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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

Complete stock of school books
and school supplies at Lopez
Store Co.'s.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

NoTE-The precipitation includes
rain, hail, sleet and melted snow
and is recorded in inches and hum
dredths. Ten inches Of snow equal
one inch of rain. "T" indicates
trace of precipitation.
w. H. DELANo, Observer.
See A. Rieke & Son before buy
ing your Sewing Machine.
want to buy eight or ten young
mules-not less than three years
old. THos. d. JONES,
Ir%onton, Mo.
Remember Al. Rieke & Son sell
furniture on time payments.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

Crows lumber yard for lumber
lath, shingles, lime, cement, plaster
sash, doors, rootfngs, brick,
mouldings and things.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

Lard, my own make, lilo a Id.
F.. o. CODDlNG,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14
Weather Report.

Meteorological report of volun-
tary Observer at Ironton, Iron
county, Mo-, for the week ending
Tuesday, September IL. 1911:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

Young pigs for sale; in fine
shape. Alsoa few brood sows.
George Stark, Arcadia, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14

Go to A. Rieke & Son for Car
pets and Rugs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14
Immense Underwear Stock!

VIE New Underwear for Ladies, Children and Men
has all been received. Union Suits and Sepa-
rate Garments in Cotton and Wool, to fit everybody.
Buy Early, while Stocks and Sizes are Complete.
The herald., 1911-03-09
PRINCE AS BANK WRECKER
Close the coutts Institution by
Trick That Didn't Work.

The Gentlewoman OF London recalls
the following story of the prince re-
gent and Coutts' bank: When George
w. was a regent he had a grudge
against Coutts' and determined to play
a trick on the authorities. In those
days even the great banks kept very
small reserves Of cash and the playful
prince thought out a plan to close
Coutts'. So he sent his equerry round
from Carlton house with a check for
100000, fondly hoping that the bank
would not be able to pay over the
counter. The princes trick. however,
failed OF success, as the wary old part
ner of the Strand bank proved equal
to the occasion. He said at once to
the equerry: How will his royal high
ness take the amount, In gold or
notes?" The equerry hesitated. and
then said he had better go back to
Carlton house to inquire. So he de-
parted, and Coutts' had time to send
to the Bank of England and get the
cash required, but 1t was not needed,
as the prince regent seeing that
Coutts' had got the better of him. did
not return the check in question.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Prayer Ten Centuries Old.

Among the documents and manu-
scripts taken by the Pelliot Mission
of France from a cave In Chinese
Turkestan, where they had lain dur
ing ten centuries, is a curious manu-
script recorded by the French Acad-
envy Of Sciences. The manuscript 10
In one of the Oldest known Hebrew
texts. 1t is a prayer formed Of pas
sages taken from the Psalms and
from the prophets, written In beauti-
full square Hebrew, with a very rudi-
mentary system of vocalization. Evil
IDENTIFY the manuscript was carried on
the person of the man who owned II.
Hebrew scholars believe that the doc
ument dates from the eighth or ninth
century of the Christian era; and that
1t belonged to a pious Jewish mer-
chant of Arabia. No such paper was
known in Arabia In either the eighth
or the ninth century, therefore 1t is
supposed that the manuscript was
Transcribed for its owner when he was
In China, where such paper was to be
found.-Harper's Weekly.
The herald., 1911-03-09
FAMILY BIBLE OBS0LEScENT
Publisher Says the Trade In That
Once Popular Form Of the Sacred
Book 10 Dying Out.

A Philadelphia publishing house
that makes a specially Of the sacred
book says the family Bible trade Is
languishing. The Bible continues to
be the best seller, but It Is no longer
the immense volume that stood on
the parlor center table, and contained
marvellous steel engravings of the tow
er OF Babel and the fall of Nineveh
and had room for all the family rec
ords. The thing now is a thin paper
student edition with flexible covers,
concordance and notes and all suited
to the overcoat pocket 1t hasn't room
for any family history. but 1t can be
introduced into stingy city fat with
out crowding the family.
The passing Of the family Bible Is
significant of an interesting change
in the keeping Of vital statistics. Rec
ords Of births, deaths and marriages
have ceased to be a family and be-
come a state function. 1t is done bet
ter and more completely than In the
old days and the records are more
useful to the public. That fact need
not prevent our dropping Q tear at
the passing of an old cherished insti.
tution.-Success Magazine.
The herald., 1911-03-09
RUNNING GREAT STEAMSHIPS
immense Modern Liners Of $4,000
Tons Have Automatic Machinery
ControlId by Single Hand.

