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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
THE AGE OF MARVELS.
Some of the Grand Things Accomplished
Within Fifty Years.

some OF the Grand Things Accomplish ed
Within Fifty Years.
In view OF the almost incredible
progress of the last two generations it
is not the best judgment which pro-
nounces the post electric system of
transportation the dream of an inven-
tive maniac. There is freshness
about the proposition that we shall yet
send letters across the continent be-
tween the dawns of successive days
that takes the average breath away,
and the suggestion that passengers are
to be rushed through space at the rate
of two hundred miles per hour is apt
to alarm the apprehensive. But the
proposition is not beyond the limits of
possibility for all that. A few days
ago an experimental train upon rail
road in this State made run of ninety
odd miles in about sixty minutes, some
portion of the journey being at the rate
of nearly two miles per minute. If steam
can accomplish such marvellous results
as this, why may not that greater
power, electricity, eclipse this stu
pendous record? The truth is that we
live in a phenomenal age. All the
ancient faiths concerning the develop
ment of material things are being
rudely jostled by the pushing shout
ders of science. 1t is no longer the
dream of a visionary that we shall con-
verse with persons a thousand miles
away. Marked progress has been made
toward solving the problem Of aerial
navigation. and although it is yet inn
possible to predict the ultimate out
come, it is not insanity to believe that
air-ships may yet run counter to the
winds. The turning of a key illumi-
mates populous city, and new explo-
sives shatter in an instant obstacles
which were deemed immovable. There
are improvements to the telegraph
which would have astounded Morse
had he lived to see them.
Inquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
HOME AND FARM.

When the soil is soft after rain
IS good time to pull up mullen, plant
ain, dock or other undesirable weeds
in the lawL.
Teach boys and girls the actual
facts of life as soon as they are able to
understand them, and give them the
sense of responsibility without sadden-
ing them.
If the corn planting is week be-
hind the harvesting is likely to be two
weeks behind. The time that is lost
in the spring can't be overtaken during
the summer.
ANY kind of succulent food is good
for cattle and will help them to in
crease in flesh. Mich animals are es-
pecially benefited by such food. The
only caution necessary is not to use
such food for mich COWS as will give
bad flavor to the milk.
Faith, Love and Hope in the
Home will weave their influence in the
heart. Pure affections and an earnest,
holy purpose will bring their own re-
ward of happiness in the end. Avoid
as crime the whining discomfort over
what is, and the feverish anxiety for
what is not.-St. Louis Magazine.
Creole Cake: Beat the yelks OF
two eggs with a cup and a half of
sugar and two ounces of butter to-
gether until very light, add cup of
cold water, cup and half of flour,
beat smooth, add the stiffiy-beaten
whites of two eggs, and cup and
half more of sifted flour, with tea
spoonful of baking powder and little
grated nutmeg. Mix we'll and bake in
a moderate oven until done.
Don't you wish you had tiled that
low place last year? If you can not do
it this year run two burrows through
it throwing them from each other,
then go through the same way again,
making ditch two burrows wide and
two deep, drag the ridge down and you
will be pleased with the result from
the little outlay of time and labor
Farm, Field and Stockman.
Dutch Cheese: Scald loppered milk
till the whey becomes separated and
the curd feels like sharp grains to the
tongue. Stir lightly, occasionally, to
keep from sticking to the bottom of
the pan or kettle; then set where it
will settle perfectly; then pour off the
whey and turn the curd into a thin
cloth and squeeze dry; then rub fine
with the hands, salt to taste, and wet
up with sweet cream till it is of a right
consistency to make into balls.
The farmers son is just as honor
able and is as honorably employed
when taking a load of hay to town and
carting a load of manure home to en-
rich the farm, as he would be if stand
ing behind the merchants counter
measuring dry goods, and the prospect
of setting up in business for himself is
as 100 to one in favor of the worker on
the farm, at the present low price of
farms compared with the chances be-
fore the clerk. Rural World.
"A good crop of hay for feed can
often be secured after it is too late to
plant corn to a good advantage by SOW
ing millet or Hungarian. Or, if need
ed, sorghum or corn can be sown, on
wheat stubble, if reasonably rich and
we'll prepared, and a good yield OF
fodder for winter feeding be secured.
Turnips can be sown in the same way
and they will make good feed for
sheep and cattle, adding to the variety
and increasing the supply of feed for
winter
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
ENCAUSTiC PROCESSES.
Those Practiced by the Egyptians in the
Timc OF the Roman Emperors.

