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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

which of the four was by all odds the
most popular theme. All agreed that
she was handsome in a bold way. Thin
modification invariably distinguishes
the right sort Of women from the
wrong sort, from which there is no ap-
peal to a higher court. They could
we'll afford to admit of her beauty,
since the dancer was outside what is
called the social pale, for all that her
newest escort was a prince incognito.
They also discussed the play at bridge,
the dullness of this particular season,
the possibility Of war between Eng
land and Germany. And ONE one
asked others who were the two we'll
gowned women down in front, sitting
on either side of the young chap In
pearlgrey. No one knew. Mother and
daughter. probably. Anyhow, they
knew something about good clothes.
George was happy. He was proud,
too. He saw the glances, the mods of
approval. He basked in a kind OF
sunshine that was new. What an ass
he had been all his life! To have
been afraid of women just because
he was Perciyal Algernon! What he
should have done was to have gone
forth boldly, taken what pleasures he
found, and laughed with the rest Of
them.
There weren't two other women In
all Cairo to compare with these two.
The mother. shapely. alegant. with
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Not Missed.

IF a man gets an idea into his head
that the community he lives in can
not get along without him, the surest
cure is for him to take a months visit
somewhere remarks e, b. Going Of
Osawatomie.
when he comes home he will find
that the COW has been MIXED regu-
larly during his absence, that the
corn has been husked and cribbed
just as we'll as he could have done it,
that the chickens and ducks and pigs
didn't stop growing during his abb
sence, that the regular winter literary
society has been organized and is
making progress without his august
presence, that the roads have been
dragged regularly and that come Of
his own neighbors didn't rel know
he had been away. These r just a
few Of the little things that make a
fellow realize he is not 81 many pota-
toes to the hill as he thinks he is
Kansas City Journal.
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the dark beauty OF a high-class Span
lard. possessing humor, ~.trenchant COM
ment. keen deduction and application;
worldly, cynical, high-bred. The stu
dent Of nations might have tried in
vain to place her. She spoke the
French Of the Parisians, the Italian
of the Florentines, the German Of the
Hanoverians, and her English was the
envy of Americans and the wonder Of
the Londoners. The daughter fell be-
hind her but little, but she was more
reserved.
As Fortune sat beside the young col
lector that afternoon, she marveled
why they had given him Percival Al
gernon, Jones was all wight, solid and
substantial, but the other two turned
1t into ridicule. Still, what was the
matter with Percival Algernon? His
tory had given men of these names
mighty fine things to accomplish.
Then why ridicule? Was 1t due to the
perverted angle Of vision created by
wits and humorists in the comic week
lies, who were ~eternally pillorying
these unhappy pref1xes to ordinary
cognomens? And why this p~illorying3
She hadn't studied the subject suf-
ficiently to realize that the business
of the humorist is not so much to
amuse as to warn persons against be-
coming ridiculous. And P~ercival Al
gernon Jones was all of that. 1t re-
solved itself into a matter Of values,
then. Had his surname been Mont
morency, Percival Algernon would
have fitted as a key to its lock. She
smiled. No one but a fond mother
would be guilty Of such a crime. And
If she ever grew to know him we'll
enough, she was going to ask him all
about this mother.
What interest had her own mother
in this harmless young man? Oh,
some day she would burst through this
web, this jungle; some day she would
see beyond the second act! What
then? she never troubled to ask her
self; time enough when the moment
arrived.
Il had an interesting adventure
last night, a most interesting one,"
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in life iocked about her, why, 1t is
the eternal tribute demanded Of beau
ty. Here and there the men were not
all the daughter might have wished.
Often they burnt sweet iattery at her
shrine, tentatively; but as she coolly
stamped out these incipient fires,
they at length came to regard her as
one regards the beauty Of q frosted
window, as a thing to admire and
praise in passing. One ache always
abided; the bitter knowledge that had
she met in kind smile for smile and
Jest for Jest, she might have been her
