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Iron County register., 1891-06-04
CLEANED OUT THE THIEVES
Farmer Gets On His Muscle at the onion


A Farmer Gets On His Muscle at the Onion
Depot.
''I'n purity old bird; but begosh I've
got heap O sand in me yet
The speaker was a huge, red-faced
farmer, who came down the union de-
pot stairs the other morning with his
coat-sleeves rolled up and his breath
coming in gasps.
'sWhat is the matter?" inquired one
of the bystanders.
ooh! nuthin' much, 1 guess. Only
opine that there are sum fellers not a
mile away who won't be so peart agin. -
''What happened?" asked another, as
the Goliah-like farmer ceased speaking.
well. ] amt ust ter these late
breakfasts, so l us hungry when KEN
inter this ere village, en- went acroost
ther road ter get sumpthin' ter eat.
hung me coat up while washed me
borried me purse. I didn't know twas
gone It'll I'd finished eaten and was
goin' ter pay me bill, and than I asst for
it. They told me they didn't know
nuthin about it, an | got mad.
Gimme that purse, We DANCED
thief sez I.
'Shet up!' sez he; Il amt got yer
measly purse
EN- then they tried ter put me out,
but I'm pretty fly bird, en- when
got thru with them fellers the floor
was pretty clean. An got my purse
Chicago News.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
HE GOT THE JOB.
A Student of Human Nature Who Welte
Carpets for Living.

A Student of Human Nature Who Welted
Carpets for a Living.
"Do you wish me to beat any carpets,
lady?" he asked of the woman who
came to the door. ''I'll guarantee to dc
it thoroughly and at a moderate price.
A better day"
''No, 1 DON'T" snapped the woman,
already out of patience by the visit OF
two peddlers and a tramp, and she step.
ped back to shut the door.
81 half expected you didn't said the
unruffied carpet-beater. 81 might have
believed what the woman across the
street told me-"
what did that lying Mrs. Higgins
tell you?" queried the woman sharply,
opening the door which she had half
shut.
s'She said it was no use for me to call
here; that you didn't have anything but
an old rag of a carpet that would fall to
pieces if any one tried to beat it."
''She did, did she? The impudent
husseyw said the woman, almost too
angry to speak. ''Come right in, my
man, and take up my heavy brussels.
Take it out in the front yard and beat
it as hard as you know how, until tell
you to stop. I'll pay you double price
and give you your dinner besides. "
And. to herself, she said: "I'll let the
hateful thing see whether it's an old
rag or not"
And the diplomatic carpet beater
called to his assistant out on the side
walk, and remarked to him when they
had taken the carpet out where Mrs.
Higgins could see it that it was cold
day when he couldn't get a carpet tc
beat-Boston Herald
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
How Land Speculation Pays.

On Friday of last week there was a
transfer of a plot of land on the upper
part of Manhattan Island known as
Washington Heights. The land lies
between Tenth avenue, which runs
along the edge of the bluff on the east,
and Kingsbridge road on the west. and
One hundred and Eighty-second street
and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh
street on the north and south. 1t COM
prises about 1S full blocks or 400 city
lots. The price paid for this plot was
$1,000, 900. The purchasers are a syn
dicate of New Workers who propose to
place the property on the market in
small plots. The sellers were Vice
President Levi p. Morton and his part
ner, George Bliss.
This property was known as the Gen
eral Butterfield farm and was purchased
by Morton and Bliss in the latter part
of 1885, just five and one-half years ago
for $45O,0OO. Since that time the inn
provement of the cable road on Tenth
avenue, the building of the Washington
bridge across the Harlem and the lay
ing out of One Hundred and Eighty-sec-
ond street has brought the land into
the market And the result has been
an accretion in value in the five and
one-half years of just $3.50, 900. or $780,
900 per year. This increase on an in
vestment of $3.50, 900 represents a profit
of over % per cent. per annum. If we
estimate the average rate of profit, in
business investments over and above all
expenses, insurance and wages of su-
perintcndence as high as per cent, we
see that it has paid Messrs. Morton and
Bliss just three times as well to specu-
late on the prime necessity of life and
withhold from use the source of all pro-
duction-land, as to invest their money
in productive enterprise, employ labor
and build ND the community.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
Why a Land Value Tax is just.

