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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
READING ALOUD.
Pleasant Form of Entertainment for
the Home Circle.

Pleasant Form of Entertainment for
the Home Circle.
Really, it is hard to imagine any fam
lily, any knot of friends, as complete
without the habit of reading aloud.
What more pleasant way of passing
winter evening by the fire, summer
afternoon under the trees, rainy
morning in the nursery, an otherwise
irksome hour in the room of the conva-
lescent? What means of unifying
family interest and sympathy and
taste! It doesn't leave anybody out, as
is the case when one must perforce
sew, and another pores over an absorb
ing book, without so much as word to
throw to dog across its cover. Then
it leads to discrimination in the choice
of books Trash that might be INDUCED
in alone really seems too cheap to
occupy a whole family. From the best
stories, and these are many and price,
less, the demand reaches out to biogra-
ply, travel, history, poetry. 1t seems
n delight to associate books with the
| places and companions where and with
whom they were read. The interest OF
all combines to strengthen and sweeten
| ties and memories
1t is as well worth ones while to
| learn to read well as to sing well. Per-
| haps, in the long run, reading aloud
goes even beyond music as factor in
the most delightful home life. Shut
| fling, stumbling, nasal reading is far
| from giving, and almost as bad
as airish elocutionary efforts kept up by
| the hour. A simple, fluent, straightfor-
ward way of getting over the pages is
best, with natural pitch of voice that
comforts alike the readers throat and
| the listeners ear.-Examiner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
How 1t Got There.

Visitors to city hotels and restaurants
have often wondered how the huge
piece of ice was introduced into the
water bottles with the narrowest necks
until the possibility has dawned on
them that it may have been frozen in
that position. But have our readers
never puzzled their brains to account
for the presence of the iron ball in
side the sleigh bell? An exchange
says that the inventor of the bell
was obliged to do considerable thinking
before the idea struck him. In making
the bell the iron ball is put inside a
sand core just the shape of the inside
of the bell. Then a mold is made just
the shape of the outside of the bell.
This sand core, with the jinglet inside,
is placed in the mold on the outside, and
the melted metal is poured in, which
fills up the space between the core and
mold. The hot metal burns the core so
that it can be shaken out, leaving the
ball within the shell. Ball valves,
swivel joints and many other articles
are cast in the same manner.-Pitts-
burgh Labor Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
CoupterfeiU Goodness.

Anyone is al,cays worse by Stimulating
goodness, for that means assuming
the appearance of it without the reali-
ty. Not only is he no more virtuous
than before, but his vice has acquired an
additional sneaking quality, which
makes man more contemplate per Sc,
and infinitely more dangerous to the
community. Imitation is the tribute
which vice pays to virtue, doubtless.
but the vice is none the less
vicious In the case of patriotism
it is doubtless true that exaggerated
statements of the virtues and great
ness of the past do little harm and
often good, but it is rather far-fetched
to endeavor to class such aggregations
as hypocrisy. The hypocrite is not
anxious to exalt others, but himself:
even if in exalting himself, he pulls
down others But, waving this confu-
sion of terms, does anyone suppose
that myth is more elevating to people
than sober historical fact? 1t it were
true, we had better find some way OF
suppressing future Grotes, Bancrofts
and Motleys.-Dr. R. w. Conant, in
Popular Science Monthly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
How Peanuts Grow.

Ibid you ever see peanuts growing?'
asked a well-l1nown produce dealer.
''Nel1, down in Georgia you can see
them grow, and they do say that If you
listen right hard you can hear them
grow But, do you know, they raise
the biggest kind of COOLERS down in
southern Illinois. The Egyptians have
no use for the word peanut, though.
They call them goober peas 1t has
been my business to buy COOLERS in the
field, and in pulling up three or four
vines you can estimate the entire yield
of the patch very fairly. The fine
fibers of the roots are crowded with
peanuts, just as the small roots of the
potato vine are filled with little pota-
toes. / have met numherless persons
who supposed that peanuts grew on
trees, and others who thought they
came from a large bush. In fact, there
is direful amount of ignorance extant
about the little nut."-St Louis Re-
public.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
THE LOG" OF A COAT.
The Tailor's Schedule by Which He Makei
and PAYS for Mems Clothes.


