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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
PITH AND POINT.

-Bacon-"Everyth thing is fair in love
and war. Egbert-''You mean. I sun.
pose, before marriage and after it,
1onkers Statesman.
The Supreme Test.-"What is his
reputation for veracity?'' VERY good !;
he hasn't seen single flying machine
this spring!"- Chicago Record.
-Bibman-"Did your watch stor
when you dropped it on the fioor?''
Magley-''Of course it did. Did you
think it would go through ?''-Tit-Bits
Putting 1t Pleasantly.-What did
he die off" ''Hiccough'' Indeed!
How long had he had them?" oh for
60 years off and on!''-Chicago Record.
Hector the perfect enjoyment of
love there must be complete conf
dence." She (of Chicago)-'I have
heard pa say identically the same thing
about sausages.
Looking Ahead.-Wheeler- sup
pose when flying machines are invent
ed, you'll get one and be happy" Mrs.
Wheeler-"Yes, until the next years
model comes out."-Truth.
-"Yoh can't allus tell whah ter put
de credit by lookin' at de surface" said
Uncle Eben. 'De cork on de fishin-Iine
dances aroun' an tracts heap O. ten
ton. But it's de hook dat's doin' bust
ness."-Washington Star.
Money Enough.-Agent-''H is a
book, sir, every gentleman ought to
have-'Hints on Architecture Mr..
Smallpurse-"I have no use for it,
"But, sir, it teaches you how to build
beautiful villa, a regular little palace,
for only five thousand dollars" 81 haven't
five thousand dollars. 1 haven't over
five dollars to my name" "Well, my
book is only one dollar."-N. Y. Weekly
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

