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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
SHRINkAGE IN BoER ARMY.
Said to Have Deen Reduced From
10000 to 2G.5OO Men.

London, April 30.-The Bloemfontein cor
respondent ofthe Morning Post telegraph
ing Friday, says:
"A Boer official in the commissarlat
says the Beers had in December $1,000 men;
in March barely $500, having lost 5000 in
killed or wounded and $500 in captured.
The others probably returned to their
farms. The officials predicts the approach
of winter will produce further wholesale
shrinkage."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
british viii Recupernte.

London, April 3O-According to spe-
ciaI dispatch from Thaba Nchu, dated
Sunday, the British troops now that the
adjacent country is cleared of the Beers,
who srekked hurriedly in the direction of
Ladybrand, will recuperate for short
DeriOd.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
Beers Leave Biggarsberg.

London, April 3O-The Durham CORE
spondent of the Standard, telegraphing
Saturday, says:
1T is reported on good authority that
the Klerksdorp cammando has left Big
garsberg 10 assist in opposing the relief
column"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30

Lexington. KY. April 29.-Tbe Kentucky
stock farm purse for f0als 81 1890 20 be
trotted IN 1910, the guaranteed value 81
which Is 1900. CLOSES Monday. April %.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
OLIVIER REPORTED WOUNDED.
How Six New ZeaIanders Got the
Best of Six BOers

Aliwal North, April cit is reported
here that Commandant olivier was wound
ed at Wepener last Monday.
Six New Zealanders, while scouting,
fought six Beers, killing three and wound
ing three. One New ZeaIander was wound
ed.
The inhabitants of Rockville do not
know to which government they belong,
as there is no civil administration there
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
COMING TO UNITED STATES.

I It BUtF FtHCe UcIcGNtes VIII SnII
Next Thursday.
The Hague, April 29.-The members of
the Boer Peace Commission will sail from
Rotterdam for the United States next
Thursday evening by the Holland-Amer-
lean Line steamship Maasdam.
DR.. Leyds and DIR. Mueller will not &C.
company the delegates.
The delegates will visit Amsterdam TO-
morrow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
Beers Have Left Thaba Nchu.

Thaba Nchu, Saturday, April 2S.-The
adjacent country is now clear, the Beers
having retired toward Ladybrand.
There are interesting developments
ahead.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
me Is CHARGED WITH MURDER

''sbie Suspected of Having blown
~ Ills own works.
''l4on' April 30.-TA dispatch 10 tho
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30

Louisville. April 29.-Anton f. Coldewey.
the oldest banker in Louisville, president
and founder of the Western Bank and
Western Insurance Company. died sud-
denly tonight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
CREDIT SHE DIDN'T SEEK.
Embarrassing Position OF an Absent
Minded oma Who Had Made
a Mistake.

A lady who keeps a summer boarding
house at the seashore near Boston went
down the other day to look the house over
and find out what mi be renewed. She
found numerous umbrellas left by former
b~oarders, says the Boston Transcript, and
tying them together, she took the bundle
to Boston to nave them repaired. She
stopped in at Hovey's and laid the bundle
on the floor at her feet at the counter.
When she had made her purchase, she for
got her umbrellas, and absent-mindedly
picked up an umbrella lying on the coun-
ter, thinking it was hers, or not thinking
at all, and started off.
Then the owner of the umbrella, a wom-
an standing next her, seized her and said
very sharply: You have taken my UNI
b%reIla." Of course she apologized, feeling
much cut up about it, and went on forget
ting in her fuster her own bundle of UNI
brellas. The next day, on her way to Cam
bridge, she went to Hovey's and readily
recovered her lost package of umbrellas,
which had been kept for her. On the car
for Cambridge she noticed a lady cycling her
very closely. Presently this lady leaned
forward and said to her, with elegant en-
phasis:
You seem to have been more fortunate
to-day"
1t was the lady whose umbrella she had
taken the day before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
E MOTIVE POWER.
A Small Gasoline Engine VIII Do
More Work, Mt Less Expense,
Than Wind or Water.

