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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03
FALSE SECURITY.
Republicans Relying Upon Electing
Senate.

Republicans Relying Upon Electing q
Senate.
The republicans now see that they
have overdone in the past the saving
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS business as we'll
as the ''scare" business. All through
Clevelands administration they were
pointing to the senate as the secure
barrier against that ruin which the
democrats were as determined as ever
to bring on the land. but could not so
long as the republicans controlled the
senate. But they now perceive that
this has bred a false sense of security
among the republican masses. Plain
republican voters are believing what
they were told for four years, and are
saying that things cannot be so very
bad, even if Cleveland is elected, as
the senate will still be republican
This will never do, and SD the alarm
has gone forth that the senate is in
danger as well as the presidency. But
this is TOO indefinite. No names, places
or dates are mentioned. 1t is one
thing to say that, if Cleveland carries
New York on Novem Der s tie country
is lost, and quite another to say that
this is not true, but that there is danger
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A Queer Tribute.

In many instances, particularly in
olden times. large and powerful ma
tions have demanded tribute from
smaller and weaker states. This de-
mand was generally complied with by
the petty ruler, who fancied that sach
a step would render his throne secure.
When a tribute-paying king thought he
could whip the other he generally
stopped making any payment, AID then
there was fight about it. AS rule
the tribute consisted OF SO much gold
or some rich proiuc: of the country. a
queer tribute. however. was exacted
b. King Edgar the Peaceable, who
ruled over = part OF Britain about nine
several petty kings scattered here and
there, and a much larger nunbe- of
fierce wolves ran wild. So ia 96l King
Edgar commanded that all who paid
him tribute should pay it in wolves
heads, and from Wales he demanded
three hundred annually. As there were
plenty of wolves this tribute was easily
paid at first and people in those days
did not regard the selection of wolves
heads as at all queer, for the payment
of tribute was merely an acknowledge
ment of the other nations strength.
So the wolves heads tribute was regu-
larry paid until wolves began to get
pretty well thinned out, and parts of
England were entirely Invested of the
animals, which perhaps, was Just what
the king wanted. - Harper's Young
People.
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THE OoILook IN NEW YORK.
a Safe Democratic Majority Already In
Sight.

a Safe Democratic Majority Already In
Sight.
The letters of democratic and repub-
lican editors from various sections of
the state to the Argus present the first
general survey of the political situa-
ton in interior New York, published
during the canvass. This indicates
very plainly that the drift of sentiment
is strongly with the democratic party,
and that diligent work from now until
election will give the democratic cleo
toral ticket handsome ajority in the
state.
Our reports cover two-thirds of the
counties in the state, outside of New
York and Kings. but rather less than
half the vote. and they point by what
is said and by what is left unsaid, to
considerable reductions in the repub-
lican pluralities of 1SSs all through the
state. The republican party recognizes
that four years ago its vote reached high
water mark, and has since been steadily
recediIg. The feigned apprehension of
the New York Tribune that the new
ballot law will keep tiinid republicans.
afraid of its supposed complexitie
away from the polls, is Il transparent
evasion of the fact that the new laws
have checked the corrupt practices by
which the republican vote in the in
terror was formerly sweilcd. Reasons
for the republican losses which are
noted by our respected and obliging
correspondents We're not asked, be-
cause they are on the surface.
Briefly summarized, the letters from
democratic sources point to net re-
publican loss or democratic gain of
16, 900 in forty counties. The same
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His pony reared and turned until no
more control of the animal was posi-
BILE. He had carried his rider far to the
right of the herd when sudden arch
ing of the back ("bucking" in western
parlance) threw the colonel violently
into the air and in a moment he was
lying on the prairie with q keen pain
darling through his ankle. The pony
was racing away westward
Col Trask did not faint. He sat up
and looked about him and saw some
thing that made aim far more anxious
than had the broken ankle
A man and il horse when combined
are invincih : among western cattle.
A man or a horse alone has little
consider either a legitimate target for
the slender branching horns that are
capable of so much damage.
The cattle saw the man sitting help
less on the prairie and We're starting
with bellows of rage in his direction.
This the colonel realized What he
did not see was the form of a we'll
poised woman on a handsome white
horse that approached the cowboys.
