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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-06-20
The Children.

Childrens day-How much this day
means TO the children, perhaps we do
not fully realize but their bright, eager
faces and the apparent happiness with
which they perform their allotted parts
during the hour or two given up to
them. more than pays for all the trouble
IL takes TO make IL success. The
second Sunday I'm June is generally set
apart for Childrens day but for various
reasons the Methodists and Presby-
terians changed the date TO the evening
of the 18th. At the NJ. +. church the
organ was placed I'm the middle of the
rostrum, back TO the audience and
banked up with flowers and plants,
small tables at either end were also
decorated and an easel held beautiful
wreath. The children had been well
trained by their teachers and their reel.
tations, songs, dialogues and choruses
were appropriate To the occasion and
rendered very nicely.
At the Presbyterian church the
plants were arranged TO the best advan-
tage, making handsome background
In the arch, while boquets of roses and
other flowers filled the pulpit, piano
and windows. The children here had
also been training for some time and
the large audience thoroughly appre-
ciated the efforts Of the scholars. Many
of the pieces were very pretty and the
class OF tots In their song and verses
created much quiet amusement. This
is a day long looked forward TO by the
children and remembered until the next
one comes. May the custom OF cele-
brating IL never die out.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-06-20

regarding the size OF Judge Tappan's
former legal practice or of the amount
and quality of his legal learning.
Another qualification of a judge is
the possession OF what is sometimes
called judicial mind-the power 10
comprehend, reason upon and weigh
impartially and with deliberation and
care the matters brought before him.
lt is a well known fact that lawyers
who have had a large experience I'm the
excitement and heat of actual trials
often make weaker judges than those
who have had little or no such expert.
ence. IL Is common expression
among the members of the bar 10 say
the reason for this Is that the active
trial lawyer lacks the judicial mind.
He has become by habit n controver-
sialist, man who often sees but one
side of a proposition, and has lost some
what the power TO hold the scales Of
justice with even hand. In my opin-
ion. IL Judge Tappan remains on the
bench for many months, the members
of the bar will see In him the develop.
ment and exercise OF these peculiarly
judicial qualities TO n much greater ex.
tent than they are possessed and exer-
cised 10y the average circuit judge OF
this state.
An almost indispensable quality of
circuit Judge In these days is industry.
No one can truthfully say that Judge
Tappan is not industrious i'm his habits
far beyond the average lawyer or the
average judge. lie possesses this quail
iiication In high degree.
Another desirable quality in a circuit
judge is official courtesy. Every law
yer who has practiced before or had
business with Judge Tappan will GER
tify that there is no failure in this re-
spect.
Judge Tappan has recently been at
tackled, not only in the paper referred
20, but as | am informed, from the
political platform in the various parts
of the county by the editors of "The
Search-Light.' He is so situated, ow-
ing 10 his position and the peculiar
character and bitterness Of these criti-
cisms. that he cannot with propriety
defend himself. / think know Judge
! Tappan about as we'll as any other man
knows him, not excepting these critics,
and l believe / will perform n duty
that owe TO him and 20 the judicial
interests of st. Clair county by making
public my estimate and my knowledge
of his character, learning and ability.
EUGENE +. LAW.
Port Huron, Mich, June l6, 1902.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-06-20
Farm For Sale.

A lG0-acre farm situated three miles
west of Yale for sale nj reasonable
figure and on easy terms. The farm
is all under cultivation except about
so acres. Thirty acres heavy timber.
For furthur particulars and terms call
on or address Geo. stephens, Yale.
Mich. "a
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-06-20
EIRST NATIONAL BANK,
TAL=, 3E-G1r.
SECURITY FOR DEPosIToRs,

Patron ize Solid Home institution
Interest on Time Deposits
AL Business Confidential.
RR. NOBLE, Pres.
n. a. GRISWoID. Vice Pres.
X. Y. fKAD, Cashier.
Dlrectorss-B n. Noble. r, A. Grlswoid, " r
fead. B, McNultv. J. q. Holden. Y. w. Andreae,
Tnos. o. Wharton.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Actors Ready Wit
That Qvieted
Excited Irishmen
John BroUshmAn's
Well-Timed Joke,
and Its Effect.

