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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
CHILDREN AND NEWSPAPERS.
Good Daily Publications Are of Great
Benefit Rather Than Harm to
Young Readers.

In a recent article in a current mag.
azine there is a protest against the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. at is a &C.
p,orabie fact that of late years a num-
Der of excellent magazines for children
have ben discontinued" says a writer
in the Milwaukee Sentinel, who goes
on to show that the vogue of the
newspaper has shortened the term of
childhood and made it impossible to
III intain juvenile periodicals.
1t is impossible to prevent a boy or
a girl from learning the facts of life.
They come, prematurely perhaps, in a
hundred different ways outside the
columns of the newspaper. Much pre-
mature knowledge is gathered at
school. The streets, the theater, the
pubic conveyances-all furnish sights
and scenes that reveal much to the in
quiring youthful mind. While it is to
be regretted that the accounts of
crimes and murders must be printed,
these are actualities that cannot be
ignored. The child that is old enough
to read about what is happening in the
world is old enough to begin to under
stand something of the many-sided
phases of humanity. The ephemeral
contents of the daily paper present
much that is instructive. Indeed, in
some schools the lessons in current
events are as important as any on the
list of regular studies. Contempora-
neous history, rightly read, is not less
instructive than that which deals with
ancient and medieval times.
Instead Of forbidding children to
read newspapers, parents should
choose the best journals and teach
their children to read about matters
of general interest. Critics may sound
the alarm, but it is vain to prevent the
newspaper-reading child from existing.
Since he has been evolved, it is well to
respect his existence and to supply him
with the best intellectual food for his
twentieth century mind.
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VALUE OF THE AUTOMOBILE.
1t Has It's Uses in a Commercial Way
as Well as for the Pleasure
of Faddists.

Automobiling is a royal sport, as
anyone knows who has ridden in the
chautfeur's sea of a 4O-horse power
machine on a well-kept country road.
But | do not plead for the automobile
as a pleasure machine. | am not a
faddist. The automobile is a CONNER
cial necessity. Its place is with the
electric street car, the locomotive and
the traction engine, writes Henry
F%ournier, in Success.
While automobiling is now a fad
among well-to-do Americans (al-
though l believe it will find a perma-
nent place in recreation and sport),
the future of the automobile does not
depend upon it's use by pleasure seek
ers. Its great commercial value is not
yet appreciated, even by those who
are most interested in the develop
ment of the machine. 1t is a great
time saver. In America, "time is mon
ey" more than anywhere else in the
world. The great newspapers, in their
race to get the latest news first to
distant parts of their cities, now EN-
ploy automobiles to carry the papers
from the pressrooms to the news
stands. They travel faster than the
electric cars. The hospitals, to save
human lives, send automobile ambu-
lances to transport the injured more
safely and quickly to the surgeons.
The large shops are greatly improving
their delivery service by using auto
mobiles instead of vehicles drawn by
horses. The problem of transporting
light freight about a large city like
New York is being solved by the auto
mobile. Street railways have tried it,
but they could not do it successfully
because of the interference with pas
senger traffic, and the impossibility
of delivering goods away from the
few streets where tracks are laid. An
automobile delivery wagon does not
have its route marked out by rails.
L look to see all the ordinary work
of transportation in the great cities
of the world-such as New York, Lon
don, Paris and Chicago-done without
horses, and | think the change will be
made much sooner than most people
have any idea of. Everything will be
done with greater dispatch; the
streets will be less congested, and,
most important of all, clean. Think
what a crowded thoroughfare like
Broadway, New York city, would be
with no horses in sight, only motor
vehicles speeding about hither and
Won!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
LINCOLN BENT OVER THE BED.

