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The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
Stone.

1t is one Of the lovelest islands in the
world, few other than officials and con-
vicls ever set foot on it's shores. The
largest prison in the world is at Port
Blair. 1t can accommodate $4,000 pris-
oners and is nearly always filled to
OVERLOOKING.
On a Wednesday morning we had
taken the last convict on board at
Garden bePch, Calcutta. and we steam
ed down the river Hoogly. And what
strangely mixed cargo it was! Here
were Pathans from Delhi rubbing
shoulders with the burly natives of the
Shan States in Burma; Coringhles from
Southern India looking askance at
small. wiry Ghoorkas from Nepaul;
delicate-looking Mohammedan women
from Southern Bengal standing near
group of Thibetan women, whose gil
gantic proportions were in strong con-
trast to those of the graceful Bengal
bee-bees. Murderous Manipurls, Son
thals and Nagas were chained to sleek
and cunning Hindoos, and all seemed
to be cowed and utterly without hope
We had no sooner anchored than the
prison launch came off. towing four
great barges astern. The male pris-
oners were escorted into the barges by
burly Sikh warriors, and, after being
securely fastened by chains to the
ringbolts in the decks of the boats, a
signal was given and they were at
once taken ashore to the receiving
prison. The women convicts were row.
ed ashore in the ships lifeboats, some
OF them sobbing as if their hearts
were breaking; others making no moan,
but gazing back at the ship with a pa
thetic, yearning look upon their faces.
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come of a good family. He was held in
esteem by NJ. Benoit and was second
to him in command at the farm. All
these thoughts treasured him and he
spoke to Benoit of his hopes. To his
Joy, Benoit gave him his hand willing
ly and said he would talk to his daugh-
ter, who had just gone into the hay
field. Bancroche followed at a dis
lance. and himself unseen watched the
farmer approach Marietta and address
her in low voice. Then, after a mo-
nre~t. he saw her throw bfc, he- head
with a peal of laughter and heard her
cry: With his leg? And l would be
a Nine. Bancroche? No! No! MOI"
Poor BancrC che did not return until
evening and then he took his place al
supper without noticing the sad looks
of Benoit, nor the naughty glances Of
Marietta. who was willing to be loved
but angry that he, a cripple, should
have dared to ask her hand.
81 understand, M. Benoit," he said
after supper; 1--WE will say no more
about 1t. was wrong in forgetting my
leg" And more than this he would
not say. going on with his work as
usual, always brave, sometimes sad
but never troubling either father or
daughter. And when, three months af-
ter, Marietta married Sylvan Gillet.
proprietor OF the Coq-d'Argent hotel
he assisted at the wedding and no one
noticed that his eyes were red.
There was great excitement in the
village of Saint Georges. The Prus-
SLAMS were coming. They had already
occupied the neighbour ig village and
twenty times an hour each person look
ed anxiously down the road to the for
est. the direction from which the enc
my was expected to come. All the
able-bodied men had gone to war. with
the eySeption OF Sylvan Gillet. who
t-e1nbled at the thought Of being killed
A arinker and braggart. deceitsul and
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
Indian Women who Farm.

In the Indian village on the banks
OF the Minnesota river, about one mile
down stream from Shakopee, lives a
band of Indians who till the soil. make
bows and arrows and moccasins, and
trade with the neighboring farmers.
Among the villagers are some interest
ing women, one of them being Mrs.
Otherday, the sister of Shakopee of Lit
tie Six, one of the most noted chiefs
of the Sioux nation. The women of
the Shakopee colony assist in the farm
ing and make beautiful beadwork,
which they sell at the summer resort
hotels. Mrs. Otheriay is strong.
well-preserved elderly woman, much
looked up to by her own people and her
white neighbors.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

