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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17

CREDIT to the family-The scion who is
trusted by everybody.-N. Y. Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
THINGS ONE SHOULD KNOW

THE average life of 4 coin is twenty
five years
TIE average duration Of human life is
tllirty-three years.
THE net indebtedness of the world in
1890 was S26, 9l7, O9J, 900.
TIE total population of the earth is
estimated at i, 4S3, 00o 900, of which 80.
CSC, $50 die yearly. 97,700 daily and e.
every minute.
GOLD does not tarnish like other
metals for the reason that ii is not acted
on by oxygen or by water 1t is the
moisture in the atmosphere that causes
other metals to tarnish or oxidize.
The fitness Of aluminium for use in
gas fixtures, elcctroliers and other
forms of interior decoration where fine
metal work is needed has been pointed
out by leading electrical journal
SOME Of the fires caused by lamp ex-
plosions might be averted by keeping
the ornamental vases in the room filed
with sand. The sand, promptly ap-
piled to an incipient fire, rapidly
smotherS it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
The True Laxative Principle

THE moon is above all human follies and
always looks down on loyers.-Elmira Ga
Zet1e.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
SUNORY SINGULaRiTIES.

MISSOURI has grass widow fourteen
years old
A PHILADELPuIAN owns thirty-three
finger rings and thirty-four suits Of
clothes
JOHN GARNET. Kansas farmer. re-
Gently piowed up 4 gold ring which his
daughter had lost seven years previous.
FoUR cudacious footpads in Hillsdalc,
Mich, halted Z funeral procession and
actually robbed the undertaken and the
minister.
A PHILADELPHIA has made an UNI
brella stand two and one-half feet high,
which is composed Of one Thousand six
hundred separate pieces and fifteen
kinds Of wood.
THE wreck, ffty-fve years ago, on
the coast of Maine OF the steamship
Royal Tar, which carried nenagerie,
has been recalled recently by the find
ing of several hippopotamus teeth near
Rockland.
A CURIOUS fad for obtaining Indian
relics has taken possession of the people
about Reading, Pa, who 60 out in num-
bcrs, armed with spades and pickazes,
to dig for arrow heads and other re-
mains OF. the red man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
CHAUTAuQUA's RECOGNITION DAY.
The Graduating Exercises the Most Inter
esting of the Season.

The Graduating Exercises the Most Inter-
esting of the Season.
CHAuTAUoUA. n. Y, Aug H.-(SpeciaI1-
Thisis the day to which all good c. L. 8. C.
people look forward with interest and en-
thusiasm. Hundreds come here especially
for the grand celebration of Recognition
Day" This year there are only small
number of graduates, as compared with
others years. Though there are thousands
reading the Chautauqua course, only about
400 graduated this year, and majority were
here for the graduating exercises. The gradu-
ates and alumni formed in six divisions
and marched to the Hall of Philosophy.
There the usual recognition responses were
read and an address was made by Prof Har-
per. At II o'clock the graduates were es-
corted through the Golden Gate out init the
cold world after which they are supposed
to care for themselves. The procession
class grafton was given by DR.. Gunsaulus.
This afternoon, in the amphitheater, plat
form meeting was held at which DR.. Har-
per presided. He made O short address to
the graduates and addresses were made by
a number of the counsellors. They sang the
song OF 1892, and diplomas were presented.
At this evenings meeting short addresses
were made and the Lotus Glee Club sang.
The whole day was given up to the gradu-
alton exercises. The ChautauQua process
sions are the most unique OF all unique
things here. Representatives of all the
graduating classes are present and march
proudly in lne. The nrst class is made up
of old men and women, but it has not q
on age, as each class has gradu-
ated some aged people. and the classes range
IN age from 20 to 80 years One of the best
weather clerk always does his best on that
day OF the Chautauqua year. In the 10 years
there has not been rainy day at Chautau-
qua when the graduating exercises are to be
held.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
WAGES IN SCOTLAND.

