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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
FOUND AFTER FIFTY YEARS
Girl Who Wandered from New York
at Age of Six Discovered
in the West.

Albuquerque, N. M.-Hester AM
Alexander Smith, for so years a wan
derer on the face of the earth, without
a living relative known to her, has
Just been identified as the daughter
of the family of Paddocks, wealth!
farmers living near Warwick, N. Y.
who for half a century have been look
ing in vain for the missing daughter
The story of Mrs. Smiths wander
ings is a good deal stranger than fc
ton. Fifty years ago, while a chile
of six years, she followed a wandering
hand organ man away from her homt
one morning. The hand organ mar
had a monkey and, attracted by the an
tics of the animal, the child followed
on and on until the itinerant musician
took her up and made her sing fol
him as he toured the country.
The whole country aided in thu
search for the child, but without re
suit. With the hand organ man sh'
travelled westward and finally fount
her way to the Pacific coast.
There she grew up, forgetting he
nam and the names of her relatives
and only retaining a dim memory o
the scenes of her birthplace.
1t was this dim memory which hai
finally restored her to her relatives
who have never forgotten the missing
child. Mrs. Smith has been twice mar
ried.
In 1884 she came with her family Il
Silver City, N. NJ, where she burie'
her husband and all of her four chill
dren. Feeling the years creeping OF
she longed for more knowledge of he
own people. Three years ago sh
came to Albuquerque and began tn
search for her relatives. She adver
tised widely in eastern newspapers, de
scribing the scenes as pictured on he
memory of her childhood days.
The result was a letter from Thoma
c. Paddock, of Vernon, N. j., her cous
in. and another from her brother
James Paddock, of Warwick, N. Y
who is still living at the old home
stead. Correspondence began at ono
and Mrs. Smith is soon to go to tn
home of her childhood. She learne
that her parents had been dead TO
25 years and that of her brothers an
sisters but one was living. Her rela
tives in New York are wealthy an
have written her that she need hav
no further care for the future.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
What the Lion Tanner Feared.

L. Y. Minnick of Potsdam, Ohio, who
once travelled ahead of a circus, has
many stories to tell of the tricks and
manners OF the show folk and of the
wild animals they carry with them.
Along in the days just before his
death Col. Dan Boone, the famous
tanner and trainer" he said, developed
a fear Of bronchitis which grew to be
a regular nervous mania. He would
go into the cage with a snarling lioness
with young cubs without the slightest
fear, but was scared to death of a
breeze. One day, after an exhibition
fight with the ~fiercest lion we had he
came out Of the cage and said to me:
Louis, this will prove the end of
me yet
Good Lord, Colonel | said, you
aren't losing your nerve? You surely
are not getting afraid of that brute?'
Afraid of that dog.' he said, dis
gustedly. Afraid of my hat! Nothing
of the sort. But these cages are the
worst places for draughts in the coun-
try. l know I'll catch a cough some
day that'll prove my DEATH Louis
vile Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Paws.

Dairymen who make a close study
of their business found out long ago
that cows which are kindly treated
give more milk than those which are
roughly handled, and that for the best
returns they must be managed quietly
and keep free from worry. Horsemen
are learning the same lesson. The
horse does not like a nervous, fidgety,
fussy or irritable man, and especially
one who treats him brutally.
why is it," one teamster was heard
to ask another, that Phin's horses are
always gaunt? Phin feeds WELL"
Eyes," was the reply, "but he's like
a wasp round his horses"
A well-known owner of racers, not at
all sentimental, has enforced rigidly an
order against swearing or loud talking
in the stable.
II have never yet seen a good man
nered horse" he says, that was
sworn at all the time. 1t hurts the
feelings of a sensitive horse, and I'll
keep my word to discharge any man
If ! catch him swearing within the
hearing Of any horse in this STABLE
Country Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