She wore graceful ridiug-hat and had
a strong womanly face that told of
capability for management
"Who is that man out there?" she
asked, as she saw Trask struggling
with his frightened pony.
Il dunno" was the herder's reply.
''Some dude t thinks he kin herd
Texas steers. reckon"
Look" she cried, ''he has fallen off
and is hurt-and the cattle see him.
The herder looked on with unconcern.
''Why don't you go to save him?' she
asked with blanched lips.
The man gave shrug with his broad
shoulders and grunted the favorite
motto OF the ranchman: "A mans life
is his own"
The woman looked intently at Trask,
and seeing that he was in some way in
iured, threw riding hat and gloves to
the wind and, plunging the spur into her
horse until tiic si..sy white coat was
fiecked with red, rode furiously to the
rescue.
The herder watched the race with
staring eyes The woman gained rap
idly upon the trotting steers. but
would she reach the stranger in time?
In moment she was up to him and
had leaped to the ground by his side.
With almost superhuman strength she
lifted his relaxed form and threw it
over the saddle. Trasll had tainted.
The angry cattle were not five rods
away as with a bound she sprang to
the horses back, and. holding the limp
stranger with one hand, dashed the
horse with the other until they were
out of danger.
Trask woke up in the implanted
room OF the superintendent. He lay on
a rude couch, and the tall, we'll formed
lady he had seen riding toward him was
standing near.
II would like to see Mr.. Selton," he
whispered as soon as he could speak.
''See whom" Her voice was soft
and low.
The superintendent"
Il am the superintendent"
But l want j. c. Selton.'
THAT is my name"
Weak as ne was. Trask raised him
self up in bed And have I been
doing business through you all this
time?' he gasped.
If your name is Mr.. Trasls. as 1 am
told it is, you certainly have"
The colonel unused much over his
theory's working during those days in
the cabin as he watched the workings
of the ranch and waited fo- h is broken
limb to heal. As he considered how
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well things were managed and how his
life had been almost miraculously saved
he was not entirely satisfied that the
theory was Il failure.
His friend, Richards, vice president
of the company, accompanied him
when few months later the colonel
made another western trip.
"Blest if / don't think Trask mas a
mighty big intere in that woman SUI
perintend-nt. Jessie Selton." he re-
marked to himself. as he walked discon.
solately back and forth smoking, on
the night of their arrival 1t the ranch.
lie has not spoken two words to me
since we got here"
Just then he rounded the corner of
the building There was the colonel
and beside him the superintendent
His arm was around her waist.
Your proxy theory doesn't always
work. Tra>k." stamme-ed Richards,
for want OF something better to say.
No. replied the colonel, in al en-
barrassed manner, mot in this case.
We are to be married tomorrow"
c. u. HANGER
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HER LETTERS.

I'm settin' all alone to-day,
Jes' dozin' like. the time away,
An thinkin of a facc-but here
III stop right short. fer don't keer
To open up lonesome heart
Wot's ben long closed. an kind o. start
These weak old eyes to leak again
Because at three score years an ten,
"A feller'd better look ahead
An let the buried past stay dead
But-then aEain-it seems, you know,
To pore lonely chap ez though
He couldn't keep his thoughts away
From wand rim back to some lost day,
An strxyin' through the sur-lit aisleS
O long ago, at. miles On niles,
Stretch their beckeria CLEANS o. light
To sort o cheer the gloom o. night
Wot settles round Teller when
His almanick SEE: Three score TEN"
An so. take this bun'le up
An kind O. fill my ole hearts cup
Tel it Stops DER an pears to float
A lump o sumthin' TO my throat
AT sticks right there, intel soft tears
Washes il down the len tn MIN years
An SO, read her letters Ger
The ones she writ 70 ne afore
Those faltrin' hans he'd got so weak.
An fore the roses IN her cheek
Bowed TO the jsllus lily's reign,
En- eZ / read them lines again,
I pear TO see . sad, sweet face
Cum f'om the gloon. an I'll the place
Where sit all alone, to-day.
JeS' dozin' like. the time away.
N. Y. World
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ffnitesimal in comparison with the work
done by the gravita tional attraction on
the shrinking mass adduced by Helm
holtz az the real source of the suns
heat.
