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WHEN the prohibition law was nullified in Iowa by the introduc tion of “original packages,” fifteen thousand places, it is estimated, were open to sell liquor; within a week after the President signed the original package bill, these places were nearly all closed. Does prohibi tion ‘prohibit?—[ Fairmount Times. Or, in the light of the above facts why not ask, does it require third party prohibition to prohibit? An exchange in speaking of a class of individuals which — every town has, says: “Honest men have very little respect for a man who will not pay his honest debts. When a man repudiates his own ob ligations that were made in good faith, he has taken a step that he can itlll afford to make and the act will follow him while he lives and will be a stigma that will retard his success no matter how hard he may strive. We have a few individuals in our midst who have done _ this who will feel its effects; for a confi dence once abused is very hard to regain and honest men will shun their society. A man should con sider well before making such a mistake and men with honest in tentions need never do so.” Garrett Clipper: We notice that many people are yet killing the English sparrows, and boys with a sling-shot will run a block to get a whack at one. Dr. Allen, of Au burn, is not an admirer of the little bird, but he is rather a friend to them. His fine residence is sur rounded with trees and shrubbery and the sparrows have a comforta ble home as well the Dr. and his wife. Recently his attention was called to an army of these birds in his cabbage patch and he watched their movements closely. They would work through and under the leaves of the vegetable and finally emerge with a green worm in their mouth. If the English sparrow will exterminate cabbage worms, there should be a law against killing them instead of slaughtering the little things with everything that will shoot, cut or explode. Cabbage worms smile at Paris green and it is hard to tell what kind of a caper they go through in a fellow’s belly while working out of a sauerkraut dinner in the winter season. Give the English sparrows another chance. Letter From Our Ex-Type.: The following letter was not written for publication but as the writer promised to send a commun ication to the Gazette and has not yet done so we will print this to punish him for his negligence, and then if his Mentone girl goes back on him for “gassing with the lady type-writer” we cant help it. Ordon has lots of ‘friends in this Vicinity who “will be glad to’ read a letter from him and to know that he is so well pleased with his new situation. Chicaco, Itx., Sept., 12, 790. Mr. C. M. Swars Mentone, Ind., Dear Sir.—As we are ‘fixed and settled” in our new home, I will give you,a little idea of how we found things. ‘The factory, where I work is at the corner of Fifth Avenues and South Water streets, on the river bank, at the Wells street bridge. My office, (I call it “my office” be cause I have sole control of this part of the business,) is the fourth floor, and I am the only person on this floor. The work I have is job com position, and locking up forms. They allow only wooden quoins to be used and I had some “fun” at first in making lockups. I have plenty of room to “spread’’,as we have 140 cases of job type, each case averaging three fonts. There are also eight cases of body type, one complete case of leads and slugs, two cases of labor saving brass rule, borders, furniture, etc., in profusion.. There are now 101 forms standing and I guess this is about the average. We have elec troplates of all sizes, and of every thing, four or five of them 3: ‘by 4 feet in size. To simply set the matter, take a proof, (of which the sheet en closed is my first) send the proof to the office, get it “OK,” then send it to the foreman, and he calls for the form when he wants it. There are two speaking tubes, one to the office and one to the press room. I get to ‘oas’’ with the lady type writer through the tube once in a while. The whole factory occupies two floors, the office and press room be ing on the third floor and the job and stock rooms on the fourth. There are about 25 hands employed in the whole factory, about 15 of them being girls. Seven presses are kept busy all the time. Sherm and I room together away out on Loomis St. We ride up and back on the cable cars. I like my job “bunkum-squint” and if I ever come back to Mentone to live it won't be my fault. Everything is “biz” here, from the boot blacks up. Well, it is about time to “blow out the gas,’’ so will close. Very truly yours, G. W. Mippteron, 210-216 S. Water St., Chicago, Ill. “THE DICKENS.” Charles Dickens was perhaps the most popular story writer that ever lived, and any person who makes any pretensions to a knowledge of literature must be acquainted with the world renowned and popular “Dickens Works.” This famous author was born at Landport, Ports mouth, England, in the year 1812. He was educated for the