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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-26
DIED..

ROBSON-In Hawthorne, September q,
1894, Sabina Robson, a native of Michl-
gan, aged "A years.
GANONG-In Hawthorne, September 10.
1894, Mrs, Charles Ganong, native of
Ireland, aged ~ years.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-26

We stated last week that Buck
Burnside was nominated for Sheriff
of Mono county. Our informant was
mistaken. w. p. Onkst got the
nomination.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-26
Recorder and Auditor.

This paper contains the declara-
ton of ]. G. Atchison, Independent
candidate for Recorder and Auditor.
Like the other Independent candi-
dates he stands on free silver plat
form. Mr.. Atchison is the present
Recorder, and it is generally conced-
ed that there never was a more able
and accommodating Recorder in the
county. His friends have found him
a trustworthy officer and will always
find him so.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-26
J. G. ATCHlSON

Subject to the choice of the voters of Es-
meralda county and is in favor of the free
&nd unlimited coinage of silver with gold
at the ratio Of 16 to /, and both shall be re-
ceivable for for all debts public and pri-
vate, and that this action be taken by the
United States regardless of other nations.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-26
CLAIMS ALLOWED
BY the County Com
misSioners.

A T THE LAST REGULAR MEETING
"A of the Board of Commissioners of Es-
meralda county, Nevada, the following
bills we're allowed:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Rice Mullins: Beat two eggs. add z
cup of boiled rice, three tablespoonfu1s
of -four, butter the size of an egg, and
a pinch of salt. and bake in muffin
rings.-Housekeeper.
To Test Tea: Those who wish to
test the tea they drink may try this
and then drop on to it teaspoonful of
tea. With good tea the ash remaining
is very slight, and increases with
cheaper kinds.-Leeds Mercury.
Apple Jelly: Cut the apples in
small pieces without pairing and stew
until soft-using more water than for
apple sauce: strain through a hair
sieve; then through a jelly bag. To
pint OF juice add one pound of sugar
and the juice of one lemon: boil until
it thickens upon the spoon: poor into
glasses or molds and stand in the sun
for an hour; paste paper over the top
and set away in cool place. In max
ing jelly it is of the greatest impor-
lance that the sugar should be heated,
but it must not be added till the juice
boils. 1t will not harden if it stops
boiling for few minutes
Farmer.
-Guisada, or Spanish Stew: Take
hare, rabbit, cartridges, pheasants or
chickens, cut them as jim carving, and
save the giblets. Do not wash the
pieces, but dry them in a cloth. Put
them into a pan in which there is
sufficiency of hot, sweet oil, adding
sliced onion and fry them brown; then
transfer them with the gravy to an
earthen stew pan. Add some bits of
cold ham cut thin and small, and Il
bunch of sweet herbs, chopped fine:
also little cayenne: pour in sufficient
broth to cover the pieces well, adding
the giblets. Let it simmer gently till
thoroughly done, carefully slzimming
off all the grease. and stirring the meat
up from the bottom with a wooden
spoon. Serve it hot in covered dish.
1t will be improved by the juice Of one
or two oranges squeezed in toward the
last.-N. Y. Observer.
Chicken Salad: The white meat
of a cold boiled chicken or turkey q
have used the best of the remains of a
veal Or very tender pork roast as sub
stitute), three-quarters the same bulk
# chopped celery, two hard boiled eggs,
'se raw egg well beaten: one teaspoon
iii of salt, one of pepper, one of mus
tard, three of salad oil or melted but
ter: mince the meat well. cut the celery
in half inch lengths, mix, place in a
cool place while the dressing is being
prepared. Rub the yolks of the eggs
to a fine powder, add the salt. pepper
and sugar, then the oil, stirring hard,
OF
add the mustard and the raw egg we'll
beaten. pour the vinegar by the spoon
full, whipping the dressing well as you
do SO, sprinkle dry salt over the meat
and pour the dressing over the whole.
and mix thoroughly SO as to moisten
clear to the bottom of the bowl.-Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
THE SOCiABLE MAN.
Some of His Characteristics and Why We
Love Him.

