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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28

bini. tracing strange figures in the sand:
which. at the solicitation of the master,
the timid boy translated into song.
Upon being Intercepted concerning its
origin he replied: Nobody taught me.
sir; l found it out myself"
Perceiving the genius of the lad, Bam-
bini took him to his own home Thus
the child ragpiclSer left the garden of
the Tuileries a recognized musician.
During the next two years Bambini's
protege made such rapid progress that
Bambini became the pupil, Delsarte tho
instructor. He was now but fourteen
years of age. OF course, Paris didn t
know him. He nightly. importuned the
manager of the opera house for just one
chance to sing. He had been denied
even the position of call-boy, and now
asked the privilege of singing! Ever OBJ
serving, and equally sensitive, he saw
the manager cycling him and look
ing upon him with supreme con-
tempt, because he was so poorly
clad Touched to the very quick. he
said: ''Monsieur, though my clothes
are poor, my art is genuine" The man.
ager, having been annoyed by his per-
sistence, and thinking to get rid of him,
finally ushered him upon the stage be-
tween the acts, during the presentation
of an opera. In so doing he said to
Delsarte: ''Sing. In five minutes the
curtain will rise. Show the stuff you
are made of, or, if you ever appear
here again, I will have you arrested as
a vagrant?''
The beggar with the manners of a
prince walked to the piano, jeered by
the audience. With sad smile, and a
voice full of tears, he sang. The long
pent-up fires of genius burst forth.
The people were electrified; the house
rang with braves. Again and again
was he recalled, until every heartstring
was made to vibrate in unison with his
soulful utterances. He left the theater
the first singer in Paris.-Demorest's
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
THE SOUTH'S PROSPERITY.
Efforts of the Republican Administration
to Check 1t.


to Check 1t.
Talking at Springfield, Ill, the other
day about his trip through the
south, President Harrison grew
somewhat eloquent anent the fires of
furnaces" that have been kindled and
the great centers of busy industry
which have been builded" since the
war. OF course, he claims for the re-
publican party the credit of all the in
dustrial progress he saw. Every repub-
lican stump speaker who ever talked
about southern industries does that.
The truth is that southern industries
owe the republican party absolutely
nothing. The southern manufacture of
iron, cotton, etc, was possibly in great
er volume and certainly in more pros
porous condition in 1860 than at the
close of the reconstruction era of re-
publican misrule. Scores of manufac-
turing establishments were destroyed
during the war and were not rebuilt or
replaced for years after 1865, because
under the republican policy of recon-
struction capital was not safe. Home
capital could not count upon fair re-
turns and outside capital avoided the
states unuer carpet DaS RUE dS HoLlc-
seekers avoid region of plague.
Under democratic state governments
the south made some good progress in
manufactures, but it was not until
Cleveland's administration demon
strated that the south was back in the
union that the real era of industrial de-
velopment began there.
Mr. Harrison and the Reed congress
did what they could with their threats
of force bill to check the movement
thus begun. Their malevolent purpose
was thwarted only by the friends of the
south unexpectedly found in the west.
st. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
DRAMATIC GREETINGS.

