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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17
County Column.

A new hotel at Capac.
Wheat was quoted at $l.10 in Port
Huron last week.
On account of "too much measles"
Marysville school has been closed.
Alex. X. Avery will take possession
of the Port Huron post Office May lst
The board of County Canvassers met
at the court house in Port Huron on
Tuesday.
Water has been unusually low in st.
Clair river recently owing to u bad ice
jam at Fort Gratiot.
Port Huron is looking forward to
Forepaugh's circus, which will exhibit
in that city June 10th.
Collector Geer wants some money
from the government to fix up the
Custom Aouse at Port Huron.
Capac is having building boom. A
large brick hotel is being erected be.
sides great number of new houses.
Ernest NJ. Pierce, of Hillsboro, n
Dakota, and Edith Inslee, of Port HUI
ron, were married last week at the
home of the brides parents.
Although the approaches to the tun.
mel are not yet completed, the first
train passed through it last Thursday
1t took six minutes to make the pass
age.
The custom house and post office al
Port Huron is to be thoroughly put in
repair. The United States Treasury
Department has appropriated enough
money for the purpose.
The poor of st. Clair county have
cost the county 81, ,237 sc for their sup.
port for the three months ending March
81. This is the largest amount for any
one quarter for the past three years.
A Mrs. Waddeigh, of Port Huron,
went to the residence of Rev. A. III.
Ross and told very sad story of want
and misery. She only wished SIPS.
This the reverend gentleman gave her.
She spent the sum attending the opera,
st. Clair river has for the fifth time
this year been blocked with ice from
Stag Island to Lake st. Clair. The
steamer Mary became stuck in the ice
in the middle of the river just below
st. Clair last Friday, where she remain
ed several days.
The gold medal awarded by Presi-
dent Harrison to Roderick MacDon-
aid, the Canadian, for saving the life
of a young lady last summer in the
st. Clair river, was presented to him
last Saturday in the Town Hall at
Sarnia by DR.. Pace, the American con-
sui.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17
Good Looks.

Good looks are more than skin deep de-
pending upon a healthy condition of
all the vital organs. If the Liver be in
active, you have Bilious Look, if your
stomach be disordered you have
Dyspeptic look and If your Kidneys be
affected you have Pinched Look. Sc
cure good health and you will have
good looks. Electric Bitters is the great
Alternative and Tonic. acts directly on
vital organs. Cures Pimples. Blotches,
Boils and gives a good complexion,
Sold at Grant Holden q Bros. drug
store. soc. per bottle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17

The president appointed the follow
ing committees:
Wages, means, claims and accounts;
-Grinnell, Morrill,, and Menerey.
Sewers, bridges, streets, sidewalks,
and public improvements:-Wallace
Welch and Cady.
Public buildings, public health and
public grounds;-Morrill, Welch and
Cady.
Fire Department, ordinances and
grievances:-Wallace, Grinnell and
Menerey.
Moved and supported that DR.. b.
Clyne be appointed health officer for
the ensuing year.-Carried.
Moved and supported that we re.
ceive bids for the printing of the
council proceedings of the village for
the ensuing year, also all necessary
notices, and financial report at end of
year, excepting the publication of or.
dinanses.-Carried.
On motion council adjourned.
Jos. EFFRICK, Clerk.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17
April l3, 1891,


Council met in special session, Jas.
Wallace, president pro tenn, trustees
present-Cady, Morrill,, Welch and
Grinnell.
Your committee to whom was re-
ferred the petition of Jas. Cooper and
others for crosswalk report and rec
ommend that it be not granted.
Your committee to whom was re-
ferred the petitions of Don. Macarthur
and others, of g. Cooper and others
and of G. Il. Holden and Others for
sidewalks, report and recommend that
same be ordered built.
Moved and supported that reports
of committees be adopted and side
walks are hereby ordered built.-Car-
ried.
The petition of Albert Jackson and
others for sidewalk on west side of
Division st. and south side of Second
st. was received, read and referred to
committee on sidewalks.
The account of J. +. Allen for 80 cts.
was allowed.
On motion council adjourned.
Jos. EFFRIcK, clerk.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17

