davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
A, BOYS BRAVERY.
How a Plucky Lad Saved Northern Frdia
to the British Crown.

How P1ucky Lau SaVeu
to the British Crown.
Do the lads of this generation de-
claim that poeti cal tribute to youthful
heroism which, extols the boy who
s'stood on the burning deck, whence all
but him had fed"?' When we were
boys there was scarcely s<declamation
day" on which we did not hear it re
cited. It may be that the years since
then have been so freighted with ex-
amples of boyish heroism that no, boy
now cares for '.Casabianca."
One of these later, and, to our think
ing, more attractive examples of YOUTH
full heroism occurred at the outbreak
of the Sepoy mutiny in 1857. just be-
fore the awful storm broke; the system
of electric telegraphs had been extend
ed over the surface Of British India.
The mutineers rushed to Delhi to seize
upon the old hereditary seat of the
Mohammedan empire, and began out
ting the threats of Europeans. While
the rattle of cannon and musketry was
rolling around the telegraph office,
little English boy, moved by a sense of
duty, stuck to his post until. he had
telegraphsd to the Commissioner at
Lahore. The message announced that
the mutineers had arrived at Delhi,
and had murdered this civilian and
that officer, and wound up with these
significant but childlike words.; "We're
OFF,
The boys courage and sense of duty
saved the Punjab. As soon as the tele-
gram reached Lahore, the General in
command of the Sepoys disarmed them.
When they learned of the rising at
Delhi, they were powerless to do any
injury. The General flashed the awful
news to- Peshawur: The Hindoostanee
regiments there were also disarmed,
and, though mutineers at heart. were
rendered incapable-of harm. Thenithe
telegraph was cut by the rebels--but
the boy at Delhi had saved. Northern
India to the British. crown. The officer
in, charge had been killed.. but that
brave lad staid long enough at the
instrument to dispatch the warming
KoutH5 Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
FASHIONABLE CLOTHES.
The Cost of the Average Metropolitan So
ciety SwelPs Wardrobe.

The Cost of the Average Metropolitan So
ciety SwelTs Wardrobe.
A tailor who makes clothes for FASH
ionable young men7sand fashionable old
men. too, for that matter-says that a
marked change has come over the meth
DDS of some of his customers during the
last year or two. 1t used to be the
proper thing for rich men to make con-
tracts with their tailors for year S sup
ply of clothes at so much per year. They
got a new suit and wore it as long as it
looked fresh; then they would take it
back and obtain new one in its stead,
and so they were able to go through
the year in a well-dressed way 1t was
an English custom that the gentlemen
imported, and it was considered quite
the necessary way for several years, till
suddenly somebody began to suspect
that it was not quite as economical
as some other plan might be.
The same thing dawned on
lots of other people soon
after, and that ended the custom. A
rich mans tailor-made WARDROBE on this
plan used to cost anywhere from 81 900
to 50, 900 per year, IN exceptional cases,
of course, amounting much higher. 1t
was bonanza for the tailor, whose hot
hatirons seldom failed to make creas-
ed suit returned by one customer bright
and fresh enough for another.
Now rich men are paying for their
clothes as they get them, at so much
per suit. The old style, which did not
amount to more than a renting of the
clothes, and which went under on the
score of economy, makes way for a new
scheme, which. if the tailors are to be
believed, is a good deal more expen-
sive.
''The average swell in New York so
ciety," says he writer, sis spending
now from $1,000 to $4,000 year on
his tailor if he is cutting any figure at
all Men do not know much about tho
cost of clothes and the expenses OF man.
ufacture. Show a man a coat that costs
500 and another that costs $40, and he
will seldom hesitate to pay the 500 diff
ference to get the higher-priced gar
ment.'
A physician. who is known uptown
as the attendant upon some well-known
families, was presented some time ago
by an English manufacturer with
piece of cloth for a pair of trousers.
He took the cloth to his tailor and
ordered it made up. When the panta-
looms were sent him bill came with
them for $50. He dropped in to pay
the bill, and with smile that seemed
based on the well-grounded belief that
his tailor had blundered he pointed out
the figures and suggested that some
body had made mistake. The tailor
looked the bill over and said he guessed
not; the bill was all right. Trousers
of that sort We're worth $50
''But 1 furnished the CLOTH" persisted
the doctor.
''Oh, the cloth. That is matter OF
small consequence" said the tailor.
eve never charge for the cloth. Our
fit and our reputation are what make
pantaloons cost in this establishments
~ 7. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
ODD ADDRESSES.
Some of the Curiosities Which Have
Passed Through English Post-Omces.