The ingenious farmer can contrive
many ways whereby natural forces may
be made to serve his purposes. He
can so harness water hat it will grind
feed. shell corn, saw wood and chop
feed; he can secure the services of the
wind for similar purposes, and there
are gasoline engines. tread powers and
steam powers ever ready to do his
bidding. These last three are pow
ers which manufacturers have for sale,
while the water and wind power may
be secured without much cost.
1t is astonishing how much work can
be gotten out of a little gasoline en-
CINE; it will earn its price every week
on an ordinary farm. It's feed is cheap
and its durability and strength are re-
markable. And another important
thing is the engine is cheap. 1t can De
used for a great variety of work re-
quiring motive power. For running
the corn shelter. ensilage cutter. corn
husker, wheat fan. grain cleaner, bea
huller, etc, it is a great convenience.
The price of gasoline engines makes
their purchase more practicable than
to attempt to secure the services of
the wind or of water. Besides, they
are so much more reliable.-Farmer's
Voice
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
SALTING THE E
Satisfaction to One Who Has
Tried 1t for Years.

would like to describe an apparatus
for sailing cattle and other stock so
they will always have salt before them
and no waste, writes Joseph III. Yoder,
in the National Stockman. For cattle
or horses 1 would prefer to use rock
salt placed in boxes or troughs for the
winter and scattered about the pas
ture on the grass in IN Rains
have little effect upon it and this will
be found both convenient and econom-
zeal. For sheep, however, this plan
does not work SO well. The rock salt is
so slow to dissolve that they are not
able to get a sufficient amount of it to
sary to use the loose salt for them.
DUNG the winter a box can be fastened
up at a convenient place in the shed
and at the proper height SO they al
have access to it at all times of the day.
In summer if they have not a shed to
run under the box can be fastened to a
gate post and have a roof placed overit
so as to keep out the rain. If it is de-
sired to use loose salt for cattle the
same arrangements can be used as have
already been described for sheep. The
roof over the box should be high
enough to be entirely out of the way
of the animals. Where loose sal is
used it is necessary to be careful to
keep a supply in the box all the time, as
the animals are liable to eat too much
if they GO without for several days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
STORAGE RooM EEEDED
IN Important Item which UnfOr-
tunnfely Is Overlooked by Quite
a Number Of B-cekeepers.

LII is just as unreasonable to expect
bees to store you a crop of surplus
honey. without ample storage-room
properly equipped, as anything can be,
and to complain at the bees for not
doing it is proof sufficient of lack of
intelligence. Yet it is done.
You will occasionally meet an old
''mossoack" that will tell you that
bees do not do any good in this coun-
cry any more, and that they cannot
make a living here. or they cannot
make a living there, when the facts
are that his remarks are applicable
to himself instead of the bees.
Some who should know better may
also tell you that this country is be-
coming overstocked with bees. when
we all know hat there are tens of
thousands of pounds of honey going
to waste for every one pound gath
cred, for want of bees sufficient to
save it.
This country is improving faster in
nectar-producing blossoms by far
than the rate of increase of bees.
While it may be true that some locali-
ties are overstocked with bees, yet,
lake IL as a WnOle. II WOuI0 De ABSURD
to think of.
The amount of storage capacity
properly applied for surplus honey
has all to do with the size of the crop,
and if we do not apply it we fail. We
may have a poor honey flow which
we cannot help. but we a get ready
for it if it comes, and it seldom fails
to pay expenses, to say the least.
The best standard hives are all
equipped with the necessary storage
room for surplus, and if we bring
these into use we seldom make a mis-
take in this particular.
There is a right time and a wrong
time to add surplus boxes, but as a
rule they should be applied at the be-
ginning of the principal honey flow
of the season. Colonies must be
strong to at once accept them. and
weak colonies should not have them
put on until they become strong. Su-
pers should also be added to a colony
when it is crowded for space in the
brood chamber, and thus prevent it
from swarming, if possible.-A. II.
Duff, in National Rural.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
FOR MALARIA,
CHILLS and fever.
The Best Prescription Is Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic.
The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle
So That the People May Know just
What They Are Taking.

