davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29

had! The nourishing food, the good
will of kind hearts implied reused
the woman to new hope and courage
and saved her life.
And then two nights later there
burst in upon them the husband n
father, returned. He had been lost,
delayed amid great danger, but had
come back to the happy home fold a
rich man.
The evening after that John and
Muriel were seated conversing IN tne
coy parlor of the Ward home.
q am asking so much of you, dear
John was saying lovingly. After wait
ing so long, we must be patient ior
another year or two"
What is that to a woman VINO
truly loves?' murmured Muriel.
There was a ring at the door bell
Muriel answered the summons A
stranger confronted her.
us there a Mr.. Lane here?" she was
asked. and the caller was led into the
parlor, where he grasped Johns hand
warmly. d.
"You are the gentleman who lett a
basket at my home a few nights
| since?" he said.
Internationally" replied John,
but If it made anybody happy
1T saved my wife's life, and have
come to thank you," said Mr.. Bernard
earnestly. 81 found your name OF
one of the packages. 1t gave your city
address, and from there / traced you
here. / must know you better"
He got to know sterling, hones'
John Lane SO we'll that he started MIN
in business for himself. -.
And the fullness Of joy n nappl
ness complete came at last to the tWc
loyal lovers.
Copyright, 1914, by w. G. chapman.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
SPEED DUE TO KISSING GIRL
"Ah, Those Beautiful Lips!" He Ex-
claims Before Judge, and compan-
ion Calls Policeman "Horrid."

New York.-Armond Schmoll, a
handsome youth, was assessed $25 by
Magistrate Corrigan for the city's
benefit for kissing a young person he
described as his best girl" while
driving a motor car at 40 miles an
hour.
Policeman Haggerty ran Schmoll
down on Broadway.
"Ah," said the young man, who
said he was a citizen of France, "if
was going too fast l an all regret.
I did not know"
But why did you go so fast?" asked
the policeman.
There was an opportunity to kiss
my best girl, who was beside me-
said Schmoll. my attention was on
those most beautiful lips and l could
not set my soul upon them with my
eye on the indicator Of speed"
The young woman said she thought
less Of Policeman Haggerty than OF
any other person or object In the
world. She went so far as to call him
a "horrid thing"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Tenements improved,

Into the homes of the people light
and air have penetrated, and they
have acquired legal claims. The first
census taken under the new tenement
house law found 361, 900 dark and air
less rooms in houses unfit to live in,
half of them without any windows at
all. There are still more than $4,000
windowless rooms left in Greater New
York, but they are going. When the
last of them is gone we shall be able
to fight tuberculosis, and win. The
dark halls have been lighted. Life in
the tenements has been made measur-
ably endurable and safe. Not in the
ten years since the icy law was
passed has a human life been lost by
fire in any of the hundred and odd
thousand houses for lack of means Of
escape or other faults in construction.
In the ten years preceding 1894, 256
persons persisted. in tenement house
fires, not counting the tiremen who
died in efforts to save them.-Jacob
A. Riis, in Century Magazine,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29

municipality owns the neighboring
Wildbad iron and sulphur spa.
Once Rothenburg was a great city
with an independent position as
"Reichstadt" in the Holy Roman en-
pire. 1t was captured by Tilly in 1881
and was saved from being sacked
by a cup of wine presented to the con-
queror by the burgomaster. Now ev-
cry Whit Monday, in the great hall
the "Kaisersaal'-of the wonderful
town hall there is enacted by the in
habitants a folk play called Der
Meistertrunk"-the Master Drink
which commentaries this historical
event.
Under the name of Rotinbure the
place is first mentioned in history.
That was early in the ninth century
and it was then the residence Of the
Duke of F%ranconia. 1t became a town
in 942 and in 1172 a free imperial city.
The height of its prosperity was reach
ed under its most famous burgomas-
ter, Heinrich Toppler, whose tomb is
pointed out to every visitor to Rothen,
burg.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29

LOYAL LOVERS
BY MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD
RIDGE.

