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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
A Bashful TheOlOgue.

Young Smith is theologue in the
neighboring seminary. He is bashful,
and fear possessed of a heart all too
susceptible to female charms. Smith
has undertaken to teach the village
school this winter, and has for his pupils
several girls, among whom it is shrewdlY
suspected the future Mrs. S. may posi-
bly, be found. The other day class in
the primary stages of natural philosophy
was reciting. In it was the young lady
upon whom Mr.. Smith is supposed to
look tenderly.
Teacher-"Now, Laura, you may
describe the structure of the eye.''
Embarrassed silence on Laura's part.
Teacher.-"Of what parts does the
eye consistp''
Laura bushes prettily, but fails to
remem her.
Teacher Crying a different form of
question: .-"What have I in my eye,
Laura?"
Laura (glancing saucily at him).-"A
pupil, sir!"
Glass filters. Smith bushes painfully
and calls the next scholar.-Our CONT
7ae1t.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
rity, and picks cotton and flies round

rity, and picks cotton and flies round
amazing.
Old DIR. johnson says that the wav to
bring up a boy is to teach him self
denial early and frequently. That is a
very good theory, but you can't do it in
I practice. You can deny him,of course,
but you can't teach him to deny himself
Children are children-they are not
| philosophers. They love fun and frolic
according to nature, just like grown
folks love money, and office, and fame,
and other things that bring less pleasure
and are more vexatious and deceitful.
1t is mighty hard work to make man
out of q boy. Mrs. Arp, she sets 'em
down to studying some good, pious
verses sometimes. but it's an uphill bus
| mess, but they can learn some other
verses by heart directly and not half
try.
MIR. Shakespeare says man has seven
ages, which is so, l reckon, and think
boy has about the same number before
he gets to be man. He goes through
about FIVE of 'em before he begins to
shave the fuzz off his chin and takes a
fancy to the looking-glass and wears a
| highly-colored cravat, parts his hair
carefully with wet brush and looks
down at the set of his legs as he gallops
martingaled pony to town.
| And the girls have their several ages,
| too, from the time they begin to dress
| their lutte dolls up to the time that they
laugh at everything, whether it is funny
or not.s It's mighty hard to keep chill
dren in the right track, and I'm afraid
| that most parents try little too hard,
though l know very we'll that some don't
try hard enough.
| Like father like son. Children just as
naturally take after their parents as the
young of any animal take after theirs,
and the best teaching parent can give
| his child is a good example and the con-
/ tinual evidence of his love. Not many
children will 60 back on love and ex-
ample both, especially if there is little
reverential feat of the hickory mixed up
with it in judicious manner.
| Mrs. Arp has sorter opened a family
| school for the children and is trying to
enlarge their views of figures, and sha
makes first-rate teacher, for she likes
! figures. put in occasionally, and the
last sum gave was: If a COW and a
calf is worth S1.5O, what are two COWS
worthp She helped 'em work at it a
while, when suddenly it struck her, and
| then the hair brush struck me on the
side of the head, and I departed these
coasts prem aturely.-BiU Arp, IN AtIam
ia Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
Hot Drinks.
7aent.

In spite of the universal proverb that
heat is life and death is cold, writer
in Knowledge maintains that hot drinks
are unnatural, cold drinks natural to
man. Notwithstanding this dctum few
people will believe it. Very hot drinks
may do harm, but cold ones will do
more. The effect of moderate heat up
on the body is always sanitary; the eff
feet of cold may sometimes be more
comfortable but never is entirely whole
some. Neuralgia, rheumatism, etc.,
are alleviated bv hot applications, ag-
gravated by cold. Hot water is found
to be one of the best cures for dyspepsia
yet discovered, stimulating the blood
in the stomach and directing it toward
the digestive nerve centers. Weakness
and disturbances in the bowels are
caused by cold liquids and moderated
by hot ones. If hot drinks, like tea,
coffee and alcoholic stimulants do harm,
it is not bee iuse of their specific effects
upon the nerves. They d more harm
when they are cold, because the heat
practically neutralizes their evil effects
Detroit Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
The LaundrieS of the Seine.

