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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

house of the past was ever more jubilant-
ly welcomed by his Satanic Majesty than
yesterday. We pray Heaven no COM
ing day may be ordained to go against
yesterdays record for tigerish cruelty and
awful destruction. 1t is rumored that
Mr.. Brownley of Randolph G. Randolph,
either for himself or his clients cleared
$25, 0OO,0 900 Of profit. We believe that this
estimate is Iowa The losses coming
through Robert Brownley's terrible on
slaught must have run over $500, 900, 900.
Wall street and the country will do well
to take the moral of yesterdays market
to their heart. 1t is this: The cofcen-
tration OF wealth in the HAND of q few
Americans is a menace to our financial
structure. 1t is the unanimous opinion
Of the Street that Robert Brownley could
never have succeeded In battering down
the price of sugar in the very teeth OF
the Camemeyer and Standard Oil support
as he did yesterday, without a cash back
ing of from $50, 900, 900 to 500, 000,00 If a
vast aggregation of money owners delib-
erately place themselves behind an on
slaught such as was so successfully made
yesterday, why can that slaughter not be
repeated at any time, on n stock, n
against the support Of any backing?'
When I read this and listened to
talk along the same lines, | was puz-
zled. / could not for the life Of me
see where Bob BROMLEY could have
got five to ten millions backing for
such a raid, much less fifty to a hun
dred Yet ! vas forced to confess
that he must have had some tremen-
dous backing; else how could he
have done what I had seen him do?
(TO BE CoNTINUED)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

stake was not He simply saiA;
Thank God. ! thought that prince
Of cheats, Fate, who all through life
has had his foot on the button of my
game. was the one who did the trick"
Long suffering had driven the old
gambler to the losers bible, Philoso-
ply! Cheated by mans device, he
knew he had some chance Of get
ting even; but Fate he could not
combat.
Bob BROMLEY had thought himself
in hard luck when his eyes opened
to the fact that he had been robbed
by means of dice loaded by man, but
when Fate pressed the button he saw
that his man-made hell was but a
feeble imitation, and-was satisfied,
as whoever knows the game of life
is satisfied, because-he must be.
Bob's strong head bowed, his iron will
bent, and meekly his soul murmured:
"Thy will be DONE"
That night he married Beulah
Sands. The minister who united the
grown-up man and the woman who
was as a newborn babe saw nothing
extraordinary in the match. He
murmured to me, who acted as best
man to the groom, maid of honor to
the bride. and father and mother to
both: 1--WE see strange sights, we
ministers of the great city, Mr.. Ran
dolph. The sweet little lady appears
to be a trifle scared" My explana-
ton that she and Mr.. BROMLEY were
the awful survivors of the awful
Tragedies of the day was sufficient.
He was satisfied when he got no other
response to his question: do you
take this man to be your welded hus-
band?" than a sweet childish smile
as she snuggled closer to Bob.
Bob and his bride went south to
his mother and sisters the next day.
He left to me the settlement of his
trades. He instructed me to set
aside $3,000,0 900 profits for Beulah
Sands-Brownley, and insisted that I
pay from the balance the notes he had
given me a few weeks before. There
remained something ver $4,000, 900
for himself.
The leading Wall street paper, in
its preaching on the panic, wound up
with:
wall street has lived through many
black Fridays. Some of them nave been
Observation-Disclosures Fridays, but no
Friday get marked from the calendar, no
Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday yet garnered to the store
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
eooDisY, OLD YEAR.
BY Clifford Kane Stout.

LL"
Good-by, Old Year. your mission ends
With midnight chimes and all is done:
The records writ with joy or less,
The deeds fulfilled and guerdons won
Are hung as trophies round thy rlme,
And thou are named with olden time.
Forevermore: oh, fateful past,
That saw so much no law can change:
Beginning Inc the end of things
That were to be, the new and strange.
The old and worn and bloom and blight.
Passed to the dark or born to light.
And, oh, for some happy year:
Sweet wedding bells rang ~joyously;
Old friends clasped hands and strangers
met,
And sunshine fell 50 glad and free
On buoyant youth, and smiles were fair
And laughter bantered pain n care.
Some tears must fall in every year.:
Your portion came when grief had aetf
A badge OF mourning on the hearts
or some whose love could not forget,
And hopefully, without dismay.
They covered friends OF yesterday.
Good-by, Old Year we regret the New:J
When we recall your gifts and cost
May then q double portion show
Thy favors won DER which was lost.
Good-byi A hand AZ parting then
Al benediction and amen.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Now Is the Time to Turn Over the
New Leaf.

