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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
BOYS.
A Bad Thing Not to Have Them IN the
House.

A Bad Thing Not to Have Them IN the
House.
''There never was such a boy; no,
know there never was such a boym
Mrs. Mitchell asserted and reasserted
with a change of emphasis. There was
only one person within hearing, for the
boy whom she thought beyond COM
pare" had vanished after being appre-
hended in frolic with his immense
Newfoundland dog and his small
brother. and the three playmates had
left the room sordered;; 'demoral-
ized," Mrs. Mitchell said. She had
come home from drive with plain
tive little woman. her cousin and guest;
and to find her sitting-room 80" was
''upsetting" to her house-wjfely equili-
brium. The other lady silently re-
moved her wraps in an ante-room, and
came to sit down in the disturbed
time of picking up'' the
room. durlng VIII Oh Mrs. Mitchell
cont nued: HIS grandmother says,
Tom is as full of misch eff as an egg is
this carpet pulled up by that out
gets into misch eff. even with Rab
always ready to helps but when Tom
comes, then [ NAV expect someth 'ng!'
Half-provoked that her cousin did not
say a word in sympathy. Just see
here" she exclaimed; ''thev have made
taffy Tom can coax Joanna to let
him make taffy any time when her irons
are off, and they have chirped taffy
here on my clean table scarf! Oh. oh,
if YOU can tell me ANYTHING worse for a
house than to have two boys in it
IL can. Not to have two bows in it!''
The words were few and quietly
spoken. but they fell upon the WORRY
ing mother-heart heavily. How could
she have so forgotten that ten years
before her cousin had buried two such
boys, scourged out of her house by
diphtheria? With what altered feeling
she went on with her task; and when
the room was faultlessly trim, and she
sat down. horrible dread seized her
What if it were never to be upset. by
Tom again? And when Tom came in
again. she looked at him with differ
ent eyes. She failed to see that a
weight of snow chung to his rubber
lowed him closely. looking askance
at her, until, missing her Gus
tomary ''Out. s'rn' he lifted his
heau proudly. watching hisyoung mas
ter. She only noted the healthy glow
on the boys face and the merry sparkle
of his eyes and the frank good-humor
that was inseparable from his breath.
And when meek little Charley came in.
the weakest and slowest and always
the last of the trio, for once she was
glad that Tom had more vitality. !
Mammal cried Tom. Il happened
to think that we did not give you and
Cousin Maria any candy, and came
way back from Robinson's hill in a
hurry to show you how good it is to-
day!" And when he handed her the
pan of taffy, Cousin Maria ald-if you
did not-appreciate the effort Mrs
Mitchell made not to say anything
about the chips on the Enthusiastically
sticky table scarf.-Itlustrated Chris
tiam Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
THE MIND CURE.

Expansion Into a Medical Practice of the
Power the Mind Has Over the Body.
It has always been known that the
mind can exert a good or bad influence
over the body. The old mental phil
osophies were full of stories which
had tendency to show how persons
had taken to bed after having been
told, by a succession of acquaintance,
about the dreadful paleness of face or
of a most unhealthy expression of the
eyes. 1t was also affirmed, in the olden
newspapers, that some mischievous
wife made her husband believe that
he was swelling up with dropsy, and
should by all means hasten to the
German Springs, and should take her
along as nurse, his condition being so
critical. The wife thus secured trip
to Europe-her art being that of TAX
ing pieces out of her husbands vests,
so that it became almost impossible
for him to make them reach around his
abnormal body.
The Metaphysical Cure is, therefore,
not discovery. but the expansion into
a medical practice of power VIII :ch
had once been little else than curios-
ity. A tendency of our age is to utilize
forces. Nothing so pains the American
mind as the thought of having any,
thing 60 to waste. We are now in
worry lest there may be an electric po-
tency that might turn all our wheels;
we are attempting to run engines by
sunbeams; the waste of water-power at
Niagara is the grief of many; while
those who have escaped forms of dis
tress are made unhappy because the air
is not as full of balloons as the streets
are of cars and wagons.
In such a day it was very naturally
concluded that if mind has a power
over health and disease, let us utilize
this power. Let us not permit the force
to escape all duty, like the waters of
Niagara. Let us not permit merely
artful women to use it as a means of
inducing dropsy and a foreign trip.
Let us domest cate this mental influ-
ence, and extract from it valuable serv-
fee.
Thus came the metaphysical Cure
about eight or ten years ago. In the
hands of extremists it is made partly
one of the decisions of the world. but
in the hands of the wise and moderate
it is tonic of great value, and will
displace large amount of quinine and
wild-cherry b;tters. Its philosophy
may all be summed up in the fact that
the soul affects the body and can rouse
up its torpid blood. can make the liver,
heart, lungs and the brain-that nerve
center-quicken their pace and use up
or crowd out the diseased globules
from the blood and fluids. Clara Nor
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
THE NUP1lAL KNOT.

