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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER

L. L1h.
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Travelling in these days is so COM
mon, and on the whole so comfortable,
that it is the exceptional person who
stays at home.
An old lady on whom l once called
In her home in the mountains of West
Virginia told me that in the four-score
years of her life she had never been
out of her own county. The railway,
ten miles distant, she had never seen.
Apparently she was perfectly content
ed with the placid and monotonous
tenor of her existence. She had taken
deep root in her native soil, something
like a great oak tree. Her children
and grandchildren had caught the
spirit of the age and n by one had
left the ancient roof and had found
their inches in other parts of the coun-
try. Two had even crossed the ocean
and gone to the east, but wander where
they might, they could always think
of the old mother sitting in her arm
chair, knitting gray wool stockings,
looking out the window down the long
road, and greeting her neighbors with
a smile as often as they crossed her
threshold. She was brown and wrin-
killed., but her eyes were bright, her
heart a untroubled as a child's, and
bits of quaint wisdom fell from her
lips. Though travelling were ever so
easy, she wanted none of it. The very
notion of an observation car rushing
through the landscape at 50 miles an
hour, of a sleeper into which people
were tucked at night as in the narrow
confines of a coffin, of whirling across
the continent in less than a week or
voyaging to Europe with equal speed,
was to her an impossible dream. l
can think of no dynamic force strong
enough to move that woman from her
chosen vantage ground, except the all
conquering power of death.
Doubtless before everybody travelled
many people were well satisfied to
know little of the world except as they
heard of it from others. 1t is quite
otherwise now. To vary the scene, as
Thomas Carlyle and his good wife,
Jane, used to say, is to drop many of
the exasperating cares and burdens,
to get away from battling problems and
to take in a new stock of strength as
well as of ideas. The traveller who
takes the road in summer should carry
little luggage. Most of us are too
heavily encountered with goods and
chattels when we move about. 1t is
quite possible, if one choose wisely, to
go abroad and spend eight or ten
weeks very profitably and pleasantly
in jaunting over England and Scot
land, or exploring little hooks in
France and Switzerland, carrying all
the clothing requisite for decency, con-
venience and comfort in a suit case,
Men constantly do this, and sensible
women occasionally, thus minimizing
anxiety about luggage and giving time
and thought to enjoyment of the new
scenes without worrying lest this or
the other box or trunk has been left
by the way.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
Modest Christmas Wish

She-What do you want Santa Claus
to bring you?
He-Two long stockings neatly filled.
sheffield with what?
Hewitt yorktown Topics.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
A Little Mixed.

fop, what's synonym"
Its one of those PLACES where you
have nothing to do for a big salary
That's right, my son.. Always ask
papa for information in your studies"
Baltimore American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

If a man is real honest he will admit
that the proudest moment of his life
was when he could see faint signs of a
little bunch of beard in front of each
ear.-The Commoner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

Mamma-Of course you said, "Oh.
this is so student when Tom finally
proposed.
Daughter-No; 1 fully intended to,
but | was so excited l forgot and ex-
claimed, Sat last!"-Chicago Daily
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
A LITTLE JOURNEY
ONE SHOULD NOT ENCUMBER
ONESELF WITH EFFECTS.

The Traveller Takes In a New Stock of
Strength and Ideas-Trolley Trips
for Those with Small Bank Ac-
counts-A Summer Journey in a
Carriage-The Restless Rich Do
Not Know the Joys of Travelling
Sailing Trips Inexpensive and
Restful.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

other strap across the bust. The col.
lar is edged each side with lace, as also
are the deep cuffs.
Materials required: 8 yards ~ inches
wide, about G yards lace.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
Not to Be Thought Of.

M NO 20 ID I1IUuSHp Of'
Husband-Don't you think 1t would
be as we'll to save that money for a
rainy day!
Wife-Good gracious, no. can't go
shopping on a rainy day.-CasselPs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

Lots of girls think they have great
tragedies in their lives when it is only
from eating too many sweets.-N. Y.
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
Deferred Dividends.

