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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
BRAVERY OF AFGHANS.
They Recognize True Courage In Their
Foes as Well.

They Recognize True Courage In Their
Foes as Well.
The courage and undaunted holiness
of the Afghans will bear comparison
with that of any nation, and many are
the instances of personal bravery
known to British officers. There lives
in the Yusufzai country an old chief
tain, the hero of many fights, who now
enjoys a well-earned pension, with the
village manor as reward for honora-
BILE service, and who on more than one
occasion risked his life to save that of
his commanding officer.
The present editor of the London
Evening Globe records with gratitude
the fact that thirty years ago his life
was saved by Afzal Khan, the recent
envoy to the Cabul court. Maj. Wig
ram Battye, whom buried at Jellala-
bad, fell on the battlefield of Fatta-
habad in the conquest of Afghan terri
tory. but they were Afghan soldiers Of
his own regiment who stood over his
dead body to protect it from insult.
The missionary Tuting was attacking
the faith of the Moslem in the streets
of an Afghan city, when his life was at
tempted by an assassin, but it was his
Afghan servant who saved the preach
er's life even in the midst of popular
tumult.
Colin Mackenzie, one of the Cabul
prisoners of 1s42. often told the story
of that Afghan chivalry which pro-
tected the lives and honor of English
ladies in the excitement of national
rebellion. Nor are they slow to appre-
ciate the quality of bravery in others
In the frontier war of 1868 young En-
glish officer was deserted by his native
sepoys, and for some time held his own
in the midst of crowd of Afghan war
riors. When the brave young soldier
fell, covered with wounds, the very
men who had cut him down bore testi-
mony by the indomitable pluck of the
young Englishman, who. rather than
run with his men, faced the foe and
died like a man. They raised one
united shout in the Afghan language
as he fell. Bravo! Bravo! There's q
brave young fellow!"
But they are revengeful and jealous
Home and Country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
IMPORTS AND WAGES.
The Reduction in the Tariff Benefits ii
Workingman.

The Reduction in the Tariff Benefits the
Workingman.
We are told by some of our high pro-
tectionist friends that. the exhi Dit
we recently made of the large i'm
portations, apparently due to the
change in the tariff, are melancholy in-
stances of national decline, because if
the goods had not been imported
they would have been made in this
country. Now, this is just where our
short-sighted critics are misinforned.
In large number of instan ces if these
goods had not been imported those
who have been using them would have
had to forego their use. What they
show is that our people have a larger
amount than they otherwise would
have had of the good things of life to
divide among themselves These i'm
portations represent the payment that
has been made for American exporta-
tions. We have had, anu in the future
are to have to larger degree, an inn
mense export trade, that is, more and
more of the commodities that the
American workingmen produce are to
find markets outside of our borders,
and in return for these sales we are to
take into this country more and more
merchandise which our people very
much want, but which we either can
not produce or can produce only at such
extravagant prices as to make con.
sumption of the desired commodities
possible only to those of large incomes
We are getting by degrees-and the
more trade restrictions are taken off the
nearer we.shall approach to that condi-
tion-to point when commodities that
have hitherto been esteemed luxuries
will come within the range of the pur-
chasing power OF the wage-earner. In
the meantime wages are not going
down. On the contrary, the evidence in
all Of our large manufacturing cenrer<
is that the tendency of wages is up
ward, the prices of the necessaries OF
life are to be lower, but the working
men are soon to have as high rate OF
wages as they ever had, and probably
In time higher rate of wages with
which to supply their own needs and
the needs of their families.
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16

