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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07

nations, nothing could be harder for US than
> to decide where, when and by whom we have
been rendered with the kindest and most
generous hospitality. We have found in all
and each of your innumerable cities many
things that strike our eyes and our minds;
here, the largest and wealthiest factories in
some of the different branches of human in
dustry; there, the more extended and sue
cessful agricultural enterprises; in one town
the most excellent schools and universities,
in the other, the highest buildings and the
most elegant residences, in the nearest one,
marvellous kinds of machinery in every
style, perfectly devised and fitted that one
should feel inclined to believe them endowed
with accuracy and intelligence superior
to that of man, if not remembering that they
are but one of the instances, and shows of
what human intelligence and energy can do
in this wonder land.
You all have proud national spirit. You
feel there is nothing superior to your home,
and friendly rival even exists between the
cities in these United states. when we re-
turn to the countries which have sent to
become acquainted with you, to salute you,
to learn of you, and to look for cordial
union and affectiOnate friendship, we shall
be able to point out where the best schools,
where the most important factories, where
the most perfect machinery, where the
largest vessels and the most comfortable
railways can be found, but we viii say at
once that as far amity, sympathy and
goodwill 10 our countries concerned
it is quite impossible to find out the
citizens who exceeds the other citizens and
the Institution which exceeds the other in
sttution, but we are equally thankful to
your Government and to your people. We
will say that there is but one thing equal to
your ability and energy, to your pushing
spirit and wonderful prosperity, and this is
the kind affection with which you open wide,
to your brothers of America, your cities and
your hearts. We will report that if our ex-
periences have proved true, this people
by its strength and resources, is a
giant in the world; his arms have been
to simply the arms of sincere friend,
who is at the same time eldest
and affectonate brother. In conclusion.
allow me, gentlemen, to assure you in the
name of my colleagues, that one of our dear
est recollections will always be that of the
generous and heartfelt reception which your
distinguished club has rendered 60 US in this
beautiful city of st. Louis, near the current
of the Father of Waters.
Senior Cruz received a perfect ovation
on ali sides when he had concluded.
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President Harrison Rusk and wife, At
iorney-Genera1 Miller and Mrs. Russell
Harrison. The Presidential party occu-
pied two stage boxes, and appeared to be
delighted with the performance. They
went early, before the overture began,
and remained until the final fall of the
curtain at the end OF the sixth act.
The theater was crowded, many public
officials and prominent people occupy
.ng seats in the body of the house.r
THE BEsETT1NG EVIL OF THE Army.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. - General
Miles, commanding the Division of the
Pacific, in his annual report just re-
,eived at the War Department recon-
mends some changes in enlistment laws
10 check desertion-the principal evil
besetting the army. An examination of
the reports of desertion, he says, shows
that large percentage of the men who
desert have no appreciation, sympathy
Or regard for the welfare of the Govern
ment, and nearly all who desert are en-
listed in or near large cities. This in
Dictates that the class of deserters are
men of low moral type, and desert under
the worst influences of those cities.
Hence, this class of men should be
avoided, and he recommends that more
care be taken in the selection of re-
cruits. He recommends that the term
of enlistment be three years instead of
five, and the pay of sergeants be made
fifty dollars per month, and the pay OF
other non-commissioned officers be in
creased fifty per cent.
FAREWELL BANQUET.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Nearly hun
dred naval and army officers and civil
ian friends of Admiral John G.. Walker
met around the banquet board at the
Shoreham last night to bid farewell to
the Admiral previous to his departure
to Europe in command of the United
States fleet of new cruisers. Covers
were laid for ninety-six guests. Ad-
miral Rogers presided. Secretary Tracy
and score of naval officers, with Gen.
eral MacFeely and General McKeever,
of the army, were present. Admiral
Walker will command the first Ameri-
can fleet ever sent into foreign waters.
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A SIGN OF SOMETHING.
The Significance of President Eliot's Pc
nticaI Conversion.

