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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
VIII Donate a PARK.

George st. John Sheffield, resident
OF Attleboro, Mass, and a member of
the family that gave the Sheffield
Scientific School TO Yale University,
will donate to Attleboro tract of fifty
acres of land for park purposes.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
Try Grain-Oi Try Grain-Ol

Ask your Grocer today TO show you pack
age OF GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes
tee place Of coffee. The children may drink IT
without injury as well as the adult All who
try t. like IT, GRAIN-O has that rich seal
brown OF Mocha or Java, but II is made from
pure grains, and the most delicate stomach re-
ceives It without distress. u the price Of cof-
fee. 15c and rs cts. per package. Sold by all
prOcerS.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
Are You Using Aliens Foot-Ease?

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet
Corns and Bunions Ask for Aliens
Foot Ease, powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, csc. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
Ladies' Can Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens
Foot Ease, a powder. 1t makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,
sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails,
corns and bunions. All druggists and
shoe stores, 25c Trial package FREE
by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted,
lie Roy, n. Y.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
What DO the Children DriokY

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried
the new food drink called GRAIN o. II is do
licious and nourishing, and takes the place OF
coffee The more Grain-o you give the children
the more health you distribute through their
systems. Graln-O Is made Of pure grains, and
when properly prepared tastes like the choice
grades OF coffee. but costs about 4 as much. All
grocers sell IL. l5c and CSC
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
Turn the Rascals Out

We are speaking of the grip microbes
The well and strong can resist their pol
son, the sickly and weak are their prey.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters are ma
lures remedy for expelling all poison
from the system. At druggists, in liquid
or tablets at 25 cents per bottle or box.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

Pain, suffering, Wizard Oil could not
live together, so pain and suffering
moved out. Ask your druggist about it.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

slaught was made by friends and rel
atives for one more farewell.
Man, darling Nan. 1t is your pic
ture-so like you and so beautiful. 1t
shall be my talismanl"
mo, no, Ned Remember your God
and read your mothers Bible"
Dear motherl You are right" and
be pulled out the worn Testament and
kissed IL reverently
Ned 1t is SO hardl" and Mamie
flung her arms about the young sol
dier's neck and wept bitterly.
"Nanl In Gods name, be brave!
need all my strength now. We are
orphans and the God of the Fatherless
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds-JoHN f.
BOYER, Trinity Springs Ind, Feb Is 1907.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

We should be as polite every day as
on Sunday.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

Fear not your duty, but, meet 1t
with courage.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

What a miserable wretch a vile
slanderer is!
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

The greatest event in a hens life is made up
OF an egg an a eackle.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

The contented blacksmith is nearly always
striking for wages
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

For children teething, softens the gums reduces in
hammation allays pain. cures vi nd collie Zoe bottle
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

The carly straw berry crop in the vi
cinity of st. Joseph is now considered
q failure.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Mrs. winslow,s Soothing syrup

Men are deathly afraid OF women; railroads
are deathly afraid OF legislatures.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20

Pie hunters are usually not particu-
lar about the pastry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
Cav. Dve,Ier. in n,en,e.

People who only know the gayer side
of the Dieppe would be surprised to
hear of the existence of the cave dwell
ers there. One is apt to connect such
people withthe gnawed bones and flint
instruments of prehistoric times; but
here they areat Dieppe, within a stones
throw of the Casino; and they may be
seen any day about the town, selling
the sheIlfsh from the rocks outside
their habitations. They have certain
marked characteristics, one being a
peculiar complexion of their own that
can be traced largely to a disinclina-
ton on the part of the cave dweller to
avail himself of the water that washes
so close to his door. The language,
also, is peculiar: but whether it really
belongs to the stone age no one seems
to have discovered. They have TO hold
a license from the municipality,
though, which savors of no age but the
present.-London Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08

