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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22
BLAIR VS.. THE PRESIDENT.

The Republican Senator'S Weak and Das.
honest Attempt to Cast Discredit upon
the Chief Executives Efforts to Uphold
the Prerogatives of His ONCE.
Senator Blair's defense of Congress
from the imputatIons of recklessness or
dishonesty put upon 1t by MIR. Cleve-
lands veto messages is very weak
affair. As Senator it is his privilege
to secure the passage of these vicious
bills in spite of the Presidents objec-
tions if he can do SO, but he can not
criticise the vetoes as he does without
placing himself in the attitude toward
the President which he thinks it is
wrong for the President to assume to-
ward Congress. In spite of the dem
agogy which Mr.. Blair has introduced
into his report, and of his attempt to
create the impression among ignora-
muses. that Mr.. Cleveland has no right to
veto these little jobs, the fact remains
that he has such a right, and that it is
his sworn duty to exercise it if he re-
CARDS the measure presented to him as
dishonest.
In the case of every one of the sixty
or seventy private pension bills which
the President has vetoed he has given
gOOQ ana Su1lclenC reasons 1Or MS
course. He has shown that the great
majority of the bills objected to were
in the interest of frauds, bounty-jump-
ers and deserters, and in cases where
the hardship was undenied he has
shown that the relief proposed was no
more properly a pension charge than
would be any other instance of destitu-
ton occurring without reference to the
war. The reasons given for the vetoes
have satisfied as well as surprised the
country. Pleased with his resolute OPP
position to the most contemplate form
of swindling. the people have been as
| tonlshed at the extraordinary capacity
of the Congress of the United States for
such dirty work.
Senator Blair's attempt to shield him.
self and his grabbing associates
by casting discredit upon Mr.. Cleve-
land will hardly succeed. He writes
like man who is in the wrong and
who knows it. Against his generali-
ties and innuendoes it is all-sufficient
to get the facts which the veto mes.
sages complained Of contain Chscags
Herald
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| THE END. |
CUBAN WOMEN.
Their Present Condition One of Almost
Complete Personal Freedom.

Their Present Condition One of Almost
Complete Personal Freedom.
Previous accounts have given a sad
picture of the condition of the women
of Cuba. They have been represented
as having been brought up in great
ignorance and almost Oriental seclu-
sion. 1t has been said that they are
taught nothing but embroidery and
department., and are trained to believe
that their chief care in life should be to
protect themselves from the wiles and
snares of men; that their chief occupa-
ton is to fan themselves and to talk to
their guests from the row of chairs on
the other side of the room, at safe
distance; that they were, in short,
mere puppets, who were to look and
act as pretty as possible, but who were
to know nothing. and were to take no
part in the real business of life Ii
this description of the women of Cuba
was ever true, that time has long
passed. During the Cuban war a large
number of the best families on the
island came to the United States.
| These returned to Cuba, bringing with
them many American notions as to the
proper duties and capacities of women.
Considerable numbers of Cuban girls
are educated in the United States at
the present time, and it goes without
the saying that women who have been
accustomed to our larger liberties can
never be restricted to the close limits
described above. | must say the Cuban
| ladies with whom | have conversed
have been women of much more than
ordinary intelligence. A large num-
| Der speak either French or English,
and many of them both languages. A
| Cuban lady tells me that she is as busy
here as ever she was when she lived in
| New York; that the times of idleness
are past. The women act in society
with the same freedom and in mucn
| the same manner as well-bred people
elsewhere. In public places they have
| to be more cautious than with us, and
you rarely see a Cuban lady upon the
street. Men have not quite the same
respect for them. They will make re-
marks in lady's presence, praising
her beauty, etc. l was quite embar-
raised one night at a ball when the
! floor manager took me near several
ladies, and, in a tone of voice which
could be easily heard by them, praised
| their faces, their dresses. etc. much as
a man would do when showing off the
fine points of horse.-Harana Cor.
Indianapolis journal.
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Increased Telegraph Service.

