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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
Niqht SWeats 6 Cough.

E. W. Walton, Condr. S. P. Ry., III
Van Ness St., San Antonio, Tex,
writes: During the summer and fall
of 1902, my annoyance from catarrh
reached that stage where it was actual
misery and developed alarming symp-
toms, such a a very deep-seated cough,
night sweats, and pains in the head and
chest. Experimental with several So
called remedies before I finally decided
to take a thorough course of Peruna.
"Twoo of my friends had gone so far as
to inform me that the thing for me to do
was to resign my position and seek a
higher, more congenial climate. Every
one thought 1 had consumption and I
was not expected to live very long.
"Having procured some Peruna, 1 de-
cided to give it q thorough test and ap-
piled myself assiduously to the task Of
taking it, as per instructions, in the
meantime.
"The effects were soon apparent, all
alarming symptoms disappeared and
my general health became fully as good
as it had ever been in my life.
ST have resorted to the use of Peruna
on two or three occasions since that
time to cure myself of bad colds"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
>QEEE BHNlzW cSXzy-7NO GZ0RHS or MIR,
4 NARZT OH NXE AEHI

ing made Of practical use. Desire for
their own safety caused Gotham city
fathers to squelch the plan and it is
considered probable that the tallest
building which New York will eve
see will not be more than 1000 feet in
height, and perhaps a limit of 1000
feet may be put upon the height of
these gigantic monuments to modern
industry.
When you stop to consider the whole
proposition the truth begins to dawn.
An edifce of 1000 feet possesses
weight of SIG, 900 tons, and therefore
a structure a mile tall would weigh
4,200, 900 tons, and under this terrible
strain Manhattan would collapse,
scientists tell us,
There have been no ARCHITECTURAL
plans which will SO shift the weight
of any building that the strain upon
the strata when erected to the height
of one mile will allow 1t to stand in
the first-conceived position without
shifting. Therefore the reasons for
not having a one.mile-high structure
are both architectural and geological.
History gives us no other instance
where mar has been able to test the
weight-carrying capacity of Mother
Earth, but to-day SO far have the ideas
of civilization reached that even the
globe is under a strain to hold the
weight which man has dug out of its
bowels and placed upon its face.
New York, like the city Of Chicago,
Is not upon a firm base. OF course,
there is the usual strata of thick rock.
which In some places Is far more sub
stantial than In others, but beyond a
weight Of $4,000 tons 1t is impossible
ITO resi- additional .yeight upon the
foundations Of the city, for that is
what the strata is--a foundation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
WITH INTERESTS"
RAILROADS AND CORPORATIONS
ARE OUT FOR TAFT.
They Do Not Fear the Ex-War Secre-
tary as They Seemed to Have
Feared Roosevelt-NoW
Very CompIacent. -

E. H. Hartman has made his con
tribution to the Taft campaign fund
according to report. The railroads
through their majority owners, are
supposed to be throwing such infu.
ence as they have to the Republican
candidate. The trusts are for Taft
The interests" are for Taft. The pos.
SCISSORS of privileges" are for Taft,
The last one of those smitten by the
militant author of my policies" in
that famous message sent to congress
last January has turned the other
cheek and fawned on the ma chosen
by Roosevelt as the nominee Of the
Republican party. Do the strange
relationships of politics hold any
parallel?
Corrupt business and corrupt poll
tics" wrote the president in that mes
sage, "act and react with ever in
ereasing debasement, one ON the
other" And he continued thus: THE
rebate taker, the franchise trafflcker,
the manipulation of securities, the pur-
veyor and protector of vice, the black
mailing ward boss, the ballot-box
suffer, the ~demagogue, the mob
leader, the hired bully and man-killer
all alike work at the same web of
corruption, and all alike should be
abhorred by honest men"
That was given out about the time
when the fear that Roosevelt would
himself be renominated had caused
the planning and partial execution of
the hurt business" campaign. The
proud weare Of the epithets in the
presidential TRADE were seeking to
capitalize commercial misfortune, and
they persisted until the emphasis of
repeated denials brought final assur-
ance that Roosevelt was not and
would not be a candidate. But the
horror and fear of Roosevelt has not
beer passed along to Taft. He is
apparently in the good graces of the
rebate takers, franchise traffickers and
the manipulators of securities. The
hurt business" campaign has been
succeeded by another in which the
whole effort is to throw to the party
such advantage as may be gained from
claiming for it the restoration of the
prosperity which IT all but de-
stroyed.
Why is it that the particular forces
at whom Mr.. Roosevelt aimed that
awful January broadside are now so
complacent? Has the threat to make
them honest been withdrawn? Has
the fear that their privileges" will be
disturbed been stilled? Why has the
dreadful cabal and conspiracy against
the White House been dissolved? Has
it been found, or has it been prom
ised, that my policies" were made for
public consumption and for political
effect, and that Mr.. Taft is, after all,
not tainted with R~ooseveltism? 1t
would be interesting to know.-St.
Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
ROOSEVELT ExTRAVAeANcE.
Appropriation of Present Administra-
ton Greater than in Civil War.

