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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
THE STRANGEST SOVEREIGN
Curious Position and Power of Pakoe
Bowonox, Ex-Emperor of
Surakarta.

There is an empire on this plane,
which for strange originality might as
we'll be situated in Mars. 1t is gov
erned by two emperors at the same
time, and withal is not larger than the
state of Delaware. Both emperors re-
side in the same city, each has his
own respondent court, enormous rev.
enues, armies, imperial chancellors.
government officers and courts of JUS
tice, writes Ernst Won Hesse-Wartegg,
in "'The Nail of the Universe" in
Century.
Only n of these emperors is known
to the outside world, and he only to a
slight extent. The name and titles OF
the leading one would easily fill a COL
umn; his subjects, 1000, 900 in number,
call him the susuhunan, and he him
self modestly signs himself Pakoe
Bowono X.--"Nail of the Universe, the
Tenth" In him his people venerate
not only their sovereign ruler, but also
their religious pontiff, placed so high
above them that non dares approach
him upright or cover him with @
glance; his state ministers, and even
his own brothers, crouch before him
with folded hands as if in prayer, and
with downcast eyes. Yet he is a pow
erless puppet in the hands of a small
European nation, and may lot even
receive or dispatch a letter without
previously submitting it to the Ja-an
representative of the Dutch. He actu-
ally rules his empire, every square
inch of it, which he calls his personal
property yet he may not walk or ride
outside the palace gates without the
formers permission. He keeps thou
sands of troops at his own expense,
men with modern swords and rifles,
Amazons with ancient lances, bows
and arrows; yet he is virtually a pris~
oner in his own palace, the grounds of
which cover nearly a square mile
where there are hundreds of buildings,
the most sumptuous halls, luxurious
chambers and storerooms and stables,
with many thousands of attendants.
otill hO hoo ho lShS ohu nv SoSh'
his own meals being sent to him daily
from outside. He is absolute master
over all his people, who depend for
their livelihood entirely upon him; yet
he may not trust any of the men, and
surrounds himself entirely with wom-
en-. Thousands of the latter are at his
beck and call; hundreds he calls his
more or less legitimate wives, who
have borne him many sons; yet he has
no direct heir to the throne, which is
one of the Oldest and most eminent III
Asia.
This curious parsonage is his ma.
jesty the emperor of Surakarta.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
BEATEN BUT NOT DlSGRAcED
How Custer and His Men Fell Before
Overwhelming Indian
Force.

Gall and Crazy Horse now determined
to end the affair. Massing their war;
riors in the ravine they fell upon both
TANKS at the same time that Grow King
and Rain-in-the-Face led the direct
charge against the front of the
thinned and weakened line. They
swept over the little band Of men,
probably out of ammunition,
in a red wave of destruction. There
was a fierce hand-to-hand struggle
with dubbed guns and tomahawks,
and all wasover. Some 20 or 80 men with
out their officers, who had probably all
been killed where they stood, for their
bodies were found grouped around that
of Custer on the highest hill. e~ndeavored
to break through on the right. They were
slaughtered to a man before they reached
the river. A few scattered bodies here
and there in different parts of the field
indicated that separate men had made
futile dashes for freedom. But the bulk
of the command was found just where it
had fought with the troopers in line,
their officers in position. They had been
beaten and killed. Not an officer or man
lived to tell the story, but they had not
been disgraced, says Cyrus Townsend
Brady, in Parsons Magazine.
There, the second day afterward,
Terry, with Gibbon, having relieved
Reno's men, found them on the hills
which they had immortalized by their
desperate valor. They had been stripped
and most of them mutilated. Clusters
body was shot in two places, in the side
and in the temple. 1t was not scalped
or mutilated. Col. Dodge, an authority
on Indian customs, declares that il he
was not scalped or mutilated he is con
WINGED that Custer committed suicide.
None of the officers with whom / have
communicated and who inspected the
body are willing to indorse this state
ment; on the contrary, | am sure that
Col. Dodge must be in error. The In
dams give no particular information as
to Custer's death. All that is known is
that his body was there with those Of
his brave men.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08