"What. then, would become of the4s
poor fellows? They have been doing
it all their lives"
satisfaction touching Great Britain
among the colonists- They feel that
their best friends are the people
of the United States, who
buy their products and pay well
for the privilege of q few weeks
recreation. Great Britain, however,
looks upon the place merely as mill
tary station, and there is = probable
exaggerated notion that the queens
government would prefer to see fewer
Americans visit the Bermudas. The
soldiers dislike the group. and the sta
ton is sometimes used as q place OF
exile for disorderly regiments. Some
visitors get the impression that q good
many of the officers are not exactly
the flower of the British army, and
while they are courted by many Amer
lean girls they are summed by others
and disapproved of by some parents.
One finds in some of the simplest
Bermudan houses, evidently occupied
by persons of very small means, beau
tifu1 old mahogany furniture, heir
looms carefully treasured, but freely
used because there is no other furni-
ture in the house. When stress of
weather or accident drives the stran-
ger to seek shelter in such houses, he
This courtesy, from white and black,
delights and surprises the visitor.
There are kindly salutations wherever
one goes, and the people show the
softening influence on Britain man
ners of long residence under southern
skies
It is said that many of the people
living on one of the smaller islands
have never visited the town of Hamil-
ton, though it is only few miles dis
tant by road; in fact, within easy walk
ing distance. No other place of like
population and topography is worse
of for public conveyances. The man
without his own conveyance must hire
a carriage or a boat. There is no street
car line and there are no regular lines
of water conveyance reaching all the
inhabited parts of the group. Such a
community in the United States would
have a trolley line that would carry
passengers from one end of the group
to the other in less than two hours.
There seems to be in the Bermudas
somewhat of the British Indian preju-
dice against the country born"-that
is. native whites that have not yet
been sent abroad to be educated. At
any rate. young people are sent to En-
gland for that purpose very early upon
the theory that the climate is un-
wholesome for children. Infant NOR
tally is said to be large, and careful
persons keep children bundled in fan
nels when they are out of doors, morn
ing or evening. The fannels are a
necessity to persons of rheumatic ten.
dency, whether children or adults.-N
Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
IT CAN'T OLD I'M! 'E's MAD"

be done. They sent for the mayor;
he repudiated liability. They sent for
the fire brigade and the lifeboat crew.
Neither would come. They got guns,
| and peppered the furniture. Atlas re-
| tired behind the fireproof safe and
roared worse than ever. Meanwhile,
the precious hours were passing. Mr..
Bradshaw's money was also on its way
from London. At last Dick took no
BILE resolution.
Il will go in at any COST he cried,
and, in spite of Fanny Flirtington's
tears, he scaled the window and disap-
peared from view. The crowd waited
to hear Atlas crunching; but he only
roared. When Dick was inside, he
asked: SIS he chained?"
Yes" answered Sig. Philippini from
behind the safe. SIS the Aunt Sally
business over?' and he came out with
long pole in his hand. He used the
pole to stir poor Atlas up when the
roars became deficient in quantity and
quality.
The money ought to be here in three
hours" said Dick. Have you got the
back door key?"
Philippine treasured him. Then Dick
took wild, running leap at the win
dow; Philippine stirred up Atlas. who
roared Justify. Dick escaped with his
life, and landed, breathless heap, at
the mayors feet. The mayor raised
him, and said he should write to her
majesty, and suggest that Dick would
be a proper recipient of the Albert
medal, and the vicar (who had no
money in the bank) indignantly asked
the crowd if they could not trust a
family which produced scions like that.
Several people cried: Hear, hear!"
and told Mr.. Bradshaw that they never
really meant to withdraw their depos-
it's Mr.. Bradshaw thanked them and
looked at his watch.
At half-psst three Philippini ran mp;
he also was breathless, and his shoes
were dusty from walking in the coun-
try. At once he effected an entry,
amid a scene of great excitement. A
moment later he appeared at the win
dow and cried in terror:
II can't old i'm! I can't old i'm!
'E's mad! Look out for yourselvesr'
and he leaped from the window.
The crowd fed in all directions, and
two boys were all but run over by a
cart which was being driven rapidly
from the railroad station to the bank.
''All right" said Dick to the signor,
''bring up the wagon" And then,
with great difficulty and consummate
courage, the signor and Dick brought
an iron cage up to the window, and
drove Atlas in. The operation took
moro than an hour, because they had
to feed Atlas and drink a bottle of
champagne themselves before they set
about it. So that it was about six
o'clock before Atlas was out, and the
money was in, and the Sandhill bank
opened its place for business.
''We gained just the time we needed"
said Mr.. Bradshaw. 1T was dirt cheap
at fifty pounds"
And Dick, although he did not get
the Albert medal, was taken into part
nership and married Fannie Flirting
ton. 1t was the only way of prevent
ing her seeing things she was not
meant to see out of the window at two
a. M, and chattering about them in
public sport Royal"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
TAXES AND REVENUES


