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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
THE TWO ASToRS.
Contrast Between the John of To-Day and
the John of Yesterday.

Contrast Between the John of To-Day and
the John of Yesterday.
The original John Jacob Astor may
| have had, at some time or another, q
carriage, but never heard that he did,
It would have been contrary to the
habit of his life to spend a dollar for
personal comfort or ease, while a cent
devoted to the procurement of any kind
of luxury would have been a waste SO
grievous as to cause tears of bitter re-
greet to flow down his brazen cheek.
Now, mind you, the present John Jacob
Astor is a very nice man. There is
nothing special about him, enc way or
another, except his wealth. I don't
mean to imply that he leads in any
sense a shoddy life. On the contrary,
his entire course is that of plain,
practical, methodical man Of business,
devoted to the accumulation of shekels,
and much more interested in phase OF
social prosperity which would warrant.
his raising the rents of his vast estab
lishments five or ten per cent. than in
any possible improvements in the con-
dition of the race, or any great prob
lem, financial or political. The con-
trast, nevertheless, between the John
Jacob Aston of to-day and the John
Jacob Astor who peddled knicknacks
about Beaver, Wall, and William
streets is so tremendous that no mere
word-painting could presume to present
its picture. The one lived in howell,
the other in palace The one fed on
crusts, the other on the best the market
affords. The one was looked upon with
suspicion, as a misery old grub; the
other is regarded as the great landlord
of the day, intent, to be sure, upon max
ing and saving money, everywhere re-
spected as one who keeps his word and
cares for the protection of his property.
The one utterly unfamiliar with the in
side of comfortable dwelling, the other
accustomed from his earliest days to
social courtesies in what are called our
best families. The one probably never
saw a festive dance in all his life; the
other is conspicuous for his attendance
at the society balls and festive develop
ments of the season. The one walked
through the streets with heavy pack
upon his back; the other lumberly Tolls
along Broadway, conscious of his posi-
ton and proud of his wealth, or else
trundles downtown in heavy family
coach, drawn by the most respectable
span of horses in the province. Oh,
yes, it is great change, a vast distinc-
ton, and very natural was the thought
suggested by the appearance OF the lat
,er-day Astor.-Cor. Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
oBJEcTEDTo acknowledgements
An Ohio Man Who Thoughts Ordinary
Cattle Were Quite Good Enough
for Him.

An Ohio Man Who Thoughts Ordinary
Cattle Were Quite Good Enough
for Him.
"What's the use of turnin' things up
side down an your pockets inside out
over any thoroughbred or extraordi-
narily gifted stock? What d. We want
in this part O. country with cow, for
instance, as Ill give a washtub full o.
milk several times day? No farmin'
man can, or will, live on milk alone;
an after you've used all the butter for
the table an hair-oil purposes you can,
you'll have some left on your hands,
an you can't compete with oleomar-
garine that has no hair. For every
extra pint thoroughbred gives she
consumes so much more feed than yer
common ole muley IL keep fat on, an
give enough milk of a mild blue cloyin'
tendency, too. Feed IS worth more to us
farmers than milk, lots more. Thaintno
successful artificial hay an corn in
market that I've run agin.
"Now, there's my neighbor, j. De
Smith, he's been improvin' an i'm
provin' his strain of cattle till the poor
mans actually got nothin' left in the
world but that one thoroughbred short
horn. He put in most of his time this
summer, almost day an night, on that
short-horn. gittin' him ready for the
fair.
Son the road to the fair the short
horn, with his cavortin' an PAWN
round in a red blanket, scared three
old farm teams till they ran off with sew
eral of the best families in the county.
The first day of the fair he kicked a
well-known young sprig from Wash
ington Township in the pit of the stom-
ach hard enough to pulyerize his watch
crystal, who, on recovering sufficient
wind, Immediately set about diligently
spreadin' the report that them kind of
cattle wouldn't do at all for this eli
mate. In the grand parade of premium
stock he took a two-dollar prize, on the
last day he run horn through the most
vulnerable part of the Presidents pants,
terrifyin' him an gainin' his instant
an influential disapproval.
s''Fore De Smith got home his nat
ural arms was most wrenched of, an
entirely so the arms of his best coat, a
holdinf that brute, an several individ-
uals had thrillingly narrow escapes
from abruptly violent ends.
..Now where's the pay in collateral,
fun or premiums for sichp tell We it
don't pay. Give me ordinary cattle an
more of the comforts an emoluments
of farmin' an more rest. an Ell be
calmly satisfied to forego the pomp an
circumstance of red card at the fair. y
Commercial Gazette.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
DRAINAGE.

