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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30

feeding ground of the elk in proper
ton. 1t is only by much riding and
close watching of trails that the
hunter is enabled to locate a band of
elk in October or November. Even
when he has managed to successfully
stalk his quarry his task is not done,
for his first shot must be an accurate
one. If the elk is only slightly wound
ed he is off like an arrow, but if he
has received a desperate hurt he
turns like a lion at bay. Fortunate
the hunter in such an instance who
has an available tree to climb, or who
is a sure enough shot to administer
the final pellet at close quarters. If
either tree or bullet fails the only re-
source is the hunting knife, and this
is slight armament in comparison
with those branching antlers and
those sharp hoofs, every blow of
which will cut through buckskin like
SO much paper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30

young mar who was a stranger to
me. had just returned from the Solo
mon islands. He was very familiar
with the whole group and it's muir
derous, cannibal people, and had had
some very narrow escapes and thrill
ing experiences, which he narrated.
CLater / heard that in 1884 he and all
his ships company had been killed
on the Solomon group.)
We were talking of the massacre
of Capt. Ferguson and the crew of
the Sydney trading-steamer Ripple by
the natives of Bougainville island, in
the Solomon group, when the young
skipper remarked, "Ah! poor Fergu-
son ought to have been more careful.
Why, the very chief of that village at
Numa Numa-the man who cut him
down with a tomakawk-had killed
two other white men. Ferguson
knew that, and vet would allow him
to come aboard time after time with
hundreds of his people, and gave
him and them the run of the ship!
I knew the fellow well. He told me
to my face, the first time l met him,
that he had killed and eaten two
white men,"
"Who were they?" I asked.
"One was a man trading for Capt.
Macleod of New Caledonia; the other
chap was some beach-combing fellow
who had been kicked ashore at Numa
Numa by the skipper. 1 heard he
came from Samoa originally. Any
way, the chief told me that as soon
as the ship that had put the man
ashore had sailed, he was speared
through the back as he was drinking
from a cocoanut. When they stripped
off his clothes to make him ready for
the oven, they found he was tattooed,
Samoan fashion, from the waist to
the knees. Then, as he had red hair,
they cut off his head and smoke-dried
it, instead of eating it with the rest
of the body, and kept it as an orna-
ment for the stem of a big canoe. A
white mans head is a great thing
at any time for a canoes fgure-head
in the Solomons, but a white mans
head with red hair is a great mana"
Then 1 said to him that I had
known the man, and told him his an
tecedents.
"Ah!" he said, 81 dare say if you
had been there you would have felt
as if you could have eaten q bit of
the beggar yourself"
II certainly should not have minded
seeing him cooked" I replied, as I
thought of poor TIE Manu's crippled
hand.-Chamber's Journal,
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PITH AND POINT.

True patience can never cease to be
q virtue.-Ram's Horn.
No man a appreciate how an
other man a be busy when he wants
to talk to him.-Atchison Globe.
Sawin-"How did you happen to get
such a cold in your teeth?" Burwin-
81 went out without my gum shoes on"
-ioston Transcript.
81 once proposed to a girl on Friday"
"Didn't you know that was an un-
lucky day?" "Unlucky? Not much.
She refused me."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Beginning to Feel at Home.-Senior
Partner-"I think this new clerk is
getting used to our ways, don't you?"
Junior Partner-"I think so. He was
20 minutes late this morning."-Town
and Country.
People say, Edgar, that you only
married me for the sake Of my two
millions!" "But 1 swear to you. dar-
ling, that I would have married you
even if you had had only one million!"
-Fllegende Blaetter.
La Motte-"I wonder what they are
selling over there? / just heard them
shouting: Here is something to catch
a mans eye!'" La Moyne-"H'm!
They must be selling ladies' I'M
Observation-Disclosures Record.
"She has improved in her singing,
and she knows il. too" "Think SO?
[ noticed it didn't require very much
applause to induce her to sing again."
mo, but there was a time when il
didn't require any applause at ALL
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Watson-"Every now and then,
IN reading the news of failures, ]
come across the phrase: Preferred
creditors What are preferred cred
itors, anyway" Mr.. Watson-"Well,
/ myself prefer creditors who don't
dun me."-Sommerville journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30

