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THOUSAND dollars uay
IN Think of it, ye men who are
II " glad to earn as mucn MONTH
n q Ts3 4aEss fbs, a IS ye4ft tn. sum which
General BENJAMIN F. Tracy is said to nave
received for arguing the Moltneux trlal'
and the amount which he is to get every
day that the trial continues.
If IS added. by the legal gossips In CITY
Hall Park, and on the Criminal Court
e+ens that General Tracy would not nave
taken the case for this small sum were II
not that he wanted to oblige MS oio
friend. General Molineux, whose son
stands in the current of the electroculioh
chair.
BENJAMIN Franklin Tracy, the man VINO
can sneak to the tune of a dollar Woro
and more. began life in a very simple wa.
In a country place-as New Workers Woulo
call ft-namely Owego, New YORK, Whlcn
town. though it has produced many great
men. still makes few pretenstons to great
ness. Wealthy, salubrious, full OF possl-
bility, Owego lies quietly away IN the
northern part of New York state, ylelo-
ing it's fortunes to those who stick to her
and sending her sons forth with brains
and gold.
Young Tracy went to the Owego Gram
mar School and then to the Owego
Academy.
At the age of twenty-one he married
Miss belinda Catlin of Owego and then he
continued his studies. graduating In law
soon after.
Mr. Tracy began his political life at the
age of tWenty-three, when he was elected
district Attorney Of Owego
Young Mr. Tracy gained many honors
for himself and at the beginning of the
for the One Hundred and Ninth and One
Hundred and Thirty-seyenth regiments,
with the colonelcy of the former.
He went to the war and served brayely
here gaining honors again. And at the
close of the war he went to Brooklyn to
practice law.
It is doubtful If Mr.. Tracy was known
generally before the famous Reecher-
Tflton trial, but, being given chance to
show his legal ability, he conducted him.
self in the case with such eloquence and
ease that his fame was, from that time,
It was as a Cabinet officer that Mr..
Tracy changed from a lawyer and poll
tician to statesman. In 1889 BENJAMIN
Harrison. who had known Mr.. Tracy in
the war and had formed strong friend-
ship for him afterward, appointed him
Following years the name of Tracy was
familiarly before the public.
The saddest casualty of the year oc-
Cured late in the winter, Of 1890, when
Secretary Tracy suffered the loss Of his
wife and daughter. Awaking one morn
ing at he found the house in flames.
HurTYlnR, ne aTOuSGu the lduIlly anu
rescued the younger members, only to
find when too late that his wife and fa-
vorite daughter had perished in the
flames when he supposed them safe in the
It was q long time before the Secretary
recovered from the shock OF that morn
ton resumed its gayeties. The sad event
put an end to the season of 80 and is
said to have been the beginning of the
illness from which Mrs BENJAMIN Har-
rison died, never having been able to
shake off the sinking of the heart which
she experienced that morning on viewing
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Curious Custom at UassQr .cl,l5
IN 1announcing Oheir engagements

Vassars recent commencement brought
again TO the front curious old custom
which recurs there each year, and around
which centers the main interest of the
senior class supper, the public announce
ment Of engagements by those girls who
have been rash enough to wander into
loves young dream during their college
course.
For years the class supper has been Sc
lected as the fit and proper place for this
proceeding. After the toasts have been
responded to and the songs have been
sung and the hundred and one little
things done which only college girls
would think of doing, the class secretary
stands up on her chair and, looking round
on the long row of faces beneath her in
the candle light, announces that she is
going to call the engagement roll.
There are always some girls in the class,
of course, who have made an open secret
OF the disposal of their affections and
The whole college knows about them.
But there are always some who, for wise
reasons of their own, have locked up their
romances securely in their own hearts.
her honor to tell the truth and nothing
but the truth, and her secret Is pound to
be dragged out into the candle light for
the plaudits of the crowd.
