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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
OLD EXPLORER TOLD TRUTH
Story About Flow of the Nile River
Very Appropriate, Used to Point
a Moral.

Some twenty-five centuries ago,
the father of history, heard
the Niger river. in western Soudan.
and that it flowed into the Nile.
When the Niger was actually found
by white men, 100 years, ago, it did
not go anywhere near the Nile, but
doubled back on itself to flow into the
Gulf of Guinea. And the critics had
much sport telling how credulous old
Herodotus a
Now, a French expedition comes
back from the Soudan, and declares
that very probably, in the time OF
Herodotus, the Niger did just what
he said 1t did-flowed into the Nile.
They have found a dried-up water
course leading east, and they are
sure that the present channel of the
Niger is comparatively new.
Which illustrates once o the
truth that men seldom invent any
story. They may garble it, twist 1t,
distort it, exaggerate part Of 1t and
suppress other parts. get it out OF
focus till 1t bears no resemblance to
the fact from which 1t started.
But almost always 1t starts from a
fact, or from something believed to
be a fact.
Few men can tell the truth. the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth
without being carefully trained to dc
so.
Fewer still can tell a lie and sticl
to it without letting some tiny bit o
truth slip in. The existence of tht
legend which Herodotus wrote down II
proof that somebody believed in 1t
From the recent explorations. tina
somebody may not have been so IA
wrong.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01

train began to slow down and there
appeared the irrigation ditch from
which the station took its name. Their
the little tin-roofed shanty came into
view, and a moment later a half doz-
en- men, wearing sombreros and mask
ed, with pistols stuck all around their
waist lines, leaped forward across the
tracks. One jumped into the engine
cab and held his pistol to the fore
head Of the engineer. The mail a
was next attacked, while two men
made their way into the foremost OF
the coaches.
Upon the platform a moving picture
operator had set up his instrument
and was busily Keeling off the film,
the passengers, interested in the
scene, gathered around him.
Nov, ladies, now, gentlemen" In
terposed the flashily dressed man in
tones Of remonstrance, won't you
please go back into the coaches and
be robbed? You're interfering with
the operator. 1t spoils the reality OF
the pictures, your standing round
here as though nothing had happened
People will think the pictures a fake
and it's going to be exhibited in all
the leading cities Of America. Won't
you go back?"
Two or three did turn back towart
the coaches in a half-hearted way, buI
the rest remained %obdurate, and thu
fiashily dressed a ran here ant
there among them, demonstrating ant
pleading. His requests, however, fel
on deaf ears. 1t was much ~pleasante,
outside In the fresh air than within
and, besides, all wanted to see thu
whole proceedings. AT last, in des
pair, the fashily dressed man threw
up his hands and disappeared insid
one of the coaches.
Almost simultaneously a pistol sho
rang out, followed by a woman
scream for help. The heads OF tn
spectators turned round with a simu
Ianeous movement and their feature
betrayed an expression of sudde
fear.
"You told me 1t was fun" shrieke
a woman's voice. u wont give 20
my rings. / won't, ! tell you. Their
take them. then. And that's ever
penny l have in the world"
'It's Big Ike and his gang" som
body screamed. It's real enough
My God, It's all real!"
Then the fashily dressed nan can
dashing out of his coach, q smokir
pistol In his hand. He was followt
by two of the gang.
Hands up, you silly sheep!" he We
ed. Hands up or ] fire. Now, the
back into the cars. One at a tim
please. You'll keep them above yol
heads while Ike goes through you"
Sheep. he had called them. and II
sheen they obeyed. The frat to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
G|PsIEs CT SPAIN
Odd People Who Live in Caves
Built in Sides of Mountains.
They Neither Work Nor Pay Rent,
but Part of the Year They Wan
der a BIt-seII Antiques
TO Tourists.

