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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
Wide.AWake Boys.

The head of large business firm IN
Boston, who was noted for his keenness
in discerning character, was seated al
his desk one day, when a young irish
lad came up and took off his hat sml-
ling. -,
..Do you want boy, STRIP
Mr. j. looked at him.
81 did not minute ago. But 1 DO
now, and you are the boy"
He said afterward that he was COM
pletely captured by the honest, frank,
all-alive face before him. The boy en-
tered his service, rose to be confidential
clerk, and is now a successful merchant.
Here is another story in which our
bov-readers may find hint worth at
tention.
Thirty years ago, Mr.. H., a nursery
man in New York State, LETT home for
a day or two. 1t was rainy weather
and not the season for sales, but GUS
toner arrived from distance, tied up
his horse and found his way to the
kitchen of the m-house, where two
lads were cracking nuts.
"Mr H. at home?'
"No, sir,'' said the eldest, Joe, ham
mering at a nut.
"When will he be backp'
The other boy, lem, jumped up and
followed the man out. 1.-The men are
not here, but can show you the stock
he said, with such a bright, courteous
manner that the stranger. who was q
little irritated, stopped and followed
him through the nursery, examined the
trees and left his order. ,.s ~.
"You have sold the largest bill that
I have had for this season, Jem, y his
father, greatly pleased, said to him on
his return.
"rm sure" said Joe, sullenly, "Tm
as willing to help as Jem. if I'd thought
in time.''
A few years afterwards, these two
boys were left by their fathers failure
and death with but two OF three hun
dred dollars each. Joe with them
bought an acre or two near home. The
land was poor, the crops scanty, the
market low. He has worked hard and
faithfully, but is still a poor, discomfort
ed man Jem bought an emigrants
ticket to Colorado, hired as a cattle
driver for couple of years, with his
wages bought land at forty cents an
acre, built him house and married.
His herds of cattle are numbered by the
thousand, his land has been cut up for
town lots, and he is ranked as one of
the wealthiest men in the State.
81 might have done like Jem," his
brother said lately, ''if I'd thought in
time. There's as good stuff in me as in
him."
His wife, hearing him, gave sorrow
full laugh. There's as good stuff in
thai loaf of bread as in any 1 ever
made" she said. but nobody can
eatit. There is not enough yeast in it,
The retort, though disagreeable, was
true.
This quick, wide-awake energy which
acts as leaven in a character is partly
natural. But it can be inculcated by
parents and acquired by boy, if he
chooses to keep his eyes open and to act
as promptly and boldly in every emer-
gency.- YOUTHS C07nDan50n
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
A Very Curious Riddle.

Here is a curious old story that is
something like a puzzle:
A crocodile stole baby, s'in the days
when animals could talk" and was
about to make dinner of it. The poor
mother begged piteously for her child.
"Tell me one TRUTH" said the croco-
die, 'and you may have your baby
again.
The mother thought it over, and at
last said: "You will not give him
back"
els that the truth you mean to tell?'
asked the crocodile.
eyes," replied the mother.
"Then by our agreement l keep him,
added the crocodile; ''for if you told
the truth, am not going to give him
back, and if it is falsehooa, then l have
also won."
Said she: ''No, you are wrong. If L
told the truth you are bound by your
promise; and if falsehood, it is not
falsehood until you have given me my
child
Now, the question is, who won?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

