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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
Another "R" In the School.

Reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, the.
three RS" of the schoolma'am In the
little old red schoolhouse on the hill,
may have to make room for another
'R"-roads.
The Iowa state highway commission,
Is OF the opinion that the child mind!
is a good place to start good roads,"
just as good as it is to begin the null
tiplication table, the first reader and
how to write.
The highway commission and the
state superintendent of public in
struction, A. M. Deyoe, are co-operat-
ing in the working out of a plan to
use the rural consolidated school
houses in the state to disseminate
good roads gospel to the fathers and,
mOtherS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
His Tender spo+.

As a certain young artist of New
York sat upon his stool on day in the
A~dirondacks doing q bit of mountain
stuff" there approached him from the
rear a native, evidently with ideas OF
his own touching art.
did you ever tr7 photographer"
asked the newcomer.
NO" was the curt response OF the
young artist, who continued his work.
Its a good deal quicker" suggest
ed the native.
7 suppose it is." surely assented the
painter, with another dab OF the
brush.
and" me native added, with a
dash Of malice, "a good deal more like
the place."-Lippincott's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
BARS VISIT
Tourists Contemplated Trip to
vesuvius Is Postponed.
Writer Tells Of the Difficulties En-
countered In Doing" Naples and
it, Surrounding Attractions and
Points of Interest.

Naples-The difficulty OF doing
Naples and its surrounding attractions
and points Of interest within a posi-
lively limited time was demonstrated,
writes a correspondent, when with
a trip to the crater Of vesuyius In
mind, l surveyed the cone from my
window balcony. Thick clouds envel-
oped the truncated cone, and there
was no sign Of a change Of wind to
clear away the mist and smoke suffi-
GENTLY to permit a view of the boil
ing depths. So inasmuch as there
were other things that must be done
to prepare for the morrow's sailing for
home, l regretfully postponed my Wis
it to the volcano until some other
time In the uncertain future. Per-
haps the bronze pledges given at
Rome will prove effective in insur-
ing a return, and then Vesuvius sure
ly will be seen.
But fortune was not altogether I'M
favorable, for by a good chance during
the day 1 met, at the office of the
American consul, Mr.. Jay White, two
scientists from Washington, who have
Gene over for the purpose Of studying
the volcanic activities in Italy. Prof.
Arthur L Day of the Carnegie insti-
tuition and Prof. Henry Stephens
Washington of the geophysical lab
oratory. They will spend several
months here and in Sicily, observing
conditions and endeavoring to obtain
specimens of the gases emitted from
Vesuvius, Etna and StromboIi, in their
research into the nature of tine forces
which cause eruptions. Tt is to be
hoped that they will have the good
fortune to gain information to aid in
the evolution of a substantial working
hypothesis explanatory of Tire most
battling phenomenon now confront
ing natural science.
Later I'm the day Vesuvius cleared
off finely, a tantalizing trick that made
the postponement Of the trip to the
top hard to endure philosophically.
But it is quite we'll assured that the
big chimney will continue to smoke,
for a long time to come, and per-
haps when I come again it will be
performing more s~pectacularly than
at present. AS T write, in the eve
ning's rosy glow that makes the bay
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
CHAPTER xxxlv.-continued.

