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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
THE OMAHA EXPOSITION.
Tt Promises to Be an Artistic and
Financial Success.
In the Grouping and Designs of the
Main Buildings 1t VIII Differ
from All Former
Achievements.
Especial Omaha Nsb.l Letter.

Your correspondent visited Omaha
for the second time to-day. His first
visit was in 1867, when the western
terminus of the Rock Island road
landed passengers little west of Des
Moines, Ia, and the old Concord stage
was the only means of passage on to
Omaha. To be sure, the old Hannibal
6 ST. Joe road, in connection with the
river boats between ST. Joseph and
Omaha, afforded an easier means of
reaching the Nebraska metropolis.
There was then no railroad bridge at
Omaha, and the incoming passengers
had to be ferried across the river. The
great transcontinental line, the Union
Pacific, was theI, under construction.
Its material and rolling stock had to be
transported on barges up the river.
When President Lincoln designated
Omaha as the eastern terminus of the
Union Pacific line, he fixed the destiny
of this city. And remember that the
people here were exultant and conf
dent that this act of Old Abe, consum-
mated after personal inspection of the
topography of competing sites along
the river, would put Omaha on the
high road to fortune and make it ulti-
mately the largest city between Chi
cago and San Francisco. This predic-
ton has been realized. Three bridges
row span the river at this point and II
railways enter the gates of Omaha.
When 1 first saw Omaha the population
was estimated at $4,000. To-day ten
times that number is claimed, while the
population of Nebraska has grown to
a million and quarter.
At that time Omaha was an outpost
of the frontier. To-day there are 49,
100000 people west of the river. Ne
braska had been admitted to statehood
few months prior TO my visit and,
with the exception Of Kansas. Texas,
California and Oregon, all the terri
tory west of Omaha was unorganized
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
HINTS FOR THE HOME.

A single raw tomato left over may be
peeled, cut into quarters and used as
Garnish for a cold-meat dish.
The onion that is left over from to-
days dinner may be pressed through
sieve and used in to-morrow's sauce.
Water in which rice is boiled should
be put away to mix with milk for the
children, or may be added to cream
soup.
The half cupful of peas left from to-
days dinner may be added to the break
fast omelet, and thus convert plain
omelet into slightly one.
If you arc going to have celery for
dinner. the green parts of the stalks,
not so pretty in the glass, not nearly so
crisp to eat raw, are just as good for
Slowing, and the tops will give flavor
10 your soup.
The best manicure acid is teaspoon
full of lemon juice in cup Of tepid wa
ter. This not only whftens and re-
moves al stains from the nails, but it
loosens the cuticle much better than
scissors do. A dash of lemon juice, too,
in a glass of water is an admirable tooth
wash after the use of onions or any,
thing that win affect the breath.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
EDIBLE COFFINS.
Queer Forms of Pastry in the Middle
Ages.


AT very early period the orientals
were familiar with a kind of pastry, a
mixture of -four. oil and honey, and for
centuries pastrymaking went no
further, even among the nations in the
south of Europe. But in the beginning
Of the middle ages change began to
take place in the method of mixing the
ingredients, and some other substances
were brought into use. Butter, eggs
and salt found their way into pastry
making, and the result was manifest
improvement. Paste next came to be
used as an inclosure for meat, seasoned
with spices, etc. Afterward it went a
step further, the next use being for the
Enclosure of creams, fruit, preserves,
ETC., and later still it began to take the
many fancifEl shapes in which it has
since been commonly found. In the
early stages of English cookery the
pastry cases were called collins or
''coffynes," and were made in various
sizes from "gret coffynes with lowe
liddes" for the ''tartes of ff1esche," to
the "smalle coffynes" for 'tartolettes"
of "fsche or fflesche," mixed with
''stuf of boylled fgges ground and
good powdure and spices"
Petruchio, in 1.-THE Tanning of the
Shrew," it may here be noted, calls
little cap ga custard coffin" These cof-
fins correspond with the "vol-au-vent"
of to-day. The art of making very light
pastry, such as puff paste, is probably
a modern one, but pastry of several
kinds was anciently used. For meat
pastry butter was dissolved in boiling
water, and worked into soft mass
with fine -four. AS it cooled it would
set in any form desired. Another paste
of faky kind was made very much as
at present, while still another kind,
called PAM puff, was made of fine -four
and the yolk of egg, no water at all be-
ing used. This was for the finer kinds
of confectionery.-Gen Maya
zine
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A BIG DEED OF TRUST,

