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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

| AM sorry for Editor Todd; and,
then, again, | am not. He is the
victim of the Folk craze which erst
did sweep the State like unto a
cyclone-scathing in its fell path a
thousand sturdy Democratic oaks
which had dared successfully the
vicissitude of storm and inclem-
ency for years. Editor Todd, be-
ing an editor, ought not have
hankered after official p~referment,
which is but to exchange the
higher mission for the heshpots of
the lesser. That he fell from his
high estate is to be deprecated,
but | have compassion for him in
his weakness. Even the angels
fell upon temptation, and what is
there in weak man that he should
not fall also? The fault | have to
find with Editor Todd is that, he
refuses to recognize his own laches,
but "kicks" like a bucking steer at
his friends, who, recognizing his
fitness as an editor, refuse to lower
him in the scale of public servi-
tude. He makes a grave mistake;
he ought to bless the ready hands
and loving hearts who chasten him
to his own correction. This is
how | feel about it, and I have no
sympathy with the mind that
could dictate or the pen that could
set down, as a contemporary has
done, in sarcasm, the details of
his saving from the snares Of UNI
toward ambition:
All kind hearted voters in Mis-
souri, will be expected to tenderly
place a flower on the political
grave of Editor James Todd of the
Maryville Democrat, late candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, later
candidate for Secretary of State,
latest candidate for Congress in
the Fourth district, a Folk bust
man from start to finish and now a
very private citizen. In the last
edition Of his paper Mr.. Todd tells
a long and a sad story of his po-
litical woe. 1t is not an ordinary
story, either, but one calculated to
attract passing notice.. There are
some things, however, which MI.
Todd withholds from an anxious
and conflding public. For ex-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

ample, he does not say why he
broke all records by seeking three
different important political nomi-
nations from the Democratic party
in one campaign. This feat was
never before attempted even by
the most seasoned old ofice-seek-
ers. According to the records OF
the case, Mr.. Todd's appetite for
office must be of sufficient dimen-
sions to arouse the interest of
every Pike exhibitor at tho Worlds
Fair and make him long for such
an attraction. First Mr.. Todd con-
cluded that he would like to be
Lieutenant Governor. He waited
at the telephone a long time for a
ring from the Vox Populi, but the
call came not to him, butte Rubey.
Mr.. Todd discovered this fact after
Mr.. Rubey had secured nearly all
the delegates to the State Conven-
ton. Almost any man but Mr..
Todd would have taken the hint at
this stage of the game, but he
didn't. He listened to the voice of
Congressman Vandiver and was
straightway convinced that he
could beat Sam. d. Cook for the
nomination for Secretary of State,
and was accordingly knocked
down and dragged out q second
time. This ought to have put him
out of business for a long time, but
it was only a few days until he
was heard of again, the last time
as a candidate for Congress. His
third defeat happened a few days
ago, and now Mr.. Todd is exhibit
ing his sore spots and telling his
readers what it feels like to be run
through a threshing machine three
times in one season. AS the cleo
ton will not take place until No
vember Sth, and there are some
offices in Northwest Missouri fol
which nominations have not We,
been made, Mr.. Todd may add tc
his record and send his name
laundering down future ages as
having been defeated oftener ane
for more offices in a single cam
paign than any man on earth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

If notice had been taken of the
offense-would have been imposed.
Such toadyism-and it is rank in
certain classes-makes the aver
age American very weary, if it
doesn't make him to question the
wisdom of the Fathers who tried
to abolish class privilege. Miss
Roosevelt is no doubt very dear to
her parents, but there + several
millions OF girls in this great Re-
public who are as good, as sweet,
and as precious as any Presidents
daughter that ever lived.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

GIVE the Dingley law era an
other credit mark. American
manufactures r going abroad at
the rate of $500, 900, 900 a year.
Globe Democrat.
Will the CD. kindly inform an
anxious and inquiring public how
it is that we need protection for
our American manufacturers while
they are able to sell yearly $780,
100000 of their manufactured pro-
ducts in tho foreign markets in
competition with all the world and
it's "pauper labor? Answer,
please!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

