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Iron County register., 1891-11-12
PlTH AND POINT

1t is odd enough that burglars take
such risks in a safe opening.-Balti-
more American.
"A man can't be pretty, and know
he is pretty. and amount to anything.
-Atchison Globe
The first love affair is the malady
which attends the cutting of wisdom
teeth.-Elmira Gazette.
-Bilkins-'I know what ! want. !"
Filkins-''Then you must know great
deal Journal.
If this world is a stage the bald
headed man must be supe, for he has
no part.-Yonkers Statesman.
The crank with theory is like a
| dog chasing his tail-it's nothing new
when he grasps it.-Columbus Post.
-Everything should be in season.
The summer boarder cannot expect to
have spring chicken.-N. o. Picayune.
1t is good rule to pay as you go.
But some men must be going very slow
if they go as they pay.-N. o. Picayune.
Advice is like counterfeit money.
Most people are ready to part with it,
but none care to take it.-Boston Tran
script.
We always envy fat woman when
we see her laughing. There seems to
be SO much of her having a good time.
-Atchison Globe.
The man who ''can not sing the old
songs" and won't try is the one we like
to meet at an evening party.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
-She-"Save me-I'm drowning v'
He-'Will you marry me if I do?'
She-''No." He-'All right, then; I'll
save you. brooklyn Life.
(which one do you wish to marry?"
''The younger sister" (Which one is
she?" 81 don't know. They both
claim to be. brooklyn Life.
You seldom see man so honest
that he says to his wife: Where did
leave my hat ?'' He usually says:
Where did you leave it ?''-Atchison
Globe.
Miss Prim Ito Mr.. Richfellow)-''Oh,
its nothing, my teeth ache a little;
that's ALL Small Brother (sympathet.
ically) )-''Why don't you take 'em
out?"
Jealousy is the meanest of passions,
and yet even the best of women is
pleased sometime to realize that it is in
her power to excite it.-Somerville
journal.
"A Rosy View-"So, young man,
you have gone and engaged yourself to
my daughter, Ell? What are your pros
poets, sir % Perfectly Heavenly!"-
Indianapolis Journal.
-Wilkins-'Before you strike man
see that he deserves it." Bilkins-
'Pooh! l have better rule than
that" Wilkins-' What is it, pray?"
Bilkins-"See, that he is smaller than
you Yankee Blade.
Low Associates.-Old Bellows (fu-
riously)-"I'll give you to understand,
madame, I know myselfp' Mrs. Bel
lows (complacently) doubt of it.
Some low down person is all you care
to Known. Y. Herald.
Miss Smilax-''I've just been talk
ing to Mr.. Bigbrain; he is so very
clever; couldn't help thinking of you,
Mr.. Sappy, ali the time was talking to
him." M-. Sappy-''Yeth? 1 am SO
glad, don't you know" Miss milax-
''Yes couldn't help thinking what an
immeasurable difference there is be.
tween people. denver Sun.
Iron County register., 1891-11-12
Copyright. 1890, By Edgar Fawcett-l
CHAPTER Vu-CoNTJNrrrn

CHAPTER vII.-CoNTINUED.
The world stood still with him while
he watched. He was no longer in the
least agitated; he simply felt himself
under the spell OF mighty suspense.
His new passion begot in him a new
hope. Would she wake at the summons
of the drug? He intensely longed to
have her do SO. and with the increase of
yearning came diminution of doubt.
Soon fierce joy shot through every
fiber of his frame. She moved, ever so
family, her lips betrayed the slightest
of tremors, and yet one which there was
no mistaking. Then she sighed, heav-
lily. painfully; at the sound great COM
passion took hold of his heart-strings
and wrung them till he feared that he
might cry aloud. But his mouth re-
mained firmly locked, and in a minute
more he perceived that her features
were twitching as if some inward tort
ure racked her. When, with extreme
abruptness, her eyes Enclosed, they
darted forth wild, affrighted lusters.
Consciousness had come to her, and
with it strong alarm. She raised her
self slowly, shudderingly, from the level
"HcTt she IL was Gnen UndI
sprang toward her.
Don't be frightened" he said.
you're quite safe And he helped
her to rise, wrapping closer about her
shape the large loose rainment in which
it had first been clad. She tottered a
little as she planted her foot on the
floor, repelling him in a childish, terri
fed way with one hand, while the other
grasped her drapery just above the
breast.
''Safe?" she now repeated, staring at
him and still tottering. He wheeled up
an easy-chair behind her, and, pushed
backward by his gentle pressure, she
sank into it.
Where am II" she went on, her voice
full of scared quavers. He was about
to answer with st least some semblance
of accuracy, when she continued to
speak, her white fingers grasping be-
wilderedly the long, thick fallen strand
of her hair.
"I-I thought 1 had died." she mur-
INJURED. 81 thought
Gerald dropped into a chair at her
side. "Tell me how you came to do it!''
he said. Remember, I'm your friend.
No matter what made you do it, I'm pre-
pared to give you nothing but the most
absolute sympathy"
She look at him blankly. ST don't
understand you"
why, you said that you thought you
had died"
"Yes yes . / said that"
"And you tried, then, to kill your
self?"
''To kill myself" she echoed, with a
shiver. "Oh, no, And yet Tell mep'
Iron County register., 1891-11-12
BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
Rarely Ever Accompanied by Superior
Attachments.

