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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
Trade at Home.

Patronage of the big mail urder
houses is founded largely on short
s~ightedness. In one way it is akin to
patronage of the get-rich-quick
schemes. The buyer believes he is
getting something for his money that
is really not given, and fails to realize
either where his money goes or what
he gets for it.
No n would think of telephoning
to a furniture store and asking the
dealer to send up a dozen dining room
chairs, without having previously ex-
amined the chairs, or Of ordering a
dress or pair of shoes, or a stove in
this way. Yet that is practically
what the patron of the mail order
house does. He orders by mail without
having seen the goods or having any
idea OF their appearance or character.
He is taking a long chance. Two
things on which he has to base his
conception of the articles ordered is a
description in the catalogue and the
cut given there. In other words, the
attractiveness Of the offer made de-
ponds on the promises of the firm and
the engraver's art. 1t is possible to
make a very creditable cut from a
fiimsy and worthless model. It is
possible to describe an atrocity in a
way that makes it appear most desir-
able. Incidentally it seems to be al.
ways possible to find some one who
Will accept the promise and cut at
their face value, without properly dis
counting them, and on the credibility
OF these people the mail order bust
ness thrives. A little investigation
and comparison will convince the
average person that his money will 60
further and yield greater returns If
invested right here in Beverly, despite
the fictitious values offered by the
outside houses. But the articles sold
by the mail order houses must be
compared as they really are, and not
as they are reputed to be in the cata-
logues.-Beverly (Mass.) Times.
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my back. Jim. II / had Known y
much that day as I do now I would
have stood in that crowd ana bought
all the stock he sold at $50, and l
would have stood there buying until
hell froze over OF he quit; then I
would have made him rebuy it at $50
or 1850, and l would have broken him
and all his Camemeyer and STANDARD
OH hackers; broken them TO their
last crime-covered dollar"
Bob, what are you talking about?
1t is all Chinese to me. l cannot get
head or tail of what you are driving
at"
Il know you can't, Jim, neither
could Wall street If it were listening
to me. But you will, and Wall street
will, 100, before many days go by.
Now l must be of. / have work to
do"
He put on his hat and len ne try.
Ing to puzzle out just what hs meant.
Next day the Sugar bulls esd the
center of the stock exchange stage.
All day long they tossed Suaur from
ona TO another, as though each thou
sand shares had been a wisp OF hay
instead of 5000, 000-for soon after the
opening it scared to 200. The 'sys.
TENS" cohorts were in absolute con-
troll, with Barry Conant never a min
ute away from the Sugar-pole. always
on the alert to steer the course of
price when they threatened to run
away on the up or the down side.
1t was evident to the expert readers
Of the tape that the system" was car.
rying its steed for an exceptionally
brilliant run. Ike Bloomanstein, the
Avenger Fiend, who for 40 years had
kept close track of every movement
or the floor, and who would bet any
thing, from his Fifth avenue mansion
to his overripe boardroom straw hat,
that all stocks and movements were
as strictly subject to the law of aver.
ages as are the tides to the moon and
sun, remarked to Joe Barnes, the loan
expert:
: Cam unit de Keroseners are pud.
ding up egstra dop rails to dot wool.
pen deb hat ben pilding since deb took
Pop Prownlee and deb Rantolphs into
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
ROOT-GRANTWEDD|NG
YOUNG SOLDIER WEEDS DAUeH.
TER OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
is A BRILLIANT AFFAIR
President, Vice President and Other
Distinguished Guests Present
Union Is Purely a Love
Match.

Washington.-In the presence of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the
Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks,
the justices of the supreme court and
their wives, several senators, repre-
sentatives and other distinguished
guests, Miss Edith Root on Wednesday
became the wife of Ulysses Simpson
Grant Sd, Lieutenant United States
Engineer corps.
The wedding was generally recog-
nized at the capital as being the Sec
ond in social and official importance
that has taken place during the Roose-
welt administration, there being only
less interest in the marriage than in
that which centered about the mar
riage of Miss Roosevelt to Mr.. Long.
worth.
The bride is the only daughter Of
Secretary of State and Mrs. Elihu
Root, while the groom, as everyone
knows from his name, is the grandson
of General Grant, his father being
General Frederick Dent Grant of the
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HELPS THE TRUSTS
ERROR TOO FREQUENTLY MADE
BY THE FARMER.
BUYS THROUGH MAIL ORDER
And In Doing So Contributes To-
ward Capital Concentration in
the Big Financial centers, to
His Great Injury.

