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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
BIRD LEGGINGS.
Such as Are Worn by the SwifAess
Mail Carriers I'm the
World.

! The pigeons that conduct the novel
mail service between Auckland and
Great Barrier island, New Zealand, at
all times when on duty wear leggings.
This, the only part of the birds uni
form, is necessary in order hat the
tissue paper, on which the messages
are written, might be kept dry when
carried in bad weather.
When the miniature mail is being
made up the letters are folded and
the end sealed with a stamp. These
tiny packages are then attached to
the birds legs, and the leggings put
on. says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Only one message was for some
little time carried by each bird after
the Great Barrier Pigeon Agency Pos
tai Service was instituted about four
years ago, when the charge was so
cents each message. So successful,
however, was this new means of COM
munication, that business increased
rapidly, the more so after the postage
was reduced to 25 cents, and now
some of the fleet little messenger
carry as many as our letters.
This unique mail service has no
rival in speed, nor is it's "dispatch"
limited to fixed hours and minutes.
AT any moment a message may be
received the little carrier is in wait
ing; another moment the missives
are attached, the leggings-which are
made of waterproof material-put on,
and then in another instant the 60
miles journey is set out upon.
On arrival the birds place their
heads between two light wires, raise
these on their shoulders, and walk
forward into an Enclosure two feet
square. The wires, falling back on a
piece of metal, sound an alarm. and
notify an attendant, who removes
the message.
Having ~traversed so long a distance,
especially in rough weather. these
postal delivery birds heartily enjoy
the plenty Of good food always await
ing them. They also appear greatly
pleased to have a w~ell-earned rest
after their leggings have been taken
off.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
SOME MARRIAGE DANGERS.
Requirements of the Code in Differ
emit Countries Conflict In Very
Many Respects.

1t will astOnish many people to be
told that a marriage contracted in
England between an Englishwoman
and a Frenchman, even if solemnized
in a church here, is not necessarily
binding, unless the needful formal
tiles demanded by the French law have
been complied with by the husband,
says the Humanitarian.
The English marriage binds the
wife, at least in England; but the
Frenchman may, should he desire to
do SO, release himself from all obi
cations by returning to his own land.
where, should he not have complied
with the requirements of the French
code, he is in a position to make an
other marriage which shall be lawful
the contract with the Englishwoman
being null and void.
Under such circumstances it NAV be
useful to explain what the French
code demands of Frenchmen who
wish to contract legal marriages with
natives of another country.
First, should a Frenchman be I'M
der the age of 25, he must obtain the
consent of his parents in a document
signed before a notary public. Unless
he obtain this consent, he cannot con-
tract a legal marriage at all.
Should he wish to marry between
the age of 25 and 80, he must still
ask the consent of his parents by
making what is called the "acte re-
spectueux" three times at stated in
tervais. After he is 30 he must still
repeat the request for parental per-
mission to marry; but need only wait
one month before contracting a mar
riage.
Nor is the matter entirely disposed
of so. The banns must be published;
first, in the town hall nearest the
place in which he may be living. if in
France, or at the nearest French con-
sulate should he be living abroad. Sec
ondly, at the Office of the mayor of
the town in which he was last domi-
ciled in France. Thirdly, in the town
where his parents are domiciled, if he
Is under rs years of age.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
COERCION OF CUBA.
A Decision i'm Advance That the Platt
Amendment Must stand
Is Evident.

