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and We might add severe one.
Which can be verified by those
poor fellows who have cast their
lots with the U. M. WIS, during
the past year. Previous to that
time, they had been earning
good wages, sufficient to enable
them to live surrounded by the
comfort of life, besides being
able to lay aside something for a
rainy day. But what a change
has come in the condition of af-
fairs, when now the same men
and their families show signs of
being poverty sicken. The once
well dressed boy and girl which
have the marks of prosperity,
can now be seen scantly dressed,
hungry and sorrow depicted on
their countenance. False prom
ises made by agitators who were
probably paid a head premium
on membership led them to
make this sad mistake. One
poor mother when lately asked if
the U. M. WIS, still provided
them with the necessaries of life,
said that they were given some
provisions, but no clothes, and
that their condition had become
such that work must be secured
elsewhere for means with which
to clothe them. So their prom
ise of support fell over one half
short. Another man once well
provided with the comfort of
this life while an employee of
the st. Bernard Co., admits that
to prevent nakedness he is fore
ed to go to work. Still another
who left for another state to Sc
cure work with the result that
during a period Of thirteen
months he worked three, and in
fact such seems to be the record
made by most of these fellows
who are coming back and who
prefere to take the short rations
furnished them by the union
rather than work one day out of
four. Such an experience ought
to teach our people here who ara
doing we'll and cause them to
forever turn deaf ear to these
roaming maleantents.
Reports at hand show that
Wood and Barnaby, although
they had a pressing invitation to
go to Indianapolis to attend an
executive meeting of the U. M.
W., concluded that self interest
required their attendance at the
Webster County Circuit Court
where they both stood indicted
for conspiracy to murder.
Filled with desire to trespass
and becoming impudent the u.
NJ. WIS, at Barnsley have made
it necessary for the coal com
pany to put on duty an addition
al force of guards to protect life
and property. AT that point it
seems the union men show a dis
position to disregard the orders
of the Federal Court, which if
persisted in Will get them in
deep water.
Foreman Fegan says so good is
the demand for coke. Extra
time is now being made by the
coke oven. Only one Sunday off
in several months is the record
shown by Twyman and others.
About a dozen of the best
citizens of this county attended
court last week at Dixon to tes-
tify it behalf of the common
wealth against Wood and Bar
neby and others now held under
bond on serious charges.
Open threats rumor says are
now being made of violence by
the U. M. WIS.,, in the near
future, and some well posted
citizens predict the defiance of
the u. S. Court now holding
juriousdiction over a consider
able portion of this county, but
as such a step would prove
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BRONCHO BILL
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BLUE @. BARD.

sun were DeaClng uOWH HcTcely
on the dead grass that covered
the plains of western Texas, the
sage hens were singing a merry
lay as they pursued the festive
grasshopper, and ever and anon
the hungry coyote would howl
like an Indian with the tooth
ache.
Broncho Bill was riding slowly
along the trail upon Roman
nose horse, his wide sombrero
was pulled low over his steel gray
eyes, and he was silently brood
ing o'er his wrongs.
Only the night before Spotted
Tall,and his band of bloodthirsty
cutthroats had stolen the fair
Inez Cordilla, his promised wife,
from her fathers adobe mansion
and were now on their way to the
foothills with the captive.
The pursuing party had con-
sisted of three at first, the faith
er, the brother and William AL
gernon Craddock, alias Broncho
Bill.
The father gave up the chase
after several hours of hard rid
ing. He had been suffering sew
eral days with an aggravated
case of navy blue jlmjams and
the constant motion of the gal.
Looping steed made HIM a little
nervous.
The horse of the brother step
ped in a gopher hole and broke
his front limb, consequently we
find the lover pursuing his course
alone but undaunted. tG ~
After a sufficient length of
time had elapsed night drew her
sable curtain athwart the west
ern horizon and one by one the
stars of heaven were lighted, and
William began to realize it would
soon be dark.
He dlsmounted and thrusting
his umbrella deep into the SUBJ
soil of the Lone Star state pick
eted his horse thereto, and max
ing a pillow of his Grecian bend
saddle was soon in the land of
dreams.
Our readers will no doubt be a
little surprised that the anxious
lover should so quickly fall
asleep, but Count William had
accustomed himself from the ear
ly days of childhood to fall asleep
as soon as the proper position had
been attained.
As he lay with uis noble face
upturned to the dewy sky, snor-
ing like the blast of foghorn,
we will try and find out what the
fair Inez is doing.
The above stars indicate that a
change of scene is about to take
place. Forty-seven miles away
is an Indian encampment. In
the center stands a small tent
guarded by a painted savage.
The fair prisoner on the interior
has just partaken of hearty
supper consisting of fried dog
washed down with branch water.
1t is not the kind of food she has
been accustomed to and has
brought on a severe case of indi-
gestion. Great drops of perspir-
alton stand out on her pearly
brow, and Club Foot Sue, the
squaw in attendance, is admins
tering sheep sorrel tea.
The Indian girls and boys were
playing leapfrog on the outskirts
of the encampment and the bull
frogs were booming in the nearby
creek.
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1t was the witching hour of
midnight. The glorious god of
day had yelled his shining light
beneath the relics of the ancient
The bee., 1902-04-17

