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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
DRIFT OF PUBLIC OPINION.

UJudge Parker has let go Of his judi
cial Job, and there is now nothing to
prevent him from talking as much as
any other Observation-Disclosures
Press.
UMr. Parker was careful to remind
those who believe In remaining prosper
GUS that although he Is a rabid' free
trader himself, there will always be a
republican senate there to see that the
tariff is not tinkered with to any great
extent.-Cincinnat Commercial Trib-
une.
UEx-Gov. Hogg. Of Texas, In address,
ing the democratic convention Of that
state said that Roosevelt has done
much for this country in busting three
Of the greatest trusts" Hogg calls Park
er "the lockjaw judge" Certainly the
symptoms of some tenacious disease are
manifest in the democratic campaign
Troy IN. " Times.
ryCol. G. 8. Matson, Of Greencastle,
Ind, who recently declared in an inter-
view that there Is no possible chance
of the democrats carrying Indiana" Is
leading democrat Of the state. He was
the democratic nomine for governor In
1888. He formerly represented his dis
trict as democratic authority IN and on
Indiana.
JEx-Judge Parker pronounces the
democratic platform admirable. Mr..
Bryan says Mr. Parker's speech of &C.
ceptance Is admirable. The incident
will close when somebody expresses the
proper amount Of admiration for Mr.
Bryan. Chicago Tribune.
DNot 90 badly on after all. Wage
increase since 1895, 1876 per cent In
crease in cost of living, 15.5 per cent
That cheerful optimist, Col. Carroll D.
Wright, can always be relief upon to
prove to us with figures that we are Q
little farther away from the wolf or the
bowvows than ever before in the his
tory OF the race. Boston Transcript
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27

THE ferry-boat, ''Rappah annock,"
had an experience In the winter
of 1873 that will never be forgotten by
any Of her passengers.
During one of her regular trips be-
tween New York and Brooklyn this
boat suddenly quilted her respectable,
though somewhat monotonous, career,
and became a common tramp, without
port or destination.
The day awoke in fog such as the
oldest inhabitant had never seen. The
East river was blocked with ice and
soon became a shrieking bedlam Of
cropping and bewildering craft, whose
pilots could scarcely see their hands
before their faces. On
At half past nine the "Rappahan-
mock" left Brooklyn, well laden with
passengers. and started on her GUS
tomary trip almost directly across the
rivera very short and unusually easy
voyage. Before even reaching the mid
die of the stream, however, the ice
and fog had thrown her completely
out of her course. Back and forth, up
and down stream, the pilot vainly
CROPPED, amid the shrieking whistles,
ringing of fog bells, and loud crash Of
fee boulders, until. in the confused
clangor, he had entirely lost his bear
fngs.
When, after long and perilous bat
Ting with ice jams and many hair
breadth escapes from collisions, he sud-
denly sighted the landing place on the
New York side, he found 1t occupied
by sister boat, which had been driven
there to avoid destruction. He backed
out, only to be lost again, and for
three hours this boat, now become q
mere tramp, wandered aimlessly up
and down the East river with its load
of excited passengers, whose emotions
ranged anywhere between the rage
and impatience of the belated Wall
Street speculator, to whom the delay
might mean loss Of $4,000, to the
hysteria OF q nervous little woman
who had left her baby at home, and
who begged the other helpless passen-
gers for the love Of Heaven to help
her set her feet once more on land.
Between these two extremes Of I'm
patience and excitement was q small
proportion Of passengers who remained
calm, even endeavoring to whil6 away
the time by exchanging Iea4antries
and making wagers - to the Time Of
their deliverance Among th@se was
group Of men in the cabin wl}o, after
having read and rsread the Rornius
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
The LETTER FROM MOTHER.

