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Iron County register., 1882-03-30
Queen YictOria's Remarkable Reign.

| Queen Victoria's escape from death
at-the hands of would-be assassin, the
other day, naturally directs attention to
the mature age which she has attained
and the unusual length of her reign.
She was born on the oath of May, 1919,
and has therefore nearly completed her
esd year. She has thus already attained
an age exceeded by only eleven of the
sovereigns of England, dating from the
Norman conquest-namely, Henry t.,
who lived to the age of 81; Henry Ill,
who lived to 65 years: Edward L., who
lived to be 67 years; Edward Ill, who
attained 50 years; Queen Elizabeth, who
reached SO years; James III who lived
6S years; George l., 81 years; George
H., a years: George I'LL, her grand
father, who fingered in imbecility until
he was 50; George w., her uncle, who
was 6S when he died, and William W.,
another uncle, who reached y years.
The Queen ascended the throne on June
20, 1887, just after she had completed
her eighteenth year. She has therefore
now been on the throne forty four years,
eight months, and fourteen days. Queen
Elizabeth assembled the throne on No
vember II, 1868, in her twenty-sixth
year, and died on March "a, 1903, having
reigned forty-four years, four months,
and seven days. The reign of Victoria
therefore already exceeds that of the
Virgin Queen by something over four
months, and has been exceeded in length
in the case of three of her predecessors
only-Henry I'LL, who reigned tifty-siX
years; Edward Ill, who reigned fifty
years, and George Ill, who reigned for
the long period of sixty years. Queen
Victoria has, in fact, already outlived by
several years every Bishop and every
Judge whom she found Installed in Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland. She has
witnessed the funeral of every Premier
who has served under her except Mr..
Gladstone. Not Il single Cabinet Minis
ter of her uncle and predecessors days
now survives; and of those who held
inferior offices under her first and favor
ite Premier, Lord Melbourne, there can
be found among the living only Viscount
Halifax, then Mr.. Charles Wood, and
Lord Howick, now Earl Grey. Of the
members of the Privy Council who sat
in June, 1887, to administer to her the
oaths, but two or three survive. She
has received the homage of four Arch
bishops of York, and of five Bishops of
Chichester, Lichfield and Durham sue
cessively. She has filled each of the
three Chief Justiceships twice at least;
she has received the addresses of four
successive Speakers of the House of
Commons; she has intrusted the Great
Seal of the Kingdom to no less than
eleven different Lord Chancellors, and
she has commissioned eight successive
Premiers to form no less than fourteen
different administrations.-Phi Philadelphia
TeLeQr0Dh.
Iron County register., 1882-03-30
The Future OF Africa.

In just published paper by DR.. A.
: Core, a French physician, the author
discusses a great array of data on the
subject of the acclimatization of the
native races of Africa, and comes to
some conclusions of great moment in
connection with the future of that conti-
neat. DR.. Core shows that in temper
ate climates like that of North America
che negro has shown himself possessed
of q genuine capacity of acclimatization.
In tropical countries, however, such as
the West Indies, Africans have proved
themselves incapable of maintaining
their numbers, and have, moreover,
become demoraliZed and incapable of
efficient labor, except under slavery.
Even in tropical Africa itself the native,
Dr. Core maintains, is incapable of
developing the resources of the conti-
nent even under white superintendent.
Taus, where the negro is at home he is
subject to great mortality, he does not
succeed in peopling, in sufficient pro-
portion, the most fertile regions; the
highest degree of civilization which he
Is able to attain is a state of semi-bar-
barism, under the influence of degraded
IsTamism. Wherever he comes into
contact with Europeans, if he escapes
the influence OF TellSiOH WHICH cOu-
demns him to social immobility, he
contracts vices which conduce to his
retrosression. The negro has nowhere
freely reached the height of a superior
civilization; he has borrowed that of
che white man only to satisfy his
instincts, never to develop his intelli-
renee. He Graves for our liquors to get
drunk, our powder and arms to carry
On q noisy war, our garments to cut a
dash; DR.. Core never met negro
With a book in his hands outside of the
schools of Senegambia.
Does an experiment of three centuries
encourage the hope of a modification of
Che ethnical aptitudes of the African?
DIR. Core thinks not. The negro may
furnish, on account of his immunity
from yellow fever and marsh fever, sol
diers and laborers who may help to in
stalI the first settlements of Europeans.
He will never form serious empire un-
der the direction of the white races so
Iour as these are in an infinitesimal mi
nority. The European races, DIR. Core
maintains, must people Africa as they
have peopled and are still peopling
Iron County register., 1882-03-30
An Immoral Speculation.

