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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
WRITER'S MANUSCRIPT.
Legal Questions Which Enter Into
the Relations of Editor and Z
Contributor.

When the young literary peddler be-
gins to hawk his wares round the
magazines and periodicals, the first
thing that troubles him is the diff
Guilty of preserving his manuscripts.
Nowadays nearly all the magazines
print notices, stating the conditions
on which they will receive unsolicited
contributions, and all contributors
are absolutely bound by such condi-
lions. In the absence of such a no.
tice, however, says the Albany Law
Journal, there is no obligation on
editors to preserve contributions
that have been sent unasked, and
when such contributions are lost,
even through the carelessness of the
recipients, the law does not hold
them liable. Some years ago an ac-
ton was brought against the late
Augustus Harris to the man.
uscript of a play that had been sent
unlimited to the great manager and
had been mislaid. The judge held
that, as the author had chosen volun-
tarily to send the play, no duty of
any kind was east on Sir Augustus
with regard to it. This statement of
the law probably went a little too far,
but the result. Of the action would
have been the same unless the au-
thor had been able to prove positive
ly that the loss occurred through
willful negligence as distinguished
from mere carelessness.
1t is not the practice in general OF
magazine editors to alter or curtail
41o 4l-L ~-o
cepted by them. If an article is
worth accepting at all it is accepted
as it stands, and if the editor sees
that he could make us of it in any
other form he suggests the changes
and let's the author make them him.
self. But sometimes it is found nec-
essary in editorial offices to touch up
or tone down, to expand or c~urtail,
articles that have already been ac-
cepted, and then the interesting
question arises: How far is such a
practice permissible? Robert Barr's
story, The Mutable Many first ap-
peared as a serial in Tit-Bits under
the title "At War with His Workers.
"a title to which, it is said, the au-
thor of the story strongly objected.
If he had been so minded, could he
have restrained the publication of the
story under any title but his own?
When Mr.. Kipling wrote "The Light
That Failed" for an American firm
of publishers, an objection was taken
to the somber ending of the story,
and the author was obliged to write
a nor cheerful conclusion to suit
American tastes. Surprising, how
ever, hat he had refused to do so,
would the publishers have been en-
titled to commission another writer
to alter the story in the way desired?
These questions belong to the limit
less region of unsolved legal prob
lens, but the rule of law, in so far
as it exists, may be taken to be as
follows: In the Ease of signed arti-
cles, any alteration, curtailment or
addition which may have the effect
of injuring the credit or literary rep
utation of the author is not permits
sible, and can be prevented. But
when the name of the author does
not appear as in the case of news
paper leaders and the like, the right
of the editor to use the blue pencil
seems to be unlimited.
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REFORM ONLY DELAYED.
The Growing Demand for TariH RE-
duction VIII sooner or Later
Prevail.

Those republicans that have been
advocating tariff reform, either
through revision or reciprocity, with
a good deal of earnestness are not de-
lighted with the situation in the tar
if field as they find it. They are con-
vinced, apparently, hat free trade,
or anything like it, is quite as OBJ
noxious to those who shape republic
an policies as it ever was, and that
there is going to be no abandonment
of the protective policy yet awhile.
1t has become clear that any abate-
men of tariff taxation through re-
vision or reciprocity can be had only
by sacrificing the protected interests,
and none of these interests is will
ing to be sacrificed. Each of the ben
eficiaries of the protective policy is
entirely willing that any or all of the
others should make a sacrificial offer
ing of themselves, but he wants none
of it on his plate, thank you, says the
Binghamton IN. W Leader.
This is, of course, generally speak
ing. Their are a few individual cases
of men who are prepared to forego
the protection on their industries for
the sake of the wider markets such
sacrifice would bring them, but a
large majority of the representatives
OF those Industries refuse to see the
matter in the same light. Mr.. A. b.
Farquhar, of Troy, Pa, a manufac-
turer of agricultural implements, long
ago took advanced ground on the ar-
if question, and he is there yet, but
his views have not won sufficiently
wide acceptance to make them inn
pressive.
There is, of course, no doubt that
the tariff will be reformed sooner or
later. The demand for reform is
growing, and it will yet be too strong
be resisted. The movement to-
ward freer trade is checked some
what, especially In republicanism, by
.professed apprehension that tariff
changes will disturb our present pros
This argument falls readily
from the lips of those who have all
Ways insisted, for political purposes,
that the tariff law of 1893 brought
the panic. Republican prosperity
is sensitive and timid, and it is easy
brighten it away. But the time
Is coming, and soon, at that, when
and other arguments against the
abandonment of robber protection
will not serve. The national democ-
united on this question, will De
abIe to make 1T uncomforfably hot
for the. advocates of pickpocket tar
ifs.
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Native Superstfffon.

