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Iron County register., 1897-10-07
BE NOT DIsMAYED.

SO live that when Death comes to thee, o
friend,
His hand upon thy door may not af-
fright:
night,
AT dawn, or noon, grim fear shall not at
tend
Upon his kindly step; his touch win be
Gods sign and seal to set thy spirit free.
Speech hath he none. and yelled the face
he wears:
Yet known to all the silent, unseen guest,
And to each soul the import Of the quest
He makes wherever life her hame-torch
bears.
Unheard he comes. for peace hath shod
his feet;
Thou1t in his breast her joys supernaI
meet.
No beggar he; yet none may disallow
His attitude of waiting for the gift
He claims-and takes! To win the souls
last shrift
Shrink not. o friend. though on thy fevered
His kiss falls chill; Ife's subtlest secret
knows
The corn of wheat beneath the winters
SHOWS.
What though the windows of the soul
grow dim
Within the shadow of the presence dread? ?
Beneath the shade of Pisgah's height are
Fair Canaan's plains. and Jordan's silver
rim.
When fades the light of earth to dying
eyes
Gods Promised Land" shall on their
sight arise
And death will guide to meads and pastures
fair;
To living streams whose noiseIess foun-
tains flow
From out Gods throne; whose magic
waters go
To heal the nations, conquer pain and care.
Go then with Death! Be not, o friend,
dismayed
When thou in his strong grasp thy hand
hath laid.
M. Sheffey-Peters, in N. Y. Observer.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
Wise Mirth.

There is a saying of Chamfort which
many serious-minded people, under the
pressure of care and work, would dc
well to lay to heart: The most thor
oughly wasted of all days is that one in
which one has not laughed" 1t has oft
en- been said that only they who can
take life with profound seriousness can
he really humorous, for they alone
perceive those fundamental contrasts
which make humor possible. Mr. Ford
has laid the country under lasting obli-
cations by correcting the impression
that Washington never laughed. Deep
y serious as he was by nature, and re-
tired and non-communicative as he was
i'll large companies, no man could ap-
preciate and enjoy fun of any good kind
more thoroughly than the great leader
when with his intimates. 1t is true
Emerson hated to laugh, but his radiant
smile was better than laughter. Car
lyle, on the contrary, was given to earth
shaking laughter-a kind of berserker
laughter, not without undertones of
pathos running through it. Lincoln's
love of stories, both in the hearing and
the telling, was a safety valve for one
whose tremendous burdens fell on a
temperament deeply tinged with sad
neSs.-Outlook.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
A TRUCE BETWEEN INDIANS.
The Chippewas and Sioux Tribes Join
Hands.

The ChippeWas and Sioux Tribes Join
Hands.
A few days ago there was friendly
reunion of the Chippewa and Sioux In
dams. This was a notable occasion, be-
cause for many years an unquenchable
feud ragged between these tribes. Moth
ing that could be done seemed to as
suage their wrath, which has burned
most fiercely since the early days of the
American colonies.
1t is therefore with great deal of
satisfaction that lovers of harmony and
concord learn that a reconciliation has
taken place, and that the hatchet is
buried and the pipe of peace has been
smoked. Whether Master Cupid real
" had as much to do with all this
smoothness as many people choose to
fancy, or whether the prospective we'd
ding Of two members of these hostile
tribes was merely taken advantage of
as pretext to give up the old feud real
Iy matters but little. As far as results
are concerned the outcome is eminently
satisfactory, and it is therefore no
longer necessary for these original
owners of the soil to be on their guard
1eSG The OlnSI
mapping. That the Indian nature
should undergo such a change as to
clasp hands with lifelong enemies is an
excellent argument in favor of civiliz-
ing and Outstanding these tribes.
They have become very manageable
and biddable, and the hope now is that
they will hold to their good resolutions.
The Indian is a most cruel, blood
thirsty and relentless foe. Nothing is
too horrible for him to undertake. As
a friend the Indian is said to be trust
worthy and reliable. once his mind is
set upon the friend, but there have
been so many instances related of his
treachery to white people that these
stories have come to be taken with
great many grains of allowance.
Of course, there are bad Indians as
well as good ones, and it may be that
those who would do well have been pre-
vented by the more mischievous ele-
ment. Whatever the situation may be,
the entire civilized and Christianized
world will be exceedingly glad to know
that the old enemity between these two
tribes has become thing of the past,
and. as they say, is done with forever
n Y Ledger.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
HAD NO EYES FOR THE BABY.
The Judge Was Devoted to Chess and
Thought of Nothing Else.

