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Iron County register., 1889-12-19

From Shop to Mansion.
The Romantic Story Of a Dress
Makers Rise In Life.
BY MRS. r. M. Howard.
Copyrighted, 1ss9.l
CHAPTER XII.

Oracle tripped lightly down the stairs,
dressed in dainty silk of cerulean blue,
her floating hair fastened back with silver
dagger; Isabel followed her, dressed simply
and elegantly in plain black silk, a fichu of
creamy real lace about her neck, in the
fleecy folds of which shone the diamond
locket, her only ornament, and MIR. Fail
coner, quite rested from his bath, cheer
fully brought up the rear.
Caroline met them at the foot of the stairs
and ushered them into spacious drawing
room, elegantly furnished; little, old lady
was sitting on a sofa, her hair, which was
snowy white, was arranged in little curly
puffs on each side of her white temples; her
eyes were a deep brown, and her small
mouth had peculiarly sweet expression
She, too, was dressed in a heavy black silk,
cut low at the throat, and filed in with fold
on fold of whitest, fleeciest lace, and on her
breast glittered diamond locket, the ex-
act counterpart of that worn by Isabel
She arose eagerly as Isabel entered,
Oracle hiding shyly in the shadow of her
dress, and took a step forward, her small,
white hands extended.
cousin Isabel, this is Mrs. Pembroke" !"
said Caroline, and Isabel stepped forward
impulsively, and took the quaint, appealing
little figure in her strong young arms with
a loving caress, as she whispered fondly:
'My darling grandmother! am so happy
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Harrison reports that our foreign
relations are satisfactory. He might
have added that his own relations have
nothing to complain of, either.-Chicago
Herald.
Harrison processes to believe
that he was not the cause of the late
Democratic ground-swell. Still, when
he puts on his grandfather's hat, it is
much larger than it used to be.-Galves-
ton News.
AS a compromise after defeat the
Des Moines Register (Rep) proposes
that the prohibitory laws of Iowa shall
continue to operate in such counties as
gave majority for prohibition.
-''Give me free ore," said the presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
land I'll sell pig-iron in Liverpool and
steel rails to London. What American
nifty, and not legislative protection nor
restriction"
The leading characteristics of the
Presidents message are it's unhesitating
advocacy of Capitalization and paternal-
ism in government and it's blandly un-
conscious assumption that the Repub-
lican party is the Republic. In these re-
spects the message is in close conformity
with the attitude and tendency of the
party which made Mr.. Harrison Presi-
dent.-N. Y. World.
-Tariff-A forced contribution first
practiced by the Moorish pirates in TO
A. d. at Tariffa on the strait of Gibral-
tar, thence transferred to other coun-
tries and finally to the United States,
where it was systemized as ''TAe Amer
lean system of Protection" for the ben
eft of the manufacturing pirates of New
England, who are by it itlawfully empow.
cred to rob the consuming classes of
America. (Kan.) Kansan.
1t is natural enough that mind
capable Of composing so dull a message
should be incapable of rightly appre-
ciating its own work. AS mere refer
ence index to the public business Har-
rison's message may have some value in
Congress and newspaper offices, but if it
records the events of the time it throws
no light upon them, and while it refers
to acknowledged evils it suggests no
proper remedies.-N. Y. Times.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
TAXATION BY TARIFF.

Nothing Less Than Twenty Per Cent.
Reduction VIII Satisfy the People.
The Philadelphia Times says that
''the people of this country believe in
the liberal protection of American
labor" We believe that if the people
could vote squarelY on the question of
whether or not taxes shall be levied for
any other purpose than revenue for
Government uses the vote would be
heavily against any tax not required to
support the Government. But we agree
with the Times that tariff should be
maintained if it can be freed from it's
present abuses. A tariff of from 25 to
80 per cent will yield all necessary
revenue, and more than cover the diff
ference between cost of production in
England and the United States. We
understand that the Democratic party is
working for just such tariff. We
work for it because we believe in taxa
tion for revenue only. IT the Times be-
lieves in lower taxation ''for Incidental
protection" we have no quarrel with it
on that account. It is reformed Re-
publican newspaper and a very able one.
1t wants a low tariff. So do all Dem
ocrats and constantly increasing num-
Der of Republicans.
The vote in the November elections
this year was vote for this same low
tariff. The country is tired of the
high tariff levied in time of war, and
since maintained with only such
changes as render it more unjust in
its determinations. Our Republican
friends will attempt to appease the peo-
pie by revising this tariff-that is.
by re-enacting its iniustices as they did
in 1883. When they have done all that
it is possible for them to do they will
leave it what it is nova high tariff,
discriminating in favor of few mo-
nopolies in league with the Republican
party. The Democratic party means to
reform this tariff and the first step
toward reform is reduction. The pres
ent average rate of tariff taxation
ought to be reduced twenty per cent.
When that is done those who favor
protection" may get all the protection
they like out of it and no one will OBJ
iect.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
observation-disclosures,
A Milwaukee Man Who Forgot Whe
His Wife Had Moved To.

