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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

BROODER
10 warm enough during the blizzard OF
1883. / raised 1855 chicks in one broodeE
81 feet square,"
Fig. is sectional view, A being the
lamp and B the inside back Of the
brooder. Cts yellow pine floor. which
slides in or out, for cleaning, and is al
ways kept we'll covered with sand. D
is board run, adjustable, and which
may be lowered when the chicks are
large enough to run on the floor. K is
the opening between brooder and run.
s s s are air-holes.
Fig. 2 shows the outside back. A ID
the lamp, and F F stove-pipe, ~ inches
diameter. capped and perforated at
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08
PALMER'S BRooDER.

An Excellent Brooder Which Any One Is
ut Liberty to Make.
Mr.. B. c. Palmer, Water Mills, N. Y,
sends to Farm and Fireside the plans
Of brooder which he has used over
three years. 1t is very simple. and not
patented. He says: The chicks never
crowd. Two brooders kept Q house lax
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08
Ghe Acknowledrod Her IgnOrance.

Mrs. Gullible-Do you know, dear
John is Just as bOyish in his feelings as
he ever was.
Mrs. Kawler-Indeed?
Mrs. Gullible-Yes; why, 1t was only
last night heard him talking in his
sleep about seeing the elephant The
dear fellow has doubtless been to the
circus.-Lawrence American.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

ends, which holds the heat, yet permits
of the escape Of gas and odors.
Il Is . stove-pipe tube, leading from the
lamp, and also shown in Fig. /.
The run, reaching up to the egress K,
is 3 feet broad and 5 feet long, sur
rounded with light lSth or wire fence,
to confne the chicks for q week or ten
days. Then, the legs being removed, II
forms an incline to the door Of the
brooder-house.
The advantages Of this brOoder are:
First-Simplicity in manufacturing and
cleaning second-No crowding; even
heat; no draughts; always warm; no
leg weakness no louse-breeding top
UOtheS
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08
The Cause of HIS Interest.

Bagley-See how interested Judge
Tooley is in the play.
Bailey-Well, II any one is interested
in the performance he ought to be.
Bagley-Why, did he write the play9
Bailey-No, but seven Of the ladies in
the company graduated from his divorce
court-Jedge.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

Carolina, Missis'
sippi and Texas.
In 1870, before he
was twenty years
old, he was made
chairman Of a
Republican coun-
tty delegation to
the State conven-
ton, and subse-
quently became
~ditor-in-chief OF
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

THE hog should have pure fresA
water, somsthing that the animal some
times never gets The man who drinks
beer instead Of water is not consulting
his own best interests, and the hog that
drinks Stops all the time does not sat
isfy nature. Stops and baar ere about
the sama
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08
A SECURE FARM-YARD GATE.

hole in the lower horizontal piece of the
gate frame. When the gate is open suf-
ficiently wide the iron-shod peg is
stuck down in the earth and the gate is
thus held in position. Both gates are
furnished with this device.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

ooh, I think it's lovely to be married. .
said young Mrs. Tocksr to the lady On
whom she was calling, especially when
you have husband who IL not afraid to
compliment you"
''What does your husband say?"
"He said yesterday that ] was getting
10 be perfect Xsntippe."
"a XAntippel Do Jon know who shD
VAST"
ooh. yes; Iasked Charley aftsrplrd.
and he told me abe Wns tie goddess of
youth and beauty. ~ Merchant TraVoler.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY.

sdency by Rev. Lemuel Moss, Hon.
-Alonzo Abernethy and Rev. Galusha An
.derson, but none Of them succeeded in
tightening the financial load. Finally
che university was abandoned, and the
property passed into the hands of the
Union Life Insurance Company, whose
agents are now engaged in tearing
down the historical college building.
Thus, charitable work, which should
have forever perpetuAted the memory
of Stephen A. Douglas in the hearts of
the Western people, was wrecked by
the financial vicissitudes of q war
which he had so earnestly desired to
prevent, and, had it not been for the
disinterested efforts Of his countless ad-
mirers, nothing in the shape Of . last
ing structure would remain to remind
coming generations Of one of the great
est Of Western statesmen.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-08

