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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-02
A Great Difference.

Secretary Lamar has been making
some rafting speeches in the South
west and telling the people that the
United States is a pretty fair place to
live in after all. Though he did not
avoid the subject of the war and for
mer sectional differences, he expressed
the belief that the North and the South
have reached a stage in their history
when they can lock arms and march
through "the corridors of time to the
music o.. the Union. Let US see-Sec-
rotary Lamar is a Southern man.
Mr.. Blaine has been making a tour
through Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey, doing his best to keep the old
ante-bellum antagonisms alive. He
has shaken them up as kennel keeper
lashes his dogs and sets them all yelp-
ing. Then in a magnificent peroration
he described the tyranny of the whites
and the oppression of the blacks until
the groundlings were wild with de-
light.
1t is little odd that the South should
accept the new order of things, while
Mr.. Blaine insists that unless the North
hates the South it yields one of its
greatest privileges and is recreant to
its most important duty.-N Y
Herald
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READING FOR THE Young.
WHAT ENDED THE CALL.

We were going. on SATURDAY., ever 81 far-
My mamma and Ito the Dollies' Bazaar.
Where fifty wax doilies-the 1oveliesr show
Went walking about when they wound EN-
you know.
You wouldn't believe half the things they
Why, one said "Good morning" plainly
you
One played the piano, and one, dressed in
lace,
Walked up to a mirror and powdered her
lace.
Well. when we were ready we stepped in the
hall.
And there was a lady coming to call.
She said she lust CHANGED TO be passing that
way,
And she really had only minute to stay.
We waited and waited, and hoped she would
TIL saw it was almost the time for the
show,
For heard the clocks striking all over the
And knew that the dollies would all be run
down
And so I just said: ST should s'pose. Mrs.
Black.
Your little girl wonders why you don't come
That's all that spoke, every Identical word :;
But she said: Little girls should be seen
and not card"
guess that's a proverb, so may be tits true;
But. If people won't see, what can little girls
My mamma looked queer, but that ended the
call.
And we went to the Doliies' Bazaar. after all.
Emily Huntington Ntler, ia Our Little Ones.
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end and to delight in weaving them
into new forms of beauty.
Mocking-birds can be taught almost
any thing in the way of tunes. Macon
used to boast of a bird that whistled
''Dixie," and years ago a Frenchman
travelled about the country playing airs
upon the piano which his bird would
follow accurately. At the Pulaski
House, in Savannah, negro used to
keep bird that would whistle a good
alto to tunes his master whistled.
One of the most popular errors con-
corning the mocking-bird is the belief
that he has no song of his own; that he
adopts and blends only the notes of
other birds into song. This is pure
nonsense. The young hooking birds
reared in the garrets of great cities and
beyond the reach of the songs of others
sing as do the natives in their freedom,
though not as strongly, s.nce they lack
the inspiration of mates, the mellow
sunlight, and liberty. Their song is. in
fact, a number of songs, but entirely
original. No man ever heard the
divisions of the mocking-b birds song
in any forest. That he intersperses them
with cat-cails, the hawks screech, the
whirr of the bull-bat, and the chickens
melancholy ''peep," and notes from
other birds is true, but these are only
characters in his recitative ballad, feat
ures in the romance of his summers.
That he sings his parts backward and
forward and combines them anew is
also true. The mocking- birds song is
to the ear what the kaleidoscope is to
the eye, and the combinations of his
songs are as endless as the glass forms
in the toy. But the song notes are the
same.
This bird is probably the most con-
tinuous singer in the world, but there
are two weeks out of every fifty-two
when nothing can tempt him to sing,
and that is when he is melting. At
such times he may be found moping in
a secluded spot, lost in rayless melan-
choly. He looks then hot and sick, and
the only note he utters is a short, low
whistle. not unlike that which the fat
man makes as he removes his hat and
mops his brow. Perhaps during this
season the bird lays aside mockery, re-
penis. and makes good resolutions
Aacom (Ga.) Telegraph.
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licious repasts.'' These parrots were
named Torpedo and What's, and were
taken to England. MANY time;
continues tt1e lady, Il have gone TO tue
kitchen and found it empty OF dones-
tics. but the whole floor swarm ne WIN
animals-viz: six pugs, father no1 ,1'.
and four little ones, one cat ana one M,
ten. huge Mount st. Bernard dog anu
canary, and among them all, prouuly
struttiny about, Torpedo and tne
Whale. If Leo, the big dog. was Ia
front of the fire, the parrots Wouiu
calmly pinch his toes till he made place
for them: and the kitten and parrots
PLAYED games together. rolling over
and over. r.,
..Whale, among his other accomplish,
ments, possessed love OF music anu
whistled Just like the canary. tie also
greatly enjoyed my music when play
Ell, but he preferred scales and exeT-
clses, his taste being purely classical;
Whenever began the former he would
climb up my dress on to my shoulder,
and there fiutter about just as though
he were taking a bath. Then, one Dy
one he would abstract nv hairplns, TIL
at last my hair would fall down, ana
that he would plunge and bathe Win
extreme relish. This was an amusement
he was not often permitted to indulge
in. however.
Another parrot owned by this lady
was named doctor Johnson. because
like the famous man of the dictionary
he was fond of tea. Of this parrot she
writes: II was very busy embro dering
a curtain soon after we landed. and DOC,
tor Johnson. willing to be useful as Wen
as ornamental learned how to sew. he
would s on the side of the wooden
frame. watching the patient needle as
il stabbed the cloth in and out Sud-
denly, one day, he made a da n at the
needle coming through the work, and.
pulling it out with a jerk, ran again to
the side of the frame, and this he re-
peated every stitch, with many Joyous
gamhols among the many-colored WOODS
and silks. '-Golden Days.
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TRIBUTE TO HONESTY.

