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The Apprentice System.

Although We live in a fast
and progressive age a return to
some of the systems in vogue in
the past would be of vast bene-
fit. There is perhaps no one in
Brennan who has not noticed
from day to day a number OF
boys, whose ages range from
fourteen to twenty years, pass
ing their time idly in the streets
smoking cigarettes and cursing.
In all the towns and cities no
boy is a boy unless he is an
adept in the art of swearing; the
average boy begins to swear be-
fore he can talk plain; it be-
comes a second nature with
him, and by the time he is six
or eight years of age he can sue
cessfully compete in swearing
with any sailor who has attained
the age of forty or fifty years,
and a boy of from twelve to
twenty can swear so hard and
so loud that when he is in good
way of swearing the atmosphere
for a considerable distance is
absolutely blue. Where do the
boys learn to swear The an
swer is by being in bad COM
pany. Now, it is a well known
fact that boys raised in the
streets rarely make good men,
though of course there is excep-
tons to this rule. Every one
who has occasion to employ
mechanics of any kind know
that while there are plenty of
men engaged in the various
trades, comparatively few Of
them are thorough mechanics;
the large majority are what are
popularity known as "iack-leg"
or properly speaking botch
werkmen. This arises from the
fact that the apprentice system
has been virtually abandoned.
A boy goes into a carpenter
shop, a blacksmith shop, or a
wheelwright shop and works
along at his convenience for two,
four. six months or a year, and
at the expiration of any one of
the terms mentioned, depending
altogether upon the amount Of
egotism possessed by the boy,
he knows more about the bust
ness than the boss" boys no
longer have masters; the word
schoolmaster, even, is obsolete
and school teacher has been
substituted. He then starts out
as a full-fedged journeyman and
demands journeymens' wages
for anything he may undertake
to do. The boys that spend
their time idly in the streets
should be apprenticed to learn
a trade, and when their appren-
ticeship Was fully served they
would be competent mechanics.
Such a course would be much
better for the parents of the
boys and would prove OF i'm
measurable benefit to them
selves. However, atpresent we
have no apprenticeships, and we
do not know whether there is
any law in the state governing
apprentices. The evil of idle
boys is a common one; idle boys
can be found in every village,
town and city in Texas and
throughout the South. But
few boys want to work if they
can help it, and the blame for
their being idle is justly charge
able to their parents.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

NEAR Richmond, Va, the
span of a bridge, seveuty-fve
feet in length, gave way under
a stage containing nine persons
and was precipitated to the
rocks below, some thirty feet.
The span fell without careening
and the stage was not upset un-
til the bottom was reached.
The passengers escaped with
out serious injury.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

RErRIBUTIvE justice is slow
but sure. The Fort Worth
Democrat-Advance says that
something over a year ago
Senator Wagner, of the New
York legislature, pocketed a
bill for the protection oflife on
railroads. He was largely in
terested in sleeping cars and
was killed in one of his own
cars by an accident caused by
carelessness on the Hudson
River railroad.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

There will be no complaint in
the Democratic party at Blaine's
getting his back up. We stand
ready to demand fair play, but
we shan't let the scrimmage
stop if we can have our way
about it.-St. Louis Republican,
Dem.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

Moses How, Esq, of Haver-
hill, Mass. strongly indorscs St.
Jacobs Oil for rheumatism. etc.,
from the observation of its eff
fects in his factory as also in his
own family-so we see from one
of our Massachusetts, eXchang-
es.-Bridgeport Con. Standard.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