How have you hated yourself dur
ing the past year for doing the mean.
contemplate, questionable thing! Yet,
you have tried to console yourself
with the great good you could do with
the money you made by it. 1t is
astonishing how men will play with
the poison of dishonesty, which is so
insidious at first, which intoxicates
and stimulates one, but paralyzes and
kills later, says DR.. Marden in Success.
If every youth were only taught that
to be successful a man must be great
er than his occupation; that his char
acter must not be for sale at any
price; that he will always be rich so
long as he retains it, and just in pro-
portion to its strength and integrity,
and weak and unhappy and a failure
no matter how much money he may
have, just in proportion to the weak
ness of his character; if he only
started out with the conviction that
only n real failure is possible, and
that is the loss of self respect, the
barter of ones character, either for
pleasure or for money; if the youth
were only taught that he cannot afford
to deceive even a little bit in the
quality Of goods he is selling, or in
the quality of the service he Is giving,
what a revolution would come to our
civilization!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

He slowly rose to his feet. / could
see from his eyes and the shudder
that went oyer him as he caught sight
of the paper on the desk that he was
himself; that memory of the happen
ings Of the day had not fed in his
sleep. He rose to his full height, his
head went up, and his shoulders back,
but only from habit and for an in
slant. Then he folded Beulah Sands
to his breast and dropped his head
upon her shoulder. He sobbed like a
father with the corpse of his child.
why, Bob, my Bob, is this the way
you treat your Beulah when she's let
you sleep so your beautiful eyes
would be pretty for the wedding? Is
this the way to act before this kind
man who has come to take us to the
church? Naughty, naughty Bob"
l looked at her, at Bob, in horror.
l was beginning to realize the abso-
lutte deafness of this woman. From
the first look / had known that her
mind had fled. but knowledge is not
" H
always realization. She did not even
know who l was. Her mind was dead
to all but the man she loved, the
man who through all those long days
of her suffering she had silently wor-
SHIPPED. To all but him she was new
born.
At the sound Of wedding"
Church." Bob's head slowly rose from
her shoulder. l saw his decision the
instant l caught his eye; I realized
the uselessness of opposing it, and,
sick at heart and Mortified, I listened
as he said in a voice now calm and
soothing as that of a father to his
child: Eyes, Beulah. my darling, /
have slept too long. Bob has been
naughty, but we will make up for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

lost time. Get your hat and cloak
and we'll hurry to the church, or we
win be late"
With a laugh of joy she followed
him to the closet where hung the
little gray turban and the pretty gray
Jacket. He took them from their peg
and gave them to her.
mot a word, JIM" he babe me. TN
the name of God and all our friend
ship, not a word. Beulah Sands will
be my wife as soon as I can find a
minister to marry us. 1t is best, best.
1t is right. It is as God would have
1t, or l am not capable Of knowing
right from wrong. Anyway, it is what
will be. She has no father, no moth
er, no sister, no one to protect and
shield her. The system has robbed
her of all in life. even Of herself, of
everything, Jim, but me. l must try
to win her back to herself, or to make
her new world a happy one-a happy
n for Ler."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
VieWinu with Alarm.

Mr.. John D. Rockefeller thinks the
panic sis due to the needless alarm
of the people and their action in with
drawing accounts from solvent insti-
%tutions." But can the people be ex-
pected to be free from alarm when
they view the selfish actions of the
trust magnates and the untoward po-
litical management of the Republican
leaders? With financial and po-
litical leaders united to allow the
p%lundering of the people can they be
blamed for viewing with alarm the
state of affairs?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Cling TO Ancient Rites.

Allah's will. The interpreter inter
viewed them and discovered that they
were the wives Of a Moor whom the
new Kaid had imprisoned for the
usual sin--the ownership Of riches.
This brigand plundered everything
and turned the women out to starve.
Hearing Of the approach Of q Basha-
dor, a friend, no doubt, Of our lord the
sultan, they came to offer sacrifice
that he might have pity on them.
Alas! nothing q be done. the Kaid
Is all powerful, even the sultan is
helpless. Sometimes a bullock is
hamstrung on our road. Strange to
say the sacrificed animal cannot be
used for food by the petitioners. but
our escorts profit and drag of the
carcasaes with happs grina-~NRtionai
Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
A Curious Proposition.

