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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25
THE INTEGRITY OF CHINA.
Celestial Empire May Possibly Pass
Through Egypt's Expe-
riences.

In the preamble of the new treaty be-
tween Great Britain and Japan it is rep
resented that one of it's objects is the
preservation of the independence and in
tegrity of the Chinese empire. To ac--
complish this end the two powers agree
to cooperate, says the San Francisco
Chronicle, There is something ana
Joyous in this agreement to the dual con-
troll which England and France estab-
lished over the finances of Egypt with
the consent of the European powers,
owing to the mismanagement and ex-
travagances of Ismail pasta, who had
been forced to abdicate in favor of his
son, the present khedive, and the belief
that the Egyptians were incapable of
managing their own affairs, which was
undoubtedly true. But this assumption
OF a dual control of the Egyptian
finances resulted ultimately in the
British occupation of the country,
through the backing out Of France
when it became necessary to en-
ploy military force to restore order,
and its COMPARISON practically after
ward into a British province.
There can be no reasonable doubt
that Japan is quite as DESTROYS of ex.
plotting China as Britain was OF
dominating Africa when she acquired
control Of the Suez canal. and under.
took the conquest of the Soudan.
Japan has a footing in China already,
and, under the terms of the treaty
o. peace with Russia, a rretext for re-
naming in that part of Manchuria
now in her military possession for a
period of Is months after the ratlfca,
ton Of the convention. China evil
IDENTIFY understands the ambitions of
her enterprising and adventurous
neighbor. She does not welcome
the prospect of either Japan or
Russia making a %protracted stay
on her soil. But Japan has set
herself up as China's protector, Just
as England did in Egypt, and the op.
p~ortunity may present itself for her
to manifest Ter intention to continue
the protectorate, IL need be, by the OK.
ercise OF force, as the British entered
on the permanent protectorate OF
Egypt through the bombardment Of
Alexandria. The analogy may, at that
point in the history of events, be
strengthened by the refusal of Eng.
land to cooperate with Japan in as.
Stunning control Of China's affairs or
the occupation of Der territory, al
France declined to take part in the
Egyptian campaign. China's inca.
pacity for self-government is so con.
spicuous. and official dishonesty is so
rampant, that IL would doubtless be a
boon to the country should the man
agement Of its affairs pass under Jap
anese control, for they are likely, in
such an event, to administer the gov
eminent honestly in self.intsrss.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25
CHAPTER XVI.
RELATES THE EVENTS THROUGH
WHICH A BIRD IN THE HAND BE-
CAME TWO IN THE BUSH.

RELATES THE EVENTS THROUGH
WHICH A BIRD IN THE HAND BE-
CAME TWO IN THE BUSH.
Week after week followed with
dreams Of home, of green fields and
trees and brooks, ~interspersed with
glimpses Of sad, patient, sympathetic
faces of nun and the rustling Of their
holy garments, which seemed like the
sound of angels wings, and Renee
awakened to a realization that the
former were but dreams and the rest
full assurance that the latter were al
ways near to comfort and protect her.
Some spoke of ship fever contracted
on the voyage during which two MEM
bers of the crew had died, notwith-
standing the fact that she had been
ashore a full month before falling i'll.
Others shook their heads and whis-
pered something about a strange dis
ease lately found among the Indians,
that seized upon the mind az well al
the body. All agreed that it would
need every effort to strengthen the
weakened frame and renew the brain
that seemed to rally most tardily. In
reality it was the double blow of the
news of her lovers unfaithfulness, and
the sight of the mar she feared and
whom she believed to be dead. coming
as 1t did after the fatigue Of her long
voyage and close confinement of her
stuffy cabin, that proved too great a
shock to the rvo system Of the
young girl.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