Within a week the Cuban constitu-
tional convention defeated a motion to
accept the Platt amendment, but two
votes out of 26 being recorded in the
affirmative. Neither rancor nor haste
has been displayed by the members of
the convention in reaching this de-
cisive conclusion. Every feature of the
amendment was exhaustively dis
cussed, this treatment being in strik-
ing contrast with the way in which the
measure was hustled through the SEN
ate in the final rush of business when
there was no chance to investi-
gate it's merits, give the side of Cuba a
hearing or do anything but blindly
obey administration orders. The al
most unanimity with which the
amendment was rejected and the rap
idly changing sentiment among those
who have heretofore favored either q
protectorate or annexation, cannot
but be accepted as expressive of the
will of the majority.
The tension is not as great as might
be implied from the bitterness of the
radicals whose organ published q
coarse and insulting cartoon of the
president and the secretary of war,
but wherever there has been a chance
to test the popular sentiment it has
pronounced against the amendment.
A week ago the national party in San
tiago, representative of the masses,
passed a resolution against the de-
mands of this government. Even the
most conservative element is insisting
that the United States should at least
make larger tariff concessions to the
island, thus giving a substantial evil 4
dence of the extreme friendliness ex-
pressed.
Now there is talk of the constitu-
tional convention sending to Washing
ton a commission to consult with the |
president and secretary of var re-
gardfng the Platt amendment. It il
not to be expected that much COM
fort can be had from this original
source OF the legislation objected to.
There is & decision in advance that it
stand, and the one satisfaction
to be hoped for is a definite construc-
ton, though this would have no bind
ng force any more than did the
pledge of congress that
cuba should have absolute indepen-
ience. Tt will be recalled in this con-
lection that the administrative de-
'artment urged upon both the senate
house the promptest action upon
matters involving our colonial inter-
ests, as it was essential to know just
the government stood, but now
hat we are dealing with a weaker and
power of our own creation
here is not the slightest hurry to en-
it as to its status. The presi-
Ient will not change his plans for a
'leasure trip and the commission will
ave to abide his convenience.-De- !.
roit Free Press. :
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
All Sins Ways.

To a Chinaman the idea that a
judge should take brides seems as
natural as that a duck should take
to the water. And yet the Chinaman
will not, unless he knows he is on the
right track, brutally push his bride
under the judges nose. Either he or
one of his countrymen will from the
judges arrival have rendered him
good service. Does the Judge want
a gardener or a cook? All Sin soon
provides an excellent one who never
asks for his wages. Have some Wis
itors arrived at the ACADIA? All
Sin sends in a dozen chickens, a tur-
key and the best fruits. Is it the
judges name day? The willy Celes-
tial presents a few cases of wine and
boxes of fine cigars. Is the roof of
the ACADIA leaking? A couple of
Chinese carpenters will set it right
without sending in a bill for it. Then.
having prepared the way, should All
Sin be summoned before the alcaIde.
he may confidently hope that his
patron will not hurriedly give iudp.
ment against him. and that he will
probably get a full opportunity to
present substantial reasons why the
suit should be decided in his favor
inhabitants of the Philippines"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
RObber Crept I'm with Wolves.

For sheer melodrama the English
jewel robber Houghton's arrest would
be hard to beat. After his last big
diamond theft. which occurred a few
days ago, he was traced to West
Bromwich, and thence led the detec-
tives a dance over the country. At
last, when the pursuers were hard
on his heels, he dashed into a travel
ing menagerie, which was exhibiting
just outside Birmingham. There he
found one of the attendants fasten-
ing up a van cage containing a pair
of large gray wolves. He flung the
man on n side and opened the cage,
shutting himself in with the beasts,
and daring anyone to fetch him put.
The strange thing was hat the
wolves, which the proprietor had al
ways considered the most dangerous
animals in the show, took no notice
of the fugitive. but showed great i'll
temper toward the keeper and a con-
stable, who had great difficulty in
dragging Houghton out.-London
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
SENTIMENT AS TO OLD SIGNS.
Many WeatherwOrn Boards Retained
Without Change in Spite Of
Changes i'm Firm Names.

