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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There is said to be not q single house
in London which is more than 200
yards from a pillar postbox.
It's proposed to erect state GONZALES
cent homes in Austria for anaemic
children and those whose weakened
condition renders them liable to con-
sumption.
Night robberies have practically
ceased in the st. GILES suburb of Brus-
sells since the local police began max
ing their nightly rounds accompanied
by watch dogs.
Water is so scarce in the japanese
island of Oshima that it is the custom
of the bride to take a large tub of
drinking water with her to her new
home as a kind of dowry.
1t is reported hat the Russian min
lister of the interior is considering a
project for Matchmaking the medical
profession, so that all doctors and
chemists would be state officials. A
commission has been appointed to col
lect information on the subject.
Six hundred children of the poorest
class in Edinburgh have been washed
en- masse at the corporation baths.
Afterwards they were provided with
new clothes. One of them was over
heard to remark that they were good
clothes enough, but awful dear at the
price"
The smoke nuisance is moving even
the quiet soul of the Austrian and half
of Vienna is worried because the other
half is disfiguring the city with the
thick clouds from the chimneys of in
dustry. Several proposed bills have
been drawn up, and it is likely that in
a comparatively short time a strong
effort will be made to have one or other
of these become a law.
In Liverpool is a room-that of a
dentist whose grandfather occupied
the same premises-that contains
many mirrors and pictures, the
frames of which are made en-
tirely of sharks teeth. Near
Birmingham a manufacturer has
a study that is lined, ever to
the roof, with nothing but chains of
various thicknesses and padlocks of
different sizes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
DEMlJOHNS BIG AND LITTLE.
TIL Are Made In Many Sizes and Are
Used for a Great Many
Purposes.

"Of those giant d~emijohns
of apparently two or three barrels
capacity that you see outside of
liquor stores as signs" said a dealer,
according to the New York Sun, ARE
not real demijohns, the wicker work
being woven over a bottle-shaped
form of wood.
The largest demijohn used has a
capacity of five gallons. The small
est contains II and a half ounces
or less than "A gill. 1t is used for
%perfumery and sold for knickknacks.
Between the five-gallon and the
gill size, demijohns are made in
many sizes, including quarts, pints
and half pints. In these smaller
demijohns there is a considerable
holiday trade.
"Demijohns are not very costly,
anyway, but the very smallest are
the most expensive proportionately.
a gill demijohn sells for more than
II that will hold half a gallon, the
simple reason being that the little
n must be covered with care as to
Its appearance, while in the larger
sizes the chief thing required is serv.
iceability. So the basket work on
the very littlest demijohns may take
more time and cost more for labor
than that on Il demiiohn some sizes
larger.
Probably the first idea of most
people would be that the demijonn
is made solely to contain liquor; and
YeSy likely it is more used for that
than for any other one purpose. But
demijohns are, in fact, used for many
purposes.
"They + used for vinegar and for
molasses, for perfumery and for bay
rum; for cordials and for extracts;
for and for waters, and so
on, in housekeeping use, and in the
drug and other trades.
almost all the demiiohns used in
this country are made here, though
some are imported from Germany
and France. From those countries
also we get, containing drug i'm
portations, some odd-shaped demi.
johns larger than any we use in this
country.
Here for instance is a French
d%emijohn that holds approximately
six and a half gallons. 1t is tall and
of straight-sided, cylindrical form,
and carried in a ~hamper-like outer
basket, with two handles, one on
either side at the top. This makes
a n~ice-looking package and is handy
to lift and carry around, but rail
roads don't like to handle wicker
covered bottles Of that sort on ac.
count of their liability to break.
"On the other side they pack big
demijohns like that with cork scraps,
or scraps of sponge for their protec-
ton in transportation. Our big
demijohns here, above five gallons,
are made in the form of what are
called box demijohns, the bottle be-
ing incased not in wicker work, but
in a box, or a wooden crate. For
that matter there are now made
many box demijohns of smaller sizes
as we'll"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11

