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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-11-10
For Rent,
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From April !.

Large Brick Dwelling, 10 Rooms. near Bap
tist church.
! Dwelling 6 rooms.
Dwelling. 5 rooms.
For Immediate occupancy.
GEO. RI. HAGLEY.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-11-10
OVERCOATS!

wish, from the ghwe 81 inches long the
End so inches long, very handsome
rain
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-11-10

Among the huntsnen who have been
out this season and the game they
bagged. we note: Messrs. Jas. H. Clipp,
D. w. Ramey and William Lloyd, 20
birds; Messrs. Chas. E. Baylor, A. S.
Allen and Jno. G. Shirley, Jr., partrid-
ges and 8 rabbits; Messrs. Thornton
Perry and George Hooff, IL birds and I
rabbits; Messrs. Geo. T. Light and H.
H. Mccormick. birds Messrs. E. E.
Cooke and Kearsley Wysong. 8 birds !;
F, D. Davis. ~ birds and 2 rabbits, w.
T. Elliott. 9 birds
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-11-10

When a hat, a good dress, or other
garment is a little faded and old in
fashion it need not be thrown away.
Color it with DIAMOND DYES.
We have special department of advice, and will
answer. free any questions about dyeing. Send
sample of goods when possible.
Direction hook and As dyed samples free.
DIAMOND DYES, Burlington. Vt
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-11-10

MONEY TO LEND, on Real Estate or Per-
sonal Security. MOORE & MOORE,
Charles Town, W. Va.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
Miss solomon ana Her Lover.

A woman was walking in a palm
grove when q man saw her and
FASTENED after her. When she asked
him why he followed her, he replied:
Because l am in love with you"
"And why ire you in love with
me?' she asked. my sister who
comes after me yonder is far more
beautiful than 1; go and fall in love
with her instead"
The man complied and went back,
but only to look upon a woman as
ugly as sin. He was vexed and re-
earned to the first woman and said
to her:
"Why did you deceive me?"
And she made answer:
did you not also tell me an un.
truth? For if you were really in love
with me, why did you turn back to
the other woman ?'--New York Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
REVIVAL OF TARIFF ISSUE.
People from Trust Prices
and ExtOrtion.

The last congress refused to pass the
bill to reduce the tariff rates on impor-
tation from the Philippine islands, and
all the protectionists were in a great
state of glee about it. Although the flag
waves over the unfortunate islands,
they are treated by the republican lead
ers as a foreign country. Gov. Taft on
the Fourth of July sent a message to
President Roosevelt in answer I o his
Independence day congratulations,
making a plea for concessions in the
Philippine tariff schedules, thus rebuk-
ing the republican leaders who have de-
termined to stand pat on the tariff
issue until after the presidential cleo
ton. Now Judge Taft is too wise a poll
tician to make this effort for tariff re-
form a leading issue and press the mat
ter on President Roosevelt, unless he
feared the result except the reform Of
the tariff was accomplished before the
election of 1904. He knew his message
would receive the widest publicity and
create a public demand for tariff con-
cessions to the Philippines, such as con-
gress would not dare to ignore.
The republican leaders have been
comforting themselves that all danger
from the tariff agitation was postponed
when the Iowa idea was laid to sleep
by Senator Allison, and this fire from
the rear is very disconcerting to them.
If the Philippine tariff issue is opened
up i'll congress, the democrats will de-
mand that trust productions be added
to the free list. or the protection they
now enjoy vastly diminished. A record
vote on such a proposition would be dis
astrous to a number of congressman
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
DIPLOMACY AND NERVE.
Roosevelt and Hay In Their Great
Act of Doing the SIREN
uous strain,