They soon had the whole bunch under
control. and we all got together to see
If anybody was hurt.
Well, pa was the worst sight of all.
If his belt had broke he never would
| have lost his pants, cause more than
a million cactus thorns had gone
through and pinned item on. We had
to cut them of, and pull out the thosTE
with pincers, one at a time, and pa
| yelling murder for every thorn. The
boss canvassman was in the same fl,
and everybody that tried to hold an
animal was pinned together with
thorns, and they had gravel up their
trousers from sticking their heels into
the soil.
Everybody was mad, and they threat.
ened to lynch pa when they got back
to the tent for suggesting letting the
animals out TO Craze. We started back
to town. the cowboys and Indians driv.
ing the animals, and the zebras and
g~iraffes kicking up and acting as
though they had got out of school on
account of the death Of a dear teacher
like s%choolboys.
Before we got to town a wind came
up so strong that we had to walk edge.
wise to go against it, and finally we
met the tent coming out to meet us
cause a cyclone had taken it bodily anc
was blowing it all over the prairie
And when we got to town the animals
in the cages. that can't ea: grass, were
having IN indignation meeting, anC
bowling awful.
Pa vas the first man to get back tt
the lot, and he asked me what
thought he better do, and | told hin
he better get in the %porcupine cage
cause he looked, with the cactus thorn:
sticking out of him like the father O.
all porcupines. He said | thought
was smart, and he asked me if | wal
hurt any, and l told him all | coult
find was a stone bruise on my spine
where l struck a prairie dog house.
Well, we got the animals into a liv
cry barn, and it took us almost tn
whole week to have the tent haule'
back and sewei together, and we ha'
to pay the cowboys and Indians NOR
than the animals we're worth to brin
them back, and let them into the shoy
free. The managers had a meeting an
resolved to get out of the Indian Tel
ritory and into Kansas just as quic
as possible.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

out of that creek in a hurry. The cow
boys threw lassoes the hind feet
of the elephants, and tried to hold
them, and the elephants beloved, and
dragged the cowboys and their ponies
right amongst the other animals, and
in about a minute, as the boss can.
vassman said when he come to, and
they were picking the cactus thorns
out of him: Hell was just plumb out
for noon"
The buffaloes smelled the Indians,
and they started to stampede, like they
used to do when they lived on the
plains, and all the animals followed,
dragging the men who had hold Of
their ropes, and away we all went over
a rise of ground, the zebras in the lead
and the elephants fetching up the
rear, the cowboys and Indians behind,
yelling and killing, and more than
500 Indian dogs barking.
Well, pa was the foolishest nan In
the lot, cause he had tied the lariat
rope that he held his elk by, around
his belt, and when the elk went oveI
the hill pa was only hitting the high
places, and he was yelling for me to
head off his elk. But l was busy try
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

A firm Of cheap clothing makers
was dissolved not long ago, and in no
amicable way. A lawsuit over the
settlement was the result, and the
cause of Meyer and Jacobs came to
trial. According to the way the
story is told in the Lawyers Club
former Judge D~ittenhoefer was the
counsel for the plaintiff.
II think. | will send the Judge a nice
box of CIGARS" said Nh. Meyer to his
counsel during a recess in the trial.
Perhaps he will feel more kindly to.
ward me then"
mo, no; don't do that" replied Mr..
DitteEhoefer. at wouldn't be right
at all. You would offend him very
deeply, for he would think you were
trying to bride him. Your East isn't
any too good now, and you would sure
ly lose it if you did that"
The trial ended with a verdict in
Meyers favor.
We'll, l won" said the victorious
litigant to his lawyer, with a broad
smile, land, say, l did send the Judge
those cigars"
You did,"
Yes, sir; but | put Jacobs card il
the box."-N. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

