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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
Death off George KendaiI.

GRAND RAPIDS, Oct. 17.-George Ken
dali, resident of this city since 1916, died
today. aged ~ years. He was an honor ed
citizen, held Offices several times, was a
director of the National city bank, was a
stakeholder in humorous manufacturing
enterprises and leaves a large fortune to be
divided among three daughters, the wives
Of J. Edward Earle of this city and John
G.. Shields of Colorado, and Mrs. Mary f.
Bred of Minneapolis.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

49,. - ~
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by
taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.J. CHENEY 81 CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable In all business transactions,
and financially able 30 carry out amy oblga-
tions made by their firm.
WesttsTruax, WhOlesaleDruggists, Toledo, Ohio
Wsldlng, Kinnan Il Marvin, Wholesale Drug
glsts, Toledo. OHIO.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Price, 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all DRUGGISTS
S. per word was formerly paid for tele-
gram from America to Great Britain.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
A Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follows the use OF Syrup of
Figs. as it acts in harmony with nature TO
eEectually cleanse the system when costive
or bilious. For sale in soc and s1.OO bottles
by al leading druggists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
A $4,000 Dwelling House Fire.

IsHPEMING, October lie. c. Cooley's
house was Quilted and H. o. Youngs house
badly scorched by fire at two o'clock this
morning. Loss, 1900; insurance, 81, 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
Live stock.
CHICAGO.

CArrLE.-Market steady to lower; steers,
1904 10; cows. bulls and mixed, 81 ron
rs; Texans, So 20@2 So: rangers. So 900
IS. HoGs.-Market lower common and
rough, SO $500; good mixed, S4614 10;
prime heavy and butcher weights, 81 ESQ
4 30. SaEEP.-Market steady; natives, 81
IA So; Westerns, S4@4 40; Texans, 50 so (;
lambs "a gOGlG
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

You don't have TO take our word @.'r the
good quality of Dobbins' Electric Soap. SIst
yet one bar Of your grocer and let 1t ts1
you its own story next Monday, and be goy-
erned by that. good or bad. Remember
Dobbins' Electric.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
KANSAS CITY.

CATTLE.-Market steady; steers, 50 40@
4 rs; cows, 81 5000 Is: stockers and feed
ers, 50 5OG13 %; range steers. 81 256o2;
range cows, 81 50Gt1 90. HoGs-Markct
8 TO 10 cents lower; bulk, 50 95@4 Is; all
grades, So 1904 IS. SHEEP.--Market steady;
lambs, 1904 20; good to choice nations,
81 OO@4 20; stockcrs and feeders, So 500
30.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
|. Female weakness Positive Cure.

; Female Weakness Positive Cure.
TO THE EDITOR:
Please inform your readers that have
positive remedy for the thousand and one
ills which arise from deranged female
organs. i shall ee glad to send two bottles
OF my remedy FREE 20 any lady who will
seEd their Express ans y o. address.
Yours Respectfully,
DIR. J. b. MARCHISI, 1S3 CSpesee St, UTICA,
N Y
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Concordia college at Milwaukee was
closed Tuesday on account OF an epidemic
of diphtheria among the students.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Several factories and residences at
Wapakoneta, o., were burned Tuesday,
entailing a heavy loss.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Does Nour Baby Chafe east " azell's
iLY-CO- DINE Nursery Puwdrr positively CURES
CHAFtNG. Send DC. ia stamps for l,nge box. SAM
PIC FCc. Js.ztll. Oallnv r. Brx l13S, New York.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Nearly all the Wesleyan clergy in Aus
tralia are abstainerS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

There is only one lawyer TO every 5000
people in France.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

When Baby was rick. we gave her Castoria'
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to CaStoria,
When shs had Children. she gave them Castoria.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Mrs. Winslow's SCOT hing syrup, for CHI
I-cn tccthins, softens tho Csns, reduces in:anmG-
ton allays pain cures wind collie. 2Jc. u bottle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

The average watch is composed of 175
dinerent pieces
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

The an lent spoI t OF falconry y being re-
vived I'm the north OF England.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

There are nearly as many tram-cars in
London as omnibuses.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

There is hotel "a New York nearly
quarter of mile long.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

The original name of NJ. Eigel was Bon
icknausea.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

Every Mussulman from the Sultan down
has trade,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

"a Patent Leather shine"
Try B'xby s'-rhrec Zee" blac ding. Polishes quick.
Preserves leather. Family box MS patent handle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
buffalo.

