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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AsouT ROAD RuILpINo.
Suggestions Submitted by WeI-KnOwn
Canadian Engineer.

Suggestions Submitted by q wen-KnOwA
Canadian Engineer.
Country roads are commonly di-
vi6sd into two classes gravel and dirt,
writes A. W. Campbell, C. Z. high
way commissioner for Ontario, in
farmers Advocate. The terms good"
and bad" are frequently regarded as
Synonymous with these, and as our
roads are usually constructed, this in
terchange of words is to some extent
not without reason. The way to con-
struct a good gravel road is to first
build a good dirt road from the nat
ural soil.
A good dirt road to those who have
driven through sloughs designated
"bad"roads during the past spring.
will seem an impossibility. And yet
these bad roads are chosen in June by
the teamster in preference to the
good gravel roads. These latter are
now a collection of parallel ruts, with
rocks firmly set, protruding or rolling
loose under the wheels and the feet of
the horses.
TIE diseases being SO perfectly
known, it is poor recommendation fer
duce the remedies. For dirt roads,
take the water out and keep it out;
for gravel roads, this and more. There
will be less moisture remaining in the
roads after the rains fail to assist the
djsintegrating and upheaEing action OF
the frost. There will be less water to
be carried away in the spring, and more
ample means to do it quickly. A dry
foundation for a road is as necessary
ae for any other structure. We're the
benefits of drainage better known, our
system of roads would soon be vastly
improved.
Drainage must be secured at the sur
face of the road and beneath it.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES may be few ex-
ceptions-will accomplish more than
surface drainage. Where and how to
place the drains is a matter regard
ing which no definite code of laws can
be formulated, since each mile or less
of roadway may lead to an entirely
new combination of circumstances.
Surface drainage is attained by round
ing up the road bed ordinarily with
rise of not less than one nor more than
one and one-half inches to the foot, pro-
viding open bitches on each side of the
grade. Crown the roadway on hills
slightly more, so as to draw the water
sharply to the bitches. Water al
lowed to follow the track of the wheels
will wear them to ruts, and deposit a
softened mass of mud at the foot of the
MIL.
The drains running parallel to the
road about three feet below the surface
and at the edge of the grade will usual
ly afford the best method of under
draining. Take advantage of all nat.
ural water courses to relieve the bitches
of their water. Use hard, well-burned
tile laid carefully to uniform grade.
with a fall of not less than three feet
to the mile, and if it can be obtained at
reasonable cost, not less than six feet.
Provide culverts where needed, and
do not allow the roadway to interfere
with natural drainage. Do not build
culverts higher than the approaching
roadway, as muddy hollows in each
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
POTATO spRAYER.
With It One Person Can Easily Spray
Ten Acres In Day.

With IS One Person Can Easily Spray
Zen Acres In . Day.
The sprayer illustrated herewith Il
inexpensive and easily made. First, q
heavy iron rod about III inches thick
and Ga feet long must be procured for
an axle. This may be taken from an
old grain drill or elsewhere, and adapt
ed to the present use. For wheels,
take those of the hay-rake, as a high
wheel makes the flow stronger. The
shafts should be about eight feet long.
They are bolted to the axle, five feet
apart, and fastened securely, that the
rod may not turn. Two pieces of wood,
three by three inches and three and one
half feet long, are bolted across the
shafts IL or IS inches apart. one of
them being placed a trife back of the
axle, and the other farther in front of
it. The singletree is attached to a
third crosspiece farther forward. Two
more pieces, two by six inches and
two feet long, are bolted edgewise
across the 3x3-inch pieces, two feet
apart. These pieces are followed
out at the top so that barrel will rest
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
The Poison of Viper's BIoed.

