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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07
THE FATHER.S LESSON.

/. a little Lad sat in his own high chair,
Blue were his eyes and golden his hair:
But the sunny smile had flown from his face,
And an ugly frown had taken its place
The table was laden with dainty food.
But nothing could tempt his naughty mood:
His tumbler sparkled with water clear.
while that Of his father was filled with beer.
There lay the grievance: and soon he said
with saucy toss OF his curly headl:
mean to grow up as fast as can,
AND III d1'0dys drink beer when I'm a manu.
But the mothers cheek grew blanched with
fear,
And she glanced from her boy to the glass Of
beer;
TIN now it had only beverage been,
nus her eyes were opened, and lurking within
She saw germs Of folly and crime.
Rapidly swelling meath the touch of time:
Hiding all trace Of a once good name
6eveling In dfunkard's shame.
She glanced at her husband; his face was sad.
Tne wfllful words Of his little lad
dad reached his heart; and he stopped to
think:
30 Godl am tempting my boy to drink?
I'm me 1t awakens no craving for more,
And stronger spirits / loathe and abhor;
But my SON may be tempted though be strong
Ana through my example he may go wrong.
".Please God. he shall never be able to say
began to love it when. day by day,
! saw my father his tumbler NIL,
And knew that In him it worked no H."
Then meeting the anxious gaze Of his wife,
will you join" said he. lin pledge for life
For the sake of our child and because It Is
right
To shield his life from drinks curse and
blight"
30 the pledge was signed: and that lurking fear
vanished for aye with the glass Of beer
And the boy grew up to make them blest,
And took for his motto: Water is best"
Union Signal
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WORDSWORTH COMPOSING.
His Work ut Writing Was Piled 90 Closel.
that He Was Often Prostrated.

His Work Mt Writing Was Piled 90 Closely
that He Was Often Frustrated.
Over and over again the sister re-
cords, William wearied himself with
composing" On the very day 18th OF
May, 1902, on which the castle of In.
dolence Stanzas" were begun, she
writes, civilian worked at the 'Leech
Gatherer' almost necessarily from
morning till tea time. I was OPP
pressed and sick at heart, for he wearied
himself to death" and on the follow
ing day-"William is still at work,
although it is past ten o'clock. :. :.
{. He will be tired out, I am sure.
My heart fails in me. = VIII.
liam did not sleep till three o'clock. !"
And the pages of the journal, during
the early months Of 1902. bear witness
again and again to Williams frequent
fits of nervous derangement-excit
ment alternating with prostration and
depression of splrits-the result wholly,
it would appear, of repeated efforts OF
composition.
Thus from Tuesday, 2ede December.
1901, to Tuesday, 9th March, 1903
period of nearly three months-he is
busily engaged on the poem which
Dorothy sometimes calls "The Ped
lar" and sometimes 1.-THE Ruined Cot.
tage," and the entries concerning the
progress of the work read monotonous-
ly to this effect: civilian tired
with composition i. had tired
himself with working =. made
himself very ill ;. was much tired
=. did himself harm went to
bed tired out !. wore out him
self and me with labor. was
worn to DEATH" and SO on ad infinitum.
It must be borne in mind that when
the composing fit would come-or, as
Dorothy puts it. when William would
kindle-the Travelling poets first move
would almost always be out of doors,
for, as he says in the Fenwick note to
the white Doe" and elsewhere. my
intellectual labor has been generally
carried on in the open air" 1t is to his
particular effect of the fit of poetic in.
SEPARATION that the lines in stanza four
in castle of Incidence Stanzas" al
Jude:
But verse was what he had been welded to;
And his own mind did like tempest strong
Come to him thus, and drove the weary wight
along"
-Fortnightly Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

