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\ Additional train will leave Harrisburg daily
except Saturday and Sunday at $40 p. NJ, arriv
ing at Carlisle.at 7.10 r. M stopping at all inter
mediate stations; on Saturdays train will leave
Harrisburg at $40 p NJ, arriving at Carlisle 6.10
n NJ, stopping at all intermediate stations.
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run daily between Harrisburg and Hagerstown
and Morning Mail daily between Harrisburg and
Chambersburg. On.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Hag.
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Yours truly. ,. B. COOLEY.
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CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD TINE
" TABLE-Dec. list, 1891
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tors.
DR.. B. ]. KENDALL co..,
Enosburnh Falls. Vermont.
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Additional Train will leave Carlisle daily ex-
cept Sunday at $50 a m stopping at all inter
a. M
Atlantic Express and Night Express East will
run daily between Harrisburg and Hagerstown,
and Evening Mail and daily between Harrisburg
and Chambersburg
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Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg 1910 a. M,
and 3:33 and 6.d5 p, m. Arrive at Emmitsbure
lilo q. m, and 403 and 7:O5 p. m.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge $40 a. M,
and 2:o2 and $50 p, m. Arrive st Rocky Ridge
$50 a. M, and 3:22 and $50 D. m.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
Icebe-rs in Gl,ttertpp arrax

There are few more interesting things
among the perils and wonders of the
ocean than icebergs. They are inter-
esting not only for their gigantic size,
their fantastic shapes. their exceeding
beauty and their ability to cool great
masses of water and air in their neigh
borhood but also for the manner in
which they array themselves. Icebergs
often show a tendency to form both
clusters and long lines. and these group
ings may arise from the effects both of
ocean currents and of storms. Some
very singular lines of bergs, extending
fer many hundreds of miles east of
Newfoundland, are shown on an ice
berg chart issued this summer by the
photographic office in Washington.
Two of these cross one another, each
keeping on it's independent course after
the crossing. In several instances par
allel lines of bergs leave long spaces of
clear water between them. The prince
of Monaco, who has taken a lively in
terest in experiments with floating bot
ties in the ocean. recently urged. in an
address to the British association, the
desirability of more systematic study of
ocean tides and currents. A record of
the groupings and alignments of ice
bergs in the north Atlantic might be of
some use in such an investigation
Youths Companion.
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he said. making

GOOD morning. si-." he said, making
a low bow.
Good morning. SIR" answered.
also making q low bow
s.You are English-if may judge by
your uniform and your accent
Not exactly. But English is my
mother tongue, and I am subject of
King George. and hold a commission in
his navy"
Scottish or Irish, then: it comes to
:he same thing. Pray excuse my seem
ing inquisitiveness. But. as we are
very small community here. and it is
well to be on friendly terms, lave
been deputed to act as master Of cere-
monies and introduce you to our socie-
ty. But, first of all, allow me to intro
duce myself. Before the revolution I
was Chevalier de Gex, captain in the
royal regiment of Languedoc; now
they call me Citizen Gex, and am a
prisoner OF the republic.
''And am Mark Roy, first lieutenant
of his Britannia majesty's ship Sylph,
and prisoner of war"
Good. Now shall have the honor Of
introducing you to our fellow captives.''
When we were done with our intro
ductions and few more questions had
been asked and answered, the chevalier
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17

A new match is on the tapis at JON
coping. the invention of a Swedish en-
gineer, Fredriksson by name. who has
been experimenting for several years
for the purpose of simplifying the man.
ufacture of matches The idea in his
match somewhat reminds one of the
rolled-up tape-measure of the tailor en-
cased IN a metal cover and with only
the end projecting. There is metal
cover, in which is placed a roll of par
affined paper, intercepted at regular
intervals so that small points are
formed. On these the igniting sub
stance is placed. An end of the paper
projects from out of the casing, and on
pulling it quickly out, the substance is
ignited against small steel plate, and
one has q match which burns slowly
and evenly. The metal cover can, OF
course, be varied In accordance with
the different requirements of its use.
and when the paper roll Is finished,
new one is inserted. 1t is claimed for
this new kind of match that it simpli-
fles the manufacture to . very consider
able degree. twenty men and eighty
boys being able to make one million
matches per hour.-London IndustrieA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
Inequity in Iowa.

