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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
Success in Life.
Ed. ReOister-

EU. lLe01SteT-
Man steps upon the stage of action as
the proud lord of II created nature, en-
dowed by his Maker with an intellect
capable of divining all but his own
purposes-enabling him to bring forth
from the treasury of the mind things
both old and new: which, scattered by
the wayside, ripen, with blessings, with
the golden wand Of time. Science and
art appear, and, with each succeeding
revolution, bear him onward toward
the great goal in life which has ever
been the light of his ambition. When
we go back to the first generation OF
man, and then trace down through
each succeeding age Of the worlds his
tory, and, in characters of living light,
may be seen visible OH every land its
efforts crOwed with success; and as the
monuments of brass and marble, reared
to exhibit his energies, stand before us
we become stimulated to greater actlv-
ity. AS each one launches forth upOa
the billowy and tumultuous ocean OF
life-changing scenes, seeking to reach
some desired haven, he drifts listlessly
with the tide, unless all the energies OF
manhood are called into action to resist
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Near New Academy of Music.

the adverse winds of fortune. All that
is necessary to success, is to have that
urgent motive-power which bears down
all opposition; and with that go-ahead
principle and untiring energy, he may
carve for himself a monument Of fame
and glory. Then make up your mind
that to-day is the brightest one of your
whole existence; and as the little rip
pling stream gently glides along to
mingle its waters in the great ocean
current, let your acts and energies, en-
anating from no matter how small q
source. so mingle themselves in the
great current of events, that all seeing
your good works may take courage
and profit by them. Then throw off
the yoke of inactivity, and work your
way up the hill Of science; if thousand
thistles project into your path, pluck
them up, that q useful blade of grass
may grow instead thereof, and, rest as
sured, peace shall crown your effort,
and victory be inscribed upon your
banner. And remember the lines OF
the poet
Let troubles come and ills assail,
He acts the noblest part
Who turns his full face to the gale,
And keeps a steadfa ast heart.
MRS. J. G. G.
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From 'sFarmer.o