"Children are the dividends OF mat
rimony."
Some people seem to prefer deferred
dividends. Town Topics
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
JOYS OF MATERNITY
A WoNAN's BEST HOPES REALIZED
Mrs. Potts Tells How Women Should
Prepare for Motherhood

The darkest days of husband and
wife are when they come to look for
ward to childless and lonely old age.
Many a wife has found herself inca
pable of motherhood owing to a dis
placement of the womb or lack of
strength in the g~eneratiye organs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30
EksyT%sSHNGNE
STRAIGHT 5sCIGAR ALWAYS HELlARLE
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The European sugar crop this year
Is. estimated at between $3.50, 900 and
6,675,000 tons. The German crop will
probably amount to 2.2OO,O 900 tons.
England's first spinning mill to be
worked by electricity has been started
at P%endlebury, Manchester. 1t con-
tains $4,000 spindles, and has no chin
ney.
The first solid train of canned peas
ever shipped from al American can
ming factory went ouI from a canning
company's plant at Longmont, COL,
recently.
Last year 49, 900, 900 tons Of cargo
were carried from all the seaports of
the world, and out Of that total al
900, 900 tons were carried by ships
Of Great Britain.
Growing of grapes in graperies fur
nishes an important source of rev.
enue in some countries, notably Bel
GUM and the Channel islands, whers
large quantities are annually grown
and exported. The United States is
a good customer for them, as high as
B5 cents to rs cents a pound wholesale,
and two to three dollars, and even
more, a pound retail being paid for
the fruit. Grape growing in pots IS
much practiced in parts of Europe, and
especially in France, where the vines
are largely used for decorative pur-
poses on festive occasions.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

When Commissioner Garfield weni
to the Chicago packers and asked per
mission to inspect their books, the con,
dition was made that no information
he might obtain therefrom would be
used in court proceedings against
them.
Mr.. Garfield gave this pledge, it il
stated, and the packers allowed him
to study their business in all its de
tails from the inside.
Now, it is announced, the results Of
his study have been turned over to the
government department of justice ia
be employed in legal prosecution OF
the packers.
Commissioner Garfield would not
have ventured to give the pledge that
was demanded by the packers without
instructions from Washington. He
pledged, not his own word, but the
governments. 1t is not his good faith
but the governments. that is in ques'
ton now.
The Journal has nc concern for the
packers, except as they are citizens OF
Chicago. If it can be proved that they
are guilty Of engaging in a conspiracy
in restraint of trade, they ought to be
punished.
But their guilt, if they are guilty,
must be fairly proved. They must be
given a square deal.
Since the government has elevated
its vision to such a height as to over
look the nest Of defiant criminal trusts
In New Jersey, almost within the
shadow Of the capitol dome, in order
to fasten itself a thousand miles away
upon Chicago, the government n tne
President cannot be too careful tf
avoid suspicion that they are more
anxious to prosecute western offender'
than offenders in the east.
Some of the methods already EN-
ployed in this Ease have not been par
ticularly distinguished for decency
When the government breaks into
mans house and steals his private pa
pers, when 1t drags the wives Of pack
i~ng-house employees into court ant
puts them under heavy bonds, 1t Il
hardly digniied. not to say honorable
nor even respectable.-From the Chi
cago Journal. Nov. 6. 1905.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-11-30

With Gray Coat Suits.
Silk waists, particularly those of
clan tartans, are going to be popular
with the gray coat suits, which will be
SO much worn.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
OsteOpathy-Tonsillitls.

What is the physical state In, what
the cause and what the cure In ton
sillitis? AS to the physical state, all
schools are agreed: The tonsils be-
come deeply inflamed, develop folli-
cles or white patches usually, OF ul-
cerate-quinsy, ......
The cause the Osteopaths alone
assign. The history Of a case is,
first, a cold producing contractures
In the neck muscles possibly
predisposed by irritation of the
nerves from slight bony displace-
ments. These contractures bring
pressure upon the veins draining the
tonsils, and so dam back the blood.
Now, what is the logical cure? Cut
out the tonsils and e, predispose to
disease, or would It be wiser to relax
the contractured muscles thoroughly
and open the natural drainage? az
The latter course the ,osteopath
pursues. Then corrects the bony
displacements predisposing to the
contractures, and so averts the re-
peated attacks common to this trou-
BILE. Chronically enlarged tonsils are
cured by establishing natural circu-
lation and drainage in t''s manner.
Osteopathy's success in tonsillitis is
certainly marked.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

