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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-10-05
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
A MEDICAL TRUST.
It Has Been Formed to Aid Members In
Time OF Illness.


A curious novelty in business enter
prise is being conspicuously advertised
about town. 1t is an association" to
furnish medical attendance and drugs
to its members at bedrock" prices,
and even below. For forty cents per
month the association guarantees COM
petent medical attendance. And this
medical combine processes to have
arrangements made at good, reliable
drug-stores in all parts of town by
which prescriptions will be filled at a
uniform cost of twenty cents each. no
matter what ingredients they may con.
tain, for the associations members.
Well, it is by no means improbable
that at that price prescriptions, taking
them as they run, would still pay a
large profit to the pharmacists, whose
ordinary percentage OF profit is from
thu ee hundred to eight hundred per
cent. There are some few rare chem
icais and costly drugs that could not be
made up in appreciable quantities at
any such figure. but they are very lit
tie required, and doubtless it is UNDER
stood that the associations physicians
shall not call for them; or, i: they do.
that they shall strike good general
average by turning in a lot of pre-
scriptions that will not cost over q
cent each to fill. Latin is fine cloak
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22


of sentry could be seen at the gate. The
sentry discovered them at the same mo-
ment, and, firing his carbine, ran toward
the house. screaming:
"T' arms! t. arms! We are sur.
rounded"
forward! double quickr' cried Captain
Mason, and through the gate and across the
lawn they sped. A dozen gun-shots on the
east bore evidence that Captain Lawrence
had been discovered.
Lively fighting began all around the
house, and they found one dead rebel lying
on the steps of the porch. Half dozen
pistol shots rang out from the hall, and
one of the bullets grazed Luke's cheek.
Sword in hand, he dashed into the house,
followed by men who would die rather than
desert him. East and west, through doors
and windows, determined blue-coats were
pressing their way. CarbInes and pistols
were emptied and swords drawn.
Captain Mason ran a Confederate, whom
he met in the hall, through the body, and,
leaping over his PROSTATE form, burst into
an adjoining room. Having seen no one
but men, he had forgotten the possibility OF
women being in the house until he entered
the room, and saw two young girls about
seventeen and eighteen years Of age spring
in frontof a Confederate officer and implore
his life.
.Away-awayi I fear not the cowardly
dogs" said the young Confederate, trying
to shake OF the girls, but they held on to
his sword-arm and implored him not to ex.
asperate the enemy.
"Kind sir, spare, oh, spare my brotheri"
screamed one of the girls, turning her white,
tear-stained face upon him.
"Lillie Neffl My Godi-is II you or .
dream" gasped Captain Mason, closing ths
door and staggering against it.
tco BE CoNzINuEn.l
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22

for such little games. But all this i.
of course, mere speculation. The
scheme of the concern may be honest
enough and its practice may have no
perceptible effect in increasing the
bills or mortality. Surely some device
is wanted to fill in between the chari-
ty of the dispensaries and the robbery
of fashionable medical practice, by
which people Of moderate means can
have and pay for medical attendance
when they are sick.
Some Hebrew societies have rather
ingenious system for getting their
doctors bills down to a minimum.
They contract with physician by the
year to attend all cases of illness
among members of their families for
a certain stipulated sum, which is paid
whether any body needs a doctor dur
ing the year or not. OF course. in q
sickly season the physician might feel
that they are rather getting the best
of him, but, after all. he would only
be called upon to skip around a little
more lively and be more anxious to
effect cures than If he were charging
by the visit.
Indeed, this thing of charging by the
visit for medical attendance is the weak
point in the relations between the doc
tor and his patients. It is to his inter-
est to keep them sick as long rs posi-
BILE. So clearly is this recognized by
many of our practical, long-headed
business men-whO have money
enough to enable them to do as they
please-that they now follow the ex-
ample of the Hebrew societies and en-
gage the services of their physicians
by the year, paying whether they and
theirs are sick or we'll. Accouchments
are as a rule excepted from such
contracts, as they are too good
plums for family doctors to
let go into general account. The an
nual terms of such contracts run all the
way from $3.50 to 50. 500. 1t is an ex-
celent arrangement for the doctor,
who, with few such good contracts
on his hands can be easy about his in
come, and it is good tor the patients,
as it is clearly to the interest of the
physician to keep them as we'll as pas
sible to save himself trouble.
The next better thing is the Chinese
system of hiring the doctor by the year
and stopping his salary whenever his
patient is sick. 1t will be sad day
for druggists and undertakers il that
plan ever gets foothold in this coun-
try.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
NOTED CONCORD MEN.