with which they started in business
had been changed many times, until
a very large one was used now.
Little Madge had become an expert
at making sandwiches; never getting
the slices of bread too thick and al
ways having just enough meat be-
tween them.
She felt rather timid about going
out alone; but what was there to do?
Somebody had to go, for they needed
the money; SO she buttoned Up her
coat, pulled on her gloves and brave
ly started out.
By keeping away from the crowd
ed streets little Madge soon reached
the place where she and Bonnie al
ways stood.
She had never seen SO many people
out before. Everybody was hurrying
along and all were talking about the
latest news of the war. 1t seemed as
though all Washington was expect
ing to hear that peace had been de-
clared and the war over.
Good morning, Madge," a deep
voice called, and she looked up to see
Congressman Chambers close beside
her, waiting for his usual bunch of
violets.
where's the brother?" he asked.
"Sick, sir, but I guess he'll be out
again SOON"
BUY him something good with
this" the kindly congressman said,
and pressed some change into her
hand.
"Thank you, sir; I'll tell Bonnie,
and when he's we'll he'll thank you
himself"
II wish the president would come
by to-day; / haven't seen him in two
months and pap always asks about
him when / go home; but maybe he's
too busy to walk the way he used
to. and" Her thoughts were inter
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
PITH AND POINT.

Chatter-"Charley has all the eccen-
tricities of genius" Clubber-"But he
hasn't the genius."-Town Topics.
Dogs bark when there is nothing
going on. Same complaint about peo-
pie talking.-Atchison Globe.
The average nan looks all right in
a new suit of clothes, but it is a cheese
sandwich TO a bakery that he doesn't
feel that way.-Chicago Daily News.
Mrs. Muggins-"My husband told me
a barefaced lie when he came home
this morning" Mrs. Buggins-"The
lie m husband told me had whiskers
on it."-Philadelphia Record.
$50 you were once an actor?" Eyes,
mum, and l had de highest role on de
programme" "Ah, the hero?" "No,
mum, l was de man dat sat up in de
flies an tor up paper fer de snow
storm."-Chicago Daily News.
One of the western editors has this
Billeville paragraph: "The blizzard
blew us and our office over into the
next county; but we were wanting
to move anyhow, and thus saved all
railroad expenses."-Atlanta COnsti-
tuition.
An Important Question.-"This,"
said the guide, with an important
flourish, sis the famous Sistine Modon-
ma by Raphael. 1t is valued at close to
one million dollars" 'Ah!" remarked
the American tourist. And does that
include the frame ?"-Philadelphia
Press.
Sir George at School.-A new boy had
come to school fresh from the country,
and the ready "Sir" and Miss" of the
city child were quiteu Unknown to him,
"What's your name?" queried the mas
ter. George Hamilton" add Sir
to that, boy" "Sir George Hamilton"
came the unexpected reply.-Boston
Courier.
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to walk before they can get out OF
the scrape. You have lost your in
terest in pictures long ago. 1t is nc
longer the study of art that engages
your mind, but a question of physica.
endurance. | suppose people have
died from exhaustion in the Floren
tine art galleries, and that theil
m are included in the long list
of martyrs identified with this city
but the authorities have been careful
not to let the facts leak out. The
guide book tells you that this long
passage was suggested byea similar
arrangement in the palace of Priam
king of Troy, and was adopted 81
that the inhabitants of either place
could escape through the other wher
it became necessary, as it often did
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
A Land Of Refuge
for the Jews
By B.
The Oldest Rabbi in Chicago.

hope. In Russia, where about one-haf of the ten or twelve mi
lions of Jews of the world live, they are prosecuted almost beyons
endurance for no other reason than that they are Jews. The whole
OF the reading world is conversant with the laws of Russia on thi
subject, but bad as they are they are worse in Roumania, and quite
as bad in GaHcia.
And it is these conditions of abiect servitude to a people in no.
wise superior, but often inferior to those they so cruelty prosecute
that has inspired the hope in the Israeltish heart OF soon again
going back to the land of David.
For years the germs of such a hope have been developing and
growing, and the roots of them deepening. Societies were formed
and they multiplied rapdly-to nounsh these hopes and to consider
practical ways and means to realize them. The movement spread
and 1t extended into almost all countries where Jews are to be found
This movement goes now by the name ZIONISM, or ZlONlSTlC
MOVEMENT.
In 1897 a general congress of delegates from a large number
and then and there the socaned Basel Programme was laid down
Its main point is the declaration that it is the aim and object OF the
movement to create a secure home, SO to say a Land of Refuge
guaranteed by national and international laws, for the myriads OF
poor and downrodden Israehtes, and that this land of refuge shall
be Palestine and the adjacent Syrian provinces. OF course, no one
thinks of a fully independent Jewish State at present, and a Turkish
suzeralnty is considered as sefunderstood.
A VERY LARGE EXODUS OF JEWS FROM AMERICA
TO PALESTINE is HARDLY TO BE EXPECTED. Yet a small
number of them, actuated by the strong sentiment of love for the
country Of the Patrarchs and the Prophets, may possibly 60 there
if the Zionistic endeavors should, more or less, be crowned by sue
cess.
1t cannot be denied that the sympathy with this worldwide move
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

