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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
PERSONAL MAGNETISM,
The Secret of the Perpetual Youth Pos
sessed by Some Men.

The Secret of the Perpetual Youth Pos
sessed by Some Men.
Henry Clay. to the last hours of his
life, had a singular power over young
men and boys. who were invariably
eager to become. in some sort, his
friends and companions.
Young people regarded Washington,
on the other hand, with profound re-
spect into which no feeling of possible
comradeship ever entered. The same
feeling of separation, or aloofness,
characterized the intercourse of Daniel
Webster with the young.
What girl or boy who reads the Com
panion has not a tender, cheerful fell
lowship for the venerable George Ban
croft and Doctor Holmes, men whose
faces they probably never have seem?
Why is it that old age is thus to
some men, however good or wise they
may be. an impossible gulf, which
cuts them off from all relations with
childhood and youth, while there are
other aged faces dear to every baby,
boy and girl who looks on them?
The cold. dark flow of years shut the
first in and apart from their kind, as the
deep, bridgeless moat does an ancient
ruin; but years have no power to sepa-
rate us from the others. They are as
young and alive as their grandchil-
dren, despite white hairs and failing
senses.
The secret of this perpetual youth in
some men is the keen sympathy for
others in their hearts. and certain
warmth of temperament which gives
them an interest in the affairs of every
passing moment No matter how old
man may be, if his energy and affec-
tions remain he will attract friends and
companions. If the fire still burns on
the hearth, what matter if the walls of
the house be decayed? We shall come
to it to be warmed and cheered.
Yet how absurd. in the light of this
simple fact, is the conduct of boys and
girls who assume languid indiffer-
ence to the affairs of life in the vain
hope of convincing the lookers-on that
they are hopelessly btase?
When they rob themselves of the
chief charm of youth and enthusiasm.
they are like the heir to a kingdom
who resigns crown before he has
worn it.-Youth's Companion.
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GEOLOGICAL WONDERS.
When Hot-House Conditions Prevailed
All Parts of Our Globe.

When Hot-House Conditions Prevailed In
All Parts of Our Globe.
All through the primary and sec.
ondary epochs of geology, it is now
pretty certain, dollhouse conditions
practically prevailed almost without a
break over the whole world from pole
to pole. It may be true, indeed, as
DIR. Croll believes (and his reasoning
on the point, l confess. is fairly con-
vincing), that from time to time gla-
cial periods in one or other hemisphere
broke in for awhile upon the genial
warmth that characterized the greater
part of those vast and Unreasonable
primeval cons, But even if that were
so-if at long intervals the world for
some hours in it's cosmical year was
chilled and frozen in an insignificant
cap at either extremity-these casual
episodes in a long story do not
interfere with the general truth
of the principle that life as a
whole during the greater portion of
its antique existence has boon carried
on under essentially tropical condi-
TONS No matter what geological
formation we examine, we find every
where the same tale unfolded in plain
inscriptions before our eyes. Take,
for example. the giant club-mosses
and luxuriant tree-ferns nature-printed
on shales of the coal age in Britain,
and we see in the wild underground OF
those paleozoic forests ample evidence
of a warm and almost West Indian
climate among the low basking islets
of our northern carboniferous seas.
Or take once more the oolitic epoch in
England, autographed on its own mud,
with it's puzzle monkeys and its sage
palms. its crocodiles and its deinosaurs,
its winged pterodactyls and its whale
like lizards. ALI these huge creatures
and these broad-leaved trees plainly
indicate the existence of a tempera-
ture over the whole of Northern Eu-
rope almost as warm as that of the
Malay Archipelago in our own day.
The weather report for all the earlier
ages stands almost uninterruptedly at
set fair. Roughly speaking. indeed,
one may say that through the long
series of primary and secondary for
nations hardly a trace can be found OF
the ice Or snow, autumn or winter.
leahess boughs or pinched and starved
deciduous vegetation. Every thing is
powerful, luxuriant, vivid. Life, as
Comus feared, was strangled with its
waste fertility. Once indeed, in the
Permian age. ali over the temperate
regions, north and south, we get pass
ing indications of what seem very like
glacial epoch, partially comparable
to that grest glaciation on whose last
fringe we still abide to-day. But
the ice age of the Permian. il
such there were, passed away
entirely, leaving the world once more
warm and fruitful up to the very poles,
under conditions which we would now
describe as essentially tropical. 1t was
with the tertiary period perhaps, in.
deed, only with the middle subdivision
OF that period-that the gradual cool.
ing of polar and intermediate regions
began. We know from the deposits o
the chalk epoch in Greenland that late
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
A VETERAN PRINTER.
The Man Who First Put the "Star span
gled Banner in Type.