Some of the Curiosities Which Have
Passed Through English POST OHces.
Many oddly-addressed letters daily
pass through the post-offices. Several
of the rhyming kind are somewhat re-
markable for the poetical skill displayed
by the writers.
A clever example is given in the fol-
lowing, addressed to Sir Walter Scott
during one of his visits to London:
Sir Walter Scott, in London or elsewhere:
He needs not ask, whose wide-extendeo
Is spread about our earth, like light and air,
A local habitatlon for his name.
Charles Dibden, the naval-song writ.
or, sent letter to Mr.. Hay bearing the
following address:
Postman, take this sheet away,
And carry it to Mr.. Hay;
And whether you ride mare or colt on,
Stop at the Theater, Bolton;
If in what county you inquire,
Merely mention Lancashire.
A letter addressed as follows was
mailed in the provinces, and was duly
delivered in London:
Where London's column pointing to the
Like a tall bulle, lifts its head and HES.
There dwells citizen of sober fame,
IA
The letter was delivered without delay to
Mr.. Batlaam, fishmonger near the
Monument.
Turning from poetry to prose, we find
the following vague direction:
Mr.. -, Travelling Band. one OF the Foul
playing in the street. Persia Per-
shore, Worcestershire. Please find
him If possible.
Another envelope bore the follow.
ing:
This is for the young girl that wears spec
- tacies, who minds two babies 80
Sheriff street, off Prince Edward
street, Liverpool.
Mr. j. Wilson Hyde, in his book, 1.-The
Royal Mall" says that two letters d.
rected as follows were duly delivered:
.sTo my sister Jean. Up the Canongate
Down a Close, Edinburgh. She has 9
wooden leg
The other was addressed:
"My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottag,
by the Wood near the New Forest ,
SIN the latter case,' says Mr.. Hyde, ''the
letter had to feel its way about for day OF
two, but Ant Sue was found living
in cottage near Lyndhurst. ''-Honae
Chimes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
FIXING tT Up.

Hint to. Ambitious Persons Desirous Of
Obtaining. q Title.
The next day aftera man moved into
a town in Western Dakota the MAYOR
called On him and said:
'.Just arrived from the East, I hearp'n
Eyes"
Believe your name is Jonesp''
That's it,
mo title, I supposee"
"None"
'Of course You will want one now.
bua I'll tell you just how it is, we
haven't got much left to select IRON.
We limited each title to five persons
and we already have five Coloneas. five
Senator'S five Governors, five JUDGES
and SO on. We aren't quite full on
Majors and Commodores, however. and
you can take your choice.''
Wen it 1t is customary believe I'll
take Major.
GAN right, Major Come on down
to Judge Potts poker pa1lors and III
Introduce you to Senator Blow. Gem
eral McGore and other of our leading
citizens. "-Estelline On ~ Bell.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
Sample Republican Reform.

The record of General Black and
that of his predecessor in the Pension
Office are matters of comparison and
contrast, on which no judicious Repub-
ican organ will needlessly concentrate
public attention. General Black went
into office as head of the Pension Bu-
reau March II. 1885. His record as a
Union soldier is too well-known to need
rehearsal here. His appointment was
everywhere recognized as one emil
nently fit to be made. Entering upon
his duties. what was the state of affairs
which he found as to the officeholders
under himp The office had been in
Republican hands for twenty years.
For more than half that time the Re-
publican party had been pledged
publicly in all its conventions, State
and national. to the great principal of
.'divcrcing patronage from politics."
On the 18th of March, 1885, the day
General Black went into office, there
were 14S special examiners in the PEN
sion Department, and not one of the
entire twelve dozen and four was a
Democrat There were 229 clerks de-
tailed to assist in special examination
work and of the entire nineteen dozen
and one there were just 2 (two) DEM
ocrats Adding all the other employees
the Pension Office to those and the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15

total number of persons bnne upon
its salary-roll was 1865. And out Of
that there were just seventeen Demo-
Gratis. Seventeen in nearly LOO.
That IS just one per cent And this
was the genuine Civil-Service reform
which as administered by General Dud-
ley, was sanctioned by every Republic.
an Administrations Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
THE PLOT EXPOSED.
a Republican Scheme to Injure His De-
partment Thwarted by Postmaster-Gsn-
eral Villas.