They Are Low and the Cost of Living Is
Nearly as High as in America.
New York correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.l
Wallace Bruce, Consul at Edinburgh, has
returned home on a vacation, and has some
thing to say about the comparative wages
and cost of living in Scotland and the
United States. "TEe rate of wages in Scot
land" he says 'is about two-thirds less
than American mechanics receive The
same is equally true of clerks and laborers.
Young men have to serve all apprenticeship
of five years before they even receive q
living compensation, and when they have
completed the term the average compensa-
ton will not reach 20 shillings per week.
Dairymen. who work from daylight-and
daylight in Scotland means about o'clock
until nightfall, receive about $50 per annum
and board. Car drivers and conductors who
work about IA hours per day, average %
shillings per week. Then take the cost OF
living. 1t is almost equal to the expense in
the United States. Tho exceptions are rents,
which about compare with Philadelphia,
while house labor can be had at from $50 to
$50 per annum. Meat is 6earer than in the
United States, and butter fully one-quarter
more Fruit is about twice as dear. How
then can the foreign workingman be con-
tented or happy when his earnings only
scantiiy support himself and his family?"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A MONOPOLY IN FLOUR.

That California milling combination
which has just been formed has much
more of the possibilities of monopoly
than the New York combination which
preceded it 1t controls all the mills of
modern appliances on the Pacific coast.
II disavows the idea of being ''trust, :"
the fact being that it is a union of all the
mills under single corporation, the latest
and most approved organization of all the
trusts. OF course it does not intend to
raise prices. Oh, no. 1t is for reduction
of operating expenses and the cost of
management, and the regulation of the
supply of flour to the demand" which is
the stereotyped periphrasis for what's ver-
nacularly known as squeezing the con-
sumer.'
Not very long ago it was deemed i'm
possible that any combination should con-
template the policy of making bread dear
How rapidly we have advanced along the
road to placing all necessaries of life un-
der the control of conscienceless combina-
tions is sufficiently illustrated by the re-
cent formation of two combinations-one
to sell stock under the pretext of
flour monopoly, the other with
an evident view to the extortion
of advanced prices on that staple. The
New York combination is harmless to the
consumer, because the price of flour in
New York is fixed by the competition of
mills all over the country as far west as
Omaha and Minneapolis. The California
combination has it in its power to estab-
lish at least temporary levy on the price
of bread, and it needs no prophet to fore
tell that it will do So
The check to such a combinations
power to levy extortion on the peoples
food is only in the ability to build new
mills, and the premium offered by high
prices for doing so. But one point sug-
gests itself here If the combination is
able to get railroad rates, say FIVE cents
hundred cheaper on its wheat and the
same amount on its flour than are afforded
to its competitors, the new mills will be
sentenced to slow and lingering death.
Where railroad competition exists such a
discrimination would be impossible. But
as the railroad business of California is
under the sway of single corporation it
may turn out that the California flour
monopoly has sure foundation.
EXtortion on the price of bread was a
fruitful source of political trouble in
medieval times 1t remains to be seen
what the American people will do about
an oppression against which the masses,
even in the Feudal Ages, were prompt to
revolt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
PROFITS FROM VICE,

The happy condition of Monaco under
the rule of its progressive Prince, who de-
rives his revenue from keeping the gam
bling shop of Europe, is the most signal
illustration of fattening off the vices of
others. A generation ago Monaco was
one of the most tax-ridden and oppressed
principalities of Europe. Wood could not
be hewn, nor bread baked without the pay
ment of tax. The infiction was so
great that the country districts revolted
and were annexed to Sardinia. Little was
left except the town of 5000 in
habitants when the change came Now
1t has prosperous population of 1000.
Not only are they untaxed, but their wei
fare is looked after in a most careful man.
ner The exemplary Prince forbids his
subjects to gamble under heavy penalties.
No disorderly house is permitted in the
place. His sanitary arrangements are so
perfect that when cholera ragged all around
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
SENATOR HOAR's VIEWS
Tho Democratic Party FiatIy Opposed to
Encouraging Home Industries.