Shameless Dishonesty In the Talk Of Re.
storing Profession.
Will the decrease in the expected
yield of the income tax result in de.
fciency in the revenues? If SO, how
shall the lack be made up?
These questions are important and
may become pressing before the time
set for the regular meeting of con
gress- It is evident, however, that
only actual experience will show the
revenue-yielding capacity of the rem
nant Of the incone-tax law. We shall
know before the end of the fiscal year
in June. The treasury officials are
hopeful that the revenues from all
sources, which have lately increased
in an encouraging manner, will equal
the expenditures before that time.
But If new sources of revenue must
be had where shall they be sought?
Some Of the republicans, upon whom
the initiative will rest, say ''restore
the Mckinley duties and secure both
ample revenues and adequate protec-
ton to American industries"
The claim is fallacious, the imputa-
ton is dishonest These partisans con-
veniently ignore the fact that during
the four years run of the Mckinley
duties the customs revenues fell of
1851, 600, 600 compared with the proceed
ing four years under the better tariff
Of 1883. They ignore too the fact, Of
ficially certified to by Secretary Foster
two weeks before the end of President
pressing contingencies. e., an i'm
pending defciency-plates for new
bond issue were ordered to be prepared
with all possible haste.
: The duties were increased in nearly
every schedule by the Mckinley act
with the avowed purpose of reducing
the surplus revenue. They accom-
plished the purpose. BY what kind OF
economic thimblerigging is it now pro
posed to increase revenues by restor-
ing the same duties?
AS for protection" let facts speak.
Under the present tariff, manipulated
as it was by the democratic and repub-
lican trust agents in the senate, the
average duty collected on dutiable
goods last year was so. O6 per cent. This
is actually the highest average tariff
recorded in the history of the govern
n1ent. In 1868, under the war tariff,
it was only 4s.63. In 1882. under the
Mckinley tariff. it was 4s.71. The per
cent. of free goods last wear was SO. SO.
In 1892, under the Mckinley law, it
was Sc. 30. The average rate on free and
dutia BILE goods last year was 20.25; in
1892 it was 21.26.
In the face of such facts and figures
there is either gross ignorance or
shameless dishonesty in the talk of
restoring protection" If more reve-
nue. shall be needed next winter the
easiest and best way to secure it would
probably be to place temporarily a
small additional tax on beer.-N. Y.
World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
IN A BRITISH COLONY.
Aspects In the Bermudas Which Most Wis
itors Might Overlook.