little sought, because the American
processes of smelling are mainly
adapted to jack. The region had it's
defenders, however, who maintained
that behind and below these weather
wrought carbonates were stored the
main bodies of jack. But the pros
pector, however, strong in his faith
that the more desirable ore was
there. was not equipped to cope with
conditions which stood between him
and the proof.
The remoteness and inaccessibility
of the region rendered the importa-
ton of machinery, necessary for deep
and effective exploration, extremely
hazardous.
And even If capital could be in
duced to accept the risk, it was con-
fronted with the entire absence of
transportation of its products in
event of success. On the other hand,
the railroads, while ready to extend
facilities whenever such were actual
ly required, did not care to antici-
pate these requirements, especially
in . country where construction is
extremely difficult and immensely
And so development watt
ed upon railroad, and railroad upon
development.
At this juncture the Morning Star
mine again played nS important part
in the mining history of North Ar
kansas. From the hundreds of drifts
and shafts which have been run in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
) RICH MAN. DO YOU rAlNkq

Rich Man, as ara sit upon
Inc porch that oyerlooks the sea
And fan yourself and sip cool drinks
AND wipe your forehead YEARLY.
Do you think Of, do You care.
For the gasping ones back there
In the novels, packed together. where
there's poison in the air?
Rave you given have you lone
Aught to save some little one
IN the oVeFtfowded city. scorching meath
the crueI sun?
o Rich Man, as you lie at ease
Where mountain brooks are cool ana
clear ~
ana gaze across your wooded hills
dear,
Do you think Of them at all
Who, by hundreds, gasping fall.
Where the dust they breathe is poison and
the sun beats on the vail?
Is there one who but for you
Might be lying stricken, too.
might De dying in some howell tha no
sweet wind passes through?
o Rich Man, as you walk the deck
Where you are king and host, and go
Toil-free across the sea in search
VI cHmts where cool, sweet breezes
blow.
DO you think Of them that sigh
And must toll on till they die,
Hnere the children in the shadows Of the
novels. gasping, ie2
Can you to your conscience say:
II have driven Death away
Tnere are children and their mothers who
are blessing me to-day?'
3. E. kiser. in Chicago Record-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
steri1itx of the Land

Western civilization, pushing even
into new lands, has left behind it a
sterility of soil which. within a few
years, has brought from the keenest
scientific observers a most serious
note of warning. A day of reckoning
is almost at hand, when the earth will
no longer be able to feed the people.
There is no help to be had from farther
pushing onward, for, vast as seems
the parts of the earth yet unsettled,
it is declared that in all that area there
is little land which a profitably BE-
brought under the dominion of the
pillow. For the older fields, which must
be u dependence, one thing alone.
the agricultural chemists declare, is
necessary to bring them back to fer
tility. This is fixed nitrogen. Many
attempts are being made tt catch the
firtatious nitrogen of the air and turn
it to commercial use.-Everybody's
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08

counties. These, by custom and for
reasons of convenience, are grouped
into districts, as follows: The
Omaha, Crooked Creek, Sugar Or
chard, Dodd City, Rush Creek, To1na-
hawk, Panther Creek and Mill
Creek. In the Rush Creek district is
situated the Morning Star mine,
which first brought to prominent no.
tice the wonderful richness of the
region, and attracted hither the pros
pector with his pick. And through
out the era of development which
followed, the humble pick has played
q prominent part.
That is the fact, pertinent and per-
sistent, which distinguishes North
Arkansas from any other zinc field in
the world. Here is a region where
the geologist played an Indifferent
second to Professors Pick and SHOW
ell" in the first development, as well
as in its discovery. Although the anna
teur or native prospector uncovered
hundreds of bodies of ore, it was de-
clared by the professionals" that
these were at best but shallow faces
of carbonates-and carbonates were
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
IN NORTH ARKANSAS
q Vast District Of Undeveloped
Mineral Resources.
What the Shipment of the First Car
OF Ore Proved-Railroad Now
Reaches the Center of
the Region.