"Just as came on discussion that
had sprung up among some Of the ex-
cited Fenians developed into a quarrel
The house was already disturbed and
there was every prospect of a fight IN
the orchestra in another minute.
81 delivered my message and Broug-
ham replied to me in the words of the
piece:
"'Confound you, have done!'
"Then turning from me to the foot
lights he went on, as IL it was a part
Of his speech:
"Or would you like a band of Fenlan
brothers,
All fame abandon to defame each
other?
If with such sentiments sent out any,
Remember I'm head center here, Ma
honey.
There was a roar of laughter from
the whole house at this, and the Fe-
mans Joined in 1t as heartily as any
one else There was no further talk
or indication of trouble and the play
went on without interruption"
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Discovered ;
Human
Chinarnan

"ls the Chinese laundryman human
being?" asked a gentleman at a late
supper. why, of course not" an
swered one member Of the party flip
PANTY. Whoever thought that he
WASP" "You have answered the ques-
tion as l would have had you answer
it," continued the first gentleman
gravely. your answer voices the pop
ular opinion of these poor hardwork-
ing outcasts that we have In all our
cities. They are foreigners, they are
enigmas, we know nothing Of them.
We do net even consider them as fell
low human beings, But II we knew
the history of each man; If we could
know what goes on behind the yellow
mask, seemingly without expression,
that wells the soul of the Celestial
washer OF our collars, we would prob
ably not be so prone to look upon them
as things apart. II we could see deeper
the human being would appear. All this
preface is apropos of a case which
came under my knowledge. | have a
room in a house near Canal street.
Next door is one of those squat little
houses which now and then you find
next to big mansion in this cosmopol-
itan city. On the lower floor of the
small house was a Chinese laundry.
In it was young Chinaman about rs
years of age. His face was imperturb-
able as the sky. He went about his
business with the undertaking method
Of the solar system. At first he was an
ordinary Chinese laundryman to me,
but my attention became riveted upon
him and my curiosity was awakened.
That man seemed to live merely for
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Dummy Animals That
Are Mode to Amuse
Theatre Goers.
Tricks of
the Stage


feet long and emitting flames makes
us think that we must have got away
from canvas, wickerwork and paper,
else the flames are certainly not real.
The flames, however, are real enough,
and man inside ingnites and fans the
spirit-saturated cotton-with his
breath. 1t is out Of a canvas mouth,
too, that they come, but that mouth is
fitted with asbestos cloth.
Stage rats introduce US to another
method of locomotion on the part of
inanimate straw and canvas. Rats are
made big enough to admit small
boys; in such cases, of course, the boys
do the moving. But the common stage
rat is usually stuffed with straw.
There is no man or boy or other in
animate thing inside. Power TO move
is impaired to them from without by
means of invisible wires attached to
their noses and manipulated from be-
hind the scenes, Their movement con-
sists of only a glide, and that is az
nearly as possible the true movement
of the real rat, 1t being the movement
that creates the least disturbance, and
is, therefore, the most suitable for a
hunted animal. stage rats may glide
in a straight line, or they may zig
gag and perform in more or less elabo-
rate ways, according to the arrange
ments made on the stage. These ar
rangements comprise the fixing Of pull
leys on the floor or in the wall or else
where and the laying Of invisible
wires over them. The more elaborate
the arrangement Of pullys, the more
varied will be the lines OF movement
traced by the rats
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Smooth Political Trick


