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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
THE PEACOCK.
According to This 1t Is Much Abused
Long-Sufiering Bird.


Long-Sufiering Bird.
Who says the peacock has ugly
feet?' remarked Taxidermist Wood OF
the Smithsonian institution to a Wash
ington Star reporter. Il have read
and heard that piece OF nonsense ever
since was child. and understand
that 1t Is recorded as an archaeological
truth in classical Greek and Latin.
You will come across mention OF 1t
even In fables 10 my mind 1t
affords an illustration OF the fact that
most people never use their own
physical senses actively. but depend
for their notions of life and things
upon the observation OF othera
Il have just finished mounting this
pair OF peacocks. Is the male bird a
beauty You can see for yourself
that his feet are decidedly pretty.
we'll shaped. and rather small in pro.
portion to his size. They are very
slightly bigger than those OF a turkey
and are decidedly handsomer. The
same can be said OF the hen bird. I'M
attractive though the latter is as to
other points. Whenever in the feath.
cred kingdom the cockbird is the
handsomer he does the counting.
while in the comparatively unusual
case where the female is more gor-
geous she it is that takes the initia-
tive in the love making.
1t Is curious thing to observe
that the male peacock in counting his
chosen mate approaches her not with
the brightly colored face OF his feath-
cry fan toward her, BIT backward.
Then. on coming close he wheels
suddenly about with every plume
trembling in the sunlight and dazzles
her at once with his beauty. AS for
the popular misconception respecting
his feet, there can be no doubt as to
how it originated. When the pea
cock is pointed at being naturally a
wild bird he is apt to drop his fan
and scuttle away. Thus the impress
sion was conveyed to the ignorant
that he imagined his feet to be objects
oil attention. and &C "prdingly sought
to hide them. OF course. nothing
could be more absurd"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
The Dismal Au.mp.

The Dismal swamp in Virginia ono
OF the largest OF the swampy tracts In
America IL also one OF the most prom
ising areas for reclamation. IL con-
tains fully 1000 square miles ind is
Mt present OF little value except for a
supply of timber. 1t Is an old sea
bottom. and the western boundary OF
the swamp Is sea clif and beach.
The chief animal population Of the
higher classes consists Of water birds
and snakes or the larger animals.
bears are abundant and there l. u pc.
culiar and very ferocious species OF
wild horned cattle. The fights OF the
bears are said TO DO very Getting.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
Rather Paradoxical.

DR. r. w. ST. Clair OF Fort Wayne
Ind. tells how he was riding on an
engine and caught a cinder in his eye
that caused the most excruciating
pain. He says that he naturally be-
gan to rub the afflicted organ. when
the engineer called out: Let that
eye alone and rub the other one"
The doctor looked incredulously at
his adviser. but the latter only con-
tinued: Il know you doctors think
you know 1t all. but II you will let
that eye alone and rub the other one
the cinder will be out in two min
usea" The doctor says that he began
to rub the we'll eye vigorously and
soon felt the cinder move down to the
inner corner. He was preparing to
take 1t out by the aid OF small mir
ror when the engineer again admon-
ished him to keep rubbing the we'll
eye" which he did for minute
longer and then found that the oinder
had slipped down onto his cheek.
Who can give sensible explanation
OF this odd proceedingf
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
All on Runners.

In the winter in Norway all the We.
hicles are sledges-the carriages
cabs. carts and even the perambula-
tors are on runners. Outside the town.
where the road is not trodden hard 1t
Is impossible to walk without tho
snowshoes OF the country. These are
called ski" and are long wooden
planks. measuring nearly nine feet for
full grown man. The wood for SIX l
is not sawn. but split with the grain
SO that they never break and can bear
u tremendous strain.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
Tho " or.er ssalr.

Mrs Forundred-We need some new
rugs
Mr.. rundred-Carpets would DO
more comic table.
Mrs. F0rundred Rugs arc more
stylish. You men are such animals
Always talking about comfort
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17

Wandering Wiiliam-'Scuse my pre-
sumption, ma am In arskin' you Of
you have any OF your home made
bread I've heard so much aboutP
Mrs Tiddlewink-You dear man!
or course ! have; and coffee and meat
and cake too Come right In. Judge
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
rhe Writ Metal DI.covsres.

