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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
BEMOANING THE PAST.
Life Is Really Too Short for This Sort of
Useless Grumbling

Useless Grumbling.
1t is not unusual to meet people who
are always bemoaning the past. Their,
are many such who spend more energy
in thinking what they ought to have
done, and Gliding themselves for not
having done it, than in thinking what
they ought to do, and planning how to
do it.
Life IS really too short for this sort Of
thing: there is too much to be achieved
in the present and in the future to Jus
tify continuous dwelling on unimproveG
opportunities in the past. 1t is AWAY
in order and in time to turn over nev
leaf. to begin again. to make stepping
stones of the sins and errors and mis-
takes of the past, remembering them
onlyso much and SO long as to learn how
to avoid and overcome them in the fut-
ure.
''Oh. if l could live my life over
again" says one, chow differently
would act" But you can not live it
over again The only thing you can dc
is to live to-day as we'll as well as YOU
can; to straighten your lines of action.
and see that they all point upward,
away from the wrong, toward the right.
Time spent in mere idle regret is wors.
than wasted.
The atmosphere of regret is debilitat.
ing, enervating. asphyxiating. 1t should
be avoided by us as we avoid malariaI
atmcspheres and those saturated with
infection. A great purpose will lift one
out of regrets, and failing great pur.
pose, many smaller ones will accom-
plish the same end. In such a world as
this there is always enough affirmative.
positive good to be done to occupy all
ones time and thought, all ones Ca
pacity of doing and willing.-Farm and
Fireside.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
Had Enough of Farming.

The editor of the Walla Walla (Ore.)
Journal has tried farming, and is dis
gusted. Hear him. THE basest fraud
on earth is agriculture. The deadliest
ignis fatuus that ever glittered to be-
guile and dazzle to betray is agriculture.
We speak with feeling on this subject
and we've been glittered and beguiled
and dazzled and deceived by the same
arch deceiver. She had promised us
bees and they flew away after putting
head on us; promised US early pota toes,
and the drought has withered them.
She has promised cherries; the cur
culio has stung them; they contain
living things uncomely to the eye and
unsavory to the taste. She has prom
Used us strawberries, and the young
chickens have devoured them We
were in the sheep business and a hard
winter closed down on us, and the
lambs died in the shell. No wonder
that Cain killed his brother He was a
tiller of the ground. The wonder is he
did not kill his father and then weep
because he did not have a grandfather
to kill
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
a DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.
Mrs. Harrison's Acceptance of That Cape
May Cottage.

May Cottage.
Mrs. Harrison is the proud possessor
of a cottage at Cape May, which was a
gift from some Philadelphia gentlemen.
The gift was a surprise to the anna BILE
mistress of the White House, but she
was not sufficiently surprised to decline
acceptance of the deed to the proper
ty.
On the face of it this is a private
transaction, with which the public has
no concern. But when we dive beneath
the surface we observe a point that is
of public interest, and it is of that We
propose to speak.
If Mrs. Harrison were not the wife of
the President of the United States would
she to-day be the owner of the Cape May
cottage?
The good old lady is pretty we'll ad-
vanced in life, and according to her own
statement this is the first piece of real
estate she ever owned. If she had con-
tinued to live in indianapolis, as the
wife of plain Lawyer Harrison, would
ever it have occurred to Mr.. Wanna
maker and his friends to present her
with home at q famous summer re-
sort?
The point, that the public is interest
ed in is the indirect method these Penn
sylvania pro tectionists have adopted in
bribing the Chief Executive of the Ma
ton. The Chief Magistrate of this
great country has no right to allow
him self to be placed under obligations
TO any individual This was the view
that Andrew johnson took of it when
some admiring friends presented him
with a span Of horses soon after his in
auguration. He thanked the donors but
declined the gift.
If the present of the Cape May cot
tage was intended as an expression of
good will for Mrs. Harrison, the donors
took a most inopportune time to mani
fest their kindness. She needed it more
before she became the mistress of the
Wtite House than she does now, and it
would come in better place to her after
General Harrison's $4,000 salary has
been stopped.
There would be no ground for criti-
cism if she had received the gift either
before or after her residence in the Elk
ecutive mansion. But as things now
stand, it was very doubtful compli
ment. Caesars wife should not only
be pure, but above suspicion.-St. Paul
Globe,
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The MORiBUND SURPLUS.
Facts and Figures Which Should Set
People to Thinking.

