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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
Pretty Well Seasoned.

A man who lives on Brush street sent
q small boy to neigh boring saloon after
a quart of amber liquid. The small boy
on returning sat the pail on the side
porch and called to the man to announce
the arrival of the beverage. The latter
was inside the house and did not
respond Immediately. A tramp, of the
most pronounced type, saw the small
boy deposit the beer on the porch, went
in and was in the full enjoyment of the
foamy when the owner emerged from
the house.
What do you mean by drinking my
beer?" shouted he.
The tramp lowered the GROWER from
his cavernous mouth, blew the froth
from his unkempt mus.acne, and, with
a surprised look, replied:
Beer! Excuse me, sir, I thought it
was water
The man who had paid for the beer
tainted, and the tramp went ioyfully on
his way.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

seemed TO go slower and slower. ,Phcn
a shock came. and 1t was known that
she had struck bar.
Fortunately Cape Fear had been
passed-then something went wong
with the engines and the skipper had
steered for some near port, but had
gone aground. There was no need to
fear-the sea was calm, and plenty of
ships and "wreckers" passed near every
day.
But two days had gone by, and they
had seen no vessel. The clouds were
growing black, storm was near. 1t
broke in fury at midnight. and those on
board the yacht could only watch and
wait and hope.
The waves dashed over the deck and
beat heavily against the sides, then
some way they saw the yacht had been
driven off the bar, and they were drift
ing helplesSly out to sea.
1t was a fearful night, and it seemed
as if morning would never come--that
overy moment the yacht would be
wrecked-when shock came. and they
knew they were either driven upon
some reef or had co!lided with an ocean
ship.
Mr.. Lawrence went swiftly to Lucia
and took her by the arm, saying:
Come with me-the boat is filling
with water."
The confusion was horrible; the
sailors were sh outing, running to and
fro; the women were pale and weeping.
Lucia alone was calm.
Mr.. Lawrence half-carried her to the
deck, and in the darkness they saw a
great ship-the one that had run them
down. But oh, joy. 1t had stopped and
even in the fury of the storm was send
| ing boats to rescue those on board the
yacht.
1t was none too SOON and it was per-
ilous journey in the life boats, but in
| spite Of wind and Wave, all were saved
and taken on board the ship. which
proved to be steamer from Jackson
| Vile to New York.
The rest of the journey it was no
| longer Mr.. Stephenson who was always
at Lucia's side but Mr. Lawrence.
The last night before home was
reached Lucia was standing by the side
of the vessel when Mr.. Lawrence came
| toward her.
Her color rose and she softly asked:
| He was struck by her new expression.
| Her eyes had dreamy look, and there
was touch of sadness in her face.
| The moonlight was shining upon
them-then suddenly cloud vailed the
light, and he bent near, looking down
at her tonderly.
at has been the happiest and the
most wretched month of my life, as in
deed has been the whole year, since l
met you," he whispered.
| Her head dropped little.
Look at me, Lucia, | love you so.
| Look at me. If l could hope-do not
treat me SO proudly. 1 have loved you
| from the first"
But her light laugh rang out: NO.
no! do not periure yourself"
But l did! 1 do" he cried, impetu-
ously, taking her in his arms.
"Oh! don't speak of that first night;
it was dreadful. l lost my slipper, and
was so stupid" she exclaimed little
| later.
What" he asked in establishment,
| and then the story was all told, and he
calls her his Cinderella, and keeps the
slipper safe in little glass case in his
! smoking room. Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
SHOULD CHINA ADVANCE.
Then the Fate of Europe Would Indeed
he a DeDlorable One.