times. I don't take any stock in any
of it. The roads are good enough for
me. 1 don't want to be called upon
to help make them any better"
I'VE differ. 1 take deep interest in
the good roads discussion. The roads
are not good enough for me. 1 want
to help make them better. If we had
good roads the past 20 years 1 would
not now be paying you interest on this
mortgage on my farm"
Talk sense, man. Has this good
roads agitation turned your head, too
You talk just as two or three of your
neighbors do"
Thank you; I'm glad to hear it.
1t is sign that they, too, have been
doing some thinking"
How would good roads have bettered
your condition.
81 cannot take time to tell you all OF
the ways in which they would have
helped me. Here are a few of the ways:
I have owned this farm for rs years.
For Is years it has been good farm for
you. have paid you interest enough to
have sent my son and daughter through
college. You ask what that has to do
about good roads. 1t has this to do: ]
have figured that if we had maintained
a system of good roads it would have
cost me half as much to market my
products. 1t would have been done with
half of the teams, half of the hired men,
less than half of the cost in wagons. The
wagons have wrecked on our bad roads
the past 25 years cost me, when new,
$1,470. Some of them might have failed
on good roads, but it is safe to say that
my loss on wagons alone was 81 200
more than it would have been on rea-
sonably good roads. l figure that the
extra teams and their living, cost me
$4,000, and the hired help-more than
would have had if the roads had been
such as that paper tells about-has
cost me $4,000. Every man of mature
judgment ought to know that if we
had good roads about here, and especial
~ between here and the cities to the
right and left, where most of our prod
ucts are marketed, and where we do
most of our trading, and in one of which
we attend church, and where our sons
and daughters go to high school. this
farm would be worth double what it is
now. and call it worth $4,000 at pres
emit. That is $4,000 more that would
have been added to my savings by good
roads. That makes my loss over $751;
600, a good deal more than am worth
to-day. My bright boy and girl must go
without the college education / had
hoped to give them and could have given
if | had had the benefits to be derived
from good roads. / see why you do not
want a change. Your business as a
money-lender would end with an era of
good roads. Farmers would save
enough by them to become bank de-
positors instead of borrowers. I'm anx-
ious for good roads. You, too, would be,
! guess, if bad roads had cost you nearly
$4,000"
1t was an unanswerable argument
and the money-lender admitted as much
by departing without saying another
word.
7 wATROIrS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The commissioner of internal reve>
nue. reports that in nine years 10000
BOO pounds of oleomargarine have been
made and sold in this country. This
bogus product has taken the place of
butter to the value of about SSS,Ooo,0G0.
And it is safe to say that nine pounds in
every ten have been consumed under
the impression that it was butter. Some
ca+tIemen denounce laws restricting
the sale and use of oleomnrgarine and
declare that the manufacture of the
stuff adds quite sum to the value Of
ararv animal sold. One who can be-
I;eve that oleo has added $4,000, 600 C
the value of cattle in nine years can
believe anything, with or without evil
daace.- Dakota Field and farm
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The above is taken from the Ameri-
Fan Corn and Hog Journal. The nutri-
ton of an artichoke is in the form of
sugar, therefore always ready for use
on the part of the eater. One acre will
keep from 20 to 30 head of hogs dur
ing the winter months. 1 find that low
black soil, land which is too frosty for
many crops, is fine soil fer the arti-
choke, for freezing will not injure
them.
They often yield on good land as high
as 800 bushels per acre. There is a vast
difference in artichokes. The native
or wild kind is worthless, while the
improved variety is of great value. I
grow the improved white French, grown
largely in France for domestic use as
well as for stock. Some time ago they
were introduced into this country and
close cultivation has proven them to
be a sure and profitable crop for this
country.
have been experimenting with them
for over five years in the way of cult
waiting, harvesting, feeding and keep
ing over winter. They are very profit
able because no insect, blight or rust
has yet struck them, and the tops make
a fodder superior to corn when proper
ly handled. I find keeping them through
winter is a difficult thing to do without
having them spoil, unless person I'M
derstands it. 1 will give my method.
I pick out dry spot and dig pit not
over ten inches deep and about five
feet wide, and as long as convenient.
Then 1 pile the tubers up to a peak,
putting on a shallow layer of straw
and not over five inches of dirt. If more
dirt is put on they will surely heat and
spoil, and if they freeze solid it will
not injure the growing or feeding quail.
ties; it makes them sweeter and bet.
teri. II. Van Ness, in Ohio Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The queen of Portugal is notable
Lealot in medical studies and conse-
uuently takes great interest in all new
discoveries bearing upon the art of heal
ing. She has occupied herself of late
with the Roentgen rays, and her court
ladies have served her as subjects for
her practical experiments. The sight OF
their own skeletons, photographed by
aid of the rays, according to story in
a Berlin contemporary, has produced an
unexpected revolution in the fashions
of the court. The ladies were terrified
when they perceived the actual results
of tight Iacing upon the natural config-
u1ation of the ribs. So they have de-
clared war against the corset, resolving
70 take the Venus of Milo for their model
in future. We have very strong doubts,
however, whether in a fight between
science and fashion science would come
oil as conqueror-Westmin Gazette
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Turnip. Hurt MIX Flavor.

At the Iowa station it was found thai
turnips injure the flavor of both milk
and butter. This injury is due to VIOLA
tile acids, which can be driven off by
heating the milk to 100 degrees for a
short time. Beets increased the milk
and butter product. and caused all the
cows. even Jerseys. to lay on fat quite
rapidly. When the roots were discon-
tinued butter fat decreased and the
cows ceased to gain weight. and it tool;
more pounds of feed calculated to dry
matter) to produce pound of butter.
When turned on pasture there was i'm
mediate increase of milk, butter and
live weight. Feeding bran during part
of the grazing period produced sufii,
Gent gain to yield small profit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The building of good roads should
be done by the people directly bene-
fted by the improvements-and wholly
interested in the cost aud care. For
several years we have been operating
in this state under law providing for
the construction of free gravel and
macadamized roads. Where the ma
terial for this is readily accessible, such
roads have been rapidly built, until now
in such sections of our state all the
principal roads are graveled and the
people are turning their attention to
the byroads or less important ones
Claude Matthews, Ex-Governor of Indi-
ana.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The gray of the sea and the gray of the sky,
A glimpse of the moon like half-closed
eye;
The CLEAN on the waves and the lights on
the land,
4 thrill in my heart-and my sweetheart's
hand.
She turned from the sea with a woman's
grace,
And the light fell soft on her upturned face,
And 1 thought of the hoodtide of infinite
bliss
That would flow to my soul with single
kiss.
But my sweetheart is shy, so dared not
ask
For the boon, so bravely wore the mask
But into her face there came flame
! wonder could she have been thinking the
same?
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in Ladies' Home
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
STATE OF Ono, CITY OF TOLEDO,
T.IrcAs COIrNrY csc

Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the city of Toledo
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm viii pay the sum OF One Hundred Dol
lars for each and every case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D.
1856. A w. GLEASON,
[Seall Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur.
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free. F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
HABITS OF CHIPMUNks.
How They Rouse Themselves and
Welcome Spring.


Welcome Spring.
AS the woodchucl6 sleeps away the
bitterness of cold, SO in his narrower
chamber sleeps the chipmunk. Happy
little hermit, lover of the sun, mate of
the song sparrow and the butterflies,
what goodly and hopeful token of the
earth's renewed life is he, verifying the
promises of his own chaIices, the SPUR
relcups, set in the warmest corners of
the woodside, the hbations of dew and
Slower drops, of the bluebird's carol,
the sparrow's song of spring.
Now he comes forth from his long
night in the fuIIness of the sunlit day,
to proclaim his awakening to his sum-
mer comrades, a gay recluse clad in all
tile motley, jester, maybe, yet nc
fool.
His voice, for all its monotony, is III,
spring of gladness and contentment,
whether ne utters his thin, sharp chirp
or full-mouthed cluck, or laughs chit
tering mockery as he scurries in at his
narrow door.
He winds along his crooked pathway
of the fence rails and forages for half
forgotten nuts in the familiar grounds
brown with strewn leaves or dun with
dead grass. Sometimes he ventures to
the top rail and climbs to giddy ten
foot height on a tree, whence he looks
abroad, wondering, on the wide expanse
of an acre.
Music hath charms for him, and you
may entrance him with softly-whis-
tied tune and entice him to frolic with
herds grass head gently moved before
him.
When the fairies have made the white
curd of mallow blossoms into cheeses
for the children and the chipmunk, it is
a pretty sight to see him gathering his
share handily and toothily stripping off
the green covers, filling his cheek
pouches with the dainty disks and scam
pering away to the cellar with his I'M
grudged portion. Alack the day, when
the sweets of the sprouting corn tempt
him to turn rogue, for then he becomes
a banded outlaw, and the sudden thun-
der of the gun announces his tragic
fate. He keeps well the secret of con-
structing his cunning house, without
show of heaped or scattered soil at its
entrance. Bearing himself honestly, and
escaping his enemies, the cat, the hawk
and the boy, he lives long day of hap
DIV, inoffensive life. Then when the
filmy curtain of the Indian summer falls
upon the year again, he bids us long
good night.-New England Fields and
Woods.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
BAD ROADS EXPENSIVE.
Convincing Talk Between a Farmei
and n Money Lender

between a Farmer
and n Money Lender
The following conversation between
Wisconsin farmer, in Calumet county,
and money-lender, not regular bank
er, but one of those men of means who
make out all of their own papers and
manage to get as much out of a loan
as possible, including the highest notch
III the matter of interest, is not only OF
interest to the friends of good roads,
but is very convincing.
L have dropped in to collect the in
tcrest on that mortgage, Mr.. Williams"
remarked the bootleg banker.
I'm ready for you, but in order to be
ready I had to sell couple of cows.
Here is something I have been reading
with good deal of interest. Look it
over while get the money for YOU"
When Mr.. Williams returned, he
asked his neighbor how he liked the
article.
30, I guess it's as good as any of the
good roads stuff they are printing these
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
AN EXCELLENT FOOD.
ArtichOkes Possess More NutrftfVs
Value Than Other Roots.

