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The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
smnIIpox I'm Two rovvna.

The second fatal ease of smallpox
in Grand Traverse county ended Tues
day night when the little daughter Of
Frank Vinton, of Williamsburg, died.
The family has been quarantined
three weeks. Vinton got the disease
ut Mancelona. An Indian family at
Bates has contracted the disease and
one person has died.
Tie public schools at Three Rivers
are closed because case of smallpox
happened in the tenth grade of the
First ward school A boy named
Clyde Avery, a son Of Oliver Avery,
has been i'll several days. The schools
are temporarily closed, and the les
sons given out through the papers.
Other children of the same family are
in the first. third and ninth grades.
Much apprehension is felt.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
Cut of n Rich Plum.

The overruling by the Supreme Court
of Judge Wolcott's decision, giving
county treasurers the right to loan the
county's money us their own funds.
will deprive Kent county's treasurer
of about $4,000 extra salary, there
being in the neighborhood of $4,000
interest each year retained by the
treasurer. Former treasurers have
returned this money, and last fall
when County Treasurer Proctor was
criticised by the newspapers for re-
tanning his interest money. he became
very sensitive and committed suicide
under the impression that he was be-
ing accused of a grave charge.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

According to advices from KEEL Ger
many, the new high school there for
the teaching of shipbuilding and con-
struction of machinery will be opened
in 1903. The school will be wholly in
the hands of the state, but the cost
will only in part be borne by the
state, the town OF Kiel contributing
$4,000. There will be one department
for the learning of .shipbuilding, each
course lasting one year, and another
department for machinery, the course
of instruction being divided into four
quarters OF the year, classes being held
In the evenings and on Sundays for
shipwrights, locksmiths and smiths.
The Krupp Germania wharf has al
ready promised as much as 925O an
nually for the next ten years towards
the expense.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

The miners strike Mt Madisonville,
Ky, has become serious. State troops
are ordered out. and bloodshed may re-
suit. The union camp is situated in
sight of the mines and from territory
adjoining this camp there has been di-
rected a desultory. but harassing rifle
fire at the deputies guarding the Rel
necke property almost daily. There
are 800 or more men in the union camp
at Bakersport, Is miles east of Madi-
sonville OH the edge of the adjoining
county. They are provided with guns,
keep sentries guarding the approaches
and conduct the camp in military style.
One of their officials is an ex-army
man.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
valuable Horses Killed.

a peculiar and serious accident oc-
CURED on the Pere Marquette Railroad
at Plymouth Friday morning. A
freight train was backing to the sid
ing just west Of the station when
one of the cars suddenly tipped over.
The car contained q lot of valuable
race horses and party consisting of
two women. two girls and eight men
and boys. The women and girls es-
capped without injury. but the men and
boys received severe cuts and bruises.
The horses did not fare so well. Two
OF them are dead. two others cannot
live. and the remainder are badly cut
up. One Of the horses killed is said to
have been worth $4,000.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

Wisdom is not the same as under
standing; nor is it talent, or capacity,
ability, sagacity, sense, or prudence;
neither will all these together make it
up. 1t is that exercise Of the reason
into which the heart enters-a struc-
ture of the understanding rising out of
the moral and spiritual nature. 1t is for
this cause that high order of wisdom
that is, highly intellectual wisdom
is still more rare than high order
Of genius. When they reach the very
highest order they are one; for each
includes the others, and intellectual
greatness is matched with moral
strength.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

In many Of the western and m:dland
counties of England the nineteenth
century closed with the most terrible
floods within living memory. Happily
few lives were lost, but hundreds OF
folk-mostly poor-were washed out of
hearth and home. Farmers, small and
great, lost cattle, sheep and poultry,
and immense damage was done to all
kinds of property. One comic incident
was remarked at Alcester in Worces-
tershire. When the water fell the rec
tor took his walks abroad to see what
loss he had suffered. AS he passed
through an orchard he was greeted
with the piercing squeals of per-
picked pig, which had got mixed up in
the boughs Of damson tree. Probably
It had been bone into the branches by
the rising food. When the waters
went down it was left high, and pos
sibly dry, but terrified out of it's wits.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
branch County Assessments.

