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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
ODD BITS OF

The most prominent family in the
town of Prosperity. No., IS named
Poor.
Putnam Is now the only New York
county on the east bank of the Hud-
son having no Incorporated city.
"Search-ighting' for frogs is the
latest industry in Kansas. A big
electric light is flashed upon the
ponds. and before the croakers recov-
er their sight they are scooped up in
nets.
Charles Tiff. of North Barre. Vt. has
8 fish pond IN his own house He has
about two feet of water in his cellar.
SO it is reported, n has placed some
fish in it hat he caught in the river,
so that he does not have TO go out of
his house for fishing
Almost like fiction was the expert
ence of James Dinmore, a college
boy, in Ohio. Bound hand and foot in
an old barn by a hazing committee,
he overheard a plot to rob a nearby
h~ouse,~and got loose in time TO give
warning.
In a little handful of earth in +he
crotch of the branches of the big elm
r in front of a store at Norway,
VT. is a currant bush The shrub has
been growing there for two or three
years, and has attained a vigorous
size. Last year it bore fruit for the
first time.
Agents of the Indian bureau of the
interior department who have just
returned from the southwest report
more than a dozen cases in the IndI-
an territory in which wealthy Indi-
ans are employing white men tc
work their farms, being content
themselves to reside upon their es-
tates in ease and comfort, piling up
the profits made for them by their
white servants.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
WORKING AMONG BEES.
when One Is Provided with the Nee
essary Tools 1t Is Not as Danger
Gus as Many

Every farmer who keeps bees should
provide himself with a bee veil that
fits over the hat and is secured under
the ~suspenders inside the coat or vest.
The hands and wrists may be protect
ed by wearing mitts without fingers,
says Fannie NJ. Wood, in the n. E.
Homestead. When n does not
wear boots the pants may be
tucked inside the stocking leg; a
ervou man would not care about the
bees creeping inside the pants. A
good bee smoker is Indispensable. Dry
rotten wood, that viii crush easily in
the hands, makes plenty of smoke
without much heat and never goes out.
Rubber cloths are useful. They are
made of oars linen or burlap, take up
water easily, and are large enough to
lap two or three in over and over the
sides and ends of the top edges of the
hive. Wet and wiring them out before
using; they will lie down smooth and
close. When I take the cover off a hive
or super, one of these wet cloths is
laid on quickly. If any of the bees are
next to it they will quickly get from
under. 1t retains the warmth of the
bees, can be turned back as much as
needed to take out a frame or more
without disturbing the rest of the
bees In changing supers it keeps all
the bees in their places, out of the way
OF the operator. If smoked when wet
and laid on the top of the hive the
scentof the smoke will cause the bees
to fill up on honey and they will be
submissive The farm eekeeDersbouI
have one or more feeders. They are
inexpensive and come handy when
necessary to feed the bees.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Remedy for clever RIo.,

Clover bloat can always be prevent
ID by keeping the cattle off the clover
while it is wet with rain or dew The
usual cause of death when an animal
IS bloated is congestion of the lungs
from pressure of the stomach against
them The flesh of such animal
would be darker in color from the
stoppage of the blood in the small
vessels than the flesh of an animal
~butchered, but I do not believe it
would poison anyone to eat the flesh
Of such animals. The best remedy
for clover bloat is to make an opening
in the upper part of the left flank
with a pocket knife and thrust the
fingers into the opening, then the gas
will escape at the sides of the finger;
or use some hollow tube to put into
che opening.-Prairie Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
A n

important is the large hinged door on
the south side that admits sun to the
whole of the pen and keeps it sweet
and warm. We never have wet or i'll
smelling pens. Have the roof slant
ing at least As degrees. This makes
the north side so high that the north
winds do not blow in the pens when
the doors are open. Then, again, when
the root is high at the center you can
get into the pen without humping
your head. A farmer gets enough
bumps in life without going to a pig
pen for them. The figure will show
low the pens are constructed.
Twelve-foot roofing boards are cut so
that Az feet are on the south side and
~ on the north; width of pens, 8
feet; height on sides, so inches, and
Zach sow has z feet in length. Cost of
materials is about 50 per pen. We
raised $50 pigs with six pens that
spring. At a month old we put the
litter in open sheds. We found it did
lot pay, so have built six more pens"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
U 0 BATS.
Horses Digestion, Bat Never
Cause Serious illness.

