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Iron County register., 1900-02-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

What Hanna admires in Wood
ruff's waistcoats is the denominations
of the bills in the pockets.-Chicago
Democrat.
1t is said that Mr.. Hanna wants
business men" for delegates to the ma
tional convention. He ought to be able
TO get enough travelling statesmen who
have nothing else to do just now to
fill the delegations necessary to renom-
mate Mckinley and adopt prosperity
piatform.-Coiumbus (O.) Press-Post.
If political and personal favorites
we're sent to govern the Filipinos their
cupidity and inefficiency would in time
become as intolerable to the natives as
the maladministration of Spanish Of
ficials before President Mckinley
adopted his policy of giving the Fill
pinos freedom by shooting them to
death.-Baltimore Sun.
When very respectable citizens
contribute their thousands of dollars
and hand the cash over to Chairman
Quay or Chairman Hanna to place
where it will do the most good they
are not privileged to thereafter turn
up the WHITES OI tueIT eyes anu Tedu
their fellow men homilies on the inn
propr:ety of the use of money in poll
ics.-Philadelphia Record.
Those who bear the burden Of
taxation are struggling under a heavy
load. Farmers whose property has de-
preciated in value fully 60 per cent.
within the past six or eight years are
paying just as heavy taxes to-day as
ever before, while their products are
poured on an unwilling market at
what they will bring. Is it not time
to cry halt ?-Oneida Union.
Will some prosperity shouter
please explain the difference between
hard times when wages are low and
the necessaries of life are in correspond
ing proportion and vaunted good times
when wages have advanced in a few
places from five to ten per cent. and
the necessaries of life have advanced
from 25 to 100 per cent? Is the man
who depends upon his daily toll. either
at the desk or bench, benefited by this
so-called wave of prosperity ?-Rock Is
and Argus.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

that no one of his friends contraGicted
him when he said these disparaging
things about himself. 1t was evident
that whoever sent the valentine mad
done so with at least a measure of JUS
tification. If Walker had stopped to
consider he would have known that it
is never considered polite to contradict
man when he is saying mean things
about himself. But he was not in a
mood for fair consideration of any
thing. He had discovered his true char
acter, and he held himself in contempt.
Fortunately he had his pride and self
respect remaining, and he decided upon
reform.
For two days he didn't speak except
when he was compelled to do so, and
Walker was frightened and began to
fear that he was going into decline.
On the morning of the 10th, as he was
waiting at the corner for a trolley car,
barber with black ringlets came out
of the shop next to the drug store and
said: How are you, Mr.. Walker-how
do you do, sir? Say, got something
here that belongs to you. I guess it
was sent to me by mistake, or at least
I judge so as far as / can make out, be-
cause your names here, but it came
addressed to me all right. I put it in
my pocket and / says to myself: Now
the first time 1 see Mr.. Walker passin'
by the shop here I'll give this to him,
and probably he'll know what it means;
but was sure it wasn't for me, because
1 haven't bought any meat from Krasch
since 1 had a little trouble with him
about a round steak that my little girl
went there and got one morning. /
told krasch in so many words that I'd
never deal with him again in no way,
shape, manner or form, because 1 al
low no man to send me such meat.
Ny moneys as good as any other mans
money, and"
Walker might have heard great deal
more if the car had not come along
In the envelope which had been hand
ed to him by the barber he found an
itemized bill from Krasch, the butcher.
How did this bill happen to reach the
barber? Evidently it got into the
wrong envelope. Then what? He saw
it all in flash. That valentine was in
tended for the talky barber, who had
quarreled with Krasch.
Il don't talk too much, after all"
thought Walker, with a feeling of in
finite relief. "Pshawi I knew it all the
time. Chicago Daily Record.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

1t is doubtful whether any institu.
tion in the world has such a record for
long tenure of Office on the part Of
those directing it as has the Green
W1ch observatory. That institution
was established in 1878, and in the 224
years of its existence it has had just
eight directors, whose average terms
Of office have been 30 years. The Har-
ward observatory has been established
&c years, and has had but four di-
rectors. The naval observatory in the
district, however, has in the 33 years
of its existence had ten directors, ow-
ing to the custom of detailing naval
officers in that duty for a term of
three years each. This constant
change of directors. it has been
claimed, is responsible to large ex-
tent for the lack of continuity in the
work of the naval observatory and its
failure to meet the re-
Guirements of a great national observ-
atory, although more money is spent
for its maintenance than for any other
like institution in the world.-Wash-
ington Star.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08
TRUSTS AND LAWS
There Are Means for Relief, Bat Rec
publicans Refuse to Em-
pIoy Them.