Scenes Among the Italians Pouring
Through the New York Barge Office.
The daily scenes enacted at the barge
Office in the reception of emigrants have
been frequently depicted; but they
never fail to impress the casual
observer as one of the most interesting
novelties of the great metropolis. Few
people leave New York without having
paid the vicinity the honor of call.
This sight" said Philadelphia gen
tleman, abiding to the customary daily
influx of our foreign relations, lis to
me the most remarkable thing to be
seen in your city"
The barge office was grinding out
Italians singly, in pairs and by the half
dozen, while their anxious friends, who
had undergone this process six months
or perhaps six years ago, awaited the
new corners from the respectful dis
tance outside enforced by the police.
Every time fresh batch of aliens was
shot into the country from the barge
office door there was a general craning
of necks among the crowd. Amid deep
silence the new party advanced expect
antly along the line. Then all at once
glad shout from somebody in the
crowd announced that the new party
was recognized, and way would be
quickly made for both to meet. Men
grasp hands and kiss each other with a
resounding smack. Sometimes it is on
both cheeks, with respectful politeness,
but it it usually square on the lips, as a
youth might kiss pretty girl.
And talk? Well, never was heard
such chatter; and the dark, liquid eyes
shine, the bronzed skin is full of happy
wrinkles and sometimes-not often
tears of honest joy course down rough
cheeks.
Just imagine" remarked the Phila-
delphian, Imagine yourself landing in
a strange country, among people of
another language. Your friends may
possibly be numbered on the fingers of
one hand, and these are on the dock
awaiting you. They may be dear rela-
tives, and yet not know but that you
have died on the passage. On the other
hand, they, too, may have vanished
from earth: or they might not have re-
ceived your last letter and would not
be looking for you. A thousand things
may happen. And when the cloud of
uncertainty is swept aside and you and
they meet-well, it is case of hugging
and kissing and mingled laughter and
tears IN " Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
Tax Commissioner Coleman on Taxa
ton.

Recently, before a New York legisla-
tive committee, Tax Commissioner Cole
man gave it as his opinion that the eff
feet of the taxation of personal proper
ty in this state had been to drive out of
this city, in one year, over $500, 900. 900
in capital represented in corporations
alone. At least Is to 90 per cent. of
that amount represented the capital of
companies which had been doing bust
ness in this city They had found it
more profitable. however, to wind up
their affairs in New York and reorgan-
ize in New Jersey. Excessive taxation
had driven them across the river. AL
though organized in New Jersey, many
of these firms did business only in New
York city. This information was the
result of special investigation on the
part of Mr.. Coleman. Among those
firms the witness named the Thurber-
Whyland Co., Park & Tilford, the Gel
luloid Co., the United States Book Con-
Germ, Devoe & Co. and the Hoffman
Cafe The Hoffman cafe was capital
lied at 81, $50, 600 in New Jersey. This
fact greatly surprised the senator's.
These concerns all received the same
protection from the fire and police
departments as those incorporated in
this state. They contributed in return
practically nothing to the government
of New York. They depend upon New
Jersey for nothing except exemption. 1t
was true that they were obliged to pay
some money to the state of New Jersey.
The amounts, however, were compare
lively small New Jersey did not COM
pei her corporations to make returns of
their property. Much of the other tes-
timony given by the commissioner has
been printed in the Standard heretofore;
but he made one new point against the
personal property tax. He said that it
was sapping at the roots of home life
in this city, for" said he, the rates of
personal taxation are SO obnoxious that
people instead of building fine resi-
dences engage suite of rooms in some
hotel and live at some club A few
years ago hotels were but seven stories
high, now they are seventeen stories
high The commissioner said that the
virtual abolition of the tax on personal
property would be of the greatest bene-
fit to the city of New York.
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A Detroit Paper sees the Light.

