000,-
600, but the French company that un.
dervook it have sunk more than that
already and have abandoned the enter.
prise. Fully $l2,0O0,00 more capital
is required aud the discouraged French
investor dresds the canal Greece Will
have to look elsewhere than TO France
for funds to complete the enterprise.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy is not

QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy is not
tair, but she is fat and forty. Asrule, a
20 which there are few exceptions. the
royal families are not models OF physi-
cal beauty. The count de Paris looks
like an amiable greengrocer Queen
Victoria like prosperous middle class
woman, the prince OF Wales like good
inatured bon-vivant The queen oil
Italy affects literary tastes. but her
SUCCESS ss an amateur author has not
been very brilliant, for the story g oes
that. having written story, she sent
IL TO one OF the Italian journals under
an assumed name, and 1t was declined
with thanks
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
Farming I'm Spain.

Consul Turner writes from Cadiz to
the state department that farming in
Spain is in primitive state. Grain is
cut with a small reaping-hook and
threshed as in the time of the Caesars,
by tramping it out with asses hitched
to stone-boat. The pillow is crooked
stick pointed with iron. In the towns
arc to be seen heavy wooden carts
drawn by oxen. Most of the carrying,
transferring, etc.. is done by donkeys.
Sand, brick, lumber-in fact, almost
everything that has to be moved-'-
carried on their backs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

A CATHOLIC Indian missionary,
Father jerome, of the Benedictine Or
der, has compiled prayer book for
the Sioux. It. will be published by
Bishop Marty. and will be printed in
the Sioux language. Besides the or
binary catholic prayers the book will
contain a catechism of christian doc
trine and catholic hymns. with appro-
pirate music
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

THE National Museum at Washing
ton, through the liberality of Mr..
John A. Brill, of Philadelphia, has
come into possession of two stamps
issued under the act Of 1865, which led
to the American revolution. They
were required to be placed upon all
documents. Mr.. Brill was offered a
large sum for them, but he preferred
to place them where they legitimately
belonged.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

CANADA's trade with the United
States is greater than her commerce
with Great Britain. In 1888 she sold
us $45, 572, 05j of merchandise and
Great Britain $42, 094, 9S4. Her i'm
ports TO this country were to the
amount OF $4S, ,84S, or $90,000,000
greater than from Great Britain.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

The Deioris Land and cattle Com
pany at Deloris, Texas, has been pur-
chased by the Columbia Cattle Com
pany OF New York for 500, 900. The
company's headquarters arc at
Carlisle. Pa.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

MANY curious authorizations Of food
are reported, but this surely beats
them all. An invoice of macaroni
seized at New York recently contain
ed an assortment of shawls, all wool,
and yard or more wide
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

MARSHAL IMAGINATION, twice presi-
dent of the French republic, sent his
hearty congratulations to the young
due d'Orleans upon the step he had
taken in going to France in defiance of
the Lazy
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

COLUMBIA college will presently
journey toward the front rank OF
American institutions of learning.
Extensive athletic grounds have been
set apart by the faculty and $685.
600 subscribed for their improvement
The outlook for next years crop OF
demon aud wizard baseball pitchers
may therefore be said to be promising.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

The Pixies Peak cogway will be illu-
minated the entire sevea miles by cleo
tricity. Cartons will sparkle on top
OF the old giant Of the Rockies, and q
night train will be run for the benefit
OF those who enjoy novelty.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

Nj. DE FREYCINET. the French Minis
ter of War, has published a decree
forbidding surgeons in the French ar
my to make use of hypnotism in their
practice, or to experiment with it.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

AND now comes doctor who says
that nitro-glycerine would have saved
John Jacob Astor's life. How unfor-
innate it is or humanity that all these
suggestions by the doctors come too
late, and that the information necessa-
~ TO save life is always in possession
of some physician who was not en-
ployed on the case.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
Euphemistic.

In speaking of a prominent New
Yorker the n. Y. Herald. remarks that
he is gentleman upon whom nature
has lavished all those qualities which
impel a man to rush in where angels
fear to tread
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

MANY of the participants in the
battle Of Chickamauga, both union and
confederate, have agreed to meet on
the site of the conflict to settle many
important historical questions.
Wednesday, May %. has been decided
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
Confidence Begot Success.

