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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
Women who Support Themselves.

Your readers may recall an account
given some months since of two invalid
teachers, Misses Austin and Hatch, who
had become fruit-growers in Fresno,
California. Everywhere in my travels
find ladies who are successful in avo-
cations new to women. Sarah F. Nourse
of Moline Oll.), a noble woman, is a
practical florist. In Cambridge Oil. y is
a successful woman photographer. In
Davenport, Iowa, DR.. Cleaves is not
only practitioner, but is an efficient
member of the Board of Trustees of the
State Insane Hospital. The very. fine
library of that place is greatly due to the
bequest of lady, Mrs. Cook. In Cedar
County, Iowa, Miss E. E. Frink as
County Superintendent is demonstrate
ing woman's capability to do efficient
educational work outside of the school
room. In Clarence, Iowa, Mrs. S. L.
Williams has large medical practice.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mrs. Dennis,
although the mother of three little ones,
is an organizer and teacher of classes in
vocal music. Mrs. DR.. Hickock has a
large and lucrative medical practice.
Although the place has the reputation
of not patronizing lectures, Miss Corson
recently gave course upon cooking to
nearly 200 ladies. At Marion, Iowa, the
Cary Club, society of women devoted
to mental improvement, has outgrown
its long clothes, and has perceptible
influence upon the community. Mrs.A.
B. Ellington, an associate member OF
the Illinois Social Science Association,
is known as journalist and efficient in
institute work. Mrs. II. L. j. McClel-
Ian is the worthy principal of the largest
High School in Illinois.-Chicago TTib-
u7ae.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19

then, it is easy to introduce any desired
breed; by judicious management the
weight, size, color, etc., of the whole
flock can be changed, with certainty
of having good, hardy birds. 1t has al
ways been my aim to keep the breed as
thoroughly mixed as possible. In short,
what wish to asserc is, pure-bred stock
never has been, and never win be able
to take the place Of the "dung-hill ~ or
ordinary barn-yard fowl, which, by
proper care in crossing the breeds, can
be made most useful kind of fowl, and,
in regard to hardness, beauty and other
desirable qualities, will compare favor
ably with the best blooded varieties
Cor. Land and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19

husbands parish. One lady dresses too
much, one does not dress enough. One
is too domestic, one is too officious in
church work. One never speaks in
meeting, one talks to the exclusion of
some of the sisters who are gifted in ex-
hortation. There is always fly in the
ointment. When l hear the criticisms
made upon these worthy ladies, whose
only sin is that they are parsons wives,
l am sometimes tempted to ask critics,
as Deacon Bulge did me when l could
not find COW to my mind, Hev We
any idee what sort of a critter would
suit ye?''
AS the parish will not let the parsons
wife alone, nor allow her the same free
dom in the pursuit of liberty and hap
piness it permits to other women, I
think each sect ought to establish train
ing-schools where young women who
contemplate marrying parsons can be
educated to please the parish. Unpre-
possessing female orphans could be
utilized to advantage by such institu-
tons, and spinsters so inclined could be
worked off as third and fourth wives to
widowers of the cloth. Ministers
wives who don't suit could be sent to
one of these schools for few months,
and return to be the delight of their
husbands focks.
The single minister, instead of run
ming the gauntlet he now does, and also
mourning the dreadful risk of marrying
a worldly young miss, could quietly
look over the department roll Of the
training-school of his sect, visit the
chapel at morning prayer and make his
selection, confident that his wife is war
ranted to suit.
Of all the plans that have occurred to
me this appears most feasible. The
cost of these schools would be inconsid-
cradle, for the faculties could be made
up of deacons, old ladies and spinsters,
who would so delight in their work that
salary would be to them of secondary
consideration. Each church could have
society to raise funds for the necessary
expenses, and at least three ladies could
hold office. The supply ofyoung wom-
en- trained could be carefully regulated
by the demand, and the peculiar tastes
OF certain churches could be suited by
the special and individual training of
select students.
This plan 1 offer especially to the
consideration of my brethren in the
ministry, feeling certain that were it
carried out it would relieve them of
much worry and their wives of much
hard work, and that through its means
alone will be found that rare bird, that
Phoenix among woman, the parsons
wife who pleases the parish Christian
U1aiOn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
Attempts to Find the Origin of the
American Indians.

