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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07

tune and has settled there. He works
his farm and makes an honest and
good living by it; but as for his rent
roll and ancestral acres-they are to-
tally minus.
He has been a cowboy, has had bush
experiences for ten years, and is yet
only As years old. 1t is hardly likely
that he will figure in the coronation
procession, though if he cares to do
so he certainly can.
The earl of Seafieldis scarcely like
ly to journey from his chosen home in
New Zealand in order to take part in
the coming events of the year where
his peers will make such an important
show.
His father went out to New Zealand
in long years past to seek his fortune,
before he eve dreambed of coming
into the earldom of Seafeld. The
present lord was born in the colony.
and knows very little about England
from his wv experience.
He has a good business out there
III wv lobu VI lulC ldO llS-dlu, uCCOlu-
ing to his own account, does not intend
to return to the country whence he
derives his title, being far more com
Portable and happy where he is.
He is the head of the great family
of the Ogilvies, renowned in history
and story, and is yet quite a young
man, being but 26 years of age.
At a meeting of the Universalist Be-
neficent society in Soho square, some
time ago, it was stated that one of
the chief cases of hardship dealt with
by the society during the year was
that of a viscountess who, at the time
of applying for assistance, was try
ing to earn her living by making shirts
at four cents apiece, and was in re-
ceipt of parish relief.
Her husband was dead, and had left
her nothing to live on; he had himself
for years had terrible hard work to
support the two of them.
Night Thoughts,
81 originate some Of my best ideaA
while 1 sleep."'
"You need more sleep."-Chicago
American.
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EARLS WITHOUT ESTATES.
One a Cottager, One a Cowboy and
Another a Farmer in New Zea-
land Among the Lot.

So accustomed is the British mind
to associating a title with a vast rent
roll and extensive ancestral estates
that it seems almost impossible to
grasp the fact that there are to-day
noble earls and other lights of the
peerage of our land who cannot lay
claim to any rent-roll or ownership of
the wide acres at all.
The question came prominently into
notice with the death of the recent
earl of Perth at that unimposing
house by the side of Kew green. Here
he had lived for many years, humble
and unknown to the man in the street,
says Stray Stories.
How many of the thousands who
trooped past his house in Kew gardens
every holiday ever thought for a min
ute that the solitary elderly man
standing watching them at that little
gate was no other than the represent
ative of that great race of Scotch earls
who had stuck manfully and bravely
to the cause of the Stuarts, and lost
their all in land and money by so do
ing?
Wide lands and noble estates had
been the heritage of the Drummonds
in centuries onward from the con-
quest; this earl - recently dead
never held any of them. They had
all been confiscated by Hanoverian
kings.
The earl of Caithness now lives in
the far west, where he has built him.
self a wood house, which he has named
after his ancestral seat in Scotland
Berridale farm.
The earls of Caithness in the olden
days used to live at Berridale, in Cath
ness; but this estate now has passed
to the duke of Portland, and the pres
emit earl of Caithness now finds him
self, if he lands in Scotland, without
a single acre of land in the country!
He went to America to seek his for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

