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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
The Royal Baking Powder is in
neutrality-suspicious.
and to the comfort and conve-
nience of modern housekeeping.
Royal undoubtedly purest reliable baking
powder pubic-U s. Cert Chemists Report
1 but RoyaL-A FoRTM
CAef House, Presidents Clsveland and ArfAHy

1t is a curious fact and one difficult
to account for; that the red-headed girl
is not afraid of white mouse.
There are men who always take out
their watches with an air that seems to
say they know the sun is wrong.
The third son of the president of
France is a private in the French army,
waiting for his admission to the Ecole
Polytechnique.
1t is a great deal easier TO get up at
six o'clock in the morning the evening
before than it is when six o'clock in
the morning really arrives.
Silver name checks to attach to trav-
cling bags are shown among new
things in small silver. These make a
pretty gift for either a man or a
woman.
All the ladies, who less than a year
ago, formed a cooking club at Wash
ington, have since that time captured
husbands, and the cooking club has
''gone to pot"
A resident of Burke county, Georgia,
has a couple of peculiar fowls-a cross
between common barnyard chicken
and a guinea. Their plumage is darker
than that of a partridge, while they
are speckled as guinea.
A German woman, Frau DIR. Won
Wettstein Adels, spent three months
as a common factory hand at Chemnitz
and in the neighborhood, working in
Eve different factories, gathering ma
terial for a work on the subject of
women textile workers.
Among the advertisements for cur
ates recently was one for a bachelor,
who must be an earnest, Evangelis-
tic Catholic without mustache." The
church which wanted him was de-
scribed as in healthy, bracing and
lovely district" observing all the ''six
points" of ritual in its worship.
French novelists are forming pow
erful association for the protection Of
their rights against publishers, their
chief alleged grievances being that
the publishers sell their books at any
price they can get for them, and that
they print and sell a larger number OF
volumes than they account for.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
A Ballad and It's Story.

The famous ballad of "Auld Robin
Gray was written by Lady Anne Lind
say, daughter of the earl of Bal
cares, when she was twenty-one
years old, but it was not for fifty years
later that she told how she came to
write it. Robin Gray was shepherd
on her fathers farm, and for some
thing he had done she wished to i'm
mortalize him. So she began this
ballad, but before she finished it she
asked her little sister for her advice
about it. She said she was making a
ballad about distress in humble life;
she was bringing sorrows upon her
heroine's head; she had sent her
jamie to sea, broken her fathers arm,
caused her mother to fall i'll, and given
her auld Robin Gray for lover. "But
/ want her to have fifth sorrow.
Now what shall / dop" "Steal the
COO, ANNIE" was the little girls re-
ply. And accordingly Lady Anne
completed the round of Jennie's trou-
bles by having the COW stolen away"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
NUT OF THE DEVIL DANCES.
An Insect within Causes It to Move
About Mysteriously.

An Insect within Causes It to Move
About Mysteriously.
A remarkable curiosity Is nut
which grows at Hermosillo, Sonora,
Old Mexico, says the Pioneer Press.
1t is called the nuez del diablo, which
means the nut of the devil. Saturday
afternoon Major Davis, who is just
now holding down Colonel Barber's
chair as adjutant general in the de-
partment Of Dakota, was sitting in
his easy chair contemplating half
dozen of the meats of these nuts,
which had just been sent North by an
officer of the regular army who is
now in Mexico.
The meats were dancing about in a
very mysterious way, and the report
or and several others who were
watching the strange performance
were completely mystified.
"I'll tell you what is the matter
with those meats" said the major.
"I'm not going to give away my trick.
When man learns good sleight-of-
hand performance is he going to give
it away for nothingP I guess not"
The nuts continued to dance and
Lieutenant Sturgis, who was as much
in the dark as the reporter, began a
critical examination of the crazy OBJ
jects supposed to be inanimate.
"Oh, yes, think have the trick, "
said the lieutenant. There is some
thing alive in these meats. There is
strange throbbing in them"
The reporter picked up one of the
meats, and, surely enough, there was
a very peculiar throbbing sensation
in it.
The major was so thoroughly
amused by this time that he could
not longer withhold the secret. 1t
seems that worm is born on the in
side of the meat of this nut and that
it lives there for some weeks and
dies without seeing the light of day.
The worm eats out the inside of the
meat, then becomes FESTIVE and moves
about a great deal. 1t is in this
period that the nuts become appar-
emily animate. The moving of the
worm causes the nut to turn about.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
CHAPTER ".

