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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03
AN ARCH HYPOCRITE.

The HunbuSsery of Wildcat Silver Sher-
John Sherman, the author and de-
fender of the present crazy silver law
"a law that is hurrying this country
toward sixtv-tive-cent dollar currency
as fast as anything short of unlimited
silver coinage can do it-stanGinT be-
fore I. Chicago audience and pretend
ing to be greatly frightened about wild
cat banks was sight for gods and
men.
This Sherman is the craftiest of all
the republican monopoly advocates 1t
was he who undertook to sweeten the
Mckinley tariff dose by getting up
bogus antitrust law when he well
knew that the best and the only anti
trust law that this country can have is
free trade. 1t was John Sherman,
hypocrite. who stood up in 1850 and
thanked the republican party for the
good crops OF that and the preceding
year and urged the people to keep the
tariff and star route and electoral vote
thieves in power because 4 change in
the white house might stop the sun
shine, the rain and the harvest. His
present appeals are addressed to about
the same grade of intelligence.
The truth is that if there is an old
humbug in the republican party it is
John Sherman. Posing as the high
priest OF honest money, he is the hope
OF the cheap silver cranks of the far
west. His silver law. now in force.
is menace to every wageworlser in
the land. One step more and every
days Labor IN America will he paid for
with john Shernan's sixty-five-cent
silver dollars.
Talk about wildcats. The irredeema-
bic sHStv-fve-cent silver dollar that
John Sherman has given us is the only
debased currency that threatens this
country to-day. and we have it because
John Sherman found it necessary to
make this concession to the bullion
millioraires of the far w est in order to
secure their support of the thieving
Mckinley bill. If there is wildcat
anywhere in this vicinity it is John
Sherman himsclf-Chicago Herald.
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BRUIN HIS ANCESTOR.
The Latest Theory Advanced on tn
Mooted Question of Mans Origin.

The Latest Theory Advanced ON the
Mooted Question of Man's Origin.
Frederick G. Gherke, a German pro.
fessor of zoology and comparative anat-
lomy. the author of that remark able
book. 1.-The True Descent of Man." is
the high priest of the extraordinary
doctrine of man, ''the noblest work of
God" being a descendant of the bear!
Speaking of his theory as opposed to
that of the descent from apes, which
he says has been falsely called the
''Darwinian theory" 'he says:
IAN ape has none Of the Characters
tics of a man. An ape imitates-a man
reasons. An ape has four hands, all OF
which are unlike either the hands or
feet of man. Apes are idiots, something
that can not be said of the very lowest
order of mankind. I say that man
has descended from bears and 1 can
prove it. In a museum at Paris / saw
the skeleton of cave bear, which 1 ex.
amined very closely. was convinced
at the time that the ami
NAL had partially developed
knee-pan, and since that time
1 have given the matter much
study. l went over in my mind to
time beyond the history of man.
1 remem bered that skeletons of prime
val man had been found in caves with
bears. Another thing, nearly
all skeletons OF primeval man are OF
gigantic size The bear is nearer the
size of a man than the average ape, and
could have gotten rid Of his little frag-
ment of a tail much more easily than
an ape could of his My idea is that
the earlier bears came down from the
north, probably through Behring
straits, and drifted toward the
tropic shores of Asia on ice
bergs. As these melted the
bears easily found shelter on
islands and along the coast Of the
mainland In the course of ages great
floods came and the bears sought shell
ter in caves. In the meantime great
changes had been going on; the bear
had been gradually shedding his heavy
coat as a result of exposure to tropical
heat; he had also learned to walk on
his hind feet In the caves, in the dry,
warm atmosphere, other changes took
place The connecting link was a kind
of a hairy, indescribable man, who
lived and died in these caves beside his
elder brother, the bear."-St- Loui
Republic.
He Took the Hint and Departed.
She-And You say You would die for
me?
Mr.. Borcsome-A thousand times.
She-Would you mind doing it just
once-right away? You know papa has
Just been elected coroner and he hasn't
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can he transacted az well by proxy as in
person. He ran his Boston office OF that
principle. During Office hours he re-
manned in his office, but the hours were
few. Telephone wires connected the
store with his home; a pneumatic tube
connected every room of both store and
house with every other room, and two
messenger boys were on duty twenty
hours day-ten hours each.
When the colonel became interested
in western investments it was natural
that he should carry his theory into the
matter He organized the Trasll Cattle
Co Gimited). with himself, Col. Trask,
president and manager. and then coolly
informed the directors that he did not
propose to visit ths scene of operations,
western Kansas, at all. "ft can be
managed just as well by correspond
ence," he insisted, land I'll advertise
for n superinte ndent at once
Coz. Trask was only forty, he was
wealthy and prosperous and his associ-
ates concluded to let him have his own
way.
Hence there appeared in two or three
poorly printed and worse arranged
prairie papers this notice:
WANTED = AN ENERGETIC SUPERIN-
600 required as evidence O; fidelity Address
O NJ. 1raSiS. Boston, Mass.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03
CALLING HIM DOWN.

