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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

after birth could so warp and distort
the natural tendencies. These gentle
men who have been so widely quoted
evidently know little of the world of
women. They have placed themselves
on record after a very superficial and
perfunctory analysis of the sex. The
very fact that they have been quoted
at all indicates that their views are al
together bizarre. If this had been
an established fact in all the thou
sands of years of the history of the
human race their belligerent procla-
nations would not have been noticed.
Has it been left for them to make a
discovery of a new world of unmor-
atty?
while the fact that the matter has
been so widely bruited about gives it
a measure of Importance, it is rather
that sort of Importance which adds
to the amusing and diverting phases
of social life than to those activities
| which make for development and
progress, and the Dispatch deserves
thanks for contributing to the 'gayety
of nations by giving us a chance to
say a word in answer to eve the
most obscure of dialecticians who
have presumed to air their oratory
upon a theme which was certain to
attract some attention and excite
curiosity If not respect"
Equivocate in Little Things.
This matter Of evading the truth
is even far older than the remark
made by an eminent historic person
age that he had said in his haste that
all men were liars" was the remark
of Mrs. Samuel A. Ammon, well
known for her great activities in civic
affairs, when the caustic assertions of
DR.. Taylor were preached to her. ut
is quite possible and d%efendable," con-
tinued Mrs. Ammon, that in what we
may call the little things of life
women evade the truth more often
than men do, because they are
brought into contact with those lit
tie things, chiefly domestic, more than
men are.
"The question of answering truth
telling is n which has agitated the
deepest Of analytical minds, but the
greatest of these has not been led to
assert that immortality of prevarica-
ton was most highly developed in
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WHY THEY sLEEP IN CHURCH.
H~ypnotism, Not Dr~owslness, Declared
to Be the Cause.

"Churchgoers don't sleep in church.
They undergo an hypnotic trance.
The soothing voices and mild music
and monotonous recitative Of a church
service put forth powerful hypnotic
influences, and that is why the pews
resemble a railroad track in the
abundance of their sleepers."
The speaker, a %hypnotist, banged
the table vehemently.
Don't laugh" he said. ITS true.
Hypnotism, not d~rowsiness, is what
makes you sleep in church. Through
Jour auditory nerve sound ave are
passed to your brain that are as eff.
tective as though a professional hyp'
notist had made them. Sound, you
know, is the newest and best hyp'
motto.
"At first, in the church service, the
periodicity of the wave alterations is
short. There is a little speaking
then more music. And just when you
are getting properly lulled the clergy
man, in a modulated, agreeable, sooth
ing voice, speaks on and on and on
and you begin to nod. You are, hyp
notically speaking, %entranced.
THE average church service is
scientifically correct hypnotic instru
ment. No wonder, then, it puts many
of US to sleep"
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One often finds bottles Of medicine

One often finds bottles of medicine
in which the cork has not been tightly
pushed minus the latter, or has had a
cork pop out of a bottle while held in
ones hands without any attempt to re.
move it on the part of the holder.
This always shows that gas is forcing
the cork out.
Danger In combs.
Every now and then n reads of
celluloid articles, from fancy hair Golf
rure combs down, catching fire and
serious burns or accidents resulting,
1t would seem that evory n should
by this time know that celluloid con-
tains In its composition ~guncotton and
also camphor, both highly inflammable.
No woman wearing celluloid combs or
hair ornaments should place her head
near an uncovered gas Jet or other I'm.
protected light, as celluloid catches
fire so quickly and burns SO rapidly
that it would hardly be possible to
avoid serious burns.
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EXPLOSIVES IN DAILY USE.
Danger in Many Things That Are Con-
stantly Handled.

Among the many things in almost
constant use are some that are more
or less dangerous from their explosive
properties, properties often entirely
unknown to their users.
For examples, chloride Of potash
lozenges If accidentally brought in
contact with an unlighted phosphorus
match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of
potash If mixed with subnitrate Of bis
muth, the latter a remedy for indiges-
tion, will explode.
Iodide Of nitrogen is highly explo-
sive and Is often combined with other
drugs. Its use by those ignorant of
its danger is a menace.
~Salvolatile and choral hydrate are,
under certain conditions, as dangerous
as dynamite.
Tincture Of iron and dilute aqua
regia when mixed. as they often are In
medicine, throw off a highly explosive
gas, which has frequently shattered
the bottle in which the mixture was
kept.
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viii Increase Under New Process.