luo DeCOuQ OOWluR,
1t is no part of mine to narrate the
adventures of John Nicholson, which
were many, but simply his more mo-
mentous misadventures, which were
more than he desired, and, by human
standards, more than he deserved /;
how he had reached California, how
he was rocked, and robbed, and
beaten, and starved; how he was at
last taken up by charitable folks, re-
stored to some degree of self-com-
placency, and installed as q clerk in a
bank in San Francisco, il would take
too long to tell; nor in these episodes
were there any marks of the peculiar
Nicholsonic destiny, fol- they were
just such matters as befell some
thousands Of other young adventurers
in the same days and places. But
once posted in the bank, he fell for a
time into high degree of good for
tune, which, as it was only a longer
way about to fresh disaster, it be-
hooves me to explain.
It was his luck to meet young
man in what is technically called a
"dive." and thanks to his monthly
wages, to extricate this new acquain-
lance from position of present dis
grace and possible danger in future.
This young man was the nephew OF
one of the Mob Hill magnates, who
run the San Francisco stock ex-
change, much as more humble adven-
turers, in the corner of some public
park at home, may be seen to perform
the simple artifice of pea and
thimble; for their own profit, that is
TO say, and the Encouragement of
public gambling. 1t was thus in his
power-and, as he was of grateful
temper, it was among the things that
he desired-to put John in the way of
growing rich, and thus, without
thought or industry, or so much as
understanding the game at which he
played, but by simply buying and
selling what he was told to buy and
sell, that plaything Of fortune was
presently at the head of between
eleven and twelve thousand pounds,
or, as he reckoned It, OF upward OF
sixty thousand dollars.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Whom music sounded through the hall
And revelry was ruling all
With gentle sway,
When laughing eyes were strangely bright
With thoughts that waltz and wine excite,
In lover way
he bent his lofty head to say;
"Forever thus to dance with you
Would bring me lasting Joy and true,
Nor would ask
From now until LIES final end
That fate should ever to me send
More grateful task
Than guiding you-pray lift your maskl"
She owned Il would be passing sweet
IL down the halls OF time their feet
Together strayed
To measures of the merry dance.
Then, with an upward saucy glance,
"But then, !" she said,
"You know the piper must be paid"
Detroit Tribune.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
I'm A NEW STATE.
Queer Names in Washington Come From
Variety of Sources.

Queer Names in Washington Come From
a Variety of Sources.
The names of some of the precincts
this state are certainly wonderful.
IN Adams county there is Wash
tuena, which sounds to the Tacoma
News as if it was intended to call it
Washington, but the Indian influence
controlled before the word was com
pleted. Anatone and Theon are
rather simple, but Humptulips and
Wynoche are at least unfamiliar.
Catnlapoodle and Chelatchie are
closely followed in the list by Wash
ougal. Arkansaw and Monticello, in
Cowlitz county, show the influence OF
the chivalrous South, but Toutle and
Olequa are distinctly home produc-
tions. Fishhook, Pasco and Wash
tuena are the combination offered by
Franklin county, and Garfield has a
pataha and Tuckanon. Coupeville
and Utsalady are familiar in this part
Of the country, but would
sound strange to foreigner,
The county named in hon
or OF the sage OF Monticello
offers Chinacum and Quilcene to the
list of curios, and Enumclaw, Duwam-
ish, Krain, Sammamish and Tolt are
the contributions of King county,
Ollalla, Coleckem. Msnastash. Wenat-
chez, Peschastin, Swauk, Claquato,
Salcum and Skookumchuck are a string
of pearls; Lincoln county has only
Sassis to attract the attention, while
Arcadia and Coqualima and Huma-
huma are in Mason county. Entail,
Looploop and Toats Coulee are in
Okanogan county, nwaco and Tasal in
Pacific. Kapousin, Chop and Tanwax
seem to be all right because they are
nearer home. Avon suggests the
home of poetry in Skagit, but they
have also Guemas, Sank and Samish,
which are distinctly unpoetic. Port
Susan in Skagit suggests home, but
Stillaguamish and Tualco put us at
sea again. Lummi, Nooksack and
Semiahmos are right alongside in
Whatcom. Oneco, Penewawa, Tekoa,
Cowychee, Kiona and Wenas are east
of the mountains.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Legal Lore.