The wild and frenzied efforts OF
the repu blican organs to show that an
extra session of congress would be q
bad thing for the democratic party is
one of the most striking examples of
disinterested friendship since the days
of Damon and Pythias.-Detroit Free
Press.
Stephen B. Elkins points with
pride to the fact that he is the first re-
publican senator to be chosen from
West Virginia for twenty-five years,
and the third republican ever elected
from there. And yet It isn't anything
for republicans to brag about.-Bcston
Herald.
The selection of Elkins TO be
United States senator from West Vir-
ginia is hardly announced before it is
followed by the nomination of Sewell,
the notorious railroad lobbyist, to be
United States senator from New Jer-
the great republican renaissance
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The only evidence of fitness Elk
ms and Seweli have ever given for the
United States senate is their pernicious
activity as professional lobbyists hired
to promote the dishonest schemes of
the corporations and millionaires who
have nailed the red flag of the pluto
cratic auction over the door of the SEN
ate chamber.-N. Y. World.
The use which Harrison's repub-
lican administration made of the sur
plus left at the close of Cleveland's
first term: January 1, 1889, there was
s195, 600, 900 in gold in the national
treasury. January 1, 1898, this surplus
had been reduced to Sos, OOO, 900. It
was still less March 4, 1893, when Har-
rison went out of Office and Cleveland
came in agaia.-Chica0o Herald.
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A slight Misunderstanding.

There was a slight misunderstood.
ing in the hosiery department of an
uptown store the other day.
81 want" said the young mother,
leading little girl by the hand, ''some
stockings for this little girl. think
she wears about No. 6s. At any rate
it is the number that goes with No.
shoe"
Give n half" interrupted the clerk
81 want black hose, Isle thread, !
think, went on the mother with elab
crate care.
EJECT white?" demanded the clerk
laconically, and the mother turned
upon her a look of whitening indigna-
ton.
Naturally my daughters feet are
white" She Numbered. And it took
two other clerks and a foorwallzer to
unravel the knot.-N. Y. World.
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Day, calmly. 81 said so. in fact. And
to prove it he and Hi}da are coming tn
dine with me next Wednesday night.
and Hilda is to be convinced that his
feeling isn't one of prejudice, but of
convection 1 believe that is how he
put it. Fancy! Conviction regarding
composer. But they We're so in
earnest you'd have supposed twas a
creed"
And you let them? You didn't tell
them they might be better employed?
You permitted them to talk about their
convictions as though it concerned
vital question? Oh, Mrs. Day. I'd
rather have it right out with Jack.
This seems to me like wasting time.
don't see how all this is going to bring
him to salvation"
"Let me try bit longer" pleaded
Mrs. Day. why, 1 haven't fairly be-
gun yet"
And with this Mrs. Hanna was forced
to rest content.
She saw Jack dress for Mrs. Days
dinner on the appointed night. She
met him in the hail when he returned.
She learned that Hilda Carter had COM
pletely won him over to her way of
thinking, and that, after all, he hadn't
known what splendid music it was.
That now, since he did know, he
couldn't rest till he heard more, and to
that end he was going to the Philhar-
monte concert the next night; that
Hilda had got him to sing; that she
liked his voice, and that she had ex-
tracted a promise from him to sing
next month at the church sociabie.
II said would. and I'm going to
take up my lessons again, for 1 don't
want to make a mix of it before all you
good people. Sorry, but you'll have to
put up with my chirruping again
num-" he said. And he actually kissed
her good night.
After that Mrs. Hanna could guess
with tolerable accuracy where Jack
had been spending his evenings. He
had his CHEEKY, communicative nights
and his moody, reticent ones. And
these served to report him more faith
fully than he would have believed or
perhaps desired, for we all have our
little reserves in spite of ourselves, and
are not always anxious to have our
moods revealed.
At first the nights of CHEEKY COM
municativeness were the exception, but
gradually they grew more and more
frequent as the young man was drawn
more and more into the society Of
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P,TH AND POINT.

