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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
BABY'S AWFUL CALAMITY.
A Sudden Alarming Discovery Made by
New Father.

A Sudden Alarming Discovery Made by .
New Father.
As the proud young father had never
had much to 90 with the babies before,
he showed the natural diffidence about
handling the little newcomer, and it
was not until she was nearly week
old that he tried his hand at holding
her.
He sat with the child in his, arms,
stroking the tiny hand, the soft cheek,
the downy hair. Suddenly he uttered
a half-smothered ejaculation, and
stopped closely to examine the child's
head. In a moment he arose, looking
very pale, laid the baby in the cradle.
and left the room, and in a minute
his voice was heard at the telephone,
sending a hasty summons to the doc.
tor. 5
Then he returned to his wife's room
and began to pace the floor in evident
agitation, casting chances of distress at
the child and of pity at the mother.
In few moments his evident agita
ton produced the natural effect.
'.What is the matter, John?' said his
wife. starting up in bed. SIS the baby
sick?''
''There, there. my dear, you must not
allow yourself to be agitated," said the
husband, with the tact usually charac.
teristic of the lord of creation. "You
must be kept calm at all risks"
''But, John, am sure it is something
dreadful" persisted the wife. "Do tell
mer'
FLUSH, my DEAR" was the solemn
response. Remember that your ex.
element at this time is very dangerous
to baby"
There is no knowing to what pitch
of anxiety the mother might have been
brought had not the doctor been an.
nounced at this moment. The young
father rushed out into the hall and
caught the physicians hand.
''Wait moment, DOCTOR" he said,
in trembling voice. II sent for you
see if you would do anything to help
the baby, and if not toad me in break.
ing the news to my wife,"
'.Why, what is the matter?" ex.
claimed the alarmed physician, as the
young man paused, overcome with emo
ton.
'sOh, doctor, doctorr' half sobbed the
father, II have made such a dreadful
discovery. The baby has a soft spot on
the top of her headw-Baltimors
Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
Not That Kind of Book.

'Mandy-Say Jacob. Johns dom
well. He's in the book bindin' business.
Jacob-Fer the land sakes! what do
he say?
'Mandy-Why, he says tibet he's been
book-makin' at Brighton all sumner
Judge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20

why. Willie Green, you don't
know what boaster is! Suppose
Tommy Toodles were to come to you
and say he excelled all the other boys
in their studies-that he could jump
higher, run faster, swim better and
could Guido every boy in the school at
everything. Now what would you call
Tommy Toodles?" Willie Green with
decision)-"A GarIs
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
from Ohio-.I wa,

-Gentl eman from Ohio-'sI want to
be personally conducted over London,
only please be quick, as 1 have only
sixty minutes to spare" Cooks Clerk
You wish to see the whole of the
metropolis in the space of one hour?
Well, Sir, it seems to me that what you
require is a lightning CONDUCTOR
brakes Magazine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
Quite Gifted.

First Country Boy-Your sister is
pickin' up lots O city manners from
them summer boarders of yours.
Second Country Boy-Yes. indeed
She's got to sayin mot in it." and
''see!" and las night she let Teller kiss
her in tn hammock-GoodN News
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
Hiss Alice CayanauRl

Hiss Alice Cavanaugh. OF Dawson
county. Montana, superintends the.
county schools in an area of thirty
thousand square miles, and Miss Finne-
gan, of Chouteau county. has an almost
equally extensive territory. comprising
tWenty-seven thousand acres
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
wild Beasts Far-SIghted.

A curious communication has beer
made to the Academic de Medicine by
NJ. Motais. of Anglers, whose works OF
the various diseases of the eye are high
ly esteemed. He has closely examined
the effect of captivity on the sight OF
wild beasts, such as lions, tigers, etc.
and asserts that all animals in a savage
state are far-sighted. The same remark
applies to man in an uncivilized state,
and even to those who, though civilized.
follow avocations which oblige them t1
remain constantly in the open air, such
as sailors or farm laborers. The same
faculty subsists in Gagged animals when
they have been taken after the age Of
six or eight months; but when born in
captivity, or kept in cages when very
young, they become near-sighted, which
NJ. Motais attributes to the narrow
space in which they are confined, and
the training which obliges them to fol-
low the eye of the keeper or tanner to
obey his will. The near-sightedness OF
school children may, in his opinion, be
ascribed to the same cause. the habit of
concentrating the sight on one point,
and the fact that the power of the visual
organ becomes modified according to
the requirements to which it is sub
iected.-Murray's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20

