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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
a HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW.

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The surging sea Of human life
Forever onward rolls.
And bears TO the eternal shore
Its daily freight of souls;
Enough bravely sails our bark today,
Pale death sits at the PROV,
And few shall know we ever lived
A hundred years from now
Why should we try so earnestly
In life's short, narrow span,
On golden stairs to climb so high
Above our brother man?
Why blindly at an earthly shrine
In slayish homage bow?
Our gold Will rust, ourselves be dust
A hundred years from now.
o patient hearts, that meekly bear
Your weary load of wrong?
o earnest hearts, that bravery dare,
And, striving, grow more strongi
Press on till perfect peace Is won;
You'll never dream of how
You struggled Ger ltfe's thorny road
A hundred years from now.
Earth's empires rise and fall, o Timel
Like breakers on thy shore.
They rush upon thy rocks of doom,
Go down. and are no more;
The starry wilderness Of worlds
That gem nights radiant brow
VIII light the skies for other eyes
A hundred years from now.
Our Father, to whose sleepless eyes
The past and future stand
An open page, like babes we cling
To Thy protecting hand;
Change, sorrow, death are naught to US
II we may safely bow
Beneath the shadow OF Thy throne
A hundred years from now.
-fIHriSki1n ut H1rk
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
The HONOR or Toll.

An Extract from President CleyelandN
First Letter of Acoeptance.
a true American sentiment recog-
nizes the dignity OF labor and the fact
that honor lies in honest toll. Con-
tented labor is an element of National
prosperity. Ability to work consti-
tutes the capital and the wage of labor
the income OF vast number of our
population, and this interest should b
jealousy protected. Our working
men are not asking unreasonable in
diligence, but as intelligent and man
" citizens they seek the same consid-
Grafton which those demand who have
other interests at stake.
They should receive their full share
of the care and attention of those who
make and execute the laws, to the end
that the wants and needs of the en-
ployers and employed shall alike be
subserved and the prosperity OF the
country, the common heritage of both,
be advanced.
As related to this subject, while we
should not discourage the immigration
of those who cefae to acknowledge all
legiance to our Government and add
to our. citizen population, yet as q
means of protection to our working
men different rule should prevail
concerning those who, if they come or
are brought to our land, do not intend
to become Americans, but will injuri-
ously compete with those justly en-
titled to our field of labor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
SOME HARD NUTS.
Ask Your Protectionist Friend TO Cr1<
a Few of The1n for Ynn go


Ask Your Protectionist Friend to Crack
Few of Them for You.
Ask your protectionist friend when
he talks about the blessings of pro-
tective tariff why 1000, 900 men have
been out of work under itp
Why Pennsylvania miners lost 1913
days work in 1884 and Ill days work
in 1885?
Why they only got $40 month and
pay out of that $3.50 for tools. sharp
ening powder and oil?
Why some Pennsylvania laborers
work for so cents day?
Why he talks about child labor In
England. when slate pickers, I and 10
years old, are working under the rod
in Pennsylvania
Why Pennsylvania operatives pay
S. month for company houses, when
English operatives get a cottage for
$50 year?
How protection protects working
men when Italians and Hungarians
come in duty free?
Why cotton operatives in Massachu-
sets work sixty hours and in other
New England States sixty-six and six
ty-nine hours week while English
operatives work only fifty-sixP
Why the poorer American spinners
get 7.07 and the poorer English spin
ners 1920 a week, though the Ameri-
can makes two and three-fourths yards
of cloth to the English two and one
halfp
Why wages under the high protect
i've tariffs of Italy and Germany arc
about one-half what they are in free
trade England?
Why the condition of the miner has
for some years been growing worse in
Pennsylvania and better in Great
Britain?
Why sin the very occupations which
we SO tax ourselves to protect the
English workman has, as rule, the
advantage?"
Why working-men earn higher day
wages in unprotected than in protect
ed industries?
Why '.the importation of WOODEN
and worsted cloths is increasing at a
fearful rate, while our own weavers are
thrown out of employment"
What good is a tariff to working
men, when American factories pay
only $3.50 wages for piece of ingram
carpet on which. the duty would be
$21.OOp
Lynn shoe factories, paying nearly
double wages, can produce for 35 cents
labor, a pair of shoes costing so cents
to make in England?
Why wool averaged % cents in high
tariff times and 80 cents in low tariff
years, though blankets were much
higher under the tariff?
Why we sold only $776, 900 of wooden
goods to countries where England sold
over S115, 200, 900 in 1852
Why, with navigation laws and pro-
tective tariffs, only II instead of 80 per
cent. Gas of old) of our commerce is
carried by American ships?
Why blankets are taxed n per cent.
and thread lace only 80? Why ne
cessities bear heavy duties and luxu-
ries light?
Why savings bank deposits increased
IA per cent. a year, 1850, under low
tariff, and only 8 per cent. a year, 1860
IS, under high tariff
Why, when the Republican Tariff
commission recommended at least 20
per cent. reduction, the Conference
bill'' raised the average of duties, SO
that they were As instead of 43 per
ent. in 1S85p-Kunsas Citu Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
The American Laboring-Man.