bin altogether, but will save skilled
labor, weave all fabrics at a reduoed
cost, and in fact, completely revolu-
tlonize the weaving industry. The
New York Times gives a good descrlp-
ton of the new loom. which to all APP
pearances performs it's work on radi-
cally new lines. Instead Of an assort-
ment of small bobbins which have 10
be placed in the shuttle by hand. this
weaving apparatus is automatically fed
from a large spool Of thread holding
a ten hours supply. which stands at the
side Of the loom.
An important advantage claimed for
this improved mechanism is that it
will feed a number of threads at the
same time, using variety of colors
simultaneously. The old style shuttle
lays in only one filling thread at a
time; consequently when more than
one filing thread is used, as in the
manufacture of box or basket cloth
the old shuttle must make as many
trips across the loom as there are fill
ing threads. while any changes OF col
or necessitate the stopping or the ma
chinery and cause delays.
This self-feeding loom attachment
consists Of two similar parts, one at
each end of the lay. In order to attach
1t to an old loom it is only necessary
to take out the crossbeam OF the lay,
Just under the reed. with all Of it's
shuttle boxes and other machinery, and
in its place set square beam similar
in size to the old one taken out. On
each end OF the new beam is affixed the
simple mechanism of the attachment
which weaves with continuous supply
of filling thread.
With the new attachment there are
no bobbins to be taken out or put in,
and the breaking of threads is reduced
to a minimum by the freedom and deli
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was fine fellow, mus cular, with broad
shoulders, an open face and Gear eyes.
More than one of the pretty country
girls would have liked to know him,
but he hardly addressed a word to
them, held back by timidity and shame
OF his poor leg. He never complained,
and when he watched his friends dane
Ing at the fair, with their arms about
their partners waists, he accepted his
position with the philosophy OF coun-
try fatalist. But one day he suffered
the sorrow of great disappointment.
He wanted to serve in the army, but
first he must pass the examination
with the others. He marched limping
along the road with them, his hat or
namented with long tri-colored rib
bons which floated in the breeze, and
sung at the top of his voice with an
animation which made him forget he
was not like the rest of the world. But
his joy was short-lived.
Unfit for service; deformity of the
hip" pronounced the officer.
1T is unfortunate" added the gen.
eral. without that he would have
made n splendid soldier"
Bancroche departed alone, his heart
full of sadness and feeling the flower
Of courage and loyalty which had
sprung up in him wither from lack of
nourishment. He reached the farm
where he was employed without meet
ing anyone, and going to the bed where
he slept he threw himself down and
wept urcontrollably.
Some time after this Bancroche was
employed on the farm of a certain
Benoit, well-to-do farmer, who had a
very pretty daughter named Marietta.
Her white teeth made a line of ivory
behind two rosy lips always parting in
smile. Her figure was dainty, her
arms strong. her feet untiring; alto
gether she was the picture Of vigorous
beauty. She might have been a Ceres
OF Rubens, in all the strength and
freshness of her 20 years. And, of
course, Bancroche fell madly in love
with her. She was not long in per-
ceiving her victory and, as she was
something of a coquette. she did all
she could to encourage him. She was
so good to him, looked at him with
eyes so sweet and bright that the
cripple was fired with love and hope.
letting himself dwell on happy dreams
Of the future, in which he saw himself
departing from the church with Ma
riette, his wife, leaning on his arm
He said many tender things to her, and
once. putting her mouth very close to
his ear, she had whispered: "Bancroche,
! love you!
And after all, why not? he had asked
himself. To be sure he was a cripple,
but he invented a thousand reasons to
persuade himself that this was not an
obstacle. In marrying one thinks only
of the qualities Of the heart He had
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
A New Through Pa,seng Route for
Colorado, Utah and California.

The Chicago Time Herald Of August o.
says that on September IL the new traffic
alliance between the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Pa ii railway and the Chicago, Rock
Island q Pacific railway goes into effect,
and on that date the former Will send its
first Denver sleeper out Of Chicago. This
wi lie attached to its regular night train
for Omaha and W II be delivered there to
the r k Island. On October 2 the tourist
car rou over these two lines. the
Colorado Midland and Southern Pacific
will be inaugurated. Tourist cars will be
run once week between Chicaso aud San
Francisco. For further details regardin :
this new route call on or address Geo. H..
HeaffoId. General Passenger and Ticket
agent, c., NJ. a. st. j. Ry., 40 Old Co.ony
Building. Chi ago. w.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
A Curious Deed.

