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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
A PROPOSAL

Mr.. Hardup-Good morning, Miss
Aughtumn-aheml There is some
thing ! have been wishing to ask you
for some time, but-er-the fact is, |
haven't been able to screw up enough
courage to-er-come to the point.
Miss Aughtumn-A proposal at last!
Mr.. Hardup-Could you, my dear
Miss Aughtumn-could you lend me
five dollars?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

mond, Va, for transferring freight
from the vessels to the warehouses
and cars, and it is said to operate
much more economically and with
greater facility than the hand-propelled
trucks formerly used for the purpose.
1t consists Of a pair Of trolleys on an
elevated runway, carrying a frame
with hoists for raising and lowering
the merchandise trucks. The system
is electrically operated, and the con
troll is conferred in a cab attached to
the device, In which the operator is
located.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
OF WIDELY DIFFERING TYPES

Of them had exactly what the other
lacked. Swift's nature was the more
intense and passionate; he was a
master of satire and ~invective, a nigh
ty political leader, capable Of rous-
ing a nation to the highest pitch of
patriotic fervor. Berkeley's character
was larger. sweeter, more humane,
but he never touched the chords 81
passion, no cheering crowds ever fol
lowed his footsteps as they did those
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

why did she refuse your she
asked her son, with fine scorn.
Well" the boy replied between his
sobs, "she objects to our family. She
says pas a loafer, that you're too fat
and that everybody laughs at Dayse
Mayme because she's a fool and talks
about nothing but the greatness of
her family" (Chauncey threw water
in his mothers face, but at three
o'clock this afternoon she was still
in a swoon, with four doctors working
on her.)-Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

scent and Protestant religion. He
thought the abolition of the Irish Ian
guage would be a noble work. and
prepared a scheme for that end-he
would not even have the gentry ac'
quire it in order to converse with
their tenantry lest the ayo of It
should cling to the tongues in speak
ing English.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
Self-M ade.

Il might say to you, young men,
that | am a self-made man"
In what respect?" asked IN i'm
pertinent youth.
In this respect, If you must know"
replied the orator. Il made myself
popular with men who had a pull and
thus obtained my present lofty posi-
ton"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
Her Intentions.

DO you think your sister will mar
ny me-"
"If you keep comm"
"Have you heard her say anything
about it?"
Il heard her tell ma that If you
didn't stop comm here so often she'd
make things unpleasant for you"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

ing, like the quick flush of a nervous woman's face. me
snap of the "Silence!" cuts like a whip.
As though paralyzed, the action of the turret DIES
The loader pauses in the act Of inserting the brass con
necting-tray, the hand of the tripper falls from its lever
the sight-setter slips from his h~eaddress, the nolstnan
crowds up in front of the umpire; the open breech OF
the gun exldes the thinnest cirrus froth, like the first
wreath of smoke from a choice Pinar del Rio
The umpire points sternly below. 1t is he VINO mas
called. The hoistman and the leaders climb down the
hoise and pick up some light-brown chunks that look
like broken sticks of horehound candy, pierced with
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

You look about and observe your companions In the se su a
1dhal chamber They are eleven: two trainers, two pointers os
hoistman one tripper, two leaders, a rammer and a pugmah, Ao
tbe eleventh. the unnecessary one, the other outsider-ne Is es
mnire be years the single stripe of the ensign, a commissioner
ofBcer and he is just about as keen as you are II keep m us
straight to omit farebacks. side-step the bursting o powueio" 9
n Iasso oyerspeed. You pin your faith there; let this umpne Do
the skypilot of the turret! Noitber
The tripper is a slight lad, a boy of perhaps 10 years Neilnes
hoe % ave seer a big gun fred and yet he is to stand her au
null the lever that thrusts the shell and its Following uel-o
H. Tho carrvineease before the breech. In an undershlrI d pa t
~ 1900 an a hin smile he waits the word. He was caught
onlv a wear ago on the streets of Minneapolis, whittier he "a u
fresh from the farm. No.
Ear IN on the left of the barrel, encased in a leather headnresS'
is The tnrrettrainer, his right eye locked to the telescope a pr.
onrio,e tumble of intricate wires and the green speakmg'upe ran
ia aft He grasps a big wheel, as a chauffeur his steellnggear'
n ne noouos easily ~ its barbette the 130ton turret. Below him,
hatyoen bs legs. his assistant sets his sights. They might De
ridinq nickaback, these two, up there along the slope OF that Steer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