Republican logic concerning the
trusts is fearfully and wonderfully con-
structed.
1t consists in making a lot of affirm
ations and in denying every affirmation
that has been made.
1t affirms that there are laws enough
against trusts and denies that the laws
can be enforced. 1t affirms that trusts
are beneficient and denies that trusts
exist.
Moreover, after denying the exist
ence of trusts it makes record in the
way of fostering and protecting these
combines to the extent of thousands of
millions of capital.
Discussing this matter, William ].
Bryan said recently in one of his east
ern speeches:
During the last three years you can
scarcely find republican who will de-
nounce trust. This is so because re-
publicans are in power and more trusts
have been organized during the last
three years than in the entire previous
history of the party.
IF you say anything to a republican
now about the passage of a new law to
kill trusts, he tells you that we have
law that is broad enough to answer the
purpose, that you do not need new
law. Then you point out a trust and
ask him why the attorney general does
not destroy it, and he says the law
does not reach this case.
''Or you can take Mr.. Hanna, who,
said in the last campaign in speech
An &1-f1S fc
Then, The trusts are necessary evo-
luton of business and finally, DO not
be afraid of the trusts; they cannot
harm you. If they're injurious, we
will take care of them
"There is no good monopoly in pri-
vate hands, not until God sends US an
gels to take care of monopoly will it
be safe to trust them to private hands,
and from our experience we are in
clined to think that they come from be-
low, and not from above"
But whatever Hanna may say, what
ever the lame logicians of the repub-
lican party may say, the people know
that trusts exist. They know this, be-
cause they are robbed by the trusts.
Their pocketbooks are emptied by the
trusts. They face a condition and not
a theory.
There are laws against trusts, which
would give some relief, but the republic
an party refuses to enforce them. There
should be stronger laws. and if the peo-
pie hope for relief they must elect
democratic executive who will approve
good laws and enforce them.-Chicago
Democrat.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08
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NATIONAL wATcHMAN.

the United States would be ahead $780,
100000 annual income on foreign loans.
Then were the government to open
its mints to the free coinage of silver,
with gold demonetized, without the
concurrent action of other nations at
the ratio of sixteen to one, every ounce
of silver in the commercial world would
go to par within "a hours. Silver would
not come to our mints unless the rate
of interest exceed the current rate pre-
yailing abroad.
Then instead of $50, 900 900 income on
foreign investments we would have so
per cent. more from rise in the price
of silver to the extent of perhaps $780,
100000. This sum indicates the appar-
ent losses we are sustaining annually
from the utterly useless gold redemp-
tion feature of treasury financiering. I
said apparent losses. That is not all.
The interest charge of the ST 900 900, 900
yields to investors $30,000,0 900 more,
which could all be saved. Besides this
foreign income of 500, ,0C0, 600 and do
mestic saving of 3o,0O0,O00 annually
paid on the public debt, we could come
to the aid of Great Britain in her finan-
cial distress and incidentally promote
our own industrial and financial we'll
being.
Each silver dollar would be as valu-
able in interest drawing as one dollar
in gold. Then why should owners of
silver bullion sell for 100 cents to loan
what they could send to the mint and
get 200 cents, and make IL, instead of
6, per cent. by the transaction?
Would this not practically compel
the creditors themselves to bid with
the debtors for silver against the man
ufacture of plate and jewelry? Then
how could silver go below par?-Chi-
eago Inter Ocean.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
How 1t Was Observed In the Days
of Our Grandmother
Probable Origin.