the street to the news stand for
change.
She had only covered half the dis
lance when a team of carriage horses
swung around the corner.
Too late the coachman saw her.
There was a little scream, two horses
jerked back on their launches and
Madge lay on the pavement, uncon-
s%cious, with one little arm broken.
Men rushed to pick her up; but one
tall form was ahead of them all. Lin
coin, with all the tenderness in his
great heart aroused, stopped and
picked the little form up in his arms.
"Where does she live? {" he asked, and
a man standing at his side, with
Madge's basket in his hand, volun-
teered to show the way to her home.
Lincoln could have called an ambu-
lance or sent her home in a carriage,
but that was not this great mans way.
Where help was needed he gave it him
self, and so it was that those who were
on Pennsylvania avenue that Lincoln's
birthday saw the president pass along
with a little injured girl in his arms.
A short walk and they reached the
house, where Madge's father, steady
ing himself on crutches, met them at
the door.
"Your little girl has been injured;
show me a bed and I'll place her ON
it," Lincoln said.
A doctor was called and soon Madge
opened her eyes and said:
Papa, the president"
Eyes, dear, the president is here and
only waits to know you're all right,
before leaving"
Lincoln bent over the bed and plac-
ing one arm around little Madge said:
wont you give the president a kiss
before he goes?"
Madge raised her head and lincoln,
lover Of all children. kissed her and
said: "Good-by, little one. I shall look
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
GALLERIES OF FLORENCE.
Stored with Miles of Priceless Gems
of Art of Infinite Variety
and Interest.

Florence owes it's greatest art gal
leries and museums to the wicked
Medicis, and the treasures they con
tain are Incompatible in variety and
number. There are 16 examples of
Raphael in the Pittti collection alone,
and in the gallery of the Utfizi one
can walk several miles between walls
that are covered with priceless gems
and under ceilings that are frescoed
by the most famous masters of the
brush. 1t has always been a disputed
question, writes William e. Curtis, in
the Chicago Record-Herald, whether
good thing, and advocates of the af-
irmative can find abundant evidence
here. When a stranger enters the
Uffizi gallery and climbs the long
stairways to the top of the build
ing he does not realize the task which
lies before him, but after awhile,
when his legs begin to get weary
and his brain begins to whirl and
his memory has become overloaded
so that he will have Nightmares of
pictures for a week, he inquiries the
way out. The attendant tells him
there is no exit except at the place
he entered, and that he must return
by the route he came, which is a
mile or two long, Or he must keep
on going until he reaches the en-
trance to the Pitt gallery, which is
situated somewhere in the suburbs
of the city.
The two great galleries are con-
nected by what seems to be an in
terminable tunnel. 1t crosses the
river, penetrates monasteries,
churches, business blocks and pri-
vate houses, and the entire distance
is lined with portraits of the Medici
family and other prominent charac-
ters in Italian history. There is a
string of popes about half a mile
long. There is no society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals in
Florence, but some good Samaritan
has placed benches along this tunnel,
where tired people can sit down and
wish they had never come, and Won
der how much farther they will have
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
His N~eighbor's Assets.