John Jones recently passed his ex-
animation and is now member OF
the New York bar. His strong card
is in getting the truth out OF wit
nesses. The following is sample Of
his system of cross examination:
"Are you married mani"
"No, sir; / am bachelor"
"Will you please tell the court and
jury how long you have been bach
elor, and what were the circumstan-
ces that induced You to become oneP"
Texas Siftings.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Electric Light Baths.

Electric light baths are among the
latest inventions. The necessary
parts Of such a bath are a cabinet
which will enclose the entire body
except the head, and fifty electric
lamps Of sixteen-candle power, or 10
volts, arranged about the body ia
groups, with a separate switch for
each group. The light is thrown on
q section at time. making the pa
tient frisky, and browning the skin
like an ocean bath.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
CHAPTER V.
The Prodigal's Return.


By a little after noon on the eve OF
Christmas John had left his portman-
teau in the cloak-room, and stepped
forth into Princes street, with won
derful expansion of the soul, such as
men enjoy on the completion of long
nourished schemes. He was at home
again, incognito and rich; presently
he could enter his fathers house by
means of the pass-key, which he had
piously preserved through all his
wanderings; he would throw down
the borrowed money; there would be
a reconciliation, the details of which
he frequently arranged; and he saw
himself, during the next month, made
welcome in many stately houses at
many frigid dinner parties, taking his
share in the conversation with the
freedom of the man and the traveller,
and laying down the law upon finance
with the authority Of successful in
weston. But this programme was not
to be begun before evening-not till
just before dinner, indeed, at which
meal the reassembled family were to
sit roseate, and the best wine, the
modern fatted calf, should flow fol
the prodigal's return.
TTo BE CONTINUED.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
The Last Thing He Needed.

The day after Black Friday, Mr..
Gould's old partner, Henry N. Smith,
shaking his finger in Mr.. Gould's face,
shouted: "I'll live to see the day, sir,
when you have to earn living by go
ing around this street with hand
organ and monkey" Maybe you will,
Henry; maybe you will" was the
soothing RESPONSE; ''and when want
q monkey, Henry, I'll send for you"
--Argonaut.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
THE MISADVENTURES
OF JOHN NICHOLSON.
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
CHAPTER Iu-CoNrNUEp.

