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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

Let a woman who has been working
all the morning ver the countless
details of housekeeping put on her
hat and go out for a brisk walk. II it
is only for Is minutes it will do her
untold good-her head will be clearer
and her heart lighter.
Time thus taken is not wasted, but
the best kind of an investment, as
she will find she can do much more
In the long run,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

the town had earned a
vital place in the life of
the colonies, and many
Of the ships that went
out to do battle with the
fighting craft of England
were built and fitted out
in Gloucester, a large
part of the money that
made them coming from
patriotic contributions
on the part of the own
ers of the big fish in
dustry. The town had to
bear the brunt of an at.
tack by the British dur
ing the revolution, but
the ships of the enemy
were repulsed by the
hardy seamen.
During the war of
1872 a number of priva-
teersmen that wrought
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
Mirth.

Mr.. Jigger--I went to see a perform
ance Of Romeo and Juliet" last night,
and i don't believe / have a tear left
in my system to-day.
Thingumbob Indeed? Does o
tragedy usually make you cry2
Mr.. Jigger-No; but this one did
My sides are sore, too.-Half Holiday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
Makina Essence of Lemon.

Do not throw away the rind of
lemons, for it can be utilized nicely.
Fill a bottle with rectified spirits and
when using lemons cut away the vel,
low part from the lemon and place in
the spirits. You will find this quite as
good as the ssenc of lemon which
you buy. Essence of orange can be
made in the same manner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
An Artist.

"Who is that man admiring that
painting?"
IAN artist"
lis that his picture?"
well, he mad something to do with
1t. He cut the hair Of the fellow
whose. picture was painted.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
The One Quality.

Jack-I hear you are engaged to
that homely Miss Gotrox.
Tom-Yes; she has half a million In
her own right.
Jack-But money doesn't always
aead to happiness, old man.
Tom-True; but 1t ought to help you
in the search.-Half Holiday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
Helpful
ADVICE

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness -you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explainto the doctor. Your
letter will be heidi in the strictestc con-
fidence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
helpyourcase. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es-
tablish beyond a doubt the powerot
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
Wanted to Go the Same WAY.

We we're taking a little trip into the
country. The only vacant seats in the
train were turned SO as to face each
other. | told my little girl, four
years old, to take the seat insfront of
me, as riding backward would not
make her sick. She hesitated, and
said:
81 know it won't make me sick, but
if l ride backward will I.go to the
same place you are going to-?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
4 y MlddIosuvres Of 1k4H6moristsKAzA
Chorus Of the campers.

Chorus OF the Campers.
Camp, camp. camp, the boys are camp
ing!
Camping where the poison t~railers
climb;
And they'll all come back to town,
Insect peppered, blistered brown
But there's naught like camping in the
good old summer time.
Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
To Discover Fish Shoals.

Experiments are being made in Eu-
rope with a m%icrophone for the discov-
cry of the presence of shoals Of fish.
The instrument is sunk into the water
and the constant tapping of the fish
against it as they pass warns the fish
ermen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

It is difficult to understand how the
young man with the turned-up trousers
and the striped hat band can be as
foolish as he ooks.-Chicago Record.
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
ONLY A COW.

Artist (who has been bothered by
rustics breathing on him all the norm
lng)-My good fellow, | assure you
that you can see the sketch with more
advantage from a little distance!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

~7BOY began his composition
a on THE Horse" thus: THE
"A horse is the most useful an
Fl imal in the world; so is the
Y Y y cow" The boy is the most
AA interesting subject to write
about; SO is the girl. AS a mem
Der of the genus man he has
his defects; as a specimen of the
species boy, he has the merits of
his defects. He may be white or
black or red or yellow or brown, but
he is seldom green and not often blue.
He travels light. Lies task has no
terror to him. He does not know
where he is going to fetch up, and
does not always care where he fetches
up, and sometimes does not care
whether he fetches up at all. His
task is to take the fairest vision that
a be made to unroll itself before the
Imagination, transfer it to the interior
of his soul and reduce it to character.
AT ten, he is outlining a program for
middle life and at 16 deciding what he
is to be at 60.
All the world looks on and some peo-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
A c FOR SICK M

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousandsof
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
inS-down feeling, f~atulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness ,ornervousprostrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
OF 70 7zE LISTING GROInD

