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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

stonecutter's tool, for the work was
done clearly, and the several crosses
lay on the ground beside the tomb
stones. On one stone the cross cut
ON the face Of the stone had been
hacked out.
In a corner Of the little cemetery a
wooden cross erected over the grave OF
a homesteader who had left too little
for the erection Of a marble gravestone,
had been broken down and the crossbar
wrenched from the upright.
Practically every grave in the ceme-
terry was marred In some such manner.
The Protestant cemetery across the road
was untouched.
The vandalism angered the settlers,
but the next night, SO miles away, in
Oconto county, another Catholic burying
ground was visited and the work at
Pound repeated. The authorities were
unable to find that any stranger had
been in the vicinity or either place.
After the wreck at Pound and Stiles.
there wes little surnrjse when the. Cath
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

rounded up, don't forget my number,
cause l can knock the spots out of any
animal except a giraffe The crowd
cheered pa again and he got down off
the elephant, took off his fire extin-
guisher, and handed Bolivar a piece of
rag carpet, and said: Eat it, you old
catamaran, or I'll kill you" and
Bolivar was so scared of pa he eat
the carpet, which shows the power of
brain over avordupois, pa says.
The regular keeper of Bolivar heard
he was on the rampage, and he came
back on the run to conquer him, after
pa had got him back in the tent, but
Bolivar looked at him with a faraway
look in his eyes, as much as to say:
Seems to me | have met you some
where before, but a new king has been
crowned" and he took his old keeper
by the back of his coat and threw him
toward the monkey cage. The mon
keys gave the keeper the laugh, and
Bolivar put his trunk lovingly on
pas shoulder, and seemed to say: "Old
man, you are it, from this time out"
Pa looked proud, and the old keeper
looked sick. The people in the show
are going to present pa with a loving
cup, and l guess he can run the menag-
erie part Of the show.
When the freaks heard Of pas brav-
cry, the fat woman and the bearded
lady wanted to hug pa, but pa waved
them away, and said he liked the ele.
plant business best.
May I'll used to think that II
could belong to a circus, and go away
with 1t when 1t left the town | lived in
that 1t would be pretty near going t.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
The Insurance Business.

Concerning the management Of mod
ern insurance companies, d. P. Kings
ley, writing in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews. says: The real
question is: NV 1t does a company
! get for the mo.4y 1t spends? II a
company spends rs per cent, of its
income in a year, and gets in return q
large, well-selected business, done I'm
der reasonable contracts with agents.
it has done we'll, it is growing-grow
ing both in strength and usefulness.
If a company spends IS per cent. OF
its income annually, and gets a very
| small business, done under extrava-
| CANT contracts and h%aphazard manage
ment, it has not done well-it is not
| growing, either in strength or useful
ness. If a company spends only ten
per cent. Of its income annually, that
fact alone is almost conclusive proof
that it is passing into a condition of
hamilton and relative uselessness.
The little business that such a com
pany does is likely to be done at a
heavier cost than the business done by
a company with a yirile organization
Sound organization generally means
economy; success breeds success. A
just study Of expenses must include
a consideration Of what expenditure
brings. In the great companies, 1t has
brought enormous development, the
widest usefulness, the vigor of an al.
most Unreasonable strength, and re-
turns to the insured which with prof.
er allowance for the cost of indemni )
surpass the returns realized during the
same time on conservative invest
ments. The ratio under discussion il
higher here than abroad, because o.
the larger relative volume Of business
done here. 1t is higher now than !
was 80 years ago, chiefly because O
the greater activities Of the com
panies, their rapid growth and increas
ing usefulness through the acquisi
tinp If new business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

Chicago.-Residents of the cities
and villages of northern Wisconsin
and the upper peninsula of Michigan
can once more rest in peace. The fear
that for months has been haunting
them that they might awake to find
the tombstones erected to the memory
of their departed loved one buried in
their local cemeteries wrecked, has
vanished, for the mysterious cross
smasher has been captured.
The arrest of the vandal has brought
to light a tragic story of Kazo Kali
mir, whose love for a girl in Hungary
took him from the priesthood and of
his loss of the girl through his deser-
ton Of the church she loved more
than him.
Two months ago a little cemetery
at Pound, Marinette county, on the
northern tier of the counties of Wis
cousin, was visited by a vandal. One
morning the visit of the grave-diggers
disclosed a wreck.
Crosses on tombstones had been
hammered off, apparently by some
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14


