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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
SHOULD ENFORCE THE LAWS
Legislation for the Glasses Might
Well Be Dispensed With by
the Administration.

Admitting for the moment that the
present interstate commerce commits
sion is to be clothed with the rate
making power, and that the plan now
before congress and imputed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt is enacted into law, it
is entirely permissible, says the New
York Sun Qnd. Rep.), to inquire
whether any adequate provision, or
any provision at all, is made therein
for the rights of labor.
Admitting that it is just and equit-
able that the rights of property should
be ignored, and that the welfare of
the savings banks and OF kindred vehi-
cles of the thrift of all the people
should be dismissed as of no concern,
is it wise TO ignore and wholly disre-
gard the wage Garner?
1t is all very well for an intelligent
press imperiously to demand cheap
coal and to advocate the hanging of a
coal operator for refusing to raise the
pay Of his miners. The principle is adj
mirable, and we are now in the full
enjoyment of it's application. That is,
we, the public, having taken a warm
and sympathetic interest in the coal
agitation, and having had a control
ling effect on its adjustment, are now
paying for the same out of our own
pockets. That this is so is perfectly
right and logical, but of argument most
improbable. When the owner of the
coal refuses to part with it unless he
is paid for it, and the man who mines
it has to have his price, the function
Of the public is to pay.
But in the case of the railroads who
lie. When Mr.. Roosevelt establishes
the rates that the public is to pay for
transportation and organized labor de-
mands more wages, where is the
money to come from? There is no
public in sight 20 pay for it's senti-
mentality in hard cash as we now pay
in hard cash for every ton of coal we
burn. Organized labor can whistle for
its wages. 1t will obviously be i'm
possible for. the railroads to comply
with labor's demands, because they
will no longer have the money at their
command. The rates which the ship
pers of freight, who in the proposed
legislation are the whole public, have
had created for their benefit. will alb
sorb all the profits of heretofore, and
there will be nothing left for the com
ing requirements of labor.
From this it must appear that the
legislation demanded by Mr.. Roose-
welt is essentially class legislation and
of a kind that will surely produce the
most embarrassing results. The men
who work for the railroads and who
depend on them for their living consti-
tute a very large class. If the public
pays the railroads 81, 900, 900 900 in the
lex IL months, 5000, 100000 of it will
go, directly or indirectly, to labor. We
do not dispute the proposition in the
light of the law or the constitution,
which all sensible men regard as obso-
lete, but we do most s~trenuously OBJ
ject on the score of eXpediency.
Would it not he more expedient to
enforce the laws we have than to fly
to others that we wot not of?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
MUST LOOK TO DEMOCRACY
The Voice of the People Was Not
stifed by Victory of
Republicans.

II any evidence was lacking that
democrats have an undisturbed faith
in their party and its principles it was
supplied by the spirit which dominated
the splendid gathering in Lafayette.
What is true of the feeling there is
true of the party membership every
where. The result in November, while
deplored, has not stit1ed the voice OF
the people nor blunted the conscience
which, when thoroughly aroused, will
bring about a better order of things.
The democratic party's opportunity is
bound to come and to come soon, and
it must be prepared to grasp it, says
the indianapolis Sentinel.
The sincere well-wishers of the pres
ident hope that he will be able to ac-
complish some of the things that have
been promised in his name. The party
of which he is the representative is in
full control of the government. 1t has
in its hands all the machinery neces-
sary to accomplish any end. The re-
publican majority in both branches Of
congress is large. The executive and
administrative departments of the gov
eminent are in republican hands.
Upon the republican party must rest
the blame for all failures to relieve the
people from the eXactions of the trusts,
the railroads and the unjustly favored
tariff beneficiaries. An honest consid-
Grafton of the country's good would
seem to guarantee proper legislation
and it's speedy enforcement. But what
do we see? Instead of decreasing the
burden of taxation it is proposed to
take from the treasury immense sums
of money and bestow them upon the
ship-owners in the form of subsidies.
Instead of effective action against the
trusts there are delays and still delays
as in the case of the packers COM
bine. Instead of taking immediate
steps to reform outrageous tariff seed
ules we have white house conferences
which are nullified by the attitude of
congress. The one who can see hope
in the republican party is certainly a
man of much faith in the faithless. 1t
is to the democratic party that the
country must look in the end, and 1t is
beginning to look that way now,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
Is was bu,y ORGANIZING ,tr,k. anon,

