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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.
Poor Mans Pudding: Two gu

Poor Mans Pudding: Two quarts
of new milk, four tablespoonful OF
rice, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon. Bake two
hours and stir a few times when first
put in the oven.-Boston Budget.
Celery Cream Soup: Boil one cup
full of rice in three pints of milk, till it
will pass through sieve. Add two
heads of celery picked into small
pieces, and one pint of cold stock or
milk. Boil till the celery is ten der,
and then season.-Housekeepe
Pumpkin Pie: One quart of stewed
pumpkin pressed through a sieve,
eight eggs beaten separately, two scant
quarts of sweet milk, one pint sugar,
teaspoonful each of butter, CHINA mon
and nutmeg. Beat together and bake
in pie pans lined with rich pastry
Detroit Free Press.
Roasted Turkey: Stuff it with good
dressing and place in a baking pan,
with half teacupful of cold water;
haste often. and when about half done
. season well with pepper, salt and but
ter, and dredge with flour. Let it bake
two or three hours (allow fifteen min
utes for each pound).-Ohio Farmer.
Potato Croquettes: Beat the folks
of four eggs light, and add to five cup
fuls of masked potatoes. Mix well,
then add two tablespoonfuls of chopped
parsley. one-fourth of a cupful of cream,
one teaspoonful of onion juice, salt and
pepper to taste. Mix well, stir over
the fire in a saucepan until the potato
is heated through. Cool, form into
cork-shaped croquettes, cover with egg
and bread crumbs. and fry in smoking
hot fat.-N. y. Observer.
Black Fruit Cake: Cream together
one pound of brown sugar and one
pound of butter. Beat the yolks and
whites of ten eggs separately. Add
the yoliSs with one pound of seeded
raisins, one pound of currants, and half
a pound of sliced citron, one-third of
an ounce of ground cinnamon and nut
meg, and one-quarter ounce each of
ground mace and cloves, also one pound
of flour that has been slightly Drowned
Add the whites of the eggs. Mix and
beat well. Turn into mould and bake
five hours in a moderate oven. Before
using, ice and decorate with candied
fruit.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Velvet Sponge Cake: Two cups
sugar, one cup boiling water, two and
ne-half cups flour, two teaspoons
baking powder, the yoll1s of six eggs,
the whites of three eggs. Beat yolks Il
little. add the sugar and beat fifteen
minutes, add the three beaten whites.
then the cup of boiling-hot water, just
before the flour Flavor with lemon.
The baking powder should be sifted
with the flour. Bake in three layers,
putting between them an icing made of
three whites of eggs, beaten stiff, to
which add six desert spoons of pulver-
lied sugar to each egg. Flavor with
lemon or vanilla.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
!! cessfully, and the patient was cured OF

cessfully, and the patient was cured OF
his delusIon."
Strangely enough, with persons af-
hicted with such like mania, many of
the cures are accidental An old lady
living in the north of England got an
idea into her head that she was made
of china, wore thickly-muffied shoes
and lived in padded room, for fear of
breakage, and would never drink any
thing warm for fear she would crack.
One morning, coming down stairs. she
fell and rolled down a lengthy flight,
and, finding that she had suffered nc
damage but few bruises, saw clearly
that the idea she had formed of her
composition must be a mistaken one.
Similarly an old pauper in the provincial
workhouse got the notion into his head
that he was, above all things, a cod
fish. One day the inmates of the work
house were INDUCED in visit to the
seaside. and the harmless old lunatic
was taken with the rest. Walking up
on the old pier the old man somehow
stumbled over a rope and fell into the
water, where he fioundered for some
time, but was eventually rescued, half
drowned, but effectually rid of the
idea that he was in any way amphibi-
Gus.
just as Succi. the fasting man who
recently became insane, and is now de-
tanned in n French asylum, believes
himself to be Cesar or Napoleon,
so many other persons similarly
afflicted imagine they are some ia
nous parsonage. An engineer, well
known in the Midlands, not long since
went off his head and used to stand for
hours daily near a railway line; wait
ing in the belief that he was George
Stephenson for the people to thank
him for the benefits his invention had
conferred upon mankind. In a case
recently reported from Germany, Il
man living in the wine district, who
believed himself to be LinnR, the ia
nous botanist, and imagined that he
had invented the vine, brought an ac-
ton against his neighbors because,
they too, possessed similar trees, and
declared they had stolen his invention
from him.-London Tid-Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

