Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-21
Alexander, Illinois.

have been waiting for something
of interest to turn up, but in vain. l.
| wait much longer the REGISTER will
forget it has an old friend and CORES
poudent here. Being the off year il
elections we had only a county com
missioner to elect; but the fact thai
the Democratic candidate was an old
soldier, as we'll as an able honest man,
gave him good majority.
The corn crop is turing out from ten
| to twenty bushels to the acre; but
much of that is hardly to be called
marketable, and if shelled would give
a still lighter yield on the scales.
There has fallen few good showers,
but not nearly enough to effect wells.
Some have been hauling water for
months, and much stock is being put
on the market to get them out of the
way. Never since this country was
settled has so much of the new crop
been fed out at this time of the year.
The danger now is that spring may
find the ground SO dry that far less
drouth next season will do much more
damage. 1t is generally accepted that
draining the ponds and sloughs in our
broad praiaies has had a good deal to
do with bringing drouthy seasons;
but now yeople are beginning to ask if
abstracting so much electricity from
the atmosphere does not add to the
principal and primary cause of drouth.
If the gases that form water are con-
fined in a vessel in the proper proper
tions they do not unite until a spark of
electricity is admitted to them. Then
water is formed. Neither do we have
much rain from a gathering cloud, in
summer, until lightning begins to play.
Draining the country till it is almost
as dry as desert forestalls evapora-
ton, prevents the formation of dense
clouds, and estops precipitation; and
one would think that the abstraction of
from the air would largely
prevent the union of oxygen and hy-
drogen, even when present in proper
quantities and proportions to form
water. 1t may be said that all the
our dynamos gather is re-
leased again. True. but at any time
there is large amount held, or that
it is taken back as fast as it is released.
1t may be idle to ask such questions,
but John Locke said the only way he
became learned was by asking ques-
lions.
Pricking the balance-of-trade bubble |
is causing a good many of our Republi- |
cans to stop and think. During the
fiscal year ending on the 30th day of
June last we sent out in goods, gold, |
and silver, over six hundred and seven
,ne millions more than we brought in.
This shows fearful drain. s.My poy,
Shakey, salt ven comes home NIT less
oilers wort of fat in my push-cart den
takes out in soap l bees money lose"
'Shakey" was right. The difference
shows what rents and profits foreigners
Lre getting out of our lands, franchises,
md business enterprises. When we
ak land values only we can stop this
Train; but not till then.
One of the surprising things here,
vhen it comes to be known, is the very
arge number Of elderly people who
uffer from some kidney and bladder
rouble. Your writer has several
riends dangerously effected now and
'thers have died after lingering and
for years. What is there in
'ur mode of living that has made it SO
much worse In, say, the last two de-
,adesp
The N. Y. Tribune proposes to re-
lame the Philippines the Mckinley
stands; but the PittSbarg Post thinks
We had better wait till we see whether
heir aquisition is, or is not, the blum
Ter of the century. There is no good
'eason for waiting; for Mckinley
ought to have the blame of the blunder
f he deserves the credit should it be a
success. With the improvement in
arms Weylerism has become necessi-
~ in a war of conquest. The recon-
plan is something we must
get accustomed to if we are going into
IA fraction of tribe of
ragalos" seems to keep lot of our
brave boys in Kaki on the jump to say
nothing of our tars in blue.
Nov. IS. 1901. VIM. CAMM, SR.
w. j. Shively. Batesville, o., speak
ng of Banner Salve, save: 81 used it
or piles, and it has done me more
rood than any salve l have ever used,