and Pays for Mems Clothes.
The great majority of journeymen
tai1ors, it should be noted, are allowed
certain number Of hours for the max
ing up of garment, and are paid in
good shops at the rate of seven pence an
hour. This is the key to the system
upon which the log is arranged. Ac-
cording to the time stipulated for the
making up of each garment, SO is the
workmen to be paid. The work under
consideration is generally alluded to as
1.-The log but, as matter of fact 1T
consists of several logs. There is,
among others, coat log, trousers
log, vest log, a machine log and also
log for ladies' riding habits and other
tailor-made clothing, which is now be-
ing revised. But it would be ungener-
Gus to expose the secrets that underlie
the manufacture of these more exquisite
garments, even if the process of revi-
sion did not check us. To disclose the
| mysteries of the riding-habit log would
| show want of chivalry.
Nobody will be angry with us, per-
| haps, if we dive into the mysterious OF
| the ''frock-ccat log" except the gentle
man who occasionally advertises in the
| matrimonial papers his possession OF
| mice square shoulders" Such Shout
ders are often made to order. When
made of haircloth or extra canvas the
| journeyman charges one hour for them
that is, if they do not exceed nine
| Understand one hour more if they ex-
| coed that measurement or part OF 1t.
| For padding or wadding basted on
| canvas in shoulder the log specifies
| half an hour extra, with one hour for
''wadding flash basted through sides, y
| and two hours for shoulders built with
from two to three piles of wadding can
| vas or cloth"
An ordinary coat that does not con-
ceal inequalities of the figure can be
made up in thirty-five and half hours.
Yet anyone putting on a coat of this
simple manufacture would be surprised
to hear the mysterious processes that
are involved in the manufacture OF 1t.
Here are some of them, with the time 10
each, all duly set down in the coat log:
Putting in the thread marks and fit,
ting up, one hour; scanning side body,
one-half hour: waists three-fourths OF
! an hour; lapels, three-fourths of an
hour; scanning side seams, three-fourths
OF an hour; making up plaits, including
hip stay, one hour; first press, three
fourths of an hour; plat pockets, one
hour; basting in canvas and button
stay, one hour" But there are many
other things to be done with a stylishly-
made garment of this kind to suit the
fastidious, and the log provides fol
seven distinct ''cuts and puffs," fol-
twelve special kinds of edges, ten sorts
of seams, five different pockets, eight
details regarding sleeves, twenty-five
peculiar facings, twenty-six sundries
and ten hastings, making total o:
something like one hundred and forty
six items that may be called into play
in the making up of a superior frocll o.
dress coat.-Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03

Sir Walter Scott, in his History OF
Scotland'' first series), tells a tale of a
Highland chief, one of the MacDonalds
of Ross, which is worth repeating.
This worthy had robbed of the little she
possessed a poor widow, who, in her
despair, exclaimed that she would de-
mand justice from her sovereign if she
Jared all the way to Edin burgh on foot.
1T is long journey" cried the robber,
sand, that you may make it more com
fortably, will have you shod." And he
sent for smith, whom he compelled to
nail pair of shoes to the wretched
woman's feet, just as horseshoes are
fastened. But the widow was keen
witted: as soon as her wounds permit
ted her to set forth, she betook herself
to Edinburgh and, obtaining admission
to the presence of James l., infor med
him of the cruel treatment she had un-
dergone. The king, justly angry, or
dered the arrest of Macdonald and OF
twelve of his principal adherents and
caused iron soles to be nailed on thei1
feet Thus equipped they were ex'
posed to the public for three days, and
afterward executed. - Gentleman's
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03

Dr. Kreuberger in Austria directs at
tention to the increasing number of sui
cides among school children. He quotes
the figures of Durand-Fardel to the eff
feet that in France in ten years there
was 1 suicide under years, at 9, 2 at
10. 6 at Is, at IS and 3 at Il. In Den
mark. 1865 to 1871, there were IS sui
cides of persons under 16 years and 165
between Is and 20. Recent Prussian
statistics have shown that in four years
500 boys and 400 girls under Is years
committed suicide on account of shame
or fear of punishment. The number
affected by the two causes mentioned
is far greater than that which is attri-
buted to money troubles, anger, vice OF
physical illness. But few weeks age
a Vienna schoolboy tried to poison him
self few minutes after his teacher
scolded him. Two other Vienna school.
bows shot themselves, however, because
they were unhappy in love. These
remedies for the suicidal malady, which,
DR.. Kreuberger shows, spreads more
rapidly as civilization advances, are
mentioned: Healthful exercise, less
overworlz, little or no corporal punish
ment and infrequent or no attendance
at the theaters. Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
PLUMs AND PRUDENCE.
An AllegoricaI Tale of Two Small Boys,
Pudding and Some Philosophy.

