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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02

know every foot Of this ground-every
foot Of 1t has a happy association.
You've played hide-and-seek In that
barn Of Harding's, and gone to sleep
in the hay-loft. Can you go there and
take money from him?"
The mans hand few out. IT'S not
his money! wouldn't rob him. It's
money that ought to be mine--it be-
longs to Sidney Maxwell, my cousin,
and it's Maxwell money-family mon
ey. They make millions a year-I'm
one Of them and I've nothing--worse
than nothing. | ought to be as rich
as he--it's a drop In the bucket to
what / ought to have"
Whose fault Is 1t that you haven't
it?" the insistent whisper came. You
threw away your chance"
"I know It'll was a fool couldn't
be controlled, But I was young, five
years ago. II my father had lived,
my uncle wouldn't have turned me
out. 1t was Sidney who was down
on me--reliable, satisfactory Sidney,
who never had a temptation--never
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
Can Earn country's Gratitude.

I'm all the public u%tterances of Mr..
Taft since the day of his inauguration
there has been not n word of econ
nmy, not one hint of retrenchment. On
.Ae contrary, he has committed him
self to vast increases of annual gov
eminent expenses, and monstrous ad-
ditions to the national debt, which Is
5teore than $500, 600, 600"
That is true, but how else shall the
Roosevelt policies be "clinched?" The
situation of the president is not with
cut its embarrassing features, for he
IL explicitly pledged to economy and
Implicitly pledged to extravaganza. We
l,ok for a reasonable compromise.
TTAe president probably understands
trat the spending of money is not all
there is to government. II he car ap-
pl, his knowledge he will win the
gratitude of a heavily burdened people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
Bows Essay ON clothlnn.

Here is an extract from an essay.
written by a boy in a London school:
Clothing is an article which every
body should wear. The least of this
article is worn by savages or natives,
which is a piece of cloth or a few
leaves or feathers round the waist. in
cold countries, same as Eskimos, the
people wear more clothes than we do,
count of the icy cold out there. They
can skate all the year round, except
about one thaw there is in summer
If they walked about like natives they
would catch cold directly and die of
bronkitis. We put clothes on which
are nearly like our bodies, some have
caps, coats and trousers, but women
and girls wear hats and frocks to tell
who they are"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
The Massachusetts Vote.

The fact is that the Republicans lost
a larger percentage than usual Of
their normal vote, and the Democrats
not only held substantially the
strength which they had last year,
but increased it, In the towns the
Republicans lost exactly one-half of
the majority they had in them last
year and came down to the cities with
only $4,000 majority, which was re-
duced to 1000 by the Democratic vote
of Boston. After that the vote in the
other cities determined the final re-
suit. There cannot be too much praise
of the efficient manner in which the
Democratic campaign was managed.
All along the line the Democrats sup
ported their party ticket with enthu-
siasm and were justified in believing
up to the last moment Of the cam
paign that they were winners. AS it
was they came SO near victory that
the Republican success is not much
to boast of in view Of the large Re-
publican reserve vote there is in this
state.-Boston Globe, Dem.
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CONTINUED

-
Lying awake, the boy could not bear
to think that the dear horse and COW
stood hungry in the barn, on their last
night of life; how he stole into the
kitchen and found the airs bread
and the milk that were saved for his
own breakfast, and carried them out
to the stable; how, as he came to the
door, he heard strange hoarse voices
speaking low, and listened and found
that it was Friedel and Minna talking
together; how then he remembered
that once a year, at midnight on
Christmas Eve, dumb beasts may find
speech in memory of the night when
the Christ-child lay among beasts, in
the manger; how little Hans listened
to the thin old horse and the hungry
old COW and heard them grieving for
the poverty of their master and mis-
tress and heard them speak of the Sc
cret which, If the beasts might have
speech to tell 1t, would make every
thing right; how Hans went in boldly
then and gave the animals his break
fast, and asked them to tell him the
secret; how they told him, in unused,
rusty voices, that beneath the empty
stall Of the stable was a treasure OF
gold, buried a thousand years before
by the Romans, which would make
his mother and father richer than
they could dream; and how just Their
the bells Of the distant village rang
for Christmas morning. and the pool
beasts were dumb again, and Hans
went back to his bed and waited fol
daylight to tell his father and moth
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
Have Lost Confidence in Taft.

