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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
IRVING FORGOT HIS LINES.
No One But the PrOmDter Discovered
the Mistake of the Famous
Actor, However.

The best Of actors are sometimes
embarrassed by loss of memory. They
forget lines with which they are per-
fectly familiar, and at critical mo-
ments, too. Then the services of the
prompter are appreciated. The fol-
lowing incident is related of Sir Henry
Irving:
At a recent all-star performance Of
"The Merchant of Venice" Sir Henry
and Ellen Terry were SO overcome
at appearing together once more in a
favorite Shakespearean comedy that
both forgot their lines.
Miss Terry im%provised, as is her
custom. Sir Henry, however, filled up
the pauses in Shylock's lines with
Jaws" and "Ughs," to the delight Of
the audience and his own evident an
guish. At last, in a paroxysm of in
SEPARATION, he leaped into the trial scene
with a long speech from his role in
Dante"
This vas too much for the actor who
was officiating in the prompter's box,
and when Sir Henry stalked down to
the footlights the prompter whispered,
sepulchrally: Good heavens, sir, that
speech isn't in the book!"
Over the shoulder of Shylock the eye
Of the actor flashed a whitening glance
at the prompter and in a stage whisper
Sir Henry said: "Aw-aw-aw-well,
sir, it ought to be-" and calmly con-
tinued to recite his Dante lines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
FEW LIONS NOW CAPTURED.
Most OF Them Wanted for Exhibition
Purposes Are Bought in
Captivity.

Few lions are captured nowadays
according to Frank Leslie's Monthly.
1t is cheaper to buy them in captivity,
but lions and polar, grizzly and Rus
sian bears are the only animals largely
bought and sold in captivity. Most
wild animals are remarkably prolific
and there are plenty of them left all
over the world. The animal dealers
lose about 20 per cent. of their i'm
portations each year.
If a lion dies $500 has vanished
into thin air, and the death of a tiger
involves an equal loss. A lioness is
valued at $500, leopards at $500, pan
theirs at $3.50. bears from $50 to $500,
elk at 5000, camels at $500 and ele-
plants at $500. The agent in charge
of the transportation of the animals
must know all their ailments and the
remedies. He must have their habits
at his finger tips, and he must also
possess cool, practical courage of the
highest order. He goes among the
animals and cows them as if they were
so many cats, and his rule is absolute.
1t takes a man Of very dominant per-
sonality to do this. There is not a
minute that he may relax while he is
with the animals. He must always be
to them the personifcation of force
and power.
1t is an immense business, this buy
ing and selling of animal caught
fresh from the jungle. In New York
alone there are ten firms dealing with
wild animals, to say nothing of the
foreign dealers, the Hagenbecks, for
instance, who send wild beasts here,
The demand exceeds the supply by a
wide margin. Nearly all the great
cities in the country possess public me-
nageries which constantly buy wild
animals; quixotic individuals frequent
ly want cubs of one kind or another,
ranging from tigers to bears; many
wealthy Americans maintain private
geological parks of greater or less ex-
tent, and the score of large circus COM
panies must be constantly supplied be-
cause Of the high death rate among
their animals. The record of imports
of one animal dealer for the past year
is 90 elephants, 35 camels, 20 tigers,
five lions, As leopards, 20 pumas, 10
panthers and any number Of small
animals and birds.
~Cubs-tiger, lion, leopard and bear
cubs-are in special demand by fam
lilies. They are reared and petted like
kittens, but they invariably come back
to the dealers at a quarter of what they
sold for, or even as gifts. One elo-
quent letter which a dealer recently re-
ceived from a woman who had pur-
chased a lion cub a year ago read as
follows: please come and take Kitty
away. She has eaten our Newfound-
land dog"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

American merchants are not the only
business men with enterprise. A Rus
sian firm has recently sent an expedition
into Mongolia to learn what the Mon
golians will buy now and what they can
be persuaded to purchase in the future.
There are 20 men and SO pack horses in
the party. The Russian military au-
thorities have sent a topographer along
with it, and the imperial geographical
society is represented by a naturalist.
Thus the commercial needs of the coun-
try will be studied along with the ques-
tons of its military control and the pos
sibilities of developing its natural re-
sources. This, according to the Youths
Companion, is an excellent example of
the thoroughness with which Russia
does the things which it undertakes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
A STRAW VOTE.
Farm journal Finds II Majority Fa-
vOring Tariff Reform and
Trust Regulation.