The late Judge Sheldon, of Rockford,
Ill, legal luminary and millionaire, was
a noted chess player, devoting his entire
evenings for many years to playing at
the houses of his friends, where the
ladies complained bitterly of his de-
votiOn to the game, to their almost total
neglect. One of these was a charming
young mother who had known the
judge since her childhood. Her father
was a favOrite partner of the judge, and
the two spent their evenings together
in the home library playing chess in the
silence which the game involves, and, as
unsociable and taciturn as they were,
the young woman intruded upon them.
determined that the judge should see
and admire her beautiful baby.
Isn't he darling?" she asked, hold
ing him forward for her fathers bach
elor friend to admire.
Absolute silence.
''Now. dear Judge Sheldon, do just
look at my sweet boy. Why. he is per-
feet little angel"
The judge never lifted his head
II think the precious looks just like
papa. don't you?"
This appeal moved him. He lifted his
eyes and looked at the baby with a
blank stare. Then he turned again to
the chess table and said in his usual
commanding voice:
"Check"-Chicago Record.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
AIN GOD WE TRUST"
Origin of the Legend on Coins of the
United States.

Origin of the Legend on Coins of the
United States.
Director Preston, of the mint, has
been asked so often about the origin OF
the legend on the coins of this country,
SIN God We Trust" that he has made
a statement of the results of his re-
searches.
So far as the department records
show, the first suggestion for the rec
ognition of the Deity on the coins of
the United States was made by NJ. r.
Watkipson, of Ridleyville, Pa, who
signed himself Minister of the Cos
pei" in a letter dated November 13,
1861. He wrote to Secretary Chase
somewhat as follows: ''You are prob
ably Christian. What if our republic
were now shattered beyond reconstruc-
ton? Would not the antiquaries OF
succeeding centuries rightly reason
from our past that we were heathen
nation? What propose is, that instead
of the Goddess of Liberty we shall have
next inside the 13 stars ring inscribed
with the words perpetual union;' with
in this ring the all-seeing eye, crowned
with halo; beneath this eye the Amer
lean flag, bearing in its field stars equal
to the number of states united; in the
folds of the bars the words: God, Lib
erty, Law This would make beau
tiful coin, to which no possible citizen
could object. This would relieve us
from the ignominy of heathenism.
This would place us openly under the
Divine protection we have personally
claimed. From my heart I have felt
our national shame in disowning God
as not the least of our present national
disasters. To you first 1 address a
subject that must be agitated.'
Secretary Chase was impressed with
the suggestion. and moved in the mat
ter, so that "An act was passed April
%, 1864, changing the composition of
the one-cent piece and authorizing the
coinage of the two-cent piece, the de-
vices of which were to be fixed by the
director of the mint, with the approval
of the secretary of the treasury; and
it is upon the two-cent bronze piece
that the motto: In God We Trust first
appeared" The legend was ordered on
other coins by subsequent acts, and
finally, in 1873. it was ordered to be in.
scribed on such coins as admit of it,
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
THE LOT OF A GOLD SEEKER.
Tie Is Lured On by Visions of Untold
Wealth.


Yet in spite of these privations and
hardships there is no more fascinating
pursuit than the occupation of the
goldseeker; for the stimulating elixir
of hope puts strength into his tagging
limbs and courage into his sinking
heart. It is this magnificent stimulus
to fresh endeavor that causes the pros
pector to laugh at cold, hunger and IA
tigue, and, rolled up in his tattered
blanket at night, to fall into slumber
from which the storm above does not
waken him and the dreamy delicious
ness of which no pampered dweller of
the city ever knows. The hazy sum-
mer days of the west, where the sun
shine is so golden and the distant hills
so blue, where the waters of the run
ming streams leap clear and cold from
the bosoms of the mountain SHOWS, and
the still night air is laden with the aro-
matte fragrance of the pine and sage
brush. make a month of prospecting
better than trip to Europe.
But let the man beware who would
daily with this pleasure with the idea
that it can be put aside at will. The
chains that bind the opium eater to
the slavery of the drug are as ropes of
sand compared to the life of servitude
that claims the gold seeker when once
the hot fever of the chase for gold has
taken possession of him. The success
fui man, no matter how successful al
ways sees some one else whose wealth
annoys him and whose success he would
surpass, and when fortune lays the gold
of Ormus at his feet he begins to covet
the wealth of Ind. The luekless gold
seeker never gives up the battle until
his life pays the penalty.-Sam Davis.
IN Chautauquan.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
/ II.

