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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
ID. J.. WATERS

l., the undersigned. bought one of Bowen,s
Perfect Grain and Grass Seed Cleaners and Sens.
fat"rs last year. After trying it thoroughly l
can recommend it to do the work that Is claimed
IL can d". ! found it to be just the very thing
mat every iarIner ought to have. Respectfully.
HENRY SLUSHER.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
EXECUTOR,s NOTICE.

ETTERS Parliamentary ON the estate of
IL calvin II. Fox, dec, ascd. were granted to
the undersigned on the p day of July, 1882,
bv the Probate court vi Lafayette county,
Missouri.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them To us for allowance
within one year after the date of this notice or
they may be precluded from any benefit oi sucl
estate; ami ii such claims lie moi exhibited v iih-
in two years they will lac forever barred.
Jersey T. EuX,
CHARLES X. ANDERSON.
iyogt5 Ex.cut,ru
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02

l have one of BOwen's Perfect Grain a,d
"'nsH Seed S''parators. after trying it 1 am will
ing l" say 1t Is the best thing OF tn. kind that L
nav ever seen. e. c. sLUSHER.
Nes"'-'' iooa. sept2l4
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
SCH00L NATIEE

SOA3UVn/ NNaACE
MISS GABRIELLE HAWKINS
IN1 Se.ect School lOr Girls and A
Small Boys. will open the fA
FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER. VL
e. Room. corner OF Franklin and 80
Ash streets ..n,,,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,

CEALED proposals. will b.. received ut lie
- office of the ti'y Register mil noon ON
Monday. S. ptember luth, lss,. for the following
work:
4" raise the ManhOlr on Spring Street. north
Of North street. Four Feet and To MI iu the
ear'hwOIk tn correspond herewith.
The city Reserves the right To reject any anil
all bids. JOHN TAUBMAN,
augl9td CITY kegi.trr.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
FARM FOR SALE.
PROPOSALS. FOR CIT,Y ,yOnk

OEALED proposals will he received VI The
- Office Of the Civ Register until noon on
Mondny: September 10th. ISL, Tor the ludlow
ing work:
10 furnish all the material and to put II good
tin no Il OF l y Charcoal roofing Tin best brand,
ON the CITY Hall, under the super vision
ana according to the specifications in the Office
oil the City Engineer.
The CITY reserves the right to reject any and
all bids. JOHN TA(fHMAS.
AluIntN lifp Ra.,tSgcr
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02

We ON hand a sIyltsh Ine o LADIES' N Gents, Slsppers =
Sandals and opera slippers.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-02
Wilker & Miller's New Store.

ae6 K. b. BERR1E, Lexington, Mo.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
Feeding Horses.