II was a festal V everywhere. The
ground was covered with snow and the
thick fakes still falling. A biting wind
blew John Lane before 1t, but his
heart was warm and he smiled as he
buffeted the tempest, bearing a goodly
stored market basket.
Still a bachelor at rs, John Lane was
pursuing a brief journey that had a
rare tinge of to 1t. ne had
come to Brookville, a near suburban
town, upon the invitation of some old
friends the, Ward family. John had
known these worthy people for a long
while-Miss Muriel Ward particularly.
She was two years younger than him.
self, still she classified in the group
of "spinsters."
81 don't know that | Inn doing a
wise thing" unused John, as he strobe
along. "Its opening up the lost past
lost, because | have W. been able
to put enough aside to offer Muriel the
home she should have. All, mel" he
sighed resignedly, the little savings
/ put by are small, indeed. Now they
have asked me to spend a holiday
with them. l shall see Muriel. Her
sunny face will make life the sweeter,
but when l go back to my humdrum
work again the regret will be the
keener." III
John had brought a genuine holiday
offering with him-a noble turkey, a
parcel of toothsome fruit, several
boxes of bonbons, some toys for the
children. 1t cheered his sterling soul
to be thus generous, even amid his
necessities. He knew the old Ward
home at B%rookville, but they had
moved, and he was trying to locate
them from their written directions
81 declare he said, hating and puff
ing from his undue exertions, I'm
quite at sea. This can't be Magnolia
terrace. I believe I'll inquire.
John started towards a little isolated
house where he observed a light in its
rear rooms. He rested his heavy bas
ket on the stoop and knocked at the
door several times. No one respond
ed, and leaving the basket where hi
had placed it, John started around the
house to pursue his inquiries at tn,
kitchen door.
"The mischief" exclaimed John, al
he passed near a frozen water spout
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
steeI Men Az Ready 70 start.

Jefferson City.-The J.. W. Bass
Construction Company of st. Louis.
subcontractors for the erection of all
the structural steel to be used in the
new Missouri statehouse, has started
d force OF men at work making the
preliminary arrangements for opera
tons.
Derricks. rigging and other appara-
tus for use in handling the steel is
being unloaded on the grounds. The
first shipment of the steel from the
Christopher & Simpson works in St
Louis is in local Missouri Pacific
yards.
E. Aronberg of Washington, D. c.,
who will be general superintendent
of construction of the building for
the Gill company, arrived here with
Augustus Luetgert, who is to be gen
eral foreman.
Several superintendent and fore
men for Bass are on the ground get
ting everything in readiness for the
erection of the steel.
The stone question is still in statu
quo, SO far as information here is
concerned. Carthage is considered
the likely winner unless insuperable
objections to the product of the
quarries there are raised by Archi-
tect 'Swartwout, or Gill, or by the
commission, when that body passes
on selection of the stone.
A knotty problem in connection
with selection of the stone, it is said,
lies in the contract which forbids the
consideration of any quarry in max
ing the contract for the stone which
is not fully developed and which has
not a capacity for supplying the stone
in sufficient quantities, without de-
laying the building operations.
Under a strict construction Of the
clause there is only n set of lime
stone quarries in Missouri eligible for
consideration. These are at Car
thage. f' '' #'1" a"vf5-'
Whether this clause would prevent
the Gill company quarrying the stone
itself from a field that meets with the
approval of the commission, both as
to quality and other features, is q
mooted question.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Radlum Cures Mlssourlan.

Standardization Goldsberry, who
was the first person in this part OF
the state to undergo the radium treat
ment for the cure of cancer, was in
Springfield on his way home to Noun
tain View, fully recovered.
Goldsberry, who is rs years old,
and the founder of Mountain View,
was treated by DR.. Howard A. Kelly
at the Johns-Hopkins hospital, in
Baltimore. Only a burned spot on
his head marks the place where the
cameron growth had appeared. He
had abandoned all hope of getting
well and his recovery in six weeks
was considered SO remarkable that he
was taken to New York last week
and examined by a number of cancer
specialists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Webb CITY Water PLANT.