= The Houston public ne
schools have a grand total en-
rollment of 1916 and an aver
arge attendance of 1913.
"A Houston man claims to
have found cork wood in Jasper
county which will compare ia
vorably with Italian Cork.
: George Turner, wealthy
farmer of Fayette county, had
his hand crushed in a corn
crusher and will loose it.
- The Fort Worth ice COM
pany has contracted for an ice
machine capable of turning out
10000 pounds of ice daily.
= Major Penn has recently
visited St. Louis to purchase a
tent of mammoth proportions
to begin the spring campaign.
: The public free school at
Bellville is progressing finely.
During January the average at
tendance was about one hun
dred.
= The presumption is that
the Boyce trial will result in a
hung jury or an acquittal. The
case has been on trial for a
week.
"A scarcity of beef cattle is
the complaint at Bellville and
the butchers can hardly get
enough to keep the local mar
ket supplied.
Marion Baily forced fight
on Jim Alexander, at Austin;
the result was Bailey is badly,
if not fatally stabbed. Both are
negroes.
= McLennan county suffered
considerably from the floods
last Saturday; railroad bridges
were submerged and wagon
bridges washed away.
"A gang of professional
burglars have been operating
in Austin for a week or ten
days, but they have poor sue
cess in the way of spoils.
The Houston Jockey club
will hold its spring meeting be-
ginning Tuesday March 2Ist
and closing Saturday the 25th. |
Liberal purses are offered.
The heavy rains of last Fri
day and Saturday were general
throughout the state and great
damage was done, especially to
railroad bridges, culverts etc.
"A prisoner in the George
twon Jail writes an open letter
to the Record bewaiIing his
past bad conduct and advising
those who are out ofjail to stay
out.
"A man sixty years of age
living in Jasper county, VIII
had for forty years suffered wi
a diseased leg. had it amputatS
a few days ago. He is do
well.
According to the CAD
Vile Quill an extra supply
"Old Crow" has been ords
for the conventions, Shst
and Stockmen's, soon to be.
at Austin.
- The cotton seed C.
at Columbus have at i;
at cost of
They have about 500 -1-,..-.......
Of seed on hand and
ced operations on Tue
- A Navasota d. ;
the Galveston News
Brazos river higher
been since 1858. T
sofa river is out of its
the back wateris up il
"A man who G
El Paso two weeks
who was stopping a
Dallas, was discove
well-developed ca
pox. He was pr
ed to the pest
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

The gems in the newspaper
are not all diamonds. Some of
them are paste.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09
Scientific Miscellany.

Frequent impurities are found
by microscopic Investigations
to exist IN the diamond. Or
ganic matter, carbon and bub-
bles OF gas are common impur-
tiles. Quartz, chlorite, pyritc
and hematite have recently
been discovered in diamonds,
and small crystals of topaz have
also been seen.
Paul Marcoy has described a
leaf of the giant water lily Vic
toria regia) found in Lake Nuna
Peru, as measuring "a feet
9 Id inches in circumference,
and weighing between Is and
II pounds. One of the flowers
was 4 feet ? inches in circum-
ference, and weighed 3 IL
pounds. The outer petals were
9 inches long.
Some valuable relics discov-
cred at Ninevah, in the form of
fine ivory carvings, showed
signs of crumbling on arrival in
England. Concluding that loss
of albumen was the cause of
the decay, Prof. Owen boiled
the articles. The experiment
proved entirely successful, and
the ivory was restored to its or
iginal firmness and solidity.
Remarkable wind pressures
are experienced in India. On
October 5th, 1864, two passen-
ger trains, one of eight vehicles
and the other of twelve, were
upset on the Eastern Bengal
railway, all the cars being over
turned. Several cars were
eastsd front sidings by the force
ESentsmber Fl,
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Coffee drinkers should read the adver-
tisement in another column headed Good
Coffee.
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STATE NEWS.

The Castroville Quill is
publishing continued story. >
One OF the pressing needs
Of San Antonio is street I'M
provements.
- Georgetown has a glee
club. That is not quite as bad
as a brass band.
Thistle dew" is what they
call bugjuice, tamarack, or Jug
water at Bellville.
The total city assessment
Of Galveston shows total valua-
ton of SI7,S54639.
By the late frcshet FIVE
county bridges were swept
away in Navarro county.
"A white owl, caught in the
Brazos bottom, is on exhibition
at the Waco cotton exchange.
= There is only six prison.
ers in the county Jail at Bell
Hille-two whites and four col
bed.
Miss Edna May Bradley,
principal of the Pearson-Brad-
ley scandal, has returned to
ast week the total
btton at Bellville
Is against 1900
3 Journal is be-
faith in the
Missouri Pacific
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Iron County register., 1882-03-23

themselves i'm their intercourse will
each other. There is a gentle brt per
| feet Irresistible coercion in habit q
readiog, well directed over the Who'll.
| tenor of a mans character a nd conduct
which is not the less effectual because
it works insensibly, and because it is
really the last thing he dreams Of Ii
cannot. in short, be better summed up
than in the words of the Latin poet:
EnaOtln naOres, nee sinit esse ter0s-
1t civiliZes the conduct of men and suf-
fers them not to become barbarous."
Reading draws ont the latent thought
of the mind, and oftimes page, a
line, a word serves to set the genius on
firm, which afterward with its magnif-
icent achievements startles the world.
Surely reading is the stepping stone to
progress in thought; and he who reads
not to see what Others have done, will
often find himself digging from the
deep recesses of his thought theories
produced ere he was born.
Moreover, reading furnishes all i'm
measurable source OF cOnt"ntnent; and
when the "fretful fiend of care" hovers
round broken, blasted life, and fOrev-
er alienates it from the treacherv of the
social world, it can find snlsce aud
sympathy in reading free from any
taint of guile.
In conclusion, I would say, read more
constantly anA attentiveIy; make a
drawing-room of the library, with your
books for friends, for in them you will
find society superior to any present
situation can select-sentiments deep
er and more comprehensive than pres
ent wit can furnish.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
N Naughty University students.

