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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23
Russia's Expedition to Africa.

Russia having decided to take part in
African enterprises, the Gar has just de-
spatched an expedition, under command
of Lieut.. Mashkoft, to Shoa. the southern
part OF the Abysslnian highlands. Max
ing its headquarters al Entotto, the favor
ite residence of King Menelek, whose
permission has been secured, the expedi-
ton, it is said, will attempt to reach tn
great central African lakes from the
northeast, route that has not been trav-
elled by any Europeans for more than a
third of the distance. Italian explorers
have made single itinerary for about
200 miles southwest of Shoa, and found
the region exceedingly fertile and popu-
lOus. From Shoa 600 miles south to Vic
toria Nyanz, from Emin's old province
on the Nile at least 500 miles east toward
| the Indian Ocean, is a region embracing
over 200, 900 square miles OF which almost
nothing is known, except along the single
ines of travel followed for short distauc-
es by Borelli in the north and Count
Teleki in the south. No European pow
er has done anything in this vast region
emitting it to claim rights OF sovereignty
This is the region which the Cars eX-
pedition proposes to enter. The inten-
ton to explore 1t is announced, and there
is no doubt that it is the purpose of the
Czar that Russia's influence shall be pre-
dominant in this unapproDriated part of
frica, where it is known that some mill
lions ofpeople, agriculturists and herders,
have their homes.
England and Italy have probably not
heard of this enterprise with unmixed
pleasure. They cannot thwart it. how
ever, and the Gar is able to say that he
has had more cordial invitations to enter
Abyssinia and make it the basis of Rus
sian enterprises than at any other Euro
pean power. Before the death of King
John he appealed to the Car for protec-
ton against the aggressions of Italy and
England, and he signed a treaty OF oom-
nerce with Russia giving to that country
privileges never hafoIe granted by the
kings of Abyssnia to a European power.
He also express ed the wish to ally the
Coptic Church with the State Church OF
Russia. Hing Menelek does not enter
tain the most friendly feelings toward the
Italians at present. and there Is good rea-
son to believe the reports from st. Peters
burg that he will promote the interests of
the Russian expedition. N. Y. Sun.
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Crabs Are Fighters,

Crabs particularly are fighting ami
mails; in fact, they will fight anything
l have seen a crab, in conflict with a lob
ster, catch the latter over the fore part
of the head, where the shell is hardest,
and crush it in by one effort. And it
rather bears out my idea that the claws
of these creatures are particularly weap-
ons of war; that the moment one of
them receives severe injury in claw it
drops it off by voluntary amputation,
severing its connection with the body at
the shoulder by an act of its own will
1t seems to me probable that if the claw
were necessary for feeding nature would
rather seek to cure an injury to it than
let the animal discard it altogether.
The species Of crab which is most con-
spicuously a fighter is the hermit crab.
Its first idea of Independent life is to eat
IA harmless whelk and occupy its shell:
its next notion is to give battle to every
crab Of the same persuasion IS itself that
it comes across. Altogether hermit crabs
are undoubtedly the most quarrelsome
creatures in e-listence.-Interview in
Washington Star.
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There are two universities, one at
Buenos Ayres and one at Cordoba, which
together counted 093 students in 1899.
and delivered 234 diplomas, including s!
doctors Of law, s. doctors of medicine,
and II civil engineers. In the whole
republic there are sixteen national col
leges, with a teaching corps of AGA pro-
fessors and an attendance in 1889 of
$500 pupils. In the capital and the
provinces there are thirty-five normal
schools, with Il, 1924 pupils of both sexes,
who become professors and teachers,
chiefly for the primary schools.
In Buenos Ayres in 1889 there were
285 primary schools, directed by 1911
teachers and attended by 81 500 children.
In the provinces there were 2,710 pri-
mary schools, with a teaching staff of
4 4,532 and an attendance of 200. 1856. To
resume, the results obtained were 3,042
primary schools. G.103 teachers, 259, ,695
pupils, 1878 primary schoolnouses in the
whole republic. OF these schoolhouses
4S5 are the property of the nation or of
the provinces and 1883 private prop
erty.-Theodore Child, in Harper's.
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ism. What he needs is reputation for
dignity and impartiality. The position
of Italy in attempting to say what shall
be done with American citizens in Amer
lea was so manifestly and absurbiy unten-
able that the best method of treating it is
with placid eonGe,1pt.
By dropping the subject of State and
Federal constitutional rights; by recog-
nizing fully that the only claim Italy can
have i'm any event is for money damages,
M. Blaine has made himself master of
the situation. and has the clustering
Italian Premier at great disadvantage.
As long as the State Department keeps
this position; as long as it presents the
Union of States as the party to any con-
troversy with a foreign power; as long
as it declines to allow any foreign power
to concern itself with our interstate rela-
tions, it will have the support of all the
States of the Union, and of their people,
regardless of party.
Mr. Blaine has done enough to vindi-
cate he country from any suspicion of
being 'bulldozed.' He should now en-
deavoT to keep the position he has taken
without unnecessarily humiltatlng the
present Italian Cabinet. The jingoism of
which it has been guilty for effect at home
is of kind of which he has often been
guilty himself. and he is bound to remem-
Der that in such cases some playing 20
the galleries is unavoidable and there
fore allowable. Republic.
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The Editors Visitors.

