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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-22
Our Young Folks.
JERRY.

Buy paper Place! She is frozen Almost
Here's Commercial and Ne,Us, and Nail.
And here's the Express and the Auenfn0 Post!
And livery one has q tirfible tale
Shipwrick-a murther-a hre-alarm-
WHICHEVER ye loike;-have paper, marm9
Thin buy it, plaze, av this bit av q gurrui-
She's new in the business and all av a
whirrui;
We must lind her hand.' said little
There's plinty av thrade at the Fulton
Ferry.
81 She's wakely for made av the tay and the
The price Nv paper-plaze, sir, buy Post'
Thrue as me name it is jeremiah,
There's foine report nv dridful ire
And a child that's lost-and a smash av a
train
Indade, sir, the papers just groanin' wild
spake up. little gurrul, and don't be afraid !
I'm schra chin for two till l start yez III
While yen. you can SELL said little Jerry.
screeching for two at Fulton Ferry.
The, night was bleak, and the wind was
hign,
And Il hur,yiflg crowd went shivering by:
And some bought papers, and some bought
But the boys shrill voice rang cheerily on:
Buy a Post, or NsUs. Or Mail, as you
For my arm just aches wild the weight av the
Eapresss Not single one left for tonight
right
She S a regular seller here at the ferry,
And rlckOmind her high, SAd jerry.
In the whirl of the throng there paused a
man.
"The bell is ringng-I can not wait;
Here. girl, a Commercial as quick as you can!
The boat is starting-don t make me late!
And on through the hurrying crowd he ran,
The wee girl following close behind,
After the penny he could not find:
While, with spring through the clos ng gate.
ffnrh av 1t1nn Ha1 ar
Ragged and painting, at Fulton Ferry.
Give me the change, or TIL stop the boat.
Up from the deck laugh and cheer.
Exchanged to shuddering cry of fear
AS he bent his head for the fearful spring,
And then-like a wild bird on the wing
Over the whrliDg waters swung. ~
Touched the boat with his hands. and clung,
Gasping and white, to the rail. and cried:
:" Where is that mean Old man. who tried
To steal one cent from girl at the ferry?
fi" A poor little girl, with no friend but
jerry --t57. -..-ts-
Over the side went hundred hands, ~
From a hundred mouths rang forth COM
Pull him inr' "stop the boatr "TaiSe his
All the rape,s h ne i has 81" "send him home to
get dry!'
No, lndade." said the boy" that's not wat 1
doan5 want yer money; want that ons
From the man in the warm fur coat an
hat,
Who could shtecl a cent from q gurrul like
thati 81 $751;
AT liver he thres that game agin.
He'd hetther take me. and not Margery
Flynn e. ...t~s
Then cheer on cheer for little Jerry
Rang across the Fulton Ferry. -.f
Long ago. my youthful readers,
Happened this that have told; Is
Long ago that sturdy newSboy
All his daily papers sold
And the pluck that dared a ducking -st..
TO set right weak ones wrong
Served him well i'll every STRUGGLED; 49,
And his life 9th kind and strong,
Is a blessing and comfort
To world of needy boys
Who like him, must work in play-time
With boot brushes for their TOYS.
But around the Fulton Ferry,
Still the newSboys talk of Jerry.
Mary Lo'rc b clemson, in So. Nicholas.
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much delighted to see them. "but are
YOU not rather afraid to have, them go
out such cold weather as thisPp
..Oh. no. replied Mrs. Brown, 1--WE
thought it would do them good, for
they all have the smallpox and scarlet
..But that is very wrong" said the
lady of the house, flor such things, you
know. are catching, and l. am really
afraid to have them here.P
Mrs Brown looked as though she
did not care in the least; and Mrs.
Smith said in her gentle way:
.sThey amt re1Y sick, l guess, and
may be they'll keep it all themselves.
They cried to come. and we had to
bring EN-
The lady of the house shook her head
at this, as she replied.
That is not beginning right, Mrs.
Smith-you will spoil your children.
