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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-20

E1oR RENT-os ACCOUNT OF MOVING
IL our business 10 the lsrge department store
OF L b Potts, corner Main and Tehth streets.
we offer our present once, No. % Twelfth
street. and i've rear rooms, for rent. Both
Offices will be kept open nntl the Twelfth
street rooms are rentes. when the entire bush
ness will be transferred 10 L. B. Potts. store
THE STANDARD SEWING MACHINE CO,
s A. Newcomer Manager. leo
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
To Make Good Pork Cheap,y.

One of the good uses of clover is to
make a pasture for pigs by which the
cheapest meat may be made and of the
best quality. This will also improve
the land at the same time. Turn the
pigs in such a pasture. but divide it so
that part only may be fed down at
one time and a change made, which
will afford fresh feed, and economic
the feeding and make it go a fourth
further at least. In this pasture give
the SKINNED milk and stir it in half q
pound of bran for each pig daily. Add
a tablespoonful of salt for each pig in
this feed. Continue this until the corn
is about ready for cutting: then gather
the soft ears and feed these to The pigs
The only food that Will count as cost
will be the clover and the bran, and
the clover viii be fully paid for by the
manure. as the land will be much en-
riched by the milk and the bran. Pork
may be made in this way for under
two cents a pound. not counting the
benefit of the land.-Rural World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19

attacks of hawks. crows or rats. as they
are quick to give the alarm in a loud.
shrill cry. most unpleasant to the I'M
welcome intruder. The only objections
TO be urged against these birds are their
noise and quarreisome habits. In the
poultry yard they are spiteful (espe-
cially the cocks to young chicks, and
are. generally speaking, of a very pug
nacious disposition.
The young can easily be trained to
run with hens, and when SO reared
will not be SO apt to quarrel with
them. When first Matched they are
quite wild. but when kindly treated
and often fed. they will become sufzi-
cieutly tame 20 eat from the hand, and
viii not wander far from home. The
white variety are more tame than the
speckled.
1t is advisable to start keeping guinea
fowls by either purchasing eggs and
Matching them under domestic hens,
or procuring them when young. when
they are more likely to localize them
selves to their owners WISH than if
purchased as older birds. If adult
birds be purchased they will require
boxing up for three weeks or a month
and feeding carefully to tame them.
otherwise they are liza BILE to wander off
at their own sweet will, possibly never
to return.
But in spite of these disadvantages,
as a semi-domesticatedb bird. it is very
profitable upon a farm or anywhere
where it can have free range and
plenty of liberty, clearing the ground
of myriads Of insect life, and being a
small feeder in comparison with ordi.
nary pouItry.-N. \. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
TABLE CHINA.
Some of the New Notions That Delight
Housekeepers.

Some of the New Notions That Delight
Housekeepers.
There is no part of the household fur
takes more interest than in her supply
of china. In selecting dinner-set
choose delicate patterns in soft, light
shades, for bold, decided designs and
colors are certain to lose their attrac-
tiveness when frequently seen, and, be-
sides, they will greatly hamper the
choice of flowers for decorative pur-
poses. a decided change has lately
taken place in the designing of dinner
dishes. and it has been on the
side Of daintiness and the ar
tistic beauty. The fsh-platter has
rounded square ends; and instead of the
monsters of the deep that were once to
be seen on it's center, there are now
pretty designs of shells and seaweed.
Neat dinner sets of German china con-
tanning one hundred and thirteen pieces
are now offered in tasteful patterns at
prices that bring them within the reach
of people of very moderate means.
There are many small pieces for the
table, which are very effective when
chosen in rich colors or odd designs.
Thus, the olive dish may be of brilliant
red ware. the butter plates in leaf-shape
veincd with gold. and the celery dish
long. low and harrow bowl of sparkling
glass. Such unique adjuncts lend a
touch of originality to the table with
out detracting from the general effect
Of quiet nt.-Delineator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
FARM And GARDEN.
The GUINEA EOWI
Birds Which, Deserve More Attention Than
They Now Receive.

