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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-15

the picture of the southern officer caught his eye. War
passions were still high-though another excuse was
given for Reno's conduct. He was officer of the day, and
wore his side arms. He drew his saber in front of
Johnston's picture. "a traitor has no place on these
walls" he said. There was a fright cut" from a prac-
ticed hand, and the encircling frame and the picture OF
the confederate general were cut in twain.
1t was Reno who was with Clusters command a few
days prior to the battle with the Sioux, in which
"the yellow-haired %cheftain" and his command of the
Seventh cavalry were wiped out by the hand of Sitting
Bull. Reno was at a distance with another part of the
Seventh cavalry. He had a fierce fight of his own,
Reno was criticized for not having advanced to the
relief of Custer. He demanded a court of inquiry, and
he was cleared, for no one ever doubted his courage.
Later he was dismissed from the service. At West Point
to-day, where times effacing finger" has removed the
last trace of bitterness, the portrait of Lee will hang
honored and in safety.
Maj-Gen. George A. Custer, whose record of rapid
promotions for galantry on the battlefield reads like a
romance, had troubles of his own when he was a cadet.
Custer entered the academy at the lowest age limit-17
wears. When he was "a years old he was a major-gen-
eral, commanding a division. One may search history,
and even fiction, and have the hardest kind of a time to
find a parallel case. One beauty of the matter is that no
one has yet been found to deny that Custer won every
stem on the road to his p~referments. Yet this man, who
was Sheridan's right arm in the campaigns of 1S645,
came near being lost to the service of his country
through inability to master thoroughly one OF the
branches at Uncle Sans school.
II il told at the academy that when Custer gradu-
ated it was found that one of the members of the AGA
demic board had declined to sign his "sheepskin." When,
four years later, Custer paid a visit to the school with
the stars of a major-general in the field OF his shoulder
knots, the professor whose signature to the sheepskin
was lacking, offered to afHx his name thereto.
There ensued a moment or two of silence, broken
only by a few picturesque expressions from a yellow
haired soldier who had Just seen some four years OF
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H0LRS EX7RA GUAR0 0U7Y Ss

has made I'D its mind to die nothing can prevent it, ano
the keeper, not only for humane reasons, but also oe
cause an animal in that condition Is extremely Danger
GUS. is often compelled to end the animals suner1ngs ny
fastening its death. The suicidal mania in the lion is
often developed after his mate has been taken away.
when the tiger attempts self-murder 1t is necessary
to tie him down, but even this is not always eHectNe'
The mania for self-destruction often continues for Gays,
though apparently subdued by enforced helplessness, put
the creature is crafty, and while pretending to be meek
and resigned to existence, will watch for the first oppor'
tunity after being released to inhict wounds that will De
fatal.
Zone would scarcely imagine that such a seemingly IN
sensate animal as the hippopotamus would ever be guilty
of suicidal mania, but it Is a fact that a hippo, captureu
wild and confined in a cage will give every evidence OF
inconsistencies, and the only way to prevent the peast
from committing 'hari-kari' is to keep him we'll fed and to
surround him with animal company.
I'VE never had but one hippopotamus that was guilty
of suicide. Having injured his leg, he was replaced on
the road by another specimen and left behind at the win
ter quarters. The loneliness was too much for the ami
NAL and he resisted all efforts to make him cheer up or
take his food. He literally starved himself to death.
II have known of several instances where giraffes die
away with themselves by starvation, and my impression
Is that loneliness is the usual cause for 1t. Each case That
came under my observation was where only one of the
animals was owned by the zoo. 1t is an absolute cruel
ty to exhibit one of these sensitive animals alone. They
must have company of their own kind to be contented.
Extreme care Is taken with their diet. Nothing but
the best clover hay will they touch, and you can't fool
them with alfalfa, as we tried to last season upon tho
coast. They are yer. fond of a vegetable mash, and we
give them large quantities of condensed milk
NO, there is nothing phenomenal about this suicidal
mania in animals. 1t is simply another proof OF a fact
that l have always maintained, that, in their general
characteristics, there is mighty little difference between
some animals and many men-except the power OF
speech"
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NEW SENSATION FOR D0BBlN
Felt Funny Sitting in the
Position indicated.