1t is remarkable how eager the
administration newspapers are to ac-
cept Dewey's opinion of Aguinaldo,
and how reluctant they are to accept
Dewey's opinion of Schley.-Detroit
Free Press.
Stranger things have happened
than that the tariff should finally split
the republican party as free silver
split the democratic party, and that
the democratic party should eventual
ly be restored to power through the
issue that it subordinated in 1s96.-De-
troit Free Press.
-Fire-Alarm Foraker, of Ohio,
says that all the other republican
presidential booms except Roosevelt's
are "fickering flames that some ambi-
tious partisans are trying to fan into
a blaze" Foraker's colleague, Mark
Hanna, may be a"hickering blaze" but
he has the money to burn, and watch
him roast Foraker!-Albany Argus.
Trust insistence that the tariff
shall be held sacred is full of promise
for democratic success in the near fu-
ture. The ''sacredness" of a system of
taxation which overburdens the many
for the enrichment of the few is not
apparent to the people. The high pro-
tective tariff, the trusts which it has
created, and the party of the tariff and
the trusts must all go.-St. Louis Re-
public.
There is no doubt that tariff re-
form and the related question of mo-
nopoly presents the most concrete and
popular issue for the democrats. Thou
sands of republicans see that our
worse-than-war tariff, in many in
stances so per cent. higher than it was
when our Infant industries" were
really young and needed protection, is
an obstacle to justice to Cuba, a him
drance to the reciprocity for which
President Mckinley argued in his last
speech, a prolific mother of trusts"
a bulwark to monopolies, an oppres-
sion to consumers and a baneful COR
rupter of politics.-N. Y. World.
In the congressional campaigns
of 1902 and the presidential campaign
of 1904 the money of the trusts will be
lavishly used to defeat the will of the
people. A gigantic slush fund will be
at the disposal of the republican cam
paign managers. The full trust infu-
ence, as controlling the action Of trust
employees, will be exerted in behalf OF
republican victory at the polls. The
democratic party, fighting the peo-
pies battles, calls on the people Cor
fearless support. The trust evil will
be removed from American life in
short orderi If American voters are true
to their duty.-St. Louis Republic.
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cal study of the outlook. OF course, each season will have its
FAVORlTE, but there will not be so large a gap between the winner
and those which divide honors and large money. 1t will no longer
be a question of THE NOVEL OF YEAR, but of the NOV
ELS OF THE YEAR.
seriously doubt if any novel brought out in the next year will
reach a sale OF a half-mllion copies; but l am convinced that more
preceding year.
The reason for this is because there has been a tremendous in
crease in the number of fiction readers in the last three years.
these raw recruits entered the field without definite tastes and con-
sequenty were in a mood to be stampeded by the din Of explota-
ton and advertising. Now, some of them have begun to develop in
dependent likes and dslikes, and they will not all go in the same
direction, simply because they see a fulpage advertisement that
points the way.
All this is for the general good of American literature. In the
stampede after one or two favorites, some OF the best books OF
fiction that have been produced in the last few years have been almost
wholly lost sight of and have met a reception far beneath their
merits. There has been more than enough good fiction produced
to go round at a time when the tastes of a large army Of raw re-
crure were in a condition to be MANIPULATED BY ADVER-
Using. And even the readers of established and discriminating
tastes were led aside by the popular clamor and became BUYERS
of THE BOOK OF THE HOUR.
Another reason why the good novels of every kind are in better
position than ever before to get a hearing is to be found in the
popularity of the SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY This institution is
placing within the reach of readers Of moderate means all the good
current fiction. The result is that subscribers to these libraries will
have a chance to read many instead Of one or two of the best novels
of the day. This will bring variety into their reading, and will make
for a more catholic selection Of FAVORITES.
MuAA. ML4ALN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
A SINGER OF THE MORNING.

When storms were fallin' dreary, an
the world was full o. sighs,
He allus kept a-singin' of the mornin In
the skies;
OF the mornin', far away,
Where the shadows never stay
OF the beauty an the brightness of the
everlastin' day!
He heard, across the pillows, not the
tempest's solemn roar,
But the bells that ring to harbor all the
ships that seek the shore;
In the storm the rainbow's ray,
And forever, far away,
The brightness an the blessedness of
everlastin' day!
And so, his soul was comforted, and
though the way was dim,
There never was a night that hid the
Star of Hope from him;
Sweet words to sing an say
Life's winter bright as May,
In the beauty an the brightness Of the
everlastin' day!
IF. L.. Stanton. in Atlanta Constitution.
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The Novel Of Next Year
BY EDwARD d. APPLETON,
OF the Publishing Firm, of D. Appleton & Co.. New York.

