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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
A Cheerful Outlook.

one's nerves and temper that it is not
always easy to preserve ones cheerful
ness. Moods are contagious; one un-
happy person in family without any
active effort can destroy the pleasure
of all the rest. We do not always re.
member this and so we give way te
causes for depression. and we do not
bear ourselves as bravely as we might
when things are going wrong with us
1t is good rule to keep ones troubles
in the background of life. in the back
ground of thought, bringing to the
front only that which is cheerful and
sunny.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
FORTY-CENT GOLD DOLLAR.
The Intrinsic Value of the Metal a
Indicated Officially for
a Century.

| When people talk of the intrinsic
value of gold, they mean its value for
use in the arts-for making gold leaf,
for finger rings and for similar pur-
poses.
This is the only value it can have in
addition to its coinage value-that is,
to the fiat value given it by the mint
stamp and by its use as a money
metal.
When people talk of the hundred
cent gold dollar" they are right if they
speak of its fiat value plus it's value for
use in the arts.
But according to the report of the di-
rector OF the mint, out of over $4,000
$1,000 worth of gold bullion produced
| in the United States from 1892 to 1896
period of 1O4 years-only SEAS, 100000
was withheld from coinage for use in
| the arts.
Thus we have it officially shown, on
| the face of figures given by the leading
gold monometallist authority of the
| country, that on the averages of CEN
fury only about one-eighth of the de-
mand for American gold has been Gre
ated by its use in the arts.
| Inc rest Is the ueIndnu cItdteu ny
coinage, and all other value (not in
trinsic or created by demand for use in
| the arts) is fiat value.
Hence, on the face of the official fig
ures for a hundred years, the gold dol
| lar minus its fat value is 12h-cent
| dollar.
If gold worshipers are shocked at
the way their own figures put them
| to confusion we are willing to con-
| cede that as much as 30, or even 40
per cent. of the value of the gold dol
| lar may be intrinsic" But that is
| the maximum. There is never likely tc
be more than that. The rest is given to
| it by coinage demand, and it would dis
appear if the mint stamp and tie gov.
eminent fiat which converted metal
| into money were withheld.
The Accent gold dollar is all right.
however. The only dollar that is all
| wrong in this country is the Roths-
child-Ickelheimer, Wall street, national
bank, panic-producing rag dollar which
always stands for a dollar of circulat-
ing debt imitation, and is always worth
hundred cents less than nothing
Mississippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
PRESS COMMENTS.

Democrats all over the country
are walking with heads high in the air
these days. McKinley's imperial poll
cy is sending things their way very
fast.-Kansas City Times.
The Wall street banks are de-
termined to retire gold, silver and
greenbacks-all three. The only dol
lars they propose to allow in actual
circulation. are their own worthless
paper, representing nothing in the
world but John Law imitation of private
debt.-MississiPp Valley Democrat.
1t is somewhat amusing to OBJ
serve leading foreign newspapers dis
paraging and ridiculing the American
army because of its small numbers
and lack of discipline, at the same
time calling upon the great powers
to combine against the United States
and put an end to the war" It is to be
shrewdly suspected that these papers
know more about the real strength of
this country than they care to pretend
to.-Nationa1 Bime tallist.
The war has given our republican
statesmen an opportunity to impose
more taxes without openly admitting
that it would have been necessary to
increase them If there had beer: no war,
as it certainly would. Appropriations
for ordinary purposes, including those
for the army and navy on a peace foot
ing, promised to be at the rate of more
than $500, OOO, 900 a year, while the
Dingley taxes promised to produce
10 more than s40s, O0o, 900 at the most.
Chicago Chronicle.
Widely scattered territorial pos
sessions will work out the problem of
free trade. No argument is necessary
to prove this premise. Great Britain
furnishes all the proof required. What
are the protectionists going to do
about it? Let rs not forget their fool
ish. but historical, contention that pro-
lection is for the laborer and not the
capitalist. How are they going to
protect the labor of the country from
the pauper labor they are now annex
inp?-St. Louis Renuhlic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER.