GIVe1 by Mrs. BIcYicker to Joseph JefTer-
son aud "LOttIe' Crabtree, Filed for
Record.
CHICAGO, Feb. ga trust deed for
S54. COS. As in which two persons famous
in the theatrical world figure, Joseph
jefferson and Lolita, was filed for rec
ord yesterday.
The deed was given by Harriet G.
McVicker, widow of j. Ii. McVicker,
the theatrical manager, to George A.
FOllansbee, as trustee, and Mitchell ID.
FoiIansbee, successor in trust, and is
dated January Il, 1898. The benef-
Charles under the trust are Joseph
jefferson, to whom the grantor is
indebted in the sum of $1,000
secured by two promissory notes for
S., OOO each. Lolita NJ. Crabtree, better
known as Lolita" is the holder of two
prOmissory notes of $50. 900 each. a
third beneficiary is EIva A Brooks,
who holds two prOmissory notes ag-
Eregating S4,66S.4S, also bearing five
per cent interest and payable In five
years.
The property given in trust is the
old homestead of the McVicker family
on Wabash avenue, 100 feet north of
Peck court with an east front so feet
by lbs feet.
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New York City n Century Ago.

The first inaugural ball was an i'm
posing affair held in New York city in
May, 1889, and attended by most dis
ttnguished company of beaux and
bellies. The glimpse of society of q
century ago is indeed an imposing one,
while the description of the picturesque
costumes of those days is most fasci-
mating. It is recorded that Washington
danced three times during the even
ing, and also that he was exception
ally fond of dancing, a liking which
did not desert him until after he had
retired from public life.-Mrs. Burton
Harrison, in Ladies' Home Journal
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torium buildings, and on the north side
the Agriculture, Administration build
ing, Mines and Mining building, and the
Machinery and Electricity building.
The canal is to be SPAWNED by four
graceful bridges, one of which is to
remain after the exposition closes.
AS I stood on the great viaduct con-
Meeting the two main tracts of the ex-
position, this query naturally forced
itself upon my mind: What will this
vast display of architecture cost, and
how is it possible that funds sufficient
to complete the work laid out can be
raised in section of country which but
two years ago, was told down east,
had suffered UNNECESSARILY from
drought and business depression no less
disastrous to the west than to the east?
was not prepared to believe that an
exposition planned on a scale SO gil
gantic could be pushed to successful
issue under conditions which to my
mind were far from favorable. Seek
ing information on this point, / was
told by one of the chief officials that the
total cost of construction may not
reach sum exceeding a million and
half, and that nearly S1,000,000 is in
sight, to say nothing of the revenues
from concessionaires, gate receipts and
appropriations from the various states
which will participate. The people of
Omaha alone subscribed over half mil
lion dollars TO this enterprise, and am
told that bankers committee scanned
the subscription list, and adjudged it
95 per cent. good. At any rate, there
has been no cessation of work for lack
of money, and a meeting of the direc-
tors, held a few days ago to consider
the financial question, reported yester-
day tkat the last call for funds has
been responded to most literally. Oma-
ha as Il municipality will contribute
about 100000, the county of which
Omaha is the seat voted 100000 in
bonds. Nebraska voted 100000, the
United States government 100000 to
cover exhibits and building; Illinois.
$45. 900. The Iowa legislature is now
considering an Appropriation of equal
size, and Montana, Utah, New Mexico,
South Dakota, California. Louisiana,
Missouri. Minnesota and Wisconsin are
all coming into line, while interest in
other states is such that there can be no
question of unanimity.
Last spring the state department, by
direction of President Mckinley, ex-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
AN AMERICAN SNOB.
William Waldorf Aston as He Appears Ia.
the Eyes of EnSIishmen.

