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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
THE ALUMINIUM OUTPUT.
This Country Leads the World with 1 L ,OOO
Pounds Daily Product.

This country Leads the World with l1,OOU
Pounds Daily Product.
Aluminium, the youngest of all metals,
is rapidly coming into general use. It
was discovered by Frederick Wohler,
German professor, but to Sir Claire De-
vile, Frenchman, belongs the honor
of being the founder of the aluminium
industry.
Tie first article made of this metal
was in compliment to Louis Napoleon,
who had helped Deville-a baby rattle
for the infant prince imperial.
In 1855, when the first aluminium
company was formed, the cost of a
pound of metal was about 5000. In 1889
Charles NJ. Hall, of Oberlin, o., patented
an electrolytic process. He, with a
few of his friends, then started small
plant on the banks of the Allegheny
river, IS miles above Pittsburgh. The
first year the company produced rs
pounds of aluminium day, which was
sold for $3.50 & pound. In 1895 COM
pany built large plant at Niagara Falls,
and this year it is building additional
works. When these are completed they
will have an output of 1000 pounds
daily. This will put the United States
in front as the largest aluminium pro-
ducing country in the world.
Aluminium weight is about o third
that of iron, and only steel of the high
est quality and the best aluminium
bronze will give a greater strength for
2 given weight than aluminium. It
stands high in the list of metals, and can
be drawn into wire 1-250th of an inch in
thickness. 1t is an excellent conductor
of electricity. and would at 20 cents a
pound take the place of copper for all
electrical purposes.
In shipbuilding, where lightness is
demanded, aluminium meets every re-
quiremeEt. Corrosion and galvanic
action are easily overcome by properly
painting the part subject to the action
OF the water and by using aluminium
rivets. France and Germany have sew
eral torpedo boats made of aluminium,
and pleasure yachts every year are be-
ing constructed of this metal Iowa
State Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
OUR AcrlNe PRESIDENTS.
Three Cabinet Onacers TO Whom President
CIeveIand DELEGATES His Power.

Three Cabinet Omcers TO Whom President
Cleveland Delegates His Power.
One of the questions that puzzled that
very inquisitive visitor, Ii Hung Chang,
was how this government could posi-
bly, run along in the absence from the
national capital OF most of the chief
executive officers. His traditional in
stincts and education, no matter how
FURNISHED up by intercourse with west
ern civilization, still left him associat-
ing the rule of the great Chinese empire
with the presence of the Son of Heay-
en- in Picking, and carried out the same
idea in regard 10 the presence of the
ruler of the United States in Washing
ton. Lis embarrassment on this ques-
ton was not unreasonable, and those
he questioned on the subject were Just
as unable to satisfy his curiosity as
probably the majority of the general
public would be. The fact Is that,
though the president of the United
States in recent years has frequently
been absent from the capital in the
summer months, the nation is never
left without an acting executive there.
The practice, begun by Mr.. Cleveland
by Mr.. Harrison, and again adopted
by Mr.. Cleveland in his second term.
has been to designate some special
cabinet officer as the acting executive
He has full powers to represent tht
president in the event of any unfore
seen emergency arising in our relation:
with any foreign power; this power was
notably exercised by Secretary Blaine
in the settlement of the Italian incident
growing out of the Malta lynchings IN
New Orleans.
President Cleveland has three cabinet
officers to whom he delegates this pow
er-Secretary Olney, of the state de
partment; Secretary Carlisle, of the
treasury, and Secretary Lamont, of tie
war department. There has never been
q time during the long summer when
one of these three men have not been on
deck. When Olney went away, Carlisle
STAYED. When Carlisle WENT to- Maine,
Lamont went back. If any emergency
arises calling for executive action, tie
other cabinet officers consult the man
on deck. Mr.. Carlisle usually holds
these conferences at his house, and so
also does Secretary Lamont, who rare
Iy visits the war department in the dali
season, and then only for few minutes
at time. Mr.. Lamont is in charge now.