BI-sULPHIDE of carbon is death to the
grain weeviL
A STRONG decoction Of tobacco is a
good thing for lice on stock.
THE winter promises to be long and
severe, which means more feed for the
stock.
IF evergreens stand where the water
will get round them and freeze in win
ter, do something to prevent it.
IT requires careful, shrewd manage
ment to make the farm anywhere near
a paying investment in these times
The apple crop is short and the
quality is not very good. Apples, it
would seem, would bring good price
before spring.
IT is all nonsense to say that only
poor farmers declare that farming does
not pay. 1t can't pay at present prices
of farm products.
AMERICAN consuls in Europe have
been instructed by the government to
ascertain how the foreign markets for
American wheat can be improved.
The boy who intends to be a farmer
should be constant reader of agri-
cultural newspapers and books and
should become a student, when posi-
bic, in an agricultural college. -Farm
ers' Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
EGGS FOR MATCHING.
cheir Selection Is the Most Important
Thing I'm Poultry Raising.

Thing in Poultry Raising.
When incubators are used there Is
often great difficulty to secure large
number of eggs, and operators are dis
posed to accept any kind that they can
get, the result being that some eggs
hatch well while others fail. Then the
incubators are condemned as at fault,
when really the cause is due to the
eggs. When we consider that no two
eggs are alike. and that the eggs in an
incubator may come from as many as
hundred hens, it is plain that the
matter of collecting and selecting eggs
is one of the most important connected
with Matching chicks for market.
When an egg-drawer is filled with
eggs it requires but a glance over them
to notice the great dissimilarity OF sizes
and shapes. While they are in the
egg-drawer is the time to pick them
over. for they can then be easily COM
pared. All eggs Of odd and peculiar
shape very small, very large or which
differ from the normal egg should be
removed and the drawer filled again.
The object should be to secure eggs OF
normal size, smooth shells, regular
shapes and as near perfect as appear
ances will indicate. There is no way
of knowing the fertile from the infer
tile eggs until they have been in the
incubator four or five days, SO as tc
test them with an egg-tester.
When collecting eggs from neigh
bors. examine the hens in the yards.
If they are clumsy and fat the eggs
will mostly be infertile. The male
should be active and vigorous If the
hens are on free range and are en-
abled to exercise on clear days, it is an
advantage, and it is better to endeavor
to learn if the stock is inbred or un-
healthy.
One of the best plans to adopt is for
you to procure pure-bred stock, and
when your young males are matured,
go to each neighbor and trade one OF
your males for his scrub and sell the
scrub. 1t may be expensive for you at
the time, but not if you expect to use
eggs for Matching from those yards, as
you will thus improve the stock fo1
your benefit and add vigor by the out
cross, thus securing better matches,
more rapid growth of chicks, higher
prices and larger profits. and
EireSide
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
How Many Bees Make a Pound?

The question is answered in recent
number of the American Agriculturist.
Careful weighing shows that an ordi-
nary bee, not loaded, weighs the one
fve-thousandth part of pound. so
that it takes five thousand bees, not
loaded, to make pound. But the
loaded bee, when he comes in fresh
from the fields and flowers loaded with
honey or bee bread, weighs nearly
three times more that is to say, he car
ries nearly twice his own weight. OF
loaded bees there are only about 1, 800
in the pound. An ordinary hive of bees
contains from four to five pounds of
bees, or between twenty thousand and
twenty-five thousand individuals; but
some swarms have double this weight
and nun Der of bees.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
The Winter Care of Sheep.

