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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

pre- tecting care, by two graves in which
sleep those two old hearts that beat
with love SO LONE for your well
fare, and by the two graves in which
you, now the Lying father and mother,
will find your last repose, | urge you
to the discharge of your duty.
Though parents may in covenant be,
And have their henven in view;
They are not happy till they see
Their children happy too.
Oh! you departed Christian ancestry,
fathers and mothers in glory, bend
from the skies to-day, and give new
emphasis TO what you told us on earth
with many tears and anXieties. Keep
place for us by your blissful side,
for to-day, in the presence of earth
and heaven and hell, and by the help
of the Cross, and amid overwhelming
and gracious memories, we resolve, each
one for himself, "As for me and my
house. we will serve the Lord"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

The establishing several free pub
lie baths in New York has been fol-
lowed by most satisfactory results.
Under their beneficent influence the
sallow complexion so common in ten
ement houses, where hepatic troubles
exist as one of the consequences of a
lack of opportunity to cleanse the
skin. is giving place to red cheeks
and a flush that are signs of vigorous
health and precursors of better citi-
zens. The men who are responsible
for those free baths in New York are
laying>up treasures where moth or
rust doth not currupt and thieves do
not break through and steal. They
are missionaries OF the most practical
sort.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
voudoois m In the south.

The Southern negro still shows
many traces in character and dispo-
sition of his ancestors of the dark
continent, particularly in his strong
faith in the medicine men" of his.
own race, who practice, more or less,
of .'voudooism. OF these quacks the
most dangerous are those who add
something of the white mans smart
ness to their native cunning. One
Brutus Caesar, arrested in New
Iberia, La, for practicing medicine
without a license, became frightened,
and offered. in return for clemepcy,
TO show the authorities $50 many
medicine men that the Jail wouldn't
hold them" The officers hal forty
of these practitioners crowded into
the Jail within three days. These
quacks reap rich harvest from the
ignorant negroes, especially from la
borers who flock into Louisiana dur
ing the sugar-rolling season. The
laborers pay to the medicine men" a
fee of few dollars in advance to in
sure free treatment in case of sick
ness during the season and protec-
tion from all manner of supposed
malign inauences.-New York Sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
UnexDected Alarm.

The church at c. had q new com.
munion service, solid silver, of hand
some design, the gift of wealthy
friend. 1t was kept in heavy iron
chest, securely placed in a stout closet
in the church; yet it was near being
stolen before it had been in the So
ciety's possession a month.
1t was Communion Sunday. The
new service was used for the first
time, and was then replaced in its
strong chest and the closet securely
locked. Meanwhile a thief had Sc
GREETED himself in the church, and when
the building was closed and locked for
the night he began operations.
With the aid of skeleton keys and
other tools he opened the closet and
the iron chest. He packed the silver in
bag, sluny it over his back and pre-
pared to make his escape through one
of the vestibule windows.
Suddenly he was startled by sound
as of approaching footsteps at the
farther corner of the vestibule. 1t may
have been a, rat or a mouse, for besides
the thief there was no human being in
the house.
The fellow made haste to reach the
window-stool, and feeling his hand in
contact with a rope, on the impulse of
the moment he seized it. 1t was the
bell-ro2e and the next instant series
of sonorous psals broke the stiffness of
the night air.
Fool said the thief, ''to sound the
alarm myself!''
The ringing of the bell aroused tie
village. The thief was caught and the
communion service was saved.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24


BEWARE how you talk to your bar
Der. Better let nature take its course
by allowing the ba. Der to talk to you.
The story of Sir Charles Bell is proof;
On one occasion this noted surgeon,
while being shaved, related the story
OF a suicide whose throat he had just
stitched up at the Middlesex hospital,
and explained how the fellow had
failed to give death cut owing to
his lack of knowledge of the vital
part, and pointed out the region in
which the vessels would have been
severed. The barber at once excused
himself for moment, and entering
an adjoining room drew his razor
through the proper anatomical region
to assure success.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
An Old Easter Custom.

In the History of Kent thereis an ac-
count given of the distribution of bread
on Easter Sunday--6O0 cakes and 270
loaves of bread with cheese, twenty
acres of land, called Bread and Cheese
land, having been set apart for that
purpose. In other parts of England
cakes were distributed till Parliament
interfered and ordered the buying of
bread instead. One pound n year is
still charged each viccrage for penny
loaves of bread to be given TO the poor
on the Thursday after Easter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

DURING the cold and snowy weather
of the past winter foxes abou: the
North Beach life-saving station, on
the Maryland coast, were driven to
desperation by hunger. They seemed
TO lose fear OF men, and actually ap-
preached the life-saving station in
daylight and attempted to steal
chickens and even small pigs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

