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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-22
wORKINGMEN's REGIMENT.

ganized secretly and it was known
that the mischievous order had it's
lodges in all the states. Public atten-
ton was not however awakened to the
power of the ''Junta,'' until the ST.
Mary's riots occurred. ST. Mary's, at
one time mere suburb five miles from
Paducah at the confluence of the Ten
nessee and the Ohio, had five years be-
fore become an important manufacture
ing place owing to it's purchase by an
English syndicate and the erection
there of enormous workshops The
principal industry was the manufac-
ture of cutlery and all kinds of copper
tools, hardened by a new process,
equal to the finest steel. The same
syndicate had purchased an enormous
track of copper-mining land on Lake
Superior and communication was di-
rect and inexpensive by means of the
Mississippi. This English company had
obtained the secret process of harden
ing copper, SO it was said, from a poor
American mechanic. At the time of
the trouble with the men, there We're
over ten thousand operatives employed
at st. Mary's. The place may have con-
tanned five thousand other inhabitants
but all the stock holders lived abroad.
It was town of factories and chin
neys and, save at the outlying end of
it's main thoroughfare where one of
the directors and several of the super
intendents had erected handsome
houses. its residences were cottages of
unpretentious form. 1t had a bank
also owned by the company; free Ii
!, oh hi
hall called THE Forum The trouble
between the company and the work
men was at the start trifing one and
would have been adjusted by the work
men themselves if it had not been for
outside interference. 1.-The Junta"
had had it's eyes on this point for
year and resolved to make it the start
ing point of its socialistic upheaval. It
succeeded in getting its own men into
the works and disaffecting a large
number of operatives. a strike of one
branch occurred early in the year and
the company sent men from England
to take their places. 1t was not proven
that they came under contract. but no
one doubted it. In six months they
had taken on three hundred men
guardedly and singly, and. having dem
onstrated to their own satisfaction the
feasibility of importing tlteir labor in
surreptitious manner. undertook a
colnizing scheme. They put up five
hundred cottages on large tract and
let the property and invited ilnmigra-
ton, disclaiming any desire to get
worLmen. 1t was not till reduction
of wages took place and another strike
occurred that the colonists proved to
be able to take the place of the dis
charged :;ic-, WHO we're, ii tie main.
unsl1illed workmen. At this point the
actual trouble began. The skilled
American worlimen sympathized with
the men who had gone out and four of
the factories shut down.
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CHAPTER XIII

The lift. which was kept at the bot
tom of the shaft. when not in use. car
ried Hendricks up at precisely nine
twenty-eight the next morning. He
had five men with him and they all
got undisturbcd into the signal room.
He secured the floor and then waited
at the little western window mo-
ment until the half hour had expired.
There was evidently some kind of sig
nal made from the wood, for he Sd id:
''AN right. You are to wait here and
guard the entrance until you hear
from me-" He then opened the door
with a latch key carefully and stepped
into the passage, closing the door after
him.
Calicot and Mrs. Hendricks were in
the northern parlor, used as break
fast room. AS Hendricks approached
the door through the passage he heard
the voice of one of the maids singing
in the kitchen. He stopped at the
door with his hand on the knob. He
heard the singing changed suddenly to
a cry of surprise and the floor vibrated
slightly as if several persons had run
to the windows. Almost at the same
moment he heard the sound of horses
feet and he knew that the house was
surrounded. Then he opened the door
suddenly and stood in the room.
Calicot, who was facing the entrance,
had risen suddenly and was standing
in an attitude of defense. Mrs. Hen
bricks, with admirable self=possession,
half turned with a look of reproach.
''Pray be seated" said Hendricks.
"What we have to say need not disturb
the air of tete-a-tete," and he pulled,
as he advanced to the table, one of the
chair with him.
Calicot remained standing.
81 beg that you will be seated" said
Hendricks with politeness.
Calicot strobe to the window and
pulled the curtain aside. He saw the
mounted men on the lawn. Then he
dropped the curtain and came back to
the table.
There is lady present" said Hen
bricks. There is no necessity in our
interview for her retirement"
Calicot sat down. He was looking
at Hendricks with curiosity.
I'm the little conflict between u.s."
said the latter, Il assure you, sir, that
if you had made it plain that you rep
resented the inevitable, 1 would have
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gracefully succumbed. That is all I
ask of you now. There are twenty
five men guarding the house and a suf-
ficient force inside. You, my dear sir,
are my prisoner"
You are certainly" said Calicot,
"the most extraordinary man / ever
met. 1t requires brains as well as au-
dacity to play Claude Duval success
fully on 4 modern stage. 1t may be
necessary to the ends of justice for me
to succum5. The agents of the newt
able scarcely count. They may delay
they do not alter the result. l am
very glad. sir, to have met you at last,
even to my disadvantage. How many
officers of the law have you killed this
morning?"
1t will help to preserve your own
comfort and my good will said Hen
bricks, If you will try and understand
at the start that you have got to deal,
not with crime. but war. 1 am not a
Taalefactor, but revolutionist. So
Getty il Il month will have to treat
with me under the conditions of armed
conflict. 1t would be well if you could
advance your position and your lam
guage to that point without waiting
for events. At present you are my
prisoner. 1 intend to hold you. There
ought to be no good reason why your
captivity should be uncomfortable
Calicot smiled. You fight the in
evitable with sophistry," he said.
There is but one other means after
that. 1t is violence. / do not accept
your argument and do not recognize
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Almost Too Intelligent.