1t is difficult to realize how very gen.
eral is the use of the telegraph COM
pared with former periods. Since the
Government took possession of the tele-
graph in Great Britain, a record mas
been kept of the number of telegraph
messages sent yearly. In 1870, there
were 5000, 900 messages; in 1875, 49,
OOO,O0O; in 1880, 26.O00,0 in 1885,
$4,000, 900; this does not include tho
press-messages, which have increased
nearly thousandfold, due to the great
er cheapness of the Government service
over that of the companies. Popula-
ton does not increase rapidly in Great
Britain, while it does in this country,
and the growth of the telegraph service
here would be enormous, if we had the
cheap rates such as obtain in the Gov
eminent service of Europe. 1t was sup
posed that the telephone would diminish
the number of telegraphic messages,
but it seems to have had quite the OPP
posite effect-D emorests Montblu.
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EAROESE EOWIERS.
Bird-Catchfng as Carried On by the OAR
ing Northern Islanders.


A party of twelve men working in
combination and rotation will net be-
tween three and four thousand birds
in day, valued at penny apiece; and
little later in the season you may see
these birds hanging by hundreds at a
time in Farce outhouses, there to dry
after fashion for future consumption,
A native Faroese would consider he was
dining luxuriously on half dozen of
these shriveled anatomies stewed or
baked in whale-fat. But, even apart
from the whale liqueur,n to a stranger
the birds do not especially recommend
themselves. The manner in which a
Farce fowler goes to work is rather in
teresting. He has primarily to consider
the wind, inasmuch as this is the chief
assistant force which he presses into
his service. If the wind be favorable
he takes his long net, mounted on
stout wooden handle and frame. and
goes to that particular cleft or crevlce
in the sea rocks which he knows to offer
a chance of sport. Down here he
carefully Chambers, until he finds good
standing and working room where
the birds are busting past him before
the wind. 1t is then a matter of mus
Giles and routine. By barring the pas
sage with his net he inevitably catches
all the birds that continue their flight
through the rift, and his attributes then
must be mainly those of strength and
endurance. OF course, not everywhere
can a fowler attain to his perch by the
exclusive use of his legs. Infinite pluck
and nerve are both necessary. And SO
honorable Il calling in youth is that of a
fowler considered that you may hear
grave and gray men of means and posi-
ton recounting with sparkling eyes the
adventures of their younger days on
such and such rock. with an UNDER
stood, if not uttered, regret that such
days are over and passed for them. a
member of the Lagthing. or Farce Par
lament, was delighted, for instance, to
tell me the tale of some of his early
tricks on the rocks by Sandoe. A curl
Gus custem used to prevail here with
regard to the fowlers. If one of them,
in the exercise of his vocation. hap-
pened to slip, fall and kill himself
thereby the body was not recovered by
his comrades They probably looked
upon the accident as a visitation of
God. Nowadays they are more enlight-
ened. and therefore more humane
'Co1nhiU Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22

that made the old hall ring, OF "Long
life to Sir Charles Dalrymple."
II ran over here between the death
and the funeral" continued Sir
Charles, land l must return to Dali
rymple tomorrow for the funeral. But
l trust this short visit has been pro-
ductive of some good-that it has
served to give happiness to hearts
where anger and despair were rife.
Oscar, once more | say, let us be
friends; you shall always find me one. :"
Oscar Dalrymple could not refuse to
take the hand held out to him; but his
face was sullen still.
And now | think that is all for to-
night" said Sir Charles, turning his
radiant smile on the motley company.
.'When return from Dalrymple, the
old Grange shall hold good jollifica-
ton, and l hope you will all come to
it,
They filed out, conscious that the
family must want to be alone. '.Miss
Isabel" whispered Farmer Lee, with
great broad smile on his face, as he
was retreating in his turn. ''you must
not be too proud to come to our house
now, though | can see who will soon
be my Lady Dalrymple. And Isabel
Lynn pushed him away, with a laugh
and blush.
But Reuben had stolen up to his mas
ter with an anxious, troubled face.
Mr.. Charles" he breathed, forgettin g
the new title. '.have YOU quite left oft
the-the-play? You will not take to
it again?'
Never, Reuben" was the grave,
hushed answer. THAT night, which
you all thought fatal to me, and which
was so near being so, as [ stood on the
bridge, looking down on the dark
water, | took solemn oath that l
would never again touch card, or any
other incentive to gambling. l never
shall.
God be praised for that muttered
Reuben.
For that, and for ALL" reverently
answered Charles. eff l have not
cause to praise Him. who can have?"
Thus the Grange passed away from
one who had shown himself SO untitled
to hold it; and sunshine was restored
under the genial reign of Sir Charles
Dalrymple.
TrrIyT I
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FACE TO FACE.

