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

use. be very expensive. 1t should be
firm enough to penetrate through the
hair to the scalp and not so harsh AS
to leave smart following its use.
This one reason why the brush is bet
ter than the comb - especially the
Zine tooth comb" which should be
pretty much relegated to oblivion. Its
excessive use often leads to serious
diseases of the scalp. the skin being
broken and particles of poisonous dust
being pressed into the wound. causing
soreness and sometimes serious results.
A rubber comb is best, as the softness
of its teeth is its recommendation. ANY
comb should be used very little except
for parting the hair, but whether a
comb or brush be- used. surely nc
wearer of long hair need be told chat
they should begin operations at the
ends, and not near the roots of the
hair. as by the latter method it is very
easy to break and tear away the new
hairs with a great detriment to the
whsle. Above all. do not fear to use
the brush too generously. A recent
writer tells of school for young ladies
In Pennsylvania where the require
ment was that each student, before re-
firing. should give her hair 100 good
strokes with the brush. Doubtless
there was more or less murmuring,
and perhaps some rebellion, but the
fact remains that every one of the in
mates had beautiful head of glossy
hair. If metal and horn combs should
be tabooed. the metallic hair-brush
and kindred contrivances should keep
them company. Use brushes with
bristles of moderate stiffness. use them
faithfully but gently, and the result
will not be disappointing. - Good
Housekeeping.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Unulasked.

We had danced together beneath the CLEAN
OF the warm rlslight from the chandeliers
And told my heart twas q fleeing dream.
But my heart was bold and would have no
fears:
For felt her breath as IL touched my hair.
And her great brown eyes. with their piercing
gaze,
Cleaned out from her mask, while her lip so
fair
Lay close TO mine in the whirlng maze
i led her away. ns the music died
In plaintive strain on the midnight air.
To a cosy nook in the hallway wide,
Wher the light showed dim on the oallep
STAIR
And held her hand as my heart beat time
TO the rhythmic tones of the ancient clock:
And the " ords i whispered were set in rhyme.
While the clock kept time with dull tick
tock."
Then my arm stole gently around her waist
And pressed "A kiss on her throbbing brow
But Just ut that time her mask, displaced,
Fell down at her feet-I scarce know how.
do not remember what followed tl.en,
For IL all seemed shrouded in clouds OF
mist.
] only know that tainted when
] saw twas my sister that had kissed.
N. Y. Sunday Mercury.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Monkey and COckatoo.

There is n monkey in the geological
gardens in Washington that has gained
considerable notoriety by his ability to
''get square" on an adversary. His
particular enemy was cockatoo, and
this is the way the strife came about:
One day the cage of the cockatoo
was put on top of the cage of the mon
key, who is very intelligent and great
favorite with visitors. The monkey,
undisturbcd by the presence of his gor-
geous neighbsr, went flying about as
usual, most actively. In the course Of
his movements his tail went through
the top OF his cage and lay against the
side of Miss Cockatoo's cage. She i'm
mediately caught it with beaa and
claws, and the poor monkey screamed
and struggled to free himself. When
he did at last free himself the hair was
torn from his tail. and for some days
he suffered. The cockatoo was moved
across the aisle, and the monkey SEEM
ed 10 understand who was responsible
for his hurt.
Somebody had given the monkey
small piece OF a mirror which he great
" enjoyed, while ut the same time he
was greatly puzzled ut the sudden APP
pearance of II noighbor, who was evil
IDENTIFY of his own race but whom he
could not coax out from his peculiar
hiding place. One day. as he held the
mirror, ray of sunlight struck it and
blinded him for minute. The reilec-
ton danced about from place to place,
to the monkeys delight, and at last
struck the cockatoo's cage, who gave
frightened scream, as il struck her eyes,
for it blinded her. The monkey by
this time had learned to direct its rays,
and for over half an hour the cockatoo
was chased from side to side, and from
top to bottom of her cage by the blind
ing flash. the monkey evidently enjoy
ing her fright. He could not be divert
ed until n passing cloud made the bit
of mirror useless as means of torture,
and the monkey found himself again
confronted by the queer neighbor whom
he could not touch. but whose face
SO perfectly reflected his own feelings.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Their Lot rot Happy One.

