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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
AN AVERAGE VERDICT.
It Yves Struck Through a Difference
of Opinion Among the jury
on Damages.

While the lawyers were waiting for court
to open, and before they few at each other
Threats, they exchanged few stories of the
profession.
''The strangest trial in which l was ever
headed attorney. Il was counsel for the
plaintiff in suit brought to recover damages
caused by, runaway horse. My client had
been knocked down and slightly bruised, not
very much, just enough to base a lawsuit
on. L had very strong case: in fact, there
was practically no defense, and the defend
ant was rich man, SO | asked for 81, 900, hop
ing to get half. Well, when the jury came
in they rendered a verdict for the plaintiff
with damages assessed at S8,687. Of course
the judge promptly set the verdict aside as
excessive, and l had to begin all over again.
Some days later met the foreman of the
jury and asked him how in the world they
arrived at such a verdict.
Well, I don't quite understand it my
self, he said, scratching his head We
all agreed for the plaintiff on the first vote,
but each fellow had his own ideas as to the
damage. I was in favor of 81 900, another
fellow thought it ought to be s., 900, and an
other stuck out for 500, and we were get
ting all tangled up, when one of the jury sug-
gested that we strike an average
But you couldn't have done that :"
said I.
That's just what we did, said the fore
man. Each man put down what he thought
right and l added them together. l know
there does seem to be something wrong
about that verdict, but hanged if I can see
where it isl "-Chicago Times-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
MOVABLE ROOF FOR HAYsTACK.

ceiling. They were hip-roofed, making
them as solid as light material could
make them; then to hold them in place,
four four by four inch posts were set
in the ground II feet high, with four
plates at the top to hold the posts in
position and keep them plumb. The
roof was placed in position before the
posts were set up, having the corners at
the cave ends of the roof set so as tC
permit the roof tc slide up or down on
or between the posts. Holes were bored
in the posts to put in pins to hold the
roof up. When ii is time to begin
stacking, fasten the roof at the top OF
the posts and begin the stack between
the posts. Build to a finish, or in case
there is not enough hay cut, put in
what there is, stopping work on the
stack for any length of time, take out
the pins and lower the roof down upon
the hay, leaving the hay level, or near
~ so. AS the stack settles. the roof will
follow the hay down and protect II
from rain and wind-W. II. Doane, IL
Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Girls of the Period.

Much comment has recently arisen
among fashionable people regarding
the unusual and ever phenomenal size
of this new generation of women. In
eight out of ten cases these young
girls are full head and shoulders taller
than their mammas. Five feet eight or
nine inches is no longer regarded as
an unusual height for debutante, and
this Junoesque stature is supplemented
us a rule by broad, shapely shoulders, 4
firm, round waist, with harmonious
proportions of arms, hips and bust. The
new woman from a merely physical
standpoint is not only fair to look upon,
but promises we'll with her clear eyes,
rosy skin and steady nerves as whole
some mother of the coming race.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
DEAR DOLLARS.
The Gold Standard Is Constantly steal
ing from the People Like
Thief I'm the Night.