There are many charges laid aSainss
bots, says the Horseman, but it il
doubtful if they ever really merited
any of them. The bot is developed in
the stomach of the horse from the
egg of the gadfy, which is laid by the
mature female somewhere on the skin
where the horse can lickitself nandily.
The right side Of the equine stomach
is lined with a velvety appearing sub
stance that secretes the gastric juice,
and TO the tougher lining of the left
side the bots attach themselves after
Matching out. They adhere to this
tough lining by two small hooks, but
they are not provided with mouths,
and hence cannot eat. They are nour-
ished by the absorption of digested
food through their skin. That shows
why there is no truth in the story that
the stomach of the horse is sometimes
eaten through by bots. They cannot
thus destroy the stomach, for they
cannot, and do not, eat. The bots adj
here to the lining described through
one season till the following spring,
when in the course of their growth
the hooks let go and the bots are EAR
ried on down through the intestinal
track until they are voided. Their
subsequent growth to the matured
gadfy need not be detailed. Then the
female lays her eggs again and the
round goes on as before. No med
icine that al be given the horse will
kill the bots. Anything hat can get
through their skins will first destroy
the stomach of the horse. So nothing
ear be done to get rid of bots, and no
fear need be entertained hat they are
going to do any great damage to the
horse. Nature does not plan to de-
stroy in such tremendous degree as
would ensue if the bots could eat the
lining of the horses stomach. They
may interfere somewhat with diges-
ton, if present in enormous numbers,
but in that way only, and the writer
can say with all truth that he never
knew any serious case Of equine Ill
ness due solely to bots.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Actual Experience Counts.

The poultry business is as much q
trade as anything else, and must be
studied and practiced. Would a man
expect to go into the carpenter trade
without studying it and expect to build
a house successfully without first hav-
ing learned the important principles?
Yet a novice viii so into the poultry
business and expect to succeed by the
knowledge he has acquired from 9TH
ers-secondhand. Now. this second
hand knowledge is good, very good,
but it must be made available by ac-
tuaI experience, just as the young car
penter must learn by actually work
ing at his business with his hands
Farmers Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
WHEN THE HOGS DIE.
Cholera and Other Diseases Usually
Are Caused by Dry and Com
centrated Foods.

The time of the greatest fatality
among hogs is when they are COM
PEELED to subsist for any considerable
time on the dry and most concentrated
foods. says the Indiana Farmer. In all
experience that is the condition of the
greatest ailment in human life. When
the hogs are turned into the autumn
stubble fields and left to CLEAN on the
dry, concentrated food there obtained,
if ever hog cholera or any other disease
occurs, that is the time, at least tha is
so generally speaking 1t is not so
much because the seeds of the disease
are more prevalent then, but because
the hog is forced into a condition which
makes him most susceptible to the
seeds of disease more or less prevalent.
No animal, not even man, was ever in
tended to subsist alone on dry, concen
trated foods. and the human animal
knows too much to risk his health on
such conditions. What the hog needs
along with these concentrated foods is
an occasional %succulent ration. With
the abundant opportunity provided for
him. clover and rape and beets, arti-
chokes, and even silage, ETC., there is no
reason why he should be abandoned to
the conditions which invite disease and
death There is not a month of the
year when an occasional s~ucculent ra-
ton could not be provided for the hog.
This, with pure water. would enable
him TO resist and throw off the germs
of disease always prevalent, and sufi-
GENTLY frequent TO kill when subjected
% conditions inviting death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Live stock and Fertility.