The EcceDtricity OF Hawthorne. ThoFeau
and Several Others.
Mr.. Edward Waldo Emerson's book
on the Concord life Of his father, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, says that Emerson
never could read far in the books OF
his fllustrious fellow-tewnsman. Ma
thaniel Hawthorne. This is somewhat
remarkable, perhaps, since Emerson
showed no lack of appreciation of men
or works OF genius.
Though these two great men lived
for a long time in the same country
town. they saw very little OF each 9TH
err. Hawthorne. who was very shy.
only once visited Emerson's house.
Mr.. Edward Waldo Emerson's volume
tells the story OF this visit:
ITO cover his shyness. he took up a
stereoscope ON the comfortable and be-
gan to look at the pictures. After
looking at them for time, he asked
where these views were takcn.
1--WE told him they were pictures OF
the Concord court and town houses,
the common and the mill-dam, on hear
ing which he expressed some surprise
and interest but evidently was as un-
familiar with the center of the village
where he had lived for years as deer
or wood-thrush would be. He walked
through it often on his way to the cars,
but was too shy or too rapt to know
what was there"
Thoreau, another famous resident of
Concord, was not 80 unconscious of
what the town contained. Though he
pitied the people who .'never saw Bate
mans Pond, or Nine-acre Corner, or
Becky Slows swamp" he also had
spot in his heart for the town itself.
Though he said that 1.-The man who
shoots the buffalo lives better than the
man who boards at the Graham House, :"
he nevertheless knew his way to the
Graham House.
It was not, however, that he ever
went there for convivial purposes. He
was quite too abstemious, as well as
too little fond of society, for that.
Emerson said of him:
HE was bred to no profession; he
never married; he lived alone; he never
went to church; he never voted; he re-
fused to pay tax to the state; he ate
no flesh. he drank no wine. he never
knew the use of tobacco; and, though
naturalist, he used neither trap nor
gun"
Several of the famous men who have
lived at Concord have possessed the
eccentricity Of genius. Their example.
however, should not inspire others TO
initiate their eccentricities. Genius
may often be accompanied BY such ir-
Irregularities OF conduct, but we can
convince no one of our possession OF
genius by the exhibition Of eccentric
ity. Strong common.sense will serve
much better to help US in the estima-
ton of others. Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
PlTh AND POINT.

When you introduce moral les
ION let it be briel.
Fortune does not change the char
acter. but It reveals IL.
1T is not good that repels or evil
that attracts, but the mouotony OF GOOD
and the variety In evil. --Atchison
Globe
What glorious world this would
be If people lived up to the epitaphs
ON their tombstonesl-Hutch
(Kas) News.
Most mems experience Is like the
stern lights Of ship which illumine
only the track it has passed.
The character Of men placed in
lower stations Of lie are more useful.
as being imitable by great numbers 80
Atterbury.
Every man has his chain and his
clog, only it is loosen and tighter TO
one man than to another. And he Is
more at ease who takes It up than he
who drags it.
Man doubles all the evils OF his
fate by bordering over them; scratch
becomes wound. slight an injury.
jest an insult a small peril great
danger, and slight sickness often
ends in death by brooding apprehen-
sions.
lin all that we do we have right to
consider the effect it will have upon
our characters. or upon the upbuild-
ing and development OF our higher
not, Nh 10 x,iv 70 n
what will belittle him. United Pres
byterian.
III a man wish to rightly grow in
grace he must accustom himself to see
and look at the larger things in life,
and the larger world in which he
lives. A constant attention to the lit
tie will dwarf him, and finally unfit
him for his place among other men.
He that will not permit his wealth
to do any good to others while he Is
living prevents it from doing any good
to himself when he is dead, and by an
egotism that is suicidal and has q
double edge. cuts himself of from the
truest pleasure and the highest happi-
ness hereafter Cotton.
WITH may experiment. III Cortakn
lines in social intercourse after mas
terlng the forms long usage has proved
good, but to cling to peculiar ways OF
their own, that are not agreeable or
that fail to show the hearts kindness.
limits the mans power as the use ora
cradle in the wheatfield limits the
man who SCOTS at the self-binder his
neighbor uses.
1t is not usually those who are In
the direst poverty that are the most in.
veterate borrowers. 1t is much more
frequently those who allow their
desires for superhuities to outrun their
ability to obtain them that resort to
this dangerous and insidious practice.
All such desires grow by what they
feed on, and become more and more
exacting; while the strict rectitude
which can not brook the long continu-
ance of a debt is gradually impaired.
Once Week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22