@RHnAaazzEN2zzA V you acclimated YETI in
E<wR Quired a genial tourist of another
@S& tourist of the same genus, as
they awaited a train in the
depot at Gloucester, Mass.
~SaHEzMnMEWEHa% 'Acclimated?' asked the G. T,
W ARMTRNQ& of the second part, ITO what?"
NJ RV 80 MI y TO this Goldfish smell, of
8S2@N4sssgE course answered G. T. No. l.
- Even the air is fshy in Glouces-
ter, but nobody complains, for it is the coast City's
way of earning a livelihood. 1t is not the smell
OF fish in the process of decay or of salt fish, but
IL is the exhilarating ozone of the Atlantic, for the
fish that you smell in Gloucester are freshly
caught. Gloucester has really never known any
thing else, for since its beginning approaching
three centuries ago, it has always had fishing for
its chief industry, and to-day it is the greatest
fishing center Of the United States, and, according
10 the belief of many, of the world,
Nothing more picturesque can be imagined than
this quaint New England town, where from the
ocean the 10000 inhabitants get the greater part
of their sustenance.
Gloucester is 81 miles from Boston, and it in
cludes the villages of Annisquam, Bay View, East
Gloucester, Freshwater Grove, GAINESVILLE, Magno.
liza, Riverdale and West Gloucester.
The magnificent harbor, large and affording safe
water room for the largest ships of the world, has
had the effect of encouraging traffic in other things
besides fish, Salt, coal and lumber are largely i'm
ported. There are interests in granite quarrying,
drop forging, brass founding, the manufacture of
fish glue, anchors, machinery, oil cloth, nets, Irvine,
sails, cigars and shoes, Moreover, Gloucester also
has shipbuilding plants worthy the name.
But after all it is the fishing that interests the
thousands of visitors, not only those who actually
spend the summer in the vicinity, but the thousands
who visit Gloucester while passing through Massa-
.chusetts in the course of the popular summer tour
of the New England states.
1t was not until the beginning of the eighteenth
century that Gloucester became especially promi-
nent for its fisheries and its shipbuilding industries,
but by the time of the outbreak of the revolution
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24
Difficult at First.

All things are difficult before they
are aasy.-Danish Proverb.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

woman. Bonnets and
wells of this exquisite
fabric are worn by
women with white hair
and the effect is very
striking and charming.
For a widow or moth
er in mourning the
bonnet Of black silk
grenadine trim m e d
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

IloWCfCl lluA
viduals may feel
on the subject of
wearing mourning,
the fact remains
that people in the
highest walks of
life continue to
show respect for
their dead, and
command respect
for their grief, by
putting on mourn
ing apparel. Good
] u d G m e n t has,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-05-16
CHAPTER Nv.
The Whip of the Blast.

Deep in a small gulch, the red earth
bleeding through its torn mantle,
crouched raw little railroad town.
Cabins, tents, huts, lean-tos .prcpped
against trees, scraps of shops, false
fronted stores and .-ginmills" huddled
new and painless between the clasp
ing hills.
1t was an hour before noon when a
slender little engine, with spidery
wheels and huge, overlapping smoke
stack. pulled into the rude shed that
was hung up on the mountain side
above the town and called by courtesy
4 depot.
A man paced the boards nervously,
impatient at the sacrifice of time re-
1uired to meet so indefinite a person
age as 4 elegram-introduced young
man in our employ who wishes to see
your work" The restless man was
George Gregory, superintendent of con-
struction, the human engine that exc
cuted the commands of the officers at
Sacramento. Alfred presented letter
from the governor, magic bit of pa
per that arrested even George Greg
ory's lurid thoughts at the sight of
this ''dandified ballroom cublet.''
The atmosphere was decidedly clear
er when the superintendent looked up
from the letter. When will you be
ready to go over the grading, Mr.. Vim
cent? III have your horse sent any
time you say after dinner"
After dinner, sir2 The train leaves
at two O'Clock, doesn't it?"
Yes; but you'll not go back to-day,
will youo~
Cant 1 get to the s'ront and back
by two2H
NO, not to the Front; yet you can
see nearly all of the completed grade
If you start at once. Yon miss your
dinner. though
I don't wish to inconlmode you, sir
Could not some other person conduct
me? Dinner is unimportant- 1 must
return to-day if possible
A shade Of appreciation crept into
the superintendent's keen glance.
Very well. Mr.. Vincent III have
your horse in ten minutes You ride ?
Our stock is cantanl1erous at times
i ride little: if not well enough,
III have to walk"
-Plucky," thought the older man, as
he dispatched a messenger for Alfred's
horse and employed the wait in send
ing kilograms to the Sacramento Office
Meantime Alfred wrote a short note
20 Stella explaining his haste and tell
ing her that he would be at the hotel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-05-16
! CHAPTER III.-continued.