Then the Fate of Europe Would Indeed
He Deplorable One.
We hold with Lord Wolseley. who has
seen the Chinese, and seen them at war,
that the Monaghan race is quite capa-
BILE, under certain easily-conceivable
circumstances, of overrunning CONT
mental Europe, of stamping out our
progressive civilization, and of estab-
fishing their own cast-iron, immovable
polity in its stead. That they will
actually do this is, we grant, unlikely
enough; but it is absurd to speak as if it
would be impossible for them to do so.
1t is not difficult to demonstrate
the existence of this possibility
The population of China is at
least 500, 900, OOO This was the compu-
tation of Marquis Tseng, through the
French authorities say $4,000, 900, and
Prof Legge, the professor OF Chinese in
the University of Oxford, declares that
400, 600, 900 is nearer the true mum Der.
But the former one provides IN utterly
inexhaustihle reservoir of fighting men
who can learn to use weapons of pre-
cision as well as Europeans, who are as
Industrious and ingenious as beavers.
who are perfectly obedient To orders.
who are quite as fearless a. regards
death, not merely when in a con-
dition of mental exaltatibn, but
habitually, and who woald not
mutiny no matter what their
hardships, unless prevented from
gambling. If, as Lord Wolsdy says,
this population ever awakes, PRODUCES
Generals and determines not to etitself
be excluded from all the best places of
the earth, 1t will be impossible p with
stand it. The Chinese would lot, of
course, overrun Europe like NAPOLEON,
but their silent, steady pressure would
be oui te irresistible. Inch by inch they
would appropriate the Western civilized
world. Even now. when the Chinese
are for all practical purposes dormant,
it is difficult for the Russians to pre- vent
them from filing up the provinces Of
the Amoor. What, then, would be the
result, if they once adopted fortard
policy?
Their advance would be like thai of
the Jennings in Norway, except Aat
thew would know how to take ship md
so would find tho sea no obstacle. Ii
Russia, necessarily the first victim.
were conquered, and the Chinese, war
ing some horrible veneer of civilizatin,
were to est blish themselves in Polati,
the rest of Continental Europe would
soon succumb, and we should then Sc
Lord Wolseley's Battle Of Armageddn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
THE BIRDS LOVE HIM.

Oneer Character Who Is on Friendly
Terms with the Denizens of the Air.
There is Sandwich man. in Brook
lyn whose "beat" is on City Hall square.
Although fierce of mien and unprepos-
sessing in makeup, and having appar=
emily but few friends among human be-
ings, yet he is not friendless. His
nearest and dearest friends are doves
and pigeons. At almost all hours of
the dag they hover around him,
picking up crumbs that he doles out
sparingly from his meager store of food.
It is pretty sight, and scores of peo-
pie frequently pause to gaze upon it
Some of the birds are beautifully
marked. Before al;ghting they circle
gracefully around the Sandwich man."
waiting for his signal to come to lunch
con. This signal, which seems to be a
sudden extension of the right arm, is
thoroughly understood by the feathered
beauties, for the instant it is given they
flock about the unkempt and ragged
man. In and out between his feet they
wadd1e, picking up the crumbs in the
most fearless fashion, while others perch
themselves proudly upon his shoulders
and take morsels of bread and crackers
from his fingers.
One dove, white as snow, is the star
Of the impromptu show. 1t has been
trained to take the food on the ny, Tor
as the '.sand witch man" tossed bit OF
cracker in the air the dove flies up and
catches it before it falls.
The exhib ition is usually at its height
toward evening. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
THE MODEL FATHER.
How the Pipetish Protects and Cares for
His Offspring.

How the Pipefish Protects and Cares for
His Offspring.
If you want perfect model of domes-
tic virtue. for example, where can you
find it in higher perfection than in that
exemplary and devoted father, the COM
mon great pipefish of the North At
lantic and the British sea? This high
principled lophobranch is so careful of
his callow and helpless young that he
carries about the unmatched eggs with
him under his own tail, in what scien-
tiHc icht hyologists pleasantly describe
as q sub-caudal pouch or cutaneous re-
ccptacle. There they hatch out in per-
feet security, free from the dangers
that beset the spawn and fry Of SO many
other less tender-hearted kinds, and as
soon as the little pipefish are big enough
to look after themselves the sac divides
spontaneously down the middle and al
lows them to escape to shift for them
selves in the broad Atlantic. Even so,
however, the juniors take care always
to keep tolerably near that friendly
shelter, and creep back into it again on
any threat of danger, exactly as baby
kangaroos do into their mothers mar
supim. The father fish, in fact, has
gone to the trouble and expense of de-
veloping out of his own tissues MEM
branous bag on purpose to hold the
eggs and young during the first stages
of their mbryonic evolution. This bag
is formed by two folds of the skin, one
| of which grows out from each side of
the body, the free margins being firmly
glued together in the middle by nat
ural emulation while the eggs are I'M
dergoing cubation, but opening once
more in the middle to let the little fish
out as soon as the process Of Matching
is fairly finished. Cornhlll Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18
BUZFUZ AT HIS BEST.
How Philadelphia Lawyer Paraly zed a
InOffensive Jury.

