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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-11-17
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

Hanna billed himself for &
speech in Chicago few days before thu
election, but the local managers re
fused to let him. The democrats should
have given him q hall.-Kansas CITY
Times.
Mr.. Mckinley hopes that the
''hysteria" over the war department
scandals win soon blow over" By the
time the investigation is completed he
will find that Algerism has been blown
over by public indignation.-St. LOUIS
Republic
-Republican campaigners may call
attention to evidences of prosperity in
come of the agricultural states Of the
west, hut fasteners should not sing tho
refrain. To the laboring man or those
forced to live from hand TO mouth the
past year has been the hardest of the
entire business depression in New Eng
land, and the business man has Jared no
better comparatively. - Manchester
(N. H) Union
The democrats are belaboring the
Dineley measure to some extent, but
they receive little response from their
opponents. It is difficult TO make an
Issue of a question assailed on one side
and receiving practically no defense on
the other. The results OF the Dingiey
tariff have proved of little advantage 10
anybody. and some Of the worst suf-
ferers from its effects are in the repub-
lean party.-Boston Herald.
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| IL not in the whole world, and tina:
| he habitually caught and ate Loo
grasshoppers each day. Dassy, withou.
intended it, exaggerated; but Noah
certainly was fine bird
It was one evening early in Septen.
Der, Just after shutdown, while Mrs
Dassy was finishing getting supper
and her husband and two of the bows
were in their places at the table wait
| ing expectantly. that wild shout was
heard from George Washington out
side.
"He,s done it, pop, he's done I'll
Noah's done It'll Come and seei" cried
the boy, in huge excitement. They
all rushed out
There he is-see himi" went or
George Washington, leaping around
| like a kitten. Look at himi 7 saw
him do it"
The others looked up in the diree-
| ton the boy pointed. Far out on q
long and scragg3 limb of the pine tree,
| a dark blot against the red of the
western sky, sat Noah. craning hisneck
this way and that as he gazed at the
| world below.
Mr.. Dassy, when he fully took in the
situation, The has done it, sure's
you're born! Noah's flown into the
lone tree to roost! Who'd have
thought he could have done i'll"
1T was big fly, and that's fact, -
assented Mrs. Dassy.
Big fy!" roared Mr.. Dassy, 81 should
say it was big fly! It's the biggest
fly any turkey in America ever made.
That Noah is the most"
Just then the turkey stretched out
his neck and gave a loud gobble. the
first he had ever been heard to utter.
Mr.. Daisy stopped short, struck one
fist against the other, and went on:
There, it's begun! I knew that
pesky gobbling would have TO come.
Nothing else but gobble, gobble. COB
BILE, now!"
''Well, come in before supper all gets
cold. Let him gobble if he wants to.
You'd gobbie, too, if you'd just flown
up into The lone tree"
They went in, and Mr.. Dassey seemed
to forget, or at least to forgive, the
gobble, and said: mo, sir, Meivira !;
there isn't another turkey like :hat
there Noah in America. I wouldn't
take a quarter section of the best land
in Keyapaha county for him."
You'll get so took up withshim,' an
swered his wife, that you cant kill
him when Thanksgiving comes"
''Oh, pshaw," retorted her husband.
I'll show you. Think I'm woman,
hey? What are we raising Noah for !?
1 like him, of course, and I've got re-
spect for him, but we raised him for
Thanksgiving-that's what he's for
and when the time comes, whack! off
goes his head"
Mr.. Dassy paused and seemed 'ost IN
thought; then he continued: "'Of
course, to kill Noah-just to kill him
plain, you know, in cold blood, as they
say-might be little hard, but I'll
just wait till he's gobbied at me, sassy
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-11-17

/ like, once or twice, and then you'll see
-slap!-head's off and we've got him
on the blue platterl"
From this time on Noah roasted eact
night in the lone tree. The flight
seemed in no way to disagree with
him, for he waxed bigger and bigger
and fatter and fatter. He gobbled oe
casionally, but no more than was nee
essary to keep him in good voice.
Through the fall he continued tc
range the prairie and gather belated
grasshoppers. Nothing ever rufaed
his dignity, and only once did he be-
come excited, and that was when Mr.