Van Walker-'Ah. old man. bought
. new horseg- Van Rider-'sYes; spir-
tied creature don't yon think sop Van
WaIker-~Hs Is certainly = run-lsok-
ing bcastT-Muusey's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06

down, and then how the crowd surged
ashore! Careful therer" called out one of
the officials, mot so many at time"
Uncle Aaron let Rose go first, and Jacob
sprang up a foot or two along the plank to
meet her. My wife ~ he exclaimed, as he
took her in his arms, blind to every thing
save the one stupendous fact that she had
come back to him. Uncle Aaron, few feet
up the board, stopped still, gazing at them,
his great heart beating with Joy.
"Come, come, get along you, can't you!'
said some one behind him, and then-per-
haps it was because he was blinded by his
happy tears or because the careless crowd
jostled too roughly-but Uncle Aaron's foot
slipped from the gang plank, he struggled,
lost his balance, and fell into the water. In
stantly shout went up imam overheard. "
with {. ring of fear in it that filled every
heart. Rose, unclasped a second before by
Jacob, had seen him fall. "Save him! Oh,
for the love of God, save him. she shrieked,
springing to the edge. "Wi1 no one save
him!'
Jacob had thrown off his coat and was
about to jump in, when strong arms held him
back, saying: "That is folly; they are
throwing him q rope-see.' ''Let-me-
go" struggling and biting in his agony.
He was giant. He burst from his captors
and leaped overheard. Rose. like piece of
marble, in strained torture, bent over look
ing at them. Jacob caught his father and
tried to hold him up Whether it was his
great size and weight, or whether it was
Uncle Aaron's unseliish impulse to help
himself was not known-b but he slipped and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
POLITICAL DRIFT.

The tariff-ref form procession is get
ting to be so strong as to threaten the
breaking down the breastworks of mo-
nopoly in more than one place.-Boston
Herald.
Failures among wooden manufaot-
urers and commission merchants have
been one of the most striking features
of the business results of the year,
Lewiston Journal (Rep.).
The campaign of education is
receiving a great deal of ammunition
nowadays from the demands of the sub
sidy hunters before the ways and means
committee.-Boston Herald.
-Pinkerton warriors are knocking
out the teeth of protected miners in
Pennsylvania. Where there is so little
food, however, the poor miners will not
need their charlottesville Courier
Journal.
-Ex- Fire Alarm Foraker isn't as
breezy as a plain witness before Con-
gressional Investigating committee as
he was when he offered to march to
Washington to retake the old flags
Philadelphia Times.
Every body IS going to Washington
for protection-the iron men, the wool
men. the leather men, the sugar men,
the lumber men, the salt men and the
representative of every other industry
protected and that wants to be. About
the only exception is Dudley, the
blocks 9f-fve man, who is already as
highly protected by Harrison, Edmunds
and other big Republicans as he needs
to be.-Chicago Herald.
Mr.. Rockefeller, the gentleman
who declared that his income was so
great that he had to go down on his
knees and beseech Divine guidance as to
the best way of spending it, has not yet
received an answer from the Lord, but
in the meantime he is running half a
dozen frst-class trusts, and in another
year he will be able to pay off the Ma
tional debit the spirit moves him
st. Louis Chronicle.
Governor Campbell in a recent
letter said: THE tariff will be an issue
in every election until one of the two
parties keeps its pledges of reducing
tariff taxes The late election in Ohio
was carried on the issue of tariff reform.
We propose to make the Congressional
fight on the same issue next fall. In
1891, just year prior to the Presidential
election, there is another Gubernatorial
election. That will be fought on the
issue of tariff reform. We should COM
mence an educational campaign on this
question right off and keep it up"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
FORAkER'S DISGRACE.
Even His Old Friend, the "Independent,"
Goes Back on Him.