In his annual report Secretary Win
dom stated that the aggregate receipts
into the treasury from all sources during
and the total expenditures, including
sinking fund, were 1929, 57y, 929, leaving
a clear surplus of S57, 47O,1 100.
The Secretary also reported the agrre-
gate receipts. actual and estimated, for
the fiscal year which ends with this
| month at 1886, 600, 900 and the aggregate
expenditures, including sinking fund,
at S341. 321, H. leaving a clear surplus
of S43, CTS, SS3
The Secretary also estimated that the
aggregate receipts for the next fiscal
year would be 1885, 900, 900, and the ex-
penditures, including sinking fund,
SAL. $50, ATS, leaving a surplus of S43,-
500, 522. And the President embodied
these figures in his message, adding the
remark that this estimated surplus for
next year lis more likely to be in.
creased than reduced when the actual
transactions are written u.s."
In the light of events since the report
and the message were written, what is
now the prospect in regard to the in.
crease or reduction of the surplus?
During the current year the receipts
have exceeded the estimates For the
expired eleven months of the year they
were 1864, 5S7, 900, which would indicate
total for the year of about 1897, 700, 600.
If the revenue laws should remain un-
changed we might expect revenue
next year of $500, OOO 900, and perhaps
somewhat more.
~
priation bills, all of which have been
framed and most of which have been
passed or reported, call for S410,-
$50, 013, including permanent appropri-
ations and sinking fund. The
river and harbor bill and the additional
pension bill are likely to call for still
more before they become laws, swelling
the total to some S415, 900, 900, and per-
hans more. The prospect is, therefore,
that instead of a surplus in excess of
the estimates we shall have a deficit of
S1O,O 900, 900 or SIS, 900, 900, even allowing
for revenue So, 100000 or $50, 900, 900
in excess of the estimates.
But it is Mr.. McKinley's latest esti-
mate that his bill will cut off between
$50, 900, 900 and 500, 600, 900 of revenue.
This means a deficit of $50, 600, 900 to
S75, 900, 600 in case the bill becomes a
law, or deficit of S1i, 900, 900 to sec
900, 900 even if the payments into the
sinking fund should be suspended.
A Republican Congress at the very
outset of its career proposes to expend
nearly so, 900, 900 more than its Dem
ocratic predecessor appropriated for this
year and upward of $50, 900, 900 more
than it appropriated for the year be-
fore.
How do the people relish such extrav-
agance? Some of them may say it is
immaterial because Congress can set the
presses in motion and print all the
money needed to cover any amount of
deficit. But rational men know that
the money to meet these eXtravagant
expenditures must come out of the
pockets of taxpayers, and they will let
Congress know what they think about
it in about five months, Chicago
Times.
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ONLY AN EDITOR.

