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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
P.TH AND POINT.

Cunning has effect from the credu
lily of others 1t requires no extraor
binary talents to lie and deceive.-John
son.
The league race is a very queer
| thing, when we consider that a number
| of the clubs that are in it are not in it.
Puck.
Another dress. It takes good deal
of money to keep you in clothes. Mary?'
''Am 1 not your wife," You are-ny
dear wife. N. Y. Press
Acme Reached.-Higg-"Figgs is
prospecting, isn't hep" Hatch-''Oh,
yes. He's got now to where he car
sass his butcher."-Judge.
-Balleteuse-'I will give you place
in my heart NJ. lie Baron" The Baron
THANK you, but I'm not fond Of a
crowd. journal Amusant.
Commercial Traveller popping the
question)-O! FrauIein Anna, may /
offer you my heart?-extra quality
dura ble-indestructible !'-Unsere Ge-
sel1schaft.
is Ethel going to the seashore
this summer" mo. What's the use?
Nobody would believe she has been
away. She doesn't freelxle or tan a
bit. "-Washington Star.
1T always thought fifty was an
even number" said Willie, hopelessly
puzzled, "but here's an item in the pa
per which says the book has fifty odd
pages can't understand it."
-Landlord-"When poor fellow
without money asks for nights lodg-
ing / invariably take him in" Nc
Caustick-''Then you treat him like a
regular guest. "-Raymond's Monthly.
A Sure Thing.-''Clara says she
has had a proposal of marriage from
rich Mr.. Bagley." ''Do you believe it
is truth?" ''Oh, guess he means bust
ness. He has offered her position as
typewriter. Judge.
-NOn-Committal.- Suffragist
fare you, sir, in favor of women vot-
ing?' Mr.. Man-"Madam, you should
not ask me such a question and expect
an answer when you know / am un.
armed. "-Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Grumper (reading description
of a June wedding)-"I don't see why
they should call the groom's attendant
the best MANI" Grumper-'Humphi
That's easy. Cause he has sense
enough to stay single, of course."-
Buffalo Courier.
Not Solid Gold.-Strawber-"
look as though you had sat up late last
night" Singerly-'I did. And one OF
the fairest flowers of womanhood.
promised to be mine" Strawber-'T
see. And so those rings under your.
eyes are engagement rings.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures it Shak-
speare who said that the apparel oft
proclaims the man. or something of
the sort?" Mr.. Wickwire-'I don't re-
member, but probably you are right. L
suppose they had clothes loud enough
to make procDamations in his day the
same as now-"-Indianapolis Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12

Expsnts i'm handwriting say that all
the people of q single generation write
alike, and Ii is well known that: most
French handwriting has strong, farnr
lily likeness to the eyes of others than
Frenchuen Nearly all Cinnamon of
the wasbraause class look alike to sn-
perficial observers, and persons unac-
c1stomed to colored persons find diff
cnlty in distinguishing ore from an
paher. 1t needs, however,, COM
parison of two or three family photo
graph albums of twenty or thirty
years ago to convisce men and women
of to-day that there are strlka,g SUI
pericial likenesses running through
Americans of given generation
ALI these old albums. show enrioSAs
resemblances, chiefly, perhaps. OF dress
and face, but sufficiently striking for
one family album at first glance to be
taken for another. As page after page
of each is turned over, there is the
same succession Of men, women aAd
children in full figure, sitting, stand
ing, posed in groups OF two or three,
with hats, without hats, draped in
shawls, and manifestly dressed in their
best fer the occasion. The photogras-
piers Of those days chose, for reasons oi
their own, to make full-length pict ores
and. as they were usually small. COS.
tune counted for a great deal and
helped intensity the general likeness
summing the whole generation.-N. Y.
Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
eREAD.EAnERs or THE WORLD.