The state department gives Out the OF
fetal information that the Russian
government refuses TO receive the
Kishinef petition on the ground that
Russia considers the persecution OF
Jews is concerning her w sovereignty
alone. On the same day Secretary of
State Hay informs an anxious public
that China promises two open ports in
Manchuria and that Russia assents
thereto. This latter concession is sup
posed to Offset the slap in the face to
President Roosevelt in refusing to re-
ceive the petition of the Jews, which
the president had promised to forward
to the car, but who now refuses to re-
ceive it. Justice David J. Brewer, of the
United States supreme court, in a speech
at Milwaukee on July Is, the day before
the above events happened, said: The
eyes of the entire world are upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to see if he has the nerve
land want to tell you he has) to send
to the government at st. Petersburg the
Jewish petition of protest against the
atrocities perpetrated at Kishineff."
The official information that the presi-
dent has backed down and accepted
the promise of China and the assent
of Russia to open two ports in Man
churia,' is decidedly refreshing. Presi-
dent Roosevelt may change his mind
and persist in sending the petition for
the unfortunate Jews, but if he does it
secretary of state, and may bring about
a state of affairs that may lead to wal
with Russia. War would require a vast
deal of nerve" in all of us, and wal
with Russia would be a much more
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

arduous undertaking than with decrepid
Spain. But what about the compensa-
tion we are promised" in return for
the lack of nerve? Russia has promised
to retire from Manchuria in September,
and in that case the promise of China
to open two ports to the trade of the
world might be consummated. But if
Russia does not withdraw her troops,
China cannot keep her promise, and
Russia can easily find an excuse for not
opening the ports. The cables from the
east say that Russia is pouring troops
into Manchuria and evidently preparing
to hold that country at all hazard.
1t appears very much that President
Roosevelt, with his nerve" and his
secretary of state, with his diplomacy,
had been handed out a gold brick by
China and Russia, and it will be a long
time, if ever, that the door will be open
in Manchuria.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
CLIFF JEWELLERS OF FRANCE.
Town Near Tours Composed of ave
Residences Strange to
Look Upon.

We have often heard of the cliff
dwellers and are accustomed to
think of them as q prehistoric race,
the remains of whose few scattered
dwellings are a matter of curiosity
to tourists and a prize to antiquari-
ans. Few people know that, at the
present day, there are whole COM
munities in France whose only habi-
tations are followed in the rocky
hillsides and whose entire business
life is carried on in caves.
We had seen in Normandy isolated
instances of people living in habita-
tons half house and half cave But
they were in far-away towns and
villages, and only the very poorest
class of people lived in them. Our
first real cave city zane as a great
surprise, for we had just left Tours,
II of the most highly civilized cities
in France. We were riding on the
road to Vouvray, when suddenly, at
o turn near Rochecorbon, this first
town of cliff-dwellers burst upon us,
says a writer in Scribner's Maya
| zine.
High above JUS lowered a huge
mass of o~verhanging rock, strata
upon strata, bearing upon it's. summit
q most peculiar tower, supposed to
have been a watch-tower in ages
| gone by. It's foundations hung over
the rock upon which they were built,
and it seemed as though it would
crash down at any moment upon the
village beneath.
Scattered over the face of the cliff,
doors and windows, narrow stair
ways and little b%elvideres could be
seen, habitation upon habitatien, in
most picturesque disorder. Walls
along the high road hid the immedi-
ate foreground, and we looked in
vain for an opening by which we
conld have a neare view of this
strange community. At last we
found an open gate, and, peeping
through, were greeted by a dear little
old woman, whose wrinkled, smiling
face was surmounted by a snowy
white cap. Her doorway was a bower
of flowers, hollyhocks, a%sters, mas
turtiums and deep June roses. BY
its side was an old well and a little
clubhouse for her wood and garden
ing tools. Her CHEEKY 'bon jour"
was an invitation to enter, and we
gladly accepted her cordiality. We
followed her across the little yard
and were Don seated in her one and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
PHONES FOOL THE BIRDS.
Yellow Hammers HOneycOmb the
Poles in Search of Supposed
Buxzing Insects.

