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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-22
Boston Beans - The New England
City's FavOrite Dish.

THOUGH Boston has acquired some
fame as a consumer of this esculent,
baked beans have been from time i'm
memorial favorite dish throughout
New England. The sturdy men and
women of generations ago, who braved
dangers and hardships in planting an
Independent colony, added strength to
their sinews and muscles by eating SIM
pie food, of which baked beans were a
much cherished ingredient, and of all
ancient dishes none have stood better
the test of time and the caprices of the
appetites of the people. But it is little
singular that, while New England is so
large a consumer of baked beans, and
New Englanders, more especially the
residents of Boston, have acquired the
mystery of cooking them perfectly, the
dish is not in much favor elsewhere, and
that the knowledge of baking them prop
erly is exceedingly limited. 1t may be
said that one circumstance is due to
another-that is, that where it is not
known how to bake beans properly, they
are naturally not popular article of
diet. II the method and process of bak-
ing were patented, it could hardly be
more exclusively held by New England
ers. In New York and other munich
palities, a contempt is often expressed
for the Athenian love for baked beans,
and yet not long ago q fashionable club
house, on the occasion of q special gath
ering, sent by express to this city for
twenty two-quart pots of Boston baked
beans. This manner OF obtaining dish
they affect to despise is frequently re-
sorted to, with profit alike to the buyer
and seller. An experienced baker of
this city, being asked why baked beans
were not as popular in New York as in
Boston, said: because they don't
know how to cook them. They don't
soak them enough, boil them too much,
and then take them out of the oven be-
fore they are half baked" "But it
would be easy enough for them to learn
how to cook themP' "Well, il it is,
they don't learn. That much l know"
There is a lunch counter in one of the
busiest sections of New York where
genuine Boston baked beans are served,
which is reported to be doing thriving
business. Travellers in the West and
South have noticed in the windows of
restaurants in cities and towns placards
announcing Boston baked beans, but, on
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-22

THERE Is q report that Mrs. j. w.
Mackey, of California, has offered 10
purchase the French crown Jewels
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-22

This question was never answered till
about six years later, when was intro
duced to Colonel Lewis on Pennsylvania
Avenue. He took me to his house in
Georgetown, where 1 met both the Fan
nys. 1t is no disparagement to Mrs.
Lewis, nor is it base ingratitude, to say
that I love the Southern Fanny best,
for she has been my wife five years, and
Colonel Lewis is my brother-in-law.-
Harper's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-22
CLOSE QUARTERS.

You're hiding rebels in the house
WIOat the leave O. me.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-22

her husband exposed to my attack if I
were armedi
"Here is paper and ink" she said.
"Now 60 to bed, darling
"No, love; will sit up here," and
she took her place upon the sofa.
Meantime no words can adequately
depict the discomforts of my situation
I knew perfectly well that the Colonel
knew where was, and that in good
time he was going to dispose of me. 1
quite agreed with him that gratitude to
Mrs. Lewis required me to keep still. 1
also knew that whatever plan he might
be laying for my capture, was to be
done in such way as to spare his wife
as much as possible. / thought that for
her sake had better let him work it his
own way. l only trusted 1 should be
able to prove to the Provost-Marshal
that was Major Dangerfeld, and not
the secret agent was supposed to be.
Meantime my physical safferings were
almost unbearable. In the empty Sar-
atoga trunk my position was inexpress-
IDLY cramped and painful. was per-
fectly conscious that the slightest noise
I made would be heard by the husband
and wife in the sitting room, ard 1 was
unwilling to disturb any hope the latter
might entertain that l was gone. NV
plan was to wait tril she was out of the
way, and then place myself at the dis
posal of her husband.
Meantime solemn silence seemed 10
settle ON the house and al. the neighbor-
hood. My nerves had become SO ex-
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-24
A Fiddling Gorilla.

