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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-09-28

MANS SMALL ANNOYANCES,

Some men only need one match to
light their pipes. unless it happens to
be the last match.
isn't it e&Gsperating to have the bill
collector crop into your office lust
as a friend is paying back the ten DOL
lars you loaned him six months ago.?
Doesn't it make you mad after wait
ing 20 minutes for your favorite bar
Der to get through shaving a. man 10
have the customer sit up in the chair
and order a hair cut and a shampoo?
No sooner does a man swear OIL
smoking than his friends present him
with cigars of every description; be.
fore swearing off he had a hard time
borrowing the "makings'' of a Cigar
ette."
Isn't it annoying to keep your seat
in a street car while some woman
stands, and when you get to the end
of your journey discover that the
standing female is an old friend of
the family?
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day, perhaps tomorrow, I VIII gather
up my courage and dare all by telling
you. | am trembling and quaking now
at the thought OF what you would
think II you read this. l cannot help
it; I must write. l dare not whisper
my love to you. 1t were PROCLAMATION TO
speak of 1t to others.
Goodnight, beloved. have dared
to say 1t even to myself"
Miss Molly Relents.
When Mollie Entrekin got that letter
she sat down in the middle of the floor
and read it. Then she said: We'll, of
all things" Then she read it again.
Then she said: Il never heard of such
a thing" Then she reread it, and, clasp
ing her arms around her knees, sat on
the floor and studied.
81 don't know why he wrote me such
a letter" she said to herself. 1.-THE fool
man is in love with me, why don't he
tell me so? Don't dare to come near
me, don't he? I've noticed that he's
been hanging around here two or three
nights a week.
Finally she got up and said: ANY
how, I'll write him a nice letter that will
cure him" And she wrote. 1t was a
kind, sisterly letter, and the burden of it
was: Impossible; don't love you"
But there was no doubt that the letter
had started Molly Entrekin to thinking.
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THE TARIFF AND LABOR.
Question for American workingmen,
Farmers and Business Men
to Decide.

The late session of the trades union
congress in England by a vote represent
ing 1883, 900. members against $4,000
declared for free trade. The resolution
declared that ANY departure therefrom
would be detrimental to the interests
of the working classes upon whom the
burden of protection would press the
most heavily" The resolution also ex-
pressed the opinion that a system Of
preference, or retaliation, would prove
a hindrance to international progress
and peace.
1t would be we'll for American organ
lied labor to ponder on these declara-
tons, instead of blindly following the
lead of the protectionists, for it must
be plain to every one, that the con-
sumers pay the tariff tax, not only what
the government receives, but the much
greater tax which the protected trusts
collect as extra profit.
The most eminent economists have ar.
rived at the conclusion that the United
States has prospered in spite of protec-
ton and that the day has dawned when
the protection shoe will begin to pinch.
The dual tariff system, which the re-
vision faction of the republican protec-
tionlsts have declared for at the late
Chicago conference, will prove-as the
English workingmen declare" a him
drance to international progress and
peace"
1t virtually proposes a tariff war with
other countries, which Germany and
France and Russia and Austria have al
ready began and which the United
States was n of the first to originate
by raising her tariff wall.
The question for American working
men, farmers and business men to con-
slider is, are they benefited by trust high
prices, fostered by the protection the
tariff provides. Is not the fact that the
trusts are selling many of their products
cheaper abroad than here, a proof of the
enormous tax the protected interests are
collecting from our own people?
The republican party is controlled by
these protected trusts and dare not
throw off this "old man of the sea- who
IS a heavy burden to those who pay the
tax n who receive but little if any of
the profit for carrying him. The demo-
cratic position on the tariff is what this
country must come to, not free trade
with no custom houses, but a tariff for
reyenue-which will protect all alike, in
stead of protecting the few at the ex.
pense of the many.
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FORTUNATE COAL TRUST.
It Seems to Escape the Personal At
tention of President
Roosevelt.

