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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
August
Flower

81 am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satisfactory results. Forseveral years
she has been a great sufferer, has
been under the treatment ofeminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it." L. c. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. @
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
QUEER FOLKS.

The family of citizen of Den-av
has kicked so over their family name
of Mule that he has asked the courts
TO change it TO "Nliles."
The Atlanta Constitution is RESPONSE.
BILE for this "true storv:' There in
said to be a two-headed woman in
Louisiana, who sings in a church
choir, and has two distinct voices
tenor and soprano"
The Hartford Post saws that an anna
teur artist of that town chalked a
banana skin on the sidewalk the other
day that looked so natural that every
body gave it a wide berth, and one old
gentleman actually fell down, think
ing it his duty to do so.
There died lately in the English
Bedlam an inmate who has been
known for over half century as only
Mo, from his monomania he was
lucid in everything else and wrote
books that attracted intelligent atten-
tion--that he would some day wed
Queen Victoria, whose horse he stopped
while she was riding in Hyde park
aud ra pectfully proposed to her. She
had been then queen only year. He
was arrested and committed as an in
sane per on and remained in Bedlam
until his recent death there.
AS Artemus Wards health was dali
cate, and his father and only brother
had died young, he was urged by his
friends to give up certain indulgences
and save himself This caused him to
relate the following anecdote to Mr..
Knight: Il once knew an old fellow
in the West, living mainly by himself,
who said he had always been making
sacrifices as to appetite, giving up one
thing after another for the sake Of
health At length, when he was
about eighty years old, he had simpli-
fed his diet until he was just Living on
whisk and pork. But one day he said
TO me: 4 guess I've got to give up
the porlt-'fraid it's hurtin' me.
1t is said that Maryland woman re-
Gently entertained three guests,
strangers to her and to one another,
named Mrs. Sprinkle, Mrs. Shower and
Mrs Storm.
The number of telephones in service
In the United States is 512,407, and the
total length of line is 5l2, 4O7 miles, or
about ten and ne-half times the cir
conference of the earth.
Tourist, in Boston--Td like a con-
veyance this afternoon at four o'clock
Livery man-Yes, sir. Do you mean .
vehicle, or blank legal form for the
conveyance of real estate?
The Clumsy Man, coming from the
ballroom-How can l ever repay you
for that delightful waltz? She, whose
trasl mas sutfered-0h, don't pay me.
Settle with the dressmaker
The cats ''whiske-s," the long hairs
on the side of the cats face, are organs
Of touch. They are connected with
the nerves of the lip, and their slight
est contact with any object is distinctly
felt by the animal
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

Midway between earth and SKY,
There the wild Wind-Garden les
Tossing gardens, secret bowers,
Full of song and full OF flowers
Waiting down to us below
Such a fragrance as we know
Never yet had lily or rose
That in earthly garden grows.
o those gardens, dear and far,
Where the wild Wind-Fairies are,
Singing clearly, singing purely,
Strains of far-oh Elf-Land SURELY
Though we see them not we hearken
To them when the Spring skies darken,
We divine their hayward playing,
Through those far strange Gardens stray
ing;
Plucking there the wild Wind posies,
Lilies, violets and roses,
Whose swe, breath like angels pity
Ffnd us, even in the City,
Where we, toiling, seek as treasures
Dull Earth's Disseminating pleasures.
y those gales with Wind-tlowers laden
Flowers that no mortal maiden
In her breast shall ever wear!
Flowers to wroathe Titanias hair
And TO strew her happy way,
When she marries some wind fay!
o Wind Gardens, where such songs are,
And of flowers such happy throngs are,
Though your paths j may not see,
Well know how blest they be!
Phillip Bourke Marston.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Some Queer Notions of Women.

There is no accounting for tastes in
this topsy-turvy world. A New York
woman wears ring in which is set in
n circle of diamonds her first baby's
first tooth. A London lady of high de-
gree wears set in the jewels of her
bracelet a tooth extracted from the
mouth of her pet poodle. Another af-
fectionate creature uses the skin of a
once favorite horse as hearth rug for
her boudoir, and has defunct pet pug
mounted in life-like attitude by the
taxidermist for an ornament on her
writing table.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
To Guard Colonial Relics.