as | was busy organizing a strike amoni
the bellboys. | told them they could
double their wage by striking at e~xaetl,
ten O'Clock, when all the boarders want
ed cocktails sent to their rooms
They struck all right, and the break.
fast-food people had all got pumped out
and then it came my turn. Dadgave ME
a licking, the boarders kicked at me, the
landlord ordered me out of the house ant
the striking bellboys, who had theii
places filled in ten minutes, chased me al
over town, and when | got back to the
hotel dad had bought tickets to San An
tonic, because the doctors told him tc
get out on the prairies and akehorsebaeb
exercise to shake the pulverized cork
and the monkey wrench out OF his sys
TEN, and everybody threw stones at the
bus that we rode to the depot In. Gosh,
but | hate a town where genius has nc
chance against the mob element. The
worst was that oma with the false
teeth, because she lost them somewhere,
and had to hold her handkerchief over
her mouth while she called me names
when the porter took me by the collar
and the pants and flung me into the bus.
Dad told the porter, when he handed out
the regular tip that he would have
made II larger if the porter had taken
an az to ne. Dad is getting so funny he
almost makes me laugh.
well, kid, We arrived here next day,
and got acclimated before night. Dad
bought a wide gray cowboy hat, with a
leather strap for a band, and began to
pose rs a regular old rough
rider, and told everybody at the
hotel that he was going to buy
a ranch and run for congress. Ev.
erybody here is willing a northern man
should buy a ranch, but when he talks
about running for congress they look
sassy at him, but dad car look just as
sassy as anybody here. He told all
around that he was a cavalry veteran of
the war, and wanted to get a horse to
ride that would stir up his patriotic
instincts and his liver, and all his in
sides, and a real kind mar steered dad
to a livery stable, and I knew by the
way the natives winked at each other
that they were going to let him have
a horse that would %jounce him all right.
"They saddled up a real nice pony
for me. but when they led out the
horse for dad I knew that trouble was
coming. The horse was round-shoul-
dered on the back, and when they put
the saddle on the horse bumped up
and coughed most pitiful, and when
they fastened the cinch the horse
groaned and the crowd all laughed. A
negro boy asked me If my old mar
was ever on a horse before. and when
| told him int dad had eaten horses
in the army the boy said that horse
would eat him. cause he was the worst
bucker from Buckersville, in the west
ern part Of the state. | told dad the
horse was a dangerous bucker, but he
tipped his hat on one side and said
he had broken more bucking bronchos
than those Texas livery men ever saw.
Dad borrowed a pair Of these Mexican
spurs with a wheel in them as big as a
silver dollar, and the men held the
horse by the bride while dad got on,
and I must say he got on like he knew
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
A CLEAR COMPLEXION.
D. Simple Home Treatment for Black
heads, Red, Rough and oily
Skin and Dishguring
HumOrs,

If you are afflicted with pimples, black
heads, red, rough or oily skin, or disfg-
uring humors, you will find this simple
home treatment most agreeable, speedily
effective and economical. Gently smear
the face with the great emollient skin
cure, Cuticura Ointment, but do not rub.
Wash off the ointment in five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water, and
battle freely. Repeat this morning and
evening and You will soon be rewarded
with q skin soft, white and clear. Cuti.
cura Soap, the best toilet and complexion
soap in the world, assisted by Cuticura
Ointment, will preserve, purify and
beautify the complexion and keep the
skin in a healthy condition, prevent
ing ~blackheads, pimples, eruptions or the
return of eczema and other skin troubles.
Used as a shampoo it cleanses the scalp
of crusts and scales, removing dandruff
and promoting the growth of the hair.
For red rough hands, itching palms and
painful finger ends, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment achieve marvellous results, often
in a single night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
Quality Brings Success.