A curious story is told of native
superstition in New Guinea which is
causing the sacrifice of innumerabie
lives. It seems that whooping-cougb
was introduced by two white chill
dren and spread with frightful rapid
ity. It first swept the coasts and
then ravaged the interior. As the ma
tiyes hold that death from whatever
cause is always comprised by an I'M
known enemy only discoverabIe
through ~witchcraft, whenever a vii
lage is attacked with w~hooping-
cough a sorcerer is consulted. The
latter invariably designates another
village or tribe as the culprit, and 3
midnight massacre of innocent per
sons foIlows.-N. Y. Wrrd.
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would Postpone No Longer,

Jones-Why haven't you been
around? You've been promising to
call for more than a year. Come, now,
say when you will come.
Johnson-Fact is, I'm so busy that
I can't say when.
Jones-Nonsense! BY the way, my
daughter is going to take piano les
sons; going to begin next week.
Johnson-Il call REHABILITATION
Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Annie heard her mothers words, al
though they were not intended for her
to hear. She saw her brush away the
tears from her eyes and then go back
to Teddy's room.
"What did the doctor say, mother?"
asked Teddy, in a weak voice; did he
say 1 will get well?"
Annie heard the reply: "Ke says that
the fever is broken, and that all you
have to do now is to get we'll"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

A. . - pEdii4k, llSNiHS lAC
time &C by,
Fronting each TO the others thought, with
the moons face. sweet and thin,
A-watch a the space of the window place.
waiting the year begin
Waiting US usher the Old Year out and well
come the New Year in.
Heavy my soul with grief ard pain-heavy.
and bowed with tears,
Worn with the weight of Sorrows hand,
not with the weight of years;
And twixt US many a thing of woe, many
a thought of sin,
While the moon outside, like a pure-eyed
bride. was waiting the year begin
Waiting us usher the Old Year out and
welcome the New Year in.
My soul it spoke in the Silly dark-spoke,
and 1 shrank and heard,
The chords of my being pulsed and leaped.
a~ffrighted like captive bird;
I heard, and 1 knew that such words were
true-while the new moon, sweet and
thin.
With sad surprise in her tender eyes was
waiting the year begin
Waiting us usher the Old Year out ard
welcome the New Year in.
And I plead with my soul: Judge not
Judge not!' and 1 prayed: New Year,
bring grace"
I fell on my knees in the hush and dark-I
wept and hid my face;
For out of the finite bounds of Time, from
the realms of 1.-The might have been,'
To sepulcher of the infinite past bearing
mistakes and sin,
The Old Year stole as the church bells
chimed-and the New Year entered in.
Mary Clarke Huntington, in Good House
keeping.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

TRUSTS have no more right to.
have their own sweet will because
they can summon a multitude of doll
lars, than feudal chiefs had a right
to lord 1t over others because they
had q large number OF retainers as
their backs.-Indianapolis News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
After the Dinner.

Host-Mr. Tenorwell, won't you IA,
vor us with q song?
Tenorwell-Sorry. Mr.. Shouter. but
I never can sing after a hearty meal.
I'm like a mosquito; 1 do my singing
before eating.-Boston Transcript.
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Easily

ST wonder why the baby cries SO
much," said the young mother.
sThat's easy" answered the bach.
elor uncle.
.sWhy is it" demanded the mother
because it is a baby" replied the
uncle.-Chicago Post.
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Eaw to Become PouuIar.

Tt is not hard to become popular;
O certain Atchison woman is popu.
lar because she takes all the kittens
her neighbors want to get rid of.-
Atchison Globe.
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if my darling
could only have
the wine! How
hard it is to be
sO Door. so DOOR,
The sun., 1901-08-04
LABOR AND THE TRUSTS.
Sam Gompers Moralizes About the stee
WOrken' strike.


