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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
STRENGTH OF PAPER MONEY.
government Treasury Expert Ex-
plains why Our BanknOtes
Are So Tough.

THE way some cashiers pay out
small bills in exchange for large must
make other men as tired as it wearies
me-" remarked an observing business
man to another Washingtonian as they
watched the cashier Of a fashionable
uptown cafe pull at and strip the ones
and twos in exchange for a ten, as
though he were pulling a piece of mo-
~lasses candy over a hook and hated to
let 60.
1T does" acquiesced his friend, who
happened to be a United States treas
ury expert. The way some cashiers
jerk. snap, and pull at bills as they pay
them out is utterly absurd. The old
adage about pinching a silver dollar
until the eagle scream pales before
the way the ~up-to-date, flip cashier
jerks the long green he handles.
Il will give you a fact that is not gen.
orally known, and | doubt if ever pub
lished, and that is the weight a new
treasury single note. and four notes
in a sheet, will sustain without break
ing. Director Meredith furnished me
with the figures, and they may be ac-
cepted as official and accurate.
"A single treasury note measures 3h
inches wide by IA inches long and will
suspend Al pounds ~lengthwise and 81
pounds crosswise. Notes are printed
four to a sheet, the latter measuring
81 inches wide by 1872 long. \ sheet
will suspend los pounds le%ngthwise and
III pounds crosswise.
at will be observed that a single note
will sustain crosswise 10 pounds, over
double the weight it sustains length
wise, while in the case of the sheet the
crosswise sheet is short SO pounds of
double the sustaining power of the
lengthwise sheet"
The cashier had interestedly listened
to the treasury experts explanation of
the Notwithstanding and necessarily
resisting power Of wear and tear of our
paper money. and then he said:
You see, it is this way: Bills stick
together, see, and we cashiers have to
make up any shortage out of our w
pockets, and that's one reason why we
snap and jerk the bills so hard, SO we
will not pay out two for one, as might
be done. Again, a 50 bill is frequently
mistaken for a IS, and vice versa, and
by counting out our money asif it We're
drops of our life blood we are less
liable to pass out one for the other"
The two gentlemen paid their ac-
court and agreed as they passed out
that the cashiers excuse was lame,
and that il was a good thing for the
rest of the public who handle money
that the breaking strength of our
treasury notes is so high, or there
would be nothing left of them after
they had passed through a dozen cash
iers' hands.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
HOUSEHOLD BITS.
Odds and Ends of Information About
Home Decoration and
Finishing,

To clean a fine white lace or chit
fon veil, wind it carefully around a
piece of broom handle and steam for
three-quarters of an hour over a
kettle of boiling water. When quite
dry remove from the broom handle.
The veil will be found stiff and clean.
Beads of all sorts and c%olors, but
especially of cut steel, are used more
and more in fine neckwear. A stoled
collar, composed of narrow folds of
pink satin fagoted together with
steel bead work, has pendants of pink
satin rosebuds, with steel bead stems.
Autumn leaves, embroidered in nat
ural colors on chiffonb and cut out
around the edges in realistic fashion,
are among the artistic neckwear de-
signs displayed.
Cream brcadcloth, laid in horizon
tai folds about an inch deep, is mold
ed into an elegant blouse for a young
girl. The yoke of the mode in que
ton, which was seen in a store noted
for its exclusive designs, is made of
straps placed perpendicularly and
bound together with fagoting. A
row of fagoting ornaments the broad
fold that closes the front.
Pillows in plaid silk are a pretty
novelty. So are the plaid bonbon
boxes, the ultra-smart wells with mar
roy borders of plaid silk, plaid belts
of silk and plaid belts done in
enamel,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
wILD-HOG KILLINGS.
Annual Event That les Popular Among
the Natives Of the Tennessee
Mountains.