During the five years preceding
1904'05 the total acreage annually
under indigo cultivation in India was
1885, 900. In 1905-'06 this area had
decreased to 330,400 acres, or a fall
ing OF of a little less than A per
cent. During 1906-'07 the acreage de.
creased to 329,800. Under new meth.
DDS of cultivation and more economic
processes Of extraction, which are
claimed to have been discovered in
India, it is said that natural indigo
can be produced more cheaply than
synthetic indigo, and therefore it is
confidently predicted that the indigo
crop will rapidly increase in acreage
and in the quantity of indigo pro-
duced.
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that DR.. Taylor chose a very tottering
basis for a sensation, and that in
making himself talked about he has
also made himself absurd"
In a very racy manner Mrs. Frank.
lin P. Iams, attorney-at-law, discussed
what has been termed by Shakespeare
the "lie circumstantial" and the "lie
direct" women may lie on the wit
ness stand" said Mrs. Iams, lin cir,
cumstances which arouse within her
a powerful sentiment, while in similar
circumstances a man would lie DELHI
erately and wilfully. The lie in the
one case may be said to have been to
some extent unconscious, the woman
having been persuaded on account of
her affections to believe that what
she said was true because she
wanted it to be true. The man would
tell the lie direct, knowing that 1t was
a lie, and telling 1t to make his case
or that Of the person in whose inter
est he was t~estifying.
Women More Emotional.
"Of course, as everyone knows,
women are far more emotional than
men. They are therefore more likely
to be swayed by their sentiments. !
am inclined to think, therefore, that
for this very reason women are some
what less dependable as witnesses
than men, although less to blame for
their equivocations. When a man
tells a delibs+ate lie he must be an
adept at the business indeed If some
thing in his manner or expression
fails to suggest that fact to the jury
A speaking under the infu
ence of powerful sentiment is more
apt to give her statement every sem
blance of truth. The mar lying de
liberately is we'll aware that he car
hardly do 1t successfully and there
fore he is less apt to try the expert
ment, although he is morally just al
much the liar as though he did try it
ri would say that there is @csne
measure of truth in the assumption
that women are more liable than mer
to go astray from the exact fact:
when they are In the strange posi-
ton of a witness in the courts, but
the sweeping assertion of DR.. Taylor
that in all circumstances they are less
to be believed than men is a state
ment that should simply make the
/ person who made it ridiculous.
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FEAR TO TOTAL UP PAGES.
Men Make Memoranda of Expenses,
But That Is All.

speaking Of starting things and not
finishing Them said a business man,
did I ever tell you Of the curious
habit that an uncle of mine had? He
used to carry a memorandum book
around with him and whenever he
spent any money he would jot down
the figures. We always looked upon
him as a model in keeping accounts.
One day / got TO talking to him about
lt, and he pulled his book out Of his
pocket to show me. What was my
lmazement on looking at It to dis
:ovcr that not one Of the pages was
totaled up. / asked him, naturally,
whether he never added the columns
10 find out how much he was spend
ing. He told me that he did not and
never had; the practice was too dis
touraging. A sense Of duty impelled
aim to put down the items, but there
he stopped. An interesting man, my
uncle, although a trile eccentric"
mot so very unlike the majority Of
humankind. said the business mans
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POULTRY NOTES.

Breed up the flock and get uniform
birds.
Shape makes the breed-color the
variety.
Do not try to keep a larger flock
than you can take care of.
Keep dampness out of the poultry
house; that will help keep out dis
ease.
The habit some hens have of laying
every day is not shared by all. If you
hatch eggs from these everyday lay
ers you will soon find you have no
drones in the flock.
In running your incubator follow
each and every instruction given by
the manufacturers to the letter. They
want to e you succeed and are not
imposing tasks they consider need
less.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

friend, unless, perhaps, in his hon
esty of avowal. / think there are
mighty few people who keep the rec
ord of their personal expenses in ship
shape fashion. Lots Of us start out
with the best Of intentions, say at the
beginning Of a year, but it's a good
deal like keeping UP a diary. And just
where nine out Of ten fall down is In
this matter Of totaling. 1t takes but
al infinitesimal portion of time to run
up a column, but somehow we don't
like the operation; it's too much like
bringing a charge against ourselves.
SO we salve our consciences by jotting
down items-when we think Of them
and let them go at that, Pretty DON
the account or memorandum book be-
comes hopelessly in and 1t is
put away where 1t will not be an irri-
tation. The next January another be-
ginning may be made, but unless the
conscience is In very good working
order there will be the same result"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
Billion Dollar Grass,

Most remarkable grass of the century.
Good for three rousing crops annually.
One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold 49,
10000 worth of seed and had 800 tons of
hay besides. 1t is immense. Do try it.
For 10c N HIS NOTICE
send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, to pay postage, etc, ana
they will mail you the only original seed
c~atalog published in America with SAM
piles of Billion Dollar Grass, Macaroni
Wheat, the sly miller mixer, Sainfoin the
dry soil luxuriator. Victoria Rape, the 20c
a ton green food producer, Silver King
Barley yielding l73 bu. per acre, etc, etc,
etc.
And if you send lac we will add a pack
age of new farm seed never before seen
by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis. X. & W.
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Neglected Fowls,

