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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20

scenery. In this connection, as an
evidence that the great master hand,
has lost nought of its cunning, we re-
produce the following article, describ-
ing the beauties and wonders of the
recent bridge of ice, with which ma
ture's powerful and skillful hand has
spanned the far famed Niagara:
The ice bridge across the Niagara
River, which was formed January 8,
is still intact, and intensely cold wealth
er has strengthened and enlarged II
until it has become tho greatest bridge
formed since that of 1880, when the
Canadian hackmen made a driveway
across the river and used it for three
months. Since the formation of the
bridge hundreds of people have view
ed il daily, from the terraces along
the Michigan Central Railroad, and
buildings for the sale of refreshments
have been erected on the bridge, and
with its hundreds of passengers to and
fro, the summit of the ice dam has be-
come busy street trayersing the
grandest winter scenery in the world.
Thousands ofexcursionists have visit
ed the wonderful scene, and Niagara
was never gayer than now, and it is
veritably a winter carnival.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
A Runaway Match.

Mr. Randall Silverman, handsome
passenger conductor on the Cotton
Belt, arrived in the city yesterday and
fastened to County Clerk Brodie's Of
flee, where he received license to
wed Miss Addie McComb, of Ham
burg, Ashley county, Ark, the beauti-
full and accomplished daughter Of Col
j. S. McComb, Northern planter of
that county. Col. McComb objected
to the match, it seems, but "love laughs
at locksmiths," and the young lady
evaded her watchtul and obdurate
father and met her beloved here, where
yesterday morning they were united
by Rev. DIR. Il. &. Barrett. The we'd
ding was intended to be kept very
quiet, the groom leaving for Pine
Bluff and the bride for Searcy and the
unwilling father of the bride was to
have been made acquainted with the
fact in about week. Mr.. Silyerman
is q son of ex-Sheriff Frank Silverman,
one Of Pine Bluffs most prominent
citizens.---Arkansas Gazette.
The newly married couple are both
well known in the social circles Of this
city. The groom, Mr.. Randall Silver
man, is one of the most popular pas
senger conductors on the Cotton Belt
road and has been running in and out
of this city for number Of years.
The DEMOCRAT joins the many local
friends of the happy pair in extending
to them its most sincere congratula-
tions.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
THE LEGISLATURE.
Little Done Yesterday--Adjourned
For Committee Work.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Senate met at $50.
A number of resolutions were in
troduced, among them concurrent
resolution, authorizing the appoint
ment of five Senators and seven Rep
resentatives as a committee on public
roads, supplemental to the present
standing committees Adopted.
A number of unimportant bills were
introduced, and several amending the
digest.
Bill No. GA, Callahan relative to
text books, amendatory to section
6,167 of Mansfield's Digest, was intro
duced.
After considering two bills on third
reading, without passing either, Sem
ate adjourned until this morning, so
as to give committees time for work.
HOUSE.
Met at 8 a. m., with the speaker in
the chair.
Petitions presented and reports
from committees heard Several res
olutions considered,
New bills were introduced as fol-
lows:
No. 81, (Thornton) to amend the
road law. 1t provids that no person
shall be required to work on a road
more than ten days in year, nor
more than four days at one time.
No. 81, bradley to prevent prefer
ence among creditors of insolvent
corporations.
No. 92, (GranD, to amend the pen
sion law.
No. 90, (Booth), to amend the cleo
ton law.
No. z, RusselD, to improve the san
itary condition of the country, was
read second time and ordered en-
crossed, and made the special order of
Monday morning, after the expiration
of the morning hour.
Adjourned.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Assignment at penison.

AS a sequel to the recent suicide of
Frank Petit, one of Its members, the
firm Of Petit IL Waltz of Denison
dealers in tinware and plumbers sup
plies, to-day filed cbattel mortgage
with the county clerk TO liquldate in
debtedness which is recorded as tol-
lows: Maughs & Peck, $l60;all taxes,
1928; State National Bank at DenisoD,
$4,27938; Leeper Hardware Co., $4S5i
National Bank at Denison, 5000; First
National bank Of Denison, 800; Will
liam Startling, 1925.
II would thus appear that the epi.
demic of business failures is not Ell
tirely confined to Arkansas, but ex-
tends also to our sister State.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Information Wanted.