ficult, for an hour. Actors, when they
group about the man in the center
of the stage, who is enjoying all the
limelight-and how they hate them
for it-are required to keep still, so
as not to distract attention from the
great mans sayings and motions, and
because they must group in such a
way as to form a picture and keep it
till it can be realized by the eyes
in front. But this enforced statu-
sequences is hard on III: supes. They
are not used to it.. When they are
put under the strain, and when as
Roman warriors they must stand at
the back without winking while Bru-
tus or Virginius or some other pom
derous person unbosoms himself re-
specting love or politics, they are in
a small torture. One such, last sea-
son, who could no longer abide it to
listen to the soliloquy by the head
man, pitched over on his face and
had to be lugged out by the arms, to
the spelling of the Gene.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11

In China it is nothing out of the way
for a criminal under sentence of death
to secure. at a price, a substitute to die
for him at the hands of the execu-
toner. A remarkable Ease of substi-
tuition is reported from Foo-Chow.
When a certain childless criminal there
was adjudged to death his family met
to see what should be done. The SUI
perstition Of the land ran counter to
a man dying without leaving a son, at
least, to worship him after death.
The criminal had a brother who had
SO many sons that he had hi fear Of
being left without worshiPcrs. The
family decided to put him in rs q sub
stitute for the childless one, so that
the latter could live on to grt o son.
The military mandarin ~concerped was
bought over, the criminal was Svt free
and his guiltless brothers henu was
cut off.-London Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
EXTRAORDINARY LYNCHING.
Negro Criminals Queer Taking-On
by a Mob in One of the
Gulf States.

"One of the most singular lynch.
ings | ever saw" said a visitor from an
adjoining state, reports the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, happened a
number of years ago, and | suppose
there are but few persons alive now
who recall the strange facts of the
case. Burning negroes was not in
vogue then. 1T was even a rare thing
to hear of a tirst-class hanging. OF
course, men had the habit then, as they
have it now, of putting black men out
of the way when they resorted to
shocking violences, but they went
about it in a different way.
Coming to my story, / suppose il is
the only instance in the history of the
country when such a unique method
of disposing of a negro was employed.
The crime with which the negro was
charged was henious-of that kind
which is said to justify summary
punishment. 1t was committed near
the bank of a river. There was no
question about the negroes guilt. He
q Il tOIlDlClC tOllSssloh, anu Sulu
he deserved death for the awful crime
he had been guilty of. For awhile the
mob did not know just how to proceed.
1t was some time before the frenzied
men who surrounded the negro could
make up their minds as to the best
method of procedure. Hanging was
suggested. shoot him. said another
member of the group. Burn him.
cried another, and so it went or
Finally some fellow made a SUCCESS
ton which met with the approval of
the mob.
at was to chain the negro in a
large boiler, weightit down so it would
gradually sink and cast him adrift on
the river. This plan was followed out
to the letter. 1t was in the dead hour
of the night when they floated out to
the middle of the stream with the
negro and the boiler and the weights
which would sink it. He was carefully
chained to the boiler so there was no
possible chance of escape. Then the
weights were piled in and the poor
wretch was cast adrift on the waters,
Nothing could be heard but the
screams of the manacled negro, and
the dip and splash of the oars as the
lynchers made their way back to the
shore from which they had embarked
on the gruesome mission. AS the skiff
showed its bow into the muddy bank
and the pulled-in oars ratified over its
sides, a wild gurgling shrek was heard
'adown the stream, and then q sad, list.
less silence spread over the waters,
and the only sound to be heard was the
muff1ed crunch of the lynchers' feet as
they tugged up the frowning embank-
ment.N N
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
CAUSE SHADES IN WATER.
Varying Conditions That Determine
the Hue of Lakes and
Rivers.

