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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

educating the public" says the secre-
tary Of the association in Outdoor
Life, mo single means has. been dis
covered which has been as effective
as that Of the exhibition, which has
played a pre-eminent role during the
immediate past in u national cru
SADIE.
ITO Baltimore, in this country, be-
longs the honor Of this idea, and when
later the national association Joined
hands with the New York committee
and formed the national exhibition the
time was ripe for its successful prog
ress through the states.
Opening in November, 1905, 1t has
been shown uninterruptedly in 16 of
u own cities as we'll as in Toronto
and Mexico, and the testimony is
unanimous as to its value in the local
campaigns. The attendance for the
year has been 221,981, with a total At
tendance since Its formation IN
months ago Of 372.00Oa
Two years ago there were only four
state sanitariums in existence. All the
present time those either already es.
tablished or definitely provided eoy
purnher II.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
A Tale OF lnaratitude.

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times tells a tale Of
perfidy and dishonor that is horrible,
IL 1t is true, by declaring that Secre-
tary Cortelyou Is adroitly maneuyer
ing with the "reactisnaries" for their
support for the nomination for presi-
dent. 10 sit at the cabinet councils
and know all the inside information
about the Taft boom and then 60 out
and plot against 1t may be Republf-
can politics, but can hardly be looked
upon as a square deal. There is. no
doubt that Fairbanks, Cannon, For
akar and others who have presi-
Dental ambitions are all more or less
opposed to President Roosevelt's pol.
icies and II they cannot succeed him
would lie willing to see anyone nomi-
mated who would be acceptable to the
railroads ana trusts they are SO
closely allied with. But perhaps the
Cortelyon tale Is but another Of the
strange stories that the Washington
corresponding dish UP to their often
misguided readers. Real news is
mighty scarce and a new candidate
for president with the spice Of being
an migrate will have TO do until some.
thing more interesting occurs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

900 in the saddle this year. he com
mands a high price, and owners are
as willing to pay it to him as they are
to Miller, for they know that they arc
securing a competent boy and one
upon whom every reliance may be
placed.
Other Successful Jockeys.
Lucien Lyme, a jockey much adj
mired in New York when he was IN
the heydey of his success, is riding IL
England. Possibly his earnings viii
amount to SIS 5000. The English turf
men are willing to pay handsomely a
smart American boy.
Fred" Taral, whom everybody
knows in America who knows about
race horses, has been riding in Austria
with remarkable success for the last
three or four years, and is over there
again.
"Skeets' Martin rides in Hungary
with a probable income of $4,000 for
the year, and Tommy" Burns has
been engaged by a German stable and
is likely to receive not less thar $15,-
900 for the seasons work.
France has a fine lot of American
| jockeys, and all of them fairly sue
cessful. Spencer is one, Turner an
other, and then there are Rausch,
O'Connor, johnny Reiff, Cormack,
Henry, Shields, Mcintyre and Wiley.
Prizes of Success.
The successful jockey who likes to
see his reflection in mirrors, who rev
els in the girls and is fascinated by
the glare of the myriad lamps that
burn after dark, will not lack of hos
pitality. There will be a hundred
hosts to entertain him every night If
he but says the word.
The bell of a well-known trainers
cottage at S~heepshead bay rang tim
orously, and the trainer went to the
door. A mite of a boy with his cap
dangling from his fingers looked side
long al the man and said: I'D like to
see Mr.. Flanner."
I'm Mr.. Flanner," was the reply.
What is 1t, SOM"
please, sir, I'd like to get a position
with you as jockey. My folks will let
me-"
do you know what you will have
to do?" said the trainer. "You will
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
FLIGHT OF THE A N
unnsrved by Dreadful Possibilities Of
the Future.

