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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
HELP THE TOWN.
Some of the Virtues in Friendly Riv-
airy Between Merchants.

Good, healthy competition and
friendly rivalry, devoid Of all spirit OF
hoggishness, is a good thing for auy
town. Each and every business mag
n property owner in a town, and the
country Immediately surrounding it
should be intensely interested in every
project, particularly should every mer-
chant be active in matters that mans
general prosperity for the place. ana
which will increase trade for all the
merchants of the town. People gem
orally like to do their trading in towns
where there are well kept stocks and
plenty variety Of goods, and Nhere
there is sufficient competition as to
assure low prices consistent with good
business Judgment. There is little use
for the merchants of a place to blow
and brag about their business, unless
they can demonstrate that they are
delivering the goods" and satisfying
their customers. There is no good to
be looked for by merchants decrying
the goods and the methods of their
brother merchants. Theresis no more
effective way of killing the business of
a town than by fostering a spirit of
petty Jealousy and of narrow selfish
ness. Wherever such a spirit is found
1t Will be discovered that trade is be-
ing turned to some other town where
merchants and business men work
more in harmony with one another.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05

has been improving steadily ever since
you heard that Mrs. Langdon had re,
covered her husband"
She WINGED, as if | had struck her.
"Oh!" she murmured. If she had been
the ordinary woman, who in every
crisis with man ~instinctively resorts
to weakness strongest weakness.
tears, ! might have a different story to
tell. But she fought back the tears
in which her eyes were swimming and
gathered herself together. THAT is
brutal" she said, with not a touch of
haughtiness, but not humbly, either.
But / deserve it,"
There was a time" I went on,
swept in a swift current of cold rage,
there was a time when | would have
taken you on almost any terms. A
man never makes a complete fool of
himself about a woman but once In
his life, they say. I have done my
STRICKLAND it Is over"
She sighed YEARLY. 'Langdon came
to see me soon after I left your house,
and went to my uncle she said. Il
will tell you what happened"
Il do not wish to hear" replied /,
adding pointedly, II have been waiting
ever since you left for Jews Of your
plans"
She grew white, and my heart smote
ms. She came into the room and
seated herself. Wont you stop.
please, for a moment longer?" she
said. II hope that, at, least, we can
part without bitterness. / understand
o that everything Is over between,
us. A woman's vanity makes her be-
lief that a man cares for her die hard.
i am convinced now--I assure you, Il
am. | shall trouble you no more
about the past. But | have the right
to ask you to hear me when / say that
Langdon came, and that | myself sent
him away; sent him back to his wife"
Touching s~elf-sacrifice," said T.
ironically.
NO" she replied. II cannot claim
any credit. I sent him away only be-
cause you and Alva had taught me how
to judge him better. do not despise
him ag do you; I know too well what
has made him what ho is. But | had
to send him away"
My comment was an in~credulous
look and shrug. II must be- going
said.
You do notbelieve me9' she asked.
I'm my place, would you believer
4 You say ! have taught you.
Well, You have taught me, too--for I'M
stance, that the years you've spent on
your knees In the musty temple Of
ronventionality before false gods hays
made rou' AT only for the Langdon
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
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Never" thought I, "has she showr
so poor an opinion of me as now"
MY uncle told me day before yes
terday that it was not he but YOU
she said, lifting her eyes to mine. II
is uncomfortable to me now that
could have misread their honest story:
yet l did.
Il had no idea your uncle's notion
Of honor was also eccentric" said |
with a satirical smile that made the
blood rush to her face.
That is unjust to him." she re
piled, earnestly.
@He says he made you no promise OF
secrecy. And he confessed to me only
because he wished to convince me
that he had good reason for his high
opinion of you"
Really" said /, ironically. "And
no doubt he found you open wide TIC
conviction--now." This a subtlety to
let her know that | understood why
she was seeking me.
NO" she answered, lowering, her
eyes. Il knew-better than he"
For an instant this, spoken In a
voice | had long given up hope of ever
hearing from her, staggered my cyn-
ical conviction, But-"Possibly she
thinks she is sincere" reasoned my
bead With my heart; even the SINGER
est wosdan, brought up as was she, al
ways nave the calculator underneath;
they deny it, they don't know it often,
but there it is; with them, calculation
is as involuntary and automatic as
their pulse" So, said to her, mock
ingly: Doubtless your opinion Of me
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05