Some Queer Facts. Conserving the Diet Of :
varfo1s' Civilized Countries.
Reports Recently received from sew
eral American consnls give some in
teresting data In regard to the bread.
consumers Of the world. They show
that whilA, a Portuguese worries,
through a, year with an average bread /
supply off 176 pounds-about half a.
pound day-a Spaniard, just across :.
the border requires 413 pounds per an
mum; and, Spain can not be regarded as .
a vheat-gnowing country either. In.
Hungary, where waving fields of grain.
are common, i'm tine wheat-growing sea-
son. 361ipounds year on an average
supply o. native, while an Austrian,
who also. naises more or less wheat.
gets along. with 1877 pounds year..
Only 148 pounds Of -four is required by
a German. i'm . year, 1855 pounds by n
Dane, while tine Russians, the greatest.
wheatrgrowers in Europe, eat bnt 90
mounds pen. annum per capita. Anative;
of Belgium consumes 378 pounds and OF
America. 35x pounds, while the Switzer-
eats.41S pemnds per annum, an Italian
$40, a Dmtchman 2S3, an Englishnan.
SO younlls~
/ The greatest four-eater in the world.
d the Frenchman- He CONSUMES nearly
two pounds a day, or 7O5 pounds year.
This enormous quantity consumed by
q Frenchman, when compared with.
tina. ffty-six pounds per annum.
which a Scandinavian re 3,Iires, revivesx
the old theory that climate influences
have m0re to do with the demands off
naasue than educatioaa In the ex-.
trsy,a northern china. As. where cod is
severe. -four does not. seem to, be thes.
fnxseAite article of food. There is not
500 much com bustion in it sin oils andh
animal food. The Iaplantsbrs who eats
20 -four at all, is sometimes known, to-
consume pounds ID whale or seal. blnb-.
Der at one meal. 4 Russian, who only
eats % pounds in . year OF TIE -four he
raises, is popularity supposed to make
up the deficiency by swallowing taiiow
candles and any kind of rich, fatty sub
stance that happens to come to his hop
per, no mattes what the favor.---Cin-
cinnati Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
ELEGANCE OF SPEECH.
UIgh-FlOwn Terms Affected by Ambition
Young Girls.

UTgh-F1Own Terms Affected by Ambitious
Young Girls.
Young girls who are ambitious to ap-
pear cultured, and to excel in elegance
of speech, are. often in danger of losing
just the quality they would gain by
avoiding many Of the simple express
sions in everyday use.
Most of our familiar forms of speech
are proved good by long and constant
use, and are SO entirely unaffected and
direct that any evidently intentional
avoidance of them seems stilted and in
bad taste. The girl who, for instance,
scorns to employ so common an express
sion as "go to bed" and always an
nounce herself as discreetly retiring"
has not only sacrificed somewhat
of directness and accuracy, but
has also failed to attain the
''good form" for which she has
striven. As a matter of truth, one IRE
tires" when she leaves the family circle
and goes to her own room. She may
spend the entire night there and not
ego to bed" She who "retires" at bed
time. as a matter Of course, crises" in
the morning. She could not by any
chance do anything SO utterly common.
place as ''get up"
She purchases, the articles people
ordinarily buys" and condescends to
"reside' in the street or town where
her more unpretending neighbors are
pleased contentedly to live"
Her morning stroll, no matter what
its aim, or. destination, is ''constitu-
tional;" her afternoon nap, a ''siesta."
She. happy maiden, is never by nny'
chance ''ill'' or''s Sick though frequent
ly confessedly ''inriisposed.'
This young. woman of ambitious if
somewhat ''toplOftical" diction mar.
ages by CAREFUL circumlocution to
achieve what no doubt seems to her a
grace of language, but she is at her
best when she gets pen in her ha md.
Sometimes haste or enthusiasm may
betray her tongue by a shortcut into
her pen, never:
The rose. that she holds in her hand,
and that she has hastily spoken of as
''smelling; sweet" would be described
upon her written page as shedding
gracious penfume," ''distilling fra
gIance," or perhaps it would even form
the theme for am elaborate and diffhse
rhetorical figure, as unlike the rose: in
simple unpretending sweetness and
beauty as the writer's style is unlike
the elegant perfection for which she. is
rixing:-Harper's Young People.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
A STALLED TRAIN MOVED

BY United States Troops, Who After
ward Charge the Crowd with Fixed Bay
Onets.
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, July
4.-Half of the second battalion OF
United States troops from Fort Sheri-
dan arrived here this morning at G
o'clock and are now encamped in Dex-
ter park, just inside the yards. The
battalion includes Co. i and Co. ID. in
all about 100 nen, under command
of Capt. HAITI.
At 5 o'clock Swift & Co. succeeded in
in getting o5t the stalled train of beef
which had been on the track at Hal
stead and Fourth streets since Monday.
Thirty men from Co. Ii, under com
mand of Capt. Chaplin, together with
100 policemen took up position along
side of the train and marched with it
to the Michigan Central tracks. The
crowd of hangers-on did not number
more than 500 and they remained at a
distance.
When the soldiers marched back to
camp they were followed by crowd of
about 500 men and boys who cursed
and yelled at the men until Capt.
Chaplin ordered a charge with bayonets
on Halstead street which had the effs Ct
! Of scattering the crowd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
Aiming Their Employees for the Protec-
ton of Their ProDarfx.,