That evening Harold and his sister
sat moodily in the room in which their
father had died. They had always
avoided the room, and now they won
dered at their presence in it. Some
strange fascination was upon them.
They were growing morbidly supersti-
tious of late. 4 candle sputtered on a
table between them, Illuminating feebly
the darkness. The white covering of
the bed on which the miser died loomed
family in the shadows and looked not
unlike a crouching ghost about to
spring from the gloom. Harold gazed
intently at the blurred drapery until
the whole scene flashed on him again !;
he could see his fathers face distorted
in death agony, and hear the whispered
words drop from his lips: He sprang
to his feet, exclaiming harsh,y: "On,
on" Then turning to his startled Sis
ter. asked:
'Hettie, can't you think what father
would have said after ON? See if you
can't put your head to work. This is
the point at which we should have
started long ago."
After thinking. with knit brow, in
silence for n spell, he began: ''On, on
top-On, on, on-On, upon the On top
of the On. on what, sister? On the top
of the what? We ought to guess what
would come next. On, on" he looked
searchingly about the room-"on the
the clock" he cried, springing to his
feet as his eyes stared into the face of
an old. silent cuckoo clock in the cor
ner. ITS there. Hettie; don't you re-
member how father stared at the clock
when he was dying? Yes, we'll find
some clew on the clock. l have pre-
sentiment that our disappointing quest
is at an end" he continued, nervous
~ mounting chair. His sister stood
at his side, holding aloft the fiickering
candle. Harold was feeling in the dust
and cobwebs when the old clock gave a
groan. the cuckoo came to the door and
repeated its hollow note; there was a
harsh screeching, and the dilapidated
timepiece tumbled in a heap. There
was a shrek; the candle fell sp!utter-
ing to the floor. and the two ran like
guilty things from the room. They
stood in the empty hall for a moment,
painting with fright and peering fur
lively into the dark: then haStened to
their apartments.
Morning was stealing gray and shad-
owy through the quiet old building
when Harold stole down the stairway
to where lay scattered the wreck of the
old clock. He searched amid the debris.
and brought to light a bit of yellow,
time-stained paper. He brushed the
dust from il and read. in a cramped
handwriting, the words: ITO my wife :
At last. There was no hurry now.
Harold was perfectly calm as he pushed
the paper in his pocket and stepped
to the stairway to call his sister. She
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
SILVER SPRAY.

The paramount issue-money ana
more of it.
The silver cause is dead. Long live
the lively corpsel
The high price of wheat and low price
of silver bullion suggests that for the
American people there is nothing like
the misfortunes of others unless it be
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Brown university trustees and other
goldbugs have come to see that man
can be honest, have level head and at
the same time advocate the alleged re-
pudiation of restoring silver to its old.
time prestige as a money metal. This
is one point scored. The admission has
not been willingly made, but the Amer
lean people are fair, and an aroused
public conscience sometimes does what
nothing else can. Browns trustees
have not been asked to accept or stand
sponsor for President Andrews eco
nomic ideas, but any body of men must
know something of the weakness Of
their cause when in any manner they
try to suppress the free expression OF
opposing views. 1t seems that the
money question has come to be more
than mere economic dispute. A prin-
ciple is at stake, and that principle
whether or not a free-born citizen shall
be guaranteed the right of the consti.
tuition, such as popular government
free speech and common equity. The
question is whether the poor shall con-
tinue to meekly submit to being heeced
by the moneyed classes, whether Nam.
mon or manhood shall hold the bal
ance, and whether the oppressed shall
gradually be robbed of the right ia
publicly air their grievances-thef
S,,Ix, v,,ao-g 81 gaa1~srrx ra1rase
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
III.

