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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
ALMOST COVERED WITH
PIMPLES AND BLACKHEADS

Atchison, Kan.-"For a number Of
years I suffered very greatly from skin
eruption. My face was very red and
irritated, being almost covered with
piHlples and b~lackheads. The pimples
were scattered over my face. They
were a fine rash with the exception Of
q few large pimples on my forehead
and chin. My face burned and looked
red as if exposed to either heat or
cold. 1t was not only u~nsightly but
very uncomfortable. I tried several
remedies but couldn't get any relief.
1 wal recommended to use Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment.
II applied the Cuticura Ointment in
the evening, leaving Il for about five
minutes, then washing 1t off with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. wash
ed with the Cuticura Soap and hot wa
ter also several times during the day.
After about four months of this appli.
cation, my face was cleared Of the
pimples. l still use the Cuticura
Soap" (Signed) Miss Elsie Nelson,
Dec. 20, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept. L. Boston"
ADV
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Effective Elnaer Prints.

Finger prints Of newborn babes, it
has been demonstrated, will serve to
identify them through life. The Sur
vey approves the offer by the Men and
Religion Movement in this city, acting
on Capt. Joseph A. Faurot's sugges-
ton, to persuade all men Of the
churches, and, In fact, all residents, to
place the impressions of their fingers
in the records Of the police depart
ment. 1t is important for the inno-
cent, as well as for the guilty, that a
method be employed to ascertain
whether they have ever been under
arrest. There is nothing inherently
d~isgraceful in a tingerprint record,
any more than in a personal signature
York Tribune. 4
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GOT RICH IN
THREE YEARS
EXPERIENCES OF A BRITISH I'M
MIGRANT IN cANADA-WEsT.

. The following straightforward state
ment needs no comment to add to
its force and effect. 1t appears in a
recent issue of the Liverpool Mer-
curry.
H. Patterson, of Nutana, Saskatche-
wan, Canada, when he arrived from
Liverpool, had six Of us to support"
to use his own phraseology, and his
funds were getting low. He secured
a homestead 80 miles out from Sun
durn, and started living on 1t April
10. 1907. The previous fall he put all
his money, $1S7, into a shack and lot,
making sure of a home. AS cook and
caterer in a local hotel he made SIS
a month, and out of this had some
savings out Of which he paid his
breaking and improvements on the
homestead. The shack was sold to
good advantage. Then MI. Patterson
tells the story after he had removed
his family to the homestead:
For the first month life was so
strange and e that 1 hadn't time to
think of anything, only fixing up our
new home. / was SO green to farm
life that l didn't know the difference
between wheat and oats q do now!
Between working out, cropping my
place, and with my gun, we managed
to live comfortably for the three
years, which time was required to put
in my duties. l had accumulated
quite a stock of horses, COWS, pigs,
fowls, and machinery in the three
years.
I'm October, 1909, l secured my pat
ent to my land. so took a few days
holidays to Saskatoon to locate a
purchased homestead (viz., 12s. per
acre. from the Government. Instead
of getting the purchased homestead,
I secured a half section (32O acres)
on the Saskatchewan River for $25
per acre on easy terms, nine years
payments with a cash payment of
$1,000. I mortgaged my first home
stead, obtained chattel mortgages on
my stock, and on December gath,
1909, took possession; on June 10,
1910, I sold out again for $40 per acre,
clearing, besides my crop GAO acres),
$4,000. l also sold my first home
stead, clearing $1,000 and two Saska-
toon town lots, which we value at
$1,000 each today. We placed all our
capital in another farm (river 'front.'
age) and some trackage lots (60), also
a purchased homestead (river front
age). l remained as Manager of the
Farm I had sold on a three years.
contract at a fine salary and house,
garden, and numerous privileges.
$50 by the time my three years have
expired, with my investments and the
increased value of my frontage and
lots, l am hoping to have a clear
profit on my $137 investment of
$4,000. My land doesn't eat any
thing, and 1t is nearly all paid for. /
hold a good position (and securely
Adv. .'.
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To Decorate a Bald Head.

