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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Grooming the Farm Horse.

Why should the really valuable
working horse, so large a helper in
bread winning not be 10 his owner a
source of greater interest an object OF
greater carer One-tenth of the care
bestowed on sporting horse would
make farm horse feel too proud OF
itself. But there is little risk OF such
a horse ever feeling proud from any
such reason.
A Scotch hired plowman grooms
his team with q degree OF loving inter-
est and pride to which the average
Canadian farmer is almost "A stranger
though the Clydesdale team belongs
to another man and the man who
Morks 1t is only a hireling while the
Canadian generally owns the team and
as rule the farm as well. Why
should not the more valuable beast be-
cause the most useful have u little OF
the warmth OF interest bestowed on n
2:S0 trotter?
The farmer who looks on his farm.
his stock. and his other belongings
merely as a means 10 make money.
which he IL reluctantly forced to
stick to. will never find either profit
Or pleasure In his work. But the
man who feels pride in his beasts and
has kindly feeling toward them. is
sure TO turn the commonest drudgery
into source Of pleasure and make a
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
A CALL FROM A COON.

Though Pressingly Invitcd to Stay lie
Emprnt caIiY Declined.
i have had but one cal from a coon
that | am aware Of and | fear we die
not treat him with due hospitality
writes John Burroughs in the Cen.
fury. He took up his quarters for
the day in a Norway Spruce. tho
branches of which nearly brushed the
house. had noticed that The dog
was very curious about that tree all
the forenoon After dinner his curl,
osity eliminated in repeated loud and
confident barking Then i began an
investigation. expecting to find a
strange cat or at most a red squirrel.
But a moments scrutiny revealed his
coonship Then how to capture him
became the prob, EN-. A long pole
was procured, and | sought 10 dlslodge
him from his hold. The skill with
which he maintained himself amid
the branches excited our admiration.
But after time he dropped lightly 10
the ground not in the least
disconnected and at once on
his guard against both man and beast
The dog was a coward. and dared not
face him. When the coons attention
was diverted the dog would rush in;
then one OF us would attempt to seize
the coon's tail but he faced about so
ckly. his black eyes cleaning.
that the hand was timid about seizing
him. Only but finally in his skirmish-
ing with the dog | caught him by the
tail. and bore him safely 10 an open
flour barrel and he was our prisoner.
Much amusement my little boy and
anticipated with him. He parlook
OF food that same day. and on the
second day would eat the chestnuts
in our presence. Never did he show
the slightest fear Of US or of any
thing but 10 was unwearied in his
efforts 10 regain his freedom. After
few days we put strap upon his
neck and kept him tethered by a
chain. But in the night by dint of
some hocus- pocus he got the chain
un>napped and made Off and is now.
! trust a patriarch of his tribe, wear
ing a leather necktie.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
good deal more money into tho bar.

good deal more money into tho bar
gain.
The writer went lately into barn
where lot OF farmers horses were
stabbed after delivering their loads OF
wheat at the elevator One team was
in fine condition. and he compliment
ed the young man who owned them.
The owner said they were eating
nothing but oat straw and four quarts
OF oats at a feed. Why" said the
next man along. my team gets
peck OF oats and good hay all the
time and they are very much thinner
than yours In fact l cannot put
flesh on them.
The other mans secret was soon
told His horses were carefully
blanketed whenever they went into a
cold stable at the end OF trip to
market and when cooled in that way
they were thoroughly groomed. The
lad and his two brothers. who do the
same thing. will have thaso same
teams good 10 use and good TO look
at long after the present general on
of unskillfully managed and unwisely
fed beasts around them have been
killed by pneumonia or some similar
disease and thrown to the wolves
Kindness even 10 n farm horse is q
paying investment -Nor'west Farm
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Fruit Makes a Farm valuable.

