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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
THE BEST HE COULD.

Remedies Suncient for an Income Of
Twelve Hundred Year.
"Do you know that man over therep"
asked one Detroiter of another on the
Lansing train the other day.
No"
well. he's drummer for Jeffer-
son avenue house, and I've known him
by sight for fifteen years. His em-
ployer told me the other day that he
hadn' t lost a day for twelve years.
HE looks the picture of health
so he does. but want to make
bet with you. I'll bet you silk hat
he carries remedies with him for no
less than six different ailments.
.Ill do itr'
They went over and the case was
explained to the drummer, who laughed
and replied:
'.Well. Idunno. Icarry some troches
to avoid hoarseness. / carry bottle
of cough medicine to ward off pneu-
monia. have porous plaster in my
grip to put on if get lame back. I
have some corn salve, bottle of Ja-
maica ginger, some quinine capsules.
a phial of peppermint essence, box
of mandrake pills, a liver medicine,
a gargle for sore throat and a."
Good landsr' cried both gentlemen
in chorus.
''Oh, we'll. what did you expectp"
he inquired. with an injured air. "A
man on 81. 200 a year can't carry
around whole drug store. can her'
Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
Z. MICHAEL, THE wE,eHER.

$1,000 the tall Archangel weighing
All mans dreaming, doing, saving.
ALI the failure and the pain,
All the triumph and the gain,
In the unimagined years,
uii OF hopes, more full of tears,
since old Adams conscious eyes
backward searched for Paradise,
AND, instead, the dame-blade saw
Ofinexorable Law.
In dream marked him there.
with his fire-gold Pickering hair,
In mis- binding armor stand,
ana the scales were in his hand;
Mighty were they and full well
Iney could poise both Heaven and hen.
angel" asked I. humbly, then,
Weighest thou the souls of men!
That thine office is, know"
Nay, he answered me. mot so;
But weigh the hope of man
Since the power of choice began
I'm the world of good or ILL.,"
ThenI waited and was still.
In one scale I saw him place
All the glories of our race,
cups that lit BelshaZZar's feast,
Gems, the wonder Of the East.
kuoiais scepter, Caesars sword,
Many poets golden word,
Manya skill Of science, vain
To make men as gods again.
In the other scale he threw
Things regardless, outcast few,
Martyr-ash, arena sand.
OF st. Francis cord strand,
Beechen cups of men whose need
Fasted that the poor might feed,
Disillusions and despairs
Ofyoung saints with grief-grayed hairs,
Broken hearts that break for man
Marvel through my pulses ran.
Seeing then the beam divine
Swiftly on this hand decline.
While Earth's splendor and renown
Mounted light as thistle-down.
jams Russell LOWe1, in Angericd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
vAULTlNG AMBITION.

A Sea-Trout That Assembled Hundreds OF
Feet Above the River Level.
1t is well known that many of our
river fishes are capable of scaling
dams and natural falls of considerable
height. In doing this they stem the
strongest current the swiftness OF
which is easily overmatched by the
speed with which the fish moves. The
observations of a Scotch naturalist
upon this point are of interest:
AS we were leaping from stone to
stone up the rugged course of q
mountain burn. which had lately been
considerably swollen by the rain.
though it was now almost dry, we
came upon sea-trout of about four
pounds weight lying on the single
dead. but quite fresh. AS there were
no marks of violence about him, he
had not been conveyed thither by an
otter. or any other enemy. but
had evidently became the vic
tim of his own rashness, his
natural instinct having led him
to follow the course of the burn too
far. He had assembled at least three
hundred feet above the level of the
river we had just left; but though the
ascent had been easy, as well as nat
ural, at the time he made it. on the
burns subsequently sinking to its or
binary dimensions. he had been left
there, a monument of the folly and
danger, even in the brute creation, Of
aspiring too high, and of the truth of
the doctrine that the most elevated
stations are not necessarily the most
happy or secure.
Though salmon can not leap sheer
out of the water more than six. or.
perhaps. eight feet this has nothing to
do with the height of fall he may
surmount. While he is climbing
waterfall he is still in his own element;
he, as it were, runs up the water gem
orally in direction slanting across
the fall, and it would be difficult to
say exactly how high he could ascend
in this manner - Youths Companion
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
CUBAN cART-MEN.
Tho Fearfnlly and wonderfully-Co Constr,
ed Vehicles Used by Thorn.

