American Citizen, The (Newspaper) - December 2, 1893, Ironwood, Michigan THE British purists are demanding i government aid in stumping out the social evil in It would lie much more to the point if these re formers would get to work right at home in and still more so if theyd begin by reforming the Prince of Wales and a few members of the Worse evils exist in Bel now come to the relief of women made friends of all who have partaken their which was a3 broad as their great They raised the money for the build ing themselves the men had nothing to do with They paid the running and they did the hon ors in a style second to no other State represented in Jackson They won the respect and goodwill of all their and they did more to advertise their State than all the of and widemouthed poli between and El If the men of Texas do not these pub gravia than are dreamt of in SPANISH blood is up over the heavy losses in and we shall see her landing an army of sixty or seven ty thousand men in Africa ere Perhaps the once well lodged in will decline to come out unless something handsome is offered The ces sion of for might tempt them to yield the ground won in Morocco to the trans action which would greatly annoy It might be to carry out while a French and Russian fleet is cruising near THE methods of some New York bankers could not have been better illustrated than by one incident at tending the sale of the securities of the defunct Madison Square A block of face on which the banks de good money had been brought under the hammer the mu sum of Such revela tions as these make even the most tenderhearted man agree with the wisdom of the laws in when a bank the heads of all its officers are at once chopped energetic women they ought to be kicked across the border into Mexico and made to say GEOUGE an undersized col ored person who rejoices in the title of champion featherweight pugilist of the is entitled to the thanks of the The average prize fighter is as a a public ben and it is probable that in private is far from be ing a desirable Bui much will be forgiven him for thrash ing a party of young rowdies from Harvard College who mistook him foi a sleeping car porter and undertook to have fun with conscious of his endured the clownish antics of the students until patience ceased to bs a He then removed his spat oc his hands and sailed One young value gentleman emerged from the with a cut another bled freel from the and a third acquired a lovely black Dixon then inserted himself in his smiled and the world rolled Dixon is all More power to MORE than persons were killed upon surface railroads of all kinds in the United States during the past twelve Add to this ghastly record the two thousand crippled and maimed and the total is Of the overwhelming majority of the acci dents were on through railroad They seem to point directly to the imminent need for the adoption of some new system of What the requires is a which shall render collisions and tcl practically It is thought that the electric train signal may be the solution of the As THE Individual coal operators of eastern Pennsylvania have formed an organization for the protection of their interests in the matter of output and we may shortly expect to hear that prices have been advanced another The big coal composed of the railroads ami their coal com pany has always been very to pub up prices upon the slightest or without any pre text at This latest combination of the small fry operators will pull knot public may expect to ha robbed right and left the two trusts get as are sure to begin to mark up THAT a strict construction of the immigration laws will be beneficial to tha United States is evident from the wrath of the Canadian papers at the extra precautions taken by our to prevent the Dominion from shipping criminals and other riff rail over the The thrifty been lining his pockets with the head money exacted from Chinese and other undesirable The trade of immigrant smuggling has become so profitable that our friends across the line look upon its suppression with They feel that a remunerative industry is to be and their as a are unusually ven against this This attitude should strengthen Secretary Carlisle in his determination to bar the back door and leave the Canucks with their jailbirds and other undesirables on their It may teach them international hon esty and possibly good FOUGHT JN HOW WARRIORS WERE EQUIPPED FOR In Good Old FireArms Sulti of Mull Steel Protected the AND IEIl In Eirly From earliest time until the present century armor as a bodily protection in battle has been used by civilized anel savage nor is it yet cli s car el ed among those people where our present perfect ed small arms are virtually unknown and where hand to hand conflicts are as general as in the time of the the present century saw bodily armor put to prac tical use in notwithstanding the general adoption there of The Napoleon laid great reliance on bis cavalry protected with and the heavy cavalry of Austria and Russia wore defensive Even in the our own civil war it was sought to intro duce bulletproof waistcoats among the Federal In the very earliest times armor probably consisted of but this material soon gave way to Bronze or brass seems to have been the material used for helmets and body armor by the leading nations of AVood covered with leather or studded with wick covered with hide and some times b r o n e were the mate rials used for shields and among the Ro steel was introduced as an offensive weapon remained the material of defensive armor and the same is true of B u t little im provement w a s made in defen sive armor until the time of William TIME OP queror At that time tho Saxon warriors wore an ar mor consisting of u long tunic reach ing to the knee and made of upon which close to stout metal The Nor mans wore similar but they made their armor of actual by flexible and headpiece was made to to every The horse equally as the was pro the crest of the and rump of the animal be ing covered witli steel So greatly superior this period was the art of defense to the means of offense that it is recorded that a bat tle was fought in Italy from 9 oclock in the 4 oclock in the in which only one man was killed and As firearms became improved the use of armor and gradually died out among civilized having outlived its SUBJECT TO GOOD MISS ANNIE TEAMSTEII who killed a cook in a contractors camp on the Chicago drainage canal because breakfast was was a little too exacting and insistent for the posi tion he Only royal person ages arc exempt from an occasional and even they are not superior to time