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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
SPECIALS.

Two German scientists announce the
discovery of a new anaesthetic having
all the virtues Of cocaine without the
latter's secondary i'll effects. The new
substance is called "allypine." 1t
deadens pain by local application, and
does not contain poison.
The effect of ultraviolet rays OF
light on some kinds of glass is strik-
ingly shown at high attitudes. At q
mountain station Of the Canadian Pa
cifc railway--5,OO0 or 5000 feet high
green glass telephone insulators have
changed to brilliant purple.
Many observations have convinced
Mabel S. Nelson, a British psychol-
ogist, that men hear better than wom-
en-, and that both men and women
hear farther with the right than the
left ear. Men are clearly superior in
recognizing blue, and women are pos
sibly superior in recognizing yellow.
The atmosphere contains q great
quantity OF solid matter, usually inn
~perceptible, though visible when a ray
of sunlight enters a dark room. A.
Ditto states that a cubic meter of the
air Of Paris usually contains six to
eight milligrammes Of dust-ssmetimes
% INTERCHANGEABLE away from cit
les there is less. Nearly a third Of the
city dust is organic matter Containing
living germs. The dust usually car
ries a few metals-sodium, calcium,
magnesium, aluminsiH, and especially
iron, with nickel and cobalt, the last
three being brought to the sr liz me-
teoric dust from space.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

him what to do. They knew he could
drive four horses, because he said he
wal an old stage driver, and when he
got in the chariot with the Roman suit
on cleaning with gold, and the brass
helmet, and the cloth of gold gaunt-
let's, and stood up like a senator, gee, |
was proud of him, and when he and the
female drove out Of the dressing-room
and halted by the door for the announcer
to announce the great Ben Hur chariot
race, l got into the chariot behind pa,
and told him he must win the race, or
the people of Scranton would mob him.
For they knew these races we're usually
fixed beforehand, but since he was to
drive one Of the teams, all his friends
were betting on him, and if he pulled the
team and let that livery stable lady win
the race, they would accuse him of Civ
ing them free tickets to get them in the
show and skin them out of their money.
Pa said to me: This race is
going to be on the square,
and you watch my smoke. Do
you think I would let that red-head-
ed dish washer beat me? Not on your
life
The play is to have a little boy kiss the
male driver good-by, and a little girl
kiss the female driver good-by, as
though they were taking their lives In
their hands. | had climbed up to pa
and put my arms around his neck, and
kissed him. and q girl kissed the female,
when the gong sounded, and both four.
horse teams made a jump, before I could
get out Of the chariot, 50 / got right In
front OF pa and peeked over the dash.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
THE CALL OF THE
CANADIAN WEST.
The Greatest Wheat Crop of the
Continent.

