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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
FAMILY PLEASURES.

The Usual Thing When johnnie Is Around.
81 don't altogether like this young
man, Jenkins, who comes to see you so
often. 1 hear he is nothing but poor
bank clerlS!' is what the head of fam
lily said to his daughter one morning at
the breakfast-table.
''He is a very nice young man." re-
plies the daughter; ''besides he is some
thing more than a poor bank clerk. He
gets large salary, and is likely some
day to have an interest in the bank"
l hope he may" responded the old
man; but he strikes me as very flip
pant, impertinent sort of fellow, who,
in my opinion, should be sat down up
on
well, have invited him to take din
ner with us this evening"" said the
daughter, land 1 hope you will treat
him politely at least. You will find
him very different person from what
you suppose him to be-"
sOh, I'll treat him politely enough,
said he.
That evening Mr.. Jenkins appeared
at dinner, and made a most favorab BILE
impression on the old gentleman.
''He is clever young fellow. after
ALL" he thought. Il have done him an
injustice
1t was just here that Johnnie spoke
out. Johnnie was well-meaning little
boy, but too talkative.
s'Pa," he began, you know what you
said to-day at breakfast about Mr.. Jen-
kins, that he was an impertinent young
man, and ought to be sat upon"
''Silence, sir-' shouted the father,
swallowing mouthful of hot potato.
But the little boy wouldn't be quiet.
Its all right" he continued, conf
dentially, but in whisper loud enough
to be heard in the street, 'he has been
sat upon. Sister sat on him the parlor,
before inner.''-Eruest P. Neville, in
J,Iry
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
MOHAMMEDAN WORSHIP.
The Devout Turk Performing His Religion.
Duties.

The Devout Turk Performing His Religious
Duties.
know of no religious spectacle more
impressive than that of barefooted
Turk standing erect on his prayer-rug
with his face towards Mecca and his
eyes looking straight into the eyes of
his God. 1t is not a duty with him, nor
a formality, nor The maintenance of a
time-honored custom. It is his very
life. Watch him as he enters this
wretched interior of Bania- bashie, with
it's scaling and crumbling walls, and it's
broken windows, through which the
doves fly in and out. Outside, at
sthe trickling fountain, he has
washed his feet and face and
hands, bathing his throat and smooth
ing his beard with his wet fingers. He
is a rough, broad shouldered, poorly
clad man in fez and skirt. his waist girt
with wide sash ragged and torn. He
is perhaps a ''hammal," a man who car
ries great weights on his back-a hui
man beast of burden. His load, what
ever it may be, is outside in the court.
His hourly task is his daily bread; but
he has heard the shrill cry from the
minaret up against the sky, and stops
instantly to obey.
He enters the sacred building with
his shoes in his hands. These he leaves
at the edge of the mat. Now he is on
holy ground. Advancing slowly he
halts half way across the floor, and
then stands erect. Before him
is blank wall; beyond it the
tomb of the prophet. For a moment
he is perfectly still, his eyes closed.
his lips motionless. 1t is as if he stood
in the antechamber of Heaven, await
ing recognition. Then his face lights
up. He has been seen. The next in
slant he is on his knees, and, stretching
out his hands, prostrates himself, his
forehead pressed to the floor. This SOL
itary service continues for an hour.
The man stands erect one moment, with
a movement as if he said: Command
me; l am here" The next moment he
is PROSTATE in obedience. Then he
backs slowly out, and, noiseless, re-
gains his shoes, bends his back to his
burden and keeps on his way, his face
having lost all its tired, hunted look
F. III. Smith, in Century.
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OLIVES IN PERSIA.
Som ething About the Industry Among tn
Natives.