AFtichokes Possess More NutrftfvG
Value Than other Roots.
The wonderful productiveness and
:ase with which the improved variety
can be produced is always surprise
the first time to those who cultivate
them. They are an excellent food for
cattle, sheep and horses, and one of the
cheapest and healthiest hog foods
raised, and for mich cows they ex-
eel any root I ever fed for increasing
the flow and making the milk much
richer. Last winter this variety was
tested at the Fremont creamery on
small scale and the report was very
good. Chemical analysis proves that
the artichoke isn't behind il nutrition,
cnmnared with other roots:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL.
The Lowest Rates Ever Made to an
Exposition in This Country.

Exposition in This Country.
The Exposition in commemoration of the
hundredth anniversary of the admission oil
Tennessee into the Union is not local af
fair by any means. 1t far surpasses in eX
tent of buildings, beauty of grounds, inter
esting exhibits and number of both foreign
and home attractions any exhibition ever
held in this country, with the possible ex
ception of the Columbian of 1893. Located
as it is on the main line of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad it is in the direct line
of travel between the North and the South,
and can be visited en- route with loss of but
little time. The extremely low rates that
have been established make it cheaper to GO
a little out of your way, even, to take in
will well repay special visit. Write Mr..
c. P. AtmOre, Genl Pass. Agent, Louis
vile, KY, for matter concerning it.
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federation.

It is one of the blessings of the nine.
tenth century that men and women
are becoming more tolerant. They are
broadening out. Humanity to-day is
retrogressive, and it must be so until
men and women realize that they have
immortal souls and that salvation is
within themselves.-Mrs. K. A. Ting
ley, Theosophist, at Denver, Col.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
RunlshmRnE

The essential punishment of he'll Ia
the loss of Heaven. All other punish
ment. however severe-and both Scrip
ture and the church lead us to believe
they are in great many cases exceed
lngly severe-are accidental and tenn
pered with mercy, being less severe
than justice could require.-Rev. Luke
V. McCabe, Catholic, Philadelphia, Pa.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Home Life.

The spirit of the home must be de-
7out if the influence is to be on the
side of right. The undertone of the
hone life is often more important than
the overtone. Parents should bring
daily Heavenly influences to bear upon
those whom God has intrusted to their
care.-Rev. NJ. R. Fishburn, Congrega-
tionalist, Washington, d. C.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and in
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bun
ions. Greatest comfort discovery of the
age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or new
shoes feel easy. Is certain cure for sweat
ing, callous, hot, tired, aching feet. Try it
to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package FREE. Address
Allen S. Olmstead, LIE Roy. n. Y
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Bond-Do you suppose anybody viii
believe you when you say you are look
ing for work?
TIotters-Not believe mel Say, boss
do you suppose could a lodged every
kim q work fer more'n thutty-thrce
year, eff hadn't ben lukin' out fer il
every tarnal minute? Philadelphis
Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
PULLEY SAVES LOTS OF WORK.

PULLEY SAVES LOTS OF WORK.
NJ
rugged above the opening in the plat
form. These pulleys can be bought for
q trifle at the hardware store. The
larger the pulley, the easier, of course,
will the water be drawn. A light frame
work can quickly be built above the
well in the manner shown, for the at
tachment of the pulleY=N. Y. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Her Reason.