Come people long for lemonade.
And some for fancy drinks,
And some for soda-with the aid
OF sundry wicked winks-
But when the sun is fiercesand high,
It's then my fancies turn
TO buttermilk; it's then 1 sigh
Fol nectar from the churn.
somewhere on earth there still must bs
A spring house." deep and low,
Half hid beneath a willow tree.
Whose boughs sweep to and fro
AND whisper to the rills hat gush
Between the roots, and turn
70 loiter in the Swallowed hush
Where stands the sweating churn.
A dipper hangs upon the wall
To rob that soothing hoard
But better. better yet than all.
Perhaps there is a gourd!
No votary has ever poured
Libations from an urn
Like buttermilk held in a gourd,
Raised from the roomy churn!
An, can there be a finer thing!
It's sweet as honey dew!
The water ripping from the spring
fs laughing back at you
While merrily it drips and drips,
Through watercress and fern
You taste the tang upon you lips
OF nectar from the churn.
Forgotten then are drafts of wine
That all the lenses cloy,
And you your happy soul resign
To deep drawn breaths of joy.
And he who does not know of this
Has n glad truth to learn:
That buttermilk is liquid bliss
When ladled from the churn.
w. D. N, in Chicago Daily Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Send Satan Ballooning.

On August 1 of every year the PEG.
pie of Val di Rosa, in Italy, gather
in the great square, which is also a
thrashing floor, and proceed to exor-
else the devil for the benefit of their
own dreams and for the well-being OF
their vineyards. The most intelligent
man in the community is chosen
master of ceremonies. A small fire
balloon is made ready and to this the
master of ceremonies solemnly at
taches a puppet representing his
Satanic majesty. Amid the shouts 81
the %peasantry the balloon, with the
devil attached, is liberated. The good
people believe that for the rest of the
year the evil mi will not disturb their
dreams or damage the vintage.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
MONASTICISM'S BIRTHPLACE
How Asceticism Came Into Existence
in the Fourth Century Before
Christ,

1t is easy to comprehend on these
lonely, barren cliffs why Egypt has been
the birthplace and nursery of monas-
ticism, writes Agnes Smith Lewis, in
Hidden Egypt" in the Century. Re
cent discoveries have revealed the fact
that this existed before Christianity;
for there was a community OF ascetics
in the S~erapeum of Memphis in the
fourth century B. c.. During the perse-
cutions under Severus, Decius and other
Roman emperors, what was more ma
tural than that well-known Christians
should fly from the populous towns and
green fields of the Delta and Nile valley,
to take refuge in mountain caves, near
to some little oasis, placing many
leagues of barren wilderness between
them and their tormentors? Food might
be scarce, but water was assured to
them; and in those circumstances mar
riage, with the prospective care of
young children, would be highly unde-
sirable, or, as st. Paul puts it, not good
for the present distress"
What was at first a necessity INT to
be looked on as a virtue, a false concep-
ton of Gods character as that of a hard
taskmsster was e~ngendered; one of our
Lords sayings and certain passages of
st. Paul's epistles, isolated from their
context, were interpreted, without any
reference to the rest of Holy Writ, as a
prohibition of marriage to the followers
of the Christ. Thus a new yoke, harder
than that of Judaism, was fabricated.
holiness was supposed to consist largely
in outward observances; and mortifica-
ton of the flesh was put on a level with
sancitifcation of the spirit. Asceticism
was taught to the Latin church by
Athanasius, the great pope of Alexan-
dria, during his six years exile; in the
land of his birth it took such deep root
that in the fourth century a traveller
named Ruf1nus found that the whole
population of Oxyrhynchus had become
monks and nuns, each sex occupying a
separate quarter of the town.
The process of fight from the city TO
the caves must have been often repeat
cd during the period of Moslem misrule;
and to this we probably owe the preser-
Tation of many valuable manuscripts;
for neither the most daring of Mameluke
soldiers nor the most bloodthirsty OF
Mohammedan street mobs would have
cared to follow the fugitives over a
"6lack country" where food and water
could be supplied to them only by an
organized transport of camels.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
DESERT FOR TIRED NERVES.
Sunshine of the Nubian Sands Said
to Be a Cure for faded
Women.

