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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
HE GOT EVEN.
How q Car Driver Retaliated on a Govern.
ment Dignitary.

How Car Driver Retaliated on a Govern.
ment Dignitary.
A Broadway car came bowling along
Gently when the slush and mud in the
streets was an inch or two deep. A well
known federal Office holder stood on the
downtown crossing at Barclay street.
He had woman with him.
AS the car approached he put up his
hand authoritatively. The driver mo-
toned that he would stop at the nDpeT
crossing, as the rules prescribed. The
government official stamped his foot
and pointed to the spot where he Stood
as much as to say:
''You will stop right here"
He got fooled. The car whizzed by
and stopped on the corner where the
driver said it would. The federal officer
waded through the mud, dragging the
woman after him, and entered the car.
The conductor gave the signal and the
yellow car went rolling on up town.
When he had gone block or two the
driver stopped his whistling, glanced
cautiously back into the car and then
said:
THAT man played me dirt when got
me nat'ralizashun papers five years ago.
He made me wait for him fur tree
hours, and l never forgot his face
And then the driver resumed his
whistling, which he kept up during The
entire trip.-N. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
AMONG THE POULTRY.

The old roosters and surplus hens
may now step down and out.
Hatch ducks for laying late in sea-
son. Keep early ones for breeding.
All poultry needs shade now. If yours
do not have it you are losing money.
and may lose some of your fowls, too.
Don't feed fowls or chicks at liberty
heavy now. Feed cary in the morning
and let them hustle for the rest until
early in the evening.
Have a grass catcher on the lawn
mower, NOW often and feed clippings
to shut-in chicks and fowls. If you have
Il surplus dry in the shade, and save for
winter feeding.
If the yarded fowls scratch holes
along the fence and crawl under into
the dooryard or garden, lay old boards
along the fence or stretch a narrow
piece of wire netting along the bottom,
letting six inches or more of it lie fat
on the ground.-Farm Journal.
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pITE AND POINT.

Life should be just enough of O
grlnd'3 to keep the edge tools OF the
brain sharp and BRIGHT. \. w. Bull
letin.
When person wants TO ask some
1901 favor he frequently uses most
stationery in doing it.-Washington
Qa9 Democrat.
when a woman gets one worry off
her mind she is as unsettled as hen
That has lost sight of her chickens
until she finds something new 10 worry
about.-Atchison Globe.
Muggins-'Do you believe it is I'M
lucky TO have IL at tablet" Juggins
(who had callers at dinner time)-
les; if you've only made preparations
Tor two. metropolitan.
Simple Toys.-"Now, Bobby, if you
are not unreasonable you can choose
Your own birthday present" "Well,
pa. don't want much; jes' want a
SODA fount'n, an a new wheel, an a
cash ter."-Detroit Free Press
Tell Mr.. Cuthbert I'm out" 81 hat
already told him madam is in "Then
say when you came upstairs you found
my OoI' DuI. mdOaIne, ne aIredIy
say he has found you out, and Eat is Wy
he must see madame" -Ms-Up.
thological.-"Why so very late,
George?' Easily 'splained, m dear.
Tn love of nature detained mime. /
was lookin' for tn frs robin of sp-
SPRING Are you sure it was a robin,
George?" Course I'm sure" Wasn't
1T several swallows ?''-CIeveIand Plain
Dealer.
N one-armed lecturer was arguing
the pros and cons of a certain subject,
and, having concluded his summing
up of one side of the case, went on with:
And now, on the other hand" Where
upon boy in the front row interject-
cal: But you amt got no other hand"
Richmond Dispatch
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
MODEL PIG HOUSE.

can be moved about the yard from time
to time and thus keep a nice pure
place for pigs to sleep. every time it
is moved using clean bedding, or rather
moving every time clean bedding is
used. Water is best supplied out in
the lots instead of in the feed room,
as hogs will keep the feed room more
or less filthy if water is supplied there,
especially if they can get to it to wal
low. A small cistern or well is located
in storage room from which under
ground pipes may extend to the sew
eral lots. In making fences between
lots do not make them more than three
or four boards high, just so man can
straddle over them comfortably. This
you will find very convenient in look
ing after your hogs. The outside fence
may be higher if other stock have ac-
cess to pens and are likely to jump.
Two and half feet is high enough for
all inside fences. - Orange Judd
Farmer
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Keep Young Hogs Growing.

