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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-19

Judge Defendant, can you -
vance anything more toward your de.
Sense?" Defendant No, your houor.
had only one dollar, and have IL
ready given that to my lawyer. -Das
Echos.
-Elsie-ssM Ny dearest Stella. Haven't
seen you for four months. How is your
Charles?" Stella - ..Oh, my Charles
has changed very much since then. His
name is now Robert. Fliegcnde
Blaetter.
She-{to her fance)-I heard .
lady pay you great compliment yes
terday." He-"Quite natural. What was
it," She-"She said you must be 8
very bright man to attract me as you
did. "-Truth.
See the young woman. Is the
young woman being suddenly and unex.
pectedly kissed ?" "Ah, yes" And
does the young woman raise hue and
cry?" 'sThe young woman raises a
slight hue, but no cry."-Detroit Trib-
une.
|. Johnny" called his mother, "quit
using that bad language" why" re-
piled the boy, Shakespeare said what
I just did," WELL" replied the moth
er, growing Infatuated, you should quit
going with him-he's no companion for
you."-N. Y. Herald.
Wife Ito husband. an insurance
agent)-''Why, Jack, what kept you SO
late? It is after midnight Husband
business. my dear" Wife-'sBusi-
ness at this time of night?" Husband
Yes, my dear. A couple OF footpads
sured their lives for $1,000 apiece
The Wave.
-"Josiar," said Mrs. CorntsAsel, Eye
liev been worryin' a good deal about the
parity of the money metals" 81 hev
that. AM I'm worrying about it now
jes ez much ez ever" Don't We think
ye'd better do some worryin' c1oster
ter homer" what about? '' 'Isout
the parity of our wood piles. The one
cuten doors is bigger outen all proper
ton than the one behind the cook
stove."-Washington Star.
"A Self-Proclaimed ASA story is
told of certain committee meeting in
which the proceedings commenced
with noise and gradually became up
roarious. AT last one of the disput.
ants, losing all control over his emo
tons, exclaimed to his opponent in de-
bate: "Sir, you are, think, the big
gest ass ever had the misfortune to
set eyes upon" 'Order! Order!" said
the chairman. gravely. ssYou seem to
forget that I am in the oom.''-House-
hold Words.
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laden with the scent of wild flowers,
giant oaks and elms spreading their
mighty limbs to shade man and beast,
and skylarks rising in the heaven with
floods of melody.
A valley with a road running through
it, and, in the near perspective, a village
-Hetherton, it is called-and, in the
distance, the tail towers of Scarsdale
abbey, one of the stateliest homes of
the land.
You have the scene before you.
But not all harmonious is the aspect.
of nature.
This particular man Is eminently
qualified to scare away any poetic
fancies the scene may have prompted.
He is a spare, cadaverous fellow of
about forty years of age, with sharp
features and red hair, and eyes that
would be bright and swapping. but
that they are SO bleared and bloodshot.
His dress is the decay of gentish vul-
garity. When new, you can see that
his coat has been glossy as the glossiest
of shoddy; his trousers baggy in shape
and loud in pattern, and his shoes of
French kid, but the blight of poverty
is on them, and their original grand
ness makes their shabbiness the more
apparent.
Neither is his manner more prepos-
sessing than his person, for as lie
trudges along the road, his lip con-
stantly curls with the bitterness of his
reflections, and he viciously cuts down
the unoffending flowers with the cheap
h, 1rrhf f,ps, MI f.1l
were repugnant to him.
Yet his footsteps are turned toward
Scarsdale Abbey.
Little does Sir Gordon Hillborough,
the owner of the splendid de1nesne, as
he sits in his ancient library, tall,
stern, courtly Ole man OF sixty, antici-
pate the visitor that fate is bringing
him.
Yet barely an hour has passed since
we saw the vaurien tramping along the
highway, and now he is sitting very
much at his ease in the presence of the
great man. who seems too astonished
at the novelty of the situation to offer
n rcmonstrance.
Sir" the baronet says with much
dignity, ''you have gained admission
into my house under the plea that you
have an important communication to
make concerning my son. Briefly as
possible tell me your business"
Don't happen ever to have heard
the name of Gregson, suppose" the
stranger. replied with a sneer.
Sir John shook his head in negation.
Nor of Newton parish in the county
of Leicester?"
..Ah,"
There was y look CT painful recol-
lection in the baronet's face.
''Thc father, presume, of the young
woman. b. whose allureInents my son,
Il racre boy, 4 pupil at q private school,
was nearly brought to the verge of So
ciai tlestructicn?" he asked, haughtily.
Uncle, sir" was the airy reply.
Uncle TO as interesting a young fe-
male orphan as ever fell a victim to the
wilcs of an aristocratic scoundrel."
And you want"
Justice, Sir Gordon! Has not your
son behaved like villain--going and
getting married and starting for India,
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CHAPTER II.
THE NORTHERN HOME,