The Man Who First Put the "star-span-
gled Banner in Type.
At the recent celebration in Balti-
more of the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the bombardment OF Fort McHenry
and the composition by Key of 'The
Star-Spangled Banner" was present
Samuel Sands, who is probably the
Oldest printer living, and who. while
a printer in the office of the Baltimore
American, in 1914, first put that song
in type from the authors original
manuscript and distributed it through
the streets OF that city. This fact and
the other one that in 1885. in the first
campaign OF William Henry Harrison,
he had published Wing campaign
paper, the Freeman's Banner. led him
to ask permission during break in
the Industrial parade to pay his re-
spects to President Harrison, but the
chairman of the occasion refused to
a low him to ascend the platform, not
recognizing that he was probably the
only person in that vast throng pres
emit with any personal connection with
the events being honored. Mr.. Sands
went to his trade at the age of eleven
years, and. escaping the customary
devils. duties, was put at once to
learn 1.-THE case" standing on
pile of empty cases to reach his
work. At sixteen he was fore
man of the Office. During his career,
he has published number of papers,
including several political sheets. He
was always an ardent Wing, and for
many years secretary OF the State CEN
trail committee of that party in Mary
land. During the rebellion he was an
enthusiast tic Unionist, and through
most of it the editorial writer of the
Baltimore Clipper. For nearly fifty
years he published the American
Farmer, one of the earliest OF agricult-
ural papers in this country, and with
which he maintains still nominal
connection. it being now conducted by
his son. He is the only printer in his
city who has been president of the
Journeymen's and later president Of
the Employing Printers associations.
Mr.. Sands is now in his ninetieth year,
enjoying excellent health. his mental
faculties little dimmed, though his
sight is failing. In recent letter to
the Baltimore American he states that
he remembers hearing distinctly the
bombardment, though he didn't see
.'the bombs bursting in air" He alone
of the compositors remained in the
office, being too young to go with the
others into the trenches, and this CIR
cumstance led to his name being linked
honorably and historically with the
immortal song. Washington Lette
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The largest collection OF coins,
125, 600 in number. is in the cabinet OF
antiquities. Vienna.
AT the mayoralty of Berthecourt,
France. babies are now baptized in the
name of the republic, and so duly reg
istered.
The Empress of Germany is said
to wear on her shoulder at court fetes
a magnificent agraffe in diamonds
which belonged to Napoleon I. and
which was attached to his hat at Wa
terloo.
"A census of farm animals has re-
Gently been taken by the Italian Gov
eminent, and it appears that there is a
very large increase in all kinds except
ing pigs, which have diminished con-
siderably in numbers.
The Switzerland Department of
Agriculture has made the treatment OF
grape mildew obligatory. For 'each
offense of negligence the owner will be
subject to fine of from two to eight
cen dollars.
The French servant girl is no bet
ter than the American, and the French
Countess has her troubles with them
the same as Mrs. John Smith. One OF
the nobility of France was hauled into
court and fined seven dollars the other
day for losing her temper and boxing
servant girls ears
Lake Assal, in East Africa, has
&c 6nnnSitS
and has been believed to be without
inlet This has been disproved by the
recent discoveries of Mr.. Audon. He
found that three little streams sup
piled the lake, which, strange to say.
are salt The lake is salter than the
Dead Sea-
"A native of India residing in Lon
don expressed wish lately to send by
| parcel post to India the ashes OF his
cremated brother, to be dropped into
the sacred Ganges. He was informed
| that unless he could limit the weight
of the parcel to eleven pounds the
post-office could offer him no facilities,
and he sadly withdrew.
Although a telegraph system has
been in operation in England for sc
many years, it is only recently that
facilities for telegraphing money have
been afforded the country. Now in
eighteen of the largest cities money
order can be telegraphed from or paid
at the post-office. but already there are
complaints that no saving is effected
by the new system. Telegraphing il
such slow work in the old country. ano
the mail service is SO exceptionally
rapid, that a letter often beats tele'
gram in a fair race.
! The folk lore of Southern Russia
can be partially imagined from case
which came before a judge at Odessa
A man applied for a writ to compe
his daughter to leave the house, be
cause when she saluted her parents
she did not bow to them. He said HI
would withdraw his application if sh'
would ask pardon and make the regu'
lar obeisance. The girl agreed. Sht
asked pardon; but when she bowed thu
father cried: Lower. Down will
your head; down below the girdle?'
She replied: 81 won't bend as low a
that. not if I have to leave the house.
The judge therefore ordered her t.
leave, but she gave in finally ant
bowed her head to the girdle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
PlTH AND POINT.

