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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Popcorn Candy: Put into an iron
kettle one tablespoonful of butter,
three tablespoonful of water, and one
cupful of white sugar: boil until ready
to candy, then throw in three quarts of
nicely-popped corn; stir vigorously un-
til the sugar is evenly distributed over
the corn; take the kettle from the fire
and stir until it cools a little; in this
way you may have each kernel separate
and all coated with the sugar.-Boston
Budget.
Rice Meringe: One cupful of care
fully-sorted rice, boiled in water until
soft When cooked sufficiently. drain
so as to remove all the water. Cool it
and then add one quart of sweet. new
milk, the well beaten yollxs of three
eggs, tablespoonfuls of white sugar and
a little nutmeg. Pour into baking
dish and let bake about half an hour.
Let it cool again, and then beat the
whites of two eggs, add two tablespoon
fuls of white sugar, flavor with lemon
or vanilla, and spread it over the pud-
ding, after which brown it slightly in
the oven.-Detroit Free Press.
-Gingerbread: Two eggs we'll
beaten, two-thirds cupfu1 of New Or
leans molasses, half cupful sugar, one
third cupful of butter, half cupful of
sour cream, half cupful of sour milk,
and a half teaspoonfuls of soda,
half teaspconful of ginger, half tea
spoonful of cinnamon, -four to thicl1en;
beat the sugar and butter together: add
the eggs and beat well; then add the
soda to the sour milk; stir in the milk,
cream, molasses and spices; thicken so
you can drop it easily from a spoon,
and bake in moderate oven. 1t re-
quires more care and longer baking
than a cake made from all sugar.-N.
Y. Observer.
queen Fritters: Into half pint of
boiling water stir half a cup of butter,
and when this boils up, stir in one pint
of -four; let this cook about five min
utes, beating we'll all the time; then
take off and turn into an earthen dish.
When this is cool, break four eggs into
dish, but do not beat them: turn one
third of the eggs into the dish with the
paste. and beat all together with the
hand. When this is well mixed, turn
in half of the remainder: beat as before,
and then add the remainder of the eggs
and beat twenty minutes. Drop this
paste in teaspoonfuls into boiling lard,
and fry until they crack open. This Will
be in about fifteen or twenty minutes.
Boston Herald.
The ancient merits of molasses
candy may have been thrown into the
background by the ease with which a
certain grade of French confectionery
is now manufactured; but the delights
of a candy-pull can not be enjoyed in
such intensity by any substitute, while
its simple ingredients can be found in
any country store. Homemade mo-
lasses candy. too, if made by those who
know how to make it, is always better
than any that can be bought; and the
ordinary taffy is made with a cup of
molasses, cup of sugar, and the
ubiquitous ''piece of butter the size of
an egg" which figures in SO many
recipes. 1t requires hard boiling from
twenty to thirty minutes. At the end
of the former time drop little into
cold water, as a test. If it does not
harden, let the candy boil ten minutes
longer, and try again.-Harper's Bazaar.
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How Many Umbrellas Have You?

The inequality of taxation upon per-
sonal property was aptly illustrated by
Thomas G. Sherman, esq, at dinner
of the Twilight club. "Whatis personal
property?' he asked. Umbrellas" ex-
claimed the redoubtable Capt Cod
man. The laughter that followed
was varied with an assortment
of illusions to the communal nature
of this kind of property, but it
suited Mr.. Shearman's purpose well,
and he went on: Certainly umbrellas
are personal property. Now, suppose
you tax umbrellas, who will pay most
taxes: Men with only one umbrella. OF
course. The assessor would assume
that every man had one; therefore
every man not destitute of umbrellas
would have to pay taxes on one or COM
init perjury. But the more umbrellas
any man had the easier could he escape
his proportion of taxes. In guessing at
the number Of umbrellas the assessor
would guess above the limit of the poor
man and far below that of the rich
man, as he does now with all kinds of
chattels A tax on umbrellas is an ex-
cellent example of the inequality of
personal property tsxea"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
eRlNelno THEM TO BOOK.

