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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Don't Know the SIZE of the Country.

After relating the story of the
English lady intending to visit the
worlds fair, who said that she would
prefer to- hoard in the suburbs OF
Chicago while doing so, and therefore
wrote to friend asking her to en-
gage rooms in Bangor, Maine, the
Buffalo Commercial comments as fol-
lows: Nov this seems very funny,
0ut we have heard of Boston woman
who made no little of her education
ask il it was the Hudson river that
ran from Buffalo to the falls. Nay,
more. not a month ago a Buffalonian
was asked by a Now Yorker who de-
rives his education from very popu-
lar university not a thousand miles
from Boston, whether the shortest
way from New York to Buffalo was
not by the Pennsylvania Central
And when he was mildly assured by
his parents that such geographical
ignorance was not to his credit, he
blushingly answered that he had not
travelled much in this country. and
really did not know anything abou;
the West"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Wonder WorIxers.

Some extensive exl eriments have re-
cPntlv been made in connection with
the German army, the object of which
has been to provide continuous cleo
trical illuminations at night from bal
looms.
In the good old times, when oil was
used in lighthouses, a 5000 candle
power lamp was considered imme Sc
The latest electric lighthouse, built
in France lHeve, at Havre), will have
the power of 2, 500, 900 candles.
Prof. Barnard OF the Lick Observa-
tory, expects that three years will be
required to complete the series Of pho
tographs he is making of the Milky
Way. The work is procee ding rapidly
at the observatory, and the astronomer
is confident that when his labors are
finished the results will revolutonize
the old conceptions of the Milky Way.
He expect to reveal the pres nee of at
least 500, 0o0,0 900 suns.
A Hungarian inventor claims to be
able to spin ordinary wood pulp or
cellulose into yarn, from which all
sorts of textile tissues can DE made, in
the ordinary way, equalling IN dura-
bility, appearance and fastness of
color the best cotton goods If his
scheme is PRACTICAL it will revolu-
tionize the textile industry. 1t is
claimed the method is applicable not
only to cellulose. but to every so.t of
short fibrous material rags, scraps Of
cotton and linen goods and the like,
where the fbre can be dyed before
being spun into yarn.
A new smolselcss powder, called
| Apyrite. has given remarka bic results
in trials at Stockholm. The powder
Ia claimed to burn without flame or
smoke, can be handled and transported
without danger, and is unaffected
| by moisture or heat. Nitro
cellulose is supposed TO enter largely
into its compost ion. Fifteen shots
with ordinary swedish powder, or ten
shots with nitro-glycerine powder, did
not heat the gun so much as twenty
shots with Apyrite. After 500 shots
the gun was still clean. The manu-
facture of the powder is said TO require
no special appliances o. buildings
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

and Western Fs,;imcR The drcss of
the form has been modified some
what by contact with the whites, but
those from Alas "a are dressed only n
deerskin, carilNog narmo5 and
beaver. One OF the alcoves not far
away is filed w tn the arms,
implements and p ay .hings of the
pygmles of the frozen North. The
reader may not recognize boats under
the names kaiaks and unmi is, but
the models leave no DOM for doubt. 1t
may surprise many people to learn
that the Eskimos wear an armour, but
here are samples on eXh bition One
is made OF rows Of ivory pieces like
the bones of "A minstrel end man, VIII ch
are bound together with sinews. An
other is made Of bits OF iron, and it is
worth remark that it very mu n re-
sembles certa n Kinds of Japane e ar
nour in its form and oonStru ton
Lieut.. leary says the E-l,imos are
merely animals who can talk, but that
is the license of "a traveller who is eN-
pected to tell wonderful stori S. The
dance masks ave liable 10 throw q
nervous man into the d lirium trem-
ems. All are crudc'y carved fro II wool.
One, twenty in hes in length, re-
sembies turtle in form, with face
in whi Iainted in the center. 1t has
handle or carrying, and is tipped
with feath rs, max ng a Cunbcrson.e
and hideous oh cct. second looks
like the face OF an Indian twisted half
around by cycloae OF tn toothache
A third, with the mouth cut from ear
to ear and with shoe legs for teeth.
apparent V epresents a snarll; fourth
takes the TO m OF vol IS head. and
others would make hrst-cl IS hoodoos
The EskimOs are Greadfully was, eiul
OF their walrus ivory. They use the
tusks for ice-piclIs, and wooden shoy-
els are tipped with ivory for cutting
edges. Pieces of this material are
fashioned into the 10 ms o animals
and used TO throw to the birds. They
are fastened to backs II strings and
thrown aL wat fowl. whi,h become
entangled and are thus capture 1.
Even dolls and needle cases are made
OF this ivory
One OF ihe wax groups represents a
party of kiowa children at play, a d
it evoiies cries of Isn't that Cunu.ng?"
and "Oh, how cute" from the lad e.
Two boys are going out 10 play at the
wheel game, and rhe little girls are
playing hide ana seek about a teepee
OF deer-Skln. one OF the gu is has a
pet dog, and another carries dolls
IN of rags aud Sims and decorated
with beads. The expressions on the
faces are wonderfully hfeliNe and eX-
cite general comment.
One of the stran- est figures is that
of an Ate. H. ng tho drlu with VIII ca
those ancieuts made ire and lored
the holes ia their rude beads The
Pueblos, a IA lily akin to the Aztecs,
still live in New Mexico very much the
same as they did before Colum bus dis
covered America, and they are repre-
sentcd by pottery and p .ctures.
The Hupa Indians OF Northern Cal
ifornia a'o represented by family
group that also appeals strongly To
the syInpathies of the ladies. 1t con
tains motaer and two children, the
youngest baby who is strapped into a
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

