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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
THE TEENS.
Youthful Years the Most Important Time
Of Ones Life.

Youthful Years the Most Important Time
Of Ones Life.
What do you think is the most i'm
portant time of life? Boys will prob
ably answer: When we go to busi-
ness, or to college. Girls will say:
When we go out into society, or get
married. But I think it is when you
are going into your teens.
After the melted iron is poured into
the mold, it is left for while that it
may take shape. But the first few mo-
ments are the most important; for then
the surface of the great iron globule.
which comes into contact with the
damp sand of the mold, is cooled, and
the shape is set. The time after that
serves to harden the metal, not to
change it's form. Life in this world is
the mold in which our souls are shaped
for eternity; and the first years after
we have begun to think for ourselves,
to feel the pressure of right and wrong,
to determine duty or indulgence
these first years have more to do with
the making of us than all the rest.
Have you been in the Adirondack
woods hunting and fishing? If so, you
remember that your guide, when he
came to the rapids in the stream, did not
dash carelessly down it. He stopped
the cranky little craft, balanced the
boat, got sure grip ON his paddle,
then let her drift slowly toward the
center Of the narrow sluice until the
skiff's nose was in the smooth water
which shows that there it is deepest.
Then, with eye and nerve and muscle
all working together, he kept her head
on, just SO, and you shot down the
rock-strewn stream as swiftly and as
safely as water-snake. Ask your
guide why he was so careful at the be-
ginning, and he will tell you that if he
starts the boat right he can keep her
right; but the twisting waters would be
too much for him if he did not have her
safely in hand at the word ''Go."
Boys and girls entering your teens,
you are at the head of LIES rapids
Your craft is already catching the drift
of strong desires, ambitions, passions.
You feel them. They almost alright
you sometimes. Have no anxiety ex-
cept to aim at the very center of what
is right, and the purposes which are
deepest and purest. Knit the nerves of
your strong resolution. Vow to your
self, and to God. who will help you.
Then away down life's stream! 1t will
be celebrating, grand; all true life is.
But take care! For your souls sake,
don't drift in among the rocks and
whirlpools without the grip. M.
LudL0W. ID. d., IN s. S. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
CURTAINS WIT.
A Few Samples of the Saliva of the Wit
test of Irisllmen.

A Few Samples of the Saliva of the Wit
test of Irishmen.
To the bench Curran could be at
times unceremonious. In his early
days Judge Robinson made an attempt
to extinguish the rising advocate. Rob-
inson, it was currently reported, owed
his elevation to the publication of
political pamphlets, remarkable only
for their slavish meanness and sour
rility. In arguing his case Curran
said he had consultsd all his law
books and could not find the principle
contended for. II suspect, SIR" said
Robinson, " that your law library
is rather scanty." sit is very true,
my Lord" said Curran, "that my
books are not numerous; but I have
prepared myself for this high profess
sion rather by the study of q
few good books than by the COM
position of great many bad
ones" Curran was occasionally
nonplussed by witness. Inquiring his
masters age from a horse trainers
servant, he could get no satisfactory an
swer. Come, come, friend" urged
Curran, ''has he lost his teeth?" do
you Think retorted the servant, ''that
1 know his age as he does his horses
by the mark of the mouth?" Once
foiled by a Limerick banker with an
iron leg, Curran in his address to the
jury said that his leg was the softest
part about him. In a debate in the
House of Commons he stated that he
needed no aid from any one, that he
was proud to be 1.-THE guardian of his
own honor" "Indeed," exclaimed Sir
Boyle Roche, II congratulate Mr.. Cur
ran on his holding a sinecure. Lord
Clare was determined enemy of Cur
ran while he was ut the bar. The Lord
Chancellor ruined his practice at the
Chancery court, and his clients were
ALWAYS sufferers. Indeed Curran
stated that the losses in his pro-
fessional income from the ami
mostly of Lord Clare amounted to no
less than 100000. The incidents in
court in consequence of this Disagree
ment were sometimes ludicrous On
one occasion when it was known that
the advocate was about to make an
elaborate argument in chancery, Lord
Clare brought a Newfoundland dog
upon the bench with him, and paid
much more attention to the dog than to
the barrister, and the fact was COM
mented on by the profession. At ma
terial point in the argument the Chan
cellor lost all decency, and turned quite
aside to fondle the dog. Curran stopped
at once. go on, go on" said Lord
Clare. "Oh. beg thousand pardons,
my Lordr' was the ready reply. 81
really took it for granted your Lordship
was engaged in consultation. Temple
Bar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
THE AMERICAN TYPE.
The Narrowing and Pinching of Counte
nance Must Go.

