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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
SELL WIVES AND CHILDREN.
A Practice That Is Common in China
in Times of Famine-COnditiOns
of Slave Trade.

There is nothing surprising in the
dispatch from Hong-K NJ to the eff
feet that in the famine district of
southwest China men are selling
their wives and children to prevent
them from starving to death. Their
purchasers supply them with food
and the lives of the sellers of their
flesh and blood are also pre-
served by the money they receive,
say the New York Sun.
When Mr.. Nichols Travelled through
the famine-stricken province of
tice. He wrote that however much
Chinese parents might love their lit
tie ones, they could be induced to
sell them when all were starving.
This practice marks the worst and
last phase of famine horrors. There
is always a market for children in
China and the demand Is usually far
greater than the supply; for parents
will not sell their children. as Il rule.
until they have suffered long through
hunger.
We hear comparatively little Of
slavery in China. The fact is, how
ever, that it is a t~ime-honored insti-
tuition. Housemaids and women in
domestic service in the interior towns
usually receive no wages. Until they
are married they are the property
of their masters, who purchase them
when they are little girls.
The EXTREMIST poverty, the inabil-
ity to provide their family with food,
is the sole cause of the selling by
fathers of children into bondage.
Rich families often own these girls
by the dozen and most families in
easy circumstances have at least one
slave among their servants. The
slave state is for the women only
temporary, their masters being
obliged to provide them with a hus-
band when they are of marriageable
age. and as married women they
cease to be slaves,
The absolute right of the father
to sell his offspring into bondage is
fully recognized by the law, but the
descendants Of slaves cannot always
be held in bondage. Male slaves have
q right before their thirtieth year
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
How to Manure Roses.

Plants growing in well-prepareo
quarters do not require the roots dis
turbed annually by digging in large
quantities of manur among them, but
.j~udiciously applied top dressings are of
the utmost advantage. Bone manure
is applied by taking a little of the sur
face soil from around the stem and
shaking a handful or two over the roots
and then returning the soil. Very fine
rose growths and blooms may be pro-
duced in this way. Many persons think
their roses will degenerate if the whole
of the surface near them is not deeply
forked or dug and much natural manure
added every spring, but nothing is
gained by disturbing the roots very
much.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

The different species of aphides,
green and brown lice that are often
SO numerous on apple, plum and cher
~ trees, are only to be killed by con-
tact with some insecticide that kills
in, that manner. The plant bugs and
squash bug are of this kind. For
these, kerosene emulsion, or a whale
oil soap suds will be found most ef-
f~ective, applied as soon as the insects
are observed. The squash bug does
not yield to even these measures
readily except while very young, and
the pest should be fought at that time.
Prof. L. M. Webster, in Farpers' Re-
REV.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Bogus Commission Firms.

Look out for fraudulent commission
firms. Two men of this class have re-
Gently been arrested in Chicago for
swindling farmers. Their trick is an
old one. They claim to be able to get
higher prices than any one else in the
business. A consignment is made, and
flattering returns are promptly made.
For succeeding assignments no returns
are ever received. When the shipper
investigates he finds the men have
moved, and no one knows of their
whereabouts. The fact is, they have
skipped around the corner somewhere,
and are working Their old game under
q new name, Farm journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
sickness Made Them Genero...

When the government ship Dolphin was
coming home from Cuba, carrying Secretary
Of War Moody, Senator Hale, OF the naval
committee, and Speaker-elect Cannon, some
rough weather was encountered. just pre-
vious to the coming of the storm the states
men named had been discussing the pro-
posed building of six battleships. Messrs.
Hale and Cannon %succumbed to seasickness.
When his suffering had become too intense
to be borne any longer in silence Uncle
Joe" called out to Secretary Moody: Say,
Moody, if you will get us to shore quickly
III give you six bat!leships next winter"
81 will make a Better bill than that" ex-
claimed Senator Hale. ''Ill favor 20 bat
tleships if the secretary will only keep this
ship still for half an hour."-Kansas City
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
FIGHTING BAG WORMS.
Picking Them from Fruit and Shade
Trees Early in the Year Is the
Safest Method.