The University ChrOaicte-Ann Ar
bor-after praising the performances at u
great concert there, lectures the wild stu
dents thus vigorously: 1.-The repeated encOres
by which the programme was prolonged to
nearly twice the assigned limit, was an exhi-
bition of as bad taste as it was bad breeding.
The evil has been on the increase all winter,
and must be abated.
"Considering the very remarkable manner
in which Miss Arbuckle and Mr. Summers
rendered Minnie Bell, a single encore would
not have been objected to, and was well de-
served-for the song is sweet though pathetic
but when the call was repeated, and at the
close of the third recital, a conceited Sopho-
more, in the guise of Judge with wig on,
appeared in the box usually reserved for au-
thors, thereby deceiving the audience and
receiving their applause, it was indeed bad
enough. For he rightly judged that the au-
thor, if he were present on such an occasion,
"a Judge and an 0l1tHeaMs Of the University,
would be applauded. But when, a mo-
ment later, the other students recognized
the impostor, and the applause was turned
into pandemonium of Kisses and inharmo-
NOUS sounds, and the ventursome scape-
grace had to make his way in hot and unbe-
coming haste out over the stage, past the
astonished Miss Arbuckle. to avoid to the
mob at his heels-it was this almost instan-
taneous transition from the sublime in song
to the ridiculous in buffoonry, that made the
proceeding as farscal as it was reprehensi-
BILE.
1--WE hope the Association will take steps
to protect itself and protect its patrons from
a repetition of such scandals"
That's very nice scold, but you can't pre-
vent the average college or university stu
dent having clark" occasionally, for all
that.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
Societies.

INDIAN CHAPTER. M. II, X A. meets on
the First and Third Tuesdays in every month,
at : o clock p NJ, in the Masonic Hall, lronton
SrAROFTHE WEST I.oDGE No 1873. A. & A.
NJ. meets in Masonic Hall Ironton on the Satur-
day of or preceding the full moon in each month
Mos. .IC LODGE No 35I, 4 F & A NJ me. IS
in the Masonic Hall, Cross Roads, on the Satur-
day of or preceding the full moon in each month
IRoSroN ENcAMpMENT No. 20 o o F..
meets in the Odd- Fellows Hall. Iro ton. on 4
First and Third Thursdays OF every month.
IRov LODGE No. 107 I o. o meets every
Monday evening, Mt its Hall, in Ironton.
PHGBE LODGE No $50. 10 OF meets over,
Thursday evening, in Masonic Hall, Cross Roads
S@sxsA VALLEY L GE.Nn 1870 KNIGHTS
SNEXzz OF HONOR meet alternate WPdne -'ay
.SzXNEE& evenings. follows March LIST, 18th
|8~N1kE aud 29th; priI 18th and 26th; May 10th
sAAgESS and Ath; and June 9TH and 2lst
TENs W. " NALL, Reporter.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
sincerity.

Oh, bring me now sincerity;
4 true and living variety:
Let life be short yet ever true,
In everything we think or do,
Let's have sincerity.
Alas! the world is levity;
Yet there's scant truth in brevity;
And cruel wit is sharp as steel,
Regardless of how others feel,
Who love sincerity.
Cease, world, this idle mockery,
This worse and useless fOppery,
For souls are lost upon the sea
OF mocking words, that cannot be
In truth sincerity.
l ask not sullen gravity,
Nor apish, sullen suayity,
But simple, quiet. genial truth,
All brightly told by CHEEKY youth,
With warm sincerity.
Then all would live so joyously,
All nature would seem heavenly,
True smiles would wreathe each happy
face,
And beauty gain that rarest grace,
Gods own sincerity.
Albany argus.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
Churches.