Tho Democratic Party FlatIy Opposed to
Encouraging Home Industries.
BOSTON, Aug. H.-Senator Hoar will not be
able to take part in the Presidential cam
paign this year, but he has written a long
letter on the political situation, which
Chairman Draper, of the Republican State
Committee, received to-day. The letter
was dated in Paris on July n. Nj. Hoar had
this to say about the force bill:
'The Democratic party has now fully and
practically committed itself to the policy of
Calhounism and of the Confederacy. With
Calhoun, it denies the power to encourage
American manufacturers, and would write
in our Constitution what is expressed in the
pronibition to lay any duty for the protec-
tion of any manufacturer.
"Grover Clev eland, in the felicitous phrase
of Mr.. Webster, is but bob to the nullifca-
tion kite He seems to draw from COnfed-
crate statesmanship lessons which were
never yet lnculcated by American patriot
ism.
1.-THE attitude of the Democracy toward
our colored fellow citizen is practically that
which it has always maintained. To the
Democratic party, North OF South alike,st
negro is but u dog, clothed with no political
rights that wnlte man is bound to respect,
although, perhaps, the bone of some small
office may be flung to him if he can be made
useful in some closely contested Northern
'In this attitude the Southern Democrat
the old Democrat of the North, and the new
allies whom they tempt by the qualification
of personal am bition, are alike agreed.
"rhe purpose OF all of them to deny to the
colored man his constitutional right, and to
win power by the destruction of the purity of
our national elections is disclosed by their
outcry against what they call the force bill,
a sample proposition to give an appeal to the
courts of the United States, subject to the
final power of the House ITSELF in any con.
tested questions of the election of national
representatives-a>meth pursued with the
completest success in England and Can
ar
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
NAVAL rsAHsrKss cox1ra.
Rear Admiral Gherardi to Be Detailed 20
Duty at San Francisco.

Rear Admiral Gherardi to Be Detailed 20
Duty at San Francisco.
NEW YORK, Aug H.-[SpeciaL ION several
occasions in the past two years it has been
said that Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi,
Commander of the North Atlantic squad
ron, was about to be detailed to other duty,
SO that Commodore John q. Walker, Acting
Rear Admiral, who is in command of the
squadron OF evolution might continue 20
hold his acting rank by being sent to the
command of the North Atlantic squadron.
This change is now about to take place. The
Philadelphia, now at Bar Harbor, ts to leave
there on Wednesday of next week for New
York, and upon arrival here Admiral Cher.
ardi is to haul down his flag and proceed to
Washington to receive his instructions rela-
tive to the programme for the naval review
next spring, after which he will go to San
francisco to take charge Of the vesseIs that
will be the Baltimore, Charleston, San Fran
cisco and Yorktown only. as the Boston has
started for Honolulu. These vessels will
cession of short trips from port to port
After Admiral Gherardf has gone to Wash
1ngton the Philadelphia will become the
flagship of Acting Rear Admiral Walker
without any further ceremony than that her
commander, Captain John F. McGieney.
win report to Admiral Walker, who will
then haul down his flag on the Chicago and
Walker will then be commander Of the
North squadron, and as the Chicago will
not be ready in time he will proceed with
the Philadelphia and Atlanta to Newport,
where will be the Concord, vesuvius,
Miantonomah and Cushing in waiting TO
take part in the opening of the Naval War
College on September The Chicago will
Join the squa dron about September 8, when
Admiral Walker will probably transfer his
flag back to her. The feet will remain at
Newport to take part in the maneuvers OF
the college during the whole of next month.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

it Monaco was untouched. This exem-
plary paternal government is wholly sups
ported by the revenues of the gambling
propensities of the rest of Europe.
The Prince of Monaco Is the most signal
Illustration of the disposition to profit by
the vices of others while strictly eschew-
ing them personally. But, while recog-
nizing his pre-eminence In that respect,
we must not forget that there are very
signal examples of the same thing at
home. Some decidedly prominent citi es
are very free in their toleration of COM
mercial gambling for the revenue it yields
on the exchanges They do not 90 the
length of the Prince of Monaco in forbid
ding all their citizens to gamble on the ex-
changes But they are very severe on
bucket shops, and it is universally under
stood to be very bad form to lose money
In speculation on the local exchange.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
ONE POINT OMITTED.