There is an impression among farm
ers that hogs in summer at pasture can
get enough with the swill from the
house and what they can get in the
fields. This was all right so long as
skimmilk, one of the best foods for
growth, was part of the swill, and I'M
eaten refuse from the table was also
thrown in. But in many places the
skinned milk is now sold in some
form, while better use for table refuse
is found in giving it to the poultry. So
the pig is starved in summer. which is
the time he ought to grow the fastest.
and is the poorest preparation for the
heavy corn feeding that will begin in
September and continue until the pig
is turned over to the butcher. \ half
starved animal loses the power of di-
costing hearty food, for the stomach,
like every other organ of the body,
needs to have something to do to keep
in good health and straightforward
can Cultivator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29

In my experience, the best way to
grow calves when you want them to do
their own milking is to not let them
run with the COW, but let them take the
milk night and morning, having good
pasture for them near the barn OF shed,
where they can come into the barn dur
ing the heat of the day. Have trough
there and put in a fair ration of ground
oats and corn and it will not be many
days until they will have the trough
licked out nice and clean for you every
morning. Then keep right on with your
feed and you will not have to wean your
calves, but will have to wean your
cows, and by the time your calves are 10
to 20 months old they will weigh from
ten to twelve hundred pounds and will
bring you the top of the market. Short
horns are what 1 am talking about.
Your cows will be in much better condi-
tion in the fall and will be more apt to
bring another calf next spring.-Wal
lace's Farmer.
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saturn,s Ninth Satellite.

Prof Pickering, of the Harvard Oh
servatory, has discovered ninth sat
elite revolving around the planet Sat
urn. The eighth satellite was discov-
cred at the Harvard observatory by
Prof. Bond in 1s4s. The new satellite
was found with the aid of photography,
its image appearing among the stars on
four plates exposed in the Bruce pho
Geographic telescope at the Harvard sta
ton near Arequipa, Peru. 1t is exceed
ingly faint, being estimated at magni-
tude 1914 Its distance from the planet
is 3D. times greater than that of The
outermost satellite of Saturn hitherto
known, or about 1851, 900 miles. This
is more than 30 times the distance of
our moon from the earth. Besides its
nine moons Saturn has an enormous
number of small attendant bodies
crowded together and forming its ia
NOUS rings.-Youth's Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
Food of the Brood Mare.

The mare with foal should have
plenty of nutritious food, but it should
not be the kind that promotes the ac-
cumulation of fat. The foal is devel.
oped through the feed to the dam, and
for that development is needed the class
of feeding stuff that builds up it's
frame. Aside from that it is not well
for the foal for the mare to have much
fat, as there is with such condition
often n certain tendency to a feverish
state which would prevent the foal
from receiving healthy support. Let
the feed contain but little corn, con-
sisting mostly of oats, bran and good
roughage. Just before the time of foal-
ing the feed should have somewhat
laxative effect, and at the same time
should have the constituents that pro-
mote milk production.-Texas Stock
and Farm Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
life warth Living.

Life is thing worth living to the brave.
Who fear not fortunes spite; in truth
who trust,
Whose spirit, not thralled by pride or
earthward lust,
Stands up while mortal tunults round them
rave,
Like Tenerfffe above the ocean wave:
Who. mailed in duty. with divine dis
gust,
Recoil from frivolous joys and aims un-
just,
Nor miss rewards which reason scorns to
crave,
Life is worth living to those souls of
light
Who live for others. and by gift bestow
On them the jubilant beams of their own
by right;
Who. knowing hfe's defects. more inly
know
This life is not the temple, but the gate
Where men secure of entrance watch and
wait.
Spectator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
BEGINNING OF BOOKS.
F'he Early Work of Gutenberg, Faust,
Schoefer and Cuxton in
Printing.