Messrs. Phisalik and bertrand, who
have been studying the properties of
viper's blood for some time. and who
claim that it contains the same poison
Gus substance as the venom of the same
reptile, gave an account OF additional
Investigations before recent meeting
of the Paris Academy of Sciences. They
had supposed that the viper. which re-
sists NEGOTIATIONS of its own venom.
did so because it was accustomed to
this poison. But they now find in the
blood, besides the poisonous substance.
another substs ice that neutralizes the
effects of the former. These two sub
stances are destroyed by heat of diff
ferent temperatures The toxic sub
stance disappears if the blood is kept
at a temperature of IS degrees C. dur
ing a quarter of an hour, while the
anti-toxic substance remains If the
blood thus heated he injected into a
guinea pig, not only does The animal
not die. but it can endure an inocuia-
ton of fresh viper's blood. = Public
GDiniO0-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
POTATO SPRAYING DEVICE.

On them securely. Two stopcocks are
inserted into the barrel opposite the
bung, and two pieces of hose six feet
long, terminating in fine spray noz-
gle, attached to them. The bunghole
Is turned upward and funnel used in
filling it. The horse walks between two
rows of potatoes, the man following
and holding a nozzle in each hand above
the row, on either side. When turning
ut the end of row, the hose may be
laid across the barrel to stop the flow.
The pressure of the liquid in the bar
rel, if well elevated, is sufficient to pro-
duce heavy low, and the jolting of the
machine will keep the paris green in so
luton. With sprayer of this kind one
person can easily spray ten acres of
potatoes in day.-Grange Judd Farm
or
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
PITH AND POINT

Oh, pal" exclaimed little JOHNNY.
the nrst time he saw trout, sits got
the measles, amt it?''-Boston Tran.
script. -'
lahist-- What do you want here 2"
burglar with great presence of mind)
just came to ask if you would
KINDLY play me your last composition. I"
tFlanist plays, and invites burglar TO
luneh).-Westliche Blatter.
DO you believe that Adam gave a
name to all the animals?'' 81 do. and
respect him for mis- selections. He did
his work most creditably." 'Why?"
We'll, because there wasn't Rover or
q Fido in the whole Iot."-Harpcr's
Bazaar.
Mrs. Wallace-"That wood is ready
for you TO saw as soon as you see fit
20 go about it," Perry Patettic-"Par-
don me, mum, but instead of sayin'
go about it, you should have said &C
around. I will now go around it."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
"A Safe Mule.-"Rastus, you Internal
niger, you told me that mule was per-
fectly safe, and when I went into the
stable he nearly kicked the top of my
head off," "Yes, sab; / said the mewl
wuz safe, sab. But ef you kin recoilec',
1 didn't say muffin about wedder it
WIZ safe in his nity."-Indianap
lis Journal.
-Jarley-"CharIie Windig was mar
ried in the spring and his wife has left
MIN for the first time. For visit, you
know. His mother-in-law is keeping
house for him. Charlie says he never
tackled such a problem" Bronson
''What problem?" JarIey-"Why, he's
counting the minutes until his wife
returns, and the hours until his mother
in-law goes, and it's tangled him all
up."-CIeveland Plain Dealer.
Equally Distrustful.-''Say," whis-
pered the man in the broad-brimmed
straw hat to the steamboat clerk, 'eive
me some other stateroom, please. The
man you've put me in with is manu-
facturer of pure ground spices" A few
minutes later the manufacturer of pure
ground spices sauntered up to the clerks
desk. Say" he whispered, "can't You
1t pe haye some other stateroom?
You've put a fellow in with me that
makes pure Vermont maple sugar.
Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
BURIAL OF POPE Plus TX.
4he Body Walled Up In Temporary TomA
Until 1t Is Put in the Crypt.

