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Iron County register., 1905-10-19
SHE SAID IT IN LATIN.
OF Which Language She Knew Quite
as Much as She Did
of Greek.

During the recent strikes in New York
city, when it was an even thing between
apprehension as to what the strikers might
do and apprehension as to what the green
hands pressed into service by the railway
management might fail to do, passengers
on the Subway and elevated roads felt
that they were taking their lives in their
hands whenever they boarded train.
morning from Ninth avenue elevated
station was woman whose pretentious
and inappropriate attire would have, in
formed Sherlock Holmes, even before she
opened her mouth, that she was another
one of the first cousins of Mrs. Malaprop.
As she reached the bottom of the stairs
and her feet touched the solid ground, the
changed to one Of relief and satisfaction.
"My!" she exclaimed to the persons
round about, "mebby you think | amt
glad to git my feet on terra Gotta once
more!"
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Sounding by Telephone.

A method of ascertaining the depth
of water by means Of the telephone Is
being employed in the German navy,
says the Deutsches Ofizierblatt. Sound
waves are given out which disperse in
all directions at known rate of speed.
Those which strike the ground at the
bottom of the water are reflected and
the times of their dispatch and return
to the instrument are recorded. The
velocity of the sound wave being
known, it is easy to calculate the dis
tance traversed. 1t Is needless to say
that the recording instrument has to
be extremely sensitive and delicate in
order to give records of any value.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
THIN BLOOD-WEAK NERVES
One Follows the Other, but Or. VIII
Iiams' Pink Pills Quickly
Cure Both.

The steady use of particular set of
muscles tends to chronic fatigue, which
produces faulty or difficult motion,
trembling, cramps and even paralysis.
Writers, telegraphers, tailors and seam.
stresses are among the classes most
threatened in this way with the loss of
their power to earn a living. The fol-
lowing instance shows that nerve power
may be recovered after it seems entirely
lost, if the right means are taken. Mrs.
o. S. Blacksten, of No. 584 North Bow.
man street, Mansfield, Ohio, says:
"For years my hands would become
30 numb at times that I would drop
anything I attempted to lift. Later
they became so bad that could not sew
any longer, and at last I could scarcely
do anything at all with my hands. At
night the pricking sensations would
come on worse than ever, and my'hands
and arms would pain so that l dreaded
to 90 to bed. My family doctor gave me
some nerve tablets. They helped me q
little, but only for short time after !
had taken them and if happened to be
without them for a day or two l would
be as bad as ever or even worse. Finally
got box of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and began to take them.
"The result was surprising. By the
time had taken the last pill in my first
box could see gain. Thanks to Dr..
Williams Pink Pills, I am now all right.
I can sleep undisturbed by pain, and for
two years have been as well as ever. "
DR.. Williams Pink Pills feed the
nerves by making new, rich blood and
in this way have cured nervous diseases
of every description from simple rest
lessness to paralysis. They have BAN
ished the tortures Of neuralgia, the
weakness of nervous prostration. the
disability and awful pain Of locomotor
ataxia. They are sold by all druggists
or direct by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. 7.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19

ache, and as have heard that you can give
helpful advice to girls in my condition, / am
writing you Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, Ill
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- (Second Letter)
"It is with the feeling of utmost gratitude
that I write to you to tell you what your
valuabls medicine has done for me. When !
wrote you in regard to my condition l had
consulted several doctors, but they failed to
understand my case and did not receive
any benefit from their treatment. followed
your advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and am now healthy
and well, and all the distressing symptoms
which had at that time have disappeared. -
Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, Ill.
Miss Matilda Borman writes Mrs.
Pinkham as follows:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound my monthlies were irregu-
lar and painful, and I always had such
dreadful headaches.
"But since taking the Compound my head
aches have entirely left me, my monthlies are
regular, and am getting strong and well.
am telling all my girl friends what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for
me. Matilda Borman, Pennington, Iowa.
If you know of any young girl who
is sick and needs motherly advice, ask
her to address Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, and tell her every detail of her
symptoms, and to keep nothing back.
She will receive advice absolutely free,
from source that has no rival in the
experience of woman's ills, and it will, if
followed, put her on the right road to a
strong, healthy and happy womanhood.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound holds the record for the greatest
number of cures of female ills of any
medicine that the world has ever
known. Why don't you try it?
~ - ID
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
An Honest Opinion.