a Republican Scheme to Injure His De-
partment Thwarted by Postmaster-Gsn-
era1 Villas.
The conspiracy in the railway postal
service, which has just been exposed
and punished. was about what might
have been expected. For a quarter of
a century it was taught, and by many
people believed in this country, that
only one party had the requisite intelli-
gence to administer the Government
and fill the offices. Propositions to
take by the heels some of the men who
had held place for generation and
throw them out have been looked upon
as verging on treason, and it is not sur
prising. all things considered, that
among the office-holding class an i'm
pudent contempt of authority should
have manifested itself. More especial
~ was this to be expected when, a new
party coming into power, it proceeded
to return good for evil by continuing
the great majority of the subordinate
office-holders in their places. Had it
turned them out by the hundred
and thousand, as probably some
of them should have been
turned out. such of them as
were left would have been more inter-
ested in attending to the public bust
ness in such a way as to meet approval
than they would have been in any
scheme to embarrass their superiors.
Since the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleve-
land there have been frequent rumors
of INSTRUMENTATION on the part of the
railway mail clerks. At one time they
have been threatening to strike in a
body. and at another they have been
''organizing' to resist any changes
which the Postmaster-General. in his
discretion, might make. These con-
spiracies recently eliminated in a we'll
defined movement in the West to bring
about a complete paralysis of the pos
tai service at any moment when the
union taking exception to orders
from the Government, should proclaim
strike. In this performance the rail
way clerks manifested that spirit of
political intolerance which under Re-
publican rule made the civil-service of
the country great party machine and
denied to one-half of the people repre-
sentation therein, as completely as if
they had been aliens. Chicago Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
The announcement that

The announcement that the
Committee on Commerce of the Re-
publican Senate is making large addi-
lions to the River and Harbor bill
passed by the Democratic House, and
that it is likely to call for two or three
millions more when the upper branch
gets through with it, is an unfortunate
response to the Republican platforms
recently adopted in Maine and Yer
mont condemning the Democrats for
their extravaganza appropriations N
7. Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15

breathe; they form part of the frame
work of their intelligence, of the skele-
ton about which their mental life is or.
ganized. To men and women of more
than three-score they are external &C.
cretions, like the shell of mollusk, the
jointed plates of an articulate. Oliues
WendeU Holmes, IN atlantic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
The task of defeating the ingen

The task of defeating the ingenu.
ity of pension wolves is doubtless an
onerous one, but the President is cont
ing out of it with reputation for
quiet humor that, when yoked to
strong common sense and honesty of
purpose. is thoroughly appreciated by
tina American people. ChicGoe NesSs-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15

-Burglar-''Are you asleepp'' Own
er of mansion-"Yes.'' BURGLAR
"Ah! thought l would catch YOU and
make you speak" Owner of mansion
why, that's all right; I'm talking
in my sleep, "-JuQge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15

The Committee on Privileges
and Elections in the United States Sem
ate have passed upon the effort of the
Republican ringsters of Ohio to be-
smirch the fair fame of Henry B.
Payne, a member of that body. There
were upon that committee five Repub-
licans and four Democrats. Upon
both sides they were the men of high
est repute in their respective parties,
the cream of the cream, as to ability,
ersonalintegrity, party standing and
lifelong experience in public service.
OF these nine men, such as are above
described, seven declared upon their
solemn oaths that the charges against
Senator Payne were worthy of con-
observation-disclosures Enquirer.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29
Reading Aloud.

