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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13
An Apache Running Down a Deer.

When sufficiently near the hunter
takes his aim; and, making slight
noise with his foot on the ground, which
causes the deer to turn toward him, has
a good chance to hit it i'm the middle of
the forehead. But if he misses the mark,
or his gun misses fire, then the fun begins
in, earnest, and one of the finest races'in
the world can be Witnessed naked
Indian and a frightened deer at full
speed. If the deer should happen to be
not more than year old, it is of no use
following it, as It win then outrun any
Indian, and run longer without giving
out, but if two or three years old, or
older, good runner viii bring It down
in few hours, or certainly within fifty
or sixty miles. (The narrator, Jose
Mendivil, here insists that q good runner
among the Apaches can run one hundred
and twenty-five miles in twenty-four
hours easily) The deer starts ut full
speed, making long leaps of from ten, TO
thirty feet. At first he gains rapidly on
the Indian, but the latter follows, every
now and then uttering frghtful yells,
but never for a moment hating or losing
the trail. The deer, when out of sight,
halts and looks back, but soon his
pursuer comes in sight, when he bounds
on with longer leaps than at first; finally
he makes for water, a spring or stream,
and when be gets there halls and drinks
all he wants. Now there is no hope for
him, for after he drinks he cannot run
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13

so fast or leap 30 far. Pretty soon the
Indian comes in sight again. while the
tired deer rests q moment, but the tired
hunter never halts to drink. not II his
mouth is rs dry as ashes, for by so doing
he not only looses time, but cannot run
SO fast afterward. On he goes, never
resting, either on the hill or on the
mountain. II the deer takes TO the top
of the highest mountain, right on his
track the Apache follows. BY and by
the Indian sees blood stain on q rock.
where the deer has stumbled and skinned
his knee or struck his nose. He knows
now the race will soon be ended, and
runs faster than at first, while the deer
loses ground every minute. When the
deer sees the Apache close upon him he
stops suddenly by rock or bush, and
turns. Sometimes rs soon as he stops
he drops down fsinting, or even dead
from fatigue. II not dead already, when
the Indian seizes him by the head and
hind legs, he makes but little resistance.
and is dispatched with the knife. The
hunter now cuts out fine piece and
eats it, taking not q moments rest for
fear of getting stiff, but puts the deer on
his shoulders, or, IL too heavy. q part Of
it. placing the rest in . secure place.
and then trots back to his camp, having
travelled perhaps hundred miles with
out resting. The next day some one
will take his back-track for the balance
Of the game.-San Francisco Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13

brighter sunshine, and that If, as sserna
highly probable, she is inhabited, the In
habitants are very like ourselves.
Mercury, which is yet nearer the sun
than Venus is, on that account, difficult
to find except at certain favorable periods.
He shows the same phases as Venus on
smaller scale. Very high mountains,
1t Is believed, have also been seen in
Mercury. If he has inhabitants it has
been conjectured that, on account, of
their proximity to the sun, they must
possess the heat-enduring powers of
salamanders. -aa s.srs =, -.
Mars, which is the next planet outside
the earth, is, in some respects, the most
interesting of all. 1t does not require a
very large telescope to show the cont.
nents and oceans that variegate his sur.
face and the patches of snow about his
poles which wax and wane with the sea.
sons. With the aid of map of Mars the
possessor of good telescope may spend
many hours in the delightful, task of
locating the lands and seas of this dis
tant planet, which it does not require a
great stretch of the imagination to pict-
ure dotted with cities and fleets. 1t
should be said that some astronomers,
arguing from Mars's planetary age, say
that his inhabitants, if any are left, must
be beings inferior to ourselves. A power
of one hundred and fifty on three inch
telescope will show Mars's polar snow
caps. With a power. of two hundred
and fifty or three hundred, the principal
lands and seas may be identified in good
weather, and when the planet is favora.
bly, situated in his orbit. Vast masses
of clouds are sometimes seen Obscuring
the details of the disk, and hiding whole
continents, as the continents of the earth
would be hidden, during long continued
and widespread rains, from an observer
on Mars. The remarkable rudy color
of Mars has been referred by some to
the color of his soil, as if it were like the
red sand of northern New Jersey. Others
have thought that Martial vegetation
may be red instead of green. Sill others
have supposed the color to be due to
the density of the planets atmosphere
The asteroids, or small planets, of
which over two hundred have been dis
covered, are too minute to be of much
interest to the amateur telescopist, some
OF them being only a few miles in
diameter. The huge planets Uranus
and Neptune, which stand like sentinels
on the frontiers of the solar system, and
require more. than a mans lifetime to
make a single revolution around the
sun, are SO far away that the most
powerful telescopes in existence have
not served to clearly reveal their giant
features, and the glasses of amateurs
can do no more than barely distinguish
them from fixed stars.-N. Y. San.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13

