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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Waited AT NINETY-ONE.
4 Hearty Old Lady Who Has Not En-
tireIy Forgotten Her Youth
full Exuberance.

Mrs. Ann Bartholomew. of New Ro-
chelle, n. Y. is 81 years old, but is
ill young enough to enjoy the pleas
ures of the dance. In her earlier years
she was famous WALTER and has
not yet forgotten the art. for one day
recently she astonished everybody at
Derby, Conn, by taking an active part
in an informal dance giver by one of
the leading citizens.
Mrs. Bartholomew father was Sam
uel Sisson, Virginia sea captain. She
was born in New Haven in June, 1908.
During her childhood she accompa-
MED her father on many of his voy
ages. She entered society early and
became famed for her dancing and
other accomplishments. Upon her
marriage she went to Derby, living
there until the death of her husband,
20 years ago. Since then she has lived
with a son in New Rochelle.
81 suppose 1 should have relegated
the dreamy waltz to oblivion long ago."
said Mrs. Bartholomew to a reporter
who called upon her, laying aside her
embroidery, ''but, to tell the truth,
I cannot resist its spell, even though
age has set it's seal on my locks and
limbs. / can look on unmoved at a
two-step and the other new dances,
but the strain of a waltz makes me
girl again and 1 find its mazes as
easy as ever. I'm afraid need chap
eron more now than / did when was
lass.
''You must not think because I am
frivolous enough to dance and go out
sailing and ride the flying horses and
swings, which / did at Glen Island not
long ago, that / do nothing useful. I
have stitched about 30 silk bed quilts
and / make great many buttonholes
for the dressmakers in New Rochelle"
Mrs Bartholomew has not used
glasses for four years and her hear
ing is unimpaired. She recently jour
neyed alone to Illinois to visit son.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Arabian Gyp.te. In Ru..,.

The women, lightly tattooed upon
faces and hands, had gold coins plait-
ed into their wild locks, necklaces of
amber and rings of turquois, buttons
of beaten silver fastening their rags
together, writes Mrs. Burton Harri-
son, in the Smart Set. The men, more
vagabonds than knaves in expression,
wore felt hats and clothes made up of
patches. But, despite this degrade
ton of attire, they bore themselves
with a stately grace l have never
seen surpassed. There was one girl,
a pantherlike creature with glorious
dark eyes. who had her right nostril
split through with knife. Her free
walk might have given lesson to
Sarah Bernhardt in 'Izeyl." Her gar
ments were draperies of tattered silk
en- stuff. She was trying to cajole a
Circassian officer into buying some
thing from her. He, in his new uni
form of brown and silver, the breast
covered with silver cartridge holders,
his pistols in embroidered holsters,
might have stepped out of a bandbox.
At a guard, who pushed her aside,
she glarei like a wildcat; then, turn
ing, moved magnificently back among
her mates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Corn has always been the staple
grain food for hogs and is the best
and cheapest for finishing off, to
make the animals ready for butcher
ing. 1t makes the meat very firm,
gives it fine flavor and makes a bet
ter lard than can be obtained from
any other food. 1t is strictly a fatten-
ing food, however, and is not the best
grain for young animals or for breed
ing stock. When young animals have
an abundant range with good sup
ply of heterogeneous foods like alfalfa.
clover, vetches and cow peas. corn
makes valuable addition to the ra-
ton, but should not be given in ex-
cess, and will usually be found more
profitable if mixed with shorts, bran,
or some other feed.-Farmers' Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
WITH DEATH PENALTY.
I'm Montenegro the Wearing OF q
soiled Uniform % a Capi-
tai OReHse.

