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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

THE apologies for the presidents
blow at the civil service law are so lame
as to indicate that the presidents. best
blunder.-Atlanta Journal.
The intention of the republican
members of the finance committee to
hold their conference in New York be-
hind closed doors is only another sug-
gestion of how little there will be for
the public in the entire currency re-
form programme of the administration.
Detroit Free Press.
IF President McKinley's new civil
service order is right, it ought to have
been issued two years ago. If it is
wrong, it ought not to have been issued
at all. With characteristic vacillation,
Mr.. Mckinley has taken just the right
course to show that he is doing what
he believes to be wrong.-Albany Ar
gus.
Now that the republicans of Ohio
in convention assembled have official
W. rated Mr.. Mckinley with Abraham
Lincoln, there can be no longer any rea-
son for Lincoln's Oldest and best friends
in the party, like Sherman, Hoar and
Edmunds, to have any opinions of their
own about the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
bus CO., Press-Post.
The most amusing defense of Nc
Kinley's backsliding on civil service re-
form is the claim that he yielded par
TALLY to the spoilsmen in order to keep
them from overthrowing the entire
merit system, but of course this will
not wash. Mckinley had no reputable
motive whatever in dishonoring his
own word, breaking his promise and re-
pudiating the platform of his party. He
was actuated either by cowardice or
and that's all there is to
it.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
a year or two ago, when the farm
err was not enjoying his present degree
of prosperity, the manufacturers of ag-
ricultural machinery never thought of
organizing into a trust and increasing
the prices of their goods; the farmer
did not have money then, and it was
not thought worth while to work"
him. But no sooner does he become
solidly prosperous than it occurs to the
of farm machinery that
it would be good thing to increase
their profits rs per cent.-Sioux City
Tribune.
Hanna has done much for the
president. He paid his personal debts
He bought and coaxed and bullied a ma
tional convention into nominating him.
He debauched the electorate OF dozen
states to land him in the white house.
But in doing all this Hanna has not for
gotten to exercise his right of owners
ship. He has pledged and Mckinley
has redeemed. He has bribefi and Me-
Kinley has helped to deliver the goods.
He has been the clearing house between
and the polticians.--N. Y.
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE.
The Italian General, De st. Joseph.
Arrested for Examining Forts
on the French Frontier.

Paris, June 13.-The italian general
arrested at Nice is Gen. Gillette de ST.
Joseph. He was examining the fortifi-
cations on the frontier and a number
of plans of Notifications Were found
on him. The general owns a villa on
the French Riviera. He has been sus-
pected and was closely watched of
late. He denied having been engaged in
espionage, and said the plans were
merely those of a tourist, and that
they had no secret character.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
YIELDS TO sPoILsMEN.
President Mckinley Makes a Bad
Mess of the Civil Service
Matter.

After months of shivering on the
brink President Mckinley has finally
taken the plunge. The order modify
ing the civil service restrictions so as
to exempt a large number of offices
from the classified service was approved
in cabinet meeting the other day and
will be signed and promulgated as soon
as some changes have been effected.
The number taken out from under
the protection of the civil service rules
and thrown to be scrambled for by the
spoilsmen is not so large as originally
demanded, and there will be great dis
appointment in consequence. Never
theless, it is no slight percentage of
the whole number in the classified serv-
ice. Out of $4,000 offices now in the
classified list 1000 are to be withdrawn,
being little over six per cent. of the
whole.
Four thousand offices are not enough
to go around the anxious and hungry
expectants, and. three times that num-
Der of office seekers will be disappoint-
ed and angry. But there may be more
before long if the pressure upon the
president is kept up.
The important thing is that the lines
of civil service protection have been
broken down at one point. 1t is the
first breach that counts. Hitherto there
has been a steady building up and
strengthening of the civil service de-
lenses. Now a part has been broken
down and that will weaken all the
rest.
President Mckinley has taken step
which he may have cause to regret. He
may have strengthened himself with
the spells politicians, but he has weak
ened his hold on the thinking people of
his own party and has deeply grieyed
thousands of independent citizens who
voted for him after his acceptance OF
the platform which declared
1.-THE civil service law was placed
upon the statute book by the republic
an party, which has always sustained
it, and we renew our repeated declara-
tons that it shall be thoroughly and
honestly enforced and extended
wherever practicable"
1t is republican president, elected on
that platform, pledged to it, and who in
his inaugural said: Reforms in the
civil service must go on" who has re-
stricted instead of extended the opera
tions of the civil service law and who
has effected a retrogression in civil
service reform when he had promised
that it should Ego on"
Where is the Mckinley backbeneo--
Cleveland Plain De aler.
Danooora4s .,,F,,, ,,,a,,+ a. -.r.-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
cnlnrs Tint Never Run.