The native simon-pure American
uses better grammar and altogether
better language in expressing himself
than the man of any other nationality.
In making this statement, reference, of
course, is had to the man who moves
in class from which an accurate adj
herence to the discipline of Lindley
Murray is not always expected. The
remark with which this paragraph
opens is called forth by speech over
heard in front of South Water street
produce store. A burly teamster,
with his hat on the back
of his head and his shirt
sleeves rolled up to his elbows, had his
foot on the wheel of his wagon and the
reins in his hand. preparatory to mount
ing. He paused long enough to turn
and remark to the merchant: ''Well, /
could hardly be expected to express a
different opinion, could I?' The words,
taken in conjunction with the mans
appearance and vocation, constituted
an eloquent proof of the purity of his
American bringing-up. A teamster
imported from Covent Garden. if seek
ing to express his idea as this Amer
lean teamster did. would have re-
marked: ..How the bloody blazes could
Hi think different?n or something
equally striking and picturesque.
fsb,,rn,to L0at393Gl s-e-4ss,.,-. :.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
PITH AND pellN1.


Talk Is cheap ID this world, -
cause the supply IS s. much larger
than the demand. dlsinlore 4nsey
can.
II have always found that the less
we speak of our intentions. the more
chance there is Of our realizing them.
RnsEiss.
The man who does every thing
sson his own hook is likely to get
caught one Of these days. LoaOeA Cisi-A
zen.
1T isn't true that mother can not
see fault in her own baby. She can,
but she won't. Journal of Education.
Malaria is malady that doctor
says you have got when he doesn't
know what's the matter with you. -
PUCK
The voice Of conscience is so deli
cate that it is easy to stifie it, but it IL
also so clear that it is impossible to
mistake it-Mdnss. de StGel.
1T Is the man who can not write
who makes his mark in this world.
But life is full Of crosses to him ii he
has to sign his name often. Boston
Courier.
A wise man says. He who would
acquire fame must not show himself
afraid of censure." And he who would
acquire wealth must hold on to every
cent. sure. Teras SiJtings.
This world was made for poor men;
and therefore the greatest part Of It
was left out-of- doors, where every body
could enjoy it.Beecher.
He that loves not his wife and chill.
dren feeds a lioness at home and broods
a nest of sorrows, and blessing itself
can not make him happy. Jeremy Tdy-
Tor.
Probably the happiest period In
life most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are
cooled, and the infirmities of age not
yet begun, as we see that the shadows
which are at morning and evening SO
large, almost entirely disappear at
midday.-Dr. T. Arnold.
The beginning of hardship is like
the first taste of bitter food; it seems
lOI q AAOAACAb uAUC<1TtbUL0, yOb - uAA0KO
is nothing else to satisfy our hunger
we take another bite, and find it pos
sible to go on. There is no despair SO
absolute as that which comes with the
first moments of our first great sorrow.
when we have not yet known what it
is to have suffered and be healed, to
have despaired and to have recoveredi
hope.
"A little girl asked her mothers.
mamma, what makes all the peoples
we rent houses from so meanP Why
don't you rent house from a good
man sometimesp" Had she been the
daughter of a landlord she would prob
ably have asked: what makes the
people you rent houses to so meanp
Why don't you sometimes rent q house
to good manPn People look at things
in the light of their comfort and COM
venience, and not in the light Of truth
and right. As George Eliot says:
They translate their convenience into
other peoples duties. "-LotisUsllc Re.
corder.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
Pat Ford's War Record.