Rip and snip and fiutter and fiirt-
The morning mail is in;
The typewriter's rack-tack right and left
With brusque. staccato din.
Order and tally. statement and bill,
Credit. receipt and dun;
He slaps them open with hasty hand,
Asserting them one by one.
Respected Gentlemen" "Honored Sirs,"
Formal and SNUG and trite,
Empty phrases of business life
To start the letters right
Sincerely yours" and with respect"
"Obedient servant" too!
Satire tucked to a rebate claim
Or angry threat to sue.
Down through the thick of the stack he
goes
With the business snarl on his brow;
There Is never smile in a postman's
bag
You'd imagine, to look at him now.
But under a letter of formal cut
And sickly commercial hue,
Here Is missive trinity plump,
With envelope honest blue.
And he opens the flap with a careful
hand,
He pushes the others by:
The faltering lines and the faded ink
He studies with softened eye.
There's truth In the words. My precious
boy" Isl
For they're penned by a mothers hand,
And there's something else between the
lines
His heart can understand.
Forgetting the cares Of the business day
And the roar from the city's throat.
His thoughts go back to the farm the
He reads what mother wrote:
1--WE are well, and your fathers smart,
He's down In the woods to-day;
Tell Joe I'm filling the wood-shed up
He said as he went away.
ASK him II ever he's found a spot
That's quite so cozy and snug q
AS the corner In front OF our fireplace
With his back on the braided rug?
Tell him there's plenty Of birch and
beech
That's laundering now to burn,
And lots of things in the bins down.
stairs
Waiting for his return
I've had fine luck with all preserves
And all Of my pickles, too.
The house is full Of the smell of spice!
Snin hard at this paper" True!
He closed his eyes on the office walls,
And the perfume the letter brings
Whispers Of Jars on the cellar shelves
And apples in festooned strings.
he scents the SAVIOR of autumn fields
And the fragrance of heaped-up mows,
The spicy waftings from cellar bins
And the dewy breath of cows.
Then down at the end there's the same
sweet thrill
He found in the words above:
Come when you can. precious boy.
From mother, with all her love-"
And somehow the tasks OF the busy day
Are full of snarls and frets:
His thoughts are slow, and things move
wrong,
He blunders and he forgets.
For the call of home is In his ears.
In his eyes the old home place;
In his heart the yearning for two old
folks
Who are longing to see his face.
And he heaps on his wondering partners
desk
The whole Of the business pile. ~
you must run II week, old man. he
says;
I'm down with the folks awhile"
Holman +. Day, in Youths Compan-
ion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
NO RING TO HIS KEYNOTE
Judge Parker's Speech Of Acceptance
Does Not Define Single Issue
Of Importance.

Judge Parker has failed dismally. The
sphinx of Esopus has spoken-and has
said nothing. The democratic candidate
for the presidency was presented with
great occasion, and he failed to rise to it.
His speech of acceptance disappoints
his friends, pleases his political oppo-
nents and perplexes everyone. 1t lacks
vigor, life, point-everything in short
that appeals to the coursing red blood
Of the average American citizen.
It was naturally expected that after
his emphatic injection Of gold into the
democratic platform Candidate Parker
would seize the first public opportunity
to brace up few other planks that the
st. Louis convention left too weak to
bear the weight Of man big enough to
fill the chief executives chair; but Judge
Parker seems to have exhausted his
bracing qualities in that one effort.
When before has a democratic presi-
Dental candidate failed to make an
issue Of the tariff? At no point are the
great political parties so clearly divided
as here, yet what does Judge Parker do
with this question? He favors "a rea-
sonable reduction Of the tariff" and
then frankly admits that even should
the people return a democratic con-
gress and democratic president next
November that congress and that presi-
dent would be absolutely powerless to
change single item in the tariff sched-
ule without the assistance or consent Of
a republican senate.
Coming to the question of the future
Of the Philippines, he says: 1T is diff
cult to understand how any citizen Of
the United States. much less descend
ant of revolutionary stock, can tolerate
the thought of permanently denying the
right Of self-government to the Fill
pinos." Then he adds that the response
bility which has come to us in the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines will be best
subserved by preparing the islanders as
rapidly as possible for self-government
and giving to them the assurances that
It will come as soon as they are reason
ably prepared for It." This is exactly
what the republican platform advances
and what President Roosevelt advo-
Gated in his speech of acceptance.
On reciprocity and the "open door" as
trade policies Judge Parker is mute.
On both of these most important ques-
tions the republican platform and the
republican candidate are emphatic. In
short, on every point which might be
made or really is an issue in this cam
paign Judge Parker is either silent or
so judicially noncommittal that no in
telligent person can follow him.
From first to last, says the Chicago
Post, the democratic candidate does not
give his party single clearly defined,
concrete political issue. He does not
advance single argument to convince
the voters that his election and the
success Of his party this year would be
for the benefit of the country. In his
1000 words of careful avoidance of de-
finiteness we have vague sense of ex-
IRENE conservatism .clouded here and
there by touch Of radicalism, and a
rather lively impression that he did as
well, perhaps, as a wavering candidate
could do on a wabbly platform.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
About the sIse of IL.

tits no trouble at all to get mar
ried," remarked the girl with the new
engagement ring.
"Of course, 1t isn't" rejoined her
married lady friend, with sigh long
drawn out. The trouble doesn't begin
until the honeymoon ends. Chicago
Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
Fault Lies with the South.