FELLOw-DEMoCRATs, not one of
us can have his own way to the
exclusion OF the rights of the mem
bers of the party who differ from
him as to men and measures. This
is a world Of give-and-take. If |
to-day must be content with the
crust of the pie, behold! to-mor-
row may give me it's succulent
entrails. | may, and do, "kick"
upon occasion; it is my right; but
If | kick clean out OF the traces
what reason have | to ask that my
neighbor shall pull steadily if his
shoulders are CALLED? No! Let
us work together in the firm assur-
ance thatthough the road be heavy
at times, it is far better to bear it's
inequalities than to stray into the
swamps and quicksands which
beset the way to the camp Of the
common enemy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

- POOA P~J |
is a proverb, and in illustration of
its truth reproduce the following
from the Chicago Public. The
article also forcefully depicts the
methods whereby the corporations
and other rich Cuisines interests"
avoid rendering their due support
to the state:
The Chicago public school teach
ers' organization has won another
legal battle in the fight against tho
corrupting corporations and the
hostile city authorities with whom
it has been struggling forfouryears.
A salary scale for teachers had
been liked by the school board,
and under this scale the teachers
were employed for the school year
ending in June, 1900. Here was a
contract, but the school board vio-
lated it by cutting down the teach
ers' salaries in the middle of the
school year, giving as a reason that
the school fund had proved made
quate. Thereupon the teachers
organization decided to investigate
this inadequacy. They found that
there was indeed a deficit in the
school fund, but instead of letting
the matter end there, as the school
board-either corruptly or inef-
ficiently-had done, the teachers
made an inquiry into the cause of
the deficit. They were not long in
discovering that it was due to tax
lodging, and that the big tax
dodgers were the franchise corpor-
ADMINISTRATION, gas, telephone,
electric light, etc. Then the teach
ers did what the school board
ought to have done. They took
legal proceedings to compel these
corporations to pay their taxes.
In that work Of good citizenship the
teachers were not only not sup
ported by the school board and the
Chicago taxing authorities, but
t were obstructed at every possible
turn by the very authorities whose
public duty it was to do themselves
what the teachers organization
was trying to do. The authorities
and the tax-dodging corporations
were united as one man to oppose
the teachers fight. But Judge
, Thompson, of Springfield, by
whom the case was first decided.
, sustained the teachers. Still the
!. teachers got no support from the
school board and other officials
. They we're obliged to carry on the
l fight themseles to the end, the in.
4 fluence of the authorities and of the
: self-advertised ''best citizens
generally being thrown on the side
DoaS'5A otIuiy 6v trro UousuUrncJutorT-0
these elements, the teachers were
successful to the end. The taxing
authorities yer compelled by thu
= courts-not permitted, but compel
4 led-to levy some $4,000, 900 on the
t corporate tax-dodgers for the yea
: 1900. Then the convenient FEEDER.
al Judge, Grosscup, being called
/ into the case by the tax-dodgers
granted a temporary injunction
> restraining the collection of more
than half of this tax. The loca.
authorities have done nothing fur.
: Their and only about $500, 600 of the
= $4,000, 900 has been collected. Why
, they hare submitted without re.
!, sistance to Judge Grosscup's de.
l cision must be guessed; they make
!, no explanations themselves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

BECAUSE Miss Alice Roosevelt
was frightened by a fast-running
automobile at Newport the other
day, the chauffeur was sssocked
to the limit" by a local justice.
The offender was sent to Jail for
upsetting the nerves Of tho Presi-
dents daughter; if she had been
the daughter Of one Of the com
mon mess, no doubt a light fine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

Mr.. FOLK will be elected by
Democratic votes. Twill be a sad
day for Poor Old Missouri when
any other kind of votes become
necessary to the C of the
Democratic nominee for Governor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01
In Sicily.