Fourteen years have elapsed since
| the preceding chapters.
The scene of our story is now laid in
the bleak, desolate region of the south.
ern shore of Lake Superior.
Down in hollow, between two bluffs,
lies the iron city of Cretovn, with its
even thousand inhabitants huddled to-
gether in implanted shanties and blocks
of squalid tenements. Saloons of the
lowest description abound, the only
pretentious buildings being the school
house, the hotel and the hospital. The
whole region breathes of iron. The very
ground is the red dust of iron ore, and
! miners and miners wives and children
ruddy with the stain of the brown
earth, meet you at every step. All
around the outskirts of the place. big
hills of clinkers and powders are
crowned with the engine-horlses of the
mining shafts, while trade is limited to
the few ''storcs" belonging to the min
ing companies. where the unfortunate
diggers into the bowels of the earth
are driven by necessity to spend at q
ruinons overcharge the dollars they
have SO hardly earned.
Here and there you see better kind
Of residence, and in this you may be
sure that an agent or captain resides
the captain beng the highest flight of
aristocracy to which the society of the
metallic city aspircs- These too are for
the most part English, though here
and there New Highlander occupies
the covete OPPOSITION.
He is an autocrat of autocrats. Well
do the men know that they have to look
to HIM for every favor, and, as in the
old fcudal days the retainers bowed to
the will of their lords, these sturdy
mining giants give humble allegiance
to him, yielding even their political
suffrages and voting obediently as the
.boss" wishes, though the new Austria
liam ballot box" win spoil that little
arrangement; but at the time write of
the free and independent citizen of
Oretown had only the freedom to think
as his taslmaster thought.
In the hands of a good man this state
of things was not SO bad, but occasion
ally were found among the captains men.
of brutal instincts, who used their posi-
tions as levers for acts Of pitiful oppres-
sion.
On the top of one Of the bluffs on the
outskirts of the city stood q Gaunt,
square house, rudely put together with
unpainted boards, and surrounded by Q
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while my poor niece and her little girl
are left to s.arve?''
Sir Gordon's hard look softened.
"a babe? had 70 idea it was as bad
as that. Something must be done for
it aud her"
Ives, "sneered Greeson, something
got to be done, an done quickly, too. "
"a small annuity to support and edu-
cate the child" continued the baronet,
meclSly. Il will sec my attorney"
And what about Mrs. Richard Hill
borough?"
.,Oh. she is in India with her hus-
band. beg that her name may be
kept OCT Of this unhappy controversy"
''Ok, no, she's not, my noble friend;
you are laboring under great mistake.
Mrs. Richard Allestree Gordon is at this
moment in Newton, Leicestershire."
''Great heavens" gaspcd the bar
onet. What do you mean?"
II mean that your SON married my
piece three years ago come next Au-
gust. Oh, you needn't stare SO disbe-
lovingly. Here it all is in black and
white-Birmingha registrars GER
tificate and letters by the dozen"
Save for slight quivering of the lip,
one would think that the old man was
stricken with death.
.Do you realize" he murmured, with
difficulty, that this means that my boy
has committed bigamy?"
ssOf course do. and sure as my name
Is Jacob Gregson he shall suffer for it :"
..And why, II these papers are anthem
III q H.
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sIDoY's ctoTHesPlN LEG.

