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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
A MODERN BARN.

tai. Better far to labor under many
commodations than to borrow money
during period of general depression,
when prices of farm productions are
continually on the downward tend
ency.
Each year has witnessed some per-
manent improvements upon the farm,
and the old barn, which is thirty by
tifty-four feet mot including a tempo
rary constable thirteen by thirty-six
feet. was made to answer our needs SO
far as possible. But since the compile
ton OF a new barn, with it's modern
features, we hope to make the farm
animals as thoroughly comfortable as
possible; in fact, give them an oppor-
tunity to enjoy life, if such thing is
possible for brute. For surely every
one has noticed what vast difference
in appearance there is between ami
mals-those which must endure the
most severe storms unprotected and
those which are comfortably stabbed.
This barn was not built for show or
appearance, but rather for comfort and
convenience. and appearances were
even sacrificed rather than to abridge
either of the prime objects. 1t was
joined directly to the old barn. in or
der to facilitate the care and feed of
all the stock. 1t is sided with tongue
and groove siding. which makes much
closer wall than to use boards and bat
tens, or ship-lapped lumber.
1t is covered with steel, underlaid
with building felt. Twelve windows,
each thirty by forty-two inches, admit
light and sunshine. 1t has a double
driveway in the main barn, with an
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

THE richer the feed the richer the
manure.
REGULAR feeding is an important
item in successful feeding.
FEED is too high to feed it to any but
the best stock this winter.
IT is a waste of the raw material to
feed an unprofita BILE animal
As 4 general rule it is the most profit
able to use mature sires and dams in
breeding.
MILK keeps better even in cool wealth
er if cooled at once after being drawn
from the COW.
THE more straw you have the more
You should use about the barn and
stables. Don't burn any.
WHEN fattening an animal push from
the start-gradually at first of course
and save time and feed.
PROVIDE the means of contentment
and improvement in your home and the
power of temptation over yourselves
and your boys is much lessened
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
IMPERSONAL POINTS.

A CLERGYMAN in Springfield, Mo-, has
been convicted of horse stealing. He
goes to the penitentiary cheerfully. for
he expects to acquire fame and fortune
by writing book on prison life.
EVERYONE is familiar with the
smooth phrase ''misit parlor," but it
was reserved for a Brooklyn old clo'
man to find more agreeable term than
cast-of clothes. He has substituted for
it the harmless phrase ''lcft-of gar
ments."
A WOMAN in Jacksonville, Fla, while
cooking, mashed her finger. She rushed
out of the house, screaming ''Murder!"
"Fire!" An accommodating neighbor
kindly turned in an alarm of fire, and in
few minutes the fire department was
at the woman's house.
LONDON Truth is responsible for this
story: A bishop Of ST. Davids confided
to an old Welsh clergyman his diff
Guilty in mastering the Welsh double L.
The parson replied: PUT the tip of your
Apostolical tongue in the roof of your
Episcopal mouth, my lord, and then hiss
like a pander"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
SOME MUSICAL APPETITES.

LIST was as simple in his eating as
he was abstruse in his music
SCHUBERT loved corned beef and cab
bage better than he loved any other
dish.
BAcuE never took anything for break
fast but bit of bread and cup Of
coffee.
MEYERBEER said no man could work
well who did not live well. He was a
hearty eater.
HAYDN ate bread and cheese and cof-
fee for breakfast, and the same with
beer for supper.
WAGNER was an cpicure. He was
fond of any sort of food provided it was
highly seasoned.
WEBER, while young. was simple in
his tastes and lived plainly. In more
advanced years he became a great
eater.
BERLIoz was dyspeptic, but could not
control his appetite, and often ate too
much of food that did not agree with
him
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
AN ALPENA MIRACLE.
Mrs. Jas. M. Todd, of Long Rapids,
Discards Her Clutches.
In an Interview with q Reporter She Re-
views Her Experience and Tells the
Real Cause OF the Miracle.