For the results of ordinary specula-
tions the public at large cares very little.
Whether the 'sbulls'' or the ssbears''
are worsted in their battles over this or
that stock is rightly considered to con-
Germ chiefly the ssbulls'' and the
"bears" themselves. But when the
speculation has to do with a neces-
sary of life, like breadstuffs or cotton !;
when spectators succeed in locking up
the surplus products and creating an ar
tificial famine in the midst of plenty :;
when prices become SO inflated that ex-
ports cease, and foreign exchanges must
be met by drain of gold from this
country-then every business man and
every consumer has personal interest
In the result. There is no family in the
country that has not been paying a
larger price, in many cases fancy prices,
for it's daily food this winter, because a
knot of spectators have combined to
force prices up and keep them up.
Speculations of this kind in the neces-
saries of life is hard to distinguish from
a crime, and there is reason for rejoic-
ing when movement of this kind fails,
and ruins those who would become rich
by wringing money out of the poor.
The great 'scorner in grain,'' in which
Chicago has taken the lead, began to
give way last week, and at this writing
it seems that not only is the wreck ire
parable, but all similar 's corners" are
likewise doomed.
Few readers of the Examiner, proba-
bly,, have any adequate idea of the ex-
tent of speculation implied by one of these
"corners." Take this city alone. Last
year the sales of wheat amounted to 49,
AL, 200 bushels, while the total quantity
received in this city was only 45,000,0O0
bushels. Each bushel was sold more
than ten times, and probably eight of
the ten sales were speculative. In cot
ton even larger proportions ruled; 175,-
600 bales were actually received and
&c, 1926 were sold, so that every bale
was sold nearly two hundred times.
And the Chicago speculations in wheat,
as we'll as the New Orleans speculations
in cotton, are much greater in extent
than anything of the kind in New York.
Whether it is practicable or advisable
to endeavor to check this speculation in
the necessaries of life by legislation, we
do not undertake to say. But there can
be no doubt that the force of strongly
adverse public opinion should be brought
to bear upon it, and that it should bere-
garded as little more respectable than
robbery.-N. 7. Examiner.
Iron County register., 1882-03-30
Outside and Inside.
/" Poor little Ida!n

Poor little Ida!'
"Why, auntie, what are YOU pitving
her for? don't know of girl any
where that has so many nice things as
she has. I'm sure l should be perfectly
happy if had such beautiful rings, and
such a lovely pair of bracelets.
"You needn't smile at that, auntie,
for | knoW | should, and she has lots of
pretty dresses, and her aprons are al
ways stylish. And no end of sashes and
hair-ribbons, and that elegant locket and
chain-oh, she's always having some
thing new.''
Everything that money can buy, I
know, but there are some things that
money can't buy''
"Why! whatP thought money would
do everything.''
"No, little Jenny, money can't buy
pleasant temper and happy DISPOSE
ton, and l pity Ida because she has
neither"
Well-yes-I know she does get
mad awful easy, and at home the boys
like to hector her just to see her fly to
pi eces, as they say''--
"Yes, that's it, and so she is never
happy long at a time, for all the fine
things you admire so much. If she
would not mind the boys nonsense
when they say things on purpose to
tease her, they would soon leave off try-
ing it; but she flies into rare in an in
slant, and the more angry she gets, the
better they enjoy it, and the more thew
say to keep her going"
>'' don't think it's right nor kind for
her brothers to do so.''
'.Of course it isn't, my dear, but we
shall always find plenty of people ready
to tease and annoy us, if we viii allow
ourselves to be teased, so we must learn
not to mind such things
"Tve wondered great MANY times
why Ida didn't seem happier than any
other girl, when she has so MANY thinGs
to make her so, but T know she doesn't
and | think the reason must be that She
hasn't the happy inside of her.
You've guessed right. 1.-THE happy
isn't inside, all the fine things in the
world won't bring it,
Well, auntie, know I've enyied Ida
her fine things great many times, but
l believe l never will again. I'll try
and keep happy inside, and then I'll be-
sure OF good times always. .''-Youth's
Companion.
Iron County register., 1882-03-30