If Lord Salisbury, through Ambassador
Bayard, should cable an inquiry about
the Venezuelan arbitration, the reply
would go out from the state depart
ment in the name of the president, put
would be written by Secretary Lamont,
of course, after communicating with
Gray Gables, if the eNigency seemed to
Justify it. No one but Carlisle, Olney
and Lamont has ever been left in this
responsible position by Mr.. Cleveland,
but the fact that each in turn has been
acting president has been well known
to their cabinet associates, though not
so generally understood by the public.
N Y Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
SHE CAUGHT THE sHIA
And She Didn't Propose to BE Locked d
as Insane for Doing 1t.

And She Didn't Propose to BE Locked Up
as Insane for Doing 1t.
A Chicago girl was in Scotland. She
had made arrangements at the Office
of the steamer Glasgow TO telegraph
her the hour to be decided upon for the
sailing of the ship she intended TO take.
Then she betook herself TO Highland
wilds in peace. She received no tele-
gram, but on the day set for the sailing
of her steamer she arrived in Glasgow,
and, after leaving her baggage at a
hotel, went to the steamers Office to
make inquiries. She was told there
that the boat was even then leaving the
wharf at Glasgow, but by taking train
to Greenock she might overtake it 1T
port. She rushed back to her hotel,
saw her baggage dashed upon cab,
caught the train for Greenock, and got
there in time to see the ocean liner pull
ing splendidly out to sea. She beckoned
to a man with a small tug, declaring
that she must catch the steamer, and
in a few minutes more was steamsng
1nadly after the big ship.
The captain stopped the liner at the
frantic gesture of appeal from the men
OF the tug. and the Chicago girl was
helped over the side of the steamer,
while the captain stood by and made
few remarks. \ little later the new
passenger found herself locked into
her stateroom by the stewardess. She
rang her bell, got her key from the out
side from the steward, who answered
the bell, and when the ships doctor
came down to see the passenger be-
o. r. L. y Al.
locked on the inside. Then the captain
came and at his thunderous order the
Chicago girl unlocked her stateroom
door. The captains demeanor was not
childlike nor bland, and his language
was suited to sailors in a storm. But
the Chicago girl stood her ground. She
explained through the blue streaked
air about the captain that he was no
more insane than he was, and that she
had a perfect right, in her opinion, to
stop an ocean liner.
She had engaged her passage on that
particular steamer. This was her own
stateroOn. The company had broken
faith with her in not notifying her of
the hour of sailing, according to the
express agreement of the company's
servants in the Glasgow office. But she
had not broken faith with the company
She had agreed to sail on that partic1l-
lar ship; she had paid her passage
weeks before; she was now sailing on
it, the captain could not deny that!
And it had cost her a good deal extra
to catch this steamer, too! That last
straw broke the back of the captains
anger, and his stern face melted into
a smile. He made friends with the Chi
cagoan and treated her with distin-
guSshed consideration during all of the
voyage to New York. What she paid the
man on the tug the lady never knew
She declared she gave him whatever she
had left of British coin before she be-
gan her historic scramble up the side
of the ocean liner.-Boston Traveller.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
FIREPRoOF BANDAGES.
Asbestos Is Now Used by Surgeons Be-
cause 1t Is Quickly Purified.

Asbestos Is Now Used by Surgeons Be-
cause 1t Is Quickly Purified.
Asbestos has come into use as sur
gical dressing. It's softness to the
touch and glistening, silky appearance
commends it as being unirritating to
the skin and cleanly. But the chief rea-
son for its use is its indestructibility
by fire. This quality makes it possible
to render asbestos surgical dressings
absolutely free from germs. No other
form of lint or cloth can thus be ster.
ilized.
Antiseptic surgery was introduced
little after the death of President Gar.
field. The original idea was to kill
all the germs and microbes in an opera
ton wound by means of strong dis
injecting solutions, such as carbollc
acid or bichloride of mercury. All OPP
erations were carried on under a spray
of antiseptic solutions until the sur
geons began to poison themselves by
too free use of them.
Next the surgeons found that if they
boiled all their instruments and dress
ings, they could dispense with the
spraying and many of the 'antisepLic
precautions" The ingenuity of instru-
ment makers and surgeons was ex
hausted in devising new forms of ster.
ilizers. Roosevelt hospital and other
hospitals in the city have a great mum.