Rarely Ever Accompanied by Superior
Attachments.
4. OF the beautiful women that 1 have
known. but few have attained superb
ority of any kind. In marriage they
have frequently made failures; why, 1
do not know. unless the possession of
great loveliness is incompatible with
the possession of an equal amount of
good Judgment So much is expected
by the woman accustomed to admira-
ton that she plays and palters with her
fate till the crooked stick is all that is
left her This we see exemplified
again and again. While the earnest,
lofty. sweet-smiling woman of the pale
hair and doubtful line of nose has, per-
haps, one true lover, whose worth
she has time to recognize, an ac-
knowledged beauty will find herself
surrounded by crowd of snowy ego
lists, whose admiration so dazes and be-
wilders her that she is sometimes tempt
ed to bestow herself upon the most inn
Fortunate one, in order to end the un-
seemly struggle.
Then the incentive to education and
to the cultivation of ones especial
powers is lacking. Forgetting that the
triumphs which have made holiday of
youth must lessen with the years. many
a fair one neglects that training of the
mind which gives to her who is poor in
all else an endless storehouse of wealth
from which she can hope to produce
treasures for her own delectation and
that of those about her, long after
the fitful bloom upon her handsome
sisters cheek has faded with the roses
of departed summer.-Anna Katherine
Green.
Iron County register., 1891-11-12

about you, and begged me to lock the
doors of the bedroom and put the keys
in nv pocket. But l had no sooner done
this than she began to shake with fear
that you might be hidden somewhere in
the room itself, with the flask of white
poison-it was always the fasz of white
poison. / obeyed this second
fit of mania She had never been at all
violent that day, and later, when the
doctor came, she produced in both him
and myself the belief that she was now
truly on the verge of a marked change
for the better He encouraged me, and
said he had given her something to
make her pass tranquil night. Ton,
I've never felt till now, with all my re-
spect for the wonders of science, what
guess-work, what empiricism, is the
craft of all physicians, and how there's
nothing certain about them except
when they're surgeons, though surgery
may kill as often as it curesD
BY eight o'clock that evening-last
Wednesday evening, it was-she had
fallen into a very placid sleep. l was
dreadfully tired, and lay down in my
own room, so near hers that believed
the least call from her could wake me.
But must have slept very heavily in
deed, and certainly slept much longer
than l had expected. When, with a
guilty kind of start, I wakened, my
first impulse was to seek her room"
Iron County register., 1891-11-12
CHAPTER VIII.