The question of how the farmers of
the western states stand on the tariff
and trust issues has been strongly in
Dictated through the enterprise of the
Farm and Home, published in Chicago.
That newspaper sent out $4,000 postal
cards requesting answers to seven
questions, amongst which was: Should
the tariff be revised?" The vote on that
proposition was: yeas, 27,193; nays,
1878.
When it is considered that the ma
jority in most of the states from which
this vote was gathered is largely re-
publican, it marks the revolt in the
ranks of that party against excessive
protection at least. But another vote
was taken on a kindred subject that
shows how the extortion of the trusts
are regarded by the farmers. The
question asked was Should trusts
be regulated or suppressed" Regu-
lated, 22,S54; suppressed, IA, 499.
There is no reason to suspect that
this voting experiment was made to
secure any particular result, for the
cards evidently were sent to republi-
cans and democrats alike, for one of
the other questions asked was: who
should be the republican candidate for
president in 19O4?" The answer re-
ceived was: Roosevelt, 8 ,1O6; Hanna
1888; scattering, 1874.
The nearly two-thirds vote for tariff
revision must have been largely made
up of republicans and the universal
demand that the trusts be regulated or
suppressed came from the voters of
both parties alike. This straw vote
should open the eyes of the republican
leaders to the folly of standing pat
and leaving well enough alone" for 1t
indicates that the voters are intent on
changing present conditions. Anyone
can find the sentiment of his own COM
munity by asking his friends and ac-
quaintances the same questions and It
will be found that the voters every
where are of a similar mind unless
they are directly or indirectly profting
by the tariff and the trusts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
A VIII and Three Weddings.

In Warsaw recently a banker died
and left his entire fortune to which
ever Of his three nieces-daughters
Of three different brothers and sisters
married first. The parties interest,"
ed in this provision were present when
the will was read, and all Of them
took immediate steps to secure the
prize. BY procuring special licenses
and taking other unusual measures it
was found that the earliest possible
time for a wedding to take place was
at eight o'clock on the morning of the
tenth day after the will had been
read. Before noon on that day all
three nieces appeared at the notary's
Office with certificates showing that
they had all become wives between
eight and SIS o'clock that morning,
though not one Of them had even been
engaged when the will was read. All
three claimed the fortune, and the
courts solved the difficulty by dividing
IT. into equal parts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
NIGHT.


IS oh dark, oh silent, oh sweet!
To the soft night
l bow my head
Day is more pure, more bright
But still L love the Night!
oh liquid sweep Of sky,
Star-begemmed,
/ turn to thee
For all day l must be
To light condemned,
But now I hive by radiant darkness
hemmed.
Oh night! Oh wonderful!
Thou canst reveal
Such mystic things
In whisperings
And then conceal
These mysteries which Day ne'er can feel.
Oh sadness! Oh happiness.
Two in one
And one in two:
Oh, thou ever-new
Night without sun,
Kiss me, sweet dark, e'er thy reign be
done.
-Rosina Hubley Emmett, in Everybody's
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
Church Eaten by wolves.