Der of devices for steriliZing dressings
with superheated steam under a high
pressure. Instruments are boiled in
various solutions or baked in ovens.
The chief material used is purified
gauze, which has taken the place OF
Tint" Immense quantities of it are
used every day in the large hospitals
for a gauze dressing is never used twice
Asbestos dressing can be used over and
over again, for no germs can stand the
heating that asbestos can go through.
and each time. it becomes as. good as
new and absolutely germ-proof.
1t. will be chiefly used for military
surgery. The great problem of army
surgeons is. how toi be. perfectly anti.
septic, which means simply absolutely
clean in surgical sense, with the linn
tied means at their service. A hand
full of asbestos can be sterilized instant
" in ii soldiers campfire.
Asbestos is made from mineral sub
stance and consists of fine crystalline
elastic fbers. It is quite cheap. Is
single fiber of asbestos fuses to white
enamel. but in the match it is capable
of resisting ordinary flame. The an
clients used it to wrap around bodies tc
preserve the ashes of the dead when on
the funeral pile. \ workman in an
English foundry was accused of witch.
craft in the early part of the century
for having pair of stockings which he
leansed in a furnace instead OF Iaun
dry.-N. Y. Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
HAY FEVER.
The Symptoms and Treatment of This
Troublesome Affection.

The Symptoms and Treatment of This
Troublesome Affection.
Hay fever is an affection peculiar to
certain seasons of the year, and accord
ing as it occurs in the spring or autumn
is likewise called rose cold' or Eau
tumnal catarrh.''
The seat of the affection is in the up
per air passages, and its immediate ex-
citing cause is the action of certain
irritants upon the oversensitive mucous
membrane. These irritants are the
pollen of certain plants and grasses.
There are, however, two other things
which are essential to the existence of
the disease; namely, some local dis
ease of the mucous membrane of the
nose, and what is usually described as
nervous constitution.
Although in most cases the presence
of the pollen in the atmosphere is the
immediate cause of an attack of hay
fever, there are individuals in whom an
attack may develop, at any season of
the year, from sudden changes of tenn
perature. Persons dwelling in cities
are certainly more susceptible to hay
fever than those living in the country
The symptoms, as rule, are very like
those of an ordinary cold in the head,
but generally complaint is made of
much severer headache and far greater
discomfort, as we'll as distressing
cough. The nostrils pour cut a profuse,
watery secretion, and the eyelids, nose
and checks become swollen, so that the
sufferer has the appearance OF one who
has been weeping. Violent, prolonged
and frequently repeated attacks of
sneezing are not unusual, and taste and
smell are for the time being suspended.
These symptoms may last for days
or weeks, or so long as the exciting
cause.-the pollen-is in the atmos-
phere. A bright, sunny day frequent
" aggravates the suffering, whereas
wet day brings comfort, The source of
the peculiar irritation being laid by the
rain.
The treatment of hay fever is three
fold-climatic, local and constitutional.
Immediate relief from an attack is
obtained by residence in a high,
mountainous region. In agricultural
districts the disease is usually aggra-
waited, and sea air frequently affords
but partial relief.
The local treatment of the nose
should be undertaken between the at
tacks, but never during an attack. Its
object should be to render the mucous
membrane less sensitive, and to correct
whatever local disease may be present
in the nose.
In many instances hay fever SEEMS to
depend partly upon q peculiar unstable
condition of the nervous system; there,
fore tonics are often required, togeth,
er with bountifuI supply of fresh al!
and regular exercise. - Youths Com
Danion.
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enough away to make pursuit useless
what the something would be she
dared not think, but, crowding upon
this fear, was the other for the dear
little sufferer at home. She knew a
little jargon and she determined to
speak, if she died for it.
''Nila tenas ow sl1ookum sick (my
little brother very sick). Nika lolo" (I
carry), pointing with her free hand to
the bottle protruding from her jacket
pocket. ''Nika papa potlatch hiyu
chickamin" (My father will give you
great deal of money!.