1t is a queer story-if you care to
follow it-that comes from Italy.
Palizzolo, the chiefest unhung
scoundrel of Sicily, head of the
Sicilian Malta, robber, murderer
and dictator, has been acquitted OF
a murderous crime after a third
trial. He killed Marcus Notar-
bartolo, mayor of Palermo, and
no one knows how many others.
Twice he was convicted of this
crime, but the lawyers quibbled
and on the third trial just ended he
was freed.
The mere mention of Palizzolo's
name sends a shudder through all
Sicily.
He killed the mayor because that
official was upright and law-abid-
ing. Palizzolo is not only a BAN
dit but a politician, and has a sort
of popularity that goes with sue
cessful brigandage. He was cleo
ted treasurer of Palermo. He was
also governor of the bank OF
the treasury and looted the bank.
The mayor tried to force him to
restore the city's money. While
on the way to Florence he was
assassinated on board the train by
Palizzolo's gang and the satchel
containing the proofs was de-
stroyed.
Then the son of Notarbartolo
took up the matter.
The authorities were afraid of
the big robber. The red-handed
Mafan had them cowed. The son
spent eight years at the imminent
risk of his life in collecting proofs
of his fathers murder. He spent
a fortune in the task of prosecu-
ton.
And now Palizzolo is free and all
Sicily is.at his mercy.
Although the brigand is hated
beyond measure, it is stated that a
deputation of all the leading fami-
lies has gone to Naples to escort
him home in triumph. None is too
proud to cringe to him.
When you gasp at some of the
political corruption of your own
country and despair, ask yourself
how you would like to live in Sici-
ly-Kansas City World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01
Exposition Ticket Rates.

Rround trip season tickets on
sale April 18th to Nov. 18th 1904
with final return limit Dec. 18th
1904, $40.
Round trip tickets good for 60
days on sale April 25th to Nov. Goth
1904 limited not later than Dec. 18th
1904, S3.65.
Round trip tickets good for Is
days on sale April to Nov. Both
1904 limited not later than Dec. 9th
1904, $50.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

THAT time-serving "Journal OF
Civilization" Harper's Weekly, OPP
posed Bryan in 1S96-1e0O, on ac-
count of his advocacy of "the
silver craze" Last week it abused
him for supporting Mr.. Parker for
President, although the latter
gentleman is in favor of the gold
standard. But the journal of
Civilization was never noted for
consistency or decency. In 1860
it was an avowed advocate of the
right of secession. When the war
began it renegaded, and in all the
years since following, the South
has never had a more malignant,
bitter and unprincipled foe. 1t
hates with the proverbial fervor of
the renegade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

THE Globe Democrat calls me
"sad-eyed," and SO | am, for L
have sympathy for my Republican
neighbor, ungrateful and incorrig-
J-i.~a~--hA-iaTha WOES the ideS
would move the stoniest heart to
compassion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

Those workmen fred by the
Carnegie Steel Company can put
in their time pleasantly for a few
months loafing around one of An
dY's libraries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

The New York San is bitterly
opposed to Judge Parker. Let
eyerv Democrat thank God and
take courage anew.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

Louis Miller wants to buy all
the wheat he can get for his mill
at Bismarck. Delivered at Bis
marck, Iron Mountain or Arcadia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12

Il fail to see where you can reproach
yourself. He got needed lesson, ana
hasn't even been on the block since.
''And that's another prick to my con-
science. 1 read in the paper the other
day that James Burns, fruit peddler,
had met with street accident anu
was laid up and his family in want. 1
believe that peddler was Burns, ana
that I am responsible if his wife and
children have suffered in consequence.
I don't want to seem childish, but I've
cot a conscience and a sense of duty.
81 think you magnify the incident
but what can you do about it?'
1.-THE paper said that Burns lived at
No. II Fourth street, and L can easily
down there and apologize for my
roughness and see if there is anything
1 can do for the family. My con,
science won't be easy until do. Would
you like to go along?
Certainly not replied Mrs. Bowser
| IT hold that the man got just what he
deserved If you had hurt him any
he'd have been quick enough to sue
for damages. My advice is that you
keep right away from James Burns,
| and if your conscience pricks you too
hard you might hand me out three or
four dollars to buy handkerchiefs and
| gloves"
"By thur der, woman, but I knew
vou'd try to make fool of things be-
fore you were through exclaimed Mr.
Bowser. beginning to look and talk
hours Because my conscience up
braids me and the finger of duty points
| in a certain direction, you turn to ridi-
! Guile and seek to belittle me. Have you
Inc such thing as a conscience your
self?''
81 believe so, but it isn't making me
IiIl because you threw a loafer over the
! fence"
Heart of flint. It's a wonder you
are not pointed out as the Merciless
woman Now that I know how you
| feel about it, I can but wonder that
YOU have not killed some peddler long
ago"
they always got away. Shall we take
| a walk down the street and get some
| ice cream?' 80
zee cream, Great Scott. I throw
an innocent man over the fence and
Law him up for days and days, and his
| family want for bread and my con-
science pricks me, and yet you coolly
turn around and ask me to go out
with you to hog down ice cream!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12