People who think that there is no
8entiment in commercial life need
only wander about any of the old
business centers of New York to
have their belief changed. They will
see old signs, some of them in a
state of decay almost bordering on
dissolution, on the walls of the
houses of the older firms, says the
Sun of that city.
In some instances these signs re-
main even though the name of the
firm has been changed. In cases
in which sons have succeeded to the
business, many of the old signs of
the firm which established the bust
ness are still to be seen. Many are
weatherworn, and the lettering al
most indistinct; but the present
firms do not permit them to be re-
touched.
Occasionally the boards split, and
repaired for s~afety's sake, but the
dim outlines of the lettering remain.
A sign writer who had been called
to repair one of these ancient land
marks in Greenwich street, asked the
head of the firm, who represents the
third generation in the concern, if
he should not regild the letters.
"Certainly not" was the answer.
eff 1 consented to your doing that
] should expect the business of this
firm to fail"
In some cases in which new names
have succeeded to the business old
signs have been removed from the
outer walls and placed inside. In an
Office in a Broadway store there is
an old wooden sign suspended over
the desk of the grandson of the
head of the business.
81 couldn't think of leaving the old
sign out OF doors at night said the
young man, who looked at it with a
glow of pride. 81 have heard my IA
Their say that when that sign was
first put up by his father all the mer-
chants in this part of the town came
over and looked at it. and admired
it, and my grandfather gave them a
dinner or account of it. If / ever go
out of business hat sign goes to nv
house."
There is an old sign over the main
entrance to the office of an old con-
Germ in William street which has
NJ connection with the firm doing
business in the place, but the firm
has steadfast1y declined to have it
removed although the old firm went
out of existence nearly so years ago
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
PITH AND POINT.

~Tm about tired lookin' for q job"
-Wot We goin' to do?" "Oh, 1 guess Tql
have to go to work."-Indianapolis
News.
A public official should be appointed
whose duty it would be to yen"Whoa!"
at certain people every n in awhile.
-Atchison Globe.
Office Boy-"Goin' ter de ball games
dis seezun?" Second Office Boy-'Naw,
shuns ter git sick err die."-Ohio State
Journal.
Man is a contrary animal. Call him a
sad dog and he will look knowingly
and feel f1attered; but call him a mis-
cradle puppy, and he will Immediate
ly show his teeth.-Chicago Daily
News.
She said she loves botany. They
wer wandering through Horticultu-
raj hall. And where do they keep
the electric plants?" she asked. He
phia Times.
MY, the house looks changed some
way" said the woman who had moved
out a months or two before, and re-
turned to make a call and see what
kind of furniture the new tenants had.
'Yes," her hostess replied, we've
cleaned it up.'-Boston Gazette.
Willie Borem entertaining his sis
ter's caller)-'Do you like baseball
very much, Mr.. Jamaican" Mr.. Jamai-
ca-"I never played ball much. L en-
joy golf" Willie Borem (disappoint-
edly)-'Why, I heard pa tell Susan
you were a great catch!"-Brooklyn
Eagle.
One on Him.-Hardware Dealer
what was old Krankey kicking
about?" Clerk-"He wanted ten pounds
of nails. Said he'd pay for them and
take them home himself. Wouldn't
trust US to deliver them, he said"
Hardware Dealer-"Surly old codger.
I hope he'll sweat for it," Clerk--"Oh,
| took care of that. I threw in an
extra ten pounds, and he never knew
it."-Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

This springs elections look as il
the people are planning to give their
faithful republican servants a little
outing in the near future.-Albany
Argus.
After all, isn't it quite an Amer
lean trait in Cuba to insist upon hav-
ing her own opinion as to the best
tonics for her own constitution Pm.
Y. World.
Mark Hanna is doing the talking
for Mckinley just as prominently in
the new administration as the old.
It may be a habit of which he cannot
rid himself.-Concord Patriot.
The deaths, the famine, the inn
poverishment that prevail among the
Porto Ricans are unanswerable pro-
tests against the un-American, heart
less, selfish policy of Imperialism
Kansas City Times.
The men in the steel trust abso-
lutely control, through that influence
and others allied with it, the repub-
hcan party, and SO long ~ the repub-
lican party remains in charge of the
government they will lose neither
dividends or sleep.-Atianta Consti-
tuition.
The tin plate industry has pro-
duced within the last six years at
least n multi-millionaire, and still
the republican press points to the
tin plate industry al n of the
achievements of the Amer
lean tari1f system. All of which the
admits.-St. Paul Globe.
The truth of the matter is, no
one knows the truth about the situa-
ton in the Philippines save those in
terested in exploiting the islands and
making the taxpayers of this our
foot the bills. The people who
pay the expenses are kept in ignor-
ance by working on their partisan
observation-disclosures World-Herald.
Some people criticise the pres
for putting a trust attorney
INTO an office in which his chief duty
will be to enforce the laws against
trusts, but this is a superficial view
Of the subject. 1t would be absurd
20 have an antitrust attorney gen.
era1 in a trust administration and
dr. Mckinley deserves credit for his
.onsistency.-N. Y. Journal.
IF there is any value in the Unit
q States statutes intended to con-
the abuses of the trusts the at
orney general is the official who
must put them in force. To appoint
or this duty a lawyer intimately as
ociated with the most far-reaching
f all the trusts, and that with the
expressed approval Of it's promoters,
deliberately to identity the
overnment with the interests of this
combination in a way that
opinion cannot fail to resent.
Philadelphia T;mea-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
THE ORGANISE,

