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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

The proposition to increase the nav
of the officers in the German army will
give the colonies 1900 marks, the ma
jors 6,0o0, the captains 5000 and the
heutenants 1,so0 marks per annum.
The German mark is equivalent TO %. s
cents.
According to the estimates of German
and French statisticians the wars of the
last 20 years have cost the nations en-
gagged in them, in money alone, the al
most uncomfortable sum of $4,000, O00,-
coo. OF this amount France has paid
nearly $500, 00o. 900 as the cost of her
war with Prussia.
In order TO provide the proper compile
ments of crews for the new war ships
that viii soon be ready for service it
will be necessary to add not less than
1000 men to the present naval force
In order to secure them congress must
pass a suitable law, as the limit allowed
has already been reached, and the man
ming of the Puritan will exhaust all the
available material.
Frances Foreign Legion is the last
refuge for adventures of all nations.
In one company there were serving re-
Gently a Roumanian prince, who was
suspected of having murdered his
brother; German count, who had been
a lieutenant of the guards on the en-
peror's staff; an italian lieutenant
colonel of cavalry, dismissed for cheat
ing at cards; a Russian nihilist escaped
from Siberia; a former captain in the
English rifle brigade, and an ex-canon
of Notre Dame, suspended for immoral
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

Why did he do it? He had SYerythanns
to live for,-happy home, wife, friends,
money; but he shot himself through the
heart. Why?
himself But everything looked glcss1y
to him He was in gloomy frame of MIND
1t was the way he looked at life that oaE-
He had been living in too much of a hnsEyE.
rushing and driving at business, hustIknE
through his meals, cutting short his alcep-
His nerves got ON edge; His stomach ana
liver got out of order; he grew dyspcptRD
and melancholy.
When the digestion is out of order there
is little use trying to look on the bright side
of things, practically there isn't any bxigh1
side. This is dangerous condition TO gS1
into. Yet it is easy to get into and mighty
hard to get out of it, unless you so aboua 10
in the right way.
There is a remedy that has pulled thOn-
sands of people right out of this depth az
despair. 1t is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medics1
Discovery 1t acts directly upon the stosSa-
ach and liver. 1t restores their natnra1
capacity to nourish and purify the syStezn-
1t purges away bilious poisons, feeds the
nerve-centres With healthy, highly vitalirrS&
blood, and drives out the blue devils % Cg
melancholy and nervousness.
J. L. Warner, No. 1900 o Street, SacTaTuensu.
Cal, writes: During the last FIVE years have
been doctoriug with as many as six different dog
tors here and in San Francisco for diseased Gtruz
ach; but none of the doctors gave me even team
porary relief. Two years ago completely uc1~
lapsed. and had to give up all work. have fclR
many times that would like to leave this world.
In looking over the ads in the San Fraucksrzs
Examiner ran across yours, and now owe my
life and present good health to DIR. Piercc's reed.
icines. I have taken fourteen bottles Of EhS=
Golden Medical Discovery and four little vizlg
of Pleasant Pellets and / am entirely wen or
all stomach trouble. Can sleep nine hours every
night and am now ready to go to work agasaA- -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

Cultivation in the orchard is given to
keep out the weeds and make a loose
mulch.
a little trimming every year is far
better than heavy trimming once i'll
three or four years.
Walnuts, chestnuts, hickory nuts,
peach seeds and all this kind of seeds
should be planted before they get too
dry.
Apples to be profitable must not only
be suited to the locality, but must be
productive, of good size, attractive APP
pearance and good keeper.
Grape cuttings from new wood
clipped in autumn should be cut into
lengths ranging from eight to ten
inches, having on it at least three buds.
Be sure to provide good drainage for
fruit trees. They cannot live long or
thrive well where there is a super
abundance of water, especially during
the winter.
Grow some cultivated crops in the or
chard. Small grain crops of any kind
are Objectionable and should never be
allowed to grow close up around the
stem of the trees.
In storing sweet potatoes for long
keeping dry earth is the best packing
material. Keep them in warm, even
temperature. Pack none but sound
potatoes, or they will surely rot.
When trees are set out in the fall it
will be advisable to draw up small
mound of earth around the stem. This
helps to hold the tree steady in storms,
throws off the surplus water and large
" prevents injury by field mice--St
louis Republic.
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SHOES FOR WOMEN.