E0. hegasteT-
At last the drouth is broken; it has
ralned more or less every day for three
days, while the Intervening nights
have have been q steady down pour,
until last night, when it rained heavi-
ly by spurts and spells Everything
Is sobbed and soaked. We had fair
and drills were rushed into tho fold
where they are standing in the mud
But little wheat has been gotten in
and the prospect is an extremely dull
one just now; for it continues warm
yet it Ii late In the season, and there
can be little doubt but that the change
from, hot to cold will be as sudden and
extreme a. the change from a drouth
to deluge has been The rain, how.
ever, has fallen 30 quietly and steadily
that the thirsty soil has absorbed most
Of It, and the streams, or what we by
courtesy call streams here, have not
been flooded. It is over two, or, per-
haps, three, years aimee the ground
was 30 thoroughly saturated. Prevr
GUS to the rain, high winds prevailed,
and fodder shocks we're more or less
twisted and torn down; since the rain,
they have turned black and nioldy,
while the fodder thrown down seems
to be quite spoiled. The few potatoes
raised are sprouting and rottiDg with
the heat and moisture.
People begin to ask what we are
coming to. This climate was never
good; but it has now a greater tenden'
cy than ever to extremes-especial
to drouth just in the season when rain
is most needed, so that it is doubtful
when we SOW whether we shall reap
the staple crop or not, and every thing
else is almost steady failure. The
leading vegetables, potatoes and cab
bage, have been failures for years, and
Piles, have SO deteri0rated that, even
when they are plenty, it is hard to
find one without knots or worms in 1t
For three years have assiduousiy cul.
tivated the honey bee, and for three
years they have failed to increase oI
make any surplus, and seem likely t.
20 into the winter now without stores
enough to last them half through the
winter. It would seem that a country
Whero the busy bee cannot live, would
he good country for o working mar
to get away from.
It seems almost astonishing that hu.
manity should be SO slow to learn that
on account Of social conditions, under
which 1t has hitherto titled the soil,
cultivation has only been another
name for laying waste the land. We
have used the land for other purposes
than those which God made it. Scan
" 90 our wheat crop was, to-day there
are sacks Of wheat piled In the field
and though temporarily covered, the
wheat ID sprouting through the sacks,
haoauss the farmer could not follow
his better judgment and build graner.
ia. for lack of means. His rich neigh
bur ID nearly as badly of, because he
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AN electric exhibition will be held In
London next month.
MUSICIANS Of Detroit are forming .
benevolent and protective union.
PERSONS exposed to the sun will e.
cape sunstroke IL they take DAyDRLroN TONIC.
LOWELL, the American Minister to
England, will shortly come homo TO recruit
his health.
A ScoTcHMAN has offered 900 to-
ward the endowment Of Garfield professor
ship In Glasgow University.
FOX all chronic female weaknesses
and Irregularities, ESeLIsH FEMALE BrrrERs
stands at the head Of the list.
1T is becoming the English fashion
for detective to be numbered among the
wedding guests when the bridal gifts are
numerous and costly.
HAzINa at tSinith College, the Massa-
chusetts institution for girls, 10 quite sweet
and gentle. The newcomers arc seized, led
into the main hall, presented with bououts,
kissed affectionately. and then shown the pic
lures and statuary in the art gallery.
THE Duke Of Clevland, like the Duke
Of Dcvonshire, has been applied to By his ten
antry for q reduction OF rents, and has refused
on the same ground of incorporated laad-
lord's improvements. But he makes ono
important concession which does not ap-
pear to have occurred TO hsi brother
Duke. He offers TO shave any farm val
ued.''
WHEN you take q trip you are fro
quently troubled with constipation, headache,
pains In the stomach, indi igessIou, feeling of
weakness or general lassitude, heartburn, acid
or sour stomach, &c. You do not wish 70 cram
your stomach with lot OF nausesting pills,
but IL you wish q pleasant and satisfactory REM
edy, procure one bottle OF Bsiley's SALINE
APERIENT, which will cost only 80 cents. IL
is exceedingly pleasant, always ready and scts
promptly.
A SON Of the late Admiral Thomp-
son Kiebe, OF the British navy, and grandson
Of the Admiral who led the forces under
Nelson at the battle OF Trafalgar, has just
been tried in the State of Mississippi on .
charge Of stealing . mule; but he was &C
Quilted, the only evidence against him being
that he was . tramp In the nsighboshood
where the beast wss stolen. His wealthy
mother sent money for his defence, and now
he promises to reform.
THIS lady has been married thirteen
years. and during at least ons-half that time
been sufferer from the effects OF Lsucorrhcs
or Whites and its many attendants. She was
very much reduced in strength and hesh. be-
ing unable to take active exercise. DR.. L.
andvised the use Or. Dromgooles EEotfsH
FEMALE BrrrRRs. as he knew its composition.
With many doubts abe commenced 10 use,
but after the use OF Elk bottles (costing Only
t5 OO) she was restored TO perfect health.
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Odds and Ends.

Incendiary fires are Of daily occur
renee in Southern Russia.
The exposition at tAdelaid, Australia,
was success beyond expectation.
An immense hotel, on the American
plan, is to be built in HolbOrn, Lon
don.
A new prospective industry in the
South is the growth Of flowers for per-
fumery. ..
Ashooting gallery in Detroit displays
a sign: "COme in and have shot at
Guiteau."
John w. Garrett, the railroad king,
has just imported 5000, 900 worth Of pic
lures from Europe.
Winter fashions are already making
their appearance iI Paris, and plush
and felt will be much worn.
The failure of Tom Hughes Rugby
colony in Tennessee is admitted. Its
location is very unfortunate.
The fortune tellers and others of that
class who grow rich on human credul-
ity in Paris are to be driven out.
Dean Stanley used to say that until
his marriage he had never really lived.
Perhaps a case of mother-in-law.
A half tent, half shanty, at Sentinel
Butte, Montana, bears this sign :
"Rev. C. A. Duffy, Sample Room"
The aggregate Of income liable to in
come tax i'm England has risen from
So 225 OOO, 900 in 1870 to $3.50, 600, 900
in 1850.
An lrishman, writing q sketch Of his
life, says he early ran away from his
father because he discovered he was
only his uncle.
Bishop Wiley tells the Methodist
clergy OF Cincinnati that they must not
kiss women promiscuously, "for 1t is a
dangerous business"
Thirty murderers arein jail In Phila-
delphia awaiting trial, and IL is thought
that not less than half of them will be
con victed of murder in the firsG degree.
The London Times thinks that the
people Of this country, In picking out
their Presidents, shave never yet made
a bad choice, though one might be bet
ter than another"
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Dome Know Hair Their Value,

