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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-RGssih stands third among the M
lions in the number of books published.
| surprising Great Britain. AS but lit
tie fiction is printed the enormous
output of serious literature is the more
remarkable.
The center of the city of Birming-
ham, England, is being undermined by
the myriads of rats infesting the sew
ers. The damage done to property is
incalculable. In one place no fewer
than $50 rats were caught in one day.
The Cooperative Wholesale society,
limited. OF London, has no fewer than
$40 employees engaged in clerical work
in single apartment, 156 feet long Icy
| 60 feet broad. The sales of the con-
Germ amount to considerably over $780,
600 900.
Egyptians are very prolific, The
native births in 1894 were 49,, $40, while
the deaths were only 192, 103. The La
tive population of Egypt up to the Sec
ond Cataract and including the cases,
is about 100000. The natives are
thoroughly convinced that the muddy
| waters of the Nile increase the gro
creative powers.
DIR. Caster has discovered in a
heap of torn papers sent to him from
Yeman, Arabia, an ancient book Of
magic called 1.-THE Sword of Moses"
It is written in Syrian hand, the first
part in Hebrew and the last in Aramaic.
It will be published with translation
and fac-siniles in the transactions CT
the Royal Asiatic society.
The first rivers mentioned in au-
thentic history are alluded to in Gen.
esis. They are the Pison, the Gihon,
the Hiddckel and the Euphrates, which
are said to have flowed from the gar
den of Eden. Various attempts have
been made to identify these streams,
but no agreement has been reached
among the authorities save in the case
of the Lass.
A curious form of life insurance is
spirnging up in French manufacturing
towns under the name of La Fourmi
(the anti. The popularity is that the
longer a man lives the less he is en-
titled to. The payment of one dol
lar a month assures the payment OF
$1,000 to the heirs of man dying be-
fore the age OF So, the payment dimin-
fishing proportionately to $500 at 81.
The idea seems to be that if man dies
young his children are likely to be in
want, but when he is so they will oe
able to earn their living.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
Ration for Cattle or sheep.

Clover, hay, bran and wheat straw
make up a complete ration in growing
cattle or sheep. It makes cheap food.
1t will bring little better result if tho
straw and clover could first be run
through feed-cutter and then the
bran be added. Eut, if this cannot be
done, the next best plan is to feed the
straw and clover in racks Or managers,
and the bran in boxes or troughs.
There will be much less waste in this
way than by allowing the stock to run
In the stacks and help themselves.
What is left in the racks or managers
can be used for bedding, and in this
way be converted into valuable fer.
tilizer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HoGHousE AND YARDS.

q Striking Novelty In tho Elmo ~ Con>
venient PigEcr1cs.
The accompanying illustration repJ
resents an easily constructed hoghouse
and system of yards which I find To
be quite convenient. Fig. is an ex-
terror view of the house, only por-
ton being shown, which is covered with
boards and battens. The outer posts
are feet high; the rafters are "a
feet long, and meet at a common point.
tlg. 2 shows the ground plan of tho
house and yards; q a, etc, are AKA posts
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
tro BE coNrSUEn.1
Culinary item.

She-What shall I cook for dinner?
You know the cook has left, and I'll
have to do the cooking myself
He-Well, just cook me some dish
that don't like. something that 1
wouldn't eat anyhow, even If it was
properly cooked.-Texas Siftin9s.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
Forgiven.

.Aren't you the same beggar that
caye half pie to last wcek?
81 guess 1 am. mum: but I'm w1iiln'
to let bygones be bygones. 1t amt in
NV heart to bear no malice.
sapoiis Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13
THE pitfan, much used in Africa

The pitfaH. much used in Africa
and South America as means of catch
ing large game, is an imitation of the
device employed by the ant lion to en-
trap his prey. This curious insect digs
a conical hole in the sand and lies in
wait at the bottom. When an incau-
t;ous ant approaches too near the top
the sand gives way and he slides down
into the jaws Of his enemy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13

reaching from the ground to the roof:
and are doors to each pen. The
sizes of pens and lots are represented
in the cuts. For roofing used 1xIe
boards; 1886 feet were required. To
avoid waste in cutting, get one-half Of
this in 16-foot lengths, one-fourth in IL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13

foot, and the remainder 12-foot, For
partitions and yards, use 16-foot fenc-
ing. Feed bins can be made over each
pen.-American Agriculturist.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

THE THRONE OF THUNDER.
It Is the Highest Point on the Western
Side of Africa.