the Eyes of EnEIishmen.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-The Daily Chron-
Gle to-day publishes a letter, signed
English Citizen" in which, after re-
ia ring to the beauties of Cliveden, the
residence near London of William Wal
dorf Astor, and the Liberty the for
mer noble owners allowed the public
in the park, garden and house" the
writer continues:
"a few years ago the property was
sold to a rich American. First the
park was surrounded by a hideous
wall. covered with broken glass, and
access thereto and to the house was
forbidden. Even a spring of water,
which for 4 century has been open to
the public, quite distance from the
house, is now closed and the iron
gate in the old park wall, allowing a
view of the house and avenue has been
taken down and dead blank wall is
now building il its place, SO sacred is
the privacy of the present owner"
After abiding to the fact that the
public is admitted to two great estates
adjoining Cliveden, the writer of the
letter adds:
No reasonable man wishes to pre-
vent Americans or citizens of other
states from inhabiting our country.
but if they wish to do SO their first
duty is to show decent respect for the
Customs of their adopted country.
Failing this, it becomes duty to ask
whether there is no way of teaching
them good manners"
Referring to the old principle OF
English law. ''Once a highway, always
highway" the writer says:
Under ordinary circumstances there
is no wish to press the maxim, but
when we see SO gross violation of the
ordinary rules of courtesy in English
life we may fairly take advantage of
the law intended to keep the enjoy
z1ent and right of way on English soil
open forever to Englishmen and give
lesson to wealthy strangers who would
not dare to strain the rights of prop
erty in their own count tries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
ANNUAL BANQUET.
MANY Distinguished Speakers Before thu
Merchants and Manufacturers' AssOcIa-
fton OF Baitimore-SecreLary Gage on
the Relation of Business TO Government
HIM


Merchants and Manufacturer AssocIa-
ton of BaItimore-SecreLary Gage on
the Relation of Business TO Government
Finances.
BALTIMORE. Nd, Feb. 1.-Two cabi-
net officers were among the speakers
at the annual banquet of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
held here last night
Secretary Gage was the chief speak
er, but postmaster-General Gary was
also on the list. as were Congressman
Dingley, Congressman Allen, of Mis-
sissippi. and United States Senator
Wellington. The principal toasts were:
THE Relation of Business to Gov
ernment Finances" response by the
secretary of the treasury.
The Postal Service and Its Relation
to Commerce." response 10y the post
master-generaL
Our Industrial and Business Future
responded to by Congressman Nelson
Dingley.
Cuba" responded to by Congress-
man John NJ. Allen.
There were nearly 200 covers and the
menu was an elaborate one.
Secretary Gage, the first speaker on
the list, said in part:
1t Is the Just complaint against government
issues OF paper money that, though obeIieut to
the legislative will. it is nevertheless not in
harmony with higher economic law which
blesseS the obedient and Furnishes all violation
whether the violation be wiIfuI or through
ignorance. a true credit instrument truth
fully eVidencing that a thing of value has
passed-yet still exists in fact-evel if trans
formed IN shape and substance such an inStru-
ment is clothed with the quality OF legitimacy.
II the fact be otherwise If the value passed
has been consumed, destroyed or lost, the
credit instrument itself becomes a commercial
interloper misleading token. nor can kings.
emperors or senate change the fact.
L have treSpaSsed upon M time 1 can only
point out the fact that our own legal tender
notes, dear as they are to the patriotic heart
seryiceable as they were in q great crisis, are
yet out of accord with the true economic laws
The value for which they were originally is
sued was Immediately consumed or destroyed
As now reiSsued they are evidences OF a value
already consumed by the issuer. or of services
already past. These notes. operating in the
commercial field, thus differentiated from the
true credit instruments which commerce can
create, and if left at reasonable liberty will
Itself create, must somewhere work injury,
even if we cannot instinctively point it out.
In my opinion. it is here that business re-
ce1Tes an injury, general and wide-reaching.
through its forced relations to government pa
per money. Iwish il were not so. / would be
glad in this regard to be in error. Neither is
1t pleasant or popular to bear this witness, If t
b. true; but know of no higher duty upon the
man who loves his country, who desires it to
march in the vanguard of progress and pros
perity among the nations of the earth. than to
deal faithfully, according to the light of his
honest convictions with those great questions
which affect for good or i'll his country's well
fare
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
CANADA.
Interesting Items Relating to Affairs
In the Dominion.