Seven weeks in the desert and a new
set of nerves is the hope held out to
n~eurotics by a Swedish nurse who has
hitherto found her skill greatly bene-
fitted but failed to bring a complete
restoration to health Of women SUI
fering from n"euritis and its attendant
ills, says the Chicago Tribune. Far
from communication with the outer
world, living in an exclusive camp and
on the simplest diet, a party OF English
society are now breathing pure
air and basking in the sun of the Nu-
bian desert, confident in their nurses
promise of a reawakening interest in
life.
Sun baths and sand baths there have
been and are in plenty, but always ac-
companied with the distractions of
more or less fashionable resort life.
To this Swedish masseuse belongs the
credit of conceiving a camp IN the
Egyptian desert as an ideal haven of
rest for tired nerves. Egypt in recent
years has come prominently to the
front as a health resort for many rea-
M Under British administration the
land has been cleared of several cpl
denies that at n time were regarded
as necessary evils in the country.
This desert cure, as it is called, is the
idea of a clever woman who has gained
a reputation as a m~asseuse. Among
her clientele are several society women
suffering from neuritic and its attend
ant Ills, and they have been benefited
greatly by the particular form of
Swedish massage practiced by the
nurse.
Something, however, was wanted to
complete their perfect restoration to
health, and the idea struck the mas
seuse that the pure and beautiful air of
the Nubian desert was the one thing
necessary to bring back the elasticity
Of youth.
Acquainted as she is with the desert,
the masseuse made arrangements to
take a party Of her English patients to
the sandy eXpanse of Nubia. Select
ing a spot far enough removed from
the regular caravan routes to avoid
publicity. a tent has been erected for
each patient in the party.
A certain number of fellaheen wom-
en- have been engaged as servants, and
no male is allowed within its limits.
Neither are letters or papers permitted
to enter the reserved Enclosure, and the
diet is of the simplest, consisting as it
does Of fruits and cereals.
The great cure is to be the air, the
pure air Of the desert. The clothing is
Of the lightest and most ethereal de-
scription, so that the patient may enjoy
the air and sun baths with little
trouble. Simplicity is also the keynote
of the furnishing of the camp.
No amusements, except perhaps a lit
tie painting for the artistic, no fine
dressing, no distractions such as are
found in the foreign spas and health
resorts. will be permitted. All day long
they will be breathing in the life-giving
air, which in its elasticity will prevent
any feeling Of ennui from gaining as
tendency over their minds. The d.
rectress of the cure will see that her
patients have just enough to soothe
their tired out brains, and will herself
sNperintend all arrangements.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
MONEY FOUND IN TRACKS.
Street Railway Walkers in Washing
ton Pick Up Many Coins
Dropped from Cars.

. One of Washington's negro citizens
walked into the office of James A.
Sample, chief of the redemption divi-
sion of the treasury department, bear
ing a handful of battered and twisted
coins.
He dumped the treasure on Mr..
Samples desk and the latter counted
it up. There were enough mutilated
halves, quarters, dimes and nickels to
aggregate 1896, SO Mr.. Sample handed
over to the negro three 81 bills that
had never been folded, and IS cents in
bright, new change.
There's no need to ask where this
came FROM" said Mr.. Sample, because
I know well enough that It was picked
up along the tracks of the Washington
street car system. Not a day has
passed in the last six months without
at least one person coming here tc
have a coin redeemed that had been
run over by a street al 1t is really
remarkable the amount of money that
is dropped from cars or else is lost in
the streets and finds its way into the
slot in the car rails. You will find
that in nine cases out of ten where
money is dropped from a moving car
1t settled into the groove of the track.
My theory is that the suction Of the
moving car sweeps the coin into the
vacuum back of the wheels. In nearly
every instance the markings on the
money are the same. There is a dou-
BILE warp in the coin, and one end is
flattened out by the force of the
wheels. l know of certain colored men
who make a business of walking along
the street car tracks looking for money
that has been lost from cars in this
way"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Some Bread History.