When and where the first attempt in
the art of printing were made cannot
be with certainty ascertained, because
the earliest work printed by Gutenberg
bore neither date nor name. The rea-
son for this was obvious. The earliest
printed books were made to resemble
writing and sold as such. This much is
certain-that movable wooden types
were first employed by him about the
year 1888.
In 1443 he returned to Mayence and
formed a great friendship with Jo-
hannes Fust, or Faust, who agreed to
loan him 500 guilders at six per cent. for
five years; but four years passed before
the wealthy goldsmith would advance
the money, because Gutenberg would
not admit him into the secret of his
business. In 1449 the first money was
advanced and printing office set up.
1t was necessary to have assistance
in the printing office, and one Peter
Schoeffer was engaged, ''he being me-
chanical.''. Peter kept his eyes open
and soon found that wooden types were
too slow to make. and he discovered the
art Of cutting the letters in a matriX so
that the letters might be cast singly.
Instead of telling Gutenberg, his en-
ployer. he went to the money lender
and persuaded him to advance more
money. so that Schoeffer might work
at his invention apart from Gutenberg.
So pleased was Faust that he gave Peter
his daughter Christina in marriage.
William Caxton, secretary to the
duchess of Burgundy, had seen the
xylographic printing of Lawrence Cos
ter in HARLEM, and the printing by
movable blocks as invented by Guten-
berg. He saw the great opportunities
printing would afford, and, with the
aid of Colard Mansion, set up a printing
press at Bruges in 1471. The first book he
printed was the "Recueil,' or summary
''of the Histories of Troye," compiled
by a friend of his, Raoul lie Fevre, priest
and chaplain to the duke of Burgundy.
1t was printed and published at Bruges,
and was soon followed by the printing
of a Latin grafton delivered there by DR..
Russell, bishop of Lincoln, at the cere-
mony of proclaiming the duke and
duchess of Burgundy. Another work
from the pen of Raoul lie Fevre was
translated into English, and printed by
CaXton. entitled 1.-THE Game and Play
of Chess" a treatise of moral and po-
litical offices, and duties, and the grada-
ton of social ranks, founded on the
places and moves" respectively as
signed to different pieces on the chess
board.
The first book printed in English was
''The Dictes and Sayinges of Philoso-
pheres,' collection of anecdotes, wise
and witty sayings of ancient philoso-
pliers. 1t is stated in notice at the end
of the volume to have been finished ION
the xviii day of the moneth of Novem-
bre, and the seventeenth yere of the
reign of Kyng Edwd the ~" The title
bears the words, ''Emprynted by me,
William Caxton, Westministere, the
we're of our Lord m,cccc, Xvii"
The first book to be printed with q
title page was issued in 1893 by Wynken
de Worde, the successor of Cation
John De Morgan, in Donahue's Maya
vine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
CONVENIENT PIG HOUSE.
The Plan Here Illustrated Can BE
Adapted to Suit the Size and
Condition of Any Herd.

Concerning modern up-to-date hog
house costing $500 or more, large
enough to accommodate 40 or so, would
say that in building pigpens, like every
thing else, the best is always cheapest.
The plan shown herewith needs but lit
tie explanation, as it can be construct
ed according to the means at the build
er's command and it can be made to
suit the size of ones herd. You could
easily construct four-room feeding
house on this plan out Of good dressed
lumber for less than 5000, especially
If you are able to do your own car
penter work. When as many as 40 or
so hogs are to be kept they always do
better if kept in different pens accord
ing to size and age. 1t is also neces-
sary that different aged animals be
fed different ration for best and most
satisfactory results, and this can only
be done when we have our hogs prop
erly graded and separated. One thing
we would have in making a hog house
and that is concrete floor. Any other
floor is Objectionable in some way. All
kinds of wooden floors make bad raj
harbors unless they are built up high
off the ground. and in most cases they
soon begin to decay and make pens I'M
healthy. By letting the concrete extend
out to the walls all round no rats can do
any damage and you can scrape or
wash out your house as clean as jug
at any time. The cost of a concrete
floor may be little more than wood
to start with, but it is cheapest in the
end.
Let the sleeping rooms be made like
a lean-to, roof sIoping inst one way
and facing the south if possible. In
these we would have no floor. They
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
Fresh Water for Fowls.

