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SPRING FEVER

At this time of the year
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In cases of collie in stock Simmons Liver
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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
AGED INDIANA
Remarkable Longevity of the Natives OF
Southern California.


Tho early inhabitants of southern
California, according 10 the statement
OF Mr.. ii ii. Bancroft and ether re-
ports, were found 10 be- living In Spar
tan conditions rs to temperance and
training. and in highly moral condi-
ton, in consequence of which they
had uncommon physical endurance
aud contempt for luxury. This train
ing in abstinence aud hardship. with
temperance in diet, combined with tho
climate 10 produce the astonishing
longevity to be found here. Contrary
to the customs of most other tribes of
indians. their aged were the care Of
the community.
DR.. w. A. Winder. Of San Diego is
quoted M saying that in "A visitto Ell
Cajcn Valley some thirty years ago he
was taken 10 II house in which the aged
persons were cared for. There were
half dozen who had reached an ex-
treme age. Some were unable TO
move. their bony frame being SEEM
ingly ancly losed. They were old.
wrinkled. aud blear-eyed; their skin
was hanging in leathery folds about
their withercd limbs; some had hair as
white as snow, and had seen some
seven score of years; others. still able
10 crawl. but so aged rs To be unable
TO stand. went slowly about on their
hands and knees. their limbs being at
tenuatsd and withercd. The organs
al special sense had in many nearly
lost all nctivitv some generations
hack. Some had lost the use of their
limbs for more than decade or n gem
GRAFTON; but tho organs Of life aud the
great sympathetic" still kept M their
automatic functions. not recognizing
the fact, and surprisingly indifferent 10
it, that the rest of the body had ceased
to be OF any use generation or more
in the past.
DR.. Palmer has photograph (Which
have seea) Of a squaw whom he esti-
mates to be one hundred and twenty
six years old. When he visited her he
saw her put six watermelons in a
blanket, tie it up. and carry it on her
back for two miles. Ho Is familiar
with Indian customs and history. and
a careful croSs-eXamination convinced
him that her information of old Gus
toms was not obtained by tradition.
she was cOnversant with tribal habits
she had seen practised. such as the
cremation of the dead. which the mis-
sion fathers had compelled the Indians
10 relinquish. She had seen the Ind
ians punished by the fathers with fog
sings for persisting in the practice OF
cremation.
At the mission OF San Tomas, in
Lower California. Is still living an
Indian Ga photograph of whom DR..
Remondino shows), bent and wrin-
killed.. whose age is computed at one
hundred and forty wears. Although
Blind and naked. he is still active, aud
daily goes down the beach and along
the beds of the creeks in search of
drft-wo0d, making it his daily task to
gather and carry to camp fagot of
wood. Charles Dudley WarDer,iH Har-
per'S MG9azinc.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
Dance OF The Devil.

A fantastic orgy was witnessed nj the
town of Loongi, the capital of Bullion,
west coast Of Africa, by party OF
officers from the West India regiment
quartered at Sierra Leone. The peo-
pie of Loongi are Mohammedaus but
the dancing devil himself is a relic of
not long departed paganism. and so
also probably is the dance itself. II
takes place in the courtyard of the
chiefs premises. which is entered
thraugh n circular hut. The scene
which presents itself to any one com
ing suddenly out of the darkness into
the noise aud glare is decidedly uncan-
ny.
In the center Of a circle which fills
the courtyard the devil. with an
orthodox TAIL great crocodile's head,
and long grass. looking like hair, de-
pending from his body and legs. and
swaying as he moves, leaps beating
time with his feet to the beat OF the
drums, while the women. two deep,
wall chant and strike their palms to-
gether in slow. rhythmical measure.
those in the front row bowling down be-
tween each beat.
The young men, in long robes and
caps wall with the women. Both are
under vows the dance being one of
their rites. They look dazed to begin
with, but gradually work themselves
into frenzy, aud the black faces. tho
monotonous waiting cry. the thrum-
ming of she drums tine rattle of the
cackers and tho beat of the devils
feet rs lie springs up, crouches down
and swings about. make scene to
shock the quiet moon and stars and
gladden. Gehenna.
North of Sierra Leone. Africa, is
Mohammedau. South Pagan Ind the
Southern people have this devil. When
peace is declared between two native
tribes the peace devil. who is fetish.
comes leaping into the town. hut If he
stumbles or falls it Is considered bad
omen aud he is put TO death for his
pains. His dress Is sacred. but his
person is of no consequence.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
AFRICAN eAReARlTY.
They XIII Men Just for the Fun or II
SumetIm ..

