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THE NEW WORLD OF BRAZIL

tude of which is just about that of our Appalachian mountains The plateau is 2000 or 5000 feet above the sea, with peaks here and there that run up to 1000 feet, and one that reaches 5000, or higher than any peak on the eastern side of our coun- try Brazil has four difference ranges of mountains. There are some at the north between the Amazon and the Ori- noco There are the Andes at the west, and also the several ranges that run through the eastern part of the country. The latter come close to the sea and you jump from the tropical lowlands to a climate that is fitted for white men. There are vast tracts which are similar to California or our southern states. Take the port of Cantos, which until the new sanitary work was inaugurated was so unhealthy that it became known as the white mans grave Santos lies on the sea in a land of bananas pineap- ples and sugar plantations. You can take train there, and in two hours be on the plateau of San Paulo, whose climate Is as fine as that of Los Angeles
 Brazil is one of the best watered lands under the sky. It has small regions of drouth, but there are no great deserts iihN oui ol tnt west, tHe Sd- hara and Kalihari in Africa, or like Gobi Arabia and the plateau of Iran. The pla- teau of Brazil is cut by great river sys- tems, and as to the Amazon its waters carry much of the floods that fall from the heavens. Two-thirds of the main stream of the Amazon runs through Bra gil. and the country has other mighty streams. the names of which we hardly know. The waterways of the Amazon alone are long enough if stretched end to end to reach around the world, and it's navigable length. if laid upon the United States would form mighty canal from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate. The Anna zon has HOO tributaries in addition to the River of Doubt. which Theodore Roose- welt has exposed to the world The main stream and the tributaries have over 3O.- GOO miles of navigable waterways. If you could confine them in one canal starting at San Francisco they would go cellar around the world and leave enough over to reach on to China.
 But the Amazon is only one of the rivers. Brazil has a score of others outside the Aamzon basin. the length of which added together would give a total waterway amounting to 56,O00 miles. It has some rivers a thousand miles long, the names of which are not known to the man on the street The Paranahyba is longer than from New York to Chicago, and the Araguary would reach from Chicago to New Or leans. The Parana. which is part O. the Brazilian system. is as long from
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not always correct, nor re-
 liable. However, one who sees either for the first time gets some ideas of it. him or her which closer acduaintance causes to fade away. l When first emerged from the dingy interior of Back Bay station in this cultured municipality, 1t was raining torrents and the temperature added materially to the general chilliness that Is said to be cHaYacteristic of Bos- tsp's attitude towaFl the stranger in Its midst. Upon such an occasion the cold outlines of historic buildings and even the beautiful Architectural lines of more modern structures furnish cold comfort, and the impression Is not the most pleasant possible
 But having now 3pent more than a week in the Massa6ltnsetts metropolis, rubbing elbows with culture and feed ing on beans until I have almost appears in something of a different light. and as you are supposed to be taking this little trfN with me. you are entitled to see all that appears to me as best can showxtt to you in brief. sTo begin with, y6G have no doubt heard of the Botton bull yes? We'll. 1t is generally supposed to be thor fact there is another Boston bull that has 1t all over the quAdruped. if you will permit just A dash of slang in or der to remind myself that have not really become Bostonized.
 The Boston bull referred to is hu- man expression of vocal character. and one of it's peculiarities is that 1t aiways has reference to itself. Boston 'ssld0p balte {nbse who come to her v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05
By FRANK c. CARPENTER
Copyright, 1915. by, Frank G. Carpente
 Rio Do Ia pairo Pro P;

