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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-02-24

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Of mysticism pervades the iobhy and
liifs ltsslf toward toe fotunda 10 Insngls
WITH tas ssneli Of goat and the fragrant
edors Of snpofted .cigArs- Mysterious
wsen . brother sngyssis that tie goat
ought 10 he Naterod long ilnes ct viii
Ing brethren follow him north by esst
to assist IN qnsnehsng the sslusi's
thirst- But txkiag them for ali IA ell
they are - fine looking = lot Of m en ~
ever asked for the beat room in . notsl
The names Of many of the mcsi
prominent ones were copied from
the register aud are as foilswsi
John Burder, Harry Reberts. John
Erickson, Samuel b. Bennett and {. r.
Cfanaal, Crystal Fail; l.. L. Wsnsor. y.
A. sgoddard, Willis NJ. Aiosson, heed
City; Z. j. lngrahaiu. Vim Hutchinson,
Iron Moantaln; Wm. Drake. Wnl. III.
Dayis. Mics; T.. c. krifxer, Newaygol
Emory ID. Weinsr, l.udington, W. ".
Jeaniags, Ford River; Benz. +. Heck.
ert. Il. w. Broughton, Paw Paw, J.
ihling. Paw Paw, A. r. Hursiey, Ssuis
Ste. Marie; w X. parseile, Bay AilIs,
ID. +. LOTUS. Marquette; Frank Ner-
nit, Charlotte; Lew DeHaven. NJ. II
Hog0ire, N. c. Cronln. Bangor; W. 4.
sawyer, w. A. Donerty. \. H. Com.
stock. w. Heitka. ontonagons Joseph
Fiesneim, Menomlnee; A. ". Edwards,
Atlantic Nine; {. +. stearns, Big Rap
ids; Geo. +. powling. Montague; X. q.
Jearden. Milwaukee; 4. ID. Wheeler,
Manistee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
WAS a HUMORIST.
A Tramp Who Lost by INDUCING in Lit
tie PIeasantrieS.

A Tramp Who Lost by INDUCING in Lit
tie Pleasantries.
He was a vagabond; all over and I'M
mistakably a vagabond, and he made
no effort to conceal it, but he was not
without a sence Of the humorous. He
rang a door bell on jefferson avenue,
and the man of the house answered it.
"Well;" inquired the gentleman.
"what will you have?"
"Anything most, and then have some
thing l haven't got now,' he replied,
good humoredly.
"Indeedr' gasped the gentleman,
quite knocked out by that kind of wit.
eyes, indeed said the visitor, "but
particularly want job"
The gentleman was rather, by this
time, prepossessed in his favor.
"What kind of job?' he asked
ANY kind. Chopping wood, baling
hay. shaving lawn. shoveling snow.
teaching school, driving street car,
cashiering bank, or anything else
that is honest and remunerative."
Can you do any of those things?"
queried the gentleman in surprise.
NO, sir. That is to say, 1 never
tried to-
"Well, what in thunder do you want
the job for?" and the gentleman fell
off several points.
''For friend of mine, who is -"
There was a dull thud, followed by
one or two additional dull thuds and
the joker picked himself up at the foot
of the steps and sighed heavily.-De
troit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
TERRIBLE VENGEANCE,
The Wounding of Three Deputy sherift
in Memphis by Negro Desperadnes Fol-
lowed by the Lyncling of Three of the
Leaders

The "ounding of Three Deputy Sheriit
in Memphis by Negro Desperadnes Fol-
lowed by the Lyncliine of Three of the
Leaders.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 9-The
shooting of the deputy sheriffs at the
Curve" Saturday night has been terri
bly, avenged. Three of the negroes
charged Nth the crime have been shot
to death by NIB which took them
from the county Jail at few min
utes after o'clork yesterday moro
ing. The victims of the lynching
were Tom Moss Calvin Mcdowell
and VIII Stewart, all of whom z.ere in
the Peoples grocery at the Curve"
when the officers We're shot. Moss was
thought to be the man who wounded
Deputy Sheriff Cole. Isaiah Johnson,
alias ''Shang," the negro charged with
the shooting of Deputies Harold and
Ierger, escaped the lynchers.
The whole city has been in a fever
of excitement and She feeling rose al
most to frenzy when it was reported at
10 o'clock this morning that the ne
grOes at the Curve" had undertaken
the mission of vengeance and shed the
blood of several white men. Fortu-
nately the report proved SroundleSs-
founded.
Not since the memorable riot Of 1886
has Memphis been in such state of
excitement or her citizens attuned to
the grim work of battle to the death,
and the end is not yet Tonight the
neighborhood of the Curve" is prac.
tically in state of seige.
White men are patroling the streets
armed to the teeth and ready for
fight at moments notice. The ne
groes quit work early and it is known
that they have held secret meetings at
which threats of bloody vengeance were
freely made. Two of the leading ccl-
ored man of the city-Rev. B. A. Lines
and Justice A. J. Sanderly-are out IN
cards in the evening papers condoning
the lynching, but they represent Il very
email portion of their race. The rest
are bitter as death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
Their Esthetic Tastes and Love OF the
Beautiful.