If anything more were required to
destroy the confidence placed in Mr..
Taft by those who voted for him as
president of the United States more
than was found in his amazing re-
versal of the Roosevelt policy of the
conservation of our national re-
sources in his action in the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy, 1t is found in his
lame and impotent defense of the
Payne-Aldrich bill. So far as may be
inferred from this, from the revela-
ton Of the weaker side of the presi-
dent, one may only add that it is hui
initiating If net discouraging to find
that the staff upon which one leaned
is, after all, but a reed. So far as
may be judged there ought to be sat
isfaction among the great corporate
interests which ran against so many
snags during the preceding admins
tration.-Newark IN. j. News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
Country NeaIectina the Children.

If the percentage of tuberculous chill
dren recently ascertained by an inves-
tigation in Stockholm, Sweden (1.61
per cent? were applied to the schools
of the United States there would be
273,700 children between the ages of
eight and fifteen who are positively af-
fected with tuberculosis, according to
a statement of the National Associa-
ton for the study and prevention of
tuberculosis. AS ~contrasted with this
figure, there are only II open-air
tuberculosis schools in operation in
the entire country, and nine more I'M
der consideration, At the lowest esti-
mate, even with all the schools now in
operation and those proposed, accom-
modations will not be provided for
four-tenths of one per cent. Of the
children who need this special treat
ment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02

would be the time. He might have to
struggle, to knock him down perhaps
The set his teeth and drew in a
breath. 1t was not pleasant to knock
down such a friend, but it had to be
done, and he would be careful not to
injure him. A trained boxer knows
how.
He sat drawn together, in the thick
straw, waiting. Niger, In the stall
close by, stamped uneasily and put his
black nose through the opening above
and smiled and blew. He could see
the horses eyes cleaning In the dark
ness, and feel his warm breath. So
settled was his mind on the deed to
come that he dropped into a sleep,
comfortably wrapped in the straw.
Yet his nerves were alert, and he sat
up quickly, on guard at a light sound
from the outside. What was 1t? Even
allowing for the snow.covered road it
was not the sound Of wheels-and,
while he wondered, the side door Of
the building, which faced him as he
sat hidden, opened. A late noon had
LL DE
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02

Two Children.
about a horse. l thought it would In
terest him." Benny explained, and
proceeded as if by force of inertia:
Goosey, goosey gander,
Whittier do you n
Upstairs
Alice interrupted. "That hasn't got a
single thing to do with Christmas,
Benny"
"But it's on the next page" Benny
argued stolidly.
Alice was firm. ut isn't the right
kind of p%oetry--it ought to be sort of
churchy and religious, because Mig
gers a ~clergyman's horse and it's
Christmas Eve"
Maybe he's afraid" she said, in a
disappointed tone, yet still hopeful.
Benny, say the verse about Fear not
to him-that might make him not be
afraid"
The unseen audience listened as
Benny, personal---very., as mar to man,
recited q hymn to Niger.
Fear not"
urged Benny
Fear not" said He, for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind,
"Glad tidings of great joy l bring
To you and all mankind"
"Glad tidings of great ioy!" The
young man in the straw sat quiet and
listened.
Whatever encouragement for beasts
might be in a Christmas hymn, Benny
meant to extend it to Niger. I'm
hurried, with the sleepy note of a
bird going to roost, his piping voice
plodded on, telling a tale which he did
not doubt. With the full angel song
he ended:
Ali glory be to God on high,
And on the earth be peace.
Goodwill henceforth from heaven to
men
Begin and never cease.
Peace! Goodwill"
There was a stir in the empty stall,
but the children did not hear 1t. From
a mile away down the road came
family a sound of ~hoof-beats, and
Niger blew out an agitated breath
and whinnied again gently. 1t was
very quiet. Alice and Benny, stand
ing patient, thrilled suddenly as q
strange, hoarse voice issued from the
darkness.
merry Christmas, children!" the
voice said.
The girl clutched the boys shout
der. He's talkin'-Nigger's talkin','
Benny announced, interested but i'm
perturbed.
(To BE CONTINUED.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
"ProtectIon" unmasked.