The origin of the American Indians,
who are always theme of paikful in
terest with US, continues to be variously
discussed by anthopologists. Recently
German writer has put forward one
theory on the subject, and an English
writer has put forward another and di-
rectly opposite theory. The difference
CT opinion concerning our aboriginals
among authors who have made pro-
found study of races is at once curious
and interesting. Blumenbach treats
them in his classifcations as distinct
variety of the human family; but, in
the three-fold division of DR.. Latham,
they are ranked among the Mongolida.
Other writers on race regard them as
branch of the great Mongolian family,
from Asia to this continent, and re-
manned here for centuries separate from
the rest of mankind, passing, mean
while, through divers phases of barbar-
ism and civilization. Morton, our emil
nent ethnologist, and his followers, Mott
and Gliddon, claim for our native red
men an origin as distinct as the fora
and fauna of this continent. Prichard,
whose views are apt to differ from Nor
tons, finds reason to believe, on COM
pairing the American tribes together,
that they must have formed separate
department of nations from the earliest
period in the world. The era of their
existence as distinct and insulated
people must probably be dated back to
the time which separated into nations
the inhabitants of the Old World,
and gave to each its individuality and
primitive language. DR.. Robert Brown,
the latest authority, attributes, in his
traces of Mankind,'' an Asiatic origin
to our aboriginals. He says that the
western Indians not only personally
resemble their nearest neighbors-
northeastern Asiatics-but they resem-
BILE them in language and traditions.
The Esquimaux on the American and
Tchuktchis on the Asiatic side under
stand one another perfectly. Modern
anthropologists, Indeed, are disposed to
think that Japan, the Kuriles, and
neighboring regions, may be regarded
as the original home of the greater part
of the native American race. It is also
admitted by them that between the
tribes scattered from the Arctic sea to
Cape Horn there is more uniformity of
physical feature than is seen in any
other quarter of the globe. The weight
of evidence and authority is altogether
in favor of the opinion that our so-called
Indians are branch of the Monaghan
family, and all additional researches
strengthen the opinion. The tribes of
both North and South America are un-
questionably homogeneous, and, in all
likelihood, had their origin in Asia,
though they have been altered and mod
flied by thousands of years of total sep
aration from the parent stock.-Nu,o
York Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
CONCERNING PARSONS WIVES.

by THE REV. URIAH xERxEs BUTTLEs.
Not long ago Mrs. Mulle::, an old lady
who is a shinino light III one OF the
sGriggsville churches (thaas heaven it is
not my church), said to me, g Mr.. But
ties, why is it that parsons wives are so
good -for-nothin'p Look at 'em here in
Griggsville. There isn't one on 'em
does what she ort to for the cause of
Zion. And they all hev the same ex-
.cuse; no time nor strength
ventured to reply that Mrs. Shouttin,
che Methodist parsons wife, had twins
six months old, that Mrs. Waters, the
Baptist parsons wife, had an invalid
father-in-law on her hands, and that
Mrs. Buttles washed, baked and sewed
for family Of eight; and that as each
one of hese ladies we're slender and
somewhat feeble the care and service
sthey gave their families were enough,
and they ought to be excused from some
of the church work and forgiven if they
were sometimes sick.
Excused!" cried Mrs. Mullet. 81
think, Mr.. Buttles, a parsons wife Or
ito realize the responsibility of her posi-
ton. III was sot in a candle-stick on
q hill top I'd shine, and not give poor.
smoky light neither. What's house.
work and sewing to the cause of Zion!"
By this time felt pretty glumpy, SO
I said did not see how Zion could get
on without these old-fashioned profess
siops, and then walked home. had
been deep in meditation on the plaques
of Egypt, but my thoughts were entirely
diverted from this interesting subject,
and concentrated on the parsons wife
and her relation to the parish.
think the parson, like other men,
considers only his own happiness in his
marriage. know that when courted
Mary Jane Bobbs, now Mrs. Buttles, 1
newer once thought whether she could
dead q female prayer-meeting, run a
sewing society, or make a speech at a
missionary meeting. I did once ask
mother Bobbs if Mary Jane was good
cook. A clergyman needs food for his
brain, and it was therefore natural that
I should think of such accomplishments;
but I did not think it necessary to in
ouire if Mary Jane could do dozen
things at the same time, a feat she has
often been called upon to perform and
found fault with for not doing. l mar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
What Constitutes a Pleasing Letter.