There Is no cheaper easier or
quieter way TO make land valuable
than TO pant the best kind OF fruit
trees on it AS the Scotchmau OBJ
served to his son; "A tree sandy. is
always growing while ye are sleep
ing Not only is this true but a
fruit tree once in bearing continues to
increase IN value so fast that when
once planted its owner is likely to
appreciate it so highly that nothing
will induce him to part with it.
Farmers who are puzzled how 10 keep
their boys on the farm may take u
hint from what we have written.
Plant the land with fruit trees and
set them into bearing before they die.
Our word for it, the sons and daugh-
tiers OF the farmer owning such farm
will ask a higher price for it than any
one who does not know 1t SO well rs
they will be willing to pay.
can Cultivator.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
FIRM otes.

1t pays to investigate and expert
menL
Keep close account of the cost OF
crops.
Save the best seeds to plant Breed
up corn. wheat etc. like you do
stock.
To deepen hard pan soil. use a sub
soil pillow. leaving it lying below the
mellow surface soil
Make the country home attractive.
Nothing adds more 10 the beauty OF a
home than a nice shady lawn.
When we commence TO build up the
stock we must weed out all rad quail
ties and DO it as fast as possible
The hog pen and the poultry house
should furnish their share OF fertiliz-
ing material to keep up the farm.
The experiment stations have de-
cided that the smut OF oats and the
stink ng smut of wheat are para
site plants.
A large farm is not necessary. A
good living and more happ ness eau
be gotten out OF fewer acres than
many suppose.
An animal is rarely vicious or in
tractable without cause. Remember
this in managing the young stock.
The proper place to feed stock
when il is done outside OF the stable
or feed lots is on the poor spots in the
field.
One OF the best ways OF increasing
the income OF the farm is 10 raise the
value Of what you have to sell. Choice
products always bring the best pr ces
While cultivating the soil it should
be remem bered that 1t is Just as i'm.
portant 10 cultivate the mind and
heart 1t is a losing game TO WORK
so hard and such long hours that
there is no time for reading or recre-
alton. Eest read and recreate as
well as work and worry.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Shot the While Men

A dispatch from Dahomey announces
that Gen. Dodds the victorious French
commander has caused TO be shot the
white men found in the army of King
Kehanzin, the Dahomeyan sovereign
against whom France has been fight
ing. Three of them are Germans
Weclxel, Puech and Schultze-one is a
Belgian and another an Englishman.
They are supposed to have been de-
serters from the Belgian and German
Congo country and the Cameroons.
The executions have produced a GER
tain amount of excitement, for the
German newspapers had said that such
a step would be contrary to the rights
of nations
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
An Enormous Cave in virginia.

A cave has been discovered about six
miles east of Harrisonburg, near the
village of Keeletown, Va. 1t has not
been fully explored yet, but it is said
to rival the Turay caverns in size and
grottoes and in beauty. 1t is situated
on the land of Augustin Armentrout.
and was discovered while blasting
rock. Twenty-four rooms have been
found without the aid of pick or shovel.
Persons from the neighborhood are
fioclSing to see it. Specimens of stalac-
tite have been sent to various institu-
tions as curiosities.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Gladstone Opposes Woman Suffrage.

Prof. James Stuart, M. F., who ex-
pected 10 be made cabinet minister
at the change of the English govern
ment and did not even get an under
secretaryship, has discovered that the
members of the present government
are not TO be trusted in the matter of
women's rights. That was what he
told meeting of the National society
for woman suffrage at London. Every
practical policeman knows that par
lament will not he in a position to
deal with question like woman suf-
frage for several years 10 come, and it
is an open secret that the Liberal party
will never confer the franchise upon
women as long rs Mr.. Gladstone is its
leader The old man has always shud-
dered at the idea of women entering
the stormy arena of politics, and both
he and his wife have perfect horror
of the mod ern political woman.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

1T is painful TO note that some
more bad blood between the Pike and
Billups families OF Fudge Creek has
enriched the soil of West Virginia
This time Mrs Pike who with lad =
like ditfidence has heretofore remained
behind the house while Strengthening
was dewing the front lawn. got such
a chance to shoot couple OF the Bill
ups children that she could not resist.
Society Is SO torn up over the affair
that Mira Pike has retired to the Jail
to escape the fervor OF its expressions.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