May I've had the worst time at
Akron last week and pa proved himself
a hero, though he was swatted good by
the rogue elephant before he got his
second wind and went for the animal.
We have a male elephant that is al
most human, cause he gets on a tear
about once a month, like a regular
ugly husband. You can't tell when
his mind is in condition for running
amuck, but suddenly he Will whoop
like a drunken man, strike his poor
patient wife over the back with his
trunk and grab her tail and try to
pull it out by the roots, and jump up
and crack his heels together like a
drunken shoe maker, and below as
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
Capture of Insane Vandal Re.
veals Tragic Love Story.
BLAMED CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR HIS TROUBLES
Tilted by Sweetheart His Mind Gives Way
Takes Revenge by Wrecking Gravestones
in Cemeteries of Northern Wisconsin
and Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Lynching Threatened.

Ollie cemetery at Oconto Falls, Oconto
county, was also raided.
Lynching Threatened.
There began to be wild talk OF a lynch
ing party when the cross-smasher was
captured. The night after the Oconto
Falls visitation, D. G. Classon, a lawyer,
of Oconto, found a note under his door,
reading:
"YoA will soon be called upon to de-
fend one who has revenged the political
activity of the Catholic church upon
that church"
The note contained a series Of Scrip
tural illusions about overthroWing the
mammon of unrighteousness. Lawyer
Classon, who was formerly secretary of
state of Wisconsin, paid no attention to
the note beyond announcing in the news
papers that he did not take up cases
presented to him in that way.
Secret Society Suspected.
The authorities of all the northern
counties began to watch for mysterious
strangers in carriages, also for religious
cranks. 1t was finally believed that the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

first. and Bolivar actually seemed TO
laugh. Bolivar run One of his tusks
through a barrel of gasoline, and it
run out on the street car track, ant an
electric spark set it on fire, and the
fire department turned out, but the
engines had to all go around Bolivar,
cause he wouldn't bulge an inch, but
seemed to say: Let 'er rip, boys;
this is the Fourth of July"
The circus men began 10 come with
ropes and club, to tie Bolivar and
throw him, but he escaped into a side
street and watched the engines put out
the fire, and he swung around with his
trunk and his tusks and wouldn't let
anyone come near him but pa with the
hook, and he seemed to enjoy the prod
ding. but | guess that gave him cour-
age to keep on doing things.
The principal proprietor of the show
came along, and when he saw pa WITH
watermelon and bluing water all oveI
him, and pe%rspiration rolling down his
face, he said to pa: why don't you
take your elephant back to the lot
cause the afternoon performance is
about to begin" and that made pa
mad, and he said: "You go on witt
your afternoon performance, and
will have Bolivar there all right" ant
then everybody laughed, but pa knew
what he was about.
Pa dropped his hook and went to {
hose cart and took a Babcock extin
guisher and strapped it on his bacl
and went up to Bolivar, who was tip
ping over some dummies in front o
a clothing store, and pa said: Boil
a you lay down" but Bolivar threw
a seven-dollar suit of clothes at pa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
Self-Derendence.