When in st. Louis our representative
called on the f. R. Rice Mercantile Cigar
Co., and was courteously received and
shown through their large Cigar Factory.
1t was a pleasure to see the hundreds of
~cigarmakers making all cigars absolutely
by hand, no molds or machinery used in
the factory. One of the striking features
in this factory is the fine body of work
men and the cleanliness that one sees all
through the factory. In the basement the
firm carry the Havana tobacco which they
import yearly, from Cuba direct and which
is specially selected by w. c. Schultz, who
visits the Island for that purpose, SO that
the firm not only have the very best Of
work, but they also buy the very finest
tobacco that the Island produces. After
seeing the factory one is not surprised
that many thousands of the Mercantile
are sold during the year.
This firm also manufacture a number of
f%ve-cent brands Of cigars, their leaders
being the 1906" and the agent" Our
representative asked how many $685. and
Agents" they manufactured last year,
and was told that their output on those
two brands of fve-cent cigars was over
twenty-five million. Every box of cigars
that this firm turns out has a card placed
in the same, calling the attention Of the
smoker to the fact that the house sells
their goods absolutely on a quality basis,
that they do no circus or bill board adver.
Using. give no free deals nor have any
Sthf5 Ei iSey Of cs sehe eg. n b tSe see e;sa how 50 I tSst
they will please the consumer, who does
not care for all the other items but does
want the most and best smoke he can
possibly get for his money, and the firm
stated that since they have adopted this
quality system, their trade has grown from
year to year, and while they are only
making a small profit selling goods on
such a basis. the enormous quantity that
they are turning out, is bringing them the
desired results.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

how, He asked which was the road to
Houston and we started out of town.
About the first two miles out OF
town the horse walked, and acted as
though it was going to die, and my
pony would get way ahead and have to
wait for dad and the camel to come UP.
Dad was mad because they gave him
such a slow horse.
" What are those things on your
heels for?' | says to dad. Why don't
you run the spokes into his slats?' |
said, just to be sociable.
" Never you mind me- says dad.
After | have looked at the scenery
awhile l will open the throttle on this
dromedary, and we will go and visit
the pyramids
II was a little ahead and | did not
catch dad in the act of kicking open
the throttle. but I heard something
that sounded like a freight train wreck
and dad and the horse went by me like
a horse race. only that the horse was
not on the ground half the time, and
he didn't go straight ahead, but just
lowered his head between his legs and
jumped in the air and came down stiff
legged, and then jumped sideways, and
changed ends, and did it all over again,
all over the prairie, and dad was a
sight. His eyes stuck out and his teeth
ratified and every time the horse came
down on his feet dad seemed to get
shorter as though his spine was being
telescoped up into his hat. l think dad
would have fallen off the first jump,
only hehad rammedth the spurs in amongst
the horses ribs and couldn't get them
out. Gee, but you never saw sucn ac-
lions, unless you have seen a horse go
plum crazy. The horse kept giving dad
new fancy side steps and jumps until
dad yelled to me to get a gun and
shoot him OF the horse, and he didn't
care which. l yelled to dad to loosen
up on the bride, and let the horse
run lengthways instead of sideways.
and | guess he did for the horse lit out
for some musquite trees, and before I
could get there the horse had run I'M
der a limb and scraped dad off, and
when I got there dad was lying under
a tree, trying to pray and swear all to
wonst, and his spurs were all blood and
hair, and things a horse wear on the
inside Of hisself, and the horse was
standing not far away, eating grass
and looking at dad. If dad had had his
revolver along he would have killed
the horse, but the horse seemed to
know he had been fooling with ar un-
armed man got dad righted up, and
he rode my pony to town, and I had to
lead the bucking horse, and be eat
some Of the cloth out Of my pants"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
PERTAINING TO THE DAIRY.