Soon the expression "the novel of the
year" will be a misnomer. Perhaps that
time is already at hand. And why, do you
ask, will this phrase cease to apply in the
sense that it is now commonly used?
Because the day of half-mi1lion sellers
is past, or practically SO. Hereafter, the
field will be more evenly divided so far as
the triumphs OF good fiction is concerned.
More good novels will enjoy comparatively
large sales, and no one novel will monopo-
lie the entire field. These are the conclu-
sions that are forced upon me BY a practi-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
Very Different.

Benham-I believe a woman a
love two men at the same time.
Mrs. Bepham-If she is a married
woman she has to try to.
"What do you mean?"
"She has to try to love her hus.
band and he isn't the same man when
they have company that he is when
they haven't any."-Brooklyr Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
Anything Possible There

"The biggest rattlesnake l ever
saw" the passenger in the linen dust
err was saying, II killed myself. TWAS
IL feet long and had so rattles."
"But the biggest rattlesnake of
which there is any record" objected
the passenger with the eyeglasses,
"was only eight and a half feet long
and had just 81 rattles."
But the one Pm talking about was
IN Kansas."-Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07

II thought she was a woman of un.
breakable will" said the man with
the lob-tailed coat.
"And SO she was" said the man with
the incandescent whiskerS.
"Yet you tell me that she is COM
pletely Subservient to her husband"
went on the first man.
swell, you see, she married a law
yer, and he broke the will."-Balti-
more American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07

Hewitt-How many hours a day do
you sleep?
Jewett-None.
But how do you manage to live?'
II do my sleeping in the night
N. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
FueI Scarce I'm Mexicn-

One of the greatest drawbacks in
Mexico is the scarcity of fuel. Hopes
are placed in the probable discovery
OF oil in paying quantities.-N Y.
Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The engagement is announced OF Miss
Mary Wheat, OF Berryvfile, to Mr.. D.
Arcy Potter, of Baltimore. The wedding
is to take place April 80.
The famous Extra Billie" Rogers
tract Of land 10 the upper end OF Eau.
quier county, containing 800 acres. has
been sold to a Mr.. Adams, of New
York, for $1,000.
James Jones, 50 years of age. an es.
teemed citizen of the Wilderness
neighborhood, In Spoltsylvania county,
died yesterday. He leaves three soDs
and three daughters.
At an early hour yesterday morning
the small town OF Newport, Giles coun-
ty, was practically destroyed by fire.
Every store in the place was buried.
Two hotels and the best residences
we're leveled to the ground. Loss,
100000.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance has
Issued invitations to q complimentary
entertainment to be given in the opera
house In Fredericksburg on the evening
of April 10. Professor s. T. Ford, the
famous story.tslIer and humorist, will
give q number of impersonations and
dialect stories for the amusement OF the
guests of the evening.
The following pensions have been
granted to persons living 10 Virginia:
Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.,
Henry Murphy, Tszewell, s.; Samuel
Stout, National Soldiers Home, Eliza
beth City, s12; Isaac P. Force, Alexsn-
dria. IS. Special, act March 2l-James
Willard, Lovettsville, $50; Rnody Ann
Bradshaw, LoVingsion, $40.
Charged with asssultiog sixteen-year-
old Pearl Perry and with mob clsmor-
iug for his life in North Carolina,
Thomas Early eluded posse early
Monday night and escaped to Virginia,
where he was captured yesterday mora
ing near Cypress Chapel. Early was
smuggled out OF Suffolk jail last night
for fear OF lynehing and was taken TO
the Jail at Portsmouth.
The Good Roads Convention met this
evening 10 Charlottesville. General
Ftzhugh Lee called the body to Or
der. Senator Thomas s. Martin will
address the convention this evening,
General Miles, Admiral Schey, Sena-
tor Daniel and Governor Montague on
Thursday, and Senator Hanna on FRI
day. A special train over the Southern
Railway from Washington on Thursday
will brig 60 odd Senators and 100 Rep
resentatives, who will be entertained at
Monticello by Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy.
stuyvesant Fish. president of the lii.
nois Central Railway, will arrive in his
special car this evening, IS will Preei-
dent Samuel Spencer, OF the Southern
Railway.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