Gold was probably tho frat metal
discovered and used. IL WIS mined
In Egypt and we'll known In the cast
ern empires ]. 800 years II q. IL was
doubtless known and used Ia India
many hundred years bcfore this period
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
THE GENTLE DEAD.

He had tho poets eyes,
Sing TO him sleeping,-
Sweet grace OF low replies,
Why are we wecpingi
He had the gentle ways,
Fair dreams befall him.
Beauty through all his days,
Why then recall hint
That which I'm him was fair
Still shall be ours;
Yet my heart lies there
Under the flowers.
-Rennell Rodd.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17

Featherstone--I hear you don't
wear dress suit when you call on
Miss Pinkerly now.
Ringway-Not much. The last
time called on her l went In dress
suit and came away with Tuxedo
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17
A Full Explanation.

.Hmr said the doctor 'the symp-
toms are unmistakable. You have
append.citis."
Dear me- what 10 appondicitis
doctOr"
Appendicitis sir. Is the disease
from which you are suffering.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17


heart OF Jay however was bowed
down and bad.
he had hobbled out into the open
mir with the others when the council
came to an end and stood with low
ering brow while u young buck went
after the guns that had been taken
away from the prisoners. AS the youth
passed him on his return. he snatched
one Of the weapons from his hand and
cooked it with a vicious CLEAN In his
eye Other Indians at once stepped
between Jay and the youths.
This would 1 do TO all the pale
faces he said; and taking aim ut a
IA len tree. fired.
The gun responded with a report
like respectable cannon. and. as the
Jays injury made him infirm on his
und ,rpinning. the recoil sent MIN spin
ming until the back OF his head reached
the ground.
Indian gravity could not withstand
this aud his mishap caused cacklo
from the squaws and howl OF merri-
ment from the bucks THE other
gun is much more heavily charged
both were loaded for bear remarked
one of the boys The Jay would
greatly oblige his young white
brother II he would discharge that
alsO."
But the luckless wight had had
enough OF paleface diabolism for one
day and only responded with q vol
ley 81 bad language In French.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
A Pauncr Inhnstrr.

The tariff of 1890 deals out govern
ment licenses to its favorites to take
that which is not their own, against tne
protest of other industries demandi,a.
the right to keep what they have earned,
and strife is thus inaugurated between
domestic industries more subverting to
general prosperity than any possible en-
croachment of foreigners.
The contest which ended in the in
creased duty on timed plate was a
novel interference with 5000 selfsup-
porting established industries built up
by the use of cheap timed plate as their
raw material in order to favor an in
dustry non-selfsupporting and which
very fact was urged as an excuse why
public charity should be extended
toward it.
The government in thus granting
privileges to certain industries, at the
expense of others, is encouraging a prec-
edent which, in its simplest definition,
means robbery, and which in its results
involves burdening the people to natural
ize a pauper industry at the blatant ap-
peal of those whose sole object was to
profit by selling supplies to the indus
trial poorhouse thus set up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
Hunting for wage Advanee..