She speaks about my new silk hat,
And says it's not on straight;
She hints about my awkward pose
Until 1 grow irate.
She says my trousers are too short,
And puts me in a state.
She glances at my why hair,
And thinks it might be brushed,
And says that when I tied my tie
must have been quite rushed;
And talks about the way I sit,
Until feel quite crushed.
And yet I am not vexed at her,
could not be, you know,
For when / ask her why it Is
She makes so hard my row,
Ny pretty critic smiles and says:
Because love you 500
-CIothier and Furrfer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Wishes,

Wunst on time some boys wuz goin' down
to the creek to swim,
An there wuz one Ill boy-his mother she
wuz a-feard fur him.
He leased so hard to see the boys jump on
the springboard plank,
AT last she said he might go long an jes set
on the bank.
But he furgot, wen the fun began, he'd
promised he wouldn't go IL;
Men, wen he cumed out an started home,
he 'membered it agin.
An wen they reached the house it made
the fellers want to shout
His mother said: How did it cum his shirt
wuz wrong side out?''
An men he choked. down in his throat. an
givd kind O. cough,
An said he guessed 1t got that way fun
wishin it wuZ OFF,"
But when she went an got a switch. you
bet he didn't smoker,
Y see he couldn't change his pants by
wishin' they wuz thicker.
"A. T. Saunders, in Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

When a rich mans boys don't succeed
people always enjoy it.-Washington Dem
0crat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The Old Fashioned Way.-t'What was
yer daddy lickin' you for?" asked the half
grown boy. The other half-grown boy an
swered: 80, he was jist provin' to me that
the whale really did swaller Joner'-In-
1ianapolis Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

People kick when a show is too long and
also when it is too Washington Dem
Ocrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Boys who are always waiting for the high
est wages are generally out of job.-Wash-
ington Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

A pair of scissors is always lost.-Atchison
Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

After physicians had given me up, was
saved by Piso's Cure.-Ralph Erieg, VIII
Transport, Pa, Nov. p, 1898.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

IF stiff and sore, st. Jacobs Oil will cure
you. Won't lose day. The cure is sure.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Saving does not make nearly everybody
rich.-W Washington Democrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Years of rheumatism have ended with
cure by St. Jacobs Oil. Cures promptly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Bed is bundle of paradcxes; we go to it
with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret
N. Y. Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Shake Into Your Shoes

Not all the great buffers are poker play
ers.-Atchison Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Death an Epicurean.

DCaNAH NPISUAG
Death loveth not the woeful heart,
Or the soul that's tired of living.
Nay, it's up and away
With the heart that's gay
And the life that's worth the giving.
Seldom he stops where his welcomes sure,
Where age and want are signing.
Nay, it's up and away
For he scornS to stay
With the wretch who would be dying.
All, it's youth and love and cloudless sky
The epicurean's after.
Nay, it's up and away
When the worlds in May
And life is full of laughter.
Jean Wright, in Lippincott's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
SELECTIONS oE VERSE.
The OId-Time Friends.

(In the School Exhibitions)
Mister Soldier of the legion you are dy-
in Algiers.
And the boy upon the burning deck" is
shedding bitter tears;
And we're getting closer-closer to the
Hohenlinden fight.
And we really fear that Curfew's going to
ring again tonight!
Sir John Moore viii be buried in his an
cient soldiers coat,
While not a drum is beating and we hear
no funeral note;
And Mary, known to all the girls so very
long ago,
VIII lead us out that little lamb whose
fleece was white as snow"
And Cato will tell Plato that he reasons
very well,
While Hamlet on the future in solilloquy
will dwell;
And Wen hearken on the hilltops and we'II
listen in the glade
To the wonder and the thunder of the
charging Light Brigade!'
But come, old friends. and lead US to the
meadows far away,
For the boys who rang the Curfew once arc
getting old and gray,
And Death, the reckless reaper, Is thinning
out the line;
But in dreams they drift to Bingen-to
Bingen on the Rhine!"
F. L. Stanton. in Atlanta Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

When bilious or costive eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. l0c, 25c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

A good laugh is like sunshine to the soul.
N. Y. Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

A real trifing man is always weighing
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

The pain of sciatica is cruel. The cure
by st. Jacobs Oil is sure. 1t penetrates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, l0c