Some of His characteristics and Why We
Love Him.
The sociabl man is the most favored
of mortals, if he who is always cheer
full and happy can be said to be favored,
and who shall hold to the contrary?
1t does not necessarily follow that
the sociable man is always a source of
cheerfulness or happiness to those with
whom he comes in contact. On the con-
trary, very little of him is sometimes
quite enough. while very much of him
IS cloylng, not to say wearing.
But the socia BILE man is ever upon the
best of terms with himself. and il is
impossible for him not to obtrude his
buoyancy where it is not absolutely
yearned for. The socia BILE man, were
he book that could be shut up at ones
pleasure, would be a comfOrta BILE man
to know, but one is not always in the
mood to read the most interesting or
the most diverting of books: and 81:
with the socia bic man-his sociability
is at times unattuned to our feelings.
and then is he distraction rather than
diversion, an annoyance instead of a
benefaction.
1t is true he always has to say what
iiC SoiiSi'tc'S TIC Xix
occasion. If it is a sweltering summer
day he remarks how hot it is. which
can not be otherwise than comforting
to one who is nearly melted. If you
are pale or abnormally flushed he very
appropriately informs you that he never
saw you looking so bad, and then per-
haps endeavors to reassurc you by mar
rating how Mr.. Soandso was taken the
same way you seem to be taken only a
week ago, and that he was buried yes
terday. All this is told in his own So
cia BILE way. and if it does not imme-
diatelv interest YOU it is pleasure. or
should be. to see how it interests him.
Then the sociable man has way of
worming out of you the story of your
daily life, with all its cark and care,
and in doing this ne seems to be per
forming disintercsted service. mas
much as it is relief to have an ear at
hand into which to pour the tale of our
troubles and disappointments: and the
sOcia bic man. in thus casting his bread
upon the waters. has it all returned to
him, not after many days, but imnedi-
ately. and so he has the wherewithal
to be more socia BILE than ever to others
in rehearsing what you have told him.
The sociable man is seldom profound.
His tongue is not idle sufficient to give
him the opportunity for reflection. So
he is not given to thinking: talking is
his forte, and one who is always talk
ing can hardly be expected to do any
thing else.
The sociable man is, in short, just
the kind of man that one likes to
meet once in a great while, the longer
between whites the better; not that
you do not appreciate his worth. but
because you do not feel that it is right
to monopolize his talents when per-
haps others may be suffering to enjoy
them.-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
PRACTICAL FARMING.

The Laying Out of New Roads Is q Task
of Great Importance.
Perhaps some may question the pro-
oriety of treating such a subject under
practical farming" but it seems to US
that good roads have very much to do
with practical farming, and one of the
best ways to have good roads is to
study the essentials of having them
good when laying out new ones.
The following is taken from paper
by Prof. n. S. Shaler, which appeared
in the Atlantic Monthly: 1t seems
worth while for all intelligent people
to have some general notion concern
ing the simpler facts involved in the
science and art of roadmaking. With
such persons the study of these mat
tiers may we'll begin with certain
fundamental conceptions as to the es-
sential relations of these construc-
tions. All highways are intended to
afford hard, smooth. and. as nearly
as possible, horizontal surface over
which that great Instrument of civili-
ton, the wheel, with its burden, can
be made to move with the least posi-.
BILE friction. Every unit of friction
which is encountered is a measurable
element of cost. either in time, power
or damage to the road and carriage.
For every foot of distance he traverses
the wagner is mourning tax If he
is conveying the weight of a ton to
market the amount of this tax for a
mile may. under favorable conditions,
not exceed five cents. From this mini
mum scale of expenditure, with the
advancing degradation of the way, the
cost NAV increase until it amounts to
ten or twenty times what it is in the
ideal though seldom realized state of
highway. AT a certain stage in the &C
emulation of the tax even the more
adventurous, wisely, though without
clear reckoning, regard the way as
economically impossible. This con-
ception of a roadway tax and a clear
idea as to the frequent enormity Of the
imposition are the fundamental no
tons which we need to fix in the
minds of our people. With these well
affirmed we may hope to interest them
in the questions of betterment.
AS in most other matters. the details
connected with the construction and
use of roads are much harder to pre-
sent than the general considerations
of the subject. There are. however,
certain simple considerations which
will enable anyone to know the essen
tial differences between sound and un-
sound practice in the construction of
highways. The first and most i'm
portant, though in countries the most
neglected, element OF care concerns
what engineers call the profile of the
way: that is, the irregular line de-
scribed by its center across the coun-
try.
The ordinary roadmaster is in all
cases tempted to draw his proposed
line as directly as possible between
his principal objective points. If he
makes a depression from a rectilinear
path, it is generally because he has
encountered an insuperable obstacle,
or because some landowner has effect
lively objected to having his fields cut
in twain Thus it comes about that the
greater part of our roads are. from
their unnecessary uphill and down,
sOre1y taxing to the community which
they are supposed to serve. In many
parts of New England and the other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
CARE OF THE ORCHARD.
After Planting Incessant Cultivation L
Absolutely Necessary.