Pat Ford continues to make no allu-
sion in his Irish World to the official
documentary evidence that he was a
deserter from the Union army during
the war. He appears to be receiving
aid from the National Republican Com
mittee, for he says over his signature
that he is sending gratituously copies
of his paper Ito names suggested to
him. To the persons receiving these
copies he makes moving appeal for
help in electing Harrison. We place
the closing paragraphs of this appeal
side by side with transcript from the
war records of Massachusetts, fur
nished by the Adjutant- General of that
State:
TASK those new The name of Patrick
friends to do me the Ford, of Boston, aged
favor and themselves25 occupation, printer,
the justice to read con-Iis found upon the mus
siderately what ap 4 ter-out roll of Co. A,
pears in the IrishNnth Regiment, Mas
World pages, especial sachuse:ts Volunteer
ly on the tariff. I ask Infantry. Colonel GUM
them to subdue partyev; enl sted on the 18th
feeling and to put aside day Of August, 1862. and
party prejudice. God mustered into the serv-
knows I am not actu- ice of the United States
ated by any sense ofIAugust Ii, 1852. for
party glorifcation. ethree years; deserted
question is not whether on the I'd day of Febru-
the Democrats as such airy. 1868. Underneath,
or the Republicans as opposite the word IRE
such shall win. So far marks" is written:
as mere names go It'.Deserted at Falmouth,
this entire question
from the point Of v ew
OF a citizen of the Re-
public. We are mem
aced by great Nation-(
al calamity. and 1t be-
hooves all patrioticl
men, sinking for the
time being minor is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
WOMEN INVENTORS.

They Are Not q Success, Except In . Few
Notable Instances.
II want you to tell me something
about women inventors, said re-
porter the other day to w. r. Baird.
who knows all about patents.
There are none, was the prompt
response. 81 don't mean that there
are absolutely none, for of course that
is not the case; but as far as / know no
important invention, no improvements
In mechanism which has affected in-
dustry and altered the conditions Of
production. has been devised by
woman. There is queer story con-
nected with one Of the best paying
things ever gotten up by woman. u
was corset, and she made money out
of it for awhile until limitations
sprung up and she was compelled to
bring an infringement suit, when the
defendants broke her patent by put
ting her own husband on the stand and
compelling him to testify that he
had seen his wife wearing her
invention four years before the
patent was taken out. This the
court constructed to be public use'
within the meaning of the statute
which prescribed that patent upon
an article in public use more than two
years is invalid. The defendants won,
the patent became common property
and the bottom of that gold mine was
reached. OF course, good many
patents are taken out by women for
household contrivances of one sort and
another, as their inventive genius
naturally runs in that direction; but
do not know Of any thing In that line
that has amounted to much. Perhaps
the pillow sham holder is one Of the
best paying of these. There Is one
trouble about inventions which is cal
culated to vex and harrow the souls Of
women, and men. too. They usually,
when they think they have an idea,
look for similar machines, and, finding
none, take it at once for granted that
the way is clear. Then they bring
their IDEAS to specialist and he has
to tell them, If he Is honest, that the
distinctive feature Of the supposed In
vention has already been patented in
another entirely different class Of ma
chine upon which hers, though used
for q different purpose, would be aD
infringement.
There is one class Of invention"
continued Mr.. Baird, (which is large
kly done by women, though this does
kpt appear in the patent Office reports.
i.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
DRIFT OF OPINION.