The whole story of energy now in the
sun, whether of actual heat correspond
ing to the suns high temperature, or Of
potential energy las of the not-run-
down weight Of the clock-work)-
potential energy of gravitation de
pending ON the extent of future shrink
age which the sun is destined to expert
ence. is essentially finite; and there is
much less of it now than there was three
hundred Thousand years ago. Similar
considerations of action ON q vastly
smaller scale are, of course, applicable
to terrestrial plutonic energy, and
thoroughly dispose of the terrestrial
perpetual motion" by which Lyen
and other followers of Hutton, on
as sound principles as those of the
humblest mechanical perpetual mo-
zionist, tried to find that the earth can
go on forever as it is illuminated by
the sun from infinity of time past to
infinity of time future, always a habita-
ton for race after race of plants and
animals, built on the ruins of the habi.
tations of preceding races of plants and
animals
The doctrine of the ''Dissipation OF
Energy" forces upon us the conclusion
that within a finite period of time past
the earth must have been, and within
a finite period of time. to come must
again be, unfit for the habitat;on of
man as at present constituted, unless
operations have been, and are to be,
performed which are impossible under
the laws governing the known opera.
tions going on at present in the mate
rial world.-Fortnightly Review.
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"PLuGGlNG HIS WHEEL"
How . Montana Gambler PLAYED ssLo
Down" for Big Stakes.

Down" for Big Stakes.
1t was only year or so ago that q
well-known and slippery gambler
plugged" the wheel of a aborer in
the vineyard of the dishonest dollar. It
was at Wallace, Mont. He slipped into
the shack one night, bored gimlet
hole n the wheel right below a heart
Into this he poured lead. inserted a
wooden plug, and vanished the spot.
On the following morning he dropped
casually into the establishment and
put $50 gold piece on the heart red.
1t won and $50 was placed with it. He
left the entire amount standing. win
ming again. This left him with $50 in
front.
''Let 'er CO." he said; the wheel
whirred $50 into his pocket. The dealer
smiled, thinking such a run of luck
wouldn't last. and sent the wheel
around. Then there was $500 in front
of the Spectator on chance.
"Ain't you going rather high?" asked
the proprietor.
''Oh, be sporty now; be sporty" re-
piled the gambler, and the wheel
turned heart again; 1910 was in the
stack now. The gambler made feint
as if to draw it down, but the proprie-
tor sang out: "Be sporty yourself,
now"
"All right, let FER co." she went and
s1,2sO lay in front of the man who had
a $50 gold piece as capital.
Now run her again." said the latter.
Haven't got that much in the
drawer"
''What 'ev You got?"
Give hundred dollars
Let her go for that" and pocl<eting
81, $50 the gambler made off, while the
owner of the wheel shut up shop.
Then he began to examine his wheel.
The plug was discovered, and hitchinR
two revolvers and belt of cartridges
around his waist, he started after his
81, 80 and gore. He received neither,
as the gambler was seeking the salu-
brious climate indigenous to Seattle.
Six months later the two came to-
gether. The wheel owner was on vel
vet again, but he quietly told the
gambler of the narrow thread by which
his life hung if the latter had been
caught.
"Ah, don't squeal; you were done
up. weren't you?"
eyes, and it cost me $50 to fix the
wheel again."
well, here's your fifty for the wheel"
Chicago Mail.
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pitt AND Po,NT.

The fool never has an idea that p
too large to slip out Of his mouth Gal.
weston News
Docs she share her husbands burr
dens?' Eyes. Jacks loads are her CHIEF
trial"-Life.
One certain way to hear q pin dron
is to heat it red-hot and drop it into .
keg of gunpowder.
The bunco-man is not fastidious.
He lives on the simplest things he can
find.-Elmira Gazette.
-'sWell, I'll be burned, Tidy, Two
tasted beefsteaks and pigsteaks, but III
sw'ar never see sweep steaks afore. ~
Truth.
"A Mere Question Of Sex.-"Well,
Willie, did you master your lesson to-
day?' Nom; missed it. "-Philadels
phia Record
She speaks. he understands her not
Although he Is NO fool;
You see. the only French she's got
She learned at boarding school.