There was small colored boy about
nine years old on the street car the.
other day, and he was an object of
great interest to the little girl of four
on the opposite side. She stared at him
attentively for awhile and then, while
her pretty, fuffy-haired young mother
was looking out of the window, she
leaned over and remarked, confidential
ly: 1--WE got colored dolly at home'
The pretty young mother hastilyturned
and addressed a few remarks to her off
spring on the necessity of preserving
silence in public places. The baby sub
sided for awhile, but by and by, en-.
couraged by her mothers abstraction
and the pleasant smile on the face of
her vis-a-vis, she leaned over again and
said with great distinctness: docs
your mamma curl your hair on ragsa
My mamma curls my hair on rags and
she curls her hair on rags" The curly.
haired mother took her intelligent
daughter out of the car at the next cor.
ner.-N. Y. World.
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WON THROUGH MISFORTUNE.
The Republican Victory the Result of
National Troubles.

The Republican Victory the Result Of
National Troubles.
The republican party is merely the
beneficiary of an accumulation OF
troubles which it was the chief instru-
ment in producing and which yet bore
against party which succeeded it in
responsibility at the moment when the
burden fell upon the nation.
1t has conducted a cowar6ly and i'm
potent campaign. Unable to defend
their record and barren of healing
ideas its orators have moved about.
monotonously repeating the falsehood
that the democratic party had caused
the financial troubles. Their one feat
was that OF the boy who has broken a
window and lays the blame on the
other. who has tried to dissuade him.
Ii the defeat OF democracy mad de-
pended on republican merit, republic
an talents or republican logic, we
would have carried Vermont and Penn
sylvan1a A feebler canvass was never
witnessed.
The democracy has its principles
and its believers yet. The principles
are truth and the believers are a host.
Before the next year opens the stay
st-homes will repent their error Of
judgment and the democratic potency
of victory will be restored and in
creased.-St Louis Republic
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PlTH AND PolNf