scrt Of tang. Toa ean'I learn now to
stand erect. and your eyes cannot bear
the light"
Il sn ScTry." she said. SLOWLY, hest.
tatingiy. chat your faith in me died
just when | hight, perhaps. have justi-
aed it. Ours has been a pitiful series
OF misunderstandings."
"A trap! A trap" / was warning
myself. you've been a fool long
enough, Blackjack" And aloud 1 said:
We'll. Anita. the series is ended now.
There's no longer any occasion for our
lying or posing to each other. ANY ar
rangements your uacle's lawyers sug-
gest will be made"
l was bowling, to leave without
shaking hands with her. But she
would not have it so. "Please!" she
said, stretching out her long, slender
arm and offering me her hand.
What a devil possessed me that day!
With every atom of me longing for her,
| yet was able to take her hand and
say, with a smile, that was, | doubt
not, as hooking as my tone: "By all
means let us be friends. And | trust
you will not think me discourteous if /
say that shall feel safer in our
friendship when We are both on
neutral ground"
AS was turning away, her look, my
own heart, made me turn again. |
caught her by the shoulders. / t;azed
into her eyes. IF l could only trust
you, could only believe you'll" l cried.
You cared for me when | wasn't
worth it," she said. Now that | an
more like what you once imagined me,
you do not care"
Up between us rose Langdon's face
cynical, hooking, conter1ptuous.
Your heart is his! You told me so,
Don't lie to mel" I exclaimed. And
before she could reply, l was gone.
Out from under the spell of her
presence, back among the tricksters
and assassins, the traps and ambushes
of Wall street, I believed again; be-
lieved firmly the promptings of the
devil that possessed me. "She would
have given you a brief FOOLS paradise"
said that devil. Then what a hideous
awakening!" And / cursed the day
when New York's insidious snobbish-
had tempted my vanity into start
ing me on that degrading chase after
responsibility"
If she does not move to free her
soon," said l to myself, Il will
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
First Use Of Ice Cream.

Though the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans used ice for table purposes to
get through the hot months Of sum
mer, they knew nothing of ices"
These We're introduced into France
from Italy about 1860 and were known
at first as 'fromgges glaces,o iced
cheeses, although they were made Of
Strawberries and a~pricots. and con.
tanned not a drop of cream. From
1852 the use Of "glaces' in the plural
was sanctioned by the French acad-
envy, but not before 1926 did ''une
glaceo force its way into recognized
acceptance. ices" are referred 10
from time to time in the eighteenth
century in English peoples letters
from abroad. Iced creams aow
ever were known AS early as 1883. ano
" the middle 81 tbs aIshfepnth cens
tary saee cream asuFsd II cookerx
IIA4#& M
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
IRRESPONSIBLE Goyernment.

Divided responsibility is ~irresponsi-
bility. The trainers of the federal
constitution had this truth clearly in
mind when they granted certain def
mite powers to the government Of the
United States, and expressly reversed
all other powers to the state v
ments. The Republican party has uni.
formly ignored this fact, because ii
believes in irresponsible government
which takes to corruption, despotism
and monopoly as a duck takes to wa.
ter, and the few benefit at the ex-
pense of the many.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
Roof Gardens for Berlin

It is proposed to introduce roof
gardens in Berlin. A good many doc
tors and professors are doing all they
can in favor of the scheme, and are
agitating for the gardens, particularly
IN the narrower city thoroughfares.
The idea would not be difficult to
carry out, the houses being mostly all
Of one height, ana It is already pos-
sible in many parts to walk from ono
street to the next along a good broad
roof track.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
Pie vender Had KICK comm,

There is a certain man in a little
northern New England town who sells
homemade pastry at the county fair
each year. The other day he called
on the town officers to protest against
the condition Of the road leading
from his house to the fair grounds.
Land sakes!" said he. mo custard
pie would ever hold together to cross
such roughness as that
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
Criminals, power over Animals.

