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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

Butler balls, and he used 10 take her to the
theatre. Friends of mine saw them there,
as happy as turtle-doves. But what Of tllatg
a man must sow his wild oats; and Gas
ton is not the less fond of your sister be-
cause he has played fast and loose with the
Michel"
my sister shall not marry man who has
played fast and loose with any woman,
said Rose
THAT is rank nonsense" answered Ma
man Schubert. "Mark my words, Rose; II
you try TO part those two, you will break
Kathleen's heart"
Better her heart should be broken than
by bad husband" said Rose.
'IIe will not make bad husband. Do
you think a man is any the worse FOR a fiirta'
ton or two in his bachelor days? That is
the way he learns the meaning of real love.
Rose was not easily appeased. She saw
CASTOR next day, and taxed him with his
dishonorabe conduct to the widow. He
was indignant at the charge, and declared
that there had never been anything serious
between them. She had been attentive to
him as q customer at her crcmerie; he had
been civil to her--that was all. The visits
to the theatre meant no more than civility,
"There was something more than civility
on her part, and think you must have
known it," answered Rose, intensely in
earnest. IF you knew it and fooled her
YOU are not a good true man; and you shall
not marry my sister,
CASTOR protested against this absurd de-
cree: but finally admitted that he had been
TO blame. Yes, perhaps he had known that
Madame Michel was just little taken with
him, inclined TO like his society, and to be
Jealous and angry when no deserted hel
shop. The shop was convenient; the wo
man was handsome and amusing. Why
should not a man whd was heart-whole, who
had not one real wOman-friend in the wOr d.
talk and laugh with pretty shopkeeper!
II could do no harm.
1T has done harm. i saw as much In
Madame Michers face the other evening
And then she told CASTOR the story of that
encounter on the quay.
"MademOiselle Rose; you eXaggerate the
situation. The Michel has spice OF the
devil in her, and can give black looks or
very slight provocation. For the rest shf
and have seen the last of each other.
have never crossed the threshold since
was betrothed to Kathleen;I never shall
cross ii again."
"Promise me that" said Rose.
81 promise, from my heart
This happened in the year 60; and now /
was midsummer in the fateful year 20, anC
France was treading daily, step by step
nearer the edge of the abyss.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
TO BE CONTINUED.
A STORY OF BARNUM.
The Odd Idea which was So Very Profit
able to Two.


An exchange gives an illustration of
Barnum's ingenious methods of at
tracing attention TO his museum may
be mentioned the incident of the brick
man." One day a man applied for
aims to Barnum, who was sitting in
the ticket office. To the inquiry as to
why he did not go to work. the mendi-
cant replied that he would gladly do
so at "A dollar day, if he could find
employment. Barnum gave him twen-
ty-fve cents to get his breakfast and
told him to return and he would give
him 81. 80 day and easy work. When
the man returned, Barnum gave him
five bricks and told him to place one
in front OF the museum, another on
the corner OF Vessey street third at
the corner of Fulton-on the ST.. Paul's
church. side-and the fourth on the
east corner of Fulton. Returning then
TO the museum he was to take up the
first brick and replace it with the fifth
and then continue his rounds, putting
down one brick and taking up the
other each time. He was enjoined TO
answer no questions and to seem not
TO hear. and at the end OF each three
quarters of an hour he was. to pass
into the museum, look around at the
curiosities for fifteen minutes and then
resume his rounds with the bricks.
Barnum said that the man played his
part to perfection, and his eccentric
conduct caused a great crowd to gather
at. the museum. Many of these, of
course. went into the museum to seek
some explanation as to the purpose of
the ''brick man." This was kept up
for several days, until the police re-
quested his withdrawal because such
crowds fingered about the museum
that traffic was interrupted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
CHAPTER ".
TIE SONG OF VICTORY


It was at the beginning of August, Just
after the victory of SIrrebruck, and while
Paris was stirred and thrilled with dreams
of conquest, and all a-fluuer with warlike
feeling, that the two sisters were married in
the cathedral of Notre Dame, on a sunshiny
Saturday morning.
There was no iinery at this wedding, no
train of friends. Madame Schubert; a young
Journalist and playwright who. wrote for
Mortomars paper; a middle-aged gray
bearded artist, who had painted plaqges for
some of Durand's cabaet-work-these were
the only guests. The little procession walk
ca across the bJdge in the morning sunlight,
the sisters dressed alike IN gray cashmere,
with white bonnets, and each wearing a
cluster of white roses at her throat, Moth
ing could b. simprror less costly than this
wedding toilet, yet both brides were charm
ing; neamess, purity, modest cOntentment
with humble fortunes, were all expressed
IN their bearing and costume.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
Regnlating the pay.