L wonder how the organist
can do so many things;
mes getting ready long before
1he cnoir stand up and sings;
mes pressing buttons, pushing stops:
mes pulling here and there,
AND testing all the working parts
Whiie listening to the prayer.
ne runs a mighty big machine,
IT'S full of funny things:
a mass of boxes, pipes and tubes,
And sticks and Stats and strings:
Ihere's little whistles for a cent.
IN rows and rows and rows:
II pet there's twenty miles of tubes
AS large as garden hose.
There's scores as round as stovepipes and
There's lots so big and wide,
mat several little boys / know
could play around inside;
From little bits of piccolos
Ihat hardly make a toot,
IhereS every size up to the great
Big elevator chute.
The orSanist knows every one,
And how they ought to go:
ne makes them rumble like a storm,
Or plays them sweet and low;
at times you think them very near;
AT times they're soaring high,
Like angel voices singing far
on somewhere in the sky.
For he can take his structure hats
As big as any house,
And make it squeak as softly as
A tiny little mouse;
And then he'll jerk out something with
A movement of the hand,
And make you think you're listening to
A military band.
He plays 1T with his fingers and
He plays 1t with his toes,
And If he really wanted to
He'd play it with his nose;
lies sliding up and down the bench,
Hes working with his knees,
He's dancing round with both his feet
AS lively as you please.
j always like to take a seat
Where I can see him go;
He's better than a sermon. and
He does me good, I know;
j like the life and movement and
I like to hear him play;
He is the most exciting thing
In town OIL Sabbath day.
George w. Stevens, in Toledo Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
Looked I'm To.

The Missionary lin surprise)-And
you once visited the United States?
What did you think of it?
The Cannibal knight impressed me
as a nation of rubbernecks.
The Missionary (coldly)-Indeed!
What led you to think that?
The Cannibal King-During my So
journ there I was the star feature of a
show.-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
Parliamentary Records

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerma
holds one of the proudest records OF
the commons. He has held his seat
without a break for almost a genera.
ton. Patrick O'Brien holds a distinc.
ton of another sort. He is the Tom
Thumb of h house, standing -four
feet three inches in his shoes. 1t ia
3ne of his namesakes-. 2. X. O'BrieI
who has distinguished himself BY
being sentenced to be hanged, drawn
and quartered.-St. james Gazette.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
Dog and Cat shows.

Cat shows do not date from more
than a decade and a half; dog shows
have at least an existence of three
quarters of a century. The foremost
European galleries contain hundreds
of pictures of dogs; there are not a
score of great artists who have de-
voted their talents to the pictorial
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
Over the bridge

Mrs. Galloupe-Be sure and come,
Mr.. Gibble. I promise you you shall
meet, oh, quite a number of pretty
women.
Gibble--How can I refuse you, my
dear madam? It will not be for the
pretty women, however, but for you,
that I shall oome.-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25

