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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
BY ELI ID. AXE.
THE LITTLE SHOE.

ri been out in the light and frenzy,
In the desperate struggle and strife;
In the battle that men call business,
And came home wearfed of life
dragged my coat from my shoulders,
And tossed my hat with sigh;
threw me prone on the sofa
With hand pressed over each eye.
And yet I saw visions and visions
OF the turmoil and clamor and din,
OF the pitiful grasping for riches
By methods approaching to sin.
I rose to dispeI these bad visions:
Had just reached the library door
When something arrested my notice,
Something lying upon the floor
Twas nothing of serious import;
Nothing tragic. uncanny or grue,
For the thing saw lying before me
Was only a little shoe
Only a wee baby's something,
Yet great as the world is wide;
Lying there just where she kicked II,
Toppled upon its side
Twas worn and battered and crumpIed,
But IL set my heart in glow:
The buttons were lost or loosened,
And great hole kicked in the toe.
I stopped and raised it and fondled 1t;
Ny breath came faster to think
OF the wee chubby foot that wore IL,
And tiptoed into the bedroom
Where cradle was standing still:
I saw a baby foot peepIng,
AS baby feet sometimes will
Pushed through the rounds of the cradel,
Dangling so tempting and sweet,
! dropped on my knees beside 1t,
Close down by my dear baby's feet.
I cIasped the warm lump of a "tootie"
Between the broad palms of my hands
was instantly transported hfther
To fairer and happier lands.
The touch of that wee tender handful
Sent a thrill through my uttermost part,
From the furthermost tips of my fingers
To the bottommost depths of my heart
Twas so soft and so warm and so precious,
And kissed 1t again and again.
And thought a wee Babe such a blessing
TO be sent to the lives of men.
Ny kissing disturbed the dear sleeper;
She drew in her foot through the rounds:
And turning and tossing and signing,
Made such murmuring, baby-like sounds.
i rose and bent over the cradle,
And / gazed on her dimpled form,
Till the folds of the little pink nightie
Seemed a mystical mantle so warm.
/ saw her breathe softly and gently
Like the swell OF an angles sigh:
And 1 turned with my eyelashes glisten-
ing
AS the dew from a summer sky.
I'd forgotten the fight and the frenzy
And the desperate struggle and strife;
I'd forgotten the battle of business,
/ was chastened and charmed with life.
Charles Nelson johnson, in Chicago
Times-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
THE MONETARY CONVENTIONS.

| Its Propositions Look Solely 10 the
strengthening Cf the Money Power.
The monetary convention which met
at Indianapolis did just about what
every body expected it would do. The
committee on resolutions agreed on
report which was adopted after little
discussion and with only two or three
| negative votes. This report insisted ON
the maintenance of the gold standard,
an inevitable resnlt of their agreement
upon q demand for the retirement OF
legal tender notes. or greenhacks, and
such an extension of the banking sys-
tenn as viii furnish credit facilities to
every portion of the country and a safe
and elastic circulation"
The most serious objection to these
propositions is that they would greatly
strengthen the money power of the
country, already a dangerous force with
which the people have to deal. 1t means
that some system is to be proposed not
widely differing from the Baltimore
plan, so-called. by which bank wiz
be authorized to borrow money from
the government to the amount of its
capital stock, for which it will pay
only two per cent. interest for one
year, and after that one-half of one
per cent. interest until the aggregate
interest shall amount to five per cent.
and thereafter, unless the comptroller
of the currency orders otherwise, may
use the money without the payment of
any interest whatever. The comptroller
will not be permitted to charge more
than one-half of one per cent. So the
boul-S updnr that SvStaua nnl1ld borrow
money at one-haif of one per cent. and
lend it at anywhere from two to ten per
cent. After six or seven years they
would cease to pay interest to the gov
eminent but continue to receive it
from the people. 4
This would be the money which
would take the place of the greenbacks
issued by the government to the people.
The greenbacks must be retired.
Besides being bestowai of special
privileges upon class, namely, those
who could furnish the capital to Gs-
tablish bank and borrow the money
from the government at next-to-no in
terest at all, this system would
strengthen almost all forms of mo-
nopoly in the country and make an alli-
ance between them inevitable. 1t would
establish partnership between the
banks and the government against the
interests of the people.
The tide has been setting too strongly
that way for some time past. 1t would
be good thing to leave to the gov
eminent the functions that belong to
it and guarantee to the people the rights
that belong to them.-Buffalo Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

