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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11
Hereafter the latter Will Likely Be
More Precise In His Language.

Many a schoolmaster discovers to
his cost the need Of the utmost pre-
cision in language in speaking to his
pupils and questioning them day by
day.
The lesson in geography in a GER
tain class dealt with the islands off
the southeast Of Asia, and reference
was being made to the Philippines
and the adjacent groups.
"What are the inhabitants Of the
Sulu archipelago called?" asked the
master.
There Is no specific name for
them" answered one Of the sharpest
Of the boys. "They may, however, be
classified under the one general name
Of Ash. Among these fish, sharks,
flying fish, and others Of various kinds
may be mentioned. Then there are
sorts, though these cannot really be
~tortoises or Turtles Of different sorts,
though these cannot really oa called
HRh. bai~
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

body. Alarmed, she applied home
remedies, but the spots continued to
spread. The child's body presents the
appearance of being tattooed. Almost
the entire BODY is covered, with the
exception of the face, which thus far
has not been affected. While most of
the time the blotches are of a mellow
purple, they occasionally change to a
deep plum color or a dull red. Some
blotches are as large as a penny, 9th
ers are no larger than a pinhead. The.
disease is probably caused by a rheu-
matte germ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11
i CANDIDATE FOR "REsPEcTA.

L.. a 4Hf BILL y
To handle this new business proper.
! ly / must put myself in position to
look the whole field over. l must get
in line and in touch with "respecta-
bility." When Sam Ellersly came in
for his "~rations," I said: Sam,
want you to put me up at the Trav-
elers Club"
"The Travellers echoed he, with
a blank look.
1.-THE Travellers" said I. Its about
the best Of the big clubs, isn't it?
And it has as members most OF the
men l do business with and most Of
those | want to get into touch with
He laughed. 1T can't be DONE"
why not?" l asked.
Obi don't know. You see-the
fact is-well, they're a lot of old
fogies up there. You don't want to
bother with that push, Matt. Take
my advice. Do business with them,
but avoid them socially"
Il want to go In there" I insisted
Il have my own reasons. You put
me up"
81 tell you, it'd be no USE" he re
Piled, in a tone that implied he wished
to hear no more of the matter.
"You put me up" I repeated. and
II you do your best, I'll get in all right
I've got lots of friends there. And
you've got three relatives In the com.
mittee on membership"
At this he gave me a queer, SHARP
glance-a little fright III it.
laughed. you see. I've been look
ing into 1t, Sam. I never take a jump
till I've measured 1t"
"You'do better wait a few years
until he began, then stepped ant
turned red.
"Until WHAT" said I. Il want yor
to speak frankly"
"Well. you've got a lot Of enemies
a lot Of fellows who've lost money II
deals you've engineered. And they't
say all sorts Of things"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11
Child TURNING Purple.

Mary Eighotz, three years old, Of
New York, is turning purple. The
doctor says she is suffering with a dis
ease known as purpura hemorrhagiea.
The child's mother first noticed the
changing color three weeks ago, While
bathing the girl she detected small
purple spots on various parts of the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

M. Rouvier, the ex-premier and tho
greatest authority IN political finance
in France, is about to start an lmpor-
tant daily newspaper, for which he
has already raised 5000, coo out Of
the total capital needed, which no
has fixed at $l.4OO,O00 This paper
will be both political and financial.
and will serve as the organ Of the
BanQue de Paris ct des Pays Bas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

President Roosevelt evidently had
Republican senator's and congressman
in mind when he told the boys at
Harvard: "The weakling and the cow
ard are out of place." and when he
also said: BE doors rather than
critics of the deeds others do The
president should have added that it
is the duty Of good citizens to turn
the rascaIs out"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

everything / had once thought beauti-
full, had once found sufficient. | was
in the midst Of the splendid, terraced
pansy beds my gardeners had just set
out; l stopped short and slapped my
thigh. "a woman!" | exclaimed.
"That's what need. A woman-the
right sort o. woman-a wife,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11
Rhodes Was M Rookkceper.