Use Jerry heed in stony field,
Under a sweltering sun.
The boy and the rock and the native weed
Fought for the life in battered seed,
And the struggle was just begun.
get out Of the mud and follow me-"
Said the man with the better clothes
Against you are vermin and drought and
frost;
You Will anger nature with labor lost
Come where fair wind blows
But the boy digged on in the stony field,
with the struggle barely begun.
put me seed in this ground" said he;
think had better stay and see
Whatever may be done"
Joe Jerry quarried and placed the stones,
And fitted the timbers true
Then his neighbors came, with fevered
eyes;
-Gold-pans of gold-just there it lies!
Shall We wait day for you?'
A soft voice rifted the evening calm,
Singing the death of day.
A TRAD cnild came and went with a kiss.
Il haze wife and home-and this;
think 1 had better stay"
War! On to war"'-and the cry came
near
There is honor. or fame, for aIlr'
81 have a dying wife and these:
l snail stay with them Il GOO please"
But ne went at the second call.
Come on?' they cried. TITS death tc
watt
His face was bleeding and grim:
He picked rifle out OF the dirt
And answered simply: The captain:
hurt.
think I'll stay with him.
Frederick Brush, in n. Y. sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28

Several years ago l was serving q
prominent charge in South Florida, and
on particularly blue Monday 1 was
called on to attend the funeral of a
rural parishiOner. 1 felt sad The
scene was pathetic one. The widow
stood Immediately by me. and near her
two or three woebegone-looking little
children. We were ut the grave, rude,
wild, unkept country 'burying ground"
The mother of the grief-stricken wife
stood near supporting her daughter.
\ wild torrent of grief burst from the
poor afflicted woman as the benedic-
ton was pronounced. Just then the
mother spoke in an audible whisper
these comforting words: Hush, Sal!
Oh. Sal, hush! Don't holler so. case
(because) you'll git over it. I've buried
four men, and I've got over it every
time. Hush. gal, hush!'-From Our
Blue Monday Club" in The Homiletie
Review
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
Gold Is King.

Whatever may be the language OF the
contract the United States will discharge
all the obligations in the currency recog-
nized as the best throughout the civilized
world-at the time of MISUNDERSTANDING
The peoples money, says New Eng
land manufacturer, should be used hon.
estly and according to contract only.
The people have no objection to Presi-
dent Mckinley discharging his person
al debts in money recognized by Eng
land ''as the best" We protest to the
use of the peoples money in any other
way than as the contract calls for.
either by him or any other trusted
guardian of our finances. The contract
should be a sacred compact and the
people will demand at the polls that
our contracts be made to be kept and
not to be broken at the request of for
eigner, bondholder, or banker.-Silver
Knight
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Beggars are seldom seen in Mel
bourne.
Prof. Won. Zenker, who in 1860 first
discovered the trichina disease, died
recently in Mecklenburg at the age OF
70 years.
German foxes are being imported
into England in crates containing a
dozen animals by some of the hunting
associations.
Italians attribute all misfortunes to
the ruling Powers. The Romans have
a proverb 'piove, governo ladro''-''it
rains, confound the government"
The work on the Swiss Jungfrau
railway is proving less expensive than
had been estimated, and it is expected
that in five years the summit of the
mountain will be reached.
William Blake's original drawings to
illustrate Young's might Thoughts, .
nearly 500 in number, have been dis
covered in a London lumber room, and
will soon be offered for SALE
Hildesheim's famous 1,O00-year-old
rosebush is blooming again and has
sent out new shoots. For two years
past it was feared that it was dying
from insect parasites, but it has been
saved by applications of whitewash
and kerosene.
\ 3OO-year-old lawsuit between the
village of Burgsinn and the lords OF
Thungen over the ownership of the
Burgsinn common wood has come tc
an untimely end by the Bamberg su-
preme courts giving final judgment
for the village.
There has been acquired for the
British museum reading room fac
simile of the original manuscript OF
Bret Harte's poem, 1.-THE Heather
Chinee," which first appeared in the
Overland Monthly of San Francisco
in September, 1870.
1t is the belief of political econo
mists that the population of a country
should not exceed half the number Of
its cultivated acres. There are, there
fore, seven European countries which
are overpopulate6- Belgium, which
has us persons to each 100 titled
acres; England, 115; Holland, 95; Scot
land, Sc; Italy, 60; Germany, 50, anc
Switzerland, SO.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
THE GOLD STANDARD.
F&n establishment i'm India Would
Cause Irreparable Injury and
Disaster to Business.