Owing to the ravages of the yellow
hammers, or flickers, workmen have
been kept busy in repairing and re-
placing the posts of the new telephone
line here eve since the birds arrived
in the spring, says an East Eddington
(Me.) report.
While the posts Of the telephone
wires were confined to The clear land
away from the woods there was nc
trouble in keeping them in good con-
dition for Is or 20 years, but
when private and public enterprise ex-
tended the telephone to remote sport
ing camps and fishing grounds the
f1ickers began to peck holes in the soft
arbor vitae wood, digging galleries far
into the heart, and making the sticks
so weak that they broke off in high
winds.
Until the white cedar or arbor vitae
poles began to be employed for hold
ing the wires aloft the fiickers did not
disturb this species of trees. Most OF
the work performed by these birds is
done on trunks of white birch, which
is soft and very easy to penetrate, and
upon such other aged trees as had
partly rotted, the ~decaying wood fur
nishing homes for the insects upon
which the fiickers subsist.
Zone may search this wood all day
and never find a flicker nest in any ar
Dor vitae, spruce or pine. No sooner.
however, had the cedar trees been
felled and set up along the sides of the
roads to hold the wires than everyone
became the targeI for industrious birds
which not only dug holes for their
nests in the soft trunks, but tunneled
the wood in every direction.
Men who have observed flickers al
work on the telephone lines say the
birds mistake the constant hummine
kept up by the wires for the sounds
of insects inside the wood, and that
the poles are ruined out of misdirected
zeal in pursuit of grubs which do not
exist.
A flicker on alighting on the side OF
a pole will give a few taps with his
bill against the dry wood and then
cock his head on one side to listen for
borers. Hearing the wires singing and
humming in the breeze and feeling the
pole tremble slightly from the pulsing
sound, the flicker reasons that the
whole stick is filled with toothsome
grubs, and at once begins to cut away
the wood.
After working until he is tired the
bird stops to listen again, and, finding
the sound is as loud as ever and ap-
parently deeper in the wood, he re-
sumes his labor, penetrating deeper
and deeper, until he has bored a hole
clear through the stick.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

Before parting we had a jolly little
dinner together, and as 1 did the or
dering, you may be sure nothing was
wanting. Although she demurred
and hesitated, / held out, and it
would have done your heart good to
see the way she regarded a quart
bottle of champagne. 1t was the first
time she had ever tasted ~'fizz," and
her description, that it was like
drinking a "bumblebee," made me
laugh heartily.
Oh, what a trip that was! Shall ]
ever forget it?
Finally the dreaded hour arrived.
and she must gather up her little
traps and change for Wichita. 1 as
sisted, with a Juggling pain at my
heart. Suddenly 1 surprised a look
in her blue eyes. 1 had been stoop-
ing to pick up her muff, and it being
closer at hand than l thought, / came
up rather sooner than either she or
1 expected. She was looking down at
me wistfully, yearningly. and there
was a tear, 1 declare, or her eyelash.
All restraint departed from me.
The happy hours we had spent, the
rapid intimacy of a railroad journey,
and the prospect of parting, all con-
spired against me, and grasping her
little hand inside the muff, l held it
firmly and whispered:
"Amy!"
She gave me one long, lingering
look and returned the pressure
softly.
"Thank you again." she whispered,
land don't forget me! Oh, promise
not to forget mel"
1 promised, and, then she was gone.
Heavens! How lonely it was with
out her! How dingy the cars, how
arid the view!
I could find nothing to interest me,
and even the recollection of her
brightness only served to make me
more dismal. Before long the con-
ductor came through again. 1t
seemed to me that his sneering coun-
tenance was more sneering than ever.
But | bore him no grudge.
"Well," he said with a grin, stop
ping by my chair, did you find out
who she WASP"
Certainly" I answered stifiy, "t
was Miss Dyer, of Wichita"
Miss Dyer nothing" he said with
corn. Miss Dyer, Miss Flyer, Miss
Lyer!"
"How dare you?" I demanded hot
ly, land what do you mean?"
sob, narthin'," he answered, cool
ly, ''only she's the cutest lady bunko
on this road. Her husband, him with
the whiskers, runs a brace faro game
over in Kansas City, and another in
Wichita, and she's his puller-in, that's
all! Better look for your purse, Mr.
Dyer"
I did so and to MY dismay it was
gone!
"But why the devil, man, didn't you
tell me-"
"Oh," he said, with a wink, 'you
seemed so willing to be bluffed with
your Miss Dyer!"
All, me! Golden hair and eyes Sc
blue!
L promised Amy never to forget
her and | never have!-N. Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