The acres first named are in twenty
counties, half the whole number, mainly
the midland, with some of the eastern,
southern and western counties, but none
of the northern, and are under crops,
fallOw, grass, market gardens and nur-
sery grounds. In two of the counties,
Nottinghampshire and Warwick shire,
the rentals in 1S79-S0 were below what
they were in 1928. AS whole, how
ever, there was small gain, as COM
pared with the earlier financial year,
though as compared with 1861, when
rents were at their highest point, there
was decline. In these twenty counties
the average prices paid for rent were
between nine and ten dollars an acre in
1928, between ten and eleven dollars
in 1861, and nearer ten in 1880.
The increase between 1928 and 1867
was 40 per cent, and the decline be-
tween 1867 and 1S79-SO was IL per
cent. In the whole of England the in
crease before 1876 was 81 per cent,
and afterward there was decrease of
Obs per cent.
The whole amount of cultivated land
in Scotland and Wales, and the rents
received from it at the different periods.
we're:
Acres. 1SI2-3. 1867. 1890.
Scotland ,7G262 S36 S3s i5l 065 S3S 1884 "a,
Wales. 7S4,963 1885, $50 l5,9l5,695 16,365,s5
The rent in Wales increased 1913 per
cent. between 1928 and 1867, and
from that time to 1979-S0 it made
further but smaller advance of 2S per
cent. In Scotland the advance before
1876 was A per cent, and afterward
only IL per cent.
As we have said, the decline in rents
since 1880 has been very marked, and
when the figures under the valuation of
1888 are given, they are likely to at
least put the landlords back where they
were before 1876. But even if they drop
to that point, the agricultural communi-
ty of the United Kingdom will still con-
tinue to struggle against heavy odds as
compared with our farmers, owing to
the prices they must pay for the use Of
land.-N. Y. San.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
Our Young Folks.
DON'T WANT TO 90 TO BED"

" No! / don't want to 20 to bedp'
Growls little, tired, sleepy Ted;
And 'gainst the wall he firmly stands,
Behind him clinched the dimpled hands.
g wish it wasn't night so sooni
/ don't care nothing for the moonI
don't care if the stars are out!'
So say the red lips with a pout.
I'm not half through with all my playl
don't like night so well as day!
wish was grown-up folks. yes!
1wlsh nurse was my child. guess
+" d make her go to bed, I would.
And scold her-if-she-wasn't GOOD"
Begins to drOop the little head.
Though Ted don't want to GO to bed!''
But up the stairs at last he goes,
His checks flushed red as any rose
And soon upon his pillow white.
With mammals kiss for sweet goodnight"
The little boy to Dreamland HES.
Nor opes again his dear blue ewes
Till morning Sunbeams wake the day
And call Ted to his merry play.
M. ID. Brine, IN Our Little Ones.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
A New Street-Car Motor.

The value of an invention that win
enable street-cars in cities to carry their
own motive power can hardly be over-
estimated. Horses are expensive. 1t
rec ii"es as many horses to supply Il
fr-t-clasS street railroad as to supply
regiment of cavalry; and beside, horses
need driver. The underground cabe
arrangement is said to work satiSfactoii-
ly in San Francisco, but for some res
son or other doubts are expressed of its
successful application in Chicago ard
other cities. Dummy engines have been
tried but do not give satisfaction. They
have an ammonia motor in New Or
leans, but it has not succeeded in intro
ducing itself in other cities. But we ase
promised a solution of the difficulty ut
last in the principle of the watch-spriua,
experim ents with which in Philadelphia
are said to have been attended with
signal success. A steel spring coilea
up tight and we'll secured is one of tho
most striking examples of conserved
force that eau be imagined. 1t may be
borne safely and easily from one place
TO another, and made to yield its power
by an equalized process at the point
where it is wanted. OF course, the
spring for running a street car must be
large, strong and well made of the best
tempered steel. The one experimental
with at Philadelphia is a band 800 feet
long, six inches wide and one-quarter
inch thick, wound up by machinery to
q con only forty inches in diameter, and
then secured. This coiled spring con-
tains all the force impaired by the steam
engine during the process of winding,
and this is said to be sufficient to drive
q car loaded with persons a distance of
five miles. The uncoiling is graduated
by an ingenious arrangement of brakes
under control of the conductor, which
enables him to stop and start the car at
pleasure, and check prevents the car
from going at a greater rate of speed
than nine miles an hour. If the new
motor can really do all that is promised
of it we shall soon have street cars car
aging their own motive agent and thous-
ands of horses released from the most
harassing task that horse flesh is now
required to perform.-St. Louis Repub-
lean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