In the hands of skllful marine
architect much more has been accom-
piished with steel struction than the
mere economy OF space. The safety OF
vessels at sea has been enormously IN
creased, until In the highest type Of
modern ocean liners the element OF
danger is virtually eliminated. The
marvellous ingenuity displayed through
out this great fabric Of steel in gard
ing against every possible contingency
OF the sea comes to the average lands
man as a surprise. A great liner OF
$4,000 tons may be controlled by SIN
gle hand. The complicated machinery
TOR safeguarding the ship Is practically
automatic
The bottom OF the great hull OF the
liner is doubled. the inner shell being
strong enough to float the ship even II
the outer hull be completely torn
away. 1t is exceedingly unlikely that
water would ever reach this inner
shell through accident TO the main
hull, but the precaution is taken so
that II once In a thousand trips the
ship should strike a hidden object 1t
will prove absolutely invulnerable.
The shipwrecks of the past caused by
running upon hidden rocks. derelicts
and icebergs are thus completely elm
inated.-Cassier's Magazine.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Ruffs and Reeves.

A nurse told a child of mine some
time before the middle of the COS of
the last century, that her mother had
seen fairies dancing on Brumby Com
mon In the northwest of Lincolnshire.
near the Trent. says a writer in Notes
and Queries. When this fanciful
story was repeated to me / had no
difficulty In supplying its interpreta-
ton. The woman had assuredly not
told wilful fslsehood, but what she
had seen. and felt sure were fairies.
were rufus and reeves dancing on a
dry hillock In solitary place, where
they were almost sure to be free from
interruption. They have, / believe,
often been seen engaged in this sport:
but now these beautiful and interest
ing birds are almost II not entirely
extinct, though they were common be-
fore the days Of the great Enclosures,
when there was long stretch of un,
cultivated land on the eastern bank
Of the Trent, which wild birds and
mammals had nearly to themselves.
The herald., 1911-03-09
NATURES WONDERFUL COLOR
Their Shades and TInts Never. Yet
Have Been Duplicated by the
Manufacturers Of Paints.

Nature paints In the most striking
eolors and shades and tints with a
delicacy never achieved by the brush
In the hands of the artist The high
est ambition of the manufacturer Of
paints is to produce colors which look
like natures. They have never sue
ceeded. Grass has a green of its own.
So has the leaf and so has the distant
ocean. None of these has ever been
reproduced. and put in cans with a
price label on them.
Honor awaits the man who can COM
bine colors to produce the tints Of red
of the Baldwin and Northern Spy.
They come pretty near It, that is all
The same is true of the colors with
which october first touches the maple
leaf.
II all the paint grinding works In the
world were multiplied 10000 times
they couldn't turn out pigment enough
In a year to do what nature does In a
change from season to season.
Natures brush Is busy everywhere
all the time. In the life Of a leaf II
applies the brush day by day, follow
ing with its tints from budding time
until 1t flutters from the branch. N
touches the valleys and the hills, the
growing grains, the Towering plants.
Never is it idle.
The herald., 1911-03-09
INDIANS AND THEIR DEAD
How the Hopls and Navajos Bury tho
Deceased and Provide for
Their Souls.

The Hopi Indian believes that the
souls of all deceased adults go to the
Grand Canon. When a man dies a
grave is dug. The nearest relative OF
the deceased carries the body to the
grave, places II In a sitting posture
facing the Grand Canon, erects a long
pole between the legs, locks the dead
mans fingers around 1t and fills the
grave To the top of the pole, pro-
truding above the ground, he ties one
end of a string and leads the other
end in the direction of the Grand
Canon. At the end of four days 1t Is
believed the soul leaves the body.
climbs the pole, and with the string
to guide 1t goes to its eternal home
in the canon.
The Navajos, on the contrary, are
very superstitious about handling
dead bodies. They believe that the
evil spirit that kills the person hovers
around the hogan. as they call their
lodge. awaiting other victims. and a
hogan In which a death occurs Is
never occupied again. Navajo hogans
are always built with the entrance
facing the east When death occurs
in one of them an opening is invari-
ably made in the north side. There
fore, when one sees a hogan with the
north side knocked out he may be
certain someone has died in tt
Outing.
The herald., 1911-03-09
The LATEST People,

There is no doubt that the Malay IL
one of the LATEST people in the world.
Except in rare cases they will not
take the trouble to learn when they
are young. and afterward. IL they
have learned, they will not exert them
selves to apply their knowledge to any
object which requires a sustained ef-
fort. That they possess energy Is
known to anyone who has seen Malays
engaged in any enterprise which
savors Of sport They do not mind the
trouble II there is only some risk and
excitement In the work.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Forqet II!

