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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-03
The OK and the Owl.

Here's a little fable by our own Esop.
THE Ok asked permission to appear
before the Owl Association to make a
statement of what was known as the
Anti-Poverty Theory. Permission be-
ing granted, Bos duly attended. and
made speech to this effect: THAT It
was not in accordance with justice or
expediency that the Dog should be per-
mitted to continue monopolizing the
manger, and thus keeping the oxen
from eating the hay which ne was not
himself eating; or only granting that
use on payment to him of heavy
rental Now said the Ok. in con-
Guiding his address, our society pro-
poses this remedy: that as hay was
never made for such use as the Dog is
putting it to, his monopoly of it should
be destroyed. For this purpose the
rental value of it should be taxed into
the public till 1t would then do him
no good to hold it as he is doing mere
~ for purposes of exploiting his fellow
citizens, for the rent we pay him no
would have to pay the community. I
hope I make myself clear Perfectly
clear said the Owls, we quite grasp
your meaning. We have read your
theory up thoroughly, SO that we under
stand it perfectly. While thanking you
for your address, we would point out
that there are certain practical diff
culties in the way of your proposed
remedy. 1t will suffice to mention one.
Granted that hay was not meant to be
owned and controlled by Dogs for pur-
poses of Doodle, still you see it is SO
owned The thing should never have
been begun. but it has been begun,
and we must just let it go on. The
Dogs have vested interests which we
can't touch without being guilty Of
confiscation of rightful property. The
case is hopeless Good day. '"-Toron-
to Grip.
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STYLES IN JEWELRY.

What Is Just Now Popular in the Way of
Decoration.
Russian jewelry, as all things Rus
sian, is the fashion abroad.
The princess of Wales favorite gems
are moonstones set with diamonds
The engagement ring of Princess
May of Teck was circlet of rubies.
A large diamond Or pearl is considered
the proper fastening for the snowy ex-
posture of a mans shirt front.
Queen Pia of Portugal has the finest
set of coral in the world. It was pre-
sented by the city of Naples on her
marriage.
Golden yellow and green beryls from
Russia, the first that has been seen in
a long time, have been recently brought
to this country
Lapidary work in rubies, crystal, gar
net, amethyst, topaz, sard. jade and
thodenite, peculiar to the Ural noun
tains, is being imported.
English women prefer pigeons blood
rubies, but French women choose bril-
liant tints in the favorite gem of the
season. Pink coral which initiates pink
pearl is very popular
The long sleeves worn by women
have somewhat dimmed the popularity
of bracelets; but the fat woven links
and tapes in which platinum is intro
duced takes the lead in favor.
Tiny snowballs are the latest caprice
in jewelry abroad. They are made up
of small diamonds with the foliage of
green enamel. The gueldre rose, which
is the foreign name for the SNOWFALL, is
worn in clusters and sprays.-Jewelers'
Circular
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Satin Ruches,

A fresh and dressy appearance can
be impaired to black net, grenadine,
or silk evening dress that has seen serv-
ice by putting two or three satin ruches
near the edge-scarlet, mauve or any
shade preferred. A dress so fashioned
was made of black satin figured with
Marie Antoinette rose clusters. The
ruches added were old rose color, stem
green and black and the bodice was
correspondingly trimmed Satin ruches
are seen on old cloth gowns, even those
which are tabernacle being SO deco
rated. This is quite durable form of
trimming, and it is effective also, the
sheen of the satin being relief TO the
surface of duller materials-N. Y. Post.
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Progress in Missouri.