Mrs. Elizabeth d. Gillispie, who so
efficiently managed the Centennial Ex-
position in 1876 at Philadelphia, has
been appointed by the Governor of
Pennsylvania as representative of that
State for the purpose of receiving funds
collected for the duplicate liberty bell
destined for Chicago and for all future
international exhibitions where there
is board of women managers. Mrs
Gillispie has accepted the appointment,
believing, as she does, with many
others, that onr precious colonial relics
should not be subjected to the risks of
transportation or accident.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Notes.

Miss Helena Goessman, daughter of
Prof. Goessman, of Amherst College, Is
coming to the front as a lecturer.
Florence Nightingale has started a
health crusade among the villages of
BuclSinghamshire, assisted by the
County Council Technical Instruction
Committee.
Mrs. Eva d. Kellogg, for the lastyear
with the New York School Journal, ia
to edit new magazine, Primary Edu-
cation, to be issued by the Educational
Publishing Company.
Mrs. Rachel Lloyd, professor of ana
lytical chemistry in the University Of
Nebraska, has been elected one of the
directors of the Lincoln (Neb.) Saw
ings Bank and Safe Deposit Company.
A society has been formed in Hell
singfors, Finland, under the name Of
Unionen, for the Improvement of the
training and education of women, an
extension of the field of labor and in
elevation of women's position in the
home and society.
Queen Victoria once aspired unsuc-
cessfully as poet. She wrote a book
of verse long ago, and was sensible
enough to send it to a publisher under
feigned name, wishing to know its
real merits. 1t was Immediately de-
clined with thanks.
The Crown Prince Of Germany is go
ff,S to enter the gymnasium grammar
school) at Kiel, according to the
Hohenzollern practice of sending all
the Princes to the public schools. The
young Prince will have an establish.
ment of his own, a magnificent villa
just outside Kiel.
The Princess of Wales is a very
graceful figure on skates and exceed
ingly fond of the healthful exercise.
She wears peculiar kind of skating
boot laced nearly to the knee, the up
per portion lined with fur. The heels
are wide and low and the skates cover
the soles of the boots and have springs
under the insteps. the whole underpart
being steel.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
In the Back Woods.

The young fellows who were taking
a pedestrian tour through the Berk-
shire hills recently lost their way
after making the ascent of Mount
Everett, and at nightfall were glad to
seek quarters at a lonely farm house.
The woman in charge got up an ex-
cellent supper, killing a chicken for
them, gavD them clean, comfortable
beds, ana had savory breakfast for
them in the morning. When they
asked her how muck-they should pay
her she replied, in a deprecating
way that as times were little hard
she would have TO charge them more
than they might like to pay, but
twelve and one-half cents apiece
would be satisfactory. She was as
tonished when they gave her dollar.
and probably thinks to this day that
she entertained Vanderbilts una
wares.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
MAN WITH A GRIEVANCE.
Wants Husbands to Treat Their Wives
Better When In Public.