ing to keep up with my antelope,
which vas scared worse than any ami
NAL in the race. When the antelope
and ! overlook the boss canvassman,
who was digging his heels into the
ground trying to- hold his zebra,
thought it was a good time to say
something pleasant, so | said: This
is a lovely country we are passing
through" but ! never heerI his reply,
cause just then the zebra jumped over
a big cactus and the boss canvassman
went into it, and he stayed there, yell
ing for a piece of ice. while the zebras
that were dragging the treasurer and
the ticket taker passed us. | yelled to
the treasurer and told him l should
have to have my salary raised if I was
expected to keep up with my antelope,
but he told me where to go to get an
increase of salary, some place In Ar.
kansas-maybe Hot Springs.
Then my antelope heard the Indians
and cowboys coming behind, and he
got his second wind, and | never did
touch the ground no more, and | must
have looked like a buzzard sailing
through the air. When my antelope
got up to where pa was trying to keep
up with his elk, I told pa he better let
go his elk and get the cowboys and
Indians to ride around ahead Of the
stampede and head them off.
Pa said he couldn't let go Of his elk
cause the rope was tied to his belt.
but for me to hit the ground some
where ahead and let go Of that jack
rabbit I was chasing, and tell the cow
boys to head off the stampede. So
when lit again l let go the rope.
and the antelope got ahead of every
thing. end wished had bet on him.
When the cowboys and Indians got
up to me | delivered the message from
pa, and they divided and went around
the TANKS of the stampeders, and In
another mile they headed them off in
a nice pasture, and kept riding around
the animals so they couldn't get away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

his hind feet and held up two toes,
like boys in school hold up two I'm
gers when they want to go in swim
ming, and the elephant started for a
creek and went in the water, n the
whole herd followed, and they spat-
tered each other, and ducked and rolled
around just like school boys. The
whole population of the town, whites
and Indians, came to the bank OF the
river to watch the fun.
Pa was holding his elk by a rope,
and one of the managers had a rope
around the neck of a giraffe; the
treasurer and the ticket taker was
leading the zebras, and everybody was
busy with some kind Of animal, and
| had a rope around an antelope, AND
some of our men on horseback were
herding the buffaloes. 1t didn't seem
as though anything wrong could har
pen. The elephants wouldn come oui
of the creek, so the boss canvassmar
went over to where there were abou'
500 cowboys and Indians on horse
back, and asked them to ride into thu
creek and drive the elephants gu
where the rest Of the animals were, OIL
the prairie.
Gee, but that was the greatest mis-
| take he could have made. The mel
on horseback didn't want any bette
fun, so they made a charge, in line O
battle, just like Sheridan's cavalry
down the bank, into the creek, vel
ing and waving lariat ropes, an
| swapping whips and the elephants go
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Appropriate Time.

The chaplain of a British warshiI
was giving a magic lantern lecture
the subject of which was Scenes
From the Bible" He arranged with
a sailor who possessed a gramophone
to discourse appropriate music be
tween the slides. The first picture
shown was Adam and Eve IN the gar
den of Eden. The sailor cudgeled his
brain, but could think Of nothing
suitable. play up" whispered the
chaplain. Suddenly a large idea
struck the jolly tar and, to the great
CONSERVATION of the chaplain and the
delight of the audience, the gramo
phone burst forth with the strains Of
There's Only One Girl in the World
for Me-" OF course, he might have
played "Wearin' of the Green"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

bow.legged carrying the money they
had made grazing cattle, and the ter.
ritory was full of cowboys that had
money to burn, and they hadn't seen
a circus since the war.
Well, it seemed a shame to go by
the Indian Territory, and allow those
poor Indians to break their backs car
rying money around, and so we sent a
carload of bill pastors into the territory
and billed towns that would hold us
about a week, and we figured that we
would clean up enough money to last
us all a lifetime. I wish l didn't have
TO write about the result, cause we are
broke up so we can't look pleasant to
have our pictures taken.
1t was a bright, beautiful Sunday
morning that we arrived at Muskoka,
and soon after daylight we had our
tents pitched. AS we had all day Sun
day to rest, pa suggested that it would
be a good idea to take all u animals
that eat grass out on the grazing
ground on the edge of the town and
let them fill up on the nice blue grass
that was knee-high all over the coun.
try. So after breakfast we detailed
men to take charge of the different
animals, and herd them out in the tall
grass. 1t was a beautiful sight to see
those rare animals, gathered from all
over the world, eating grass together,
in perfect peace, in r,his new country.
The animals that we thought would
stand without hitching like the ele.
plants, were cared for by their at
tendants, but the animals that might
wander from their own fireside, were
picketed out, or held by long ropes, the
deer, the buffalo, the zebras, the sacred
cattle, the elk, the yaks, the camels
and that kind, were tied with long
~lariats, and held by the men detailed
by the managers. For a couple Of
hours the animals just gorged them
selves, after they had kicked UP their
heels a spell and rolled in the grass.
J Then one If the elephants got up on
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

