Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-08-15
BISMARCK on CONFINEMENT.
The Old Prince Says it Cannot and Should
Not Exist.

As at leisure Y pace we were strolling
down hill by another tortuouS woodland
path, says a Hamburg correspondent of the
London Telegraph, the labor question
cropped up, apropos of the recent miners
! congress in Belgium. After frankly rec
ognizlng and praising the moderation of
Mr.. Burns address to the delegates Prince
Bismarck ABRUPTLY broke out with: Tell
me, did you ever know banker with a
million who was contented, or a scientist,
politician, artist, lawyer satisfied with his
gains and position?
will go further and ask YOU, have you
| ever known a contented man? | mean
among the rich, the successful the
highly born, or highly placed. How thea
shall the wOrkingmen he cOntented. whose
| life is necessarily one of few pleasures
and many troubles, of frequent privation
and rare indulgence? Suppose you give
HIM a pound day; in Il forthnight's time
his wife will want an extra shilling or two
| per diern for her chlldren'S adornment or
her own dress. and will perseveringly in
ocuIate the husband with her own dissat-
isfaction. You know how enormously.
been amel!oratad during the last fifty
.
ment for one single day?
Let what real grievances they still have
right themselves by natural processes. as
they will gradually and in due time Above
| all let them continue TO improve their
| position, without state interference, which
can only do them more harm than good.
besides inticting irretrievabe injury up
on numbers of other people, quite as
worthy of consideration as artisans. call
it intrusive, impertinent to say to a labOrer
how many hours he shall or shall not
work and to usurp his rightful authority
over his children in respect to bread-earn-
ing occupations. 10 make workmen con
tented by legal regulations is a mere ex-
aggeratiOn of the fancy-a phantom evad-
ing the grasp whenever approached. If
human contentment could be attained it
would be a misfortune. What could be
more disastrous than a dead level, mil
lennium of universal satisfaction, blight
ing ambition, paraIyzing progress and
leading to moral stagnation.
Farmers in outlying sections of north
ern New Jersey report superiority of rab-
bits this year. The game has not been so
plentiful before in fifteen years,
Lincoln, Me-, has a blind man who Is a
clever croquet player. He plays by infor-
nation as to direction and by measuring
the distance and by walking to the object
ball
A West Virginian of Gimer County
veneered a black oak log with walnut
bark and sold it to a confding Cincin-
NATHAN as genuine black walnut log and
got 5I06 for it.
A negro who was caught robbing the
till of a merchant at ArrendeIdo, Fla,
was given fifty lashes by the colored peo-
pie residing in the neighbOrhood and then
set at liberty.
A triplet steer team is one of the curl
osities to be seen at Old Orchard The
steers are hitched to a vehicle resembling
those used in the chariot races in circuses,
and 10 cents pays for ride In this novel
turnout.
Jane Jones died recently at Clynnog,
near Carnarvon, Wales, in her one hun
dred and second year. Her husband died
three months before her. aged ninety
eight, and two years ago they celebrated
their diamond wedding, having completed
seventy-fve years of married life.
The St. Joseph mo News relates that
the mayor 0! keytesville, that state, was
arrested the other day for violation of
city ordinance, which prohibits the throw
ing of paper in the streets. The city
marshal caught him in the act. and the
mayor fined him one dollar and costs for
the Otfense.
Keigham Court. Streatham, near Lon
don, comprising sixty-six acres, has just
been sold for $50 600. 1t was for many
years the residence of the late NJ J. Tired
well, railway contractor. His widow
still preserves the pick and shovel with
which he worked as a labore-.
At breakfast given by Ward McAllis-
ter to Newport fashionabIes. the scene be-
ing platform in a shady grove. the table
presented a pleasing appearance. Most
noticeable were six sheaves of Scotch wheat
standing about four feet high, tied with
sashes of scarlet ribbon. In the tops of
these nestled scarlet dahlias.