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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
Wireless Test on Trains.

Train dispatchers may soon be re-
lieved in part of the responsibility now
attaching to their post when ono a
train has passed their station without
receiving forgotten orders, if the ex-
periments about to be undertaken at
Purdue university result in determin-
ing a practical method OF adapting
wireless telegraphy instruments SO they
may be successfully used on moving
trains. The intention of the professors
is to conduct a series of tests, to the
end that a receiver may be placed in the
cab in reach of the engineer, from which
he may take his running orders from
the dispatcher without stopping his
train. Prof. Kelsey. of Purdue, has al
ready conducted a series of experiments
which lead him to believet the difficulties
hitherto encountered in working with
trains have been overcome. and the
university at Lafayette, Ind. is excep-
~tionally well situated to put to a prac-
tical test his theories. since the cleo
trical engineering building of the in
~stitution commands a view Of long
stretches of four railroads, and instru.
ments will be placed on various trains
for testing purposes Chicago Trib-
Inc, t.t0 -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
IMPORTANT LITTLE THINGS
Statistics Which Show How Trifing
Articles Count UP IN a
Railroad.

Some interesting statistics have been
compiled showing how trifing articles
count up in a year IN the Santa Fe
system. In the 400 stations between
Chicago and the Pacific coast are slot
machines containing gum. Into these
machines last year were dropped 1,150,-
900 pennies for gum. the sum amount
ing to 1 1,500, says the Albuquerque
Journal. The pins used by the officials
and employees of the Santa Fe last year
weighed 5000 pounds. To keep the
depots and Offices clean 26, 1000 brooms
were used. The lead pencils used. if
placed end to end, would make a line
1926 miles long. Fifty barrels of ink and
1000 900 pens were used. From what is
known as the scrap heap" the company
realized last year $1,250, 900. This in
cludes almost everything, from a shin
gle nail to a worn-out locomotive. Over
IS 900 was realized from the sale of
waste pipe alone. 1t is also shown that
the company used 5000 pounds of rubber
bands and Is carloads of printed blanks.
The engines burned $780, 900 barrels of
oil and 1000, 900 tons of coal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
GOING 1T TOO STRONG.
Pass for John Doe and Forty-Five
Others Was Worked to the
Limit.

Twenty years ago, when railroad
passes were as thick in Kansas as wild
~Euniowers. a draft was made on a road
once which took away the breath of
even the hardened officials" said a
formerly of Kansas man." relates .he
Seattle Fost-lntelligencer. "At the 'e-
publican state convention in 1882 Lew
Hanback,. o dead, was nominated
for congress. as one of the big fur
conGressmen-at-large to which the
state became entitled under the new
apportionment.
Hanback, was poor. In those days
nobody paid railroad fare if he Lad
any Kind of a drag on a politician Of
influence. Consequently, when several!
of the men who had helped nominate
Hanback, asked him for passes home
from Topeka he had to do something.
He went to Archie Williams, attorney
for the Union Pacific, and asked Tor
help. Williams ransacked his office
and found a book of passes containing
three blanks. He signed these and
gave them to Hanback,.
Several days afterward Williams
received a scorching letter from the
general management, asking him what
in blazes he meant by issuing passas
to carry men by the trainload. The
letter said:
I'VE are willing to stand for ANY,
thing reasonable, but when a pass
reads Pass John Doe and IS Others
it is going too strong
Williams found on investigation
that Hanback, had passed about 115
men on those three blanks"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
Modern WAYS in japan.

Japan long since copied European
methods Of warfare to excellent pur-
pose. To-day she is adopting the fri
volties. Until recently jewelry, for in
stance, was tabooed, but now even gen.
tlemen are often seen with a thick
gold ring, made out of an old Japanese
coin called %"koban." The study of the
Introduction Of a new custom is inter-
esting. AS TO kissing, X is rather a
delicate subject to touch upon, but it
cannot be dismissed with a general
statement that in affection and love
the Japanese are o~utwardly undemon-
strative." All depends upon circum-
stances. Kissing as practised in the
west is still strange to them, but no
one who knows about it would wonder
if a young couple of modern Japan
should take to it to express their love
IN. Y. Herald,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18