The Body Walled Up In a Temporary TornA
Until 1t Is Put in the Crypt.
Few saw the scene which followed,
when the good pope's body had lain four
days in state. and was then placed in It's
coffin at night. to be hoisted high and
swung noiseIessly into the temporary
tomb above the small door ON the east
side-that is, to the left of the chapel
of the choir. 1t was for long time the
custom that each pope should lie there
until his successor died, when his body
was removed to the monument prepared
for it in the meantime, and the pope Just
dead was laid in the same place.
The church was almost dark. and only
in the chapel of the choir and that of the
holy sacrament, which are opposite each
other, a number of big wax candles shed
yellow light. In the niche over the
door a mason was still at work, with a
tallow dip, clearly visible from below.
The triple collins stood before the altar
IN the chapel of the choir. Opposite.
where the body still lay, the noble
guards and the Swiss guards, in their
breastplates, kept watch with drawn
swords and halberds.
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their shoulders in solemn procession.
with chanting choir, robed bishoPs, and
tramping soldiers, round by the confess
sion and across the church, and lifted.
the body into the coffin. The pope had
been very much beloved by all who were
near him, and more than one gray
haired prelats shed tears of genuine
grief that night.
In the coffin, in accordance with an
ancient custom, a bag was placed con-
tanning 93 medals, one of colo, one of
silver and one of bronze for each of the
81 years during which Pope Plus had
reigned; and a history of the pontifi-
cate, written on parchment, was also
deposited at the feet of the body.
When the Ieaden coffin was sOldered.
six seals were placed upon it, five by
cardinals and one by the archivist of the
chapter of St. Peters. During the whole
ceremony the prothonotary apostolic,
the chancellor of the apostolic cham
Der and the notary of the chapter of St.
Peters were busy, pen in hand, writing
down the detailed protocol Of the pro-
ccedings.
The last dissolution was pronounced.
and the coffin in its outer case OF elm
was slowly moved out, and raised il
sings, and gently swung into the niche.
The masons bricked up the opening in
the presence of cardinals and guards,
and long before midnight the marble
slab, carved to represent the side of d
sarcophagus, was in it's place with its
simple inscription: "Pius IN, Z. NJ
Marion Crawford. in Century.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
A brave Woman.

All the brave women did not die
srith Joan Of Arc, and the English peG-
pie are grumbling because the home
secretary did not mention 20 the queen
the name of Miss Alfard for the Albert
medal. given for heroic conduct. It is
the universal opinion she deserved it.
Miss Alfard is a nurse in Kimberley.
South Africa, and was sent to attend
case of pneumonia in Bechuanaland-
When she arrived there she found her
self in the midst of a smallpox epi-
demic. She had 40 one To help her, but
was not dismayed. She Immediately
started a hospital on a rude plan AMI
nursed. unaided, 300 native and 20 white
patients, losing out of that large num-
Der only one woman and two children.
q record of which many physicians, with
all modern 'eonveniences and corps
of trained assistants, would be proud
Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
A TYPICAL COUNTRY ROAD.

side will result. If possible place small
culverts below the surface, and cover
with earth, as they Will be the less sub
iect to wear and will not interfere with
the smooth surface of the road Make
culverts permanent. Avoid the use of
perishable material. See that proper
outlets are made for them and keep free.
Water which is allowed to stand III
them in frosty weather will destroy the
best material.
The surface of the road should be
kept smooth and free from ruts. Where
gravel or other metal is to be applied it
is best to dig a trench for its reception
otherwise the crown will be too high.
Gravel is intended to perform the
double service of a roof to shed the
water and floor to resist the wear of
traffic and to lessen the amount of tTac-
ton required. A 40 per cent. greater
load car be drawn by a team over
smooth gravel road in an equally good
state of repair. All the work should be
done on a uniform plan in a systematic
and permanent manner, with view to
it's extension on the same plan in sub
seuuent years: this in a short time will
secure a perfect system of finished
roads.
Modern road machinery, properly
operated. is economical The grader
and roller are Indispensable. The
grader performs the work quicker,
easier. cheaper and more perfectly
than can be expected from hand labor.
The roller compacts the loose material,
unites the different particles SO as &c
better resist the load, prevents displace-
ment which forms ruts, and reduces tS
a minimum resistance to traffic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
Harvest Excursions.

In order to give everyone an opportunity
to see the grand crops in the Western
states and enable the intending settler to Sc
cure home, the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul R'y has arranged to run a series of
harvest excursions to South and North
Dakota, and to other states in the West,
Northwest and Southwest on the following
dates: July 81, August and Is, September
1, Is, % and October 6 and 20, at the low
rate of two dollars more than one fare for
the round trip. Tickets will be good for re
turn on any Tuesday or Friday within
twenty-one days from date of sale, For
rates, time of trains and further details APP
ply to any coupon ticket agent in the East
or South, or address Geo; H. Heafford,
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
Electricity and Teeth PuA,ne.