A man need not commit murder t.
be punished by the loss CT his life. OF
course. person governed by the laws
of Great Britain and Ireland can no
longer be hanged for such offenses as
forgery, horse stealing, burglary, cru
city to animals and highway robbery,
as he might have been half a century
or so ago. But the deserter in war
may still be shot for his offense. while
even characterization of an aggra-
waited nature can be visited with death
as its penalty.
But although there are few crimes
for which man may be hanged in
this country. on the continent and
further abroad the death sentence is
permitted as the wages of many an
odd form of sin, says Parsons
Weekly
In China, for example. all the Off
GERS of bank that fails are deprived
in most curt manner of their
heads. According to one of the great
est authorities on matters orien tal,
not a single bank has broken for over
500 years.
The heather Chinee deems the desc
Grafton of graves one of the most I'M
pardonable CT crimes. and according
to law any man finding another in
the act of robbing a graveyard, may
legally kill the villain on the spot
without fear of consequences.
If Turkish baker palms off a loaf
of bread on you that is proved to be
of less weight than it is represented
as, you can instruct a policeman to
nail the defaulter by one of his ears
to the door of his shop so as to be in
full view of the passers-by. The poor
wretch will then be provided with a
sharp dagger or knife, with which he
may cut himself free so soon as he
can summon up the necessary courage
required for the operation of self
manning.
In many of the oriental countries
where precious stones are looked upon
as well-nigh sacred objects it is no
uncommon thing for jewel-robber to
be punished with death. In Thibet,
the penalty for falling from your
horse when taking part in any mill
tary operations or public athletics is
death.
One writer recalls how he saw a man
shot in Montenegro for appearing at
a review wearing stained uniform.
1t is said that even to-day in the
German empire the crime of lese ma
ieste is occasionally punished by
death, though the legal penalty is a
term of Imprisonment of doubtful
length.
In Russia the same offense, which
is briefly described as treason. is fire.
quently visited by instantaneous
death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

There is always a temptation before
the owner of a good mare. If times
are bad she is the only thing that will
bring a fair price. If prices are good
she is wanted by somebody for breed
ing. The man who has horses and
needs to sell something is therefore
likely to part with the best-just the
one he ought to keep if he expects to
continue in the business. Thousands
of good mares have gone to market
within the past five years whose for
mer owners would now pay consid-
cradle advance to get them back. 1t
rarely pays to let go of an exception
ally good brood mare. Experience has
shown that the time to keep them is
when the other fellow is selling them.
National Stockman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
DIFFERENCE IN BEES.
Figures Demonstrate That Some OF
the Busy Insects Are Not as
Busy as Others.

The thought is familiar to farmers
that it takes about the same to keep
poor COW as a good one, the chief
profit in herd of mixers sometimes
depending largely on a few extra good
ones, but the thought may not be so
familiar that the same thing obtains
with bees. 1t is none the less true.
1t sometimes happens in a poor sea-
son that one colony stores quite a bit
of surplus for its owner, while anoth-
er colony sitting right beside it not
only gives no surplus but does not
gather enough for its own support,
but has to be fed for winter. 1t
should be remembered that the great
ter part of what the bees gather
from the flowers does not find it's way
into the surplus boxes, but into the
brood chamber to be eaten by the
bees themselves. A writer in Clean
ings puts the matter in this fashion:
The flowers within range of my
home yard give on an average yearly,
say, 10000 pounds of honey. Now, if
l keep the average run of bees it will
take about 100 colonies to gather it,
or 100 pounds of honey for each col
ony. Of this it will take about 20
pounds to keep each colony a year,
leaving me only 30 pounds surplus to
the colony, or 5000 pounds from the
whole yard. But if 1 keep stronger
and more Industrious bees, so that
each colony would gather 140
pounds, it would require but II col
onies to gather the whole 10000
pounds; and as it would not require
any more to keep each colony than it
does the poorer stock | should get
5000 pounds of surplus instead OF
5000 pounds when / had to keep 1OC
colonies, to say nothing of the smaller
number of colonies to care for. or
hives to keep in repair. And what is
true of my home yard is true to
greater or less extent of any Other
yards.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
rhe Earmers Mant rhem.

Postal savings banks are what the
people are crying for. We believe they
can be introduced in the post office
as well as was the money order de-
partment. The government is the
sure one for the people to depend
upon for money. We are not afraid
of Uncle Sam. Money would always
be ready and not be short when
asked for. It must come and we must
ask our senators and representatives
in congress to see that a bill is formu-
lated to this effect. How long shall
1t be before our nation will be in adj
vance of all other nations on such
important acts as these?-W. I. Nc
Clure, in Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
SAVING TEN THOUSAND MILES.
Mayor Phelan, of San Francisco. on
the Value of the Ship
Canal.