81 like this pattern we'll enough
said the customer, who had dropped in
To look at some ribbons, but I'm afraid
the colors viii run"
''Run, ma'ami' Indignantly an
swered the patriotic shopman. RED,
white and blue! They never run!"
whereupon the woman bought 43
yards.-Ch;cago Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
Four ChfIdren Drowned.

North Platte, Neb., June Flour
small children named Christensen
were drowned in the Platte river Mon
day night. One fell into the water
and the others were drowned while at
tempting to rescue it. The bodies
were recovered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
wheat I'm the Arkansas valley.

Wichita, kas., June 14.-Wheat pros
poets are greatly improved in the Ar
kansas valley. Farmers are regretting
that they p1owed up some of the wheat
fields early in the spring Excessive
rains have retarded cultivation of corn.
Pasturage is superb.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22

IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNOR
The ST. Louis election bill.
The Kansas City election bill.
Street railroads-Chapter 155: revised.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22

resolution against trusts will find the
plank in the Ohio republican platform
neatly expressed.-St. Louis Republic
an
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
An Improvement.

The Chicago professors who hope
to solve the problem OF ynnquishing
old age by the injection OF life cells
from goats should experiment on
themselves. 1t may not restore them
to youth, but good article OF goats
blood wonld be an Improvement on
the luid which runs in tho veins of
SOME Chicago professors Louisville
Courier Journal.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
rhey Como with Prosperity.

] bad bceu staying At a raneh hons.
IN the Arkansas valley al night. and
next morning the farmer said be
would give ne a lit into tosn. Whom
be was ready 70 90 be called 10 the
oldest boz .eBHI, Is that shotgun
loaded with sals for tFaup- = Yes =
Got the ga.es shut 50 that no mHa
dogs KIN git ins7 '.yes.T -weli,
keep a lockout for windmill. light
ming rod, organ and sewing machine
men. Don't have any truck with
peddlers Or poultry buyers Don't
let 10 any patent gate or wire fence
men. Keep clear Of patent bay forks
and don't waste no time on ehnrns,
force pumps. ice cream freezers, bag
bolders, patent barrels, fruit trees,
wagon jacks nor owl traps" "No 3
4And say, Bills' called the old man
after he had driven forty or fifty rods,
don't bny no cuns for the heayes,
no hreproof paint, no patent gate
hinges, pitehforks nor encyeIoPc-
dias.'' NO We had driven about
three miles when he suddenly pulled
up with an exclamation of disgust.
What Is it. .tHang my hide, il ]
didn't clean forget to warn BIZ agin
Bohemian oats, New Zealand clover,
and them pesky insurance agents
Well, it,, too late row, bni l gness !
kin git back afore the mob oyerpow
ers him Ex.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

The weather bureau in Denver
this year started very valuable re-
port when it began publishing the
discharges of the Arkansas river at
various points west Of Lamar. These
reports have been published in the
Denver papers daily, and are looked
for eagcrly by ali irrigators as it can
can be foretoId from them just how
the water is going to be in the future.
We sincerely hope the weather Office
Will appreciate their value and con-
tinne to publish these reports.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

With the freedom Of every Ameri-
can city and hamlet at his command
every day in the week. what Is the
use Of huying home for Admiral
Dewey in Washington Instead Of
settling down in Washington, the
Admiral ought 70 travel over tho
country for the next ten years re
newing his acquaintance with people
who used to 20 TO school with him
ia Vermont. Ex
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
Genuine Wisdom.