How 1t Benefits the Health of Man and
Beast-An Important Matter.
The more easily seen benefits arising
from thorough drainage of the soil
have often been described, and the inn
portance of thing. for the purpose of
increasing the profits arising from
farming. isbecoming widely recognized.
As means for preventing sickness
drainage has received some notice
from practical farmers, but its use
fulness in this direction is by no means
as generally understood and appre-
ciated as. it should be by jewellers in
country or in city. Until enthusiastic
microscopes began prying into the
hidden mysteries of Nature, little was
known of the causes that make I'M
drained swamps and stagnant pools in
furious to health. The microscope
has revealed the reason. The warm,
stagnant waters are the prolific
breeding place of countless multitudes
of minute organisms that, floating in
the air, find their way into the ami
NAL system to disturb the natural
functions, and not infreguently cause
lingering sickness and death.
As long ago as 1862 and 1868 an
elaborate series of Investigations was
made by james III. Salisbury, NJ. D., to
determine the causes of malaria. The
experiments, observations, and deduc-
tions made were described by DIR. Sails
bury in a prize essay before the Albany
Medical College, and afterward pub
1ished in the american Journal of Me1i-
cal Science in 1866. The opening sem
tence of this essay says: ut has been
observed from remote times that the
exhalations from drying marshes and
the dessicating beds of ponds, pools
and streams have noxious influence
Abundant evidence. fully supported by
that of later observers, showed that
malarial disease, especially ague, were
caused by minute vegetable growths.
In the conclusion of his essay, DR..
Salisbury said: s.As the malarial por-
tions of the country become lower, and
the low, humid, rich grounds become
drained and cultivated, ague districts
will become more and more circum-
scribed and intermittents proportion
ally decreases; as long, however, as
there remains in such localities pools,
ponds. bitches. streams, the beds of
which are liable to become more or less
dry during the warm summer months,
intermittents may be expected to GER
tain extent to prevail. These sources
of the disease, however, may be much
lessened by turning the open bitches
into blind ones. draining pools, swamps
and ponds, and subjecting the soil of
their beds to repeated cultivation. BY
this process intermittents, which now
extensively prevail over large por-
ton of our richest districts, may be SO
circumscribed in their limits as to be no
longer dreaded accompaniment to
the most fertile agricultural sections of
our country
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

Ar en, brace, While Two dark blue eyes
looked lovingly at him and beseeching1y
st ! lady standius sbE Nho ansFsp.
smilingly: -
..VeTry well, Nellie, keep him 4 you
Ike: he is probably stray kitten.
From that time Tony = life was . very
happy one, and he never stole his
Thanksgiving dinner again. But where
do You suppose that cook thought the
chicken went TO Ida z. 1Xssrsfors So
CHICAGO Advance.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
A DOMESTIC ROW.

Dispute in q Printing-Onfce, In Which the
Shears Were Not Even Mentioned.
One morning the Washington Hand
Press in Printing Office suddenly flew
its Frisket and called out in loud
voice:
Hear We! hear We! But for me the
banner could not be issued each
Week!''
just hear that! sneered a Case of
Bureeois over by the Window. where
would be the Paper but for its Type?'
..And they never Printed Paper yet
without ink added the Roller in a
Glue and Molasses voice.
"Well, l don't want to Appear Ego
tistical, y observed a Bundle of White
Paper living on the floor, but if you
knew how hard it was for the Editor to
raise the Cash to buy me, you'd Inn
agine / was of some little Account
Around here -
gentleman, added the Imposing
Stone. in a marble voice, II dom t
claim to own all the corner lots in
Town, but if the Chases, Shooting
Stick, Mallet, Quoins and myself were
to 90 on Picnic I'd like to see the
Banner 90 to press-I would!'
The Gordon Jobber, Box Stove and
several of the Galleys were getting
ready to chip in when the Editor en-
tered and asked the cause of the Row.
The matter was explained by the Card
Cutter in a Calm and Unbiased manner,
and the Editor replied:
Each and every one of you are
valued in your Respective Places, and
oil combined on To helm issue the Lead
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
READING FOR THE YOUNG
sPEckLE.s THANKSGIVING.