"How dye dew g this Editor Brown?
Belinda M me was in your town,
IN havin' mint or tew ter spare
We jest dropped in to see how ye are
M see We make ther paper.''
Owe take your paper and read each week
Where Cleveland talks and Watterson
speaks;
A fire here, flood out there,
The weather'll be wet or the weathei'll be
All down In a single paper.
"There's news from China, there's news
from Wales;
There's word from ship that has lost her
sails,
There's Stevenson's letters from the South
Sea Isles.
"woman's column" and "auiet smiles, p
And we get it one weeks paper.
81 told Belinda twas mystery to me
How you got so much from over the sea;
Said she, 'the telegraph and telephone
with their net work of wires in every zone
Is what helps him make the paper
We take your paper and think it just grand,
And sometimes I'd like to take your hand
In friendly grasp, just to let you know
We appreciate such men as you
Who work to make paper"
"W ell, now goodbye; | must see to my hay,
And here we're only in the way,
A hinderin' you an stoppin' your press;
So now We'll bid good day, I guess,
To the man who makes the paper"
The editor watched them leave the place;
He had seen a light in that sunbrowned face
That brought more courage aud gave more
heart
Than all who come their views to impart
And tell how to run the paper.
Bellows Falls, VT. B. FL. ALLBEE.
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CHURCHES:

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Arcadia College
and Pilot Knob. l.. C.. WERNERT Rector.
High Mass and Sermon at Arcadia College
every Sunday at O'Clock A. NJ. Vespers and
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 4
O'Clock P. NJ. High Mass and Sermon and
Benediction at Pilot Knob Catholic Church
at 1880 O'Clock A. NJ. Sunday School for
children at 80 O'Clock P. NJ.
NJ. E. CHURCH, Cor. Reynolds and
Mountain Streets, ISAAC BORIS, Pastor. Res
idence: Ironton. Services every Sabbath
at III A. NJ. and 1:45 P. NJ. Sunday School
9:30 A. NJ. Glass Meeting Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock Prayer Meeting Tuesday and
Thursday evenings. All are invited.
NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, Fort Hill,
between Ironton and Arcadia. Rev. A. t
TIDwELL, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday
morning and evening. Prayer meeting eve
ry Wednesday evening. Sabbath School al
$50 A. NJ.
BAPTIST CHURCH, Madison street,
near Knob street, =. NJ. SHOUSH, Pastor
Residence Ironton. Preaching on every
Saturday before the first Sunday of each
month at 2:30 p. NJ. and on the first and third
Sundays at IL 4. NJ. Sunday School every
Sunday at $50 A.. NJ. and Prayer Meeting
every Tuesday evening at T:30 P. NJ.
LUTHERAN CHURCH, Pilot Knob.
Rev. OTTO PFAFFE, Pastor.
A. NJ. E. CHURCH, Corner Shepherd
and Washington streets, 1ronton. A. ABB
ANATHY, pastor.
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QUALITIES OF THE JAPANESE.
SIR Edwin Arnold's Enthusiastic sspin
ions of japanese People.

