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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-13
Interrogation Points.

The owner of small piece of ground.
forty feet, fronting on Randolph street,
in Chicago, has executed lease for the
use of it by another party for the un-
usually long term of 19S years. The
annual rental to be paid for the use Of
this little piece of earth is 5000. The
total in 1913 years will be $1,5S4, 000
The ''owner" of the ground has been
holding it vacant for a long time, watt
ing for Just such an opportunity as has
now opened up before his delighted
vision. He has not improved the land.
but has generously permitted other
people to improve the surrounding land
in innumerable ways, thereby steadily
enhancing the value of his particular
holding. And now the city is so big
and growing so rapidly that he is able
to lease his ground, as above stated,
to a man who will improve it and use
it. OF course Chicago and every other
growing city is honeycombed with such
object lessons, but I select this one
merely as basis for few plain, perth
nent questions, which, possibly, the
single tax-hating Tribune would like to
answer:
Was the rental value Of the ground
mentioned created by the present indi-
vidual ownere
II not by him, was it created by the
community; that is, by all the people
who unitedly have made Chicago what
it is?
If that value was created by the en-.
ergy and industry of the community as
a whole, does it not justly belong to the
community? =
If not, why not?
If ground rent rightfully belongs to
the community, how does the commune
ty rob" anybody, or ''confiscate" any
body's property, by taking for public
use that which the public made, owns
and needs?
Is not the ''robber" or ''confiscator"
the individual who appropriates to his
own use that which belongs to the
public?-Ralph Z. Hoyt.
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one-half OF his aunt's estates and the
orphan asylum the other. He would
marry the girl of his own choice. pro-
vided he could win her, and boldly
fight his own way through life.
Having so decided Hugh set ont for
a stroll along the river, feeling more
manly for bis resolve.
He came suddenly upon little fig
ure m white, reading. in little whey
nook by the rivers side.
'.Wait. Estelle,' he called, for she had
started to run away. Il shall leave to-
morrow, and have something to say
to you which you must hear"
The telltale flush which swept over
face and neck at his words might have
given some hint of an easy surrender.
However, in moment she had re-
gained that customary piquancy which
had more than once exasperated Hugh.
sid be sorry to have you leave us with
burden on your mind" she said, pro-
vokingly.
1T is needless for me to tell you why
it was arranged for me to meet Miss
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A THOUGHTFUL MAN.
The Shippers Kin dly Intentions Towar'
His Newly-Made Bride.

The Shippers Kin dly Intentions Towards
His Newly-Made Bride.
The skipper of a canal boat on the
Illinois & Michigan canal recently de-
cided, after mature deliberation and
careful consideration, to marry his
cook, smart energetic. and not wholly
bad-looking Celt, who had been a tried
and faithful servant to him for quite
number of his perilous trips on the
storm-lashed canal.
So he spoke to her about the matter
one day, and, after securing her coy
consent, he ordered the boat to be tied
up at the wharf of Joliet, and, being a
practical skipper, skipped up the street
after a parson.
The nuptial knot was soon tied, and
then the canal boatman said:
well. Melindy, we are married for
keeps now. We are hitched for life
and must pull together. I'm little
short-handed to-day, and, as that lead
mule has got saddle-galls on his back,
you jist take the tow-path and lead him
down to Lockport, and I'll steer and
kinder ruminate on some plan to give
you work on the boat without going
ashore in the mud. I've got powerful
sight more respect for you now you're
my wife. Melindy."-Yankee Blade.
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GREAT PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE.