Had Tried H-Writer-"Have you
ever read any of my stories in manu-
script?" Friend-''No, but I've often
tried to read them in print"-Yankee
Blade.
WAS your SON graduated at the
head of his class?'' mo, indeed. Ha
was in . much more responsible posi-
tion-at the very foundation Of it,
Black and White.
-Daisy-'I wonder how it is that
Mrs. Totterby is such q good traveller.
There is nothing strange in it; he,
husband gets passes"
- Jingle - "Hello. Slumpkins. Are
you trying to make the train?".
Slumpkins (running)-"No; I'm only
trying to catch the one that is already
made. Inter Ocean.
-Johnny-''Mamma, can't you tell
me new fairy story?" Mrs. Braggs-
II don't know any Johnny. Maybe
your father will tell me some when he
comes in tonight. "-Boston Gazette.
-Ungrammatical, but True
""Twas ever thus. from childhood's hour
Inever In . car did see
pretty girl, but her escort
Was twice as big as me.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"A Subtle Scheme.-''Miss Wicker
state seems to be particularly popular
among the young fellows of twenty or
thereabouts." Eyes: she has a way of
talking to them about you men, I'm
dianapolis Journal. ,
-Ryan-"Do you believe that Miss
Eatwell 10 really superstitious?" Har-
per-"Yea. / know she believes in
signs" Ryan-'In signs?" Harper
Eyes; she is never willing to pass an
ice-cream or oyster-stew sign without
first going in."-Inter-Ocean.
Come up to my house tomorrow
night" said Henpecque. 'I'm going to
celebrate my golden wedding" Sol
den wedding! Why, man, you've only
been married three years" II know
1t, but it seems like fifty, so everything
is all right."-Buffalo Express. :
What am most worried about,
said the doctor to the sick editor, sis
your blood. want to find out about
the circulation" Circulation" gasped
the patient. ''Look here, doctor, it isn't
a square deal to work me for a death
bed confession. "-Washingtan Star.
-Fogg-''Charley you were born to
be writer" Charley tblushing with
conscious pride)-"Ah! you have seen
some of the things have turned off,"
Fogg-''No; wasn't referring to what
you had written. was thinking what
a splendid ear you had for carrying q
pen. Immense, Charley; simply inn
mense. "-Roston Transcript.
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WHEN THE EARTH DIES.
Some Day the Solar system Must Inevits
bly, Expire.

Some Day the Solar system Must Insvita-
bly, Expire.
Consider a fywheel or clockwork as
driven by weight and the heat-gener-
ated by friction against the motion of
wheels and pendulum and by impacts
of teeth against the pallets at an es-
capement. Our knowledge of proper
ties of matter and of modes of propaga-
ton of heat by radiation or conduction,
and of the efficiency of heat as a motor.
discovered by several thousand years of
observation and several hundred years
of experiment and dynamical theory.
suffices to show that when the weight
is run down and the potential energy
Tor capacity to do work. which it had
in the beginning has been all spent in
heat. this heat is not availa BILE for rails
ing the weight and giving the clock
work a renewed lease OF notivity.
The solar system. according to the
best of modern scientific belief, is dv-
namicallv analogous to the clockwork
in all the essentials of our considera-
ton. Not going back in thought to a
beginning, of which science knows
nothing, let us compare the solar sys-
tenn as it was three thousand years
ago with the solar system as it is now.
Let our analogue be a cIockwork which
three hours ago was known to ba going
with it's weight partially run down,
and which is still going with its weight
not yet wholly run down.
During these three thousand years
the sun has been giving out radiant
heat eight being included in the desig-
nation radiant heat') in all directions.
propagated at the rate of about nine
and half million million kilometers
per year, and therefore tweaty-eight
and half thousand million million
kiIometers in three thousand years
We do not know whether the light
which left the sun three thousand
years ago is still travelling out
ward with almost undiminished ener-
gy, or whether nearly all is already
dissipated in heat, warming the
luminiferous ether or pondera BILE bodies
which have INSTRUCTED its course; we
may. ! think, feel sure that it is partly
still travelling outward as radiant heat,
and partly spent Tor dissipated) in
warming ponderable matter Tor pom
derab,e matter and the luniniferous
ether).