0fFds Which Deserve More Attention Than
They Now Receive.
There good many varieties of this
bird, all of which are supposed to have
originated in Africa The two kinds
most generally known are the speckled
or pearl, and the white, the former be
ing the more common variety. They
are prolific layers during the summer
season; they mature early. and their
flesh Is fine and tender. The meat OF
the white Guinea is white, the skin be-
ing yellow; the specified have dark
flesh; both have gamey flavor.
The birds mate in pairs They usu-
ally commence to lay in May or June.
The eggs, though small, are rich in
flavor. The shell is very hard. and If
the eggs are set under hen. the nest
should be filed with dirt and set in
cool, moist place. The period of incu-
baton is twenty-six days. When
young they are delicate. like turkeys.
and continue so until they change their
coat of soft down for one of at.,ers.
They should be fed and managed like
young turkeys. and, like them. will be
inclined to seek high roosts, but should
not be permitted to do So
Guinea fowls are very useful as pro-
tectors of other young fowls from the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19

After calves have had milk for four
weeks they will eat grain finely ground
and little hay or grass. When they
are three weeks old they may be
taught to take little mixed oat and
hnseed meal from the hand, and in
two or three days will eat it from a
feed box. good substitute for the
milk is oats. peas and bran in equal
parts with one-fourth part of linseed,
ground together. This is mixed with
boiling water or with cold water and
then boiled, adding a teaspoonful of
salt to feed OF four quarts To begin
with this the feeding should com
mence some days before the milk is
taken from them, and the grain
preparation mixed with the milk,
which is gradually lcssened until it is
wholly withheld. If the calves have
pasture this food may be gradually re-
duced until it is displaced by water,
when the grain is given dry. Salt
should be given regularly. One tea
spoonful is enough for one week at
first
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
ECHOES OF FASHION.
Facts and Fancies in Dress-Making and
MILLINERY.

Facts and Fancies in Dress-Making and
Millinery.
A novelty in lace is made with groud
of three different neutrality-suspicious.,
net and gauze. Another variety is in
two shade of color, cream and butter,
or cream and coffee.
The newest cut in skirts is made in a
style fashionable many years ago. with
the back breadths lined with stiffening
and gathered in long gathers, SO that
they stand out stiffiy from the waist.
This is a very difficult design to copy,
and yet very few of these models are to
be seen.
The silk ginghams. muslins and all
such soft wash fabrics need a great
deal of ribbon, and it adds immensely
to such gowns to have two sets of
color, viz, with 4 yellow gingham to
have yellow ribbon for sash and collar,
and bows on the yoke if bows be used,
and the same quantity of heliotrope to
be used when one does not care to be
all in one color.
Strings are often applied to hats, and
black flowers are much worn. The
waved brims are becoming to young
faces, and Indian corn now figures in
the midst of many flowers and feathers.
The sailor hat has undergone such
transformation that it is unrecogniza-
BILE. The brim has been pinched up
wards and trimmed with black violets,
wings and a black bow at the back.
For young girls some coarse straw
hats, trimmed with oats, roses and
green chiffon. A white fancy chip
with rundown brim is novel idea.
1t is trimmed with wired lace, with
several roses resting in the hair. A
green bonnet with pink crown has
been arranged with heliotrope velvet
and wisteria, and Dutch gold bonnet
with a gathered bow at the back. and
with some green jetted mignonette in
the front. is attractive.
Pointed brims have been introduced
into a good many bonnets, and black
straw, profusely trimmed with jet,
forms the groundwork to number of
fashionable flowers, which mingle with
ostrich tips and ospreys. Flower bon
nets are all the rage, and a small toque
looked as if it had been trimmed in the
fields with daisies. buttercups and
clover A bridesmaids hat lined with
green velvet, having a high pointed
crown, would be becoming to most
young girls, trimmed as it was with
roses and three large white feathers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
SOME SHORT BURROWS.