How Six Ohio Girls Got Half . Dozen
Young Men to Propose.
Six young ladies' in Ohio, having re.
ceived attentions from six young men,
exchanged condolences and came to a
mutual understanding. says the Bran.
don Banner.
Although matters seemed to be pro
crossing according to their wishes,
there is still certain impotence OF
victory among Ewes daughters, and
they resolved upon an audacious move
which should prove to the objects Oh
their affections that they were, one and
all. really good houseleepers-
They fixed upon day. secured the
house of a mutual friend and sent on,
six invitations to a luncheon that was
to be prepared and served by their OWL
fair hands. Upon the appointed day
the six young men. punctual to such
an appetizing engagement, were wei
coined by six pretty cooks dressed like
the soubrettes in a comedy, with bare
arms, dainty little caps, short skirts
and embroidered white aprons. After
having conducted their guests upon a
tour of inspection, letting them peep
into the ovens and oversee the cooking
of the beefstealks, that they might be
sure there was no trickery, they all sat
down to a table decked with flowers
and enjoyed delicious meal perfectly
served.
A few weeks later Ohio was the richer
by six more young households.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
The PEAR TREE SLUG.


Life History and Habits Of a Most De-
struetive Insect.
This insect passes the winter in the
pupa state under ground The flies,
the progenitors of the mischievous
brood of siugs, appear on the wing, in
the northern states, from about the
third week in May until the middle of
June. The fly is of a glossy black
color with four transparent wings, the
front pair being crossed by dusky
cloud; the veins are brownish and the
legs dull yellow with black thighs, ex-
cept the hind pair, which are black at
the extremities, and dull yellow in the
middle. The female fly is more than
one-tfth of an inch long; the male is
somewhat smaller. The female of this
species begins to deposit her eggs early
in June; they are placed singly within
little semicircular missions through
the skin of the leaf, sometimes on the
under side and sometimes on upper.
In two weeks these eggs hatch. At
first the newly-hatched slug is white,
but soon Shiny ma tier oozes out of the
skin and covers the upper part of the
body with an olive-colored, sticky
coating. After changing the skin
four times it attains the length
of half an inch or more and
is then nearly full grown. It has
disagreeable and sickening odor. Head
is small, of a reddish color and is al
most entirely concealed under the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
MICROBES.

Bacteria are micro-organisms that exiss
everywhere in countless numbers. They
are of many different species, but fostu-
nately, only a limited number of thess
species are detrimental to human beings
1t is thought now by scientists that many
processes of digestion are assisted by these
microbes, and that in some cases they are
absolutely necessary to preserve good
health. It is only when they attack the
ileum, or lower intestine, that they become
dangerous. They can be expelled from
the system by mild laxative like thu
Laxative Gum Drops. These gum drops
contain nothing deleterious. They ara
mild and gentle; they contain no taste d
medicine, but they act upon the live,
stomach and bowels, expelling alb uRdi-
gested food and cleansing the whole sys-
tenn. They are thus certain remedy for
indigestion, heart burn, flatulence and dys-
pepsia. They can be taken without the
slightest danger, for they contain nothing
deleterious. In order to get the best re--
suits, they should be taken every night fer
several nights. When this IS done, Tn
patient will find himself entirely relieved
Get them Of any dealer. The small boxes
are 10 cents, large size IS cents
SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, M
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
EARLY AMERICAN cATTLs.