Their Esthetic Tastes and Love OF the
Beautiful.
In Greece, during the heroic. ages,
men wore their hair and boards long,
which SO Disguised the cleanly and
clean-faced Egyptians that, if we are to
credit Herodotus, no one of either sex
of the latter nationality would on any
account kiss the lips of a Greek, make
use of his knife. his spit and caldron.
or taste the meat of an animal which
had been slaughtered by his hand. 1t
must not be inferred from tbs that the
Greeks, in the early days of their being,
Were altogether barbarians, but they
were certainly not so civilized-not so
well acquainted with the arts of peace
and war-as the Egyptians until long
after they had made their mark in his
tory.
The love of the beautiful was there
no doubt, but it had not yet manifested
itself and raised the social character ef
the people. 1t required the sofsepino
and humanizing influence and inter.
course with more liberal races, such "A
Egyptians and Ph9nicians, to one or
the other of whom they were indebted
for much that they possessed. It
would seem that, in the matter of per.
sonal adornnent, they derived the be-
ginnings from the Egyptians and that
they improved upon these beginnings
as their own sense of the fitness of
things developed into passion for the
beautiful. Their arrangement of the
hair they and their women carried
eventually to the highest point of ar
tistic excellence Gentleman's Maya.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Massachusetts, Is Doing Quite Well.

The natives of Massachusetts are not
dying out, by any means. By the reg
istry of the state for last year, which
has just been issued, it appears that
the birth rate was nearly 26 to the
1000 population; that the death rate
was less than 20 to the 1000, and that
the ratio of males horn was higher
than that of females. There were
over 1000 twins born in the state, and
there was fair show of triplets. There
were more marriages in the state dur
ing the year than there had been IN
any previous year; or. to speak with
precision, there were 20. S3S, while the
number of divorces was not large
enough to frighten anybody ready tor
wedloclz or bound therein. The record
of the city of Boston under the heads
of marriages" and births" is encour-
aging or even excellent. Massachusetts,
is vigorous and virtuous state, sound
in the brain, the heart. the backbone
and the stumps.-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
EauaIizing Wealth.

A. NJ. Rich, of Sebago Lake, Ms.,
writes to say that in replying to his
question as to the equalizing of wealth,
we did not understand him. He has no
desire to equalize possessions regard
less of service, but believing that Bar
mum and Stewart collected more wealth
than they had produced, he fel. that
somebody had been impoverished, and
he asks how the single tax can afford
remedy for such cases
In this way: General demand for
labor products is the employer of all
labor. Land is the storehouse to which
labor must resort to obtain labor pro-
ducts. Land is now largely held out of
use. This appropriation gives scarcity
pay for access, even to the poorest.
Thus all labor is impeded, and many
laborers are completely locked out
That condition forces laborers to seek
employers who can unlock natures
storehouse by paying the price to its
owners This in turn makes such
glut in the labor market that labor is
cheapened. The demands of laborers
being a very large proportion of the
general demand for labor products, the
cheapening of labor materially dimin-
ishes the effective demand of laborers
for labor products This falling off OF
demand for products causes a falling
off of the demands of employers fol
labor. Laborers. nevertheless, need
employment, and the competition fo,
opportunities to work becomes kcener,
still further cheapening labor, and cssz
sequently still further lessening tn
effective demand for products The1
is, therefore, downward tendency Of
la Dor value, which enables men like
Barnum and Stewart to get rich, just
as Mr. Rich sees it, through the impov-
erishment of their employees
Now, if the single tax were applied il
would be improbable to own land ex-
cept to use it. Hence, unused land
would be put to use. which would in
crease the demand of employers for la
Dor. or be abandoned, which would
widen the opportunities of laborers to
employ themselves. The first effect of
that would be an increase of employers
wanting to hire labor, decrease CT la.
borers wanting to be hired, a conse.
quent rise in wages. and resulting
increase of demand for labor products.
would still further increase the demand
for labor; that would further increase
the price of labor; and that would make
renewed demands for labor products.
The action and reaction, now, GER
tainly tend to lessen wages and de-
crease demand for products. Under the
single tax the action and reaction would
constantly tend to raise wages and in
crease the demand for products. And
just as now the Barnums and the Stew
arts get rich through the impoverish-
ment of their employees. they and their
employees together would get rich I'M
der the operation of the single tax; for
competent men would not sell their
services below their value. which would
tend constantly upwards. The proba-
bility is that in such cases every en-
ploye would have an interest in the
business commensurate with his con-
tributions to it's success-in other words,
would employ himself.-The Star dard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Prosecuting Landowners.