April 7, 1891.
Council met in pursuance TO ad-
journment, President Holden in the
chair. Trustees present-Morrill, Wal
lace, Welch, Menerey, Cady, and
Grinnell.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.
The petition of Jas. Cooper and 30
others for cross-walk across Main st.
from corner Duffie block to Frank
Landro's corner was received, read and
referred to committee on streets.
Petition of Don Macarthur and Z
others for sidewalk along the east side
Kennific street was received, read and
referred to committee on streets.
Petition of C. Cooper and others
for sidewalk on south side of Mill st.
was received, read and referred to
committee on streets.
Petition of c. X. Holden and others
for sidewalk on west side of Jones st.
was received, read and referred to
committee on streets.
The remonstrance of Thomas Darcy
and 80 others demonstrating against
the abolishing, vacating or discontin-
uing Maple st. and Elm st. received
and read.
Moved and supported that the rem
onstrance referred to above be laid on
the table until next meeting of the
council.-Carried.
Moved and supported that the pres
ident be committee to procure advice
as to the legal rights of the village in
discontinuing said streets.-Carried.
The following claims and accounts
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17
COMMON COUNCIL.

VILLAGE OF YALE,
April 6, 1891.
Council met in regular session.
Present.. G.. Holden, President,
Messrs. JAS. Wallace, w. w. Grinnell, +,
J. A. Morrill,, trustees.
Adjourned to Tuesday evening,
April.
Jos. EFFRICK, Clerk.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17

FoR SALE-Three valuable building
lots in Reid & McNutt's addition also
two in Tappan & Laws addition. For
terms and further particulars call on j.
A. Menzies, ExPosIToR Office, Yale.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-17

Our Sugars and Coffees are
unexcelled. Good butter and
eggs wanted, for which the
highest price will be paid.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07

stock of all kinds, and is giving the angora
trial The three he has are in fine
condition.
Writing with reference to the angora
goat the editor of Field and Farm says its
raising for profit is business but little
tried in this country as yet The most
done in that way has been done by testers
or fanciers Practical stockmen do not ap-
pear to have turned their attention in that
direction, particularly in the great South
west where the angora would doubtless
be more at home than in any other portion
of North America. In the states east of the
Mississippi river. continues this writer,
angora goats are in great demand, and
always bring good price. Their fleece is
equal to the very finest of Cotswold sheep
Sheep wool, and brings higher price in the
market. In addition TO this, the animal
is much harder than the sheep, and can be
raised in this country as profiiably as any
where. The grades do not produce such fine
wool as the thoroughbred, Yet, a seven
Fights angora will yield more, and better
quality of wool, than the average sheep of
the land, while, at the same time, it will be
far more certain and not hiaf SO hard to
raise. One runs no risk whichever on the
angOra goat, for there is always a lively
demand for the wool
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
OUR MARKET GARDENING.

am truck farmer, as You well know.
but would like to change my business 10
local market gardening to sell my products
in neighbOring town or city. How is the
market gardening business at Fort Worth
Is there an opening at your city for an in
dustrious and pushing market gardener 10
make 4 living, or is the business entirely
OverdOne as one finds it at most other
places. 4. L. y.
Mobile county. Ala.
The soil here is fine for market garden
ing-it could be proftably applied az fer
tilizer on any of the lands of your region
could YOU get it without involving too much
cost in transportation. Our climate is
equally as favorable for market gardening
as is yours; indeed we might say more so.
for we have plenty of tree fruits this year
while you have none. As TO whether or
not there is an opening here for you prom
ising profits, we will leave you to be your
own judge afte, we have stated that our
vegetables come in as early as yours, and
that common turnips and mustard greens
are now sold by our green grocers and
street peddlers at 10 cents Il gallon loosely
dropped into the measure-s0 cents a
bushel, And don't infer from this that the
greens so offered are the first Of the season
they have appeared in more or less
abundance throughout the winter and the
selling price has been the same all along.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
ANOTHER GRASS.