The year that has just closed has
done a great deal towards showing the
possibilities of Western Canada from
an agricultural standpoint. The wheat
crop has run very near to the 100, 600, 900
bushel limit that was looked upon as
too sanguine an estimate only a short
time ago, and the area that has been
broken to fall wheat for the coming
harvest will go a long way towards
enabling the farmers of the West to
overlap on the LOG, 900, 900 bushel esti-
mate next year. And while the spring
and winter wheat have been doing so
well during the past few years, the other
cereals have been keeping up with the
procession. Rye and barley have made
immense strides, and peas and fax have
been moving steadily along. Dairying,
also, has been successfully carried on
in the new provinces, and in every stage
the farmer has been Striking it rich"
To such an extent has the success OF
the West taken hold of outsiders that
the rush of Americans to Saskatchewan
and Alberta, which was looked upon as
marvellous last year, bids fair to be
largely exceeded in 1906, and as there
are still millions of acres of free home
steads available, which the building of
the new railways will render accessible
to the markets, new wheat lands will
be opened up ere long. Amongst the
first to avail himself Of the opportunity
presented will be the American settler.
In a large number of American cities
Dominion Government Agents are To-
Gated, who are able and willing to give
the latest and best information in re-
gard to the new districts which the rail-
ways will open up, and there will be no
abatement of the rush to the Canadian
prairies during the coming season.
Some time since a poet in the columns
OF the Toronto "Star" had the follow
ing stirring lines, which throb of the
Western spirit:
There's a stir in the air, there's a thrill
through the land, there's a movement
toward the Great West;
And the eyes of all men for the moment are
turne to the country that we love
the best;
For tits Canada's day In the worlds cal
endar, and to this merry toast let US
sup:
Here's to the land, the young giant of the
North, where the p~rairies are open
ing up!"
They come from the East and they come
from the ~South-they come Ger the
deep rolling sea-
They come, for they know they will dwell
meath a flag that makes all men equal
and free.
Then, once more the toast, and let every
man rise, and cheer ere he sips from
the cup:
Here's to the land, the young giant of the
North, where the prairies are open
ing up!"
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sounded like a coon song, coming from a
phonograph. 1t was the closest call
from death pa ever had, cause they had
to cut the helmet with a can opener
to let pa out, like you open
a can of Holsters. When they
got the helmet opened, so pa could
come out, he looked just like a
boiled lobster, and when the chief owner
of the circus come up on a run. and asked
if pa was dead, pa said: mot much,
Mary Ann; did l VIM" and the man
ager said it was a pity they ever opened
that helmet and let pa out. The man
told pa he won in a walk, but the chief
Of police of Scranton was going to arrest
pa for exceeding the speed limit.
They took pa to the dressing-room,
on a piece Of board, and when the .wom-
an driver saw him, she got an AK, and
wanted to cleave him from head to foot,
but the bearded woman stepped in front
of her and said: mot on your life"
and she shielded pa from death with her
manly form, which pa says he shall
never forget. Pas old friends in Scran-
ton gave him a banquet that night, but
pa couldn't eat anything, cause the rim
of the brass helmet cut a cash in his
Adams apple.
After the chariot race the managers
concluded they wouldn't let pa have any
position of Importance again very soon,
and made up my mind you wouldn't
ever catch me In any game that pa was
in; but in the circus business you can
never tell what is going to happen from
n day to another.
On the train On the way to Wilkes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

citizen in the show. He was offered a
chance to take the place of the clown.
the ring master or anybody whose duty
he thought he could perform. Pa Sc
lected the place of driver of the Roman
chariot with four horses abreast, in
place of the Irish Roman who was &C
customed to drive the chariot in the
race with the female charioteer, a mus
cular girl who used to clerk in a livery
stable at Chicago.
The chariot race is a fake, because it.
is arranged for the girl to win, so the
audience will go wild and cheer her,
so she has to come bowling all around
the ring. The way the job is put up is
for the two chariots to start, and go
around twice, On the first turn the mar
driver is ahead, and takes the pole,
and on the second turn the girls ahead,
and she takes the pole, and on the third
turn the man is ahead, and they begin
to whip the horses, who seem crazy, and
on the last stretch the man holds his
team back a little, and the girl passes
him and comes out a trifle ahead, and
The crowd goes wild.
Well, the master of ceremonies
coached pa about the business, and told
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

the horses jumped the hurdles all right,
but two fumbled and fell down, and there
was a crash, and | didn't know any
thing until | felt cold water on my face
that tasted sour, and colored my shirt
red, and | found the lemonade butcher
was bringing me to by pouring a tray
of lemonade over me.
When my eyes opened, l saw a sight
that l shall never forget. 1t seems that
when the horses fell down, the chariot
and the other two horses and pa and |
had landed all in a heap right on top
of the lemonade and peanut concession,
and carried it up onto a row of seats
near the main entrance from the
menagerie. The elephants that were
to come on next were in the door
waiting for their signal, and they
were scared at the crash, and
they came in believing, the keep
ers having lost all control of them.
The audience was stampeding, and the
circus men were trying to s~traighten
things out.
Pa struck on his head against a wagon
wheel and his brass helmet was driven
down over his face. so when he yelled
to be pulled out of the helmet his voice
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
EDUCATIONAL ERRATA.

