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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

THE prevalence of divorces in the
i United States is a reproach alike
to the country and to the church, is
the declaration of DR.. Robert Stuart
Macarthur. The American republic
has a most unenviable prominence in
this regard. The detailed accounts of
suits for divorce, as these suits are
pressed in the various courts, are dis
gushing in the extreme. They bring
reproach alike upon American men
and women in all parts of our country.
These facts are admitted and at the
same time are sadly regretted by our
best citizens and our most devoted
churchmen and churchwomen.
The causes for divorce are m
Gus. They are not limited in re-
sponsibility, either to men or to
women 1t is not a sufficient state
ment to say that the broader educa-
ton of Women and their emancipa-
ton from the greater subsection of
former years is the chief cause, as
Mrs. Anna Rogers says. The men
and women who rush into the divorce
courts elicit our contempt for their
vulgarity and ~coarseness, not to use
even stronger terms. It is difficult so
to control ones moral indignation be-
cause of the vulgarity of these d.
vorce cases as to speak of them with
the restraint becoming a newspaper
article. How men and women can
stoop to charge abominable crimes
against each other in order to secure
divorces makes one ashamed of his
race. %Idleness, lack of spiritual occu-
patton and suggestion, and vulgar con-
formity to low ideals in life-these
are causes largely responsible for the
prevalence Of divorce. Hasty mar
riage is also somewhat responsible.
Many men and women rush into mar
riage with less serious thoughfulness
than they would show regarding any
ordinary business transaction. The
clergy also are somewhat responsible
by the haste with which they Of
hciate at marriages without knowing
the facts in the case Of those who de-
sire to enter into this relationship.
Marriage must be made more hon
orable, its obligations must be lifted
to a higher level. In a single word,
the correction of the evils of divorce,
as in the case of all other evils, must,
in its %fnality, depend upon higher
spiritual ideals, nobler characters and
more religious conceptions Of all the
duties and obligations Of life in its
manifold relations. Uniform divorce
laws in the states would partially re
move the evils Of divorce. There is
no one specific cause-there Is no one
specific cure. When men and women
realize their dignity and glory as the
! children of God and heirs Of eternity
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

the side Of a steep mountain. The open
cut shows a great variety Of rocks
and minerals, flint and quartz being
the most prominent.
The emeralds are found In a fossil
ferrous limestone which shows in gray
streaks among the darker rocks. The
| Spaniards used to get at the gems by
driving adits into the hill following
The veins. Now the open cut has been
adopted and the rock Is terraced from
above.
High UP on the mountain there are
copious water courses. These are
directed into artificial reservoirs and
fumes-one of them six miles long
are carried down to the mine. The
quantity Of water is so great that even
In dry seasons there Is sufficient to
carry on operations.
AS the rocks are pulyerized the de-
bris Is converted into slime and car
ried by the water down the mountain
to the Rio Minero far below, which
sweeps 1t along to the sea. The gems
are picked from the washing troughs
by poems, who keep breaking up the
rock smaller and smaller, SO that
nothing Is lost.
Altogether more than 100 laborera
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

are employed. They receive 25 pests
In paper, equivalent to rs cents a day
in United States money, besides food,
shelter and free medical attend
ance.
None Of them stands the work very
long, says the New York Sun. The
intense heat, especially in the bottom
Of the great pit of the mine, and the
working in water break them down
rapidly, and they fall victims to the
local fever.
They work under canvas awnings
and fix palm leaves over their heads
to keep off the glare of the sun, but as
the day veal on the atmosphere in
the pit often rises to a temperature
Of lib to 100 degrees, and 1t becomes
as humid as that of a Turkish bath
through the evaporation from the
washing pans and the slime.
At every stage Of the work the syn
dictate inspectors watch the poems
scrupulously. Every stone is turned
over to them the instant 1t Is found.
They clean IT and report 1t to the
government officials.
Until two or three years ago 1t was
supposed that the Muse mines were
practically exhausted, but this was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
MAKES BIG CLAIMS
THE AMERICAN ECONOMIST ON
TARIFF AND THE PANIC.
Unfortunately the Statement That
the Tariff Was Responsible for
ouieting Financial FURRY Is
Not Borne Out by Facts.