The Man With the Little Boxes Made .
Mistake This Time.
He was a professional gambler. He
had tive dice boxes and two clay mar
bles. He called the boys around him
and proceeded to manipulate his mar
bles and boxes on the bar.
''Now, gentlemen" said he, I'm no
worker of miracles; Ican't heal the sick
nor raise the dead, but I'll put this mar
BILE under this cup and bet you twenty
it amt there; or I'll bet you a twenty
it's under the other cup. Come. who'll
open the BAH? Speak lively"
Silence followed. Then fiashily.
bowed his way to the front.
''I'l1 bet she's there" he said, and laid
down his money.
And there she isl exclaimed the
gambler. Here you are-forty in the
long green. Once in awhile I'm caught
just in that way. Come, hurrah, boys
who's next? Here's the marble-you
can see it go under the cup. Now, I'll
bet you either way"
Three rough hands were raised with
three twenties, when husky voice
shouted at the edge of the crowd:
''Hold in yer bronchos, boys. I'm the
first man to bet" A burly individual
in blue shirt and broad-brimmed hat
pushed his way to the bar. ''Now, per-
lesser, I'm ready fur We. Lift up yer
box. There's the ball. dead to rights
see it, fellers?"
The "boys" answered affirmatively.
Here's twenty, perfesser." went
on the husky-voiced man, ''an' bet the
balls under that cup. Cause why?
Cause I'm a rational man, an we're
all rational men-we believe what
we see. We seen the ball under
that cup an it's got to be there
an I'm bettin' it is there. If it amt
there. they's been a hocus-pocus, and
that kind o. work don't go down with
this hyer community" The husky
voiced man produced six-shooter
about as long as Winchester. I'm
my opinion I'm bettin' on dead-sure
thing. Lift the cup, perfesser."
The six-shooter was cooked with an
.ominous ''click," and the husky-voiced
man looked the ''perfesser'' squarely in
the eye.
The gambler smiled. in a sickly way,
coughed, hesitated and would have said
something had not pair Of deter
mined, steely-gray eyes given him fair
warning.
He raised the box-the ball was there.
81 thought so," said the husky-voiced
man, as he pocketed the money. IF
you want to take any more bets. per-
lesser, reckon the boys'll accommodate
ye."
But he didn't. He faded out of tho
saloon, and Anaconda knew him ne
more.-Detroit Free Press
The Ttnae She Didn't Laugh.
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me r,ne she Dida't Laugh.

The Tine B60 D10n'e L8uBms
Mrs. Harlem Heights-You must NOT
laugh and make fun of everybody.
Mamie.
Mamie-I don't, mamma: ! am not
the girl who laughs The other day
little girl fell on board fierce, and
all the other children laughed, but
didn't.
Mra Harlem Heights-That was
right .
Mamie Yes; was the little girl THAI
fell Oh the fsnoe. was the girl who
cried -Rare Bits
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He Took the Hint and departed.

