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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
WISE WORDS.

Virtue is often only absence OF temp
tation.
Speaking silence is better than sense
less speech.
Death and taxes are sure; crops and
life are uncertain.
Strange ideas are just as liable to be
facts as common ones.
To f1atter successfully one must appear
disguised with such art.
A good imitator must necessarily neg
lect his natural development.
Compulsory education destroys the am
bition to seek for knowledge.
When man is as polite to men as he
is to women he is entitled to- be known
as gentleman.
A good many people are like the birds;
they have to eat their cherries before they
are ripe in order to get them.
A man has been known to carry his
first baby on the streets, but it is the
woman who carries the second.
You are always hearing people talk
about jolly good time9 Did you ever
have one? They are quite rare.
1t is poor comfort to a bald headed
man that the more his hair comes out of
his head the thicker it grows in his ears.
A peaceful dog may not fight, but he
often does that which is worse-he
watches where the other dog hides his
bone.
A man is good deal like machine.
By the time he gets himself in good run
ming order, and pays for himself, and
learns how to to do his work with some
sort of comfort, he is marked old and
out of order.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
DOWN BY THE GATE.

There is dew on the grass and the III e is
still,
But the crickets are piping above on the hill:
The firefies are lighting their lanterns, and
see!
There's the smile of the moon through the
boughs Of the tree.
And I catch the perfume of the rose as l
wait
For the sound of light feet tripping down to
the gate.
''Win she come? Will she Gomez" cries a
hope in my heart,
Till the stir of a leaf makes me tremble and
start:
And peep through the dusk till my eyes are
a-bluT
With a warm mist of love that is only for
her
o, the minutes drag by ike the slow feet of
fate
AS listen and look for her down by tie gate
There's step on the path, there's a glimmer
of white,
And the darkness around me crowns sud
denly bright;
And there's 10 one to see, save myself ard
the moon,
This fairest Of all the roses of June.
With a soft hand in yours would you not lin
ger late
For another good night Ger the bars of the
gate
-Nunseys Weekly.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
The Rag PickerS.

A prominent rag dealer says when
business is so bad that the dealer can
hardly make both ends meet he doesn't
know how the pickers manage to get
along. And the life they lead is come
thing terrible Theirs Is one continual
striving to get enough to keep body and
soul together. No man will remain mt
picking rags unless he be a drunken bum
or too old to do any manual labor. The
majority OF the rag pickCrs are the poor
Poles who land in this country by tn.
hundreds annually. They are the only
class of people that can live on what they
earn by buying and selling rags. Ihr~.
people can live on ten or fifteen cents
day. Their homes are on the top floors
of crowded tenements. Here they are
crowded together like so many swine.
have been in the rag and paper bushes,
all my life, and am thoroughly cOnvers-
ant with the life of a rag picker. Scy-
eral years ago they were able to make
anywhere from so to $50 week. Then
rags were selling for two and three cents
a pound. This has been cut down so that
the rag picker is glad to get sixty or
seventy cents hundred. Many of the
pickers have given up their trade OF pro-
fession, as some of them are pleased to
term their employment, and taken to the
road-tramping
The rag picker to earn five or six dol
lars week must travel considerable
distance and trudge from morning till
night and the peddlers, those who have
horses and wagons make very little more.
If they make any big money it is by buy
ing stolen goods or during the months Of
April and May when the business re
ceives quite a boom. During house
cleaning time the rag pickers are fire.
quently given the rubbish for hauling it
away. People are glad to get their
places cleaned up and their rag-bags
emptied. Since the introduction Of
natural gas, the rag business has in
creased. The pickers in the city do lit
tie or no trading, as their customers are
not so easily duped as the country PEG
pie, and they do not have the time to
bubble over a cent or two. A good
many rags are sent into the city from the
country grocery stores, most of which are
taken in exchange foD goods. This
class of rags finds ready sale. The
profits are not large, but there are usually
so well assorted that there is little or no
expense attached in the dealer handling
them. A good, saving housewife can
easily manage to get a couple of dollars
a month for hersOld rags and paper. And
the earnings of the rag-bag have helped
many family tide over a tight place.
The business is not what it used to be,
but there is still little margin in buy
ing and selling. 1t is not the cleanest
business in the world, but, notwithstand-
ing all the talk, it is about as healthy an
occupation as one can engage in.-AlO
York Dispatch.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
Billiard Balls are Weather Prophets

