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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-07-12

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50 slightingly. Yes, she would 90.
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trees, she knew.
1t was FIVE o'clock in the morning
The house was very quiet, yet her
father, she knew, was up; she heard
him walking past her window, as was
his wont, at break Of day. What if
he strolled towapl the river The
thought put spurs to her feet, and She
flew rather than walked down the
stairs. She could not resist the i'm
pulse to stop at her mothers door
and knocking, entered.
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she did not seem surprised when Cathie
came in, as she frequently visited her
room in this way. Cathie paused but
a moment to give her a tender good
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ing meal was over, he, too, became
anxious. He waited awhile longer
then he had his horses hanessed
again, and started out in search Of her.
1t was midnight when he returned
more deeply troubled than he had ever
been in his life before, and when his
wife met him at the gate, nearly i'll
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-07-12

"Did you give the horse the pow
DER"
Il tired TO. put the powder in
the tin tube, forced open the horses
mouth, put the tube in between its
teeth and
did you blow the powder down
ms throat2"
"No; was going TO. but the horse
blew it first"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The worklngmen are asking why
they are still hungry with the McKin-
ley bill in full force. Free
Press.
The wrath of the Mckinley
tariff bill is fairly, entitled to be con-
sidered a good Recommendation for
that measure.--Boston Herald.
1t was somewhat superfluous for
the republican platform of Rhode Island
to class the punishment OF McKaneism
among the party triumPhs, considering
that the prosecution was instituted by
democrats, conducted by democrats
and the offender sentenced by a demo-
cratic judge.-Boston Herald.
The call for convention of the
blican leagues has familiar sound,
especially in the dogmatic declaration
as to what 1.-THE people," have to do.
THE people" will be heard from in due
time; and the leagues will probably
find that they know their own mind
and business much better than the
leagues do.-Detroit Free Press.
Reeds affectation of fear that the
massage of the Wilson bill will not put
an end to uncertainty is indicative of a
purpose to keep up the uncertainty. It
is republican threat to continue the
tariff agitation for partisan purposes.
It is not patriotic; but nobody expects
patriotism from the ex-speaker His
threat is an impotent one. however
The passage of the Wilson bill will put
it out of the power of Mr.. Reed and his
marty tn create uncertainty for a good
while to come.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
A MINERS FALSE TIP.
1t Turned Out to Be a Good Thing Ate
All.

1t Turned Out to BE q Good Th1ng After
All.
One day, while gang of miners
were toilipg in a gulch near Shasta
Cal. stranger, evidently ignorant OF
mining, came along. The miner near
him took out a fve-dollar nugget, and
anxiety overcame the strangers re.
ticence.
Say he asked. ''where can 1 go to
diggin' to find it like that?''
The hardy miner stopped his work
and, giving the wink to all the boys,
pointed up to the barren rocks where
no gold had ever been found.
You see that rough-looking placer"
YES" said the new hand.
well. thar it is rich. Jes' you stake
out claim an go to work, an when
we finish here we'll come up. too
The new hand thanked the miner.
and the boys all grinned their appre.
citation Of the joke. That afternoon a
solitary figure was seen picking on the
rocky hillside, and every time the
miners looked up they roared with
laughter. But the next day the new
miner struck a pocket, and took out
several thousands of dollars in gold.
Then he came and thanked the miner
who had sent him up there, and went
down to the city and bought houses
and, lots and things, while the other
miners dotted that same rocky hillside
for days without finding a pocket
American Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
SHE WAS SATISFIED.
How a Change of States Was Effected
Without Moving.

