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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
THE SMART FARMER.


Tn6fe - . farmer VINO - "
Enough to take his 90.
And study nature With his a,
And think Of what no co II
He hears the chatter Of the =
A they each other C.
And sees that whom . tree dkk
Il makes . homo for bib
A yoke Of oxen he viii uu
With many haw's and GO.
And their mistakes no win zoo
When blowing for his PIP
He little buys. but much he sollA
And therefore little 90:
And when no hoes his soil by spells
he also soils his hose.
Golden Daya
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20

The historic gentleman who al
lowed himself to be caught between
the devil and the deep sea presented
no more pitiful spectacle than will
Tom Reed next year hesitating be-
twixt his duty to the republican ma
iority in congress and his fealty to his
presidential boom There will be do
nothing congress until the presiden-
tial election of 1896 is settled. Chicago
Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20

of tho federal government than the
day laborer; and whatever may be the
difficulties in the way of compelling
him to bear, honestly and fairly, his
just proportion of the burden it Is but
simple justice that he should bear it
If the income tax tends to make him
bear it it is step in the right direction,
even though because of the nature Of
things and of taxpayers 1t falls short
of completeness. :
The house passed the income tax law
by a large majority; and it is not con-
ceivable that it will hesitate to make
the necessary appropriations to carry
it into effect 1t is possible, of course,
that the senate may, by filibustering,
defeat the attempt of the house to per-
feet the act-the country has learned
to expect almost anything from the
senate. But if the senate shall do this
it will add materially to the burden of
public disapproval under which it now
Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20
Turning and Twisting.

1t seems to be the hardest thing in
the world for a republican statesman
to get himself reported accurately.
First there was Sherman, whose tariff
views were misrepresented. Then it
was Reed. And now it is Babcock,
though it is explained in the case of
the latter that he was deliberately
misrepresented by an agent of the
United Press. 1t is rather startling
coincidence, however. that all the men
spoken of should be misrepresented on
the same subject and in the same way.
Nobody seems inclined to misrepre-
sent them on any other topic than the
tariff. Nobody charges them. for in
stance, with admitting that the force
bill was blunder. Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts, was reported to the. eject;
but he does not claim to have been
nisrepresented. Perhaps the other
gentlemen referred to are peculiarly
sensitive on the subject u Mckinley
ism.--Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

The crack of the monopoly whip
makes the talkative anti-McKinleyite
repu blicans take it all back.-Chicago
Herald.
The official returns show that
the republican majority in the Fifty
fourth congress will not be quite SO
large as the democratic majority was
in the Fifty-second congress.-Boston
Herald.
If, as Columbus correspondent
reports, Gov. Mckinley has already
picked out the men who will serve in
his cabinet when he is elected presi-
dent, he has simply counted his chick
ems before they are incubated.-
sas City Times.
The hungry republican brigade
of bounty and subsidy-snatchers who
affect to be having great fun just now
at the expense of the star-eyed god
dess, will have better understanding
of the situation if they bear in mind
that "the eternal years of God are
hers" and ruminate upon the old Ger
man couplet:
ITO some she is tho goddess great, to some
the milch-cow of the field;
Their care Is but to calculate-what butter
she will yield"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20

object and speaking slowly like a child
coming a lesson.
What was Calicot's establishment to
hear her, in this manner, convey the
import of the matter before her strange
vision.
He learned that the success of the
authorities in tracking the source of
the widespread Junta conspiracy to
western Tennessee, had led to some
curious developments. The New York
police had succeeded in linking to-
gether several mysterious events which
pointed to the fact that the master
spirit of this new danger to social
order was no less a parsonage than
the audacious pirate who had robbed
the Atlantic steamship two years ago.
The United States government had
taken means to stamp out this social
istic rebellion and the gunboat
Arapahoe had been ordered to
Memphis; the Sixth United States in
fantry, with battery A and troops A
and F of the Twelfth cavalry, had
from Leavenworth; orders had also
been forwarded for two companies of
the Fifth United States regiment at
Fort Benton, Tex, to proceed to
Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll was
placed in command of the forces with
his headquarters at Paducah
Here the girl stopped, and Calicot
with allowable Impotence asked her
to go on: HE has laid the paper
down." she said; 81 cannot see It and
he has got up. He is looking for some
thing. 1t is a writing-pad. he sits
down beside the woman--he is writing
Eyes, yes. 1t is a telegraphic mess
age. Can you read it? 1t comes from
Hendricks"
no BE CONTINUED
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Animals and M usic.