PRESIDENT Cieveland's Fitting Reception
at the Hands of Harvard's Scholars,
Both Old and Young-Instructive Words.
There was a warmth and heartiness
about the greeting extended to Mr..
cleveland in Boston that testified how
close and strong are the bonds that
unite him to the people. 1t was a spon-
taneous tribute to a faithful official,
honest, straightforward public servant,
who places duty before every thing and
is staunch and true under all circum-
stances. In the oldest and most emil
nent university in America, surrounded
by the most distinguished representa-
tives of New England education and
culture, the Democratic President
Was the recipient of honors and
courtesies of which any man
might be proud. From the revered
president of Harvard down to the
youngest graduate. every one was
eager to testify his respect and adj
miration for Mr.. Cleveland. While
much of this enthusiasm was owing to
the high Office of the distinguished
visitor, very large proportion of it
was caused by the sterling qualities
which have characterized his public
career. The unvarying success of that
career, due to fidelity. high purpose
and earneStneSS. was an example to
the young men around him and sub
ject of admiration to their elders and
professors. The occasion was one,
also, calculated to inspire the most
sluggish breast. Fair Harvard. young
and vigorous, ardent and ambitious,
after two hundred and fifty years OF
life, was in her gayest and brightest
mood. Around her gathered her chill
dren, among them men CT worldwide
fame, all filled with the same atfec-
tionate feeling for their Alma Mater.
To her were offered the nobest tributes
that American lips could utter in Mr..
LOwelfs grand Grafton and DR..
Holmes impressive poem. Most in
structive to the young graduates were
MIR. CleveIands we'll considered words
on the duties of American citizenship.
After all it comes to this, the people of the
United States have one and all q sacred mis-
sion to perform, and your President not more
surely than every other citizen who loves his
country must assume part of the responsi-
bility of demonstrating to the world the sue
cess of popular government No man can
hide his talent in napkin and escape the
condemnation his sloIhfuness deserves. nor
eyade the stern sentence which his faithless-
ness invites. In parting with you now let me
express the earnest hope that Harvard
alumni may a ways honor the venerable insti
tuition which has honored them. and that no
man who fOrgetS neglectS his duty to
American citizenship shall find his Alma Nd
ter here.
1t was day to be remembered in the
annals of Harvard and one worthy of
the occasion and the distinguished as
semblage. And in the opinion of many
who attended the quarter millenial, the
brightest feature there was the pres
ence of ''the handsomest Democrat in
America. "-Albany Argus.
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THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.

