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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21
CompInIned of the ro.tmnstrr.

Fifty-thrcc letter carriers ~ Grand
Rapids have filed charges against POST
master l.. * Bishop. FOR violation OF
the civil service rule. The trouble
arose over the appointment 81 George
T.. Fox as supcrintcudcnt Of carriers
The latter claim they have had trouble
ever since. and shat " mans politics
disagree with those of o." admins
tratipn. his position is made 50 untcn-
able that he Il glad tu resign. Post
office department officials are mvcsti-
eating.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21
Henry ApoIogis-S.

Prince Henry of Prussia has made
amends To Admiral Dewey for the con.
duct OF the Germans ~ Manila u
Washington dispatch declares. IL came
In letter. Il l. understood. IN which
the prince expresses the klndcst per-
sopal regard. ana l.. In u way. an
apology from Germany 60 the admiral
Prince Henry admits. that the Ger
mans made errors during the bio, kn1e
~ Manila. ana that admiral Dewey
was right ana acted best In all things.
The ictt'r was forwarded to Florida
To- Admiral Dewey and was received
by him with great qualification. for he
has high regard Tor the prince Al.
miral Dewey viii send u representa-
tive to New YORK Co reccive Prince
Henry for him. ns the serious condl-
ton of Mrs. Dcwey's health viii pre-
vent him from being there In person.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21

The Marquis OF Duncrin former
.-nveruor-geacrnl of Canada. died.
"Wednesday morning.
because Judge Bennett. OF Mt Yer
non. n. ". refused to pay a gas bill OF
Sizes. which. no cOntcndcd. nc hal
mover contracted. the gas company
turned OF MS supply three years ago.
lie brought suit. and the gas company
carried the case tO the appellate Glvl.
zion OF the Supreme Court. which has
jus; handed down decision Affirming
Judgment for $500 In favor OF Judge
Bcanctt
willis Cooper. who slct and Killed
Wm. Perry and Mrs. barbara Russell
~ Amitr city. Ia. was brought Ia
New Orleans hurriedly aud lodged In
the parish prison 90 escape being
lynchcd by an Infatuated mob
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
CHARCOAL IN IRON-MAKING.
Why the Industry Languishes in the
UraI Region of Russia-COke
Used in America.

Though Russia has almost mex
haustible resources in iron ore, the
country is not yet able to produce all
the iron required by the home indus
tries. Business interests complain
that metal and machinery manufac-
lures are embarrassed because so
much iron and steel must still be
imported. Economists say the coun-
try can never attain industrial indie
%pendence till it can make all the iron
and steel it needs, says a journal of
the trade.
A scientific commission, which has
inquired into the causes for the slow
development of iron production in the
Urals, has just reported that the indus
try languishes on account of anti
quated methods. Wood is the fuel
used, and as the forests have been
felled far and wide around the smelt-
ers it is difficult to bring ore and fuel
together. There are no railroads,
horses being still employed to carry
ore and fuel. Consequently, though
wages in Russia are excessively low,
it costs more to produce pig iron in
the Urals than in the United States,
where ore is carried 500 to 1000 miles
to the coke furnaces and smelters of
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Forty million acres of forest lands
allotted by the government to the
iron industries of the Urals are still
intact in the provinces of Perm and
Ufa. In the opinion of the commits
sion railroads should at once be built
to connect the smelters with the for
ests, where large charcoal burning
should be developed with a view entire
ly to supplant wood as fuel. Improve
ments in process of pig iron manufac-
ture, long ago adopted by western ma
tons, are also suggested. The COM
mission believes that the annual out
put of pig iron in the Urals, now
about 645,00O tons a year, may readily
be increased to five times that quanti-
tv and that the prices of iron and steel,
nov artifcially high, may be so great
ly reduced that there will be no mar
ket in Russia for importations.
So the Urals may be advanced to the
charcoal age of iron making. The fuel
used in making nine-tenths of our pig
iron is coke, as this country discarded
charcoal many years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Japan's foreign trade has in 80 yesrs
Increased from less than one dollar 70
nearly seven dollars per capita per an
mum.
Mount Rewenzori, in equatorial
Africa, is about 10000 feet high, has
90 miles of glaciers and is nearly al
ways cloud covered.
The number of pa upers in every 1000
inhabitants (23.7) in London was great
er last December than in the CORE
spending period of the preceding five
years.
During last year Brazil sod Ger
many s26, 022, 354 and brought from her
$780, 22. In the same time the Unit
ed States bought from Brazil 50,073,-
437 and sold her 81, 57s,119.
Civilization is making rapid progress
in Madagascar. AT a wedding recently
solemnized in the island the native
bride and her bridesmaids were dressed
in the very latest Paris fashion.
Guben, in B~randenburg. has gone
wild on dog flesh. The town authori-
ties have decided that all dogs intend
ed for human consumption must be
slaughtered in the public abattoir.
The new dead sea discovered by DR..
Seven Henin, in Tibet, is described as
enormous in extent, but so shallow
that to navigate it one must wade half
a mile to reach the boat, and must drag
the boat harlf a mile before it can be
fioated with a Load. But the most re-
markable characteristic is the almost
incredible amount of salt. Boats and
oars quickly become as white as
chalk; ven the dress of the rowers
soon becomes whitened, while drops of
water sprinkled upon a dry surface
leave globules like candle drippings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