Vast Fields of the Forces of Nature
Awaiting Exploration.
The greatest of all our problems to-
day is the making of the utilization Of
forces of nature more general, more
efficient and more fruitful. Could the
engineer find away of producing steam
power at fraction of it's present cost;
could he transform heat energy direct
1y and without waste into dynamic:
could he find method of evolution of
light without that enormous loss now
inevita BILE in the form of accompanying
heat: could he directly produce cleo
tricity, without other and lost energy,
from the combustion of fuel-could he
do these things to-day, the growth of
all that is desirable to mankind and
the advancement of all the interests
and powers of the race would be incen-
ceivably accelerated.
Every animate creature is a machine
of enormously higher efficiency as a
dynamite engine than his most elat-
crate construction, as illustrated in the
twenty-thousand horsepower engines
of the Teutonic or the City of Paris, OR
in the most powerful locomotive. Every
gymnotus living in the mud of a trop-
ical stream puts to shame mans best
effort in the production of electricity,
and the minute insect that flashes across
his lawn on n summer evening, or the
worm that lights his path in the gar
den, exhibits a system of illumination
incomparably superior to his most per-
feet electric lights. Here is natures
challenge to man. Man wastes one
fourth of all the heat of his fuel as
utilized in his steam boiler. and often
ninety per cent. as used in his open fire
places: ma ture, in the animal system util-
ICES substantially all. He produces light
by candle, oil lamp, or electricity, but
submits to a loss of from one-ffth to
more than nine-tenths of all his stock of
available energy as heat: she, in the
glowworm and FREELY, produces love-
lier light without waste measurable By
our most delicate instruments. He
throws aside as loss nine-tenths of his
potential energy when attempting to
develop mechanical power; she is vast
" more economical. But in all cases
her methods are radically different
from his, though they are as vet OBJ
Scure. Nature converts available forms
of energy into precisely those other
forms which are needed for her pur-
poses in exactly the right quantity.
and never wastes, as does invariably
the engineer, large part of the initial
stock by the production of energies
that she does not want and can not
utilize. She goes directly to her goal
Why should not man? He has but to
initiate her processes.-Prof- X. ii.
Thurston, in Forum.
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Wayne here" he said, unheeding her
light words. "You know, 1 suppose. -
''Some slight idea, 1 believe" she re-
turned, lingering her book.
well, 1 may as we'll tell you that
| that condition in my late aunt's will
can never be fulfilled"
And why not?"
because | love another" he cricd.
passionately. 80, Estelle. can you not
see how tenderly. how ardently l love
you? Without YOU / shall make a fail
ure of life. Won't you show mercy,
Estelle?'
''Oh, Hugh. would you marry pc or
girl when you have a chance to win a
dignified bride and retain those princely
estates?' she asked.
Yes, darling. prefer you with love
in a cottage to the wealthiest womau
with all the estate in the world.''
Rash statement, young man."
sit is true. Do not torture me longer,
Estelle. Can you not love me little?'
No
Then you do not lore me?'
'I'm afraid do
''Do not mock me, Estelle."
Il am not mocking you, Hugh" in a
very sweet voice.
Then you do love me little?''
NO. not little, but very much
He would have caught her to his
breast, but she eluded his arms, crying:
''Oh, there's Uncle Cranston!' and
she rushed forward to greet the little
lawyer, who had approached them I'M
seen.
1T is useless for me to ignore facts
said Mr. Cranstou, pleasantly. Il did
not mean to overhear your converse
ton. but 1 arrived unexpect eddy and
thought I'd hunt up my sprite here and
surprise her. / see you understand
each other pretty clearly
Yes, SIR said Hugh, bravely: Il
have decided to enjoy love in a cottage
with this dear girl rather than keep
the estate with Miss Wayne"
Love in cottage! Oh, that's too
good.''
And Mr.. Cranston broke into hearty
laugh, in which the girl finally joined
him.
will you have the goodness to ex-
plain what amuses you SO much in my
statement" asked Hugh, not a little
nettled.
Pardon me, Colewood. But, really,
you are the victim of your own blum
der
'Blunder? l don't understand you,
SIR" returned Hugh.
''Of course not and the lawyer
laughed again. This sprite, whom
you took to be the unimportant little
cousin, is in reality the Ethel Wayne
referred to in your aunt's will. l did
not tell you. that there were two Ethels,
SO while she was driving you over here
you jumped to the conclusion that
Miss Wayne at the house was the Ethel
You see / have been told all about
your amusing mistake. Ethel would
not explain her real identity with the
girl whom your aunt had selected for
you, and. as the other ladies believed
you knew, YOU have remained the vic
tim of yoIr own mistake"
Six months later the condition in
Miss Colewood's will was cheerfullY
obeyed. in Boston Globe.
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ST. Johns Has a Chance.