The horse has the smallest stomach in
proportion to his size of any animal.
Fifteen or sixteen quarts is its utmost
capacity. This space is completely filed
byfour quarts of oats with the saliva.
that goes into the stomach with it
Horses are generally overfed, and not
fed often enough. For horse with
moderate work, six or eight quarts of
bruised oats and eight or ten pounds of
fine hay day is sufficient This should
be fed in at least three meals, and is
better if fed in four.
A horses digestion is very rapid, and
therefore he gets hungry sooner than a
man. When he is hungry he is ineffec-
tive, and wears out very rapidly. Water
fills tile stomach, lowers the tempera-
ture, and dilutes the gastric juice, there
fore a horse should not drink Immediate
ly before eating. Neither should he be
watered Immediately after eating, be-
cause he will drink too much, and force
some of the contents of the stomach into
the Jorge intestine, which will cause
securing. Securing is also caused by
too rapid eating, which can be prevented
Dy putting Hall q dOAOh PCOO1OS, HILL
the size of the fist, into the Manager with
the oats.
Give only moderate drink of water
to horse. A large drink Of cold water
before being driven will have very
quieting effect upon a nervous horse. A
race horse always runs on an empty
stomach. Digestion progresses moder-
ately during exercise, if the exercise is
not so violent as to exhaust the powers
of the horse. I consider bruised oats
worth twenty per cent. more than whole.
They are more compactly digested.
Prefer oats to any other grain for horses.
Cracked corn is very good under some
circumstances, but [ wouldn't use meal
or shorts. The disease called big head
is caused by feeding corn.
When horse comes in hot, l would
give moderate feed Immediately. If
the horse is too tired to eat take his
feed away. A heated body is a reason
against watering, and for feeding, for
the system is then just in the condition
to begin digestion. A horse will not
founder if fed moderately when hot. l
prefer dry feed unless horse has some
disease of the throat or lungs. Do not
consider it worth while 70 cut hay. [
always feed hay from the floor, then the
horses do not get particles in their
eyes,
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mountains, and across lonely plains;
and seldom In daytime could he safely
venture out, for, as he knew, many per-
sons IN all parts OF the country were
vigilantly watching to capture him.
Poor boy! He continually urged his
faithful followers to leave him, lest they
should endanger their own lives. But
they refused, for they loved him and,
indeed, even the cruel soldiers of his
uncle thought of the little Prince with
tenderness.
And this was a fortunate thing for
him. For one day, as he lay concealed
in some bushes, he heard the tramp of
many feet and saw the soldiers In the
distance.
Nearer and nearer they came, until
about sunset they pitched their tents
close to the hidden Prince and ended
the day by lively dance. The keen
glance of one of the soldiers spied the
poor Prince trying to hide among the
bushes near by. Quick as flash the
kind-hearted fellow picked him up and
put him into the great drum, and while
the other soldiers IN ring around the
camp fire were noisily singing they lit
tie knew how snugly the long desired
prize, for which they had travelled so
far, lay concealed at their very feet.
And at last change came for both the
wicked uncle and the young Prince.
Men tired of Moxtla's severity and cruel
ty, and lamented the alteration since the
peaceful rule of Nezahualcoyotl's father.
Then they thought of the Prince, and
resolved to fight for him.
Gladly he received this good news,
and, returning with his faithful followers,
he fought great battle and, being SO
fortunate as to gain the victory, he was
crowned King, and reigned over Mexico
for years afterward, a wise and good
ruler.-Sarah c. Very, IN st. Nicholas.
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into friendliness, and he led them to q
cave where he sheltered them for two
days.
All readers of history know how Mar
garet's heroic struggles were finally
overcome in the last brave effort of the
Lancastrians at Tewksbury, that "fatal
field that witnessed the death of s'the
gallant, spring1ng young Plantagenet.
The despair of Queen Margaret at this
overwhelming disaster was lifelong.
She was brought to London with the
youthful widow of her beloved son, the
lll-fated Anne of Warwick, to grace the
train of the victor. The same night the
Queen was imprisoned in the Tower.
and to the loss of her son was added
that of her husband, who was murdered
at the same time by Richard, Duke of
Gloucester.
After long and weary period, in
which she was conscious of nothing but
an awful sense of utter desolation, the
childless, widowed and dethroned Queen
was ransomed by her kind old father,
King Rene, at the sacrifice of his inher-
ltance of Proyence-of that Provence
which had once rung with joyful accla-
nations at sight of the lovely Margaret
and her beautiful mother. "Anjou's
lone matron had now drunk too deeply
of the cup Of sorrow and bitterness to
take much interest in anything that life
could offer her. The agony and fierce
agitations she had undergone turned
the whole mass Of her blood, and every
trace of her once ravishing beauty dis
appeared. She made the most strenu-
Gus efforts to obtain the bodies of her
murdered husband and son. Even this
consolation was denied her; yet up to
the last day of her life she employed
some faithful ecclesiastics in England
to perform at their humble graves the
Offices deemed needful for the repose Of
their souls.
The remainder of her life was passed
in the greatest seclusion. She expired
at the Chateau of Damprierre, on the
25th of August, 1880, in her 51st year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
Rats and COckroaches on Board Of Ship.