It is indeed a pleasure to know
from such an exalted authority as
the American Economist, the organ
of the tariff.protected trusts, that the
panic is over, and it was the high
tariff which cured our financial ills.
But in spite of this assurance of the
Economist there is every day still
published news of this and that fac
tory shutting down, or discharging
half or more of their workmen, and of
wages being reduced. Is the tariff
which protects the trusts working at
cross purposes, or is the Economist
mistaken in its diagnosis of present
conditions? Even the New York pa
pers, which have evidently entered
into a league for the purpose of mini
MIXING the panic, do not e able
to swallow the good news that the
panic is over, or that the protective
tariff saved the day. I'VE know, Of
course, that protection brought us all
our national blessings" a y the
Evening Post, land would, If not hin
dered now and then by satanic free.
traders, avert every public ill; but
we did not expect to see the truth set
forth so bluntly as it is by the Econo-
mist. The tariff it says, had moth
ing whatever to do with bringing on
this financial furry, but it had a ire
mendous lot to do with quieting it,
We can easily understand, therefore,
that faith in protection was never
more alive since people have seen 1t
cause the worst money panic the
country has known for Is years to
disappear inside of five days Our
only regret is that the bankers and
trust company presidents and the Sec
rotary of the treasury should have
been in ignorance of all this, and
should have spent haggard days and
nights owe the questions Of reserve
and gold imports, when all the while
there was the tariff fairy godmother
making their anxiety needless and
their labors superfluous.
There be those that claim that the
tariff has SO protected the trusts and
,monopolists that it has led them to
branch out too greatly after the enor-
nous profits the tariff has protected
them in charging, and this kind of
bolstered up prosperity has just
broken down of it's own weight for
lack of enough fuel to feed on. Wheth-
er this VfSw is the correct, one, or
whether the organ of the trusts is cor
rect in its statement that the panic
is over, and that "the tariff had moth
ing to do with bringing on this finan-
cial furry, but it had a tremendous
lot to do with quieting it," will soon
be seen, and the truth will eventually
prevail. The last Republican plat.
form declared that "a Republican
tariff has always been followed by
business prosperity" but then that
was so VIGOROUSLY untrue that ii
should be taken with due allowance
as simple partisan Boosting, and the
boast of the Economist may be like
unto it. Time will tell and not very
long will be required, either.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
I Bread Upon the Waters |
By Kate Wallace Clements s
By Kate Wallace Clements
(copyright)

upon In the light of a disgrace. Moth
ing appeared quite so appalling as
the life of an actress. Involuntarily
they associated it with scant apparel
and rouged face. She was dead to
themi
Ten years passed, bringing naught
but adversely to John S%paulding. The
crops had failed, many of his choicest
cattle had died. Poverty had come
to them, grim, dire poverty.
Better sell the place out before it
would go to rack and ruin. Oh! how
they loathed to part with 1t, the roof
that had sheltered them for many
years. Still, the creditors must be ap-
peased.
She promised to come back some
day" she murmured. The tears fell
fast and thick on Mrs. Spaulding's
faded gown. "She will find only
strangers here" she said, bitterly.
A letter had come from the agent
that week, stating that a purchaser
had been found. He, the agent, would
run down with the party toward the
close of the week, and now-why! it
a Thursday. Surely this was the
close of the week.
IF Tidy were only here" She
chung to the strange name through all
these years. Yes, if the child were
here she might comfort her,
Poor old soul! Through her tear
dimmed eyes she saw a carriage drive
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
Kindly Charles Lamb.