"The Influence of Music on Man,
Animals and Plants" vas discussed
by Director Asger Hamerik in his
lecture at the Peabody Conservatory.
OF the second part Of his subject he
said:
There is no doubt of music's
power in animals. All singing birds
are subject to the influence. The
spider, the mouse aid the snake can
be charmed with tunes. [ saw on st.
Paul street one day a runaway horse
stop suddenly where a street organ
was being played and tumble all over;
T had once a Gordon setter that would
play with his paw on the keyboard OF
nv piano, and, with a kind of muir
muir, try to initiate the human voice,
making an effect that, if not musical,
| showed at least that the dogs mind
attempted something in that dlrec-
ton.
Il have had personal experience
with the musical qualities of mice,
for I once used to play in. a room
where there were many mice. When
I played for a little while out would
come trooping a critical audience OF
mice, which seemed perfectly tame as
long as the music lasted. l expert
mented with them again and again,
and arrived at the conclusion that
they undoubtedly were in some way
influenced by and very susceptible to
music. I grew tired of my faithful
auditors after a while, and closed the
doors of the concert hall to them by
having a timer cover the holes and
cracks in the floor.
Il believe that everything created
like ourselves with ears is susceptible
to musical tones, and it is probable
that if we could only find it out
there is musical material in all such
animals that could be developed and
cultivated in some way"
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Football in sumatra

Among the Malays football has
been in existence from time immemo-
rial, says the New York Times, but it
is, with them, essentially a game, as,
for instance, battledore and shuttle
cock is with us, and it is not a con-
test. The football is rather smaller
that that used at Elton, and is made
of wicker work. Those who join in
the game arrange themselves in a
wide circle and kick the ball from one
to another with the inside, Or at times
with the fat of the foot. The object
of the players is to keep the ball pass
ing about without it's ever touching
the ground or the hand of any one.
Great dexterity is shown in its per-
Torrance, and the ball is usually
kicked to very respectable height.
There seems to be no penalty to be
exacted from a player who may kick
the ball badly or fail to kick it at all.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The Austrian Government has ex-
tended to the United States an invi-
tation to take part in IN international
Exposition to Do held in Vienna from
April 20 toJune 10, 1894. The exhibits
Afe 10 include food products andproces-
VA, Life saving apparatus, I 9 Of
transportation and other things. This
exhibition il arranged by the Associ-
alton TOR tho Diffusion Of Agricultural
Enforznstion ID Vienna under the pro-
Electorate of his imperial and royal
highness, Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand, " Austria II is the wish Of
the Austrian Government that sas
large ! 4 exhibit as possible Of the re-
tonrces Of the United States ii this re-
rad ia
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