A w3yfarer, jogging along the public
highway in pursuit of his own pur-
poses, was run against and knocked
over by a wild-eyed youth of fright
ened mien, who, upon u%ntangling him
self from the peregrinator, elucidated
his narrowing ~predicament as follows:
81 went over to bask in the smiles
of my fianeee and discovered that it
was sewing circle afternoon and tho
sitting.room was invested by many
matrons, both young and sere, and sat
me down on the vine-clad porch to
await their departure: and to my first
Indifferent but very presently Mortified
ears we're waited snatches of their
conversation, running something like
this: The food is liable to disagree
with it's little stomach, and you must
experiment with a variety of milks
from different cows, invariably steril-
izing it, and try various foods, until
you discover exactly the right one. My
second had the collie almost every
night for six weeks and screamed for
hours without intermission. 1t never
slept longer than half an hour at a
time and neither my husband or me
mad a minutes rest, day or night. And
then teething set in. Whooping cough
followed, and measles, scarlet fever,
hives, and Then | fed. I don't
know where | shall stop and"
"You are quite ~excusable, sir" re-
turned the wayfarer, who had lived
long and knew much. pray, don't
mention it!"-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

Herat. Those campaigns, which Yer
estehagin portrayed in his CHASTITY
slaughter pictures, were a fitting com
plement to the campaigns of Genghis
and Timour long before in the same
quarter of the globe. Then 1t was the
same Ali Khan, Russianized as Colo
mel Alikhanoff, who in the wake OF
massacre built railroads from the
Caspian to the Oxus and Jaxartes and
introduced European industry and
commerce to the land of the Merry
Tekkes,
In thus linking slaughter with civ
illzation he was typical Of the whole
modern career of Russia. In being
himself not Russian but alien, and
yet more Russian than the Russians
themselves, he was also typical OF an
innumerable company Of distinguished
servants Of the Muscovite crown. In
his later years, as a civil admins
traitor, he displayed all the u~nsparing
~ferocity which had marked his cam
paigns DC conquest, and that he at last
| came to a violent end was only what
might have been expected and what
he himself not i%mprobably rev eTaAs
ak his destiny, N
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Progress Of the Organized Assault
Unon Tuberculosis.

Progress Of the Organized Assault
Upon tuberculosis.
The war which this country is
waging on the white plague grows
more vigorous ever year. When the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis began
active work two years ago there were
only seven definite state societies In
existence.
Since that time eight new state
societies have been organized and In
eight other states provision for sim
liar work has been made. The distri-
button of these societies is a matter
Of interest. The east and the middle
west seem to be alive to the serious
ness OF the problem.
BY the census Of 1900, there were
3S cities with q population Of more
than 100000 each. Fifteen Of these
cities had organizations two years
ago for the prevention Of tuberculosis.
During the past two years Ii cities
have followed suit and four others
have provided for organized work.
In casting about for a mathoa y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

a matter of but a few years before the
poor wight gives up in despair, as he
finds that nature has insisted upon i'm
posing more flesh over his skeleton
than he can possibly rid himself of.
When that happens many Of the best
American jockeys go to the tracks of
foreign lands. where the weight i'm
posts are heavier. They usually find
little trouble in obtaining employment.
A number Of them are abroad this
year. There is Danny" Maher, for
instance, in England, He is one of the
best American jockeys who yer left
his native land to ride for foreign
stables. He has been phenomenally
successful in England-so much SO
that the richest owners are eager to
obtain him. He is riding his second
season for Lord Derby. Maher is the
only jockey now riding who has won
three English derbies. OF itself that is
a feat of sufficient importance to estab-
fish his reputation in the turf world.
1t is estimated that he will earn $780,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
The Money Power in the Saddle.