First, it should be characteristic, and
to be that it must be natural; the best
letter-writers are those who write as they
speak, only taking care to make their
meaning quite clear. Another requis-
lite is the power Of impressing upon IL
the character of ones surroundings;
and this is best done, not by lengthy de-
scriptions and laborious filing in"
but by those vivid touches which only
the true artist knows how to produce.
As to the "form," often has the typical
lady of the nineteenth century's letter
been made subject of jest or satire.
The dashes and CALCULATIONS, and,
above all, the postscripts, have received
their full share of criticism. We all
know the story of the lady who, having
been accused Of never sending a letter
without a postscript, wrote to her friend
for the express purpose of showing him
that he was mistaken, and opened the
letter to add, "P. S.-You see I can
write without postscript" And yet,
most people, If pressed, would own that
they feel rather disappointed on reach
ing the end of the longest letter, IL they
do not find little supplementary note.
People may laugh at women's letters
and their postscripts; nevertheless, IL
is an acknowledged fact that Except on
business matters), as a rule, they give
more satisfaction than mems, and,
whereas not one man in twenty has
time or takes the trouble to write one
word more than is absolutely necessary,
most well educated ladies can write,
and enjoy writing, long, interesting
letter. have said nothing Of the So
called model letter-writers, Nine. de
Sevigne, Lord Chesterfield, Cowper,
etc., because their epistles are speci-
mems. of the old school, and it IL in the
modern lives and biographies that we
must seek models Of the postal letter.
There is as much difference between
the two styles as between " Sir Charles
Grandson" and the last new novel.
BY comparing the best examples of both
kinds, it will, think, be found that,
though the art of letter-writing has un-
doubtedly undergone a great change, 1t
can not be said that it is dying out
from among us.-Cor. Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
Rest.

>ei thou art weary of the world and lean
Upon my breast,
My soul will show to thine its hidden meaning,
And thou shalt rest;
When thou art eagerly, but vainly aiming
At some far end,
Thou knowest not thy pining and complain
Have pierced thytFriend.
My presence is around thee and about thee
Thou dost not kpow-
But if thou knewest, thou wouldst ne'er doubt
Hove thee SO.
Thou art a very child, and modest guiding
Thee viii lead
Another guide might be too quick in Gliding,
Nor know thy need.
lean on .me, child-nor faint beneath thy
signing,
With help SO near:
took upon me all thy grief and dying
To heal thy fear.
When thou art resting in my secret dwelling
Swallowed by me,
Thou shalt not tire of hstening-I of telling
My love for thee.
Thine eyes are bent upon each loving token
Sent by my hand;
With these alone thy spirit would be brekenH
In thy fair land.
Thou art lover of all things of beauty
In earth and space;
Then, surely, 'twere thy pleasure and thy
Their source to trace.
Track the bright river of each much priced
blessing
Back to its source;
See all the blooming growth thy foot is press
ing
Along it's course.
See, gathered in thy storehouse of sweet
dreaming,
Each glowing thought,
Which daylight. starlight, or the moons sweet
cleaning
To thee have brought,
All real beauty which thy heart is greeting
In this fair earth
All music which thy charmed ear is meeting,
From me had birth.
But this will be revealed when thou art lean
ing
Upon my breast,
Fhy soul shall comprehend my hidden mean
And thou shalt rest
Chambers Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
HERE AND THERE.


