Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25
IRONTON, MO-. THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1895.

rained again, in the same way, yester
day morning, for several hours. still
without bluster Or thunder. People
here wonder how it is that with sc
much moisture and warmth there are
no violent wind-storms and no light
ming. Indeed since the rain set in nc
one has seen flash nor heard the rum.
BILE of thunder until last night. The rea.
son is very simple, and the lesson i'm.
portant. The rain was general and
induced the same atmospheric condi-
tions over a large area and it required
no violent effort of nature, or great
commotion of the elements, to equalize
them. Nature not only ..abhors a
vacuum. ''but is ever striving of equalize
conditions. If it is warm in one place
and cold in another the wind will blow
and tend to cool the warm place and
warm the cool place. If pond ex-
posed TO the hottest sun is deep enough
to keep the water cool in the bottom,
vertical circulation sets in and has a
similar effect to a running current in
keeping the water from stagnating. ]
hear the bathers now, in a pond just
back of my orchard, where we fish,
boat ride, and swim, yet it has not run
through the waste way for four years
and has hardly tree to shade it. Air
is not so dense as water, and its cur
-winds-flow faster, but they fol-
low the same simple laws. Now if by
any artificial means, as by covered re-
servoirs or irrigating tile retain mois-
ture to be given out slowly by growing
plants, or by capillary attraction. over
large areas, it would so modify our
climate that severe drouths on the one
hand, or dreadful storms on the other.
as we'll as extremes of heat and cold,
would be rare at this distance from
large open bodies of water, or high
ranges of mountains. Toward this
end, however, we can effect little or
nothing to stay the steady and certain
deterioration of our climate so long as
our system of land tenure remains
what it is. Landlordism, and the in
dustrial slavery that results from it, is
more than a social curse as we shall
find to our great cost. Climatic and
physical as well as political and social
conditions are driving us to conclu-
sion that we must reach.
Our farmers have been buying new
potatoes raised elsewhere. some from
Louisiana.
Wheat is being generally threshed
from the shock. We have two thresh-
ers in this immediate neighborhood,
both steamers of course, but one feeds
itself and the other blows its straw in
to stack so that there is no chaff and
little dust about the machine, making
threshing, except for feeder and band
cutters, nearly as clean work as any
we do on the farm.
Our county seat, Jacksonville. is in
a state of anarchy. 1t got Democra-
tic mayor, six Democratic councilmen
and seven Republicans. The Republi-
can councilmen refused to confirm the
mayors appointments and made state
Tor him that he could not accept. For
! time they were two sets of policemen
who got to fighting among themselves,
md the holdovers arrested the mayor.
4 court, however, decided in favor of
he mayor and things seem to be |
out a little, though a few
ago the principal editor in the
.ity-the Athens of the West, mind |
-ou-got his head cracked by the city
ditor. A year or SO ago the school
money got locked up On some legal ir-
egularity. and few weeks ago, after
good many cases had been tried, the
ircuit judge declared that the petit
nrors had not been called according to
aw, and dismissed the whole venire.
here was some partisan bias at the
ottom of all of the trouble and think
,g people are becomming disguised
nth party.
The land question, however. lies be-
wv it all; it is as truggle for employ
lent. for place and pay.