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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
ADMISSION is DAMAGING.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw Fur
nishes Good Campaign Material
for His Opponents.

Gradually WI are finding out about
trust goods exported to foreign coun-
tries and sold there for less money than
hele. Previous to the congressional
campaign Of 1902 it was fatty denied
by TIE republicans that any such bust
ness was done, and even after exposure
in the democratic campaign book of that
year the protectionists refused to admit
it. The evidence is now so overwhelm-
ing that Senator Aldrich in a speech in
the senate just before adjournment had
to admit that trust products were SO
goods or to break down the tariff of
other countries. But now comes Secre-
tary Shaw, in his speech at the late Iowa
republican convention, saying that the
chief issue of the campaign this year
would be the democratic claim that
American goods are sold cheaper abroad
than here, and that while this was true
in a way, yet this claim could only be
proved as to about one-thirtieth OK
American goods sold abroad"
lulS lSpOIl VI OtCltldlS CudW >
speech is taken from the press dis
patches and he is doubtless correctly re-
ported. Secretary Shaw is noted for
being quite liberal with his estimates
when it suits him to be so and very mig.
gardly when the figures prove his op-
ponent's case, so that it is quite likely
that one-third instead of one-thirtietE
is a good deal nearer the mark. The
estimates of how much and what prod
ucts Secretary Saw admits are sold
cheaper abroad than here will have to be
given to make his estimate of any
worth.
Yet If these figures are no more reli-
able than other government estimates,
or, as seems likely, are but a guess after
all, 1t would perhaps have been bet
ter, ''for the good of the party" to have
stuck to the old fabrication that no
goods were sold cheaper abroad than
here. But now the admission has been
made and the democratic contention in
a measure conceded, what excuse can
be offered the farmers and workingmen
why the tariff should not be revised to
meet these conditions the trusts have
brought unon us?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
ME AND BILL.

When our hired man, Josiar Green,
Went back to Briar Hin,
He said he hoped to Job he'd seen
The last o. me an Bill!
He can't tell which from t'other yet;
| guess he never will.
Becuz Bill he's a twin to me,
An LIN a twin to Bill.
Pa told our teacher: Make 'em learn!
Don't sugar-coat the pill!'
So schools quite interestin' now
Fer him IN me an Bill!
He let us take the water pail
To go TO Colby's well;
It's forty rods, an SO of course
1t took us quite a spell.
But we got back within an hour,
An sneaked in nice an still;
He never let us go again!
He's down on me an Bill.
Pa had a little 'larum clock,
1t wasn't any good,
/ thought that 1 could fix it, though,
An Bill was sure h could.
We was a fixin' it all right,
When Bill he had to cough,
An joggled it, and all to once
The dog-gone thing went off!
The teacher he come down the aisle,
Tiptoein' soft ar still;
1 knew right off hat smile of his
Meant woe for me an Bill.
Says he: 81 guess I'll ring a BELL"
An pitched in like Sam Hill,
The clapper was his spellin' book,
The bell was me an Bill!
F. L. Rose, in Chicago Record-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
MEAT PACKERS COMBINE.
Plumbers Producer az Well as Con-
sumner, Aided by the Powerful
Railroad Pools.

The packers combine has such com
plete control of the cattle, hog and beef
markets that it laughs at injunctions
and does not seem to fear other legal
proceedings the administration might
invoke. If President Roosevelt would
instruct his attorney general to pro-
coed against the individual members of
the combine under the criminal section
of the antitrust law it is probable that
their hilarity would o O cease and they
would be suing for peace. One trust
magnate behind the bars would have a
restraining effect upon the whole brood.
The alliance between the packers
combine and the railroads has been
notorious and no n has been able to
compete with them for that reason
alone, as it gives them a virtual monop-
oily of transportation and markets. The
interstate commerce commission has
asked for power to prevent and punish
determinations and the paying of re-
bates to favored shippers, but neither
the president nor the republican ma
jority of congress have seemed anxious
or willing to punish railroad or trust.
The farmers and the beef consumers
are both vitality interested in the beef
monopoly and, as Chairman Babcock
says, the farmers, through reading the
daily newspapers, have become so in
telligent" that they keep congressman
busy asking questions on matters Of
public interest. 1t might pay the farm
ers, and the beef consumers as well, to
make especial inquiries why the beef
combine is not prosecuted under the
criminal section, and why the railroads
are allowed to discriminate in favor Of
the few and against the many If the
intelligent farmer or the city consumer
has in former campaigns questioned his
congressman and was promised relief
from monopoly, which has certainly not.
materialized, is it not about time to
elect some one in his place who will
not only promise but perform? These
determinations by the railroads and the
monopoly of the cattle and hog and beef
market have continued for years and the
farmers and their customers in the city
nave quietly submitted to promises or
reform, but instead of relief the system
has grown from bad to worse.
The democrats in congress proposed
several bills, and amendments to 9TH
eTs, that would have had the effect of
defeating monopolies, but the republic
an majority refused to consider any
measure that would strike at the root of
the evil, They were too anxious to fol-
low the orders of President Roosevelt
to pass the appropriation bills and go
home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
What the Public Must Paw.