Postal deficit this year, $1,000,
900; last year, 81, 1000, 000. -Atlanta
Constitution.
Perhaps, if Uncle Mark Hanna
would promise to give just as much to
the campaign, anyhow, there would be
no further effort TO foist the vice pres
idential nomination upon him.-The
Commoner.
There should be no further dis
placing of honorable and veteran army
officers for Gen. Leonard Woods bene-
fit until the whole truth is known
about his previous successes as a dis
placer.-N. Y. Sun (rep.).
THE great advantage of reform
within the party is being illustrated
in the post Office scandal. Those who
revealed the existence of the machine
ring, and the Irregularities of his pre-
decessor, are being quietly dropped"
Delaware Gazette.
1t is unkind for a New York
newspaper to insinuate that President
Roosevelt is rated as a statesman
among cowboys and as a cowboy
among statesmen. That's what a mar
gets, though, for achieving a Rough
Rider reputation at the outlay of al
most incalculable strenuosity.-St
Louis Republican.
speaking of the situation in the
post Office department, the Troy, N. Y,
Times, a good republican paper, says:
THE republican administration is not
hunting for democrats. 1t Is looking
for rascals." This is true, OF course,
but probably the Times would have
stated the case differently if it had
taken a second Observation-Disclosures
News-Courier.
An exchange observes that Sen
ator Allison has sent the Iowa idea"
romping all over the country. This is
because the sage of the republican side
of the senate was called on to doctor
the idea" too often. People have got
to wondering why it takes an expert
to handle the matter. They ask why a
plain proposition in politics and gov
eminent cannor be considered in a
plain way. Even Brother Allison can
not be expected to forever keep the
popular thinking apparatus in the
Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
1t is not surprising to learn that
the corruption is working in 'the de-
partments,' as well as outside Of them.
We should not have known what was
going on in the post Office department
but for one mans sudden revelations.
Like conditions doubtless, or surely,
exist in all the other departments.
Only a Tulloch is wanted in each to
turn on the light.-Charleston News
Courier.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
INSPIRATION IN WORRY.

A mortgage on his house was due,
He didn't worry;
He lost a lot of money, too,
He didn't worry.
Twas his philosophy, you see
To always gay and cheerful be,
Others might fret and fume-not he,
He'didn't worry.
The man he owed the money to,
He did worry,
To pull that heavy burden through
He did worry.
His children must be clothed and fed,
He hustled for their daily bread;
In spite of all the wise ones said,
He did worry.
So it is, my cheerful friends,
Some must worry;
For you lack to make amends
Some must worry.
YOU decide with merry grin
That to worry is a sin,
But 1t often means to win;
Some must worry.
M. L.. Rayne, in Chicago Record-Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

Salmon fishers have often noticed
when plying the rod that while the fish
will take well or certain days, on other
days. when the conditions do not seem
to differ, the fish will hardly rise at all.
An interesting and ingenious theory to
explain this is put forward by Mr..
George Muirhead, commissioner of the
duke of Richmond and Gordon, who
has had the Gordon castle water in the
river Spey under observation for the
last four years. During this period he
carefully noted the temperature of the
river along with the takes of fish. He
found that when the weekly variation
in temperature was only three degrees
the average of salmon taken by each
rod in the day was 2.14, and that when
the weekly temperature varied as much
as IL degrees, the average of salmon
taken by each rod in the day fell to
0.40. His conclusion is that salmon are
influenced by variations in the temper
ature in taking the artificial fly, and
will not bring joy to the angler while
the temperature Of the water varies
much daily. Anglers will note, there
fore, that their luck depends not SO
much on certain temperatures, but on a
continuation of an ven,temperature for
several days.-London Chronicle,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

If n buys a handsome teaspoon in
London 1t is delivered wrapped in a
piece Of paper and those who are so
grasping as to ask for a box are told that
they "can have a box but it is not usual"
and when n sees the box, made of
coarse brown ~strawboard, bound at the
with tin, it is easy to see why It
Is not usual.-Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
A waste Of Money.