Those Practiced by the Egyptians in the
Time OF the Roman Emperors.
In the Older Egyptian mummies the
face of the outer casing is usually
modelled in relief, in Il purely conven-
tional way, but in this latest form of
burial under the Roman empire a por-
trait of the deceased was painted on a
very thin piece of wood and then fixed
over the dead face. 1t is very re-
markable to find such fine coloring
and skillful drawing in work of this
late date, which must have been
turned out of an ordinary undertaker's
workshop. The portraits, both male
and female, are most vivid and life
like; the ladies are mostly dressed in
a purple garment and the men in
white, with red orphrey. The model
ing of the flesh is very skillful, and in
some cases the coloring reminds
one of the Venetian school
from it's rich depth of tone. A
special point of interest about these
paintings is their technical execution
in the hot wax. or encaustic process,
as it was called. The pigments were
mixed with melted wax, and then fixed
in their places by holding charcoal
brazier near the surface of the paint
ing, as is described by Vitruvius. The
somewhat lumpy impasto of the sur
face is due to the hardening of the
melted wax when the brush touched
the cold surface of the panel. and. ow.
ing to the non-absorbent nature of the
wood, the subsequent application OF
heat was not able to drive the wax be-
low the surface, as was the case with
encaustic painting upon stucco. One
OF these portraits is noticeable from
its ornamental framing with a flowing
pattern. formed by pressing wooden
stamps upon soft stucco, which was
afterward gilt a process exactly like
that which was so often used to deco
rate medieval pictures on panel, es-
pecially retables, or ancone, as the
Venetians called them.-Saturday Re-
view.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11

the stream may take the disease.
Burn all loose litter and rubbish about
the infected pen. Do not allow per-
sons taking care of sick hogs to visit
the lot not infected. For similar
reason the attendant of the we'll ami
mails should not visit the sick. Keep
animals of every sort out of the in
fected place. After the disease has
run its course, we must try and re-
move all possibility of future out
breaks by thorough disinfec-
ton. The method of accom-
plishing the desired result
will depend upon the nature of the
surroundings. If the infected ami
mails have run at large, it would be
we'll to pillow the lot and not use it for
two or three years. If the sick have
been kept in small inclosure, every
thing not of value should be burned.
All woodwork should be thoroughly
whltewashed and the soil intimately
mixed with a good dressing of lime.
Other disinfectants may be used, but
lime is cheap, effective and readily OBJ
tainable. These suggestions, based
upon knowledge of the way diseases
are transmitted, may seem to many to
be too ''fussy," but the man who most
thoroughly attends to such details will
be most successful in preventing
cholera. Even if he losses his entire
herd, he may know that he has prob
ably saved his neighbours hogs. To
that extent he will be public bene-
factor.-Prof. Burleigh, in Farm and
Homo
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
THE SWINE PLAGUE.
effective Ways of Preventing the Appear
ance Of Hog Cholera.


ance OF Hog Cholera.
To prevent cholera we must do one
or two things, namely: First, render
the system of the hog capable of re-
sisting the germ; or, second, keep the
germ at proper distance. First, be
careful not to purchase hogs from an
infected district. If you purchase
from any region. be sure the cars used
for transportation have not been used
to carry infected swine. 1t is safer to
insist that the car be disinfected before
used. If the disease actually breaks
out in your herd remove all healthy
hogs at once to some higher and dryer
ground if possible. The writer recalls
a case where the healthy animals
were removed to an old lime kiln
Gas the most suitable place.,
which resulted in checking the
disease. 1t is better to remove the
healthy animals and leave the sick,
because the soil, litter. ETC., become
infected and capable of transmitting
the disease. When an animal dies,
burn it on the spot, don't remove it to
some other lot, or wait until your
neighbours dog eats part of the carcass
and carries the disease home to his
masters hogs. Be sure that the in
fected hogs do not have a chance to
drink from any running water. If
they do, hogs drinking further down
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
Effective Treatment of an Old Kentucky
Apple Orchard.