SOpyrlsnt, l9lo, Dyl Frank G. Carpenter)
 Rio De Janero Brazil f~1 HE new world of Brazil,
 write of one of the mightest IS)t$ ySS| countries on earth and of one of the least known. Brazil has
 an individuality of it's own and 1t is a world in extent. It is so large and so rich that it could feed the whole human race and have exports enough left to load an aerial fleet for the planet of Mars. If Brazil were as thickly populated as Italy, she would have more people than the continent of Asia. If she had as many people as France her inhabitants would be one-third more than those of all Eu- rope, and if as maHy as Germany the number would be equal to all the people of our hemisphere and Europe Africa. and Australia, leaving 200, 900, 900 to spare If she were as well settled as Belgium at the time the war began. her popula tion would be more than 1000 0O0. 900, or more than all the people on earth with enough, added to equal every man, woman and child now on the continent of Europe
 This gives you some idea of Brazil s possibilities. Now look at the size of the country compared with that of certain lands we know well. I might give 1t in figures, but figures slide off the back of the in tellect as water slides off the traditional duck. In actual square miles the num- Der Is more than 3,200000. This means that Brazil is greater than the United States, not including Alaska. It is 15 times as big as Germany or France. 13 times the size of Italy and about 290 times as big as Belgium. It has more land than all Australia and Oceania It is eight times as large as Argentina and more than four times as big as Russia in Flu rope. Brazil touches every country in South America except Chile. It has all most half of all the land on the continent, and far more than hAlf of the lands ntte, for population. The rountry Is so wide from east to west that if 1t were laid On the United States>it would extend from New York to far beyond Denver and it's Atlantic coast line would equal the dis tance between Boston and San Francisco with 800 miles and more added thereto. It is longer from north to south than from Pittsburg to Los Angeles, and its climates include those of the tropical. semi-t tropi- cal and temperate zdnes.
 The common idea of Brazil comes from the Amazon valley Many look upon it as a low plain. hot and unhealthy. The truth Is the most oftthe country is made up of highlands. and more than half of 1t is an elevated plateau the mean altt-
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tonian to whom he says it looks at him in sincere pity and remarks. You're, from the south, aren't you?" And he says it as if he were mentally adding, poor fellow. one can hardly blame you for your gross ignorance"
 Did you know that Boston is a city wherin no building may be erected to a height greater than II stories? Fact. But. as usual. there is an exception to prove the rule. The new customs house has tower that looks almost as tall as that of the Woolworth building on lower Broadway, N. Y. c. But this is the re- suit of the fact that the buildings near it are not nearly so tall as the archi- tectural neighbors of New York's tallest tower.
 This building restriction is held by Bostonians to be a bit of real wisdom and foresight, which, no doubt, it is. The downtown section has skyline that skyline. because having been limited to Il stories, every building seems to have gone up just that far. S
 This has resulted in a spreading out, however, which makes Boston seem to be larger city. perhaps. than it really Is. The downtown section is maze to the stranger and he is clever indeed who can find his way intelligently about with out asking questions of the natives. In New York one asks directions of po- liceman. but in Boston there seems to be an aversion to the guardians of the peace. It Is difficult to locate one who Is not busy with the traffic. and even that kind of an officer Is by no means too numerous
 Narrow downtown sidewalks and great crowds on them bring out the fact that Boston does not know how to walk Three and four abreast they go and they Is much pushing. slbowine and objs4-
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tionable familiarity which even good .natured Broadway would never stand for. There is a lot of safety first" :advertis- ing around town, but there seems to be nothing to instruct the people just how to conduct themselves for their own com fort and the comfort of others.
 one of the amusing things here is to attend vaudeville performance on the Sabbath, day On that day no danc- ing is permitted on the stage and the entertainment is given under the title If Sunday concert" Many acts which depend largely upon their dancing fea- lures endeevor to entertain without the tcrpsichorean section and the result Is an amateurish performance which it is a wonder intellectual Boston tolerates.
 To my certain knowledge some of the performers change their. song mum oors when playing the bean city. One team I saw on Broadway, New York, was singing Take Me to That Mid night Cake Walk Ball" after a pep pery fashion that put it over on the other side of the footlights in grea; shape. But when l beheld this team at Keith's in this city dinged if they were not singing something from Faust" However, they "got by with it and no doubt Boston, liked 1t, much better. than 1t woqlds b4ye liked their regular entertainmentv
 One who goes in strong for the his- toric. however. would probably con slider himself in the best city on earth .ss soon as he struck the center of this town. The tours which one may take for 30 cents are so filled with historic snterest that one gets off the bus feel ling as if he had just finished a thor o,gh course In ancient. mediaeval and modern history Why, I know more
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The Divorce Problem

