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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Is it Reform?

The New York Euening Post is the
leading exponent of the new civil SER
vice reform doctrine. Its professed OBJ
ject is to fill the offices with the beet
material, but the logic of it's position
against making changes can lead to no
other conclusion than that the mate
ria! with which the pubic places were
filled by recent Republican admin
istraticns, and which is now holding
over, is a great deal better than any
the Democratic party can furnish. Civ
il service reform, in its opinion. Con-
sists in retaining those that are, al
though a large portion Of them have
proved themselves to be offensive and
unworthy partisans. and. excluding
those that are out, who can not be any
worse than the old incumbents, with
the chance of being good deal better.
There is no paper m"re intrusively
garrulous in discussing what is necessa-
ry for President Cleveland to do to coI,-
form to the requirements of the new
civil service rules than is the Evening
Post. presnming upon the mugwump.
ian service it did during the campaign
But the evident purpose of it's talk is
to promote the interest of the officials
holding over from Republican admin
istrations. It is not unreasonable to
to assume that it believes that absten-
ton on the part of the administration
from turning the rascals out would he
height of civil service reform. The
Post tperceives, with satisfaction. that its
singular reformatory views, which It
endeavors SO zealously to impress up
ON the national administration, '.are
making progress in the state govern
ment." 1t points to the first govern
or that the Democrats of Pennsylvania
elected, in many years, as an example
of high state functionary, who has
been captivated by the beauties of the
new civil service idea. When Gov,
Pattison, it says, found that he must
appoint new superintendent Of public
schools, he looked into the matter.
found that the man selected by his
Republican predecessor had been an
exceedingly capable and faithful off,
cial and could do better work In the
future than any new man, and so he
named him for another termn This
course, the Post declares. was much
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
School Management.

A request has been presented for an
article on School Government.
1t is very difficult to separate be-
tween teaching and governing, and it
is an exceedingly open question wheth-
er they are inseparable and mutually
auxiliary. It seems better to treat the
whole subject as School Management.
This assumes that the teacher is the
leader of the school, and that the teach
er and the school are unit, the head
atty.
1t will be impossible to draft any set
of regulations to govern the schools of
a county, because set of rules might
succeed in the hands of one teacher and
fail in those of another, or they might
succeed among the scholars of one
school and fail in another. And it is
certain that no teacher ever yet attain
ed the best results by the infiexible ap-
plication OF any one rule to all his
scholars, or even to any two of them.
The management of school must rec
ognize the principle that enters into all
successful legislation and Jurisprudence,
namely, that the necessities of each
case must make the law which governs
it, regardless of the general provisions
of the written statute.
School management furnishes no ex-
ception to the principle that courts of
law are the curse, the Old Man of the
Sea, of our jurisprudence. All legal
proceedings should be cas.s in equity.
AS deduction from these principles a
school will show something like the
following: First, the scholars; second,
the teachers; third, the adaptation of
the teacher to the school. According
ly School Management must admit the
fact the scholar is the unit of measure
in the school, and that the teacher is
for the school and not the school for
the teacher. A teacher must then un-
derstand both himself and his school,
SO as to adapt himself to it. SO as to Sc
cure the best results. The capacity to
w tI0l 40 Cou1AIOb SCASO ih q SS0AhCAs .
Assuming that he can do this when he
enters the school he must fix all OBJ
jective point in all his work. The true
objective point in teaching is to enable
the scholar to think, that is to collect
facts, combine them, and deduce other
facts as conclusions. The teacher may
instruct the scholar how to think, but
the scholar must do the thinking. And
he must be taught to think independ-
emily. The gods and the devils of the
masses are to be admitted with many
grains of allowance. Truth is immut-
able, but human nature is progressive.
What was the best form of truth one
hundred years ago is not SO now. The
gods of one generation are the drift
| wood of the next. To think independ-
emily the scholar must be taught to
grasp facts and combine with respect
to his own individuality, rather than
that of his neighbor. There is no dan
ger that this will crystalize into selfish
ness, because God has formed our
hearts alike that He may observe all
our doings, and the unity of society is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