The state tax commissioners have
fixed the value of a share of stock in
the Southern Michigan National Bank
ut $154. which makes the total assess
ment $260,600; the Coldwater National
Bank at SIT, the total being $139,0O0;
the Branch County Savings Bank at
$127, the total being $63, 300. The Cold
water & Quincy Cement Co. have been
assessed 100000, which is more than
double former assessments. The
Coombe Milling Co. have been raised
from SCI 900 to $4,000. The Union
City Cement Co. was raised $4,000. J..
Il. Branch & Co.. dry goods merchants,
were increased $4,000; Woodward Il
Sons, also dry goods merchants. were
raised $1,000. The Coldwater Gas
Light g. Fuel Co. was lowered some
$1,000.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
Ask shnner 10 Explain.

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
John Mitchell. president of the United
Mine Workers. arc out with an open
letter 10 President Shaffer, Of the
Amalgamated Association. inviting
that gentleman TO prove the assertions
he made in connection with his state
ment rs TO the settlement Of the steel
strike-to wit. that Gompers and
Mitchell extended no aid. and neglect
cd to interest themselves I'm the affairs
of the steel workers.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

Napoleon Pierre Guicheveau, 113
years old, died recently at Braeux
Bridge, La Guicheveau was born in
France in 1888 and emigrated to Amer
lea at the age OF 65. After a short res
idence in New York city he came to
Louisiana and settled at Breaux
Bridge, where he married, and during
his phenomenal years of life retained
the respect of the community. Up to
the hour of his death Guicheveau re-
tanned his sight, hair and all his facul-
ties.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
seth Low Confident.

Seth Low, president of Columbia uni
versity, has announced that he will re-
sign from the university as soon as he
is notified of the action of the Citizens
union and Republican committee in
nominating him for mayor of New
York. He believes that chances for an
anti-rammany victory were never so
bright before. Already checks are be-
ing sent In by men prominent in bust
ness and finance. Men who contrib
uted to the large fund of the Citizens
union four years ago are again com
ing TO the front.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

The millionaire Crawl Solodovni-
koff. who recently died at Moscow, left
all his possessions, valued at 25, 1000, 900
rubles, for the founding of high
schools for girls, training schools fol
workmen and cheap lodging houses for
the poor. During his life he had al
ready spent large sums for a music
school and a hospital, yet he was not
esteemed wealthy because in private
life he was known as miser and an
inexorable creditor.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
A Foranttrn To,vn.

Daleville. town OF about 1000 IN
habitants IN Delaware county, is prob
ably the only town in Indiana which
was not included IN the last census.
For some reason It has been entirely
overlooked and rs not even mentioned
although the township in which it t.
located Is given.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

Struggled goods in large quantities
are brought from Windsor, Ontario, to
Detroit. Most of this work is done by
women, who secrete the smuggled ar
ticles under their skirts. In some of
the Windsor stores are private dress
ing-rooms for the patrons, where they
carefully prepare themselves to elude
the vigilance Of Uncle Sans customs
officers.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

In order that the appointed 30 DAYS
Of mourning for the late President Me-
Kinley may bc observed the Ohio Re
publican leaders have decided to post
ponr the opening OF the fall campaign
I'm that state.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
A BAD brake.

W. ]. Gray, n brakeman on the Pere
Marquette railway, was arrested at
Saginaw by the local police ana taken
to Pontiac, charged with forgery. For
some time pay checks issued 10 en-
ploycs Of the Pere Marquette road
have been missing from the train
masters Office at Saginaw. It Is
claimed that over $3.50 worth Of them
were cashed ut n bank In Pontiac. the
name or the person IN whose favor
they were drawn being forged rs an
Endorsement. 1t is alleged Gray passed
the checks.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
The Yale Expositor.
y. A. MENzIEs, Publisher.