The natural history of voyage would
be incomplete, however, without some
reference to those old nautical mess
mates, rats and cockroaches. Rats fire.
quently ascend the rigging, and when
discovered aloft the word is given, and
the unhappy rodent has to run the
gauntlet of marlingspikes held by will
ing hands below. l have noticed several
cases of apparent suicide by the rat on
these OCCASIONS it seemed to spring
overheard from the rigging when it had
descended almost to the shrouds, where
enemies were stationed and cut off its
escape. have also seen it apparently
spring overheard when pursued by my
dog, the action appearing of voluntary
nature. My dog was a small italian
greyhound, presumably of pure breed,
and the last animal that could be consid-
cred "good for rats" However. such
was the case. and few of these trapped
rodents in an empty beef cask provided
always moment Of excitement for this
little and unlikely-looking dog. The
explanation / take to be this It is
custom to cross black-and- tan terriers
with the italian greyhound to increase
the length of the nose, and this has gone
on for some time, especially in breeding
the so-called "toy" terriers. NY little
greyhound bitch probably had terrier
blood, and inherited instinct" Bats
seem to increase In temerity with the
length of the voyage, and their presence
IN time becomes less Objectionable. Be-
fore the voyage was furnished I quite
lost the repugnance I at first felt when
they sometimes ran across my bed at
night As regards the ubiquitous cock
reaches (BlGttG spy learned to forget
their depredaEons in admiration of their
tenacity of life Bennett records these
insects as drinking the ink, and, as far
as my experience goes, nothing comes
amiss to them. Certainly, when they
were found eating my arsenical soap,
and apparently with immunity, I gave
up all attempts at extirpating them
from my cabin. At intervals the cock
reaches would fly about during the night,
and this | considered more disagreeable
than the visits of rats. They, however.
only took wing at rare intervals, and
have met with no explanation of that
habit. DR.. Seeman, in his ga Mission
to VIII" states that at Fiji cockroachea
so swarm In some vessels that they have
to be sunk under the water to free them
from the pest.-London Field.
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SpOsen.a Case.
Detroit Free Press.1

A couple of excursionists took seats on
the east portico of the city hall, directly
under the window Of the chief of police.
He was bean-pole looking chap of %,
with dust an inch thick on his back, and
she was an authenticated angel of 90.
wearing a solid shoe, and chewing three
guilds Of gum rolled into one. For a
long time they sat and looked at the
fountains, and sighed and were silent.
Then he tenderly queried:
Hammer, isn't it dreamy"
"Yum," she answered.
II could sit here forever" whispered
he.
81 don't believe 1 could-Td be hun
cry"
More silence and signs, and then he
took her elbow in his hand, and said
Hammer, Tn hungry now"
''Didn't you bring q biscuit along?"
Hungry for your love, Hanner-not
for biscuits. Hammer, sposen we sposen
a case.
sFWell?"
"Sposen I knew justice of the peace
who would marry us. F."
''How much?"
''Two dollars"
"Fave you got the money!
"Hanner, do you doubt my love? I've
got rs cents, and I'll hunt up the Harker
boys and borrow the rest.
''1'm afraid"
CHOW, Hammer"
81 can't; you know my folks don't
like you.
Hammer, hitch this way till I talk to
you. Sposen I bought you peanuts and
candy and watermelon. Sposen you
returned my great love, and concluded
to hitch to mo before some other girl
captured the prize? We'd gently slip
down these steps, turn the corner of this
stately edifce, walk to the shop of a
Justice, and you'd have me, and I'd
have you"
ooh, dear, but pa would rave"
"Hold on, Hammer. Your par needn' t
know it--no one will know it. Well
keep it as silent as the grave until I had
made your par respect me for what am.
Gimme half show and I'll make your
par foller me around like a calf within a
year, and your mar will fairly love the
ground I walk on. Come on, Hammer,
let's Slip"
ooh, Gawge!"
"Hanner-Hanner! Think of the
romance-the love--the mystery-the
tenderness-the gold watches and dia-
mond rings and silk dresses"
"When?"
"Why, next year, when wool comes
of. Don'tI own forty acres of land?
Don't I dote on you? Would [ ask you
to slip around if didn't love you above
the best boss in the country? Hammer,
let's slip"
''And you really love-"
Then they slipped. They caught
sight Of a six-foot farmer coming up
from the walk, with big cane on one
arm and his wife on the other, and the
girl slid for Michigan avenue, and the
lover for Griswold street, the latter
whispering to himself as he lodged
through the city hall:
'That's her old dad, and he knocks
oxen down with that clubl'
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
Honor.

Trustee Pullback arose to secure in
formation. He wanted to know if honor
compelled colored man to accept a
challenge to fight duel. If not, what
would honor compel him to do in case
an enemy halted at his gate and dared
him to come out of his house and get
mashed.
"Honor am Gurus thing, Brudder
Pullback," replied President Gardner.
" In case you are better shot dan your
inemy it am honorable to meet on de field
an kill him. If you think it will sartin
to Kill you it am honorable to excuse
yourself on de ground of havin' game
leg. If I made an inemy an he Gums
along to my cabin an splits on his hands
an hops up an down an calls fur me to
come out to be pulverized, lie gwine to
consider befo' [ go out. If l am purity
sartin dat I kin wollop him, lie gwine to
feel honor bound to rush out an break
his nose. If he looms up like sidehill,
an if he pears to hev lots of science,
lie gwine to send my ole won IN out dar
to tell him dat if he doan fly outer dat
she'll call de hull perleece force an put
him whar de calves can't bite him. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
An Arkansas Guiteau.