A MEDICAL journal reproaches doc
tors for not taking more active inter-
est in public matters,' and cites the
fact that lawyers are not addicted to
a similar fault. The example is not
fortunate. awyers are addicted to
a more grievous weakness. Their
monopoly of the conduct of public af-
fairs is not'a virtue, else the pig with
four feet in the trough would be a
shining model.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

AMAN In Seattle vent 20 sleep
with-S6, 01) under his pillow and
when he awoke there was pot a cent
there There is moral to this, but
few there Re who need to find it, as
the habit Of reposing tho ear on
5000 wads.is not dangerously prev
alynt
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

IT is poor economy for a man to
starve his family mentally. Young
minds will feed on something. II
nothing wholesome is provided, then
that VIII CHI is the reverse will be
picked up. Books and music are
educators in the home, and, if well
chosen, safe companions for the
children. And at present prices
everyone can afford them.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

THE legislature of Wisconsin is
OVERRIDING the business in its oppo-
sit on to consanguineou marriages by
attempting to pass a bill forbidding
the marriage of second cousins. A
law prohibiting Ii yers counting after
8 o'clock at night or swinging on the
front door yard gate when the be-
witching evenings of May and June
roll around would be about as effective.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Mrs GORDON CUNNING writes from
Ceylon to lament that her experience
accords with that of an English arch
deacon of Bombay that the British
government has made hundred
drunkards wher +le m ssionaries
have made one CT Ian in oriental
lands.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

ENGLAND seems somewhat dis
pleased that the United States flag
should be flying over a first-class
ship. While this is perhaps to be re-
GREETED the fact must be admitted
that the object in hosting the flag
was not to engender wave of de-
light in the British breast.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
ALLEN G. THURMAN
BORN NOV. -, 1873
N I'm mated June z,
Election Day. Nov. 9.
THE RED BANDANA.

He was born the 18th of November,
1873; the words ALLEN G. Thurman"
contain thirteen letters; the words
and figures in Born November Is,
1813," contain thirteen characters.
Add the 81" of June and the "6" Of
November and you have 10; add the /,
8. l and of his birth year and you
have another IS; finally. count the
letters in 1.-The Red Bandana. st
Louis Republic
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

A YOUTH took a pocketbook con-
tanning $47, and when apprehended
some distance away explained that
the episode was merely a practical
joke. At this point the Judge showed
remarkable self-restraint. In finding
the merry jester guilty of larceny he
said not a word about carrying a
Joke too far.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

A HARRoDsBURG, KY, man, widower
and father of eleven children, recently
eloped with a young girl. His num-
srous progeny chased the loving pair,
but didn't come up with them in time
TO prevent their marriage. This
nould seem to be real case OF the
prodigal father with the conditions
ravAPsad
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Two facts are stated in connection
with the recent contest in New Or
leans-one that the fight did not pay
the club. and the other that a strong
sentiment has sprung up in the city
against prize fighting. Probably one
TACT is intimately connected with the
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Rudely Put.

IL asked Cholle Litewait what ne
paid for his new suit, and the little
fool actually got insulted."
'lt was the rude way you put the
question. Why didnt you ask him
what his tailor charged him for itP"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Nor to be outdone ,hyf fsm-ypSnen
I'm hoops the brave men Of San Fran
cisco are said to be engaged in an
effort to popularize the baggy Turk
fish trousers AYf%th%k the lgf
olized DreftneF Sex.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
A Thirteen Coincidence.

There are number Of people in
this country who believe that Cleve-
land would have been elected four
years ago but for the fact that he was
yoked with the old Roman, Allen G.
Thurman this same set of people,
(they are little superstitious, Of
course) also believe that Thurman
might have been elected but for one,
thing-the thirteen curse has fol-
lowed him through life. Look at this:
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Two revolutions are in progress in
Honduras. This crowds The nom
combatants little, yet they do not
complain much. OF course, two rev.
olutions are a good many, but think
of the dwfal mohotony II there should
be no revolution at all. $1,000
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Religion of the Home tho Subject Of tho
Eminent Divine's Discourse-What Re-
ligion VIII Accomplish for the House,
hold,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
A BANK LOOTED.

Two San Francisco Men Get 100000
From the Pacific Bank In Two Years.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. s.-The
looting of the Pacific bank, Of San
Francisco, by the sons of old DR.. r. II.
Mcdonald has caused a sensation here.
The failure of the bank was bad
enough, with more than s1,5oo,OO
loaned on poor securities and specula-
tive investments, but the examination
of the bank commissioners has brought
to light gross populations that may yet
land the guilty persons in states prison.
The two brothers have obtained from
the bank within four years $500, 900, for
which there lis nothing to show.
Young Richard Mcdonald had an
ambition to be governor of California,
and he put up coin for the California
Illustrated Magazine, in the hope that
his contributions to this periodical
would help his political aspirations. lie
spent about $780, 900 on the magazine.
but on the books Of the bank he has
charged the bank with $4,000. The
Los Angeles cable road cost younS
Mcdonald $3.50, 600, yet he floated bonds
for $3.50, 600, and doubtless pocketed the
difference. In other ventures discrepan.
cies have been discovered, which bring
the total up to 100000.
1t has also been discovered that just
before the bank suspended young
Richard secured coin and easily con
vertable bonds amounting to s97, 600
and that this sum was taken to New
York last week by McDonald's conf
| dental clerk, AL Jenkins.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
BRUTAL MURDER.