A new grass has sprung up on nv sons
ranch in Callahan county, and send YOU Il
specimen of it for Identification 1t grows
very luxuriantly on ground where once
stood house with cultivated garden
Does not seem inclined to spread, but
rather appears to have sprung from seeds
scattered where it is now growing. | am
of the opinion that it was green through
out the winter saw it green in October
and then again in March. My son very
much wishes to learn the name of the
grass, and also whether or not it is a ma
tive; indeed he would be thankful for any
information with reference to it.
Abilene, Tex. Mrs. E: c. WAGNER.
The grass interesting your son is known
for common as meadow foxtail-its botani-
cal name is Alopecurus pratenss. Is not a
native of Texas, though it makes itself en-
tirely at home on Texas soil, where
chance locates it, and at once strikes out to
take care of itself. We have met with it
growing along roads and on waste lands at
various points in the state-it is getting to
be quite common about Fort Worth Looks
good deal like timothy grass, though the
head is much softer than that of timothy,
and not near so large. Is very good pas
ture grass while young, but seems to lose
all of its nutritive qualities so soon as seeds
are formed. Grows almost anywhere, but
seems to most delight in abandoned old
fields. While not cultivated as hay grass,
it often manages to secure footing in the
meadow, and to thus get into the hay bale.
Through this means its seeds are more or
less scattered over the country wherever
hay is shipped.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
WHAT KIND OF FISH.

l would be pleased to have you give me
some information with reference to fish.
What kind do YOU regard as best for stock
ing large tank, and where could 1 get the
kinds YOU would recommend? What bureau
of the United States government holds con-
troll of the fish government business?
Midland, Tex c. NJ BRECKoN.
If you simply desire to raise fish in YOUR
'tank, " and are not overly fastidious so far
as relates 10 the eating qualities of your
product, German carp would probably fill
your bill better than any other species.
You can raise the carp, no doubt about that.
and they will impart decidedly fishy smell
to the frying pan, but-well some folks
don't much banker after German carp as a
food. At the proper season You might get
start of carp from the United States fish
commission; anyways you could get full
particulars by addressing letter to United
States fish commission, Washington, D. C.
II You would rather have better fish
than the carp we would recommend stock
ing your tank with mud catn from the
nearest creek or pond. They will usually
do very well in tank though they will
not grow and increase so rapidly as German
carp. 1t would not do to mix cats and carp
fish commission carp would be food too
expensive to employ as regular diet for
catfish
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
HENRY CLAY A MILL BOY.

Who can say what that boy over in the
field welding heavy hoe and wiping his
brow on the sleeve of his shirt may not
eventually be? Why look down on the
farmer merely because he is a farmers
Have not some of our greatest men been
farm boys just like that boy over there?
Did not the eloquent Henry Clay ride the
white mare of his widowed mother to the
corn mill in Ashland, Virginia, the grist be-
tween him and the saddle. long before he
became the greatest of leaders among men
We take the above from long -winded
letter sent US for publication, but smacking
so strongly of some kind of unknown poll
tics that we can spare space for no more of
it. And we find ourself prone to take issue
against even this short extract We don't
think Henry Clay ever rode his mothers
white mare to the corn mill as suggested
We ourself were around in times pretty
well back towards the time pointed out.
and we are now satisfied from personal ex-
perience that the Virginia farm boy never
rode to the corn mill with saddle between
the grist and the white mare. A bit of old
quilt or a sheep skin may have been there
to keep hairs out of the meal but no saddle
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
REAUrIFUL FLOWER

