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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
POLITICAL DRIFT.

The Democratic party is not
merely a party. 1t is the bulwark of
Southern civilization.-M Ava
lanche
1T is thought that Mr.. Benjamin
Harrison will finally be compelled by
the eXigences of the political situation
to write a card indorsing Quay.-At-
lanta Cons titution.
As long as Pension Shark Lemon
can keep his debtor at the head of the
Pension Bureau, he pro ba bly, cares little
whether that $4,000 note is paid or not
St Louis Republic.
Hon. Thomas 3. Reed is not only
Speaker of the House, but it's general
manager. He should hang out his
shingle: ''Bills put through the popular
branch of Congress with neatness and
dispatch. boston Transcript.
Our wealthy men are only crea-
lures of special favors bestowed upon
them by the workers of the Nation
through the agency of Government, and
are not rich men in any true and legiti
mate sense Observation-Disclosures (Mich.)
Broadaxe.
John Wanamaker'S gift of a $50,
900 cottage at Cape May to Mrs. Benja-
min Harrison, and the latter's prompt
acceptance Of the gratuity, easily make
up the most shameful incident of an
administration that has been more
scandalous and disgraceful than any
thing that the country has seen since
the second term of Grant.-Chicago
Herald.
THE obstinacy of the House on
the pension question" says the st.
Louis GlobeDemocrat (Rep.), will not
meet the approval of the people. 1t is
well understood that the Government
is not in condition to pay service pen
sions, and the politicians who are in
sisting upon the adoption of such pol
icy with view to promoting their
chances of reelection, deserve censure
rather than praise"
1T would be far cheaper for the
country to pay $4,000 idle men average
wages to do nothing than to tax every
square of tin roof, every dinner-pall,
teapot. milk pan and tin can, simply to
build up half a dozen more monopo-
list millionaires and enable them to
give coaching parties through Scot
land to protection leaders, and to
found libraries from the savings OF
10 per cent reduction in their working
mems wages.-N. Y. World.
Every time that thermometer
is used on board of ship to determine
whether she is in the Gulf stream or
not, an American may reflect with
pride that though our flag is driven
from the high seas through the opera
ton of our navigation laws, it was an
American who taught the world how to
navigate these seas, and that no nation
has in modern times done more to dig
nifty the sailors craft than ours.-Illus-
trated American.
Young James 6. Blaine. Jr., has
been refused membership in the swag-
ger Columbia Athletic Club of Washing
ton. Perhaps the idea may gradually
dawn upon that young mans mind that
marital eccentricities and personal in
adequacy can. not be entirely white
washed in the minds of the best peo-
pie by even papas great position as
Prime Minister and puller OF the wires
in ordinary to the amusing puppet
President, Mr.. Harrison - Chicago
Mail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
OBITUARY..
Death of Hon. George W. McCrary, Sec
rotary of War Under President Hayes
nd Later Judge of the United States


rotary of War Under President Hayes
and Later Judge of the United States
Court.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, June "a. - Hon.
George w. McCrary, ex-Secretary of
War, died from cancer of the bowels at
eleven o'clock yesterday morning, at
the residence of his son-in-law, DR.. w.
c. Boteler, in this city. Judge Nc
Crary's illness dates back to December,
1889, when he had tumor removed by
surgeons in Kansas City. In April
another growth appeared, and he went
to New York to have it removed, but
the surgeons there pronounced i
malignant and advised him not to have
the operation attempted. In May he
was brought to ST. Joseph and
placed under the care of a homeo-
pathic physician, who treated
the growth by the use of electricity,
and partially succeeded in reducing the
size. He appeared to be improving until
four o'clock yesterday morning, when
he became unconscious and died at
eleven o'clock.
George w. McCrary was born at Evans
vile, Ind, August 90, 1855. In 1896 his par
ents moved to that part of Wsconsn which
was afterward made the State of Iowa He
was educated and read law in the city OF
keokuk, and began the practice of law in
1856. The next year he was elected men,
Der of the State Legislature, and from 1861
to 1865 he was State Senator from Keokul1
and was chairman of the committee
on military affairs in that body. In
1868 he was elected to Congress by
the Republicans, with which party he
always affiliated. He served in
Congress until March, 1877. In 1876 Judge
I'M in ha
ure known as the Electoral Commission
bill, which resulted in the choice of Ruther-
ford Il. Hayes as President. When Presi-
dent Hayes formed his Cabinet Judge Nc.
Crazy was urged to take the War portfolio,
which he held two years, but resigned
accept a judgship of the United States
Court, to which he was appointed in De-
cember, 1879. In March, 1884, he resigned
his judgship and removed his home from
keokuk to Kansas City, and became general
counsel for the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa
Fee Railroad Company. He was the author
of n standard law book known as THE
American Law of Elections" His wife and
four children-two SOUS and two daugh ters-
survive him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
REEDS DIRTY WORK.
The Disgraceful Methods of the Accident
from Maine.