Every one ought to make " a life
rule to wipe out from his memory
everything that has been unpleasant,
unfortunate. says Orison SWEET Mar
den in Success Magazine. We ought to
forget everything that has kept us
back. has made us suffer, has been dis
agreeable, and never allow the hide
Gus pictures of distressing conditions
to enter our minds again. There is
only one thing TO do with a disagree
able. harmful experience. and that L.
forget it,
The herald., 1911-03-09
Happenings In January.

January has the credit OF an event
which has changed the worlds history
and which happened in our own coun-
try. Gold was discovered In Califor'
MIA January IA. 1S4S. Seven years
later. on January q. 1855, the Pana-
ma railroad was opened and got its
share of the gold Of the returning Call
fornians and the gold seekers who had
money enough for travel by that
route And the first telegraph was es'
tablished January 6. 1874. and the first
penny post and postage stamps in the
world cane into being In England JAN
vary 10, 1870.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Certain Americans Abroad.

There are Americans who live
abroad and speak Of their native land
IN shameful whispers. Another kind
Is an explainer. He becomes fretful
and involved in the attempt to make
It clear to some Englishman with a
cold and fishlike eye that. as a mat.
ter Of fact, the lynchings are scat.
tered over large territory, and Tam.
many has nothing whatever to do with
the United States senate. and the
millionaire does not crawl into the
presence Of his wife and daughters.
and Morgan never can be king, and
citizens of st. Louis are not In dan.
ger of being hooked by moose. After
he gets through the Englishman says,
Really" and the painful incident Is
closed.-George AIDE in Century.
The herald., 1911-03-09
The Harshness Of Napoleon.

In the service and in the inter.
course with his officers he was cold.
almost repellant, severe and infiexibly
Just. One day. Gen. Guvion Saint-Cyr,
afterwards marshal, appeared at the
emperor's morning audience at the
Tuileries. Napoleon said quietly to
him: "You come from Naples, gener-
al?" Yes, sire, relinquished my COM
mand to Marshal Perignon, whom your
majesty sent to relieve me-" And
no doubt you have leave Of absence
from the minister Of war;" mo, your
majesty; but had nothing else to do
In Naples" unless you are on your
way to Naples within two hours. you
will be shot on the plain of Grenelle
at IL o'clock precisely" said the en-
peror. returning his watch to his
pocket-Kielland. "Napoleon's Men
and Methods"
The herald., 1911-03-09
SELECT AMERICAN ARTISTS
They Are the Best Ones TO Paint Por-
traits Of Americans, as General
Sheridan Discovered.

Americans are learning that the men
to paint portraits OF Americans are
American portrait painters, although
the number OF foreigners who come
over here and succeed in getting com.
missions, mainly through dealers who
exploit them shows no signs of dimin-
ishing. 1t is being borne in on the
minds Of the sitters and their FAINT
lies, however. that the artist OF an
other people is likely to make his sit
ter look like type OF his own land.
rather than OF the sitter's land. They
are beginning to realize that the old
portraits which they admire were
painted mainly by artists OF the same
blood as their sitters. A sculptor COM
menting on the matter recently said:
Some people learn that very quick.
ly, but the others have slow eyes. Yet
to show you that It does not at all
take an artist to perceive It. let me
tell you what Gen. Phil Sheridan said
to me. ! was going to make bust Of
him. Said he:
I've been painted. II seems to me,
by everybody, and what have they
done to me? I've been painted by an
Italian and he made me look like an
Italian. I've been painted by a Ger,
men and he made me look like a Ger
man. | was painted by Jew and he
made me look like an Israelite. Now
do L?
You see, the general learned the
lesson Quickly-but maybe that's why
he was a general"
The herald., 1911-03-09
REFUSED TO- CUT HIS RATES
Kentucky Livery Stable Proprietor
Wouldn't Rent Rig to Any Man
for Less Than a Quarter.