Years passed, and the miser's gold lay
secure in its hiding place. They who
sought it continued hopeful. and with
the exception of short intervals of rest
they had kept diligently at work.
The farm during this time had been
left 10 take care of itself and produce
whatever crop it saw fit; consequently
the fertile acres were covered with a
dense growth of weeds and briars. The
stock had been sold off, few at time,
until only a small number of broken
spirited horses remained with which TO
cultivate the patches necessity forced
them to till.
As the years continued to slip away,
N~s. Furgis died. Soon Albert followed
her, and the two remaining children
were left alone in the large, decaylng
house. Harold and his sister continued
to work the patches about the house
and year after year mortgage 1e"
Iron County register., 1897-10-07

Summer Boarder (sniffng costa teal
ly)-Ah, how love the fragrance of the
new-mown hay!
Farmer Furrow (disgustedIy)-Sa
young feller, if you can't tell the differ
enee between old fertilizer and new
hay wouldn't want you to buy fodder
for my cattle!-N. Y Journal.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
Iao7 Puddlnr.

For the benefit of the unemployed
who voted for sound money and pros
perity last fall, give to them the fol-
lowing pudding recipe: Make three
gallons of confidence, one peck of inter
national agreement, one quart OF gold
standard, seven tnblespoonfuls of PROS
perity, two quarts of sound money, and
one pound of protection; boil with 10
months of no work for ten hours and
eat while hot.-Unemployed Working
man, in Western Rural.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
wbv II Ts SuDreme.

Why should all issues be subordinated
to the money question? Because no
issue can be properly settled while a
money despotism is maintained and the
people are deprived of the liberty of in
dependent action. Silver Knight
WaAchman
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
Too strong to WorlS.

Old residents tell story about an
Indian who, on being presented with
an oId-fashioned heavy cast-iron stove,
which he thought could be sold at a
foundry, packed it on his squaw' s
back to be transported thither. he car
rying their child and marching beside
her. Soon he became tired of the chilG
and showed it into the steve on his
wife's back, and then eortinn ned his way
to the foundry-Portland Oregonian.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
Rorn fo Good Luelk.

The Doting Mamma-O, yes, baby is q
very lucky little darling. She has lots
and lots of nice presents.
Little Jane-Guess our cooks got a
baby that's ever so much luckier than
her.
I'm what way, Janie?"
ashe's black, an dent have to b
washed. d.''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
The nInerence.

What is the difference between the
goldbuggery of Mckinley and Cleve-
land? Mckinley is a goldbug by con-
tract, and Cleveland is goldbug on ac-
count of the lust of wickedness and
hatred of humanity. Silver Knight
uoAahr,kn
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
Hnme in Frnnce.

Although there is no such word as
"hone'' in the French language, the
home and home life do exist in that
country, and those foreigners who have
come in contact with it testify that no
where in the world are to be seen more
devoted. affectionate. loyal family re-
Iations than in French households. Yet
II is only in France that one hears epi-
Grams like this from Figaro: He
That 1narries the second time does not
deserves to have lost his first wife"
To enjoy wit of this kind French
man need be neither woman hater nor
"A cynic. He likes the French dressing
in his humor as well as salad, that is
au.-Ruffalo Commercial.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
More Cruel Than the Grave.

Why is the gold monopoly more cruel
than the grave? Because the living
Insurer smiles upon the death by starva-
ton which he produces, whereas the
grave is the final refuge Of slaves Of the
money power. - Silver Knight-watch-
nan.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
rnnIfnI RefIection,

Mrs. Crimson beak-Do you believe
that a horse can eat his head of?
Mr.. Crimsonbeak--I don't know; but
wish to gracious man could drink kai
head off, Yonkers Statesman.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07