Official figures compiled by the
clerks Of the house and senate com.
mittees on appropriations show that ex
expenditures a~ggregating 1,00S, 397,-
54S.56 were authorized at the last SEES.
sion of congress. These are the heavi.
est appropriations ever made in time
of peace.
When the country was astonished at
the spectacle of a billion dollar con.
Sress, Speaker Reed could offer no
excuse except a plea that this had be-
come a billion dollar country. But
under the Roosevelt regime VIZ have
attained the two billion dollar cor.
gress, which appropriates a thousand
millions at each annual session. The
appropriation during the last four
years of Rooseveltism have mounted
up to $3,42S, 0OO, 900, or $50, 900, 900
more than during four years of civil
war.
In a recent statement to the World.
Representative James A. Tawney. Re-
publican chairman of the house COM
mlttee ON appropriations, asserted that
almost 65 per cent of the govern
ment's revenues, exclusive OF postal
receipts, is today being spent to meet
the cost OF wars past and anticipated"
In an article prepared for the ami
Versary number of the World, Senator
Allison, the venerable Republican
chairman of the senate committee on
appropriations, showed that since 1889
there had come an annual increase of
$5l,0OO,0O0 in expenditures for the
army, an annual increase of $S4, O00,-
600 for the navy and an annual in
crease of 100000 600 for pensions.
These three items alone represent a
total Of 1881, 100000 i'm the approprfa-
lions authorized at the recent session
Of congress.
This is an annual tax of more than
$3.50 on every man, woman and child
in the United States for army. navy
and pensions alone. 1t represents an
average of $3.50 for each family. or
more than half the average months
earnings Of the American Iaborer in
the period of highest prosperity.-N
Y, World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

1t is up to the Republican managers
in Ohio to begin refilling the dinner
buckets if they expect to hold on to-
Taft's state.
The hardest fight of the Democrats.
in this campaign is to keep the Re
publicans off their platform.
Shall the people rule? Eventually.
Speaker Cannon has already passed
the three-score4and-ten mark.
If there is a prosperity parade for
campaign purposes this fall Chairman
Hitchcock might hire those hundred
men who slept in the Morgue chapel,
because there was no other refuge for
them, to carry his full dinner pails''
with the disused chicken legs visibly
sticking out of the excelsior contents.
The federal official whom Roosevelt
has just threatened with dismissal for
"pernicious activity is not in the.
south, but in New York. He has doubt
less been operating at cross purposes
with some of R%oosevelt's plans in the
Empire state.
AS we look forward to an IS, O00.-
100000 crop, it occurs to us how
calamitous 1T would have been If the
Democrats had had their way and re-
vised the tariff last spring, so %insuring
a complete failure of the crops this
fall. It's funny how wheat is heavy
and corn tall according to whether the
duty on steel rails is As or rs per cent.
Wouldn't it be a real jar if, when
the troops have caught the Yellow
stone bandit and stripped him of his
booty and thrown him into chains and
peeled off his disguise, it should be
found that it was Treasurer Sheldon
applying the usual methods of collect
ing Republican campaign funds-say,
wouldn't 1t jar you?
But, then, If it was the fear of the
Wilson-G German tariff law of 1894 that
caused the panic of 1893, what was it
the fear of that caused the panic of
1907?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