only faithful in size, color and cast of
countenance, but the expressions on
the faces are suited to the attitude or
the temporary occupation of the
bject. While the figures are mod
eled in wax they are de lSed out in the
genuine garments and ornaments
won by the types they represent,
many of these having been gathered
by army men aud special agents of tho
Smithsonian during IA long ssrjSS of
years.
1t was inevitable that much Of an
exh bit of this kind would be familiar,
but there is so much else of the strange
and curious that an enthusiast might
spend weeks in this department alone
Most people, for example, have the inn
preston that the Ind an had no his
torical record, but that is refuted by
the display of some picture writings
in which the red man left lasting
account of events and ceremonies of
long ago. A buffalo skin 6xj feet is
covered with n Photograph description
of battle. The horses are something
like the American school boy 's-''an
animal " it'll four corners and a leg
under each corner"-but they are not
TO be mistaken for anything else. The
men are drawn in crude outlines, and
the use Of nine drumsJickS at the end
of hand nay indicate a redundancy
of fingers, judged from tie GreciGn
standards, but art is realm of imag-
ination, and we must take results as
we find them. Some S icl1lers may
question the accuracy of guns that are
flying in midair and going Off without
any visible human aid, but that is a
detail which does not hamper the In
dian understanding. Near byis calf
skin, four feet broad, which is covered
with records of dances and religious
ceremonies. These are colored, and
are ornamented with porcupine quilts
dyed in hues that challenge the art of
the civilized dyer.
Not far sway is the figure of a Crow,
in the act CT recording the story of a
battle. Before him is VIII tie skin,
the fur still on the under side. The
scribe kneels to his work, restr,. a
part of his weight on his left hand
while he makes his drawings with the
right, using pc nted sticks dipped into
colors G ,thered from the fields. Some
esthetic souls may criticise the art
which represents yellow horses and
blue men, but that is an incident not
worth clubbing about. Colonel Gar
rick Malley of the regular army has
described robes of this kind that bear
the historical records of the Indians
for periods of more than one hundred
years.
One Of the most interesting figures
represents Chippewa shaman in his
medicine lodge in thu lct of writing
an incarnation on the tnner surface of
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Her Accent.

The pretty girl at Riverside Park
was just hopping mad, so she was.
whats the matter?" asked a
young man whom she had only met
that evening.
Those foreigners are too horri6
for anything" she exclaimed.
"What have they been doingP"
"Why that officer from the feet l
was just speaking to asked me IL /
spoke French"
"And do youP"
"Why, Of course / do. Hadn't
been speaking French to him for half
an hourP"
The young man restrained his risi-
bles for later developments. IN. Y.
Mercury.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
GRAINS OF GOLD.

The biggest dollars we see are those
just out of our reach.
The bad thing about little sins il
that they grow SO fast
We are willing TO admit the total
depravity of some folks
There are but two ways possible to
the sinner-repcntanceo or ruin.
The nan who controls himself win
also control many other people.
We cannot pray for ourselves and
leave the people we don't like out.
No condition so low but may have
hopes, none so rich but may have feara
Duty only frowns when you flee
from it; follow it, and it smiles upon
you.
From the lowest place on earth it is
possible to reach n high place in
heaven.
We are not always ignorant because
we do not learn, but because we for
get too much.
There is something wrong with the
repentance that doesn't make a sinner
change his habits ami his company.
When you want to get and hold the
attention of children, have something
to say that their minds can picture.
Do not be content with latent good
ness. There is atent heat in the
ston S, the earth, the iron of freless
stove; but men may perish with tho
cold, with such latent heat all around
them. Latent heat warns nobody.
1t must be converted, brought out,
and set to work upon something, for
such practical purposes
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