Jefferson City.-A complaint and a
long list of alleged shortcomings was
filed by w. v. X. Spencer, mayor,
and the council of Webb City against
the Missouri Public Utilities Com
pany of St. Louis, which operates the
waterworks at that place.
The complaint contains an arraign-
ment of Charles Jaccard, gen
eral manager. 1t is alleged he is I'M
fair, domineering and discourteous.
He conducts a plumbing business and
forces consumers to employ him, it
Is alleged.
The commission is asked to issue
an order for investigation and for an
injunction restraining the company
from shutting off the water supply
of the compliments. The company
was notified to file a reply in ten
days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
INSURANCE. HEARING
BY commission
BODY WILL MAKE STATE TOUR
TO GATHER DATA FOR NEW
FIRE LAW,
LEGISLATURE ASKED TO ACT
Everybody Who Is Interested in Rates
Is Invited to Suggest Neces-
sary Changes in the
Statutes.

Jefferson City.-State Superintend-
ent of Insurance Charles G. Revelle
has completed the itinerary of the
Missouri insurance commission, which
will leave st. Louis for a tour of the
state, the object of which Is to obtain
the views of the people of different
cities and localities on the fire insur-
anc rates and what should be done
in a revision of the laws governing in
surance of that kind.
Meetings will be held at various
places IN the state, and the commits
sion extends a general invitation to
everybody interested in insurance
rates to attend them.
The commission will hear all COM
plants against the existing laws and
rates m will listen to all sugges-
lions as to amendments to the laws.
Every phase of the insurance business
and the laws governing will be con-
sidered at the meetings.
The information and data gathered
on the trip will be preserved for use
in the report the commission will COM
pile and present to the legislature
next January, with recommendations
for a new code for the government OF
the fire insurance business in Mis-
souri,.
The commission is constituted as
follows: Edward F.. Goltra Of st,
Louis, chairman; State Superintend.
ent Of Insurance Revelle of Jefferson
City, secretary; Joseph B. Reynolds
of Kansas City, George D. Clayton Of
Hannibal, G. D. Goodram of Lamar
and M. B. Aber of Warrensburg.
The creation of the commission was
the outgrowth of the agreement en-
tered into last August when the fire
insurance companies which left the
state in April because OF dissatisfac
ton with the Orr insurance law en-
acted at the last session of the legis
lature resumed business.
The object of the commission is tt
evolve a fire insurance code which
will be fair both to the companies en-
gagged in the business and to the con
sumner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
CURSES FAITH; LOSES WIFE
Mohammedan Denounces Islam and
Judge Promptly Sewers the
Marriage Tie.

Cairo.-Recently a quarrel arose be-
tween two Mohammedan natives In
Upper Egypt, and one of them, in the
heat of the moment, cursed the 9th
er's religion. At that the offended
man promptly hauled his brother re-
ligionist before the religious court.
The Judge who tried the case o
tended that, since the man had cursed
his own religion, he must be consid-
cred to have voluntarily r~enounced
Islam. Consequently, as the law does
not allow a marriage between q Mo.
hammedan woman and a mar who Is
not of that faith. the Judge decreed
thu feparation Of the man from his
wife.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Small causes of War;.

The borrowing Of a tobacco pipe and
Its retention caused civil war in the
Pamirs and Afghanistan, while the
stealing Of a lace petticoat belonging
to a lady of CASTLE by a Moor led to
a long and bloody conflict. The war
between Sweden and Poland, which
began in 1854, arose through a sup
posed slight. The king Of Sweden sud
denly discovered that in a certain dis
patch his name and titles were follow
ed by only two ct ~ceteras. while the
king Of Poland was given three. The
result, incredible a. It may seem. was
war.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29