Republican politicians are unanimous
IN declaring that protection has had
nothing to do with the Homestead wage
reductions and the strike in which thou
sands there are concerned, yet they are
embracing every opportunity-and they
are very few-to announce an advance
in wages, which of course is due to the
Mckinley act. Over 500 wage reduc-
tions in protected industries have been
reported, and it viii be strange if few
cases could not be found where wages
had been advanced; but The American
Economist, which has been searching
high and low, has been about as un-
fortunate as Ex-Governor Campbell. of
Ohio, who has not found a single in
stance where wages have been advanced
because of the Mckinley tariff act.
The American Economist alleges that
that it has found such cases, but nm
fortunately they are not such as to stand
criticism On July %, for the third OF
fourth time, The Economist announced
that there had been general increase
of . per cent. in the wages of the em-
ployees of the Kings County Knitting
company in Brooklyn. A man was sent
to investigate this case After much
trouble and search he at last heard that
the company was located in the suburbs
Of Brooklyn; reaching there he found
that the firm had removed to another
remote corner Of the same city. At last
he found the great concern in the top
floor of building. It consisted of three
men and ten to. fifteen girls. The pro-
prietor, who happened to be on hand.
could remember of no advance IN wages
until reminded Of The American Econ
omist's announcement. Three Of the
girls were also seen; each declared that
there had been no advance in wages to
her knowledge, but that they were earn
ing less than in previous years.
The search win be continued and it fs
hoped that more favorable reports may
be made, though the outlook is not
promising.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
shsrman.s Democratic procliv,t,e.,

Senator Sherman is one of several
Republican. congressman who had to
struggle with their consciences when
they voted for the Mckinley bill. That
his conscience is not yet fully at ease as
regards the matter is evident from the
following, spoken in the senate in July:
Indeed have no doubt the result of
the policy of protection does always
bring about some results which would
probably not be desirable. The enor-
nous development of these industries
has made the aggregation of vast
amounts of capital and great corpora
tions, and there may be more or less
danger growing from their ambitious
desires and sometimes from their un-
fairness and their disregard of the rights
of the poor and of the laboring man.
There are dozens of articles in the
tariff which, if myself were to frame
tariff bill looking only TO the interests
of the people of Ohio, / might strike
down here and there. Icertainly would
admit coal duty free and would admit
lumber duty free. / would do a great
many things that our Democratic friends
want TO do; but in system like this yon
haveto observe impartial Justice to all
interests alike. If you protect the i'm
terests of Illinois you must also protect
the interests of Minnesota. and do what
is fair all around. A tariff bill, after
all, we all admit, is a struggle of oppos-
ing interests. Every man, taken by
himself, is opposed to something in the
tariff. If he wants to buy he wants to
buy as cheaply as possible, and if he
wants to sell he wants as much protec-
tlon as possible. In the nature of a
tariff law there must be some general
rule applied to all sections and to all in
terests, and the result has proved by
ectual experiment in the last thirty years
that of all our interests this protective
system is the greatest and most impor-
tant of our financial operations.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16

If you are intending to so any
whore it may pay you to consult the
following list of specially authorized
low rates which will be made by the
Ohio Central Lines:
GaIlipolis, o., Account Gallipolis Fair.
Tickets To be sold August Sth to
18th inclusive. with return limit
August 18th, from Athens, Charles
ton and intermediate stations.
Kansas City, No., Account Supreme
Lodge Meeting and Biennial Con
clave IT, II. X. OF p Tickets on sale
August 10Th To 22d inclusive. Good
To return until September 18th.
Point Pleasant, w. Va, Account Point
Pleasant Fair. Tickets 10 he sold
August % to 26th inclusive, with
return limit August 9th, iron
Athens, Charleston asld Intermediate
stations.)
baltimore, Ohio, Account Camp Meet
ing Tickets to be sold .Inly % 10
August eth inclusive, with return
limit August Sth, from Columbus,
Granville, Bremen and intermedi late
stations Upon this occasion the
rate will he one and onc-ihird fare.
N0fice.--ln addition to the above many
rates of ono and one-fhird fare upon tie
certificate plan are in effect. Intending
travellers will do well to write agents 6f
these lines or direct to Noulton IIouk,
q. i. A.. Toledo. Ohio.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
TAe FRuIrs o. PROTECTION.

