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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
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RAILWAY NOTES.

Railway travelling in Algeria certain
~ leaves very much to be desired From
Algiers TO Biskra is 400 miles, and it
requires Sc hours 10 perform the jour-
ney- The trip from Oran to Algiers is
263 miles, and this requires u hours.
Sleeping cars are required on all night
trains and restaurant cars on all
through trains.
The new clock On the Great Eastern
railway terminus viii, when completed,
be one Of the sights of London. for 1t
win be one of the very largest clocks
IN the world. 1t is designed TO show the
correct time to all the Is platforms IN
the station The case is SO large that
II would comfortably hold a dining
party Of four or five persons
The Central railroad Of New Jersey
has instituted examinations for its bag
gagemen. All of the men employed in
the baggage department viii be COM
PEELED to undergo an examination IN or
der to retain their positions. The ex-
animation win be In the nature of ques-
items concerning the route al piece
of baggage from one station 10 another.
and methods OF tracing lost pieces o.
baggage. etc
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
Extract from the Financial Plank a,
the Democratic Platform
OF 1S96.

Recognizing that the money ques-
ton is paramount to all others at this
time, we invite attention to the fact that
the federal constitution names silver
and gold together as the money metals
of the United States, and that the first
coinage law passed by congress under
the constitution made the silver dollar
the monetary unit, and admitted gold
TO free coinage at a ratio based upon the
silver unit. We declare that the act OF
1873 demonetizing. silver without the
knowledge or approval of the American
people has resulted in the appreciation
of gold and corresponding fall in the
prices of commodities produced by the
people; a heavy increase In the burden
of taxation, and of all debts, public and
private: the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad, PROS
tration of industries and impoverish-
ment of the people. We are unalterably
opposed to monometallism, which has
locked fast the prosperity of an indus
trial people In the paralysis of hard
times Gold monomefa1lism is British
policy and its adoption has brought our
nation into financial seryitude TO Lon
don. 1t is not only un-American but
anti-American, and it can be fastened
on the United States only by the sitting
Of that spirit and love of liberty which
proclaimed our political independence
in 1776 and won it in the war of the revo.
luton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

divorced women are hardly in my line.
No. there was no excuse for her, and il
was only my luck. You fell in love with
the right woman. and l fell in love with
| the wrong one-that's all
A woman came down the corridor as
he spoke the last words, a tall. elegant
woman. in a modish gown, whose gleam-
ing folds chung closely to her slender
figure 4 boy of eight or nine years
held her by the hand. and both looked
out on the world with the same eyes.
great. beautiful, gray eyes, at once
proud and sad.
As the woman's eyes met Frink S they
dilated suddenly. and he started with
sharp pain at his heart that caught
his breath.
How had she come there just then
the very woman of whom he had been
talking? As he started up Teller
glanced around and then rose also with
| a happy smile
''Ah, Lucille" he cried, Il have met
an old friend. Ned Frink. He must be
your friend, also. Ned. this is my wife"
The joyous pride in his friends voice
made Frink vince inwardly as he bowed
ceremOnlOuSlN-
I'm very glad TO meet Mr.. Frink. ;"
she said, calmly How well he knew her
voice.
You'll dine with us. / hope. Ned. :"
called Teller. over his shoulder, as he
started on with the boy.
Thank YOU. no. / leave for Denver
in half an hour" replied Frink.
Then a sudden surge in the crowd
brought some one between them for a
moment. and the woman turned to him,
abruptly
The Pitiful appeal in her eyes went
straight to Frink's heart. and he felt
his own eyes grow dim with tears.
He does not know" she said. simply.
He never shall" cried Frink.-Cl.i-
cago Herald
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Row TO KILL THE TRUSTS.
Open fhe Minfs Freely 40 the Ceim-
age OF Both Cold and
silver.