AN Interesting Demonstrates, s,.,,..-..
Heredity In the Ovipara-
It there is one thing despise more
than another, remarked gentleman
the other day. it ia msn who does not
regard the truth with sacred awe.
notice that the local papers are full of
big egg, big pumpkin and other stories
OF that sort that have little real merit
in them. and I fear that some of them
do not even have the redeeming virtue
fof being strictly true. believe they
are exaggerated. Now, have story
Tor you that is not only good one, but
IT is true. What does story amount to
N 1T is not true? Any fool can make up
"a lie. hate a liar. Here is my story:
was down in Indiana county the
-other day and stopped at farmhouse
Tor dinner. After dinner sat down on
the porch to take smoke. / saw an
-oid hen hobbling about in very avTls-
ward way, and ! said to the farmers
wife:
Madam, what is the matter with
that hemp
That hen,' said she, is lame. It has
IAN artificial leg
.Oh, it has, has it?'
Yes. You know there was some
very cold weather last winter, and onc
night the hen froze her leg off pitied
her. nursed her and doctored her up
and she finally got well. But she
couldn't walk on one leg. So just
stuck clothespin on the stump of her
leg, tied a string around it to hold it on
and she does very well with it,
"'Well, WELL said, if that isn't
@strange!'
Yes replied the good lady, with a
smile, but that isn't the strangest part
of it,
"sNo?'
No, indeed! The strange part of It
happened afterward, and one would
scarcely believe it if one hadn't seen it
with ones own eyes. This spring that
hen with the clothespin leg wanted to
hatch. didn't think she could. 'Fraid
shed break the eggs with her stump.
But kind o. pitied her, cause she was
a cripple, and I put 10 eggs under her.
She stuck right to her business for three
weeks and never broke an egg-hatched
.out every chicken
"'Well,' I said, that is not so remark
cable
No. replied the woman, that was
mot SO very odd, but that isn't it. The
funny part of it was that every one Of
those little chickens had a wooden
deg. "-Punxsutawney Spirit.
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FACTS ABOUT COTTON.
The Money Brought Into the South In
Nineteen Years.

The Money Brought Into the South In
Nineteen Years.
A study of the crop figures will show
that seven years successfully increasing
crops fro1u 1856 to 1852 were un-
precedented in the history of trade.
It is doubtful if any leading crop raised
can show such an unbroken increase
for seven years. Jumping from $780,
600 bales in 1856, there was practically
no hating until 1912, when the yield
was 9,o35, o00-a gain of :, 200, 900 bales,
or nearly 60 per cent. advance in seven
years.
In 10 years cotton has brought into
the south over $4,000, O0O, O0O-a sum so
vast that the profits out of it ought to
have been enough to greatly enrich that
section. Unfortunately, however, the
system necessitated by the conditions
prevailing Immediately after the war,
of raising cotton only and buying pro-
visions and grain in the west, left at
home but little, if any, surplus money
out of the cotton crop. The west and
north drained that section Of several
hundred million dollars every year, be-
cause it depended upon them for all
of it's manufactured goods, as well as
the bulk of it's food stuffs.
Hence, of the enormous amount re-
ceivcd from cotton, very little remained
in the south. The increase in the di-
versification of farm products, the rails
ing of home supplies, the development
of trucking and the building of facto-
res are all uniting to keep at home the
money which formerly went north and
west. Whether the cottoa raiser him
SELF be getting the full benefit of this
or not, the south at large is necessarily
doing SO. The increase in the attention
given to grain cultivation is illustrated
by the fact that the south's grain crop
for 1894 was GIL 100000 bushels, valued
at $780,, DOC, 900, Or more than the value
Of its entire cotton crop, and the yield
of 1895 will probably exceed these fig
ures by at least 100000 bushels.
The importance of cotton in our for
eign trade relations can be realized
from the simple statement that since
1878 our exports of this staple have ag-
gregated in value $4,000, 900 600, while
the total exports of wheat and flour
combined for the same period had been
about $4,000 ,000, 900, showing a differ
ence of 81 1000, 900, or over so per
cent. in favor of cotton. Moreover, dur
ing the same period, we have exported
about soc, 100000 of manufactured cot
ton goods, making the total value really
s., zoo, 100000. Compared with the ea-
ports of wheat, -four and corn com
bined-the value of which since 1875 has
been about Sa,2Oo, 900, 0co--there is
difference in favor of cotton of 81 ,ooo,-
100000.
Going back to 1920, it is found that
the total value of flour and wheat ex-
ported for the last "a years is, in round
figures, s4,oO0.ooo,o0O, or s2oo, ooO, COO
less than the value of the cotton ex-
ported during the last 10 years.-Har
per's Weekly.
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Admitted II.