No sooner are the Swiss girls large
enough to possess the requisite physical
strength then they are set to the most
servile work the land Affords, says
traveller. The child has pannier bas-
ket fitted to her shoulders 4. the earli-
est possible moment. and she drops it
only when old age, premature but
merciful, robs her of power to carry it
longer.
have seen sweet little girls of ~ or
ii staggering down mountain side or
along rough pathway under the
weight of bundles of fagots as large rs
their bodies. which they no sooner
dropped than they hurried back for
others. have seen girls of 10 years,
bare-footed and bare-headed. in the
blistering rays of I'm August sun, break
ing up the ground by swinging mat
tocks heavy enough TO tax the strength
of an able-bodied man.
have known young miss no older
than these to be employed rs a porter
for carrying the baggage of travellers
ND aud down the steepest mountain
path in all the region round about. She
admitted that IL was sometimes very
hard to take another step, but she must
do it.
And she carried such an amount OF
baggage! A stout-limbed guide is pro-
tected by the law so that he cannot be
compelled TO carry above twenty-five
pounds but the limit TO the burden
often put upon girls is their inability
to stand up under anything more.
But the burden increases with the
age and strength of the burden-bcar-
ers till by the time the giro have come
to womanhOod there is no sort of mental
toll in which they do not bear hand,
and quite commonly the chief hand
Baltimore NcaOS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
The Race Dying out.

Tourist clown south)-Thcre Is a
very general idea up north that the
negro race in the south is dying out.
Aunt Dinah-Ts 'fraid daft too true.
honey. too true. Only las week ok
Uncle Pomp wot ulster belong to Cen
eral Washington fell down Diet. right
in his tracks; an ole Aunt Chilo, wot
gev er drink en- water 10 General Lafay-
cite. she's gone. too; an knows two
more wct's sick Yes. honey. | don't
know what 'ud become of tn co'ed
race IL il wasn't that mos of us watts
Twin has fifteen or twenty chil'ens
apiece. IN. Y. Weekly
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
The Pride of Matrimony.

Tn his recently published Trials OF
of County Parson," DR.. Jessupp tells
some amusing anecdotes picked up in
Already. As thus: 1T Is very shock
ing to sensitive person to hear the
way in which the old people speak of
their dead wives or husbands exactly
as If they'd been horses or dogs. They
are always proud of having been mar
ried more than once. You didn't think.
miss, as I'd had five wives, now, did
you? All. but 1 have though-least-
ways ] buried five on 'em in the
churchyard, that l did-and three on
EN- bewtiesr On another occasion
playfully suggested: Don't you mix
up your husbands now and then, Mrs.
Page. when you talk about themg
Well. to tell you the truth. sir, |
really dul But my third husband, ho
was man! don't mix him up. He
got killed iighting-you've heerd tell o
that. | make no doubtp The others
warn't nothing to him. He'd ha' mixed
them up quick enough II they'd inter-
fercd wi him. Lawk ha! He'd made
nothing OF themi ST JdmeS'S Gazette
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10

would find your money and your life
would be very dear TO you, so dear that the
common Irish tenant would be left to look
out for himself"
1.-THE time will come when we can prove
our legally to the cause of Home Rule and
land REFORM" said, with warmth.
You may go into parliament but they
will never grant Home Rule to Ireland,
OF. very much land reform while the
Queen has power to defeat it. Coercion
will be enforced by adding a greater num-
Der to the official force now established in
Dublin. Law and order must be main.
tanned ia Ireland at whatever cost. The
National League and all other societies
dangerous to the government must be sup
pressed The Queen is fully alive to the
needs OF the times. She will call for more
troops to aid in stamping out this rebel
Jious spirit" said Lord Sanders. jingling
his watch chain and jewolry with veho-
merce.
But" said Sir Wren, "some may still
remember the terrific shock Of last Jan
unry. They may fear to carry out your
prop ssals. II the people of Ireland cannot
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
A Skirt Dancers Secrets.

wear eight skirts every night. On
each one are twenty yards of lace, half
n yard in depth. so that / carry l6o
yards of lace every time | appear in a
skirt dance. Then with the tights and
other little pieces of wearing apparel l
carry heavy weight.
My skirts are never starched or
washed. just us soon rs they become
dirty they arc thrown away AMI new
ou~s are bought. Ny lace bill is q
large one, rs il embraces many differ
ent colors.
never have them starched. because
they hang much easier and great deal
closer to the legs. II they were starched
some people would think wore hoops.
-I.o.ct Afsc0ttc.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Bubbles Specially Named.

