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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
HOMES ARCHANGEL.
Some Startling Facts for Women No
Worthy of This Appellation.

Some Startling Facts for Women Not
Worthy of This Appellation.
A lecture titled Mothers, the Health
Officers of Home" was delivered by
DR.. Oscar G. De Wolf before the
Woman's Physiological Institute re-
Gently. The doctor said the average
American woman's conception of home
was sadly defective. She judged the
home from the society standpoint in
stead of the reverse. There were many
features of fashionable life which pre-
vented woman from becoming the
watchful and effective guardian which
she ought to be of the sanitary condition
of her home. Woman's use of narcotic
and alcoholic stimulants was no longer
limited to individual cases. Every
physician in this city knew it was quite
prevalent and was producing a harvest
of death. Mothers could not SOW tares
and reap wheat for their children. The
doctor trusted that the public instructor
in the year 22S6-four hundred years
hence-for the purpose of showing how
deficient women in the nineteenth century
were in guarding the health of their
children would produce Chicago daily
paper dated February %, 1886. From
this he would read the mortality
report that fifty per cent. OF
the deaths We're those of chill
equally suggestive fact that the glass
manufacturers of the United States
made ten million nursing bottles during
1885. The philosopher of that day
would read the advertisements and come
~ 81, IL,
of food for infants was a gigantic Ma
tional enterprise in 1886. If he would
put these facts together he would de-
tect the causes which sweep so many
infants into an untimely grave. 1t was
the fruit of the American mothers re-
fusal to nurse her children. If the
thousands of little sleepers in Calvary,
Graceland and Rosehill could be given
voices there would be terrible arraign-
ment of the women of fashion of this
city. The doctor said the mother could
not afford to accept the doctrine of the
survival of the fittest; that would roll
us back to the barbarism of the four
teenth century. In this country forty
babies out of every hundred born died
in their infancy; in Norway only eigh-
teen out of one hundred died. If wom
en- would give less attention to their
dressmakers, to theaters and society
events and more attention to their
babies it would be better for the babies.
Sanitary law should have its birth in
the home, and woman should be the
homes archangel. That she was not
was mans fault as much as hers.
The hall was filled with ladies, who
heartily applauded the doctor. Chicago
Tribune
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
a WHALING GUN.
The Latest Weapon Invented for the Eek.
termination of Behemoth.