Som ething About the Industry Among the
Natives.
A report from MIR. Townley, of the
British legation in Teheran, on the cul-
tivation of the olive and the manu-
facture of olive oil in northern Persia
has been published by the foreign o flee.
The district on the post road between
Resht and Teheran, where olives flour
ish naturally. consists of forty-three
villages, which are situated on the con-
fines of the province of Gillian, and which
possess from thirty thousand to one
hundred thousand trees, yield
ing on an average from six to
nine pounds of olives per tree per
annum, or roughly, gross annual
produce of seven hundred and fifty
thousand pounds. The quantity of good
olive oil derived from the Persian
presses can be estimated at seventeen
per cent. of the olives, or about one
hundred and twenty-seven thousand
pounds. The good oil having been ex-
tracted, the residue is again pressed
and an oil of an inferior quality is pro-
duced, which is used in the manufacture
of soap. The refuse still remaining
after the olives have been twice pressed
is used as manure for the trees them
selves The value of the oil after a
good harvest is two-pence per bottle of
two pounds at Resht or Teheran, where
as the maximum price paid after bad
harvest is about three shillings.
The olives are gathered in the late
autumn, and at once stored in a kind of
large bin, where they are spread out
to dry on the housetops. When per-
fectly dried they are again packed till
they ferment. and after this second
fermentation they are trodden by men
somewhat after the fashion in which
grapes are trodden in the wine press.
They are then boiled and crushed in a
sort of press between fiat stones, be-
meath which is receptacle for the oil.
Naturally by this clumsy and laborious
method the olives do not yield all the
oil they contain. A monopoly for the
purchase and working of all
the olives in northern Persia
was lately granted by the shah
and in order that no time may be lost
in turning what can hardly fail to be a
profitable speculation to good account,
an expert has been carefully studying
the various methods employed in Eu-
rope in the pressing and refining of olive
oil, the method in practice in the olive
oil presses of Marseilles having finally
been selected by him Rudbar, the CEN
ter of the production, is situated on the
Safeed Rau, which from that point is
navigable down to it's exit into the Cas-
plan sea during the greater part of the
year, for strongly-built barges or RATS
lot hot h0o &c
olive tree is subjected to a government
tax of about one and one-quarter pence.
London Times.
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TaE USE OF BOOKS.
Their Instrumentality in Molding TIN
Minds of Men.

Minds of Men.
Civilized society is always in danger
| of reading too much and thinking too
little. There are lots of men in the
world who have read more than is good
for them. Literary seed sown in the
best ground may spring up and bring
forth men of whom Erasmus or Goethe
are the most famous types, men in
whom culture has produced that almost
irritating absence of dogmatism, which
Mr.. Matthew Arnold called "'sweet rea-
sonableness." Books. too, may aid in
producing clear intellects, like John
Stuart Mill. whose mind has been COM
pared to a perfect and exact ma
chine into which one put a
question and out came the right
answer. Books will aid still
more in developing men with the mar
velous and learned memory of Macau-
lay. All these classes of men may be
good takers of their several kinds
But literary culture, alas. may also
produce men whose talk is learned, yet
feeble, inconSequent, and, worse still,
lacking in human interest. They are
rather books than men. They have
laid SO many volumes on their heads
that their brains will not move. Liter
airy feebleness is worse because more
artificial than natural feebleness.
Terrible are they who, without ca
pacity for using knowledge slillfully.
deem it their duty to seem learned
and clever in society. An Oxford pro.
fessor, when staying at a country house
used to know how much he owed to
himself and how much was expected
from him at dinner; and SO, as everyone
was made to understand, he retired to
his room an hour or two beforehand in
order to read up and so prepare the
feast of wit and learning. That profess
sor is dead now, and it says much for
human endurance that he is understood
to have died a natural death. But. &C
cOrding to another professor-Prof.
Mahaffy, of Dublin-there was, or per-
haps still is, another such social evil
roaming among us-a college don
who carried his own peculiar Joe
Miller in his pocket, and used to peep
at it under the table and refresh" 1t
is easy to credit the assurances that this
was regarded as far the best joke"
about the don, and that the daughter
before he spoke was always greater
than when he had sped his shaft How
much more fortunate was the Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table. He met and de-
lighted in a gentleman who said, sweet
ly and honestly: Il hate books II
did not recognize in him. says DIR. o.
w. Holmes, ''inferiority of literary taste
half so distinctly as l did simplicity of
character and fearless acknowledgement
of his inaptitude for scholarship. "-Gen'
tleman'S Magazine.
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dollars, but the only certainty it is
based upon is the verdancy of the casual
visitor.
National bank notes are not DESTROYED
at the bureau of engraving and printing.
For them a special macerator of diff
ferent pattern is employed by the comp
troler of the currency, under whose
special superintendent they are count
ed separately for redemption. Be
meath his office is a sort of tub with re-
volving knives. into which all of this
sort of paper money is cast when worn
out. The keen blades chew it up to
minute fragments, under the eyes of
persons appointed by the national
banks to superintend the operation, so
that it is of no use any more for any
purpose whatsoever save for paper
stock For this purpose Uncle Sans
dlsused cash serves admirably, mas
much as it is mostly linen fiber.-Wash
inGton Star.
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FAT OR LEAN.
How to Reduce Obesity or to Acquire
Flesh.