When was child I never got any
thing I cried for. -,
.May be you didn't cry very tond,,
said Mrs. Biscuits. who was pretty good
at tn 5 herself: and then forgetting the
play she added, as though she had just
thought of it: II never heard you cry
at all, Cousin Nellie
This made Cousin Nellie laugh: and
then they all laughed at Mrs. Biscuit is;
and poor little Mrs. Biscuits began to
cry quite in earnest; and then Cousin Nell
lie had to take her on her lap, dolly. muit
and .all-until, finally. she got quiet
again. I'll,
Then the lady of the house thought
OF offering her visitors refreshments--a
rosy-cheeked apple and an orange for
each: and after awhile they all said
they must 60 Cousin Nellie. picked up
Mrs Biscuits and carried her to the
door; and Mrs, Brown. who wished to
be rerg polite. said: s.'i
lam very happy to wish you good
morning ''-EUa Rodnaan Church., an
(H2trchUlQ3. -
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women and the girls seem to work with
more vigor than the men-very often,
indeed, they support their husbands and
their fathers, who have fallen into
drunken habits in other cases, this nail
making is the means of supplementing
the husbands wages.
But what do the nail-makers earn
week, may naturally be asked? The
remuneration they receive is incredibly
small. 1t is no unusual thing-on the
contrary, it is rather the usual custom
for a family of three or four persons,
after working something like fourteen
hours day, to earn FL in week. But
out of this money there has to be de-
Quoted Is. Sd. for carriage to convey
the nails to the "gaffers," as they are
termed in the district; then there is al
lowance to be made for fuel and the re-
pairing of the machinery, which reduces
the FL to about los. Cd. for three people
for three people who have com
menced to work every morning at half
past seven or eight O'Clock, and who
have worked on through all the weary
day, with no substantial food, until late
at night. Who is it that reaps the bene-
fit of all this terribly hard work?
Certainly not the laborers; for it is
well-known fact that they rarely taste
meat from one weeks end to the other.
In the expressive but simple language
of the Door workman, this is how they
fare: "When the bread comes hot
from the bakehouse oven on Saturday
we eat it like ravening wolves.'' The
''foggers," + "Tommy-shop' men live
lives of contentment, profit. and rest al
the expense of the poor nail-workers,
The "fogger" is an intermediate agent
between the worker, of nails and the
buyer. Out of the bone and sinew O.
these poor people he makes very fins
hving-and he does not work. He has
huckster's shop attached to his dwsli.
ing; he supplies, at the beginning q
the week, the nail-workers with their
sixty-pound bundles of iron, and when
they return the bundles of iron in the
marketable shape of nails-out of which
he makes at least twenty per cent.
profit-if they do not buy his high
priced provisions, they get no moro
work from him. These are the men
who, by cutting down the workmen's
wages to starvation point, are at the
root of the evil.-Lontlon STANDARD. A.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A not spring, which wells up through
bed of gravel and iron ore, has been
discovered at Richmond, Va.
French scientists have just discov-
cred new fish. They instantly and
with great presence of mind called it
the Eurypharynx pelecanoides.
Mr.. Rutledge held lately at a scien-
tific meeting that the paper trade was
probably the one which turned to i'm
mediate use more waste products than
any other. In it was utilized cotton,
fax, hemp, and jute waste, and old
ropes and canvas rags. In fact, the
paper manufacturer could turn to profit
able purpose any vegetable fiber.
"A patent recently granted in Vienna
and Berlin is for using bands of steel.
tempered and hardened, to transmit
motion from one pulley to the other,
in betting. The faces of the pulleys,
according to this arrangement, are
turned perfectly fiat and then covered
with varnish of rosin, shellac, and as
phalt.
-Fireproof paper may be made, ac-
cording to the Ph0rnl0ceutische Zeitat7ag,
from pulp consisting of 1 part of vege-
table fiber, 2 parts of asbestos, Ito part
made from IS parts of graphite, s parts
80 parts of tincture of nutgalls, and g
sufficient quantity of indigo carmine.
"A new disinfectant and antiseptic
is announced by Mr.. Lebon of the Paris
Academy, which has been successfully
tested in the transportation of fresh
meat from South America to England.
The inventor calls his antiseptics cal
cium glycerine- oborat and natrium-
SUPERINTENDENT, and claims many adj
vantages for them over the usual pre-.
servative disinfectants.
1t is stated that several kinds OF
woods, says the Engineer, although of
great durability in themselves, act upon
each other to their mutual destruction.