L. P. Custer, writing to the Standard
from St Louis says: AS evidences of
progress I Gull the following from the
editorial columns of the Republic, our
great radical democratic organ. On
the morning of the 25th of last month it
devoted considerable space to COM
ments on the formation of a movement
in New York among the churches,
synagogues, ethical societies and "all
the rest of the agencies of superior dis
interestedness'' to abolish the Sums
by raising them to higher level of
civilization and morality, and among
other things said:
If this movement results in teaching
New York millionaires how to live; if
it teaches New York churches to let go
all real estate except that on which
their churches stand if it begins the
work of reform by teaching those who
are strong enough to be successful in
the great game of grab to stop grabbing
and to be satisfied with enough, then,
indeed, the slums will disappear, for
there is steam and electricity enough at
work in the world to produce enough
for every body, SO that no one need
starve but for the game of grab
Further along the Republic said:
How would it make New York bet
ter place to live in if every person in
the slums knew how to get the un-
earned increment from millions of real
estate, as some New York churches do,
or from watered railroad stocks and the
watered stocks of protected trusts, as
some of the mem ers of their congre-
cations do?
The st. Louis Evening Chronicle, one
ring to the alien land law, recently de-
clared unconstitutional by the Texas
supreme court, had this to say, edi-
torially:
Perhaps the Legislators did not do the
" .sest thing in enacting that only citi-
zens of Texas should possess her soil;
had they exacted that the annual rental
value of all land within the state must
be paid into the state treasury, they
would have accomplished the ex.
clusion of the nonresident landlord,
and supplied fund for public works
that would have benefited her people
immeasurably. But the Texans are
feeling their way slowly toward the
turn in the passage where the light
shall appear
Yet there are men who profess to be-
lieve in the single tax that say they
can not see any signs of progress under
the present method of procedure.
When it is remem bered that it has
been but few years since Progress
and Poverty" was written, and that we
have all the power of corrupt politics
tn hattie AGAINST besides vested inter-
ests of untold magnitude to overcome,
1 think we are to be congratulated
without stint on the evidences of prog
ress. not only in our own country, but
all over the civilized world.
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DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