Genesis of the Trade in Bovines In the
New World.
The first cattle that were brought IN
to the American colonies were landed
at the James River plantation, in Vir-
ginia, in the year 1907. They came
from the West Indies and were the de-
scendants of the cattle taken to those
islands by Columbus on his second voy-
age, in the year I49a. In 1901 several
cows were landed and again in 1911
about one hundred head more were
brought to the plantation. This, the.e e
fore, was the genesis of the cattle busi-
ness in America. In order to encour-
age the industry to the fullest possible
extent an order was passed forbidding
the slaughter of any animal of the bo-
vine kind under penalty of death. I'm
der this restriction the number OF cat
tie increased to thirty thousand
in Virginia alone before the end
of the year 1619 The first cattle
brought into the New England colo
were imported from England by Gov.
Winslow. Three heifers and bull
made up the cargo; Tin color" the
old record says, ''they were black,
black and white, and brindle." In 1926
twelve cows were sent to Cape Ann,
and in 1929, thirty more In 1880 about
one hundred were imported ''for the
exclusive use of the colony of Massa-
chusetts Bay" During the same year
one hundred and three were sent from
Holland to New York; so that by the
year 1880 there were a good many head
of horned cattle in the different colo
mics. The reader naturally thinks of
these animals as superb specimens of
the bovine race, but they were not.
History, that is, the curious and inter
esting part of history, tells us that the
average weight of fat cattle in the
Liverpool market as late as 1710 was
only three hundred and seventy
pounds. What an evolution in one
hundred and eighty-two years!-Phila-
delphia Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
THE FARMING WORLD.

SOME poultrymen grow cabbages
solely so as to have them to feed to
their laying hens during the winter. 1t
pays them and it will pay to initiate
them. Don't be afraid of having too
large a crop of cabbage heads; the pigs
will take all that the family and the
hens fail to consume.
Do NOT begin to feed corn to hogs too
soon. There will be some refuse yet,
such as green weeds, grass, etc, which
may be utilized. After the cold weather
begins is the time to commence feeding
corn. In the meantime, all the waste
material suitable for the purpose should
be put to good use in the pig pen.
OUR potato crop is not sufficient for
our requirements for the coming year,
while Canada has more than her people
can consume. A crop that falls below
the demand should be a paying one,
and with the use of more fertilizers
greater yields per acre, and good keep
ing varieties, the potato growers have
bright future before them.
EXPERIMENTS made for several sea-
sons demonstrate that it will cost no
more to raise a pig, attain a heavy
weight and produce pork that is inter-
sperscd with lean and fat than to pro-
duce pork that is almost wholly COM
posed of fat. By feeding a variety of
food. including corn, more pork and of
better quality will result than when
only corn is fed.
A WONDERFUL improvement has been
made in the varieties of tomatoes dur
ing the past five years They are now
smooth on the surface, and are also
very solid compared with old varieties.
If improvement progresses as rapidly
in the future as in the past with toma-
toes, they will at some day contain but
few seeds and be as solid-heshed as
apples.
IT is not now a matter Of distance
from market, but the time in reaching
it. 1t has been truthfully claimed that
a farmer living on a poor road, ten
miles from market, is really greater
distance away than the farmer living
two hundred miles away. but who ha.
the advantage of railroad. 1t is the
time and cost of reaching the market
that adds to the cost of the products.
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Taxing City Bonds.