How a Change of States Was Elected
without Moving.
'When they resurveyed the line be-
tween North Carolina and Virginia."
says recently-returned commercial
traveller, ''the engineers found an error
in the old standards, and in one place
moved the line a short distance south.
claws, massa, chile, what's you
a-doing?' said an old colored woman, as
she observed the men moving one of
the monuments which for years had
stood near her cabin.
Don't you know you mustn't 'sturb
that ere stone that shows rs how I
lives in Norf Carolinny?'
"'But you don't live in North Caro-
lima any longer, aunty.' replied one Of
the men. The new survey shows that
you live in Virginia now
''Live in Virginny! I live in Ole
Virginny. Oh, no, honey. You can't
fool me that way. I never amt moved
in my life. So, how could live in
Virginny when Use born in Norf Caro-
linny?'
'.But you do, Aunty.' replied the
man, smilingly and he briefly explained
the case.
''Then the aged woman shook her
head and repeated again and again, n
Virginny, Ole Virginny! Amt that
wond'ful, an me never changin'
step?'
'''Anyhow,' she remarked at length:
I'm glad Use lives in Virginny. They
always said round here as how Vir-
ginny was more healthy like than Mort
c irolinny.' IN. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
Gastronomic Neatness.

There is not enough attention given
by some to cleanliness in cooking and
preparing foods. Cooking is dainty
art, and calls for the utmost neatness.
Spinach is wholesome and appetizing
vegetable; stewed, minced and served
with hard eggs. it is pretty to look at
and good to eat, but SO very many
cooks serve it unwashed that people
are shy of it. The same carelessness
has brought garden lettuce and water
crosses under suspicion. Some of the
very best hostesses allow speckled APP
pies and oranges to go on the table. In
the orange skin these russell and black
specks are the shells of minute insects.
and the only way to get them off is to
use a stiff vegetable brush. Drop the
fruit in cold water; brush it piece by
piece until it is clean, and keep in a
cool place. Green grapes are woody
with sawdust, and require a cold bath
just before going to the table.-St
Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
DEAD MEMS FOOD.
A Curious and Ancient Custom Of the Ns
tives of Yucatan.

Curious and Ancient Custom Of the Ma
tives of Yucatan.
From remote times they have been
accustomed to make offerings to the
souls of the departed, particularly a
certain pie that they call food for the
soul" The crust must be of yellow
corn; the interior, tender chicken and
small pieces of pork. These pies are
wrapped in leaves of the banana tree
and baked underground between hot
stones. When done. they are placed
OF the graves or hung from trees close
by. Sometimes, after leaving them
there for an hour or two, the living
take home the pies and enjoy them.
saying that the souls have already
drawn from them all the ethereal part
of the substance.
When among the ruins in the ancient
city of Chichen liza, we happened to
be very hard pressed for food on ALI
Saints day. as on many other occasions,
and knowing that the ''feast of the
dead" would be celebrated in not
very distant village, we allowed some
of our men to go there and take their
chance of enjoying good meal.
In that they We're most successful,
the natives being at all times exceed"
ingly hospita BILE, and never falling to
invite those who approach their home
to partalSe of what they have. But the
men also thought of us. We had early
taken to our hammocks. remem bering
the saying, ''Qui bort, dine" (he who
sleeps. eats). About two o'clock in the
morning we We're aroused by man
only just returned from the village.
He had waited there till all were asleep,
then made his way to the graveyard,
and gathered from tree fine fruit in
the shape of a large pie. This he
brought to us, wisely arguing that the
embodied needed it more than the dis
embodied. The dead mans food was
still wrapped in it's banana leaf, and
we were not sorry to avail ourselves of
this chance to breakfast at two o'clock
in the morning. No tender chicken
was concealed within that particular
crust, only pigs foot with a few
stray bristles on it, and most liberal
dose of red pepper, but hunger made it
excellent.-Mrs A. D. LIE Plongeon, in
Popular Science Monthly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29