There is one trust that President
Roosevelt seems to fear to tackle. and
that is the anthracite coal trust. No 9TH
er trust is SO openly evading the law,
and none other weighs more heavily
upon the people. The coal trust is un-
doubtedly guilty of two crimes, that
hardly requires legal evidence to prove
the coal barons law breakers.
There is no more complete combine to
restrict trade, for the trust raises the
prices of its product at will. 1t is in col
fusion with the railroads to plumber the
consumers, and whether the trust con-
trolls the railroads, or the railroads con-
troll the trust,, is i%mmaterial, except that
both are combined to evade the law. yes.
not only evade the law, but openly defy
it.
No attorney general has dared to lift
his voice against the coal trust, al
though the evidence to convict the COM
bine, or the individual coal barons. has
been furnished by a philosophical cit
izen-Mr. Hearst-and is still on file in
the department of justice or in the hands
of the president.
Hon. Robert Baker, Of Brooklyn. in
writing for the New York Herald on this
subject calls attention to President
Roosevelt's evident objection to prose-
cute the most Objectionable trust GRIM
inals, except the beef barons, which the
president wishes to appear to be espe-
cially severe against, and declares that:
"All the power of the federal govern
ment is used to send the mo~onshiner,
smuggler and other petty criminals to
prison, while their property is confis-
Gated, but the railroad and trust criminal
is entertained at the white house. Why
this discrimination against the beef
packers? Almost simultaneous with
this illumination against them the king
of the coal trust Qoot $50, 0O0, 000) and
archpriest of the railroad trust, ]. P.
Morgan, is a guest at Oyster Bay.
Well may Armour cry out against
such favoritism. Why is Chicago
scourged and Wall street feted?
why the mailed fist for Swift and
Morris and the glad hand for Rookie
Teller, Havemeyer, Morgan and Baer?
Why defy oil and coal and cruelty
beef?"
Those questions are serious ones. and
the American people should ponder
them, and if possible evolve an answer,
for until a satisfactory answer is forth
coming there is certainly no square
deal all around.
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Suspicion Aroused by an Ad.

Excitedly Molly left the table. and 20
ing into the library scratched on Q
note.
Mr.. Ferman Phillips: Please come TO
me at my home, at once, this morning.
You must come before noon. 1t is an i'm
portant matter, one on which my future
happiness my depend
MOLLY ENTREKIN."
Phillips, surprised, read the note and
unmindful of Bobbie, rushed for a car.
Twenty minutes later he was ushered
into the morning room at the Entrekin
residence.
Mr.. Phillips" began Molly, nerv-
ously, did you put this advertisement
in the paper?"
She handed him the morning paper,
in which appeared an adj:
LoST-ABUNDLEoF LETTERS, PURE
ly personal, Of no value except to owner.
A reward of s25 will be paid II returned to
Ferman Phillips, - N. Charles street.
Il did," said Phillips, rather I'M
steadily, after he had read the ad.
slowly.
Are these the letters?' asked Molly,
producing the three she had received
from Aylette.
End of the Mystery.
why, Miss Entrekin," said Phillips,
e%xcitedly,' where did you get these?
They are copies of mine, or part of them.
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N AND