A local assembly of the knights OF
Labor in Boston has passed SET %
olutions which demand:
That bill be drafted by the state
legislature providing that the stare gov
eminent seize, under the rights q
nent domain, all vacant lands held 1or
speculative purposes, adjacent 10
steam or electric surface and eleva1eo
,.;1ro.ds at present erected or to be
erected: that such lands be cut up lnto
houselots and decided to- at sum hoI W
exceed $500 per lot, worllingmen. unoer
a MORTGAGE by the state: that 2}s per
cent. be charged as interest; thar tho
land be appraised by state appraiser,
that each holder of deed be advance"
enough money to build house OF rea
sonable dimensions thereon: that wheh
the sum advance by the state De re
funded a clear conveyance of the tltie
should he made to the holder of the
title.
The Detroit Z senipg Journal THINKS
that people will laugh at TINS
proposition, and that perhaps that 10
the best way to treat it. Nevertheless
it goes on to say:
To the thoughtful mind there is some
thing suggestive in this resolution oy
the Boston Knights. Why is it that III
this young country, wiki its natural re-
sources hardly touched, wages are SO
low that men find it har! to get homes
of their own? Is it because our land is
taken up in advance of actual nced:
The speculator always go,s aheeo OK
ENTERPRISE. and the land takes on not
only a fair rental value, but 1t takes on
prospective value, and every increase
in productive power simply gives the
landowner a chance to shove up the
price of his land. Wages, therefore, do
not rise materially; for the value OF
the land tends to increase faster rhan
the production OF wealth, and the land
owner gets what ought to go to labor
as wages Horace Greeley saw all this
more or less clearly forty or fifty years
ago. and he advocated n law limiting
the area of land which one njan might
own. 1t would have been we'll had his
warning been needed; for even now
work:ngmen are looking greedily at
the land which belongs to those WHIP
don't work. The Astors, drawing S2o,-
900 daily as ground rents, brlsh by the
man who works for So per day and who
can't save enough to buy foot OF
ground. The few owners of the land
of New York city receive 100000, 900
annually for it's use, or, at least that IS
about the rental value, while only
per cent. of the inhabitants live in
houses of their own. Such a state OF
affairs can not but lead to PROPOSE
tons of confscation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
QUEER FISHING TACKLE.
The Labor-Saving Devices of the Fisher
men of Guiana.

The Labor-Saving Devices of the Fisher
men of Guiana.
The natives of Surinam have a very
peculiar method of fishing. They use
implements to which the names
''spring- and ''spring- basket are
the most appropriate that can be given.
The first consists of a strong elastic rod
or pole securely fastened under the
water at one end, and in the other are
attached two lines of unequal length,
the shorter of which has secured to it
stick about ten inches long, while on the
longer one is placed a similar stick a
little further down. At the extremity
OF this line is hooked a small fish by the
fms in such a way as not to
Interfere with it's swimming about
when placed in the water. This
serves as the bait. Two long sticks
are now placed in the ground so as to
appear above water. and a third stick
is laid across, forming a continuance
somewhat resembling a gallows-frame.
bove this is bent and fixed the elastic
rod by means of the double line and the
sticks already described. It is SO very
deity arranged that the least pull at the
bait causes the elastic pole to assume
an upright position. AS a matter of
course the fish that has had the hardi-
hood to touch the living bait is hooked,
Immediately jerked out of the water
and quickly secured by the labor-sav-
ing angler.
The ''spring- basket is constructed
in somewhat similar manner. The
basket, which is of sugar-loaf shape,
is made of reeds. In it's smaller end
is secured an elastic rod and at
the other end is small trap
door. The complete apparatus is kept
in the water by means of a forlSed
stick. AS soon as a large fish enters
the basket and seizes the bait, which is
arranged as in the case Of the "spring
hook" the rod flies upward, the trap
door closes, and the game is securely
Gagged.
Both of these fish-catchers are set at
night and examined in the morning,
and unless fish are very scarce, are sell
dom found empty. Thus the fisherman
who sets several of them secures a
bountiful supply of fish without any of
the trouble of waiting impatiently for
bite, or undergoing any of the vexa-
tons that beset the path of the ordi-
nary everyday angler. Philosophic
followers of the immortal Isaak Wal
ton will, however, look upon both
methods as barbarouS and unSports-
manlike. Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
New York Times on the Land Tax.

The great advantage of a tax upon
land is that it can be equitably adjusted
and economically collected, that there
can be no escape or evasion, and that it
will bear upon a value that is absolute
ly proportional to the proftableness of
it's occupation and use. In other words,
it will be proportioned to the wealth
that is employed in the use of the land,
which, directly and indirectly consid-
cred, is the entire wealth of the COM
munity. The tax will necessarily be
paid out of the surplus of production.
When the tax is levied anywhere be-
tween the land and the wealth accumu-
lated from its use, it falls upon the ac-
tive agencies of production, and inter-
feres with their activity and fruitful
ness. This induces inequality of bur-
dens and efforts to escape, and when
ever the pressure is greater in one place
than another, there will be a shifting of
ground as inevitably as air or water
moves in the direction of the least re-
sistance. In our efforts at tax reform
we are driven more and more back f.,
the land, or to what is called real prom.
erty, as the true basis of public reve,
enueS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
NEEDED MEASURES.
The Necessity of Discussing Monopolistic
Republican Methods.


