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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
INVENTION OF GLASS.
1t Wrought a Complete Change in the
Habits of Civilized Nations.

1t Wrought Complete Change in the
Habits of Civilized Nations.
| No reader of history can have failed
| to be struck with the enormous political
| and social results which flowed from a
simple scientific achievement, the in
vention of gun-powder. Without this
| beneficent explosive, the modern free
dom of the common people, won from
the great lords by means of the cannon
which knocked their castles down about
their ears, would never have been
heard of, and the firearms of Poitiers,
which terminated the hundred years
war between France and England,
made it possible thenceforth to compel
Kings and mobiles to respect treaties,
and induced them to think twice before
entering into wars which offered some
risk to their own precious persons, in
stead of merely the determination of
their subjects. In somewhat similar
way, according to General de Vile
noisy, in LA Semaine des Construct
eurs," a single peaceful invention-that
of a sheet of glass-has brought about
profound change in the manners and
habits of civilized nations. Ex-
cept for glass windows, as he
points out, house could hardly
be arranged without an inner court,
the gyneceum of ancient times, or the
harem of the modern Mussulmans,
around which the private family rooms
could be arranged, and in which the do
nestle operations of the household
could be carried on. Even in our own
time, few women would like to inhabit
rooms lighted only by doors opening on
the public street, and Oriental seclu-
sion'' would be the rule of house-plan-
ming everywhere, followed by it's natural
consequence, the almost total separa-
ton during the daytime of the
men, compelled to carry on their
affairs in the bright light of the
street, from the women, who, in the
absence of their protectors, would shut
themselves up until they became as
childish as the Orientals themselves.
With the introduction of glass windows,
in the middle ages, it became possible
for the artisan or merchant to carry on
his business at home, and he was glad
to do so; while his wife and daughters
could work in the rooms over his head,
protected from the weather, and from
intrusion, by similar windows, which, at
the same time, did not prevent them
from looking into the streets, and inter-
esting themselves in the stirring scenes
which occurred so often in the cities of
that PERIOD and it can hardly be doubt
ed that the civic enthusiasts of the
tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries,
to which the world owes so much, would
have been impossible if the people of
the European towns had been in the
habit of spending their time after the
Roman fashion, in the peristyliums Ct
houses to which the clamor of popular
tumult would only feebly penetrate
Mechanical News
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16

1t seems that the political muddle in
Montana will be Strengthened out at
Washington, and, as matter of course
without reference to justice or law.
Two sets of Senators are to be sent to
the capital, and the Republican major
ity in the Senate will not likely be de-
tered by any consideration of faf. play
from giving the disputed seats to those
to whom they do not rightfully belong.
Should this be done, the spectacle will
be presented of two United States Sem
ators elected by rump Legislature,
without a shadow of authority from
their State, and having only the votes
of seven Republican Senators out of a
joint body of thirty-six Legislators. Only
the party that stole the Presidency in
1876 and bought it in 1888 could SO tram
pie ON the constitution. - Albany On.
" Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
DRIFT OF OPINION.

| There seems to be no abatement
of President Harrisoa's antipathy to
| Judge Observation-Disclosures Courier.
With sturdy farmers at the pillow
| and the honest farmer at the ballot box,
Georgia need have no fear for her pros
| perity and happiness. - Atlanta Jour-
| nal
There is no doubt that Mr.. Cleve-
land has very strong hold on the peo-
pie, and. strange as it may seem, his
popularity appears to be steadily in
creasing. Even Republicans of promi-
hence have good word to say for him.
Savannah News.
The next Senator from Ohio will
be a Democrat and elected by the honest
conviction of the Legislature. There is
not a man among the Democratic men,
bers who is not above reproach, not
withstanding all the slurs of the Re-
publican press to the contrary.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Mr.. Holman has been a member
of the House of Representatives for
nearly thirty years, and there is no man
to whom the American people owe a
greater debt of gratitude for faithful,
incessant and utterly sinterested serv-
ices. No public money has either been
wasted or stolen with his completely
\. Y. Sun.
Senator Leland Stanford says
that the people of this country want
the protective system, and would not
put up with direct taxation. The adj
vantage of the present system, in his
opinion. is that under it the people do
not know how much they are taxed, and
therefore do not murmur. The Cali
fornia statesman believes in plucking
the goose so as not to make it cry
Philadelphia Record.
When Editor Shepard offers $500
for the privilege of writing the inscrip-
tions on Henry Grady's monument he
betrays faith in the power of money
that is almost idola trous. We advise
him to reform his views in this matter.
If he has $500 to spare, he would do
well to donate it to the poor. In this
wav he can build a monument to him
self while living and leave to loving
hands the grateful work of preparing the
Observation-Disclosures Constitu ton
IN the earlier days of the Repub-
lie when new State was admitted into
the Union it was the fashion to send the
brainiest men it had to the Senate. But
the fashion has changed. Look over
the list from the two Dakotas and
Washington. They have picked out
their richest men. Spectators, corpo-
ration attorneys, land-grabbers, mine
owners or gatherings have pushed
their way to the front and have become
perilous factor in all legislation af-
fecting moneyed or corporate interests.
philadelphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
TAXATION BY TARIFF.
The Grand Old Man Wipes the Floor with
Puissant lingo Jim.