From the sturdy New England
brain Of the venerable Rev Dr. Ell.
ward Everett Hale Of Boston has
cone wisdom that should lie forced
into the cfaniai space of such s.s I'll
ward Atkinson and others. DIR. Halo
says that on the Sunday after the
war with Spain was proclaimed he
said 70 his congregation that when,
ever he knew more abont the trouble
than the government at Washington
did, he should offer sdyiee 70 the
government aud 10 his own congre.
CATION. IL was not his purpose to
offer advice and 10 give warning un
Ill he was possessed OF this superior
knowledge.
The delicaie irony running through
the Thought be expressed eontains
the deepest truth. There Is in the
American mind 20 yeneration for the
agents Of government a. there is sup
posed TO be in an aristocra,ic nation,
but there i, or should be, the deep
est respect for the machinery OF gov
eramcnt. National relf- respect should
convince anyone, with bnt an in
staats thought, that with al tho va
ried resources NJ the eommaad of III.
president aud his advisers he aud
they are l,est equipped with the full
facts Of the case whatever that case
may be. This being uue the pre-
sumption ia the mind % every pa
trio,ie American must to that the
best possible Is being done in view
Of All the conditions.
Bot self entiicieucy fonnd among
critics aud the iHsaiiiye wisdom of
Few minds. like that Of Atkinson,
thrusis aside an thai has bsen reach
ed by rcsesFuh and sets mp ia It's
stead either a weak ssn,imentalistn
or a eomplEeent academic yieW that
: put before the people as wisdom.
1t IS rcally chat. unworthy of con.
sideraiion- The time = no, ripe for
criticism nntil the critic u in full
possession Of the facts. When that
time comes those who have had the
conduct u affairs viii be called upon
70 answer Tor any Shortcomings or
viii receive their deserts 10 approval
The duty OF the moment Is ever the
support Of the government IL such
mGtters as are OF an International
character. When all the nation Is
as fully advised as the government
the whole people vii then uniyer-
saliy approve the actions Of the ad
miuistration. Pueblo Chieltsin.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

Sixteen former governors arr now
in the z $. Senate, aud this fact Is
saii e BE- very pleasing to Charley
Thomas Alya Adams also smilcs a
!ittle sinole, aud says there are
others.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
The Field and Farm newer u:is.l

The Field aud Farm never u;isscs
m opportunity to get whacis at this
county or is enterprises. Some day
the people here viii get their "baeks
up and quit taking the anarchist
sheet and the loss viii be greater
than the hnsh money they are striv-
Jog Tor now.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
'.There 8 one advantage about

There i one advantage about
these Oklahoma winds. said the
Traveller who left the hotel IN a sloneh
hat aud came back fifteen minutes
later wearing a silk tile. 4when a
mans hat blows of he doesn't have
70 chase it. All be Eas 10 do is to
stick his hand up and pick one out
Of the air and il he il careful he can
get better one than be lost Per-
kiHs journal
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31
AT. & S. F.T,.s Case.
Daily Lamar. Colorado pails-
EAsT BosSp.

Trans and are ysstihlie trains het " tasa
Chicago ahd nisasat, thag ~ili earry chair car
snr isalln4an tisrs-H<h withnut change.
iFatus ard sre torAi expr,ass srans and
slis csfry tftf assi secei rlnss ctacissf tourist
Sc pefs and fniisaan siesrsrs4
Tea irt ref7s siac$ilin Oh tlsriiar fsra n ~ b
made SHEA round tsip tirkcts are perrhssga-
q. J. GApvrS. AGENT
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

According 70 Mr Rryan's public
announcement silver vii hot b.
relegated entirely ont.of sight in the
democratic campaign Of 1907 Oh,
no, just laid on the table is all
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

One OF the speakers at tho demo-
cratic anti trust pow WOW al 81. Louis
last week said thai the way to slnash
the trusts Is to force them to com
pete with the paper labor of
China and Mexico. How Will the
AmerieAn laboring men enjoy That
kind Of smashing process.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

Judge Biodgett informs as tha, he
shaved his hair as an evidence Of
msnrning because all tie good men
but himself had left the popuIist
party.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

Governor Bradley will never be
able TO get esiiee in Kentucky again.
He was indicted for drinking whisky
after regulation hours in a Tennessee
saloon. aud his defence was that he
was drinking "ismonaiie.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

one South American revolution
was crushed last week, and three
started Il was rather duh week
in tbe sontaera portion OF Ameriel
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

Carnegie has crawled into a hole
somewhere since his new nade friend,
BRYAN, has unloosed bis tongue. The
din was too much for Andy.
The Lamar register., 1899-05-31

Brysn says trusts eannot prosper
under democratic rule. Correct.
Aud he shonla have added neither
can anything else.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06
Annual Appeal for the Yea
1899.