Charles Lamb was awakened early
n morning by a noise in his kitchen,
and on going down to that apartment
found a burglar doing his spoons UP
In a bundle.
why DIDO you s-s-st-t-teal?' he
asked.
Because I'm starving" returned the
house-breaker, ~sullenly.
Are y-you r%e-re-really ver-very
hung-hung-gug-gery-hungry?' asked
Lamb.
Very replied the burglar, turning
away.
"Pup-pup-poor fuf-fuf-fellow," said
the essayist. "H-here's a llleg Of II
L-Lamb for YOU
And 80 saying, with IA d~exterous
movement Of his right leg, he elected
the marauder into the street, and lock-
ing the door securely went back to
bed. The burglar contested after
wards that he didn't see the joke for
six weeks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

MARITAL unrest is neither an off.
IV1 spring of the new woman nor the
evil outgrowth of freer and juster di-
vorce laws, declares DR.. Clarke
Houghton. 1t is as old as the world.
To charge it up to the conscience of
the new woman" is neither fair mind
ed nor rational. The Old Testament
reeks with it, and the biographers of
our great warriors, statesmen, poets
and prophets all the way down the
ages, from Earle or Gorky of the pres.
ent day back to Potiphar's wife and
David of old show it to have been the
same yesterday, to-day and forever!
David's own wives are described
as women of comely countenance and
Of good understanding, and there is
no record where either Abigail or
Ahinoam closed their cook books to
study law or uttered a single idea not
| the echo of their joint husband. If
they had, who knows? They might
have saved him from the sin of send
ing the poor Hittite to the aforefront
Of the hottest battle that he might
take his beautiful wife Bathsheba.
Who knows, had they seasoned the
sameness of the married way with
an occasional dash of original thought?
The sacred Milton, the divine Shell
ley, Cicero, Dante and the immortal
| Shakespeare are all melancholy ex-
amples of marital unrest, though
none of them was divorced.
If divorce is growing greater 1t is
not because marital unrest is grow
ing worse, but because offenses in
marriage and hypocrisy are growing
less.
To make the happiness Of the indi-
viduals only an incident in marriage
Is only to defend DR.. Adler's dream
of a higher and finer race. Insure the
happiness Of husband and wife and it
will follow as the day the night that
we will have a finer generation of off
spring and a purer society of men and
] women.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

XXTHAT we need is a doctrine Of
w marriage. There is no clear
cut doctrine of marriage. The church
is tied up to the ethics Of 1000 years
ago, the oriental fantasies of Paul.
"The old idea of marriage vas in
culcated and secured through two
fundamental principles-reverence to
parents and the understanding that
marriage was to be permanent. These
principles are both imperiled,' is the
idea of DR.. Felix Adler.
Under present conditions they are
no longer tenable, for the first was
founded on the idea that the child had
no rights except through its parents.
Its position was n Of the sub
servience, of unquestioned obedience
to the parents, and IS regards the per
manence Of the marriage tie, 1t was
chiefly a bond that tied the woman to
the man. Her position was N OF
subordination.
To-day we admit that the child has
rights which we are bound to respect
and that the woman is the equal OF
the man.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
WHY?

meets because we are not submissive
to our husbands misconception and
misunderstanding of u.s."
But" the defenders of the conven.
tional type of woman reply, you can
not accomplish anything great in lit.
erature, science or religion, and you
never have produced works of great
and universal genius. The most you
can do is to make your W bread and
butter. Your trivial creations in art
and literature can be spared, and it is
your intellectual discomfort and I'm.
rest that is spreading the divorce
germ, which threatens soon to de-
velop into a divorce epidemic. Take
the place assigned to you by nature,
be mans helpmeet and all will be
WELL"
Has higher education made woman
dissatisfied with the domestic sphere?
Or is it that the nigh tension of
modern everyday business life has
prevented the husband from giving
his wife the romantic attentions and
caresses demanded by her nature?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
Modern Man Too Busy.

