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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-29
PRESS COMMENTS.

THE Hanna presidential boom
may be handled now without any dam
ger of explosion Chicago Tribune
(Rep.).
However, there is a good-sized
chunk of President Roosevelt's party
that it is a distinct honor to have alien
ated.-Detroit Free Press.
Republican papers are busily an
%nouncing that the ship subsidy bill is
dead. The people will not be deceived
by that trick. 1t has been laid over
until after the congressional elections,
and that is all.-lndianapolis Senti-
mel.
-Republicans are trying to keep
in the middle of the road. But they
will find it hard to keep straight and
strong in the middle west, where good
republicans are openly declaring that
the tariff is responsible for the trusts.
N. Y. Weekly.
The conduct of the war in the
Philippines will be a decisive factor in
the campaign of 1904, unless in the
meantime its inhumanity is disproved,
or those accountable for any atrocities
have been summarily dealt with.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald (Rep.).
There is something touching in
the spectacle of Mr.. Hanna roosting
on the white house steps in the chill
gray of the morning awiting an oppor-
tunity to importune the president in
behalf of Rathbone, the convicted loot
err of the Cuban postal system. Times
change. Mr.. Hanna once commanded.
Chicago Chronicle.
-Freer trade is really the cry.
And that must ONE The case was
put so clearly and co~nvincingly by
Mr.. Mckinley at Buffalo that the
longer the country ponders the SUBJ
iect the stronger the demand is for
such changes in the tariff schedules
as will bring them in accord with
the times. "The period of exclusive
ness is past" Free trade, properly
s%o-called, is neither possible nor de-
sirable, but freer trade is now one
of the most pressing necessities of
II national Observation-Disclosures
Star (Rep.).
The beef trust and the dairy
trust could not keep the retail prices
of meat and butter at their present
ex~tortionate height If it were not for
the fencing in of the home market
for them by the import duties. So
that in fact the daily food of the
American people is taxed much more
heavily than that of the British. The
chief difference is that the British
food taxes will yield revenue that is
needed to the government; our food
taxes yield next to nothing to the
government and simply bleed The
people to fatten the trusts.--St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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R00SEvELT'S MILITARY STYG
Qualities of Dictator Have Desn De-
veIoped by the
President.

There is a manifest disposition
among the republicans at the national
capital to rebel against the leader
ship of Mr.. Roosevelt, who, under u
political system, is ex-officio leader of
the party to which he is indebted for
his election.
In the matter of Cuban reciprocity,
as TO which he was especially en-
phatic and peremptory, his party in
the house accepted his leadership only
with the greatest reluctance, and
then with such reservations as t. make
it little better than no leadership at
all, says the Chicago Chronicle.
In the senate, where the republicans
are in a great hurry to get home be-
fore mor exposures of the necessary
effects of the imperial policy make
their party prospects more dismal, it
appears to be the case that in selecting
the measures which must be put
through in order to save the credit of
the party the Cuban bill has been left
out.
This is the more significant, because
the strenuous leader in the white
house has proclaimed his purpose to
reconvene congress Immediately in en-
ira session in case it shall be so con
tumacious as to adjourn without a sat
isfactory Cuban bill.
Whatever the sentiment may be as
to the merits of Cuban reciprocity and
as to the duty of the United States in
the matter. and whatever may be the
Influence of the beet sugar trust, it is
evident enough that there is a prevail
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Equal HOnOrs to All,

The sacred cause of the union will
lose nothing in the love and the hopes
of the people when the entire popula-
ton shall join in floral ceremonies by
which the memories of the dead on
both sides of the great civil war shall
be honored. We are now one people.
We can afford to bestow equal honors
on all our heroes. AS long as Deco
ration day and independence day shall
be commemorated with unusual OBJ
servances by the people of all sections
the union and the government shall
be secure. Parties may rise and fall.
The administration may pass from
one faction to another. Mere political
revolutions may be without number.
But the foundations of the union.
the constitution and the government
will be ecure from every assault. The
people are the last defense and bull.
wark of the union. As long as they
commemorate the days on which it
was established and the day which
celebrates it's preservation it shall not
fall.-Chicago Chronicle.