Charles M. Schwab, former president
IF the United States Steel trust, has
BEEN telling tales out of school which
have produced no little furry in protec-
tive circles. In a private letter to H,
G. Prick he has declared that the trust
could sell steel rails at the mill for
SIS per ton and make a reasonable profit.
He claims that he could not only do
this, but shut out English rails in the
markets of Great Britain at $40 per ton,
md that the same is true as to other
steel products. When it is considered
that the price of steel rails at the mills
is $2S per ton some idea can be formed
of the tax which is thus levied on the
N~yeople, on whom in the end falls the
burden of this extra cost by this system
of Notwithstanding Courier-Jour-
nal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
PEOPLE PAY THE FREIGHT.
Evidences That the Big Combinations
Sell Cheaper Abroad Than in
United States.

The much disputed question of how
much cheaper the trusts sell their
products to foreigners than to the
people of the United States has been
settled as far as steel rails are con-
cerned. The evidence was produced by
Senator Bacon in a speech made in the
senate April Is, which is published in
the Congressional Record, April %, on
pages 6,040-56. He conclusively shows
by the evidence of MI. Wright, gen.
eral manager of the Macon, Dublin &
Savannah Railroad company, that he had
paid $29 a ton for steel rails for his
railroad, which the steel trust offered
to sell for 500 if exported to Honduras.
Mr.. Wright, who is a republican, was
quite indignant at being thus plum
lered by the steel trust, and says:
I'VE American citizens paid to this
American industry $33, 600 in excess of
what foreigners would have been com
PEELED to pay" A bonus in excess of
5000 a mile is quite a stiff tax to pay
the steel trust, and Senator Bacon
stated that the railroads of the United
States have for the six years beginning
in 1898 and ending in 1903 used 12,-
544, 242 tons of steel rails, and paid for
them $3.50, $50, 904 more than the same
rails would have been sold for to for
eigners. This enormous extra prOnt
from Americans is arrived at from the
to,+;o,oo- ~F Nv CoIu,oh u,hn UoC
president of the steel trust, that rails
could be manufactured for $12 a ton,
and sold at a fair profit in this country
at SIG a ton. The average price during
the six years for which the computa-
ton is made was SIS per ton, which is
the price to-day. The difference be-
tween SIG and $2S makes the amount
stated by Senator Bacon.
Most people would not be especially
interested in how much the steel trust
plumbers the railroads, except that the
high prices of rails undoubtedly adds
to the rates'for passengers and freight,
so that indirectly everyone that uses
the railroads pays his share of that
enormous borus.
The tariff duty on steel rails is 1854
a ton, and this tax prevents foreign
rails from being imported, and thus
keeping the price within reasonable
bounds. Mr.. Schwab also said in his
testimony that foreign countries could
not manufacture steel rails for lea
than $19 a ton, which, if freight and
duty is added, would make them cosi
about $2S, the price the trust charges
With this evidence Of plumber thai
the tariff allows the trust, who, eX-
cept the stand-patters, will say that
the steel trust schedule should not be
revised? And the evidence that he
same tariff plumber is fostering other
trusts in like manner, is the reason the
democrats demand that all the sched-
ules that shelter trusts should also be
revised.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
They Never Drink Water.