TIE danger from impure water is
now much better understood than it
was few years ago The ex-
animation OF wells in cities shows the
water in them TO be full OF dangerous
germs gathered by it IN soaking
through grounds filed with the filth
that always goes with closely popuIat-
ed localities in the country the
danger is naturally less because
population is not there crowded into
small spaces But we have often
seen wells for the use OF fam lies and
stock near barnyards pigpens or privy
vaults- The soakage from these for
time passes through the soil and
leaves its impurities; but after awhile
the soil becomes saturated with i'm
pu-ities and no longer acts as filter.
Localities where malarial diseases
unusually prevail are more often due
TO impure water than 10 any Other
cause.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

A CITIZEN morbidly curious to learn
the age OF turtle inserted the toe OF
his brogan between the reptiles jaws
with the intent TO daily with lis
molars At this stage OF proceedings
the coun tenanoe OF the citizen was
observed 10 become sicklied Ger with
the ruddy cast OF regret 1t was not
until kind hands had guided him to
the hospital that he remembered
that alter all the poor boon OF ascer-
tanning the years of the turtle had
been denied him.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
A SPLENDID IDEA.
Petitions Being Widely Circulated 10 Ask
Congress to Give Us Better Roads.

Petitions Being widely Circulated 10 Ask
Congress to Give Us Better Roads.
Col. Pope, of Boston, has issued the
following petition which is To be eircu-
lated all over the country and sent 10
congress:
"ro THE HONORABLE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN Cok-
GREss AssEMBLED:--We,t the undersigned
citizens of the United States, hereby
most respectfully petition that there be
founded in the city of Washington, in
the District of Columbia, a road de-
partment, similar TO the agricultural
department for the purpose of promot-
ing knowledge in the art of construct
ing and maintaing roads; and we ask
that in such department provisions be
made for teaching students so that they
become skilled road engineers. In
connection with this road department,
we request that there be established
permanent exhibition in which will be
shown se:tions of roads illustrating
various methods of constructing and
also the best road materials and ma
chinery. We further petition that
congress appropriate funds sufficient to
erect a building at the Worlds Col
umbian exhibition for the purpose of
comprehensive road exhibit"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

A HULKING piece OF humanity has
been sent to Jail for three months for
choking / Is foster mother woman
OF seventy years. The novelty OF his
defense that he was merely caressing
the old lady and that her strangling
was but incidental TO the exuberance
OF his affection might have touched
some hearts. Few old ladies have TO
appeal to the police to keep from be-
ing petted TO death.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Chicago.
New York.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

New YORK. Nov. AR. G.. Dun n Co.'s
weekly review of trade: The presidential
election has Interrupted business TO some
past week, but by no means as much as
usual, and at nearly all points the volume
of trade has been fairly maintained and the
unprecedented activity of industries has
only been interrupted by the election holt
day. The money markets have not been
disturbed though working somewhat closer
necessities and the scarcity OF commercial
bills have caused some decline in foreign
exchange. The government crop report In
dicates smaller yields than wore expected,
Jf wheat only 500,0000O0 bu., OF corn only
1,GOOO00,0OO bu. and a decidedly small Yield of
cotton. Wheat Is stronger than week ago,
with no great change In corn and OATS but
moderate trading la either. Cotton has
risen over half "a cent. The business failures
occurring throughout the country during
the past seven days number 30. For the
corresponding week OF last year the figures
were 201.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

SCARCELY one OF the many tributes
paid to the late Patrick Sarsfield Gill
more has failed to mention the fact
that his language was always correct
that no oath was ever heard to escape
his lips He could be emphatic. he
often was emphatic in rebuking a
careless member of his orchestra. but
no rebuke was ever punctuated with
by-wJrd. He literally followed the
injunction to let his yea be yea and
his nay nay Mr.. Gilmore was never
for an instant at loss for n word. as
are many profane men whea in the
presence OF ladies' because he talked
before gentlemen AS he talked before
ladies' He didn't have company man.
ners and family manners, Sunday and
week day manners He was ALWAYS a
gentleman.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
Crops, Glzz.rI- and stom,chs.