The Significance of President Eliot's Po-
uticaI Conversion.
The formal announcement by Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard College, that he
has joined the Democratic party is a
significant thing. 1t is sign of some
thing that no social or political student
can pass without bordering. A thing
like this can happen in Europe, notably
England, and be reckoned at its full
value, exercising good influence upon
the public spirit. When Mr.. Gladstone
joins the Irish party on the home-rule
question, or the Marquis of Harrington
secedes from the Liberals on the same
ground, or John Bright becomes Tory
for the same reason-three able men
taking different courses because of the
same thing-when we see such things
there we appreciate them. We say that
it is spectacle of enlightened politics;
an example of the rule of ideas, and not
mere names. When a similar thing
happens with us, invective at once takes
the place of discussion. So hard and
fast are party lines drawn with us-not
politics, but parties-that mans mo-
tives are at once assailed; he is greeted
with abuse, and thus the whole of
politics is dragged down to the
level of party exigency and the
ciple. If you do not, but instead
cleave to it and act upon it, you will be
the target of abuse. But if you will
spurn principle and stand by party
party right or wrong, first, last and all
the time-then you are gentleman, a
scholar and a patriot.
In the case of a man like President
Eliot certainly there ought to be little
room for suspicion; a student, a scholar,
no politician, and politically going in
the face of New England's ruling caste,
he surely should be treated with respect.
just as surely he is vilipended. But the
wiser men of the party will be set
a-thinking. Ideas are beginning once
more to have an influence in politics as
they did in the days when they formed
parties-when they formed the Repub-
lican party. 1t behooves the mind and
conscience of that party to sit in counr
Gil. Is it committed to wholesale ex
penditures, debauching the public con-
science on the one hand, and on the
other committed to wholesale taxation
for the benefit of the rich? In other
words, shaping the laws to fatten the
plutocrats and placating the masses with
the largesse of universal pension
schemes and National education
schemes? 1t behooves the mind and
conscience of the party to sit in council
when it finds it's economic tenets con-
demned in every educational institution
in the land-once the stronghold of the
party-and men of ideas leaving it for
conscience sake.-Indianapoli News
Und.).
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HOW THEY TALK.

specimen Impromptu Speeches Delivered
by Mem Ders of the South American Del
egations During Their Recent visit and
Entertainment In st. Louis-The Surest
Foundation for q Cordial Understandings
In the Pan-American Congress Appar-
emily Laid.
During their recent visit to ST. Louis
the delegates to the Pan-Arnerican Con-
gress voiced their sentiments in relation
to their reception in the United States,
through their spokesman, in lam
guage which is not to be misunder-
stood. Wonder. admiration and
. feeling of brotherhood wore mani
fest whenever an occasion to express
themselves was offered, and the surest
foundation for a cordial and successful
understanding in the sessions OF the
Congress seems to have been laid.
During a visit to the Mary Institute,
devoted to the higher education of young
ladies, the delegates were greeted by the
singing of America" and after being
formally welcomed by Prof. billiard,
Senior Jeronimo Zelaya. delegate from
Honduras, responded as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: If we have every.
where admired the wonders afforded by this
Nation great above all things for the free
dom enjoyed by her citizens, it is more graft
fying to US to contemplate the spectacle pre-.
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CONTEMPORARY OPINION.