Seven Separate and Distinct Ways of Com.
hitting Matrimonv.
There are seven separate and distinct
ways in which the nuptial knot may be
tied. the attending expense of the differ
emit modes varying from 81 to $1,000.
The least expensive, and the one seldom
adopted. except in cases of elopement,
is that afforded by the Justices Office.
There couple can be firmly united in
the space of minute for small sum.
1t is customary for a groom to dress as
he may please when the marriage is to
be performed by a Justice, and dress
suit would be sadly out of place in the
musty law. Office The one great adj
vantage of the justice-shop marriage is
cheapness.
AS some people object to being mar
ried by Justice of the Peace, prefer
ring the sanction of the church in addi-
ton to that of the law, the young peo-
pie may visit parsonage instead of a
Justices office with the same prepare
ton The ceremony may be fully as
informal when at the minister's home,
the only difference being that not less
than SO. and better still So or $40,
should be paid for the service, although
there is no fixed sum charged. The
most popular ceremony among peo-
pie who do not class them
selves as in society" and also among
many who do. is a quiet home wedding,
where the BRIDE is attired in a suit Of
plan white or a travelling dress, and
the groom in plain black or brown
bus ness suit, and where only few
friends and relatives are present The
affair is informal, perhaps a modest
supper or lunch being served after the
ceremony is performed. and the entire
expense to the groom being covered by
a 800 bill. OR even less. This is the
most popular wedding ceremony, and
this is the way in which fully seventy
five per cent. of young people are mar
ried. 4. &C.. ....s /
Next in point of favor and mex
pens veness is the informal church
wedding, being sim lar in all things ex-
cept that the service is performed
within the portals of the church. If
the affair is strictly private, the bride
and groom may be unsupported. or
have br desmaids and groomsmen, as
they please. In the latter case full
dress suits should be worn, increasing
the expense. The full dress we'd
ding" as 1T may be called when the
ceremony is performed at home, is next
in favor. Elaborate trousseau. full
dress suits, bridesmaids and grooms.
men, flowers in abundance. and host
of invited guests are the requisites,
followed by a receipt on. feast or lunch.
as the contracting parties may desire.
The seventh and last. and most pop
ular is the full-dress affair performed
in church. Among people who desire
to create stir. in society this is the
favorite. It is expensive, and in many
cases neutrality-suspicious. Joatr.
nal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
A FAITHFUL MOTHER.
The True Story of a Mouse's Care for III
Helpless Little Ones.

The True Story of a Mouse's Care for Her
Helpless Little Ones.
In the composing room-the room in
which the type is set for the Christian
Uniom-are half dozen mice, which
are so domesticated that they run be-
tween the feet of the compositors and
pick up the crumbs which are strewn
on the floor. The compositors made a
daily practice of throwing parts of their
lunches to them, and they became so
tame that they would come up to the
mems hands, and eat bread therefrom.
They climb up on the cases, and walk
over the types, crawl up the mems
coats, which hang on pegs on the wall,
get into the pockets, and inspect things
generally. l have taken one from the
sleeve of my overcoat, allowed it to
stand on my hand, run up my arm and
jump from my shoulder on to the case
without it showing the least fear or
concern for its safety. ~
But it is not the tameness of these
mice am going to tell about It is of
the intelligence displayed by the mother
when they were mere meetings., young
and tender, and not able to help them
selves; and it is but a short while since
they were in such helpless state.
Standing behind, and convenisnt to,
the stove are about4two dozen drawers,
or what printers cali cabinet" used
for holding advertising plates, en-
cravings, ETC., which have appeared in
the paper. In the nearest one of these
drawers to the stove, which has been
kept comfortably warm in the severest
cold weather, these mice were born.
Having chad: occasion to open the
drawer one morning, to my astonish-
ment / saw some paper scraps in one
corner move, as if something within
were trying to get out, a croton-water
bug, perhaps The paper was such as
had been thrown on the floor of the
composing room, and was cut up into
very small pieces. I lifted some of it
to investigate. and there in the corner.
in very coy and warm little nest,
were nine little mice not more than a
day old. They were blind, not yet hay.
ing opened their eyes, and they he'd not
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
just a Hint to Boys.