The Narrowing and Pinching of Counte-
nance Must Go.
We can never reconstruct the old En-.
gland features which we have lost. 1t
would not, perhaps, be desirable to do
it if we could, but we can prevent the
| narrowing and pinching that has gone
| on-that solemn look that has been
growing on our young men. Our thin
jaws have been attributed to climate.
They are due to nothing of the sort, but
to the intense driving, energy-wasting
life we lead, combined with a very reck-
less disregard of physical laws. We eat
every sort of outrageous food or poison,
over-cramming and hurrying so that the
stomach has no chance to digest even
good food. l believe no people on
earth commit greater amount of daily
suicide in the way of grease, pork, but
ter and cakes. We are a nation of dys-
peptics from overlooking and ill-feed-
ing. Three-fourths of the people do
not know the plainest rules of hygiene,
so far as diet is concerned. The conse-
quence is pinched vitals and pinched
faces, for good face only means a
good liver.
To remove this tendency, we must
have more oxygen, more outdoor sport,
more good cheer, and less suicide. The
literature of our later sporting is CHEEKY,
bright, full of ozone, healthy and sunny.
1t always brings us the smell of lilacs
and clover. The future American face
will be bright. full face, with a brave,
warm eye, a merry, humorous mouth
and lively, flexible nostril. 1t will be
active, but firm and self-reliant 1t will
have none of the stolidity of the English
face, or the darkness of the general con-
tinental face. Withal the rest it will
have more decided individuality than
the faces we have lost, the imported
faces of the English, French or German
root
Lower races have so little facial indi-
viduality that you can scarcely distin-
guish one from another. Negroes look
vastly alike, especially on the planta-
| tons. Then what an astounding repe-
| tition there is in crowd of emigrants
that pours out of steamer at the wharf
in New York. The spiritual counte-
nance is always the same. There are
the same ideas there; the same level ex-
actly of conceiving things: the same
power. But the American type, with
the physical only having any degree of
conformity, will have a vast range of
the spiritual and intellectual; vast
divergence of power. That this is to be
the result of field sports alone 1 do not
assert; but of combination of influ-
ences that calls us into wider range of
healthier activities.-I'oledo Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
ROOFS OF PAPER.
Pronounced Superior to Either Slate o
Single Covering.


Single Covering.
A roof pronounced superior to that
of slate because of its lightness and
other advantages is now made of any
fibrous pulp. From this material tiles
of any shape desired are formed by
pressure under machinery or by any
other method which may suggest itself
Pressed into the design wished for the
pulp tiles are partially dried, previous
to being subjected to a waterproof
solution. Thoroughly impregnated with
the preparation to resist moisture they
are baked to harden in them the water
proof mixture. After the baking the
tiles are treated to mixture imparting
an enameled surface; to this is added a
coating of sand, whereby the pulp is
rendered proof against the action of
heat or flame. By the use of different
colored sands a variety of tints may
be impaired to the tiles, which, after
the application of the enameling mix
ture and sands, are baked a second time,
after which they are ready for use. Be-
side the inherent lightness of pulp tiles,
which obviates the necessity of a heavy
frame to support a weighty roof, the
pulp tile, being tough and not brittle
like slate, is far less liable to be broken
from blows, stones thrown upon them
or human footsteps. Again, slate tiles
can not be laid compactly together on a
roof on account of their brittleness,
which prevents their being drawn tight
ly together by nails. Through the
fbrous pulp nails may be driven as close
home as in shingles, thereby bind
ing them closely to the bed and together
without any possibility of lateral move
ment or being blown away in high
wind, as states loosely. fastened on roofs
so frequently are. Nails penetrate the
pulp tiles more easily than shingles,
and lie closer together, being more elias
tic than wood.-Boston Journal of Com.
0asrcs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
PITH AND POINT.

