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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
ITO Pc Continued
THE TURKISH BANNER.
Romantic History of the Treasured
Standard of the HoxlemS


One of the treasures of the Muslin
world is the green banner of the caliph,
" hich has 4 curious and romantic his
tory. At a place called Josef, IN the
month of Mag. 632 \. D., more than
1850 years ago. Mohammed, the Arabian
prophet, lay sick. and said TO Osame, a
youthful son of enc of his late lieu
tenants: Lead thou the army unto
the place where thy father was killed
and destroy it utterly. 10. I make thee
commander of the army" Recovering
on the Thursday following, Mohammed
attended to his devotioEs, then with his
own hands bound upon flagstaff "A
Banner for the Army" and coEsecrated
il TO the cause Of Allah before all his
people, saying: Fight We beneath this
banner. in the name of the Lord. and
for His cause. Thus shall ye discomfort
and STAY the people that disbelieveth
III the Lord
All MUslims-a term given TO the fol-
lowers of the prophet. and used in the
same way as the word Christian-Tre-
spective of sect, are aware that the safe
keeping of the green banner of Islam.
consecrated by the prophet himself fGs
the people OF the prophet in all lands
and throughout all time, has passee
from caliph to caliph. The name caIipk
denotes title of honor to be borne by
the successors of the Sheik vi Islam.
that is, the head of MusiiTns. The title
caliph is borne by him whom the No
hammedan world, irrespective of race.
recognizes as king of kings; his sub
jects may reside in British India, On
French soil in Africa, or be spread over
the vastness of Asia-while the green
banner lies unfurled in the Yildiz Kiosk,
the sultanis church or mosque, the
worlds peace is secured. The powers of
Europe know It, and therein dwells the
secure position of Turkey.-Publ6
OpiniOn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

Tort, until gradually their meaning
seemed luminous. All, there must be
help! God could not mean that she was
to sit helpless while that great wrong
was being perpetrated. He would show
her the way.
And moment later her faith seemed
strangely justified in chance remark
of the servant who brought her supper.
That Chinaman was up for your pas
wash this afternoon the girl observed,
pauSing for brief enjoyment OF the quid
OF chewing-gum IN her mouth, as she
leisurely disposed the tray upon a table
But you was out, n so told him he
must come again"
'-Oh, yes: the Chinaman. Tell him 10
come right up. please" Dorothy ex-
claimed, ready TO clap her hands for joy
at this solution of the dilemma. Hop
Sing might be trusted with a note; 2
carrier pigeon could not be more IN
sweryingly direct in executing the
trust, nor more silent about il after
ward. She knew Hop Sing only by
sight, but this was enough to assure her
that he was the one for the mission.
In Z moment few words had been
written, conveying the warning IN sim
plest phrase. the note unsigned, but so
expressed that she felt its sincerity
could not be questioned: and then. hu--
riedly pinniDg on her hat and Selling
her purse, she few down the stairs
She could not wait for the girls mes
sage to bring the man TO her; she would
go 10 the laundry herself.
Hop Sing, squirting water through
his teeth upon pile of rough-dried
clothes heaped up on a table before
him, looked up with the mechanical
smile of his kind as the young lady APP
Peared in the doorway. You wan
washee? Fifty cent a Dozen he beam
ingly exclaimed, as she hesi;ated to ex-
plain her errand.
Il want to send note-this note
to Mr.. Neil at the Mascot mine." she
breathlessly returned. showing the en-
velope. You know Mr.. Neil?"
Hop Sing looked family puzzled, but
his smile was unchanging. You wan
Misser Neil washee?'' he jerkily ejacu-
lated, mechanically going On with his
work upon the clothes before him.
Where you tickey. eh?"
NO; oh no." she despair;ngly muir
INJURED, glancing back at the door.
Somebody might be coming in at any
moment. 1T is this note for Mr.. Neil.
I want you TO take ii TO him
Hop Sing smiled rather more broadly.
looking somewhat less like craven i'm
age. ''Misse- Neil wan waShee?
Where tickey. Ell? Loss tickey. eh?"
he chirPed, with an air of having solved
the problem. adding with I series of
little mods, while his beady eyes
frightened. heap mans lose dam tick
ey- Too thin. No go. No have ticker,
no get washee.''
Oh poor Dorothy walled in Ut
ter hOpelessRess, turning to the door.
But she would not give up; this was her
only chance. She must make him I'M
derstand- She turned with an inspira-
ton drawing 4 silver dollar from her
purse. Hop Sing looked interested. 1T
is for you-you shall have tiff you
will carry this note TO Mr.. Neil at the
Mascot mine she said, speaking very
slowly and inpressively-
There could be no question that the
dollar was almighty TO the mind of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

Don't ight windmiIls. Let US win one
issue at a time and get in position to
win the other great reforms we are
striving for. The money trust must be
downed. The way to down that trust
can be easily done by opening The mints
to silver coinage and thereby adding
twice as much new money to the circu-
lation as gold alone furnishes It viii
be twice as hard to corner two metals
as it is to corner only one. - Silver
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
Get Back to First PRINCIPLES.