1ho smallest bird is the humming
bird of Brazil. 1t is little larger than
the common honey bee, and weighs
about five grains.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

William IIecker. an employee at the
mill OF CroOkshank. Somers a Co.
Ionla, went under the building to
shift belt. lie was caught and
wound around the shaft. which pulled
linn up and pinned him between the
shaft and the door. lie was released
and will recover.
Locomotive No. 700. hauling
stock train on the Michigan Central
railroad exploded cast OF New Buffalo
Tuesday. Fireman Michael Wiley was
instantly Killed. Engineer Jerome Il.
Palmer and Brakeman III. J. Crouch
were slightly injured. All three men
hall from Jackson.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

A pot which cannot boil over has
been invented by Berlin machinist.
1t has a perforated rim, and the over
flowing liquid returns to the utensil.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

Less than one hundred dollars, spent
by the Improvement League of Mont
clair, New Jersey, has done more to
cleanse and beautify the place, says
the town council than the thousands
of dollars the town has expended in
conventional ways. The league began
by offering prizes for clean and orderly
back yards and alleys, and went on to
give prizes for the best yine-covered
fence, the finest vegetable plot and the
most beautiful Towering plant. Then
it organized the children to pick I'D
waste paper from the streets, keep the
school yards neat, and "tidy up the
vacant lots. In six months Montclair
became a noticeably attractive place.
and a wholesome one, too, for the
death rate had perceptibly lessened.
Like methods will yield similar results
in any other town, and It will not be
necessary to spend much money pro-
vided few people are willing to use
inspired common sense"
After a chase which had led him
from Galveston to Buffalo. William
Cnrran, Of st. Louis. reported to the
police of New York that he had been
unable to capture his 13-year-old son
Louis, who ran away eighteen months
ago, and asked their help. The boy
first went to Galveston. His father
traced him there. When he heard HIS
father was in town looking for him
the boy left that city for Buffalo Again
the father pursued, only to find that
his boy had started for New York. Now
both are in that city--somewhere. The
police promised TO search for the boy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04
ESCAPES IN MOTHERS DRESS,
Aguinaldo II Described n HavinS
Eluded the Americans In
Odd Way. -.E-t

John Linck, of Richmond, Va, now
a private in company X, Fourth in
fantry, in the Philippines. tells un-
der date of Cavite viego. January Is
Of the escape of Aguinaldo from the
Americans by dressing himself in his
mothers clothing
The Americans heard that the Fill.
Pine chief was visiting his mother al
the little town of Binacoyon. The
place was surrounded on the morn.
ing of January II and all the inhabit-
ants were forced to pass in review,
The women received only q cursory
inspection. and Aguinaldo escaped
among them.
His body servant, who was taken.
said: "For months we have been In
the midst Of the Americans and they
have not suspected MS. My master
has even spoken with the American
soldiers. When my master was
wounded in September we wrapped
him in mating and floated him down
the river past the Americans, who
thought it was a dead body. How
YOU found out we were to visit his
mother l do not know. but some one
betrayed us and he will be punished.
At midnight we learned of the Amer
leans being upon us and master tried
to reach his boat, but failed. We re-
turned and disguised him in his
mothers garments as bonita senior
TIA pretty girD and when the ofh-
GERS raided the house my master rep
resented himself as sick woman
and was undisturbed. My master
il now safe with friends in distant
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04
HUMOROUS.