His feet gave way, he was conscious
of a heavy fall, and then lost sensi-
bility.
He must have soon aroused, but In a
dazed condition. 1t was at a new spot
to which he had wandered, that he
came to himself. His arm hung help
less at his side, he had forgotten all
about the basket, he was seated on q
street curb and a village watchmaI
was shaking him.
Rouse up, my man." urged this lat
ter individual. You'll freeze to death
here. What's the trouble?"
Il have had a fall and lost my
senses, l guess" responded John
weakly. Il was bound for the Ward
home"
"Tll help you there" and in desper-
ate faintness and pain John was wei
coined with concerned faces by the
family ten minutes later.
Old Mr.. Ward saw at once that there
was something serious the matter with
Johns right arm. They made him COM
Portable, Muriel lowering about him
like a veritable m%inistering angel.
They sent for a doctor.
"You will not be able to use that
arm for a full three weeks" was the
dictum of the physician.
But my work in the city,"
Friend John" said Mr.. Ward quiet
ly, you are going to be patient and
happy among us until you are all well,
We are going to give you the vaca-
ton and rest you have needed for ten
years." III
So John Lane settled down into the
fair groove in which circumstances had
placed him. Muriel, his solicitous
nurse, fitting about him with her
sweet womanly ways, and deeper and
deeper grew his love for her.
Meanwhile the festal basket which
had been left by John on the doorstep
Of a house he could not now locate
had performed a glorious mission.
In that humble cottage lived a Mrs.
Bernard and her three little children.
For ove a year her husband had been
lost, missing-dead, she now feared.
He had gone to a remote part of Aus.
tralia to look up the estate of a dead
brother. The months passed by, and
no word was received from him.
With the family oil the verge of pos
tive destitution and i'll, discouraged
nearly heartbroken. when John Lane
knocked at the door OF the house that
stormy night the mother lay very
near to the point of dissolution and
the children huddled over a smolder
ing fire In the kitchen stove. They
had not heard the summons at the
front door, but the next morning
when the eldest boy went out to seel
for some dry branches to burn he dis
covered the basket.
What magic Of Joy It proved I,
them! Mrs. Bernard never doubte,
that some kind person had thought b
them, and secretly provided for thei
necessities. What a royal feast the,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
~HoMING" INSTINCT OF BEES
Their Remarkable Powers Demon
strated by Most Thorough Series
of Experiments.

Henri Fabre, the naturalist, tells in
the Fortnightly Review a character1s-
tic story about Charles Darwin n
himself. Darwin wanted to explain
the "homing' instinct of bees, n In
duced Fabre to begin a series of ex-
periments with that purpose IN view.
A regular plan of campaign was
drawn up.
Marked bees were placed in a dark
box and carried away from the hive In
the opposite direction from that IN
which they we're finally liberated The
box was repeatedly turned about so
that the inmates would lose all sense
of direction. Every possible means
was taken to render useless any
known or conceivable method or 3D.
tanning ones bearings. The bees
were ever placed within an induction
coil in the effort to confuse them.
The result Of a long and elaborate
series Of tests was nil so far as any
explanation of the homing power was
concerned. In every case from 81 TO
40 per cent. of them found their way
home without apparent trouble, no
matter how confusing the trip away
from home had been made.
The story is characteristic, because
it illustrates the thorough way In
which the author of the Origin OF
Species" attacked all his problems.
He was not one to merely "opine pref
tily and probably" and let it go at
that. He put everything to the test
of experiment, and when the answer
came out wrong, or didn't come out at
all, he "scrapped" the hypothesis as a
matter of course instead Of trying to
explain away its failure.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
FRIENDLY TIP.
Restored Hope and Confidence.

After several years of indigestion
and it's attendant evil influence on the
mind, it is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen.
orally.
A N. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter. She says:
Three years ago l suffered from an
attack of pe~ritonitis which left me in
a most miserable condition. For owe
two years l suffered from nervousness,
weak heart, shortness of breath, could
not sleep, etc.
my appetite was ravenous but
felt starved all the time. l had plenty
Of food but 1t did not nourish mi be-
cause of intestinal Indigestion. Medi-
cal treatment did not seem to help. !
got discouraged, stopped medicine and
did not care much whether | lived or
died.
"One day a friend asked me why /
didn't try Grape-Nuts food, stop drink
ing coffee and use Postum. I had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friend | began to use both n soon
became very fond of them.
1T wasn't long before I got some
strength, felt a decided change in my
system. hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely l got better. I
could sleep very we'll, the constant
craving for food ceased and ] have
better health now than before the at
tack Of p~eritonitis.
my husband and are still using
Grape-Nuts ard Postum"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read '"The Road to Well
piile.' in pkgs, There's a Reason"
Eve read thc Nbsve letter. a new
DE uunenra frou time 10 tirne. They
K~Rpi~e, true, y fam 81 hasans
it.creat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Pave and Liqht streets.

Grant City.-The commercial club
and business men of Grant City had
T. N. Witten of Trenton, Mo-, as the
principal speaker at a banquet last
week. The board of aldermen has
taken first steps to pave the square
and the young men of the town have
proposed to raise the funds to put in
a white way" if the business men
will do the paving.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
champlon Corn Raiser.

