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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01


Heavy forest fires were raging in
the forests of northern Wisconsin
last week, carrying death and de-
struction in its path. Lumber and
timber were devoured, towns nearly
or quite wiped out, and many deaths
are reported. At Phillips about
twenty persons were drowned in a
lake while taking refuge in the wa
ter from the scorching flames.
Railroad bridges in many places
were burned, and traffic greatly
impeded. Phillips was wiped en-
tirely from the earth, leaving 5000
people homeless and penniless.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

for a moment, to people so reckless
and malicious, or so unutterably
base, as those who have managed
the great railroad strikes for the
past ten years. The example of
the Pullman strike shows how
false and dangerous are the doc
trines in regard to workingmen
which have gained so much credit
and wrought so much misery with
in the present generation. Accord
ing to these doctrines, man who
works with his hands is not man,
but a babe, who must be provided
with a clean house, not through the
process of cleaning it with his own
hands, but by having philanthropic
people get up subscription to hire
some one to clean it for him; who
must be amused with lectures, pic
ture shows, and other distractions,
at the expense of the public, or of
amiable private persons, and whom
it was right to encourage in every
way to think that thrift, industry,
sobriety, and self-denial were no
longer necessary to one so favored,
and that yelling and kicking, if
long enough continued, were sure
to bring him everything to which
he might take fancy. The lesson
has been lost; the babe of the nine
teenth century, trained by the lull-
abies of the political economists,
the handling of the politicians, and
the patient indulgence of the more
rational part of the community, to
combine the greedy helplessness of
the infant with the strength and
malice of the man, claws every day
more viciously at what does not be-
long to him, and tramples more
recklessly on the rights of other
people. In the end, these rights
must assert themselves, or perish in
the worst of tyrannies; but a part
of the harsh lesson by which they
are defended should be reserved for
the moonstruck philosophers and
sentimentalists who have taught
ignorant people that, instead of re-
lying on their own exertions for
improving their condition, looking
out only to preserve and extend
their freedom to use those exertions,
they were entitled to trample on
the freedom Of others in order to
get what they wanted.-American
Architect.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
IMPORTANT FOOD TESTS.
How to Produce more Economical
and Healthful Articles for the
Table.

The official food analyses OF the United
States and Canadian governments have
been studied with interest. The United
States government report gives the names
OF eighteen well-known baking powders,
which contain alum.
The report shows the Royal to be a
pure cream-of-tartar baking powder, the
highest In strength, evolving 1905 cubic
inches Of leavening gas per single ounce
OF powder. There were eight other
brands OF cream f-tartar powders tested;
and their average strength was Ills GU
bic inches Of gas per ounce OF powder.
The Canadian government investiga-
lions were OF still larger number of
powders. The Royal Baking Powder
was here also shown the purest and high
est In strength, containing forty-five per
cent more leavening gas per ounce than
the average Of all the other cream of- tar
tar powders.
These figures are very instructive to
the practical housekeeper. They indi-
cate that the Royal Baking Powder goes
more than 80 per cent. further in use
than the others, or Is one-third more
economical. Still more important than
this, however, they prove this popular
article has been brought to the highest
degree Of purity-for to its superlative
purity this superiority in strength is due
and consequently that by its use we
may DO Insured the purest and most
wholesome food.
The powders OF lower strength are
found to leave large amounts OF impur-
tiles In tho food. This fact Is empha-
sized by tho report OF the Ohio State
Food Commissioner, who while finding
tho Royal practically pure, found no
other powder to contain less than 10 per
cent OF inert or foreign matters.
The statistics show that there is used
In tho manufacture of the Royal Baking
Powder more than half Of all the cream
of-tartar consumed in tho United States
for all purposes. The wonderful sale
thus indicated for the Royal Baking Pow
der-greater than that OF all other baking
powders combined-is perhaps even
greater evidence than that already quoted
OF the superiority Of this article, and OF
its indispensableness to modern cookery.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
A Stalwart Republican Opinion.