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

back and hands crossed-the one great fig-
ure in the whole assembly"
"Yesw exclaimed Melvornc, 'he Is al
ways that, the vain old manp'
"When the votes were cast IL was COM
plete defeat 20 the Tory government that
had been threatening to suppress the Ma
tional League and to establish new coer-
cion in Ireland The widest Civilizations
of the Irish members greeted the an
nouncement of the vote"
"This is the second ministry that Par
nell has destroyed within the last eight
MONTHS" said the Colonel
THE Irish may have reason 70 regret
this act" said Melvorne. "a ministry
with powerful majority would be apt TO
do the right thing IL Gladstone was out of
for Ireland and always will, fear. He Is
vain and vacillatingI"
HE has no easy task" I said. "He
must now form policy which the wings
have heretofore bitterly detested and
which viii I'LL his party with doubts and
misgivings"
England needs Just now Lincoln or a
GrantP' exclaimed Col. Haynes MEN
who can think and act for themselves and
beyond themselves and see what will be
the best for nations and for mankind at a
glance"
II am sorry that Gladstone Is in power.
With him "a our pilot we may have insur-
rection in Ireland war with Europe and
mutiay IN india" said Melvorne, thought
fully Then he is not i'm favor with the
Queen. She resorsed 10 every device be-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
MAKING PROGRESS.

The discussion of the adulteration of
food and other articles of consumption
is leading to such action by congress as
comes in its province. In the senate
the committee on foreign affairs has
prepared bill to prohibit the importa-
ton Of any articles Of food or drink that
are aduteratod, and the committee on
agriculture has moved to interdiet all
interstate commerce in impure food sub
stances. They cannot be taken from
one state into another or into any terri
tory. OF course it is not certain that
the measures will be reached this Ses-
sion, but there will hardly be any OPP
position 10 them except as influenced by
the parties to the frauds. 1t is proposed
also to establish in the agricultural de-
partment a food division that shall
make it business to procure
samples of food, drugs and liquors
soldin any part of the country, and su b.
iect them to analysis. Penalties are to
be prescribed for affiXing false labels
TO any articles of food or drink. This
bill is supposed to have the support of
the agricultural department. No doubt
st can be made very useful in connection
with the work of the state agencies.
There is hardly more useful function
for the government than to protect the
citizens in such matters. There may be
people who prefer to use many of the
ndulterated articles when much cheap
ened, but they should be sold only as
such at their true value, and not palmed
off for straight goods. The municipal
and state agents must be the main re-
lance for this needed protection.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
LET THE PEOPLE CHOOSE.

The Republican papers in Illinois ar g
painfully solicitous that the Democrats
in that state shall not commit the grave
blunder of naming tteir party candidate
for senator in the state convention before
the legislature is chosen. a long array
is made of Democratic leaders who will
be diSgruntled aud ''Sulk in their tents"
if they do not knife the party ticket.
They are turning their batteries upon
Gen. PALMER, assuming he will be the
choice, and repeat his great canvass Of
1883. If they were not so habitually
disinterested and anxious for the sue
cess Of their opponents, it might be Sus-
pected that they were really apprehen-
sIve that the Democrats would adopt
this course and capture the legislature.
FARWELL could be named as the Re-
publican candidate. He will probably
be returned if the Republicans control
the legislature, although he is now
induced to disclaim the ambition.
He is q millionaire and machine
worker, and owes his election to those
facts. Ii he were positively recognized
by the people as the man to be returned,
the Democrats would have walk
away. AS matter of expedieney, he
is apparently to be left off the list of
candidates, but it would be easier for
him to capture the place by the agencies
at his command than it was before.
But what reason is there why the party
should not have voice in the selection
of the senator, as well as the governor
or congressman? The managers will
be forced to put forward one of the
ablest men, and one not mixed up with
cloudy records, to go before the people
with. What a cleaning out Of the sem
ate there would be if the people had a
direct vote on the ineumUents. The
millionaIres would be few. There is
some prospect that the Democrats in
Pennsylvania will initiate the Illinois
example, and challenge the Republicans
to put Don CAMERON in the field
against the Democrat.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
AHoMELY ARGUMENT.