She-And you say you would die for
me?
Mr.. Borcsome-A thousand times
She-Would you mind doing it just
once-right away? You know papa has
Just been elected coroner and he hasn't
bad any practice yet-Jury.
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WANTED = AN ENERGETIC SUPERIN-
w tendelt for a cattle ranch \ depoSit of
seDO required evidence OF fidelity. Address
O NJ. TraS< Boston, Mass.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

McCann, Stockwell & Co., importers
of china, glass and housekeeping
wares, corner Mill and Main streets,
Lexington, KY, headquarters for fine
wares at low prices. We are now re-
ceiving the largest, incest and cheap
est stock of wares we ever had.
A decorated breakfast, dinner and tea
set, 112, pieces, for 5000.
A nice chamber set 1925.
A tin set $1.25.
Fine thin tumblers per dozen so.
A nice parlor lamp, Duplex
burner, ten inch shade, and bowl to
match, all set in brass for $1.50.
Our lines of cheap wares and fine
wares are very complete, and any one
visiting Lexington should step in,
look and learn, if you care not TO buy.
No newspaper can describe our stock.
Come and see. corner Mill and Main
streets, Lexington, Ky. 34-3m
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
Better than Dehornlng.

If you wish to have hornless cattle
without dehorning them, begin with
the calf. Rub the horn and around il
as it begins to bud out with a moist
ened stick of caustic potash. This
will effectually destroy the growth,
and the operation appears to be near
ly painless. There is no doubt that
hornless cattle are quieter and more
easily handled than others, and the
majority of cattle feeders would at
once adopt the practice of dehorning
if they were satisfied that it did not
torture the animal, but there can be
no cruelty in doing it as we have sug-
gested in the foregoing.--Indiana
Farmer
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
kentucky Fairs.

Shelbyville, July 18th to 10Th.
Eminence, July 10Th to 23rd.
Harrodsburg, July 25th to 30th.
Danville, August End to 9th.
Versailles, August End to 9th.
Columbia, August 9th to 18th.
Sharpsburg, August 9th to 18th.
Nicholasville, August 10th to 10Th
Lebanon, August 23rd to 26th.
Maysville, August 23rd to 9th.
Lexington, August Both to Sept. Sd.
Paris, September 9th to 10th.
Bardstown, September 9th to 10th.
Winchester, September 18th to 18th.
Elizabethtown, Sept. 18th to 18th.
Horse Cave, Sept. Goth to 23d.
Cynthiana, Sept. 81 to Oath.
Springfield, August "a days.
Franklyn, August 30--5 days.
Bowling Green, September 6.
Lawrenceburg, August 9-3 days.
Henderson, August 23-5 days.
Hartford, September 2S--4 days.
Mt. Sterling,September 27-4 days.
Owentown, August 1916 days.
,Hustonville, July 2Sth and 29th.
All of the above meeting have trot-
ng contests.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
Eggs from pure Breed are Cheap.

Breeders have now filled their or
ders for the season, and those who do
not object to making late matches can
buy eggs from the best stock at less
than half price. Chicks that are
Matched now will not lay in winter,
(unless brown Leghorns or Ham
burgs), but they will begin to lay ear
ly in the spring, so as to be ready to
provide eggs for hatching out pure
breeds. One should be able to pro-
cure setting of eggs now for dol
lar, and it is but very small sum to
invest in improvement, for when one
buys eggs of pure breeds he is really
buying the stock, the actual cash val
ue of the eggs for the table being a
matter not to be considered. Take
our advice, and send for eggs of pure
bred fowls if you have not already
done so.-Mirror and Farmer.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
THE ADVOCATE.
A National Falling.

T'Ithink." said West End physician
"Americans should be described as
nation of medicine-takers. The re-
turns from the sales of patent medi-
cines are astonishing, but no general
practitioner is at all surprised at this,
because he has long since learned that
hypochondria exists almost universally
and that medicine-taking is the great
delight of an enormous percentage of
mankind. One great object doctor
should have in view is to cure with as
few doses as possible, and i believe
that ninety-nine out of 100 medical
students commence practice with this
idea before them. If their experience
is like mine they have somewhat let
down in their efforts in this direction,
and if they have not done so they have
certainly offended quite large number
ofpatients. There seems little to choose
between the sexes in the matter of a
desire to take medicine regularly, and
it is often impossible to persuade an
apparently rational minded patient
that cure has been effected, that no
more medicine is needed and that
nothing but good diet and careful
habits are required to build up the
constitution. A number of doctors
save themselves from falling from
grace by prescribing a harmless tonic
after eiiecting cure, but those who
pride themselves in disposing of cases
by aid of dozen doses or less seldom
attain to any great popularity.
"Thc often quoted and much vaunted
practice in China of paying physi-
clan while his patient is well and stop
ping his pay during sickness, could
never be introduced successfully into
this country, because SO many people
who are perfectly well are prepared
to file affidavits that they are danger
ously sick that no doctor under the
China regime would be able to earn
his board. ."-TSt. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
A Rloh Diamond Mine .