-Boneset Tea: Take one table
spoonful of boneset; put in it a pint OF
hot water, letting it draw fifteen min
utes. Sweeten with molasses. When
cold, strain and take two tablespoon
fuls every nalf hour.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
White Rose Cake: Sift together
one pint of -four and two teaspoonfuls
OF baking powder, little over half a
cup OF good butter, one cup of powder
ed sugar, one-ha1f a cup of rose water
and the whites of six eggs.-Detroit
Free Press
Baked Ham: Soak ham in cold
water over night. Trim it neatly, and
cover it all over with thick crust of
Hour and water. Bake slowly eight
hours. Remove the crust and skin;
cover the top with fine cracker crumbs
slightly sweetened. Place in the oven
till the crumbs are brown. When cold,
cut in very thin slices.-Boston Bud
get.
Cream Cake: This is very easily
made. and may be baked in a number
OF ways Take one cup OF sugar; break
two eggs into a cup and fill it with
sweet cream; add pinch of salt, two
spoonfuls of baking powder and two
cupfuls of flour sifted together. Flavor
with lemon, and bake in small patty
pans. The same recipe may be baked
in three deep tins, and put together
with jelly, lemon custard, sliced bana-
mas, icing Or fig jam; or it may be baked
In one cake and iced.-Woman's Work.
Mock Oyster Soup: Save the glib
lets of chickens, and turkey gizzards,
Ilvers, hearts necks and feet. Skin the
feet by dipping in boiling water, when
the outside will slip off readily. Put
the giblets to boil in one quart of cold
water, with one onion, and one carrot
cut small. When very tender, take
from the kettle, cut in pieces the size of
large oyster, add two ablespoonfuls of
butter, one cup of sweet cream, salt
and pepper to season. When ready to
serve, add gradually, so that it may not
curdle. one well-beaten egg. Do not let
the soup boil after adding the latter.
Stir well, and serve at once Water,
from time to time, should be added to
the giblets. so that there will be quart
before adding the cream.-Rural New
Yorker.
10 heep hams IN Summer: Make
of stout, thiclk-woven, unbleached cot
ton oblong bags finger longer and
wider than the hams to be encased, and
boil them in very strong solution of
red peppers, or cayenne pepper if those
from the garden are not at hand When
dried drop in the hams, stitch across
the mouth of the sack; gather together
in the hand and tie with strong Irvine,
leaving a loop for hanging. No insect
can enter the bag, and the pungency Of
the pepper will prevent their lighting
on its exterior. The sacks will do duty
for several years if annually cleansed
and repeppered. Hang the bagged
hams in a cool, dry place if smoke
house, which is the best for them, is
not conveniently near. This is a long
tested method. Homestead
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which comes from the broad river to
fan their checks.
There approaches and passes them a
blackboard wagon, drawn by pair of
ponies which, poor beasts, though they
tug with heads bent low, hardly accom-
plish the barest apology for motion.
Not that the load is heavy-simply two
men, who sit upon the low seat of the
vehicle with knees high up, on which
they rest their elbows, as they gaze
YEARLY at the efforts of the horses,
sinking at every step deeper into the
yielding sand.
These men have no appreciation OF
the beauty of the landscape, no ear for
the melody of blackbird or oriole, NO
delight in the fower-laden wind which
watts its grateful incense over them.
One of them is about fifty years OF
age, dressed in the garb of western
farmer, with face so hard and ex-
pressionlcss that it might have been
carved out of block of wood; the 9th
er, young man more sprucely attired,
with hair as black as jet, glossy and
curly, eyes large and eloquent, COM
plexion swarthy-altogether a figure
characteristic of his race, which came
a century ago from the sunny south OF
France to settle in this region. He
possesses some education, too, having
graduated at the new college whose
spires you can see peeping over the
pines.
For two hours these men had sat in
silence, but as they descended the hill,
after passing the elm tree, with jerk
of his whip towards the two young peo-
pic, the elder spoke:
lone of Widder Evesham'S angels
that blind Teller as stays at Gorham's,
eh, 'Phonse?"
NO, Jim, she isn't one of the widows
daughters, that one; her name is Airing
ton"
"Arlington!'
AYE Mrs. Evesham found her, a
little baby, on her doorstep one morn
ing when she was living in New York
and adopted her"
Il want ter know! Well, her is an
uncommon pretty gel. Wish I'd taken
good look at her, for Squire Robinson,
moderator of our school, tole me thet
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cost of the improvement it would re-.
port a resolution putting the excess of
costs over benefits on the city at large:
but, as matter of fact, these benefits
are always found to equal the cost. so
it is almost an unheard of thing for the
city at large to be assessed for any por-
ton of the cost of street or sewer
In laying these taxes three members
of the board of review make no account
whatever of buildings or other improve
ments It is a tax on bare land only;
but the practice has been to figure out
the benefits received by taking the foot
frontage and area combined rather
than the land values as a basis In
most cases this gives roughly the land
values, but in other cases-as instance,
a street running from near the business
center to the outskirts, the foot 'front.'
age rule works hardship to owners OF
cheap lots in the suburbs and in such
cases there is a growing disposition to
consider land values as basis for esti-
mating benefits. The fact however.
that in this city. and everywhere in
Michigan. except Detroit, the assessing
officers lump land and buildings all in
together, makes these land values diff
cult for the board of review to ascer-
tain.
The system, however, with all its
conditions, is roughly just in its prac-
teal workings, and the justice of not
considering buildings or their contents
in laying this tax is recognized by every
body. Consequently, when a Grand
Rapids single taxer meets a man who
denounces laying all taxes on land
values as confscation, he gently pilots
him along until he gets him solidly
committed to a defense of the street
assessment system. Then ne congratu-
lates him on his conversion to single
tax principles, and bids him good day.
There's nothing like it for effective
missionary work with that very large
class which objects strenuously to all
''newfangled notions. WIN. M. Hath
away, in the Standard.
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WONDERS OF LIGHTNING
some OF the Strange Phenomena of TIL,
Mysterious Element