THAT HACKING COUGH can be SO quickly
cured by shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it.1
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

| members. A scholar must be taugnl
to think correctly. 1t is not difficult
to do this. He only needs to be shown
what principle or a practice has done
for those that have believed or follow
ed it. If the effect has been GOOD or
bad will be seen. aud by their fruits
shall We know them. And, lastly, the
scholar must be taught to think
promptly. The end of all improve
ment is to simplify, to shorten by
Strengthening the chain that unites
cause and effect. Neither is this diff
cult. Whenever it is needful that all
people should know thing, the lead
ing and governing principles OF it are
few and simple. The age demands
| Dispatch, but we must avoid it's coun-
terfeit, which is Hurry.
All teachings must be then Oh the
principle of Analysis and Cancellation.
But some one may ask, what has all
this to do with school management?
| And the answer is, much every way,
because it is true that a school cannot
be successfully conducted on the prin-
ciple OF direct repression of that which
is wrong. There is no other way in
which a scholar can be taught so thor
ougly that the way of the transgressor
is hard, as by showing him that wis.,
dom's ways are ways of plcasantness,
and that all her paths are paths of
peace. There is but one way OF ceas-
ing to do evil, and that is by learning
to do we'll.
And as example is more powerful
than precept, it will follow that the
teacher who can govern himself can
govern school. The teacher who
makes the control Of school ques-
ton of physical force, discloses his own
mental aud moral weakness, and must
eventually be failure. In order to
success, the teacher should know his
not only the school but the whole dis
trict as well. The school is the expo
nent of the district.
On the teachers being himself all
that he requires his scholars to be,
hangs the law and the prophets of
school management. That is, If he
wishes them to be punctual he must
be SO. If he wishes them to be polite
and respectful to him and each other,
he must be so to them. If he wishes
them to be attentive, he must be SO in /
a greater measure than he requires of
them.
If we could distinguish between
school teaching and school government,
we would say that the former consists
in enabling the scholar to think, inde-
correctly and promptly and
the latter in furnishing aids and en-
to that work ,and repress-
ing the hindrances, which is done best
by steering clear of them. Many years
ago, on the eastern coast of our coun.
try ship was about to enter very
channel. A boy came on
board as pilot. His age made the
captain doubtful of his capacity, SO he
asked, "Do you know where all the
rocks are in this channel?" The young
Jason answered, 81 know where they
are not, and that is enough for me-"
For the teacher who would carry out
the above ideas, and cultivate in his
scholars the habit of asking questions,
a failure III school management will be
possibility.
THOMAS CALLAHAN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City.
save Baggage Expressage andl Carriage Hire.
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel. opposite
Grand Central Depot
Elegant rooms fitted up at a cost ~ nm
million dollars, reduced to 81. 90 and upwards
per day. European plan. Elevator. Res-
taurant supplied with the best. Horse cars
stages and elevated railroad to all depots'
Grand Union Hotel than at any Other f;rst
class hotel in the city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Missionary Progress in Shannon County.