William d. Campbell is a business
man through and through. Coupled
with his business instincts is horror
Of being charged extortionate prices
by country livery stables.
He stopped one day in a small town
In Kentucky and concluded that he
would like to take a drive. He also
made the mental reservation that he
would pay no unreasonable price for
the horse and buggy. Look here!" he
said to the owner Of the livery stable.
the only one In town. 81 want to take
a little drive; but am not a drummer,
and am not a millionaire. I want that
drive; but think you might make a
reasonable arrangement about the
price of the rig. Understand that
clearly"
This amt no cut-rate town In the
livery business" responded the pro-
prietor. Il won't cut rates for no
body"
That sounded threatening to Camp
bell; but he thought he would take .
chance and inquire the amount Of the
charges. WELL" he said soothingly,
what do you think is fair charge for
an hours driver
The proprietor looked him over
carefully. Il tell you, stranger" he
said hesitatingly. as II doubling wheth-
Or Campbell would come across with
the figure named, 81 won't hitch up
for no man for less than a quarter!
Sunday Magazine.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Now Machinery Breathes.

An English writer on engineering
subjects, Mervyn O'Gorman, calls at
tention to the fact that piece of ma
chinery, such as an automobile, laid
aside after being used. is in danger OF
internal rusting through a kind Of
respiration which affects cylinders,
gear boxes, clutch chambers. inter
spaces in ball bearings. and so forth
Every inclosed air space breaches"
by drawing in air when a fall OF tenn
perature contracts Its walls, and ex-
pelling 1t when the walls expand
through hea. The moisture intro
duced with the air is deposited in the
cavities, and may produce serious
damage through rust. The popular
belief that oil will protect the mac
cessible parts Of unused machinery Is
fallacious, since nearly all oils take
up about three per cent. of water in
solution.-Youth's Companion.
The herald., 1911-03-09
FIRST OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS
IL Was Published In Queen Anne,s
Reign and John Harris Was Its
'onIle Begetter."

Encyclopedias are an English in.
vention. I hasten to add that thew
owe great deal of their early and
later development to Scottish brains.
Inc earliest true encyclopedia was
published In the second year of Queen
Anne. John Harris, the "onlie be-
getter" of this remarkable work wa.
born In the year of the great fire OF
London, and Shropshire piously
claims that he was Shropshire lad.
He passed through Oxford to the
vicarage Of Ickleham, Sussex, to
which he added the care of Winchel.
sea parish. London preferments fol-
lowed, and Fellowship of the Royal
Society, and good deal of London
religious controversy. For the rest
we know that Harris lived In a house
In Amen Corner. and that he there re-
ceived and boarded pupils. We know
also that he gave free lectures In
mathematics at the Marine Coffee
House In Birchin Lane. The Marine
Coffee House has not been much no
tlced by London topographers. Mr..
II. b. Wheatley has unearthed a curl
Gus advertisement proclaiming that
water cruel was to be had there every
morning from six to eleven o'clock.
The announcement proceeds: TITS
not yet generally known: but there
comes such company as drinks usual
ly four or five gallons In a morning"
John o London in T. P's Weekly,
London.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Beinq In Debt.

There is a restaurant in New York
where the walters do their level best
to make old customers sign checks
for meals instead Of paying cash. The
moment a customer hesitates at sight
of the total. or evinces a tendency to
count the money In his pocket and
sigh, waiter is sure to shove a pencil
into his hand and actually coax him to
hang up" the check.
why, of course you ought to sign
checks" is'the way one of the temp.
tiers put 1t the other day; nobody
amounts to anything In New York TIL
he owes something"
The herald., 1911-03-09
Safe That EIoats

A buoyant safe that In clse Of dis
aster will float to the surface as the
ship equipped with 1t sinks. has been
devised by four mechanics in the navy
yard at Bremerton. Wash. The safe
consists of a large cylinder of steel
which Is divided into two compart-
ments, the lower one being an air
chamber and the lower fitted as a re-
ceptacle for money and papers.
The herald., 1911-03-09
THE HERALD
The First Cowboys

Cowboy" was once a sinister word
In American politics. In the Revolu
tionary war the cowboys" were a
set of Tories in Westchester county.
New York, popularity so-called because
OF the brutal roughness with which
they treated their Wig or rebel
neighbors. It was. no doubt. in
memory Of them that the name OF
cowboys" was given in 1861. to Ger.
tain people in Connecticut and other
parts of New England who were al.
most secessionists
The herald., 1911-03-09
When to Go Home,

When tired out go home. When you
want consolation go home. When
you want to show others that you
have reformed go home and let your
family get acquainted with the fact
When you want to show yourself at
your best go home and do the act
there. When you feel like being ex-
ira liberal go home and practice on
your wife and children first. When
you want to shine with unusual bril-
liancy go home and light up the whole
household.-Good Housekeeping Mag
azine.
The herald., 1911-03-09
That Did II.