All colleges teach their students that
tariff protection is a farce. They
could not do otherwise, and read the
history of nations Alright.
But 1t does not require great schol-
ars like Adam Smith or John Stuart
Mill to prove that protection argu-
ments have no scientific basis. The
same truths are reached, In a practi-
cal way, every time a new tariff law
is under discussion.
During the last tariff debate in
congress, the last shreds of the old ar.
guments for protection" were thrown
to the winds. With very few excep.
tons they YER abandoned even by
hide-bound protectionists themselves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02

lots of money, and give 1t to father to
go south with. Mother would be glad"
The boys sleepy eyes opened and
gazed at her. Wouldn't it be
naughty?"
AS happened once before in a gar
den, 1.-THE oma tempted him." Ben
ny was swept out on the tide of his
sisters adventurous spirit, and while
the fire steamed and purred an un-
dertone they made their plans. Very
nearly we're the plans shipwrecked by
Nature, however, for, as they waited
till the night should be older, the
clock licked, the fire sang a lullaby,
and the children fell asleep.
But at half-past eleven a log
dropped noisily, the light of 1t blazed
up and the adventurer-in-chief the
deed to be done in her veins, awak-
ened. 1t needed all her energy to
persuade the boy, numb with sleep,
that sleep was not the n possibility
in a midnight world. But there was
a persistent spirit In her, and in ten
minutes two muffied little figures crept
through the shadowy house and out
over the white lawn, misty with still
falling snow, and up the slope to the
door of the stable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
WAGE GARNER NOT BENEFITED
Recently Published Statistics Show
Hypocrisy Of High Protee-
tlon Advocates.

About the meanest of the conf
dence games played upon the Amer
lean voters by high protectionists OF
the Cannon-Aldrich school, is their
successful but hypocritical use of the
plea that high duties mean high
wages for workingmen. The case of
the Pittsburg foreign-born steel work
ers-underpaid beyond anything rney
had ever known in their European
homes-has already been commented
on. Now comes an official report CIV
ing Industrial statistics for Rhode Is
land, year of 1908, as follows:
"The wooden and worsted mills
pay their operators from So to 50 per
week, and so per cent. of these oper-
atives are foreign born.
THE cotton mills pay from 81 to IS
per week, and 80 per cent. of their
wage earners are foreign born.
THE silk mills pay from 81 to IS
per week, and SO per cent. of their
wage earnes are foreign born.
THE rubber interests pay from IS
to So per week, and 70 per cent of
their wage earner are foreign born.
By which it will be een that these
foremost beneficiaries Of bloated pro-
lection have succeeded in doing away
not only with the high wages once
paid for American labor, but in most
cases with the American laborer him
self! These men are doing their very
best to reduce their employees to the
condition of serfs, while through the
tariff they are coming unearned mil
lions at the expense of the American
consumer.
Such exhibits as the foregoing are
converting former protectionists by
thousands into free-traders. The tri'
umph of the Republican promise
breakers, in the passage Of the AL
drich-Cannon tariff bill, is likely tc
prove one of those victories which
are costlier than defeat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
SECRET WORKERS
The Plan Upon Which Coffee Operates.

Coffee is such a secret worker that
1t is not suspected as the cause of sick
ness or disease, but there Is a very
sure way to find out the truth.
A lady In Memphis gives an inter-
esting experience her husband had
with coffee. 1t seems that he had been
using 1t for some time and was an
invalid.
The physician in charge shrewdly
suspected that coffee was the Worm
at the root Of the tree" and ordered
1t discontinued with instructions to
use Postum regularly in its place.
The wife Jays: 1--WE found that was
the true remedy for his stomach and
heart trouble and we would have glad
ly paid a hundred times the amount
of the doctors charge when we found
how wise his judgment was.
1.-THE use Of Postum instead Of cof-
fee was begun about a year ago, and
1t has made my husband a strong, we'll
man. He has gained thirty-ftve pounds
In that time and his stomach and heart
troubles have all disappeared.
"The first time l prepared 1t ! did
not boil it long enough and he said
there was something wrong with It.
Sure enough 1t did taste very fiat. but
the next morning I followed directions
carefully, boiling it for fifteen minutes,
and he remarked this Is better than
any OF the old coffee
1--WE use Postum regularly and never
tire Of telling our friends Of the bene
fit we have received from leaving Of
coffee"
Look for the little book, 1.-THE Road t
Wcllville,' in pkgs. There's a Reason
Ever read the above letterf A rev
one appears from time to time. The,
rre genuine, true, md full Of kutaai
: interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
LIGHT ON SCANDAL
PUBLICITY IN SUGAR TRUST
FRAUDS DEMANDED.
Seeming Alliance Between That Cor.
poration and the Government Is
a Distinct Menace to Repub-
Iican Institutions.