It Is the Highest Point on the Western
Side of Africa.
Mungo Nam Lobeh, the throne, or
place, of thunder, as the natives call it,
the peak of Kameruns as the whites
call it, is the highest point on the west
ern side Of the African continent
The first view the voyager gets Of it,
who, coming from the northward, has
been coasting for weeks along low
shores and up the stagnant rivers
fringed with mangrove swamp, is a
thing no man can ever forget. Sudden
ly, right up out of the sea, the great
mountain rises to its 13, 760 feet, while
close at hand, to westward, towers the
lovely island mass Of Fernando Pc to its
10, 100 feet, and great as is its first charm
every time you see it it becomes greater,
although it is never the same. Five
times have been in the beautiful bay
at its foot and have never seen it twice
alike. Sometimes it is wreathed with
indigo black tornado clouds, sometimes
crested with SNOW, sometimes standing
out hard and clear as though made of
metal, and sometimes softly gorgeous,
with green, gold, purple and pink vapora
tinted by the sunset.
There are only two distinct rom
tains, or peaks, to this glorious !. g
that biologists brutally call ";sn in!su-
siye mass"-Big Kamernn and Little
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
Overthrow Of Protection" in Canada

Overthrow Of Protection" in Canada
The remarkable victory which the
Canadian liberals have just won gives
severe blow to protectionism in the
Dominion and promises to open the
way to free trade between Canada and
the United States.
Hon. Wilfrid Laurier, the liberal
leader. is reported as SAYING
1--WE have been elected on a plat
form of tariff reform, and it is on these
lines we intend to work. We shall ap
ply ourselves at once to a revision OF
the tariff
But it remains to be seen whether
rariff-revision in Canada will be as
scant and trivial as it has been in this
country, where the enormously high
Mckinley duties on our imports were
reduced in 1894 scarcely 8 per cent on
the average. If the Canadian tariff
reformers do no better than this they
will soon disgust the people.
The suicidal folly and tremendous
wastefulness inseparable from every
form of protectionism have been so
long and signally demonstrated that
popular liberation of a tariff would
seem incredible were not the people
kept in ignorance of its real workings.
For purposes of revenue we have
found all tariffs-high and low-the
most uncertain, the most uneconomic,
the most unequal and the most waste
full of all known methods of taxation.
1t will be happy thing if our Domin
ion neighbors seize the present oppor-
tune moment to lay deep and solid
foundation for free-trade with the
United States and all the world.
OF course. we should be gamers, and
the Canadian protectionists following
the example of our protectionists)
might start campaign of calamity
bowling and raise the silly cry of lad
verse trade balance" flooding the
land with foreign goods and de
stroying domestic industries" for the
benefit of the United States. But
Canada would gain by free trade in
finitely more than she would lose
Happily, she has now ranged herself,
professedly, at least, upon the side OF
commercial freedom and civilization
W. Y HeruZG
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Kamerun. The latter, Mungo Man
Etindah, has not yet been scaled, though
it is only $500 fleet. One reason for
this doubtless is that people DESTROYS OF
going up mountains, a rather rare form
Of human being in fever stricken, over
worked west Africa, naturally try for
the big peak; also the little peak is
mostly sheer cliff, and covered with al
most impenetrable bush. Behind the
Kamerun mountain, inland, there are
two chains of mountains, or one chain
DETECTED, bearing the names Of the
Rumbi and Onion mountains.
These are little known at present, and
are clearly no relation Of Mungo's.
They are almost at right angles to it,
and are, I believe, infinitely older in
structure, and continuous with the many
named range we know in Kongo Fran
caise as the Sierra del Crystal In q
southwest direction from Kamerur
mountain, out in the Atlantic, is series
of volcanic islands, presumably belong
ing to the same volcanic line of activity
Principe, 5000 feet; San Thome
4,913 feet, and farther away still, AS
cencion, St. Helena and the Tristan
d'Acunha groups. National Review.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
Wanted-A Husband.