The employment of female phv-
stefan as the head of a female insane re-
treat at harrisburg has been so success
tui that DR.. Alice Bennett has been
placed in charge of the 400 lunatio
women at the Norristown, Pa, asyluml
Detroit Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

A Chicago woman has recovered
So. 900 damages from her landlord be-
cause he misrepresented the sewerage
and plumbing of the house which she
rented from him. 1t astonished him
and her tno.-Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
The enigmatical Kelly is not the

The enigmatical keely is not the
only man who refuses to diyulge to ex-
pectant stockholders a secret which is
sure to revolutionize the world and
calmly accepts meantime a living at
their hands. Curiously enough there is
another person in Pennsylvania who
persists in keeping his mouth shut under
similar circumstances. He lives in
Cory, and perpetual motion is the one
idea in his head which he refuses to i'm.
part to those whose cash supports him.
CHICAGO NesUs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

Two thousand seven hundred tons
of puddled iron were turned out at the
Albany and Rensselaer, iron works in
March, the largest product on record
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

"A case is related of delirium tremens
of q peculiar character caused by the
excessive use of tobacco. - Health
Monthly.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Feats of an Athlete.

Abner G. Mcllrath, who kept a fa-
nous hotel for thirty.six years six miles
from Cleveland on Euclid avenue, has
been gathered to his stalwart fathers.
He was mighty fox hunter and re-
markable athlete. Six feet six inches
and half tall, his average weight was
about 264 pounds, but yet he is said to
have frequently on foot run down foxes.
He once lifted with his hands from the
ground an iron shaft weighing LOO
pounds, which would be equal to lifting
double that weight were he harnessed
with straps to weights and allowed to
lift under the best advantage. Two
men would hold Il string two inches
above bis head, and he would step
back two or three steps and Jump over
it without tup"'inT it, making the leap
about six feet nine inches in height.
He has been known, rather than to lead
his horses around to the other side of
the barn, to put his long arms under Il
horse and lift it up to the floor OF the
barn, which happened to be three or
four feet above the ground. In Buffalo
no once wrcstlcd with and threw with
ease Charlie Freeman, the American
giant" who afterward in England de-
feated the Upton Slasher" in a prize
fight. Another foat of the old tavern
keeper was his chase on horseback Of a
fox one December over frozen Lake
Eric far from sight of land, He lived
to the age of seventy years, having
been paralytic for the last four years
of life as Il result of exposure during a
fox hunt. He was borne to his grave
Saturday by six of his tall sons, four OF
whom are six feet four and a half inch
cs high and the other two just six feet,
and whose combined weight is 1906
nnnnnA.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Business Was Too Dull to Be Religious

Il vas shust dalking to Philip Fried.
lander little vile ago, Misder Hotfen-
stein, said Herman, as he entered the
store, ''und dels me dot his fader wants
to know Wy you don't come any more
around to do synagogue.
well, Wy don't you say dot pisiness
vas too dull. How can be religious,
you know, ven don't make any profit
und lose money? Leon Bloomenburg,
vat borrows Won dousand dollars from
from me- goes last week und died nit do
measles, ind | won't Get anyding back,
Efery time lend money to man he
dies right away on my hands. Derc vas
Max Hornberger, across de street, vat
is selling dose doe-skin jeans bants at
seventy-iive cents, ven dey cost me Won
dollar laid at the depot down, He vas
daking all my trade away, und ! cant
waste any time, YOU know, Herman, ut
de synagogue. Ny gr-r-acious, dis would
be nice world if you wouldn't always
hat someding daking blaze vat gifs you
drouble. If dere is any truth in dis pis-
eness aboud de dransmigration uf souls,
den want to so into billy-goat ven
die
Ivy, Misder Hotfensteinpn
Because, Herman, billy-goat leads
dc most economicalist und de- happiest
life uf any animal in the world. He
don't hat anyding to do but eat baper
und butt. My old trent Bill Jackson,
vot used to If in Vicksburg, said dot
ven he died he wanted to be mule, und
hat II chance to kick de stuilng oud uf
some beoplc vot he knows If vas n
mule alder | die, den Herman you can
shust bet | viii fix Max Hornberger. "
Y. q. Times Democrat.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Peaceful Rivalry on the Pacific Coast,