The family horse, who rejoiced in
the eminently proper equine name OF
Dobbin, had earned a rest by long
service, and was accordingly sent
away to the country to spend his de-
clining years in the broad pastures Of
a farmer friend of his owner. The
distance being somewhat excessive
for his rheumatic legs, he was shipped
to his new home by rail.
Little Edna, the family four-year-old,
viewed the passing of Dobbin with un-
time gazing disconsolately out of the
window. At last, after a deep sigh,
she turned with a more cheerful ex-
preston, and said:
did old Dobbin go on the choo-
choo cars, mammal"
yes, DEAR" answered her mother.
A broad grin spread over the little
girls face. II was just thinking" she
said, chow funny he must feel sitting
up on the plush cushions.-Woman's
Home Companion.
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ORIGIN
OF a Famous Human Food.

The story of the great discoveries
or inventions is always of interest.
An active brain worker who found
himself hampered by lack of bodily
strength and vigor and could not carry
out the plans and enterprises he knew
how to conduct, was led to study va
rious foods and their effects upon the
human system. In other words, be-
fore he could carry out his plans he
had to find a food that would carry
him along and renew his physical and
mental strength.
He knew that a food which was a
brain and nerve builder (rather than
a mere fat maker) was universally
needed. He knew that meat with the
average mar does not accomplish the
desired results. He knew that the
soft gray substance in brain and
nerve centers is made from Albumen
and Phosphate of Potash obtained
from food. Then he started to solve
the problem.
Careful and extensive experiments
evolved Grape-Nuts, the now famous
food. 1t contains the brain and nerve
building food elements in condition
for easy digestion.
The result of eating Grape-Nuts
daily is easily cen in a marked sturGi-
ness and marked activity of the brain
and nervous system, making it a
pleasure for one to carry on the daily
duties without fatigue or exhaustion.
Grape-Nuts food is In no sense a
stimulant but is simply food which
renews and replaces the daily waste
of brain and nerves.
It's favour is charming and being
fully and thoroughly cooked at the
factory it is served instantly with
cream.
The signature Of the brain worker
spoken Of, C. w. Post, IL to be seen on
each genuine r,.ckage Of Grape-Nuts.
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, The Road to Weliville-r
' There's a reason"
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and four pounds of candy therein, concluded that there
were Just rations enough for four hungry cadets with the
appetites that they could bring to the feast, about an
hour after taps.
They invited two chums who lived In another part Of
tne barracks to come to the spread as soon after flights
out as it would be fairly safe to cross the area of bar
racks without the danger of being seen by the officer OF
the day.
Taps sounded. There was the usual darklantern in
spection Immediately thereafter, and from every room in
the old stone building came the cry of "All in, sir" as
the officers made their round and flashed their b~ulls-eye
within. No sooner had the door closed on the inspecting
officer than the two %custodians of the box arose, jumped
into trousers and shell jackets, and proceeded to blanket
the window, throwing one end over the upper sash and
then closing the frame, SO as to hold the blanket tight.
With their bayonets they pinned the lower end at the
corners, and after placing a folded blanket over the
transom, they lighted the gas and spread the feast.
About three-quarters Of an hour after taps the two
hidden ones stole in. Their hosts had resisted the mighty
temptation to eat. They had lived for months on cadet
rations, and their waiting for their comrades with that
feast spread before their eyes proved them not only sol
diers, but stoics.
They came, they saw, and they ate. The apple Of
Eden had not the flavor Of those mince pies. 1t was
before the days of angel cake, but those cakes must have
come from paradise. How these youngsters did pitch in.
Nothing has tasted so good since. and the one who writes
speaks by the card.
At Is minutes before midnight everything had disap-
peared save one slender piece of mince pie, at which the
smallest cadet present was looking lovingly, yet afraid.
The game for him had reached Its limit. Unlucky piece
of pie. It was responsible for woes ~unnumbered.
The clink Of a sword was heard on the ironbound
stairway outside the door. The door of the room oppo-
site was heard to open. An inspection was on. The
light in the banquetroom was doused instanter. The
two cadet hosts jumped into their hunks, one of them
pulling the blanket from the window in his fight. One
cadet guest sought refuge under one bunk and the Sec
ond dove under the other. The two in bed were COM
pletely covered, and no eye could have told that they
were clothed in shell Jacket and trousers when night
gear was the proper raiment.
An officer Of cavalry entered. He swept the beams
of the. dark lantern over the two hunks. The occupants
were snoring peacefully, If somewhat suspiciously loud.
The officer turned to leave. Woe is me!
The blanket pulled from the window and carried to
the bunk had caught in its trail the small piece Of uncon-
sumed mince pie, and had dropped 1t just where the heel
of the retiring officer caught it full and fair.
Down he went! He had had no such fall as that
since he had taken a header at his first riding lesson,
and this time he didn't hit his head. When he sat he
sat solid, and the barracks shook.
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lot Of perfectly good cake-that's his
explanation, though 1t doesn't excuse
him--so he divided the slices up into
neat cubes and wrapped them in tissue
paper taken from the same lunch box.
These portions he dealt out to the
pretty stenographers on that floor, ex-
planning to them that his sister or
brother or somebody had been mar
ried the night before and that he had
managed to save them SOM of the
brides cake, that they might sleep
with It under their pillows for seven
nights-or whatever number Of nights
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ers in a degree. 1t is no restricted
title and its work is SO necessary that
every person who is an element in the
growth OF any business should know
as much or as little of 1t as his duties
require. Business and bookkeeping
are in~separable, From the technical
tiles of the former-not all Of which
need occupy the attention of every
person--to the broader question Of
business is but a step, and it is the
most natural thing in the world to
pass from one field to the other
From the Bookkeeper.
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Let's Be Fair.