Every fall along the latter part of
November the scattered dwellers in
the mountain regions of Tennessee
gather together for their annual wild
hog killing.
The race of wild hogs found there
is supposed to have originated from
stock brought into the region by the
early settlers. The original swine
were permitted to run free in the
woods to fatten ON the roots, nuts
and mast. Some of them wandered
away and remained in the woods, and
from them has sprung the present
race of wild hogs, says the New York
Sun.
These hogs show a marked differ
ence in appearance and habits form
the original domestic stock. They
are tall and slab-sided. Their ears
stand erect and are twice as long as
those of domestic swine. They have
curved tusks which in the boars are
often three inches long. Their hair
is coarse and why. The savageness
of the wild hogs is such that the
mountain wolves, which are yet plen-
tiful in the region, give them a wide
berth.
To this day the people who dwell
among those hills depend for their
winter supply of meat on wild game,
and chiefly ON the wild hogs. The
hogs are not in fit condition until
late in the fall, and then they have
grown fat on the mast of the woods,
and their flesh is sweet, hard and
juicy. They are hunted by parties
of half a dozen or more.
The wild hogs travel in droves.
They are shy of man and exceedingly
wary. When pig-killing parties find
signs of a drove the hunters close in
on the hogs.
Dogs trained for the purpose open
the attack. The hogs will show fight
at sight of the dogs and at once
stand at bay. The dogs are trained
to seize the hogs by the ear. No guns
are used in the killing. Each mem
Der of the party carries a heavy hick-
DRY cudgel and a long-bladed butcher
knife.
The rushing in of a party on a
drove that the dogs have rounded up
usually puts to fight all the hogs
that are not held by a dog. These,
squealing and snorting and fighting,
are pounced upon by the killers, who
stun them by blows on the head with
the hickory clubs and then cut their
Threats.
1t frequently happens that some
o~verconfident dog is killed before the
man with the club gets in his blow
and then there is likely to be an ugly
fight between that man and the hog,
a fight that very often results in the
mans serious injury. There are not
a few instances on record where a
fight such as that has resulted in the
death of the man.
Sometimes in a struggle with some
particularly determined and vigorous
wild hog, the pig-killer has beer
known to jump astride the hogs
back, and, holding fast with one hanc
to the long, stiff bristles on it's neck
endeavor to stab the hog in tbs
throat. In M case a man who re
sorted to these tactics was carried
more than a mile through the brush
on the hogs back.
None of these wild hog pig-kilIings
is ever ended without the death OF
n or more dogs, and more or less
desperate fights between the men ant
the hogs. A hog-killing trip FIRE
auently covers three or four days be
fore sufficient pork has been secured
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
READY WITH HER REPLY.
Waitress Who Had the Gift of Hand
ing Out just what Was
Wanted.

"The conversational versatility of
your American girls astonishes me-"
said the En%glishman who was APP
preaching the close of his first
month in New York, relates the Mail
and Express. Not only do | find
that in society the young women
have quickness of perception and
readiness of repartee, but | have
found that in the downtown restau-
rants, where girls are employed as
Mattresses, they are extremely handy
with their retorts."
Been trying to jolly 'em a bit,
eh?" said the college graduate, who
was finishing off in Uncle Jim's Wall
street office.
Not at all-not at all" replied the
Englishman, hastily. MY observa-
tons are based on what | hear them
saying to other men. The girls are
quite bright, y'know."
"What led you to think them other.
wise?' said the American citizen.
81 did not look for the quality of
glibness in girls of that Glass; said
the man from London. 'In eating
places on the other side the wait
resses never talk to you, not even
after you have been going to the
restaurant every day. for months.
Here in New York it is vastly differ
ent. And they seem to know where
you are from, too.
"I went to my usual restaurant to-
day. There was a new girl at my
table, and the one who usually waits
on me was a sort of assistant head
waitress. She came over to the girl
Mt my table before / had a chance to
tell what | wanted and said:
"'Bring the gent a rasher of bacon,
two eggs, underdone, a toasted muf-
fin and tea. Is there anything else"
and she looked at me. | said that
would be all right, and remarked
that the weather was changeable,
and what do you think she said?"
Something equally bright, | sup
pose" remarked the college man.
The Englishman eyed him a mo-
ment. 81 wonder if she was polk
ing fun at me?" he said. "Well, she
just answered: We have so many
foreigners in New York we have to
have all kinds of weather. to suit
'em. This is not our day for Eng
fish weather, but I hope you won't
get tired waiting for your turn"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
SOMETHING ABOUT HAWKS.
They Are of Great Value to Farmers
in Destroying N%Oxi0us In
sects and Nice.

The hawks belong to a great bird
family known as ~Falconidoe, which
also includes falcons, eagles, kites,
etc, and which has $50 branches, or
species, distributed all oven the world.
Of these, about IS species are found in
North America, writes T. Fl. Baynes, in
Woman's Home Companion. Some are
migratory, while others remain in one
locality the whole year round, Except
in the migratory seasons, when certain
species may be seen flying in scattered
fiockS, which sometimes extend for
many miles, hawks are solitary birds,
as a rule flying singly IL in pairs.
They become greatly attached to par
ticular breeding grounds, and return
yearafteryeart to the same bit of wood
land, often to the same tree, where
they will patch up the old nest, which
has perhaps been occupied by squirrels
during the winter. They are, more
over very constant in their affections,
some species being known to mate for
life. The food of hawks consists in the
main Of small mammals, insects, rep
tiles and batrachians, which they cap
ture and hold with their powerful
claws, and tear to pieces with their
hooked bills. As destroyers of mice
and noxious insects they are of great
yalue to the farmers, and ever the spe-
cies which occasionally carry off game
and poultry have a handsome balance
Of good deeds to their, credit. Intelli-
gent men are now beginning to recog-
nize the fact, and with other thought
full people are losing patience with the
thoughtless ones who still persist in
killing these winged servants, many Of
which are saving for their murderers at
least $40 a year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
Pressing Board for Ribbons.