A Milwaukee Man Who Forgot Where
His Wife Had Moved To.
A West-side attorney, noted for his
Observation-Disclosures as well as for his
business shrewdness, is in the habit of
leaving the management of his house
entirely to his wife, in whose ability ne
has the utmost confidence. He furnishes
her the wherewithal to run things and
never inquiries or cares about what she
does so long as his comfort is provided
for. One evening. not long ago, he was
standing on the corner of Grand avenue
and West Water street, looking discon-
solate and greatly troubled.
Hello, Blank" said an acquaintan
'swhat is the matter?'
s'Dash it, he responded, I'm in a
deuced bad box, and l don't know what
to do. My wife moved to-day. She told
me this morning she was going to move,
and where she was going to move to,
but I'll be blowed if l remember where
it was. l think it was somewhere in the
Thirteenth ward. Where do you think
INV wife would be apt to move top
The friend could not help him. and
how and where he found his domicile
history sayeth not.
Absent-mindedness is not confined to
lawyers however. A young man who
owns a horse, of which he is very fond,
and who is also fond of giving the
young ladies rides behind his stopper,
has habit of talking to his horse, ad-
dressing her with various pet names.
Not long since he took young lady, a
teacher, riding, and the conversation
turned upon her work. She was telling
him of trouble she was having and
how she dreaded to meet it, when. in a
soft and smoothing tone. he interrupted
her with: Never mind. Pet; never
mind. 1t will be all right if you brace
right up to it." And it was only after
very painful pause in the conversa-
tion and an awkward explanation that
she learned the remark had been meant
for the horse, which had been afraid OF
something ahead.-Milwaukee Wiscon'
sin.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19

room, Mrs. Pembroke's arm linked lovingly
in Isabels, 'and has taken the fancy that
the little girl is Alicia"
Mrs. Darlington saw at glance how
grieved and disappointed her niece had
been, and with a few words of kindly tact
changed the subject dexterously, and pro-
posed some music.
Adelaide and Caroline were both fine per-
formers, and selection OF duets and
choice music was brought out, and in their
artistic rendering of some of her special
favorites, together with their lively saliies,
for they were sparkling and witty conversa-
tionalists, she forgot her sorrows, and
spent q delightful hour.
81 have one favor to ask, Mr.. Falconer," !"
said Mrs. Pembroke, as she laid her gloved
| hand on his arm; her carriage was at the
door, and the family were on the broad
veranda.
''To the half of my kingdom, dear
madam he replied, gallantly.
sit is that you spare Isabel to me alone
for one day." she said, pleadingly. '1t is
an old woman's whim, I know, but I want
my Alicia's child all to myself for one
| sweet day" She looked in his face, her
| fine eyes moist with feeling.
ITO be sure,n he answered her, heartily
and sympathetically. "Who could refuse
such natural requesta"
ssSuch funny gentleman" said Oracle,
as she sat by Isabers side before retiring.
Mrs. Darlington had spoken with Isabel OF
the matter, and Lizette was to take charge
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
PITH AlSp POINT