Insects are oddly constructed atoms
OF animated nature, rs n rule and it
depends altogether on the species as
To internal makeup. In bees the
crop is called the honey bag" In
sects with mand tbles usually have a
modified form of the 'gizzard' so typ
ical in the common barnyard fowl
In some cases the miniature 'giz-
gard is a perfect wonder show. its
inner surface being provided with
pads" covered with horns" and
''bristles' in great profusion. The
grasshopper 'gizzard" is lined with
innumerable oGs of teeth very min
ute OF course but we'll developed.
truo teeth nevertheless. The same
may be said of crickets and other in =
sects of that ilk. Sensational. would =
be entomologistS writing from the
southeastern coast OF Africa and Mad
agascar tell of u species OF grasshop
per inhabiting those parts that are
provided with true livers but nothing
of the kind is known as occurring in
American insects the liver function
being performed by IN mute cells pro-
vided by nature for that purpose.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

WHEN the poet Whittier died he
left request that those holding let
ters written by him should refrain
from publishing them. The good
poet was scarcely under the sod a
week when the letters began TO APP
pear. The thoughtlulness OF those
who are breaking faith. in having re-
fused TO do so until after the funeral
is worthy comment of an unprintable
sort
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

PERHAPS some day the truth will be
known about the seals OF Behring sea,
and then fiction will be robbed OF a
chapter and history enriched. One
rumor reports the seals SO thick as to
impede navigation Another states
that the seal has gone to join the dodo
In the vastly wastes or oblivion.
Meanwhile as compromise, he
poachers appear to be having moder-
ate luck.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

Herr Most and 1900 other anarchists
mildly celebrated over the anniversary
of the hanging of the Haymarket
anarchists in Chicago.
A letter which was sent from Fair
bury, ILL.,, May IL, 1857, to Galesburg,
III, reached its destination Nov. ~.
Where it has been the past five years
cannot be traced by the marks.
The evicted tenants commission of
Ireland Is being attacked from every
side and there rs scarcely any doubt
whatever that 1t will result in a com
plete fiasco so far as any material
benefit to the persons who have lost
their holdings Is concerned.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
growing.

MANKIND is so constituted that the
change OF season is usually gladly
welcomed in this latitude. Winter is
always long enough. spring fingers
as leisurely as anybody wishes sum
mer has exhaustel her welcome and
the autumn can ordinarily give way
TO the sterner and more rigorous sea-
son without regret
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

CHICAGO has trio OF footpads
mono OF whom is over seven years of
age They use real pistol which.
with professional skill they present
ucuzzle forward. They have not yet
attained sufficient muscular strength
to cock the weapon. but they are
growing.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

Mrs. Bridget Murphy, aged so, was
found murdered in her bed at Green
castle, Ind. Her skull was crushed
and an awl had been driven into each
temple. Her house had been ransacked
and plundered. She lived alone and
was thought to have money secreted il
her house.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18
MICH

A DOCTOR has launched the theory
that the best method OF inducing a
flow OF thought is to lay the head fat
on the table. As opposed to the
value Of this theory is the fact that
the doctor was trying it when 40
made announcement OF its worth.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

without tribe or lamily-o home. or
even possessions beyond their ragged
finery and bar5aric jewelry a khol
pot a cloak. may be- and guitar.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

i can't work without inspiration I"
said the poet
'And |. " observed the undertaken.
am quite as badly off. cannot work
without expiration. Puck
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
SECURE YOUR TICKETS.