The running down of the weight in
the clock-work has its perfect analogue,
as Helmholtz was, I believe, in reality
the very first to point out, in the shrink
age of the sun from century to century
under the influence of the mutual grav-
national attractions between its parts.
The heat-producing efficiency of the fire
which there would be If the sun were q
globe of gunpowder or gun cotton burn
ing from its outward surface inward
that is to say, the work done by the
potential energy of the chemical
affinity between uncombined oxygen
snG carbon and hydrocarbons, at
tractive forces rs truly forces
and subject to dynamic law a. is the
force Of gravity itself. = absolutely In
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One answer SO impressed him by it's
vigorous language and It's bold, manly
chirography, that the colonel consid-
cred no other. and J. C. Selton was en-
gagged forthwith.
The coioners theory was carried so
far that the superintendent was in
trusted with the purchasing of the cat
tie and land, il being required that let
tiers be written weekly detailing prog
ress.
Never was better work accomplished
than that told of in the reports The
coloneIs eyes kindled as he read them
and he dictated gorgeous paraphrases
of them to be sent in circular form to
the syndicate's stockholders
Zone would think you had a sweet
heart out west by the way you pore
over those letters" said his mother one
day.
~ have" replied Trask. I'm in love
with this fellow Selton. He does write
magnificent letters, and is making US
money. too. I'm going out to see him
next week.
He kept his promise, and ten days
later the express train let off at the
little western Kansas station an ele-
gantly dressed gentleman who looked
a little regretfully at the Pullman car
he had just left
Granville was not exactly what he
had anticipated His ideas had been
formed from the boom newspapers oc-
casionally sent him by Seton. 1t
looked ill-kempt, struggling, ragged
Nor did the ranch of the Trask Cattle
Company exactly agree with the volup-
50 hsh aI 20 l,a
stockholders There was an expanse
of green prairie, long reaches of barb
wire, and over there u ram bling corral,
with headquarters cabin of three or
four rooms. Imprinted and rather rough
in appearance.
The colonel read over one door, 81.
C. Seton. superintendent" Guess
I'll go in" he said aloud. and lifted the
latch. The room was empty. except
for a cheap table Uttered with the COM
pany's letter paper.
At that moment there was a cry for
help outside. and he turned to see two
young cow boys vainly trying to drive
q bunch of a hundred cattle toward the
bluffs of little stream.
THAT will suit me-" thought the
colonel. pulling off his coat Il used
to drive home the cows from the pas
ture on fathers old farm down in Penn
sylvania, and I'd like no better fun
than to help"
He mounted q pony hitched to the
corral and rode beside one of the herd
-erS-
where's the superintendent" he
began.
Dunno"
want some help?"
Eyes, go over there an head 'em of. +"
Trask touched his horse with the
spurs and found himself in front of
two hundred very threatening looking
horns
What was that, the crack Of a pistol?
His horse started at the sound and he
saw the smoke floating away from the
weapon in the cowboys hand
Whether the man cid il out of mean
ness or really thought that by the shot
he could control the actions Of the cat
4le Trask did not have time to consider.
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ratio in the remainder of the state
would produce a republican loss of
about so, 900 outside of New York and
Kings. in which a democratic gain of
at least 10000 is conceded. A loss of
over 1000 conceded by republicans in
eleven counties would imply. on a
rough calculation of the vote of the
state, total republican loss of about
Is, 900. which. with the allowed demo-
cratic gains south of the Harlem, would
give the state to the democratic ticket
by a safe majority OF about 15,00o.-
ALBANY Argus.
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payments during the Garuc.,.-Sartnur
administration.
President Cleveland signed more pri-
vate pension bills than were approved
during sixteen preceding years of re-
publican administration.
Mr.. Cleveland has neither said nor
done anything, since Gen. Sicikies' just
eulogy of him four years ago, to earn
the disfavor of any soldier.-N. 7.
World
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that the senate. at some time or other,
in some way not named, may be lost tC
the republicans. The senate is certain
to remain republican till March 4. and
it is almost certain that no democratic
senate can meet in Washington at the
same time with Il house of representa-
tives before Decem Der, 1898 Really,
it is too much to ask people to 60 into
their cyclone cellars thirteen months
before the cyciODc-N Y Post