II the south finds deep sentiment In
the north against its excessive represent
tation in the house and the electoral col
lege It has itself to blame. Everywhere
else the country divides on questions
of government, of financial and eco
nomic policy. The south refuses to con-
slider these questions and votes solidly
for a party ticket on issues having moth
Ing whatever to do with matters Of gen.
eral government. The situation Is such
that whenever band Of radicals up
north get control of the democratic Saa-
chinery and launch policies men7cYng
the country the south votes solidly With
them, even when the southern senti-
ment is wholly opposed to the platform
offered. -Kansas City Journal.
DMr. 1xggart would like to have 1t
understood that, while he IL thankful
for encouragement and good advice, he
can use certified checks and currency to
better advantage Chicago Chronicle.
OThe tainest and dullest speech OF
acceptance by candidate Of great par
ty which has been delivered in gen.
GRAFTON Is that which comes to the coun-
try from Esopus. From beginning to
end the whole affair Of the notification
was prosy and perfunctory. Neither the
MOTHERS nor the notified seem to have
had heart in the work. II Is hard to tell
from the judges address which side hs
Is oIi.--st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27

IL really thought you were on the
path Of reformation" said the South
wark stipendiary recently, more In
sorrow than in anger, when he once
again fined Michael Quirk for inebrie-
ty. "Oh, no, sir" responded the mat
ter-of-fact Quirk. Il have just come
from Shoreham. London Chronicle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
No Wonder he Il Rich.

"Mr. Jones'" said the millionaire.
Eyes. SIR" answered the private Sec
rotary.
Here are so begging letters. AM
swer them all with refusal"
"Yes, sir"
"And you will observe that every
one has q satmp inclosed for re-
ply" w
Eyes, SIR"
"well. answer them on postni
cards. STRAY Stories.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-08-27
! THE UN1URNED TRUMP /
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
By Barnes Macgreggor.

4se K x x a 4 x 4 x
Copyright, 1885, by The Shortstory Pub
fishing Company. All rights reserved.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
NATURES DOCTORS.
Ho" the Adirondack Mcmnt.:ne..
Fights Bodily Ills.

Ho" the Adirondack Mcmnt.:n.-.
Fights Bodily Ills.
''When the Adirondack native be-
comes afflicted with any of the nu-
merous triiling ills which make
mankind wretchcd," said the return
ed visitor to New York Herald re-
porter, che does not waste much
time on doctors, but goes straight tc
the woods OK the attic for natures
own remedies. There is one old
man whom | have met with pack
basket on shoulder and shears and a
rough board stool in his mittened
hands, going after yarrow, which,
dried, is the standby for coughs
when it has been made into a wick
ed looking brew. Fir balsam, coax
ed drop by drop from the blisters
which swell on the balsam fir at full
moon, is a sovereign remedy for
chest and lung complaints.
Gravel weed, by which name
they insult trailing arbutus, is ex-
cellent for the complaint which
gives it its name, and bladder root
has desirable effect on the kidneys
and neighboring organs. Sage tea,
containing little summer savory,
is efiicacious for worms in children,
for which belmonia, also stepped, is
also used. Sunfover seeds, also
stepped, strained and s,veetened with
molasses, will cure the whooping
cough. Horseradish leaves wilted
and bound on the face and back Of
the neck, will drive away neuralgia,
and nutmeg, bored and tied
around the neck, will keep it away.
The nutmeg must be renewed about
once every six weeks.
"Onions, sliced, pounded and
placed in a cloth and laid over the
affected part, will draw out inflam-
nation. A red onion, halved and
with one part slightly scooped out
and the cup placed over q carbuncle
or boil; will speedily remove the
pus and has saved life.
"There are many more of these
simple remedies in the North woods
pharmacopeia which the wise ones
have at their fingere' ends, and if
they are not more widely used and
money kept in the ove-ails of the
thrifty native it is because a leni-
ent and more fortunate fate pre-
sides over the incomes of the Adj
rondack medicos."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16