The minority of the committee on
taxation of the legislature has reported
a bill recommending the removal of the
tax from all bonds or certificates of in
debtedness issued by the citizens or
towns of the commonwealth. A petit
ton asking for this exemption was pre-
sented on behalf of the city of Boston,
and has received the general support of
those who have made a study of econ
omic problems, so far as these relate to
questions of taxation. There is GER
tainly no more indefensible practice
than that of continuing a system of tax
alton which produces practically no
revenue, and yet at the same time forces
to pay out much larger rates of interest
than they would otherwise be compelled
to pay. No one can doubt that the
credit of Boston is as good as that of
New York or Philadelphia, and it
should be even better than that of Bal
timore; and yet, while the city of New
York can sell its 3 per cent. bonds at
premium, and Philadelphia can issue 8
per cent. bonds having but ten years to
run at par, and while Baltimore can
place at par its bones at 81 per cent,
the city of Boston has to pay per
cent, for bonds which it places. When
it is taken into account that the city OF
Boston has a net debt of more than
$50, O0O. 900, and that if it could refund
it's entire debt it would make differ
ence of about per cent whether the
bonds were taxed Or untaxed, or, in
other words about $500, 900 a year. the
need of a change such as that proposed
becomes sufficietly obvious. For it
must be remembered the city receives
practically no tax upon its bonds The
city treasurer very properly, will not
divulge to the collector of taxes the
names of the holders of municipal
bonds If he did, it might be difficult
to place our municipal loans even at 4
per cent, hence the tax is but a the
oretic fiction which profits those who
loan money by limiting the number
who will buy city bonds, but it is exc
ceedingly expensive to the municipal
ity. While the case of Boston is more
trying than that of other cities in this
state, they all probably share the same
infection. For this reason we earnestly
trust that the bill, which we believe
ex-Alderman, and now Representative,
Meyer, has prepared, will obtain the
approval Of both the house and the sem
ate.-Herald, Boston, Mass
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
HINTS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Concerning Your Table, Toilet, and Your
Household.
Every housekeeper should know that
one pint of asphaltu we'll mixed with
a gill of turpentine and applied with q
paint brush to CRATES, fronts, tenders,
and any similar iron substance, will
give it the shiny appearance that it
wore when new. This amount of the
mixture will paint five CRATES and be-
longings, also the kitchen stove. It
will last just as long and have exactly
the same appearance that each had
when new. Painters make "big money"
doing this kind of work, that can easily
be done at home by one of the family
at trifling cost by knowing what to
use.
In preparing oysters for an invalid.
the eye, or tough white piece in each
should be removed. A palatable and
nutritious dish is creamed oysters,
which, made for one person. calls for
half a dozen oysters heated in their
own liquor. Remove carefully any
scum which rises Boil half cup Of
milk with a pinch of salt, a dust of
cayenne and scrap of mace. Thicker
to a cream by stirring in a teaspoonful
of -four wet with little cold cream.
When smooth pour over the hot oysters
and serve with squares of dry toast
from which the crust has been cut
There is a right and a wrong way to
do verything. The right way to put
salt fish to soak is with the flesh side
upward. In this way the salt settles
at the bottom of the pan. When ham
or corned beef are boiled for slicing
they should always be allowed to stand
in the liquor until cold. This makes
them juicy
A novel idea in q clothes tree was
worked out the other day by an in
genious young woman. A dead tree
from the woods had the branches sawed
away SO as to leave projections of from
four to twelve inches. These were
rounded off, peeled, smoothed and
polished, the entire trunk being hand
somely finished. Into the projecting
branches were screwed brass hooks,
and the whole was set into a standard
made of a very heavy chestnut plank.
This was polished and vanished and
mounted on castors, which were set at
the extreme corners of the base. With
a push of the foot it could be rolled
anywhere.-ChicagoT Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
Canada Has Made It for the Great Ex-
position of 1803.

Canada Has Made It for the Great Ex-
position of 1S03.
One by one the satisfying supersti-
tons and wonderful traditions Of nur-
sery days are being questioned and
abolished by scientists in all lines of re-
search. The latest one to get its death
blow is the notion of the youthful lads
and lassies in the country homes that
the moon is made of cheese and is the
biggest thing of that kind in the world.
The Canadian dairy commissioner has
gone one better and has made the NAM
moth cheese of the world for the great
exhibition in Chicago next year. It
was learned from Prof. Robertson that
this gigantic competitor of the moon
contains one days milk from over ten
thousand cows.
At the present average rate of con-
sumption the Canadian mammoth
would last an American family for over
four thousand years ''Of course, be-
ing as fine in favor and richness as the
best Canadian cheese" remarked the
professor, sit will be eaten at much
faster rate"
The Canadians are going to help Chi
cago in every way to make it's exhi-
bition marvellous revelation to the ma
tions of other continents of the food
producing resources of America
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24

The rag doll. dearer to the heart of
childhood than any other sort of doll,
is quite the fashionable doll par excel
lence at the present moment Unlike
the one our grandmothers made for
their little ones, the one cherished by
the little folks of to-day is of flesh
colored silk jersey cloth or of cotton
balbriggan of the same color. Its body
is filed with cotton and its hair is in
many rings of yellow single zephyr,
stitched on in loops The face is painted
and when it is necessary to clean it this
face can be reprinted after the rest has
been washed, as it can be. without in
iury.-Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
Egyptian Methods of Taxation.
We smile at Mohammed Ais attempt