Missouri City, Mo-, has a cat with
eight legs and four tails; Moberly, Mo-.
has an albino with pink eyes and white
kinky hair; Springfield, Mo-. has ten
year-old boy who weighs $50 pounds
and has two extra fingers and two ex-
ira toes; Daviess county (Mo. farmer
has some growing corn II feet & inches
high, II feet to the first ear; q Bates
county (Mo.) farmer has some squashes
that weigh more than 100 pounds each.
It's q great season for freaks In Mis-.
souri,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20

funeral. This Is something like. Look
at the crowds, parson. and we've got
seven more pieces in the band than at
tended the Swede that McCloskey
buried yesterday"
Undertakes were put to it sometimes.
There is tradition which has almost
enough substantiation to it to be truth,
to the effect that at one time the ready
revolver and the active pneumonia en-
tirely cleared out the stock of collins in
Leadville, and the undertakers were
actually obliged to rob graves at night,
not of bodies, but of coffins. Quite fire.
quently a preacher was obliged to re-
quest the grave-digger to stop in his
work of digging grave behind him for
fear of topping over into it. Besides it
disturbed the mourners, who could not
for the lives OF them help looking ear
nestly at the digger to see if he was
turning up any quartz.
1t was on the day of Texas Jacks
funeral tnat Parson Mackey marched
to the cemetery four times to the tune
of the dead march in Saul" 1t was
almost as numerous on the day when
Charley Vivian was buried. Vivian
was a song and dance man, the origin
ator of the Order of Elks, and the most
popular man in Leadville. He was the
son of an English clergyman and an
intellectual man, aside from which he
was clear white. His good works were
many, and when he died. after two
days illness, his funeral was the grand
est spectacle the camp had seen. It
was about fair double of that
of Texas Jack. There was the
band, the flowers, the wild ap-
plause at every mention of his
good qualities, and the tears, too.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
THE PULSE OF THE PRESS.

Russian typhus in exchange for Ameri-
can wheat. Is this gratitude?-Chicago
Post
Chague jourJe bill Mckinley CLIQUE au
pilori de Popinion publique les mensonges
de la presse democratique. e.-L' 'Esperance.
Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan made most
gratifying concec sion to public opinion in
his studious avoidance Of the word trust
in describing the antricite coal combine
Chicago Post.
1t is said that Gov Russell will sign the
salary bill for $l0,0 600 governors salary
il il goes into effect next year. That's
right, governor, be magnanimous to your
Republican suceessor.-Boston News.
Senator Hill is laughed at in Washin q
ton and roundly abused by Democrats at
home, while Democrats all over the coun-
try are beginning to look elsewhere for a
Presidential candidate. What could be
more humiliating to man with a
boom Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Republicans can win the Presi
dency without the vote of New York; the
Democrats cannot. Hence the hot fight
in the Democratic party to control New
York is but an instance of that party's
propensity to hang itself whenever it has
rope enough given it. The maneuvers of
Hill will give the State 20 the Republi-
cans.-Toledo Blade.
Positive assurance, says the Vine and
Spirit gazette, were given to the retail
liquor dealers by the Democratic manag-
ers "that they could have anything they
wanted il the Democratic ticket was sue
cessful" Precisely. And the Prohibit
tionists pitched right in and helped them.
brooklyn Times.
Chicago will make its resentment over
dissensions i'm the fair felt soon in way
that will be perfectly understood if pres
ent scandalous conditions are not elimi-
mated by those responsible for them. If
installation is to be begin next October au-
thority to direct il must be placed where
it legally belongs and be placed there
forthwith. Chicago Herald.
The Democratic party in this State is
not in good humor just now. The men
for Hill are in the saddle. The men for
Cleveland are on the ground. Between
them Mt present is as much hard feeling
as if they belonged TO different forces, in
stead of the same camp. From this the
Republican enemy draws encouragement
aud hope H. is natural nc should. Brook
lyn' Eagle.
The magnanimous retracy of Governor
Wetmore from the United States Sena-
torial contest, rather than embarass or
ieopardize the prospects of Republican
unanimity and success, is just in the line
expected Of that high-toned, sturdy Re
publican. The Republican party Of Rhode
Island awaits the opportunity TO again
honor ex-Gov. Wetmore. - Pawtucket
Record Visitor
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
TOMORROW.