An AIlegoricaI Tale of Two Small Boys, .
Pudding and Some Philosophy.
A wide and deep philosophy lies in
this true little story: "A few days ago
some children were eating dinner at
the house of friend, who gave them
rice pudding for desert-rice pudding
with raisins in it. Now, one of these
little boys didn't love rice, but did love
raisins, and being a conscientious and
well-trained youngster, with a pru-
dence that he had no business with,
considering his years, he first ate care
fully all the pudding, saving all the
plums and making of them circle
around the rim of his plate. When he
had paid penance for the pudding he
meant to reward himself by eating all
the raisins
Opposite to him sat another little boy
who had the same decided preference
for raisins over rice. But this little boy
wasn't prudent, he was only boy, the
promptings of whose stomach We're bet
ter than those of his brain. And the
first thing he did was to eat up all his
plums. That being done it suddenly
occurred to him that there was nothing
left for him to live for. So he lifted up
his voice and wept aloud. And when
the kind-hearted hostess said ''Why,
Davy, what are you crying for?" he
howled 81 amt got any more raisins."
Then the good lady glanced down at
the plate of the other little boy who sat
at her side, and said "Well, here is a
| little boy who doesn't like raisins and
who has put every one of his aside, and
| if you won't cry you shall have every
| ono IF hiC ,.aiSipS'
And the other little boy, being cow
ardly. as prudent people are-for cow
ardice is what makes people prudent
said nothing. while the hostess filliped
off every one of his cherished plums to
the other plate. And there he had to
sit, full of pudding and prudence, and
see the other boy fill himself with the
| plums he himself had meant to eat.
| Suppose these two little boys to be
grown-up men and the plums to be the
desirable things of this earth. and the
pudding to be the undesirable things
that come along with the desirable.
| Here you have an epitome of life You
also have some suggestions, if you are
wise enough to dig them out, as to the
propriety of eating your plums as you
come along to them. The plums are
not yours till you've eaten them.-Chi.
| capO News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
Unearned increment.

Mr.. Henry J. Chase is inclined to
think (see the Standard of May 49, that
one of the most difficult questions
a single tax advocate is called upon to
answer is: Are they not unearned in
crements in other things besides land?''
and endeavor to show that it is in land
values alone that increments occur.
Whether his conclusions be true or false
it is not necessary to inquire, as there
rests upon it neither the justice nor the
expediency of the single tax.
This unearned increment argument is
not put forth in the writing of Henry
George. 1t occurs in the Political
Economy of John Stuart Mill, who, in
Book ", Chap. IL, says: Suppose that
there is a kind of income which con-
stantly tends to increase, without any
exertion or sacrifice on the part of the
owner, these owners constitute class
IN the community, whom the natural
course of things progressively enriches,
consistently with complete passiveness
on their part. In such case it
would be no violation of the
principles on which private prop
erty is grounded, if the state
should apprOprlate tliS lhcISase VI
wealth. or part of it, as it arises. This
would not properly be taking anything
from anybody; it would be merely ap
plying an accession of wealth, created
BY circumstances, to the benefit of so
ciety, instead of allowing it to become
an unearned appendage to the riches OF
a particular class" Of his argument
for the public appropriation of future
/ increments of rent, this forms the
major premise. A postulate that, wher
briefly stated, ''the unearned mere
ments of value of all private property
| belong to the public as Mr.. Chase
perceives. is hard to maintain.
But Mr. Mill, as we know now, neve'
clearly apprehended the nature OF PR
waite property in land. He but dinlJ
saw its in iustice. Land values shoule
be taken by the community, for the us'
of the community, not because they arr
unearned by the individual holders, bu
because they belong to the community
being by it earned or created. tSee
Progress and Poverty, Book vii. ant
viii; and also "a Reply to Criticisms,
by Samuel B. Clarke, in the STANDARD
of January 2s, 1888, originally publish
ed in the Hartford Law Review
wherein Mr.. Clarke ably answers man.
objections to the single tax.-Jame
Love-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.