An Eskimo church made of 40 SEAL
skins stretched over a light whalebone
framework has come to an untimely
end. While a service was being held
the edifice was attacked by a pack Of
half-famished dogs, and the whole
building eaten, with the exception of
the whalebone.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

dead now, and the signor he's adopted
Miss Giacomo for his own; their ad-
dress, sir? Now, let me see, they
went from here to one of them big
hotels-Cecil l think it was"
Colin contrived to cut short the rest
Of her voluble talk, and started of to
walk to the Hotel Cecil; he was glad
from his heart that the girl had found
a friend and the prospect of happi-
ness-if only the good luck had come
to him, other dreams than money and
fame might have been his; now she
would never know that her pretty facc
had chained him to Mrs. Wilcox's
house like a spell; that the chance
meeting sometimes, the glance from
her sweet eyes had inspired his muse
yes! something else had gone out of
his life with Nina Giacomo, and he
had to confess himself as a thief be-
fore her.
1t was the only restitution he could
make.
Il had set my whole soul on VIM
ming that prize" stammered the cul-
prit, with downcast eyes. Il thought
of it by day and dreamed Of it by
night-then l was taken i'll, and a
wondrous melody made itself known
to me; strange, sweet harmonies ran
through my fever so that waking was
almost a pain, for with coming back
to this dreary world the angel tune
vanished, and | could not catch hold of
tit seemed still in my soul, but
elusive, like a shadow which cannot
be grasped-then-one night | heard it
played in another room, | heard it
hummed and strummed, not the har-
mony, but the ghost of the melody,
and my delirium was not over. | en-
treat you to believe it was not the true
Colin Stuart, but some remnant of the
fever fiend who did it. | stole the
melody and elaborated it, harmonized
it, as I had heard it played in my
dreams, and I sent it in as my own;
it won the prize-it is here-yours,
not mine"
"No," said Nina Giacomo, softly lay
ing a OBTAINING hand to stay the re.
treat he tried to make, "it was always
yours, Mr.. Stuart; even in your fever
the ruling passion of your life came
out; there were many hours when you
were alone, INTENDED, and you used to
get up and play wonderful music
dream music-which drove one into
ecstasy to hear, better, far more beau-
tiful than l had ever heard you play
before.
THAT prize melody was yours, and I
used to pick out just the air On my
piano afterward sometimes. | have re-
membered other tunes, but | liked that
best; it is your very own, and the ap-
pointment also-and l am happy for
your sake"
81 had nj other dream, too" he
said, in almost inaudible tone, "as
sweet or sweeter than the music.
There was a purse found in my room,
a lady's purse, with a name hastily
erased, yet not so thoroughly but that
some letters were left"
you must forgive she said quick
| ~; 'the good luck came to me Just
then; my uncle offered me a home.
l knew | should have enough money
for always-and-and l was passing
the door when you fell and tainted.
l knew why, and-Mrs. Wilcox has
been made hard because her own fight
has been so bitter-those on the coach
cannot understand how the wheels
hurt, unless once they have been un-
der them themselves"
And after all they did not pass out
of each others lives-the good luck
had come at last!-London Tit-Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
."stand pat" means many

Stand pat" means many I'M
American things, but the republican
party is no longer American--it is the
Hannaized party of money, monopolies,
trusts, subsidies and defiance of the on
stitution. 1t is for these things the peo-
pie are advised to stand pat."-Atlanta
Constitution.
The people and not the trusts
should rule.
Tariff food is great for trusts,
but how do you like trust prices and
high cost of living?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

Ida-Walter has broken the engage
ment between him and Della.
MAXWELL. | suppose she is still
grateful for the boxes of candy he used
to bring out every Sunday.
quite the contrary. She says he
ruined her teeth.''-Chicago Daily
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
French Mayors Jubilee.

Moulins-sur-Orne, France, has the dis
tinction of having had n mayor for
half a century in the person of M. Ger
main-Lacour. Moulins-sur-Orne is in
the reimbursement of Argentan, and the
people have just celebrated this unique
event by holding a fete in honor of their
mayor. Argentan has been represented
in parliament by the same deputy for 40
ynarc
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
SwitzerIand's Infant School.

Switzerland has 767 infant schools.
These schools are under the supervl-
sion of $50 female teachers. There is
an average attendance Of 43 pupils. The
number of infants received in churches
is 1914. The primary schools have
470, 713 scholars, 234,961 books and 23s.-
1852 girls. There r 6,499 masters and
3,S13 mistresses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

Miss Peppery-What intelligent tricks
your dog has, Mr.. Sappy.
Cholly Sappy-Yaas, l taught him all
he knows.
Miss Peppery-Indeed? And can you
perform all those intelligent things,
too?-Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
A Kind Employer.