The total stealings of the whisky
ring under Grants administration
were estimated at $~2,7S6,OOO. The
sugar trust has already refunded
$2,O00,000 and its total stealings from
the government have been estimated
as high as 100000, 900.
The whisky frauds extended over a
period of six years. The sugar frauds
extended over a period of nearly 20
years.
The whisky ring was protected by
officials of the United States govern
ment, The sugar trust was likewise
protected.
Part of the whisky ring ~stealings
went into a Republican campaign
fund and some of the money was used
to organize a movement to nominate
Grant for a third term. How much
the sugar trust contributed to cam
paign funds in 1892, 1896, 1900 and
1904 only a congressional investiga-
ton can disclose.
The whisky ring frauds were less
extensive and much cruder than the
sugar trust frauds. The system was
not well organized and its most pow
erful political ally was only a private
secretary to the president. Bristow
was able to smash the ring in spite Of
Grants hostility to the prosecution OF
Babcock. The sugar trust built up its
alliances through several administra-
tons. 1t had dealt with the ~organiza-
lions of both parties. 1t not only stole
public revenue through a long period
of years, but it violated the antitrust
law and the interstate commerce law
as we'll. Not one of its officers or d.
rectors has yet been brought to trial,
It's rebating crimes were exposed not
by the government but by a private
citizen. Its violation of the antitrust
law was established not in a govern
ment prosecution but in a private
suit. It's weighing frauds were set
tied originally by the payment o.
$4,000, 900, and although the trusts at
torneys admitted that the government
COulu nave COlleCteu duulLlOl1dl pen
alties of $4,000, 900, no such demand
was made. The trust vas ever al
lowed to dictate the tariff schedules
under which it robbed the fedora
treasury of public revenue
The long-continued alliance between
the sugar trust and government is on
Of the most %scandalous chapters il
the history of the United States. |
involves a far greater n to tn
integrity of republican institution
than did the whisky ring frauds an,
quite as much perhaps as the credi
mobilier scandal. Criminal prosecu
ton Of certain specific ~offenses no
covered by the statute of limitation
is no longer sufficient. There must b
complete publicity Of the trusts re
lations to government, a complete e1
posure of the methods by which it oil
tanned protection and immunity for S
many years.
Only a congressional investigate
can do this work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
LAW a Betrayal of Pledge.

The tariff act Of 1909 is a hodge
nudge of increases and reductions, of
icxers and of the confusing mixture
O, ad valorem and specific duties. 1t
Gel easily be shown that on the con-
sumption basis the new law is eth
q, inward or downward, according to
tie will of the statistician, but the
fsct remains that few If any duties on
articles Of common use r reduced
81 ficiently to lower prices to the con
svmer, while a number, notably of
clothing materials, excepting shoes,
ale shamefully increased. The ques-
ton of the cost of production abroad,
which the Republican platform prom.
ised would be taken into consideration
in fixing rates, was almost completely
ignored. The result constitutes a law
which is in actual practice a betray-
al Of the pledges Of the Republican
party and of President Taft, for which
betrayal they will have to answer to
the people at the next election.-Suc.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02