Any information concerning the
whereabouts of my wife, Lucy A. Nc
Gee, who left her home near Lewis
vile, Ark, on Saturday, the nth
inst, will be gladly received by her
husband. She is, at times, demented,
and left her home during one Of these
spells, without cause or warning. The
missing woman Is 45 years Of age,
about 5 #. A in. high and is stoutly
built. Address Josiah McGee, Lew
isville, Ark. or care Of this paper.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Wreck on the T. g. p.

A serious wreck occurred on tbe
Texas Il Pacific railway, near Blyens,
Texas, last evening, in which freight
train was ditched and number of
cars were damaged. No serious per-
sonal injury nor loss Of life have been
reported. The wreck caused delay
of twelve hours of the passenger train
due here at 6:l5 p. m., over that road.
The scene of The wreck has now been
cleared, aud trains are again running
on time.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Little, If Any, Change.

The old saw, "Once II man, twice a
child" needs only a slight alteration
to become "once child, always a
child" This would appear to be the
view taken by recent writer, who
says:
"Grown up people are but little
children. In the days Of youth and
infancy toys and empty pleasures are
the pasttime. When the estate Of
manhood is reached land, stock and
money are the play things with which
some amuse themselves, while the vast
majority spend life in pursuit of them;
so from the cradle to the grave II is
but little play, that Is as but a bub-
ble-and man passes from the stage of
action. Those who assist the poor,
encourage the weak, and work for the
uplifting of mankind, are the only ones
who have part III the drama OF nie
worth playing"
In the light thus shed man only ex-
pands with the performance of good
deeds, while according to our expe-
rience he grows if anything more rap
idly with the evil done.
Perchance the bulk of our expe-
rience lies on this side. BE this as IL
may, we believe that mans capacity
for good or evil, in the abstract, is
nearly, If not exactly, equal, and that
he grows or expands in keeping with
the one as rapidly as with the other
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Business Change.

The management Of the Benefited
Hotel of this city, once more lapses
into the hands of its original proprie-
tor Capt. j. M. Benefited, the
same being surrendered by Mr.
Rooney, of Tyler, Texas, after a
few months experience. While we
do not propose to criticise this or any
subsequent management, yet we can
not avoid the belief that liberal and
progressive management would make
the Benefited one of the most popular
bostclrics in our city.
n~s.RtE's WINE or cARDul for weak Nerves.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
Rare and Beautiful.

From time immemorial, the hand Of
man has We'd with nature in the pro-
duction Of that which is beautiful and
wonderful. From the Hanging Gar
dens Of Babylon TO the Ice palaces Of
st. Petersburg, the creative genius Of
mankind has sought to reproduce or
excel the unequalled works Of the
great master Of oil arts, nature, In the
grandeur and glory Of superb natural
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
GREAT SLAUGHTER SALE OF
PANTS.

Our great slaughter sale Of pants,
which began Monday will be con-
tinued throughout this week IL is
the greatest reduction sale ever
inauguratcd in Tcxarkana, Ark. 500
pair Of Drummcrs Sample Pants
worth $lOO, $500, 5000, 800 and
$500, ail go at $500. No TWO PAIR
ALIKE. Remember we don't do any
thing by halves. Every pair worth
double the money.
10 not neglect this great opportun-
ity, but call early.
Respectfully,
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 5Ot
and 81 bottles by all leading drug,
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FiG syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YoRk. nv
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-01-20
The Testimonials

Published on behalf OF moods Sar-
saparilla are as reliable and as worthy
your confidence, as II they came from
your best and most trusted neighbor,
They state simple facts.
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lLnod'a PILE cure sick headache.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels
Each Day. In order to be healthy this
is necessary.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
The Old School Exhibitions.