Get All the Pleasure You Can Out of What
Yon Have.
Most boys and girls think that if they
could only have every thing they want
ed to wear, to amuse them, they would
never be cross or dissatisfied. That is a
mistaken idea. Things outside of your
self do not make happiness. knew a
boy once, about nine years old, who
it seemed had every thing that
could make a boy happy-a lovely
home, papa and mamma who did
every thing in the world to make him
happy. He had 8 printing-press, a
velocipede, a bicycle, a sled, skates Gee
and roller), books -every thing; and
yet he was the most unhappy child l
ever saw. One winter morning the
streets were covered with snow. All
the boys in the neighborhood were out
with their sleds, shouting and laughing
and having the best kinds of times.
This boy went about the house frown-
ing. growing and whining. What
about, do you think? He was not
satisfied because his sled
was not longer, and utterly
refused to 60 out. He would not go
out with such a mean Sled" he said.
That afternoon was walking not far
from this boys house when / heard
shonts of laughter from some children,
who were out of sight around the
corner. When / did see them / stood
perfectly still There were four little
children without overshoes, or over
coats, or mittens They had an old
broom which they were using as a sled.
The Youngest child was sitting on the
broom, and two older boys were pulling
him along by the handle. The fourth
child. girl, was running along hold
ing the little one on the broom. Their
eyes were shining, cheeks just like.
roses, and they certainly were just as.
happy as though they had the most
beautiful of sleds.
The following conversation was
overheard among some little children:
Three tiny raggei boys were playing to-
gether in the sunshine Thursday on side
lions. A fourth voungster came up his eyes
glistenfn9 with pleasure his dirty face proud
with delight. .'oh boys" he cried. ave
The others crowded around and discussed
the treasure excitedly. Then they sat wn
on the tursstone to compare "reminiscences
OF recent lseky finds.
Il foun' mos a hull piece of top yester-
day" said one.
Il foun' a big bono in our allev, a n'orful
big bone" said a second, 81 N Pm goin' to
make a jumper out of it,
The youngest chld-the very dirtiest,
smallest, thinnest baby that ever walked
had listened with smile OF perfect content
AM now he chimed in, in tone whose pride
and JOY words can convey:
''rhith mornin' fOun' q peanut"
You see, it is not what you have,
what you findr that makes you happy,
but the use you make of it. If you use
it to enjoy it, get all the pleasure and
profit there is in it out of it, you will be
happy in its possession; but ifyou think
all the time that you want the thing you
have not got. or can not have, you lose
al the pleasure locked up in your pres
ent possession.-Chz-istian Union.
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AMOS GOOD LUCK.
The Grand Results Following the Finding
of Feather-B Bed.

The Grand Results Following the Finding
of a Feather-Esed.
..Talkin' bout findin' things" SAID
the man on the nail-keg nearest the
door, II never had no luck that way;
twan't in my family. Them things
runs in fam'l lies, jes' as losin' teeth or
hair early, or rheumatic or blue eyes
does. 1 had a family O. cousins that
was dretful lucky that way. Feared
zif they couldn't g out 'thout pickin' up
sumthin'; an some times 'twould be
with sumthin' and some times
'twouldn't; twas les s it happened,
yer know. I've known one of them
boys to fetch in a pncushion in, the
mornin' and a gold ring afore night.
Picked 'em up in the road. They lived
on road at was travelled good deal,
you know. One on 'em found feath-
er-bed once. He was young fellow
then-twas Amos (the man paused to
look out the door and spit across the
sidewalk), ''he was jes' married n gone
t housekeepin'. They hadn't but
one feather-bed, n Jane tod Amos f
they had any company she n him
ID have to lay on the husk bed upcham-
Der, n let the company have their bed,
''cause | hain't a-goin to have it known
that hain't feather beds enough to go
round, SEE Sarah Jane. She was a
dreadful proud critter," says the old
man, with a chuckle. He put his foot
across his knee and nursed the upper
knee tenderly. .Well, We see, Amos,
he liked good bed, m not to blame,
nuther, fur he was hard-workin' felleg,
Amos was, m SEE he, IN git another
feather bed fore I'll turn out o mine
for company .Where'll we git it?' sez.
Sarah Jane. Pears to me there's the
burnt piece N the sparkled heifer's got
to be pa: d for fore we save any feathers
to lay ON Well, Amos. he didn't say
nothin'-'ta mt no use when womans
like Sarah Jane, but he h:tched up the
mare, M off he went ter carry some
rolls ter mill Comm home he see a
barrel right ahead in the road He
pitched it inter the wagon-'twas head
ed up. but twas awful Highland
yard Sarah Jane she come out, n SEES
She: What We got there, your feather
bed?' Course ses Amos, just as natural
feather beds in barrels long the road
w
hain't lived in this world sixty-e;ght
wear come next January, if the want
a feather bed in it, Jest as nice one s
ever you see. toa Well, it kinder scairt
'em both, n Anne ses. ses he: Sarah
Jane, what do you Think She burst
out a erwin. SEES she: Anne, don't lett S.
you n me ever say a sharp word Or
have a contrary thought of each other
agin.' An | guess they stuck to it.
There didn't never happier nor pleas
anter spoken couple live in Lewiston.
I don't believe, for forty years, and
call the findingeof that feather bed the
luckiest thing Amos ever done in his
life.'' .sSome folks is born to luck"
said the administered man. with
sigh, as he threw a cheese crumb at a
mouse that peered out from his hole
behind the counter.-Lewistom One. J
journal.
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THE MOCKING-BIRD.
Wanton Slaughter of the Most Origina
song Bird of North America.

