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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
LOCUSTS IN SYRIA.
The Remarkable Scene Witnessed by
Noted Orientafist.

The Remarkable Scene Witnessed by o
Noted Orientafist.
We were sitting on the hills with orr
backs turned to the west wind, which
was softly blowing from the Mediter-
ranean. The horses were piclleted
close by, grazing the sweet mountain
grass. The Arabs of our caravan were
cooking ''piIlaw'' a little distance off.
Around us were laid out the where
withals OF light lunch, among which
was al open marmalade jar.
was thinking of Ahab, and wonder
ing how he could put up SO long with
Elijah, especially when, on this very
spot. the prophet said to the king.
Gas the Lord liveth in this place where
dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall
dogs lick thy blood-cven thine
when suddenly right into the marina
lade there dropped what I took
for 4 large grasshopper. It was yell
low and green with long jump
ing legs and big head, and
while / was taking it out of the
jar two others fell into a plate of soup.
and half dozen more of the same kind
upon a dish of salad. At the same mo-
ment my horse stamped violently, and
1 saw more of these grasshoppers pelt-
ing his hooks and launches. Turning
round to find whence this insect shower
came. witnessed what was to me an
extraordinary spectacle, though COM
mon enough. of course, in the east A
large cloud, denser in its lower than its
upper part, filed an eighth part of the
western hemicycle. The remoter por-
ton of it was as thick, as brown and
brumous as 4 London fog. The nearer
side opened suddenly up into millions
and billions and trillions and sextil-
lions of the same green and yellow in
sects pelting in a close-winged crowd
quite as thickly as fakes OF snow upon
all the hillsides far and near. Yoa
could not stand moment against the
aggressive and offensive rain of these
buzzing creatures The horses even
swung themselves round and stood
with lowered crests, taking the storm
upon Their backs and tanks.
You had to turn up the collar OF
your coat to keep them out of your
neck and button the front not to have
your pockets filed with the repulsive
swarm, which in two minutes had so
peppered the whole scene round about
that its color and character were en-
tirely altered. Every little creature
of the interminable fight on alighting
vecrs.d himself round head to wind on
the earth, just as If he had dropped
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
The stormisss Region KNOWN.

The waters of Cape Horn have never
been unvisited by storms for moro
than week or two at . stretch with
in the memory of man. Standing ON
the outpost of the world Cape Horn is
the meeting place Of ocean currents Of
very different temperatures, from the
icy cold waters of the Antarctic drift
to the warmth of the Brazilian and
Peruvian return currents. The pre-
vailing winds are from the northwest
and west, and these, coming from the
warm regions Of the Pacific, condense
into fogs, which the sailors call Cape
Horn blankets" and which are tho
sure forerunners of storms. The ex-
tremely low level to which the glaciers
of TERRA del Fuego descend, the per-
petual congelation of the sub-soil, the
meeting Of conflicting winds Of very
different temperatures, are all direct
or Indirect causes combining to make
this the most constantly stormy region
of the world. -Pearson's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
PITh AND Po,NT.

Little Girl Cooking At impressions
istic landscape) $50 Mamma. what made
him think il looked like that9"-Har
lem Life.
First Insurance Agent-.sHow do
you find business?r Second ditto
why. I go out and look for it, Of
course n-P hiladelphi. Record
An Ohio girl eloped with : locomo-
tive engineer last week. 1t was NOT
strictly love match, but there was
= tender observation-disclosures City
Journal
-Spatt-.'I'm very sorry for that
boy. Your seolding cut him to the
quick" Bloodbumper-''That's inn
possible He has no quick. Res .
messenger boy"
Church Organist to applicant for
position Of organ-pumper)-.Have you
ever had any experienced" Applicant
well, rather. fused TO be q milkman."
IN. T. Journal
-Johnny-.'Mamma, this cake slips
down fine.' Mamma-"Why do You
say it slips DOWN." Johnny-s.Why,
mamma, because it has icing on it,
Harper's Young People.
Ticket? Haven't got none. Itravel
on my face" said the tongh passenger.
'Tll have to punch it, them" said the
conductor, calmly. (BlRD 81 reckon
the company won't kick ON my knock
ing down that fare!''
do you think" said Willie Wish.
ington, that it actually hurts q man
to be hit with one of Cupid's arrows?''
NO." replied Belle Pepperton. As .
rule, he merely becomes senseless for .
time. "-Washington Star.
IL don't believe that circus people
are half as giddy as the average per-
SON thinks" Certainly not Where
viii you find q more steady. well-bal-
anced character than the tight-rope
walker?"-Indianapo Journal
-Lawyer-"When were you born7''
Witness-"I can't tell you. You told
me awhile ago that I must only say
what I knew myself, and not what
heard other people say. didn't look
at the almanac when was born"
"A certain debating society is dis
cussing the question as to which is tho
husband who goes home
and finds that the dinner is not ready.
or the wife who has dinner ready and
whose husband does not come home
It is believed that the debate will end
in draw.-Worthingto Magazine.
Perhaps the worst embarrassment
of children come when theyibegin to re.
ceive formal invitations and have to
answer them. Young Jimmy was
much grieved when, after he had
for an hour with this reply
to an invitation, his mother actually
at it: 'Mr. James Northup
declines with pleasure Miss Dorothy
invitation for the 23d.
and thanks her extremely for having
given him the opportunity to do so."-
Boston Transcripts
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