81 had the pleasure of witnessing n
negro execution once" said y. j.
Glave Mt the Sherman House recently.
Mr.. Glave has just returned from
Alaska. where he has been exploring
the interior. but for the six years prior
TO that he was in the Congo country
with Stanley. Il had the pleasure of
seeing this execution and of knowing
that wasn't strong enough To stop it.
was allowed to witness it only ON the
condition that aud my companion
should lie unnrmed But for that l
should nave shot the chief and the exc
culoner. Afterwards | did have
forces enough to prevent il. and for
two years there weren't any wanton
killings. The missionaries have the
place now aud the slaughter is going
merrily on. Soft words won't stop IL.
1t takes something more than that to
put the fear 0f God into those blacks.
But am drifting away from my story.
Some old women of influence bad died
and accordingly. 10 celebrate the or-
casion. n slave had to be sacrificed.
He was dashed fast in kind of a seat
and plant stem about fifteen feet
long stuck into the ground near him.
The top of it was bent over and tied
fast to his head. so that his neck was
as taut as iiddle-string. That WAS
the first time | had seen them use enc
OF their soft iron knives. and expect
ed to see the poor fellows neck hng-
gled into rags. hut heard only a click
when it struck the bones Of the spinal
column, and tho mans head shot away
like pebble in a sling. A fountain Of
blood spnrted from his neck. and the
body worked and twitched exactly as u
Quicken does when its head is cut off.
The head when picked up was chatter
ing it's jaws and rolling its eyes.
ITS awful, tho amount of killing
that goes on in Africa. A tribe will
make up party md go out to make
captives in an adjoining village. They
wait until after night and then are up
on the village until its defenders are
killed. They take the rest OF the folk
and make SAVES of them. Some are
killed for the mere fun of killing them.
some are slaughtered TO be eaten. some
for sacrifice, and others die from cruel
treatment. About five out Of every six
captives taken die Ivy violence. AS a
consequence Interior Africa is being
rapidly depopulated. One may 60 for
hundreds of miles and mol see q man.
but may note the charred siumps which
mark where villages have once BEEN"
--ChicaQo Tribune.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
Mrs. Stanley TO American Eyes.

The ladies arc gossiping about Mrs.
Henry Nj. Stanley and her mother. Mrs.
Tennant. in n way that must make their
cars Jingle. So much was said about
the beauty of the younger lady ut the
time Of her eng cement to the great
explorer. and American ideas of beauty
are so different from those which pre-
vail in England. that disappointment
Is expressed on finding Mrs. Stanley
what heard her described by Muir
rny Hill society leader. - solid-look-
ing Englishwoman, with too much Of
the color of good health" Bot that Is
the Englishman's special type Of ssau-
~. The woman that is strong. robust,
and healthy, who sets her foot squarely
down on the ground and walks with
athletic instead of minciug manner. is
Just what suits him. Besides, / cannot
imagine that after his experience in
Africa Mr. Stanley would have selected
any pale. ethereal beauty rs his wife.
or any woman who was not strong and
solid. after the English type.
The criticism that she wears her
gloves half buttoned ut the theater Is
"imporiant If true" and so shockingly
awful that wonder some of our Muir
ray Hill danes do not rush down TO
the Everett House aud toll Mr.. Stan
ley that he has made serious mistake
in his marriage. II Mrs. Tennaut.
with English taste. chooses to wear n
many -colored scarf to the theater IL Is
offset by the fact that she has bred her
daughter with such noble qualities of
mind and heart as to win the most dis
tipguished traveller of his age, and that
is all there is of it. BY the way. while
the London correspondents we're ex-
tolIing Miss Dorothy Tenants beauty.
they seem to have entirely overlooked
her sister. who. now that she Is seen on
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
Japanese Interiors.