On many fruit trees and shade trees
n may find the cocoon of bag
worms. They are usually from one to
two inches long, and are suspended by
one of the pointed ends from the
smaller branches of the trees. Each of
the larger cocoons contains, during
the winter, a large number of eggs.
If these are allowed to remain on the
tree until the eggs hatch in the spring
there will be produced from the eggs
in a few coo enough young worms
to strip all the leaves from a tree
early in the summer. These worms
seem to be especially fond of cedar
trees, and are very likely to be over
looked on these trees until they have
become so numerous as to seriously
damage the trees.
With these worms a stitch in time
saves ninety. The cocoons picked from
the trees should be thoroughly de-
stroyed. Should it become necessary
to destroy large numbers of the
worms in the summer, a good plan
would be to dust or spray the trees
with paris green, London purple or
some other arsenical poison. One of
the larger ocoon left on a marked
limb of a small tree should afford a
crop of worms which would afford in
teresting and instructive object les
sons to boys and girls, and older folks.
This crop of worms should be thinned
from time to time, and when the
worms retire into the cocoons to
pupate, the twigs from which they
hang may be placed in covered glass
jars. The male moths emerge as
winged adults, but the female moths
remain in the cocoons.-Midlaud
Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
A GOOD MARKER.

pieces should be spread nine inches.
Fasten together with boards like a
sled. Hitch a double chain to the
front end. Widen check reins to per-
nit horses to walk the same distance
apart as the wings of the marker,
One horse follows the furrow, and
one furrow is finished each time
across the field.-D. A. Jennings, in
Farm and Home,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
mA@NSUD ~
M$r SllE]JS
HOME WATER R
A Simple System Which Can BE Intro
duced in Every Farm Which
Has q Windmill.

l would like to tell of a labor saving
device, which | think will rival even
the wire fence telephone" the dog
churn"or anything else on the farm;
one, too, within the reach of all who
have a windmill. refer to "home wa
ter works." or water under pressure.
The possibilities are the bathroom and
closet, hot and cold water for the
kitchen, stock water and fire protec-
ton to both farmer and villager.
There is an eight-foot wind wheel,
a force pump over large well in which
Is placed an automatic cutoff. About
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
Distance a Man Can See,

Standing on the highest mountain,
which is slightly over five miles above
sea level, q man can see to a distance
of 200 miles OF a clear day. To see
objects a distance of 100 miles, the
observer must be standing at a
height of 6,667 feet above the level
of the sea.-Scientific American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Germans have long been in the
foremost rank as potato eaters.
Among a very large proportion of
the laboring classes potatoes and
dark bread are the principal staples
Of daily subsistence.-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Don't succeed in life, says an old
proverb, if you would avoid Unjust
abuse. The loafer has plenty of time
to devote to the industrious man, and
does not hesitate to lie about him
Atchison Gloha-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

R FOR POTATOES.
A Homemade Device which %Insures
the Purpose for which 1t Is In
tended Quite Well.

Make two VS. with boards 1xs
inches (b b BY, with old cultivator
teeth Ga a) fastened to the front end
of each. The rear ends of the V
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

enter into the spirit of the times and pro-
gress? No better way to gain a few live
pointers regarding Indian Territory than
by writing for the May issue of The Com
ing Country" now ready. Address Katy"
BOB Wainwright, St. Louis, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Mrs. Chugwater-Josiah, do you believe
there's anything in palmistry?
Mr.. Chugwater-Yes; | have been told
that some palmists get as high as a hum
bred dollars a week out Of it.-Chicago Trib-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cures painful, swollen
smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores
Don't accept any substitute. Sample FREE
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

His .Aunt-John, why did you enter the
ministry? ,,
John-Because, dear aunt, | was called.
care you sure, John, that it wasn't SONS
other noise YOU heard ?"-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

LOUISVILLE, KY
For q year or more
! have been suffering
with severe pains in
the small of my back
and kidneys had
tried q number Of
remedies but without
relief. | decided to
try Doan's Kidney
Pills, and purchased
two boxes, and am
glad to state that
after taking the two
boxes of pills / was
relieved of all pains,
and have not been
troubled since. Prior
to taking these pills
it was impossible for
me to get a full
nights sleep, but ! am
not experiencing any
difficulty in This re-
spect now. = Yours
truly, JOHN E. KRA-
MER, 2423 w. Main
treet,-(Forema
American Tobacco
co.,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

The advance of the federal army under Gen. Sherman from Chattanooga
to Atlanta began n May A. 1864. From Dalton to Atlanta a almost one
continuous battlefield. Gen. Johnston vigorously opposing every step of
the advance. BY the middle of July Sherman's army "a near Atlanta,
and on July % wa fought the first battle of Atlanta, o Decatur. This
was the severest conflict of the long campaign, and resulted lin a loss of
nearly 1000 men to the union army, and the death of Gen. Mcpherson.
who accidentally rode upon the confederate lines and wms shot while trying
to escape. The siege of Atlanta began o August l. and Gen. Hood, then in
command of the confederate forces, evacuated the city on September O..
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis, four daily
trains via the Chicago & North-W Western
Ry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
What Everybody Says.


