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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28
PARAeRApHIo POINTERS.

Mr.. Hanna's campaign in Ohio Ia
keeping him so busy that he hasn't
found time to say word about the In
dianapolis election.-Chicago Chron-
icle.
Nearly all the republican newspa-
pers insist that Mr.. Bryan is political
corpse, and yet the editorial space and
cartoons they lavish on him show that
he puts heap of trouble on their minds.
st. Louis Republic.
1t is a noticeable fact that Mark
Hanna talks about republican tariff
prosperity only when addressing the
farmers. who are feeling well because
OF big crops. The workingmen of the
cities are not favorably impressed by
Dingleyism. - Manchester IN. H.
Union.
Mark Hanna had not less than
half million of dollars left over from
his campaign fund of last year, and
Ohio advices report that he is spending
it quite freely in democratic or doubtful
legislative districts. Ohio has never
been on the auction block to the extent
it is this year.-Pittsburgh Post.
IL the triumphant party had not
had SO much to say about the deficit
producing Wilson law and the bond-is-
suing democratic administration, it
might not be kind to call attention to
the deficit-creating record of the pres
cnt administration. Notwithstanding
there has been decided uplift in COM
mercial conditions the government rev.
enues do not manifest that recuperative
power they were expected to show un-
der republican care.-Detroit Free
Press.
The ease with which their votes
have been purchased has been taken adj
vantage of more than once by the man
ayers of republican presidential candi-
dates to stock nominating conventions
with delegates bought and paid for with
the calm assurance that characterizes
the bartering OF live stock This il the
principal, if not the sole. reason why the
southern states have welded such an
undue influence in republican national
conventions. It is largely responsible
for the occupancy of the white house
to-day by the affable MAJ. Mckinley
ST. Louis Republic.
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pgsroR AND CREDITOR.


A Lesson IN Monetary Values for the
Silver is worth as much silver as it
ever was worth.
Gold is worth as much gold as il ever
was worth.
Silver, when law made it legal ten
der money. was worth its weight in
gold at a ratio also made by law.
Before criminal legislation robbed
silver of its legal tender quality Tin
1874 in our country it would buy just
as much of wheat and corn and cotton
and wool and iron and lumber; just as
much of these and 20 other of the lead
ing staple products of the land as 1t
will to-day. Tt has not changed IN
value. Silver is honest money.
But when criminal legislation robbed
this people of one-half of its coin legal
tender money supply-that is, when
silver was demonetized in 1sTS-gold
was made dishonest money. That is,
gold began daily to buy more of the
staple products than it would before.
Just as if silver man were stabbed to
death, his gold brother-these two men
alone living In the land-would have
twice as much as his former portion
twice as much to eat. to wear, to have.
Gold has profited by the crime-the
stab, the murder-of silver. And
mourning and sorrow fill the land, be-
cause of this the greatest crime the
world has known. No prosperity, no
confidence can be until this crime is
avenged and silver is quickened and
made powerful by law again.
The masses of our people know that
412.5 grains of standard silver stamped
by the government as a dollar consti-
tutes an honest dollars silver dollar
which win buy substantially the same
as it would at any time within the last
quarter of century. Therefore silver
has remained at parity, not only with
itself, but with all commodities except
gold.
The food and clothing and real es-
tate values of silver have not changed.
But in 1873 the parity between silver
and gold was destroyed by legislation.
Legislation said we must make gold APP
preciate; we will stab silver by not
longer coming it as legal tender money,
then silver will not buy so much gold,
| the parity will be destroyed, and the
gold holders and creditor classes will
profit; the uniformed masses and debt
ors will not know we are robbing them.
And since silver was demonetized by
| this cruel legislation, gold. because of
| its scarcity and the doubled demand
| thus made for it, has risen in purchas-
| ing power, and because it has not only
grown out of parity not only with sill
yer. but with labor, real estate, food,
clothing and all things else. has be-
come the most dishonest money the
world has ever known. We repeat, gold
is the dishonest money. THE rise of
gold is the thermometer by which the
degradation of mankind can be meas.
ured.' '-Chicago Dispatch.
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A DOGS Prescntiment.