-"1 never believed that Grabbed had
given up smoking until to-day" did
he tell you he had?" mo; but he gave
me very good cigar. Inter Ocean.
When fellows best girl calls him
perfect poem he should be careful.
Many q perfect poem is rejected
Philadelphia Record.
Flows your infant son?" First
rate-just like . student" show SOP"
Sleeps in the daytime. kicks up row
at night-"-Fliegende Batter.
-Brown--ssIs young Flyingwedge
practising law?" Janes-'sI think not.
He was admitted to the bar, but
think ne's practising economy
Vogue ~
Farmer Green-'sHe's . fine colt;
he amt never been broke" Horsy
Hardup-'.Never been broke! By Jove!
he's deuced lucky."-Smith, Gray &
Co. s Monthly.
-Bertie--ssI wish your slippers had
asbestos soles, mamma" Mamma
ION account of the warmth" BERTHE
mo, but because they couldn't burn"
-Teacher-"As the twig is bent the
tree is inclined. Do you quite under
stand what that means? Scholar
Eyes, sir. When bicyclists grow up
they'll walk STOPPING. London Globe.
Mrs Sargent lknowingly)-'It is
said that the Lord never made two
women alike" Sargent (tartly)-''Of
course He didn't, or you would never
near of a man getting married twice!'
Harlem Life.
Doubts Expressed. - Gummey-
'.Prof. Garner thinks that chimpanzees
can be trained to take the places OF
hired girls" Glanders-'O. that's not
feasible. Monkey-work has never been
popular. "-Detrcit Free Press.
Make sure that, however good you
may be, you have faults that, however
dull you may be. you can find out what
they are; and that, however slight
they may be, you would better make
some patient effort to get quit OF them.
R uskin.
That Fear Of a Draught.-A post.
Office department girl is suffering from
a cold, due to the effects OF hypnotic
suggestion. The janitor washed her
window, and every time she looked at
it she thought it was open.-Washing-
ton Capital.
-Flypps-'The landlord of the Hy
Pryce house is making stacks of money,
as sure as anything" Flopps-s'Have
you any particular reason for thinking
SOP" REPRESENTATIONS reasonF
Great Scott! Isn't he boarding at his
own hotel?'-Buffalo Courier.
AS Claimed. Customer
THAT One Minute Toothache Cure
you sold me is fraud, do you hear?
It took it almost an hour to act"
Druggist-''How long did it ease your
tooth?' ''About minute" Eyes;
that's the one-minute part of it."--In-
dianapolis Journal.
Never mind, said the emancipated
woman, "I'll be in congress making
laws yet, while you will be mere no
body!" 81 hope you will, replied the
meek sufferer. II hope you will go to
congress. That's one place you will
have little trouble in getting the last
word. "-Washington Star.
That's the seventh time this morn
ing" said the shoe merchant, as Gus
toner left the store, that you told me
in tone of voice that couldn't escape
being overheard that woman remind
ed you of 'Trilby.'" "Yes," replied
the new clerk, ''and that's the seventh
woman have sold pair of shoes to-"
-WaShiuptOu Star.
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SUMNER IN GREENLAND.
A Place that Would Make q Good Sum.
mer Resort.


During summer the temperature u.s.
ually ranges from thirty-five degrees
to sixty five degrees, and on some days
the heat is such that one might be par
doned for believing that the burning
rays shining down upon the traveller
are those of a tropical sun. The val
leys are carpeted with mantle of
green, the grass in many places grow
ing knee-high, while dandelions, pop
pies, saxifrage and other wild flowers
are found in profusion, and the air is
full of insect life. Marine birds and
garishly-colored butterflies dart hither
and thither, while the less pleasing
mosquito amply demonstrates that
arctic existence does not impair its
fiendish persistency or rapacious appe-
tite. The upper air resounds with the
confused voices of the fcathered tribe,
which range from the quick twitter
of the swallow to the hoarse "quonck,
quonck" of the elder duck. Snow is
only visible on high elevations.
Indeed, there is the ''brawling brook, :"
or ''babbling brook" if you please. the
leaping mountain torrent, and all the
other accessories prescribed by poets
ohu Oh VAoCS W SOAAPlCCC OCoutiAu A
panorama. The picture is more striking
on account of its bold contrasts. For
bidding black cliffs and lofty. rock
ribbed mountains rear their stately
heads far above the verdant valleys,
while beyond the green sea is softly
caressing some tall icebergs that are
glistening in the sun like fantastic
fairy palaces We travel to Bermuda
or across the ocean to Switzerland in
search of health or pleasure. Why not
to Greenland? 1t may be rash predic-
ton, but I feel confident that before
many years have passed the north will
become a favored, if not popular, sum-
mer resort. Then the man of business,
the student, the artist, and their wives
and daughters as we'll, instead of going
for the summer to some place they are
we'll acquainted with. such as insipid
watering-pla or the corresponding
fashionable seaside resorts, will set sail
for Greenland, the new Ell Dorado of
natures gifts.-Home and Country.
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81 HOPE YOU WON'T TELL HIS FATHER-"
And later he got so he'd scarcely speak
to me at all. And now he just goes in
and out, and if he does open his lips it's
only to-to-swear at something, and
last night he came home-oh, Mrs Day,
my boy came home drunk, and when
was getting him to bed pack of cards
fell out OF his pocket. And-what
shall do? What shall do? I'll have
to tell his father now, and that11 be
the end. for Tom wouldn't have a son
in his house who'd drink and gamble,
and there'n be an awful scene. And
Jack will go away and then it will all
be misery. What shall l do? What
shall do?'
For moment Mrs. Day did not re-
ply. -hca 81. said, quietly:
...of course, it's difficult for you, poor
dear. But, bad as it is, it isn't past
help by any means. First of all, You
won't tell your husband. 1 hope you
won't tell your husband"
Mrs. Hanna murmured brokenly,
amid her tears:
II must; oh, must"
NO" went on Mrs Day, disregard
ing her, II hope you won't tell his
father"
mot tell his father!" stammered
-Mra Hanna, swakinG aghast to the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07
SPARTAN TRAINING.
How Some Boys Arc Fitted for Lives o.
Danger.