1t has been Mr.. Cleveland's for
tune bad or good as it may seem to
be, to figure in more and bitterer
feuds than were ever participated in
by any other elected president.
The only men ever in the White
House who were more bitterly as
sailed by their party than Mr.. Cleve-
land has been were John Tyler and
Andrew Johnson, but neither of
these were elected president.
The difference between Cleveland
on the one side and Tyler and John
son on the other is that the public
sentiment of the country all along
has been with Cleveland. The opin-
ion of intelligent outsiders who be-
long to neither faction of his party,
who have no prejudices or proposes
sions one way or the other, and who
for this reason, as Bacon puts it,
may be said to reflect the verdict of
posterity, is with Cleveland in his
controversies, and he doubtless feels
confident that the future will be OH
his side.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

The hot weather of last week
caused an untold amount of loss in
crops in the west. Miles of fine
fields of corn and other crops from
Kansas to Colorado were entirely
cooked by the intense heat. In
many places corn has been cut to
save it for fodder. Reports say
that the highways leading eastward
through Nebraska and Kansas were
thronged with disheartened settlers,
who had abandoned homes and crops
to seek refuge in Iowa and Missouri
from the intense heat.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
The mania Of some newspapers

The mania of some newspapers
for building up their circulations
OH the coupon plan, reaches a vi
cious climax when guessing coupons
are offered the public by such news
papers as the Detroit Journal on the
best time to be made at the Blue
Ribbon meeting. The object of the
scheme is to sell as many papers as
possible, but no one is foolish en-
ough to claim that circulation so
increased is healthy or permanent,
or that it is legitimate journalism.
And, besides, can the Journal
people tell us the difference between
buying their papers and guessing
on the races, or buying pools OH the
resultp The end to be attained is
the same, and both are gambling in
every sense Of the term. That a
great newspaper should lend itself
to this branch Of turf amusements,
is to be deplored. Mt. Clemens
Press.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

a tariff that would enable him to
increase the price. Labor organizes
to maintain wages, which capital
would reduce to a point of starva-
ton. The Pullman strike was
against reduction of wages by one
of the wealthiest of the robber COM
binations of this country, and out
of it grew the inexcusable riots and
wanton destruction of property.
Pullmanism is an iron despotism
that plumbers the public with one
hand and brushes labor with the
other. Wrong begets wrong
throughout the universe. We COM
PLAIN of effects and seldom seek to
remove their cause. Many noisy
labor leaders to-day are plant tools
of monopolies that Cypress work
ingmen.-Jackson Patriot.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Japan will make an effort each to
annihilate the other. There has
been an engagement between some
of the war ships of the two nations,
and japan sunk one and captured
another of the Chinese vessels,
with loss of about 1000 Chinese
lives. Trouble has for sometime
been brewing between these two ma
tions, and it has now reached
pitch where Il settlement must
speedily be had, or blood will flow
freely.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
Clearances-

The following vessels cleared from this
port during last week, with cargoes Of
lumber and other forest products:
Barge Monitor, $50, 900 feet of lumber, Detroit.
Propeller Garden City, 100000 feet Of lumber,
Cleveland.
Barge Light Guard, $4,000 feet of lumber. Cleve.
land.
Barge Lathrop, $4,000 feet OF lumber, Toledo.
Barge Russian, 100000 feet OF lumber Cleveland.
Propeller jerks, 10000 of lumber, Fremont.
Barge Magnet, 100000 feet Of lumber, Toledo.
Propeller Hail. 10000 feet Of lumber, Tonawanda.
Barge Nellie Mason, II, 900 railway ties Chicago.
Schooner spaulding ll4.ooo feet of lumber, Mt.
Clemens.
Propeller sachom, $4,000 cedar posts and 5000
railway ties, Chicago.
The total amount Of lumber, shingles,
lath, cedar posts, railway ties, etc.,
shipped from this port since the opening
of navigation, In 1894, by vessels that re-
ported at the Alpena custom house, is:
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
The Pullman Strike.