If you ask eight persons out of ten,
now, they will tell you that they hate
being read to. And why ? Because
from their childhood they have been
unused to it, and used only to such a
monotonous drone as robbed even the
Arabian Nights Of half their charm.
The husband lat the end of hard day s
work, returns home to pass the evening
absorbed IN his book, or doing over
the fire, while the wife takes up he r
noyel or knits in silence. If he read to
her, or if he could tolerate her reading
to him, there would be community of
thought, interchange Of ideas ,and such
discussions as the fushion OF two minds
into any common channel cannot fail
TO produce. And it is often the same
when the circle is wider. | have known
large family pass the hours between
each one with his book Or work, afraid
to speak above his breath because cit
would disturb papa" Is this cheerful,
or wise, or conducive 10 that close un-
ion in a household which is bond of
strength through life, which the world
can neither give nor take away ? /
cannot blame them, for they all read
abominably ; and it is enough TO have
endured the infection of family prayers
gasped and mumbled by the head of the
family, to feel listening to such a deliv-
cry for any length Of time would exas-
perate one beyond endurance.
But it was not always SD. In the
last century-even as late as fifty years
ago-reading aloud was regarded as an
accomplishment worth the cultivation
of those especially those who lived in
the country with pretentions to taste ;
and it was consequently, far more fire.
quently found enliyening the domesti C
circle. There were fewer books, fewer
means of locomotion. fewer pleasur es
of winter nights outside the four walls
of the country parlor. The game of
cribage, or the sonata on the spinnet,
did not occupy the entire evening after
six O'Clock dinner and Shakespeare
and Milton were more familiar to the
young generation of those days than
they are now-mainly, feel persuaded,
because they were accustomed to hear
them read aloud. The ear. habltuated
to listen, is often more safe conduit
to the memory in youth, than the mat
tentive eye which rapidly skins page.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29

The garden party was failure for
that day. But to .he deacon's wife an
explanation was made which was salts
factory. and which restored confidence
again to the troubled heart OF good old
Deacon Petit. Also, to the rich cred
itor's wife, who was one of Mrs. Max
wells guests,a sufficient reason was Civ
Ell for the new departure of the Max
wells in the mater of racing hors es.
When rapid transit is being discussed
now in the presence of the Maxwells, a
rich color runs riot over Mrs. .Maxwell's
pretty face and her husband alway s
manages adroitly to change the subject
But, Mary, thought you liked a
horse with some spirit p said her hus-
band afterward, alluding to their ride.
Il don't like spasmodic spirit, either
in horse or woman she retorted, with
a slight frown; "nor do | admire any
thing in the way Of rapid Transit accom-
panied by sudden and disastrous stops.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29
The Ball that Wounded Hancock.

DR.. Lewis w. Read, of Norristown,
thus relates the circumstances of Gen-
eral Hancock's recovery from his
wound received at Gettysburg 81
was medical director of the Pennsylva-
MIA Reserves, and just before the first
of November, 1865, came home on
twenty hours leave of absence. 1
called to see the General, who was in
bed at his fathers residence. l found
him very much dIsheartened. He had
grown thin, and looked pale and enact
ated. He said he felt as if he was 60
ing to die, and that he had been probed
and tortured to such an extent that
death would be relief. l endeavored
to cheer him up, and as 1 was about
bidding him farewell he said i: Good
bye, Doctor may never see you a.
gain
Il had my hand on the door knob of
his chamber when he said I: See here
Doctor, why don't you try to get this
ball out. 1 have had all the reputation
in the country at it; now let's have
some of the practical
He was lying in the bed with his
wounded limb actually fixed, and all
the probing had been done with his
leg bent at right angles. The ball had
hit him just below the right groin,
within an inch of the femoral artery,
while he Was sitting in the saddle With
his legs distended. went down to my
office for probe with concealed blade
and on my return DR.. Cooper and my
self succeeded in Strengthening the limb
and placing it as near as possible in the
position it was when the bal struck
him. I inserted the probe and it drop
ped fully eight inches into the channel
and struck the ball, which was imbed-
ded in the sharp bone which you sit up
on. In weeks time the General was
out on crutches land in two weeks more
he attended a Masonic gathering at
Odd Fellows Hall. 1 forget the cali
Der of the bullet, but it was big Mimic
ball.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29
Look Out For /:

The Advertiser who has good cler-
ical position to offer, but wants you TO
make "a deposit of fifty dollars or more
as guaranty of your reliability"
The Lightning.rod Agent who agrees
to encase farm building with light.
nlng-rods for flye dollars, and subse-
quenty presents bill for one hundred
and FIVE dollars-one hundred dollars
for the rods, and FIVE dollars for put
ting them up.
The party who sells rights for q
worthless patent process for curing to-
bacco.
Worthless recipes for curing hog
cholera and other animal diseases.
Swlndlers who claim royalties On
some patented article which they may
find in farmers possession.
Quack Travelling Dentists who ad-
yertise to furnish a set of teeth fully aS
good as the best for very small sum OF
money, M
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29
Artemus Ward on Editors.