MARI ANDERSON refuses an average
of three excellent original plays week,
and twice that number of excellent
matrimonial offers.
JAMES COLE of New jersey left $780,
600 to the cause of the hemhen, in ms
will, and his own sister, living milo
away, was sick and suffering ,or the care
of a nurse.
Two miles of railroad have been
built on the ice, across the 81. Law
renee River, at Montreal. The ties and
stringers are laid flat, and then water is
pumped between them to freezc-thus
making a solid bed.
The Divorce Committee in France
has pronounced in favor of divorces for
FIVE years desertion, divorce by mutual
consent when the wife is turned As and
has been married above twenty years,
and also for giving tribunals the option
of appending divorce to a condemna-
ton for fraud, indecency, or other Of
lenses against morality.
The Towanda PENN Reporter says.
that the Supreme Court of that State has.
decided that the change of figure on a.
note to mark an over the in the date.
imp airs the validity of it. Either a new
note, printed for 1Ss-must be used, or
the whole date written before the printed
figures on the old blanks.
OswEGO On. W people have cheer
full turn of mind. The two doctors who
had contracted for the body of Searles,
who was hanged, paid the father of the
murderer S15 for the body and then took
it to their rooms for dissection. They
removed the brain of Searles, then billed
the town for an anatomical lecture, and
had good audience.
CHICAGO man was told, when he reg
istered at Council Bluffs hotel, that
his wife was already there. He said
there must be mistake, as he had left
her home few days before, and she
had not said any thing about a jour
ney; but the clerk insisted that he knew
her, and that she was in the house. The
fact was that she had eloped.
On the last day of November the body
of a man who had evidently died vio-
lent death was found in the Siilerthal,
Canton Thurgau, Switzerland. 1t was
identified as that of a man named
Baumeler, a sawyer by trade, and ma
tive of Lucerne. His kinsfolk put on
mourning for him, and the deceased,
having been Roman Catholic, was
buried in the cemetery of Bischoffzell by
a priest of that persuasion. The evening
after the interment, as number of
peasants and neighbors were making
merry in the village inn of Bischoffzell,
as all supposed, had been laid quietly
under the ground the day before. This
apparition excited at first no little dis
may, but, when Baumeler ordered q
plate of sausages, loaf of bread, and
litre of lager beer, the fears of the revel-
ers were appeased. Baumeler, who said
he had been away on journey, then
heard the story of his death and burial,
which seemed greatly to amuse him. It
appears that he does not enjoy an alto
gether spotless reputation, and after his
supposed death journal of the neigh
borhood made some unpleasant reflec-
tons on his character. Baumeler, il is
said, intends to proceed against this too
impulsive paper for libel. As for the
buried man, no information is as yet
forthcoming.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
What Our Girls Chew.

We have it upon common report that
chewing-gum is substance well known
to the youthful part of the community.
The qualities which it possesses at the
time that it comes from the confectioner
are all familiar to the youngest of us.
1t certainly seems a very attractive edi-
BILE. The reason for this is not so hard
to find. Think how much eating there
is in it in proportion to actual weight
and cash value. But there is more in
chewing-gum than is dreamed of even
in juvenile philosophy. One can easily
comprehend the main ingredients of
candy, but who, without being told,
would suspect that chewing-gum is often
only refined product of petroleum.
The time was when the fragrant spruce
furnished the most common material for
the purpose. But this is no longer the
case. The reader familiar with the
processes of refining coal oil is aware
that the thick, brown liquid which comes
from the earth, at one stage of its man.
ufacture, is strained through heavy linen
cloths. The residuum left after this
operation is dirty, brownish yellow
wax, that smells abominably. That I'M
promising substance, melted, bleached,
deodorized, and prepared for commerce
appears in masses that weigh about one
hundred pounds, resembling oblong
blocks of clouded ice. 1t has no odor
and no taste except what belongs to any
wax in its purest state. 1t may be used
for many purposes, but it is not neces-
sary to describe them now. The man.
ufacturer of chewing-gum purchases
these blocks ready made to his hand,
and at once melts them down. To two
hundred pounds of wax he adds about
thirty pounds of sugar, and gives the
mixture flavor by the use of some es-
sential oil, as lemon or vanilla, and per-
haps adds some coloring matter. The
melted mass is poured out upon clean
marble slab, and cut into the various
shapes known to mastifcators.
The youthful epicure rarely becomes
so luxurious as to demand balsam of
GOiu, DuU IL uc uOcS tuc 10
ready for him. This resin, which is OBJ
tanned from South America, is at first in
an almost fluid condition. 1t is the
product of tree known as-now hold
your jaw, for the name is worse than a
whole box of ing-gum-myras-
permum tolulferum. This balsam is
boiled by the manufacturer until finally
it is brought to such consistency that
it can be run through rollers. 1t comes
out in the shape of little slender rod
of brownish yellow color, which is cut
into pieces, each about two or two and
half inches long. The balsam may
sometimes be mixed with less costly
wax, since its flavor is very marked.
The balsam from the "chicle" tree,
from Central America, is used in max
ing what is known as snapping-gum. 1t
is very ductile when worked and
moistened, and the process of makingis
similar to that of pulling taffy. The
original gum exudes from the tree and
forms in a mass, sometimes several
pounds in weight. Even in this natural
state it would be very satisfactory sub
stance to keep the teeth at work. 1t can
not be worn Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
Two Pictures.