The Latest Weapon Invented for the Eek.
termination of Behemoth.
A double-barreled gun of q some
what novel description has recently
been made for the steam yacht Sans
Peur. The gun is mounted on a pivot
and the total length is fifty-three inches,
the weight being one hundred and fif-
teen pounds. One barrel is rifled, and
the other is smooth bore. 1t is intended
principally for killing whales, although
it may be used for sharks, porpoises,
sunfish. etc. 1t will fire ten-ounce ex-
plosive bullet of steel or a thirteen
ounce solid shot. There is also har-
pooh to be fired from the smooth bored
barrel The explosive bullet will doubt
less be a very effective instrument
when used against whales. as, it is
said, it will tear away sufficient piece
of the animal to insure its death, while
the harpoon will serve to secure
the carcass. For this purpose it
has attached to it flexible
steel wire rope wound on
reel. Explosive harpoons have al
ready been tried in whaling. but these,
we understand. have not proved sue
cessful, as the harpoon is blown away
from the body by its own explosion or
the flesh is so liberated that the weapon
will pull away. In the present case the
explosive bullet and the harpoon are to
be fired simultaneously, so that while
one kills the quarry the other secures
it. 1t is thought that this system will
be largely adopted in ordinary whaling
and will prove far more effective than
the ordinary method of pursuing the
animal in boats, so that there is
chance of Behemoth becoming extinct
even more quickly than would follow ut
the present rapid rate at which it is
being extermsnated. more especially if
owners of steam yachts are going to kill
whales for sport. The gun can also be
used for wild fowling.-N. y. Herald.
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track is fast; Maud s. trotted in 2:1O 3-4
on it IN 1881. but the first turn is rot
quite long enough to meet the ideal
want. Mr.. Hamlin, however. contends
that this objection is overcome by the
superb back-stretch and the grand
homestretch. The fair grounds track
at Lexington was demonstrated fast by
the FOG Ia of Maud S. in 1884, after
frost had struck the ground, but it can
be made still faster by restoring the
wear next to the rail. To get the best
footing the horse has to 90 ride on it.
The Kentucky Association race track
at Lexington also is fast for trotters. as
was demonstrated by the PIG 1-2 of Pa
tron, the three-year-old son of Pan
coast, IN holly contested race with
Siiverene on raw and windy day in
October last There is quite hill to
climb, but we are not sure that this does
not aid the flying horse by bringing a
different set of muscles into play. The
Washington Park race track was fast
for the trotters last fall, and it should
be still faster this season. The prairie
bed is springy and the grades are per-
feet. But the winds which blow from
the lake increase the element of I'M
certainty on it. The Belmont track
at Phi ladelphia is rapid when in order,
Notwithstanding the hill in going to the
third quarter. Jay-eye-see trotted in
2:11 and repeated IN 2:10 IA on it. The
Charter Oak track at Hartford is rated
fast. st. Julien made his record of
Pill IA on it in 1880; still there is quite
a gap between the record of the son of
Volunteer and that of the daughter of
Harold. The Homeward track at Pitts
burgh is very fast when you can catch it
just right, and Maud S. turned it in 1881
in 2:10 1-2. The Detroit track also is
rapid, but under the time test the palm
will have to be awarded to Cleveland.
Maud S. trotted it in 1884 in 2:09 3-4,
and she made her present record of
2:0S Sd on 1t in the summer of 1885.
The footing is firm and at the same
time elastic, and there is more freedom
fran treacherous winds than at some
other places. THE 2:0S 3-4 which hangs
over the entrance gate at Cleveland is
difficult mark shoot at; still, this is an
age of progress, and the record may be
changed before another year is dead and
gone.-Imrt, Field and Farm.
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HOME AND FARM.

Rye Gems: Two cups rye, one
quarter cup flour, two teaspoonfuls
Royal powder. sifted together. one egg,
one-quarter cup of molasses, milk to
mix soft.-The Caterer.
1t is told of kicking horse that he
was cured by suspending sack behind
him filled with hay At first his kicking
was something terrible, but he subsidized
entirely when the hay returned toward
his heels every time.-N Y. Times.
For dainty breakfast dish cut pork
tenderlions in very thin slices; stew
them in a little water till they are near
" done; then put them in a saucepan
and fry them till light brown. Serve on
buttered toast, and with raw tomatoes
sliced thin Western Rural.
Fine manure, spread thinly and
evenly upon the moving and pasture
land, will have an excellent effect.
Coarse manure is best when thoroughly
composted, with either peat or swamp
muck, or even with soil, as it becomes
almost entirely homogeneous.-Mo
real Witness.
The MARYLAND Farmer is warmly in
favor of feeding cattle in yards and
sheds instead of pasturing them, at
great expense for fencing and waste OF
food. The cost of fences is, 1t says, usu-
ally more than the value of the ami
mails pastured, and some times more
than the land inclosed.
An animal impoverished in flesh,
saws the National Stockrnan, can not
grow or mature, and it must be main
tanned at a loss of feed, interest on the
money invested, and of the time of the
farmer An animal must be kept in
good flesh and thriving to make it grow,
develop and prove profitable.
To broil ham nicely slice the meat
from the ham raw, as thin as you can,
then put it into pan of cold water; set
it on the stove in a stewpan and let 1T
come to boil; then have your grlddle
hot, and broil the meat with a little but
ter dropped into the pan and a plentiful
sprinklihg of black pepper.-Boston
Bulletin.
Egg Cruel is at once food and medi-
cine. Some have great faith in its
efficacy in chronic dysentery Boil a
pint of new milk; beat four fresh
eggs to light froth and add to the
milk while it boils; stir together thor
oughlv, but do not let it boil again;
sweeten with loaf sugar and CRATE in a
small nutmeg; add little salt. Use
half of it while it is warm, and the
other half in two hours or so.-N. E.
Farmer.
Ginger pound cake: Six cups of
-four. two cups each of butter, brown
sugar and molasses, eight eggs, table
spoonfuls each of cinnamon. ginger and
soda and two nutmegs. Dissolve the
soda in a cup of sour milk. In baking,
take particular pains not to let the cake
scorch, for gingerbread is of all cakes
the easiest to burn. Line the pans with
creased paper, aud put a brown paper
over the top to prevent the crust form.
ing too quickly.-Boston Budget.
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PERFECT BLISS.
The Life of Negro Hermit Long After
Emancipation.