Aspects In the Bermud.s Which Most Wis
itors Might Overlook.
The Bermudas, according to a re-
cently-returned visitor, have some as
poets that most observers overlook.
Between the delights of sea and shore,
of climate and vegetation, most visitors
are content to neglect things not so
Immediately upon the surface. Few
tourists guess that lots fifty feet
square on few blocks of the main
thoroughfares at Hamilton are worth
eight thousand dollars. The price
seems high when one recalls that the
Bermudas, with about the same area
as this city, have less than one one
hundredth of its population. Farming
land in the Bermuda, if the tiny cult
waited patches can be called farms, is
worth from one hundred dollars to two
hundred dollars an acre. Lots on the
back streets of Hamilton sell at good
prices, though at much less than the
land on the main thoroughfare.
There is nobody really poor, and it is
difficult to distinguish the house of a
laborer from that of a well-to-do citi-
zen. There is work to be had the year
round at one dollar a day, and even the
presence of some hundreds of well-to-
do Yankees as transient visitors has
not made the hack drivers grasping.
The latter, like all the people of the
Bermudas, where the jail and the poor
house are usually empty, are scrupu-
lous in their obedience to law. They
are required to light their coach lamps
at a given hour in the early evening.
and when that hour comes, no matter
what the coachman may be doing, he
stops his horse and lights his lamps.
Although the islands are mainly i'm
portant as a military station and
stronghold, society is not especially
military or official. In fact, British
colony as it is, the leading local
family is that of the principal shop
keeper. It was this family that en-
tertained daughter of the queen on
her visit to the place. To purchase at
that shop is like making a call. upon
the proprietors. They wait upon their
customers without any of the British
shopkeeper's traditional serviiity. chat
in easy, friendly fashion, and consume
vast deal of time in selling very
little. Everything is done in leisure1y
fashion down there. It sometimes takes
twenty-four hours to get ones trunks
from a steamship. from which they are
hustled ashore in a jiffy at this end of
Ihe line 1t is only a few years since
igang-plank had to be laboriously put
together whenever the steamer came
to her VIII arr at the islands Two aged
men put out two stout string-pieces.
Slated them with planks, and then
doored them The work occupied two
hours, and when an American asked
why the gang-plank was not always
ready, the conclusive answer was:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
Not HI. 20 Civ. Away.

Lord So-and-So. though enormously
rich, and owner of . large estate. was
evidently summed by society. Wish-
ing to regain favor. he began by send
ing pheasants to the neighboring gem
try; but all to no purpose, as they were
promptly returned.
The village squire. wishing to show
his disapprobation Of the noble lords
character. sent note saying that he
could not possibly accept the pheaA-
ants himself, 50 he had given them to .
poor tenant.
Judge Of his chagrin on receiving .
bill from Lord So-and-So. with . note
explaining that sshavfng refused to ae-
cept the pheasants, they were NOT hia
to give away"
He paid it.-Boston Globe.
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Abridged History OF . Courtsh.p.

Met him-met him again-in love
with him Met him again-no longer
in love with him, but he is in love with
me because am SO beautiful Met him
again-he is still in love with me, not
only because am so beautiful, but be-
cause 1 am also good. Sorry for him.
Again / met him-he is colder than he
was Think he has forgotten my
beauty and my goodness. 1, however,
am inclined to think that I am in love
with him, after all. How lucky he is,
and how angry mamma will be- Nam
ma proved to be strangely pleased
Makes me angry, for know she is net
a good Judge of young girls heart.
Flirted with him outrageously to make
mamma angry-didn't succeed. En-
gagged to him--glad. Married to him
sorry. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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coRNs ON THE soLgs.
They May Be Prevented FROM Hurting In
. Simple Way.

They May BE Prevented from Hurting In
. Simple Wsy.
81 have made q discovery that my
fellowmen should have the advantage
Of" said the colonel as an amiable
smile fitted over his genial features.
.You have probably noticed in the
past that I 1imped slightly in my
walk. Well, that was due to no old
wound, as many supposed, but was
caused by corn right in the center
of the bottom of my right foot. Why
didn't / have it removed? Why, my
dear boy, suppose it was taken ont
by the most expert chiropodists, at
least twenty times, but, like the
apocryphal cat, it invariably came
back. tried everything heard Of in
order to obtain relief. but to no avail.
have the corn yet; it is with me ut
this moment, but am its conquer
er. and believe could DANCE .
lively waltz without discomfort. This
is how won the battle: The other day
was walking the avenue, when I
espied pair of insoles in q shoe store
window. A happy inspiration seized
me and went in and bought them.
Taking them home removed my right
shoe and stocking. and taking . pen
dipped it in ink and placed the fluid
on that corn. Then placing the right
insole on tho floor pressed my foot
down evenly upon it. and the ink ON
the corn marked the place where It
would rest. I cut . small hole through
the insole at tho spot; put the article
in my shoe, and put it on. The corn
fitted in the hole to = nicely, and now
/ do not know I have the internal
thing when 20 out to walk. There
are thousands of persons who have
corns on the soles or heels, and they
can secure comfort as did by follow.
ing my process. Chicago Mail.
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PtTH AND POINT.