A good joke was played on the girls
of a provincial town recently by the
young men Of the place The boys had
been rather remiss in their attentions to
the young ladies, and had been going to
the theaters, parties and SO on until
the girls grew tired of being left out in
the cold and decided to show their in
dependence.
Consequently 10 Of the girls hired a
box at the theater and made very
charming theater party. The play was
s'Wanted-a Husband" and the girls
sat serene through it all, never dream
ing that the wicked boys had taken one
of the largest flaring posters, WANTED
"a Husband, and fastened it i'll front
Of the box SO that all the audience
might read.-Pearson' s Weekly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
HOW TO CURE YOURSELF WHILE
Using LII.

The tobacco habit grows on man until his
nervous system is seriously affected, impair
ing health, comfort and happiness. 70 quit
suddenly is too severe a shock to the system
as tobacco to an inveterate user becomes a
stimulant that his system continually Graves
"Baco-CurO'' is scientific cure for The tobacco
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after the formula of an eminent Berlin physf
clan who has used it IN his private practice
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We give written guarantee to cure perma.
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the money with 10 per cent. interest. "Baco-
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with no inconvenience. It leaves the system
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Cured BY f;acO-Curo and Gained Thirty
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From hundreds of testimonials, the originals
of which are ON file and open to inspection, the
following is presented:
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-Gentlemcn: Forty years l used tobacco IN
time was great sufferer from general de
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ana have increased thirty pounds in weight
and am relieved from all the numerous aches
and pains OF body and mind. L could write
0l1ire OF paper upon my changed feelings and
Condition Yours respectfully.
p. III. MARBURY
l. Pastor c. P. Church, Clayton, Ark.
Sold by ali drug g,sts at Si00 per hox; three
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
*Daily, except Sunday. sunday only.
CONNECTIONS:

Train No. 40S connects at Harper's Ferry
with Fast Limited Express trains, leaving at
Lib p. NJ, arriving at Columbus at ESQ a. m.
and Pittsburgh ct 5:45 p. M, and Chicago at
loo a. m. next morning; with train leaving
at 5:l9 p. M, arriving at Cincinnati at 7:45 a
Weverton with train arriving at Hagerstown
at 2:13 p. M, and at Washington Junction with
train arriving at Frederick at 2:20 p. m.
Train 416 connects with fast vestibuled trains
at Harpers Ferry at $3.50 p. m. for Chicago;
1921 p; m. for Pittsburg, and las a: M for Gin
cinnati and st. Louis Arrive at Pittsburg at
6:55 a. M; Chicago at 900 p. M, Cincinnati at
$50 p. M, and st. Louis at 7:12 a. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars run through
to Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago and Pitts
burgh on all express trains.
For rates, tickets, baggage checks and fur
ther information apply TO B. & o. agents or to
G. e. Dudrow, Travelling Passenger Agent,
Winchester, Va, or c. T. Hammond, Agent
StauntOn, Va.
CHAS. o. SCULL, w. NJ. GREENE
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Man.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
THE FIRST CARRIAGE IN MAINE.
How a Minister Came to Buy It and VIII!
He Sold 1t.

How q Minister Came to Buy 1t and Why
He Sold 1t.
The Rev. Francis Winter was a ma
tive of Boston and a graduate OF Har-
yard college. He went to Bath early IN
1857, and after preaching on probation
for the Orthodox church was invited to
settle, which invitation he accepted. He
was ordained in the autumn of the same
year. He went to Bath on horseback in
company with Lemuel Standish. Mr..
Winter came from Boston, where he
had associated with such eminent men
as Adams, Otis and Warren, himself
becoming an ardent patriot, taking the
lead in the Revolutionary measures
adopted in Bath during that memorable
period.
Mr.. Winter married Miss Abigail AL
den in 1868, and it is through her that
the Winters of today trace their ancestry
back to the Puritan Maiden of Plym-
outh.'
Three years after the marriage Of the
Rev. Francis Winter and Abigail Alden
they started to visit sister of Mrs.
Winter, living in Connecticut, and in
tended to ride all the way on horseback,
but Mrs. Winter became SO fatigued that
Mr.. Winter sold one Of the horses for a
carriage and harness 1t was the first
carriage that ever came into Maine and
was called chaise. Travelling was SO
difficult that two negroes were employed
to accompany them with shovels and
axes to clear the road. Several times the
chaise had to be taken apart and lifted
over fallen trees. The ministers parish
toner's thought that it was putting on
too much style for their pastor to ride
in carriage, and in consequence Mr..
Winter sold it. This was in 1771. 1t
was a two wheeled chaise, the body
resting on leather braces, which were
attached to wooden springs. Lewiston
.JOurnal
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
A DETECTIVES PAPER.