True to the undertaking course
of the Democratic party we will not
neglect the interests of labor and our
working CleUeland's Letter Of
acceptance.
To warn the working-men of
this country to vote against free wool
because it will reduce wages is a good
deal like begging them not to eat roast
beef for fear it will give them the gout.
N r Herald.
Here is the .'meat" of the whole
tariff question: If the tariff raises the
prices of goods made in this country it
comes out of the consumer. If it does
not raise prices, then it is non-pro-
tective and useless. -Bostop Globe.
The interesting fact has hereto
fore been overlooked that the Maine
Republicans not only lost heavily in
Mr.. Blaine's own county, but in his
own city and his own ward. This.
perhaps, was what he meant by ''po-
litical revolution. Providence Jour
nal.
The surplus revenue now re-
naming in the Treasury not only fur
nishes conclusive proof of unjust taxa
ton, but its existence constitutes a
separate and independent menace to
the prosperity of the people. The
vast accumulation of idle funds repre-
sents that much money drawn from
which is needed in the channels of
trade and business. ClerelGnd's Letter
Of Acceptance.
Patrick Ford, the leader of the
so-called Irish-American Republican
movement, was a deserter from the
Union army, and General Hovey, the
Republican candidate for the Governor
ship of Indiana, deserted the front to
advance his interests in the rear. II
it were not for war records perhaps
the old soldiers might be led to be-
lieve that all the men who saved the
Union are in the Republican party
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
During the last three years Of
Republican rule there was
Discussed for pensions. -. s1s3 399 216 81
Difference. ......& 34,000 s4) 80
These figures are taken from the
books in the Commissioner Of PEN
sions' Office and are authentic. They
show that under three years of Demo-
cratic Administration $34, 900, 900 more
was paid to the Union veterans than
under the last three years of Republic
an rule.-Cleveta,sd Plain Dealer.
Henry R. Hinckley, a cutlery
manufacturer at Northampton, Mass,
has been asked for some ''fat Al
though an old-time Republican. he re-
piled that he believed the party was
wrong on the tariff question and that
he would not give it a cent to save it
from perdition. Mr.. Hinckley stands
with Mr.. Sargent and the many other
manufacturers who believe that lower
duties would help their business.
About the only protected industries
that are likely to come down with
''fat' are the trusts. = Chicago Herald
Talk about it as they may and
sound its praises as they may, the adj
vocates of high protective tariff can
not get away from the fact that such
! J J J > ! ! ! > >
tariff is a tax pr ~ for
the benefit of ar lte-
THAI
III
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
What Republicans Want.

1--WE would effect all needed reduc-
ton of the National revenue by repeal
ing the td1es upon tobacco and
the tax upon spirits used in the arts.
If there shall still remain a
larger revenue than is requisite for
the wants of the Government, Ue favor
the entire repeal of internal tares.
WHAT THE REPEAL OF FAXES on TOBACCO
AND SPIRITS, OR REPEAL OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE MEANS.
On each ST sorsh
Tax on sugar.. 30 81
Tax on rice ........ IL
Tax on salt O 80
Tax on fish. = q
Tax on Iot1
The St. Johns herald., 1888-07-26

bonds be signed by said Chairman and ] by said Treasurer, and that said bonds 1 bonds be consecutively numbered and sold and disposed of, as provided by chapter ? of the Revised Statutes of Arizona for 1887, approved March ?, 1887
 It is ordered by the Board of Supervi- sors of said county that the place of payment of principal and interest of said bonds of said County of Apache of $1 ,000 each of the series ot $11O,000. numbered from to 73 inclusive, issued under chapter Revised Statutes of 1887, approved March ?, 1887, as follows, to- wit at the Chemical National Bank of New York City, in the State of New York, and the same be inserted in said bonds on their face.
 It is ordered by the Board of Supervi sers of Apache County that the bonds of Apache County of $1,O00 each, of the series of $11O,OOO issued by virtue of chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1887, approved March ?, 1887, numbered from A to 100 inclusive, be due and pay able, principal and interest. at the Bank of British Columbia, in the city of San Francisco, State of California, and the same be inserted in the said bonds on their face.
 The townsite plat of Nutrioso was pre- sented to the Board of Supervisors, and after examination was duly approved by said Board.
 It is ordered that the Board now ad- journ to meet on the 3d Monday in Aug ust, 1888, at 10 o'clock a m. to meet as Board of Supervisors, and to meet as a Board of Equalization at II o'clock on the same day.
 DAVID ROPE, Chm'n.
 Attest: E. w. NELSON, Clerk pro tenn.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-07-26
Purify Your Blood.