MY husband" writes Mrs. Pezozzle
to the c%haperon, was quite bald when
l married him, although otherwise per-
fectly good. I first washed his head
with a cleansing solution and a stiff
brush; then I sandpapered it, starting
with the rough paper and using each
grade down to the finest. After that
| rubbed it at intervals with my bare
hand for several days and now 1t is
lovely. 1t has all the dull rich finish
SO much admired and the natural
grain shows beautifully."-Kansas
City Star.
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kept near the center Of the table. II
a cloth has been spread over the Ia
BILE, the audience can plainly see that
there is no possibility of the doll dis
appearing through a trap door In the
table. When the ends of the cord
have been brought around to the top,
the cabinet can be rested upon the
edge Of the table without arousing the
suspicious of the audience, for they
have e e the cord passed around all
sides; this is the time for the assist
ant to act quickly. He must reach
out from his position under the table
Gig. u, withdraw the locking pin e
Zig. AZ, turn the pivoted end Of the
cabinet, pull out the doll, and then
close and lock the pivoted end. In the
professional trick, the occupant of the
cabinet escapes similarly through a
trap-door in the stage floor, after the
cabinet has been tied up and stood up
on the floor. The cabinet should now
be placed inside of a small bag, a
wand passed around 1t and a few
magic words spoken; then it should be
taken from the bag, united, and the
empty interior exposed to the view
of the audience. After making the doll
disappear. you can bring it back into
the cabinet by having the assistant re-
place 1t in the same way that he re.
moved 1t, while the magician is tying
the cord around it; and by preparing
two cabinets, it is a simple trick to
make the doll pass fromeone cabinet
to the other, and back again.
Copyright, 1912, by A.. Nicely Hall.)
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made out of a box about 6 inches
deep, Z inches wide, and IL inches
long. Remove one end of the box, be-
ing careful hot to split it in doing so,
and pivot it between the sides as
shown at A Gigs. 3 and AZ, driving a
brad through each side into the cen
ter Of each end edge. This piece must
be carefully placed so 1t will swing up
into its former position in the end Of
the box, without showing any indica-
ton of being pivoted. A nail-head
should be driven in each side of pivot
nail A, as at B figs. 8 and Al, to give
the appearance of a solidly fastened
end. 1t may be necessary to plane off
a trifie Of the back edge of the end
piece to make it turn easily. To pro-
vide for locking the end SO 1t will not
turn, make a small hole through the
back of the box &c, Fig, Al and in the
back edge of the end piece CD, and
push a small brad into these holes
for q locking pin (E). Hinge on the
cover Of the box with strips OF leath-
er, and the constructive part Of the
work will be finished.
The doll used In the trick must have
a small enough head and body to slip
through the e opening in the end
Of the cabinet. Line the inside Of the
cabinet with cloth of a bright color,
gathering 1t around the edge and stuff
f1ng In a little cotton or cloth under
meath to give 1t a soft padded appear
ance.
The boy magician needs an assist
ant for this trick, who must be con-
cealed either underneath a table by
al Of a drapery fastened around
the legs, or in the box of a table made
out Of a packing-case similar to that
shown In Fig. /. The cabinet must
first be turned around so the audience
may inspect all sides. then the doll
must be placed within, the cover
closed, and the cabinet tied with a
heavy cord. Upon the tying Of this
cord much of the success OF the trick
depends, for with a cord passed around
the box both lengthwise and cross
wise, it will appear to the audience
impossible for any portion Of the box
to open. However, you will see by
Fig. 4 that the piyoted end opens very
easily when the cord tied lengthwise
.of the cabinet comes Just to NJ side
or the center OF that end.
While passing the twine around the
sides and ends, the cabinet should be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