Says the Eminence C,.rrent Wave:
"The Missing Link turned up on last
Saturday, accompanied by Rev. E. A.
Chrisco. Mr.. G. had IN appointment
to preach at the school-house on that
evening and Rev. Peter Link on the
Sunday following. The church bell
changed, and while its notes were cut
ting swaths through the evening air
the atmosphere in the room under the
Odd Fellows Hall was filled with cigar
smoke and the stentor cry of q man
who had been engaged to prompt"
for number Of disciples of Terpischore.
The attendance at Mr.. Chrisco's meet
ing was deplorably slim. The word of
God was intinitesimally small, compar-
ed to fidlle. The people of Eminsnce
preferred to double shuffie'' and
"Swing Them Pardners" rather than
listen to a gospel pilot who had ridden
bare-backed nearly twenty miles, that
he might fill his appointment and thus
clear his ministerial skirts Of anv dere-
liction of duty in the Great Hereafter
business.
Sunday, when the Rev. Peter Links
'shift" came on, 1t was no better.
Those who could not get into q game
of poker squatted around on their
launches and played marbles, and tho
devil generally. A few went fishing.
Very few to church. Is it any wonder
that it is next to impossible to yet
minister to preach to the heathen in
Eminence? Wouldn't such behn vior
as this dishearten even second edition
OF Peter Cartwright? Revs. Link and
ChriscO have declared that they will
attempt to preach here no more. No
one can blame them for this determine
ton. If the people of Eminence want
salvation thumped into their sin-hartl-
ened hearts they must look elsewhere
for pugilist of the Lord. We repeat.
no one can blame Revs. Link and
Chrisco. They do as much as they can,
and that is all that has ever been re.
quired of the scrubbiest bull on the
range.
The only way to secure good atten-
dance at the church in Eminence is to
get up rattle for tickets to the New
Jerusalem. Put some spice into the
exercises. 1t might also be necessary
to enliven the walls of the room with
some such pictures as paul Pitching
Horseshoes with AgRrippa." "Christ
Playing Hull-Gull with POntius Pr
late" "SimOn and Peter Matcin' Nick.
els" and s0 on. nnd man behind the
pulpit with all the paraphernalia of an
accomplished violinist.u
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Bucklen's Arn1ca SaIve.

The BEST SALyE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilbiains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay required. IL is
sounded. Price, % cents per box. For
rale by L. r. Crisp.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

Emerson's beautiful, new 7-room Cottage,
now ready to rent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Special Notice.

John I. Baldwin has been appointed agent,
with full authority to transact any business
which may have been left unsettled by me,
and will make all collections due me. Hei ia
authorized to rent any property possessed
by us i'm Ironton, and collect rents
q. A. MOSER
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

w emPhaticaliy guarantee DIR. MARCHIsI,s
G,ATHoLICON. FEMALE REMEDY, to cure
Female Diseases, such as Ovarian treubies
!, Imnamation and liberation. Failing and Dis. !.
pasenr 'ari,v OF bearing down feeling, Irregu-
nea, besides many weaknesses springine
from the above, like Headache. Bioafinr'
Spinal weakness, Sleeplessness, Nervous de.
bfiity, Paipitation OF the heart, &c. For sals
Dy ., druggists. Price 81. 90 and 81 so per Bot
tie. Send to DR.. j. b. Marchisi, Utica, N.
T., for Pamphlet, free. For sale by r. r.
Crisp, Druggist, Ironton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Free Distribution.

''What causes the great rush at p. X.
Crisp's Drug Storey" The free distribution
of sample bottles of DIR. Bosanko's Cough
and Lung Syrup, the most popular remedy
for Coughs, Colds, Consumption and Bron-
chitis now on the market. Regular size 30
cents and 81.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
OmciaI Directory.

MARTIN L. CLARDY, NJ. c., Tenth District,
Pennington.
BERNARD ZwART, U. s. Commissioned, East
ern District of Missouri, Ironton.
G. d. YANCEY. State Senator of oath Dis
trict, Piedmont.
JNo. L. THOMAS, Judge 26th Circuit, De
Soto.
WILL r. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney,
IrOnton.
THos. G. FOLEY, Representative, Belleview.
A.W. HoLLoNAN Presiding Judge, Arcadia.
DAVID II. PALMER, Belleview and os g CLARK
son, Arcadia, Associate Judges.
Franz DINGER Judge OF Probate. Ironton.
w. A. FLETCHER, Collector Ironton.
8. E. BUFoRD, Sheriff, Ironton.
JOSEPH HUFF Clerk Circuit Court, lronton
q. B. NALL, Clerk County Court, Ironton.
w. H. WHITwORTH. Treasurer, IrontOn.
JNo. W. HARRAL, Assessor, Belleview.
JACOB T. AXE, Public Administrator, Iron
ton.
j. GRANDHoMME, Coroner, Ironton.
JNo. B. SCOTT, County School Commissit n
for Iron county. Misso uri, lronton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

Send to J. w. North, Kimmswick, Mo for
his collection Of 20 plants for one dollar.
Also, fine Roses, Carnations, and anything
In the Florists line.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
Brick: Brick!
Daughters, Wives and Mothers.