Ethel (ambitieus| what would
you do if you had voice lilre miner
Maud (spitefully) I'D try to put mp
with it. Tit Bits.
The expectations OF life depend
upon diligence; the mechanic that
would perfect his work must first
sharpen his tools. -Confucius.
-Quericus-ssHow did such place
ever get the reputation of being great
health resort?" Cynicus 1.-TWO or
three prominent men died there."-Tt-
Bits.
-Willie's Idea Of Appropriateness
Miss Oldie-'What are you going to
give me for a birthday present, Willie?"
Willie-'I guess I'll give you my grand
pa. Detroit Free Press.
II don't see how you dare trust
yourself to young DR.. Pills. He hasn't
any patients" That's just the point.
He'll strain every nerve to keep me
alive. I'm his only source of income"
-Harper's Bazaar.
-"What perfectly lovely gold hair
pins! Where did you get them?" Madge
well, no matter, for they're not
worth anything. can neither button
my shoes nor shake down the CRATE with
them. Chicago Record.
NO." said Knogood, despondently,
haven't been discharged: but they re-
moved me from my place as boss, they
removed me from the best work and
afterwards removed me to the lowest
grade; and three removes, you know,
are as bad as fire '-Boston Tran
script.
Taking Practical .Effect.-Sales-
man-"Mr. Haggamore, I've joined the
church" Grocer-''I am glad to hear
it. James. I hope you will stick"
Salesman-"Yes, sir, and-you'n have
to let some of the other clerks sell that
Pure Vermont Maple Sirup after this"
Chicago Tribune.
Little Visitor (pointing to a large
oil portrait-"Whose picture is that?"
Little Hostess-''She was my NAM
mas great-aunt. never heard much
about her, but guess she was school
teacher" Little Visitor-s'Why?'
Little Hostess-''See how her eyes fol-
low us about. "-Tit-Bits
lis this Bond & Coz" eyes. What
is it?'' 1--WE have found that cipher
telegram of yours that got lost. This
Is the telegraph ONCE talking. well,
what became of it?" ga new boy took
it over to the Office of the Decade Mag
azine. When the tracer found it there,
they had it in type. Thought it was
new poem. Had the toughest kind of
work getting them to give it up."-In-
dianapolis Journal.
1t is well-known fact, that some
theological professors are anything but
masters of the art they presumably
teach. A shrewd old Scotchwoman,
after listening to a dreary sermon by
such a professor, inquired as to the
identity of the preacher. 1t was an
swered: 80! that's ane O. the men that
max the ministers" Deed - replied
the Scotchwoman. "Weel, he maun
be guide mon. There's no ane O his
students that he doesna maxi to preach
far better than he does himself
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These six nen went Immediately
north. hung about the grounds OF r,;s
Lara-l house. encountered the tvo
deputies who were in the woods and
killed them. They then returned at
night feeling assured that they had re-
moved the obstacles To their liberty.
Hendricks heard of it first from Mrs.
Hendricks.
1.-The two deputies" she said, ''haTe
been killed at the edge of the blue
grass opening on the Smoky Hill
stretch. They were killed by your men
yesterday afternoon. Calicot sent their
bodies on to Clinton in wagon, and
Lieut.. Stocking has gone with them.
They had not been gone an hour when
four mounted men arrived to take their
place. I saw them from my chamber
window. 1t had a peculiar effect upon
me. They seemed to be the advance
guard of the race. Calicot is as suave
and unconcerned as ever. We ate
breakfast together. 1 expressed the
greatest amount of concern and
womanly horror at the deed. He
merely remarked that it was an incl
dent calculable and of small weight in
estimating uIIlIndIe results. "A mere
skirmish.' Then he changed the con-
versation to trifing subject. We shall
now have six men instead of four.
Something tells me that if you succeed
in getting rid of these men, twelve more
will take their place. It's like fighting
an incalculable machine"
Hendricks plans were decided upon
in five minutes after this communica-
ton. He called in the general and ex-
planned the situation to him. 1--WE
must take this bull by the horns. Pick
twenty-five of the best men: stock them
with the best horses we have got. They
are to be timed to arrive at the Laran
house at nine-thirty tomorrow morn
ing. Have twenty-five more men at
this shaft. There is no telling what
Stocking will bring back with him. /
will go up and meet Calicot at that
hour. l don't want him killed. We
must make him our prisoner. AS for
the rest, let them take the chances.
shall probably hear from Mrs. Hen
bricks tonight. but shall not tell her
of my plan. We cannot use Fenning,
for he must go to st. Mary's. Have
You got the stuff OFF,
Yes" said the general, the last
boxes went last night"
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A TRICKY GAME.
Republican Protectees Already Showing
Thei1 Hands.

