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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

cannon, ammunition and supplies. II
was frequently very difficult TO procure
proper food for them, and as it was
often necessary to traverse great dis
tances TO reach the watering places,
the death OF the five animals is ascrib-
ell to these hardships. Although ele-
plants move slowly through mount
ainous country and soon become foot
sore. they performed their task with
admirable faithfulness. Without them
1t would have been necessary to await
the building of wagon roads.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
WAITING TILL MEN DIE.
Llro History OF Prominent People Al
ways Kept In Readiness.

Lilo History OF Prominent People AL
ways Kept In Readiness.
Newspaper obituaries are not always
written on the spur of the moment. In
fact, the reverse, as q rule, is the
case, and the lives of great men or
other persopages are written by the
hand OF the journalistic biographer
long before death knocks at the door.
In every important newspaper Office
in tho United States is a department
devoted to the preparation and preser-
vation OF the biographers of promi-
nent people and where they ara
available for immediate use, and
where memoirs, shorter or longer &C
cording to the public Importance OF
the subject, are regularly classified
and "pigeon-holed," ready for use
when the fatal moment arrives. From
time to time these records are added to
and brought up to date for the purpose
OF avoiding confusion or delay in case
that the biography is to be made use OF
at brief notice. To n large part OF
the public this information will be in
VIC AoOuAO Vi HO"o ouu Will ScTNo W
explain to their wondering minds how
two or three column obituary OF
some public man appears in the daily
papers in conjunction with the an
nouncement of his sudden death.
1t is q curious fact that the practice
OF writing obituaries OF great men
seems almost invariably to have the
effect OF keeping them alive. At any
rate they rarely die verv soon after
their biographies are written, and
very frequently many years elapse be-
fore their death gives an opportunity
for their posthumous praises 70 be
sounded.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
IN AFRICA.
Experience OF n Young scanaInaviln in
tho Wilds-

II a young man is really bound to go
to Africa, he can find an opportunity
one way or another, and if he doesn't
mind roughing it in savage land and
an unhealthy climate, he has plenty OF
experiences and adventures that are
sometimes exciting if not always agree
able and does not regret his visit to
the new world. Mr.. Carl Stecklemann
Scandinavian who lived in Indiana,
is an example of this sort of young
man. He went TO Africa poor boy
when he was hardly out OF his teens.
He was determined TO go and see some
thing OF the land which Stanley and
others had so eloquently described.
Casting about for an opportunity. he
finally succeeded in securing employ
ment at the station OF Liverpool firm
in the West African trade, and short
time after, found him at Mayumba,
some way above the mouth OF the Con-
go. Here he lived for about three
years, during which time he learned
the Fiote language, studied the natives
carefully and collected great deal OF
information about their habits, and
folklore, made an overland expedition
through the little known valley Of the
Kwilu-Niari to Stanley pool. and finally
returned TO this country with one OF
the largest collections of African cur
iosities that has ever been brought
here. His fine examples of native
carvings, cloth and many other manu-
features have been seen by many thoss-
ands of our people, particularly in In
diana and Ohio. Steckelmann had no
intention of remaining here very long.
Nearly two years ago he returned TO
the west coast again. and is now at the
head OF the large trading station where
he was originally employed as a clerk.
When he was passing through New
York two years ago on his way back to
Africa, he said he loved that country
very much, and that it was the ambi-
ton of his life as soon as he had accu-
mulated money enough, to do some
thing in the way OF original eXplora.
tioR.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
A New Looped Fabric.

A foreign textile journal records the
invention of new kind OF looped
fabric, which has novel and beautiful
effect with durability never before at
tanned. The popularity about it is
that worsted is used for the thread
forming the figure of the design, and
alpaca or mohair for the threads form
ing the ground OF the design. The
contrast between the lustrous and
beautiful threads OF the mohair and the
worsted gives, 1t is said, an effect that
IL strikingly novel.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
A disappointment.

''Be you DR.. Smithp" asked a tail,
lean specimen. walking into the Office
of the fashionable practitioner in New
York.
81 am" replied the doctor.
well, look-a-here, old feller," re-
marked the visitor, I'm glad ter find
ye at last Dye remember in '68,
when you was in Kansas, how yer set a
feller's arm and didn't charge him for
ftp"
Yes" said the doctor, with the
prospect Of big fee rising before him.
I'm that Teller; an I've broke the
other arm. an come ter have it fixed
on Their same terms.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
They Are All had.