There is seven-year-old youngster
on East avenue who makes life misera-
bic for his governess. He is full of mis-
chief, and tries the patience of his
teacher to an extent that at times bor-
ders on desperation. The other day the
youngster was unusually obtuse and
cantankerous. Finally the governess,
losing the last vestige of patience, pro-
ceeded to apply slight corporal chas-
tisement as curative, after which she
administered a solemn sermon for the
youngsters benefit. Now, Willie" she
said. in concluding her lecture, you
must remember this-that at oil times
you should respect your teacher.
s'Yes'm." sobbed Willie. duly inn
pressed, ST 'spose I'd ought to respect
you on accounted your age. -Rochester
Union.
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fcult theory, eff it is right to let the
lass spend so much time alone with that
young man. She's getting up in years
now, and"
He stopped, for the surprise and in.
dignation depicted on his wife's coun-
tenance were enough to check the most
loquacious.
John Whitford," she demanded,
furiously, ''has trouble added thy
brain? A chit D child, as has ma left
off short frocks, an young mon as
has lived under thy roof welly a
twelvemonth, an never so much by
word or deed as showed he wasna a
perfec' gentleman! Who put that silly
craze i thy soft pate? Frank Holbrook,
I'll tex my Bible oath ont"
sit wasn't"
"Who were it then? For none such
nonsense entered on it's own account
''Wen, then, it was the captain"
"What captain?"
"Wixon."
"Bah!' said the woman, as she burst
into & supercilious laugh. ''Oi thowt
thee was ne'er such gowk Us to moind
that mischief-makin' tyl<e. Here,
how'd the heft o. this griddle, an Oil
sec for mysen what they be a DOM of. y
With this, she crossed the kitchen,
opened door very quietly, traS a
short passage and abruptly opened a
second door at the end of it.
Other persons than the malicious cap
tain might have seen something indis-
Greet in the scene that met the view of
the worthy Mrs. Whitford.
The room was small chamber with
a well-stocked bookshelf; and, sitting
in large armchair, was singularly
handsome young man. reading aloud
to a girl, who reclined on low chair
beside him, listening in wrapt atten-
ton.
So enthralled was the young listener,
as she sat with lips apart eagerly drink
ing in the sonorous accents, that she
did not notice the interruption.
Not SO with the young man. There
was no startled flush On his face as he
raised his frank, brown eyes to the in
conner, and said pleasantly: That's
right, Mrs. Whitford, come and join
our studies We are reading Nicholas
Nickleby,' by Charles Dickens, and, as
the scene lies in your loved Yorkshire,
you may be somewhat interested"
Nay, nay, Measter Grey said the
woman, whose suspicious had been
aroused, notwithstanding her defiant
tone to her husband, but who now
blushed for her momentary lack of con-
fidence. s.Oi but COON to tell zee that
supper's welly ready, an the lass mum
lay the cloth. An it's much obligated
Oh am to thee vor givin' her thy book
larnin', Measter Grey. It's little Oh
ever had mysen, an them as hasna an
edication knows best how to vally ONE
Frank Grey smiled as he closed the
book, while the woman and girl slowly
left the room, the latter pausing mo-
ment to pour forth in a sweet, low voice
her thanks for the treat afforded her.
II the front of the house presented a
bleak and desolate aspect, the windows
of Greys room looked out on q beauti-
full landscape of varied scenery.
On right and left the rugged hills,
crowned with sturdy frs; in the dis
lance long sheeny expanse of lake
corercd with scrub; and, in the far
background, the sun. setting in all the
luxurious splendor of the last languish-
ing days of an Indian summer.
ITO N CoHxMuEni
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VERY REMARKABLE, INDEED.
Story of Bravery on the Deep That Was
Evidently Doubted.