A Little Girl waylaid and Murdered BY
Farm Hand. Who Confesses-Prospeot
of a Lynching.
JOLIET, Aug. 1o.-One of the most
fendish and outrageous acts recorded
in the history of Will county was that
committed on little Nellie Byron, the
thirteen-year old daughter of Wesley
township farmer, Sunday evening about
$50 o'clock.
Sunday morning Nellie went to visit
her aunt, Mrs. Ulmstead, one and .
half miles from her home. She did not
return Sunday evening, but it was sup
posed she remained with her aunt.
Upon going to her aunt's Monday it
was found that the child left for homo
Sunday evening. Search was imme-
diately begun, and Tuesday noon the
girl was found concealed In growth
Of hazel brush, her body showing evi-
dences Of an assault
Sheriff HennebeTf.y and States At
torney Atkins went to the place
Wednesday and arrested Ernest Lacore,
a farm hand, aged 81 years, working in
the harvest field Of James Clark. To
the states attorney he confessed every
thing, saying that he murdered the
child Sunday evening about $50 o'clock
by breaking her neck between his
hands.
The sheriff had to smuggle the man
TO Wilmington to keep him from lynch
ers. He was brought to Joliet Wednes.
day afternoon, and it is now reported
that fully 1000 men are coming here ia
| kill him.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
TWO KILLED.
-Four Robbers Meet With q Hot and Un-
expected Reception.

-Four Robbers Meet With . Hot and Un-
expected Reception.
AKoTA, I. T., Aug. 12.-At Lehigh,
Friday night, fight occurred between
officers and robbers, in which two of the
robbers were killed and, it is thought,
two others wounded. Four men came
to tho store of Phillips & Co., captured
A. R. Tutt, who had a key to the store,
and, at the muzzle of shotgun, forced
him to open the door. Marshal ]. w.
Gael and three others were secreted or
the inside, and when they entered told
them to hold up their hands The mar.
shafs posse fred, instantly killing two
of the men and wounding two others.
The robbers intended to kill Mr.. Bar.
ton, the bookkeeper, and JONES' the
clerk, after forcing them to open the
safe. The men killed reside in Lehigh.
One of them was Pearce; the others
name is unknown. Their bodies were
turned over to their families Friday.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
IT rAnnp.
Desperate Plan BY Kentucky Convictsts
wreck tho Penitcntiary NJ Frankfort
with Nitro -Glyccrine.

4 Desperate Plan BY Kentuoky Convicts.ss
wreck tho Penitcntlary NJ Frankfort
with Nitro Glyccrins.
FRANKFORT, KY, Aug. 10.--Anothef
daring and desperate attempt among
The convicts to blow up the penitentia-
~ walls and escape was discovered by
Warden Norman Tuesday night
Tho principals in the affair were the
Aamed Millard all desperate men who
are serving terms Of 81 years each for
blowing up . bank and attempting to
burn the town Of Tompkinsville few
years ago.
They had acted suspiciously for some
lays, and upon investigation the war
den found in their possession two pis-
tolls, huge quantity of dynamite,
nitro-glycerin and other combustibles.
They evidently intended to make .
death struggle for liberty after blow
Ing up the prison walls.
Some of the other prisoners whs
claim to have been in tho conspiracy
gave away the plan Of the attempted
escape.
The Reeves brothers are the most
desperate men confined in the prison,
and one of them was once before con.
fined in the prison dungeon for q year
on account of his attempt to break
out.
Walker Berkeley, a former trusty,
who has not been allowed outside o4
late, however, is accused of having
supplied the conspirators with the pis-
tolls, cartridges and other ammunition.
One of the pistols was recognized al
the one which Berkeley few weeks ago
stole from g. E. Blackley, an employs
Of the Mason & Foard Co.
Strict surveillance will be kept upon
the prisoners, who are sullen and dis
appointed over the failure of Their
scheme.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
Lyuched by Soldiers.