SAN Francisco, July 6.-The South
ern Pacific Railroad Co, has shipped q
large number of Winchesters to Oak
land, the object being, it is said, to arm
its employees for the protection of it's
property. The members of the Second
regiment N. G. c. are assembled at
their armory by order of Gen. Dimond
They will be kept there armed and
equipped for any emergency. The
company was moved to this action by
the partial success Of striking rail.
readers, and a determination to keen
communication open.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
THE RIOT AT BUTTE.
One Killed, One Mortally and Five Seri-
ously Wounded.

BUTTE. Mont, July Cone killed.
Samuel Dunn. one mortally wounded,
and five men shot are ~" results of the
American Protective association riot.
After the exciting scenes of the after
noon another shooting scrape occurred
in Centerville, between Irishmen and
Cornishmcn. The militia patrolled the
district where the riot occurred during
the night. Yesterday quiet prevailed,
but much bad feeling exists on both
sides.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12

"A Great Actor-Mrs. fix--''Whonn
do you consider the best actor in 70.
mantle roles?" Mrs. Hicks MY hus-
band. Sometimes his art leceives uae.s
IN. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12

jim the fifteenth eentnY. a book OF
devotions for wealthy Eng fish noble
man was copied by one mar, had the
rubrics supplied by second, the
initials painted by third, the orna-
mental borders by . fourth, was sent
to a miniaturist of Flanders to be FUR
Their ornamented. No less than four
teen hands were employed in it's manu-
facture.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
THE PRESIDENT ALERT.
The Governments Will DO It's Full Duty in
Suppressing Mob Rule.

Suppressing Mob Kule.
WASHINGTON July Every effort
of the administration in conjunction
with Maj. Gen. Schofield is being di-
rected to arranging for the speedy
concentration of troops at Chicago.
The federal government will exhaust
every means in its power to bring
about compliance with the several
injunctions issued by the United States
courts. The. purpose of the govern
ment is not to attempt to control the
mobs engaged III rioting in Chicago
and elsewhere unless the state author
tiles fail in this duty. The govern
ment troops and the posses of Unitedi
States deputy marshals will devote
their energies to protecting govern
nent property, to. preventing interfer--
ence with Interstate commerce and to-
securing the free transmission Of tho.
mails.
The cabinet meeting resulted yester-
day in a. general understanding to-
carry out the policy indicated. One
important matter developed at the.
meeting was that the militia organiza--
tions of one state could be called on to-
suppress disorder in another state.
where the local authorities had failed
to enforce obedience to the law.
Atty.-Gen. Olney said yesterday after
noon that there, was ample constitu--
tipnal authority for such action. and it
is not unlikely that preparations for
drawing, on state militia for TIL onr-
pose will be made, although there is no.
immediate necessity for carrying. the,
policy into effect.
The proper distribution of govern
ment troops, is causing serious concern
at the war department. A high of
fetal said that 5000 regulars were.
needed to- suppress the disorders, i'm the
west.
All the companies of infantry; baa,
teries of artillery AID. troops .of cav
AIRY at western army posts are needed
where they are now stationed, and are
practically -esti ng on their arms. The
army authorities are apprelensive that
If they are sent to various points where
rioting is going on. trouble will follow
at the places from which she troops are
withdrawn. This is particularly true
of San Francisco. The failure of the
California state militia to pre-
serve order at Sacramento has
caused the government to con-
slider the advisa bifity of sending
o force of regulars there to restore
order.
But just there the difficulty comes in.
1t is not considered good policy to with
draw the regiment from the Presidio
ut this time, for the absence of troops
might prove the opportunity for riot
Gus movements there. So it is all over
the west, and Maj. Zen. Schofield is
holding mis- forces in reserve while he
watche,, every indication of disorder
that may call for action on the part OF
hi. soldiers Gen. Schofield says he
will not order the Presidio troops from
San francisco unless on the urgent re-
quest of Brig. Gen. Ruger. command
ing the department of California, upon
whose discretion he relieA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-12
CLEARING THE TRACKS.
The Work Progressing Rapidly Under Pro
lection of the Military.


