Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-11

AT the regular meeting OF the Read
ing Circle. Monday evening. April Stt
Eugene Field was the poet under cor
sideration. A lively sketch of his Tiff
was given by Miss Edith Strong, fol
lowed by the reading of lover the Hill
and Far Away" bY NJ. s. z. No.ssao
The Editors Wife" by AR. Geo. Duty
and ''Jes' Fore Christmas" by Mrs. T
Francis. These were interspersed will
music by the Misses Eairchild and Ken
dali. and the reading of one of the Cir
cie's original stories. The programme
being concluded by the reading o
twenty pages of 1.-The House of Mar
tha." by Miss Eva Purkiss. In re
spouse to request made by one of the
Circle Whose father had known Mr.
tieidl. for suggestion as to an ap
propriate poem for the occasion, MIR.
Field sent three poems (..Over the
Hills and Far Away" and s.Jes' Fore
Christmas" being two of them. togeth.
er with his latest photograph and q
sketch of his life. The Circle fully APP,
preciates the honor bestowed by Mr..
Field. and very merry evening was
uonal and happy genius.
1t is unlawful to kill a deer under
one year of age and for five years it
will be unlawful to kill doe. Other
deer may be killed between October l
and January 1. The killing of wild
song and insectivorous birds or the de-
struction of their nests at any time is
prohibited. Wild turkey, prairie chick
ems, pheasauts and quail can be killed
between November l and January l..
wood cock, turtle dove, meadow lark
and plover between August l and jan
uary /. The trapping or netting OF
such game at any season is unlawful.
The killing of wild ducks between
April l and October is forbidden. as
is also the killing of ducks or geese be-
tween sunset and sunrise, or by means
OF explosives. In this latter provision
an exception is made in favor of a per-
SON killing on his own premises. The
fish law prohibits the placing of nets
at the mouth Of streams, and in fact of
seine not exceeding fifteen feet in
length, commonly used by fishermen for
procuring small fish for bait. This law
does not apply to private ponds or res
ervoirs. The law does not, however,
repeal a former law making it felony
to kill fish with dynamite or similar
high explosives or poison. An infrac-
ton of either the game or fish law in
ours fine of from SO to $50.
In a communication that appeared
in last weeks issue our correspondent,
"Norma1ite, desires a full and COM
plete explanation of the words "clap-
trap" s.1ap-doodle" and .'damphool. :"
Although we have never had the ad-
vantages of Normal training. we feel
competent to make the meaning of
these words clear. without adding two
glOssarial pages to the REGISTER.
When Professor in an educational
institution founded by the State and
kept afioat by money derived by taxa
ton from its people rushes to the
State Capitol to secure increased APP
for the institution through
which he obtains his bread and butter
and the other comforts of life; when
he. with others of the faculty, work
hand and glove, with a corrupt lobby
to this end, and leave no stone IN
turned for its attainnent-all the
while protesting that he is only striv-
ing for the public good, and that with
put his efforts and the expenditure OF
lime and money or. his part the repre-
of the people would neglect
The interests of their constituents
these protestations 'Normalite' may
set down as claptrap pure and simple;
and when he finds anyone who believes
them, he can feel assured that he has
a damphoof-very moist.
When .sNormalite" hears q young
man. fresh from the portals of school,
with only twenty years or so OF his
life behind him, talking about theo-
ries and methods of teaching as if they
were discoveries of yesterday, which
methods every successful teacher in
every age of the world must have used
to a greater or less extent. and sneer-
ing at the experience of men old in the
profession who have not been stamped
with the approval of any State institu-
tion-that young man is uttering flap
doodle at which he will probably smile
when he gets older. Should he hear
parties protesting to a conference that
they had a guaranteed fund OF twenty
five thousand dollars for the erection
of a school building to be used for a
school, when no such fund
was in existence, this would be neith-
err claptrap nor Hap-doodle: it would
be plain homely lying, for which there
can be NO excuse. OF course, being
an editor, we know, in general way,
what 'altruistic" means. AS we I'M
derstand It, 1t refers to something q
fellow takes when he has the fantOds
or is in some way connected with the
High Church party in the Church OF
England. Having loaned out that
part Of our dictionary which contains
it, we cannot lay our hands upon the
analytical definition at once. We
recognize it as a good word, however.
and have taken it into our confidence.
The readers of the REGISTER will be
with it in the future. We
suppose that ..Normalite" learned to
spell hifalutipt 'high-fa-lootin" at Cape
Girardeau. Spelled in this latter way,
it has a better perspective.
We regret exceedingly that we have
incurred the displeasure OF the 1Nddt-
sou Couuku Democrat. We cannot COM