thought he vas at a banquet, and he
said that sauterne is not at to drink"
Then when the bearded woman
yelled that the fire had almost reached
her whiskers, and would nobody save
her, ps began to get ready TO 10 on,
cause he concluded he hadn't been
riding a goat after all, and he told me
To hand him his pants. Pa is a man
that will never go out among people,
no matter how dark the night is, with
out his pants, and ! admire him for
it. Some of the circus men didn't care
for dress that night, but got out just
as they were, and the result was that
when daylight came they had to tie
hay around their legs.
Our car was bottom-side up, but |
found pas pants, and he got his legs
in, and buttoned him in, but I felt
all the time as though I had buttoned
them in the back, SO the seat was in
front. but the fire was cracking, and
pa pushed me out Of a transom, and
then he crawled out, and We sat down
in the mud.
The bearded woman came next, with
her whiskers done up in curl papers.
and then the fat woman got one foot
through the transom, and she couldn't
get it back in, and the train hands got
an AK and were going to cut her leg
off, and save one foot, at least, when
pa got a move on him, and took the
ax and broke out the side of the car,
and got her out. Eight or nine men
lifted her tenderly onto a stack of hay,
and she wrapped it around her, cause
she left her clothes in her berth.
Well, it vas a sight when the people
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

were got out of our car, and they
let it burn. to light up the scene, and
pa and I and the boss canvasman went
along the ditched train, and helped
people out. The giant was in two
upper berths, and he got n leg cut
of the transom over one berth, and one
leg out of the transom over the other
berth, and we pulled his legs, but he
couldn't make it, SO pa took the AK
and made both berths into one, and
got him out.
The giant shook himself and start
ed on a run across the marsh, but
he mired up to his neck, and a farm
er who heard the noise came to order
us off his hay field for t~respass, and
yelled: Here's a head of some of
your performers cut off away over
here" and he was going to bring it in,
when the farmer found the head was
alive, and he a away from 1t.
In an hour we had everybody out,
and made beds for them by spreading
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

Henri de Tonti, and he occupies a pc
sition next to that of the leader. Had
he remained in Quebec | should have
considered it my duty to warn you of
him, for a more dangerous person for
a young girl to meet l cannot imagine.
He behaved scandalously here, coquet.
ting with all the women of the place.
1t is a pity; they say he has a wife
and child he abandoned in Paris. We
women are so weak that it would be
small wonder if some of us were to
believe the honeyed words spoken by
n who. l will admit, is so handsome,
gallant, and possessed of 10 winning
a manner"
Renee, pale and agitated, made her
needle fly faster as her companion rat
tied on. She dreaded what the woman
would say next, yet longed for her to
proceed.
He will never come back here, I
know continued Madame BLIZZARD, "for
he ought to know that my husband
would shoot him down the instant he
arrived. Yes" she went on, as she
saw Renee give a start, che even tried
his wiles on me. the miscreant! OF
course, one cannot blame a mar for
desiring to be friendly, and for seek
ing the acquaintance of a woman of
my position, who, although / repeat
it myself, is said to be at least pas
SADLY g%ood-looking. He should, how
ever, have paid attention to the ordi-
nary proprieties Of civilized people.
and should not have so outraged my
feelings of wifely honor and womanly
pride by actually making love to me,
and the night before his departure urg-
ing me to flee with him to the wilder
ness"
An exclamation from Renee inter
rupted her, and she saw that the girl
had pricked her finger with her needle
and stained the fabric she was working
with a drop Of blood.
There is a man." the woman CON
tinued, much to Renee's relief, "who
has all of his virtues and none of his
faults, who came on the same ship
with you; | wonder you did not see
him. He is called lie Comte,' and is
staying with the %intendant. l have met
him several times when at the palace
and have seen him in the distance
while walking. I want you to meet
him. M. lie Gouverneur will not OBJ
ject to your receiving a friend of the
intendant. I have in fact invited him
to call, and, mon Dieu!" she cried
with a blush of pleasure as she glanced
out of the window, there he is coming
to the house this moment" Renee
looked in the direction pointed out to
her and saw the figure Of a young man
approaching. He lifted up his face
toward the window; the sunlight
smote it. Renee uttering a cry Of ter
ror fell back in a swoon. She had
recognized the Comte de Miron.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