Your first business will be to learn
more of the railroad. I'll ask our sec
rotary, Mr.. Miller, to let you have i'm
mediate access to the records. You'd
better take a run over the road That
will speak louder in a day than any
other record could in year. AS
soon as possible you'll go to San
Francisco, get in touch with the Nc
Lane crowd, McCoppin and our other
enemies there and learn what you can
of their plans against u.s." He glanced
at the superintendent. How can we
wedge him in there the quickest,
Croker? 1t won't do for me to in
troduce him"
Il can fix that. The situations
right in my hand, and no smack of
railroad in it, either. I'll send him to
Harmon. No one knows that he's to
work for US as soon as his term on
the bench expires. Mrs. Harmon's
the queen bee in society down there.
She'll land the young man where we
want him, first fling
Good enough. But we can't allow
you much time in San Francisco, Vim
cent. You must work fast, NOW as
wide a swath as you need-don't mind
the dollars, be the Boston aristocrat
and get through in time to cut in at
Carson City. There's legislation
pending in the third house of that
baby legislature over there that we
need to know about
Some further instructions ensued
and the conference ended. And Alfred
was soon engrossed in minutes of di-
rectors meetings, supreme court de-
cisions, newspaper reports and COM
ments, state and national legislation
everything that would aid in making
him master of the history of the road.
He worked fast and thoroughly, in
spired anew with enthusiasm for the
great business to which he had prom
ised allegiance.
Back of his ardor lay another spur,
desire to see Stella. She was there.
where he shortly would be, at the
front She had written him of her
safe arrival, of Jake Benefits kind
protection, of Mrs Benefits loving
care and the invitation to remain with
them.
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for a moment before he left in the
afternoon, if possible. He had slipped
the note with a coin into the stable
boys hand and was in the saddle when
the superintendent came out of the hot
little box that did duty as a telegraph
Office, and the two were quickly out
on the grade.
$50 this is the railroad M. McLane
claims is standing on end and leading
up to heaven instead of across the
Sierras over Judah's route?" Alfred
stopped his horse and looked back
through the deep cut, across the deep
err ravine where the bridge-builders
were at work. THAT spider web looks
wickedly frail,'' he added.
Its strong enough to hold our fly
till we meet our time limit. Plenty of
time for stiffening up and filling in
afterward.''
The horses hoofbeats were now
ringing clear on bare granite. Where
do you get earth for your fills? The
trees here don't seem to have root
hold against a summer zephyr"
That's one of my small troubles.
Sometimes we have to go half a mile
make 'em fast enough. I've got $500
men and 800 carts; but We'll have to
double that at once if we make our
so miles on time. And where under
the canopy the men are to come from
1 can't see Talk of bricks without
straw; Pharaoh's job was easy com
pared to mine"
They had pushed on as far as the
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with stick an foot than most folks
with two good laigs."
"Aw, spare my bushes, Mr.. Ben
netti Say, is the old man in the
hotel?"
Yes. Can't yo' let him swalleh his
dinneh in peace? He don't need but
five minutes; an it amt often he gifts
a lick at Sally BIS chicken fixin's- He
wouldn't to-day if that thar ornery
train want two hours late"
well, this dispatch Il help his di-
gestion."
Thought yo' all want lowed TIC
read the yalleh lightnin'-''
Il didn't read it. And amt giving
it away. Sabe?''
The boy barely halted and was at
the dining room door when Gregory
came out
What's the racket, APP he said "A
message for me-" He spoke a little
thicily, his mouth full of a fast dis
appearing apple
The message was. brief; and his
comment was an explosion of oaths.
Yet the boy grinned- 1t was glad pro-
family
DO you know what's in this, Al2"
Yes, sir; 1 couldn't help it"
'.How's that?"
I've learned the telegraph since
I've been messenger"
The dickens you say, What's your
speeds''
7 get most of the press dispatches.
sir"
How about sending?"
mot SO good, sir; but III soon catch
up If Re stopped abruptly.
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IF. wnatr