81 hev often noticed" saws Josh
Billings, ''the man who would have done
such wonderful things eff he had bin
thare. never gifts thare.''
"A Burlington man has given up
bantering his wife. He laughed at her
for using cosmetics, and she informed
him that when he stopped painting his
nose she would stop painting her
cheeks.-Free Press.
Mamma with much show of indig-
nation)-'I have called you three
times. I am very much annoyed. !"
Charlie (who is fond of Bible stories)-
'Well, the Lord called Samuel three
times, and he didn't get mad about it,
did he?'-Life.
"A beautiful woman, with an artifi-
cially heightened color, once said to
General Shields: 'sHow is that, having
obtained SO much glory, you still seek
for morep" "Ah, madam" he replied,
with more force than politeness, chow
is it that you, who have so much beauty,
should still put on paint?' Fran
cisco Argomamt.
-"ClaXton, I'm afraid your marriage
relations are not the most pleasant. "
''Why do you think so, Bromley?h
You are getting bald, you know"
Eyes; but it's not because my wife
pulls my hair out. l do it myself by
scratching my head in my efforts to de-
wise means to crafty her extrava-
gance. "-Philadelphia Call.
cold man Pennybunker has mar
ried again" ''You don't tell me so. :"
eyes, and he has married a right young
girl, forty years younger than he is. !"
''Well, I declare. His other wife only
died six months ago and he went on so
at the grave that 1 expected he would
lose his mind" "Well, you see your
prediction has come to pass. ''-1eros
Sytings.
Mr.. Fauxpas Ito young LADY,: All,
Miss Charmante, have just come from
the side of Mrs. Smith, who has been
asking me about the beautiful young
lady at the flower table. Miss G. Gap
pearing to busy herself in arranging
some fowers): Have you never known
how 1 detest flattery3 Mr.. F. (who
thinks he may have blundereO: o, but
really, you know, it is dark over where
she is sitting. One can hardly see you -
Harper's Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
HUMAN NATURE.
How 1t Looks When Observed in 3 Pos
Office Lobby.

How It Looks When Observed in Post
Office Lobby.
'sIt wasn't three days ago that l put
three penholders and three blotting pads
on this desk, and not one is to be found
now"
1t was Posu-office official, and he re-
ferred to the writing desk in the corri-
dor.
..What becomes of emp asked the
reporter.
'.Stolen."
"You don't mean to say that we have
people mean enough to steal half
penny blotting pad?"
"But do. l see a dozen cases of it a
week.
s.Who are the thieves?"
"Women, mostly. And when it isn't
a woman it's business man. Now, I'm
going to stock up the desk again, and
you hang around here for awhile and
see what you can see."
Three penholders, each supplied with
a new pen, and three fresh pads of blot
ting paper were laid out, and the watcher
took his seat on a window-sill. In about
five minutes young man with brisk
air rushed up to the desk, directed a postal
card, and knocked one of the penholders
off on the floor as he rushed off.
The second conner was also man. and
he picked up the pen, directed letter
with it, gave quick glance around him
and pocketed one of the blotters. The
third was woman, who put on her
glasses, wrote postal, and cody peck.
eted a penholder. Then boy lounged
up and stole another; and between two
business men who used the other pen
the second blotter was pocketed. This
left only one penholder and one biotter;
After seven or eight people had USED
them woman with widows weeds
on directed mourning envelope
stamped it, and rolled the penholder up
in the pad and pocketed both, regardless
of who might be watching. She was not
vet out Of the building when a man
rushed up to the desk, found nothing
to write with, and pounded the walnut
with his fist and growled out:
..rll be hanged if 1 wouldn't Ike
to twist that postmaster's neck! This
shows how little care public official
has for the convenience Of the public!''
-Deroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
SAUERKRAUT.
How the Pennsylvania Dutch Pickle Their
Favorite Dish.