How to Reduce Obesity or to Acquire
Flesh.
Some persons are born with a normal
tendency to become fat, others with a
tendency to leanness 1t is the same
| among the lower animals. The hog is
sort of machine for transforming the
odds and ends of food into fat; but the
farmer knows beforehand that little
pig with long legs and snout will work
off the fat as fast as it can be made. So
n long-legged person seldom inclines to
obesity.
Temperament has much to do with
the bodily condition in this respect. In
Emphatic people the life processes are
slow, and the fat is largely deposited
rather than burned. This temperament
furnishes some of the best types of sur
face beauty. The person of nervous tenn
permanent, on the other hand, by excess
sive activity of body and mind, and by
predisposition to haste, worry, fret and
Impotence, naturally remains lean;
but while the features of such person
will probably lack softness and round
ness of outline, they may exhibit in a
marked degree the higher beauties of
mind and soul.
People who incline to obesity may
hold the tendency in check by appro-
pirate food and stirring exercise in the
open air, thus both lessening the
amount of fat-forming food taken into
the system. and causing a more rapid
consumption of such fat as is produced:
and those who incline to undue lean
ness, by pursuing the opposite course,
may largely increase the amount of fat
deposited.
If the leanness is the result of di-
gestive weakness, or of a faulty assimi-
latiOn, little, of course, can be done I'M
til a condition of general health has
been secured. But assuming that the
abnormal leanness is connected with
high health, what advice must be given?
First, let the carbonaceous, or fat
forming, food greatly preponderate over
the nitrogenous-sucha as beef, lam b and
Goldfish. Calling the fat-forming ele-
ments of beef twenty, lamb thirty-five,
and Goldfish five, those of pork will be
fifty: beans, fifty-seven; peas, sixty;
oats, sixty-six; wheat, sixty-nine; corn
and rye, each seventy-two; rice, eighty,
and butter, one hundred.
OF course it would not do to take a
single carbonaceous article and live on
it, for the entire body is to be kept in
high health by the proper nourishment
of all the tissues. However, the system
can be well supported in full vigor by a
vegetable diet. with the addition of
milk, eggs and butter.
In the second place, cultivate calm
ness and quietness in feeling and man
ner. Avoid impatience and fret. Do
not overwork with mind and body. We
may add that tea-drinking tends to lean
ness. If possible, milk should be sub
stituted.-Youth's Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
No AIibi.

An old colored man was up in the po-
lice court charged with stealing one
chicken from the coop of his neighbor,
and the attorney for the defense was
getting alone sw1mmingly.
MAY it please the court" he said,
1--WE expect, nay, we are positive we
can prove an abili in the case of this
prisoner"
rs dat me, boss?" put in the prisoner.
Yes that's YOU"
"Well, boss, l specs you knows yo'
business bettern l does, boss, but fo' de
Lawd, you CANT prove no alibi on me,
boss; l haint fetched drop o. muffin
strongern coffee sence las spring a
year, when l went up to de mo'ners
bench an speenced 'ligion: deed haint.
boss Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
GOT HIS DOLLAR.
He Had His Man Marked and was Bound
to Make Trouble.

