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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
TO BE CONTINUED.
THE EPWoRTH CHILDREN.
Their Mother Was Wise beyond the Age
in VIII ch she Lived.

Their Mother Was Wise Beyond the Age
in VIII ch She Lived.
Mrs. Susanna Wesley was very much
in advance of her age in one particular
and that was in waiting until her little
ones were five years old before teaching
them 10 read. Many babies in those
days were taught the alphabet at two,
and could read quite fluently at three,
while of a noted Scotch divine his BIZ
ographer tells that at three he had ac-
quired the Greek as well as the Eng
lish alphabet, and at Eve was wrest-
ling with the Greek Testament. Nor
was this considered precocious or sing
ular. writes Margaret Sangster in
Harper's Young People. So Mrs.
Wesley displayed independence as well
as discretion by waiting till the fifth
birthday had come before her tiny men
and women were brought into the
school-room.
The way of teaching was this: The
day before child began to learn, the
house was set in order. and charge
given that none should come into the
room from nine till twelve, or from two
till five, which were our school hours.
One day was allowed the child wherein
to learn all its letters, and each of them
did in that time know all its letters,
great and small, except Molly and Nam
cy. who were day and a half before
they knew them perfectly, for which l
then thought them very dull; but the
reason why then thought them so
was because the rest learned them so
readily; and your brother Samuel, who
was the first child l ever taught,
learned the alphabet in few hours.
He was five years old the 10th of Feb
ruary. The next day he began to
learn, and as soon as he knew the let
tiers, began at the first chapter of Gen.
esis. He was taught to spell the first
verse. then to read it over end over
till he could read it off-hand without
any duration; so on with the second,
till he took ten verses for lesson,
which he quickly did.
Easter fell late that year, and by
Whitsuntide he could read chapter
very well; for he read continually, and
had such prodigious memory that
do not remember ever TO have told him
the same word twice. What was yet
stranger, any word he had learned in
his lesson he knew wherever he saw
il. either in his Bible or any other
book; by which means he learned very
soon to read an English author well.
The same method was observed with
them all AS soon as they knew the
letters they were first put to Spell and
read one line; then a verse; never
leaving till they were perfect in their
lesson, were it shorter or longer So
one or other continued reading at
school time, without any intermission;
and before we left school each child
read what he had learned that morn
ing; and ere we parted in the afternoon,
what he had learned that day.
The returns of the censusTof England
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
Boies Turned s.own in Iowa.

Election was quiet in Iowa notwith-
standing that the battle was a fierce
one. Democrats were positive of their
ability to return Gov. Boies to the
chief executives chair for another
term Republicans were equally posi-
tive that jackson could be elected, and
they were right. The Republicans
name the governor by about 5000
plurality The legislature will also be
strongly Republican.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
.r.a. w.,,-Known Lady K,,,ed.

Mrs. ]. L. Luce, of Parma, was
struck by Michigan Central train and
Cured at crossing one mile east of
the village. Mrs. Luce was so years
of age and mother of well-known citi-
zens of that county.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
THE BATTLE ELSEWHERE.
Although an '.On"' Year "A Great Deal of
Interest was Shown-In Ohio,

IHIeTesl WE SHOWn-Th UhIO'
Mckinley is ali right. Such is the
verdict of the people of the Buckeye
state. The plurality is about $4,000.
The battle WAS strictly on national
issues and the campaign was the hottest
the state had eXperien ed since the
civil war. The leading Democrats at
tribute their defeat to the reaction
over the recent dongs of congress-
There was a vote of 500, 900 polled,
every voter in both parties turning
out. Not only was Mckinley reelected
governor, but at the very least two
thirds of both branches of the state
legislature are now Republican, and
all the state officers as well as many
county officers were carried TO victory
along with the imam of destiny"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
Virginia.

The Democratic state ticket was
elected by a large majority, and they
will have more than two-thirds ma
jority in the Legislature. Many Ne
groes voted the Democratic ticket.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
PennsYIYanla.

Philadelphia elects all Republicans,
as did Pittsburg and other prominent
cities. There were only some minor
state offices to be filed, but the Re-
publicans gobbled the whole business.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
GOOD CHANCE \

Oden go Typewriter for $40, IL cash with or.
de- is received before Nov. lst, 1893. The
famous Odel Typewriter is used by Lawyers,
Ministers, Doctors, Merchants, Editors and
Government Oficers, because OF its clean
print simplicity and manifold copies. No
teacher required IL will do your work In one
hours practice Order now and take advant
age of this exceptionally
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
kentucItY.