Especial Eureka Springs (Ark.l Lottery
PERHAPS no region within the
Mississippi basin has come into
such prominent and general mo-
tice in SO short a time as has that
of the North Arkansas mineral field.
While much has been written about
its wealth and resources, it has, hith-
erto, been written in the future
tense. But with the opening of the
st. Louis & Northern Arkansas rail-
road to Harrison, on the border of
the mineral region, and in the very
vortex OF action, prophecy win no
longer serve.
Promise founded upon contingency
and speculation upon surmise must
now give way to cold facts. Actual
demonstration, for which the people
have a~nxiously waited for years, has
low begun. The first car of ore, car
bonite from the Almy mines, has
been loaded at Harrison and shipped
to the smelter at C~herryvale, Kan.
The result all doubt as to
the feasibility of marketing Arkan-
sas ore 1t proves that even the car
OOAAatOSs 1tl11A SO IL O1 a
railroad, a be profitably shipped.
The experimental stage of the rela-
ton between railroads and Arkansas
mines is safely passed, and ore buy
r r entering the field.
Ore from a dozen camps which
mine the silicates and carbonates of
zinc, and which require no other
treatment before shipping, is being
hauled into Harrison, and several
hundred tons of ore are already in
the bins there awaiting shipment.
The producers of jack, which re-
quires crushing before marketing,
are equally active. A half dozen
mills are being placed in position,
and within 80 days double that num-
Der will be in operation.
Within a radius of 35 miles of Har-
rison are all the important mines of
Boone, Marion, Newton and Searcy
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08

the exploration OF this -Moua
Ore" more than a thousand
marketable ore has been taken.
what is of vastly greater imp
the whole region is the fact
these openings r a complete Yea
cation of the prediction hat tic
presence and appearance of the tar-
Donates indicated large bodies Of
jack further back and the deeper the
mining the richer they would grDw-
The direction and distribution of
these shafts have been such as to
block out in a solid, proven mine
thousands of tons of rich ore. pre-
senting the anomaly of a mine moi to
be mined and hoisted, but to be quar-
ried and dumped. While most of the
districts furnish examples of this &C
feasibility in q modified form or
lesser degree, operations are by no
means confined to them, but this
demonstration of results has stimu-
lated every form of mining, which is
everywhere being pushed with the
greatest activity.
The foregoing references to the
Morning Star mine are not made for
comparison with the wealth and inn
portance of scores of other valuable
properties, but for the purposes of
illustrations; and because it is not
only the original discovery of zine in
large quantity in Arkansas, but be-
cause it presents, in the most con-
else and comprehensive manner, the
results of systematic investigation
Its history tells the story of the dis
covery, vicissitudes and final expan-
sion of the North Arkansas field.
The existence of zinc in Arkansas
has long been known. But while
scientific exploration was being con-
Quoted in a desultory way with un-
important results, the natives in
their search for the precious metals
stumbled against the Morning Star,
half way up the mountain.
To their simple tests it yielded no
silver or gold-and little else. They
knew they had ore, but knew MOI its
value. The claim changed ownership
upon slight pr~ovocation and for
trifing price. The consideration at
one time being, as it's said, a mess
not of pottage-but of roasting ears.
And again, for a certain number of
cans of oysters-cove oysters at that,
another owner parted title to a prop
erty, which is recently reported as
having sold for $25o,O0o. While his
tory may not repeat this graphic
story of the extreme transaction
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

British public expenses are running
nearly s., ooo, 900 per week beyond last
year.
The French tax on street signs
varies with the size of the ofense."
Last year it added over S700,000 to the
public treasury.
Germans r still prejudiced against
corn as an article of food, except for
cattle and swine; but efforts are being
made to overcome this prejudice.
The Prussian city of Cassel viii be a
thousand years old in 1913, while the
French city of Marseilles was founded
more than 1850 years ago, and Rome is
1854 years old.
Experts believe that the recent finan-
cial crisis in Japan will help to repeal
the old law which forbids the holding
of land by aliens and discouraging the
inflow of foreign capital.
The British empire, as a whole, still
leads in god mining, and that without
counting the Transvaal. Including the
latter it's output is $40,00o.o00 out OF
100000. 900 for the whole world.
The Russian finance ministry has de>
cided to lay petroleum pipe lines the
entire distance from Baku to Batum.
The present line ends about half way
between these two points. The pipes
will be made exclusively in Russia.
London ices for the London boy!"
That is the motto of a British COM
pany which has been formed to sell
penny ices, guaranteed pure and of
wholesome manufacture. Every ice
will be served in a paper cup with a
metal spoon, both intended to be
thrown away when once used, so that
the propagation of disease by repeated
washings of ice glasses in water that is
far from reputable may be avoided.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
AS AEsoP MIGHT HAVE TOLD IT
story from Alaska of a Clever Trick
Played by Two Ravens
ON Il Puppy.

