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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
A BACHELORS WILL.

The sun of an August day was sending
golden shafts through the interlacine
foliage over-shadowing limpid trout
stream. A young man was kneeling
beside it, pole in hand, ostensibly fish
ing, but the speckled denizens of the
brook had but little cause for alarm.
The cool brain and steady hand, SO
dangerous to their peace under ordinary
circumstances, were not really putting
forth any efforts against them. It was
a handsome young face turned in such
evident eagerness toward the family
defined foot path leading through the
woods to the sylvan spot. The features
were almost too regular for masculine
ideas of beauty; but the firm way the
red lips were set together and the mas
1sive chin redeemed them from weak
ness. He started to his feet as the
cracking of dried leaves and twigs
'betrayed an approaching footstep.
Another moment, and breathless
young creature was beside him, painting
from her rapid approach.
81 began to think you were not COM
ing, Dot, and that my holiday was to
prove failure"
6 It was by the merest accident that 1
got away. Father hardly trusts me out
of his sight. But he was called off on
unexpected business, and I've run every
step. feel SO guilty all the time-I
:, can't do it unless things change"
sDot," began Philip, reproachfully.
ssI know it is hard,'' continued the
girl, "but I am as much the sufferer by
it as you. Though, Phil" with sud-
den intensity in her voice, "one thing 1
can do. I solemnly promise never to
marry any one but him l love, and that
is-you know whom.''
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

PoLrTENEss to ladies is justly consid.
cred one of our national attributes b,,
while the native citizen keeps I'D to the
standard of gallantry, the imported
article is apt to work effectively. A
passenger in crowded streetcar, the
other day, observed the entrance of a
man followed by an old woman, and.
seeing that she looked tired and veal
he CONSIDERABLY arose and offered her
his seat. Before she could take IL, how.
ever, the man had quietly filed the
vacancy. "Here, just come out Of
that" said the passenger, 81 didn,t
give up my seat to you, but to the LADY ~
To which the fellow replied, witbou.
Offering to move: go, yah! dot Is ALI
right-dot lady is mein wife. "-Ne,o
York Hour.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
The Spirit of Erin.

Mute, mute is the harp in cabin and hall.
Silent the song, ceased the dance on tn
lea;
A shadow-of centuries-broods over all.
And none hath the heart to list JOYOUS
to me,
The Spirit of Erin
From mountain, from glen, from the meadow
Not echoing laugh, nor jest of the hour
nut curses, and groans and the weak WON
ans cries;
And shuddering shrink shorn sonpless n
power,
Sad Spirit of Erin.
All, why hath the sun brought no warmth
with its gold?
And why hath the shamrock paIed mockins
our hope?
Why doth the harvest but famine unfold
And the gaunt jaws of hunger in mad ter
rope?
Crushed Spirit of Erin
No answer comes down from infinitv's place.
ana the isle that is fairest sends upward
vain prayers,
And turns to the human, pale Poyertv,s
lace,
To ask of the strong ones the strength that
is theirs,
For the Spirit of Erin
Give, give that the hearts that are breaking
may leap
From the torpor of senses that, d,ifled by a
pain,
Make towards of freemen! Wake, wake from
this sleep
That the brave sons of ireland NAV feel
once again.
The wild Spirit of Erin!
Made strong with the food that is iberty,s
gift,
They shall breathe, with new breath, free
dom's soul winged air;
; Zen now, through the black cloud of honor.
q rift
OF brightness out shines; tits the answer To
prayer,
Glad Spirit of Erin,
Sound loud the sweet harp of thy nation. O
Hush wall; lift voice that the wide world
may hear;
The souls that are freest stretch generous
hand,
year,
For the Spirit of Erin.
The laugh, and the jest, and the heart that
is fire;
And Ireland, down crushed, in her rising
shall be
The mother of nations that grandIy aspire
In the Spirit of Erin!
Marie lie Baron, in the Washington Capital
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
The Sitting of Peter.
A FOLk-SONG.