The Chicago Herald company gave
, trust deed of $3,600,0 600. Of this
sum $780, 900 is to pay for the Rec
ord.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25

lence.
Well, % years had gone since thai
May mornings years devoted i'm the
main to the same effOrt--the effort
to make Nanette happy. and this was
the end. There was but one more sat-
rifice to make-the sacrifice of his
own hopes M happiness. He must
pass out of Nanette's life. and give
her the man whom she said she loved
with the great passion of her
hood. Even that could be done. must
be done, to secure her happiness.
It was all understood between them
when they went abroad. After u
years time had elapsed she was Ia
make her application for divorce, ana
it would be quietly granted. Albert's
influence with Judge and jury would
arrange that. Nanette accepted the
sacrifice as she had accepted all 9th
ers, rejoicing in the thought that she
was to have what she wanted-and
satisfying herself with the thought
that Albert's calm meant content.
Ten years later a man with snow
white hair and a scanned and furrowed
face, sat in his lonely room and opened
with trembling hands a letter bear
ing a foreign postmark. There were
but a few lines in the letter and they
ran thus: "Dear Albert: I am all
alone-deserted-poor-ill, and I'M
happy. Will you come and take me
home to die in your arms? I know
you will-you were always so good
and this is the only happiness life has
now to offer your poor Nanette." The
broke into wild sobs-the first of
lifetime of repression. Thank God,"
he cried, 'thank God she is coming
back to me-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-12
BECOMING MORE SERIOUS
COLOMBIA A MASS OF SETTLING
REVOLUTIONARY FERMENT.
Martial Law i'm Colon and Panama
-Insurgent Attack n Train
Taxes Again Raised.

KINGSTON, jamaica Aug. 11.-According
to mail advices received here to-day from
Colon there were series of engagements
last week in the neighborhood of Panama
and the government was expecting some
difficulty in keeping out the insurgents
General Alban, commanding the govern
ment forces, had arrived at Cartagena to
gather troops for service on the isthmus.
Col. Abel Murillo. General -Uribe's s
aid. was still in prison when the steamer
which brought this news left Cartagena.
Strict martial law is enforced at Panama
and Colon, the present districts of insur-
gent activity, and an order was issued last
week in both cities announcing that all
persons found under arms without permit
would be shot as traitors. The same order
called upon all foreign residents to furnish
themselves with arms so as TO act as po-
lice whenever called upon.
Two days before the steamer left Colon
the insurgents stopped passenger train
near Matachin. taking twenty government
officials prisoners.
Colombia as a whole is all the more IN
settled in consequence of the fear of war
with Venezuela over repeated invasions of
Venezuelan territory. The situation is gen.
orally considered serious There is a great
exodus of residents from Colon and Pana-
ma These people are coming here i'm large
numbers and seeking other coast towns in
Colombia. Taxes have been again in
creased I'm order to meet the war expendi-
ture. and numerous forced loans are re-
ported.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-12
Gang of Youthful Thieves Broken Up
at k0komo, After Ten Days of
Active Depredations.
COSTLY FIRE IN THE WOODS
EXTENSIVE TRACTS BURNED OVER
IN FLORA NEIGHBORHOOD.
Corn Crop i'm Wayne County Prac-
ticalIy DcstrOyed-Only Sf.6O IL
Found in the AvilIa Bank.
pecial to the indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Ind, Aug. u.-Coroner
Trainor's searching inquest into the death
of Mrs. Frank Purcell leaves no doubt
of the brutal husbands crime. The wom-
ans body showed unmistakable signs of
were prints made by the toe of boot,
and her bowels were filled with blood In
every important detail the story of the
fourteen-year-old son, telling Of the brutal
assault made by Purcell his wife, was
borne out by the evidence adduced at the
inquest. The dead woman conscious
but a few minutes after she was knocked
down and kicked. and even then she
seemed inclined to protect her husband.
for she said to a neighbor she was death
ly sick
Purcell was arrested last night on the
strength of his sons statement. The boy
was so fearful lest his father do him
injury that he remained close to the Of
ficers until his father was locked up. He
says his father drew a pistol on his mother
and sister two weeks ago, and threatened
to kill them
Purcell is burly engineer, and has been
employed at one of Cabel & Co.. s mines.
He has never been considered dangerous,
but was generally regarded as an unkind
husband and father He insists that his
wife died from a sudden illness.