The Indian grunted: "Chichkamin
cultus, spose nika mitiite, copa shook
um house" Money won't do me any
good if I'm in jaiD, he said, and without
further parley ne, with the squaw's
help, proceeded to tie the girls hands
behind their backs; then, pushing them
into adjoining stalls, he fastened the
end of each rope to the iron ring in the
manager and left them, muttering, as he
did so:
''Spose mesika hyak ely, nesika keela-
pie memaloose mesika!" IF you scream
while we are within reach Wen come
back and kill you.)
The girls could hear the falling of the
bar which fastened the door, and then
the retreating steps of the horses, and
| they realized, with a sense of sudden
reprieve, that the worst that was to be
done to them had been done. But, OH
the dear little boy, perhaps dying at
| home; and the mother, whose anxiety
would be so great when Frisk returned
without them. Ellen was the first to
! speak.
Don't pull on your rope one bit
she said, lit will tighten the knot-and
/ Louise, dear, we must try to quiet ouI
minds after this dreadful fright, and
| see what we can do. 1t certainly seems
as if we were quite helpless, but think
| ing has got the better of bolts and bands
before now. Perhaps we can make Mr.
| Flanders hear us, as soon as it is safe
to scream, but in the meantime we
must see what we can do for ourselves
Can you twist your hands up TO the
knot in your rope? can't touch mine
at all"
'NoT l." sobbed Louise. 80, Ellen
| it's no use. We can't do anything, and
he said he'd kill us if we screamed
we must just stay here and pray for dean
little Jack" The name broke her down
completely, and she sobbed convul,
! sively.
Louise said Ellen, firmly, stop
If you love Jack You will take your
thoughts from him, and put them into
these knots. l believe I have an idea
now-I haven't much hope that it vii
work, but I'm going to try. My rope is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05

long enough for me to turn round with
cut pulling on it, and it is so new and
springy that 1 think possibly / can
loosen it from the ring with my teeth
il L can only see. The patch of ligh!
that comes through the stall window
will be full on in Il few minutes. If
you can turn round you can try too.
The moon ought to strike both rings
at the same time, if the windows are at
the same angle from them
NO" said Louise, my rope is short
er. 1 can't bulge; and don't see what
good it is going to do you to get loose
from the ring, when your hands will be
tight behind your back: all the same
''Yes-but 1 have another thought
there ought to be scythe or sickle or
something that will cut, somewhere in
this barn. and if I'm foot free. perhaps
l can find it. What's that?" This last
in whisper. Both of them held their
breath. There certainly was a fumbling
and scratching at the door; but. before
their overweight fancy could define
the flash of fear which it brought, ia
miliar little yapping bark told them
that Frisk had returned.
calIeO
Ellen. 1--WE must keep him here, Louise.
for if he goes back to mother without
us she will be sure something has hap
pened to us. and she can't leave Jack to
find out. There's such big pile of
old lumber on this side of the barn that
/ shouldn't be surprised if he could
scramble in through the stall window. p"
The little dog had anticipated her
thought. and even as she spoke came
tumbling into the manager. and in an
other moment was trotting anXiouslv
back and forth from Ellen to Louise.
from Louise to Ellen. showing as plain
ly as a dog could his realization that
things We're not at all as they should be.
and now" said Ellen. after few
reassuring words TO Frisk, 1--WE must
see what screaming will do"
but. Ellen. that dreadful siwash
said"
Il know what he said. dear, but do YOU
thirA< he is coming back to be caught:
or even to lose the half mile he has
gained with his booty? At any rate, we
have no choice. We must do it. for
Jacks sake. Now. one. two. three!"
Eilen'S voice was strong. and Louisc's
grew stronger after she had summoned
courage to use it at all, and Frisk
swelled the chorus, but their united
efforts were useless. The house was
at Al greater distance from the barn than
is usual, and in the wrong direction
for the wind to carry the sound, and the
farmers family were good sleepers.