BLUE ISLAND, ILL.,, July 4.-Edward
Helms and Hans Christ, active sympa-
thizers in the strike here, were arrested
this morning by deputy United States
marshals under protection of United
States soldiers. They were caught at the
depot crossing making threats against
the military and civil officers who are
here to see that the laws of the United
States and the orders of the federal
court are observed. The prisoners were
taken to the trainmaster's office and
handcuffed together until they could
be taken to Chicago on train.
The work of clearing the tracks was
pushed rapidly by squad of soldiers
with bayoneted rifles forming an es-
cort for the men at work and following
the obstructed cars as far as required
by the railway company. There was
an occasional mild resistance to the
commands of the soldiers to move off
the railroad property; but push and
lowering of the rifle brought the civil
JAMS to a realization of their relega-
ton to the military power.
In less than Two hours the over
turned box cars and trucks and the
long line of passenger coaches were re-
moved from the main line
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
JUMPED TO DEATH.
A Young Girl Throws Herself in Front of Train and is Instantly
 Killed.

ANNIsroN, Aug. 4.-[Special. Miss Della Winn, the 17-year- r-old daughter of Lee Winn, farmer of some means in By num's neighborhood, committed suicide yesterday morning by throwing herself in front of the passenger train which passes here at 10:35.
 She committed the rash act some 200 yards from the depot, jumping about 20 feet in front of the engine, and as the train was going rapidly she was thrown by actual measurement 7S feet and higher than the smoke stack.
 She attempted to suicide by taking mor- phine some two months since, but was prevented.
 Disappointment in love affair is said to have caused her to do the rash deed
 She was very attractive looking girl and the blow by the engine disfigured her but little, making hole in the back of her head and bruising her body somewhat.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
ARE YOU GOING?

The resorts of Tennessee are doing a splendid business this season The Southern Railway Company, western system, is the direct route 10 these resorts and you should ask for your tickets via that line.
 Elegant free observation coaches between Atlanta and Chattanooga. A through coach for Tate's Springs leaves Chattanooga at a. m.- and arrives at Tate's st 45 D. m Sleepers on this train 10 Washington and New York.
 ''The Seashore Express" leaves Atlanta at 7:30 D. m. for St. Simons and Cumber- land islands.
 Three daily fast trains each way between Macon and Atlanta. and Rome and Ghatta- nooga.
 Travel the Southern Railway Company lines for safety, speed and comfort
 L. A. BELL, District Passenger Agent, Selma, Ala.
 c. A. BEUsCoTER, A. c. P. A., 7-A-til 9-1 Knoxville, Tenn.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
TERSELY TOLD.

You can buy shoes cheap at c. H. Frau Cis', 2022 Second avenue.
 MT. Norman Jones has gone to Bessemer to act as shipping clerk for the Howard Harrison pipe works,
 MT. Ben Stehlin, clever fireman, who had hls leg broken by horse falling on it,
 is able to be out. He is fast reco vering.
 Banisters, French calf, cordovan kanga- roo, and patent leather shoes now $4. .50. Mems 8 calf skin shoe now $1.95. Great bargains. Oxford ties. T. 0. Kings.
 You laugh at the sandwich man, yet you sometimes carry parcel wrapped in paper that would serve as bill board poster. Every neat white parcel you see with no printing on it comes from the Surprise Store.
 MT. John Wheeler, train dispatcher of the Louisville and Nashville in this city, will become a benedict Wednesday night, August 8. The bride lives in this city and the wedding will take place at her home. Mir. Wheeler is very popular among the railroad men, and they are preparing to shower their congratulations upon him in substantial way.
 The Birmingham Railway and Electric company recently made new issue of bonds to take up outstanding bonds. The first bonds were printed in New York, but the second issue was printed in Birming- ham. It would require an expert to tell that the work on one issue is better than that on the other. The second issue was executed by the publishing house of Rob- erts x Son, this city, and is the very high est perfection of the Undergraduate art. can compete with the metropolis in the art of printing. The Birmingham Railway and Electric company is to be commended for preferring home institutions.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
While Enjoying Life Prepare for
 Death,
And When Unheeded Is the Cause of Many Sad Death E bed Scene-Place the Fault
 ga $ at the Guilty's Door.

h the following lines is sEetched short review of a life insurance company that has record of which those of Birmingham B citizens who contributed to make 1t are es- pecially proud.
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany has become better known to the gen. eral public in the three months during which 1t has been represented in Birming- ham than have any of the old companies that have been rehearsing their claims for patronage before the public for a score of years or more. This condition of the rea- tive standing of the different companies is not surprising when it is known that under MT. born fifty agents are actively at work presenting the unrivaled advau tages of the Metropolitan to public that is not slow to appreciate the features which this company alone, of all others in Alabama, can offer. Four thousand policies have been written since April 2, the time
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
TO BRING IN RETURNS.
Birmingham Cycle Club Will Tell the Tale as Reported Over the
 County.