A correspondent Of the Montreal Ga
zette, writing from st. Johns, N. F.,
the scene of a recent disastrous fire,
says that the people who wish to re-
build are having trouble with absentee
landlords, since the latter are raising
ground rents upon the land just barred
spondent thinks that the state should
step in and pass a law dealing with the
question. The Register, of Berwick,
N. s., thinks the situation at St Johns
offers fine chance for an application
of the single tax. Says the Register:
There is certainly a splendid chance
in St Johns for single tax expert
ment. To require the rental value Of
those lands-the ground rents-to be
paid into the public treasury for public
purposes, would ''hoist'' the absentee
landlord" for once and forever. But
why attack the absentee landlord? II
the land is his, he has as good a right
to live in England on the earnings of
his tenants as he has to live in st.
Johns. The land, it is true, cost him a
mere trifie originally, and he has done
nothing to improve it since. It's i'm
creased value is entirely derived from
the labor of the tenants. The fruits of
their labor have been destroyed by fire,
and nothing is left but the land, as
valueless in itself as it was when the
island was first discovered. BSt the
land must be used; houses and shops,
factories and stores must be built, and
they must be built on the land. When
everyone else is contributing to relieve
the suffering, the landlord comes for
ward with demand that he shall re-
ceive for the use of the land double the
amount yearly that he received when
it was covered with buildings
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THOSE OUTSIDE CORSETS.

/ The Latest Fad Shocks Passengers on a
Chicago Train.
The summer girl if out with new
| wrinkle. It discounts the suspenders
by about one hundred per cent. al
though the shoulder straps are pressed
into service in conjunction with it.
The new idea is nothing more or less
than pair of corsets worn outside the
blouse
A reporter encountered the new
wrinkle the other day on a bridge
train, and sustained quite severe
shock. A pretty little girl entered the
car carrying violin case. She was
dressed in cool summer attire, consist
ing of plain skirt and blazer of the
same material.
Between the the open edges of the
blazer front a bit of the same material
could be seen, which looked very much
like wide belt. The observer would
never have known whether it was belt
or what it was had not the fair wearer
been heated and removed her blazer,
throwing it over her arm in true man
fashion.
Then it was seen that the girl had on
a pair of corsets outside of her blouse
HeS were uliuc u Tue SAINT lid tcTId1
as the rest of the costume, of regula-
ton height. and were separated in
front, being laced together with a silk
en- cord.
The removal of the blazer created
sensation in the car. A couple of young
men snickered: an elderly man who
Wore flowing whisl>ers and looked like
Jerseyman glanced at the girl over
his spectacles, and then. turning very
red, fixed his eyes on the floor.
A matronly old lady started to speak
to the summer girl, but was refrained
by her daughter. who said:
''Oh. no. ma; there's no mistake. She
wears that way purposely."
Law sakes,' commented the old
lady. and looked both puzzled and dis
gusted.
The strangeness of the costume was
increased by having pair of blue silk
suspenders, buckles and all, fastened
to the top of the corsets. both front
and back. It was a question whether
the suspenders sustained the corsets or
vice versa-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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The TlNKLING OF THE BELL.

The summer sun was setting,
And the hills were all aglOw,
And glory and beauty
Rested in the vale below.
Suddenly, from out the stiffness,
Over hills and through the dell,
cau,e the sweetest notes OF music
In the tinkling of bell
And stopped me there TO listen,
Mid that evening paradise,
For the sounds somehow had thrilled me,
Filled me with glad surprise
And looked across the meadows
And the valleys rich and green,
With the lengfhening evening shadows,
To my boyhood days again.
just the tlnkling of cow-be1
Ger the hills and far away,
And barefoot boy I wandered
In the golden summer days,
And the world looked like an Eden
With its round Of mirth and Joy.
For ii seemed that Gods own blessing
Rested on the farmers boy.
Once again I saw them coming,
Through the understanding home,
Now Indian file across the clearing"
Whitefoot. Cherry, Lineback, Roam;
So make this glad confession.
Naught can stir my heart so well
As that plain old-time procession,
And the tinkling OF the bell.
While the curfews tones are falling,
On the quiet evening air,
And l. Angeius IS calling
Worshipers to bow in prayer.
Let me listen for the music
Which heard at close of day
Sacred be the blessed memri
OF the good old times for aye.
w. L. Ferris. in Inter Ocean.
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PITH AND POINT.

