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Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-02-14

The Caroline Islands. OF which
Ponapi is one, long remained sort OF
no mans land. They are small,
though fruitful, and the natives are
very intelligent and industrious. and,
what is strange, have not been COR
rupted by the intoxicants which trad
ers generally barter successfully to
nations passing out OF, the savage
stage; They buy guns aud ammuni-
ton readily, but will not trade for
spirits. This fine feature OF their
character has been developed by
American missionaries.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-02-14

iowa suffer less than others
n. ~ N \ diseases, their good
uuru,iuu1 buted to their alb
&; but II they escape
u scrofula. they are
Ayv la0le TO diptheria and
56s diseases. The death rate is
geeater among those whose mothers
we're born 10 the United States and
less among those whose mothers were
born in Russia or Poland, aud among
women over thirty 1--we the death rate
10 greater among the single tha1
among the married.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20

every once in a while. You are sure to
be sOmuch ahead Of the game, and they
come in very handy even II you don't
smoke.
10. Never permit anything to make
you forget for a moment that the whole
object Of the game is to save your own
money and secure somebody else's and
let everything you do, however trifiing,
tend to this desirable end.
II. When the game is over II you are
winner deny il entirely or fix the figures
as low as possible; II you are loser de-
clare you have lost twice as much as you
really have. This rule is never departed
from. The money lost at a game ofpoker
always fOo!s up four times as much as
the money won.
The foregoing is printed from what is
said to he the only copy Of the rules in
existence. 1t was fonnd in the papers Of
an old member Of the Union League club
aad the memories OF President Arthur's
cordial good hnnlor and gentle kindness
and pleasing wit brought the moisture to
his eyes.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20
GREAT DIVERSITY OF TASTE.
Historical Characters Who Were or Are
Fond Of Sweet Music.
Prince Baeearat HAS = CeIIs-.NaPO.
leon, Though Having an Unmus.
ieal Eeies LEVIED mpsle.

The enjoyment OF music is unevenly be-
slowed, and many people Of high eultiva-
ton, and even OF the highest faculty,
have been unable TO md In music any
thing more thRn a disagreeable noise.
Lord Chesterfield, writing to his son,
says; III you love music 90 to operas,
concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to yon
but insist On you neither piping or
iddlins yourself, ltPuts gentlman in
q very frivolous light" Yet Frederick,
Prince Of Wales, played 90 the cello.
Charles Kingsley cried when he heard
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20
mr.. HTBURS POKER RTIE.
4 eurisW and AnHSiRg AOmsHtO q The Gen.
lltman President.

A small game Of poker was one Of the
iaVorite pastimes Of Chester A. Arthur.
When collector Of the port and leader Of
the New York city republicans he gather
cd about him a circle Of cordial friends
who 10 this day do not speak Of the dead
president save In the tenderest tones. On
leisure evenings they met at his hospita-
BILE home and induIged in their hosts
iavogits amusement. Some in the circle
were mere amateurs. and all sorts Of
lndierous blunders occurred. This man
was shy, and that one had TO be told to
ante, and others were in q muddle most
Of the time. The host was q pretty good
player In his way, and while urbanity
itself, be nevertheless was disturbed by
the gO-asyou-please methods Of his WISH
tors. He decided to lay before them rules
for their guidance, and so one evening
when they appeared each one found q
copy Of this slip laid on the table before
hin:
now TO PLAY POKER PROFTABLY.
I. Don't buy bat half as many chips at
the start as the other players. The ex-
pectation Is that you will win, and IL you
lOse It IL better that you borrow or lowe"
up.
2. Never ante up until some one tells
you 10, and then say that you have, and
akiek 70 Il. which will generally Dersuade
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20

For your table linens in bleached, I'M
bleached and turkey-red, call at Differs.
For your tennis 1annels and cotton
outing cloths go to Differs.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20

When Baby was SICK, We gave her CasiOria.
When sheWaS chIld. she cried for Casioria
whsn she became Miss. she chung to castOriA.
When she had Children, she gave them Cas.oria
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20

The AHerald" JOB Department
is in receipt Of a large invoice Of
new and beautiful JOB Letter,
and carries the finest line Of Job
Papers to be had in the Market
We now have en- route from
the East the largest shipment Of
Commercial Paper 90 Novelties
in the Printing line ever brought
to this section
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
ktDeninp Bananas.

