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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
A HEARTY WELCOME.
An Anecdote of General Scott and Pug
iSt Bill Harm ton.

An Anecdote of General Scott and Pugil-
ist Bill Harrington.
81 well remember the grand recep-
ton given to General Winfield Scott in
the spring of 1913, after his return from
Mexico, bringing Texas as prize, y
said one of Gotham's oldest inhabitants
to a reporter. ''The old hero was
brought to Castle Garden in a steam
boat from Elizabethport. Thousands
of people were waiting to give him a
rousing, patriotic welcome, and as he
landed the Governors Island Band
played Hail to the Chief"
''The General must have been a
splendid-looking man at that time, :"
said the reporter.
'Well, should say he was" said
the 0. /. HE was majestic in appear
ance, but he could laugh as heartily as
any one l ever knew, and he did SO ON
that occasion. Jim Woodruff, who wa
a popular local vocalist, sang song,
one verse of which / remember was:
Your battles fought, your victories won,
You need not ask for more;
You are second Washington,
You're welcome to our shore.
''Just as he finished the song, and
while the place was ringing with APP
plause, powerfully-built man came
plunging through the crowd ON the
platform as if he were possessed of the
strength of a John l.. Sullivan. He
nearly upset Colonel James Watson
Webb, carromed on ex-Mayor Harper,
and came near pocketing Phillip Hone,
Rev. DR.. Wainwright and ex-Mayor
Brady by landing them in the orches-
ira. Alderman Morris Franklin, who
had been assigned to present General
Scott with an address of welcome,
seized the interloper by the coat-collar
and tried to hold him back.
.'sSee here said the man, let go OF
my collar. I've come here to shake
hands with that old sojer over there
and I'm going to do it. saying which
he gave jerk and pulled his collar
out of the alderman's grip.
HE then stepped up to General
Scott and said: General, as an Ameri-
can citizen, come here on my own
hook to thank you for knocking them
MeAlCduS Out. 4Ou I0 CuhAeiOu W eiO
belt
..sThank you,' said the old hero,
who not only smiled. but laughed
heartily as he warmly shook the old
mans hand.
s.After Alderman Franklin had de-
nvered his speech of welcome, to which
the General briefly responded. he ask
ed the General if he knew who it was
that had forced his way upon the stage
and through the crowd to shake hands
with him.
!" No, do not answered the Cen
eral.
:" 1T was Bill Harrington, the
pugilist, said the alderman.
GA fighter, eh?' said the General.
L suppose he came to see me in keep
ing with the maxim that birds of 3
feather will flock together. liked his
cordially very much, although he did
squeeze my hand tremendously
Then the General laughed again
and soon after rode up Broadway
mounted on splendid charger, under
escort of all the regiments OF the Ma
tional Guard
s.Bill Harrington, who was one o
the best-known characters of his time
disappeared over twenty years ago ant
has never been heard of since. IN. 7
| IeLearQns.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
AN HISTORICAL TREE.
Its Antiquity Shrouded in Profound Mys
terry and Uncertainty.