servant as pretty low down. ! have
told him that the tipping habit is jdst
as bad in America as in France. but
he says in America the servant acts
as though he never had such a thought
as getting a tip, and when you give
him a quarter DR. other tip he looks
puzzled. as though he did not just
recall what he had done to merit such
treatment, but finally puts the money
in his pocket with an air as though
he would accept it in trust, to be
given to some deserving person at the
first opportunity, and then he smiles.
and gets away, and blows in the tip
for something wet and strong.
told da0 if he would just ignore
the servants. as though he did not I'M
derstand that they expected a tip. that
he would be all right, so when we got
ready to move from the hotel to pri-
waite rooms dad never gave any serv-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
House of Paul Revere.

Prominent residents of Masachus-
etts, including Gov. Douglas and Pat
rick A. Collins, mayor of Boston. are
taking steps to preserve the house OF
Paul Revere in North square, neal
the old North church. in Boston. from
which he started on his night ride to
arouse the countryside way up to
Concord and Lexington, April 10, 1775
The place was about to be torn down
but a number of citizens have under
taken the task of raising SIT, 900 to
buy the property. 1t will be put in
good condition, restored to it's colonial
dignity and preserved rs a revolution
airy relic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
Train Telegraph Signals.

A new train telegraph system. which
includes automatic signals in the en-
CINE cab to show when another train
is in the block, provides for communi-
cation between the engineers and sta
ton agents. Two metallic conductors
are laid, insulated so as to form
block sections. and the engines are fit
ted with the necessary electrical ap-
paratus. When the train enters a
clear block the signal in the cab dis
plays a white light, but in case another
tain is in the block, or a rail is broken,
OF a switch open, a red light is shown
and a bell is sounded in the cab. The
station agent or telegraph operator is
also able to operate the signals on the
engine.
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dear, | won't hurt the little runt." She
was so glad dad was not going to kill
the count that she threw herself into
his arms and thanked dear America
for producing such a grand citizen.
such a brave mar as dad, who could
forego the pleasure of killing a poor.
weak man who had insulted him. par
ticularly as dads wild Indian ancestry
made it hard for him to refrain from
blood.
Well, dads face was a study, as he
braced up and held that 1870 pounds of
white meat in his arms, with all the
people looking on, and he seemed
proud and heroic, and he stroked her
hai- and told her not to worry, and
finally she hied herself away from dad
and the count took her away, and they
went up the %bullyvard, and after all
was quiet again dad said: "Hennery,
let this be a lesson to you. When you
are tempted to commit a rash act and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
cUk LOCOMOTIVES ABROAD
Now Take the Lead Over Those Of
Any Other Country on
the Globe.