The retirement of DR.. William A.
Packard as Kennedy professor Of
Latin language and literature and the
science of language at Princeton
marks the close of 35 years of active
teaching.
Granta, the Cambridge undergrad
uate organ, urges reform in the Eng
lish university education. 1t says:
Rendered unfit for business, the only
places open for the graduates are
schoolmastering and the church, and
In the uttermost parts of the earth
arc to be found graduates of Oxford
and Cambridge, now become laborers,
beggars and outcasts.'
Prof. E. w. Clark, Of Ripon col
lege, Wisconsin, has been honored by
the bureau of university travel IN
Rome in a manner which will make
it possible for him to go abroad each
summer and secure a new stock OF
material for the lectures he is deliv-
ering. He has been engaged to con-
duct the teachers excursions to the
homes NJ the ancients and will spend
the next ten years in this manner.
A step has been taken toward the
organized athletic training Of Amer
lean schoolgirls by the forming Of a
girls Branch of the Public Schools
Athletic league, of New York city.
Speaking of this movement, Miss
Grace Dodge. said that the methods
Of trqining must he different from
those Applied to the boys. A prize
of So was offered by Mrs. Henry
Sieges for the best method Of combin-
ing the essentials Of moral and ath-
letic discipline.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
REPORT.

At Fulbourn, England. the poor are
paid sixpence apiece for regular church
attendance.
The Sacred Congregation of Rites is
receiving petitions daily for the can
oniza.ion of Plus TX. 1t Is likely the
initial process will be inaugurated
soon, especially as Plus X. has given
the movement his explicit sanction.
Rev. Frank okazaki, pastor of the
Japanese Baptist mission in Seattle
supported by leading Christian Japan
ese residents, is planning to establish
a colony of immigrants from his coun.
try somewhere on Puget sound. He
desires to establish the colony in or
der that he may better spread Chris,
tian teachings among his people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
HOW KINGS HAVE DIED.
Henry /. of gluttony.
Edward vi. of a decline.
Charles I. on the Scaffold.

dWdTu VI. VI d ueCllu0.
Charles I. on the scaffold.
George III. as he lived-a mailman.
Henry VIII. of carbuncles, fat and
fury.
George Nv. of gluttony and drunk
enness.
Henry VII. wasted away, as a miser
ought.
James I. OF drinking and the effects
of vice.
Charles II. suddenly. it is said, Of
apoplexy.
Henry II. of a broken heart, occa-
stoned by the bad conduct of his chill
dren.
William III. Of consumptive habits
of body, and from the stumbling OF
his horse.
George /. from drunkenness, which
his physicians politely called an apo
plectic fit.
Edward III. of dotage, and Richard
II. of starvation, the very reverse OF
George Nv.
Henry vi. in prison, by means
known then only to the jailer, and now
known only in Heaven.
William the Conqueror from enor-
nous fat, from drink and from the
violence of his passions.
Henry Nv. is said to have died OF
"fts caused by Nneasiness," and I'M
~easiness in palaces in those times was
a very common complaint.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

have been but few cases Of its kind
before, and they have been caused by
whisky or tobacco. Leach has never
used either, but has been a great cof-
fee drinker, and the specialists have
decided that the case has been caused
by this. Leach stated himself that
for several years he had drank three
cups Of coffee for breakfast, two at
noon and one at night. According to
the records Of the specialists Of this
country this Is the first case ever
caused by the use Of coffee.
The nerve is ruined beyond aid and
his case is incurable. The fact that
makes the case a queer one is that the
sight forward has been lost and the
side sight has been retained. Accord
ing to the doctors statement, the
young man will have to give up COT
fee or the rest Of his sight will fol-
low and the entire nerve be ruined
Register Gazette.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
Expert Smokers.

The Japanese are experts on smoke
rings, and it is said in Japan it is con-
sidered no uncommon trick to blow
three rings of smoke in succession, the
second travelling through the first and
the third through both. Some stage per.
formers are credited with becoming so
expert in smoke blowing that they are
not only able to multiply the number
of rings thus made, but actually form
Japanese characters representing words
and sentences. One Japanese juggler,
it is declared, proposed to his wife by
forming the characters representing
his avowal of love through a thin
stream of smoke.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
Going for the Doctors.