There are in England $4,000 post Of
fee savings banks.
The Bank of The Netherlands now
holds s4.120.0 GOO more gold than 1t held
e year ago.
The Banf of SPANS gold holdings
have increased only $685., 900 over
q year ago, but silver holdings are
S 1886, 900 larger.
The average note circulation of the
Imperial Bank of Germany in 1904
was 1929, 137, 900; highest, 1899, 496, coo
or December 81; lowest, s2S4,479,OOo
on February %.
The Bank of France has carried on
stock exchange dealings for its Gus
toners since 1896. The volume OF
such business has increased from $l9,-
6s9, 900 in 1896 to $751; 900 in 1904.
The rate of increase in the British
banking deposits is unsatisfactory, ac-
cording to the London Economist
9 fact which that journal explains by
the general extravaganza developed by
recent prosperity.
German capitalists are to open a new
bank in Sofia, Bulgaria, on October l.
The project is regarded with disfa'or
by Austrian interests, who charge Ger
many with following up a system or
economical appropriation in the east
In savings bank deposits this Gus
try leads the world. Our deposits
amounted at the beginning of this year
to $1,000, 176, gil. That sum u an
German savings by $7S6 ,0O0, 600, III
the German savings outran anything
in Europe by $1,000 900. But in the
amour OF savings per inhabitane
Great britain stands at $22,S2, Ger"
many at $50 .9S. and the United States
at $37.3S.
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young department manager, and Molly
was forced to be gracious to the man
who, at that time, she disliked. but to
whom because of the family friendship
she was obliged to be gracious.
Aylette Confesses Sordid Love.
The families Of both girls are veal
thy; and, going back to their rooms in
the boarding house that night, Aylette
confessed to Phillips that he did not
particularly love Miss EntrekiD, but
that she was rich and that he was 60
ing to win her. Disguised, sickened
by the attitude of his friend, which
came as a rude awakening from the
dreams that he himself had been
dreaming, Phillips turned to so to his
room. There, with the vision Of the
bright-eyed, fair-haired girl before him,
he resolved eve again to go rear her,
realizing, as he thought, the impossi-
bility Of ever winning the love Of Mar
tina Baker. He held to his determine
tin Two or three times the girl In
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| was sure they were stolen from a draw
er in my room. How did you get them?"
"They were mailed to me by your
roommate, Mr.. Aylette," she answered,
steadily. 81 notice that in the first one
my name was at the top, above the line.
| thought it strange at the time"
"Aylette send my letters to your"
asked the astonished Phillips, WIN
should he DO that?"
HE wanted to make me love him. He
nearly succeeded. Oh, Mr.. Phillips,
am so ashamed and so glad. You have
saved me from the wretch"
please DON'T he urged, tenderly,
as she started to cry. please don't. |
am so sorry that / have helped cause this
trouble"
"I'm not; I'm glad" said Molly, stop
ping her tears and flashing into anger.
'Ill tell that nan" Then she broke
off suddenly and turned upon the young
man. "Ferman Phillips" she de-
manded, ito whom did you write those
love letters?"
"Why-why-" he stammered.
Nov, you tell me right away" she
dictated. "Tell me, l tell you. You've
saved me from that man, and now III
help you. You are in love with a girl
and afraid to tell her SOP
please don't, please don't" pleaded
the agonized Phillips.
Il will, too" she said. Here, I've told
you everything and trusted you, and
now you've got to trust me. Who is
she?"
Really, Miss Entrekin, l can't tell
you. l scarcely know her, and it would
be presumptuous for me even to speak
to her"
DO you love herr"
"Yes-you must know l do from the
letters"
DO you love her as much as those let.
tiers show?"
More"
i wouldn't give a cent for a man who
wouldn't tell a girl when he loves her.
Who is she?"
Your friend, Miss Baker"
What! Martha Baker? Oh. this is
too good. It's almost as good as if it had
been me, and I'm half sorry it wasn't.
You come right over to Martha's house
right now and tell her you love her. II
you don't come with me now I'll send for
her to come here. You've got to propose
to her right away, and I'm going to stand
by and see you do. And let me congrat.
ulate you now-for she has read those
letters"
Phillips finally begged off, but prom
ised to call that night on Miss Baker
and he pledged his word to Molly En-.
trekin that he would propose before the
end of the month. And Molly, as soor
as she had refused to see Aylette whei
he called, rushed off to tell Martha. ant
they talked all afternoon and cried a lit.
tie bit, as girls do.
Phillips really proposed inside o.
two weeks and was accepted. And Molly
showed the letters to every girl in theil
crowd, as she told the story, and one o.
them copied two of them-so the score
OF the plagiarized letters became knowr
to all Baltimore.
1t is said that Aylette is now working
in New York or Philadelphia. ant
Molly's engagement to Nick is expected
any day, much to the delight Of Bob
pie, who appreciates candy.
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quired of Aylette why he never brought
Mr.. Phillips with him to call, and she
admitted to Miss Entrekin that she
had been interested in the reserved,
handsome young fellow. Once she
frankly asked Aylette to bring Phil
lipps to call, but the message was never
delivered, and Aylette lied about it to
her, telling her Phillips preferred not
to come, and the girl, surprised and
hurt, never referred to him again.
Phillips became more silent than ever
and worked harder, refusing to join in
any Of the little pleasures of the others
in the boarding house. Once one of
the girls in the house teasingly asked
him if he was in love, and he flushed
and left the room.
Aylette, to all appearances, was
making no better progress in his eff
forts TO win the love of Miss Entrekin,
and he departed for Richmond for a
fortnight's vacation without receiving
one sign of encouragement.
Beginnisg of Love Letters.
Then, suddenly, there began to come
TO Molly Entrekin, day after day. let
tiers overlooking with tenderness, love,
and passion; love letters such as swept
the hearts of her grandmothers by
storm--tiowery, imaginative, beautiful
love letters, such as girls read and re-
read i'll the privacy of their own rooms
nn1 prap1rnnthnrS 1yicc tphnn than Ard
them hidden in the bottoms of old
trunks. The letters were from Walter
Aylette. and they revealed to Molly
E%ntrekin a depth of feeling, Of power
and passion, of love and tenderness
and yearning that she had never sus-
pected existed in the man. She was
astonished.
Three of the letters, which have been
made semi-public by the events that
followed, have been circulated among
her friends-before The real truth was
known.
The first came the day Walter Ay~
lette reached Richmond.
My Dear Miss Entrekin: l love
you, L nave Sdlu IL, lHe WOTuS lndt
have trembled on my lips since that
first evening that | saw you, when my
heart fell down and worshiped you.
From afar l have worshiped you ever
since, daring not come near, coward
that I am, for fear the secret would
burst from me: that the words that |
dare not speak should speak them
selves; that my whole heart would cry
out to you: I love you
Il am writing these words that |
never will dare say to you and that
perhaps you eve will see. Would that
| dared send them to you, l, who am
so unworthy, to let them plead for me.
| have said to myself: 4 love her;
why should | fear?' But l see the bar
riers that rise between us-the barriers
of money, the walls of social conven-
tion. | say to myself: Tt is pride. If
she loves you these will not keep us
J apart But again, I am a coward and
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| tremble at the thought of asking you
TO share with me the little that | have.
Again and again | have said: I
will go and tell her. and then | have
trembled at the vision and crept back
to my W room, to sit for hours look
ing out across the lights of the city
towards where you were, and weaving
on the cloth of my Imagination the
fairest picture the world has ever
known; a picture of you, with your
glorious eyes alight with the fire Of
love, and | have dreamed that it was
| who famed that fire into a flame.
Might after night | have skulked
past your home, just to be near where
you were, for the chance Of seeing you,
Of getting a glimpse as you flashed
from carriage to door, Of hearing your
laugh, and when ! saw you have
turned homeward thinking: she is
safe. She is happy. Why should I
trouble her in her happiness?'
1T is despair to love like this. Some
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Stolen Love-Letters That Broke
One Engagement and
Made Another.
THE HEROINE A BALTIMORE SOCIETY BELLE
Her Lover Appropriated Tender Missives of
a Friend to His Ultimate Sorrow-Dis-
closure Brings Happiness to Two.