If food is not furnished the hen in
her own domain, she will go hunting
and soon find enough to keep her busy,
but she is not so successful in getting
water to drink. The farmer or his wife
will usually provide some feed, but
''biddy" many times takes her chances
to find water. Yet chemists state that
s4 per cent. of the egg is water. In view
of this, fowls to lay well must be fur
nished with an abundance of fresh wa
ter. Drinking vessels should be thor
oughly cleansed every day, and if pos
sible so made that the hens cannot
stand in them. In winter these drink
ing vessels should be emptied at night
to prevent freezing. 1t is advisable to
give fowls warm drink in the morning
when they first come from the roosts,
as at this time they usually drink free
ly. If you will practice this, the hens
will come for water as quickly as for
feed,--Maine Farmer.
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PACKING-Box coops.
They Are Strong and If Properly
Built Are Sure to Last for Many
Years to Come.

Tip e large packing box on one side,
making the open space or original top
the front. Nail boards, a, across this
space half way down, letting the top
one, b. extend nearly its width above
the top edge of the box, and several
inches beyond the ends. Nail similar
one, C, on the back, leaving this couple
of inches above the top. Two side
boards, d, are now added, sawed slant
ing to make a smooth slope between the
front and back for the roof. As they
are six inches beyond the ends of the
box, it makes protection from the
weather, besides leaving space for cir
culation, while to make this of value to
the interior square must be sawed
from the top of the box before the roof
is put on. as this top floor has been left
whole. This makes the ventilation
good without danger of leaks, and the
roof is now added.
Returning to the unboarded space IN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29

front, we nail a strip four inches wide
down the center and tack fine wire net
ting, f, over one side. a second strip
is put over the first to cover the edge
of the netting, and to leave room for a
groove for the sliding door, g, on the
other side. This may be either Of wood
or skeleton frame made and covered
with netting. A groove must be made
in the box for the other side of the
slide. Nearly all the boxes come with
well-stayed corners, so this is not dif-
ficult.
Paint the outside, roof and all, to
prevent the cracks from spreading. Or
the roof may be covered with roofing
paper or cheaper still with tarred pa
per, which will last a season or two.
These boxes vary somewhat in size,
but they will hold from Is to 25 chick
ems till they are pretty well grown,
ard as they arc strong and well built
they will last many years. - Orange
Judd Farmer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
Tn and Doing,

OF course, you all have heard about
The Up-and-Doing Land, know.
Biographies have left it out,
But it's not very far to go
To find it's cities, old and new,
And all its happy people, too.
For Cp-and- Doing Land is true,
And not fairy-land, at all;
And ali have work enough to do
To keep them busy, great and small;
The Up-ard-Doing people are
The busy people, near and far.
The C..Idren always finG a way
To keep the idle strangers out:
And whether at their work or play,
They're bright and wide awake, no doubt
Take warning, when you loiter down
The streets of Up-and-Doing Town.
Frank Walcott HUT, in Youths Com.
panior.
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GREAT LEGAL VICTORY.
Value OF an Honored Trade Name Up
held by the United States
Circuit Court.