In different times and in different
countries there have been at least
four separate systems OF. regulating
the civil day. The ancient Baby
lonians reckoned from sunrise to sun
rise, and great division of the Per-
SLAMS even to this day reckon the day
as beginning at noon. The Romans
finished one day and commenced an
other at midnight, and 1t was from
them that we have inherited our
time-reckoning custom. The Athe-
mans, and the Jews, Gust prior to
the cruciiixion, at least finished the
day with sunset The scientists have
their "sidereal" and "solar" modes OF
keeping track of the fight of time,
besides q variety of other systems.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
OPTICAL PHENOMENON.
Tourists In Norway See Themselves In
the Middle of "a Rainbow.

the Middle of n Rainbow.
A correspondent OF Nature, at
Christiana, gives an account OF very
curious phenomenon Witnessed from
the top of Gausta mountain, height
5000 Norwegian feet, in Telemarken,
south of Norway We were a party,
he says, OF two ladies and three gen.
tlemen on the summit of this noun
tain on August 4. On tho morning
of that day the sky was passably
clear; at noon there was thick fog.
Between 6 and o'clock in the after
noon (the wind being south to south
west) the fog suddenly cleared in
places so that we could see the sur
rounding country in sunshine through
the riffs. We mounted to the flag
staff in order to obtain q better view
of the scenery, and there we at once
observed in the fog, in an easterly
direction, double rainbow forming
complete circle, and seeming to
be twenty TO thirty feet distant
from us. In the middle Of this we all
appeared as black, erect and nearly
life-size silhouetUes. The outlines of
the silhouettes were SO sharp that
we could easily recognize the figures
of each other and every movement
was reproduced The head of each
individual appeared to occupy the
center Of the circle, and each of us
seemed TO be standing on the inner
periphery of the rainbow. We esti-
mated the inner radius of the circle
to be six feet. This phenomenon
lasted several minutes, disappearing
with the fogband. to be reproduced
in new fog three or four times, but
each time more indistinctly. The
sunshine during the phenomenon
seemed to be unusually bright Mr.
Kielland-. Torkildsen, president Of the
Telemarken tourist club, writes to
me that the builder OF the hut on the
top of Gausta has twice seen specta-
cles of this kind, but in each case it
was only the outline of the mountain
that was reflected on the fog. He
had never seen his own image, and
he does not mention circular or
other rainbows.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
Angels I'm Disguise.

The days that come and set in light,
Are fraught with perfumes of the soul
That from the inward being roll
Away into the darksome night.
But days that rise and go in gloom,
That thro' the long hours brighten not
Are with noisome fever wrought,
That chafes the soul and pales its bloom
Beg Phosphor, therefore, now to lend
A portion of her morning star,
That shines from Frightening skies afar
And with it to thy long home wend.
And all that see thee on the way
Shall bless the angels in disguise
That thus, from common earth woes, list
To heights of glory and of day.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

When the duke of York was obliged
to retreat before the French, Sheridan
gave as toast. "The duke of York
and his brave followers"
In order to fur nish sport for n shoot
ing party on his Moravian estate,
Baron Hirsch had 5000 cartridges
transported in their cages and liber-
ated.
In China boy begins his schooling
at five years of age and is at his study
nearly twelve hours day.
One OF the priced relics belonging
to the New York historical society is
the tail of King George III IS horse.
Among the Kondeh people, who
live on Lake Nyassa in Africa, the
favorite form of suicide is TO enter the
water and allow ones self to be de-
voured by crocodile.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
August
Flower

For two years suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that l would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation Of a friend I procured
a bottle of August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. I gained
strength and flesh rapidly. feel
now like new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me. "
Jas. Z. Dederick, Saugerties, N. Y.@
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

There is a remarkable sympathy
between the eyes. So much is this
the case that any serious injury to
one is almost certain to affect the
other, hence the necessity which
often arises for the removal of the
injured eye mainly for the sake OF
saving the other. This sympathy
has been shown to extend 80 far that
color perceived by one eye alone ex-
cites the retina OF the other.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
Persian PI,Yslc.