were inscriptions. In the snow about
the base were footprints.
Held by one corner under the stones
piled upon the top of the granite block
a half sheet of foolscap paper fluttered.
On it was written in ink and in back
hand, apparently disguised:
Too long hath stood the traitors shaft
A monument to shame.
Built up to praise traitors craft,
To sanctify i'll fame.
Are freemen bound to still forbear,
And meekly still implore,
When conquered foes their affairs rear
Within our very door?
This vulgar and insulting stone
Would honor for all time,
Not sneaking Andres death alone,
But black Ben. Arnold's crime;
And they who thus can glorify
The traitor ana his deeds,
Themselves high treason would employ,
1t 'twould fulfill their needs.
Americans, resolve, proclaim,
That in our own dear land
Never. while the People reign,
Shall rreaSOn'S statue stand!
And he who dareS erect it next
On fair CoiunbiaS breast
With fuisOme, or with false pretext,
Shall dangle from its crest
Iron County register., 1882-03-30
Cinnamon Paying their Debts.

The Cinnamon of the metropolis have
mostly abandoned their washboards and
smoothing irons, and have been making
their way, clumsily and at great ex-
pense of pigeon English, from one part
of the city to another during the past
few days. This is because it is their
New Years season and they have been
making calls, but not for the purpose with
which Caucasians make calls on Jan. 1.
1t is Chinese custom, it seems, several
thousand years older than the Oldest
looking Chinaman, to pay all debts and
settle all accounts on New Years. In
consequence, the new corners who OBJ
tanned pecuniary assistance wherewith
to start in business have been paying
the money back to those who lent it to
them. If they have been unable to do
this they have paid what they could and
obtained a renewal of the loan until next
New Years. for no loan is ever made
among them for a longer period than
from one New YEARS. to another. The
Cinnamon themselves are responsible
for the statement that this annual set
tlement of debts is a custom so strongly
observed that in China men who can
not pay up on New Years are often SO
sensitive about asking for renewal of
the loan that they prefer to commit sui
eide The wealthy Cinnamon, like Dep
uty Sheriff Tom Lee, who lend money
to their struggling countrymen in and
around New York, g i've banquet to
their debtors at this time of year. Great
stores of dried fish, dried oysters, yams,
and other Chinese delicacies are cooked
and served with plenteous ibations of
rice brandy. This brandy is imported
in larger and larger quantities each year
at this time with the hope that there will
be enough to last the year out, but it
has heretofore been impossible to obtain
any week after New Years. 1t is
thin, light-colored fluid, with properties
which render Jersey lightning tame by
comparison.
Mr.. Price, lawyer, who has won the
confidence of the Mongolians in this
city, says that he has never had to deal
with more honorable class of clients
than the Chinese. He says that when
they come to him for advice or to re-
tain him in lawsuit he tells him his fee
and they 90 away. Presently they re-
turn with the exact amount demanded,
and always in trade dollars. They had
United States trade dollars in China,
and they understand them. Conse-
quently, whatever money they get in
business they quickly exchange for trade
dollars. They seem never to carry any
money about with them, but get it
promptly when it is needed.-New York;
Sun.
There was nothing peculiar about
recent Toronto wedding up to the point
when the married couple quilted the
church. Then the bride dropped her
husbands arm, got into her fathers
carriage, and returned home alone. She
refused either to see him again or to
make anv explanation of hsr conduct
Iron County register., 1882-03-30

Here died. Oct. 2, 17sO, Major John An
DIRE, of the British army, who entered the
American lines on IL secret mission Co Ben
edict Arnold, was taken prisoner tried and
condemned as u spy His death. though
according to the stern code of the law,
moved even his enemies to pity, and both
armies mourned the fate of one so young
and so brave. In 1921 his remains were re-
moved to Westminster Abbey. A hundred
years after his execution this stone was
placed above the spot where he lay by
; citizen of the states against which he
fought, not to perpetuate the record of
strife, but in token of these better feelings
which have since united two nations, one
in race in language, and in religion, with
the earnest hope that this friendly union
will never be broken.
ARTHUR PENRYHN STANLEY,
Dean of WeStminSt
Iron County register., 1882-03-30