There we're half-visible footsteps in
the white carpet on the ground, but
the big flakes had blurred them, the
children did not notice. An hour be-
fore a man had hurried along the
road from town, a powerful man,
walking fast. AS he walked he spoke
to himself in a low tone.
THE note about Pat O'Hara's bro
ken leg ought to take him three miles
out of his way-it ought to delay him
an hour. Lucky | remembered where
the horse and trap would be kept"
He passed a stream, tinkling sill
verify in the stiffness under Its roof
of ice and snow. He halted and
stared down.
81 took my first trout in that hole"
he murmured, and swung On.
But the ghost of a boy had caught
his arm and chung to him and went
with him down the road. He could
not shake the ghost-boy loose.
"Dr. Harding took you home to
lunch that day." the boy whispered
land the trout was cooked, and they
made an event Of it."
WELL, what of that?" the nan an.
swered the memory aloud. I'm not
going to hurt DIR. Harding, am II"
HE won't give up what he has set
himself to guard"
The big fellow spoke again grimly:
Hell have to-" The muscles Of his
bent arm frightened. The clinging
ghost-boy clutched closer.
"You couldn't hurt him! You could
not do it in this place, where the good
years of your life were passed. You
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ADon't Go to Sleep, Benny-Listen."
er, who dug for the treasure and
found 1t and were happy with the
horse and COW, and rich ever after.
The story ended and the children
were quiet, as if listening, thrilled, to
those stammering hoarse tones Of the
good brutes in the chilly stable.
"Now, chickens, you must go to
your roosts," the mother broke their
dream, and her words ended In a sigh.
"Father! it's too bad to have him left
out of Christmas Eve, isn't it,"
"Yes, 1t is." agreed Benny sturdily.
Nobody can say Peaceful Was the
Night 'cept father. It's too
bad for father he had to go
to the thing-ma-jig's funeral"
and, being Christmas Eve, Benny went
u%nreproved for the description Of his
great-uncle.
"Father'll be home before morning,
won't he?" asked the girl. and went
on. "Oh, l remember. You said some
time in the night, but we can't tell
when, cause the trains get late. Well,
/ hope he'll be here in the morning
when we wake up. 1t wouldn't be
Christmas without father; would 1t,
mother?"
Il can't bear to have him out so
late" the little woman said, and her
tones were troubled. She went on as
If thinking aloud--a way she had
with her big babies. "Father isn't
well-he ought to go soulful wish he
could CO." and Benny answered in
strong baby tones:
ooh, he can't go, mother. We have
not got money enough-you said we
hadn't"
mo, dear, we haven't" she sighed;
and the girl shook her name of hair
back thoughtfully.
Il wish y could find a lot of money
like Hans, for father" she said.
The fascination Of the freight as
the children lay in their beds, their
mother gone, held the drowsy eyes
open. The girl, the more aggressive,
the more imaginative of the two, went
back, with a thought working its way
In her mind. to the story which had
q hold on both, the story Of how two
dumb brutes may talk once a year on
Christmas Eve.
"Do you believe it's true, Benny"
abe consulted her brother. Mother
didn't say 1t wasn't, you know"
'Then it's true, and I believe it's
true said Benny stoutly. I'm glad
they can. I know Niger would enjoy
a talking. He looks like he wanted to
talk when he ~squeals, and he saueals
words sometimes. I heard him say
corn bread one day"
Alice lifted her brown head from
the pillow and leaned on one elbow
and stared into the fire. "Nigger's out
in the barn." she reflected. Father
took Mr.. Jarvis horse because Mig
gers foot was lame. Benny" she
began excitedly, and stopped.
Benny gave an enormous yawn and
turned his heavy yellow head
-eWhu-ut?' he inquired.
Don't 80 to sleep, Benny--listenl'
the girl begged. "I'ye got an idea
something lovely, really. Why can
we 60 to the stable to-night--it'i
Christmas Eve-and listen to Niggel
talking. like Hans listened to Friede
and Minnaf And maybe he'll know
about sone treasure and we could ge
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
rlma For raft 70 Show HlmseIf.

President Taft's administration bids
fair to be m long struggle Of his own
right inclination against his duty as
p~artisanship and expediency seem to
dictate to him. And no statesman
ever came out of such a struggle with
as much honor as he went into it. It
is time for Taft to show himself a
man II he is one. He has deferred al.
together too much to Interested ad.
visers so far.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-02
Christmas Cheer.

"Old man." wrote the Billville citi-
zen, 1T wal my intendin' to give you
a fine present fer Christmas, but T
come short this year by the sheriff
levyin' on my cotton an the govern.
ment on my corn: SO | kin only send
you a gallon jug of the last named,
which amt much as my ambitions is
fer you; but I'll say this, old boy:
There's enough in that Jug to make
you have the j%olliest time q yer life
fer a day or tN.o eff you can't buy a
circus ticket, there's a whole circus in
six drains, an a eternal moyin' pictur'
show in 20; so make the most Of III"
Atlanta Constitution.