Few criminals have possessed such
power over animals as did the Span.
lard Guevarra, who was executed some
years back In Newgate, England, for
the brutal murder Of a woman on
Hampstead Heath. He caught and
tanned two rats SO that they would
come at his call and follow him about
anywhere. The mice. too. would come
running out Of their holes al the sound
rf his voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
A Sample Case.

The tariff duty o. pig lead Is two
and one-eighth cents per pound. Con.
sumers Of lead want an opportunity to
buy in the worlds open market; but
are denied because the lead trust ex-
erts its influence to prevent the re-
moval Of the duty, which It uses as q
lever to keep the price up. OF course
the Republicans will not remove tho
futy. That would hurt the trust and
help the public, a policy which direct
" c%ontravenes the doctrine Of protec.
ticniein. 50 IT is in all other cases
II trustsmadc goods.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05

And now they have organized a sui
phur trust. What the devil will they
monopolize next? Is there anything
in hades or out of it that these fellows
won't take hold of? BY the way, sui
phur enjoys a tariff protection of eight
dollars a ton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
The Ears Of Criminals.

extended outer border. Prof. Blau
added the curious remark that an alb.
normal development of the outer Dor.
der was more noticeable among Grim.
mails charged with sexual crime than
among other classes Of criminals.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
Belgian Girls Learn Housework.

In Belgium girls are expected to
give five weeks out OF each school
year TO learning homework. The 3ifl
is required TO know act only hon I'd
cook a dinner, but to clean lib aMll
care fer a kitchen. do marketing wssiG
md iron.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05
TOWN BOOSTING TIPS.

The visitor who trips over your
broken sidewalk will not have a. yerv
high opinion Of your town as a place
of business.
The home town is the best Mace
l3r the boys if you will make the
home town prosperous. Keeping the
money at home will do this. II
means home opportunities for your
children.
Don't drive around the hole in the
O a week after week. Get your
~noighbors together and fix 1t.
The home market for the farm prod
ucts is the saving clause in our sys-
tenn of government. Take away the
In your community. Not necessarily
home markets and the farms will soon
become Improbable and valueless.
No city mail-order house will ex-
tend credit to you when times are
hard, or crops fail. Could you con.
s%istently ask it of your home mer-
chant when 0 send your money to
the city during the days OF prosper.
tty?
Encourage small factories to locate
by means of a bonus, but by keeping
the children in the home town that
they may become factory employees.
and get a home opportunity to raise
in the world.
DO not b%egrudge the money paid
for taxes when it is used for road and
town improvements. Such an 81.
penditure is like bread cast upon
the waters-it will return MANY fold
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05

Don't drive around the hole in the
road week after week. Get your
noighbors together and fix 1t.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-05

The visitor who trips over your
broken sidewalk will not have a very
high opinion Of your town as a place
of business.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
Most important Work.

A reporter recently took 4 journey
OF considerable length for the purpose
OF interviewing q rising literary light
as to his next novel. On reaching the
house he discovered the author seated
In his garden engaged in earnest con-
versation with a little boy who had a
large towel pinned around his neck.
The author received his visitor cor.
daily but seemed rather absent.mind.
ed. Are you willing TO tell me III.
tie about your next important work ?"
asked the reporter. The literary man
clicked a pair Of shears and patted the
boy on the shoulder. I'VE were just
talking about 81 as you came up" he
said Willie thinks ought to do II
with bowl, but think can do II
without What would you advise?
You see his mother has always cut II
before, but she's away Just now!"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
Books at Pelty's Book Store
for Ste. Genevieve county.


