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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24

ing to say. Only I can tell you that
you'll be more surprised than you ever
were before in your life if you do run
into me-
81 amt going to be Sui priscd by no
trifing schooner, and you can just bet
on that says Jim. I'm going to back
down for about a quarter of a mile, and
when you see me coming you'd better
get off that schooner in double-quick
time, or else you'll find yourself knocked
clean into the next county, and you'll
be the worst-looking lot of remains that
any coroner ever tried to set on
you've quite made up your mind to
run into me. have your asked the cap
tain.
"'Pm going to give the order to my
engineer this blessed minute says Jim.
"'Well,' says the captain, you can't
say as how haven't warned you that
you'll be everlastingly surprised. so
don't try to blame me if the thing don't
pan out to please you. Now, I'll just go
below and get my log book and my pa
pers, and then I'll go ashore; and l call
you to witness that I'm the last man to
leave thishyer craft. having done all
that a man can do to see as how his own
ers and the underwriters amt cheated
out of none of their rights
"'You'd better hurry up says Jim,
for when start for thishyer schooner
there amt no signals as is going to stop
me. I'm going clean through your
schooner; and I'll be mile down the
road before the chips will get through
raining
.:Well. the captain collects his papers
and climbs down to the ground and
goes off into the woods, where he could
have fair view of the coming catastro-
phe without too much risk of having
his head stove in. Jim, he interviews
his engineer, who allowed that unless
the schooner was loaded with solid TIM
Der or railroad iron he'd undertake 70
run through her without losing any,
thing, except, perhaps, his smokestack,
and that he'd be pleased to undertake
the job. 1 disremember the engineers
name, but he was a careful man. and he
knew pretty well that no vessel loaded
either with timber or railroad iron had
any call to be in that part of the lake at
that season of the year.
'!Weli, Jim climbs into his caboose,
which, of course, was at the end of the
train, and he takes his three brakesmen
with him, SO as to keep them out Of
harms way; and then the train backs
up a long distance. and after big
screech on the whistle, just to let the
schooner's captain know that the cir
Gus was going to begin, the train starts
f<,r tho schooner with the throttle wide.
open and a full head of steam on. Jim
says when she struck the schooner the
train was doing q good fifty miles AN
hour, and he expected to go through her
without feeling SO much as a shock, ne
being man that WINS used to collisions,
and could generally predict, before ne
ran into anything, just exactly what
the result was going to be. The en-
9ine struck the schooner good and fair.
but she never went through it. To
Jim's TREMENDOUS surprise. there was a
sound a. II all the powder mills in the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
BAiRD'S TAPlR.

Common Enough Animal That Can Not
He Seen In Amy Collection.
Still less known in this country, and
never seen, either in menageries or
museums, are the two species of tapir
found in Central America. The sleek,
plump-bodied. chocolate-brown tapir
of South America we do see OCCASIONAL
ly, both alive and dead, but of Baird's
tapir there is not even one adult stuffed
specimen in existence, either in this
country or in Europe. A few skulls
and skeletons and two or three mutt
lated and unmountable skins are posi-
lively all the world possesses in repre-
sentation of this species, and. what
is still worse, no naturalist has yet
had an opportunity to even write
description of the full-grown animali
The young animal is known to be of q
reddish brown color, marked with ir-
regular white spots and stripes.
Our universal poverty in specimens
of the tapir named In honor of Prof.
Baird is not due to the extreme rarity
enterprise on the part of the intelli-
gent white men who from time to time
have had it in their power to procure
and to preserve specimens. The ami
NAL is well known in Panama. Costa
RIGA, Nicaragua, Honduras and south
ern Mexico.
Although tapirs are usually found
along small and well-shaded rivers
in the hot lowlands OF tho
tropics, they are frequently found on
forest-covered mountains as we'll DIR.
Frantzius informs us that the Costa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24

Ny FRIEND RAN OUT OF THE OFFICE WITH
A STARTLED EXPRESSION.
grown to be a mighty roar, that came
nearer and grew louder, with even
greater speed than that with which the
flying and screening engine had ap-
preached us. Suddenly all the doors
and windows of the building burst
open from the inside. Then there was
a rush of air through the place aid the
roar of the cyclone grew lower and
fainter. The terrible visitation had
passed within fifty feet of the station.
leveling everything in its path, and was
already miles away.
"There!" said the stationmaster, st
reckon you're somewhat more sur
prised than even Jim Cutter was. That
was a first-class Montana cyclone, and
don't you forget it. I expect the whole
town of Jericho is gone, and # yon
hadn't been up here listening to my
chatter you'd be a dead man by this time.
Well! I'm glad to be of some little use
in the world, and I'm glad an English
man like you has had a chance to see
what Montana can do in the line of
weather when she really humps her
self!"-Pall Mall Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
plTn Ann polNT.l