There are hundreds of horses and
thousands of cattle in the Hawaiian is
lands which never take a drink of wa
ter throughout the whole course of their
lives. On all the islands the upper lati-
tudes of the mountains are given up to
cattle ranges. Except possibly two or
three months in the rainy season there
are no streams or pools of water in any
part where the cattle roam, but every
where there grows a %recumbent, jointed
grass, known by the native name oil
MAMMA" That is both food and drink,
Lahore Qndia) Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
Story of a "Chaffer."

A heavy touring a was speeding
along upper Broadway, which was
crowded. Suddenly the machine turned
sharply to the left, and, without dimin-
ishing it's speed, described a complete
circle. 1t missed a street car by afoot, a
carriage by an inch, and another auto
mobile by a fraction Of an inch. Then
it shot off at the proper tangnt, having
done no harm.
II don't think them 'chaffers' ought to
drink, remarked the cop, thoughtfully.
"And yet" he added, "a sober man nd
brooks his neck like tAAt."-N. Y. World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
Wasp Paper k

Brazil has a natural paper making in.
dustry peculiarly its own. The country
abounds in a curious wasp, which builds
nests for itself of paper which it manu-
features by the ton. The paper is made
from vegetable refuse, which is SO
treated by the wasps that it becomes
hard, like cardboard. 1t is so durable
that it resists all effects of climate and
lasts five or six years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02

For a week Jack Simpson lay de,
lfrious-a week of great anxiety and
terrible tension to his wife. Over and
over again had he gone through the In
cidents of that memorable night. In
his wanderings she learnt of the dark
purpose he had brooded upon; how he
had seen the awful position Seton
Holder had been placed in; how, at
sight of a fellow-creature in such hor-
rible danger, he had come to his nor
NAL senses, flung the pistol: from him
and resolved to save the man who had
schemed to wreck his happiness.
Jess" he said, almost the first in
telligent words he spoke as he chung
to her in recognition; 81 didn't do it;
thank Heaven, l didn't do it."
flush, dear" she said, you never
could have done it; your nature would
not let you. No one knows but us and
the doctor that you were SO cruelty
tempted. And we are all to forget
that. Let us start now and never refer
to it again."
Daddy" cried Miss Beatrice Simp-
son, running to his bedside, why don't
you get better? There's such a lot Of
nice fings waiting for you"
YES" said her mother, land I have
a letter to read when you are strong
enough"
IF it is good news" he said, with a
feeble smile, 1--WE the strength of a
giant now"
at is a long letter." she said, "and
the doctors orders are strict. But its
chief contents are that Fairlow's wish
to buy your new process and the price
they offer is e1,500. They also wish to
know if you will undertake to put it
into operation and IL it at their
American works at a salary Of"
She paused.
Don't kill me with Kindness" he
said.
"Big boats go to 'Merica," interrupt
ed Miss Beatrice, with the usual alert
ness of young eyes and young ears.
"The letter" went on Mrs. Simpson,
lis signed by Seton Holder. He deep
ly regrets, and is full of gratitude to
you for so nobly saving his life. He
says you would have been justified in
leaving him to his fate, and he can
never sufficiently reward you"
Poor Holder. For a moment, Jess,
for just the flash of a moment, l leapt
with exultation when | saw him
doomed; my mind swung like a pendu-
lum between evil and good; then-but
there, We all have a glorious impulse
sometimes! And to think, Jess, that
this e a new start for us-a fresh
start in a new country"
They were silent for a. moment and
then they laughed quietly together.
Miss Beatrice was holding the kitten
up by its paws in the corner, and say
ing: "'Tend to me, puss, cause you
are going to 'Merica, you know. You
will have to cross the sea in a big, big
boat. Now, how long, fink you, will 1t
take to pack our fings "'-London Tit
Bits-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
The Voice Of Experience.

Better a dinner Of herbs and content
ment than a STALLED auto in a tar u
try.-Everybody's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02
LOVE FINDS A WAY.