A small pressing board is a boon
for the woman who is called upon to
freshen her ribbons and laces and in
order to have it handy and its COW
ering fresh and clean a bag of striped
Holland linen is made and trimmed
with scarlet braid. On the outside
of the bag is a pocket for the iron
holder and the bit of wax. The re-
ceptacle is just large enough to per-
nit the board to slip in easily and
closes with a flap at the top. Strings
of tape are attached to each side so
that the board may be hung upon
a closet door.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
WHAT AMERICAN GIRLS NEED.
Character Formed on Lines of Eter-
nal Truth, Self-Reliance and
GraciOusness.

What American girls need is a high
ideal-shall / say a new ideal?-of
Womanhood.
To be pretty. to be daintily dressed,
to be courted, flattered and coddled is
the dream of most girls. The dream
must be replaced by determination,
energy and effort to be a helpful, hope
full, useful member of society, says
Woman's Home Companion. Woman
ly beauty and charm will grow of it.
self when character has been formed
on lines of eternal truth, self-reliance
and graciousness. Every girl should
be helped at home and in school, be-
fore she is far in her teens, first to
become an expert in all the work which
centers in the home and in the care
of the wardrobe, and second to study
some occupation, trade or profession
by which she can earn a comfortable
living for herself and those who may
be dependent upon her. put domes-
tic work first because, no matter what
her wage-earning occupation may be,
or no matter what riches she may
seem to have in reality or in prospect,
every girl should be practically pre-
pared to be the wife of a poor man.
In no other way than by strict train.
ing in cooking, la~undry-work and gen
eral housekeeping, plain sewing and
dressmaking, can such preparation be
made. This doesn't sound romantic,
but it is really dictated by the very
heart of romance; namely, belief in
marFiage for love, and for love alone.
"Love in a cottage" in a cabin-nay,
in a city tenement, and a fiat besides
is a reality; but when a slattern sits
by the fire, when a peevish woman
serves burnt fried steak every day,
when unkempt children clamor and
the window-shades are all awry, then
poor love flies away and never comes
back, and to our helpless, dreaming
girl how hard the reality seems!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
BRILLIANT PREACHERS WIT.
Reaching Repartee and Ready Re-
plies of the Eloquent and
Heroic Robert Hall.

Of all the brilliant preachers OF
modern times no one shone more re-
splendently in conversation than the
eloquent Baptist minister, Robert
Hall, says the Saturday Evening Post.
1t is remarkable that, while in his
writings hardly a CLEAN of wit or
humor is to be found, yet in the So
cial circle he was distinguished by
his terse and pungent sayings. All
his life he was a martyr to an *
cruciating disease, and his wittiest
sayings were uttered when he was
writing with sharp pains. A lady
at a friends house found him so lost
in thought that she vainly essayed
to engage him in conversation. At
length, impatient of his reveries, she
said, fippantly, in allusion to a Miss
Steel, to whom he was engaged to be
married:
"Ah, sir, if we had but polished
steel here, we might secure some of
your attention; but"
madam" interrupted the now
reused preacher, make yourself
quite easy; if you are not polished
steel, you are at least polished
brass!"
Hall had an intense adherence of
religious cant, to which he gave ex-
preston sometimes in the most
scorching terms. A young minister,
who was visiting him, spent a day
in signing, ever and anon begging
pardon for his suspirations, and say
ing that they were caused by grief
that he had so hard a heart. When
the lamentations, which Hall had
borne patiently the first day, were
resumed at breakfast on the second,
he said:
"Why, sir, don't be so cast down;
remember the compensating princi-
Pile, and be thankful and STILL"
compromising principle!" ex-
claimed the young man; what can
compensate for a hard hearth"
"Why a soft head, to be sure!" re-
piled Hall, who, if rude, had certain
ly great p~rovocation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE.
The Spot Now Marked by "a Rude
FIaspoIe-JOurneys of the
Log Cabin.