museum bird groups, he returned from
Colombia recently.
Just before Prof. Andrews started
on his scouting expedition after the
Corean tiger, the writer asked him
what he feared most in v~enturing into
a totally unknown, unexplored region.
Was 1t fever. or accident or hostile
natives. or all those things combined?
The only thing l ever worry
about" replied Prof. Andrews, "is
whether l will get enough to eat or
not. On an expedition where you are
travelling alone with just the smallest
number of servants and going into a
region that you know nothing about,
you can take only a limited amount of
food. For the rest you have to rely on
tho country.
IF you can't kill enough game or
catch enough fish, or find food in some
way, you're going to starve. If you
have plenty to eat, you needn't worry
about anything else. Broken legs,
sickness, hostile natives and SO on
will come your way If it's down in the
books that they're going to. But, no
matter what else happens, you abso-
lutely must have plenty Of grub. If
you don't, then you've got something
big to worry about"
But whether a scout Of science helps
the staggering dogs to draw the
sledge over snowy wastes or whether
he cuts his way through the jungles
of Java, the Moluccas or the Carolines,
he is always meeting some other
white man. Stefansson and Ander-
son encountered lone men Of the
Royal Mounted Police north Of the
most northerly forts Of the Hudson's
Bay company.
So 1t Is that on every world end
steamer they are likely to find some
one they know or who knows some
one they have met. Therefore, lone
ly as their lives are, they no sooner
set foot across the threshold of civil
ization again than they begin to pick
up the threads of gossip and ad-
venture of others Just where they
dropped them two or three or five
years back.
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at tnOse umeS, n SalQ CndL l OugnC 10
have an operation. Iwould not listen to
that, and when a friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, / was willing to take it.
Now l look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. / can do my own homework,
hoe my garden, and milk a cow. / can
entertain company and enjoy them. l
can visit when / choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. / wish I could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, Ill.-ttI have taken Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case of female trouble
and It made me a well woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said I must have an operation, and was
ready to go to the hospital, but dreadedit
so that I began taking your Compound.
/ got along so well that I gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
ton. Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R. r.
No. 3, MurrayVille, iii.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
THE DISAPPEARING DOLL TRICK
FOR THE BOY MAGICIAN.

Every boy is greatly interested in
conjuring, but today there is such a
variety of things to keep him busy
that he hasn't the time to give up to
this subject that he would have had
a few years ago when there yer few
er pastimes for boys. In the same way
that W. pastimes are occupying
the attention of boys, later novelties
In entertainment are crowding out
stage magic. But magical stunts are
about the simplest acts to prepare for
a boys show, and they are always
greatly appreciated by an audience, 80
they should occupy a prominent place
upon the program.
1t Is not my intention at present to
60 into the subject of conjuring be-
yond the point Of describing how to
make and operate the apparatus for a
very unique stunt THE Disappearing
Doll" This trick is a modification of
n Of the so-called cabinet" tricks,
which is extremely simple to carry out
and always mystifying to an audi
ence.
In the professional act, the magician
places a woman inside of a cabinet
that stands upon a table, after hav-
ing exposed all sides of the cabinet to
view of the audience, then he closes
the front, binds the cabinet length
wise with heavy rope, sets 1t down up
on the floor, and places 1t inside of a
sack which he ties. Then after the
use of his wand and the ~utterance Of
some words Of magic, the operations
are reversed, the cabinet is removed
from the sack, the ropes are cut, the
front is opened, and behold! the lady
occupant has vanished.
You will understand this trick when
! explain our disappearing doll stunt,
which 10 carried out In the same way
but on q small scale. Fig. 2 shows the
completed cabinet. This should be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Alphabetically Speaktno,

Among a recent batch of candidates
for appointment to the police force of
Washington vas a big darkey, evident
ly of rural origin, who announced his
readiness to stand examination.
Are you a native of this city?' he
was asked.
mo, sub. I am from the first state
in the Union"
"a New Yorker?"
mo, sub. am from Alabama!"
Alabama is not the first state in
the Union, as the saying goes" re-
sponded the examiner.
Alphabetically speaking 1t is, subj"
said the candidate with conviction.
Alphabetically speaking"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
IN LONELY CORNERS
Scouts Of Science Seek Strange
Places of the Earth.
American Institutions Spend Vast
Sums In Exploration and Send
Their Men to the Darkest
Spots of the Globe.

