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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-19
to go. I took a step forward so as to

TO go, I took a step forward so as to
bar her way. And our eyes met.
I could not see her features; they
were lost in the shadow of the hood.
But / saw a shiver run through her
from head to foot. And l knew then
that l had made no mistake.
"That is too heavy for you, my girl"
I said Familiarity, as l might have
spoken to a village wench. II will
carry it for you"
One of the men, who remained loll.
ing at the table, laughed and the other
began to sing a low song. The woman
trembled in rage or fear, but she kept
silence and let me take the jug from
her hands. And when l went to the
door and opened it she followed
mechanically. An instant and the door
fell to behind us, shutting off the light
and glow and we stood together in the
growing dusk.
"It is too late for you to be out,
Mademoiselle," l said politely. "You
might meet with some rudeness
dressed as you are. Permit me to sea
you home"
She s%huddered, and I thought I heard
her sob, but she did not answer. In
stead, she turned and walked quickly
through the village in the direction o.
the chateau, keeping in the shadow
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-19
IRON FRAMES.

Bee Culture. The illustration shows
the idea. | use a piece of XXX steel
tire for the backbone, as | call it,
and a leaf of a buggy-spring for the
front part. The spring has to be
drawn out thin except about a foot in
the center where the backbone is
welded on. You can carry a hive in
both hands if it is not too heavy. TIC
put it on a hive you take hold of the
front part, spread it open, and slip
it forward until the back end hooks
on; then the more you lift, the more
it holds on. 1t wants to be made so
that it touches the outsides and end
about three inches. Make one and
try it; and if you like it, let other
bee.keepers see how much easier it
is to use this than it is to carry them
in the arms.
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N~sa-~s1N>ss-~aQN~ss-~ANess~ssN
FORM ANTI-sToRK PARTY.
Bachelors and Old Maids of Iowa Call
Convention--opposed to "Big
Family" Idea.

Des Moines, Ia.-Rachelors and old
maids Of Iowa will hold their first an
nual state convention in Iowa at For
est City, July Is, for the purpose of
placing a state and congressional
ticket in the field for the fall election
on a platform opposed to President
Roosevelt's big family policy.
The call has been issued by Clinton
Merrick, who is termed king of the
bachelors" The call announces that,
besides hotels and private homes be-
ing opened to delegates, tents will be
supplied for those who desire them.
A barbecue will be held, and roast beet
and roast pork sandwiches and coffee
served free.
It will be, in a way, the first formal
acknowledgment of the male gender
Of anything approaching woman suf-
fraga. On the floor of the convention
women will sit as accredited delegates
Mr.. Merrick takes exception to thf
Roosevelt denunciation Of small fam
ilics ani unmarried men. In anncunc'
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SETS NEW DAY FOR HANGING
Omaha Judge Orders Murderers Exc
cuted on Monday Because of
Crucihxion,

Omaha, Neb.-"The cricufixion OF
Christ took place on Friday, and I do
nit think it appropriate to set the
execution of two murderers for that
day." said Judge Sutton the other day
when he sentenced Jay O'Hearn anu
Harrison Clarke to be hanged on a
Monday. The statement Of the court
came as a surprise, for it upsets the
long-established custom Of maxine
Friday "hangman's day." my reason
for fixing Monday" continued the
court, "is that | think 1t better to have
these men meet death on the day fol
lowing Sunday, which is devoted to
religious thought and services, as they
naturally will be in a better frame Of
mind to go to their final reckoning on
that day than any other"
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Storm Blows UP a Fortune.

Galeton, Pa.-A windstorm has
made a fortune for Hector Kent, a
poor farmer residing a half mile from
this town. During a miniature cyclone
a large tree on his place was uprooted
and in the cavity made by the up.
turned tree was found a vein of the
finest kind of building sand. 1t has
been uttrely impossible up to this
time to obtain a first-class building
sand in this section, and thousands OF
dollars have been expended by the
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad com
pany alone in the purchase of sand
elsewhere.
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From a recent photograph. This officer of the French army is fnaIr
indicated and restored to his rightful place in the military service of France.