A Persian never takes a dose OF
physic until he has previously obtained
favorable answer from heaven in the
shape of an omen. Should he have
the potion at his lips, II he happens to
sneeze it is enough; the physic 10
thrown to the dogs ara nnother practi-
toner is called in.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

mister, gimme dime. I'm a vic
tim OF the 1ndianny train robbery. "
"How were you a victimP"
II didn't get any o. the stolen
money, see?"-Chicago Record.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

Michigan Central Winter Tourist R@tes.
The Michigan Central are now selling
round trip Winter Tourist tickets to points
south ana south est At reduced rates good
returning until June !, Is ID also TO Pacific
coast point, good nine months TO return.
FOR tlc,ets and information. apply at
Union Ticket On ce, 81 Nood - ara avenue
corner Je" ersun.or Depot foot of bird 81.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

The Union tactic is Offering greatly re-
duced round trip rate, To all alltUrnia
points and Portland, oregon this year
FOR full particulars inquire OF your near
est ticket agent, or address
r.. T.. ! ONAX,
Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Acert
maha, Neb.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
The book That Helped Him.

"Will you oblige me-" said the re-
porter who gets novel interviews,
"by telling me what book has helped
you most in life?"
And after a thoughtful pause the
great man answered.: my bank
book.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

Rates lower this season than usual TO n.
points in Florida ana the south in eife.t
from all pO ntS on or Via tie Cincinnati
Hamilton ~ Dayto railroad
ID. q. rItNARDS,
Gen | ass Agt
Cincinnati, o,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
No Trouble t. Eou They are Personally
Inrhun d

The Great Central Route Weekly Califor-
MIA ,.Xcuraion> are in char-e OF experienced
conductors ana "a uuifor ed porter who ac-
company the party to lie situation and look
after the wants and comforts OF the passen-
gers.
\ on will save time and expense by dining
our next party. send for folder ri, Ing de-
tails. / T.. SDEA ,ER, gr.
j.. J.. LOMAX, ri 20 Ia.1 81, Chicago.
Genl Pass & Ticket Agt
Omaha Nebraska.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
Cheap Rate. TON frni,.

There Is nothing ea,e" Z, believe thar a
pleasing lie about ourselves.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

Don't step over one duty to perform an
other. Take them as they come.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01

Don't forget that no matter where you are
Somebody is looking at you.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
1 aoGs Ss:: T Tis }ThoMpsCns Eye Wafer.

Apply Balm intoeach nostril.
lily RRO2.. fewarrnn SC..N.Y.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05

We have literary clubs, social clubs, read
ing clubs. artists clubs and clubs Of clubs.
want TO put in very earnest and serious
plea Cor a natures club.
Why should not ~ or so agreeable people
join together for the purpose OF learning 10
love and enjoy naturei For the purpose OF
making long tramps or taking long rides
through wild dark forests or noble noun
tain-, or open. pleasant iieldss | do not
mean botany clubs-heaven Forbid For
me the thought of dissecting rose or n
leaf and deliberately explaining all those
delicate, beautiful parts is repugnant
But IL IL the truth that few know how 20
enjoy y nat God meant that we should en-.
joy-the wood-, the fields, the liquid notes
OF the meadow lark, the primrose light in
the sky at dawn, the wild rockets and this
tie downs blowing along the lanes, the song
the brook sings under the browning reeds,
the message OF tue winds, the exquisite low
murmur OF the sea or its terrible, passion
ate roar.
We do not pause To marvel at the beauty
OF a violet with dewdrnp pearled In its
heart, but we linger long and coyetously
over those fashioned by the jewelers. art,
or we go into ecstasies OF admiration and
wonder II we find them on bit of canvasl
We go miles and spare not expense To- look
on some famous painting Of "a sunset which
has set the whole world to talking, and lol
the same sunset has swung nightly on our
horizon for years, and we never knew IL, he,
cause we did not have IL in us to see what
the artist -Peterson's Magazine
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05
The Law AKainst ProfanItx.