New York.-Up on the fifth or Office
floor of the American Museum OF
Natural History, just opposite the ele.
vators, is q bulletin board, on which
r painted fifty or sixty names OF
persons actively connected with the
institution, all of them we'll known
and many of them famous through
out the scientific world. Opposite
each name is a little movable block
of wood which shows whether the
owned is in or out.
Inquiry d~iscloses that some of the
outs are not far away, but that
many of them have been absent a
long time; that they are in the lonely
corners of the earsh and that they
are not likely to be in for another
year or two. These scouts of science
come and go at long intervals, but
there are SO many of them connected
with the museum that every month
or so some one marks his departure
or arrival on the board.
AS a matter of fact such institu-
tons as the American Museum of Nat
ural History, the Field Museum in.
Chicago, the National Museum at
Washington, and various European
institutions are doing the largest
share. of the geographic exploration
of the earth just at present. The
plan that each follows is usually the
same.
First they send out one mar alone,
or two together, to penetrate some
remote region about which nothing is
known. This is really a scientific
scouting party. The instructions are
to move as quickly as possible, but
to make a thorough survey of the
scientific possibilities of the country.
When the scouts come back and re-
port then a large expedition Is fitted
out, arrangements being made for it
to stay in the field several years. The
scouts do not accompany this ex-
petition. They are or on another
reconnaissance in some other distant
part of the world.
Within the last year or so, for in
stance, the Museum of Natural His
tory sent E. O. Hovey to the West In
dies and thence to the Chihuahua dis
trict Of Mexico to study volcanoes. 1t
sent Henry e. Champion on three ex-
petitions to Tahiti and the South Sea
islands, and later to British Guiana
and Mount Roraima. Frank M. Chap
nan has covered more than $4,000
miles in collecting materials for the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
AZ others See lie.

He came into the car with swag-
ger, took the only vacant seat with
outward manifestations Of his belief in
his own Importance. kicking the big
yellow valise belonging to the mapping
old woman next to him aside to make
way for his tan-shod feet. The owner
did not notice this. but when aroused
at F~ifty-second street, she fumbled
about his left foot with her hand, try
ing to lift It, only to exclaim with
much embarrassment: aAch, Ex-
Goose me, but 1t look Just like mine
bag"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
A Husband in Jest,

Solicitor (endeavoring to discover
clients legal status)-But, madam,
how long is it since you heard from
your husband?
Client-Well, yer see, e left me the
day e was married, and truth is, /
amt card nothin' Of i'm since, nor
wanted; least ways, / did ear casual
like that e were dead, but it may be
only is fun.-Punch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Useful Memorial Given state.

A mountain as a memorial to Gen.
eral Hartman, governor Of New
Hampshire from 1857 to 1868, has been
given to the state by his s~onin-law,
Joseph Lesson, to be known as tho
Walter Hartman reservation, includes
Stewart Mink hill, 1900 feet high, and
an extensive tract Of land around 1t.
The summit Of the hill has a fifty mile
view of the White mountain scenery,
and the slopes are covered with pic
turesque timber growths and mead
ows. The state will utilize the reser-
walton for the study and teaching Of
forestry 1t will be open to the pub
lie al a park.-Magazine of American
History.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Mans inconsistency.

You have attained fortune and are
enabled to live at ease, surrounded by
every luxury"
Yes replied the successful citia
zen: "and yet / have to miss a lot OF
pleasure. I'm terribly disappointed
because ! won't have time to sneak of
at daybreak with a sandwich in my
pocket and wade waist deep in q
mountain stream suspected Of com
tanning trout"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Very Likely.