When hospitals for animals were
first inaugurated it was considered by
many people a foolish waste Of time
and money. What would they have
said of a tree hospital? Such an insti-
tutions is in existence in Paris, France,
where they have so succe ssfully
learned the art of transplanting large
trees that at the first sign of unthrift
or decay in a tree on a boulevard, ii Isl
removed to the municipal tree hospital,
or nursery, where in a richer soil than
the city affords it recuperates. In the
spring and fall these sick trees on their
way to and from the tree hospital are
no uncommon sight In the streets of
Paris
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
THREE PRUNING DEVICES.
They Are Extremely Simple, But as
Labor and Temper Savers They
Have No Equals.

Numerous have been the inventions
for enabling a person to stand upon the
ground and prune small branches from
the tops of trees, or from other situa-
tions out of reach. Some of these tools
work fairly well when the branch is
small and easily cut off, but they fail
more or less in the east of more seri-
Gus pruning. A simple device is por-
trayed that is easily made at home,
and that will do good work, even if the
branch to be cut out is quite large. 1t
is a square, or round, pole of any de-
sired length, of hard wood, with a mar
row, sharp little saw fitted firmly into
one end of it. Such a saw can be made
out of a thin strip of steel, or a piece
of an old narrow saw can be utilized,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
A Large italian Creamery.

Dairying is advancing rapidly in the
various civilized nations of the world.
During the last few years there has
been in operation at Milan, Italy, what
is perhaps the largest creamery in the
world. Its daily receipts of milk run
from 10000 to 10000 pounds. The
creamery is also engaged in the maxi
ing of cheese of all kinds including the
cheddars. The establishment cost
over 100000, and employs SO men, i'm
Guiding haulers of milk. The cream
cry has this advantage over others in
that, the milk being hauled by their
own men in their own cans, the latter
can be kept clean. This is seldom pos
sible where the patrons bring milk in
their WI cans. Much of the product
Of this creamery factory is sold in
London market.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

Miss Matte Douglass, 1873 Thomas
ave-, Memphis, Tenn, writes:
"From my early womanhood l have
been troubled with occasional head
aches. I took different powders and
drugs, at times getting temporary re-
lief. One of my friends advised me to
try Peruna, which | did. l soon found
that my general health improved, and
nay entire system was toned up.
II felt a buoyancy of body and light
ness of mind | had not known before
and my headaches have completely dis
appeared, and I have enjoyed perfect
health for over a year. I gladly endorse
Peruna." MATT1L DOUGLASS.
Women from all parts of the United
States and Canada are testifying daily
to the virtue of Peruna. Only a few of
these letters can ever be published.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
CAUSE OF PEAR BLIGHT.
Plausible Theory Advanced by a HOr-
ticulturist Who Has Studied
the Problem.

