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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

When Garfield was on his bed of
death the democrats of Ohio refrained
from making q canvass for an election
out of sympathy for his condition.
When Hoadly was sick the republican
leaders and newspapers in Ohio return
ed this Christian courtesy with brutal
taunts and ribald jeers of the demo-
cratic candidate for governor. An
All-wise Providence has punished
them for their coarseness n want of
decent feeling, and now it is the cal
umniator, Foraker, and the mccker,
Foster, who are sick, very sick. Who
is to sympathiz re with them under the
circumstances ? Not many, even of
their own party.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

We have not the least idea that Gov.
Crittenden agrees with Col. Ingersoll
in his notion that there is no hell.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Texas organized ~sixty-eight new
counties last year, making 200 in the
state. The increase of her taxable
property in the year was $1s0, 900 1000.
Chicago News:-ssThe Able Moig-
not is going to dredge the Red sea fol-:
relics of Pharaoh's army. If he suc-
ceeds he ought to come to Ohio aud
hunt for Foraker"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Nine million postal cards, which
will weigh about thirty tons, have
been ordered from the factory In Cas-
tleton, N. Y.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

A great many newspapers want
Thurman in the senate from Ohio.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Our opinion Of Buckeyes has I'm
nroved-
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

The prohibition amendment was de-
feated in Ohio by a majority of 10000.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

The Ohio election is q damper on
little Billy Malone.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Judge Hoadly's majority is about
II, 100,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20
County correspondence on outside.

Ohio democratic al over looks bet
Tor
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Independence Sentinel:-"The re-
publicans can hardly claim that they
were defeated in Ohio by the whisky
element. The returns show that in the
large cities, where the whisky element
is always strongest, both in votes and
political influence, the republicans
made the best run, and secured the
largest gains"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Elsewhere in this issue will be found
a call for a mass meeting of the citizens
of the county, on Monday, November 5,
to consider our county debt imbroglio.
We shall endeavor next week to give a
few reasons why this meeting should be
very largely attended.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

Our house Levels Prices, and
this is and has been its chief
fault in the eyes of its assail-
ants. In spite Of this, however,
our trade rapidly increases. and
every year We are compelled to
enlarge our borders in order to
accommodate the growing de-
mands Of the people.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20
Mexico Intellisencer nrobi-

Mexico Intelligencer:-''The prohi-
bitionists may as we'll understand, as
they will do later, that they cannot
force the acceptance Of their peculiar
and impractical, intolerant views
upon the people by denouncing those
who differ from them as whiskyites or
as friends of the saloons. Some of
their leading men have l.: dertakcn a
system of very vulgar bulldozing; but
the effort will recoil upon Them"
Kansas City Times:-ssThe republi=
al majority in Iowa owe all is now put
at $500. Over the democratic candi-
date 25,472. Both the greenbackers
and the democrats are free traders land
as the tariff will be the leading issue in
lows next presidential election this
state will be likely to cut loose forever
from her old rotten republican moor
ings."
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

The police commissioners in St. LOU
is have removed Chief of Police Camp
bell. an honest and satisfactory officer,
without apparent cause, and the people
are red hot, angry with the board and
censuring the governor. 1t is q terrible
middle, in which all sorts of charges
and counter charges are being made.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20
eve|ed!!

There is probably no store in Missouri
against which there have been so many shafts
violently directed as the one that for 80 manv
years we have struggled to build up in Kansas
City, and while ourselves have been profted
by our unremitting zeal and strongly directed
efforts, the public has been no less benefited.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-20

a you may want in the Dry Goods and Carpet line can be
Iound O. our house, and with our greatly improved Facilities
tor buying and handling Goods, we have no hesitation in
say z 70 9nr friends that we are better prepared to give
been before. ~" ~~A en~'e eveE
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
A Chance for Our Bows,

For some years past there has been a
prejudice against teaching American
boys any handicraft or trade. Our ap-
prentice laws have fallen into disuse :;
then the trades-unions have discrimina-
ted against lads who wished to become
mechanics. One valid reason against
training boy to particular handicraft
was the progress of invention, which
steadily supplanted manual labor by
ingenious machinery. Then, there are
so many opportunities for making mon
ey in trade and speculation that ambi-
tious young Americans are eager to ell
ter the fields of commerce, to become
politicians, and do anything, in fact,
rather than confine themselves to the
farm, the shop, or the mandatory
And so it comes about that when any
work requiring technical skill is re-
CURED, foreigners have to be employed.
Such Americans as must work at the
mechanic trades find themselves at a
disadvantage when competing with
trained foreigners. Americans lay the
brick but the stone-masons are from
Europe. There are native plasterers,
but the ornamental work is nearly al
ways entrusted to German. There are
American and English carpenters, but
the fine homework in hard woods, and
the carving and other decorations are
necessarily entrusted to the French
technically trained workman. Ameri-
cans paint houses, but for the frescoing
and decorative work the italian, French,
or German has the call. A change has
occurred of which our people have
not taken advantage. It is quite trEc
that machinery has supplanted manual
labor in the manufacture of clothing
material, but no inventor can take Tho
place of the artistic workman. W
have too many traders and spectators
An advertisement for book-kccDcr o.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
Cremation a Good Thing.