Senator Jones has the right idea
about the trust problem. He says there
would be no trusts if it were not for
the gold standard, a shrinking curren-
cy and falling prices We are proud to
see the senator reechoing the senti-
ments expressed in this paper. The gold
standard is the father and mother, the
wet nurse and midwife. of the trusts;
/ it is, In fact, the whole family, and the
| way to get rid of the trust evil is to
end the greater evil of the gold stand
ard. Trusts are organized TO sustain
prices, which have steadily declined
since 1873, because the annual supply of
currency was limited and contracted
| by the unlawful decentralization of sill
yer. The sole purpose of the gold stand
ard was TO contract the volume of basic
money TO point where it could be cor
nered and controlled BY men and COM
binations possessing large means, with
| the fact wen in mind that those who
control the worlds money are the
worlds masters. This is the whole
meaning and purpose of the gold stand
ard, and it is so simple and plain that
| anyone ought to understand it An
| the impoyerishment of the poor and the
artificial enrichment OF the rich, by
which means the poor are made the de-
pendents and servants of the rich and
subjected to their viii and pleasure.
The gold standard has almost complet-
ed its mission in this respect. 1t has
taken all the money away from the
people and concentrated il in vast
boards in the possession of the super
f1uously rich. Individuals among the
people can no longer get the means to
go into business, and consequently all
competition is confined to the big es-
Establishments, and these in turn COM
bine and organize themselves into
trusts and bring the people TO their
knees in helpless serfdom. But the
people have the remedy in their own
hands if they viii use it. They are still
permitted to vote. The ballot has not
yet been taken from them, as it win
be if they delay much longer. BY the
use of the ballot they can place man
in the presidents chair who win obey
the law and put silver on an equality
with gold. This win double the volume
of basic money already in existence and
increase to the same extent the annual
output. 1t will also enable the people
to supply themselves with money by
digging it out of the ground, regardless
of any action by government: and they
can use this money in establishing com
petition and breaking down the trusts.
Let it be remembered that silver has
never been legally demonetized in this
country. Fraud vitiafes all contracts
and renders null and void any law en-
acted by fraud, as the law demonetizing
silver was. Silver has lost none of it's
legal standing in this country, and all
that is needed to restore prosperity
among the people is to place a man in
the presidents chair who win open the
mints freely to the coinage of both
gold and silver, as the law requires.
That win settle the trust problem, il
viii restore our declining fortunes and
it viii set the people Mississippi
Valley Democrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05


What is considered the finest band
in the southern hemisphere is composed
entirely of criminals. 1t is the con-
Wet band of Nonmea, New Caledonia
Australasia. The kiosk in which the
eonvicts play is in the place Des Coco,
tiers. and is surrounded by cocoanuf
trees and fame trees with their scarlet
flowers, which give the place gay APP
pearance- The band, which is generally
about 30 strong, is made up of first-class-
eonyicts. The performances take place
on Tuesdays and Thursdays at p. m.
under the supervision of armed ward.
ers, who march round and round the
musicians. The music is classical The
performers are all clean shaver taxcept
those who are TO be shortly liberated),
and are dressed in white trousers and
jumpers and wide brimmed grass hats.
The audience is generally quite small
When the programme is completed the.
convicfs are narshalled up I'm line by
the warlers and marched ofE-Londar
Sketch
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
ALMONDS AND COcoANUTS.
CALIFORNIA; Large Production of the
Former and Florida's OF
the Latter.

There are, roughly speaking. p .O0O,-
600 pounds of almonds consumed in the
United States each year. some eaten
| with raisins, some used in the manu-
facture of candy, some ground for
| cream and flayoring extracts, and some,
| of an inferior quality, used for per-
fumery and soap. The state of Califor-
| MIA produces about 1900, 900 pounds of
| almonds in year, or two-thirds Of the
amount required for domestic CON-
sumption, and the other almonds are
imported from European countries,
from which, until a few years ago, all
the almonds were sent. The figures of
almond importations for the fiscal
year 1898 show importations of about
1000, 900 pounds Of this amount 4.500,-
| 600 came from Spain, 100000 from
Italy, chiefly Sicily, and the balance
from Greece and Portugal.
Cocoanuts TO the value of about $780,
900 year are imported into the United
States from foreign countries or from
countries which were under foreign
jurisdiction at the time of the last an
nual treasury report. Before the begin
ming of the Cuban war for indepen-
from Cuba into the United States was
to the value of about $500, 900 year.
With the beginning of the war it de-
clined, and under the present tariff the
duty on cocoanuts further reduced the
importation from Cuba, though large
increase in the shipments of cocoanuts
is expected this year under American
jurisdiction in Cuba and Porto Rico.
The competition of American with for
eign cocoanuts, the latter from the
West Indies and South American
states, has been more active in the
case of almonds for the reason that the
chief source of supply Of American
cocoanuts is Florida, which is in closer
proximity to the New York market.
The annual product of Florida cocoa
nuts amounts to about 1000, 900 pounds,
of the value of about $500, 900 a year. and
the conditions as TO almonds and cocoa
nuts are in this particular reversed.
California produces just twice as many
almonds as are imported into the
United States, whereas Florida produces
just one-half as many cocoanuts as are
mported.-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