Granada, Spain.lThey are too wise
to pay rent. These Spanish gipsies l
speak of live in Ave in the sides
Of mountains that tower above Gran
ada, in Andalusia, where the sun
shines as it really ought to shine.
They have been there a long time'
says a correspondent. They we're
there before the Moors. They we're
there in the time of the Romans. Their
ancestors saw the CLEAN from the
swords of Roman soldiers as they
marched along the valley beneath
them.
They are delightful people, who
neither work nor pay rent. At a GER
tain season of the year they wander
a bit-just to feel that they really are
| gipsies-and then they come back
again to their caves to tell the for
tunes of visiting innocent tourists
and to sell the mobjects Of immense
antiquity that have been made in
Granada but a few days or weeks
before.
These caves where they live form,
in a rough kind of way, a village. 1t
is called. the A1biacin. It practically
adjoins Granada, but it Is as distant
from Granada as the gipsies are from
the Spaniards themselves, and when
YOU are in it you feel that you are in
a place that Is really old-as old,
in a. way. as the Sierra Nevada IT.
self.
AS a rule, the caves do not go deer
into the side Of the mountain. TheS
are fitted up inside as houses woult
be fitted up The roof, Of course, the
gipsies do not bother with, for tn
roof always was and always Will d.
there. 1t was carved out of the rock
thousands of years ago.
| said that a ave was fitted up a
a house would be fitted up. But pei
haps that is not a good way to pu
it. When you enter from the brigh
? light outside you can at first see notf
, ing. But when your eyes get use
/ to the gloom the first thing that wi
| doubtless strike you is what looks Tx
a long black body, hanging either fro
: the roof or along the side OF tn
| wall. 1t is only a pigskin, more OF les
, filled with wine. But there are othe
, things. and shapes that you cannt
make out in the gloom. There is a BIZ
square table, with objects of moder
a antiquity upon it; and there is a rio
/, ETY. chair for you to sit upon viii
Il the gypsy tells you your fortune, whic
is translated for you by the gult
either into bad French or worse En-
lish. After your fortune is told, W
a will be lucky if you escape witho
- buying a modern antique-for Il
- guide is Invariably a fFaternal perst
4 who believes that the gipsles Dug
re- to live.
1t is said that the gypsy women a
o and then beautiful. This may
may not be SO. l can only say th
IL it is so / must have been unlucl
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
Exniaininn the Exclamation.

The chemico-physical explanation OF
the universe goes but a little way
These are the tools of the creative
c but they are not that process,
nor its prime cause. Start the fame
of life going, and the rest may be ex-
planned in terms of chemistry; start
the human body developing, and phys
Illogical processes explain its growth;
but why It becomes a mar and not a
monkey-what explains that?-John
Burroughs, in the Atlantic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
BAD WATER HOLDUP
1t Was Only for Moving Pictures
but Passengers Thought It
Real Thing.
sv FRANK ELLISON.

The Journey across the desert is
a d~istraeting one, and any diver
sion is gladly welcomed, so that,
when the lashily dressed man stood
up at the end of the Pullman and be
gan to address the passengers, every
body vent forward and gathered
around him, laughing and clapping.
They thought he was going to oner
something for sale.
However, he had nothing to sell.
He had a favor to ask, he said, and SO
everybody became silent and listened
attentively.
Ladies and gentlemen" began the
fashily dressed man, 81 am going to
repeat to you what 1 have just said to
the passengers in the next coach.
When we reach Bad Water, in ten
minutes or so, a moving picture mar
will be upon the platform to take
some pictures representing a hold-up.
Some of the performers, dressed as
bandits, will attack the mail car, while
others will go through the coaches, de-
handing your money and v~aluables.
But please do not be alarmed. The
whole proceeding will be in panto-
mime, and if you will make a show of
compliance, and so aid us, nobody Will
be annoyed. l ask Of you, fellow-pas-
sengers, to feign alarm, and if one or
two of the ladies' will pretend to faint
it will help things, along"
Everybody began laughing anc
eagerly awaited the stop at Bad Wa
ter. This was the fourth day of the
trans-continental journey, and the pas
sengers were on very good terms will
one another. They began to discuss
train robberies.
"Id never give up a cent" exclaim
ed a stout, perspiring drummer, w1p
ing the alkali dust from his features
"Not for all the train robbers in Cal
fornia. No, Stree, and don't mistak
me. I'd duck their pistols and hit on
once or twice and then-well, Their
; wouldn't be any train robbers"
: well, as for me, ! know l shout
=. just faint" answered a demure youn
, lady. "And before | tainted I'd jus
! hand over everything | had"
= mot with me around, you wouldn
y need to-" answered the drummer ga
a lantly.
The other travellers did not comm
!. themselves, for at that moment Il
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
lnnusnos Of East on New Clothes.