L. C. Meachamp, who lives at Homer,
La, is a great hunter, and has fine
deer hound, Dan, of which he is justly
proud. A few months ago Mr.. Mea-
champ was going squirrel hunting, and
in order to keep Dan at home he was
compelled to tie him up. The hound
whined and begged, but finding his mas
ter was obdurate he at last lay quite
peacably before his kennel all day. At
five o'clock in the afternoon, however,
when Mrs. Meachamp was beginning
to look for her husbands return, Dan
became so unusually restless that she
went out to see what was the matter.
In spite of her repeated efforts she
could do nothing to pacify him, and at
last. to her utter establishment, he broke
the rope and bounded away over the
fence and into the woods. He was gone
probably half an hour, when he came
running back, painting and almost
breathless, with his masters hat in his
mouth. Mrs. Meachamp became at
once alarmed, and calling her son they
set out to find Mr.. Meachamp, the dog
all the time bounding along in front and
leading the way. At last they came
upon Mr.. Meachamp lying helpless in
the woods, where at precisely five
O'Clock he had fallen in little ditch
and broken small bone in his leg. The
dogs knowledge of the accident at the
very moment of its occurrence seems
almost incredible, but the truth of this
Is beyond dispute>-N. Y. Alliance.
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of this. OF course have read the criti-
eisins ct the gift, but have said moth
ing. People might think what they
wished: / did not care" He was hurt
and disappointed.
You see it entirely from the side of
the Other Half" she said. "But
feels the loss to the cultured class, the
people who are educated to the appre-
citation of all that is truest and best in
the picture. We are the losers, and are
they the gamers? Do those conyicts
see what is grandest and best in the
work, and do they appreciate the skill,
the cOloring, the technique?"
Technique! No." he exclaimed i'm
patiently. "They see the soul. The
idea is as plain to them as to you, with
all of your study"
"Ah, yes! But, Mr.. Wayne, they are
in prison, every woman there for some
crime-hideous and unforgivable-and
is it right to give to them such pleas
ure as the presence of this beautiful
painting?"
His face was a study, and he showed
his Impotence. "You speak so, Mrs.
Morton, sitting there in luxury-you
who have never known a want-you
judge these poor creatures, whose
crimes are a natural sequence in their
lives. I have gone to the pens where
they were herded, and wonder that
God Almighty let's US live when we per-
nit suffering like that"
This time it was not the soul of the
artist that swayed him, but his human
ity. His mind turned to large work
room, bare and grim, but for one spot
on the wall where hung a picture-a
mother with the tender love of the uni
verse looking in the face of a child, the
yearning patient gaze that had brought
tears to many eyes. Her voice reused
him.
Tell me, Mr.. Wayne, do they really
love it?" and she spoke so softly he
knew it had touched her.
'If you could but see them" he an
swered. Eyes, there were mothers who
wept for lost children and for them
selves; and young girls who recognized
the mother face, and they wept, too
l had letter from the warden yester'
day, and he said there was a marked
change in their manner-not even a
muttered oath near the picture"
Her face had softened, and she had
tears in her blue eyes. She held ou1
her hand to him. Instinctively they
both rose. He took her hand. There
was thrill in the touch of her fingers
II love you so," he said. He bent his
head closer and closer, and pressing his
lips to her forehead said "Good-by, >
then quickly left the room.
She sank down in her low chair by
the fire and covered her face with heI
white jeweled hands, the tears trick
ling slowly through her long, slim fin
| gers.
She sat there for a long time, won
dering why she had let him kiss her
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28
PITH AND PoINT-