stood in the store the other day
when a boy came in and applied for a
situation.
"Can you write . good handp' was
asked.
"Yaas."
''Good at fguresp"
"Yaas"
'rThat will do don't want you,"
said the merchant.
But" I said. when the boy had
gone, II know that lad to be an hon
est, Industrious boy. Why don't YOU
give him chanceP''
Because he hasn't learned to saw
Yes, sir and No, SIR If he answers
me as he did when applying for situa-
ton, how will he answer customers aft
er being here a month";"
What could l say to thatp He had
fallen into habit, young as he was.
which turned him away from the first
situation he had ever applied for
Nea0 London Day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
WHY THEY ARE GLAD.

What do you think Of tho Joyous song
The brides sing each day?
And what is making the lambs 80 glad
AZ over the fields they play2
IT'S surely this: that Summer II here;
Summer is come again;
The beautiful, laughing Summer sweet,
That brightens both hill and plain,
And tumbles the daisies all about
Over the meadows fair, ap
And shakes her bottle of perfume out
To the soft and balIny air. f=sst%
The birds few up to the tender skies
Where the white cioud-fairies dwell.
And learned the secret that made them
glad, -
And down they few to tell
The little lambs and the gentle sheep
That the Summer was close at hand:
And it wasn't long till the good news grew
And spread all over the land.
So 1t seems to me that the song they sing
Those brides happy and free
Is full of the beautiful sunshine made
Into glorious melody.
And over the fields the lambkfns play,
Where the buttercups grow so fast,
And the whole glad earth grows merry
each day
Because Summer Is come at last.
-Mdyy d. Brine, u, N. Y. Independent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

1t is said that only twenty per cent.
OF the young lawyers who start ont in
tnelr profession in New York CITY sue,
ceed. There are said to be IL 900 law
yers in the State of New York and
10000 in the United States,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

"A skeleton seven feet long sup
posed to be that of an Indian and to
have been buried many yeaxs, was un-
earthed near New Castle, Pa, a few
days ago.-Psttsburgh Post
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
GENUINE BOURBONS,

Politicians Who Never Learn and Who
Never Forget-The Bloody Shirt BUSH
ness.
) The Republicans of Ohio are genuine
Bourbons. Like the line of princes who
bore that name they never forget and
they never learn. The utterances of the
platform which they adopted at their
convention last week is the most fool
hardy attempt to revive dead and long
buried issues we have witnessed in
many day. The bloody shirt lost all
the potency it ever possessed years ago,
and no one ought to know this better
than the Republican leaders in Ohio.
The platform adopted by them was de-
nounced in advance seven years ago by
the most brilliant Republican statesman
their State ever produced. We refer to
General Garfield, who, on the 10th of
October. 1873, spoke as follows in the
House of Representatives 81 want to
say another thing. The man who
attempts to get up a political excitement
in this country on the old sectional
issues will find himself without party
and without support. The man who
wants to serve his country must put
himself in the line of its leading thought,
and that is the restoration of business,
trade, commerce. industry, sound polit-
ical economy, hard money and honest
payment of all obligations and the
man who can add anything in the
direction of the Accomplishment of any
of these purposes is public bene-
factor
"Without a party and without sup
port" these are the words in which
General Garfield in 1873 foreshadowed
the defeat of the Republicans in Ohio
in 1885 At the same time he outlined
the course of the man whom these same
Republicans now denounce, President
Cleveland, who in three short months
has done more to firmly reunite the
North and South than was accomplished
by the Republicans in twenty years.
He is endeavoring to make the inter-
ests-business, political and social-of
the two great sections of this country
a unit, and because his efforts are being
rewarded with success the Republicans
of Ohio lyingly assert that he has ap-
pointed unrepentant rebels to office
and disregarded the claims of the n FORTH
ern' veterans. And the leading Repub-
Hcan journals of the country, re-echo-
ing the sentiments of the Springfield
Convention, assert that these are the
grounds upon which the political bat
ties of the next four years are to be.
fought! &
Such blind folly as this invites de-
feat, and defeat viii come. If there are
any Republicans in Ohio who still revere
the utterances of their great leader, let
them heed the warning of seven years
ago before it is too late. The party
that hopes to return to power by re-
newal of sectional strife will find the
road long and difficult one.-Pitts-
6argh Post.
"A snake n inc feet long and seven
inches in diameter was killed near
Starucca, Pa, a few days ago. The
animal had peculiar. fat head and
about its neck was circle of short stiff
hairs. Its color was brown. with red
bands around the body at intervals of a
few inches. Killing it was an easy
matter, as It was helpless from gorging
when discovered, being in the act OF
I--,,.;,,o. a uawlv-horn lamb, winch 10
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
ORDERED BY THE PEOPLE.
The Removal of Republican Ofice-Holder
lmperatively Demanded.

