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Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

thin eight
that seemed
10 cling. with sort Of toe-nail hold TO
The steep side OF a hill Almost a day
had passed since l had seen a human
babitation. The country had the APP
pearance OF dangerous wildness, and as
fearful night threatened TO come up
put OF the dismal valley far below i de.
sided TO plead for the privilege OF help
ing the old house cling to the hillside.
Approaching nearer and coming TO
small. filnty Enclosure where a number
Of hogs, so poor that they appeared 10
exist only in outlines, were presenting
\ squealing petition for something to
eat. saw tall, gaunt and grizzly
bearded man standing with his bare
arms resting on the top rail Of the fence.
How are your asked. ag.t
wall, he answered, surveying me
moment and then scratching his chin.
II wuz wuzz of Jest after had been
snake bit than am now; an agin | wuz
better off jest after shootin' Teller that
lritled with the affections of my family
than ! nm at present writin'. How is II
with yourse'f2'
lreplied that my health was excel
lent, but that was unfortunate In beng
compelled TO travel during such weather;
and, l added. you can do me great
favor by letting me stay over night at
your house"
wall, IL hain't my habit TO take IN
strangers but II you will promise me one
thing you may light an put your nag in
the stable"
IAN right. name the promise"
"Oh, wall. it's Jest this: You must
not ask me how much l charge an you
mustn't offer me no pay"
Your conditions are not only easy
but generous said dismounling, land
! shall be grateful for your kindness"
That's ali right, fur I'm man among
men. Jest lead yo' boss around thiser
way, please"
When the horse had been cared for
we went into the house, a tumble down,
affair. and sat down TO await the com.
ing, MS my host expressed it. OF Muir
and Sis l took no particular notice
OF Muir when she and sis came II was
Bis that took my eye. She must have
been six feet tall. The smoke from the
chimney had made her eyes bleary, and
the long green tobacco that she constant
ly chowed had drawn her mouth 10 one
side, She wore an old boot and brogan
shoe. also sort of blouse made Of cot
ton bagging.
When we cheerfully sat down to sup.
per, or rather when we had gathered
about board on which there were
placed corn bread and dish pan hold.
ing miniature sea OF grease which
fioated fleet OF bacon barges, the host
said:
Y'Sis Is the greatest gal In all this
country, Amt you, Sisr
/"Now. pap. whut do you wanter talk
thater way. furf she replied. sticking a
great finger In her crooked mouth.
You know / Amt never did nuthin'."
"oh. yes you have, Sis Didn't you
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

DON you rcoIleck when she got ur
frum the table2 Wall, she put her piece
Of the bone up in the fork Of saplin
an you walked under Il an that put the
law on you. Don't caper now, son, fun
/ don't want to hurt YOU. An another
thing. my son, don't try to run AWAY
an leave us after triflin' with our AZ.
fections. I've got q whole host OF kin.
folks nigh here an they will be nightly
pleased to know that Sis. thar. is goin' TO
marry q Teller that is SIGH hand TO dig
taters reckon you better work along
with Inc to-day. want to mark some
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
THE WRITING ROCK"
A Curious Stone Supposed to Have Been
Written on Before Columbus' Birth.
A STORY WRITTEN on STONE.

On the Taunton River, near Dlghton.
Mass, there is a curious rock which for
antiquariaps possesses great interest.
The Writing Rock" leo 1t is called) is
Of granite. about eleven feet long and
five feet high, and its smooth surface Is
covered with many strange hieroglyphics
which have never been satisfactorily
deciphered. 1t is claimed, however.
that they were placed there some 500
years before the birth of Columbus. At
high tide the rock is covered with water.
II is proposed TO remove II TO some
museum.-M y Mail and Express.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
A HINT FOR NORTHERN TRAVELLERS.
"Lspping" hooks No Longer Pays on
Southern Railroad Trains.