Messrs. Mann & Mackenzie, WELL
konwn railroad contractors, have Sc
cured the right from the Canadian gov
eminent to build line of railway from
Telegraph Creek or Glenora, on the
Stikine river, to Lake Teslin, a dis
lance of $50 miles. The contractors
agree to have the road completed by the
1st of Sc 2tember, 1898. It viii connect
by means of lighters with boats at
Wrangall.
The dominion government officials
are taking steps to secure options on
vacant lands in the provinces lying west
of Lake Superior, so as to facilitate their
settlement Many new districts are
now being opened out by lines of rail-
way under construction.
The Self-Help Emigration society,
whose offices are at the Memorial hall,
Harrington street, London, has received
a free government grant of II, 800 acres
of land in the province of Ontario. The
minister of the interior has made fur
Their grant to the society of a section
of land near Winnipeg to be used as a
home center. During the last II years
the society has aided nearly 5000 per-
sons to emigrate.
The impression has gone abroad that
the United States government will send
a detachment of United States troops
with the relief expedition to the Klon-
dixie. Such is not the case. Minister
Sifton, of Ottawa, Can, says the mount
ed police alone will act as escort.
Three parties of Klondikers occupied
a tourist sleeper that passed through
Winnipeg recently for theswest. They
intended to get into the gold fields as
soon as possible, and will outfit on the
coast.
Mr.. A. McEwen, representative of the
Western Electric company of Chicago,
who recently spent some days in Winni-
peg, was very much delighted with
Manitoba weather, as compared with
that of Chicago. He had expected it
to be much colder.
Wheat is selling in western Canada
at so cents per bushel. Other commodi.
ties bring good prices on account of the
Klondike rush.
Hon. David Mills, minister of justice for
the Dominion of Canada, has ordered
the new trial in the Sternaman case to
take place at the May assizes before
Mr.. Justice Robertson. The question of
q change Of venue is left to the Judge.
Mrs. Sternaman is charged with hav-
ing poisoned her husband in Buffalo,
but he died after being brought to Can
ada. At her first trial she was found
guilty, but an appeal being made new
trial was granted couple of days be-
fore the sentence to hang would have
been carried out.
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The Defendnnt,s p1endinr.

In rural district in the west of Eng
land there lived an eccentric old farm
er. who was continually appearing be-
fore the magistrates for allowing his
cattle to stray on the highway. During
the hearing of his case for similar Of
Tense upon the last occasion he ELECTED
much laughter from the presiding gen
tlemen on the bench" and others. The
chairman, addressing the defendant,
asked: do you plead guilty or not
guilty ?" well, yer 'onor, 1 expects
as be guilty. but don't be too hard on
a regular customer"-Spare Moments.
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SIX BODIES FOUND.

SshastIy Relics of the AlYord House Fire
Dug from the Ruins.
GIovERsvILLE, n. V, Feb. 3.-The
bodies of the six victims of the Alvord
house fire were taken from the ruins
of the hotel yesterday. The corpses
of Henry C. Day. Benz. E. Strickland
and Bell Boy Chas. Rupert, of GLOW.
ersvilIe, were recovered yesterday
morning and later the searchers came
upon those of Z. f. Kimball, his wife
and daughter. of Indianapolis, lying
close together. Only the trunk of Mrs
KiunbalI was found
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
THE POWERS AGREED.

Prince George of Greece for Governor of
Crete.
BERLIN. Feb. 4.-The Constantinople
correspondent of the Frankfort lei
tung telegraphs that Russia, France
and Great Britain have agreed to in
sist upon the candidature of Prince
George of Greece ior the governorship
of Crete and are ready to enforce it
should the sultan prove obdurate.
Prince George, the correspondent
asserts, has been so informed, and is
ready to depart for Crete under the
tripartite protection.
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DID NOT OPEN ITS DOORS,
Temporary Suspension of the State Bank
OF Crawford, Neb.