Briggs-'sIs Miss PaH-
SADIE a girl of tact?'' Griggs-'.WeIl, I
don't know. When she refused me she
said it wasn't because I couldn't support
her."-Life.
Surgical Preliminaries-s'It costs
$500 to have frozen toe amputated in
Alaska" well, if you go you would
better have yours cut OF before you
start. "@Chicago Record.
Yes" said Miss ellington, ''the
count is such a shy man! But he has
proposed to me at last. It is very anus
ing, for he was dreadfully en-
barrassed." $50 I understood" replied
Miss Cayenne. Financially Wash
ington Star.
-Identi1ed.-''Now," said the attor-
ney for the defense, there is a skull.
Can you tell us to what species it be-
longs?'' Its the skull of a lawyer"
replied the expert witness. "How can
you tell?" by the cheek bones."-
Philadelphia North American.
He was young but ardent. ST wish
I were the glove that presses your love
" hand" he said to the charming maid.
She glanced at him with bewitching
smile. Aren't you enough of kid as
it is?" she softly asked.-Cleveland
| Plain Dealer.
-Irate Patron-"You advertise to
cure consumption, don't your" DR..
| Quack-"Yes, sir; never fail when my
| instructions are followed Irate Pat
ron-'My son took your medicine fer a
year, and died an hour after the last
dose" DR.. Quack-"My instructions
were not followed. I told him to take it
| two years.''-N. Y. Weekly.
Sporting Blood.-Ephraim Geehaw
| (of Hay Corners, complacently)-"I
know how the Teller must have felt that
bust the bank at Monte Carlo!" 81
Otecake (shocked)-"You hain't been
playin' checkers fer money, hev you,
Eph?" Ephraim Geehaw-''No; but,
b. gosh! Iput pennies in a slot machine
when was in tew town Yesterday till
the darn shebang wouldn't give down nc
more gum!"-Puck.
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FINANCIALLY EMBARRASSED.
Japan Is in the Golden Clutches on
the ROthachtIdB.

.JaDam Is I'm the Golden Clutches on
the ROthsch1Ids.
The dispatch, which we publish be-
low, of the news brought by the steam
er Tacoma from Japan shows with what
rapidity that ambitious empire is going
to the dogs. 1t was proposed'to coin
20, o00, 900 of gold yens This year, but
the finance minister finds that they are
only able to coin 100000 yens. The
government is compelled to increase
the land tax. OF course 1t must, be-
cause the revenues of the country have
been reduced equally with the business
of the country by adopting the gold
standard. India had no difficulty in
paying 80,0o0,O00 of gold interest in
London until she demonetized silver in
1898, since which time she has been go
ing with great rapidity to what the
boys call the "demnition bow vows"
and borrowing money every year to
defray her ordinary expenses.
A few weeks ago we were informed
that Japan's revenues were 25,000,000
yens short this year. This was an un.
derestimate. 1t appears by the dis
patch published below that the govern
ment is compelled to borrow 45,o0o,000
yens. At this rate of speed japan win,
In a very short time, be in bankrupt
condition similar to that of Portugal,
Spain, Italy, Austria and other pros
trate nations that have allowed the
English gold combination to control
their finances. Japan, with free silver,
became a formidable rival to England
and all the rest of the world in manu-
featuring. She also rose with marvel.
Gus rapidity to frst-ciass position az
a military power. Her fall has been
rapid. She can now boast of bank
ruptcy and stagnation, The heritage OF
the doings of gang of mercenary
wretches who sold their country to Eu-
ropean gold gamblers. Following is the
dispatch:
Advices from Japan by the steamer
Tacoma are as follows:
''The Mainicha learns from the finance
department that 100000 yen in gold was
rnfnted during August It was previously
announced that 1000, 900 yen, gold, wac
to be placed in circulation during the cur
that zo. 000000 ven VIII suffice for the pres
ent. IThe value of the gold yen is ss.1
cents,l
The Nicha Nicha says that Count Mutsu
Gaia has definitely decided to increase the
every department az much as possible.
The Chuwo says the government IS "a
raise another loan OF IS, O00, 600 yen to meet
the deficiency in the budget. The Interest
Is 20 be five ger cent. and bonds are to be
Silver KNIGHT Watchman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28
The BOOSTER.
One Product OF the Glorious Climate
of California.