Take a scant cupful of butter, q
heaping cupful of light brown sugar,
two eggs, a t~easpoonful of cinnamon,
half a t~easpoonful of cloves, a cupful
Of almonds, cut fine, without blanch.
ing; a cupful of currants, cleaned and
dried; two ounces of ~unsweetened chloe
olate dissolved in half a cupful of milk,
and -four enough to roll; before add
ing the -four put in a heaping tea
spoonful of baking powder. Mix in
the order given; roll out about me-
eighth of an inch thick; cut with any
preferred cake cutter and bake in a
moderate oven. Make a rather thick
sirup Of half a cupful each of granu-
lated sugar and water boiled together,
and brush the cakes with this sirup as
soon as they are taken from the oven.
Good Housekeeping.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30
CAN SHOULDER A HORSE.
Great Feats of Strength Performed
by the Sheriff OF a County
in Pennsylvania.

Sheriff James G. Harvey, of this
county, is the strongest man in Lu-
zerne, if not in the whole state. There
has yet been no ordinary test of
strength at which he has failed, and no
two men, big and strong as can be
found, have ever been able to do the
thing he alone can do. He is so strong
that he is afraid of himself, afraid that
he will unconsciously do some one
harm. When he shakes hands he is
very careful, for an enthusiastic pres
sure might crush the hand he is shak-
ing. His feats Of strength are numer-
ous, says a W~ilkesbarre correspondent.
He thinks nothing of hosting a
whole beef on his shoulders and walk
ing around with it. He occasionally,
to show that he can do it, picks up a
live horse and parades. about with it.
In his Office in this city when business
is not brisk he often entertains WIS.,
itors by little exhibitions, He will
stand against the wall and defy as
many as can lay hold of him to pull
him away from it. He will make a
wrestler's bridge on the floor, and it
is impossible to pull his legs or arms
from under him. He will stretch out
his massive right arm and hold up
three ordinary men without effort.
He can take two men by the girdle and
hoist them with one hand above his
head.
In his capacity of sheriff he has been
called upon to quell many disturb
ances, especially among the riotous
foreigners in the lower end, but he
has never used a pistol or club-he has
always depended upon his fists and
hands. He has forced a passage
through many an angry crowd by
showing the men out of his way. He
hits with closed fist seldom, for there
is a force in his blow that means
serious damage to the man it hits. A
pleasing little enjoyment of his is to
control an angry steer by grasping its
horns and throwing it off its feet, and
he has done this so many times that
he cannot recall the number. With all
his strength he is a modest and retir-
ing man, and talks but seldom of what
he can do.
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HABITS OF THE ELK.
of Foot Make the Animal Diff
cult to Overcome.

Colorado is the natural home of the
elk in the United States. In no other
state are the magnificent animals to
be found in such numbers. The hunt
ing country in which President Roose-
welt sought mountain lions and bob
cats is their ~favorite grazing ground.
This is the heart of the big game re-
gion, where railroads have never pen
etrated, where stage drivers often
wrap their reins around the brake
and take a shot at a bear or deer,
and where huge bands of elk have
roamed for generations.
A few years ago the elk was threat
ened with extinction. Hunters killed
indiscriminately, until the state of
Colorado stepped in and limited the
open season to IL days. This gave
the elk a chance for his life. The
dwindling bands began to increase,
until now it is estimated that there
are more elk in Colorado than there
were five years ago. Such a limita-
ton of the elk season was necessary
owing to. the habits of the elk-hab-
its which made the animals an easy
prey. The elk feeds as high up in the
mountains as he can, only coming
down into the valleys as he is forced
down by the deepening SHOWS. Hunt
ers knew that a heavy snowstorm
would invariably catch a lot of elk
lear the timber line. An active man
ON s~nowshoes could catch up with a
band and shoot every one of the ami
mails before they could founder out
of the deep snow into better footing.
In consequence the season is now
closed before the heavy storms of
winter set in. This makes it neces-
sary for the hunter to stalk the elk
through forests that are carpeted
with dry twigs and rustling leaves.
Inasmuch as the elk's of hear
ing is equaled only by his acute eye
sight or sense of smell, the hunters
chances are indeed narrowed, and he
earns every pair of antlers that he
brings out of the Rockies to grace a
dining-room or an eastern hunting
lodge.
The fallen timber tracts in the
Rockies are the favorite grazing
places of the elk, owing to the alum
dance of grass that grows between
the down trees, says the St. Paul Pho
ZEE Press. These fallen trees af-
ford the elk excellent protection. The
animals seem to be able to run as
swiftly in the tangled mass of timber
as in the open, and swapping twigs
almost invariably give warning of the
approach of the stalker. During the
last two years there has been a large
increase in the number and extent of
forest fires in the Rocky mountain
states, and this has increased the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30
HIS TRAIL IN THE SNOW.
1t Proved AarOn's UndOing, and Now
He Thoroughly Dread the
beautiful"