The wires have flashed the Jews
that a peach basket hat worn by a
woman in a canoe, and rendered lop-
sided by the careless zephyr, caused a
list and overturned the craft. At this
point the correspondent, evidently
male and preiudiced, stopped short. If
lie wished to be fair he should have
gone on to tell that the occupants of
the boat grasped the hat, climbed
aboard of it, and until their rescue
Jared sumptuously on the fruit and
garden truck which constituted a part
of it's artistic decoration. The true
news expert never is biased,-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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1t Island get whatever measure OF
good fortune is supposed to follow
sleeping that way.
The several pretty stenograDhers
have placed chunks of that ten-cent
lunch cake under their pillows every
night since then, little suspecting that
their dreams would avail them no
more than the dreams that follow a
welsh rabbit orgy. They may well give
thanks when they read this that there
Is a free and untrammeled press in
this country to expose such receptions,
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-15
Burning String in the slck.Room

Months spent in a sick room have
taught me many things for the COM
fort of an invalid, one of the simplest
and most effective of which Is burn
ing a string to purify the atmosphere.
Take a soft string and stick it with
a pin to the back of a chair; after
lighting, blow it out gently, leaving
the tiny spark, which will create
smoke enough to make a decided diff
ference in the atmosphere.-Harper's
Bazaar.
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NE WENT go