Its Antiquity Shrouded in Profound Mys-
terry and Uncertainty.
During recent visit to New Orleans
[ discovered in a woodward, near the
corner of Orleans and Dauphin streets,
and bearing the distinctive title of
''Pere Antoine's Palm" date tree
whose history and antiquity are
shrouded in no little mystery and I'M
certainty. Inquiry further revealed
that the surroundings, now given over
to shops and traffic, constituted, in the
latter part of the last century, the
garden of Father Antonio de Sedella,
a Spanish cura, whose simple, practical
piety, unbounded charity and unsullied,
unselfsh character so endeared him to
the hearts of the people as to obtain
for him popular canonization as
saint. When he died the entire city
was plunged in grief, all bust
ness was suspended, courts ad-
journed, theaters closed, and young
and old, including the clergy of
every sect and denomination, united
to pay final respect to the good man:
even the Masonic bodies of high and
low degree, in full regalia and badges
of mourning, walked in solemn process
sion behind the bier, the only occasion
in the history of the order where such
honors have been accorded the remains
of Romish priest.
AS gazed upon the venerable tree,
so suggestive of glittering sands Dor
dered by green groves and babbling
brooks. of white tournoured Arabs and
stately camels, / experienced an in
effable feeling of sadness, and, incon-
gruous as it may seem, the transition
from the shores of the Mediterranean
to the rugged hills of Midlothian was
simple, sympathetic and abrupt, for
we both were strangers in a strange
land" Then, as the thin, sharp
foliage sighed beneath the damp, chill
December wind, and wept great drops
of moisture that trickled in abject
misery down the SCARED and swollen
trunk, l could imagine, as an express
sion of grief and nostalgia, the sequel
of futile and lonely life.
For years, more than a century, per-
maps, CnlS was Tie only palm Vi the
species in America, but whence it
came, or how it found its way hither,
few know or care, though innumerable
tales, idle and fanciful, cluster around
its imposing presence. Some whisper
it sprang from the heart of a fair
Moresco snatched from her home by
violence and forced to lead life that
made her neither maid nor wife, and
who died dreaming of palms and PIN
ing for the hills and groves of her ma
tive land. Others that it was brought
from Syria by noble adventurer, as
reminder of days passed among the
shifting scenes of the Orient. Others,
again, assert it stood in the midst of
bit of sandy prairie, where it now
stands, when Iberville brought the first
colonists to Louisiana; that subsequent
ly it was FRUSTRATED by a hurricane and
that the present trunk is second
product of the roots. None of these,
or other popular tales, bear the test of
scrutiny, however, and manifestly are
of recent origin, except, perhaps that
which declares with the fall of the tree
the lands about Will revert to the city
or the heirs of the original grantees
TicE's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
THE OPIUM HABIT.

A Philadelphia Doctor Describes the Ac-
ton and Effects of the Drug.
The habit of taking narcotics, whether
| incidentally or as a mere matter of in
diligence, is apt to become speedily con-
frrned. Tolerance increases with each
dose, and in a comparatively short time
poisonous doses are taken with impun-
ity. The injurious effects Of the poison
are shown in characteristic perversion
of the functions of the nervous system
and of the mind. A condition is estab-
lished in which the ordinary functions
of life are properly performed only
under the influence of the habitual mar
cotic, and in which its absence results
in languor, depression and bodily and
mental arrangement. The habit once
established, thus makes for itself con-
stantly recurring plea for its continu-
ance. Especially is this true of opium
and morphia.
Opium is not curative; its effects are
but palliative and not enduring. 1t
renders the nervous system impress
sionless to the action Of any other REM
edy that might be curative 1t thwarts
the natural processes in the endeayor
to dispel disease by perpetuating it
under the cloak of relief and in many
instances in this manner rendering q
simple acute affection chronic and in
tractable to. treatment.
Opium and it's alkalOids act princi-
pally on the central nervous system and
in mammals on the brain. distractions
is much influenced by habit. As rule
it produces gastro-intestinal derange-
ment of marked kind, such as a loss
of appetite, enfeebled digestion, nausea,
vomiting and constipation alternating
with occasional diarrhoea. Many per-
sons addicted to opium preserve, for q
longer or shorter time, the appearance
of health. 1t is possible for very large
doses of opium to be occasionally taken
by certain people without Impairment
of the functions either of the body or
the mind. These cases, however, are
exceptional. Opium habitues diff
fering as they do, the drug SO long as it
is freely taken develops in all alike
characteristic symptoms upon its
speedy or gradual withdrawal. The
dppdfent immunity, eAcepbaonaliy OD-
served, comes to an abrupt termination.
The nervous system. whether it has
been accustomed for months or years
to the use of opiates, is upon their
withdrawal, forthwith thrown into de-
rangement of the most serious and radi-
cal kind. The abrupt discontinuance
of the drug is followed. in many cases..
by hallucinations relating to all the
senses, but especially to those of sight
and hearing. The sense of hearing is
also affected-that of taste rarely
Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
IMPORTANT DECISION.