To retain his grasp upon his scepter
Mr.. Reed, Speaker of the National
House, may find it necessary to unseat
a few more Democrats. He can ask
nothing from the Democracy, the minor
ity whom he has steadily treated as an
enemy to be punished, and it is clear
now that he can not depend for support
in his arbitrary proceedings upon the
loyalty of an unbroken majority recruit
ed as it has been by the displacement of
duly elected Democrats. Reed stands
with the President and the Secretary Of
the Treasury against a radical enact
ment regarding unlimited silver coin
age, and was potent in shaping the leg
islation Of the House on that measure.
When the drastic Senate bill reached
the Speakers desk he quietly referred
it of his own motion to a committee Sc
lected by himself, a proceeding not at
all in accordance with the practice of
the House. The object was to gain time,
and glide, if possible, past the present
point fraught with peril to the party.
If the point of concurrence or nOn-con-
currence in the Senate measure were
urged the House might concur and the
Republicans would be in pretty pickle,
the President being compelled to the
EN- Embarrassment of meeting the silver
question squarely. He and Reed would
rather dodge. When the journal of the
House was read showing the Speakers
action on the silver bill, attempt was
made by Mckinley, the Republican
leader on the floor, to carry approval
without debate. Therein, much to the
CONSERVATION of the party, he was
beaten.
Regardless wholly of the merits of
the silver controversy the conduct of
Reed in this matter is ineXcusable But
it is of a piece with his proceedings
from the day on which he assumed the
gavel. Presumably servant, he has
assumed to be the master of the House,
substituting his own will whenever it
ssuited his purpose for the rules, Gus
Ftoms and traditions of the House. The
rights of the minority have been re-
spected only when the interests of his
own party or his own plans would not
be injured thereby. He has taken
narrow view, however An appeal lies
this very fall from his desk to the votes
of II, 900, 600 electors who can have lit
tie sympathy with his course. 1--WE
must be successful" he said, on re-
cent occasion, but he has taken the very
worst way to succeed. Later in the ses-
sion the National election law, which he
approves, designed to place the count in
Republican hands with as little scru-
pie as Reeds own, may become a law,
but the present appearance is that
neither force nor fraud will be able to
defeat the overwhelming sentiment that
the Republican party shall not organize
the next House. Like the Presidency
of Mr. Harrison the Speakership of Mr..
Reed is for a single term.-Chicago
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03