| the pavement and man was standing,
| tongs in hand, on the footboard. Ter
ence noticed that this man seemed ac-
/ quainted with all the servants who re-
ceived the ice at the area doors.
moment later he stood beside the man
and the two were soon talking rapidly.
Just before Terence dropped off the
footboard the man said:
''No, don't know no Mary DOMAIN on
this route, but don't know the girls by
name anyway. 1 only know them by
their faces, which is mostly humbly as
sin. Some of 'em is good lookin'
enough, of course, but / guess there
amt no such vision of loneliness as
you tell about on this avenue. ] guess
you could get a job with my boss,
though, all right enough, and then
you'd have Il chance to find her Cor
yourself, if she's here. But mebbe
you'll have to join the union before
you can go to work"
Terence lost no time in seeking out
the Office of the ice dealer, where the
situation was explained in detail to
the "boss," who, in consideration OF the
young mans willingness in the circum-
stances to work cheap" agreed to
take him on. provided he could keep his
low wages quiet and square himself
with the union" service to begin at
once. Next day, therefore, Terence
took his place on the footboard of ice
wagon No. 6, and his quest for Mary
began in earnest.
Day after day thereafter he devoted
to the distribution of ice and the ac-
quaintance of St. Nicholas avenue serv-
ant girls. but night after night he quit
work without having found Mary Do
nan. 1t was three weeks after his first
trip with wagon 6" when he had again
become very Respondent, that he heard
the avenue. When he saw her. how
ever, his hopes fell once more. for she
was 40, if day, while his Mary was
less than 90. and, in place of the album
dant bright brown hair, the dimpies
and the big gray eyes, there were such
features as justified the ice drivers
''humbIy as sin" characterization.
Its to the west / think I'll be goin'
now, sir" Terence declared to his en-
ployer next day. 81 didn't know how
big New York was. sure, when started
out to find my Mary Donan, and I'm
thinkin' now that might search life
time and never find her"
Then he retold the story of his search
and it's discouragements, and turned
away with dim eyes. hardly noticing
lady who had been sitting in the Of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

WeI-Groomed Citizen TO heather
-hinee)-"Move up, John, and make
room for the gentleman" John quite
obIivious of anyone addressing him.
Citizen gets riled. you're highlander:
You're a hibhbinder. / sayi" Having re-
terated the highbinding statement sew
.ral times, he inquiries of John what's
he matter with him. ME no speak to
you. You too much whisky. You don't
Know what you say" This brings the
augh on the citizen and as he grows
xroth the heather smiles. What a les
son the heather taught the citizen of
modern Athens in preserving ones tenn
aer.-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

81 understand that yon have some
intellectual CANNES here" said the
learned professor with pleasant smile
to the proprietor of the show.
Nav, we hain't got nawthin' of the
kind. This is a high moral exerbition
give by nine dedicated dogs. Detroit
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
A Cheerful yIew.

There is one good thing about q
woman on a wheel, even Il she does wear
boomers
What is that?"
'Other people are 50 much safer than
when she IS driving & horse. J.
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
Subaqueoua Slang.

"Ah." said the pike, in tones of in
tense satisfaction.
Him." said. the bass. THAT minnovy
must have been good"
Good? He was the best thing that
ever went down the pike Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

Miss Kittish (reflectively)-This IS
leap year.
Mr.. Gilley (expeetantiy1-So it is.
sAIr. Gilley,w you make me the hap
oiest of women?
80, if I only knew howl"
1T is simple enough. Just remain
sway from this house for a year or
two. IN Y. Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
c~.naeIoD Common In Italy.