profession of the law, but he soon abandoned it for literary work which he found more congenial to his tastes. Every student of literature is famil iar with the captivating “Pickwick Papers,” “Nicholas Nickelby,” “Oli ver Twist,” David Copperfield,” “Dombey and Son,” “Or Mutual Friend,” and all the others. The Edinburg Review says: ‘One of the qualities we most admire in him is his comprehensive spirit of human ity. The tendency of his writings is to make us practically benevolent, to excite our sympathy in behalf of the aggrieved and suffering in all classes.” Dicken’s complete works consists of twelve large volumes published at a price, when bound in cloth, ranging from $5.00 to $50.00, but we have made arrangements with a large publishing house by which we can furnish the entire set of twelve volumes in attractive paper covers, in connection with the GazETTE one year,for only $1.75. We have decided to offer this splendid premium until December 1, thus giving all our subscribers a chance to add this popular set of books to their libra ries. Remember, the GAZETTE one year and a full set of Dickens for $1.75. Eatonville, Florida, is populated entirely by colored people, not a single citizen of the “white trash” order within its limits. The Eaton ville Herald, one of our regular and valued exchanges, is a spicy paper; in fact the aroma frequently par takes strangely of horse poetry and bay rum, as witness the following clippings from its local column: “The busy bees will sting the drones from their hive. “If you don’t want us to step on your coins, keep them out of the way: ‘Better bend than break, and bet ter not than take and eat your en emies cake. “We have a mayor with two feet less than what common mares gener ally have, and this tail is a good deal shorter. “sOld Red Tom’ is on the line, and lets nobody take their time; and dear little “Johnnie” is a smart little son “me, and if you gets by him we’ll call you a “bunny.’ “Some people say: that the best’ way to keep beefsteak from spoiling, is to keep it on ice im the shade. But the market mall says the best way to’ keep it from spoiling is to’ keep it on its feet in the woods. “That little furnace-mouthed, boil er-skulled, flue-eared, cistern-bodied, bow legged and arrow-tongued fellow has hit the grit since the “police has been watching him . So the rat has’ ‘Smelled’the cat, hunttel and found a crack, and humpped and made tracks. “When an individual becomes so unrighteous, as to let his temper arise to such a degree until he cannot con trol his tongue, and cannot console himself without uttering unbecoming expressions, it is then that his pocket book, become so hol(e)y that it’ wastes about five or ten dollars in the city treasury. ‘Some of our houses are so small that when the old man come in from chopping wood to his dinner, he can lay down in the middle of the floor with his head out of the front door, and send the children around to the back door steps to grind his ax on his heel, while he smokes his pipe’ and take a good nap. “Two individuals thought them selves very great skeemers and were caught and fined ten dollars for their misdemeanors. One hopped the win dow to make escape, but just hopped about three minutes a little too late, when before her eyes to her great surprise, stood Red Tom upon whom she couldn’t see a bit of flies, then her mate seeing her pitiful state, thought it entirely useless to longer wait. So without hesitation he made presentation of himself to account for his mournful fate. “Mr. John Shannon informs us that someone was so obliging as to impru dently relieve him of a razor during his absence. And I, Wide-awake, wish to inform the individul who has shown so much sympathies for Mr. Shuman, that he has in custody an uncontrolable piece of property. I knew that razor at Ufeekeena Cros sing, which lacks about three-quarters of a mile of being a half mile on the other side of Bucklin’s Hammock. It has been taken once before by a fellow by the name of Badluck, who tried to share with it and it became offended with his tough beard and cut off his nose as smooth as a look ing glass.Badluck then dropped the razor and it went through a crack in the floor and fell among a bunch of pine rooters that were accustomed to sleeping under the house and shaved an old sow and seventeen pigs as clean as a fishing pole, and cut off their tails, and marked them a smoothe split and underbit in the ear, and a swallow fork and overbit in the loft. It kept the baby’s head as bald as a greased gourd the whole time it stay ed, and the only good it done old Bad luck was that it frightened his wife so bad while she was cooking until she dropped her false teeth in the saucepan, which caused the stove explode while she had her back tur ned and tore her bustle all to flinders. CHARLES DICKENS.
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Mentone Gazette
Mentone, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 20, 1890
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