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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
Minerals for Potatoes.

There are but few largely grown
crops which pay better when success
fully grown than do potatoes. The
crop requires a good deal of labor, an
it must therefore have rich land. Blu
if stable manure is used to make tn
land rich its fermentation in the so
increases the bacteria which produce
the rot if the season be at all wet. IL
a very dry season the manure does MOI
rot, and by drying up under the flu
row it often Injuries rather than help
the crop. Pot toes are so largely com
posed of water that no manure shoul,
be used in growing them that can ter &
20 make the land dryer. 1t is desirabl
to have the soil as mellow as il can b
got. This clover sod insures. An
further fertilizing that is needed ma
be given with commercial manures
especially those rich in potash and nj
trogen. 1t is a crop that needs con
paratively little phosphate. Probabl,
the best compound for growing larg
potato crops, says american Cultiva
tor" is mixture of nitrate
with wood ashes, or if ashes cannot b
easily obtained, with potash salts. Ma
nured thus, the crop grows vigorously
and its foliage keeps dark, healthy
green, which it could not do if stimu
lated by fermenting manure. The 20
tato crop needs cool AMI moist ground.
Mineral fertilizers tend to keep soil
both moist and cool. Although phos
plate itself is not largely used in the
composition of the potato, the MAXIM
of superphosphate requires the use o
sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol. Tni.
is powerful germicide or destroyer O
the bacteria which cause fungus, bligh,
and rot Hence some portion of phos'
phoric acid should be in all potato ma.
nures. The potato manures that art
made especially for this crop are, we
believe, better adapted for potatoe.
than any other, and their use will al
low the application of stable manur,
to crops on which it will probably pa,
better. This subject of adapting ma
nures to crops 10 which they will dc
most good is one of great importance
1t is matter on which there is grea,
need of thought, and which needs also
not less the test of practical experience
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

and they blasphemed, and they drank.
Obi how merciless men are especially
after they have destroyed you! Do
not look to men for comfort or help.
Look TO God.
But there is a man who will not re-
form. He says, 81 won't reform"
Well, then, how many acts are there
TO a tragedy. / believe five.
Act the first of the tragedy. A young
man starting off from home; parents
and sisters weeping 10 have him go.
Wagon rising over the hill. Farewell
kiss flung back. Ring the bell asd let
the curtain fall.
Act the second. The marriage altar.
Full organ. Bright lights. Long
white veil trailing through the aisle.
Prayer and congratulation, and eXcla-
nation of "How well she looks"
Act the third A woman waiting
for staggering steps. Old garments
stuck into the broken window pane.
The biting of the nails of bloolless
fingers. Neglect, and cruelty, and
despair. Ring the bell and let the
curtain drop.
Act the fourth. Three graves in q
dark placo-grave of the child that died
for lack of III sdicine, grave of the wife
that died OF broken heart, grave of
the man that died of dissipation. o.
What blasting heath of three graves.
Plenty of weeds, but no howe S. Ring
the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act the fifth. A destroyed souls
eternity. No light. No music, No
hope. Anguish coiling its serpents
around the heart. Blackness of dark.
ness forever. But l cannot look any
longer Woe! Woe! | close my eyes
to this act of the tragedy Quick
Quick! Ring the bell and let the cur.
tain drop, "Rejoice, o young man, in
thy youth, and let thy heart rejoice iu
the days of thy youth; but know thou
that for all these things God will
bring you into judgment" There is
way that seemeth right to a man, bu
the end thereof is death"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
THE FAIRS TIME-BhLL.
How 1t viii lie Handled and Controlled
In It's ~ ork.