Tho EoArfnllY and WOndorfulfy-C 0nstrU0os
cd Vehicles Used by Them.
There are several thousand mule
and ox-carts in and about Havana.
You can not find in Cuba a dray or
four wheeled wagon. This Cuban cart
is literally grand affair. The wheels
are frequently ten feet in diameter.
the felloes six inches broad and as
thick. the spokes are as big as your
leg, and the hub like a half bushel
basket Many are covered like the old
''emigrant" wagons; great rush
pouches dangle from beneath; and the
shafts are together larger than
the little mules entire body.
A tremendous load is piled upon
this cart and benignly perched
upon that is your Cuban carretonero
or cartman. with shirt rolled to the
shoulders. wide linen breaches. sprawl
ing slippers. and despite the sun.
jaunty cap of red or blue no larger
than. and precisely the shape Of
full-grown mushroom. The caps tell
the nationality. Those wearing rod
ones are from Navarro. while the
Biscayans arc invariably told by the
blue. Where bulls are driven instead
of mules, as in all the heaviest freight
ing. the cartmen are called boyeros.
The latter are Cubans or Canary
islanders But all these swarthy cart
men are the jolliest of humans; eat
Gargantuan meals of soup aud
vegetables in the low bodegones;
leave their animals at night in yards
in care of stablemen and repair to
the cheap cafes over in the San La
varo quarter where they smoke. drink.
play the guitar and sing the provin-
cial songs Of old Spain until the mid
night challenges of the sentinelas echo
from the grim parapets of La Punta
fort hard by.
But IN all these lowly toilers. and
those of score more classes could
describe, there is rare and winsome
good humor, which am led to believe
is not all surface radiation. 1t is diff
cult to draw the line between sunny
kindliness aud kindly sunniness in Q
people. As ready as one may be to
doubt motive in the presence of uni-
versal good nature bordering CD levity,
there are here certain proofs of a cer-
tain tenderness behind these smiles.
And tenderness never fails of close
alliance with goodness. -EdqGr L.
Wakenaan. IN Albany argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
PAT, PERT AND PUNGENT.

Who says that Ingalls' rocont
speech in the Senate was devoid Of
any great political effectp Look at
the big Democratic majority in Lou
isiana. Chicago Herald.
The Democratic club movement
is progressing throughout the country.
Every ward and township should have
one of these organizations. -Clevela'sd
Plain Dealer.
The people and the country move
one way, the Republican leaders and
the high tariff advocates the other
The Democrats can await the result
with satisfaction. IN H.
Union.
Now that General James Mad
ison futile has retired from the COM
mand of the Iowa Grand Army men
the country can probably fatter itself
that it has heard the last of him.
CHICAGO Neacs.
With j. Warren Keifer pro-
nouncing a eulogy upon John Sher-
man one is reminded of a funeral.
The only difference is that at funeral
the corpse does not pronounce the
eulogy. Chicago Times.
Governor Foraker has pardoned
life prisonerin the Ohio penitentiarys
who Immediately went to Chicago.
Can the Governor have hopes of the
Illinois delegation to the Republican
National convention? - Harrisburg
Patriot.
The Cleveland Administration
has been just as we'll as liberal in its
pension policy, and the President has
never hesitated to use his authority to
prevent liberality from degenerating
into largess. His latest pension We
toes show that this policy has not
been changed in the least by the
clamor of largess-seekers-- Louis
Republican.
The Globe believes, and desires,
that the Opposition may again present
Mr.. Blaine, because he, of all the men
that have been mentioned, best rep
resents the knavery, corruption, illib-
erality, immortality, spoilsism, toryism.
ETC., that compose the aggregate po-
litical idea of that combination, if it
has any political idea. He is more
kinds of a political knave than any
other celebrated American citizen,
and he is the man, therefore, who has
the best claim of right to be the OPP
position standard-bearer. = Chicago
Globe.
The Republican organs are not
Boosting SO extensively about the re-
demption of Rhode Island as they
were few days after the election.
The shameful exposure of bribery and
corruption used by the Republican
bosses to effect their purpose can not
be stomached by Republicans with any
pretensions to decency. This is the
last year of Republican rule in Rhode
Island. The 80. coo newly enfranchised
citizens will make short work of the
Republican oligarchy when they get q
chance to register their will in the bal
lot-box.-Sk Louis Republican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
IN A SORRY PLIGHT:


The Straits to Which Republican Organs
Have Been Reduced.
The Republican organs are catching
at the straws which here and there in
the spring elections seemed to indicate
that the political wind is blowing in
their direction. They made the most
of the Rhode Island election, which
showed Republican loss on the Cleve-
land-Blaine vote of 4. 500, and which
was carried by their party by the cor
rupt and inscriptions use of money.
as is now charged by the principal Re-
publican newspaper in the State. They
picked out few returns favorable ia
them in other States and claimed them
as wonderful gains. But they have
carefully omitted all reference to re-
suits in other places in which the
Democratic gains were decided and in
many instances remarkable.
The spring elections in New York
State have been especially and uni
formly favorable to the Democrats.
The other day Albany elected the whole
Democratic ticket by an unprecedented
majority. A few days before the
Democrats of Albany elected Cleve.
land delegation to the State conven-
ton. Such results are not chronicled
in the Republican organs. But if
Squedunk or Swampoodle elects Re-
publican burgess or constable grand
and glorious victory is heralded by
them in staring capitals. This simply
goes to sh ow the straits in which tho
Republican organs find themselves.
They must do something to cheer thu
desparing hearts of the rank-and-tile
of their party and they are only too
happy if occasionally they can record a
victory of small dimensions in places
which have voted Republican for many
years.
But local elections are not safe cri-
terra by which to judge of the drift OF
public sentiment in regard to National
politics. The personal merits of the
candidates as well as issues of a purely
local character usually determine the
result at such elections 1t is true that
party organization counts for some
thing at local as well as general cleo
tons. The Democratic party, it must
be confessed, Except in the State of
New York; is not and has not been
for years SO well organized as the OPP
position. 1t is high time that this de-
ficiency were remedied. Thorough or
ganization of the Democratic element
will be necessary in the coming Presi-
Dental canvass. In order that such
organization may be had work upon it
must begin forthwith. 1t should not
be delayed day longer. To wait un-
til after the National convention shall
have been held is to postpone action
until it will be too late to prepare
thoroughly for assessment and regis
tration of voters and other preliminary
work of the canvass. Now, too, is the
time to distribute reading matter and
otherwise disseminate political infor.
nation among the people. A good
Democratic newspaper in the hands OF
voter from this time until election
| will accomplish more for the success
of the party than any other possible
agency. Organize! Organize liar
risburg (P0.) Patriot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10

the man who so grossly deceived them
when they served him before. and
partly to the skillful employment OF
his own election machine against him.
furnishes clear case of the .'whirli-
gig of time" bringing in its revenges.
Chicago Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10

-Husband-"I see that the papera
are calling attention to the absurd way
in which people say. Isn't it funnyP'
whenever they hear any thing.
whether funny or pathetic. !" Wife,
Eyes, I've noticed that ridiculous
habit myself Isn't it funny that PEG.
pie should be so foolish?'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10

AS the distance from gravel
stones or other good road making
material increases. extra attention
should be paid to bitches and drains.
Standing water is death to q road.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
THE NEW YORK HERALD AND THE
SUGAR TRUST.