How the Pennsylvania Dutch Pickle Their
Favorite Dish.
In the fall of the year, about the
week of Halloween, the Berks County
farmer selects from his crop of cabbage
as many of the frmest heads as will
suffice for his family's use. In every
community there are ono or two saucr-
kraut cutters which arc hired out to
whoever wants them. The cutters arc
made of long board with several
sharp knives set in the middle. A box
that will hold one or two heads Of cab
bage is made to fit over the knife board,
and this is pushed back and forth over
the knives, which shave off the cabbage
in thin, almost transparent slices. The
vessel which receives these shavings is
called ''stenner." 1t is simply
high, narrow barrel. After the bottom
of the .stenner" is covered with
layer of about four inches of the cut
cabbage coarse salt is sprinklcd all
over it, and then, with heavy wooden
sta.nper-"sht as it is called in
Berks County Dutch-thc mass is Wig
orously pounded, and the salt is worked
through it.
1t is said that in some of the farming
districts of this State, instead of using
the wooden FOUNDER to pack it in the
barrel, some one of the family gets into.
it and tramps it with the bare feet.
generally laying a cloth cover over the,
cabbage. OF course the feet are first
given a good bath. This method of
stamping is not generally used, though
it is certainly sometimes done. They
cook it generally with a good-sized
piece of fresh pork as fat as the pork
can be had. Sometimes they add to il
while boiling quantity of potatoes cut
ia quarters, but they generally have
with it great dish Of mashed potatoes,
and of this compound of sauerkraut.
''speck" and potatoes enormous GUAM.
titles are consumed daily in the farm
houses of Rerks County.
There is German settlement mn
in New Jersey called Riverside.
where, it is said, there is little else
than pork and sauerkraut eaten. The
place has become famous for the ex.
cellence of its favorite dish, and tho
custom has lately grown among these
people to give sauerkraut parties.
Germans from all the near towns flock
to these social parties and eat the
greasy compound to safety and settle
it down with an all-night dance.
There are two sauerkraut factories
in Philadelphia, where it is manufact-
ured in great quantities., and sold by
the hogshead. This kind is considered
by the Germans rs not as good az the
homemade article.
Sauerkraut is becoming a favorite
dish at the hotels, and can often be
found on the bill of fare at the different
,frst-class hotels. That used at the
hotels is said to be imported from Ger.
many. Nevs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
A POOR LITTLE CAT.

I'm a poor little ally cat:
know what is meant by 'sScat;"
I know when a stone comes whirlinG, dy.
ing,
Who it is aimed at.
know my paws are black
And leave q dirty track;
That dingy streaks of SCOT and ashes
Are on my breast and back.
But hate the CRIME and wet,
Like coy places, yet
No little girl in the world is willing
TO keep me for pet.
suppose it is because
They don't like broken paws,
And think because I'm fierce and hungry
There's danger from my claws.
But small as am and young,
No pussy ever sung
A sweeter purr-song, or could polish
Cleaner with her red tongue.
Oh! if some little lady who
Loves kittens only knew,
She might be glad, perhaps, to find me,
And glad to keep me. too.
Clara Doty Bates. in wide AacdTse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04

"A recent published statement of
Rev. DIR. Barrows, of Reading. has been
called in question-that the whole hui
man race now alive, if divided into fam
lilies of five each, could be located in
Texas, with half acre of land for each
family. Dr. Barrows handles some large
figures, but correctly. it is supposed, as
to our extent of country. The estimated
population of the world is /, 400, 900, 900,
and the area of Texas is 262, 290 square
miles. The doctor will have $1,000, 900
family lots more than will be called for.
philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04

in 1898 William Penn fought a
duel in Paris. 1t was not aduel accord
ing to the code, bat when, for some al
front, gentleman drew his sword,
Penn drew his. The Quaker showed
that he was the best swordsman. dis
armed his adversary, infiicting upon him
only a sermon on the evils OF q quick
temner.- PHILADELPHIA Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04

Little Boy: Does everybody know
everybody in heaven, mamma, and is it
wicked to lie therec Mamma: Ger
tainly, we shall all know each other
there; and no liars can go there.
Boy: Then you won't 60, suppose,
for you couldn't send word to the door
mot at home when you didn't want to
see any one who called.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04

"A Newark barber has lost his voice,
and he is doing the largest business in
toWn.-StQtesn,Qfs
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
He had been Swearing.