Did you ever hear one word from
President Roosevelt against tho
money power, and yet the money
power controls the trusts and the
railroads and is the power behind the
throne Of ala the monopolists? The
secretaries of the treasury appointed
by Mr.. Roosevelt have all given the
Wall street financiers everything they
have demanded and this action has
been endorsed by him. Secretary
Shaw fell all over himself to do the
bidding of the Wall street bankers
and Secretary Cortelyou, who found
means to fry the fat out of the
frenzied financiers In the last cam
paign, is following in Shaw's foot.
steps.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

some good opportunities in the race
to gain distance"
It was Tod Sloan who originated
the idea of riding forward. Possibly
Miller carries 1t more to an extreme
than some jockeys, but he is light,
strong and has perfect confidence in
himself.
For two years there has been
great rivalry between Miller and
Radtke. The latter has been less sue
c~essful, but is nevertheless considered
to be one of the best boys who ride
professionally in the United States.
Radtke is of different temperament
than Miller. He is a somewhat fiery
little chap and rather self-willed. His
sharp replies earned him punishment
in 1906, but this year he has exer-
cised better control wei himself and
fewer words of caution have had to be
administered to him. He is consid-
cred to be very clever in making
a strong finish. Like Miller, he is
possessed of much physical power in
his arms, and when a horse is firing
in the last strides of a h~ard-fought
race, Radtke fairly lifts him along. as
he holds up his head and gives him
encouragement to make the three
or four final leaps that may win a
stake worth thousands of dollars.
Good Judges of Pace.
Koerner and E. Dugan are two
clever lightweights who are skilful in
judging pace and placing their horses
to good advantage in a field of many
starters. Both are able to rate the
speed at which they are moving by
constant association of intervals of
time with the distance posts on the
track. There have been harness
horse drivers who were able to tell
almost to the fraction of a second
the speed at which they were driving.
So it is with some of the jockeys,
Constant devotion to their work has
enabled them to gather relative ideas
Of time and motion, and it is a great
aid to a jockey to be able so to rate
his horse as to have some reserve
strength and power left for the finish
Heavyweiehts Go Abroad.
Lightweight jockeys are SO much
more In demand in the United States
than they are abroad that it is usually
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

have to leave your home, come to the
track to live, and for a long, long time
you will have to be just a stable boy,
getting UP very early in the morning
and riding horses and doing other
things that are necessary about a rae
ing stable"
yes. sir. I'll do it. I want to earn
a lot of money and be as rich as Wal
ter Miller"
"All right, my boy; give me your
name and | will send for you at the
first vacancy"
Are there many such?" was asked
the trainer.
Many? I'll bet that a day doesn't
go by that / don't have a call from
some youngster who wants to be a
second Miller. / get letters by almost
every mail asking for places in my
stable. and | know that lads run away
from school to come and loiter around
the horses. When / find the latter
kind | send them home with a little
good advice"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Wisdom on Tap.

Mrs. Green, who was deeply alb
sorbed in a romance Of the 18th CEN
fury, suddenly paused and looked at
her husband.
Gregory she said, "listen to this:
BY my halidom,, exclaimed Sir Har-
dynge, 1t is past the hour Of 1911
What is a halidom?"
what do you suppose 1t ISL" re-
sponded MI. Green, with q frown.
Cant you tell from the context
Maria? Sir What's-his-name said 1t
was past the hour of 70 by his half
dom, didn't he? I should think any
one could tell from that sentence that
he had just consulted his halidom.
Halidom is the old English name for
watch, Of course! Why is 1t that some
women don't seem to be able to exer.
else their reasoning faculties?--stray
Stories.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
ALI KHAN. THE SAVAGE,
His Long Career One of Unsparing
Ferccity and Bloodshed.

#&@ G FSISSilJ 1bh 5iSSAoiSAs .aN ~
The latest important assassination
in Russia removes one Of the most
striking and characteristic figures in
the modern history Of that empire.
The world whom the man has com
monty known as Colonel Alikhanoff
and has regarded as a Russian was in
reality a descendant OF the ancient
and now almost extinct Ayars, and
-Eas properly known, before his name
Russianized, as Ali Khan. Nearly all
his life was devoted to the Russian
service, chiefly in the conquest and
annexation Of Central Asia and the
futile advance upon British India, and
there was probably no other man who
achieved more in that than he.
II was All Kahn, the absolutely
ruthless and unsparing, who swept
through Turkestan with fire and
sword at the heels Of Kaufman and
.akobclca, to Khiva, to Merry, to Sa-
Inarcsnd and then. by The side OF
4 afcn. to Penjdeh. sibduing the
Tarccmans and threatening
"M GHN AtEAMKLR HN MHIF
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
In Extremls.