Baltimore, Md.-This is a story Of
how a lover lost his sweetheart
through his ardent, but p~lagiarized,
love letters. Walter Aylette's sin
found him out, but the disclosure
brought happiness to his friend and
roommate, Ferman Phillips.
The principals in the remarkable
and interesting love drama are Mol
ly Entrekin, one of the bellies of this
city, her chum, Martha Baker, Walter
Aylette, son Of a prominent Richmond
family high in society and reputed
wealthy, and Ferman Phillips, who
although poor, comes from a distin,
guished line of ancestors.
Aylette, it is charged by the other
three parties to the case, plagiarized
the brilliant love epistles that Ferman
Phillips wrote in secret to Martha
Baker and, by changing them slightly,
came near winning the love Of
Miss Entrekin through them and
their passionate force. The discovery
was made but a few days before the
wedding was to have taken place, and
the girl with the glamour of the false
spell d~issipated, dismissed Aylette, de.
claring him an impostor and cheat.
Phillips and Aylette were friends
and lived in the same boarding house.
Why Aylette should have been living
in Baltimore i'll o~bscurity few outside
of the friends who were aware OF
his wildness and dissipation at Rich.
mond knew. He was a handsome fel
low, dark. dashing and romantic
Phillips, on the other hand, was timid
and the gayeties that Aylette sought
he stunned, or was too bashful to par
ticipate il.
Phillips Meets His Fate.
Aylette was reading law in a down.
town office and Phillips was striving
for a living in a prominent mercantile
house. While all business, so far as
even his closest friends know, he
really was a dreamer, and he aspired
to write novels and plays. He had
come into Baltimore without resources
and worked hard. By accident he was
thrown into contact with Walter
Aylette, and the result vas a strange
INTERVENING of fates. Aylette, through
his family's prominence, had the entree
to many homes, and n evening, by
insistence. he persuaded Phillips to
accompany him to the home of Miss
Molly Entrekin, daughter of a wealthy
merchant. Aylette did not tell Phil
lipps, but he invited him TO go merely
that he might have another man to
take her chum off his hands" during
the evening.
1t was that evening Ferman Phillips
met his fate in the shape Of pretty Mar
tina Baker, Molly Entrekin's chum, who
if the Ntuth were known-had been
summoned by Molly when she knew Ay-
lette's call was inevitable.
Molly's plan failed. Instead of help
ing her dispose of Aylette Martha APP
peared to enjoy herself talking to the
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Trial to All B,,t Har