business which he knew all about,
would make money, while the man
who knew about dry goods, but
worked in a millinery store or a stock
of tinware, got it. in the neck. He
would either get stuck on the head
milliner, or buy a stock Of tinware
that would not hold water.
So a resolution was passed to the
effect that hereafter no temptation
could be great enough to get our show
to go into anything outside of the
business, no matter how good it looked
as a get-rich-quick affair. So We gath
ered up our show and played a whole
week in Oklahoma, and had full
houses all the time, and made money
enough to redeem our animals that had
been attached by creditors. We have
paid up our debts, and we got out of
Oklahoma with flying colors.
If We had gone right on to Kansas
we would have shown sense, but some
cowboys from the Indian Territory
told pa and the other managers that
if we would take the show to the In.
dian Territory we couldn't get cars
enough to haul the money away, as the
Indians had got round-shouldered and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

Ten henpecked husbands resolved to
form a society to resist the imposition
of their wives, reads a Chinese story.
The ten wives heard of the plan, and
while the meeting for organization
was in progress they entered the room
in a body. Nine of the rebellious hus-
bands fed. but the tenth n retained
his place, apparently unmoved by the
unexpected visitation. The ten wives,
after smiling contemptuously On the
n a who remained, went back to
their homes, we'll content with their
success. The nine husbands thereupon
returned to their meeting, resolved to
make the heroic tenth man the presi-
dem Of tie society. When they en-
tered the room, however, to form
him of the honor, it was found that he
had died Of fright
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells of a bad case of coffee
poisoning and tells it in a way so sim.
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve 1t.
Il had neuralgia headaches fol-
IL years. she says, land have suffered
untold agony. When I first began to
have them l weighed 140 pounds, but
they brought me down to ITO. ]
went to many doctors and they gave
me only temporary relief. So I suf.
fered on, till n day in 1904, a woman
doctor told me to drink Postum Food
Coffee. She said I looked like l was
coffee poisoned.
so l began to drink Postum and
I gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not
so fast as at first. My headache began
to leave me after / had used Postum
about two weeks-long enough | ex-
pect to get the coffee poison out of my
system.
Nov that a few months have
passed since I began to use Postum
Food Coffee, I can gladly say that ]
never know what a neuralgia headache
is like any more, and 1t was moth
Ing but Postum that cured me. Be-
fore l used Postum l never went out
alone; l would get bewildered and
would not know which way to turn.
Now I go alone and my head is as
clear as q bell. By brain and nerves
are stronger than they have been for
years" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE" In
pkgs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
EXCHANGED Words.

Curious exchanges of words some
times take place between two Ian.
guages. Thus English has borrowed
the French's "poseur" and has given
to France ''snob" in trade. French.
men have a way of taking a polysyl.
Liable word and using half of it. Thus
of "steeplechase" they have appropri.
ated "steeple" and now the French
sportsman" speaks of mounting a
steeple" when he means to ride a race
over the customary obstacles. A smok.
ing jacket is with him a smoking" and
a sleeping a is a sleeping"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
THREE FACTS
For Sick Women
To Consider