Twas early in the morning
OF the glad Thanksgiving Day,
And the people on old grandpa farm
Were joyous, blithe and gay;
For the dinner was preparing,
And the folks from out of town
Were fastening home to help us eat
The turkey, crisp and brown.
We children were exploring
The red rooted barn for eggs,
And climbing up TO the rafters, with
No fear of broken legs.
For the boys were bold and daring,
And the girlS-were TOm-boys, too.
And the hens looked on in wild amaze,
And round aboutus flew.
Said our youngest pet and darling:
I'm so glad + not hen;
For they don't have a Thankful day,
Nor dinners, nor-just then
Uprose our gray old speckle
From her hidden nest near by,
Aud passed us with merry cluck,
And crested head on high;
While close behind her followed
The darlings Matched that day
Twelve dainty, downy, fluffy chicks,
Some yellow and some gray.
"Cluck, cluck, said Mistress Speckle,
Here's one thankful hen, you see.
Who says this is not a glad
Thanksgiving Day for me?'
Our Little Ones.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
THE BRANDYsHANKs.

Tho Exciting Adventures Of nIinneap-
oils Family While Visiting the Falls OF
St. Anthony.
Although Mr.. and Mrs. Brandyshanks
have lived in Minneapolis year, they
never visited the Falls Of St. Anthony
until the other day. They were accom-
panied by three youthful Brandyshanks
and dog built very long for his eleva-
ton. chow, my DEAR said Brandy
shanks, as he led the way across the
platform, heres the falls. Here you
see the father of waters laundering down
catch that fool dogi Gauldarn his
idiotic picture, don't he know enough
to stay in out of the wetP Here is tie
greatest water-power IN the Northwest.
Here you behold what has made this
city the greatest Maria, don't you see
that fool kids about to tumble IMP Got
SO wrapt up in his seeond-class squirt
gun that you lose sight of your children
and stand gawping at lot of slush
own flesh and hoods trying to choke
itself to death on sewer water and saw
dust? Long before the foot of white
man trOd these shores the fierce Abo-
rigine built his wigwam here and gazed
upon this wonder of--Well, split me
wide open, if that cussed dog Amt in
the mill-racei Oh, yes, holler for him
to come back He ii come! Can come
back just as easy as not. No trouble
at all for q bow-legged dog G-awim up
. mill-race that runs fifteen miles 8 sec
ond. He's just going down that way
for fun! Can get him outp Can I tie
my legs in bow-knot around my neck
and jump over the stone bridget Ganl-
darn fool woman, anyhow ANY more
idiotic questions you want to askp Ex-
pect me to shuck myself and Jump
in there to rescue y fool hound that
don know . mill-race from q pulley
bonep Yes. that's right, cry now! Just
hang your head over the railing and
add your briny tears to the food Of
waters, for another dog gone dead. As
/ was saying before they put this apron
on the falls where is the apronP We'll.
skin me alive! Where do Won supuose
it lisp Suppose it's some fool thinr il
wears over its Mother Hubbard when Il
dimes at the Nicolletp Have Al idea
prancing around in your empty crani-
um that it is something it ties around
its waist with a string and pins M over
its corsetP Think it was made up %
order BY some red-headed dressmaker?
Any notion o. tryin' to crib the patternp
The aprons that political platform Get
on the edge that the water slides over.
DO You grasp the idea nowp Oh. You
DOR How did they put the apron onp
expected You had q few more cues
Tons sticking around in your syst1kn.
Think I'm an Encyclopedias Britannica
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
The assertion Is made hv a Pitt

The assertion is made by Pitts
burgh man that in fifty years, perhaps
in twenty-five, coal will not be carried
from the mines to its places of dcstina-
ton in bulk, but only its actual heat
energy transported, and that by wire.
This process, he says, can be accom-
plished by converting the coal into
heat, the heat into motion, and the
motion into electricity. A storage bat
terry at Cincinnati would take it up as
generated at the mines. From the bat
terry it could be taken out and convert
ed back into motion and heat, or
changed into light. Pittsburgh Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
Once in the dining-room of the

Once in the dining-room of the
principal hotel in Amherst, Mass,
table girl asked me: HAS any other
lady taken your orderP" was obliged
to confess that had not had an oppor-
tunity to give my order to ssany other
LADY, A little girl of my acquaintance,
whose instincts and training had
made her unusually polite for child,
startled the family by announcing:
mamma, the swil1 lady is at the back
door. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