St6Si AlduAAS
On the other side the
pointer, with his assistant
also rides pickaback, Here
is the eye for which TINS
whole ship was built: here
the nerve and quickness for
which the 10000 tons, the
seven millions Of dollars
the five years Of making,
have spread their august be-
ing. His accuracy may SINK
a warship; his weakness
ruin a nation. To find him
and his like half a million
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
swift and Berkeley TWO Great Irish
men Directly Opposite In
Character.

Not often do we see two master
minds at work in the same country
and at the same time, SO completely
illustrative Of two opposing types as
were Swift and Berkeley, T. W. ROLES
ton says in the Fortnightly. Oppos-
ing, but not necessarily hostile. Each
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

when women get to voting said
the man, they will have a great
many more calls than they now have
to put their hands in their pockets
and give money to further important
causes"
The woman looked thoughtful.
Pm always willing, of course" she
said, "to give money for a good cause,
but as for putting my hand in my
pocket"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

The whistle! Time begins. The umpire snaps his stop-watch
and erasns firmly in his hand the little red book which defines to
the farthest nicely the rules that govern this expensive foolery
In the following three minutes this crew will try to put hve shots
through that himsy canvas target a mile across the quiet water,
And the millpond is worthy of its name-the bay OF the Magdalene
"a haven Of refuge. The ship glides along like steel through flesh.
"SiIence!" The guncaptain, one of the leaders, speaks!
What a word it is-"sience!' 1t precedes and closes every vital
action in the navy. In it lies such potency of command, such sug.
gestions Of obedience, as is needed in the anteroom of death. Once
a recruit saw fit to chaff his mate after that command "Slence!"
had been given. The gun-captain stepped TO him without anger,
and struck him a heavy blow across the face, with a gnarled, wet
hand; the recruit carried the welt for a week; by no one
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

AMILIARITY, It's said, breeds
contempt; but | have an extreme
respect for a Pinch gun on a
battle-ship. The very last thing
l care for in that connection is
either familiarity or contempt.
The men who work it, who some
day will fight with it-let those
men explain how innocent such
a gun is, how facile its manage
ment, how bland its temper, how
exquisite its adjustment. Not l.
Listen to those men a while and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

Telpherage System 4 Success.
A telpherage system capable Of
handling three-ton loads is in use on
the wharf Of a steamship line at Rich
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

= hE[@ THE o
N> Who Looked
on Forbid
den Things"
We are on the range. Some one
calls, "Starting-buoy," and you know
that in another minute this double
twisted, original imitation of billy
blue hell will commence. You reflect
that a blast pressure of IL pounds to
the square inch will kill a man. You
know that the pressure on the air
near the muzzle of this gun whose
breech you are beside, when 1t Is
fred, is several tons to the square
inch. You remember that only a few
years ago a green sailorman stood Off
side 16 feet, that some one called to
him to lie down just as the gun was
fired. that he was in the act of lying
down when it was fired, but that the
suction of the air going with the
shell drew his head from his body
and broke his neck. This does not
add to the pleasure of your situation,
for you can easily reach out there
nat that cold haunch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

Is pulled
fro m t S
e q u libri.
um. h
is the back
lash. After
shot
h trainer,
W h a
quick twist
OF his
W h e e l.,
subtly abb
serbs the
backlash.
For the
fifth time
the shutter
opens, the
grind as
cends, the
t r i p p e r
to
flip his le-
yer, when
Silence!"
The tone is
raised. 1t
has anger,
C 0 ncealed
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