. -
Asia i, ,eoV9V0VV0
This figures up something like $S,-
$40, ,0o0, 900 of legal tender silver. coming
value, now in use among the nations as
money. If silver continues to decline in.
price and is discarded as money, all
this vast sum must go into the limbo Of
nothingness.
Who is to bear this loss? What is
TO become of the commerce of the silver
highlands best customers
II their money is to be wiped out? Mex
co has already put stop to foreign
trade for this cause. Must not all the
other silver countries do likewise if the
decline continues?
The great question of bimetallism
thus confronts the worlds in the most
acute form assumed since Germany,
France and the United States demone-
tized the white metal 25 years ago. As
the Springfield Republican, goldite
paper, says:
.sThis renewed break in the bullion
market from the causes mentioned may
be fact to rejoice over in its discour-
aging effects upon the reconciliation
movement in the United States, but
after that, what? Consider the situa-
ton. Here are the nations of the civ
ilized and semicivilized world, which,
with only one notable exception, have
become tied to the employment of inn
mense amounts of silver as money. 1t
represents the accumulations of CEN
turies of faith in its perpetuity as a
stable and solid possession. But at
last, and for the first time in history,
the world awakes to the knowledge
that the once precious metal has be-
come base and cheap and common, and
that the very bottom of the great monsa
tary stores in it has fallen out and
left them hanging high on the slender
peg of government fiat"
Is it not, in view of the facts here
referred to, more imperatively neces-
sary than ever before for the people of
the world to throw off the shackles
with which they are being bound to
gold by the shylocks and security
spectators and restore silver to the
place it has heretofore occupied as one
of the primary money metals of the
world? The bulk of the commercial
and industrial depression and disasters
of the last quarter of a century are due
to the scaling down process of the gold
standard, and prosperity will never be
permanently restored until gold is de-
throned as the absolute monarch of
the worlds exchanges. 1t is of vital
interest, therefore, not only to the
United States, but to the world, that sill
yer should be replaced where it once
was. God speed the dayl = Illinois
State Register.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07

Glass is the most elastic substance in
existence. A glass plate kept under
pressure IN bent condition for IS
years will return to its exact original
form. Steel comes ext.-Chicagc
Chronicle.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07

Nothing creates as much intereiE~
~ . funeral. .--Washington Democrat
Iron County register., 1897-10-07

Girls dressed in uniform think
everybody is looking at them.-Wash-
Sneton Democrat.
Iron County register., 1897-10-07
INTEREST IS woRLo-wnpE.

FAN In Price OF SILVER Means Em-s
menae Loss Somewhere.
The London Times discusses the fail
a the gold price of silver and declares
tt to be an argument against any at,
tempt at international bimetallism.
But is it not rather the strongest ar
gument in favor of the preservation of
all the vast wealth now represented by
silver coinage, and all the commerce
that is dependent upon that coinage3
Here in rough estimate are the stocks
Of silver, aside from subsidiary coin,
held in monetary use by the principal
nations, as given by Mr.. Muhleman in
his Monetary Systems of the World:''
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-22
COMMITTEE ON STREETS.

The Committee on Streets will meet in
Room 10 and H. City Hall, on Friday, Sep
TENDER oath, 1897, at p. M, for the pur-
pose Of considering the following matters:
Petition for Sidewalk and curbs on COTE
street, both sides, between County and Or
chard streets
Resolution providing that the Director of
Public Works cause plans and specifications
to be prepared for the repair of Humphrey,
Edwards, and Arch streets, Derby avenue
Edgewood avenue, Dixwell avenue, Cain
street, Winthrop avenue Lloyd street and
Blatchley avenue, with broken stone of NOT
more than two inches in diameter to the
following depths: Five % inches. Humph-
rey, Edwards, Arch and Cain streets, Win
throp avenue. Lloyd street, Blatchley ave-
nue.; six 6) inches, Derby avenue, Edge
wood avenue; seven ~ inches, Dixwel av-
enue. And that the said Director advertise
for bids and award contract for the repair
Of the above named streets to the extent
of the appropriation on or before the first
day of November, 1897
All persons Interested in any of the fore
going are hereby notified to appear and he
heard thereon without further notice.
Per order JOHN H. CLARKE. Chairman
Attest: EDWARD A. STREET.
s22 1t Assistant City Clerk
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-22
STATE BOWLING LEAGUE
Meriden is Interested in the PROPOSED
Scheme.

Meriden is Interested in the Proposed
Scheme.
Meriden, Sept. 21.-Wilkinson Broth
ers last night received a letter from
Edwin f. Peckham, manager of the
Bowling and Tennis company of New
Haven, broaching the matter of a state
league of bowlers to embrace the cities
of Meriden, New Haven, Hartford and
Wallingford. Bridgeport and Middle
town may also be included.
A meeting of those interested in the
sport from the above-named cities has
been arranged to take place at Will
kinson's alleys next Tuesday, Septem-
Der 2S. Ali the local enthusiasts are
requested to attend and If sufficient in
terest is manifested the idea of a state
league WILL in all probability. be car
ried through. An endeavor to notify
the Meriden bowlers will be made. but
any who do not receive invitations need
not feel themselves sighted.
Further than this no plans have been
made, but arrangements will proba bly,
be begun at the meeting to be held next
Tuesday.