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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
The Renarter as a Soldier.

An item in Kansas City paper tells
Of the death of a reporter in Wichita
through injuries contracted in the per-
formance Of his reportorial duties. The
reporter was sent out at a late hour
of the night to cover" a suicide and
fell over a pile of bricks in a dark al
ley, injuring himself internally and
dying from the effects of the fail a
few days later. This man died at his
post OF duty as truly as the fireman or
policeman who loses his life in any
great catastrophe that brings his
duties into play. And the death Of this
young man ought to impress upon the
newspaper-reading world the sacrifice
and often the heroism that the news
gatherers on the daily papers are
capable Of. The reporter is a soldier
who never disobeys a call to duty, even
though it be to face death in a battle
or enter a burning building or a night
run on a locomotive or TO enter a den
Of thieves in order to give his paper
and its readers the "aews.s-ncnver
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
Republican LEGISLATION

Where do the wood alcohol men
come in? Why, they are the benef-
Charles of the tax on grain alcohol. The
alcohol tax is their protective tariff.
The truth is that year after year they
have gone to Washington and de-.
feated measures for removing the tax
from grain alcohol used mechanically.
and the ways and means committee IS
going to consult them now, though
they have absolutely no connection
with the pending legislation, except
that the taxation of other people is
q benefit to them. The committee is
going to consider whether the tax on
grain alcohol used industrially shall
be continued for the sake of COM
polling manufacturers to buy wood al
cohol. That is what revenue legisla-
ton under the Republican party has
come to.-Philadelphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
SURGEONS USE BLUE LIGHT
According to Physicians of Geneva
1t Is Valuable as an An
aesthetic.

A rather new use of blue light has
been reported from Geneva-namely,
it's use as an anaesthetic in dentistry.
In the course of some experiments to
ascertain the effects of light of diff
ferent colOrS upon the nerves, Profs,
Redard and Emery found that blue
light was very soothing. The some
what remarkable statement is made
that q l6-candle.power blue light, di-
rected upon the eyes of a patient for
three minutes, caused him to lose
sensitiveness to such an extent that
a tooth was painlessly extracted, with
out after effects OF any kind. Whether
the anaesthetic was general or only
local is not reported.
1t is probable that had Gen. Pleas.
anton been a true scientist and a
skillful eXperimentalist he might
have made some discoveries of value
to the world, for, as DR., Finsen him
self has saiu: The general was on
the right track" In 1877 Pleasanton
published a book with the following
explanatory title: The Influence of
the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of
the Blue Color of the Sky in Develop
ing Animal and Vegetable Life, in
Arresting Disease and in Restoring
Health in Acute and Chronic Disor-
ders to Human and Domestic Ami.
mails, as Illustrated by the Expert
ments of Gen. A. j.. Pleasanton and
Others Between the Years 1861 and
1876"
The book is printed on blue paper,
and abounds in fallactous and dog.
matte statements. One of his dicta is:
Light is the great source of terrestrial
electricity, magnetism and heat"
Quite a large portion of the book is
devoted to testimonials from physi-
clans and various others relating to
the efficacy of the blue.ray treatment
in cases of general ill health, rheuma.
tism, etc. Pleasanton believed that
the results claimed by him were due
to the 'juxtaposition of plain uncol.
ored glass and blue glass in the pass.
age OF sunlight and the transmitted
blue light of the armament and tIe
eliminated blue rays of the sunlight
through them respectively, which
evolves an electromagnetic current,
which imparts to vegetable or animal
life subjected to it an extraordinary
impulse to the development of their
respective vigor and growth" He OBJ.
tanned a pa.ent for his so-called dis.
covery and for the method Of its APP
pkcation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

and If any nan about our show should
fail to be polite to the white people
they would be shot or lynched, but if
we wanted to shoot niggers the game
laws were not very strict about it,
cause the open season on niggers run
the year around, but you couldn't shoot
white people only two monlns in the
year. He said another thing that
scared pa and the managers. He said
If a travelling show did not perform all
it advertised the owners were liable
to go to state prison for 20 years, and
that each town had men on the look
out to see that shows d4ln't advertise
what they didn't carry out.
Pa and the managers held a consul
tation, and couldn't find that we ad-
vertised anything that we didn't have,
except the ourang outang that we took
on at New York, which eats and
dresses like a man, cause that animal
got w%hooping cough in Delaware and
had to be sent to a hospital, but we
heard he was we'll again and would
join the show in a week. Pa asked the
Richmond lawyer how it would be If
one of the animals that vas advertised
was sick and couldn't perform, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