The varying shades which natural
water assume are due chiefly to two
causes-vegetable stain and suspend
ed matter. When the latter is pres.
ent in appreciate quantity it causes
turbidity and is not a real pigment.
The true color or vegetable stain is
greenish-yellow to reddish-brown and
is due to decayed plant growth. The
suspended matter is generally min.
eral and often contains iron, The
color acquired by water at the bot.
tom of a deep pond is largely due
to this cause, says a scientific ex-
change,
Experts have adopted a method of
stating the depth of color in water
by comparison with a mixture of
platinum and cobalt, the color pro.
duced by II part of platinum to
1000, 900 parts of water being taken
as the unit.
Thus it has been shown that the
color of surface water depends both
on the character of the neighborinc
vegetation and on the time that the
water remains in contact with it.
Water near steep rocks, where there
are few trees, will generally be be-
low 20 units in color; steep wooded
or cultivated slopes give 20 to so
units; similar but gentler slopes
from 5 to 100 and swamp areas 100
to 500 or even higher. Highly colored
waters are more common in the
northern states than in the south.
Colored water is gradually
bleached by sunlight, the action tax.
ing place chiefly within one foot of
the surface. The study of color in
water is of commercial Importance
ecaus most people object to
drinking brownish water. Hence, in
a town water supply the color muse
either be removed or it's formation
must be prevented. The latter is
often the most economical thing to
do and it may be accomplished by
in~tercepting the water from the up-
lands and leading it into the streams
without letting it pass through tn,
swamps.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
EFFECTS o. MENTAL TENSION
1t Is n Hard Matter to Realize the
Difficulty of Maintaining n Per-
fectly Natural Pose.

We never know how active our i'm
aginations can be till we let them out,
or till they get the better of us, for
some reason. \ major in the army,
stationed at Gassett's Mills, recently
admitted that when he went into ac-
ton for the first time he was so
scared that he did not know which
way was north, but he had an over
whelming desire to reach it, wherever
it was. Yet, after six or eight bat
ties, and after being wounded a cou-
pie of times, he regarded battles very
much as people hereabout regard the.
evening fight at the Manhattan end
of the bridge, says the Brooklyn
Eagle.
Cases of wanting to run when bull
let's fly are by no means difficult to
find. But a young soldier in Brooklyn
confeSses to a more queer experience.
His regiment vas in camp, and had
been ordered out for dress parade, as
usual. When lined up for inspection,
every man as stiff as a ramrod, and
not a white glove moving, this young
man-a lieutenant-began to ask him
self: Suppose | should slip or any
thing, to break the quiet? Suppose l
should fall"" The idea of falling kept
growing in his mind, till before the
inspection was over and the regiment
was allowed to use its feet once more,
he could hardly keep on his legs, and
was in a sweat Of agony, from the
dread Of tumbling over and making
an exhibition Of himself.
People who have never tried it do
not realizc how hard il is to stand
absolutely still and yet appear inter
ested and at ease. Artists models
succeed at It, especially those in tia
~. and will hold a pose. not too diff
I ~ L| M MA N.".. "L".HN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
Most American city in Canada

Winnipeg is the Mecca of the iInmi.
grant to Manitoba and the northwest.
A city of 10000 inhabitants, with
banks and warehouses that would do
credit to the old country, with miles
of venue and red-brick villas, down
which run rapid electric cars, carry
ing their lines, with an eye for the flu
ture, far into the market gardens and
cornfelds. Winnipeg, with its forest
Of telegraph and telephone poles and
network OF overhead wires, is more
American and go-ahead than any city
In the west Of Can da.--Lor don D.,
press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11

WYNN ibSy WIN liS tIiS IllOoh
that the Curlew was in the bay, and
I know James is coming tonight"
He went to a window. clark! Don't
you hear a horse?"
But it was only a rain-squall driv-
ing along the road.
The wind gradually shifted, and
when we returned to the kitchen the
storm was laundering at the front
door and echoing in the hall. Sew
eral times it tore at the entrance like
a living thing-so like that I half
turned round, while my companion
started from his seat. Soon, how
ever, my fatigue began to overpower
me. Even the increasing
of the old man could not keep me
awake. I was rapidly nearing the
borders Of a slumber when the storm,
which had dropped for a moment to
utter silence, came roaring over the
marsh anew. Tt struck the house,
it hammered at the door, and the
door few open with a crash.
The old man sprang up and start
ed out into the hall; then, uttering
a low cry Of "James! Welcome home
at last!" he rushed from room t.
room. And upon the moment a gi-
ant blast swept through the house;
instantly all was in darkness. ! felt
my way cautiously along the hall
until / stumbled over something on
the rain-lashed threshold.
1t was the old man. / carried him
into the kitchen and lit q candle. He
lay very still, with a smile upon his
facet had never seen him smile be-
fore. And when morning came I was
glad that he could not wake to see
his bright garden ruined by the
storm.-N. X. Independent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
So stxlI.h.