The New York World intimates that
the option as to the money which may
be used in the payment of the bonded
Indebtedness is by law conferred upon
the secretary of the treasury. and con-
graduates itself that the Teadoptiora of
the Matthews resolution by the senate
will have no practical effect one way or
the other. The statement is absurdly
incorrect and misleading, and unwor-
thy of a great public journal. The OPP
ton is reserved to the government of
the United States" not to the secre-
tary of the treasury, the president or
any other executive officer. We concede
there is some justification for the World
in assuming that the secretary OF the
treasury is ''the government of the
United States" that official for the past
Is years having acted upon the pre-
sumption in the management of the ma
tion's finances, but the World should
know there is no warrant Tor it, and
that at some not very remote period,
let US hope. the country viii get back
to first principles, and the governments
affairs viii be conducted with some
reference to the constitution and the
laWA~-Los Angeles Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
An Ancient Egyptian Custom.

The ancient Egyptians. attheir grand
festivals and parties OF pleasure, always
had 4 coffin placed on the table at meals.
containing a mummy or a skeleton of
painted wood. which was presented &c
each guest with this admonition: Look
upon this and enjoy yourself; for such
will you become when Invested Of your
mortal garb. Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
That English Alliance.

There are those who would favor an
alliance between this country and Eng
land. Such an alliance would be
great political mistake Because there
is a war cloud drifting this way from
Spain there is no wisdom in joining
hands with a country that has a war
cloud drifting its way from China. The
United States is quite capable of taking
care Of Spain without the aid or consent
of any foreign nations Its true policy
is to avoid entangling alliances Eng
land has no friends in Europe. America
has no enemies there except Spain. To
form an alliance with England would
be to enstrange France and Russia, TO
offend Germany, to antagonize Austria
and to take unnulnbered troubles along
with the doubtful friendship of Eng
land. America has stood alone for the
last century. This country should stand
alone for all time. Europe is in a con-
slant state of turmoil. Each nation of
the old world is jealous of every other
nation. Peace across the Atlantic is
nothing but an armed truce. America
has enjoyed real peace It has needed
no great standing army. It should not
put itself in position to make a stand
ing army Chicago Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

The developments of the last few
weeks have shown that the overwhelm-
ing majority in the republican party is
still American. is still patriotic and
meets the full measure of American cit
izenship. But the men who have a
mortgage upon the leaders vested with
authority to act are cold, calculating.
unpatriotic. Suffering does not appeal
to them. Their ears are deaf to the calls
of humanity. Conditions have placed
the president of the United States in
their power. He is to be pitied.-Kan-
sas City Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

It seems that Japan. since she 6.'pted
the gold standard. has done nothing
but borrow money to meet Deficiencies.
She could expect nothing else in con-
tracing her volume of currency.-Sih
yer Observation-Disclosures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

It is said that 3lr. Reed can't hold
the house. Nonsensei Those who say
that don't know the republican con-
gressmen. They'll do whatever the
high fnanciers say.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14

Some day the presidents phIeg-
matte message accompanying the pite-
Gus story of the Maine disaster viii be
read with amazement that it could have
been written by an American.-St
Louis Republic.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

The New York Dsmocratic state con-
vention appears to have done the bid
ding of Boss Croker without even so
much as a protest. Having had a very
pleasant experience with one member OF
the Van Wyck family as Mayor of New
York, the said Van Wyck having always
done as he was told-Croker's first idea was
to place him in the governor chair, in the
way of reward perhaps for his obedience.
But on mature reflection it doubtless oc-
CURED to the Boss that this might EXPOSE
him to the danger of getting less SER
viceable man in the mayors chair. Then
a happy thought struck him. There were
other Van Wycks besides this one, born
of the same parents, and presumably Of
the same tractahle and obliging d1spo-
sition. Why not make one of them gov
srnor, and thus dominate state affairs
as completely as he was dominating city
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