Effective Treatment of an Old Kentucky
Apple Orchard.
The following from notes on the
treatment of an old orchard at the farm
of the Kentucky Experiment Station,
together with some suggestions, may
be of use to persons who have old Or
chards in the condition described.
Many of the trees were old and full of
suckers and dead limbs, the trunks
were rough. the tops were almost mat
ted with branches, and many of the
branches were so low as to prevent
proper cultivation. The situation was
on very wet, thin clay soil, which
had been seeded to English bluegrass.
So far as known, the orchard had been
an entire failure heretofore as to fruit.
Sometimes the trees fruited heavily,
but the apples dropped prematurely
and were always wormy.
1t was concluded to attempt an i'm
provement of this orchard by trim
ming, fertilizing and cultivating. and
also by destroying the codling moth
with London purple. Accordingly all
dead limbs were removed and the tops
of the trees trimmed, though not to
such an extent as to allow the main
branches to be exposed too much to
the sun. Tobacco stems were placed
around the trees and the ground was
plowed, and spaded where the
pillow could not reach. The trees
were sprayed with London purple.
four ounces to forty gallons of water
in barrel mounted on cart. which
was driven to the windward side of
the trees, when one man pumped
while another held the nozzle apply
ing the spray, so as to go just above
the tree and fall down on the leaves
and young fruit.
AS the result it is stated that most
of the trees in the orchard bore fruit,
and many were loaded down. But few
apples dropped prematurely, and but
few of these were wormy. OF the APP
Piles on the trees only a few could be
found that had been attacked by the
codling moth, while in neighboring
orchards it was rare to find a sound
apple.
The experiment affords another
added to the many instances already
known of the beneficial effect of
spraying with the arsenites as pro-
lection against the codling moth. From
the description it would seem that the
location was poor one for an orchard.
Where situations better adapted to
fruit can not be had, such as the one
described would be much improved by
understanding. In general, proper
pruning, stirring the soil and manur-
ing will renovate an orchard that is
not too old to be improved in that way,
and at present it looks as though spray
ing to save the fruit after it has formed
will have to become more and more
common. Not only is it effective
against the codling moth, but it is at
the same time equally SO on all leaf
eating insects.-N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
ACROSS GREE inland.
The Thrilling Story of q Danish Explorers
Snow-Shoe Trip.


Snow-Shoe Trip.
Since DIR. Nansen's return to Dem
mark he has added very interesting
details to the story of his trip across
Greenland. The fact that his party,
after leaving the ship within twelve
miles of Umivik, where they expected
to begin their land journey, drifted
many miles south in the ice and were
over three weeks reaching their desti-
nation on the coast shows the i'm
mense difficulty of penetrating the ice
barrier that the prevailing winds keep
constantly packed against the eastern
shores of Greenland.
Some of the isolated natives unac-
customed to the sight of white men.
fed i'm terror, though Captain Holm's
sojourn among them during one winter
should have taught them better.
Probably no tribe were so thoroughly
introduced to the public by means of
the camera as these natives. of whom
numerous photographs appear in Cap
tain Holm's recent book.
The six men of the Nansen expedi-
ton were a spectacle worth seeing as
they gained the lofty summit of the in
land ice. all tied together with rope,
as though they were climbing the Mat
terhorn. 1t was wise precaution. for
the snow concealed not a few gaping
crevices in the thick ice, and now and
then the fragile bridge gave way I'M
der some member of the party. 1t
was heavy sledging in the soft snow of
the Arctic summer, but the party, on
their snow-shoes. dragging five little
sledges, made fifty miles in the first
twelve days. They were steadily
climbing toward the summit of Green
lands ice plain, which, as we have
learned within the past few years, is
higher than any other extensive pla-
teau in the world except those OF the
Pamir and some parts of Thibet.
The party occupied over two weeks
in crossing this almost level ex-
panse of ice, 5000 feet above the sea-
1t was now September. and at the
enormous height of nearly 5000 feet
above the summit of our Mount Wash
ington, it is easy to understand that
the Greenland tourists were impeded
no longer by soft and yielding snow.
The temperature, however. was sell
dom lower than twenty degrees below
zero, but many snow storms and great
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
The Crocouiie's Rich Feast.