Lord bless the American farmer.
He is one of the nabobs of creation
and he hardly knows it. In a single
year his work adds to the wealth of
the nation more by a h~undredfold than
all the mines of the country. He gives
to the world twice the value in crops
and produce than the output all the
factories and mills of the nation pro-
duce. He supplies the lubricant to
keep the wheels of progress in mo-
ton, and if he only knew it could buy
and sell a few hundred Rockefellers,
and still have enough left to purchase
a few kingdoms as large as Spain.
Yet it must be admitted that this great
American farmer needs some enlight.
enment as to common economics,
While he is the king of wealth produc-
ers, and a lot of it sticks to his fingers,
he is also a ph~ilanthropist and doesn't
know it. He works hard to produce
his wealth and then ~patronizes the
machinery that lands a goodly portion
Of 1t in the Golfers of the Captains of
Finance who dictate things in Wall
street and elsewhere; in fact he as
sists the trust magnates to the money
required to build up combinations that
the good philanthropic farmer is COM
PEELED to support. He does it and he
knows not that he doeth so. Every
time the good tiller of the soil sends
away to the big mail order house for
his supplies, he does his mite toward
capital concentration in the great
financial centers, and his little mite
seeks a resting place among the
money held in reserve to feed the
wants of the trusts. 1t is about time
western farmers take a tumble to cold
facts, and come to a realization that
their interests are best subserved by
keeping their earnings as close to
their homes as possible.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

Present at the wedding were Elihu
Root, Jr, and Miss Aida Stryker,
daughter of DR.. M. Woolsey Stryker,
president of Hamilton college. Mr..
Root, who is the oldest son of the
secretary of state, will marry Miss
Stryker just ten days from the day
that saw his sister married to Lieu
tenant Grant.
The invitations to the wedding were
restricted as far as Washington was
concerned to the persons who must
be invited" The local invitations were
about ESQ in number and they includ-
ed only the closest family friends and
those persons who hold such official
positions that they had to of neces-
sity be invited to be present.
The out-of-town invitations greatly
outnumbered those given in Washing
ton, but there were comparatively few
of the out-of-town guests present. The
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

CAMP. Unless my topesheet goes pack
on me, for deb first dime in 40 years,
dere will pc a record clip pefore a week
from to-tay."
Il am with you there, Ike" an
swered Joe. "If Barry Commits knife
edged teeth ever spelt a KILN, they
do to-day. I just got orders from
somewhere to drop call money from
four to two and a half per cent, and
they have given me ten millions to
drop 1t with and the order is to ia
o Sugar as 'collat.' Some one is
anxious to make 1t easy for the bleat-
ers to get the coin to buy all the
Sugar they want. Ike, you and l might
make turkey money for Thanksgiving,
il we only knew whether Barry and
his bunch were going to shoot her
up 80 OF 40 points before they turned
the bag upside down, or whether they
will bury them from 200 to $50. What
do you think?"
Il CANT make out, aldo / hat watch
ed dem sharp all day. Dey certainly
hat deb lambs lined up right now
for any vey dey wont to twist i'd.
/ nefer e a peter market for a del.
uge. For Barry's movements all day
I should say dey would keep hoistin'
her until apout noon tomorrow, unit
dat deb might get her up to two-tirty
or even to deb two-ffty. Put dere are
o or two TOPICS ON deb sheet What
run deb uder way. First der is dey
fact you giant run out, dat dere Is al.
reaty on deh Sugar wagon deb biggest
load of chuicy suckers dat efer game
In from Deb %suppurbs. Sharley pates
says II any Won hat tapped his Wash.
ington wire er any utter capital wire
dis week he would hat fought dere vas a
senate, house, unit kabinet roll-gall on.
Deb TOPICS say Cam will nefer led dat
punch off grafters site out NIT rea!
mooney if he al help i'd unit deb
game ISIS endirely In his hands,"
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