"Parson Timothy" said The Judge to
q colored man who had just been ar
raigned, "you are charged with stealing
Deacon Ihompscns wife. I have known
you for years, and had always considered
you an upright man. And now, sir. that
you are arraigned on so terrible charge,
with such overwhelming proof against
you, must confess that my faith in the
colored part of humanity is greatly
shaken by a severe chill from the dark
swamps Of deception. AS you expect
one day to be arraigned befole Bar
from which there is no appeal, tell me,
are you guilty? Did you run away with
Deacon Thompson's wife ?"
"Jedge, replied Timothy, after sew
eral minutes reflection, it would take
me some time to splain dis matter ter de
satisfaction oh de Court But I'll try.
| is preacher, as yerself well knows,
an has assisted many man In fndin'
the Lamb"
I" Yes," broke in witness, can yer
foun' my sheep an stole it last fall, an l
ken prube it. +"
"Silence !" Numbered the Judge, "or
you will be stood on your head. The
prisoner shall be protected. The Con-
stitution of the United States declares
in italics that prisoners are entitled to
the respect and floral tributes of every
man, woman and child in the country"
"You are mighty Confed, Judge"
said the prisoner GAS [ was going to
remark, 7 love Deacon Thompson like a
red mule loves oats. Visitin' his house
often, I seed dat his wife glib him great
deal oh 'noyance. I seed, sepenter
somethin' was done, dar would be split
in de family. After studyin' de ques-
ton seberal days I was inspired to re.
move d oman. De impulse was so
strong dat [ couldn't shake it off. At
fairs grew wusser an wusser. At last
went ober ter de deacon's house an re-
moved de oman"
The Prosecuting Attorney then read
several afEectionate letters that had been
written by the prisoner.
"Judge," exclaimed the prisoner,
" that Prosecuting Attorney is a fool,
an owe the witness ten cents for
board. (Sensation in the Courtroom.
[ was inspired to remove the woman"
!" We're you ever crazy ?" asked the
counsel for defense.
l should remark" answered the
prisoner. II flung a Ratchet at ole
master fore de war, an afterwards butt
my head agin beech tree till it throbbed
ike stone-bruise. I is heightened
niggar, an eff [ hadn't come ter Little
Rock | might hab staid away. Don't
let bow-legged Ike testify, fur I bor-
rowed shirt from him"
Here a frisky negro stepped up and
struck the prisoner with hoop-pole.
The prisoner in his excitement called
the Judge a liar. Recess was then
taken, during which time the prisoner
ate boiled cabbage. After recess the
prisoner acknowledged that he owed an
other witness ten cents. Then the Court
adjourned. Little Rock Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
Give lis a Rest.

Look around the reporters table.
There never was a more brilliant set Of
young men than that found in journal
ism. What becomes of them2 You
might as well ask for dead mule You
don't find many of them occupying the
managing editors desks of great dailies.
Why They rarel- i've to be old enough
for that. They wear out their lives in
a work that affords little rest. "Give
us a rest. . I can't tell you how vou
can rest, but you must rest or die. An
American at 40 is at most wreck. We
waste the best of our lives by burning
our life candle at both ends. Our
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
a COAT TALE.
BIZ H. G. DODGE.

Old Tommy Taylor, tailor and
Retailer, doth retail
Old army coats and coats Of aims,
And also coats Of mae.
With coat Of paint he paints his coats
Of arms above his door;
His motto is, 8 / sew the tares,
Sew all my rip the more"
He'll press suit and suit press
OF business, while keeping
An eye on those around him, and
An iron clothes creeping.
He is an artist tailor and
Ills artist work, he'll tell,
" getting pay from customers
Until be custom well.
When ere his sewing was lot
His owing was little,
And though III fits he never got
He often got a ut i'll.
He seldom tore his clothes, although
He'd often close his store,
And then he'd eye his clothes while,
Then close bis eyes and snore.
To thread a little needle
He would needle little thread;
When cutting dandy's suit he'd say,
"This scissor cut dread"
In winter he invests in vests;
In summer pants in pants;
In spring he sews some seedy things;
In fail he rips, perchanee.
He would make breeches Of the piece
Which he was bound TO keep,
But none cared for his htIla fleece
Because his goods were sheep.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
schnol.Ror Tronhles.