him to keep the position OF
manager, instead of having 1t
rotate" as was the custom.
When the southerner was re-
lieved from duty at the academy
the members of the mess de-
cided to have his portrait paint
ed and hung in the dining-hall.
This was done, and the picture
stayed untouched all through
the dark days Of the war.
In the year 1865 there was
sent to West Point as a tactical
officer a soldier who had won
the stars of a brigadier-general
of volunteers on the battlefield.
This story in fact Is told OF
Gen. Marcus A. Reno, who had
gone back to his rank Of cap
tain of regulars at the close of
hostilities. He was a graduate
of the military academy, as was
Johnston. Reno had been at
West Point on duty only a few
dokS nc tho story goes when
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that the box had
been addressed to
a certain kind.
hearted army off,
GERS wife--here
and forever name
less-and that it
were better to call
for it when the Of
fcer himself was
on duty elsewhere.
Just after sup
per that Christmas
'e e, during the
half-hour interval
between mess and
the bugler's call to
quarters, two ca
diets stole down the
road in the rear of
the hospital, scaled
h C e and
dropped into the
yard in the rear of
k~indhearted
army W o m a n
q quarters. They
found the box, and
carried it to the
barracks, getting
1t in through a
window, and stor-
Ing it under a
bunk in a dark cor.
ner.
The two cadets
" ere roommates.
They pried open
the box. and hav-
g 70 d that
there were eight
pies, eight cakes,
two dozen oranses
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and bookkeeping lnseparabIe

BusIhess n bookkeeping T~hsepaTapIe
Without bookkeeping in Its broad
sense, there could be no business.
Bookkeeping is no longer restricted
to the high stool, the dark corner and
the mysterious ledger. 1t begins at
the door of the mercantile establish
ment or the Office, and ends with the
condensed statement of profits and
losses at the proprietor's salesman,
head of department, manager and
owner-all have something to do with
the records which coalssce in the final
summary and are, perforce, bookkeep.
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Put 'Em Down.

81 think fancy hose should be pro-
hIbited because they promote bad
manners"
Whats the answer"
They encourage the great Ameri-
can habit of sticking feet up on desks,
chairs, porch posts, etc."--Kansas
City Times.
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THEIR DREAMS OF NO AVAIL

through the 400 hour, and was
to send a messenger out after
one of those inexpensive little lunches
you can buy all nicely put up for you
in q p~asteboard box.
Among other things the lunch in
cluded a couple of neat little slabs Of
cake with pink icing on it. :
The STUFF was too sweet for Davies.
He always preferred pie to cake any
how. But It seemed a sin to waste a
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Stenographers the Victims Of Surely
the Meanest Of All Mean Tricks
Known.

In an evil moment the other day,
Samuel Davies, member Of the Build
ers' exchange, played about the mean
est trick that's been thought up by
anybody this season,
Davies was detained In his Office
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Animals Commit Suicide
When Alone in Circus

do animals commit suicide?" was
asked of a mar who for 80 years was
head animal man of the zoo of a great
circus.
Yes, animals do commit suicide" he
replied, and often for the same reasons
that cause humans to take their own
lives. Probably the most pronounced of
these are loneliness, inconsistencies, loss
of mates or children, and i'll health.
There are animals that periodically have
a return of the suicidal mania, and which
can only be saved from self-destruction
by the most careful treatment.
LAS a rule, however, when the animal
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punishments for ofenses. Pains and penalties, however, do not
prevent, or at least did not prevent in the elder day, the cadets
from having on occasion "the time of their lives"
When any serious breach of the regulations is contemplated
the boys in gray use the lessons that are given them for another
purpose; to outwit, outfank and outgeneral the .enemy-the tc-
teal officer in charge.
The cadet at West Point who was found with a crust Of
bread in his quarters, or, If luck has been running his way, an
orange, or some other luxury almost unknown to the cadet pal
ate, his punishment is, or was, ten hours of extra guard duty, to
be performed during the time that otherwise he might haye
been walking through Filtration Walk" with some one not a
cadet, or possibly spending a part of the 20 cents a week which
he is allowed for extravagances-if he doesn't owe the govern
ment anything-in buying a plate of ice cream or a delicious
bite OF cake in the goodiesshop, which the cadets in the old days
dubbed "Delmonicos."
Once upon a time a cadet received a letter on the day before
Christmas, and from it he learned that a cousin living in New
YORK had shipped a box. due to arrive that afternoon, and filled
with absolutely unspeakably good things. The letter told him
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-15
BY EDWARDB. CLARK