0, the old school exhibitions! will the,
ever come again,
With the good, old-fashioned speaking
from the girls and boys SO plain
Will we ever hear old .tIser,n with it.
rapid roll and sweep,
And pilot, tits a fearful night; there:
danger on the deep?"
Sweet Mary doesn't raise her lambs
like Mary did of old;
Their fleece is not las white as snow;'
they're wandering from the fold
The boy upon the "burning deck" is
not one-half as fine
He was not "born at Bingen, at Bingen
on the Rhiner'
The girls don't speak in calico, the
boys in cotton jeans;
They've changed the old-time dresses
long with the old-time scenes;
They smile and speak in Ancient Greek:
in broadcloth and in lace;
And you can't half see the speaker for
the collar round the face!
o, the old school exhibitions! it is gone
forever morei
The old schoolhouse is deserted, and
the grass has choked the door.
And the wind sweeps round the gables,
with low and mournful whine
For the old boys ''born at Bingen--at
Bingen on the Rhinem
atlanta Constitution.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15

The - IUice-a- Week" st. L0ass Re-
public is unquestionably the best and
cheapest national news journal pub
lished in the country. It has led the
fight for Tariff Reform and stands
without rival as the leading and rep
resentative Democratic paper of the
United States. It is issued each Tues
day and Friday, fourteen to sixteen
pages every week FOR ONLY ONE DOL
LAR YEAR--a great semi-weekly pa
per for the price of a weekly. Itgives
the news at least half week earlier
and much moro fully than any weekly.
Everybody should subscribe for it at
once and get the news fresh and COM
p1ete, now, as for the first time in 32
years the Democratic party is in abso-
lutte control OF the Executive and Leg
islative Departments of the National
Government. An extra copy will be
sent free, for one year, to the sender Of
each Club of four new subscribers, with
four dollars. Write for free sample
copies, and raise a Club. Address,
THE REPUBLIC, st. Louis, Mo.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
Official Directory.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS,

MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
Fl on. X. w. FYAN, Thirteenth District
Marshfeid Mo.
U. :. LAND OFFICE u. c. NEIL,
Register; VIM. b. NEWMAN, Receiver
Ironton, Mo.
j. FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty Fl rst
..ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
CITY OFFICERS :
CHURCHES:

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Arcadia College
and Pilot Knob. l.. WERNERT Rector
High Mass and Sermon at Arcadia College
every Sunday at O'Clock a. NJ. Vespers ane
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at
O'Clock P. NJ. High Mass and Sermon and
Benediction at Pilot Knob Catholic Church
ut 1880 O'Clock A. VI. Sunday School fol
children at 80 O'Clock p. NJ.
NJ. h. CHURCH, Corr Reynolds and
Mountain Streets, w. Fl. HORNED, Pastor.
Residence: Ironton. Services every Sab
bath at IL A. Il. and P. NJ. Sunday School
$3.50 M. Glass Meeting Sunday afternoon
at 8 O'Clock Prayer Meeting Thursday
evening. All are invited.
M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, Fort Hill,
between Ironton and Arcadia. Rev. Fl.
WHITEHEAD, Pastor. Services every sun
day, 1t IL A. VI. and ! p. NJ. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday evening, O'Clock. Sab
bath School at Q 80 A. NJ.
BAPTIST CHURCH, Madison street,
near Knob street, =. NJ. SHOUsH, Pastor.
Residence Ironton. Preaching on every
SATURDAY. before the first Sunday Of each
month st 2:30 P. NJ. and on the first and third
Sundays at IL A. NJ. Sunday School every
Sunday at $3.50 A. NJ. and Prayer Meeting
every Tuesday evening at 1880 P. NJ.
LUTHERAN CHURCH, Pilot Knob.
Rev. OTro PFAFPE, Pastor.
NJ. i. CHURCH, Corner Shepherd
and Washington streets, Ironton. D. j.
kENOLY, pastor.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
A Letter From Washington, D. c.