mothers boon companion. But deep
back in some hidden chamber of her
heart lay a secret dread Of such a
step, a dread which. whenever she
strove to analyze it, ran from under
her investigating touch, as little balls
Of quicksilver run from under the
pressure Of a thumb.
She was never without the comforts
Of life, well-fed, welldressed, we'll
housed. and often her mother flung
her some jeweled trinket which (again
that CT menace) she put away,
but wore. The bright periods
were when they left her in the little
villa near Mentone, with no one but
her old and faithful nurse. There,
with her horse, her books and her
flowers, she was at peace. Week into
week and month into month she was
let be. Never a letter came, say
from some former schoolmate who
was coming over and wanted letters
Of Introduction to dukes and duchess
es. II she smiled over these letters
1t was with melancholy; for the dukes
and ~duchesses, who fell within her
singular orbit, were not the sort to
whom one gave letters of introduction.
Where her mother went she never
had the least idea. She might be in
any of the great ports of the world,
anywhere between New York and
Port Said. The major generally dis
appeared at the same time. Then,
perhaps, she'd come back from a
pleasant tram-ride over to Nice and
find them both at the villa, maid and
luggage. Mayhap a night or two, and
off they'd go again; never a word
about their former journey, uncom-
municative, rather quiet. These alb
| sences, together with the undemon-
strative Temperatures, used to hurt
Fortune dreadfully. 1t gave her a
clear proof of where she stood, exactly
nowhere. The hurt had lessened with
the years, and now she didn't care
much. Like as not, they would drag
her out of Eden for a month or two,
for what true reason she never could
quite fathom, unless it was that at
times her mother liked to have the
daughter near her as a foil.
At rare intervals she saw steeleyed,
grim-mouthed men wandering UP and
down before the gates of the Villa
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she had often heard him referred to
as that brute or "that fool" or that
drunken imbecile." II a portrait of
him existed, Fortune had not yet seen
it. She visited his lonely grave once
a year, In the Protestant cemetery,
and dreamily tried to ~conjure up what
manner of man he had been. One day
she piled her old italian nurse with
questions.
Handsome? Yes, but 1t was all 80
long ago, cara mia, that l can not
describe him to you"
did he drink" Behind this ques-
ton there was no ems Of moral
obloquy as applying to the dead.
"Sainted Mary! didn't all men drink
their very souls into purgatory those
unreligious days?"
Had he any r~elatives?"
II lever heard Of any"
WAS he rich?"
mo; but when the signora, your
mother, married him she thought he
was"
1t was not till later years that For.
tune grasped the true significance OF
this statement. 1t illumined many
pages. She dropped all Investigations,
concluding wisely that her mother, ii
she were minded to speak at all, could
supply only the incidents, the details
1t was warm, balmy, like May in the
northern ATTITUDES. Women wore
white dresses and carried s~unshades
owe their shoulders. A good band
played airs from the new light-operas
and at one side of the grand-stand
were tea-tables under dazzling linen
Fashion was out. Not all her votaries
enjoyed polo, but 1t was absolutely
necessary to pretend that they did
When they talked they discussed the
Spanish dancer who paraded bach
and forth acros the tea-lawn. They
discussed her jewels, her clothes, heI
escort, and quite frankly her morals
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02
MADE OLD GENTLEMAN WR0TH
Misunderstood Editors Use of French
Word, and Trouble Was With
Difficulty Averted.

1t was in Indiana, not so very
bng ago, that the daughter of an old
White River farmer was reading the
country newspaper to himself. She
had got to the Personals" and read
this:
MRS. Willie Morritts, nee Black.
has returned from a visit to her par
ents in Indianapolis"
II don't quite understand that"
said the old gentleman.
What don't you understands" In
quired the daughter.
THAT part about Mrs. Willie Nor
ritts, nay Black What does nay
Black mean?"
ooh, that's French, and means she
was born Black"
Eyes, nee is French for born"
well, it amt sol" calculated the
old man, jumping up and shaking his
fist. Il knowed her parents, and they
were as white as anybody that ever
lived in Indiana, and I'll see that ed
itor about it," But before he could
get away the daughter explained mat
tiers, and the old gentleman cooled
down.-Exchange.
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CHAPTER VI.
Moonlight and Poetry.