"They cured me Of Ague. Bilious
ness and Kidney Com plaint, rs recommended.
I had half bottle left which used for two
little girls who the doctors and peighbors said
could not be cured. would have lost both OF
them one night IL had not given them Hop
Bitters. They did them 90 much good con-
tfnued their use until curei. That is why /
say yoa do no know the value Of Hop Bitters
and do not recommend them high enough. -
B., Rochester, N. Y. See other column.
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A new submarine cable, the most
northerly in Europe, is to be laid be.
tween Thurso, in Caithness, and
Iceland, passing by the Farce Islands.
The chief Office in Iceland will be at
Reikiavik.
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Main Street, Ironton.

when he says that in this country
there can be no war between capital
and labor. He should say that in this
country capital cannot grind labor as it
is now doing. No::man ever earned a
million Of dollars, and the system that
makes a millionaire possible must be a
bad system. because it niakes it possi-
BILE for one man to get another mans
earnings. If my notions are wrong,
will some friend be kind enough to
point out wherein they are wrong?
While he is doing so, let him remem-
ber that our late lamented President
asked publicly if the signs Of the
times did not point to the prominence.
in the near future, of the doctrines of
those philosophers whose ideas had
hitherto made but little impression on
the public mind.
MURRAYvILLE, ILL.,, Oct. 4, 1881.
LATER: Oct. 6th.-Heavy rain since
writing the above. Curn-fOdder-eveD
where the shocks were large and well
put up-is nearly all blackened and
spoiled. Fences washed out and corn
or bottom lands washed away. Wheat,
buckwheat, and, even, sugar-cane seed
sprouted. Corn, cleaned and shucked,
but exposed, all sprouted. Clear and
cooler to-day, but land soaking yet.
Bridges and culverts gone, so that one
cannot travel far with team.
One man here lost forty acres of
corn; another had all his wheat sown
on bottom land, and all went, and
with it the plowed soil.
All that can be suffered where every
rivulet is turned into a river, we have
now suffered, after one of the drouthi-
est seasons ever known.
Verify, 1881 will be remembered!
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-17
Eighteenth JudicLel District Court for
the parish of ST. Tammany-State of
Louisiana.
Ri8asrd Flowers. 4 Co. vs.. VIM.
Badon-No. 1914.

By virtue of writ Of feH facias
from the honorable the aforesaid court,
bearing date the 10th day Of July. 1881,
and to me directed, will proceed to
sell at public auction, at the door of the
Courthouse. in the town of Coyington,
parish and State aforesaid, on SATUR-
DAY, the 18th day of September, 1881. be-
tween legal sale hours. the following de-
.scribed property. to-vit:
1st Lots Nos. l, 2, 8, 4, H. IL. l3,
II and Is. in square No. 13, Division OF
st. John, in tbs town of Covington.
I'd. Lots !. 2. g. 4 a.Rd 8, in square
No. IA. Division of Spring, in the town
of CovingtoR.
Sd. A tract of land, two hundred
(2O0) acres. bounded north by the Pearl
River road. sonth by Arthurs road, east
by Vergine's tract and west by Zack
Strains, az per description, in Book /,
page l40, less the three lots sold to
David Lacroi4, as stated in the title. and
less also fifteen u5) acres sold to Mrs. E.
Lacroix, described in Book L page 2lO.
Together with all the buildings and
improveme ents thereon.
Seized in the above entitled suit.
Terms of sale-Cash.
W. B. Cook, Sheriff.
Couinoton. La, august Is, 1881.
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People who live remote from thu
sea shore can make good Artificial
clam BY rolling piece Of soap IN
sand and ashes, and eating it when
it is about half cool. This is rather
better than the real clam. but it will
give them an approximate idea OF
he original luxury.-HaUery<.
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MO Outfit furnished free. with
&IC full instructions for conduct
TAO ing the most profitable bnsi-
ness that any one can engage in. The
business is so easy to learn. and our in
structions are so simple and plain. that
any one can make great profits from the
start. No one can fail who is willing to
work. Women are as successful as men.
Boys and girls can earn large sums.
Many have made at the business over
one hundred dollars in single week.
Nothing like it ever known before. All
who engage are surprised at the ease and
rapidity with which they are able to make
money. You can engage in this busi-
ness during your spare time at great
profit. Yon do not have to invest capi-
tai in it. We take all the risk. Those
who need ready money should write to
us at once. All furnished free. Ad-
dress TEUE / Co., Augusta, Maine.
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FOR RENT.

The large dwelling house. on the
corner of Florida and Boston streets,
next door to the FARMER Office.
Also. the small building on CO.
lumbia street. formerly occupied as
a drug store. Suitable for an Office,
j. e. SMITH.
Covingtoa La.
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LAND OFFICE, New ORLEANS, La,
August 5, 1881.