London Iclcgraph.
A short time ago the dead walls and
advertising posts of Munich suddenly
broke out in all the colors of the rain
bow with announcements, couched in
hgh-hown language, to the effect that
on such day the greatest wonder of
the world would be submitted 10 pub
lie inspection at the Coliseum, in the
shape of Il gifted gorilla trained with
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-24
The Human Mandatory

\ man may eat and drink heartily
all day, says an unknown writer, and
sit and lounge about. doing nothing, in
one sense Of the word: but his body
must keep hard at work all the time or
it will die. Suppose the stomach re-
fused to work within ten minutes after
a hard dinner, the man would die H.
convulsonS i'm few hours; or cholera
or cramp-colic would rack and wreck
him. SuppoSing the pores Of the skin
meaning thereby the glandular ap-
paratus with which they are connected
should 90 on strike" he would in
an hour be burning up with fever; op-
preston would weigh upon the system,
and soon become insupportable. Sup
pose the liver became mulish, food
would be loathed, torturing pains would
invade the small of the back, and the
head would ache to bursting. Suppose
the kidneys shut up shop, and danger
most imminent, sufferings unbearable,
and death more certain would be the
speedy and unavoidable result. If the
little workshops of the eye should
close, in an hour he would not shut ol
open them without physical force, ant
in another hour he would be blind: OF
if those of the tongue should close, il
would be as dry as bone and st'f IA
steel.
| Nicp has moro MARTYRS than Virturr.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-24

infinite pains to perform an Italian con-
cert upon the violin. 1t may well be
imagined, in so musical city as the
Bavarian Residenz, that the public re-
spOnded i'm large numbers to this amaz-
ing invitation, and that the Coliseum
was crowded to the ceiling on the open
ing night of the performance There
was the gorilla, horrible in aspect, but
unquestiOnably skilled in the prOduc-
tion of sweet sounds from an ordinary
fiddle, delicately manipulated by his
formidable paws. a skeptical specta-
tol, however, contrived to approach
the simian executapt, unobserved of
its Iimpresario, and to make slight in
cission in its hide with pen-knife.
Strange to say, the animal did not finch,
but fddled on with stoical steadfast-
ness. Encouraged i'll his suspicious
by this most unmonkey-lille impassive-
ness, the doubter seized Pongo from be-
hind and shook him roughly; whereup-
the seams of his skin gave way, and
an elderly gentleman-the impresario's
father stood revealed to the astonish-
ed audience.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-24
Some of the Tricks of the Stage

Some Of the Tricks of the Stage,
New York Mirror.
A great many tricks of the stage cos
tune spring from personal defects. In
whatever cut of waist MojeSka appears,
there is always Il bunch of flowers or a
bow placed at the left of her open cor
sage. When this device is not resorted
to, little strap of silk will he trailed
across diagonally, or a little fan of lace
will suddenly spring from the left
corner, in order to hide scar on the
breast that looks as if it might be the
result of a wound from poniard. -
a souvenir" of romance. Poor Lu
cIlle Western was afflicted by birth
mark She was a regular female Esau.
! About her waist there was Il thick
growth of silky brown hair, which ran
up to a point in front. Where it came
above the tops of her drSsses it was
carefully shaved, but the skin always
remained blue. So Lucille wore a huge
cross dangling Just over that portion of
her anatomy. Parepa Rose had a deep
vaccination scar far down her robust
arm, and when her sleeves were very
short, a knot of ribbon or a trail of
flowers used to cover it. Before she
grew extremely stout she wore gold
en- band above the elbow to hide it, but
when her armlet had to be as big as a
waistcoat she abandoned the oddity.
One night speaking of this scar to an
American girl who sat in her dressing
room, the Yankee girl offered Parepa
an immediate and effectual conceal
ment of the offending spot. She took
one of the candles off the toilet table,
and holding it above the arm let one
drop of the melted wax fall upon the
place, and there was no further need OF
concealing devices. A dash of flesh
tinted powder completed the "cure,
and Parepa's makeup box forever after
contained bit of wax candle
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-24

Vice has more martyr, than yirture.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
A Log Railroad.