1--WE don't lap any more books"
said n chipper newsboy Mt the Central
depot last night. Truth is we lost so
many that way till we Just cant ford
il. / don't know for certain who first
started such doings. but some OF the
bows saw IL was Bill McAfee on the
Richmond and Daneille road Bound
for Billy: he's always starting some
Thing he don't know nothing about.
Old Billy il n leader for all that. The
wav that scamp can persuade the
women into buyinp hooks is'a sin aud
a shame. Aiu't no use ia taking; he
can inst do IL; that's all. heard some
of the bows telling how about BIly's
tanning 81 books worked tho first day
he fell on TO the scheme. People looked
wild when they saw the butch throw
inc ALI sorts of books into their laps
wifbnnt asking cent for 'em. Twas
ali Billy conld do 10 hold in when the
women would look up and smile and
soy .tb.nkeei But thoy changed their
tune when lie passed through the car
m collect fares on lem. Eterybodv
was an interested reddiny the books
that they wouldn't stop, and they
1uny out the little twenty-fiycs and
ffties like shot out of n shovel. Some
of the women didn't have the change.
and thew was mighty sorry thc;'d
started 10 read lie books. The, d
blush and look like they wanted to
borrow the funds.
Tapping worked splendid them
times. but She's changed now. People
are in the habit of getting of with the
hooks We lost ANYTHING that wayp
No. stree. MANY Is The one that's rot
off with mv hooks but made IL up on
the next man. 'Twon't do TO get left.
,Talking obout reading people. I've
always been mighty successful NJ il. I
can tell a preneher or n LAWYER every
fire. on. YES always have bound
books for their sort. | slipped one
time. though. 1t was this way: The
comnonv had purchased n lot OF cheae
hooks How to Cure Diseases of The
Mind and Bodv. and as thew was n
hard stock we bows wasallowed double
.commish' ON 'em. | had one left. and
was miohtv anxious 10 dispose of her.
She was clesn and neat bnt abe inst
wouldn,t go- One dov'con,in0s ont Of
Macon I esnied n little dried in man,
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
Nail These Aphorisms to the Door.

Nail These Aphorisms to the Door.
who enters here leaves pipe be-
hind"
The horse will be all the better for
working his way through the winter.
The man that knows the right use OF
horse blanket is a first-class horse
man. ~,
Too many horses eat up during the
winter all they have earned during the
summer.
The horse blanket saves feed and
fesh-less substance is used to make
animal heat.
Keeping matches in any other re-
ceptacle than an iron or tin box is
tempting Providence.
Some people think farm animal is
like a postage stamp--no good until
licked. They are sadly mistaken.
The farm horse, having only light
labor, and not much of that. during
the winter, should have less grain and
more roughness than during the sum
mer.
The man that puts iron bits in his
horses mouths in very cold weather
without first warming the bits has al.
together too much of the savage in his
composition. -Americdn Agricuit,iriSl.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
eRIpcsT's DEAFNESS.
The Mistress OF tho Kitchen Too Muc.
for u Census Man.

There are none so deaf as those
that won't hear" and so believes a
census enumerator, the scene Of whose
joys and sorrows was West Chester
street, says the Philadelphia Record.
The cook in certain residence. Bridget
by name, was returned in the form
that was left to be filled out as deaf.
and no further thought was given to
the matter. ,ailr
Sometime afterward however the
enumerator called at the house to see
Bridget, who was just at the time
watching a pot which she did not want
to boil over. The following CONVERSE
ton ensued:
us your name Bridgetpn
Sure, and / am in a fidget.r said
the cook. anxiously gazing on the pot.
mo. Bridget" shouted the census
officer. h.r s
"Ah, faith and I'm Bridget"
''Are you deafpn iaw
"Arrah. now, there's been no death
in nE family" t43
Not death, but deaf; you can't
hearnp mo r,t Fef
Yes, it's very near, and If it bOils it
spoils."
Was your mother deaf, or, your
mothers rnotherp" ,ee
Smother is It you name? Sure and
We can't smother u boiling pot.",
Was your grandmother deaf?i fair
~ yelled the frantic enumeratoru
Och. and my grandmother isn't in
it, no." replied the anxious Bridget.
Its mothers milk aud mustn't boil"
Were any of your ancestors dcafP"
shrieked the official. t
Faith. and | haven't any listers.
Oh, wirra, wirra. IT'S over. Get out,
We spalpcen; | haven't any sisters or
brothers, but my milk has boiled over"
The milk boiled over. and so did the
enumerator. He gave up his Inquiries
about Bridgets iniirmity aud was out
OF The way, The problem remains to
be answered what business is it of Su-
perlntendent Porter's employees If the
members OF Bridget's family are deaf
or not. 7.wf .l4
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

