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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

The fashionable doctor looked wise
and smoothed his silk hat in the ira
ditional manner, but he realized only
too well that he was pitted against a
woman patient determined to fret her
self into nervous collapse.
You're not very Ill at present, Mrs.
Pennifether," he said frankly but
you are on the direct road to illness
My only prescription is to take an
interest in life"
But" protested the patient queru-
lousy, I'm sure I'm interested in
retaining my life. Why, look at all
those patent medicines I've tried"
II mean that you must get out in
the open air, and have little mild
excitement away from the sick room
environment"
But, doctor, am just dying of
ennui and really haven't ambition to
stir about" said the patient with a
so there now" expression that was
feminine and final
The physician turned away from the
sick bed.
Jane" he said to the maid, the
next time Mrs. Pennifether calls for
you just mention casually that Sellem
& Co. have just received the new
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

zone of the most sensible things
about the life of young bachelors of
the present day" remarked an old
bachelor, SIS the way they employ
young women to look after their
rooms and valet them.
"When / was young man no bach
elor would dream of employing wom-
an under fifty to do his rooms for
him, and as most of these women
drank pretty hard It used to be diff
cult to get along with them,
Nowadays a bachelor thinks moth
ing of having servant in the TWEEN
ties to look after his rooms, aud no
one ever. talks about It. either. II may
be only coincidence, OF course, but |
notice most of these servants are
homely as sin. which reminds me of a
story.
"A young bachelor of my acquaint.
ance lived with his sister for some
years in an apartment where they had
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
The girl who wrote
the window sign and
managed the store.

Several days ago after getting lunch
noticed that II was the place where
last year a window sign was given me
on request because 1t had creamery
butter" on 1t.
The woman who gave me the sign
said that her little girl who printed 1t
might not like her giving it away.
The little girl was in school and |
got the sign, but the other day the
little girl was in the store and got a
view of her enterprise.
She had eyes and ears for all GUS
toners and called out to her father
and mother as customers came in,
with her clear, business-like voice.
Her parents did not know as well
as she did that to wait on customers
while customers were waiting to be
waited on was more important than
sorting stock.
Her manners and voice were all
right-nothing domineering about
them toward her parents, and with
customers she had a very sensible
bearing.
She was selling or giving the price
on pickles when first noticed her,
and neither looked up to nor down on
the customer, but talked in an honor
bright way.
Had she known that | wanted her
window sign with the misspelled word
for companionship she might have
been willing to part with 1t.
Here is word wanted to use
when first mentioned their store, but
do not know surely how to spell II
and therefore have not found 1t in my
dictionary, so truss the typ4settS and
pit.pfreader to he'll me out. ut ist"dei
icatessen." and-if not spelt correctly
just blame them. l trip them up q
good many times. but sometimes pick
them up.
The little girls parents keep a deli
catessen store, and II the little girl
keeps on growing they will surely
have more money in the bank. While
| remember her as Miss Creamery
she has improved temper cent sew
eral times since making the window
sign.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Why he sent the boy
into the room for his
package on the table.

1t takes time to cool down or to
brace up.
An orator requires time to get the
blood in his head slowed down to the
natural flow after he finishes his
speech.
A person making a mistake requires
time to get brave enough to explain.
A man had been talking to some
people in room and his subject was
carefulness.
After saying goodbye and going to
another room he found that he had
left something on the table where the
people were and who remained in
their seats for another speaker.
He sent an Office boy in for the
package to relieve himself and disturb
the group as little as possible.
Some of the people noticed his err
ror when the. boy came for the pack
age. If he had known how to return
and what to say he might have made
a happy hit, but he was too slow.
The next day when he met the same
group of people he brought up his
error and used It as an example, His
confession was his only way out, as
his suggestions on carefulness would
have been lifeless without an explain
alton of his carelessness.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Semi understanding
is a starter of blunders
and breaks.

Make a list-make list-make a
list of past errors and plan to be more
accurate.
That sounds right to me, but does
1t contradicr~st. Paul's advice to for
get those things which are behind and
reach forth into those things which
are before?
Look that up and see II 1t is quoted
right. Never misquote the Bible is
an axiom 1t is eight-thirty a. M, and
am ten miles from home writing this
where people are supposed to have,
whatever Bible they possess. in their
Hearts and heads and be all business.
Do not worry over the past is what
l take as Pauls meaning. Seek and
We shall find is one of Christ's orders
and we can find in the past the
sources of Improvements for the fu.
ture. Use the past to better use the
future.
little seeking in the past enables
us to understand that northumberland
ings are beginners of plumbers. Thor
ough understandings are due to an APP
probation of the Importance of know
ing what you are about, and knowl-
edge of easy slips between what peo-
pie think and say and what we hear
and think. also attention and mem.
DRY.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Made the Doctor Ponder