Expanding trade must find an outlet.
Barriers must be broken down. The
Pacific coast is cut off from the great
centers of civilization by continent
and a sea. Railroad transportation is
expensive and our merchants and pro-
ducers languish under its exactions.
Artificial conditions are created in the
interest of the transcontinental rail-
roads. which are to-day the principal
opponents of the construction of the
canal. writes Mayor James d. Phalen,
of San Francisco, in the Saturday
Evening Post.
In 1878 the Union and Central Pa
cific railroads forced San Francisco
merchants to enter into special con-
tracts. Those refusing could not get
the railway service at all and the con-
dition was that the merchants con-
tracing should abandon the sea and
use the railroad exclusively. Until
1898. the date of its dissolution, the
Transc ontinental association subsi-
died the Panama Steamship company
and the Pacific Mail in order to dot
tie up San Francisco and exclude its
merchants from the advantages of the
chants organized and fought back with
some success. but the fact remains that
the long route by the Horn has embar-
raised the Pacific coast and retarded
its commercial development. How has
it been embarrassed? Three thousand
miles of continent and $4,000 miles of
ocean stretch between us and the At
lantic seaboard. BY the means of the
canal the sea distance can be cut down
to 5000 miles. This is the main consid-
Grafton.
Now the Pacific coast of the United
States consists of producers rather
than manufacturers. and as ocean
freights are so very much lower than
those by rail, the saving of distance,
with consequent diminution of time,
means prosperity for the producer;
whereas, our lumber, wheat and fruit
industries have so far yielded their
deserved profits to the railroads. New
York in is days and Europe in 25 will
give our merchants some control of the
market. Now most shipments are spec
ulative and go forward to an uncertain
goal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
AN UNEXPECTED RESULT.
1t Was the Mother and Not the Daugh.
ter Who Accepted His Com
pIiments.

"Say," said the man with worried look
edo you remember giving me lot of ad
vice on how to conduct my own love affairs
about two months ago."
Yes" replied the man with the wise ex
preston, relates the Baltimore American.
Told me if | wanted TO win the girl
should make love to her mother?"
..Uh-huh."
"Said if / could get the old lady on my
side all | had to do was TO toddle around
with a ring and say: 'When?' to the girl. .
The wise man nodded.
.'Said for me to compliment the mother
on her youthful appearance continued the
worried man, .'and give her a. jolly about
how sad l was that the young ladies OF the
present were not to be compared with
those Of the past?' -,
ssYes. Yes. You won the girl, SUPPOSE
eyes. I did-not The old lady has sued
her husband for divorce and me for breach
of promise
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
A Problem That Puzzle. Many

Which is most profitable, to go into
poultry raising for the sale of flesh
and eggs to consumers, or to go into
the raising of breeders to sell to other
people? Well, that depends on a good
many things. The man with no cap
ital is not likely to make much trying
to raise fancy poultry. unless he is
more than ordinarily fortunate in Sc
curing customers for his breeding
birds and eggs. 1t takes money to
find customers after the eggs and
breeding birds are produced. But if
a man has the money he can find the
customers. Inc finding of a market
for fresh eggs is not difficult, and
poultry meat can always be sold at
market prices.-Farmers' Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
A PfoW ATTACHMENT.
IL Cost But Little to Make 1t, and All
Who Have Tried 1t Are More
Than Satisfied.

a year ago last spring, while we
we're blowing piece of sod for corn, we
aad difficulty in getting the pillow to
run right. We were blowing with
three horses, and if we set it to take
land enough, the jointer would cut
too much into the land. We
thought some of buying a three-horse
elevis like some of our neighbors
had, but did not like to pay the price
dealers asked for them. So we began
to think of some other plan.
Our pillow is fitted with a long clev-
is that fits in notches in casting on
the end of the beam. That is to regu-
late the depth Gig. u. We went tc
the blacksmith and got him to make
Figures 2 and 8. Figure is u
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
To Keep Grass Land Fertile

Grass lands are supposed to recup-
crate, and heavy sod is desirable, but
when such lands are grazed or moved
there is loss of plant food, and the
soil will become poorer unless ma
nure or fertilizer is applied. When
grass appears to die out it is an in
dication that the plant food is be-
coming exhausted The best plan to
pursue is to keep stock off the field and
apply fertilizer, following with q
heavy application of manure in the
fall. If the grass does not show sat
isfactory effects from such treatment
pillow the field and plant to corn the
following spring.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Fox Farms.