He is always slave who lives be-
yond his means.
1t is an easy thing for a lazy man to
ovcrwork himself.
A shady fence corner is an irresisti-
BILE temptation to some men.
1 never thought that a man could
ride heave inward on a sore-backed
horse.
! never enjoy n mans theories about
the government who cannot manage a
ten-acre patch.
If every man were to get rich who
believes he knows how, we would
have no paupers.
The worm in the whisky distillery
will do more damage to the farmer
this summer than the cutworm
1t seems to be much easier thing to
set down and formulate a system of
national finance than it is to go to
work and earn ali honest dollar. Hon
est dollars are made only by hard
work.-American Agriculturist
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19

The quickest return is made from the
common Virginia creeper and our ma
tive grapevines. Slower, but more
beautiful in its results. is the japanese
creeper. Ampelopsis veitchii. This is a
true creeper, which the Virginia is not
sometimes clinging and sometimes
not-and does better on a wall Or close
fence. Halls Japan honeysuckle is a
fine climber. but not perfectly hardy in
severe winters. Among those which
die down and come up in the spring,
the various kinds of clemat;s, especially
the jackmanni, are very fine. For an
annual grower from seed we were much
pleased last season with climber
which came to us as California beaG,"
but appears to be Dolichos lablab,
Egyptian beam 1t is strong grower,
with fine, clean foliage, rapidly covers
high fence or frame, has beautiful
pinkish-purple flowers and pods. Light
frosts do not seen to injure it.-Coun.
try Gentleman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
CHEAP FENCING MACHINE.
1t Costs One Dollar and VIII Make Wir
and Picket Fence.

It Costs One Dollar and VIII Make Wire
and Picket Fence.
This machine will make wire and
picket fence and can be made for about
dollar. Get a blacksmith to weld
together two s-inch pieces of buggy
tire for two inches and leave the other
ends about half an inch apart the
whole 9 inches. A hole should be
drilled in both ends. Another similar
one should be made So inches long
with a hole in one end for 4 bolt and
two holes IL inches apart in the
other for the wires. Put the end
with one hole between the two 6-inch
parts of the other and pass a bolt
through SO that the middle piece will
swing freely. This for one pair OF
wires. Each pair needs one of these.
Fasten these at the welded part to q
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
BACKWOODS PIETY.
How q Country Preacher Rose Superio
to Satsn's Temptations.

How . Country Preacher Rose Superior
to Satsn's Temptations.
She was from the country, but she
didn't intend to take back water on
anything on that account if she could
help it. Piety was the subject of dis
cussion. and Sister Jane, who lived in a
town that made some pretentions to
being considered city, had been ex
patiating on the immaculate righteous
ness of Parson Jenkins.
Sister Melinda bided her time until
her innings came round and then took
the floor.
Il don't mind allowin'," she said,
that Parson Jenkins is n powerful re-
ligious man, but when it comes to down.
right wrestlin' with Satin an resistin'
his wiles and temptations, why. stand
right up in meetin' an says that our
Parson Goodfriend can't be beat by nc
man. He don't run a soup kitchen Gus
we don't have no use for such things
down our way an he don't go slum-
min Gus we amt got no slums. but he's
always ready for tussle with the adj
versary, no matter how many snares
and pitfalls he sets for his feet.
You know, he keeps a maple grove
orto his little place. an he sets pow
erful store by 'em. Well, it hadn't been
very good sugarin' weather at the time
I'm speakin' of. 1t had been freezin'
considerable night times, but it hadn't
thawed out any daytimes, an the sap
hadn't had good chance to run. But
Parson Goodfriend wuz alters great
hand for takin' time by the forelock,
so he got his holes bored an his spouts
Gruy in an his buckets set so as to
have everything ready to take ad-
vantage of the right sort of weather
when it came along.
We'll. he done that on Wednesday,
an them trees of his never dripped
drop on Thursday nor on Friday nor on
Saturday: but on Sunday the sun shone
out powerful warm an everything was
a thawin'. An when he went to look
at his trees Oh Monday mornin'-'cus,
of course he would't let himself think
of them even on a Sunday-he found
that his sap troughs an buckets wuz
inst brimful Then what do you think
he done?
"Why, 1 suppose he did what any
other man would have done, replied
Sister Jane. "He took the sap away tc
make maple sugar out OF it.
Ives. that's what Parson jenkins
xvorld a-done, no doubt. said Sister
Melinda, triumphantly, IAN 1t just
proves what I'm tellin' these facts for
there amt no more pious man livln
than our Parson Goodfriend. No, he
didn't shout for joy an take that sap
away. but he just Topped down on his
knees right then an Their an he says
it xuz my own cousin what heard him
Get thee behind me, SATIN; you cal
tempt me with any Lords day sap
An then he riz up an he emptied every
last drop of the stuff onto the ground,
an, next Sunday ne preached the most
couvincin' sermon l ever heard on the
wiIes of the evil one-"-N. \. AdVer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
SHE HAD HER WEIGH.
- .numous Triumph, Bue 1t VA
ders All the Same.