It is a pretty sight to see the diners
when the secretary commences to call the
roll Every face in the class is full of
interest anu eAPectdIiCy. peiuliIt Le1i
forward over the tables the seniors
graduates they are by that time, for they
have received their diplomas on the morn
ing Of that eventful day-bending far for
ward they wait eagerly for the word that
is a signal for individual and collective
congratulations.
All that a girl has to answer to her
name is a simple yes" or mo" accord
ing to the state of her affections. Some
times, in the embarrassment of the mo-
ment funny little expressions come out
unexpectedly. Provided for was one
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father was q boss teamster, and I went
frequently to Alfred's fathers linen fao-
tory to haul goods for them, and my
young friend would get up on the wagon
beside me and go with me on my rounds,
wherever that might take US. He was
very democratic in his ideas and just In
his sentiments and actions.
LAS far as I can understand, race preju-
dice was at the bottom Of the prosecu-
ton against him, with perhaps strong
feeling Of jealousy toward him on account
of his being rich and yet not inclined to
be a spendthrift and run with the fast
set, as many Of the officers around Paris
and other large cities Of France are in
clined to do, especially when they have
the means.
him would believe for q moment that he
was ever guilty Of anything like treason
to France. Why. didn't he leave his peo-
pie and his home and all his prospects
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ers. II boy had no marbles to join In
a game, Dreyfus would readily divide his
stock with him.
Then he was a good boy, Of fine feel
ings, not given to vulgar language at ALL
as many boys of II or IA years OF age
are.
He never liked to see the others fight
ing. and would endeavor to make peace
whenever q quarrel was leading to a
fight
He was very fond OF playing soldiers,
and always wanted to be the captain,
and took great delight IN the mimic war
fare He went at 1t with all his might
and main, though always good humored
about It, even when he got an unusually
hard knock.
1T was little older and left school
some time before Alfred. but I still saw
much Of him until the Franco-Prusstan
war, when I went into the French army
and afterward came to America My
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the room as a certain name was called.
There is much rejoicing over an engage
ment. The slurs that have been cast on
college girls are fortunately not entirely
true. No profession is held higher in es-
TEEN by them than that of a home maker.
Of the class of one hundred which has
been out OF Vassar College for just two
years ten are married. and as many more
engaged. Twenty per cent is not a bad
record for a class where the average age
graduation have been only two.
If the various secretaries had kept rec
ords Of the number of engagements an
nounced at senior class supper each wear
they say that II would be found to have
increased steadily each year.
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party less faithfully or in less important
posts.
In Brooklyn General Tracy is a unique
figure. Thin, looking longer than he is,
handsome with the beauty of late years,
gentlemanly. with manners born of a
citizen now, the life of a man of business
who goes daily forth to his work In
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about to rehabilitate with citizenship and
restore to office and honor.
Like Dreyfus and his friends, Senator
Sheurer-K -Kestner and Colonel George
Picquart who have been so largely in
strumental in bringing about the revision
of his case Mr. Brunswick is an Alsatian
by birth, having been born in Cernay,
a few miles from Mulhausen, where
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IN the person Of Nj Samuel Bruins
wick. 1856 Post street. who is q mem
Der Of the meat inspection STAFF Of the
Health Department and well known
about town. San Francisco has one
citizen at least who can boast of a
boyhood's intimacy with the man who has
been the victim Of the great judicial crime
of the century and whom France is now
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overtaken SO many in a very unpleasant
way. Just as prominent as Conkling for
diplomatic and more pacific. just as ag-
gressive as Blaine he has managed to
gain his point in a more soothing way.
these two men, but Il he is not as re-
nowned, 1t will be because of his easy
diplomacy, not because he has served his
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Brooklyn and comes home at night 30
be gathered to his family.
1t is likely that the political arena is
closed to General Tracy, for he cele-
brated his sixty-ninth birthday on the
26th of April and is now on the seventy
stretch, with more than seventy's love of
quiet and retirement. But that does not
prevent the public from looking at q liv-
ing statesman and studying his ways,
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Parliamentary Candidate explaining
away his defeat)-Yes, gentlemen l have
been defeated; but how have been de-
feated?