change of all the election printing.
When the official sample ballots were
published not one Republican in the
county for some strange reason notic-
ed that Lincoln's head in the Repub-
lican emblem was turned to the left
instead of to the right, as had always
been the custom.
The result was naturally that all
the flliterate negroes who voted in
front Of Lincolns nose marked their
crosses to the right Of Jackson and
Liberty, thereby voting the straight
Democratic ticket. About II a. N.
some backwoods Republican noticed
that Lincoln's face was turned the
wrong way and reported to the man
ayers Then there were dongs
1T was thought at first by the Re-
publicans that the whole Democratic
party had cooked up the scheme, but
it developed that 1t had all been ar
ranged by one man, who had made a
change in the woodcuts which were
sent to the official printer"
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Nations
Great Dead
Burial Places OF Pres
idents of the United
States.
HMNMNMNNWWNNNNNNNVENN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Taylor did during his term Of office
at the White House. His last words
were: 81 am about to die. expect the
summons soon. have endeavored to
discharge all my official duties faith
fully. l regret nothing, but am sorry
that am about to leave my friends"
His body was put in a vault at Wash
ington, from which 1t was removed to
Springfield, FIVE miles from Louisville,
Ky.
Millard Fillmore was buried at Buffa-
10, where he died. The body Of Frank
lin Pierce lies at Concord, N. H., and
that of James Buchanan at Lancaster,
Pa. His last words, whispered to him
self, were "Oh, Lord God Almighty,
as Thou wilt"
Lincoln died without speaking after
he was shot. His body lies in Oak
Ridge cemetery, at Springfield. III. An
drew Johnson died at Carter's depot,
Tenn. One of his last requests was
that his body be wrapped in the flag.
He was buried at Greenville, Tenn.
General Grant died at Mount Nc
Gregor, N. Y, and his body lies in the
fine tomb at Riverside Park. Mr..
Hayes was buried at Fremont, o..
where he died Garfield's body lies al
the base of the monument in Lake
View cemetery, Cleveland, within sight
Of Lake Erie, and only q few miles
from his home at Mentor.
Chester A. Arthur died in New York
city only year after the end Of his
term. A few days before his death he
said to Commissioner Fish: After all,
life is not worth fighting for, and
might as we'll give up the struggle for
it now as any other time and submit
to the inevitable" He Is buried at AL
bany, N. Y, where a finely sculptured
figure guards his tomb. Benjamin
Harrison died at his home in Indian
apolk in March, and is buried in that
city.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
Celestial Proved
He Possessed the
Soul of a White Man

his work. When l came in at o'clock
in the morning l found him with the
lights turned high, patiently working
at his calling. II l rose early in the
morning that prodigy Of industry was
up before me. l gradually became
filled with wonder at the untiring per-
sistency of the man. Because Of his
neatness and politeness and exquisite
care to please the neighborhood never
thought of sending its laundry any
where else. began to carry my things
in person to the Celestial, urged on
by the desire to find out something
about him. | reasoned that no man,
white or yellow, could work as he did
without being dominated by an all
absorbing purpose. | found him intel
ligent; he could speak English we'll
Finally | won his confidence. You may
laugh, but the young Chinaman was in
love. A little slant-eyed girl in China
was waiting for him, and he was pa
tiently and bravely undergoing the
hardest kind of toll in order to go
back to his native country and marry
her. When he told me the story l for
got that he was Chinaman; | re-
membered only that he was a man,
working like a man to make himself
deserving to have a wife, and withal.
despite the meager, unpoetical sur
roundings, having all the dreams Of a
young man whose sweetheart is far
away. So you see," concluded the gen.
tleman, with a glance at the fiippant
member of the party, ut is possible to
find the touch Of our common human
ity even in a Chinaman. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01