tanned within caused the walls of the
cells to become stiff. There were other
ways, too, in which this stiffness was
obtained, the water getting into the text
ure OF the woody stuff and stiffening il
as water stiffened sailcloth. This state OF
things existed also in the pith, and each
cell, being over-filled with water, was
forever trying to lengthen itself. Some
of the results of these conditions in
the plant were then explained by
the use of two pieces of spiral spring,
and for a more familiar example
the audience were referred to the
effect of splitting a dandelion stem.
Each half curled over outward because
the more elastic pith, trying to lengthen
itself, was prevented from expanding on
one side by the less elastic bark. With
two pieces of spiral spring in linen tube
it was next explained how, when the
pressure of water in the cells in the two
halves of the pith was not equal, the stem
didnot grow straight. Not that plants
bent accidentally or ina purposeless man
ner. On the contrary, when the plant
bent it was with some distinct and useful
object. To the explanation of this point,
the rest Of the lecture was directed The
direction and forms which the root and
stem of a young growing plant might
take were happily illustrated with piece
of whitened lead pipe of small bore put
through cork, which did duty for the
bean. A great many theories had been
offered to account for the fact that the
root always tried to grow toward, and
the stem away from the center of earth.
Having related Andrew Knight ingen-
ious experiment with revolving wheel,
by which, with centrifugal force, as
substitute for gravity, the plant was
deceived and the direction Of growth in
seedlings was changed, the lecturer next
dealt with the influence of light and damp
on the growth of a plant. The stem was
invariably shot out or bent aside in order
to get at the light, and the root, with
equal persistency and certainty, was sent
to find moisture. It would have been
noticed, Mr.. Darwin said in conclusion,
that he had, throughout, spoken of plants
perceiving the light, and knowing where
the center of the earth was, and had
used other expressions of similar kind,
usually only applied to animals. He had
done so with no idea of being paradox
ical, but because he thought that :. by
thinking of plants in this way we were
more likely to learn what was going on
within them. II we would understand
the actions of an animal, we must know
what was useful or not useful for that
life, and it was quite as necessary to con-
slider in the life of plant of what use its
actions were, and, in certain sense,
why it acted in a particular way.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13
Gr0Wth~0f Plants.

A recent free evening lecture at the
Working Mems College, Great Ormond
Street, London, was given by Mr.. Fran
CHS Darwin, M. d., a son of the well
known naturalist. The growth of a
plant, the lecturer said might be likened
to the growth of a SNOWFALL set rolling
down snow-covered hillside. Both
plant and SNOWFALL grew in size by the
addition of matter; but 'while,uif the bulb
of hyacinth were placed in water and
kept in the dark, it would grow in the
ordinary sense of the word, in reality
the plant would merely have taken stuff
out of the bulb and arranged it in diff
ferent way, whereas in the growth of an
oak tree from an acorn quantity of new
stuff was formed. These instances of
growth suggested the questions, first,
how bulb or bean rearranged its mat
ter in forming plant, and, secondly,
how all the new material was obtained
that went to form tree? He intended
on that occasion to speak of only one
half of the question: How the plant in
growing arranged its material? First,
It was necessary to know what a plant
was made Of If one hundred pounds
weight of some growing plant were
taken. say turnips, and the water driven
off by drying, it will be found that the
weight would have decreased by ninety
pounds, and that the solid, woody
part remaining, about ten pounds in
weight. would nearly all burn away,
leaving but few ashes. In order to
give some idea of the way in which
this large quantity of water was
held. in the plant, DR.. Darwin COM
pared the effect of water ON dead matter,
such as tea leaves or leather, with the
effect of giving water to a growing plant
the stiff, dry leaves became limp and
soft, while the dropping, flaccid stem of
q living plant, when watered, became
stiff and elastic. How could the plant
build up strong, stiff stem with so much
of SO unstable a material as water, and
how did the water become source of
strength to the plant? To understand
this they must know how the water was
contained in the plant. The solid ma
terial was formed into little cavities, and
these-a AN infinite. number of little boxes,
as it might be-were filed with water.
The way in which the water might be-
come a source of strength could be seen
DIV forcing water into a flexible tube OF
bladder, or by blowing air into an empty
glove. The pressure of the water COLI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13
The fifteen great American inve,

tons Of worldwide adoption are: l. II.
cotton gin. 2. The planning machine.
8. The grass mower and reaper. 4. The
rotary printing press. %. Navigation by
steam. 6. The hot air engine. z. The
sewing machine. 8. The India rubber
industry. 9. The machine manufacture
of horseshoes. 10. The sand blast for
carving. IL. The gauge lathe. II. The
grain elevator 49, Artificial ice making
on large scale. IA. The electric mag
net and its practical application. Is.
The composing machine for printers. 4
sixteenth must be added--the telephone.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13

How contagious Is the laugh Of
some people. how Earring that III others.
like playing on WORKOUT piano. :
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-13

Heavens gates are wide enough /
admit every sinner il the universe VIZ
is pcnitent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
RELATIVE SENSATIONS.