At the last meeting of the school board
the tickets of admission TO the commence
ment exercises were ordered distributed
as follows; To the graduating class, go; to
the mem bers of the board, y: to the eX-
members, &c: to the alumni, 40; to the city
teachers, 96; 10 the High school teachers,
10; to the High school pupils, 200; to the
mayor and city council, 10; to the clergymen
of the city, 20: to the heads Of other educa-
tional institutions, 10; to the city press, is;
and to the Normal students, 10; total, 922.
The seating capacity of the opera house is:
parquet, 2l2; dress circle, 236: family cir
ele 146, and balcony, $50; total, S74 SO that
the secretary in order to give ali tickets
who are entitled to them will have to give
some tickets TO the gallery. The tickets
are now ready and in the secretary's Office
for those to whom they have been desig-
mated. The graduates and pupils of the
High school will receive theirs today from
Professor Shull at the High school. About
400 tickets to the gallery are still left for
general distribution among the citizens,
who will call for them at the board of edu-
cation rooms in the Sedgwick block.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
ODDS AND ENDS.

Harry W. Wilson. an S year-old colored
boy, living on North Water street, fell
from a wagon yesterday and broke bis
wrist. Dr. Shuts set the injured mem
Der rand the boy is doing well.
a window fell heavily on the hand Of
the 6-year-old child OF widow Martin Of
Seneca street, day before yesterday, aud
almost severed the fingers OF the poor lit
tie thing. Her baud will be crippled for
life.
1t was reported yesterday on the West
Side that a man had been shot there the
night previous, but searching inquiry dis
closed no such occurance. A young man
told Councilman Hill that he saw the
shooting. but from later evidence it is
pretty certain that he was working his
imaginary powers.
General Murray Myers aud H. d. Heiser-
have returned from Topeka where they
had been in the interest of the Grand
Army reunion. While at the Copital both
of them were interviewed.
Frank Liston of Panhandle City, Tex,
was one OF the arrivals in the city last
night over the Santa Fe. Mr.. Llston Is
the manager of one of the largest ranches
in northern Texas. He says the Pan
handle never had so much rain rs il has
had this spring and that the pasturage Is
in splendid shape.
The bicycle club members are still act
lively at work making arrangements for
the Wheelmen's league meeting in this
city. They expect large crowd and are
determined that every visitor shall go
away with better impression of Wichita
than that which be will bring with him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
FINE CROPS EVERYWHERE.

Judge Lambden, United States cattle
Inspector, returned last night from kiowa.
where he has been for several days on
official business that necessitated his
travelling good deal IN the country. He
states that that entire section of the state
is teeming with prosperity, and that all
the people are in the best of bumor over
the prospects. He said that he has lived
nearly forty years in Kansas and never
saw wheat looking better at this time of
the year than it now looks in Barber,
Harper and Sumner counties. He says
the wheat crop is especially promising
about Kiowa. AID, as the acreage is large,
the prospects fN a season of gr.at pros
perity next veal are very good
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
ED BIDWELL'S DEATH.

Night before last the spirit of Edwin
Bidwell Of this city took is flight to the
great beyond. after a sojourn in this world
of % years, IL months and 90 days. His
mother is almost unable to bear her grief.
The disease to which he succumbed was
yellow jaundice. which has had him in its
grip for some time. Relatives in Wash
ington, Dakota and numerous other places
have been telegraphed for, and the funeral
will take place on Sunday. Of this fur.
Their notice will be given.
Edwin Bidwell was raised and edscated
in this city, and was the friend and COM
panion of all the Wichita boys of bis age
who have grown up in Wichita. He was
an excellent young man who had bright
and promising future before him, and it is
too bad that he should be cut down so
early in life. All of his acquaintance
deeply regret his death and entertain the
most sincere sympathy for his mother.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
COULDN'T SWALLOW IT.

Captain Freeman of FL Dorado was in
the city last night on his way back from
a visit TO his old home at Medicine Lodge
He was down there on business and TO see
his old friends. Some three or four years
ago Captain Freeman was the Democratic
high priest OF Barber county aud no eau
Gus or convention of the faithful was COM
plete without him. Leaving Medicine
Lodge be went to Texas and he wasn't
there but a short time when he Turned
Republican and came back to enlightened
Kansas, He is an old soldier and the
Texas people tried to make him swallow a
variety of Democracy that didn't sui; his
patriotic feelings and he refused TO take IL
Captain Freeman is an excellent gentle
man and an enterprising and valuable
citizen. He is great Chester Loug boom
er although not being a resident Of this
district