Mrs. Josiah Bruett had narrow
escape from serious injury last Satur.
day evening. MIR. Bruetrs pony had
been feeding around in the yard until
1t became quite risky, and be caut.
Toned his wife not to 90 too near; but
she, in playful way, tapped the pony
with switch which she had in her
hand, when the pony gave n vicious
backward kick, and one of It's newly.
shod feet just graacd the side Of Mrs,
BIuetl's face Aside from the fright
and a lItle skin scraped off her face
no injury was done, but Mr.. Biuer,
who saw the whole proceeding, was ST
frightened that he couldn't move for
moment.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
ELECTRIC ROAD ACCIDENT.
hotornan Watts Narrowly Escapes
Death-0ne Leg Broken and Other
Badly Hurt,

Las, Sunday morning, MS Moiorpap
WIN. Watts was bringing the express
car from The power house to the sta.
ton lr trailer car to go to Flat
Rive, N some way he lust control Of
he csr as it came down the grade on
North street, which gained such mo
mentum that II New the track at the
curve at the corner OF North aud a
streets. The car was torn from the
trucks and overturned, and MOtorman
Watts attempted to jump or was
thrown out, and was caught beneath
the car, breaking one of his legs Mt the
thigh and severely cutting the other to
the bone between the knee and ankle.
He fell jus, at the end of the pave.
ment, which is "A foot or more high al
this point, and the upper edge of the
car caught on the side OF the pave
ment, thus preventing it from crush
Ing him to death. The car was badly
wrecked.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
Medical Civil Service.

Medicine has as its object the treat
ment Of disease and the relief OF sui
fering irrespective OF the social stat
us or financial position OF the patient
says I've London Hospital. Existing
conditions OF practice make well.aigh
impossible the attainment OF this OBJ.
ject, and 1t is desirable alike In the in.
terests of the public and OF the rank
and file OF the profession that some
more satisfactory organization OF tho
conditions of practice should be
found, Nothing short OF civil serv.
ice will meet the requirements OF the
situation. There Ii growing feel.
ing. II we mistake not, inside as well
as outside the profession. in favor Of
this solution Of the problem, and there
is no question that this feeling will
continue to grow as there Is more full
appreciation of the truth that, apart
from humanitarian considerations, the
economic advantages are vastly In its
favor.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
The Short Horn Cattle Sale.

The sale of pure bred registered
shorthorn cattle, which is advertise d
to take place in Pennington neXr
Thursday, the 18th inst, promises To
be Que of the most interesting stock
sales ever held in this part of the
State. The sale is under tho manage
ment of the Southeast Missouri Short
horn Breeders Association, and ,ttc
consignors OF the cattle to be sold rep
resent some of the most progressive
stock breeders of Southeast Missouri:
N. A. Abduction aud Mccormick &
Cole Of this county, J l.. Wilson OF
Oak Ridge, p. &. Higgipbo,ham OF
Fertile, Felix j. Parkin and n. Is.
Graham of Frcdericktewn, and others.
Read the advertisement of this sale on
the fifth page, and note the celebrated
sires of the cattle to be sold. Fifteen
bulls aud 22 COWS will be offered with
out reserve or by-bids.
The sale has been extensively ad-
vertised throughout this and other
portions Of the State, and the prospect
is that many stock men from dis
lance will be here, either to buy or
look at the stock. As the citizens OF
Pennington have raised considerable
fund for a general stock show in our
city on the same day that the sale
takes place, there will be Il lot of other
stock on exhibition, and 1t will be
good time for farmers and stock men
to buy or exchange other live stock,
and to secure premiums on their stock.
A large crowd is expected and Farm
ington will do its best to toxic care OF
ali corners.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06

II your blood is impure, thin, dis
eassd, hot or full of humors, If you
have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles,
eating sores, scroinla, eczema, itching,
risings and bumps, scabby, pimply
skin, bone paius, catarrh, rheumatism,
or any blood or skin disease, take Boz
tanic Blood Balm (B. b. b. Soon
all sores heal, aches aud pain stop
and the blood is made pure and rich.
Druggists or by express 81 per large
bottle. Sample free by writing Blood
Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. Is. b. b. is
especially advised for chronic, deep
seated cases, as ii cures after all else
fails.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
SPARTA Nigh SCHOOL
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
Opens Sept. 10, 1907.