We smile at Mohammed Ais attempt
to raise revenue by taxing date trees,
which resulted only in the destruction
of the date trees, but everywhere in our
tax laws we adopt the same methods.
If man plants an orchard we in
crease his taxes as though he had in
jured us by his action. We acknowledge
that the man who introduces improved
breeds of stock, benefits the community
as wells as himself, yet our tax laws are
SO framed as to be more effectual in
preventing improvement than in rais-
ing revenue.
We praise thrift as virtue, yet pun
ish it by our tax laws as if it were a
crime.
We are agreed in CHASING perjury and
plain lying as crimes, yet our laws on
taxation reward and encourage both.
Ali careful investigators of the subject
agree that personal property taxes are
paid by but three classes: 1st. Those
who are exceptionally honest; I'd. By
widows and orphans, for trustees, like
other men, are less likely to lie for the
benefit of others than of themselves,
and Sd By men who are too poor to
hire lawyers, and hence unable to evade
the law. Hard as personal tax laws are
on city men who wish to be honest
they bear with tenfold severity on the
farmers No careful student of taxa
ton can dispute the fact that wherever
tax laws are enforced, the average far
mer pays at least ten times as much in
personal property as city man of SIM
liar means The myriad forms which
personal property takes in cities
afford some relief from asses
sors' eXactions. A farmers wealth,
on the other hand, can readily
be seen and it's value appraised There
is no difficulty in hiding diamonds. but
in what pocket can a farmer hide his
pillow? In cities men may live life
time in adjoining houses, yet never
meet socially, and an assessors ac-
quaintance can include at most but d
small fraction of his neighborhood.
The county assessor most probab bly,
knows most of the men of his county.
The duties of the city assessor neces-
states infinite knowledge to enable
him to fairly peform his duties. The
wealth whose value he estimates is not
only hidden from him by brick walls
and iron vaults, but even should it be
spread openly before him he could not
even family approximate its value. A
painting few inches square may be
worth countless thousands, a diamond
cost more that a county, a bit of old
lace outweigh a princes ransom, a
marble group exceed many farms in
value, yet all these things are copied
with such an eXactitude that only an
expert in each can detect the original
from the almost worthless imitation.
But on farms personal property exists
only in forms that are hard to hide and
easy for an assessor to appraise. The
unsuccessful attempts to tax personal
property fairly and the vigorous efforts
now being made by the New York Tax
Reform association and others for it's
abolition should have not only the SYM
pathy but the active support of every
working farmer.
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Austria EnIarses Her Exhibit.

DIR. Zapf. the secretary of the lower
Austrian chamber of commerce, says
that the interest in the forthcoming
Chicago exhibition is being doomed"
in grand style in the manufacturing
circles in Vienna. Fully six hundred
large firms will send exhibits, composed
chiefly of tiles, glass, tapestries, wood
carvings and mother of pearl. The
original space allotted in the worlds
fair to Austria has already been found
absurdly small, but under the pressing
persuasion of Mr.. Goldschmidt, the
American consul general at Vienna,
further space has been granted, state
ment to that effect being cabled there
from Chicago. In additions to the large
exhibition committee of Vienna mer-
chants, q ladies' committee has also
been formed there for the purpose of
forwarding exhibits of woman's indus
try. Grand Duchess Maria Theresa is
the president of this committee. Many
Austrians will visit America during the
time of its worlds exhibition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24

In treating cows for horn brittleness,
q stock raiser in Austria found no good
resulting from feeding bone meal
when the water used from a spring was
perfectly soft-that is, without mineral
matter. But upon changing them to
the water of another spring containing
carbonate, sulphate and phosphate of
lime, and chlorate of magncsia in small
quantities, the effects were as follows:
1. The animals drank half as much
again as before. 2. The cows gave
more and better milk than before 3
The worst diseased cows at once began
to get better, and this was the first case
in which any of them recovered with
out removal. 4. The oxen showed far
better condition than could be previ-
ously attained ON the best of food and
with the most careful attention. No
fresh cases occurred as soon as the
change of water was introduced.