Dassy and his SONS one afternoon
burned a circular frebreak a quar-.
ter of mile out around the buildings
When Noah saw the flames and heard
the cracking of the dry grass, he ut
tered an alarmed gobble and few into
the pine, where he gobbled some more
and stayed till the next morning.
The sason advanced and the weather
became wintry, but all efforts to in
duce him to enter the coop with the
other fowls were useless. Even the
cold winds of November did not seem
TO disturb him. To be sure there was
no snow, or only a few flakes, even up
to Thanksgiving week, but the winds
blew chill, and tossed the top of the
pine about and threatened sometimes
10 sweep him off; but he chung to his
perch.
1t was late Tuesday afternoon be
fore Thanksgiving. Mrs. Dassy had
been busting about with the work
since dinner time, but her HUSBAND! had
sat by the fire and scarcely spoken.
She knew that he was thinking of
Noah, but she said nothing. She had
her own private feelings about Noah,
but she knew that he had got to die.
After some time she said: well.
William Henry, I'm waiting for that
turkey now"
You are, are your" snapped the
man, impatiently. "Weu, why didn't
you say so? What am ] here for?
What have / been setting around all
the afternoon for? Andrew Jackson,
You and George Washington go out and
catch the critter."
The boys started out. and Mr.. Dassy
went on: .Meiyira, when you want a
turkey killed you want to speak about
it, not go around thinking / can read
your Pesky- thoughts. I'm ready to
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VALUE OF FRESH AIR.
1t Is n Tonic Not to BE Taken in
Small Doses But to
Live On.

The admitted advantage of an out
door life in nIcny morbid conditions,
and notably in consumption, seems to
point to the conclusion that there is
1soneething definitely injurious in the
indoor life which is now the common
mode of existence among civilized peo-
pie. 1t is striking and startling thing
that the mere removal of patient into
the open air should lower his fever,
should remove his night sweats, and
take away his hectic flush, and it is diff
cult to avoid the conclusion that If
these symptoms are removed by the
purity of the air outside, they must
have been largely caused by the impur-
itv of the air within the house. Nor
have we are right to assume that it is
the consumptive only who suffers.
Doubtless the healthy struggle against
and overcome evil influences before
which those who are tuberculous sue
.cumb, but that is not to say that in the
struggle we do not suffer. and, indeed.
the facts recently brought forward are
sufficient to show that the stuffy life of
warmth and comfort~which civilized
man now enjoys" is bad for the health
even of the healthiest. We make our
windows fit. we pad our doors, we shiv
ser at a draught, we surround ourselves
with wooden curtains, dusty carpets,
and fluffy, 1uxuriant upholstery; we
breathe the same air over and over
again. and then we wonder that we are
not strong and vigorous. The fact is
we arc daily using up the exuberant
vitality with which nature has provid-
ed us in struggling against artificial
conditions How powerful for evil,
how deteriorating these conditions are,
is shown by the fact that their mere
removal gives back TO the consumptive
that vitality which enables him to
overcome the seeds of disease within
him. Fresh air is not thing to be
taken in little doses once day, but
~th;p- to live on.-London Hospital.
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no more trouble. The rains either
ceased or he defied them. The chick.
| en-hawks never made any more at
tacks. Indeed they would shortly have
had trouble in carrying him off, since
he grew with the most astonishing
rapidity. The speckled hen was soon
| the smaller of the two. and found her
self following behind as he wandered
here and there. Then he began I.
ignore her entirely, and at night tool
to roos:ing on the ridge-pole Of the
barn.
This was too much for the hen; she
gave him up, and he went his own way
in the world. The grasshopper sea-
son came on, and he developed wonder
full skill in catching these insects, to
the great delight of Mr.. Dassy.
Il tell you what, Melvira," he one
day remarked, there isn't another
turk in Nebraska that can gather in
a hopper like that Noah of ours!
You ought to watch him. Ee SEES a
hopper sitting on a blade Of grass and
not thinking about anything. and he
just up and points him like a pointer
dog, and creeps closer and closer,
SlSdGA. q Va ~ LIS -N -
getting a little lower all the time, till
he's just right; then he makes one
shoot and puts up his head sort of
like this, and swallows the hopper"
and Mr.. Daisy twisted his neck about
in ludicrous attempt to look like
Noah.
well. we got something else TO do
besides watch a turkey catch hop
persi" answered Mrs. Dassy. Though
1 hope he'll get a right smart lot OF
them, because we don't need the hop
pers, and they do say there's nothing
like Unprecedented turkey for ten
der eating and favor"
That's so, Melvira. But you ough.
to watch him snatch them. I've lived
In five states and two territories, and
I've never seen anything like it. Never
knowed him to miss. / calculate h=
gobbles 400 of them every day."