How q Phi1a delphia Lawyer Paraly zed an
InOffensive Jury.
lawyer named Flowers, who has
just come to Philadelphia from the
country, is paralyzing every body by his
rocco style of eloquence, which even
Dan Dougherty couldn't initiate. Here,
for instance, is how he defended a
woman who was up for common scold:
Gentlemen of the jury, you have
probably heard the words:
At midnight in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power.
Loud Cheers
Yes, gentlemen of the jury, we are
to strike for our affairs and our fires
strike It'll the last armed foe expires. :"
[Cries of "Demosthenes," Cicero"
"Clay."] Then, like Nero of old, we
shall have to weep for shame that
there are no district-attorneys to con-
quer. I ask you in the name OF COM
mon sense and decency, gentleman OF
the jury, to acquit my client. She is
no common scold. She does not
make might hideous" with bowls and
bedlam noises. ''Birds of feather
flock together" but she is not the kind
of bird to flock with this feather
TCheers. Gentlemen of the jury, this
woman's liberty is at stake. ask you
to acquit her.
Yonder floats the ensign which has
for years f1oated DER land and sea loud
cheering] as the emblem of the land of
the free and the brave. Long, long
may she continue so to wave! [Cheers.
May her protecting folds encircle not
only we assembled here, but this, my
client, cen as the hen gathers her
chicks under her wings in time of storm
wild outburst of applause. l-Philadel
phia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

As an illustration of the remarka-
BILE suspension OF vitality known among
some of the microscopic organisms, IL
is said that microzmes may lie during
entire geologic periods in such rock
as chalk. and vet retain the power OK
development
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

A play is over, or done. when it is
finished. 1t is frequently over-done be-
fore it IS finished.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

The cuttlefish, which amongst othe,
strange things always walks with its
head downward, does not chew it's food
at all, but masticates with its gizzard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

Technical Terms-New Clerk-"1
should like to know something about
these stocks, sir" Wholesale Clothing
Northumberland The goods on
this floor are trousers for the New York
and Boston trade. On the floor above
are the pantaloons for the Philadelphia
and Baltimore trade, The third floor
is filled with pants for the Western
trade"-Good News
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

Gazzam-I like to read the Bazoo. Its
editor strikes me as a man with earnest
convictions.
Maddox-He ought to be. Six libel
suits have gone against him in the last
twelve months. West Shore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-18

Mr. Stephenson's place seemed al
ways by Lucas side, but this did not
especially trouble Mr.. Lawrence until
the voyage was nearly over, and, in
deed, the visit at Bermuda ended, and
the yacht was on its way home-then
he began to question Arthur Stephen
sons right to be forever near Lucia,
and to cherish a secret determination to
place his own steamer chair there occa-
sionally. But he did not succeed very
well.
At last Mr.. Lawrence knew very we'll
why Lucia was admired. He could not
be on board many days without seeing
that she was not only beautiful, but
very charming and interesting as we'll
the only thing that puzzled him was
her lack of wit and sparkle the night he
first met her. She was so very ordinary
theE-but for her beauty, of course
Now it was all so different, and he
would give a good deal to be sure OF her
favor and friendship, but she seemed to
repel all advances. She was, indeed,
the life ofthe party.
She played the guitar and sang Span
ish love songs on deck moonlight
nights. She arranged impromptu dra-
MATES in the saloon when the weather
was not suitable for sitting upstairs.
She knew all games, was the most
graceful partner in dancing, and the
best sailor he ever knew, and grew
more beautiful each day.
The mutinous feeling against Arthur
Stephenson swelled they were only
three days out from Bermuda. and they
decided 20 sail to Nassau. Happy OPP
portunity! Now he would see her, but
she was always surrounded.
One night the skipper came up and
said few hurried words to Mr.. Jack
son. No one noticed it until the yacht
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20
ELECTRICIANS MEET.