army. Lieutenant Grant is a nephew
of Mrs. Potter Palmer Of Chicago.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev, DR.. Stryker of Hamilton college,
who was for several years the pastor
of the Fourth Presbyterian church at
Rush and Superior streets, Chicago,
and who was a college friend of Sec
Rotary of State Root, a friendship that
is to be made the closer by the mar
riage of the secretary's son to the
college presidents daughter.
The tying of the bonds united two
young people who are very much in
love with each other. There is not a
whisper in any quarter that position
or name had the least thing in the
world to do with the engagement.
The former Miss Root has always
rather Stunned the gayer life of the
capital, and Lieutenant Grant has
never been any too fond of it. He is
%studious, and so is his bride and both
are of domestic inclinations. 1t was
a good old-fashioned American we'd
ding, with Cupid's heart engaged in
every detail.
The cards of invitation to the we'd
ding read as follows:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

| ask you whether, If an honest man
knew how to beat Wall street at its
own game, he should hesitate to beat
it-hesitate because of anything con-
nected with conscience or morals?
You saw what Barry Conant was able
to do to us that day simply by stand
ing on the floor of the stock exchange
and outstaying me in opening and
closing his mouth. You saw he was
able to sell Sugar to a point so low
that I was obliged to let go of our
10000 shares at $4,000, 900 to $40, 0O0,-
600 less than we could have got for
them if we could have held them un.
til to-day. Because of this trick his
clients, the SYSTEM instead of us,
make five to seven millions"
Il don't follow you, Bob. l know
that Barry Conant was able to do this
because he had more money behind
him than YOU"
"You think SO, do. you, Jim? That
is the way it looks to you, but / tell
you money had nothing to do with it.
Nothing had to do With it but the
fiendish system Of fra i'd and trickery
upon which the whole safeguarding
structure is reared. Nothing entered
into the whole business but the trick
cry of safeguarding as conducted to-
day. 1t was only a question, Jim, of
a mans opening and closing his mouth
and splitting out words. From the
minute Barry Conant came into that
crowd until he left and we we're ruin
ed, he showed no money. no anything
that l did Aot show. From the very
nature Of the business he could not.
He simply said: Sold oftener and
longer than I said Buy He may have
had money back Of him, or he may
only have had nerve. God Almighty
Is the only one who can tell, for when
Conant was through he was able to
buy back at 80 the 10000 shares he
sold me at It's, the $4,000 that broke
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
List Of Mierobes GROWING.

The list OF microbes continues to
grow steadily. That Of whooping
cough must now be added to the list.
DR.. H. Albrecht, Of the Wilhelm hos
pital, recently spoke on the subject
before the Vienna Medical society, de-
claring that he had discovered the
specific agent that caused the com
plant. There had for some time been
q suspicion that a kind of bacillus was
at the bottom, but DR.. Albrecht felt
himself able to assert that whooplng
cough bacillus was identical with that
Of influenza.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
PLAQUES Of Nerve Sufferers.

There is a class of well-defined
"phobias," as they are called, with
which nerve sufferers are plagued.
"Monophobia," or fear of being alone;
"castrophobia," or fear OF closed-in
crowds or of broad open spaces; I'm
spaces; a "goraphobia," or fear of
somniaphobia," OIL fear of not going
to sleep, and many others. TIE one
great remedy for all these and similar
mental miseries, writes DR.. Samuel
McComb in Good Housekeeping, is
aulJ-suggestion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
Advertise What You Have to Sell.

L FNAvS etSS ' w ttauC " 9CIis
After all that las been said or can
be said about the big mail order
houses, the simple fact remains that
they get the business by thorough and
persistent advertising, showing cuts
OF goods and giving prices. If home
merchants would take the same meth
DDS, much Of the trade now going to
the mail order houses in cities would
come to them. A man we know re-
Gently made up a list Of tools and
hardware from one of the mail order
catalogues and took 1t to a home
dealer to get prices. He was surprised
to find that he could get the same
articles at home for less money and
the express charges, and also
see the goods he was buying.-Clear-
field (Pa.) Spirit.
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Raised In Rank.