A Convenient Variety That VIII Permit
Old Footwear to Be Worn Out.
Women will have chance to wear out
their old shoes this winter, at least so
far as the fashion is concerned. There
is the most convenient variety in the
footwear shown now. You will find
a little of everything in the windows,
piccadillys and round toes and square
toes and New York toes; spring heels
military heels, common sense heels and
LouisXV. heels; lace and buttons; calf
skin and French kid. Everything goes.
There seems to be little preference
in certain directions, however. The
majority of winter shoes have pointed
toes, but not of the sharpest variety.
They are not pretty. They have the air
of having started out to be round toe
and of having suddenly concluded to
be pointed. This causes an awkward
ness of outline which, however, may be
compensated by an increase of comfort.
Tan shoes are still very much in evil
dence in the windows, but women do
not seem to take kindly to them for
autumn and winter wear. Calfskin is
the favorite material for heavy shoes.
In dress shoes a good many cloth tops
are shown, and one Fifth avenue firm
displays high dress shoes with steel
head embroidery on the toes. Slippers
are of all materials, apparently, and
they all have bows on them. These
bows are, in many cases, of satin rib
bon to match the gown. Sometimes
they are merely butterflies of satin,
spangled with gold and silver. The pins
and buckles used with these bows are
of clear and colored rhinestones, cut
steel, gold and silver
Riding boots have broad, plain tops,
minus the wrinkles that formerly
characterized them. Bicycle boots are
now as regular feature of stock as
they once were unknown They are
shown in the same styles which pre-
vailed during the summer, with the adj
dition of heavier one in calf.-N. Y.
Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
SMALL FRUIT CULTURE.
Famous wisconsin Man Asks ''WhO Should
Grow Berries?'

Famous wisconsin Man Asks ''Nho Should
Grow Berries
That is the question asked by NJ. a.
Thayer, the famous berry raiser of
Sparta, Wis, and by him answered as
follows:
First of all, farmers everywhere, for
family use. Farmers must grow ber-
ries or do without. No one can grow
them so cheaply as he. They may be
produced ready for picking, at two
cents per quart. The FARMER saves cost
of picking, packing, boxing, Grating,
freight, express and profits of growers.
He gets them at first cost, fresh from
the vines, and to the extent of his own
family has the best market in the
worid-a home market. He can select
the best land and location on his own
farm, and is sure of a profit with half a
crop.
Farmers can never have ideal homes
without the fruit garden. 1t teaches
the lessons of intensified farming, and
results in better tillage, larger crops.
better stock and improved methods in
every way. Good gardens and poor
farms never keep company long.
The growing of berries for family use
is easily done. The growing of ber-
Ties largely, and selling them in good
market, requires considerable skill and
a special business tact. Only those
who have good location, good marker
and n taste for the business should at
tempt it. Many small farmers so stu
ated are making a success by COM
mencing moderately and increasing
acreage from season to season as eX-
perience warrants.
Berries should be grown by owners
of all village homes, and acreage prop
erty in city and village may be prof
itably used for that purpose.
The market gardener selling his OWE
products can often make an acre or two
of berries very profitable. They are
suitable companions for their vegetable
friends, and sell we'll together.
The business or professional man, al
most broken with care, may recover
health and strength in the pleasant
walk of horticulture. It is restful to
both mind and body.
Many women dependent Oil their own
efforts are securing substantial aid
from their gardens; berries and flowers
thrive best under the gentle touch of
women.
Many a bright boy may receive his
first incentive to business and earn his;
first money by growing berries or veg
etables. Give them patch of ground
and encourage them in this work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
EoREIGN GOSSIP.