Sir Edwin Arnold's Enthusiastic opin-
ions of Japanese People.
As for the people, I am and ALWAYS
shall be Of good st. Francis Xavier's
feeling, This nation is the delight os
my soul" Never have l passed days
more happy, tranquil or restorative than
among japanese of all classes in the ci-
ties, towns and villages of Japan Pos
sibly that is because [ have had no bust
ness relations with my kind and pleasant
Niponese friends, and have never talked
very much metaphysics; but it seems
certainly an easy way to keep on the
right side of folks to let philosophy and
theology alone.
Moreover it is, no doubt, necessary for
such experiences to go a little behind
that sort of Japan which you find on the
HatObas of Yokohama or Kobe, in the
Ioshiwaras of those and the other open
ports. At very little distance from the
surface, which we civilizing westerners
have done our best to spoil, will be still
discovered the old, changeless, high
tempered, generous, simple and sweet
hammered Japan of old.
[ frankly confess it has entirely charm
ed me; and therefore what I say of this
japanese nation, and their manners
and customs, must be received with the
proper caution attaching to the language
of a friend, and even a lover But where
else in the world does there exist such a
| conspiracy to be agreeable; such wide
spread compact to render the difficult af-
fairs of life as smooth and graceful as
| circumstances admit; such fair DEGREES
of fine behavior fixed and accepted for
all; such universal restraint of the
coarser impulses of speech and act
such pretty picturesqueness of daily
existence; such lively love of nature as
the embellisher of that existence; such
sincere delight in beautiful artistic
things; such frank enjoyment of the en-
joyable; such tenderness to little chill
dren; such reverence for parents and old
persons; such widespread refinement of
taste and habits; such courtesy to strang-
ers; such willingness to please and to be
pleased.-Sir Edwin Arnold in Scribner's.
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As an incident of the woman's suffrage
movement, it is impossible to pass over
the election of Lady Sandhurst, Miss
Jane Golden and Miss Cons as members
of the London county council. AS hos
tile suits are now pending for heavy pen
alties against the ladies to test their
right to sit and vote, it vorld be unbe-
coming here to do more than wish them
success in their brave fight. Their pres
ence at the council board, their useful
work on its committees, has. already so
justified their election that even if the
law be interpreted hostilely against
them there is little doubt that public
opinion would compel early legislative
action in favor of the right they claim.
Charles Bradlaugh in Boston Tran
-,.rfrtL
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NUMBER ~.

on transportation goes back to ancient
history in describing the relation of rail-
roads to highways and canals. 1t con-
tains nothing OF present interest except
the statement that the net earnings of all
the railroads In Kansas in 1889 amounted
to but ii per cent of the bonded in
debtedness; nevertheless, there was
S5,674 13l paid in dividends upon the
stock. of which the writer states 81, ,027 :
5G6 was borrowed money. He adds:
1t hurts our pride somewhat, and yet
it must be admitted that many of the
Kansas railroads are being supported by
earnings made in other states
At present Kansas has more railroad mil
eage in probortion to population than
t1ly state in the Union, or, indeed, than
any country on the face of the globe. 1t
cannot reasonably be expected that her
roads will be as profitable investments as
those in more popalous states. Jefferson
Citv Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23
Paying the Piper.