Does protective tariff benefit the
farmers? That is a question some of
our Minnesota farmers have been study
ing up on during the long winter even
ings, and they have arrived at entirely
different conclusions from the teach
ingS of the Republican, campaign ora
tors and organs during the last cam
paign. A Fillmore county farmer fur
niShes us an experience of his own
which leads him to the belief that a
farmer can never get rich under the
operations Of high tariff law. His
argument is homely one, but it is all
the more valuable for that, because it
can be more readily understood by the
plain country folk. Last fall business
called him to st. Paul, and. wishing to
make respectable appearance when he
came to the metropolis, he found it nee
essary to go to the country town and
get rugged out in new clothes. He sends
the following itemized statement OF
what he bought, and what the Quilt
cost: One suit of clothes, including over
coat, SIS: underclotheS, s.: boots, So;
gloves, 81; hat, 81: shirt, 50; over
shoes, S1.50; scarf, 81; incidentalS,
including expenses OF trip to town,
S7.55-totaI, $12.05. Then follows an
itemized statement Of the farm prod
ucts it took to pay for this outfit, not in
Guiding the expense Of taking the stuff
to market, as follows: One load of oats
at 40 cents bushel, $3.50; one load
corn, at 30 cents, IS: one steer, SIS; one
COW, SIG; two loads hay, IS; two cords
wood, IS; forty bushels of potatoes, So;
one load of straw. $l.25-total, S72.05.
There is the whole tariff argu ment in
a nutshell. The markets Of the world
are closed against the farmer, and he is
forced to take haIf-price for his farm
stuff. The manufacturers are hedged
about with protective tariff which en-
ableS them to charge the farmer double
price for their products.
OF the S72 the Fillmore county farmer
paid for his outfit, about one-half went
into the pockets Of the manufacturers
under the operations of the tariff laws.
But for the restrictions placed upon
commerce by the operation Of these
same laws. the Fillmore county farmer
would have received from so to 100 per
cent more for his farm stuff than he
got.
We agree with our Fillmore county
friend that the farmers can never get
rich under the existing tariff system.
but if they are mule-headed enough to
keep OH voting with the party of pro-
lection they have no reason to complain
of their poverty. The farmers have it
in their power to wipe out the iniqui-
tous tariff system, but somehow they
fail to realize their power.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
ON THE WORLDS FAIR.

What a terribly big head Chicago
has noW.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
For director general of the fair in Chi
cagO: Tom Platt.Ot OSWegO. Well,
why not?-New York World.
When the great big boundless West
undertakes to have anything, she is
hard to beat.-New York Tribune.
Chicago gets the worlds fair for 1892,
and the Democracy gets a firmer grip
on New York state. Tom Plat did it.
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The interest felt in this city yester-
day over the selection of the worlds
fair site was almost as great as if a
national convention were balloting for
Presidential candidate.
Leader.
1t IS not yet sure that the fair will be
held in Chicago, as the senate may re-
fuse to concur in the action of the
house, or those who are opposed to any
fair at all NAV Join forces with those
who don't want the fair held in Chica-
go and defeat the whole Scheme.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
New York certainly owes word of
thanks to the congressman from other
states who stood by us throughout the
ballOting, because, unSWayed by local
or sectional influences, they felt that
this was the greatest city in the new
world, and that it ought to have the
fair, not so much for its own sake as
for the fairs Sake.-NeW York Press.
The majority IN congress has decided
to send the Worlds fair to the wild and
windy West, which remained undis-
covered for 2O0 years after Columbus
set eyes OH America. This amounts to
a virtual defeat of the project in adj
vance. Having put the site out Of
sight, the next appropriate move on the
part of the politicians who are meddling
in the business should lie to prevent
any federal recognition of Columbus or
his discOvery.-Philadelphia Record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