"A fool can start Are thai sl@1
Wis, yet man in the world can mol put
out
We sometimes teach others by our
actions the very things we do moi want
them to know.
Misery may love company, but the
| country doesn't generally return the
compliment. Someryille Journal
A great Ynany people are like the
ordinary cur dog, too small for watch
dog, and too large for : pet -Atchison
Globe.
Endurance is more valuable than
cleyerness. 1t is the patient steady
ploiders who gain aad keep fortunes
You can no more Judge . man by
his daily walk and conversation than
you can an election day saloe0 BY its
front door.-Detroit Free Press
An unfair thing in this world Is that
we never know there is an ounce OF
prevention until after We have taken
our pound of cure.
1T has been observed that the man
with the fewest failings is the man most
tolerant of those of his neighbors.
ton Courier.
They who are most weary OF life,
and yet the most unwilling to die, are
such who have lived to no purpose; who
have rather breathed than ived--Clar-
endon.
The doctor who cuts a man open
after death and tells what is the matter
with him has the advantage of the
doctor who is compelled to guess what
is the matter with the patient before
death.
1t is every mans duty to do right.
In order to do right deliberately, man
needs to know what is right. Finding
out what is right is, therefore, an es-
sential prerequisite Of right-doing.-S.
S. Times.
"A distinguished divine once said:
ST wish that ministers and lecturers
would be q little more generous of
thought and more stingy of words. You
don't want a yoke of oxen to drag a
CARLOAD of potatoes on smooth road"
When the energies pause, and the
worker settles down, he may find COM
fort and ease, but the inspiration of the
great struggle is no longer with him;
his real life is finished unless he takes
into some other field that energy which
has secured him success.
Steady work for the love of 1t, and
for the satisfaction and peace which
it brings, never breaks the worker
down. On the contrary, it so weakens
temptations from without, and SO de-
stroys inferior ambitions and desires,
that it gives the whole nature steadi-
ness and poise. 1t is the best cure for
restlessness. The Joy of life for strong
natures lies in a noble activity; work
adequate to the aspirations OF the soul;
work that brings calm by its magai-
tude, and by its very demands evokes
the best and greatest in us.-Rural New
Yorker.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
The Nlugwump stin LIVES,

sfMugwumpery~i is dead" we have been
told at frequent intervals within the
last year. There was no means at hand
of disprsving the assertion, and the fact
that many Mugwumps were deluded
into voting for Harrison tended to con-
firm tit was not, therefore, vigorously
challenged. But whoever reads intelli-
gently and without prejudice the returns
Of the recent elections, especially in
Iowa, Ohio and Massachusetts, will con-
clude that Mugwumpery is not dead, nor
even asleep, and that Mugwulnps are
really more numerous now than they
were in 1884. Harrison's many repudia-
tions of pledges, and the generally re-
dictionary policy developed by the Ad-
ministration, drew ont the Mngwumps.
The party which hopes to win in 1890
and 1899 must take account of Mug
wumpery. Bridgeport Comm Farmer.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
Mr.. WINDOWS REPORT.
A Document Full of Sophistry and Pitt
full Propositions.


The quality of Secretary WINDOWS
statesmanshsp is we'll shown in his pitt
full proposition to reduce the surplus by
the repeal of the tax on tobacco, and by
his puerile plea that tobacco sis now
the only product of agriculture that is
directly taxed by the Government. !"
Manufactured tobacco is good thing to
tax. 1t is productive of large revenue,
and the tax is not burdensome. Many
other taxes can be much better spared
than it can.
A horizontal reduction of the tariff is
undesirable. In giving it a slap, Secre-
tary Window seems to have forgotten
that the Republicans in 1872 put a
scheme of horizontal tariff reduction
into operation; that the effect was to re-
duce the revenues, and that in 1875 the
Republicans restored the tariff for the
express purpose of increasing the rev.
enne. Protection" was not then quite
the Republican fetch it is to-day.
The Secretary's illustration, in his
feeble reference to q tariff for revenue
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
DISHONEST METHODS.
The Republican Party's Attitude in Rela.
tion to Tariff Reform.

The Republican Party's Attitude in Rela.
tion to Tariff Reform.
Every time the Republican party pre-
tends to revise and reduce the tariff it
adds to it's absurditieS and its injus-
tices. There is not in the leadership
of that party a single man who has any
honest intention of reducing the tariff.
That tariff comes out higher and more
burdensome from every process of Re-
publican revision"
What sort of tariff reform is to be ex-
pected from party whose chief spokes-
men insist that any reduction of duties
that are laid solely in behalf of capital
is to come out of labor? What sort OF
tariff reform will that be which will be
begun, continued and ended with agents
and lobbyists of the protected mill
owners ever at the elbows of the So
called representatives of the people
who are to reduce it? What sort of
tariff re form may we expect from party
which owes its present ascendancy to
the enormous corruption fund which
the monopolists whom this tariff pro-
tects raised last year and used to de-
bauch voters? How much will man
reduce the tariff in the interest of con.
sumers who starts out with the lying
premise that this odious system of tax.
alton for the benefit of the rich and the
spoliation of the poor is necessary to
maintain wages? The starving work
ing-men, the pauper working-men OF
this country are protected working-men
The well-paid labor of America is not
protected at all.
Furthermore, how sincere is thai
President and that party in professions
of desire to reform the tariff that frs
proposes to make whisky and tobacco
free? Is this party of Goo
and morality, or is it party o.
ignorance and immortality? - Chicago
uor, IL
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
A CANDID PHYSICIAN.