A curious deed has been recorded in
New Brunswick, N. ]. The deed gives
to Charles Banks the privilege of al
lowing the caves of his new house to
encroach on the property of Mrs.
Sarah Edwards to the extent of four
inches, and binds the heirs of Mrs.
Edwards for the same encroachmert.
The consideration named is $40.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Warm weather and fine showers
have greatly benefited corn, late pota-
toes and pastures during the past week
aud have put ground in excellent con-
dition for fall blowing and seeding. A
splendid bean crop is being secured.
The effort to open the Skaguay trial
to the Alaska gold fields has failed and
5000 men and horses are stuck i'm the
pass with little hope OF ge ting through
this winter. Hundreds of them have
given it up and turned back.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
Works without n Bobbin.
(Snecial LetterO

There is a machine shop in Jersey
City where medium sized loom is per-
forming the remarkable feat of weav-
ing cloth without the aid Of the fami-
liar bobbin.
The inventor declares that not only
will the machine do away with the bob
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

You will enjoy this publication much
better if You win get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford most interesting study and
will put you in the way OF getting
some excellent bargains. Orr adver-
tisrrs are reliable, they send what they
advertise.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

A dose of DR.. Fowler's Ext. of Wild
Strawberry brings immediate relief in
all cases of cramping pains of the stom-
ach or bowels. 1t is natures specific
COR summer complaint in ali its forms.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

is real name was
Simon Martin, but
when a child he
had fractured his
hip, which accident
had crippled him
for life, and his
comrades at school
nad nicknamed him
Bar croche twisted
leg). T h g name
stl OK TO him. He
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

DIR. Thomas Ecectric Oil has cured
hundreds of cases of deafness that were
supposed to be incurable. 1t never
fails to cure earache.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
THE LARGEST PRISON
BRITISH PENAL SETTLEMENT
ON ANDAMAN ISLAND.
MIncopies, n Primitive Race, Mon and
Women short, Almost Hairless, and
Stark Naked-weapons OF Wood and
Stone.
Especial letter.

a group of thickly
wooded islands to-
ward the east side
of the Bay of Ben
gal. Port Blair is
the name Of the
PENAL settlement on
Chatham island, or,
as it is now called,
the South Anda-
man and o1thOilq N
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

In Damascus drunken men are called
victims of the English disease"
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic cure con >tipltion forever.
i0c If c. Q. G. fail, druggists refund money.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Pisos Cure for Con sumption Is the only
cough medicine used in my housed. G. AL
bright Miniinburg, Pa, Dec II. 1899
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hint 70 the wise is SUFFICIENT, provided
the wise are disposed to take it
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17
BANCROCHE.

TTranlated frsom the French OF ". 8.
de Forge.)
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

WORKS WITHOUT A BOBBIN.
cacy with which they are paid into the
loom from the large spools. The chief
operator Of the exhibition loom in the
Jersey City machine shop says that a
loom with the self feeding attachment
will weave 100 yards of cloth in the
same time that the old loom with the
bobbin would take to weave seventy
yards of cloth, both looms running at
the same rate OF speed.
The attachments perfected are adap-
table to all fast running looms, whether
weaving silk. linen, wool. cotton or
other materials.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

There is no lifting power in the religion
of a man who WONT pay his debts
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Evidences Of sun worship are found in the
mythology of every land.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

when Answering Advertisements
PleAse Mention ms Paper.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Remove fruit stains from the hands Will
weak oxalic acid.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

Mrs Craig, and how she cured:
g.
81 have taken Lydia f. Pnkhams Vegetable
in
ESYE~ could live
E%&E apsus thought 90
Syk y ing consumption. would faint thought
would die. had dragging pains back, burn
ing sensation down feet, and miserable
NJ :. ::
every the for it did
"-MRs. CRAIG. Bakers Landing, Pa
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Hoods pills cure Sick Headache. 25c.
Rend tho Advertisements.

The father helps the devil who makes his
boy do = mans work with dull hoe.
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

No-To- Bacfor Flrty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
men strong, blood pure soc. 81. All druggists
The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

The United states has aO5,on coal miners
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w. N. U.--OErROIT--No.as --.e7
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20
He Obe4ed Orders.