It is seldom that neglected fowls
are profitable. A great many people
have conceived the idea that they can
start a flock and let it alone and that
the results will be profits day by day
AS we'll might a farmer plant a field
to anything and expect it to produce q
good crop without caring for it. The
weeds would soon grow up and choke
the economic plants. In the poultry
house we do not have weeds, but we
have lice, mites, rats, cats, hawks
diseases Of many kinds and thieves
These all correspond to the weeds
that choke the crop in the field. They
make 1t impossible for the lazy person
to succeed.
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the least, no less truthful than those
of the other sex. 1t is a well-known
fact that all witnesses are to some
extent swayed by sentiment In favor
of the person in whose interests they
are testifying. Allowance must be
made for that, but that women are
more powerfully Influenced by such
considerations than men do not Pc
lieve. | have known women to testify
the truth in great stress Of circum-
stances, when to conceal the truth
would have been much to their ad-
vantage, and when cautioned by the
Judge that their testimony was to
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Double Brood Coop.
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make them firm. In front is a mi
inch mesh wire netting and at the
edges are strips of t~hree-quarter by
1R-inch stuff, to insure rigidity. In
one corner, as shown, is the nest, four
inches deep and Is to IS inches
square, according to the size of the
hens kept. The board floor, explains
the Orange Judd Farmer, is covered
with sawdust or sand. Food and
drink are more readily supplied
through the door, which preferably
lifts in front, as shown.
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The Farmers Opportunity
90, 900 Acres In the "Garden Spot of the World"
is Now Being opened Up to the
American People.
Or. Chas. T. Simmons Ranch lust South of San Antonio on
the Market.

You will never get another chance like this: $210, payable SO
q month, without interest, buys two lots and a farm Of from 10 acres,
for truck and fruit raising, to a 640acre farm in balmy south Texas.
where the people are prosperous, happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months in the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners, whose seasons never end,
eat homegrown June vegetables in January, and bak in mid-winters
balmy air and glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous and the prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted and harvested every month in
the year.
Where the climate is SO mild that the Northern farmer here
save practically all his fuel bills anA threefourth the cost Of
clothing his family in the North.
Where the country is advancing and property values rapidly In
creastng. h.
Where all stock, without any iced. fatten winter and summer,
on the native grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields The substantals Of the temperate
the Injuries Of the topic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to work hard six months in
the year to raise feed to keep his stock from dying during the win
ter, as they do in the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and people do not have to work
hard to have plenty and go in the best society.
Where the natives work less and have more to show for what
they do than in any country in the United States.
Where houses, barns and fences can be built for less than half
the cost in the North.
Where sunsrokes and heat prostratious are unknown.
Where sufferers from Asthma, Bronchitis. Catarrh, Hay Fever
and Throat Troubles find relief.
Where, surrounded by fruits and vegetables, which ripen every
month in the year, the living is better and less expensive than in
the North.
Where the water is pure, soft and plentiful.
Where the taxes are so low that the amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools and Churches of all demon.
anations are plentiful
Where peace, plenty and good will prevail
Where it is SO healthy that there are few physicians and most
of them. to make a living, supplement their income from other bus.
mess.
Write today for full particulars and beautiful views of the ranch.
Or. CHAS. 7. SIMMONS.
25 Alamo Plaza. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
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into the world one sex more addicted
than another to the telling of un-
truths under any circumstances. Take
the great question of heredity for in
stance. 1t is the testimony of some of
the greatest physicians of this and
other times that the sons unusually in
herit the traits of the mothers and
the daughters those of their fathers.
Now how shall we assimilate this I'M
questioned dictum of science with the
assertions of these gentlemen that
women are more prone than men to
evade the truth? You see that the
whole proposition falls to the ground.
1t is not possible that environment
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
Care Of MIX Utensils.

Milk utensils should be rinsed with
cold or lukewarm water. They should
then be washed thoroughly with hot
water, with the aid Of some cleaning
preparation, other than Laundry soap
or inferior washing powder, as sal
soda, then rinscd with clean water and
sterilized by exposure for at least ten
minutes to live steam. or water tina;
IL actually boiling.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

men. Both are of the same blood and
hber, and whatever denunciation lies
against the one in the matter Of stat
Ing what is untrue lies against the
other.
Il cannot understand how any man
Or woman of intelligent appreciation
Of the worlds activities could sink to
the depths Of uttering such a Islander
against the mothers. sisters and
daughters who are responsible for the
maternity of their kind of both sexes.
It would be one of the most astound-
ing Of paradoxes IL they could bring
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
PUBLIC LAND OPENING.