| was delighted with your article in THR
GAZETTE OF last Sunday entitled THE Land
of Flowers" 1t was true to the letter.
Texas is certainly a land OF flowers. Not
long ago | moved to Texas from the great
prairie regions of the North. We thought
we had all the wild flowers of the world IN
there, but oh, me! In the way Of numerous
and beautiful wild flowers those Northern
prairies bear no kind of comparison to the
prairies of Texas
But enough of this. / enclose YOU large
and beautiful white flower that has, all of
its own accord, made its appearance in nv
yard, forming quite bed. You will see
that it measures more than two inches in
diameter end that while clear white gen.
orally, its center is shaded to soft green
ish yellow tint. The leaves of the plant
are much divided up, reminding one some
what of leaves on the otto of rose geranium.
Can you name it for mel No one here
seems to have even common name for it.
Fort Worth, Tex. LADY,
1t is primrose peculiar to Texas and
Alabama, no botanist having as yet men
toned finding it in any other region.
Enothera speciosa is its botanical name.
Some OF the florists are now cultivaing it
and finding it responding grandly to cul-
ture. There are two varieties of it grow
ing wild here-the white variety you have
kindly sent Us and another just like it in all
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07

atop by pulling the whole world down to
any lower level than he himself may be oc-
cupying.
OF course we are not arguing in favor of
all cotton or all anything else, but simply in
favor of an attainment to methods OF
cheaper production and consequently
profitable production, to be followed b
greater production. As shown by what
many are already doing there is no kind of
good reason for why such an attainment
might not become general, and until it does
become general agriculture can never be
made the paying business, viewed as q
whole, that our natural advantages open the
way for it to be. Cheaper production
should be our leading study as farmers
both individually and collectively. There
is no particular line of study in this direc-
ton 10 be mapped out. The necessary
philosophers stone" must be found, o.,
in a strict attention 10 details; (2), in the
adoption of every available advantage pre-
senting itself, and go in the proper after
management of certain products when they
have been produced. The people of the
great corn states North do not worry them
selves about overprOductiOn, and yet. is we
last week showed in 4 statement made by
the Indiana Farmer, the average clear
profits on an acre of corn up there is only )
cents-not on the bushel, but on the entire
acre. For all this the farmers of those
regions appear to be prospering-it is not an
unusual thing for people of the South to
point 10 their prosperity lis some
thing entirely ahead of the prosperity
enjoyed by farmers of our own section.
How is that on all corn, so TO speak, and
only cents 10 the acre profit: The ex-
PLANTATION is easy. Those farmers produce
all III, corn they can, but their work for
the season does not stop so soon as the corn
Is safely in the crib. Did the work stop
here, as it does with with not few of our
Southern farmers, there would be just
cause for setting up hue and cry about
overprOductiOn. On the other hand. the
work of the Northern farmer goes on until
his corn is converted into pork or something
else calculated TO bring him a living profit.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
RAD SEEDS COMPLAINED OF.

How is one to know good from bad gar
den seeds | am satisfied that people ar
being badly cheated through the sale I,
them of wholly unreliable seeds, and it i
certainly serious matter, especially in
region of country where the gardenin.
season is short and failure or two TO ge
q stand of what one plants throws him GU
of the best season. This spring | hav,
three times planted snap beans in my
kitchen garden, and not one seed has
terminated. II has been the same witt
several other vegetables planted by me.
know the fault was not mine. for | am az
old hand al making n kitchen garden, anC
therefore had my land in tirst-class order
Every condition was favorable for the seeds
TO come. Not 4 few of my ueighbors are
complaining Of the same trouble. while
others have goods stands. though they en-
ployed precisely the same methods Us EN-
ployed by US. They used 4 different brand
of seeds. Is there no remedy. TRINITY.
Tarrant County, Tex.
No remedy that We know OF, once YOU
have purchased the seeds. Your only rem.
edy lies in preventive, and that preventive
can only be found TO certainty in
purchasing the seeds Of some well known
and reliable house whose date OF putting up
the seeds is plainly printed on the label OF
each package. When You buy seeds carry
ing no printed date,-Nou have no means
of knowing how old tine seeds are, and ii
is usually the too great age of seeds that
renders them worthless. \ reliable house
with valuable reputation Is stake will
never misdate seed packages. There ought
to be some way of holding dealers account
able for selling bad seeds, but there is
none, owing to the fact that you could not
convince n court that the fault was not
your own, or due TO conditions with which
the scotsman had nothing TO DO.
Those dated seeds from houses of na-
tional reputation may not be so profitable
TO the local dealer as are some other kinds.
hence the local dealer may not be keeping
them, but even in that case you may find
Your remedy in sending direct to head
quarters and getting your supply through
the mails. When the local dealer comes to
that his patrons will take none
save seeds known to be reliable he will let
up on his commission seeds" and offer Won
of Il safer character
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
THE ANGoEA GOaTINTEx.s