carnegie's millions Multiply, but His
Men srust Take Beggary or the Bullet.
BY their fruits shall We know themr'
Behold the fruits of protectionl Writ
large in letters of human blood, In the
flames of burning oil, in the smoke of
exploding dynamite, is the declaration
that the Republican doctrine of sspro-
lection for the benefit of the American
laborer" is a lie, mocIing falsehood
by which labor is made to prey upon its
own vitals.
The Homestead works are controlled
by Andrew Carnegie, the twenty mil
honaire, the apostle of high protection,
the beneficiary of the Mckinley bill, the
munifcient contributor to the Repub-
hcan campaign funds, the dear friend of
President Harrison, who cabled con-
gratulations from his Scotch castle after
the Minneapolis convention. eProtec-
tion for the American laborer'' gave him
kingly riches-it has given his laborers
reduced wages and the bullets of mer-
cenary troops
In time of manufacturing prosperity
and with a prohibitive tariff to bafaout
foreign competition, Mr. Andrew Car
negie made a sweeping cut in the wages
of his thousands OF workmen They
struck for living wages and refused to
allow men to supplant them. He hired
Pinkerton troops, armed with Winches-
ter rifles, to reduce them to subjection.
The Pinkertons fired upon the worlEmen
and their fire was desperately returned.
A battle ensued and the hireling troops
surrendered That is the story to this
writing.
The moral is that protection does not
protect the laborer. The manufacturer
receives, by government decree, tribute
from all consumers, his laborer includ-
ed But the laborer is still dependent
upon his employer for any share in the
bounty ordained and enforced by the
government upon tine pretext that it is
for his benefit only. Carnegie's millions
multiply. but his men are made to choose
between beggary and the bullet.-Co-
lumbia Is. C.l State.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
PROTECTION IN PRACTICE.
The Tarin on Steel Rails Has Enabled
the Makers to Fix the Price.


the Makers to Fix the Price
The Engineering and Mining Journal
gives an exceedingly valuable illustr,.-
ton of the manner in which a protec-
tive tariff raises its benefciaries above
the operations of the natural law of
trade.
The illustration concerns steel rails.
which are now Sfa ton higher than they
were in 1885, although the cost of pro-
duction and the tariff tax are less and
the demand is slight. Tho command
OF the market, by reason of the tariff
ON rails and the ownership Of the Besse-
mer patents, has enabled the railmakers
to fix arbitrarily the price of their prod
ucts
the American manufacturers make
much of the fact that improved ma
chinery has greatly increased their out
put, and The Journal estimates that the
cost OF producing steel rails. when the
manufacturer makes his own pig, can
not exceed $50 ton. In 1885 steel rails
sold at s26 ton. and the cost of Besse-
mer pig alone was SIG AT $50 ton
the profits on the annual output of steel
rails Is necessarily between $4,000. 600
and Sie 900 eco.
--eAt -AAC BAbtcCtllc lilLlL ElNeS Iu1S
enormous dividend to the makers, who
instead of increasing wages are trying
to cut them down, is shown by an ex-
animation of English prices. In May.
1892, English rails sold for $10.44 The
duty ON this, $l344, would make their
price s32. ss, not counting freight and in
surance- 1t is clear therefore that $50
is the price at which the English rails
can be kept out. While the English
price has fallen since 1885 from $a3.17 a
ton to Sl9.44. the price of English pig
has risen from $1,000 a ton to sf2.15.
In other words, the English maker
pays SLAB more for his pig and gets
1913 less for his rails. At the same
time, while the price of American rails
advanced from S26 to $50 ton. the
price of American pig fell from S17 to
sl4 ton, SO that the American maker
paid S3 less for his pig and got 81 more
for his product.
This gain he keeps for himself. New
York World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16


Hon. Roswell @. Horr said some time
ago in the New York Tribune that ssthe
tariff is levied in the first place simply
to enable the people of the United States
to pay the high wages everywhere pre-
vailing in This country Yes, it NAV
enable some OF our manufacturers to
pay higher wages, but they seldom do
SO. They have other uses for the bonus
which protection puts into their pockets
some of it goes for castles In Europe
and some to hire PinlIertons to compel
worlSmen to accept lower wages, but
the largest portion of all is invested in
lands, stocks and first mortgage bonds
to enrich the tariff beneficiaries and an
mex them to our army of millionaires.
which has increased 0,00O per cent.
since high protection began thirty years
ago. The portion that reaches the wage
earners, even in second handed way,
could be carried with safety In a tissue
paper purse. Perhaps Mckinley was
right when he said at Providence last
April that mo one ever claimed that
protective tariffs We're intended to in
crease wages" 1t was only intended.
as Mr.. Horr explained, to enable higher
wages to be paid. There is a sharp dis
tinction here which has caused consid-
erable misunderstanding. It will be
well for wage earners to make note of
it for future use.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16