1t is not uncommon for the wives
of business men to spend summe in
Europe and winter in the south, and
many times they find in these places
the romantic companionship and at
tention their own husbands had not
time to give them at home.
Like birds in a gilded cage" they
we're treated, their husbands sending
them packages of lace and bundles of
silks, and bringing them home hand.
fuls of jewels, but if they ever sus.
pected their wives need of romance
and tenderness they were unable to
supply it, because of the demands on
their time by their many business in
~terests.
Or is it that the modern inventions
for picking, preserving, dyeing and
cleaning have left the twentieth cen.
fury woman with vast leisure" on
her hands, and has her lack of domes,
tic occupations and cares made her
dissatisfied and hypercritical of her
busy and worried husband?
And does she brood over his "cold.
ness all day because in his haste to
keep some business engagement he
hurries forth without the morning
kiss?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12

up the pathway, stopping at the gate.
The future occupant of her home, no
doubt. 1t would never do to let
them witness her grief; she must
brush the tears away. She bent her
face closer over the worn coat she
was mending. She heard the soft
rustic of garments, while the odor
of violets came to her.
The m must be rich to wear
such beautiful clothes. What could
she want with the farm? She al
most hated her. Was she not taking
the roof from over their heads?
%"Well, now, that's what l call a gen
erous Offer"
1t was the agent who spoke, bland
and smiling.
What do you say to that, Mrs.
~Spaulding?" he went on. THE lady
says you may remain for awhile; until
autumn. 1t will give you time to
look about and"
I'VE don't want to remain" broke
in old John Spaulding, seated in the
chimney corner, with hands hardened
by toll folded in a helpless sort Of
fashion across his knee. mo, no."
he muttered, I'VE can't take favors,
leastwise from strangers. Can we,
Lisbia"
His wife shook her head sadly.
TITS a very kind offer" she said,
"but we cannot accept it."
"You cannot take it?" asked "a
sweet, musical voice. mot even from?
Don't you know me, mother"
Not Tildywinks?
She stood before them, beautiful
and smiling. 1t vas she who had
purchased the old home. "The bread
cast upon the waters had indeed come
back"
TELL me, Tidy, darling" asked
the elder woman, looking at her
through tears of joy, you are not an
actress? You don't sing in"
only sacred music, mother" she
answered. knowing your views on
the subject, ] have respected them.
In the world Of music | am known
as"
She whispered a name whose fame
had reached even that quiet little ham
let.
Then you are Mademoiselle-"
She silenced the lips with a kiss.
ITO the world, yes; but to you let me
always be plain Tildywinks."
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N OF
Emeralds Worth a Million Taken
Out Last Year.

The German minister in Bogota,
Colombia, has sent to his government
a detailed report Of the emerald
mines Of Muse. in the Department Of
Boyaca. These mines have undergone
maay vicissitudes.
After the country broke away FROM
Spain they were first held by Boyaca
aid worked for its benefit in an indo-
lent sort of way. Then the national
government laid claim to them and
they were shiftiessly worked by vari-
Gus concession holders. Until the most
recent revolution nobody paid any
attention to the workings or the value
of the stones taken from them.
Now they have been leased to q
Colombian syndicate for five years and
q rigid government supervision Is ex
ercised over the output. 1t is the In
tention of the administration when the
lease expires to take up the working
OF the mines on Its own account.
From the mining village a narrow
path leads 70 the mines $50 feet III
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Mistakes of Roosevelt,

If President Roosevelt is as care
less of his financial facts as he is Of
the law on several matters he will
hardly go down into history as a safe
man to follow. There is no excuse for
a president to make misstatements
about the laws or the financial affairs
of the United States, for he has an
army Of legal and financial talent to
look up the law and the facts, and
when he said there was mo legal war
rant" for placing on the coins Of the
United States the motto I'm God we
trust" he had evidently never ex-
amined the laws of the United States
relating to coinage" wherein section
five, chapter c expressly provides for
the use of the motto.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
"New Woman" Blamed.

Writers who defend the conven-
tional and domestic type of woman
put all the blame on the new wom-
an They say she has left her legiti-
mate sphere-the home-that she no
longer loves or inspires love, and that,
in defiance of all history and her own
apparent destiny, refuses to consider
marriage and motherhood the object
of her existence.
They urge she has abandoned the
hearthstone to become a writer, an
artist, a playwright, an actress, a
teacher, or whatnot, and during the
period in which she has gained her
rights (the last 20 years. the mar
rage institution has been assailed on
all sides.
Is it the new woman's" fault?
The new woman" differs from her
sister In this respect at least-she
has no tlattery for "the tyrant man.
She turns right around and places all
the blame for the marital unrest on
his shoulders.
Man does not understand our com
pick nature" she says, "and while he
considers marriage as only one stage
of his own mental and spiritual devel
opment, he insists that we shall con,
slider it the only excuse for our ex
istence.
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Labor's Attitude.