1t is now well established fact that the
angora goat may be made grand success
in the Lone Star state. We have reports
OF fair tests that have been made in our
various sections, all of which have shown
up to the highest satisfaction. A Late issue
of the Henrietta Independent says the editor
has just received from Mr.. w. S. lizard,
living in that region, lock of wool from an
angora goat of which species there are
three running in his pasture. The lock is
Of very fine texture and measures almost
twelve inches in length. AS is we'll known,
MIR. lizard Is an extensive raiser Of blooded
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07

respects save color-the flower is red, or as
florists say, ruseate.
Botanists have classed this beautiful
plant with the evening primroses, but we
look upon this as to some extent mistake
owing to the fact that it is not an evening
bloomer. The flower opens at night and re-
mains open throughout the next day-often
through two days. OF course it is prim-
rose, but not an evening" primrose.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted 10 answering
such questions rs may be asked by our sub
Scribers, which may be OF general information.
Inquiries OF personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postoi1lce
address in addition to any such signature as
subscriber" or "A. q. ID. not for publication,
il against the Will OF the writer, but 10 admit of
direct communication should such "a thing he
deemed necessary. Address Us directed At head
of This maze
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.
BILLIARDS. IN FLORIDA AND
TEXAS.
Why the Sea is Salt-The Maidstone De-
lusion-Our Beautiful Butterflies.
What is Water?-A World of
Rust Drinkers-Nature's
Great Packhouse.

Salt cannot be taken up by evaporation,
which accounts for why the sea is salty. A
prominent ingredient of all lands is salt
Chloride Of sodium, and waters running
over the lands take this salt into solution,
carrying it to the sea. The atmosphere
takes up those waters by evaporation,
carrying them back to be again thrown
upon the land in rains, but since the salts
cannot be taken up they are left behind.
As consequence there is constant NOV
ing of salt from the land TO the sea. while
not one particle of it is ever returned.
We find the same thing holding good in
case of our inland salt lakes. Lakes into
which surface waters flow, but which have
no outlet save by evaporation, invariably
become salt lakes.
The Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower
holds out the idea that Billiards hurt yege-
tation more in Florida than in the states
and localities further north, owing to the
more sappy condition of the Florida
growths. The Gulf of Mexico and the At
lantic ocean offer no protection in the case
of Billiards. The trouble in nutshell is
that the sub-tropical weather of that region
gets dash Of sub-arctic weather dumped
right into the middle Of il. The silly os-
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07

trich, when pursued, thru7ts lis Lrad ina
the sand and thinks itself safe, saws ta1
writer, but it is not hidden al Tie sane
Just so when the blizzard turns It's a,.ea.
ton to F'lorida-the people hide away {,
their sub-tropical temperature, bu. !, ism
go, for the blizzard finds them and make.
them its own. This has always been OH
own notion with reference 10 the natter
the blizzard hurts Northern Texas far jas.
than it hurts Florida. Our climate is u-c
enough for everything save sub-tropit4
growths. We can get along without ,Ar,a
well enough. We're such a thing poss.Ja
we would certainly be badly beaten 10 4
swap Of climates with Florida
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07

Woody fiber ...................... IS OF
Ash Observation-Disclosures. 594
y comparison will show that our fescue
is entirely superior to the famous Ken
lucky blue grass, as it contains a much
higher per cent of albuminoids or flesh
forming principles. also higher per cent
of fat forming principles-the two most i'm
hay
To get at the values of pasture grass it
would be necessary to analyze the grass in
the green state. This Professor WAY has
6one footiDe, W., 70, Fa,c,,s ,,,es nc fo,Io,,--