and dice-playing. Sometimes the
neichbors band together to dlslooSe
their unwelcome visitors, but it IS o
always an agreeable undertaking. In
the cities of Iowa charity associations
have been organized to feed strangers
as we'll as the local destitute, but M
professional tramp prefers 'ae iiIe-
and-casy time which he has In Ihe
country.
The New Orleans Picayune prlnts
a table of the land barons OF LOUIS,
lana and their holdings of unimproved
timber and swamp tracts, from WHICH
If anpears that alien syndicates, COM
NAMES. and individuals W more
than 2,2OO, 900 acres. One syndicate
claims 400, 900 acres, several possess
100. 600 and more, and holdings vi
from 20, 900 to 80, 600 acres are o un-
common. Most of this land is owned III
the Western States, but to capitalists
Of New York and Philadelphia severaf
hundred thousand acres belong. Inc
Picayune explains that originally the
limited States owned all of the lands
in Louisiana other than those when
at the time of the cession by France
were held by private persons or cor
porations. Subsequently what were
known as swamp lands, that is to say
lands that were subject to tidal over
| flow from the sea or were annually
flooded by the Mississippi, became the
property of the State, with h pro
vision that it should sell them for the
purpose of raising a fund to puma
~ieyees. A considerable territory, con-
sisting of prairie and forest land, was
retained by the United States to De
sold as homesteads. Such a dlspo-
sition was made of this land, but 1t Is
now largely in the possession OF syn
dicates. The Picayune's table in
cludes the swamp, homestead, and
sea-marsh lands. The last named,
a lions share of which has been &C.
quired by the Watkins syndicate'
must be drained and diked like the
Holland coast, and some progress in
this work has already been made.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Animal Wonders of Madagascar.

An extraordinary natural history
has Madagascar, delares Canon Iris
tram. One would suppose that this
would be that of Africa, but it is so
unlike as to prove that the island has
been separated from Africa for an i'm
mense period of time. It's animals
and plants, as well as its people, have
a far greater resemblance to those of
India than to those of the hear main
land. The monkeys and the lemurs
of Madagascar are not to be found in
Africa, while all the great African
animals of prey are absent. Among
the lemurs is one known as the aye
aye, the formation of whose digits is
unique. The egg of an extinct bird
Of Madagascar is fifteen times the
bulk of that of an ostrich, and yet
the bird itself does not appear to have
been larger than the New England
moa, an extinct bird to which it had
an affinity. This same peculiarly
runs through all the birds Of NADIA
gascar. The water birds and sea
fowl are, of course, those of Africa,
but there are one or two extraordi.
nary exceptions. The beautiful snake
bird, allied to the cormorant, is an
Indian species. There is also a water
hen which is peculiar to Madagascar,
and which has the remarkable feat.
ures Of d long tail and long foot. II
is a great puzzle to ~naturalists. A
group of cuckoos is peculiar to the
island, with no relations in Africa o.
India; while a bird allied to the
thrushes is not African, but is alliec
to a species in the Mauritius and al
the Mascarene islands.ITrento1
| American.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The posted list of most New York
clubs is @ business barometer. Such
lists are unusually long and their items
unusually persistent in times OF de-
preston. But with the return OF
business sunshine they melt like snow
at the approach Of spring. 1t is q
point Of pride with some men never
to be thus posted for debt, but there
are snobs who contemplate with salts
faction the appearance Of their names
once q month on the bulletin board
along with the names of distinguished
men in whose company they would be
glad to be seen upon any terms.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
They are Hish-Toned.

The common Greeks in Athens, as
we'll as in Constantinople, do not re-
gard themselves as Europeans, though
they would probably feel insulted if
you called them Asiatics, says a
writer in the Queen. Constantinople
may consequently be divided roughly
into Pera, the European quarter;
Galata, the Greek quarter, and Siam
boul, the ancient Turkish city, which
was Greek before it became Turkish
BY conquest. There is also a smaller
Greek quarter left on the STEAMBOAT
side, which contains the Patriarchate.
There are half a million Greeks in
Constantinople. Pera is the leasti in
teresting portion Of the city, but its
sanitation is the best, and you are not
liable to be killed bysa too faithful
son Of the prophet or eaten up by
dogs for venturing out at night.
E&Et ~ - SZT
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The civil list or salary of King
Humbert, of Italy, is the largest of all
those paid by European nations to
their respective sovereigns. This is SO
much more remarkable, because Ital-
ian finances are at the lowest ebb.
Humbert's civil list is fixed annually
at IA, 500, 900 francs, nearly So, 000, 900.
The European sovereigns who receive
the highest pay below that of Hum
bert are Emperor William, of Ger
many, with o civil list of 100000 OO
francs and Queen Victoria, with about
q. 600. 900.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
TWO DREAMERS.