The American Federation Of Labor
seems to be in nc mood to consent to
a reduction of wages as a way out Of
the Roosevelt panic. In his recent re.
port at jamestown, during the annual
session of the federation, President
Gompers said that he felt it incumbent
on him ito press home upon the at.
tention Of labor the economical un-
s%oundness Of the school of political
economists which advocated the as
sent of workmen to wage-reduction as
a means to what they were pleased to
term the way out of an industrial re-
action or crisis"
The federation doesn't believe that
crooked financial methods is a cure.
all for bad government, or that labor
should be robbed In order to make
good the losses Of spectators Of the
Corey-Stillman stripe. The attitude Of
organized labor in the next campaign
is rendered highly important BY such
dellverances. 1t does not believe n
illegal currency any more than 1t does
in government ownership Of railroads.
or other Bryan-Roosevel fads.
NNN NM----.f--.
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of the romantic bliss of courtship7
And when they find each day there is
less ecstasy and more im~perfections
discoverable in each other do they
rush Immediately and without second
thought to the divorce courts?
The reason, 81 just got tired Of Al
fred" or Margaret became such a
bore" has been given by more than
one person who has applied for df-
vorce. Looking in marriage for indi-
vidual happiness only, how could they
remember their duty to the state?
Sociologists, writer's, doctors and
legalists on all hands are asking,
What is to be done? Should there
be a uniform divorce law that all the
different states will ratify? Should
the magistrate, the priest and the
preacher, when marrying couples, inn
press upon them the sociological as
pect of their union, as well as the
spiritual and romantic?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
From Various Views.

From Various Views.
The different churches have DIFF
ferent beliefs concerning marriage,
the different states have different
laws governing it, and they are both
content to rest their case there!
Thus the greatest sociological prob
lem in the United States to-day is be-
ing tossed back and forth as If it
were some rubber ball, and yet
1900, 900 divorces in 20 years are ure
to leave their influence on many lives
and many families.
Back in 1748 Nine. de Chateauroux
said: 81 see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow If no remedy is
used"
What she said about the political
condition of France then we may say
about the divorce situation in the
United States to-day.
The divorce congress two years ago
accomplished practically nothing, we'll
intentioned as it was. If federal legis-
lation is urged in the spring on the
strength of the detailed report of the
census bureau it will be challenged on
the ground of its being unconstitu-
tional.
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sides of the family? Do they not
realize its integral relation to the
state?
Do they consider it as a personal
thing, and does their dull sense of the
sociological aspect of marriage dull
them to the sociological aspect of di.
vorce?
Or are marriages too lightly entered
into? Rev. DR.. Houghton, pastor Of
THE Little Church Around the Cor
ner," now has the bans called, which
means that three weeks public notice
is given of all intended marriages in
the church.
Do husbands and wives expect to
find in marriage only a continuation
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
A SONG Of Friendship.

There is no sue thing as "a friend for a
day"
Or "a friend in sunny weather."
For the friend of to-day is a friend for
aye,
Or an enemy altogether.
His friend is a king who can do no
wrong, y
Who never can err or fail;
And he asks not why, knows no ''you''
or IT.,
And has room for two on the trail.
So sing me no song Of your critical
friend,
Who questions where duty may call.
A friend is a friend to the bitter end,
Or he isn't a friend at all.
Charles Pollock, in New York Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
He Gets the Chance,

There is me advantage which a
judge always has in his profession"
What is that?"
Whether he succeeds in a given
case or not, he can always try it,
Baltimore American.
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Very Much So.

When links went home last night
ne found his wife fairly boiling with
anger and weeping scalding tears"
He remarked this morning that he
had been in hot water..-Baltimore
American.