Nothing looks more like man %
sense than = fool who holds his tongue.
Many who teach the young idea
how TO shoot. apparently don't know
that it's loaded Puck.
The only ofice that has TO seek the
man Is the unsalaried one and which
brings no perquisites Boston Courier.
lit is very difncult to md ! key to
success that will work without
CLIQUE. Baltimore American.
Save us from those who know ex-
actly what their constitution viii bear. I
and-sin up to it-Blots and Blem-
ishes.
Its mighty curious how big some
faults look until after man has COM
mitted them himself. Burlington Free
Press.
The great difficulty about advice
is the predominance of quantity over
quality.-Merchant Traveller.
Poverty is bully If you are afraid
of her or tremble before her. Poverty
is good-natured enough II you meet
her like man.-Thackerav.
The average bachelor likes to
think he is better of than the fellow
who gets married, but he does not
really believe what he likes to think,
Baltimore American.
If you want to ascertain the cir
conference of a man, ask his neigh
Dor; but if you want to get at his exact
diameter. measure him at his own fire.
side.
If grown men only knew as much
as their mothers think they know when
they are babies the world would have
no further use for encyclopedias. -
Somerville journal.
The good a man does is buried
with him, but it is unpleasantly sug-
gestive that no allowance is made for
this fact in measuring the grave
Baltimore American.
The soil of social circle is usual
duces after its kind. whether it be
good nature or i'll nature, purity or
impurity. faith or skepticism, hate or
love.
We lament that life is short; but
life may become long through making
life full. We live longer than Methu-
selah; for we know more, do more, are
more, in seventy years than he knew,
did, or was in his nine hundred and
sixty Observation-Disclosures.
Courage is needed in daily life A
man must have courage to follow the
pole-star of principle in all things. 1t
| needs a brave spirit sometimes to call
things by their right names. We are
not to condone covetousness by calling
| it frugality, nor cowardice by calling
| it prudence, nor wastefulness by call
ing it good-heartedness. Christian at
Work.
We constantly complain that life
is short and time is swift II one
wishes to know how long life is and
how slow time is, let him take out his
watch and follow the second hand in
one of its revolutions. Let him then
think that since the same hour yester-
day he has lived fourteen hundred and
forty just such periods. and that since
the same date last year more than a
half million such periods. and he will
feel that life is rather long than short,
and time rather slow than swift.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
THE WOODWORKING.
1t Finds a Tongue and Deals Out Som
Sage Advice.

1t Finds q Tongue and Deals Out Some
Sage Advice.
For want of a little thought. many a
wedding-ring has cut as it were, the
wearer's finger to the bone. Many a
wedding-ring has been heavier than a
ton of lead. Men must make allow
ances for women, as sconaen, if they
want to be happy themselves, and to
make their wives happy, and women
must make allowances for men, and
for men as men. They each have
their own troubles and their own
needs. and very often the one does not
understand, and can not understand,
the needs of the other. Men have
their own troubles and worries, and
women have theirs; let each be as
sured of that as regards the 9TH
er. and act accordingly. 1t
will be appreciated don't be
afraid of that. Beware of nag
gledom, my dear. The man that will
stand being nagged at is a saint, and
saints are not as plentiful as black.
berries in the world. There's male
nagging, my dear, as we'll as female
male grumbling and never being
pleased; and folks who expect to come
out as duck at the end of one hum
dred and twenty years would. after
eighty or ninety years nagging. me Ike
poor figure in matrimonial poultry
show. If the man had been grumbline
and the woman nagging all that time,
they'd look like two moulting birds,
and not like two well-established
healthy fowl. Each to be the Others
help. each the others blessing; each
to hope to be with the other for ever
and ever, and SO to live here that they
may be fit for being to9ether there. =
Culver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
People Told the Truth.