Her marriage was a great disap.
pointment to her friends"
"Indeed?"
%, yes! They all predicted 1t
would turn out unhappily, and il
didnt."-Stray Stories.
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adapted for the hands, the face, the
general toilet? Impossible, 1t would
be hOrrid. Who ever heard of such a
use? Finally a bold shopper carried
home a cake. Does it look like Kit
chen SapOLi0? No n is sure, and a
cake of that is bought, and comparison
made. Behold a family using both the
SapoHos for every conceivable pur-
pose, and comparing hottest After
easily and quickly cleansing a greasy
pan with SapoLio, Jane thought the
other would be gritty, and was aston
ished at the smooth, dainty Mfher.
Another Was certain it would harden
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1mttn
A44GH
au1v2

pleasure. 1t feshened up the hands
after DISTINGUISHING, removing the n1csf
disagreeabIe feature of that necessary
task. 1t vas found to keep delicate
baby skins from chatting better than
saive or powder, and the browning
note in the song of delight came when
an adult member of the family used 1t
in a full bath, and realized that q
Turkish Bath at a cost of one dollar
was oufdone by a small fraction of the
little, fen-Cenf, veIvety cake.
But, strange though it may seem,
there were people who had not learned
to prize Sapoho. To these the adver-
Using of Hand SapoLo came as a
surprise. Sap0LO, a securing soap,
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TRY HAND

TRY HAND 0
Its steady use will keep the hands
of any busy woman as white, un-
tanned and pretty as If she was
under the constant are of a city
manicure. tits truly The Dainty
Woman's Friend" IN the suburbs
or on the farm.
Those ugly dark brown streaks
on the neck, arising from tight
collars. ard the line where the
sunburn stops, can be wiped out
by the velvety lather of HAND
SApoLIo. II is. indeed, "The
Dainty Woman's Friend"
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THE SCHOOL
OF TOWN
>I.cc ~, .,@rDo.
CLASS IN ALGEBRA

Let housewife equal x plus E; XII
Let E the sign for Sapolio be;
For dirt let minus X be had; *
Then all these symbols we will add
The x and minus X drop out Ell
AS anyone can see no doubt)
And leave what must the housewife please
The happy symbol We call ease.
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HOW FRIEND.
ship GREW
The Story

Whether Hand SapoLo got a more
enthusiastic welcome In homes where
SapoHo was an old and tried friend,
or where 1t was q stranger, Is q ques-
ton. Where women had come to rely
On SspoLio for rapid, thorough clean
ing In every part Of the house except
the laundry, they commenced without
loss of time, to avail of this new prize.
Grzbby little hands, and stained, work.
worm older ones, whifened, sOffened,
and sn10othed out as If by magic, cal
Ous spots disappeared, and COM
piexions cleared. Children ceased
their strenuous objections to the scrub
bling up process, because 1T became q
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and those who meet both for the first
time are plunged info q whimsical
worry as TO which they could better
spare If they had to make q choice.