The most curious instance of how
unexpectedly hidden wealth can he
revealed is connected with the dis
covery OF the Wessleton mine, the
riches OF which were only found out
less than two years ago. Wessleton
is farm situated not five miles from
Kimberly, and has over and over
again been thoroughly prospected by
experts. 1t remained for simple
Boer to be the instrument in bringing
the precious stones from Natures
storehouses to the eyes of the world.
Riding out at sundown to bring in his
horses from the veldt, where they had
been running all day, he saw small
animal called "meercat" Git some
what resembles weasel, and burrows
in colonies like rabbits), industriously
scraping some earth from its hole.
Some popularity of the ground so
thrown up led the Dutchman to fill
his handkerchief with it, and after he
had stabbed his horses, by the dismal
light of a small lamp he examined the
nature of the earth. To his astonish-
ment and delight he found three
quarter carat diamond in the sand.
Further search at the meercat's hole
revealed other diamonds, and six
ago no less than $2,25O,000
was refused for the farm. The great
DeBeers Company recently acquired a
quarter share in the same for $175,000
and since the accidental discovery
above referred to, over 100000 carats
of fine white diamonds have been ex-
tracted from the mine.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

The Versailles Clarion says: "The
ball has begun to roll in Fayette look
ing to the surrender of turnpikes to
the county. The Bowman's Mill
Pike, about two miles of road leading
from South Elkhorn to the Versailles
pike, lately built, has been accepted
by the authorities of Fayette, and the
gate will be thrown open. This is a
step in the right direction. Which
turnpike company in Woodford, will
by the first to emulate this most pub
lie spirited and patriotic example 2"
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

A bill to protect railroad men in
coupling freight cars has at last been
agreed upon by the committee on
Interstate commerce. 1t requires
that all cars sent to the shops for re-
pairs must be equipped with auto
matte couplers after July, 1898. The
same dates are applied to providing
continuous train brakes for freight
trains, to be operated from the
locomotive. This is very impor-
tant measure and should have been
enacted long ago.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
About Fruit.
ting contest

1t has been said that fruit eaten in
the morning is golden, taken at noon
is silver, but deferred till night is lead
The reason for this that early in the
day exercise enough to digest it will
probably be taken. Also, if eaten on
a comparatively empty stomach, the
digestive organs can attend to this
alone and so dispose of it. For this
reason it is not well to take when
overfatigued and the digestive organs
are in need of rest. Too acid, too
sweet or too watery fruits are the
most indigestible. Berries, oranges
and grapes are the easiest of digestion,
because there are no tough fibers and
no excessive amount of juice to be
counteractcd. OF cooked fruits, baked
or roasted are first on the list; then
stewed, then boiled. All fruits are
better for having the skins taken off
previous TO eating.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Ida M. Greenhoe, a pretty domestic
employed in the Davis House at Sher-
idan, Mich, has died under circum-
stances. The girl stated that a young
man named Parks had given her a
glass of wine which she believed to
have been drugged, for aftor drinking
she was seized with eXcrutiating
pains. The pains gradually became
worse until her writings and con-
tortions were painful to see, when
death mercifully relieved her.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Sage brush has been generally cor
sidered of little value in the economy
of nature, and even as picturesque
offset to the monotony of the Western
plains, it has has been voted failure,
but an Idaho settler thinks he has
discovered use for it. He is making
paper of it. By lime process and
boiling the branches of the shrub he
thinks he says is equal to the best
wood pulp. From it he manufactures
a "sage- brush paper" which he thinks
he can sell at a profit for four and a
half cents pound.-[I Industrial
American.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

At Vickburg, Miss, Tuesday Smith
Tooley and John l.. Adams Were
lynched in the Court House yard for
the murder of Benson Blake, planter
and merchant of Redwood.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