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he wasn't" How?" HE was ie1t
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why do you punch that hole IN
my ticket3" asked little man OF the
railroad conductor. $50 You can pass
through" was the reply.-Boston Coin'
mercial Bulletin.
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little ahead. Second OMcer-oa.
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headed this way.-Sing Sing Courier.
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
Six months after the repeal

Six months after the repeal OF the
Mckinley law, and the reduction of
the tariff tax on tin plate to half the
amount fixed in that measure, Mr..
John Garret, secretary of the Tin Plate
association, makes report which ex-
ultantly declares that the industry is
in more prosperous condition now than
ever before. Though Mr.. Carrot re-
sisted the repeal of the Mckinley law,
and would probably now favor its re-
enactment, he is obliged to confess
that the new tariff law which reduces
the rate on the plate, but removes it
altogether from the raw materials
used in producing it, is more favorable
to the manufacturer than the Mckinley
law.-Kansas City TimeA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
ENGLISH VINEYARDS.

Guilt walton OF tho Vine One Of tho Ancient
Industries.
It is said that on the site of one of
the old vineyards, in a park near
Berkeley castle, tendrils of vines are
still found springing up yearly among
the grass. Some cuttings from those
were planted, and grew into good
vines Apparently most of the south
ern castles and abbeys had their home
vineyard, just as they have in France,
Italy, Germany and Hungary. The
name still clings to the fields, though
the vineyards are gone. In parts of
Devonshire the name of vineyard" Is
given to land allotted to the poor un-
der the Enclosure act. Whatever the
origin Of this curious use of the word,
the cultivation of the vineyards, and
the making OF good wine, were in
some cases continued to such a recent
date that the land which still bears
the name may be said to have only
temporarily passed ont of cultivation.
The terraced vineyard of Bealieu
abbey was used for wine-making till
the middle of the last century by John.
duke Of Montagu; and the house of
the winepress, built in the reign Of
Henry Ill. was kept in repair after
other buildings had gone to ruin. At
Arundel castle, where the steep hill
side forms an ideal exposure for wine
growing, the manufacture did not
cease until the second half of the
eighteenth century, excellent wine of
the Burgundy type" having continued
to be made there in the ancient vine.
yard. The last place in which good
wine was commonly made from vine
yard grapes on large scale WAS
strange to say, in what is now west
London. The wonderfully fertile soil
which now grows fruit and vegetables
for Convent Garden then grew grapes
Tor wine-making.- London Spectator.
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to realize; in fact, just at the moment
when the bank, though in reality
solvent, was emphatically not in po-
=sition to answer a long-continued de-
mand for payment on the spot. Mr..
Bradshaw groaned out all these dis
tressing facts to his son Dick.
I'VE shall have to put the shutters
up. One days grace would save us, I
believe; we could get the money then.
But if they're at us again tomorrow
morning, we can't last two hours"
Dick sympathized, but had nothing to
suggest. except that it would not make
matters worse if he carried out his en-
gatement to go to the circus with the
Flirtington girls
"Oh, go to Halifax with the Flirting
ton girls, if You like" groaned Mr..
Bradshaw.
So Dick went-to the circus (the
other expedition, as he observed,
would keep, and enjoyed the perform
lance very much, especially the lion
tanning, which was magnificent, and so
Impressed Dick that he deserted his
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The increase of wages in all the
cotton mills at Fall River is another
severe blow to the Mckinley calamity
howlers- Returning prosperity has nc
regard for the feelings of false proph-
ets.-N. Y. World.
There are unmistakable indica-
tions that the republicans are going tc
carry on "a soap campaign" COM
children or babies, as ftt coifaTnWy nf Id Fl
furious substance. For sale by all des
| lers.