The Life of a Negro Hermit Long After
Emancipation.
One day when / was out in the woods
with companion, ready to shoot a par
rot or wild pig, to cut down cabbage
tree or to capture yellow snake-when,
in short. we were trying by any means
to kill tropical day-we found our
selves unexpectedly on the border OF
some cleared ground. In this opening
were growing two or three plantains,
two or three vans, pumpkins of some
size and sweet potatoes. But the most
remarkable object there was shed about
six feet long and three feet broad, COM
ing up to ridge some two and hall
feet high in the center of its length, and
resting on the ground at both sides. Its
transverse section was a triangle. The
construction was simple in the eX-
treme Branches of trees, roughly
trimm We're set up in pairs, at
distances between the pairs of two feet
or thereabout. Each stick had been run
into the ground at one end; at the other,
that is to say, at the ridge of the shed,
it was bound by a withe to its ally. A
few smaller wattles were interviewer
among the principals, and the outside
covered with palm thatch. There was
scarcely time to remark the ashes of a
fire, and an old iron pot near the end of
the shed, before a grizzled woody head
was protruded, the owner of which was,
of course, PROSTATE. or he could have
not lain under the thatch. He proved
to be an African; and when he peceived
that his visitors meant no harm to him.
he crept out, an ancient eremlte, with
marvelOusly little raiment. This inter-
esting person had, it seemed. been set
free at the general emancipation, and
not seeing the advantage of doing any
more work, and not caring for society,
had squatted on the outskirts of prop
ertv, and built himself the habitatiOn
Just described. His supelleX consisted
of the iron pot aforesaid and a hollow
bamboo for water, with a cover to it and
string to hold it or hang it by. His
carpet. bed or whatever it ought to be
called. was sedge obtained from some
neighboring pond. He informed US
that he raised his own ''breadkind''-i.
e., yams, plantains, etc.-and that he
sustained himself Herewith, cooking
some of the food IN the iron pot. His
fire, which we had at first thought to be
a heap of cold ashes, was really alive,
and cracked up on being famed with a
plantain leaf. He could manage gen.
orally to keep it going; but if it failed,
he had to 90 some way to the nearest
hut to beg little fire, which he would
carry back in calibash. His matchet,
or small cutlass, served for horticultural
purposes and for dinner knife, and an
old hoe sufficed him for planting. In
this calm retreat he passed his days liza
BILE to ejectment, but not in much dam
ger of it.-BldcktCoods Magazine.
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FAST TRACKS.

Running and Trotting Courses All Over
the United States.
A correspondent asks for information
as to which is the fastest trotting track
in the country. The question is easier
asked than answered. Some seasons
one track is faster than another track.
Through wear it loses its elasticity, and
the worn out track must be resoiled
with the greatest care. The Rochester
track was once thought to be the fastest
in the country. In 1881, Maud S.
trotted in 210 IA on it. In 1884 it was
dead. and it was top-dressed. Last sea-
son the footing was somewhat rotten,
and the going made the horses leg
weary. The freeze of the winter will
cause the soil to pack better and to
hold more life, and we shall look for
class records to be broken at Roches-
ter in 1886. The Narragansett track at
Providence was very fast in 1884. and
Jay-eye-see made his record of 2:10 on
it, but last season the sod bricks.
which enter into its foundation. had
lost some of their India-rubber-like
quality, and it required little greater
effort to trot mile on it. The Buffalo
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Matter Poured in the Atlantic.