What proud and profitable day it
would be for oregon. if her legisla-
ture should be about equally divided,
politically-not necessarily democrat
ic and republican, but divided be-
tween any two parties that would vie
with each other for good government.
Greater independence is needed, not
only in county affairs, but in state
politics. That sentiment in Umatilla
county which gave T. D. Taylor, DEM
ocrat, and f. ]. Sommerville, republ-
can, about i7OO majority each, should
more thoroughly pervade the state.
The people would be assured of better
conditions, even though one party
would not be allowed to appropriate
all the fat places. To the winds with
parties as long as the people are
served with honesty and zeal. Good
government is the whole object of
popular suffrage and if good govern
ment does not follow, then there is
need of an injection of independence.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
SELL THE PHILIPPINES.

Even though Japan has whipped
Russia, it will require wide stretch
of her Imagination to picture the day
when she could 'trounce" her Uncle
Sam.
The asserted fear that she might
make a try for the Philippines is
premature and far-fetched. 1t is
useless to cross a bridge before you
reach it. Japan will not recover
from the Russian war for yearr. al
though she is the victor.
But really, would it not be first
class business move on the part of the
United States to sell the Philippines
to Japan? She will Christianize and
Yankeeize them as rapidly as we;
they are a part of the Japanes en-
pire, by nature and circumstance
they are 1900 miles from the nearest
American home port; few American
Iponopolists will alone be benefited
BY keeping them; they can never be
settled by people from this zone; be-
ing isolated they will require an
enormous fleet to guard them from
foreign foes. and in view of all these
facts, if we can get s5O,OOO,OOO foI
them would it not be driving good
bargain to sell them and shake of
Imperialism, 80 far from home, once
for all?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

Tom Word, sheriff of Multnomah
county, is looked upon in Oregon as
a remarkably daring man, because
he has enforced the plain laws as he
found them on the statute boks,
Sheriffs Pennington of Union, and
Brown of Baker counties are cited as
officials of peculiar qualifications, be-
cause they have dared to close sa-
looms on Sunday and close the gam
bling joints. Why should it be a re-
markable fact that an official en-
forces the law? The only. remarkable
fact is that they do not enforce the
laws more strictly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
DRIFTWOOD.
Mary. Queen of Scots.

Mary, Queen of Scots.
Beside the block a sullen headsman
stood:
And cleaned the broadaxe in his
hand, which soon must drip with
blood.
With slow and steady step there
came a lady through the hall.
And breathless silence chained the
lips and touched the hearts of
all.
I knew that queenly form again,
though blighted was its bloom;
saw that grief had decked it out,
an offering for the tomb
knew the eye, though faint its light,
that once so brightly shone:
knew the voice. though feeble now,
that thrilled with every tone;
1 knew the ringlets, almost gray, once
threads Of living gold;
l knew that bounding grace of step
that symmetry of mold.
Fen now I see her far away in that
calm convent aisle.
| hear her chant her vesper hymn. I
mark her holy smile;
En- now l see her bursting forth up
on the bridal morn,
A new star in the firmament, to light
and glory born.
Alas! the change! She placed her foot
upon the triple throne,
And on the scaffold now she stands
beside the block-alone,
The little dog that licks her hand
the last of all the crowd
Who summed themselves beneath her
glance and round her footsteps
bowed.
Her no., k is bared-the blow is struck
the soul is passed away!
The bright-the beautiful--is now a
bleeding piece of clay!
The dog is moaning piteously, and, as
it gurgles Ger,
Laps the warm blood that trickling
runs unheeded to the floor!
The btlood of beauty. wealth and
power-the heart blood of a
queen:
The noblest of the Stuart race-the
fairest earth has seen,
Tapped by dog! Go think of it, in
silence and alone.
Then weigh against a grain of sand
the glories of a throne.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
AMEND THE DOG TAX LAW.