For flock of so sheep the pen should
De 35 feet long and 90 feet wide and a
rack placed in the middle of the pen
feet high and wide, with an S-ineh
board at the top and bottom on each
side. The pen should be closed in.
that it may be warm and the bottom
dry. When feeding drive the sheep
into the yard and leave the lambs in
side where it is warm that they may
eat without being crowded. When
outside, the old sheep will run, kick
and play about, showing good health
and that they are doing well. Feed
grain every day. A blishel of beans,
2 bushels of oats and ~ of corn
ground together and fed quart day
per sheep is good ration. l prefer
coarse to fine woods, Southdowns being
my favorite, as they drop large lambs
and have no horns. / believe sheep
raising is more profitable than any
thing else if the right care is given.
In fly time put a little tar on their
noses to prevent grubs.-E. E. March.
In Farm and Home
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
MILITARY DULLES.
Impressive Lessons Taught Heartless Aus
trian Officers.

trlan OfttCerS.
Austrian officers have an evil reputa-
ton for hear tless treatment of interiors
in the army. A colonel, while inspect
ing a regiment of Hussars on the
parade ground in Vienna, was irritated
by the awkward appearance of a subal-
tern. He angrily called the offender
to his side and cuffed his ears.
The officer was cut to the quick by
an insult which degraded him to the
level of Il laclley. He returned to his
place with flushed face and tears in his
eyes. Ashamed to meet the con-
temptuous chances of the soldiers and
half insane from modification. he shot
himself in the head and died almost in
stantly.
This tragic incident produced almost
as marked an effect upon the Vienna
garrison as was caused by a similar af-
front, which was followed by decline
of duelling in the French army.
A lieutenant serving in a regiment of
lancers was Systematically prosecuted
by a captain, who was an incorrigible
bully. One day the captain lost his
temper at thinner and cuffed the lieu
tenants ears.
Army etiquette required challenge
from the insulted officer. The lieuten-
ant had been under fire in battle and
was not coward, but he would not
consent to send a challenge. His friends
expostulated with him in vain. They
could not remove his conscientious
scruples against duelling.
His refusal caused scandal which
touched the honor of the officers of his
regiment. His colonel finally asked
him to choose between fighting the
duel and resigning his commission.
He sent the challenge and named the
conditions. The antagonists were to
choose pistols by lot, one being loaded
and the other not, and were to fire
over handkerchief.
The duel was fought at dawn. The
men stood face to face, holding a
handkerchief with their left hands.
The bullying captain snapped the trig-
ger of his pistol. There was no sound.
The empty weapon had fallen to him
by lot.
The seconds thought that the insult
ed lieutenant being opposed to duel
ing. would fire in the air. Instead OF
this he aimed his pistol remorselessly
at the captain antt killed nlln- men
dipping his hands in his victims blood
and turning to those who had forced
him to fight the duel, he shouted.
us it enough? Is honor now safe?"
Returning to the officers quarters.
he resigned his commission in the
army. Not long afterward he disap-
peared from the world, and entered a
monastery to spend the remainder of
his life as n religious recluse.
This duel produced marked impress
sion upon the officers of the French
army. 1t was a warning against bully
ism in the treatment of subordinates
The suicide in front of the Vienna bar
racks teaches the same moral with
equal impressiveness-Y Com
panion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
Selecting q Turkey.

A good cook gives these directions:
Choose a turkey short and plump in
preference to the others, eyes should
be bright. feet soft, legs smooth, spurs
short and skin should look soft show
ing layers of yellowish fat and white
flesh. He says look to the joints to see
if they are pliable, and to the end of
the breast bone to see if it is flexible.
This connoisseur further recommends
dry-picl1ed ones as much nicer than
those which have been scalded, and de-
clares hen turkeys are not as finely
favored as cocks. After the pin feath-
ers have been removed with burning
paper and the inside thoroughly rinsed,
both outside and inside should be wiped
dry with a clean towel. A turkey to
be stuffed should be prepared the day
before. If roasted, it should be cooked
slow and evenly, with frequent bast-
ings of flour and butter. A good fowl
is often spoiled by being baked in too
short a time in too hot an oven.-St
Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
WEAVING Pigs Without Milk.