Many a man has tried to justify his
failure on the ground that he was
doomed by the cards which tate dealt
him, that he must pick them up anu
play the game, and that no effort, how
ever great, on his part, could material
ly change the result. But, my young
friend, says Orison SWEET Marsden Ill
Success Magazine, the fate that deals
your cards is in the main your own
resolution. The result of the game
does not rest with fate or destiny,
but with you. You will take the trick
il you have the superior energy, aplll'
ty and determination requisite to take
it. You have the power within your
self to change the value of the cards
which, you say, fate has dealt you.
The game depends upon your Train.
ing, upon the way you are disciplined
to seize and use your opportunities,
and upon your ability to put grit in
tho place of superior advantages.
Just because circumstances do some
times give clients to lawyers and pa
tents to physicians, put commonplace
clerygymen in uncommon pulplts, and
place the sons of rich at the head OF
great corporations even when they
have only average ability and scarce
ly any experience, while poor youths
with greater ability and more expert
ence often have to fight their way
for years to obtain ordinary situa'
tions, are you justified in starting out
without a chart or in leaving a place
for luck in your programme? Wha,
would vol think of the captain OF 0
great liner who would start out to sea
without any port in view, and truss
to luck to land his precious cargo
safely? Did you eve know or
strong young man making out his life
programme and depending upor
chance to carry out any part OF It
Men who depend upon Tuck do MOI
think 1t worth while to make a thor
ough preparation for success. They
are not willing to pay the regula'
price for it. They are looking fo1
bargains. They are hunting for shor'
cuts to success. Power gravitates t.
the man who knows how. Luck Il
the tide, nothing more. The stroni
man rows with 1t If 1t makes towart
his port; he rows against it II 1t flow
the other way"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

"Mr. Einstein, | gone to ask for
Rebecca's hand"
It'd Is yours, Ikey."
DO te diamond rings on It 80 nit
1t, Mr.. Einstein?'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
CRISIS OF GIRLHO0D
A TIME OF PAIN AND PERIL
MES Emma Cole Says that Lyoia y
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound nae
Saved Her Life and Made Her Wen

How many lives OF beautiful young
GIRLS have been sacrificed just as they
were ripening into womanhoodl How
many Irregularities or displacemeats
have been developed at this important
period, resulting in years of suffering
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

It's a mans shortcomings that keep him
short.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

A great deal of our Wanted education ID
more ornamental than useful.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
By HON. R ". PECK

The Rogue Elephant Creates a Panic
and Pa Proves Himself a Hero
The Bad Boy Gets Scolded for
"Peing Tough"-He Finds That
Audiences Like Accidents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

We know nothing quite so sad as an old
maid trying to appear kittenish, unless
it is an old man who thinks he is a lady
killer.-Chicago Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

When friends urge you to come and see
them ANY time" it requires some hgur-
ing to find out just when that time is.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

Ole cemetery at Oconto Falls, Oconto
county was also raidpd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

Climate splendid, school convenient, railways
close at hand, taxes low.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27

Chicago and other ports after he
reached his twentieth year, served in
the Twelfth Illinois Infantry during
the Civil War and moved to Kansas
in 1878, opening farm six miles from
Medicine Lodge, in Barbour County.
Advance in politics was rapid-from
Republicanism to Greenbackism and
then to Populism. AS Populist he
was elected to Congress in 1890 and
served four years. A second election
came to him in 1897, when he served
two years.
Of late years he had given his ener-
gies to promoting land and irrigation
schemes for New Mexico, the dry eli
mate of the territory benefting his
health and the undeveloped resources
inviting the capital of himself and
friends. He was strong advocate
OF statehood for New Mexico.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
Good News for All.

Bradford, Tenn, Oct. 23.-(speciai)
Scientific research shows Kidney
Trouble to be the father OF SO many
diseases that news Of discovery OF
a s1re cure for it cannot fail to be
welcomed all over the country. And
according to Mr.. ]. A. Davis of this
place just such cure is found in
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr.. Davis says:
"Dodds Kidney Pills are all that Is
claimed for them. They have done
me more good than anything | have
over taken. 1 had Kidney Trouble
very bad and after taking few boxes
of Dodds Kidney Pills | am com
pletely cured. 1 cannot praise them
too much"
kidney Complaint develops into
Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Diabetes,
Rheumatism and other painful and
fatal diseases. The safeguard Is to
cure your kidneys with Dodd's Kidney
Pills when they show the first symp-
tom of disease.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
BANK SCANDAL is BIG.
Political Loans Are Said to Have Ruin
ed the Pennsylvania Institution.

