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New-York tribune., 1911-10-25

Philadelphia. oct. 2i.-Miss Florence
Rromlev. who wrote letters 10 Allison Mac
Farland. viii not be arrested. As had becn
rumorcd To-day the police we're quietly
informed that she and ho- father had six
nGed their willingness 10 20 20 Newark
and there testify In the case voluntarily.
on this assurance tho Newark detective
left this city shortly after noon to-day.
Mr.. Bromley's counsel. on being asked
as 10 whether she had been influenced lo
make this declaration to tho police By fs5r
Of being arrested refused 20 reply
David J. Smvth, VINO has hecn most ac-
tive in defending the family. SAID ne had
not been informed that Mise Bromley Was
wanted as Il witness m the case. Ho con-
tinucd. with members of the family and
a. r. Johnson. also OF counsel FOR the
family. TO deny that there had hecn letter.
between Miss Bromley and 'isctsrlsnd
Counsel for tho family sconcd At tho idea
thot there was any phase of the case IN
which Miss Bromley could - arrested
Frank NJ McDcrr1it. attornc~ for Mac
FarIaud. came TO Philadelphia tonight sn1
held a conference with Miss Bromley, ac-
cording TO the police. thus cffeciins IN"
first exchange Of messages between Miss
Bromley and MscFarland since MacFsr-
lands arrest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

she was out ana roaming to the south
in boys clothes.
Then, as medico-criminal records
have shown In other cases, the switch
controlling the nerve wires OF this
girls brain became set for a brief re
turn to the normal. She changed alb
solutely. Those who did not know at.
tributed it to the influence Of tracts
and such moral teachings as is given
collectively to inmates of institutions,
including jails. They were not aware
that it was periodic, and quite incf
dental.
During this mental lull much of her
%gentleness and girlhood sweetness and
charm for the time returned. Mr..
~Thurnherr, a young Berkeley business
man, met and fell in love with hel
and made her his wife. Before they
had returned from a brief honeymoon
the switch was on again, intensifying
her cunning and making her boldly
criminal where before she had been
cautious.
AS kleptomaniac.
One evening as he sat reading and
she embroidered, he fell asleep; quick
as a cat she slipped out of the house
and into a neighbours, where she stole
some pretty articles of no use to
herself.
Where have you been, my dear?'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Ended Cats SoIourn.

Felix Smith of Easton, Pa, bought
a cat the other day. He paid IS for
her. Why did Felix pay five bucks
for the cat? Acknowledgements she
was guaranteed to be a good ratter.
Did Felix have rats? We should say
he did-the house was full of EN-!
And the cat cleaned EN- out! No;
that's the curious part of it, After
the cat had been on the job a week
the rats were as plentiful as ever.
Felix couldn't understand it until one
evening he concealed himself in the
basement to watch the cat. About 9
D. mi, as the cat sat with her eye on
a rat hole, Felix says that rat after
rat came out of the hole, walked up
to the old cat, kissed her goodnight,
and then returned to the hole. After
that Felix kicked the cat out of the
house.-Boston Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
PIMPLEs COVERED HIS BACK

my troubles began along in the
summer in the hottest weather and
took the form of small eruptions and
itching and a kind of smarting pain.
1t took me mostly all over my back
and kept getting worse until finally
my back was covered with a mass of
pimples which would burn and itch at
night SO that l could hardly stand it.
This condition kept gstting worse and
worse until my back was a solid mass
of big sores which would break open
and run. My underclothing would be
a clot of blood.
Il tried various remedies and salves
for nearly three years and l was not
getting any benefit. 1t seemed l was
in eternal misery and could not sleep
on my back or lean on a chair. l was
finally given a set Of the Cuticura
Remedies and inside of two weeks
could e and feel a great relief. l
kept on using Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and also the Resolvent, and in about
three OF four months time my back
was nearly cured and I felt like a new
being. Now I am in good health and
no sign of any skin diseases and I
am fully satisfied that Cuticura Rene
dies are the best ever made for skin
diseases. l would not be without
them" (Signed) W. A. Armstrong,
Corbin, Kan, May 26, 1911. Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere,
a sample of each, with 32-page book,
will be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. q K, Boston.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
PRERoGATVE OF HER SEX
Privilege That Is Universally
Granted.