Il can always tell when it is going to
rain half a day ahead of any change in
fair weather." said Champion George
Slosson, as he was knocking around bill
lizard balls in the Columbia Rooms re-
Gently.
Flows that" asked bystander, get
ting interested directly.
''Why, there isn't a better barometer
in existence than an ivory billiard ball or
a good billiard cue," the billiard expert
replied; ''they are better than favorite
corn"
GLOW dye tell?'
GA ball always Tolls slow and with diff
iculty over the cloth when it is going to
rain. Ivory is so sensitive to changes of
temperature. particularly from dry to
moist, that the effect is felt almost in
simultaneously. The cue will get cranky,
too, when there Is going to be change,
long before the dampness is perceptible
in any other way. Another peculiarly
of the ivory globes is their tendency to
become egg-shaped. They contract at
what are called the top and bottom poles
and swell out at the sides, SO that you
might as we'll play with potatoes, if you
don't watch their idiosyncrasies. They
are worse than old men in their suscep-
tibility to draught. A draught will crack
the ivory and make it chip off as
quick as a wink, and like old folks, you
can never get the spheres acclimated to
these draughts, Just take billiard ball
and study its behavior, and you can beat
the clerk of the weather prophesying.
You can bet on your own prophecy every
time.-Nelc York Sun.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-02

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till cured, and asked me 10 search out
some such haven of refuge Tor his in
trinity. Most unwillingly | promised,
thinking surely some of his male
friends would assist me, but instead
they only laughed and sneered, say
ing it was no use, he could quit him
self if he chose, any man ought to
know when he had enough, and such
talk rs that. indignantly hunted out
a refuge in a neighboring town. Even
then l dared not trust him alone on
the boat, for its bar boldly enticed
such as he, and then beyond the land
ing l knew stood saloon after saloon,
sending their soul ensnaring scents
from open doors. When We landed,
no carriages were waiting, so l took
his arm and walked away, hoping to
meet one. AS we neared the last
saloon he withdrew his arm, saying,
so piteously, please let me stop here
for one last drink? In despair ralli-
ed all my resolution and said, Judge
Graham, how dare you insult me so,
after my coming with you to ward off
temptation this way. He took my
arm once more, saying, Forgive me,
| o, for Gods sake forgive me, but no
one knows this excruciatlng torture
of thirst but its victims. You are an
angel, and you shall save me from
myself. Then a carriage came and l
saw him safely ensconsed in secure
asylum.
"When l returned his tempter
sneeringly greeted me with, Why
didn't you turn him over to me? The
best place for him was his home,
where l would have taken him l
replied Indignantly, You have done
him harm enough; you shall not see
him again if can help it. Since then
l think the Judge has never fallen
again, but think of his poor, dead
wife's life of fear, lest the disgrace
of the drunkard's children should be
her own little ones, despite her con
slant watchfulness. Eternal rest must
be blessed release from her endless
vigils."
The revelation was so terrible to
me that for a few moments | sat in
silence. Then l said, "Can you not
see by this one pitiful example the
need of Prohibition"
.:Yes, indeed, and please God, l will
help it on, for the sake of such, and
my dear boys
But men have no compassion on q
fellow-sinner of this sort [ heard a
minister saying only last Sunday
preaching from the text, Watch and
pray" that we must keep watch
over appetite, minister who himself
calls the cup lone of Gods good
creatures" and he spoke as though
nothing was easier than to SET watch
on ones lips. / know of two Christian
; gentlemen in our own city who drop
ped dead within year from only
table use of this ''good creature" thi:
) false teacher may share the same fate
; .'God does not pay on the Sabbath,
is the old Italian saying, but he doe:
pay surely. If this reverend pays il
appoplexy it will be published as {
''dispensation of Providence"
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-02
One Coed Samaritan.