ssY ou say that horse isn't a1relQ
anything. Can my wife drive nalnr7
don't know. sir. I've never 49,
your vile - Life
He coming ont OF the warm tnee-
teri You look Hike hroaied lonsscr.
Well. just feel like s0motninG
to eat. Yonkers statesman.
ssF raulein, for months have car
ried this thought in my head Oh.
the poor thought must be lonesome 70
be entirely without company. File
gende Blaetter
-He-''Why shouldn't be happy?
love You. and you know all the world
loves . lover. She Tin alarm)
then, suppose you should return II. -
Boston Transcripts.
Never began the philosophical,
drummer. never marry woman with
square. protruding chin. II never
do. " said the drummer from Chicago
Indianapolis Journal
-He used 70 say. sWin you be minor
OF womin .nev.. stin diyins.
He asks, Can be yours.''
Washington Star.
Counsel for the Defendant fsar-i
castically)-.sYou're . nice fellow.
aren't your" Witness for the Plnintim
(cordially)-.sI am, sir; and If were
not on my oath I'd say the same OF
you. It'll Bits
Politics said the self-made man.
always reminds me of something L
noticed when I set ont in life as =
sailor" s.What was that?'' There's
no good KNOWN the ropes unless
you've got pull. Washington Star.
III DESIRE" said the scientist, ITO
inform myself a. to the mean temper
AZURE of this region" WELL" replied
the native. as he shook the rain of his
overcoat, .syou couldn't have come in 8
better time. This is it."-Washington
Star.
-Wiggles-"I hear Bjenks has been
very i'll. Is he out Of danger yet2s
Waggles-"Well. he's convalescents
but he won't be out Of danger until
that pretty nurse who has been taking
care of him has gone away."-Somer-
vile Journal.
Miss Watson-.srhat villain In
vour story Ia 4 perfect masterpieces.
Where did You get the characterq..
Noyelist-s.I imagined q man possessed
of all the forms of wicl.edness which
NV wife attributes to me when she Is
angry.
whats the matter, Rastusr You
look angry" 81 Ia, sub. is. Dat
or'nary Col. Pepperorass done called
me- q niDcah. srh.n uWell. Rastus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
TRIED 70 PLEASE EvERYsoDx.'

Why the Bseyelo Girl Was weird anA
Wsxsy speceAele.
She was probably the weirdest-loolL
ing spectacle ever seen on ManhAttan
island. She came down the stepe Of
her remote Harlem homo and COM
fronted her family on the front steps
Two bicycles Of the masculine and
feminine gender respectively stood 1t
the bottom of the steps. and . mascu-
line bicyclist lounged against the rail-
why, Maude!" exclaimed the APP
partitions mother. eWhat have you
on your head. child?"
It was quite evident that Maude had
on . big black chip hat trimmed with
pink roses and black chiffon.
my garden-party hat" replied
Maude, composedly. '.You know that
my cap He said there was no reason
hideous than nature had intended me
to be. and added that this was q be-
coming piece of headgear."
ssBut-Maude!' cried her eldest sis
ter, you have forgotten your skirt
s'Oh. no. haven't" said Maude. ST
am wearing black satin boomers be-
cause Claude declared that no woman
who wore skirt could ever look at
ease on her wheel. So I have simply
left it OFF"
s'Will yon be kind enough to explain
why you are wearing silk stockings
and strapped slippers?" demanded
Maude's father.
Certainly. SIR" replied the young
woman. mamma says that it breaks
her heart to see me with hideous bicy-
Gle shoes and notwithstanding gait
ers on. And don't wish to break her
heart
ssWhy are you wearing that heavy
Norfolk jacket and a standing collar
this warm night?" demanded Maude's
brother.
because sister has assured me that
she>loves to see me look trim and trig.
and has added that / look trim in moth
ing else.
WELL" exclaimed her aggrieved
mother, '.you surely can't accuse any
of us of asking you to add the finish
ing touch to your ridiculous get-up by
wearing that gold chain and heart
shaped locket"
mo, none of you. But Charles"-
looking at the waiting bicyclist-
begged me always to wear it. Now.
here am, dressed according to sug-
gestions from you all Are you satis-
fed? Do you like it? Or will you let
me dress to suit myself in the future?"
''Go dress yourself properly Maude. !"
said her mother.
Eyes. go." shouted the repentant
family.
And ten minutes later a neat figure
in brown cap, skirt and CATERS and q
pink shirt waist. rode merrily off on
her wheel.-N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
The Pacific slope st,ll Has Gold.