AS many farmers have planted pear
trees in this country and then have
been disappointed in the yield of the
delicious fruit by that terrible
scourge, blight, and as I have studied
the nature of the pear tree some, l
thought I would give my opinion of the
cause and leave the farmer to judge
for himself of the value of my obser-
vations. In the first place allow me to
say that the nature of the seeding
pear tree is for the tap roots to go
down deep like the roots of the hick-
DRY or black walnut, a fact that one
will notice by taking up Seeding pear
trees. The roots were from one and
a-half to three times the length of the
tops. We measured one tree. The top
above ground was 11H inches, and the
root exactly Sc inches. Now, if that
is their nature to thus go down, farm
ers know that the usual practice
among nurserymen is to run a tree
digger under their tree at one year
old, and cut all the roots say from ten
to twelve inches from top of ground,
so they car lift the trees by hand IS
sold. This cutting causes the roots
to spread out at the surface of the
ground instead of going down as ma
ture intended, and thus the roots are
baked in a drought, causing blight and
death. Now if this does not make
p%iece-root trees, although they may
have been whole-root grated. will you
tell me what it takes to constitute a
whole-root tree? If, as | have said be-
fore, it is in the nature of the pear or
any other tree to thus go down to per-
manent moisture, I think it would be
a good idea on hard pan land to bore
q hole four feet and put in half a stick
of giant powder and break and loosen
up where the treets are set. If you
ever noticed the growth of any tree
where an old well has been filed in
you would see the Importance of loos-
ening up deep.-W. /. Davis, in st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
THE GARDEN.
tended IL Is Always sure to
Bring Good Returns.

The question is what are the bes,
things to raise in a garden and how
shall we go to work to raise them? A
man bought a farm that was overrun
with gooseberries. He tried to destroy
them, but failed. He was discouraged
and in debt, but in going to the city on
business one dayhe found gooseberries
selling on the market at a good price.
He went back home and began culti-
waiting his gooseberries and placing
them on sale. In time, and not a very
long time, either, he had his farm paid
for and plenty of means to increase his
business. Gooseberries are a good
crop to grow, and ever for ones use
only, it pays to plant them. They grow
rapidly and can be propagated from
cuttings. A good way to set them is
to cut off from five to six inch pieces,
and before the buds start in the spring
set them in the ground leaving one OF
two buds above the surface. Press the
earth around them and nature will do
the rest. These plants will make good
bushes the second year and by the
third will be bearing we'll. G%ooseber-
ries almost always bring a good price,
and can be easily grown in any climate.
With fresh curly lettuce the average
farmer girl can earn her summer rib
bons and have a little left for confec-
%tionery if she would set her heart
to the work. Radishes are another
easy crop and they never fail of a mar
ket. Peas, too, are very salable, and
the girl or woman who will plant a
large quantity of nice table peas can
very easily find a market for them. In
sowing peas for the market it is neces-
sary to select standard varities, the
kinds which grow and give the best sat
isfaction. For the early market there
is nothing better than the Extra Early
or the Honey Dew. Last year I had
some of the Everbearing peas. These
are a most valuable sort for medium
and late crop. They continue to bear
until frost with but little attention.
The pods r good size, the peas rich
and meaty, and the customer who buys
of you once will buy again. A care
fully attended vegetable garden will
always bring good returns to any
farmers wife OF daughter if she has
the necessary pluck and energy
Rose-Seelye Miller, in Agricultural
Epitomist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
KITCHEN GARDEN FOR GIRLS.
An Excellent Plan to Teach the Lit.
tie Ones the Performance of
Household Duties.