Of the ammunition hoist
directly above the maya
zines the navy has fought
one of its sternest inter
nal wars and the war is
still for from Rnishnd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

you will believe that it is less dangerous to be locked
inside the turret while a big gun is being fired than it
is to cross Broadway at Twentythird street. Perhaps
it is, but l prefer Broadway.
And yet, the fascination! A. great gun has for the
imagination the potency of evil itself. Emblem of force,
symbol of destruction, it stands serene, majestic, while
round its muzzle gather all the forces of the races
struggles, and through its breech march hate, pain, grief,
ambition, power and death.
THE torpedo" said the captain of a battle-ship to
me one night at a dinner, lis more or less of an expert
ment, a toy, 1t would be practically impossible for one
to- sink a big ship. The only thing l am really afraid
of is a Pinch gun"
The next day / went into the afterturret when the
ship was on the range and in full and sympathetic ac-
cord with the captain stood beside the breech of one
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

alton as this the turretcrew of the Georgia went to
death, and that no one has ever found out how it
happened; that in precisely the same way the Mis-
souri, burned to death 20 men, and that not one in that
steel cage escaped.
Credit; () The face of the umpire. Stop-watch in
hand, he stands behind the breech, looking down into
the p-owder-magazines. You know he is there to pre-
vent recklessness. Though these men are firing
against time he will let them do nothing ~foolhardy;
if he errs 'fwill be on the side of caution. (2) The
knowledge that thousands of times guns like this have
been fired from turrets like this-and all came out
alive. You do not enter railway trains timidly be-
cause a dozen people We're killed on one a year before
five thousand miles away. Yet, when you enter the
turret of a Pinch gun
They lock you up. There Is no. escape. You stand
there nervously by the trunnion and somehow it is not
like a factory or a railway coach or a street car or any
other modernly approved limb-mangling device. These
things were built to kill and presently these fellows
are going to touch an electric spark which will loose
enough anxious and determined gas to drive an $50
pound shell 10 miles and put 1t completely through a
steel plate as thick as the one that is supposed to
protect you.
Yet, there you are, the Thing before you, and you
can reach out and pat it on the shiny, cold haunch.
If it wobbles or a spring breaks or a trunnion has mis-
takenly got itself rusted or the rifle barrel refuses to
accommodate the shell, you will be fit brother for a
detected cockroach. If there is a bareback you have
the slightest possible chance of escape: hold your cap
over your face, don't breathe, hurl yourself under the
barrel and fall into the handlingroom. You may break
a few bones, but if the burning gas gets to no more
than 80 per cent. of your skin you will live; that is
how the single midshipman who escaped from the
Georgia saved himself. Yet no one can tell how that
gas gets in its work. Sometimes it burns away the
flesh and never touches the clothing; again, it singes
off all the hair and never touches the flesh; again, it
burns the clothing Off clean and leaves you naked, put
safe.
Sol They have locked you up in this steel cage.
The others have some reason here. With them it Is
work, duty, contest. II killed they die nobly, get brass
tablets in the wall with their names inscribed, pen
sions 60 to their families. the newspapers call them
heroes. If you die they will cut on your obscure tomb:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

on the voice of
his index finger,
and he gro W s
a Il X / his
W h ole b e i g
pours it's
along the wheel
to a resolution
of that terrible
roble m. An
hour, a minute,
five seconds, a
week-how much
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19
EXH OC/U/V -
or TWEZNE-WCH SHE'LL.