The little log cabin in which Abra-
ham Lincoln was born in is no longer
upon the place. During the Nashville
exposition it was carried down there,
and since that time it has been n
regular feature at all the affairs of
this kind. Its latest journey was to
Buffalo, in 1901, and | understand that
it is still there, says a writer in
Woman's Home Companion. The
place where it originally stood was a
high, barren hilltop, and the exact
spot is now marked by a rude flag
pole. Thomas Lincoln was undoubted-
edly determined in building his cabin
there by the spring of delicious cold
water that pours through a cavern at
the foot of the hill. The spring is
at the bottom of a sink-hole, where
the underlying limestone rock has
given way and left a rocky chasm
about a dozen feet deep. The break
exposes al outjutting ledge on one
side, while on the other is a steep
slope of earth and shattered stone.
and close around grow numerous
bushes and trailing vines and a few
fine trees that cast a pleasant shad-
ow on the hollow. How many times
Lincoln's mother must have toiled
up the hill from the spring with her
water-bucket, and how often the
little boy must have toddled down to
this cool retreat and dabbled in the
flowing water! The spot is a favor
lite resort for pleasure parties for
miles around. Indeed, these parties
constitute the bulk of the visitors to
the shrine; yet in spite of it's com
parative inaccessibility, an occasion
nj stranger from a distant state
makes a pilgrimage to this lonely
Kentucky pasture.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
Hon e-Made VaIentinea .

Sometimes the valentines made al
home find greater favor than anyone
can buy. Hearts may be cut from wa
t~er-color paper and painted red, or
gilded and a verse written on one
side. By q little ingenuity and fold
ing of paper quite a packet may be
made in heat shape. A box of can
dy hearts in a pretty valentine.
Original rhymes are acceptable and
not so hard to make after all.
Cakes, h~eart-shaped, may be sent as
valentines, and ribbon bows pulled
to represent a heart are pretty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

During the second war with England the national capitol at Washing
ton vas left practically defensel@. There were but 1000 troops in the
fourth military district, of which the District of Columbia was a part,
and these we're stationed at widely scattered points. Ger. Winder, com
handing the division, urged reenforcements, but they were not forthcom-
ing until it was o ate. The British landed on the shores of the Chesa-
peake BAY and marched overland to the capitol meeting with only such
Slight opposition as could be offered by Commodore Barney and a small
force of blueiackets. The British entered the city on the night of Au-
gust IA. 1911, and Gen.. Ross, the English commander, ordered the torch
applied in deaut oil a ransom. Every public building as burned except
ing the patent office. None of the civil officials of the government were
captured, al all had fled at the approach of the enemy. The British left
the following day, and later took up winter quarters near Baltimore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
Spanish OnieIet,

Three green peppers, two large on
ions, n button garlic, five ripe to-
matoes Tor M CAM, one-half tea
spoon of salt, paprika to taste. Boil
tomatoes Is minutes. Cut off the
top of peppers and remove the seeds,
and wash in cold water. Then chop
peppers, onions and garlic fine and
fry in butter until tender. Add these
ingredients to the tomatoes. Then
add nine eggs, beaten together. Cook
slowly, stirring all the time, until
they form a thick white mass. Serve
on platter with buttered toast
Boston Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
Valentine Gifts.

A heart-shaped cut glass flask for
perfume, or a heart-shaped box with
silver top for the toilet table, or a
ring with a true lovers knot encir-
cling a whole pearl, a turquoise, or
an amethyst, which is the February
birth stone, would please a young
girl. A heart-shaped locket with a
single pearl. and having a place for
hair and a photograph inside, is a
pretty gift, a is also a pendant of
the same shane for the watch chain
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

Ida-So you belong to an antiswear-
ing league. Have you accomplished
much good?
May-Yes, indeed. Why, we have
persuaded some of the South Water
street transfers to say: oh, fudge!'
when their teams tangle up.--Chicago
Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

Take two cups of string beams,
fresh canned; cut into inch lengths;
two cups Of white beans, two table
spoonfuls Of butter, juice Of one
%le1lon, II tablespoonful of minced
parsley, salt to taste. Boil the two
kinds of beans tender in separate yes.
sells; drain off the water, put the
beans together in a saucepan; add
to them the butter, lemon, salt and
parsley, stir until thoroughly heat
ed and serve.-Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

The Deacon-And the cook has gone
has she?
The Minister (absently)-Yes; she
has had a call from another congrega'
tion,-Puck.t
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

According to DR.. pinard, of Paris,
many careless persons catch contagious
diseases by taking off their dusty shoes
and then sitting down to a meal with
out washing their hands.-American
Medicine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
Uncle Reuben Saws,

When a man begins to figger out
dat de world owes him a Twin it's
time fur other men to git home airly
an see dat de cellar doah am safely
locked.--Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

Blinks-What would you dc if you
had d cool million?
Jinks-I should have o hot time
Smart Set.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12

An Atchison man who has climbed
away up the ladder, is about to lose
his head through looliHg down at u
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GloDe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
ST. VALENTINES
~ VIOLETS II
by FREDERICK NJ. SMITH.

N THE morning of st. Val
entine's day l sent Betty
a bunch of violets--big
violets, single, and of Il
color like The sky on a
summer night. Violets go
well with Betty's eyes.
On the afternoon of that
day l happened in about