The free-trade miasma is spreading
dreadfully. Here is the Department OF
State proposing reciprocity treaty with
the Sandwich Islands. - Providence
journal.
Hon. Chauncey F. Black, of Penn.
sylyania, achieved a happy definition
when he described the tariff as tax
(which pillages the masses to enrich the
classes. st. Louis Republic.
Dear Bussey, don't write. Noble
and Tanner have written enough TIC
show that in some respects this Admin.
istration has not been a typical hap
by family.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele.
graph.
Private Dalzell predicted that
Harrison would not be able to get any
one to succeed Tanner but broken
down politician or blear-eyed Brigadier.
His prediction has come to pascal
bany Argus.
The next session of Congress is
upon us, and we are going to have lots
of fun, not with ourselves. but with the
Republicans. Up with the banners of
revenue reform. Down with the war
taxes.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
THE Republicans die hard in Mon
tana. Having been outvoted at the polls,
they have sought to correct the return
by throwing out what doesn't suit them.
We mistake the courage and spirit of
the Montana Democracy if they can be
bullied, bribed or cheated out of their
well-earned victory.-Philadelp Rec
ord.
IT iS twantv-fOur wear: since the
war and we have half a million names
on the pension list, with expenditures
mounting up to S1OO,ooO,oOO year.
Will not the next Congress contrive to
put some definite limit to this increas-
ing burden on the taxpayers of the
ountry?-Albany IN. " Argus.
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DE creetur amt make no answer.
he des walk 'roun' en- 'roun' de tree
scratchin' he sides en- back. Brer
Wolf boiler out:
81 lay I'll make you year me ef ]
halter come dar whar you ISL
DE creetur des walk 'roun' en- 'roun'
de treee, en- ANTI make no answer.
Den Brer Wolf hail i'm ag'in, en- talk
like he mighty mad:
.'.Ain't you gwine ter min me, you
imperdent scoundulP Amt you gwine
ter mozey outer my woods en- let my
tree 'lone?'
.'Wid dat. Brer Wolf march todes de
creetur des like he gwine ter squ'sh
i'm in de groun'. De creetur rub
hisse'f ag'in de tree, en- look like he
feel mighty good. Brer Wolf keep on
gwine todes i'm. en- bimeby wen he
git sorter close de creetur tuck N sot
up on his behime legs des like you see
squir'ls do. Den Brer Wolf, he low.
he did:
"'Ah-pi! you beggin', is you? But
faint gwine ter do you no good. ]
mout err let you off eft yau'd a-minded
me wen fus' boiler after you. but
aip't gwine ter let you off now. I'm
a-gwine ter larn you a lesson dat'll
stick by you.
''Den de creeter sorter wrinkle up
he face en- mouf. en- Brer Wolf low:
"'Oh, you nee'n'ter swell up en- cry,
you 'ceitful vilyun. 1 IN a-gwine ter
gil you a frailin' dat I boun' you won't
forgit.
'.Brer Wolf make like he gwine ter
hit de creetur, en- den"
Here Uncle Remus paused and
looked all around the room and up at
the rafters. When he began again his
voice was very solemn.
"Well, sub, dat creetur des fotch
one swipe dis away, en- 'n'er swipe dat
away, en- mos TO you can wink yo'
eye-balls. Brer Wolf hide wuz mighty
nigh teetotally tor'd off n i'm. After
dat de creetur sa'ntered off in de
woods, en- gun ter rub hisse'f on 'n'er
tree"
what kind of a creature was it,
Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.
''Well, honey" replied the old man,
in confidential whisper. ''hit want
nobody on de top-side er de yeth but
ole Brer Wildcat. joel Chandler
Harris, in ST. Nicholas.
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BRER VOLTS MISTAKE.