Republican Protectees Already Showing
Thei1 Hands.
Now that they have accomplished
the purpose for which they shut down
and threw their men out of employ
ment, the republican mill bosses and
protectees generally are resuming
operations, full of animation and
buoyancy.
Says Pittsburgh dispatch to Chi
cago Mckinley organ: simultaneous
ly with the announcement OF results
came notice from the Oliver s. Rob-
ers Wire company that the rod mill
would be started at once. Like many
Of the other mills. it worked only when
the mill had orders The employers
were so we'll pleased over the election
that orders to start up were given.
Other mill owners say they will now
replenish their stocks, and a long and
prosperous period of activity is looked
for"
from this statement that the Mckinley
law was already restored, and that the
mill bosses were no longer afflicted
with the 'ruinous Wilson bill" But not
SO. That bill is with US to stay for more
IMAM Two years, al CHc lodSC. VI COURSE,
the mill bosses know it, and when they
rekindle their fires and proceed to
''stock up and hilariously give out
that they look for "a long and prosper
Gus period of activity"-when they do
this avowedly because the election has
gone to suit them they admit that
there is nothing at all ruinous about
the free trade bill" They admit
that they expect "a long and prosper
Gus period of activity" under that bill.
for everybody knows they can get no
other bill for more than two years.
They admit that neither the fear Of
the bill nor the bill itself was the
cause of hard times. but that they
themselves purposely made times as
bad as they could for electioneering
purposes.
There may be some people who do
not see through their game now, but
there will not be many such two years
hence.-Chicago Herald.
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OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

1t looks as if the political PEN
dulum had swung too far one way this
time to be near the center of gravity.
Boston Herald.
AS a means of getting republic
be considered the greatest civil service
extension on record.-St. Louis Re-
public.
-Chio's immense republican ma
jority is largely accounted for by the
fact that Mckinley did most of his
campaigning outside of that state
Detroit Free Press.
-Republicanism, rejuvenated for
the moment by calamities of its own
contrivance, has triumphed again,
but it triumphs as minority over a
divided majority. Chicago Herald.
The plutocrats> the republicans
States senate Will have their uses
there. Only fsw more money-sack
senators are needed to assure the cleo
ton of all senators by direct vote of
the people.-N. Y. World.
--Ex-President Harrison is shade
premature in the conclusion that the
recent election was conclusive rs to
the vote two years from now. There
will be plenty of democrats at the
polls in '96-too many for the Harrison
family.-Chicago Times.
Please note how the calamity
howlers are already tuning up to sing
their little song of prosperity's re-
vivaL According to the senior repub-
1ioan orran and few nfherS OF its
ilk the tin, wool, iron and other lines
of industry by some occult process
were suddenly, as in the twinkling OF
an eye, changed from detection and
despair to buoyant hope and conf
dence when the election returns came
in.-Chicago Times
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FELT EVER so MUCH BETTER.
Knew the Other Was a Fool, But Wanted
No Explanations,