Tomorrow will live Alright. tomorrow
lie whispered his heart as he sank TO rest,
Il will know no more of remOrse and sorrow.
And the safety OF pleasures quest"
Then. across the silence, an eerie laughter
Ouiyered and gurgled as he sank 20 rest:
"Not tomorrow. sweet youth, nor the day after
Tomorrow will sou forsake sweet pleasures
quest"
Tomorrow will we'd my love; tomorrow
lie whispered his heart as he sank To- rest.
an begin aright-nor romorso nor sorrow
shalreycr embittor fond loves sweet quest"
Then quivercd aud gurgled an eerie laughter.
Love OFT brings sorrow TO its winners
breast,
Not tomorrow. brave man, nor the day after
Tomorrow will you attain fond loves sweet
quest
Tomorrow. they say. will die tomorrow"
lie whispered bis soul. In sad unrest.
at may all then come right-all sin and sor-
row
And end lifes fever In pleasures quest"
Then. across the silence. an Ccric laughter
Quiycrcd and gurglcd ia sad unrcst
"Not tomorrow. old man. nor the day after
Tomorrow will life dcsist from pleasures
quest"
MARY V. waltLall In Arkansaw Traveller
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
THE pAwTuxET WATER.

The Valley people are little hysterical
in their opposition to the bill intended
TO prevent further corruption OF the
Pawtuxet. So far from menacing s. de-
struction TO health and homes in the
Pawtuxet Valley" the bill calls simply
for the exercise of reasonable precautions
against the defilement of the water sup
ply of 14O, COO persons.
Granted, for the sake of the argument,
that Providence made mistake in plac-
ing its pumping stations where they now
are, though here too, il is morally GER
tain that if the city had proposed to take
its water from a point higher up the
stream the mill owners would have raised
protests against such serious encroach-
ments on their water privileges double
their present outcry in volume granted,
also, that the Pawtuxet, under present
conditions, cannot be made pure enough
to be the main dependence of the city for
its drinking water; granted, that the
wise thing and the only prudent thing
! for Providence to do is TO take steps for
the procurement Of a different and "a bet
ter water supply. All these things being
! allowed, il remains that the mistake has
been made and to remedy it is work of
difficulty and of time. The question that
the city of Providence has before it is,
what can be done meanwhile?
The Pawtuxet water is q constant
source of danger and disease. The coun-
try is crying out against Chicago because
it invites the hundreds of thousands who
viii visit the Worlds Fair to city
which drinks water contaminated with
typhoid germs. Providence lives i'll a
glass house and cannot join in the throw
ing of stones. Fever has flowed to it
down the Valley and will flow again.
The health Of the city, the lives of its
men and women imperatively demand
that the wilful pollution of the stream be
| stopped and the nuisance abated. What
ever mistakes the city has made it has a
right to demand this; the claim of the
mill owners upon the river does not ex-
tend to the use Of il rs sewer TO the
detriment of the rights of owners farther
down stream. 1t is not theirs absolutely;
it is theirs to use in ass~sanner consistent
so far as possible with the interest of
other people Providence can never get
good water from the Pawtuxet; but the
Valley people must be constrained to
give it as good water as they can.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
GEN. ALGER's' WAR RECORD.