The fur of the blue fox has become
so valuable of late years that 'fox
farms now exist on some of the is
lands of the coast of Maine as well as on
the Aleutian islands and the Pribilof
islands of the Behring sea. One of the
problems now confronting the fox
ranchers is how to provide more abund-
ant food for foxes in winter time. On
the Aleutian islands they have been
fed with dry salmon when other food
gives out. They will even eat sea-ur-
chins, searching for them on the beach
at low tide.-Youth's COMPANION.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

cannot be given very much attention
it will be better to make them after
style b. The slanting projection will
prevent the hive entrance from be-
coming INSTRUCTED. and the loaded
bees that miss the aighting beard
and drop in front of the hives can
crawl up to the entrance.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
STANDS FOR HIVES.
Upon Their Proper Con%ructiOn De-
ponds Much of the Success of
the BeekeeDcr.

In making stands for hives, we
make them six inches high and the
length and width Of the hive. using
common seven-eighths inch lumber.
If the ground in front of the hives is
kept free from weeds and tall grass,
the style Il will do. But if the bees
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Try Grain-o! Try Grain-o,

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
that takes the place of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java,
but it is made from pure grains, and the
IS cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Book Agent with an Inspiration

bed)-4ou book canvassers make me so
angry with your COMPOUNDED nerve and inn
pudence that cannot find words to express
my indignation.
Canvasser dumping with enthusiasm)-
Then, sir, | am a great help to you. | have
here the very thing you need-a dictionary
of the English language, containing all the
words and slang phrases known. and only
two and six. Take it, and you viii never be
at loss to express yourself again.-Ciga-
rette
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Prof. Chas. P. Curd, st. Louis, Mo-,
writes: We unhestitatingly attribute the
recovery and continued good health of our
little boy to Teethina (Teething Powders).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Thirty minutes is all the time required to
dye with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Sold by
all druggists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
women and the Law.

Women ought to succeed in the legal
profession. Nearly all married men
are aware of the fact that a woman's
word is law.-Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Throw physic to the dogs-if you don't
want the dogs-but if you want good diges-
ton chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

A good many failures are due to the fact
that the so-ealled opportunities in mans
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
He Knew.

Papa-Perhaps you don't understand
what pro-Boer is.
Johnny--Oh, yes! He's a man that
roots for the Boers.-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

A sure way to attract people who want to
talk is to have book you want to read
Washington Qa.) Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

did he prove to be strong candidate?s'
mo, the second assessment broke him.
Detroit Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Lots of people standing up inside crowd
ed street car simply means so many riders
are strapped for room.-BGffalo News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as a cough cure W. O'Brien, 322 Third
Ave-, n, Minneapolis, MINI, jan g. 1900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

True courtesy is of the heart. Rams
Horn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
THE MARKETS.

A lost opportunity never finds its way
back.-Ram's Horn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

Love is like butter. IF of the melting sort
little goes long way.-Ally Sloper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14
Halls Catarrh Cure

Is Constitutional Cure. Price. 75c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

New York June IL.
CATTLE-Native Steers....$ 20 as 80
COTTON MlGdling ........ -. u 8
+. LOUR-Wlnter Wheat. 3 90 q 8 50
w t1kAT-No. Red....... 1JAet S2A
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-14

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-13
Now YORK, Q: brooklyn. 4.
GUN CLUB SHOOT,
New Lon. Distance Telephone Line
Reaching Towards Richmond.
Especial Dispatch TO The Times.)


WILLIAMSBURG, VA, October 12.--The
WILLIAMSBURG Gun and Rod Club gave its
first shoot on their grounds this afternoon
A good sized crowd was present. The
average score was splendid, as the mem
bers have had very little practice, and
some never shot at a clay pigeon before.
The Newport News and Richmond Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company will proba-
bly, have its lines extended from Lee Hall
TO this city in the next thirty days. Two
car loads OF poles have been shipped up
for distribution along the line, and the
work will be pushed to completion.
The line will be continued to Richmond,
thus completing a long distance line
throughout the State.
The new laundry machinery at the
Eastern State Hospital is being installed.
II is said to be the finest machinery of
the kind in any similar institution in the
State. 1t is all of brass.
The Norfolk Presbytery closed its session
here last night with sermon by Rev.
DR.. Haw, of Newport News.
The bird season opens III James City next
Monday. Partridges are very plentiful, but
turkeys are said to be scarce
Upwards OF one hundred and fifty stu
dents have matricu!ated at William and
Mary. A great many more are expected.