1t was the witching hour of
midnight. The. glorious god Of
day had yelled his shining light
beneath the relics of the ancient
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
RELIABILITY OF REPORTERS.
Confidence of Public Men in Duly
Accredited Writers for the
Newspapers.

1t would be difficult to prove that
the fourth estate, which had it's birth
as a phrase in one of Burke's ora
torical flights, has risen to the dignity
of a profession, but it has estab-
lished some methods and standards
that r strictly professional. For
instance, says the Philadelphia
Times, journalism frowns upon the
use of a private conversation without
the express sanction of the speaker.
1t obeys strictly injunctions of Sc
crecy. In Washington, where it's I'M
written rules are faithfully observed,
it never reports a conversation with
the president, although the president
frequently speaks freely with repre-
sentatives of the press. The public
man has learned to trust the report
err, and it was the declaration of Mr..
Blaine, who probably had a wider ex-
perience with newspaper men than
any other person in the public life of
this country, that his trust had never
been betrayed. "There are many
men of fine ability and of the highest
personal character among the news
paper writer's of Washington" wrote
ex-President Harrison in "This Coun-
try of Ours"
But while the public men are safe
in the hands of the regularly accred-
tied reporters they run large risks in
talking with globe trotters and others
who write books and contribute to
some of the periodicals. In this class
come many of the foreign editors and
writer's, who do not seem to be able
to understand the American system.
For instance, here is Sir Thomas
Wemyss Reid reporting a member of
the cabinet and calling his article ga
Message from America" as though he
had been commissioned to speak to
the British public on the authority Of
an American secretary, and. when
brought to book, humbly saying: 81
shall deeply regret if by inadvert-
ence I have said anything to which
my distinguished interlocutor OBJ
~jects." But, of course, the mischief is
done, and no amount of explanation
or apology can help it.
One cannot tell in these days of
universal writing and general publ
cation how far his conversation will
be reported by the unofficial report
ers. 1t may come forth in the remin-
iscences of a fellow-statesman or APP
pear in the travels of a European
nobleman, or it may be dinner talk
served up in personal experiences, or
in a novel that deals vaguely with
real ~personages. In view of all these
dangers, it is easy to appreciate the
recent remark of a man long in pub
lie life, who said; IL am getting so
I am afraid to talk frankly with any
one except reporters"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
HOW TO BOIL T
Ten Minutes of Boiling Will Free IL
from Its Gases and Make 1t Alb
%sOlutely TasteIess.

It may seem preSumptuous to sug-
gest that few people know how to
boil water, but such is the case. The
boiling point, under ordinary atmos-
pheric pressure (sea leven. is 212 de-
grees Fahrenheit: this point changes
according to the altitude. When bub-
bles form on the bottom of the ket-
tie, come clear to the surface and
rupture quietly. without making an
ebullition, we have ~simmering. At
this point the thermometer should
register $50 degrees Fahrenheit, and
it is at this temperature that we
cook meats and make soups. When
the bubbles begin to form on the
sides and surface of the vessel and
come toward the top of the water,
has not really reached the boiling
point. 1t is only when the thermom-
eter reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit
and the water is in rapid motion that
it a be said to boil; and the atmos-
pheric gases still continue to be given
off with the steam for a consider
able time after the water has COM
menced to boil rapidly; in fact, it is
difficult to determine when the last
traces have been expelled. 1t is safe
to suppose, however, that ten min
utes' boiling will free the water from
it's gases, make it tasteless, and rem
der it unfit for the making of tea,
coffee or other light i%nfusions OF
delicate materials.-Mrs S. T, Rorer
in Ladies' Home journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
Dogs in Europe.