The Removal OF Republican Ohce-HOIders
1mperatively Demanded.
'.Another old and faithful officer re.
moved" is the pathetic announcement
with which the Republican papers seek
to rouse popular indignation against
this inconsistent and hypocritical"
Administration for displacing Repub-
lican official who has spent twenty-four
years in the public service and 'worked
his way up from every grade" And
then, there is the Director of the Mint,
Mr.. Burchard. an exceedingly meritori-
Gus officer, who has gained high credit
by his judicious conduct of the coinage
bureau; he, too. Is to go and make room
for a Democrat The Republican press
thinks, or affects to think, it is insuffer-
able, and the people ought to gnash
their teeth at the way the Democratic
Administration is turning good Repub-
licans out of office.
1t is hard. There is no reason for
turning these good men out of office,
but that they are Republicans, and there
is no reason for putting new men in,
but that they are Democrats. 1t is not
only an outrageous and crying injustice
to the good men who have been, some
of them, drawing salaries from the Gov
eminent for eighteen, twenty and
twenty-four years. but it is fragrant
violation of the spirit of the Civil-Service
rules. The people must be appealed to.
But here is the trouble: The people
who are to be appealed to began the
mischief which they are asked to rem
edy. Didn't they turn out ''the grand
old party" last fall. the party which, in
the opinion of its adherents, had gov
erned the country with admirable fidel-
ity and success for twenty-four years,
the party that had saved the Union,
freed the slaves, half paid the public
debt CATER. contracting it), restored
specie payment CATER suspending it),
and done a great many other fine
things? Didn't they turn out that ''old
and faithful officer" President Arthur,
and repudiate that other "old and
faithful patriot. Mr.. Blaine, for no
other reason under the sun than that
they were RepublicansP And didn't
they put New York Democrat in the
White House. utterly ignorant of Presi-
dental duties. simply because he was a
DemocratP
If the people are to be appealed to
against President Cleveland, who is to
Be appealed to against the people?
They are the authors of the trouble, for
they began it President Cleveland is
only initiating and obeying them.-St
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

Prof. John Ogden. scientist and
one of the new settlers of Mcintosh
County, sees the possibility OF utilizing
the steady winds of the prairies, and
predicts that in time they will be used
to drive machinery for all sorts of pur.
poses.-MaryvsHe %. T. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

Visits to strawberry farms shows
much animation in the picking season.
When the berries begin to ripen the
pickers swarm to the various patches to
gather the berries for market In the
Maryland fields the colored laborers
give great picturesqueness. The fields,
half Covered with berries, people clad
in many-hued gowns. picking or carry
ing the fruit on trays, make an inter
esting spectacle Chicago Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-14