The well of A. A. Sherman, at
Coeymans, N. Y, on the Hudson River,
contained but scanty supply of water
previous to the recent earthquake, but
since then the supply has been album
dant.-Kingston Freeman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

Rose leaves, dried and stepped in
water, make a cool and pleasant wash
for the face and eyes. Exchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

it may be picked out by calculating in
the following manner:
Add together the numbers in the al
phabet of the top letters of the columns
in question, A being the first letter, 3
the second, d the fourth, ii the eighth
and P the sixteenth, and the sum will
be the letter sought
For example, take the word Jane.
Jane tells you that the first letter of her
name is in two of the columns, the one
beginning with B and that beginning
with I'll. Now, B is the second letter in
the alphabet and III is the eighth letter,
as any one who can count knows. Add
two and eight and you have ten. The
tenth letter of the alphabet is j.
In the same way James whole name
can quickly be spelled out. The next
letter. A. appears in but one column.
N is in the columns headed B, d and n,
which are the second, fourth and eighth
letters of the alphabet. Being added
they give the fourteenth letter, or n.
And SO the E is just as easily found.
Golden Days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

Let the person whose
name you wish to know
tell you in which Of
these upright columns
the first letter of his
name is found. II it be
found in but one col
umn it is the top letter.
Should it be found in
,a<,ro fl,on ~l,o cnJ,Yron
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

And the Shears lay right there in
Plain Sight and were not even mem
toned. Detroit Free-P Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
Blythe HEARTH5ToNE.

5,llen AMI dreary the day OF the upland
and void.
Faded the leaves OF the trees from their Grim
son and gold.
Dark are the shadows and harsh blows the
wind DER the hill
Chilled in their nests are the birls, their
sweet voices are still.
Fierce'y AMI swiftly the rain falls from day
dawn till eve,
6ombre andsal ara the thoughts taat the
rain murmurs leave.
Darby the clou Is hover nearer aad shut out
the light,
Cherries AMI cold como the uubidden dusk
anithe night.
Draw closer the curtains, shut out the dark
ness and gloom,
Pile W tho logs sill the fralight steals
through the room,
Wat II the long shadows that dance in qlnint
gleo upon tho walls
And the brightness thlt gladdens each face
where the freight falls.
Away with sad murmurs, away with dull
ness AMI care,
Safe by the heaF5h35one the whole world
LOOKS pleasant an fair.
Twere happy fate for earth if wanderers
tonight,
Could b. sur5 OF home, AMI hearth and a
freight
-Py8cideRce Journal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
Defective Ears.

The results of certain inquiries which
have been made concerning the statistics
of ear disease have been made known by
DR.. Buskner German physician, and
may be stated briefly as follows Every
third person in middle life does not hear
so well with one ear as with the other.
In an examination of 5,90j school chill
dren it was found that twenty-three per
cent. presented symptoms of actual dis.
ease of the ears, while thirty-two per
cent. showed diminution OF hearing
power. The liability to disease of the
ear increases from birth to the fortieth
year, and then decreases to old age. Men
are more subject to ear affections than
women, in the proportion of three to two.
The external ear is affected in twenty five
rer cent. of the total cases, the middle
ear in sixty-sev per cent, and the in
ner ear in eight per cent. The left ear is
more frequently affected than the right in
the proportion of five to four. Acute
affections of the middle ear occur less
frequently in summer and autumn than
in spring and winter, and a little more
than half of the cases treated are cured.
--.------4s-------
The assessed value of Illinois is $10,-
900, 900 less than it was one year ago.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
DihnNnninfnlcnf,

f'Here's good piece of advice" Cap
tain Quibley, putting aside a newspaper
and turning to his wife. "a paragraph
here says that a man should never smoke
apipe while going down stairs. In case
he should fall, hs would be likely to
drive the stem through the roof of his
mouth and out at the top of his head"
81 never heard Of such a thing" re.
piled Mrs. Quibley.
''It's not by any means improbable, u
rejoined the captain. "There's our Old
friend George Gaines. He is a great
smoker, you know"
Eyes, with interest.
"Well, the other day-I forgot to men,
tion it, by the wayne was coming
down stairs ard his foot slipped, and
down he went. He always smoked q
long stem pipe you know"
"Great goodness, captain"
eyes, he had a passion for long stem
pipes. One day while we were out hunt
ing he found cane root about five feet
long. He took it home with him and
had it bored out. Beats any"
'But when he fell did he drive il
Trough his head|'
ooh, no. You see he had to STOP
smoking on account Of his health, but !
was going TO say for example,
"QuiOley, yoa are the biggest fool
ever saw. Go on now and split up some
wood. You ought to be ashamed of
yourself to disappoint any one in that
way. ."-1rkaHSda0 TJNre'cr.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
VOL. XII.
THE DESCENT OF WINTER.