Prof Reade, in a recent lecture before
the Liverpool Geological Society, re-
ported as the results of his calculations
that one hundred and fifty million tons
of matter were annually poured into
the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi
river, which would in the course of five
hundred years denude the land to the
extent of one foot over the whole basin.
He also calculates that the MISSISSIPPI,
La Plata, the Amazon and st. Law
renee remove an average of one hum
dred tons to the square mile from the
whole American continent. As to the
amount of matter poured into the At
lantic by all the rivers of the world,
Prof. Reade estimates it would, if con-
verted into solid rock, at two tons to
the cubic yard, make a cubic mile every
six years. Current.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
A BoY.s FORESIGHT.
How a Prosperous Eastern Merchant G.
Start in Life

HOW q IOSpcEouS Eastern MercnanG 108
Start in Life.
Virginia City tNev.) letter.
In the flush days of the Comstock the
great majority of the dwellers on that
''lode" became imbued with passion for
gambling, and it is said that even
ministers would at times vary the monoto-
ny of their calling by discussing the prob
ability of a rich development in this or
that particular mine. 1t was no uncom-
mon or unusual sight to see standing be-
fore the brokers' windows, on their way to
and from school, groups of children-sand-
wlched IN between horny handed miners
and mining operators-scanning with
eager eyes the stock quotations on the bull
Ietin boards. If the army of small chill
dren who were at that time stockholders in
the great lode could have been marshaled
together they would have numbered in the
hundreds. Children became possessed of
shares of mining stock in much the same
manner and at the same times when it is
customary to bestow gifts on the recur-
renee of birthday anniversaries, at Christ
mastide, on New Years Day, and when
school promotions have been won by dill
gent application to study. The mania for
dealing in stocks, which had become a dis
would small -pox, cholera, or malignant fe-
vers: of course those of tender years to
whom these presents were made contract
ed it.
AS Christmas gift well-known Com
stocker handed to his son slip of paper
reading. 81 hold to your order one hum
dred shares of Ophir." Shortly after this
Ophir began an upward march, and when
nearly all others were expecting to see it
climb still higher, the boy came in with
the usual point" and asked to be allowed
70 sell his one hundred shares. The old
gentleman was rich, having courted the
tickle goddess, Dame Fortune, and re-
ceived, in return, her fondest caresses, and
he agreed to the sale, thinking it would be
test of the boys sLrewdness. The point
won, however, as the crash came shortly
afterward and caught the old gentleman
before he could unload. The boy is now a
prosperous merchant in an Eastern city,
where his parents reside with him. His
foresight, or luck-or both-in letting go
his shares at the right time gave him his
start, and as Christmas Day rolls round
each year pleasant recollections of early
mining and school-boy days are brought
to mind, and also the day he gave his
father the 'point" on Ophir.
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a Very Good Story, Indeed.
[Moorestown IN. j. Chronlclc. /,

liooIeStOWn (N j. CnTOnictcj
An interesting fact in connection with
the old buttonwood tree ON Main street,
near Coles Hotel, is that it is just about
completing century and a half of exist
ence. DR.. Warrington, to whom we are
indebted for the above item, pointed out
another curious fact in connection with
the tree. About nine or ten years ago it
began to rot one side of the trunk, just
above the ground, and, when the opening
had enlarged until it was of some size, it
was resolved to save the tree by filing up
the hole with bricks and mortar, which
was according done by mason, and not
only was further decay prevented, but the
bark commenced to grow over the brick
and mortar until now there is hardly room
to get the end of a walking stick in it, and
even that will probably be completely COW
cred during the summer. Moorestown is
very quiet and slow in most matters, but
if any other town his contrived more
original plan to save local landmark
from destruction, we should like to hear
of it.
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Story of a Quick Horse Trade.
Providence Or. II Journal

One of the quickest horse trades on rec
ord was made on Tuesday at Central Falls.
A man was driving his horse, attached to
an open carriage, along Central street,
when another person, also in an open car
riage, tried to pass him. Just as the car
rIages were abreast the man in the second
named carriage shouted: "How WI you
trade hoTses:" Even" quickly replied
the other, and without any further talk
about the merits or dement's of either
horse both unhtched, harness
changed, hitched up again, and away
went the teams, each driver being appar-
emily satisfied with the trade. A strange
fact is that neither of the traders knew
each other.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
The Ingenuity of the Omce-SeeEer.
Washington Letter. !