An appeal will be held in tn
Commissioners Office, Middleburg
Pa, on the 18th day OF April 1898
between the hours Of 8 A. M. and
P. M, for the following districts
Adams, Beaver, Centre, Middleburg
Middlecreek and West Perry.
On the 18th day of April: We:
Beaver, jackson, Chapman, PER-!
Spring and Union.
On the 18th day ofApril: Frank
lin, Monroe, Penn, Selinsgrove an
Washington, when and where 20
may attend if you think proper.
WILLIAM DREEsE,
ISAAC Sports,
PHAREs HERMAN,
j. w. SwARTz, Commissioners
Clerk.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06

work on my claim last fall butcould
not get down on acron"t of water.
1t takes money to sink Il hole. You
must burn them down, frost all the
way down. Some places they go
down 100 feet and it is frozen all
the way down. | started three holes
on my claim, one of II feet, one of
10 and the other of s feet. Then
froze up till spring. | helped to
sink hole 76 feet deep on Gold
Hill and we struck $500 to the
pan. A pan is shovel full of dirt.
OF course l can't tell yet what my
claim has on it till l get down tobed
rock, but l and everybody else think
l have good claim, as other claims
on the same creek take out from S25
to $50 to a pan, and not 100 yards
away from my claim. l am getting
some more claims at a good gold
creek about 100 miles away from
my claim here as soon as the snow
goes away more. Well, Dawson
City is a live town, but rough and
tough. There is lots of grub here
this winter and things are getting
cheaper. Some marketprices: Flour,
$50 per barrel Rubber Boots, $40
a pair; Overalls, So pair ; Dried
Fruit, 80 to 4Oc. per h.; Butter,
S1.5O Bacon, 4Oc. a h.; Rice, 80
cents b. Reans, 20 cents h.;
Canned Goods, Is cents a can; Su-
gar, 80 cents h.; Coffee, 70 cents
a lb.; Tea, 81 a h.; Tobacco, $1.5O
h.; Whiskey, Beer and Cigars 80
cents straight. You can get good
meal now for 81 ; Bed, ST.; Dog
Team from 50 to $40 an hour.
Whatever you buy, pay or sell you
pay all bills in gold dust. There
isvery little ready money or change
here. l have pretty nice sized bag
of gold dust now. l will send you
with this letter a few pieces of small
nuggets or dust of Dawson gold SO
you and your friends can see what
it looks like when we find it. 1
will bring some nice pieces when l
come. There are nuggets here that
weigh from s to 7 pounds. We do |
most our work at night as the days
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06
BEAVERTOWN.

J. p. Kearns and son were to
Lewistown this week. j. r. Van
Horn was to Middleburg at the
sherifps sale. DIR. Schiller passed
through town on Monday morning
Winey Bros. shipped carload of
ties last week. ID. S. Specht was
to Middleburg on Saturday. .........
Squire Howell of Mcclure was a
visitor at Beavertown on Monday. ..
The farm owned by John S. Kern
was sold to John Wagner. ..Lau-
renee Middleswarth has moved on
Joseph Middleswarth's farm ........
Mr.. Engle is building an addition to
his house. .....A few nice days will
bring our painters out on their scaf-
fold. ..... Miss Maggie Walter was
the guest of Able Winey. Miss
Bertha Erhart of Lewistown was
the guest of Mrs. Frank Specht.. .
Mrs. Bouch moved into the house
vacated by Elmer Crissman. ........
Several of our people are getting
ready to go 10 West Virginia in the
near future. .Uriah Howell, who
was working for John Bogar at
Cammal, is at home at PRESENT..
Miss Libbie Greenhoe is home at
present. George o. Smith of Ad-
amsburg moved into the ehouse which
he purchased from Thomas Middles-
warth last fall. Quite a few peach
trees will be planted this spring.
Bargains in fruit trees can be had by
consulting J. T. Strohecker, general
agent. ..... Our churches had Easter
exercises on Sunday evening. They
were well rendered and well prepar-
ed.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06

are short in winter, but the nights
arenot asdark hereas at home. Some
days we have only one or two hours
sunshine. 1 will tell you more
about Alaska in my next letter.
Give my best to all. / may behome
in year then l can give you all the
history. We don't get any United
States papers. They always get
torn before they get here. Yours,
CHAs. ROTHERMEL.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06
Poisoned by Grip.