rather narrow 10 let one woman pre5a-
dice You against the whole sex? Oh
course, 1 don't know your story"
Its not pleasant said the other
man, knocking the ashes from his cigar
with nervous fingers. 1t all happened
the year left college. / met girl in
Denver She was beautiful and clever,
and you're right about my being senti-
mental Teller, fancied because her
eyes were pure and bright as the stars
IN heaven that she must be an angel.
She was poor, too. Her father was a
drunken, good-for-nothing fellow, and
she was very unhappy, and l pitied he<.
All, l was very far gone, indeed We
were going to be married when I haa
made money enough, and meantime /
was happy as-well, as happy as n fool.
And one day as we were walking down
the street together we met man. a low
fellow, with a dyed mustache. knew
him. He was a shoestring gambler who
came down sometimes from the mining
camps, and as vile cur as ever brsathed.
To my amazement, he stoppel and
spoke 10 me What are you doir 2 with
my wife?' he asked. angrily- 4 sup
posed he'd been drinking, anc was
about to brush him aside, when hap
Pened to look at her, and what 1 saw tod
me afi- She was covering before that
beast, with every yes1ige OF color gone
from her face and her eyes fastened
on his with such a look that in flash
knew that her fear of him was no new
thing with her
Great goodness, Lucy cried tell
me this isn't true But she only gave
little moan. and SO j turned away and
left them there l never saw her
again.
There was a moments pause The
orchestra. from its perch on the landing
of the marble stairway, was playing an
air from La Boheme.7 repeating the
refrain over and over again with pas
sionate insistence.
Isn't it possible there was some mis-
take2' asked Teller at last, a little awk-
wardIy.
Mo- said Frink, in a hard voice.
Her father came to see me afterward.
She was getting a divorce quietly, he
told me, and they had agreed to keep
me in ignorance of the whole affair. OF
course, the BLACKBOARD threatened to
shoot me if didn't marry his daugh
ter, but when he saw l was not afraid
of him he let me alone. They came east
after that, believe"
Perhaps she wasn't as much TO
blame as he" observed Teller, thought
fully.
'-PerhaPs-she was very young. But
such training in deceit doesn't turn out
the women who make good wives, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

An old lady. resident of Baltimore
one of the school children who sang
odes to La Fayette upon his arrival in
Norfolk in 1924. tells the following
story. illustrative of the complacence
which was so salient during his prog
ress through the states. Locks of hair
instead of autographs were then fash
ionable as souvenirs and as the pupils
of a certain female seminary passed in
review before him. little girl ventured
umidly to say: Gen. La Fayette, viii
you please give me piece of your
hair2" In an instant the auburn wig
was in his hand. but the terrified sup
plant TO whom he would have present.
ed it, alarmed for the safety of her own
scalp, had escaped in the crowd.-Harp-
er's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
In the above the term horses is in
feuded to include ponies

In Inc aDOFe Inc TERM hOrSes IS IN
teuded to include ponies
The count viii be made of June 1,
1900, in order to permit harmonious
comparisons with the count of live
stock in 1890, which is recorded as OF
June /.
All that is indicated in the above table
and all that the law requires may be Sc
cured if every related interest, begin
ming now, viii work TO that end. Di-
rector Merriam has suggested that the
best way to do this is for all concerned
to open and keep such books or ac-
counts as viii enable them, on the ar
rival of the census e7lunerator. TO an
swer his questions practically as above
indicated) promptly, fully and accur-
afefy
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

AT the meeting of board of guard
ians it was proposed that an homer
arium be presented TO the clerk, who
had been very energetic in the interest
of the board. A well-meaning but some
what uneducated member arose and
startled his hearers by remarking:
Gentlemen, our worthy clerk don't
want nothing of the sort If we give
him a honorarium he wouldn't have
time to play IT. A sum of money would
be of much more service to him-"-Lon-
don Answers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
THE STORM.