A polite person is one who
doesn't let others know what he
thinks of them.
- Teach q boy to know himself
and stop feeding him on the stuff
dreams are made Of.
When woman weeps scalding
tears some man is going to find him
self in hot water.
- The average woman has o poor
head for figures when she comes to
figuring her age.
- Unless man is capable of in
venting excuses he should remain in
the bachelor GLASS.
- Ohio has just lost her champion
iazy-man. He died Of starvation be-
cause eating made his jaws tired
Chicago News.
- A bachelor is known by the COM
pany he keeps and a married man by
the clothes his wife wears.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
Looking For His House.

One evening John Scott (Lord
Eldon) had been dipping rather too
deeply into the convivial bowl with
q friend in Queen street, Edinburgh,
and on emerging into the open air
his intellect became in consider
able degree confused, and, not being
able to distinguish objects with any
degree of certainty, he thought him
self in fair way of losing the road
to his house in Picardy place. In
this perplexity he espied some one
coming toward him, whom he stop
ped with this query:
"D'ye ken whaur John Scott
bides?"
"Where's the use O you speiring
that question said the man.
"You're John Scott himself"
'I ken that" answered John,
sFbut it's no himself that's wanted !;
it's his hoosei" i"-London Answers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
The Old Master.

1t was Mary's day out, and she
was comparing notes with Susan,
the parlor maid from No. G..
$50 I 'ear you've left that art
ist's," said Susan.
eyes, hindeed," remarked Mary.
81 couldn't stand the missus' him
suits. I 'adn't been there a day
when she says to me, Mary she
says, when you're a-dustin' of the
stoodio you must be very careful not
to touch the old master. It's worth
thousands of pounds she says.
swell, that got my monkey up
something proper. sHexcuse me,
ma'am,' / says, but I amt used to
hinsults. I've got young man of
my own, and I don't want any old
master, not if e was worth millions,
and as to touchin' i'm, I wouldn't t
sile my hands, I says. And with
that I cocks up my 'ead and walks
out." t."-London Globe.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
THE ESKIMO BATH.
IL Would Probably Kill Any White Boy
Who Tried IT,

Boys who make fuss because
their parents obligc them to take
frequent baths should be glad they
are not Eskimo children, living on
the shores Of Norton sound. In
that cold region of Alaska all the
boys are obliged to take sweat
bath every week, and this bath is
no joke.
A fire of driftwood is built in the
center of the floor of the kashim
(the one roomed house where the
men and boys of village pass most
of their time), and when the smoke
has passed off and the wood is re-
duced to red, glowing Goals cover
is put over the smoke hole in the
roof, and the place becomes intense
ly hot.
The boys then must take off their
clothes and sit about the furnace
like apartment until their skin be-
comes us red US the shell Of u boiled
lobster and seems on the point Of
blistering.
Owing to the intense heat the
bathers are obliged to wear rcspira-
tors to protect their lungs. These
respirators are pads of shavings
bound together, concave on the in
side and convex on the outside and
large enough to cover the mouth,
nose and part of the cheeks of the
wearer.
Across the inside runs little
wooden bar, which is held in the
teeth to keep the respirator in
place.
The boys sit there until they are
dripping with perspiration. Then
they rush outside into the intense
cold and roll in the snow.
Mr.. e. w. Nelson, who spent be-
tween four and five years in inyesti-
eating for the government the Es-
kimos living about Bering strait,
says, "On several occasions I saw
them 60 from the sweat bath to
holes in the ice on a neighboring
stream and, squatting there, pour
ice water over their backs and shoul-
ders with a wooden dipper, appar-
emily experiencing the greatest
pleasure from the operation"
Although the Eskimo boys seem
to withstand such bath as this all
right and even to enjoy it, it would
in all probability kill any white boy
who tried it.-Detroit News Trib-
une
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
Painful Situation.