That ratified the trainer and he re-
membered that he had forgotten to pin
the tail on me, so while | was using
the finger bowl he went to the screen
and got the tail and came out and was
pinping it on to my dress pants, when
the audience began to yell: Fraud!
Fraud! Kill the monk" and a lot of
stuff.
Then pa got on a barrel the elephants
had been performing on and got the
attention of the audience and told
them not to be unreasonable. He said
the management had found by expert
ence that after the ourang outang had
been trained to eat like a man and
wear mems clothes, that his tail was
in the way, Sc at a great expense The
management had caused Dennis tail
to be ampntated at a New York hos
pital, and while we always carry the
tail along, it was only used when a
criti al audience demanded it, but if
this refined audience so desired the
tail would be attached to the intelli-
gent animal.
The crowd yelled: Pin on the tail;
the tail goes with the hide" and the
traiI er began to pin it on. Say, /
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
PITY the Filininns.

At the conclusion Of an editorial
considering the Philippine tariff bill
the Boston Herald says:
mo promise is held out to them Of
freedom at any fixed time in the flu
rlre, but they are not to be treated as
parts of the United States under the
tariff law because at some time they
may become independent. Surely
there is good ground for the Filipinos
to complain against the following Of
that policy. As well might a man
argue that he would do nothing for the
support of his wife, because some time
in the future he might obtain a di-
vorce from her, although he was 60
ing to prevent her from taking such
steps for a long time at least. In Che
Philippine contest arguments on gen-
eral principles for the fair treatment
Of u insular possessions run up
against the pleadings Of a few special
industries. Which will come off best
in the struggle is vet to be deter
mined"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
THE TARIFF Is A BURDEN.
Imposed by Selfish Interests Creed
lily Tntrenched in Political
Power,

ITO give America time to Think
was the German governments explana-
ton in the reichstag OF its willing
ness to make a provisional tariff ar
rangement with the United States.
There is, of course, says the New
York Post, a yelled threat in the words,
though they only follow, after all.
what Secretary Root has said of his
hope that the senate may prove less
obdurate next winter. But the idea
that what we need is time to ''think''
about the tariff! Thought is the last
thing lacking. Take Massachusetts,
for example, a very factory of Re-
publican thought. 1t is about all ono
way there-eXcept for Lodge. The
Democrats to a man want the tariff
revised, and the Republican governor
has written to the president urging
that something be done at once to pre-
serve the party from disaster. AMI
that is very much the case the coun-
try over. AS Il matter Of mere intel
lectual conviction, the agreement ls
well-nigh absolute that the present
tariff is a burden g~rievous to be
borne, yet bound upon the shoulders Of
Americans by selfish interests in
trenched in political power. But pro-
lection simply grins and asks what we
are going to do ABOUT it. 1t will never
be made to bulge by pure thought,
we may depend upon it. Some SOFT Of
propelling force from behind will havs
to be applied-and it may take the
form of a Democratic majority in the
next house.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
Very Much Alive.

When visiting one of the primary
schools some years ago, the day before
Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, as it
was then more generally called, l, as
usual, al a member of the school board,
addressed the pupils. When closing
I said:
well, children, you have a holiday
Tomorrow. What day is it,"
Decoration Day!" from all in uni
son.
What do you do on Decoration
Day?"
Decorate the soldiers graves" said
all together again.
Why do you decorate their graves
any more than others?"
This was a stickler, but finally one
little fellow held up his hand.
Well, sir, why is it,"
because they are dead and we
all't."-Boston Nerald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

threw q ripe persimmon ard lift me
right in the eye. 1 said right out in
plain English: You're q liar and I
can knock the stufing out of you
pulled of my dress coat and started
for him, but pa grabbed me on one
side and the monkey trainer on the
other. and they tried to get me TO
return TO the monkey character, and
chatter, and pa put my monkey mask
on me, but | struck right there, and
pulled it off. and told him and the
managers that | would not play mon
key any more with a tail pinned to
my spine, my stomach full Of cayenne
pepper and my nostrils full of Scotch
snuff. and my face all puckered up
with persimmons.
The crowd yelled: Fraud! Fraud.
Kill the bald-headed old man who is
the father of the monkey" and they
we're making a rush to clean out the
show when the dressing-room door
opened to let the %hippodrome chariot
racers out, and the way the chariots
scattered the crowd was a caution.
That saved us from serious trouble,
for the chariots run over a lot of ne
groes, which pleased the audience, and
they let us off without killing us.
They got me back to the dressing-room
n had to take a pair of pinchers to.
get that safety-pin out of my spine,
and on the way to the dressing-room
some one walked on my monkey tail
and pulled it off, and that was a dead
loss. Pa sat by me and famed me,
cause | was faint, and then he said:
My boy, you played your part well,
until the persimmon hit you, and
then you forgot that you were an
actor, and became yourself, and l
don't blame o for wanting to punch
that boy who called you a little Mig
ger, and said | was your pa. After
this chariot race is over we will go
around in front of the seats, and find
the boy, and you can do him up.
Your monkey business was the fea.
ture of the show to-day"
We went out and found a boy that
looked like the one that sassed me,
but he must have been his big BROTH
er, cause when | went up to him
and swatted him in the nose, he gave
me a black eye, and | am a sight.
That evening, at the performance,
We cut out the educated ourang orl-
tang, and the lawyer we met on the
cars came to the show, and said we
would all be arrested for not perform
ing all we advertised, but he could
settle it for a hundred dollars, and
pa paid him the money, and he went
out and got a jag and came in the
show and was going to make trouble,
when pa took him to the cage where
the 40-foot boaconstrictor was uncoil.
ing itself, and the Virginian got one
look at the snake and went through
the side of the tent yelling: I've got
'em again. Catch me, somebody
We got out of town before morning,
and nobody was arrested, except the
negroes that got run over in the
chariot race.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