Mineral, Idaho, Oct. 10Th Especially
That sure cure has been discovered for
those sciatic pains that make. so many
lives miserable, is the firm opinion OF Mr..
D. S. Colson, well known resident of
this place, and he does not hesitate to say
that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The
reason Mr.. Colson is SO firm in his opin,
is that he had those terrible pains and is
cured. Speaking of the matter, he says,
81 am only too happy to say Dodd's
Kidney Pills have done me lots Of good:
1 had awful pains in my hip so l could
hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped
it entirely. I think they are grand
medicine"
All Sciatic and Rheumatic pains are
cased by Uric Acid in the blood. Dodd's
Kidney Pills make healthy kidneys and
healthy kidneys strain all the Uric Acid
out of the blood. With the cause removed
there can be no Rheumatism or Sciatica
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

An interesting hygrometer is made
by dipping strip of calico in SO.
luton of one part of cobalt chloride,
rs of nickel oxide and 20 of gelatine
In 200 of water. The strip is green
in fine weather, fading as moisture
appears.
Novel use Of Roentgen rays is made
by Berlin company manufacturing
submarine cables. The cables are
tested by being passed over two eye
pulleys over an X-ray tube, the screen
above showing any defect correctly
and with greater certainty than the
resistance tests usually employed.
Small protuberances, like drops Of
melted metal, have been noticed by
N. Orloff on the surface of an alum
mum plate that has been used to
cover dish containing radium bro
mide. Radioations from these pro.
tuberances showed no lessening after
six months, and it is inferred that par.
ticles Of radium accumulated around
slight nuclei OF aluminium to form
stable alloy.
Electricity is fatal to the discern.
ment Of certain colors. Yellow and
pink, two totally different colors, look
strangely alike by electric light.
Heliotrope is also quite pink, and SUBJ
tleties of shade are quite lost in it.
No light shows up shades and colors
as wax candles did. 1t is certain that
all the modern artificial illuminants
mix up colors and shades inextricably,
and electric light is worst Of all.
Glass containing manganese is
slowly turned violet by sunlight, and
Sir William Crookes has found that
radium produces in few days a col
oration as intense as that caused by
the sun in years. F. Fischer has now
been studying the effects of ultra.
violet rays, and reports that the light
of a mercury arc lamp in a quartz
tube gave a slight color in Is min
utes to four out Of eight glasses, and
an intense violet hue in IL hours. The
color proved to be due to manganese
silicate.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
FOR WOMEN.
Much That Every Woman Desires to
Know Is Found in Cuticura-
"Cuticura Works Wonders"

Too much stress cannot be placed on
the great value of Cuticura Soap, Oint-
ment and Pills in the antiseptic cleans
ing of the mucous surfaces and of the
blood and circulating fluids, thus afford.
ing pure, sweet and economical local and
constitutional treatment for weakening
discharges, alterations, infammations,
itchings, irritations, relaxations, displace-
ments, pains and irregularities peculiar
to females, as well as such sympathetic
affections as anaemia, chlorosis, hysteria,
nervousness and debility.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Camels as Pets.

Baby camels are great pets in South
Africa, and are nursed and tended and
even carried about by their attendants.
The very young camel is an awkward
creature, with long neck and uncertain
legs. During the first few months they
weigh no more than an ordinary dog.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Tamnerance Anniversary.

The seventy third anniversary of the
first teetotal pledge taken in England
was celebrated in many Lancashire
towns on September l. The document
(signed by seven men), which is still
preserved, was drafted in Preston on
September 1, 1882.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
True TO His First Love,

Father-But am afraid he is q
young man Of tickle character.
Daughter--Oh, no, he isn't papa.
Why, he has smoked the same brand
Of cigarettes for nearly six months
Stray Stories.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Noted Negro.

DR.. Marcus Observation-Disclosures,
a colored physician of Newport, R. l.,
is recognized as New England's lead
ing specialist in acknowledgements
and the X-ray. In early life he was a
shoemaker.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
The Difference.

Son-What is fnancier, pa?
Father-A financier, my son, is man
who has so much money that it takes a
legislative committee to find out to
whom it belongs. Bluffs Non.
narpil
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Modernized.

"Here is one of the inns where George
Washington used to stop"
"You don't say! What has become Of
the ancient sign: Accommodation to Man
and Beast?"
They've taken it down and put up =
sign: Accommodation to Man and Auto
mobile"
"And where is the hostler who used to
come out with a can of oats?"
"Oh, he comes out now with can of
gasoline. Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Avoiding the Wrinkles.

