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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
ABLE TO TRAVEL ALONE.
Full Faro for the Boy and D'di't Want
to Answer Questions.


Full Faro for the Boy and Ddit Want
% to Answer Questions.
..How old is that boy ma'amp" in
quired the conductor of a south side
suburban railway train the other morn
ing, so the Chicago Tribune says.
hating in the aisle and addressing a
well-preserved and self-possessed ma
tron in one of the seats.
Il don't know that 1T makes any
difference to you SIR" she answered.
II only wanted to know"
You don't have to feed and clothe
him. do youP"
Certainly not madam, but"
You amt taking q government
census Of this car, are youP
'Of course not ma am but reckon
I've got right to ask you how old
that boy is; I'm the"
Yes. you We got the right to ask it
and I've got the right to answer you.
'Tain't any of your business how old
he is"
why great Scott ma'am, I'm the
conductor Of this
Il don't care if you're the president
of the road What's that got TO do
with your wanting to know how old
he isP"
'Its got this much to do with it:
If he's over 5 years old he'll have
to-"
Over years old? He's over g."
Then you'll have to pay fare for
him"
WHO asked you to carry him freeP"
why"
do look as il Twas person that
would try to beat the railroad out Of
seven centsP'
Certainly not ma'am but"
Then what have you been raising
all this fuss about?"
81 haven't been"
'Tl leave it to the other passengers
if you haven't You've been asking
impudent questions and making lnsin-
uations. and acting as if you thought
folks were all thieves"
Everybody in the car was looking
at her by this time. but she kept right
on:
'And you walked up the wrong pas
senger this time. / haven't anybody
to travel with me but this boy, but
can get along all right. / don't need
any assistance from any one, and don't
you forgot it. Here a ten-ride ticket.
Punch out a ride for me and one for
him. and if you see us on your train
again don't go to asking peoples ages
and making remarks That allr'
Yes ma'am." gasped the con-
ductor, meekly punching two rides out
of the ticket and passing on TO the
next car utterly crushed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

A PERSON pretending to be in need
If relief solicits aid of all the char
table organizations. He is not in
need at ALL So far as the purposes Of
The organization are concerned he is
an imposter. If he had obtained the
-elief he asked it would have shown
that the charitable funds were expend-
ed in a manner to permit and encour-
age imposture and mendicancy. But
he did not get relief from any one Of
the organizations. Perhaps the chari-
table agents might say that the i'm.
posture was such a shallow one that
they were able to detect it on sight
Whether they do or do not. the fail
ure OF an attempt to get charitable
funds bestowed on a man whose pre-
tended need was fraud is an I'M
qualified vindication of the charitable
organizations.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
4 JustiinbIe Case.

A New York man had just got off a
train at Western town when he met
a mob OF fifty or more citizens drag
ging poor wretch along to tree
with a rope dangling from a conven-
lent limo.
Whats the row?" he asked of a
party on the outskirts OF the gang.
Il reckon it's goin' to be a hangin'.
stranger" was the Indifferent reply
Anyhow it looks that way"
Whats the chap done?"
Shot show actor for singin'
Comrades before a housefull of our
best society"
Great Scott! you wouldn't hang q
man for that would you?"
Course not stranger; but you see
he didn't kill him. detroit Free
lress.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
CURRENT GOSSIP.