There has been good deal of denunci-
alton heaped upon Col. Clark, President
Of the Home Market Club, for his sup
posed undoing OF the work of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce before the Quebec
commission. The Boston body, through a
committee argued before the commits.
sioners in favor of reciprocity, and the
allegation was that subsequently Col.
Clark had appeared before the commits
sioners and thrown down all their argu.
ments. 1t appears, however. that Col
Clark was misrepresented. He made an
argument in favor of continuing the
bonding privilege, and of not combining
reciprocity to natural products. Indeed
he appears to have followed pretty close
ly the lines laid down by the Chamber of
Commerce
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

affairs. When this idea took possession
of him he called together his henchmen
and notified them of his decision. So GER
tain was he that his scheme would go
through that he facetiously boasted be-
fore the convention was called to order
that Van Wyok would be the candidate.
He made no mistake. Van Wyck was
nominated on the first ballot. His order
was obeyed as promptly and with as little
protest as If he had been a military
commander and the delegates SO many
soldiers under his command. After this
performance the convention had the
hardihood to invite all believers in GOOD
government to join with them-and
make Crokerism, which is now only
city wide, state wide.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENTS.

The average New York Independent
seems to be q very peculiar person indeed.
The chief corner stone Of his creed Is
hatred of Tom Platt What Platt says
or does must be denounced, without ref
erence to Its intrinsic character. simply
because Platt says or does 1t. If Platt
has spoken we'll of a man, that Is enough
to get TIE mans name upon the INDIE
pendent's black list. IT candidate has
the support of Platt, or does not have hts
active opposition, that Is sufficient to
make them drop him, even though be-
fore the discovery that Platt did not hate
him he was one of their pets and favorites.
Theodore Roosevelt until within week
or two had always been a great favorite
with the Independents. They used to say
he was dear to their hearts, SO independ
emit and fearless had he shown himself to
be in public Office. They loved him SO
deyotedly and esteemed him SO highly that
they wanted to nominate him for COVER
nor A short time ago Mr.. Platt con-
cluded that Mr.. Roosevelt would be the
most available man the Republicans
could nominate for governor, and an
nounced himself in favor of his selection.
Mr.. Platt was moved to this conclusion,
not from any liking for Roosevelt per.
sonally or politically, but because he di s.
covered that there was great tide Of
public opinion in Roosevelt's favor rol
ling in upon him which he could not
defy without great risk OF being buried
underneath it. The moment Mr. Platt
professsd willingness to accept Roase-
yelt as the Republican candidate 1nde-
pendent admiration for him WAS chilled.
He was no longer the fearless, courageous
person he had always been before, but
"Platt's man." They were quite sure
that if elected he would go back on the
record of his lifetime and simply do
Platt's bidding without asking an. ques-
tions Mr.. Seth Low, who has been some
thing of an Independent himself, under.
took to reason with them, but it was Of
no use. Platt had supported Roosevelt
and Roosevelt could no longer be persona
grata to them. He had ceased to have
the Indispensable qualification of being
hateful to Platt.
One may reasonably question
the value of party as reforming
agency, such as the Independents claim
to be, that determines what candidates to
vote for, not by .consid ering their fitness
and capacity, but by finding ont what
Tom Platt's attitude is towards them.
Even If it were an invariable rule that
candidates whom Platt loved were bad
candidates, it would not be quite safe to
make his apparent attitude the guide of
their conduct, for he is willy old man,
and he might pretend to love candidate
when he didn't. Indeed we think this is
what he has really been doing in regard
to Roosevelt and we shouldn't wonder if
he was even now laughing in his sleeve
ut his success in getting the Independents
to help him convince Roosevelt that he
owes his nomination chiefly to Tom Platt.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
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The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

DR.. Congosto says that There are no
reconcentrados now, they are gone, God
knows WHERE The natural inference
from the Language would be that they are
dead. But the fact that he made his
statement, with smile" would seem to
afford foundation for suspicion that that
may not have been what he meant.
However, his remark relieves our govern
ment from all obligation to hunt after
them, for if God only knows where they
have gone, there would be little chance
of our finding them even with SO ex-
perienced guide as Senator Proctor.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

The story that the New York Democrats
will bring the question of Col Roose-
velt's eligibility before the courts by way
of 1nandamus TO the Secretary of State
to keep bis name off the ballot is denied,
and it was highly improbable on it's face.
If Roosevelt is Ineligible the Democrats
can turn the fact to their advantage
much better after election than before.
If he is eligible, to have that fact de-
termined by the courts of last resort be.
fore election would only strengthen him.
and this the Democrats are not likely to
seek to do.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

Admiral DeweY's report to the Presi-
dent is said to favor the retention of the
island of Luzon only, though he would
secure some guarantees from Spain for
better government of the other islands
than they have mad heretofore. AS a
commercial proposition this may be a
sound view to take, but the heather In
the 1900 other islands are just as much
entitled to conversion as those in the is
land of Luzon, and we are under no less
obligation to the former than to the latter.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

The evidence seems TO show conclusive
ly that Chaplain Mcintyre used the Ian
guage for which he is now being tried be-
fore court martial. Perhaps his defence
will be that he didn't know what he was
saying. Indeed that seems to be the
only course open to him.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

Secretary Alger says he does not know
of any difficulties between him and Gen.
Miles. Gen. Miles when he talked with
the correspondent of the Kansas City
Star appears to have known Of some.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY.