Alice-Oh, George. do you know
what silly things people are SAYING
about usP
George-What, my dearp
Alice-They are saying that we're
engaged. We're not, are we. GeorgeP
George-N--no, but
They were, in i've minutes. Law
renee American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07

What is considered one of the
most unaccounted for sights in Utah is
a mountain about thirty-five miles
northeast of Salt Lake City. occupy
ing an area of about thirty acres, and
completely and thickly covered with
oyster shells. The mountain is be-
tween 800 and 400 feet high. and situ-
ated over 1000 feet higher than Salt
Lake City. which is 4,300 feet above
the level of the sea
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coldly; she recognized the covert fling
which sought to bring her former poverty
to her mind.
"Why?" said Mrs. Stanford, elevating
her eyebrows with well-affected surprise.
=" Because she is selfish, cruel woman"
replied Isabel, with more heat than she had
shown since she had become Mrs. Falconer,
''and because she has little power which
money gives her she rules her work-women
with a rod of iron.''
What, that weak, pretty little womanf
said Mrs. Stanford, incredulously.
Z" The very same" replied Isabel, wrath
fully. "Rising from the most AFFECT poverty
herself, she has no pity for others who are
poor, and grinds every ounce Of work and
humiliation and self-respect out of her girls
that is possible. should like to hear how
Lottie and Jennie and the other girls are,
but I do not care to hear of Nine. Arnot."
"She was complaining bitterly OF her
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
IS SAB L:
From Shop to Mansion.
The Romantic Story OF a Dress
Makers Rise in Life
6r Mrs. F. M. Howard.
Copyrighted, 1851

Copyrighted 1851
CHAPTER Iv.-CoNTISuEp.
"Purple pansies shall be my flowers when
1wear this" she said, half in soliloquy, as
she stood by the glass, whils skillful Mrs.
Gould took out a stitch here and there in
the drapery. and Topped it more artistically.
eyes, Mrs. Falconer," she replied, ''there
is harmony between the sweet pure
flowers and white which all do not recog
nize; to my mind there is nothing so purely
elegant in dress as white lace, and this
creamy stuff is Of such delicate pattern
The riding habit came also, and fitted
beautifully. Isabel had fine form and
carriage, and was capable of great improve
ment under the Transforming touch Of dress
and the dark navy blue of her habit was
very becoming, as well as the hat, with its
long, dropping feather, which reached
nearly to her shoulder and mingled grace.
fully with her curls, which she wore habit
ually now, as Mr.. Falconer liked to see
them.
"A suitable length of time in which te
dress is a luxury in ITSELF" said Isabel, as
she stood before her mirror brushing hel
hair, and recalled Nine. Arnot's, where the
tired girls were obliged to be on duty al
such an hour, under all circumstances. -
think, dear madam, if you are expecting tt
see me behind your counter again in one
year, or ever again, you are doomed to dis
appointment" and she laughed low, hap
by little laugh, as she pinned back her curls
with silver arrow which Oracle had giver
her the day before.
will you ride this morning?" Mrs. Fal
coner. 1t was her husbands voice which
interrupted her laughing soliloquy.
IF you please" she replied; sit is a rar'
morning."
Then be ready. and Tom will have thu
horses at the door in a half hour" he said
as he turned to go down.
The pretty chestnut mare arched hernecl
coquettishly as her new mistress appeared
Isabel loved horse dearly, though she hat
of late years had little opportunity Of cul
tivating their acquaintance, but she ad
mired their dainty thoroughbred ways
and could tell fine horse almost as readil.
as man.
81 am sure we are going to be the best o
friends, pretty Dolly" she said, as she hell
lump of sugar in one hand and caresse'
her glossy coat with her other. Dolly, thu
propitiated, turned her large liquid eye
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-23