1t takes great deal of humility to
be as humble as an angel-Ram's Horn.
"A man who is running for Office
takes great risk of collision with his
own misunderstanding Star.
You have never met Miss Gotrox's
father, have your ''Never. He over
took me once, 1 remember. Indian
apolis Journal
Don't walk around the owl and
stare at her." said the keeper in the
menagerie. ''It turns her head
Washington Star.
The great value in astronomy as a
science. morally speaking also, is that
it tends to make people look higher
Philadelphia Times.
Fired, do look at that man; how
uncertain he seems. He must need
glasses. don't you think?" Fred
No: it isn't that. He has had about
three to many now.
What Did She Mean?-He-sDid
you see me on the street yesterday"
Shelves" He-'Have you quit
speaking to your friends?' She-''Oh.
no."-Detroit Free Press
There is little more tantalizing toa
man than to go home with something
find company there and be obliged to
act reeably.-Atchison Globe.
First Sportsman las the partridge
flies off)-"Just my luck; miss fire
every time" Second Ditto-''Don't de-
spair. You may have better luck in
another world. Boston Transcript
Why should any man in the bosom
of his household. reading aloud of the
capture of female pickpocket. look
with hard. hidden-meaning express
sion at his wife?-Philadelphia Times.
Museum Manager-'Whats all
that row about?" Assistant-''The
show is over and the freaks are getting
ready to go home. The mermaid is rails
ing row because she can't find her
shoes N Y. Herald.
Let Me Off This Time.-Teacher-
"What are you doing there, Johnny,
acting like monkey?' Johnny Bel
1ows-''Please let me off this time.
teacher, and I won't never mock you
no more. Yankee Blade.
Referred to an Expert.-sHere is
the ring" he cried ''Now will you be
from this time forth engaged to marry
me?" 'Wait till papa can see it," said
the elf; "I'm not a judge of diamonds
myself. "-Washington Star.
-'Yoh KANT alias jedge a mans
achievements said Uncle Eben, Shy
de mount OBJ noise he makes erbout
'em. De cannon amt maxim err SCUM
now, but de bass drum am jes' eZ talk
alive as eber. "-Washington Star.
Charlie Youngnoodle-"You wear
quite number of rings, Miss Knott
young" Miss Knottyoung-''P
has given me ring on every birthday"
Charlie Youngnoodle-''You must have
quite small jewelry store. Jewelers.
Circular.
-Mamma (enthusia stically)-"How
I wish we could afford to send Nellie
abroad for few finishing touches to
her musical education!" Papa mo ear
for music)-''If I could buy the finish
without the touches, I'd pawn the fur
niture. "-Lippincott's Magazine.
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had suddenly been made the sole heir
to the fine old estate of his eccen-
trio aunt Miss Betsy COle'yOod, recent
1y deceased.
What more was necessary to the hap
piness of gay young fellow like Hugh
Colewood? Nothing, it seemed to the
envious bachelors.
However, the re were conditions, or
one at least, in his aunt's will which
caused him no little uneasiness He
must love and marry the girl of her
choice, one whom he had never even
seen.
Hugh Colewood caught up his aunt's
last letter to him and read it again and
again. hoping to find some little loop
hole of escape from the CALLING condi-
ton.
But it was there in merciless black
and white. This is the part that wor-
ried him:
If you cannot comply with my wish
es for you to meet Ethel Wayne and
love and marry her you forfeit your
heirship to my estate. Ethel's mother
was my dearest friend. and if you marry
her daughter it will be fulfilling my
fondest desire. You cannot help loving
her.
Il could not rest in my tomb peace
fully and know that Ethel was not mis-
tress of my estate, and you, dear boy,
the master. Ny lawyer, Mr.. Cranston.
will arrange for you to meet Ethel. as
he is one of her guardians. You know
how thoroughly Idespise old bachelors,
therefore l give you warning that will
not allow you to inhabit my houses and
lands as one of that disagreeable,
crusty order"
So had written the eccentric spinster.
Hugh nibbled the ends of his mus
tache impatiently as he pondered on
the conditions which the will imposed.
Hugh loved the Colewood estates, and
could not bear to think of giving them
up. Now, if the will had not specified
whom he must marry. but left the
selection of wife entirely to himself,
Hugh believed that he would have On
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loved the romance of hunting for a
bride.
He picked up his hat and rushed from
his room, going up to the hotel where
Mr.. Cranston was stopping. while he
arranged some business matters with
Hugh
Hello, Colewood. Have a seat" said
ihe lawyer, scrutinizing the flushed
face and nervous manner of the visitor.
He was just wondering to himself if
the unexpected good fortune had turned
young Colewo od's head, when his visi-
tor remarked:
You are aware of that one peculiar
feature in my late aunt's will, Mr..
eCranston?"
Light at once dawned upon, the law
yer and there was a twinkle in his eye.
However, he asked indifferently:
ITO what peculiar feature do you re-
fer. Mr.. Colewood?"
''The one that absurdly commands
me to marry . girl that have never
SEEN"
''Oh, that!" returned Mr.. Cranston.
"You are lucky fellow, Colewood.
That's the best part of the fortune"
Its the most exasperating part,
Hugh cried. desperately. "How can a
fellow love and wed to order?"
.'Well. it's deal of time and bother
saved to the wooer," remarked the law
yer, putting. 1--WE no doubt Ethel
Wayne will suit you better than any
: selection you are capable Of making"
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When Bismarck first went to DIR.
Schweninger for treatment he grew
very angry at the physicians search
ing questions. Il am tired of your in
terminable questions" he said at last
Cant you cure your patients without
So much annoyance?'' You find my
questions annoying, eh?" roared the
doctor. who was as fiery as the chan
cellor himself. Very well, then; you
may go to the doctors who treat their
patients without asking them ques-
tions; you may go to the horse-doc-
tors" But Bismarck saw the justice
of the physicians stand and they be-
came firm friends from that time.-Ar-
gonaut
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One Needed.

