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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

Do photographers know that they waste
81, 000. GOO every year in silver and gold
throw it away with the washings of
photographs? That is what writer in
The Photographic Times tells us. At
least half of this waste can be saved,
and the economical photographer can
in time become rich from his savings in
q double sense. There is one point that
never seems to occur to many Ameri-
cans. 1t is that it is wicked to waste
anything that can be of use to man.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

Murat, the clouded princeling in
France whers princes are no good, has
come down from his lofty pinnacle and
now says he will take Miss Caldwell and
anything she will give him. Now, if
Miss Caldwell has half the spirit of an
American woman she will respectfully
decline the honor on any terms.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

When the new treaty which Blaine
and Sir Julian Pauncefote are arranging
shall have been ratified, there will be no
more escaping of American rogues to
Canada. The document will provide for
the extradition of all our gentlemen
swindlers, forgers and embezzlers
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

It would not be quite gallant to say
Nine. Patti is tough, yet thefact remains
that all the principal singers Of her con-
cert company in Chicago were down with
the grip except herself. Age passes her
by, misfortune passes her by, and now
even the grip passes her. Lucky womanl
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

Let us be glad we do not have to go to
congress. After speaking two hours the
other day gifted and fluent senator
rave notice that he would resume his
grafton at the earliest opportunity, and
would require two or three days more in
which to finish It. Oh dear!
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

William B. Griffin, of Elizabeth, N. j.,
exclaimed, Everybody is happy but
me-" and put a bullet through his brain.
If William had waited and looked into
the matter, he would have found he was
as happy as anybody else.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05
Fasting.

4 Frenchn1an, NJ. Charles Richet, has
been Investigating cases of long fasting,
voluntary and involuntary.
Cold blooded animals can live without
food twice as long as warm blooded
ones. Dogs can endure starvation thirty
days before they die, human beings usu-
ally sixteen to twenty days. The fatal
limit is reached when the animal or man
becomes so emaciated that 40 per cent.
of weight is lost.
Those who endure long fasts with i'm
punity are usually persons dominated by
some absorbing idea which takes away
the thought from the stomach. The
most noted fasters are hysterical subjects
and Hindoo fakirs. 1t is remarkable
that in these cases the emaciation is COM
paratively slight. Some other influence
seems to step in for the time and stop the
usual operations of the body.
NJ Richet sees no reason to doubt that
Tanner. Merlatti and Succi tasted the
full fifty days, as they claim. but says
their fasts were undertaken under most
favorable circumstances. They had only
to put forth their hands and eat at any
moment. 1t would have been different
had they been shipwrecked on des-
ert island, or perishing in ice fields,
like party found in 1909. These were
without food seventeen days. When
found their skin was sticking to the
bones, and was covered with a sooty
scurf. Their tongues were black, their
breaths fetid- This sickening odor and
blackness of the skin and tongue are
characteristic of the last stages of starva-
ton.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

It is much to be regretted that two
such genuine American literary geniuses
as Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley
could not get on peaceably together. But
boys, don't talk about each other.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

: Can you find word to rhyme with
ninety? A prize has been offered to the
wit or poet who can make rhyme for
the name of this year.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-05

Stanley Arrlcanus Is not certain wheth-
er he is an American or not, but he says,
with Thomas Paine and George Francis
Train, "The world is my country"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
White Chrysanthemums.