SAD mortal! couldst thou but know
~, mat truly it means to die.
LIZ wings OF thy soul would glow
rrt ano the hopes of thy heart beat high:
ou " sohoH1s turn from the Pyrrhonisr
ana laugh their iargon to scorn,
Ine babbie of midnight fools
Ere the morning of Truth be born;
nut !, earth madness above,
IN klngdom of stormless breath
gaze on the glory of love
III the unveiled face of Death.
tell thee his face is fair
as the moon-bows amber rings,
A4u tne CLEAN in his unbound hair
Like the flush of a thousand Springs;
MS smile is the fathomIess beam
~ tue star-shlnes sacred light.
"nen the Summers of Southland dream
IN the lap of the holy Night:
FOR L, earths blindness above
, IN kingdom of halcyon breath
gaze on the marvel of love
IN the unveiled face of Death,
III ms eyes heaven there dwelIs-
al thcy hold Few mysteries now
And ms pity for earths IareweIls
mar burrows that shining brow:
Sonl taken from Time cold tide
He 1oidS to his fostering breast
ana the tears OF their grief arc dried
Ere they enter the courts of rest;
ana sun, earth'S madness above,
IN X .ngdom of stormiess breath,
gaze on ii light that is love
IN the unveiled face of Death.
Through the splendor of stars impaired
in the glow OF Their far-of grace,
lie Is soaring world by world,
with the souls in his strong embrace;
Lone etncrS, unStiTred by 4 wind
AT the passage OF Death grow sweet,
win the fragrance that floats behind
i he Hash of his winged retreat;
anu 1. carth'S madness above,
Mid Il Kingdom of tranquil breath,
have gazed on the ulster of love
In the unVe led face OF Death
But beyond the stars and the sun
can follow him >Iili on his way,
I'LL the pearl-white gates are won
in the calm of the central day.
Far voices of fond acclaim
thrill down from the place OF souls,
AS death. with touch ike fame
l ncioSeS the goal OF goals:
And from heaven of heavens above
God SpeNketh with bateicSs BREATH
My angel of peri ect love
Is the angel men call death,
-Pdut III. HdyIls, in HdrpeTs Magazine.
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DEMOCRATIC SENSE

AS Mr.. Edmunds compares 1885
with 1854 he must feel slight depress-
ion of spirit, a consciousness OF an
aching void beyond the consolation OF
any cocktail. He has had his private
diversion and revenge, but at what ex.
pense! Now let him promise and
swear to support the Republican can
didates in 1888 or he is a lost statesman.
N. Y. San.
President Cleveland does not be-
lieve that measles affect the spinal col
umD except in pension cases; nor that
diarrhea causes sore eyes; nor that sui
cides by drowning and morphine
poisoning were the result of injuries
received in the service. On all these
points of practical medicine he takes
issue with Dr. John A. Logan.-St
Louis Republican.
President Cleveland's disposition
to use the veto is of bad augury for the
advocates of extravagant apprOpria-
tons. During the year and quarter
that he has been in office he has inter
posed many more vetoes than any OF
his predecessors; in fact he has more
than doubled the highest record thus
far, that of General Grant. Most of these
vetoes have been called forth by pri.
vate pension bills, and doubtless there
would have been many more it the
President had time to examine the
mass of this class of legislation which
has come before him. 1he Presidents
disposition is happily adapted to the
needs of the time.-BradstreeCs.
An elderly man in jamestown,
ID. r., it appears, has been attracting
attention by throwing away money
and revealing himself as a cousin OF
Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Fremont,
O. The first piece of evidence natur.
ally threw doubt upon the second, and
the prodigal Burchard was committed
for lunacy. It appears, however, that
he. really is a cousin of Mr.. Hayes.
When there was found among his eff
fects letter from that statesman Of
fering to pay him his annuity Of 5000
down if he would take 81, Or 2 per
cent, off for cash, the people of James
town could NO longer dispute his claim
of kinship, though at his desperate
prodigality they marveled greatly
N. Y. Times.
The love of the Republicanparty
for the colored man was most conspic-
uously exhibited in the rejection of
Mr. Matthews by the Republican Sem
ate. Mr.. Matthews was nominated by
the President to succeed Fred Douglass
as recorder of the District Of Columbia.
He was rejected because he was a.
Democrat. The Republicans are par,
ticularly hostile towards war veterans,
and colored men who are Democrats.
There was not the slightest grounds for
the rejection of Mr.. Matthews beyond
the one fact that he refused to consider
the Republican party as the rightful
owner of his race. The Democratic
party has shown far more practical
good will towards the colored man
than the hypocrites in the Senate who
only seek to utilize him for political
purposes.-Albany argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22
COULDN'T SPEAK.
The Narrow Escape of Stammering
Montana Miner.