The banana Is fruit that is fast gain :.
ing favor, and is now one of the most pop
ular in the market. Few people, how
ever, know how those sold from small
handcarts are ripened. This business is
almost exclusively in the hands of Italians,
who buy the lunches when they are green,
as they are cheaper when in that con"ition
than after they have been ripened by time.
The purchaser then proceeds to apply the
forcing PROCESS. The bananas are cut
from The central stem and laid in Layers
on the mattress blanket is then
thrown over them, and the owner makes
this his couch.
A man with large and corpulent fani-
~ has distinct advantage over his rivals
in trade, as he can hatch out many more
ripe bananas from the green fruit than one
who has only himself to depend on. The
process Is much more rapid than the usual
method of allo wing the fruit to hang until
it Is in proper condition. When sales are
brisk have known Italians to keep their
families In bed oil day, and ripening their
stock in trade. Some experts are able
to tell by the odor whether fruit has been
ripened by Italians but this has always
appeared to me TO be without adequate
proof.-&. Louis Globe Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
Piouant Picklpgs

Men who work on morning newspapers
are all Nights of Labor men.
A prize fighter has rights which every
booy respects, and also u left
When person declares that his "brain
is on fire." is it etiquette to blow it out.
There is nothing conservative about a
frog When he gets mad, for instance,
he gets hoppin mad.
A great big writer SAYS "dress does not
make the woman" Certainly not the wo-
man makes the dress.
ut is great comfort to be left alone, y
said an Irish lover, respectfully when your
sweetheart is wild ye."
Sidney Smith compares the whistle of a
locomotive to the scream of an attorney
when Saten gets hold of him.
An old gentleman of great experience
SAYS he is never satisfied that a lady under.
stands kiss unless he has it from her own
mouth.
"When grow up III be a man won't
II" " Yes, my son: and If you want to
be q man you must be industrious. 'Why,
mamma, do the lazy boys turn out to be
women when they grow up?'
A stranger in a printing office asked the
youngest apprentice what was his rule for
punctuation, who replied, Il set up as
long as can hold my breath, then put in
a comma when | gal'e, insert semi
colon, and when want II chaw OF Tobacco,
| make paragraph"
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
Making a Home.

1t seems pity that the young woman
who is about to establish home and has
a sum of money to spend for its garnish-
ing cannot be persuaded from laying 1t
out all at once. She robs herself of so much
future enjoyment. The spick and the
span sets of furniture which are cArelessly
ordered from AL upholsterer, and carried
home and stood around her parlors by his
men, will never afford her half the salts
faction she can get in room for which
today she buys chair, and next week,
seeing there must be a table to accompany
the chair, she starts on fresh shopping
excursion, and find table which is exactly
what she is looking for; and in another
month, discovering tt need of bookcase
or q screen, she has again the delight of
the hunt, and the qualification of obtaining
the prettlest screen and bookcase in the
city.
Such room is growth, a gathering
toge ther, of household treasures little by
little, and piece by piece. Each article.
bought only when the need arises, or when
something is happily found to Just meet
the need, will have family history which
makes it an entertaining as well as val
uable possession. Each couch and foot
stool is an achievement; each rug and cur
tain representa- triumph. Such home,
built up gradually, with careful planning
in each part, with thought and loving con-
sideration in all its details, acquires
meaning far deeper than could be pur-
| chased by the longest purse from the mos'
| fashionable cabinet Maker.-H0rper
| BazGr. &e
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
For the Mothers.