How an Honest Medical Man Was Re-
warded for Telling the Truth.
Some people were discussing the germ
theory of disease few evenings ago,
and doctor who was present laid down
the law very emphatically upon the
germ as being the physical cause, or
rather inseparable antecedent Of every
known form of disease. When asked
why, if he knew so much about it, he
and the members of the profession didn't
kill the germs, or at least explain to the
public how such causes of disease might
be exterminated, he just stroked his
beard and said the germ had yet to
be discovered although it was known to
exist s'Why," he said, 1--WE are only
at the beginning of medical science.
There's leprosy, which has been we'll
known throughout this world since
the Hebrews left Egypt in the time
of Pharoah, and as yet we do
not know whether it is heredi-
tary, contagious or communicable in
any way. We know absolutely
nothing about it's causes or its cures.
All we seem to know is that it is in
some way connected with such diseases
as cancer, scrofula and rheumatism, and
that, like them, it is incurable." just
then little child in the room began to
break out with whooping cough. Itwas
the beginning of the third weeks whoop-
ing, and every thing that medical skill
and careful nursing could do had been
done to relieve the little one. ''You see
there" said the doctor; 1--WE can't stop
the time of that disease by one day. We
may put the child to sleep and soften
the cough little, but the germ has put
in his appearance and must run his
course. The fact is that medical science
is now employed not SO much in finding
remedies as in discovering preventives.
And, indeed, in truer sense than Sir
Isaac Newton, we doctors are like chill
dren picking pebbles on the shore, while
the great ocean of truth lies unexplored
before u.s." The strange part of the
story is that although the lady of the
house admired the doctors candor, she
determined in future TO call in a ply
sician who had more faith in his own
medicines Journal.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
MY, shows the density Of his ignorance

only, shows the density Of his agnorance
of economic truths. In the first place,
If the tariff rates were cut in two, ii does
not follow that there would be addi-
ttonal importations to the extent of
$500, 600, 900, or that it would require inn
portations to that additional amount to
give us either the customs revenue we
need or that we now receive. There is
no uniformity In tariff schedules, and
on certain commodities imported in
large quantities there would be COM
paratively little change If the tariff were
wiped out altogether. It is also the
height of nonsense to say that If we inn
ported $500, 900, COO more than we now do
the effect on the country would be
calamitous. I've would not import, that
is buy, that additional amount, under
any system which can be devised, with
out selling goods with which to make
the purchases. What does all the talk
we have heard of late about extend
ing our foreign trade mean? Does
it not mean that we expect to
buy as we'll as sell? Is it not absurd to
say that it would be good thing to in
crease our imports if we maintained an
average tariff of Al per cent, but that it
would be a calamity if the average tar
iff was only half as create What would
Secretary Window do with the surplus
revenue if our importations, under pres
ent tariff rates, were twice what they
are now?
The notion that country is fmpover-
ished by the goods which are brought
into it is one worthy of protectionists.
1t has no basis in common sense.
Secretary Window, like the President,
studiousiy avoids the subject of sugar in
his discussion of methods of reducing
the surplus. 1t offers more inviting
field than tobacco: but the protective
principle" would have to catch it. This
explains the silence.
The Secretary's method of dealing
with the silver problem seems too cum
bersome. If he desires to experiment in
the direction indicated, he might have
hit upon simpler method by which the
same results would be accomplished
Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
The very Smallest Republic.


