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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26

~REFORMATORY is NEEDED.
Hadley Will Ask Legislature for APP
preparation for State Building.

Jefferson City.-Governor Hadley
says he will ask the next legislature
for an appropriation for a state re-
formatory. Since his visit to the
Boonville reform school for boys he is
more strongly impressed than ever
with the idea that the state stands
sorely in need Of an institution where
the more hopeful class of men convict
ed of felonies may be confined and
separated from hardened criminals.
While at Boonville the governor had
a long talk with Major G. G. Nc
Claughry, superintendent of the state
reform school for boys. Plans for a
state reformatory were discussed. Ma
ior McClaughry expressed the opinion
that with the material and labor that
could be supplied at the reform school,
an appropriation of perhaps less than
$4,000 would be sufficient to con-
struct a building for the accommoda-
ton of 600 to 700 men.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26

into the far blue of the Pacific wash
ing the distant shores and lands peo-
pied with strange creatures Of history
and romance and he, too, wondered.
He had had no experience with men
and the world and he longed to get
away and to take her away.
She had long since discovered that
he was a gentleman, an innate gentle
man; that he had been well born, and
she had seer to it herself that he had
been well bred. Yet no mortal man
aver went through greater fires of
unknown and mysterious temptations
than he. He forced himself not to
speak words that burned. He checked
the free course of thoughts that bub-
bled and seethed within his brain, and
the relationship between them re-
manned that of mistress and man,
teacher and taught, friend and friend.
1t was he who so maintained it, though
of this she was unaware.
ITO BE CONTINUEDO
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26

was an abdication of some of her SUI
premacy. Every new knowledge he &C.
quired was an inspiration to her high
level.
Three years is a short time in the
educational life of a human being,
but she brought to her side of what
was slowly developing into an equa-
ton the highest training, a natural
ability to impart what she knew, an
absolute devotion to the endeavor and
an entire freedom from other interests.
So fascinating had the experiment
been that she had scarcely missed the
rest of the world. l wonder if he had
been a woman instead of a man If
that absorption would have resulted
from their intercourse?
On his part, he brought to bear upon
the problem. Of learning, it was soon
developed, an intellect which although
entirely unframed was unusually
acute, a faculty of acquiring knowl
| edge as great as was her ability to i'm
part it and a reasoning capacity which
kept pace with his other qualities. In
deed, the main thing with which she
had to contend at first was his lack Of
application. But SO o 0 as he hat
learned enough to enable him to rea
lie the Importance of learning more
she had no trouble on that score. Il
was as if a mature mind had beer
brought to bear upon the problems O.
adolescence. He grappled with things
in that way. Whatever she taught him
he learned, he mastered all; and thu
mastery inspired him to learn more
His mnemonic ability was prodigious
for all the years of his life he had no
been storing up the insignificant, thu
immaterial, the unnecessary, in hi
brain cells. He remembered all tina
she taught him with unvarying accu
racy. His was a powerful, vigorou
mentality which had known nothing
and upon which she wrote what sh'
pleased. To the judgment Of a ma
he added the receptivity and ductilit.
of a child.
She had taught him first Of all t
speak and then to read; then rudi
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
Driven On for Hours.

of the only recollection that remained
to him.
Her new belief, as has been said,
was both Joy and sorrow to her. Save
for her experience in the ship she had
been happier in her philosophy. She
had suffered ~grfevously through her
trust in it and in man, but her con-
seriousness that she was fundamentally
right in her beliefs had consoled her.
Now to feel that she had been wrong;
that she had thrown away under the
leading of a false light what she could
never again-Ah, no Magdalene ever
wept bitterer tears at the feet of
Jesus than this woman in her hours
Of solitude over her mistaken past,
her loss and shame.
She had hours of solitude, too. Early
in the life they lived, she had laid
down certain regulations. He was in
the formative period then and had
unhesitatingly acquiesced in them. So
far those regulations had neither been
abrogated by her nor broken by him.
A cave upon the farther side of the
island had been found and that was
his home. They b~reakfasted together
at a certain hour, which he told by
means of the sun and she by her
faithful watch. The morning was spent
in study. In the afternoon they sep
arated, each passing~it in accordance
with individual preference, but he
vigorously kept to his side and she to
her side Of the island during the
period. Certain dividing lines clearly
established and understood marked
which was his and which was hers.
At supper time they met again and
passed the time together In converse
ton until the rest period arrived
Things had to be this way else life
would have been uncomfortable. They
lived on the natural products Of the
island which were varied and sufi,
GENTLY abundant to fulfill all dietetic
requirements,
She had also taught him things moi
learned from books. Among them
truth, honor, duty and dignity-all the
virtues. Her instruction had BEEN
first, that which was nat%ural--ethica
merely, but afterward 1t had grown
spiritual. Unspotted from the worlt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
wher. the EmeraIds Como from.