So successful has DR.. Pierce's Golden
medical Discovery proved in curing chronic
mas i catarrh, bronchial and throat dis
eases, tn It its manufacturers now sell it
through druggists under Positive Guar
antee of It's benefting or curing in every
case, if given a fair trial, or money paid
for it will be refunded. Consumption
(Which is scrofula of the lungs) IL taken in
time, is also cured by this wonderful medi.
cine.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

A man at Bradford, Pa. paid bill
of S1S last week with the paper currcn.
CIV of the war times-5, 10, 20, and 90
cent shinplasters, which he had kept
since 1904.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

PARIS public schools are over crowd
ed, and the authorities propose to help
to remedy the difficulty by forbid
ding the attendance at them OF chill
dren of foreigners. There are 60, 900
foreign children in the city, and at
least 1000 of them are getting a French
education free at the public schools.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

DAVID DUDLEY Field is in favor of
compulsory voting. Compulsory vot-
ing would be great aid to woman
suffrage.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

a recent count of the stock on q
ranch in Los Angeles county, Cali
fornia, showed $4,000 cattle, 5000
horses, 1000 sheep, and 1000 hogs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

The condition of a certain cat in La
moine, Me-, is literally at skies and
sevens. She has seven toes on her hind
feet and six on her fore feet
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

A house at Gold Hill, New. that cost
IS. 600 few years ago was sold the
other day for $500.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
An Old Apple Tree.

The first apple tree planted in Ohio
they say, can be seen alive and vigor
Gus on Jerome Vincent's farm at Mari
eta. 1t was planted in 1889.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

For Constipation or Sick Headache, use
DIR. Piece $ Pellets; Purely vegetable.
One a dose.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
Southern California.

The live counties comprising southern
California have an area almost 1000
square miles larger than the state oil
Ohio.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

WAsHNsToN's Birthday. according
TO the calcudar 40 that tim !. was Feb.
IL. The calen:ar was changed in
VA
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09
The queen of England now copyrights
all Official government publications.
State OF ONO, CITY or TOLEDO, =,
IuCAS COUNTY ~

LUCAS COUNTY,
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of +. j CHENEY ~ Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day OF December, A. ID. 1885.
-, A. w. GLEASON,
lsEALI Notary Pubic
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. +. j. CHENEY ~ CO., Toledo, ..
CE-Sold by Druggists, rs cents.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-09

A girl down in Maine regularly shaves
her grown-up brothers.
Reports indicate that flooded southern
rivers are slowly falling.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

The Detroit Museum of Art has some
very clever plaster casts ofnoted statuary,
including Venus, the Dying Gladiator
and others of the nude type. The only
trouble with these casts is that they rep
resent the human form as maye by the
Creator, without dress or robes. Some
old maids and other Prurient prudes adj
dressed a letter to the directors last week
asking that the nude statues be so draped
that they need not blush every time they
glanced at the casts. The art students
strenuously objected, but the prudes,
backed up by two Presbyterian ministers,
have carried the day. And last Saturday
the directors made public their order To
the caretaker that he cover the offending
statues with clothing. The entire city Is
laughing at the directors and ii is proba-
bic that public opinion viii make them
abrogate their fig leaf order.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09
DOUBLE DE ALING.

The worlds fair commissioners have
chosen two sites instead of one for the
exposition. This was the only way, they
say, the Chicago racket could be settled.
Two sites means a divided fair or two
fairs. Rapacity and greed coupled with
the two sites scheme and the postpone
ment for year leaves little of general
interest in the proposed display. The
commissioners will have good fat time
of it for three or four years, the real es-
tate schemers will feather their nests and
Chicago will experience a season OF in
fation and another Of woeful shrinkage,
but a worlds fair or a fair for the world
is now out of the question at the time
and place designated, in any great or
successful sense.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

In preparing Jsa, the water t~Nbe used
should never 10 poured directly from the
kitchen kettle into the urn. 1t should De
cold, fresh water, brought absolutely TO
the boiling point The tea used viii, %
course, differ accordiu to tastc. Dut none IL
better for tho purpose than tho best
English breakfast. The leaves must bo
placed in the pot in the proportion 81
heapfng toaspoonful 70 each person Upon
these leaves pour a small quantity OF boil
ing water; never Use all of the latter needed
at once, az a sudden rush will certainly
drown" the tea.
Now pull the coy over tho teapot and
allow the contents u draw few moments,
when you viii have the best infusion pos
siblc; repent this process as many times -
needed; after uxinE the FIRST potfui and
filing oEoe NOM Nth boiling water tIa
tea loses its strength and flavor. Boilod
tea il hurtful aad breakfast tea EhOull
never be stesy,cd upon the stove. Il viii
not often be Ecoesssry 20 strain whers
these directions ore followed, but the sud
den addition of water GoAts the leaves,
which do not aaain sgttls --t.xchaHge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09
RNGLAND'S THREAT.