The houses that the Japanese women
occupy are. it goes without saying, az
neat and woudrously fashioned as
themselves; almost always full of SUR
prises. with movable panels. with
boxes and slides, with compartments
Of all shapes and astonishing little
closets. Everything is minutiously
clean. even among the humblest, and
of apparent simplicity. especially
among the richest. Alone the altar of
the ancestors. where sticks of incense
burn.is giIded. lacquered. and garnished
like pagoda with vases and lanterns.
Everywhere else purpose baroness
q baroness all the more complete ald
white If the dwelling pretcnds to ell
esance. No embroidered tapestries;
sometimes transparent portieres, made
OF strung beads and bamboos. And
never any furniture; it is on the floor
or on little lacquer pedeStals that
necessary objects or vases of howers
are placed. To the mistress of the
house luxury consists in the very eX-
cess of that cleanliness of which / spoke
above, and which is one OF tho iucon-
testable qualities OF the Japanese peo-
pie. 1t is everywhere the custom to
unshoe before entering house, and
nothing equals the whiteness of those
mats. upon which one never walks
without line socks with divided toes.
The woodwork itself is white. neither
painted nor vanished. Keeping rs its
sole ornnmentation. among women OF
true taste. the impcrceptible veins of
the young pine.-Pierre Lott. ia Her.
per'S Magazine.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
What Constitutes n Nation.

Forty millions of people on three
millions of square miles OF territory do
not constitute the United States of
America. A million or 40 Of people
occupying twenty lone thousand square
miles did not constitute Greece. 1t
was the Greeks who constituted Greece;
it Is Americans who constitute Amer
len. So many people thrown together
on one territory no more make ma
ton than so many blocks Of stone
thrown together in pile make tenn
pie. or so many types in pi book. or
so many threads in taDgle fabric.
Every nation has its own distinguish
ing features, its own type OF character.
its Own consciousness, its own life. 10
constitute n nation there must be not
only people and land aud law. but
laws that are self-eyolved. literature
that Is the expression Of national life,
language fitted to express that life,
and therefore n life TO be expressed
LYMAN Abbott 10 The Century.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

WOMEN always know how to stnnd
up for each other. According to Mrs
S. +. Hershey. woman Is a more su-
perior being than man. She says:
Woman lives longer than man. goes
insane less numerously, commits sui
eide one-third as often, makes one
tenth the demand on the public purse
for support IN jails. prisons and aims.
houses, and in every regard mauifests
potentially above tlFat OF man."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

ELECTRICIrY has been put to driving
drills. One is in use on the war ship
Maine. building at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. A three-quarter-inch hole in a
three-quarter-inoh plate can be drilled
In less than a minute. 1t is one OF the
prospects OF the near future that cleo.
trio drills will be used for sinking deep
artesian wells as we'll as for rapid tun.
neling in the mining regions.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

WHEN the world sees a man old and
hale it wants to know how it was that
he became so old and so hearty. Jules
Simon was recently written to and
solicited to tell how he had arrived nj
such ripe old age. He answered
that be did not know; that for thirty
years he had worked about the same
number Of hours daily. and had moi
changed his manner of living in all
that time. Probably his length oil
years is due TO the latter fact more
than TO anything ell
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

A LARGE share of the failures In
farming arise from the attempt tc
overtax ones strength. ability. CAPT.
tai or knowledge. The most success
full men in any branch OF business are
those who commence in a small way.
AMI who learn from experience and
who gain strength by actual practice
to enable them to double up their
operations or TO enlarge their field d
work
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

AUTOGRAPH hunters will have 10
pay literally for the signature of the
late General Spinner. His name. as
he wrote. now commands good fig
ure. There are still in existence
many first class copies of his strange
signature in the shape OF wartime
greeubacks and fractional currency.
But they ARE kept us curiosities aud
command premium.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

IT is said to be curiocs fact that all
of the girls in Wellesley college who
lead their classes are blondes. But it
is curious only from the fact that the
dark haired girls who happen to be in
that particular college are lacking in
conspicuous brightness. 1t should not
be considered strange that the blondes
can hold their own.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

PHARMACY in the future will be
moro intelligent in this country.
There are already forty colleges OF
pharmacy in the United States. The
next advance in the same line should
be an effort to prohibit the adultera-
ton OF drugs That evil is scarcely
less than the authorization of drugg lists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

THERE was never yet a faith that
did not mean a struggle after truth;
nor even yet a superstition from which
higher knowledge cannot learn more
OF truth. In all that is written, sung
or said. nothing is true but that which
prompts and gives wings to aspiration;
nothing false but that which works
for degradation.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
payer.