Sir Chentung Liang-cheng, until re.
Gently Chinese minister at Washing
ton, has been received by the en-
press in audience for three successive
days. He has been raised from the
second to the first rank and appointed
director of the Southern railroad,
with headquarters at Shanghai. He
Will also act as traffic superintendent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

he then spent four years in a state
military school founded by Empress
Maria Theresa. He entered Columbia
college in New York on his return to
the United States and was graduated
in 1898, when he at once joined his
father in Porto Rico, where he had
his first experience in warfare. At
the end of a year he entered West
Point, graduating sixth in his class of
1902. He was ordered at once to the
Philippines, where he did good service
for three years, and, returning to the
United States, was ordered to Wash
ington barracks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
Large Number Of Nets Used.

According to Consul-General Soren
Listoe, Of Rotterdam, about 100000
nets are in use during the herring
season by the 500 fishing smacks Of
the Netherlands. A net lasts about
three seasons, but owing to losses
from storms and other causes, be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 new nets are
purchased annually.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
Liqht Cure for Cancer.

Experiments are in progress at the
New York Skin and Cancer hospital,
$3.50 Second avenue, for the alienation
Of pain by the use of intense light. So
far the physicians are unwilling to ex-
press any definite opinions as to its
efficacy, and content themselves by
saying that their hospital tries every
device which promises to be OF assist
ance In curing or alleviating cancer
The results with the light cure" how
ever, have been sufficiently satisfac-
tory to induce them to continue the
experimental. X. Times.
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Put In a Good Word.

Lord Arlington was arrested the
ether day in England for speeding his
auto. Said the arresting policeman
in court the next day: His lordship
was most civil; in fact, it was a
pleasure to meet him, and that is
more than can be said of some motor
lists" Still, his lordship had to pay
a fine Of SIS and costs.
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FABLE or II N

Lovers Of this pretty flower may be
interested In the fable concerning 1t.
The blossom has flve petals and 1--WE
sepals. In most pansies, especially Of
the earlier and less highly developed
varieties, two Of the petals are plain
In color and three are gay. The two
plain petals have a single sepal each.
and the third, which is the largest Of
all. has two sepals. The fable is that
the pansy represents a family, consist.
Ing Of husband. wife and four daugh.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

Cheyenne Wyo.) merchants are or
ganizing to fight the mail order
houses. 1t is claimed that fully one
half of the clothing and dress goods
purchased by the people of Cheyenne
come from outside towns, and the To-
cal merchants are deprived of this
business, to say nothing of the hard
ware, notions, novelties, etc., that are
secured through the mail order
houses.
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{ SONS