THE DESCENT OF WINTER.
With one strong foot upon the prone, dumb
land,
Sowing the snowfakes out his great, rough
Loud-voiced, in tempests poured beneath the
sky
In whirling storm-gusts, doth he stand and
cry:
Lo, lam come--King Winterl"
Frozen becomes the bleak moors shallow
edge:
The lank crane shivers in the frosty sedge;
The little sparrows fit with trembling wings
Over TIE dank reeds, and the plover sings;
Ah, he is come-King Winter"
The frowsy pipe-weeds on the gary marsh
Stand frozen, battling 'gainst .he COLI winds
harsh;
The homeless snowflakes. sinking, yet un-
dumb,
Down-dropping in the black-pools, sigh: "IVe
come,
The ensigns of King Winter"
Bent are the brakes beneath the whelming
SHOWS;
The timid rabbit through the marsh grass
goes;
Wet-winged the robin pipes beyond the fen.
AT mournful twilight answered by the wren:
Night-night! have pity, Winterl',
Still mute and PROSTATE the grim landscape
lies;
Still fall the fakes down from the pitiless
skies
In swarms thro' the wide dusk on everything
Sown from the Northland by the Giant King,
Ruler Of Rivers Winter.
Ruddy the lamps within yon cottage glow,
And childhoods voice comes waited to me
low,
In merry laughter and incessant mirth,
When the thawed roof-snow slips into the
earth
Under the steps of Winter.
Shut fast thy door, my Soul, and bide with
Heart-warmth hast thou, and Love to house
thee in;
Let the SHOWS fall, still shall our nights be
mirth,
Quiet, with laughter by the freside hearth;
Pour down thy SHOWS, oh, Winterl
Still, when without hear the piteous call
OF His lost robins in the gray nightfall.
wish, while screams the wind with bitter
cold,
All things Of His housed warm within His
field:
His birdsl-have mercy, Winter
Where are His dewirops now' His tender
leaves?
His social crickets 'mong the monday
sheaves9
Hath Earth no answerl Hark! 'Tis the
heron gray
Calling, across the moor's edge far away,
"Cold are thy feet, oh, Winter!"
-ChorlesJ O'MalIey, i;s the Current.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
DY2ing the Hair.

Tba lodv of Oroo, El;y,hotb'o +iD,e
,,,oa ~ a%t.,,, ,% ~ "oo" ooorIav Co., al '.n
tiIic;ai G a. 70 ~ tbo lnSt 'G Jo-troo T Tow ~ noonio
f eI'C,',t 'i- t ~ -,,noI IIoi'o H.
moral conrogo of Rnnp7irI, who do
clared that his wife'g chair shall be of
what color it please Cod" Red, yellow
and black dives were in common use, the
first, PERHAPS, in compliment to the
queen, whose natural hair. seldom seen,
was reddish in hue. She herself pos.
sessed eighty wigs of various colors. The
demand for hair was SO LARGE that chill
dren were often a,Iured into corners and
shearcd; even the sanctitv of the grave
was not respected, and the dead were
robbed of their hair to adorn livinr
heads. This fashiap of dyeing the hair
was bv no means confined d: women:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-26
petrihed Wood.

The petrifed wood which is so abun-
dant in Arizona, Wyoming, and Rocky
Mountain regions, is utilized in San
Francisco, where there is now a fac
tory for cutting orpolishing these petri-
factions into mantelpieces, tiles, tablets,
and other architectural parts for which
marble or slate is commonly used, Petri-
fed wood is said to be susceptible of a
finer polish than marble or even onyx,
the latter Of which it is driving from the
market. The raw material employed
comes mostly from the forests of petri-
fed wood along the line of the Atlantic
and Pacific railway, Biologists will re-
gret the destruction of such interesting
primeval remains, and some steps ought
to 5e taken to preserve certain tracts in
their original state.