Unlike Alfred Belt, Cecil Rhodes
had small patience with arithmetlcal
details. Once this characteristic in.
volyed him In a difficulty. Pitching
a balance sheet into the pile Of pa.
pess before Belt, he exclaimed des'
perately, Here. you understand
thlnEst f0s beavers sake tsll ne hos
Il stand"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11

intelligent advertising means rs icing the bulldog power and te
nacty of the local press on the conpe titon offered the home merchant by
the catalogue houses. Intelligent Advertising means the employment of
maiLorder methods in combating the mai-order evil
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
IN HONUR OF FULTON
A MONUMENT TO THE FATHER OF
STEAM NAVIGATION.

The Memorial to he Erected On the
Hudson and the Celebrations Next
Year In France and ut the James
town Expedition.
UT will be a hundred years on the
18th of next August since the
Clermont steamed up the Hudson
river from New York to Albany.
A movement is in progress to honor the
builder and inventor of the Clermont,
Robert Fulton, who is generally re-
parded as the father of steamboat nav
igation. Whatever the claims Of others
as to application Of steam to purposes
of navigation, it was Fulton, at any
rate, who first demonstrated the prac-
ticability of the steamboat for passen-
ger and freight transportation, and aft
er the Clermont had made her mem
orable voyage and the success of the
venture was seen multiplication o.
steamboats, was rapid.
The services Of Fulton to science
commerce and civilization were Of
such vast magnitude that it is thought
appropriate to have the nation as q
whole take part in the memorial which
it is proposed to erect in his honor.
This memorial will stand ON the banks
of the Hudson, overlooking the scene
of Fulton's great experiment. The
site will be somewhere on the upper
end of Manhattan Island and not iaI
from Grants tomb, the Cathedral OF
st. John the Divine, Columbia univer-
sity and other monumental and archi.
tectural features which make this part
of New York a center of interest fol
sightseers. The character of the me
mortal has not yet been fully decided
upon, but design by the sculptor
Leopold Bracony is considered to EN-
body general idea as to what the
monument should be- This provides
for base surrounded by approaches
ornamented by approximate sculpture
The shaft supports heroic figure OF
Fulton, showing him contemplating a
model of the Clermont 1t is propos-
ed that the remains Of Fulton shall be
placed in the monument, and the con-
sent of the inventors grandson. r.
Fulton Ludlow Of Ciaverack, N. Y, tc
this plan has been obtained.
Fulton's achievements will be cele
brated next year both at the James.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
war on NILE INSECTS
Laboratory Ship Will Be Equip
ped to Kill Plague Pests.
PROJECT OF AMERICAN CHEMIST

Henry 3. Welcome, With HE Head.
quarters At Khartum, VIII Have
One Of General Gordon's Steamer.
He Discusses Plan to Make Central
Africa Habitable For the White
Race-Praise For Our ScieDtlsts.
Henry 8. Welcome. the famous Amer.
lean chemist and bacteriologist. who Is
a resident of London. has received
from the Sudan government at Khar-
tum. Egypt. one Of General Gordon's
steamers, which he will convert into
floating laboratory. the first ever estab-
lished, says a special cable dispatch
from London to the Chicago News.
Tie boat. with a staff Of scientists, will
work in connection with the research
labora tories OF the Gordon Memorial
college. which were equipped through
DR.. Welcomes generosity four years
ago. These occupy five rooms in the
college building at Khartum under the
dictatorship of DR.. Andrew BalfOur Of
England, who won fame fighting en-
teric fever in the South African war.
With DR.. William Beam of America
in charge Of the chemical department
lions Of malaria bearing mosquitoes.
Aided by the government. the medical
staff Is practically exterminating
smallpox and has made much progress
in the study Of the insect which spreads
the deadly sleeping sickness. The float
ing laboratory is intended to ply upon
the shallow upper. reaches Of the Nile.
where breed the swarms Of poison
bearing flies and beetles which descend
upon the routes Of travel. devastating
human, animal and plant life.
The micrographs forwarded by the
investigators will enable the leading
scientists Of the world to study the
Insects of the Sudan almost as well as
II they were on the spot Pictures have
been sent to Washington to help the
government In Its struggle with trop-
lcal diseases In Panama and elsewhere
Researches Of the American agricul-
tural department are pronounced the
most dQVduCcU III cXlSteuCc duU dTc
declared to have been the most help
full to the staff at Khartum In combat.
Ing the attacks Of flies on sugar cane
and cotton. Several students from the
schools endowed by Andrew Carnegie
In Scotland will go out to the Sudan in
the winter to work with experts.
I'm my opinion" said DR.. Welcome
the other morning. ''the progress al
ready recorded justifies the belief that
In due course Of time Central Africa
will be made perfectly habitable for
the white man. When l was there six
years ago the awful tide of disease
was unchecked. and men. beasts and
plants were alike without protection.
Today smallpox and malaria have been
stamped out. and we are gaining
ground against the worst foe remain
ing-the sleeping sickness. which has
swept up the country from the KongO
basin to Uganda, where 1t has destroy
ed $4,000 human beings and great num-
bers of oxen. goats and donkeys."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
The Motor HOru.