They say you ought not to agitate.
1t is a poor cause that will shirk in
quiry. The cause that breads investi-
CATION needs it. OF course, the burglar
with his pistol at your head, VIII adj
wise you to De quiet until his contem-
plated operations are peacefully per-
formed He is against agitation.
The testimony of the LeNow commit
tee showed that Mr.. Havemeyer and Mr..
Searles are against agitation. Why"
said they-you remember the testi-
mony; l do not quote it literally. but
what they said in effect was this: "If
this kind of thing keeps on, if every
Legislature that meets is going TO APP
point commission to investigate cap
ita!. capital Will get timid, and capital
will move out and leave you alone with
out any capital"
ITO be sure, the testimony showed
that we formed this combination for
the purpose of forestalling the market,
of running competition and of placing
the great consuming masses of tie peo-
pie absolutely at our mercy. That is
| true; but when it appears to be true
it dfscourages US. and therefore you
have got to stop this investigation bust
ness or it will have a serious reflex ac-
tiOn upon the prosperity of the coun-
try"
Now, the greatest trust of all is the
money trust.
The people of the United States are
aroused. Demos has been asleep for a
generation. He has awakened, and the
continent shakes under his tread. Let
the oppressor beware, for the day of
accounting is at hand. The common
patriotism of the American people can
be depended upon when the issue has
been once made clear.
All great political questions finally
come 20 wear moral complexion. and
then they are soon settled. And they
are settled right, or you and | must be-
lieve in a malevolent instead of mer-
ciful God. They must bring books
nay. whole libraries-to prove that
slavery was an economic mistake; and
the people went on with their bust
ness, and slavery grew.
But when some devcut. earnest, sin
cere men drove home to the public con-
science that slavery was morally wrong,
from that moment the institution was
doomed.
We may also make long speeches and
write thick treatiSes to show how the
parity of the metal may be maintained
and give crowded statistics of the pro-
duction of gold and silver and the his
tory Of prices.
But when the people of this great
nation shall! finally have made mp their
minds that the gold standard, as I'M
perceived as thief in the night. is con-
stantIy stealing from one man for the
benefit of another, stealing from the
nan who is least able to lose anything
and giving it to a man who least needs
TO have anything bestowed upon him;
when they begin to see that the gold
standard is an instrument of oppres-
sion and moral wrong and without de-
Tense, then the American people will
rise and put down not only the leather
trust. the sugar trust, the coffee trust
and all the other trusts in trade, but
also the greatest trust of all. that trust
which controls the money, the ultimate
money of the world.
CHARLES A. TOWNE.
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POINTS AND OPINIONS.

AS a republican contemporary
wiser than some others puts it, 1.-The re-
publican victory in Oregon shows which
way the wind is blowing at the present
time, not which way it will blow five
months heEce."-Albany Argus.
Mark Hanna has advanced $4O,
600 with which to pay the Ohio troops.
We have here more evidence that Mark
is not only bigger than the government
at Column bus, but also that h. is more
pIethoric than the government at Wash
ington.-St. Louis Republic.
President Mckinley holds nearly
5000 OOO,O 900 in gold cornered in the
United States treasury, in order to pre-
vent its price from breaking in Lon
don, though u break in London gold
prices would necessarily mean a rise in
the London price of wheat, cotton, pro-
visions and all other exported farm
products.-Mississippi Valley Demo-
crat.
Roll together all the brains in the
Mckinley cabinet and the result would
not equal in weight, bulk or quality the
gray matter reposing under Tom Reeds
No. s hat. But Reed is a failure, and
frittered himself away in petty partisan
trickeries, and now the only thing of
note with which he is identified is his
ability to count a quorum.-Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
The swine of the trusts are the
worst enemies of the decent rich. They
are the most dangerous foes of prop
crty, the real sappers of the foundation
of law and order on which free institu-
tious rest. They breed and nourish
class hatred. They are the only an
archiSts of whom there need be any fear
at present in the United States. They
are the industrious and iucura bly,
stupid promoters of revolutionary feel
ing.-N. y. journal.
Gen. AIger came out of the army
with a soiled reputation, and in civil
life is known only as a millionaire boss
in politics. Great administrative ca
pacity IS needed at the mead OF e depart
ment which is to organize, arm, equip,
c,othe and feed 2GO,O0G men, and which
is to keep increasing numbers of them
supplied with what is necessary at the
distance of hundreds or thousands of
miles from the shores of their own cOun-
trv. Alger is not the man for the place.
President Mckinley should send him on
a special mission to St. Petersburg or
Timbuctoo. as Lincoln did the ancient
Cameron-Pittsburg Post.
Prom a democratic standpoint
nothing could be more desirable than
the announced policy of Hon. Mark
Hanna to glut his vengeance on the
Ohio republican convention at Column
bus. If his programme be carried out
IL the Kurtz-Mckisson delegates are I'M
seated and Gov. Bushnell is insulted by
being ignored in the platform-there
will not be enough left of the republican
ticket this fall TO furnish material for
= decent wake. Let Marcus prance gay
Iv on. He cannot be ousted from his
seat in the senate, but he can work his
own ruin as boss of Ohio. And ma
tional boss who doesn't control his own
state doeS,.'t last long. Marks fond
ness for n club as a political argument
will accomplish his undoing and that is
the contamination to be wished.-Chi
cage Chronicle
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
COULD SCARCELY RAISE HIS HAND.
Yet took care of seventy head of stock.
The farmer who found friend.