The hot. dry Nebraska summer wore
away, and Noah continued to thrive.
The grasshopper crop was good-bet-
ter than any other crop-and Noah
never failed to get his daily share of
it. Each week Mr.. Daisy grew more
enthusiastic in his praises of Noah. He
finally came to boast that Noah was
the finest turkey in the United States,
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SHE PLAYED PARTY.
Doing So n Clever Woman Cured
aer Husband OF Staying Out late
Nights and Leaving Her Alone.


II was very late when a certain De
-roil man stepped out of his club and
turned his face homewards. Whether
any thought OF the wife waiting for
niIn' alone in the big house assailed
nim Is not known, but it is true that
: said wife had waited many nights till
al hours" for the delinquent husband.
ferhaps she had demonstrated with
nim-wIses are prone to do so, some
IInes-but be that as it may, it was
very late on this particular night.
Some dim vision of the big, dark
: mouse looming up in the gloom, with
one small light twinkling in the hall,
left for him, may have risen in his
mind. At all events he hurried his
footsteps as he neared the last corner.
Then strange sight burst upon his
view He stopped and rubbed his eyes
ito make sure that he was not mis-
taken in the building. But no, it was
his own house, afame from basement
to attic with the brilliance of gas Jets.
Every shade was raised, leaving only
lace curtains between the blaze of glory
and the steer, hooking, fimsy things,
that revealed, while they concealed,
what was going on within And what
~on earth could be going on, and he not
Invited? Some large social function ap-
parently was in full swing.
He felt a twinge of anger as he as
scended the steps, at not having been
notified of such doings He listened an
instant for the murmur of voices, the
pulse of music, or the rhythm of dane
Ing feet But all was silent as the
- ~. II
locked. He gently inserted his latch
key, and, witha strange foreboding that
thewas under some hallucination, opened
the door, stepped into the hall, and
thence into the brilliantly lighted par
lors.
Beneath the flaming chandelier, with
every burner turned on full head, sat
his wife alone, calmly reading book
She looked up when he entered, and
smiled sweetly. The man stared. Then
he gasped:
''What-what-why Eleanor. what's
going on? Are your-your guests all
gomez"
my guestsi" she queried There
are no guests I've been alone-as
usual"
Then what does this all mean, I'd
like to know?' said the husband, wav-
ing his hand in a manner that meant
to include the whole house and its gay
appearance
60" said the wife, ST got lonesome
and L thought I'd play had a party. So
I turned on the lights. do hope folks
who passed thought we were having a
splendid time. It has really been quite
fun 20 sit here and fancy what fine
look the house must have"
But, great Caesar, woman, have you
thought of the expense? What do you
suppose the gas bill viii be this month?
How long have you had these burners
all going?"
20, since you went away at eight
O'Clock And I'm going to play party
every time you stay at the club after
this"
There was ring of determination in
the woman's voice, Notwithstanding
her sweet smile.
Since eight o'clock, and now it was
after two.
Sadly that man travelled from base
ment to attic, and one by one those jets
of gas were extinguished- And there
has been no lonely woman in that house
asince playing party."-Detroit News
Tribune.
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oVERpRoDUcTIoH OF SILVER


The claim made that there is an over
production of silver since 1873 as COM
pared with gold. and that this is the
canse of its fall in price, is absolutely
without foundation. According to the
tables issued by the treasury depart
ment August 16, 1893. showing the total
production of gold and silver in the
world at coinage value. il appears that
from the year 1872. when our monetary
system was founded. to the year 1852,
being period of 60 years. the total pro-
duction of silver in the world. rating il
at coinage value. was 81. 76s, 197 900. and
the total production of gold during that
time was $500, 236. 900; that is. there
was almost twice as much silver pro-
duced as gold. The production of each
metal of course varied greatly during
the different years, and yet the market
ratio between the two metals remained
practically the same during all that
time. The tables show that during
those 60 years there was a variance OF
only seven-tenths of one point or just
about the cost of exchange. The same
tables show that from 1852 to 1879 the
total gold production of the world was
50. SIG. SIS .ooC. while the total silver pro-
duction was Sese, 225. 600: that is. there
was pa times as much gold produced
as silver, yet the market ratio remained
undisturbed during those 81 years. just
as it had during the period of go years.