(F'rona the Argus. Alpena, Aich.)
We have long known Mrs. Jas NJ. Todd,
of Long Rapids, Alpena Co., Mich. She
has been sad cripple. Many of her friends
know the story Of her recovery; for the
benefit of those who do not we publish it to-
day.
Eight years ago she was taken with nerv.
Gus prostration, and in few months with
muscular and inaammatory rheumatism.
1t affected her heart, then her head. Her feet
became so swollen she could wear nothing
on them; her hands were drawn all out OF
shape. Her eyes were swollen shut more
than half the time, her knee joints terribly
swollen and for eighteen months she had
to be held up to be dressed. One limb be-
came entirely helpless, and the skin was so
dry and cracked that it would bleed. During
these eight years she had been treated by a
score Of PHYSICIANS, and has also spent
much time at Ann Arbor under best medi-
cal advice. All said her trouble was
brought on by hard work and that medicine
would not cure, and that rest was the oLly
thing which would ease her. After going
to live with her daughter she became entire
ly helpless and could not even raise her
arms to cover herself at night. The inter-
esting part of the story follows in her own
words:
Pills for Pale People and at last did so. In
three days after l commenced taking Pink
Pills could sit up and dress myself, and
after using them six weeks went home
and commenced working. I continued
taking the pills, until now begin to forget
my crutches, and can go up and down steps
without aid. am truly living wonder,
walking out Of doors without assistance
NOW, if / can say anything to induce
those who have suffered as I have. to try
Pink Pills, l shall gladly do SO. If other
like sufferers viii try Pink Pills according
to directions, they will have reason to thank
God for creating men who are able to con-
quer that terrible disease, rheumatism.
have in my own neighborhood recommend
ed Pink Pills for the after effects of La
grippe, and weak women with impure
blood, and with good results
Mrs. Todd is very strong in her faith in
the curative powers of Pink Pills, and says
they have brought poor helpless cripple
back to do her own milking, churning.
washing, sewing, knitting, and in fact about
all of her household duties, thanks to D..
Williams Pink Pills.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are for sale by all druggists
or may be had by mail from DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y,
for soc. per box, or six boxes for $3.50.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
WITH SPOON AND CUP,