laid upon his shoulder. The old soldier
staggered back from his Captains side, and,
catching glimpse of the young Confeder-
ate's features, he recognized him as Albert
Neff.
The fighting lasted pretty much all day,
and when night came Luke's regiment was
within the outer rifle pits of the enemy.
The regiment had suffered severely.
Colonel Smart was killed, so was the Ma
jor, the Lieutenant Colonel had mortal
wound, and almost every regimental officer
was dead or wounded. More than half the
regiment had fallen.
ave have not regimental officer to
command u.s." Luke reported to General
McClerpand.
''For the time being consider yourself in
command" was the Generals answer.
As the senior Captain left the command,
of course, fell upon Luke by regular promo
ton. Lieutenant Daniels wound beng
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
Better Than a Safety Vault.

Highwayman (halting lady In car
riage) Stop. Madam! Your money
or your life!
Lady-My money is in my pocket,
sir, and as neither you nor can find It
inside Of ten minutes, and there IL q
large party Of brethren tourists COM
ing up tho hill. would advise you TO
let me pass.
Highwayman Thanks, madam. your.
advice IL worth needing. Good-dav.
Burlington Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22

"A colored woman, formerly slave,
has searched forty years for her two
sons, who were sold to a New Orleans
trader when they were eight and ten
years of age. Recently she learned
the whereabouts of both and was made
happy by visit from one of them
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22

The berry patches Of Florida seem
to be picnic fields for the bears. Three
were killed while helping themselves
to the fruit In Madison County IN one
week
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
LUKE MASON.
a Thrilling and Romantic Story
OF the Late Civil War.
BY JOHN MusIcK.

AUTHOR OF "BRoTHER AGAINST BROTHER
"HELEN LAKEMAN," WALTER BROWN.
FIELD" "BANKER OF BEDFORD"
AND OTHER STORIES.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22

SAW TOM.
light he left his company with him, and
took command of the regiment.
A terrible battle was anticipated on the
morrow, and Luke and his decimated regi-
ment lay on their arms on the battlefield.
What was their surprise on the morrow
to see the whole line of Notifications COW
cred with white flags. 1t was some time
before the army could realize it, but the
enemy had surrendered and Fort Donelson
was theirs
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16

him. Now said l, Il can easily
kill him for setting his dogs on me;'
but | remembered what you had told
me, aid so / took him to my camp
and fed him, and kept him over
night, and the neXt.day took him to
his plantation. When just by it l
said to him, There is your house;
you see it; go,' He was so glad he
shook me by the hand, and called
me good Indian. Yes, said l; but
you did not think me very good
when you set your dogs on me- Il
set my dogs on your said the planteS
turning pale at the thought Of the
hazard he knew he had been in, from
his knowledge of the Indian charac>
ter. Yes; you set your dogs on me
at such a time, and | had to run for
my life 4 am sorry" said the
planter; 'and you have rendered me
good for evil. Come in So he took
me to his house, and told all his me-
groes to treat me well if / came there
and he was not at home. And he
gave me these fine blankets, and
made me feel very happy. You told
me no lie."
Here was sown a little good seed
which bore its good fruit, and all
because the Indian thought my friend
"did not lie." "He that goeth forth
and weepeth, bearing this precious
seed, shall doubtless come with re-
jOicing, bringing in his sheaves with
him."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
A Sound Legal ODiniOn,