The man who plays the clarionet,
The man who blows the horn,
The man who makes the flute his pet
And wakes you up at morn,
The man who plays the tenor drum
May put the soul on thistles,
But the one who oftenest makes you glur
lis the blooming wretch who whistles.
Washington Post.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

The only woman In America who is an
operatic conductor is Miss Emma Steiner.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing syrup, for Chill
dren teothing, softens tho gus reduces in1amma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind ooliA go bottle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

"Hnnson's Magic Corn Saive."
Warranted to cure, or money refunded. Ask
your druggist for IL. Prco'l5 cents.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
August
Flower

I have been afIlict-
Biliousness. "ed with biliousness
and constipation
SonStiPatoh'" for fifteen years |;
c.oro,o. first one and then
another prepare
Pains. ton was suggested
tome and tried but
"to no purpose. At last a friend
recommended August Flower. l
"took it according to directions and
sits effects were wonderful, reliev-
"ing me of those disagreeable
stomach pains which I had been
troubled with so long. Wores
cannot describe the admiration
Gin which 1 hold your August
Flower-it has given me new
"lease of life, which before was a
burden. Such a medicine is ben
"efaction to humanity, and its good
qualities and
wonderful mer- jesse Barker,
Its S h ould be z
made known to 'nter'
everyone suffer Humboldt,
ling with dyspep-
"sia or biliousness Kansas. g
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man fr, WOodbury,NJ
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

"a Savior OF her SEX" Is n title bestowed
upon Lydia f.. rinkham by the women OF
the world, millions of whom arc indebted
% her for health
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

General Booth has invited boom for the
Salvation Army in Berlin by endorsing the
use of beer as q beverage, FUSED as tho Ger
mans use It,"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

George w. Childs OF Philadelphia has sub
scrlbed 5000 TO the Mary Washington fund.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
HOW TO EARN $500 MONTHLY

Write for particulars to the STAR
ToNTINE ASSOCIATION, pays to its men,
bers 500 in 2 months. 1000 members
in Philadelphia first month. Our pay to
Secretaries is extremely liberal. Write
STAR TONTINE ASSOCIATION,
1921 WALHur STREET, PHILADELPHIA. PA.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

"a uMc AND FARMING LANDS in Central Michigan
THnMo Rich soil fine climate, good roads excellent
schools, churches Railroads and markets near. have
100 and 10 900 farming lands FOR
sale Prices low Terms easy All in the center and rich
county in the State Send for price list pamphlet
g. ". HOPKINS Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Mich
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01
q "a FAT FOLKS BEDuGED

lAE A kITTm Organizers by an assessment
W "a M a HhR Order paying tl60 in six
w nav m ~ months at estimated cost
$A. Reputable men can gcure liberal compen-
sation. Address M. MCINTYRE, Supreme
Manager, I ,O2S Arch ST, Philadelphia.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

When writing Co Advertisers please ser
vcu sav the adv srtiscrn ont In this Paper.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

A question of forgery had arisen in the
Assistant Treasury in New York. The
Auditor, who signed checks for the pay
ment of money, pronounced two checks
returned to him as paid, amounting to
nearly $4,000, to be forgeries. The
responsibility for the money lay between
Mr.. Cisco and the Auditor If the checks
were genuine, the Auditor-if they were
forged, Mr.. Cisco must bear the loss.
Mr. Cisco claimed to know that the
checks bore the genuine signature of the
Auditor He so testified in an examiua-
ton which took place before COM
mission of the United States. He de
clined to admit a possibility that ne
could be mistaken. His experience, he
said, enabled him to identify a genuine
or to detect forged signature with IN
erring certainty. No one could initiate
his signature so as to cause him to hest
tate. He was as certain that the disputed
signatures were genuine as though he
had seen them written.
Friends of the Auditor who were CON
fident of his integrity, finding that the
mind of Mr. Cisco was closed to all the
Prescriptions arising from the long SER
vice and the unblemisheu character of
the accused, availed themselves of the
assistance Of experts and of photography.
An expert wrote an imitation of the As
sistant Treasurer name, ~ Il
fetal testified was his ownc
ture. He was as certain Of
of the genuineness of
checks. The evidence of
wrote the imitation, and
photograph of the sign
checks, made their traced,
and spurious character so apparent that
the Auditor was at once discharged, not
withstanding the positive evidence of his
chief. The result so intensely mortified
him that he promptly resigned his Office
of Assistant Treasurer, declaring that
nothing should induce him to withdraw
his resignation. -Harper's Magazine.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
TIE NEW s1opEp SKIRT.