when there was twice as much silver a.
gold. Again, the same treasury tables
show that from 1873 to 1892, inclusive.
the total gold production of the world
was S2,176. SOS, 900, while the silver pro-
duction was s2,5z7. os7, 900; that is, the
production Of gold was nearly equal to
that of silver. During the first two
periods silver was money metal; dur
ing the last period it was not The fact
that during the first two periods, cover
ing over so years. the market ratio re-
manned the same, although the produc-
ton of each metal varied greatly from
time to time, shows that the market
price or ratio was practically the same
as the legal ratio or mint price, SO long
as both metals were used as money.
Now, inasmuch as silver did not fall
! in value as measured in gold during 60
years in which there was twice as much
silver produced as gold, it is clear that
had silver not been demonetized il
would not have fallen when the gold
production was nearly equal to that or
silver, as it was after 1879 Again. sill
yer has not fallen in comparison with
other property. By taking the average
price of all commodities known to the
markets it is found that pound of sil-
yer viii buy as great an amount of COM
modities. as great an amount of proper
ty, as ever. It is gold that has gone up.
The law, by striking down the competi-
ton, has given gold monopoly. Prae-
tica1ly, the gold dollar is 2oo-cent dol
lar. Nominally. it still has only 100
cents in it, but it takes 200 cents worth
of commodities to get one when meas
ured by bimetallic prices.
JOHN p. ALTGELD.
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gether with the good care of thei-
foster mother. the little speckled hen.
brought the other six through to
warm weather. BY this time they were
able to make excursions about the
nearby prairie.
But their troubles were not over.
At the first rain the whole flock crowd
ed under haystack, and they pressed
forward so hard that one of them
was smofhered to death. A fortnight
later a chicken-hawk swooped down
and carried of another, although
the little hen fought desperately and
lost half her feathers in the struggle.
There were but four left now.
But the worst was yet to come. A
week later there was a great rain
storm. Shortly before its coming Mrs.
Daisy had seen the turkeys under the
barn, SO she supposed them safe; but,
in point Of fact, when it began they
were twenty rods out on the prairie. At
the first drops the hen began to fiut-
ter and cluck wildly in an attempt TO
lead them back. but they refused to
bulge. There on the open prairie they
weathered it out, and when the rain
ceased and Mrs. Daisy discovered them
and spa Uttered out through the puddles
she found three of them drowned.
There the fools were" she cried,
coming back, carrying the only living
one left, "all drowned standing up, with
their mouths open SOS to get the
most OF it. There never was such fools
as young turkeys!"
81 always said it, MeIvira," replied
Mr.. Daisy, gloomily. They're the big
gest fools in all creation. That ends
our plans for Thanksgiving"
mo, it don't, William Henry" re-
turned his wife, vigorously. This ones
alive, and he's going to stay alivel''
And she rolled him in a flannel cloth
and put him in the oven to dry. Mr..
Daisy shook his head.
mo hope, Melvira, no hope" he an
swered. Hell turn up his toes inside
of a week. It's bound to comet I've
felt it in my bones all along. Why, if
that turkey can't die any other way,
he'll up and go of and commit sui
cidei"
"Stop your croaking, William
Henry" said Mrs. Dassy, sharply. This
turkey is going to live till Thanksgiv-
ing, and then he'll die natural death
for turkeys"
ooh, well, I hope SO, of course. He
did pull through the flood frst-rate,
there's no denying that Almost as
well as Noah did through his flood.
That's what We'll call him, Melvira-
Noah"
"All right, William Henry; his name
is Noah"
Mrs. Daisy was right about Noah's
chances for living; half-hour in the
oven made him as sprightly as ever.
In fact, he wriggled out of the oven
himself and went plain lively peeping
away out of the open door to the
speckled hen. who was delirious with
joy at the sight of him
The storm seemed to mark a turn
ing-point in Noah's life. There was
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WHEAT PRODUCTION.