The European dog censu has been
completed and shows us that France,
with 2,s64,000 dogs, holds the Euro
pean record. Not only are there more
dogs in France than any other coun-
try in Europe, but there are more per
1000 inhabitants than in any other
European country. France has rs
dogs to every 1000 of it's inhabitants.
Then follow Ireland with 70, England
with 38, Germany with 81 and Sweden
with II. There are 2,200, 900 dogs in
Germany, 10000 % in Russia and $780,
900 in Turkey, though tourists who
have resided in Constantinople i've this
number falls short of the actual total,
which they think to be larger in Tur-
key than elsewhere. In France there
is a dog tax, and every dog is regis-
tered-a condition which makes the
computation comparatively easy in
that country. The number of dogs in
the United States is estimated at from
1000, 900 to 1,500, 000.-N. Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16

4SSlNE&bS
CURES OF M~ELANCHOLIA.
Plenty of Exercise, Plenty of work
and n Lively Interest in the AZ
fairs of the World.

The London Doctor makes a few
suggestive comments that can but be
helpful to many women. why do
so many women have melancholia?"
asked a physician who had a large
practice among depressed and nerv-
Gus ONE Because they don't
care to avoid it. Because they abso-
lutely disregard the rules of mental
and physical well being. Because
they would rather eat what they like
and suffer indigestion and the blues
afterward than eat what is good for
them. Because they would rather sit
about on soft cushions than take a
tramp of six miles through the open
air. Because they haven't enough to
occupy their minds and their hands"
This observer of women says further
that it is never the women who have
cause to feel blue who indulge in
bites; and that the women with
shiftless husbands, sick babies and all
the usual accompaniments Of poverty
never become so depressed that they
have to be treated for it,. They are
too busy; but it is the woman
with an adoring family, social posi-
ton and a comfortable income who
does not find life worth living. There
is no habit which grows so rapidly.
1t becomes a disease in a very short
time. 1t is wisely suggested that
every woman who has a tendency to
melancholia should have an occupa-
ton which, if it does not entirely alb
sorb her, will at least keep her busy,
and that she should give her mind up
to practical rather than theoretical
affairs. She should, for example,
study how to put an extra shelf in a
cupboard, or how to stop a ~squeaking
door. or how to make an overshoe
that won't come off at the heel,
rather than the teachings of the
theosophical school or the philosophy
of Herbert Spencer. Ordinarily good
health, plenty of exercise, plenty of
work, and an interest in the affairs
of the world are the great proven
tons and cures of melancholia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
PITH AND POINT.

1t is almost impossible to make Q
mean man feel mesn.-Chica0o Daily
News.
Love expresses its deepest 5Iy and
darkest despair alike by silence
Town Topics.
A girl may look beautiful at the
opera house and be as cross as a bear
at home.-Washington Qa.) Demo
crat.
1T is claimed that a certain gang
of counterfeiters make better dollars
than Uncle Sam does" that's a case
where l believe in letting well enough
alone."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Waggles-"The matinee girls near
ly put that young violinist out of
business" Jaggles = "How was
that?" Waggles-'They all wanted a
lock of his hair."-Town Topics.
"Some folks" said Uncle Eben,
'seems to imagine dat no matter
how much dey tromps IN yoh feet,
dey's puffeck gentlemen if dey says
'scuse me Observation-Disclosures
Star.
Towne-"My wife's new hat cost
$25." Browne-"That makes a tota
of $685." Towne-"How do you
mean?" Browne-"It cost me $1.5(
to sit behind it last night."-Phila'
delphia Press.
The good things of this life never
seem more unfairly divided than
when q man gets up from a Sunday
dinner, and walks away with a cigar
in his mouth, and the women folks
have to do the dishes.-AtchisoI
Globe.
A Gentle Touch.-"' DO unto Others
as you would have others do unto
you,'" said Markley. THAT'S the
golden rule, and l believe in it, too
Don't you?" "Well," replied Bor
roughs, eff I did I'd be offering tt
lend you ten dollars this minute
Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
INTERVIEWING IN ENGLAND.
Mistake of an American Reporter
Who Thought He Had a
Good Story.