Better far to bear the ills you know
than fly to those you know not of. If
the seventy-fve Kaffirs at the cape who
bolted from the May Queen reef to rid
themselves of daily toll had borne the
old adage in mind the bulk of them
would have been in the land of the liv-
ing to-day. Instead of that some of
them are in the land of the leal-per-
haps-and others in much warmer
place. This is how it all happened:
When said natives bolted pursuit was
hot. Black men jumped into river,
but only four out of the lot reached the
other side. It was a case of crocodile
first, and natives next to nowhere.
The crocodiles had a high old time of
it with seventy-five plump kaffirs to
feed upon. In race for liberty a
policeman may be outstripped or
outmaneuvered-a crocodile never-or
scarcely ever.-Cape Town Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS.
A Description Based on the Researches of
Noted PhysiOlOsists.

Noted Psychologists.
The process of digestion is not yet
fully understood. even by the most
learned Psychologists. Experimental
digestion differs not little from nor
NAL digestion. In digesting meat in a
vessel, the pepsin, by means of which
the process is carried on, remains I'M
changed in amount, while in the stom-
ach the glands are pouring out a fresh
supply.
Besides, as Prof. Chittenden, of Yale
Unive 'sity, says: ut is always to be
borne in mind that the living alimen-
tary tract differs much from a glass
beaker, and that. in the living subject,
we have to deal with a complication of
conditions not met with in artificial di-
gestion."
The digestive secretions are saliva,
gastric juice and the pancreatic fluid.
The bile. which is sometimes reckoned
with these, simply neutralizes the
acidity of the contents of the stomach
when they pass into the duodenum,
aids in emulsifying fat, and promotes
the peristalic motion of the intestines.
The digestive principle in saliva is
called Wyalime. This substance
changes starch into grape-sugar 1t
is slightly alkaline, yet strong alkali
arrests it's action. This is one reason
why bread which contains too much
soda is unwholesome. Acid impairs
the digestive power of the saliva,
which is greatly weakened, for ex-
ample. by an acid condition of the
mouth, which characterizes some forms
of dyspepsia.
AS the normal condition of the
stomach. after the proper stomach di-
gestion begins. is an acid one, the di-
gestiOn of starch is arrested within
about five minutes after it reaches the
stomach. This fact suggests the i'm
portance of slowly and thoroughly
masticating bread and all starchy
foods.
A principle called diastase, obtained
from malt, nearly identical with ptya-
line, is sold by druggists. and is high
ly recommended by some physicians;
but by other physicians it is regarded
as wholly useless for the purpose for
which it is prescribed. since it is de-
stroyed by the acid of the stomach.
The essential principles in gastric
juice are pepsin and an acid. The
normal acid is hydrochloric, otherwise
known as muriatic. The action of
gastric juice is confined mainly to al
luminous foods. such as eggs, meat,
fish, peas. beans and cabbage. AL
kali hinders gastric digestion.
In some forms of dyspepsia acids of
fermentation are found, giving rise to
intense acidity of the stomach. To
relieve this, many persons are in the
habit of taking large quantities of
cooking soda. The relief is not only
but the evil is actually in
creaS ed.
The pancreatic juice contains a
principle resembling ptyaline, but
much stronger than that substance,
and one resembling weak pepsin. 1t
also unites with bile in emulsifying
fat. 1t thus rounds out and completes
the digestive process. Youth's Com
paniOn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
NOTES ON SUs-SOILING.
Claimed Effects of the Operation on Crop
and Climate.