standing leaning against the tree
around which their rope was fastened
n looking over the lake. Full in
the moonlight he stood, visible to
those below him, who were hidden
from his view by the protecting shade.
His rest had been evidently disturbed
by the thoughts of the near approach
to the contamination of his desires, the
humiliation of his enemy, and the win
ming of her whose possession he had
long wished for.
Tonti braced himself against the
cliff-wall and scarcely breathed for fear
OF imparting motion to the rope and
causing some sound above that would
betray them. Relief o came, for the
image of his foe vanished and in a
moment the head of Madame BLIZZARD
showed itself again, ~motioning him to
proceed. He did so hastily, as the
strain on his arm was terrific. They
had reached a point a couple of yards
from the bottom when Renee, who had
seen ell that TRANSFERRED, suddenly re-
Taxed her hold, unable to maintain it
any longer, and dropped. She struck
against Pompon's shoulder, glancing
off and falling lightly to the ground.
A cry of suppressed pain came from
her lips, however, for one foot had
turned upon a stone and wrenched her
ankle. Tonti hurriedly raised her and
helped her into the canoe which was
waiting a few feet away. Madame
BLIZZARD then threw off the coil of rope
about the trunk and waved her last
farewell. 1t was indeed her last, for
when the escape Of the prisoners was
discovered, she was suspected, and fell
before a blow from her Infatuated par
amour. Thus did she give her life as
the penalty for attempting to atone
by n good deed for the wretched
frailty of her past.
Pompon seized the grapevine rope
and slowed it away in the n in
order to leave nc trace behind Of their
fight, and jumping aboard, they were
once more afloat. At first they pad
died cautiously through the shade at
the waters edge until they were out
Of sight Of the Indian camp. Then
they struck boldly cut, making the
boat fairly fly over the water in their
haste to place as great distance as
possible between themselves and their
pdrsuers. A strict silence was main
tained, broken only cnce by Renee.
80 applauded Pompon tor the inge-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

could have killed that trainer. He run
that safety pin about an inch into my
spine, and | jumped into the air about
four feet, and was going to use a cuss
word that | learned in Philadelphia,
but | had presence of mind enough to
grunt just Us Dennis used to, and chat
ter like a monkey, and the day was
saved. The tail was on and | turned
my back to show that it was on
straight, like a woman's hat, when pa
said to hurry the performance to a
conclusion, because he could see that
there was a spirit of unrest in the au-
dience, n he would not be surprised
any moment to see Virginia secede
and go out Of the union.
There was nothing more for me to
do except to drink my cup Of after
dinner coffee, and smoke my cigarette,
and quit, and ! was patting myself on
the back at my success and squirming
around in the chair, cause the pin in
my tail hurt my back, but | never said
a word. The attendant brought in the
SohSS anu 1 lOOh d COupl6 VI SWdl-
lows, when ! realized that somebody
had put cayenne pepper into it, and |
was hot under the collar, but though
! was burning up inside, | never
peeped, but just choked and took a
swallow Of water and vowed to kill the
person that made the coffee.
kept my temper till the trainer
handed me the cigarette and a match.
and the first puff realized that they
had filled the cigarette with snuff.
and after blowing out the smoke | be-
gan to sneeze, and the audience fairly
went wild. sneezed about eight
times, and at every sneese the pin in
my spine hurt like thunder, but | / never
lost my temper. till about the seventh
sneeze, when my monkey mask flew of.
and then a boy about my size, right in
front of me, yelled: 1T amt a mon.
key at all. it Is a little Niger" and be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15
RoosEvELTs DISCOVERY.
Be!aied Enlightenment Of the Chisk
tx,cct.ve on the Con-
stluuIion.

