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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

least, so thought the hostess, who was
sitting at window a short distance
from her.
And Lilly, locking up and meeting
the mild eyes OF her kind friend fixed
upon her, blushed, and said:
1T has now been three weeks since
you received me under your roof, and
/ think by tomorrow l will be able to
return to my room and resume my
sewing, which l quilted so suddenly"
Never mind that now. Lilly; we
will speak about that some other time;
for the present you will remain where
you are"
Percy, who was coming in at the
door, and heard Lillys remark and his
mothers reply, said:
No, Miss Glare, we cannot spare
the sunshine from our home, now that
we have once got it here"
And Lilly, finding all hearts ready
to receive her, remained.
A few days after, when Lilly was
the garden, she heard her two friends
talking together.
"And so, Percy, you intend to get
married, do your"
Yes, mother. If I can get the young
lady's consent"
Lilly waited to hear no more; that
was enough to let her know that deep
down in her heart she loved Percy; and
sinking down on her knees she prayed
for strength to battle with that love;
for was he not going to marry an
other?
Then, hearing a step coming, she
arose and bathed her face, just as a
knock was heard at her door.
Opening the door, she found Mrs.
Monroe there, with a message from her
son, requesting her to come down to
the sitting-room.
And Lilly, walking as one In a
trance. went down.
Percy, standing at the window, look
ing out. did not seem to notice her at
first. And Lilly hesitated
and said in low tone:
Mr.. Monroe. did you wish to see
me?"
He turned, and reaching out both
hands said
Eyes, Lilly, darling, do wish to SEQ
you; l want to tell you how much I
love you. and to ask you to be my
wife"
think Lilly's answer must have
been very satisfactory, to judge from
the happy faces that came into the
room.
a short time after there was a quiet
wedding at home. and peace and con-
tent seem to hang like curtain about
Lilly and her husband. because they do
not forget to do good unto one of the
least.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
THE PALACE BELL.
How the Bellmaker's Daughter Helped
to Make 1t.

to Make 1t.
There hangs in the palace tower in
Japan a wonderful bell whose sweet
tones can be heard for over a hum
dred miles, and in the evening when
the clear music is heard across the sun
lit fields the stranger is told this leg
end: Long, long ago the emperor
wrote to the maker of bells, bidding
him cast a bell larger and more beau
tiful than any ever made before He
babe him put into it gold and silver
and brass, that the tones might be
sweet and clear, and that when hung
in the palace tower its sound might be
heard for a hundred miles. The maker
of bells did as he was told; he put
gold and silver and brass into his great
melting pot, but the metals would not
mingle, and the bell was failure.
Again and again he tried, but in vain.
Then the emperor was angry and sent
saying that if the bell was not made
at the next trial the bell maker must
die. The bell maker had lovely
daughter, who was greatly distressed
for her father. Wrapping her mantle
about her, she went by night to the
oracle to ask how she could save him.
and the oracle answered that gold and
brass would not mingle until the blood
of a maiden was mixed with them in
their melting. Again the old man
made ready to cast the BELL again all
his efforts seemed useless, until his
daughter, standing by his side, threw
herself into the midst Of the molten
metal. When the bell was finished It
was found to be more wonderful and
perfect than any other ever made. But
there is a sound in its thrilling tones
that brings tears TO the eyes Of all and
a pang TO the heart, and the sound is
the voice OF the maiden whose blood
Of sacrifice gave to the bell its match
less sweetness.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
a,ooo.ooo,ooo BUSHELS WHEAT
The Amount Required to Feed the
World for "a Year.

While the world-thanks to the
fields of North America-has probably
grown in 1888 the greatest crop OF
wheat ever harvested as one result Of
the depletion OF American herds and
the devotion of an otherwise impossi-
Bile ten million acres to wheat pro-
duction, says Self-Culture, yet we must
not lose sight of the fact that, while
the years harvest probably exceeds the
great world crop of 1894 by some 49,
100000 bushels, requirements have in
creased by more than 100,00O0,00O bush
els, and that the product of the har-
vest of 1889 was drawn Upon month
earlier than usual, in orde: TO exc GU
defective supplies from the harvest Of
1S97-S-that is, while the world harvest
of 1889 appears to be some $4,000, COO
bushels greater than the greatest pre-
ceding one, yet it is defective by rca-
son Of a great increase in require
ments since 1894, as we'll as by the
fact that 1t must meet the needs OF
thirteen instead OF twelve months.
Basing an estimate of requirements for
the 1889 harvest upon the known in
crease of population and the consump-
ton of recent years, as Indicated by
estimates, mostly official, of production
in such years, the "bread-eating" pop
ulations OF European lineage inhabit-
ing Europe, the United States, Canada,
Australasia, Argentina, Uruguay, Chill,
South Africa, Siberia, and the whites
Of the island and tropical colonies Of
| Europe will need some 1880, 10000, 600
bushels Of wheat, plus the 100000, 900
or more bushels required to cover the
thirteenth month Accepting the high
est reputable estimate Of the outturn Of
the 1889 harvest in the regions
named and adding 100000 bushels
Of possible imports from southern Asia
and northern Africa, the available sup
ply aggregates 2,3S0,000,000 bushels.
Granting that these estimates are ap.
proximately correct, it will he neces-
sary to make anticipatory drafts upon
the harvest of 1899 for about 10000
600 bushels, showing that even with
the largest outturns the accumulation
Of reserves to tide over such defective
harvests as that of 1897 is no longer
| possible, the power to make such ac-
cumulations having disappeared in TIE
absence of acreage increases propor-
| toned to the increase of the consum-
ing populations.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
PLACED DEAD COWS ON TRACK
After That They Collected Damages
from the Railroad.