Colombia. South America, controls
the worlds market for emeralds as
completely as the South African syn.
dictate does for diamonds. 1t is from
the mines high UP in the Colombian
Andes that most of the emeralds
come. The Colombian government
has leased its most valuable mines
10 an English syndicate. with the I'm.
derstanding that 1t Is to sell at least
81. 100000 in emeralds a year for 20
years, giving the government a per.
centage. The largest and most valu-
able emerald in the world belongs to
the duke OF Devonshire. 1t Ii d per.
feet six-sided crystal and weighs nins
linces.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
ODD FELLOWS in CONVENTION.
Five Thousand See ChivaIry Degree
Conferred at Columbia.

Columbia.-More than a thousand
Odd Fellows attended the annual con-
vention of the order. During a street
parade a large delegation of Rebek-
abs occupied places of honor in auto
mobiles.
The degree of chivalry was con-
ferred in the presence of 5000 spec
tators, upon Belle Seaman, Luray; Eft
ia Mcclure, Walnut Grove; Lillian
Larned, Salisbury; Lavinia Allen,
Bethany: Elizabeth May, Aurora; e.
Hayden Thompson, Winona; Emma
Kelley, Grain; Addie Secrist, Kansas
City; Bette Hagan, Charleston; Hat
tie Douglas, Fredericktown, and Malin-
da Adams of Adrain.
The Oldest Rebekah in Missouri, if
not in the United States, Mrs. Rhodes
milford of St. Louis, who is so years
old, and chaplain of the Rebekahs of
Missouri, is attending the meetings.
This is the twenty-sixth Odd Fellows
and Rebekah convention she has at
tended.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26

mentary mathematics such as he could
do in his head. There was nothing
that she could devise that was prac-
ticable for writing. There was no
slate on the island, the rock was not
suitable. Therefore he had never
learned to write, although he knew
what writing was, for she had ex-
planned 1t to him, and had made shift
to teach him the Arabic letters. She
also taught him geography, astronomy,
natural sciences, and above all, his
tory. She unfolded the Kingdoms Of
this world and the. glory Of them be-
fore his vision, touching lightly, as has
been the fashion Of such unfolders,
upon the misery and the shams. His
was a singular knowledge indeed.
There were some things about which
she was reticent, being a woman, and
some things she could not tell him at
all; but being a man, with magma
ton quickened, he thought Of these
things the more-for these we're some
Of the deeper things Of life and ma
ture!
But the change in the relations be-
tween the two were not greater than
the change In the woman herself. She
was no longer a philosopher. That
which she had disdained, she admired;
that which she had abhorred, she loved;
that which she had refused, she ac-
cepted. she was a Christian in belief
as last. Alone, or practically so, face
to face with God in his world, God in
His Book, God in humanity, her spe-
cious ideas Of life and her relationship
to it had broken down. She had
learned to kneel beside that man and
pray. She had learned to seek else
where than in herself for power to
enable her to live her life and fulfill
her tasks.
she had not wished to be q Chris
Itian. size had fought against 1t, strug-
gled with it, agonized owe 1t, but q
compelling necessity was upon her,
The convictions OF her conversion tore
the veil from before her face, dispelled
the mist that hung about her. She
saw herself as she was, q woman who
under the influence Of wrong ideas
false conceptions, had branded herself
Forever. NO. not in the eyes Of that
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
One Peculiarly Of Bird That Looks
to BE the Wlsest Of the Feath-
cred Tribe.