WorkeD' strike.
Samuel Gompers, President Of the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor. has issued q state
ment regarding the steel workers and the
trusts In which he says:
Il have no hesitancy In be ieving that
notion prevails among the privileged
classes that trusts and monopolies aim
at and will crush the life out Of orga nized
labor. We oppose organized members
to their concerted power. That monopoly,
as II Is to-day, In more potent than trades
unionism: since the attack on the latter In
not to be on the front and all along the
line. but by measures OF detachment and
defeating In detail, closing q mill here
and mill there where trades unionism Is
strong.
'viewed from this standpoint alone,
the situation may look formidable for
trades unionism. The trust. however
specializes industry. It devotes the re-
spective plants to special work. and that
work only 80 that one mill Is set to one
small part or division Of the steel product,
another mill to another, and 90 on.
Labor tends to specialize under the
trust. In this way labor's productive
power may be increased. But Il also ac-
quires another power against monopoly.
since the withdrawal OF these specialists
would reduce the trusts to mas Of silent
and inert machinery.
The sun., 1901-08-04
HARD TASK SET FOR TILLMaX
Committee for Bis Political speakln.
Contest Bars Out Use OF Profanity

COLUMBIA s. G. Aug. s.-The people q,
Union are arranging for political meetinu
to continue two days. Aug 3 and 0, designed
to be the biggest thing OF the kind ever b4lc
in this State A half dozen Of the popuom
Piedmont counties have been invited "a
join and thirty speakers have been assa
to address the crowds. The present uni,ec
States Senators and the prospective can.
didates for the Senate and for Governo,
next summer are among those invited. And
general invitation Is extended to all Oil
zens OF the STATE Interested in the -progres.
sive' questions now being discussed %
come to the meeting. The railroads viii
run excursions 70 accommodate the public
Senator Tillman was one of the first a
those invited to accept. but Senator McIau
rim has not yet indicated whether he will
attend. the illness Of his children pre-
venting him from making engagement,
much In advance.
The Committee OF ARRANGEMENTS hs,
taken out some Of the anticipated spcs
by announcing that It will not permit ,hs
speakers to indulge in any profanity OF
II IL believed the advocates Of Mr.. McI.au.
rms views we're instrumental In arranging
this meeting as they believe their side ha,
everything to gain by. prese nting to the
people the arguments for what the oppo.
sltion terms Commercial Democracy"
The sun., 1901-08-04
VIOLENCE BEGINS IN WELLSvILLE
Steel strikers Attack Non-union Men.
VINO Are Forced To Defend Themselves.

WELLsvILLE, Ohio. Aug. 3.-There was a
small riot rere early this morning, caused
by the efforts OF strikers at the steel mills
to prevent non-union men from going to
their work. The pickets surrounded the
house where the strike breakers" boarded,
and when the workmen came out the
strikers stopped them.
Stones were thrown. and at length thrs,
shots were fired by non-union men. NJ
one was hit The Mayor and police ar
rived upon the scene after the encounter
had been on for more than half an hour.
and when they appeared the strikers re-
treated
The cause Of the outbreak was tn,
anger Of the strikers at being caught
mapping yesterday when one crew of
nine strike breakers from Scottdale
was slipped into the plant, This
gave Manager Brooknian sufficient
force 10 operats six mills. Just double tn,
number that he had gong q week ago
The strikers we're much excited when they
discovered that thev had been duped.
Their leaders werc busy NJ Pirtsburg and
the men had to act without instructions.
IL was predicted TINT there would be
trouble before morning hut the crv hal
The sun., 1901-08-04
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THE SUN. SUNDAY. AUGUST 4. 1901

forcs has been cut down almost one-half
during the past two weeks.
The shutdown OF the National Rolling
Mill will leave the tube department without
material TO work. as the stock on hand is
not sufficient to last more than two or three
days. According to Flynn's statement. the
tube workers. who are in the Federation OF
Labor. viii not be permitted to work any
iron or steel brought In from other mills.
Mayor Robert ]. Black Is making up q
list Of persons who will be sworn In ss mem
bers of the police force next week IT, In his
judgment. the situation shall require It.
In this respect the Mayor Is invested with
the powers Of the Sheriff to compel the
services Of every male citizen over 10 years
Of age. In the list he Ia preparing he has
included large number Of the mill men.
but most Of them are OF the business class,
as the Mayor contends that the business
element Of the city has the most at stake
and should do their share In protecting
the peace Of the city.
He says that he will compel the service
OF every man on his list and will require
them to police In earnest.
Rumors that an effort will be made to
start the tin-plate mill next week arc gen.
orally believed to be true.
The sun., 1901-08-04
PLANS TO TRY LYNCHERS.
Gov. Longino Wants Court 0nicers to Re
come States witnesses At Carrolton. Miss.