trio Light Association.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 11.-Thc
semi-annua1 convention of the National
Electric Light Association began its
sessions at the Coates Opera House this
afternoon a few minutes before one
o'clock. Between 800 and 400 delegates,
exhibitors and visitors were present
when President Weeks formally de-
clared the convention assembled.
Suspended in the center, above the
stage were lis incandescent electric
lights, red, blue and yellow, arranged
into the associations crest, Ohio's law.
On the stage were President E. r.
Weeks, Vice-President A. j. De Camp,
of Philadelphia; Secretary Allan ".
CARAT, of New York; G. w. Hart, Of
Kansas City, chairman of the executive
committee; Mayor Davenport, repre-
sentatives of Eastern electrical papers
and others.
Mayor Davenport was then introduced
and welcomed the delegates in most
hearty speech. He said: ''Your coming
has been a source of untold pleasurable
anticipation, your presence is an honor
to us and trust that your stay here will
be as pleasant as at that of any other
that you have ever attended" He re-
counted in detailed and graphic man
ner the advances that have been made
in electrical science in the past decade
and the countless uses to which it has
been put.
1--WE welcome you, gentlemen" he
said, ''as the benefactors of the Nation.
The good you have wrought is not to be
told and it reaches even the mirac-
ulOuS"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20
SIBERIAN HORRORS.

A Letter In Cipher Showing an Awful State
of Affairs.
PARIS, Feb. 12.-Russian refugees in
the city have received cipher letter
dated Kara, Eastern Siberia, December
%, stating that Nine. Sidiha, lady of
noble birth and lately school teacher
in Moscow, who was serving penal
sentence for being found in the possess
sion of revolutionary documents, had
committed suicide. She was a very
beautiful woman and had resented in
suits offered her by the director of
the prison and in consequence
was stripped and logged in the pres
ence of all the men in the prison. Fear
ing renewal of her humiliation and
suffering she committed suicide by tax
ing poison. The letter says several
other female prisoners, apprehending
similar treatment killed themselves.
On hearing of these occurrences the
male convicts at Kara revolted en- masse
and the troops being called out to sub
due them q fearful massacre and whole
sale torturing and fogging ensued.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20
a wRoNoED WOMAN.