LEANING OVER THE FENCE
upon me. and then hastily stepping to
one side she seized a hog that he'd got
into the potato patch and tossed him
over the fence. just then the dinner
horn blew.
had no appetite. The girl after
stripping the meat off the wish. bone of
a billed rooster" held up the horse
shoe. looking thing and told me to pull.
pulled and Sis jumped up and left the
table, but soon returaed aud took her
place beside me. After dinner my host
said that as the creek had not gone down
lwould greatly oblige him by continuing
10 help Sis dig potatoes. II would
come up an dig too,--he added, "but
hav power Of fiddlin' about to do"
wanted 10 risk the creek and told
him so, but he would not hear to il.
IVY bless yo' life. you'd git drowndcd
sho. To-morror mornin' will be time
enough. an in the meantime you will
be dom OF me great favor by hel pin
git the potatoes In. Ricolleck that
don't charge you nolhin' fur stayin'
here. an bein' a upright man you
oughter return one favor fur another"
was asleep by the time ! touched
the bed that night. and having been too
tired to think just before lying down,
dreamed Of what fool had been
In accepting any terms offered by the
old man. On the following day l an
nounced my firmly fixed intention OF
leaving The old man professed great
astonlshment. What. trIfle with the
affections OF my family an then leave us
In the lurcb. ~
l could only gasp In establishment.
wy, you promised TO marry SIS said
ne.
This staggered me. Promised TO
marry heri" exclaimed.
Yes, fur right out thar in the later
patch you lowed that you wanted her.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

WHILE 1t is claimed that Prof. Koch
is making splendid strides in the
theory and practice OF medicine. par
ticularly the practice, II must not be
forgotten that the science OF surgery
mas also been making rapid anvance-
ment What was looked upon half
century ago by the most advanced
surgeons as impossible is now sue
cassfully accomplished by the verlest
tyros In the profession.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

MONEY. SO long as II is In the pos.
session OF any one. produces absolutely
nothing out OF which II tax can be
paid. IL Is as utterly barren as a last
years corn stalk. 1t is only when In
the act of passing from one hand to
another that 1t can be said to produce
anything Mt all; aud when II is in that
act II Is as elusive as Paddy's flea
But a mortgage is always known and
can DO found BY the tracks that 1t
makes.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

The following written definition OF
the word ''bichelor" was handed in
by fifth grade boy; IA bachelor is a
man who has no wife. nor wants no
wife. nor can't got no wife" Massa-
chusetts has an ovcrplus OF old maids,
whom the bright boy mentioned above
might describe as women who have no
husbands. though they want husbands
but cant get no husbands"
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

The Baltimore medical students
who drove a patient In q hospital
insane by daily feeling OF him to see
II he was fat enough to cut up we're
perhaps pursuing scientific study OF
the effect OF the imagination. But II
the record OF their achievement fol-
lows them into practice they will not
make their fortunes at the divine art
OF healing.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

NEWARK. New Jersey, has an "Eu-
ropean club" the members OF which
pay into common fund ~ month
zach. and draw lots TO decide which
OF them shall take precedence in
using the second-class cabins that are
bought with the money. Nearly every
thing nowadays, except paying the
debt of nature, can be done on the in
stallment plan.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

The Emperor William has evidently
rmall respect for the press. We do
lot blame him. His own press ex-
kepted, the newspapers have not been
backward In expressing their opinion
OF William when occasions seemed 10
call for comment. and the comments
were sometimes not such as would full
pleasantly upon the expansive and
tender ear OF kindergarten emperor.
The press can wait for It's revenge
upon William. for it will live long
after the King has run his race.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

AN ostrich hides its head in the dirt,
trembles with terror and takes no note
Of the enemy. Capital is like the
ostrich. 1t does the most foolish thing
possible. As tho hunters make an
easy capture OF the ostrich, so in time
labor and enterprise will punish capt.
tai for Its folly.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

THE eastern portion OF the Ind Ian
territory traversed by the Missouri
Pacific southwark to Fort Gibson and
eastward TO Fort Smith may be taken
as the best possible illustration OF
what the civilized Indian can do with
country, with reasonable advantages
la the way OF soil and climate. The
country belongs TO the Cherokees, be-
lieved to be at the head OF all the
Indian tribes In the acceptance OF the
white mans ways" and said TO have
imbibed more common. civilized sense
than any other indians through their
mixture with the hard headed Scotch
OF western North Care lima. with whom
they formerly dwelt
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