Imitators do not advertise their formula
knowing that you would not buy their medi-
cine if you knew what it contained. Groves
contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct
proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The
Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives
the malaria out of the system. Any reliable
druggist will tell you that Groves is the
Original and that all other so-called sTaste-
less" chill tonics are limitations. An analysis
of other chill tonics shows that Groves is
superior to all others in every respect. You are
not experimenting when you take Grove's-its
superiority and excellence having long been
established. Groves is the only Chill Cure sold
throughout the entire malarial sections of the
United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, soc.
NOTE THE records of fine Paris Medicine Co., Sc. LOUIS
show that over ono and 0ne-haH million bottles or
Groves Tsafeless Chilli Tonic were SOLD last year and
tine sales are continually increasing. Tine conclusion hs
Inevitable fhaf Groves TasteIess Chill Tonic Is a pre-
scripxE0n for malaria having genuine merit, and amy
druggist - chemist will tell you 500
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.

Never pull up the cover that the bees
have so closely sealed down unless COM
PEELED to do so.
In all hives there should be three
personages-the queen, the worker bee
and the drone.
Beekeeping combined with fruit
growing enables one to take a double
crop from the same land.
One secret of getting wax of a bright
yellow color is to allow it TO cool slow
", but always be careful not to burn it.
AS long as the bees have plenty of
room in the hive, surplus boxes are un-
necessary and should not be added to
the hive.
Any extra work about the apiary
should be attended to and everything
gotten in readiness before the bees be-
gin to swarm
Worker bees. being undeveloped fe-
males, may now and then be sufficiently
developed to lay eggs. but their eggs
will produce only Grones.
The worker bee Toes all the work of
the hive. gathers in the honey. pollen
and water, secretes the wax, builds the
comb, ripens and caps the honey.
When returning frames to the hive,
adjust them slowly and carefully. Do
not slide the frame to its place at one
push; slide it up slowly, just to touch
The next frame.-Maine Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
SIDE-HILL HENHOUSE.

any other water that may overflow the
tile drain rum along through the
loose stones beneath the house, and
runs into the loose stone wall be-
meath the front side of the house. A
house ten feet long, or a hundred feet,
could be built in this way along a
hillside. A house of this kind on a
southern exposure is excellent for win
ter use, being sunny, protected from
the cold north and northwest winds,
and having good drainage in front.
When built as we have described, the
drainage from the rear cannot affect
il injuriously.-Farm Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
MOMENTUM OF RAILWAY CARS
As 1t Was SinguIarIy illustrated in
the Wreck cx a Passengers Train
at Toledo, Ohio.