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The office of the circuit court clerk. where divorce suits are filed, was on the fourth floor of the courthouse. and the elevator was not running. Among the early stair climbers was & big black nanny of nearly 300 pounds weight, who pulled along by the trous- CTS band a shriveled. shrinking black man.
 At the top of the first flight of steps which was unusually long, she stopped and exclaimed. between puffs and blows; Look a-here, nigger. l ain't a-gwine one step luther fse drug you thu forty-fo' wears O matrimony, an Ise drug you up all desc here stairs Elf dat elcvashun was a-runnin' I'd git dat divo'ce dis mint; but ain't gwine drag no runt of nigger up to de fofe flo O dis here c'otehouse, 1es fur dc 'ficial disrumption O de ties O matri- lnony"
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Paul Revere and I revere Paul more today than I ever did in my life.
 Once I knew that he was quite a horseman and that he had put over quite little midnight sprint. But all along I had been thinking that could probably tell Paul about a few joy rides in Manhattan that would make nis stunt look like snail crawl. Now. however. l know that MT. Revere was wonderful individual because he has furnished Boston with more conversa- ton in these modern days than almost any man now living. Of course, Paul's midnight record has since been shat tered many times, but Boston does not care about that.
 Then there is Bunkum Hill. It may be possible that I am wrong in the smelling of that, but there was no sign Up from where I saw 1t, and that is my recollection of what the spieler said It was. Now, in New York we spell everything like thnt out in plain let ters and not only in English, but gen. orally in German, Italian, French and
 Hebrew. So Boston must admit that therein New York city has something on this seat of culture and learning.
 IT one visits Cambridge one finds much of interest. Harvard Is not ex- actly monument and there are lots ul young men there who are looking 10 the future and not living in the pa st, dS so many Bostonians seem to be do- ing.
 Within less than a week We will be pack on Broadway. An, that hath a swing to 1t that we like greatly. From the Boston, papers 1t seems that the autumn season is opening up in great shape on Manhattan and there should
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05
A Cold Douche

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 President Wilson tells of famous Princeton professor who supplied the pulpit one Sunday in the hamlet of Penn's Neck.
 He preached his finest sermon and thrilled the congregation in the little country church as 1t had never been thrilled before. At the close of the serv- ice he was feeling particularly well sat- isfied with himself when the leading elder approached and asked him; @
 ''Wsll doctor. what's the damAxeT
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or adjective used wrong is a worse crime than wife murder.
 But Boston does applaud Dixie" and for that one can forgive 1t much that Is historic and in condition for ir- mediate embalming
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lick cents 17ss, and has managed to keep the navy of the United States and few uther coun tries fairly bizzy cents. Hayti discuvvered in 1492 by Christofer Coumbust, probabully one of the most successful dscuvverers of the age, and favorite of Genowa, who seesed to regret 1t, and in that he has nuthng ennybody else
 Hayti is small iland with just enuff it to revvolute good and proper and just little too far away rum enny uther land for the revvoluters to swim when they get in tite phase, consequinty the usual fate of reyvoluter in Hayti is sum abrupt brand of fatal deeth administered by the ennemy While Hayti is small it is not in danger of being ovvercrowded by a large popuason; when citizen takes noson that theere air too menny folks in Hayti for the good of the country he goes out and pots few guyvermint offisals and makes things gennerelly ruff for the administration This makes life vastly interesting in Hayti. One can have a verry good time theere lodging revvolusions and riots and soft nosed bullets if he is fond of that kind Of sport. Though not in the class with Mexico when 1t cums to size and the number of peepul Hayt
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Ny ALLEN GRIFFIN JOHNSON

0STON, September 4.-tSpe-. cialD-First impressions of
 a city or human being are
 not always correct, nor re-
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; X: $: $: :: : lick cents 179S. and has managed to keep
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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. HE new world of Brazil.
 l write of one of the mighties countries on earth and of on, Of the least known. Brazil ha.
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The common idea of Brazil comes from the Amazon valley. Many look upon it as a low plain. hot and unhealthy. The truth Is the most oftthe country is made up of highlands. and more than half of 1t is an elevated plateau the mean altt-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