Cremation is more extensively prae-
iced in Italy than in any country. The
irst crematorium was established in
Milan IN 1876 and there are now so in
operation in italian territory.-N. Y.
BUN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

I'm sorry to lose Mary. She was the
best second girl I ever employed"
"And Terence was a mighty good
wagon man. responded the ice dealer.
Besides, he worked cheap"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
Maryland Instltutes for Farmern.

Maryland has fallen into line with
several other states in the matter of in
stitutes for the education of the farm
ista-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS.
Interesting Report on Incendiarism
Presented at the Annual Meeting.

NEW YORK, May 13.-The thirty-first an
nual meeting of the National Board of I'm
derwriters was held here to-day President
W. B. Clark made an address. The num-
ber of the board companies, he said, was
now 109 The capital of eighty-three Amer
lean companies on the roll aggregates $42.-
500 125, with assets footing up $164, $40 200 and
the assets of the American and foreign
companies together amount to $21S 693, 500
The premium receipts of the 100 board mem
bers for 1896 were SILL sos, ,1S4 and their losses
500 541, ,062 The list of the joint stock fire
insurance companies failed or retired since
1860 now numbers S27 companies with cap
ital amounting to Sill, ,312, ,633 and assets ag-
gregatng S191 SIS, ASP. OF the mutual and
other classes of companies no record has
been kept
The report of the committee on incendia-
ries and arson was presented by G. A Van
Allen, chairman. 1t stated that during the
year 260 rewards We're offered amounting to
$Sll50. Since the fund was subscribed. in
1873, rewards have been offered amounting
to $1.343.350 and fifteen rewards were paid
during the year, amounting 10 $3.50. The
sentences averaged nine years. Since the
establishment of the fund POS rewards have
been paid, amounting 10 S62 769. and result
ing in 296 convictions. The report COM
mends the suggestion made by George w
Postleman OF Cincinnati. that to every poll
icy there be attached wal ming calling at
tention to the heavy punishment for in
cendiarism.
The report of the commission on IeeisIa-
ton and taxes reviewed the fire insurance
legislation for the past year. These officers
were elected: President, Henry l.. Eaton ;
vice president f. c. Irving, Philadelphia :
secretary r. b. Beath, Philadelphia; treas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
ANOTHER POOL DISSOLVED.
Steel Benms Will Hereafter he Sold
ON the Open Market.

PHILADELPHIA, May ia snec;aI
meeting of the companies interested in tho
steel-beam pool. which was Organizes
fourteen months ago. was held in this cit,
and the pool was dissolved and an omen
market created. The companies represented
at the meeting We're: Jones & Laughlin
the Carnegie Company, the Pencoyd Iron
Company, the Illinois Steel Company. the
Phoenix Iron Company, the Passaic Rolling
Mill Company and the Pottsville Iron and
Steel Company PerciVal Roberts. ir vice
president of the Pencoyd Company, stated
that the meeting was entirely harmonious
and that all were of the opinion that an
open market was best. He denied that
there was any distrust among those com
prising the pool, or that the rates on steel
beams had been cut. He said: The fixed
price on beams has been maintained. bur
companies manufacturing these also make
plates, angles, etc. The prices on these
latter nave been cut. owing to competition
anG there being no fiXed price upon them
IL was deemed advisable TO have an omen
market on beams also" Mr. Roberts does
not believe that there will be any general
cutting OF prices aow that the pool Is dis
solved Beams, he said will proha blv
be sold cheaper but then plates and angles
VIII command a higher rate accordingly so
IN the average there will be no decrease of
prices"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
THE BODY LEFT BEHIND.
Mrs. ScrOggs Speeding to Europe
without Her Husbands Remains.