Harki harki bark.
Hark To the thunder's roar.
Hark how the maddened waves
Burst Oh the rock-girt shore!
Lashed by the furious winds,
Their foaming crests they rear.
Rush On with mighty bound.
Start back in shuddering fear.
Hark TO the rafting hail.
Hark to the driving RANT
he heavens. a blaze of light.
Throb as in quiTering pain:
ana nature seems TO work
Unchecked, its own wild viii,
While man looks on in awe.
And bird and beast are still.
God On the whiriwind rides
The storm is meath His feet.
He holds IL His right hand
The winds. His coursers feet-
They bear creations Lord
In triumph on His way,
And in their maddest race
His slightest check obey.
The lightning is His glance.
His breath upheaves the SEA
The thunder His dread voice
OF awful majesty:
IN natures seeming war
It's Maker walks abroad,
And all its mighty powers
Are servants of our God.
Esther Wiglesworth. in Golden DAYS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
PRESIDENTS COUSIN KILLED.
Was the TaIIeMt Man in the Black
Hills and Proud OF His Relation
ship to Mr. Mckinley

DeadYood. S. D., Sept GOV. C.
LYNN. first cousin of President Nc
Klnley, was killed yesterday in his
cabin in the Galena mining district,
nine miles southwest of here, by an
explosion of giant powder, which he
had placed beside the stove to fhraw
out Lynn came TO the Black Hills in
1876, and was messenger for long
time on the Northwestern stage coach
between Pierre and the Black Hills.
He was known as the tallest man IL
the hills, being six feet four inches He
always felt proud of his relationship
with the president He leaves a widow
and two daughters
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
The Distinction.

Il noticed" remarked friend of the
orator, that in your speech on corrup-
ton in politics you used the phrase
pulling and hauling several times.
Isn't that repetition? Don't the two
words mean the same thing?''
Not necessarily" replied the orator.
They have similar meanings, but they
are not synonymous Generally speak
ing, the stronger your pull the bigger
your haul Get the idea ?'-S.hicapo
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

The Chicago Chronicle remarks that
sas a still further evidence of the ar.
rival of prosperity and of good feeling
between employer anu employed 1t Il
announced that $4,000 glass-blowers
are about TO go out on strike Wher
everybody has struck and nobody is nj
work we shall have attained the mil
7euuiun. -Ilffnois State Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
Killed Under Fa1lang Earth.

Vincennes. Ind, Sept. 30.-W- ".
Buck. coal miner of Blackwell. was
crushed to death yesterday by toEs Of
earth falling On him, completely bury
ing him. Others are missing. and it
Is feared they met like fate. Seventy
five people are employed in these
mines. Bucks body was recovered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
THE COMING CENSUS


Washington, Sept 26.-Nery soon :
general schedule for the enumeration OF
I've stock viii be put forth, in a tenta-
tive form, by Stafistician Powers, of the
census Office, for discussion and, il
necessary, correction. It viii be some
thing like the following:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

"Win ron love me when I'm old
George
Not IL you look like your mother
-Tleyeland Plain Dealer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
THE GREAT NAVAL PARADE
Most Wonderful Marine Display
Ev-r Witnessed IN Western
Waters, IF Anywhere.
NEW YORK HARBOR A JAM OF VESSELS.
A DissoIyinS View of Great Beauty
Sinuous Marine Nonster-NiIIions
of SPe=fafors-AT Threatened Storm
Pasxes By-Salufed Grants ToHnb
The Review and Return.