II is to be regretted that the peo-
pie Of the United States should
have to recover the use of their or
binary highways at the point Of the
bayonet, but it is better to recover
and hold them in that way than to
give up the control Of them, even
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
The Puzzle Solved.

Perhaps no local disease has puzzled
and bafiled the medical profession more
than nasal catarrh. While not immedi-
ately fatal II Is among the most nauseous
and disgusting ills tho flesh Ia heir TO,
and the records show very few or no
cases Of radical cure OF chronic catarrh
by any OF the many modes OF treatment
until the introduction OF Ely's Cream
Balm few years ago. The success Of
this preparation has been most gratifying
and surprising. No druggist Is without
it.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
An Interview with DR.. Gee Wo Chan,
Worlds Fair Commissioner, Sent
by the Chinese Government to the
United States-He Will Now Re-
main Here.

Wondering why all tho people wero TALKING
about this man, we found II was by means Of his
hundreds of rare and wonderful CHINESE REMEDIES
That no cures people given M TO die by other ply.
sicans.
gee wo CHAN Is the greatest doctor who ever
came from China. lilo made such n reputation a
his native country that the CHINESE GovERSs<Sr
sent him TO the United states as Worlds Fair Com.
missioner, and TO Investigate other MEDICAL syn
TENS. Ito Gays no Will now. remain in Chicago Tor
good because he found out from hundreds Of tests
SYSTEM OF medicine he can cure TWENTY-FIVE des.
perato diseases to ONE cured by any other method.
LESS and do not grow anywhere else but in China
lie Gays that cATARRn, tho great American dis
relieve, no W cure fors and All srousSe
no matter how bad he viii NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
"Ailpriyatedisen eesareeasiy overcome and cured
ws
orcputaton and on al chronic case OF lopr YEARS.
asG S e ns ~
~Ho also states no cures all diseases OF MY$.
S %1sE cye Sna es,s Il one Sra WILL
CHINESE DocTosL 70 assist him ia sis o,ee. he can
easily handle the hundreds Of poopie who daily
sIIc cure. oil diseases Of women without EXAM,
Gee wo Chan has receyed over Ioop ,ysr,,nx.
sSsrey ecsreo sss Ts bs
Medicines nd Strange systems Which ara Sa,Se:e
III, country, bus thousands Of years old in China
70 Be- s NH npd s soa
cur You the charge; etc China tSs OLDEST es
S5Seous sso ss Sss Over q ssr
be want nj es sG s csrs az
c very he Invites we n%. e.: ere
every ono Of Prompt ana se sns as sssa'ss
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

The demand of the people, grow
ing stronger from day to day, has
been taken up by the lower house
of congress, which body has passed
a bill favoring the election of Unit
ed States senators by direct vote of
the people. 1t is not probable that
the senate will concur in the amend
ment to the constitution very soon,
but the time is surely coming when
that much needed reform will be ac-
complished.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Havemeyer organizes sugar
trust and says to the public, here is
my sugar at such a price, take it or
let it alone. The public is power
less, must have sugar and takes it.
More than this, Havemeyer corrupt
ed the national senate in order to get
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
SINCLAIR COMPANY.

two, and Maple Ridge two. These fig
ures may yet be changed, as the state Of
ficers will make another count before de-
clarlng the official result.
The preceding state census, In 1884,
gave Alpena county population of 49,
6S3, showing gain In the last ten years,
Of 5. O35.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
Census Of Alpena County.