There has been considerable talk re-
GENTLY in different parts of Iowa re-
specting a revision of the present sys-
tenn of taxation, and several bills have
been introduced in the last general as
semb1y proposing schemes for such re-
vision.
Taxation like sickness and death is
inevitable. All governments must be
maintained. This can not be done with
out revenue. To raise revenue there
be equitable. Each property holder
should pay an equitable proportion of
tax on whatever real estate he may
own. There should be no exemptions
or diminutions, except on the line of
charity. Homesteads might be exempt.
But our tax is not levied equally. By
our present system there is not an
equitable assessment, and can not be.
In a late article in this paper we point
ed out in somewhat forcible manner
certain inequities in few counties in
this vicinity. These inequities exist
throughout the state.
In Scott county the lands were re-
turned by the assessor at an average
value of s15.37 per acre; in Muscatine
at $500; in Polk at Sass; Linn at
S12.43; Des Moines at $12.12.
The five lowest average values of
lands reported were Emmett, 1888; Clay,
1896; Kossuth, S411; Dickinson, $4.23,
worth s4.33. The land of nine counties
was reported at less than IS per acre
average value. OF twenty counties at
an average value in excess of $40.
In live stock we find the same in
equities, cattle ranging from SO. IA
average per head, in Des Moines county
down to &4O1 in Emmett In fourteen
counties cattle were returned at
less than 8. 90 per head, average value.
In eight counties namely: Appanoose,
Decatur, Des Moines, johnson, Lucas,
Muscatine, Van Buren, and Washington
cattle are assessed at 800 per head.
Why should Humboldt county cattle be
taxed on only "a. "a per head, while in
Ida they are assessed 37.42. Take two
adjoining counties Taylor and Union,
in the former the average value is So 10,
and in Union 1926, while in Adams,
county adjoining, both their average
value is 81 So In all lines of property
we find these lines of difference. Sheep
are assessed at all prices from thirty
five cents to average in Linn county to
$2.25 in Van Buren,. Hogs from an
average of fifty cents in Buena Vista
to g. % in Van Buren, There needs q
remedy for those inequities in our u.s.
sessment of property for taxation.
But why those inequities in property
assessment We allege that we have
too many assessors In one county we
have an assessor for each of the seven
corporated towns and one for each of
the seventeen civil townships, making
twenty-four assessors in the county. II
the number of assessors were largely
reduced the remainder might be
brought nearer together in their judg-
ments.
Then abolish the prevailing customs
Of boardsof supervisors fixing maximim
and minimum values and sweep out the
still more foolish plan Of assessing by
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE.
Careless People Make Work for Govern
ment Oficfals.

Careless People Make Work for Govern
ment OEicials.
During the fiscal year 1sS9-9O the re-
ceipts of the dead-letter office were
some six and half million pieces, be-
ing an increase of $4,000 pieces, or
per cent. over the preceding year.
During 1ssO-91, while it appeared from
estimates Of the quantity of matter dis
patched through the mails that there
was an increase in letters alone of over
$50, 600 900, the increase to the dead-let-
ter office was but 81 900 pieces, or AZ
per cent.
During the year just closed, although
the general volume of the business and
operations of the service have ap-
preached per cent. in excess of the
previous year. the usual and even ordi-
narily expected increase has not only
disappeared. but the gratifying fact ap-
pears that there was decrease of over
AZ, 900. or nearly per cent in the num-
Der of pieces sent to the dead-letter
Office.
That the mistakes of the public,
which in SO many instances prevent
matter committed to the mails from
reaching it's intended destination and
which embarrass and thwart delivery.
continue to confront the service, may
be attested by the increase of over II
per cent. in unaddressed letters alone.
While the quantity of matter sent to
that office has for years taxed and
pressed the clerical force provided tc
its utmost capacity and efforts, re-
course to extended and increased hours
of labor have at times become necessary
to meet the requirements of thorough
and most efficient service and the dis
position of accumulation and arrear.
age of work. During the past year,
however, without any increase of force
and wholly within the daily official
hours of labor, the Office had its work
at all times well in hand and practical.
ly up with it's current daily receipts
The report of the dead-letter office
for last year showed that the work had
only been disposed of by recourse to
extra time, and that over LOG. 900 letters
in excess of the previous year were re-
turned to writer's The report this
year will show the work of every
branch up to date and an increase OF
o.. 900 over last year in the number of
letters returned to writers.-Postal
Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
How Taxes Are Evaded.