The president no doubt had in mind
the collection by Cortelyou of the
large sums for the Roosevelt cam
paign from the life insurance com
panies; from national banks; from
tariff beneficiaries; from Hartman
and other malefactors Of great wealth,
for he informs congress that the need
for such corruption would vanish if
an appropriation was made for the
expenses Of each Of the two great
national parties. That would be tough
on the Prohibitionists, the Populists,
the Socialists and other parties, to be
taxed to defeat themselves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

but there VA no. exchanges OF that sor1A
or We should all be noble sinners.
The petty fanlts are the thorns that
cluster round some Of the finest POSED
in LIES big garden, crowding. iarrfng.,
overlapping one another In their easer4
ness TO get TO the light.
Maybe the old year has been a goodl
friend in some special instances that
you can recall.
Perhaps it brought you back WITH
g. short, sharp shock from a too arro-
earthquakes or an oxerconhdent sue
cess.
Be glad Of that Jar, even though tt
kept you stirred up for awhile.
Perhaps the past u months have
healed some breach or brought snme
ship home, the white sails Of which
you have been watching wtstfnIIy for
months or years far u At Tea
Be glad Of that
Perhaps some milestone has fallen
from you and you stand free at Last on
the great highway with long, manacled
arms reached out to the sky.
Be gladr
Or peace has settled on a troubled
ocean and you can greet the sunrise
with a smile and a prayer of thankful
ness for another day.
Maybe there Is a cradle In n cor
ner OF your home this New Years eve
with a most Important guest cllddled
In down blankets and roae-Ieaf palms
upturned for your kisses i,
No need to tell you to be glad
Or success has come to crown some
effort at which you have tofled rather
YEARLY hardly daring to hope
Or II It has been withheld, be glad
that you have nevertheless tried 1t
will all come to you some day.
The old year has taught us Iessons-
Let us profit by them and enter into
the new armed with experience rather
than plunge into it as though It were
a rose garden
1t fs quite as full of danger and CON
iict and clouds as the old friend that
~ o~AAOS
Let us wish 1t WILL have even as
much sunshine and gladness and joy.
We can meet it with splendid hope
and lively faith-for those two quail
ties are what make our dreams come
true.
Let us cherish a few good hopes that
it may bring us the things we stand
in need of-heaith, happiness, good
friends success, joy and the clear
vision that will teach us to discern the
false from the true. '
May it leave us our beliefs and our
ideals.
Teach us to love more and to hate
not at all. q
To be content with the blessings that
we have.
To cultivate sweetness and good ma
ture rather than e~xclusiveness. J
To meet the world with a smile.
To stife criticism of things and peo-
pie.
Never to make little of our own.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
TooL CT WALL STREET.
Majority In Congress Not Likely 10
Effect Financial Reform.