CHlcAGo, LII.
when l received the
sample OF Doan's
Kidney Pills l was
sut1erng terribly with
my Dack, was SICK and
unit to do anything,
inc several remedies
l mad used, though
highly recommended,
did no good, but
rather irritated the
trouble and made me
worse. Before | had
used up the sample |
was feeling so much
better that got more
from the drug
l. could not sleep at
night. Had to get up
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Mrs. Clubman-"Will you be home early,
Jack!" Mi. Clubman-"Weell, yes; but
don't wait breakfast for me."-Brooklyn
Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Almost always the most INDECENT are the
most MISUNDERSTANDING.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

HEADACHES

You don't know
why you suffer
from headache
and you are apt
to believe you
have some dire
female trouble,
but its dollars to
d%oughnuts that
you are wrong.
Women are prone
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

ABERDEEN, WASH
I had a bad pain in
my back ; / could
hardly walk or sit
down. l could not
write for sample, but
got q ifty-cent box
Of druggist, and they
have made me all
right. No other med
icine did me any
good. - AUG. CARL
BON. s. LIST st.. East.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

A mule kicks back because he can't
swear.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

to put off the duties of Nature to
attend to the duties of the home
and when they do get time to go,
the feeling has passed.
Constipation results and then
the awful racking headache. Take
a spoonful of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21

Opium and Liquor Habits Cured.
Book free. B. M. Woolley, M. d, Atlanta, Ga
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
Every Ii who uses D0an's Kidney
Pills free t>sal has a good word
to say tor them that's
why they are most
prominent in the
public eye.

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick,dust scdi-
ment, high colored, excessive, pain in pass
ing, dribbling, frequency, bed wctting,
Kidney Pills dissolve and remove
and gravel. Relieve heart palpita-
ton, slccplessness, headache,
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-26
APPEALS FOR LAW.

~ Y the Governors of several of the Southern
X States earnest appeals have been made to the
~ Legislature to provide effective laws for the
punishment of persons engaged in lynching. 1t does
not appear however that any further laws needed
the subject for the statutes are good enough as
they The prevalence of lynching is due wholly
the submission of the people to such violence and
to the seeming impossibity OF getting ures to con-
vict The fact is recognized by the Governors them
selves for, according to reports, their appeals
largely toword the formation OF better tone Of pub
lie sentiment in favor of law as toward the enactment
OF new laws.
The Governor OF Alabama is reported as saying in
his message that if the Sherfs OF the various counties
be sustained by resolute public opinion they be
relied upon to protect all prisoners in their hands
He urges that band of law abiding men be formed
in each county to assist in putting stop violence
whenever it is attempted
The Governor of North Carolina takes similar
view of the situation and in his message has pointed
out that the remedy lies in the hands of the better
element of the people He is quoted as saying that
the vicious know the law only through their observa-
ton of the conduct of the leaders of society Sc
long those men sanction lynch law the vicious
will be ever ready to resort to it whenever their
passions are aroused or as the Governor says when
it is admitted that ynching is justifable in any
it is easy step for excited mass to justify
it in other cases.
Statements OF that kind have of course no power to
put end to lynching Their value lies in the evil
dence they afford of the development OF an anti
lynchng sentiment among the better class of South
people. We may be the Governors do not
stand alone in the position they have taken on
this subject They could not have been elected to
their offices if they fairly representative of
the prevailing sentiment among their constituencies
Consequently may expect that sooner or later
there will be in the South public sentiment strong
enough and resolute enough to check the barbarity
and eventually suppress it altogether
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-26
'shipyards in the trust.