The fve-foot time ball TO be dropped
at the worlds fair will be made of
canvas on steel frame. 1t will be
wound up each day to the height from
which it is to fall, and it will be set
and electrically connected in such a
manner that the breaking Of the cir
cult at 12 noon will release it.
The cable by which it will be con-
trollcd has been laid, connecting
the new observatory with the en-.
tire Western Union telegraph sys-
tenn, the touch of a button at the
Washington end of it instantaneously
transmitting notice of the hour over
$50. 900 miles of wire.
When that button speaks the whole
country will listen and the hands of
20, 600 electric clocks all over the coun-
try will point to the correct minute and
second. Thrre are 1000 such clocks
in New Yo k City alone All railways
factories and industries of every kind
pay attention to the signal Three
minutes before noon each day all
Western Union lines are cleared of
business, every operator takes his I'm
ger from the key, circuits are opened
and at the instant when the sun passe.
over the seventy-fifth meridian the
spark of intelligence is flashed to ali
parts of the country. 1t requires less
than one-ifth of a second to reach San
Francisco.
The twelve-o'cloclS signal sent from
Washington ind Gates IL a. IN. for Chi
cago, 10 a. IN. for Omaha and m.
for the Pacific coast, the United States
being divided into four perpendicular
strips, and each strip setting its clocks
by the time of the meridian which BIZ
sects it from north TO south, Thus
each strip is only one hour earlier than
the next strip TO the east
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

THE Boston Herald insists that the
snow-shoveling profession in largo
cities is going to be feckoned ere
long among the lost arts; that as civ
ilization advances municipalities will
learn how to clean streets and side
walks Of the offending snow without
the use of shovels and scrapers; that
II will be by some method of generat-
ing heat with extraordinary cheap
ness and by ingenious devices, bring
ing it to bear with such effect as to
dissipate the snow as fast as it falls
and prevent entirely the formation of
ice. And then, when these Utopian
days roll around, and frost becomes
caloric, fabrication friction, and veg
citation withers and dries up under
the parching influences Of floods OF
rain, the earth, by the movement Of
q lever, will be made to reverse its
axis revolution. A button will be
touched. and, prestol blizzard is a
summer zephyr, below zero cold a
sunstroke.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

If cholera ever breaks out in any
of the homes located on the Croton
watershed, where it is estimated
As, people live, the people of New
York who drink the drainage of the
watershed will stand about as much
of a chance to escape the malady as
would consumer of strychnine to
escape the gripes. One case of cholera
anywhere in the Croton valley could
contaminate the water supply of
Americas metropolis. The city
made one great mistake in not bury
ing all the territory drained by
Croton river years ago and convert
eng it into a park. The mistake will
have to be corrected some day, and
at an expense mistake, or else New
York will have to go to Lake Ontario
fer a water supply.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
Tho Mail Delivery

One curious cause of delay in the
clivery of mail in inclement seasons
not generally understood. 1t re-
suits from the fact that mail is sorted
for delivery, or''t thrown as they say in
the business. on the trains Two men
cover a certain line ~ road and one
is supposed 60 be at one end when the
other is ready 10 start for the OPP
posite end. If enc gets caught in a
snow storm or by accident the other
goes on as usual and both get on one
end. The consequence is that when
the next train 10 ready there is no
railway mail clerk for the run and
mail is not sent out.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

"MUD miners" is the term used TO
describe IL class of workingmen en-
ployed to labor in a tunnel which is
being built as conduit for gas
under the East river from New York
to Brooklyn. The pressure of con-
denscd air is so great in the tunnel
that even strong men labor only two
houEs and are then taken to the sur
face t. recuperate. Recently there
have been several deaths in the tun-
mel So frequently have ambulances
been summoned TO the entrance that
the police authorities are making an
investigation with a view TO lessen
ing the danger to the workmen, who
are in future to be examined by a
physician before descending into the
shaft.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

a CALIFORNIA woman agreed TO
marry a mature major from Mime
sofa. Before the date set for the
wedding the major was so far for
getful of his obligations as to die. He
made the amepde honorable by leav-
ing his fortune to his fiancee. Rela-
tives started the usual contest and
lawyers extracted the customary fees
but the California heart has been
comforted by share amounting to
about $15),J0L To have loved and
lost is a painful condition, but that
it may be marked by alternating cir
cumstances nobody With even an or.
binary commercial inctinct will deny
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