Women kneel in the boats on the
banks of the Seine, pounding their
linen with the wooden batt0ir, scrubbing
it with stiff brush on ridged board,
while they sing as merrily as larks, and
reply TO the banter of the passing bargee
and cGnOtler. They turn the handles Of
the wringing machines and do all the
hard labor while the men are busy iron
ing. The man in the blue cotton trousers
and snowy white shirt, with the scarlet
girdle round his waist, can iron as we'll
as any Chinaman. He can boast of
having among his colleagues men who
can golfer frill, Or s'bring up' the
pattern of lace better than any emigrant
from the celestial Empire. The irons,
flat and box, are pushed deity to and
fro over the white linen, which has been
starched, and the man who yields them
has s bit of wax in his pocket, like the
chalk of the billiard player, which he
passes over the hot iron, when he comes
to the front, the collar or the wristbands.
He has learned the rudiments of his art
when, a soldier in barracks, he was COM
PEELED to do mis- own washing and iron
ing, and he works by the piece, earning
his living and, glowering angrily when
his profits are menaced by the threat of
introducing the mangle, as yet almost
unknown to this side of the Channel.
The blanchisseur goes into Paris on the
Monday morning with the clean linen,
and the ironers, who have been working
overtime on the Sunday and on the two
preceding days, take a rest. They may
be found on Monday afternoon at one or
the other of the concerts at Pont du
Jour, enjoying themselves as best they
can with the firm intention of not reSum-
ing their occupations until the Wednes-
day. Sometimes their employers can
not secure their services until Friday,
but, as a general rule, they prefer to
wait, for they are ung .llant enough to
maintain that it is FAR better and more
profitable to employ men than women.
London Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
Sable, Marten and Mink Furs.

The Russian sable-though why so
named is an enigma, the choicest speci-
mems coming from Kamtchatka-is ex-
tremely fashionable throughout the
world, the fur being valued for it's great
beauty, and being unique from the fact
that the hairs turn and lie equally we'll
in any position. The animal is related
to the weasel, pine and stone martens,
mink, ETC., but exceeds them all in the
beauty and length of the over hair; that is
long, flowing, and of rich blush dark
shade, wearing extremely well, the pelt
being tough and durable. Nearly 10O,-
600 are caught yearly at all points,
bringing from $50 to $3.50 skin, and
the lady who would wear perfect set
OF furs from it must pay nearly $4,000.
Other kinds are more or less used in the
trade, the Kolinski of Japan being a
favorite in England, and $4,000 of them
are used on an average yearly in Eu-
rope and Asia. The American marten
from Labrador and Great Whale
Rivers much in demand. Artists
brushes are made from the hairs of the
tail, and for this and other purposes
over 100000 are captured yearly, val
ued at $25 per skin for the best. OF
pine martens 200, 900 are used. It'll arich
brown, being often passed off by dis
honest dealers as Russian sable. Thirty
years ago the stone marten from Hun
gary and Turkey was the fashion, but
now there is hardly demand for it in
this country, though in Europe 100000
skins are annually prepared and col
ored. The entire industry may be val
ued at 100000. The fisher-marten is
rare and valuable in Europe, as we'll as
various other members OF the family.
In this country the better class of mink
retains its popularity, the dark chestnut
browns and blacks being rich and ele-
CANT in the extreme, and often passed
off upon the innocent purchaser as Rus
sian sable. The dark blue, lustrous
shades are most admired, and come
from Maine, Nova Scotia, the Middle
and Northwestern States. The trap
pers realize, or should, from So to $50
per skin for the 100000 animals killed
yearly. Fifty thousand Russian minks
are used year, but they are smaller
and OF q much inferior quality.-N. Z.
Post
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23