There have been q good many
stories told of the quick wit of actors
who have turned an accident or a
panic or a row into a joke" said Tom
Leigh, the old-time actor, in New
York, recently. "A good many of the
stories are fakes, l suppose" he con-
tinued, "but some are true, and there
are lots that have never found their
way into print. The press agent
wasn't as numerous or as clever In the
old days as he is now.
"I remember an instance in which
John Broughham carried off a most
difficult situation by a clever bit Of i'm
provisation and saved the old Winter
Garden from the disgrace Of riot. 1t
was the first night on which he played
his buruesque Columbus there and the
house was filled with his friends.
"Among the most enthusiastic of
these friends were a great crowd Of
Fenians. headed by Mahoney, the man
who had just then been elected presi-
dent of the Irish republic at the old
Fenian headquarters in Seventeenth
street. There was a jolliicatlon in
honor of his election, and as he was a
personal friend of Brougham's 1t was
natural that he and his followers
should buy up all the orchestra seats
in the house for the opening night, as
they did.
"I was in the cast, and so was Jack
Study, but if anybody else in the COM
pany is now alive / don't remember
who it is played the part of big
Indian who first appeared on the stage
as a messenger bringing dispatches
from washington.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01

zone Of the smoothest political
tricks ever played said Henry c.
Edgerton Of Baltimore to a WaNhing-
ton Post man, "was that pulled of in
Talbot county, on the eastern shore Of
Maryland, some years ago, when about
200 negroes voted the wrong ticket
without knowing it before our side
found out that anything was going
wrong. The county was y>ry close
that year aad the Republicans had to
count upon the votes Of the negroes to
win. Few of these citizens could read,
but they lad been instructed to put
their cross marL on the Australian
ballot in front Of Massa Llncoln's
nose. They had shown that they
could at least do this much, and the
Republicans considered everything
well in hand.
"But the Democrats were in control
OF the county, and the Jackson and
Liberty emblem had first place on the
ballot, the Democrats also having
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01

Not a single president is buried at
Washington. An Englishman can visit
the tombs of almost every English SOW
sreign within a few hours. They lie at
Winchester, at Westminster and at
Windsor. But only two cemeteries in
the United States contain the bodies Of
more than one president The Adamses
both lie in the yard Of the First Con-
gregational church at Quincy, Mass,
and Monroe and Tyler are buried in
Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va.
OF the five presidents who died in Of
hce-Harrson, Taylor, Lincoln, Gar
held and McKinley--only the first two
met death in the White House. The
elder Harrison was first buried in the
capital, but his body was removed
later to North Bend, o.
Washington lies at his old home at
MT. Vernon, where he died. Thomas
Jefferson was buried at his home es-
tate, Monticello, Va. A cemetery at
Montpelier, VT, contains the ashes Of
Madison. The death Of Andrew Jack
son took place at the Hermitage, his
home in Tennessee.
After the expiration Of his term
James X. Polk went to Nashville,
Tenn, but lived only a few months.
The burial was at Nashville. Van Bu-
rem died at his country home at Kin
derhook, N. Y, and was buried from
the old Dutch church there.
Pneumonia caused the death of Will
liam Henry Harrison a month after
his Inauguration. He was buried in
the congressional cemetery, but a few
years later the body was removed to
North Bend, o., to a tomb overlooking
the Ohio river. The grave was neglect
ed, until the state Of Ohio erected
monument above It.
His successor, Tyler, died at the Ex-
change hotel, Richmond, a member of
tha Confederate congress.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01

Stage animals are very proud of the
organs they can move. IL they can
roll an eye, they never cease to roll
it so long as they think any one is
looking; and if they can switch tail,
they switch it. This weakness for
showing off gets them into trouble
sometimes, just as weaknesses in
general get real animals into trouble.
Hence an elephant, with a fine, freely
moving tail began to switch that tail
with great vigor while on its way to
the front of the house. Just as It was
emerging from the side into view the
woolly end Of the tail in its abandon
ed flights, caught a gas jet, and at the
same instant caught fire. The fire
spread as rapidly as dry, gummy can
vas and dry withes could make it
spread, and the elephant appeared in
a blaze. Fortunately for the men in
side the flames were on the top, and
the first intlmation they received of
the confagration was a feeling as of
romething cold striking them on the
back. 1t was water, and the water in
creased and they were drenched and
Mortified, for they knew not whence
1t came or what 1t meant or what
might come next.
A swordish is, no doubt, very i'm
pressive creature on the stage, the
sword naturally receiving great EN-
phasis from the maker and special
,V.l.1 IL
thus a common thing for that sword
to get into trouble, and for the poor
fish, in a stage procession, to ask
harmless mussel or oyster to take
care Of my sword" A dragon thirteen
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
"InnoOuous Desuetude"