We have received from the Secretary Of
State, the result of the unofficial count Of
tho census Of Alpena county, taken last
June, which shows q slight decrease as
compared with the number returned by
the census cnumerators, showing that
mistakes had been made in counting the
various lists, and giving the result as
I'll
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Pingree withdrew from the race
for the nomination for governor,
leaving the field almost entirely to
Gov. Rich, who was nominated at
the Republican state convention
Yesterday.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

You can never have q really good CON-
plexion until the impurity Is cleansed
from your blood. What you need Is n
thorough course OF Ayers Sarsaparilla,
which Is absolutely free from all harmful
ingredients, and therefore, perfectly safe.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
Michigan Cities.

The recent census of Michigan
shows that there are % cities in the
state with a population each of over
1000, Alpena being the 18th in the
list. as follows:
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Hon. Chancey II. Wisner, of Sag
NAV, prominent and leading Dem
ocrat of the valley, died at his
Bridgeport residence on Friday
last.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Don't buy blood-purifler because II is
"cheap." The best-the Superior Medi.
cine-Ayer's Sarsaparllla, is, In the end,
the cheapest blood-purlfler In the market.
The ingredients of which 1t Is composed
are the most expensive and incidentally
ef1icacious that can be obtained.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
follows
Total population OF county. :.

The state count, as compared with the
returns Of the ward and township enum-
orators, shows loss OF one in each of
the First and Second wards, and IS In the
Third, while the Fifth has a gain Of one,
In the townships Alpena loses %, Green
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

In 1880 Alpena was the 18th city
in size; the 18th in 1884, and the
18th in 1890, but this year Menom-
inee takes a step forward from the
18th to the 18th position.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Dandruff Is due to an enfeebled state OF
the skin. Halls Hair Remover quickens
the nutritive functions OF tho skin, heal
ing and preventing the formation OF dan
dr1iff
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
War and Rumors of War.

News from the old world is at
present to the effect that China and
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01
Here are Your Letters.

The following Is list Of letters at the
postoffice uncalled for, and II not claimed
soon will be sent to the dead letter Offices
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-01

Democratic State Ticket.
Senator Long terml-
Edwin 4. Uhl.
Senator tshort Terml-
John Strong.
Spencer o. Fisher.
Lieutenant Governor
Milton +. Jordan.
Secretary Of State
Lewis F. Ireland.
State Treasurer
Otto Karste.
Auditor General
Frank H. Gill.
Attorney. General
James d. O'Hara.
Commission state Land Office
Peter Mulvaney.
Superintendent Public Institution
Albert r. Jennings.
Member State Board Of Education
Michael Devereaux.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE,

Steamships will leave for and arrive from
San Francisco on the following dates, ii the
close of 1874
ARRIVE AT H'N'LuLu LEAVE HONOLULU FOR
FROM SAN FCIsCo SAN FRANCIsCooR
nm VANCOUVER VANCOUVER,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11
PULLMAN'S EVIL POWER.
SKETCH OF THE MAGNATE's START
IN LIFE.
Comments of the United states Press
Failed to do His Duty-The Pull
man Company's Mistake.

George NJ. Pullman, whose differences
with his employees brought about the
Debs boycott and strikes, is SO years old.
He was born in Brocton, Chautauqua
county, n. Y, and like most country
boys attended school more or less regular
ly till he was about IA years old. Then he
went to work in a country general store
at a salary of $40 year. He staid there
three years and it is Of record that he
earned his money.
He had already begun to show that he
possessed the genius of accumulation, for
when he left the country store he had n
capital of $50, which had been saved out
Of his meager Wages. With this he went
to Albion, n. Y, where his brother3lad q
cabinet shop. For this brother the boy
went to work, though not exactly as an
employee, for his little savings were in
vested in a partnership interest in the
shop. George learned the trade quickly,
and the two did very well, so well indeed
that when few years later an opportu-
nifty for a man of ingenuity and enterprise
to make money came up the younger of
the two was equal to the emergency. His
chance was furnished by the widening of
the Eric canal This made it necessary to
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