They grew by tho gate. In tn amber days
Soft SHOWS of the autumn weather.
And they doomed I'm Tire rcd October haze.
win It's wine of sunshine and crimson blaze,
Ana VIC watched them there together.
You leaned on my heart, and l. whispering,
While the shadows lengthened around us.
How the stars stole ont Of their purple bed.
Ana the blossoms crcpt up to your feet in
stead.
And lifted each fragrant, dow kissed head
To listen to all the words said.
Where the night and the white moon found
US,
They hung on tho wall. the goldcn-eyed,
And low mid the brown leaves lying;
Too sweet for sorrow, too pale for pride;
Like sisters of mercy, true and tried,
They were dead and still yet dying.
OH took your hand. and softly said
But your face was hidden from me.
How the night winds rocked the pines DER
Then paused TO listen. and onward sped!
Ali you trembled then, and you would have
But love had conquered. and passion shed
Her drealnful madness on me.
They rivaled tho white OF your bosom. There
Ny own fond hR DIS had placed them:
And fell in shower from your gold-brown
hair
To kiss the snow of your shoulders, where
The shadowy moonlight traced them.
Oh! told you then. hercely said
As closed on the path before us.
Alas! how tho flush from your sweet lips fiedi
There was dew on your brow and sun-crowncd
head
And the flowers Mt my feet lay G III and dead
Killed by the words your lover said
And the morning stsSrs rose DER us.
Aye, dead at my feet! They were lying where
In the pathways curve we parted-
Gold, pale and rushed and whitening there,
With sweet eyes closed llko saints In prayer,
Rich brcathed and golden hearted.
i stretched out my hand; they seemed to
crnRe,
And "a desolate wind blow round me;
They had lost their fuintly sun-klsscd tinge,
Their curling edges and sHow-white fringe;
They were bruised, and broken. and browning
where
] had clutched them In mad despalri
OH clasped them close. and 1 kissed them
there
Tho flowers that foil from your breast and
hair;
That fell that night In the still sweet air,
Ere the cruel daylight md me.
New Orleans Picayune.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

offered him good job. Maybe he'll
get Barney Martins place. Barney is
now open for a good thing. A police
commissionership would just about
suit him. Purroy got him TO join, and
maybe he'll get the police justiceship.
Finale-Jim Mooney has joined
Tammany Hall, to the great delight
OF Tamany men. They have been
wanting him for long time, and he
is to be made deputy commissioner of
public works in place OF Barney Mar
tin, who is TO be made a police COM
missioner. Purroy, who induced
Mooney TO desert the counties, is TO be
made a police justice in place OF Jacob
NJ. Patterson.
Note-The rumor that Jim Ollaga-
walla Mooney has left the county
Democracy is false. 1t is true that he
has sold. his saloon.-N. Y. Sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Slang in Society.

ibid you ever notice the tendency
In fashionable circles to pick up the
latest l.ng" remarked q society lady.
well, it is growing, and it is burn
ing shame TO think that fashionable
people would stoop to catch at the
current slang OF the day. 1t Is not
right and should be stopped. A young
lady may know and use II she desires
some slang phrases IN private homo
circles and among a select few person,
al friends, but even this is bad enough
and leads To embarrassment, simply
because the very habit OF using is
odious in itself. Suppose a young
lady has few pet slang phrases
which she uses at home and among in
innate friends. When she goes into
public and is engaged in convers alton
her pet slang phrases will crop out
when she is least looking for IT. She
will necessarily be embarrassed by
them, but it is too late. The best wav
Is never TO use them"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Too Independent

He was tall, unshaved and 1nde-
pendent, and he came from Findlay.
lie had just leased some oil land down
in the field. says the Toledo Blade,
and was signing up' the lease in
st. Clair street real estate Office yes
terday afternoon.
whats your wife's nameg' in
quired the clerk who was filing out
the instrument
Barbara" he replied.
barbara whatp"
Barbara NJ"
"N hat does the NJ. stand forp"
"Well, burned If know"
What! don't know what the middle
initial of your wife's name stands forp"
Nope"
"Why, man, how long have you
been marriedw
f"'Bout forty -four years"
"Been married forty-four years and
don't know your wife's middle DaInePn
Yep
"Well, why didn't you ever ask
herP"
ASK herp Why, Pm too burned
Independent TO ask her. that's why,
young fellow"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