The emperor of China has bought him.
self grammar and first reader and is
studying English.
Mrs. Henry Willard has presented to
Howard university, in Washington, a bust
of her father, William Lloyd Garrison.
Sarah Bernhardt's last week in New
York was in the line of good fellowship
and netted So, 600 for the French Benevo-
lent society.
Kate Field was at one time it is said, q
leader writer on the London Times and is
the only American who ever achieved that
sort of distinction.
Andrew Lang the English journalist,
poet and essayist, is forty years
old, and tall, dark and thin His hair has
recently begun to turn gray.
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts is several
years older than her new husband, Col
Vivian. Her wedding present to him was
a policy on her own life for 500, 600.
Bernhardt astonished the people of
Macon, Ga, by spending S47.57 for q
cablegram to relatives in Cairo, Egypt in
forming them of the state of her precious
health.
Congressman Hatch is said to have
cured himself of strong taste for liquor
ten years ago by adopting Edmund Burke's
cure all of hot water. He drank quanti-
ties of it, and thinks he derived great ben.
eft from it.
The son recently born to Prince Fred
erick Leopold is the twenty fifth living
prince of the royal and imperial house OF
Hohenzollern. There is little danger that
Prussia or Germany will ever be in want
of an heir.
st. Petersburg papers say that Thomas
"A. Edison intends to pay the capital
visit in the near future. They add that
he will deliver n lecture at the coming
electrical exhibition there upon his new.
est discoveries in electricity.
1t is said that the translation of "Tbe
Countess Grika's Apprenticeship, brought
out last month is the last piece of work
which will come from the pen of Mrs
Annis Lee Wister, the famous translator.
Mrs. Wister will, hereafter live a retired
life, and entirely give up literary work.
Rev. DIR. Thompson, the negro whom
President Cleveland appointed to the
office of charge d'affaires to San Domingo,
found negro barber in Philadelphia the
other day who refused to shave him be.
cause the shop was run exclusively for
white men.
The opening of some graves on the
battle field of Calebee and the discovery
of some other relics of that battle which
cold Hickory" fought against the Creek
Indians recalls the fact that the last sur
vivor of the battle Rev. John Dennis,
died some years ago in Alabama, at the
age of ninety-four
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
FISH CHARMED BY a SNAKE.
Ease nation of Denizens of "A Pool for q
Water Reptile.

Ease nation OF Denzens OF "a Fool Tor
Water Reptile.
Approaching pool as large as
big dining-room we found millions in
it. b." and the fright that our moving
bodies gave them sent them scurrying
in every direction with such energy
that the mere contact Of one with an
other killed them by dozens. Then
we laid ourselves quietly down upon
the ground by the pool. says the Amer
lean Angler. one on each side. and re-
manned motionless for a few minutes,
and we were rewarded by sight en-
tirely new to us.
The water was perfectly clear and
not above two feet deep, the day calm
and bright and the proceedings below
the surface easily observed. In the
deepest part of the pool school of
little fish was swimming around and
around in a ring of about two feet in
diameter the school being about six
inches wide and apparently two or
three layers deep.
Around and around they went at
the least motion on our part breaking
ranks, to resume their circus at once
when we were quiet again. We were
interested, OF course, and puzzled,
and we tried for half an hour or moro
to learn the cause of such unusual
movements.
Our talk, for we did talk. did not
disturb them. from which we inferred
that they could not hear us; our
slightest movement did, from which
we inferred they could see u.s.
Carefully crawling little nearer,
we discovered the center OF the NOV
ing circle was large water snake
coiled, quiet and watchful. Ornitho-
logists have told us, in unreliable
school books that snakes can and
often do charm birdu and some have
in their more elaborate works, tried
to substantiate that theory. / never
believed it, and / certainly never
heard of snakes charming fish, but
what were these shad doing? Were
they charmedp
If they were afraid of his snake
ship. why didn't they SWIM away, as
they did when we stirred? Why
when our disturbance ceased, did they
persistently return and take up their
ceaseless round IN so dangerous a
neighborhoodp These are conundr' MS
that can't answer
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

THERE is class of people who pride
themselves on their honesty and frank
ness because. as they tell us. they
SAY just what they think" throwing
out their opinions right and lett just
rs they happen to feel, no matter
whore they may strike or whom they
may wound. This boosted frankness
however is not honesty but is rather
miserable inpertinence and reckless
CT delty. We have no right to say
what we think unless we think kind
ly and lovingly; no right to unload
our jealousies envies, bad humors
and miserable spites upon the hearts
of our neighbors. If we must be bad
tempered we should at least keep our
ugliness locked up in our own breasts
and not let it out to wound the feel
.ngs and mar the happiness of others
III we must speak out our dislikes and
prejudces and wretched feelings let
us 90 into our own room and lock the
door and close the windows, 80 that
no ear but our own can hear the hate
full words IL man seemeth to be
religious or even morally decent
and bridleth not his tongue that manH
religion Is vain and his character u
and base
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

IT appears that during the last
'orty years TIE population of the col
Ieges has increased nearly three times,
Or, exactly by 256 per cent. while
the population of the union as a whole
has increased by 165 per cent only.
The growth was most rapid between
1880 and 1890. when the increase in
the number of college students was
,ne-half, though the population of the
anion increased by one-quarter only.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
TnIxiuU the Hint.