could bring forth some continuance or
new material to lessen the strain.
What is most needed is some sort
of material which is of less weight
than plain steel, brick and mortar, but
which possesses the same strength, or
perhaps more strength than these con
ventional articles for constructing sky
%scrapers.
Perhaps the city of Chicago is in
more danger than any other big mart
of trade in America. The size of build
ings is continually growing and just
lately limitations have been put upon
the ambition of the brotherhood of
architects. This action vas taken by
the city council for the same reason
that the city fathers of the city OF
New York acted.
Chicago Is constructed on a strata
which, it is declared, is altogether too
thin for safety. Chicago's entire loop
district was built upon what was a
marsh only rs years ago. Many OF
the oldest residents still tell the story
of a traveller on horseback who visited
Chicago's downtown district during
the time that the Indians occasionally
broke loose. A Chicagoan in a boat
noticed a hat apparently floating in
an exceptionally wet spot. The Chi
cagoan needed a hat himself and he
rowed to the spot, picked up the hat
and was surprised to find the travel,
er's head beneath. He was up to his
eyebrows in marsh.
The scene then shifts to to-day. Big
skyscrapers nov stand IN the spot
where the horseman lost his hat. The
great marsh dried up somewhat, and
where it did not great loads Of earth
from the western districts Of the city
were piled in until a solid foundation
was given the town.
Scientists also talk Of the cracking
of great ~plate.glass windows used in
Chicago's loop district stores for ex.
hibition purposes. The great weight
which is put upon the somewhat I'M
solidifed portions of the marsh causes
an occasional settling of the strained
portions of strata and as a result
spasmodic periods of alarm beset the
downtown business men.
Scientists, however, have assured
the public that there is no danger Of
loss Of life, for the settling Of the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

earth takes place usually after the
work of the day has been done. For
that reason no lives have been lost.
several buildings of flimsy texture
have collapsed, but this disaster in all
instances has come during the night
or early morning, showing that nature
has taken a life-saving course in de-
stroying works from the hand of man.
That the foundations of a large city
are elastic after a fashion was proven
by a notable instance which cam to
the attention Of the Chicago building
commission and the police a few years
ago. A salvage company was engaged
In tearing down a structure adjacent
to the Women's Temple. Suddenly
one morning when most of the debris
from the wrecked structure had been
carted away the occupants of offices
in the Women's Temple felt the edi-
nee sag to the south-in the direction
Of the site of the wrecked building.
The entire structure on the south
side wrinkled in spots. Cracks, some
of them two inches wide, opened, caus.
ing the belief that a disaster was i'm
minent. Such al not the case, how
ever, and when a massive stone edi-
flee was erected on the site of the old
building the Women's Temple resumed
its natural posture.
Experts who were put to work upon
N ..
the incident In the interest of science
determined that the stratum of bedrock,
being elastic, had ~recoiled from the
strain which the wrecked building put
upon it, therefore causing a movement
Of the foundations Of the Temple.
When the newly erected buildings
weight was put upon the site of the
old structure normal conditions were
resumed once more.
Dozens of incidents of the same sort
have come to the attention of COM
m~issioners in large cities, but we find
them illustrated nearer home. In
erecting the smallest kind of a house
or barn there must be allowance for
sinking, and If one portion of the
handiwork sinks and there is not the
same falling Of another portion large
cracks along the walls tell of the
trouble. That is the reason that most
builders prefer to sink their founda-
tons In the spring Of the. year. this
being a precautionary measure. For
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