out hay cocks, and nobody seemed to
be hurt so very much. We heard a To-
connective whistle up the road, and
some one said the relief train was
coming with doctors and nurses, but
the show owner who was with III
said: Relief doctors, nothing. That
is a train-load of lawyers and claim
agents to settle with us. The doc
tors will not come till tomorrow.
Now, everybody pretend to be hurt
awful bad, and strike the sharks for
$4,000 apiece, and come down to 500,
If you can't do any better"
1t was getting daylight, and the re-
lief train stopped, and the good Sa-
maritans came wading into the nay
marsh, bent on settling with us cheap.
The first lawyer asked the principal
owner how many were killed, cause
they could figure exactly how much
they have to pay for a dead ona, but
the live ones are the ones that make
trouble for a railroad, cause they can
kick and argue. The boss said nobody
was dead, but the giant, who was
mired in out of sight. The giant
heard what was said, and he yelled
that he was alive, and wouldn't settle
for less than $40, 900, but the claim agent
said the giant would be dead in Is
minutes in that quicksand, SO he would
let him sink, and pay for him as a
dead one.
The giant said if they would pull
him out of the mud he would settle
for 500. and they pulled him out,
and the rest of the injured we're going
to mob him for settling so cheap.
One Of the claim agents found the
bearded woman sitting on a hay cock,
combing out her whiskers. and asked
what 1t would take to settle, and she
said $4,000. and she got up and walked
over to another hay cock where the
Circassian beauty was drying her
hair, and the claim agent looked at
how spry the bearded woman walked,
and he said to the boss: Il won't give
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

an hour, on a hippity-hop railroad in
Pennsylvania, and the night was hot,
and the mosquitoes from across the
line in New Jersey were singing their
solemn tunes, and pa, who attended a
lodge meeting that night at the town
we showed in, was asleep and talking
in his sleep about passwords and
grips, and the freaks and trapeze per-
formers in u car had got through
kicking about how the show was run
ming into the ground. when suddenly
there was a terrific smash-up ahead,
an engine boiler exploded, a freight
car OF dynamite on a side track ex-
ploded, and there vas a grinding and
humping Of the cars. Then they rolled
DOWN a bank, owe and over, so the
upper berth was the lower berth half
the time, and finally the whole bust
ness stopped in a hay marsh, and the
filge water in the marsh leaked into
the hole of our car; people screamed,
and some one yelled "fire!" and l
pulled on pa till he woke up.
Il thought pas head was all caved
In, because he talked nutty. The
first thing he said was: Say /, pro-
nounce your name, and repeat after
me-" and then he said: II promise and
swear that l will never reveal the Sc
crets Of this degree" and then the con-
ductor pulled pas leg and said:
Crawl out Of the window, old man,
cause the train is in the ditch, the
a is afire, and If you don't get out in
about a minute with the other freaks,
you will be a burnt Offering"
Pa said you couldn't fool him, cause
be knew he was being initiated into
the 20-steenth degree of the masons,
and he guessed he could tell a
degree from a train wreck, cause the
degree was a darn sight worse than
a wreck, but the conductor took one of
those long glass fire extinguishers and
sprinkled the medicated water on the
freaks in the next berth, and then
turned 1t on pa, and pa tasted II, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

a swindler. Renee listened earssrfy, mo-
daring to question her companion
closely, fearing lest the sound of the
beating OF her heart would be over
heard; and bent her face low over her
work or turned away her head that the
glow on her cheek might not disclose
the fact that her interest in the sub
ject was other than that of a stranger.
Finally, n day she essayed to make
some Inquiry as to the personnel O.
the party. Madame BLIZZARD, whose fund
of local gossip was low at the mo-
ment, quickly branched off into a full
description of the chief members of
the enterprise.
There was n young man, ma
chere," she said, who deserves to be
eaten by the savages. His name is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25
ITO Be C%ontinued.l
HeroicaIlx Full.