rhs Bride q Dack Hawes, the Blrminghan
Brute, Expresses Her Contempt Of the
Convicted lEnrderer In Burning Words.
BIR,uNoHAM, Ala, Feb. 12.-Since
Dick h. ives was taken from the side
OF his bride of six hours to answer the
charge Of numbering his first wife and
his two children, scores Of reporters and
correspondents have tried in vain to
interview the young lady he married.
Miss May Storey, that was her maiden
name, is now living quietly at the home
of her parents in Columbus, Miss. There
your correspondent secured an inter
view, in which she tells the whole story
of how she once loved Dick Halves, and
how she hated him when she learned of
his crime. When she first commenced
to talk about the affair she said:
81 try to forget; people say bear up
bravely, but I had to do it. II / had
given way to the terrible grief that was
breaking my heart it would have killed
my old father. You know he opposed
the marriage and when the blow came
it almost killed him. For his sake I
have tried to bear it bravely. The sub
ject is never mentioned at home now.
You have seen father? His gray hairs;
that awful trouble caused it. Do love
that man? No, no; God forbid! I hate
him. He is not the man 1 loved. 1
loved a man who looked like Mr.. Halves,
but never loved monster, a fiend in
human shape"
Then she described at length how
Halves had represented that he was q
widower, with only one child, and how
he deceived even her father by exhibit
ing bogus decree of divorce. She told
- I'D CT,
when they started on their bridal tour.
When Halves was arrested on their ar
rival in Birmingham he sent her to q
two hours before she was told of the
charge against him. Speaking of this
she said:
81 could not believe it. It seemed too
horrible. 1 thought I was dreaming
That night did not close my eyes in
sleep. Ny brain was in a whirl. did
not know what to believe or what to do
AS long as remained in birmingham 1
seemed to be in some sort of horrible
trance. My father had heard of it all
In fact he had heard about it before
1 knew the truth, and he telegraphed
me to come home. I reached
home at last. It seemed an age
since I left it.and found relief in tears.
Oh, it was terrible! terrible! I read the
papers, read all about the finding of
those bodies in the lake, the terrible
riot at the Jail, every thing; read all the
evidence against Mr.. Halves, my hus-
band. Then my dream was over. The
man I loved was dead and in his place I
saw monster in human shape. All the
love in my heart was dead; my conf
dence in men was destroyed forever. No
man can be trusted. AS long as live I
shall never place any confidence in man
again. The very moment 1 fully re-
allied the horror of his crime, then I
loved him no more. My heart was dead.
The character of the man 1 loved was so
different from that of this man Halves I
can never think of them as one and the
same"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The Republican Legislature in
Maine wouldn't touch the Australian
ballot. They are not wanting reforms
as much as they were.-St Paul Globe.
-Brer ingalls, will never be happy
until the South is again plundered as it
was in the years Immediately following
the war. He and his party should try
to be content with the enormous and
ill-gotten treasury surplus.-Louisville
Courier-JOurnal.
How do the farmers like it, any
way? May wheat is lower than ever be-
fore at this period of the year since the
war. Corn, oats and provisions are in
like fix. Our revenue business has
been SO atrociously handled that we can
not sell our products abroad.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
-''Give me free ore," said the
speaker, land I'll sell pig-iron in Liver.
pool and send steel rails to London.
What American industries most want is
free opportunity, and not legislative
protection nor restriction. "-Interview
with the President of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company.
Many Illinois farmers have quit
raising wheat as profitless and gone into
6ppAO IdASAASs oAO INV tu0 t6E1n OIkduS
may beneficially pat them on the back
ana remind them how much they owe to
the protection that makes existence q
continuous feast of dumplinga-Phila.
delphia Record.
The speech of Senator Ingalls, on
the race trouble at the South and the
deportation project was very credit
able piece of mad-dog rhetoric perhaps;
but nothing more absurd in its state
ments or more inconsequential in its
conclusions has ever been uttered in
the Senate.-Chicago Herald
1t would be shocking state Of
affairs if a Congress, Republican in both
branches, with Republican President,
elected on platform pledging them to
the highest kind of high protection,
should fail to carry out their pledges
and let the session go by without the
promised revision of the tariff in the
direction of higher duties and greater
protection. But that would be just what
the Plain Dealer has repeatedly pre-
dicted would be tie case.-Clevelaud
Plain Dealer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-20
WESTERN FREIGHT MEN.
Meeting Of tho Association and Probabl
Reduction Of Rates.

Meeting Of tho Association and Probable
Reduction Of Rates.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-At . meeting Of
the southwestern division of the West
ern Freight Association yesterday after
noon Chairman Midgley reported that
he had investigated charges of manip-
ulation by some of the roads at South
western Missouri river points. The only
roads concerned were the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST Paul and the Missouri
Pacific.
The representative of the Milwaukee
& ST Paul at once proposed a reduction
in freight rates from Chicago to Kansas
City to the basis of so cents first-class,
the present basis being IS cents, the sb-
ject of this being to stop the irregulari-
ties complained of, but Chairman
Midgely ruled that the proposition could
not be considered, IS the agreement
provided that five days notice must be
given in advance of regular meeting
of any intended change in rates.
The Missouri Pacific appealed the
matter to the board of managers of the
Interstate Commerce Railway Associa-
ton which will meet to-day.
The presidents of the lines in the
Interstate Railway Association (the
gentlemen's agreement) at meeting
here yesterday unanimously accepted
the designations from the Union Pacific
and the Chicago & Northwestern to take
effect by the terms of their note Of
withdrawal February % and February
% respectively.
At meeting of the Western Freight
Bureau yesterday the. Burlington &
Northern railroad asked permission to
make a reduction of s3x per cent in
the rates on freight between Chicago
and st. Paul. The application was re-
jected, and the general manager of the
road at once gave notice that he would
make the proposed reduction at the end
of ten days under the terms of the agree
ment between the lines in interest