To love my neighbor as 1 should
I'm trying hard to do;
But he might help me il he would
Love me little, too
Within my tiny garden patch
plant my seeds in vain,
Because he lets his chickens scratch
Them straightway out again.
] have some flowers in bed
Which have learned to prize;
he lets his dogs rush in and tread
Them down before my eyes.
I've watched some peaches on my tree
Since they were very small,
But now there isn't one for me
His children took them all.
l had some hills of early corn
On which my hopes were placed;
His cow walked in the other morn
And left barren waste.
By bowling Of his dog all night
am of sleep bereft:
His rooSters, Growing ere the light,
Destroy what might De left.
Ny lawn for neatness is show;
His is home for swine;
He throws old papers where they blow
From of his grounds to mine.
I say Good morning" when we meet
And smile as best can,
And talk about the rain or heat
Like any Christian man.
And when he wants to borrow things
1 lend them from my store,
And always tell him when he brings
Them back to come for more.
To lore our neighbors as we should
We pray in church to do;
They might-to help US to be good
Love US a little, too.
H c. Dodge, in Goodalrs Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
Life Made Comfortable.

Borem-Still living in Jersey, eh?
Hustler-Yes: 1 have no thought of
coming back to the city.
Borem-But it must be very incon-
venient. forty minutes by train and
fifteen by boat every day, and you've
got to catch both right on the minute.
Hustler-That's what like about it.
You see when people buttonhole me
and get to talking, all have to do is to
Jerk out my watch, mutter something
about train time, and get away with
out giving offense. See?
Borem-Ha, ha! That's good That
reminds me of little thing Saphead
was telling last
Hustler-By the way, it's train time
now. Ta-ta.-N. Y. Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
1t Came High.

$50 YOU have been out in the wild
west? Is it true that they hold human
life so cheap out there?
Cheap, nothing! When 1t comes to
paving a dollar and half for tea
spoonful of beans it does not look as IL
existence was very cheap, does it9'-
indianapolis journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
Natural History.

Studious Boy-Frogs an fishes is just
like birds.
Little Girl-They amt bit.
Eyes, they's just like birds, cause
they come from eggs"
''Do they? Amt that queer! Ouch!
Where does mosquitoes come from?"
''They come from Jersey. Good
News,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
A Wastefu1 Habit.

He-Jackson is so extravaganza and
careless with his money.
She-Indeed! And / have always un-
derstood that he was such a careful
man!
He-Not at all-he pays cash for
everything he buya-Munsey's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
A Smart Waiter.

Observation-Disclosures, is this an old or .
new herring you brought me?
Waiter-Can't you tell
NO"
"Well, then, what difference does II
make ?"-Chicago Saturday evening
Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
Rather Wearisome.

Maid-You got home early, Mr..
Blinks. Shall l call Mrs. Blinks?
Mr. Blinl1s (who loves a jol1e)-Don't
tell her | am here. Just say gentle
man wishes to see her in the parlor.
I'm afraid you'll get tired"
''Tired?'
eyes, sir. She'd spend bout two
hours maxim herself look pretty."-N.
Y. Weekly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-02
PERSONAL NEWTON.