Artemus Ward, speaking of editors,
says: "Before you go for an editor.
young man, pause and take big think
Look around, and see il there is not an
omnibus or some meat cart to drive,
some soil somewhere to be titled or
clerkship to be filled-anything that is
reputable or healthy, rather than going
for an editor, which is a bad business
at Lest. We are not horse, and con-
sequently have not been called upon to
furnish the motiye power for a thresh-
ing machine, but we fancy that the life
of an editor who is forced to write,
whether he feels like it or not. is much
like the steed in question. If the yeas
and neighs could be obtained, we be-
lieve that the intelligent horse would
decide that the threshing machine is
preferable to the sanctum editorial.
The EDITORS work is never done. He
is drained incessantly, and no wonder
that he dries up prematurely. Other
people can attend banquets, weddings,
etc visit halls of dazzling light, and
enjoy themselves in variety of ways,
but the editor cannot. He must tenac-
iously stick to the quill. The press.
like sick baby, must not be left to run
by itself even for a day, or somebody
Indignantly orders the carrier boy to
stop bringing that paper. There is
nothing in it; I won't have it in the
house. !"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-29
Furtunes Made in Old Corks.

You wouldn't think man could
make fortune selling old corks and
bottles, would you ? Well, know
man who bought out a coffin shop
twenty-five years ago and began to
deal in old corks. Eight years ago
he went into the old bottle business,
and he is now a rich man. The po-
liceman who said this took the writer
down Mulberry street, and a few
blocks below Bleecker stopped before
O rickety old building. in front of
which stood several barrels filled with
bottles of all sizes. There were bot
ties emptied of Vino Vermouth, Pi-
per Sec and Rhine wine, OF Bass ale,
claret and stomach bitters. Inside
the shop were seen the necks of
thousand bottles, pointed toward the
door like little howitzers They were
piled up and boxed up and were in
rows on the floor. From the roof
hung dingy demijohns, covered with
cobwebs, and in the centre of the
room was barrel of old champagne
corks.
How many corks have you sold to-
day, Hugh p asked the policeman.
Eight barrels
How many bottles 2
'Seventy-fve gross. You see we
never take the labels off, and never
wash the bottles. The men who buy
wine bottles want the labels as well
as the bottles-sometimes want the
labels much more than the bottles !;
but we do not deal in labels. When
a junkman comes in with load Of
bottles he may have twenty different
kinds. We sort them. When we get
a gross of certain kind we know
where to sell them. A gross OF quart
campagne bottles fetcbes $3.50 pints
1926. Claret bottles sell for 1915
per gross, and so do soda water bot
ties. Bass ale is worth 1925, but
for Rhine wine bottles we get Sc per
gross. Tom gins and stomach bit
tiers go at 81 porter and Vino Yer
mouth at 1926. Apollinaris, quarts,
we sell for $5 per gross, and pints at
1926. A gallon demijohn is only
worth 90 cents, but larger beer bot
ties with the patent shoppers bring $S
per gross. Root beer bottles sell for
Sc, willie ginger ales only fetch $l.50.
We sell Hathorn, Congress and Gey-
ser bottles back to the mineral spring
men in Saratoga for 8 cents per doz-
en-. Most of the small bottles are
bought by catsup and table sauce ma
kers. We don't buy medicine bottles.
We sell very little stock to medi cine
men.
You know champagne cork has q
sound head and is turned from the
bark. It is not cut out as straight
corks are made. When it pops from
the bottle the head is cut up by the
string and the cork looks like a mlsh-
room. We put them all in big ket-
tie of boiling water and swell them.
Then they're as good as new. Ordin-
ary sound corks sell for twenty-five
cents per gross, but corks from cha M
pagne bottles, made with more labor,
bring $3.50. We have handled e.
nough corks in the past twenty-five
years to float the Great Eastern.