He Had His Man Marked and was Bound
to Make Trouble.
A strapping young man sat in the
Erie depot, across the Hudson, the other
day, waiting for his train. He had
twelve scythe-stones in bundle on his
right hand and cuckoo clock in a box
on his left. AS he was looking around
the waiting-room he gave a sudden
start. Then he started some more. Then
he rose up and walked over to a flashily-
dressed man about forty years old,
whom anyone would have spotted as
fakir, and asked:
Don't you travel around with tooth
POWDER"
mo, sir" was the sharp reply.
"Wasn't you up in Elizabeth last
fall?''
No, sirr'
Eyes you was, and I'll bet on it! You
are the same burned feller and l know
it,
''Sir! What does this meant" de-
manded the other.
at means that I was in Elizabeth
last fall and bought a box of your
tooth powder. You changed five-dol-
lar bill, and darn my hide if you didn't
hornswaggle me out of dollar!''
''Sirr'
''No use, old fellow! l knowed ye
the mint / got eyes on We. Same big
diamond pin-same red neck-tie-same
nose, bumped up in the middle like a
circus camel. ] want that dollar!''
This is outrageous. I'll call po-
icemanr' shouted the fakir.
Call and be burned to We, but I'll
lick We first! You either come down
with that dollar or I'll wallop We till We
can't holler"'
Look here!" replied the other in
much milder tones, you are mistaken.
1t was my cousin who was in Elizabeth.
He is dead now"
Then I'll take it out of you'll"
'He is dead, as l remarked, and
rather than have any blot resting on
his fair 'escutcheon l will pay you the
dollar
That's all right 1 don't know any
thing about 'scutcheons, but I've got to
have that dollar or pull hair! I've bin
lookin' for your hump-backed nose all
over the face of the earth. And I've
laid awake nights thinkin' how I'd make
ye holler like an Injun if 1 ever got my
paws on ye.''
He was given a dollar, and the fakir
disappeared at once, and the young man
explained to those about him:
II m almost sorry he give up SO soon.
was just achin' clean down to my toes
to lick him all over a forty-acre LOTT
NJ. Quad, in n. Y. World.
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.Only because 1t is gr deal more
interesting to do thing "e.> shan 49,
| to do it. Let me read you sNmesii"s
fro1,, uordsworth's sonnet y.bout the
| sonnet. He says: -
I'm truth the prison unto wh'e'' We
Ourselves no prison Is;
| meaning that if we are willing to taNe
| mains. there is a great deal OF ENJOY
ment in working hard over thing, even
| if it is a very small thing. He gives -
| oraat many comparisons, about nuns
being contented with their narrow con,
vents. and hermits in their cells, ana
students in their libraries, and weavers
at the loom; but here, oh, here, is an al
lusion to YOU, dear bee; he tells how
Bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest peak of Furness ieiis,
w i'll murmur by the hour in foxgiove pens.
.sThatis just what you meant, Ism III.
that you are one of those he speaksoi
who have felt the weight of too much
liberty?'"
Yes, that is what I meant; but l
think said it better than he says IT, II
it is a fine thing to say what you mean
in fourteen lines, why isn't 1t n inner
thing to say what you mean IN fourteen
words?And really it seems to me that
put the whole of his sonnet into saying
that it is not for the honey that care
nor for the sonnet that you care; but the
fun of the work"
1.-THE fun of the work! That IS ne"
idea-but believe your right.
s'Of course am right. Sweetness Is
all very well, but L should think IL
would be very tiresome just to be sweet,
like flower: I'd rather be bee ana
have to hunt for the sweetness"
land I'd rather be human eerng
and have to make things sweet. For
after all, if bee doesn't find any sweet
ness he can't have any, while people
can make it for themselves Do you
know, by the way, that you have given
me splendid subject for poem?'
perhaps have. But if you will ex-
cuse me. will be off to the clover field;
and my advice to you is, if you must
write poem, try to put it in four lines
instead of fourteen"
So tried, and this is the poem:
Sweetness in being sweet, that's for the flow
Sweetness in finding sweets, that's for the
bee;
Sweetness in making sweet sOrrowful hours
That is the sweetness for you AMI for me-.
Alice w. Robins, in ST. Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
PITH AND POINT.