Old Longwad taside)-Guess they
won't elope this trip, cause | amt
trustin' EN- alone.
Cholly Whizzer-By the way, Mr..
Longwad, you are 10 clever al me-
chanics, would you mind examining my
buzz ~ejector? 1t doesn't work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-02

When our hired man, Josiar Green.
Went back to Briar Hill,
He said he hoped to Job he'd seen
The last o. me an Bill!
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probably responsible for many Of the Ills
which flesh Is heir to- 81 II
IS In school work md much manual work.
such as carrying. weights or nursing a
child, the pastures which follow from the
constant Use OF the right hand tend to
dorsal and other ctlrvatures. The perfect
development should be symmetrical;
I therefore ambdextral training Is Of es-5
ipecial value fundamentally and physically.
The roll OF fam E OF modern ambldex-
trists Is not long one. compared With
the population OF the world, but 1t In
scludes many eminent and distinguished
people. s. I.
As an En- slish woman, 1 naturally place
at the head OF the list our late Queen
Victoria. Finding her drawing with her.
left hand one day. her royal UNCLE OF
Belgium, remarked: How dexterous YOU
are. my dear nclce!" Not. dexterous, but
9ambidextrous, unclel" was the reply
4 Americas greatest citizen, William
Lloyd Garrison. is deserving Of fame. not
only as a politician: he was ambidextrous
and regarded the power as ono OF his
most valuable possessions. i6
Naturally, he would have used the left
hand, but painful chastiscment at school
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made use OF both his eyes The earliest
traces or man found, MS yet III Britain
are the flint Instruments discovered near
the village Of 1gftham, in Kent.
These instruments are not HATED, for
early man had MT learned the value of
handles. The cutting edges Of the instru-
ments are rounded Off or bluntcd, and
the slight clippings are always on tho
opposite side to a good hand-grlp. Quite
as many of these tools are adapted for
left as for right hand Use.
In the later Neolithic Age 1t has been
proved that the more advanced instru-
$ments then used were fitted for either
right or5.left hands. The wings, too,
left to modern students by Palaeolithic
man show that It was a. matter OF indif-
Ference to him whether, in representing
the animals with which he was familiar,
he used the right or the left hand. 1T
seems to have depended on the way IN
which the animal stood! Al
AS with most is,rpers, the claim of
the right hand to pre.eminence rests on
Il certain reasonableness Of foundation
II seems probable that even ambidextrous
primitive man is responsible to some cx-
tent.
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partment furnishes not unfrequently ops
portunities for stirring up lots Of trou-i
bic, countermandng orders to servants,
"tittle-tatting" from one; member to the.
other. criticislng Il tho mistress. Of the
household because her ways are different
mischief tlata4is ;proverbially found for
idle hands to d o. & 81 rs. III Il, II III v fs
They should remember that their days
y for bearing burdens are OYER; that they.
should lay aside the lnboring oars and
toy. only with the paddles thu t amuses
but do not fatlg & They. should scorn the
petty things of II fe and deal only with
the larger ones for which they should
be fitted by their experience. They should
rise above the plane Of tho mediocre and
seek only the lofty and the noble; they
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By
LADY HENRY.
SOMERSET.

will power and perseverance, 4 I liz, OF
course, we'll TO begin the training OF tho
neglected hand Wiiefl# quite young but
medical men and ucatlonn1sts declare
that children Of larger growth need not
abandon hope OF success II they give att
tention to the matter.
In some schools on the Continent, In
England, and In America ambIdextraSs
K training Is given and II Is found TO Inter-
est scholars very much. 4.
In an adult the left, hand usually begins
by spelling badly; but practice In LETT
7 hand writing Will overcome this defect.
II, drawing. too. the work oftheleft hand
is generally smaller than that OF 4 the
right. So x. e AZ
These facts probably point to the inac-g
tlvity OF the rlght1lobe of tho brain until
developed by Use. With two trained
hands simultaneous work becomes poss-
BILE; two different letters may be written
at the same time. 5ss s.sg q, * *
Il In many handcrafts, In sport In liter
ary work. a reliable left hand is OF tho
utmost value. We can only hope that
the time has gone BY whenito use pen or
pencil In the leftshand was deemed wor-
thy only OF severe raps on the offending
fingers. All = ~ 3 & SSf 80
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His was a truly strenuous life; he was
OF necessity a warrior and hunter. He
evidently realized that the heart-beats
felt on his. left side denoted the presence
there IAN organ which lie instinctively
recognized as vital. and with this recog-
milton came the desire TO protect It.
50 he guarded 1t with a shield held In
tho left hand. Thus, when equipped for
tho conflict or the chase, his right hand
assumed the offensive and his left hand
the defensive The result was that tho
right hand became moro and more the
active partner and the left the passive
one in the economy of his bod y. W.
From nh examlnationfof$th the writings Of
+ the ancerts It appears that they were
frequently ambidextrous. It Is probable
that the Semitic races preferred the use
OF the left hand which may account
for their writing being done from right to
left But among early. Greek and Roman
Inscriptions that have been found speci-
mems of "Boustroplledon" writing occur,
so called because 1t resembles tho plough
& ing OF "a field up and down by oxen.
Some archaeologists consider that such
writing was done by the right and left
hand alternately; the letters written from
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Roooocooooeo ooooooooooooooce