How Some Boys Are Fitted for Lives or
Danger.
Perhaps the children who are not
''coddled" are happiest as well as
hardest in the end. At least, those
who have their share Of sympthy and
affection, while learning at the same
time to scout at fear, are surely for
tunate.
A young man who rode horseback to
perfection, was asked when and how
he learned.
'Oh," said, he, carelessly, when I
was little fellow my father put me on
q horse, and told me how to ride.
1 was afraid. and slid off; but every
time I touched the ground he cuffed
cheaper to Learnt ri;I
A certain stern Greenlander, when
the breakers were riding highest over
the rocks. would place his young SON
in a kayak and throw him into the
surf. The little fellow. with the double
paddle in his hand, would watch his
opportunity, right himself as he de-
scended, and then triumphantly pad
die through the boiling sea to a little
haven where the conoes land.
''You will drown your boy" people
used to say to this Spartan father, but
the sage hunter of seals and whales
would reply:
''If the boy can not righta kayak in
a stormy sea, he can not kill seal;
and if he can not kill a seal, he can
not live IN Greenland. And in that
case he might as well die!"-Youth's
Companion.
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pure women and honorable men. and
by and by the others ceased entirely,
and if Mrs. Hanna had any ground for
complaint against her son it was not
the company he kept. He attended
church service regularly every Sunday,
but his mother looked on this askance.
''He doesn't go for the church's sake.
It's because he knows he'll see Hilda
Carter there mourned she.
Mrs. Day laughed.
Its a bit hard on the minister's
| wife to be told that folks attend her
husbands church for reasons with
| which his preaching has nothing to do.
But, never mind, so long as he comes.
| Later, perhaps, his motive will be
simpler. We can wait. And if we can
| wait
Her pause was eloquent. Mrs Hanna
made no reply. She had come to con-
suit Mrs. Day about the costume Jack
was to wear at an impending exhibit
ton of Living Pictures
You know all about such matters"
she said, but l never was concerned
in anything of the kind before. In my
day young people weren't always hav-
ing to be entertained. We went to
church and prayer-meeting, and that
was the end of it. But now it's either
fairs or suppers, or something the whole
livelong time. But 1 must say I'm
sorry he and Hilda Carter are going to
be in the same tableau. I'm afraid
it will make gossip. Mrs. Danielson
told me yesterday that they were en-
gagged"
did you tell that to JACKIE" asked
Mrs. Day, with a flicker of amuse-
ment.
Yes. OF course. thought ought.
feel it's only right 1 should give him
hint of what's being said so he can
stop it. Of course he can't break with
Hilda all at once, but he might gradu-
ally stop going there. That sort of
thing can't be done abruptly; one has
to use tact and discretion. Yes, Mrs.
Danielson told me, quite as though it
were an open secret, that they were
engaged"
What does Jack say?'
Nothing"
But Jack did say something. He
said it to Hilda herself.
''Oh. by the way, what do you think?
Mrs. Danielson has told my mother
that we were engaged"
''Were?" laughed Hilda to hide her
embarrassment.
No, 1 mean are" replied Jack
bluntly.
That was thoughtful of Mrs. Dan
ielson to inform your mother. Well,
of course you told Mrs. Hanna that it
was not SO. That our feeling for each
other was merely friendly one.''
NO. 1 didn't. You see, l couldn't
tell her that, because it isn't. mean
mine isn't"
Hilda Redeemed.
You only think that" she said in
matter-of-fact sort of tone.
What? That mine isn't? Oh. no, l
know it. What do think is that yours
is. makes me miserable
Il don't want to make you miser-
able" ventured Hilda.
And even after this, after they were
engaged. Jack went to church It
caused his mother to wonder, for now
her idea that his attendance was SIM
ply for the sake of Hilda was disproved.
He could see her whenever he wished.
1t was difficult of belief. but certain
it was that Mrs. Day had triumphed.
Heaven had smiled on her holy STRAIT
agem. Home Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07
Good AdYiCA.