owls houses are for the most part
quite without lining. Whether from
design or pure l~aziness, the bones and
skulls OF small animals which they
have killed are left scattered about
the floor. Grewsome playthings for
the owl ~childrenl But n can scarce
ly imagine ever a baby owl being
anything but wise and dignined. 1t is
easier to picture them apparently
gravely musing on these skulls like
monks In their dark cells.
Since SO many Of the owls have
their homes in hollow trees, we might
expect some OF their near relatives.
the hawks, to be inclined to live In
the same way. One Of them, the lit
the sparrow hawk, does nest In the
fiicker's abandoned home and Ia com
Portable knot holes. Once ! found him
quartered snugly in a branch which
had decayed at the end where part
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
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CYRUS townsend
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SYNOPSIS.

A young woman cast ashore on a lone
ly island, finds a solitary inhabitant, a
young white man, dressed like a savage
and unable to speak in any known Lam
guage. She decides to educate him and
mold his mind to her own ideals. h
finds a human skeleton, the skeleton Of a
dog, a Bible and q silver box, which
lead her to the conclusion that her COM
panion was cast ashore on the island
when a child, and that his name is John
Revell Charnock Of Virginia. Near the
skeleton she finds two woman's rings
c. to M. p. T. Sept. 10. 1852. Katharine
Brenton vas a highly specialized product
the sex problem had attracted wide at
tenticn. The son of q multi-millionaire
becomes infatuated with her, and they
decide to put her theories into practice.
With no other ceremony than a hand
slasp they go away together. A few days
on his yacht shows her that the man
only protested lofty ideals to possess her.
Katharine discovers that the man is mar
ried. While drunk he attempts to kiss
her. She knocks him down and leaves
him unconscious and escapes in the
darkness In a gasoline launch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
BLUE LAW vIoLAToRs FREE.
Webb City Attorney viii Not Prose-
cute Sunday Workmen.

Webb City,-In an effort to enforce
the blue laws, an organization known
as the citizens committee caused the
arrest of two theater proprietors, q
soda fountain man, a cigar store own
ers, a newspaper editor and a drug
gist, charged with employing labor on
Sunday. The city attorney, S. w.
Bates, fwho was elected on a reform
ticket, declined to prosecute the cases
on the ground that they were inspired
by the vets in retaliation, because the
saloons have been closed by the local
option law.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
CHAPTER TX.
Latent Passions.

The three years which had elapsed
had made a vast change in the rela-
tions between the man and the woman.
In the beginning and for a long time
hers had been the dominant position.
SO absolutely had she ruled that to
him she had been as a god. So en-
tirely had he obeyed that to her he
had been a devotee. Once she discov-
cred his ductility and had begun to
teach him, the relationships had com
menced to change. Gradually each had
recognized the humanity Of the other.
Together students they had naturally
approached a ommon level. Every
new knowledge shs impaired p him
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
1LANDofQEGENERAT1O

God whom she had learned to fear,
not in the eyes that Christ whom
she had learned to love, but in the
eyes of men; yet she was a woman
who was pure in heart. Perhaps these
thoughts and this consciousness had
more to do with keeping her content
even that her intense pr~e-occupation
in the mar and her work, for she rea-
lized what she would have to face if
she went back to the world which had
Knocked her while it applauded her.
That world, therefore, she now began
to fear. The n being upon earth
with whom she could be associated,
who knew nothing about 1t, who could
cast no stone at her, she realized was
the mar whom she had made, and
this mar looked to her almost as men
look to the Divine. Yet she felt that
some day he would have to know.
Some day she would have to tell him.
What then? That feeling was ever
with her. She constantly asked her
self that question and found no an
swer.
Indeed, it was he who had taught
her the truth of Christ. She had not
been able, she had felt a strange I'M
willingness, if indeed it were possible,
to break down the lingering remains
of faith in that a That babble of
childish prayer had, in some strange
way, caught her heart strings. 1t was
the one memory of intelligence that
had remained to him. Now that he
was capable Of expression, again and
again he had told her of the dim recol-
lection of a long voyage in al open
boat with a woman and some animal,
which she knew must be the dog. He
could remember nothing of the inter
course between him and that woman
except that she had been good to
him-sometimes that is as much as
the wisest recall Of a mother-and
that she had taught him and made him
say always that prayer whose co
herency and meaning to her intense
surprise she found herself imparting
to him. And she could not make VI
her mind to take from him the reality
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
WILL ASSESS RAILROADS.
State Board of Equalization Will Fix
Valuation for Taxes for Year.