Land has two elements of value; one
given it by labor, the other by the COM
munity without any exertion of labor
The first should not be taxed; the Sec
ond may be. A tract Of land located a
hundred miles away from any settle
ment or from road leading to a settle
ment, has no value except such as labor
applied to it gives, and should not be
taxed; but tract located within one
mile of a growing city may be worth
ten thousand dollars per acre, most Of
its value being given it by virtue of its
proximity to the city, and the fact that,
as the city increases in population, the
land will eventually be required for city
purposes. Now, inasmuch as the most
of this particular value of the land has
been given to it by the community, and
not by the labor of any individual who
may occupy it, the interest of that value
thus given belongs of right, to the COM
munity, and may be justly claimed and
taken by it through taxation. If, there
fore, the interest of its value is taken by
the community, the land, for all practical
purposes, is restored to the community,
though the person who occupies it may
cou1lHue W uo 81, VI c'eh W seli, cA-
change, mortgage or bequeath it, and
if the taxes on such lands, whether in
city, village or country, amount to suf-
ficient to defray the expenses of all
departments of the government, there
will be no necessity for taxing the pro-
ducts of labor, and, therefore, the two
laws of nature which have named as
having been violated, will be restored
to their normal dignity, and their vlo-
lation ceases. The cause of enforced
poverty being thus abolished, that ter
rible foe to human happiness will dis
appear.-Henry s. Schill.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
ENViCUS OF AMERICAN GIRLS.
Some of the Things the Women Put Up
With in ia pan.


some of the Things the Women Put Up
With in Japan.
During my recent visit to Jaran. SAYS
Henry T. Finck, several girls told me
how glad they would be if they had the
opportunity and means to go to Amer
lea. They had probably heard of the
United States as being the paradise of
women, and felt that Japan was not
exactly an earthly Eden for them
Americans call pretty girls angels.
and adore them as goddesses. The
japanese, on the contrary, compare
men with Heaven and women with
earth. Probably no foreigner knows
the Japanese as thoroughly as Mr. Basil
Hall Chamberlain, who has been profess
sor OF philosophy at the university of
Toxic. Most Japanese men, he SAYS.
''even in this very year of grace 1890,
make no secret of their dsdain for the
female sex. The way in which they are
treated by the men has hitherto been
such as might cause pang to any gen
erous European heart"
This contempt for women is shown in
the minutest details of life, as for ex-
ample in mourning etiquette. which
prescribes that animal food should be
abstained from and mourning garments
worn for one hundred days in case of a
patcrnal grandfather, but only ninety
days in case of & maternal grandfather,
ninety days for a paternal uncle but
only thirty days for one on the mater
nal side. etc.
According to the ''Greater Learning
for Women" there are five feminine
vices which four women of every five
possess ess-disobedience, malice, slander,
jealousy and stupidity-whence arises
their inferiority to man. Every woman's
four possible virtues are such as chiefly
benefit man-gentle obedience, chastity,
mercy and quietness.
A Japanese Buddhist text says that
"A woman's exterior is that of saint,
but her heart is that of demon
Every tourist who has visited Japan
will agree as to the malicious falseness
of these ungallant remarks on the gen
tie, courteous, sweet and graceful lit
tie women of the island empire.
1t is not easy to observe these women
in their homes, because it is not the Gus.
tom among the Japanese to invite
friends, least of all foreigners. to their
houses to dinner, tea-houses being al
ways chosen for such purpose; but in
these tea-houses tourists have opportu-
nifty abundant to discover and resent
the untruthfulness of the charge that
these low and aggravating girls have
had no proper education; they are
stupid, obstinate and vulgar in their
Speech which is brought against the
poor hand-maidens, whom he, on the
contrary, always finds ready to serve
him, ever smiling. and even willing to
fan him on a sultry summer afternoon.
Imagine an American waiter girl do.
ing such thing.-N. Y. Continent.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
THE USE OF CONDIMENTS.
When Used in Moderation They are Con
sidered Beneficial to Health.