English newspapers are not the
same as those of America" remarked
a St. Louis man, who has just returned
from a years %sojourn in dear old Lon
don, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. "While in London ]
worked for half a year on a big paper
there. I started out to make a big hit.
By great good luck l met the duke
Of Newcastle at his racing stud. He
became chatty, and I thought my hit
had been made. The duke did not
know that / was a newspaper man, and
l did not tell him. l allowed him to
chat. He chatted about Americans,
gave some good r~eproducible opinions
about them, said splendidly cutting
things about some of u great men
over here, and 1 secretly Rugged my
self as he talked, seeing a story that
would please the city editor TO the
background.
"As soon as the duke had expended
himself | rushed wildly to the office,
seized q typewriter, and proceeded to
work up that interview with the duke
in a very ornate fashion. I made him
wittier than he had been, inserted
more epigrams than he had ever
thought of, and after an adroit fash
ion, which I had taken years to learn,
/ so used his discourse that he couldn't
have sworn that'he had not uttered a
remark that L had reproduced. Proud
ly, with an endeavor to appear modest,
so as to make the joy of the city editor
more jolting, 1 handed him the copy.
by Jove, my boy he calculated, after
looking at the Introductory para
graph, what is this? Did you get a
verbatim report from the duke" "A
verbatim report l echoed, of course
not. But he said all l have in there.
ooh, but you know replied the city ed.
itor, handing the copy back to me, I'VE
can't use that, you know. 1t is a good
story, you know, but, unless you have
the consent of the duke, we could be
held for libel, you know
"He then told me that the libel laws
in England were very strict, especially
when a duke was attacked. If the
duke approves your copy we will use
it, said the editor. I hunted for the
duke, told him I was a newspaper man,
and asked him to approve my article,
by Jove, I will not said the duke. q
did not know you were a newspaper
man, you know. Some of those bloody
Yanks would be running my losses
into the fence if they read that, you
know"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16

bert at heart is young, and perhaps
that is the secret of her success. She
attributes her fine health, high spir-
it's and long life to her early train
ing as a dancer. She was a member
of the ballet in England, where she
was born and reared. When but 12
years of age she used 20 appear as
a "supe" on the stage of the old Her
Majesty's theater that stood on the
ground where Beerbohm's Tree thea
ter now stands. She received les
sons in the ballet school as pay for
her services.
The actress married during he1
early dancing days and while still an
English woman she toured England
with her husband. She came to
America in 1910. and from that time
has been thoroughly American in
feeling. She and her husband went
west upon their arrival in New York,
and for a long time they played in
Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Mrs.
Gilbert has had a vast amount OF
experience in stock work, and has
played every conceivable kind of role.
She supported Edwin Forrest and
most of the famous stars. The vet
eran actress is best known to the
public as a member of Days famous
stock company. She went under
Days management in 1869, and re-
NAMED with him until the time OF
his death. She played mostly old
lady and character parts during the
rise and fall of many leading women
She played with Fanny Davenport
when the plump Fanny was not yet
taking herself seriously and was as
signed to comedy roles. The dear old
lady laughs at her burden of years,
and is as sprightly as in the days
when she played lively soubrettt
roles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
HAPPY MRS. GILBERT.
Stage" In still Playing Leading
Roles ut Eighty.

Mrs. Anne Hartley Gilbert, the
grandma" of the stage, is still in
dustriously pursuing her profession
at the advanced age of so. Mrs. Gill
bert is with Annie Russell in "A Roy
al Family" She is frankly and de-
lightfully old. but time has dealt
gently with her and her powers of
endurance are remarkable. Her debut
was made with the old school of
and now as an old woman she plays
in a modern company. She has out
lived the manager who once called
her grandma" she has outlived the
associations of youth, but Mrs. Gill
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
The RON's Tongue Mas SAFE.