The president and the standpatters
evidently think that public patience is
not yet exhausted, that citizens are
not yet weary of being promised relief
next year, from intolerable condi
lions.
1t is plain that Republican managers
still think campaign contributions
from tariff beneflciaries more neces.
sary to Republican success than to
make sure of popular approval. Ap'
parently they believe that popular ap,
proval will be obtained anyhow
through habit and the old campaign
devices.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

is about $50, 900 tons. Hence you
might place two navies the size of the
one possessed by America on top of
a 200-foot plot of ground and the
weight would be the same as that of
a 200-foot building. The strain on
the earth's crust is a terrible one,
and in time 1t is declared the crust
would give way under the fearful pres.
sure. For that reason the aldermen
clamped the ban on buildings a mile
high.
Then the wind pressure upon large
buildings must be taken into consider
alton by the corps of experts engaged
in operations in New York.
On a building 1000 feet high the
wind pressure on each wall is 5000
tons, which on four walls adds $4,000
tons, and including the roof pressure
there is 10000 tons added weight,
which increases the total number of
tons on the whole structure to SAG, 900
tons. This is an enormous weight,
and far out of the conception of the
ordinary human mind which does not
have to deal with such monstrous pro.
positions.
The monstrosity Of the entire propo.
sition is made almost impossible by
the physical limitations Of the earth.
strata and general texture of the coun-
try in the neighborhood of New York.
For that reason experts have figured
by complicated processes that the big.
gest building which New York will
construct in the future will not be
over 1000 feet in height.
The work of devising engineering
schemes which will lessen the fearful
weight exerted upon the earth's crust
is now the object Of the biggest work
ers in this line. and millions Of dollars
would be paid the man or firm that
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
The Sion of Power.

1t is the greatest manifestation Of
power to be calm. 1t is easy to be
active. let the reins go, and the
horses will drag you down. Anyone
a do that; but he who can stop the
plunging horses is the strong man.
Which requires the greater strength
letting go, or restraining? The calm
man is not the mar who is dull. You
must not mistake calmness for dull
ness or laZiness. . Activity ID
the manifestation Of the lower
strength, calmness of the superior
strength.-Swami Vivekannanda.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
1.-THE PALE GIRL"
Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause,

In cold weather some people think
a cup of hot coffee good 10 help keep
warm. So it is-for a short time but
the drug-caffeine-acts on the heart
to weaken the circulation and the re-
action is to cause more chilliness.
There is a hot wholesome drink
which a Oak. girl found after a time,
makes the blood warm and the heart
strong.
She says:
Having lived for five years In N.
Oak, I have used considerable coffee
owing to the cold climate. AS a re-
suit I had a dull headache regularly,
suffered from indigestion, and had no
life in me.
Il was known as the pale GIRL and
people thought / was just weakly.
After a time l had heart trouble and
became very nervous, nev knew
what it was to be reaa we'll. Took med.
icfne but it never seemed to do any
good.
"Since being married my husband
0AA ! pO,h AaVO lOu5ML CUhC6 was
harming us and we would quit, only to
begin again. although We felt 1t was
the same as poison to us,
"Then we got some Postum. Well,
the effect was really wonderful. NV
complexion Is clear now headache
gone, and I have a great deal Of en-,
ergy / had " known while drink,
ing coffee.
Il haven't been troubled with indh.
gestfon since using Postum, am not
nervous. and need no medicine. We
have a little girl and boy who both
love Postum and thrive on it and
Grape-Nuts."
There's q Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, The Road to Well
ville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above lettere A new
appears from timo to time. They
are genuine, true, ahd full Of human
! interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
Marine Insurance.

Marine insurance is the oldest kind
of modern insurance. Its principles
were first employed in the fourteenth
century by the merchants of BARGE
Iona, in Spain, when that city was
the capital of the kingdom Of Cata-
lonia and when its hardy mariners
were second to none in the world.
About the same time, and also at
Barcelona, the famous code of mari
time laws known as the consulate
del mar" was promulgated, which is
the foundation of the present shipping
laws of every country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

We cannot wonder at the confusion
Of ideas in the minds of some voters
when we find all classes of presiden-
tial candidates hammering at "preda-
tory" wealth. 1t is a convenient and
popular slogan. But It also needs
analysis.
Trusts that prey upon legitimate
commerce are mere symptoms. The
disease itself is ~grasping for special
privileges by the few at the expense
Of the many. The citadel of this priv
ilege grabbing system is the tariff,
with it's artificial schedules.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
More Diunified.