AS boys grow up, make companions OF
them; then they will not seek companion
ship elsewhere.
Let the children make n ,ise sometimes;
their happiness is rs important as your
nerves.
Respect their little secrets, if they have
concsalments: worrying them will never
make them tell, and patience will probably
do the work.
Allow them as they grow older to have
opinions of their own; make them individ-
nails, and not mere echoes.
Remember that without physical health
mental attainment Is worthless, let tht m
lead free, happy lives, which will strength
en- both mind and body.
Bear in mind that you are largely re-
sponsible for your child's inherited char
acter, and have patience with faults and
failings.
Talk hopefully to your children Of life
and its possibilities; you have no right to
depress them because you have suffered.
Teach boys and girls the actual facts OF
life as soon rs they are old enough to I'M
derstand them, and give them the sense OF
responsibility without saddening them.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28

Both the method and results when
bjrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
sod refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently Yet promptly Oh the Kidneys,
Liver :rI nnwels, cIeanses the sya
tenn c;tccttiaIiy, di>pels colds, head
aches and fcvcrs and cures habitua.
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is tn
only remedy Of its kind ever pro
dUc"I, plcasin" to the taste and ac
2eptahIe to the stomach, prompt i'll
its action and truly benelciu Ill it
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy aud agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the noat
popu!:." remedy kuoWn.
Syrup Of ri4s is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by al lcaline drug
glsts. Any reliable druggist whc
may not have it on hand viii pro
cure it promptly tor an ~ne who
wishes 70 try Il. DC 2.o> Except any
substitute.
cfLH, ,I174V5A FIc sX2J,o ~
s4E 2aAhC|Sc0. CIT.
.ni">rii!= ~ MFW yO2h NJ
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
She Resigned.

"You see how it is, my dear he said
taking her soft hand which had never
done very hard work, and patting it re-
sssuringly, "Im poor-only thousand a
year, dear-and we shall have struggle
to get along at first
II don't MIND that in the least she in
terrupted, stoutly.
"And." he pursued, gracously having
allowed her interruption, 1--WE shall have
to come down to strict economy. But If
you only manage as my mother does, we
shall pull through nicely"
"And how does your mother manage,
dear? she asked, smiling, but very happy
at the notion of the mother-in crop
ping out already. ....
II don't know" replied the lover, radi-
antly, "but she manages to have every
thing neat and cheerful, and something
delicious to eat-and she does it all her,
self, you know! So we always get along
beautifully. and make both ends meet. and
father and | have plenty of spending
money. You see when q woman is al
ways hiring her laundry work done, and
her gowns and bonnets made, and her
scrubbing and stove black ng done, and all
that sort of thing-why, it just walks into
u
The young woman looked for q nom ont
as if her breath was also inclioed for a
vacation; but she wisely concealed her
dismay, and, bling one of the stout hearted
of the earth, she determined to learn
few things of Johns mother, so she went
to her house for long visit the very next
day. Upon the termination of this visit,
one fine morning John received TO his
II l. OBJ q u
his engagement ring, accompanied by the
following letter:
II have learned how your mother man
ages, and am going to explain it TO You
since you confessed you don't Know. L
find she is a wife, another. housekeeper,
business manager, hired girl, laun-
dress, q seamstress, mender and patcler,
q GARY maid, a cook, nurse, a kitchen
gardener, and general slave for family
of Eve. She works from five in the
morning until ten ct night; and L almost
wept when / kissed her hand-it was so
hard and wrinkled and corded and un-
kissed When saw her polishing the
stove, carrying big buckets of water and
great armfuls of wood, often splitting the
latter, asked her why John didn't do
such things for her. 'Why-John'-she
said In trembling. bewildered way-'he
works in the Office from nice until four,
you sow, and when he comes home he is
very ,.red: or else-or else-he goes down
town. Now, have become strongly i'm
bued with the conviction that do not care
to be 80 good manager as your mother.
ssIf the wife must do all sorts OF drudg-
cry. so must the husband; if she must
cook, he must carry the wood; if she
must scrub, he must carry the water; ii
she must make butter, he muse milk the
COWS. You have allo wed your mother to
do everything, and all that you have to
say of her is that she is an excellent man
sger.' do not care for such reputation
unless my husband earns the name also
aud Judging from your lack of considera-
ton for your mother, | am quite sure you
are not the man / thought you were, Of
| one whom would care to marry. AS the
SON is, the husband u.s. is the safe AND
happy rule to follow"
So the letter closed, and John ponderee
and he is bordering yet.-Selected.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
a stone where the child