And suddenly there came upon him
o mad fear lest his father should have
locked him in. The notion had no
ground in sense; it was probably no
more than "Reminiscences of similar
calamities in childhood, for his
fathers room had always been the
chamber of inquisition and the scene
of punishment; but it stuck so rigor-
ously in his mind that he must in
gtantly approach the door and prove
its untruth. AS he went he struck
npon drawer left open in the bust
ness table, 1t was the money-drawer,
q measure of his fathers disarray;
the y-drawer-perhaps a point
ing providence! Who is to decide,
when even divines differ between a
providence and a temptations or who,
sitting calmly under his own vine, is
to pass judgment on the doings of .
poor, hunted dog. slavishly afraid,
slavishly rebellious, like John Nichol-
son on that particular Sunday His
hand was in the drawer almost before
his mind had conceived the hope; and
rising to his new situation, he wrote,
sitting in his fathers chair and using
his fathers plotting pad, his pitiful
apology and farewell:
my Dear Father: have taken the money,
but / will pay IL back as soon as am able.
You will never hear OF me again. did not
mean any harm by anything, so 1 hope you will
try and forgive me. I wish you would say
goodby TO Alexander and Maria, but not IL you
don't want to. 1 could not wait to see you,
really. Please try TO forgive me. Your afiec-
uonate son, JOHN NICHOLSON"
The coins abstracted and the mis-
sive written, he could not be gone too
soon from the scene Of these trans
gressions; and remembering how his
father had once returned from church
on some slight illness in the middle
of the second psalm, he burst not even
make packet Of a change of clothes.
Attired as he vas he slipped from the
paternal doors, and found himself in
the cool spring air, the thin spring
sunshine, and the great Sabbath quiet
Of the city, which was now only
pointed by the cawing of the rocks.
Tire was not soul in Randolph
Crescent, nor q soul in Queensferry
street; in this outdoor privacy and
the sense of escape, John took heart
again, and with pathetic sense OF
leave-taking, he even ventured up the
lane and stood awhile, strange peri
at the gates of a quaint paradise, by
the west end Of st. Georges church.
They were singing within; and by a
strange chance the tune was st.
Georges Edinburgh" which bears
the name, and was first sung in the
choir of that church. sWho is this
King of GloryP" went the voices from
within; and, to John, this was like
the end of all Christian observances,
for he was now to be wild man like
Ishmael, and his life was to be cast
in homeless places and with goddess
people.
1t was thus, with no rising sense
OF the adventurous, but in mere
desolation and despair, that he
turned his back on his native city
and set out on foot for California, with
more immediate eye to Glasgow.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Do not fear sin; overcome 1t.
A full stomach giveth courage.
Speak kindly OF the rich; they need It,
The house fly is very slow in his moving.
The rose cannot inhale its own fragrance
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Features OF sporting life-brolen noses.

We eat too much and take too little out
door exercise. This is the fault of our mod
ern civilization. It's claimed that GARFIELD
overcome these abuses.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
Patience is a virtuo-in other people.

lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels Each
Day. In order TO be healthy this Is neces-
sary. Cures constipation. headache, kidney
and liver troubles and regulates the stomach
and bowels. Price soc and S100 at all dealers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
An ossified man is mere shad. OIL
Coughing Leads to Uonsumption.

Kemps Balsam will stop the cough at
once. You will see the excellent effect after
the first dose. Ask your friends about IL. 500
and S1.00 at all druggists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Sudden Changes of Weather cause Throat
Diseases. There is no more effectual rem
edy for Coughs, Colds, etc, than BROWNS
BRONCHIAL TRoCHES. SOLD ONLY IN BOXES.
Price 25 cts.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

have used Dr. Deane's Dyspepsia Pills for
Indigestion and constipation, and found
them an excellent remedy for those troubles.
r. II. BAKER,
Meat Market Canton. N. Y.
Write DR.. ]. A. Deane Il Co., Catskill, NY
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Keep the hogs away from the sheep, es-
pecially when the ewes are Landing.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

ssHanson's Magic Corn salve."
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist forit. Price 20 cents
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

EtTS-An nts stopped free by DR. KLiHES GREAT
kEkfE RESfORkR. No Mt after first day's Mar
veous Treatise and % 90 trial bottle free to ft
Send to Dr. Kline 031 Arch st.. Philadelphia Pa
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
NY Experience.

One of the points in good shepherd Is TO
know well how TO care for the lambs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

II the Baby II Cutting Teeth,
BE and that old and welitried remedy. MIRA.
WIEsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP for children teethino.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24
A coat of paint has no buttons on it.