The German traveller, Blattner, who
has hunted and travelled in the Alps and
the Pyrenees during the last summer,
gives an account of the smallest repub-
lie in the world--the little hamlet Of
Goust in the mountains mentioned last
above. 1t belongs neither to France nor
to Spain; has not to exceed 1875 citizens,
all told; is Catholic in religion, and Is
wholly supported by the silk industry.
Tho people have no taxes or other pub
lie charges to pay. They have no mayor
or other official, each male inhabitant Of
the age Of eighteen having equal say in
administering the affairs of state. They
have not even an established church or
priest of their own. They pay for
church and school privileges at the
neighboring village of Laruns, their
marriages and burials being performed
at the same place. Among the Gcust-
enese there are no rich or poor, noble or
churl, master or servant - ChioNgo
Tip1nS
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
ITO DE CONTINUED.
A nuKRo and bulldog had a fight recey

A BURRo and bulldog had q fight recent
ly in Fresno, Cal. Burro is Californian for
donkey. The burro was browsing ON cockld
burrs by the roadside, when the bulldog
trotted along. stopped and, without growl,
seized the donkey by the shank bone of thu
OFF hind leg. The donkey Immediately
brought its hind quarters into action, and
its legs and the dog flew through the AR in
a most active way, for the latter refused to
let go. The burro lay down on his back,
brought his hind legs up to his head and
seized the dog with his teeth. Then both
hung on. The dog let go first. The burro
arose and rubbed the dog back and forth
over a barbed-wire fence until it was dead.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19
MACHINERY In the shoe Trade.

In leather manufacture, modera
methods have reduced the necessary
number Of workers from to so per
cent.
In the manufacture OF boots and shoes
the work of 5000 operatives is now done
by 100, displacement of wage-earners
of so per cent. by aid of machinery.
In mailing on shoe heels one worker
and boy, with machinery, can heel
500 pairs of shoes per day. 1t would
require five workers to do the same by
hand.
The introduction Of machinery In tho
manufacture of children's shoes, during
the last thirty years, has displaced six
times the manual labor now required.
and the product Of manufacture has
been reduced SO per cent TO the con-
sumer.- shoe and Leather Review.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19

1t is proposed to substitute wooden
clappers for the iron ones now in use on
locomotives running into New York, and
which are so often complained of as
nuisances. The sound would still maze
noise enough to be heard where they
should be, while the neighborhood would
get rest.
Iron County register., 1889-12-19

WHEAT and potatoes are two products tEat
can be grown and marketed without faed.
ing, but they should form part of a rcta'
ton. and with wheat the straw should b
saved and used as feed or bedding, apd
,y this plan be converted into good fsr'
tilizer.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1889-01-23
Horses on snowshoes.

Snowshoes have been worn for years
by horses on the Oroville and Quincy
mail route during the winter months.
It would he impossible for them to travel
over the deep SHOWS without their aid.
A horse that is accustomed to wearing
them will travel five and fsix miles an
hour, where it would be impossible to go
that distance in q week without them.
The shoes are made of thin steel plate,
about nine by eleven inches, fastened on
the lloofs with clamps. The horses are
shod with long heel corks which go
through the snowshoes, and prevent
their slipping going up and down hill.-
Plumas National.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1889-01-23
[To BE Continued
10 Keeps a Scrap Book.

hear from Rome that the German
emperor only looks to advantage on foot.
He ''sits low" the backbone being short.
With this the legs are long. His figure,
horses head, and the legs and thighs
forming an acute angle He has given
up wine and beer drinking, does not eat
much and absorbs quantities OF tea. His
face was worn and showed fatigue when
he was in Italy. Every morning and
evening packets of papers were placed
on desk Ia his sitting room lie
rl'urc,l uYtr III that waa c!nut Iinl.~lf,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1889-01-23
No. 2s0.-A Basket of Flowers.

No. 1884 Basket of Flowers.
(a) "The fateful flower beside the rill"
(b) This will bring to mind Thoughts of
Heaven" IT'S also game of this season.
(c) Precise, and ''the queen of flowers"
(D A vehicle, a people, and the whole is
color.
e) Artificial fireworks.
10 A part Of speech, o vowel and a mega
two.
(g) A summons, a goddess, consonant and
little girl.
CHI A verb in the present tense and an in
sect.
d) ooh, raro old plant is tho - green"
ID Ono of royal house, letter and an
ornament.
GO A town in England and hollow me-
tallic vessel.
d First, sphere, and, second, "the fair
est, freshest and choicest part of anything"
(nl) A sport and on incentive.
IN bird lin the possessive) and a part of
tho Same.