TIL State Of Wyoming will shortly
throw open for settlement under the pro-
visions of the Carey act Of Congress 245,-
600 acres of irrigated government land in
the Big Horn basin. This affords an OPP
p~Ortunity TO secure an irrigated farm at
low cost and on easy payments. A report
containing illustrations, maps, plGts and
full information has been published by
the Irrigation Department, 45 Home In
surance Building, Chicago. Any one in
terested may obtain a free copy by APP
plying to the department.
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is a question that has
been excited by the utter
ances of a few men, and
at least one woman, who have in pub
lie recently insisted that women as a
general proposition have no sense of
the binding sanctity of an oath and
are blind to the moral obligation of
telling the truth.
A few days ago, came DR.. William
H. Taylor, state chemist of Virginia,
in a lecture to the students of the
State Medical College of Virginia,
proclaimed that a woman had mo
conception of the moral obligation en-
tailed in telling the truth" In his
opinion truth with a woman is what
she wants to be believed. She Is con-
vinced that what she calls her "intui-
tons" must always be right.
AS a buttress to what these mere
men. have asserted comes Mary Hea-
ton Worse, a woman Of some note as a
writer for the magazines, who as
serts that few women can be depended
upon to tell the truth, she presumably
being one of the few; that they "beat"
street railway companies; that they
listen at telephones, betray conf
dences, sneak the reading of letters;
and that she believes the statement
of an old Judge who told her that
upon the witness stand women would
invariably perjure themselves"
These declarations were SO sweep
ing and so extraordinary that the
Pittsburg Dispatch was led to seek
the opinions of some Pittsburg WON
en- Of note, who could be depended
upon to say what they thought re-
CARELESS of any reflection upon their
own sex-women who think independ-
emily and whose thoughts are well de.
fined and their language we'll thought
out. One Of these is Mrs. Enoch
Rauh, president Of the Council of
Jewish Women.
" Not a Question of Sex.
1.-THE telling Of truth is absolutely
not a matter Of SEX" was the em.
phatic answer to a query by the rep
resentative of the Dispatch. Both
sexes equivocats and evade upon oc'
casion and no oae will hazard his rep
utation for veracity by saying that
ONE should te singled out for this
mark of %opprob:ium as distinct from
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
DOUBLE BRooplNe COOP.
II Is Not Hard to Build and viii Do
Good Service.

The double brooding coop shown in
the drawing is four feet square and
three feet high at rear, az in front.
1t may be built of tongue and groove
stuff or straight-edge boards one-half
or three-fourths-inch thick. The hinged
lids should have two cleats each to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

Never clothe yourself in the armor
of independence, but rather cultivate
the goodwill of your fellowmen. 1t
will enable your OWL nature to sac
rifice on their behalf.-Loth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
Guess.

He-I think that I have the pleas
ure of the next dance?
She-You do.
Now, what did she mean by that
Harvard Lampoon,
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His Reservation.

Live and let live" Is a good
motto, but many q man who adopts
II wants to reserve the right to live
better than the other fellow.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

have found women witnesses,
to say the least, no less truthful
than those Of the other sex. =
have known Of but n
case of deliberate perjury by a
woman.-Miss Suzanne Beatty,
Attorney-at-Law.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

Men sneer at women's shoppin',
but when women shop they don't have
ter eat cloves ter disguise what
hey've been buyin''."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

Proper discipline in his early
youth Would probably have had
such effect upon Mr.. Taylor that
he would have thought of
the statements so antipodaI to
truth which he has made In re-
gard to women as compared with
men.--Mrs. Samuel Ammon.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26

ON the diary which showed that ths
book had been printed at a time SUBJ
sequent to the date of the burglary.
The case was continued, and it vas
brought out that the firm producing
.the-diary never issued the books to-
be used by the trade previous to the
year of their date. 1t was a clear
case of perjury and n of remarka'
bic cunning considering the very ordi,
nary intellect of the girl. The matter
had been written for the entire year
and bore all the marks of genuine
ness. a
Poor Basis for Sensation.
1T is a fact known to all lawyers
that women fear the law more than
men do, and therefore take fewer
risks upon the stand in the matter of
telling an untruth. 1t is my opinion
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
Poor Basis for Sensation.

cannot understand how any
mar or woman of intelligent ap-
probation Of the worlds activi-
ties could sink to the depths Of
uttering such a slander.-Mrs.
Enoch Rauh,
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women
less to be believed than
men, on oath or otherwise?
is a question that has
been excited by the utter