I.
A maiden, in a garden dreaming
OF fairy prince and halcyon days;
Her head, with sunny tresses cleaning
Bowed down beneath dim trellised ways.
A row of sunflowers by paling,
A wicket left upon the latch.
A summer house, with woodbine trailing,
And ivy creeping DER the thatch.
"A football on the garden gravel,
A quickening heart, a whispered word;
"A youth, burnt brown with foreign travel,
Come back to claim hope deferred.
% happy, happy time of Loves beginning,
Ere ever we can guess that storms near
Sunlight glancing, buds unfolding, thrushes
singing,
Golden summer of the Soul and of the year
A garnet in a city byway,
pale sad woman all alone:
A weary wanderer on LIES highway,
Poor and forsaken and unknown.
What need to knit the little stocking,
Or strive again for daily bread?
Why set an empty cradle rocking?
The nesting has forever fed!
eyes, both are gone; perchance tits better"
She signs at length "'Tis better sol"
Then bends to read a tattered letter,
Or turns to watch the falling snow.
All, bitter, bitter time of Sorrows waking,
Ere even we can dream that hope is near!
Snow is falling, fow'rs are fading, hearts are
breaking,
Weary winter of the soul and of the year!
-TiO1et Fame, IN London World.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
BuOyancy of Water.

Another terrible steamboat slaughter
Presence of mind and slight knowl-
edge of the specific gravity of the human
body would have saved much of this
frightful loss of life. There was loose
wood enough about the boat to have
foated ten times the number of passen-
gers on the 1l-fated vessel, if it had been
used with Judgment. The human body
a single chair will carry two grown per-
sons. That is, it will keep their heads
above water, which is all that is neces-
sary when it is question of life or death.
The burning vessel was close to shore,
the water was calm and warm, and all
these passengers might easily have
jumped overheard and padded laughing
ashore, if they had only possessed and
used the simple knowledge that one fin
ger placed upon stool, or chair, or a
small box, or piece of board, would
easily keep the head above water, while
the two feet and the other hand might
be used as paddles to propel toward the
shore. It is not at all necessary to know
how to swim to be able to keep from
drowning in this way. A little expert
ence of the buoyant power of matter,
and faith in it, is all that is required. We
have seen small boy who could not
swim a stroke propel himself back and
forth across deep, wide pond by means
of board that would not sustain five
pounds. In fact, that sometime small
boy is now writing this. Children and
all others should have practice in
the sustaining power of water. In
nine cases out of ten the knowl-
edge that what will sustain pound
weight is all that is necessary to
keep ones head above water will serve
better in emergencies than the greatest
expertness as swimmer. A person un-
familiar with the buoyant power of
water will naturally try to climb on top
of the floating object on which he tries
to save himself If it is large enough
that is all right. But it is generally not
large enough, and half of struggling
group are often drowned in the desperate
scramble of life-and-death struggle to
climb on top of a piece of wreck or other
floating object, not large enough to keep
them all entirely above the water. This
often happens when pleasure boats cap
size. All Immediately want to get out
OF the water on top of the overturned or
half filled boat, and all are drowned ex-
cept those whom the wrecked craft will
wholly bear up. If they would simply
trust the water to sustain ninety-nine
hundredths of the weight of their bodies,
and the disabled boat the other hun
dredth, they might all be saved under
most circumstances. An overturned or
water-flled wooden boat will sustain
more people than it will carry. Itwould
keep the heads above water Of as many
people as could get their hands on the
gunwale. These are simple facts, easily
learned, and may some day save your
life. ..-I1enton IN. ~ Gazette.