A little three-year-old of Newton
has frequently ~astonished his parents
by rather witty remarks. One day re-
Gently his mother was busy prepar-
ing to go away, and Willie came into
the house and made a great deal of
noise running about with his heavy
shoes. His mother told him she was
so tired that she would like to have
him go upstairs and take his shoes
off and put his slippers on. Willie
obeyed, and, returning to the room
where his mother was, talked inces-
sanity. Several times she had to stop
in the midst of her work to answer his
questions. Finally her patience be-
came exhausted, and she said: willie,
will you stop talking? You have me
crazy" He stopped a minute, then re-
piled: swell, you made me take my
shoes off, but you can't make me take
my tongue out, anyway."-Boston
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16

Der of small aquatics flourish quite
as snugly as though in their native
homes,
1t would be absurd to attempt the
culture of the large varieties of wa
ter lilies, of course, in these cramped
quarters, but the water hyacinths,
the parrots feather and the dainty
little umbrella plant"-Cyperus an
therifolius-find this small water gar
den on the shady side of the house
exactly suited to their requirements.
Two varieties of the water hyacinth
produce the snowy display of flowers
the blue with purple center (Eich-
norma azurea) and the lilac variety
(Eichhornia grassipes major) bearing
tall spikes of bloom. The Cyperus
antherifolius supplies IN abundance
of delicate upright foliage, while the
parrots feather, with it's masses of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
WOOD PULP in NEWSPAPERS.
Material for Printed Sheets Trans.
ferred from the Forests to the
Minis in the city.

Let us consider how news paper 1.
made in one of the great mills of the
Adirondack mountains, where the gi-
ant machines, rafting on, day after
day, never stopping, are scarcely able
to supply the demand of a single New
York newspaper. The timber, which
is feiled in the forests of the north il
winter, is fioated to the mill in tn,
mountain strePms by the spring fresh
cts, and piled up in great heaps about
the mill buildings. whose many roofs
chimneys and towers form a strange
picture in the wilderness against the
background of c,oud-topped noun
tains, writes Frank Xix Fayant, in Sue.
cess.
By being fed to shrieking saws, the
spruce logs are cut into pieces that are
no longer than a mans arm. Bark.
ing" machines, which have disks of rap.
idly whirling radial knives, attack the
wood. and tear off the bark. To pre-
vent a waste of any part of the timber.
an endless chain conveyor carries the
W LIZ oiIN looL1s VIM loAo "
to the fires. Another conveyor, like the
trottoir roulant at Paris, carries the
clean log to the grinding room, where
a long line of three-horned monstersi is
waiting for them.
Fumes, beside which men are mere
pygmies, bring the mountain torrents
rushing down to the grinding-room,
feeding the energy of forest cataracts
to the great turbines. They have an
enormous work to do. Within the iron
cases of the three-horned monsters are
grindstones of a special hardness,
turned by the turbine. The 'horns"
are hydraulic presses, which force the
logs under them against the stones.
Thus the wood is ground to pulp, the
stones eating away three feet of wood
an hour. The engineer tells us that
more than 10000 horsepower hours"
of energy are needed to convert one
cord of spruce into pulp, and that the
mills use more power than a whole
manufacturing city in New England.
Cold water flows continuously on the
grindstones to prevent the friction set
ting fire to the wood, and the mixture
of ground wood and water which flows
away from the grinders, as a pinkish.
gruel-,ike fluid, runs over dams and
through screens and drying machines,
until, a thick mass, it is either put in
storage tanks, in bulks, or formed by
machinery into thick sheets that can be
rolled up like blankets. 1t is then
ground wood pulp, ready for the paper
machines.
The sulphite pulp is prepared in o
different way. The logs, when they
come from the barking machines, are
cut iengthwise, by "splitters,"an then
cut ~crosswise, by ''chippers," into
pieces less than an inch thick. This
thickness gives the length Of the fiber.
A "chipper" with its whirling knives
eats up a hundred cords of wood in a
day. By falling on another showing
sidewalk" the chips are carried away
to be screened and then handpicked-tc
sort out dust and dirt-and then are
carried to sulphite "digesters"-mon
ster steel cylinders, with conical ends
standing upright in a row.