Bonds and coupons of the
Municipal Security Company,
Series ID, and coupons from
Series E, aud Series u bonds,
due October LIST. 1898, Will be
naid upon presentations, On and
after that date, at the office of
WOODBURY. & MOUkTON.
sep2s1w Municipal Security Go.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 80.

Aguinaldo has got his Republic sufi-
GENTLY established to issue formal notice
to the powers. He has got an army of
30. 600 men, too, presumably for it's de-
fence
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

1t looks as if Gov. Wolcott of Massachu-
sets was being fayorsbly considered at
Washington for the English ambassador
ship to succeed Col. Hay. 1t Is by no
means certain, however, that he would
accept even if appointed.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

If the assurances which have emanated
from Washington within the past few
weeks are made good the people of Cuba
will soon have an opportunity to cast a
free, authenticated vote for the first time
In the history Of the island. Elections
held In that unfortunate country in the
past have been mere shams empty cere-
of the people. That which it is now ex-
pected will be held will be one of the most
important events that have taken place
on the island, Separatists, annexation
lists au Economists an Spaniards all look
forward to it with the greatest interest
and concern.
The people who compose kthese parties
are resident in Cuba, and have interests
in common, but they will look at the
future government of the island from en-
tirely different points of view. The sepa-
ratists are tx Q Insurgents who during the
past three years have been fighting for
liberty and independence. They are COM
posed of two entirely distinct elements
first, the old Creole population Of the is
land. the aristocracy, the best blood, the
best brains, the best citizens, the best rep
resentatives. of the Latin raes on this
hemiephers. With these people the desire
for freedom, absolute, for an independent
republic, has become a passion. 1t has
been their dream and their ambition for
years past. For it they have given up
life. prosperity, everything. Numerically
they are probably in the minority; social
ly, politically and intellectually they de-
serve greater consideration than any other
element on the island. They adore the
United States, her institutions and her
people, but they will not vote for annex
alton at present. With them peronal pride
and sentiment have played a very import
ant part in their struggle for liberty, and
although in few years time they will
undoubtedly be the most earnest support
ers of annexation, if it were forced upon
them now, though well aware of the bene-
fits accruing therefron, it would, never
theless, be unwelcome. The real secret
for this is that they desire at least brief
period of self government.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30

When doctors fail, try Burdock Blood
Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, constipation;
inyigerates the whole system.
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
FIRST BALLOT IN CUBA.
1t is Thought the Majority of tho People
WI Vote for Annexation-The Four
Different Parties.

(Note-Mr. George Reno, the only
American correspondent who has re-
manned continuously In Cuba since the
beginning OF the war for independence.
who is the friend of President Masso, and
who was consulted by President McKin-
ley in regard to the attitude of the Cubans
toward the United States, contributes the
following interesting account of the politi
cal situation in the island at the present
time.)
The Portland daily press., 1898-09-30
SETH LOW WRITES AGAIN.

He Tells the President of the Citizens
Union Why in His Judgment, the
Union Has No Business to Act. in This
Campaign-A Ringing Document.
The herald., 1898-03-14
UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL SHAKE

rounds. but during the ten-hour day this
could be increased by from 5000 to 10,00o
1t is the only arsenal in the United States
where small ammunition is made. The
number of employees has been increased
from GOO to 200 workmen.
AT the Schuylkill arsenal nothing was
going on. This arsenal merely makes cloth
ing and tents for the regular army and
sometimes for the state militia, and it en-
poys about ninety persons.
There was work today at Cramps yards,
but it was on the new Klondke steamers
Indiana and Pennsylvania. Nothing was
being done on the battleship Alabama Or
the Japanese cruiser Kasagi.
BUSY ON BULLETS
READING, Pa, March 1S.-The promise
of a contract for projectiles amounting to
over 81, 10000 to the Carpenter steel works
kept the entire plant in unsusual activity
today. Work was pushed all along the
line of projectiles in the main plant on
the erection of three new buildings begun
yesterday and in getting the Diamond
Steel company's works (Which have been
reeased) into running order.
Masons, carpenters, machinists, steel
smelters and makers and a score of other
classes OF workmen were on duty and in
two weeks the company will have an in
creased plant to double the present capac-
ity and will probably employ $50 men,
More shipments will be made tomorrow
by order of government officials.