A young couple had been counting
for several years and the young mar
seemed to be in no hurry to marry.
Finally, one day, he said:
"Sal, / Gamma marry thee"
"How's that?" asked she.
I've changed my mind" said he.
We'll, I'll tell thee what we'll do"
said she. IF folks know that it's
thee as has given me up l shanna
be able to get another chap; but if
they think I've given thee up l can
get all | want. So we'll have banns
published and when the wedding day
comes the parson will say to thee:
Wilt thou have this woman to be thy
welded wife? and thou must say: 4
will And when he says to me-:
Wilt thou have this mar to be thy
welded husband? | shall say: I
Wilma"
The day came, and when the minis,
ter asked the important question the
man answered: Il will"
Then the parson said to the wom-
an: wilt thou have this man to be
thy welded husband?" and she said:
Il will"
Why" said the young man furious
ly, you said you would say I win
ma"
Il know that" said the young wom-
an, "but I've changed my mind since"
-Mack's National Monthly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
EVIDENTLY SHE WAS ANNOYED
Good Wife's Punishment, Intended for
Husband, Poor Compensation
to RevivaIist.

A popular r~evivalist had been hold
ing services at a town in Mississippi
when a heavy rain anne on, and he
accepted an invitation to pass the
night at the house of n of the
townsmen. Observing the preachers
drenched clothing, the host brought
out a suit of his own and sent his
guest upstairs to don it.
The good man had made the change
and was on his way back to the sit
ting room, when the woman of the
house came out of another room, hold
ing in her hands the Dig family Bible.
out of which the minister was to be
invited to read a chapter before the
family went to bed.
She was not, however, in a very
amiable frame of mind, for careful
housewives are likely to be put out Of
sorts by the advent of unexpected
company. Seeing the r%evivalist in his
borrowed garments, she mistook him
for her husband, and as he passed in
front of her she lifted the book and
brought it down sharply on his head.
"There!" she exclaimed. take
that for asking him to stayall night"
-Lippincott's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Ii LAUGH at TubercuIosis.

Much ignorance prevails among the
unfortunate victims of tuberculosis
and families of these unfortunates,
according to the Los Angeles Herald,
For such as these the words spoken
by Adolphus Knopf should be chiseled
in imperishable granite. Or, better
still, they should be published in ev-
cry public print, viz: There is no
such thing as hereditary tuberculosis.
The remedy is simple and all should
know it. 1t is one of the most easily
durable of all the chronic infectious
diseases. You can cure consumption
by the unstinted use Of Gods good
fresh air, t~wenty-four hours in twenty
four, plenty of good food and plenty
of good water, inside and out. You
all know that cleanliness is next to
godliness. Children should get all
the fresh air possible. They should
sleep and play in the open air. They
should attend open-air schools"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

a perfectly a n person. Even while
Judge Barclay was planning anew for
the girls welfare she was waited
away like a thistledown in the wind.
This time she was carried far across
the border into the wild country of
Mexico and to the ranch beyond Tia
Juana. Her voluntary return to Los
Angeles after this wide swing in the
open was inspired as is now known,
to a temporary restoration of those
faculties which guide the morals. She
went at once to Judge Barclays home.
She was calm and penitent. Mrs. Bar
clay had died while the girls last es-
capade was running its course. and
the judge was in no mood for a recon-
Citation with one given to such wild
vagaries. He did not know the girl
was irresponsible. He received her
formally, II not coldly, gave her a
letter to the manager Of the canneries
down at San Jose and money for her
immediate expenses and %transporta-
eAOAt oAN oShI hCl llOm Ills uUOT WlLQ
a good wish for her happiness some
what severely expressed.
Became a Thief.
The girls erratic path of wild child.
lsh adventure at this moment diverged
into one pitifully crooked and Grim
ina. JEANNE became a thief. she
stole things without reference to their
value or her needs. When she want
ed anything, or thought she did. her
cunning mind directed her ready fin
gers to the place where 1t could be
found. It was not long before she be-
gan taking things she did not want
knick-knacks which she threw away or
left IN hiding places on the premises.
there to be found by others.
In San Francisco. whittier she drift.
ed with light fingers. working along
the way, she was arrested. Because az
her tender years and the evidence
that her form Of criminality was far
removed from the sordid she was sent
20 st. GATHERINGS home. In a week
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