A Useful Table of Measures to Hang In the
Kitchen.
The following measures of capacity
may be found useful to hang in the
kitchen for easy reference:
Two cupfuls equal one pint
-Four cupfuls equal one quart
Two cupfuls solid butter equal one
pound.
One pint of milk or water equals one
pound.
Four cupfuls flour equal one quart or
one pound.
Two cupfuls granulated sugar equal
one pound.
Sixteen tablespoonfuls liquid equal
one cupful.
Twelve tablespoonful dry material
equal one cupful.
One dozen eggs should weigh one
and one-half pounds.
Two and one-half eupfu1s powdered
sugar equal one pound.
Four even teaspoonfuls liquid equal
one even tablespoonful.
Three even teaspoonfuls dry ma
terial equal one even tablespoonful.
Skim milk is heavier than whole
milk and cream is lighter than either.
while pure milk is three per cent heav-
Ter than water.
The following table of proportions
is also valuable. Use:
One teaspoonful salt to one quart
soup.
One teaspoonful soda to one pint sour
milk.
One teaspoonful salt to two quarts
-four.
One teaspoonful soda to one cupful
molasses-
One teaspoonful extract to one loaf
plain cake
Three teaspoonfuls baking-powder to
one quart -four.
One scant cupful of liquid to two full
cups of -four for bread.
One scant cupful of liquid to one full
cup of flour for batters.
One scant cupful of liquid to two full
cups of -four for mullins
Four peppercorns, four cloves, one
teaspoonful mixed herbs for each quart
of water for sonp stock.
1t is often said of good cooks that
"thev never measure-they guess. !"
Not so. Long experience has taught
them to measure, and measure accu-
rately, by means of that same expert
ence and Judgment. This, however, is
a most risky experiment for beginners,
whose pinions are still insufficiently
furnished with plumage for independ-
ent aerial navigatbn--Chicago Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Wooden Goods: To avoid shrink
age in washing wooden goods. dissolve
a sufficient quantity of soap in warm
water, adding a little ammonia to
soften it. Wash, and then rinse IN
clean. warm water, using no cold or
very hot water; after which shake
well and dry quickly. Do not rub on
soap, and avoid all patent washing
powders OF liquids.-Leed's Mercury.
-Kedjeree: Put into a saucepan q
tablespoonful of butter, and when
melted add small cupful of any cold
fish, TAXED, and half the quantity, or
more OF boiled rice. Season with salt.
pepper, and few drops of lemon Juice.
When very hot, pile lightly On a hot
dish and garnish with parsley. This
useful plant can be kept growing in a
box IN light cellar. or any room that
does not freeze hard at night.-Countrv
Gentleman.
season cold mashed potatoes with
pepper and salt. Take a tablespoonful
at time and roll it into bail. Din
TINS IN an egg, previously beaten light,
then roll in bread or cracker crumbs
and plunge it into kettle of boiling
lard, to cook like doughnuts, and Won
will have a delicious potato pompon.
Onion finely minced may be added be-
lore cooking, or parsley shredded fine.
Minced ham or tongue would of course
oe an mprovement.-Ladie Home
Journal.
Cold Minced Meat and Eggs: Anv
cold roast meat will do. Chop off all
the fat parts and mince the lean yerv
finely. Cut an onion into small pieces
and fry it in butter to a light brown.
add a large pinch of -four and a little
stock of gravy. the minced meat, with
chopped parsley. pepper, salt and nut.
meg to taste Mix well, add a little
more stock or gravy if too thick, and
let the ;nince gradually get hot by the
side OF the fire. Drop in a few drops of
lemon juice; serve on sippets of bread
dellcately fried in butter, and place a
poached egg on top.-Housekeeper.
-Molasses Gingerbread: One cup
1ul OF moiasses, one-third Of a cupful
OF milk, one-third of a cupful of but
ter, one egg, one teaspoonful of soda
NAKED In the molasses, one teaspoonful
OF ginger. one teaspoonful of salt, two
cupfuis OF flour. Put the ginger and
salt into the -four, beat the eggs and
add to it the milk, dissolve the soda
thoroughly in the molasses, melt the
butter, add the butter and molasses to
the egg and milk. and pour the whole
upon the flour. Beat all we'll together
and bake either in pans or small cake
tins. The latter form is better for
school lunches, because the slices are
apt to crumble.-Good housekeeping.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
CITIZENS OF MANY LANDS.

THE Chinese emperor is small and
delicate. He looks like lad of SIX
teen or seventeen. and speaks like a
youth of that age.
ARCHBISHOP KOZLoFFsKI, metropolitan
of the Roman Catholics in Russia, has
Just received from the car a cross
adorned with diamonds.
MGR. DE RRIEY, bishop of Meaux, the
see once held by Bcssuet, has gone into
bankruptcy. He had Endorsed the paper
of too many of his flock.
HERR KRUPP and Baron Rothschiid
are the only two men in Prussia hav-
ing an income exceeding 100000.
They are credited with about $4,000, 900
each.
THE duke of Norfolk has paid up
ward Of $4,000 for a new staircase at
Arundel castle, constructed OF the
finest marbles, and which has taken
eight months to erect.
The king of Belgians is tall, thin,
austere and reserved man OF seventy,
who has simple, quiet tastes. He is
great reader and student and his chief
recreation is found in walking long dis
tun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
MODERN FARM BARN.
MOI Built FOR Show But for Comfort 2,

Not Built for Show But for Comfort AND
Convenience.
Believing that it is true economy to
shelter all kinds of farm animals dur
ing severe weather, we have ALWAYS
made an effort to provide comfortable
quarters for our stock; but owing to
the fact that when we came upon the
farm ten years ago the buildings were
poor and ill-adapted to our purposes, it
was first necessary to make many re.
pairs, and next to provide temporary
stables, which might be depended up
On for service for a few years until the
mortgage could be lifted and means
secured for something more suited to
our needs. Debt has ever been a thing
to be dreaded, and we could not think
of erecting buildings on borrowed capt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
SHORT MISCElLANY.