Rey. DIR. Gwynn went down TO
Portland this afternoon and will
preach in the Presbyterian church
tomorrow.
jeff Myers, OF Sciu, was passcn-
ger north this afternoon.
Attic Geisy went down To Aurora
to spend Sunday with his parents.
J. Adcox went W TO Albany today
on business.
Miss Laura ticltra came down
from Albany today, where she hah
been summoned by tie iilpcss Of
her father
Miss Jennie M. Long, Of Portland,
is in the city.
Representative Harry Miller and
Frank j. Miller, clerk of railroad
cnumittee, went down to Portland
on the los train. The commission
will meet in regular session at the
state house Monday.
Surveyor General Byars isl the
city today looking after some bust
ness matters.
Mr., John Knight was down town
today after a struggle with typhoid
fever.
Mr.. f.. f. Osborne and family
have moved down from Eugene and
will make their future home in Sa-
lem. They are temporarily settled
at 343 Front street.
Mr. freeman Folsom is seriously
i'll with la grippe at his home on
Court street. His entire family has
Just recovered from the same disease.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-02
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The lilacs are beginning to bloom
in the gardeus of the bouquet city.
Chinook salmon is rare thing in
tie Salem markets. What Is the
matter with the fish men?
Hayes & Vercler are thinking of
sending one of their thorough bred
stations to TillamOok for the season.
Two coIored families from Tennes-
see arrived last evening 10 take EN-
ployment on the Wallace ranch.
Company B. will give an open air
drill in Wilson avenue at 1880 this
evening. The boys are preparing to
make a display before Gen Harrison.
The street sprinkler Is needed on
the streets to settle the dust which
is filling the air along State street.
Company II. received a part of
their new uniforms last night The
company is doing some fine drilling,
1t puts in two and three evenings a
week in military drill.
J.R. N. Bell has sold his hotel at
Independence to James Gibson, a
man recently from New York and
in the real estate business since he
came west.
Just received-a inc line Of ham
mocks, lawn and camping goods, al
Geo. +. Smiths.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-02
GrnE Ben Butler.

Butler has great law practice, and
many irons in the fire besides-his bunt-
ing factory, his granite quarries, and so
on and so forth But much of his law
practice is made up of desperate cases,
such as those claims before the court of
claims which no one else will undertake,
and in which the compensation is all con-
tingent upon success. Besides, like other
men with many irons in heating, he can
not keep them all white hot and loses
every now and then on one of them.
Then too, he is one of the most generous
and charitable of men. He lives on a
scale which seems eXtravagant to most
men, keeping up three or four establish
ments-one here, one in Lowell, one ir
Boston, and so on-and treating all his
relatives and friends most generously in
all his dealings with them.
Rough and gruff as he sometimes seems
his heart is tenderness itself, and his com
passionate ear and hand are always open
He gives away a small fortune every year
to say nothing of his thank your practice
which exceeds that of any other lawyer in
the United States, and probably in the
world. Naturally, with all his shrewd
ness, he is deceived by the designing, and
loses more money in this way than most
people give away. Unless his Forthcoming
"Reminiscences" yield large sum. Butler
will not leave a large fortune behind him
philadelphia Record.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-02

For several years the sun has been in a
Guiescent condition, his surface being com
parativey free from spots, and his promln-
ences of comparatively infrequent occur
renee and insignificant proportions. The
great luminary has been passing through
his minimum sun spot period; for the spot
producing activity of the sun is governed
by laws that the close observation of the
last two centuries has interpreted, while
Observers are still cropping after the cause
of the spots themselves.
1t takes about eleven years to complete
a sun spot cycle. though the intervals are
irregular. Each cycle includes a maxi
man and a minimum period which are
also irregular. The spots vary greatly in
number. During some cycles the suns
face is never free from them; during Others
Il is unmarried for days, and even for
months AS the last maximum period oc-
Cured about 1872, it is time to antici-
pate a recurrence of solar activity, and re-
cent observations show that the activity
has already begun.
Enormous fluctuations are taking place
on the surface of the sun, and will be fol
lowed for the two or three coming years by
spots of every variety There will be normal
spots, consisting of an umbra and penum-
bra, and spots irregular in form or gather
ed in groups. The sizes of the spots vary
from 500 miles to $4,000 miles or more, and
they are often large enough to be visible
to the naked eye. They may last for few
days, or for weeks or months Their dis
tribution is mostly confined to two zones
on the suns surface, between 5 degs and
40 degs. of latitude north and south.
Other signs of solar agitation follow in
the wake Of the sun spots. Gigantic solar
eruptions, known as rosy protuberances,
rise from the suns border, like tongues of
fame, sometimes to the height of hundreds
of thousands of miles. The earth bears
witness to the disturbed state of the sun,
for auroras flash in the heavens, magnet
ism reaches its greatest point of oscilla-
tion and electricity takes on its most brill
iant manifestations Youths Companion.