1t Is Not Always Wise to Judge by APP
Dearance.
"W'en you get a leetle bit older dan
wat you is, honey" said Uncle Remus
to the little boy, you'll know lots mo-
dan you does now"
The old man had pile of white
oak splits by his side and these he was
weaving into a chair-bottom. He was
an expert in the art of 'bottOming
chairs and he earned many silver
quarter in this way. The little boy
seemed to be much interested in the
process.
Hits des like I tell you," the old
man went on. Il done had de speunc e
I'm it. / done got so now dat don't
b'lieve wat l see, much less wat
year. 1t got ter be whar kin put my
ham on it en- tumble wild it. Folks kin
fool deyse'f lots wuss dan vuther folks
kin fool UNI, en- eff you don't b'lieve
wat I'm a-tellin' un you. you kin des
ak Brer Wolf de mex time you meet
i'm in de big road"
"What about Brother Wolf. Uncle
Remus?" the little boy asked, as the
old man paused to refill his pipe.
"Well, honey, It amt no great long
rigamarole; hits des one or deze yer
tales wat goes in gallop twel it gifts
ter de jumpin'- off place.
..One time Brer Wolf wuz gwine
long de big road feelin' mighty proud
en- high-strung. He wuz mighty
high-up man in dem days. Brer Wolf
wuz, en- mos all de yuther creeturs
wuz feard un i'm. Well, he was gwine
long lickin' his chops en- walkin'
sorter stiff-kneed, wen he happen ter
look down pom de groun' en- dar he
seed a track in de SAN. Brer Wolf
stop, he did, en- look at it, en- den he
low:
"'Heyo! wat kind er creetur dish
! yerp Brer Dog amt make dat track,
en- needer is Brer Fox. Hits one er
deze yer kind err creeturs wat amt got
no claws I'll des bout foller i'm up,
en- eff l ketch i'm he'll sholy be my
meat
Dat de way Brer Wolf talk. He
followed long after de track, he did,
en- he look at it close, but he amt see
no print err no claw. Bimeby de track
| tuck n turn out de road en- go up a
dreen whar de rain done wash out.
De track wuz plain dar in de wet san,
| but Brer Wolf amt see no sign err NO
! claws.
He foller en- foller, Brer Wolf
did, en- de track git fresher en- fresher,
but still he amt see no print er nc
claw. Bimeby he come in sight er dc
creetur, en- Brer Wolf stop, he did. er
look at i'm. He stop stock-still an6
! look. De creetur wuz mighty quare
| lookin', en- he wuz cuttin' up some
mighty quare capers. He had big
head, sharp nose, en- bob tail; en- ht
wuz walkin' roun' en- roun' a big dog
wood tree, rubin his sides ag'in it
Brer Wolf watch i'm right smar
while, he acts so quare. en- den h
| low:
".Shoo! dat creetur done bin in
fight en- los de bes' part er he tail; Ell
wat make he scratch hisse'f dat away
lay I'll let i'm know who he foolin
'long Wild
..Atter while. Brer Wolf went up
leetle higher de creetur, en- hole
out:
".Heyo. dar! wat you dom scratch
In yo' scaly hide on my tree, en- tryir
fer ter break hit DOWN.
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send two calls to the War Department
for information regarding the record Of
all applicant for a pension-one to the
Secretary of War and the other to the
Surgeon-General. The military rec
ords were on file in the Adjutant-Gen-
erals office and the medical records
from the hospital rolls in the Surgeon
Generals office. Both records were
some time ago brought together in the
Surgeon-GeneraPs office.
General Raum yesterday decided that
two separate, distinct calls for this in
formation was unnecessary, SO he has
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large sums of money, after they have
been prepared for special adjudication,
are not to be passed upon. They are to
be brought to his desk, and he proposes
to give them his personal attention be-
fore the pension certificate will be is
sued. This change will not delay the
final adjudication of the claim, as the
Commissioner intends to give the pref
erence to business of this character,
and examine the cases as soon as
brought before him. He does not in
tend to make a denomination of the
cases, but in connection with the Off
cial familiar with the cases he will go
over them SO as to learn what they are,
and the principle upon which they have
,een decided.
THE PRESIDENT AT THE THEATER.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-President Har-
rison last night, for the first time since
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A Missing Witness.

PEORIA, Ill, Oct. 31.-The sheriff OF
this county yesterday received an order
from Cook County to arrest Edward
Spellman, the district delegate of the
Clan-na-Gael. Spellman was summoned
to appear in Chicago and testify in the
Cronin case, but disregarded the sum-
mons. He could not be found here and
has been out of the city for two weeks.
His family claim that they do not know
where he is, but that he is away on
business for the Whisky Trust. This
is denied by members of the trust. 1t
is thought that he has gone East to
avoid testifying in the Cronin case.
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Is now the tender and loving companion and
the best friend, and among modern women
none take higher rank-indeed, Justice
cOmpelS me to say the American women
stands at the head of her sex for
her virtues, for her independence and
for all those qualities which make her
the equal of man in intelligence and force or
character, and his superior in every other
amiable quality. To woman with her Writ
ues, no less than to the opposite sex, do
these United States owe that freedom and
prosperity which are the admiration and
wonder of nations.
The gallant senor's remarks were
loudly applauded by the young lady STU
dents, and were unquestionably the hit
of the day. One young miss naively old
the senior that she would be in society
when the gentlemen came back to visit
the Worlds Fair, to which the response
was made with true latin gailantry that
it were we'll for some hearts that she
were yet 50 young.
Later on, during the reception ten
dered them by the Marquette Club in
the evening, and in response to the
toast: Our Southern and Sister Repub-
lies DR.. Fernando Cruz, delegate from
Guatemala, said:
1t is for me a matter both of high honor
and of sincere qualification to be called upon
to respond in behalf of my colleagues to your
warm and hearty address of welcome. 1 am
glad to say, ard feel quite that this is
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AN ORGAN PROTESTS.
SpoiIsmax Harrison Taken to Task by a
Republican journal.