The suggestion made the other day
that the mOtorist, in the interest OF the
public safety, should be deprived OF
his horn, had something In 1t OF the
quality Of paradox. but it is evident
that it also had in it something of the
quality of truth, says the Dundee Ad.
yertiser. In some places horn blowing
by motorists is a nuisance, and speak
ing of it the secretary Of the autOmO-
bile club recently said to an interview.
er: LET me tell you emphatically that
the less horn blowing there is the
more considerate and careful will be
the driving" He also says that there
is far too much blowing Of motor
horns and declares himself ready tc
undertake motor journey from the
east end Of London to the west end
and not blow the horn once. "Of
course" he adds. Il should have tC
slow up. but that really does not mat
ter" In simple fact. the part played
BY the horn on many motor cars is tc
transfer all obligation to take care
from the driver to the c+her person.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

town exposition in Virginia and at the
international maritime exhibition in
Bordeaux, France. The French have
claim on Fulton, inasmuch as he
made many Of his experiments in that
country and was encouraged in them
by the French government. 1t was in
France that Fulton, away back in the
year 1897, experimental with his boat
for submarine navigation in connection
with torpedo warfare, thus anticlpat-
ing by more than century the sue
cess in that field achieved in the past
1903 that he made some of his initial
essays in the direction Of steam navi-
cation. This exhibition will illustrate
the history Of maritime development
from the earliest times.
During the Jamestown exposition
there is to be at Hampton Roads a
great naval and marine exhibition, and
in connection with this honors can be
paid to Fulton most appropriately.
Aug. II will be set apart as Fulton
day, and committee headed by Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. whose family has
been intimately identified with the de.
velopment of steam navigation, is ar.
ranging programme for the occasion.
Mr.. Vanderbilt will probably head a
marine. parade with his yacht North
Star. He is president of the Robert
Fulton Monument association, and the
treasurer, to whom subscriptions for
the monument fund may be sent. y
Richard Delafield, president Of the Ma
tional Park bank, New York
Fulton was born in Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa. in 1865 and died in New York
In 1915. AS Mark Twain puts 1t: "He
made the vacant oceans and idle rivers
useful after the unprecedented had beeh
wondering for hundred million years
what they were for He found these
properties liability; he left them an
asset. 1t is the peculiar honor and
privilege of our commercializing age
to estimate this majestic service at its
splendid and rightful value The mon
ument is deserved, and it will be built"
Mark Twain Samuel L. Ciemens) Is
first vice president of the Monument
association. With him and Mr.. Van
Gerbilt and Mr.. Delafield In the board
of officers are such men as Hugh Cor
don Miller. r. Fulton Cutting, Nicholas
Murray Butlev and Andrew Carnegie.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

ed $1,000, which she has donated to
the Methodist Board of Foreign Mis-
sions to endow a woman missionary
to Japan.
my husband managed two board
ing houses for mail clerks said Mrs.
Shirley Il collected all bills for him
and one day he laughingly said that
he would give me all the dimes he re-
ceived if | would give him the entire
amounts of the collections. He said it
as a joke, but we formed the habit
of saving every dime. He gave them
all to me-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