CATTLE-Good grades in fair demand. but
lower; common, dull. work and lower; light
export demand; export steers, good TO
extra, 81 COCA 60; choice heavy cutchths
SO 7oln4 80. SHEEP AND LAMBS. - Top
grades steady; common dull, weak; sheep,
choice to extra. ~ 75a5; good to- choice,
81 1904 20; lambs, choice to extra. S66d6 25 I;
good to choice, IS 75a5 05. HoGs.-Active,
firm, higher; heavy, 81 6504 20; mediums
and mi Ncd. 81 GO6n4 20.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

The treasury department is in rece.pt Of
a letter from the surveyor of customs at
Albany, inquiring as to what rate of duty
should be imposed upon sawed lumber inn
ported from Canada on and after the 9th
instant The department, in a letter to the
collector, says it is understood under the
laws of Canada an export duty Is charged
upon spruce, pine and cedar logs and
single bolts of pine or cedar, and such
being tho case it would seem that under
the provisions OF paragraph s1S, schedule
ID of the act of Oct, l, pine, spruce and
cedar sawed lumber would be dutiable at
the rate prescribed by tho act in force prior
to the 9th instant, that Is, under schedule
ID. Of the act Of March 3. 1883.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24

BEEvRs.-Market 10c per 100 ms higher;
native steers, 50 coos per 100 ms; bulls and
cows, 81 656p2 65; dressed beef steady, &C
ebT34c per u. Cnlves-Market steady; veals,
S56Ds per 100 rs; grassers, 81 1909 so; west
ems, 81 Coos %. Sheop-Steady; lambs &c
per 70 lower sheep, S4G5 25 per 100 rs;
lambs, $500 rs; dressed mutton firm, SEQ
10c per b; dressed lambs weak, o%cdDf1c.
Hogs-Market dull, S4 2O6s4 20 per 100 ns.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
FARMER Lanc's HusklNc-sEE.
All the Girls In Seymour and Derby Neck
Have Been Well Kissed.

Eugene Lang. who lives in Derby
Neck. Is prosperous farmer whose
corn-felds have been usually productive
this year, SAYS the Ansonia (Conn.)
correspondent of the N. Y. Svn. When
he viewed the overburdened shocks OF
corn few days ago and thought what
tough job il would be to hnsk and
store the ears he felt depressed. He
spoke of Ii to his wife and Mrs. Langs
quick wit came to the rescue. Lets
give huskin'-bee." she suggested. and
the husband at once fell in with the
idea. Invitations were sent out to all
the boys and girls in the neighborhood
and up in Seymour and there was very
general response.
When the night came the barn floor
had been thoroughly swept. clean straw
had been laid down in circle big
enough TO accommodate fifty persons
sitting Turk fashion. and in the een-
ter were several shocks OF corn. The
barn was lighted with many lanterns.
back of which had been nailed to the
posts bright new sheets of tin. The
rows of stalls in which Mr.. Lang kept
his cows and horses faced toward the
roofa and the meek-eyed cattle stuck
their noses over the mangers and
chewed their cuds contemplatiyeIy.
At o'clock the company were seated
around the cornstalks. and Mr.. Lang,
mounting a box. laid down one single
rule. The first red found bv a Young
man entitled him to kiss all the pretty
girls. The second red gave the privi-
liege of kissing only a certain number,
aud the third less number. and so on.
The same rule applied to the girls il
they cared to indulge. Then the
huskin' began. Ii was half and
hour before the first red came to view,
and it was a Seymour youth who got
il. The first intimation that any of the
company had that red ear had been
found was a sudden sweep of the arms
around the girl next 10 him and re-
sounding smack full on the lips. Then
he held up the ear and collected the
forfeits. That is he tried to. but there
was more solid work for him in the
next half hour than he had ever done
in day before. and there was no corn
husked in that time either. The girls
screamed an giggled, then ran. with
the lucky Seymour youth after them.
II was such fun that even the cows
Z laughed. When the second ear was
found the scene was repeated. The
( fourth and fifth and sixth came, and
eith tue SfAto gave UP anu Suoihtttcu
with better grace.
4 After the corn was husked the floor
space was cleared again of everything.
( and the fiddler tuned up her strings
and began to grind out Money MUSK
I with strength of feeling that set every
I foot in the room TO keeping time. It
was the iolliest. happiest. heartiest
dance that Derby ever saw. During
an interval supper was announced, and
( the baked beans, boiled ham. cold roast
turkey and chicken. the cake. and the
Connecticut mince pie. all washed down
+ with sweet cider. filed the measure to
the guests happiness.
1t was a profitable party for Mr..
Lang. He got his corn husked, his
supper cost him but little. but above al
he is to-day the most popular farmer in
this part of New Haven county.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
Getting Acquainted.