A Philadelphia concern has won the
contract for supplying 20 locomo ives
for the government railway system of
New South Wales. Many countries
were in the competition. All the great
locomotive works of the world were
notified of the affair. All were asked
to make bids, states the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. 1t IS to be presumed
that most of them did so. But the
American company carried off the
prize. The locomotives are to be DIFF
ferent from those employed on most of
the American roads. but the contract
will be filled to the satisfaction of the
purchaser.
Yet this American success will not
cause any great amount of surprise.
So many victories in the mechanical
arts have been won by Americans in
competition with the world recently
that these triumphs have lost heir
novelty. American locomotives are
found in Asia, Africa. South America
and Australia. They have carried off
prizes in many countries of Europe in
competition with locomotives of home
make, which were designed especially
to meet local conditions. Steel bridges
of American manufacture are found in
Egypt. Japan, China and many other
countries of the old world. Cars Of
American make run on many railways
of Europe and Asia.
And yet in the beginning the United
States was compelled to get its loco
motives, it's rails and it's cars from
England. Nobody in 1880 thought, al
the time that Peter Cooper was build
ing his one-ton Tom Thumb for the
Baltimore G. Ohio, that the United
States would ever be able to compete
successfully with Europe in locomotive
construction, or in the construction OF
anything else pertaining to the rail
ways. To-day we have 212,000 miles
of railway main track. as compared
with $4,000 for England. ITS, 900 for all
of Europe put together and 230. 900
miles for the entire world outside of
this country. We are l%engthening our
lead over all the rest of the great
countries constantly, and are beating
them in the character of our work as
well as in its quantity. This is one of
the reasons why the victory which has
just been won by the Philadelphia con-
Germ in competition with the rest Of
the world will not create a great deal
Of surprise in this country.
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avenge an insult IN blood. stop and
think of the sorIow and shame that
will come to you Z you draw your gun
too quick, and have a widow on your
hands as the result. Suppose | had
killed that shrimp. the face of his wild
ow would have haunted me always, and
| would have wanted to die. Don't
ever kill anybody, my boy, if you can
settle a dispute by shaking the dice"
Well. dad ordered some more wine,
and as he drank it, he allowed the pop
ulace TO admire him and say things
about the great American millionaire,
who spent money like water and was
too brave to fight. Then dad called
for his check to pay his bill, and when
he felt in his pocket for his roll of
an, when she was in his arms. wedding
with one hand, had gone through dads
pockets with the other. Dad felt for
his watch, to see what time it was, and
his watch was gone, and the waiter was
waiting for the money and dad tried
to explain that he had been buncoed,
and the head waiter came and begun
to act sassy. and then they called a
policeman to stay by us till the money
was produced, and everybody at the
other tables laughed, and dad turned
blue, and | thought he would have a
fit. Finally, the guide began to talk,
and the result was that a policeman
went home with us, and dad found
talked language that caused the land
lady to ask us to find a new place.
The mex morning the guide showed
up with an officer who had a warrant
for dad for hugging a woman in a pub
lie cafe, and it seemed as though we
were in for it, but the guide said he
could settle the whole business by pay
ing the officer $40, and dad paid it and
| think the guide and the officer divided
the money. Say, this is the greatest
town We have struck yet for excite
ment, and | guess dad will not have a
chance to think of his sickness.
Alo hiSl llHS VIC NCnI lhlO q blS
department store, and, by gosh! we
found the count that dad was going to
fight was a f1oor-walker, and the coun-
tess was behind a counter sell
ing soap. When dad saw the
count leering at him, he put his hand
on his pistol pocket and yelled a regu-
lar cowboy yell, and the count rushed
down into the basement, the soap coun-
tess tainted, and the police took dad to
the police station, and all day the
guide and | have been trying to get
him out on bail. If we get dad out of
this We are going to put a muzzle on
him. Well, if anyone asks you if am
having much of a time abroad, you can
tell them the particulars.
P. S.-We got dad out for 500 and
costs, and he says he will blow Paris
up before night. We are going up to
the top of the Eiffel tower this after
noon, to count our money, as dad das-
sent take out his pocketbook anywhere
on the ground for fear of being robbed.
Yours full of frogs,
HENNERY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
RIDING WITH A CORPSE.
Demise That Seemed to Be
Somewhat Chatty.