New skirts, with most Of their fulness
taken out by sloped seam in the middle
Of the back, arc cut off il three horizon
tai pieces to break the monotonv of
straight breadths, a fashion very becom-
ing to tall, slender figures. The foun-
dation skirt of silk has two straight
breadths joined by a seam down the
middle of the front, fitted over the hips
by darts in each breadth and meeting at
the back of the waist. The space at the
top beyond the fastening is sloped dag
Onally to meet two shorter breadths that
are similarly sloped, and parts of two
three corne cred breadths, also sloped in
the middle, are set in at the foot to give
fulness to the bottom of the skirt. The
outside material is usually of cloth of
double width, and has therefore fewer
lengthwise seams than the foundation
skirt. It is cut in three crosswise pieces
passing straight around the figure, each
tapping slightly upon that below it, and
and each a third of the length of the
skirt in depth when finished with a
stitched hem. These pieces also have
the sloped seam in the back, and are
sewed on the foundation skirt without
fulness. Such skirts are most worn with
round waists that are slipped under the
skirt, hence the top of the skirt is
trimmed with passementerie to give a
pretty finish to the bodice. At the foot
of the skirt is usually band of fur or
feathers and passementerie.-Ha1per's
BazIr.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
What the Baby Can Do.

1t can wear out a 81 pair of kid shoes
in twenty four hours.
1t can keep its father busy advertising
in the newspapers for nurse.
1t can occupy both sides of the largest
sized bed manufactured simultaneously.
1t can cause its father to be insulted
by every second-class clearinghouse
keeper in the city who "never takes
children, " which, in nine cases out of
ten, is very fortunate for the children.
1t can make itself look like a fiend Just
when mamma wants to show what a
pretty baby she has.
1t can make an old bachelor in the
room adjoining use language that, if
uttered on the street, would get him into
the penetentiary for two years.
1t can 90 from the furthest end of the
room to the foot of the stairs in the hall
adjoining quicker than its mother can
Just step into the closet and out again.
1t can go to sleep like little angel,
and Just as mamma and papa are starting
for the theatre it can wake up and stay
awake till the last act.
These are some of the things a baby
can do. But there are other things as
we'll A baby can make the commUnest
house the brightest spot on earth.
1t can tighten the burdens of a loving
mothers life by adding to them 1t can
fatten its dirty little face against the
window pain in such way that the tired
father can see it as a picture before he
rounds the corner. Yes, babies are
great institutions, particularly ones own
baby.-B0stoa Gazette.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
Why China is the FIowery Kingdom

ave speak of your country as 'the
Flowery Kingdom, a reporter of the
Sun said to an officer of one of the Six
Companies in San Francisco last autumn.
''Do We get that name from YOU'D Is
that what you call Chinai"
"Yep," said the dignitary, "we callee
him Flowery Kingdom alice same you
callee him. But you Mellicans mean to
call our Sina that name like you speakee
about some flowers glowing one summer
in mans garden. We Sinamen callee
Flowelly Kingdom same like evely man
is flowel. Our great Sina teachers hab
tole us that Sina is alice samee like gar
den, and evelly man and woman is alice
samee like Towels. That mean We got
on'y littee time to live. We come up
like littee leaf from littee seed. We
grow high one summer. We makee
pletty fioweI, then we done and fall down
and another fowel come up in our place.
That what Sinaman mean bout Flowelly
Kingdom. Sinaman hab velly old teacher,
and him say we makee lib likee fiowel-
so we must not steal or fight or kill othel
mans; must live alice se.nee like fiowels
in Flowelly Kingdom. "-Nsp lors Spn.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