+. Bainridge Munday Esq, Coun-
ty Atty, Clay Co., Tex. says: "Have
used Electric Bitters with most hap
Ply results. My brother also was very
low with Malaria Fever and Jaun-
dice, but was cured by timely use OF
this medicine. Am satisfied Electric
Bitters. saved his life"
Mr.. ID. /. WilcOXson, of Horse Cave,
Ky. adds like testimony saying: he
positively believes he would have
died, had it not been for Electric Bit.
tiers.
This great remedy will ward off, as
well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach
Disorders stands unequaled. Price
SOC. and 81. at Ritchey d Bostick'-
Drugstore. 6
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
Overcome Evil With Good.
Living Way.

Living Way.
A friend of ours, living at the time
near Red River, Ark, relates that
one day an Indian with whom he
was friendly came to him in a great
rage about certain planter who had
set his dogs on him. He declared he
would kill him or set fire to his
buildings. go no." said my friend ;
THAT would not be right" "What ?"
said the Indian; "not right to kill
him when he set his dogs on me-"
"NO," was the reply "besides, what
good would it do you to kill him."
81 would have my revenge" said
the Indian. "That," said my friend,
"would be nothing, and you would
be guilty of murder, and be in con-
slant danger and dread of punish.
ment."
The Indian looked very thought.
full a short time, then said, "Well
what shall do ?" "Why," said my
friend, "do that man some good al
the very first opportunity, and you
will find that sweeter revenge, and
will bring you into no danger, but
may bring you many blessings
The Indian looked at him earnestly
and said: "Nou never told me lie
will try it, and find out if you lie t.
me now"
Several months passed. My friend
had forgotten the circumstance, wher
one day the Indian came to him witt
new blankets, overjoyed to see him
"Ah!" said he, "you told me true; i
is no lie."
"Well, what is it," said my friend
"Why, you remember ] was goin!
to kill such planter, and YOU tolC
me not 10, but to do him good. Well
some days ago that man was lost
He had wandered about in the wood
until he was almost starved. fOuuC
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
Sunday RfaaiHs,
EDITED BY REV. F. L. LEEPER.
THE SHADOWY HANDS.

| watched him from afar, with eyes
That ached to see what perils lay
Close set along the jagged way,
What unsupported ills might rise
To lure his amoushed feet astray.
! knew that he must press the path
Marked for each human soul alone;
That he must meet the dangers Strewn
Unhelped; that love the utmost hath
No charm against the tripping-stone.
My lids were wet with anxious tears;
He dreamed not OF the pitfalls spread
To trap his all too careless tread.
His thought was on the buoyant years,
So flushed with sunshine overhead.
| could but fold my hands, and plead
That heavenly prescience, tender, sweet
Would choose safe passage for his feet,
And, in his hour of straitestneed,
Guide where the Obvious crossways meet
But as gazed athwart the night,
Whose doubt like mist around me chung
The prayer was hushed upon my tongue
Just where the way was flintiest, light,
Star like, was on sudden flung:
And for moment, circling round,
felt the sweep of winged bands,
saw the stretch of shadowy hands,
! heard voice whose mystic sound
The rapt soul only understands
"Icharge yOu, bear him safely, lest
He dash his foot against stone"
The light was gone, the vision flown.
Comfort unearthly Gained my breast;
My darling did not walk alone.
S. S. Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
The Lord Reigneth---Ps. SO: l.