Don't pay $4,000, 900 a pound for ra-
dium wnen you can get a good article of
polonium that will answer household
and kitchen purposes just as well for
only $1,000, 900 a pound.-Kansas City
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

Migrant g

Locusts are not the only/migrant in.
sects. In July, 1890, a swarm of small
beetles passed over Romershof, in Rus.
STA, which was two miles long, one and
one-third miles wide, and over 20 fsst
thick.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
VIII Give, Free Wicket.

Free tickets to theaters, art galleries
and museums are to be given to working
people by the Berlin Society for the En-
enlargement Of Art Among the Working
Glasses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
So Mr.. Hanna is to

So Mr.. Hanna Is to have the
privilege of naming the republican
candidate for vice president. Pshaw!
Why should the papers talk so much
nonsense so far in advance? Wait till
we see what the big director really
does about the first place.--Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
"Stand-patterS'' are missj

The "stand-patters' are missing
connections with the markets. While
the politicians are standing pat the
markets are MOI, and it is of course
essential to the stand-pat policy that
the markets should stand pat. For it
is upon the theory that the markets
will not stand pat unless the politi-
clans do. that the stand-pat policy
rests. If that theory does not hold
good then the whole stand-pat policy
is shown to be a delusion and a snare.
Springfield Republican (ind.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
Not to BE Expected.

A Highland waiter once refused t.
serve the late Max O'Rell at dinner,
and when reproved, explained: eta
mo- to be expected that a self-respect.
ing Scotsman could serve him with
ceeveelity. Didn't he say we took te
the kilt because our feet were too large
to get through trousers?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

Many of the men in charge of
the public business, even as public
service is now limited or defined,
rarely do their work promptly, eff
GENTLY and impartially. Even in the
post Office department, the boast of the
advocate of government ownership, the
service costs almost twice as much as
1t could be done for, and men in high
places peddle contracts, work their
gratis and cumber the salary list
with the names of idle relatives and
women. The public business of the
country is still on the party of spoils
basis. in spite Of all the efforts of re-
formers and the costly experience of
the people who feed the spoilsmen.-
Houson (Tex.) Post. :
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

AT a London banquet given for the
French arbitration commission a closer
understanding between England and
France, national disarmament and in
~ternat!onal arbitration we're urged.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30

from close districts and would lead to
trouble in some of the western states
where tariff reform and trust control
are demanded by a large percentage OF
the republican voters.
Many of the favored m~onopolies do
not want the tariff, even with the Phil
ippines, touched at all. They opposed
the reduction of the Porto Rican duties
and are still fighting reciprocity with
Cuba. If the Philippine tariff is abol-
ished, it will be under whip and spur,
a procedure by nc means desirable to
the republican party on the v OF a
presidential election. There is no doubt
that President Roosevelt, in his mes
a to the coming special session OF
congress, will urge Cuban reciprocity on
that body, and he may suggest that the
Philippine tariff be abolished. But Will
the republican leaders, the ultra pro-
tectionists who control congress, adopt
his recommendations? President
Roosevelt also knows that our home
tariff should be revised, to take from
the trusts the monopoly it now gives
many of them, and thus reduce the price
of trust productions. But will he have
"the nerve to recommend it? Such a
political now would be vastly popular
with the people, but would be denounced
by the trusts and their accomplices. the
republican politicians. The presidents
next message to congress will be scanned
with more than usual interest, and the
action of that body will be watched by
the great majority of the voters with
anxious solicitude to see if any relief
will be granted from trust extortions.
Congress may be forced to give reci-
procity to Cuba and free trade to the
Philippines, but the republican leaders
will not permit the sacred tariff that
robs our own people, to be molested.
They look to the trusts that are making
millions out of tariff protection to lib
orally supply the campaign funds to de-
feat the will of the people.