"The hardest audience in the world
to play to is an audience of typical
flrst-nighters." said the theatrical
manager. The first-nighters are most
ly deadheads, and those who pay
their way IRE Of the blase type, hard
to enthuse. / have in mind one man
In particular who never misses a
first night, and who, to hear him talk,
gets about as much enjoyment out of
1t as he would out of an attack Of
mumps. / put on a comedy last sea-
son that was one of the big money
makers of the year. The first-night
audience regarded 1t as mourners at.
tending the obsequies of a dear de-
parted. / met this particular one
speak Of In the lobby after the per
Torrance.
We'll. what did you think Of it?'
said. Pretty funny, chr
lone of the funniest things I ever
saw he admitted. In fact, It was SO
funny l had to read the jokes on the
program to keep from laughing"
The herald., 1911-03-09
Treasure Added to Art World.


The lost Velasquez, discovered late
ly to the Castle of Schwartzau, near
Steinfeld, Austria, has been identified
as the Fraga portrait, painted in 1914,
which It had been supposed had per.
ished. 1t is now in London, where 1t
is to be exhibited shortly at the rooms
Of the Agnews, who bought it. The
Times of London says of 1t:
1T is a marvel of portraiture and a
marvel of color and, absolutely. un-
touched as 1t is, 1t shows at every
point the unmistakable hand of velas.
quez himself. . When this has been
done (relining and varnishing) this
portrait Of Philip Nv. will impress all
who see It as being one of the most
complete and also one Of the most at.
tractive of the pictures left to the
world by the founder of modern por.
traiture."
The herald., 1911-03-09
Know Little Of Corn's Value.

The use of Indian corn as a food
product is very limited in the United
Kingdom, and there are reasons for 1t
other. than the absence of taste. Ap-
parently the British public is not
properly enlightened as to the various
ways of preparing timed corn, corn
meal and hominy. It would seem that
little is known Of the vegetable itself,
as recipes in some English cookbooks
make very meager reference to its
preparation.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Sound Mind First.

A sound mind in sound body Is
something to which no one can take
exceptions, and the emphasis is right
fully placed. The sound mind should
come first. Quite likely the two are
in large measure interdependent, but
We must never forget that 1t is the
sound mind rather than the sound
body which has done the work of the
world.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Curse Of Unrest.

He who is in perfect peace suspects
no man; but he who is disconnected
and disturbed is tossed about with
various suspicious; he is neither at
rest himself nor does he suffer others
to rest. He often says that which he
should not say and omits that which
1t would be better for him to do. He
considers what others are bound to do
and neglects that to which he himself
Is bound.-Thomas Kempis.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Ancient and Modern Bow.

We shall hear much in the coming
years about the superiority of the
Greek attitude to life. and that In
these days men could think straight
about morals. And we shall hold the
essence Of that superiority. and un-
derstand all that we hear. by remem-
bering this-that If you told hardy
Greek boy that person was virtuous.
or an act was good. he would be at
tracted to that person or that act. but
the same modern boy would be re-
pelled.-Max Eastman. In the Atlantic
The herald., 1911-03-09
How to Mend an Egg-eeater.

Don't throw away your Dover egg
beaten just because it "skips" II 1t Is
otherwise good. Take some soft
Irvine and twist tightly around under
the head Of the screw in the center Of
the wheel, until you have enough on
TO make It run firmly. 1t may wear
OF in a week or two, but is easily re-
placed, and l have found that It pro-
longs the working life of the egg
beaten observation-disclosures Home
Companion.
The herald., 1911-03-09
Rich Man.

The richest man in our acquain.
lance Is one who, although in middle
life, has not accumulated a thousand
dollars. His character is 30 lofty and
gentle and his heart so genuinely true
that his friendship carries with it a
wonderful wealth Of helpfulness and
courage and those other qualities
which lift men into high places in
life-and these are things that money
cannot buy.