hut and took what exercise he cared
for in the little stockade Enclosure.
He was permitted to have no converse
with his guards. He was denied the
solace of books and newspapers. He
was permitted to write to his wife
once a month and to receive one let
ter a month from her.
The first clew to the innocence of
Dreyfus and to the identity of the real
culprit came later in the year 1895 by
the discovery by spies of a card tele-
gram (petit bleu) written by Lieut.,
Col. Won Schwarzkoppen and ad.
dressed to Commandant EsterhaZy,
calling upon him to give o detailed
information.
This card telegram-afterwards ia
nous in the case as the petit bleu'
Git was written on a little blue post
card)-was taken to Col. Georges
Picquart, who had succeeded Col.
Sandherr as chief of the secret intelli.
gence bureau. Col. Picquart looked
into Esterhazy's record and anteced.
ents. He obtained specimens of his
writing and made the sensational dis.
covery that it was E~sterhazy and not
Dreyfus who had written the border,
eau.
The struggle of Dreyfus' friends to
obtain a new trial for him went on
increasingly, but it was not until 1899,
after the death of President Faure and
the election of Loubet that they were
finally successful.
Dreyfus landed in France on July 1,
1899, and was placed in prison at
Rennes to await his second trial. II
began on August 7. The same malig.
nant "dossier" was used against him
Again he was convicted on forged evi
dence. He was sentenced on Septem'
Der 8 to ten years detention in a fort,
ress on French soil. The years he had
passed on Devils island were deduct
ed from the sentence. President Lou
bet commute1 the remaining years
Dreyfus, dismissed from the army
was a free man. He retired to his
estates in the country, but for the las
six years he has quietly but persist
emily worked for the vindication which
he has now gained.
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CHAPTER VII.
A MASTER

IA
have a way with me which com
monty commands respect; and When
the landlords first terror was over
and he would serve me, | managed
to get my supper-the first good meal
I had had in two days-pretty COM
fortably in spite of the soldiers pres
ence. The crowd, too, which filled the
room. soon began to melt. The men
strayed off in groups to water their
horses. or went to hunt up their quar-
tiers. until only two or three were left.
Dusk had fallen outside; the noise IN
The street grew less. The freight be-
Gan to glow and flicker on the walls,
and the wretched room to look as
homely as 1t was ir its nature to look.
was bordering for the twentieth time
what step | should take next-under
these new circumstances-and why the
soldiers were here, and whether l
should let the night pass before |
moved, when the door, which had been
turning on its hinges almost without
PAUSE for an hour, opened again, n
q woman came in.
She paused a moment on the
threshold looking round, ard | saw that
she had a shawl on her head and a
nilk-pitcher in her hand, and that her
feet and ankles were bare. There was
a great rent in her coarse stuff petit
coat, and the hand which held the
shawl together was brown and dirty.
More | did not see; %supposing her to
To a neighbor stolen in now that the
hcase was quiet to get som milk for
her child or the like, I took no further
heed of her. / turned to the fire again
and plunged into my thoughts.
But to get to the hearth where the
goodwife was idgeting the woman
had to pass in front Of me; and as she
passed / suppose she stole a look at
me from under the shawl. For jusf
when she came between me and the
blaze she uttered a low cry and shranlk
aside-so quickly that she almost
stepped on the hearth. The next mo-
ment she turned her back to me and
was STOPPING, whispering in the ho'ise-
wifc's ear. A stranger might have
thought that she had merely trodden
on a hot ember.
But another idea and a very sharp
one, came into my mind; and / stood
up silently. The woman's back was
towards me, but something IN her
height. her shape, the pose of her head
hiddensas it was by her shawl, seemed
familiar. | waited while she hung over
the fire whispering and while the good
wife slowly filled her pitcher out OF the
great black not. But when she turnes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-19
Pulling Fence Posts.