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A good story is told on an officer seeker.
Said one of them: ga man can't stay long
in Washington without becoming an in.
ventor." "Why, how do you make that
out? You have been here over month, y
said somebody, "and you have not in
vented any thing" "That's all you
know about it, ''Well, I'd just like tc
have you tell me what you have invented
"Well sir, hadn't been here a month be-
fore invented plan for fastening paper
collar to an undershirt.'
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A Bold Kentuckian.s Pile.

They tell in Louisville of citizen Of that
town who went to New York recently and
lived at one of the most expensive hotels
there. He stayed four days and asked for
his bill. 'sFifty-one dollars" said the
clerk. "Guess again." said the Kentuckian.
"You haven't sized my pile yet. I've more
money than that"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

are the records of some of the cures of con-
sumption effected by that most wonderful
remedy-Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery." Thousands of grateful men and
women, who have been snatched almost
from the very jaws of death, can testify
that consumption, in it's early stages, is no
longer incurable. The Discovery has no
equal as a pectoral and Alternative, and the
most obstinate affections of the throat and
lungs yield to its power. All druggists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
Seeking a Wife in Green Cheese.
IBoston Journal

In an American cheese cut at a grocery
in Ashford, Eng, was found a small glass
bottle containing the following message:
ashford, New York, August Is, 1880.
Whoever receives this letter will please be
kind enough to send the names of some re-
spectacle young ladies to correspond with
some young gentlemen of this place.
Yours, Eugene Hughey. Ashford, Gait,
Co. New York"
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"WHAT we learn with pleasure we never
forget. '-A,tred 4Kercier. The following is
case in point: q paid out hundreds of
dollars without receiving any benefit" says
had female complaints, especially drag
ging-down,' for over six years. Dr.. R. Y.
Pierce's 1Favorite Prescription did me
I advise every sick lady to take it,. And
SO do we. 1t never disappoints it's patrons
Druggists sell it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD has selected
some Gospel and Temperance songs, ia
miliar tunes, 200 copies of which will be
sent to any church or Sunday school. Adj
dress the Publisher, Mrs. LAURA &. FIxEN,
Albert Lea, Mimi, enclosing 20 cents for
postage.
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Young Men, Read This.

THE VoLTAIC BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELEcTRo-VoL
TAIc BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
on trial for 80 days, to men tyoung or old)
afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vital
ity and all kindred troubles. Also for rheu.
matism, neuralgia, paralys and many 9TH
er diseases. Complete restoration to health,
vigor, and manhood guaranteed No risk in.
Cured, as 80 days trial is allowed. Write
them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

1t was Josh Billings who originated
:he phrase that is now national ex-
preston, 1.-The business end of the
wasp;'' and when he said to a lady. 'It
is better to be laughed at for not being
married than to be unable to laugh be-
cause you are,r he uttered sentence,
to use one of his own expressions.
..bulging out with first-class wisdom. !"
CHICAGO Sdturtydy Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

ness of breath, Consumption, night-sweats
and all lingering coughs, DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" is sover-
eign remedy. Superior to cod liver oil.
By druggists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
Hoods Sarsaparilla

take Hoods Sarsaparilla for spring medicine
and find 1t just the thing. It tones up my system
and makes me feel like different man Ny wife
1t for dyspepsia, and she derives great benen
from ii. She says 1t is the best medicine she eve
took" FRANK C. TURNER. Hook d Ladder No.
Friend Street, Boston Mass
II have taken Hoods Sarsaparflla for dyspepsia
which have had for the last nine ten years, suffer
ing terribly. 1t has entirely cured me-" Mrs.
NORTON, Chicopee Mass.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

ALWAYS prompt and sure and only 25
cents: Red Star Cough Cure. No opiates.
The merits of St. Jacobs Oil as sure cure
for rheumatism are known everywhere.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

In another column of this issue will be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
of attractive advertising. 1t is one of the
any one will be well repaid for examining
the supposed display letters in the adver-
tisement Of Prickly Ash Bitters.