One Product OF the Glorious Climate
of California.
In every California town there are
lumberless little poker rooms where
open games run day and night. There
| are few handsome places where it
| costs five dollars to $25 to sit in a game.
but most of the places are plain little
rooms where a player may buy stack
of 20 white chips for so cents and take
his chance. Chips at ga cents each
may seem very small, but as the game is
played invariably for table stakes, the
player soon either loses his modest
stack in the game or is forced to put in
more money. The players are nearly all
poor men, but as the losers leave their
money and the winners usually stay,
| 500 worth of chips is not an unusual
sight on the table.
The law forbids the use of slot in the
table or any kind of kitty" so the
| proprietor makes his money by charg-
ing each player one white check every
half hour for new cards. The income
of such place foots up to exactly five
cents an hour to each player, hardly
enough to satisfy the ambitions of the
| sportsman who runs the place; hence
| the booster"
The booster is really poker agent
on a so per cent. commission. He comes
into the game with a stack or two of
the proprietor's chips and plays to win,
with the understanding that he will
| quit whenever asked to make way for a
moneyed player. He must thus return
| ba Of oil ho1f Of hi c
winnings. His principal usefulness is
il starting new games and filling vacant
chairs in those lacking players. He
comes around early when the poker
place opens, and hangs about with 9TH
ers of his kind until two or three indie
pendent players turn up. Then he be-
gins to play, and makes what he can
until a nudge in the back warns him
that his chair is wanted.
To the booster with his small stack
the game is a serious thing. 1t means
food, lodging and tobacco for the next
"a hours. He must always look neat
and prosperous, as if he had money in
rolls, although he often sits down with
stomach left empty merely that his
linen may be stainless and his shoes
may shine. Of course, such man is
not above running up set of threes"
or dealing off the bottom if he gets a
chance, and his spare hours at home are
often passed in front of the looking
glass trying new tricks.
Though he is about the best short
card man IN the world, the booster rare
" makes more than enough for days
living. The stake in the game is so
small at first that he does not get much
of a chance; and later, when the game
grows strong, he has to make way for
others. Besides this, the other players
are pretty well seasoned, and keep a
sharp eye on the dealer. This, with the
thought that loss means hungry day
in the street, takes away all desire to
plunge.-N. Y. Sun.
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THE 0INoLEY DEFICIT.
No Signs as Yet of the Increase In
Revenue.


Revenue.
THE deficiency in revenue" under
the Cleveland administration. Mr.. Ding
ley declared in his Illuminating speech
Of March %. ''has nearly all arisen from
the falling off of revenue from duties on
imports '"Our problem" he continued,
lis to provide adequate revenue from
duties on imports to carry on the gov
eminent" The conclusion of this en-
lightened statesman, as recorded in the
Congressional Record of March "a, was
that 1.-The pending bill enacted into law
would yield an increase in revenue of
about $113, 100000" tits fair, of course,
to notice that he ''hedged" with suffi-
cient caution to reduce his estimated in
crease, on account of the failure of con-
gress to liam through" the Dingley bill,
to fifty or sixty millions. But on this
increase he positively took his stand.
Well, the deficit in revenue, since the be-
ginning of the fiscal year, has been some
$a9, oo0, 900, or 100000 larger than in
the corresponding period year ago.
The revenue, in order to fulfill Mr.. Ding
ley's prediction, must increase sixty to
seventy millions during the next nine
months. Does anyone seriously expect
such remarkable results? Does the inn
port movement suggest any increase
whatever over 1896, in the present sea-
son? Does it not, rather, foreshadow
that kind of future eminence for the
Dingley prophets which is usually re-
served for politicians who blunder in
the face of warnings from their own
party associates, and who make their
blunders because of simple stupidity !?
N Y Post
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THE PLATT-M'KINLEY DEAL.
why the New York Boss FavOrs the
Majors Reelection.


Majors Reelection.
According to the Chronicles dis
patches a full treaty of alliance, often
sive and defensive, has been formed be-
tween President Mckinley and BOSS"
Platt, the New York machine repub-
lican leader. Things have been tending
that way long time.
It is known that Platt was strongly
opposed to the nomination of Mckinley
ut the ST. Louis convention. But he had
been outgeneraled by Hanna-that is,
Hanna had secured by hook or by crook
q majority of the delegates. Platt want
ed Gov. Morton first; second, Speaker
Reed, and, third, anybody but McKin-
ley.
He found himself totally beaten. He
then planted himself immovably on a
strictly gold platform and made such
fight that he won. Hanna, which meant
Mckinley, was in favor of a straddle-
opposed to using the word gold in the
platform. The republicans of Ohio were
unsettled as to the money question and
the leaders feared the gold issue.
Plat was the leader of the east and OF
those central and western state favor
ing a gold platform. The fight was Sc
we're all along the lines. But Hanna was
told by Plat that if Mckinley was NOM
mated on straddling platform the
straddlers would have to elect him.
That settled it and the gold platform
was adopted.
After the election of Mckinley the
campaign for United States Senator
from New York was opened. There is
no doubt that the Hanna-McKinley in
auence was against Plat. though not
openly Perhaps it was a mere matter
of sympathy. But Plat was elected by
most overwhelming vote in the legis-
tature. enough to show that he was the
actual and not a sham boss"
Then began the intrigues by which
the Hanna-McKinley administration
was induced to form the offensive and
defensive league with Plat. His enc
mics, who were McKinley's friends,
were provided for by offices mostly out
ofthe country or in uninfiuential places.
The big New York offices, with local
power and patronage. went to Platt's
friends. When Platt's campaign for the
mayoralty of New York opened he
found the administration on his side
in the most efficient, not to say scan
dalous, way.
And that is why Plat is now in favor
of Mckinley for a second term. It does
not much signify, however. as the presi-
dent to be elected in 1900 will be a demo-
nrat.-Chicago Chronicle.
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nimetn1Iinm nenneh.