Ed. RegiSter-After two days of cold
drizzling rain, the sun burst forth Tues
day morning in blaze of glory, to
usher in another Memorial day. All
Washington was astir early; process
sions of veterans, headed by bands OF
musi; and committees of women,
they had been assigned, and in the
presence of hundreds of spectators sue
cessfully and we'll carried the programs
of the day. ALI the departments,
banks, large stores and offices, were
closed in memory of the occasion, and
the workers generally attended or par
ticipated in the ceremonies of the day.
by river. rail, carriage or afoot, and
left the city to silence and the base ball
cranks, who went to see the st. Louis
Browns beaten by the Senators.
The great national cemetery at
Arlington, where 16, 700 sleep in serried
ranks with Sheridan, Crook, Porter and
other famous fighters, was the center of
general interest.
The Nations Capital presents feat
ures peculiarly tit for memorial servi-
ces. Here cluster memories and OBJ
jects of the great struggle, here are the
graves of it's heroes, the marble monu-
ments of their enduring fame.
Arlington, q mountain mausoleum of
American soldiery, rises like the ''green
hill far away" of the beautiful old
hymn, and many are the eyes which
look through tears to its wooded
heights across the Potomac, and many
are the minds turned toward that last
which every soldier in
this city expects to make to make to
that sacred spot some day.
The site of Arlington is the old Lee
comprising some 1000 acres,
and is the largest and most beautiful of
all the eburying-grounds of the Nation.
It is great woodland, cleared of all
but the forest trees, beneath whose
branches rest the remains of
those who fell in the battles near
Washington, and those brought from
distant fields only to die in the hospitals |
IF the city. Peace, quiet, order, the
antithesis of war, unrest, confusion, |
what could better portray it than this
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
An Effort to Abolish Human Nature

Mr.. Oliver Sumner Teall, an enter
prising young gentleman of New York
who aspires to be a great reformer, il
making a new experiment in reform by
undertaking to abolish treating.
His theory is that intemperance is
fostered by the conyivial custom oi
treating to drinks, and that, conse-
quently, if men drink only what they
themselves pay for, there will be less
drunkenness, less poverty, less misery,
and less wickedness in the world. As
the custom is at present, he explains,
when man goes in with several COM
panions to take a cocktail, for instance,
he feels under the pressure of social
obligation to treat them to cocktail al
so; and then, in turn, each Of them
deems himself constrained to furnish
another round of cocktails for the
party Hence, out of mere politeness,
each man is compelled to drink as
many cocktails as there are members
of the party, though really he wanted
only single potation; and the whole
number retire from the drinking place
more or less damaged by the strong
liquor. If, then, SO thinks and con-
tends this reformer, it should oe made
as questionable to treat friend to
drinks as to pay his tailor's bill, man
would no longer feel himself obliged
to drink more than he actually want
ed.
That is, Mr.. Teall would abolish the
whole principle of hospitality, for if a
man should not treat friend to a
drink in a barroom or a club, he
should not treat him to one in his own
house. IF, too, it should be made as
questionable to pay for a mans drink
as for his boots, why should it not
likewise be made as questionable to
entertain him at dinner as to give him
a pair of trousers? OF course, hospit-
ality is not proffered with a view to the
reward of reciprocation, but the inter-
change of such civilities is usal, and it
makes up the order of social life. The
guest is under no more obligations to
his host than his host is under to him.
The host does his guest honor by in
yiting him; the guest honors the host
by accepting his hospitality, and con-
tributing by his company and his con-
verse to tho enjoyment of the feast.
So far as courtesy goes there is q set
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
SOCIETIES:

~A IRoNToN LODGE, No. 244, K
ERAof p, Ironton, Mo-, meets every Fri
EyxGSday evening ut Odd-Fellows Hall.
N.Y. j. b. HOLLOMAN, c. G.
~ c. DEMIER, X. of X. s. 8.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
Free Schools for Free People.

Among the greatest services that
Governor Pattison has rendered the
Commonwealth is in the check he has
constantly maintained upon ill-consid-
cred or wrongly-directed legislation,
with his instance upon the fundamental
principles of free government. o.
his many important veto messages,
there has been none more important
and valuable than that which conveys
his disapproval OF the compulsory edu-
cation act. The fact that laws OF this
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
NUMBER so.
ABS0UTEIY PURE