One day last summer three big
hearted Washington men contributed
the funds necessary to start a "kitch-
en- garden" in Georgetown. The out
fit was purchased and the school
found a home in the parish hall at
tached to st. Johns, under the au-
spices of the Girls Friendly Society"
of that church. The object of the
instructions given is to teach, in an
attractive way, the duties of an eff
ficient housemaid, or helpful daugh-
ter of an overbusy house mother, says
the Washington Star. The imple-
ments are toys, it is true, but the
work is most thorough and is done
according to positive rules. The pu-
pills range in ages from seven to
IL years, and are eager for each new
phase of the work. Patriotism is in
culcated by beginning each lesson
with the prayer for the president and
a salute to the flag" One afternoon
recently, attired in their neat caps
and aprons, they gave an exhibition
of the progress they had made be-
fore the mothers meeting. The work
is all done to music, and most of the
rules are embodied in catchy little
songs. The exhibition demonstrated
the ability of the little maids to build
the kitchen fire; to lay the table for
breakfast and to wait upon the same
throughout that meal; to fold a la
blecloth and a handkerchief proper
ly; and to wait on the door; the
whole concluding with a simple dumb
bell exercise, introduced, as were all
the rest, by it's jingle.
Future lessons will teach them how
to sweep and dust a room, air and
spread q bed, wash the dishes, do
laundry work, etc. OF course no wa
ter is used, but the children 60
through all the motions Of filing
their dishpans, pals and tubs, while
the irons are heated on an imagin-
arv stove.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
SAVE YOUR OWN SEEDS.
This Advice Applies Not Only to Anna
tours and Farmers But Also to
Market Gardeners,

Why not save your seeds? 1t is
wiser, better, cheaper, and adds ma
terially to the pleasure of garden
ing. You desire the best. To secure
that, select the best of that which
suits you the best. There is a great
diversity of taste; some prefer II
form of color, another quite a differ
ent one. This is an individual mat
ter, and in no way affects the prin-
ciple. We all have our preferences
as to species. We all want the best
defined of a given type. To secure
this result, selection is necessary, and
selection means choice. 1t means the
most vigorous plant that produces
the flower or vegetable best suited
to your taste. Save the seeds from
such for future use. Great care is
required to make the selection valu-
able. After a choice of plants is
made. the first flower should not be
allowed to seed, as they are never so
perfect as those that come later. If
the second flowers are all that can
be desired. if they are improvements
over those of previous years, careful
ly remove all the undeveloped buds
on the plant, so as to give the blooms
the full strength of the plant for the
ripening of their seed. This is the
way all new varieties are produced,
and the way that others may be. If
a flower shows the slightest change
in color or marking, it is a sure indi-
cation of a new variety. From this
plant save the most marked. even
though the flowers in other respects
may not be desirable. Save the flow
er for seed that shows the greatest
change, and do not trust another
to bloom until that seed is ripened.
Follow this up for a few years and
a variety may be produced of more
money value than the cost of the
whole garden during those years.
Agricultural Epitomist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
THE KANSAS PEOPLE ARE IN
LOVE WITH WESTERN
CANADA.
They Say the Land There Ii the Fin-
est on Earth.

A great number of delegates have
been influenced through the agency
of Mr.. j. S. Crawford, the Canadian
Government representative at Kan
sas City, to visit Western Canada, and
whether from Missouri or Kansas the
story is always the same-they are
pleased with the new country being
opened up. Isaac H. Levagood writes
from Didsbury, Alberta, as follows:
VI met three delegates from Kan
sas yesterday at Didsbury, and took
them home with me and took
them out in the afternoon and
showed them some of the fin
est land that lays on top of
Gods green earth. They are more
than pleased with this country. They
stayed with me last night, this norm
ing | took them to Didsbury, and
they went on North. When they
come back they are coming to my
place and l I'M going to help them to
run some lines and they are going to
locate in sight of my house. There
have been over 1900 acres of land
changed hands here in our neighbor-
hood this spring. When l located here
last Fall I was the furthest back of
any of the settlers, to-day I am in
the centre of the settlement. We
have SO children that are of school
age in our district, and we will have
our school district organized next
month, when we will proceed to build
our school house. The longer we stay
here the better we like the country,
that is the way with everybody here,
they all seem to be satisfied and do
ing well. / have talked with a great
many men here and they told me that
they had less than $50 when they got
here, and to-day they have got 100
acres of good land and five or six
hundred dollars worth of stock.
Crops are looking fine here, I think
this will be a good winter wheat
country. One of my neighbors has a
small piece and it looks fine"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