'1 haven't had a photo taken in ten
years." remarked the conceited man,
with flourish.
whats the NATTER" chirped his
the same old plate?" Detroit Free
Press.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
An Exception.

''Indians are very stoical, you know.
They're never known to laugh
ooh, | don't know. Longtellow made
Minne-haha. ."-Philadelph Press.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
Good Enough Evidence.

Teacher-Of what country is the rhinoce.
ros native?
Willie-England.
ooh, no. What makes you think so?"
9TH way his clothes fit m.''-Cleve-
land Leader.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infaili.
BILE medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19

"De everyday man dat pays his rent
reg'ar," said Uncle Eben, don't git near
de credit dat's comm to him fob bein'
q fnancier. Washington Star.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19

Secretary Shaw would have us
believe that lo1 prices and high def
cits 60 hand y hand. Washingto.
Hoat.
Iron County register., 1905-10-19
wouldn,t Saw Stocking.

The Boston uamseI was excessively H'ou
est.
Speaking of Cooper" said she. II pre-
sumo you have read his-er-'Leaiber-
hosiery Tales? ?"-Chicago Sun.
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
NO MORE FREE PASSES
is CAUSING DISTRESS
Constituents Are Calling Upon Their Congressman in
VAN for transportation to Their Respective
Homes Throughout the Country

Dear May: ] won't be able to get
home for Christmas. The Pennsylvania
railroad has refused TO issue any more
tavors- and Senator says their
recent order is a certain go"
This. in substance. was embodied in a
letter written by one OF Washington's s
young men TO his sweetheart last night
The young man intended to get week
or during the holiday season and
spend II with his best" The unlocked
for happened. He had banked upon
being ID. II. d" over the road, but upon
inquiry was sadly surprised.
An appeal was made to his Represen-
tative. Usually such procedure proved
all right. This time, however, il was
no go, hence the sad missive was sent
OFF
There are number OF fellows in the
same boat with re," he is reported TO
have said when he mailed his letter
They won't be able 10 get away. and
Christmas will be as dull and dreary
This "disappcinted' expression is but
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
DR.. FISK ELGlN

Expert in the treatment OF private diseases
chronic and acute Both sexes. All cOnsuita-
tions confidential. Medicine furnished Prices
moderate. Hours. 3 10 J. ; 10 g. 10 g.
Rooms. 1913 Pennsylvania ave. NV Phone
NJ 1873
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
POSTAL DEFICIENCY
At HIGH WATER MARK
Postmaster General Is Not
Worried, However.
EFFICIENCY THE SLOGAN
III. Cortelyou Interested in Advancing
Usefulness of All Branches of
Department.
EFFICIENCY THE SLOGAN

The postal deficit for the fiscal year
which ended June 80, 1906. was $l4.5I25s4.
wi..ete is So. 753 o92 more than that OF the
previous year. This deficit apparently
does not worry Postmaster General
Cortelyou. for he says: 'I am less con-
cerned about the deficit than am
about the efficiency OF administration"
During the year the receipts from all
sources of postal revenue amounted 10
$152, S26, $50 while the expenditures ag-
gregated s167 .399. .1692 %. In the fiscal year
1904 the receipts were nearly S0,0ooOO0
behind those of the last year. The postal
treasury in 1904 received $l4S, $50, ,624.A,
and It paid out s152, 1852 ll6.70
There was an increase in receipts over
the previous year of So, Dab S6e.7 rs. but ar
the same time the expenditures took
much greater rise. and amounted 10
s14. SIC. S43.O9 more than 1904.
Postmaster General Cortelyou in the
opening paragraph Of his report gives
notice of the celebration Of the 0Oth
anniversary of the birth Of Benjamin
Franklin. The first Postmaster General
OF the United States was born January
II. 1706, and the Postoffice Department
win celebrate the event by appropriate
exercises.
efforts for improving the service has
been the installation. as II were, OF a
merit system for postmasters.
Another feature of the work of Post
master General Cortelyou has been the
war on frauds in using the United States
mail service. He has destroyed them
right and left. The work OF the de-
partment In this connection Is shown In
comprehensive report.
The Postmaster General discussed at
length the pneumatic tube service. Mr..
CoTtelyou touches upon the matter OF
Government control Of this latest postal
Improvement He recommends that all
existing contracts. which are about 10
expire, be renewed for a period OF ten
years. with a well defined option for
purchase outright by the Government.
A recommendation Is made for an ex-
pertinent in one of the large cities Of
Government ownership OF mail wagons
The Postmaster General tells In detail
the future policy OF rural free delivery
system dwelling at length upon contem-
plated improvements.
Mr.. Cortelyou does not favor parcels
post service.
The Washington times., 1905-12-11