Clerk am to be married shortly.
Couldn't you manage to increase my
salary a little?
Employer-Couldn't, really. But I'll
tell you what I'll do for you, my boy.
I'll shorten your hours during the first
three months, so that you can spend
your evenings at home, and after that
I'll lengthen them again, SO that you
will have an excuse to get away.--N
Y. Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

We oppose militarism. 1t
conquest abroad and intimidation and
oppression at home. democratic
platform, 1900.
-Let well enough Alone" says
Senator Hanna, who declines to ask
the trusts to take their hands out of
your pockets.
The net profits of the protected
steel trust last year were $133, 600, 900,
or S. per family. Every good Ameri-
a points with pride to this trust.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

Two Australian scientists have found
a race of natives on the island of Morn
ington who have not huts, clothes or
canoes, and who are much more primi-
tive than the aborigines' on the main.
land Of Australia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22
state Educotion ABROAD.

The German state gives to one uni
versity more than the British govern
ment allows to all the universities and
university colleges in England, Ireland
and Scotland together.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

a certain Knight, who wore a wig to conceal his badness, was out
hunting one day. A sudden gust of wind carried away his wig, and
showed his bald pate. His friends all laughed heartily at the odd
figure he made; but the old fellow, so far from being put out, laughed
as heartily as any OF them. SIS it any wonder said he, thar an
other mans hair shouldn't keep on my head, when my own wouldn't
stay there"
Moral-To be captions mot more uneasy to ourselves than it is dsasreeabe to 9th
good quaHItS may pass. muster We'll enough, but he Who's attention is always
can never be acceptable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22


to a dreary London attic, one of those
tiny, ill-furnished rooms which shelter
broken hearts and hide blighted hopes
from the mock Of the. world.
Colin Stuart had won the prize for
his superb setting of the classic ode
he held the check in his hand for
$3.50, with the formal offer of the
post he had craved, with more than
formal appreciation of his work, for
the famous Signor Tiorno pronounced
it worthy of the highest praise.
Colin threw the letter down in Bit
teri contempt. "Stolen honors-a
giants robe," he muttered, "only, thank
heaven, there is still time to make
restitution. I will take 1t there to-
night-now, it may be to them what
it was to me-what 1t would have been
to me If 1t were honestly mine. Per-
haps the melody was hers-that beau
tiful dark-eyed girl / used to see pass
ing up and down to the second floor
back-perhaps it a the old foreign
er's I saw with her just before I was
taken ill-they will pity and forgive,
the temptation was SO great"
But they also had left Mrs. Wilcox's
apartments, he found-they had gone
a few days before he himself had done
so.
"She-Miss Giacomo-was a goven-
ess and had lived here for three years."
explained Mrs. Wilcox, vexedly, "and
paid to the day all that time. Then
her uncle came and took her away-he
hadn't any children, and is quite a
rich old man, l believe, an she's going
abroad with him. She was his sisters
child, an there'd been a quarrel over
the marriage an they lost sight Of
each other. Anyhow the parents are
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-09-10
Well, What kext1

Where will the strike" problem
end? The latest stand OUT comes
from La Crosse in connection with
school matters. OF it the Chronicle
gays:
For the reason that they con-
sdered tire assembling OF schools in
the month Of August an unwarrant-
ed encroachment upon their vaca-
ton, forty students of the high
school failed to report at the opening
session. When of the students
assembled outside of the building
yesterday morning it was decided
that the opening of school before the
regular time in September was not
only extraordinary" but "unneces-
sary," and as result, with some per-
suasion on the part of older mem
bers, the entire crowd refused to
enter the doors at the time of as
Semblinp.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-09-10