The herculean task of ablishing
the gold standard in India has not yet
been accomplished and the difficulties
of its accomplishment have caused Lord
George Hamilton to appoint a special
committee to devise way and means to
procure gold to place India on gold
basis. The appointment of the COM
mittee has aroused most important
discussion in England. Financiers OF
all parties complain of the limited in
quiry intrusted to the committee. They
contend that the inquiry should be
broad enough to take into considera-
ton the propriety of any attempt what
ever to reach the gold standard, and
also the expediency of again opening
the minis of India to the free coinage
of silver. Sir Robert Giffen, the leader
of the gold standard party of the world,
Immediately after the appointment OF
the committee published letter in the
London Times on the 18th of May last,
In opposition to the plan proposed by
Lord Hamilton. Among other things
he said that the omission of the follow
ing questions was a defect in the refer
ence to the committee:
% Whether gold standard is desirable
for India, a subject not sufficiently con-
sidered by Lord HerschelFs committee
and which the Indian government appears
to have tnadequately studied; and q
whether a gold standard and gold money
are really practicable in the sp ecial cir
+! cumstances of India, a point on which
there cannot but be the greatest doubts.
The London Economist and the Lon
| don StatiSt, in elaborate editorials, con.
Cured in the views expressed by Mr.
| Giffen, and protested in the strongest
! possible terms against the effort at the
| present time to attempt to put India
ON gold basis. Space will not permit
| the reproduction of these elaborate ar
! guments. It is sufficient to say that il
is the opinion of all the gold standard
economists that gold cannot be OBJ
tanned to put India on gold basis with
out great detriment to the finances Of
the mother country and irreparable in
jury and disaster TO the business o.
India. If these financial authorities
had examined the questions with a.
much anxiety and care 25 years ago the
United States and Europe would no
be suffering the intolerable evils of thu
| gold standard.
The war between bimetallism and tn,
| gold standard ia the war between pros
perity and decay. Modern civilization
is not ripe for decay. The realization
of the horrors of the gold standard TO,
India by the leading monometallists O
Great Britain is light in the east, where
darkness appeared impenetrable. TIL
position of the gold monometallist
that the single gold standard in al
countries and in every cline is an un
alleged blessing is abandoned in thu
case of India. The admission that i
will curse India must encourage bi
metallists throughout the world ant
confound the advocates of the infalli
bility of the gold monopoly.-Silve1
| Knight Watchman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
Mr.. Gladstone as signaIman.

During Mr.. GIadstone's illness. the
Irish express going to Holyhead was
several times stopped at Sandyford in
order to put down the doctors. There
is Hawarden tradition to the effect
that Mr.. Gladstone once stopped this
express by pulling the signal against
it with his own hand. The narrative
is that Mr.. Gladstone had been hur.
riedly summoned south by the queen.
He drove over to Sandyford-the date
is supposed to be years and years ago
and asked the official there to have
the train stopped. NO, sir" was the
timorous reply, Il cannot stop the
Irish express without orders, and as
she is almost due, there is no time to
telegraph for them Well" ouotb
Mr. Gladstone, Il understand Your DO
sition and appreciate it. But in the
interests of the nation | must get to
London with the least loss of time.
Therefore | shall take the responsible
ity of stopping the train myself"
With that he went to the lever and
pulled it, saying: ''In the oueen'G
name."-LondOn Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
Spnring of Words.

The late Due de Sagan used to relate
this story: King Frederick William
III. of Russia was very sParing of
wo%ds, as is we'll known. but one day
he was told there was at Toplitz where
he was then drinking the waters, a Hun
garian magnate still less talkative than
the king. An opportunity for meet
ing was soon managed, and the follow
ing conversation took place, the ling
beginning: "Bathing?" Drinking"
"Soldfer?" millionaire" "Good."
''Policeman?' King" Compliments"
N Y Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28

A museum in Berlin has secured pos
session of Luther's Bible, which he used
in his study. Its margins are covered
with notes in the reformer's handwrit-
ing. It was printed in Bale in the year
1909. and is said to lie in an excellent
state of preservation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
Would Have Been Better.