Republican Methods.
The movement of the National asso-
citation of democratic clubs towards a
general and complete organization of
the active forces of the democratic
party appears to meet the unqualified
approval of the democratic press and
people.
The energetic proceedings of the Re-
publican league and the comprehen-
sive plan of action evidently contem-
plated by its new president and its asso-
ciates ought to be insufficient warning
to every Intelligent democrat of the mag
nitude of the preparations on the mon
opoly side. The superiority of re-
publican organization, due princi-
pally to its greater command
of money, has more than once
defeated the comparatively unor-
ganized democratic party in national
contests, and more than once seized the
offices, after the republican candidates
had been fairly defeated. In 1876 they
took the government by simple force
and fraud. In 1850 they bought the
election with soap" adroitly applied
through their minute party organiza-
ton. In 1883 they did the same, and
the fat-fryers' candidate sits in the
white house Notwithstanding an enor-
nous popular majority on the whole
vote of the country for his opponent.
Democratic campaigns are necessari-
ly, for the most part, mere appeals to
the conscience and intelligence OF the
people. There is for them no outpour-
ing of money from monopolies protect
ed by the policy of the party. because
there are no monopolies under demo-
cratic protection. But it does not fol-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
THE CARS BACK.
He Was Benefited by Having 1t Rubbed,
But He Was Afraid.


But He Was Afraid.
The penalties of being an absolute
ruler are we'll illustrated in a story of
the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, which
was recently related by Prince Bis
marck. 1t emphasizes the familiar say
ing that the government of Russia is
IAN absolute despotism, tempered by
assassination"
AT one time, the story goes, the En-
peror Nicholas physicians, to relieve
him of some bodily suffering, ordered
that his back should be rubbed thor
oughly every day.
The emperor neglected to take steps
to have the injunction carried out, and
the doctors insisted. The emperor
then wrote letter to King Frederick
William of Prussia, asking him to send
to st. Petersburg three or four nom
Royal Guard to perform the service re-
CURED by the physicians.
King Frederick William promptly de-
tailed four stalwart non-commissioned
officers of his guard to go to ST. Peters
burg and rub the back of the Russian
emperor.
They performed the service faithful
~, and the emperor recovered from his
malady. When, at last, the men re-
turned to their regiment, they were Ia
den with valuable gifts.
The emperor, in speaking of the mat
ter to the Prussian king afterwards,
said:
"As long as 1 have my people face to
face all is well. But l can not trust my
back to their hands. That would be
risking altogether too much. N. Y
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
THE BILLION CONGRESS.
What Its Extravaganza Means in Familiar
Terms.

what It's Extravaganza Means in Familiar
Terms.
The United States is the greatest
wheat-producing country in the world;
it is the greatest oats-producing coun-
try in the world. The value of last
years wheat crop was S334, 600, 900; the
oat crop, 1920, 000,0 900.
1t will take nearly the entire crop of
wheat and oats in this country to pay
next years expenses of the govern
ment.
There is in this country an annual
product of gold of S33, 900. 900; of silver,
SCI, 900, 900; of copper, S33, 900, 900: of
iron, S1O7, 900, 900; of coal, s191, 200, 900;
of petroleum, S24, 600, 900; of lead, 49,.
900, 900.
All the gold, silver, copper, iron,
coal, petroleum and lead produced in
this country last year could not pay the
expenses of the government for the
same length of time.
All the cotton, all the wool, or all
the rye, barley, wine, potatoes and
tobacco produced in this country in a
year could not do it.
The national banks of this country
have a combined capitalization of $685.
OOO, 900. One years expenses of the
government would all but swallow up
this sum.
These are figures on government
tax alton alone. Add to this city. coun-
ty and state taxation and something of
the enormity of the burden may be
comprehended.
The United States has no great
standing army, no government rail
roads, no immense navy, no prof1igate
court of kings and princes. Yet its
annual expenditures are greater than
those of Austria or the German empire,
greater than Great Britain and Ireland,
greater than British India and China,
as great as those of the Russian en-
pire.
The revenue for this enormous ex-
penditure is acquired in but one way,
by taxation, by levy in one form or
another, mainly in an indirect form,
on the substances of the people,
Washington Cd. c. Post Ind. J.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
The Poor Young Wife.