VIM. King OF Ironton was here a
few days last week looking after tie
and timber interests.
John Medlen of Sabula was noticed
on our streets Tuesday.
Jas. Middleton has traded 30 acres
Of his farm for property in Irondale.
We are informed his sale will take
place Saturday.
Dave Silvey, who recently sold his
farm east of town, has moved in the
Meyer house till spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. NJ. McColl of Pied
mont visited here last week.
Rev. l. N. Sherrow, wife and baby
spent the latter part of last week in
Belgrade.
Rev. Watkins, Presbyterian preach
er from Caruthersville, delivered three
excellen Mt sermons here last week.
j. @. McColl has been quite sick, but
is improving.
Mrs. ]. A. Townsend visited her
sister, Mrs. Tom Mari, in Ironton last
| week.
Jas. Davis, who purchased Dave
Silvy's farm one mile east of town,
came with his family last Monday. He
halls from Greensburgh, Kansas.
The free Oyster Supper given by
the Athletic Club at the Hall was a
little short of attendance, owing to
the inclemency of the weather. The
boys kindly remembered several of us
who were detained at home by the
rain, with a nice mess of fresh oysters
for breakfast. Quite sure we voice
the sentiment of all when we say,
''thanks.n
Profs. McColl, Boring and Town
send, u teacher boys, spent Thanks
giving with home folk.
]. H. Campbell attended Quarterly
Conference at Belgrade Saturday and
Sunday.
The Masons met at the Hall last
Saturday night-it being their regular
time. After the business was trans
acted a nice lunch was served. There
were visiting Masons from Ironton
Caledonia and Belgrade. ALPHA,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02
Goodland Items.

Lots of windy weather this year.
Fred Brakefield is quite sick at the
home of Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks.
J. L. Brooks killed a beef lately and
peddled it out.
G. G. Adams made a trip to Iron
Mountain last week to ship a load of
poultry for F. M. Adams.
N, w. Adams and son have their
years supply of wood cut and nicely
ranked.
Clifford Adams is becoming quite an
expert violinist.
As Mrs. Adams, who is organist at
the Baptist church, was crossing the
river she dropped her song book,
which went gently "foating down the
stream" and was not recovered.
Mrs. Terry and son, Bryan, were
Sunday guests of DR.. Adams.
Rev. M. Adams preached at Good
land Sunday morning and Rev. Farley
at Redmondyille Sunday night.
Mr.. Baker had quite an upset when
his wagon cut off part Of a steep bank
and turned completely over.
Mrs. Redmond Black has a very sore
hand.
Will Black came home from Logan's
Greek on a visit but went back to stay
| with his brother, who is still very i'll.
Another new house is being built at
Redmondville.
Mr.. Pippin came home from Mon
tana on a short visit. He has already
returned to his ranch. He says Miss
Velah is succeeding well in her school
where she is now taking tenth grade
work.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. @. Love with Miss
Verda Rayfeld attended church at
Goodland last Sunday.
Mr.. Downward and the pupils of Oak
dale school gave quite an interesting
little program lately on Patrons Day,
Several mothers attended and enjoy
ed the day.
Mr.. McColl's pupils gave a Thanks.
giving program last Wednesday, after
which a nice exhibition of running
jumping, pole vaulting, jumping the
rope and potato race was enjoyed by q
number of visitors. Not the least
laughable part of the entertainment
was the spectacle of Mesdames Love
and Adams jumping the rope.
TIMOTHY HAY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02
That Knife-Likt Pain.
Is Only One of Natures Warm
ings of Weak or DisOrdered
Kidneys. ,

Have you a lame back, aching day
and nigh? Do you feel sharp pains
after stooping9 Are the kidneys sore?
Is their action irregular? Use Doan's
Kidney Pills-the medicine recon-
mended by so many Ironton people.
Read this case:
Mrs. Frank Mayes, Fourth St., Iron
ton, says: kidney and bladder COM
plant came on me some years ago.
The kidney secretions we're disorder
ed and / could not lift or stoop with
out having pains in my loins. My
back was pierced by sharp, quick
pains. 1 doctored and used different
medicines, but Doan's Kidney Pills
gave me the first relief ! had ever re-
ceived.n
Price, SOC, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Mayes had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