"A Norristown girl who was vacci-
mated with virus from the arm of a
certain young man is acting very
strangely indeed. When sitting on the
sofa she is seized with an irresistible
impulse to place the inoculated arm
around her own neck. One of our lead
ing physicians says it is the first case OF
the kind that has ever come under his
Observation-Disclosures Herald
Iron County register., 1882-03-30

In China they punish the adultera-
ton OF food with DEATH In this country
the adulterator goes free and the coc-
sumer dies.-Bostom transcript.
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for, and, when he died, had sent the
few little articles of property on his
person to his brother. That brother
was my uncle. The correspondence,
so begun, had been kept up,
neither knowing that the other
had been on our plantation, until a
few days previous the Captain had
learned that the name which nanny
had called sBeecham' was spelled
Beauchamp. Thus enlightened, he said,
he set out for the place.
Uncle Tom was surprised to see us
meet as acquaintance, and still more
surprised at our story
Ben, on being questioned. told how
he managed the escape. He said 'he
got Mars Captain in Hulda's cabin, and
hid him. 1t rained so de soldiers didn It
rummage much, Mars Tom, an as for
dat sentry, an de odders, too, for dat
matter, dey dom so beat out, and so on
suspectin', dey sleep like logs; mout
took dozen horses
"'Did all the blacks help hide the
Captain, BenP' asked Tom.
'Dey all did what dey could, Mars
Tom; but none de white folks know but
Miss Nellie
"'But had no idea any one knew
except Ben, nanny and myself
"The Captain smiled.
"I Think said he, most of the col
ored people knew was here
s'Tom Interrupted him.
"sExcuse me, Captain he said,
'there is the dinner-bell. Walk into the
dining-room, please
"The subject was never resumed. I
thought it was unpleasant to grand
mother, in fact she intimated as much,
saying she never thought of being de-
ceived by her own people.
"Captain Graham remained several
weeks with us; and, when he departed
for his Northern home it was under
stood that he would return again shortly
for his rebel bride. During his absence
[ obtained grandmother forgiveness
for having once deceived her; and,
when the Captain came for me, bring
ing his young sister with him, she re-
ceived them very graciously, even smil-
ing on Uncle Toms very evident admi-
ration of the Yankee girl, and not OBJ
jecting at all when he Informed her that
he had traded his Southern niece for a
Northern wife. So, you see, we are all
happy, and nanny is, l think, the re-
sponsible person. Don't you agree with
me?"
"Of course,' said I. sShe ought to
be proud of her work.
"An' so I is, honey said the old
woman. else Southern darby, is,
but Use Nordern sympathizer, an dis
yer boy" holding up the Growing child,
sis named for boot his grandfadders-
James Beauchamp Graham. Baltou's
Magazine.
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Democracy, the Friend Of the People.