MARROW ESCAPE FROM A BULL-Charles
Ryman, an aged farmer living near Elders
Vile, Penn, was leading bull through
narrow lane on his farm, when it suddenly
sprang upon him believing loudly, and held
him pinned to high board fence, one of its
horns being on side of his body and the
other on the opposite side. The space be-
tween the horns at the ends permitted bis
body to Just squeeze in, but nearer the base
1t was 30 much narrower that he was held
ss if in wise, and so tightly squeezed that
the breath was nearly crushed out OF him.
Fortunately, the horns were so long that
the bulls head was kept from crushing
Ryman, although the maddened animal
made every effort to do go. A twelye-year-
old son of the farmer was with him, and ne
started back to the house to get gun 10
shoot the bull. On his way he saw neaVy
manure fork leaning against an outbuiloing.
Az IL was q long way to the house, the boy
seized the fork and hurried back to the spot
where the bull held his father. He reached
It lust as the animal had backed away q rev
steps and was about to dash forward Win
lowered head upon the farmer. The boy
met the advance of the bull with the fork,
and thrust the two long tines with all his
strength into the animals side. Both OF the
sharp irons pierced the bulls heart, and
with terrible below it fell heavily to the
ground, and was soon dead. With the ex-
ception of severe bruises on his side and
great nervous shock, the old farmer sus-
taiped no serious injury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-14
WASHINGTON, OHIO AND WESTERN Il. R
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

FOUR TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN ALEXAN
DRIA AND ROUND HILL
Leave Washington at % q. IN. and 1 - p. Il.
and Alexandria at 9 33 g. NJ. and 4 81 p. H. Pass
Leesburg, going westward, at II 10 I? M. and
7 10 p. M, and arrive at Round Hill at % D.
m. and s OF p n. Leave Round Hill at 40 ).
III. and ! 55 p IL. Pass Lecsburg, going east,
ward, at 5 80 a. IN. and 40 p. H., and arrive a:
Alexandria at 10 y. Ill. and 5 % p H., and At
Washington at 8 % q. m. and 8 80 p. NJ,
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave Washington at 8 O5 p. H., Alexandra at
8 10 p. m. Pass Lcesburg, going westward. at
10 40 p. m. Arrives at Round Hill at ] ] 20 y. ~
GS- Passengers from Washington will take the
Wash, Ohio and West'n. ears st the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad station at 9:25 3. III. and 425 p.
M, and go through to Round Hill without change
o. cars.
The 9:33 a. M. train from Alexandria and l:0j
pm. train from Round Hill connect at Round Hi
with Daily Line of Coaches for Snickersville, BcI
ryville and Winchester; also with Line of Coachc.
which leave Leesburg daily for Aldic and Middle
burg.
Both trains, Westward, make closc conncctlUg
at Vienna, with Sissons Limo of Stages for Fairfax
Court House.
One thousand mile communication tickets bear.
ing two names 500; ono thousand mile tickets,
bearing ell the names of family or members Of =
firm, 500.
Alexandria, Oct 21. 1884.
SIM BROPHY. Supt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-14
By Green g. Wise, Auotionoers.

VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST FROM
ID James w. Cheshire, dated the 18th day of
February, 1883, and of record in liber c, No. 5,
page 6S, of the land records of Fairfax county,
the undersigned, as trustee therein named, and
at the request of the party by said deed secured,
will expose to sale at public auction, on SATUR-
DAY, the I'd day of May, 1885, at II m, in front
of the Fairfax street entrance of the Market
building, in the city of Alexandria, the following
described property, to wit:
A certain LOT OF LAND. situated, lying and
being in the county of Fairfax, Virginia. at near
the toll gate at the west end of the city of Alex
andria, being q part of lot No. purchased of the
Little River Turnpike Company, and bounded
and described as follows:
Beginning at A, q stono in the eastern line of
said two acre lot, and about Is feet southwark
from corner of said Cheshire's land; thence
with the lines of said lot N. 13o 10y E. las
chains to B, q small stone, corner TO f. D. Cats
and Mrs. Whaleys lands N. 750 To- W. 1.9S
chains to G, the angle Of the fence, said Cats
corner, 8. 12e so W. 1O.19 chains to D, the
north side of said Little River Turnpike road,
corner to said Cats land, s. 750 10 E. 1.O2
chains to E, stone to be set said road side in
line of said lot thence leaving the outlines Of
the said lot N. 13o E. 275 chains to F, stone, g.
75o TO- +. o SO chains to the beginning, contain
Ing one and three quarter acres.
Terms of Sale: Cash.
ap10-ts CHARLES E. STUART Trustee.