The fact Is that about the only Repub-
Hcan papers of any Importance. which
indorse the Mckinley bill are such as
the Indianapolis Journal. whose editors
hold fat offices under the Admins ira
tion and are ready to support any meas
ure, however outrageous, which the
party bosses at Washington may decree.
The Republican newspapers which OPP
pose the Mckinley bill are the ablest
and most respectable in the country,
and there can be no doubt that they
represent a great body of Republican
opinion. which will make itself heard
still more etfectually at the polls next
Novem Der. -InGianapolis Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Warm water and soft cloth are all
that are required to keep glass in .
good condition.
Strawberry extract is made by
covering fresh, ripe berries with equal
parts of alcohol and soft water. Lot it
stand few days, then strain carefully
and bottle.-Country.
Onion Sauce: Chop one onion fine.
stew in one pint of water until tender.
when, add one tablespoonful dripping,
tablespoonful of -four, stirred to a
smooth paste in two spoonfuls cold
water, salt pepper and Glove.
To bleach white straw hat, first
wash the hat in milk-warm water; then
sprinkle handful of sulphur on some
live Goals. and when it commences to
burn hold the hat in the smoke. Put
on more sulphur as needed, and turn
the hat about-Toledo Blade.
Pine Apple Water: Peel, slice and
pound to a pulp pine apple; pour onto
it one pint of boiling sirup (as in
orangeade); add the strained juice of
one lemon, cover for two hours, then
filter through fine sieve or strainer
cloth, and add a quart of cold water
The Household.
Salt mackerel is an excellent appe-
tier for a hot-weather breakfast. 1t
should be soaked all night, skin side
up, then put on to boil in cold water
for half an hour, which removes part OF
it's OIL and then broiled. Serve with
gooseberry marmalade or catsup.
Tomato Sauce: Slice three or four
firm, fresh tomatoes, and stew gently
half pint of stock until they are
tender, but not broken. Take them up
carefully; season the broth highly with
black or red pepper, and little of some
fiery catsup or bottled sauce; add
small cupful of cream, salt lightly, let
it boil up, and pour over the tomatoes.
Old Homestead.
-Jellied Lobster: Prepare mold OF
gelatine, using one-third vinegar with
two-thirds water, to dissolve it; let it
become cold, but not hard; remove the
meat from the claws and tail of the
lobster; chop it fine, season with a little
cayenne and salt, add the gelatine and
mix it thoroughly, and place on ice to
become hard; serve with thin slices of
cold tongue.-Boston Herald.
-Garnishing of Green Peas: Remove
the rind and cut in small squares six
ounces of salt pork, parboil five min
utes, drain and fry slightly brown in a
stew-pan with an ounce of butter;
sprinkle half an ounce of flour over and
fry three minutes longer; add three
pints of small, fresh-shelled green peas,
parsley and green onion stalks tied to-
gether in a bunch, and a pint of water;
stir, set to boil, cover and cook slowly
for half an hour; remove the bunch of
parsley and onions, skim the fat, taste
and serve.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
To Feed Parrots: Parrots being
tropical Birds tropical fruits and nuts
are their favorite diet Give them ba-
nanas, pineapples, oranges, apples,
pears, grapes, blackberries, whortleber-
ries, English walnuts, shellbarks,
chestnuts or peanuts. You can give
them biscuit without soda, and they will
live on plain bread and water, or crack
ers, but if you want them in good health
and plumage, give a mixed diet. Give
no animal fat; occasionally let them
have little raw beef, but it must be
lean.-The Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
BIRTH OF A SiNGEE-TAXER.
The. Greed of the Landlord Did 1t.


A work man who wanted for his family
more room than he could afford to hire
down town went to the northern end of
this island and found an apartment that
suited him, for which the agent demand
ed a monthly rental of SIG. The work
man looked about further, and after
week or so went back 20 the agent and
said he would take the SIG apartment.
The agent demanded SIS, on the ground
that the elevated railroad company had
meanwhile reduced it's fare from ten
cents to five cents. as the distance was
so great that the workman could not use
the surface road. he had in estimating
what he could pay for rent allowed
twenty cents day for car fare. He in
dignantly asked the agent what he had
had to do with reducing fares on the
L." The agent admitted that he had
had nothing to do with it, but insisted
that nevertheless the apartment was
worth that much more, and that he could
get it. He claimed in fact that he was
generous in not exacting more. "You
have got to ride up and down town
twenty-five days in each month";" he
said to the workman. You expected to
pay for this twenty cents a day or SIS a
month. The change in fare reduces this
to 80 a month, and l only charge you
81 more. You save, you see, fifty cents
a month" Yes" said the workman.
Il see. / see that no matter what hap
pens that promises advantage to me, the
landlord takes it all" That experience
made stanch single tax man out O,
that workman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
Some Dainty Contrivances.