mOOTtIyUt anu FOCttys
A ball followed dinner that night,
Wednesday. The ample, Longing
room filed up rapidly after coffee;
officers in smart uniforms and spurs,
whose principal function In times Of
peace is to get In everybody's way,
rowel exposed ankles, and demolish
lace ruffles, Egyptians and Turks and
sleek Armenians in somber western
frock and scarlet eastern fez or tar.
boosh, women of all colors (meaning,
as course, as applied and shapes and
tastes, the lean and the fat, the tail
and short, such as Billy Taylor Is said
to have kissed in all the ports, and
tail-coats of as many styles as 10
seph's had patches. George could dis
tinguish his compatriots by the At Of
the trousers round the instep; tho
Englishman had his fitted at the
waist and trusted in Providence fol
the hang Of the rest. This trifing do
tective work rather pleased George
The women, however, were all Eves
to his eye; liberal expenses Of beauti
full white skin, the bare effect beina
modified by a string Of pearls or dia
monds or emeraIds, and hair which
might or might not have been wholly
their own. He waited restlessly for
the temperance Of Mrs. Chedsoys
and her daughter. All was right with
the world, except THAI he was to SAT-
altogether too soon. Ais loan hat
been returned, and ne knew that HIS
| former suspicious had been most I'M
, worthy. Mrs. Chedsoys hnd never
received his note.
Gro IN G0yzzruEnA
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STEADY HAND.
A Surgeons Hand Should Be the Firm,
est Of All.

For fifteen years | have suffered
from insomnia, indigestion and ner-
vousness as a result Of coffee drink
Ing" said a surgeon the other day.
(Tea is equally injurious because it
contains caffeine, the same drug found
In coffee).
The dyspepsia became 30 bad that
] had to limit myself to one cup at
breakfast. Even this caused me to
lose my food 500 after / ate 1t.
All the attendant symptoms Of in
digestion, such as heart burn, palplta-
ton, water brash, w~akefulness or dis
turbed sleep, bad taste in the mouth.
nervousness, etc, were present to
such a degree as to incapacitate me
for my practice as a surgeon.
1.-THE result Of leaving of coffee
and drinking Postum was simply mar
velous. The change was wrought
forthwith, my hand steadied and INV
normal condition OF health was re-
stored" Name given upon request.
Read the famous little book, "The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. There's
q reason"
Postum now comes in concentrated,
powder form, called Instant Postum.
It 10 prepared by stirring a level tea
spoonful in a cup Of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream 10
bring the color to golden brown
Instant Postum Is convenient;
there's no waste; and the favor Is al.
ways uniform. Sold by grocers-60-
cup tin 80 cts, 1Oo-cup tin 80 cts.
A 5-cup trial tin mailed for erucare
name and 2-cent stamp for passage.
Postum Cereal Co, Ltd. Battle Greek.
Mich. AaE.
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Lower Animals That Count.

There n human beings, such as in
habitants of the Murray islands in the
Straits Of Torres. that cannot count
further than two. But. most surpris-
ing still, most animals possess calcu-
lating abilities. and several have q dis
tinct appreciation Of number. In GER
tain mines Of Hainault the horses are
SO used to traversing the same road
30 times that after their last round
they 90 to the stable Of their own ac-
cord and refuse to take another Sep
Mortaigne says that tho oxen en-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

It was to pottery, said the profess
sor, that Eg~yptologists and others
we're indebted for these signs, and
their development was worked out on
these lines. Flatnose made a pot and
put a mark on 1t to show that II was
his. In time, because 1t was his mark,
the sign stood for FIatnoss himself.
and then the sign became attached to
a sound Irrespective Of the thing II
self. Gradually the wearing down
went on until the sign stood, not for
n sound. but a syllable and then for
4 letter.
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SYNOPSIS.