A log tramway or railroad in use by
the Richardson Brothers at their mill,
south of Truckee, is q very ingenious
piece of machinery. Logs, ten inches
or foot in diameter, are hewn round
and smooth and their ends are coupled
together by iiron bands. These logs
laid side by side upon graded ground Tor
distance of perhaps three miles, form
the track. Of course the road looks
quite like an ordinary railroad track,
except that logs are used instead of rails,
and the tires are ut much greater inter-
walls. The wheels Of the engine and cars
are concave on their outer surface, and
fit the curve of the logs. The power is
applied to wheel in the middle of the
forward axle on the engine. The most
remarkable loads Of logs are hauled
upon the cars, and the affair is a de-
cided success. 1t is very cheap, its con-
struction is simple, it is not easily
damaged, and its operation is all that
could be desired. By means Of this jog
railroad the Richardson Brothers are
enabled to get their logs to the mill from
the forest, three miles distant, at cost
ar less than it is ordinarily DONE
Truckee (Nev.) Republican.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
Lawyers Fees.

The New York correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat writes: The motto
of the legal profession in this city seems
to be "the whole is none too much for
me-" If they do not get it the fault is
not theirs. What remarkable in
stance of absorption was afforded by the
James B. Taylor case. This man left
an estate worth at least half million,
making his wife sole heir. All of this
grand property has been devoured by
the lawyers, and the widow is now left
an object of charity. A will does not
amount to much here if there be any
object in bS6jng it. In the above
mentioned ctge The other heirs attempted
to set aside the will, and after five years
of wearisome contest such state Of con-
fusion had been reached that it required
special act of legislature. During this
interval the estate remained unproduc-
tive while the legal harpies were de-
vouring it with steady maw. To illus
trate the lavish manner in which fees
were paid in this case, it may be men
toned that at the very beginning the
surrogate ordered $50, 900 to the counsel,
and $4,000 was soon added. 0. B.
Mattisonspbtaiued $4,000 commission
on the sale of property to the amount
of 100000. The receiver was allowed
$4,000 for his fees, and twice as much
more for his disbursements. Francis
Herman had $4,000 for arguing the case
before the court of appeals, while Sena-
tor Conkling was paid $4,000 for pre-
pairing the case for q jury trial. Thelatter
has never taken place and never will.
Two other law firms each got $4,000.
Henry l.. Clinton was paid $4,000,
which he no doubt called low fee, as
he now demands more than ten times
that sum from William H. Vanderbilt
1 have only given a portion of the
charges in the case, but they afford a
sample of the manner in which the law
yers eat up an estate whenever the op-
portunity is offered. The consequence
is that Mrs. Taylor, who was so admired
by her husband that he usually called
her "the queen" is now living or the
kindness of friends. 1t may be added
that those relatives who begah the above
mentioned costly fight have never had q
dollar from the estate, all of which has
thus been devoured in the above men
t;oood n,apnar
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22

where a fond, loving wife would be;
finding her growing more and more
patient, and even more sweetly gentle
lhan ever, if that were possible, while
Hugh grew restless and impatient, and
the one great dread of his life-the
dread lest she should after awhile hate
him instead of being simply Indifferent
as she was now, grew on him like a
nightmare.
Until one day he announced his in
tention of going abroad-to gain
strength, he told Lola-to rid her of
him she knew so we'll he meant.
"And alone, Hugh"
"Alone-certainly," he said, almost
harshly in his bitterness.
For who was there in all the world
to 90 with him?
So he made his preparations with q
heart as heavy as lead-a. heart that
suffered untold agony as he saw the
new glad light that was daily coming in
his wife's eyes-joy at the spe edy pros
pect of being separated from him, if
only for awhile.
And then he said goodbye and went
his way, by easy stages and frequent
stops, until he reached the lovely sum-
mer land of Italy, to Florence, the city
of flowers-a heartsick, heartsore man,
who would rather have laid down his
life than to live longer the solitary, love
less existence that fate had apportioned
him.
And yet-despite all his bitterness, his
soul-sickness, his brain and heart were
all athrob in expectation of the letter
from his wife he knew would be there.
Only-it was not there!
And he went slowly, despairingly to
the rooms engaged by telegraph, Won
dering why all of ifeiand hope and joy
and love such as glorifed other mems
lives, were denied him, wondering
And opening the door to see Lola
waiting for him-Lola, ali her passion
ate soul in her eyes, all her sweet, yearn-
ing nature in the low CRY with which
she sprung to him.
''Oh, Hugh! could not let you leave
me! I did not know until you were
gone that "
His face was pale as death. He
looked at her-one glance in whicn
their hearts were unveiled. one moment
when it seemed that heaven had sud-
denly opened to them.
"Lola! My wifem
=" Hugh! Oh, Hugh, my darling"
And so their happiness came to them.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
IuiIIOtJned at Gold Dawn:

It is just ten years ago, day for day,
says Paris correspondent in recent
letter, that the notorious Troppman, tn.
murderer of the Kink family, was exc
cuted on the Place de Ia Roquette. This
morning another convict of the same
stamp underwent the penalty of death
on the same spot. Provost, the police.
man who murdered the woman Blondin
and tie jewelry dealer Lenoble, and
afterward cut their bodies up and threw
the pieces into the sewers, was guillotined
there at daybreak. 1t having become
known last night that his appeal for
mercy had been rejected by the president
of the republic, large crowd began to
assemble as early as nine o'clock. The
executioner arrived at four o'clock and,
aided by his assistants, erected the gull
lotine about twenty PAGES from the cen.
tral door of the prison. The guillotine
once in order tho headsman and his as
sistants entered the prison to arrange
what is called the toilet of the culprit
previous to his death. The Able Gro.
zes, the chaplain Of the Jail was the first
to enter the prisoners cell. Provost
started up, gazed.wildly at the reverend
gentleman, and then buried his head in
his hands, trembling and groaning.
"Alas |" said the chaplain, "there is No
hope now but in the mercy Of Cod
The condemned man then left his bed.
but he was too much overcome to dres:
himself. The task was done by the exc.
cutioner and his assistants. He was
then left alone with the Able Crozes to
prepare his soul. He embraced the
chaplain several times and wept bitterly.
"Take courage, take courage said the
reverend gentleman. "Yes, yes" re-
piled Provost, will take courag! aud
try to meet my fate. I ask pardon of the
police administration, to which 1 be-
longed seven years." The condemned
map, after kissing the cruciix three or
four times, marched on. to the guillotine
with firm step and in an instant lie
was on the fatal baScule. The spring
was touched and dull thud was heard
and the next second his head fell into
the basket. After the execution the body
md head of the murderer were taken
to the school of medicine, and having
been sown together electrical expert
ments were made on them, and in the
opinion of all the doctors present death
must have been instantaneous.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
The New Game.

he dead beat permits nothing to gel
ahead of him except funeral process.
sion. Yesterday a seedy genteel, who
seemed to be greatly excited, rushed
into a place on Woodward avenue and
wildly inquired if they had a telephone
there. Being answered in the afirma-
five, he rushed to the instrument, threw
his hat on the floor and called out:
"Hello! Central office-for heavens
sake hello! hello! hellow
els there fire2" asked the merchadt.
"Fire! Keep still-wait- oh Heavens!
why don't they answer mep Hello!
Central office! All! Ihave them! Con-
meet me with sub-ofice on Dufield street
-quick-life depends"
Somebody dyingP" asked the mer-
chant.
Keep still-for your life, keep still!
All! sub-ofice! Connect me with Nc
Cass avenue as soon as you can! Hello!
hello! Mary! All! it is her! Mary, your
mother han been run over by street
car on Jefferson avenue, and will die!
I'll bring her up in carriage! Get
everything ready! Send James for the
doctor-good-bye."
Somebody hurtp" asked the mer-
chant.
Somebody hurt' No Yes! I'm
half crazy! must get a carriage. All!
left my wallet at the Office down the
river! I'll tell Mary-no, I'll ask you
for 50 until come down after dinner!"
The merchant looked at the fellow
for q few seconds and then walked to the
telephone. The sub-office was saying:
"Who was getting off that rigmarole
to Mary, and who was Mary? We
don't connect with No. -Csss avenue!
If you don't stop your nonsense we'll
cut you off"
The merchant turned to overhaul his
customer, but shabby genteel had slid
Perhaps he took his poor mother up On
q awheelbarrow.-Detroa Free Press.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
Twenty-Five Years as Emperor.