An nc. of parliament that was
passed in the reign of George ii for
the suppression of profanity is still
occasionally brought into force.
Under it the Wisbech magistrates
have just convicted man named
Abraham Pye of Walpole, who was
charged with publicly using four pro-
fame oaths, for which he had rendered
himself liable to a penalty of shil-
lings, being shilling for each oath.
The defendant admitted his guilt, and
ut the request Of the chairman the
clerk explained the provisions of the
act, which imposes penalty of l
shilling per oath when uttered by a
laborer, 2 shillings when the offender
is above laborer and under the de-
gree of a gentleman, and 5 shillings
when spoken by any one above the
degree of gentleman.
IL was also explained that the con-
sequences are the same whether the
oaths are uttered by person on his
own premises or in the public streets.
The bench fined the defendant shil-
lings and l3 shillings costs, and init
mated that they intended to suppress
the use of bad language in the public
streets as far as they possibly could.
-Lloyd's Weekly.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05
Near to Death.

a man can come awfully near dying
and not know anything about Ii, " said Ed
win Soule at the Lindell yesterday II tell
you, We had narrow squeak a few nights
ago We were coming from Chicago to
Kansas City. After supper went into the
smoking room and sat smoking and chat
ting with several Of my fellow passengers
One by one they all dropped off 10 bed, and
by II o'clock | was all alone. | wasn't
sleepy and sat up smoking The sleeping
car was full Of people, every berth was
taken, and | was in luck to get an upper
Well, along about o'clock ] decided TO 40
TO bed As stood up happened to glance
out Of the window and SAW a bright flame
coming up from under the car. called
She Pullman conductor and showed II to
him. lie said II was hot box and that
the packing had taken Are
1t was bad one, he said, and the Jour
nal was in danger Of getting NO hot that it
would break II IL does, he said, there
will be a whole lot OF dead people In this
car, but we'll have 10 take our chances and
run TO the next stopping place Finally
We got there, and so hot was that journal
that we had to wait there three hours b.
fore we could move foot | was the only
passenger on the car that knew OF the dan
ger and thought then that there ought 70
BE- some sort OF a law that would com.
pei conductor 20 notify sleeping passengers
Of their dangers. st Louis Globe Demo
crat
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05

This invention il steam drill, made
with view TO the exigencies of lock break
ing. Gilmore is said 10 have experimental
with smokeless powder, and IL is said that
he has also dabbled IN electricity, which he
evidently thought might be used TO atlvan.
tage In his business The smokeiess pow
der report Is we'll founded, for when Gill
more was recently arrested with a large as
sortment OF felonious briC-a-brac In his pos
session there was found among Il a small
package that proved 10 contain sample oi
the powder. the value of which from a
burglarious point Of view, lies not In its
smokeless quality. but in The fact that bulk
for bulk IL Is twice ~ strong and mol half
40 noisy as gunpowder. With elect ric drills
and smokeless powder 1t would seem that
the world Is probably ON the eve OF re
naissance OF the almost forgotten art Of
bank burglary, and that wide field OF
profitable industry Is about 10 be opened to
the fin de steele safe opener
OF course IL must not be forgotten that
the officers Of the law are constantly on the
alert, aud that a. soon az burglars invent
anything which will make safe opening
easier the safe manufacturers are uoti-
fed, and they usually meet the advance
with some new device In other words, il
Is a simple ease Of diamond cut diamond -
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05