Speaking of the political career of the
late Congressman Warwick, the Buffalo
Enquirer cites the following example of
that gentleman's political genius in the
famous campaign against Mckinley:
His inventive mind planned the unique
tin-peddlers' campaign He sent a score of
wagons loaded with tinware into every vii
laSe of the Congressional district, where the
wares were offered for sale at an advance of
30 or even 100 per cent, an illustration of
the effect of the protective duty of the Nc
Kinley bin His stump speeches were made
on the same novel lines. The result of his
aggressive fight was majority of S02 over
Major Mckinley.
This is well as far as it goes; but our
contemporary omits one important fact
which aids largely in estimating the exact
value of this sort of aggressive" politi-
cal tactics The Democratic Legislature
Immediately preceding this election had
redistricted the State by gerryman der,
one of the leading purposes of which was
to put Major Mckinley in a Demo-
cratic district. The counties COM.
posing this district, in average po-
htical years, were Democratic by about
1900. In the campaign when the great
stroke of hiring tinware peddlers to
double their prices and lie about the Nc
Kinley bill was resorted to the Demo-
cratic plurality was 3O2 In other words,
in 1890; the year of the general landslide,
Major Mckinley cut down the Democratic
plurality in such a Republican year as
1888 by about 1900
Perhaps when our cotemporary absorbs
that fact it may perceive that the political
device of hiring tinware wagons to spread
lies about the tariff was not such glitter
ing success after ALL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

PRESIDENT GoMPERS, of the American
Federation of Labor, receives more than 100
letters per day. He owns capacious waste
basket.
SUCCI, the faster, is insane, and now in an
asylum near Paris His delusion has taken
the form of a belief that he is Cesar and
Napoleon in one.
THERE is bookworm on the New York
police force, John R. Keeling, who is on duty
in Cooper Union. He devores much of his
time to the historical works.
LOUIS G. BRENNAN. the Irish-Australian
who refused an offer of ss5O,oOo from Russia
for his famous torpedo, in order to sell it to
England for 10000, has been made a Com
panion of the Bath by Queen Victoria
PRINCE BISMARCK, who has just been
made an honorary member of the "Hann-
overia"-the students' "corps" to which he
belonged while at Goettingen, has sent a
cordial letter of thanks for the honor done
him.
HENRY PETTIrT, the noted English
playwright. once wagered a man that he
would in seven days write. rehearse and
produce play which would take an hour to
act. He not only achieved this, but the
play was a distinct success
JOHN SARTAIN, artist and engraver on
steel, was one OF the most interesting char
acters drawn to the capital by the National
Art Congress- Born in ls0s, he is now in his
s0th year, yet has the spirit of a boy and
walks with the elasticity OF half his age
QUEEN LILIUoKALANI, of the Sandwich
Islands, is an earnest patron of temperance
reform. She pays the license fee for coffee
house opened in her capital city by the
women's Temperance Union, and has ban
ished wine and spurious liquors from her
table and receptions.
MARQUIS GUICCIoLI, the new italian
Ambassador at Berlin, is granddaughter of
the beautiful Countess Guiccioli, whom
Byron loved and who proved to be the last
OF the English bard's romantic conquests.
The Marquis was formerly Mayor of Rome,
and is said to have inherited fair share of
his great aunt's good looks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A NEW RECORD,

THE DISPATCH yesterday commented
on the performance of Nancy Hanks in
trotting mile in 2:09 at Grand Rapids,
Mich, last week. The unfavorable circum-
stances under which the time was made
were pointed out, and an expectation was
expressed that Maud s. might be de-
throned "before the career of the
younger mare is ended, and probably be-
fore the present trotting season is closed. T"
Yesterday afternoon Nancy Hanks
trotted mile at Chicago on regular
track in 2:O7H and robbed Maud s. of the
record held for seven years. 1t is notable,
too, that this is an out and out record, as
it beats Sunol's time on kite-shaped
track. That all this should have happened
on the day THE DISPATCH called atten-
tion to the merits Of the new champion is
singular coincidence worthy of a passing
notice
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
FARMERS AND ROADS.