A New York firm applied to Abra-
ham Lincoln some years before he
became president for information as
to the financial standing of one Of
his neighbors. Mr.. Lincoln replied as
follows:
"Yours of the 10th inst. received
1 am we'll acquainted with Mr.. ",
and know his circumstances. First
Of all, he has a wife and baby; to-
gether, they ought to be worth $780,.
900. Secondly, he has on office, in
whichthere are a table worth $3.50, and
three chairs, worth, say, one dollar.
Last Of all there is in one corner a
large rat hole. which will bear looking
into. Respectfully yours, A. Lircoln.r
Short Stories.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
BITS OF FEMININITY.
That Are Now in Vogue with
Smart Dressers.

One of the special novelties in hats
is a large toque of white chiffon and
ermine tails, trimmed with black
swallows.
The small French postillion, some.
what wider at the bottom than at the
top, each tab about seven inches in
length, is attached to the newest Elton
jackets, lined with white satin.
Pink in all shades from the deep
claret pink, which needs a perfect
skin for it's near proximity, is to be
the highest note of summer color.
Pale shrimp pink, deep coral pinks,
delicate rose pinks, which seem to
change to white as one looks, and the
lovely strawberry pinks are all to be
seen in windows and on counters Just
now.
Sable furs are especially distin-
guished with the white gown; and
really about the most luxurious gown
you can have is a white cloth trimmed
handsomely with Irish lace and worn
with sable, which are so effective in
contrast.
Very smart fur toques have a per-
fectly fiat crown Of ermine, sable or
chinchilla, and a brim underneath of
velvet, twisted prettily or made in a
series of tucks. This sort of hat has
q bunch of flowers put on quite fiat
at one side.
Irish lace still holds a prominent
place in the blouse department. 1t
is used for both loose and close-ftting
boleros, in bands arranged in various
ways, and for collars and deep cuffs,
In pure white it is n of the pretti-
est laces there is, for any purpose
where heavy lace is desired.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

In deciding to issue a magazin,
dealing with aerial navigation we
make no attempt at prophecy, but
there is no question that flying by
human beings is nearer realization
than many people imagine, and whe1
we reflect upon what has been done
in other branches of engineering il
requires a very small effort of tn,
imagination to realize what MAY
transpire in the development of aeria
navigation in the near future.-Lon
don Flying.
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ment is growing among the ews from year to
year. Uncounted thousands have now become
convincedthat Zionismopens the bestway that
could be devised to secure for the Jews, liv-
ing in abject poverty and under unbearable
tyranny, a happy and peaceful home a home
where they will find liberty of conscience, free
dom from oppression, and the possibilities to
develop, undisturbedly, the many noble and
promising germs for a high intellectual and
moral life which Divine Providence has i'm
planted into the Jewish race. And thus, it is
hoped, Israel will become again a blessing
for the world.
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rupted by a senate page with a ter
rible appetite, who wanted two chick
en- sandwiches in a hurry.
Soon the clerks from the different
departments began to pass by on
their way home to dinner. Some of
them stopped to buy a sandwich from
Madge and then passed on, talking
and laughing.
"Well, little Madge, where's that
brother of yours to-day? 1t seems
strange to see you here without
him." a tall newspaper correspondent
said as he picked out a large apple.
PENNIES not well, and SO l
thought I'd come alone. l knew I'd
get along all right, and so l have"
she proudly said.
For the next half hour she was kept
busy, as all the clerks and messengers
needed waiting on. Then there came
a little rest and Madge looked up and
down the long avenue,
As she looked up a second time she
caught sight of a tall form coming
her way. Madge knew it we'll, for no
other man in Washington walked like
Lincoln.
She kept her eyes fastened onthim as
he drew nearer, so as to have lots to
tell her father when she returned
home.
Her little heart was beating with
excitement. ooh! If he would only
stop, just for a minute, so | could
| speak to him. He looks 80 sad. l won
der why"
just then a boy stopped to buy an
apple. He gave her a ten-cent piece
and Madge did not have pennies
enough to make change.
"Wait a minute, please, and I'll get
! it," she said, and started to run across
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06
ONE
LINC0LN'S
BIRTHDAY.
A story founded Oh heE.
$0YMmANamNw.