81 want" she said, hesitatingly, as
she posed her basket in front of her
pretty chin with a thoughtful air, ''to
get some lettuce
''Yes'm,'' said the market man;
heres some; very nice it is, too
us it all that color?"
'Why-er-yes'm; all lettuce is green,
you know"
''Oh, of course: but it's too bad. got
a lovely blue dish to put lettuce in, but
I'm sure green would look horrible in
it. never thought about there not be-
ing any in shades, you know"
And as she turned away the market
man was almost sure he saw tear of
disappointment in her eye.-Washing-
ton Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28

wAsH1NG1 On, May 21.-"No news
from the Charleston or Itata," is the
answer made to inquiries at the navy
5eoartment for information concerning
She chase of the insurgent vessel. The
charleston is expected to arrive at Pan
anna to-day. if she has taken that course
to Chilli. but it is impossible to learn at
she navy department whether she has
gone via Panama or has taken more
direct route for Iquique. There have
been no negotiations between the state
department and agents OF the nsur-
rents for stopping the pursuit OF the
Itata By the Charleston.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

when Mr.. Harrison started west
it was with an abundant surplus of
Fourth of July fapdoOdle, but it is new
ertheless evident from his speeches
that he is now dealing with deficit
st. Louis Republic.
1t is said that the president has
snubbed Quay by putting off an inter
view with that lordly boss who seeks
to disgrace the judiciary by the ap-
pointment of one of his henchmen to
the bench of the court of claims. 1t
will be time to call it a snub when the
president refuses to do the bidding of
the state treasury plunderer.-Chicago
Times.
Those republicans who will have
to give up their offices because there is
not money enough to pay them. will
not think Boss Reed so great man as
they once thought him. How is the
country's business to be carried on
when congress wastes the money
that should be kept to pay the public's
faithful servants?-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Mr.. Harrison's trip is over. If
he pays the cost of it himself, as self
respecting pIcSi.tchC Sioui't, iilu has
not placed himself under obligations to
any person or corporation for favors
rendered, it was an excellent thing for
him to make such a trip. Travel en-
larges the mind, and the mind of pres
ident who advocates force bill is in
need of enlargement.-N.Y Y. World
President Harrison comes back
with the feeling that the democratic
party of the south. which. only little
while ago. he declared twas numbering
United States marshals and expelling
republican postmasters from their Off
ces in the south, and preventing honest
elections wherever they could get the
power to do So" has some pretty good
fellows in it's ranks, after all.-Boston
Herald.
An enthusiastic Blaine organ
says that Blaine's name is tower of
strength to the grand old party. Nomi-
nally. yes; actually it's tower of strength
is what Blaine's name stands for. If
the seekers after class privileges and
subsidies, men made patriotic by the
hope of lording it over the masses,
the buyers of public places, and the
corrupters of the people were not con-
WINGED that Blaine's supremacy meant
their salvation the last element of
strength would be wanting to the
g. o. p 1t is the willingness of these
to let Blaine fry out the fat which is
the repub lican tower of strength
Chicago Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
The CiviI-Service Commission Will Inves-
tigate.

WAsHINGToN, May 22.-The Star says
that the civil-service commission will
Investigate the matter of the appoint
nent made by Green B. Raum, Jr., and
has asked the encouragement for an
opinion as to whether Raum is subject
TO criminal prosecution.
The encouragement, however, says
shat he has received no such request
from the civil-service commission. and
chat it should be made direct to the
president, as the civil-service commits
sion is not under the jurisdiction of any
r,f the executive departmentS