FOLK-SONG.
@Behotd, Satan hath desired to hare yoss, that
ae may sft you as uheat. st. Luke, xxi. 81.
In St. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter in the days of old
Was sifted;
And now, though ages intervene,
Sin is the same, while time and scene
Are shifted.
Satan desires us, great and small,
AS wheat, to sift us, and we all
Are tempted;
Not one, however rich or great,
L. by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house so safely guarded is
But he, by some device of his,
Can enter;
No heart hath armor so complete
But he can pierce with arrows fleet
Its center.
For all at last the cock will crow
Who hear the warning voice, but go
Unheeding,
Till thrice and more they have denied
The Man of Sorrows, crucified
And bleeding.
One look of that pale suffering face
Will make us feel the deep disgrace
OF weakness;
We shall be sifted till the strength
OF self-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds of the soul, though healed, will
ache;
The reddening scars remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more.
we are not what we were before
Transgrcssioa.
hut noble souls, through dust and heat,
utise from disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer.
n. ". Loaafellosc, in Harper's for March.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

If pound of common salt were
divided into half million parts, one
such part would equal amilligram. The
spectroscope can determine with GER
tainty the presence of one three-mil-
lionth part of milligram of salt. Slap
ping the leaves of an old book together
in the same room will produce line of
yellow light in the spectroscope, owing
to the dust in the book being full of
sodium.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

up trying to direct the course of true
love, making virtue of necessity, yet
thinking himself model father.
Dot was willing that her father should
please himself with this delusion as long
as he withdrew his opposition to Philip s
coming to the house.
When, few months after, the real
heiress, Miss Dorothy Ingraham, ap-
peared upon the scene, uncharitable
persons said that Mr.. Dinsmore had
known of the mistake.
But Kate Belmont, his betrothed wife,
had the pleasant consciousness that she
had won his heretofore mercenary heart
while he thought Dot the true heiress,
and that he valued one glance of her
bright eyes more than he did Dots sup
posed thousands.
The real testatrix was very much taken
with her namesake, and would not con-
sent to take more than half the property.
The mistake about her legacy had been
the means of drawing her into the society
OF young relative of whose existence
she would otherwise have been ignorant.
1t proved very pleasant to her to have
such a treasure-trove of warm human
affection bestowed upon her, for young
Dorothy loved her aged cousin very
dearly, and was always pleased to en-
terrain her in her pretty home, for she
became the wife of Philip Bertram, and
the happiest little matron under the sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

WE do not object to publishing obitu
airy poetry if said poetry is not too bad.
But when it is of such character as to
make the deceased roll over in his coffin
and groan ia anguish, we are compelled
to decline.-Leringto,a Transcript.
HERE at last is slight variation from
the usual pistol accident. Mrs. Adams,
of Deer Island, Me-, snapped the
weapon at her little daughter, suppos-
ing it was empty, and killed the child.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

EUREKA, New, boasts of a one-
armed man who makes a living BY
chopping wood. The fellow Is n GOOD
chopper, and yields his ax with as much
dexterity as the best woodman in the
country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
A Young Hero.

We have boy in town who is hero,
and we would like to speak his name
right out, but dare not do so for fear that
he may not like it. This boy is an in
dustrious, saving, and energetic worker.
There was mortgage of several hum
dred dollars on the home of his mother,
which she was gradually paying by
economy and hard work. This excellent
son saved his dimes and dollars and
kept his wealth to himself, end recently
he boarded the Eastern train, was gone
a few days, returned and presented his
good mother with release of the
aforesaid mortgage. We call that no.
bic act, and have no fear of predicting
an honorable and useful and high posi-
ton in the future for that boy.-Iowa
Falls Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

The journal Of the Society Of Arts
reports that the destruction of vines by
the phylloxera has turned the attention
of French producers to the manufacture
OF beer, but the expense of hops has
proved a serious obstacle. A substitute
has, however, been found in the shrubby
trefoil or three-leaved Ptelea. A beer
made by means of it was found to be
identical in flavor with that of the best
beer made with hops. The plant is
hardy North American shrub, which can
be grown with success in France, in al
most any situation or SOIL. The fruit or
seed resembles that of the elm, and
emits an aromatic odor when pressed or
rubbed. The seed, which has strong,
bitter, aromatic taste, has heretofore
been used as substitute for hops in the
manufacture of beer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