The Rev. Mr.. Choker Feeling his
way)-How sad is the condition of
the heather! The black shadow of
sin forever
Mr. Binthayr b. Faure "a sage)-
l know what you mean, parson, but
haven't cent to spare. Puck.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
A Paying Business.

my dear. how soon can you get
ready to mover"
.Movep Why hubby, are YOU 60
ing awayP"
Yes, dear. / see tho papero say
there is 500, o0O 900 lying idle in the
New York banks
.Well?"
well, I'm going to get some If it. :"
why. howP" You're not go 'ug to
rob the banks. / hopep"
mo. I'm going to open hotel in
Canada. Texas Siftings.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
Bertha,s wisdom.

Bertha-Grandma, is DOR teef good?
Grandma-No. darling; I've got
none now, unfortunately.
Bertha-Then I'll give 90 my nuts
to mind till come back The Pacific
Methodist.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
MICH

CENsURE and criticism never hurt
anybody. II false, they can't hurt
you unless you are wanting in manly
character; and II true. they show a
man his weak points, and forewarn
him against failure and trouble.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
10 desire to no calico acasus queen

that she had no ambition to ngvss a.
a heroine She said she was just a
plain, everyday woman horse dealer.
That she liked the business; that she
made money out OF II, and was Salts
fed to live just as she is living.
Which is due notice to any young
man who may read this story with ex-
pectations to drop the same.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

NOTHING really succeeds which Is
not based on reality; sham in large
sense, is never successful In the
life of the individual, as in the more
comprehensive life of the state. pre-
Iention is nothing and power Is every
thinp
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25
Then lie DeceIYcs.

'All the worlds stage you k,.ow,"
SAID the actor. who was havir his
hair trimmed.
''Yes" replied the barber al
though ] don't realize it except wher
/ have a bald-headed man in the
chair.
''And why thenP"
Because have to act a part "
Washington Star. W
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

An infant at birth usually weighs one.
twentieth the maximum 1t ought to attain
in middle life.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-25

The emotional insanity style OF murder
is making business for the florists It re.
duires a large number of bouquets to run
a first Class murder trial w ashington
Posto -. ----A--.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
THE BOND SALE.

Advices were received yesterday
 from the south bringing the news of the final sale of Arizona bonds,
 sggregating a million of dollars.
 Though the act authorizing the
 placing of these bonds on the mar
 ket was passed nearly two yers ago,
 no disposal of them has been accom-
 plished until now, owing to the stringency in the financial circles of
 the east. Their sale even at this date will have 8 beneficial effect in every community of the territory, in wiping of a high rate of interest, which could not otherwise be ac- complished.
 The beauties of this bill authoriz- ing the sale of these bonds will be felt in municipal and school dis tricts alike as in county and -territo- rial affairs. Too much praise can not be given our enterprising gov ernor for his jealous work in fur thering this matter to successful termination, as we'll also will such praise apply to ex-Governor Irwin. The present executive has labored earnestly and diligently, and his labors will be felt among all classes of taxpayers in the entire territory. In this city, the cramped condition of its finances will be relieved of that perplexing odor which has heretofore caused but cents to be laid out where dollars were neces- sary. In the county, also, improve ments will be noticed and carried out by our present board of super visers, who seem to entertain very liberal views in wagon road build ing everywhere, as we'll as making in other county
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
A Plain story.