Good night, you precious lamb!"
said the mother, with the liberty one
sometimes takes, even with ones son,
at bedtime.
Mother" said the small boy be-
seechingly, IF you must call me ONE
thing, wouldn't you just as soon call
me a billygoat ?"-Youth's Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
n Came OFF.

The fair bather was in. the greatest
danger when the heroic rescuer seized
her by the hair. 1t came off. Puffs
and coils and waves and rats it
strewed the %shuddering sea.
For a moment the rescuer was
dazed.
Then he grasped the tiny knob of
real hair that remained on the lady's
head and drew her into shallow water:
Did she thank him for saving her
life?
She didn't.-CIeveland Plain Dealer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
Shower Of Sulphur.

Charolies, a small town 80 miles from
Macon, in France, has recently been
visited by a shower of sulphur. The
roofs, gardens, fields, vineyards, rivers
and ponds were covered with a yellow
dust, and for some time the peasants
in the fields were troubled by a sui
phurous biting odor which mads
breathing difficult.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
Trouble for Republicans.

Trouble for the Republicans is
springing up in all points Of the COM
pass. 1t breaks out violently in Iowa
with Gov. Cummin's announcement
that he will call a special session Of
the legislature to provide for the nom.
nation Of Allison's in the
senate by primary election.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
A Revised Version.

A poet who has been known to tell
the truth recounts this story Of his
little daughter:
Her mother overheard her expound-
ing the origin of the sex to her family
of dolls.
you see, children" she said,
"Adam was a man all alone and vas
very lonely, so God put him to sleep,
took his brains out and made a nice
lady of them."-Illustrated Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
Dark Subject.

"Tm all in the dark about how
these bills are to be paid" said Mr..
Hardup to his wife.
We'll, Henry" said she, as she
pulled out a colored n and laid it on
the pile, you will be if you don't pay
that one, for it's the gas bill"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17
BUILDING a mile high!

A BUILDING a mile high!
,GK& That was the recent pre-.
XAw diction of New York con
GWW tractors when figuring out
RM possibilities for the re-
sumption Of building op.
eratiOns next spring.
But our geologist friends say no.
They declare that if such a structure
should be raised over the fragile strata
of rock upon which the city is built
the whole would give way to the strain
and a catastrophe would result.
Therefore measures nave been taken
which will prevent any such ideas be,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-17

In the crowded portions of Greater
New York the largest lot is about 200
feet square, that being probably the
biggest plot of precious ground OBJ
tainable in the downtown district of
Gotham. Placing a building 1000
feet high upon this piece of Mother
Earth, the cost would be in the neigh
borhood of $50, O0O, 900. 1t would
weigh $4,000 tons, according to esti-
mates which have been furnished the
New York board Of aldermen by some
of the greatest engineering experts in
the world.
The tonnage of the American navy
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-04
MEXICAN EDITORS
ARRESTED FOR LIBEL
MEN WERE RECENTLY RELEASED
ON SIMILAR CHARGE
Friends of Prisoners Condemn Acts OF
Authorities and Efforts Are
Being Made to Obtain
Bonds

Two editors of Revolution, the Mex
lean newspaper published in Los An
geles, were taken into the federal court
yesterday on charges of libel. Their
names are Modesto Diaz, no relative
of Porfirio Diaz, the president OF the
Mexican republic, and Federico H.
Arizmendez, assistant editor to Diaz.
They were arrested January IA on
the charge of libel and their cases set
for trial January 20, with bail at Sony
apiece.
They were arrested again yesterday
on the charge of libel and the bail set
at $3.50 each Their friends, among
them Fernando Palomares, who is also
interested in Revolution, are trying TO
raise the money for their bail and nope
to set them free today.
Fidel Ulibarri, typesetter on rev
olucion, was not so fortunate as MS
fellow newspaper brethren, for he has
been in jail in Los Angeles ever since
January Is, not being able to furnish
bail He is also charged with libel.
THE friends of the editors of Revo-
lucion say the arrest of these men
twice on the same charge of libel is
preposterous, and that they are being
prosecuted. The men are attending TO
their newspaper duties in this country,
their friends say, and in no way harm
ing the government of the United
States.