Republican journal.
The muzzled Republican editors, as in
duty bound, either affect to regard the
President who has given them offices as
a good CivieService reformer, or, at the
very least, maintain silence as to Mr..
Harrison's course, because, as the New
York Press has declared, it would be
highly improper for them to pass ad-
verse criticisms upon the Administra-
ton. Occasionally, however, amid the
dead waste of servile praise or equally
humiliating silence on the part of the
muzzled, the man who glances through
pile of exchanges happens upon re-
freshing bit of truth and independence
from newspaper whose editor is proud
to be unmuzzled. 1t is to be hoped that
the President makes it a rule to read the
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An Eloping Couple From Delaware Arrest
ed in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-Alex. Harris, who
eloped with Miss May Ellis from Mil
ford, Del, leaving wife and four chill
dren and unpaid bills to q large amount
behind him. was arrested here yester-
day. Miss Ellis was also taken into
custody. They arrived here Tuesday
afternoon from Philadelphia, and regis
tered at the fremont House as man and
wife. Yesterday they moved to rooms
on the North Side, and three hours
later were under arrest. When arrested
Harris had money and bank paper to the
value Of 80. 500.
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.o.e ). a.aa .ed aon. x.sh shs .rossI {. J,

90 70 b dead and done with the trouble
That nils each day with dEoAry pain"
This II the moan OF many wO8an
Who thinks she can meyer be WsA agsin
olt were better for me and better Tor others
III were dead, - and their tears fsIl fast.
Not 90. mot 90. o wives and mothers.
There's bow OF hope In the sky 1t last.
And It tells you that the storm of disease
which has spread its shadow over you VIII
give way to the sunshine Of renewed health,
h you are wise, and try DIR. Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription. It can and will enectuaHy
cure All female weaknesses and derange-
ments, and no woman who has not tried 1t
need despair, for q trial win convince her
that it is the very thing she needs to restore
her to the health she fears forever lost
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his Inauguration. at
tended a theatrical
performance. 1t was
to see the celebrated
artist Rhea in "Jo-
sephine, the En-
$press of the French"
Sat Albaugh's Opera
sHouse. The Presi-
Sdent was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Har-
ri SON, Secretary
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Tine ssstaff of life' down in Maine
appears to be tobacco. A contractor who
has employed crew of twelve men for
six months on settling up with them
found ten of them, who are tobacco
.chewers, had consumed fifty-three dol
lars worth of tobacco, besides cigars, and
that the cost of flour for the whole dozen
as only fifty-one dollars.
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REFoRas IN THE PENSION OFFICE.

w @ r e discussed,
but no definite
action with re-
spect to t h os 9
particular cases
was determined
on. Two impor-
tant changes in
t h e method Of
tr a n 8 a citing the
business of the
2 en- 81 ion Off c 9
were d determined
on. It has been
the custom to
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&: argos of plagiarism still continue.
It is now limited that successful and
hitherto unsupported farmers crib the
stores of their corn magazines from nat
ure's cereals-Baltimore American.
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Persons visiting Casco Island, Me-,
lately heard a sound like that which an
old-fashioned windmill might send
forth in gale. They went to the south
side of the island, where they witnessed
the astonishing sight of pitched battle
between sea gull and crow The
gray bird won, knocking the crow out
so badly' that he was easily captured by
one - the visitors.
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issued an order
to consolidate
them into one.
This will save
not only time apd
paper, but cleric
al labor besides.
He also issued in-i
5 t u C tions to;
heads of divisions
in the Office di-
recting that all
claims involving
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SuAPTER, South CAROLINA, June I'd, 1887.
DR. A. 7. SHALLENBERGER
Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir: have
been using your Antldote for Malaria in my
family for several years. For more than
year had chills, and was so low down that
had not strength to walk. Mr. Whomsley
begged me to try the Antidote, and it cured
me at once. / am now q strong, healthy
man: We use no other medicine in the
family, as we find it the quickest, safest,
and also the cheapest Yours very truly,
SAMUEL CLARK.
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1t often happens that when young
man is disappointed in love he commits
suicide. When he is disappointed in
marriage he either 'grins and bears
1T" or gets a divorce.-Newton Herald.
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the sentiment of all
of the S an i S b
Am erican dele
gates, that during
this splendid and
so nicely-conduct-
ed complimentary
excursion through
many of the States
of this wonderful
, y a ion, W II i C b
might be consider
ed by itself as a
world of powerful