'Shirley's breath stopped. She felt
ier face tingling and a curious weak
Iess came on her limbs. Why, indeed,
4nIess-and the thought was like a
wild prayer in her mind-she had
aeen mistaken in her surmise?
Thoughts came %thronging in panic
taste: the fourteenth of May and the
cape observation-disclosures might point
10 less to Valiant than to Sassoon.
Bot her mothers fainting at the sight
3f the son-the eager interest she had
displayed in Shirley's accounts of him,
from the episode of the rose and the
balIdog to the tournament ball
seemed now to stand out in a new
! light, throbbing and roseate. Could
NJ be? Had she been stumbling along
n blind trail, misled by the cunning
d4ovetailing of circumstance? Her
heart was beating s%tif1ingly. If she
should be mistaken now! She dashed
ner hand across her eyes as though to
compel their clearness, and looked
again.
1t was Beauty Valiant's face that
say in the locket, and that could mean
but one thing: it was he, not Sassoon,
whom her mother loved!
THE lamplight seemed to grow and
spread to an unbearable radiance.
Shirley thought she cried out with a
sudden sweet wildness, but she had
not moved or uttered a sound. The
illumination was all about her, like
I splendid cloud. The impossible had
happened. The miracle for which she
Systerically prayed had been wrought!
When she blew out the light, the
shining still remained. That glowing
knowledge, like a vitali2ing and phys
bcai presence, passed with her through
the hall to her room. AS she stood in
he elfsh light of her one candle, the
~J0IgnGuey Of her joy vas as sharp as
ter past pain. Later was to come the
wonder how that tragedy had bent
Beauty Valiant's life to exile and her
la9ther's to unfulillment, and in time
she was to know these things, TOO.
F6ut now the one great knowledge blot
Ted out all else. She need starve her
tancy no longer! The hours with her
over might again sweep across her
c memory undenied. She felt his arms,
his kisses, heard his whispers against
her cheek and smelled the perfume of
Aa6onna lilies.
sShe drew the curtain and opened
The window noiselessly to the light.
grAy a few hours ago she had been
singing to her harp in what wretched-
less! She laughed softly to herself.
The quiet night was full of his voice:
II love you! l want nothing but you!'
How her pitiful error had tortured
md wrung them both! But tomorrow
5as, too, would know that all was well
A clear sound chimed across the
f-tstance-the bell of the courthouse
eIOck, striking midnight. One!
SNo! How often lately 1t haC
u discordantly across her mood;
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
Styles and Men.

This is-well, let's say amusing
this dictate of fashion that men must
wear in 1914 clinging garments-isn't
it? Because some of US must either
adopt pads or endure the mockery of
the masses while parading in the
guise Of human scarecrows or Punch
and Judy shows-if clinging buds do
master masculinity. And some Of us
will lose N large subject of CONVEX
sation and laughter, for we won't any
longer be able to criticize the gar
ments of u sisters, wives and affini-
ties. II any n consideration IAN do
more than another to prevent the gen.
eral adoption of tight styles for men
this loss of critical opportunity is like
Iy to be the thing, isn't 1t? Tt never
will do to give ladies an opportunity to
turn the batteries of laughter on the
masculine half Of humanity, will it?
OF course a compromise may be ar
ranged--but compromises seldom wear
well, do they?-Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant. a rich society f~avorite.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
Doratfon. which his father founded and
which was the principal source of his
wealth, had failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
mr. the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. a
white bull dog and Damory court, a neg
tected estate In Virginia. On the way TO
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge. an authenticated beauty. and de-
ytdes that he is going to like Virginia inn
1iensely. Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem
intscenees during which II is revealed
that the major. Valiant's father, and a
man m Sassoon were rivals for the
nand of Mrs. cambridge in her youth.
SaSSoon and Valiant fought a duel on her
account in which the former was killed.
Valiant finds Damory court overgrOwu
with weeds and creepers and decides to
Eehabilitate the place. Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite of a snake, which
hites him. Knowing the deadliness of the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the
wound and saves his life. Valiant learns
for the first time that his father left Vir-
fStGLa on account OF q duel in which Doc
tor Eouthall and Major Bristow acted as
t1ss fathers seconds. Valiant and Shirley
Seconne good friends. Mrs. cambridge
Gaints when she meets altar for the
Efrst time. Valiant discovers that he has
n fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly
tournament, a survival of the ~jousting of
eeudal times, is held at Damory court. AT
che last moment Valiant takes the place
at one of the knights, who is sick. and
f~eateTs the lists. He wins and chooses
Shirley cambridge as queen of beauty to
the 6ismay of Katherine Fargo, a former
sweetheart. who ta visiting in Virginia.
The tournament bail at Damory court
tiraws the elite of the countryside. Shir-
fey is crowned by Valiant as queen of
neauty. Valiant tells Shirley of his love
and they become engaged. Katherine
Fargo determining not to give UP Vail
amt without q struggle. points out to Shir-
log how terrible It would be for the wom-
an who caused the duel to meet Valiant.
who looks so much like his father. Shir-
log, uncertain, but feeling that her moth
or was in love with the victim of Vail
ants pistol. breaks the engagement. Major
s5ristow 10 fatally Wounded by Greet
Ktug. a liberated convict. who he had sent
500 prison, but before dying Bristow con-
TFes8es to Mrs. cambridge that he had
lsegt q letter Valiant had written to her
after the dueI. Valiant decides to leave
DNrnory court and writes Shirley that he
wfn love her always. Mrs. cambridge
epaTns from the thirty-year-old letter
frat Valiant expected her to answer the
sSote II she wanted him to return. For 1t
ayrIs Valiant she loved.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
ARC AND THE lNCANDEScENT
Explanation Of Entirely Different Prln-
cIples Under Which the Two
Are Employed.