Yelveteens are now selling better than
they have for years.
Velvet sleeves in silk or wool gowns
are still very fashionable.
Every manufacturer and importer seems
to have crepes and grenadines.
Gold IS in favor. There is a rage for
gold lace, gold braid, gold passementerie
and gold ribbons.
There has been 4 noticeable falling of
in the wearing of CATERS, and now they
arc worn 10 longer as a fad, but for COM
fort.
Brocades, silks and pompadour damas-
ses will be the materials for dinner
.1ssses this s1s.s,rrr, <ud l.=s v7slI - allo:-
chief ornamentation.
Very becoming picture hats, worn at
the concerts, are made of black velvet,
pipad with Mermet rose-pink, with pink
ostrich tips and pink pearl passementerie
ornaments.
To combine with the new plain or
striped velvets are exquisitely fine India
wool fabrics, 70 al cords and armures in
lovely fruit tones and in rich blue-green
and russell shades.
Neck raches have been abandoned to
the vulgar million, and their place IS
filed among the select and favored few
by collars of gold gimp and chenille
knotted together with bright ribbons.
Very charming toilets for bridesmaids
are of soft repped Sicilienne silk in Eng
hsh rose, lime, leaf-green, and pale hon
eysuckle yellow, draped with silk gauze
Of the same shade, dotted with bead
work, or brocaded with small flowers in
shadowy tintings.
Yokes aud pulled sleeves of gold en- I
broidered on velvet are being prepared
in many rich colors for elegant house
toilets for spring wear. Some of the
gold-wrought plastrons used on imported
art toilets recall the decorated ''stom-
acher" worn by Flemish women of past
centuries.
Pearl garnitures in form of the half
round blade of a Turkish sword are
used. They have pearl border, an inside
dull net, sharp top, broad bottom
and have pearl grelots. Three of these
are used together as breast trimmings,
the outside one of which is larger than
the other iwo.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
Curious Food.

The lion Is eaten by some African
races, but It's flesh IS held in small esteem
The Zulus find carrion so much to theii
liking. that, according to the late Bishop
Colenso, they apply to food peopled By
large colonies of larve, the expressive
word "ab0rni, signifying in their IN.
couth jargon .'great happiness" David
Livingstone, that keen and accurate OBJ
server. reminds US that the aboriginal
Australians and Hottentots prefer The
intestines of animals. 1T is curious,
he SAYS, "that this is the part which
animals always begin with, and it is the
first choice of our men," On this point
l may remind the civilized reader that
the woodcocb and the red mullet, or SEES
woodcocl1, are both eaten and relished
without undergoing all the cleansing
processes which most animals used for
food among US generally experience to
fit them for the table, so that our aver
sion to the entrails of animals is moi
absolute, but only one of degree. The
hippOpotamus is favonte dish with some
Africans when they can get this unwieldy
and formidable river monster, auq wheu
young its flesh is good and palatable,
but with advancing years it becomes
coarse and unpleasant. The Abyssinians,
the amiable people to whom, according
to the Italian Prime Minister, his coun-
trymen proposed to teach wisdom and
humanity, fnd the rhinoceros to their
taste; so they do the elephant, which ii
also eaten in JarnatTa- -DVeee@ Lifvi.-s5-.
stone describes the elephants foot as de-
licious, and his praises will be issued by
many travellers in lands where that sa-
gacious monster still fingers in rapidly
decreasing numbers. awe had the foot,
wrote the doctor, cooked for breakfast
next morning and found it delicious. Il
is a whisish mass, slightly gelatinoua
and sweet like marrow. A long march
20 prevent biliousness Is a precaution
after a meal of elephants foot. Ele-
plants tongue aud trunk are also good,
and after long simmering much resemble
the hump of a buffalo and the tongue of
an OK, but all the other meat is tough,
and from its peculiar flavor only to be
eaten by 4 hungry man. '-AHuals Of
HUgisHe.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SIDEWALK.
II you have been going up Broadway
AM down Sixth avenue these days with
your eyes open to what is to be seen in
the shops and the shop windows, as be-
fits q wise. woman at this season of th 6
year, you have no doubt made some OBJ
seryations 1Spncerning Sthe fashions for
r1eIe5ining HS4-e=--4zhd thesa nhsarya-
tons, if you see Alright, will probably in
clude some of these things:
That the new fabrics are nothing il
not pronounced.
That the light fabrics run to flowers.
That the heavy fabrics run to plaids.
That the challies and wool muslins are
Ifettier than ever.
The velvet ribbons and ribbons are to
be used for trimming in every possible
way.
Tint black batistes with all over silk
embroidery in colors and deep rich Dor
ders are to be much worn.
That batistes of all colors, richly en-
broidered, arc seen everywhere.
That early spring cloths are still mod
erately rough.
That gowns arc to be slightly fuller
and more draped than heretofore.
That close fat trimmings are still pre-
ferred. -
That summer hats will be veritable
flower gardens.
That the newest gloves have one but
ton and gauntlets of moderate depth
heavily embroidered.
That handkerchiefs-they are pocket
handkerchiefs no longer-are more or
nate than ever.
That it takes long purse to buy most
of these things.-NeD York Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