When Used in Moderation They are Con-
sfdered Beneficial to Health.
Many articles of common use pos
sess medicinal properties in a marked
degree that should be known in the in
terest of health so that the housewives
can second the intentions of physicians
in behalf of their patients progress
toward recovery. AS matter of fact,
the earliest remedies recorded as en-
ployed by medical men were vege-
table, the result of chemical expert
ments; and the most active poisons are
of vegetable origin. With the excep-
ton of arsenic, the poisons most fire.
quently used by criminals are
vegetab BILE, and so have been
for ages: and, singularly enough,
some of the most esteemed spices
and condiments are poisonous if taken
in sufficient quantities. This fact has
been noted in connection with nutmeg,
and Tanner and Christison say that
even common salt has been known to
cause death when taken as vermifuge
When used in moderation all condiments
have a stimulating effect upon the en-
tire elementary system; they tend to
equalize digestion by promoting the
flow of the gastric juices, and they add
to the enjoyment of food by gratifying
the palate.
The evil attributed to condiments is
more or less fanciful one; in any case
it arises from the abuse of them. Chill
dren need but little stimulating matter
mingled with their food, a moderate
quantity of salt and very little if any
pepper being all that is required for
SAVIOR. But adults can use the many
kinds to advantage, as is proven by the
above considerable of their properties.
AS a matter of fact, a great deal of mis-
chief is done by people of single idea,
who disregard all evidence save what
they consider the proof of their own
senses. and try to fit large and varied
conditions within their narrow lines. If
they fancy that pepper Injuries their
little stomachs, straightway all the rest
of the world is to fOrSwear its use. If
Salt has lost it's SAVIOR for them, they
set about Transforming our most de-
lectable plats into messes as insipid
their small theories. May Heaven en-
dow all such reformers with the desire
to charge upon their own windmills,
and leave our sails to be waited by the
winds of common Sense.--Juliet COrson,
in Harpers Bazar.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
PlTH AND POINT.
It's he good sculptor??'' Yes, he's

It's he good sculptor??" Yes. he's
buster. boston Gazette.
-''One thing | like about our new
man." said a member of the firm to his
partner ''is that he's reliable. You
can always tell what he is going to do
| next" And what is that?" 'sNoth-
ing. g."-Washington Post.
-Wool-"Old Scroggs seems to want
to get all he can for his money" Van
Pelt-''Doesn't he? Why. that man
wouldn't take an ounce of prevention if
he could get pound of cure at the
same price.-N. Y. Herald.
Embracing Privilege. GER
tainly told me to embrace my privilege. )"
"Well but l didn't tell you to embrace
my daughter" mo, but to embrace
your daughter is a privilege. ''-Har-
ward Lampoon.
of Two Evils.-Nobbsie the office
boy.-"There' man downstairs says
he's goin' to kill yer, and beautiful
young lady as wants to go on der
stage" Manager-s'Wel1, show the
man up. ."-Brooklyn Life.
-Mamma--"Dolly, remember. you
have promised not to f1irt with a single
y
(under her breath)-'sThanl fortune
That lets me fiirt with the married
married men," n."-Chicago Globe.
Her Gentle Voice.-Brown-s'No
doubt you often think of your late
wife, Mr.. Graymare?" Graymare "a
widower)-"Oh, yes, woke up sudden
ly last night and felt sure l heard her
voice, but it turned out to be thunder:
Saturday Evening Herald.
Putting in His Time.-First Re-
porter-'Had any assignment to-day?"
Second Reporter-''Yes, / had a fu-
neral two. hours long" First Reporter
1.-Two hours! l should think it would
have worn you out" Second Reporter
-''Oh, didn't mind it; l wrote up my
joke column. Boston Courier.
An Eloquent Silence. - Dress
maker-Did your husband, madam, re-
ceive my little bill for your dresses?"
Mrs. .Bingo-s'Yes, I believe So" Dress
make (anxiously)-''And what does he
say?' Mrs. Bingo-'T don't know.
He hasn't spoken to me since he re-
ceived t."-Dry Goods Bulletin.
Jack Hardup-''Oh, Miss Ploutot,
may 1 hope at all?' Miss Ploutot-
mo, Mr.. Hafoup, tn1S must go no
further, but 1 will be a sister to you"
Jack Hardup-"Well. then, Miss Plou-
tot, just remind the old gentleman
that I'm his son; I'm afraid he might
forget me in his will. Yale Record.
No Grief in His.-'I am truly, sorry,
Johnny" said the friend Of the family,
meeting his little boy on the street, ''to
learn that your fathers house was
burned down yesterday. Was nothing
savcd?" Don't you waste no grief on
me-" replied Johnny. ''All of paws
old clothes were burned up in that fire,
and NAV can't make any of 'em over
for me this time. I'm all right"
Mrs. Desporte Cooking up from
her newspaper).-'T really think they
will finally do away with prize-fghting
altogether" Mr.. D.-'What makes
you think so, my dear?" Mrs D.
''Well, think the movement is in the
direction of reform. l just read of a
fight where they discarded those cruel,
ugly, clumsy big gloves, and fought
with kid gloves. Harvard Lampoon
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
TURNING OF THE FooTsTEp.