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last for the grave of the cap
tain. When she rose her eyes
were brimming again, and she saw but
i~ndistinctly the martial figure of the
old major, standing in an attitude of
reverence, with bowed head, the tips
of his huge white mustache twitching
curiously, and he seemed to be strug-
Cling for speech, and without know
ing why, her heart went out to him.
MY dear young lady" he began, but
something choked him and he had to
try again. "Do you know who these
men were? They were rebels; they
died fighting for the Lost Cause"
81 know" she said, simply; "but they
thought it was right; and they were
brave men. And-and to-day is
Memorial day"
The tips of the fierce white mustache
twitched again, and the major took off
his broad-brimmed hat with the most
stately courtesy.
Tell me, Miss Dorothy; did you
come here to" he could not finish,
and she answered the unspoken ques-
ton.
"Not purposely," she said. 81 had
been gathering wild flowers, and l
came here quite by accident. l didn't
know there was any n buried here"
The major cleared his throat and
came around to stand beside her.
"We buried them just where they
fell; it seemed most proper and fit
ting. They were on the picket line, and
the order to fall back never reached
them"
did you-did you know any of
them?" she faltered.
The erect figure of the old soldier
unbent at the question, and the major
choked again.
They were all old neighbors of
mine" he repoined; 'and this boy-this
Capt. Robert Percy Gordon-was my
sisters son and my name-child."
She started back at the word, and
the miserable boundary wrangle came
to it's own again.
"Then this is your land! these are
your-please forgive me, Maj. Loudon;
I didn't know"
The stately old man put on his hat
with a bow that Lord Chesterfield
might have envied. "It's getting right
late, Miss Dorothy. Will you permit
me to see you safe to your fathers
house?"
He tucked her arm under his own,
and they went, not by the road, but up
through the orchard and past the
great house. At the side door which
opened out of the library the major
excused himself, and when he came out
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she had stumbled upon a dell thickly
starred with sweet-soented white
a~zaleas; and remembering in the
midst of her troubled musings her
mothers fondness for this particular
wild flower, she had filed her arms
with the fragrant blooms.
She came out of the forest at the
foot of the mountain into an open
space which appeared to be an old field
long uncultivated. 1t was in the little
depression between the knoll and the
mountain, and the Loudon orchard ran
down to its farther edge. She could see
the roof of the great house above the
trees in the orchard, and thinking to
save time she cut across the old field
toward the road.
In mid-passage she came upon a low,
curving mound, grass-grown and half
hidden in a thicket of old-field pines.
1t was the remains of an old breast
work, and between the horns of the
curve were seven graves. Only one of
them was marked, and she knelt to
iCdu thS llsCl lptlOll vi thC pam hultC
headstone:
Sacred to the memory of
CAPTAIN ROBERT PERCY GORDON,
who, with six members of
his command, gave up his
life on this spot,
September 6, 1868,
while resisting the
advance of the Federal
ARMY of Invasion.
Dorothy's eyes were swimming when
she finished. She was altogether of
the other side; two uncles and her
grandfather were of this same Fed
eral Army of Invasion,"and these three
slept among the heroes in the national
cemetery at Chattanooga; but true
heroism knows no political creed, and
the tears came quickly when she pic
tured this little band of seven men ly-
ing behind the rude breastwork and
yielding up their lives freely in the
cause which they believed to be right.
"Poor fellows" she said, softly. "All
these years you've been lying here for
gotten in this lonely spot, and it is
left for the daughter of those who
fought against you to do you honor!"
Swiftly and with deft fingers she
twined the starry azaleas into seven
wreaths and laid them %reverently upon
the sunken mounds, leaving the
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COOKING RHU9ARB.
various Ways in which II May BE
Turned Into a Tasty Dish
for Dessert.

Rhubarb is very wholesome and pop.
nlar in the spring, but beyond its use
In pies, buildings and sauces, most
housewives do not know how to pre-
pare it. The part of the plant best
adapted to culinary purposes is the
footstalk of the leaf, which, unless
quite young, is carefully peeled and
cut into small pieces. Originally the
leaves of the plant were boiled as a pot
herb, says the Washington Star.
Little tartlets of rhubarb are made
with puff paste. The rhubarb, stewed,
sweetened and favored, is mixed with
an equal weight of beaten egg. Then
a spoonful is set on a piece of paste,
and when the crust is donethe rhubarb
tart is finished.