The United States are not seeking a
row with England, but General Bracken-
bush talks like a fool. Canadians may
find it congenial sport to shoot down
the American flag on the Fourth of July,
but the English officers boast that the
United States would find the capturing
of Canada a Serious undertaking in case
of war between this nation and England,
is the talk of a boy who has never been
beyond the hills surrounding his own
home. Canada would be swept in a
single season from New Foundland to
Alaska. The United States possessions
should include all that lies between the
lakes and the north pole and if
England has any desire to
witness such a consolidation all she has
to do is to disregard Blain's orders
touching our interests in the Behring
sea. British fleets and British trusts are
big things hut the British army is not
composed of Anglo-Saxons. America
has whipped England twice in holding
her own, but the next time the job IS
forced upon us it will be for an
endemnity just large enough to cover
the British possessions in North America.
We bought Alaska and paid good money
for it, paid all that was asked, and now
that it has turned out of value we
guess we had better protect 1t against
all commers, England included.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09
STANLEYS LOVE STORY.

The story of Stanley's wOOing is grad
uaIly being disclosed. He first met Miss
Tenant when last in England. and for a
while was received with the same cool
ness which has usually characterized the
ladv's reception of attentions from gen.
tlemen. But the indOmitable courage,
energy and wonderful powers of de5crip-
ton possessed by the explorer gradually
won the heart of one who possessed sim
liar traits in so marked a degree, and
when Stanley managed to pluck up sufti-
Gent courage to propose she tainted with
mingled delight and excitement. She
promised to wait until he returned from
his next African trip and insisted that
their engagement should be kept secret
The letters which have passed between
the two. if they ever see the light of pub
icatiOn-lOve letters of eminent persons
are now included in the printers prey
Will be truelv curious stories, for no
doubt the explorer told more to his lady
love than he will ever confess elsewhere
of the awful fluctuations of his march
through the African swamps and forests.
His brother explorers were aware of
their commanders love story, and many
a tree in the strange lands visited has
Dolly deeply cut in the bark. The
natives used to think it a sign Of the
white chiefs fetish, and often Frustrated
themselves before it. In one of his let
tiers Stanley wrote such a narrowing aC-
count of the suffeTings of his band and
gave such q vivid picture Of the death of
a gigantic negro, slowly swallowed by a
huge serpent. that Miss Tenant swoOned
after reading it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

The good seed which was so indus
triously and judiciously sown last winter
and spring by the EAGLE is terminating
in many places, and the plants promise
a strong stand and a healthy growth.
The Alliances have nearly reached the
EAGLES platform on trusts and COM
bines, and the Republican papers are
now very generally indorsing the EA-
Giles position by conceding that at best
there is little in the Mckinley bill over
which the west should crow. Before
the fall elections there is little doubt that
the Republican party of Kansas will be
abreast the demands of the people in
these things
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

The best thing o. which % make roller
towels is Hus.ian craEh- / am told IL "a
woven by band Ey REs~sian psasauts. As
any rae, tho bert slcd Ensli1un qnailtisz
are nOrc satisfactory for ToIlzr towels than
any other crash knew, ard aTs leaSt Sb-
jectiOnabIs when nevy. just here onyues IN
word as 20 whSn To BEGIN u<1ns new
towels Let It % in the sunIuasr time,
when skins are nOt sAapEad az sensitive.
and when LAUNDRY vTor,S ~ 20 rauszh easier
that the conscience fesAs LEA conjunction
az putting shahttY soaisd tsne1 into the
wash for frn0rent lanrsAsring- O1s who
has ever supplied tovsSls f3r . group OF
growing bJys oHa girls viii know that
new towels In Biatsr make sorTY v0rf-
Nor IL tiris nt vsFiznns with the s&vies 70
buy IN tbs winter buy AMI fr1nEe, and
then vVajt Tor szIuHer % continue ths nse-
eSsAry softsziRg pEooea- 49, Cor. Good
Housfkof.gaEa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

until the loss is repaid or for life.
A burglar steals valuables amounting
to many times more than he can earn
should be kept in prison earning what
he can as long as he lives. In this way
much hidden property would be quickly
disgorged A man who willfully takes
the life of another the state should seize
all his property but comfortable home
for his dependents and appropriate 1t
and his earnings in prison to the support
of the dependents of both himself and
the murdered man.
OF course to make such a system GER
tain in its results a proper sanctity
should prevail in every possible con-
tingency for the DEGREES of the courts.
Under conquests, revolutions and other
social changes the prisons should con-
tinue their uninterrupted functions of
justice to general society. International
law and the usages of war should guar
antee against violent interference.
w E HUTCHINSON,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09

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