After Planting Incessant Cultivation L.
Absolutely Necessary.
Without a good, sound healthy tree
or vine to start with, the best efforts
of the planter will avail nothing.
Then we have a very severe and
changeable climate to contend with,
which is often very disastrous to the
very best trees. In apple, plant moth
ing but the best rcot-grafted trees, and
be careful that the roots are not GOV,
cred with root aphis, which are often
the death Of newly-planted trees After
your orchard is planted with good,
healthy trees, cultivate, says a Ne
braska fruit grower. 1t would do no
harm to plant some hoed crop in the
orchard, such as garden truck, pota,
toes, buckwheat and possibly corn.
but sweet corn would be best. Then
leave a space of six feet between the
row of trees and the first row of corn;
then keep up thorough cultivation
until trees commence to rear, remem-
bering all the time to keep the ground
level between the trees. When trees
come to the fruiting age, SOW the or
chard to red clover, cutting the first
crop and letting the second fall down
ard lie on the ground, with an occa-
sional top-dressing of stable manure.
1t will pay to go through the orchard
occasionally to see that the trees &c
not get to leaning to the northeast.
While trees are young it is an easy job
to prevent this. This gentleman be-
lieves that it would be good plan
when fruit trees are planted to put
board on the southwest side and keep
it there until trees are well established
to prevent what is called sun scaId.-
Farmers Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
Pruning Grapes In Sumner.

After the lunches of grapes have
formed on the new vine profita BILE
work can be done by going along,
pinching off the vines just above the
fourth leaf, or one leaf above the last
bunch of grapes This will turn much
of the sap into the new vine which is
to come out. either at the ground or
near to it. to make wood for next year
when the old vine is cut away. After
this years vines have been pinched off
new branch will shoot out at the
base of each leaf. If these are also
pinched off when but a few inches
long, no more vines will start out
from them and all the sap for this sea
son will go into the fruit and into the
new vine which shot out from the
ground.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
ODD THINGS EATEN BY BIRDS
Queer Articles Sometimes Find Resting
Place in Their Stomachs.