-'Only an editor dead. did you say.
As the grim hearse ratified past.
AND you turned aside with scarce Z thought
On the ended life-worls cast.
Unmindful of the boundless task
He toiled at to the last.
1t was to help the world along
Its pathway toward the sun,
To rightly paint the glittering prize
For which life's race is run,
To cheer the noble and the true
Until the goal They've won.
To curb the growing power of wrong
And aid the struggling right
To cast the glare of earnest thought
Far into passions night
To save the burdened public veal
From rude ambitions flight.
To see mems shams, and all the time
Their tiny virtues praise
To sift the strains of truth from out
The roar the rabble raise,
To carry secrets big with power
Through dreary nights and days.
To bravely speak when critics cry
That speaking is in vain,
To lead the van, though all exposed
To fierce contentious rain,
To fail, retreat, gain courage ant
Then make the charge again.
To WELD a boundless power that
OFTEN tries the strength to guide,
To stOop to mental deeds for bread
Regardless of ones pride.
To be the car on which to thrones
The aspiring leaders ride.
To make the brain in chains perform
The service of 4 slave,
To SOW fair seed, and never see
The dappled harvest wave,
To long and sigh for honor's crown
And find naught but u grave.
But then, when at the last he comes
The Judgment bar to greet,
And his long list OF deeds well done
The Judges eye shall greet,
Perchance his great reward he'll find
In Heavens highest seat.
&C. NJ. Harger, in Detroit Free Press.
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Retired Editor Ito applicant)-You
say you have an amiable DISPOSE tions
Applicant-Yes, sir; here's my refer
ence.
1t ran: This certifes that the bear
er was in our newspaper office for three
days. during which time no one had oc-
casion to thrash him.-(Signed) THE
GUNNER"
Retired Editor-Consider yourself en-.
ployed. West Shore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
without the PeoDIe.s Consent.

The Mckinley tariff bill increases
the taxation of the people most grfev
ously.
1t was passed by the vote of 126 Con
gressmen from fourteen Northern
States. who represent 3, 1856, 800 voters,
or 90. 900 each.
1t was opposed By forty-seven Demo
cratic members from the same fourteen
Northern States. who represent SOFA,
165 voters, or 65. 40S each.
1t had majority of seventy-nine Re-
publican votes in the Congress by tn G
seventy-nine Republican members, from
seventy-nine districts, ting only
$3.50 votes each.
1t was passed, and it could only be
passed in opposition to the will of the
people by the shameless Republican
gerrymander of the North, through
which the Democratic voters of thirty
eight Congressional districts have been
robbed of their representation in Con-
gress.-N. Y. World.
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Very True.

Goslin-Helloh, old man! how are
you? l haven't seen much of you
lately.
Maddox-You have seen more Of me
than l have of you.
slow do you make that out?"
well, I'm much bigger than YOU
Harpers Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26

The Washington Post (Rep)
thinks that the Senate ought to take
into consideration the protest of the inn
porters against the tariff bill. 1t adds:
"A defective or grossly unfair tariff law
passed by the present Congress would
be a great boon to the Democratic
party"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26

Men who live on workingmen's or.
Plantations have no time to work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26

What do you think of that?' he
asked.
'.Thinll?' said the detective; ''why.
that it's not thing to be left in the
hall"
Rather not" laughed the Colonel:
I'VE keep it in the cupboard in this
room. Why. that coat cost me eighty
guineas.'
1T looks as if it had said the detec-
tive, warmly, and the Colonel being now
ready, the two gentlemen got into their
hanson and drove off.
was scarcely haitian hour afterward
that there was a hasty pull at the door
bell. Mrs. Walsingham was tired, and
had gone to bed, and the household had
followed her example. The butler
alone was still up, busy with the silver
in his pantry.
why, masters forgotten his latch
key he cried, hurrying to the door;
Its lucky for me he's come back SO
early"
But it was not Colonel Walsingham
who stood in the doorway.it was Mr..
Sawder
.'Sorry to trouble you, my man." he
said, speaking very fast, and slipping
shilling into Ba iley's hand: but | left
some most important papers behind me.
which | was showing to Colonel and
Mrs. Walsingham. viii you give them
to me?"
Papers, sir? 1 haven't seen any"
''But they must be here" cried Mr..
Sawder, looking very worried. THE
fact isl dare say Mrs. Walsingham
told you-these papers have to do with
the Fenton Court robbery. We nabbed
the man and the swag this afternoon,
and the owners coming up tomorrow.
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Prescription of all Physicians

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oREIcN.