Bome of the Curious Items and Adver-
tisements That It Contains.
The American Hawkshaw will go
down into literature outside of the dime
novel and the detective story, for he has
o newspaper of his own. says an ex-
change. This unique addition to the list
Of class papers is published monthly and
It is devoted to the interests of detectives
and policemen.
Its news columns are given over to
bulletin Of more than $15, 900 in cash
rewards, with veritable rogues' gal
lery of pictures and descriptions Of
"crooks wanted" while the latest
swindling schemes and methods Of de-
lection are fully explained for its crime
investigating readers It is interesting
to read that ''if you want to succeed as
a detective you should understand hyp-
notism."
"Do you need bracelets In your bust
ness?'' queries dealer in patent nip
pers, handouts and dark lanterns.
'Mustache, whiskers- just the things
to change your appearance when shad-
owing" suggests another advertiser,
while skeleton keys to open 5000
desks, drawers, trunks and padlocks, set
of SIX" are offered to the profession at
81. 1t is rather grewsome to learn that
$500 spot cash buys pair OF thor
oughbred English bloodhounds, only 10
months old, and already keep cold
trail better than most old dogs; best in
yestment sheriff or special officer can
make" Also, ''for % cents you can
learn how to detect counterfeit money. "
The most novel article is brief trea-
tise on psychology" as applied to crime
detection. The departments OF Police
Pickings'' and "Secret Service Snap
Shots contain suggestive items all the
q. way from the fact that the city council
at Colfax, Wash. has decided Ito reduce
its police force to one man" to the state
ment that "New York has "a policemen
to the square mile. -
In an article on the future of the de-
tective service the detective writer de-
clares that "dime novel writers have
done amateur detectives more mischief
than anything or anybody in existence,
but remember truth is stranger than fic-
ton.
The editor estimates that the "aver-
age earnings of private detectives are;
First year, $3.50; second year, $1,000;
third year, $1,000" He says: "F all
the detectives and police in the United
States should lay off for a month every
citizen would have to fix up his house
like an arsenal to protect his family and
property.'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
An English "RuIl."

Sir Francis Scott, the British com
mander in the recent expedition against
Ashanti, is not believed to be coun-
tryman of Sir Boyle Roche, but i'll re-
viewing the troops after their return to
England he made remark which is al
most worthy to stand beside some of
those of the celebrated maker Of bulls. -
Sir Francis, III addressing his men.
said: "You were no doubt disappointed
because this campaign gave you no op-
portunity to fight; but if there had been
any fighting, there would have been
many absent faces here tcdayl''-
Youths Companion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
UNDER THE SNOW.

Under the snow lies secret, my dear.
Under the snow,
And it whispers the coming Of roses fine
And the golden bell Of the jessanine vine.
This secret under the snow.
Under the snow sleeps song, my love,
Under the snow,
And. its notes unawake to buttercups fair
Or the violets' call in soft summer air,
This song sleeps under the snow.
Under the snow lisps a prayer, my sweet
Under the snow,
And it melts in a hope on the crocus leaf
And promises life in the hyacinth wreath,
This prayer down under the snow.
-Woman's Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

SAYS SHE WAS JAY GOULD's WIFE.
Supreme Court of New York Com
missioners John E. Kelly and M. Smith
heard the testimony of the Rev. Ma
than Leighton and his daughter at
Tunkhannock, Pa, in the Sarah Ann
Angel case, in which she sues for her
dover right in the Gould estate. The
plaintiff claims that Rev. Mr.. Leighton
was the minister who performed the
marriage ceremony which made her
and Jay Gould man and wife when
Jay Gould was a young surveyor. Mr..
Leighton is now eighty-five years old
and his daughter is in feeble health
and blind, and this is the cause of the
commission going there to hear the
case.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
-ENGLisHMEN AND AMERICA.
Many Who Have Been Warm Friends of
This Country.