dollars has been spent in a
single month. In three minutes
now he can qualify and have $40
a month added to his pay for a
year. For we have penetrated
to the very viscera of wars ma
ture. Here is the man behind the
gun. He does the trick. His eye
searches the telescope sight, his
left hand turns the wheel that
raises and depresses the muzzle
of his gun,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-19

a mile away; stood there with my cap in my
hand, ready to clap it over my face in case OF
accident; cursing the curiosity that led me to
that lethal chamber. Then the wonder of it
came over me--the silence of the gun-crew; the
stealthy leap Of the rifle barrel, like the spring
of a grasshopper; the quiet, dull report which
scarcely trembled that stately moving fortress;
the sour-egg smell of the nitrocellulose stimulat-
ing the nerves; the sweet, sick subtlety of ether
lul1ing the overweight brain.
When they shut the steel door that Gagged us
in | slipped into a funk and until the first shot
was fired my nerve was gone. The sides of my
courage account footed up:
Debit: a. Imprisonment in an oval case the
shape of a coffin, the sides formed of solid steel
nine inches thick and the top of steel just as
solid and five inches thick; (2) filling a quarter
of that case the back third of a Pinch rifle bar
rel, ready for action; (3) below, an open chute,
with a steel car bringing the shells and powder
from the magazines still farther below; az the
stern, silent faces Of the gun-crew, which exactly
resemble those faces seen at places of execu-
ton; % to 1000 memory-the knowledge which
you cannot fight away that in just such a stu
alton as this the turret-crew of the Georgia we
death and that no one has ever found out h
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-21
Steps Taken to Form an Athlet
ic and Social Club.

Twenty-Five or thirty young
men of the town met in the Lum-
berton Cotton Mills Office Friday
evening to consider and discuss
the question of organizing an
Athletic and social club. The
plan proposed is to rent a room
on the third floor of the Lumber
ton Cotton Mills office building
for a gymnasium and one on the
second floor for a club room.
With a view to this two commit
tees were appointed: Drs. Jno.
Knox and To .Johnson and Mr.. T.
A. Mcneil, Jr., to look into the
cost of equipping the gymnasium
room; Messrs. A. W.Peace, Jno.
D. MILAN and F. P. Gray to fig
ure on the cost of furnishing and
running a club room. The com.
mittees are to report to another
meeting to be held at the same
place next Friday evening. Both
the Athletic and social feature!
of this movement will supply ;
long-felt need and it is to be hop
ed that something will be done
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-21
LISrOF LETTERS,

Remaining in the Lum berton,
N. c., postoffice, June 81, 1909.
If not called for in one week, will
be sent to the Dead Letter Office,
Washington, D. c. Parties call
ing will please say advertised.
Marshall Arnett, Mrs Irie Ed
wards, William Harris, Mrs
Fannie Gillispie, T A Houston,
w r Goodnow, Mrs L E Hull,
Miss Maggie Jaire, CIV Jackson,
James Lamano, D w Lewis, Miss
Fannie Leach, w H Lennon, Johr
Mullins, Mrs Easter Phillips
Miss Fannie Rother, w A Taylor
A w Sykes, Chattie Shipman.
R. M. Norment, P. M.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-21
PERSONAL.