There is one man in the employ of 1he
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
who obeys orders to the letter, and as
result of his pecr liarity in this line his
superior, Frank K. Zook, the chief engi-
neer of the road, received a most unique
message a few days ago.
The employees name is P. II. Finnegan-
Pat Finnegan for short-and he Is Sec
tion boss on the line near Ukiah. Several
months ago, shortly after Finnegan was
raised to his present rank, an accident oc-
Cured within his jurisdiction and he out
did himself reporting the matter to Mr..
Zook.
1t told how the train came rushing down
the track, how it unged off the embank-
ment, how the passengers screamed, and
than went into minute details regarding
the methods used 10 place the train on the
track, get the engine into running order
and start the train for its destination. He
prfded himself tnat he had done partic-
ular.y fine job on { he report and was very
much chagrined when the following tele-
gram came in answer:
Finnegdn, Ukiah: Report too long. No
tim 10 read books. Make reports short.
Boil EN- down to words. ZooK.
Not long since another accident hap
pened on Finnegan's section and he fig
ured eight hours how 10 tell about it and
still obey orders. Finally he threw his
notes in the fire and sent the following:
f. K. ZOoE, S. F.: Another derailment.
OF again, on again, gone again.
FINNEGAN.
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Thomas Carlyle.
FINNEGAN.

The front, room of the fourtE story, his
study, is the most interesting spot in the
building, for its walls witnessed the birth
OF his great "history of the French Revo-
luton and his famous Life of Frederick
the Great work which brought him q
compliment which he considered the
greatest he had ever received, says the
Chautauquan. In a quiet parsonage in
England young girl, the daughter of the
Clergyman, lay dying, consumption
slowly consuming her budding life;
but she daily asked her nurse 10 bring
Carlvle's Life of Frederick the Great"
Because she thought it too heavy and tir-
ing for her her mo;her entreated her to
stop reading it, but the invalid begged for
if, because 1t was so intensely interesting
ana absorbing" that it was comfort to
her. And thus they found her when
earthly pain had ceased-the book grasped
lovingly in the thin, pale hands. Her
father wrote Carlyle about it, and never
was the philosopher greater than when he
declared, the letter still in his hands and
the tears running down his iurrowed
cheeks, that this alone repaid him Tor all
the labor he had expended on the book.
Reiicent and Indifferent, few knew the
real Carlyle, but the roughest shells some
times inclose the sweetest kernels.
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were akin to those of sculnons and
kitchen wenches.
Men and women OF the rank OF Chester
held were hardly ready for the gospel OF
such man IS Dr. Johnson; but they
could be reached by the writings of one
OF themselves, and such teaching as
Chesterfield inculcated was drawn from
the lessons of the life of the foremost man
III Europe-the Duke of Marlborough
who, in Chesterfield's own words, ZEN
crossed the graces."
II was an age of shams and doubts
when the only realities were hard blows
and "the drumming guns that have no
doubts"
Lord Chesterfield died in 1773. His let
ters we're published in IVA and pirated in
1775, when there appeared small book
with lengthy title, such as was in vogue
in those days. 1t reads:
PRINCIPLES
of
PoLITENEss
And of
KNOWING THE WORLD,
BY he late
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
Methodised and digested under distinct
heads,
WITH ADDITIONS,
By the Reverend
DR.. JOHN TRUSLER,
Containing
Every instruction necessary 20 complete the
gentleman and man of fashion, to teach
him knowledge of life and make
him well received in all
com penies.
For the
IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH;
Yet not beneath the attention OF any.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20
THE THIRD EDITION,
MDCCLXXV.