Returns from almost every point
show Democratic gains and an increase
in the Democratic majority 10 the state
legislature.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10

The returns of the censusTof England
and Wales show that the population in-
creased from 26, 200, 900 in 1881 TO 29, 000,-
600 in 1891, or at the rate of only 11.54
per cent. This is the smallest ratio Of In
crease in any decade since the beginning
OF the century, and it disappoints the ex-
pectations of all the statisticians who had
been estimating the growth during the
ten years, and who had calculated popu-
lation for 1891 larger by nearly $50, 900
than the census actually found 1t
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-23

will abide by .Ae recommends
tions of these, ana over one hun
bred more people who have been
treated by US in and around Waco
"The survival OF the fttest is the
ittest."
Our motto: Advertise and spe.
cialize.
Success in business is to adver.
tise. Success ia medicine is to
speclalize--wR DO BOTH.
T. r. BALDWIN, NJ. D.,
Specialist in Rupture and Rectal
Diseases.
Office, Provident Building, Rooms
SO. 90, 81.
Residence ia North Eleventh St.
Office hours to IL a. M, and 8
to 5p. m.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-23
DIR. BALDWlN'S THUNOE r
On Taxing Doctors, Cure alp
Specialists, Etc.

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
The Science OF Sleeping.

The old-time superstitious belief
that human beings should sleep with
their heads toward the north is now
believed to be based upon n scientific
principle. Some French savants have
made experiments upon the body of q
criminal who had suffered death, and
these tests go to prove that each hu-
man body is in itself an electric bat
terry, one electrode being represented
by the head and the other by the feet.
The body of the subject upon which
the queer experiments mentioned
above were made was taken immedi-
ately after death and placed upon II
pivotal board, free to move in any di-
rection. After some little vaccilation
the head portion turned toward the
north and then remained stationary.
One of the experimenters took hold of
the pivot and turned it 80 that the
head pointed south, but upon being
freed it almost Immediately resumed
the first named position turned until
the head pointed north. To prove that
this was neither accident nor coinci-
dent upon muscular twitching, as some
had suggested, the board was repeat
edly turned half around and then
freed, but always with similar results.
Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
Oh, the Pity of Iti

If anybody has any advice he isn't
using he might send some to this un.
fortunate young man who writes as
follows to the San Francisco Exam.
ner:
II am fairly goodlooking young
man, twenty-five years of age, not
rery large or very strong. [ teach
mountain school eight months In the
year for $50 month. During tho
hummer vacation l pick berries for
cents a box. l am thirty-fvc miles
from railroad or postoiiice, and it is
put seldom l see paper of any kind.
81 board with the trustee of the
district, grass widow forty years
bid, with family of ten children.
She is determined to marry me, but
wants me to pay $25 for the divorce.
As the other trustees are afraid of her
she has things her own way, and ]
feel that If l absolutely refuse td
comply with her request l shall lose
my position and suffer physically
also, as she scalded one man who 1e.
fused her.
'She is type Of the coming Wo.
man-s feet tall, weighs 200 pounds,
plows her own potato-teld, breaks heI
own horses and mules and chops hel
own wood. Were | once hers all
these duties would fall to my
lot. She says that at the end of the
year she can sell her potatoes for $500,
md that If l dig them | can have
l5O minps s25 for the divorce).
"All the articles in the Examiner
!ive advice TO young ladies. Can't
Iome one advise an unassuming young
man and solve the weighty problem,
Shall be work or shall he wed and
uorlx2H
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who 1.-Two bet
ter than others and enjoy life moro, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and 'fcvers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
About lightning.

Although lightning and thunder
occur always simultaneously, an in
terval of shorter or loagag duration
is usually observed bctYcGa these two
phenomena, which is dGe % the fact
that sound travels only at tho rate of
l, 100 feet per second, while the pass
age Of light is almost instantaneous
Based upon this fact it is an easy
matter to tell, at least pproXimatcly,
how many miles thunderstorm is
away.
A normal pulse will beat about one
stroke to the second, and by count
ing the pulse beats during the inter-
val of the lightning and the thunder
the lapse of seconds is arrived at and
consequently the number of feet,
which can be reduced to miles.
For example: If thirty seconds
clapse between the flash of the light
ming and the crash Of thunder, tho
storm center is at u distance of 3d.
0G0 feet, or about 81 miles. An al
most accurate calculation can be
made by using watch with a minute
charlottesville Post Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
An ( ged Squaw.