Toward evening of the next day Syl
van Maynard began to wonder at his
brothers absence. Gerald was so apt
to drop in of morning; what meant
this failure to present himself? True,
his late visits had been brief, and his
manner while making them had seemed
preoccupied, abnormal. But ne had al
w; IS come; he had always evinced a
desire to come, and warm feeling for
the sorrow and sickness by which his
nearest kinsman was crushed
Sylvan had now recovered from his Sec
ond dismal attack and begun to accept
the gray dependency of the life which
Lucia's desertion had wrought for him.
A certain Indignation against her had
indeed nerved him like a sort of tonic.
She had wronged him infinitely; he
meant to try and tear from his heart all
craving to look upon her again. Her
flight had been a. confession of antipa-
thy-of past hypocrisy as well. They
needed him at his office downtown.
He would make an effort, very soon.
and go there. AS for the slightest
further search-no, He could not force
her to come back and live with him.
seeking her only to meet repulsion aft
erward would but increase the burden
he now bore.
And yet, whittier on the face of the
earth had she fed? This question. he
well saw, must ceaselessly vex him,
like pebble in ones boot-sole. What
conceivable means of livelihood had
she found? Must not her aunt Janet
have certainly duped him, lied to him?
His indignation strengthened as he
grew more and more convinced that this
was true.
Three or four days went by, and still
Gerald failed to appear. He was now
convalescent; he thought of leaving the
house on the morrow, and instead of at
once going to his Office he had resolved
first to call upon his brother. Somewhat
late in the afternoon of the day when
this resolve was formed, servant
handed him the card of his wife's aunt,
Mrs. Calderly.
He at once went downstairs and re-
ceived her. The moment they met she
gave little moan and lifted both
hands. Immediately afterward, and
while they were seating themselves. he
observed that she looked sallower than
ever and that the eye which had no
cross in it was full of distress Her
first words confirmed this impression.
81 have come to you, Svlvan," she
said, lin very miserable frame of
mind. Please pardon my-my surprise
at your appearance. But l wasn't pre-
pared to find you looking so bad"
I've been quite ILL.," he said, curtly,
''but am getting on now. Pray, what
is your own trouble?" He could
not resist adding: HAS some one of
your brave army of free-thinkers been
deserting your rationalistic banner?'
She astonished him by taking no no.
tice of his satire. I'm glad you're well
enough to see me-" she said. "Ive
something vastly important to tell you.
1t has been getting me into dreadful
state. 1 hope tit will not affect you
in the same way"
Affect me?" Sylvan muttered. His
brow clouded. ''Ahr' he exclaimed,
its about my wife! You've heard from
her-or perhaps you knew all along
just where sba waA"
Iron County register., 1891-11-12
Too Many Languages.

There is undoubtedly a good deal OF
advantage in learning foreign tongues
from nurse in childhood. but it is
easily possible to do this at the expense
of English If the child is not to know
it's mother tongue there is not great
deal of advantage in having smatter-
ing of foreign one.
On the piazza of a summer hotel were
observed not long since a group of
over-dressed children who were about
setting out for a walk under the care
of a royerness who was Enthusiastically
French.
"Maudie." little boy OF the party
said to his sister, "aint the Fraulein
a-goin' to Gomez"
.Nong," the girl answered, ''elle est
nein gut, and be awful glad she aint
well this morning"
These children had a French and .
German governess at the same time, but
neither of them was bothered about sc
unimportant a matter as English
Youths Companion.
Iron County register., 1891-11-12

Mrs. Calderly clasped her hands to-
gether. Il did know! l did know. She
was there with me when you came to
inquire about her"
''She was in Tonr house! And so
Il told you falsehood. Yes, admit
that didl"
Sylvan's eyes glittered and his lip
curled.
This is the sort of conscience" he
sneered, that you find permitted to
you by the noble precepts OF your be-
loved philosophers-by Kant and Comte,
by Spencer and Huxley! All! madam,
forgive me if 1 venture to prefer the
poor wisdom of the Ten Command
ments.''
You're horribly severe" she replied,
in voice that seemed like the quiver of
her thin lips translated into sound
You never liked me, and now I've that
to contend with aLia time when every
word l must say will help to make you
hate me all the harder! Lucia was in a
wretched state-she was a very ill
woman indeed-when she came to my
house. She pleaded of me not to let you
know she had found refuge under my
soof. That's what she called it-fnding
refuge under my roof"
''And you didn't exactly detest the
phrase, either. can quite understand
that you didn't. Please go on, Mrs.
Calderly.''
For great while she seemed to me
on the verge of complete prostration. I
believed her mind was going, and yet,
now and then, she would act with such
entire sanity that 1 again strongly
Iron County register., 1891-11-12