aslant the red mesa land.
The copper faced cowboys, sitting at
the door of their shack, looked up
with establishment at the haggard lit
tie stranger. They saw a bare five
feet of frailty in sadly worn shoes and
trousers, with wrists no bigger than
two fingers, hands Of a child and a
face that didn't seem to belong to tht
rest Of the shadow.
Long way from home, sonny, amt
yuh?" asked one of the men, who had
left a real name in the east and be-
coIse Poker Chip Charley" for cow
punching purposes, "and a bit hungry,
too, ! guess; eh?"
And without waiting for an answer
they took the shadow In and seated 1t
at a table and fed it all it could eat,
which is a hospitality denied none In
the land of longhorns.
A week thereafter the shadow lay
upon a cot in the big ranch house,
with a bandage about the temples and
the delicate heart pumping SO feebly
that only the trained ear Of a nurse,
who had been brought up from Tia
Jauna, could hear it.
How did it happen?" she asked.
why, MISS" said Poker Chip
Charley" the youngster called his
self the kid cowboy, and he wanted to
hook a leg on the friskiest horse on
the ranch just to- show us what he
could do, So, miss, we give in and
put him aboard Dulcie, which amt no
horse for a kid to ride, but he did
ride him, the kid did. Never saw any
thing like it, but the kid want beefy
enough to stick, Dulcie bucked and
the kid landed on the head"
Kid "Cowhoy" a Girl.
That night the boss of Sanchez
ranch went out to the cowboys shack
with a bit of news. The kid cowboy
was a girl, an innocent little runaway
from the states. Her name was Jean
ME Gordon.
Right here, as well as anywhere,
the opening chapter of this girls
strange life may be told. 1t may be
called the chapter Of her moral sleep,
as the other chapter is properly called
that of her awakening.
JEANNE Vivien Claire Gordon-story-
booky sort Of name. but rightfully
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
An undefinabIe Definition,

A few days after school opened in
the spring a teacher in a Brooklyn
school was testing the members of
one of her old classes on what they
had remembered of the definitions she
had taught them during the preceding
term, Finally she asked the bright
boy of the class this question:
Now, Robert, tell me what a hypo-
critic is?"
"a %hypocrite," replied Robert with
out hesitation, SIS a kid wat comes to
school wit a smile on his mug"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

asked the husband, waking as she re-
turned.
Il just ran over to Mrs. IS to
show her my embroidery" was. the
quick reply. "She is anxious to work
a pattern like it."
1t was about this time when some
silverware which she had stolen and
buried was found, and the young wife
was under arrest, that DIR. H. N. Row
ell, who long had watched her career
from a distance, slipped actively into
her life. All the stories he had heard
concerning her pointed to tendencies
and gave confirmation to his suspi-
cions that her abnormality was an in
cident that could be corrected.
Surgery Put to Work.
He made a plea for her probation
and became her bondsman. With the
consent Of the authorities, as well as
that of herself and her husband, he
took the young woman-she is now
only 20 years old-under his profess
sional care.
DR.. Rowelrs theory was that after
the pressure on the brain was relieved,
a systematic daily hypnotizing Of his
patient would cure her. Her sensitive
~subconscious mind was to be instruct
ed to forget the past that had now
ceased to be vital and turn toward the
perfectly new future and all its pos
sibilities.
Victory for Science.
The young woman recovered from
the rvo shock of the operation in
a darkened room, being vigorously
treated for weeks along the lines Of
mental suggestion in which DR.. Rowell
so firmly believed. She was afterward
transferred to the country, where the
same mental training was continued.
The result seems to be a totally new
personality. Old friends of Mrs. Thurn-
herr, who knew the girl when she was
a very handsome, slim, brown-eyed
tomboy, hardly recognize this gentle,
largeeyed, delicate young woman as
the hoydenish girl they used to know.
At first it seemed as If the strenu-
Gus surgical and mental trial she had
been through was to. influence her but
temporarily. But it is beginning to be
evident that the old JEANNE Gordon
is as dead as the little Barclay girl
who raj away SO many years ago in
n ~, n al AKRON opd booapoa n hoxy
Mrs. Thrunherr is interested in
things she never cared about before,
never thought Of or appeared to no
tice. Always strikingly pretty in a
boyish way, and with unusually beau,
tiful, pleading hazel eyes, the young
has an expression like that of
a child taken to see the ocean for the
first time-a sort Of rapt wonder.
And now that the awakening has
come after all these years, and the
child Of impish impulse and the girl
whose brain reeled her always toward
the vortex have ceased to exist, she
remembers 1t as one recalls an ugly
dream phantom.
Il am not the same girl at ALL" she
says, with eyes that look straight into
yours-eyes that are soft, honest, sin
cere. 1T used to be so strange. /
lived a nightmare wild, uncertain
existence which was as bereft of or
derby sequence as the tumble of impos-
sible things through which we drift
in unhappy dreams. oh, how differ
ent 1t Is since the change came. The
world seems SO much uuieter. and now
I can rest. Without half ii. Ing, | can
be good like other peolle.'-New
York World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
SCIENCE MADE
BRAIN NORMAL
How Girl Of Impish Impulse, in Young
Womanhood a Thief, Has Been
Permanently Restored to
Moral Strength.