Until the civil war brought upon
US the series of high tariffs that began
with Morrills and ended with McKin-
ley's, the wealth of the United States
was pretty evenly divided, not only as
between north and south, east and
west. but also as between the two
great interests-agricultu and manu-
features. The democratic party had
been in substantially continuous as
cendancy in the government from the
inauguration of Washington to that of
Lincoln. Its leadership and legislation
were all that time untainted with the
corrupt influences of the great vested
interests that are nowadays based on
the protective system, and which. as
Senator Voorhees, justly said in his
speech opening the debate in the SEN
ate, have succeeded in placing it under
the duress of a small majority" of that
body.-Baltimore Sun.
The difference between the Mr..
Reeds billion dollar congress and its
successor, on the score of expenditure,
Is that the Reed congress deliberately
set to work to increase expenditures,
while the congress which followed it
found itself under obligations to con-
tinue the rates established before it
came into power. Of course, Mr.. Reed
knows this perfectly well, but he omits
70 mention it Boston Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
IGNORANCE OF M.klNLEY.
Shallow Sophistries OF the Apostle .!
fec ION

Shallow Sophistries OF the Apostle Of
Protection.
Gov. McEinleJ's Minneapolis speech
was d labored attempt ID prove tLAt If
a ten or twenty per cent tariff in the
early part of the century was a good
thing for the country, one that ranges
from sixty to eighty per cent. is abso-
lutelv necessary for our existence to-
day. Tariffs which upon an average
did not impose duties of more than a
quarter of the percentage levied under
the Mckinley bill were held up as fine
examples of protectionism, while the
Wilson bill, a comparatively high pro-
tective measure, was denounced as free
trade.
1t is by such claptrap as this that
Mckinley hopes to win the presidency
in 1896 The preposterous argument is
paraded that import duties should in
crease with the advance of civilization
until they become nearly if not entirely
prohibitory. Once give man the
right to rob his neighbors of five per
cent of their earnings and it is only a
question of time when he will take
everything, except bare and miser-
able living for his victims. That has
been the history of all legalized rob-
berry and it is the record of protective
tariffs in the United States.
The old pretext for protection" was
that infant or feeble industries ought
to be encouraged by the government
Mckinley's idea is that all American
industries are perpetual infants and
can only exist by the constant con-
tributions of consumers. So impotent
and helpless are American manufacture
ers, according to republican opinion,
that. even after thirty years of the
pap-feeding policy, the mere promise
by democrats to cut of a part of their
unearned rations precipitates q panic.
That is protectionist doctrine in 1894
as preached by its chief exponents and
proclaimed as patriotic" and "Ameri-
can"
The next republican candidate for
the presidency thus explains his belief
on the question of taxation: I'VE must
either tax ourselves and our property,
our lands and our Investments, or we
must tax the products of other nations
seeking a market here"
The idea sought to be conveyed here
to his ignorant and partisan hearers
was that imported goods belonged to
foreigners and that taxes levied on
them would be paid by people in
Europe. AS goods only come here
when bought by some one in this coun-
try, all tariff taxes fall, not upon for
eigners, but first upon our own impor-
tiers and by them transferred to Amer
lean consumers.
McKinley's gross ignorance of rudi-
mentary political economy ought to
consign him to political oblivion, if his
attorneyship for the great American
tariff thieves has not brought him such
a fate already cago Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

- a. - SASo ~ <SN
at the foot of
I b e Chi mbo-
razo, that huge
s n o w It o pped
m o u n t a i n
which conceals
in it's d e e p
bosom the mys-
terie s of the
early history of
Ecuador.
! had arrived
there ju st as
t " iii ght was
"a stiu o. it's
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
1t was Enough.