POl1t1cal Loans Are SAID TO Have KUHN"
ed the Pennsylvania Institution.
Startling developments have followed
the investigation of the Enterprise Ma
tional Bank at Allegheny City, Pa,
which closed the other day. Names of
several prominent citizens active in
State politics have become more deeply
involved in the scandal. Subsequent
events are expected to be far more SEN
sational than the suicide of T. Lee Clark,
cashier of the bank.
This bank, which had on deposit $780,
900 of State funds, has failed. Accord
ing to the president of the bank, who
calls himself a dummy president"
NEARLY 100000 of the 100000 is out
on paper of State politicians" Consid-
cradle of the money was loaned to carry
out a railroad deal which promised large
profits. 1t fell through with much loss
to those engaged in it.
The practice Of placing State moneys
where politicians could use them for
speculative purposes and private gain is
one of long standing in Pennsylvania.
The funds are deposited in bank or
banks whose officers understand their
business and make loans to the politi-
clduS WHO are III the IllS WITHOUT Scfu-
tinizing too closely the security they give.
There have been occasions when this
method of doing business came near
proving disastrous to all concerned. I'm
successful speculation put in peril the
funds of the State and threatened I'M
pleasant consequences for those respon-
sible for their safe keeping. The pitch
er has gone once too often to the WE'LL
and much explaining will have to be
done by somebody.
The politicians are using their utmost
efforts to throw all the blame on the
dead cashier. Directors of the bank de-
clare Senator Penrose had a $75, 900 note
in the bank, but it is understood the
latter denies it.
A rapid inquiry is being made into
Cashier Clark's personal affairs. He
was estimated to have been worth $780,
900, but his friends say that he sank
all his assets in an attempt to reim-
burse the bank and that his suicide fol-
lowed his failure to stem the tide.
Clark's friends believe that investi-
cation will show that he leaves no prop
erty and that he had given the bank all
he had after his own bad investments
were cared for. They declare he was
ruined by business associates and that
it will be found he is defaulter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
GALE ON THE LAKES.
heath AND a RECORD LOSS IN
FIERCE WIND.
Lives and Hundreds of Thousands "a
Dollars Are Cost of Terrific HUT
ricane - Fatal Wreck Or CieS0
Michigan Shore Is Swept.

Death and destruction resulted 1ron
one of the fercest gales that ever
swept the lower lakes, which lasteu
for twelves hours Thursday and Ell
dav Hundreds Of thousands OF do--
lars worth of property has been lost.
Crinpled vessels sought refuge IN chi
cago harbor, and at every other lake
port. Many wrecks were reported.
The east shore of Lake Michigan
suffered severely, dock property Wortn
thousands of dollars being swept away
at st. Joseph, South Haven, Holland
Grand Haven, and Muskegon. Heavy
waves bombarded the coast, and the
Perre Marquette bridge, spanning the
st. Joseph River near it's mouth, seem
ed in danger of being swept away.
Summer resort property has been de-
stroyed. At least two sailors lost their
lives in the wreck of the steamer Sarah
r. Sheldon off Lorain, Ohio. The hur-
ricane is one Of the worst in recent
years, and it is believed shipping In
terests will be fortunate if many more
wrecks are not reported.
Three vessels that made port at Chi
cago came in badly disabled. The AL
Williams of Sheboygan was crippled
to such extent that Capt. Charles Car
land and his crew at the life-saving
station prepared to go to the aid of the
boat, but a tug reached the vessel and
toWed it into the harbor. Its canvas
was torn into bits, it's masts broken,
and it showed the battering Of the
storm in other ways The schooner
Kate Lawrence, from Fort River, and
the schooner Lotus, from Menominee,
both lumber vessels, got in with diff
Guilty, badly damaged.
The storm damaged portions Of the
sea wall along the Chicago north shore,
and washed out huge chunks of the
bluffs north of Evanston
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
6HG2ezz 8
COLLEGES

Chicago's average salary for element
airy teachers is 1923 per annum.
There is a great scarcity of country
teachers in western New York.
Kansas City has heightened her public
school term from nine to ten months.
Alexander Ribot is a candidate for the
place of Audiffret- Pasquier in the
French Academy.
Nearly 5000 new teachers are requir-
ed in Michigan each year to keep the
quota of $1,000 full.
Uniform examinations in Ohio will
hereafter be prepared by the State
school commissioners.
Alois Riehl, professor of philosophy
at the University of Berlin, has for a
motto, "Back to Kant
There are sixty-one male principals in
New York City who have averaged more
than twenty-five years as professional
teachers in that city.
Chicago puts larger per cent of the
operating expenses Of her schools into
salaries than does Philadelphia, Boston.
st. Louis or Baltimore
Mary Wiles of UniontoNn, Pa. has
the distinction of having attended public
school every day for thirteen consecu-
tive years. She has never been tardy
single time, and no teacher has ever
found it necessary to reprimand her for
any cause whatever
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
ODD CASE OF RABIES.
COMES FROM DOG BITE OF THIR.
TEEN YEARS AGO.
Young Woman Of New York EXcites
Interest of Physicians by Illness of
Epi1eptic Hysteria-State Department
Gives Advice to Cuba.