The Chinese coat, a short, straight
cut garment, with loose body and
sleeves, is another example of the in
iuence of the east on present-day fash
ions. Boleros are talked Of for three
piece garments, but somehow with
the draped effects the bolero does
not e in keeping. However, as
change is what is aimed at. we shall
see these introduced again, more In
the Spanish style and trimmed a Ia
toreador. AS a natural sequence to
this mode the matador hat will again
be seen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
lrIah croohat h COLOR.

The new Irish crochet, printed in
colors, strongly resembles the Bull
garian designs. Bands Of this trim
ming are used as a bordering on thin
crepons and voiles. Colored voiles,
such as champagne. pale gray, rose
pink, etc. are trimmed with bands
of aIi-white Irish croche., while all
white voiles and crepona are trim
med with the irish crochet In Color
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
Elowars Erom Germany.

Germany ships 12,0OO,0O0 or 49,.
600, 900 "pips' or crowns" of lilies of
the valley to the United States every
year. When these "pips'' are planted
In pots they bloom and are then
thrown away. German soil and the
German climate seen especially favor
able to their production.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01

For little misses from nine to four
teen years old a great number OF
shapes to choose from have been
provided. New fabrics and new col
orings furnish, too, opportunities for
unusual millinery for children. 1t is
a season of gay colors and odd fab
RIGS. q
Ratine in silk has been employed
with fine results in hats for misses.
Soft crowns of this material are
combined with braid-covered brims.
A hat of this sort looks best trimmed
with ribbon.
Another sort of crown with a braid
brim is shown in this picture. This
is an unusually pretty hat with braid
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
nroAsetinn IsweIrx.

II is well to cover iewelry with a
thin coat of collodion when storing
Il in the safety deposit vault. The
collodion can be dissolved with alco-
hol or ether when the jewelry Ia
brought forth again. Jewelry of all
most every description can be thor
oughly cleaned with soap and water.
II should then be packed in boxwood
sawdust for several hours until It Il
dry In every crevice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
An Extra,

Newsboy-Great mystery! Fifty
victims! Paper, mister?
Passerby-Here, boy. I'll take one,
(After reading a moment.) Say, boy,
there's nothing of the kind in this pa
per. Where is it?
Newsboy--That's the mystery, guy.
nor. You're the ffty-tirst victim
Missouri Oven.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
street Rules In Paris.

It is a misdemeanor to throw a
niece of waste paper upon q Paris
street. II a policeman sees you drop
a piece of paper he walks up to you,
mats VOL on the shoulder, begs your
pardon for addressing you, tells you
YOU have violated the law and asks
YOU to pick up what you have thrown
down.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01

brim of sapphire blue. The crown IL
covered with silk over which IL
stretched a Powered chiffon show
ing the patent of gray grounds COW
cred with the brightest of flower
forms.
Ribbon is here the most approprf
ate trim and is placed about the
base of the crown in a plain folded
band. Four loops, wired to hold them
in place, protrude at the back. The
frame shows a graceful irregular
brim and we'll balanced round crown,
The little hat is constructed to follow
out the most up-to-date ideas as to
outline, material ard colors.
JULIA BoTToMLEY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01
More likely.

Now, I wan a canary that will
sing right away and sing what | like;
n that won't get the pip or die the
first week" you don't want a car.
airy, my friend. What you want 10
a music box"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-01

Just as long as young women per
sist in trying to sidetrack ~housework
there will be an o%versupply Of chorus
giria.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
JAIL BREAKER, SHOT
IN BACK BY PURSUER.
is NOW PARALYZED

FORSYTH, GA Jan 2S.-Emmet
Traylor, one of six negroes who made
their escape from the Monroe county
Jail on Monday night of last week. has
been recaptured. He was first discov-
cred in Spalding county by Sheriff
Crawford, Of Butts, but escaped. He
was later located in the northern end
of Monroe. Yesterday the sheriff Of
this county, with a posse of deputies,
surrounded the negro in the cabin of
his sister on the farm of Cornelius
Grant.
AS the officers surrounded the house
Traylor darted from a door and was
about TO escape when he was shot in the
back by a number of the posse. The
ball touched his spinal cord. The lower
portion Of his body is paralyzed from
the wound.
None of the other escapes has been
recaptured.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
FLOOD DESTITUTE
HUNGRY AND COLD
Thousands Driven Out by Beu-
lab Crevasse Suffer Without
Food and Shelter.