THE German military executed an
English woman because she assisted
some prisoners to escape. So light
an offense surely deserved a lighter
punishment, and the civilized world
stands amazed that the quality of
mercy was unknown to her accusers.
Our German friends complain that we
are biased against them in the dread
full contest over the seas. Against
the German people, mol But against
the m~ilitaristic savagery that rules
that nation, yesl How could it be
otherwise? The New York Times
tells the truth as to general feeling
in the following paragraph:
Germany has brought herself into a
position whore the world turns from
her In horror and breads nothing so
much 10 the success Of her arms.
Mans love OF life, the chivalric senti-
ment OF man for woman, tender con-
sideration for the helplessness OF re
and youth, all these she has manned,
bruised and effaced with her mailed
fist, all these trampled under foot. The
executioners OF Edith Cavell but EAR
ried out the spirit and purpose Of the
Imperial military policy. They did
their part In the working ofthe brutal,
m0nstrous engine. IL is because OF
this spirit, Of these purpose0, of such
deeds ne that at Brussels that Ger
many has lost her standing among
civilized nations devoted to the ideals
q humanity and Of progress, it Is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02
Notice of Intention to Disincor,
pOrate.

.HN.# ..."N.
Notice is hereby given that at the
November term thereof, 1915, a petit,
ton, signed by j. H.. Kelley, Nicholas
Sohn and others, citizens Of the Town
of Pilot Knob, Missouri, was present.
ed to the County Court of Iron Coun-
ty, praying for the disincorporation Of
said Town, which petition was by the
Court passed until Monday, January
Sd, 1916, for a hearing thereon.
Therefore, all persons interested,
whether for or against said proposed
disincorporation, are hereby notified
that they will have an opportunity to
be heard with reference Go said petit
ton, If they will appear before said
County Court on the above mentioned
date.
BY order Of the Court.
ARTHUR HUFF,
Clerk County Court, Iron County, Mo
Ironton, Mo-, November 80, 1915.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

Notice is hereby given, that letters Of Adj
ministraticn on the estate Of Chas. Clinton,
deceased, have been granted to the UNDER
signed, by the Probate Court Of Iron Coun-
ty, Missouri, bearing date the 10Th day Of
November, 1915.
All persons having claims against said cs-
tate are required to exhibit them to the ADJ
ministrator for allowance within six months
after the date Of said letters, or they may be
precluded from any benefit Of said estate;
and II such claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date Of the last insertion
Of the publication Of this notice, they shall
be forever barred.
This 10Th day Of November, 1915.
ROBERT CLINTON, Administrator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02
BeIIeview News.

Mrs. Steve Bond Of Imogene, Okla
homa, is visiting relatives here.
Miss Jenna Logan Of st. Louis spent
Thanksgiving with home folk.
Robert Muse Of De Soto was shak-
ing hands with old friends on our
streets Saturday and Sunday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

On the first page of this paper is an
article headed, San American Plea
for an Embargo" which will repay
perusal. There is, of course, another
side to the question, but, for one, l
am not prepared to say faye" or
"nay.n Our German friends will no
doubt agree with the position taken
by the writer of the said article; but,
what il conditions were reversed?
Surprising Germany had control of
the seas and the Allies yer hemmed
in and could obtain no supplies from
the neutral nations, while Germany
was free to purchase and procure
whatever she needed and had the
money to pay for? Would not our
German Americans look upon a self
imposed embargo by Uncle Samuel as
an unfriendly act toward the Water
land? How often our desires control
our convictions!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

WE hail with delight the announce
ment that our highly esteemed broth
err, gTheodoreD. Fisher, is again to have
editorial charge of the Pennington
Times. Mr.. Fisher always was an
honor to the craft and it is pleasing to
know that he is getting in the harness
again.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

because of these things that the
prayer goes up in all the peaceful
countries of the earth that her
enemies may triumph, to the end that
such a ruthless rule may not be es-
tablished in power upon the earth.