Out on the Pacific slope the old min
ing experts and some who are not such
veterans, but, nevertheless, know =
great deal about the mineral riches of
that section, are fillAd with disgust
when they see the world, America ex-
cepted, going crazy over the gold
fields Of south Africa, while the de-
posits of that metal between Mexico
and Alaska go comparatively I'M
needed by capitalists. Both in Cali
fornia and in British Columbia there
are plenty of men who insist that after
the boom In south Africa shall have
burst and the west Australia excite
nent shall have died out the world
will come back to the Pacific slope OF
North America for its best and surest
supply of the precious metal. which
was never more eagerly sought than
it is now.-Cleveland Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
LABOR ORGANIZED IN RUSSIA.
Trades Unl0nism Has . Firm Hold In thu
Domain of the Gear.

TRACES UnlOn19m Has - FIRM h0s0 In tho
Domain of the Gear.
So little is known about conditions
of life in Russia that the fact of the
existence of labor organizations on
large scale has generally been over
looked. These associations or artels
form an important part of the in
dustrial organization and are almost
entirely free from government control
1t is doubtless to this that so little
has been said about them. Some refer
ence. however, was made to them in a
report issued by the British foreign of
fee in 1892. and now a fuller account
is given in a report made by Mr..
Carnegie of the British embassy in st.
Petersburg. From this report it is
learned that the artel system
had it's origin as far back as
the tenth century. when organize
tions were effected for hunting, fish
ing and trading purposes. From these
early beginnings the system has been
SO far extended that there are few oc-
equations or trades in Russia in which
artels are not or have not been formed.
There are artels of carpenters, paint
ers, blacksmiths, masons, porters, bar
gees, walters, etc; artels of workmen
are employed in making pottery.
cheese, percussion caps. boots, gun
carriares and ropes, and there are
even artels of beggars, travelling mu-
sicians and horse-stealers. They are.
it seems. generally guided by the old
customs and regulations which have
been handed down for generations.
The whole system is based upon the
following fundamental principles: ~
Each member of the association has an
equal share in the duty and work; (2)
each member receives an equal share
of the profits, and (3) all the members
are mutually responsible for the work
and conduct of each. AS rule. wom-
en- are not admitted to the ar
tells of the men, but they have num-
Der of their own, such as that engaged
in the cultivation of tobacco in the
province of Tchernigoff. There is an
other artel composed of women en-
gagged in loading ships with grain at
kind of polyglot language which can
be understood by the captains of any
foreign ships visiting that port
Mr.. Carnegie thinks that the artel
system undoubtedly leads to better
work, because it is for the interest of
the members that all perform their full
share and are punctual and sober. The
whole system seems to be very similar
to the Medieval guilds, therein differ
ing from the labor unions of to-day in
that more matters of detail are attend
ed to. Trades unions occupy them
selves with many matters. but in
dividualism has grown to SO great an
the guilds are not tolerated. alo
Express.
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purloining sm4ll articles in . Paris
shop and were only let go after plying
heavy fines.
Kleptomania is form OF insanity
far commoner among the high-bcrn
and delicately -nurtured classes than
people realize. and inasmuch as Paris
is the headquarters of everything in
the shape of feminine elegance and ar
ticles of one kind and another calcu-
lated to tempt the purse and the
wishes OF the fair one, it is only nat
ural that those afflicted with this
moral ailment of kleptomania should
find it impossible to suppress it on the
banks of the Seine Consequently the
foreign embassies at Paris are put to q
good deal of trouble in extricating
their country-women from scrapes OF
the kind in which the English duchess
above referred to involved herself
Chicago Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24

The sap of wood exposed to high
temperature is very apt to undergo 6
kind of fermentation which produces
. rot in the lumber.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24

Binkers-Has Winkers succeeded In
teaching his daughter to ride her new
bicycle yet?
Minkers-Yes, she IL ont riding now.
us Winkers with hersss
No. he's In . hospital IN. Z.
Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
TOO BUSY TO GET MARRIED.
A Kansas Girl Who Owns and Trains Trot
ting Horses.