Old Johnnie was never quite the same
after the governor refused to interfere.
and let his brother go to the electric
chair some five years ago. says the New
York Times. AS baggage master of the
famous Coast Mail fiier for many years,
he had many friends to whom be talked
Of demoniacal obsessions and other
supernatural phenomena, until he went
to the division superintendent of the
road. and asked to be made q passenger
trainman.
81 don't like to be left alone in the
So his request was granted. but some
months ago, when the holiday rush
reached its climax, he had to go back
to his old work because of the rush
of business.
That night they loaded a corpse at a
big town in New Jersey. and SOC the
express messenger in the car ahead
came back and asked Old Johnnie as a
favor to let him place some overflow
packages for Philadelphia in his car.
Together they piled them back Of the
case inclosing the coffin, and as the
train resumed her usual 5e-mile-an-hour
pace Old Johnnie pulled his campchair
beneath the gas lamp and started to
read Vanity Fair" He gave no
thought to the dead man so close by.
Railroad men, through long experience,
come to treat bodies, both in collins
and out, more casually than others do.
"Hello!" The word was spoken close
by and he closed his Thackeray and
looked up. There was no one there. In
another minute he dropped his book and
leaped to his feet trembling and staring.
The word had been repeated, and there
was no doubt about it. 1t came from
the head of the coffin. He dashed out
among the passengers to Conductor
Bulls.
johnnie, what have you been drink
ing" said the ~autocrat of the train.
Not a drop for three days, sir.
Come. Hear it for yourself"
The conductor went back to the bag
gage car. He tapped the wooden box,
shook it slightly, but no sound came
from it. you dreamt it, Johnnie" he
said, turning away. But in a few min
utes Johnnie rushed through the vesti-
bules more frightened than before. A
trainman went back and sat with him
for half an hour, the coffin remaining
silent. but the mar had no sooner gone,
when
"Hello!" This time the old mar ran
through the train.
Where is the undertaken who is rid
ing with that dead man." he called.
The undertaken was in the smoking car
and went back to his charge. Old
Johnnie stood with him, so did the con-
ductor and several others of the crew.
Johnnie protested that he had told the
truth. "a dozen times" said he, 1--we
heard whoever, or-Heaven help us
whatever is in that coffin say 'Hello!'"
Then it was their turn to be scared,
for the last word hardly fell from his
lips than the ghostly low voice was
heard:
"Hello!" All jumped and stared at
the coffin, but the undertaken took out
his knife and began to cut at a box
placed in the pile of packages just be-
side. A small opening showed that
it contained a big gray parrot in his
cage. Ever since if you talk to the
men of the Coast Mail about demoniacal
obsession of a parrot they will admit
that there is something in it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18
At the Rectory. Too.

A pleasant girl answers the ring of all
callers at a certain rectory in Brooklyn.
She is a daughter of the Emerald isle and
is capable of as many good Irish bulls
as any son of 'the ould sod" To the
inquiry Of a recent caller if Father -
WAS in, she replied in the negative. The
calier, however, rather than be disap-
pointed, was content to see one OF the
clrates and told the girl as much.
Well she replied, there's only one
in and he's just gone out. "-Brooklyn
Eagle.
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COIN DOLLARS IN PRIVATE.
Italian Tells of Money Which Is
Minted in Palermo-Shows
Samples.

One evening | was sitting with al
Italian friend in a restaurant, relates an
Every body's Magazine writer, and We
were discussing American laws and re-
stS5tions, at which he was very mucn
inclined to scofr.
Did you ever see a dollar that is not
a dollar?" said he. | shook my head,
and he rolled across the table to me a
silver coin. 1t seemed to me to be a
dollar. | examined it with every care,
and getting another from the cash regis
ter, compared the two. They were ex-
actly alike in weight, sound, color,
milling and all. At last | got them con
fused, and only my friend was able to
point out which was which.
That Is what we call a Palmero dol
lar" he said. DO you remember some
years ago that western silver miners
were caught taking about 81 900, 900
worth of silver into the Nevada City
mint and having it turned into money
without being recorded? Well, that is
just what is going on in Palmero to-day,
with variations. Silver is brought in
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, or t~hereabout,
shipped to Paris, taken to Palmero, and
minted with reasonable privacy. The
dollars are jumbled with stones to nick
them and laid in greasy clay, then come
over here in third-class baggage for
distribution. They cost about 40 cents
and defy detection, except that the hicks
are too similar, and it is said that the
M on the neck is not quite deep enough,
and that the Il in pluribus is a thou
sandth of an inch crooked. You know
every counterfeiter makes some little
mistake"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-18