In the constitutional convention yes
terday morning Senator Daniel closed
his speech 10 favor OF the suffrage plan
agreed upon by the democratic confer
ence. The Senator made an eloquent
defense OF the adoption ofthe temper
airy understanding clause. He pointed
to the case OF the city OF Washington,
where the federal government has alb
solute control OF municipal affairs, as q
notable precedent for resorting to un-
usual measures for continuing white
supremacy in governmental affairs.
The Senator was followed by Messrs
Thom, Gillepsie and others 10 opposi-
ton to the democratic suffrage plan as
agreed upon by the conference.
The only vote reached at the morn
ing session was an amendment, by Mr.
Flood, TO strike out three years pre-
payment of poll tax aud substitute one
year; it was overwhelmingly defestad.
When the understanding clause was
reached Mr.. Thom made an Onslaught
upon ii, urging that it was plan to
keep the negro from voting.
At the afternoon session the con-
tested portion Of the suffrage clause re-
lating 10 an understanding clause was
adop.ed by o vote of Al - q aft
slight amenement. The adoption oi
the ccnttitutioD will 90 rapidly forward
until it comes up for adoption az a
whole, when there will be- hual
fight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
FROM WASHlNGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette
Washingtong. D. c.. April 2.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washingtong, D. c., April 2.
The President today nominated the
following: To be major general 10 the
army, to fill the vacancy created by
the retirement of Gen. Oils, Brigadier
Gen. r ?. Hughes; to be brigadier
generals. Col. M. V. Sheridan, OF the
Adjutsut Generals Department, Col.
Isaac d. De Russy, of the 18th To-
fantry, Col. Andrew S. Burt OF the 25th
Infantry.
The House Committee on Territories
has reported the omnibus bill, granting
Statehood TO the territories of OKLA.
homa, Arizona and New Mexico. 1t is
generally believed that Arizona and
New Mexico will be democratic and that
Oklahoma is more likely to 60 demo
cratic than republican. The admission
of these territories ct this time would
probably mean the addition of four and
possibly six democratic Senators to the
Senate and from six to nine democratic
votes to the next Electoral College.
Forty more clerks Of the census Office
were discharged yesterday and the
force will probably be- reduced by sew
eral dozsn every day this week. In
the meantime, according to clerks who
have been discharged, the entire force
Of the census office is being worked until
o'clock each evening, and for this
extra work Of one hour per day there
IL no corresponding increase in salary.
Representative Patterson introduced
a bill today providing that "from and
after the passage OF this act there shall
be neither slavery nor involuntary ser.
vitude 10 the Philippine archipelago,
or 10 any province or dependency now
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
Strike On.

Altoona, Pa, April 2.-The strike 10
the Buffalo, Rochester & PtisburR
bituminous coal field went into effect
this oruing. The thousands Of men
employed by the Buffalo. Rochester &
Pittsburg company refused to work
and t lie district Is tied up completely.
The only men who are working are
tie bumpers aud traokmen and these,
too, will be ordered out unless Manager
Robinson makes concessions. The
miners are determined and will resist
any sttsmpt made to fill their place.
with other labor. The situation, while
serious, ia quiet with no signs of any
violence
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
The Kurdish Tragedy.

Philadelphia, April William q.
Lane, the negro murderer. passed a
restless night 10 his cell closely guard
ed. Lanes third victim, little Eloise
Furbush, IL 10 critical condition. The
bullet has not been extracted aud 1t ia
thought to lie in such a dangerous
place that it is deemed unwise to az.
tempt another operation. Lanes
fourth victim was to have been
Agnes, the colored servant girl
employed in the house, ana toe
only other occupant of the dwelling,
Shortly before she heard the shots
Agnes said Lane had come into the
kitchen and asked her to go down to
the cellar. She refused, thinking that
Lane meant to play some April fool
trick on her. Lane then went up stairs
and the shooting followed. Lane was
committed to prision today, to await
the action of the coroner. The hearing
wss attended by big crowds who muir
INJURED angrily against the prisoner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 2. 1902
Tur srArEooNvENr1oN on Saturday