The other day terrible explosion &C.
Cured in an English colliery, resulting in
the death of between seventy and ninety
men. 1t is worth noticing that though in
this case the loss OF life was almost exactly
the same as that in the Tay bridge acct
dent, yet it has attracted scarcely any
attention, whereas the railroad disaster
thrilled the civilized world. Nor can it be
said that the elements of the sensational
are much more prominent in the one case
than in the other Nothing can exceed
the horror of an explosion of fre-damp in a
deep working full of people. Death there
comes in his most appalling forms, for if
the victims are not killed at once they are
nearly always cut off from relief and
doomed to slow and dreadful death
The agony suffered by their wives and
friends who gather in crowds at the pits
mouth is on such occasions heartrending to
witness, and the whole surroundings are as
full of misery as human conditions can be.
The sufferers of the Tay Bridge casualty
were hurled to death in moment. There
was no lingering pain in their case, but all
was over in twinkling. Yet it is certain
that the bridge accident aroused far more
interest, than the colliery accident has
done, and this probably for no other reason
than that loss of life in mines is compare
lively frequent, while the hurting of a
whole train full of people into eternity does
not often happen.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
FITz JOHN PORTER.

The minority report in the case of Fitz
John Porter is remarkable document.
1t appears to be an elaborate attempt to
evade the force of all the facts which since
the conclusion of the rebellion have come to
light in regard to that matter. The cir
cumstances which have been developed
since the first trial was held are of char
acter to convince dispassionate observers
that General Porter has been the victim of
a series of Misrepresentation and misun-
derstandings, and that the acts for which
he was punished were performed in the
strict line of duty. We do not think any
one who has followed the case carefully
can have reached any other conclusion.
The order sent by General Pope, and upon
which the whole case turns, has been
proved to have been written in en-
tire misapprehension of the actual
position of the enemy, while
the delay in its transmission caused by the
badness of the roads brought it to Porter
at time when he could not have followed
it strictly without endangering the whole
Army of Virginia. The minority report
ignores all the later developments, and per-
sists in regarding Porter as guilty, but, as
if on purpose to bring its authors into utter
contempt, it concludes by recommending
his pardon on the almost incredible ground
that amnesty has been very generally ex-
tended to the most prominent leaders of
the rebellion. This is adding insult to in
jury There is no evidence to show that
Porter was at any time less loyal than
Hooker, and it would be quite as reasonable
to accuse the latter of sympathy with
the rebellion because he failed to utilize
his advantage over Stonewall Jackson,
and so permitted the latter to break out of
the trap which had been prepared for him,
and which nobody now doubts could have
been effectively sprung had Hooker not
hesitated just when decisive action was
needed. General Pope was never fair to
Porter, and the extent of his uufairness
has within the past year been shown more
clearly than ever. Porter has suffered
terribly for what we believe the best and
most impartial judges regard now as no
fault of his own. He ought to be rein
stated in his rank, and in such a way as to
prove that the country is thoroughly con-
WINGED of the wrong that has been done
him
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
THE LABOR BUREAU.

Several propositions for Labor Bureau
have been advanced. 1t is evidently pet
project with the representatives of the
Workingmen. Before any legislation is
had on it, however, the public would like
to know what its supporters expect and
desire. One bill calls for an appropriation
of $40, 900 for this purpose. Is not that a
great deal of money for what seems at
present vague and somewhat misty
scheme? What is the bureau for? To
collect statistics about labor. And to
what end? We have had some experience
Of bureaus of this kind, and never knew
any practical results to come from them.
As rule they do nothing more than
gather mass of statistics, which are
piled into biennial report in an undi-
gested condition. The report is then sent
to the Legislature, and being printed.
copies are placed ON the desks OF rembers.
The press prints more or less brief ac-
count of the report, and that is the end Of
the matter. The truth is that the mere
gathering OF statistics seldom tends to any
beneficial action, and that, moreover,
not everybody is qualified to undertake
this kind of work. Congress has ben
gathering statistics about labor for many
years. In the voluninous reports OF the
several committees that have taken testi-
mony on the subject, and in tie
special reports prepared for Congress
by Mr.. Young, and in the Con-
salar repor5s published last year,
can be found nearly all the salient facts
that any new bureau would be at all
likely to discover Sach bureau could
hardly operate as an employment Office,
though We are by no means certain whether
that is not one of the purposes contem-
plated for it. Ii, however, anything use
ful can be done in that way, it can be done
at very moderate expense One Com
missioner and one clerk would be amply
sufficient, and fourth of the amount pro-
posed ought to cover all the expenses of
the bureau. The people are not prepared
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
BECK ON FINANCE.