A Jerseyman, writing home from
southern Alaska, says the New York
Sun, tells the following:
Il happened to see with my own eyes
the other day a clever trick played by
a pair of ravens. which carried me
back to old Aesop and his fables, for
here as 1 gazed was one of the veneer
able tales acted out in real life.
"A silly little pup was playing about
when he came upon a nice, tasty bone.
I was watching him worry the bone
and was enjoying the pleasure he
seemed to get out of it. when down
dropped two ravens. They wanted that
bone; it stuck out all owe them; their
desire and their eyes shone with the
lust of conquest.
They fiuttered about for some time,
but 10, the pup, paid 40 attention. He
wouldn't be fooled, and Icould scarcely
keep from laughing to see how adroit
the ravens were and how stubborn the
pup was.
Finally one raven sneaked behind
10 and scuttled quietly up until he
was perhaps two feet from the pups
tail. The otheer raven remained in
front, fiuttering here and there, just
enough to keep the dogs attention on
him. When the raven in the road had
gained a proper position-that is, had
crept close enough-the willy old bird
in front began to jump up and down.
/ was bewildered at first. / couldn't
make out what the birds were up to
for ~thelongest while, and when the
jumping process began / was more
mystified than ever, until the dog, dis
tracted by the jumping process,
stopped worrying the bone and looked
up. Then 1 realized with an awesome
feeling that those avens were up to
something pretty close to human. /
confess it scared me a bit; it made the
birds seem Siabolical, and / found
snatches of Poe's verses on the immor-
tai birds of this feather running
through my head.
Gradually the jumping bird drew
nearer and nearer to Jo. Alas. for the
pups intelligence! 1 held my breath
as the sable charmer topped closer and
closer to JOS Smutty nose. Suddenly
JOS jaws clicked. Almost at the same
instant there was a f~iutter, a plunge
II jill II anu Ii III III IN
pup had the bone.
iii was done so quickly thatmy eyes
could scarcely follow it. When the
raven in front got too near 10 raised
his head from the bone and snapped at
the bird. He missed the raven, and,
forgetting the bone and everything
else, made a plunge for the bird. Then
the raven in the real got in his work.
"Of course, the moment the rear ma
neuver had succeeded the light cavalry
that had been demonstrating in front
few off. The noises those birds made
were weird. As the bird in the rear
grabbed the bone he let out a hoarse
yell, precisely like laughter, jeering.
tanning laughter. could hearthem,
as they flew across the bay from Ket-
chikan, laughing and laughing as they
went.
poor 10! 1t took him an instant to
realize what had happened, and when
he did you never saw a pup look more
sheepish. 1t was a mean trick. but a
joke on 10, just the same"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08