The momentum of a train IF heavy
passenger coaches and Pullmans is
well known to railroad men. but its
potential power is lot realized by lay
men lot initiated into the mysteries
of car construction, says the Chicago
Chronicle. A passenger coach is sew
eral times as heavy as a freight car.
and but little lighter than a locomo-
tive.
The dynamic force developed in the
impact when a train of coaches and
sleepers going at the rate of so miles
per hour, strikes an obstacle was man
ifested in a peculiar manner some time
ago in Toledo, where a wreck occurred
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad. Half a dozen cars loaded
with wheat were standing on a side
track, when a fast train came plunging
along. The switchman was at the
switch trying to close it. and until
the train was a few rods away hoped
to succeed in time to avert a crash.
But he failed and the thousands of
pounds of steel and iron dashed past
him before he was able to give a warn
ing signal.
Less than so yards from the switch
stood the ears of wheat. Before the
engineer had time to reverse the lever,
there was a crash. and a grinding anS
crunching of timbers. Neither the en-
gineer nor fireman attempted to jump.
They staid at their posts, and to this
they owe their lives.
The high rate of speed at which the
train was running and the heavy
weightbehind the engine drove it along.
The front trucks became dislodged,
and wedging these under the end of the
first freight car, an inclined plane was
formed by the engine. up which the
huge mechanism ran on through the
end of the box car. 1t began to burrow
its way through the wheat. BY the
time the engine had reached the fur
Their end of the car. the wheat cars were
under way, and they started down the
track. The impact had transferred
all the momentum to the freight cars
and the passenger coaches remained
on the track not much the worse for
the collision.
When the wrecking crew appeared
on the scene. a sight such as one had
eve seen before met the eyes of the
startled men. Half a mile from the
train of passenger cars was the engine,
hidden in q box car. The side of the
car was there, and the engine. with
the exception of the cowcatcher, the
forward trucks and the smokestack,
stood quietly in the car, almost hid
den from sight. The top of the cab
was broken down, imprisoning the en-
gineer and stoker, but neither of them
was harmed.
The total damage amounted to about
$500. the small amount being due to
the fact that none of the cars left the
track. The enormous expenditure of
energy had been accomplished by fore
ing the engine into the car and starting
the cars down the track. Railroad men,
who came to look at the wreck, said
unanimously they had never see nor
heard of a similar freak of engine and
cars. The wreck occurred after dark
and before morning the wreckage a
cleared away, making it impossible
for photographs to be taken.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
MANS MOST SENSITIVE POINT.
When the Tip of the Tongue Is
Touched the Whole Body
Thrills.

The tip of the tongue possesses the
most perfect sense of touch. The finest
hair is felt upon its surface, and even
when fingers fail to ascertain the quail
tiles of certain bodies, contact with
the tongue Immediately recognizes
them. The relative sensibility of va
rious parts of the body is best meas
ured by means of a pair of compasses,
the points of which are tipped with
cork. The tip of the tongue can dis
tinguish two distinct impressions when
the compass points are only half a line,
or the twelfth of an inch. apart. the
tip of the finger when they are one
line apart. Other spots, says a scien-
tific exchange. vary still more widely;
this distance at the lips is two lines;
the tip of the nose, three lines; the
cheek. five lines; palm of the hand,
five lines; forehead. ten lines; back
of the hand, IA lines; chest, 20 lines;
back and thigh, 80 lines.
If, however. this experiment is re-
peated with a pair of compasses capa-
BILE by slight pressure of pricking, it
will be found that there is no CORE
spending difference between the parts
in their sensibility to pain. On the
contrary, in places where the sense of
touch is most keen, the sense of pain
is in the first instance at least dead
ened. and the parts most %callous in
discriminating the double touching
points are by no means the least alive
to the sensation excited by their pres
sure. The tip of the tongue has SO
times the tactile discrimination of the
arm, bus the arm is more sensitive to
a sharp point. applied with moderate
pressure to the skin. than either the
tongue or the finger, and is at least as
alive to the presence of a very light
body, a hair. or feather, drawn along
the surface. Curiously enough. the
right hand, which is more sensitive to
touch than the left. is less sensitive to
temperature. If the two hands are
dipped in two basins of water at the
same temperature the left hand will
feel the greatest sensation of heat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Beekeeping for Farmers.

d. n. Richie is very emphatic in the
belief that every farmer should keep
bees. and says a farmer who hasn't one
or more colonies is not up TO the times.
He thinks not five per cent. of the farm
ers have honey on the table for food.
and he probably might have made the
percentage much smaller without dis
tressipg the truth. \ notable state
ment is this: Il Ear show you farm
ers living by me who had not had a crop
IF clover seed for 20 years, until L
moved here and bred my bees to such a
size hat they can work on the red
clover; and now they are getting large
yields of the very best of seed."-Busy
Rec
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12

feeding floor, for one side, and a light
~ by 3H-inch strip for the other side.
Pin the rounds on each side carefully,
n the ladder will be practically indie
structible. The light side piece should
be securely fastened at top and bottom,
so that the whole ladder may be per-
fectly rigid. The top can be mortised
with a crossbeam in most cases-the
beam that runs parallel with the barn
floor. If the common detached ladders
are to be used n p%recaution should
surely be taken-they should have
sharp iron points inserted in the lower
ends, so hat there may be no chance
whatever in their slipping. This is one
of the great dangers of the ordinary
ladder, and another is that arising from
weak rounds" An ounce of proven
ton is valuable in this case.-N. Y
Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
st. Johns.