II Will be noted that some of the ships
VIII be nearly three years overdue on
contract time, and that not a single YES
sci OF the twenty-four enumerated IS
likely to be completed at the time con-
tracted for
The probable loss Of the tug Leydon
last tuesday removes from the navy list
the fifth Of nine tugs built during the
ClYil War There are still forty tugs in
the navy ranging from 100 to S54 tons
displacement, the majority of which serve
no other purpose than that of market
boats. Up to the outbreak with the war
with Spain there was not a single power
lul tug In the navy, the largest being
the fortune, Leydon and Nina of $50
tons displacement and $40 horsepower
since then such tugs as the Iroquois,
Plscataqua and Potomac have been ac-
quired by purchase. The largest of these
exceed the dimensions of the navy-buiIt
boats but slightly, but they are fitted
with engines developing from 1000 to 2O0O
horsepower. Only four boats of the Leyz
acn type are still in existence, the For
tune and Nina, which have been fitted
with new engines of $40 and 3SS horse
power, the Standish serving at the Naval
Academy, and upon which $11S 900 has been
expended in repairs and renewal of en-
gines since 1892 The last of the lot is the
Eondescript Pinta, loaned to the naval
ilhIlid dl san D1eSO, created with a
speed of Sla knots, feat utterly impos-
sible for this antiquated craft to attain
unless in tow by the tug Active of only
296 tons but having 1000 horsepower.
The cruiser Albany, purchased from
Elswick in 1898 for 81, ,207 ,643 has returned
from a three years cruise to be over
hauled and repaired al an estimated cost
of $4,000. The complaints against this
ship and the New Orleans have been quite
frequent and chiefly directed against their
machinery, yet the repair record compares
favorably with those of the Newark, Bal
tmore, Philadelphia and San Francisco
during the first three years commission.
The repairs to the Albany and New Or
leans foot up to s24, 500 and ST 800. respec-
lively; those of the Newark and Balti-
more were $2S 900 and So, 600, and of the
Philadelphia and San Francisco S67, 400
and $32 300. The best record of any ship
in the navy is that of the Olympia, on
which was expended for repairs only
about $4,000 during her first three years
in commission.
Civil Engineer and Rear Admiral NJ. T.
Endicott, chief of the Bureau Of Yards
and Docks, has made the assertion that
1T will annually cost $150,O00 to keep the
channels in front of Mare Island clear of
mud" This statement, if based on facts,
would naturally result in abandoning
Mare Island as a navy yard at once, and
to cancel all contracts for drydock build
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-26
DIVORCE PROBLEMS.

A SENSATION OF uneasiness and dread tear
~ OF greater uneasiness to come has been caused
throughout the East by the decision OF the
Supreme Court OF the United States concerning the
validity of divorces obtained in one State by citizens
Of another grounds that would not be recognized
valid in the State of their domicile Such divorces
the court declares to be null and void and as there
good many Eastern people who have been en-
joying freedom obtained in that way the confusion is
great
The case on which the court acted arose in Massa-
chusets- The record shows that Charles H. Andrews
OF that State went to Dakota and after residing there
for six months and obtaining legal domicie, pro-
cured divorce from his wife Kate Later he
married again, his first wife making no objection
Then the father OF Mr. Andrews died. bequeathing
certain property to the wife of my son Charles H.
Andrews" Both women laid claim to it and suit
for possession began. The Supreme Court has held
that the first wife is entitled to the property
In giving the decision OF the court Justice White
said there is power Congress could exercise to
regulate or prohibit divorces and it must follow that
unless the several States permitted to control
divorce among their citizens the subject would
be entireyuncontrolled, in which case the absolute
destruction OF society must be the result. AS Mr.
Andrews had been a citizen Of Massachusetts,, the
courts of that State had jurisdiction and not the
of another State 1t evident that Andrews
six months residence in South Dakota had been taken
up for the sole purpose OF securing divorce That
temporary change of residence did not constitute
domcile change OF citizenship For this reason
he held that the South Dakota court was without
jurisdiction in the divorce proceedings and its decree
wholly void. Nor did it matter if there had been
compromise with the first Mrs. Andrews, and if she
had been induced 10 consent to the divorce for
money consideration had been alleged. The fact
was that the forthe Massachusetts, courts
and for the South Dakota courts and they could
not be deprived Of their power by this means
1t will be seen that the principle upon which the
decision is based is far reaching one and affects
considerable number OF men and women, for the prac-
tice OF going to Dakota or elsewhere to obtain di-
vorce has been common one Property titles are
thus confused in a good many and, what is more
some very prominent and women are liable to
indictment for bigamy 1t will be then that the
Supreme Court has sadly shocked society in the midst
OF its New Year reoicings and given many gay
man and woman season Of harassing doubts and
wretched perplexties.