ders All the Same.
men woman makes her mind M
to anything" said the man with the
ginger beard, they amt no wav Of
perventin her from reachin, the end Che
aims att --0
Ihouten she dies, of course, re-.
marked the grocer.
1T Goes look to me- said the r,er
WIFE the ginger beard to the rash inter
rupter. like you have the most natural
git OF tellin' what you don't know
every time You open your mouth of anv
man ever knowed. I will admit" con-
tlnoed the man with the ginger beard.
as the grocer assumed a humbled ex
preston, that you are all right in the
grocery business. Fact is. a man vould
maze 10 be pretty smooth to make a
AVN out of the kind o. stock YOU keen.
Now, the time you explained the hair
bein' in the butter because the but4er
wash strong enough to hold itself to
gether without il was plum good. How.
s"!iieVer. 1t looks like rain. an can't
waste no more time on Won. Now this
here woman"
which wonan?"
his mere woman I was th;nk;n. of
VIXEN spoke was Just like all the rcst.
ol en-: when her mind was sot. it was
sot- Pore thing, she had to die to yit
her own way, but she got it,
Love affair."" asked the man from
rotate creek who had romatic streak
IN ms mental composition.
Love affair, nothin' She was mar
rit to her third husband They hadn't
oecn marrit fer no-e'n IL week. guess.
hetore the old man begins twittin' her
cause she was so thin, an wonderin'
why tie Lord couldn't a-seen fit to
inaEe hcr weigh as much as his first
WE. How much did the dear angel
welgh?' she asked him, kinder sarcas-
tic-llke, one day, when they had been
Jawin' little more than common.
'Jist exactly one hundred and fifty
Eve pounds says re.
well, says she. I'm a-goin' to cit
20 that weight if it takes me a hundred
years
lowsomever, stead of gittin' any
latter, she gifts thinner and thinner
right along. till at last she ups and
Ctes. Well says the old man. seems
Ike she didn't git to that there weight
she started fer after all. / guess She
weighed nearer ffty-fve than a hun
cred and ffty-ive.' But that's all he
krowed about it. About two wears
after they was a boom in real estate.
and the old graveyard turpin' out to be
pretty good town lots. the folks had to
move this here woman among the rest.
" hen they come to dig her up she had
patrified.'
Fortified, suppose you mean" said
the school teacher
anyhow, / mean she had turned to
rock. An just fer curiosity they
weighed her. Funny thing. too. She
come exactly to that there one hundred
and fifty-fve pounds she allies said she'd
git, and they won't never nobody make
me believe that she didn't know what
she was doin' all the time. "-Indianap-
oils Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
FEEDING BY MACHINERY.
Simple Combination OF Alarm Clock
and u Few Batteries.