By planting the Eucalyptus, or Aus.
tralian fever-tree, in the Tmarshes about
Rome, Garibaldi has reclaimed large
tract of country which heretofore was
sure death to journey across at night.
Thesleaves of this tree are. used largely in
California in place of quinine as an ague
remedy. In Tasmania and Australia,
the natives have used the leaves as med
icine, the fruit as an edible, and the
roots for obtaining from them the water
they contain in such great quantities. In
the dryest parts of that region the Eu-
calyptus yields water wherever it
grows.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

THE latest novelty at parties Is the
cotillion figure and is sometimes
danced by children at their parties and
at fancy dress balls. Eight ribbons Of
different colors are attached to ring
in the ceiling. Four ladies and four
gentlemen hold the ends of the ribbon.
The orchestra strikes up and they dance
a measure which enables them to plat
the ribbons. The orchestra then starts
another measure, the dancers another
step, and the plait is unplaited. Each
of the dancers may be dressed according
to the color of the ribbon that he or she
holds, and the mingling of the colors
will be all the more brilliant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11

THIS being leap year, it is the proper
time for maiden efforts.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
French Statistics.

According to the Sc Annuaire Statis-
tique," recently published by the Min
lister of Agriculture and Commerce, the
total population of France, a little un-
der 81, 200, 900 in round numbers, is di-
vided into 10000 Inhabitants of
towns and 25, 900, 900 inhabitants of the
country. On eliminating from the gen.
eral total $50, $50 individuals (who are
soldiers, sailors, students in schools, in
firm and diseased persons, or monks not
giving instruction), the total of little
over $4,000, 900 persons participating
fully in social life comprises, with re-
gard to means of existence and pro-
fessions, 210, 200 persons without known
professions; II, 800 vagabonds and men
dicants; 2, isl, 900 stockholders Gnclu-
ding 1875, 900 pensioners of the Govern
ment); 1851. 400 persons exercising
liberal professions or living by them;
1927, 200 persons engaged in trade,
transport and navigation, or living on
their products; 9,274, 500 persons en-
gagged IN various industries or living
by them (5,O00,0O in small in
dustries, 100000 in mining and
manufactured; 1893. 600 persons
| (of whom 10000 are proprietors of
buOll 1dto, hColly o,OOO,OOO es.O
farmers, $500. 900 are agricultural spe-
cialists, comprising vine-growers). On
entering into details of each OF the
great branches of the National produc-
ton, it is. found that 100000 of pro-
prietors of agricultural tenants (o1
whom 400, 900 are women) employ-as
clerks, $4,000 men and "a, 1000 women;
as work-people, $50, ,0O0m men and 378, ,0OC
women; as day laborers, 922, 900 men
and 704, 900 women; as domestics, 661,-
600 men and 663,O women; and, or
the other hand, that the families main.
tanned by the landed property or agri
cultural work consist of $500, 900 per.
sons of masculine sex, and 1900, 900 o1
feminine; 1,125, 900 industrial patrons
(of whom 226, 900 are women) have fol
clerks 143, 900 men and 50,0 women
1,555, 900 workmen and 1, ZOO, 900 work
women; 3O5, 900 male day laborers, ane
244, 900 female; $4,000 male domestics
and 143, 900 female. The families liv
ing by industrial operations embrace
nearly 100000 persons of masculine
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
A Curiosity for Arch@ologists,

Recently we were assured by Messrs.
Autry & Edwards, well-borers, that on
the day before, while boring well on
the farm of Mr.. Sherwood Wise, some
four or five miles from Athens, and just
beyond Middle Oconee River, they took
out from the middle of as hard blue
granite rock as they had ever encoun-
tered, forty-s six feet under the ground,
eraIiy used o in spIittiag Tf rails as Of wood I
The iron wedge is in the possession OF
the gentlemen who took it from the
rock, and it is apparently but little
worn. This is certainly a most re-
markable incident, and one we'll l-calcu-
lated to puzzle our scientists, geologists
and mineralogists. This extraction OF
solid iron wedge in state of perfect
keeping from a hard blue granite rock
forty-six feet under the ground is truly
the wonder of the age. It has attracted
a good deal of curiosity and comment
| Athens (GG.J Banner.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
The South and the Negro Rule.