The issue of bonds is fatal to prosper
ty because it takes money out of bust
ness enterprises. One can imagine how
much greater business would be If in.
stead of taking $500, o0o, 900 out of cir
eulation $500. O00, 900 was added.-S1.
yer KniQht-Watchman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
NOT TO THEIR LIKING.
Republicans Are I'm Trouble over the
Fusion of Democrats and Pop
uIfsts I'm the West.

The fusion between democrats and
populists in western states is giving
republican orators and organs no end
of trouble at this particular time.
1.-THE Kansas democracy has been swal-
lowed whole" shouts n republican con-
temporary, and in the same issue the
news columns tell of the nomination
of Judge Keaton, democrat, by the
democrats ard populists of Oklahoma
as a candidate for congress to succeed
the populist delegate Callahan. Have
the democrats in Oklahoma swallowed
the populists whole? And in the
Fourth Kansas congressional district,
where a fusion nomination means an
election, have the democrats swal-
lowed the populists, and must the DEM
ocrats be credited with similar gas
Economical achievement in the First
Kansas district? The frantic procla-
nations just now being issued from re-
publican sources are calculated to in
volve the 6. o. p. following in such
mathematical complications as to de-
throne all reason. If the democrats
of Kansas have been swallowed
WHOLE" the Fourth and First districts
must be denied the right of consider
alton as integral parts of the state.
Neither the democrats nor the popu-
lists behaved to suit the gold standard
party in 1896, but they succeeded in
getting along on such good terms with
each other that their cooperation in
1898 has come naturally and without
any of the friction which made the
presidential campaign difficult to con-
duct. The populists and democrats OF
Oklahoma take the same view OF the
situation as the populists and demo-
Gratis of Kansas. Not until the mo-
mentous issues are settled which are
advocated in common will there be
separate tickets nominated by the
two parties which stand pledged to Sc
cure the free coinage of silver at
ratio of sixteen to one. The satisfac-
tory results which have followed IN
Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma make 1t
absolutely certain that in the great
contest in 1900 the republican party
will be opposed by the united strength
of the anti-gold standard parties in all
states essential to presidential sue
cess. Democrats and populists will
enter the contest confident Of victory.
In no state which gave its electoral
vote to Bryan is there any indication
of wavering, while it Is certain that
Kentucky has been reclaimed and that
in Illinois, Maryland and other states
which voted for Mckinley the demo
Gratis have more than an equal chance
of success.--Kansas City Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
A Danxerou. PIaythinr.

A nine-months-old infant died from
nicotine poisoning in Scotland recent
W. 1t was gives pipe az q plaything.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28

There are houses still standing in
Nuremburg, Bavaria, that were built In
1850.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28

The first year of the Dingley law
has just ended. The deficit for the en-
tire year exceeds even the estimates
made by opponents of the bill, and the
difference between the actual receipts
and the estimates made by Dingley
and his fellow tariff takers would al
most pay the total expenses of the war
from the date of the declaration of war
to the present time.-omaha World
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28