Simple Combination of an Alarm Clock
and Few Batteries.
An electric horse feeder is a new in
sentIon brought ont by Mr.. Anderson,
of Chesterfield, for securing the regu-
lar feeding of horses during the alb
sence from any cause of the stableman
or groom The apparatus is described
as being very simple, the law of CRAWL
tation being depended upon to accom-
plish most of the work. The first
requisite is an alarm clock, which
should be good enough not to stop
casually, but need not be expensive.
The electrical plant is that needed for
an ordinary electric bell, four cells of
the Leclanche type of battery being
sufficient for any distance up to two
hundred yards The third portion of
the apparatus is the feeder-that is to
say, the vessel holding the corn or corn
and chat, as the case may be. The
clock, which is the prime mover of the
whole concern, may be in the house.
the harness-room or anywhere. but if
it be more than two hundred yards
away from the feeder a more powerful
battery will be required.
To use the feeder the first thing is
to set the alarm of the clock at the
hour at which it is desired that the
horse should be fed. The food is then
placed in Unlike biscuit box, which
is turned upside down and placed in
the proper compartment of the shoot,
when the lid of the box is drawn out,
the corn then resting upon the floor of
a trap-like arrangement, held in its
place by simple continuance. When
the alarm goes off a button is pressed
and the circuit is completed a weight
falls, the bottom of the feed box is re-
leased, and the corn falls out into the
manger.-Invention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19

A stylish ard becoming garment
combining the case of the jacket with
the dignity of the coat. is what IS now
known as the ''Lennox'' coat. 1t is
closely revcred, and completed by a
waistcoat and che,aisette, that COM
bines well with any make OF oyerslzirt.
Tan-colored cloth is the most popular,
with revers Of brown MORE. and waist
coat of changeabie MORE, in blue or
brown. l have recently seen some very
attractive suits Of black serge with
waistccats of white cloth MORE. The
handsome waistcoat cloths which for
merly could be had only of the i'm
porters are now 10 be found On sale III
all the city stores, and, indeed. in most
of the country shops. They are strong,
heavy fabrics, mostly silk and wool, in
brocades. checks and pin-head dots.
Any other desirao ie color may be found.
N. Y. Advertiser.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
HANDLING POTATOES.
Jndicious Marketing Fully Important
as the Raising.

OftOICiOuS IxaAKhSt1Hx uIy pOIL1Uu
as the Raising.
The profit or loss in the crop depends
fully as much on the way it is cared for
and marketed as upon it's successful
production. AS rule it does not take
the same amount of care and ingenuity
to produce good crop as it does to
care for it and market it to the best
advantage and at the least cost.
A great many products are injured
by too much handling, and with the
crude methods used it can hardly be
avoided. What is needed is an improve
nent in methods. The usual methods
for handling potatoes, for instance,
practiced by a majority of producers.
is to pick them up in baskets and empty
them into pits or into the wagon box.
when they have to be handled again
by hand or with a fork or shovel. and
either spend good deal of time in
picking them up by hand or injure
them and start decay by bruising them
with shovel or fork. T. B. Terry. in hia
"a Il c of Potato Culture" tells US a
better way.
For several years / have been using
bushel boxes for marketing early pota-
toes while the skins slip, and for
handling the crop in the field all
through the season. This is one of the
ways in which the potato specialist
can get ahead of the small raiser. ]
think we handle our crop for less than
half of what it used to cost us before
we got these boxes made. Our boxes
are 13 inches by 1G and Is deep, ali in
side measures. They were made a
little deeper, to allow for shrinkage.
The sides and bottoms are made OF
three-eighths stuff and the ends of five-
eighths. Hand holes are cut in the
ends.
The upper corners are bound with
galvanized hoop-iron to make them
strong. The price paid for them was
from S25 to $50 hundred at box fac
tory. Some light wood should be used,
OF course, SO as to make them as light
as possible. They need not weigh
more than six or seven pounds. Early
in the season, while the skins slip. our
potatoes are dug and laid mot thrown)
into these boxes, and the boxes are
covered as fast as filed. They are
then safe from sun and rain till want
ed for market. The covers are simply
pieces of boards cut about 15xIS inches.
Dug one day and taken to market the
next and set off on the boxes at the
grocer's and then set by him into his
delivery wagon and taken to his GUS
toners the consumer gets them just as
nice and fresh as though he raised
them himself. OF course. these boxes
filled with potatoes should be carried
On Il spring wagon and covered by cam
vas from sun and rain.