rhe country has enjoyed the blessings
of the republican tariff act tor six months,
and although that measure has not yet
come into full operation, its effects may
be observed in a general way as well as
here and there in detail. In the first
place, there are few persons who do not
realize the fact that they are paying rath-
er more than they used to pay for the
things of necessary use and living, and
| those of fixed incomes find that their
money does not go as far as it once did.
But they do not find that their earnings
have increased. In particular classes of
necessary articles, the market reports
show a definite increase in cost to the
consumer. Carpets have risen in price,
so has crockery, and so have great
many other things.
On the other hand, the promised stim-
ulus to domestic industry has not been felt.
| Instead of increased wages, the tendency
| has been to reduce the earnings OF work
| ing people; and while new industries
have not sprung upon every hand, as was
| predicted, the operatives in those INDUS
| tries which exist are generally earning
| less while their living costs them more,
| and serious strikes and labor troubles
| are occurring all over the country, in the
| lowest grade OF employment as well as
among skilled workmen.
| effect of the new system upon the price of
| tin plate, as the republican law does not
| begin to operate until July; but so far
| the EnliSh manufacturers have succeeded
| in putting up the price for the imported
| article. and none of the alleged American
manufa cturers can be found to enter the
market in competition or at any price.
| Another peculiar effect on special in
dustry is seen in the failure of the repub-
tav tn A l.
| though it was known that our manufact-
| urels must have the foreign wool which
| the Ohio men undertook to shut out of
| the country. this result was not foreseen,
and the effort is now making by the
| politicaI shepherds of that state to punish
| the manufacturers bv treasury rulings
| which shall double the already enormous
tax upon this necessary material.
But with the six months of experience
OF the republican tariff there also came to
an end of the third quarter of the fiscal
year of the government; and the treasury
report for this period shows that there
was taken from the people in taxes Sl2,-
| 600, 900 more than dul ing the nine months
corresponding of the last year. But last
year in these nine months the excess of
receipts over expenditures was S67 ,725 900;
this year it is only $37 coo. 900. While
enduring taxation. therefore, to the extent
! OF Sl2, ,OUO uOo more tnan year ago, the
country is $50, 900 200 worse off.
We have just begun ID pay for the priv
| ilege of two years of uurestrained reDub-
| lican government. The taxes which
have begun to pinch us will keep on and
grow worse, while the extravagant ap-
preparations, which have not yet begun
to be spent, will further narrow space be-
tween revenue and expenditure. And
yet we are told that the great protective
principle must be Observation-Disclosures
| City Tribune.
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A Verse of Scripture.

At one of the Teachers institutes held
a few years ago in Maine, a rule was IN
force that whoever entered the morning
session late should pause at the door and
recite passage of Scripture, quotation
from some poet, or other expression of
an idea, for the edifcation of those pres
ent at the session. There was present
at the session a plain little old maid,
who was continually saying and doing
inappropriate things. 1t seemed to come
natural to her. She was late one morn
ing, was this ''unappropriated blessing =
and pausing on the threshold she electn-
fed those within by remarking suavely,
s'I love those that love me, and those that
seek me early shall find me. Lewiston
.In11fIlal
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p,pvpps ALLIANCE MEETINGS.


.nnanoIis Alliance. No. 154, meets Satur-
day, April 2Sth, 1888, ana, ai'el 'n'''
second saturday, ut 80 p. NJ. ,,.
]. NJ. BROWNE, Sec'y, Annapolis, MO.
Arcadia Valley Alliance, No 1oi, meets go on
Saturday evenings before the ISL anu on sun
dsys of every month, at : 80 P: NJ. ,,
JOHN LORI, Sec'y. lronton, MO.
E,G,E ALLIANCE. No. 152, meets on the
Isl and Sd SATURDAYS of each monlh' All
ncighbOrs are invited.
FRANCIES ALLIANCE meets at s,I fiosIIn %
she I'd and 4th Tuesday OF each lllolisn ~ a.
O'Clock p. NJ. Ii. ,. UkEuohi, "
MARBLE CREEK ALLIANCE, No. lo2, meets
every months on Saturday evenings Deiore
the second Sunday at Logtown' anu oa'I. ~ =
day evening before the fourth SUNDAY III tle
Red SchoolhouSe on Marble Creek
w T. SUTTON, Sec'y, lronton' Mo-
ELM GROVE ALLIANCE, No ll9, msess 1s1',
every other Saturday evening, at tne E'i'
Grove schOolhouse, Bellevlew,aI oc,o. o,. I
NJ. j. w. LASHLEI, IIes'e'0A''
W. j. RUSSELL, Secretary
CEDAR GROVE ALLIANCE. No. I2o; meets
st the Cedar Grove schoolhOuse in BelleVieN
the second and fourth Saturday at / o,clocN
Pm. VIM. RUDDoCK, President.
j. G. HARTMAN, Secretary.
GARNTTEvILLE ALLIANCE, No. 59a, meetS
at Workmen'S Hall, Grauiteville, on the "a
and 4th Saturdays of each month at '::o r.
NJ CHAs. ORRICK, Sec'y.
Carver Alliance, No. 59i. meets on the "a
and 4th Saturdays in each month at o'clocS
p NJ. at the Bollinger Schoolhouse.
j. e. HUFF, Sec'y.
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The Bearded Crank.