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice OF his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Judge OF Clerk Of the
Court, at Covington. La, on the 10th OF
Septembe 1881, viz;
Jonathan E. Crow, homestead No.
1880. for the northwest quaster Of section
four, township eight. south, range thir-
teen east. st. Helena meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon end
cultivation of said land. viz:
John Y. Crow, A. F. Stickler. Philip
Magee and J. B, Toomer. of ST. Tam
many parish. La.
au13 st GEO. BALDEY, Register.
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SENT BY EXPRESS.

world, her mother just buried.
She was beautiful, brown haired
girl. with seft, shy eyes of violet
gray. and rosy lips compressed to a
6rmness ia, beyond her years. For
after all she was scarcely seventeen,
and SO Deacon Gray told her, as he
sat by the fire spreading his huge
hands over the blaze, and asked
abruptly:
"But what are you going to DO to
earn your bread an butter, my
child2"
"I don't know-I have thought
mamma had an uncle living in
New York, who"
'Tes, yes, I've heard about him;
he was mad cause your mother
didn't marry just exactly to suit him,
wasn't he?"
Minnie was silent. Deacon Gray
waited a few minutes, hoping she
would admit him to her secret
meditations; bat size did not. and
the deacon went home to tell his
wife "that Harlan gal was the very
queerest creatur he had ever come
across"
In the meantime Minnie was busy
packing her scanty things into her
carpet bag, by the weird, Pickering
light of the dying wood fire.
4 will go to New York." she
said, set. ing her pearly teeth to-
gether.
"My motker's uncle shall hear
my cause pleaded through my own
lips. Oh, I wish my heart would
| not throb SO wildly! I am an or
| phan, all alone in the world, who
must fight life's battles with her
own single hands"
X !
Lower Broadway at seven o'clock
in the evening! What a babel of
crashing wheels. hurrying Humanity
and conglomerate noises it wad
Minnie Harlan sat in the corner oi
an express Office, under the flare of
gaslight. surrounded by boxes, and
wondered whether people ever went
crazy in this perpetual din and tu-
multi Her dress was very plain
gray poplin, with a shabby, old
fashioned little straw bonnet tied
with ribbons, and a blue veil, while
her only article of baggage, the car
pet-bag, lay in her lap. She had
sat there two hours, and was very
tired.
"Poor little thingl" thought the
dark haired clerk nearest her, who
inhabited a sort of a wire cage un-
der circlet of gaslights. and then
took up his pen and plunged into a
perfect Atlantic ocean of accounts.
"Mr Evans?"
"Sir."
The dark haired clerk emerged
from hiscage with his pen behind
his ear, in obedience to the beckon-
ing finger Of his superior.
Il have noticed that young
woman sitting here for some time
how came she here?"
Expressed from Millington,
Iowa, arrived this afternoon"
As though poor Minnie were q
box or a paper parcel.
"Who for?"
"Consigned to Walter Harrington
Esq"
"And why hasn't she been called
for?"
II sent up to him some time ago.
and am expecting an answer every
moment"
| Very odd." said the gray-haired
gentleman, again taking up his
newspaper.
Some three quarters of an hour
afterward. Frank Evans came to
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Gle glass. "Why, Minnie Is de-
termined to leave us tomorrow"
IT must, Frank. I have no right
to further trespass on your EEd-
ness"
''No right, eh. Minnie, do you
know that the old house has been
different house since you came?
Do you suppose We want to loose
our little sunbeam?"
Minnie smiled, sadly, but her
hand felt very cold and passive in
Franks warm grasp.
You'll stay, Minnie ?"
stNo."
She shock her head determinedly.
Then you must be made to
stay" and Frank "I've missed
something of great value lately, and
hereby arrest you On suspicion OF
being a thief"
Missed somethingg 80
Minnie rose, turning red and
white.
HOh, Frank, goa can never sus-
pect me-" ''
"But I dc suspect you. In fact,
I am quite sure the article is in
your possession
"Tbe article! |"
my heart. Miss Mamie. Now
look here--I know that I am very
young and poor but I loveyou. Min
ME Harlan, and I will be q good
husband to yeu. STAY and be my
little wife !"
So Minnie Harlan, instead of GO
ing out as goEerness, according to
the programme. married the young
dark-haifed clerk in Etlison's Ex-
press Office, New York
They were very quietly married
early in the morning, and Frank
took Minnie home to his mother.
and then went calmly about his