Bilker-I understand your landlady
gives yon piece of steak not larger
than your two fingers
Star-That's what.
II shouldn't think that was enough
s'Oh, I don't know about that.
almost wish sometimes after I've been
chewing on it for half an hour or SO
that it wasn't so much as it is.-Det1oit
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
Multum in Parvo.

Husband, dear, how do You like this
evening dress? It was great bar
gain
II don't doubt it. 1t looks like one
of those thev are advertising one-fourth
o6."-Judge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

"A True Philosopher. - Shc-"Oh.
I've lost my purse" He-"HOw much
was in it?'' She-"Five dollars" He
well. let it go and think you had .
lost fifty and gave five dollars reward
for its return. That VIM make IT come
out even."-Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
THE CHUGUIPOGlO INN,
BIZ MARY SPRlNGER

translated from the spanish of Baroness VIII
SOM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
WHILE THE KNIFE THAT HAD DONE THE
DEED WAS CLOSE BY.

DEED WAS CLOSE By.
woman, the blood oozing from a deep
wound in her side, while the knife that
had done the deed was close by. She
had arrived that same afternoon, &C
-companied by middle-aged man. also
an Indian, but who had evidently run
off to escape the consequences of his
crime.
| The victim was still breathing. She
was carefully lifted from the floor and
placed on'a pallet Every traveller is
provided with blankets and mattresses,
which he carries on a mule. and thus
can easily make up bed wherever he
may be.
One of the soldiers of our convoy
rushed of to the nearest village after
doctor, although we thought it would
BE no use, for the poor woman was in
her death throeS
We were greatly impressed; and after
the wound endeavored to
restore the dying woman to conscious
mess By giving her some brandy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
A MENACE TO BUSINESS.
Republican Maladministration Recoilins
Upon the Democracy.


The country is now reaping the log
ical effects of the recent republican
victories. These victories are accepted
as the consequences of hard times and
the delay in repeating the Mckinley
bill. As the republicans wish to win
more victories they are resolved to per-
petuate the hard times and continue
the delay as far as they can. This is
simply the operation of the law of sup
ply and demand.
When Senator Harris proposed TO ex-
tend the daily sessions of the senate in
order to afford facilities for discussion,
he was interrupted by an objection
from one of the Pennsylvania senators
before he had time to formulate his
proposition. Mr.. Frye stated he was
in favor of postponing the tariff bill
till next December, as he believed that
it would do more harm than the war
did. Mr.. Quay said he would not work
extra hours in order to pass bill that
would be the ruin Of Pennsylvania
Both these senators must be credited
with too much ability to permit them
to believe the extreme things they said
about the bill. But the whole tendency
of their remarks was to disclose an in
clination to obstruct the passage of the
bill, and to keep the business element
in suspense. They are satisfied that
business depression will help their
party.
The menace to the country from this
conspiracy arises from the fact that
there are democrats in it. Some of
these democrats are probably willing
to allow the Mckinley bill to remain
in force. 1t does not seem to have oc-
CURED to these senators that a new
revenue bill is absolutely necessary,
even from the standpoint of protection,
to which they seem to have become
converts. The Mckinley bill is not
yielding sufficient revenue. There is
deficit in the treasury, which must
continue to grow larger so long as the
business depression continues. The re-
publicans can contemplate this deficit
with equanimity, since their opponents,
having a numerical majority in both
houses, are responsible for legislation.
But the democrats cannot permit the
present situation to continue without
confessing their inability to enact the
necessary legislation to carry on the
government The democrats who aid
and abet the repu blicans in this con-
spiracy of obstruction can never in the
future enjoy the respect of the masses
of their party.-Louisville-C Courier
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