TO have milk shelves in a kitchen.
where all manner OF cooking. broiling
and baking is going on. is the surest
way to spoil your cream and butter.
In a store, or a workshop, or farm
house, and especially a dairy-room, it
is very good motto to ''have place
for everything and everything in its
place"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

LONDON. Berlin, Vienna and Paris
have provided them selves with under
ground roads or are preparing 10 do
80. London was the first city to meet
this problem, and its underground
roads have proved the swiftest most
satisfactory. and most profitable sys-
tenn yet provided for great city.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

The Buddhists OF Japan think they
have the world wide religion because
it is based upon humanitarian princi-
Piles and propose to become propa-
gandists OF their doctrine. A Budd-
hist bank will be established for the
purpose OF gathering funds with which
o spread into all the world the gospel
of Ruddha
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

IT is not alone on the young that the
''lurid literature" OF the day gets Its
work in. The old have to suffer, too.
A man in Pennsylvania who is GU years
old became crazy from reading sensa-
tional stories. 1t is as true as ever
that there is no fool like an old fool
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

A LARGE part OF the expenses OF lit
igation is borne by the taxed portion
Of the public Many litigants pay no
taxes. and they are the ones who
largely supply the courts with bust
ness. The taxable costs under the law
are only small part of what the
hearing OF any case costs the tax
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

THERE are six Siamese students at
Westminster college. a small institu-
zion at New Wilmington. Pa In nu-
mersus other educational institutions
there are students from countries in
which enlightment is yet in its creep
ing infancy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
ARTISTIC wedding Dress.

A wonderful wedding dress was re-
Gently made up in Russia for the
daughter of u great Russian artist. 1t
is ofFegulation white satin. but on the
satin are innumerable little pictures,
chiefly allegorical, painted by her fa-
theirs artist friends.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
Bath of Roses.

The bath Of roses. so often mentioned
by writers on the luxurious age OF
Rome life. is comparatively cheap
luxury to-day. The warm water. IN
quantity amounting to the usual re-
auiremsut of the bath. Is first softened
by stirring into the tub finely siited
oat meal, to which Is also added half a
pint OF glycerine; lastly put into u
two drops Of altar Of roses. This bath
softens the skin aud blends perfume
into each line Of the body -
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
le Panama Canai works !,

Inc Panama Canal works are
wrecked; even traces of the excava.
tons are vanishing aud the construct.
i've machinery is worthless. This en-.
terprise, In which $500, 600. 900 has
been sunk will figure as the monument.
al failure Of the age.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

The Parnell leadership committee has
issued circular asking the league branches
In London TO affiliate and give tho COM
mittee monetary and other assistance.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

this side of the water. Is pronounced
the handsome member OF the Tenuant
faIuily.-N. y Press.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

About 1900 houses are added every
year to London,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14
JOE CALDWELL'S BOY.
"a Chip off the Old Block" He Gets
There in Matter Of Feeding as in
Everything Else.
GStatesville Landmark

Under the caption ''Things to be
Eaten from the Fingers, a fashionable
paper, an organ, probably, of the Four
Hundred, publishes the following inter-
esting paragraph:
''The list of things that can be eaten
from the fingers is on the increase. 1t
now includes all bread, toasts, tarts
and small cakes, celery and asparagus,
when served whole, either hot or cold;
olives, to which fork should never
have been used; lettuce which must be
crumpled in the fingers and dipped in
salt or sauce; strawberries served with
the stems on, as they should be, are
always touched to pulverized sugar !;
cheese, in all forms, except Brie,
Roquefort or Oumbatart, and fruits of
all kinds, except preserves and melons.
The finger bowl stands by the plate
and the napkin ready
The Landmark has boy, five years
old, who will be delighted to learn from
the above that he is up with the
fashion in the matter of feeding. In
fact this boy is little ahead of the
fashion, for he even eats ''preserves
and melons, (when he can get them)
with his fingers-likewise jam and
molasses, rice and gravy, cabbage and
turnips, turnip greens, mush, mashed
Irish potatoes, cold slaw, chicken
dumplings, boiled onions and every
thing else in sight excepting only pot
liquor, soup and sweet milk, which he
drinks out Of the pot, plate and a tin
cup, respectively. He is little behind
on the finger bowl and the napkin, not
needing either for he wipes his hands
on the legs of his pants and wipes his
mouth on his coat sleeve.