Valentines day to most of us means
mysterious ringing of door bells and
the production from no one knows
where of little packets, more or less
dainty, containing loving messages or
drolI lines from friends-the love
words entwined with posies and gar
lands, and trimmed with lace or sill
YER paper.
In our grandmothers' day they chose
the fanciest and daintiest sheet of note
paper, and, after much cuGgeling of
brain and measuring of poetic feet
ard counting of syllables, they took
the finest quill pen that the dexterous
hand of man could fashion, and in tiny
fiourishing letters copied their poem,
refolded it inside a sheet of coarser
paper, sealed it with big drops of red
wax, stamped with a device of two
hearts pierced with an arrow, OR a
dove bearing an olive branch, and then
with a beating heart and throbbing
brain sent it to The One.
But why do all this on the fourteenth
of February? Nobody knows exactly
why. The day is set apart to the mem
ory of St. Valentine. who died for his
religion in Rome in the year 270, but
what link there is between him and
Cupid nobody pretends to guess.
Some people think that as the birds
choose their mates and begin to think
of housekeeping together about that
time, so the young men and maidens
choose their special friends on that
day. 1t is a fact that the Romans
had a custom at their feast of Luper-
Gala, which was held in February, of
putting the names of young women in
a box from which they were to be
drawn by chance by the young men.
Our custom may be derived from this
one, a fashion before the Christian era.
The clergy Of the early Christian
church found it hard to root out these
relics of heathenism, so they tried
TO give them a Christian meaning and
turn them to good account. They sub
stituted the names of saints for those
of the women, and it is still a custom
among Roman Catholics in some Sec
tons to choose a patron saint for the
year on St. Valentines day.
For centuries the day has been cell
ebrated all over northern and western
Europe, in England, Scotland, and par
ticularly in France. In the latter coun-
try the lads and lasses met on the eve
of the saints day, and each wrote the
name of an acquaintance of the oppo-
site sex upon little slip of paper.
These were thrown into a box and
drawn as in a lottery. Each maid thus
chose her mate, and was of course
chosen by some one else, which in some
cases might have caused strained re-
iations before the year was over The
young man was bound to the service
of the fair one who fell 20 his share,
somewhat as the knights IN the be-
witching tales of the middle ages
served their ladies.
So, though the custom be from heath.
en- Rome, though the offering range
from coarse colored print to jeweled
trinket or a dainty souvenir, we find
human heart responding to human
heart down the ages, and many an ar
row has Cupid sent, winning its way
straight and true, on ST. Valentines
day.-Anna Breath, in Christian Work.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08
A BACHELORS VALENTINE.

If I were younger, Mary Jane
Would not so gayiy flout me-
Or if she did I'd make it plain
She could not do without me.
She will not be my valentine.
Forsooth, the maids are plenty
I'll venture that she would be mine
If I were one-and-twentyi
Why, forty years ago there were
A score / could have married,
And every one outfavored her:
But then, of course, tarried
Till Ann and Lou and Susie, too,
And all the rest I mind me,
Dropped me because, they said. they knew
They knew not where to find me.
But as it is the Widow Black,
Thank heaven, has some reason.
And knows that men, like fruit, don't lacA
In worth If out of season.
To her I'll send a billet doux
And state my fortune clearly
Some thousands, I'll admit to you-
And she will love me deartyi
Chicago Record.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

| taken an underhand way of rebuking
| it?
Nonsense! / don't talk too much, "
| thought Walker. But if / never talk
TOO much, why did anyone send me this
valentine? There's no point to the val
entine unless l do talk too much occa-
sionally. But / don't believe l do talk
too much. ought to know it if 1 make
myself a nuisance by talking. Hold on
here! Had I ought to know? When a
man is a bore and nuisance. does he
ever suspect the fact himself? Is it
possible for a man to 90 on, year after
year, deluding himself with the belief
| that he is a sparkling and entertaining
conversationalist. whereas everyone re-
CARDS him as pest?"
Walker was compelled to answer in
the affirmative. He thought of the case
of Howelby. Howelby is the laughing
stock of a neighborhood. He is a per-
sistent chatterer, an insipid story
teller. an affected and effeminate doll.
Yet Howelby firmly believes that he is
the most popular young man on the
South side, loved by the women and en-
We'd by the men.
II has DeSn 1OOl6Q 1Or so
long time, isn't it possible that some
of the rest of us have been fooled too?''
asked Walker. Now 1 notice that in
company Howelby is well received and
treated with consideration. After he
goes away they poke unmerciful fun
at him. l wonder what they say about
me after 1 go away. l wonder if it's
possible that they speak of me as a
noisy idiot or something like that?
/ wonder if I've been bore for years
and didn't know it? How would /
know it unless some one came right out
told me point blank? But YOU don't
find many people as candid as all that.
There'd be no chance of my finding it
out unless-well-unles some one
wrote an anonymous letter or-sent a
comic valentine. Come to think of it,
Mrs. Walker has reproved me several
times for breaking in while some one
else was talking. 1 wonder if She.
But no, it was some one who hates me.
I'll keep quiet and find OUT
Walker met many acquaintances that
day, and every one of them was under
suspicion. Walker even made signif-
cant remarks, such as "Well, suppose
I'm noisy chump," or II dare say
talk too much" and then watched each
face to see if he could detect the guilty
flush, but he couldn't. However, he
was rather sadly impressed by the fact
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