1890
The fact is that the English public
men who have understood America, or
who have seemed to care to understand
her, have, at least until recently, always
represented small minority. During
the first century of our national life
scarcely an Englishman of eminence
was clear sighted enough to perceive
Americas real devotion to great ideals.
Our British kinsmen thought us horde
of gradgrinds and nothing else, whereas,
in spite of seeming absorption in ma
terial things, the national life was Crap
ping with mighty ethical and political
ideas, which the se]fshness and ire
sponsibility Of politicians might some
times distort, but could never stifie.
Leigh Hunt, as Lowell used to remind
ug, could never think Of America with
out seeing in imagination gigantic
counter stretched all along our seaboard,
and we bore Hunts ridicule with a
complacency that was the more cheerful
because his caliber and weight of metal
were scarcely great enough to do much
execution over sea. Carlyle sneered; we
remembered his dyspepsia and forgave.
Ruskin emptied the walls Of his CO
quent contempt upon our sacrifice to
Americas freedom and integrity; we
abated no jot or little Of our veneration
for his prophets message, while we
strove to make just allowance for the
vagaries of the hyper@sthetic tempera-
ment. These things it was easy to con.
done.
The Englishmen who have understood
American life have judged it by some
thing besides the froth of the irresponsi
BILE press and the antics of provincial
statesmen Cobden's fatal exposure
of his life to do us service and Joh1
Bright's brave words in the hour of ou1
distress can never be forgotten. The
memory Of Thomas Hughes-alas! thai
we must write memory" now-wil
always remain rich and fragrant leg
acy, to which, in peculiar sense, W.
are coheirs with Englishmen, while thu
work of Mr. Bryce has not only wo1
our respect and gratitude, but is bound
to leave deep impress on our life. None
of these men was blind to the eviden
foibles, defects and crudities of thu
strenuous life of an earnest and virilt
people On the other hand, none invited
distrust by silly attempts to fatter O.
cajole But all were quick to recognize
in American aspiration, achievement
and representative character something
other and better than mere bigness
They even ventured now and then t,
, speak Of these things as great; but tn
words sits better on their lips than OF
urs.-From "Duty of Englishmen t.
| America in Century
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22


In little old curiosity shop in Third
avenue is an odd letter written by Jay
Gould away back in 1854, before Gould
began to dicker in railroads and when
he was an obscure and respected sur
veyor.
The letter was written by Gould to
the late A. M. Sherman, and it was an
appeal for the loan of surveyors level,
the young surveyor offering to give the
topography of the Newburg and SYRIA
cuse railroad for it. just before his
death a few years ago Jay Gould at
tempted to buy the letter for $25. but it
had been sold the day before. Not long
ago, however, the letter came back into
the possession of the curio dealer, and a
few days ago he sent his young son
around to George Gould's Office with it,
instructing him to offer'it for sale for
$25, the price the senior Gould had Of
fered to pay.
George Gould was pleased with the
old, worn and yellow letter. He read it
and then laughingly said:
81 declare, that's funny. My father
wrote that However, he refused tc
give more than S. for it, which offer the
curio dealer refused.
After AZ years the letter is as plain as
the day it was written. But the paper,
full sized letter sheet, written Oh both
sides, is worn at the edges. The hand
writing is plain and flowing, with de
cided tendency tO flourish Two word.
are Observation-Disclosures and dam
age, which are written bermetricar
and sdammage.
But queerest Of all is the length o
the epistle. Jay Gould was noted TO
the brevity Of his business letters. Thre
lines often sufficed him, when his wealth
was nearly 500, ZOO, 900, to transac
business involving millions. But as
poor surveyor he needed plenty Of VERDI
age to get around the loan of a So
level.-New York Letter