The train on which the distinguish
ed citizen was travelling for tho pur.
pose of fulfilling lecture engagement
was late, and he arrived at his desti-
nation only an hour two before the
time appointed for the meeting, says
the Chicago Tribune.
He went straight to the hotel and
was shown up to his room. He was
tired and dusty. "Boy," he said +,
"bring me O whisk."
The boy went to execute the mis-
zion, and few minutes later com
mittee from the local society under
whose auspices he was to appear call
ed upon him in his room. He was
comforting with the committee when
the boy returned, bearing tray con-
tanning glass Of water and small
glass with red liquid in it.
whats this?" he demanded.
cts the whiskey you ordered !,
SIR
II didn't order any whiskey!" he
gasped. II ordered vhisk brooml'
But every member Of the commit
tee representing the Turkeyville Total
Abstinence society, will believe to hi 8
dying day that the distinguished leo
turer got exactly what he had ordered
on that occasion.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16

- When girl knows she is hand
some she does not object to having her
picture taken in group.
Nothing is more likely to arouse
the ire of spinster than the sight Of
an orange tree in full bloom.
= When dumb man doesn't want
to be interview :lhe has to do is to
put his hands in n,s pockets.
Lots of girls would marry for the
sake of tho new outfit required for the
wedding if for no other reason.
- The most successful trained nurse
is the one who succeeds in marrying
her wealthiest patient.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
FIERCE ALPINE EAGLES.
They Are Ea7oo;ous ~ TTi.eir Attacks
on Wayfarers.

--'-< tStaCkS
on Wayfarers.
The Maritime Alps of eastern
France have been noted as being the
haunt of the most ferocious and
powerful breed of eagles in exist
ence.
Children innumerable have been
carried off by them, and they even
attack adults on occasions, some
times with dire results.
A postman named Gustave Silva,
who carried the mails on foot be-
tween the villages of Sospello and
Puget Theniers, was set upon while
crossing the pass by three large
birds anL frightfu!ly injured.
He managed to drive off his wing
ed assailants with the aid of his
alpenstock and eventually reached
his destination with his bag of let
ters. But his case was from the
first regarded as hopeless by the
local doctors, and after lingering in
indescribable agony for six days he
succumbed to his wounds.
Meanwhile two young French
tourists, Messrs. Joseph Monand
and Antoine Neysscl, went up into
the mountains to try to kill the
birds that had done the damage
and were savagely attacked in their
turn. Both men were armed, but
the sudden onslaught of the huge
winged creatures completely un-
neryed them, and after firing only
one shot they tried to escape by
running.
The birds, however, struck them
down ere they had gone many yards,
and they would have doubtless been
both torn to pieces where they lay
but for the opportune arrival of a
party of shepherds.
These succeeded in rescuing Mr..
Neyssel alive, but terribly injured.
he having sustained no fewer than
ten severe wounds in the head and
back, besides innumerable minor
lacerations ard abrasions.
His companion, Mr.. Monand, was
killed outright early in the fray.
Mr.. Neyssel recovered after six
weeks in bed, but is disfgured for
ife.-Stray Stories.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
He Didn't Have 70 Prove ls.

One day a stranger stepped off
the train at Hopkins and said to a
man on the depot platform, "Can
you tell me who is the best lawyer in
this town." 'I am" replied the
man on the platform without hest
tation. The stranger seemed some
what disconnected by this display of
egotism and gently said, excuse
me, sir, but I should like to have
yo'i grove it." 'Don't have to prove
it, sir" answered the man on the
platform. "I admit it. I'm the
only lawyer il this town, sir" And
Immediately the stranger got law
yer and the lawyer got a CLIENT
Kansas City Journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
sweeshears Abbey.

There is in Galloway, Scotland,
an ancient ruin known as Sweet
heart abbey. Within its ivy color
ed. storm battered walls lies buried
the affectionate and devoted Der
gorvil, with the heart of her hus-
band, John Baiol, embalmed upon
her breast. Lovely in their lives, in
death they are not divided. The
crumbling masonry is still and must
ever be a romance in its symbols Of
death and decay, telling every day,
as it has for 600 years, the thrilling
story Of woman's tender love and
devotion.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-16
Modern.

The fairy godmother was about
to touch the pumpkin with her
wand.
ooh, dear frstcausemother," In
terposed Cinderella, who had be-
come imbued with sundry modern
ideas, 'no coach, if you please. The
prince is only man, after all, and
the way to a mans heart is through
his stomach. Turn the pumpkin
into a pie and leave me to pretend 7
made it all myself"
But hereupon it transpired that
the forces of magic were not with
out their Gmitations.-Puck.