STORY of Bravery on the Deep That Was
Evidently Doubted.
The talk was running on perils of the
deep, and many were the stories told Of
wrecks and of escapes. This one 1 re-
menbered, because of the question
asked at the end.
''She was, of course" said the speak
,er, lone of the old padd1e-wheel steam
GERS, and when it became clear that the
ship was filling and would go down be-
fore long, the captain gave the word to
.get the boats out. see, now, that the
people were kept quiet by his calm as
Hsurance that there was plenty of time
plenty of time.
'.Now and then q woman would sob,
child by the arm: s,ut on the whole we
were very quiet and behaved well.
Meantime, the captain stood at the end
of the bridge on the wheel box, as stiff
=as if he had got poker down his back,
which was his way.
'As each boat put of, he took off his
cap very politely and cried Bon voy-
aagei' and smiled, showing his teeth.
with his hair plastered down with POM
=atum and shining like silk. Quite cheer
full he looked and very dignifed.
'WheA it came to the last boat, in
which the crew and officers escaped,
they waited alongside for the captain.
He looked over. One more passenger
zhe said, and she'll capsize. remain
with the ship. Quick! She is sinking!
Bon voyage!'
$50 he pulled off his cap in the po-
1itest way possible, and his white teeth
CLEANED, and his hair shone, and his
back was straight-all for the last time.
Il was sorry just then that had nick
named him Pride and Pomatum.'
However, there was but just time to
push off, for the ship went down and
we very nearly went down too. Well,
that might have happened anywhere.
Captains must be the last to leave their
ships.
1.-THE really remarkable thing in this
case is that, while we watched the
whirlpool over the sunken ship, up
came the paddle-box wheel itself, and
standing on it. just as stif as when he
went down, the captain himself, cap in
hand and his teeth showing, and his
hair glistening in the sum-
Every remarkable indeed" said one
.of the audience. "Sir, may I ask who
are your publishers ?'-London Queen.
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BoAnDnso BIZ JOHN WEXFORD.

BOARDING. BIT JOHN wHIrFoRn
and, Notwithstanding its rude exterior,
when once you were inside, surprised
you with its homelike simple comfort.
On this mild September evening Mrs.
Whitford was busy preparing supper.
while her husband sat smoking his pipe
in the chimney corner-she buxom,
joy1ax and pleasant featured, with the
bloom OF the Derbyshire hills still on
her cheeks-he, silent and thoughtful,
with his honest face corrugated with
the wrinkles of care.
John" the wife said, turning from
her work, and speaking in broad native
accents, which no change of country
had ameliorated, 81 Gamma abide to see
thee SO down i'th' mouth. Heart up,
now, may happen we shall get word
across the sea from Jacob, an, If the
worst betide us, Capt. Wixon may gle
thee a chance to work the new gang
next week"
Don't go on hoping against hope.
Bessie. Your brother-in-law is a scoun-
drel-nothing but broken promises and
bad faith from him-and as for Wixon
why, he's an American edition of
Jacob in rougher binding. It's a bad
lookout, an winter just coming on"
''Well, mon, Oh told thee how it nd
be. Thou'st made heap O. money
sin we come to this ughsome spot, but
thy daft head couldna keep it in thy
poke. Speculation - allus specilatin'
and allus ON the wrong side of the
fence to rum"
YES" replied John bitterly, chit a
man when he's down. That's just like
woman"
''Oi didn mean to do so, mon," quoth
the repentant dame, brushing away the
tears with the back of her hand. "Only
there's nowt left, now them Keweenaw
shares be worthless, but the sticks o.
house-gear, and the buds we wear"
Nothing" was the doleful reply.
''No dodgers but the schulemeaster
an the two lads, an God knaws Oh
Gamma keep things together wi their
havings."
Then John, Illuminating, changed the
subject by asking his wife:
where's E]sie?"
SIN yon, wi the schulemeaster," was
the reply, as the dame pointed to door
on the inner side of the room.
81 don't quite know" John said, very
slowly, as if he were propounding diff
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RUssiA.s COINAGE.
Sho Probably Intends to Reach Out for tn
Oriental Trade.

Ssho T,rol,nhlv Tntande to Reach fDut for fl,n,
- OrisntaI Trade.
An exchange remarks that consider
able interest has been created among
financiers by recent cablegram an-
nouncing the intention Of the Russian
government to coin next year 100, COO.
600 roubles In gold and 81, 900. 900 In sil-
yer, in addition to the subsidiary coin-
age. While Russia holds in coin and
bullion between 400, o0O, 900 and 500, :
0O0, 900 OF gold, she has recently coined
very little OF this, the total for the
past four years being $7,207. 614. For
the same period her silver coinage
amounted to $40, 626. AZ. In 1894 the
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CHAPTER ].
AN UNBIDDEN GUEST.

LITTLE bit of
rural England.
A d a i n t y
glim p 8 e o +
stream, m e ad-
ow and wood
land, su ch a S
Birket Eos ter
would have
loved topicture.
He dyes red
with hawS. air