The Grand Old Man Wipes the Floor with
Puissant lingo Jim.
In the current number of an American
review William E. Gladstone and James
e. Blaine discuss the tariff question as
it exists in the United States. Mr.
Gladstone, of course, argues in favor OF
free trade. Equally, of course, Mr
Blaine argues in favor of protection.
The most careless reader of the essays
can not fail to perceive that Mr.. Glad
stone speaks for the millions of Ameri-
can toilers, producers and consumers,
and that Mr.. Blaine speaks for the few
hundred thousand of manufacturers,
capitalists and monopolists. Protect
i've tariffs are great institutions for cap
italists, beyond doubt. Nobody has
ever questioned this proposition. Mr..
Blaine is seemingly satisfied in proving
thing which has not been disputed.
Mr.. Gladstone, on the other hand, holds
that protection is immoral and unjust,
and that the mass of the people suffer
by it. His argument is unanswerable,
and is not answered by Mr.. Blaine. In
his epitome of the situation in this
country Mr.. Gladstone is particularly
happy:
I will then proceed to set forth some of the
causes. which, by giving exceptional energy
and exceptional opportunity to the work of pro
ductlOn In America, seem to allow lin homely
phrase) of her making ducks and brakes of a
large portion of what ought to be her accumula-
tions, and yet, by virtue of the remainder of
them. to astonish the world.
/. Let me observe, first, that America pro
duCes an enormous mass Of cotton, cereals
meat. oils and other commodities. which are
sold in the unSheltered market of the world at
such prices as they will yield. The producers
fined for the benefit of the protected inser-
eSts, and receive nothing IN return; but they
obtain for their country, as well for the
world, the whole advantage of vast natural
trade-that is to say, a trade in which produc
ton is carried on at minimum cost in capital
and labor compared with what the rest of
the world can do.
2. America invites and obtains in remark
able degree from all the world one of the great
elements of production without tax of any kind
-namsly, capital.
8. While securing to the capitalist producer
a monopoly in the protected trades she allows
all the world to do its best by a free immigra-
tion to prevent or qualify any corresponding
monopoly in the class of workmen.
4. She draws upon a bank of natural resources
vast that it easily bears those deductions of
improvidence which simply prevent the results
from being vaSter still.
If all tariff controversies were as
clearly defined as this one appears to be
there would be less popular uncertainty
on the subject Protection is a good
thing for the few. Free trade is good
thing for the many. Mr.. Blaine is con-
tent with proving the one. Mr.. Glad
stone establishes the other. Which
policy, then, is most likely to benefit
the mass of the American people?-Chi-
caCO Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
DEMOCRACYS FUTURE.
The Siackles Which Curb American Cor
merce VIII Soon lie Thrown OF.