Ihe republican organs are worrying
themselves over recent statement in
the Charleston Ne,os and Courier to the
effect that the people of South Carolina
never intend to again submit to negro
domination, and will take all necessary
means to prevent repetition of their
former experience. IF the aforesaid or
gans will put themselves in the place of
the people of South Carolina, they will
probably obtain more impartial view
of the case. We have repeatedly de-
clared, and now declare again, that
there is no State in the North, not even
Massachusetts or Kansas, overwhelm-
ingly Republican as they are, that
would endure for three months what
South Carolina endured for eight years.
If negroes had done in either of the
former States what they did in the lat
ter, the last one of them would have
been driven across the border. The
the imported variety in Kansas would
have risen in mass to rid themselves of
the unbearable nuisance. And the
nuisance once gone, they would have
died rather than allow it to return.
South Carolina will do no more, but
she may have to do less. She may have
to yield to negro supremacy backed
by Federal power, but neither she nor
any other Southern State will ever wear
that yoke second time unless it is riv-
eted by Federal bayonets. This is the
simple solemn truth, and the Republi-
can party may as well take due notice
thereof and govern itself accordingly.
Hereafter, if not "bucked and gagged" :"
by a standing army, the South will be
ruled by the intelligence, the capital,
and the energy of the country; in 9TH
er words, by the white population. At
ricanized carpet-baggery has had its
day, there, and a long and dirty day
it was, but there will be no more of it
at any price, unless the South is gar
risoned as conquered territory. Self
preservation is the highest of all laws,
and sef-preservation demands that
the political pyramid shall henceforth
stand upon its base, and not upon its
apex. st. Louis Republican.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06

Practical newspaper men who have wit
messed the great improvements in ali branches
OF their business during the last few years have
often wondered that the inventive spirit has
not seen in the old type case, in which but
slight changes have been made since 1885,
something worthy of Improvement; but in
ventors appear to have never Thought it worth
their attention, or, If they did, that improve
ment was beyond the line of possibility. Re-
Gently, however, very successful effort has
been made in that direction by Messrs. Stalter
and Hare, of sandusky, Ohio, who have pat
Bile concave type case," which Is now being
used in the Chicago Tribune, A. N. Kellogg's
Auxiliary Publishing House at Cleveland, and
other large establishments, and has received
the unqualified approval of the workmen in
the various offices. The case is composed of
ffty-four separate boxes, which are placed
together upon common bottom like SO many
blocks. The arrangement may be that in gem
eral use, or as the boxes are interchangeable,
1t is but the work of moment to change the
position and bring such boxes into any con-
venient position desired. In tabular work
this is great advantage over the old
style. The most important distinguish
ing feature, and one which will commend it
to all newspaper publishers, is the economy
of type. Being carved out of solid blocks of
cherry wood, the boxes have an even concavity
Of s bottom, s accurately proportioned to their II
full case is left in the cor
ners Of the boxes. as the compositor finding
1t is slow and disagreeable work to pick type
from the sharp angles, fills up the fnaccessi-
BILE space with type. The sides and bottoms
Of the Miller case" being concave in shape
the type continually drops to the center, and
the compositor can go on picking from the
center OF the box until It is emptied. The
printer is not obliged to stop to shake his
case or to scratch the type out Of the angular
corners, often injuring it by breaking of the
hne lines OF the face. The boxes can also be
kept perfectly clean from dust and dirt.
There are many other advantages which will
readily be observed upon trial of the cases.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
UNDER SUN AND NOON AND STARS.