Voice IN the Crowd-You didn't get
enough votes.
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THOUSAND dollars a dayl
Think of it, .ye men who are
glad to earn as much a month
oY. r11avbe a Veari
Iron County register., 1899-02-16
NUMBER "a.

facts We leave them to the curious OF
to the office-seekers.
American bonds, mortgages. stocks
| and other evidences of debt are largely
dealt in on the European markets
while European evidences of debt are
not bought and sold here; hence the
interest, dividends. and principal
when paid. goes with the Gulf Stream,
not against it. Aristocratic European
dudes marry our richest title-loying
girls. and their dots and portions take
out few millions every year. Until
Hamiltonianism gets better establish
ed. and some of our plutocratic dudes
can scrawl some sort of bigwiggery
after their names, we have no hope oil
retaliating on the girls. We spend
ten times as much in travelling in Eu-
rope and the Olo World, as foreigners
do in travelling here.
But all this outgo amounts to little
compared with the rents and royalties,
(rents of mines) that we have to pay to
foreigners and non-residents.
Most of the money is banked here;
the banker gets his interest, or dis
count, the exporter his profits and the
foreign landlord his rent. at the bare
cost of exchange. or at no cost at all.
Thomas Paine, in 1896, showed the
utter absurdity of this idea of the bal
ance of trade so common here, and he
took Pitt, the British Premier severely
to task for giving currency to such an
economic fallacy.
How shall we prevent this loss? A
Cuban editor, recently, said that they
wanted Cuban investments for Cubans,
and pointed to the United States as a
sad example of what mouopolies could
do In mining a country. We had bet
ter stop blowing and Dragging about
our freedom and our greatness till we
mend this matter. If we could shift
our taxes all from labor, and make
land, according to its rental value. the
full measure of every mans debt and
pecuniary duty to the state, the rents
and royalties would go into the Ameri-
can treasury and not to foreign land
lords, and the effect of such a system of
taxation upon franchises would compel
the payment of bonds, squeeze all the
water out of stocks, and reverse the
whole situation.
There is no other way. If ever a
people were called upon to stop and
think we are to-day. VIM. CAMM.
Murrayville. Ills. Feb. 8th, 1899.
Iron County register., 1899-02-16
The Primary Cause.

In the issue of Republican organs
which contain reports of the terrible
slaughter of Filipinos by our gallant
volunteers at Manila are statements
that the President is merciful and will
enter upon no sanguinary campaign of
conquest. 1t is said that he believes
the Filipinos misguided. and will have
the wounded fed and nursed.
The Filipinos were misguided when
they attacked our forces at Manila.
That was piece of inexcusable folly.
But the primary cause of it was the
plan of the Administration to annex
the Philippines and disappoint their
hope of independence rational.
proper and long-cherished hope. for
the realization of which they have
fought for years.
II the Filipinos had been assured
that we would not possess aud hold
the Philippines under Spain's ill-gotten
and blood-stained title, but would free
them and help them TO political inde-
pendence, what doubt can there be
that war would have been avoided and
friendly understanding establishedP
Ii is certain that under these circum-
stances the folly of Saturday night,
with its terrible consequences, would
have been averted.
So long as the Administration re-
fuses to give any assurance of free
choice of their future government to
the Filipinos, the President cannot
promise that there will be no sanguin-
ary campaign of conquest. /; the
Filipinos continue to be misguided"
in the matter of preferring independ-
ence to colonial dependence, we must
continue to slay them until the last
defender of Filipino liberty is in his
grave.
While the folly of the Filiplnos was
the occasion of the Manila battle. the
original cause was the intention OF the
Administration to annex the Philip
pines without the consent of the Fill
pinos. In the pursuance of this policy
there may be series of battles. The
lesson OF the Manila fight is clear to
thinking Americans.-St. Louts Post
DISPATCH.
Iron County register., 1899-02-16
IRONTON. MO-. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1899.