Two men had dined together, ana
after dinner had sat too long owe
their coffee, their liquor, their brandy,
and so on. When It came time for them
to 60 home, they we're in a very bad
way. Helpless, in fact. They leaned
on m another going with linked
arms, but each, as a reed to lean on,
was rotten. FINALLY they fell, and,
with a loud splash, they rolled into a
full gutter. A police officer appeared
and grabbed the upper man by the col
lar. mo, no. Save my friend. Never
mind me. I can swim."-San Antonio
Express
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

1t has come at last.
Everybody about the show expects
that the show has got to have a rail-
road wreck every season, and all
hands lay awake nights on the cars
to brace themselves for the shock.
Sometimes it comes early in the sea-
son, and again a show goes along till
almost the end Of the season without
a shake-up, and fellows think maybe
there is not going to be any wreck,
but the engineers are only waiting till
everybody has forgotten about it, and
then, biff, bang, and they have run
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25
THE PEOPLE ARE AROUSED
Violators OF Antitrust Laws Are
Being Taken Into
Court.

Grand juries are waking up all over
the country and indicting trusts who
have violated the state antitrust laws.
At Napoleon, O., the grand jury has re.
turned Is indictments against Ohio
bridge corporations for conspiracy to
prevent competition.
"The companies are charged with
forming a combination to. keep I'D
prices, and it is asserted that they have
had the counties completely at their
mercy on work done. The state, 1t is
claimed, has been divided into districts
by the bridge combine and certain com.
panies assigned to certain districts.
thereby killing all competition on
bridge work"
This shows that the honest citizens
OF Ohio are determined to root out
monopoly that Republican ring rule
has SO firmly fastened upon them, but
they will never succeed, except par
TALLY, until they elect senators and
congressman who will vote to reform
the tariff that gives these bridge and
other combines the opportunity to
charge such unreasonable profits. The
tariff Is the mother of trusts and COM
'bines and as long as the people Of Ohio
continue to elect their Dicks, Foraker
and G%rosvenors, who are notorious in
Washington as corporation advocates
and stand patters, they will continue
to be p%lundered by the trusts and cor-
porations.
The result OF the late election in
Ohio and elsewhere and the action of
The grand jury above noted are hope
ful signs Of reform that will turn the
rascals out and then there will be a
square deal between the corporations
and the people of Ohio and the other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

Speaker Cannon and his brother
stand patters should be called stand
parrots, for they keep on repeating the
same old jargon about "the tariff must
be revised by its friends" "let well
enough alone" "the foreigner pays the
tax" etc. The last statement ia not 10
popular with the stand parrots as IL
once was. since the people have dis
covered that the tariff-protected trusts
ssla sheaper to the foreigners than To
Ne ftN LWNN W44afHt. ee Nag .N# rW NNHNN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK

The Bad Boy and His Pa in a Rail-
road Wreck-Pa Rescues the "other
Freaks"-They Spend the Night on
a Meadow-A Near-Sighted Claim
Agent Settles for Damages-Pa
Plays Deaf and Dumb and Gets
Ten Thousand.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-25

tic, save lOI d SIIOil WIFI MdudIQe d.
card Mt dusk, or a brisk morning walk
alone before the sleepy city was awake.
Thrown thus upon her own
in a great measure, she passed most
Of her time indoors, playing on her
lutte, embroidering an altar cloth or
reading and ~re-reading the scanty
store Of books Frontenac lent her.
Madame BLIZZARD often sat and talked,
retailing to her all the gossip and
events of the town. She dared not
speak Ill Of the Comte, but her predi-
lection for Duchesneau and his parti-
sans led her to vent her feelings III
acrimonious aspersions on all who
were allied with the governor. Best
of all, Renee liked to question her
friend about the strange vast land she
had come to; it's history and its peo-
Pile; the tales of adventures in its
wilds; the rugged life OF its pioneers;
the martyrd0ms of its missionaries.
And as she listened, her heart glowed
within her and she wished that she
too were a man and might set forth
to hew a way through the great un-
known that civilization might follow;
or yet again the hazy, hAif-formed
plan suggested itself to her rlind that
even a woman's weak hands through
her gentle ministration in hours Of
sickness and plague might win a path
to heather hearts for the glorious
truths Of her religion.
Madame BLIZZARD had several times
touched upon "a Sales exploring ex.
petitions but had spoken of no mem
Der Of It other than its leader. Him
she denounced rs a thief. a liar. and
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