sumo OF the Strange Phenomena of rnf:
Mysterious Element.
Eiectrlclty In the many forms in
Whlch 1t has been made useful IN man
mas become so familiar to most ner-
oons III recent years that it is rather a
matter 1or surprise that in some of its
nios1 interesting manifestations it re-
:. to-day as mysterious an agent as
ever was The tremendous power of
.,ohe OF hghtning is beyond all pos
oi'y OF imitation by artificial means.
nc yet that power is seldom exercised
Twice IN precisely the same manner.
sometimes the lightning appears to ex
erI It's full might like an angry piant
ana Its blow then resembles a shot
from hundred-ton gun-nothinp can
Withstand 1t, and it rends, tears and
sca'0ers Whatever object it encounters.
An instance of this terrific capacity
ior destruction possessed by a bolt of
I8ntnlng was the instant demolition in
England, year or SO ago, of a great
OAK tree which for generations had been
the PRIDE OF neigh borhood.
occasionally all this fearful power is
expended upon an insignificant object.
as happened near West Louisville. in
kentucky, last June, when a turkey
ouzzard, sailing high in the air at the
beginning of a thunderstorm. was sud-
oenIy annihilated in the sight of sever
al spectators by bolt of lightning that
'darted from cloud.
The same mysterious force manifests
the variety of its powers bv such per-
1ormances as photographing-f sort
OF photographing it really is-the forms
ana coIors Of neigh boring objects upon
the surface of whatever thing has felt
the fury of its assault. Near the town
OF Warren, in Ohio, last July, a young
man, who had taken refuge under O.
tree during thunderstorm, was killed
by lightning, and upon his breast and
other parts of his body appeared won
-derfully distinct images of the leaves
and branches of the tree.
We often hear accounts of the strange
behavior of what is called ball light
ming; and still another form in which
the electricity of the atmosphere occa-
7sionally manifests itself is the so-called
st. Elmo's fire, which Eliminates the
yards OF ship as with ghostly Ian
terms The European scientific papers
have recently contained an account of
a very singular appearance of this kind
VI Ci0CtTic llSHC winch was witnessed
near the town of Gottschee.
Two gentlemen, walking along a
country road during snow-storm, saw
what seemed to be glimmer coming
out of the new fallen snow. 1t was
presently discovered that the light en-
veloped the iron cap on the end of the
cane carried by one of the pedestrians
When he raised the cane in the air little
sparks seemed to dance forth from it.
There are many of these electrical
exhibitions furnished by nature which
occur in the presence of persons who do
not take the trouble to observe them
carefully, and afterward to report what
they have seen. Some of the things
that now appear mysterious would
cease to be so if more people would
learn to use their eyes and their brains
at the same time.-Youth's Companion
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AN UNSELFISH WOMAN.
The Pleasure She Felt In Making Another
if.I

The Pleasure She Felt In Making Another
Beautiful.
There is nothing that so delights the
right sort of a woman as the means of
identifying one of her own sex who
does not understand the little things in
the way of dress which are so essential
to bringing out the attractiveness of
the wearer. There comes time IN the
life of the sort of woman in mind when
she loves to do this thing not only on
account of a desire to make her friend
look well, but because such work
knocks the dust off the strings of her
own heart and sets in tune the songs of
the nights when she did the same thing
for herself and for the one for whom
she was waiting. We men drift away
from these things. woman never.
The whittier the hair becomes the more
wrinkles there are in the face, the dim
mer the landscape, the more does the
right sort of a woman GO back to the
little things which made her life more
Respondent than reality capped with
the trappings of an empire ever could
have done.
Here is the story: A girl had come
to Chicago at the behest of a good and
sensible woman to go with her to the
charity ball. The girl lives in one of
the country towns, a days travel from
Chicago. She came in with her mann
mas biggest trunk, packed with all
she has that would be proper to put on
for ball. Her good and sensible
friend received her, and after dinner
they went to make preparations for
the ball The woman about whose
SC ha IF
evening, and in whose still luxuriant
hair there are intimations of sleepless
nights and waiting and all those things
which tell on women, saw her beauty
from the country try on garment after
garment until the stock was exhausted
and had said mo" to each one. Then
she sent her maid for one of her own
gowns, one that had rustled to the mu-
sic of other nights, and this was placed
upon the beauty. The gown had been
made over, to use an expression pecu-
liar to a woman's kingdom. 1t was
pulled in here; tucked up there; Tapped
over somewhere; added to by bit of
ribbon or lace. until the girl was tired,
until she looked in the mirror. She
realized that she was beautiful Wom-
en- know when they look well. And
that night at the charity bali she was
the object of a hundred admiring
chances. The woman who had made
her so with her own old clothes sat in
the box watching her rustic beauty.
and perhaps she had some sensations OF
a dreamy waltz of long ago as she
looked down upon the conquests which
her beauty from the country was max
ing. ''It was the bappiest hour l have
experienced for many years" she said
To her friend who has told this story
Chicago Tribune
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An Appreciative Animal

A Chicago man says that he heard the
following remarka BILE harangue in a
menaPerie at Berlin. 1t was the ''lec-
turer' who was speaking; Walk up,
ladies and gentlemen, and see the IA
nous lion, Mustapha- He is as sensible
as any human being. A French SER
geant once pulled out of his foot thorn
on which he had stepped. What do you
think the noble creature did? 1t de-
voured. one by one. IN order of rank,
all the superior officers of our sergeant
until the latter found himself promoted
to the high grade of colonel. Walk in,
gentlemen; on penny. Chicago Jour
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The Innocent Cop.