An angel stood in lofty place.
oi ifoh the hauntS where men do dwell
ana watched, with a troubled. anxious face
Inc tide of life as it rose and fell.
ne pent an ear to the footsteps low.
ihat echoed with bold or dainty tread
And watched their hasty march or SLOW
win looks OF sorrow, fear and dread
among the throng were maidens fair.
AND oeardless youths with eyes of fire;
"hiie tottering age with silver hair
Crept slowly on in vague desire
And manhood rich with Hfe's best nrirna
ana woman grand in royal dover.
HhoNeo swiftly down the slope of time
swept onward by mighty power
oh, on they go, a surging thronp.
whose footsteps, beating on the air,
Keep measure to a mournfuI SOM
song OF worldly strife ard care
none seemed to pause or lift their eyes
10 where the angel, grand ana sweet
Is looking down. and ever tries
To stay that hurried tread OF feet.
On, weary footsteps, pause awhile.
On, footsteps feeble. take thy rest,
Oh, turn ye from each earthly VILE
AND set thy soul with peace be b;est.~
fet scarcely heard that tender cry,
us lost amid lifc's passions wild;
And like far-of distant sigh
1t reached at last human child.
Twas one whose footsteps long had grown
so weary with the weight of care.
FROM out whose eyes the light had flown,
Within whose breast dwelt dark despair.
Yet through the turmoil and the din
She heard voice both sweet and low:
"Oh, turn ye from the ways Of sin,
Fling down the burden of thy woer'
She felt throughout her tired frame
A strange new thrill of life and hope:
She paused to see from whence il came
Looked backward DER life's dreary slope
ana there she saw, through tear-dimmed eyes
The angel beckoning her to come;
And with cry of glad surprise
She turned her footsteps toward her home
-Cornelia Wesson Boyden in Good House
keeping.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04

THAT people can be enslaved just
as effectually by making property of
their lands as by making property of
their bodies, is truth that conquerors
in all ages have recognized, and that.
as society developed, the strong and un-
scrupulous who desired to live off the
labors of others, have been prompt to
see. The coarser form of slavery, in
which each particular slave is the prop
erty of particular owner, is only fit
ted for rude state of society, and with
social development entails more and
more care, trouble and expense upon
the owner. But by making property Of
the land instead of the person, much
care, supervision and expense are saved
the proprietors; and though no particu-
lar slave is owned by particular mas
ter, yet the one class still appropriates
the labor of the other class as before.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04

THE effect of substituting for the mani
fold taxes now imposed single tax on
the value of land would hardly lessen
the number of conscious tax payers, for
the division of land now held on specu-
lation would much increase the number
of land holders. But it would so equal
ize the distribution of wealth as to raise
even the poorest above that condition
of abject poverty in which public con-
siderations have no weight; while 1t
would at the same time cut down those
overgrown fortunes which raise their
possessors above concern in govern
ment. The dangerous classes POLITICAL
ly are the very rich and the very poor
Progress and Poverty.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04

most see its abst1rdity. ThoaaAnds OF
them know how to do carpenter work.
paint, lay bricks, plaster and do plum b.
ing, but they don't seem to know how
to advance their own interests. The
Evansville Central labor union is on the
right road, however, and its example
might be followed with advantage by
larger central unions
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
A Fight Between Bears and an Engine.

While crossing "Rattlesnake Tres
tie near Lakeland, Fla, the other day
two large bears were overtaken by
train. The bridge was too high to
lump from, and, finding escape impos-
sible, the bears turned, stood upright
and faced the train with fore-paws up
in prize-ighter style. The engine
dashed one of them off the trestle, but
the other was thrown up into the air by
the cow-catcher, and in his fall clutched
the brass rods in front of the locomo-
tive. Desperate with pain he growled
savagely and scrambled along towards
the cab, where the stoler's face was
visible. The stolzer had just been ral1-
ing the fire and made n lunge at his fe-
rocious assailant with the great red
hot poker. With terrific howl the
poor beast tried to spring upon the
stoker. but lost his footing and fell al
most under the wheels. He lost part
of hind leg, but in spite of all his
wounds he picked himself up after
rolling down the embankment (by this
time the train was off the trestle), and
bounded off into the woods The
blood-stained engine was visited by ap-
p-eciative crowds as soon as it reached
.he next town.-Chicago News.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
Very Long.