Paris styles in spring hats. Mention
that the styles are exclusive and that
there will be private view to-day in
which creations will be obtainable
long before the vulgar herd can copy
them"
Then the doctor passed Jauntily
down the street chuckling Alas! Be-
fore four blocks were passed he be-
came martyr to science.
Hurrying footsteps battered behind.
a fluttering boa sent his silk hat fly
ing into the gutter and the doctor
himself was sent tottering. The doc
tor looked after the person who lad
done the mischief and saw bustling
feminine figure Fastening recklessly
for the shopping district
TITS Mrs. Pennifether on her way
to the millinery sale! My prescrip-
ton of exercise and mild excitement
Let's see. A silk hat ruined, $40 added
to my bill-but fashionable medicine
is triumphant
But now" he continued thought
fully, after she gets through with
purchases In the shopping district,
will her husband have enough money
left to pay my bill? Hmm! Do win
professionally and lose financiallyY"--
New York Sun.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
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I'm Eas =; INDEX rs Ia
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THINK A MINUTE a DAY
How to make an Ar
cade Index library of
your own atno expense.

II every minute of your time is
money then It will be of some expense
to you because II needs FIVE minutes
every week and five minutes every
day II you can spare that much.
AS to buying things to start it.
that is not necessary, II you do not
want to you do not have to.
When you get letters open them by
cutting one end and when you have a
few envelopes of the same size and of
a size that you can secure more of,
begin your library.
On the back of the envelope, across
the cut end top. put the title of any
subject. that interests you or any ques-
ton.
Under the title put subheads or de
partments of the subject or put varia.
, lions of the question.
Begin to be ready to see, hear, think
or read anything for one or more Of
the envelopes Start one a week or
start a dozen at once, as you wish.
Do not do too much and do not skip
five minutes week. though you do
nothing more than put a piece of
blank paper into one of the envelopes
and re-read something which was in
IL.
This is the yalue-doing something
regularly. You can use a package or
a box OF new envelopes or set OF any
sized blank books II you wish to. Dur
ing the year study the whole wide
world over in the interest of better
methods and you will have an Arcade
Index library.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
II out as easy to capture use
Aty%s ips for blind Snar
81 IfsNa wild horse.

Resourcefulness as a subject is
something we should know more
about. Some of us know more than
others about It, but none of us know
much and all should know more than
the best of thinkers know to-day.
il we could unite our bits of wisdom
on spontaneous thought we might
produce product that would push all
of us to better thinking.
Some think of their best ideas just
as they awake in the morning. One
man conquered a perplexity by lying
down, after his evening meal. on a
couch In dark corner and concen-
trating his mind.
Mental power to invent or solve Is
inherited and acquired. Some are in.
clined that way to such an extent that
they do too much of 1t. A son told
me his father invented many things,
but never sold them because he was
too busy inventing more things. Other
people are born to follow and initiate
being without any visible originality.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

II the land is sufficiently rich TO
grow a fair crop of clover we should
assuredly advise the course you speak
of to improve 1t. The first cutting of
clover may be made into hay, turning
the second growth under at the close
of the season. If, however. the soil is
very poor and the growth of clover
will. unaided. be but thin and meager,
It would certainly be profitable to ap.
ply sufficiency of suitable fertilizer
to give the clover good start. For
this purpose, nothing could be better
than wood ashes, say, at the rate OF
rs to so bushels per acre, lightly
ploughed under; or. better still. har-
rowed In just before seeding A good
substitute for wood ashes could be
made as follows: MuNate OF potash
100 lbs; superphosphate, 300 lbs; sp
piled at the rate Of say, 200 to 800
lbs. per acre. AS green crop for
blowing under, probably the best will
be found to be common red clover
sown at the rate of to 10 lbs. per
acre.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
HOUSE OF SIX ROOMS.
We'll Arranged Structure at compars.
lively Small Cost.

WY NNuNs
An excellent plan for a six-room
house is shown in the accompanying
sketches. The rooms are of good size.
and the plan is exceptionally we'll ar
ranged, being very compact and eco
nomical. The cellar stairs go down
from the kitchen under the main front
stairs; there is an outside entrance on
the landing at the ground level. The
exterior is very neat and satisfying,
and the house is a popular one. 1t is
well finished In natural woods
throughout The dimensions are as
follows: Width. 81 feet 6 inches;
length. including veranda, Al feet 6
inches. Ceiling heights: Basement, 7
feet; first story, 9 feet 6 inches; sec
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