cured of my complaint, so that was able
to take care of seventy head of stock all
through the winter, which shows that the
cure was not temporary but permanent
H. r. w. BENTLEY, Towuer, N. D.
The action of DR.. Ayers Pills on the
liver makes them Invaluable for those
living in rnalariai climates. G. r. Aston.
Quitman, Texas, writes:
81 have found in DR.. J. c. Ayers Pills am
invaluable remedy for constipation, bill
iousness, and kindred disorders, peculiar
to 1niasmatic localities. Taken in smalR
and frequent doses, these pills act well ON
the liver, aiding it in throwing off malariaA
poisons, and restoring its natural powers
I could not dispense with the use of Dr..
Ayers Pills."-C. +. ALsToN, Quitman, Tex.
DR.. Ayers Pills are a specific for all dis
eases of the liver, stomach, and bowels
they promote digestion, cure constipa-
tion and its consequences, and promote
the general health of the entire system
They should always be used with DR.. ]. C.
Ayers Sarsapari1la when a cathartic as
required. More about the pills in Dr.
Ayers Curehook. Sent free. Address the.
J. c. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
GEORGE FRED VILLA
Loyalty of Democrats.

Will the administration newspapers
have the justice to give the democrats
in congress credit for patriotism in aid
ing the passage of the war revenue bill?
There are many features in this bill
which under ordinary circumstances
could never have passed the senate. but
this is 10 time for strict party legisla-
ton, and opposition was silent in the
presence of a great national emergency
In commenting on the passage OF this
bill the Washington Times justly says:
Democrats and other late opponents
of the administration in matters con-
uected with the current situation have
evinced a patriotic spirit and willing
ness to sink partisan interests that we
hope will not escape the president and
his advisers 1t is fitting that he and
they should realize and recognize the
sturdy Americanism of opponents in
domestic politics who are ready to sac
riffce everything, even to the immediate
future of the national organizations
they represent, in order that there shall
be nothing done or successfully at
tempted to shackle the hands of an ad-
ministration charged with the conduct
of war"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

In Matching ducks under hens. il Il
best to remove them from the nest the
moment they are dry, as they are more
or less restless, and the hen is very af.t
to tread upon them. Hens make good
fncubators for duck eggs, but very poor
mothers. The duckling is TOO weak IN
the legs to keep up with the activity of
the mother hen. There is moe labor
attached to duck raising than to any
other branch of poultry culture, but
the profits are better, when the bust
ness Is once underStood.-A FsIE Hana-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

The apple orchard after it gets old
enough to bear is the best sheep pas.
ture. One of the greatest advantages
of pastuEing sheep in the orchard is
to destroy the fallen fruit. This they
will do even better than hogs, which
are usually recommended for this pur-
pose. Pigs will only eat apples after
they are nearly or quite ripe. unless
they are starved to it. The small,
green apples are sometimes almost bit
ter. Sheep like this bitter taste, and
will run to eat the fallen apples, most
of which contain cooling moths, which
would escape into the ground IL left
in the apple long after it falls.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Very Particular.

New Cook (at Mrs. SIimdiet's board
ing house, to herself)-This do be the
toughest mate ivor Oh see. Oi'n give
it a good thumpin'! (Goes at the steak
with a rolling pin.)
Mrs. SIimdiet Crushing in)-What's
all this racket?
New CooL-Oi was only pounding the
mate, mum, so the boarders could ate it.
Mrs. SIimdiet-Stop! Never pound
steak in my house again. 1t spoils the
favor.-N. Y. Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
| @CT ~ !!
FA.Rfl4.GALRDEN-.
=. h. H., A., = s : ~
t:: =. ;rlifS 4aea5,Sp - -: : AS'~
PROPER CARE OF Hay.
Sow to Build n Movable Roof for tht
Haystack Which Assures
Absolute Protection.