ASHlNGToN.-Much has been written OF
the severity of the discipline at the
United States Military academy. The
washington officials of the war depart
ment, acting on the advice of the old
graduates of the academy, have kept the
disciplinary regulations at the govern
ment's school pretty much as they were
In the early days, when the thought was
that leniency had no place in military
affairs. The judgment of the army is
that the old rule is still the best rule.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-05
Trains Going West.
EARS TO THE GROUND.

The people of North Dakota have
their aural appendages down close to
mother earth these days-listening for
some report from Bismarck as to who
will be the successor of the late Sena-
tor Johnson. s-z
Advices from the capital city and
local opinion tend to the belief the in
surgent republicans have abandoned
hope OF getting Burke to pull their
chestnuts out of the fire. The convic-
ton il growing that Burke will be COM
PEELED by party sentiment to name a
democrat. The governor has made
some peculiar appointments. however,
and may upset these calculations.
There is an increasing sentiment that
the appointment of an insurgent re-
publican would be foolish move-not
only for the executive but also for the
recipient of the honor. The insurgent
to receive the appointment would be
regarded with more or less suspicion
Many voters of the state would always
regard the deal as trade and 1t would
probably be a boomerang.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-05
BOYS ON THE FARM.

There is a great deal OF discussion
about how the boys should be kept ON
the farm. The Superior Telegram rec
emily contained the following comment:
An Iowa professor has answered the
Eociologists who say that the problem
ls TO induce the boys to remain on the
farm, and not crowd into the cities
wiki the declaration that the boys have
left the farm and crowded into the
cities. The problem now is to get them
back to the country.
lie says that the best farms on earth
are rented to people who have only a
reDters interest in the land, and the
soil yields only a pittance OF what 1T
sight yield, while the owners are in
llse towns and cities trying to live as
beir neighbors live, and to achieve
5Qmething in business or social life,
with little of real satisfaction to them
solves or 10 others. Can they be won
9lck to the country by direct appeal
o, farm life is associated in their
inds with hard labor, unreheved by
ne amenities of society, unenlightened
by science and education.
The professor says that the existing
conditions Is the result of environment
and education, and adds:
let the boys of today who are
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-05

crowded In the cities learn something
of the free, independent life OF the
farmer; let them learn enough Of sci-
ence to see the unfolding OF natures
wonderful laws Ia every leaf and rwig
and flower: let them have no false
notion of social rank and preferment;
teach them the dignity of labor, the
last result OF science, the rule OF health
and happiness--and the problem 10
solved. To the true scholar there is
no loneliness in the country. The
highest, best thought OF the world is
there, If one will have with him books
and friends. Labor there is, but labor
is life and health when intelligently
expended
1t is a broad question. 1t is not an
easy matter to get the practical ideas
in the boys head The average boy
gets the notion that money is found.
not earned, and that the city is the
place to find it, There is no easy way
to get that foolish notion out and a
sensible idea in. Therefore the boy
goes to town, and the result is that
there are in cities whole armies Of men
who do not and cannot own farms and
who see no way to change their occu-
patton. But rapid transit and good
roads may be depended upon to enable
them to procure suburban homes,
where they can make the most use Of
at least a small plot Of ground, where
they can at least have light and air and
freedom from the limitations Of the
tenement; where they can have gard
en-. with its fruits and vegetables and
flowers; where they can enjoy some of
the features OF park life in their own
homes.
If the rising generation shall be i'm
pressed with the real independence. the
health and happiness, the scientific and
social charm of country life to a per-
son of education and character, the
problem will be much easier.