When President Roosevelt set taunt~|
lily forth upon the business of regu-|
lating rates his intentions were much|
better than his information. The NATL
ter presented no more practical diff
culties to him than to the gentleman|
who drafted the rate-making plank inI
the national democratic platform, says|
the New York World.
1t was in 1904 that the reguIationI
of rates was so simple and the presi-
dent knew his own mind so thorough.
ly. Give the commission power, when
a rate has been challenged, to 'fde-
eide, subject to judicial review, what
shall be a reasonable rate to take its
place; the ruling of the commission to
take effect Immediately and to obtain I'M
less and until it is reversed by the court
OF review" Then the thing was done.
A year later the subject appeared
little more complex. The president
was not so sure that the rate should
take effect Immediately. The new
rate had better go into effect within
a reasonable time and to obtain from
thence onward, subject to review by
the courts
The Hepburn bill, which was sup
posed to represent the presidents per-
sonally conducted views, provided that
the rate should take effect within so
days and remain in force until modi-
ned or suspended by the commission,
"or suspended or set aside by a court
Of competent jurisdiction"
But what is a court of competent
Jurisdiction, and in what circum-
stances is there to be an appeal from
the rulings Of the commission? Sec
rotary Taft and Secretary Root are
said to have advised the president to
accept a clause explicitly providing
for a judicial review. Attorney Cen
eral Moody is said to have advised
him not to accept such a clause. The
controversy was transferred to the
senate committee, and we were told
that all Mr.. Roosevelt really cared
about was "the essence of the Hep
burr bill, whatever that may be.
There have been almost daily con-
ferences at the White House in the eff
fort to tinker up the house measure,
and save the Essence"
The authoritative announcement has
been made that the president would
not oppose amendments, but would
veto the bill if it was unsatisfactory.
This is exactly what the constitution
intended. Congress was to legislate
and the president was to exercise the
veto power in his discretion. 1t is a
pleasure to congratulate Mr.. Roosevelt
on his belated discovery of the con-
stitution.
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ae told pa the people would mob the

ae told pa the people would mob the
show If anything was left out.
When we got to Richmond the whole
population, principally niggers, was at
he lot when we put up the tents, and
everybody wanted to catch a sight of
Dennis, the ourang outang, and the
posters all over town that pictured
Dennis smoking cigarettes with a
lress suit on, and eating with a knife
md fork and a napkin tucked under
his chin, were surrounded by crowds.
It was plain that all the people cared
'or was 10 see the monk.
The managers held a council of war
and decided the show would be ruined
IL we didn't make a bluff at having an
Durang outang, SO it was decided that
| was to be dressed up in Dennis
clothes, and put on a monkey mask,
and go through his stunt at the after
noon performance.
Gee, but l hated to do It, but pa said
the fate of the show depended on it
and II I didn't take the part he would
have to do 1t himself, and l knew pa
wasn't the build of man to play the
monkey. and SO | said | would do it,
but will never do it again for any
show. The wardrobe woman fixed me
up like Dennis, and l had seen him 60
through his stunt SO often | thought
I could initiate him, and Of course
there was no talking to do, but just
to grunt once in awhile. the way Den
mis- did, and have an animal look.
Well, sir, the keeper who trained the
ourang outang took me in hand, and
in an hour / was perfect. ! had rub
Der feet and wore black gloves, and
had a tail fastened ON with a safety
pin. that would deceive the Oldest
Snowman In the business. When the
crowd was the biggest. in the middle
ring, the keeper led me out Of the
dressing room with a chain. The an
nouncement was made by the barker
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-15

taat Dennis, the educated ourang
outang. that had performed before
crowned heads in Europe and sap
heads in Newport, the only man-mon-
key in the known world, would row
entertain the most select audience that
had ever been under the tent. Then
| was dragged into the ring and put
on the platform.
They didn't put on my dress clothes
at first. but had a little screen on the
platform for me to go behind to dress,
and | appeared first in the natural
state of the ourang outang, with a suit
of buffalo robe stuff that looked exact
ly like a big monkey. | bowed and
the audience cheered, and | stood on
my hands and scratched at an imagi-
nary flea. and pa, who was leaning
against the platform. whispered to me
that | was making the hit of the sea-
son.
Then the attendants set the table
and the keeper took me behind the
screen and dressed me, and the old
fool forgot to put On my tail. He led
me out and | sat up to the table,
hitched UP my cuffs, put a napkin I'M
der my chin, took a knife and fork
and began to eat, just like a human
being. The audience cheered, and
the circus people crowded around and
said I was just as good as Dennis him
self. went through the whole of Den
mis- performance and never skipped a
note, until a smart white man yelled:
Where is the tail of your ourang
.outang?" and the crowd began to be
suspicious, and more than a thousand
yelled: There is no tail on your
mnnkev