Few understand the art of stacking
so that rain will not get into the CEN
ter. One great enemy to keeping hay
is the wind, especially in Kansas.
Many times the farmer gets his hay
and grain stacked up in good condi-
ton, and along comes a gust of wind
and all of his labor is swept away, as
far as the keeping qualities of his stack
are concerned. Enough hay goes to
waste every year on many farms to
pay for lumber to cover it. In Illinois,
years ago, stacks of hay were rooted
with three-eighths or five-eighths incl
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Dipping Into Theology.

A man asked an Irish priest what Il
miracle was. He gave him a full ex-
PLANTATION, which did not satisfy the
man, who said: Now, won't your
reverence give me an example of mir
acle?'
WELL" said the priest, step before
me and III see what l can do
AS the man did so he gave him a ire
mendous kick behind.
Did you feel that?" he asked.
"Begorra l did feel it, sure enough"
"Well," said the priest, lit would be a
miracle if you didn't. "-Boston Pilot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

Serious results often follow strain,
especially when it affects the back, and
few people are so liable to strain as those
who are lifting heavy loads of various
kinds, from day to day. The teanster
rarely ever overtaxes his strength. Fa-
1niliarity with the class of wares he
handles, enables him to entirely gage the
load he lifts SO not to put an excessive
burden himself. But with the farmer
it is different. He is lifting loads of such
varying weights and under such varying
conditions that he is very liable to lift a
little too much some day, with injurious
results. Many serious affections of the
great organs of the body originate in a
strain. It was SO in the case of H. R. w.
Bentley, of Towner, North Dakota, A
strain resulted in serious trouble with the
liver. How he recovered and was enabled
to feed seventy head of stock during the
winter, let him tell himself:
about year ago, I sustained an injury
in my back and shoulders tx lifting a
heavy weight. After 4 tire, liver trouble
came on, which weakened me that I
could scarcely lift my hand to my head:
While in this condition, began the use of
DR.. J. {. Ayers Pills, and finding almost
immediate benefit, continued until 1 was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
sn,1or. and rhe,r Grternnee..

The grievances of sailors examined by the
authorities in ports of entry, where the sea-
men belong, often turn out to be imaginary
or greatly exaggerated. But there are plen-
ty of cruel and constituencies shippers who
abuse their crews. Violence is always OBJ
jectionable, and pointedly so when it is ex-
erted upon an unfortunate liver, stomach
or bowels by dosing with drastic purgatives
which weaken the intestines. Use Hcstet-
ter's Stomach Bitters
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
A NAVAL HERO'S STORY.
From the Times-Herald, Chicago. Ill.

Late in 1861, when President Lincoln is
sued a call for volunteers, l.. J. Clark, of
Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, was among
the first to respond. He joined the mortar
fleet of Admiral Porter just before the
memorable operations on the Mississippi
River began. 1t was at the terrific lombard
ment of the Vicksburg forts that the hero of
this story fell with shattered arm from
charge of schrapnel.
After painful months in the hospital he
at Warren, Ohio. Another call for troops
fred his patriotic zeal and Clark soon en-
listed in Company II of the 9TH Ohio Vol
unteers. In the army of the Potomac he
was in many engagements. Being wounded
i'll a skirmish near Richmond, he was sent to
the hospital and thence home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

There is a class of people," says
railroad man, who are always last to
leave the cars--for a purpose. This is
especially noticed on suburban trains.
They go from one end of the train to
the other, looking in seats on both sides
of the car. 1t is impossible for our men
to be always en- the watch, and presum-
ably there are many losses that can
never be reclaimed."s IN. Y. Tribune.
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tice, is a member of Hatch Pos
and lives at 4935 Ashland Ave.