Who is the author Of the phrase "in.
nocuous desuetude?" 1t is generally
believed that Grover Cleveland is. the
words being used in his message of
March l, 1886, but James w. Butter
field, writing to the New York Sun
says that the phrase was first used
by William E. Gladstone, who gave
utterance to the expression in Hem
gler's Circus Ga building), in Liver
pool, In 1882.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-09
MAIL CATCHING DEVICE.
Many Persons Will Witness Tria
Tests on Hooking Valley.

Columbus O., Dec 9.-The Cummings
mail catching and delivering device is
to have final fest at the Lane avenue
crossing of the Hooking Valley road this
afternoon r. S. Quigley, superintend-
ent of the Hooking Valley railway will
be in charge of the test.
Since the government made a test of
this device and the Gilbert patent the
committee appointed by the postmaster
general has made rcanX tests in other
cities and all have failed.
Owing to a defective delivery catch
the Cummings device was twisted out
of shape at the former test. Since then
it has worked successfully taking and
delivering so pounds of mail while the
train was running at the rate of so
miles an hour. This fulflls all the ra-
quirements of the government. .
At the test there will be representa-
tives from all the newsOa oers and d
carload of people Interested If success
full again Mr.. Cummings has a good
chance of having his device adopted by
the government.
One good feature of this mail catch
ing and delivering device is that the en-
gineer or fireman can keep his head out
of the cab all the time and watch the
operation without fear or injury Mr.
Cummings resides in this city at 1901
Highland avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-09
ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

The meaning of orange blossoms is
said to be as follows: A Moorish king
sent a splendid orange tree as a gift to
a Spanish monarch. Every one coveted
a slip, but the king refused the boon to
all.
one day a branch, with all it's glossy
leaves and starry blossoms, was acct
dentally broken off, and the gardener
gave it to his pretty daughter who was
the betrothed of humble artisan
The girl had no dot. and the wedding
seemed impossible In exchange for
the coveted treasure a foreign ambas-
sador offered her a sum sufficient for
her dowry. Overjoyed. she accepted
and the marriage was celebrated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-09

RHE Women's Educational and
81 Industrial union of Boston
some time ago offered a prize
of $50 for the best household
labor saving device invented by wo-
man. Now, the Boston ladies' union
could not have done a better thing, for
the present system of housekeeping even
in America is two centuries behind the
times Whatever Tabor saving inven-
tions have struggled in here and there
among the clumsy, old fashioned hand
methods have been mostly made by
men, as, for instance, the carpet sweep
er and the sewing machine.
The offer of the Boston organization
has brought out a number of women
devised machines that are thoroughly
encouraging. "A man, not a woman,
has just written an article to prove
that the separate kitchen must go, just
as the separate loom and bake oven
have gone. Some of the exhibits and
inventions in the women's department
of the Mechanics fair in Boston look
as if it were women themselves who
will give at least the old fashioned
kitchen its final bowling out The Ed
vocational and Industrial union ladies
themselves took charge of the depart
ment allotted to their sex at the fair
with the object of really bringing out
whatever is permanently worth while
in women's work.
The fifty dollar prize was awarded
for the breadmaking machine invented
by Mrs. Lydia Coale Sharpless, a Phil
adelphia lady belonging to the gentle
Quaker folk. Mrs. Ellen H. Richards
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, who knew of the machine, was
instrumental in bringing it before the
public at the fair. The chief merits of
this invention are two-first, it mixes
the bread rapidly and thoroughly by
machinery. thus avoiding the unpleas-
ant hanc manipulation and kneading.
Considering what too many bakeries
lack in the item of cleanliness, this
abolishing of the hand mixing is of it
self sufficient to immortalize Mrs.
Sharpless' contrivance. But It does
much more than that. according to the
verdict of the chemical faculty of the