Living in little hut situated on Tho
shore of Chautauqua Lake is a woman
who is deserving of more than passing
notice. She is full blooded Apache
Indian, has passed her Tooth birthday,
and is still as active as woman not
more than half her age. Her name is
Sophia Paul. Between twelve and
fifteen years ago she went there with
her daughter and took up her abode.
The couple had little means and they
bought small tract of land, large
enough to supply them with the neces-
saries of life, and there they have lived
ever since.
The aged woman has full possession
of her faculties and does not require
spectacles in order to see distinctly.
Like the majority of her tribe, how
ever, sheis stoical but rarely ill-hu-
mored. Many go from Lakewood to
see Mrs. Paul each season. She realizes
that she is an object of interest and is
always pleased to see callers. Many n
silver quarter and half dollar is left
IN some conspicuous place before >..o
visitors depart, and this, with the aid
OF what can be wrung from the soil,
provides the pair with comfortable
llVing'-Dunkirk IN. y. Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
Those Wooden Nutmees.

There may possibly haye been an
original incident among the many
peddlers from Connecticut. of one
who cheated by selling wooden nut
megs to his customers, but probably
not, says the Hartford Times. The
cost In time and labor, of making
such artistic frauds would more than
balance the receipts. Doubtless the
wooden nutmeg must go with the
Eastwood hams.
All the same, the joke has served
the purpose of giving the old-time
tin peddlors and clock peddlers from
Connecticut bad name for superior
cunning and trickishness. 1t served
at least one good purpose in giving
birth to one of the best toasts ever
offered at dinner-old now and well
known but perfect in its way-"The
Nutmeg State. Where Can We Find
0 GreaterT"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
SELECT SIFTINGS,

Julius Caesar is q New York cigar
maker.
The great gold fields of South Africa
were discovered in 1866 by an elephant
hunter named Hartley.
A resident of Missouri recently
finished a guitar composed of over IL
thousand pieces of wood.
The organ grinders in Vienna, Aus
tria, are permitted to play only be-
tween midday and sunset.
The ancients regarded dancing as q
necessary accomplishment. Socrates
learned the art in his old age.
| One of the Paris restaurants celebra-
ted for novelties in gastronomy serves
daily soup based upon grasshoppers.
A farmer near Buchanan, Ga, has,
it is reported tame rattlesnake, that
has the freedom of the premises, and
beats forty yard dogs keeping off in
truders.
One of the largest hauls of mackerel
ever known on the Western Coast, was
made recently in the West Bay Mt Alb
botsbury, Dorset, when over 30, 200
fine fish were landed.
Moses, the great lawgiver and re-
puted author of the first five books Of
the Bible, died on the anniversary of
his birth, August 27, 1705, B. c., being
exactly 100 years OLD.
A citizen of Peudleton, Oregon, the
other day killed a rattiesnake with ten
rattles and a button that was lying in
the grass near some playing children,
which it did not attempt to molest.
"Honey dew" has made its appear
ance on many of the trees and shrubs
around Paris this summer, probably
because of the drought. 1t is shin
ing, gum like varnisa, and has q sugary
taste, but no smell, and cattle like to
eat the leaves
In ITO years after the death of Christ
the whole Bible he'd been translated
into Latin by some unknown author
into what is now known as the old
italic version. By the year 200 it was
extant in Greek, Syriac and Latin, and
by the Ninth Century in thirteen
i"hS uaSeS.
There are probably but few sections
of the country where coyotes can be
seen with brand on them, and that
brand the one of the Government of
the United States. 1t is said to be II
favorite pastime of the Yakinca In
dians to lariat coyotes and press tho
red hot brand of "I. D." Indian De-
partment) on their hanks.
A stupid Office boy in Bangor, Me,
was directed to take to the stable q
livery team which his employer had
just used. He brought the team to the
wrong stable, where it remained for a
week. The owner of the stable has
sent in bill for the board of the
horses, and the owner of the horses
wants pay for the use of the team for
week.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
AIS AnsSsj02n g g.El.g gzlsss zlass EoggEEg EEgeE
An Amphibious Boat.

