Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — THE NEXT ONE WOULD SETTLE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEXT ONE WOULD SETTLE.

A hxport comes from Germany that the Qayernment is likely to invite France and England to co-operate in a movement to suppress the liquor t raffic on the west coast of Africa. This news lifard with concern by some rum ih&nbiacturera in our own country. Ts not he generally known that the , gre4 Centre of Culture contributes■ aboht all the liquor from our. land ; is poured down the throats of *native Africans. It iseiaid that one firm within five miles of the Massachusetts State House has a contract 4q supply 8,000 gallons of rnih a day for seven years for the African trade. This thriving business is doubtless a source o', great satisfaction to the makers of trade nxm, but we see another aspect of thajj ease in such piteous appeals as that eff Chief Khama, who, in his recent -request for' protection against the liquor e«llers, said: “I dread, tbfrwliite man’s i drink more than all the, assegais of my Ona argument that Stanley urged in favor of the Congo route to Albert Nyaqxa was that by this route he would be able to transporters goods on steamer* as far as Yambuga, and have a land march of only 4 Id. miles to the lake. I *-As it turns out, however, by the time he got his boat and all the goods he had saved from his various misfortunes to the lake, his carriers had travelled a distance of about l,47Qjmilea, which, added to the journey of 285 miles along the Congo cataracts, makes the total land march about 1.705 miles. In other words, his overland journey was about 500 miles longer than it would have been had he made an uninterrupted march from Zanzibar through Masailapd, tne route that was favored by almost every explorer except Stanley himself. Hindsight is apt to be more accurate than foresight, but from ttie first it has been thought by some of the best authorities that Stanley * made. a mistake in his choice of route. —New York Sun.

One oCxhe Customs That Tramp PrinteTw-AlwfiyaJLrVe Up To. Chicago Mail. ‘Yon had something to say a short time a’go about the suspicion with which boarding house keepers regard printers,” said a typesetter on a morning paper. “It reminds me of a printer named Jack Robinson I ran across out in lowa a number of years ago before I married and settled down. He told me of an experience fttjhis which I think is unique. He said he arrived in Des Moines one day with a trifle over $5 in money about him, and finding the prospect good for - work, asked one of the boys at the office to direct him to a boarding house. He caHed at the address furnished, talked with the landlord, aglgcted his room and agreed on terms. Finally the old man asked what bis business was. He said he was a printer, whereupon the old man threw up both hands. “ ‘That settles it,’ he said; ‘you can't get in this house.’ “ ‘Why not?’ asked Robinson. “ ‘Never mind, you can’t get into this house. I wouldn’t have you here under any circumstances. Get out’ ‘•‘But, look here!’ said Robinson. ‘What kind of a deal is this? What have printers ever 4one to you that you should treat one of them, who is a perfect stranger to you, in this sort of style?’ “ ‘l’ll tell you,’ said the old man. ‘A printer came here, engaged board with me, and skipped at the end rdf the first week. That’s all. I don’t want any more.’ s. “ ‘How much did he owe you?* “ ‘Five dollars.’ “‘Well, that’s all right; you don’t understand. It’s a custom among printers to do that oqce in a while, and the next fine that happens along squares it. Here,’ and he handed out $5, which the old man gratefully accepted with the most profuse apologies for being unacquainted with one of the customs in vogue among traveling printers. “For the next two weeks Robinson paid his board promptly, making sls which he had turned into the old man’s coffers. The next week he went to the landlord and said: “I want to buy some clothes and fix myself up, and I’m just sls short. If you’ll let me have it I’Ll start in next week paying it back, and won’t hate to buy my stuff piecemeal.’ “The landlord thought pretty well of him by this time, and readily loaned him the sls. Robinson then bought his clothes and other truck, and a day or so after he bought a railroad ticket to another town and quietly departed,leaving this note to his landlord: ‘“l’m gone. The next printer that comes along will settle. Jugt tell him hew much it is. Good-by.’ “I reckon that that old man never could be brought to think that there was a printer anywhere alive that was any good.” A mechanical paper calls attentiqn to the fact that the combination of sawdust and flour, or sawdust and starch, sometimes recommended for covering steam or hot air pipes, is very combustible.