A fat steer of 1000 pounds weight
has in it 500 pounds of water, about
25 pounds OF nitrogen, IS pounds of
phosphoric acid, and two pounds of
potash. To buy this nitrogen to re,
turn to the soil would cost about
$3.50. and the phosphoric acid would
cost about one dollar. In selling such
an animal raised on the farm and
farm products, about $3.50 worth of
fertilizing material is taken. If bran,
tinseed meal and other grain is bought
10 feed it, more than this would prob
ably be added to the farm, and it
would be growing richer, while if the
hay and gram it consumed had been
sold off the farm. it would have been
robbed of much more.-Farmers'
Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
NEED NOT ssOBEY."
Country Where Brides Must Only
Vow to Love and Honor
Their

The privy council of Christiania has
rendered a decision which the Society
of the New Woman" which has been
agitating the matter, claims as a great
victory, says the St. Louis Republic.
According to this decision, brides
need no longer 10Y to "obey" their
husbands at the marriage
unless they choose to do so. The privy
council declared it to be optional with
the female to omit the little word that
binds her to subject her will to that of
her liege lord.
The Society of the New Woman"
worked z~ealously for the removal of
the Objectionable term from the mar
riage form. and the lawmakers of Nor
way agreed to favor them with a de-
cision making the VOW of obedience %
tional.
As the new woman" is very strong,
numerically, in Norway, thanks to
Henrik Ibsen and his theories of
emancipation, it viii be interesting to
note how many women will omit the
binding clause over which all this fight
has been made and which was strongly
objected to by some of the kings coun-
cillors.
The society which has just achieved
this victory will keep statistics of all
brides who confine theselves 70 love
and honor their future husbands and
do as they please, while the privy
council viii tab those who. of their
volition, agree to submissiveness
and resist the desire to become eman-
cipated in the sense of the new WON.
an"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
WORKED FOR QUALITY ONLY
And That Was Why the job of Sod
ding Was Not Done That
Day.

"Stan' dar," shouted the driver OF
the "crowbate,' as he pulled up in
front of a handsome residence on Lin
coin avenue "What you mean rovin'
'roun' heah like a snake fence? De
lady'n think you neber had a oat."
The LADY, had appeared, looked at
the rig, looked at the men and then
at the load of sod, says the Detroit
Free Press. Eyes" she said, "we need
some sodding done. Say two yards
wide in the front there, that bare
space under the tree and this spot by
the porch where there has never been
a spear of grass since we owned the
place."
"Yes'm."
"But we want it done right. The
ground must be spaded up, you must
put on plenty of fertilizer, water the
sod down till it is set and then insure
the job. Ny observations have been
hat there has been more jobbery,
more confidence games, more fakes,
more downright stealing in setting out
trees and sodding lawns than there is
in the common council, the legislature,
the congress of the United States and
in the stock exchange combined. I
know just what I want and hat is just
what is needed. I'll give you 50 for
the job when I'm satisfied that it's all
right. Cone the first of the week and
come by six in the morning. And don't
drive that horse, either. If there's
anything I abominate it is having a
shadow like that standing in front of
my place. The poor thing looks as
though it was fed on air and wa
ter. Don't you think that you could
do the sodding for S1.5O?"
SAY, lady, you keep lookin' bout
an see eff you can't get dat work done
fur muffin an de sod throwed in. Use
toilin' for a libin', I is, an I don't &c
'roun' tendin' I is a cha'table inStitu-
shing. I nebber does no work 'ceptin'
TO quality. / don't. De ole resahn-
danters am looking TO- my work
Good mawnin'!"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
PITH AND POINT.

