Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-10
Among Our Nelghbors.

The REGISTER endorses every Woro
of the following, taken from the Du'a6'
lin Democrat: This paper is not one
of those that are making excuses fol
S. NJ. Scruggs, the rich ST. Louis mer,
chant and importer who was detected
the other day smuggling $4,000 worth
of jewelry into this country without
paying the customary duty. He had
been to Europe and was returning load
ed down with presents for his Sunday
School friends, he said. When asked
by the customs officer if he bad any
dutiable articles, he said he had not.
But the officers made an examination
and found lot of watches and jewelry
in belt Mr.. Scruggs wore. He was
arrested and should suffer the penalty
of his folly. He claimed that he was
ignorant of the law, though he has
beer the largest importer in st. Louis
for years. The papers say that his
bigh character and reputation hereto
fore will likely keep him from suffer
ing the full punishment prescribed by
law. Why should it? Why should
not he be punished just as if he was
not a great reformer and Sunday school
worker and prominent citizen? Excus-
ing the rich and influential for violat-
ing plain, written laws is what causes
so many poor people to become law
breakers"
The Poplar Bluff Herald and the
Corning (Ark.) Courier are fitting at
each other in friendly way, and the
editors brains are being racked to fur
nish forth material for the contest. A
sample from Courier: "a real nice
young man of Poplar Bluff recently
called upon a real nice young lady OF
that city, to spend the evening. Of
course we won't tell who they are, lest
you might know them. When he ar
rived there was not cloud in the sky,
and he carried no umbrella, and wore
neither goloshes or macintosh. At
item o'clock when he arose to 60, it was
raining cats and dogs. my, my, my, "
said the young lady, ''if you go out in
all this storm, you will catch your
death of cold" Il am afraid | might,
was the trembling answer" "Well,
I'll tell you what, stay all night; you
can have Toms room, since he is
away. Yes, occupy Toms room-ex-
cuse me minute and I'll run up stairs
and see that il is in order" The young
lady flew gracefully up stairs. In five
minutes she came down to announce
that Toms room was in good order,
but no Charles was in sight. In few
minutes he appeared, very wet and out
of breath from running, and a bundle
wrapped in copy of the Poplar Bluff
Daily Herald under his arm. "Why
Charles, where have you been?"
''Been home after my night shirt, "
was the reply. That is what one of
the .'kids" of the household reported
on the street the next day"
Brother Caruthers' explanation and
apology, here following, is accepted
in the fraternal spirit in which it is
rendered. Hereafter, if the dropping
of his muse show weariness, or if the
corners of his rhetoric lack the
smoothness of perfect rounding, we
shall know it is not on soaring pinion
borne solely because the period of
ever recurring incubation depresses
the spirit of his sanctum:
The IRONToN REGISTER'S poet, phil
ospher and sky-scraping word tosser
is informed that the paralyzing account
In this paper Of Z recent assassination,
was not written with a coruscating
pen, or even lead pencil; it was '.set
up' at the case without copy. Pshaw,
when we write with coruscating pen,
our sentences are so far beyond the
comprehension of the average country
editor that if they ever get at our
meaning at all they must have William
Vincent Byars unlock them with the
key that he uses IN reaching the real
meat in the Homer literary cocoanuts.
We just have to ''set" our own matter
TO keep on the ground at all, Brother
AXE.
Wheat harvest will begin in New
Madrid county next week. The pros
pect for a fine crop is good.
1.-The better the day, the better the
deed" is an adage hoary with years
and respectable from association; but
no day, however sacred, could add to
the goodness of the deeds of the lady
and gentleman thus chronicled by the
Salem Democrat: Last Sunday Mrs.
Chas. Middaugh picked seven gallons
of strawberries and gratuitously divid-
ed them among the widows of town,
while Tom Dent furnished the sugar >
The Holladay-Klotz Lumber Com.
pany lost three large lumber sheds by
fire on the morning of the 30th ult,,
and a large quantity of material was
consumed. Loss, exclusive of insur.
ance. about S12, 900. The result oI
incendiarisn