Better When In Public.
There's something that I want
written up" said man to a New
York Times reporter. II want you
TO give fellow that / saw on the
elevated railroad fourteen kinds OF
Hail Columbia. Not SO much on the
mans own account" continued the
indignant one ''as for the sake of
calling attention to the class of which
he is an example and of reprobating
the altogether too general prevalence
of such conduct as he was guilty Of"
"What is the story?" asked the re-
porter.
There were four persons on the
train" said the indignant one, enter
ing upon his narrative, "two women
and two men. One woman was, ac-
cording to the theory that | formed,
unmarried. Next her was a man
who, | thought, was like the woman,
unmarried. Next him was q married
man and then came wife of man No.
2. It's that married man that I'm
after. What l found fault with was
his treatment of his wife. / rode
with the party from Harlem to the
city hall, and in all the time that the
trip consumed that man didn't speak
q civil word TO his wife.
"He turned around in his seat in
such way that he shut his wife com
pletely out of the party and gave his
attention exclusively to the other
woman. His wife tried hard to get
into the conversation that he and the
other two kept up, but he wouldn't
have it. could see him hitch about
with the evident intention of freezing
out his wife, tho person in the party
to whom he should have shown the
most attention. Finally the poor
woman gave up the struggle and sat
for the rest of the journey like a
dummy. felt that it would do me
heap Of good if | could have that
man alone in a barn for about ten
minutes.
perhaps shouldn't have had such
strong feelings on the subject if |
had not seen a great many similar
cases and had my mind running
bOlhCN VII bllO ouOJICb lOl ~ illNAAbh
or so. have formed the conclusion
that not more than half the men in
New York know how to treat their
wives decentiy when they go about
town with them. rarely see u man
who is at loss for words when he is
with some other woman than his
wife, but see "a great many men who
-, 4hf,,1- Of
on which they may exchange pleas
ant words with their wives.
when | see a man ride three
quarters of an hour without saying so
much as Boob to the woman with
whom he is travelling, | say to my
self: That's his wife,
"Men ought to treat their wives
not only with respect, but with gal
lantry, when they are with them in
public. The man who can't do that
will be kinder to his wife II he per-
sistently leaves her to find her way
about town alone. No matter what
might be my private opinion of my
wife, I'd keep it to myself I'd have
pride enough for that. Think I'd go
around saying by my actions to every
lady in the cars, "that thing there is
only my wife?' No, sir; if hated
her as do epson salts I'd not show
it. and surely if was fond of her |
wouldn't give out the impression that
was not through failure to exert
myself little to entertain her. I'd
rather be caught stealing sheep than
treating my wife impolitely."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
On n shopping Plan.

''Is this where l can send tele-
gram?" Asked the lady of the clerk in
the telegraph Office.
"Yes'm."
"How much does it COST"
where to, ma'am?"
ITO Aurora"
depends on the number OF words,
ma'am."
"And will it get there, sureP"
"Yes, ma'am."
1.-The same dayp"
"Yes ma am"
"And II sent it day after tom or
row morning it would get there that
afternoon"
Certainly, ma'am."
"Well, / wanted TO be sure about
II II send one, that is all. Good
day."-Chicago News-Record.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Miss Bryant's Gift to the Tllden Library

Miss Julia S. Bryant of Roslyn, r. l.,
the youngest daughter of William Gull
len Bryant, has given to the trustees of
the Tilden trust almost a thousand vol
umes selected from her fathers library
at Roslyn. To the books were added
some interesting old pamphlets and a
large number of medallions taken from
the same collection.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
pitch Pine Beams.

Pitch pine beams will shrink in
thickness from 1874 inches to 1871;
spruce, from 81 inches to 50; white
pine, from. IL inches TO III; yell
low pine. q trile less. Cedar
beams VIII shrink from width Of IA
inches to 1871; elm. from IL to 10a,
and oak. from IL 10 liz.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Tho Russian Wife.

The Russian woman now has more
rights after marriage than she ever
hid before. Two hundred years ago
she was little more than a slave, and
tie husbands horsewhip always hung
over the bed Of the married pair and
was used freely. Women were then
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Great Britain. Imports of Wheat.

During the year 1891 Great Britain
and Ireland received from other
countries 154. 100000 bushels in
wheat and flour. which is about
seventy per cent of the total consump-
tion. OF these imports the United
States contributed forty-fvo per cent
and Russia less than eighteen per
cent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

The best rem edy for rheumatism that has
yet Teen discovered MIR u. II. Tyler. 10
W. Main 81. alesburg Ill, writes: 81 have
uscd good many bottles of Salvation OH,
and think It the best remedy for rheuma-
tism | ever used"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

Covetness is a little snake, but it grows
fast.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

perfect cure! Mr.. Edward r. Brough-
ton $50 W. 18th St, New York City, n. Y,
says this: "a lave used several bottles of
Dr Bulls Cough syrup in my family and
find 1t a perfect cure. I cheerfully recon-
mend IL. ,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

Sleep is the hoRey IN the comb of healthful
labor.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-16

NESTS LIVER PILLS POSITIVELY CURE LIVER
Sick Headache and Indigestion CSC. Ali druggists
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
THE SILVER COMPROMISE.