ken we get me old pants?' These the
escort knew were probably in smoke
in the yard even then. The most posi-
tive assurance that he could have
clothes to work In quoted the boy, who
settled back to enjoy his new posses
| sions. In taking a seat in the elevated
train Jack caught a glimpse Of himself
in the mirror.
| Catch on to the dude!" he ex-
claimed, with a radiant face.
Jacks new life began. His industry
and honesty soon made him public
official in this land of junior men and
women; he was appointed jailer. He
was as popular with his fellow citizens,
| for he was captain of baseball nine.
Alas for the frailty of human nature!
Was it the result of suddenly-attained
power and authority? Jack commit
ted an offense, and was liable to ar
rest.
One afternoon in August Jack stood
leaning against the clubhouse door.
He had run away. With every evidence
of righteous Indignation he protested:
did We want me to stay and be jagged
when 1 was de jailer mysPlf?''
| JdCh "Oulu HOI ten "hdI IIC Hhu
done, and his confidence was not
forced.
He withdrew himself and was again
the dwarfed, coal-black, ragged. lone
ly boy, who belonged to nobody.
l wore my prettiest dresses and
whitest gloves, and bowed with all the
grace Mt my command when he gave
me the opportunity. Usually when he
saw me he walked with every appear
ance of carelessness IN the opposite di-
rection. My heart was sore, for want
ed this boys friendship.
The boys club met to sing for half
an hour one day in the week. The
dainty musician was i'll her place, with
the boys around her. 1 opened the
door suddenly. Jack almost fell in the
hall; he had been listening. He
Strengthened himself.
"Come in, Jack, and sing with the
boys"
He turned into the room silently
and took seat in the corner.
In little while he stood back of
the singer with look of suppressed
excitement.
Suddenly low, ripping accompa-
room with melody. It was Jack
whistling- improvising, changing at
every verse and chorus. We held our
breath; we dared not look at him lest
we should silence him.
Jack had forgotten time and place.
His gift had been born to him that
day, and with it new place i'll the
world. He could do something that
no one in his world could do.
Jack, as a problem, exists. Jack,
with a rev animation and sense Of
supremacy, has been born. What his
future is to be we ask each other and
cannot answer. There is one verdict
among the people who know Jack. He
will work for as long a time as he can
get work, never knowing hunger or
exhaustion while it lasts. He shares
his money with the man who threw
him off when he was too young to find
employment, forgetting the past as
though It had not been.
Last week we heard of a possibility
Of Jack getting in a mill, where he
could learn a trade. We face now a
new feature in the labor problem. A
man took the place al a boys wages
Jack drifts about when there is no
. work, coming to the clubhouse when
ever the doors are open. No word
from him tells his struggle. When
there is work he disappears.
We can put little pleasure into
Jacks life; beyond that he remains a
probleIn.-N. Y. Outlook
.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-02
ARKANSAW TRAVELLER
And His Boys Have Come to
Wichita.

The Arkansaw Traveller and his two
boys arrived in Wichita yesterday. They
are from Eureka Springs, and their name
is Rhodes. Bartlett Rhodes, Sr., Bartlett
Rhodes, Jr., II years old, and Porter
Rhodes, aged s. Mr.. Bartlett Rhodes. Sr.,
is an old soldier and went from Ohio to
fight under Grant at Vicksburg. Bartlett
Rhodes, Jr., and his brother are nd
dlers."
The boys went about the streets yes
terday afternoon playing Devils
Dream" Fishers Hornpipe," "Arkan-
saw Traveller and that list. Both boys
are small, but the way they played would
set u whole plantation into weave"
and turn. They stopped last evening in
front Of the Manhattan and began with
Fishers Hornpipe," the oder boy play
ing lead and the younger filling in with
second. The crowd gathered and began
10 block the sidewalk and the little second
fiddler seeing this backed into the thickest
and yelled stand back.' This proceed
ing didn't interfere with his music at all
The more obstinate onlookers he kicked
on the shin by hide swI pes, kicked on the
knees by back bolts and hunched. Some
times he lost his balance and mis- hat drop
ped off. but he never lost his tune and
never got out of time. Once in a while he
changed 10 lead, and from lead back TO
second, but there wasn't discord or a
break as they nosed into each others
ears to talk. cleared the sidewalks and
answered questions. Devils Dream did
the subiimest duty. There was no an
dante" no rests. crescendo or dimnu-
-eado. Keeling through by the thouSandth
part Of a cenumeter OF 4 second they
caught and kept the crowds, and II some
classically tutored disturber had ventured
to say that the little chaps didn't have
genius the dollars ana quarters would
have gone in faster than ever.
Den man gave them a dollar and follow
ed ii with another. The Ht-le fellow slip
ped over 20 the curb, where man OF Is
stood ana suggested: Papa, ne gave US
two dollars. He says II We GO % Pratt
county Wen make twice as much as here.
What II he wants 70 give Us mora money?
We'll take IL We 1--we At a. health re
sort. We're not here Tor our health