then vitiated its finances. It had de-
bauched the ballot box and degraded
American labor: it had demoraliZed
production and debilitated The national
character. but until the summer of
1895 it had not entured to extend its
immortality to the domain of the ma
tiona1 credit. 1t had looted the treasu-
ry in the interest OF high taxes. but un-
til then it had not east doubt upon the
stability of the treasury. 1t had OPP
pressed the nation, bu: until then it
had spared the nations honor
In it's last grand orgie, drunk with
power. delirious over the prospect Of
unreasonable gains. it had made COM
mon cause with the mine owners of
the west who bargained the votes of
their represent atives III congress to
protectionism in return for protection
ism's favor to them The passage of
the so-called Sherman silver law was
protectionisn's bride to the silver states,
and was so understood on both sides
Binding the government to buy forty
five hundred ounces of silver bullion per
month, which it had no use for, and to
issue thereon paper certificates which
u ere redeemable in gold, protectionism
fastened upon the treasury a task which
it could not perform. 1t struck blow
at the national honor which did not
escape the notice of intelligent men
here and abroad
How long could the treasury pay
gold for silver? How long, with its
revenues reduced and its expenditures
increased, could it pay at all? These
were the questions, unanswered for
time, which preceded and led up to the
panic of 1898. They were asked in
America and in Europe long before the
democratic success Of 1892. They cir
culated on the breath of suspicion in
every money center of the world, in
every nook and corner of the earth
where capital existed and where il
vestments were made
How long could the United States
treasury, committed to the policy by
protectionism's bargain with the mine
owners, pay gold and receive silver?
When it ceased to pay gold and came to
the silver standard under which coin
worth sixty cents would pass for dol
lar. what about investments? The an
swer that these questions were to re-
ceive was foresnadowed long before
President Harrison, who signed the Nc
Kinley law and the Sherman law. left
the white house.
Foreign investments in America were
withdrawn. American securities came
home. Gold contracts became the rage.
Promises to pay were more and more
coupled with the condition that, as
gold had been received, gold should be
paid. Prudent men began to put their
bouses in order. for all the signs were
portentous of an approaching storm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
r.s feus1s OF PROTECTION.
81 c I. Inieyy;an, the Cause c. American In
ri

kfcE In'ey;am the Cause c. American In
d-s.r'ni Depression.
The certain effect of al such protec-
tive tariff legislation as that which
bears the name of Mckinley is to over
stimulate some industries and present.
" to weaken all. Favored enterprises
have feverish and unhealthy activity,
soon followed by overproduction and
collapse. The victimized occupations
NAV not immediately feel the drain to
which they have been subjected. but
eventually their vigor must decline
All protective legislation does violence
to normal conditions and sooner or
later the evil effects of the injustice
will snow themselves
In the case of the monopoly legisla-
ton of 1890 the inevitable break down
came sooner than was expected because
the far-reaching iniquity of that cor
rupt betrayal of popular rights by
favored interests was not at first s,ally
comprenended. 1t was known that
the tariff law was drawn by the men
who contri buted the great corruption
fund of 1858. 1t was known that the
plumber TO be secured by its authors
was mainly gathered in the first year
or two of its operation. 1t was seen
that unhealthy activity had been fol-
lowed by lassitude and weakness and
that the old familiar results of stimula-
ton were everywhere manifest. All of
these symptoms were common enough,
for they had characterized every ad-
vance that the protectionists had made
toward q prohibitory tariff. Ii in some
places the results in the way OF over
production and prostration We're more
noticeable than usual it was because
the Mckinley tariff had outstripped all
others in its unfairness and its violence
But more serious malady was in
the blood. Overproduction was local
and sporadic, an occasional manifesto
ton OF an unhealthy system. The dis
ease that fastened itself upon Amer
lean industry as soon as the Mckinley
legislation went into effect was consti-
tutional The commercial and business
life of the nation had been poisoned at
its source. and the faint had reached
the minutest vein Of the body.
Protectionisln had long corrupted the
industry, the politics and the commerce
OF the republic. but it had not until
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
P,TH AND POINT.