would have nothing to do with it. That
seemed odd; for people are not in the
habit Of throwing away three-quarters of
a million of money. Just then person
appeared on the scene who affirmed that
this man was not the person he repre-
sented himself to be at all, but an i'm
poster. That seemed possible in one way;
in the other way, an impostor would be
the last man in the world whom one
would expect to let great property slip
between his fingers. My English friend
was puzzled; but he knew that this mys-
FERROUS gentleman had lately been in
New York, and it occurred to him that
it might be good plan to come on here
and see if he could learn anything more
about him.
Now, it so happens that have an ac-
quaintance in Mexico who makes point
of knowing what goes on there, and
whenever he hears of anything that he
thinks might interest me he drops me a
line, or sends a telegram, if there is any
hurry. He had heard about this affair
speak of, and also that the mysterious
gentleman had had an interview with
some government officials, and immedi-
ately afterwards had left Mexico en- route
for the United States. He telegraphed
this information, together with the al
legged name of the mysterious gentleman.
1t was name had heard before, and l
had even met the gentleman himself. So,
when the steamer was announced, I took
half an hour and went down to the wharf
to say good day to him And then. Mrs.
Ketelle, curious thing happened"
He paused and fixed his eyes on her.
She sat before him with her hands tight
ly clasped in her lap, her lips compressed
and her eyes dark with emotion.
"The gentleman whom l saw" con-
tinued the inspector, was not the one
named in the telegram, but it was an in
innate friend of his, whom 1 had also
met before. He had, however, been re-
ported dead. But seeing him alive and
well, though somewhat changed in ap-
pearance, l came to the conclusion that
perhaps a mistake had been made, and
that it was the friend who had died"-
But Pauline could restrain herself no
longer. She lifted her hands slightly
and let them fall again.
He was dear friend of NINE" she
said, while the tears came into her eyes;
The was good friend to Percy. 7 see
you know all, inspector; you seem to
know everything! What are you going
to do with him."
CHAPTER XXI.
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stairs and saw him In his cell. He told
me of Dupees bad faith, and said that
would find that Dupee had actually re-
ceived money from you. 1 acted as if I
placed no credit in his accusation; and
upon that he went on and declared that
Dupee had, a year ago, committed rob-
berry for which an innocent man was ar
rested. Yes, Mrs. Ketelle, it was the
Tunstan robbery that he mentioned.
asked him how he knew and he said
that he was intimate with Dupee at the
time, and that when Percy Nolen was
arrested Dupee had laughed and re-
marked that it was good job; he was
glad to have done Nolen an i'll turn,
and that he hoped Nolen might rot in
Jail while he was spending the money
Nolen was imprisoned for"
ooh, the villainl" murmured Pauline.
with dilating eyes.
''Itold Crush, continued the inspector,
''that believed, if Dupee had had any
thing to do with the robbery, that Crush
had been equally guilty. He denied it
at first, but finally admitted that he had
discovered the fact that Mrs. Tunstall
was in the habit Of going about town
with large sums of money in her pocket,
and upon my pushing him still further
he added that he had pointed her out to
Dupee on the morning of the crime, and
had waited outside the jewelers. shop
while Dupee was doing the work inside
According to his account, Dupee had not
acted squarely with him on this occa-
sion either; he had refused to give him a
fair share of the plumber, but Crush had
postponed betraying his dissatisfaction
until he could give it some practical
effect. He gave a number of details
which conceded with facts that I had
previously ascertained, and convinced
me that his story was substantially
true"
THANK heaven!" exclaimed Pauline.
sob, my dear brother!"
"Wait a moment!' Iejoined the de-
tective. I'VE are not quite out of the
woods yet! On making a review of the
evidence at our disposal, 1 doubted
whether it would be safe to cause Du-
PEGS arrest on the robbery charge. If
we should fail to hold him we might bid
him good-by; he would never be seen
here again. But if could get from you
a confirmation of the blackmail story,
and especially if you could prove actual
payment of money, then our course
would be much simpler. We could ar
rest and hold him on that ground with
out any doubt, and the rest, unless 1 am
greatly mistaken, will come of itself"
81 can certainly prove the payment"
said Pauline. My husband and the
check are both in evidence"
Very good; and now" said the in
spector, lowering his voice and leaning
forward, ''let me explain to you little
plan l have formed for bringing this
thing to head"