Queer Articles Sometimes Find Resting
Place in Their StOmachs.
Some very odd things are come across
by the ornithologists who are engaged
in examining the stOmachS of various
kinds of birds for the purpose of ascer-
tanning what they eat and how much
of the crops they destroy. In the
stomach of crow was found war
bier The stomach of the warbler con-
tanned a caterpillar. and traces of the
vegetation on which the latter had fed
were clearly discerned under the micro
scope. Another oddity discovered in the
stomach of crow was rubber elastic
band, which had evidently been picked
up by mistake for worm. Once in
awhile bedbug is found in the stom-
ach of woodpecker. Doubtless the
insects are got from pine trees. Pine
cones are often infested by bedbugs,
which must have lived on those trees
long before they became human para
sites Ticks. too which likewise breed
on trees. are discovered occasionally in
birds stomachs. though so rarely as to
suggest that the feathered creatures
are afraid of them and would avoid
them, as rule.
The insects III Dlru stomach are
ordinarily counted by their jaws. For
example. caterpillars have soft bodies,
which are quickly digested, leaving
their jaws to be gradually ground up
and disposed of in the gizzard. The
laws of beetles. caterpillars and grass
hoppers are made of one of the most
enduring substances in nature. being
nearly as hard as the teeth of mann
mails. They are very characteristic, sc
that the difference may readily be told
between those of a cricket. a grasshop-
per. a locust. etc. The jaws found in
the stomach of bird counted and di-
vided by two. which gives the number
of insects represented Cuckoos are
the only birds that eat hairy caterpil-
lars so far as is known. The horny
Innings of their gizzards are sometimes
found so thickly perforated by the
sharp and strong hairs of these insects
as to be actually fuzzy" when dried.
Not long ago crow from Oregon was
examined whose digestive apparatus
contained IL beetle of a species so rare
that the specimen would have been
worth fifteen dollars if it had been in
good condition.-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

brought to. The child was not serious
y hurt, either by the alligator or its
Iall when the old man threw it
ashore, and for this no one is more
thankful than Uncle Billy. By even
ing the old man declared himself in
hne trim for his birthday dinner and
all the guests at his banquet say the
old man did it justice.
Uncle Billy says he has rid" dogs,
shoats, calves. goats, oxen and wild
Texan pony, but not one of them OF all
OF them together can hold light to
that alligator. That if he is any
Jedge he has ''jes' rid a cyclone"
And we were inclined to think he had
when we saw floating in the bloody
canal the next morning the terrible
monster with which Uncle Billy battled
so long, bravely and VIGOROUSLY -
Philadelphia Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
Ancient Roman Aqueducts.

Men are doing some great things now
adays in the way of bridges. water.
works. etc, but we doubt if any city
can show a greater triumph of eng:-
neerin~ as TO its water supply than an
cient Rome. Eight immense aqueducts
supplied the city with pure spring
water from the hills. delivering forty
millions of cubic feet daily. The Claudia
aqueduct was forty-seven miles long
and one hundred feet high. The Martha
was torty-one miles, th;rty-seven miles
of which were carried on seven thou
sand arches seventy feet high.-Boston
Budget.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23


billy portions of this country, wagon
usually has to climb an aggregate
height of a thousand or more feet in
going a distance of ten miles. an
amount of grade which could readily
have been avoided by adding two or
three miles to the length of the way.
In the rough reckoning of the coun-
try engineer. it always seems to be
always advantageous to construct
road on the most direct alignment
which will be passable to loaded We
hicles, with all the power which can
conveniently be put upon them. 1t
is easy, however, to show that uGually
the only economy which is thus effect
ed is the cost of the first construction.
A close reckoning will always indi-
cate that this initial economy is
bought at disproportionate annual
cost in the expense of use and main
tenance. The load which can be
drawn over the direct way is often not
more than half that which could be
taken over the lower route, and pro-
portionate wear on the draught ami
mails and the vehicles will often vary
in similar measure. Moreover, the
eAptIlSc oI
under the wearing action of rain, frost
and locked wheels, will more than
counterbalance the cost of a longer but
less inclined route.
Many persons. particularly those o.
small experience. are of the opinion
that they carry in the mind wide
stretch of country SO effectively that
they may be able to design route
which will fit the topography in sat
isfactory manner. This is clearly
delusion as is shown by the fact that
no trained engineer, however wide his
experience, da-es trust himself to
stake out mile of railway without a
careful preliminary survey of the
ground, one which will enable him to
take to his office the data by which he
can plat and compare the several pos
sible routes. This care as to the loca-
ton of a railway, though invariably
taken, is, in proportion to the magni-
tude of the interests involved. of
rather less consequence than that de-
manded in the case of q common road.
The increase i'll the expenditure of en-
ergy required to convey the loads OF
ordinary wagons UP steep slopes IS
quite as great as II would be II the
case of a locomotive climbing like
grades. and the power which is applied
through horsefiesh costs far more per
unit than that used in locomotive.
1t is therefore clearly important tc
take the same kind of care in deter
mining the route to be followed by a
highway as is taken in the choice of
line for the newer kind of transporta-
ton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
An improvement in Churns.