"Oh, yes, women would make an in
telligent use Of the ballot, | don't
think" gruntcd 0ldboy. Here's my
wife's been saying she is so glad
can vote the Australian ballot in
Maryland, because it matches her
kangaroo waist."-Baltimore Amer.
lean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
Justice Us. ChivaIry

A young man stood in his place in a long
line of patient human beings who were work
ing slowly towards a bank teller's window.
He had been in line for a long time and the
window was now only one or two persons
distant. Just as he was congratulatirg HIM
self that his errand was almost accomplished,
some ole touched him OH the arm and a
woman whom he knew appeared before him.
He smiled with pleased surprise and lifted
his hat.
"Oh, Mr.. JONES'" she said, with a mis-
chievous disregard of business etiquette,
cant | squeeze in there somewhere? If |
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11

1T all right. Him an his brother come
out from England-that's all right.
AM then his brother got took sick
an went home when the old man
died-that's all right. But now I'll
tell you what old large didn't tell
you. James Montague did come out
here again, but he warn't alive when
he landed. He landed from a wreck
with O hole busted in his skull"
Seeing my amazed look, the speaker
proceeded to explain.
"He come out to Halifax in a Gu
nard steamer; she was called the
Scotia, l guess-one of them big pad
die boats that used to run in the old
days. That was way back in the six
ties. Then he took passage in a
schooner for the village here. She
was called the Curlew. She got
round safe, an come up an near
reached the head Of the bay, when a
big storm an high tide got her, an
she was wrecked hat a mile below
here an every soul drownded. Old
%Jarge-he was young large then-had
come into the village with a couple of
bosses fer himself an his brother to
ride out to the house. The fust he
seen Of his brother James was when
he was washed ashore, with his head
cut up terrible. Old large didn't say
nuthin'-jest seen about the berial,
and then shut himself up in the big
house. That was thirty years ago.
Lately he's taken to stoppin' people
on the road an askin' if they has seen
his brother James. We mostly laffs
at him, but I guess it's kinder rought
on tn old feller."
Hitherto the summer had been free
from bad weather. Day after day
the sun made glorious the wide
marshes and the surging tides Of the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-24

you allow your trouble TO run on until you
are past recovery? Wine of Cardui will
not cure female diseases when they have
developed into consumption. What else
can happen when Irregularities are sapping
the blood and you let them go on? But do
not let them go on. Stop them now. Wine
of Cardui never fails in an uncomplicated
case. Your druggist sells 90 bottles Of
Wine of Cardui and you should be taking
this remedy in your home now. Secure a
bottle of Wine of Cardui and get the same
benefit and cure from it Mrs. Adams did.
If you think you need advice write to The
Ladies' Advisory Department, The Chat
tanooga Medicine Company, and tell them
your symptoms and letter of advice will
be sent you.
Colfax Chesser, of Fredericksburg, Tex,
writes:
"wine Of Cardui Is the best medicine that
ever was made for wonen."
Ida NJ. Vaughn, Fearis, KY, says:
"wine Of Cardui did me more good than
ali the doctors medicines"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-24
LAURA ADAMS.
of Galveston, Tex,
Praises Wine of Cardui.