From Rome the art of making
leavened bread was slowly introduced
among the northern nations, and ven
at the present time. in upper Norway
and Sweden, in Finland, Iceland anc
Siberia, fermented bread is but sell
dom used except among the higher
classes. In many parts Of Sweden rye
cakes as hard as wood are baked twice
a year and form the common bread Of
the poorer classes. In Scotland, up ia
a recent period, barley bannocks ano
oaten cakes were the ordinary bread
IF the people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
NEW METHOD OF DRINKING.
Candies That Contain Alcoholic Fla
voring Growing Popular
with Women.

That the eandy-loving schoolgirl is
in actual danger of acquiring the aleo-
holic habit from her practice Of indulg-
ing freely in the apparently innocent
sweets of foreign manufacture rs the
revelation which has been made in the
east through an investigation of the
highly favored candies Of German
make. Many of the CONNECTIONS i'm
ported into this country from Germany
contain so much liquor IN condensed
form that it is possible to obtain a mild
species of intoxication by eating only
d few pieces, says the Chicago Trib-
une.
It will no longer be necessary for
the person who is accustomed to take
his little drink occasionally to carry a
bottle with him or to enter a barroom
when he feels that it is time for his
regular Smile" All that he or she
will have to do-for it is asserted that
this new method of drinking is grow
ing popular with women-is to carry
a few iozenges loose in the waist or
skirt pocket. Instead of gulping down
a mouthful or liquor the drinker places
a couple of the lozenges in the mouth
and in a moment experiences all the
delights of a favorite drink.
One need not restrict oneself to any
one kind of liquor, either, for the candy
is made favored with every kind Of
popular spirit and many that are not
popular. One can have his choice of
chartreuse, cognac, curacao, creme de
menthe, kummet, brandy, or what he
wishes. So much liquor do these alco-
holic sweets contain that three of them
are equal to a medium sized glass of
brandy.
When a girl begins TO eat this kind
of sweets 1t is obvious that she is in
danger of forming a taste for them that
will eventually result in her becoming
a victim of the alcohol habit. Was it
not for the fact that this kind Of con-
fectionery is extremely high priced
the danger would be appalling.
Girls who would be shocked if it was
intimated that they were drinkers find
nothing to balk at in the eating of
these liquored candies, and yet in the
consumption of half a bag full of them
they consume nearly as much alcohol
as is contained in a small glass of
whisky. That the results of this are
sure to be harmful to the morals and
lives of young girls is evident. The
manner in which the habit presents
itself through their .favorite sweets is
so insidious that many a girl acquires
1T in total innocence of any wrong do
ing.
THAT the custom of taking liquors
through the form of favored lozenges
is undoubtedly increasing is indicated
by the increased sales of this kind OF
goods" said a prominent confectioner
when questioned about it. Large
amounts of them are sold annually
and I I'm afraid that the effects they
have, especially upon young girls, is
extremely harmful. There are two
kinds of these confections-the gen.
uine and the imitation. The imitation
comes in the form Of ordinary sweets
and cost only half as much as the real
thing. They are favored with drugs
but are quite as powerful and harmful
as the others. The genuine come ir
the shape of chocolate coated lozenges
and really contain a certain amount o.
liquor in condensed form"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
PAY in Japanese Army.

The economy practiced in the Jap
anese army can be gathered from a brief
resume of the tables Of pay. Thus,
whereas a general in the British army
receives G2,92O year. or SIS a day, the
Japanese general is content with $500
a year, a lieutenant general with a4OO,
colonel with G238. a major with
Ellis, which is less than the Brit
ism lieutenant receives. The Brit
ish Tommy Atkins, again, is a posi-
tive millionaire in comparison with the
Japanese private, who is the recipient of
rs. Sd. a month if he is a first-class pri-
waite, and Is. 10d. if his rank is but Sec
ond-class.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Calamftous.

The editor Of an American paper re.
Gently apologized to his readers for
the lack of news somewhat after tho
following fashion: 1--WE expected to
have both a death and a marriage to
announce this week; but a violent
storm prevented the wedding, and the
doctor himself having been taken Ill
his patient recovered and we were ac-
cordingly cheated out of both."-Tit-
Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Brooklyn's Refuse.