Or for a change the rhubarb may be
half cream in place of egg, or, again, a
custard may be formed with egg and
milk added in half weight to the
stewed rhubarb.
Half stewed rhubarb and half cream
is the formula for rheubarb cake. A
plate is lined with good pastry, the
mixture is spread thickly over this,
another crust is laid over the top and
the whole baked.
Cream is almost as much an essential
in good rhubarb cookery as gelatin.
In the case of the pie or pudding men,
toned above the addition of cream
when served at table is a necessity if
the best enjoyment of the dish is to be
gained. A little gelatin added to the
juice before it is put into pie, pudding
or tart will always improve it.
Still another dainty dish may be
made for the nursery tea by means of
rhubarb and gelatin. The stalks are
stewed and the juice withdrawn,
favored and sweetened. No coloring
is necessary, as the aim is to have
rhubarb snow or rhubarb sponge,
whichever the children elect to call it..
The juice is mixed with gelatin in the
degree right to make the jelly-rather
more than half an ounce to a pint.
Then for a pint the whites of two eggs
are beaten up into froth. A pinch of
powdered sugar or a pinch of salt will
aid the egg white to whisk up. When
the snowy egg froth is ready the jelly
ought to be getting thick for setting.
In any case it should be cold. The
"snow" is then whisked into the cool
ing jelly and the whole beaten together
for some time. The sponge is a beau
tiful dish. wholesome. dainty, very at
%tractive either for ordinary tea or
party table.
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a moment afterward he was ~bu.tonina


a moment afterward he was b~u.tonins
his coat.
Five minutes later they were CT oss.
ing the road in front of the farmhouse,
and the majors hand was on the gate
latch when Dorothy's father drove up
in the sulky. Notwithstanding all
that had befallen she expected an out
burst of bitter words on one side or
both, and caught her breath ~nervously.
But there was no need.
Good evening, Neighbor Hart
wood" said the major, genially. 81
just found your little gyerl here, pro-
Jecting around in my old field, and I
took the liberty, sab, of seeing her safe
at home"
John HARDWOOD was a man of few
words, but he climbed down from the
sulky and made the proper acknowl-
edgment of thanks.
And while I'm here" the major
went on, there's a little matter of
justice that I'd like to set right. A
good many years ago, when l sold off
this place to old jeff Anderson, there
was a deferred payment which was
never made. Instead of taking a mort
gage | merely withheld the deed; and
when old jeff died the matter was lost
sight of-lost sight of completely, sab,
till the other day when l happened to
run across the deed among some old
papers. 1t has just occurred to me,
sab, that you need this deed to make
your title good, and here it is"
John HARDWOOD took the deed, and
while he was trying to find words in
which to clothe a tumult of self-re-
proachful thoughts the ma jor began
again. -
And about that contemplate little
boundary matter, two or three feet,
more or less, shouldn't be allowed to
come betwixt good neighbors. Let
your fence stand right where it is,
sah."
Whereat John HARDWOOD found
speech at last. "No," he said, firmly.
81 was all wrong in that, maior-all
wrong from the beginning, and I hope
you will find it in your heart to forgive
me. examined the survey again to-
day, and it's just the other way
around; I'm on your land a foot and
eight inches and"
The interruption was the upcoming
of old Uncle Peter, spade on shoulder.
"Evenin', Miss Dor'thy; e%venin',
Marse HAYWOOD; evenin', Marse Rob-
but. Idone dig all Ter postes-holes-'
The major broke in with an explo-
sion:
"Why, you white-headed old scoun-
drel!-go back than and fill up those
holes before l skin you alive, sab!
Appears to me you're getting mighty
childish in your old age-it does, for a
fact!"
Dorothy slipped away in the midst
of the explosion, and a few minutes
later she had stripped her cherished
"La Neige" of its wealth of snow-white
blooms, and was fitting through the
old orchard with her arms laden with
the fragrant burden. The twilight was
m~ellowing into night when she reached
the graves in the old rifle pit, but there
was light enough to serve her purpose.
When she had added her thank-offer-
ing of roses to the wreathes of %azaIeas
she had put there before, she stood be-
side the grave of the young captain,
Goodnight" she said, softly. "On
that awful September morning long
ago you fought against us. But to-day
you've fought for us. Goodnight,
brave soldiers!'-Ladies' Home Jour.
nal.