A pretty bookcase and one that can
be made with very little expense is as
follows: Take two pine boards forty-
two inches long and eight broad,
two boards thirty-six inches long and
three others thirty-fve. Screw or nail
the two 36-inch boards to the top and
bottom of the 42-inch boards. Place the
other boards on wooden cleats fastened
to the inside of the frame on each side
at suitable distance apart to accom-
MEDIATE your books. Use planed wood
and stain it cherry, maple or oak.
Fasten a brass rod to the top, from
which suspend curtains of China silk or
soft material. A pretty corner piece
can be made similar to this by having
two boards much higher and broader
than those for the former. Fasten these
together to form a triangle and fit in
shelves. The first shelf should be the
height of table from the ground, and
the other shelves at certain regular dis
tanees above. Have rods and curtains
attached to the frame and the wood
stained. If for the dining-room the bot
tom part may be shelved and used for
table linen and the upper part for china.
n. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03

We tax dogs for no other purpose in
the world except to discourage the rails
ing of them. Why do we tax buildings,
manufactures and industries? Is it to
discourage the building of houses, the
building of manufactures, and the de-
velopment of our industries?-Bloomin
ton. H., Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
RUN TO EARTH.
\ Gang of Mail Robbers Discovered at
Wyanet Junction. llI.-TEeir Operations
Involved Hundreds of Thousands of

\ Gang of Mail Robbers Discovered at
Wyanet Junction. lu.-TEeir Operations
Involved Hundreds of Thousands of
Dollars.
CHICAGO, June 24.--For over nine
months past constant complaints have
reached the chief of post-otiice inspect
orS here of the loss of checks, postal
orders, money, etc, while in transit be-
tween Council Bluffs and Davenport,
Ia, the total face value of mail matter
lost being over $500, 900. The inspectors
detailed on the case discovered that
mail pouches were stolen at Wyanet
Junction, where the mail matter on the
Rock Island road is transferred to the
Burlington road for early morning de-
livery in Chicago One pouch, with
fifty per cent. of it's contents rified, was
found at the bottom of well. Another,
containing yearly $3.50, 900 of checks and
drafts, was discovered in a vacant house.
Six railroad employees at Wyanet
Junction were placed under surveillance.
Four of them, however, managed to slip
away. The other two, Wilson Green
and A. d. FL. Lay, were arrested yes
terday and held for trial in 5000 each.
These arrests. it is thought will put
stop to the widest series of mail depre-
dations experienced in many years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
An oleander tree near Sran;0h

-An oIeander Tree near Spanish town.
Fla, covers space of ground thirty-six
feet in diameter; from the ground to the
tip OF the topmost limb is twenty-five
feet; at the surface of the ground tho
trunk is divided into twenty or TWENTY
five separate stems, the group being at
least Ave feet through, and one single
stem IS, by actual measurement four
teen inches thick.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
HOW TO TEST CEMENT.
A Simple Process Which Answers All Or
binary Purposes.

A Simple Process Which Answers All Or
binary Purposes.
Rough testing of cement, so as to en-
able workman to get crude and i'm
perfect idea Of it's value, is easy.
Enough of the pure cement should be
taken to make ball an inch in dame
ter and mixed with just sufficient water
to make it hold readily and be rolled
into ball Then it should be exposed
to the air and left for two hours At
the end of that time it should be set;
then it should be put into water and
left. 1t should grow gradually harder,
and should show no signs of cracking or
crumbling, even when left for ten days.
Any cement that does not endure this
test is not of sufficient good quality to
make satisfactory structures; any
cement that stands this properly will be
generally satisfactory if properly used.
In determining how to construct a
building, a series of tests is often re-
quired that shall show tensile, break
ing. twisting and crushing strength,
and also adhesion of the materials used
for mortar. No one of these can be dis
pensed with, since material that will
endure one satisfactorily will often fail
utterly in another, and hence prove
worthless for the use desired; but for
general purposes the test of cement
which is the most valuable is that
which determines it's tensile strength.
Comparative tests of this show the
value of cements from different sources
better than any other one teSt-Prof.
La Roy +. Griffin, in Popular Science
MONTHLY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
The Cotton Belt Train Robbers.