When the sun shall cease to shine
On this face and form of mine,
Ihere'n be sunshine still as warm
On some other face and form.
When the moonbeams fall no more,
When stand in open door,
There'l be mOOnshine Just as bright
Dancing through the arc of night.
When the stars their twinkling beams
Send no more to gild my dreams,
There'n be starlight Just as sweet
Hound some other dreamer's feet.
Sun and moon and stars must glow
Ever come and ever go;
Faces flash and faces pass,
Like shadow in a glass.
Through the corridor of years
Lol . countless host appears;
As IL hath been it Will be,
Is the only sign we see,
Of the change that goeth on.
With the rising of the sun,
With the setting of the moon,
With the ssar-beams of the June
Men as atoms are, or dust,
On the surface of earth's crust;
Living, they a moment gleam
On the surface of times stream.
But moment, then they glide
Onward with the flowing tide,
And another current throws
Other bubbles as it goes.
Suns that onee on-S Syria set
Iinger on its landscape yet,
But the Syrians' lives are still;
Silence CROWNS the ruined hill.
Moons that once on Karnath rose,
Rise yet where Nile water flows,
But the sandaled priests have fled,
And the lotus blooms are dead.
STARS that on Atlantic shone
8 Dazzle still the horizons zone,
But the island lies below
Where their rays can never go.
And the lesson closer comes
Unto changefm hearts and homes,
That of small account we are
Under sun OF moon or star.
Al pur 6ttleness we feel
As at shrine of prayer we kneel;
Teach us wisdom, Thou whose years
Antedatee the eternal spheres.
-Chicaqo Times.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06

sex and 8, 100000 of feminine; $4,000
employers in trade and carriage (of
whom 221 ZOO are women) have 247, 900
male employees and II 900 female; 1885,
900 workmen and 1000 workwomen;
14O,O ZOO male day laborers and $4,000
female; $4,000 male domestics and
1873, 900 cooks or nursery maids. They
support families amounting to 661, ZOO
bows and 1 ,346, 900 girls.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-06
Windfalls.

Almost any one who has ever lived
in an English countryside, or has be-
come we'll acquainted with the less in
tel1igent classes of a country town,
finds one mental popularity very COM
mon. Almost every family is pene-
trated with some idea of the sc Tommy
Trounsom'' kind as described in g Felix
Holt''-a notion that some ancestor or
connection, however remote, once had
a history and fortune, and that eff
justice was done' and :" everybody had
their rights" and the world were, in
fact, little nearer the general aspira-
ton for world where all wrongs shall
be remedied, and my wrongs first, they
would be IS entitled to nice little
property of their own" The speakers
great uncle had it, and though it was
sold, it was unstable by law; or
though it was willed away, it was en-
tailed; or though it descended as usual,
there were ss circumstances about that
marriage''-and, in short, the property
in question, defined vaguely as "that
estate" should have come to the speak
er; and moreover, in addition, if the
narrator is woman beyond middle age
and very confidential, 6 it may come
yet" The listener, probably, if given
W CdUo tAO VhOAS ocOAJ eSo
he treats one about family pictures, or
plate, or the wretched jewelry our
grandmethers delighted in, as more or
less fiction, invented at first in
spirit of boastfulness, and half be-
lieved, either from incessant repetition
or from the disappearance of one gen.
Grafton of the story tel1ers. The ex-
planation is plausible, as such families.
especially if very respectable, will in
vent, and ultimately believe, any
amount of legends adding in any way
to the family dignity, quite as freely
and as tenaciously as Iriskmen will re-
peat stories about ancient Kings, or
Welchmen-who. unfortunately, have
not Kings enough for family consump-
tion-will prove that they are de-
scended from Llewelln. There is pleas
ure, no doubt, in retailing such stories,
and pleasure arising from vanity; but
the speakers really believe them, and
think they have reason for the belief.
The extent to which the peculiarlties OF
the old English laws about inheritance,
and entail, and will-making got into
peoples brains, and touched their
imaginations, would be incredible, did
we not see every day the difficulty men
have in expelling old notions, or in
doubling that claim which would
have been valid under the old laws, and
with sufficient evidence at its back,
"must have something in it.''-Loas-
don Spectator.