Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-15

OF silver is a triumph of engineering
skill. While the multitude finds its
way across the curved bridges, there
are hooks and tangles from which the
array of snow white domes and arch
ing roofs are shut out; IN which the
stir of passing feet, the sounds of
voices, and even the crash of conflict
ing bands are heard remote and sub
dued
In the thickets the grasshoppors and
criclIets, undismayed, hold prolonged
col oquies. and birds sing with as
much sweetness and freedom as though
they were in the depths OF their native
forests. Close to the mar Iin the ducks
and water fowl make their nests.
saw a matron sailing away yesterday
with a bro d of yellow ducklings
swimming her wake, like a pretty
fleet, all as serene and untroubled as
If cruelty were not a chars cteristic of
some varieties of the human being,
and as if power to harm feeble
creatures were not TO be fea't d
among all the thousands that sto TO
watch them, day after day. Their
confidence in human nature is a trib-
ute to the orderliness of those whD
frequent the island, for il never seems
to occur to the ducks that they are
not quite as safe there as they would
be in the loneliest tarn. Here and
there one happens upon characteristic
sightseers who find tie retirement of
the island peculiarly suited to an in
Prospective or confidential mood.
Yesterday / noticed woman stand
ing in the shade, her hat pushed
back from her forehead and
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wrinkied with toll, the features
roughened by the prairie winds. She
had been stated with magnificence, or
had sought this place apart from her
companions and friends to think it all
over, TO realize, if possible, that her
dearest wish had been gra litied and
that, after months of self-den al and
persevering effort, she had accom-
plished her undertaking. She was so
engrossed in her reflections that she
did not notice me, although ] brushed
against her as passed. The island is
also in high favor with old people.
They are among the most frequent
and interested visitors to the hunters
camp-always excepting the boys, to
whom Col. Cody is an ideal
hut on the smaller island with critical
Judgment Possibly they know just
how such huts should be constructed,
and might have gwen pract cal advice
as to thinking, the laying of puncheon
floors and the construction OF stick
chimneys.
at minds me of ourn, Sarey," said
an octogenarian yesterday as he peered
about, that first one, you mind, that
we built down in Offield bottoms, neal
the Forks" And then there were
some delightful remini cences, which
l could not help overhearing, of the
adventures and experiences of the
/ pioneers, those heroic forerunners OF
civilization who made the Columbian
Exposition 20 sible. These were hon
orable survivors of tn. good old times
when hospitality was the first of the
Christian graces and the passing
stranger was welcomed with all the
distraction that those rude times at
foIded.
The Toys find the hunters camp pc
culiarly fascinating and they inspect
| the implements of the trapper, the
! guns and knives and pelts, with spark
| ling eyes. / should not be surprised
IL it would give an impetus to unwar'
ranted emigration on the part OF
youthful adventures to the far west
Conventionality rests lightly upon the
souls of most of us, and those who
have not been long in its trammels
throw off It's restraints with little GER
! emony.
The Australian souatter's hut fairly