In his speech ut the civic banquet
rendered him in Victoria, the Marquis
of Lorne, Governor General of Canada,
said: pride in national feeling has
made the country strain every nerve tn
bind still further with the sentiment of
confidence the unity Of the Confedera-
ton. Where is now the old talk We
used to hear from few OF the faint
hearted of Il change in destiny or Of an
ncyationP 1t does not exist TO be sure,
here | have heard someWgue terror eX-
pressed, but it is a terror which have
heard expressed among our friends on
the American Pacific slope also. and il
is to the effect that annexation must
soon take place 10 the Celestial Empire,
EGreat laughter. We'll, gentlemen, |
fully sympathiAe with this fear. None
of us like to die before or time, but |
will suggest TO you, from the healthy
signs and vitality | see around me, that
your time has not yet comen Yonr OBJ
iect now is to live, and for that purpose
to get your enterprises and railways rs
part of your assets. Applause. The
rest will follow in time, but at the pres
ent moment we mist concern ourselves
with political politics. Let Us look be-
You'd this island, aud beyond even
the most difficult mountains, and see
what our neighbors and friends to the
south are about. An army Of workmen
exactly double that now employed in
this Proyince--are driving with Il speed
that seems wonderful a railway through
to the coast. In another year or two 4
large traffic, encouraged by the compe.
ttion in freights between it, the Central
and Southern Pacific, will have been ac-
quired. You are, by the very nature of
things, heavily handicapped here, and a
trade, as you know, once established is
not easily rivaled. Take care that YOU
are in the market for this competition
ut as early a date as possible, When
you are as rich as California, and have
as many public works as Queensland, it
may be time TO consider your position,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Oonrtship Among the Zunis.

Writing of life among the Zuni In
dams, Frank ii, Gushing, of the Smith
sonian institute, says;--There were two
unmarried members of the house; u
nephew and an adopted girl. The
nephew was an over-grown, heavy
faced, thick-lipped yellow-haired. blue
eyed blonde, "a specimen of the tribal
albnism, q dandy and the darling of
the white-haired cold Ten" One day,
after / had presented the latter with II
pane of ruined negative glass, she ven
tured to compare her favorite with me.
My fattering Acknowledgements of this
compliment made decided winnings of
the old woman's hitherto restrained af-
fections. The governor spared this
youth no more than the Others. With
characteristic irony, he called him The
Family Mlkman,' or "The Night
Bird" the latter term referring to his
eyes, (which" the governor usually
added, 'wiggled like those of an owl
in strong sunlight" The maiden was
Jolly, pretty. and coquettish-the belle
of Riverside street." Her lovers were
many, but soon, of the long row who
waited under the moonlit caves, only
one was admitted-the governors
younger brother, my sympathetic
friend. There was but one room in the
house in which the two could hope to
be left to themselves-mine. Here they
came night after night. They paid no
attention to the lonely Me-lik in his
hammock, but sat opposite in the dark
ness on the low adobe bench, hour after
hour. stroking each others hands, gig
Cling and cooing in low tones, just like
so many of my own people of the same
age, only in a different language. An
occasional smack, followed by feminine
indignation, taught me the meaning of
stop that" in Zuni, and the peculiari-
ties of the Pueblo kiss. If the blissful
pair remained too late, the slab-door
would rumble on its wooden hinges,
and the governor, preceded by a lighted
torch of cedar splints, would stalk in,
and, as near as | could make out, rate
the young man soundly for his want of
respect to the WaShingtona Me-Li-kana,
whereupon the pair would vanish, the
maiden giggling and the young man
cursing.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30

For Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint you
have printed guarantee On every bottle
of Shiloh's Vtalzer 1t never fails to
cure. Ii
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30

Why continue the use nf remedies that
only relieve, when Ely Cream Balm, pleas.
ant Of application and a sure cure for Ca.
tarrh. Hay Fever and Cold in head can
be had for 80 centsi Apply into nostrils
with little finger
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Advice to Consumpt yes.