An improvements the ordinary box.
shaped conclusion churn has been
made in Australia. The improvement
consists simply in having two square
apertures. one opposite the other. in
stead of the one aperture. which is
the rule in ordinary churns. The Sec
ond opening permits thorough venti-
lation after the operation of churning
is concluded, and also enables the
cleaning to be much more effectualIy
done than under the old condition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

be cleaned out and the gourd boiled in
water for an hour or more. A little
boraX or alum should be added
No better receptacle in which to put
garden and other seeds away for next
dried gourds, with the stems cut off,
and stopper of soft wood or cork fit
ted in like the stopper of a bottle.
When the end of the stem is neatly
sawed or cut off, the seeds or pith
should be removed with a wire or
sharp stick, and the gourd boiled to
tougher it. Before fitting the stopper
a strong cord may be wound around
the neck which will prevent any liza
bility to crack when the stopper is put
in tight. The neck is dipped in melted
wax to keep the cord in place. A loop
of cord serves to hang up each gourd
on a nail. or they may be placed on
upper shelves, as the seeds are put in
them, after being well dried. The la
bells from seed packets may be pasted
on the gourds to represent the kind of
seeds contained in them, or the names
may be printed with pen and ink.
Gourds made into seed receptacies
are shown in Fig. 2. For saving seeds
the small gourds are the best. Larger
gourds, with the stems cut off and the
seeds removed, make neat mantel or
ia BILE ornament, in which small bou-
quets of flowers or wild grasses may
be handsomely arranged. Ornament
the gourd with brush and paint, or pen
and ink, after your own ideas, and
half fill with sand to give weight and
put in any pretty flowers or grasses
you have and see if the effect is not
tasty as well as inexpensive. Gourd
bouquet holders are shown in Fig. 3.
If desired these holders may be stained
any color with the common dyes
Walter H. Garrison, in Farm and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
Asking a Concession.

Although poor, he loved the girl with
tropical warmth and oriental splendor.
Darling" he whispered to her in the
fervor OF his soul, ''there is nothing you
could ask of me that would not will
ingly grant"
We'll, Charlie" she responded, give
me chance to marry somebody who
has little-just a little bit-more
money than you have; that's good
boy" detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
Fertilizers for Apple Trees.

4 writer IN Gardening Illustrated
makes the following good sugses.
tions: He finds one of the simplest
and best is bone meal, followed with
stable manure. This treatment an.
swers for all kinds of fruit. The bone
is forked in, and the Stable manure is
applied as a mulch. Most of the com.
mercial manures are too costly
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with.
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products To-,
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due tc ITS presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free frozD
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

UNREHEARsED EFFEcT--Aged and VencT~
able Here, noble sire, is the hes.-
not been opened for a couple of genera
tionsr Don Diego-''Open it, when the
lid is raised live cat jumps on to the STACEY
Old Servant .Drat those mischicy casSs
chorus lads p'-Humoristische Batter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

If you want to put front on youn
house that will be the admiration of
every passerby. plant ciematis Jack
nan;i The mass of rich purple bios
SONS makes the poorest house thing
of beauty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

WHEN the horn begins to bud out OF
the calf, moisten it and then apply
caustic potash. There will be no horn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

Your home tells the stranger what
YOU are. What kind OF reputation
does it give you?-AEerican Farmer