Liability of Railway Companies for tine
Acts of Palace Car Employees.
w. was passenger on the cars OF
the Louisville, New Orleans q Texas
Railroad Company, and he went from
his seat in one of the ordinary cars OF
the train to the Pullman palace car at
tached thereto, and asked PERMISSION
of the porter of the car to wash nus
hands in the basin of the palace car.
Some words ensued, when the porter
struck w. on the head with some blunt
instrument and injured him seriously.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
The True Boston Spirit.

Boston Man (who has been rescued
as he was going down for the third
time)-Is your name Hoxey?
Researches Keep your mouth
shut!
Boston Man-D-do business on State
street?
Researches. Shut up and save
your breath!
Boston Man-Say, Hoxey, would i,
b-be convenient for you to pay me that
$3.50 to-day that you b-borrswed q
year or two ago!-1Sd-Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
LOVE OF NATURE.

A Noble Trait Which Has Been Developed
Within the Present Century.
No one who reads our English litera-
ture of hundred years ago or more
can fail to see that the writers of that
age cared nothing for the grandeur of
mountain scenery. They speak OF
mountains as horrid, gloomy, forbid
ding. If any scenery appealed to them
it was the most artificial terrace and
tamest lawn.
There was little sympathetic study
of nature then under any form.
Angling for trout and the fox-hunt
were the only pursuits that could sug-
gest the eager search for rocks and
plants and bugs, that is now carried
on in the fields and woods. This newly
awakened taste for out-of-door study,
and this curious observation of nature
is reflected in the literature OF the
time, and is often commented upon by
writers.
In his recent life of Gouverneur Nor
ris, Mr.. Roosevelt takes occasion to
say. at must be remembered that
the admiration of mountain scenery is.
to the shame of our forefathers be it
said, almost a growth of the present
century"
As companion piece to this state
ment OF an American writer, NAV be
taken what Mr.. Davies, an Englishman,
says OF his experience in Holland.
I'VE were disappointed at the search
/ ty OF birds of any kind either upon the
Zuyder Zee or in the country generally:
and here it may be mentioned that we
did not meet with a single person of
natural history tastes. OF the MANY
we questioned on the subject, none in
dulged, nor had they any friends who
INDUCED. in such childish pursuits. ~
| Touth's Conspdnion-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12

"A Chicago burglar read in q news.
paper that he had overlooked $50 In a
bureau drawer. He returned the next
night, and not only secured II. but 4
suit OF clothes besides. Here we have
another illustration Of the value Of the
press as dissemination Of useful infor-
nation. Now is the time to subscribe.
- Norristoun Herald,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12

"A Florida hotel-keeper, retiring at
the end Of an Improbable season, re-
marked: at is with feeling OF sad
ness that I retire from active control,
but the house is left with a geatleman
ADLER than / am, financially, to handle
it The gentleman Is we'll known In
this community. He is the sheriff. ~
Hotel Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12

First Irishman-s.It' all pinsion,
pinson, nowadays, Moike. The paper
says there's q thousand survivors of the,
Mexican war, with twelve thousand
widdies, afther DRAWN pinsions this,
blessed day. Second Irishman- The,
ovid Mormons. Twelve widdies to,
livery one o. them! That's pfwhat be-
comes NV the snrplush! Puck.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
The Ages Educational Folly.

The educational folly of the age consists
in the assumption that any large proper,
ton of our population desire much in
struction in schools Rev. John Harvard,
who saved few hundred pounds from
his scanty salary that he might endow a
college, stated that he made the sacrifice
because the young people about him were
possessed of an absolute passion for &C
quiring knowledge" Had he lived in our
time he would have discovered that the
young people had passion for almost
anything else, He would have used his
money in obtaining the pleasures of vaca-
tions. Girls go to high schools now, not
for the love of learning, pure and simple,
but in order to get chance to teach, aid
the sons of rich men attend college chielS
because it is fashionable. Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
London Lodging House Character.