You can hardly have much OF a
pasture by the 25th of June, but you
can pick up your pasture as you sug-
gest by broadcasting more seed over
the vacant strip If the seed is sown
as the frost is coming out OF the
ground It will be sufficiently covered
without narrowing; but. IL the ground
is very heavy and II is impossible to
do so. stroke with a light harrow
before seeding followed with roller
afterwards, will cause the seed to
start at once. For permanently improv.
ing your pasture, / should make a mix.
ture for this bare strip in the follow.
ing proportion per acre; Timothy, 10
lbs; Red Glover 8 lbs; Hungarian
grass or German millet, 10 lbs. The
timothy and clover will permanently
improve the pasture, and the millet.
which is an annual will give a crop
the first year
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
The accuracy
library as for
corporation
IN informa-
ton on the

enemies of easy errors and the
friends Of forethought, to re-
duce mutually e9penSive mis-
takes of mechanical, CONNER
ciaS and professional people.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Fertilizer For Glover.

e. A. W. wish to enrich a piece
of land and cAnnot obtain yard ma.
nure; would ~ be l5tteg to 3pply arr
, tificial fertilizer or 70 grow clover and
plough the croH under?
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

Many dairymen prefer to feed bran
In the form of mash, but feeding ex-
pcriments prove that there is little or
no advantage In adding water over
feeding 1t dry. A very good use can
be made of bran by mixing t with en-
silage. pulped roots or cut hay. II fed
with cut hay II is we'll to moisten the
mixture so that the bran will adhere
to the coarser food and not be blown
out of the margin or inhaled by the
animals.
2. A good way to cure a kicking
COW is to attach short chain. with a
ring In the end to the rack or
stanchion frame; put hook in each
end of a rope and ring eighteen
inches from one end Put the rope
around the left hind leg above the
hook and hook il in the ring and draw
the leg forward until the foot is raised
from the floor and nook It in the
chain. pApot-put-<iie rope below the
hock for she can Nthen knock the
ket over by swinging her foot. A
COW cannot kick with this tackle on
her and she will soon give up trying.
She should be handled quietly.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

ond story. feet. Cost. including
plumbing and furnace heat, 50 400 to
$4,000. ,aa
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Improvlna a Pasture.

w. w. HI have a new pasture in
which there is strip where the seed
ing did not catch well. Could | scat.
ter some more seed on this in the
spring as to have 1t 1T for pasture by
the 25th of JuneS If so, what would
be the best kind Of grass TO use?
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

Work and purpose is the moral OF
every heroic life.--W. II. d. Adams
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07

Feeding Bran; Curing Kicker.
A. ST.. What is the best method
of feeding bran to mich cows? What
is the best method of curing a heifer
OF kicking while she is being MIXED?
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-07
Resourcefulness en-
ableS men and nations
to turn defeat into vic
tory.

Here is something told me this week
that represents a watershed between
growing and willing.
A manufacturer called on a retailer
and learned that his goods could be
used If certain changes were made
The manufacturer went away to
return to say that he could not sue
coed In making such changes.
Another manufacturer came along
with the same article and he was told
the same thing.
Tivs~Uh went away, worked. stud.
led. accomplished II, and came back
to be given orders, and these orders
meant other orders.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

age, and which is most admirably To-
Gated. After renovation it will care
for 600 patients under the very best
conditions procurable here. At Guile
bra. on the hills $50 to 400 feet above
sea level we should establish a hos
pital, perfect in all its details,
with a capacity for not less than zoo
patients.
'Taboga Island. a high and extern
sive tract of land lying several miles
out in Panama Bay, has the most sal
ubriouS climate, with less rainfall than
has any other part of this country. BY
some oversight in the negotiation OF
the treaty we failed to obtain this is
land, the Republic of Panama retaining
dominion over it. Taboga Island VIII,
however. be transferred to the United
States by means of subsequent nego-
| clause of the canal treaty. which be-
sides the zone and islands specified
grants us such other territory as we
may require. In that event Taooga
Island will become the site of con-
valeScent hospital to accommodate oOO
patients-a purpose for which it is most
admirably adapted. That will, l pc
| lieve, give US all the hospital equip
ment we shall need. With this equip
ment in charge of experts, as certain
ly it will be. and with the isthmus
brought to a proper sanitary condition.
there is no reason why the work OF
digging the canal by this route shoulu
exact any unusual penalty in human
life
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