French two-cent postal cards, issT ed
for the cars visit to Paris. are now sold
for one dollar, if they bear the postmark
OF the day OF the ears arrival
During the September cyclone in
Paris the Jardin des Plantes suffered
severely. The flower beds were de
stroyed and the fapoas cedar Of
Lebanon, planted near the Belvedere in
1875, was blown down. The other large
trees were so badly damaged that it has
lately been found necessary to cut them
ali down.
"A Brussels firm has just accepted Il
contract for the establishment of 4 tel
egraph system throughout Abyssinia.
Each telegraph station is TO be furnished
with a telephone, and the more i'm
portant are to be connected with the
residence of Emperor Menelik, so as to
enable him to keep, if not an eye, a any
rate, an ear upon his dusBy subjects.
-Proportionately there is no great
town in the civilized world that has so
few daily papers as London. This is
due to the large expenditure involved
in starting one. Anyone contemplating
starting London paper must be ready
tcIose $50, 600 or $500, 600 per annum for
the first two or three years, and then it
is an open question whether he will
have turned the corner.
The early British custom of erect
ing cairns, or heaps of stones, to com
memorate events is one greatly in favor
with the queen. The first royal cairn
was erected when she took possession
of Balmoral, and the estate IS now quite
rich in these unique memorials, there
being one to commemorate the prince
consort's death and the marriage of
each of her children.
In Genoa there are regular mar
rage brokers', who have pocketbooks
filed with the names of girls of the diff
\ ferent classes, with notes of their fig
eres, personal attractions, fortune and
other circumstances. These brokers so
aboht endeavcring to arrange connec-
items in the same off-hand mercantile
manneF which they would bring to bear
upon a merchandise transaction.
Cen GIukhovsIloi has been sent to
examine the bed of the Amer Daria, the
Oxus of antiquity, owing to informa-
ton given by the khan of Khiva when
he visited Moscow for the cars corona
ton. The khan asserts that the Amer
Daria has abandoned its bed and worked
its way into the Sary-Kavaysh, which.
if true, will reduce the cost of turning
the rivers course into the Caspian sea
one-half. The rectiication of its banks
would then probably cost less than the
projected railroad from Orenburg to
Tashllend.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
THE ANCIENT CITY OF PEKINe.
One of the oldest in the World and the
Capital of the Great Khan.

One of the oldest in the World and the
Capital of the Great Khan.
The city is one of the oldest in the
world; but it was not made Il capital
until Kublai Khan, somewhere about
1882, fixed his court there. Under the
MongOls the name of Picking was Khan
palik, or City of the Khan; and this
title was easily converted into Cam
baluc, by which name it is known il
the accounts of those times. Picking
is now divided into two parts; the
northern portion is the Tartar city.
and contains about IL square miles;
in this are the palaces, government
buildings, troops and military bar
racks. The southern part is the Chi
ncse city, and is more populous than
the Tartar. less of it's space being taken
up by gardens and public buildings
The population is estimated at different
figures; but 100000 appears to be a
fair estimate.
a wall separates the Tartar from the
Chinese city, and a wall of varying
height surrounds the whole, that Of
the Tartar section being about so fee
high, and that around the Chinese Sec
IIOll SOilsC OO 1CCO III ICSG "dAlc
are of brick and stone filled in with
earth and paved on the top with slabs
of stone, affording a promenade II
feet wide. There are 16 gates in all,
and each gateway is fortified with tow
crs of stone; and other towers are
fixed at intervals of about co yards
all around the walls. These towers
project so feet from the outer side of
the walls, and those at the gateways
have in front of them fortification
of a semicircular shape, so that the
gate must be entered from the side
and not from the front.
The Tartar city is divided into three
Enclosures. each being surrounded with
its own wall, and each inside of an
other. The innermost of these is the
Prohibited City, and contains the inn
perial palaces and offices. It's cir
conference is nearly two miles; the
wall is covered with imperial-yellow
tiles which look brilliant when seen
from a distance. The Enclosure next
outside of this is occupied by the gov
eminent offices, and by the army ap-
pointed to keep guard over the emperor
and his family. The next outside of
this is the outermost of all, and con.
sists of dwelling-houses and Shops
Noah Brooks, in ST. Nicholas
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
H.
A PERMANENT HoTBEt