Dentists are not the hard-hearted b.
Gags that one writhing under their ma
nipulations feels them to be. They arc
on the constant search for anaeSt hetics.
The Iateet medium for this purpose is
electricity. 1t has long been known
that the passage of an electric current
would carry chemical solutions deep
into the tissues, and this property CT
electricity is now utilized TO carry CO.
caine into the deeper structures OF thu
gums and even to the dentine ami
nerves OF the teeth. The process is
known as catapheresis and has been
employed successfully in many ways.
-ArpOSv
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
RIGHT TO SLEEPING CAR SEATS.
There Is an Cnwritten Law Which Is
TacitIy Recognized by Travellers.

There Is an Unwritten Law Which Is
TacitIy Recognized by Travellers.
An amicable controversy between
some men who, being of amiable dispO-
sition, have always managed to travel
about the country without getting into
squabbles with fellow travellers, led to
inquiries by reporter as to the rule
of the seat in sleeping car in the
United States. Who has the right to
the rear seat in a sleeping car section?
was the question asked 1t was as
serted, on the one hand, that by rule or
law the holder of the lower berth ticket
had the right to the seat that enabled
him to ride facing the engine. The
claim was put forward, on the other
hand. that he had no privileges in the
matter of seat before those of the up
per berth passengers.
There is no law to govern in the mat
ter and one sleeping car company has
a rule covering the case and the other
hasn't. The Wagner company has a
rule by which the holder. of the lower
berth ticket is entitled to the rear seat.
The obvious reason is that commonly
the first arrivals at the ticket office ask
for lower berths, and on the principle of
FIRST come first served the first conner is
entitled to the choice of seats, which,
by common acceptation, would mean
the seat enabling him to ride forward.
To that seat on the Wagner cars he is
entitled.
The Pullman company has no rule
In the matter. The tickets of neither
company call for particular seats with
in the specified sections. In ordinary
practice lower berth Pullman passen-
gers get the rear seats, just as on the
Wagner cars. The companies find that
the American public adjust their own
affairs pretty generally without pater-
nal oversight of the companies. An Of
ficer of one of the companies recalls
Just one instance where a passenger
raised row over the matter of a rear
seat; corresponding officer of the
other could not call to mind any In
stance.
On one railroad which operates its
own sleeping cars from New York It
is said that there is a rule giving the
lower berth passenger the rear seat.
In some cases the railroad systems rem
der a governing rule needless. For in
stance, a passenger from the west on
the Pennsylvania road may leave New
York facing the engine, but on leaving
Philadelphia will find himself looking
toward the rear of the train instead of
in the direction in which the train Is
carrying him. On the New York Gen.
trail road the same thing happens at
Buffalo. The train goes in on a loop and
the engine is detached. An engine
couples to what has been the rear car
and takes the train on toward Cleve-
land. More than one person has gone
TO sleep feet foremost in a western
bound train going across central New
York in the evening and awolIe to find
himself being carried head first into
Cleveland in the morning.
1t is interesting to note that an off
Ger of one of the sleeping car COM
panies is able to say that he never knew
of woman obliged to travel backward
in a sleeping car seat.-N. Y, Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
PRESIDENTIAL AUTOGRAPHS.
Nomination Raises a 50-Cent Name to
SI.5O, Election to SO.