"Aaron Larks."
"Yessah, ledge Briles."
"The officer says they tracked your
little footsteps in the snow"
"In de snow, Jedge Briles?"
"They say they found you hiding in
a hayloft and that you had been in a
citizens back yard"
Else heerin' yer, ledge Briles."
"They say you were in that back
yard for some unlawful purpose,
and you will have to explain yourself"
"Jedge Briles," exclaimed Aaron, as
he folded his hands across his ragged
shirt front, Il bliebs Ise in de nine
holes disser time sho ez de grass
grows round de stump. l nebber
spected dat dey wus gwine ter git
onter me in datter way. Yer see, l
went inter dat yard ter AK de boss man
fer sum wuk bekase l. was after
maxim some mummy fer Christmas an
after | found out dat de boss man
warn't dare | ies natterly walked err
way. | lowed ter merse'f dat no.
copy NuS SNlhC tCI CIV OHleI HE.
You didn't think about the snow
on the ground?" suggested the re-
corder. 1T is an easy matter for an
officer to get on the right track
when there is snow on the ground,
Aaron"
Oats sho' de Gawd's truf, ledge
Briles," said the prisoner, "ef yer eb-
Der spoked it. Niggers hain't got
no bizness foolin' GROUND when hits
er snowin'."
81 am going to let you shovel snow
at the blockade for 80 days." the re.
corder told him, according to the At
lanta Constitution. Leaving foot.
prints on the sauds of time is all
right enough in a poetic way, but
you must draw the line on the snow,
1 hate to give you such a frost, bit
1t is due you. You can hail the black
maria when you go downstairs. The
next time you want work don't prowl
around in a back yard for it at night.
Now you can make tracks for the
stockade - in the snow"
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Genius from Rural Districts,

The following statement is made by
Mr.. Havelock Ellis from the study of
$50 men and 43 women of note in
Britain. The upper and middle classes,
according to Mr.. Ellis, are rich in
geniuses. The country and small
towns produce genius more often
than cities, and the clergy father the
most distinguished children. Geniuses
tend to come of large families, to be
the children of elderly parents, to be
precocious, feeble in health in early
life, but fairly long-lived. They have
usually excellent education; a large
proportion travel extensively in early
years. There is among geniuses a
~tenacity to remain unmarried or to
marry late in life. Persons of unnat-
ural intellect are often subject to govt,
asthma or angina pectoris nervous
diseases), to stammering, melancholia
or insanity.
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how TO TREAT A Sly.
bource of the Painful Affection and
the Proper Way TO Dis
perse Ii.