seemed to me a longer wait than usual
at the time when she should have
entered; however she came.
She advanced to the footlights. The
part she played placed her in that scene
in the midst of bowling mob who
threatened her.
She turned and faced them. They
flourished weapons in the air. She adj
dressed them, her tall form drawn to
its full height.
Ny memory of the play was that at
this moment succor arrived, but it
occurred to me that the scene was
changed. From the midst of the mob
a strange wild figure rushed forth.
l saw it but for moment. 1t threw
back the collar of its coat and revealed
red cash across its throat, and flung
out its hand toward her. saw it but
for a moment, wondering what con-
nection it had with the play, then | saw
Madame - fall forward on her face.
The curtain fell. The house was in
an uproar of excitement. A moment
after n call was made for a doctor. !
was the first to answer it.
A little group of physicians gathered
about the beautiful form that they had
lifted to n sofa; but we saw at a glance
that we looked upon dead woman.
For my part a horror beyond that
which sudden death inspires possessed
me.
did you notice the moment at
which she fell?" / asked a prominent
physician who stood near me, and
whom | knew well.
Yes" said he. "as he spoke the
last words of her defiance. Her friends
were about to appear"
Il fancied one of the populace-the
one who touched her, who had blood
upon him-friS htencd her" | said.
''Oh, no one touched her, my dear
fellow" he said. There is nothing of
the sort in the play. She awed them
by her manner, you know. Good
heavens, what sad thing this is!''
1T is horriblcl' l answered.
think so still. No one but myself
had seen the man with the blood upon
his throat unless she did. and unless all
that | am bound as n medical man to
disbelieve is true there are such things
as ghosts.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Whore phYsic, fhoula b, Rewarded.

The Pail Mall Gazette thinks the
French government ought to be only
too grateful TO every foreign medic
al man willing to take up his residence
in France instead Of imposing n severe
tax upon him. There are at this mo-
ment over twenty-nine thousand COM
munes bereft OF the presence of doc
tor Five sixths OF the rural popula-
ton OF France is thus delivered over
TO the tender mercies of the local pone-
setter. or ''wise woman" OF the dis
trict, the only occasion on which a
qualified doctor is obliged TO intervene
being to give a certihc to Of death in
the short period elapsiDg before burial
must take place.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Morta ity Of ,hs Union Generals.

General William Sherman reached
his 10th birthday on the Sth OF Febru-
airy and in vigorous health. He is
almost the only great commander OF
the Union arm es who lived the allotted
term OF life. 1t is striking fact that
the so diers generally of both armies
fall short of civilians in lease OF life.
Grant would be but GO were he now
alive and he died at 63.
Sheridan was born in 1881 and died
at 81.
Thomas died at 81, and he was
natural y of n robust constitution.
Meade died at 81.
Halleck was b Il 81 when he died.
Mcclellan was but SO when he died.
Mcdowell died at 67.
Hooker was but IS when he died.
Burnside was but 81 when he died.
Hancock died at 63.
Fremont, born in 1918, is still living.
Rosecrans was born in 1919 and is
still living.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Corn Husking.

There are in round numbers about
1000. 600, 600 bushels of corn in the crop
of 1889, says the Orange Judd Farmer.
OF this perhaps 100000. 900 bushels may
be eaten by cattle and hogs direct from
the stalks. either in the field or yards.
The other 1000. 600, 600 bushels are all
to be husked by hand, for as yet there
is no machine invented which will do
this work protitably. Do the husking
men and boys (and some women) aver
age fifty bushels day? Probably not.
Even if they do, our corn-husking this
year will require 30,000.000 days of
work. which is equal to an army Of L.
100000 huskers all working steadily
thirty-eight days each! Messieurs in
ventors, please hurry up that steam
husking-macnne SO long promised. A
big mem: If twenty huskers could have
begun on this years crop 5000 years
ago (seyen years before Grandpa Adam
began living) and kept busily husking
fifty bushels day each, without any
holidays, but 312 days in each and
every year down TO our present time,
they would ut the end of this year still
have 30.00o,0O0 bushels of corn left to
husk out of the crop of 1889, after al
lowing 100, 0O0. 600 bushels to be con-
sumed without husking.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