Tourist lat railroad station in Ala
bama)-Any cemetery here?
Native-None that know of nearer'n
Eve miles
Tourist-What do you do with the
folks that die here waiting for trains?-
Chicago Tribune.
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Why Henpeck Smiled.

Henpeck-What is the subject of
your lecture?
Van Tawk-Matrimony.
Henpeck-And you say it's a humor-
Gus lecture?
Van Tawk-Yes.
Henpeck-H'm! Have you ever been
married?
Van Tawk-No.-Brookly Life.
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profit, to develop them to their utmesA
capacity. With the communicated
In the community's treasury. there u
an end of taxes on the products Of Ia
Dor; and facilities for the production OF
all commodities are consequently 80 i'm
creased that, together with the press
ing need of capital for labor, comes the
ability of labor to employ itself With
out the aid of capital Labor, not
work, would then be the scarcity, and
an immediate consequence would be .
rise in the wages of even the unskilled
labor.
This increase in the purchasing power
of labor, coincident with the cheaper
ing of commodities, soon enables all to
call for the comforts and adornments OF
life as well as for bare necessaries.
again raising wages by fresh demand
for labor, while indefinitely extending
the field for its exertiona This action
and reaction must go on, labor costing
more and more, and the things produced
by labor less and less, until-through
no legislative interference. paternal or
otherwise, but simply through the un-
hampered action of the laws of produc.
ton and consumption-thel aborer, ale
ways and everywhere, receives the full
reward of his labor.
Under such conditions nothing but
incidence and vice can lead to want.
Not grinding poverty, but unanxious
competence must be the lot of every
worker who enjoys the full product Of
his work; while monstrous fortunes
cease to be a menace when no man can
appropriate the wages of another, or
receive, unless by gift, more than he
earns.
To bring about such a contamination
who would not devote himself?-Mar.
garet S. Litte1l
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Art IL Long.

Miss Sears-I have given up my entire
life thus far to art
Ethel-How You must appreciate the
truth of what u said Of art!-Truth
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de-
C red tn a t
Hugh Colewood
ought to be the
happiest man in
Greenville.
He was young,
handsome and
well educated;
then, just as he
was preparing
to fight his way
to fame with
poverty arrayed
against him, he
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The Great Point.

care snails awful slow, papa?" asked
Marjorie.
Every, very slow" was the reply.
"Well, would we be any faster if we
had to carry our house about with NJ
wherever we wentT'-Harper's Young
People
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-13

Farmer (repairing fence)- reckon
Amt much of hand at . fancy job.
Guest-Hardly. You 80 vopF board -
70 plain.-N. I. Sun.
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DRIVEN TO MARRIAGE.
But the Bride Selected Proved
Very Acceptable.

- EVERYBODY de-