The New York Times and some other
Republican organs of less note are striv-
ing to make it appear that the Demo-
cratic party is the avowed foe of capt.
tai. The Times remarks:
If the Democratic party can be said to be
shaping anything like "A definite policy with
reference to the fall elections and those of the
next Presidential year. it is against the con-
servative property interests.
Starting out with such proposition,
it is easy enough to understand the scope
of the Times argument to sustain it.
A puerile falsehood is always fruitful of
trivial vulgarity when an attempt is made
to give it the force of truth. In stating
that the Democratic party is shaping a
policy in antagonism to i" conservative
property interests the Times descends
to the level where demagogism and
mendacity meet and embrace. The
Times furthermore says:
1t has long been the characteristic DISPOSE
ton of that party to seize upon positions that
address themselves to the less intelligent
classes of the people. This may be necessity
rather than a choice for the reason that the
Republican party, having in general better
appreciation of the principles of political econ
omy, occupy the better standpoint and leave
only the inferior to the opposition. It IS the
boast of the Democratic leaders that they rep
resent the interests of the great masses OF the
and they, BY constant inference, if not by di-
rect assertion preach the pernicious doctrine
that there is necessary conflict between cap
ital and labor.
We do not care to object to the Times
intimation that the Democratic party is
the party of the people, the great
masses, the toilers, the wage men,
the wealth producers, the men who
build and operate all the great indus
tries of the continent, but in these days
of Common schools, of books and news
papers, the Times and Republican Or
cans generally which refer to working
people as ignorant and degraded, as
suming that Republicans are more in
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telligent and better qualified to pass
upon questions of political economy,
perpetrate ISLANDERS and perpetuate
falsehoods which had their origin in
the days when American thought was
tainted by the aristocratic theories OF
Hamilton and Adams, and which
Thomas Jefferson so effectually ex-
posed and crushed. Philosophically
considered, there is something broader
and higher and better in Democracy
than its partisan aspects. Men who are
at all qualified to illustrate in thought
and speech the principles of Democracy
never forget that they are OF the peo-
pie, of the masses, a position and con-
dition in which there are no degrading
or vulgarizing elements, but rather,
those common-sense qualities which are
majestic in their humanizing and ele-
waiting influences upon society. Self
respect and dignity of department are
neither sacrificed nor diminished by
maintaining intimate relations with the
people; on the contrary, such affilia-
lions exalt citizenship and crown it
with a dignity which will be
sought for in vain in the ranks of those
who favor aristocratic rather than DEM
ocratic ideas and theories. Democrats
never forget that all the rights and priv
ileges which they enjoy as citizens be-
long equally to all the people, and that
the proper appreciation and use of the
great franchises which Democracy has
conferred crowns each citizen with the
exaltation of sovereignty and the rights
OF equality. Hence. no greater compli-
ment could be paid the Democratic
party than to declare it to be a party of
the people, profoundly interested in
their welfare, watchful of their inter-
ests, and ever ready to champion their
cause. The Democratic party sees with
deep concern the dangerous increase
OF monopoly power in the coun-
try. 1t is for the interest of the peo-
pie that tariff taxation should be
promptly reduced. The tariff, as it now
exists, has created numerous power
full monopolies, and their influence and
their money are even now being used to
perpetuate the fragrant wrongs of which
the people justly complain. We have
a low duty on diamonds. and they are
imported to the value of millions. We
have high duty on blankets, which
amounts almost to prohibition, as in
1881 they were imported to the amount
of about SO, 000only. but when a demand
is made to modify the tariff and reduce
taxation, the cry is made that the
Democratic party is attacking "con-
vervative property interests The
Democratic party is unchangeably OPP
posed to class legislation, to making laws
for the special benefit of certain interests
and in direct conflict with the general
and having made this record it
is ready to ask the people for their in
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HOW SHE CAME TO MARRY
YANKEE.

Talking with friend of mine, whom
Twas visiting, about the civil war, l
said to her:
81 have often wondered how a woman
Of such strong Southern principles as
yours ever came to marry a Federal
soldier"
She laughed, and, glancing toward a
motherly- looking black woman who sat
near the fire, nursing a rosy baby, re-
piled:
"You had better ask NANNY, I
think she is responsible for that piece of
work"
"'Deed if I isl said NANNY, ssI'se
not ashamed of it, kase it's bout de bes'
work I ebber dom. You better tell her
bout it, honey"
ssThere is not much to tell" said nv
friend. "You already know that all of
nv relatives are Southern people, and
that two OF my uncles were killed in
battle, one at Malvern Hill, and the
other at Gettysburg. We-that is, my
grandparents and myself, with married
daughter, whose husband was in the
army, and her two small children-were
the only whites left on the plantation.
i had always lived with my grandpa
rents, as my own parents had died
while / was Yet an infant. Now 1 was
seventeen; and, as had passed all of
INV life, except one winter in New Or
leans and a couple summers at Vir-
xinia watering-place, on the plantation,
With few companions, my governess
being a Southern lady, 1 knew little
about the world, and less about our own
Northern States than any other part of
e. OF course hated the Yankees, and
asst all the blame for the unhappy state
of affairs upon them.
& 81 will not 90 into the particulars of
mr. troubles. We shared them in COM
mon with all our friends, and rather
cioried in them, as proof of our devotion
b the cause. But tell you, by the
Eme the winter 'sixty-four and five ar
lived we were having pretty hard times.
everything we could spare, in the shape
# bedding, clothing, carpets and cook
sn0 utensils had gone to the army or hos
i.,;falsI and the necessaries we had re
ks;ned were wearing out, with no way
chat we could see Of replacing them. I
shonid have suffered for clothing had it
Lot been that my dead mothers ward
-obe had been sacredly kept for me, and
sonnd ii fitted me with but little altera-