Every one has heard that old and popu.
larly accepted story Of Marie Antolnette
and the starving peasants. and Il is alwayr
cold as an illustration of the heagtlcSsness
and carelessness u royalty concerning the
common people.
IL has served it's purpose well, but unfor,
tunately il Is not quite true. MIR. Mattieu
Williams gives the correct version. He says:
I'VE are told that when Marie Antolnctte
was informed of famine In the neigh Dor.
hood Of the Tyrol and of the starving of
some Of the peasants therr, she replied. Il
would rather eat pie crust than starve.'
Some ~ the story tellers. by the way, have
Il pastry others cake. Thereupon the court
icrs pigsissi at the ignorance Of the pam
peIcd princess, who could suppose that
starving peasants had such an alternative
tand as pie crust.
The Ignorance. however. was all on the
side ~ the courtierS and those who repeat
the story In its ordinary form The prin-
cess was the only person in the court who
really understood the habits Of the peasants
of the particular districts ia question They
cook their meat, chiefly young veal, by roll
ing Il in kind ot dough made Of sawdust,
mixed with coarse -four to hold IL together,
then placing this in an oven or wood EN-
bers until the dough Is hardened TO tough
crust and the meat is roasted throughout
To the proper point Of cooking Marie An
toinette said she would rather eat pie crust
than starye, knowing that those meat pie
crustS are given To the pigs, and they arc
nourished by them and digest them in spite
OF the weed sawdust"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05

OF Bsmarck's capacity with the bottle
in his student days many tall stories are
told, but he was, in fact, mighty drinker
all his life until DIR. Schweninger forbade
further indulgence because OF increasing
stoutness. OF professors he stood not in
awe, and on several occasions he showed
this clearly in classrOoms and elsewhere
On one occasion he was brought before q
university judge TO be questioned because
he had the night before thrown a bottle
into the street through the window Of a
beer hall. He entered the presence Of the
Judge clad not In the conventional dress
suit obligatory on such occasions, but wear
ing his long smoking coat, n big pair OF
riding boots aud white leather pantaloons.
He was vigorously smoking a long pipe,
and his ferocious looking English bulldog
accompanied him, To the great terror uf the
judge, who, retreating behind chair. tim
idly asked Bismarck what he wanted
Nothing at all, was the cool reply, but
you seem TO want me, and he showed the
summons.
The dog was sent away, and the judge be.
gan to ask how the bottle got into the
street. Bismarck said Is must hav0 flowa
there. But what power caused this bot
ties fiightf" persisted the judge
1T partly consisted, sir, replied Bis
marck, ''in the contraction OF the muscles,
partly in the impelling forward Of the arms
To illustrate and the student picked u,
a heavy ink well and aimed it at the judge
who saw the point and dismissed the case
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05
Homicide In Massachusetts.

The Springfield Republican has gone ex.
haustively into an analysis OF homicides
committed in MASSACHUSETTS, during the
last 2! years, with a view to ascertaining
how-the thickly settled and manufacturing
eastern counties compare in point OF Grim
snality with the western agricultural
counties. The latter suffer almost incresi-
IDLY by the comparison, and two conclu-
sions stand out with startling distinctness--
that nearly all the murders were done In
remote and sparsely inhabited hill towns
and that the murderers were native Anleri-
cans and not the immigrants whose igno-
rance and inferiority have been so much
dilated upon
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05
Revenge In Animals.

Revenge is a trait think we must
legitimately get from animal ances-
try. Elephants are notorious for
paying up old scores. Areally pleas
ant story comes from Sacramento of
= fellow who carried his whip into
the park and began tantalizing an
ape that was chained. The frantic
animal broke loose and made such
havoc of the fellow that he was
slightly more naked than Adam in
the garden of Eden A horse in Mo-
desto, Cal, is reported as having q
similar quarrel, and though gentle
with others never sees his tormentor
without trying 10 kill him. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05

A deaf minister's clerk had handed 70 him
written slip ON which were the following
announcements which he was requested 10
make: The new psalmhooks viii be used
next Sunday There win be baptism OF
infants next Sunday. by some mischance,
however, this clerk took 1t into his head To
reverse the order of the intimations. Ae.
cordingly he began, There will be hap
tism OF infants next Sunday" lie had got
no further when the weak, piping voice Of
the deaf divine was heard from the pulpit,
"Andthose who have not got any may have
them for sixpence each, at the manse; strong
backs, ls pence. "-Cornhill Magazine.