George P~ercival Aigernon Jones. vice
president Of the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company of New York, thirsting for
romance. ts In Cairo on a business trip.
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel In
Cairo with a carefully guarded bundle.
Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
crdes rug which he admits having stolen
from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later is introduced to
Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whom
BE had loaned 15o pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously, and who turns
out 20 be Fortunes mother.
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have shown that signs we're earlier
than pictures and that It was the sign
that survived to become the alpha
and beta OF n civilization and the
A B @ of another.
Just az the philologist had discov-
cred n entire system Of languages,
80 the alphabetarian had discovered
in the diversity Of ~aIphabets an orig
inal prototype OF ali. In Professor
Petrie's words, The phoenicians are.
people OF yesterday compared with.
those who wrote the signs that are
the origin Of all alphabots
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armor, and she never denied herself
the thrust. Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed
these sharp encounters. for 1t must
be added that she gave as good as
she took, and more often than not her
thrusts bit deeper and did not always
heal.
Fortune never asked questions rela-
tive to the family finances. II she
harbored any doubts as to their origin,
to the source Of their comparative lux
ufy, she never pct these into speech.
She had never seen her father. but
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The signs, OF course, were not an
alphabet; that did hot arrive until
perhaps 1000 B. O., whereas signs
we're found In early p prehistoric Egypt,
probably 1000 B. g. Proofs of this
origin were plentiful, for the
signs spread by trade far north and
south, and appeared similarly in
Runie. Iberian and Harlan, and yet
we're unknown IL Phoenician
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Limited Knowledge.

A Muncie bride of two months went
into a department store of the city
to buy four pairs of socks for her hus-
band.
What size, pl~ease?" asked the
young woman clerk.
We'll, all | know is he wears a IA
collar" replied the bride.-Indianap-
oils News.
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Fanny. but they never rang the bell,
nor spoke to her when she passed
them on the street. If she talked Of
these men. her mother and the major
would exchange amused glances. moth
ing more.
II, rightly or wrongly, she hated her
mother, she despised her uncle, who
was ever bringing to the villa msn Of
money, but Of coarse fiber, ostensibly
with the view Of marrying her of.
But Fortune had her dreams. and she
was quite oontant to wait.
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and humorously explained why he did
So"
SIS he young, old. good-looking. or
what?"
Mrs. Chedsoye eyed her offspring
through narrowed lids.
Il should say that he was about
thirty.hve. tall, something of an ath.
lete; and there remains some indica-
lions that in the flush of youth he was
handsome. Odd. He reminded me Of
a young man who was on the varsity
Observation-Disclosures / entered
my freshman year. l didn't know him.
but l was a great admirer Of his from
the grand-stand. Horace Wadsworth
was his name"
Horace Wadsworth. Fortune had
the sensation Of being astonished at
something she had expected to hap
pen.
Just before going down to dinner
that night, Fortune turned to her
mother, her chin combative in its
angle,
81 gave Mr.. Jones a hundred and
fifty pounds out of that money you
left In my care. Knowing how forget
full you are, l took the liberty OF at
tending to the affair myself"
She expected a storm, but instead
her mother viewed her with apprais-
ing eyes. Suddenly she laughed mel
lowly. Her sense Of humor was too
excitable to resist SO delectable a sit
uation.
"You told him, Of course, that the
money came from me? demanded
Mrs. Chedsoye. when she could con
troll her voice.
Surely, since it did come from
you"
my dear, my dear, you are to me
like the song in the Mikado;" and she
hummed lightly
TO make the prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment,
OF Innocent merriment9"
"Am | a prisoner, them"
Whatever you like; it can not bA
said that / ever held you on the leash"
taking a final look into the mirror.
what is the meaning Of this rug?
You and 1 know who stole it."
II have explicitly warned you, my
child, never to NEEDLE with affairs
that do not concern y /"
Indirectly, some of yours do. You
are in love with Ryanne, as he calls
himself"
my dear, you do not usually stoop
to such vulgarity. And are you GER
tain that he has any other name?"
'If / were l should not tell you"
"Oh!"
"A man will tell the woman he
loves many things he will not tek
the woman he admires."
GAS wise as the serpent" bantered
the mother; but she looked again into
the mirror to see If her color was still
what 1t should be. "And whom does
he admire?" the Mona Lisa smile how
ering at the corners of her lips.
"You," evenly.
Mrs. Chedsoye thought for a mo-
ment, thought deeply and with new
insight. 1t was 40 longer a child but
a woman, and mayhap she had played
upon the taut strings Of the young
heart once too often. Still, she was
unafraid.
"And whom does he lover"
me. Shall l get you the rouge,
mother?"
Still with that ~unchanging smile,
the woman received the stab. my
daughter" as II speculatively, you
will get on. You haven't been my pu-
pill all these years for nothing. Let
us go down to dinner"
Fortune, as she silently followed,
experienced a sense Of disconcertion
rather than Of citation.
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TRACE ALPHABET FAR BACK
Belief That II Had Ifs Origin With
the PboenloIaps Proved 20 Bs
! Wrong One.