Experiments with cypress and walnut
and cypress and cedar prove that they
will rot each other when joined togeth-
er, and ON separation the rot will cease
and the timbers remain perfectly sound
for long period. .-..
The principal tree in the Manitoba
woods is the poplar, the next in import
ance is the oak, and near the rivers will
be noticed large elms. A very beauti
full tree is the ash-leaf maple. Its fresh,
green leaves open out in the spring. 1t
is a most vigorous grower, and bears
transplanting remarkably well. Were
its qualities known it would be valued
as an ornamental tree in any northern
country. In the spring the ash-leaf
maple yields sweet sap from which
excellent sugar can be made, the chief
trouble being that at the time the sap
flows the flooding of the river makes it
difficult to reach the trees. On the
shores of the streams which enter the
Red River, and especially near their
mouths, Eastwood grows in great abund-
ance, and ironwood of large size can
be met with.-Chicago Times.
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JOhnny's Tears.

Johnny had great trial. He was
sitting on the floor. looking over his
pictures. and baby toddled up and tore
one right across. one of The very pretti-
est. Johnny called out; 20 mamma,
seen' and began to cry. ,ts
Johnny" said mamma. as she took
baby away, did you know that tears
are salt water?"
Johnny checked sob and looked up.
t'No.' he said, with great interest,
''are theyP How did you find out,
mammal"
'.Oh. somebody told me so when
was little girl. and tried tear and
found it was true.'
Real salt water" asked JOHNNY.
Eyes, try and see.'' = ..,tsvr
Johnny would very. gladly have tried
he could only have found tear. But
by that time there was not one left. and
his eyes were SO clear and bright it was
no use hoping for any more that time.
He looked at the torn picture. but it did
not make him feel bad any more. All
ne could think IF was whether tears
tasted like sa water. ~
Next time cry 1 viii find out!' he
determined. -
That very afternoon while climbing
over the top of the rocking-chair he
fell and got bump. 1t was too much
for any little boy, and too much for
Johnny. and he was just beginning to
cry loudly when he happened to think
what good chance this was going to
be to catch some tears. He. put up his
finger too quick, in TACT. for there had
not q tear come yet worth mentioning.
and now that his thoughts had wandered
from the bump, he could not seem to
cry about it any more. So that chance
was lost. al2 bae -s'i..si
Il can't get single tear to taste of.
mammal he said, ruefully.,, - San.
shine. -
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THE LITTLE VISITORS.

It was such a cold day that the peo-
pie in the streets, hurried by, m,tif'ed
up almost to the tips of their noses.
VIII. le'the window panes We're covered
with frost fern leaves and branches OF
coral. that were very pretty to look at
if they had not looked so cold; and no
one who could help it cared about going
out.
Three little people, however, took
this dreadful day to 60 a-visiting. They
did not so very far, to be sure only to
Cousin Nellie's room; and when Cousin
Nellie, who was busy writing 4 story for
little readers (which she often did,,
heard slow altering down the stairs,
and then whispering and laughing,
and finally u loud knocking on her door,
that was kept up until the visitors fairly
got into the room, she wondered little
what was coming non.
But she was used to funny things, for
she had two little cousins and small
neighbor next door, who played with
them s. great deal, and Cousin Nellie
was not very much surprised even to
hear sort of bark, that seemed to be
suddenly stopped. Then there was q
little barking in a VIII sper for Billy,
the dog, always felt that he ought to
going on, and he was quite sure that
When Cousin Nellie said: ''Come
in" the door opened suddenly, and in
tumbled Billy, the first thing, with one
of the boys caps on his head. He
looked absurd enough, but he was sup
posed to be gentleman who had come
with the three ladies. They introdu ed
him as MIR. BILL but with one shake
he knocked the cap off his head, and
picking out the warmest place as he
always did), instead Of attending to the
ladies, he settled himself down behind
Cousin Nellie's stove and went fast
asleep.
"Why Mrs. Brown" said the lady of
the house chat was Cousin Nellie, you
know, as she saw Clara's bright eyes
peeping out from under her mother s
black lace veil. while the velvet sacque
fairly reached her feet, 81 am very
glad to see you-do walk in. And this
IS Mrs. Smith. isn't it? SO kind of you,
Mrs. Smith, to come out on such d day
as this. )"
..Mrs. Smith. was Mamie Rade, the
little girl next door, who was gentle
little thing, with great blue eyes and
cheeks like damask roses. She was
bundled up SO in a big shawl that she
could scarcely move; and she had on a
large bonnet with a great bunch of
towers in it.