I'm the same lodging house that Tafy
patronized with his custom lived another
character, known to his intimates as
"Patter Bill" He was Cheap Jack and
talking eoster. but was too improvident
ever to make position He was in a
chronic state of impecuniosity Had he
been careful and sober he might have
made comfortable living. for he had a
tremendous fund of genuine humor, and,
while selling. kept his audience in roars Of
laughter Perhaps he was just a little bit
too funny. for the crowd laughed SO much
that they forgot to buy. One day. after
a week of absolute bankruptcy, Patter
Bill was at his wits end for the money to
pay for his nightis lodging He was in
debt to a pal. and this added to his
worries.
II don't know how I'm going to get any
rhino. he said to the deputy one evening.
II haven't got brown to go to market
with All Of sudden he appeared struck
with brilliant idea He went to the pro-
prietor and borrowed couple Of sheets Of
eolored paper and a pint Of small onions,
He wrapped the onions up in colored
paper and went out into the borough road
and began to patter about q marvellous
cure for coughs and colds which had lately
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
The Garden of Gethsemane.

At the joining Of the trio of paths de-
scribed as leading to Bethany, the garden
of Gethsemane is located. 1t is surrounded
by stone wall which is divided by shrines
facing inside the garden, all looking
strangely new in comparison with the
gnarled old trees that they surround
After knocking at the low gate, the visitor
is questioned by an old monk and then
admitted. The garden Is carefully kept
by the venerable custodian. The white.
washed fence Of paling and the trim flower
garden afford another strange contrast
with the gnarled and ancient olive trees
In one corner of the garden Is well Of
delicious water. A bucket with rope
running over pulley used Near this
we'll are the humble quarters of the monk
in charge A marble canopy with an iron
gate incloses Canova's bass relief Of 1.-The
Agony" A neatly kept walk leads one
around the circuit of the garden from
shrine to shrine. Parts of the walls are
covered with pictures representing scenes
which took place during our Lords last
night on earth. Norwood and the
Passion vine trail about the walls in pro-
fusion 1t is a lovely spot.-Edward L.
Wilson in The Century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
PHYSICIANS WISDOM.
WHAT CHICAGO DOCTORS SAY ABOUT
"soeERING OFF,"

A Newspaper Asks for the Best Course
to Be Pursued by the Victims of Con
1rmed Alcoholism - Various Methqds
Recommended.
Is there one course better than another
for a man to adopt in endeavoring to
break himself of the drinking habitf
The Mail has sought to obtain from
those who should be best informed a
practical answer to thesabove question A
number Of leading physicians have been
visited and given set 'of questions put
to each The result of, these interviews
is here presented
All" said DR.. Charles Gilman Smith.
they never do taper off They can't
The way to break off drinking is to stop.
and stop short In stopping short don't
use bromides unless the reforming drink-r
can't sleep Use the fluid extract of cocoa
leaves That's sort of stimulant not so
dangerous as alcohol, perhaps, although
its continued use impairs the heart. 1t is
hard to lay down a general course of medi
cation, since every case is different A
physician must prescribe for, patient
what he particularly needs As to diet. it
should be generous and rich-not fatty or
greasy. but strengthening If the patient
can't sleep let him take brisk walk be
fore bedtime. and get himself tired out
Regular exercise in gymnasium you can
rarely get drunkard to take The man
who leaves of drinking had better stop
smoking. too Tobacco has relaxing eff
feet on the system Stop both together
1t will pay"
will man recover his old physical
and mental toner Well. if he leaves off
altogether he will practically be as good a
man as he was before he began to drink. y
j. Adams Allen. president of Rush Med
ical college, said bluffiy: IF a mans
going to stop he's got to stop, and
there's an end of it. Don't let him
try to taper of. All nonsense. But
he ought never to try to quit with.
out consulting physician. because q
steady drinker is sure to have some or.
ganic trouble of the liver or kidneys which
whisky spurs up to action. and which be.
comes torpid when it is left. He don't
want touics and other stimulants to stay
him up A good dose Of calomei to SET
his liver going right is worth more thar
them all Yes. leave of tobacco, too. It's
harder to break of than liquor drinking.
Dr.. N. B. Delamater. the specialist in
nervous diseases, took decidedly differ.
emit view Of the propositions. "a Ha said
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
Why the Numbers arc Changed,