The arc light and the incar aescent
light work on totally different princi-
pies. It was noted many years ago
that when an electric circuit was bro
ken the current jumped across a slight
gap, producing a brilliant fame. The
shape Of this flame was roughly an
arc from one conductor to the other;
thus the word ARC" was adopted. All
arc lamps burn in. the air and not
in vacuum. The light is produced by
the current leaping across a small air
gap between the two electrodes. or car
bon pencils, and heating the tips Of the
carbins white hot. Floating PARTICLES
Of whote-hot carbon also add to the
briliiancy. A mechanism is necessary
to feed in the carbons as fast as
they burn away, OF otherwise the gap
would increase until the current could
not jump cross and the light would
60 out.
The incandescent lamp, common in
most homes and once buildings. " OBJ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
SUCCESS NOT DUE TO LUCK
photographer VIII Not Admit That
Element Of Chance Enters In
to His Work.

When the amateur photographers
ffrfend asked him why he looked
Rcssved the other was glad to explain.
"A friend Of ours just asked me
tn come over and take a picture Of
ater baby" he said. she apologized
fiDT aksimg, which was unnecessary be-
lazSse I was glad to do it. but she spill
ed the beans by giving her reason that
gF had such good luck taking pictures"
well. you do, don't your inquired
the friend.
There you co. the photographer
exclaimed. There's no such thing AZ
inrk in my photography. What vexes
insz Is that every one seems to consid-
.er them inseparable.
Photography 10 al exact q science
az running q survey nowadays with
stiiose who know how to handle a cam
sra- with the ~photometer and expos
ana tables, proper developer and a
Ahesmometar for determining lta tenn
isgeFature. every last element Of luck
EV"I || EHNMHIHAM MDA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

The preparations for his going had
been quickly made. He was leaving
behind him all but a single portman-
teau. Uncle Jefferson had already
taken this-with Chum-to the sta
ton. The old man had now gone sor-
rowfully afoot to the blockhouse, a
half-mile up the track, to bespeak the
stopping of the express. He would go
back on the horse his master was
riding.
The lonely little depot fianked a
siding beside a dismal stretch of yell
low clay-bank gouged by rains. Its
windows were dark and the weather.
beaten plank platform was illuminated
by a single lantern that hung on a
nail beside the locked door, it's sickly
flame showing bruise-like through
smoky streakings of la%mp-black. At
one side, in the shadow, was his bag,
and beside 1t the tethered bulldog
sole spot of white against the melan-
choly forlornness lying with one
splinted leg, like a swaddled ramrod,
sticking straight out before him.
In the saddle, Valiant struck his
hand hard against his knee. Surely
it was a dream! 1t could not be that
he was leaving Virginia, leaving Dam.
DRY court, leaving her! But he knew
that 1t was not a dream.
Far away, rounding Powhattan
Mountain, he heard the ~long-drawn
boot of the coming train iiinging ite
skJ-warning In a host of scamperine
echoes. Among them mixed another
sound of a horse, galloping fast and
hard.
His, own fidgeted. flung up wide nos
! trils and neighed shrilly. Who wal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
InsatiahIA