one Of the many unpleasant features
about the no pass reform Train con-
ductors. after January l. viii not be
able TO individually distinguish old-time
fares. Everybody will look alike then.
1t will be absolutely impossible 10 de-
termine whether they are carrying a
delegation of Congressman. Govern
ment officials, or load of commercial
travellers.
Under the new order Of things-and
the new order Is showing 4 healthy
growth Congressman won't be rec
ognizable from any other traveller. He
will not be provided with the customary
ID H" identification piece of, paste
board granting him q free ride This.
1T is said, will cause concern among
trainmen.
Congressman say they wouldn't mind
the result OF the wave OF reform
were IL not for the fact that now they
viii be obliged to fall in line" at the
ticket Office window and await their
turn, the same as the mo pull" fellows
have TO do.
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
HONEST IN MILLIONS. MILLIONS.
THIEF FOR HUNDREDS
Trusted Reading Bank Messenger Ad-
mits He Stole From Notion
Store

READING, Pa, Dec. u--Trusted by
many banks and business houses, for
which he has been a messenger. making
daily trips TO and from Philadelphia,
carrying several million dollars I'm the
last year, Charles L. Kenderline today
admitted that he had resisted the temp
tations laid before him I'm his line OF
business. but had fallen when he saw
the opportunity Of robbing a wholesale
notion store.
Kenderline, who is an ex-police SER
geant, was caught Saturday night rob-
bing a store. In his pockets was Sc
creted key opening the front door.
He made no attempt to deny his inten-
tons. and admitted that ne had been
Iobbing the store FOR six or seven weeks.
The value OF the stolen goods will
amount TO a few hundred dollars
II cannot tell when / was first tempt-
ed, he said. THE disgrace to my fam
ily Is more than i can bear. I only ask
my friends TO look upon me as an un-
fortunate man who has made a great
mistake"
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
STEAMSHIP LINES CHARGED
WITH VIOLATING LAWS

Frank p. Sargent. Commissioner Cen
eral OF Immigation, protests vigorously
against the abuses of the immigration
laws in his annual report to Secretary
Metcalf. made public today.
Steamship companies are charged with
violating the law in soliciting aliens TO
come 10 our shores. and he suggests that
proper steps be taken to put stop TO
this practice.
The Canadian custom OF a Limitation
on vessels coming 10 its ports ap-
poruoning the number Of passengers IN
q direct ratio 10 the tonnage OF the
vessel, would be a very good remedy
according 10 the Commissioner Cen
eral.
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
KEPT FOR YEARS
IN DARK DUNGEON
Officers Practically Starye
Unwilling Prisoner.
VIOLATED THE PRISON RULES
Storm of Public Protest Responsible
for Change of Methods in
Iowa Jail.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa. Dec. 11.-Public
sentiment has been outraged by the
discovery that Matt Hunter has been
kept in dungeon at Fort Madison
prison for more than three years,
most of the time on bread and water
without access to current literature
and that, as a consequence. his health
appears to have been hopelessly
broken. and it is believed he cannot
survive more than a few months at
best
Popular demand has had the effect
of causing the prison officials. presum-
ably upon instructions from the office
OF the governor or State board OF con-
troll. to diminish the rigor of Hun
ter's Imprisonment.
Hunters case has attracted national
attention He was convicted of the
murder of Homer Holland. the captain
of the Drake University track team,
holder of two State and one national
amateur records. They loved the same
girl. telephone operator at Bedford,
Taylor county.
The trial OF Hunter attracted wide
attention and resulted in a verdict OF
first degree murder He secured a sec
ond trial, and was convicted in the
second degree. His sentence was there
by reduced from life Imprisonment to
twenty-five years
Then came Hunters determination to
do no work as a convict. He declared
the State could do no more than i'm
prison him, and he would never work
This had the effect of making him life
prisoner. as. under the prison rules he
received no credit for time SERVED while
being disciplined for breach of rules.
As be was constantly undergoing pun
ishment for refusal 10 conform TO the
rules by working he has never yet been
credited with even a day on his twenty
i've year sentence.
Hunter was thrust into a dark cell, al
lowed no food but bread and water
was not permitted to receive visitors or
write letters, and was permitted to read
only the Bible and kindred literature
Recently Hunter was taken so serious
ly Ill that he was removed TO the prison
hospital Newspapers learned OF this
and reviewed his case at length
Three weeks ago Hunter was released
from the hospital and returned to his
former routine, dark cell bread and
water and all Then came the news that
he was n hopeless invalid and could
not possibly live through the winter
rms resulted In storm of protest in
the form OF letters from club women
all over the State. They appealed to all
authorities, from the governor down. in
the name OF humanity 20 abandon the
useless effort to break Hunters will
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
BLINDED BY EATING CHEESE.