Elbow did you get in without tick.
et7" "Walked in backward and the
ticket taker thought ! was going out. :
-Chaparrsl.
There never was q woman so polite
to her guests that she would call on
her smart children when they became
neutrality-suspicious. Globe.
Beecher-'Whatl You don't ap'
prove Of the free school SYSTEM
Teacher-"No; I favor hire educa'
tion."- Philadelphia Record.
Doctor-"Why have you deducted
quarter from my bill?" Patient
''That Is for the six cigars you broke
when you thumped my chest."-Phih'
delphis Record. f8aEE t3tfs
A young girl who carried her dinner
was observed to always eat her pie
first. When asked why. she replied:
"Well. if there's anything left. it won't
be the pie, will it, now?"-Christian
Register.
"what would you say" began the
voluble prophet of woe, ''if I were to
tell you that in q very short space Of
time all the rivers in this country
would dry up?" II would say" replied
the patient man: $50 thou and dc
likewise "-Philadelphia Press.
Strategy--"Dear," said young Mrs
Jellus, 81 thought you ought to know;
there's a married man who is violently
in love with me-" "What?" he cried
"Who is hep" sIf tell you will you
give me those earrings I wantedT
ayes. Who is it?" "You.-Philadel-
phia Press.
Fuddy-"Time was when . young
woman never expected anything be
yond an Inexpensive plain gold ring at
her engagement" Duddy-"And now
she won't look at anything short OF Z
$50 diamond ring. This is what makes
engagements more eagerly sought by
the girls and what causes them to de-
sire to have as many of them as pos.
sible."-Boston Transcript.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04

petite while before I was nearly
starved."-Mrs. Selma Tanner.
Mr.. L. o. Marble, Of Geneva, Neb,
writes:
81 do believe that my catarrh il en-
tirely cured. have not had any
trouble with my stomach for long
time. I am as well as one OF my age
could expect (seventy years.. I have
had the catarrh ever since I was .
young man, and have doctored for it
for years and got very little better, but
thanks to you and your Peruna and
Manalin / believe am well of it. lean
eat anything now and it doesn't hurt
me, and Peruna is the only thing I ever
found that will cure the catarrh. Ibe-
ieve it is the only cure for catarrh,
and hope every one troubled with ca.
tarrh will try Peruna and be cured."-
/. o. Marble.
II you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Peru
ma, write at once to DR.. Hartman, Civ
ing . full statement Of your case and
he will be pleased to give you his val
liable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, president OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
Ohio.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04
THE GIRL AND THE PORTRAIT
A. I,sta.ce Of the influence Of Hex
edlty At q Picture Gallery
In London.

Doctors disagree as to the influence
Of heredity. Some hold that greai
deal hinges upon it; others believe ths
contrary. Some of the authentic sto
ries told to exemplify this mysteriou,
bond between ancestors and descend
ants are very curious.
There was q loan collection of Ole
portraits exhibited in London lately
and a young girl was among the Wis
itors. She was an orphan and wealthy
but without near relatives, and wa
heard to complain of the loneliness q
her position,
AS she passed through the gallery
one particular portrait attracted he,
attention, and she went back to it more
than once. Her companion saw in il
nothing but the commonplace paint
ing of a middle-aged man in the cos.
tune Of the latter part of the last cen
tury.
at is such nice, kind face" said. thu
girl. rather wistfully. II imagine my
father might have looked like that had
he lived"
AS most OF the pictures were ticket.
ed, the visitors had purchased no cata
logue, but before going away Mis-,
B. bought one at the entrance and
made last visit to the portrait fol-
which she had felt so strong an attrac
ton. To her establishment she found
her own name opposite to its number
and learned on inquiry that the origin&
was one of her direct ancestors.
Another occult coincidence or psy
Geological phenomenon happened .
few years ago to a southern statesman
and financier whose family has alway.
been of rank in his native state. This
gentleman was overhauling old docu-
ments and letters which had beer
stored in q musty chest for years and
intended to publish whatever might be
Of historic value and interest.
To his surprise he unfolded letter
yellow and time-stained which wa
written in his own peculiar handwrit.
ing, or seemed to have been written by
him, although the date was two genera,
tions before his birth. The signature
Of the surname, which was the same q
his own, was so markedly Character.
istic that he could scarcely believe his
own hand did not pen the letters. Sc
it sometimes happens that handwrit.
ing as well - features and character
is handed dOWn In families.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04