An honest miner by the name of
S out in Montana finds great diff
fculty in giving utterance to his
thoughts, the muscles of his face often
twitching and Jerking. his eyes snap
ping and his features becoming so dis
torted that one almost despairs of his
ever getting them straight again. On
one occasion he was sent down into a
mining shaft, which had partly filled
with water, at Diamond City, to look
after some tools that had been left in
the bottom. The descent was made
by means of rope and windlass. and
he was to call out to his partners
above when he neared the surface of
the water. This was the signal for
them to .hold up
Down, down, down he went. and
his feet struck into the water sooner
than he expected, which startled him.
He tried to cry out, but, alas. his
nerves were too highly tensioned. The
unrulv member would not obey
the will, and, with all his persistent eff
forts, he failed to emit the faintest
whisper.
What was 10 be done?
His partners, in ignorance of his
strange predicament, were unwioding
the rope, and letting him lower and
lower into the yielding element, which
was cold and deep. There w.r 40
| time to lose. To climb the rope was
the only alternative. Up the rope he
! went, with the agility of a squirrel,
and was at the top in few minutes.
what is the matter with you,
Jeff?' shouted his comrades, as he
popped out at the top, trembling with
excitement, his clothes wet and drip
| ping, his features twitching in an ex-
| traordinary manner, and they thinking
that some awful apparition was right
| behind him. why didn't you hol-
ler?'
Iii c-c-cou-cou-cou-coul ST
st-st-start m-m-my mo-mo-mouth off,
The explanation was satisfactory.
But jeff could never be prevailed
upon to go down into another shaft
when he thought there was water in
the bottom of it Youths Companion.
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Frightening the Saracens.

zone of my ancestors won a battle
during the Crusades by his skill IN
handling artillery said the Baron.
'.But my dear Baron,' said his friend,
''at the time of the Crusades gunpowder
had not yet been discovered.
II know that as we'll as you do, and
so did my ancestor"
How did he win the battle, them"
He brought his artillery to bear on
the Saracens, and the stupid fools see
ing the guns, supposed that powder had
at last been discovered, and fled in dis
ay."-Pumch.
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Patrick's Sad Lot.

.Patrick Mulcahey, you are charged
with resisting an officer of the law
"Yis, sor: faith did, sor; but it wua
all along O. you, sor, for the last tonne
Oh wuz here didn't yez say: Patrick,
t The p'laeeman, ' bad cess to him an;
thin seq you: 'Foive dollars an costs;
an see that he don't do it agin;' an be-
CORA Oh thried not to lit him. but the
ould haste wad have me whittier or
no. ''-ChtcaQo Rambler.
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Making a Navy.