before any intimation of agreement
had been mentioned. The next day
the session of legislature was adjourned
at noon for the same purpose. The
afternoon was occupied with the dis.
cussion, and finally vote was taken
which resulted in a tie. The chair
man with his full quota of clerks. and
wife also employed, decided the
question.
On demand as to who would be
bound by the caucus. nine members
denied the authority of the such lead
ers. and twice as many more wanted
to do so, but had not the courage.
The real interest and purpose was to
make the question appear as a politi-
cal measure; and in this way persuade
some who could not distinguish the
difference between politics and a well
planned scheme to deceive to people.
When it came up for final action in the
session, just. eleven votes more would
have saved the taxpayers about thirty
five thousand dollars; we would have
had some votes TO spare but for that
safeguard to party, '.old caucus.
fear of both sides. The next day an
interview with the Governor was pub
lished. in which he said, that the nine
who denied the caucus the right to
bind them, would have less to explain
to their constituents, than the others
who helped to rob the treasury. You
may imagine their discomfort. and
would have been amused to hear the
expressions of regret for their unfortu-
nate position. The band wagon had
only small load, but they had no
horns and were not in it.
The kind of caucus that decided this
matter might have been as we'll called
trough house." and when it is called
again for similar purposes most likely
will need some assistance in getting a
quorum. The newspaper reporters
have made light of this conflict, and
are in the habit of giving incorrect
descriptions just as often as it suits
their convenience; often creating false
impressions.
There are reporters on the pay rolls
as employees who are spending the
time collecting news for pay. | have
spoken of and implied many things
which in plain business terms would
be called dishonesty, but to give you
all of the facts at one time, would
make it appear that had done moth
ing but look for the bad. / have been
accused OF being led by the Republi-
cans. Here my reputation for having
head of my own. and the courage to
stand by my convictions is unquestion-
ed. | feel confident that my past life
has never given cause for other opinion
at home G.. w. F. JR.
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As to High Treason.

The imperialists are making haste
to inform the people that the Filipinos
are at open war with the United States,
and that s.the American who aids or
comforts them is guilty of high trea-
son." If the columns of the newspapers
and the mouths of the people were
muzzled the imperialists would have
omparatively plain sailing. But will
the newspapers and the people suffer
characteristic of the American is that
he is for his country, be it in the right
or be it in the wrong, as between itand
any other power, but he reserves the
right to call those to account who in
volve his country unjustly. The '.spirit
of '76n is far from being dead. 1t Is
an inheritance which every true Ameri-
can clings to by nature.
The Filipinos have formally declared
war against the United States. Strict
ly speaking they declared it while
legally the subjects of Spain, and al
though the Spanish government did
not sanction it, practically all Span
iards did. But be that as it may, the
United States accepted the gage of
battle, thus recognizing the Filipinos
as an armed force occupying a terri
tory of which the United States had
become the owner, but not the posses
sor. 1t is the purpose of the govern
ment to treat the people of the terri
tory as being in a state of insurrection
against their new owners. 1t Is the
aim of the insurrectionists to prevent
the United States occupying its pur-
chase. They deny the right of Spain
to sell their country. They say it is
their own by the right of conquest and
occupancy. and that they wish TO ad-
minister its affairs very much as the
constitution and declaration of the
United States provides for the Amer
leans TO administer incl. dUalrS. IQey
declare war. they say, because the
Americans denied them that right
when it joined the issue with them on
the battlefield. So war exists between
the two peoples.
1t so happens that millions OF Amer
leans honestly believe that the position
of the United States In the premises is
not compatible with the best interests
of America. But the imperialists say
that it would be high treason to ex-
press such sentiments, because it would
be giving laid and comfort to the
enemy" 1t is hard to see how express
sions of opinions in America would in
iuence operations in the Philippines;
besides. the administration does not
regard the Filipinos as foreign enemy,
but mere handful of subjects in re-
volta kind OF riot, as 1t were. so
Iron County register., 1899-02-16
For the Registe
A Nonpartisan Question.