The Chicago Record Herald Is a
conspicuous example Of the success
with which the public rewards fear
less nonpartisanship In the columns
Of a great metropolitan daily paper.
1t is an independent newspaper, in
which men and measures are invari-
ably viewed wholly from the stand
point OF the public good and not
from that of the interest of any par.
ticular political party. 1t is the very
reverse of neutral-fearless and out
spoken on all the great questions OF
the day, but presenting its editorial
opinion upon independent judg-
ment and entirely regardless of po-
litical affiliations. Partisanship ia
barred as strictly from the news col
umns as from the editorial page. All
political news is given without par
tisan coloring, thus enabling the
reader to form correct conclusions
for himself. In the ordinary partisan
newspaper political news is usually
colored to such an extent as 70 make
it difficult If not impossible for the
reader to secure a sound basis for in
Acknowledgements.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-09-10

One OF the greatest cures at the sani-
tariums established all over the coun-
try is the simple sun bath. The solar
heat gives to the whole system a
strength and vigor which no nourish-
Ing food can impart, 1t Is so essential
to our health and happiness that when
1t Is taken away from us we become
weak, run down and pale But when
we go out into the warm sunlight again
new strength and health come to us.
The sun bath is essential Take IT ev.
cry day. Cut down the trees that are
so close to the house that they obscure
the sun and have every living room
flooded with light If one IS forced to
stay indoors all day try to get near
the sunny window where the full ef-
fects of the sunlight can be felt. It
Will cure neuralgia, nervousness, faint
ness, weakness ami dozen other com
plants, 1t viii give color and beauty
to the complexion by making the blood
better and purer. The purest and pref
TEST coInpleXious are those which are
wind swept and sun Drowned during
the summer time. and not those which
come from n dark room.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-09-10
1t Was Not a Lozenger.

The exception 10 the r:iie that funer-
ais are among the most SOLEMN Of hui
man customs occurred at burial in
Quaker settlement.
An aged and highly respected man in
the community died, and the funeral
was largely attended. In room filed
with relatives and friends of the dead
sat an old farmer, whose cough, like
some of the ailments that atflict hui
mans, was especially aggravated when
the mourners were quietest.
He made several efforts to control the
hectic spasms; but, being blunt In dis
position and not the least self con-
scious, he did not realize that he had
the nerves OF half of the room on edge
and consequently did not worry himself
about stopping the cough. Much an
noyed, but full of sympathy, spinster
lady, n neighbor. who sat behind him,
plunged her hand quietly into an an
Client reticule and, drawing out some
thing III her hand, passed it to him,
saying in whisper, Here is lonzen-
ger, JOHN; IT will stop thee from cough
ing"
The farmer took it rather indifferent
~, put ii into his mouth, bit lard. then
suddenly raised half a foot off his
chair. with WY face. Returning the
"lozengcr,' he said in voice heard
throughout the room:
Here. Thee should be less careless
with thy shoe buttons | have almost
broken Il tooth "-Philadelphia Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-09-10
Killing the Corn Crop.

The crop killers are still engaged
in knocking out the prospects for 4
fair yield of corn, but in spite of then
predictions it sprobable the farmers
will be able to harvest enough to see
them through another season. Just
a few weeks of favorable weather
would put an entirely different aspect
to the corn situation, and before the
farmers give up they should recall
the predicameuto of the Dakota farm
er who recently made wager that
he would "eat his shoes if his wheat
averaged ten bushels to the acre
whilG the thresher returns have
shown that the yield amounted to
seventeen bushels TO the acre. AS a
consequence he will enjoy meal of
fried shoe leather and other farmers
should be warned by example not to
be too pessimistic over the corn crop
prospects.
or course it is generally admitted
that the corn crop is very backward
this year, and it will require two or
three weeks of warm and seasonable
weather to bring the crop through
all right and beyond the danger OF
frosts. At the same time the case is
not hopeless, and provided the frosts
do hold of and warm weather comes
70 hasten and mature the delayed
crop, there is still good prospect
for fair sized yield. In this section
of the country it all depends on the
weather, and it is to be hoped the
most of the corn will be in the shock
before killing frosts arrive.