Copyright, 1894. by Mary Springer.l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14

Miners who could have mado ior
themselves better torma than wore
made for them in the Columbus confer
ence, and miners who, hayo no griey.
ance Of their own, went out to show
their sympathy with those who had
grievances and arc now.asked to return
to work for less than they received be.
fore, IRE in no amiablc frame Of mind.
These men cay their leaders have not
treated them fairly.
Tho truth is that leaders and follow
ers both b%lundered. Tho leaders ad-
Sised and urged q national strike TO
reach 4 uniform basis. In this they
have failed. Tho blunder of the men,
perhaps natural under the circum.
stances, was to allow tho leaders to load
them into q movement which attempted
too much to promise success. Local
conditions were too different and pri.
vate interests too conflicting TO ADMIT
Of broad Victory on national lines.
The men who won. ont merely to
show their sympathy mado the great.
est mistake OF all. Having nothing to
strike against, they had no reason 10
STRIKE Now they must 90 back, il they
60 back at all, at a reduction OF wages
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Tho mikado oil Japan has recently is'
sued Il decree allowing a Japanese wo-
man, to load, II she choOqcs, Il slnglO
lIic. Hitherto, II found unmarried uitor
o certain ago, q husband was collected
for hOr by law.
Conductors and motormcn on q
Brooklyn trolley limo urO warned by pla.
cards posted by tho company that they
must stophirtins Hlongthe1ino, "Thero
are no aiGns OF a strike as yot,
Cinnamon, whom thoy refer to their
wiyea-which Ia as seldom "a possible
speak OF them "a my dull thorn," or
'the thorn In my ribs" or "tho mean
ono OF tho inner room"
FOR half II century u man known as
Billy Mustard has dwolt in the hollow
Of a huge sycamore trOo near Hamilton,
o, flo Is said to DO tho second human
tenant OF tho same tree.
The royal crown Of Europe do no,
run to hair, rs . rule. With tho excop.
ton of tho Italian royal family nearly
all tho European sovercigns arc moro or
less bald.
Allowing only thirty chows por min
ute, ten hours n day, a Kentucky stats.
tiCian calculates that tho avcrago gum
chcwer moves his or her jaws lO3 miles
q ycar.
Australia Is n country without or.
phans or an orphauage. Every waif Is
takon to tho receiving house where 1t
is kept until q country homo 10 found
for il.
A bill has passed the New Jersey
house requiring boards of freeholders to
light puzzle roads by electricity within
four miles OF every courthouse.
Ono OF the most important products
Of Algeria is the Roranium crop, which
is raised for the purpose OF distilling u
fragrant oil from the leaves.
Hubert Dovan a French Canadian.
wants a patent on what he calls n grave
signal, devised to protect people from
burial alive.
A Latah wash. man has invented j
bicycle which he claims will successful
ly run on the single track OF 4 railroad.
Tho President, tho sister ship OF tho
old Constitution, still exists in tho West
India docks ut London
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14
WIT N WISDOM.

"By the way, Miss Hanby-I meant
to tell you last Sunday Il meetin'-you
know that last lot o sugar YOU bought
o me?" "Do l? WAL, rather. Made
a cako with it, an all tho family took
sick" "Waal, l forgot to tell yc.
1t was ratpizsn you took stead O sugar;
an it's II cents more u pound."-Hlr-
per'S Ba:Gr.
"Josiar," said Farmer Corntosscl's
vito, "the roofs a.lcakin' ngin." "Is
it? We'll, I'll investigate it ter-morrow."
"Jo.iar"-and she spoke with some
thing like asperity-'.l don't read the
newspapers fur nothin'. What tibet
roof wants amt investigation. Il
wants tendin' to- Washington Sar.
Mildred (itIit~ b!ushing)-Am I tho
first girl you ever kissed, Gordon? Cor.
don-No, my love. but you are the last.
Mildred-Am l, really? Oh, Gordon, it
makes me SO happy to think Of that
Brooklyn Life.
1t hardly pays wasting your time tell.
ing 4 boy what you did when you were
at his age. He would rather pass tho
time telling you what he ia going to
do when ho becomes q man.-Boston
Transcript.
These. girls that marry foreigners
ought to be very careful" "Weil, as q
general rule. they do examine the titles
pretty closely. "-AtlaHtA Constitution.
Tho woman with a horse and buggy
never acts quito as her neighbors would
like TO have LIBERALIZATION Cube.
II you think too little you will DO sure
to talk too muCh.-Ranl's Horn.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14
THE LABOR ooHrEnENCE.
Mr. Lei.ch Expects TO Sco All Miners In
Ono Mighty Organization.