erly present their honest interests for
the national welfare. But in order to
get what public spirited and national
pride should cheerfully give they are
obliged to allow all sorts of un-
worthy appropriations to be made.
else they might be defeated in their
laudable purposes by the votes OF
those who have only selfish political
interests to advance.
In the house of representatives Mr..
De Almond, Of Missouri, eaustically
and bitterly referred to these facts.
saying: There has never been .
day fuller OF fate for freedom and
liberty than this: and here, with the
representativesof the people shackled
with trade and bargains and con-
hivance, with cringing and crooking
Of the knee that thrift may follow
fcwning, the rights of the people are
being frittered away, their constitu-
ton is being disregarded; and, shame
upon shame, this is to be done here
in what is supposed to be the house
of representatives of the American
people, which is really the house Of
Representatives, Of the bosses and trad
ersa and traffckers who have no respect
for the constitution, those who have no
respect for their constituencies, those
who have no respect for their own
manhood, those who surrender away
their every right. those who grovel
in the dust and seem to rejoice that
they may SO crawl, instead of stand
ing erect, Is God probably intended
they should do"
That sounds like . part Of = po-
litical speech. but it was not. It
was aimed at men Of both political
parties who were giving up their in
dividual opinions in order that they
night ct q tAs pie" hills, % that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04
political thrift should follow for thsi,

political thrift should follow for theis
own selfish purposes.
There should be some remedy for
this condition of affairs In the con-
gress, and the remedy lies with the
people. Every man in the republic
should divest himself of partisan
feeling in the matter. 1t is useless
10 blame either party, as a party,
for their representatives are human.
and in that respect are all alike. The
people should give their senators and
representatives to understand that
appropriations for exploiting the in
terests of favorite localities are I'M
constitutional; and that appropria-
tons for rivers and harbors must be
made on the plane of craftsmanship.
and not on the plane of the partisan
or politician.
Senator Allison, of Iowa (rep.),
chairman Of the senate committee
on appropriations, and Senator Cock
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-04

rell, of Missouri (dem.), former
chairman of the committee on appro-
priations; the two men of different
parties who know most about ma
tional appropriations, frequently
spoke with earnestness, with words
of warning, and with pleading, that
the expenditures might be cut down;
but those honest and painstaking
leaders were powerless against the
mob of self-seekers who were deter
mined to secure their portion of the
loot of the treasury.
The regular subscribers and read
ers of this paper must have noticed
that the correspondent has dealt in
kindly manner with public men, and
they will understand that it is with
a very keen regret that these truths
are told concerning them. Every
man. including the politicians. de-
sires to better his condition. Repre-
sentatives desire to become senator's.
and senator's desire to become presi.
dents. Like merchants and mechan-
les who seek their individual better
ment these public servants some
times subordinate public interest to
self-interest, and they are going too
far in that direction.
Although there are many politi-
clans who believe that he did not
fulfill the requisites C. his own dec
laration in all respects, Grover Cleve-
land certainly penned an axiom which
all public men ought to know and un-
derstand when he said: Public Office
is a public trust" The representa-
tives OF the people and the senators
Of the sovereign states ought to real
ize that fact better than they have re-
Gently done.
/ In the house of representatives the
speaker has absolute power over the
appointment of chairmen and mem.
bers of committees; and every speak
er selects the best men for those po-
sitions because It is to his own in
terest, as we'll as to the public inter
est. to do so. But during the session
which has recently closed the speaker
was powerless to prevent the univer-
sal demand for appropriations of al
most every description. He could
shut off special bills; but the repre-
sentatives who failed to, have their
way in the house would go to their
senators and induce them to place
amendments upon house bills where
by their results were to be accom-
plished. 3GrE W p
So, you see, you cannot blame in
dividual leaders nor political parties.
but the individuals themselves, who
are seeking to accomplish their own
ambitions. The sooner the people
understand these conditions, and
bring their moral suasion and influ-
ence to bear upon the men whom
they choose to represent them in the
federal government. the better it will
be for all the people in every way;
and the better it will be for our sys-
TEN Of government, which is not, as
it ought to be, government "of the
people, by the people and for the
people" SMITH D. FRY.