By the time she had grown into
early teens she was seized with a
stronger wanderlust. 1t would not let
her rest. She seemed bewitched by
the eyer-moving light of some will-o'
the-wisp. Powerless to control her
self, she fled one day to Long Beach,
where In boys clothes that she had
contriyed to borrow, she found work
in a bowling alley. A police alarm
was sent far and wide. The girl read
1t, but did not return.
"A woman probation officer, much
taken by the pretty child, discovered
her disguise and she was taken back
to Judge Barclays home, and with a
solicitude for her future they placed
her under the kindly tutorship of the
sisters at a convent. !.
Her brain having been set awhirl in
some strange way, and in it's wild
working having cast her out of the
domestic orbit, she was now beyond
control. She cut out the lock of a
door that imprisoned her and, heed
less of danger, she slid down a drain
pipe from a third-story window and
scaled the convent walls. Taking to
the highway she reached the open
country before dawn. She found a
companion Of her own years and sex
and together, dressed as boys, they
roamed through southern California,
living rs tramps and learning how to
ride the slant-hipped ponies on the
ranches like vaqueros.
Again the hand Of authority fell
upon the shoulders of the flyaway
child, and she was carried back under
restraint to the home which she had
abandoned.
The ingenuity Of a mind keyed to
the abnormal is more than a match for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Held the Records.

Two ladies seated at afternoon tea
fell to discussing the prowess of their
respective bubbles.
After each had related several feats
of endurance and hardihood, one Of
them remarked that her husband had
on n occasion dived under the wa
ter and remained down for fully two
minutes, without coming up to take
breath.
"Oh,'' said the other, that is
nothing. My first husband dived be-
low the water five years ago, and has
not yet come up to breathe"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
LEAVING Him at Sea.

Gould you do something for a poor
old sailor?" asked the seedy-looking
wanderer at the gate.
Poor old sailor echoed the lady
at work at the tub.
"Yes'm, l follered the VOTER for 16
years"
"Well,' said the woman, after a
critical look, you certainly don't look
as If you ever caught upSgith it,
Then she resumed her labors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

First Dentist-My work is so pain
less that my patients often fall
asleep while l am at their teeth.
Second Dentist-That's nothing.
Mine all want to have their pictures
taken to catch the expression of de-
light on their faces,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

CciENcE has reclaimed another
person from the crime world,
closed a chapter Of wildness and
converted an irresponsible into a hui
mar being of moral strength. In the
awakening of JEANNE Gordon, through
the professional mlnistratlons Of Or.
H. NJ. RoweIl, a girl who was a run
away and later a thief has been re-
stored to society. Her disturbed brain
for years whirled her out Of the do
mestic orbit and she was heading for
state prison when the surgeons knife
and the mental healer saved her from
herself.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
COOP ON HAREM SKIRT PLAN
Colorado Man Erccts Fancy Chicken
House on Pattern Intended for
Wife's New Dress.