The men about whom write am person
ally acquainted with and know their state
ments TO be worthy of credit. l cannot do
better first of all than refer to young Scotch
man that / met at Brandon he began
life out hero in the smallest way and now
owns one of the largest farms in Manitoba.
The young mans name is j. w. SandiSon.
1t was an interesting day l spent with him
and learned the details of his successful
career Mr.. Sandison had considerable ex-
perience in farming in the Old Country. he
came to Canada and farmod in Ontario for
couple of years, and in 1893 resolved to try
Manitoba Thither he went without capital,
and relying solely on his own individual Ell
forts. His career, rs will be seen, has been
remarkably successful. he commenced his
Western life by hiring out on farm for one
year, at S26 a month. The farm was situated
near Brandon, and was good one. While
working as an employee, he had good OPP
por uni of exam n ng the ming sy TEN In
the country, and gathering SOHO information
which has proved of extraordinary value.
After quitting work as an employee, Mr..
SandisOn resolved on trying it on his own
hook. At first he took a homestead some 80
miles from the Canadian Pacific railway, but
he soon gave that up, concluding that to rent
profitable In the second year from his
leaving Ontario. he rented farm of so acres
within four miles of the C.P.R. and near
Brandon.
He concluded that in Manitoba land OF the
highest price was the cheapest in all cases.
and that man can, within two or three
wears own land for which he has paid $40 or
Sl5 an acre within from five to fifteen miles OF
railway, while a man working a farm as far
back as thirty miles from the line, will prac-
tically be able TO do nothing. He found that
a great many people in Manitoba made
mistake in buying, say, 800 acres Of land and
instead of making every foot constitute re-
turn, only working a little of it at first, and
thus he paying interest on land which was
yielding no profit or otherwise have his
money lying idle in the land. He worked on
the theory aLove enunciated and in a very
short time was the owner of his land.
On another point he showed his good judg-
ment. AS soon as he was able, he bought
the best horses he could proc re- This he
found more profitable than purchasing i'm
fer-ior or WORKOUT animals HaviDggo con-
troll of half section, he broke it up at once,
and made it pay for itself. Then he bought a
section, following the same method with it,
and now, according to his estimate the
value of capital he has lying in labor alone is
equal to $1,000 pretty good showing in
deed.
Another point regarding farming in Mani
toba, which Mr.. Sandison brings forward, is
that the country is particularly adapted to
farming on n large scale 1t IS the ambition
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

THRESHING THE W HEAT
oxen, ten head Of cattle, raised last year 400
bushels of wheat, 800 bushels OF barley, 600
bushels Of oats. He has a house worth 5000,
and stable worth S4OO.
James Bole, from County Lambton, Ont,
now farming near Regina, was In debt $3.50
for his team. He has now seven horses, cattle,
eight pigs, farming implements and all paid
for besides $500 worth of grain. lie advises
all practical, pushing men to go to the North
West
The success that has met individuals with
out capital is not confined to farmers from
Ontario alone The same story Is told by men
who are obliged to give 1t in an unknown
tongue as in the haste to develop the farm
the owners have not taken time to learn the
English language. Nor Is IL In Manitoba
only that farmers OF this class are to be found
The story that you first hear on the banks Of
the Red River is t,ld 900 miles west on the
foot hills of tho Rocky Mountains and is re-
peated in the valley of the Great Saskatchewan
800 miles to the north Manitoba, Assiniboia,
Alberta, and Saskatchewan all have their men
of this type Not obscure farmers who are
simply eking out q living, but often the lead
ing men of the district who, without capital,
have dug their fortunes out of the wealthy
soil of the North Western Prairies.
WORKERS WILL SUCCEED AND BE HAPPY.
Philip Putt now farming in Assiniboia says:
Before left Roumania, i had TO borrow
money for my journey; came to Canada
without one cent After one years work in
Canada paid all my debts and sent money
10 bring my wife and children out To me.
Today my capital is about 81, 900, all made in
three years. All who want TO work should
come here and be happy.
Thos. Mccartney, OF AYRSHIRE, Scotland,
was ploughman and had no capital He
now owns so acres, Is worth $500, horses
and 40 head Of cattle
F. J. Larmour, Of Quebec Province, landed
in Manitoba with just one dollar. Has 80
acres land, 10 in crop, valued at $500; he has
also 90 head Of cattle.
John Gorrie from the Orkney Islands land.
ed at Quebec with three sons, between 10 and
20 years of age, in 1887, and 20 sovereigns IN
his pocket after paying his fare to Regina.
He has now $50 acres Of land, has had two
good crops, has goJd stock, and his boys viii
soon be as successful as their father.
James Cowan from Ireland, arrived with
out dollar. He owns now 800 acres, OF
which 200 are under cultivation, has a good
house, two teams of horses, eight cows and
has had as much a. 900 bushels Of grain Ia one
YER. PEN AND PLOUGH
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