There is more Catarrh IN this section OF tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be fncurable. For great many years doc
tors pronounced IL local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by constantly fall
ing to cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven catarrh TO
be constitutional disease, and therefore re-
Qures constitutional treatment Halls Ca
taITh Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney ~
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to q teaspOonful. Ii acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case il fails To cure. Send for cir
culars and testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY q Co, Toledo, D.
10 Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

the govcrnment building. At any
rate, it rs n wonderful collection of
aboriginal Americans and their works,
and its glass cases are daily surrounded
by dense throngs of ectators.
Along the north anu south aisle the
Smithsonian has ranged two lines of
cases filled with wax figures represent
ing various types of the true American,
he who occupied this continent bcfo G
the VIII &c man came to despoil him of
his birthright. These figures were
made by scientific men, and are not
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
August
Flower

" am Post Master here and keep
a Store. Ihave kept August Flower
for sale for some time. l think it is
a splendid medicine. " L. a. Bond,
P. NJ, Pavilion Centre, NY.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. 1t assures a good appetite
and a good digestion. q
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14


a piece of prepared piece of bark
The shaman is cross legged and bend
ing over the bark, which he holds in
his left hand while he draws his de-
signs with a stick in the right
The old man is surrounded by the tam
BOURNE, drum, rattle box, and other
noisy implements of his profession.
and his attire is worthy interested
study.
Much has been written of the degra-
dalton of the squaw, and this collec-
ton gives vivid ii ustration of her
toilsome life. In one of the larger
cases are represented two women
dressing hides Before one, suspended
from a pole resting on forked sticks
in the ground, is buffalo hide, and
she is laboriously scraping the meat
from the inner side with a stick with
a piece Of stone. The other Is kneel-
ing before hide and tediously pound
ing into IL pliability with heavy
stone club.
The groups represent the Eastern
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
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-
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
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 well informed, you will no.
accept any substitute if offered.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Words Fair correspondencc.l

WRITER CT FRO.
found percept i o n
has said that the
paper stuay of man
ID G-un, or words ~
tEGs effect. and per-
hlrs it is some
kindred intercs I
Inch lea DIS visitors
to linger in the
chronological dis =
play which the
Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition has made in
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

The coast survey of the United States was
begun in 1Sl7.
The girl Who doesn't think, seldom Re Is her
parents think for her.
livery gem known TO jewellers has been
found In the United states.
A light suspension bridge was built NJ
Niagara Falls in loio "a nd remoy ed in 1854
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
An Island of salt.

Scientists are OF the opinion that
Avery's island, situated in to delta
of tho Mississippi, is composed be-
low tho top soil entirely OF salt The
salt occurs in more or less transpar-
ent masses and is quarried for ex-
port
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

Cupid doesn't hesitate to foreclose his
mortgages.
1t Is always wise to discount the face
value of woman.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

REECHAMs Pills cost oniv . cents a box.
They are provcrhia ly known throughout
the world TO be worth guinea box"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
THE REAL AMERICANS
LESSON I'm HISTORY AT THE
WORLDS FAIR

These People Were the Original Ameri-
cans and i'm Measure Contributed to
Americas Groatness-In the smith
sonian Exhibit.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
A Maze at Bar Harbor.

A novelty III landscape effects has
been arranged at Schooner Head, Bar
Harbor, by summer visitors, and will
be further developed by the Village
Improvements society. This is the
cutting of a maze of paths in the
woods, marked by various colors, as
is done in Black forest and at Fon-
tainbleau-that is, rings on the trees
and colored arrows denote each path.
For instance one goes in at the old
Newport path and finds diagram of
all the Newport paths. If he wishes
to go to Great Head he follows the
white marks right through. If he fol-
lows the white and then the red he
will come out at Meadow Hill on the
Schooner Hill road. The blue will
take him nearer to Schooner Head.
The yellow viii take him just there.
The red and white will take him over
to Newport; blue and white to the
Bowl; yellow and white to Otter
creek; brown to Bee Hive from the
blue ann white, and SO on. It is the
intention eventually to make most OF
the level paths available as bride
paths, but at present they are only
open to pedestrians. They viii never
be open to carriages. -[Lewiston( Me. }
Journal
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
BUSINESS ANNOUNCENIENT.

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ior a. the rate Of cents per line. We will
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on application. e
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samples. where possible) will be furnished on
application.
News communications and articles on oues-
lions OF public interest are solicited but we
assume no responsibility for the expressions
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articles published.
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All remittances and business communications
should be sent to
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CAMDEN, Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
How It Feels to be Blown In.