Wanton Slaughter of the Most Original
song Bird of North America.
Up to emancipation times, or rather
the close of the war, mocking-birds were
plentiful everywhere in Georgia Dur
ING the wears that followed freedom
armed race to whom guns had been
forbidden. The negro became an en-
thusiatic hunter. but he was unskilled
and could crafty his craze for destroy
ing only upon birds that were nearest
at hand Mocking- birds. cardinals jo-
reels, cat-birds and thrushes went down
as easy conquests before class that
had never been taught better, and had
neither sentiment nor conscience. The
negro hunters of to-day, with possibly
and they fill Their bags with birds
that can be killed in the
trees. 1t goes without saying that
these are the BIRDS that should be
spared to the fields and to society My
observation has been that few. very few.
negroes will pass, gun in hand, any
tn NO that has feathers and is large
enough to cook. and that is borne oat by
the fact that the blue-jay, wood-pecker
and the cat-bird are disappearing from
the fields and woods almost as fast as
the mocking-bird proper.
The destruction of the mockIng-bird
has been more rapid because his nest
has been systematically robbed by par
ties of both eolors for private gain or
qualification. 4 year or two'sines. we
noted one shipment of these birds
from Savannah which contained iy or
seven hundred. Upon the streets of
this and other cities they are openly
sold every summer.
The loss of these birds and others not
named from the fields is very uRfortu-
nate, if we consider the matter merely
from the standpoint of economy. 1t is
said. and any one who has seem the
mocking-bird feeding its young may
readily believe it, that worm or bug
goes to its nest every tixe minutes dur
ing the day. This would give more
than one hundred to the day for every
pair during the nest lie of their young,
three sets of which are raised every
Summer. When it is remembered that
every bug or worm thus cut off may
represent thousands, the value of the
I bird services can be understood True.
i he takes figs and berries, but he earns
them. When, however, we look at him
from a sentimental point, the wonder
that any one can harra a member OF
the mocking-bird family increases No
! song bird in the world can equal the
! sweetness of his notes or sustain 3
| song so long. No bird known to natur-
! alists can produce the notes of others
| and of owls or even animals with such
| precision and in such combination. The
little gray singer that balances himself
unon tree-tops or dances along the
| ridges of our houses seems to have al
the bird notes of the land at his tongue
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FUNNY PARROT STORIES.