The unsightly appearance, not less
than the pain and discomfort, of a
sty gives it its bad repute.
Two conditions, OF perhaps,
properly, two phases of the same con-
dition, of the eyelid are referred to
as sty. The swelling due to an ex-
udation of serum into the lid is per-
haps more common than that in
which the swelling progresses until
pus is formed.
Swelling due to emulation readily
occurs in the eyelid, both because of
its loose, nonresistant texture and
also since its position is one much
exposed to irritating atmospheric
conditions.
Exposure to damp winds or cold
not infrequently results in a swelling
of the eyelid. This kind of sly often
disappears of itself after a few hours
of discomfort. Extract of witch hazel
is a household remedy well suited to
sly, especially at this stage. Its eff
fcacy is heightened by binding a COM
press of linen, or, better, of absorb
emit cotton, wet with the liquid over
the eye on going to bed and allowing it
to remain, advises Youths Companion.
Prolonged use of the eyes, as, for
example, reading many hours consec-
utively, or a like time devoted to fine
needlework, may determine an attack
OF sty. 1t is necessary in the light
OF our present knowledge of pus for
nation to attribute it's occurrence
here, as elsewhere, to an infection of
germs from without. 1t is logical to
suppose that the necessary infection
may be conveyed by rubbing the lids
with the fingers Or with the doubled
fist or knuckles. The causes of sly
which have been mentioned, over
use, for example, are apt to produce
itching, while the delicate skin cover
ing the lid is i'll fitted to receive rude
handling. A slight abrasion of the
tender cuticle covering the lid is
doubtless the source of infection of
many cases of sty in which an
abscess is formed, although the pitted
surface which dips inward to receive
the eyelashes likewise forms a con-
venient point of entrance for the pus-
producing germs.
Gentle bathing of the lids once or
twice a day with a mildly astringent
and antiseptic fluid, like witch hazel,
plain or diluted, is an excellent meas
ure for the prevention of sty in those
whose occupations demand long-con-
tinued use of the eye and who are
prone to experience smarting, sting
ing and irritation of the lids. In
some, properly fitted glasses consti-
tute an etfectual preventive of sty.
When once the swelling has gone
on to pus formation, as evidenced by
pointing or a yellowed surface, warm
water congresses hasten the rupture
of the boil, with consequent relief of
pain. More quickly effective is Ian
cling of the boil by the physician.
1t is not to be forgotten that I'M
DERIVING systematic causes are FREE
quently predisposing factors in the
production of sly. Such require ap-
propriate tonics or the righting of
sluggish conditions.
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E INDIGNATION.
NOrah Had Her Own Ideas About
Serving the Table, But They
Were Not Good. '9.I

Where two or three women are
gathered together there is sure to be
some conversation about servants.
The following is the substance OF
one housekeeper's recent experience,
as detailed in one of these
tions, says the Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
An East End hostess had invitations
out for a small luncheon, but on the
morning of the eventful day her
"help' departed, heartlessly and
unanimously.
There was nothing to do but to i'm
press into service the wife of the
j%anitor of the fiat and induce her to
act as waitress.
1t was her first experience in this
sort of household duties, and the eff
feet was to surprise her and render
her somewhat indignant at the doings
of society.
"D'ye moind what Oh had to do,
PATTI" she was overheard saying to
her husband. "Sure an Oh didn't
moind waitin' at all, if they'd only
let me do it roight."
wouldn't they let you do it roight,
Norah?" he asked with concerned in
terest.
"Sure an they wouldn't. They
wouldn't let me fetch the things to
ate all at once an set 'em on the ta-
BILE. Oh had to bring 'em in one at a
time. An after Oh brought 'em in
they wouldn't reach for the things.
Oh had to pass around to every Teddy
at the table. Och, but the way they
wasted time. They might have got
through al hour sooner. The ways OF
these sassiety folks is beyant mel"
But Pat sympathized with her and
agreed that there had been a great
waste of time.
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try that has been most expensive, corrupt and debasng has been gov
eminent that openly violated no statute law.
THE OLD SYSTEM OF STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC
TREASURY HAS PASSED AWAY AND THE SAFER AMI
MORE PROFITABLE PLAN OF TRADING POLITICAL, IN
FLUENCE FOR CASH OR STOCK IN CORPORATIONS HAS
SUCCEEDED. If good citizens neglect their civic duties the poll
hcians will take the Offices and everything else that is not chained
down.
But in the cities Of the country there is spreading with gratifying
rapidiy a better understanding Of public questions. The great prin.
cpe of public municipal ownership of franchises and control Of pub
lie utilities has been firmly established in our system Of city govern
nent. We are not rushing bindly into rash experiments of buying
and operating everything, from gas plants to automobiles, but the
growth OF intelligent citizenship has reached that stage where it will
not permit the great charter rights of the people Of American cities
to be sold tor individual gain or bartered for political power.
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The Romance of Gum Gathering.