The communication of Evacustes A.
Phipson. published along with that Of
Mr.. Chancellor, illustrates the absurd
ity of confusing the single tax with
socialism. Even Mr.. Chancellor will
be apt to smile when he reads it. 1t is
due to Mr.. Phipson, however, to re-
mind the reader that he writes from
England, where socialism, thanks to
the activity of its advocates, has made
propaganda" in the land restoration
bodies, after the manner in which it
operates upon trade unions, both there
and here; and where the single tax, as
that term is understood in this country,
has but slight organized support. ex-
cept from the financial reform associa-
tion, body of free traders When he
writes of the single tax, therefore, he
may really refer not to the single tax,
but to the socialistic programme of
substituting the government as a land
lord in place of private landlords, and
making everybody q tenant whether or
no. OF the essential principle of the
single tax. that there shall be no land
owners, neither the state nor individa-
ais, and that land shall fall into two
classes, occupied or private, and unoc-
cupied or common, Mr. Phipson evil
IDENTITY has no conception.
The conditions in England, where
the tories are taxing Englishmea to
buy out Irish landlords for the benefit
of Irish tenants. regardless of the suf-
ferings of Irish peasants that are not
tenants, may nationally account for Mr..
Phipson's idea that the buying out Of
landowners, with full Compensation,
payable in bond that is ultimately to
lose its interest-paying quality, is
plan that would come at once within
the domain of practical politics; but to
Americans it will read like the craziest
kind of political small talk.
But the most significant Of Mr.. Phip.
sons ill-considered criticisms is his as
sumption that capital as well as land
can be taxed to the point of extinction
OF value. Land may be so taxed as to
extinguish its value, but not to extin-
guish the land; and, conversely, it is
supposable that capital may be so taxed
as to extinguish it, but not to extinguish
its value so long as the capital itself
exists. AS it is obvious that Mr.. Phip-
son does not contemplate the extinction
of the value of capital by extinguishing
capital, his consideration of land and
capital in this manner proves his inca
pacity for the criticism he undertakes
1t is this ignorant and needless disre.
gard of elementary truths-so simple
that they need but to be mentioned to
be accepted-that makes discussion
with most socialists exasperating and
proftless. 1t is like discussing prob
lens in long division with a boy who
has no appreciation of the value of
numbers-The Standard
Iron County register., 1891-11-12
fro BE Continued
The Supply STOPPED.

''Did that man you were talking 70 SO
excitedly haul You over the coalsg
sNo; he said couldn't have scuttle
moro until / settled" - Munsey's
Weakly.
Iron County register., 1891-11-12

"A western man says this is tough
world" and it is his opinion that very
few who are in it now will ever get out
alive. ve.-Pharmaceutical Era
The National tribune., 1891-06-25
ABOUT SAWS.

There Is a confusion Of terms in the follow.
ing item. which is going the rounds, that will
make old pioneers smile:
Kentucky doctor wishes TO sell the Exposition
management the rip-sAw which Abraham Lincoln
used i'm saving tile timbers Of his log cabin The
Kentuckian thinks this wou Id be a great attrac-
ton.
What the kentucky doctor means is prob
ably n whip-saw. rip-saw is one which car
penters use in splitting plank lengthWise. and
was not used, as rule in building lOg-cabins.
A whip-saw, on the other hand, is one used to
cut out boards from the logs, and Lincoln may
have used one to get ont the planking used for
the flooring, loft shelves and tables of his cabin.
The probability is, however, that, being true
pioneer, he made these out of "puncheons, {"
that is, logs split in two and smoothed on one
side with a broad-ax. The first pioneers did
not generally have any other wood working
| tools than axes and augers. The next addi-
tion was a cross-eut saw, for cutting logs in
two, and hand-saw. Then came a whip-saw,
which was operated In saw-pit by two men,
one standing on the log to pull the saw up and
the other under to pull it down. This recalls
the story Of newly arrived Irishman. who had
never seen anything but whip-saws for cutting
out boards and beams. He was sent out with a
German to saw ice, and, taking a coin from his
| pocket, said;
The National tribune., 1891-06-25
BENEDICT ARNOLD AND JEFF DAVIS.