Slack!eS which Curb American Com
merce VIII Soon lie Thrown or.
believe that the year 1890 will wit
ness one of the greatest triumphs
which the Democratic party of this
country has ever enjoyed. The signs
of the times all point that way. Our
defeat in 1888 did not discourage the
Democracy. 1t left the party as deter
mined as ever to achieve its great OBJ
jects-economic government and tariff
reform.
Perhaps never in the history of the
world was a defeated party so full of
spirit and courage as was the Demo-
cratic party after election DAY in No
vember, 1888, and that spirit and that
courage have been increasing. The
Democratic party is in better shape
defeated than the Republicans are in
success. Rallying for tariff reform and
good government generally. we en-
gagged the enemy last fall in Ohio, Iowa
and Virginia and emerged victorious
from the contest. In Massachusetts the
cause of tariff reform has become SO
formidable that leading Republicans
admit that the State, barely saved to
them last November, will probably go
Democratic next fall unless their party
does something decisive for tariff re-
form.
How can the Republican party be the
friend of tariff reform? Its life blood is
now monopoly. It's main supporters
will never despoil themselves. 1t must,
from the very nature of it's makeup, be
the enemy of reform. The country can
not look to it for relief
In 1890 another election of Repre-
sentatives to Congress will take place.
/ feel confident that a Democratic ma
jority will be returned and that new
tariff bill will be passed by the Demo-
cratic House during the last years of
President Harrison's Administration
which will be such an object lesson for
the people that nothing more will be
needed upon which to conduct the Pres
idential campaign of 1892. New En-
gland is now clamoring for low duties
as never before for quarter of a cent
ury. They realize that they must have
cheaper materials for manufacture or go
down in the conflict.
The campaign of education" is going
on all the time. The people are steadily
learning, and the shackles which now
curb and confine American commerce
and manufactures will soon be thrown
off. The principles of jefferson, which
are the vital principles of self-govern-
ment, were not born to die. Fools may
predict Democracy's death; knaves will
certainly hope for it's death: but the
predictions of the one and the wishes
of the other will be alike futile to bring
about the destruction of Jetferson's
faith.-Benton McMillin, NJ. c., in n
Iourpo1
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16

| upon coming IN, and they sewed and tied
and worked on the quilts Until about seven
o'clock. Then, just as the more indus
trious ones were beginning to weary with
work, and the idle ones were growing tired
from not working, and all were wishing for
supper time to come, suddenly outside was
heard the sound of fiddle.
ssThat's Tom.' cried several at once.
Just hear hlm!"
In accompaniment to the fiddle came cut
the words IN clear, strong voice:
"I said, pretty Polly, will you marry met
Oh no. no, dear sir, that can never bel
For never shall be happy It'll Billy see!
TIL go to some tailor's, TIL hasten away,
I'll dress myself up il some young mans
array;
TIL dress myself up so neat and so trim,
And I'll go and TIL fight Great Britain's
Kingr'
And then 1t seemed as if the door was 90
ing to be broken in, he tnumped upon it So
ssHello!n he cried, as Aunt Kate fastened
to open it. "All dead in heres Noa
reckoned you must be, SEEM as how YOU
was all parcel of women and I didn't hear
YOU talking. Ha! Hap laughed Tom, as
he came in, mischief beaming in his blue
eyes. 'What yer doinga Not through
with that ere job yet, Mother Bansom? Oh,
come now, you've done enough for to-day.
Let be.''
s'I'll come in tomorrow and finish it up
for you,'' whispered Mother Bansom, as
Aunt Kate and several others began to fold
up the work and put it away.
GAN right" nodded Aunt Kate.
just then in came Uncle Aaron. ST seed
Bates and Durham down below. They'll be
along soon, mother. You'd better get the
victuals, hadn't yers"
''We'Ie goin' to right now," said Aunt
Kate, as she proudly began to spread che
table. Several of her guests turned to and
helped her, and soon there was generous
board of good things = that looked very
tempting to her hungry visitors. Very
shortly all the ''men folks that were ex-
pected came, and all gathered around the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
THE FOX AND THE PEASANT


One day Reynard approached Peas
ant who was working in his Field and
said:
For some Reason or Other there APP
pears to be a want of Confidence be-
Syeen she Peasants and the Foxes"
Yes" replied the Peasant as he rest
ed for moment.
This makes it Unpleasant for both
of us. and l have been Delegated to see
if we could not come to some Mutual
Understanding
II am willing
Every WE'LL" continued the Fox as he
looked at the sky to hide the Twinkle of
Satisfaction in his eye. TO prove your
full Confidence in us leave the door of
your Hen House open tonight. That
will be Proof that you no longer Re-
gard us as Thieves and Marauders."
The Peasant Agreed to this, but while
he left the door open he set a Trap just
inside. and when he arose next morn
ing. 10, the Delegate was fast in tho
jaws
us this Keeping your Agreement
with mer' clustered Reynard as the
Peasant approached?'
''Was not the door opan?"
Eyes. but yCu set this Trap inside,
Release me at once, and in future my
Dealings shall be with more Honest
men,
Gently, Sir Reynard,' said the Peas
ant. as he tapped him on the head with
3 Club, had YOU kept to the outside
you would never have known of my
Trap. The fact that you were Inside
nroves that Won wanted my Poultry at
the Expense of my Confidence.
MORAL: Give a Thief opportunity to
Reform, but carry your wallet in your
Bootleg when in his Company.-Detrolt
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
FEDERAL EDUCATION.
Senator Blair's Wild Scheme to Pauperiz
the Southern schools.