Being in attendance on state con-
yention and entertained by a lovely
lady not even a member of our world
wide order of women, sat with her
just as sunset shadows stole into the
room, when visitor was annouced.
Judge Graham, allow me to intro
duce this lady said my hostess, Civ
ing my name and residence. AS l ac-
knowledged the introduction, looked
into seemingly noble face, and yet
trace of crimson on it and the port
illness of its possessor gave me a
vague impression, soon dispelled, that
in spite of his venerable look he might
be victim of the curse so undiscrim-
mating in its grasp. A gentleman of
the old school, Cumberland Presby-
terrain he proved to be, who soon en-
lightened my modern ignorance of
their distinction from other Presby-
terians. He told me of their version
of the Psalms, softly saying the twer-
ty-third one with Scottish cadence
that sank into my soul and uncon-
sciously the tears streamed down my
cheeks. A small volume by the idyllic
Riley lay near him. He read one of
its original, homely melodies, and
some reference in it to boyish freaks
recalled his own. Drifting on to his
maturer years he spoke SO reyerently
of his wife and her loss to him, how
he had trusted her entirely to train
his sons. Such a social sympathetic
caller, l was loath to bid goodbye,
his courtly looks and actions had i'm
pressed me so deeply.
AS the door closed at his departure,
and my hostess was seated once more,
she said, Il think | must tell you my
first and only experience in temper
ance work, and the Judge was my
subject"
.'What!'' said /, "a Christian in the
fullest sense of the word as he seems
to be?"
"Yes," she said sadly, sin spite of
his piety, and l will tell you just how
it all came about A select company
went from this city to famous sea
side resort, having special parlor cars
provided, and everything to make the
trip pleasurable and complete. A
young man of the coterie carried a
flask of liquor from which he drank
himself, and gave the Judge to drink.
Two years the latter had held the
rein over appetite, but his was not an
acquired craving for stimulants; his
blood beat hot with the tainted inner
itance of parental sin, and that one
drink renewed the entailed enslave-
ment, and for three weeks he INDUCED
in degrading debauch. Some of the
gentlemen took charge of his valuables
and money, depositing them in the
hotel cafe, but himself and his soul,
so much more valuable, were in con-
slant danger.
ain the meantime many of our par
ty, including my husband, had return
ed, so, somewhat dlsconsolately,
strayed into the parlor one morning,
only to meet the Judge. Such a
change was wrought in him that I
scarcely knew him, and would gladly
have avoided him, but he took my
hand and in tears and trembling told
me all, and appealed for pity and help
once more to conquer and become him
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-02
Make No Mistake.

By dispelling the symptoms so often
mistaken for consumption. Santa
Able has brought gladness to many a
household. BY its prompt use for
breaking up the cold that often de-
velops into that fatal disease, thous-
ands can be saved from an untimely
grave. You make no mistake by
keeping a bottle of this pleasant rem
edy in the house. California Cat-R-
Cure is equally effective in eradica-
ting all traces of nasal catarrh. Both
of these wonderful California rene
dies are sold and warranted by Behle
& Son, 81 a package, 3 for 50, 80.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-02
Temperance Column.
EDITED BY W. C. tn. OF BLAcKFOOT
ONLY.

ONLY u word for the Master,
Lovingly and quietly said,
Only word,
Yet the Master heard,
And some fainting hearts were fed,
Only look of remonstrance,
Sorrowful, gentle and deep;
Only look,
Yet the strong man shook,
And he went alone to weep.
Only some act of devotion,
Willingly, joyfully done;
"Surely twas naught,"
$50 the proud world thougEt,)
But yet souls for Christ are won.
Only an hour with the children,
Pleasantly, cheerfully given;
Yet seed was sown
In that hour alone,
Which would bring forth fruit for
Heaven.
''0nly, but Jesus is looking
Constantly, tenderly down
To earth, and sees
Those who strive to please,
And their love He loves to crown.
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
Equal in Bravery.

In recent number of the Woman's s
Journal the following is related:
Mrs. Sarah A. Cogan, a young lady
recently married, aged nineteen. the
youngest daughter of John c. Hayes,
of Hull, Mass, has not received the
recognition which her courage and de-
votion deserve. On the 25th of Novem-
ber, when number of seamen were
rescued at Hull from stranded vessel,
an attempt was made to reach them by
firing the Hunt gun. But the powder
was damp and the gun did not go off.
Mrs. Cogan was the only person present
whose hand was small enough to go into
the barrel of the gun to remove the
damp powder which had failed to ex-
plode after the lighted fuse had been
applied. At the risk of losing her life,
Mrs. Cogan thrust in her arm and re-
moved the damp powder, thereby en-
abling the gun to do its work, with the
result of saving some fifteen lives Much
has been said of the heroism of the men,
to whom large sum OF money has been
presented They have received medals
from the Humane Society and rewards
from the general public. But no men,
tiOn has been made of the heroism of
this woman of Hull who made the
rescue possible.
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
One Good Result.