A Kansas Girl Who Owns and Trains Trot-
ting Horses.
It is doubtful if anyone is better
known at race meetings in Kansas,
Missouri and Iowa than Nina Ann Will
son, who was born fifteen miles west
of Topeka, and has always had her
home in the Sun11ower state. In years
gone by her father, Andy Wilson. was
one of the most prosperous stockmen
in Kansas, his estate at one time being
valued at half million. Mr.. Wilson
always had a few blooded horses, and
Nina inherited her fathers love for the
racer. While yet a mere baby she
among the lot, and no challenge for a
race across the prairie ever passed by
her unaccepted. In the days of his
prosperity her father sent her to
Bethany college, Topeka, where she
advanced rapidly in her studies, shin
ing particularly in the art class While
Nina was at college her father met
with sudden business reverses, and in
short time his entire fortune was
swept away, nothing being left but the
old homestead. At that time Nina
had several thoroughbreds of her own.
Some of these she sold for sufficient
funds to finish her education. at Beth
any. Then she returned home. and
with the few animals she still owned
began to raise racing stock. This work
was interrupted for q time when Miss
Nina wentto Washington state to con-
duct a school. The confinement of this
life SO wore upon her that she soon
gave it up, returning to the old home
stead, where she has remained ever
since. She has been remarkably sue
cessful in raising good race horses.
her favorite pair at present being
Ding and Valencia, a PAGER and trotter
respectively. She is making money,
and means to keep on until she has
enough to pay her expenses for year
at one of the best art schools in
Europe. Miss Nina has had numerous
offers of marriage, but always declares
that for the present she is too busy to
think of such a thing; when her edu-
caIion has been completed it will be
time enough to consider matrimony.
The walls OF her home are plentifully
adorned with paintings from her brush.
not few of the efforts showing con-
siderable power. The dream of her
life is to become an artist-not ia
nous artist. she says, but SO successful
as to win commentator from some OF
the European critics. If determina-
ton and honest effort may be relied
upon she will doubtless realize her
dream. Chicago Chronicle.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-07-30

of yeu doubt it ask those who come to
my house. I will divide my bread and
water with Van AMI som times W take
something liulc stronger than wafer.
+ am gratifivd that. you have fAally
adopted my resolution. Perhaps it
would have been better if it had beer
dorc before. MI. r. X. Elliott offered
plan and you all know what became
of it. It was not responded to. Per-
haps we did not respond to it our
selves. defy any man 70 say ever
contributed to the disintegralion of the
Democratic party. have always
been strong fer peace, but was Of the
opinion it WAS u eess after the action
OF the Democratic Executive Commit
tee concerning the Elliott resolution.
Somebody did not do their duty.
Who is responsible? Perhaps the
deYil:.. In the matter of our support
ing the ticket named, as requested in
the resolution just passed, can only
speak for myself, I am not contrary.
I'D rather spend s25 for a campaign
fund than to have run on that ticket.
But they thought was the man, and
I appreciate the honor imposed on me.
Those gallant meu put me there and l
will run unless they withdraw me
even if we do not get but one vote.
Let me impress on you that the fraud
and corruption of the last election in
South Carolina will not be tolerated al
the ballot box. 1t must stop; white
blood will not submit to it; we would
be cravens to submit. I believe the
generosity of the opposite faction will
not force such proceedings on US again;
I considered my nomination an appeal.
from the oldsguard, and as one OF the
old guard I responded. Principle and
n@success is our motto. The resolu-
ton asking for our, support will meet.
with polite and respectful considera-
ton. If the League in its discretion
see3 fit to adeptit I will. .assuredly
raise NO objecti9n. >
This orderly and, conservative meet
ing then came.to a close. Every man
almost one would meet seemed thor
ouehly satisfied.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-07-30
DEATH OF MRS. NIACFIE.
State. JulY 2S.

Mrs. Catherine McGregor Macfe
died in this city last night at the home
Of Col. F. W. McMaster. Mrs. Macfe
was the daughter of James McGregsr
and Janet Graham, Of Newcsstle-on-
Tyne, England, at which place she was
born April 2, 1907. She was the only
sister of the late DR.. Peter McGregor,
of this city. In the year 1929 Mr..
James Macfe, a prosperous young
merchant of this city, went to New
castle and brought her here as his
bride, since which time she has con-
tinuously dwelt here, with the excep-
ton of one or two visits 10 her old
home. Her husband died in this city
in 1887, in the thirty-sevensh year Of
his age. at the time Of bis death he
was one Of the most prominent mer-
ehants in upper South Carolina. Mrs.
Macfe was the mother of the late
Capt. J. P. Mac6e, of Fairfield, Mrs.
+. W. McMaster, Of this city, and the
late Mrs. Catherine Lomax, of Able
vie.
Mrs. Macfe was always known as q
woman of strong character and great
Christian charity. She was one of the
founders of the Ladies' Benevolent
Society and charter member Of the
Columbia, Orphan House. She was
the first president of the Ladies'
Memorial Association, and under her
supervision the Confederate cemetery
lot was laid off. When a call was
issued for nurses during the war, she
was one of the first women Of South
Carolina to answer the cali, spending
seveEakmonths in the hospitals aud on
bstsledeids> in Virginiaaa She returned
to South Carolina to'Ea active worker
in the Wsysite Hospital in this city,
knewn throughout the South tor its
treatment Of, Confederate soldiers.
Mfs. Macie leaves to mourn her loss
one daughter, twenty grandchildren
and fifteen great-grandchildrel.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-07-30
WINNSBORO, S. C..

Tuesday, July go, =: -995
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