The proposition to return to the Bland
Allison silver act is not so much in the
nature of compromise on the real ques-
ton at issue as an expedient to gain time.
The bimetalle party wants to let the gold
craze subside. Some of the best friends OF
silver do not see the way clear TO adopt
free coinage at the present time and con-
sequently are content to arrest the de-
probation of silver while consideration Of
the main question is pending. a CON-
temporary says there is no such thing as a
compromise on question of mathematics.
The proposition is sound, but the matter
at issue is not one of mathematics. b.
metaIlism cannot be established under the
Cleveland administration. What then
shall be done7 Shall the friends of BIZ
metallism withdraw all the props on which
silver rests and let it sink TO its value as a
metal. having no money function, or shall
they hold it where il is until conditions
permit its restoration as money? The war
on silver has continued now for twenty
years. Great interests are combined against
it. Every holder of bonds of European
Governments or of the bonds of the United
States Government is interested IN keep
ing up the purchasing power of money.
This immense power cannot be over
thrown in a day. Possibly it cannot be
overthrown at all But the friends OF BIZ
metallism should put off the evil day as
long as possible in the hope that in time
the old conditions may be restored.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
WHAT Is NEWS?

In the course of very judicious article
under the head Of Questionable News"
the Willows journal says:
The taste OF the public for news is queer
thing cater to. An individual who will turn
In lofty scorn from an account OF brula al. de-
grading prizehght finus interesting reading in
the account OF tragedy involving murder and
other details too unpleasant to mention.
The journal will perceive in its own
statement the difficulty of discriminating
between items of news. A certain proper
ton of the readers Of a city daily wants
one class of news items elaborated. while an
equally large proportion desire the fullest
details in respect to arother clsss of news
items. A third proportion will hardly
glance at either, but will take delight in
three or four column descriptions of some
other happenings of the day. An exam
inaiion of the files of the most widely cir
culated and Influential papers in the
United States shows that sports, gossip.
criminal news and kindred matters of
which considerable portion of the readers
disapprove are given much more consider
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
!. THINGS POSSIBLE.

A Herald dispatch from Valparaiso says
that instructions have been sent by the
Chilean Government to its Minister at
Washington directing him to ascertain
what the United States Government thinks
of calling convention Of South American
republics and the United States to con-
slider the silver question. The suggestion
will. of course. include Mexico, the States
of Central America and all other nations
that prefer bimetallism to monometallism.
1t is vital question to South America and
Mexico. whose currency is based upon
silver. Should the United States join the
gold nations further depreciation in
silver may be expected. A silver union,
with silver dollar which shall be legal
tender in all these countries. would not
only arrest the depreciation OF silver. but
open the way to closer trade relations
among them than have vet existed. The
United States would be in a way to take
advantage of these closer relations, as 1T
is the only one of the proposed combina-
tion in a position to supply the other
Americas with finished goods. The United
States may well excfaim: ION, for year
of Harrison and Blainep
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Queen Regent of Spain is exceeding
~ fond OF bathing in the ocean. Spanish
papers refer Jn her as the best woman
swimmer in Spain.
United States Senators live high as a
rule, but young Mr.. Woc0tt of Colorado,
has already earned the name of the most
expensive eater in Congress.
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins, who presides
over the ''live letter" department of the
most expert reader of illegible handwriting
in the country.
The wife of Robert Grant, the Boston
novelist, now Judge of Probate. is the
daughter OF Sir Alexander L. Gait, the
Canadian financier and diplomat, who
died OH Tuesday.
William B. Bate, Senator from Tennessee
never lights cigar. He has always one
in his fingers or between his lips. but no
oh is put to IL. He advocates what he
calls the dry smoke"
Unless she has bnen misrepresented.
Belya lockwood, the standing presidential
imposslbliry, admits that it is 63 wears ago
since she was born. She taught school at
the age of IA. and married four years later.
jerome K. jerome began life as clerk.
Then he went on the stage, which qualified
him for tlaywriting, TO which, in conianc-
ton with novel writing and co-editing a
magazine, he has since turned his atten-
tiOn.. ::
George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts,
one of the few surviving members of
General Grants Cabinet, will surrender
his residence in Boston next month in
order to go to Washington to act as .cOunsel
for the Chilean Government in certain i'm
POI tant cases to be brought before the
commission especially appointed to con-
slider them
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
THE SHARON COMPANY.
Conveyance of Valuable Property to
the Trust.