Two new and stringent laws to 10
cure "a weekly day Of rest" are up for
trial, one in France and similar one
in Canada. The principle In both Il
the same. and contends that the state
may limit the hours of labor. The
French law is plainly in the interest Of
the working classes. but preference il
given to Sunday as the day of rest
Substa ntially the act is as follows:
No industrial or commercial establish.
ment of any kind. whether public or pri-
vate. lay or religious. even of those for
education or benevolence, Is permitted to
work an employee more than six days q
week. The weekly period Of rest should
be twenty-fOur consecutive hours. 1t
should be on Sunday. Wherever thu
complete closing of an establishment on
Sunday would be prejudicial to the in
terests of the public the weekly rest
may be given for part or all Of the year
in one of the following ways: % On
some other day Of the week for the
whole personnel Of the establishment; (9
from Sunday noon to Monday noon: (3l
Sunday afternoon with a compensat tory
holiday by rotation every fortnight or "a
by shifts in rotation Of part or all the
employees. These exceptions can only be
made by direct authorization of the gov
eminent. The day of rest by rotation a.
Is permitted only to the following estab-
lishments: Hotels and restaurants, shops
for sale of tobacco and fresh flowers,
hospitals. asylums and drug stores. news
papers, baths museums, theaters and IL
braries. waterworks. gasworks and DOW
er plants, transportation other than rail-
roads and industries dealing with perish
able material or products. In the case of
public works of an urgent nature. such
as the prevention or repair Of accidents.
the weekly day Of rest may be suspended
for the workman needed. Railroads and
steamships are provided for in another
law.
In Canada the new law has been
promoted by religious sentiment. and
its sweeping, stringent prohibitions re
call the old "blue laws" of Puritan
days. Trading is positively prohibited.
and so Is ''remunerated service" of
every kind excepting in case of work
Of necessity and mercy. Among the
prohibitions are excursion trains, the
handling of freight, theatrical amuse-
mcnts, games and sports for gain or
prize or reward, the printing and sale
Of Sunday newspapers, farming. bar
bering, and so on. The wOrkingman
Is protected under this law by penal
provisions expressly applicable to cor
porations and private employers.
While the workman may be fined. his
employers are liable in from ten to q
hundred times the amount for every
offense With this law on the statute
books, the employee has at least one
refuge from the exactions of greed. In
government interference in fixing other
limitations for labor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
A New American Boycott.

Over in Baireuth, Germany, where
they play Wagner's "Parsifal" under
sort of monopoly bOssed by Frau
Wagner, American money is not only
very acceptable, but is actually neces-
sary to keep the peculiar enterprise
afioat There is not much in Baireutil
to draw tourists except the show, but
the trimmings for the occasion, such
as programmes, mementos, refresh
ments' and, Of course, lodgings. car
riages and flowers, bring in handsome
revenues to the place and incidentally
to Frau Wagner. Now. America not
long ago had the audacity to patronizc
a pirated rendering Of ''Parsifal," and
the indignant monopoIist Of ''art TO-
arts sake" felt outraged. To snuh
American money at Baireuth because
of the insult to a sacred institution
would only be killing the goose that
lays the golden egg, but it was posi-
BILE to snub America persOnified, and
this the irate frau accomplished by
seeing to it that Mrs. LOngworth hat
q chilly experience during her late
pilgrimage to the home Of Wagner
OF course Americans who want to see
"Parsifar' will continue to visit Bal
reuth, but will smile more or less con
temptuously at the inconsistency OF
the whimsical guardian of great art
lists fame.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
A HALL OF SHAME.

When You Take Too Much In Fond
du Lac They Photograph You.
Fond du Lac, Wis, Is to have a Hall
of Shame for jags, and II your soul
yearns for fame, II you banker to have
your face and history become as house
hold words, to be man Of mark and
renown, one Of progressive towns
little band of immortals, come to Fond
du Lac-and get drunk. Just get drunk
once, and the city authorities will do
the rest, says a Fond du Lac dispatch.
There was q time when a man might
lean over every piece of mahogany liz
town that crossed his path and tack
along rejoicing. Now, after his third
or fourth inspection Of glassware and
while he is pursuing his research, per
son who speaks softly and carries a
club will accOst and convey him to
the nearest photographer. Instantly
fame comes to the jag hunter, for the
next day his picture will be on the
wall of every saloon in town and a
full history of his life and habits in
scribed In the saloons record of ia
nous men.
That is the manner in which the city
council of Fond du Lac. after careful
considera ton. has decided to deal with
the man, native or stranger, who can't
take drink, and let it alone. The de-
cision was arrived at by the adoption
of q resolution by Alderman William
Bruett, who discovered that saloon
keepers in one part Of the town could
not tell who were the steady patrons
of those in another
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