I have found that a very good way
to pull out old fence posts that ara
partly decayed is to take a common
gravel pick and with a hard stroke
drive one of the points into the post
at the surface of the ground or a lit
tie below, says the Orange Judd Farm
er. Then take a long iron bar or pry
of some kind and place the end under
the pick, put a block under the bar
and the post can easily be raised a
few inches. The bar can now be
pushed further under SO that a lifting
pry will bring the post clear out. The
handle of the pick should come up
against the post when the prying be
gins.
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that he was under arrest. He was hur-
ried at once to the Cherche Midi pris-
on, where for two weeks he was kept
in close confinement without being in
formed of the charges against him.
At the end of two weeks Dreyfus
was tried before a secret court-mar-
tial. The witnesses against him were
the officers commanding the army,
several officers of the general staff.
Several secret documents were
shown to the judges, but not to Drey-
fus nor his counsel. These secret
documents made up what afterwards
became known throughout the world
as the famous "dossier." These docu-
ments, it was mysteriously explained,
not only to the judges, bat to the cab
and to the press were SO terrible that
their publication would be the signal
for a war with a great continental
power. The power referred to OF
course was Germany.
Dreyfus was convicted by the dos
sier." 1t may be stated here that the
documents which made up the dos
sier' were forgeries. Only n OF
them has even been made public. 1t
was a private letter from Lieut.. Col.
Won Schwarzkoppen, the German mill
tary attache, to Lieut.. Col. Panizzardi,
his colleague of the Italian embassy,
written two years before, and which
contained the sentence:
exigeunte." This dog of a D. is
getting too importantly
1t was afterwards conceded by the
accusers of Dreyfus that the %" did
not refer to Dreyfus at all, but re-
ferred to another person.
Dreyfus was convicted and SEN
fenced, first to be publicly degraded
and then to be transported and i'm
prisoned for life On Devils island, a
barren spot off Cayenne, South Amer
lea. On January 5, 1895, the first part
of the sentence was carried out. The
troops were drawn up in a hollow
square. Dreyfus, in full dress uniform,
was conducted to the center of the
open space. A noncommissioned Off
Ger tore the epaulettes from his shout
ders, ripped the gold braid from his
coat, tore the buttons off, and finally,
as a supreme mark OF degradation,
broke lis sword across his knee and
threw the ~dishonored fragments to the
ground. Then the unhappy officer Was
compelled to march to rogues music
along the front of his regiment.
A Prisoner on DEVILS Island.
On February 8, 1895, DreyfuE
reached Devils island. Here had beer
erected a stockade, like a pen in which
negro convicts are kept. In the stock
AIDE was a hut. In this hut, under the
glare of an equatorial sun, Dreyfui
was condemned to pass the remaindel
of his life. He ate and slept In TIT
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Moulting.

Moulting is a severe drain on the
system while it lasts, but after the old
feathers are replaced by the new and
the birds safely through the process
the stimulus of change makes them
healthier and ever makes them lay
with increased vigor after being fully
recuperated, for old feathers contain
matter favorable to the increase Of
lice and parasites as well as to that
Of skin diseases.
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Waltzes IA Hours; Is Champion.

Sig. Guattierro, champion Italian
Walter, offered a prize of 5000 for any
body who could outwaltz him. Three
Frenchmen, an Italian and a Russian
accepted the challenge. The contest
took place in the Tivoli Vauxhall dan
cling hall at Paris. Guattlerro won cas-
lily. He waltzed increasingly for IA
hours, during which a compatriot, Pol
luigi, played tho piano steadily, per-
forming 54 waitzes.
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ing the purpose of his convention he
says: president Roosevelt, as q COM
mon sense farmer, If my farm Will
support only so head Of stock and |
try to raise 100, that is complete farm
suicide"
The king of the bachelors then con-
tends that a man Is injuring the hui
man race by bringing into existence
more children than he can properly
educate and make into helpful men
and women. He holds that bachelors
and old maids should be honored for
holding aloof from the common i'm
pulse, and refraining from populating
the world with poor, half-starved
weaklings.
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AN IRON ~HlVE-CARRIER.
Homemade Continuance Which Will
Facilitate the Handling of
the Hives.

l will show you how to make a
~hive-carrier with which you can carry
them up and down stairs as we'll as
you can a satchel, writes an enthusi-
astic correspondent of Glea1ings in
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The Sluggard Moon.