Congressman Henry decried mer-
cenary marriages in Waco.
"Only the love match" he said, Tin
sures beautiful and vigorous children.
Hence I advocate the love match, and
l sympathize heartily with a New York
heiress to whom an elderly earl pro-
posed.
THE earl, gray, poverty-stricken
and decrepit, said to the beautiful
young girl:
Dear lady, l love you more than
words can tell"
She wrinkled up her pretty nose.
"But l suppose you could tell me
in figures she said, coldly."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Test Far Beneath His Capacity.

The young son of a lawyer who
lives out south has just made his
first appearance at kindergarten. The
other day the teacher asked the chill
dren to look over, the room and any
who could count, to rise and tell her
the number of children in the room.
The young South slider arose, and
looking about over the heads, remark
ed with great aplomb:
Huh! Icain't count these children,
because I can count to a hundred,
and there amt that many here
Kansas City Star.
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important to Mothers
rokxo,s Elrst skx scraner.

With the completion of a seven
story building, Tokyo is able to boast
of the first ~skyscraper in its history.
The structure, begun in January.
1910, was but recently completed. 1t
is considered fire and earthquake
proof. 1t was designed for Offices.
and is especially noteworthy because
it is probably the highest of It's kind
in the far east.
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lSJEEl5xI9N
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
in time. Sold by Druggists.
Safe BETTING.


Little Andrew had been repeatedly
urged to hasten his dressing. Sudden
ly he knelt, crossed and clasped his
hands like a pictured angel and voiced
this earnest petition:
"Oh, God, don't let me dawdle. Or,
God, keep me from dawdling. But if
you want to, oh, God, make my
mother reconciled to my being slow!"
There, mamma" he exclaimed, ris-
ing, 1--WE done my best, haven't 1!
Course, if God chooses to keep me
from dawdling he will, and If he don't
I can't help it. But" with a sudden,
joyous energy, "Ill bet you a dollar
I'll be just as slow tomorrow as to-
day"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Final and Fatal Question.

Bobby was in an especially trying
mood, and had asked so many ques-
tions as to bring upon himself stern
parental command to be silent. BY
and by, however, he SO humbly solicit
ed permission to speak that this was
reluctantly granted. And this was the
time when poor Bobby put his foot
into it with a vengeance.
II only wanted to ask" he said.
meekly, what made your hair all
come out, papa? Will l lose mine,
too, when it's ripe?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
THINKING It over.

Some of the old Egyptians wor-
SHIPPED animals
Well" replied Farmer Corntossel,
thoughtfully, "if l had a hen that laid
the year round or a. COW that wouldn't
go dry, Of course / wouldn't worship
'em. But l surely would show 'em q
heaps of respectful consideration"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
uses for DandeIIon..

Dandelions, says a writer in the
Country Gentleman, can be used for
many appetizing dishes. and from
them can be made also a kind OF
dandelion shrub a dandelion 'cof-
fee and dandelion preserves. Thay
may also be canned and kept for use
in seasons when suggestions Of spring
will be welcome.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

What did the bankers bride wear
at the m~eeting?"
"Oh, some check goods"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
Negative Evidence.

Il hear the gentleman who Is visit
Ing your daughter is a coming man."
He must be. for he is certainly not
a going one"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

Airs. Winslow's Soothing syrup f6r Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma-
ton. sllays pain, cures wind collie, CSC a bottle.
A6y. "
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

And every man who owns d dog
thinks the animal has more sense
than his neighbor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

or five days at a time
month, and SO
l could hardly
walk. Icramped and
had backache and
headache, and was
SO nervous and weak
that / dreaded to see
anyone or have any
M moveint heroom
The doctors gave me
medicine to ease me
" A. III
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

His Job.
What is Jaggs doing now?"
Everybody he can"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

A mar isn't far from right when
he's willing to admit that he is in the
wrong.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

Many a bewhiskered man has been
known to tell barefaced lies,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31
a CURE FoR PILES.

Giles CarbolisaIve stops itching and pain
and cures piles. All druggists. Is and soc. Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-31

Mr.. Beetle-At the inquest of Mr..
Bundle Bee they called in several
ireflies.
Willie Bug-Well, I suppose they
wanted more light on the subject.