In accordance with the custom of those
days, the pious thief dedicated his book
10 scion OF the nobility-Lord Ligonier
OF Clonmel. 'the truest model of we'll
bred man." Having tieked this patron,
who was also colonel OF the Ninth Regi-
ment OF Foot, the reverend pirate pro-
ceeded IN his advertisement" or preface,
TO Halter persons possessed of a liberal
education, BY leaving out much that
might have been said on the subject of
indeiicacy." Mark the rascaPs wiIes
Then, that none should slip through his
thrifty net, be draws attention to the fact
That this essence of Lord Chesterfield's
letters" is published at a "tenth part of
the price those letters sell for p'
Those who possessed the accom- mplish-
ment OF speaking French were also prom
ised an edition of his compilation in that
language. We get further evidence of his
pious thrift in a reference he makes to
"Johnson's Polio Dictionary" which he
pronounces TO be very serviceable". this
is directly followed by recommendation
OF his own Difference Between Words
Reputed Synonymous; a work in two
volumes, written by me some years ago.
and published by Dodsley," and which
was, doubtless, a shameless compilation
from the poor scholars great work. This
maker OF books, in the section wherein
he pleads for orthography as part of a
gentleman's equipment, says, reading
therefore with attention (sic) will teach
every one to spell right" "Attentive'' in
the same paragraph also lacks st"
A glance through the table of contents
gives Us an insight into the manners of an
age not so far removed from our own
when it was necessary to instruct .'gen-
tleman not to smell 10 their meat nor
spit on the carpe;W These two matters
are discussed among others as "sundry
little accomplishments
There were allowable degrees of
personal uncleanliness in those davs
it would appear, but my Lord Ches-
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made man of fashio laugh-he is above
it!'
A refusal to drink at mans table when
asked to do so, is TO be thus expressed:
You wish you could, but that so little
makes you both drunk and sick that you
shall only be bad company by doing it.
This light way of declining invitations is
mere becoming young man than phiIo-
sophical or sententious refusals, which
would only be laughed al"
The following amusements were to be
avoided as vulgar: Cribbage, cricket,
football, driving of coaches and fiddlng.
Pay fddlers to play to you, but never
fiddle yourself"
All. but here at last is a nut with a
kernel in t-the derivation of the term
40 take French leave: "PullIng out your
watch in company unasked is mark of ill
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

forks! The picking of teeth was allow.
able, it appears, after but not before the
removal of the dishes.
Zone may always know a gentleman by
the state OF his hands and nails When
the nails are cut down 10 the quick
it is shrewd sign that the
man is a mechanic, or that he gets
his bread by fddling," says this
censor morum. ITO say 10 a man who
has lost his WIFE," he goes on. "'I am
sorry for your loss, may be civil but 1t is
nevertheless vulgar. A man Of fashion
will advance slowly toward him who is In
affiiction, and with a peculiar com posure
of voice and countenauce begin his COM
piiments of coincidence with, L hope. sir
you will do me the justice to be persuaded
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ness was designed to prevent"
How far we have improved in manners
and advanced along the path from SEEM
ing to being may be inferred from the
fact that, though it is not necessary to
tell people mot TO smell to their meat"
our municipal authorities are everywhere
enacting bylaws for the prevention of
splitting on the sidewalks; and in every
town Is ridiculous clique calling itself
1.-THE Four Humid. ed" = and this in a
democratic countryl ]. LAIRD.
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adulation is too gross for them" How
vastly different are ladies now!
The company of men of learning and
genius was to be occasionally courted,
but let it not engross you lest you be con-
sidered as one OF the literati. which how
ever respectable IN name, is not the way to
rise or shine in the fashionable world"
Fashion starved literary men in those
days by neglect; now it starves them by
taking to literature as fad and glutting
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

terield insists that it would be
. very poor cemmendation of any
mans cleanliness to say that he was not
offensive"
Il seemed to be necessary to tell men
of fashion that they shouldn't cough in
their glasses nor pick their teeth with their
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

Small talk was to be best acquired by
frequenting the company of ladies. and
"iood and the flavor and growth of wines"
were recon- mended as subjects for fash
ionable chit-chat. As though lauies
know anything about food and wine
Success with women was 10 be sought
by an appeal to their vanity. "They have
IN intoIerable share Of it. No tiattery, no
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that l am not insensible of your unhap-
piness, that l take part in your distress
and shall ever be affected when you are
So"
Men were allowed to live after such
''com pliments OF coincidence" In those
days.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

The height of waves in the sea has often
been exaggerated, owing to the difficulty
of measuring them, but the highest au-
thentic observation is about forty feet.
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the market with the produce of its pen.
Laughter was sign of vulgarity in
Ches;erfeld's time. "a man NAV SMILE"
be says, but if he wonl0 be thought q
gentleman and man OF sense he should
by no means laugh. Tue wit never yet
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

A Venetian firm is making Donnets of
spun glass, which are soft as silk.
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qulred ardor of very special kind indeed
10 conIure up anything commend al bic in
the scene here presented. No one but an
ingenious American syndica:e writer
could have done it. The American pro
te- sIonal syndicate te writer Is gifted With
an imagination which stands Truth up in
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

breeding. If you want to know the time,
Withdraw; besides. as the taking what is
called French leave is introduced-that
on one PERSONS leaving the company the
rest might not be misunderstanding at
your watch does what that piece Of polite.