"This,n said the man who was travel
ing ON the cars, as he opened his value
and took out bottle, lis a mixture
called DIR. Jenkinson's Indispensable.
I never travel without it. It is the best
and most agreeable tonic now on the
market, by all Odds"
Il am not so sure about that" re-
piled the man who was occupying the
seat with him. II have here"-and he
opened his own valise and took out a
bottle-..a tonic called Dl. Rybold's
Extract, which / have used for several
years and consider the very best pre-
paration ever made No man ought
ever to"
II have no doubt it is a fair good
medicine in its way broke in the
other, "but if you had ever tasted DR..
Jenkinson's Indispensable you would
throw that stuff of yours away
81 know all about DIR. Jenkinson's
nostrum, sir. know exactly what it's
made of.
'.You do. hey?"
ssYes, sir, and ! know DIR. Rybold' s
Extract is made from precisely the
same formula, only from pure mate
rials instead of the vile and adulterat-
ed ingredients old Jenkinson uses"
s.Itss made from the same formula.
is itPn
Exactly the same"
"You lying old ignoramus. how dc
you know what its made of?n
s.How do know, you insulting old
scoundrel? Tn DIR. Rybold, sir!n
Il am glad / have found you out
you internal villain. I am DR.. Ter
kipeers s'a-- ffbir1rssr, ~ = ssAs
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
Prehistoric skeletons.

The pretty little village of Auvernier
lies on the lake of Neufehatel. and not
far from the town of the same name;
and here it was that some workmen re-
Gently discovered tombs of the ancient
lake dwellers. The dead were neither
thrown into the lake nor burned. but
were buried. something in the fashion
of other people, on dry land and in
tonbs close TO their lake villages. This
tomb at Auvernier was found about
six feet underground. in hard gravel
aud clay of the lake shore. 1t was
built of heavy slabs of granite set on
iee and covered with slabs of the
-4ame character. There was no stone
in the bottom of the vault-simply
gravel. The tomb was nearly six feet
deep. little over three and a half feet
wide, and only five feet three inches in
length. There were twenty skeletons
in it-and how so many bodies could
have been buried in so small place is
a mystery. The shortness of the tomb
must have made it necessary. unless
the people were dwarfs. to double the
bodies together. or else stand them on
their feet One of the slabs composing
this old tomb was of Mont Blanc
granite. and although foot thick, fell
to pieces on being uncovered. There
was also an entrance to this sepulchre
built of rock slabs similar 10 the toni
itself. The relics found with these
bodies consist of necklace of boars
tusks, beads of bears and wolves teeth
a celt or hatchet of serpentine. and two
or three bronze rings, pins, and beads
This was probably the burial-place o
one of the first families of the lake
dwellers, for certainly not every one
could bring great granite slabs from
far-off Mout Blanc to build tomb with
The antiquarians place the building o
this dead-house at the close of the ston,
age. when bronze was just beginnin:
to be known as an article of luxury
Recently still other tombs of the lax
dwellers have been discovered at Mon
treux and elsewhere, but, aside from tn
methods Of burial, they throw no ney
light on the life and times of their oC
cupants. The only safe conclusion t
arrive at is that nearly the whole @
Switzerland, for centuries and centuries
and at a time of which history takes n
account. was settled by a numerous
industrious, and partly civilized people
who for their own protection adopte
the practice of building their homes j
oe waters of the lakes. Tins sort {
lire lasted almost to the time of Juliu
Cesar. when it was gradually given vi
the people of the Alps changing thei
abodes from the water to the dry Ian
on the advance of ciyilization.-Frol
.s79be Lake DU0ellers, " by S. II. AZ. Byer
in HqrDeT'S Magazine.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
Ants in a Hotel Dining-Ro ON.