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holes. The major had evidently taken
the law into his own hands and was GO
Ing 10 make sure of the nine points of
possession.
Does my father know you are
here?" she asked.
Nom. 1 s'pect he don't. But I
reckon he gwine find out fore long. l
des been watchin' for him ter come
t'arin' out dishyer way wild his gun
eve'y minute"
"You needn't be afraid. My father
doesn't settle his difficulties with a
gun. And, anyway, he wouldn't say
anything to you"
The old negro leaned on his spade
and glanced timorously over one Shout
der toward the distant farmhouse. and
over the other at the great house on
the knoll.
."Ps gwine tell you somepin, Miss
Dor'thy, but you mustn't never let on
dat l tol'hit. OF Marse Loudon he been
hearin' dat your pa gwine do dis an dat
an t'other, an he get pow'ful troubled
in his min. He done let on to young
Marse Percy like he gwine to run your
pa cl'ar otf'm dishyer place fore he
get trough wild him."
why, uncle; how could he do that?'
Deed, l don know dat, Miss Dor'thy.
Pears like de white folks kin do mos
anything dey wants ter. He say some
pin about some OF deed dat amt been
s'rend'ed yit; an when he low dat,
young Marse Percy he DIES up an r'ar
back an Missy Kate she let on like she
gwine ter cry. Den OF Marse Robbut
look like he gwine to brek somepin, an
holler at me ter tex de spade an go dig
dem postes-holes."
Dorothy turned away sick at heart.
She remembered something about a
flaw in the title; that there was an
unrecorded gap in the transfers of the
farm dating back TO it's purchase by
some former owner many years before,
1t had been represented that the deed
had been lost in the registrars office,
and her father had so far departed
from his cautions custom as to accept
the faulty title.
And now, out of this trivial conten-
ton over a bit of land barely wide
enough to carry the boundary fence,
was to grow a monstrous injustice
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ocean competition. Every new ocean
going ship launched on the Atlantic
seaboard would receive its subsidy as
soon as built and be absorbed in the
combination at the expense of the
American people. Without whipping
the devil around the stump, the sub
sidy might as well be given to the rail-
road trunk lines at once.
The senate is by no means so quick
TO respond to public sentiment as the
house, whose members must confront
their constituencies every two years.
But no less than seven republican SEN
ators opposed the subsidy bill, al
though it was recommended by sue
cessive republican national conven-
tions and pushed by Chairman Hanna
as a party measure entitled to the
loyal support of all republicans. In
vain Senator Frye and Senator Depew
pleaded with JUNCTION that republican
principles demanded the protection of
all American industries. whether by
duties or by subsidies, and that the
American shipping industry should not
be excluded from this protection. The
party whip could not lash the repub-
lican senators of Wisconsin. Iowa and
New Hampshire into support of a
scheme that is daily becoming by force
of events more %repulsive to the peo-
pie.
In the house opposition to subsidy
has been growing among the repub-
licans since the beginning of the ses-
sion, while the democrats are unani-
mously against the scheme. This
change among the republicans is due,
not so much to a wholesome senti-
ment against such legislative favor
itism as to a lively sense Of the po-
litical consequences of forcing this
subsidy job upon a reluctant country.
The prospect of the republican control
of the next house is precarious enough,
and it is feared, with just reason. that
subsidy is too heavy a burden to be
borne. Hence the subsidy bill will
not be passed in this session of con-
gress, and in the march of events the
pleas in its favor will be still weaker
before the next session. But the coun-
try will not readily forget that the
republican leaders have done their ut
most in behalf of a dangerous scheme
to throw millions of public money into
the lap of great steamship companies,
under the pretense of serving the
= 49,
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WHY THE COWBOYS LET GO.
The Gang Found a Woman with
spectacIes on Installed as Town
Marshall, and Felt Hurt.

81 was one of the founders of Grays.
vile, Col, said an eX-cattleman who
had been out of the business long
enough to have the horns rubbed off
him, relates the Detroit Free Press.
in fact, the hamlet was built on nv
own land and for the convenience of
three or four of my ranchmen. When
the town officers were named | had a
funny streak on, and | put up the name
of a woman to be city marshal. She
was accepted and she did not hesitate
to take the place. | had about 25
cowboys on my ranch, and one Satur-
day afternoon the whole gang started
off for the new town. None of them
had heard of the female officer, and
were calculating OF soaring the mar
shall half to death and then locking
him up. My crowd came struggling
back some hours before | had looked
for them. deep disgust written on every
face.