The czar of all the Russias has been
en- emperor for twenty-five years. BE
ascended the throne on the death OF his
father Nicholas on the I'd of March Gold
style February l9), 1855. The emperor
is now in the sixty-second year of his
age. He was born April 90 (old style
l7), 1918. and was nearly thirty-seven
years of age when he ascended the
throne. His reign has not only been
long but eventful. His country was en-
gagged in the Crimea war, when the
death ofhis father devolved the cares OF
empire upon him. In 1861, on the sixth
anniversary of his accession to the
throne, he declared the freedom of the
serfs. In 1863 there was an uprising in
Poland, and in 1861 the car in order to
weaken the influence of the great mobiles.
liberated the Polish serfs.
Toward the close of 1866 a war was
concocted between Russia and Turkes-
tan. This conflict dragged along for a
couple Of years. In 1867 the emperor sold
Russian America to the United States.
During the Franco-German war the
czar declared that he. did not consider
himself bound by the limitations in re.
gard to his use of the Black sea placed
upon him by the treaty of Paris in 1856
In 1871 a conference was held in Lon.
don which modified the treaty in &C.
cordance with his desires.
In 1873 Khiva was conquered by the
Russians. The recent war between
Russia and Turkey is fresh in every
ones recollection. Russia was victor.
ious in the field, but her diplomatists
lost all that her soldiers had won.
Europe practically combined against
Russia after the treaty Of San Stefano,
and in the treaty of Berlin compelled the
conqueror to part with her conquests fo1
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of greedy neigh.
bors.
Russia is, of course, dissatisfied with
her position. Germany anticipates wal
in the near future. Official declarations
are made in favor of peace, but acts are
against its being maintained.
On the whole, the future must look
gloomy to the emperor. Insurreetion at
home and foreign war are threatened.
After twenty-five years of experience in
exercising supreme power he finds him.
self in the pres ence of difficulties quite
as great as any he has hitherto sur
mounted. He probably desires rest, but
there is none for him this side of abdi-
cation or the grave.-New York Graplic.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
horseshoe Superstiti0ns.

The horseshoe was Of old held to be- of
special service as security against the
attacks of evil spirits. The virtue M ay
have been assigned, perhaps, by the
rule of contrarics, from it being thing
incompatible with the cloven foot of the
evil one, or from the rude resemblance
which the horseshoe bears to the rays
of glory, which in ancient pictures are
made to surround the heads OF saints
and angels; or, finally, from some no.
ton of its purity acquired through pass
ing the fire. This latter supposition re-
ceives some countenance from the
method resorted to for the cure of
horses that had become vicious or afilict-
ed by any distemper that the village far
riery did not understand; such disease
was invariably attributed to witchcraft,
and the mode of cure seems to imply
the belief that the imperfect publication
by fire of the shoes which the animal
wore had afforded an inlet to maleTo-
lent influences. Accordingly the horse
was led into the smithy, the door
closed and barred, the shoes were taken
off and placed in the fire, and the witch
or warlock was speedily under the
necessity of removing the spell under
which the animal suffered. Sailors are,
for the most part, careful to have
horseshoe nailed to the mizzenmast or
somewhere on deck near midships, for
the protection of the vessel. The Chi
nesc have their tombs built in the shape
of the horseshoe, which custom is very
curious, as it may be fairly regarded rs
branch of the superstition long preva.
lent among ourselves.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
The Seven Stages.


Only baby,
Kissed and caressed,
Gently held to mothers breast.
Only child,
Toddling alone,
Frightening now its happy home.
Only boy,
Trudging to school,
Governed now by sterner rrlo.
Only youth,
Living in dreams,
Full OF promise lie now SEEING.
Only man,
Battling with life,
Shared in now by loving wife.
Only father,
Burdened with care,
Silver threads in dark-brown hair.
Only graybeard,
Toddling again,
Growing old and full Of pain.
Only mound,
oergown with grass,
Dreams unrealized-rest at last.