See thatP" asked waiter in the
Palace hotel, holding up a dish filled
with black insects.
''Caviarp" inquired San Francisco
Examiner reporter to whom the ques-
ton was addressed.
mo; ants" was the sententious re-
ply. "This is my harvest since noon.
Every other gentleman in this dining
room has collected as many more. The
house is literally overrun with them,
and has been for three years to my
certain knowledge.
Trying to evict these little crawlers
has cost the Sharon estate $4,000, and
it will cost many thousand more be-
fore any effect will be made on these
intruders. They creep in everywhere
and there is no way invented to keep
them out. / don't think we can get
rid of them without moving the hotel.
They are in lots of houses and nothing
has been found that will feaze them.
They are worse than flies. because poi
son doesn't have any effect on them.
and they are worse than cockroaches.
because they are smaller.
ado you see those gentlemen across
the room? They appear to be brush
ing crumbs off the table. but they an
it's ants. Every gentleman here has a
small covered dish like the one just
showed you, which he just fits into his
left hand. All the spare time he has is
occupied in collecting ants. Unless a
gentleman turns in his quota at night
he gets black mark, because it shows
that he has been lazy, and if he keep:
it rp he is discharged for neglect Of
duty.
THAT is one of the things that make:
the work so hard for us gentlemen in
the dining-room. Excuse me-" ant
with gentle sweep of the hand hi
brushed a score of ants into his little
box, which he deity closed in time tc
prevent the original occupants from
creeping out
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
Secret of Gordon's Power.

What was the secret of his wonderful
power. Much of it lay in his fearless
ness. much in his swiftness of thought
and action. and much in what the Yam
kee would call his capability in all
things. small as well as great.
He could ride. shoot aud tinker and
conduct campaigns and negotiate trea-
ties, all with unhesitating self-reli-
ance. As a matter of course such a
man takes command. Gordon never
lacked opportunities to show these
qualities.
When steaming quietly up the Nile .
monkey with which he was playing fell
overheard. In twinkling Gordon was
in the water after him, writes Colonel
III. G. Prout in ScribHer's. By good
luck the crocodiles got neither Gov
ernor General nor monkey.
When nugger was being hauled up
the rapids some way south of Lado the
cable got away from the men on the
bank and the vessel was swept on the
rocks. No one would volunteer to go
out and pick up the cable, and Gordon
jumped into skiff and went alone.
To be sure. the skiff upset and the
Governor General sat some hours drip
ping on rock, but his men had les
son.
On another occasion the garrison of
one of the stations was thrown into
much anxiety by seeing Gordon alone,
rowing across the river to the east
bank, which in that region was occu-
pied by intensely hostile negroes. He
landed, made his boat fast and tried
by display of beads and wire to in
duce the savages to come and talk with
him.
They simply sat on the hillside and
I scowled. Finally Gordon shot hippo
potamus and padded back. leaving
the beads on the shore and fine feast
of hippopotamus meat in the rushes.
1 Another man would have been killed.
I l was amused to see on the table at
Khartoum handsome spoons and forks
with his crest half effaced by rough
scratches. / could fancy Gordon,
vexed by some unusual fiummery,
/ seizing rat-tail file and proceeding
j to put out of his sight one more vanity.
1t was not that he was not proud oi
his family. On the contrary, he could
pay a man no greater compliment
1 than to say: "You are like Gordon;'
but all the marks and signs of rank
sometimes became intolerable to him.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
The Home of a Gypsy Prince.

A modest brick house standing lit
tie way back from the street, in a
suburb of the city of Dayton. Ohio, is
the property and part of the year the
home of a gypsy of wide repute, the
heir apparent to throne in Little
Egypt; and here, and hereabout, is the
rendezvous of a numerous band or
tribe. This settlement is widely known
as the home of some of the richest and
most influential families of gypsydom,
among them the Stanleys, of whom the
present head. Levi. is called the king,
This Levi Stanley is a short, heavy-set
man of something over 40 years. He
is still strong. and active. with ruddy
cheek and bright eye. Much OF his
time is passed with the travelling par
ties, while his oldest son. Levi, DR.,
a stalwart, handsome man of 30, as
sumes much of the active direction OF
affairs, looking after property, etc.
Living scattered about to the north OF
Dayton are many fine farms owned by
them. At the present most OF the
farms are in the hands of tenants. foi
however near the gypsy may be to the
primeval man he has not yet developed
a strong liking for the labor OF the
primeval occupation.
A pure white English sparrow dwelll
with colony of browns in Hartfort
| Conn.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
He Cut IL Down.