1t is an awful thing to feel that !
blood that goes coursing through !
your veins on its mission of feeding,
building up and strengthening your
nerves, brain, muscles, bones and
sinews, may be polluted with subtle
and deadly poison which onlyawaits
all opportunity to strike a deadly
blow to your health, and possibly to
your life.
Every one who has had the grip
and has not taken the pains to
thoroughly cleanse the system ofthe
poisons which that terrible disease
creates in the blood is having just
that experience. The hour when the
blow will come may not be known;
but that it is surely coming there is
no room for doubt.
Do not wait until it is too late be-
fore you begin to fight this dreaded
poison. Begin now, and 5egin with
a remedy that is sure to help you.
DR.. Miles Nervine is an antidote
for grip poisons. 1t strengthens and
invigorates thenervesandgives them
the power to search out and kill the
germs of disease. 1t whets the ap-
petite, aids digestion and makes new,
rich blood to take the place of the
poisoned products tlataredriven Oft.
"Atter very severe attack os La
Grippe / found myself suffering
from aggravated heart trouble. |
had palpitation, shortness of breath
and experienced dull pain and
smothering feeling in left breast. l
was very nervous and restless and
could sleep but little day or night.
l began taking DR.. Miles Nervine,
and received so much from it that l
followed every dose with DIR. Miles
New Heart Cure. IL a few weeks
my health was restored and l have
had no return of the troublein seven
years." Mrs. TRUMAN TEMPLE,
Greenville, N. Y.
A trial package of DIR. Miles ia
vorite treatment for the grip, con-
sisting of DIR. Miles Nervine, DIR.
Miles Nerve and Liver Pills, will
be sent absolutely free to any person
sending name and address on a postal
card, requesting the samples and
mentioning the name of the PosT.
Address, DR.. Miles Medical Co.,
Elkhart, Indiana.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06
Thursday, April 6, 1899.
Civil Service Reform in Pennsylvania.


The State Legislature now has be-
fore it a bill prepared by the Penn
sylvania Civil Service Reform Asso-
ciation and dintroducedby Hon. Clifton
Rogers Woodruff. With theexcep-
ton of few slight changes it is the
meas the bill prepared by therepub-
lican State Convention, andapproved
by the RepublicanState Convention,
in 1896. Similar laws have been
very generally advocated by Press,
by leaders of public thought, and by
organizations of various kinds
throughout the country. They have
been repeatedly endorsed by national
and state conventions of both parties
and have been put into practical
operation in the Federal Service
and in number of states and cities,
with excellent results. In some cases
they have been submitted to and
adopted by direct vote of the peo-
pie. In Chicago the popular ma
,jority for an exceptionally strict
measure was about fifty thousand.
The effect of such law is to sub
stitute "Nlerit System" for the
"Spoil System in the selection and
appointment of subordinate employ
ees in the public service. 1t simply
provides an impartial method for the
examination of all applicants and
for the selection and appointment of
those who are found to be best fit
ted for the duties to be performed.
And it enables this to be done with
out exposing the appointing officer
to the censure and resentment of
those who are rejected.
Under the Spoils System the Head
of a Department instead of being
free to exercise his own judgment,
specifically forced to select those
who have the most political influence,
and to pay but little ifany regard to
their ability or fitness. Under the
Merit System the appointing officer
is not only enabled but obliged to
select for appointment or promotion
those who will give the public the
best obtainable service. Under the
Spoils System each appointment
makes more enemies than friends.
Under the Merit System no unsuc-
cessful applicant can complain of
anything but his own deficiencies.
Under the Spoils System the offices
are almost monopolized by men of
small capacity and few scruples, and
the most desirable class of employees
are unwilling to apply. Under the
Merit System the examinations are
open to every citizen, and the best
are eager to compete because their
employment, retention and promo
ton are made to depend solely upon
their merit and fitness, and because
the work is honorable, the pay is
certain, and the opportunities for
advancement are many. The Public
should always be ableto secure the
most desirable applicants, but the
plan of selecting employees for any
other reasons than merit anr fitness
for the duties to be performed,
would be ruinous to any private cor
poration, and there is no reason why