DES MONIES. Iowa. Dec u.-Leon
Alter. a grocer. was stricken blind after
eating some cheese. Alters body be-
came rigid. Physicians counteracted the
poison, so the mans life will probably
be spared, but he is still blind
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
Want Taft TO Succeed
Senator DepeW at Yale
Latter-'s Term Expires in June, and Buffalo
Alumni IS Booming Secretary of War
for the Place.

BUFFALO. Dec. u.-Yaie alumni of
Bunalo want Secretary Taft elected a
member of the Yale corporation. and
sons of Eli in other cities have been
asked to help in the campaign.
Senator Depews term as member
or the corporation will expire next June.
and the Buffalo alumni seem 10 believe
VIII not seek a denomination.
The nomination of Mr.. Taft, who was
graduated from Yale in 1878. was made
at the annual rally of the Yale men "a
the University Club. George Sawyer, a
prominent Buffalonian, made the NOM
ination and said he had talked with
other Yale men about II, among them
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
WOULD BUILD DRYDOCK
AT PENSACOLA STATION

In his annual report 10 the Secretary
OF the Navy Rear Admiral w. L. Capps.
chief constructor. recommends that
ships In the Asiatlc squadron be sent
across the Pacific TO our navy yards on
that coast when In need of~repairs. The
ships. he said. could be sent In divisions
or sduadrons, and much good would re-
st:it 20 the men and officers from the
practice INDUCED In on the long cruise
Admiral Capps also recommends the
construction OF large drydock at Pen
Sacola-
The Washington times., 1905-12-11

Swift & COmpany's sales OF fresh beef
in- Washington. ID. c.. for the week end
ing Saturday. Dec. 8, averaged O.. IS
cents per pound.
The Washington times., 1905-12-11
CUPID AND BACCHUS
KILLED BALLANT|NE
Wild Career at Virginia of
Wealthy Student.
SPURNED BY GIRL HE LOVED
Despairing of Making Himself Fir for
Her, it Is Said, He Committed
Suicide.

NEW YORK. Dec. u-Friends Of
Robert D. Ballantine. who have known
the facts of his career of recent years
at the University of Virginia. ascribe
his suicide to a romantice attachment
formed al the Southern institution of
learning.
Baliantine. after his graduation from
princeton. went TO the University of
Virginia 10 take a course in law. At
the university he met and fell in love
with Miss Bette Cooke. his landladv's
daughter 1t is said that BaIlantine
proposed to Miss Cooke many times. and
was as often rejected on account of his
habits of drinking
To be near her when graduated in law.
Ballantine registered in the medical
college of the university.
Orgy in Cuba.
He now entered upon a wild, career. of
dissipation. One of his exploits was 10
take four fellow-students on a tour of
Cuba. he paying all expenses The trip
degenerated into an orgy. This led to
Ballantine's expulsion from the uniyer-
sity.
lie Immediately bought Edgehin. near
Monticello. the historic residence e.
Thomas Jefferson. The EdgehiU house
was ouilt by jefferson for his sister. and
the OLD buildings are still preserved
BaIiantine furnished II superbly. ran
sacklng the country about for fine old
colonial mahogany.
Here he gave stag parties weekly thar
were the wonder and the dismav of
oe % Iespohslble Tor the good conduct
Oh the young students.
Called When Drunk.
he made an engagement to take Miss
n h..
tant social event. in 1901. but nrosa,+es
himself at her home at the apnointed
hour In such a condition that sne indsp-
iahtly refused to 20. When he realized
now now deeply he had offended her by tbis
error he was in a state OF desns,r 'iii'
he came TO New York nut mn o. -.
nI or the largest hotels. and started ON
baiiantine made his will in 1904 IL
nIr ,sIt EdgehiH 10 his friend Gaoree
Sa Jason. p" put the contents of the boi,ee
Cooke. ~ MISS Bette