"Can it be she isn't killed." Eagerly
he began to scan the steep banks lest
she might crawl out of the foaming
stream and catch him vet.
Soon, however. something submerged
and passive came slowly drifting into
the eddy. and as it circled nearer he
| recognized the panther, lax, and APP
parently lifeless. Round and round it
went, gradually nearing the shore, until
by wading in a step or two Levi was
able to reach it with a pole and give it
thrust. AS it showed no signs of life.
the next time it came around he hooked
a pronged stick over it. and, exertng
all his n ne-year-old might, slowly drew
it toward him.
As it finally came into shallower
water, Levi bethought himself to keep
it under still longer, until he could be
sure it was drowned. So dragging the
bottom of the broken boat to the spot,
he placed it over the body, and, stand
ing upon it, his weight held it down.
According to Lewis own account, this
was his time of highest excitement. He
danced and laughed and shouted, there
on the upturned bottom of the skitf. over
his slain enemy, perhaps with less dig
nifty than David showed as he stood on
Goliath's dead body, but certainly with
no less JOY.
The rest of the incident is quickly
told
The dog ran directly home. and as he
manifested great fright. the family were
concerned Tor Levi. The father at once
set out to find him, and naturally, after
failing to discover him in the direction
of the trout brook, came to the dam,
when 10! there was the lad, far below
in the edge of the eddy, jumping up and
down and acting like little lunatic. In
such thunder of waters no voice could
be heard, but soon Levi saw him and
began reckoning. In few minutes the
father made his way down to his boy.
and learned the whole thrilling story.
In due time the panther hide, tanned
with the fur upon it, was ready for use,
and the lad claimed it for his trundle-
bed. ..as'...
And this is the story of Lewis bed
spread. '-Wlde AaUake. -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
Fun and FOibles.

The circus pictures are big thing al
my house now. It's astonishing how
children are carried away with such
things, and it takes grown people long
time to get over their love of the saw
dust riding. I've known old gray
headed people who never missed one
when it came within reach. don't be-
Eeve that old folks enjoy it much, but
they 60 because it revives the memory
of their happy childhood, and they imag-
inc they can be as happy. again, but
they can't. - When old age creeps upon
. man he must hunt for pleasures of a
different kind, and be reconciled. The
ginger cake of his boyhood will never
more taste like ginger cake to him.
L do love to see the children enjoying
their innocent youth, and drinking in
pleasure and delight every day, from a
thousand things that have long since
ceased to amuse us or attract our special
attention. 1t takes mighty little to make
the children happy. A doll. or ball,
or a French harp, or ride to the mill,
or the sight of a locomotive pulling a
: train, or a. wade in the branch, fills 'em
up full to the brim for the time, but a
circus is perhaps the biggest thing that
their little brains can conceive of. They
have been playing menagerie of late,
and when l was hunting q fve-gallon
tin can that had mysteriously disap-
peared l found it accidentally in the cor
sner of the spring lot fence, hid out
among the weeds, and on perusing its
contents found it half full of water,
aud in it was big bullfrog and some
crawfish and spring lizards and few
tsd-poles and minnows, and this was
their water show, and they had land
show Of bugs and various insects, and
they played circus by trotting around in
. ring, and they charged nickel for
admi ssion, and as there was but one
nickel in the crowd it was kept very
busy, for it had to be loaned from one
20 another until they all got in-sorter
ike old Joe Plunket and his wife. who
bought a jugof whisky together and had
. dime left, ana old Joe give his wife
the dime for drink and then she gave
old Joe the dime for a drink, and they
kept on that way time about until the
viii was all gone and they congratu-
lated them selves that they had paid cash
for every drink they took. My little
chaps were excited enough before, but
last night Carl got letter from one of
our little grandchildren at Rome, which
reads as follows, to-wit:
"Dear Carl want to see you mighty bad, l
was 40 mad You didn't cum with papa feit
like waikiki on my years, am COUNTER look Ior
vou toe marrer-bring all your clothes to stav
10 the circus. you can pick up a boNx full of
nails round our house where they TOOK 'ne
.%;ngies of am gointer send YOU a "ircus
.,ictnr-you can go down town a heap and can
60 70 skool with IA easyenuf and nave a lofts
81 fun-teIi Jessie TO writ To me-love 90 al
,Smeo--lintori--Rom Ga amen--s circusses a
oo1Iin mex week amen"
And now he is plum crazy to go to
Rome and is behaving himself splendid
and brings water and wood with alac-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
What Shall He DO About the TIE
Dollars.