Brick OH car. $500 to 500 per thousand
WHITE Bros, Delassus, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

Lyrics of Culture.

From the Boston Courier.
HIS WIFE.
Oh, yes, my wife is charming,
So everybody says;
She's amiable and gentle,
With sweet and winning ways.
Her beauty is the least of all
The graces she possesses,
She's kind to the unfortunate,
Relieving their distresses.
She makes our home a paradise,
Gives joy to all about her;
And oftentimes I wonder how
did SO long without her.
OF household duties she displays
A knowledge most surprising;
New schemes our comfort to increase
She's constantly devising.
Such pies she makes. I cannot think
OF them without emotion;
And biscuits, too, as light as foam
AtiOat upon the ocean.
A splendid cook she isis brief
There's no one can surpass her;
Where did get her! We'll, she Is
A graduate of Vassar.
THE ATTRACTION THAT WAS THERE.
"You'ye come from the rink" said the
maiden fair
To the youth who was on her waiting;
'Pray tell me what's the attraction there
To-night-is it fancy skating:"
He rubbed his spine, and his face betray-
His bosom's agitation;
'The same old attraction is there, }" he said,
''The attraction of gravltation."
THE BAD BOYS FRIEND.
Grandma is old and wrinkled and gray,
The bloom of her beauty has faded away,
But the wordsl of affection still fall from
her tongue,
And her heart is as warm as when she
She's kindl TO the young and 1t makes her
heart glad
To shield the bad boy from the wrath of
his dad.
All! let him be grateful to her while he may
He'll lose warm friend when she passes
away.
IT is HUMAN NATURE.
The poet whose famei.is as wide as the
world
Belives there will ne'er be another,
And oft in derision his proud lip is curled
AS he hears of a rising young brother
The gifted soprano oft vanity shows
When cantatrice famous we find her,
And the cornet soloist turns up his nose
When he passes the organ grinder.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

order to retreat, but band of heroes
as they were, they fed not; but
amidst that still continuous, terrible
fire they slowly, sullenly, recrossed
the plain, all that was left of them,
but few of five thousand
Thus ended the greatest charge
known to modern warfare Made
in a most unequal manner against
great army, and amidst the most ter
rife cannonade known in wars, and
yet SO perfect was the discipline, SO
audacious the valor, that had this
handful of Vlrginians been properly
supported they would perhaps have
rendered the Federal position unten-
able, and possibly have established
the Southern Confederacy. While
other battle-f fields are upturned by
the plough and covered with waving
grain, Cemetery Ridge will forever
proudly uphold its monuments telling
of glory both to the Blue and Gray,
and our children's children while
standing upon its crest will rehearse
again of Pickett's wonderful charge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

WHY THEY DON'T MARRY.-"A
great deal has been said," remarked
lady clerk in the treasury depart
ment, "about why our girls don't
marry. So far, | have only heard
the men quoted, and they say
great deal about the girls losing their
charms, and becoming less feminine
by mixing with the business world,
and wanting to better their condition
by marriage. Now, if you reporters
really want to know something about
the matter, why don't you 60 10 the
women themselves? I'll just tell you
one thing, and it's what l believe to
be an important reason. When a
girl is kept at home, and surrounded
by girls, and hears of the greatness
of the masculine part of the genus
homo, and only meeting him at pic
MICS and in the parlor, she conceives
rather an exalted idea of what he
really is. Then when she secures
position, and meets them as they are
away from the gaslight's uncertain
glitter, her idea of the actual fact
falls considerably from what it was
in her inexperience, even if she still
retains The ideal in her mind. The
fact is we are like Diogenes-we are
hunting for an honest man. We
know more about them than we did,
and so the right man is harder to
find. = Washington Republican.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
MOSES DID NOT DIE.