Greeley, Colo.-When Mrs, Henry
Coates returned this morning from a
trip east she was surprised and de-
lighted to find that her husband had
constructed a fancy new chicken
house during her absence. They had
had many disputes over it's location
aud size and she saw upon II many
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Quits Chicks for Kittens.

York. Pa.-After accomplishing the
commendable feat Of Matching Is
chicks from as many eggs. a Plymouth
Rock hen owned by James M. Cross
deserted her brood and undertook to
mother four baby kittens. which ar
rived on the same day.
The old cat had been given quar-.
tiers close to the hens nesting place
and for four days the hen spent most
Of her time covering the kittens.
driving away the mother cat when.
ever she appeared.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
The Ground of Their Love.

Let US have peace" said the Eng
fish invader. "Can you not see that
the white strangers love the red
men?
"Ah, yes" replied the intelligent In
dian, they love the very ground we
walk upon."-Sacred Heart Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

new-fangled ideas for which she
could find no use. Questioning him
about 1t. he declared that be had
built the coop from plans he had
found In her desk. He spread them
out on the table for her inspection
when she doubted his story. she told
him that they were the specifications,
not for q henccop. but for her new
harem skirt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Important TO Mothers
Bears the


Suddenly the umpire called time.
Jaw, what's the matter!" demand.
ed the catcher.
Somebody in the grand stand ap-
plauded me-" he said, wiping the
binding tears from his eyes, land /
wasn't prepared for that .
Play BALI"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Merely a Temporary Disadvantage.

The widow had just announced her
engagement.
But, my dear Maria" said her
friend, you don't mean to tell me
that you intend marrying a man
you've only known for two weeks"
"Oh, yes" said the happy widow. Il
can easily overcome that objection in
time. l hope to know him tolerably
well after we have been married a
couple Of years."-Harper's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Distresslnu.

Here is the account Of a poor wo-
man who lost both arms In a railroad
wreck"
1T must be dreadful to go through
life without any arms"
Yes, indeed. And much worse for
a woman than for a man"
How is that?"
We'll, a woman without any arms
can't reach around to feel If the back
Of her collar and the back Of her belt
are all right"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

cures burning, itching and torturing skin
diseases. 1t instantly stops the pain of
burns. Cures without scars. Csc n Soc
by druggists. For free sample write to
j. w. Cole & Co., Black River Falls, Wis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

UleS nave done for
me. For two years
/ suffered. The doc
tors said I had tu-
mors, and the only
remedy was the sur
geon's knife. My
mother bought me
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound, and today 1
am q healthy wo-
man. For months
L suffered from in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
An INTANGIBLE legacy.

Il dun heah, Liza, dat yo' Aunt Je-
rusha dun meek yo' her heir by de
law. What yo' dun get?"
"Des 'zactly what l dun ct up an
wore out."-Success Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
He,d Gel n.

HOWELL want to get all that's
coming to me.
Powell-Well, stand right where
you are; therell be an automobile
along in a minute or two.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

shadow with q
shock of tumbled brown
hair and eyes that were
lighted with a fever fire
came up from out the
parched grass at San
chez cattle ranch. near
Tia Jauna, Mexico, one
afternoon as the yellow
suns burning rays lay
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
The Honest Mar.

Diogenes was searching for an hon
est man.
He will advertise that his summer
resort has mosquitoes" explained the
sage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10
Her Method.

Mistress-Have you a reference?
Bridget-Foine; oil held the poker
over her till | gA it,-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

hers by birth and christening-became
an orphan in her infancy Her par
ents were West Virginians They left
the child in the car Of a kind heart
ed nurse, who took her & California.
When JEANNE had grown into knee
length pinafores Judge and Mrs. Lii
lian Barclay of Los Angeles took a
liking to the bright-eyed little one and
adopted her They rechristened her
Bessie Barclay and she took her place
In thei, home as a daughter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-10

The art is to bring the state of
mind bred Of large thinking into the
routine Of life.-N. S. Shaler.