Ask whether an excess of exports
over imports is good or bad show
ing for the country. and nine men out
of every ten, if not ninety-nine out oi
a hundred, will tell you it is a good
| showing. no matter what their party
| preferences or affiliations may be.
| But one has only to state the matter
fairly to prove that it is bad show
| ing. A nation is like an individual.
in that if its outgo is greater than in
come, if its exports are greater than
| its imports, its expenditures greater
than its receipts, it is getting poorer.
not richer.
What everybody says must be so, y
is an old saying, but is very far from
being true. For example: all our
pedagogues tell the children that the
ancients believed that the world was
fat, and st. Augustine fastened the
idea upon the Christian world, for GEN.
turies, by having it made dogma OF
the church(O. Aristotle, Ptolemy, the
Geographer, and the Mohammedans,
to Columbus day, taught the geogra-
ply from globes.
But here is an absurdity that can
hardly be said to have been made a
dogma of any political party. trans
parent fallacy that betrays the inter-
ests of every honest citizen, not only
tolerated but accepted, as self-evi-
dent truth, in land OF schools and
newspapers. 1t cannot be called one
of the wonders of the world, but it
certainly is phenomenal absurdity.
If the reports of the Treasury De-
partment approximate the truth. our
silver cranks had better pay more at
tention to the balance of trade. than
to the money question, for in the last
thirty years we have lost, according
to the figures, over three billions of
dollars, in the last ten billion and a
half, aud in the last year more than a
half billion.
Before we try to extend our COM
merce by knocking the Monroe Doc
trine into cooked hatn we had bet
ter make what we have pay. Since
our exports and imports are but the
sum of individual expenditures aud
receipts. one naturally. asks why men
will persist in playing losing gamer
The explanation is easily found.
There is Money Stream as we'll as a
Gulf Stream; and it flows in the same
direction. The fact that We send out
goods in the place of money gives
color to the assertion that We are SELL
ing more than we are buying; and the
great mass of our citizens are satisfied
with an explanation SO simple and
fattering. We are stopping over with
patriotism enough TO carry thousand
San Juans by storm; but when 1t comes
70 a knowledge of simple, everyday
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it can not be the imperialists' fear that
show of sympathy in America would
strengthen the rioters. but it could be
and probably is their purpose to
educate" the Americans to the point
of imperialistic knowledge. where they
will tremble at even the thought OF
disagreeing with or criticising the
Washington government. Until they
shall have been so educated. however,
they are likely to believe that if there
is any treason against the nations in
stitutions it will be found in the adj
ministration at Washington. Death is
the only power that could make the
American keep his mouth shut when
he wants to talk. That is the way he
Is built. aud the right of free speech
is guaranteed him by the constitution.
*. c.. Times.
Iron County register., 1899-02-16
Tax-Dodging.

For purposes OF taxation a Barton
county man swore to the assessor that
he was worth but $50. Later when
qualifying as a bondsman, he said he
was worth $50, 900. The grand jury
properly and promptly indicted him
and his conviction should follow. Tax
lodging is the curse of the land. IL
everybody would pay on honest valu-
ations, the tax rate. state, county.
school and city could be reduced fully
one-half all over Missouri. DuRklin
Democrat.
The same is true in Wayne county.
We are told that one man qualified for
bond purposes to the sum of $11, 900,
yet he represented to the assessor by
his sworn statement that he was only
worth little over 3,000.- Wayne
County Journal.
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Jewelry. Satisfaction Guaranteed or
Money Refunded.

Jewelry of our manufacture war
ranted to give the wearer satisfaction
or money refunded. We manufacture
a complete line in Rolled Gold Plate,
Gold Filled, Gold Front and Solid Gold.
A complete line of jewelry of our man
ufacture is for sale by Mrs. l.. z.
Oliver of Ironton. Call at the store
and examine the liue. Prices low and
goods first-class.
w. F. MAIN Co.,
Manufacturing Jewellers,
Iowa City, Iowa.