Goes Back on Him.
1t is painful to see prominent pub
lie man like General Foraker, twice
Governor of the State of Ohio, occupy
ing such a humiliating position as he
occupied before the Congressional in
vestigating committee. In the Guber-
material campaign in Ohio last fall it
was alleged that a certain paper was in
existence, signed among others by j. b.
Campbell, the Democratic candidate for
Governor. and purporting to be con-
tract to divide the financial profit in
volved in the furnishing of new ballot
boxes when pending bill providing for
such boxes should have passed and be-
come a law. Before the campaign
closed it was known that the alleged
signatures to the contract were
forgeries. A Congressional committee
is now Investigating the matter, two of
the members of the House, MesSrs. But
terworth and Mckinley, and Senator
Sherman being among those involved.
General Foraker was one of the wit
nesseS. His testimony shows that he
heard soon after he was nominated that
such a paper was in existence; that he
tried to get possession of it: that he en-
tered into an agreement with one Wood,
by which he was to recommend the lat
ter for a certain municipal appointment
on condition that Wood secured the pa
per for him; that finally Wood got the
paper and the Governor gave him his
recommendation; that Wood professed to
get the paper OF John T. Mclean. of the
Cincinnati Inquirer, through the lattar's
secretary; that when Foraker read the
paper he was surprised to find the name
of Senator Sherman, as well as those of
Messrs. Campbell, Mckinley, Butter
worth and others attached. Subsequent
ly he showed the paper to Mr. Murat
Halstead, telling him that he had got
more than he had bargained for, and did
not see how he could use it. He testi.
fies that Halstead SAID that he could use
it with Campbells signature simply,
Campbell being the only man named
before the people, and it being public
duty to keep such a man from being
Governor of the State. The document
was published in Halstead's paper, the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, with
Campbells signature only. Before the
close of the campaign the Gazette re-
tracted and declared the paper forgery.
Meantime, however, Foraker had used
the paper, with ballot-box as an OBJ
iect lesson, in speech in Music Hall,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06


wife, did you think so?' kissing hair and
brow and lips. ''My wife, did you think sos'
"Of course, Jacob and could not blame
you'll Only have been so hungry for your
love, dear, and longed so to be in your arms
tears. "And now
"And now" laughed Jacob. ''you will be
here forever, won't you, my dearF'
'Fd like to be, but when you send me
away to Europe" said Rose, mischievously,
.'1'll have to come out of them, 1 suppose"
"You humbugI You know better; as if
I'll let you go out of my sight nowi" put
ting her away an Instant and looking at her
fondly. ...Ahl my wife! You are little
older! a little silver mixed in among the
gold-but you are more beautiful than you
ever were.''
''May your eyesight be always as bad as
it is now!" laughed Rose. Then suddenly
raising his hand to her lips, she said, hum
bly,: ''Forgive me all the past-can you,
dears"
''No; love never forgives,'' putting her
arms about his neck with q smile; sit only
loves. Will that answer2"
s'Oh, my husband! I am not worthy of
you'll am not worthy of your
"Hush, dearest; do not say that. If father
could only see Us now how happy he would
be.n
II hope, my husband, that he cam" whis
pered Rose, softly.
There lives now at No. - Fifth avenue
rather elderly couple, whose daily loving
happiness is revelation to all who meet
them. Their contentment and joy is infec-
tious, and no one goes to Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Lanes without feeling the better
for it.
1t is what we are that affects those about
US, and there is no better sermon ever
preached than that of happiness.
TIE END.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
THE OLDEST MAN.
A South American Methuselah Who
Nine Score Years of Age.

A South American Methuselah Who Is
Nine Score Years of Age.
The oldest man in the world Is citi-
zen of Bogota, in the republic OF San
Salvador.
This new Methuselah declares that he
is $50 years old, and it would seem he
tiatters himself, for his neighbors give
the assurance that he is older than he
says he is.
He is half-breed, named Michael
Soils, whose existence was revealed to
DR.. Louis Hernandez by one of the old
est planters in the locality, who as a
child knew Soils as centurian.
They have found in the year 1712 his
signature among those of persons who
contributed to the building of Fran
ciscan convent which exists near San
! Lebestien.
His skin is like parchment, his long
| hair of the wilderness of snow envelops
his head like a turban, and his look is
SO keen that it made disagreeable i'm
preston on the doctor.
Interrogated by the doctor, he an
swered complaisantly that his great age
was due to his regular mode of living
and to his never giving up to any ex-
cess of any sort whatever.
Il never eat but once day." said he,
ssbut / never use any but the strongest
and most nourishing foods. My meals
last a half hour, for / believe 1t is inn
possible to eat more in that time than
the body can digest in twenty-four
hours fast the first and fifteenth day
day of each month, and on those days
drink as much water as l can bear. /
always let my food become cold before I
touch it. 1t is to these things that /
attribute my great age."--Quebec
Union Liberale
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
PITH AND POINT.

