Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06

uer HUNS Win MIN. His father, job
DeMier. died on the 18th of january
1896, at his home in Pacific, and wa
buried on the 18th at Attention, Mo.
with Masonic honors. He was trul
ga father in Israel" having attaine'
the extreme age of 50 years He wa
born at Hamilton. Ohio, but was TO
many years resident of Missouri
he leaves widow, two sons, tw,
. daughters, and many grandchildr ca
representing four generations, beside
host OF friends, to mourn his loss
Mr.. DeMier was one of the last mem
bers OF the Volunteer Fire Department
OF ST. Louis. having for several year.
served with Union No. 2. He hat
been a Mason for over forty years, anC
his funeral was attended by every liv
ing member of his Lodge. His son,
e. f. DeMier, has been for twenty
years a resident of Arcadia Valley, 10
cal agent of the railroad company all
that time. and is held in universal es.
TEEN. May he live to rival the age as
he einulates the virtues of the sire jus,
consigned to his eternal rest.
Elsewhere We publish a communica-
ton signed, in the unique style of the
writer, ''the Well to do land lord. u
BY putting this and that together. we
surmise it Is meant in answer to the
following item in last weeks BREW
ties:" ''Wood-piles are being nightly
raided by party in this town, he in
this way, it is said. paying his board
to landlord more exacting than par
ticular." The communication bore no
name, and the author is therefore I'M
| known to us. 1t was given US by
Phelan Vim, Esq, who, when ques-
toned, declared it had been handed
| him lin the dark" by whom he didn't
know. This peculiar circumstance is
one of the causes of our breaking
| through the rule that any communica-
| ton, to secure publication, must bear
a responsible name; the other reason
is that, unnoticed and unexplained, it
might subject several innocent and
reputable people to unjust suspicion.
Mr.. Winn is Border" and another
natural as to infer from these facts
that the latter indited the missive, as
the former was induced to carry and
deliver it? Yet we beg the reader to
pause ere he comes to so invidious
conclusion. 1t is easy to suspect, but
how often is suspicion fraught with
error and injustice! The well-known
regulations of both the gentlemen
named put them beyond the pale of
unreasonable distrust. The landlord,
as he himself has informed the public,
jealousy pays the rent of the premises
he occupies, and as to Mr.. Winnie
has for years past proved himself
most acceptable Border" to the firing
es of civilization. The Rev. Sam
Jones. in one of his sermons, declared
that when he threw a stone among a
pack OF dogs he could always tell, by
the yelping that followed. the one his
missile had colIided with. Here again
is the mutability of human rea son and
the deduction resultant upon its frail
foundation-even when put forth by
so eminent a divine-clearly shown.
Arguing from the Rev. Sans premises,
what so easy as to infer that the COM
munication We publish emanates from
the landlord and boarder referred to
In the item of last week-that it is the
stricken that cry out! But. we take it.
such deduction is subject to the most
careful revision, for the reasons-frst,
that sometimes the animal that's hit,
doesn't yelp at all, while. second, an
other may yelp in anticipation. And
some dogs, alike Of low and high de-
gree, do yelp from no cause percepti-
BILE to the mind of man. No, no! We
infer the communication was written
in mere pleasantly at the expense of
.Mr. night OWL" with perhaps the
secondary object of recouciling the
owners of wood-piles to their past
losses by advising them how to avoid
such depredations in the future.
We publish in another place an in
teresting communication from the pen
of Prof. w. d. Vandiver of Cape Cir
ardeau, in regard to the location of the
Marvin Collegiate Institute at Freder-
fcktown, setting forth the action of the
Conference Committee of which he
was a member, so far as he is acquaint-
ed with it: stating the considerations
that induced his personal action and
giving his views as to some general
features of the controversy. The reas-
on we called upon the Professor is,
that we saw his name attached to a
report advising the acceptance OF
Fredericktown's offer, and we felt sure,
from our knowledge of him, that
should he see his way clear to make
any statement in regard to the matter,
it would include all the facts within
his knowledge. The letter has fully
justified our confidence. 1t seems, as
we surmised, the committee OF which
the Professor was a member, as a
whole, never saw the guaranteed SUBJ
scription list, and we infer that they
did not know who the guarantors were.
We do not impeach the honesty or in
telligence of the members of the spec
ial committee, but we should like to
know the names of the gentlemen who
constituted it. We suspect that they
did not see the guaranteed subscrip-
ton list, but in part. at least. relied
upon the statements of other honest
and intelligent gentlemen. Who were
the members of this special committee?
Was any citizen of Fredericktown up
on it, or upon the original committee
appointed to investigate the guaran-
teed subscription list? This is mat
ter of importance, and one that in
wolves the good faith of the entire
transaction. We agree with the Pro-
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