"Why did you assault this MANI was
asked of prisoner in the Police Court
the other morning.
"He hurt my feelings, Judge"
Sin what respect2"
"Well, had pawned my overcoat,
socks and undershirt to get money to
get out of town, and he came up and
charged me with picking his pocket of
$40, 900 in clear, cold cash."
"Weil?"
"Think of it, Judge! stood there,
hungry and shivering, and he demanded
his $40, 900 back Ten thousand dol
larsl Why, the most ever had at any
one time was S17l I suppose hit him,
but how could 1 help it, Ten thousand
dollarsi Wanted me to - down isata-
my pocket and pull up $4,000 in green
backs. Great Scot but l haven't got
over the feeling yeti"
Sentence suspended.-Detroit Free
Dress
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

Clubs composed of foreigners exist IN
all the big cities of the world, lsasus the
Chicago Herald. They are nearly all
prosperous, except in the city of New
York English clubs which have been
founded thereffom time to time have
failed, anu tne Canadian Club found it
necessary to throw OF its restrictions on
membership and admit other persons than
Canadians before It became successful.
The French societies in New York have
very liberal percentage OF American
members, and the German clubs are all
rapidly becoming American institutions
In London there are two clubs which are
exclusively American in membership and
management, and there are good English
clubs in Berlin and Vienna.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
Sense of Smell in Star Fishes

Mr.. Pronho has made number Of ex-
periments with one of the star fishes.
Some Of these have shown him that when
the animal is excited by desire for
food, the sensations which it obeys are
perceived by the extremity of the arms;
but others show that it is the sense of
smell and not of sight that guides it to
food. The tentacles near the eye-like
spot, which are useless for Iocomotion,
were removed from star fish, which, for
month or more afterward, never showed
the least excitement in the presence OF
either living or dead food; the retention
of the ocular spot makes no difference.
1t is clear, then, that the sense of smell
is not ditfused in star fishes, but is local
lied in the ambulacral tubes, which are
unsuitable for locomotion, and are situated
behind the eye spOt.-seiea,ife Amsri-
can,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
London's Rich Guilds.

The capital value of the London City
Guilds properly is estimated at fifteen
millions-not counting the value of their
mag 4 iGeent hale and lo-dly plato l,ss
yearly income is, in round numL- .
about So, 500, 900, and this enormo-S@
revenue is more or less secretly admins
tered By the 1900 gentlemen who, on
what aie called the "Courts of Assist
ants, +" represents the seventy-four Civ
cry Companies" One portion of the in
come goes in charities ard lectnreships
of more or less useful character; an
other, and a very large share, is spent
upon really good and great objects, such
as technical classes; a third, an enor-
mously large one, is spent upon manage
ment," 'fees" and entertainment. -
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15

4 nat UUIrUr
these years}"
Laura"
mo, no; let me tell the truth oncel
And then let me gol Flowed you-al-
ways-always-eYen when l sent you
aNayl If I seemed to firt and draw
men on, it was to cheat the pain here p
She struck her breast. "And now you
must let me go! You must let me go!
Hughl"
She was tight locked in his arms.
When she raised her face again she
looked as she had done eight years be-
fore when they had first loved each other.
And Hugh bent and kissed her lips
Ne,o York Mercury.