But the funniest figure of all was lit
tie roly-poly Alice, who was nearly as
broad as she was long. whose dress
tra- led so that she nearly tumbled at
every step; AID she carried grand
mamma muff. that was nearly as large
as herself. When Cousin Nellie called
her :. Mrs. Biscuits and gave her the
rocking chair. she was very much de-
lighted made her feel quite as though
she 'oas a grown-up lady going out
visiting.
1--WE have brought all our children,
said Mrs. Brown, who thought that she
ought to say something: and she displayed
her largest doll. "Flora Matilda
closely mul ed up. i.
Mrs. smith seemed to have pair of
twins in her arms; and little Mrs. Bis
cults held out an unfortunate infant with
only one foot and no hands to speak OF.
1.-THE darlings." exclaimed the lady
of the house. as though she were very
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The Bug With a Mash.

There is funny little creature that
wears a covering all over his face just
l ke mask. And what do you think it
is for? Let us see. N
Perhaps you have seen the beautiful
dragon-iies that look SO much like hum
ming birds and butterflies, too. They
have broad wings, as thin as fly $. that
glitter like glass in the sunshine. Their
backs are just like blue steel.
You will always find them in the hot
summer months flying through the
fields. or over ponds and rivers. In
the country they are called l''devirs
darning- needless because they are so
slender, perhaps. The French, people
call them ..'demoiselles," which means
ladies'
+ Now, this handsome swift creature
grows from an ugly bug. that crawls
over the mud at the bottom of the pond.
And this is the way it comes about:
Little white eggs are laid on The wa
ter, the ripples carry them far away,
and then they sink into the mud.
The warm sun matches them. and
from each egg creeps tiny grub of
greeni>h color They are hungry Great
ures. with very bad hearts. They eat
up every little insect that comes in their
way. tAhCy dIc NCly SASs WV. AHCy
creep towards their prey as a cat does
when she is in search arat.
They lift their small harry legs, as if
they were to do the work. 1t is not the
legs, but the head that does it. Sud-
denly it seems to open. and down
drops kind of visor with joints and
hinges.
This strange thing is stretched out
until it swings from the chin. Quick
as 4 fish some insect is caught in the trap
and eaten.
This queer trap, or mask, is the under
lip of the grub. Instead of being flesh
like ours, it is hard and horny, and large
enough to cover the whole face.
1t has teeth and muscles, and the grub
uses it as weapon, too. .n-
1t is nearly year before this ugly
looking gruD gets its wings. A little
while after it is Matched, four tiny buds
sprout from it's shoulders, just as you
see them on the branc h of a tree. These
are really only watery sacs at first. In
side of them the wings grow slowly I'M
til you can see the bright colors shining
through
Some morning this ha 'ry-legged little
bug creeps up q branch. Then he
shakes out his wings and flies away into
the air, a slender, beautiful dragon-hy.
| have told you OF the only creature
in the world that wears this curious
mask.-Nrs. q. Hall, IN Our Little Ones.
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Nail. in the Black Country.

About "a, 900 people are engaged in
this dismal part of Great Britain in
making nails and rivets. 1t would not
be so much a matter for surprise, even
for the lowness of the wages that they
earn, if they were all men and youths
who are engaged in the industry-one
of the very worst paid in any part of
the country. But it SO happens-and
here arises the social degradation of the
traffic-that there are at. least 10000
females engaged day after day In the
occupation. They are not all mature
women either; daughters work by the
side of mothers-daughters who, in
their tender years, ought to be either at
home, if they have any home, or in
bed, instead of working their weary
arms in shaping, in the still small hours
of the morning, molten iron into the
form of nails for the benefit of what are
called the s'foggers." Here is picture
of what may be seen any night in this
.district-except, perhaps, Saturday
nights. In the middle of shed which
.adjoins q squalid-looking house. there is
a whole family at work in the pro-
-duction of these nails; father, mother,
sons and Observation-Disclosures, too,
very young in years, but with the sad
look of premature age which is always
to be noticed in the faces of child
ers. The gayety of youth, its freshness
and its gentleness, seemed TO be crushed
out of them. In the centre of the shed,
with its raftered ceilings bleak and
wretched building, through the walls of
which the wind readily finds its way
there is s'hearth," fed by s'gledes' or
breezes. Probably there is q girl or
woman blowing at the bellows, while
the strips Of iron from which the nails
are made become molten. Or, to take
an actual case witnessed by the writer a
few nights since, close upon midnight:
In one of these FORCES were q mother
and several children. The mother was
a woman probably forty years Of age;
her youngest daughters flaxen-h haired
girl, with sweet and winsome face
was certainly not more than twelve
years of age. By the side of the hearth
there was what is technically called the
SsOliver"-a barrel-hke construction, ON
the top of which is fixed the stamp of
the particular pattern and size of the
, nail required to be made. The work
men and workwomen, by means of
wooden treadle-an industrial tread
mill it ought more strictly to be called
shoot out the nails from the slot in
which they are fixed. They have pre-
viouslv hammered the top of the incan-
descent metal, with masculine firmness,
so as to form the head of the nail. The
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PITH AND POINT.