In Richmond, Va, is the .churcf
building where Patrick Henry made
his famous address. The Virginia con
vention held its sessions in St. Johns il
1775, and it was there also that the con
vention for ratifying the federal con
stitution assembled. st. Johns ha!
been connected with many other eventu
of historic interest. 1t was built be
fore the revolution. Another noted
church of the same name is that 10
Gated at Clerkenwe1l, London. 1t wa,
in the crypt of this church that the in
vestigation was made in regard to the
so-called Cock-Lane ghost. a supposed
apparition hat was credited with
guarding the regalia in the tower, and
with frightening the sentinels out Of
their w1ts.-Detroit Tree Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
A SIDE-HILL HOUSE.
1T Secures Great Warmth for Poultry
I'm Winter and Keeps Them
Dry in Summer.

The cut shows a cross-section of a
poultry house built on a side hill, the
arrangement being such as to ecu
great warmth. and no infiowing of
water-the usual trouble in building
into a bank. Loose stones behind the
retaining wall conduct the water from
the hill down into a tile drain below
the wall (the wall is ~cemented), while
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Maroue,.e. on Lake superIor.

Marquette, ON Lake Superior,
is one of the most charming summer resorts
reached via the Chicago, Milwaukee q st.
Paul Railway.
Its healthful location, beautiful scenery,
good hotels and complete immunity from
hay fever, make a summer outing at Mar
qIette, Mich, very attractive from the
standpoint of health, rest and comfort.
For a copy of THE Lake Superior Coun-
try" containing a description Of Marquette
and the copper country, address, with four
"a cents in stamps to pay postage, Geo. III.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chi
narn I'LL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Grinding Grain for Cattle.

Does it pay to grind the grain ana
.ut the hay? Opinions differ, as the
cost of the labor is sometimes greater
than the gain made by cutting the feed.
1t is claimed that if grain is ground
there is a saving of one-third, and that
Is pounds Of hay when cut up fine will
be more serviceable than 20 pounds
uncut. Cutting the hay permits OF
mixing with it not only ground grain
but Hnseed or eottonseed meals.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
PERMANENT LADDER.
One should Be IN Every Barn Because
1t Takes Up Little Room and
Never Slips.

A permanent ladder, such as shown
in the cut, has numerous advantages
over the movable variety. 1t takes up
no more room in the barn foor and
never slips. Moreover. if the rounds"
are strong, the ladder viii never break
down. all weight coming upon it longi-
t~udinally. The one shown herewith
has a post at the side of the main, or
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12

1t takes only a little thing in a translation
asked the pundit to put into the Indian
vernacular the good old hymn: Rock OF
ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in
thee" was taken off his feet when he heard
his converts singing with pious fervor:
Very old stone, split for my benefit, let
me get under one of your Fragments
San Francisco Wave.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot-Ease,
a powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itching,
Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shes
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad.
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has c.. c.. G..
stamped on it. Beware of limitations.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
WORLDS supply of Petroleum.

Statistics show, says Consul General
r. Guenther, that the United States
and Russia are between them produ-
cling. in round numbers. 120, OO0.0 900 bar
rels of petroleum a year. and that the
production of outside countries has of
late increased so much that they are
able to contribute enough now to bring
the worlds aggregate annual produc-
ton to about $50. 900 600 barrels. 1t is
well known that the production of Rus
STA is much less now than it might be,
owing to the lack of enterprise of the
people and to inadequate transporta-
ton enthusiastically Eagle.