have the wedoS
as possible, and L
by attending simpllci
OF the groom's famlly
present his father and mott
and Mrs. Grant; his aunts, n
Grant S~artoris and Mrs. Pot
mer, and several of his first C.
one of whom, Mrs. Sartoris' daLs
Vivian, not long ago married FredericA
Roosevelt Scovel, a cousin of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and so, although
rather indirectly, a connection is es-
tablished between the Root and the
Roosevelt families by the Root-Grant
marriage.
The Root residence, where the cere-
mony took place, belongs to former
Vice-President Levi P. Morton, who
occupied it for months between the
times Of the leaving of Count Cassini.
who leased it for the Russian embas-
say quarters, and its renting for resi-
dence purposes by Secretary Root.
While the wedding party was compare
lively small, the house is big enough
to hold a multitude. 1t stands on a
triangular piece of ground with Scott
Circle at one end, Fifteenth street at
the other end and a street on each
side.
Lieutenant Grant and Miss Root
were married In the great south room
on the first floor of the residence, a
room which is as long as the house
itself. 1t is a huge drawing-room
known in the days when the Countess
Cassini presided over social affairs
in the residence as the yellow room"
Miss Root had 20 bridesmaids. Sew
eral of Lieutenant Grants classmates
and other army officer friends were
present at the wedding, and his cous-
in, Potter Palmer, Jr., of Chicago, was
his best man.
After the wedding Lieutenant Grant
and his bride left for a short honey
moon trip. They will go to Clinton,
N. Y, to be present, December Z, at
the wedding of the brides brother and
Miss Stryker. From there Lieutenant
Grant will take his bride directly to
Boston, where in the suburb of Brook
line there is a pretty little house
awaiting their occupancy.
The house was selected by the bride
whose mother recently has interested
herself in furnishing it completely for
housekeeping. Lieutenant Grant was
ordered a short time ago from Wash
ington to Boston to carry on his en-
gineering duties under the direction
of Major Edward Burr, who has
charge of the river and harbor work
along the Massachusetts coast.
Miss Root made her debut in New
York several seasons ago and has
twice been a cabinet girl, although
she was extremely young when her
father was secretary of wal in Presi-
dent McKinley's second administra-
ton. She is a gifted linguist, an &C.
complished musician, and is devoted
to outdoor sports. She is an expert
h~orsewoman, and her smart trap is
familiar to all the uptown sections of
Washington.
Lieut., Grant has served as military
aid at the white house during the
last two seasons, acting with Capt.
F%itzhugh Lee, Jr,, and Lieut.. Philip
Sheridan.
He is a nephew of Mrs. Potter Pal.
mer of Chicago, his mother being Miss
Louise Honore, sister of Mrs. Palmer.
He is a brother of Princess Cantacu-
zene of Russia, who was Miss Julia
Dent Grant, and the only child of the
Grant family born in the white house.
Lieut.. Grants early education was
obtained in Europe while his father
was minister to Austria-H Hungary and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
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tiers, two of the latter being ~step-chil-
dren OF the wife. The plain petals are
the ~step-children, with only one chair;
the two small gay petals are the
daughters. with a chair each. and the
large gay petal is the wife, with two
chairs. nc find the father one must
strip away the petals until the stamens
and pistils are bare. They have q
fsnciful resemblance to an old man
with a flannel wrap round his neck, his
shoulders appraised and his feet in o
bathtub. In France the pansy 10 unk
versaily called the stel-mother.
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Individual VS.. Corporation.

A well-known eastern financier, for
some time the president Of a large
trust company, recently resigned, CIV
ing as his reason that a man, accord
ing to his belief, can do better work
for himself, and that no man can
really earn a salary equal to what he
car make in business for himself. In
these days when all kinds of business
are being converged into corporations,
the number of trades in which a mar
may engage in business for himself
have become so few that for e great
bulk of men, even those having the
mental equipment which in other
years would have been sufficient to
make them their own masters, there
is now no other opening than that of
service for some corporation. For
the bulk of the people, outside of
those in agricultural pursuits, it is
service for the corporation or no work
at all. This truth is becoming more
evident day by day. Even the farmers
are feeling the grasp of corporate
methods. 1t is true that millions must
have the products of his lands and his
hands, but the corporations are the
mediums he must work through, and
from him they exact their fittings. It
is to the interest of the farmer as
well as the laborer in every walk and
sphere, to prevent as far as possible
further encroachment of organized
capital, and this can be done by as
far as possible keeping the dollars
that you earn in circulation in the
community where earned, and thus
prevent the further concentration of
money and of business in the great
cities.
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A Wireless Addenda.

Mr.. Bacon--I see a Japanese cleo
trician has invented a wireless system
which is asserted to be superior to
anything now in use.
MIS-. Bacon-Gracious me! Are bus
ties comm in style once more, really?
-Yonkers Statesman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
s~ympathetic Nature.

Even the weather has shared In
the recent panic"
in what way?"
Didn't you see where there was a
furry Of snow from the cloud banks?'
Baltimore American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28
open AIR Museum nIann.d.

An open air museum is planned for
Bremen, Of the type already familiar
in many Scandinavian towns. An
epitome Of the local culture and art
from the earliest days Is to be offered
In a park dotted with old peasant
houses,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-28

Dignifed Mamma When that
young man left you last night I heard
something which sounded like q kiss.
DigniHed Daughter-Did you? How
does a kiss sound, mamma?--N. X.
Weekly.