LACK of physical exercise has ten
dency to make school-children short
sighted
THE Soudan is so called from the
Arabic word Belad-ez-Suden, 1.-The land
of the blacks"
The city CT Charleston, S. C, has
purchased Eve hundred acres of land
for use as public park.
MONTENEGRO has its name from the
color of it's mountains. The word
means "black mountain"
TIE cost of feeding the 2,1oo con-
victs in the Missouri penitentiary aver.
7sscs eight and half cents day for each
person.
THERE are seventeen transatlantic
cables, but Of these only seven are
used, the other ten having given out
from various causes.
DEAN HOLE is the authority for the
opinion given in his latest book that
for one silly young woman there are
fifty silly young men.
THIRTY years ago there were but one
or two meager prints; now there are
twenty recognized women's papers in
England, besides minor monthlies.
This is the statement made by Miss E.
March-Philipps in the Fortnightly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
Geranium4 for Flies.

Here is an interesting idea for the
housewife who is troubled with the
aggravating flies 1ourishing in their
furnace-heated rooms long after cold
weather is supposed to have destroyed
them. The suggestion comes from
abroad that the fragrant geranium-
the old-fashioned rose geranium be-
loved by our grandmother-keeps flies
away. A moderate-sized geranium of
this variety is said to be SO disagree
able to flies that they avoid its neigh
borhood, and two OR three of those
plants in a room will drive them out
altogether.-N. Y. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
The Stock.

Here is a suggestion for the girl
whose heart has been conquered by the
cav little stock In order to have the
collar fit smoothly, and also to be able
to change it at will, have the neck of
t;.e gown you wear most simply I'm
ished by a binding of black ribbon.
Sew black eyes around the neck ut .
distance of two inches apart. Then sew
to the lower edge of all your stock coll
lars hooks, as many as will correspond
to the eyes on the dress. The stock
will be held firmly III place by thus
hooking it to the neck of the gown.
It will look better. feel better. and al
low Q variety Of changes--AIbany ar
gus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

Four HUNDRED tons of top weight
must come of of the new French bat
tleship Brennus before she can be made
seaworthy.
DREYFUs is to be sent to the lies du
Salut, off the coast of French Guiana,
instead of to New Caledonia, as the
chances of his escaping will be less
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
LITTLE ODDITIES.

VAST petrihed forests have been dis.
covered in Arizona.
AN uptown milk depot sign in Phil
adelphia reads: 'Alderny milk, butter
and eggs"
A MAINE wcodchopper recently cut
down a tree containing 4 peck of buck
wheat, which had been stored by mice
self from New London nearly two
hundred years ago. wants to como
lack now
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
STATE OF ONO. CITY OF TOLEDO, u
LUCAS COUNTY. ~

=, FRANZ =: CHESEf makes oatn t1at ne Is
& Co., doing business in the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of HALL 8 CATARRE
CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this6thday of December, "A. D. 1856.
60, A. w. GLEASON,
t5 Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testim onials,
free. F. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
az Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Csc.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
FREE

To Christian Endeavorers-Pocket Guide
and Map of Boston, the Convention
City.
The Passenger Department OF the Big
Four Route have issued very convenient
and attractive Pocket Guide to the City of
Boston which will be sent free of charge to
all mem bers of the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor who viii send three
two-cent stamps to cover mailing charges
to the undersigned. This Pocket Guide
should be in the hands of every member of
the Society who conte mplates attending the
14th Annual Convent on, as it shows the 10
cation of all Depots, Hotels, Churches, In
situations, Places of Amusement, Promi-
nent Buildings. Street Car Lines, Etc, Etc.
Write soon as the edition is limited.
E. o. MCCORMICK,
Passenger Traffic Manager, Big Four Route,
Cincinnati, o.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
Cnspeakabiy Miserable