The Birmingham Cycle club has prom ised to bring in the returns from all the beats in the county remote from telegraphic stations, and the following we'll known wheelmen have volunteered to do the work !: 3Williams-Lee Moody.
 Short Creek-J. M. Pickens and Frank Lytle.
 Robbins and Linn's-C. H. Cole.
 Bethlehem and Huey-John c. Burgin. Elyton and Hillman-S. H. Norriss and R. H. English.
 Chalkville, East Lake, Woodlawn and Avondale-W.sC, Harris, Jr., and F. s. Williamson on tandem.
 Greene's-G. B. Catlin.
 Vanderbilt--JxfW w. Riddle.
 Self's-Ed Warren, Jr. and w. H. Will son.
 Flat Creek-James Williamson and Roy Peace.
 Mary Lee-W. R. Gum.
 Chalybeate Springs-Solon Jacobs. Meek's-J. P. Fleck and Ped A. Hick- man.
 Union-M. T. Stradford
 Argo-E. Hagenbuckner and Charles Brdewel.
 Toadvine and Guin 's-C. W. Burney and Cliff Cahoon.
 Graham's-A. Mcleod.
 Wlliamsburg-P. $. Milner. Acron-W. H. Pickens and E. V. Evans, Jr.
 Smith s Mill-B. A. Hastings and F. A. Hewitt, Jr.
 Farrington-J. A. Hood and Jim Me- Culla.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05

in the foregoing paragraphs, the Metro politan conducts an Ordinary department. The company in this department issues all the improved forms of policies and some novel forms of policies for 5000 and up- wards, premiums payable yearly, half yearly or quarterly. The policies are liberal In their propositions, contain no restric- tions as to travel or residence, provide for immediate payment of claims upon receipt of satisfactory proof of death, and the pre- nium rates are extremely low. Compari- son of rates with other companies is invited.
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany of New York is one of the oldest life insurance companies in the United States; twenty five years, and has assets amount
 ps has 2soo Sge ooo 'nap policy qSo sodeps 9ep and between 60,0OO and 6o,OC0 fam lilies received the proceeds of their policies last year. More than 5000 persons are ac- lively in the service of this company in the United States; it is the most progressive life insurance company in America today
 It has paid each day, so far this year, 160 policies on death claims. That is nearly SIP every minute, day and night; 54 138 policies were paid last year, amounting to more than five and half millions of dol- , lars; S5s3 policies were paid on persons who bad been insured less than one year; 220 ,559 policies were paid during the last five years, to the amount of S25, 900, 900, huQ tue dDlOuub dulOuB pOle icy holders in claims since organization, plus the amount now on hand for the se- curity of the insured, is more than S53, ,000,- 900.
 The officers Of the company are all we'll known men of high financial standing. They are:
 John R. Hegeman, president; Haley Fiske, first vice. president; George il. Cas- ton, second vice. president ana secretary; !. J. Thompson, cashier and assistant secretary; James M. Craig, actuary; Thomas H. Willard, M. D., medical ex aminer; Hon. stewart l.. Woodford, counsel.
 Mr. G. o. Sanborn is superintendent of the branch office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company in Birmingham, and has large and handsomely fitted up offices in the Potter building, where he will gladly answer all inquiries, expound in- surance and receive applications for agen- cies. Those who are unable to call in per soii will be sent, upon request, free of charge, the company's illustrated book.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
pr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World $ Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
MIR. MCCALLUM

DENoUNoEs AS FALSE THE FAMOUS SILVER
 DOLLAR ACCUSATION. To the Age-Herald.
 FAYETrE, Aug. Ally attention has just been called to a statement in the AGE HERALD of July 31 to the effect that had on July IS, at Boley Springs beat, this county, exhibited a silver dollar of coin- age 1894, in proof that silver was now being coined, said statement purporting to have been made by MT. Whetstone in state. ment of J. k. Maxwell. l am not &C., quainted with Mir. Whetstoue, but must say that he either talks without knowing the facts or he wilfully perverts the truth, as the statement is false and without any foundation whatever.
 Nj, B, MCCALLUM,