Under a tree two dreamers lay,
And into one did the winds voice say,
"Castle Pleasure is building fast;
I heard the hammer as ! flew past"
But to the other the winds voice said,
chill Endeavor lies just ahead"
The dreamers rose. The years sped by,
And the wind blew out of the changing
sky.
He who wrought for his brother well
Came to the castle of Joy to dwell;
He who turned from the toilsome hill,
Seeking his castle-is seeking still.
JAMES BUCKHAM.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Life Of a locomotive.

The life of a locomotive is from
twenty to thirty years. Some have
lasted much longer, the Baltimore
and Ohio's old grass hoppers" for
instance, which were shown at the
Worlds Fair. They were built in
1885 and we're used as switchers at
Mount Claire as late as last spring.
Of course, certain parts of an engine
wear out quickly and have to be re-
newed from time to time, but the
frame, the boiler and the wheels are
good for many years Of service. Per-
haps the high rates Of speed at which
trains now run may shorten the
careers of engines, but as the new
machines are built heavier and
stronger than their predecessors it is
probable that they will live as long
as those before them.-[Baltimore
News.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Says the New York Herald: "The
Anarchists are a common danger. 1t
is therefore the duty of every one to
make common cause against them.
Since it is a part of their creed that
theresis no frontier for their crimes,
they must be made to understand that
there is no frontier for their repres-
csoy
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
The Well of Serpents."

There is a horseshoe-shaped noun
tain up in Manitoba which literally
swarms with snakes twice every year.
In the early fall these slippery GUS
toners gather here from all directions,
mostly from the prairie country to
the south. In one side of the noun
tain there is a circular hole, about
fifteen feet deep, and as smooth as II
it had been fashioned with a well
augur, where tens of thousands OF
reptiles gather to spend the cold winter
months. Persons who have tried to
explore this immense snake den dur
ing the summer, when the regular
tenants were absent, say that dozens
of subterranean passages lead out
under the mountains in all directions
from the bottom of the we'll. Captain
Silyers, Royal Engineers, estimates
that he has seen as many as 10000
snakes of all sizes knotted together
and piled up in a semi-torpid state in
this "Wel Of Serpents," as it IS
called in the Northwest st. Louis
Republic,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Exclaims the st. Louis Republic -
sour entire new navy, including three
tugboats, has cost only $29, 600, 600.
Some Englishmen are vowing that
ten times that amount ought to be
spent at once to secure their nation
against France and Russia"
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
In England one man in 5, 900 attends
college, in Scotland n in 6l5, N
Germany one in 213, in the United
States one in 1000.

It is estimated by the New York Adj
vertiser that 1T, 900 people r out
Of employment in Chicago, and the
city Is overrun with penniless and
homeless people. This is o part OF
the penalty of the Great Fair.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The pelisse is the novelty of the
season. 1t is a dress in itself, and a very
graceful and becoming one, too. 1t IS
close fitting, fairly full at the back, and
reaches to the feet. The only sort OF
dress one could wear under it would be
q silk skirt and blouse.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

The worlds sugar plantations pro-
duce every year 5000, 600 tons of
sugar.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

sT i
settlement Of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road strike by arbitration, SO soon
after the settlement Of a much larger
one (the coal miners strike) in Eng
land by the same means is cause for
both thankfulness and hope. The
principles of arbitration are applicable
TO every conceivable dispute between
employer and employe. This is not
saying that tho decision of arbitrators
must perforce be accepted by both
parties in every case. That might not
be possible in every case, but in nine
eases ont Of ten it would be accepted,
md the result would be the saving OF
millions Of dollars to this country
every year, besides improving the tenn
per and self-respect Of oil the parties
concerned. It would undoubtedly
improve the quality and amount of the
work done also, by satisfying the en-
lloyes that their rights we're secured
to them as we'll as possible under the
circumstances. A very timely publica-
tion on this subject is q volume Of 116
pages entitled Industrial Arbitration
and Cancellation, compiled by jose
phine Shaw Lowell. It gives a de-
hailed account of the working of arbi-
tration in concrete cases in England,
Belgium and the United States. Such
illustrations are far more en~lightening
THAN any abstract argument could be.
pt Is to be hoped that Mrs. Lowell
Twill, in q future edition, add the de-
tails Of the English coal-mine arbitra-
eion and. that Of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. All such literature should
be kept in . handy place"
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