Riches sometimes fail to bring popn-
larity. It's not always the man with the
latest roll who sets 'em up the oftenest.
Philadelphia Enquirer.
Beware of prejudices; they are like
rats. and mems minds are like traps
Prejudices creep in easily, but it is
doubtful if they ever get out.
Leisure is time for doing something
useful; the leisure the diligentman will
obtain, but the lazy man, never; so that
life of leisure and a life of laziness
are two things.
The doctor who cuts a man open
after death and tells what is the matter
with him has the advantage of the doc
tor who is compelled to guess what is the
matter with the patient before DEATH
Atchison Globe.
The value Of what many man says
depends upon what he has said pre-
viously He has earned the right to
speak with authority, and people listen
to him as one of that character.-United
Presbyterian.
The tendency all around US, and
seemingly growing tendency. is to
give as few hours as possible to the re-
luhSiucuoo "a cic > calling III llic. L ho
outcome is the working of manifold
Observation-Disclosures.
In one of his writings George Wash
ington said that a slender acquaintance
with the world must convince every man
that actions, not words, are the true
criterion of the attachment of friends;
and that the most liberal professions of
goodwill are very far from being the
surest marks of it.
Each one of us is bound to make the
little circle in which he lives better and
happier; each of us is bound to see that
out of that small circle the widest good
may flow; each of us may have fixed in
his mind the thought that out of single
household may flow influences that shall
stimulate the whole commonwealth and
the whole civilized world.--Dean Stan
ley.
The men who accomplished the most
never seem in hurry, no matter how
much they have to do. Every body
must have observed that. They are not
troubled for lack of time, for they make
the most of the minutes by working in
a cool, clear, orderly, and methodical
fashion, finishing each task properly,
and not wasting their nervous force on
trifles or expanding it in hustle. They
never complain of overwork. They are
more likely to be hunting up new work
to do, in order to give their faculties
more varied employment and to exer-
else some which are not sufficiently
used.-N. Y. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
FOUR ROBlSONS SIGHED.
A Characteristic Story of the Early Day
in the Oil Country.

Characteristic Story of the Early Days
in the Oil Country.
Grouped around a table in a we'll
known Fifth avenue restaurant were
Samuel ID. Robson, of Titusville, who
has followed the developments since
1869 from Butler to Richburg; William
c. Robson, mayor of Monongahela City;
Charles w. Robson, Assemblyman from
Allegheny, and the uncle of the three
gentlemen just named, who, by the way
are brothers, Quincy Robson.
1t was the first time the quartette had
met for years, and good cheer and fell
lowship reigned supreme, while wits
electric flame dispeled thoughts of the
day and it's dull care. AS naturally hap
pens to friends who have not met for
years, they were in reminiscent mood,
and Quincy Robson related an incident
of the early history of the oil regions
which may give the children of the pres
ent generation vague idea of the mag
nitude of the transactions which took
place when oil was S. and 50 barrel,
and poor people gained competency by
scooping it off the surface of creeks, or
gathered it from pools around the tanks
which had overflowed. The story, as
told by Mr.. Robson, was as follows:
'Within a month after Colonel Drake
had struck the first petroleum ever
brought to the surface in America by
means of drilling, my father and the
father of my relatives here bought a
tract of land comprising 1850 acres, ad-
Joining the farm on which the Drake
we'll was located, for $3.50, 900. Not long
afterward l was sitting in their Office
one day remember it as distinctly as
though it happened only yesterday
when an agent for an Eastern syndicate
walked in and offered 100000 for the
1850 acres. The owners looked at him
rather incredulously for moment, but
before they could speak he had counted
out on the table 100000 in cash and
drafts, which he offered for deed of the
tract. l was appalled, by the sight of
the pile, but my father and the father
of these gentlemen retired for consulta-
ton and decided that if the property was
worth 100000 it was worth $1,000, 600,
and the offer was refused. Their heirs
still own the land, and now it is valued
at about $4,000 Where they could have
gotten dollars we could scarcely get
nickels. Thus you can see what SEEM
ingly fairy stories could be told of those
days. They are almost incomprehensible
to the present generation, but they were
red-hot facts"
And sigh of regret that the offer
had not been accepted went round the
circle.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06