this purpose. Coat the bottSm ano
sides with cement, and fix sdsh with
slope at the top, as shownl in the
sketch. The hotbed can be made of any
length desired, using two Oh more
sashes for the top. Such hotbed will
always present an attractiveT appear
ance, will maintain a mote, equable
temperature than one of board. and will
always be in readiness tcfbe fired up. >
a hotbed can be ma6efto do more for
the family table thxn the starting Of
garden plants in spSing-it can be used
for the winter production of many a
choice dish that will taste all the bet
ter for being Put of season.-MontreoI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
FACTS FROM FLORIDA.

Poor Roads the Equivalent of Tax Of
Ten Dollars Per Acre.
Cultiyating ten acres. eight miles
from the station, / buy two tons of fer
tiIizer for S70 This quantity makes
eight loads for one horse, and six hours
are required for a trip. The time of
myself and horse is worth 60 cents per
load. make 500 crates of vegetables,
which require Il trips TO get them 10
the station. at a cost of $500. On hard
roads l could haul my S7e worth of fer
tilizer in four trips of four hours each,
at cost of S1.6O. / could haul my SOC
crates of vegetables in s.. trips of four
hours each, at cost of s14. On the sand
roads one horse is required II days to
ship my crop, which is a longer time.
than the shipping season, hence l am
compelled to keep two horses during
the year. or hire from my neighbors
during busy time. The cost of keep
ing the second horse may he safely esti-
mated at SIS. So much of my time is
used in my trips to town that during
three months OF the gear am com
PEELED to hire an extra hand, which
nnats. me about SIS. The foregoing
i'll suffice to show that bad
gay tene2cEe crop $1o1 so.
axer SO per acre.-Cor.
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pECyKMRER
JUNE
Garden spots of the South.
- - -

The Passenger Department of the Louis
is descriptive of the resources and capabili-
ties of the soil of the counties lying along
this line in the states of Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Alabama, Southern Mississippi and
Western Florida. 1t also contains a county
map of the above mentioned states, ana is
well worthy of q perusal of any one inter
ested in the South. A copy will be sent to
any address upon receipt of ten cents in sill
yer or stamps, by c. P. ATMoRE, Gen. Pass
Agt., Louisville, XIV. Semi-monthly eXcur-
sions South Write for particulars.
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THE LEAR WEST"
1t Has Gone Into the Past. with tho Buff
falo and Antelope.

It Has Gone Into the Past. with tho Buff
falO and Antelope.
The Far West" has Joined the Seven
Cities of Cibola in the realm of rain
bow land. When the city of Spokane
Falls enjoys better electric lighting
and street car service than New York;
when the Santa Fe trail has been for
half generation a line of Pullman
train service en- route for Tucson; when
the antelope has become a menagerie
rarity and Fort ColviIle refreshment
station for the tenderfoot, it is ap-
parent not merely that the Far West
is only round the corner; but, spelled
thus, Far West, with capital letters.
has joined the Halls of the Montezu-
mas. In great measure this is true;
and with this disappearance of tha- ia
bled region, that region whose history
has run into another volume, and which
now we may see only in the Border
DRAMA" and the Observation-Disclosures
ten-cent novel, there has passed much of
the danger of those appeals to boyish
Imagination and ambition that have
wrought SO much evil in the eastern
cities. When, at last, there is no more
q .sFar West, where guns" are really
pulled from hip poeket-or leathern
belts-and popped at slightest provoca-
tien. and Indians are scarce as arc
pirates now on seas of commerce-andi
thu. boys have come TO understood this
--the books viii do no more harm tha1k
20 the stories of old New York and TIT
tales Of Robin Hood in Merry England
And 50 II modern realistic romance
between or on the hoarsls--ioses son
thing Of its Yividness and pieturesg
ness, we can be easily reconciled
societY's gasn.--N. ]. sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