and how had nothing to complain of when he reached his quarters in the County Meals were served there with a punctuality that was edly most gratifying to It is true that the menu was not always satisfactory either as to quantity or but Dyers could still console himself with the thought that he was not interested jn the pleasures of the table very unless there arc restaurants in the New THE ramming of a Brazilian trans port by one of the warships of the rebels puts a more serious phase the difficulty that the people to the south of us have been making foi themselves about the establishment and maintenance of a In this reported drowning of troops from the transport that was sunk is the most serious thing that has happened since the revolution It is the beginning ol real the recent engagement in the harbor of Rio being far from a Letters from American officers who witnessed that event have dis closed that the rebel with the exception of the which is about the size of one of our was composed of a very sorry lot oi some of which had to be towed into position for their part in the opera bouffe attack upon the after the attack was banks and stores resumed The ramming of a transport and the drowning of enough government troops to make a regiment opens up a period of earnestness in the battle for the control of which has been commenced against President IT is difficult at this distance to see why Farmer of should be in the clutches of the On Halloween night Lot tie Glines and several other dressed in boys made night hideous in the vicinity of the Eddy The farmer sallied capturing Miss took her across his and then and there gave her a good old Massachusetts She has had him Eddy claims in his that he thought Lottie was u but why should a defense be necessary When Lottie took of her petticoats and donned trousers she wared her rights to the consideration usually accorded her She put herself on level of the horrid She went out to have she got She deserved Eddy was and he ought to be triumphantly EVERY one who visited the Texas Building at the Worlds Fair will sympathize with the ladies of the Lope Star State in the they gre now with the the The Texas IT is not always advisable for the able editor to give his readers an op to express their opinion of him freely and So long as he delivers his utterances ex cathedra and allows no one to talk he is moderately but once let him invite criticism and he is likely to moderate his The able editor of El of has discovered this In imitation of the American papers he started a series of voting He worked up en over the prettiest young lady in Then he had every one voting for the most popular po there are any policemen in Next he gave a prize for the favorite hav ing run the whole he offeree a leather medal for the meanest and ugliest man in The result was Papers sold like hot aud when the returns came in it was found that the choice had fallen unanimously upon the editor of E That it is un now denounces the voting contest as a miserable gringo device and he will in future rely upon the full accounts of the daily revolution printed in El Mercurio to boom the circulation of that valuable OP MAN AND formed of rings woven together like of a modern curb They encased their legs in hose woven of rings and a shield shaped like a Ilat Gradually mail armor gave way to plate The covering the whole face and having a door opening lat on was the part of the plate armor to lie Then plates covering the knee The Woman Who AVas to Have Carter Miss Annie of New Or who was to have become the wife of Carter late Mayor of is tho youngest ol the four children of Charles of New and his only daugh Howard was a ANNIE but went to Louisiana in 1852 and later served in the Confederate It was during the last years of the war that Miss Howard was born at She during a large part of her a decided and much of her early life was spent at her fathers home on the Hudson in New Her frail health pre vented her attendance at any of the famous but she was given every educational advantage through a corps of governesses maintained at the Northern This was by and in consequence Miss Howard is most She has been to rope half a dozen has traveled to Ho by tho Authorities an iin The experiment of paroling prison ers confined in the Massachusetts prison under the habitual crim inal act is to be tried in the case of a mnn who has served five years of his years s Warden Bridges recommended that he should be paroled on account of his good and the governor and coun in whom the power is de unanimously in favor of grant ing the Tho conditions as given by the Boston Transcript that he shall not hereafter lead an idle and dissolute life that he shall not visit any barroom or gambling house or associate with persons of bad character that he shall not violate any laws of the but shall hereafter an Industrious and law abiding Should he violate any of these conditions he will be immed taken back to there confined until the last day of the twentyfive has ex So us he obeys his condi tions he will be allowed to roam about the country at his will without in by the state He was sentenced in for breaking and entering and for the larceny of an old the property of his Having done a sentence in the New Hampshire State prison and a three years sentence in the Massachusetts he came under the habitual criminal and received a sentence of twentyfive He figured prominently in the movement in to prove the habitual criminal act Through his counsel he main that it was not according to the constitution that he should be punished for an offense for which he had served a or for some thing done before the passage of the law Neither could it be his counsel to a man the second time for the same The court decided the act to bo A GAMBLING Will tho Learn ia of tho Other 7 One of the surest devices employed by traveling fakirs at fairs and like places for winning dollars from the pockets of the unwary is known as the and this is but a form of the wheel of It is known as the haphazard or and coniss of an inner and outer the latter of placed upon a heavy circular piece of around the rim of which arc thirtytwo num bered compartments separated by thin metal The inner cone is studded vvith nails driven rather close together and projecting just about far enough to touch the outer The game consists of dropping a marble through an aperture in the top of the outer The little ball pursues a devious way to the zigzagging along between the The compartments are and if the marble falls into with the num ber on any of the prizes that aro seductively displayed near at hand the player