of July IA, 1890, that are also legal
tender for private debts, making over
sC0,G00,0O0 of debt-paying money in
the United States independent of the
gold standard. In Germany the sill
yer coin is legal tender for all debts;
the same is true in France.
Thus it will be seen that although
the niints are closed to the further
coinage of silver, the silver coin of the
world still possesses debt-paying pow
er and is as effective money in all
transactions as gold itself. This is
very far from gold standard in
which gold alone would be the sole
money of payment as is designed by.
the money kings of the earth, and as
is proposed by the monetary bill that
the administration is now forcing
through congress.
The present time is considered an
opportune one to force this measure
because of the existence of unusually
favorable conditions. Following 1896
came two years in which America was
blessed with bounteous crops that
were sold at famine prices abroad,
which had the effect in addition to
liquidating the annual demand of for
eigners against us for interest, insur-
ance and transportation accounts, to
liauidate a portion of our foreign in
debtedness and cause us to import in
stead of export that metal. In addi-
tion to this the recent gold discoveries
in Alaska and the discovery of cyanide
of potash as a factor in the extraction
of gold has added greatly to our stock
of that metal. Under these extraor-
binary conditions, so favorable to the
United States, the money kings pro-
claimed prosperity upon the gold
standard, the existing" gold stand
ard, when as a matter of fact they
know that the gold standard does not
exist and are putting forth stren-
uous effort to force a bill through con-
gress to wipe out the debt-paying
power of 900, 100000 of legal tender
money and put the United States upon
a gold standard.
Manufacturers, merchants, farmers,
laborers, consider what this means.
The slight prosperity we have as re-
suit of the extraordinary conditions
herein enumerated results from an in
crease In the money supply which has
stopped the downward trend of prices
and has given them an upward ten
dency The relief thus furnished is
relied upon by the money kings to
divert our attention from the impor-
tance of this subject and afford them
an opportunity to consummate their
iniquity.
The passage of the bill proposed, by
the United States. and the adoption
of similar measures by France and
Germany would cause contraction of
the currency that would more than
Offset any prospective increase in gold
that may be looked for during the
next decade. In addition to this the |
gold combination are diligently push
ing the work of extending the gold
standard into Asia, thus snbjecting ii |
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

For moment or two Walker was
shocked and benumbed BY the awful
impact of such an insult. He felt the
surge of not blood to his head, and in
the dizziness of his wrath all the articles
On the breakfast table went swinging
In semi-circles. He crumpled the en-
velope and its contents into his pocket
and sat fuming while Mrs. Walker
poured the coffee.
'Who sent it?" "who sent it?"
"Who sent it?" he asked himself over
and over again. He tried to fix in his
memory list of all who might be his
secret enemies and to select from this
list the most despicable, vindictive and
unprincipled scoundrel of all. This rep
tile he would meet. He would; meet
him and then-and then he would slap
him in the face and compel him to get
down on his knees and apologize, and
then he (Walker) would spurn him
(the wretch) with his foot and call him
all the vile names which may be used
in propriety by high-minded gentle
man whose feelings have been out
ragged.
Oh, the visions of revenge which are
conjured up by fine, feverish rage!
Walker snapped at his breakfast as
if he were Gagged animal, and there is
no denying that he had murder in his
heart. Once Mrs. Walker saw him
staring emptily at the popovers and
asked what was the matter. He did
not reply, for he was absorbed in con-
temptation OF a picture in which he was
throttling the villain who sent the
comic valentine.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