Into a little house on n of the side
streets near Pennsylvania avenue the
rays of the SUN brightly shene, glad
dening the hearts of those who lived
there, an invalid father and his two
little children, Madge and Bonnie.
"Madge, you'll have to take the
basket out to-day; Bonnie is toe
SICK" the father said.
"All right, papa, I guess I'll get
along alone"
Little Madge went to work getting
the basket of sandwiches, apples anC
flowers ready. Such sandwiches as
they were, too. Every messenger
boy, page and congressman knew
Madge and Bonnie and the sand.
wiches they sold IN Pennsylvania
avenue every day at lunch time.
Since their fathers return from The
war, a cripple, Madge and Bonnie had
supported him, and the little basket
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for you when l pass down Pennsyl-
vania avenue again"
Many times after Madge was well
the president passed and gave her a
pleasant greeting. Then came the
night of the 18th of April, when the
news spread like wildfre that Lincoln
had been shot, and when the story of
his death was told the next morning
one pair of eyes were filled with tears
and one little heart was full of sad
ness at the passing away of the great,
kindly man, whose heart was filled
with love and tenderness for all man.
kind.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

TetuTn 10 the land, Where tnOu
sands of years ago, their ances
tors had lived as an Independent
nation "A FREE PEOPL.
UPON FREE GROUND.
The condition of the Jews o
to-day in many parts of tt
world is such as to inspire thi
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

Truth is mighty-mighty iuconven
lent in a horse trade.--Chicago Daily
News,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

In the light of the past centuries of history it is small wonde
that the Jews are to-day fostering a hope that they may be able I
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AN0@@
Ill HE hour was on US;
"A liz where the man?
The fateful sands un-
- ID faltering ran,
E And up the way of
=S tears
E~ He came into the
years,
Our pastoral captain. Forth he came,
AS one that answers to his name;
Nor dreamed how high his charge,
His work how fair and large
To set the stones back in the wall
Lest the divided house should fall,
And peace from men depart,
Hope and the childlike heart.
We looked on him; "'Tis he" we said,
"Come crownless and unheralded,
The shepherd who will keep
The flocks, will fold the sheep"
Unknightly, yes; yet twas the mieI
Presaging the immortal scene,
Some battle of His wars
Who sealeth up the stars.
Nor would he take the past between
His hands, wipe valor's tablets clean,
Commanding greatness wait
Till he stand at the gate;
Not he would cramp to one small head
The awful laurels of the dead,
Times mighty vintage cup,
And drink all honor up.
No flutter of the banners bold
Borne by the lusty sons of old,
The naughty conquerors
Set forward to their wars;
Not his their blare, their pageantries,
Their goal, their glory, was not his;
Humbly he came to keep
The f1ocks, to fold the sheep.
The need comes not without the man;
The PRESIDENT hours unceasing ran,
And up the way of tears
He came into the years,
Our pastoral captain, skilled to crook
The spear into the pruning hook,
The simple, kindly man,
Lincoln, American.
John Vance Che .ley, in N. Y. Inde
pendent.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

outs are few and snow blockades are in
frequent Under these conditions the
company has been able to make every
improvement in it's roadbed tell. The road
was we'll built and is now in good condi-
ton even where few Improvements have
been made. But the management wants
the best possible metal way for the haul
ing Of its fast 'freights and the speed and
safety of its passenger trains. Between
Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie the re-
laying with eighty pound steel rails has
been completed with the exception Of
eighteen miles. Next year the relayinS
with eighty pound steel will be completed
to Valley City, N. D., and the oailasting Of
the entire line from Minneapolis to Portal
will begin.
One big point to the credit of the 500
is that it has never had an accident from
rail spreading. 1t lays a larger number
Of ties to the mile than is the practice On
most railroads. On ali curves oak ties are
used The theory that with the larger
number of ties and the better grip Of tha
| oak tie on the spike the danger Of rail
spreading is decreased has had a sue
cessful demonstration on the 500. An
other item of the Soo's progress is the
conversion OF thirteen miles Of wooden
bridges in the last four years into iron
structures. In that time s1.700.oO0 has
been paid out for equipment. This has