In its issue of February 1st the New
York "Herald" has the following edi-
torial: eff you want to get down
right mad you can probably be gratified.
You needn't waste your Indignation on
those poor miners who are shivering in
the cold and refuse to 60 to work until
their grievances are arbitrated, for there
is larger and fiercer game. The Sugar
Trust has just given an exhibition of
itself which proves that our greatest
danger is not the organization of labor,
but the pooling of capital. This Sugar
Trust has ordered one of the largest and
oldest refining establishments in the
country, together with three smaller
ones, to shut down. The propretors are
as docile as a subject of the Gar of Rus
STA would be. They close their doors
with bang and throw hundreds of men
out of work in the dead of winter. 1t is
a purely arbitrary act, bit of despOtism
which is very eXasp rating. Now, what
is the object? Why, to limit the pro-
duct, control the market and keep the
price up. That is to say, the gentlemen
of the trust deliberately plan to lay
every family in this country under
tribute. You can have sugar if they say
50, but you must allow them to fA The
price you pay for it. They make then
selves masters of the situation by COM
bining the capital invested in the strong
est plants. You can't sweeten cup of
coffee or make frosted wedding cake
for your child without involuntarily con-
tributing to the profits of these financial
COMMANDERS. They amass immense
fortunes, but the money comes out of
the pocket of every wage Garner in the
land. The trust is the dragon of this
generation, and Congress should hit it a
whack on the head that will lay it out
stiff.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20

warlike attitude, and remained standing
behind a tree for some time.
The trio then went back to their
rooms and penned the cablegram to the
Examiner.
The three pleasure seekers have be-
come reconciled with their position. Mr..
Flynn, whose leave of absence expires
on March 1st, fears that he will have to
return without having received an intro
duction to a charming lady, whom he
espied through his feld-glass waving her
handkerchief in the direction of his
quarters. He will be obliged to take the
next steamer home without having ac-
quainted himself with the inner work
ings of the County Clerks office at Ho-
nolulu.
Sands w. Forman continually com
plains that if he can't get out, he can't
get the news. He carried two leaves of
paper with him, on which he intended
to keep diary and data to be used in a
publication on the islands, POLITICALLY
considered. He very properly regrets
Will nave IlO OppOI " III
vestigate the matter as fully as he ex-
pected, but hopes to be able to draw
some forcible stories in support of a new
bill providing for international courtesy.
Hon. James Y. Coleman has had
ample opportunity to examine the differ
ent trees, with a view of transplanting
them in some adjacent county to San
Francisco. His trip was simply
scientific expedition, and he thinks that
he will accomplish his object while
quarantined.
The party may be expected back by
the next steamer, but request their
friends, through the EXAMINER" to re-
frain from giving them a public recep-
ton on their arrival. Mr.. Forman' S
stomach has not acted right during the
trip, and he may not be able to enjoy
the acts of kindness which his friends
may bestow on him.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
To Take Care of an OiIcIoth.

An oilcloth should never be scrubbed with
a brush, but, after being swept, should be
cleansed by washing with a soft flannel and
lukewarm water or cold tea. On no account
use soap or water that is hot, as either
would have bad effect the paint. When
the oilcloth is dry, rub it well with a small
portion of a mixture of beeswax softened with
a minute quantity of turpentine, using for
this purpose a soft furniture polishing
brush The following is also used to make oil
cloths look well. Wash them once a month
with skim and water, equal quanti-
ties of each; rub them once in three months
with boiled linseed OIL put on a very little
rub it well in with a rag, and polish with a
piece of old silk.-Demorest's Monthly.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
Statistics of sunday Labor.

The policy and rightfulness of Sunday
labor will awaken new interest in con
sequence of the report of the Massachu-
sets labor bureaus investigation into
the sub ect. From this it appears that
the largest number of people employed
on Sunday g, 256) are employed by the
steam railroad companies; the next
G,5OO are sailors the next (4,9O5) are
printers the next 1850 foundry oper-
atiyes, the next a, 465) hotel and restau-
rant employees the next q, 888) hostlers;
followed by physicians, clergymen, bak-
ers, BARRIERS, nurses, boarding house
keepers, milkmen, express company en-
ployes, street railway employees, private
watchmen and detectives, telegraph
company employees, sections, janitors,
lamplighters, undertakers, brewers,
journalists, etc.
The total number of males and fe-
males working on Sunday is 115, rs,
being about one sixth of the total num-
Der of employed. But of this number
employed on Sun lay nearly one half are
female domestics.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
Band Concerts.