The speech made by Beck upon national
finance the other day appears to have been
one of the regulation Greenback type. 1t
is apparently imposs BILE for the advocates
of financial fallacies ever to make correct
statements of fact. Otherwise Mr.. Beck
would not have exposed himself to ridicule
by citing w. D. Kelley as authority for the
truth of the now notorious Bismarck con-
yersatious Mr.. Beck ought to know, and
if he does not the country knows, that
Prince Bismarck has fatty and indig-
nantly repudiated the statements put
in his mouth by Kelley, whom
he stigmatizes as either a reck-
less inventor or an amazingly stupid
person. 1t is very certain that Bismarck
never told Kelley that he regretted the de-
monetization OF silver by Germany, or that
it was his intention to commence the re-
issue of it. In fact all that Kelley has
said about the silver question in Germany
is now known to be fiction. twas, there
fore, unfortunate that Mr.. Beck should
cite the champion of pig-iron in support of
his own financial misrepresentation. As
regards his own statements, they are, with
scarcely an exception, inaccurate that Is,
where he undertakes to give exact per-
centages and proportions. His cry of
ssLet well enough alone" has the
fatal objection that the present
financial situation is not ''well
enough" but tina. in many respects it is
the reverse OF well enough. What the
Greenbackers really mean, however, IS
that they are in favor of letting the
country drift into the adoption of the sill
yer standard. They cannot endure that
the currency should be stable and honest,
and they proclaim in effect that they will
never rest until they have restored the
premium on gold, and brought greenbacks
to heavy discount. That is what their
motto of "Let well enough alone really
implies, and Republican politicians will do
well to realize the danger to which they
are exposing the country by acquiescing in
the insidious proposal to let everything
drift.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE RxcoRp-uNIos.l

BosToS, January 22d.-The Heralds Augusta
special says The State House is guarded, ana the
local militia company remains in the armory
The Fusionist Legislature met this morning
In the House, Cushman called for report by the
Committee on Elections Ii he was holding a seat
to which he was not entitled, he wished to know il
and go home.
Various standing committees were announced
1t was also announced that Governor smith has
received a congratulatory address from the Central
Club of Greenbackers at Ttusville Pa.
The Committee on Elections will hear contested
cases to-day.
The Committee on Business, before reporting, viii
first advise with the leaders.
resoluti n was referred to a committee, au hor-
izing conference with the Portland au horties to
see if a building be had there for the Legisla-
tive and Executive Departments
In the Republican Senate an amendment to the
Constitution was presented, to elect Governor by
plurality vote.
Fusionist Representative Staple has taken seat
in the Republican House.
The Fusionists have telegram inviting them to
take up quarters in Biddeford.
NO SUITABLE ACCOMMODATIONS.
PosTLASD, January 22d.-Mayor Walker has re-
ceived telegram from F. W. Hill, OF the Fusion
Legislature, asking if accommodations for that
Legislature could be had here. The Mayor "a DEM
ocrat consulted the Council, and replied, 'No suit
able accommodations.
THE WHOLE BATCH TO BE RAGGED.
BosroS, January 22d.-The HeraldS Augusta
special says: The Republican Legislature are talk
ing seriously of taking to arrest the whole
batch of Fusionist officials a charge of treason
BLooDsHED FEARED.
AUGUSTA, January 22d.-In the Fusion Senate,
Atwell opposed the order 10 proceed to business,
saying: "Let us go into the State House Legisla-
ture go home"
Another member favored a compromise. He
feared the present policy would lead to bloodshed.
Governor Smith told a reporter that under present
circumstances he should not deem it advisable, but
if we had possession of the State House the Repub-
licans would not get in without bloodshed.
EXTENSION OF TINE ASKED.
AUGUSTA, January 22d-It is not yet certain
whether the Fusionst Legislature will send a set of
questions to the Supreme Court, and to-day the
committee appointed to draft the document asked
MORE FRIENDLY FEELING.
AUGUSTA, January 22d.-There appears to be
friendly feeling between the two Legislatures The
Republicans have given the Fusionists liberal
share of the committees. The Governor has well
defined plans respecting the Fusion body if it con-
tinues to assemble.
NEW STATEMENT OF FACTS.
AUGUSTA, January 22i-The Fusionst Council to-
day decided that it would be abortive for a new
statement of facts to be presented to the Supreme
Court
HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
BosroN, January 22d-The Heralfs Augusta
special says: The outlook at midnight is more hope
ful than at any time during the later stage OF the
complications. The Fusionists Senators who are
entitled to seats in the State House Senate are re-
ported, high authority, to be the verge of de-
serting the Union Hall Legislature.