MEMPHIS, TENN, Jan. 2S.-Famine
faces thousands of poor citizens living
in the inundated sections overlooked as
a result of the Beulah crevasse Ac-
cording to P. s. Stoval, state treasurer
of Mississippi, many of the flood vic
Tins have been without food for two
days, and the suffering is appalling.
An appeal has been sent to Congress
man Sissop, at Washington, in an eff
fort to secure aid from the Federal gov
eminent,
Tho people Of the food stricken dis
trict have lost everything; and most of
them are destitute. Camping on the
hills, without shelter in many cases,
their situation is deplorable. Local aid
has been extended. but IT is inadequate
to afford even temporary relief to the
mass Of homeless people.
The crevasse at Beulah is growing
wider today, despite the strenuous eff
forts of engineers to bind the ends of
the levee and prevent them from crum-
bling further The rush of water is fr-
resistible. Over two hundred thousand
acres of fertile land have already been
inundated.
The river at Memphis reached a
stage of SO feet today, and is rising
gradually. Weather observers say It
will continue to rise all the week, which
will put it over 40 feet.
United States engineers are sending
more supplies TO strengthen the levee
at Modoc. where break is likely when
the crest of the flood reaches Helena,
Ark
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
Huff Wins Fight
Of Fourteen Years

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-By action
Of the United States supreme court,
Colonel W. A. Huff, of Macon, Ga, will
net have to pay $4,000 attorneys fees
TO the successors Of Hall & Wimberly,
Macon lawyers. who had him declared
bankrupt and a receiver appointed for
his property by Judge Emory Speer in
the United States court for the south
ern district Of Georgia.
The supreme court dismissed petit
ton of J. F. Hall and Alexander Aker-
man, United States district attorney,
for writ Of certiorari aimed to bring
the case before the supreme court for
review. The United States circuit court,
to which appeal had been taken by Colo
mel Huff, reversed Judge Speer's ruling
in approving the award of the $4,000
fees made by the standing master in
chancery in his court.
Litigation of Fourteen Years.
Hall & Winberly. fourteen years
ago, brought the bankruptcy action
against the former Macon mayor. Later
they asked that they be paid attorneys
fees out Of the Huff property in the
hands Of the court. Judge Speer's APP
prevail of their claim was resisted by
Colonel Huff, who contended he should
not be required to pay opposing counsel
fees. Judges Shelby and Maxey, on the
appeal. upheld Colonel HufTs conten-
ion, Judge Pardee dissenting. The eff
fort to take the case before the SUI
preme court followed.
Recently John f. Hall died. Olin ].
Nimberly, his associate had died some
tine before, NJ. P. and j. E. Hall and
F. G. Murray, executors for Attorney
Halls estate, and Mrs Olin j. Wimber-
" were the plaintiffs in the petition to
the supreme court.
II was Judge Speer's action on the
Zee question and other phases of the
bankruptcy litigation that prompted
Colonel Huff, several months ago, to
publish card denouncing Judge Speer
which was followed by the judge citing
MN for contempt of court. The con-
tempt charge is still pending at Ma
con.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28

it, both for the good of the country and
the party.
"Absenteeism is the vice of the
house. There is evidently an intention
on the part of certain gentlemen to
consume so much time that some of the
appropriation bills will go over to the
extraordinary session. The point of no
quorum is frequently made, and much
time is lost in securing quorums. That
state of affairs is not - all compli-
mentary to the house, as everybody
knows the Democrats have a majority
of sixty odd.
The only way to put an end to this
unpleasant status is for all Democrats
to be on hand at all times. 1t would be
a damaging commentary on the Demo-
cratic house if any appropriation bills
be thrown over to the extraordinary
session"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
PRAISE GOD, HUFF
SAYS, Of COURT
DECISION
Former Macon Mayor Wins
Fiuht in U. S. Supreme Court
Against $4,000 Fee.