NEW YORK, May 13.-,Mrs. Arthur
Scroggs, her daughter Ena and a governess,
Miss Scoville, are speeding to Europe on
the American line steamship St. Louis for
Southampton. They left this port to-day.
Mrs. Scroggs believes implicitly that the
body of her sailor husband is on the vessel,
but it is not Sealed in a metallic casket
the remains are in the morgue. They will
probably be buried in day or so in pot
ter's field Arthur Scroggs, thirty years old,
who was owner and master of the steam
ship Spinster, was swept overheard off the
coast of Vancouver island. The body was
recovered and taken to Victoria, =. G. An
undertaken prepared the body and placed II
in mateliic casket for shipment TO Eng
land. Mrs. ScrogEs wanted The remains
taken to England, as that was her nus
bands home and it appears that she un-
derstood the undertaken would give dlrec-
tiOns to have the body shipped via New
York through to England. There was some
misunderstanding, and the undertaken
billed the body TO New York 1t arrived in
the Grand Central Depot Monday, and after
remaining there for two days it was trans
feTred to the morgue. Mrs. ScroggS, think
ing her instructions would be obeyed en-
gagged passage .On the st. Louis by wire,
and gave no thought to the transfer of the
body from the railroad to the steamship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
In A GENERALS UNIFORM.
Minister Clayton Greets President
Diaz and Presents His Credentials.

MEXICO CITY, Mex, May 13.-General
Powell Clayton, the newly appointed min
lister of the United States, officially pre-
sented his credentials to President Diaz at
noon to-day in the hall of the emassadors.
The state coaches bearing the arms of the
republic were sent to the hotel where the
minister is residing for himself and family
and on arriving at the palace they found
large detail of army officers assembled to
greet the party, while many prominent
American residents were present. General
Clayton was dressed in the full uniform of
a brigadier general of the United States
army and made a soldier-like appearance.
His speech contained assurance OF his de-
sire to cultivate still closer bonds with the
government of Mexico, and he assured
General Diaz of the sympathy and good
will of the American people. The Presi-
dent replied in a most cordial speech, and
the minister and family were taken back
to their hotel in the state carriages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
TRIAL OF LIEUT.. FARROW.
Jurors, Were Out but Five Minutes
and Returned "a Sealed Verdict.

PITTSBURG, May 13.-The case of Lieut..
Edward Farrow, of New York for fraud
and conspiracy in connection with the Mu-
tual Reserve Fund Life Association, of
New York, was called for trial in the
County Court at 11:20 o'clock this morning.
The trial attracted quite a number of peo-
pie prominent in the insurance world to the
courtroom and some interesting develop
ments are promised on both sides. Farrow
was represented by Attorneys George f.
Josephs, of New York, and Josiah Cohen,
t. L. KERN and w. C. Stillwagon, OF. this
city. c. F. Harper, of the Mutual Re-
serve Fund Life Association, the prose-
cutor. was represented by Vernon M Davis,
of New York, and j. Scott Ferguson and
John S. Robb, of Pittsburg
The first witness called was Edward S.
Miller, of Port Perry, who testified that he
engaged with Farrow to solicit insurance in
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association.
Farrow told him that he had charge of the
military division of the company and ad-
vised Miller to take some insurance. Mil
Ter replied that he had been refused by
two other companies. Miller finally made
answers in the application, it being his
understanding that it was for the purpose
of showing his ability to draw up an appli-
cation. The application resulted in policy
over to Farrow in c. Linford Woods office,
Farrow promising to take care of it.
A<lhAOlA NOOuS, the slll6SGQ eCCOLlpllCc
of Farrow, was next called. He said he
met Farrow in October, 1896, and contracted
to solicit insurance for the company he
represented. Woods denied having spoken
to Farrow about the Miller policy, and
never saw Miller until he transferred the
policy in his office James Jones, secretary
of the insurance company, identified the
Miller policy as issued by his company and
the commonwealth rested.
After the attorneys had made their ad-
dresses the jury was charged and retired
just as court adjourned. 1t was out five
minutes and returned a sealed verdict. The
general impression is that Judge McClung's
charge favored the defendant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
INDIANAPOLIS FRIDAY MORNING MAY A. 1897
forces in their resistance to the Spanish
government
$4,000 FOR RELIEF.