The witches get in my books, know,
Or else it's fairy elves,
For when study, they plague me 30
feel ike one Of themselves.
Often they whisper: Come and play,
The sun is shining bright!n
And when fling the book away
They nutter with delight.
They dance among the stupid words,
And twist the "rules awrY;
And ny across the page like birds,
Though 1 can't see them ny.
They witch my feet, they blur my eyes,
They make me drowsy, too;
In fact, the more fellow tries
To study, the worse they do.
They can't be heard, they can't be seen
1 know not how they look
And yet they always Turk between
The leaves Of lesson-book.
Whatever they are I can not tel,
But this is plain as day;
/ never'll be able to study well,
As long as the book-elves stay.
st. Nicholas.
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amusements themselves are a worry.
We go away on summering, bang up
and down the country, and obtain the
advantages of what? Rest-of fash
ionable season.. w Tourgee's Lect-
are on Rest.
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The NindieSt City.

A citizen of Buffalo, who had been
reproached with living in the windiest
city in the land, wrote, some years
since, to General Myers for the statistics
on the subject. In reply he received
table which he has just published in the
Buffalo Courier, showing the quantity
of wind, measured in miles, which passed
over the principal cities of the United
States during the year ending Novem-
Der 80, 1874. The following is the
table:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24

A CHICAGO gambler estimates that the
annual robbery by his profession in that
city will aggregate $S,000.0 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24

YOUTHS and girls who are men and
wemen before they become Of age are
nobodies by the time backward people
have shown their full compass.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
A Wonderful Tree.

Why men occasionally see sea serpentsi
and other snakes is plain enough but
what is there in a Jersey cedar to ac-
count for the following from the Clinton,
n. j., correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times. He says:
"a farmer living near Schooley Noun
tain has greatly excited his neighbors
by an account of a wonderful tree which
he discovered several years ago, and
which he has been watching ever since.
He says for three years it has gone
through the cold weather without she'd
ding leaf. It is a maple tree, and It's
sap makes very good maple sugar.
1.-The farmer noticed it first while fol-
lowing the trail of a fox up over the
mountain early in December, 1878 All
the other trees, even Of the same species,
were entirely bae, while this tree had
not, to all appearances, lost a single leaf
There were no dried leaves underneath
it, and the leaves on the branches we're
all green. 1t was with great difficulty
that leaf could be pulled from the
twig to which it was fastened, and
strong breeze, which was blowing at the
time, had no effect upon the leaves. So
astonished was the discoverer at the
phenomenon that he forgot all about the
fox he was after and the cold character
Of the day, and spent several hours ex-
aiming the tree.
" He went home greatly puzzled, and
returned several days later with clergy
man living in the vicinity. They de-
termined to mark several of the leaves
and see how long they remained where
they were. They also resolved to keep
the thing a secret and watch its progress
until spring. This they did When
April arrived the leaves which they had
marked were just as green and fresh as
in December, and the tree itself was not
affected Id the least by the severity of
the weather and the many windy blasts.
"The bark was tapped every week and
yielded a plentiful supply of sap;
enough to keep both the farmers and min
ister's families in syrup all winter long.
The same has been tried ever since not
leaf has fallen, to the best of their be-
lief, since the day the tree was first
noticed, and the sap has flowed with the
same regularity and profusion.
AS far as can be ascertained, there Is
no cause for the mysterious vitality of
that particular maple. There is nothing
In the sod or sub-soil to render growth
more available or make the trunk and
branches better able to stand the storms
and cold weather.
"a number Of people have lately VS.
tied the curiosity, but each one comes
away perfectly mystifed. At the pres
ent time not another tree on the whole
mountain, with the exception of several
evergreens near the hotels, has leaf on
it, and the trunks and branches stand out
bleak and bare. This maple is in an
exposed spot, unprotected from the
winds and surrounded by rocks. Just
why it is as it is battles the ingenuity Of
all beholders. Even the regular Decem-
Der fox hunt is cast IN the shade by this
perpetually green maple tree. "
Az rv1r7.,-or hoe Ionor art1pIa On