No bow of promise in the dark
and cloudy day" shines more radi-
antly than this. God-my GOd-the
God who gave Jesus-orders all
events, and overrules all for my
good
"When l." says He, "bringa cloud
over the earth" He has no wish to
conceal the hand which shadows for
time earth's brightest prospects. 1t
is He alike who "brings" the cloud,
who brings us into it, and in mercy
leads us through it His Kingdom
ruleth over all. "The lot is cast into
the lap, but the whole dispOsing
thereof is of the Lord" We are ten
ants at will; but, blessed thought, at
Gods will. He puts the burden on,
and keeps it on, and at His own time
will remove it!
Beware of brooding over second
causes. 1t is the worst form of athe-
ism! When our most fondly-cherish-
ed laurels are smitten-our fairest
flowers lie Withered in our BOSOM
this is the silencer of all reflections,
''The Lord prepared the wormw
When the Temple of the soul is smit-
ten with lightning-its pillars rent
1.-THE Lord is in His holy Temple!"
Accident, Church, Fate, Destiny,
have no place in the Christians
creed. His is no unpiloted vessel
left to the mercy of the storm-nO
weed left to the sport of the fitful
waves, "The voice of the Lord is
upon the waters!" There is but one
explanation of all that befalls him;
81 will be dumb, 1 will open not my
mouth, because thou didst it,"
Death seems to the human specta-
tor the most capricious and hayward
of events. But not so. The keys OF
Hades are in the hands of this same
reigning God! Look at the Parable
of the fig tree. Its prolonged exist
ence, or its doom as a cumberer,
forms matter Of conversation in
Heaven, the axe cannot be laid al
its root until God gives the warrant
How much more will this be the
case regarding every "Tree of Right.
eousness, the planting of the Lord?'
1t will be watched over by Him
"lest any one should hurt it," Every
trembling fibre He will care for; anG
if made early to succumb to the in
evitable stroke" "who knoweth no
in all these, that the hand of thu
Lord hath wrought this ?"
Be it mine to merge my own vii
in His; not to cavil at His ways, O
seek to have one jot or title of tina
will altered; but to lie passive in hi
hands; to take the bitter as we'll a
the sweet, knowing that the cup i
mingled by One who loves me to-
well to add one ingredient tina
might have been spared!
= Who can wonder that the swee
Psalmist of Israel should seek, as h
sees it spanning the lowering heav
ems, to fix the arrested gaze ola Who'll
world on the softened tints of thi
Bow of Comfort-"The Lord Reign
r eth, Let The Earth Rejoice"
"And it shall come to pass, when
bring cloud over the earth, that tn
, Bow shall be seen in the cloud?"-
Jno. r. MacDuff.
t
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
A Pattern.

DIR. Cumming.)
The word pattern" in its origi-
nal, is eXcessive--apattern from which
needless copies may be taken. You
have heard of stereotype printing.
When the types are set up they are
cast-made a fixed thing-so that
from one plate you can strike off
thousands Of pages in succession with
out the trouble of setting up the types
again. Paul says: "That | might be
plate never worn out-never de-
stroyed-from which proof impress
ions may be taken to the very end of
time" What SPLENDID thought that
the Apostle Paul, having portrayed
himself as the chief of sinners, then
pOrtrays himself as having received
forgiveness for grand and specific
end that he might be a standing
plate, from which impressions might
be taken. forever that no man might
despair who had read his biography.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
Mercurial Poison.

Mercury is frequently iniudiciously used
by quack doctors in cases of malarial and
blood poison, It's after effect is worse than
the original disease. B. B. B. Botanic
Blood Balm) contains no mercury, but will
eliminate mercurial poison from the system
Write to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ca, for
book of convincing proof of its curative
virtue.
A. F. Britton, Jackson, Tenn, writes: 81
caught malaria in Louisiana. and when the
fever at last broke, my system was saturated
with poison, and had sores in my mouth
and knots on my tongue. got two bottles
of B. B. B., which healed my tongue and
mouth and made new man ofme"
VIM. Richmond, Atlanta, Ga. writes: "My
wife could hardly see. Doctors called it
syphilitic iritis. Her eyes were in dread.
full condition. Her appetite failed. She
had pain in her joints and bones Her kid.
neys were deranged also, and no one thought
she could be cured. DR.. Gillian recommend
ed B. B. B., which she used until her health
was entirely restored"
X. p. B. Jones, Atlanta, Ga, writes: u
was troubled with copper colored eruptons
loss OF appetite, pain in back, aching joint,
debility, emaciatiOn, loss of hair, sore
throat, and great nervousness B. B. b. pu
my system in fine condition.