NEW MEXICO has story about the
discovery of forty-three skeletons
left inadvertently on the desert sands
by a company of cavalry that
went ont in 1879 and never came
back again. The habit of the army
authorities of turning companies into
the Wilderness and not even sending
to find what had become of their
bones is very late to make itself
known, but it is reprehensible and
ought to stop.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

THE reason that hats are occasion
ally lost at the White house these
DAYS may be due to two diametrical-
ly opposite causes, thus As a result
of some interviews with Grover the
head swells to such an extent that
the hat is lost in the bowling wilder
ness about it; in others the caput
shrinks to such a degree that the
owner swears he never possessed
such mislit in his life.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

British soldiers will wear seamless
socks in future, because they insure
greater marching efficiency. The
old style Of scanned socks chafed the
skin and made the soldiers foot-sore.
The seamless socks do not Tenders
for the supply OF 100000 pairs, q
years estimated requirements, have
bssn invited by the government.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

NUMEROUS metal ties have been in
vented and many roads have tried
them. but all have proved unsatis-
factory. The principal objection to
them are their cost and their non
elasticity. A track laid on metal
ties wears out rolling stock much
faster than one laid on timber.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

AS THERE are faint signs on the
horizon that the pugilistic industry
is declining in this country, the pro-
fessionals should look over the field
offered by the French chamber OF
deputies If the Frenchmen knew
how to put up their props any body
would give SO to attend a session of
the chambers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

AN Eastern capitalists whose money
had been drifting in the pockets of
his illegal adviser claims to have
been hypnotized. His theory seems
to be that capability in theft, culti-
waited to a point approaching pei
lection, loses its larcenous character
and becomes u science.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
A Little ArIred.

Teacher--Who was Atlas?
Bov-Oool He was the biggest
hiphwayman there ever was; he
robbed everybody.
Teacher-Nonsensel
Bov-well. the book saws he held mp
the earth, anyhow.-Good News
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

If the earthquake industry is to
enjoy permanent revival in Mexico.
look out FOR a grand rush of Yankees
to thai country to establish pipe
lines for the purpose of conveying the
heat north and selling it to denizens
of frigid regions.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

Milk should never be kept in cellar I'M
less the cellar Is thoroughly ventilated (:
otherwise it will become injured by foul
odor or mold and its purity cannot be re-
stored
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14