business in the wire cage under the
circlet Of the gaslighta.
"Evans!'
Eyes, SIR.
Frank, with his pen behind his
ear, as of yore, quietly obeyed the
behest of the gray-haired official
"Do you remember the young
woman who was expressed on from
Millington, Iowa, two moaths
since?"
eyes, sir, I remember her."
A tall, siver-headed gentleman
here interposed with eager quick
ness.
"Whele is shes I ana her uncle,
Walter Harrington. Ihave just re-
turned from Paris, where the new
of her arrival reached me. / want
her; she is the only living relative
to me"
"Ah but, sir" said Frank, "you
cant have her."
"Can't have her? What do you
mear? Has anything happened@
eyes. sir, something has happen
ed. Miss Minnie was married to
me this morning"
Walter Harrington stared
"Take me to her." he said hoarse-
ly; 81 can't be parted from my only
living relative for d mere whim. :"
"I wonder if be calls the marriage
service mere whim," thought hon.
est Frank; but he obeyedA = silence.
Frank Evans is an express clerk
no longer, and pretty Minnie moves
in velvet and diamonds; but they
are quite as happy as they were in
the old days, and that is saying
enough. Uncle Walter Harrington
grows older and feebler every day.
and his two children are the sun
shine of his declining life.
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Mr.. harrington resldence-
Minnie looked np with a feyerish
red upon her cheek, and her hand
clasped tightly on the handle of the
faded carpet-bag
"And we regret to inform you
that he has sailed ior Europe at
twelve o'clock to-day"
A sudden blur came over Min
nie's eyes-she trembled ike leaf
Frank Evans had been turning
away, but something in the piteous
tones Of her voice appealed to every
manly instinct within linn.
"Shall I send to any of your
friends?"
II have no friends."
"Perhal I can have your things
sent to some quiet family hotel2"
Minnie opened her little leather
purse and showed Lim two ten-cent
pieces, with smile that was almost
q tear.
This is all the money I have in
world. sir"
"But what are you going to do?"
II don't know, sir. Isn't there q
workhouse, or some such place I
could 60 to until ] could find some
thing to do9"
Frank Evans could scarcely help
smilag at poor MinLie's simplicity.
"They are putting out the lights
and preparing to close the Office >
said Minnie. starting nervously to
her feet 81 must 60 somewhere. !"
"Miss Harlan" said Frank. "my
home is a poor one-I am only q
a $500 elerk-but I am sure
my mother will receive you under
her roof for day or two, if you can
trust me"
Trust you?" Minnie looked at
him through violet eyes obscured
in tears. ''Oh, sir, I shall be SO
thankful"
X ~ +
"How late you are, Frank Here
give me your overcoat-it is all
powdered with snow, and"
But Frank interrupted his bust
ling. cherry checked little mother
as she stood on tip-toe to take of
his out wrappings.
"Husb, mother, there is young
lady down stairs"
"a young lady, Frank?"
"Yes, mother; expressed on from
Iowa to old Harrington, the rich
merchant, who sailed for Europe
this morning. and she is left entirely
alone. Mother, she looks like oul
poor Blanche, and I knew you
wouldn't refuse her a corner unit!
she could find something to do"
Mrs. Evans wentt to the door and
called cheerfuliy out:
"Come up stairs. my dear, you're
as welcome as the flowers in Msy
Frank. you did quite right; you al.
ways do SO"
The days and weeks passed on,
| and still Minnie Harlan remained
an inmate of Mrs. Evans humble
dwelling.
at seems just as though she had
taken our dead Blanche's place.
said the cozy little widow; land she
is so useful about the house.
don't know how I ever managed
without her. Now, Minnie, you
are not in earnest about leaving Us
tomorrow"
81 must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only
think-I have been here most two
months tomorrow, and the situa.
ton of governess in advantageous.
VERY well. I shall tell Frank how
obstinate you are.
"What secret is it that is to be SC
religiously kept?" said Frank. cooll1y
voIt;ny inio the midst of the dis.
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VENIRE

Eighteenth Judicial District Court for
the parish of St Tammany-State of
Louis lana.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-17

I certify that the above list of names
drawn to serve IS Grand and Petit Jurors
is a true copy from the originai list on
record in this Office, for the October
term. 1881, of the aforesaid court
Witness my hand and seal officially,
this 25th of August, 1881.
w. C. MORGAN, Clerk.