alive, IL comes right from the north
pole, and you just perish in your
tracks.
Gee, but it is awful. When you get
seasick on an ordinary ocean, you
know where to locate the disease. and
you know where 10 go for relief. and
when you have got relieved you know
that you are alive, but an English
channel seasickness is as different
from any other as an alcohol jag is
different from a champagne drunk.
This English channel se%asickness be-
gins on your toes, and you feel as
though the toenails We're being pulled
out with pincers, and the veins in
your legs seem to explode, your arms
wilt like lettuce in front of a cheap
grocery, your head seems to be struck
with a pile-driver and t%elescoped down
into your spine, and your stomach
feels as though you had swallowed a
telephone pole with all of the cross
arms and wires and glass insulators.
and you wish lightning would strike
you. Gosh, but dad was hot when
he found that he was sick that way.
and when we got ashore he wanted to
kill the first man he met.
He thinks that it is a crime for
a man not to understand the English
language. and when he tells what he
wants, and the nan he is talking to
Shrt1pC hic Shnn1UprC ond 1a,.l. a-1
brings him something else, he wants
to pull his gun and begin to shoot
up the town, and only for me he would
have killed people before this, but now
he takes it out in scowling at people
who do not understand him. Dad
seems 30 think that If he annot make
a man understand what he says, all
he has to do is to swear at the man.
but there is no universal language of
profanity. so the more dad swears the
more the nervous Frenchman smiles.
and acts polite.
| think the French people are the
politest folks | ever knew. If a
Frenchman had to kick a person out of
uOOl ., ub Nould NNdl q ltlJ8 SIlUpb
and after he had kicked you he would
place his ha.d on his heart, and bow.
and look s sorry, and hurt, that you
would want to give him a tip.
o, but this tipping business is what
is breaking dads heart. | think II
the servants would arrange a syndi-
cate to rob dad of two or three dol
lars a day, by pocket picking. or sneak
tbieving, he would overlook 1t, and
say that as long as it was one of the
customs of the country we should
have to submit to it, but when he
has paid his bill, with everything
charged extra, and the servants line
UP and look ap%pealingly, or mad, as
the case may be, dad Is the hardest
man to loosen tnat ever was, but II
they seem 70 look the other way, and
not, apparently, care whether they get
a cent or not, dad would 60 and hunt
them up, and divide his roll with
them. Dad is not what you would
call a tight wad,' IL you let him
shed his money normally, when he
feels the loosening coming on, but you
try to work him by bowling and cring-
ing, and his American spirit gets the
better Of him, and he looks upon the
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ant a tip. Well, l don't know what
the servants did TO our baggage, but
they must have marked it with a
smallpox sign, or something, for no
body would touch it for several hours,
but finally a baggage man took it and
started for Il apartments, and got
lost, and didn't show up for two days,
and when it was finally landed on the
sidewalk nobody would carry it up
stairs, and dad and | had to lug it up
two flights, and thought dad would
have apopleXy.
We found a guide who could talk
New Orleans English and he said it
would cost three dollars to square it
with the servants at the hotel, and
have the boycott removed from our
baggage, and dad paid it, and now he
coughs up a tip every time ne sees a
servant look at him. He pays when
he goes in a restaurant and when he
comes out, and says he is cured OF
trying to reform the customs of any
body else's country.
We have engaged a guide to stay
with us day and night. The guide
took us out for a bat last night, and
dad had the time of his life. Dad has
drank a good deal of spurious and
malt liquors in his time, but | don't
think he ever INDUCED much in cham
payne at three or four dollars a bot
tie at home. Maybe he has been saw
ing himself up till he got over here,
where champagne is cheap and it
takes several quarts to make you see
angels. The guide took us to one of
these b~ullyvards, where there are ia
bles out on the sidewalk, and you
can eat and drink and look at the
dukes and counts and dutchesses and
things promenading up and down,
flirting like sin, and we sat down to
a table and ordered things to eat and
drink, and dad looked like Uncle Sam,
and felt his oats.
When he had drank a few thimble-
fuls of absinthe, and some champagne.
and eat a plateful of frogs, he was
just ripe for trouble. A woman and
a man at IN adjoining table had one
of these white dogs that is sheared
like a hedge fence, with spots of long
hair left on in places, and dad coaXed
the dog over to our table and began
to feed him frogs legs, and the wom-
an began to talk French out loud, and
look cross at dad, and the count that
was with her came over TO our table
and looked at dad in a tone of voice
that meant trouble. and said some
thing sassy, and the guide said the
man wanted to fight a duel because dad
had contaminated the woman's dog.
and dad got mad and offered to wipe
out the whole place, and he got up
with a champagne bottle and looked
defiance at the count, and the walters
began to scatter, when the woman
came up to dad and begged him not
to hurt the count, and as she spoke
broken English dad could understand
her, and she looked so beautiful, and
her eyes were filled with tears, and
dad relented and said: Don't cry,