IF wf1at!"
I'D rather not say, sir"
"On account of the OPERATOR
He's an o. K friend to me, SIR
HIM The superintendent mounted
>and was in full gallop toward the sta
ton before he was quite seated. II
shan't forget you, boy" he called back
over his shoulder
Jake Bennett and Alvin Carter
walked to the station together. They
arrived at the station just as the train
pulled in.
The first passenger through the car
door was Uncle Billy.
Why, durn my eyes! What re yo'
all doin' hyah, Bill Dodge?- asked Ben
nett as Uncle Billy stepped to the
platform
The two shook hands, but Bennett
turned away with hurried word and
disappeared within the station.
Uncle Billy gazed blankly toward
the Office. his face clouding with dis
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to the Front and back in day. His
answer to Mr. Croker flashed back on
his brain: NO mans comfort should
count against railroad business" That
decided him To stay meant one day
later in San Francisco, one day less
to study situation where any hour
might be the hour of fate for the Cen
trail Pacific railroad
The fussy little engine was now
facing west, waiting its message from
the lever The signal sounded and the
train was starting when a barefooted
boy came blowing round the rear car
carrying a small package and in
formed the conductor breathlessly that
it was for that dandy Teller that went
OF this morning with the boss
"Here," cried Alfred, reaching down
as the boy ran alongside Alfred
caught the parcel and threw coin to
the bearer.
The train 1abored slowly up the
grade and around the hill while Al
fred united his package. 1t was a
neat luncheon; and wrapped in the
folded napkin was a spray of wild for
get-me-not. From Stella. Impulsively
he lifted the blossom to his face, and
in the action caught the futter of a
woman's gown high on a hill that over
topped the track. There stood Stella,
a granite boulder for her lookout, be-
hind her a shining laurel. Her hat
hung by it's ribbons, her cheeks were
glowing from her hurried climb, and
the wind f1uttered her full skirts and
tossed her shining hair. She waved
her handkerchief as the train passed
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f1nIsned grading and were returning.
From the story of the pierced noun
tains and from George Gregory Alfred
had proved Gov. Stanford's prediction
about the record of the road" 1t had
told him more than words or pages of
written details
Gregory looked at his watch and up
and down the line of the grading
sharply. The noon hour had almost
passed. Il guess you can find your
way back alone. I'm needed here
Aren't you going back-going
somewhere for dinner, Mr.. Gregory? ''
No. l guess my stomach's as fast
proof as yours Already his alert
eye was elsewhere, and Alfred knew
himself dismissed
The superintendent snapped to his
watch cover. regardless of the spring.
BLAST that Simms, His gangs the last
on duty again, Goodbye, Mr.. Vincent
Come and look us over again." he
called. and dashed OF toward the of
tending foreman. As Alfred passed
on the trail below the superintendent
far-audible ire followed him, a unique
word panorama. expressib1e only in
dashes and stars
Muscle-sore, Alfred alighted from his
steaming bronco at the depot only five
minutes before two. No time for Stel-
la unless he stayed over night Should
he do it? Indeed, ought he not to re-
main to see with his own eyes how
she was circumstanced IN this rough
town? He remembered his promise to
Uncle Billy Mr. Croker himself had
said Alfred could not get comfortably
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-05-16
LYDIA E. PINKHAM

Nature and woman's work COM
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman'S ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good fashioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that battle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world a remedy for their Pc
culiar ills, more potent and effica-
cious than any combination of drugs.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 NC. St.,
Louisiana, Mo-, writes:
complete restoration to health
means so much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women am willing
to make my troubles public.
HsFor twelve years / had been suffer-
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time I had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what suffered, and at times 1
could hardly walk. About two years
ago wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice re-
stored health and strength. It is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women"
What Lydia E. Pinkham1s Vege-
table Compound did for Mrs. Muf,
it will do for other suffering women.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-05-16

President G. Stanley Hall is catch
ing it, from women all over the coun-
try because of his recent assertion
that female teachers are ..feminizfng"
the boys Of, the United States The
general opinion is that if Mr. Hall is
right he should have had the privi-
iege OF instructing the Creator when
the human race was placed upon the
earth and should have told him that
mothers we've mistake II the pro-
fessor notes this feminine sarcasm If
will p-obabl.-- o7ly confirm him in the
theory that boys can not safely he
trusted to W ,nen-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-05-16

An observer in Milwaukee has dis
covered three big new spots on the
sun Two are calculated to be more
than 5000 miles across, dimensions
which would permit the earth to drop
through If the theory that connects
meteorological disturbances with the
appearance OF sunspots may be relied
on some pretty lively shakeups may
be anticipated. But sunspots are not
always reliable prophets