Is the man or woman troubled with 6ys-
pepsia. Heart palpitations, sour stomach,
heartburn, uneasiness of the nerves, OPP
preston or a sense of emptiness at the pit
Of the stomach, are among its symptoms
Hostetters Stomach Bitters eradicates it,
and entirely overcomes constipation, bill
iOusness, rheumatic, kidney and malarial
complaints. Use this thorough remedy sys-
tematically and it will achieve permanent
results.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

Harry is the youngest of the fam
lily. the only boy among several girls,
and sometimes the superior advantages
of girls seem to weigh heavily on his
youthful mind. The other day we
heard him say thoughtfully to himself:
Women always first! l wonder why
God didn't make 'em first. But He
didn't. He made Adam first
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

The Lowest Rates Ever Made to the South
Will be in effect via the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad, on March 5, April and 80,
1895 Round trip tickets will be sold to
points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi. Georgia and West Florida. and
one way tickets to Florida at about half the
regular rates. Ask your ticket agent about
it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets
write to c. P. ATMoRE, General Passenger
Agent, Louisville, KY, or GEO. B. HoRNER,
D. P. A, st. Louis, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

greatly shortened. It also PROMOTES the
secretion of an abundance of nourishment
for the child.
Mrs. DORA A. GUTHRIE of 0akIer. Ozrrfon Co.,
7lHn-. writes: When I began taking DR..
stand on my feet without suffering almost death.
Now I do ali my housework washing. cooking.
sewing and everything for my family of eight. I
stouter now than have been i'll six years.
Your Favorite Prescription is the best to take
before confinement. or at least it proved SO with
me. never suffered little with any of my
children as did with my last
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
An important Difference.

Tt make it apparent to thousands, who
thin ( themselves Ill, that they are not af-
fecte with any disease, but that the system
simpl y needs cleansing, is to bring comfort
home to their hearts. as costive condition is
easily cured by using Syrup of Figs. Manu-
factu, ed by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

FLOOR WALKER-"How many women do
you suppose there have been to-day to look
at our bargains!' Superintendent-''Ho
should know!I am not bargain COUNTER
Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

"WHEN err man is terrible anxious ter glib
something away said Uncle Eben, t'hit am
er sho sign dat it aim much count. Dis
plies ter advice same as anything else.''-
Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

ssDE trouble bout de spirit oh persever-
ence," said Uncle Eben, ''am dat it's too
li'ble ter strike a man hardest when he's
intiahly in de wrong. Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

FIRST TRAMP-'sWot's the matter with
sleeping in the coal-yard tonight" Second
Tramp-"You'se fine one ter foller. They
a ut bin no soft coal dere fer a week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

IT is better to be alone in the world than
to bring up boy to play on the accordion
Texas Siftings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

FANCY accomplishments am all right in
dab place. said Uncle Eben, 'but folks
hab moh need fob shovelih' beautiful snow
dan day hab fob recitin' OBJ it.''-Washing-
ton Star
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

GIVE some people the power to move
mountains, and how quick they would spoil
the country for everybody eise.-Ram' s
Horn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

FoRrIFY Feeble Lungs Against Winter
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28
MOTHERS

and those soon to be-
come Ill O t h er S,
should know that DR..
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription rebs
Childbirth of its tor
lures, terrors and
dangers to both
mother and child, by
aiding nature i'll pre-
pairing the system
for parturition.
Thereby =" labor
and the period of
confinement are
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

"BINKs has got one of those talking
machines" "A phonographT' mo; wife. y
Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-28

Observation-Disclosures my son, is a
ways the best policy" His Son-"Wen
maybe it is, father; but still you've done
pretty well. Tit Bits.