In New Y ork city men are taxed or
the personal property they own on
the second Monday in January. The
debts of the taxpayer are, however. de-
ductible from the assessment for per-
sonal estate. If, then, Mr.. A. owns
800, 900 of taxable personal property,
and like nine hundred and ninety-nine
men in every thousand, cherishes no
wild desire to pay taxes on it, till re-
Gently it was only necessary for him to
buy $1OO,OOO in u. S. bonds, which are
not taxable, and give his note for them.
His position would then be, on the Sec
ond Monday in January:
1. That he owned one hundred thou
sand dollars in personal property, but
owed the same amount
2. That he owned one hundred thou
sand dollars in U. s. bonds not taxable.
Hence he would entirely escape the
payment of taxes. In a vain attempt
to prevent this law was enacted last
April prohibiting the deduction of debt
for the purchase of non-taxable prop
erty. How it would be possible for the
state to show the purpose for which a
debt was contracted is question with
which the sapient author of the law did
not concern himself Aside from the
doubtful constitutionality of measure
which may be construed as an indirect
effort to impose state taxation on U. S.
bonds, what is to prevent a man from
giving his note for other property, and
then exchange ing that property for the
bonds?
If this method is thought by any
wealthy owner of personal property to
involve too much trouble, the payment
of trifiing fee to any of our bright at
torneys will insure immunity from the
tax without any personal bother with
details. Thousands of men who for
merly favored the taxation of personal
property, finding the utter impossibility
of collecting such taxes with any ap-
proach to justice or fairness, have
learned that the same ends may be
reached and the burden of taxation les
sened by imposing all taxes on real
estate.
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putting his arm within mine, asked ma
in very passable English to take walk
with him.
':Where?'' l asked.
Here. This room is exactly forty
PAGES long and thirty PAGES wide-not
bad for a prison. We can stretch our
time. What say your
Il am entirely at your service. How
well you speak English!''
Eyes; know English. It would be
strange if did not, seeing that l have
lived several years in London; and if
had been wise / should be there still. ~
you are likely to be prisoner some
time. thcn?"
my faith, I wish l was! am much
more likely to lose my head"
Lose your head! l thought the
reign of terror was over"
80 it is, except for the class to which
I belong. / am a returned emigrant,
and returned emigrants receive little
mercy"
Did you know this before you left
London?"
Surely. But had a purpose, and
London is not gay, and teaching young
guage at guinea a quarter is neither
lucrative nor amusing
Better than having your head sliced
off. though
well, am not so very sure. To be
being headless. and / was often very
moneyless in that sacre London. 1t
was to replenish my purse that 1 put
my head into the lions mouth. You
are an officer and a gentleman, Mr..
Roy?"
This observation, or question. apro-
pos of nothing. sounding mighty like an
impertinence. made me stare.
81 am certainly an officer, and, I hope
also gentleman" answered, coldly.
Pardon me, ] pray YOU" said the
chevalier. earnestly. 1T was an I'M
necessary question-almost imperti-
nent, indeed. English officers always
are gentlemen; the one implies the
other. And your face is enough. lean
read faces, and in yours / read high
courage, honor and sincerity. You are
Just the man to lead boarding party
or stand by friend to the death"
This time / merely bowed. 1 did moi
like these eStravagant compliments:
and when a man begins by buttering
you up he generally ends by asking
favor
You are surprised that ], an utter
stranger, should address you thus
continued De Gex. after short pause.
But necessity has no law. / stand
in sore need of friend, and among
the men to whom you were just now
introduced there is none that l dare
trust At least one of the-n-that
smiling rascal with the slightly-hooked
nose-is Il mouton, a police spy, and
the others are nobodies. You VIII I'M
derstand why 1 need friend when
tell you that / am under sentence OF
DEATH
Under sentence of death! Is it Their
so bad as that? i thought you only
feared
Feared. Do I look as if / vert
afraid?" asked the chevalier, haughtily.
II beg your pardon. should have
said apprehended. At the same time,
though have faced death pretty often
and may have to do so again, frankly
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17

