Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-08

pound OF surplus; out III 81 my increase
was over two hundred per cent. and
sixteen hundred pounds of surplus
honey, half comb and half extracted.
We use honey at every meal; and few
months of its steady use has resulted
in the Punishment Of aches and pains,
and put the blood in such condition
liable to cold. The greatest waste in
this land is the nectar that is lost i'm
the flowers every year, because people
are 50 careless about Bookkeeping. In
dollars and cents my bees have badly
beaten my wheat crop the last year, to
say nothing of improved health on ac-
count Of the free use of the only really
healthy sweet we have. When one
gees to tina grocer for sweets now, the
chances are ten to one that he will be
cheated by some authorizations; and ev-
en- if one gets the good chance out of
the ten, the sweet purchased is healthy
only when sparingly used, if at all
unless it be honey. Any one can have
bees, even if they have only a garret
to keep them in; and the keeper of bees
is, 80 far, free from the universal curse
of landlordism. Some years ago Ger.
man, of title and wealth, undertook to
compel the bee-keepers about him to
pay for their bees pasturing on his
lands; but he was resisted, and though
the case was carri-d up to the highest
court, it went against him.
Our Legislature has gotten a greater
grist on hand than it will be likely to
grind this winter. Among the bills
presented are several that are clearly
unconstitutional; but this does not
seem to affect the passage of bills much
in more Legislatures than ours In
deed, our Legislature is infallible in
similar sense in which the Pope is in
fallible. 1t is like the little boys
mother: "Whatever it says is right is
right, whether it is or not" No Won
der at this, for it has hired parson to
pray for the Senate and House every
morning, at the rate of S. "prar."
If that don't tickle the Lord and make
Him smile on both sides of His mouth
at the same time, we might as well
quit. Our private opinion is, that aft
or these Solons have tinkered at law
till the ed of the session, there
will not be single act passed to better
the condition of the country-if, indeed,
and aside from the cost, we shall not be
worse off than before they met. Our
Constitution itself is a matchless in
strument, if you do not pass beyond
the second article, or Bill of Rights; but
after that, it is tumble of contradic-
lions and results in a complicated ma
shine for legalizing robbery.
FARMER.
SCOTT Co., Ill.,, Feb. ., 1888.
FEB. 3.-On the night of the 1st it |
showed and sleeted all night, with a |
irving east wind; yesterday more and
more rain came with it, and near night
all lightning and rolling thunder be-
gan, the rain coming heavier with
Zach shower; during the night the
,eals of thunder shook everything, and
his morning the scene beggars descrip-
ion. A wire clothes-line is full inch
hick; every twig is in the same condi-
ion; load of fodder on sled was too
old to be taken off. The heavy coat
# snow and sleet will bear man; and
he fallen rain runs over it into sheds,
tables, &c. Should this all go off
uddenly, the flood will be beyond all
'recedent. OF course many thousands
f fruit trees that escaped last year are
uined now. Had it caught us as last
ear, with the ground unfrozen, few
rees, either fruit or forest, would have
cen standing at daylight this morn
lg. F.