Is simply to offer stone where the child
rem demand bread,
The effect has been to lower the stand
ard of education, because under 1t there
is NO possibility of raising the masses to
high standard.
The mountain cannot come to Mahomet,
then Mahomet must come to the mountain.
The city public schools are generally
better than the country schools, because
they are graded and have teacher for
each grade. But every critical observer
who is competent to give judgment knows
that the work of the best graded city
schools, while, perhaps, not inferior in
those grades to that of the best private
schools, must be of necessity much slower.
This ought not to be so, and if there were
intelligent and wise management 1t would
not be so.
There ought to be some means for
good, studious, quick pupil to pass away
from one grade to a higher one. Instead
of the long steps from one grade to an
other, there ought to be, and there could
be, some half steps. There could be es-
tablished, where necessary, an intermedi-
ate grade or an advanced class of any
grade, in which the pupil might have the
opportunity OF passing up to the next, II
found competent. Good private schools
have these advantages.
Establish, then, in the country, in con
nection with the public schools, private
schools of higher grade than the public
schools, and maintain them, and soon you
will see quite difference in the standard
of education.
Ifyou will not do that, then levy suf.
6cient tax to support public school of
high grade and employ sufficient number
of competent teachers to give the necessary
instruction.
In either case, though it will have cost
much money, the investment will pay
more largely than stocks, bonds. farms or
mortgages j. e. s., in Progressloe Age
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
A French Woman at Home.

She helps to cook the dinner which she
has bought-for servants are wssteful with
the charcoal, and she knows to an inch
how little she can use. In that marvellous
place, a French kitchen, where two or
three little holes in stove cook such Cell
cate dishes, and perform such culinary
feats as our great roaring coal fires have
no conception of. she fits about like
fairy, creating magical messes out OF raw
material of the most ordinary description
Yes, though lady born and bred, refined,
elegant and agreeable in society, belle
in her way, yet she does not think 1t De,
nesth her dignity to tighten the household
ex penses by practical economy and activity
The dinner of French family is cheap
and simple There is always sup, the
meat of the stew-pan- sometimes, II not
strict in expenditure, another plate OF
meat--genefally two vegetables, dressed
and eaten separately; and sometimes, not
always, sweet dish; if not that. little
fruit, such as may be the cheapest and in
the ripest season.
But there is very little of each thing,
and it is rather in arrangement than In
material that they appear rich. The ldes
that the French are gourmands in private
life is incorrect. They spend little in
eating. and they eat inferior things;
though their cookery Is rather science
than mere accident of civilization. At
home the great aim of the French is to
save; and any self-sacrifice that will lead
to this result is cheerfully undertaken,
more especially in eating than in the mere
luxury Of mere idleoess. No French
woman will spend cent to save herself
trouble. She would rather work like
dray-horse to buv an extra yard of ribbon,
or - new psir of gloves, than lie on the
sof!e5. sofa In the world in placid fine
l4dyism, with crumpled gauze or bare
hands. -Ln1ies' Home Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
Tobacco-Chewiug Waning.

Saws a tobacconist in the Boston Satur
dav Evening Gazette: For long time
the old American habit OF tobacco chewing
has been on the decline. Nearly half the
men used to chew years ago, but very few
do it now The calls for a plug of chew
ing tobacco lasted all day long, but you
vii wait an hour now before you hear
such call. 1t was not only the working
men who INDUCED in the habit but also
the swels and business people. The South
erners were nearly all chewers, and 50
were the Westerners. but the quld has
gone out of fashion here"
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
Betting Illegal in France.

The French government has passed
law making all betting illegal. The peo-
pie of Paris are intensely excited over the
business, and it is asserted that the gov
ernment's action will eventuate IN the
death of horse racing and intict the most
serious injury on the industry of horse
breeding, an injury that will ere long be
seriously felt by the cavalry. 1t is also
said that worse evil will follow-secret
betting -ErcltnnQe.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
Temperance Notes