The yacht was heavily becalmed.
There were but ten bottles Of cham
payne in the lockers. Their last signal
Of distress had been sent up, without
bringing any response.
Gentlemen exclaimed the commo-
dore, in a quavering voice, 7 al no
longer conceal the hideous truth from
you. Sobriety stares us in the facet"
1t was a wildly wrious 10 which
ensued. Some ~blasphemed, some
prayed, some, in an access of frenzied
w~antonness, sang songs, while some
sat stoically by, awaiting their fate
with at least an outward calm.-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
A PECULIAR ALLIANCE.
That Made by the Doctors and tho
w. C. r. U.

For the purpose of fighting patent"
medicines the doctors, as represent.
ed by the American Medical Associa-
ton, have made an alliance with the
w. C. T. U. who have been deceived
into Believing that the alcohol in pat
ent" medicines is a menace. In this
alliance the good ladies Of the w. G.
T. u. are apparently put in the posi-
ton of dragging chestnuts out OF the
fire for their allies. There Is no class
so firmly convinced of the necessity
for alcohol in medication as the doc
tors who, with a few exceptions, not
only prescribe it freely but use 1t, as
indeed they must whether they would
prefer to or not, as a solvent and pre-
sentative. On the other hand h
w. C. T. U. contends that the whole
medical and pharmaceutical world Is
in error; that alcohol is not only USE
less but that it is dangerous and
harmful in any quantity in any medi-
cinal preparation. While their princi-
pies are SO wholly at variance the
doctors and the w. G. T. U. ladies'
have cheerfully allied themselves in a
war on patent medicines, and the
w. G. T. U. is placed in an even moro
ridiculous position by reason OF the
fact that the doctors do not contlne
their fight to those medicines WHICH
contain alcohol, but lump all "patens"
medicines in one class. And this, tes>,
DESPITE the fact that, according to t1g-
ures printed in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, about
10 per cent of physicians prescrip-
lions are for 'patent" or proprietary"
medicines.
The inability of many physicians
to prescribe any but ready-to-use rem
edies is frequently commented upon
by the medical press, and by physl-
clans of the better class when assem-
bled in conventions. That three
fourths of the physicians graduated
each year in the United States are in
competent and a peril to the com
| munities in which they practice was
charged openly at the annual meeting
Of the Committee on Medical Educa-
ton of the American Medical Asso-
citation, held in Chicago in April OF
this year. The total number OF grad
yates annually was placed at 1000
which means that at least 5000 in
competents are turned loose annually.
1t was stated at this meeting that an
average of So per cent of the gradu-
ates from medical colleges failed to
pass state examinations. These fail
ures either go back to school, or go
to some state where the requirements
are not SC high.
That many doctors are so ignorant
in matters pertaining to pharmacy
that they know nothing about the
properties of the drugs they prescribe,
was stated by DR.. M. Clayton Thrush,
q professor in the Medico-Chirurgical
College at Philadelphia in an address
before the Annual Convention of the
American Medical Association at At
lantic City in June of this year.
DR.. Henry Beats, Jr., President Of
the Board Of Medical Examination
for the State of Pennsylvania, in an
interview in the daily papers said:
"About one quarter of the papers
show a degree of illiteracy that rend
ers the candidates for ~licensure In
capable Of understanding medicine
He criticizes the colleges for award
ing degrees in these cases.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
FINES OF NO AVAIL
INADEQUATE PUNISHMENT FOR
ILLEGAL COMBINATIONS.
Term In the ~Penitentiary fer Head Of
Trust Would Make for Genuine
Rt form-President VIII
sons Views.