Nothing has done more to bring about
the change in public sentiment at the
North concerning Senator Blair's wild
scheme of National education than the
earnest opposition OF the most promi-
nent and most trusted educators of the
negro at the South. A singular miscon-
ception of the truth is betrayed by the
Burlington Ua.) Hawkeye when it says:
Whatever may be the individual views
of every one regarding the Blair educa-
tional bill, it may be safely put down
that the opposition to it from the South
is most bitter among those who would
not have the negro educated at all if
they could prevent it." AS a matter of
fact, the stoutest Southern opposition to
the bill to Promote Mendicancy" has
situations established especially for the
education of the negro.
One of these is Rev. w. E. c. Wright,
professor in Berea (Ky) College, who
objects to the bill from 'the fear that
1t would diminish, rather than increase,
local exertions for the support of
schools" and gives this conclusive rea-
son for such apprehension: Already the
agitation of the measure is occasionally
used as reason for not increasing State
funds. Southern candidates for Con-
gress have been heard saying to their
constituents: Your children have got to
be educated. Would you rather pay for
it yourselves or have the Nation pay for
it?'" Another such opponent is General
S. c. Armstrong, head of the Hampton
(Fa.) Institute, who says: eve would
not accept aid from State or people were
it offered on the plan of the Blair bill,
being conscious that in the end it would
do us more harm than good. For here
it is not mere education that we seek to
give, but education through self-help.
Take out the self-help and the rest is
not worth much. Apply the Blair bill
to the Southern school system and it
will check the growth Of the best thing
in Southern life, the effort of the people
to educate themselves. IN. Y. Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16

Parisians have lately been entertained
by a remarkable artist, who displays
wonderful skill in her peculiar form Of
painting. With plates of various col
ored sand before her, she takes the sand
in her right hand and causes it to fall in
beautiful designs upon table. A bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand, and relief and shadows by
other sands; when the work Is brushed
away bouquet of roses and other OBJ
iects are represented with the same dex-
terity and delicacy. Dis
patch.
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Aaron and Aunt Kate, and there were Jacos
and Matthew, big boys of ten and twelve
and there were Mary and Deborah and lit
tie Sally and wee Tom.
1t was large old house for those days
fifty years ago., having a loft, or second
story, over the main room. This was win
dowless, but was considered a luxury for
all that. 1t was reached by ladder, made
by Uncle Aaron. On one side of the house
was tuge fireplace, and a bed, resembling
n large packing box. was away off at the ex-
treme far corner. That belonged to Uncle
Aaron and Aunt Kate. The children all
slept upstairs on thick beds of clean hay,
covered over with pillows and warm quilts.
1t was early in the morning one fine day
il early spring, and Aunt Kate was busy
frying cakes for breakfast, the children
were laughing and scTambling overhead,
and Uncle Aaron was standing in the door
way looking out.
Over six feet high, brawny and broad,
strong and muscular, his keen, twinklin
gray eyes were half hid under his busny
eyebrows, and his short brown beard had a
CLINT of the sun in it. There was an air of
decision and strength about Uncle Aaron
that rather awed me at first sight, but a
short acquaintance soon revealed that his
strength was that of the protecting oak
that the vines cling to.
''Maryl Mary!' called out Aunt Kate up
the ladder, lido make them ere children
stop that noise, do you hears Come down
here, you Jacob! Matthew, sf yer don't stop
apulling of his hair I'll switch yer good
Father she said at last in despair, goin G
to the doorway, edo tend to them ere boys,
will yera They're wusser N tadpoles."
With a tolerant smile and an easy swing
round, with a stride or two Uncle Aaron
reached the top of the ladder. Without a
word he seized Matthew, the eldest boy, by
the neck, and dropped him down to the
room below; next he took Jacob and swung
him down after him; then he handed Mary
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
TWO AMERICAN FABLES.
The Ass and the Wild Horse, and the Fo
and the Peasant.
THE ASS AND THE WILD HORSE.