"A bad temper always manages to
act on the theory that two wrongs will
somehow make it all right.
The man who never changes his
opinion amt a-going to know much, and
the one who changes it too often is
a-goine to know ss.2-Josh Billings.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wishes our
hired girls had more manners. Don't
agree with You, Elizabeth. The hired
girl has manners enough already. What
she ought to have is, fewer manners and
better ones.-Detroit Free Press. at
while William Gable, a deaf man,
was walking on the Reading Railroad
tracks, near Leesport, Monday morning
but why pursue the painful subject
further. He was deaf and, like all deaf
men, loved to take his morning prone
made on railroad track. Peace to his
pieces.-N. z. Graphic.
The honest reflections of q gentle.
man after marriage are very interesting,
but it is not often that we find them in
tender verse:
We are scratched or we are bitten,
By the pets to whom we cling;
9 Oh my love she is a kitten,
And my hearts ball of string.
Indeed, shall not buy my wife
sealskin sacque," remarked Philadel-
phia man. "They are so hard to get
off that the fair owners keep them on
when making calls and are sure to take
cold when they 90 out again into the
open air. love my wife too much to
expose her to such dangers" s b.,
She was one of those nervous,
fidgety sort of women who get up on a
IL hn
swallowed lively fly with her raspber-
Fourth of July had arrived twenty -four
hours too soon. Freedom, during the
primest days of Kosciusko. never
shrieked with greater velocity than she
did.
1t was down at Lancaster, Pa. The
Major sat looking earnestly and affec-
tionately at his friend. "Bob," he said,
presently, 81 dreamed about you last
night "Did you, Ad?'' his friend re-
piled, his eyes filing with tears. "Yes, -
said the Major, in heartless tones, 81
had the nightmare" And then the
sounds of two strong men ''rastling"
under the table were heard in the dis
tance-NorristoUn Herald. .e
A friend informs us of the following !:
A man who bought a badly fitting suit
that was much too large for him, was
constantly taken to task by his good
wife for the folly. One evening as their
little daughter was retiring, they We're
much surprised to overhear the follow
ing conclusion of her evening prayer:
s'Please, God, make pa over again, so
as his clothes I'll fit him, and then ma
won't nag at him no more!''-Detrot
Post.
Little Johnny Fizzletop attended a
child's party at fashionable residence
on Austin avenue. While the supper
was progressing, it was noticed chat
Johnny was weeping. ''What's the
matter, Johnny?' asked the lady Of the
house. ''I-can't feed any more, - said
Johnny, sobting as if his little heart
would break. ssWell, then, put some
apples and cake in your pockets"
''They are full already" replied john
n.y.: with fresh paroxysm of grief:
'sThen I'll get you a. big basket to fill
up to take home with you.' Then the
incipient little office-holder smiled
through his tears, harmony was restored
within the party lines, and the forma-
ton of new party was happily averted.
TEXAS Siftiia0s.
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Silver coins reduced in weight by
abrasion are redeemable at their full
face value; but clipped and punched
coins"are bought by weight as bullion.
There are few clipped coins still circu-
iating. Let them be RETIRED Chicago
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Three men fell $50 feet in the Como
Eureka mine at Como, New, but only
one was seriously hurt.