Jefferson City.-The state board OF
equalization took up the assessment
of railroad, street railway, telegraph,
telephone and bridge property for the
present years taxes. The valuations
will be fixed upon the assumed worth
of the property June l. 1909.
The board requires all the public
service corporations to file statements
with the state auditor as to property
values. These reports have been re-
ceived.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
Feared to Shock Daughter.

"Your honor" said the attorney for
the lady, II ask the court to have the
plaintiffs daughter removed from the
courtroom"
"And why do you prefer this ex-
traordinary request, Mr.. Cooker" the
Judge inquired.
Because" said the lawyer, II am
about to ask my client to state her
age."-Cleveland Plain Deaeler.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
Rlfle Range for Missouri infantry.

Joplin.-Col. W. A. Rupp Of Pierce
City, commanding the Second regi-
ment Of Missouri infantry, has ordered
the militia companies Of Webb City.
Carthage and Joplin to select q rife
range to be used jointly by them,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
OwL Houses Without Lining

had been broken of. This bird. too,
Is satisfied with perfectly bare walls
and floor, though the floor consists OF
small chips left by the decaying wood
or by some woodpecker.--St. Nicholas
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
Admiral sebree Visits Brother.

Springield.-Rear Admiral Uriel
ebree, retired, arrived in Springfield
to visit his brother, George NJ. SCI
bree. The Springfield club entertained
him with a banquet.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26
Hesslan Elx IN missouri Wheat.

Columbia.--The Hessian fly is doing
considerable damage to wheat in
southwestern Missouri, according to a
report by the state board Of agricul-
ture. The crops conditions for the
state is estimated to be 70h per cent.
a gain of 3 points over last month.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-26

Columbia.-Tbe scholarship In AM
erican citizenship offered by the Mis-
souri, Society Of Colonial Danes o.
America, in the University Of Missou
ri, has been awarded to Selvyp p
CpiiinH of Harrisonville. No
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-14
FARMER HAS NEW VEGETABLE
Tennesseean Says He Has at Last
Raised Peppermato-PeeuIIar
Combination.

Humboldt, Tenn.-Henry p. Cole,
prosperous farmer Of this vicinity,
promises to rival the great Burbank
In marvellous feats Of plant raising.
His latest innovation is a combina-
ton tomato and pepper plant, which
will enable the lover Of the delicious
fruit to abandon the antiquated meth.
cd Of using pepper, It being only
to slice the new product
and It is ready for use.
The tomato patch from which the
freak tomato was taken is in close
proximity to field of peppers, and 1t
is supposed by the plant raisers Of
this section that the pollen Of the
two was mixed during the blooming
season. The physical construction Of
the "peppermato," as 1t has been local.
ly dubbed. is peculiarly interesting.
Az II taking into consideration the
tastes OF every one. nature 30 ar
ranged the fruit that the pepper part
may be separated from the tomato.
and those who fear the Ill effects Of
pepper upon human vitality may raise
the fruit for market purposes and at
the same time remove the pod from
the few which they may personally
consume.
The ''peppermato" resembles the
poverbial siamese twins. being per-
feet specimen OF tomato species, to
which is grated full pod of pep
per. It Is thought that the new plant
involves principles which will be Of
interest to scientista.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-14