DIR. Hauffe, the celebrated physi-
clan of Vienna, one day received Il
telegram from Cracow. requesting
him to repair thither with all possible
haste, as Moses Abrahamson was
very ill, and required advice.
This Moses was known to be one
of the richest men of his tribe.
The doctor, who had an enormous
practice. and was very busy at the
time, wired back:
sMy fee will be 1000 FORMS"
A second dispatch urged him to
come without delay, but added that
he might surely do it for less.
"Not kreutzer less than 2O00 tlo-
rins," was the reply from Vienna.
Whereupon, a final telegram came
to hand directing him to start at
once.
1t was the depth of winter, and Bit
terly cold, so that the medical man
was anything but pleased at the
prospect of the long journey. But
what was his disgust at being met at
the Cracow raiload station by dep
utation of long-coated Polish Jews,
bringing the tilings that he came too
late. as Moses Ahrahamson had died
a few hours before
AS there was no train back to Vi
emma that day, he was perforce COM
PEELED to put up for the night at :,
hotel.
Meanwhile the news of the great
doctors arrival spread through the
town, and sick people of every de-
scription, both Jews and Christians,
beseiged his door.
So many afflicted persons touched
his compassionate heart, and he free
ly gave them the advice they needed.
When at last he got to the station
and was about to step into the car
riage. Polish Jew came sliding up
to him with knowing smile on his
face, and whispered in his ear:
81 say, Doctor, only want to tell
you that Moses Abrahamson isn't
dead. Not bit Of it; he was among
those patients whom you cured for
nothing"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
THE FOX AND THE HARES.

A number of hares one day waited
upon an old fox aad appealed to him
to lead a different life, the boss hare
adding to the appeal with:
We not only feel kindly towards
you, but will cheerfully aid you in
any possible manner to reform.
My friends, says the fox, as great
tears rolled down his cheeks, your
kind words beat both the bowers and
the joker, and are so deeply appreci-
ated that l will take you at your
word. You can best aid me just
now by furnishing me al breakfast.
Thereupon he made a rush and
knocked over two of the largest and
fattest and proceeded to devour
them.
Moral: When you want to re-
form a tramp, do it through the mail
or telephone.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
IMPORTANCE OF CARING FOR
THE TEETH EARLY.

The teeth are too often neglected
during the first ten or twelve years of
a child's life. The irregularity Of
the teeth so common in adults is gen.
orally caused by the extraction of
the child's temporary teeth before
the permanent ones were ready to
take their places. The jaws, conse-
quently contracted, and the teeth
came through in crowded condition.
The teeth are the hardest portion
of the human body, and yet they
soon become useless through decay.
1t can be safely estimated that in a
city of $4,000 people there are not
100 of the native inhabitants be-
tween the ages of four and fourteen
whose teeth have wholly escaped de-
cay, and if the decay were to contine
unchecked, most of the inhabitants
wolud be toothless 10y the time they
were fifty.
If the future men and women are
to have good teeth, the care of them
must begin in childhood. 1t is a mis-
take to have the temporary teeth eX-
tracted as soon as they decay or
cause pam. 1t is best to preserve
the first teeth until the permanent
ones are ready to be erupted. To
do this it is necessary TO have the
temporary teeth filed that show
signs of decay.
The predisposing cause of decay is
not fully known. The structure and
density of child's teeth are depend
ent largely upon the health of its
mother. Some foods rich in phos-
phate, when partaken by the mother,
are supposed to be conducive to
dense development and perfection
of bone. 1t is especially important
that children at an early age should
be taught to clean their teeth-taught
| the use of the toOth-brus and its i'm
portance. That the food we eat has
much influence in the formation of
our teeth is apparent in the results of
the general use of oatmeal in Scot
land, roast beef in Germany and
macaroni in Italy. Each national
fare produces marked characters
tics IN the formation of the teeth.
The toothpick should he used as
often as food is eaten. II should he
thin and pliable; a goose quill makes
the hest. Even picking the teeth
with pin is not as harmful as eating
lemon and failing to clean the
teeth afterward. Eating sugar will
not make any more inroad on the
teeth than the same amount of apple
AT least once year the teeth should
be examined 10y dentist. Here
as elsewhere, the ounce of proven.
tion is worth more than the pound ol
cure. e.-W. FL GHkyson, d. ID. s.