81 tell you, Dauber, art is long"
you've found that out, eh?"
''Yes; I went to see a panorama this
morning Puck
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
A recent invention promises to b,

A recent invention promises to be
more far-reaching in its immediate
practical results than any which has
preceded it in the annals OF mechanical
discovery. 1t consists IN the use OF
hardened steel ball-bearlngs for all
wheels, pulleys, or revolving shafts,
with view to accelerated speed and
many other incidental advantages, by
reducing friction to minimum and al
most inappreciable quantity.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
HOn0r En0uUh.

Relative-And so you have graduated?
Did you take any of the prizes?
Falr Student-N-o but l got the big
gest bouauet.-GoodN News.
Iron County register., 1891-06-04
Weight on Various Planets.

On Jupiter, which is a much larger
and heavier body than the earth, man
would weigh about 4S4 pounds whose
weight on the earth would be 200
pounds. This man would weigh 21S
pounds on Saturn. Coming to the
smaller bodies, we find that he would
weigh less than on the earth. His zoo
pounds would shrink to ia on Venus,
to 81 on Mercury, to 60 on Mars and to
80 on the moon, while on the little
asteroids, or telescope planets revolv-
ing between Mars and Jupiter, his
weight would be from two to four
pounds only. The matter depends on
the mass and attractive force of the
planet.-Chicago Times
Iron County register., 1891-06-04

-Aunt-"Do not be so impudent and
rude, Charles. 1t is bad manners"
Charles-"l know it. aunt, but / am
going into the life insurance business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-12
PERSONAL.

Sir Edwin Arnold, while living in Japan. not only
smoked frequently himself, but even trained HIS
children, including little girl to do So Cisare'tes
were used by the young folks who strangely enough
somehow did not seem TO be very lohu Vi '''o III
diligence.
Bishop Paddock, Of Massachusetts,. was regarded by
The late Richard H. DANA of Boston, the best pre-
siding officer in a convention that he ever knew, The
Bishop a ready off hand speaker ana hhe" no" u
dispatch business.
DR.. Emma Branard Ryder is arranging some ap-
proprate Iindoo words t. the music Of lot OF Yale
songs to he introduced into East India by the Pnndta
Ramabai, who is labOring to elevate chlii WIDOWS
EN senator r. W. Palmer, of Michigan. president OF
the Worlds Fair Managers has allowed himself to be
Overtaxed with oiccseekers and interVcwers a. 10
be sick abed
Senator IIscock will start from Washington today
for Tampa Fla where he will spend the next thrce
weeks tarpon fishing. Mrs IIiscOclI will accompany
HIM.
Amos F. Learned, long the Ncw-York agent OF the
New England Associated Press, who died on Monday.
was sent to report an address before the American
Peace society in Boston at the beginning OF HIS
newspaper career. This discourse delivered by
Professor Felton, of Harvard College and the column
and half abstract thorough that the professor
ordered an extra edition of 300 copies ard remarked
Amos that the abstract was even better lildh TIC
original manuscript
william stuart Appleton, Of Boston, who died last
saturday wa, the son of the late Ebcn Appleton one
of the founders of Lowell Mass, and brother OF
Nathan Appleton. Mr.. Appleton was born IN cam
bridge on June l. 16i1 and was educated at Harvard
I'm I-}s he married Miss GcOrgianna Armi5tcad. OF
baltimore. daughter of Lieutenant Colonel George
Arm stead, who so bravely defended Fort Mcilenry
outside Of Baltimore, against the English in lol2
From the tine of hi, marriage until lsGo h lived IN
Ealt more being engaged in banking the greater part
Of the time For twenty wears he spent d. iine
in mi, oity and In Boston. Mrs. Appleton died III
1-7- six children survive Mr.. Appleton-MrS- frrd'
crirl r. knight Of Boston Ebcn Appleton. OF New
York: Mrs. Arthur John Clarke Kennedy. Of London
Mrs George Livingston Baker, Of New Brighton = l. .
Mr., William sumner Appleton. oNBo'ton, and Mr'.
Walter b. kecne, Of New YORK He wa, one OF the
i'm high esteem in New FORK, Boston and Baltimore.