New York, Sept 30.-The naval pa
rade from the vantage points of the
war ships was an immense marine pic
ture, water pageant with SO little of
incident compared with its great size,
1lat il appealed TO the eye as paint
ing rather than d Drama
A Dissolyins View Picture.
The vast gathering of water craft
maintained a speed of eight knots.
but SO magnificent was its area that
the impression was one of exceedingly
slow and stately movement. The pic
ture was continually changing, but il
melted SO steadily and in such meas
ured rythm from form toform that the
sense of motion was largely LOST. 1t
started under a brilliant sky, passed
at the mouth of the Hudson through
the throat of an ugly storm and
emerged into a rainbow arch that
stretched from shore to shore into
clear and brilliant sunset at the Grant
tomb
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

The fidelity Of William J.. Bryan TIA
the Chicago platform is disturbing the
republicans. but il is profoundly graf.
flying to those who supported him
in 1896
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

Cannot RmHe Always.

The trusts cannot perpetuase their
rule without the aid Of a standing army.
Silver knight-Watchman
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
The Megaphone Commands.

Megaphone commands flung across
the water brought the torpedo boats
to keel, like the greyhounds they
were, at the Olympia's quarter. The
brilliant code flags blossomed like
flowers on the Olympia from bridge 10
maintop. 1t was the order to form in
column. The Brooklyn's pennant
snapped AYE, aye" from the sigma!
yard. and a duplicate set of flags
passed the order to the Indiana.
whence it was flung from ship TO ship
Il,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
A Busy Night.

The night had been i busy one in
the feet of war ships off Torn. -l<ins-
Vile The last details of the days
ceremony were hardly settled before
the day itself broke on scene of
greater activity than the classic an
chorage had ever witnessed before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

Then the threatening sky relented.
The sun broke out ahead and painted
across the sullen clouds a rainbow
arch that stretched from Manhattan
to the Jersey shore. It seemed biz
of natures art work spread by kind
" miracle at the opportune moment.
beegaring mans more humble efforts
on shore, but forming a fitting arch
of triumph beneath which the victo-i-
Gus admiral sailed to his triumphal
anaboraCs
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
The Olympia Under Way.

The black speed cones of the Olym-
climbed slowly to her yards as the big
cruiser got under way. The other yes
sells slowly turned like troop of cav
airy. squadron front, toward the Mar
rows. and then fetching a graceful
sweep. headed back up the harbor to
ward the Battery, the Olympia. escort
ed by the mayors boat, the Sanity
Hook, in the lead.
Back of her, at 400-yard interval,
came the New York, the powerful In
diana and Massachusetts,, the fleet
footed Brooklyn, the STURDY old Texas,
the rakish yacht-like Dolphin, the old
Lancaster. relicof another naval age;
little Marietta, the rear guard of the
fighting craft
Behind stretched the troops and
further still, almost lost in the dis
1ance. the yachts and miscellaneous
craft. hull down the horizon
Dewey's Magnificent Squadron.
The evolution began at one o'clock,
and in Is minutes the fighting line
was Strengthened out up the harbor.
Admiral Dewey was going to his own
ut the head of squadron that would
have won, at need, three battles of Ma
Mia bay without stopping for break
fast
The head of the column was broad
arrow Six torpedo boats spread out
ms the barb, three ON side from the
Olympia's quarter. Outside of them a
flying wedge of police patrol boats
formed a great Y, whose apex was the
Olympia Thanking them. ahead and
Rsteln were the harbor fire boats,
spouting great columns of water, that
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05
Age Number Value

ANIMALS ON HAND JUNE /, 1900.
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cam Whistles.

Noon was ushered in with a scream
Of whistles that sounded like ten thou
sand craft. The serenade lasted five
minutes, during which enough steam
was wasted to have run an ocean liner
to the Azores.
The last far-away echo had hardly
drifted back from the Staten Island
hills when sudden impulse seemed 10
seize the far-reaehing mass of tugs
and other craft. Instead of driftin e
idly round and round the war ships,
like chips in am eddy, they began to
steam away to the south in parallel
lines as though the same currents
were bearing them out 10 sea- But as
they vanished in scores toward the
Narrows there were hundreds more
that swept down from up the harbor.
Then there was scurrying home Of
the white-hooded steam cutters of the
war ships. The great boat cranes
amidships reached down their Crap
ping hooks and whisked the pinnaces
aboard