The average small boy of the present
day is seldom at loss for something to
say even in the most embarrassing stu
ations Bobby precocious youth of
six summers, had been indulging in
profanity, and in order to escape the
punishment for which his mother had
made preparations, he crawled under a
barn and remained there in state of
siege for the greater part of an afternoon.
When his father returned at night and
learned how matters stood, he made his
way with much difficulty under the barn
in search of the boy
Hello, pa" said Bobby cheerfuly, as
his sire approached, lyon been swear
ing tooH"-[Boston Record
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the tOrmu la
for a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of cOnsump,,
ton, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma and all
heart and lung affections, also a posi-
tive and radical cure for nervous dibility
and all nervous complaints, after hav-
ingtested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, has felt it his du-
tows. Actuated by this motive and a
desire to relieve human suffering, l
will send free of charge, to all who de-
sire it, this recipe, in German, French
or English, with full directions for pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by ad-
dressing with stamp, naming this paper,
w. A. Noyes, l49 Powers Block, Roch-
ester, N. Y.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
Home and Mother.

My boy, have you ever thought that
at no distant day you will be left alone
in this worldG Has the thought ever
occurred to you that your dear old
father and mother will not always be
with you' Have you ever realized that
they are getting along in years and that
ere long they will be called from this
world to brighter and better home
in heaven! But you have been care
less, thoughtless and waywaLd these
many years. You do not seem to re-
alize the meaning of that one word,
home. 1t is the grandest and noblest
word that was ever uttered by mortal
man; you do not appreciate that never
ceasing comfort, the splendor and pro-
found enjoyment of home which is
envIed by thousands and thousands of
boys who have been left fatherless and
motherless, which you are enjoying
daily and still you hardly know it. You
are never satisfied with anything at
home; you are continually finding fault
and too often speak words, in a mo-
ment of angry passion, that cut your
poor old mothers heart deep, very
deep, and which are " by day eating
away her very life. "A me, as we said
before and will say it again, is the
noblest and grandest word that was
ever spoken by man, but what is home
without mother? If it was not for your
dear old mother who is always trying
to have everything SO as to please you,
who is willing at all times to do any
thing and everything, as only fond
and loving motSer can do. to make
you happy and comfortable, would that
place you call home seem like home:
No, my boy, never. 1t is that dear old
mother that makes home; it IS that dear
old mother at home that makes home
the grandest and noblest place IN this
world. But, my boy, the time is com
ing when you will have no home; the
time is coming when you will have no
mother, and then, and not until then
will you fully realize the meaning of
those two words, home and mother.
How beautiful they sound But the
time is soon coming when she viii be
called to join the angles in heaven, and
then oh, how you will miss your dear
old mother at home.
No, my boy, you can never do enough
in this world to repay your dear old
mother for the many deeds of loving
kindness you owe her. But you can
before the time which is fast approach
ing, comes when she will be laid to res
in the silent tomb, make her last day,
in this world pleasant and cheerful
Il is the last time you will have an op
portunity to do her an act Of loving
kindness which she so much deserves
and for her sake do not neglect to care
gently for your dear old mother in hel
aged and declining years.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21

"A cottage prayer meeting will be
held at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Cock, next Monday evening and all are
cordially invited. After the prayer
meeting a Ladies' Aid society will be
organized for the benefit of the pro-
posed NJ E. church to be built in War
ner the coming summer. A cordial in
vitation is extended to all to be present
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21
BeWare!

Order No. 144 of Rondell school town
ship, and issued to James ). Bryan is
lost and duplicate issued and paid,
therefore presentation of original order
will not be honOred.
Rondell, ID. T., May II, 1886.
f. p. ROSE, Treas.
w. l. STEERE, Director.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21

Burdett: why amt you at work,
Jemmyg"
cause we're out on stike,"
What's the trouble?'
"Idon't know
What are you striking fors"
For our rights
who has wronged yousr
"The company
What companys"
''Idon't know"
Then how do You know what you
are striking for"
"Well. we are stiikip for our rights
and begorra, we're going to have EN-,