The East Oregonian moves to
amend the dog tax ordinance to in
clude cats. It seems a travesty on
justice and nature to order the kill
ing of peaceable, noiseless dogs, and
permit a horde of tramp cats to infest
the back yard fences. woodsheds and
alleys, carrying disease from one
neighborhood to another and making
nights hideous with their choruses.
No other domestic animal carries as
many disease germs from home to
home as do the apparently harmless
house cats. They are allowed to
c6me and go. regardless of quarantine
laws, and many of the mysterious Sc
crets regarding the spread of conta-
gi6us diseases may be traced to this
soft-footed messenger.
1.-The dog catcher should be ordered
to kill stray cats on general princi-
Pies and unless those having owners
are addicted to staying closely al
home, they should not be spared. Or
dinarily there Is about as much need
cor cat about a home as there is
Tor an Egyptian mummy in a parlor
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

despite the loud outcry against his
backbone-less policy of harboring
vice and feigning blindness when the
open doors OF the dives yawn before
his official eyes.
With all due respect to age and ex-
perience, Portland should have a
younger, more active mayor. George
H. Williams has been a power in the
state; no one questions that; but
Portland is a palpitating, vigorous
young giant and demands vitality no.
possessed by a man of four score WIN
ters. Put the best foot forward this
year
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
RODE 81 MILES IN HOURS.

Lieutenant Colonel Fountain, who
was scheduled to arrive at Fort
walla Walla on the 14th inst, has
been retired with the rank of briga-
der general. Tt has not yet been de-
termined who will be appointed to
succeed him.
Brgadler General Fontain enjoys
the unique distinction of holding the
record for the longest single cavalry
ride ever made by an officer of the
United States army. iHs journey was
50 miles, which was accomplished in
eight hours, the trip being made in
Colorado in pursuit of hostile Indians
in 1871.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

There is a prevalent notion that If
children are allowed to eat sugar they
will have bad teeth as a consequence,
says Medical Talk. There is no foun-
dation whatever for such notion.
The negroes of the West Indies are
excessive consumers of sweets. They
eat an enormous amount of sugar
cane, molasses and raw sugar. Yet
these people have particularly fine
teeth. Whatever other injuries sugar
may be capable of doing to the hu-
man system. it is very certain that it
does not do any injury to the teeth,
either in old or young persons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
FOR MAYoRloF PORTLAND.

Because he. desires to vlndicate the
republican machine in Portland,
George H. Williams will again run
Tor mayor of that city. Surely a man
OF 50 years, having achieved all the
political honors 1eeHsd to satisfy an
ordinary mortal, having no financial
need Of the office and being untitled
BY reason Of his extreme age to be an
active, aggressive mayor. should not
desire the office fof Tfts honors or
emoluments.
He was a machine candidate, his
policy is a machine policy and so in
order to complete, the machine pro-
cram he must be burdened with an
other term in this important office,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

If all the inquiries that have been
received by the Commercial associa=
ton for Information about UmatiIa
county should be answered, it would
require an edition of $4,000 statisti-
cal booklets to get even, to say moth
ing of the future demands for such
information.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
ELECTRICITY at Ontario.

81 Seymour II. Bell of sumpter, who
is instituting an electric light plant
in Ontario, spent several days in the
city last week. Mr.. Bell now has a
force OF men at work putting in the
wires in the business houses and resi-
dences that are TO be lighted by his
Democrat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

The publication of Disraeli's un-
finished novel has revived some sto-
RES of the great statesman. This in
the Argcnaut:
The statesman was in love with
widow. Mrs. Wyndham Lewis. One
day. when he went to CALL the lady,
si+tinE ty the window, saw him ap-
ptoaching and ordered the servant to
say that she was not at home. When
the maid reached the hall the states
man was hanging up his overcoat.
Mrs. Lewis is not at home, sir" said
the furried maid. 81 did not ask for
Mrs. Lewis" was the calm. states
manlike reply. But I don't know
when she will be back" urged the
maid. Neither do l." philosophic
ally replied Dsraeli but I am 60
ing to wait till she comes back, so
please make me cup of tea" He
did wait he got his tea, and he mar
ried the widow.
Perhaps one of the most impress
sfve tributes ever paid Disraeli was
that OF Bismarck, who, glancing over
the crowd composed of the most brill
liant statesmen that Europe could
furnish. gathered at the Berlin con-
ference. saids 1.-THE old Jew-he's
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