Chicago is not contented with hav-
ing made the Worlds Fair q success,
hut is reaching out for everything in
sight, notes the New Orleans Picay-
Inc Her latest scheme is to make
herself the4center Of the waterways OF
the United States. This she thinks
may be accomplished by the Henne-
pin canal, now under construction
from that city to the Mississippi river,
and by q ship canal from the south
end Of Lake Michigan to the western
end Of Lake Erie at Toledo. The dis
tance is 14O miles, and this canal
would cut off $50 miles Of dangerous
lake navigation, saving time, interest
and insurance. The canal, it is esti-
mated, could be built for $50, DOC. 900
the interest on which would be more
than saved on freight charges. It is
hhonght that the canal would be q
profitable investment, and add greatly
TO Chicago's business and Importance.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

where.
Meanwhile the news of the disaster
had spread far and wide. The cap
tain was busy over his books in his
little office and near him sat bonny
Kate. Why did she come? Was it
to catch a glimpse of the Norwegian
as he emerged from the shaft? Was
love, then, SO inpatient? A man
covered with dirt and CRIME rushed
into the Office.
IAN accident, captain-
"Where?"
"On the third tier. The Norwe-
gian, Bnorgson, and Geoffry were
working there"
Kate gave a cry. Her face was the
color Of the pallid landscape now, and
she sprang up like a deer shot to the
heart, while with quiyering lips she
gazed at the messenger of evil.
rs he-are they killed." she
asked, the words falling slowly.
saThere isn't much chance"
Now in the mine the men were
working with q will, clearing away
the enormous masses of ore and rock.
The only chance for the men was
that they we're imprisoned, not
crushed, and that was a faint hope at
the best. Among the throng 81
workers was Kate, who herself worked
until her strength was exhausted.
Gang relieved gang and still the great
mass seemed to become but the more
impregnable. On the second day the
men paused, for they thought they
heard something. They listened in
tently. It was d faint rapping on q
timber.
They are aliye-at least, one Of
The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

can population regard them as provi-
Dental gifts to remove for their own
private. purposes. Where the road
skirts the edge of gullies, rains and
floods often undermine the sides,
which, falling off in sections, leave a
sheer wall, it may be, fifteen or twenty
feet high. By successive slouchings
the trail is encroached on in places
and a detour must be made. Thus a
stage ride in a broken country is
likely to be exciting to the point of
apprehension, even with an espe-
rienced driver who knows the route
and the probabilities of it's shiftings.
ONE of the worst tramp-ridden
States in these hard times is Iowa,
which, being a rich farming country,
presents a tempting field for their
depredations. The scenes of 1887 are
being repeated. During the summer
of that year the vagabonds poured into
every town of the State, and in such
numbers that the authorities, in order
to avoid riot and pillage, gathered
them in public parks and fed them,
finally calling on the militia to con-
duct them out of town. The tramps
| Of 1898 do not seem to threaten the
peace, but nevertheless they are a
| great nuisance. They keep clear OF
the larger towns, finding the country
full Of resources to which they can
| help themselves without much risk.
In bands of ten and twenty they
break open the school-houses, and
levy on the wood and coal-bins to
build fires in the stoves. Some Of
their number go out to forage fol
provisions, which they get by theft
| and intimidation. The evenings are
spent in eating, carousing, and caro-