Judge Noonan, of San Antonio, Tex,
who is republican, but was elected
to congress during the November 9
landslide. is quite humorist. On one
occasion a young lawyer who had just
been admitted to the bar asked him for
advice.
"What is it you want advice abou to"
asked Judge Noonan blandly.
IA certain lawyer has been telling
everybody that l am donkey. Don't
you think ought to fight him or sue
him for damageso"
Eight him by all means. If you sue
him he will prove it on you."-Texas
SiftingS.
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Lincoln's wonderful Memory.

One of my cousins, John Holmes
Goodenow, of Alfred, Me-, was appoint
ed minister to Turkey early in the Lin
coin administration, and was taken to
the White House before his departure
for his post to be presented to the pres
ident. When Lincoln learned that his
visitor was grandson of John Holmes.
one of the first senators from Maine,
and man of note in his day and gen.
GRAFTON. he immediately began the
recitation of a poetical quotation which
must have been more than hundred
lines in length. Mr.. Holmes, never
having met the president. was natu-
rally astonished at this outburst;
and as the president went on with
this long recitation the suspicion
crossed his mind that Lincoln had
suddenly taken leave of his wits. But
when the lines had been finished the
president said: There! that poem was
quoted by your grandfather Holmes in
q speech which he made in the United
States senate in -" and he named the
date and specified the occasion. As
John Holiness term in the senate
ended in 1883, and Lincoln probably
was impressed by reading copy of the
speech rather than by hearing it, this
feat of melnery appears most remarka-
bic. If he had been by any casualty
deprived Of his sight, his own memory
could have supplied him with an am
pie library.-Noah Brooks, in Century.
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DEMOCRACY STILL LIVES.
It L. . Party of the People and Cannot
Be Killed.

It L. . Party of the People and Cannot
Be Killed.
''Why, sir, the democratic party Is
just as much alive as ever" said Col.
w. r. Morrison to Republic reporter.
''They can't kill it. It was born in
eternal truth, founded upon the bed
rock of the peoples liberties and the
true principles of honest and sconom-
ical government. 1t has buried in Sb-
livion many other political parties, and
it will live to see the grass grow on
many yet unborn. The democratic
party lives because it is the only gen
uine and sincere national party that
this country has ever known, that is to
say, in it's broad principles are embod-
led the will Of the people. mean the
common people. and not this latter day
oligarchy of plutocrats that have al
ready and further propose to enrich
themselves through legislation.
.'It is true that the skies at present
lower upon the democratic horizon, but
during these thirty years past we have
seen them still blacker and more for
bidding. 1t is needless to go into
discussion of what brought about this
condition of party affairs, further than
to say that the democrats inherited
the disasters from republican admin
istration, and the people, impatient for
promised relief from republican mis-
legislation, wrathfully fell amuck Of
their friends before they had time to
leayen the load which burdened them.
Republicans need not cajole themselves
with the idea that in 1895 the democ-
racy will not come up united, and they
will lose their petty advantages of No
vember last"
Col. Morrison declined to prognosti-
cate on the presidential possibilities of
1896, further than to say that it looked
to him as if Harrison would be the re-
publican nominee, because Harrison
was a stronger man than any of the
Others mentioned. If the republican
convention got into tangle he thought
that most probably Allison, of Iowa,
who is always lucky, might slip in
st. Louis Republic.