Nomination Raises a 50-Cent Name to
S1.5O, Election to SO.
Presidential year brings out CROP
Of interesting autographs. Sometimes
it brings entirely new men into the
market, but generally it lifts 25-cent
and 5O-cent specimens to a higher
plane.
a republican nomination will carry
a 5O-cent man to S1.50, while his cleo
ton will make it three dollars. If an
entirely dark horse should be chosen
his letters might easily be quoted at
from five dollars to ten dollars, as
there would be a great rush for him,
and probably an insufficient supply.
For long time Arthur was at ten
to twelve dollars, but is now five to six
dollars. Collectors who have complete
sets of presidents desire the new men
at once, and their competition drives up
the price.
As eX-President Harrison generally
dictates his letters the price of his auto
graph letters continues very high.
The democratic nomination at Chi
cago will help the value of some man
for a time, but it will probably dror
back after November.
McKinley's letters have never been
very plentiful and have generally sold
at one dollar. He is already worth
two dollars, and will be higher later on.
The letters of vice presidents are
never in very great demand, unless for
other reasons than holding that office.
1t is an Office of possibilities and
amounts to very little in itself.
With the new president comes new
batch of cabinet officers, and it gen
orally inclHdes se-eral unknown men.
1t is generally months before any of
their letters turn up, but they come in
time.
The autograph fiend is very busy in
these times and his pressing communi-
cations form a large part of the mail
of each presidential candidate. Like
the poor, the fiend is always with us:
but let us be gentle with him. as often
he graduates into reputable collector
The Collector
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
A MINISTER'S WIFE.


Inc FRANK EGASSmGDG OF tine PASTOR Oh
Bethel Church.
From the Advertiser, Elmtrd, ". T.
Dr. WILLIAXs--Dear StT:-My wife has
been sufferer from rheumatism for more
than three years, suffering at times with
terrible pains in her limbs, and other times
with severe stcrick" in her back which
causes great agony. She spent much for
physicians and medicine, but secured only
temporary relief: finally she concluded to
try Pink Pills. She has taken eight boxes
and can say from the first one she has i'm
proved until now she is almost entirely free
from pain, and has grown much stronger
and feels confident that, by the blessing OF
God, they will effect a permanent cure. We
take great pleasure in recommending them
to our friends.
(Signed.) Rev. ]. Il. BUcKyER,
Pastor Bethel a. NJ. E. Church, Elmira,
New York.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness TO the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are an
nnfailing specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, st. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
nervous headache, the after effect of Ia
grippe, palpitation of the heart. pale and
sallow compilations, all forms of weakness
either in male or female. Pink Pills are
sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid
On receipt of price, so cents box, or sig
boxes for $3.50 (they are never sold in bulk
Or by the 1901, by addressing DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, n. 7.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

1t is singular fact that milk shipped
Tong distances to market Is in a health
Ter condition when it reaches the con-
sumers than milk produced in town
This is because the former is we'll cooled
before being shipped and Is carried IN
refrigerator cars, and the losv teinpera-
ture prevents the multiplication of
germs of decayed disease. Milk pro-
duced near at hand is too often sold di-
rect to the consumer before it il prop
erly cooled, and SONG of it is from cows
In unhealthful EurTouE dirgz-Ameri-
an ARTieulturist
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
ven Of Mist

Rising at morning or evening from some
lowlands, often carries in its folds the
seeds Of malaria Where malarial fever
prevail no one is safe, unless protected by
some efficient medicinal safeguard. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is both q protection
and remedy. No person who inhabits, or
sojourns in miasmatic region or country,
should omit to procure this fortifyiDg
agent, which is also the finest known
remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, kidney
trouble and rheumatism.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
Health.

There is nothing SO cheap as health;
real restoratives are very cheap. Sun
light, beauty, fresh air and water are
supplied at low rates to those who go
to the right market, while the COM
pounds of the apothecary are always
costly.-Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Chi
caPO.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
workInr O6 old stock.

"I'm going to tell my pa on you" said
Johnny Smithers as the blacksmith
pared some of the bone away from the
horne's hoof.
~Why, what have done?" asked the
blacksmith.
~You amt got shoes to fit Dobbin
and you're Within OF his feet to suit
those you have Rot."-LondOn Tsle-
graph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

Fr:epd-JOnes has just been talking
TO me about your town. Judging from
what he saws. there is room for inn
provement in any respect.
Suburbanite-He's president Of thu
local improvement company.-Brook
lyn Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

Doctor getting impatient)-''What do
you think yourself is the matter with YOUR
Patient -''Incurable boredom" Doctor
''You told me, / think, that you had con-
tracted habit OF talking "a, to yopTsehf :,
He got no fee alicnani,s MESSENGER
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

as FOR jesting, there be certain things
which ought to be privileged frem IL, viz,
business of Importance, and any case that
deserveth pity.-Bacon.