She tried to get on a street car, but
it was crowded and didn't stop, so she
came back to the curb. where police
man stood.
Didn't you want that car miss?" he
inquired. with protecting air.
Eyes, she replied, sharply.
''Why didn't you take it?"
1.-THE conductor would't let me-"
"Why not?"
s'Too full"
'"The carp"
The policeman's innocence was too
anuch for her already-overcharged feel
ings, and she left the place in a dudg-
saon.-Detroit Free Press.
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CHAPTER V.
ONLY A SISTERS LOW


One summers day, fifteen years after
Ambrose Arlington's sudden death in
the clearinghouse, couple of young
people, fair to look upon, sat on a rustic
seat under tall elm on the bank Of a
lordly rivera young man and a girl
Just blossoming into the maturity of
womanhood.
The maiden was fair as the creation
of a poets dream; the man stalwart,
strong and nobly featured, but though
you never would have guessed it, look
ing at his big, brown eyes, blind from
his childhood.
The river which flows at their feet is
the ST. Clair, the deepest, broadcast,
clearest stream in Michlgan-I had
nearly said in the world.
Yonder thriving town is the new city
of Glastonbury, and the duslSy cloud,
which blurs the landscape ten miles
AWAY, is the smoke from the chimneys
of the village of Havana.
The young folks sit in quiet converse,
evidently enjoying the delicious breeze.
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CHAPTER VI.
BLADON PLAYS MENTOR

All the residential houses of Glaston-
bury were of the same monotonous pat
tern. shaped as though the builders had
placed one big dry goods box endways
towards the street, and then added as
an afterthought another, at right angles
to the rear. making t. Add to this
plain porch, in some instances a stoop,
and crown the whole with low, sloping
shingle-roof, paint the building white
with green shutters, and you have the
typical picture of Glastonbury home
stead. OF course, it was a wooden city,
with not single brick edifice in it to
relieve the eye, except the courthouse,
and that was, if possible, more angular
and gauche than its humber neighbors
(To BE Continued
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HENRY GEORGE lived for several
years in house in San Francisco
owned and once occupied by brother
of Ward McAlister. 1t was in this house
that Progress and POVERTY" was writ
ten.-Exchange.
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CHAPTER III.-CoNTNUED.


They went upstairs and found all Sc
cure. 1t was an hour, late IN the even
ing, when the house was unusually de-
serted. All the doors of the chambers
were fastened; even that of number six
was securely locked, and when the
room was entered not thing was out
of place.
Even the policeman was fain to con-
fess that he thought it one of the nu-
merous scares he knew too well hyster-
ical women were apt to indulge in, and
went his way with a grin.
Isaac Evesham was properly exasper-
ated.
You will find yourself in a lunatic
asylum if you go on in this way much
longer, Esther" he said, grimly.
Il have, indeed, my share of trouble, "
the widow pleaded, YEARLY.
''You mean you make your share OF
trouble and other peoples shares, too"
The widows eyes flashed Indignantly.
Isaac" she said, sin Gods name go
and leave me to myself. 1 do not want
your help. 1 never asked it. Forget
that your brother ever had a wife and
children"
Il wish to heaven 1 could" was the
blunt reply.
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Many of the young men become gray
in front and on the sides of their heads
without knowing exactly what causes
the change. Pulling out the hair makes
it gray. 1t often happens that clerks,
book-keepers and persons of sedentary
occupation pluck at their hair or beard
while at work. They need not be sur
prised if in a few months they find
themselves turning gray, for the
plucked-out hairs are almost certain to
be followed by white ones.-St. Louis
Barber.
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Barber.

A hickory nut caused the death of
Edward Ackt, aged thirteen, of Saddle
River. n. j. While in a grocery store
he picked up nut and put it in his
mouth. Just then comrade said some
thing that made him laugh. The nut
slipped down his throat, and lodged in
the left bronchial tube. causing fatal
result.