THE ASS AND THE WILD HORSE.
An Ass who was "a Pasture one dav
was approached by Wild Horse whose
graceful movements and perfect free
dom from the restraints of Man so filled
the Ass with Envy and Delight that he
begged the Privilege of making an Ex-
cursion in his company The Horse
consented and the two set out together,
but they had not travelled above three
or four miles when a pack of wolves
made a rush and cut the Ass off from
his companion. He cried out in Terror
for Assistance. hut the Horse said as he
galloped away:
81 had forgotten to mention the Fact
that this sort of life has its drawbacks
as well as any other, and this is one of
them"
MORAL: Nature puts us all where we
Belong.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16
THE FAtTH-FcOWER.

There spreadeth wide, wide meadow,
Sunny and green and still,
A Drooklet ripples through It,
Above it rises q hiii.
A hill that is dark with cedars,
And bright with sumach's glow;
And where an old road climbeth
Tall oaks and Malnuts show.
Along the edge OF the meadow
A wood its shadow throws,
And leaning branches culver
Above that fields repose.
And there, when willows whiten
AS the winds OF heaven blow free.
In the fairy days of childhood
There bloomed q flower for me.
It lifted its face to heaven,
And when the sun shone high,
Its fringed lids it opened,
AS blue as the autumn sky.
o, the wonder and the beauty
That in that blossom lay!
Through long years L remember
That fair October day.
The splendor of gold and crimson
'Mong the cedars dark and still,
The sunshine warm on the meadow,
The purple haze on the hill.
And the gentian by the brookside
Through the tender light see,
With heavenly grace illumined-
The flower of faith to me.
And feel the tuneful breathings
Each wandering breeze let fall
In the mystery all around US,
And the love that is over all.
But now an autumn cometh,
With it's frosts and its glory crown,
But my spirit seeketh the meadow
Far from the dusty town.
Aad where the orooklet fioweth,
From every care beguiled,
Hook into those azure petals
With the eyes of little child
Oh blessed are the memories
That naught can take away
The memories sweet and tender,
or childhood happy day!
And blessed are the promises
That in later years we read
AS they lie along our pathway
In the blossom and the seed.
So love that wide, wide meadow,
Where the winds of heaven blow free,
For there, in the hillside shadow,
The faith-flower bloomed for me.
Ellen NJ. Dole, in Housewife.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16

Put your money into elections! The
great expenses that are necessary can
not be paid by moonshine or shouting,
so let those who want a pure Govern
menI put their hands in their pockets
and make personal and public subscrip-
tions. Shoot that man on the spot who
spends penny for dishonest elections,
but put men as thick as grasshoppers
over the State to see that there is an
honest ballot and an honest count -
Thus spoke Bro. John Wanamaker at
the New England dinner in PhiladeI-
phia the other night. And still we hope
that Bro. John won't get shot.-Boston
Herald.
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built of heavy
logs, cover d
on the roof with
thick layers of
hemlock bark,
rested on aledge
of the mountain,
a short distance
up from the val
ley. 1t was arich
old house despite
its rough outside,
for inside was
a wealth of hui
man life. There
1ypra TOclp
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Origin of Well known Notices.

Dieu ct mon Droit was used by Richard l.,
A. D. 1893. The Bohemian crest, viz, three
ostrich feathers, and the motto Ich diem, 81
serve" was adopted by Edward the Black
Prince, at the battle of Greasy, the King OF
Bohemia being slain III the battle, 1916
Honi soft qui NAL pense was the motto Of
the Garter, 1340-50. Je mdintiendrdi, Il viii
maintain" was adopted by William Ill.
1858. And Semper eadens was ordered by
Queen Anne to be used as her motto. The
motto of the Royal Humane Society in En-.
gland, organized for the recovery OF drown
ing persons, is very appropriate: Ldte0
scinti'i,tiG forSdn-ssa small spark may luri
unseen. christian at Work.