EMPEROR WILLIAM has summoned .
conference Of eminent scholars to dis.
cuss the subject of fixed uniform Ger
man photography. The conference will
be held in Berlin. Austria and Switzer-
land have been invited to send dele-
gates.
SEVERE storms, followed by floods, are
reported in various parts of Germany.
At Alvensieben house was undermined
by water and sixteen of the occupants
were drowned.
ADvIcEs from Samoa are that the
British, German and American oonsuls
there have established the new govern
ment and have opened a custom house.
THE Canadian Government has de-
cided to again vigorously enforce the
terms Of the convention OF 1918 in refer
ence to the Atlantic fisheries except
against those United States fishing ves-
sells which take out modus vivendi IL
censes. Cruisers have been ordered TO
the fishing grounds.
SHANGHAI advices state that the
steamer Pao, trading locally between
Chinese ports, has been destroyed by
fire. Twenty-Five persons who were on
board the steamer are missing.
THE tennis match for 50, 500 side and
the championship Of the world between
Thomas Petit, of Boston, and Charles
Saunders, champion Of England, was
played at Dublin on the 3oth ult. The
contest was won by Petit who was de-
clared the champion Of the world and
was awarded the So, 1000 stake money.
A FORMIDABLE Nihilist plot has been
discovered by the Paris police and If
teen men and women involved in the
conspiracy have been arrested.
WHILE party consisting Of several
army officers and a number OF ladies
were boating at Potsdam on the 27th,
the boat was accidentally upset and six
of the officers and several ladies were
drowned. BY similar accident at Dam
zig on the same day seven persons were
drowned. ------>
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-06-04

THE senior and Junior classes In the
State university OF Bloomington. Ind.
engaged in . riot on the Goth ult, dur
ing which twenty persons were more or
less injured by clubs and stones.
A FIRE at Seattle, Wash. ON the Goth
ult. destroyed the Weller House, the
European Hotel and nine lodging
houses. All the inmates escaped, but
in q denuded condition. Loss about
$35, 600 @
Tom THOMAS and Henry Jackson, the
negro cohvicts who recently escaped
from the New Jersey State prison after
having sandbagged and robbed Keeper
Charles Parker, were encountered By
Patrolman Barber at Philadelphia on
the 8oth ult. They resisted arrest, and
during the fight That ensued Jackson
was killed and Barber dangerously
wounded. Thomas was secured
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LATER.

TIE first anniversary Of the grea,
flood at Johnstown, Pa, was observed in
that city on the 8lst ult. There was a
general draping of the business houses
in black and memorial services were
held in all the churches and charitable
institutions and at tGrandview cemetery
SEVEN children at St. Joseph, near
Tuscola, ILL.,, we're bitten by mad
dog few days ago, the dog dying soon
after in convulsions. ,'r.r.. .i..
A TRAIN Of double decked cars on the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad, loaded with
5000 merino sheep on the way from
California to the Chicago market, was
wrecked on the Slst ult by the breaking
Of truck near the junction Of the Santa
Fe IN. N.Y. road. Every car but two was
destroyed and one thousand sheep were
killed outright, I'D
HAWKINS notorious gambling house
In Chicago was raided by the. police re-
Gently and nearly two tons Of gambling
Implements, furniture, etc., were carried
away and destroyed.
AT the session Of the National Repub
lican Executive Committee on the 31st
ult, Hon. Powell Clayton Of Arkansas,
and Hon. N. b. Scott Of West Virginia,
were elected membersof the committee.
THE Dupont paper mills at Louisville,
KY, were totally destroyed by fire on
the Slst ult. Loss, s235, 900; fully In
sured ri. Fb..f sttl3d' it.
FRANCIS G. LowEHoBP, inventor Of the
railroad turn table and civil engineer
OF note, died at Trenton, N. j., on the
1st aged eighty-one years.
PAUL GEBHARD, JR., pupil in one OF
the New Haven Conn public schools
died few days ago from the effects OF
fogging administered by the principal
as punishment for truancy.
Hon. JOHN DALzELL and Hon. Thomas
M. Bayne have been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans in the
Twenty-second and Twenty-third Penn
sylvania districts respectively.
o. G. Brown, millionaire banker Of
Marinette, Wis, committed suicide on
the 1st by shooting himself. IS x
Hon. JOHN M. THOMPSON, prominent
citizen Of New Hamburg, N. Y, died on
the LIST. He was member OF Congress
during the exciting time Of the admis-
sion Of Kansas and took an important
part in the debate.
HENRY M. STANLEY will visit Ameri-
ca In the Autumn. He proposes to lee
ture in most Of the principal cities Of
the United States
FIFTEEN buildings In that section Of
San Francisco, Cal, known as Butcher
town" were destroyed by FIRE on the
3ist ult., ehtailing an estimated loss 81
$4,000. 4 XVI " y M, ~
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