Mr., Leitch Expects TO Sco All Miners In
inc Mighty Organization.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, Juno lG-spoaking Of
the labor conference A. s. Loitch, OF tho
Gnton Record said: This meeting will
not result in analgamatton, but it is
ono OF tho necessary stops toward that
ond. Everything tonds that way. Tho
labor world Ia satisfied that Consolida-
ton OF their forces il tho only way to
get tho recognition that labor should
have. Inst April there was q meeting
something like this'one hold in phill.
delphia, Joscph II, Buchanan the vol
known eastern labor leader being chair
man. "For several years thore has
been talk OF uniting tho Knights OF
Labor aud the American Federation,
but no action has been taEen. Tho
purpose OF this conference wua to force
tho issue and demand that tho railroad
and rival forces shall come to united
force for united action. The action was
harmonious and tho delegates seemed
to be unanimous for one organization,
but 1t did not come.
buchanan wanted immediate action,
and ho WAS opposed by the more con.
servatiro element. and the conference
ended in n resolution being passed de-
handed that the Knights OF Labor and
the American Federation OF Labor meet
and devise somo plan whereby all labor
organizations could DO placed under
n head. This meeting is the result of
that resolution. Another resolution
was adopted that il these two organiza-
tlone Jailed to act in this matter before
July . the chairman bo empowered 10
call q conference Of all labor ~organiza-
tions in the country.
5 you can sec, even il thoy do not
decide to consolidate now, it is not i'm.
probable that such 4 thing will take
place before the summcr is over. |
think that ii such q meeting was called
and an organization effected, tho Amer
Gan Federation would join in n body.
The new organization would unite all
tho railroad employees, who at present
arc not affiliated with either OF these
two bodies. Besides. the bricklnyors
and other large organizations would
come in. So you can readily sec what
. powerful organization there would be
for n starter. From tho way things
look. l think something OF this kind
will be done. l have every reason to
believe that tho result OF those meetings
will be one grand, mighty labor organi-
z~ation,"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14

THERE is mop Catarrh in this section
oil tho country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed 10 be incnrable.
For n great many years doctors pro.
nouncci it a local disease, and pre-.
scribed local remedies, aud BY con-
stantly failing to euro with local treat
mont, pronounced itincurable. Science
has proven catarrh to DO n constitu-
tioual disease and therefore require,
constitutional treatment. lIull's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio. is tho only constitu-
tional cure on the morket. It is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a
%teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
bloodand mucous surfaces OF the system.
Thoy ofror 500 10, any case it fails to
cure. Send for ~Girculara and tcstimo-
mails. Address.
I. ]. cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
gS%Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14
Tho Surar Trust's Secret.

Sugar Trust President lIavemeyes
tells tho senate investigation committee
what sort OF concern Ills is. In Rcpub.
lican states it gives to Republican com.
mitteos, in Democratic states to Demo
cratic committees, never to the minor
ity.
|. II Mr.. ~Havemcye. will go a little fur
thor and cay how much tho sugar trus!
gave to each party in 1892 he will throw
come light on an interesting subject
His admission Of tho trust's desire to
stand in with the majority recalls O
similar admission by Jay Gould before
an investigating committee. Mr.. Gould,
asked as to his politics, said he was. d
Republican in 4 Republican state, q
Democrat in q Democratic state, an Erie
railroad man everywhere.
The sugar trust money is always fol
the sugar trust. Why tshould DO given
to stato committees TO secure control o!
tho sugar schedule, which Congress
makes, is something Mr.. Havemeye,
was not asked to explain.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-14

UNIoNTowN, Pa, juno ia strong
effort will be made by some of the coke
strikers to have the scale committee
settle the strike by adopting the Frick
scale at their meeting IN Scotsdale to-
morrow. Many Of tho strike leaders
have como to believe that this will
eventually be the basis Of 4 settlement
and effort to get the strike settled aa
soon as possible.