Knew the Other Was Fool, But Wanted
No Explanations,
Three or four years ago a silvery
tongued fellow, who gave out that he
was ''fruit tree agent" swindled the
farmers in an English county famous
for orchards and cider in q bare face
manner.
One man was SO disguised at having
been taken in that he hunted the scamp
out and gave him a horse-wipping in
the street.
After he had got through his work
satisfactorily he told the fraud" that
he would lather him twice as badly if
ever he set eyes upon him again.
A year ago the same farmer was jog
ging along lane. when he met q
stranger who so closely resembled the
''fruit-tree agent" that he stopped and
said: /.
what! You here again, you scoun-
drel!'
Eyes, I'm here. you see," was the cool
reply.
'Wel1, so am 1; and I'm going to
haste you till your mother wouldn't
know you, and you hain't got breath
enough to cry don't I told you I'd do
it, and I'm just a plain man of my
word"
The threatened man pulled off his
coat without a word of protest, and a
fight began. Inside of five minutes he
had used up the farmer, wiped the road
with him, and was busily replacing his
coat.
'How is this?" the Herefordshire man
said ruefully, as he wiped the blood
from his face with wild rheubarb
leaf, 'tyou fight whole horse better
than you did two years ago"
do l? Don't know This is our
first little affair together" the other
replied.
''And you never set eyes on me be-
fore, s'pose you'll say?"
'Never. And don't want to again"
::'Shoot me if don't begin to be1ive
you are right. But why in creation
didn't you explain, or ask me to? You
must have thought me fool"
Eyes, 1 knew you was a fool; but /
had just found out that had tramped
nearly nine miles along wrong road
and was wishing someone would come
along and give me a touch up.
didn't want to have any stupil explana-
tions about it,
''But hope you will pardon me?"
"Don't mention it," replied the other;
"a rotten apple will cure that black
eye of yours in less than a week, and
regular rensings with salt and water
will tighten up your loose teeth in
about no time. feel twenty per cent.
better for our little mill, and am ever
so much obliged. Good-by. Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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your authority. rrt am deeply inter
estcd IN your ,.2lluc:ls.;on."
''Ezlougi:." r-pIicd Hendricks. 'siIay
al. you TO rive up Your ariDs?'
Il give yoli r,y- word as gentlemen
that never carry any and an u2crIaed
ct this moment" said CaIicot.
.'T,en pardon me moment" said
Hendricks. You will have to ac-
company me-" He went to the door
and spoke TO one of his men. He
thought, as he turned to come back.
that both Mrs. Hendricks and Calicot
made a motion of their bodies as if
they had leaned forward to speak to
each other.
''Win you accompany me, sir?" said
Hendricks.
Certainly not voluntarily" replied
Calicot. Il am an officer of the law.
You are resisting the due process Of
that law
Il regret exceedingly said Hen
bricks, that you should insist upon
force
THAT is your Responsibilities
mine," observed Calicot.
Hendricks called in two men. RE
move this gentleman to the shaft" he
said.
The men stepped on either side of
Calicot.
Tint is sufficient" he said. ''You
need not drag me-
He then made a bow to Mrs. Hen
bricks and walked to the signal room.
After a consultation with the gen.
eral Hendricks followed him. The
shaft was open and the lift was wait
ing in the room. Ii was impossible to
see the mechanism of the floor for the
window had been darIsened by closed
shutter. Just as the two men stepped
into the elevator the sharp report of a
rifle rang out clear upon the air and
was almost Immediately followed by
at least half score of answering
shots.
The two men in the elevator looked
at each other.
THAT is the return of your lieuten-
ant" said Hendricks.
Yes" replied Calicot calmly. ''He
is brave fellow and a warm friend"
Let us hope that there is no blood
she'd" said Hendricks. and that we
shall enjoy his society,""
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An Old Chinese water-CIock.

Tn another tower, reached by flight
,.rickety stairs, is the water-clock that
has measured time for the Cantonese
for nearly six thousand years. Four
CONNER pots. crusted and dingy with
ACE stand raised on steps, each one
above and slightly behind the other.
In the base of the three upper pots are
Inns over which from pinnole outlet
the water filling the top vessels trick
les drop by drop. and passing through
each of the first three, drips finally into
tI,e fourth. or lowest. Through a slit
r., the cover of this vessel is seen
graduated brass scale attached to
t,oa. below, which rises with the in
/, ..~casinc volume of water. Every
twenty-fourth hour the water accumu-
lating in the lowest pot is transferred
to the uppermost. and the scale sinks
down with the float. only to rise again
with the hours as the vessel slowly
fills up.-Century.
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ITO BE Continued
Then He Wasn't Pleased.

Mr.. Spoony Slipping the ring on her
finger)-Does it please you?
Miss Dash-Yes, indeed. I'm never
so happy as when 1 have a new en-
gagement ring.-AnswefS-
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Many youth reasons that because
his daily duties are monotonous he IS
only plodding on a dead level. But
stair-steps are monotonous and they
ar. not usually on . dead level
Young Mems Era.
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CHAPTER XIV.

It was this year that the new phase
of imported socialism came into view
with the industrial Junta." as it was
called. The branches had been or
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-21
FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY.

Mr.. ]. G.. Fowler, of Mankato, who
two years ago filled the office of AS
sistant Secretary of the Senate, is
again candidate for the same place.
Mr.. Fowler made one of the best
officials in the last Senate, and the
fact that he lost but one day during
the entire session is proof that he
was strictly attentive to business.
Among 1.-The members-elect there
are several old Senators who know
Mr.. Fowler and appreciate his worth,
and there can be hardly doubt but
that they will give him support in his
present contest. The Assistant Sec
retaryship is equally important to
that of Secretary, and with the eX-
perience which Mr.. Fowler can bring
to the position, it would seem that
his chances for success are excellent.