At the opening of the annual encamp-
ment of agriculturists at Mt Gretna
yesterday the importance of improving
the country roads of the State was pointed
out Mr.. J. B. Meyers, of Cumberland
county, called attention to the value of
the investigations made by THE DISPATCH,
and urged the encampment to give the
matter serious consideration. He indi-
Gated clearly that this question had a
more direct bearing on the prosperity of
the farmer than any of the much disputed
national political issues
There hassbe more than enough dis
cussion to demonstrate the wasteful follt
of allowing the present shiftless neglect
to continue. What is wanted is united
effort to inaugurate reform, and once a
solid demand is made for better state of
affairs the actual details of administration
will be comparatively easy to arrange.
Let this encampment start campaign on
this issue and it will do the State an in
estimable service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
NOT THE CAUSE.

The purchase of all the potteries in
Trenton, New Jersey, by syndicate at
tracts the attention of our free trade CO.
temporary the Philadelphia Record. That
journal starts out by remarking that ''the
duty on pottery is 55 per cent" 1t then
notes that syndicate, having purchased
the works at s1,250, 900, is capitalizing it
at $4,000, 900. After repeating that the
duty is 50 per cent, it continues that the
floaters of this capital expect to earn 80
per cent on their investment. 1t then
returns to the statement that the duty on
pottery is IS per cent
Now if this collection of assertions
means anything it is that the % per cent
duty on pottery is responsible for the pur-
chase of the Trenton potteffes by syndi-
cate, their capitalization at 240 per cent
of their cash price, and the sustaining of
pottery prices by an agreement. But, as
these are recent features of the
pottery trade, it becomes pertinent
to inquire when the 81 per cent
duty was levied The Records case
is not quite so rank an example as that
furnished by the New York World the day
previous, when it charged the Mckinley
bill with raising the prices of wheat, -four,
beef, pork, bread and onions; but it GER
tainly produces an impression that this
pottery consolidation is produced by the
McKinly bill.
The fact is that the 81 per cent rate on
pottery was enacted in 18S3 Pottery was
protected by as high a rate before that
year, but was left unchanged by the Nc
Kinley act Will the esteemed Record
please explain why, if this consolidation
and emission of watered stock is due to
the tariff duty, it did not take place years
ago? Effects which follow cause at so
very great a distance are in danger of
The pottery purchase and the doubling
of stock are the regular features of the
fashionable combination policy The ex-
ample was set in an unprotected industry,
and it has been followed in a score of
others. Prominent among them is the
anthracite coal combine, for which the
Record has so warm an affection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
THE LATEST OUTBREAK.

BUFFALO has been the scene of an outbreak
of lawlessness that all true friends OF labor
must deplore. Any cause, no matter how
just, must suffer through such scenes of riot
and destruction ION the rail."-Boston Globe
SUCH acts as those committed by the strik
ing switchmen at Buffalo furnish an excuse
for Pinkertonisrn, and even make it respect
able. Sometimes it seems that organized
labor is its own worst enemy. = Chicago
Times.
BEG INNING with just grievance. which
brought them the sympathy even of those
who condemn strikes, the striking switch
men of this city have already made the fatal
mistake OF adopting methods which no
right-thinking persons can approve.-Bt0dso
Express.
THE appearance of the State military on
the scene OF the Buffalo railway strike will
probably have quieting effect. 1t is a mel
ancholy fruit of the foreign anarchist in
f1uence exerted on labor troubles in this
country that the aid of troops has to be in
voied before order can be restored--Wdsh-
tlgtOn Star.
THE riotous spirit of deviltry that leads to
such outbreaks of lawlessness as are re-
ported from Buffalo is alien to this country
and to civilization. Railway strikes accom-
panied with violence are least of all to be
tolerated, since they menace directly the
interests of the entire population.-Phitadel-
phia Record.
The great associations of organized labor
should at once come forward to condemn,
denounce and oppose these crimes, and to
aid in briginng their perpetra 5ors to justice.
Otherwise they will afford reason tor the be-
lief that they sympathjZe with the rioters
and the incendiaries, and approve of their
dangerous and destructive deeds.--NesD York