FIRsT.-That almost every operation
in our hospitals performed upon wome1
becomes necessary through neglect OF
such symptoms as backache, irregular
and painful periods, disbursements
of the female organs, pain in the side,
burning sensation in the stomach,
bearing-down pains, nervousness, dig
ziness and sleeplessness.
SECoND.-The medicine that holds
the record for the largest number of
absolute cures of female ills is Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t regulates, strengthens and cures
diseases of the female organism as
nothing else can.
For thirty years it has been helping
women to be strong, curing backache,
nervousness, kidney troubles, infam-
nation of the female organs, weak.
ness and displacements, regulating
the periods perfectly and overcoming
their pains. 1t has also proved itself
invaluable in preparing women for
childbirth and the change of life.
TH1RD.-The great volume of unso-
licited and grateful testimonials on file
at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, many of which are from time to
time published by permission, give alb.
solute evidence of the value of Lydia
E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation
to women. Women suffering from any
form of female weakness are invited to
promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are
received, opened, read and answered
by women only. From symptoms given,
your trouble may be located and the
quickest and surest way of recovery
advised. Mrs. Pinkham is daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for
twenty-five years under her direction
and since her decease she has been ad-
v~isingsick womenfree of charge. Outof
the vast volume Of experience in treat
ing female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably
has the very knowledge that will help
your case. Surely, any woman, rich or
poor, is very foolish if she doesnot take
advantage of this generous offer of
assistance.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

No more horse racing for this cir
cus.
The managers held a meeting at
Guthrie, Okla, after we had lost our
money horse racing with the Indians,
and pa said the consensus of opinion
was that we better stick to the legiti-
mate show business, and not try to
work in any side lines. Pa says he
made a speech at the managers meet.
ing, in which he showed that the bust
ness man who attended strictly to the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
Believes Heaven Filled with Men,

In Moncure Conway's "Reminia
cences" is a story told by Helen Tay
Tor, the stepdaughter of John Stuart
Mill. Once, in Scotland, she sailed
on n poor woman who had lost her
little son. The mother was inconsol.
able and said: What troubles me 10,
they be all men folk up there in
Heaven and won't know how to do
for him"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19
"WHAT FUR"


snuo-nosed, red-haired, freckled lad,
Never had nc chance; er had
What v might call schoolin'; Jest
Raised among the orn'riest.
Always seemed t want L know
Jest why things was thus an so;
Look up in y'r face an say
n tn most inquirin' way:
"What fur?"
Always tinkerin' around
Railroad shops; an always found
Somethin' there t ask about;
Always findin' somethin' out.
Never saw a chain er shaft,
Belt er pulley. but he'd haft
T. look up in his Gurus way,
Look up in y'r face an say:
what fur?'
Wasn't satisfied t know
That tn wheels went thus an so:
Nothin' d ever satisfy
Him ontil he found out why.
Never saw a thing but he
Followed right t A. B. C..
When he saw a wheel go round
Never give up till he found
what fur?"
Got a place; how, l can't say,
In tn railroad shops one day;
Always KEEP his busy eye
Peeled al always askin' why.
When a hole was bored, well he
Would look down, an presently
Look up at some one an say
In his most inquirin' way:
What fur?"
Well, Sir, next thing that 1 hear
He'd rugged up a h'istin' gear.
All his own; discovered by
His eternal askin' why.
Got a patent fur it then
Wuth a mint o. money; when
We told him we s'posed he'd quit.
He jest says, an smiled a bit:
What fur?"
Money jest come rollin' in
Eastern ever ave O. sin
Beat on earth; he didn't care,
Jest KEEP cool an stayed right there
Side of us; an when we lowed
He's forget tn common crowd,
Looked up. jest as when a child,
When he said, an sort O. smiled
what fur?"
Pardon, stranger; thet ere teas
I've DROPPED on tbis castin' here
Is fur HIM; we liked him SO,
Never proud a bit, " know.
Typhoid. so the doctor said;
Don't perfess t. be well-read
Err t. understand, but we
Nary n of us could see
What fur?"
j. M. Foley in N. Y. Times.
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Copyright by J. B. Bowiss.l

The Circus Has Bad Luck in Indian
Territory-k Herd of Animals
Turned Out to Craze Is Stampeded
by Indians-They Go Dashing Over
the Plains, and the Circus Tent Fol-
lows, Picked UP by a Cyclone.