The Scotch Highland court, founded
soon after the croftons' agitation of the
ag-arian question about ten years ago.
and whose business is to fix rents, has
made a sweeping reduction of rents on
nearly every estate in the Highland
region. This is received with poor
grace by the landlords, who object to
such tribunal, and to its intervention
in their private affairs, as they have a
perfect right to do if land is justly pri-
vate property.
THE taxation of land according to its
value exclusive of improvements, and
monopoly privileges would cure ine'
quality of observation-disclosures aud
Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
1T PAID TO BE A FOOL
Why the Depot Man Was Down on Hill
Brother Sam.


Brother Sam.
There weren't but three of US on the
depot platform-the man who checked
my trunk, well-dressed man walking
up and down. and myself. After bit
I noticed that the two men looked al
most as much alike as twin bro theirs. [
also noticed that the well-dressed one
evidently wanted to speak to the other,
but was given the cold shoulder. 1t
was none of my business. of course,
but there was mystery about it to eX-
cite curiosity, and by and by followed
the depot man into the freight shed
and carelessly inquired if he knew the
other man. know him! Of course I
do" he Indignantly replied.
''He looks very much like you" He
ought to. as he is my brother Sam.
Consarn his pictur', but the sight Of
him makes me bile over!'' Family
trouble. / suppose?" mo. It's jest
because Sam is the biggest fool in the
United States, We didn't use to calcu-
late in our family that he knew enough
to chew gum. I've actually had to go
out and bring him in when it rained!'
''Well, he seems to be all right now
How did he get dressed up SO fne?"
''How? How?" he repeated, as he
upset barrel of dried apples and
kicked it around. Gle got dressed up
by being fool"
Seeing that did not understand. he
sat down on a box and continued:
''Sam owned five acres of land next to
me up the road. One day about two
years ago a Teller comes along here,
and he says to me that he thinks there
is pot of gold buried on my land
He'd dreamed about it, leas.wise, and
he offered to point out the spot for
fifty dollars ''That's a very old
game"
''Of course. ] let him go on for a
while, and then I took him by the ear
and dropped him off the platform.
read of that swindle before was knee.
high to a toad
"Well?"
"Well, what did he do but go and
hunt up Sam and tell him the same
thing. Somebody probably told him
Sam was born fool and didn't know
enough to clint fence. Sam gulped
it all down, of course. 1 warned him
and wrestled with him. but it didn't do
no good. He jest scrubbed around and
got the money and handed it over"
"And the swindler sIid?''
"He didn't hurry very much. He
walked Sam around, told him where to
dig, and was around for a couple of
days before he sauntered off. Drat
that fool of a Sam, but I want to go
out and knock his head off,
"He lost the fly. of course?"
Ibid he? Not much. He dug where
the man told him to, and may / be hung
by the neck if he didn't find an old
crock with over twelve thousand dol
lars in it!'' You don't say?"
''That's what he did, and that's what
built him new house. got him elect
ed alderman, and put them fine buds on
his back! Blast him! I'll go out and
knock his blamed tomfool head
But / seized him and held him up
against barrel of cider-vinegar until
the fit of frenzy passed away, and left
him weak and trembling and just able
to mutter: 1.-THE idea Of it! Why, he
don't know enough to-day to turn a
grindstone the right way!"-N. Y.
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
a NOTABLE CARGO.
The Steamship Missouri Loading tn
Contributions for Russia.