Teaching force strengthened, equip
ment improved, course extended.
Commercial Department under super
vision Of PROF. W. 7. POTTER, ex-
pert penman and teacher OF long expe-
rience. Expenses about one-half that
of any reliable private school as no
attempt is made to make money out Of
this school. Gregg and Pitman short.
hand, touch type-writing, and latest
methods OF accounting thoroughly
taught,
We have more calls for our students
than we have ever been able TO supply.
One dozen beautiful calling or bust
ness cards free to any one sending us
ten names of prospective students.
Address
j. B. LEMON, Sec'y,
Sparta, Ill.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
Motor lifeboats.

In place of II strong arms, pulling
seven oars. with another pair at the
steering oar. now a four.cyllnder, four.
cycle gasoline engine pushes the craft
along at ten miles an hour A solid
1S'inch propeller with a reversing
clutch. propels the 34.foot boat. Two
gasoline tanks one with capacity OF
Is, the other with rs gallons of the
colorless fluid In which is locked up
so much effort. admits. according to
Popular Mechanics, a radius of 200
miles.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
MISS FlsEHAHse's
School Of piano
Opens
September 9th
phone 60.

Lost-An express package con-
tanning jewery, addressed to Miss
Gladys Rozier. Suitable reward on
return to this office.
Henry McLarney purchased two lots
last week in Electric Place from e, b.
Denmsn and Nj. A. Young. Mr..
McLarney expects TO build on the lots.
Lost, between Libertyville and
Pennington, new silk umbrella.
Finder will be rewarded by leaving
same with Charles Gierse, Farming.
ton, Mo.
"Uncle Jim Rudy died at Ironton
on Wednesday. His body will be
brought TO Pennington and the fun
eral will take place from the Baptist
church Thursday afternoon.
Presiding Elder w. r. Mccormick
of the Pennington district of the NJ. +.
Church, will preach at the First NJ. L.
Church next Sunday at II a. m. and
administer the sacrament. All are
cordially invited.
Mrs. Susan prichard and children
were down from Festus last week Wis
Ting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. j. c.
Perkins. She has since moved to
Columbia, Mo-, to have the advantages
/ Of the schools there for her children,
Butord Tucker, who has been act.
ing as stenographer and timckeeper
in the mechanical department OF the
Frisco road at Cape Giraradeau, is here
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. X.
G. Tucker. lie goes to Kansas City
as assistant accountant in the same de.
partment OF the Frisco
Dalton's Fourth Annual Picnic and
Stock Show will be held on next
Thursday morning 10 connection with
the Pennington Stock Show instead OF
on Saturday ut his farm as announced.
The premiums offered in the hand bill.
will be awarded, BE sure 10 MAKE
your entries.
Mr. Seymour Williams of New
York, who has while staying in ST.
Louis been visiting his uncle, Mr.. II
II, Hammond, frequently during the
last three months, is returning homC
after spending Sunday aud Labor Day
with his uncle, in time TO euler thC
class OF 1911 of the University o.
pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
Rev. G. l.. Hickok, who with hi
family have been enjoying the breeze,
OF The Northern lakes for severa
weeks, returned home this week, ant
will hold his regular services at the
Presbyterian church next Sunday
Mrs. Hickok aud the children vii
visit couple OF weeks in Colnmbia
before returning home.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-06
Christian Church.

The Combine Bible School. Church
service commences at 10 a. m. next
Lords Day. The Bible study will
close about l0:45, followed with
breaking of bread and sermon The
theme Of the morning is "The Bible
School our Opportunity" The topic
for the evening is "The Measure of Il
Man. The hour of worship Il 1850.