E. fl. Sothern was a super in his
fathers company.
Modjeska was drawing big houses in
East Lynne"
Charles Coghlan appeared in Wal
lacks as Felix Featherstone in Sidney
Grundy's play, THE SNOWFALL"
Sol Smith Russell began his starring
tour in "Edgewood Folks
Roland Reed was the Seraph of THE
Magic Slipper" in Haverly'S Four
teenth Street theater.
Julia Marlowe was with a juvenile
"Pinafore" company.
Robert Mantell was in England, play
ing the leading roles in a company
headed by Miss Wallis.
Otis Skinner was seen in Bronson
Towards Wives .--
De Wolf Hopper was playing a com
edy part in "Our Daughters" which
was presented by the Criterion Comedy
company.
Richard Golden was a member of
Rice's "Evangeline" company.
Cora Tanner appeared in 1.-The Dan
ties
John T. Kelly was at Tony Pastors.
w. J. Ferguson was seen in Gilbert
1.-The Wedding March in Abbey's the
alter, New York.
Digby Bell appeared in Charity Be
gins at Home" in the Bijou, New York
Joseph Murphy was making his fare
well appearance in Kerry Cow at
the Grand opera house. and Joseph
Jefferson was playing a piece called
RIP Van Wrinkle"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12
YOUNG MUSICIANS
Child PrOdigies Who Earn
Large Salaries Weekly.
PepitO Rodriguez at Three
Years Played on Piano.
HEGNER MADE FORTUNE
Was Worth $l5O,OOO Before
Leaving His Teens.
Betty, the Famous Young Actor
"ChiId Roscius."

The concert stage has proved a gold
mine to several musical prodigies,
among the latest of whom is Pepito
Rodriguez, the marvellous boy pianist.
Five years ago he first saw the light at
Ferrol, in Spain, and at the age of 3
he could play any air from memory
which he had once heard. He had re-
ceiVed very little regular musical edu-
cation, yet last season he was being
paid at the rate of from $500 to $1,000
night from his recitals in Paris, and
has Just contracted to give a series of
performances in the United States at
$3.50 apiece, so that it may be safely
assured that by the time he is old
enough to go to school he win have
made fortune that would turn many
a wealthy city merchant green with
envy.
At the age of 10 Joseph Hofmann
was earning $4,000 a year. He
studied under RubinStein and toured
through Europe, giving concerts in all
the principal cities; but, signing for a
larger income, he crossed the herring
pond" and gave fifty-two recitals,
which brought him in a profit of 500
600. Another marvellous youth, Otto
Hegner, made a fortune of $150,OOO
ere he was out of his teens and then
retired; but, weary of doing nothing,
he began to teach music at enormous
fees, which aggregate the respectable
total of $780, 900 a year
The most successful child actor was
undoubtedly the late w. H. Betty,
nicknamed the Child Roscius He
went on the stage at the age of s, and
at IL was starring at Covent Garden
theater and throughout England. SO
great was his popularity that for more
than year he made $500 a night and
at 16 he retired with a sum of $4,000
TO be educated. Five years later he
reappeared, but his popularity had
waned. so he very wisely vanished into
private life again, and lived on his
early acquired fortune.
11x- r.
sculptor, Victor Righetti who was
making the enormous sum of 100000
per annum when only 10 years old.
Long before he could walk Righetti
was modelling figures that sold for
$3.50 each, and although not yet out of
his teens, he is making a larger in
come than any other Italian sculptor
while some of his most recent work
has been mentioned in the same
breath with that of Michael Angelo
Willie Hoppe of Cornwall Landing,
New York. is the cleverst billiard
player for his age that ever lived, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12
SOME. STRANGE INSTRUMENTS.
The Odd Collection of Primitive De-
vices at St. Louis.