Milk is composed of several elements,
chief of which are milk, sugar, casein
and butterfat.
Under no circumstances will it pay to
keep a COW which is not a large mixer
and butter maker.-American Dairy.
man.
Sell the regular customers only the
finest quality of butter and the trade
will not only continue, but increase.
Arrange the approach to the stablt
door so the COWS will not slip in going
in or coming out. It will cost less than
to lose one of your best COWS.
A good steady churning is better than
to churn at too rapid a rate, whatever
be the shape Of the churn. Too much
haste leaves butter in the milk.
Keep cows comfortable, quiet and
busy eating and drinking materials to
be converted into milk. An idle or ex.
cited COW will not render satisfactory re
turns.-American Dairyman.
When buying cows for dairy herds ii
is a good plan to determine the amount
of milk given by weight. A COW that
gives a "pailful' night and morning
may be a very poor dairy animal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
LATE POLITICAL DRIFT.

Cannon thinks he has done for
tariff revision sentiment, but he kills
best who kills last.-Cedar Rapids Ga
zette.
Secretary Hill is heralded as the
greatest of diplomatists. He a get
the promises, but old Abdul Hamid OF
Turkey has them all beat in not keep
ing Observation-Disclosures Times.
Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, gets
around the necessity for action thus:
"a sentiment but no demand for tariff
revision exists" So it seems that
tweedledum and tweedledee are quite
different, after all.-Minneapolis Jour-
nal.
Secretary Of War Taft is said to
have expressed disappointment because
the public has shown so little interest
in his report. He should console him.
self with the thought that the reports
of most of his fellow cabinet officers are
equally ignored. AS a matter of fact
II the heads of the various departments
would compile for popular use concise
summaries of the main facts brought
out in their reports they might get their
read oftener.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The New York Evening Posts
poll of the first thousand Who's Who
on tariff revision is not likely to have
much effect on the cynical legislators al
Washington, thinks the Hartford Times
tdem.). Tariff revision will not come
SO long as it is merely a vague cry. We
see no evidence that the American peo-
pie are feeling very badly because they
are paying the United States Steel cor
poration a bounty Of seven dollars a
ton or more on all the steel that concern
produces. In fact, they seem to like tc
do It."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

when anybody can depend upon a boy to
do as he agrees his fortune is made. Dad
saw a new breakfast food advertised in
an eastern magazine, and, as the hotel
people only kept 30 or 40 kinds of mock
ing bird food for guests, dad made me go
out to the groceries and round up the
new kind. l brought a box to the table
at breakfast. and dad fell over himself
to fill his saucer, and then he offered
some to eight boarders that sat at our
table. Dad had been Dragging for a
week about how he had adopted the
breakfast-food fad, first for his health,
and then to get even with the beef trust.
He had convinced the boarders at our
table that it was the patriotic duty of
every citizen to shut down on eating
meat until the criminal meat trust was
ruined.
The breakfast food l put up on dad
was ONE pulverized cork that I got at
a grocery out of a barrel of California
grapes. 1t looked exactly like other
breakfast foods, but you'd a dido to see
!" ~ 5NNNAul HNoiih ooullltl wi
Onels. and two women who were at the
table, pour cream on that pulverized
cork and sprinkle sugar on it, and try
to get the pulverized cork to soak up
the cream, but the particles of cork float
ed on top of the cream and acted alive.
An old confederate colonel. who had
called dad a ~damyankee ever since we
had been there, and always acted as
though he was on the point of drawing a
gun, took the first mouthful and after
chewing it awhile he swallowed as
though his throat was sore, but he got it
down, and ordered a cocktail, and looked
mad at dad. Dad noticed that the others
were having difficulty in masticating
the food. and so he pitched in and ate his
food, and said it was the finest he had
ever tasted, but the rest of the crowd
only took a spoonful or two, and ct fruit.
One woman who was there to be cured of
the habit Of betting on the races, got the
cork in amongst her false teeth and it
squeaked when she chewed, like pulling
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
Small Chance for Revision.