This happens just often enough to keep the interest of the crowd from It can be at will by the DIED OF A Prisoner Expires When Told JIo Hud Secured a New The death of William Pott at the Michigan City just after he had received word that the Supreme Court had granted him a new ended one of tho most sen and cases several times entirely over the United ever brought to trial in The crime for which was States and has resided for whole sea sons in different representative sec tions of Howard usually lived with his daughter at his New York while Howard re sided in New Orleans with the It was while trying to break in a horse for his daughter to ride that Howard was thrown and killed in Since that time Miss Howard lias maintained her former mode of has been constantly traveling and has passed most of her time In the seldom spending more than a month or two in New By the death of her father six years ago Miss Howard inherited This has been judiciously and has doubtless increased notwithstanding the large inroads she has made on it In order to give to charitable and public The ladys her Frank and Harry and their families reside in New where they are leading figures in patrons especially of music and the dispensers of most lavish arid ate for which tried and convicted was the murder of his wife in She died under certain suspicious Four months after the THE for at the base of the inner cone are pegs which by an almost ble movement of the cone can be made to stand exactly over the win ning A skillful bee hive operator has said that his win had run as as a week with onj of these WHY HE Threatened to tho Um brella AND and plate shoes were and this was the outfit worn by the celebrated English Richard of the Lion In the beginning of fifteenth century complete suits of casing the wearer from head to w re Toward the close of the fifteenth anel begin ning of the sixteenth century pro plate armor reached its high est Then the whole suit was fluted the back of the neck i Tho is one house in the center of the village which b ats of two stories and looks more though not less dirty and than its neighbors this is A greasy and begrimed swing door opens into the midst of the Hero are the souls in all their glory Here we see the curse of Russia im Half a dozen are lying about the floor quite a dozen others are in varying stages of a few are still and two or three are drinking Among these last Is Abra the This man is observable among the crowd of mou jiks unlike he wears his shirt European not out side his as do the If the Russian proverb is then is not to be for the saying runs that a Russian remains honest so long as he wears his shirt outside his trousers as soon as he hides away his shirt away go the qualities of truthfulness and honesty with Stepan looks sleek and well no he for he fattens upon the substance of the All the money earned in Drevno goes one and that is into the tollers of Stepan He does not like the look of us are we secret least probable of customers We order some as an excuse for ou descent upon his and en deavor to tolerate the awful atmos phere of the place while we look Her Head Is a Bee In the town of there is a figure of the Goddes of Liberty surmounting the Capitol 300 feet above the The lady is seventeen feet with a hollow Inspection has recently di the fact that a swarm of bees have deposited their honey to the ex tent of several bucketsful in her and used her nostrils as the front that the never kills the candy burial her body was Enough strychnine was found in the stomach to cause Pettit was charged with the and shortly after a with whom he had been on intimate was also taken into The latter was shortly afterward re but Pettit was found guilty on strong circumstantial He was sent to the penitentiary for a life but ail along protested his innocence and believed that some day he would be given a new He made strenuous ef forts to secure but was Ills health had been very poor of late and in his weakened condition the joy at hav ing a new trial brought his Pettit was at one time in hia career a minister and took much in terest in church REVEREND and sis before bringing this meeting to a close I desire to say that I have discovered the erring brother who has been purloining and unless the ones lost are brought to my door by tomorrow morning I shall denounce him at our next meet ing before the entire Women It is not only in the West that women show themselves Just outside of Bos at two young women are conducting a farm in a way to win the admiration of all They are the Misses Clara and Lottie Their father died a few years and they bought the They as all the responsibility of its worked closely and have cleared off all the indebtedness they were forced to incur in They have bought new and improved farm machinery and a herd of milch They are providing a comfortable home foi their mother and Their farm consists of 100 and last year they paid out for field In Massachusetts there are SOU women exclusive of a num ber engaged in fruit and flower rais ing and it strange how the of cities differ Holmes what way for it would sound out of place to speak of running a business in York DERES a good many men front pews in de churches heah be dean bre be mighty glad to git a chance to sn ak into de last seat in de gallery wen dey go to IF there is a bigger fool than the man who cant what he saw at the Fair its the man who cant keep from telling The Reverend Fits yard the next THE earth covers the physicians Sir George After a division of the House of Parliament on a motion of Sir George who had drinking all day instead of attending to his Parliamentary insisted on addressing the begin ning with I am could proceed no When he had repeated these words seven the House was convulsed with laugh The baronet appealed to the who pleasantly inquired what he would have him Sir George grew very warm at and declared he would not up his favorite said am By the advice of he was presently prevailed after re the word a dozen times to change it to after having forgotten what he had intended to he sat In the Anthracite Anthracite coal statistics just now aro in their statement of prosperity In sections of the State nnt specially used to that sort of To the close of September and dating from January there were tons of coal mined anel marketed this as compared with the tons for All this notwithstanding the clowns aud poor demand of the sum mer The and regions figure in this summary and the difference of 349 tons in favor of this year means very much better times and pay days with lots more in them to the miner than he lias met Philadelphia