In Yucatan the gathering Of the fa-
nous chicle chewing-gum is an occu-
patton apparently full of romance, not
unattended with considerable danger.
Bands of men, known as ''chicleros.''
go into the deep forests, under expert.
enced leaders, armed with heavy knives
of special make, pals and ladies for the
sap, and each one provided with a
strong rope, more than 80 feet long, to
be used in climbing the lofty sapota
trees from which the gum is procured.
The sap flows from gashes cut in the
bark. A camp of chicleros, where the
sap is boiled, resembles in some re.
spects an American maple-sugar camp
After months of work the chicleros re-
turn from the forests laden with brick.
like blocks Of aromatic gum. The fin.
est gum, known as "sicte," is collect.
ed from the fruit Of the sapota, most,
ly by the native women, and is seldom
exported because 1t il too well liked
~ home.
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In Germany the opinion is said to
be gaining that higher education is
overdone. The universities continue
TO graduate throngs for whom open
ings in which they can earn a living
are few. If advanced education will
assist a poor man in the task of
bread-winning, it is a thing to be de,
sired, but if it's attainment con
sumes a number of his best years
and he then finds himself adrift, evi.
IDENTIFY in instances, at least, there
can be such a thing as too much
learning. Colleges and libraries may
develop capacity, but they cannot al
ways develop opportunity along with
it.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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Equal to the Emergency.

This is a story of a man who has
become a successful merchant. A few
years ago he was employed as an
office boy and messenger for a large
firm. He was sent to collect an ac-
count from a firm which was consid-
cred very 'shaky," and was told to
get the money at all hazards.
The debtors gave the lad a check
for $50. He went to the bank at once
to cash it, and was told by the cashier
that there were not enough funds in
to meet it.
GLOW much short?" asked the lad.
"Thirty shillings," was the answer.
1t lacked but a minute or two of
the time for the bank to close. The
boy felt in his pocket, took out 80
shillings and, pushing through the
window, said:
"Put that to the credit of - &
Co."
The cashier did so, whereupon the
boy presented the check and got the
money. g Co. failed the next day
and their chagrin can be better imag-
ined than described when they found
out the trick that had been played
upon them.-London Tit-Bits.
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Private Ownership Of
Public Officials
By HON. BIRD S. COLER,
eomptrolier of the City of neu York.

Political conditions in the United States
are rapidly undergoing important changes
for the better. The masses of the people
are looking more and more to the men of
education to lead them to a better under
standing of the rights and duties Of citizen
ship.
There has been a growing tendency
among men, otherwise good citizens, to
shirk public duties. They wanted to keep
out of politics and public life, but in keep
ing out they made room in both places for
men who ought to be in Jail.
Time and again it has been demon
strated that really bad government is never
permanently reformed by changing its pol
itics. The government of cities in this coun-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30

Slit the chestnuts--the large, 1tal-
Ian %kind--pop them in a corn pepper
above the fire, remove the shells and
skin and mix them in a hot blazer
with salt, pepper and Weisbaden
sauce until each chestnut is thor
oughly covered.-Woman's Home
Companion.
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A Handy Acquaintance.

my dear, this is my friend, Smig.
gins, of whom you have heard me
speak,"
I'm glad to meet you, Mr.. Smig.
gins. You can hardly appreciate what
a convenience your acquaintance is to
my husband when he stays out later
than he should. News.
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shooting stars.

Jester-Did you see the shooting
stars last night?
Jinson-No.
"You should have gone skating With
me."-Ohio State Journal
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saved from Their Triend.,

Crawford-Why do you think their
runaway marriage will turn out to
be a happy one?
Crabshaw-Because all their rela-
tives were SO angry about it that
they refuse to visit them.-Judge.
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won in a walk.

Cholly-What was the result of your
interview with Miss Bullyun's father
last night?
Percy-It was a walkover for me.
"Ah, allow me to congratulate
you"
"Don't do it. The old man simply
walked all ove me."--Chicago Daily
News.
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but our fists, we should have had q
tad time had they attacked us, for
we were in an unfrequented place, and
would have been half-murdered before
assistance came. In Samoa in those
days street brawls were common.
"The next time you do meet him."
said Hamilton as we resumed our
walk, don't give him a chance. Drill
a hole through him as soon as he gets
within ten PAGES, and then clear out
of Samoa as quick as you can"