Those who expect that congress win
enact the financial reform legislation
that is demanded will probably be
doomed to disappointment. some kind
of a financial measure will perhaps
be agreed to, but it will fall far short
of meeting the unfortunate conditions
that Republican policies have pro-
duced. In any event, only a compro-
mise measure may be expected, for
even the bankers are divided into two
schools of finance. One school believes
imitation through asset currency will
insure prosperity, and the other
school is anxious for a central bank
through which all financial blessings
should flow. Those who believe in
more currency are also divided in
opinion upon what it shall be based,
whether on the assets of the BACKS,
or upon bonds and stocks. There is
also a serious difference Of opinion
about the rate of interest the bankers
shall pay on this new currency. The
bankers propose 3 per cent. and those
who are intent on a flexible currency
that will be retired as SOC as its pur-
pose is accomplished. think that not
less than Z per cent. should be paid,
or it would continue in circulation.
Bank currency based on the
assets" of the banks without any 9TH
er security, is a return to the state
bank system that existed before the
creation of national banks to force a
market for United States bonds. But
the people will never consent to again
use currency that is not good any
where, and that has not the faith and
credit of the United States behind it,
and can be used in all business tran
sactions without question.
The most able financiers are con-
WINGED that the imitation Of the cur.
rency has gone far enough, and that it
not initiation that is needed,
for imitation of the currency has
been persistent and is still going
on. The volume of money in circula-
ton is now about SO per cent. more
per capita than it vas ten years ago,
and is progressing at the rate Of near
ly 5 per cent. a year. AS the Demo-
Gratis are not charged with the re-
sponsibility of legislation, and will be
prevented by the %utocratic rules Of
the House of Representatives from
having any voice in formulating the
bill that may eventually be reported
by the committee and that will be
given the right of way by the all-pow-
erful committee on rules, the minor
ity can but criticise and propose such
amendments as they determine are
necessary for the protection of the
public. Thus the Republicans must as
sumo the full responsibility and be an
swerable for the consequences.
The present financial system has
been built up by the Republican party
for the special advantage of the ma
tional banks, and to further tinker
with it will eventually produce more
disaster for the people than they ape
now suffering. The whole system is
wrong in principle, and in practice Is
an adjunct of the frenzied financiering
of Wall street, for there has never
been a Republican secretary of the
treasury that has not Seen the willing
tool of the Wall street bankers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
inconsistent Policy.

The central fact when the Repub-
lican party assemblies its full com
plemeRt of staff officers in Washing
ton and proceeds to reassure the coun-
try is that it has control of over a
quarter of a billion dollars Of the
country's earnings, which it reports as
a surplus of available cash above the
needs of government In the same week
it begins demanding more.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
The Presidents Asnirations.

Although he favors an elastic cur
rency," the presidents most strenu-
Gus demand is for a constitution SO
elastic that when he lets 60 after
stretching it to the limit those who
hold a different Interpretation at the
opposite end will be sure to realize
that they are "stung."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Morcccans Still Offer Sacrifices to
PropItiate the Powerful.

A strange custom still exists here,
that of sacrificing live animals to pro-
'pitiate those in power. An instance
Of It occurred the other day when
three ragged women. veiled, dirty and
poverty stricken, came staggering up
the hill to the Flagstaff which stands
in the middle Of our camp. half push
ing. half carrying two sheep bound
and helpless. AT the foot Of our ban
ner staff they laid the beasts down
and sticking a knife into their throats
left them there to die BY slow inches.
No cries, NO wailing, they huddled to-
gether and sat m~ctionless awaiting
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Has Them eolno and COMING.

When times are bad Speaker Can
non warns congress that tariff re-
vision would make them worse. And
when times are good he advises the
members to stand pat and let wei
enough alone. Speaker Cannon's idea
of the right time to revise the tariff
is eight years after the cows come
home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
VII.

An old gambler whose life had been
spent listening to the rattle Of the
dropin.bound.out little roulette ball,
was told by a fellow victim, as his
last dollar went to the relentless
tigers NAV, that the Keepers foot was
upon an electric button which enabled
him 10 make the ball drop where his
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Had the Opportunity once.

President Roosevelt told congress
that it is far preferable to punish the
prime offender by Imprisonment than
to fine the corporation, with attend
ant damage to stockholders" That is
what the special counsel, Messrs.
Judson and Harmon, told him In the
Santa Fe railroad case. Why couldn't
he see the wisdom Of the policy when
he had an opportunity to carry 1t out
practically7
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
Rest 81 Miuht GO Home.

The Springfield, Mass, Republican
says Senator Aldrich's influence in
the United States senate is likely to
be greater this session than IT has
been heretofore. In that case 1t will
hardly be possible for Aidrich to per-
init the rest Of the senator's to do any
thinking at al.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

MOTHER year hag loud
US Just as we were getting
comfortably used to the
idea that summer had
really gone.
Busy people never have
time TO dwell very much
on the passing of the sea,
sons.
The days are so full Of
tasks and Father Time is
aIwaua catching I'M and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26

HAVE YOU HATED YOURSELF?

Never to make little of our own.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-04-19
County Board Of Equalization

Notice is hereby given that at meeting Of the
County Board Of Equalization Of St. Francois County,
Missouri begun and held at the office Of the County
Clerk Of said county on Monday, April lst 1907 there
were made the following increases raises III the vaua-
ton Of real estate, tO-wt:
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-04-19

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