The republican national conven-
ton will not select the candidate for
vice president at Philadelphia in June,
as he has been already chosen by
Chairman Hanna at Washington, half
year in advance of the meeting of
the convention, which will be required
not to make choice of its own, but
to ratify that of Mr.. Hanna. Chair
man Hanna still dictates to the re-
publican party both its nominations
and policies. 1t is only just to him
that his supreme authority should be
thus frankly acknowledged. - Phila-
delphia Ledger (Rep.).
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

friends in much the same terms. One
of his friends, Bradbury, had received
CT unsigned letter, advising him that
he was not a civilized being, that the
people who congregated in his fiat of
an evening were little better than saw
ages. and that it was an outrage for
anyone to play the piano at two o'clock
in the morning, as at that hour all
honest men and women were sup
posed tc be in bed.
Bradbury was very angry. he went
to Walker with the anonymous letter
in his trembling hand and asked:
.sIsn't that the most insulting thing
you ever read?"
Walker behaved with admirable
GOODNESS. He smiled peacefully and
remarked: "Never let anything like
that worry you.'
well, / think I know who sent IT..
What is your opinion of man who
would write that kind of letter and
send it to you without signing his
name?"
bradbury, a man who would do
ANYTHING like that is simply beneath
contempt. You can't afford to waste
any righteous Indignation on such
eur. Dismiss the entire matter from
YOUR mind. Don't be foolish. If this
fellow is too cowardiy to sign his
name. simply throw the letter into the
waste basket, and let that be the last
of it,
Considering that Mr.. Walker held
such sensible and cool-headed views
concerning anonymous insults, lis
subseuuent conduct is not easily ex-
plained, unless it be admitted that 1t
is easy enough TO ignore an insult
which is aimed at some one else.
On the morning of certain Febru-
ary IA. Mr.. Walker went to his break
fast at a later hour than usual. He
found a letter lying beside his plate
and tore it open, carelessly enough,
unfolding a villainous comic yaien-
tine. printed in shrieking colors.
1t was the picture of a misshapen
wretch with a conical head and larg"
lower law which was fastened on IN
hinge fashion. There were certain
l;,,es end explosive marks to indicate
thai rbis Jaw was in rapid motion.
Below the picture was the following
doggsrel: 2,or
"you talk and gable all the day,
~ +hera,s no sense in what you say.
On every subject you must spout.
You are chump besono q oouoL
Iron County register., 1900-02-08
COULD GO TO PAR.
Present Value of Silver No In lica-
tiOn of What 1t Would BE UE der
Free Coinage.

Should the government of the United,
States issue $1,000, 100000 of legal ten
der in redemption of government bonds
and the $1,Ooo, 200, 900 gold now estimat-
ed to be in the country go abroad; then
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

Hut Some of II Never Does.
It's wise mining stock that knowA
its own par.-ChicaRo Daily News.
Iron County register., 1900-02-08

After breakfast and when he was
safely away from the house he took the
envelope from his pocket and studied
the handwriting. He did not recognize
it. 1t was evident that the sender had
disguised his penmanship, or else had
the address written by some one en-
tiraiy unknown to Walker.
The cowardi
He looked at the valentine ard re-
read the verse of doggerel, and it is
needless to say that he discovered
depths and varieties of insult not in
tended by the hack who wrote the
lines
Sitting in one corner of the car, with
the valentine folded carefully, he took
the lines one at time:
You talk and gabble all the day"
1t was simply brutal. He read it
again, and suddenly this question
flashed into his mind: do l talk too
much?''
He knew that the comic valentine was
always supposed to touch on a ruling
weakness. Could it be possible that the
sender of this valentine had struck on
his (Walker'sl greatest failing and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-02-01
A Night of Terror.

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widow of the brave Gen B1ruhsm Of
Machias, Me, when the doctors said
she would die from paeumonia bs-
fore morning" writes HRS, 3 II. LIN
coin, who attended her that fearful
night, but she begged for DR.. Kings
New Discovery, which had more than
once saved her life, ard cured her Of
consumption. After taking, she slept
ali night Further use entirely cured
her" This marvellous medicine is
guaranteed to cure all throat. chest
eud lung diseases Only so; and 81.
Trial bottles free ct James & Co.'S
drug store.