Columbia.-For the first time in the
history of the state of Missouri a de-
gro won the sweepstakes prize at the
state lori show for the largest yield
on upland corn land. N. G. Bruce,
principal of the Bartlett Agricultural
ami Industrial school of Dalton, Mo-,
was the winner, with a yield of 10S
bushels II pounds, and this yield was
made possible despite the drouth Of
1913, which pulled the yield for the
state far below the average.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
GERMANYs ARCADIA
Medieval Rothenburg Is an Ideal
Teutonic City.
A Place Where All Men Are Rich, AL
Women Virtuous and All Children
Happy-Europe's Oldest and
Newest Town.

Berlin. - Medieval Rothenburg,
perched high above the deep blue
Tauben. in Germany's Arcadia. 1t is
the place where all men are (relative-
ly) rich, all women %virtuous, all chill
dren happy. 1t is at once Europe's
Oldest and newest town. Other towns
with hoary pasts, narrow streets,
picturesque gabled houses, gray for
tress walls and damp dungeons com
pensate for their picturesque beauty
by being socially backward; and when
you ask them why the houses smell
and the children are ragged, they say:
You can't expect everything" But
Rothenburg is an exception. 1t is as
old and as picturesque as Venice, and
as tidy and progressive as brand new
Berlin. No town equals it for antique
loneliness, and no town has such good
municipal institutions, such excellent
drainage, such fat balances in the sav-
ings banks.
R%othenburg is a town of more than
5000 inhabitants, some fifty miles
southwest of famous Nuremberg. 1t is
situated or a high plateau 200 feet
above the river. The blue Tauben
runs placidly beneath, and so beauti-
tul Is the view that the towns eight
thousand contented inhabitants waste
many precious hours gazing yer the
panorama. There are sixteenth cen
fury fortress walls; medieval, mellow
streets and miraculously soft colors;
a wonderful double Rathaus, part in
thirteenth century Gothic, part in six
teenth century Renaissance. The Rat
haus alone is a marvel. 1t has a tor
ture chamber and dungeons where
seven hundred years ago a mayor was
done to death for treason. There are
some innocuous industries; and the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Death Starts Dry Fight.

MaysvilIe.-As a result of a verdict
of a coroner's jury finding that Mrs.
Thomas G. Rifle, who died at Mays
vile, Mo-, came to her death through
being frightened by drunken men, a
mass meeting was held at which
money was subscribed for S in a
fight to suppress the sale of liquor at
Maysville.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Girl, ID, Missing.

Allenville.-Inez Shuls, 14-year-old
daughter of John Shuls, a farmer, two
miles southeast of Allenville, mystic
riously disappeared a few days ago.
She prepared dinner while her father
visited a neighbor. When he returned
dinner was on the table, but the girl
was nowhere to be seen. Her mother
is dead and she kept house foT her
father. Shuls communicated with all
of the girls relatives, but no n had
seen her.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Renorts On Mexico Vote,

jefferson City.-W. G. Hughes of
Montgomery City, special commits
sioner appointed by the supreme
court to take testimony in the case
in which the vets are contesting the
local-option election in Mexico last
October, has filed his report.
Commissioner Hughes makes no
comment and offers no recommends
ton. He says he adopted a rule ad-
hitting practically all offers of testi-
mony of both sides, so the court
could be in a position to pass upon
all questions that could possibly arise
without necessity of a hearing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
Mars on CHAR Boards.

Jefferson City.-Prosecuting Attor-
ney James H. Lay of Cole county has
placed a ban on the operation of cigar
and candy boards in cigar stands and
other places in Jefferson City. He
says that these boards constitute gam
bling within the meaning of the stat
utes, and that anyone permitting fur
Their use of them In their places OF
business will be prosecuted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-29
New School Gradlnas.

Chillicothe.-Extra credits to pupils
who adhere to a standard of good hab-
its and who perform useful duties are
to be given in the schools here. High
school boys who do not smoke are to
get credits in their grades. as are
those who attend Sunday school reg
ularly and those who are employed
during vacations. Girls will receive
credits for preparing one meal a day
at home, doing general housework.
sewing and sleeping in the open air or
with windows open.