A telegraph editors story: One
night one of our force was sick and we
had to supply his place with sub from
the city editors force. He was also a
sub in that department. He had come
in Ito learn to be a journalist" A
1.5O0-word special was coming in and
it was turned over to him to edit. The
night editor was passing in and out
and was watching the matter pretty
closely, because the counting-room had
sent up word that an extra page OF
lads" would be sent in, and the city
editor had sent word that he had a
general ALARM two shooting
scraps" "a suicide,n and IAN selope-
ment."
The night editor asked the sub what
he had in hand. The sub told him.
How many words?" asked the night
editor.
Fifteen hundred"
"Cut her down to 500.n
About two hours later a man from
the proof-room came in and told the
night editor that the article which he
held in his hand ended somewhat
abruptly and that it had dash marked
at the bottom indicating that it wa.
/ finished.
The night editor looked at the proc
/ and took it to the sub, who looked a
/ it and explained innocently that he hac
/ followed instructions. And so he had
I He had counted 500 words from the
beginning and thrown the remaindel
! of the special in the waste-basket.-
| Chicago Tribune.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
THE CRY OF GEMS.
How the Treasures OF Ceylon are un-
earthed and Find Their Way to London.

Ratnapura, the City of gems. is the
center of district twenty or thirty
miles square. in almost all of which a
stratum of gravel six feet to twenty
feet under the surface exists. Through
out this area gem pits are TO be seen
near the villages, some being worked
now. others being abandoned. The
natives work there in companies of six
or eight, and pay rupee per man per
month for the privilege of working a
certain allotment. where they begin by
marking OFF square of about ten
feet.
After removing about three feet of
soil the sounding rod. piece Of iron
about half an inch in diameter and six
feet long. is used to sound for the
gravel. If successful the digging IS
begun in earnest till about four feet
deep. On the second day gravel is
taken out by baskets aud handed from
one man TO another till all within the
square is excavated. Should the min
ers find the soil fairly firm at the bot
tom of the pit they tunnel all around
for about two feet drawing out the
gravel and sending it up also 10 be
heaped with the rest, which usually
completes the work of the second day,
a watehman remains near it all night.
On the third day it is all washed
in wicker basket by circular jerk
ing motion. which throws out all the
surplus light stone and rubbish. till
good quantity of heavy gravel is left
in the bottom. which Is carefully ex-
amiued. There is hardly a basketful
that does not contain some gems of in-
ferier value, which are usually sold by
the pound for about nine rupees.
Should no valuable stones be found
another pit is sunk. and so on until
one or two or perhaps three really
variable gems are unearthed. when
the work Is stopped and the whole
party goes of 10 Ratnapura with the
prize.
If these are worth say few thons-
and rupees, they are kept secret aud
only shown TO one or two men of mon
ey. who make the owners an advance
aud look after the custody of the pree-
ious stones Then they gamble and
drink for some time till another ad-
vance becomes necessary. and so on
until half the value is obtained. Then
the party, with the mortgagee, pro-
eeeds TO Columbo, or Italutara. where
rich Moorish traders are summoned to
purchase. and the gems soon find their
way TO London. The general public
know nothing about these transactions.
and valuable gems are never heard of
in Ceylon, and scarcely see the light of
day till they reach Bond street.
The natives have great fear of ex-
posing their finds till they are sold, and
they have most extraordinary super
stifious ideas about showing them.
This system has been in vogue for
centuries past. 1t is only occasionally
one hears of any native having enter
prise enough to dig a few feet below
the first gravel to see it, BY sounding,
a second bed of gravel is within reach.
for they fear the expense of bailing out
water, which increases rs the greater
depth is attained. although the second
gravel is we'll known TO be much richer
than the first