The Boston city council has been con-
sidering whether or not to provide sep.
arate polling-places for women to
vote for school committee. They
have decided that it Is not necessary.
The board Of alderkaen are directed by
statute to select the most public, order
ly and convenient portion of the dis
trict for polling place, and cause it to
be properly fitted up and prepared.
Women voted at all the ordinary poll
ing places at the recent election without
meeting with any disrespect, and the
civilizing influence of their presence
was very apparent. One of the good
things that George Williams Curtis
predicted many years ago as likely to
result from woman suffrage, was that
the polls would become pleasanter
places for respectable men. mo de-
cent man." said Mr.. Curtis, "wishes to
cast his vote in a bar-room, or to have
his head broken while doing it." Now
that women vote, the aldermen will be
less likely than before to select sa-
loon as 1.-THE most orderly and conven-
lent portion of the district for polling
place. Journal.
The Iola register., 1889-02-15

the Samoan kingdom and notified the
German Admiral and Consul that the
United States had assumed protector
ate over Samoa in accordance with
treaty provisions The German COM
mander flew into a passion, but was
careful not to shoot Five days later
the German men-of-war sailed away.
1t needed no American cruisers to pro-
tect American rights and Samoan inde-
pendence. A courageous Consul had
accomplished all that was necessary by
the moral influence of the American
flag, when there was not United
States gun within two thousand miles.
Mr.. Greenbaum's firm, diplomatic,
justifiable and necessary course was
repudiated by our Government and he
was recalled, giving place to Mr..
Sewall. The German men-of-war inn
mediately returned, deposed King
Malietoa, carried him off a prisoner
to Africa and later to Europe. where
he now Is. and set Tamasese up as
King, although Mataafa is the legit-
innate successor. Since then they have
carried matters with such a high hand
that even the Administration is suf-
ficiently aroused to send cruisers to
Apia with instructions to do, substan-
TALLY, what Mr.. Greenbaum was dis
missed for doing, but which can not
now be carried out without greatly
straining our relations with Germany.
These instructions are likely to be
countermanded in the event of crisis.
1t was bad enough to be humbugged
and intimidated by Germany on our
own account, but to covenant with a
weak, dependent and friendly people
like the Samoans to protect them
against foreign domination or assault
and then to abandon them to their fate
at the first show of armed force was
and contemplate. -Cleve-
land Leader
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
NOTES OF THE DAY.

b@Secretary Bayard (6ercely)-n
any man attempts to haul down the
American flag apologize to him on
the spot-Chicago Tribune.
~John Wanamaker spends five
thousand dollars week for advertis-
ing, which shows that he has got more
sense than many men who have be-
come Cabinet officers. Cleveland
Leader.
RSAn extra session of Congress
should be called at the earliest pos
sible moment, and tariff bill similar
to the Senate substitute for the Milis
bill should be passed as soou as pos
sible.-N. Y. Press.
D0rIs it strictly in the line of chiv.
airy for a mob of Southern white men
to jump on one negro and do him to
death? Answers to this riddle should
be prepaid at the post-office- Atlanta
Constitution Oem-).
~President Cleveland is spending
his brief remainder OF official life In
two congenial occupations-vetoing
private pension bills and appointing
Democrats to the few remaining OF.
fices.-Boston Journal.
DElt is understood that General
John NJ. Palmer has concluded not to
break up the Grand Army of the Re
public The posts will therefore con.
tinue to meet at the same time and
places-in other words. resume business
at the old stand.-Peoria Transcript
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
THE WORK OF WOMEN.