this article. She suffered seven years be-
fore she secured relief. She knew what it
was to be worn out and tired by nervous
exhaustion. Mrs. Richard Jones of Glen
deane, KY, corroborates her statement by
saying:
~ am ding my own housework without
any help and did my washing last week
and was not bit tired. Before I took Wine
Of Cardui used to lie down five or six times
a day."
Mrs. NJ. S. Eaton, No. S0s Jackson Bou-
levard, Chicago, H., praises Wine of
Cardui for the same reason Mrs. Adams
does when Mrs. Eaton writes:
al have been Using Wine Of Cardui for
falling Of the womb and have derived much
benefit"
Mrs. Matte A. Anderson, of Benton,
La, was great sufferer from irregular
menstruation but she was cured by Wine
of Cardui the same as Mrs. Adams. Mrs.
Anderson writes:
al have been sufferer with irregular pc
riods for three years. tried everything that
heard would benefit me but was not re-
lieved unt1 took Wine Of Cardui and Thed-
ford's Blaek-Draught. Now ] am In good
health"
In the Office of the Chattanooga Medi-
cine Co., the manufacturers of Wine Of
Cardui, there are 10000 such testimonials.
These letters show that Wine of Cardui
acts the same in all cases, This pure
Wine perfectly regulates the menstrual
fiow and painless menstruation is the re-
suit. The freshness of health returns with
the stoppage of the wasting drains. With
such evidence as this before you, how can
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-24
SOME VERY EARY HISTORY
OF PART OF SUMMIT COUNTY
Told by Chips of Flint, Old Wood Ashes, and
Occasional Arrow Heads.

woods. after bitter and desperate
fight between Indians and some un-
fortunate settler was ended by the
scalping knife, tomahawk, the quiver
Of death and the shrill war whoop of
triumph.
That jagged piece of colored crock
cry may have been the choicest pos
session Of some sturdy matron of a
century or more ago, who watched
the baby and the forest surrounding
the little clearing where the cabin
stood, at the same time, knowing not
whether the approaching human
whose coming was heralded by the
faithful dog, was the husband and
father or the treacherous inhabitant
of the forest. whose mission it was to
kill and destroy. to try to drive the
hated whites from their ancient hold
ings
otout dAs HeduS are IOuHu HeIS
frequently, carefully polished: the
edges of some of them just as sharp
and deadly as when they were last
used to kill an enemy. or dangled by
the sides of their original owners.
Perhaps they were lost there, by some
warrior returning home from his trip
up or down the river: perhaps the
owner was killed there, and as his
axe dropped into the thick under
! brush, it lay unseen and brush and
grass and time hid it until the plow
of the settler brought it again to light,
for twentieth century people to specu-
late about.
1t has been many years since last
these hills resounded with the war
whoop or the crash of opposing men
of the woods; vet their traces are there
and will still be uncovered
for hundreds of years, eacn
J chip of flint or arrow head tell
ing some long forgotten tale of war
or peace. jealousy or love, hate or
! friendship. all of which, if the pieces
could but be fitted together, would
form a fascinating chapter in the
early history of Summit county.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-24

Above the valley of the Cuyaboga
river, in old Northampton township,
close enough TO the edge of the val
ley so that the dwelers there could
keep a lookout for their enemies, and
not more than mile from where his
toric Portage path left the bubbling
river and began its tortuous way to-
ward the Tuscarawas. there was once
an Indian village. Great quantities
of small chips of flat stone which are
turned up for moment by the plow
and then buried again for another
year, tell that this was a ''manufactur-
ing city. Here the patient squaws sat
day after day and chipped stones to
fashion arrow heads with which their
lords and masters protected the vii
lage, procured food, or defended the
dignity of the race by filling their enc
mies with flint enough TO cause them
to die with an aboriginal brand of
stone-cutters consumption. The
grandfathers or REORGANIZATION of
the present generation, who took the
land and changed it from a forest of
oaks to a garden. tell that when the
fields were first plowed. remains of
many wood fires were turned up, the
ashes telling that this had been per
manent village, and the area over
which these ashes were scattered re.
vealed that it must have Teen village
of some Importance. Pottery of sew.
eral styles was possessed by these peo-
pie. Pieces of it are still to be picked
up. and thus all goes to show that
before the denizens of this highland
village were scattered and forced tc
forsake their homes, they had beer
brought into contact with the white
man, for these pots and dishes were
received in trade from the settlers
or traders, perhaps.
Who shall say that they do not tel
the story of tragedy? What proof
is there that these were not the re
mains of loot gathered from the smok
ing ruins of some log cabin in thes