There is one man in this country
who can tell better than any other
how it feels to be blown up, and that's
John Curtin. Jr., who was nearly
killed IN the dynamiting of his fathers
clearinghouse in San Francisco, and
who thus describes his sensations:
'You see it's so sudden. It's over just
about the time you begin to under
stand that something is happening.
You know, | had the satchel in my
hand, and had put it down. Then /
got afraid of it. All at once every
thing was light. don't think 1 saw
the flash. Anyway, my face was not
exactly toward the explosion. But
then everything got light, lighter than
day-kind of binding. There was an
awful crash. 1t was just at the same
time. I was scared, of course, and
wanted to get away. 1t was just as if
was having the nightmare.
''Some way, though, 1 knew just
what the matter was. A man can think
faster than he has any idea of. I knew
that some of the others were near the
explosion, ard 1 said to myself:
/
They're blown overheard, sure. You
understand, this was all in second,
all at once really.
"Then it was exactly the same as if I
had been hit with club. 1 thought it
was big club, bigger than any man
could swing, and that it must be
worked by machinery. 1t hit me on
the head and all over. I went sailing
into the air long, long way. My
ears roared and the wind blew into
my face.
ST knew when struck the ground,
for I remember saying to myself,
We'll, I'm done for. 1 don't know
just when I lost my night senses OF
when they came back; but when they
did come back it seemed queer that ]
was there yet. l thought had been
thrown somewhere else. 1 could fee
fire burning near me. It was my
clothes. They we're smoking and al
most blazing. I was lame all over
and could not hear very well. M,
voice sounded like somebody else wa
talking. That is all I can tell yol
about it.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22

At Canton, China, the average num-
Der of executions is about 300 per
year, but in 1885 $4,000 rebels were
beheaded. Females are sometimes
strangled and the worst criminals are
nailed upon cross. Sometimes the
sentence directs that the criminal,
while living, shall be cut into a num-
Der of pieces, which number never ex-
ceeds thirty-six. The headsman for
merly received 81 head, but the sup
ply and competition have reduced the
wage to fifty cents apiece. Most Grim
inals who are beheaded are water pi.
rates or land bandits
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
The UnexDressed.

Within my breast Is shut a captive bird
With throat for song,
But note Of his hath never yet been heard
Nor sweet, nor strong.
Within my breast is shut captive bird
With wings for flight;
olose-folded wings are they that have not
stirred
In noon or night
Solar the heights to which his wings aspire
He dare not soar;
Nor all his yearning heart, dumb with de-
sire,
In song outpour.
Still singer sphered IN silence tho thou
art,
Birds only know
The Joy in fight and song, with which mr.
heart
Doth throb and glow
One note housekeeping from anOthOrs
song
Wakes joyOusly
Where in thy spirits deeps ii hath slept
long,
Like melody.
And when strong pinions rise above the
things
That bound our sight,
The sense Of rapture stirring in thy wings
Is almost flight
MARIE L. WHITING in Youths Companion.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22

Realism in the drama is a great
thing, observes the New York Post.
The other day London manager APP
piled to a magistrate for permission to
introduce live infant in fire scene.
The child was to be rescued from q
burning house by collie dog, which
was to climb a ladder and leap from q
window with the baby in his mouth.
The manager was highly indignant
when his application was refused, and
SO was the affectionate father who haG
provided the baby for nightly con-
sideration.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-22
-or. alternating VITA hope and dos.

ror, alternating with hope and des-
pair.
Then it was over, and amid shout
from the assembled cowboys the horse
halted at the ranch while the herd
swept by a few yards away.
1t was Deacon Jim who had saved
Miss Newell's life, and everybody
agreed that he had performed brave
deed.
Even Arson and Alb admitted that.
Jim, however, considered this act of
very little consequence except for the
result, and he did not like to hear it
mentioned.
The next morning Miss Rose sent
for Jim, and blushing and trembling
he went to her room.
She was lying on couch looking
more beautiful than he had ever seen
her before.
She thanked him profusely for her
rescue, and showed not only by Ian
guage but by looks how truly grateful
she was.
How the deacon ever came to say
it no one could surmise, and even he
could never account for such boldness
and audacity.
"Miss Newell, " he said, "to do you
a service is glorious reward of itself.
To save your life, believe me is priv
ilege worth living for"
Then, blushing at his own temerity,
he arose to leave the room, but she
held out her hand to check him.
Soon it became noised about that
the deacon and Miss Newell were to
be married in few days, and that the
deacon was to become half owner OF
the ranch.
This information was not pleasant
to Arson and Alb, but bitter as it was
they had to swallow it.
81 can tell you how it come about,
said old Barton. "She's a girl o.
sense, and it is not what man says o.
the way he looks that takes with her
but it's the way he does. Jim wo1
her by his actions, which appealed t.
her heart, while you chaps tried tt
win her by your dress.
eff it's clothes girl wants to mar
ry, she can beat taking you fellows al
hollow by going to clothing stor
and buying a suit"
"Blamed if L don't believe sh,
couldl" said Arson. -TBoston Globe.