After That They Collected Damages
from the Railroad.
ut was a great scheme" laughed
the claim agent, and if hadn't by the
merest chance tumbled to the old
mans game it might have been going
on yet. Some time ago | was notified
that man down the road had put in
a claim for damages. | looked the mat
ter up, and as it was perfectly straight
on the face of it there was nothing to
do but to settle with the old man on
the best terms | could get, and I did
so, and was hardly back when / was
again notified that the old man had
had another COW killed by the cars
l looked into that claim a little more
carefully, but ii was all right as far
as / could see, and / settled with him.
Before ] had time TO catch a train
back to the city the old man sent me
word that he had had another COW
killed by the cars. This struck me as
being very strange, particularly SO as
none of the train crews had reported
killing any COWS. Moreover. they all
denied it when questioned about 1t. l
went out where the COW was still lying
by the side Of the track and found it
almost cut to pieces l was about TO
settle with the old man, as there was
no other way out of it. when his 10
year-old boy came running up. 'Popr
he gasped, there's another COW dead!
Hurry up, and we'll drag her down
here and make the old railroad think
that they have killed two this time
Well, the truth of the matter was that
the old mans stock had been dying
from some cause, and he, with great
forethought. had dragged the victims
down by the railroad grade, pounded a
few holes in them with a pickax, and
then calmly notified the railroad to
SETTLE New York Sun.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

and God-lovingT But say you: IT ann
so afraid that they will bring their
prejudices for foreign governments
and plant them here" Absurd. They
are sick of the governments that have
oppressed them, and they want free
America! Give them the great Gospel
of welcome. Throw around them all
Christian Inequalities. They will add
their industry and hard-earned wages
to this country, and then we will dedi-
cate all to Christ, and thy land shall
be married" But where shall the
marriage altar be? Let it be the Rocky
Mountains, when, through artificial and
mighty irrigation, all their tops shall
be covered, as they will be, with vine
yards and orchards and grain fields
Then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks and the Charlestons Of the Pa
cific coast come to the marriage altar
on one side, and then let the Bostons
and the New Yorks and the Charlestons
of the Atlantic coast come to the mar
riage altar on the other side, and there
between them let this bride of nations
kneel; and then If the organ of the
loudest thunders that ever shook the
Sierra Nevadas on the one side. or
moved the foundations Of the Allie
ghanies on the other side, should open
full diapason of wedding march, that
organ of thunders could not drown
the voice of him who would take the
hand Of this bride of nations, saying.
"as a bridegroom rejoiceth over a
bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee. "
At that marriage banquet the platters
shall be of Nevada silver, and the chal-
ices OF California gold, and the fruits
of Northern orchards, and the spices
of Southern groves, and the tapestry OF
American manufacture. and the con-
| gratulations from all the free nations
OF earth and from all the triumphant
armies of heaven. And so thy land
shall be married.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
LILLY CLARE.
By C. d.