Tuu srATECoNyENTIoN on Saturday
re-arranged its rules, 80 that u may
rsscind any section OF the consu'uVio"
that il has adopted, and also may in'
sert new clauses if it sees 6t. This be-
ing the case it is hoped that the con-
veotlon will, without delay, rescind its
action concerning the election OF State
Senators. and continue 10 force the safe,
conservative and old time Virginia sys'
tenn of "holdoyer" Senators. Experience
has proven that this system, which has
preyailed since the foundation OF the
State. has often saved the Common
wealth from dire injury when passing
public clamor made unreasonable de-
mands upon q new legislature. Then
IL was that the Senate with never less
than one-half old members, acted IS q
balance wheel and prevented perni'
ojous legislation. Why members OF the
convention who had served in the legis-
Iature and knew all these facts should
have voted to elect Senators every Two
wears is passing strange, and especially
ia this so Of those who for months ad-
yocated qusdrennisl sessions Of the
legislature. Another clause In the
proposed new constitution Wnicn
never should have been placed there
and which should be Immediately ex-
plunged, ia that relating to the board OF
commissioners. Under this clause more
power, tyranny and corruption is pos
sible than can be readily comprehended
by those unfamiliar with politics and
Office holding. A combination between q
governor and the railroad commission
ers under the proposed new law could
Mace the State ct the mercy OF such
combination, and 3 combination against
the railroads could almost break them
up aud materially interfere with II not
prevent the starting In the State OF any
nau enternrjses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02

THE STATE legislature has adjourned
aud the people breathe freer. for
though no very radical measures were
proposed or enacted at this session, go
far as known at this writing, yet no
one knew at what moment such might
have occurred and when adjournment
came, the agony on this score Of course
WAS over. Nor ia it known that any
scandal attaches to the session just
cl 1sed, or If it does it fades into insignlf-
icauce compared to that Of some of the
previous sessions when it was openly
charged that many OF the members
were looking after their own interests
rather than those OF the State and that
money was oorruptly used 10 the pas
sage or cefest of many measures.
Yes, let ell be thankful that the
legislature has adjourned and regret
that the sessions are not quadrennial
instead OF biennial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-02
NEGRO LYNCHED.


Wsltsr Allen, q negro, charged with
criminally assaulting Miss Blossom
Adamsoo, a fifteen. year.old girl, In
Rome, Ga, Monday afternoon, was
taken from the jail last night by 1000
people, who battered the prision doors
down, and hanged to an electric light
pole 10 the principal portion of the
city. A volley was fred afterward and
fully q thousand bullets entered the
negro. Mics Adamson was on her way
to dressmaker's late Monday after
uoon, when che was met by Allen, who
told her that q dressmaker at desig.
dated residence was wsiting to see her.
The young girl went to the house men
tiooed by the negro, who followed her
into the house, which Miss Adamson
fo1nd was vacant. A lady on q near
by porch, attracted by the noise OF the
struggle, succeeded in frightening AL
len away, and he escaped. Late yester.
day afternoon ne was captured sod
taken ID Rome and placed In jail. A:
soon "a the news of his capture wss
learned a mob formed last night and
marched to the Jail, demanding the
uegro. The sheriff refused to deliver
the keys and pleaded that the law
should be allowed to take its course
Upon the sherff's refusal of the keys
the Jail door was forced open with
sledge hammers aud the steel cage oil
Aliens cell broken in. The negro was
carried square and half away and
allowed ID make a statement. Allen
declared that he was innocent and
prayed that the guilty party. would be
found. All men who took part in the
hanging were unmasked. Miss Adam
son belongs to one Of the most promi-
nent families 10 Rome.