OF Crawford, Neb.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 5.-A special to
the Bee from Crawford. Neb., says:
The State bank of Crawford did not
open its doors yesterday morning. C.
]. Cradle, the cashier, is in the
east. E. E Hobson, assistant
cashier, will say nothing of the
bank further than that, owing to the
absence of Francis c. Cradle, its presi-
dent, coupled with the fact that the
currency which was expected this
morning did not arrive from the east
he thought it best not to attempt to
run through the day.
Hobson says the bank will pay out
depositors and all liabilities in full.
This bank has been conducted on a
conservative, safe and paying basis,
and it is generally conceded by local
creditors that its paper and notes are
gilt-edged. Its assets are about S4O,-
600, and liabilities, outside of stock,
about $50, 900.
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An Active Life, Spent On the Borders OF
Civilization, Ende ed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. s,1Wm- A.
III. Vaughn. pioneer. died al his home
here to-day. Mr.. Vaughn was born at
Spottsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, in
1879, and came west when IL years OF
age. He traded with the Indians, took
an active part in the border wars and
served through the confederacy under
Gen. Price aud Gen. 10. o. Shelby, re-
firing q captain. lie helped Organize
the Kansas City board of trade; helped
build the citr's fiji st grsin elevator a9d
was p>onine ! : in tia aarly history 81
the CITY.
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KANSAS WHEAT.
Promising Outlook for the Coming Crop
Much Above the Average.


Much Above the Average.
TOPEKA, Kas., Feb. 3.-Secretary
Coburn of the state board of agricul-
ture, called on his correspondents in
the state about the time of the last
heavy snow for reports on the condi-
ton of wheat throughout the state.
Reports have been received from 81
counties and after carefully tabulat-
ing and comparing them Mr.. Coburn
yesterday prepared his first crop bullc-
tin for the year. The conclusions in
the bulletin are the best judgment of
more than 500 of the best farmers i'll
Kansas. A summary of the reports re-
ceived from all sections in Kansas con-
corning the present condition of win
ter wheat, with few exceptions, shows
the situation to be most encouraging,
and the condition above an average.
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NOT A EDWARDS RESORT.
So Said z. L. Patton, Jr., Who Committed
Suicide at Savannah, Ga.

Z. .
Suicide at Savannah, Ga.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. Sc. L. Pat
ton, Jr., committed suicide Thursday
night by taking laudanum. He left
note to his parents, who live in Co
lumbia, S. G., defending his act
and denying that it was
towards last resort. He had
twice attempted to kill himself
before. His letters named those he
wished to act as pall-bearers, and in
dicated the exact spot where he wish,sd
to be inferred
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THE JAPANESE FLEET.
ManeuverinG Previous to q Cruise In Chit.
nese Waters.

YOKOHAMA. Feb. 5.-The japanese
feet is maneuvering prior to a cruise
in Chinese waters.
The press is silent on the situation
in China, and it is believed the pre-
mier, Marquis Ito, is awaiting the set
Element of the German claims before
committing Japan to any particular
line of action.
The Russian squadron is without
smokeless coal and the supply here ia
small.
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Coughing Leads to Consumption
Kemp's Balsam viii stop the cough nc
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get 2
sample bottle free. Large bottles, 80 cents
and Sl.OO. Go at once; delays are dangerous.
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TELEGRAPHY IN MEXICO.
AN Order Which Virtually Creates n Gov
ernment Monopoly.

ernment Monopoly.
New YORK, Feb. 3.-The Mexican
government has published an order to
the Mexican National Railroad Co. and
20 the Mexican Central Railroad Co.
notifying them that they must dis
continue handling commercial and
other telegraph messages between the
United States and Mexico. According
20 the government. the railroads may
use their telegraph solely to serve in
safeguarding the running of trians,"
and not otherwise.
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Gloomy AnticipatIons.

She-I have been elected treasurer of
the club.
He-Goodness! I suppose I'll be con-
tinually drawing checks to balance the
cash. Town Topics.
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Arctic EXPLORATION.

Smith-Of late years arctic explorers
seem to have entered upon race to see who
can reach the furthest point north,
Brownies, and l guess the fellow VINO
hugs the pole viii win the race.-N. 1.
Journal
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After Exposure to the Cold
or wet take dose of DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey and fortify yourself against cold
This is one of the most efficacious remedies
known to science for coughs, colds, and IN
eipient consumption.
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After Exposure to

Nobody uses over about six adjectives--
Washington Democrat.