On the appearance of the first symptoms,
as general debility, loss OF appetite, pallor,
chilly sensations, followed by night sweats
and cough, prompt measures OF relief
should be taken. Consumption is scrofulous
disease of the lungs; therefore use the great
anli-scroiula or blood purifier and strength
restorer, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery" Superior to cod liver oil as a au-
trtive, and unsurpassed as pectoral. For
weak lungs splitting of blood, and
kindred affections, it has no equal. Sold
by druggists For DR.. Pierces treatise on
Consumption send two stamps. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
NY.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30

".-"Li,tle thanks are due to him who
only gives away what is of no use 10 him
self" The thanks of invalids the world
over are being showered on the inventor OF
Kidney. Wort, for i, is giving health to all.
Kidney Wort moves the bowls regularly,
cleanses the blood, and radically cures,
kidney disease, gravel, piles, bilious head
ache and pains which are caused by dis
ordered liver and kidneys, Thousands
have been cured why should you not try
IT,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
A Mexican Father,

An incident illustrating Mexican
character is related by an exchange. 1t
appears that a Senator of one of the
Mexican States, u successful stock
raiser, in the prime of life, sold his sheep
and gambled away the proceeds Of the
sale before he returned to his home, and
in addition gamblcd himself into debt
to the amount Of $4,000 Like n duti-
fu son he confessed his guilt to his old
father, who promptly gave him a sound
thrashing and aftcrward went to The
town and paid the $4,000 obligation.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Protection from Malaria,

The preventive is the far.famed southern
remedy, Simmons Liver Regulator, apurely
vegetable tonic cathartic and alternative.
1t acts more promptly in curing all forms
of malarial diseases than calomel or qui.
nine, without any of the injurious conse-
quences which follow their use. Take the
Regulator and it will keep your liver bow
els and kidneys in perfect order, and you
will never have an experimental knowledge
of the meaning of the word malaria.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30

The London Times says that the late
Hans Anderson was in perpetual fear of
being buried alive, so that, when no
went to bed at night, he always placed
by his bedside u piece of paper, on
which was written; II am only appar-
emily dead" How Mr. Anderson came
to put this kentucky custom to Il new
use il not stated.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-30
Mr. j. VANDERvEEN, DluggIsts, Grand

Mr.. j. VANDERvEEN, Druggists, Grand
Haven, Mlch.-I can safely recommend
Ely's Cream Balm for the cure of Catarrh,
Cold in the Head, Sc. Before have used
the first bottle purchased of ,ou | find
myself cured, At times could scarcely
smell anything and had q headache most
of the time. Henry Lily, Agent for the
AmerIcan EXpress O.. Grand Haycn, Mich.
National Republican., 1882-11-24
TRY Apaiu.

The Democrats had majority of the
House from 1875 to 1881, and majority
in both houses Of Congress from 1879 to
1881, and made no effort to reform the
tariff or reduce taxation. Concerning
this the Washington Post says:
During four of the six years of Democratic as
tendency in the House the Senate was Republi-
can. During the two remaining years, a usurping
Republican held the veto power, and the Demo.
Gratis not having the requisite two-thirds in both
houses, could pass no bill against the veto of Mr..
Hayes.
But this fact did not prevent them from
attempts to abolish restraints on ballot
box suffers. They compelled an extra
session of Congress by their re-
fusal to appropriate money to carry
on the government unless they
could overthrow the laws providing
for Federal official witnesses of
Federal elections within the States. The
veto power did not deter them from pass
ing bills to suit their neftrius partisan
purposes, and their oaths of office did not
deter them from an attempt to choke the
President out of the exercise of his con-
stitutional power to veto their schemes.
But when it came to reducing taxes and
reforming the tariff, of which they had
prated so much, they did not pass bill
in order to see what the President would
do. The Post must try some other ex-
planation.