The prohibitions of the advocates of the Mckinley bill are being rap idly verified. Every day We hear ol the setting of new industrial en- teprise in this country which, while supplying our people with goods hitherto brought from abroad, gives employment to hundreds of busy American hands.
 A case in point is the propo sed establishment at Jamestown, in this state, of the famous Lister plush manufactory company, of Hudders- field. England.
 The plushes made at Hudders- fold have long enjoyed a high repu- tation, and before the passage of the Mckinley bill monoplized to a large extent the American market to the exclusion of domestic manufacture.
 In a short time this factory will be in working order, providing goods of the same grade with the al- ready famous products of Hudders field and giving employment to hundred of hands.
 Comment on such story would be simply superHuous. It carries its own moral. And what is hap pening in Jamestown is coming to pass all over the country.-Ex.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK

The remark is being made by
 every one in this section that the
 period of bushes depression is prac-
 tieally at an end. There is every evidence of & return of that era ex-
 perieneed years ago in busnines ac-
 tivity and better times generally.
 1t IS no easy matter to put ones
 finger on the precise cause of this
 impending change. and in fact there
 is no one thing which can be said
 to be the moving cause. We believe
 the building of the new road from
 Ash Fork is the main reason why the past year has seen almost re- generation of commercial life in
 Prescott, and through it can be
 claimed the steady growth of the
 mining industry everywhere, more than to any other cause. It may be argued that mining will prosper and its stimulation is not accounted for by any progress m>de in other branches of commercial life, or that it is in any way dependent upon the merchant or any enterprise inaugu- rated in a community. The vast amount of money to-day being han dled in the construction of the new railroad is advertising Arizona bet ter and more pro6tably than any one of its many enterprises. Hardly a day passes but what inquiry is made by men of capital, on the out side, which must be taken as at least an indication that our section has the eye of capital already turned to 1t, and that, too, from no other cause than by the hundreds of thou sands of dollars expended in this railroad enterprise. There must be some inducement for this vast out lay of money, in country which has remained only at the steady notch of life. Its mineral interests answer for Yavapai, and agriculture for the rest. With us no better idea of our hidden wealth can be given, than that which capital is now de- monstrating by investment. It speaks forcibly and intelligently for mining, and any act to thwart capi- tai in its endeavors to reach us in a bonafde manner, whether it be in railroad building or in mineral speculation, should receive the curse and condemnation due it.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
A DUTY.

In view of a general election talk.
 ing place soon, by which the choice
 of a community may be given to the
 selection of men for office, would it
 not be justice alike to the official as
 we'll as to the taxpayer to have the administration of each and every
 officers conduct in the county re-
 corded before the people in the manner demanded-whether it be good or badf Every person famil-
 far with the workings of the grand
 jury system knows that each sue
 ceeding session has demonstrated
 its inability to justly ferret out the
 the duty expected of it and the farce
 of past years has only been ec oed
 over and over again. Hardly ever
 has there been committee examina-
 ton from a grand jury but what a seeming willingness has ever been evinced to "read as they run" when a rigid and impartial examination should have been given to each and every officers acts. By doing this the public may know and believe that in him they have placed in of fee nothing but good has con @. while on the other hand a tinge of misconduct may be revealed. Yav- pal is no exception to other com munities in the persistent cry of all taxpayers in their mutterings of dis content. This may be particularly so at this time in view of the near approach of an election. All office seeking men, particularly so those who desire to be again installed in a public trust, should go before the voter free and clean. It is an injus- tice for any man not to be accorded this right. If he is honest he will court the public lash; if not natur- ally he will shun it. We do not | mean to insinuate there hovers over | any offiical in yavapai a corrupt | set, or that any legal body | might disclose otherwise. It is a duty each and every officer owes the people and furthermore they de- nand it.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
Ar,.an. Nems.