The Zurich city fathers, after having
successfully devoted attention to n.y.
giene, pure water and unauthorized
food, have now tackled what has been
facetiously called "the final menace to
public health-ihe DOCTORS" Hence
forth to the physician and surgeon
Zurich will be a closed borough. Forty
members only of the profession have
been approved by thu municipality, SAL
aried at the rate Of $500 per annum
and told to attend patients gratis. The
necessary annual fund IS to be raised by
a poll tax Of four francs each Of the 112,-
900 Observation-Disclosures Medicine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

Some people question the statements
that coffee hurts the delicate nerves
Of the body. Personal experience with
thousands proves the general state
ment true and physicians have records
Of great numbers of cases that add to
the testimony.
The following is from the Rockford,
ILL.,, Register Gazette:
DR.. William Langhorst of Aurora
has been treating one of the queerest
cases Of lost eyesight ever in history.
The patient is 0. A. Leach Of Beach
county, and in the las. four months he
had doctored with all If the specialists
about the country ami has at last re-
turned home with the fact impressed
on his mind that his case is incurable.
A portion Of the optic nerve has
been ruined, rendering his sight 50
limited that he is. unable to see any
thing before him, but he can see plain.
" anything at the side Of him. There
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

board. OF the chariot, and. gee, but
didn't We fairly whizz by the poles, and
the audience looked like a panorama.
Pa got the pole and kept it, and we
went around three times, and found the
female chariot ahead of us, aus pa had
gone around twice to her n She
turned out a little right by the band
stand, and pa run his team right inside
her chariot and caught her wheel, and
when he yelled to his team, her cart,
team. and all were thrown right into the
band, which scattered over the backs
Of the seats. The horses were all
mixed W with the instruments, and the
female driver was thrown into the air
and came down in a sitting position
right into the bass drum. She went
right through the sheepskin, so her
head and hands and feet were ali of
her that remained outside the drum.
She yelled for help, and the circus
hands rolled the drum, with her in it,
into the dressing-room, where they had
to cut the sides of the drum with an ak,
to get her out, while others caught her
horses, and pulled the chariot out of the
band, and the music stopped; but pa
went on forever.
He went around six times, yelling like
an Indian at a green corn dance, and
when he thought it was time to let up,
because he had missed the other char
lot, he pulled so hard he broke the lines
on the two inside horses, and then it was
a runaway for sure, and the audience
stood up on the seats and yelled, and
women tainted.
Finally the circus hands grabbed some
hurdles, and threw them across the
track, near the main entrance, and when
we came around the last time, two OF
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
LOST EYESIGHT
Through Coffee Drinking

Let 1t be remembered that the eyes
may be attacked in one case and the
stomach in another, while in others it
may be kidneys, heart, bowels or gen.
eral V prostration. The remedy
is obvious and should be adopted be-
farN too late.
Quit coffee, If you show incipient
disease.
1t Is easy IL one can have we'll
boiled Postum Food Coffee to serve for
the hot morning beverage. The
withdrawal of the old kind Of coffee
that is doing the harm and the sup
|ply Of the elements in the Postum
which Nature uses to rebuild the
broken down nerve cells, insures a
quick return to the old Joy Of strength
land health, and it's we'll worth while
10 be able again to do things" and
feel well. There's a reason for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
Afraid of Carrie Nation

According to a st, Louis report, Car.
RE Nation was in that city the other
day on her way to fill a. lecture en-
gagement. Hearing that Miss Phoebe
Couzins, the noted woman suffragist,
was at one of the hotels there, Mrs.
Nation called and sent up her card.
Miss Couzins told the bellboy: Il do
not want either to see or talk with
Mrs. Nation" Carrie departed in tri.
umph, saying Miss Couzins was afraid
of an interview. The latter dryly CO..
incided In this view on hearing "a
the saloon smasher's 'remarx
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

Ohio was a hoodoo for the circus
business, and Kentucky got the whole
bunch ready for a long stay at Dwight,
ILL.,, but the agent routed us into Penn
sylvania, and pa has had nothing but
q series of disasters since striking the
state.
Pa gave notice that when we got to
his old home, at Scranton, where he
lived when he was a boy, he wanted to
sort of run things, so his old neighbors
would see that he had got up in the
world since he left the old town. So the
manager gave pa about 400 free tickets
to distribute among his friends, and ar
ranged for pa to show off as the leading
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18

tressing I dreaded their approach.
This was my condition for four years.
Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right
away when 1 began with them and
three boxes cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
an EVERYDAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Garry the Heavy Load
of Kidney Sickness.
Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main Street,
Haverhill, Mass, says: 1898 l was

suffering SO with
sharp pains in the
small OF the back
and had such fire.
quent dizzy spells
that l could scarcely
get about the house.
The urinary pass
ages were also quite
irregular. Monthly
pariods wera en- dis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-18
Copyright BY J. B. BowIs<,