The Confusion of a servan'-Torpedo and
the Misunderstanding to sew.
A lady writing i'm aLoudon magazine
of parrots / Have Met" tells some
good stories concerning birds of that
species The lady has made two voy-
ages to India. and she has seen parrots
by the thousand merely Gagged par
rots, but parrots, n full enjoyment of
their freedom. She first tells of a par
rot that used. TO bite il.r when she was
little girl; then guez' on:
The next parrot became acquainted
with was aagraN one. and belonged to
Admiral Blank. We had one house
and Admiral Blank another, and Polly
used tolspend his time in a large cage
perched up in a tree, where he was very
happy and conversational, and became
gu tie friendly with nae, as gave him
fruits and other deliea eies.
Now. there was huge negro serv-
ant, upward of six feet high, as black as
a COAL. but great swell, attired always
in most spotless lily-white duck suits
and tall white hat. who was told off to
attend to these garden houses. His
name,- too. was White. and White.
Wh;ts!' might often be heard shouted
through the garden in the stentorian
tones of Admiral Blank; when White
would fly, with an obedient start, from
the Ritchen of the hotel hard by. One
morning I had seen the Adm raj start
OF. Respondent in uniform. and knew
he was gone. I was surprised. there
fore, to hear ..W hite Nhiter' called
in his toae of vOice.
II could not understand it, :ss,I had
never left the garden since he went
away, and had not seen him. return.
Neither could White. He came running
and perspiring, went to Admiral Blank $
house, and then looked about the gar-
den, but could not find him. Then.
supposing he had made a mistake, he
returned to the kitchen. But the par
rot gave him no rest. for the man could
not tell the parrots voice from that oil
the Admiral.
While the writer was in India friend
gave her two young parrots. '@When
| inspected them" she says, 81 could
hardly believe they were parrots. They
looked like very yellow, ugly. skinny
frogs, with white claws and red beak.
and not vestige of a feather, and more
firmly than ever declined to have any
thing to say to them. However, they
were put In basket and fed every tive
hours on d system of dough-pills poket
down their throats and washed dowr
with water. and. to my disgust. wa
expected to assist them to these de
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asphyxiated on a Moving Train.

MT CARROLL, ILL.,, Nov. 26.-Upon the ar
rival at this place of freight train No. Is
from Chicago Wednesday evening. smoke
was discovered issuing from car in the
middle of the train. Investigation showed
that the car contained III. " Seevy, from
West Libertyville, ILL.,, and several horses
and fowls and a quantity of furniture
billed to Bows City, Ia A lot of hay in
the car was found to be on fire, evidently
jgnited by lantern which was found
broken on the floor. The stock was dead,
suffocated by the smoke. and MIR. Seevy
was found on his knees near the door OF
the car, living, but so much overcome that
ne breathed only few minutes after being
taken out
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No Further Use for Him.

The Republican newspapers do not
seem as seriously moved as, night he
expected by the gradual elimination
OF the colored man from Congress.
There is hint in their comment on
the subject of feeling on the
part of the party that it has no
further use for the colofed Rep
rcsentative and no longer cares to
take the trouble to elect him Speak
ip.g of the fact that but one negro men,
Der has been chosen to the Fiftieth Con.
gress, the Buffalo EGpreSs says:
The year 1859 marked the advent of the ne
gro in Congress. and since that time he has
been an unInteresting and usually silent fig
ure in that National body. His gradual retire
ment may well be- taken an additional
proof of his political subjugatiorn, and in SO
much its sign icance is important 1t may be
halls of legislation was of any benefit to the
ind!vid ual member or to the race To sit in
somber dumbness through the daily sessions,
to vote with the Republican side and draw
his monthly treasury warrant from the Ser
geant-at-Arms was generally the sum total OF
the negro member 5 achievements He rarely
spoke ana when he did break silence interest
in his remarks was usually confined to tae
galleries.
So the negro is passing out of Congress as
he is rapidly leaving the legislative chambers
of the Southern States. The reaction is per-
haps but naturaL-Detroit Free Press.
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Probably Fatal Accident to a Hunter.

DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 26.-Guy Colburn,
of Waverly, while out hunting Sunday dis
charged his gun at a squirrel; the breach
pin blew out. striking him between the
ewes He was found insensible some time
after by his brother. who with some Difficult
tv pulled out the iron, which was embedded
two inches in Guys head, penetrating the
brain Colburn was conscious throughout
the operation of removing the breech-pin.
and told how the accident occurred. He Is
still living and seems in fair way to re-
cover, though the nature of his injury IS
such that it is considered one chance in
thousand. Much interest is manifested n
the outcome.
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Fire Underwriters Association.

New ORLEANS, Nov. 26.-An fire insur-
ance companies and agencies doing bust
ness in this city except four have formed
a combination styled the New Orleans
Fire Underwriters Association, and have
advanced rates of insurance on all mer
camille business from ten to fifteen per
cent and on cotton thirty per cent. The
four companies refusing to enter the com
bination are the Home. Louisiana, La
fayette and Firemen's, all local concerns.