New ORLEANS, Aug. s.-Gov. Longino
has suggested plan by which the Carroll
ton lynchers may be prosecuted and pun
ished and will try and carry 1t into effect
He suggests that, as the District Judge
and District Attorney were present and did
all in the ir power to stop the lynching
which was arried out almost In the pres
ence of the court itself they delegate
prosecution and trial to temporary substi-
stutes and become witnesses against the
lynchers.
The Governor says that the lynching was
done by small number of men. not over
fifty. There we're 400 or 500 men in Carrolton.
at the time, a large number Of whom depre-
Gated the lynching, but they did not inter-
fere. The Governor says that he was in
formed of probable lynching by Judge
Stevens. He at once instructed the Judge
to confer with the Sheriff and ordered the
Sheriff to protect the prisoners at all haz-
ards
If you are unable TO hold them," he
telegraphed Il will send the militia II you
request me. Wire conditions
The Greenwood Rifles were got together
and ready to go to Carrollton, but not
word came from the Sheriff When the
Governor reached Carrollton, just after
the lynching, he could not ascer tain the
Shcrif's whereabouts, but found that
neither he, his deputies, nor any posse
had offered resistance to the mob.
The sun., 1901-08-04
STRIKERS GUILTY OF CONTEMPT.
Four Machinists In Wllkcs-Barre 10 Be
Punished for Not Obeying IN Injunction.

Punished for Not Obeying IN Injunction.
first time in this county strikers were taken
before the court to-day and found guilty
Of contempt In interfering with non-union
workers after being restr aimed by the
court. The men found guilty are John
Baskin. Robert Jenkins. Dominick Booz-
kowski and Andrew O'Donnell. They
were employed at the Drifton machine
shops OF Cox Bros. 4 Co., until they went
on strike in the latter part Of June. The
company filed their places with non-union
men and there were 30 many attempts to
interfere with the new men by the strikers
that early in July the company obtained
an injunction restraining the strikers from
threatening or in any way trying to stop
the non-union men from working.
Some thirty witnesses to-day testified
to acts OF violence after the injunction was
granted. The house Of one man had been
surrounded and he had been forced at the
point Of revolvers to swear he would not
return to work. Another had been COM
PEELED to kneel and with revolvers pressed
against MS neau W tdhe 'ne sdiho odlh'
Others had been stoned and assaulted,
while numerous workers had been threat
ened with injury. some being told that
they would be killed.
The case was clear against the four men.
but in some other cases the victims Of the
strikers were unable to identify the men
who had assaulted them. Judge Halsey
pronounced the four guilty and said he
would defer sentence.
The sun., 1901-08-04
STARS AND STRIPES BARRED.
Can't Display the American Flag Will,
Driving in Boston Parks.

REVERE, Mass. Aug. s.-Mrs. F. F. Phil.
lips and her little son. while driving owe,
the Revere Beach Boulevard were stopped
by a Metropolitan park policeman and
summarily ordered to remove tiny Amer.
can fag from the whip and another at.
tached to a cane. The poceman's eN-
PLANTATION In response 10 Mrs. Philhps's ey-
pressed astonishment was to the effect that
the regulations do not allow the display
of flags or bunting W. B. DeI.ass Casas
chairman Of the Metropolitan Park Com.
mission, justifies the policeman for his net
Don't hesitate TO criticise the commits
sion," he said. smhngly. If our regua-
tions are onerous or I'll advised. but that
regulation against flags Is there. and the
policeman did right 10 enforce it,
How about the legal aspect of the ques-
tion.can the right to display the flag be
abridged"
You'll have to put that TO the courts
The Legislature gives us authority 10 max,
such regulations as we deem wise, aud
we've made this one against the display
OF flags, banners or any advertising de- I
vice. Personally, don't see why, ouy
regulation is not az much justified as tH
city ordinance which forbids the sttnginS
OF flags across the street
The sun., 1901-08-04