The Bad Boy and His Pa Drive a Ro-
man Chariot-They Win the Race,
But Meet with Dificulties-The
Bearded Lady to the Rescue-A
Farmers Cart Breaks Up the Cir
Gus Procession.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
SOLD WRONG CATTLE.
A Case That Will Be of Much In
terest TO Audrain Stock Men.

The Vandalia Leader last week
contained the following item:
Attorney j. o. Allison aud Dep.
uty Sheriff Brown of Rails county,
representing W.. L.Cranston of st
Louis, were here Tuesday to replivin
25 head of cattle bought by E. NJ.
Gordon at the National stock yards
last October. Cranston claims to
have bought the cattle the day be-
fore of Salisbury man and had
had them in pen and that one
Harry Burlinger had by mistake
sold them to Mr.. Gordon as his
own. The cattle were released to
Mr.. Gordon by the stock yards
company who stand good for any
loss he may sustain in the way Of
title. Geo. d. Copeland, of Sails
bury, who claims to have origi-
nally owned the cattle and sold
them to Mr.. Cranston, was also
here to identify them.
Pending termination of the suit,
which comes up at the Rails coun-
ty circuit court> an agreement was
reached by the parties by which
Mr.. Gordon is to keep the cattle
until some time in August. when
they are to be shipped to the ma
tional,stock yards company. the
proceeds of the sale to be held by
the company until the matter is
adjusted. Some of the Cranston
cattle, it is alleged, were purchased
by Ollie Smith, near Center. US,
Gatson, attorney for Mr.. Gordon
says that neither MIR. Gordon ol
Mr. Smith will lose anything by
the transaction as each holds re
ceipt from the stock yards com
pany.
Mr.. Gordon is an extensive
feeder and each year has severa
loads of finished cattle on the mar
ket.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
The Missouri Idea !"

At the County convention at
Mexico Monday a strong resolution
was passed complimentary to w.
j. Bryan and endorsing him for
president in 1908. The resolution
expresses the universal sentiment
of the democrats of Audrain coun-
ty.-Farber Forum.
And that same convention en-
dorses George Robertson as suit
able person for supreme judge.
Mr.. Robertson, it will be remem-
bered, was a gold-bug in 1896
when Bryan was candidate the
first time. Now be is endorsed by
the Bryan Democrats at home
where he is best known. That
looks somewhat like the people
were getting together again, don't
itf
There is no stronger man with
the people than Mr.. Bryan, but
Mr.. Joseph Wingate Folk will be
the presidential nomineenext time,
unless great changes come about
before the convention meets. Mr.
Folk stands for anti. graft in all its
particulars. and he is the logical can
didate Of events. Corruption ant
graft that stalk abroad from Wash.
ington to every capital, and ever,
part Of machinery OF government
will be the issue in the next cam
paign, and there will be genera
cleaning out. Gov. Folk stande
for the platform aud the people
stand with him. Bryan will advo.
cate his nomination, if we are noi
mistaken. Might as well get ready
FOR the Missouri Idea - Mont
gomery Standard.
The above comments by th,
standard are a little further on
point or two than the MESSAGE ha,
yet thought Of going II win max
the eternal doctrine Of hate
fellows chew,
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

The Custer Co. (Neb.) Beacon
tells of hen out that way the
other day which got on the cow
catcher of train and failed to
get off. When she saw the train in
motion, she squatted down and ap
parently resolved to make the best
Of an awkward situation. When
found near Merna, by the fireman,
she had laid an egg, but, contrary
to the common custom Of hen,
she was not cackling. The theory
is advanced that the hen had
heard Of the San Francisco disas-
ter, had boarded the train for the
scene and had, at the beginning,
commenced to provide a supply Of
eggs for the sufferers.