THERE" exclaimed Ellen, breathless-
". al last, Its no use-somebody would
have come by this time, if they were
coming at all. But the light is getting
near my knot, and-O, Louise, it's slip
knot, I'm almost sure-yes. it isl! and
in another instant she was at her Sis
ter's side.
Now we mustn't get 'weepy' dear,
for Louise began to sob, as she kissed
her, I'm going scythe hunting, though
scythe blade isn't very pretty thing
TO feel for in the dark, with ones hands
behind one-I see something glittering
over there now!" and she CROPPED her
way toward it. Its only spade" she
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
TWO BRAVE GIRLS.
COPYRIGHT. 1861

Two or three sharp. hoarse barks in
quick succession, and the whistIing of
breath forced through a narrow apera-
-ture-the sounds were unmistakable.
Mrs. Raleigh spnang from her bed.
Jack mas the GROUP" mingled with the
facing images of her interrupted dream,
and almost before her eyes were open,
she was peering, with lighted candle,
into a box of bottles, and calling as she
did so, to her daughters in the adjoining
room:
ELLEN! Louise! Get up, quickly,
and light a fire-little Jack has the
GROUP"
The situation was trying one. The
family were spending the summer in
the uplands of Oregon-the cottage
which they occupied was half a mile
from any neighbor, and mile to the
nearest village. Mr.. Raleigh was Off
upon a hunting trip, and the Chinese
servant away in the village, where he al
ways slept. Mrs. Raleigh and her daugh-
tiers, IL and Is years old, were alone
with the sick child; and-she couldn't
fin3 the Group medicine!
Il am sure 1 brought it, she said
81 bought new bottle on purpose, the
day we left. o! girls, try and think if
you haven't seen it,"
Ellen, the elder, was crowding pitch
wood into the stove, where the fire, new
1y made by inexperienced hands, was
struggling for existence-Louise kneel-
ing before a trunk, was searching Cor
the missing medicine, and their mother
WAS rubbing little Jacks chest with
linament.
%! that settles it." said Louise, ris-
ing. Il saw a bottle, with the druggists
wrapper on it, on the hall table, just as
we left the house. i don't know what
possessed me not to speak of it. What
shall we do? Have you nothing that
will take its place."
Nothing" answered Mrs. Raleigh,
shut he is little easier now, and per-
haps it will prove false alarm after
ali; he is going to sleIIp."
But you remember, mamma" whis-
pered Ellen, when he was so i'll last
winter, he quieted off from his first
parozysm, just as he has now, and then
grew so very sick before morning. If
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
PITH AND PoInT.

Hoax-Say. lend me ten dollars for
day, win your" Joax-'sI've only GOT
one dollar" Hoax-'.Weil, lend me that
for ten days. hiladelphia Record.
-Ethel-"Did you buy that second
hand bicycle of friend?" George
ssWell, I always considered him q friend
till he sold me the bike" - Leslie'a
Weekly.
-Canny-sIs Miss Wilbur at homes
Nora-"No. sorr." Canny-"Well, 20
upstairs and ask her when she viii be
at home" Norah (goingl-"Yis, sorr."
-Harper's Bazaar.
I've girls are going to have har-
vest home festival" what! to show
big pumpkins and things?" "No such
nonsense engagement rings and phot-
ographs. Chicago Record.
Nothing Strange.-"They say that
the Kicl1eys have big skeleton in the
closet" wouldn't be surprised. There
are a great many bones of contention
around there. Detroit Free Press.
Miss Frostique-"I always have
had dread that should be married
for my money" Miss Caustique-
'sWhy, dear, should think that would be
a matter of hope, not ead."-Truth.
This blackberry pie isn't nearly
as good as those mother used to make"
''No; l told your mother this morning
when she made it that you would be
sure to find fault with it-"-Chicago
Record.
There doesn't seem to be much OF
a demand for seats to this perform
ance," said the star. NO." said the
manager, as he ran over bundle OF
dead-head applications; nothing but
Washington Star.
Superior Officer-"You are accused
of sleeping on your watch" Sentinel
Impossible, sir" "Impossible2
What do you mean?" 'My watch has
been at the pawnbrokers for six
MONTHS Times.