Where there was one drunken home,
there are now ten drunken homes.
Ohio w. CT Z. this year has six hundre
local unions, including one hundred new
ones, and ten thousand paying members.
The convention which Met recently
was one of the best ever held.
The Sanitary Board of Vienna, Aus
tria, has declared against the establishment
of asylums for inebris.es, and in favor of
all drunkards being as public dangers,
sentenced to periods of hard labor.
Is drunkenness State or rational evil?
Does 1t belong to the North or does it be-
long to the South? Dies it belong to the
West? All there is not an American
river into which it's tears have not fallen
and into which its suicides have Lot
plugged.
The order of Rechabites, large tenn
perance society of England, rojolces in the
returns given at its late annual conference.
showing an increase of 10 6lO members
during the year 1890. This is all the more
encouraging as it is benefit club, as well
as total abstinence society.
Take sides before your sons are sacri-
feed aud the new home of your daughter
goes down under the alcoholism of an
embruted husband. Take sides while
your voice. your pen, your prayer, your
vote may have auy influence in arresting
the despoliatjon of this nation.
Says the London Christian Void, re
ferr,ng to England Temperance is be-.
coming not only respectable, but pupular.
Never before has the cause found such
support from lord mayor of London
The lord mayor of York is total abstsiner
of thirty years standing. The mayor of
Birmingham is life abstainer, as also
the mayor of Ripon. The mayor of STAT
ford has teetotal experience of fifty three
and the mayor of Sheffield forty mine
years.
The man who. warned by his thoughts
in time, found that by saving the $40 per
annum he was accustomed to smoke away
he could become in five years the owner of
a good flock of sheep, had a PARALLEL eye
opening experience with one to whom it
occurred that in few months he had tossed
down his throat field of deep and fertile
soil at the rate of hall rod of ground in
| fee SIMPLE for every drink and he must
| cred sense and resolution enough to pre-
| fer the land Internationally 7. Weekly
Tribune
| Many a father has made will of tn
sort: Gin the name Of God, amen. be.
queath to my children my houses aIt
lands aud estates; share and share shall
they alike. Hereto atfix my hand ant
seal in the presence of witnesses" Ant
yet perhaps that very man has mad
another will that the people have LeVe
read, and that has not been proved in tn
courts. That will put in writing woul
read something like this: an the nam
of disease and appetite and death, amen
| bequeath to my children my evil habits
my tankards shall Do theirs. my wine Gu
shall BIZ teirs. Share and share alik
shall they in the infamy. Hereto l atfi
my hand and seal in the presence of a
the applau ling harpies of hell
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
A Bullet.


was mclded in the middle of last cen
fury, in England | lay amoung lot of
my fellows, for long time, aud then one
day was weighed with thousands Of my
CONF anions, and shipped to India. My
companions and | parted company there.
They went into the pouches of English
soldiers; | into Colonels pistol. One
night in the Colonels club, a dispute arose
over cards. The lie was given by young
man named Give, to one of the officers.
The lie was followed up by the word
cheat" from the same bitter lips. The
Colonels pistols were brought. Give had
mine. He was nervous, fred before the
word and missed. | lodged in the wall
When the house was torn down, l was
found by man with hobby. That
hobby WAS "curiosities." With him |
went to England again. He gave me to
Colonel Tarleton, telling him that the
then famous Give had used it. With
Tarleton | came to the colonies. With
him went through many of the battles
of the Revolution. One day, in one OF his
black moods, he mt me into the brain of
a negro slave who had refused to give in
formation as to the whereabouts of Gen.
Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. The
negro was buried. For seventy years
was buried with him. Then the ground was
broken up by the plough. A little boy
heard me rafting in the negros skull. and
took me to his father. When the boy
grew to manhood he went to Louisiana
and the devil was in his pistol, but be
never had occasion to use me. as bowie
answered to every call he bad. When the
Civil War broke out, he became "Loulsi-
ana Tiger" Going down the Baltimore
turnpike, the second day of July, 1868, he
fred me at random, out of pure reckless
ness, and went whistling through the
air. and into the room until | fell, with q
little splash, into the little heart of the
onlv woman that was killed at the awful
battle of Gettysburg. - Echoes of the Week.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28

It's The Liquor They Drink:-Miss
Fligh-ssI should think those Western
highwaymen must have very strong stom-
acRs." Mr.. singh" Why?' Fligh---
"Not to have any qualms when people all
around them are throwing up their hands.