Women are naturally more suscept-
ible to inclemencies of the weather
than men. With them a cold is often
the starting point of some severe
pelvic arrangement, causing much
pain and suffering.
Every woman needs a remedy upon
which she can rely to keep her system
fortified against the trying weather of
winter and early spring. If Peruna is
taken at the first symptom of a cold it
will cure it before it develops into
some annoyingcatarrhal arrangement.
If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to Dr.. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The HartmanS anitarium, Columbus, o.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
COMPACT GREENHOUSE.
II Can He Used for n Variety of Other
Purposes Besides the Growing
of Early Plants.

To build an a~ll-over glass house for
growing early plants is both expensive
and difficult, while the building is fit
for nothing else should the growing
of early plants be given up. A small
house that has a great deal of sun
light in it, that is inexpensive and
easy to build, and a be used for other
purposes, should occasion warrant, is
shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton. The three windows face the
south, with a window in both the east
and west ends.
The house can be made of any di-
mansions desired and can be heated
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
USEFUL FOR MANY PURPOSES.

by a small stove. There is a walk along
the back side, with a wide bench be-
fore the windows. The stove can oc-
cupy the farther end of the walk, with
a slight partition of galvanized ironto
keep the strong heat from the plants
that are near. A s~hed-roofed house
can be built, but it would have to be
high enough in the rear to afford a
walk, so there would be but little if
any saving in expense, and a decided
loss in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Judd
Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SOME HANDY PRUNING TOOLS.

The other say figured is an ordinary
handsaw, with a portion of the back
cut out, to permit easy working where
the space for using a saw is limited.
No n will realize until he uses such
a saw how much of a convenience it is
in this shape. The other device is for
use in cutting out blackberry and rasp-
berry canes A thin bit of steel. or a
scythe point bent into the proper
shape by a blacksmith, is firmly
fastened to a short wooden handle.
With a stout buckskin or calfskin
glove, or mitten, upon the left hand
and this implement in the right, one is
we'll equipped to rapidly remove all
undesirable canes from the blackberry
and raspberry rows.-H. D. Becker, in
Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
Intensive Peach Culture.

Peach culture is a speciality with Mr.
r. Morrill,, of Michigan. He applies an
nually to his trees 100 pounds of wood
ashes an acre and 400 pounds of bone
meal. He plows the ground about two
and one-half inches deep just after the
blooming season, and then c~uitivates
continually, going over his whole or
chard Of 100 acres every week. He does
not try to cultivate close to the trees,
but thinks that by cultivating the mid
die Of the rows each way he gets the re-
suit aimed at; namely, the retention
Of the moisture. This is what he calls
"horse-leg irrigation" - Farm and
Nreside.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

A very small girl out on the East side
was given her first plate of ray oysters
at supper the other night. She swal-
lowed one and then pushed the plate
away from her with an expression Of
disgust.
whats the matter, Katy% asked
her mother. Don't you like your oys.
ters?"
"No, me don't, answered Katy, with
q grimace. "Him was too fresb."-
Memphis Scimitar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

DE Style-Why did you tie that medal to
your dogs collar?
Gunbusta-He saved my life.
"In what wayT'
Had he bit me ] would have died from
hydrophobia."
what has that to do with saving your
life?'
"Hc never bit men. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
Worth. of n nastnne.e

A young parson while dining at the house
OF a family OF his congregation presumed to
entertaie the table with dissertation upon
life. And after all. what is life?" he
asked, and paused for oratorical effect. Il
know" a small voice exclaimed and ali eyes
were turned TO the end OF the table where
the youngest son of the family sat in a hig6
chair. IL know" he piped. Herbert Spen-
Ger says that life is the definite combination
of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous
and successive, in correspondence with ex-
ternal coexistences and seguences."-Chi.
cago Chronicle.