Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-13
NUMBER 9,

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ny. Another result is, that you writer
is absolutely positive that ignorance
and laziness are about all that hinders
the average granger from having all
the pure honey he can use every day,
and at everv meal on his table. italian
bees, the judicious and timely scatter
ing of the seeds of honey plants, make
more or less honey certain thing ev-
cry year; but the bees must be intelli-
gently and promptly looked after. The
"let-her-rip" plan won't work with bees
any more than 1t will with grape vines;
but every man, woman or child with
common sense enough to feed a chick
en- can easily learn to care for bees.
Still, some of the natives here can hard
ly believe their own eyes when they
see six-year-old girl and a seven-year-
old boy fussing over a full hive, remov-
ing and replacing sections, &C.; and yet
children who play daily among the
hives, as mine do, do this, and more,
not only without fear, but with as
much zest and delight as II they
| were playing house.
With hardly whole Sunday to rest
on in the whole year, one week day
was taken as holiday; and I attend
ed the soldiers reunion at CarroltOn.
The day was dusty; but music and can
non rip-roarious and the eating cheap
glorious" The speechifying, as usual
on such and all other occasions, was
done by lawyers who look down on
society from q second or third-story
window instead of standing in the fur
row and looking at humanity from be-
| tween the handles of plow. Gen. Og-
lesby extended warm invitation to
the oppressed Of all lands to come and
buy homes here; but did not tell them
that land for homes had speculative
| value here; and that the more industri-
GUS they were, the more they improved
land, the more and higher they would
be taxed. He dwelt upon the dignity
of labor, but forgot to explain how it
| us as productive power increased
Judge Hawes, of Chicago, said the war
was over, the victory ours; that
"Everything was lovely aH
And the goose hung high"
There was nothing left to vex us but
| the tariff question, and it was not much
of a question any way. He did not ev-
EN- dream that the query slowly but
surely creeping into the minds Of the
sun-burned men he was talking to was
not whether we should or should not
tax the products of foreign labor, but
whether we shall tax, directly or indi-
rectly, the products of any human la
Dor, foreign or domestic. Col. Phillips,
MiooNrpi f0ld fhof hn ~
guard put the liberty of Rome up at
auction; but he did not tell us that if
| the individuals composing the Pr@tor-
ian guard had not been divorced from
the soil, they could and would have
brought corn and wine to market in
stead of being driven to the necessity
of selling their votes. Neither did he
tell lis how and where the bidders at
| that auction gained wealth so inordin-
ate that they could afford tn buy and
waste the honor and the freedom of
their country. He said there was only
one man on the platform (Gen. Rowett)
who understood the mysteries of our
internal revenue system. Rowett re-
marked that all he knew about it was
| that the man who drank the most whis-
key paid the most tax; whereupon your
writer put in that Dick was Out-fOr it
was the man who sweat to pay for the
whiskey rather than the man who
drank 1t that paid the tax.
From CarrOltOn to ROOdhouse num-
ber of us came back at dark on an ex-
ira. Here we boarded car on the
main track to wait for the excursion
| train. I went forward and was draw
ing cup of water from the vat just as
several ladies entered, when one Of
them, without saying please, suddenly
and in q very excitable manner, stuck
her head into my stomach with vigor;
the other ladies followed up her attack
most womanfully, 50 that by the time
I was on my back in the aisle they
were down on top of me, and I could
see the gray hair and beard of an old
| man mixed up in the rumpus above
ter-and not having time to drink it
myself, passed it to passenger-a
stranger-but so awakwardly that /
got most Of it down the back of his
neck instead of his mouth, and the
balance went around prOmiscuous like,
just as the rain falls, upon both just
and unjust. When we got things
| Strengthened out, some of the ladies
suggested that the next time UNDER
took to perform the ceremony of sprink-
ling, it would be pleasanter if warmer
water were used. Some were thrown
out of their seats, and one devoted child
of Bacchus, in the back end of the car,
gracefully rose from his seat and rolled
over cold and unappreciative stove.
Investigation showed that some very
careless railroad employees had left a
car on the main line without q light.
and very naughty engineer had back
ed heavy train against it with more
speed than was good for the company's
rolling stock.
Imust quit now or I'll grow facetious;
will resume, like a Quaker meeting,
when the spirit moves me.
FARMER.
MURRAYvILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 25th, 1888.
A Nebraska thief devotes his time
entirely to the larceny of hogs, and
with great success. He goes forth by