Apparently suffering from rabies as
the result of dog bite thirteen years
ago. Amanda Jones, aged u, was taken
from her home in New York to hos
pital and she will probably be sent to
Bellevue for further observation Of one
cf the most extraordinary cases in the
experience of the physicians. According
to her family the patient when IA years
old was bitten on both hands by a dog,
but the wounds were cauterized and no
i'll effects appeared until last June, when
she suddenly developed all the usual
symptoms of hydrophObia and became so
violent that the combined strength of
four men could hardly keep her in re-
straint. She recovered from this attack
and was in good health until a week
ago, when the spell required. Removed
to a hospital, she apparently recovered,
but later the same symptoms reappeared.
Foaming at the mouth and barking like
a dog, the young woman rushed about
the apartments, wrecking furniture and
attempting to injure every one who APP
preached her. She was controlled only
by the use of Opiates. The physicians
are inclined to believe that the disease
is a kind of epiieptic hysteria, itself a
rare occurrence.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
Fish that Change Color.

Among the curious observations
made by students at the Bermuda Bio
logical Station is that some of the in
habitants of the water there are able
to initiate the color of the rocks and
reefs among which they swim. The
common fish called the grouper pos
sess this power. It's chromatic yaria-
bility runs through a considerable
range of colors. A specimen of the
octopus vulgaris, after jerking an oar
from the hand of an inquisitive nat
uralist, escaped pursuit by it's ability
to initiate the exact shade of any
brown or gray neck on which it rest
ed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27
THE SECRET OF YOUTH.

De Soto looked for the secret Of
youth in spring Of gushing, life-giv-
ing waters, which he was sure he
would find in the New World. Alchem-
lists and sages thousands of them)
have spent their lives in quest of il,
but it is only found by those happy
people who can digest and assimilate
the right food which keeps the physi-
cal body perfect that peace and COM
fort are the sure results.
A remarkable man of "a says: "For
many long years | suffered more or
less with chronic costiveness and pain
full Indigestion. This condition made
life great burden to me, as you may
well imagine.
Two years ago l began to use
Grape-Nuts as food, and am thankful
that did. It has been a blessing to
me in every way. / first noticed that
1t had restored my digestion. This was
a great gain, but was nothing to com
pare in Importance with the fact that
In a short time my bowels were re-
stored to free and normal action.
The cure seemed to be complete:
for two years I have had none of the
old trouble. I use the Grape-Nuts food
every morning for breakfast and fire.
quently eat nothing else. The use has
made me comfortable and happy, and
although / will be "a years old next
fall | have become strong and supple
again, erect in figure and can walk
with anybody and enjoy it." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich. There's a reason
Read the little book, THE Road to
MELVILLE" in every package.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27

oENA1OS fOL1oN' having Deon con-
victed of criminal acts in connection with
the government lands in the Northwest.
The three whose seats will be vacant
are Senator John H. Mitchell, Repre-
sentative Binger Herman and Repre-
sentative Charles n. Williamson.
Senator Fulton was born in Lima, O.,
Aug. "a, 1858, and moved to Iowa,
where the family lived Is years. There
he was educated. Next the family NOV
ed to Nebraska, where the future Sem
ator studied law at Pawnee City. He
also taught school, In 1875 he landed
in Oregon taught school for a while
and then began the practice of law
Within three years after entering the
State he was a Senator in the Legisla-
ture. Later he was city attorney Of
Astoria and then returned to the State
Senate for several terms, being presi-
dent part of the time. He succeeded
Joseph Simon in the United States SEN
ate in 1908