Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-24

view, he began to suggest doubts o.
the sincerity of those who had been re-
Gently resisting bis authority, and who
claimed to have abandoned all thought
of dividing the island, or of interfering
with the black people who lived among
them. These doubts he fostered until,
for long time. there was distrust in
the old gentleman's heart toward these
boys.
Shortly after he had shown Farmer
Jack over the island and secured his
approval of what he had done, he be-
gan to get ready to kill his hogs. The
first move he made in this direction
was the calling in and destroying of
ell the paper money he could, in order
to make it difficult for tie people to
get hold of money. Money, he reas.
oned, floats the business of country,
just as water floats the vessels on the
bosom: of the canal or river. Now, if
he could control the supply of money,
be could strand any business he might
choose, with the same ease that the
man in charge of the reservoir of a
canal can strand the boats floating
upon its waters, and then he could
pick out of the wreckage what he
might wish, at pretty much his own
| figure. There was good deal of
Kicking" at the reduction Of the vol
ume Of money, but be allayed the fears
| of tho faypilv coupail nv 70 n, ;rp , ho,,t
getting down to a firm business basis
| and talking oracularIy about imitation.
He knew if he could keep people from
bringing anything on the island, and,
at the same time, keep them so short
of money that, in dealing with him,
they would become indeb bted to him,
| they would fall as completely into his
power as the black men had fallen into
the power of the boys WHO had just
been beaten, and their labor and ac-
cumuiations he would be enabled to
appropriate to himself. But when it
was found, one day, that he had taken
away their good white money, there
was such an outcry on the part of his
sons, both North and South, that the
old Farmer was compelled to expostu-
with the giant when he chanced to
meet him, who, not liking the storm
he bad raised, quickly restored it to
them. He saw that he had plucked
unripe fruit. But, in every way that
he could, he endeavored to cast re-
proach upon this kind of money; he
complained that it was mbersome
and of no volue. and made thousand
objections to it; but it did not avail.
The prejudices of the farmer and his
sons were in favor of it, and that YVES
sufficient to make even good argu-
ment against it OF no effect. Notwith-
standing this check, however, he man.
aged TO get control of about all the
money on the island; and now the |
farmer and his sons found themselves, |
year by year, growing poorer. They
worked just as hard as ever they had |
done. They were just as careful and |
saving as they had ever been, but the |
tendency was all one way with them,
aud SilaO W aS III" Ii H"dIus LII tuGT |
days, bis wife had had new dresses and |
could go to church in as fine turnout
as any one, the children were well
clad, well fed, rosy and jolly; and those
who had the desire and ability were
sent off to the academy or college.
The farmer and his sons had money in
their pockets, and could always pay
promptly what they owed; aud, once
in long while, when he went to town
to sell his wheat or corn, or to lay in a
stock Of groceries, he would meet some
of his old Gronies, and when he got
back home he would find himself with
enough red liquor in his hide to be cru
saded for blind tiger, though he did
MT make practice of this. His corn
was good price, his hogs sold well.
He got q dollar and half bushel for
his wheat-in fact, every thing he had
TO sell brought good returns. And now
all this was changing. His wife, when
she went to church, had to go in her
last years gown, and the old family
with two Ordinary plow hors-
IS in no very good order, was the best
turnout they could afford. The chill
dren did not go 30 well dressed, nor
lid they get 50 much schooling as
had to 60 to work at
an earlier age. He and bis sons began
to find less and less money in their
pockets. He didn't always have the
money to pay his debts and taxes as
bad formerly been the case with him.
He found that somehow he was pay
ing very high prices for what he had {
to use and got very little for what he
had to sell. He could only get from
twenty five 10 forty cents bushel for t
bis corn, ana in some parts OF the 6
island ten cents bushel was the out q
side price for this article; sixty to y
eighty cents a busbel for his wheat,
aud everything else that he had TO sell S
was correspondingly low. S
ITO BE- continued.)
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