A number of Democrats favorable
10 the Free Coinage bill held con-
ference to consider its supposed de-
tects. and decided to endeavor to pass
the bill without amending it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Much is said nowadays against the
exclusive grain farmer, by which is
meant the wheat grower, but there are
many excuses for. the man who pre-
fers to stick to that line of agriculture.
1t is crop that, fails as seldom as any
that we grow, 1t has power to resist
to high degree many of the dangers
to which all crops are exposed, such
as fungi, insects, weak straw and
other constitutional imperfections,
etc. 1t is cash crop, and even the
average yield pays fairly well when
produced upon cheap lands; but with
the prOductiveness depending so large
ly, as it does, upon the grower, we
may expect to see it made eventually
more OF staple crop upon our higher
priced lands. What is needed for
this is good seed, fertility of soil,
thorough cultivation and adequate
moisture. The latter may largely be
applied by proper initial preparation
of the soil. With these the wheat
yield should be easily increased to
thirty bushels--[Ex.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
The Congress of Deaf Mutes.

Describing the Congress of Deaf
Mutes in Hanover-a congress at
which "no presidents bell opened the
sittings, no animated debates excited
the hearers and deep silence reigned
throughout"--our Berlin correspond
ent says it was the first congress of the
deaf and dumb held in Germany, and
discussion was carried on and resolu-
tions passed in the language of the
fingers. One of the Speakers" stated
that there were about ninety thou
sand deaf mutes in Germany who had
mostly to work hard for their bread.
1t was to be regretted that many en-
ployers refused to take them into
their service. Technical schools on
the pattern Of those existing in the
United States, where also grammer
schools and even universities existed
at which deaf-mute teachers were
employed, should be introduced into
Germany. Another speaker" plead
ed for the education of dead-mute
travelling preachers, so that their fell
lows might enjoy the benefits of di-
vine service in their language. The
most important subject discussed was
as to whether the new method of lip
reading or the old language of gcs-
ture was to be preferred. One speak
er pointed out to attempt to converse
altogether by reading the lips would
not do, on account of the great fati-
que and eXertion caused by incessant-
ly watching the mouth of the speaker
which had an almost hypnotic effect.
Both methods, he thought, should be
taught.--EX.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

The following, clipped from tho
Burlington Junction (Mo.) Post, con.
tains information of no little value to
persons troubled with Indigestion:
For years the editor Of the Post has been SUBJ
ject to cramp collie or fits of indigestion, that
prostrated him for several hours and untitled
him for business for two er three days after
ward. About year ago we called on S. J
Butcher, druggist, and asked for something to
ward og an attack that was already making life
hideous. Mr.. Butcher handed us q bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholear and Diarrh9a
Remedy. We took the medicine according to
directions, and not only found relief on that oc-
casion, but have several times since tried its
virtues and found relief in every instance. We
take this metqod Of acknowledging the benefits
derived and recommending to all others subject
to indigestion. For sale by T. G. Julian.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Max Benz pointed what he suppos-
ed was an empty pistol at William
Ochs' head, in Louisville Tuesday.
Ochs was fatally wounded. and Benz,
crazed at his folly, reloaded the weap-
on and killed himself.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

A complete stock of tea means tea
of all grades from the cheapest to the
best. A good tea at 40 cents per
pound, a splendid tea at 80 cents, at
A. Baum s. Sons.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Don't forget Enoch's place of bus;,..
ness one door west of A. BauA 4
Sons grocery. A little money goes
a long ways in his store and buys k
stack of useful articles. AZ .,
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Henry NJ. Stanley was defeated for
Parliament in the North Lambeth dis
trict by F. NJ. Coldwells, the Liberal
candidate.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
1892. ORCHARD, 1892.
Lawn !: and !: Garden.

Immense stock Of fruit and ornamental trees,
small fruits, shrubs, vines and plants Prices
low. We have no agents, and our profits cease
where theirs begin. General and strawberry cat
alognes on application to
H.F. HILLENMEYER,
Lexington, Ky
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12
Boarding House
-A N D
Re StaUrant-

I have rented the Baum building on
] East Main street, and have fitted
up number of rooms. / am there
fore prepared to accommodate my
friends with board and lodging by the
week, day or meal. Special attention
paid to Court-6ay dinners. Charges
reasonable.
j. A. STEPHENS.
3Iff
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

;hildren Cry Tor rItcher's Castorla
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-07-12

Clipped beef, lunch tongue, deviled
ham, French sardines and dried beef
at j. B. Whites. fs