The Steamship Missouri Loading tho
Contributions for Russia.
NEW YORK, March10.-The steamship
Missouri is loading the great cargo of
grain given by the American people 10
the starving Russians. The followiz,g
is the contribution of each state 20 the
free cargo: Alabama, 400 poends;
Colorado, 600; District of Column bia, 49,
500; Iowa, 1,l6O; Indiana, ia 915; illi-
nois, $40; Kansas, 149, 900; Ken
lucky, 11,760; Louisiana, $50; Mary
land, $500; Michigan, $50, 525; Minnese,-
ia, 1.553, 504; Missouri, 1877, 100; Nebras-
la, 90, $40; New Mexico, 5000; New
York, 1,021, 400; North Dakota. 103, 02);
Ohio, 1859 Pennsylvania, 143, 1884;
South Dakota, 9s,7sO; Tennessee, 49,.
O24; Texas, $3.50; Virginia. 1,5OO; Wis.
consin, 81, l45; Canada, 5000. Total
amount of flour, 4.03S, 7s4 pounds: add
corn meal, 100000 Total. $685., 1S4
pounds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
$50 to Halifax

The evil repute of Halifax implied In
this adage came to it by inheritance
from Halifax in Yorkshire, England.
Halifax law. rs may be gathered from
a letter of Lord Leicester quoted by
Motley in his History of the United
States" was that criminals should be
condemned first and inquired upon
afterward," a law which in that one
particular, at least, resembled "Jedburg
Justice"
Halifax lay within the forest of Hard
wick, where the law was that if a felon
was taken with thirteen and n half
pence worth of stolen goods he should
be tried by four firth burghers from
four OF the precinct towns, and If con-
demned by them be hanged the next
day. After this proceeding had been
carried out to the letter the case might
be sent to jury! Halifax is also cred-
ited with being the home of the guilio>
tine, which the regent, Earl Morton.
introduced into Scotland only to have
MA OVID head chopped Of with it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Robbing the Community.

East St. Louis, as municipality. is
poor. It has to rake and scrape to find
money for necessary public improve
ments. Yet yesterday a man sold land
within its limits for S12.S60 for which
he paid two years ago S., 300. There
was 500 per cent added to the value of
that land in two years by the growth
of the community, and the community
got none of it-St. Louis Chronicle.
How can a man get all he earns? is
the labor question" Equal access to
the earth is the first requirement to its
solution.-Justice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17

Irate Father-Get out of my sight:
you lazy good-for-nothing idiot!
Son-Aw-yes-it's well for you to
talk that-aw-vulgah way to meme
whom you have disgwaced in fashiona-
BILE society all me life.
Father acknowledgement you.
you fool. how?
Son (sobbing)--By-by-c-o-m-pel-ine
me to be supported by-aw-man- who
has had to-aw-work for his money
Life
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
A MILWAUKEE TRAGEDY.
A Street-Ca Driver Shoots His Wife and
Kills Himself.

MILWAUKEE, March10.-Shortly after
a. m. Charles Messing, a Cream City
street-car driver, shot and probably
fatally wounded his wife and then
killed himself, at their home, SSH
Tenth street. Messing and his wife
have not lived together for some time.
Messing entered the house from the
rear, and stealthily going to the room
in which his wife and son lay sleeping.
put a 32-caliber revolver to the woman's
head and fired, and then turned the
weapon upon himself. the bullet enter
ing his right temple, killing him in
stantly. Jealousy is the cause. Mrs.
Messing may recover.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
In the city of H lived a FAINT

In the city of H lived family
who had one of those domestics of the
familiar heavy hand. A few years ago
the town experienced slight shock of
earthquake. Pictures were thrown
down, crockery and furniture ratified
about. In the midst of the tumuit the
mistress went to the head of the base
ment stairs and called out, in would
be patient tone: MARY Ann, what are
you doing now7"-Hsrper's Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
S13S.SOQ. l9O
The assessors books say, then, tt

The assessors books say. then, that
the people who own personal property
in Detroit are $3.50, ITO poorer than in
1885, the people who own buildings are
S., s91, 91O richer. and the owners of
land are $3.50, $50 better off.
This is not all true The peo-
pie who own any kind of prop
erty are much better off than the figures
show. What is true. is, that land val
ues, which have heretofore escaped
their Just share of taxation. are gradu-
ally being brought up to something
near the true figures, and that the
search for hidden personal property
has been abandoned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Mission Church in Boston Burned.

