Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-05
A New York Letter.

Since the great blizzard New York
has hardly known snow, but this win
ter has brought several storms. follow
ed by the most delightfully."- prompt
| thaws, leaving US in sea ofslusb thai
makes ole wish he could evolute
back wards and be an amphibian once
more. No doubt The fame of our stree
cleaning commiss oDer has reached you
for surely such incompetence is mar
velous. Last night heavy fall OF
snow covered the city and to-day, al
| three O'Clock in the afternoon, the only
clean places in town have been made
clean by private enterprise and capital.
| However, If the latest sch eme for ra pid
streets may be as mussy as the com
missioner pleases, for we will be whirl-
ed to our office through underground
tunnels. These tunnels are to be 80 far
shaking our buildings, but the steam,
gas and drainage pipes have not yet
been spoken of. And if these are also
to be avoided it is my impression that
we will have to go so far down that
we will become familiar with the ter
rors of the neither world and so inter-
fere with the ministers whose painful
duty it now is to warn us against the
proprietor of the underground king
dom.
There has been mild sort of revival
going on in New York for some weeks
under Father Ignatius. a monk from
the Church of England. He has talked
much and earnestly to rather large
audiences in Cooper Union, bot Brook
lyn would not permit him to talk in
the city churches. Meanwhile the
papers are raising tremendous outcry
about certain Father or Mister Pen
zotti, WHO has been imprisoned in
Chilli for preaching the gospel in his
own way. Some of the papers seem to
think it should be made state affair
and that Mr.. Blaine should demand an
explanation from the Chilian authori-
ties. Of course we have not thrust
Father Ignatins into cell as yet, but
it occurs to me that the principle is
very much the same. He is a tall,
spare man, with eager eyes, who ex-
presses himself very earnestly. Pos
sessed of much iucisive force he makes
a strong impression and has attracted
large following in the city.
Another interesting character who
has been lecturing for Us is StepDiak,
the famous Russian. He was exiled
| from Holy Russia some years ago and
has since made his home in London.
He writes novel once in while and
meantime does all be can to further the
Nihilistic interests of the fatherland.
In lecture given for the benefit OF
the working girls he gave his reason
f1r being a Nihilist, who is plerely a
| man who claims liberty. According to
I that all Americans are Nihllists and it
seems d trif1e sutirical that man from
a down-trodden country should be lect-
uring for the benefit of the citizens OF
| thc x Ccubtly y oil INC SiooS'
| OF course George Kennan does great
deal for Russia and more is being done,
but we hear of greater efforts in Lon
don than here. Ipresume that is be-
cause of the Jewish prosecutions which
are deeply resented by the London
Jews. The American Jew is not as or
thodox as his English cousin and does
| not take the sorrows of the Russian
Jew so much to heart. Meantime, in
all England societies are forming, petit
tions are being read, and if anything
can be effected by union of forces Rus
sia will be obliged to Withdraw from
the contest and permit the Jews to re-
main under her government. She
claims that wherever the Jews are per-
mitted to live they very soou collect
all the wealth of the Deighborhood.
Alas! alas! would it not be a good idea
to give the poor Mujik gentle dose of
education and equip him for the con-
test with the better educated Jew.
Where a man labors under the impress
Son tIfdl tWo duu b"o LA anC Wv II
has no chance whatever against the
man who knows that two and two
make four, and, if he is quick, can be
made to stretch out to six or even
eight. We all know that the Jew is
smart. but it is dismal confession of
weakness to exile him.
A most interesting novel, 1.-The
Jew" recently made its appearance,
and should make career for itself.
The story dates in 1861 during one Of
Polaud's periodical outbreaks, and en-
deavors 10 correct the general impress
sion of the Polish Jew. II the histor-
ical novel is at all interest ting to you
this one would be particularly so. BY
the way, what power in the land the
historical novel has come to be. Every
other good book that comes out is his
torical, and generally when writer is
capable OF sufficient effort to gather
material of that description, he is also
capable OF connecting good plot.
know of no historical novel by wom-
an except Miss Muhlbach. and she was
not very reliable. ELLIS.
Carnegle's Cheap Labor.