COAL CREEK, Tenn, Aug. 11.-Thurs.
day morning, about 2 o'clock, a board.
ing-house at Briceville, was entered by
a mob, and Dick Drummond was taken
out and carried short distance and
hanged to trestle on the rail-
road. Drummond is now supposed
to have been the murderer or
leader of the mob that assassinat-
ed Private Laugherty, from TT.
Anderson, at Briceville Monday night.
Soldiers are accused of the lynching.
Great excitement prevails among the
miners. A General strike is prevailing
at all the mines except the Knoxville
Iron Co.'s, at which convicts are
worked on account of reduction in
the price paid for mining coal. Drum.
,nnd was a sailor up to eight months
ago. Since that time he has made a
bad name at Briceville.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
srARrLrNa DreoovnRY.


south Carolina Postal OMcials Have Besn
Stealing Tor Years.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The inspect
ors of the post Office department, after
having been at work for two years in
the detection of certain frauds in South
Carolina, have at last uncovered one OF
the most colossal and complicated
schemes ever operated against the gov
ernment. About n dozen arrests have
already been made and manv Others
are expected.
Capt Barrett one Of the most promi-
nent attorneys in Spartenburg and one
of the most esteemed citizens of that
part of the state, is in Jail in default Of
a. bail, and T. B. Low, also OF
Spartanburg, is behind the bars at
Chattanooga. Tenn, in default
of $1,000 bond. Mr.. Barrett seemed
to have been the head and front of the
gigantic scheme and having received
his own appointment as referee in
South Carolina post Office appointments
during Mr.. Harrison's administration,
he at once went to work to create post
masters on Wholesale scale. He had
men, selected by himself, appointed to
post offices all over the state, and then
put in operation his grand plan for re-
alizing from his appointments.
The methods of the Barrett syndicate
were various and complicated, and are
best shown by the counts on file at the
post office department One method to
secure funds was to report false can.
! collation. of postage stamps. AS is
well known, postmaster of the lower
! grade gets no salary, but is allowed a
percentage on the stamps cancelled
by him. On the first $50 worth he is
allowed one hundred per cent The
Barret scheme was to report che cancel
lation Of, say, $50 in stamps. Perhaps
they may not have been cancelled one.
; fiftieth Of that amount. They would
then draw their commission. The
stamps left In hand would, 1t II
charged, be turned over to Bar
| rett, who would dispose of them and
"whack up" the prices.
The department was aware that Bar
rett was selling stamps at less than
cost, but could not until lately locate
the source of his supply. AS an in
stance of the way things were worked
! one Owens, now arrested, was appoint
cd postmaster ~ Owens, Spartan coun
ty. The place was only hut in tn,
backwoods. Then his friend Mr.. Nc
Elrath was made postmaster at McEel
rath, another hut in the woods two
miles up the road. Owens then resigned
and was succeeded by his wife, Thez
Owens was made special mail carrier
between these two places and the rail
road station Of Inman, five miles from
the senior post Office. As special mai
carrier is allowed rs compensation ono
third Of the cancellation on his route
Mrs. Owens would report to the depart
ment $50 In cancellations, and make /,
good bit on the lie; Mr.. McElrath would
do likewise, and then Mr.. Owens woult
receive from the treasury one-third O
the combined amount Of the reported
cancellations. Then, it is said, ther,
would be a general "divy."
The men are also charged with usinf
the mail to defraud, it being ALLEGED
that on their standing as postmasters
Barrett's men ordesed safes, pianos
typewriters, desks, furniture and othe
valuable articles, which were realized
on being transferred to the third part,
ON mortgage.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
A BIG HAUL.

A Chicago Railway Company Robbed Of
$4,000 Worth of Tickets Between New
York and Chicago.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-It is asserted by
men in position to know that the West
Chicago Street Railway Co. has lost at
least s15, 900 worth of eleven-for-a-half
dollar tickets somewhere between the
Homer Lee printing house. in New
York, and the Chicago Office Of the
street car corporation. It is said
further that the stealing has been going
on for a long time by clique or ring
which takes in number of railroad
men in the east and some Of the EN-.
ployes of the ticket printing establish
ment, and that the ring planned to
make systematic haul from each box
of tickets shipped to Chicago Fur
thermore, it is reported that three well.
known business men of this city have
surrendered $4,000 worth of the stolen
tickets to avoid prosecution. The COM
pany, it is said, is content to recover its
property and let the guilty escape.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19

Il 10 said that a salmon, when quite
devoid Of appetite, may be worried into
taking fly, II only flies be presented
to him with irritating pertinasity.
"Hang itr he exclaims, 81 can not DO
troubled with this Jock Scott any
longer"--he makes an irritable snap at
It and is lost. Possibly, in the same
way, persons are driven nearly wild by
seeing this and that commodity thrust
on their notice in railway stations, in
trains, in the streets, in the fields, on
the top of Ben Macdhui. Then they
may purchase sample in despair, may
lik it, and go on using it. This may
be the theory Of frantic and hideous
advertisements; but, on the whole, It
might seem more likely to work its
own destruction. "Whatever l buy,
will not buy that" one can conceive
the citizen remarking and looking out
for a less obtrusive article. But II
advertising did not pay, people would
not advertise Review,