The Sharon Company, recently organ
lied in New jersey, with ID. o. Mills.
Henry B. Laidlaw. w. G. CULVER, Francis
G. Newlands. Harvey A. Herrold, J. Milton
Ferry and Frederick w. Sharon as direct
ors, fled for record yesterday a deed from
Francis G. Newlands. as trustee of the
estate of William Sharon, conveying to
that company the Palace Hotel and Grand
Hotel properties Wells Fargo & Co. build
ing and other property on and near New
MONTGOMERY street The consideration
received by Mr.. Newlapds. as trustee. for
the transfer consists of the stock and
bonds of the Sharon Estate Company Sc
cured by deeds of trust on those prop
critics. Mr.. Newlands will be president of
the company, James M. Allen vice-presi-
dent and j. P. Marin secretary, and
Thomas Brown. A. K. P. Ha -mon and
John G. Kirkpatrick the local directors
The Sharon trust will not expire until
November, 1895 Meapw Mr.. New
lands remains trustee of the Sharon estate
and will be the owner aud holder. as such
trustee, Of all the st ock and all the bonds
issued by the Sharon Estate Company.
AT the expiration of his trust he will divide
such stock and bonds among the heirs and
beneficiaries named by Mr.. Sharon in his
deed of trust.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
THE DUTY ON RAISINS.

The Fresno Morning Republican gives
unanswera able reasons why the duty should
not be removed from raisins. 1t says:
The present duty on raisins is not excessive,
and the home industry has now grown 10 such
proportions that the tariff cannot foster a
monopoly. The present duty Is not more than
sufficient 10 Offset the advantages OF cheap
labor and cheap transportation enjoyed by the
Spanish grower, thus placing the California
grower on an equal footing with his foreign
competitor.
A journal published in a raisin-produc-
ing district naturally advocates the special
interest of that district. But the principle
it applies should not be restricted to a
local application. The Fresno raisin-pro-
ducers have put their case in the hands of
men who do not believe in protection as
principle, but who make show of want
ing protection for the special industry in
which they are engaged. We do not ques-
ton the sincerity Of the Fresno committee
in their advocacy of duty on raisns, but
admit that we are somewhat at loss to
know how they will answer the inevita-
Bile question if they advocate protection to
other industries than the one they have
personal interest in. Two or three years
thought they saw an advantage to them
selves in aremoval of the duty on raw wool
and a small reduction In the duties on
wooden goods, retaining, however, con-
siderable duty on the products of their
mills.
They did not seem to realize that it would
hardly be just to expose to ruin the whole
wooi-producing industry while remaining
under the cover OF protection themselves
One consequence CT this selfish and mar
row policy was the election of President
and Congress pledged to free raw wool and
q large reduction in the duties ON wooden
goods. The New England manufacturers
aided marvelously in putting the tariff
for-reveDue party in power, and now are
closing their mills in the fear that the ap-
proach to free trade which may be made
will ruin their business. They sowed lit
tie wind and are now waiting the coming
Of whirlwind.
THE CALL will do everything in its
power to strengthen the position of the
committee of raisin-growers before the
free-trade Congress which members of that
committee helped to elect. We would en-
deayor to prevent the sacrifice of a valuable
interest to the notions of handful Of men
who are interested in the preservation Of
that industry. But we would remind the