Mass every SUNDAY at s o'c'nc', A. VI. in the
Chapel of the Arcadia College. Evening instrtIc-
tiOn, followed by BenedictIon of the Blessed Sac
riment, at % clock. At PILOT Knob Catholic
Church Mass is celebrat, d every Sunday morning
at 10 o. ciOck.
VI, F.. CHURCH, Cor. Ravnolls ard Mountain
Streets. Ironton BELL, Pastor Residence
Trpnton, Mo. Services, second and Fourth sun
days IN each month Sabbath School every Sum
day morning at O'Clock. Prayer Meeting every
Thursday evening. at O'Clock
SERVICES at rhe BtntiSr ,,hnrci in Irorton
on the second Sabbeth in each morth, at n O'Clock
aud Z 81 O'Clock p. NJ. PRAYER meeting every
tn eStiay evening. GEORGE BOUI.SIIER, Pastor
Episcopal. SERVICES will n, held REGULARLY
hereafter in ST. Paul's Church. Ironton, on the
fourth sunday in each month, at 10 80 A. N aud
evening.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

of his egotism, for he was proud of the ego.
He had right to be, for he deserved the
title bestowed upon him in his closing years,
''the last of the Romans"
He was a Roman in courage, in for
titute, in will, in energy and love of coun-
try, as well as in self-confidence and self
asserting, dictatoral temper and contempt
for opponents. Our State and nation will be
fortunate indeed if they can always have q
servant as able and faithful, as honest and
brave, with brain as clear and hands as
clean as the man who stepped into life one
hundred years ago tomorrow.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
He COuldn,t Believe 1t.

"Where am I?" asked Henry Slater
around him.
"You are in court for being drunk, +" "replie,
his Honor.
"WelI, did ever! Is thi. courtP'
"It is.''
"And 1 was drunk?"
"YOu We're"
"Great lands! but the idea! When did
get drunk:'
Last night
SIS it possible! What did get drunk on p
Beer, think, by your looks"
Glands alive. And what did l do?"
"You lay down on the sidewalk
"Do tell! 1t doesn't seem possible! An
l in Detroit?''
"You are"
"Great snakes. Well, who'd a. Thought it
Then this is a court?'
"YeS''
''Sakes to gracious! But can hardly be-
lieve it. Why, 1 never got drunk in my life
before, and this is the first time was ever a
prisoner! Will you fine me:"
"Yes; five dollars"
'Horn spoons and saltpetre! Well, if
this won't be news to the old woman. !.
Here's your money, Judge, and if you would
let me sit down here and spell to find out
who am and where, would be powerfully
obleeged. Well, did 1 ever! The old
woman won't believe it, and the bows will
think I've turned out a crank. Drunk
50. Lands and oceans! but
what on airth has got into me%'-Detroit
Free Press.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
ON hcial Directory.

LowNpEs Fl. DAVIS, NJ. c., Fourth District
Cape GirArdeau.
ern District OF Missouri, Ironton.
THOs. MABREY State Senator OF 24th Dis
triot, DOniphan
JNo. l. THoMAs, Judge 26th Circuit, Hills.
boro.
WILL r. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney,
IroNtOn.
j. w BERRYMAN. Representative. Arcadia.
FRANz DINGER, Pr.sidn' Ju i"e. Iront"'-
DAVID IL. PALMER, Belleview. and j os- q. CLARK
sou, Annapolis, Associate Judges.
JOHN. F. /. EDWARDS, Judge of Probate
Court, lrOnton
w. A. FLETCHER, Sher fl 1ronton.
JAMES BuFnKD. ,llrcror, Ironton.
JOSEPH HUFF Clerk Circuit Court. Irontnn.
g. 3. NALL Cerk County Court. l-Onton.
! g. WHITwoKrH, Treasurer, 1r"nton-
WM. F.. BELL. Assessor, B.llrview.
JACOB T. AXE, Public Administrator, IRON
ton
j. GHANDHoMMB, Coroner, 1ronton.
V. c. GRIFFITH. County School Commits
sioner for Iron county, Missouri, Ironton.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

Reasons whv Bailey's Saline Aper-
lent should be used by all classes in prefer
ence to all others. 1t is the cheapest and
most preferable purgatiye ever offered. 1t
has stood the test and gained an enviable
reputation wherever used. 1t is the only
large size aperient that sells at 80 cents per
bottle. 1t acts upon the stomach, liver and
bowels, without nausea, gripping or any
trouble whatever. Its taste is pleasant, it's
action is mild and it never fails. 1t relieves
sick headache, acid stomach and heartburn
instantly.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
BE Careful what You Saw.
BY $. d. T.