$4,000 FOR RELIEF.
Senator Gallinger to-day introduced a
joint resolution appropriating $50, 900 for the
relief of the suffering Americans, and
the members of the foreign relations COM
mittee have recommended to the President
that if necessary to secure the landing of
food and clothing necessary to relieve the
Americans they should be accompanied by
an American war ship. The President has
listened to this advice, but has not indi-
Gated his intention to act on it. The com
mittee has a list of heads of families rep
resenting over one hundred Americans, who
are said to be in a starving condition. They
are represented to be corralled in towns and
unable to get out for food, even if they had
the means to procure it. The correspond
ence represents that there are thousands
of Cubans in this condition.
Speaking of his resolution for an appro-
priation for the American people in Cuba,
Senator Gallinger said Il am informed
that American citizens are starving in
Cuba. A gentleman who recently came from
Cuba told me that such was the fact Then
l am informed that reports in the State
Department corroborate the statement.
The picture drawn of distress is most har-
rowing. These reports contain names that
are not Spanish, but American names, so
there can be no doubt of the correctness
of the reports. L am of the opinion that
while we are sending aid to India and to
people who are in a starving condition on
the Mississippi river it would be well to
pay some attention to the American citi-
zens who starving in Cuba. L asked to
have the resolution referred to the foreign
relations committee for such action as it
may deem best to take"
There is some talk about sending a
naval vessel to Cuba will you add such a
provision as an amendment to your reso-
lution?" was asked.
Il may do so7 responded Senator Gal
linger. 1T seems to me that it would be
well to have an American war ship in
Havana to back up the demands of the
American consul and to extend relief to
American citizens who are in need of it,"
Representative Castle, of California, to-
day introduced a joint resolution for the
recognition of the belligerent rights of the
Cubans. 1t declares it to be the policy of
the United States to recognize the belliger-
ent rights of all oppressed people struggling
for liberty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
CATHOLIC KNIGHTS.
Plans of Insurance Discussed All Yes
terday by Delegates.

MOBILE, Ala, May 13.-The third day s
session of the Supreme Council of the
Catholic knights of America was devoted
wholly to the discussion of several plans of
insurance. Hon. Peter Walrath, of Indiana
continued his argument begun last night in
behalf of the maturing certificate plan"
He was followed by Michael Quinn, of New
York, in support of "the Morse equalization
plan" Secretary W. S. O'Rourke, of In
diana, advocated what is known as ''the
o Rourke plan" These arguments were
all made in committee of the whole, with
Hon. John Davis Coleman, of louisiana in
the chair. At the conclusion of the presen-
tation of the three plans NJ r. Shine moved
the reference of all the plans to the coun-
cil with instructions to appoint a special
committee of five to codify them and re-
port to the council at such time as the
council might direct. Adopted. The COM
mittee rose and reported its action to the
council by whom it was ratified, and mo-
tion was made that the president appoint
the special committee which, was adopted
The council then took a recess until 3
o'clock The only business transacted at
the afternoon session was the appointment
of a committee of five to report a plan of
assessment to the council.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
..THE ROAD TO DEATH"
Highway Along Which Spaniards
Have Lost 5000 Men.

r NEW YORK, May 13.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Havana via Key West, Fla,
says: Apparently reliable news of the
most important insurgent success in months
has just reached Havana. 1t appears that
General Calixto Garcia and General Rabi
fell on a Spanish force, which was carry
ing food and supplies from Manzanillo tc
Bayamo early last week, captured the con-
vow routed General Louo's columns and
pursued him so vigorously that he fed to
the coast with the remnant of his brigade
lilo 1t is said that so severe were the
losses and so thoroughly disorganized were
his men that the Spanish general did not
dare ATTEMPT to retrace his steps to Man
zanillo by land, fearing that he would be
again attacked and wiped out of existence.
Spain has lost 5000 men and food and
arms without end along the road to Bay
amo, and now the Spanish soldiers call it
1.-The road to DEATH"