The following question is put to us by
lad of this city:
IF young boy should find on his desk at
business "A ten-dollar bill. and, aft having
one, would it be st, aling if he kept the mon
ey. What would it be his duty to do:
"RoBERT.''
Because you find something, that does
not make it your property, Robert. it
belongs to the person who lost it, and
Your duty is to discover the real owner,
if YOU can.
Do not try to humble your conscience
by making mere pretense of searching
for the owner. OF course you want to
have the ten dollars for yourself. 1t is
a very handsome sum of money for a
boy. Therefore, we shall not ask you
to be particularly Jolly if you find the
owner You would not be human if
you were. The truth is, you do not
want to find him.
Yet you want to be honest, at the
same time hoping that the owner will
not turn up and carry off the bill. Your
temptations to be less thorough n your
sear>h for him than your conscience
bids you to be are. therefore. great.
But you can't really humbug Your con-
science. 1t will trouble you, and trouble
you the more the better boy you are. if
you keep that money without making a
thoroughly honest attempt to find the
owner of the ten dollars. You will be
afraid of his dropping upon you some
day and demand .ng his money. You
will almost feel as if you had stolen
something. To keep what you have
found when you have failed to discover
the loser is not stealing by any means.
but keeping the property without max
ing due search for him is dishonesty.
We advise you, for the sake OF your
peace of mind and your love of what is
fair and honest, to act about the ten
dollar bill you picked up on your desk
as you would have another boy act if
you had lost the money yourself.
Think how you would want him to do,
and then you will know what you
ought to do yourself.
1t is very dangerous thing for boys,
or grown people either. for that matter,
to tamper with their innate perceptions
of right and wrong--to hunt for defen-
SEES for any departure from the strictest
line of rectitude.
Stick to the truth, Robert. Always
be square and above board. Avoid ev-
erything crooked and tricky. And new
er confuse your ideas of what is due to
truth and honesty by arguing about
what you might be tempted or forced to
do under extreme circumstances. 1t is
enough that the law is the law of truth
Every man aud every boy knows that
in his own heart.-N Y. San.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
Our Young Folks.
TOO BAD!

Beneath the old tree near the well
Wee Molly, Dolly, Polly Gray
A lovely red-cheeked apple found
One beautiful Octob r day.
She looked at it with longing eyes
A moment then she gave sigh,
And sitting down upon the ground
Straightway began to Cry.
With hurried steps her mother came,
What is the matter, child" to say.
''Oh dearl this apple is so Big
Sobbed Molly, Dolly, Poly Gray;
"And faster fell her tears, as though
Hers was the saddest of all plights-
. My moufs so small I've got to take
Such -very-little-hitcs'
-Mdfgaret Eytlags. in Hdrpers Young People.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
A Surprising Meeting.

"That gentleman wants to see you,
SIR" said the clerk of St. Louis hotel
to Captain Nose Hillard, formerly OF
st. Louis, now of Texas. The gentle
man came up. do you wish to see
me. sir?'' asked the Texas man. "No,
sir, l don't know YOU ''Its your
brother you We been asking about" said
the clerk. And SO it was: the two hay
ing left Connecticut about forty years
ago to seek their fortunes, one going to
Missouri, the other on a whaling Ioy-
age, which ended finally in his taking
up his residence in California, with
Spanish wife and plenty of money.
After settling down he concluded to
start out and find his brother Nose. He
traced him to St. Louis and then sent
him word TO Texas. His brother had
already left Texas, and they were there
fore both surprised at meeting each 9TH
er after two-score years of separation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23