All the national trust-busting and
railroad regulation has not reduced
the price of trust goods, or of railroad
transportation, although the admins
tration takes credit for being the
great corporation regulator. So much
so that Secretary Root, and President
Roosevelt himself, seem to wish to
monopolize the management and con-
troll of corporations by the federal
government. The railroad magnates
have very promptly fallen in with this
plan, for they no doubt think 1t is
saa5sr ard less expensive to deal with
a Republican congress than with 40
separate state legislatures. But the
people seem to view the matter in a
different light and have insisted that
the legislatures of their states pass
stringent legislation to control and
punish the corporations which are
plundering gnem, and the Legislators
have responded to the demand and
lower railroad rates and imprlson-
ment for trust magnates have re-
suited.
Filming a trust or corporation, even
a comparatively large sum, has
proven quite inadequate a punishment
to prevent the repetition OF their IL
legal doings, ana in the end the Gus
toners of the corporations-which is
really everyone-have to pay the fines
by increased prices for their products,
so the national legislation has proven
to be a barren ideality as far as the
people are concerned.
In a recent address by President
| Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton uni
versity, he called attention to the
lack of enforcement of the criminal
law against the law breakers when
he declared: "One really responsible
man in Jail, one real originator of the
schemes and transactions which are
contrary to the public interest legally
lodged in the ~penitentiary. would be
worth more than a thousand corpora
lions mulcted In fines, II the reform
is to be genuine and permanent" DR..
Wilson is an old-fashioned Democrat,
which accounts for his desire to see
the law enforced impartially and not
the continuation Of the travesty upon
justice which the president OF the
United States seems to think Is all
that Is necessary to make the people
believe they are being protected and
to allow him to boast that everyone is
getting a square deal,
If Rockefeller and Rogers, the
Standard Oil magnates, and Baer o.
the coal trust, and Frick Of the stee
trust, and Havemeyer the sugar king
and Armour and Swift of the bee,
trust, and Duke of the tobacco trust
not to mention the hundreds of 9th
crs, were in stripes for a term com
mensurate with their Illegal plumber
ing Of a patient people, does anyone
believe they and others would con
tinue to extort their present higl
prices or maintain an Illegal monopol.
with the constant fear of like furthe
punishment?
Then If the tariff was revised to
revenue basis, so that competition
would compel reasonable prices, Their
would not be such extraordinary pros
perity of the trusts, but there woul'
be more joyous faces and thrift
amongst the people generally.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
tariff Revision.

The wisest politicians there are say
there will be no tariff revision until
after the next election. The Repub-
lican party is in danger of playing
that card once too often, and is going
to get caught some day. 1t would
be the joke of many years If the Dem
ocrats were to make a better promise
to revise the tariff than the Repub-
licans do, and win OF that platform
Milwaukee Free Fress.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Wouldn't Take His Place.

Hearing of the sddden taking of the
stage OF life of a leading Thespian
while he was playing in Chicago, a
New York Rialtoan out of a job tele-
graphed the manager as follows:
Having heard Of the sad and tragic
demise Of Mr.. , I'll take his place
for $3.50 a week"
AS the message was sent collect 1t
ELECTED the following reply: Thanks.
! wouldn't take his place for twice that
amount"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
a Nice Sentence.

seYou have a pleasant home and a
bright fireside, with happy children
sitting around it, haven't your said
the Judge.
Eyes, sir" said the prisoner, who
thought he saw a way out Of the diff
Guilty.
Well" said the Judge, IL the happy
children sit around the cheerful fire
side until you return. they will stay
there just Az days"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Has There Beer a Reduction2

The Baltimore Sun asks if any.
body can point to a single reduction
Of price Of any article as a result Of
the presidents seven years Of trust
busting. Probably not. The mother
nf the trusts still lives and supplies
the papf There's the rub.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

He gazed upon her In fond admira-
ton. He loved her to distraction
Lovers had loved before, lovers might
love again, but no lover might, could.
would, or should love as he loved Dora.
The sun shone Dora, the birds sang
Dora, the wild flowers in the hedges,
oh! they were all Doras to a bud. And
then Ferdinand exclaimed with start
ling suddenness:
What in the world ever induced
you, Dora, to care for a fellow like
met"
Il really don't know, but pa threat
: ers to send me to a brain specialist.