from a 25-cent claim to a $osa.o93
property, yet the transactions relate
what has happened. in degrees, over
and over again. Of the thousand or
more established claims or mines in
the four counties, most of which
we're located by native prospectors,
the majority a.e still in the hands of
resident With a few notable
exceptions, the field has not yet been
syndicated.
Most investors now arriving. the re-
fore, prefer to negotiate for located
and partly developed prospects. rather
than to devote time and take the un-
certain chances of prospecting on their
own account.
In summing up the situation in the
North Arkansas field, points for con-
s~ideration are: Certainty of title. ad-
vanced stage of speculation, not yet
reached. Tractability of ore; and case
with which it is mined and prepared for
shipment. But upon the one con-
tingency of transportation is hinged
all others. Transportation by water
is an accomplished fact. More than 4
thousand ton of ore, hauled 10 to go
miles TO the White river, have beea
fioated to Batesville and thence
shipped by rail to the Wisconsin II, els
ers and there reduced for Belgia4 sx-
portation.
From greater distances along the
tributaries of the White river, the ere
has been foated down in stee. barges
or slight tonnage and draft. But these
are conceded to be temporary make
shifts to be cast aside by their project
ors as fast as each district is reached
by the railroads, which, after al, are
looked upon as the arbiters Of destiny
measuring. by their proximity, the
prosperity of each camp. Following is.
a brief summary of the situation so far
as it reiates TO the railroads. The
four producing counties lie near the
center of a quadrilateral, bounded by
the Memphis and Frisco lines on the
northeast and northwest, and by the
iron Mountain and the Fort Smith d.
Little Rock railroads on the southeast
and southwest. The length of the
major axis of this great diamond being
500 miles. and the distance of any given
camp within the field from a trunk
line being from IS 10 $50 mics.
From SeligTnan. 40, a point on the
Frisco. a party Of ST. Louis capital
lists, at the instigation of Gen. PoweIi
Clayton, began the railroad invasion
Of this territory 20 years ago. "a read
1874 miles in length was butt q far
as Eureka Springs. whence IT took its
name, and where it rested until a sar
ago. But its promoters did not rest.
Assuring the people of the mineraI RS
gion that they held the magnet, which
once seen and felt would surely draw
railroad to them, they urged active
Development. And to the people Of
Harrison Gen. Clayton said that the
irst road would be his road; and that
would blow the first locomotive
heard in their town.
JAMES r. PoMERoY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
HOPELESS Case.

The lawyer for the prosecution had
had the stolid-faced man on the wit
ness stand for half an hour without
getting a solitary reply that was ia.
vorable to his side. what is your oc-
c~upation?" finally demanded the at
torney. 81 am employed in a bureau
of information" replied the stolid.
faced man. Then the lawyer for the
prosecution realized what he vas up
against and gave up in despair.-Phil.
adelphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
Feminine Charity.

Miss Winters have just been read
ing an account of a woman Of IS who
eloped with a young man of 90. Now,
1 wouldn't think of doing such a thing
as that.
Miss Summers-No, of course not,
dear. Tt would be so embarrassing
when strangers asked If the young
man was your son.-Chicago Daily
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
why Thex Lslxe Ni.sionarie..

The cannibals OF Fly river, Guinea.
do not eat missionaries because they
have any religious dislike to them.
but because as nonconsumers Of rum
and tobacco their flesh is more PAL
atable than that of most other white
men. They turn with aversion from
flesh tainted with the flavor OF ALOE
hol and tobacco.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
His Perfect Defense.

I heard a rather good story the
other day about a conductor who
was onc brought up before General
Manager Mcnamara ON a complaint
made by a passenger. The passenger
was a woman and her complaint wa
that the conductor had stared at her.
"a woman complains that You rude
ly stared at her while she was rid
ing on your car" said the general
manager. Says I stared at her?"
rejoined the conductor. How did
she know I stared at her?' The
Judge, who loves q bit of humor, saw
the point, and told the man to go
back 10 his car.-Albany Press.
Few Reach the Top.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
sleep Recipe fer Hot weather.

Here is the recipe of a naval officer
for keeping cool while in bed: Go to
carpet dealer and have him cut pieces
bed. Sew them together and then
place the straw blanket between the
mattress and the sheet. The coarser
the mating the better, as 1t will allow
more ventilation. IF you have been suf-
fering from insomnia on account Of
the heat. try it-N. Y. Letter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
An Easy Thfnr

It is easy for a rich man to impress
; Door neighbor.-Atchison Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
Few Reach the TOP.

There is no end to the hill most peo-
pls start un.-Atchisoa Globe.