MACON. GA. Jan. 2S.-"This is but
tho first stepping stone to stopping the
Infamous persecution of Walter A.
Huf" declared Colonel w. A. Huff,
tho aged ex-mayor of Macon, whose
nroperty has been tied up by bankrupt
-, proceedings in Federal court for
,,rrteen wears. when informed today
had dismissed petition to review a
decree OF the United States circuit
.ourt setting aside an order Of Dis
+Sct Judge Emory Speer that the es-
rates Of attorneys who instituted the
bankruptcy proceedings be paid $4,000
opr Of Colonel Huff's property.
while I was confident that the SUI
,renoe court would decide in my ia
yor." continued Colonel Huff, "the real
,au.s makes me feel like a schoolboy.
# does me good, and 1 praise God for
this latest news of the real case, which
am equally as sure | shall win in the
end"
Georgian Breaks the News.
The first information Colonel Huff
received of the supreme courts action
was given by a representative of The
Georgian. He was in the office Of the
Macon public library. When shown a
relegram conveying this information, he
flmped from his seat and embraced the
raporter. With tears of gladness in his
EYES. he made the foregoing statement.
When Judge Speer was asked to com
mcnt on the supreme courts action, he
declined to commit himself, saying:
You will have to excuse me. l can
not discuss any matter Of a judicial
nature with you"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
SUES WIFE HELD
FOR SANITY TEST.
"Pm Not Crazy: | Still Love My
Husband" Cries Divorce Ac-
ton Defendant.

As she sat today in the matron's ward
at the police station awaiting expert
examination as to her sanity, already
branded by relatives as a lunatic. Mrs
EStey Oden, the young woman accused
by Mrs. j. H. Gresham, 66 Houston
street, as the rival for her husbands
affection, was served by Deputy Sheriff
Poindexter with notice of divorce ac-
ton.
Divorce proceedings against the i'm
prtsoned woman were instituted in su-
perior court by Amory L. Oden, from
whom she has been separated for some
time.
In acknowledging service of the d.
vorce papers, the young woman, tears
streaming from her eyes, declared she
is sane, insisted that she still loves her
husband dearly" and that she will fight
his effort to divorce her.
Doesn't Want To Be Divorced.
II love him-oh, love him so, and I
want to live with him! l don't want to
be divorced from him." cried the wom-
an.
Mrs. Oden also pleaded that she be
allowed to care for her two little girls
Orelia and Eulalia, who now are in Gus
tody of her mother
ut is the horrible thought Of separa-
ton from my sweet little children that
is killing me-" she sobbed piteously. 1T
is enough to drive me mad. can't
sleep al night for thinking Of them. I
dream OF them by day and by night,
and every time I close my eyes / see
them in a vision-I can almost hear
their childish pratt1e
Calls Charge Plot of Mother.
ooh, why am l treated so cruelly-I
can't bear to think that maybe I'll be
shut up in a dismal, gloomy asylum,
amid a lot of maniacs, and have my lit
tie darlings torn from me! I'm not
crazy, and they've got no right to send
me there"
Mrs. Oden said she was perfectly
willing to be examined by a board Of
insanity experts, and declared the
charge of lunacy is a plot by her
mother to get rid of her.
MY mother has insisted ever since
was fourteen years Of age that ann
crazy, and now she's using this oppor-
tunity to shove me in the asylum" she
said
The divorce action by Oden indicates
a fight for the possession OF the two
children. for he declared that he in
tended to obtain the custody of them If
he had to open court battle.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
NEW RULING ON FILING
OF u. S. EQUITY CASES

Clerks in the civil department of the
United States district court will be
busy the next few days, preparing for
the new ruling in regard to equity cases,
which goes into effect February 1.
Under the present system the equity
and law cases are docketed together,
according to the time of filing. Each
case, with all the attendant details, is
given a page in the same docket.
Under the new ruling. a new docket
must be opened for equity cases, and
they must be kept separate from the
law cases.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
SUES FOR $45, 900 AND
GETS VERDICT OF $4,000

MADISON, GA, Jan. 2s.--After trial
lasting three days, a jury In the city
court of Madison has returned a YER
dict for $4,000 in a damage suit OF w A.
Berry against the lessees of the Georgia
railroad. Berry claimed $4,000 damages
on account of alleged permanent physical
injuries sustained by him in the wreck
of a freight train last May. The Jury
retired after listening for three solid
days to testimony and argument
This is the largest claim for damages
against railroad ever tried in any court
in Morgan county The road has entered
motion for a new trial
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
SAYS REFORMATORY GIRLS
ARE FL0GGED AT POST

PITTSBURG, PA, Jan. 2S.-In a ha-
beas corpus action started by Mrs. Bar
bara Boris of Homestead. to free her
sixteen-y ear-old daughter, Barbara, from
the state refornatory, the woman alleges
the school authorities maintain a whip
ping post at which her daughter has been
cruelty punished. She alleges the girls
naked back has repeatedly been exposed
to the cut OF the lash