Congress should act. But congress
can't. Its constitution is against it.
Congress can't legislate during the
short session because 1t is foo busy with
the appropriation bills.
1t can't legislate at an extra session
in the spring because there will be SO
many new members around, all frisky
and unmanageable.
1t cant at an extra session late in the
summer because Washington is too hot
then. Besides 1t would be too sudden.
1t can't in the early months of the
long session because the tariff needs
lots of study, and should not be pressed
too fast.
1t can't in the closing summer months
of the long session because that is so
near next election that a fresh tariff act
would set everybody topsy-turvy.-Chi-
cago Record-H Herald (Ind. Dem.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
The Bad Boy and His Dad Have
Trouble with a New Breakfast
Food-Dad Rides a Buck
ing Broncho.
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
Ex-Governor OF Wisconsin. formerly pub
Usher Of "Peck's Sun" author Of "Peek's
Bad Boy" ete,)
Copyright. 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
UCAN ANTONIO, Texas.-My Dear
- Chum: Dad and l left Hot
Springs because the man who kept
the hotel where We stopped got
preiudiced against me. l suppose
I did carry the thing a little too
far. You see dad has got into this break
fast food habit, and reads all the adver-
tlsements that describe new inventions
Of breakfast food, and has got himself so
worked up over the bran mash that he is
losing his appetite for anything substan-
tial, and he is getting weak and nutty.
Ma told me when went away with dad
that she wanted me to try my best to
break dad of the breakfast-food habit,
and l promised to do.it. Say, kid, if you
ever expect to succeed in life, you have
got to establish a reputation for keeping
your promises. Truth is mighty, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

q cork out of a beer bottle. They all
seemed to want to please dad, and so
they munched away at the cork, until the
woman with the false teeth had to leave
the table, then a colonel went out, and
then all quit the table except dad and l.,
and by that time dad felt as though he
had swallowed a life preserver. and he
said to me:
Hennery, either the baths or the
climate or something has upset me. and
feel as though your dad was not very
long for this world. Before | die | want
you to confess 10 me what that stuff is
that have been eating, and | can die in
peace!'
4 told him that he had wanted a light
breakfast, and I thought there was moth
Ing quite so light as cork, and that he
was full clear to the muzzle with pulver-
lied cork, and he couldn't sink any more
when he took a bath. Dad turned pale
and we went out in the Office and found
that all the people who sat at our table
and ate breakfast food were in the hands
OF doctors, and dad went in the room
with them, and each had q doctor. and
how they got 1t out Of them | don't know.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
The Woodpecker.

The woodpecker finds the cooling
moth agreeable to his digestion. Just
now he is out after the 0 that are
hidden under the scales Of bark. He
finds them, too, even though he has to
make a hole in the bark for them. IRE.
move the loose bark below the snow
line; the birds will take carr Of tho In
sects above" says an authority on th
subject FARMERS Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
E~AsILY-MADE BARREL SLED.

runners, says a Michigan farmer in
Farm and Home, are made of two-by.
six-inch pieces. The cross-pieces, a,
are two-inch boards mortised into
runners to give added strength. To
prevent the barrel from moving off
the sled in passing over uneven
ground, blocks are cut from two-by-
four pieces and Joined on the cross
pieces of the sled in such a way that
they will fit snugly about the bottom
OF the barrel. The longer blocks
should be hewn or sawed out to make
a neat-fitting job. This sled is very
useful about the farm where light
hauling not requiring more than one
horse is done.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND Ice.
and they will send you their big plant and
seed c~atalog, together with enough seed
to grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 rich, juicy Turnips,
1900 blanching, nutty Celery,
1900 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
In all over 10000 plants-this great offer
is made to get you to test their warranted
vegetable seeds and
ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them 26c in postage, they
will add to the above a big package Of
Salzer's Fourth of July Sweet Corn--the
earliest on earth-l0 days earlier than
Cory, Peep o Day, First Of All, etc. TX. L.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
A BARREL SLED.
Most Convenient Method Of Hand
ling Water or Slop on
the Farm.

1t is often desirable to have such a
sled as shown in the cut handling bar.
rels Of water or slop. One of the ad,
vantages of this sled is that lifting is
avoided. The sled I have is about
five feet long and four feet wide. The
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09
Ealaa Rennrf

II have been told" said Mrs. 0ldcastle,
that your daughter has been doing some
wonderful things in typography"
'0h, no." replied her hostess, "she
amt been there at all. The last letter
we had from her she was in Pittsburg,
and thought she'd go right through to
Washington Chicago Record Herald.