Mr.. w. C. Powell, of Drum,
was in town Thursday.
Mr.. D. P. Shaw spent yester-
day in Lumber Bridge.
Mr.. D. B. MCGEE, of Rosindale,
was in Lumberton Saturday.
Mr.. ]. E. Carlyle, of Raft
Swamp, was in town Saturday.
Mr.. j. C. Snoddy, of Red
Springs, was in town Thursday
and Friday.
Mr.. J. w. Branch, of rural
route No. 3 from Lumberton,
was in town Saturday.
Misses Mildred Mcintyre and
Anna Lawrence returned Friday
night from Wake Forest.
Messrs. Grover and Rossie
Britt and Orion Martin, of Mt.
ELAN, were in town Saturday.
Mr.. H. M. McAllister return
ed this morning from Monroe,
where he had been since Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jones left
Saturday for Branchville, S. c.,
where they will spend a few
days.
Mrs. Geo. M. Floyd left Thurs
day for Tomahawk, where she
will spend a few days on visit
to relatives.
/ Messrs. Paisley Mcmillan and
Jno. A. Humphrey, of Red
Springs, are among the visitors
in town today.
Mrs. T. N. Higley and daugh-
ter, Miss Ethel, returned Satur-
day from Jackson Springs, where
they spent week.
Mrs. D. D. Hinson and chill
dren returned Saturday from
Raeford, where they spent sew
eral days on visit to relatives.
Mrs. Dunlop Thompson, of
Morven, is spending some time
here on a visit at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. N. J. Thompson.
Mrs. E. T. Fleming, of Don
COLA, S. c., will arrive Wednes-
day to visit at the home of hel
son, Rev. J. M. Fleming, ir
East Lumberton.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Thompson
of Elrod, spent yesterday in towr
on a visit at the home of Mr.
Thompson's parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. N. j. Thompson.
Mrs. Lima Mclean and daugh
ter, Miss Matte, of Maxton, ar
rived Saturday morning for a Wis
it at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
A. W. Mclean. Miss Matte re
turned home Saturday afternoon
: Mrs. Mclean will spend severa
, days.
Mrs. H. B. Gibson and littl
daughter, Katherine, who hat
been spending some time her
: on visit at the home Mrs. Glib
sons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W
H. Humphrey, left Friday at
l ternoon for their home in Re
! Springs.
> Miss Armada Edwards, VIII
+ had been spending a few day
> here on a visit at the home O
: her brother-in-law and sister
. Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Caldwell
;. returned to her home at Latts
! S. c., Friday. tMrs. Caldwell az
companied her and will spend
fou1 6auc
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-21
Death of Mrs. Dora Zearcher.

Mrs. Dora Lucy Zearcher, 81
years old, wife Of Mr.. Dock.
Zearcher, died Wednesday morn
ing at her home in East Lumber
ton of consumption. She was a
daughter of Mr.. Haynes Town.
send. The remains were inferred
Thursday morning in the family
burying ground near Raft Swamp
church, services being conducted
by Rev. J. M. Fleming. The on
ly child of the deceased, girl
months old, died two weeks ago
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-21
MINOR COURT CASES.
Some Offenders Who Have Been
Brought to Taw.

One S. B. Stephens, a divider
of the Word who claims to be a
missionary to the Croatans from
the Protestant Methodist Church,
was somewhat severely beaten
by three men in the plant of the
Lumberton Bottling Works, just
south of the court house, Satur-
day about noon for what they
considered just cause. AS a re-
suit these three men-Messrss,
Arch. and Cub Prevatt, who live
6 miles from town on the Fayettea
vile road, and John Bowen, OF
Red Springs and Stephens were
tried before Mayor Rowlandsin
the court house some three hours
later. 1t was in evidence that
Mr.. Bowen and the Messrs.
Prevatt were the aggressors, that
Stephens did not do much except
try to get away and 'holler"
murder. and Messrs. Arch. Pre-
Watt and John Bowen were taxed
$50 each and Mr.. Cub Prevatt S..
Stephens was not hurt much.
Alfred Thomas, Croatan, and
the aforementioned Stephens
will be tried before Justice A. E.
White on the 10Th for an assault
on Mr.. McGoogan Prevatt Fri
day near Thomas store in Sad
die Tree township. The case was
to have been tried Saturday but
was postponed on account of the
fact that Mr.. Prevatt was unable
to attend. Thomas was before
Justice W. G. Reynolds Saturday
on the charge of shooting Pink
Woods last Christmas in Saddle
Tree township but the trial was
postponed until Saturday. Thorn
as was released on $3.50 bond.
Will Davis, white, was arrest
ed at Pembroke yesterday by
Deputy Dixon and brought to
jail here by Deputy T. C.Barnes,
and this morning he was tried
before Justice J. A. Rowland on
charges of retailing and carry
ing concealed weapon. He was
sent back to Jail in default of the
required bond.
Alex. Clark, Ed. Purcell and
Tom Faulk, negroes caught
gambling in woods near town
Thursday. were tried before
Mayor Rowland Friday ane
bound to court in bonds in the
sum of $50 each. Clark an(
Faux gave bond and Purcell will
probably be released on bond to
dav.