A soldier who was steadily advanced for
meritorious service through all the grades
of the service from the rank of captain to
brevet major general need not worry over
any Democratic attacks on his record at
this late day.-Saginaw Courier-ierald.
Gen. Ayers splendid services to this
country in the field, the honorable record
he has made for himself since. and the
we'll Unknown fact that both Sheridan aud
Custer held him in high esteem (notwith-
standing the latter bore him n personal
prudge) up to the time of their deaths are
sufficient warrants for the belief that had
the opportunity been given the two gen
erals they would have vindicated him be
fore the world. d.-Whceling lntelligencer.
Mr.. Dana wants to blast Gen. Alger's
Presidential prospects by showing stain
upon his military record. There is evil
dcuce of malice in the tone OF the article,
which is meant 60 convey the impression
that he acted the part OF coward when
he should have been at his post of duty.
Gen Algers defense Is "a frank and no
doubt truthful explanation of the whole
matter. He maintains that he was hon
orably discharged and not dismissed
Pittsburg Commercial.
Charles A. Dana, by the course nc has
pursued has inflicted greater oDprobrium
on the memory of the dead than on the
To light evidence of human frailty which
should have been allowed To repose in the
grave with those who are at rest OF
Sheridan. Custer aud Alger, the latter
alone remains, and If i'm order TO refute
charges made against himself he finds it
necessary TO criticse the conduct of the
dead, we doubt il Gen. Alger will under
take the task Dana has started con
troversy the only effect Of which will be
TO engender i'll feeling and reopen old
res.-l}ay City Tribune.
Gen. Russell a. Alger has been obliged
10 defend his war record on account of
the discovery OF some official statements
from which IL appears that Gen. sheridan
had recommended his dishonorablc dis
charge on account OF what appears 20
have been misunderstanding Of the
facts. Taxing Che worst possible view of
the case, however. ina disregard OF Gen.
Ayers explanation. and we have three
wears of faithful service through scores OF
engagements, opposed 90 a single absence
without leave" Under the circumstances
IT. isa contemplate business raking up
this supposed flaw in soldiers record
after quarter of century has elapsed.
and when thc witnesses he might have
called In his defense are ali dead.-Phila
delphia Ledger.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
SOME TARIFF STATISTICS.

The Dundee Courier, one of the lead
ing newspapers of Scotland, devoted
great part of its issue of January 80 TO
review of the leading industries of
Yorkshire. Bradford, Birmingham and
other English and Scotch manufacturing
centres as affected by the Mckinley
tariff law. There is striking similarity
in the reports from all quarters. In
Yorkshire, for example, the exports of
silks, worsteds and woolen goods have
fallen off materially. In 1889 the United
States bought silk, silk plush, silk seal,
etc, from Yorkshire factories TO the
amount of 81, 756, 1Sj in 1890 there was
a drop to So, ,s73, ,450, and in 1891 to $920.-
900. The course of the wooden goods
trade for the past three years is equally
instructive. From $lS,650, 800 in 1899
and SIS. .152 $50 i'm 1890, the purchases of
the United States fell in 1891 TO Sl0, ,69i,-
41O. This collapse is directly traceable
TO the Mckinley tariff.
Bradford has been badly hit also.
Twelve months working of the McKin-
ley tariff has produced shrinkage in
the value of exports TO the United States
from $2i,447,s15 TO $1i, ,25S,945, or to
something less than half. The McKin-
ley tariff has had its indirect as well as
It's immediate effects. IL has hit the
Bradford competitors on the Continent
perhaps harder than it has themselves.
Thus, not only have the foreigners been
worse customers for yarn, but they have
competed among themselves more siren
uously for their own home markets to
the detriment Of the Bradford trade
/ with them i'm goods.
Tire following table whirir- ms fbepn
collated from the United States con-
sular returns for three years shows how
Bradford "stuifs." 'coatings." wool
and seals which comprise about 81
percent. Of the districts total exports tC
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18

The London Globe has been giving
British manufacturers some good advice
on the subject of the Worlds Fair when
it bids them send their exhibits to the
fair just as they might have done if the
Mckinley bill had never been passed.
For, says the Globe, "The Americans
and Germans are strenuously trying to
take our commerce. The absence of
British competitors at the fair would
therefore be regarded more as a benefit
than otherwise; it would also be regard
ed as an admission of defeat"
This is British common sense. If
Great Britain wishes to retain a share of
the trade of the American continent in
the face of our reciprocal policy her
merchants cannot afford to sulk while
Uncle Sans are sending out their drum
mcrs.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
the United States, have been affected by
the tariff


OCTOBER AND SEPTEMBER, ,oo-9l.
Stufs Coafings Wool seals. Total
Si7sg5iO S2502,l 100 SO3S.is5 s2j9,315 ss,6is,oiO
OCTOBER AND SEPTEMBER, 800
SiOs0c 600 S. l55755 Sl37l gao $500 $50 s2oos7V7o
OCTOBER AND SEPTEMBER, $3.50
Sso5o90O Sj656.5GO sl,lOi,2 POS sl997SiO Sl77ooioO
Biimingham's pearl button exports are
rated at per cent. of their former value.
The Courier quotes a South Wales tim
plate firm TO the effect that it has suf-
fered severely, and continues: 1t Is
also notorious that the Glamorganshire
and Monmouthshire Iron and Steel
Works have been seriously affected by
the entire cessationpof shipments of rail
way and other material TO the States"
The destruction of foreign industries
is not the object of our tariff, nor does 1t
give any American pleasure to cause
another country to suffer at our expense
But neither is it the object of this ma
tons existence to afford a market for
other peoples manufactures. The first
duty of this government is TO protect
and extend the industries by which its
own people live, and the statistics col
lected by the Dundee Courier are con-
elusive evidence that the Mckinley tar
iff is accomplishing that purpose.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
PROBLEMS OF IMMIGRATION.