In speaking of a persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those in houses of glass
Should never throw stone.
II we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
Ills better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults--and who has none
The old as well as young?
We may perhaps, for aught We know,
Have fifty to their one.
-Erchnu1p
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

Ihe 'ghtRunning Domestic is tcknewl
eosed TO be the best SEWING Machine In the
world. Buy one for your family Ior u
present, and you will never regret IT,
he machine 10 beautiful. ornamentsl and
durable. The attachments are all fneI, Nm.
ished and heavy plated. II DAVIS, Ageut.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

CIRCUIT COURr ia held on the Fourth Mon
CAV IN October and APPEL.
COUNTY COUNT convtnes on the First Mon
day OF March, June, September and December.
PROBATE COURT is held ON the First Monday
il February, May, August and November.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
VOLUME XIV.
The IRON COUNTY REGISTER
Is Published very Thursday, by
ELI D. AXE,

At One Dollar and Fifty Cents year, IN advance.
ADVERTISING:
1 Square week, 81 90 or column year, S IS
I Square weeks, so hf column year, 30
/ SQUARE weeks, 100 l column year, Zoe
yearly Advertisers have the privilege or two
changes without additional charge.
E+Address REGIsTRR. Ironton. Missouri.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

in the lumber yard of Hoffman Brothers
furniture factory, at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
At the coroner's inquest, death was found
to have been caused by large pieces OF meat
lodged in his throat. Powell, who was
married man of 40, had been in the habit
of getting intoxicated 1t is supposed that
he had lain down for the purpose IF sleeping
OIL his drunken stupor, and the unnatural
state OF his stomach caused him to yomit,
and the substance thrown from his stomach
he could not extricate from his throat.
A telegraph operator at 0snaburg, Ohio,
named Leonard Murphy, aged about q
years. met with peculiar death the other
night, at that place. With a number of
companions, he was playfully boxing, and,
to show his hardihood asked one of his
companions, Daniel Rice, to hit him on the
breast. Rice agreed, and struck him with
considerable force, saying: us that very
hardF' NO" Murphy family replied,
and, sinking to the ground, died almost
instantly.
When the keokuk e st. Louis line pas.
senger train arrived at Keokuk, Iowa,
Tuesday morning, the body of a man who
proved to be John Demre, of Quincy, Hi
nos, was found on the top of a passenger
coach. 1t is supposed that he was stealing
ride, and was struck and killed while the
train was passing under bridge. There
was sone talk of foul play, as it was claimed
he We U d have been knocked off the car if
killed IN that manner, but the coroners in
quest developed nothing to sustain the
charge of murder.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17
DhsTARDLY WARFARE.

Yesterday morning We were informed by
telegraph that two boxes containing infer
nal machines which had been delivered at
two different addresses the day before in
Edinburgh exploded on being opened, and
eight persons were injured, If this is to be
the style OF warfare INDUCED by
the land leagucrs, icuians and those who are
attempting to tcrroriae the English govern
ment, no Surcr method could have been
adopted Tor alternating from their cause the
better class of people of the world, When
the Irish troubles first attracted general at
tention they elected for the poverty
stricken and struggling tenant burst OF
sympathy throughout the United States,
and generous contributions began to flow
into the Emerald Isle. Emboldened by
this show OF assistance, or carried on by
ambition, the leaders began to advocate
riot and violence, which steadily in
creased until we find 0'Donovan
Rossa and his pals threatening
English ships, English mansions, the lives
OF innocent women and children, with dyna.
mite and internal machines. From the
date Of the introduction Of internal ma.
chimes into the contest, public sympathy
weakened and American succor virtually
ceased, Honorable warfare by an oppressed
people against their rulers will always
elicit the sympathy and food will Of the
American people, but when the method,
and machinery of the assassin are resortcd
to they can never look to us for aid II
is asserted, indeed, that the NOR,
prominent aud influential leaders IL
this Irish movement are op
posed to those cowardly and murderous at
tcmp,S Of somc.of their followers, and W,
trust aud indeed 6cftrvc this to be true
There are great minds In the movement, n,
doubt, who recognize the conflict as one q
principle rather than as personal or re-
vcngnl struggle between men,, lfso, sucl
men should In no unmistakabc terms de
cry the use Of these destructive agencies b,
which the innocent are carried away Will
the guilty, and humanity's sense ofjustic,
shocked, A determined stand on thei
part would soon put an end to the practice
and we would hear no more of Infer
nal machines sleeping tn. cateningly IL
the cargocs Of ships upon the high seas, or ii
the cellars of private residences, or among
the express packages OF the flying train
II would be more honorable to single on,
the object Of a mans or nations enmity ant
shoot him down with a pistol. We hop,
that the proper expressions of disapproba
ton will come with reference TO this mattel
from the leaders OF the Irish movement
both IN Eurc:e aud America. lfnct, thos,
who know the American public know ful
well that their good 4, wishes or assistance
their sympathy or niyral support wonlt
lnexrr 70 With such crueS warfare.