The moon is the sluggard Of tile
solar system, its 2,273 miles an hour in
its jo%urneying around the earth COM
pairing badly with the earth's e6,57s
miles an hour.
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hoarsely.
"They are yours. They are nothing
to me-. Take them, and say that you
do not think of me- Nay, I cannot
say the words, Mademoiselle."
/. "But there is something-else!
What else?" she cried, her head
thrown back, her eyes, bright as any
wild animals searching mine. "Ha!
my brother? What of him? What of
him, Sir?"
For bin, Mademoiselle--I would
nretaer that you should tell me no more
than | know already" / answered in
a low voice. 81 do not wish to be in
that affair. But yes, there is one thing
| h.ve not mentioned. You are right"
She sighed so deeply that ! caught
the sound.
1T is" / continued slowly, that
you will permit me to remain at Coche-
foret for a few days, while the soldiers
are here. am told that there are 20
men and two officers quartered in your
house. Your brother is away. | ask
to be permitted, Mademoiselle, to take
his place for a time and to be privile ged
to protect your sister and yourself from
insult. That is all"
She raised her hand to her head.
After a long pause: The frogs!" she
muttered, "they croak. I cannot hear"
And then, to my surprise, she turned
suddenly on her heel and walked over
the bridge, leaving me there. For a
moment | stood aghast, peering after
her shadowy figure and wondering
what had taken her. Then, in a minute
or less, she came quickly back to ma
and ! understood. she was crying.
RIO BE Continued.l
The Ocala banner., 1906-10-26
THE NEWS FROM MOSS BLUFF,

Special correspondence Ocala Banner.
We are having gentle showers for
"a few days which are very refreshing
to beans and potatoes
The following Masons of Morning
Star Lodge No. 19 attended the lay
ing of the corner stone of Marion's s
new court house last Wednesday in
Ocala: w. E. Martin, A. j. Smell, J..
A. Reynolds, E. o. Cordey, L. w.
Wilson, I. p. Stevens, T. e. Cara
way, G.. ]. Smith and John T. Lewis.
All pronounced the day grand sue
cess.
The debate between Governor
Broward and Mr.. Beard was earnest.
Broward was eagerly listened to,
the question being a very vital one
to all the people. Everyone seemed
anxious to hear the facts in the case
Each speaker handled his side of the
subject well and from all points,
from the expressions that we heard
the governor captured the crowd or
at any rate a large majority. The
day was certainly a grand one and
our people will long remember the
courtesies extended to them by the
good people of Ocala. We are all
glad we were there.
John T. Lewis, of this place attend
ed the speaking at Leesburg on the
-vLn.
Governor Broward was present and
made his famous drainage speech.
The opera house was full of people
and if applause counted for anything
the governor captured everyone there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford, of Tampa,
are visiting Mrs. Sanford's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Martin, of this
place.
Mrs. Oliver Fort has returned to
her home in Titusville. She was ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs. Mar
garet Fort.
Mr.. s. E. Chalker has returned to
his position on the East Coast at
Dtytona.
A great number of our young men
are assisting Mr.. Eph. L. Carney in
putting up his fruit on Lake Weir,
which has become so famous in the
eastern markets.
Among the young ladies who at
tended the exercises in Ocala last
Wednesday from this place were Miss
Georgia White, Miss Mollie Chalker
and Miss Emily Hallford.
Everybody is invited TO meet At the
Congregational church next Sunday
at 10 o'clock to reorganize our Sun
day school.
VAKAPIN.
The Ocala banner., 1906-10-26
wAcAHooTA ITEMS.

Special correspondence Ocala Banner.
On October IL a surprise birthday
party was given to Mrs, ]. p. Smith
at the home of her SON, v. p. Smith.
1t was given by her children and a
few friends, Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Ty-
son and Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Curry.
Mrs. Smith is one of the oldest set
tiers of this community, and is much
loved by all who know her. She was
the recipient of many useful pres
ents. Each family brought well filed
baskets and at 8 o'clock they were
invited to the dining room, where they
did fu.- justice to the many good
thingc, which consisted of chicken
roasted and fried and chicken pie,
roast pork, baked beans, maccaroni,
breads, pickles, salads, pies. custards
and cakes. The evening was spent in
pleasant conversation and music. In
leaving, all wished Mrs. Smith many
more pleasant and happy birthdays.
The cemetery working of the M.
E. church on October Ii, was well
attended and the graves are looking
neat and clean as a result.
The work of recovering the Baptist
church has begun and we hope will
soon be completed, as Rev. Cullum
will begin a series of meetings here
Sunday.
Miss Florence Bradley invited a
few friends to her home Wednesday
evening to meet her cousin, Mrs. Van
Wrinkle. 4ne evening was passed in
beautiful violin and piano music.
Miss Hassie Smith returned home
Thursday from a few days visit to
Tacoma.
Miss Irene Beck, a beautiful and
accomplished music teacher, of Eel
lowship, is here giving music lessons.
Mrs. v. p. Smith and daughter,
Miss jamie, and Misses Hassie and
Rosa Lee Smith left Monday for La
Crosse to attend the wedding of Miss
Bessie Parker to Mr.. Barney Quinn.
The marriage was solemnized at the
First Baptist church on Wednesday,
October IL, at two o'clock. Miss Has
sic Smith played Mendelsshon's beau
tiful wedding march for the bridal
procession. Her dress was of light
blue silk, trimmed in ribbon rosetts.
Miss jamie Smith was maid-of-honor
and her lovely dress was of white net
over white silk.
We are needing rain badly at this
writing.
The Ocala banner., 1906-10-26
LAKE WEIR.