The sacred congregation at Rome has
emphatically declined TO grant Gen.
Boulanger's application for divorce.
]. M. Studebaker has placed on his
farm at South Bend, Ind, pig which
cost him $1,000 OF course he bought it
in New York.
The Royal Geographical society has
invited Thomas Stevens to send paper
describing how he reached Henry M.
Stanley in Eastern Africa.
1t is said that the marriage Of another
daughter of the Prince of Wales has
been arranged. and that it will be pub
licly announced IN April.
Queen Victoria invited no clergymen
to the amateur theatricals at Balmoral.
1t is said that she does not approve OF
clergymen attending such perform
anceS, which is lucky for them.
Secretary Tracy has sight in one eye
only. When young he taught school in
Northern New York, and an unruly
pupil threw slate at him, striking him
i'll the eye and destroying the sight.
Ralph Disraeli, a brother of Lord
Beaconsfeld, has retired, at the age of
eighty, after fifty years of public serv-
ice, from the Office of deputy clerk of
the parliamentS. to which he was APP
pointed by Lord BeaconStield.
f Twin Booth has sent a check for
$1,000 to the Vincent hospital, at Bos-
ton, an Institution for the relief of work
ing women and girls. established under
the patronage of Trinity church as a
memorial OF the late Mrs. j. Il. Vincent,
for many years an esteemed and accom-
plished actress OF the Boston Museum
company.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
THEY PREFER THIS SIDE.

Some of the statements put forth in
the official literature of Canada or the
provinces as to the agricultural re-
sources Of that country are eXtrayagant
exaggeratiOns. They allure people
from abroad, but somehow most Of
them soon drift over the line into the
United States. In public speech at
Winnipeg some time ago the minister
of agriculture rose to the height Of en-
thusiasm that pictured a flocking FROM
this country in that direction. There
is good wheat soil in Manitoba and the
regions west, but no better than in
Northern Minnesota, North Dakota ana
Montana. Cold winters are good for
the great cereal, hut extremes are in
convenient and eXpenSiyei in living. The
daily reports put MinnedOSa always
down among the most frigid features.
The Canadian climate in the western
region is very much Severer than in this
latitude. People can get along with an
occasional sample of extreme cold, but it
becomes mOnOtOnOuS as steady thing.
There is, however. no occasion to depre-
ciate the attractions or natural advan-
tages of the regions outside of the
national radius to the north, but they
will have to wait for any considerable
Rccretions until the better advantages
on this side are exhausted. Canadian
emigration has brought great many
people from abroad, but has not ma
teriaIly swelled the population of that
country. The alluremenGs in this direc-
tion have been too strong. No doubt il
would be material aid to the Canadian
provinces in gaming settlers if they
were annexed to the United States. but
their growth will be comparatively slow
until the lands this side Of the line are
pretty much all occupied.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03
ness. The eighth volume, by the way,
will contain Hamlet"

1.-THE Early Diary of Frances Burney,
176S-177S." is book that every admirer
of this clever English girl will be inter-
ested in. The book is printed from the
manuscript of Miss Burney's famous
diary as revised by the author when
Nine. D'Arblay. 1t is edited by Annie
Raine Ellis, and will be published by
Scribner 81 Wexford.
sa4 "a"
"Laugh and Learn" is the title of
book of nursery lessons and nursery
games, by Jennett Humphreys, with
many illustrations. The union of
simple instruction. and amusement is
very happily carried out. The book
will be published by Scribner & Wei
ford.
The brother of President Harrlson's
private secretary, A. j. HalfOrd. has
written for the March number of the
Philadelphia Ladies' Home Journal an
article on MRS. Harrison's Daily Life
in the White House, prepared with the
consent and assistance of Mrs. Harri-
son. A new portrait Of the lady of the
White house, especially taken for this
article, and view of the upstairs fam
lily rooms of the executive mansion, are
among the illustrations which will ac-
company Mr.. Halford's first magazine
effort.
-
Marian Harland, the friend and helper
of women everywhere, has taken up
the work of restoring the ruined monu-
ment marking the burial place of Mary,
the mother of Washington. She says
truly-in her appeal to the mothers and
daughters of America to erect fitting
monument to her who gave our country
a father-that ''the sun shines upon no
sadder ruin in the length and breadth
of our land than this unfinished struc-
ture."
The publishers of the Home-Maker.
of which Marian Harland is the editor,
offer, as their contribution to the good
cause, rs cents out of every annual sub
scription of 81 to the magazine sent in
during the next six months. Every
such subscription must be accompanied
by the words, "For Mary Washington
Monument"
The offeris generous and should meet
with an enthusiastic repOnSe.