The Hon. Wild Alliance PETER, Sena-
tor in Congress from Kansas. has written
his declaration of independence to the ed
itor of the Alliance Advocate:
81 do not expect to pay any attention to
the politics of my fellow members. What
mean by that is, that do not expect to do
anything from the standpoint of a partisan,
either as Republican or as Democrat.
have grown bigger than the party harness.
am on the outside altogether and expect to
remain ther.'
Mr.. PETER seems to have a beautiful
admiration of himself. Possibly he
thinks that hair is brains and length OF
beard is long -headedness- In Letter to
q CORRESPONDENT of the Kansas City Star
he again dwells upon his own bigness,
but explains tFat he has put an Alliance
root on an old fashioned Republican barn:
81 have not at any time said that any OF
my opinions, as expressed when acted with
the Republican party, have undergone any
material change. / have grown larger,
think. But the new issues which | am pre-
senting to the people are not taken hold OF
should be there yet. Some reforms are alb
solutely necessary. We must have more
money, and we must have a great deal more,
and it must be gotten to US cheaper than
ever before, SO that our people can afford to
pay the interest upon it. These things we
must have. We must have a reasonable
tariff law, and we must have better control
of the railways in the country. These things
the old parties are paying no attention to.
The people must do it themselves"
The enlarged Mr.. PETER thus 1ngenu-
ouslv confesses his belief that he is the
people, and howls for seas of shinplast-
ers and Government railroads.
Il have not taken interest in the DEM
ocratic party for great many years, -
says Mr.. PETER, ''aud have not changed
my mind in that respect recently.' So
the Democrats are relieved from all re-
sponsibility for him.
MIR. PETER might alter to his use the
Senator, the Hon. James Henderson Kyle
Mr.. Kyle calls himself an indecrat. He
owes his election to Democratic votes.
Mr.. PETER, in recognition OF the fact that
he was a Republican before he grew to his
present gigantic intellectual status. might
call himself an 1nderepublican. 'Tis d
queer name but not nearly as queer as
are some of the cobwebs that have decked
the chambers of the Pefferian brain since
Longbeard grew bigger than the party
harness. N. Y. Sun.
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Some Significant Kansas States.

The seventh biennial report of the
Kansas board of agriculture endeavors to
be optimistic in spite of sundry discour-
aging statistics. Among those given are
the following:
In the two years there has been a loss
of population of 81, 549, or about 6 per
cent.
Acres devoted TO field crops in 1888
1875, 772; in 1890. Is. 92S, 655: gain in
two years, 1888, So acres, or 14.22 per
cent.
The combined value of farm products
For tie years 1887 and 1888. $Z75, ,56l i, >
40; 1889 and 1890, 1888, 74O, 49l, gain j,
S., l79, 35l, abc ut 3 per cent.
From these figures the commission con-
cludes that, notwithstanding the loss of
population, the wealth producing power
is as great.
The value of the sorghum crop fell
from S4,217, ,757 in 1887 s., 355, ,545 IN 1890,
notwithstanding the state bounty Of two
cents pound paid in the latter year,
Four sugar fac. ories at points too far
west are confessed failures, three others
barely paid running expenses, and only
one, with bounty, showed profit.
"The industry, - says the report. ''needs
to have the bounty continued some years
longer in order to place it squarely upon
its teet''' And here Is another extract:
".The biennial period marks a new era in
Kansas history, all era OF debt-paying in
stead of debt making.''
The report includes an elaborate essay
on the geology OF Kansas salt by Prof.
Hoy, and on various other topics by
professors Of the state agricultural college
and the university of kaLsas. The essay
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No Blunder This Time,

In his reply to Italy Mr.. Blaine has es-
capped the biun iers which in the Barrundia
case go seriously compromised his repu-
tation and humilitated the country. The
letter is on the whole co =, ~nendable, be-
cause it ignores the attempt OF Italy to
dictate the conduct of A lerican courts,
and puts on Italy the burden of proving
case for damages to be submitted to the
action of Congress. There is an assump-
ton of asperity in certain parts of the
letter which MIR Blaine would do wei to
avoid in ihe future. He has enough and
more than enough reputation for Jingo-