MEMBERS of parliament have Off
3; :':'; sljHsa7 4, g :s7 3;.. R:s
States Office is sought for its honors
alone. At least such allegation has
Asen mado.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the terms OF q
certain mortgage dated March the 9th, 1885, and
recorded In the Office OF the Register OF Deeds
for st. Clair County, Michigan, In Liber 43 OF
Mortgages, on page 29l, on March the 18th, 1888
at ~ o'clock M. executed by Abel Collins and
Alzlna Collins his wife, to Marcia Il. Noble, and
duly assigned by Bostwick II. Noble, executor
of the estate OF the said Marcia r. Noble, de-
ceased TO Ada l.. Seward on Nov. 2sth, 1892
which assignment was recorded In Liber OF
Assignment Of Mortgages for st. Clair County
at page 256, November 10th, 1892, at 80 A. M,
whereby the power OF sale In said mortgage has
become operative and there is claimed to be
due at date hereof the sum OF Two Hundred and
Six Dollars and Sixty-Eight cents (s206.Gs) OF
principal and interest, and an attorney lee OF
fifteen Dollars (S15l
Notice Is hereby given that said mortgage Will
be foreclosed by a sale OF the mortgaged prem.
ises at public auction TO the highest bidder al
the front door OF the County Court House In the
City OF Port Huron, Michigan, that being the
place for holding the Circuit Court for said
County, on Monday the 9th day OF March. 1898,
at one o'clock In the afternoon OF that day To
satisfy the amount due on said mortgage, To-
gether with said attorney fee and the costs oil
this foreclosure, no suit at law or In equity hay-
ing been instituted TO recover said amounts.
Said mortgaged premises are described as
follows, as Is shown by said mortgage: The
south half 10 OF the east half ~ OF the north
east quarter (t) OF section five (5( Town eight (S
north, Range 40 east. containing forty C4o)
Dated this ist day of December, 1892.
HARVEY TAPPAN, ADA L. SEWARD,
Atty for Assignee. Assignee Of Mortgage
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the terms OF q
certain mortgage dated the 18th day OF May, 1889,
and recorded In the office OF the Register Of
Deeds for st. Clair County, Michigan, In Liber
As of Mortgages, on page 206, on May the 9th,
1889, at 90 r. M, executed by Joseph l. Collins
and Sarah Collins his wife. TO Marcia Il. Noble,
whereby the power OF sale in said Mortgage has
become operative, and there Is claimed TO be
due at date hereof the sum OF One Hundred and
Twenty-Six Dollars and Seventy-Seven Cents,
(S126 I'D of principal and interest, and an attor-
ney fee of Twenty-Five Dollars, ($25.00), which
said mortgage was duly assigned by Bostwick X.
Noble, executor Of the estate of said Marcia +.
Noble, deceased, to Ada l.. Seward, such as
signment bearing date the 2Sth day OF NOveIn-
Der, 1892, and recorded In Liber OF Assignment
of Mortgages for st. Clair County, on page 257,
on November Goth, 1892, at 80 A. NJ,
Notice is hereby given that said mortgage will
be forecosed by a sale of the mortgaged prem
Uses at public auction to the highest bidder, ut
the front door of the County Court House, in
the City of Port Huron, Michigan, that being
the place for holding the Circuit Court, for said
County, on Monday the 9th day of March, 1898.
at one o'clock I'm the afternoon OF said day, TO
satisfy the amount due on said mortgage to-
gether with said attorney fee and the costs of
this foreclosure, suit at law or In equity having
been instituted to recover said amounts.
Said mortgaged premises are described as
follows as is shown by said mortgage: The
south half Cd of the east half (D OF the north
east quarter "a of section five (5) town eight (S)
north, range fourteen (i4) east
Dated this 1st day of December, 1892.
HARVEY TAPPAN, ADA l.. SEWARD,
Atty for Assignee. Assignee of Mortgage.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Good Looks.

Good looks are more than skin deep,
depending upon healthy condition
of all the vital organs. If the Liver be
inactive, you have n Bilious Look, if
your stomach be disordered you have
n Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys
be affected you have a Pinched Look.
Secure good health and you will have
good looks. Electric Bitters is the
great alternative and Tonic acts directly
on these vital organs. Cures Pimples,
Blotches; Rolls and gives n good com.
plexioh. Sold at Grant Holden. a.
Bros. Drugstore, Scots, per bottle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Farm for sale.

Located mi. north and I mi. west of
Yale, containing ~ acres, all improved
and ploughed ready for crops. Good
buildings, fences, we'll of water, young
orchard of 2acres and other improve
ments. Terms--Reasonable, to suit
purchaser. For further particulars
call at the premises or write Chas. q.
Richardson, Yale. 35mg'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
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SEWING MACHINES
POPULAR?
BECAUSE LADIES
BUY THEM LIKE THEM
AND TELL T 5s,Esos.