DURING the past four years women
have been granted 1900 patents, and
have been the authors of 1900 books.
THE growth of the past year in equal
suffrage sentiment in the country gen.
orally, is greater than during any
previous year.
THE New York Express says that the
credit of securing women as inspectors
of factories, is due mostly to the Work.
ing Women's Society, which has found
that such inspectors are as necessary as
police matrons.
PHILANTHROPIC women in Hartford,
Ct, have arranged classes in dressmak-
ing and commercial arithmetic to aid
young women in earning living. A
skillful instructor in dressmaking is
employed. and the course includes thir-
teen lessons of two hours each.
In Windsor, Ont, January II, 1888,
nearly all the widows and single ladies
whose names are on the tax roll, voted
for mayor and other officers at the city
election. They were courteously re-
ceived at the polls, and. though the
election was closely contested. their
presence materially helped to keep
order.
The Women's Educational and In
dustrial Union, organized last March at
Dunkirk. N. Y, has hired room for a
headquarters and organized educational
classes, cooking classes and kitchen
garden. Mrs. Townsend. president of
the Buffalo Union. recently gave an in
formal talk in Dunkirk ON the best
practical methods and work of such a
union. After the meeting seventeen
new members joined, making in all a
membership of over one hundred.
NINE. JULES FAvRE, who is at the
head of the Superior Normal School for
Women at Sevres, State institution
which furnishes professors for the wo-
mems colleges throughout France, has,
in her leisure hours. translated all Of
Emerson's writings into French. The
manuscript is ready for the printer, but
Nine. Favre's friends oppose her pub
fishing it at her own expense, as she is
not able. Theodore Stanton urges
Emerson's admirers in this country to
take up the matter and secure perfect
translation of the American poet-philso-
piers writing into French.
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
mot BY MIGHT"

What can dot" she said,
81 am too weak to battle with the strong,
Brute force will conquer, whether right OF
wrong;
The world is lost in sin. and here stand
Armed only with woman's slender hand;
Better that were dead.
Behind dark walls of stone,
Tossing upon his narrow prison bed.
One lay upon whose restless. fevered head
That selfsame woman's hand was gently
pressed.
The while she told of Heaven, and home, and
rest
And mercy at Gods throne.
In foul, polluted ways,
Mid want and wretchedness saw her stand
And scatter blessings with her voice and hand;
Until the pallid children of the street
STOPPED down to kiss the dust beneath her
feet,
flushing their noisy plays.
Mid SORROW shame and sin,
She walks as calmly as through guarded talls; /;
Nor fears to go wherever duty calls
And many a helpless wreck. afar from land
Has grasped the anchor of her slender hand
And been drawn safely in.
Oh, strength from weakness borni
What though the jarring fight be fierce and
long.
There swells above the roar a mighty song:
And woman's hand, endowed with holy might,
Shall lead this great, sad orld UP through the
night
Into the promised morn.
Eva B. Pillsbury, in Union Signal.
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.

Nr. Bayard's Cowardice in Protesting
American Treaty Rights.
The degree of cowardice displayed
by the Democratic Administration in
dealing with the Samoan matter will
be better understood after reading the
fifth article of our treaty with that
country, as follows:
If, unhappily, any differences should have
arisen. or shall hereafter arise, between the Sa-
moan Government and any other Government
in amity with the United States, the Govern
ment of the latter will employ its good of1ces
for the purpose Of adjusting those differences
uroa q satisfactory and solid foundation.
The Samoan treaties with Great
Britain and Germany were made sub
sequent to the American treaty and do
not contain the above clause. BY sub
scribing to that article our Govern
ment virtually undertook to protect
the independence of Samoa against
foreign interference. Our Consul
eral. Mr.. Greenbaum, so understood
it. and when in May, 1886. the Ger
mans attempted the overthrow OF
King Malietoa's Government by CIV
ing active support to the rebels under
Tamasese, he hoisted the American
Gag, On the request Of the King. over
The Iola register., 1889-02-15
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The Importance Of Its Study to Women OF
all Glasses.


To women really in earnest to make
the most of the precious time which
can be given to study, who wish to at
tain some definite. practical idea of the
real state of society, and the why and
wherefore of the social problems star
ing us all in the face and imperatively
calling for solution, no study can be of
more profit that of political economy.
Some women may smile incredulously
at this assertion. They will ask, 'Of
what use under the sun can political
economy be to women?" They have,
perchance, glanced into some work on
that subject; it seemed to them dry, in
vOlved and tiresome; replete with un-
familiar phraseology. and where they
could understand it at all, at war with
itself, authorities differing at every
point
But the phrases. land and labor, cap
ital and labor, protection, tariff reform,
free trade. labor reform. higher wages,
strikes, cooperation, taxation. over
population, poverty and crime. restric-
ton Of immigration. anarchy and so