BESEDiCT ARNOLD AND JEFF DAVIS.
Gov. Gordon, in his appeal for National
monument to jeff Davis, says that "his
services will yet command the respect Of his
countrymen." This reminds us of another
prominent traitor, who did his country q
thousandfold more service in the field than
JEFF Davis ever did, and inflicted upon her
a millionfOld less harm. We refer to Bene-
dict Arnold, who was the ablest LieutenaI
that Washington had, and rendered brilliant
service on many battlcfields. The worst
that he did was TO try to sell out West Point
to the British for a Major Generals com
mission and $4,000 in money. lie after
ward commanded several marauding expe-
ditOns against us, and burned some little
towns in Connecticut and Virginia. Thus
il will be seen that ATnOld's offense against
the country was quite venial compared to
Davis's. Washington made special efforts to
capture Arnold, and several attempts came
near being successful. A British officer
asked an American what would be done with
Arnold if he was captured. ave would cut
of the leg which was wounded in the assault
of Quebec" was the answer, and bury it
with the hOnOrs Of war. The rest of his
body we should hang on the highest gallows
we could build" Davis commanded regi-
ment of volunteers for about year, and
was slightly wounded in one of the two
battles in which it was engaged. Arnold
was the soul Of the army in the North
during the first five years of the Revolution.
He helped capture the first forts taken from
the British, he made splendid campaign
against Quebec which is still the admiration
of all military students, and only failed be-
cause success was impossible; he fought a
desperate naval battle on Lake Champlain,
he displayed great gallantry and ability in
a battle which he fought with vastly supe-
rior force near Danbury, Conn, and he was
the life and controlling spirit in the CAM
paign by which Burgoyne was whipt into
surrendering. If services TO the country
deserve a monument Arnold should have
one which would be as much higher than
| Davis's as the Washington Monument is
/ higher than tombstone in a country church
yard. If we are going 10 build monuments
| 10 traitors, Benedict Arnold has the right
of precedence over JEFF Davis by long odds.
The National tribune., 1891-06-25
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING Pc
Twas much interested in the following a

was much interested in the following ad-
vertisement in the New York Herald:
A YOUNG MAN, EXPERT IN COOKING
and general homework, II DESTROYS Of making &C
quanianee Of young lady; type writer preferred;
object, matrimoTy. Address NJ, 33i Herald.
This is sufficient TO send a crusty opponent
OF Woman's Rights into commissions. man
actually proposes through public print to
make pleasant home and take care of it for
any young woman capable Of giving him a
proper support. After all, why shouldn't he /?
Does this topple over the whole social fabric ?
think not. don't think it even jostles it,
Ii is true that it is opposed to generaIly-re-
ceived theories as TO the duties of the sexes,
but we need not go far in any direction to ind
things that do not square with our theories.
Marriage is a partnership. where each member
brings in certain qualities needful for the COM
mon support and happiness. If the woman can
do something that is more agreeable and profit
able to her than keeping house, why should she
not follow her bent, and if a man would rather
do Homework than something else, why
shouldn't they form partnership on this
basis1 am free to say that it promises more
wel-being and happiness to both than a great
many marriages that know Of It is certainly
better than the large number that we all know
Of where the wife supports the family by sew
ing or otherwise, and does the housework
besides, while the husband ornaments q store
box on the sidewalk on pleasant days and a
chair near the stove in disagreeable weather.
HARVEY AUSTIN.
The National tribune., 1891-06-25
WATERLOO AND GErrvsnuRG.
In an article in the Century Magazine
Theodore Roosevelt saws:

In an article in the Century Magazine
Theodore Roosevelt says:
At Gettysburg there were present in action 5000
60 5000 Union troops and at ihe Confederaes some
O5.u00 AZ Waterloo there wrrc 10000 soldiers ~
tAe Allies under Wellington and Blucher aud
- 600 French uudrr Napoleon; or there were about
10000 comhHnuts 10 Getty sburg and about lssVb
90 Waterloo In cucI ca~e the weaker army made
fc attack aud WAS defeated, Leo did not have To
face such heavy odds az Napocon but whereas
Napacnns defeat "A rout la which he lost All
liS guns md SAW hs soldiers become "a dlsorgan-
izea rRbhle, Lee drew on his army in good ordt1,
Dis cannon uucapturcd aud The morale % his for
midnlle soldiers mistaken. The defeated Con-
frdrrRics lost Ia killed md wounded l5,53a, aud pa
captured iG7. sone ~ whom were likewise
wounded a2 ono iu all; thg defeated French lost
from $4,000 10 10000 probably nearer the latter
number The Coufrdru,ics ihus lost ip killed and
wounded at least Is per cent q their force, and "ct
they preserved their artillery aud their organiza-
lions while the French suffered even heavier
proportional loss aud were turned into a fleeing
mob.
Comparing The vctors, we find that the forces Of
the Allies at Waterloo consisted 81 several differ
cent binds Of troops, and together with the losses
best be presented iu iahulaied form. Yelling
ton had under him Gs 0l0 English, Germans aud
Dutch Bc.gians, while Is,uchor had 81 goo Prussans
The National tribune., 1891-06-25
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