There will be no concert this evening
at Emma Square. The moonlight con
certs will take place on Tuesday and
Friday evenings at Thomas Square and
on Thursday evening at Emma Square.
On Washington's birthday the band will
play in the morning at the residence Of
the United States Minister Resident, in
the afternoon on board the Z. S. S. Van
dalia and in the evening for the Homo
lulu Rifles at their hop at the Armory.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
One School Session a Day.

The months of July, August and Sep
latitude. eptember is often warmer
than August, and its heats are not so
easily borne as those of the titular sum-
mer months. The law being rigid, the
reopening of the schools must of course
proceed as usual But the authorities
will do very sensible thing if they
will ordain one session a day during
eptember. 1t is ample for all educa-
tional purposes. 1t is by no means GER
tain that one session a day would not
be better the year through.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
A Blind Mans Experience.
Exchanged

A water-color painter, Mr.. W. W.
Fem, who has recently become totally
blind, writes: THE difference between
the sleeping and the waking state is not
so marked as might at first be expected,
for, unless by an effort I remind myself
that | am blind, l see my friend, after
a fashion, while | am awake and talk
ing to him, nearly as wildly as | should
do at times in dream, the fact that
in reality can not see him in either
state being scarcely more present to me
in one than in the other
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
The Smart Pupil.
Boston journal.

1t was one of the good little Toys
from Sunday-school near Boston who
gave this Interpretation to verse
taught by his teacher: Behold, a
greater than Solomon is here'' Hold
a crater to Solomon car" When at a
loss to give the answer "Cain" to a
question relative to that individual, the
teacher, to Jog his memory, asked:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
HONOLULU QUARANTINE.
". Coleman, J. j. Flynn and Sands
w. FOrmam.

San Francisco Exami ner, February 1Oth.l
"Three gay boys from Frisco are we,
just as lonely as lonely can be,
Not step of the hui n We see.
Political influence is IL. g." w.
Hear me swear" sings genial jim,
''NOt single pot can win;
The next campaign will soon begin,
must sail home and try to get in" J.J F.
my stomach eased of ocean qualms
see the poetic isle of palms,
But I'm not to go on any jams,
I'm quarantined by smoky hams" S. W. F.
The Examiners special wire clicked
furiously Wednesday evening, and when
the request to put on the cable telephone
attachment was complied with, these
walls were waited from Honolulu. 1t
was at once apparent that the hymns re-
sounded the sentiments of three well
known San Franciscans, Hon. James Y.
Coleman, Sands w. Forman and James
j. Flynn, who departed on the last
steamer for Honolulu on pleasure trip
to last three weeks.
ASdiltiS bOI16 SIGdG
misfortune had befallen them, and that
three solid Democratic votes might be
lost at the next election, wired its special
correspondent at Kalakaua's domain to
make immediate inquiries as to the con-
dition OF the ''felIow-countrymen." He
was instructed to omit the usual habeas
corpus trick, if they were found to be re-
strained OF their liberty, but to demand
OF the Government their immediate re-
lease. If that demand were not COM
piled with within two seconds, the sEx-
aminer'' would at once fit up an expedi-
ton to iiberate the well-known and
much admired forms of the San Fran
ciscans, and would equip the tug Relief
with full and complete armament under
command of the Military Editor. Or
ders were given that in case of any
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

ruRsCRIBFRs TO THE PACIFIC C0nIa1;
- CIAI, ADVERTISER who fail to reee l,;-ss
papers regularly are requested to co..,uu,rsI nj
the fact to the Office withou delay. M' n
ephone No. 70.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-20
Old Timber.

The timber work of the domes of the
church of st. Mark, at Venice, is more
than $40 years old, and is still in a good
state.