bssp rsissgi 20 elton sines The stsilns hogan
that little attention was paid u " ouurid |,
OF the ranks 0f tho st1ksFp, Who, when they
started out early this morning 70 >prev~nf
tbs non-union men from going 70 work. ha
the town to themselves
Their drst move was 20 surround the
boarding house Of the strike breakers.
When the n0n-union men came out and
were held they retalisted BY throwing
stones at the AmslGamatsd men who
closed on them Then tho men with
tho dinner buckets fired three shots almost
point blank into the piokets. This caused
the latter to scatter. but the sound Of
firing 1t the gate brought many other
strikers TO tho scene.
The trouble at tho boarding house was
soon over whom the police appeared. but q
number OF the non-uniop men we're unable
to reach the mill Men comm 8 10 work at
the main gate were held up on tho railroad
track and argued with, but no violencs was
offered at this ooint.
The sun., 1901-08-04
LOVE LETTERS AT AUCTION.
Lively Bidding Expected at sherim's Sale
ef Accused lawyers Effects.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Aug. 3.-Deputy
sherffs OF Westchester county are search
ing for Morris F. Kane. q young lawyer
Of Mamaroneck, who is accused Of
swindling his aunt out OF SO. 900 by CIV
ing her Q bogus mortgage. Before Knae
disappeared from Mamaroneck about six
months ago he induced Postmaster William
A. Boyd Of Mamaroneck and the late
Sheriff Malloy Of Weston hester county to
indorse his note for $500. The note was
discounted at the Bank Of Now Rochelle
and went to protest.
Kane had an Office in the Mamaroneck
Bank Building and was counsel In several
divorce cases and In a breach Of promise
suit for S5O. 900 damages, which were pend
ing In the court at White Plains. The
papers In these cases are locked up in
kane's safe in his office. number of
love letters duplicating certain correspond
ents are also said to be In the safe. To-day
Postmaster Boyd secured an attachment
against the contents OF the safe and on
Monday Deputy Sheriff Sivalls will break
II open and sell everything 1t contains
at public auction. The bidding promises
to be lively as the divorce cases were settled
out Of court.
The sun., 1901-08-04
HOT WEATHER FOOD.

The selection Of food for hot weather
Is an important question. We should
avoid an excess Of fats, cut down the but
ter ration and indulge moro freely in
fruits and food easy of digestion. One
meat meal per day is sufficient during
hot weather.
An ideal breakfast is Grape-Nuts,
treated with a little cream (which, by the
way, supplies the necessary fat in very
dgestible form, a cup Of Postum Cereal
Food Coffee. hot, or If cold. it should hava
a little lemon juice squeezed In; the
some fruit, either cooked OF raw; ais
perhaps two slices OF entire wheat brea
with a very thin spread Of butter. A
breakfast OF this sort is so perfectly
adapted to the wants OF the system that
one goes through the heat of the day in
comfort as compared with the sweaiv
disagreeable condition Of one improperly
fed. Once put in practice the plan will
never be abandoned during the hot days,
for the difference in ones personal con-
fort u too great to be easily forgotten. -
The sun., 1901-08-04
Pullman Por tiers Form Q Union.

CHICAGO Aug. s.-Because the Pullman
porters Of st Louis have organized union
the porters who live in Chicago have de-
cided to form m association Of their own.
They have decided to style themselves
THE Railroad Mems Mercantile Union
of Chicago They assert their trouble
lies in the fact that there has been steady
decline in the amount and frequency Of
tips. They say they must have more sal
airy under present conditions.
The sun., 1901-08-04
URGING LABOR INTO POLITICS.
Civic Council Says It Must Enter-Pre.
posed Combination.

The announcement was made yesterday
that the Civic Council, the Franchise Tax
and Municipal Ownership League and some
Of the the labor unions may unite In the
coming campaign either to elect representa-
tives TO the Legislature or force candidates
to state before election their views on
labor matters. The following statement
was made on behalf OF the Civic Council
which has recently appointed thousa nd
headed committee TO agitate for radical
changes in municipal government.
Nc,t.ivr the la.iIuany nor the snti-Tam-
many forces can win without drawing largely
from the labor vote. II this labor vote was
or rRanised IL could accomplish a good deal
with capital consolidating as 10 Ia In the
United states and steadily assuming more
governmental power through control OF
perative that labor men should enter politics.