One would think to read the papers discourse
ing On the fly;
The grounds for his creation aud the various
reasons why,
That the underlying motive, the real objective
plan,
Was to get another whack at
The bald-headed man.
Now the ny is no rcspecter of persons or of
He lights wherever fancy or the scent OF
game dictates;
His object is to suck up all the juices that no
can,
And he is no Nemesis of
The bald-headed man.
The fy has been created for n scientific use
And there is no use OF hunting up a thinly
clad excuse:
lie was made TO give reporters-evcr since
the world began
Another chance TO ridicule
The bald-headed man.
You may talk OF sticky paper and lay trains
of dynamite.
Butth fy will live and flourish, as he always
has, In epite.
And the paragraphing punsters from Ber-
sheba TO Dan
will keep up their persecution of
The bald-headed man.
But let them all remember there was once a
prophet old, 70
To whom the sportlve urchins, In wickedness
made bold.
Remarked, Go up, thou bald-hea al" when
out tho big bears ran
And swallowed up the scoffers OF
The bald-headed man.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

THr United States has referred
thirty-thrce international disputes to
arbitration during the present century.
but thore is 20 indication that the
sealing dispute will be amiacably adj
justod In that manner.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

The Athen1um has this advertise.
ment; Writers Of fiction Qades cs-
pecially) may be supplied with new
materials of an exciting and rc,lantis
character"
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

u did not, sir, yelled.
'Didn'l your Wall. reckon you did.
You lowed she wuz 'lasses, an ef that
Amt akin in this country nobody don't
know whut Is; an' again YOU pulled with
her the other day--pulled the wish bone
OF the old rooster that you mout at Que
time hearn cough half mile An'
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

Anew York contractor pays that
city sec. 900 year for the purpose oil
picking over, the city's refuse, and
makes a handsome. profit oa.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
saving OF lie. Thi

D1g. until she--for 1t was II
pap--explalned her remark by say.
that cannibals will. under no
cumstances. eat a missionary who
u tobacco user.
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17

A SPEAKER at an antl-tobacco meet
Ing in Washington WV
~, rLtv LII. 49,,
Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1891-01-17
COSTLY HOSPITALITY.
THE MAN WHO WAS ENTERTAINED
FREE OF CHARGE.
Tho Poor Fellow Had to Dig Potatoes
and Accept the Attention of tho Hosts
Daughter.

had been sent out as newspaper
and was riding lean
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-18
A BAD BREAK.
Mrs. Anna Bullene Kimbr0ugh
Will Resume Her Former
Name.

Kansas City, NO., Aug. H.
Frank Kimbrough returned to indie.
pendence Saturday and had an inter-
view with Mrs. Anna Bullepe Kim.
brough. He said he had come from
St. Louis, but it is known that be bad
been in Kansas City for two DAYS.
At the interview, besides Kimbroueb
and his wife, were Mics Kimbrougb,
his sister. James Mccormick, sn uncle
of Mrs. Bullene, and . FRIEND of Kim.
brough. What occurred at the inter.
view is not known, further than that
he was given an opportunity to ex.
plain, and being unable to do 80 to
Mrs. Kimbrouah's satisfaction was
dismissed BY her. Mrs. Kimbroueb,
who will assume her former name Ms
Bullene, refused 10 he interviewed.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-18
IKE Mixed THE LENONADE.
Scandal0us Behaviour of q Bad
Boy at q Church Festival.
New York Tribune,

New York Tribune.
At Shelton, Conn.,, it was decided
last week to give an ice cream festival
in the Methodist church building, for
the benefit Of certain palpsble heather
who are reported as grouping in the
darkness of new-found island in the
South Pacific. Mrs. Wickloe, Mrs.
Starr and Miss Dickens we're detailed
TO make the ice cream Mrs. Bonner,
Mrs. Heradon, Mrs. Newton snd q
number of others agreed each to bake
a cake; a dozen Others volunteered to
cell tickets to still others further de.
tails we're entrusted. until at last it
was found that nobody was left 10
max the lemonade. Various ways out
Of this difficulty were proposed, but
Mrs. Carpenters seemed to he the
best, namely, that her boy Ike should
make it. Ike, it appears, worked in a
hotel down at New Haven some time
ago, where bis mother said he learned
to make excellent lemonade.
When the fatal evening arrived,
eighty persons, the flower Of Shelton
society, assembled at the church and
were soon seated around several tables
loaded With cake. A troup of young
ladies wearing pretty white aprons
came in from the adjoining parsonage
with the ice cream. The minister 9
study had been given up to Ike for his
lemonade operations, and to this the
young lady walters now repaired. In
. few minutes they returned and ret
before each person . large glass of
most inviting looking lemonade. The
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-18
A TYPEWRITER
Brings Suit i'm New York Against
a Missouri Congressman.