II was a bleak December day, and
the wind pierced every nook and crew
fee of the old attic room where Lily
Glare sat bending over a piece of sew
ing that would bring her small re-
compense and so keep starvation from
her door a few days longer.
The last stitch was taken, and Lilly
raised her pale but beautiful face, and,
clasping her hands together, said;
"Oh, what a dreary life for one so
youngl 1t is stitch, stitch, from morn
ing until night, and then l can scarce
ly keep life in me. But. come what
may. God has given me life, and with
His help l will do my best to take
care of it."
So Lilly arose, and, putting on her
wrapping that had seen better days.
started out in the bleak wind to take
her sewing home.
Lilly's father had been a wholesale
liquor merchant. and some heavy IN
vestment brought him to ruin; ana,
not wishing to face his creditors, the
next morning he was found dead IN MS
chair, and her mother, broken-hearted.
soon followed. And Lilly was left
alone to battle with the world.
Lilly, who was very earnestly think
ing as she was crossing the street, did
not heed the span of gray horses that
came tearing down the street until too
late she was knocked down, and the
carriage wheels had passed over her.
A crowd gathered around her, some
saying:
"Oh, she is dead!" And others: mo,
she has only tainted"
A gentleman standing by stepped
forward and requested the crowd to
give way; then raising her in his arms
he carried her into a drug store on
the corner.
He laid her on a sofa and withdrew
while DR.. Herbert, who was in the
store, did all in his power to bring her
back to life.
Percy Monroe could not help think
ing, while standing there. what love-
~ picture she made. lying there so still
and white, with her pale, golden ring
lets falling around her like halo, and
one arm lying across her bosom, ana
her white hand, with its pink-tinted
finger-nals, showed that she was Of
good birth. But at last the doctors
kind efforts were crowned with success,
for Lilly opened her large blue eyes
and. looking around, said family:
Where am -"
Then it suddenly flashed across her
mind and shudder passed through
her frame.
The doctor, bending kindly over her,
said:
Never mind my child; you are bet
ter now"
Percy Monroe now stepped up to the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

doctor and asked him if he thought II
would be safe TO move the young lady.
MY mother lives few doors back
and perhaps it would be best to have
her placed in a bed. where she can
have better attention than can be given
her here"
"Oh, yes" rerplied the doctor. 81
was just going TO ask the young lady
where her friends lived, so that we
could have her moved Immediately"
Lilly looked up with a pitiful smile,
saying: II have no friends nor any re-
lations living. l am entirely alone in
the world, but my room is 10 Front
street, and my name is Lilly Clare"
DR.. Herbert then turned to Percy,
saying: II guess we will avail our
selves of your hospitality, Mr.. Monroe,
and have Miss Clare removed to your
mothers, as it is too far. and might
result very serious, to have her re-
moved so far as Front street."
Percy bowed and left the drug store,
and retraced his steps to a fine stone
front house few doors from the store.
He met his mother at the dining
room door and soon told his story,
and Mrs. Monroe needed no urging, and
with all her motherly kindness pro-
ceeded at once to prepare room for
the young stranger. And when. after
half an hours delay, they brought
Lilly to the door, they found every
thing in readiness to receive her.
The kind lady did not stop to think
is she wealthy? and is she of good
birth? but only this, that she is one
of Gods creatures, and needs my aid.
When DR.. Herbert came down, after
making the needful examination, he
found Percy waiting at the hall door,
who wished to know if his patient was
seriously hurt.
mo, she is only bruised; and think,
with your mothers good nursing, in
about three weeks we will have her up
again."
And for the next three weeks every
attention and care was given to Lilly
Clare, so that she was able to sit up
in a large easy chair and read little.
And very sweet and modest she look
ed, sitting there with her white wrap
rr, trimmed in a delicate blue. AT
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
A Test of Character.

The greatest test of character is to
be found in what is common rather
than extraordinary. 1t is easier for
the soldier to be faithful in the rush
of battle, when sustained by a catch
ing enthusiasm, than to maintain a
high tone of consistent principle under
the many trials of daily drill.-Dr
Macleod.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Not Found Yet.

School Visitor examining scholnr1--
where is the North Pole?" II doS1
know, sir" Don't know! Are yon
not ashamed that you don't know
where the North Pole is?" Why, sar,
II Sir John Franklin and DR.. Nansea
and Captains Mares and Markham
couldn't find it, how should 1 know
where II is?"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Hard on Tom.

Cousin George-"They tell me you
spent the afternoon with Tom Callow.
Is it a fact that he has raised a mus
tache? | supposed you had heard the
report?"
Cousin Numerically, didn't no
tice. Am sorry l didn't ask him
Boston Transcript
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Husband Gets No Share.