Many ladies have used our machines
twenty to thirty years in their family work,
and are still using the original machines
we furnished them generation ago.
Many Of our machines have run more
than twenty years without repairs, other
than needles. With proper care they
never wear out, and seldom need repair.
We have built sewing machines for
more than forty years and have constantly
improved them. We build our machines
on honor, and they are recognized every
where as the most accurately fitted and
finely finished sewing machines in the
world. Our latest, the mo. O." is the
result Of our long experience. In COM
petition with the leading machines of the
world, II received the Grand Prize al the
Paris Exposition of 1880, as the best,
other machines receiving only compK-
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The Grand Prize was what ali sought for.
and our machine was awarded il.
Send for our illustrated catalogue. We
want dealers in all unoccupied territory.
WHEELER { WILSON MFG. co.
ses Ats7 wAsAsn AVE-. cnseAso. j.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
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SPECIALISTS.

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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Whats the Matter with Your SkihY
Parmelee's Household Ointment Is the great
Skin Cure. Cures Eczema, Salt Rheum, Ulcers
Heals Cuts, Burns, Bruises Scalds, &C.. A
guaranteed remedy. Csc q box. Sold BY dealers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Parmelee's Universal Liniment is good for
both human and animal flesh, 70 and soc. Sold
by dealers
The record-union., 1893-12-15

AT the time of the arrival Of the Rus
sian felons in San Francisco the RECORD
UNION expressed it's contempt for the
sickly sentimentalists who went into
ecstacies of pity and commiseration for
these cutthroats, insubordinates. coun-
terfeiters and thieves. Indeed, at one
to become international in character.
Russia, however, glad to be rid of
the vermin, made no demand for their
extradition, the Federal authorities had
nothing else to do than to order their
release. In point of fact, they should
have been deported as coming within the
non-admlssible immigrant classification.
But it was held that they were castaways
and did not set out with intent to land
among US and therefore they were not
properly to be excluded. Now comes
the news of the arrest of one of these fell
lows for burglarizing a house in San
Francisco. There is every reason to be-
lieve that he and a Russian companion
have been at the bottom of a series of
burglaries that have been perpetrated in
the metropolis in the last month. 1t is
altogether probable that we shall have
the rest of the gang in the rogues' gallery
before the winter is over. If the Russian
officials are not quietly laughing at us, it
is because they are insensible to nu-
morous situation.
The record-union., 1893-12-15
new PUBLICATIONS.

The "New England Magazine" Is Park
square, Boston, is a Christmas mum Der
and a beautifully illuminated one, and Il
larger numCer than any yet issued.
Among the leading papers are: ''Y ule-
tide in an Old English City," "The Old
Pittsfield Church and Its Three Meeting
Houses" 1.-The Harvard University Lii
brary," by Charles X. Bolton; prescott,
the Historian" by DIR. Samuel Eliot;
Count Rumford and His Daughter" by
Frances NJ. Abbott; The Assassination
of Lincoln" by Horatio King; a stirring
sermon by Stopford Brooke, the great
London preacher, on "The Colliery Con-
fIict in England" ]. b. Harrison, who
has been the energetic Secretary of the
New Hampshire Forestry Commission,
contributes an able article on "Our For
est interests; s. @. w. Benjamin writes
of "Witchcraft in Salem and Europe; !;
Mrs. Celia P Woolley writes upon Mr..
Howells; Shillaber's delightful reminis-
cences of Boston newspapers and news
paper men are continued, and Mrs.
Campbel's ''John Ballantyne" comes to
an end. There are short stories and
poems by ]. w. Chadwick, Julie NJ.
Lippmann, Ralph A. Cram, Marion
Pruyn. Charles 6. Rogers and others.
Part one of the serial issue of 4Shepp's
Worlds Fair Photographed" is at hand
from the GloDe blDle fuOlsnlng OOm-
pany. All the pictures are half-tones
from the copyrighted photographs of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition Direct
ory. Next to visiting the fair comes the
possibility of owning this superb work.
1t is simply unequaled by any pictorial
issue we have seen of this order. The
numbers are . cents each, and in each is
graphic text describing in much detail all
the departments of the great exposition.
When complete there will be some 400
pictures in the volume
The "North American Review" for De-
cember New York. has host of valu-
able papers. For instance, Eugene L.
Chamberlain, Hon. John L. Stevens and