Once at an official dinner Catherine III OF
Russia had an animated discussion with
foreign ambassador who had displeased
her. She spoke with more anger than dig
nifty. In the midst of her TRADE she over
heard her secretary, Chrapowicki. say in an
undertone;
at is pity for the little mother to lose
her temper this way"
She stopped abruptly, and during the re-
mainder of the dinner was gracious and
merry
As she left the table, however, she went
straight to the impertinent interrupter aud
said, "How dare you critioise my words in
publicf"
Her voice trembled with anger, and her
hand shook so that she nearly dropped a
cup Of coffee which she WAS holding She
set down the coffee untasted and told the
unfortunate secretary TO 70.
The man believed him self ruined and ex-
pected to he sent to Siberia next day. He
had no sooner reached his home, however.
than messenger came TO summon him 10
the empress.
lie found the empress still angry and ex-
cited. She reproached him bitterly for re-
turning impertinence for the kindness she
had shown him. He threw himself on his
knees before her.
Take this" she said handing him a
snuffbox set with diamonds. keep il, and
whenever You have any more observations
to make in public upon what ! say or dc
hold your tongue and take n pinch of snuff.
Such advice might be good for mt. -
Youths Companion.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11
On or About
On or About

MErEORoLoGICAL RECORD.
By the Government Survey, Published
Every Monday.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

NJ. Peltier has put a frog shower on rec
ord as having happened within his own ex-
perieuce. He speaks of seeing the frogs
fall ON the roofs Of the houses aud rebound
thence on to the pavement below A mud
shower occurred along the Union Pacific
railway at Onaga on the 4th of April The
rain, we are assured, commenced early in
the day, and soon the south and east sides
of all the houses We're covered with yellow
clay.
A Union Pacific train which ran through
the storm had its windows covered, aud
the headlight was so completely plastered
that the light was shut in. and the train ran
In darkness into Rossville where the mud
had TO be scraped off. As far east as Tope-
ka the windows showed that the edge Of
the mudstorm had extended this far. 1t is
said to have been even more severe so miles
northwest.
Blood rain aud black rain are only varie-
ties of this phenomenon. OF the latter we
hear nothing worth speaking of nowadays
but an almost historic shower of this sort
fell at Montreal in the earlier part of this
century and enveloped the then youthful
city in "A black pail, which must have been
worse than prime LONDON fog, seeing that
it gave the inhabitants the idea that the
last day had come, or was at least on the
point of coming.
Blood rain is caused by the presence OF
infinitely little plarta, animacules, or min
erals in the globules. In one instance OF a
shower that fell at Bristol and in the
Bristol channel, the analytical examina-
tion showed that the red color was due TO
ivy berry seeds. la medieval times blood
rain was prodigy. In the east il was con
nected with the belief that man was pro-
duced from blood that fell from heaven
Chambers Journal
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

wages were reduced early this year. Mr..
Pullmans idea in building the city was
not at all philanthropic. IL was TO build
on business principle
Mr.. Pullman does not himself live In
Pullman. He has "A handsome residence
ut the corner Of Prairie avenue and Eight
eenth street, Chicago, which Is said to
have cost $500, 900. He has n scarcely less
magnificent summer home on one Of the
Thousand Islands. This also cost a large
sum Of money. 1t is called Castle Rest,
and when IL was built was dedicated to
his mother, His wife was Harriet Sanger
before marriage, her father being J. Y.
Sanger of Ottawa, Ills. They have two
daughters and two sons.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

While the issue was hot Sir George
amused himself in the surf at Long
Branch or in the cool seclusions Of his
castle amid the Thousand Islands
This is not the American ideal of an
employer of labor who knows his duty.
It certainly Is not the conduct Of a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

did you KNOW asked the girl In the
sailor hat, "that the five pointed star on
our national fagi awomaD's idea' George
Washington wanted TO adopt "A six pointed
or ecclesiastical star, but Mrs- Betsey Ross,
who made the first American flag, soon
convinced him that a five pointed star could
be mort conveniently eut."-New York
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