A new Canadian invention for use
In the lumber districts is coming into
general use In Northern Ontario. 1t
Is called steam wdrping tag. 1t
propels itself on land as well as on
water, and is used by lumbermen
whose operations are carried on
among small lakes connected by
streams of uncertain navigation.
The vessel has proved not only q
success but great boon to the lum-
er trade. Six of these unique crafts
have been BUILT by the inventors dur
Ing the past season, four completed
at their yard in Ottawa, and two
shipped, ready to be put together at
their destination in the Nipissing
district.
They are built in scow shape, with
steel-shod runners for moving over
land; are thirty-seyen feet long, ten
feet beam, decked all over and have
sleeping room for four men in the
bow; the bottom and up the bow is
covered with steel boiler plate. An
engine twenty-five horse power fur
nishcs steam for ten hours work, with
three quarters of cord Of wood.
In the water it moves six miles an
hour forward or backward, as re-
quircd, propelled by side wheels.
On land 1t is propelled by having
cable drum on which is coiled five
eighths of mile of steel wire cable,
which is fastened with pulleys to a
tree or some object in front, the boat
inv bn Il ID. L. Il
boiler is hung on an axle in the cen.
ter, and screw arranged on the front
enables the firemen to tip it forward
or back, and keep it level going up or
down hill.
1t will move over an elevation OF
one foot in three on land, and draws
about twenty eight inches in the
water.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
PRACTICAL JOKES
Usually silly or Malignant nnd Sometime,
Fatel.

Usually Silly or Malignant nnd sonetin,e es
Fatel
Innocent and hilarious fun ia all
right when it is not carried beyond
the bounds of respect for the feelings
IT others, but when it oversteps this
limit and disregards personal rights,
,mfort, and even safety, it is time
call halt. The practical Joker
under almost all circumstances
unmitigated nuisance. So long as
ne gets his little Joke on somebody
nothing more is required. Whether
It's agreeable or taken in good part
latters not In the least. II the vic
IN Is merely angry the joker puts on
most contemptuously lofty air and
calls upon the members of the COM
munity to observe the surliness of the
individual who can't take a Joke.
That lt'was only intended as such
appears to cover not only null
titude of sins, but multitude OF
idiotic performances that nobody but
himself or these Of his fix seems able
and willing to appreciate. II there
are serious or possibly fatal conse.
quences, there are tears, protestations,
any amount of affected grief and re.
gret-''so sorry, but hadn't the least
idea that anything wrong would come
of it"
The recent drowning of promising
young girl who was put under water
for joke, the disf1guring for life of a
young man by the explosion of car.
fridge, when sombody didn't mean
inything; and scores Of like instances
.onclusively prove that human nature
has some alarmingly weak spots in it
and that there are yet in the world,
In spite Of all the newspapers and
other enlightening influences, very
many extremely foolish persons, and
that there is still great need of rad.
teal reforms in many of the current
Ideas OF what is meant by having a
good time.
Nothing should bo looked upon as
q pleasure that gives pain or anxiety
to other peope. Sensational scares,
the idea q a gigantic hoax, the no.
I@n that to get ahead of somebody
slse 1t Is necessary or proper to do
Iomething to mislead, is one OF the
whims that 1t would be an excellent
thing to breed out of humanity by
sasy and persuasive measures if pos
iible, if not, by the most vigorous
and peremptory treatment
There Is plenty of rational amusc.
nent to be had in the world without
tesorting to such very questionable
form OF entertainment as the practi-
.able ioka
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
Libby Prison In 1ae6.

81 have been a sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea evec since | came out of Libby
Prison in 1865 and at times it was very Sc
we're and my last attack of it lasted me over
six weeks during which time I tried all the
remedies I had previously used and had
several doctors treat me for the same but
nothing would stop it. | was induced to try
bottle of Thurston's Black berry Cordial
and after using less than half a bottle was
relieved and am once more regular. Thanks
to your Cordial, l cheerfuliy recommend it
TO all the ''old boys who are troubled with
that dreaded disease or anyone else for sum
mer complaints, This testimony is unsolic-
ited.-Yours truly, J. L, Styron, Travelling
Salesman"
Thurson's Black berry Cordial is prepared
by fhurston Chemical Co., Grand Rapids,
Ohio,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23

There Is more Ca; arrh In this section o, the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years supposed to be
nounced It n local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be IL constitu-
tional disease and therefore requires constitu-
tonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, man.
ufactured BY f. J. Cheney &c Co., Toledo, Ohio
Is the only constitutional cure on the market
1t Is taken internally in doses from 1Odrops to
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
free. Address
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23

strap attached to the basket and fast
ened around his forehead. Thus, his
powerful neck is brought into play
and made to carry the heavy load,
which rests only lightly upon his
back. In this manner the cargador
peddler carries his heavy burden into
every village and town in the almost
impossible heights of the Sierra Ma
dres. .-Chicapo Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
An Artist in Sand.

A curious sight in the streets OF
Toxic is to see an old man seated on
smooth piece of ground having
round him little plies of sand of diff
fcrent colors, red, blue yellow, black,
etc. Placing pinch from each pile
in his right hand, he will draw or the
smooth ground tie figure of man or
woman, the dress all properly colored,
by the sand trickling through his
fingers. 1t is done with great rapid
ity and shows remarkable dexterity.