latter make desperate attempts Ia
earn livelihood in Paris. "a city that
offers employment only to the most
Partisan of foreigners. On the boule-
wards you frequently are accosted by
an obvious American. who either sells
questionable picture cards, offers. to
show you what you shouldn't see, or
asks you for money that you probably
haven't got.
In fact, the begging American is
now an institution in Paris. He halls
from the same town that you do; he
knows of your father; perhaps he
once worked on the stan of the lead.
Ing daily. There Is only one dodge to
get rid of this broke" compatriot-
give him the address Of some one you
know or don't know, who. you tell
him, will be interested in his case"
The name you give should be, of
course, that of an artist who is starv.
ing and who has sense Of humor,
and there are plenty of them.
Though the willing prisoners are on
the increase, 1t is a fact that this year
comparatively few Americans have
been stranded in Paris through fail.
Ing to engage their return passage.
The actual number is record.
Nowadays not only do many Amer.
leans pay their European hotel bills.
railroad fares and steamship tickets
before leaving New York, but their ex.
penses are figured so closely that they
arrive back in New York with just
about uptown carfare in their pockets.
To those who figure too closely the
rawnshops of Paris are boon. A
watch often pays for an emphatic
cable. 6s
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-14
MACHINE TO SEPARATE COINS
Simple Device Invented by Psnnsyi.
yanla Man Great Convenience
In Bank.

Harrisburg. Pa.-At the age Of IS
years. Daniel 'Drawbaugh, the prolific
Cumberland county inventor, to whom
many people give the credit for being
the originator of the modern tele-
phone. is organizing a, company and
planning to erect big factory for the
Of coin separator which
his brain has recently evolved.
The separator consists Of series Of
brass plates. one above another, per-
forated with holes sufficiently large to
allow coin of certain size to slip
through, and no larger. Mr.. Draw
Oaugn's model works toperfection. He
dumps In a shovelful or 80 of dollars,
halves, quarters. dimes. ntckels and
cents. gives the crank a turn and the
dollars drop into q tube; another turn
and out come the halves, etc. Pressure
of button in the tube separates the
coins into piles of FIVE, ten, twenty,
ETC., for easy rolling into packages.
Mr.. Drawbaugh says two sizes Of the
separator will be marketed, one re-
failing at $65 and the other at SIS.
The price. he claims. will bring the
machine within the reach OF every
financial institution or counting room
which needs one, while previous sep.
arators have been so complicated or
80 expensive as to be either prac.
.tically useless or beyond the reach Of
the average Individual or firm.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-14
OLDEST WOMAN in THE WORLD.
Bulgarian Peasants Daughter says
She 10 1875 Years oid-Worked
In Fields.

Berlin.-The claim Of Frau Dutkie-
switz Of Posen. born on February 81,
1875, to be the Oldest woman in the
world is now contested by Nine. Bahia
Vasilka, who was born in May, 1884, In
the little Bulgarian village Of Bavelsko,
where she has lived ever since. The
record Of her birth is preserved in a
neighboring monastery Of the orthodox
Greek faith. q
She Is the daughter Of a peasant and
has worked herself as peasant up till
a comparatively recent date. For more
than 100 years she regularly worked in
the fields, according to the custom Of
her country. where women are en-
ployed in all sorts Of manual labor.
The events Of her life up to the time
when she attatne1 the age Of eighty
are far more distinctly impressed on
her mind than the happenings Of the
last forty-six years.
Her son Todor, following the family
tradition. has also worked in the fields
as peasant nearly all his life, but he
has also taken part In various wars
and rebe.lions In the Balkan peninsula.
He Is not quite as fresh and vigorous
as his mother. although he is still capa-
BILE Of doing good days work, and en-
joying such sma.4 luxuries of life as a
pipe and the strong spirits drunk by
The Bulgarian populace. d
The Oldest woman in the world Is
said to enjoy fairly good eyesight and
- a d. a h
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-14
Male Specimen Must BE Well Dressed
and Plausible In TaIk-Flts
Chorus Girl.

New York.-There Is a new slang,
term In town and 1t Is eloquent and
pregnant with meaning. 1t isn't very
respectful, but it means whole lot
when applied to any OF the frequent
ers of upper Broadway, where it orig.
mated.
THE idea." declared an indignant
chorus girl as her dearest chum pass
ed her by without even nod. do
you know what that girl called me.
yesterday when ! suggested that we
call up Harry and get him to take. US
to dinner? She said l was pretty
good boob catcher"
That's 1t; boob catcher. If you hap
pen to be chorus girl and get some
one to take you to dinner then you're
IA female boob catcher.
4 The male boob catcher is the friend
who is waiting in front Of the bar for
you to buy him a drink. He is the
CHAP who always coughs when Vou
s