George A. Birmingham Canon Han,
nay), the versatile Irish clergyman,
playwright and novelist, was talking te
a New York reporter about the Ameri-
can business man.
"Tl tell you a story" he said,
which hits off the American business
man we'll.
"A wife, still young, turned from
the window of her sumptuous nine
teenth-story apartment and said to, her
husband:
George, ten years ago you prom
Used me that when you made a million
you'd retire from business, and then
we'd travel and enjoy life.'
Here she began to cry.
you've got your million now!' she
sobbed. Why do you still keep on
working?'
George, as he hurried into his over
coat, growled:
".Ah, that's Just like you-never
satisfied"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

removed from exposure and negative
making. The same is true of the
printing processes. You know in adj
vance how much light you have and
how much you need; factorial tables
tell you how long to leave a plate in
the developer; every step is timid
with a stop watch. And that's why.
1t annoys me to have people say that
my art Is a luck proposition.
Before ! had taken as many pic
lures as stand to my record now,
there was sometimes luck, mostly bad.
Although, rs 1t appears to me at pres
ent, | got better results than I should
have obtained. But II a man with a
little experience and the proper out
At exercises as much intelligence as
Is necessary to boil eggs, photography
Is no longer a matter Of luck, and
thank nobody to call me lucky"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
1t rose and swelled exultant to break
and die In a cascade of golden notes.
But in their hearts was the song
that is fadeless, immortal.
THE END.
Comparing Their Husbands.

The girls were talking about their
husbands.
Il have the dearest husband in the
world" said Maude. "Tf he Just
wouldn't play cards and drink so much,
he'd be perfect"
my husband doesn't gamble, and he
never took a drink in his life," put In
Mabel, He would be a model man, II
l only could know what he does when
he stays away from home at night"
"Ah!" smiled Margaret, my hus-
band is all that you wish yours could
be! He has no bad habits, he comes
home on schedule, he denies me moth
ing, there is no mystery about him.
Why, he goes to church every Sunday
or at least he used to-"
Used to!" echoed the chorus. "Ahal
Why doesn't he go to church now"
HE found that it interfered with his
golf!"
Margaret was voted winner of the
prize package. = Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
CHAPTER xxxV.
The SONG Of the NlahtInaaIe.

Along the dark turnpike John Val
liant rode with his chin sunk on his
breast. He was wretchedly glad of
the darkness, for it covered a thou
sand familiar sights he had grown to
love. Yet through the dark came
drifting sounds that caught at him
with clutching ~hands-the bay Of a
hound from some far.off kennel, the
whirring note Of frogs, the impatient
high whinny of a horse across pasture
bars-and his nostrils widened to the
wild braided fragrance Of the fields
over which the mist was spinning its
fairy carded wool.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
No' NecessIty For stafnpa.

In New Zealand the ~postofice pro
vides big firms with machines, with
which they stamp their own CORE
spondence. A specimen letter re-
ceived bears an oblong postage
paid stamp which Is put on by a ma
chine in the business mans once.
Periodically a postal collector calls
round, reads the total on the, machine
and collects the money.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

vote Of the deputies, with the explana.
ton that the part taken by women
in associations with political ten
denotes is well known, and, under the
circumstances, can scarcely be pre-
vented" This bill has been sent back
to the deputies for further considera-
ton. The women Of Austria have been
leading an agitation against the rise
Of prices which they, as housekeepers,
feel most ~acutely. They have been
successful in cheapening coal in Vienna
and milk In Brunn. The leaders Of the
movement have been elected to mu-
nicipal committees, and for the first
time a woman has been put on a COM
mittee Of a town council, viz, that Of
Housing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
Brandy smuqaIed il wax Baby.

Parfs.-M. Charles Pechard, former
ly chief of the police anarchist bril-
gade, has founded a museum of crimi.
nology. Among its curious contents
are a hollow wax baby which was
used to smuggle brandy into Paris.
A woman carried a baby into the city
every day, but as it never grew any
bigger the authorities, examined 1t and
discovered the fraud
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

tanned from a piece of white-hot wire,
heated by the passage Of an electric
current. The wire must be inclosed in
a glass bulb from which the air has
been exhausted, otherwise 1t would
quickly be burned up and consumed.
The wire ilament is now made Of
tungsten, which resists the flow OF
electricity with so much vigor that
the current, in working to get by the
obstruction, heats the wire to mean
descence. hence the name.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
Kent Out Of politics.

In Austria women are forbidden by
law to take an active part in politics
or to Join any political association.
Last spring the chamber Of deputies
decided to cancel the prohibiting
clause. and the political committee of
the upper house has now Endorsed this
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

New York.-An ordinance providing
that bathers at Coney Island wear
mackintoshes or wrappers when not in
the water. was killed by the board OF
aldermen,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
arothers Meet After MANY Wears.