SAID, sewerage, pure water and disin-
fectlon are alone required. The wa
ter supply for Panama may be drawn
from an absolutely pure mountain
stream flowing twenty-eight miles
northeast of the city.
The Problem at Colon.
colon will be the most stubborn
proposition with which we shall have
to deal. 1t would be greatly simpli-
fled if every building outside of the
railroad section should be given to the
torch. The whole area of the city must
be filled in until its surface shall be
not less than four feet above the level
of the sea. A complete system of
underground and surface drainage
must be provided, as well as a per-
fect sewerage system. Cristobal Colon
Point, constructed by the French to
be the one actually healthy spot, is
to-day one of the worst incubators
for disease on the entire isthmus, and
will have to be radically dealt with.
All open places left in Colon after the
city shall have been filled must be
erased or graveled and we'll and con-
stantly cared for, and the swampland
should be drained and filled in for a
mile in every direction. Unless the
buildings are all burned and the town
rebuilt, every one must be raised so
that it will be above the level of the
ground and set upon secure founda-
ton, after which there must be ap-
piled most vigorous measures of dis
infection and fumigation.
10 get supply of pure water for
Colon 1t will be necessary to go to
the mountains. A reservoir may, how
ever, be constructed on Monkey Hill.
two miles of the city, where water
may then be brought by gravity into
Colon; but if this plan is adopted all
the natives resident in the vicinity of
Monkey Hill must be made to move
to other parts of the isthmus. If these
measures are adopted, and the same
lessons taught and the same general
regulations instituted as / have de-
scribed for the second section, Colon
may be made a habitable place, with
a death-rate not especially excessive.
Pohce supervision will, however,
nave to be most vigorous in this
place.
Besides the measures 1 have de-
scribed for the three divisions of the
isthmus, there must be a general and
most determined crusade against mos
qultoes ever the entire canal zone. We
know beyond question of doubt that
mosquitoes are the active dissemina-
tors of infectious diseases. Those that
abound so plenteously on the isthmus
are of two kinds-the yellow fever
mosquito and the malarial mosquito.
The former works during the early
morning and the late afternoon, and
the latter during the hours of the
night. To eradicate them the swamp
land must all be drained and level, and
the entire surface of the country
brought under such perfect control
that for a distance of a mile on either
side of every place where people reside
there shall be no stagnant pools. ponds
or quagmires. The use of mosquito
nets over beds and of screens on doors
and windows should also be made com
pulsory. Rainwater tanks must, too,
all be protected with finest iron net
ting. BY thus destroying all places
where he may breed-for mosquitoes
cannot travel more than half a mile
from the breeding spot unless borne
by the wind-this pest and the most
fruitful cause of diseases may be ex-
terminated.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

which he explained the situation from
the viewpoint of the experienced ex-
pert.
For purposes of sanitary considera-
ton the isthmus must be divided into
three parts said DIR. Edie. 1.-THE first
division extends from Colon to Bohio,
distance of about fourteen miles;
the second from Bohio to Corozal, on
the Pacific side, a distance of about
twenty-eight miles, and the third from
Corozal to Panama, five miles. The
cities of Colon and Panama, over
which we secure in the new treaty
sanitary control are included in the
first and third divisions, respectively.
In the first division one begins to
strike the hill country about seven and
one-half miles from Colon. Advancing
from west to east through the third
division, rising ground is found about
hve miles from Panama, while the
second division lies almost entirely in
the high ground
THE city of Colon stands upon a
coral island which lies very low in the
water, and which is surrounded on
two sides by vast and almost impass-
able swamps. The only elevations in
that vicinity are abrupt hills, or vol
canic peaks. Between Gatun and Bo-
hio, in the first division, there is an
elevated country, but this is all sur
rounded by the same vast swamps and
| morasses except on the east, where the
| high ground stretches away into the
mountains.
"All of this first division is I'M
healthy-deflantly so. The prolific
cause of disease in this division is
found in the low-lying ground, the en-
| tire absence of drainage, the freuuency
of pools, ponds and quagmires, where
mosquitoes may be bred unmolested;
the absence of an adequate supply of
| pure water and the utterly unsanitary
mode of living. These conditions are
| of such long standing that nearly
! every house in Colon, as well as in
| the whole of the first division, is in
! fected with the germs of yellow fever
| and smallpox. Life amid such sur
roundings has been, and still is, mere
| ly question OF the survival of the
! httest There are no reliable mortal
! ity figures or percentages procurable
anywhere on the isthmus, but we
| know from reports, observation and
| the scant records of the Colombian
! army that the death rate has been
excessive in the high land as well as
in the low, and especially in this first
! division.
Country Not Necessarily Dangerous.
From Bohio to Paraiso, in the sec
| ond division, the altitude above sea
! level is 120 to $50 feet. This is excep-
tionally good hill country, we'll sup
i piled with natural drainage, having an
ample supply of good, pure water, and
/ furnishing numerous very admirable
sites. There is no reason whatever
why this section should be any more
unhealthy for people who know how
to live right In a sanitary sense than
is any other tropical country where
the rainfall is continuous and Excess
! siYe.