In the Philippines, after death, I'M
less a wife has executed deed in her
husbands favor, under lawyers eye.
the property goes to her children and
blood relations, but none to her hus-
band
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Arc You Using Aliens Foot-Ea-e-

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask fer Aliens
Foot Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes AT all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE, 40
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough
at once. Go to your druggist today
and get sample bottle free. Sold in
% and so cent bottles. Go at once; do
lays are dangerous.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

cures within a few days Its effect
Is wonderful when applied to Burns,
Scalds, Sunburn, Boil5, Assesses, Scrofn-
lous Affections, Scalp Humors, Chatting
Parts and Raw Surfaces. Write today for
a free sample of 3 DROPS Salve TO thS
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company, 160169
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

COnsistency-A jewel that the pawn
broker refuses TO recognize.
Cynic-A man who is never happy
unless he is very unhappy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

The superior man is slow in his words
and earnest in his conduct.
Cipher-The average man who thinks
he is one in a thousand
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

to euro Piles
skin diseases,
and chroDiR
specific for
only one IN
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

FITS P~rmAnentyCuI e,i cts or nervousuess ana
first days of DIR Kline Great Nerve RestOFe1.
send for FREE S2.OO trial bottle and treniisss
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

Don't eet into the habit OF talking TO yourself
II you are easily bored.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
A Pure. Vegetable Compound

No HScrcuTal other mineral posons in CASoarcss-
Candy Catharte only vegetable substances late
cal disc oy cries. All druggists, l0c, &c soc
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

woman's ruling passion crops out in her de-
sire to rule husband.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

Mrs. WinSiow's Soothing syrup
For ehiiaren eetnin softens the gums reduces nR-
nation, AAys pain, cures wind collie. % centsA botsn
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

For Lung and chest diseases Piso's Cure Ss'
the best medicine we have used.-Mys J. l.
NoTthcott, Windsor, Ont, Canada
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

The average woman acts first and thinks II
over afterward.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

The happier some men are the moro money.
they POSSESS
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

The elevator in a department store is merely
a shop-Iifter.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

vulture-hearted Monopoly offers his
hand to this republic. He stretches 1t
out over the lakes and up the great
railroads and over the telegraph poles
of the continent, and says Here is
my heart and hand; be mine forever"
Let the millions of the people North,
South, East and West forbid the bans
of that marriage, forbid them at the
ballot-box, forbid them on the plat
form, forbid them by great organiza-
tions, forbid them by the overwhelm-
ing sentiment of an outraged nation,
forbid them by the protest of the
Church Of God, forbid them by prayer
to high heaven. That Herod shall not
have this Abigail. 1t shall not be to
all-devouring Monopoly that his land
is to be married
Another suitor for the hand of this
nation Is Infidelity. When the mid
night ruffians despoiled the grave of
A. T. Stewart in st. Marks church
yard, everybody was shocked; but In
fidelity proposes something worse than
that-the robbing of all the graves OF
Christendom of the hope of a resurrec-
ton. 1t proposes to chisel out from
the tombstones OF your Christian dead
the words, ASLEEP in Jesus" and sub
stitute the words, "Obliteration-an
initiation" Infdelity proposes to take
the letter from the worlds Father, in
viting the nations to virtue and hap
! piness, and tear it up into fragments
so small that you cannot read a word
of it. 1t proposes to take the consola-
| ton from the broken-hearted, and the
soothing pillow from the dying. In
| fidelity proposes to swear in the Presi-
dent of the United States, and the SUI
! preme court, and the governors Of
states, and the witnesses in the court
room with their right hand on Paine's
age of Reason" or Voltaires phil
osophy of History" 1t proposes to
! take away from this country the Book
| that makes the difference between the
| United States and the Kingdom of Da-
! honey, between American civilization
and Dornesian cannibalism. If Infidel-
! ity could destroy the Scriptures, 1t
] WOulu III lNO HuuuItu years turn lhO
civilized nations back to semi-barbar-
ism, and then from semi
into midnight savagery. until the
morals of a menagerie of tigers, rat
tlesnakes and chimpanzees would be
| better than the morals of the ship
wrecked human race.
The only impulse in the right direc-
ton that this world has ever had has
como from the Bible. 1t was the
mother OF Roman law and Of healthful
! Jurisprudence. That book has been
the mother of all reforms and all char
ities-mother Of English magma charta
and American Declaration of Independ-
ence. Benjamin Franklin, holding that
Holy Book in his hand, stood before
an infidel club in Paris and read to
them out of the prophecies of Habak-
kuk, and the infidels. not knowing
what book it was, declared it was the
best poetry they had ever heard. That
book brought George Washington down
on his knees in the snow at Valley
Forge, and led the dying Prince Albert
TO ask some one to sing Rock of
Ages"
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which never falIs
Eczema and all
also old running
sores. IL is a
Piles, and the
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FREE.

your readers that for tho
will send a sample box Of
r DROPS SalVo frna-
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There are no cross babies or sick babies IN
families that use Browns Teething CoriiAl"
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,Don't Judge woman's complexion by the bon
1T comes in
Cupid puts in a great deal of his time at tarEes
practice.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

Get your heart right, and 1t will be
easy to manage your tongue.