character have been enacted in many
other States increases rather than re-
moyes the necessity of opposing this
development of the theory of paternal-
ism, which puts the State in the place
of the parent and usurps the govern
ment of the family and the regulation
of private conduct.
Already this theory has been carried
to mischievous extremes, to the de-
struction of the independence of COM
munities as well as of individuals, and
to the undermining of our system Of
self-government. 1t is result of
socialistic tendency, by which the State
does everything and regulates every
thing, from food and drink to literature
and art, and the individual citizen, an
atom in the mass, becomes the mere
helpless dependent of the majority.
There is no better point at which to
take a stand against this soclalistic de-
velopment than when the State UNDER
takes to subject every home and family
to the espionage and arbitrary author
ity of petty officials in the pretense of
carrying out a system OF education
whose greatest glory is that it is ''free. "
1t is true that the bill which the Gov
ernor vetoed was so far from stringent
that it would probably have produced
very slight results in the direction in
tended; but that is only an additional
reason against its enactment. It was
meddlesome and mischievous and the
State is we'll saved from its effects.
It is Governor Pattison's especial
merit that he not only has clear con-
victions but has the courage of them.
Most of us are SO under the tyranny of
reformers and agitators and well-mean-
ing busy bodies that we timidly ac-
quiesce in measures that we know to be
erroneous and despotic, merely because
their purpose is good and we do not
like to appear obstructive. It is good
thing occasionally to have bold Ex-
ecutive who is not afraid to put his foos
down firmly on the solid ground of
constitutional principle, as Governor
Pattison does once more in his defense |
of our system of free schools tor free
people in a free State. Philadelphi |
Times.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15

off between the two; but the same mo-
tive of honorable considerable which
induced the host to invite the guest,
will lead the guest in his turn, to prof
fer the honor Of his hospitality to the
host; and thus comes about the graci-
GUS reciprocity, which keeps up the
movement Of social intercourse.
Therefore, at the bottom. in essence,
all social entertainment, all hospitali-
ty, is treating. Of course, it is as
reasonable to give friend a quarter
as to pay for his cocktail, and it is as
reasonable to give him Ave dollars as
to invite him to dinner; but reason has
nothing to do with the matter. It il
regulated by sentiment purely; but it
is sentiment and not reason which
makes life worth living. It is affect-
ion, courtesy, kindness, conviviality.
neighborliness.
Drinking is a deplorable practice
when it is carried to excess. In all
times, from the days of Noah until
now, it has brought misery to the
world; but to remedy it by sitting the
instinct of brotherhood which express
es itself in treating, would be to apply
a cure which would be far worse than
the disease. Treating is a manifesto
ton of the unselfishness, which even
the sharp struggle and competition Of
existence cannot destroy in the human
race.
Mr.. Teall will have to hunt in
another field for an opportunity to en-
ploy his reformatory energies, for.
happily, it is impossible for him to
abolish treating without abolishing
human nature. Even If he could sue
ceed in his purpose, philanthropic in
theory, but malignant in reality, he
would be likely to increase rather than
diminish drunkenness and its long train
of evils. II the disposition to treat
were destroyed, probably the tendency
to solitary guzzling and selfish and
swinish indulgence, would be encour-
aged; but whether there were more or
less drinking would be matter of no
consequence, for the race of men would
be reduced to british level which
would make the continuance of their
existence undesirable y San.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
A Good Suggestion.
From the Dubuque, uowa,) Telegraph

From the Dubuque, uowa,) Telegraph
The adjourning of the impeachment
court last Saturday, on account Of Gen.
Weaver's belly-ache, cost the people of
this commonwealth nearly $500. One
dose of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy would have saw
ed this expense; and we suggest, as o
matter of economy and humanity. that
the state provide against future con-
tingencies Of this nature, by furnishing
each senator with bottle of that yalu-
able remedy. % and so cent bottles
for sale by P. K. Crisp, druggist.
Iron County register., 1893-06-15

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction, or money REFUNDED
Rrice 25 cents per qox. For sale ~
P. Crisp. 5ss
Iron County register., 1893-06-15
l. VAUGNN
B 4RBER SHOT
rpnNTON MISSOURI.

IRONTON, MISSOURI.
Hair-Catting,S shaving. Shampooing,
Etc, all done in the latest anu 4ss.
ssvIes known to the trade. Also, Hot
and.Cold BATH.