result ted In. the right hand gaining eq,ial
power with the left--to9 the owners great
advantage. 81
Musicians and conjurors are, OF neces-
sity. atnbidextrous. Medical men and
scientists find that their work Is done
with greater ease when theysa are able ito
use the right or left hand impartially.
BIZ William Covers. M. ~, md the Rev
Or. Dallinger. e.. II. s.. may be cited as
examples.
Sir sNvaltct Parratt, too, organist Of st.
Georges Chapel, Windsor, can accompany
4 a full choral service with his left hand
and his feet, and at the same time write
q letter with his rigf t hand. Professor
Morse, OF the Baltlm re University. was
also at1bidcxtrous, MD Sir Edwin Land
seer, the artist.
Leonardo da vnc. the notwithstanding
OF the Renaissance, was able to use
either hand With equal facility. The jap
6anese are. probably, the most ambidcx-
trous nation OF tho present day although
Eastern People have greater power In tho
use Of the left hand than westeners. The
Shah OF Persia signs his name with eth.
Ter hand. and many Oriental workmen use
both impartially.
Two essentials alone lead to success---
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right to left take the slope which they
would naturally do IL they we're written
by the left hand-that Is, the opposite
way to those written by the right.
4 The oldest Latin inscription remaining
that discovered In the Roman Forum un-
der the stone Of Romulus-ls written In
this alternating style. Bnbylonians. Tgyp-
tiat1s and the Greeks and the Romans Of
classic times We're probably, as a rule,
rigi1t-handed. and those Israelites-the
13enjarl tes-- WI o were left handed are re-
arded as exceptions to the people gem
orally. "a s, 8 sy5 &,
To tho constantsuse Of the rightSl1nnds
Is to be attributed, according to many
eminent dical men. the one-sided de-
,velopment Of the brain from which most
people suffer.
L The action OF the two hands Is directed
by the two lobes OF the brain--the right
lobe controls the left hand; the left lobe
the right hand. When, by the dominance
of the right hand the whole strain Of di-l
rectiorB wolves upon the left lobe of the
brain instead of being shared, as was de-
signed, by tllesrlg lobe, 1t naturally fol-
lows that the brain development is one
sided, and the great, one-slded pressure is
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i1 men II they will only avail themselves
of them. The facilities for travel are
80 30 fine in these days Of luxury that Voc
men can go all over the world though.
tho weight OF three-scoro and ten years
may rest upon them. On sea and on
land every provision Is made for young
1 and old who Wish to visit any part Of the
+ globe. have sonnet times thought that
the oldest among the tourists had the best
1 time because OF the consideration shown
1 them on account OF their age. This Is
especially not iceable II in the old world
where great difference is paid stogage4s1n
countries where rudeness scharactcrizes
theamanner Of young people the aged are
treated with the utmost courtesy.
v s$4 It: Is to- be hoped TINT the women OF
three and even four-score years Will
set the example of being alive till they
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WOMEN SHOULD ALWAYS REMAIN YOUNG

should avoid gossips and seek only those
who edify,t
There is no reason why women who
have reared "a miles and have passed the
period OF ma tlire years should not be
happy. and alive TO things about them.
and ifs5they are It Is because they al.
low their minds to DO filled ;with5petty.
things to the exclusion OF something en-
SnDbllng "a q e IS 4 e
With some women release from care.
means time to ind lge in gossip, criticism
andstrivial judgments, II they do any
thing, zeal lou sizes and rivalries often ems
bitter those who have not better things
to occupy theirs minds and hearts
The world is full of interesting things
that could be utilized by women Of all
ages for their diversion and improve