The workingmen OF this country. re-
marked Senator Hale a few DAYS ago.
were never so contented and wen paid
as now. The total number Of locked
out and striking employees throughout
the country, says Bradstreet's. Increased
last week from about go. 900 to 1OO. 600
Everybody knows the comparative value
OF the two authorities in these two cases.
The American worhngmen are as arule
very comfortably circumsfanced in these
times, but the Mckinley tariff can hardly
be said to have raised them all into q
perfect paradise of contenfment and
prosperity. Providence journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16

The commandment, "Thou shalt not
steal, IS being revised by Mckinley to
read, sThou shalt raise thy money for
public expenses by taxing the products
of other nations rather than by taxing
the products of thine own; and thou
shalt not tax thyself so long as thou
canst find anybody else to taxi
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16

NEw PHILADELPHIA, o.. Aug. e.-A
freight train of forty cars on the c., l..
and W. railway loaded with stone and
ore, running at the rate Of thirty miles
per hour, was wrecked near the station
IN this city, Saturday afternoon, by the
spreading of a rail. Thirty Of the cars
were demolished, and the track for 9
long distance was tcTa ~.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16

LEBANON, KY. Aug. 8.-At picnic at
Ball Hollow, IN Lane county, a few
days ago, regular mountain battle
took place between two Ferrin brothers
and three or four Daniels. Many shots
were fired, and knives were used freely
with deadly effect One Of the Ferrills
was terribly butchered, while two Of
the Daniels received dangerous wounds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
Part OF the campasen.

Carnegie's friendship for labor is the
true protectionist feeling. Reds tender
ness in the same direction Is ON view.
Platform and practice are part Of the
campaign of education. -Kansa CITY
Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
nlInol. So Longer poubtfal.

Considering the large number of work
inglnen IN Illinois who belong to labor
unions, it is not rainbow chasing to de-
clare that the Democrats can carry the
state this year.-Kansas City Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
BY compoundIne the o1en,e.

If all reports are true President Harri-
son viii get the support of Quay, Clark
son and Dudley by compounding the Of
Tense of which they are charged by Re
publicans. Louis Post Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
Selling Hardware at Prices our Compe-
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
WHOLESALE BUYERS AND DEALERS

We still selling the popular reliable WO0NSOCKET
and CANDEE RTBBER BOOTS, SHOES and TENNIS SHOES.
There better goods made in this world than
Boots and Candee Rubbes That's ,ohy
but send for discounts terms and catalogues appca
on by card or in If looking both your
own and customers interests will buy from Special p
buyers of ten and Send orders
the FALL RUSH We want send samples quote you
Gossamer, Rubber and Macintosh Clothing boys
and Misses Prices LOW terms GOOD qualities
We illustrate the shapes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
st. vitns Dance Curedi viii

S~s NUS DIncc CIEc0 Will
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For seven years my eldest daughter had faint
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first of Pastor Koenig's Nerxo Tonic and since
that timc they lave entirely ceased.
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This remedy Las been prepared by the Revnrci
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-16
NEW FLOUR
FEED STORE!
C. E. w RAY.

OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE,,
nESIRES to inform the public that he
IL has opened Flour and Feed Store
in the room adjoining the REGISTER of
flee. where he will keep on hand at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES, the
Best Brands of Flour; also Corn
Meal, Chop Feed, Bran, Shorts,
Corn, Oats, Hay, Straw, &c.
Orders Promptly Filled and
Goods Delivered Free.
I am also prepared tn furnish Coal in
any quantities, and respectfully solicit
your orders. G. f. WRAY.
jan1 S9-3In.