BosToN, March 10. - The Mission
church in fremont street, just beyond
the Roxbury crossing, was totally de-
stroyed by fire at 4:So a. m; loss, $780,
900. The church was occupied by the
Redemptorist fathers. The main build.
ing was erected thirty five years ago.
The fire destroyed the three vestrys
and the pulpit, and with them all valua.
BILE gold and silver plate. The cause OF
the fire has not yet been ascertained.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17

CHICAGO. March 10.-James Mooney,
ST., the head of the well-known detec-
tive firm of Mooney s. Boland, died
yesterday of paralysis, the result of in-
iuries received in . railroad accident
four years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Single Tax Congressman in Chicago
Chicago single tax club intends

The Chicago single tax club intends
to take advantage of the congressional
visit to that city, in connection with
the worlds fair, to celebrate Washing
tons birthday with meeting at which
the single tax mem bers of congress are
to appear. Congressman Tom L. John
son has agreed to speak. and in arrang-
ing for the appearance of his associates
of the single tax faith On the occasion.
The meeting will be an important one,
both in regard to our movement and in
its effect on the coming political cam
paign. There are a large number Of
single tax men in congress. and it
would be well if their single tax con.
stituents wrote them, urging accept
ance of the invitation, which is general
and intended to include all who EN- brace
the faith, whether personally invited
or not Mr. Bailey and his associates
will spare no pains in making the meet
ing a success so far as it is within their
power to make it one; but in the sense it
is national meeting. and single tax
men everywhere should as far as pos
sible contrib their aid
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
Single Tax in England.

Look at the proposals which have put
my lord the duke of Westminster and
my lord Weymss into such pother. 1t
is actually suggested in cold blood that
the ground landlords of London, who
draw some Is, 900, 900 sterling per annum
from London, and do absolutely moth
ing for it. should be made to contribute
so much on the pound to the rates
which are expended in these improve
ments and that local government which
give their property its value. DID you
ever hear such a socialistic proposal?
NV lord the duke turned pale with
rage when it was whispered to him
that it was proposed to make him pay
five cents in the pound on the value of
the land which had been covered with
houses by other men, and in regard to
which the paving and lighting and
sweeping were paid for out of rates to
which he had not contributed.
The old admiral who declared every
day that the service was going 70 the
dogs was nothing compared to those
who declare through the Liberty and
Property Defense league that the coun-
try is going towel, his satanic Eaajes-
ty by reason of the monstrous spolia.
ton which is openly advocated in these
fid de steele days. They have banded
themselves together in sacred league;
they have sworn death and destruction
to these municipal pirates, and when
the election of the county council comes
to pass, in March of the coming year,
they will use all their power and inf1u-
ence to prevent the return Of those
who are pledged to meddle with their
millions. But to my mind they might
as we'll initiate the courtiers of Canute.
and tell the mighty sea to roll thus far
and no farther as endeavor to stem the
stream which is settling SO steady to-
wards the haven they dread-Cor.
Philadelphia Telegraph. (Tory)
Smyrna times., 1892-05-18
The nridegroom,s Resolve.

They sat on the rain sodden bench in
the Smithsonian grounds, evidently a
newly married couple. The weather
was cold, but their love was warm, and
the palpitation of their hearts kept time
with their chattering teeth. Her eyes
were blue as was her nose. One manly
arm encircled her slender waist, while
the other upheld an umbrella. The rain
drops gently trickling down their spines
did not serve to cool their ardor in the
least, and every shiver seemed to cement
them more closely together
ITS awfully nice out here in the
park" she murmured. Il think Wash
ington is lovely city for a wedding
tour, don't you, dear?"
Yes, darling" he replied in an alb
stracted manner. 81 shall always come
here in the future"
And then a great, solid chunk of cool
ness seemed suddenly to come between
them. m.-WashingtOn Post.