New York. Aug, 13.-Ex-Con.
gressmsn John NJ. Glover of St
Louis, is in trouble with his type.
writer. She has charged him with
having betrayed her confidence to the
extent of $500 worth of typewriting.
And what is more, she has obtained q
judgment in the city court for the
full amount of her claim and costs.
The plaintiff is Miss Zerlina Rosen.
field. After Mr.. Glover, who was q
member of the Fifteenth congress
from the Ninth Missouri district
failed of reelection, one of bis under
takings here was the getting up of
'The Glover Index" BY which be
proposed to make it possible to look
up cases and citations in q few min.
utes, which under ordinary methods
would require the labor Of months.
Fer a whole year Miss Rosen6eld has
been writing his copy out by the mile.
Miss Rosenfeld came from St. Louis,
and this may have had something TO
do with her getting the work. At
any rate Glover began to send over . |
few baskets of copy every few days
and she would som after send a like
number of hampers of typewriter
stuff. When he got a full grown dry
goods box full he would nail it up and |
ship it TO his place in Tuxedo. Then
be would fill up all the spare room in
her office with more copy, and che
would have q dozen pretty girls
away for dear life to pre-.
pare it. Miss Rosenfeld claims she
has received nothing for all this work.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-18
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED,

The papers contain frequent notices Of
rich, pretty and educated girls elopiua
With negroes, trsmps and coschmen. The
we'll known specialist, DR. Franklin Miles,
SAYS oil such girls are more or less hysteii.
cal, nervous, very impulsivs. unbalanced
usually .ubject to headache, neursleia,
sIeeples.n.ss, immoderate crying or laugh.
ing. These show a weak, nervous system
Tor which there is no remedy equal to Re.
etorstive Nervioe, Trial bottles and q
fne book, containing many marvellous
cures, free at A. 7. Fleischma ans who also
sells and guarantees DR. Miles celebrated
New Heart Cure, the finest Of heart tones.
ures d uitering, thort breath. etc.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-18

buzz of conversation stopped. Halt
the lsdies laid down their spoons.
Mrs. Starr looked anxiously at the
minister. Mrs. Newton and Mrs.
Wickloe pushed back slightly from
the table. In each glass Of lemonade
there were two long straws.
For fully two minutes silence
brooded over the assembly. 1t was
broken by Mrs. Starr, who pushed
back. looked hard at Mrs. Carpenter,
mother of Ike, ard ga d. in metallic
tones: 81 don't know what the rest
think, but | call It scandalous 81
guess we all think pretty much the
same way" said Mrs. r gers gloomly,
as che looked alternately at Mrs. Car.
penter and the minister. Decent
people couldn't think any other way"
snapped Mrs. Barker. The minister
seemed greatly perplexed. 81 hope,
Sieter Starr" he said, chat nothing
has happened" "Ot course you don't
understand" replied Mrs. Starr. Il
couldn't be expected that you should,
Brother Brown straws are never used
in lemonade except in rumshops."
"You don't tell me +" exclaimed the
good man, as he pushed back and rose
to his feet. A few others followed his
example, but the movement was not
general till Mrs. Starr went into the
suly aId returned with the
star Ii g intelligence that the
unregenerate Ike was mixing the
lemonade by putting a tin
come over the glass. reversing the
combination and tossing it violently |
up and down. Then twO.thi,ds of the |
people got up and started toward the |
door. "Wby didn't the young scape |
grace put q red raspberry in each
glass and complete bis villainy?"
asked Deacon Starr in cold, sarcastic
Zones. But Mn. Carpenter and q
Lumber of others stayed at the tables
md actually applied their lips to the
lnholy s!raws. The ominous swish of
Ike mixing more lemonade came from
he study. "The deacon seems to
understand all about it," said Mrs.
Carpenter in still more sarcastic tones.
4 said ell the time that he didn't
'isit Bostcn three years ego for moth.
n.y." The Others marched sifily out,
md at a meeting of the Aid society
he next day there was a stormy dis.
ussion Of the whole question. Ike has
eft town. /