Llce, is MEMBER OF ddCcn fOSC, ". "A. H.,
and lives at 4935 Ashland Ave.
Several years ago DR.. Clark's old wounds
began to trouble him. He grew weak and
emaciated, and his friends despaired of his
life. He finally recovered sufficiently to be
out, but was mere shadow, weighing only
80 pounds. The best medical attendance
failed to restore his lost strength and vigor.
"a friend gave me box of DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People" said DR.. Clark,
"and they helped me SO much that [ bought
= half dozen boxes and took them. / soon
regained my strength, now weigh 100 pounds
and, except for injuries that can never be
remedied, am as we'll as ever.
81 consider DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People the best remedy to build up
run down system, and heartily recommend
them to everyone in need of such add
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
why She Didn't MARRY

It was all the photographers fault that
Miss Vanderdecken didn't marry. She
looked beautiful in the portrait she sent out
to India, and all the men in her brother-in-
laws regiment were raving about her, till
somebody spied out at the back of the photo
what that silly camera fellow had written.
E.The original is carefully preserved.'-
Household Words
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

Mark Hanna is the only man in
Ohio. in any political party, who would
brazenly preside over a convention of
his party after he had been utterly re-
pudiated by the people of the city in
which he sleeps, when not lodging pub
lice officers to avoid a subpoena COM
mauding him to appear and confess his
sius.-CoIumbus CO., Press-Post.
If the American people could con-
uuer the goldbugs and Understanding
sharks as they can the Spaniards what
proud. happy and free people we
~vould be.-PittsLurg kansan.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Lost Heads.

Fuddy-Let's see, Anne Boleyn had
her head cut off because of her beauty?
Duddy-Yes. But they don't decapi-
tate a woman nowadays because Sit is
handsome.
No. 1t is the fellows VINO are
thrown into her company that lose their
heads-BoSton Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

Dr.. Mofett's TEETHINA (TeetAtng Roadtys>
Is not Patent Medicine, but a legitimate
remedy that many distinguished Physicians
recommend, and why will you delay giving
1t when it will save the life of your teethiRgs
baoeY TEETHTNA acts promptly in Aiding
Digestion, Regulating the Bowels and restoT-
ing baby to health and strength, and making
teething easy.
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Comparisons.

''Now, there's Winnie Ga-pickels," said
Miss Hnkie, who sometimes paints "She's
ar admirable e1ocutionist, but she ought
never to try anything in art. It is. painful
to see the wretched d9ubs she does" ar,
PankIe, who occasionally reads in public.
81 can endure her canvases. but her elocu-
ION makes me sick."-Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Modern Art.

why did you put the plush album
away?"
"Oh, we don't need it any more. Mary
wears her fathers photograph in her
brooch, her mothers in her belt buckle,
the boys in her watch and bracelet,
while grandma is on the coal bucket
and grandpa on the parlor vases. De
troit Free Press
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Conclusive.

Voice (at the telephone)-Major, will
YOU please bring your family and take
supper with US next Sunday?
Servant Girl (replying back through
the telephone and mistress
are not III at present; but they can't
come to supper. as it's my Sunday out.
Boston Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
"Feathers and Fins

A pretty booklet just issued by the Frisco
Line, which reaches the most satisfactory
hunting and fishing grounds in these parts
You may have copy, free, by addressing
B. L. Winchell, General Passenger Agent,
St. Louis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

Sailor--Whenever / give the winch q
turn, Delay me if she doesn't slip her hayE-
ser and pound like. a donkey engine hosting.
a nobleman's trunk.
Watchmaker-I see The mainsprinrSn,
broken.-Jewelers' Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
Another Crime

A hard-hearted Anglo-Spaniard when
demonstrated with and told that the Cuhans
se 1r GR egd that tta s ct re6 than
Moonshine.
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Practical.

Brother Will-Whv don't you accept
Jack? He's record-breaker in intercol
legiate cycling events.
Sister 'Sue-Yes: but prefer a record
breaker in the safety deposit line.-Bicycling
World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

Some of these professional reform
ers sadly lack common sense, it seems to
me-"
YES, indeed. They make me think Of
rain
Too diffusive, eh?"
NO. But because they fall alike upon
the just and the unjust.''-N. Y. Truth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

First Book Agent-Over IN that yell
low house lives a remarkable woman.
Second Book Agent-How's that?
az called on her this morning, and her
actions indicated that she really
thought had a right to exist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30

am entirely cured of bemorrhage of
lungs by Piso's Cure for Consumption
Louisa Lindaman, Bethany, Mo-, Jan. 8, "a.