"A political pointer-the nose OF tho
candidate News.
"A close friend: The one who never
lends you NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Record.
There is no more dangerous disease
than wanting to get rich in hurry
Rams Horn.
-He-"Would you prefer to marry .
widower or bachelor?" She-'Oh. yes.
indeed.
-Waiter-"What kind of fish will
you have. sir, bluefish or whitefish?
Guest-'.rdon't care; I'm color blind.
HALO.
If it is fact that Everything
comes to him who waits. the Philadel-
phian will eventually get everything
Yonkers Statesman.
-Waiter-''De usual steak, sah?"
Regular Customer-''No; am tired to-
night Bring me plate of hash. -
indianapolis Journal
-''Jiggs was telling me of the terri
BILE things he sees when he drinks"
Jagg-'Poor fellow he must be per-
feet slave to water. "-Inter-Ocean.
Perhaps there is something in the
notion under the circumstances a par
ticuiarly bright girl can do without q
light in the parlor.-Philadelph
Times
There are several young men in
the car" remarked Mrs. Holdstrap with
some feeling, 'but they,can hardly bo
classed among the rising generation"
Boston Transcript.
A o<a -ssyV1on ~, orfspr for
get everything about me; see nothing
but my role; the public disappears en-
tirely." Friend-"I don't wonder at
that. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
-Ethel-"I have kept him at dis
lance, but he still continues his atten-
tons" Clarissa-"You were right to
keep him at distance. AS long as you
do you may be sure of Hmm. Y.
Press.
-Dragon-"Are you the party that
represented me with smoke coming out
of my nose?" Artist-'I am" Dragon
1.-THE idea! Why, never had a Gig
cite in my mouth in all my life."-De-
troit Tribune.
Mrs. Portly Pompous-''It is little
strange that you are unwilling to show
your references" Servant-'I hesitate
out of consideration for those people
who change their servant every week"
Texas Siftings.
willie Wabbles is SO discouraged
about learning to dance" Madge-
"What did he say?" THAT he had
half mind to give up" ''Well. that
sounds like an awful exaggeration to
to me. "-Inter-Ocean.
What is verse, as distinguished
from poetry?" asked the inquisitive
man. Verse;" replied the magazine
editor, after he had pondered, lis the
term applied by any poet to the work
of his contemporaries. Washington
STAR
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
the contract was made.

the contract was made.
1t was not for tariff protection that
Carnegie and Frick made their great
contri buttons to the repu blican cam
paign fund in 1892. They had then as
much tariff protection as Mr.. Carnegie
had asked for when he filed out the
blanks in the steel and iron schedules
OF the Mckinley bill.
1t was protection of another sort they
were after then. With Carnegie sec
rotary of the navy in Mr.. Clevelands
cabinet, the imperfect armor would
have passed inspection, and instead of
paying out one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars for failure in specific per-
Torrance Carnegie and Prick would
have been thousands Of dollars ahead.
They will have no sympathy in their
losses. The country will believe them
guilty of contemplated fraud. and DEM
ocrats particularly VIII feel keen sat
isfaction in the fact that it is demo-
cratic administration which has brought
them to book. 1t is time for Mr.. Car
neg;e to write another work on .'Tri-
umphant Democracy."-St Louis Be-
pu bile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
nall investors and depositors took

Small investors and -deposltOrS took
alarm.
If it was good FOR the rich man to
hoard mis- money it was good for the
poor man to do the same. Certain
tricks practiced by Secretary Foster in
the bookkeeping of The treasury were
not lost upon the people. By transfer
ring this account or that, by postpoE-
ing one payment and another, national,
bankruptcy was averted from day To
day, but the silver purchases contin-
ued and the amount of paper and
silver depending for redemption upon
one hundred million dollars of gold be-
came SO large that at length a panic
seized upon the people. The banks
were raided, as the treasury itsel
might have been, and it was not until
Mckinney laws twin measure, was re-
pealed that the alarm was stayed.
The Sherman law bribery of the sill
yer states, with the resulting panic
and the protracted depression. was
protectionism's browning offenso
against the American people 1t was
protectionism's confession of ignorance
on every question of finance and econ
ofny. 1t was protectionism's testimony
to its own reckless Indifference to the
rights, the welfare of others. It
proved that to save itself or to promote
its own interests protectionism would
stop at nothing-fnancial panics, ma
tional bankruptcy, industrial locNouts,
civil war. Is it not time to divorce the
government of the United States from
such Chicago Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
DISEASE GERMS.
The Development Of Micro-Organisms In
tho Human Body.