At the st. Louis exposition are
some interesting exhibits of primitive
musical instruments. The st. Louis
Globe-Democrat describes some of
them:
"Music's first step was the drum. AS
YOU wander through the displays made
of savage races, those that have only
one have the drum. Music began
with thumps on calabash likely
enough, and later on the skin of a wild
animal was drawn over the mouth of
the caiabash. The bass drum of the
Sousa band is not so far removed from
the calabash drum that its cousinship
can't be recognized. In the German
the blacks who inhabit the territory
which Germany is now conqueripg
They are all temptingly labeled hands
| off, 1t requires great fortltude not TO
| thumD an African war drum with the
| forefinger nail, and Chinese gongS are
quite Irresistible. With drums the
sense of rythm in the human mem
tally is first expressed The 1ndlan
| adds his 'kiyi,' and most savages ac-
| company the drum with the voice II
must have been a long time before the
| first reed pipe was invented TO increase
| the volume of the barbarian orchestra.
MANY serni-civilized peoples seem to
have stopped there. They stopped at
| the first tune. There is some palnfuI
evidence of this on the Pike. Stringed
instruments came next. The banjo in
its varied forms is repeated through
all the nations. The Chinese show
their three-stringed snakeskin guitar,
and from Burmah and India come IN
strnments that are twanged with the
fingers The naked little Igorrote boys
stretch a taut cord triangularly about
on the top of three pegs in the ground
and keep time with the dance or the
older TForrotes near by. The musical
instruments of savage tribes are of
little interest to see unless they are
played on. Who would not give
much-at least a quarter-to hear
these first OFpheans 1utes and Tyres
vivified by savage lips or hands,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12
BoWsER,s APOLOGY.
He Sets Out to Do His Duty as He
Feels 1t.


When Mr.. Bowser came home to
dinner the other evening Mr.. BowseI
saw at glance that he had a mood
on, but instead of asking any ques-
tons, she related the gossip of the day
and pretended that she saw nothing
unusual in his demeanor. When din
ner was finished and they retired to
the sitting room, he lighted a cigar
and had smoked in silence for ten
minutes when she finally asked:
Have you got one of your head
aches tonight, or has something gone
wrong at the office?"
Il have no headache and nothing
has gone wrong" he replied.
But you are unusually silent this
evening"
Yes, perhaps. The truth OF the
matter is I am a little conscience
stricken
why, what about"
One evening last week, as we sat
on the front steps, a peddler came
along with fall peaches. 1 shook my
head when he offered his fruit, but he
persisted He stood at the gate and
yelled for five minutes, and then came
inside and tried to force a sale. His
persistency provoked me, and, as you
know, finally grabbed him and threw
him over the fence. He limped off
with look of sorrow on his face, and
don't mind owning up to you that
the look has haunted me ever since.
In fact, I dreamed of it two nights
running. l have wished fifty different
times that I hadn't used him SO
roughly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12
SMOKE
KLAUER'S GOLD BUG

danced around the beat the air with
his fists. Il want a hundred dollars and
not cent less! No man can make a
monkey of me without paying well for
it,
But a hundred dollars is simply ri
diculous."
"Oh. is it? Then Wen make it a
hundred and fifty"
Mr.. Burns, my conscience tells me
that I ought to do something for you.
Here are ten dollars, and"
ITO HalifOX with you for an old vii
lain who'd play a gum game on an
innocent man. howled Mr.. Burns and
with that seven men moved down on
Mr.. Bowser and kept him tolerably
busy for the next five minutes. Duty
and conscience took to instant flight,
and he thought of Mrs. Bowser and the
yaller eyed cat on the steps and wish
ed he was with them, but the odds We're
too great for the Traces to last long.
After receiving a black eye and n
bloody nose the man of conscience
backed out of the door and took a run
for it, and though some what handicap
ped by a hearty dinner and one heel
keep ahead Of the gang and finally en-
ter his own gate.
well, did you find Mr.. Burns?'' ask
ed Mrs. Bowser as he was passing her.
who do you mean by Burns?" he
gruffly demanded.
why, the peddler you threw over the
fence and became conscience-stricken
about. Was your duty. as you saw it,
to get your face so bunged up that"
Woman, don't make a fool of your
self" he interrupted, as he passed into
the house and up stairs to repair dam
ages as we'll as he was able.-(Copy-
right, 1904, by T. c. McClure.)