| The California Fig Syrup Co., of San
| Francisco, has just won legal victory
which is of utmost public interest, as ii
establishes judicially fact long recog-
| nized officially that the name or the
title of an article is valuable property,
| entitled to the same protection as chat
tells or commercial paper. The COM
pany mentioned manufactures an ex-
cellent laxative which has been extern
sively advertised and acquired valu-
able reputation under the name Syrup
| of Figs" or Fig Syrup" Trading on
the reputation of this remedy other
manufacturing concerns applied the
same name to laxative medicines made
by them. The California Fig Syrup
Co. took the matter in the United States
courts and obtained a permanent in
junction, of which the following is the
text:
ut is thereupon ordered. adjudged and
oecreed, that the injunction and restrain
ing order heretofore made herein be con-
tinued until final decree herein, and to that
end that an injunction be issued as prayed
for in the bill of complaint herein, strictly
commanding and enjoining the defendants,
Clinton E. Worden & Company, a corpora
ton. J. A. Bright, T. F. Bacon, E. Little
c. j. Schmelz and Lucius Little, and each
and all of them, their and each and all of
their agents, employees, workmen, serv-
ants, attorneys and counselors, from max
ing, using or selling any liquid laxative
medicine, marked with the name Syrup
of Figs or Fig Syrup or any colorado
imitation of the same; from making, using
or selling any laxative medicine put up in
boxes, wrappers or cartons, having on the
same the name Syrup of Figs or Fig
Syrup or any colorado imitation of the
same; from making, using or selling any
liquid laxative medicine put up in boxes,
wrappers or cartons, so as to be like the
cartons, wrappers or boxes used by COM
plainant in connection with the liquid lax
alive medicine made by it, or so as to be
a colorado imitation of the cartons marked
Exhibit A, and fled in this case, being
carton, box or wrapper used by complain
ant for its liquid laxative medicine, marked
and named Syrup of Figs or Fig Syrup
from making, using or selling any box,
wrapper or carton as wrapper or case for
liquid laxative medicine, bearing upon 1t
the figure of branch of fig tree with
leaves and fruit, and surrounded by the
words in a circle San Francisco Syrup of
Figs Company, San Francisco, CAL, or any
similar words or figures, or any colorado
imitation of such a symbol or mark, or
from making use of, in any way, in connec-
ton with a liquid laxative medicine the
name Syrup of Figs Co.. or from using
any name whereof the words Fig Syrup
Co.. or Syrup of Figs CO. form part as
a business name of a company, or con-
Germ, or corporation engaged in the BUSH
ness of making and selling laxative med
icine."
This decision is of far-reaching i'm
portance to all manufacturers whose
products bear a recognized title, as well
as protection to the public whose con-
fidence naturally rests in large meas
ure upon the name of the goods it buys.
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Waiting for Fame.

We are all drifting on to rosy hereafter,
To glories that lie in the future some
where;
Each with hope for some happy to-mor-
row,
When the breeze shall be sweet and the
sky shall be fair
Each with wish. though it may be kept
hidden,
For fame and for praises awaiting him
there.
From the man with the pen to the man
with the shovel,
Each hides in his breast the old wish for
renOwn,
And ninety and nine of US fail to remember.
While drifting and hoping to wear the
green crown,
That no one shall ever awake to be famous
Without doing something before he lies
down.
Chicago TimeS-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
AA the GraEa.
Ab the GRASS.
What sweeter thing than grass tiat

What sweeter thing than grass t,at
grows
In greenness wheresoe'er 1t may?
Goodness OF love its living shows,
However long or short its day;
1t beauties the humble place,
It giorifies the landscape wide.
And has its own abundant grace
From early spring to wintertide!
What sweeter thing than hearts that keep
The common way of doing right?
Who come to others sweet as sleep,
And cheer and help them day ard night
No noise they make, no praise receive,
They simply help the world so wide,
Just as the grass; yet all relieve,
And bless from morn to eventide!
William Brunton, in Good Housekeeping
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A Song of Summer.

j sing the song of the open car
And the man at the end of the seat,
Who never is willing to move along
Or even retraet his feet.
He sticks to his place-the selfish churl.-
AS if he were stuck with glue,
And his whole manner says. plain as
words:
81 don't care a hang for your
Oh, he is a selfish, selfish man!
/ call him the end-seat hog.
He's the sort of man who would kick a
cat,
Or torture faithful dog.
The world win be better when he is dead.
And laid on a tombs dark shelf.
] hate and despise him with all my heart,
For I want that seat myself!
-Somerville Journal
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ADuty and a Pleasure.

First Statesman-Did you know that
over $19,ooO,co a year was the amount
stolen by the Spanish customs officials
in Havana?
Second Statesman-Say, it viii never
do for us who will leave a people who
viii stand that in the hands of some one
else.-Indianapolis journal.
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From baby in the High Chair

to grandma in the rocker Grain 0 is good for
the whole family. it is the long-desired sub
stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves
or Injuries the digestion. Made from pure
grains it is food in itself Has the taste
and appearance of the best coffee at / the
price. 1t is genuine and scientific article
and is come to stay. 1t makes for health
and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O.