OXEN BREAKING LAND ON THE PRAIRIES.
There is no lack of market and the COM
petition among the buyers is very keen.
The Manitoba farmer has this advantage:
His wheat is worth ten cents a bushel more
in the Eastern market than that of his East
ern compel tor, and this advance in price
goes long way to counterbalance the extra
cost TO the Manitohan of transportation.
Referring to his own business affairs, and
his success, Mr.. Sandison says that there
has not been a year since he went to the
country that he did not make money, and If he
were TO be approached with an offer of $1,000
for the chance of his profits in 1880, he would
not feel at all inclined 10 take it.
After having falmed in Ontario and Mani
toba, he is convinced that he could not have
accomplished the same result in any Of the
older provinces.
OTHER SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Mr.. Sandison is one only example OF hun
dreds that might be cited will refer TO but
few more, and that briefly. VIM. Abbott oi
Stockton, Mar, came here in 1880 with only
s25 in his pocket. He now has good farm,
seven horses, one yoke of oxen and good stock
of cattle. His average Of wheat per acre has
been twenty eight bushels His opinions that
if a farmer cannot live and make money
farming in Manitoba he need not try else
where.
Geo. Gillespie, of Greenwood, Manitoba,
came from Eldon Township, Ontario. Hav-
ing nothing to begin with he took up free
homestead of 100 acres, which is now worth
$4,000 He has go ," an and is salts
fled with the pro Iects ahead of i'm.
George Edmund, of QUA 1elle, entered
the country with a cut art and willing
hands and in three Yeas had gathered to
gether $500 worth of stock and implements.
He has 160 acres Of land, b acres Of which il
in crop.
William Heasley Of the same place came to
Manitoba without friends or sufficient money
to pay railway fare He walked 100 miles to
his farm He has now 160-acre farm stocked
with % head Of cattle, three horses, pigs and
poultry, and for!y acres under crop.
Benjamin Smith, of Moose Jaw, when he ar
rived in the country had not enough money
to buy COW. He has now six horses, yoke OF
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
The Cunard Line.

The history OF the Cunard Line OF
steamships is remarkable. 1t began
operation in 1910 and will soon COM
plete half a century OF business.
During that time not single passen-
ger of the millions who have crossed
the Atlantic in the Cunarders has been
lost The only ship lost by this line
was the Oregon, and she was not a
"born Cunarder,' but was purchased
from another company. And yet in
the light OF statistics like these many
persons who think nothing of travel
ing on the worst railroads would GO to
sea on the best OF ships with fear and
trembling. As man-killer the .ail-
road can give many points to ocean
ships
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Could Mo- Liz

Irate Female-See here! do you mean
to tell me that have got such an ugly
looking nose as that?
otosrapher-But my apparatus
can not lie. madam.
lrate Female Then for goodness
sake, go and get one that can!
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
1T CREW-TOO TRUE.

The Three Crows Perch Upon a
Politicians Banner.
! hear Jim Mooney has sold his sa-
loon.
Jim Mooney has sold his saloon and
is going to live IN Harlem.
Mooney has sold his saloon, and
is going TO drop out of politics and
live quietly In Harlem.
Mooney has sold his saloon, and lie
going TO leave the counties aud live
in H.rlem.
Mooney has left the county Demo-
cracy. Wonder IL he's going into
Tammany HallP
Say! Mooney has joined Tammany
Hall and Is going TO run things in Har-
lem with Henry ID. Purroy.
Purroy has gathered Mooney into
the Tammany fold. He must have
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Fanny Davenport's Superstition.

Notwithstanding her collection of
jewels, Fanny Davenport never affects
any iewelry in private life excepting
a large and curious carbuncle ring and
a silver-hcaded scarf pin. with which
she fastens the neck of her dress. She
has had this pin for fifteen years, and
considers that if 1t should be lost it
would bring her i'll luck. She is also
a believer in the horseshoe superstition
and carries with her shoe found on
Mount Tallac in California. " Chicago
TribMlle
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

Ben Buffers eccentric attire is the
subject of considerable gossip in Wash
ington. When he envelops his short,
chunky figure in thick fur overcoat.
with The fur outside, and pulls fur
cap over his ears. he is said to look like
an Esquimau. He varies this costume
occasionally by wearinga sombrero in
place Of the fur cap.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Onl1 Two Wara Fatal

Sympathetic Citizen is he fatally
wounded. do you think, oflicerP
Policeman Two av the wounds is
fatal, sor, but the third Is not an IL
we can lave him rest quiet for awhile,
/ think he would come round all right