"'Well, boys. how do you like the
new town. I asked.
''They simply shook their heads in
reply.
Anybody get hurt in the fun?'
"'Didn't hear of anybody muttered
one.
"'1ou don't seem to have had much
of a time. You, there, Joe, what was
wrong"
Wrong? Wrong" he Indignantly
repeated. This gang went up to Grays-
vile to skeer a man with a gum
"'Well?'
"'And this gang found a woman
with a pair of spectacles on
"'Well?'
".And this gang was, so hurt IN its
feelins that it never took even a drink
Of whisky before it started back!'
"'Well, I'm sorry | said.
eyes, sir, and you named the wo
man for the place, and durn our hides
if we don't settle up and get our mon
,ey and be 40 miles away by sunrise!'
"Out of my gang" said the colonel,
"1s left that night, and more than 40
men in all left the ranches. Before we
could get new men to replace them
we had to pay that woman $3.50 to re-
sign and let a mar take her place. !
continued to recognize rights, but we
had no more female officials running
the public affairs of Graysville."
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Sweet Berry Shortcake.

Cream together n cup of sugar
and a large tablespoonful of butter.
Beat three eggs until light and stir
into the butter and sugar. Mix two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder with
two cups of sifted -four and sift
twice again, then stir in with the
other materials. Butter three deep
layer cake tins, place the dough in
these, and bake in a quick oven for
20 minutes. When done cover each
layer with a soft boiled white icing,
and whole sugared berries placed be-
tween. Serve hot or cold, without
acknowledgment Star.
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which was to turn them out of house
and home! Dorothy's breath came
thick at the thought, but she vas a
brave girl, and she FASTENED home to
do what she might before it should be
to late.
She found her father in the stable
putting the harness on one of the
horses. Therewas stern determination
written in every line of the fine ldface.
"Where are you going, father?" she
asked.
"To town, to swear out a warrant
against Loudon fol trespass," was the
curt reply. "He has sent mis- man over
to move that line fence"
"Oh, father, | wish you wouldn't!
And on Memorial day, too! Surely we
can afford to be generous on this day
of all Others"
SIT isn't a question of generosity;
I'd give him the land willingly if he
needed it, but I won't let him take it
when it doesn't belong to him"
But, father, just think how kind
they've all been to us since we came
here, strangers in a strange land. Have
you forgotten how Kate used to come
over and sit up night after night with
mother in that awful time two years
ago? And how the major used to come
twice a DAY to ask if there wasn't
something he could do for us?"
The hard lines in her fathers face
melted ever so little, but he went on
Harvesting the horse.
"No, 1 haven't forgotten; and I'd do
as much for him and his this minute.
I'm not angry, child, but it's a matter
of principle. In justice to you and
Tom, and to your mother, I am bound
to defend my legal rights"
"Please don't go to-day, father.
Won't you wait just a little while? As
it stands now the major is the ag-
gressor, and I'm sure he'll be sorry if
you'll only give him a little time to
think about it,"
For a moment she thought she had
won. He paused with the bride on his
arm, grasping the horses forelock.
Then he shook his headand slipped the
bride into place.
"It's no use, Dorothy, girl. It's got
to come, sooner or later, and I'd
rather have it done and over with"
She let him go at that, but when he
climbed to his seat in the sulky she
gave him a parting word.
Remember the day, father-we
used to call it our 'forgiving day at
home. Think of the good things the
major has done for us, and try to for
give him."
When he was gone she did not know
what to do with herself. With the
burden of the dreadful secret weighing
upon her-the secret which she had not
shared with her father for fear she
should tempt him to forbear from un-
worthy motives-she dared not face
her mother; and Toms CHEEKY whistle
warned her off from the workshop.
She went to the gate and watched her
father driving down the winding road.
He was letting the horse walk, and as
long as she could see him she fancied
that his determination was wavering.
When the sulky disappeared wei the
final hill she opened the gate and
walked aimlessly. in the opposite dr.
rection.
Her walk was a long one, and it led
her far up the slopes of the great
mountain which walls in the sheltered
valley on the west. Near the cliff line