The thoughtful address of Col. f. q.
Harris of Newport before the Unity
Club on the subject of immigration, to
which the NEWS alone gave space worthy
its Importance and suggestiyeness. calls
attention anew to the grave dangers in
volved in the too indiscriminate admis-
sion to our country of the most unde-
sirable classes of Eastern Europe's human
surplusage.
1t is time that the question were dis
cussed. II is time for something more
than dissatisfaction action but the
difficulty of acting wisely is immensely
increased by the difficulty of framing
general laws to fit particular cases.
Such remedy as that of shutting off all
immigration for ten years is, though Sc
riously proposed, more unwise even
than the present neglect. 1t would shut
out some of the mostvaluable elements
of our growing citizenship. III such a
law had been passed ten years ago, 1t
would have deprived us of the hundreds
of thousands of Englishmen, Irish
men. Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Germans,
Swedes and northern Italians who have
made the country inestimably richer
by their coming. ALI these races are
Christian, all have some inkling of the
duties of citizenship in countries where
self government is at least partially the
rule, and all become good Americans
with great rapidity. The inhabitants of
Sicily and southern Italy are, as rule,
less desirable than those further north,
and in general the farther east and
southeast the starting point of
our immigrants the less desirable
are they. The Russian refugees, for in
stance, however oppressed and down
trodden" they are, indeed because so
long oppressed and downtrodden, have
not the spirit nor the energy which ths
western Europeans possess. Noble as is
Baron de Hirsch's charity, praiseworthy
as are the efforts of the philanthropic
Hebrews of New York to educate the
newcomers into manhood, it is at least "a
question whether we should longer en-
dure this species of assisted emigra-
tion;" whether even our sympathy for
the tortures of the prosecuted in their
own land should move us to welcome
them here. This is not question of re-
ligion but of race. The Russian Hebrews
are no more like the Hebrews of Eng
land, France and Spain than are the
Russian Christians like Englishmen,
Frenchmen or Spaniards. Is it not time
to cry halt to Baron de Hirsch, good man
as he is?
But the Russian Jews are not the
worst element we have to deal with.
The fierce, ignorant Magyars are coming
in ever increasing numbers. Turks,
Greeks, Wallachians mix in the ethni-
cal ola podrida. An Armenian, pros
trating himself and rubbing his fore
head n the floor before Providence
city official, reminded us recently that
Asia is peopling our vacant spaces as
well as Europe. Syrians, East Indians,
Georgians, Circassians, Asiatic Turks;
what a medley Are we required to sub
NIT to it? How can we help ourselves I?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-18
scnoENHorF ON ENGLISH PRICES


If all Democrats were rs eager for
tariff facts as Mr.. Carl Schoenhof the
late consul at Tunstall. England, there
would be fewer falsehoods about the
tariff. Mr.. Schoenhoff found cotton
goods as dear in England as they are
here. (They are dearer in Italy, Ger
many and France) "Sheetings and shirt
ings, if anything are superior in quality,
for the same money with MS so far as /
can Judge from the goods exposed for
sale in the retail stores. Articles Of un-
derwear for women, made of muslin,
are far superior in workmanship and
finish and cheaper in price in the United
States" (Remember that Mr.. Schoen-
hoff is free trade Democrat and an ar
dent admirer of ClevelandD 'nor can
find that mems shirts when chiefly of
cotton are any cheaper here. Of boots,
if factory made, the same may be said.
In workmanship and finish, / find cor
responding articles of wholesale manu-
facture cheaper in the United States.
This is true of clothing as well as col
lars, cuffs, and like articles"
This is tariff lecture by a free trhle
Democrat, and he has stated the truth
as he found it. What the people abroad
do get cheaper are luxulies. When they
get the necessaries of life cheaper, they
are inferior in quality.