TExARKANA, Ark, June 24.-Tha
trial of the Cotton Belt train robbers
was resumed Yesterday and Mrs. Rat
cliffe gave her testimony which agreed
with her statement already published.
Her evidence created great excitement
and when she had finished the court
remanded the prisoners to Jail without
bail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03

There are about thousand elk
killed In Oregon and Washington every
year, the antlers from most of which
are sent to England for ornauenN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
On the Limited Train.

She-I feel very uncomfortable.
He-Ihat's because you eat too fast
She-Oh, my dear.
He-Why, just saw you eating at
the rate of forty miles an hour.-Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
A Sensational Arrest in Mexico.

Ell PAso. Tex, June 24--Paymaster
Duran of the Mexican Central railway
is in Jail in the City of Mexico, charged
with being S19. 900 short in his accounts.
Mr.. Duran has held a high place in the
business and social world of his coun-
try's capital, and his arrest on the
above grave charge has caused great
senSa tion
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03

F. G. Anderson, Jamestown, N. Y
The farmers and people about here
have commenced talking single tax in
the grocery stores of evenings, some in
favor and some in opposition. That.
all right. Discussion 10 the thing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03

Total. --.-... 81 20
You see there's no meat. We like it,
but we only get bit on Sundays some
times. The coal ought not to be in with
the food. ought it, unless it stays be-
cause | have to use it in cooking; we
oughtn't to spend so much on food, but
! can't seem to make it less. Really,
when you take out the coal and oil and
the paper-and we do want to see a pa
per sometimes-it is only S1.62 for US
both, 81 cents apiece, almost IL cents
day. If it weren't for Emmy's missing
me, it would be better for me to die, for
I'm no use, you see, and times get no
better, but worse. But I can't, and we
must get along somehow. Lord help us
all.
Now what are We to say of an indus
trial system that permits women to
work IA hours and live on IL cents per
day? Do not tell us these are excep-
tional cases, that the average is far bet
ter. God help US all if this were not so.
But that is a pitiable philosophy that
consoles itself with averages These
extremes are possible because we have
d system that says get all you can and
pay as little as you can for it," speek
of the old brutality that still clings to
our civilization in spite of our splendid
progress-a state oE things that shows
that the gray dawn of the millenniam is
not yet on the sky and can not be paint
ed there by any leveling process OF pa
ternalism of government, but only SO
far as we all come into earnest fellow
ship with the idea that all are children
of one common Father and bound to one
common destiny.-Paoific Rural Press
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-30
She Found Out.
From the Pitts burg Dispatch.

from me PtttSo 1rg Dispatch
81 was never SO hustered and perplexed
as l was the other day" said a lady to me
yesterday. 81 was coming back from Chi
cago, and in the car l met an old friend of
my school days. l was very glad to meet
him; SO was he, think, to meet me, and,
anyhow, we INDUCED in a host of reminis-
cences. But l was uncomfortable from the
very first because could not remember his
name. did remember that at school we
used to call him 'Dumpy,' because of his
somewhat diminutive and stocky appear
ance, but couldn't address a niddle-aged
gentleman. wealthy financier, by such a
name. His last name couldn't remember
at all.
81 wanted to find out his name-you
know how awkward it is TO keep on saying
Mr.. or Sir to a man. How to get it out of
the man l tried to think. l suppose my
brain got muddled attending to several
matters at once, for at last said: Let me
see-what was your name before you were
marrieog
1.-The look of establishment on that mans
face shall not soon forget. l discovered
his name; but it did not make me much
more comfortable"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-30
Blood Poisoning

Primary. Secondary and Tertiary Syphilis,
old sores, pimples, blotches, scrofula, blooa-and
poison. and skin diseases are eradi-
Gated by the use of p. P. p. Hosts of certif-
Gates are in office to show the cures in these
diseases where all other medicines have failed.