John Krell, Of woodburn, Or, was
caught in the. hounds, ,.ofs, a wagon
drawn by aarllnaway team, and drag
ged 200 yards One leg was terribly
mangled and had to be amputated.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

The editor of the Salem Statesman
says he is not worrying about the
Beef Trust" but worrying to find
some butcher to trust him for his
beaf
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

Do you still ring Central as of
yore? Quitting this habit is like
learning to write the new figure in
the new year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

Catch a fellow all discouraged. trav-
el-weary, on the bum.
Just so sore on mundane living that
he longs for Kingdom Come;
He's a pessmist-the limit! He's a
crank to fare-you-well,
He's the worst the worlds encoun-
tered since the time when Adam
fell. nl
Ten to one the fellows hungry and
he's aching for a feed,
Though himself he doesn't savvy
what's his most essential need.
Treat him gently, then; entlce him
with a fatherly appeal
To assist you in demolishing
good square
meal
S. w. Gillian in Baltimore Amer
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
TE9SEszsaan
<UNoN lASlLAsES
\sS1fTiT1uSsSS$'


> Good minister, your God is I
. where?
, You come to me with book and I
, creed;
> cannot read your book; read
. Yon boundless book of open
air;
. What time or way or place
, look,
> I see God in His garden walk
, hear Him through the thun-
, ders talk
, As once He talked with burning
tongue,
, To Moses, when the world was I
young.
, Good priest. what more is in
your book?
Joaquin Miller.
? OossN .OsSs I
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18
THE PRIME sTIMULANT.

You may talk about the upllft of a
bumper with booze.
You may pirate about the benefit you
gather from a snooze;
You may gabble of the good you get
from a ruralistic rest,
And of how you flercely fatten on the
ozone from the west,
But I know a stimulation that is bet
ter than them all
Quite the finest yet discovered on
this loam-encrusted ball:
There's 10 other sort OF stimulant
imparts so much of zeal
As a healthy man can gather from a
ts good square
3" meal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18


Some seventeen miles from
Louisville. says Joseph NJ. Rogers, in
a recent Booklover, is located Mans
field, orc &c The best of she 81 ,a;er
estates of Kentucky p;c csided over BY
Colonel WattcrsorS. familjarly known
thfcIgr cut the statr as "Mar~e Hen
ry." Professionally. he is a farmer.
Perhaps you Imagine that he is an
editor, or author or lecturer or poll
tician. If So never mention the mat
ter to him. it will give him pain. The
great trial of Colonel Watterson's
life is that his friends viii not take
his agricultural pursuits seriously.
When he speaks OF irrigation, they
call for mint julep; when he expati-
ates learnedly on cabbages and king
beets. they demand Havana cigars
when. he wants to read pages of re-
ports from the department of agri-
culture. the order is, zone stack Of
blues and two of reds" Alas, he
cannot live down the past.
"Sir Walter Scott-For Scotland"
This inscription, found by traveller
IN the SueSl-DOOh VI d nOltl III bilc
Tyrol, was made by Sir Walter Scott
whe1 or that last homeward journey
tc Abbottsford, which he only reached
! t. lie, and was the inspiration for
the following lines:
| OF what avail the Rhine, the Rhone,
Venice. or Munich, or Cologne?
Story of legend-what are these
To such an one, as only sees
A valley under Galashiels,
And cannot hide the woe he feels?
That aught should hinder or delay
The whirling of his carriage wheels
And fain would travel night and day
To grind the weary miles away,
And bear him home to Scotlandl
No thought of her as stern and wild
His own gray mother, he her child
Pining afar, across the gap,
To lay him down upon her lap,
And all fever to attain
That one sure refuge of his pain
To feel beneath a Border sky
His own sweet, cooler air again;
To hear his river murmur by;
To see the heather and to die,
Sir Walter Scott-for Scotland.
TEMPLE BAR.
Tutuilla, March 12.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-18

S. w. Gillian in Baltimore Amer
lean.