The Drago theory, which the Argen
tine delegation failed to get adopted
by the pan-American congress, is that
there shall be no debt collecting by
force in South America. The Monroe
doctrine says that the integrity OF the
South American republics shall be
maintained. If the neighbOrs south OF
US would quit revolving and pay tae:r
honest debts there would be no GOO
bling of revenues or territories and no
need of a Monroe doctrine or Drago
theory to keep the Europeans at arms
length.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
ALFRED G. VANDERBILT ON THE BOX OF
HIS COACH.

cense No. "a. This license entities him
to drive a four horse public coach and
enjoins him to prevent any disturb
ance of the Sabbath by disOrderly con
duct Of passengers" 1t cost him $12.
"Why in the name of old Harry"
exclaimed Thomas Crandall, president
of the Atlantic City Busmen's union, as
Mr. Vanderbilt drove of, "a man who
has the money that man has wants to
sit up on that high seat and callOus
his hands and blister his neck on a
day like this and .hen take pay for II
Is more than my Uranium can cOmpre-
hend."
Driving is not labor to me-" is Mr.
vanderbi2t's explanation. 1T is my
keenest pleasure. drive pay
coach because it gives me a chance
to be on the road with four horses
without bothering myself about get
urg the parties together"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
4 RICH COACH DRIVER.

Alfred G. Vanderbilt and His Fond
ness For Horses.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who once
had 125 horsepower automobile built
on his own specifications and then
found it wouldn't work. thinks thai
automobiles are not ''in it, will,
horses as means of diversion There
is no comparison between them." he
declares. "Of course automobiles are
great time savers, and if l want to get
to place in a rush the auto is all
right, but as a sport it Is not in the
same class with tingling. live horse
flesh. We may tire Of people, but Of
horses never. l have been fond of
them ever since 1 was big enough to
know anything" Saying this, Mr.. Van
derbilt vaulted into the drivers seat
of the road coach Venture, for which
he had just taken out Atlantic City Ii
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

Stony Batter was log cabin. since re-
moved from it's original site and now
occupied by negroes. 1t is proposed to
erect a memorial to President Buchan-
an on the spot where he was born.
Provision for this was made in the will
Of his niece, the late Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnston, who died not long since. Her
will also provided for the expense Of a
monument to President Buchanan in
Washington, and congress will be asked
to designate site for such memorial
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
CARRIE NATION

certainly smashed mole in the bar
rooms of Kansas, but Billiards. Hore-
hound Syrup has smashed all records
as a cure for coughs, Bronchitis Influ-
enza and all Pulmonary diseases. T..
C. H, Horton, Kansas. writes: 81
have never found a medicine that
would cure cough so quickly as Bal.
lards Horenound Syrup. I have used
it for wears"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
SMALL POX NOT viRUlENT.
Ciyde Stanton Taken With Mild Form
of Dread Disease.

CLYDE Stanton. a dyer who lives on
Whitman street was taken with a mid
form of small poX Tuesday night
The city health officer says that all
the patients are recovering nicely ana
that he does not expect that any
one will have the disease in very
bad form unless it gets among thase
VINO have not been yaccinated.
Another case OF scarlet fever was
reported to the health officer today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24

The city council of Havana oustec
the mayor for grating. whereupon hH
honor retOrted. You're another. But
the council thieves have the most
votes and can select mayor VINO VIII
stand in with them. so this faillng OUT
among rogues brought no relief to
honest men.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
eUcHAt&AN's BIRTHPLACE,

Project TO Erect . Memorial to Hin
on the Spot.
James Buchanan. fifteenth president
Of the United States, was born at Stony
Batter. Franklin county, Pa. April %.
lI91, and died at Lancaster. Pa, June 1.
1868. He was the only occupant Of the
White House the state of Pennsyl-
vania has furnished. His birthplace at