1.-Two years ago." says Waldo F.
Brown, IAN old farmer asked me if
young pigs could be weaned and kept
thrifty without milk, and told him I
thought slop could be made with bran
and oilmeal that would be both palat-
able and nutritious. Last spring l had
nineteen pigs and but little milk, and
all we had was needed in the family
and to raise calf; SO l made a slop for
the pigs with bran and oilmeal and
never grew more thrifty lot and they
sold at 145 days old at the top prices for
big pork. If any farmer will try the
experiment of stirring one pound of
old process oilmeal into Il ten-quart pail
of boiling water and see how near it
comes to making a mush, then add this
to ten gallons of slop made from bran,
and see what a good body it gives it, he
will begin to get an idea of the value of
oilmeal as pig food. Bran is an ex-
cellent food for any growing animal,
but alone it does not make good slop,
particularly the coarse bran made by
the roller mills. The oilmeal added
makes it far more palatable and the
pigs will eat more of it,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
KEEPING FOWLS WARM.
A Device for Securing Comfortable
Roasting Place.

A Device for Securing a Comfortable
Roasting Place.
It goes without saying that poultry
will yield small profit in winter if not
kept thoroughly warm. Fowls WILL
however, endure somewhat cold quar-
tiers during the day if kept brisk
~ at work scratching for their living,
but cold nights must be specially
guarded against. The illustration
shows device for securing Il warm
roosting place. Above the platform
are placed the roosts, and in front of
these is tight board partition coming
down to within fifteen or eighteen
inches of the platform. The ceiling,
sides and back of the space thus in.
closed being tight, good temperature
will be maintained by the heat from
the bodies Of the fowls themselves, for
this heat rises and cannot escape, while
the impure gases, being heavier, de-
scend to the floor below.
If difficulty is had in getting fowls to
go to roost in such an inclosed and par
tally darkered place this added par.
tition in front can be hinged at the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21

Rub thoroughly to 4 cream two cups
OF sugar and two-thirds of cup of
butter. adding three eggs beaten sepa-
rately. Squeeze the juice of two large
oranges into cup, adding enough
water to fill it. Stir this into the mix
ture, together with three and half
cups of flour, two even teaspoonfuls of
cream of tartar, one of soda and a little
of the orange rind, grated. Bake in
layer tins. For the filling use one egg.
yoll1 and white. Crate little of the
orange rind into this and the juice of
half an orange, adding sugar enough
to thicken.-Ladies' Home Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
Grass for Wet Ground.

Red top grass is the best kind for
damp, sandy land, as it will not be
hurt by flooding for some time. Tim
othy will do well on damp ground if it
is fertile; it does not matter how rough
it is OF the red top, twenty-four
pounds per acre is commonly sown, of
timothy ten pounds AS soon as the
ground is cleared of the wood it may be
we'll torn up by a sharp-toothed har-
row, gone over two or three times. and
then the seed may be sown. After this
a lighter harrow, or a brush harrow
may be used to cover the seed.
No other seed need be sown. The best
time will be in the spring for the seed
ing, but the clearing may be done now.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
16 Worlds Fair Photos for One Dime.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pan
Railway has made an arrangement witha
frst-class publishing house to furnish a
series of beautiful Worlds Fair pictures, OF
large size, at the nominal cost to the pur.
chaser of only ten cents for portfolio OF
sixteen illustrations. Nothing so handsome
in reference to the Worlds Fair has before
been published. The series would be worth
at least twelve dollars if the pictures were
not published in such large quantities, and
we are therefore able to furnish these works
of art for only ten cents.
Remit your money to GEORGE II. HEAF-
FORD, General Passenger Agent, Chicago,
Milwaukee e st. Paul Railway, at Chica-
go, ILL.,, and the pictures will be sent prompt
ly to any specified address. They will make
q handsome holiday gift.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
THE TEA ROAD.
Something About the Worlds Main Tea
Market.