while communicated with the directory
and received orders to send me to Paris.
refused.
They had taken it into their heads
that we We're acting in concert with the
royalists, and that the cutting out of
LIE Bonnet Rouge was to have been the
signal for general rising.
In no other way could they explain
the temerity of twenty men in a long
boat attacking a heavily-armed brig,
anchored under the guns of fort, and
within pistol shot of half dozen gun
boats and armed luggers.
l was taken before the port captain
and JUICE de paix and closely ques-
toned as to the designs of the royalists
and my part in the supposed conspiracy.
But, as / knew nothing of the designs
in question, and the conspiracy was
purely imaginary, they naturally got
but little out of me,
A few days afterwards I was sent to
Paris in post chaise, under SO strong
an escort as to render escape out of the
question. Two gendarmes with cooked
hats and half-cocked pistols sat oppo-
site me all the way, and two fully-armed
dragons rode alongside.
But it was by no means an unpleas-
ant journey. Being regarded as pris-
oner of Importance. / Jared well and
was treated with great respect made
friends with my companions, who were
very good fellows, and saw more of la
belle France than / had ever seen be-
fore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
An Oregon Farmer. Ideas.

Portland Oregonian.
The report of the grange commission
on taxation, as given in the Oregonian,
is in keeping with the usual style Of
farmers when dealing with the tax
question The demand for an increase
of inquisitorial powers for assessors,
and that they use increased diligence in
the search for personal property, shows
how much the Oregon grange is behind
the times A far more able commission
than these three lights" decided as far
back as 1871. in the state of New York,
that all attempts to get an equal assess
ment Of personal property wsee futile,
and recommended that taxes be levied
on real estate alone. The result Of
increased diligence" on the part Of
assessors, and the actual assessment of
property at its ''full, true cash value"
will be that the class that Judge Boise
and his colleagues claim to represent,
the already overburdened farmer, will
have to bear an increased share Of the
tax levy; for the uncomfortable prop
erty of the farmer will be an
easy prey to the ''diligent" assessor.
Do these law trainers imagine
that there lives q man who could make
a fair and equal assessment of the vast
amount of valuable personal property
to be found in the mansions Of the rich
fine paintings, costly furniture, jew
elry, bric-a-brac, etc.-or estimate cor
rectly the immense stocks of goods and
merchandise to be found in a city like
Portland? Yet if one dollar Of these
escapes there is an injustice done. And
if these are not assessed to the last dol
lar, on what grounds can we assess the
horses and cattle, sheep and swine,
wagons and implements Of the working
farmer at their ''full, true, cash value?'
AS a member both Of the grange and
Farmers Alliance / wish to enter my
protest against any such palpable alb
surdity as the new revenue bill that
you have reported as emanating from
the grange committee.
The resolutions of the Portland cham
Der of commerce against mortgage tax
alton and deduction for Indebtedness
are step in the right direction, and
any political party which will embody
them in its platform will deserve to that
extent the support of all level-headed
citizens of the state.
To keep up with that moral decay of
the times that the Oregonian occasion
ally refers to, the powers of assessors,
instead of being increased, should be
reduced, and the section that authorizes
the assessor to demand itemized state
ments of property and debts with the adj
dress Of creditors, should be repealed.
Also, that which requires the taxpayer
to swear to his list. so that the consci-
entious who now dutifully put in" all
their property might be given chance
to dodge their taxes along with the pro-
fessional tax-shirker, who doesn't hap
pen to own such an article as a con.
science.-Wallace Yates