It is evident from the way in which
the Secretary has addressed himself to
his duties that he means to inaugurate
a naval establishment worthy of the
United States. He believes and says,
and such is the opinion, of all informed
and just men, that the naval
service should be considered quite,
apart from the naval administration.
The naval service, the personnel OF the
navy, is in the main composed, to use
his own words, "of a body of accom-
plished men, representing a. nigh. so
cial standard of personal character,
who are deservedly respected and hon.
ored throughout the world.,' ConAin.
uing his own language: '-This, unfort.
unately, can not be said. with equal
justice of the Navy Department., and
whatever dissatisfaction the country
has ever experienced with the, naval
arm of our Governmenawi]l be- found to
have had its origin, not init naval serv-
ice, but i'm the naval administration,
and even there dissatisfaction should be
limited tscertain branches only of the
business OF the department" The plan
of business reorganization which he
outlined in his annual report has bust.
ness principles OF directness, economy
and pnacticability on it's side. 1t has
commanded the appreciation of thoughe-
full men everywhere. The evils and
FLANDERS of the present NAL system he
laid bare with an unsparing hand; but
he was careful to discrimina ate between
the blame due to faulty methods and
the consideration to be extended to
honorable men who were at the mercy
OF such methods. The large discretion
of power given him under tho law is to
be used by the Secretary in the direc.
ton of business-like reconstruction OF
! the department itself -BrooktNn Eagle.
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A Very Lame Excuse.

Colonel Witherspoon is well known
in Austin for the meanness of the dim
ners to which he invites his friends.
One day he said to Gilhooly:
81 wish you would come and dine
with me-
"When?" -.
..Well, say two weeks from to-day"
sTm sorry l can't come on that day,
for I've got an engagement to attend the
funeral of dear friend '-1eTds Sgt
'711S.
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1.-THE dread of night air is an

1.-The dread of night air is an ex-
traordinary fallacy. What air can we
breathe at night but night air? Our
only choice lies between pure night air
from without or foul air from within. It
is unaccountable that most people pre-
fer the latter. What would they say it
it is proved to be true that one-half OF
the disease that we suffer from is occa-
stoned by people sleeping with their
windows shutP' '-4itoona (Pa.) 1rib-
u71e.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22

Two Brooklyn women had hus-
bands who regularly beat them, and the
other night at about the same hour they
turned upon the rascals and beat them
40 seriously that they had to be taken
to the hospital. One used stone and
the other a pitcher. Union.
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Not Ruined by a Party.

We have always held that one good
would be the dissipation of the fear
that Democratic Administration
would bring some sort of disaster upon
the country. Some of our Republican
friends in the Presidential campaign
INDUCED in the widest forebodings
about the probable effect on business.
Even the Republican candidate fol
President, well known as - business
man, expressed grave approximations.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries
really seemed to suffer anguish on &C
count of their fears.
We have now had full fiscal veal
under the Democratic Administration,
and the comparative receipts and ex.
DenditllreS are as follows:
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$245. 615,742.3S /:

Truly. there is nothing in these figures
to justify the fears of those who proph-
esied disaster as the inevitable result of
Democratic rule. An increase of $12,-
100000 in revenue, a decrease of $14,-
GOO, 1000 in expenditures-of which last
pensions increase over So, 600, O0O-a
decrease of $21 ,OOO,O 900 in ordinary ex-
penses.
On the whole, we are forced to con-
clude that Democratic Administration
is as safe as Republican and somewhat
cheaper, and that the indications of re-
turning prosperity are not unfavorably
affected by the political change. This
is great country, with rich resources
and enormous advantages, and it will
never again be believed that only one
party can govern it.-Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22

The explored coal beds of Ireland
contain 200, 100000 tons of workable
coal, chiefly anthracite,
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-03-28

Drunken Jim Chatham, editor of Cora Davis "Organ," says that ''it was cold day for the republican party when they made ]. o. Dunbar chairman of the central committed" For the benefit of the deputy Organist, the EpITAPH wou'1 remind the Organ that Dunbar wa chairman during the last campaign, and that under the administration of tho central committee, which this loaier speaks so sluringly about, the entire coun- ty republican ticket was elected, with u e single exception of the candidate for recorder. The last campaign was, by far, the most successful one ever carried on in Cochise county. It was, in fact, a complete rout of the Bourbons, hor and foot. The Organ will be compell; to raise some other issue for it's consump tive following, as this is altogether to transparent.