TN d lecture at the Royal institute
Prof. Flinders Pietrie attacked the
long accepted theory that the origin Of
the alphabet is to be found in phoeni-
Ella, whence Il came from Egyptian
hierogIyphice.
According to Professor Petrie, the
researches Of the last twenty years
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

rYou are making history" said the
admiring friend.
well" answered Senator Sorghum,
modestly, with the assistance OF a
few able press agents ! thing | have
been aefn to manufacture enough Of
It fcs my own immediate needs"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02
Inherited.

What there ever an informer in
your family?"
What do you mean by such a ques-
ton as that, sir?"
Il noticed that your baby is in
clined to be a squealer."
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ployed in the royal gardens of Susa
for turning the wheels to which the
water pals were attached absolutely
refused to make more than 100 rounds,
which constituted their daily task.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

The easiest thing In the world to
do is to make up your mind what you
would do If you were in some Other
fellows place.
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Business Acumen.

What! Fifty cents for putting in
the load of coal? You charged only a
quarter the last time"
YES, mum. but coal has riz."
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Pesslmism.

Willie-Paw, what is a pessimist?
Paw-A man who takes an umbrel'
la along when he goes to a ball game.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

The man who refuses to e the
error of his way has just that much
further to travel back.
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Fewer mowers for the dead and
more for the living would help some.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

ALFALFA SO. Timothy and Clover mixed.
$3.50. Farms for sale and rent on crop pay
ments. J. MULHALL. Sioux city. Ia Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

Always full quality value in LEWIS
Single Binder. That is why the smoker
wants it, ADV.
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Their Location.

There are many breakers in the
sea of domestic life"
Yes, particularly in the kitchen"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-01-02

This IL tear-oif for revenue only"
explained the dry good clerk IN refus.
Ing to give free samples.
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W. N. U, 81. LOUIS, No. 1-i91s.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-03-01
Kent To Grow Potatoes

The success OF Edward A. Corey, pio-
neer potato grower on large scale in
Kent county, who cleared $4,000 from 80
acres last spring, has caused revolu
ton in farming in that county, and in
nearby Queen Annes, and 30 farmers have
contracted to grow between 500 and 600
acres in potatoes this spring. A meet
ing was held at the home of Mr., Corey
recently, with j. A. Balinger, of New
Jersey, and arrangements were made by
the farmers with Mr.. Ballnger, who OPP
crates several large exchanges IN New
Jersey and Delaware, to establish two
exchanges in this county, one at Worton
Station, the other at Chestertown for
the purpose of handling the large crop
of potatoes expected to be grown by the
contractors this spring.
Mr.. Ballinger agrees to sell the pota-
to output in those markets where prices
are best, from day to day and the grow
ers will know just what they are getting
for their crop every day, and will thus