Messrs- yivien and Dupont have ex-
Perimentsd as to the manufacture of
alcohol from apples. One hundred
quarts Of apple-juice contained s9.75
per cenf. of water, O.3O per cent. of ash,
2.o4 pei cent. of pectin bodies and 2 per
cent. f cane-sugar, 2.97 per cent dex-
trose {s.5O per cent. levulose, and O.s4 per
cent of other sugars; total sugars.
14.3T per cent. On adding phosphoric
ecif, potash and ammonia Tor sodium
ni1ratel, the fermentation proceeds as
qhickly and completely as with turnip-
shice, and by this means per cer41. al
kohol is obtained from the apples. This
alcohol was considered to be of better
quality than the ordinary alcohol from
cider. The grounds remaining equal IS
per cent. of the apples taken, and con
tain 2.5 per cert. of. sugar.-N. Y. Led
ger.
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ARROW POINTS.

If pigeon-toed people knew how fun
ny they look they wouldn't walk that
way.
A woman's idea of being dutiful
wife is to keep her husband supplied
with slippers.
A woman thinks that if man doesn't
know just how to fold his napkin, it is
a sign he lacks culture.
If anybody should try to make us do
the fool things we do of our own accord
how we would bewail our hard lot
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

We have, 50 miles west o. H0uSttN
Chesteryille, the best tract In Texas
rainfall, good soil, low prices ana ~
terms. Don't fail to post yourself SEFs
and receive our book $ Fertile Farm xaaziE
frss and information rs to cheap cxcarSinr11
aud free fare Address. Soafhexn EeSff
Colonization Co., JoHN LsHNDERTs1sal. Me-
no Rialto Bldg. Chicago
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

DoCroR-"The matter with you is that
you want to be out more" Patient-''I'il
be out enough when get your bill, DOCTOR"
--Yonxers Statesman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

ssNo, ny dear. it's no use talking. shasFa
give up smoking until I'm desadn NfR
lieve that you win giveitup thenfs- RrpoEr-
lyn Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

'swALKING has been pleasure to rneesur
since can renember.n Eyes; the FaliaafssR
part of it was before you could remSanher-n
Chicago Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

UNLESS the heart first gives, what the
hand bestows is not q gift.-Ram's Horn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

HARGREAvEs-s'I met Buffalo Bill when
was in Chicago the last time.'' Ferry-"He
is about the only bill you ever met, isn't
he!"- Cincinnati Enquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

ALL kinds, little or big. ST. Jacobs On
surely cures aches and pains.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

PIso's CURE cured me of Throat and
Lung trouble of three years standing. E.
CADF, Huntington, Ind, Nov. II, 1894.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

CuARIrr is an eternal debt, and piEhoz4
Gmit.-Q uesnel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

BUSINESS lifts the strain. ST. Jacobs Oil
is master cure for pain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

THE picture and advertisement on this
page of Hapgood Plow Co., Alton, ILL.,, will
interest you.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

Be sure; neuralgia will cease. st. Jacobs |
Oil the cure. Get ease.
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PERMANENT HoTRED.

Every Well Managed Farm Should Have
One of Them.
A permanent hotbed is shown in the
accompanying illustration 1t may be
constructed on the sunny aide of ones
house, against the UNDERMINING, or
against the foundation of tLe stable.
Excavate to the required depth, aRd
build up a wall of stone topped with
brick, going below the frost lire for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

ASPIRING AUTHOR -"Do you run Poets
Corner in your papers" Business Man
ager-S'No. Our editor is poet scorner'-
Somerville Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

AN investment in knowledge always paws
the best interest.-Benjamin Franklin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
A clear Light.

1 think the writers for the House
keeper are imbued with the spirit of
helpfulness. When they see or know
of good thing, or can cheer sorrow
ing heart, they never fail to use the
zen to good purpose Careful readers
of the paper find many good recipes,
easier methods OF laundering, house
cleaning, and learn how to do pretty
fancy work. have had delightful
visit in country home, and learned
how TO keep q lamp in perfect condi-
ton. Cleanliness is the first law; alb
solute cleanliness. niNnge the burn
ers every nac,rlaa Ahasin of hot
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Good roads mean nearer and -
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Poor roa6s are the unaappie