Something About the Worlds Main Tea
Market.
Ke-gu, the halfway halting place on
the famous tea road between the Chi
nese border town Ta-chien-lu and the
Thibetau capital. is the center of the
tea trade, and. accordingly. the resi-
dence of numerous tea merchants 1t
has many Chinese inhabitants. Il man.
DARN from Shining. and mandarin
from Lan-chav. 1t is the Chinese who
chiefly bring the tea here, to sell it to
the Thibetan merchants, who forward
it to Lhassa.
The currency in this trade is the In
dian rupee. which. however, is often
dispensed with. and then tea is bar
tered by the Chinese for wool. hides
and furs, gold dust. mercury. and
other Thibetan products, for impor-
tation into China. The tea branches
as well as leaves) is packed in pressed
bricks, about fourteen inches long.
ten wide, and four thick. Eight OF
these bricks are sewn in a skin, and 4
yak carries two skins. All Thibetans
drink tea They boil il. branches and
all, in water. with a little soda and
salt, and before drinking add butter,
barley flour (which is called tsampa),
and dried native cheese. The solid
part of this mixture, when merely moist
ened with a little liquid tea and made
up into hard balls. is called ba, and
forms the staple food of Thibet.
The chief meat consumed is mutton,
upon which the black tent people al
most live. Shee p are cheap. In the
interior of the country they cost from
one rupee to two rupees. For winter
consumption, they are killed early in
the cold season. and the meat is frozen.
National Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
EXTRAORDINARY DELUSIONS.
People Who Have Imagined Themselve
to be Other Persons.

People Who Have Imagined Themselves
to be Other Persons.
In all the history of delusions moth
ing is stranger than the cases, by no
means uncommon, where persons, other
wise entirely sane, get an idea into
their heads that they are somebody or
something else, and live and conduct
themselves as if they were indeed this
other person or thing.
A case noticed in the medical press
not long ago showed how a gentleman,
his mind unhinged by certain trouble,
fancied he was a steam roller and with
his attendant used regularly to plod
around the square where he resided,
in the idea that he was levelinG
the surface of the ground as he passed
over it. Endeavoring to root out this
mania, his doctor laid down some large
f1ints in his patients back garden and
asked MIN to observe that he could not
be d steam roller, because after he had
passed over them the stones did not
sink into the ground. That's because
I'm not heavy enough" replied the
mailman. and proceeded to fill his
pockets with heavy weights and carry
other burdens in his arms
! says famous surgeon. 'onCe. ana
bnce only, did I succeed in curing 4
Imam afflicted with this sort of mania,
4 file had an idea that his nose had grown
k&uddenly to an enormous length. so
ing, in fact, that he declared that he
VA unable to enter room except of
the Nrgsst size. Other medical men
whomrn be consulted laughed at
him amt ndeavored to convince him
that he IS mistaken, but without eff
feet He nly got worse and worse,
and at last declared that he was un-
able to mo5e p, his nose had grown so
heavy. wiz IN he applied to me at
once declas ed that all he said was
true, bat tt Pat if he followed my direo-
lions tho light could cure him.
ION n da appointed he came to me
and tied Ia handkerchief around his
eyes Had previously provided a
large basin filled with bullock's blood.
and making him stand over it, hit
him a violent blow upon the nose.
Then saying. Take it away to my as.
,sistant, as if he were bearing off the
severed nasal organ. dabbed some
of the blood over my hands and pa.
,tient,s nose, and removed the bandage
from his eyes The plan worked sue
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
Rye as Green Manure.

Rye is not considered of any great
value as green manure for blowing I'M
der. 1t is worth but little more than
straw would be, but it is better than
nothing sometimes. The practice of
green manur:ng is not SO well adapted
for poor soils as for those in better con.
dition, as the effect on the land is in
proportion to the value of the crop
turned under. Thus, it is better for
the preservation of fertility than for re-
storing it when the land has been ex-
hausted. 1t gives nothing to the soil
but what is taken from it, except what
ever may be taken from the atmos-
phere.