Brummell's Cough Drops.
Use Brummelps Celebrated Cough Drops. The gonu-
ine have A. IL. d. on each drop Sold everywhers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

A popular drink-the same.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

A bridegroom always wears immacn.
lately clean linen and careworn ex-
preston
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24

Dead men draw no pensions.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28

Three OF about the liveliest ants il
the sugar bowl, the Mesdames Best
Rickenberg and Thomas, recently plann.
ed pleasant entertainment, and it re.
suited in jolly surprise party Mon
day night at the residence of James
Joyce. In the first place it is one of the
best places in the world to 90 for good
time, and you can't surprise Jin and
his better half go much that they won't
do their share towards making it pleas
ant. A large portion of the best people
of the town were there and with music,
dancing and refreshments the hours
sped gaily on. If all present did not
have a good time it was surely not the
fault of the host and hostess.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28

Mr.. c. A. Mol1on, brother of P. B.
Nelson, of this place, and manager OF
the great Elkhorn mine at Elkhorn,
Montana, has been spending several
days IN DeLamar,a guest of Capt. Plum
mer. Mr. M. has many acquaintance
and friends here among the miners all
of whom have good word for him as a
wide-awake manager. We found him
very pleasant and approachable gem
tleman with great hopes for the mining
Industry in Montana 80 soon as the sill
yer question shall be satisfactorily set
tied. The low price of that metal more
seriously effects that state than Idaho,
for the reason that ths ores there carry
q smaller percentage af gold.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28
Mask Ball.

On the 18th of next month there will
be given, at Jordan Valley, grand
mask ball. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to the people of DeLamar, Silver
City and adjacent points, and good
time ia assured. The best of music has
been secured and no pains will be
spared to make this THE ball of the sea-
son. Tickets, including eupper, So.
Don't forget the date, Feb. 14th; St.
Valentines Day; the time when the
birds mate.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28

Messrs. Wells, McGeary, Phelps and
Pratt feel elatsd, and they have good
reason to. For several weeks they have
been drifting on the Treasure Vault
ledge and have struck what has eyerv
appearances of being bonanza. The
vein is over four feet in width, mostly
ofsolid quartz, but with stratas of de-
composed tale from two to six in ches in
thickness, passing through it. This de-
composed substance is said to be the
same character as that found in the De-
Lamar mine where the richest silver
ore is extracted, and like it, is exceed
lngly rich, while much of the hard
quartz is also high grade. The strike is
about eighty feet from the surface and
as the Treasure Vault is located in the
midst of the mineral zone, the owners
have good reason for believing that
they are about TO be rewarded for years
Of prospecting.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28

DeLamar people respectfully invited to call upon
when they up Silver City, and examine my immense
stock of Dry Goods Clothing Hats Boots and Shoes Gents
Furnishing Goods Beds and Bedding Furniture Watches and
Jewelry Fancy Goods Pipes Cigars and Tobaccos and long
list of etceeras included in the above aim keep
and am content with reasonable profits Especial attention
is invited to my large stock of Fine Clothing just in
receipt of large ofvery fine Shoes Call and
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES JUST RECEIVED
silver City, Idaho. DAVE ADAMS.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28

By pulling six-shooter in CONTAIN
GINS saloon, Tuesday, John Morrison
created a stampede which came near
causing injury to several persons who
tumblPd over each other in a wild rush
for the back door. This sensslsss and
foolish habit of drawingsa gun on every
little occasion will yet lead to serious
trouble and then tie NUGGET will say,
III told you So"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-28
Notice to Patrons.

Mr.. John Lamb having purchased the
NUGGET plant will in the future conduct
the paper. All subscriptions now paid
IN advance will be filed out by him and
suoscrIoers IN arrears are requested to
settle with him. Advertising accounts
up to the Let of February, 1898, are due
the undersigned. Statements will be
presented to all and prompt settle
ment ofthe same will 'obligs,
GUY NEwcoMB.