I'm silver Using Countries the Cost xm
More Stationary Than 1t
In Here.

A few months ago wheat could be
produced in the United States, shipped
to England, and sold at IL cents per
bushel cheaper than like quantity
could be raised and shipped to the
same markets from Russia, India or Ar
gentine Republic-the great wheat-pro-
ducing countries of the world Inn
proved machinery in those countries
has probably cheapened its produc-
ton to some degree, and for the sake
of argument, win admit that 1T can
be laid down either in London or Liy-
erpool at the same price per bushei.
If this be true, then the wheat from all
over the world would come into conn
petition with ours in foreign markets,
and if the quality were the same, It
would appear to the casual observer
that the wheat produced in the United
States would sell on equal terms with
that from other countries. But such
is not the fact. Why? For this reason:
Because we are a gold standard ma
ton. and it is easier to effect exchanges
among those having common me-
dunn of exchange. In this country
there is no difference between the value
of gold and silver money-it is all re-
deemable in gold-while in the silver
using countries gold is at premium or
about 100 per cent. In the past 20 years,
in silver-using countries, there has
been no material change either I'm
prices or in wages when computed In
silver. The link that held the two met
ais together from time immemorial to
1878 was free coinage of both. When
free coinage was denied silver, that
metal began to depreciate in value and
prices in silver are no longer prices In
gold. Hence the difference in prices
between gold-using and a Eilver-using
r.ation. But how does this affect the
American farmer? In this way: The
same quantity of silver in silyer-using
countries viii buy as much material
or labor as ever, while it takes one-hah
as much gold to buy the silver as Il did
in 1873. This gives England an oppor-
tunity to buy up the silver product.
coin it into rupees, and buy the wheat
of India to come into competition with
fhe American wheat in the markets OF
the world. This, and similar instances,
have cheapened the price of our prod
net because it is equal to bounty ON
exports 10 the difference between the
price of gold and silver. This il an un-
inst discrimination against the farm
ers of this country. II has materially
cheapened the price of wheat. and an
its price has gone down until the cost
of production leaves no margin TO the
produced. he cannot afford to employ
labor.
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II takes week for some Of US to make the
journey here:
But we wouldn't miss Thanksgiving II we
travelled all the year!
We I'LL the dear old homestead TO the attic
rafters quite,
And the bees could scarce hive closer than
de we. Thanksgiving night
We bring host of children. but there's no
distinction found;
We're all pack of children when Thanks
giving comes around
You ought to see US playing tag behind the
old red barn,
All running, twisting. tangled. like a living
skein Of yarn
And then we all go coasting on the slope
of Mutton hill,
And, like as not. get "slewing" round and
take a jolly spill
Oh. what an appetite we have when mother
blows the horni
How good the crisp, brown turkeys smell,
all fattened up with corn!
The buildings and the pumpkin pies, the
jeIIies white and red
Ali mothers cooking is a boast from Maine
TO Marblehead!
When dinners over. all round the wide old
hearth we sit.
And live our youthful pleasures Ger, and
crack our nuts and wit
o happiest day of all the time that through
the hour-giass runs.
Thanksgiving in the old-time was at Grand
pa Robinson's!
Paul Pastnor. in n. Y. Independent
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DAVID PIERCE.

How do the American people rel
ish the idea of abandoning our present
wise methods of government on the
Monroe doctrine plan, requiring mere
ly nominal standing army. and branch
ing out on the imperial plan, which has
ground the people OF the old world into
the dust and practically reduced it's
iaboriDg classes TO slavery? American
labor is already near enough TO the level
OF the ..pauper labor" of Europe In the
matter of earnings and burdens with
out having the incubus of imperialism
added TO complete the similarity Of con-
dition at home and abroad. Wheeling
Register.
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= Heavenly Foretaste.

IF there is one week in the year more
than another, when our burdens ana
cares. and vexations. and complaints
ought to be forgotten, and our
mercies counted, and talked, and
sung, and prayed over. 1t is this
Thanksgiving week. In Heaven every
day win be Thanksgiving day; but
there ought TO be for us. at this sea-
son of the year. at least, foretaste Of
the Heavenly joy. - United Presby.
terrain.