Ansonia. Conn.-Williams Morris
and Frank Ginzel, brothers, all over
seventy, who parted In Nashville.
Tenn, forty-three years ago. met here
for q grand reuMion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16
arsaka Neck 4 NInstx.Nlne.

Fremont. O.-Ninety-nine years old
and never Ill a day, Knud Knudson
oldest citizen here, suffered a stroke
Atd fell downstairs. breaking his peck
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

Chicago.-Mayor Harrison revoked
the saloon license Of John Lang when
he ascertained that a hand book was
operated in the saloon for the bene-
TT Of the fair sex.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN EASY
sellen with repeat orders, get our attractive
proposition. DAVIS SPEARMINT PEPSINH
GUN High grade goods. Full box sample 4Oc.
Atlantic Chewing Gum Co., Baltimore. Md,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-14
FACULTY SCHOOL
OF JOURNALISM
NOW IN AUSTIN

Austin, Texas. sept. 1.-THE entire
faculty Of the newly established School
of Journalism Of the University Of Tex
.as has arrived aud begun preparations
for the opening Of the years work. Dean
Will III. Mavcs has been i'm Austin most
of the ummer completing his plans for
the opening Of the school. Three in
siructors. Vaughan Bryant. II. q. Browdn
and II. W. Collins. have recently joined
him. The school print-shop. from which
will b. issued \ weekly paper entirely
the work of the student body. is ready
for business i'm y. Hall. one Of the new
est " the university buildings. which
will house the new department Indi-
cations point 10 a large attendance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-14
THINKS MUCH or THE VALLEY


Maurice X. perron. Of San Antonio.
Texas. representative of one of the larg.
ct coffee importing houses in the Uni
ted states. arrived in the city Yesterday
and is a guest al the Miller hotel.
Mr.. PerrOn comes to this section of
the state about twice a year and saws
that he is always glad to get TO Browns
Vile. where he can rave the pleasure Of
shaking hands with his many friends and
also "a enjoy the cool and invigorating
breezeS that are always blowing in this
border city.
THE Valley country i the coming
metropolis" said Mr.. PcrrOn. this morn.
ing. I'm my travels over the state | hear
a great deal about this section Of the
country ard MANY questions are asked
me- regarding the agricultural conditions
and ia all eases | tell these people that
this Valley is the garden spot II the
Lone Star state. In the last week
know If three well "a DO farmers In the
eastern part Of the state who purchased
land in the valley aud will move with
their families to Ilidalgo county this
coming month" Mr.. Perrun will be IN
the city until tomorrow IA which time
he will leave for a trip up the valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-14
INTERNATIONAL
GATEWAY GUARD
Is WITHDRAWN

For the first time IN fifteen months
there are no United States soldiers on
guard Al the American ends of the inter-
national bridge and the international
ferry. The hast detail of guards com
pleted their tasks last night. This action
was taken by the military authorities in
Fort Brown upon orders from the South
ern department headquarters at San An
tonic. the War department having rescind-
cd the order prohibiting the expectation 81
munitions ot war t. Mexico.
A guard of soldiers has been kept nj the
international bridge and Al the ferry al All
hour of the day and night since shortly
before the battle Of MatamoroS. During
last summer and winter - detail of three
men was kept al each approach. but in
April with the arrival Of additional gov
eminent troops and the trouble at Vera
Cruz this detail was increased. and has
included from five 20 seven men al an
times since.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-14
STRUCK
CHILD; DRIVER
FINED SIS

l.. t0rtez. an automobile owner. was
fined ~ and costs in the corporation
cuurt this morning on \ charge of rcck-
less driving. tortez was arrested late
Saturday afternoon al the Market
Square. where IL j. alleged h. struck n
small Mexican child with his automobile.
The child was not hurt. according 10 po-
lice department officials. having been
brushed aside 10y the fender of the auto
mobile.
This is the first conviction in The cor.
pOratiOn court on - traffic violation
charge in many months. The traffic ord
inanccS ~ that time were declared Nv
the city court "a ~ not effective.