Mr.. Sanobal, Cuban, residing near
Lake Hickpochee, Georgia, discovered
recently monster alligator lying on
Mud Point, some fifty sr sixty feet from
the water, and apparently asleep. Mr..
Sanobal, perceiving that t would be a
great pri e to capture the saurian, fo"
he was fully twenty-five feet long, be
gan building a stockade about him He
ha completed the work, and was put
ting up some braces, when the alligator
cl mbed up on the stockade unnotlced,
reached his tail over and struck Mr..
Sanobal fear III blow across his throat,
killing him almost instantly Chicago
Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23

-Esthetics is thus well defined: The
study of that which is beautiful, the cul-
tivation OF that which is true, and the
practice of that which is good.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-19

/ Under AND BY VIRTUE OF A DEED
| u of Assignment with power of sale, exc
cuted by Mrs. ELLEN NJ. ANDERSON, to the
undersigned, ON the 3lst day of December, A.
D. 1879, the undersigned, as such Assignee,
will, on
Saturday, the I'd day of September, 1882.
within legal hours, in front of the City Hall,
in Jackson, Mississippi, proceed to sell at pub
lie auction, to the highest bidder for cash, all
the right, title, and interest of said Ellen Nj.
Anderson, under that certain lease executed
by the University of the South to Mrs. Louisa
Rowland November 10Th, 1870 and by the
said Louisa Rowland assigned to said Ellen
M. Anderson, on July 18th, 1872, for the full
term of thirty-three years from the date
thereof, at a rental of twenty-five dollars per
year, of the lands described as follows, to-wit:
All that certain lot and tract of land situated
on the domain of the said University, at
Sewanee, Franklin county, Tennessee, begin
ming at post marked r., fronting on avenue,
running thence with said avenue south 45o.
east 300 feet thence south 40, west 426 feet to
a branch, thence northwesterly with said
branch 290 feet to a post, thence north 45o
east 424 feet to the beginning.
THOMAS E. HELM, Assignee
Jackson, Miss, July B, 1882-5w.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-19
Gotten Seed Oil.

The showing made at the Cotton Seed
Crushers Association, now in session in
New York, of the business done in the
past few years in the manufacture Of cot
ton seed oil, cake and meal was far from
fattering to an industry which is, by
long odds, the most important and
promising in this city. President A.
dige, in his address, cited figures demon
strating that whereas the exports of oil
had increased wonderfully up to 1880,
when they reached their highest figures,
147, 241 barrels, worth 100000, they
have since been decreasing with still
more wonderful rapidity, having been
only AZ, 708 in 1880-81, and promising
to be even less this year. This falling
off is due, Mr.. Aldige thinks, to the as
saults from abroad on cotton seed oil.
The italian government, finding that
this product was being used to adulter-
ate olive oil, the manufacture of which
is one of the most important industries
of Italy, has done everything in its
power to prevent its importation, and
has INDUCED in the most hostile legisla-
ton against it. The result has been a
decrease in the shipment abroad, but
no decrease in the production. 1t is to
be hoped that the oil mills will discover
a way out of this difficulty, and find
market for their product here.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-19
Ashes for Sweet Potatoes.

\ correspondent says: II notice the
question is asked, which is the best fer
tilizer or manure for sweet potatoes ?
From the experience have had in ma
nuring the sweet potatoes, | must say
that rotten ashes, when properly put on,
has precedence over all others l have
had any experience with. The plan
that 1 adopted was to open deep fur
row with scooter pillow and put in
plenty of ashes. Bed on the ashes
and sure crop may be realized on the
poorest soil. Cowpenning is good-so
are'cotton seed and stable manure but,
after experimenting with the ashes, they
will all be abandoned, provided ashes
can be had. / experimental on as poor
soil as l had, and the result was as fine
a crop of potatoes as ever saw of any
kind of land. Rotten ashes is good for
cotton also, and almost any kind of
vegetation. | am convinced there is
not better fertilizer made ON any
plantation than rotten ashes. So every
one will find it greatly to his interest to
take special care of it.