and Climate.
The capacity of a mass of soil to
hold water depends on the number of
smaller pores in it, such as naturally
exist when it is kept well loosened up
by the implements of tillage. 1t is
therefore reasonable plea, recently
made by Mr.. Blake for sub-soil plow-
ing. as possible protection from
parched soils, hot dry winds and the
perishing of crops tor want of moist
ure. He claims that while the opera
ton is much less costly than deep
blowing, since it can be done by one
horse following in the furrow after the
surface pillow, and does not, as does
the deep blowing, often leave the sur
face of the field covered with barren
sub-soil. 1t is as effectual in increasing
the storage capacity of the soil for
water; and for the very reason that
much more water flows into the soil
instead of over it and away into the
nearest brook. doing no good to the
land on which it falls, the quantity
available for storage, as well as the
capacity for storage, is much greater;
and he hardly needed to remind us
that the roots of the plants will 60
freely to greater depths in soil so
treated, where they will give more
lasting supply of water than if con-
fined by a hard and impenetrable SUBJ
soil to the uppermost three or four
inches. In case this subsoiling should
be adopted by common consent over a
large area of country Mr.. Blake thinks,
that from this wide-reach-
ing reservoir of water near the sur
face so much moisture would evaporate
into the atmosphere as to greatly tone
down the effect of hot, dry winds, SO
apt to make sad havoc with crops in
some parts of the country, and, in fact,
to make such winds usually impossi-
ble.-N. Y. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
drifts impeded the progress of the

drifts impeded the progress OF the
travellers.
AT last they reached the eastern
slope OF the frozen sea, and, hosting
their sails, they found that much of
the time it was no longer necessary to
maui on the sledge ropes. Often they
travelled behind their sledges to hold
tnem back and ratified down the long
slope at a splendid rate. Now and
then, however, they were face to face
with the most startling dangers, as
once, when they paused on the edge of
great crevice which seemed like the
mouth of q bottomless abyss. They
had other hairbreadth escapes. and
once nearly lost their lives through
the breaking of snow-bridge.
Earlier travellers on the inland ice of
Greenland have found that the need of
making long detours to get around
crevices was one of the greatest OBJ
stacles in their way.
AT last the fords of the western coast
were reached In forty days the little
party had travelled three hundred
miles, from sea to sea. We do not vet
know what scientific value attaches to
this expeditions; but it is likely to add
interesting facts to our knowledge of
this stupendous ice mass, which, NOV
ing very slowly toward the coasts, finds
some outlet for it's accommodations
through the flords. Contemplating
this tremendous ice movement, it is
not difficult to believe that we see in
the Greenland of to-day the conditions
that. in past geological age, tore
great powders of trap from the Pali-
sades, and huge granite and other rock
masses from far northern regions. and
strewed them along the shores of Long
Island.-N Y. Sun.
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Climate for con.umc,,v...

The several climates OF Florida, Colorado
and California have each been much nra.
scribed for sufferers from lung disease, yet
of this fatal nalady. A far more rel;ahie
remedy is to be had in every drug store in
the land, and one that can be used at home.
remedy which is sold, by druggists. under
the manufacturers positive guarantee that.
will effect cure, or money paid for 1T win
be promptly returned. We refer to that
world-famed remedy for consumption Tor
lung-scrofulal known as DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery. /. is the only rem
edy for this terrible disease possessed of
such superior curative properties as to
warrant it's manufacturers in selling it
under a guarantee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
EXCITEMENT IN MUNICH.
The Serious Mistake Accidentally Made
by a Isavarian Drug Clerk.

by ISavarian Drug Clerk.
A lady entered one of the prominent
drug stores. the other day, desiring a
cure for a cold. The clerk, IL man of
long experience, reached into one of
the chests for a popular remedy for
colds, and handed it to the woman. who
went on her way rejoicing. A few
minutes later he opened the chest
again, and, to his horror, found it filled
with a poison which had been placed
there temporarily owing to the lack of
labels. The police were Immediately
notified. but failed to find the lady in
ran about the city proclaiming the
incident, and telling all who had pur-
chased the popular remedy to proceed
to the station to have it examined.
Red placards were placed upon the bill
boards. Extras" were thrown about
the city. with sensational headings
"A Life Endangered" "a Case of
Poison" and the like-until the whole
town was excited, and the majority of
the inhabitants seemed hunting the
woman with the popular remedy"
The station was overcrowded with
people and invalids of all kinds, who
had come to have their medicines ex-
amined. There was moaning and
crashing of teeth, and hysterical wom-
en- declaring. despite rudy cheeks,
that they were at the point of death;
others ready to take farewell of their
dear ones; in all, a scene like a mild
pandemonium, frightening the poor
though the firm paid over one thou
sand marks in advertising, the investi-
CATION proved unavailing. The UNI
fortunate woman did not appear
Munich Letter.