Bodily and mental health depe-d upon . healthy condition of the bicod. The blood particularly in the spring and summer months, becomes clDgged with Impurities, which poison it and generate disease. A harmless blood purifier is necessary to restore a healthy tone. The best purifier and tonic known is Swift's Specific (S. S. S.l. Of it's won- derful purifying Gnd tonic powers we give few testimonials:
 Mir. Wm. 4. Siebold, with George P. Rowcll & Co.,, 10 Spruce Street, New York, writes: ''I feel it my duty, for the benefit of others who may be af- hictcd as l was, to write you this letter, which you can use in any way you choose. 1 suffered great pain from boils, nll over my neck; 1 conId not turn my head without acute pain. After trying all the usual remedies. and hnd- ing no relief, used one bottle S. $. S.. &nd very soon was entirely rel eyed cf my Jobs Comforters' Now not a zign of my aff1iction can be seen"
 Mir. N. $. Ham.:n, Winston, \. C., writes: 'I use lJ every spring. It al. ways builds me up, giving me appetite and d gestion, and enabling me to stand the hot summer days. On using it l soon become strong of body and easy oI mind"
 Mir. c. E. Mitchell, West 23d St. Ferry, New York, writes: q weighed ll6 pounds when 1 began taking your medicine, and now 152 pounds. 1 would not be without S. S.S. for several times Its we .ght in gold"
 Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,,
 Drawer 5, Atlanta, Ga,
The St. Johns herald., 1888-07-26

of who shall be hired. or when sucl hired teacher shall be discharged. The whole farce of school trustees should be done away with. Then, the question oi where the teacher must board, will not be the all absorbing one, and only nec- essary qualification to be considered, their sole rule of action in the matter being ignorant caprice or self-interest. In many instances l wot of, the trustee in most of the outlying precincts, will not grade above the average intelligence and in too many cases far below. The no interest taken i'll school elections IS the result or outgrowth of this pernic- ious system; the electors of school dis tricts seeming to think the only qualifi- cation necessary for a school trustee, is in his physical capacity to successfully initiate the late lamented B. Young's provocative abilities. The question of higher education for ignorant trustees, and for country schools, is another cry ing farce; as also the methods now in vogue, in securing certificates to teach, not depending upon the applicants fit ness for the position, but simply depends upon memorizing certain textbooks.
 NMROD.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-07-26
Two Ways. Choose Which!

There are two usual ways of doing what Nature sometimes does incomplete ly, namely, to relieve the bowels. One IS to swallow drastic purgative which evacuates profusely, abruptly and with pain, the other is to take Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the effect of which is not violent, but sufficiently thorough, and which does not gripe the intestines. If the first is selected, :he person em- ploying it need not expect permanent benefit, and he cannot hope to escape the facilitating reaction which leaves the organs as bad or worse off than be- fore. If, on the other hand, he resorts to the Bitters, he can rely upon the res toration of regular habit of body, con sequent upon renewal of a healthful tone in the intestinal canal. Besides healtbful!y relaxing the bowels, the Bit ters arouses dormant liver, imparts a beneficial impetus to the action of the kidneys, and counteracts the early twinges of rheumatism, tendency to gout, and malaria in all it's forms.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-07-26
Attest: E. w. NELSON, Clerk pro ten
What Florida People Live On.

"What do Florida people live on in the summer?" Fish" "What in the winter?" Yankees" Alas how many northerners draw their last breath in Florida, slain by that fell destroyer, con sumption, who would have lived, had they used at first that marvellous specific for consumption, when not too far ad- vanced, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dlscovery-better than hypophosphites and cod liver oil, because more nutritive and tonic; also an invaluable liver cor rective and blood-purifier, cleansing away all scrofulous humors (which cause consumption), and all other impurities of the blood, curing glandular swellings, goitre or thick neck, old sores and ulcers. Of druggists.
 Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.