"A Bad Shot.-He-.I have never
| yet met the woman 1 thought 1 could
marry" She-'.No, they are very
| endar.
I'm going to the races tomorrow
and I want to come home in good
shape. What sort of mascot would
you advise me to carry % "A railroad
return ticket. IN. Y. Recorder.
An Easy Way.-Editor of the Kazoo
Eve must increase our circulation
somehow. What can we do to please
the public. ''-Assistant Editor-''Sus-
pend. Saturday Evening Herald.
-Bobby-"What is nursery, Uncle
George? Sis says it is a place where
they raise trees" Uncle George-''Sis
knows better than that. It's place
where they raise thunder. boston
Courier.
Il understand that he presented her
with one hundred thousand dollars on
their wedding day" 'H'm!' replied
Mrs Jackson-Parke, chats a new
scheme, isn't it; getting the alimony in
advance?"-Indianapo Journal.
Not a Marriage for Money.-Father
(sternly)-"Do you expect my daughter
to be party to marriage for money,
sir" Suitor (bashfully)-"N-no, sir
but it can't be, sir. 1 really haven't
cent. Daily Continent.
What do you call your dog?" was
the question which a policeman asked
of very large man who was followed
by very small pup. Il don't gall him
ad ALL" was the reply. ''Ven I want
him 1 vissle. Washington Post.
"A Good Little Boy.-'I like Sunday
school better than any other school,"
said Willie. II am pleased to hear that,
my little man. said the minister.
Now, will you tell me why?" Eyes,
sir; it only comes once a week. IN. Y.
Herald
First you had whooping-cough,
then you got the grip, then malaria. and
now you have jaundice. Seems to me
you catch everything in your town, said
Wiggles EYES," said the commuter.
"Everything except the train l want. -
Harper's Bazaar.
"A Wretch.-Wife (ref1ectively)-
do wonder why men grow bald and wom-
en- do not" Observation-Disclosures of the
intense activity of mems brains" Wife
-"And why is it women have no whis-
kers?" Observation-Disclosures of the in
tense activity of their chins. Pitts
burgh Bulletin.
Why nee-Breeches Didn't Suit
Them.-First Swell-'I say, old chap
pie, what do you thin k of this talk of
wearing knee-breeches?' Second Swell
II for one will neveh weah them"
First Swell-'I thuppose you lack the
courwage, old fellah?" Second Swell
Its not a question of courwage, but
legs, don't you know. "-Smith, Gray
& Co.'S Monthly
Maj. Windup- whats this, col
onel-out with shotguns?" Col. Saw
age-"I'm lookin' fer the Teller that
eloped with my wife" Mai. Windup-
"Why, I thought you quarreled with
your wife and had often said you
would be glad to have her leave you"
Col. Savage-'That's just it. I'm goin'
to shoot him if 1 find him trying to
bring her back
Not Cigarettes, This Time.-Willie
ION the fence)-"Say, Downy, I heard
my sister standing up for you last
night" Epson Downs-"Ah. What
did she say?" Willie-She said she
didn't believe it was cigarettes made
you look so pale" Epson Downs
Ibid she? That was good of her.
What did she say was the cause. Will
1ie-"She said she guessed you had an
ingrowing mustache.''
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An old man was once walking with n
little boy. They came across four
shrubs. The old man said to his youth
full companion:
"Pull up the least one"
He obeyed with ease.
"Now the next"
He obeyed, but it did not come sc
easily.
"And the third
1t took all his strength to move it's
roots, but he succeeded.
Now the fourth
In vain the lad put forth all his
strength. He only made the leaves
trem BILE; she could not move the roots.
They had gone strongly into the earth,
and no effort could dislodge them
Then the wise old man said to tho
ardent youth:
This, my son. is just what happens
with our passions. When they are
young and weak one may, by n little
watchfulness over self and the help of
little self-denial, easily tear them up:
but if we let them cast their roots deem
into our souls, there is no human power
can uproot them. For this reason, nv
child, watch well over the first move-
ments of your soul, and study. by acts
of virtue, to keep your passions well in
check. "-Golden DAYS.
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An east side saloonkeeper has pug
dog that is drunk nearly every day.
The dog first acquired an appetite for
strong drink by tapping the contents OF
a pan which sets under the faucet of a
beer-keg in the saloon. At first he
would have been quite as well pleased
with water but now he must have his
booze with regularity and precision,
and it seems to go right to the spot
where it will do the most good. His
dogship gets very rocky under the in,
SEPARATION of the foaming beverage, blu,
he seldom falls down, as man does
who has jag on, because he has twice
as many legs.-BuffaloC Courier.
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Appeared to be Genuine.

Merchant-Didn't you know better
than to let nybody pass such a bill as
that on you?
Clerk-What's the matter with it?
otis a rank counterfeit"
Il thought it was good. 1t had the
regular tobacco smell about it."-Chi.
oago Tribune