The President has announced the
names Of the commissioners-at-large for
the Worlds Fair as follows: August Il.
Bullock, Of Massachusetts,: Thomas w.
Palmer, Of Michigan; r. G. Kerins, #
Missouri; Edward H. Amidon, Of New
York; Peter B. Widener, of Pennsyl'
vania; Samuel W. Inman, of Georgia,
and Henry Exall, of Texas.
THE Rhode Island Leg islature met on
the 27th and appointed committee OF
twenty-seven to count tn Q vote for State
officers with the follow ing result: John
w. Davis, Governor; w. G. Wardwell.
Lieutenant Governor; Ziba o. Slocumr
Attorney General; E. d. McGuiness,
Secretary of State, and John G. Perry.
Treasurer. They are all Democrats.
WILLIAM C. CHAPLIN was elected prest'
dent of the American Tract Society al
its annual meeting in Boston, Mass, on
the 2sth.
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DOMESTIC.

THE Waring Brothers Company, man
,ufacturers Of fertilizers and farming i'm
plements at Elkton, Md, have assigned.
Liabilities, $500, 900; assets nominal,
"A New YoRc jury on the Goth found
verdict OF $4,000 against Francis X.
Harte,' ,'son Of Bret Harte, the writer, in
suit by James J. Smith for damages
for the alienation OF the affections OF
his wife, Eleve B. Smith.
JoHS P. KUNzE. who was tried with
Coughlin, Burke, o'Sullivan and Begges
for alleged completely in the Cronin
murder, was married at Chicago on the
27th to Miss Julia G.. Hoyer, the young
lady who visited him SO often at the Jail
during his Imprisonment and cheered
him during his trial.
Ar Meeting in Philadelphia on the
27th Of the depositors Of the defunct
Bank OF America, the committee OF in
yestigation reported that probably fifty
per cent. would be realized on deposits.
The committee also declared that the
directors were liable to criminal prose-
cution for not paying the banks semi
animal dividends out Of earnings, as
we'll as for making loans on bad securi-
ties. The banks officials drew out their
personal balances just before announc-
ing the suspension. ~ iit ~
THERE is believed to be shortage in
the accounts OF G. A. Thompson, cashier
OF the recently collapsed 0wego IN. "
National Bank, OF about $4,000. 1t is
not thought the bank will be reorgan-
ized.
Tue sixty-Hfth annual meeting Of the
American Unitarian Association met at
Boston, Mass, on the 27th. Tho treas
urer's report showed receipts s1s6, ,944;
expenditures Slse,1ss. The general
fund amounts TO S12s, 45o. The report
OF the church building loan fund showed
contributions during the year Of s1S,5s7
with expenses Of only ST. The fund
now amounts to S61,647.
THE President has sent TO Congress
the draft OF q bill TO carry into effect
the recommendations of the interna-
tional American conference by the In
corporation Of the International Ameri-
can Bank. Tho capital stock is to be
o,ooo,ooo, subject. 70 increase to s25,-
rvnsS'V'- - H.. 49,. ~
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PILES, PILES.

toose's RedIClover Pile Remedy.
is a positive specific for all forms Of
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cernated, and Protruding Piles. Price 80
For sale by Fred Felt.
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newest Furniture Store in LOrail County
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