tho Human Body.
Among the well-known diseases
whose bacterial origin is already
placed beyond reasonable doubt are
erysipelas, tuberculosis, diphtheria,
tetanus, typhoid fever, croupous pneu-
monia and influenza. The facts dis
covered regarding some of these dur
ing the past fifteen years are among
the strangest of the true fairy tales
of modern science. For example, the
micrococcus of croupous pneumonia. as
discovered by DIR. Sternberg. turks in
the month, and is harmless there await
ing as it were an opportunity when a
condition of lowered vitality of the
system, as from exposure to cold, shall
enable it to take up its active abode in
the lungs, and begin a development
whose results will be manifest in an
Inflammation of those organs. Again,
it appears that the bacillus of te-
tanus, or 1ockjaw, is abundant every
where in the soil, and may rest on the
surface of the human body or be taken
into the stomach without producing
injury. Even on the surface of an
open wound it can not develop, it being
in the presence of free oxygen. But if
from the air it may develop rapidly,
and produce the painful and often
fatal disease tetanus. Thus is ex-
planned the fact, always before mys-
terry, that even slight and seemingly
insignificant puncture wounds are
more likely to produce this disease
than are open LESSONS that otherwise
are far more serious.
1t is an interesting and highly sug-
gestive fact, as showing the power of
resistance of the human body under
normal conditions, that bacterium
capable of producing such disease as
this may be SO abundant all about us,
and yet SO infrequently find oppor-
tunity for malignant activity. But
the same thing appears to be true in
greater or less degree of all the other
bacteria that may develop in the
human body. Even when introduced
into the body they are harm
less, unless they find the conditions
there favorable to their development,
Thus there are probably very few per
sons who have not at one time or an
other inhaled the bacillus of tubercu-
1osis or its spores, but the lungs of only
the relatively few furnish favorable
soil for its development. These suscep-
tible persons develop the disease; the
others are said to be immune as regards
this particular bacillus. But suscepti-
bility and immunity are relative terms,
and a person whose tissues at one time
resist the microbe may at another time
succumb to it. The exact nature of
the inherent vitality" which we are
accustomed to speak of as giving the
tissues power to resist the micro-organ-
isms we understand as little as our an
cestors understood the real cause of the
contagious diseases. Perhaps the
microscope will help to enlighten us in
this regard in the next half century,
Harper's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
Lost.

The notices tackled to fences and tree
trunks in rural neighborhoods arc
sometimes amusing specimens OF COM
position. The writer saw the follow
ing tackled to tree last summer. 1t
was written in blue ink on piece of
brown wrapping-paper:
"a stray mare horse, witch went away
from the Premises of the underlined q
week ago come Friday, witch she had
on a roap halter and letter X on her
hvp. Also she was blind in one aye
with a white star on her fore he'd the
rest of her is a lite sorel excepting tale
witch is blak. A liberal reward will be
paved for her return to Mr.. a. j. K
:.Also saddell marks on her back. ~
Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
A REFORM ADMINISTRATION.
One Case In Which Protection Failed to
PrOtocf.

One Case In Which Protection Failed to
Protect.
Carnegie, Prick s. Co., Of the Home
stead mills, have been compelled to pay
the government one hundred and forty
thousand dollars for their failure to
make armor plates conforming to the
specifications of their contract with
the government and equal to the
highest tests imposed upon them by
the naval authorities. The Homestead
company resisted the payment of the
money until all opportunities of resis-
lance were exhausted, but was finally
compelled to make good the govern
ment's losses and redeem the obliga-
tions it had entered into at the time