Special correspondence Ocala Banner.
The box social given by the young
ladies of the public school was at
tended by the young people of Cand-
Ter, East Lake and Ocklawaha, max
ing it quite a success both socially
and financially.
The Rev. Barre, of Belleview,
preached a most interesting and in
structive sermon at the new school
building on Lake avenue last Sunday
evening. There was good attend
ance and great interest manifested in
the able sermon.
The numerous friends of Miss Kate
Scott, of Stanton, Va, will be delight
ed to hear of her expected arrival
next week to spend the winter with
DR.. w. H. Henry and family.
Mrs. C. j. Smith is preparing to
open her beautiful home as a first
class boarding house for the winter.
She will have accommodations for
about twenty-five guests.
Mr.. Sam Pyles spent several days
the past week with Judge Smith. Mr.
Pyles was looking over the road from
Lake Weir to White Ferry with a
view to having it turned into hard
road in the near future
Mr.. R. l.. Martin, of Ocala, spent
Saturday and Sunday at the Lake
Weir" hotel.
Mr.. ]. L. Driggers is building an
addition to his house, which will con-
sist of several more rooms.
The Ocala banner., 1906-10-26
@cARpETsAeeERs" BLAMED.
Negroes Ask Roosevelt to Break Up
Republican Office Holding in the
South.

New York, Oct. 24.-President
Roosevelt has been appealed to by
memters of a newly organized body
negroes Of this city to use his in
flueace to assist to better the con-
dition of the negroes Of the south by
disbanding the republican organiza-
tions in that section of the country.
The leaders, who say their work is a
new emancipation movement" the
leader of which is John B. Sypox, a
negro who was member of the Vir-
ginia legislature during reconstruc-
tion days, declares that politics is
responsible for all of the troubles Of
the negroes of the south, and say
that the carpet-bag politicians and
the white republicans are the worst
enemies of the race.
The appeal declares that the only
object of the republican organiza-
tions in the south is to obtain for
certain white men and a few negro
agitators all the federal patronage
that a, friendly president will give,
and that even states where no repub-
lican candidate could hope 20 get one
tenth of the vote the republican or
ganizations are maintained for the
sole purpose of obtaining patronage.
In a statement issued by the or
ganization is the following:
The negroes back of the move
ment think it high time the negro
should protest against being exploit
ed for the private gain of small
class of Office holders. The promoters
hope to destroy the antagonism that
was created in times of reconstruc-
tion, and establish conditions under
which the two races may live togeth-
er in peace and mutual helpfulness.
In the appeal sent to the president
and the governor of every southern
state it is stated that the troubles
of the negroes of the south were
caused by the formation of the ne
groes after the war into Loyal
Leagues" and Republican Party" or
ganizations, as weapons against the
whites of that section. This has prov
ed curse instead of a blessing to
the negroes. Another fatal error
forced upon the negroes from pulpit
to corn field is, the address states,
that a Jefferson democrat is less
friendly to the interests of the ne
groes than Lincoln republican. The
address concludes as follows:
When the day shall come that we
are no longer used by the white
men as mere human ammunition
with which to fight our neighbors,
then. and only then, can we consis-
tently go to jamestown, Va, and
on bended knees ask our God to help
the white men keep sacred the CO.
venant that He made with the found
ers of the nation