The hotel clerk finds many curious
people. If at some time there has been q
suicide in one of the rooms. the first duty
of the clerk is to see to it that the news.
paper reporter does not get the number Of
the room. And If he should. the number
is changed at the hotel as quickly as pos
sible. The reason for this Is that the
average arrival who is posted on the sui
eide invariably asks the clerk what room
it occurred in. and follows the inquiry
that room" There is hardly first class
hotel in Chicago that hasn't had some sort
Of tragedy, and the clerks are never sup.
posed to know what room they occurred
tn--Chicago Mail.
A "eENoeR,sr CONFESSIONS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
Tho Warriors of Albania.

The Abanians are the most ferocious
and warlike nation in Europe and the
most courageous, not even excepting the
Greeks. The Montenegrius are the only
ones whom the Abanians feel are their
equals in all the qualities which go to
make up man Of war. And whenever
the sultan has trouble with Montenegro
he tries to get the Abanians to help him.
and vice versa. They tear each other like
wild beasts at all times. There Is no
other nation except the Greeks. which
can show such an array of splendid war
riors, for these men are real warriors in
the best and most ancient acceptance Of
the term. They are not cut and dried
and drilled to measure. Each one fights
as he chooses, and If he falls it is as a
warrior should fall, covered with wounds
and fighting to the last.
Unerring marksmen, trained to shoot.
to use all manner of arms. and to the
fullest development Of vigor and strength,
leading abstemious lives. active and alert.
capable of unimagined endurance and ab-
solutely fearless, it is no wonder that
these men are admired and feared by all
who have heard their exploits detailed in
the history of their oppressed and unhappy
countries, One would almost say the boys
are born with guns in their hands. as the
youngest boy you find makes pistols,
knives and guns his playthings when
other boys are scarcely past the age of
rattle boxes. Their education is the
stories of the bravery of their ancestors, of
how many Turks or other enemies they
have slain. and their play is to practice
with the arms placed in their dimpled
baby hands, and their ambition to become
a man to fight as did their forefathers.-
Olive Harper in Courier-Journal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13
The Loss of Temper.

Temper. too, there is no question. is
good to keep; yet we ourselves remember
occasions when we would have given all
the world to have been able to lose our
temper thoroughly, completely. irrevoca.
bly, Simulated loss Of temper is great
gift; but real. genuine loss has power
Of closing a controversy or putting an end
to situation where simulated loss can
effect nothing No doubt the losing is ex-
pensive; it generally means apology or
compensation of some sort; but for the
moment it carries q man through diff
Guilty unconsciously, and as Il were, ON
wings The wounds received In the en-
element Of battle are said at the time not
to hurt, and loss Of temper means an ex-
element where wounds given and re-
eeived become almost q pleasure.
Spectator.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-13

been imported from foreign parts. under
the immediate patronage Of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. the principal hospitals
and the royal family. He asked one penny
each for the marvellous cold curer. and he
handed each purchaser . little onion
beautifully screwed up in colored paper.
BY changing bis pitch or stand. Patter
Bill disposed Of all his onions in q couple
Of hours, returned to the kitchen, paid his
pal, paid for his lodging and had very
handsome balance left with which to start
a fresh commercial enterprise on the NOR
row.-George R. Sims In Philadelphia
Times