Cincinnati. With its help he fell. that
he was making brilliant campaign.
He says that while he believed the pa
per and signatures genuine at the time,
he now sees that he was too easily de-
ceived, and feels Inundated. He may
we'll feel Inundated. He ought to have
known that it was impossible that some
of the men implicated could have signed
such paper; but evidently he was too
willing to advance his own political
fortunes to care who suffered. OF course
he can not expect any political prefer
ment whatever hereafter. His own
party could not carry HMM. Y. indie
pendent (Rep).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06

again sank jacob Immediately dived. By
this time u small boat had been let down.
| Jacob came up again, his father in his hold
He struggled, fought out towards the boat,
reached it, held on to it with one hand and
| took moments breath. Two men In the
| boat eagerly hauled him in. And then such
| shout as went up from human Threats !!
| Men roarei, huzzaed, shook hands with each
| other, strangers kissed each other-such is
that blind, instructive brotherhood Of man
over the saving of q life. But was he saved:
| The cheering ceased, the crowd grew still; ;
! first with doubt and then with awe-struck
| certainty made dumb. The boat was hauled
| up to the dock and the form of Uncle Aaron
was slowly lifted out.
| "Oh-h! not dead 2" cried out womans
voice with a lonely wall in it like the cold,
| shivering sigh of the wind On the winters
| night-s'not dead!"
| The crowd trembled a moment in sympa-
| thy and then stared as Il beautiful woman
| knelt down by the dripping form and wept
and cried in agony: "Oh-hl Noblest and
| besti Noblest and best! If it were not for
| me you might yet have been alive! Oh! it
is not right! 1t is not rightl'
| On the grand old face, now so white and
| still, fingered yet an expression of JOY as if
he would say, if they could but understand,
that all was right with him. Jacob stood
at his feet, faint with q tumuIt of feeling
within him.
poor thingr' said man in the crowd,
wiping away tear; sit was her father, l
suppose"
s'No," murmured Jacob, family; "he was
mine"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
SHOES OF MONARCHS.
FOot-Gear Worn by Mary, Queen 81
Scots. Elizabeth and Henry VII.

FOOt-Gear Worn by Mary, Queen OF
Scots, Elizabeth and Henry VIII.
Mary Queen of ScOtlands last shoes,
taken from her feet after execution. are
dainty little affairs of stamped leather,
and made from very peculiar pattern.
The heel is very low. a narrow piece
of leather reaches high up on the in
step. covered with strange devices.
The shoe is very small and beautifully
made. When Ristori first essayed the
part of Mary, she had pair of shoes
made exactly like these, but she found
it so difficult to keep them on her feet,
on account of the low heel, that she had
the pattern changed slightly, thereby
creating the style that is worn at pres
ent by actresses in that part.
Henry VIII. wore in battle a shoe of
heavy crimson velvet fastened with a
huge silver buckle. The sole is entire
" of iron. and it has hinges at the
Joints, so that the saying concerning
this King, that he trampled his subjects
under an iron heel, is not altogether
firurative. 1t was one of the late come
dian Bishops ambitions to at some time
have produced the play of Henry VIII,
and he had gone so far as to procure
part of costume. Among other things,
he had some shoes made which were
exactly like those in the Regent street
collection of London last summer.
Queen Elizabeth left some very dainty
shippers, made of white satin, with birds
and flowers embroidered upon them in
silk and gold. The heel is covered with
satin, and the shoe is lined with red.
Joseph f. Graham, of New York, has in
his possession shoe and sandal
which were worn by Queen Elizabeth
more than three hundred years ago.
The shoe is in a wonderful state of
preservation. il is No. 1 in length.
but rather too broad to be considered
shapely at the present time. 1t is made
of yellow brocaded satin, lined with
fine, stout linen canvas. The sole Is of
oak-tanned leather. The heel is exact
" like the high French heel of modern
times. 1t is placed well under the foot
and is at least two inches high. The
toe runs to sharp point. Across the
instep are two satin straps which evil
IDENTITY were once fastened with jeweIed
clasps. There is no stiifening in any
part of the shoe. The edges are bound
with yellow silk braid.-Shoe and
Leather Review.