The following clear and comprehen-
sive definition has been given by Henry
Hucks Gibbs, now Lord Alderman:
1. An open mint, to which every man
may bring either gold or silver TO bo
coined.
2. A fixed ratio which the gold and
silver coins are to bear to each other.
3. The enactment that the money
30 coined shall be legal tender to any
amount at the option Of the payer. !.
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Pufting on Airs.

~Those Dashley girls seem too stuck
np for anything lately. Has somebody
been leaving them fortune, Iwonder ?''
''oh, no; it isn't that. They have a
cousin on the Boston baseball team
Cleveland Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28

The democracy of to-day stands
'or the protection of the people against
the usurpation of public functions by
private individuals. It stands by the
Jeffersonian declaration that it is as
much the duty of government to protect
the individual from injury by another
individual as it is to protect the Ameri-
can citizen from insult or injury by a
foreign power.-Louisyille Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28

She looked into the red embers and
thought of the pasta past she
thought about less and less as years
in the fire. She could see, in a
tiny house in Paris, this girl, so beau
tiful and so young, gradually falling
in love with the young English artist
boarder. She could see the stern moth
er's face when the young people con-
fessed that they had been married. 1t
was an awful day when young Arnold
had been brought home in an ambu-
lance dying. Then came his death and
the long illness of the girl, the birth
of her child and days of unconscious
ness, until one spring morning the girls
eyes fiuttered open.
Mrs. Morton sobbed aloud. She saw
the girl turn to touch the child at her
side-her own little one. Her weak
hands put back the shawl; Anne Nor
ton. could hear that awful cry ringing
in her ears even now as the girl found
nothing. Then she had besought her
poor invalid mother to speak. The
mother, with a great effort, had tried
to tell her, but with a gasp had fallen
back dead.
Anne Morton shivered as she thought
of the young girl sitting, i'll and weak,
day after day, almost crazed by the
loss of husband, child and mother. She
remembered the rich aunt from New
York, who came one of those sad days
and took the girl from the little home
in the Rue Verte.
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Not a Pleasurnble Day,

The man was a wealthy and stin
young northern squire, selfish and self
indulgent, childless, which was FORUM
ate, for he was unfit to play fathers
part, and suddenly widowed. 1t was to
the funeral of the wife that my friend
was professionally invited. 1t had not
been a happy marriage. The man was
gloomy not because of the bereavement,
but because of the solemuity and seri-
business it entaiIed. He would have gone
away if he had dared and left her rela-
tives to bury her; he did not like them
and swore he would not be shut up in
a carriage with any one of them-he
would ride alone. NO" said friend,
who had great influence over him las
indeed he had over most people with
whom he was brought into contact).
You must not do that" There were
good reasons why he should not have
gone alone. IF you will not go with
your relatives you must go with the
clergyman" ''The clergyman Well,
If must. must, but it will quite spoil
my day."-Nineteenth Century.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28

The city of Copenhagen has prob
ably the largest proportion of cyclists
to the population of any large city in
Europe. In total population of 4se.-
COG there are 10000 ridera.
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cried: "Oh, Rivington, my son!"-an
the tenderness of years in that cry
he took her in his arms with n great
sob, saying over and over again: moth
er, my own mother, my mother!"