During the summer nearly 1000
carloads OF ashes and more than 800
carloads OF waste paper and old bot
ties and rags r disposed Of daily in
Brooklyn alone: and in winter the
amount of ashes is increased to two
and one-half times, to say nothing OF
the garbage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Pigs Bereheaded.

The Sumner (Mo.) Star says a man
visited the home Of a farmer friend
lee Sumner the other day. and, find
ing a little boy in the yard, asked
where his father was. The little fellow
replied: "Papa's out in the pigpen.
You can tell him-he's got a hat on"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Willing to Repair.

young man." said the stern father.
you have been calling on my daugh-
ter until you have worn out the sofa.
You know what that means, don't
you?"
Certainly, sir" responded the young
man, I'll send up an upholsterer to-
morrow."-Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Sufficiently

Mrs. Smith-We had a terrible time
yesterday and had to send for the doc
tor.
Mrs. Brown-What was the matter?
I'VE thought Johnny was choking,
but it turned out that he was only try
ing to pronounce the name Of a Rus
sian general."--St. Paul Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Bric-a-Brac.

Ida-Yes, she accepted Reggy be-
cause he locks SO cute. Says he'll be
Just the thing for her "cozy corner"
May-But Reggy is so useless.
well, you know a 'cozy corner is
just the place for things that are use
ess."-Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
More Than He Barcained For

Adorer-You still doubt me? Test
my love. Bid me attack wild beasts,
defy savages, find the north pole, de-
scend into a volcano-anything, nc
matter what, / will do it.
Doubling Girl-Go ask papa.-Stray
Stories.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08

".Jibes. they tell me that daughter Of
yours is a typical summer girl"
Jest ake their durn fool gossip; she
was bor.. in January II, 1S-, but that's
nobobdy'B business.-Detroit Free
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08

A Chicago railway ticket scalpei
must serve IS months in the house If
correction for fraudulently represents
ing himself to be a clergyman to oh
tain half-rate tickets.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
Burns Reli

Burns Relic.
A Burns letter was sold recentlT fos
$500,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08

innumerable rows Of windows, which
made a fairylike appearance on the
calm, starless background of the blue
sky above.
Cora lay in her sleeper wide awake
thinking of Furgus Grey.
IT wonder what his trouble is? She
can't have thrown him over. Furgus
is much too important and rich a man
for that. What can it boz"
The grave, troubled face of her one
time chum and boon companion trou-
bled and preoccupied Cora, and the fact
that he had failed to notice or rec
ognize her gave her a pang absurdly
keen and made her flush and grow in
dignant.
Il suppose he's going on to Washing
ton where she is. I almost wish he
will find out how shallow and selfish
and venal she is, only that would be too
mean. He's such a fine, manly fellow.
It's too bad"
Finally Cora dropped into a restless
sleep, silence having settled over the
sleeper, when suddenly an awful crash
came, a frightful jarring and jolting.
while calls, screams and cries rang out
on all sides among a wild and mex
plicable confusion-then the train stood
still.
Cora bruised, and her arm bleeding,
sprang UP and ran out to find the loco
motive detached, the front coach turned
over, and smashed, and mel extracting
people from the debris and helping
the wounded and injured.
Cora found herself kneeling by the
side of aggressive and freclled Dick,
with whom she had sworn a life-long
friendship but a few hours before hold
ing his hand in hers. while the blood
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-09-13

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-09-13
TOTEM VILE.
WON A PRIZE.

The County Fair and Hor Sc Show,
which was held last week at the Cove
West New Brighton, closed Saturday
night. The fair has been a success. The
promoters are enthusiastic over the sup
prot given them by the people of Staten
Island, and the fair will now be an an
nnal affair. Saturdays attractions, in
addition to the regular features, was the
Judging of brewers delivery wagons
with a team OF horess attached. A con
test for the Volunteer Fire Department
was also scheduled. Niglant Hose Com
pany of T%ottenville took first prize in the
RAINING contest. They were the only
Company entered With a rope they made
a loo yard clash In twelve seconds. They
were awarded a silk banner. Yesterday
afternoon the banner was brought to
Tottenville where it will be kept at the
hose house.