The territorial board of eqnaiiza- ton have fixed the levy at co ceht' on the Sl00 of valuation Tor tefIi' torial purposes.
 The Bonanza mine and mlii a' Harqua Hsla, which has been ss- sessed by the Yuma assessor TOT Sl75,OO0 was reduced to S2nuu ps tho county board of equalia on
 Work has stopped at the onyx mines on Cave Crock as tho road IS so bad the teamsters refuse to haul over them. Mir Reynolds IS eS- peted in few days and the r9ads, will be repaired and work r"sunled on the mines.
 Mr. Ben Block came in last night from Big Dug. Night before last he said there was s heavy ram st Antelope and Antelope creek and all tributary st treams were running iuii. That whole scopS of country hsi been previously psrched. hepuo licans
 The conflicting testimony at the examination of Rhodes, charged with the murder of Tom Graham, nesr Tempe. recently, leads to the belief that Graham conmitted suicide. He evidently dismoanted from his load of grain, went behind the bushes. took deliberate aim and shot himself. He then rode away. If this theory proves incorrect the lawyers in the case may succeed m proving that Tom Graham was not shot at all--that he died of typhoid fever.-Enterprise.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24
A CRITICISM.

In the June number of the Forum for 1892 Is an article written by the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. late sena-
 tor of state during the administra- ton of President Cleveland.
 Mir. Bayard takes for his text a a portion of Sir. Cleveland's mes sage.of December, lSSs. l quote tho text; "Communism Is a hateful thing and menace to peace and organized government
 Mir. Bayard says the above are words of wisdom" But no one, l trow. who.is not . man-worshiper, can say the above are swords of wisdom" for any Dogberry might or could say the same thing, with out being dubbed wiso man. l quote further: But the commun ism of combined wealth snd capital, the outgrowth of over weening eu- pidity and sel6shness, which insidu- ously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the eommun- ism of oppressed poverty and toll whi h, exasperatod by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disas- ter the citadel of rule"
 Herc we have another platitude. No one will dispute that, ~the com. munism of combined wealth and capital" is wrong, and as dangerous 10 the we'll being of community, as is the "communism of oppressed poverty and toil." l fail to sec words of wisdom" in the above ex- tract. It is simply . proposition that none will dispute. A common man might say the same thing with- out being charged with swisdom,
 Further, "He makes the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the the rich, and they ia turn will care for the laboring poor"
 Neither the republican nor the democratic pa1tiee escr advocated such an idea But no doubt, the then president intended if as Hing against the republicans He may have felt sors at his crushing defeat the month before, and took this method as . revenge for the stupid ity of the people h selecting Har- rison over him.
 MortiAcation st his defeat, and envy, of his superior, no doubt prompted the platitudss quoted, as he certainly intended it as spplica- bic to the people who chose another for his place. Another quotation, "Any intermediary between the peo- pie and their government or the least delegation of the care and pro- lection the Governmen. owes to the humblest citizen of the lsnd, makes the boast of free institutions gli. tering delusion and the pretended boon of American citizenship a shameless imposition.
 No one will dispute the above. IL is automatic, that governments are instituted for the protection and happiness of tho governed, snd no party has over advocated that the Government should protect the rich, and the rich in turn should protect the poor.
 MT. Bsyard says: Tn the cleo tion of 1888, the people of the Uni ted States were caught mapping" l shall not be surprised if the peo- pie were caught asleep on the sth of November next. and tha. they will not bc aroused from their slumbers until the shouts and huzzas of a gratifed people are heard from Washington to Oregon, and from Maine to California, on the 4th of March. 1898. W. H. McGREw.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-24

Some of the richest ore ever scan in the camp was picked up on the east side of the hill from town bv prospectors day or 60 ago. Fon, men are now running trenches to bed rock on the side of the hill and will undoubtedly uncover the ledrs in a few days. The float rock ;s almost solid horn silver and will run thousands of dollars per ton Mohave Miner.
 A sample ton of the Horn S;,ve- ore from ths west side of Detr,,,i valley, opposite White Hills. wac run through the sampler Wednes' day of this week and gave a net re- turn ,I, of SoO ounces silver Der ton The ore was not sorted, but s.cIaJ up as it came from the shaft. Tb;s showing rivals any claim in tho In' ' dian Secret district, and will sonn M be put in condition to become % . steady producer, The propertv ;s owned by James A. Smith and .fobn Mulligan, of Kingman.-Miner' '