Economy.-Our idea of an economs
Teal woman IS a woman to whom the
most expensive hats in the shop hap
pen to be unbecoming-Detroit Jour
nal.
Stutterton -"Have I gug-gug-got
tut-time to c~ue-cuc-catch the n-n-next
t-train for N-N-New-' R. r. Porter
moo York? Yis; We have, pro-
vidin' We walk fasther than We talk.
1t don't Fave fur an hour.-PhiIa-
delphia Record.
Snobbins-"I should think you'd be
afraid Of having that big dog around
you all the time. If I had him I
should be afraid all the time he would
go mad" Snubbins-"But he doesn't
have to live with you, you know
Boston Transcript.
He Missed Them-Jack's Mamma
S'There were three slices of cake in
the cupboard, Jack, and now there
are only two. How does that hap
pen?T Jack-'It was so dark in
there, mamma, that I didn't see the
others."-What to Eat.
Not Astonishing-"It is astonish-
ing that a large fortune should be
left to him by a person who had only
seen him once" I'm my opinion it
would have been more astonishing If
it had been eft to him after the per-
son had seen him twice."-Jewish
Comment.
Irate Wife-'Oh. you mean wretch!
You promised to be home at six
o'clock last evening, and here it is
six o'clock in the morning" In
toxicated Husband-"Zat's all Chic)
right, my dear, Eats six of n and
half a dozen of z'other. Same thing
Texas Siftings.
"Willie says he can't go to school
to-day" said the fond mother at the
breakfast table. why not?" asked
the stern father. HE has muscular
rheumatism in his arms" HE got
it while paying ball. NO, he says
it came from having to hoe in the
acknowledgements News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
~PAN-AMERIcAN BANNERS

In the Plaza Is a green banner with
the words Welcome"
On either side of the Electric tower
is a large light green banner with
golden design
On the different buildings are placed
South American flags; between each
CT the South American flags are Pan
American flags.
On each side of the Triumphal
Causeway float golden banners, with
the coat-of-arms of the United States.
The banners are gold to repeat the
color used On the pylons.
In the A~cetyIene building are airi-
gonicaI signs showing the history of
light in 10 different stages of inven-
tion-the first panel being a wafer,
the last an acetylene gas light
From the two large flag poles in the
Esplanade float large flags. The poles
are 90 feet high. On them the flags
of different countries, cities, states or
societies viii be raised on their re-
spective days.
in the Agriculture building a fea-
ture of the decorations is the Pan
American and state flags and coats-Of-
arms of different states and countries
exhibiting. They are placed between
the garlands, holding them up.
On the poles of the Lily and Cypress
courts four large red flags with floral
designs float with "a small streamers,
carrying the colors mot flags) of the
South American republics-red, white,
blue, green and yellow.
On the corners of the Electricity
building are placed the flags of the
tour European powers having colonies
in this hemisphere. On the northwest
corner, France; southwest, Holland;
northeast, Denmark; southeast, Eng
land
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
CROKER, THE AMMAN CHIEF
The Crokers were English.

The Crokers were English.
Craft is with Croker artificial.
He can be as bluff and blunt as
Henry VIII.
Young Richard was a profound and
untiring athlete.
Richard Croker is a firm apostle of
organized politics.
Croker seems to trust, and his sus-
picion is never asleep.
Croker takes natural command of
men, who as naturally obey.
Croker never drinks strong waters
and has a dread of drunken men.
There were Crokers in the army, in
law, in literature, in parliament
Croker will speak well of his most
hateful foe, or steep himself in ST.
lence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
new Problem for Farmers.

Farm tenantry is doubtless inereas-
ing in the United States, and this fact
is one with which we must constantly
reckon. As a result of tenantry, social
conditions become yearly worse in
many of our farming communities.
The tenant does not feel that he is a
fixture, and takes little interest in the
community The owner of the land
IN o many cases prefer for a tenant
I man without children, as there are
in that case none to increase the dis
trict school tax. This is another new
problem hat u be faced.-Farm-
ara Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
A P
Kansas Farmers. After Twenty Years
of Experience, Declare 1T the
Best Ever Made.

The picture, from Rural New Yorker,
shows the style of pigpen that a firm
of Kansas farmers claims has given
best results after 20 years experience
in hat line:
1--WE have tried everything, from a
tight barn with a little window in the
south side and a stove in the north
side through 'wigwams' and open shed
to a bunch of grass in the field. As to
the merits of the pen shown. the most
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

stefan. She cannot bring herself 20
tell everything, and the physician IS
at a constant disadvantage. This is
whv. for the past twenty-five years,
thousands of women have been cen
6ding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham,
and whose advice has brought happi-
ness and health to countless women In
the United States.
Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, Ill,
whose portrait we publish, advises all
suffering women to seek Mrs P!nk-
hams advice and use Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, as they
r1red her of inflammation of the ovaries
and womb; she, therefore, speaks from
Knowledge, and her experience ought
- Give others confidence. Mrs. Pink
hams address is Lynn, Mass, and her
advice is absolutely free.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
WHY MRS. PlNKHAM
Is Able to Help Sick Women
When Doctors Fail.

How gladly would men fly to wo-
mans aid did they but understand a
woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities,
and peculiar organic disturbances.
Those things are known only to
women, and the aid a man would give
Is not at his command
To treat a case properly it is neces-
sary to know all about it, and full
information, many times, cannot be
given by a woma to her family ply
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
LABoR-sAvING BOOSTS.
Reach Almost Any Fowl or the
Perch with Ease.

Ny poultry roosts are made of thres
six-inch boards. For a 12-foot building
they should be ten feet long 20 admit
passage around ii. Bore holes in each
end for No. 9 fence wire as a support.
Fasten wire to rafter and then pass
the other end through hole in roost
plank, first placing the board at any
desirable height from foor to suit the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
Mark Twain and His bicycle.

According to a story that comes
from Hartford, Mark Twain, who for
merly resided there, was out wheeling
one day with a minister, when he sud
denly had a fall. The minister slowed
up and was going TO the assistance of
the humorist, when the latter called
out: Don't stop, Joe. Go right
ahead. I think I viii stay here a bit
and swear."-S, Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
rho vaudevflIe Din.

Daughter, perhaps if you take
more time with your hair it wouldn't
look so rough and baggy over your
left eye"
slime? Why, pa, it took me two
solid hours to make it look that
way."-Chieago Record-Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

The toad is the truckers friend ana
should not be mo1ested in the garden
or field. Fully nine-tenths of its food
consists of insects that are injurious
to plants. We should forgive our
friend for taking in the other tenth
that is beneficial to our crops.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

svHEN WRITING TO AnvKmTxmMmm
mant In thls pager
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27

similar naedicane In the Enrids
great merit, and Ossr best tesEfuE
will sell nbsoiati
money refunded, 60 buy today
fair, honest trial. as per simple
not Satisfied. after using one soc
box and the empty box TO us by
vwlaoTe yoRz purchased It, and get
boxes. Take our a4zv1ee-no mni
dNy. Health win quickly Eoliays
yOu Hrsfm started the uee ofEASGA
Address: STERLING REMEDY Co.,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-20
LOCAL PLAYERS TROUBLE

The announcement that the Brooklyn
club of the National league has signed
John Il. Flournoy is followed by claim
that Flournoy holds that he was FREQ
10 sign because he did not receive salary
for that period OF his contract which en-
sued after his request 10 permit him 10
go TO his home was granted. Manager
Murray states that IL was Flournoy's de-
sire 10 go home, and that his request was
granted on an understanding covering the
mater of salary. Flournoy's father, who
is an attorney i'm Knoxville. Tenn, made
a demand upon the Providence club while
Manager Murray was in New York re-
Gently stating that IL an immediate reply
was not returned It would be regarded
as "A release. The club officials are not
worrying greatly on that score. II the
present tangle I'm the big league Is
strengthened out, with Spalding at the
helm there will be no trouble concerning
the taking OF players from minor league
clubs without compensation.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-20
TO RACE IN EUROPE

Major Taylor, the colored whirlwind.
has signed contract for a second trip to
Europe Taylor will sail shortly to pre-
paro for Il races I'm May and June. He
will again refuse TO ride Sunday. Ills
compensation for this trip is unknown.
Last season he was guaranteed $1,000 and
made much more,
Taylor asserts his intention OF again re-
turning 20 America 20 fight for the
sprinting Championship in July. Augrs I
and September. He lost the championship
last season 20 Frank Kramer.
Jimmy Michael will return 20 France
in February without Tom Eek He will
return 90 America in July providing the
gamc is big enough in this country then.
He will take no pacemakers with him and
may dabble with the horses little, rid
ing I'm the Sunday cycle races.
Bobbie Wathour. who. like Major Tay-
lor, refuses Ia ride on Sundays. rejected
very liberal offer 10 go 10 France ihs
spring, ana, like Kramer. will delay his
trip abroad until next winter.