There are only three ways in which
dead bodies can be disposed of-either
in earth, sea or fire. There are obvious
objections, on the score of good taste,
to sending our dead to be torn to pieces
by fishes. It is also certain that our
cemeteries and graveyards, with slowly
decomposing masses of animal matter
leads to the surrounding soil being
poisoned by the production OF putrefac-
tion-a result that cannot be consider
ed healthy by any stretch of imagina-
ton. But if we burn a dead body to
ashes we do not need do injury to any
body, There is nothing unwholesome
in the ashes; which may be preserved
with reverent care as sacred relics, and
people who prefer to burn their dead
rather than let them ''lie in cold OBJ
struction and rot have both sense and
science on their side. Indeed we have
never heard anything like a good argu-
ment against cremation, except one. It
is stated that Belgium statesman, who
holds that if we burn dead bodies we
lessen the chances Of detecting cases of
poisoning. But surely it would be pos
sible to devise means whereby, whilst
the body was consumed, the stomach Of
each corpse might be preserved for q
certain time after death, lest it might
be wanted for analysis. We do not
share the terror of those bishops who,
like DR.. Wadsworth, thinks that crema-
ton may tamper with the popular be-
lief in the resurrection of the body; nor
can We affect to sympathize with the
Home Secretary, who, when cremation
was once bruted in his presence, is said
to have asked with horror: "But, then,
what shall we do for burial certificates ."
The world has gone after the sacrifice
of more important forms than the burial
certificate, which, to Sir Richard Cross,
seems an essential element in the con-
stitution of society; and it ought not to
be more difficult to believe in the resur-
rection of a body which shark has
eaten and digested than of one reduced
to ashes in a funeral pyre.-Lo22do1a
World.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
CiOte Scaurp and the Beasts.

An old Mohawk lives among the Mad
awaska Melicites, whose version of
Clote Scaurp's departure, as Martin
rendered it to us, is wild and beauti-
ful legend, dimly reminding one of the
Passing of Arthur" This is the drift
Of it: After a great many years the
ways Of beasts and men grew bad, and
Clote Scanrp spoke to them, and talked
to them, till at last he was angry and
very sorry; and he could endure them
no longer. So he came down to the
shores of the great lake and there he
made great feast, and all the beasts
came and Toasted with him. But no
men came to the feast, for they had
grown altogether bad, and Clote Scaurp
talked to the beasts very heavily. And
after the feast was done he got into a
big canoe, and took his uncle, the Great
Turtle, with him, and and sailed
straight out from shore over the big
lake into the setting sun, and the beasts
looked after them until they could see
them no longer. But Clote Scaurp was
singing, and so was the Great Turtle,
and the beasts listened to them singing
as they sailed away, after they could see
them no longer. And at last they
could not even hear them; and all the
beasts were silent. Then a very strange
thing happened. All the beasts that
had always spoken our tongue were no
more able to understand each other,
and they fled apart, each his own way,
and have no more met in council. And
Clote Scaurp's dog, his hunting dog,
whom Clote Scaurp would not take him
because his ways had been evil with the
other beasts, goes wandering up and
down the world searching for his
master, and often he bowls aloud in the
night.-F,OreSt and Stream.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15

n salesman is answered by thousan
persons, whilst skilled and artistic worl
men are so scarce that we are forced t.
import them from Europe. What VI,
need is such an extension of our publ
school system as will give to our boy
and girls the same advantages of al
education as those possessed by til,
young French, German, and Ital,
ian workmen. We want technica
industrial schools. There are too
many book-keepers, statesmen, mer-
chants, and politicians in the United
States. 1t is notifying fact that the
most keen-witted, inventive, and intelli-
gent people on earth allow themselves
to be beaten in many of the industrial
arts by foreigners who have not the
same natural capacity, but who have
the advantage of an excellent technical
and artistic education. American
fathers should see to it that
their sons and daughters are taught oc-
equations in which foreigners now ex-
eel, and in which there is no danger of
competition in the way of improved
machinery.-DemorestS Monthly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
The Lines Of the Hand.

So little is known about palmistry in
this country that the people are quite
astonished to find out how much there
is in it when the general outline of it's
principles are described to them. It is
not hard to tell fortunes by the hand,
and one need not be q gypsy queen to
be able to do it. Hands are divided in
to three different kinds: Those with
round, pointed fingers, those with
square tips, and those that are spade
shaped, with pods of flesh at each side
of the nail. The first type, with round
pointed fingers, belongs to characters
with quick perceptions, extra sensitive,
to very pious people, to contemplative
minds, to the impulsive, and to all poets
and artists who have Ideally as a prom
inent trait. The second type, those that
are square-shaped, belong to scientific
people, to sensible, self-contained char
acters, and to the class of professional
men who are neither visionary nor al
together sordid. The third type, those
that are spade-shaped, with pods of
flesh at the side of the nail, indicates
people whose interests and instincts
are mostly material, people who have a
genius for business and who have a
high appreciation of everything that
pertains to bodily use and comfort.
Each finger, no matter what kind of a
hand it is, has joint Representing each
of these types. The division of the fin
ger that is nearest the palm stands for
the body, the middle division repre-
sents mind, and the highest joint spirit
Of soul. If the top joint is longer than
the others it denotes character with
too much imagination, great ideality
and leaning toward the theoretical
rather than the practical. When the
middle joint of the finger is long, it
promises logical, calculating mind
a very commonsense kind of a person
and when the lowest joint is the longest
it indicates a nature that clings more
to the luxuries than to the refnements
of life, mind that looks for the utility
before beauty. If they are nearly alike,
and especially if the length of the fin
ger equals the length of the palm, it
indicates well-balanced mind. The
principal lines on the hand are the line
of life, which runs around the base of
the thumb; the line of the head, which
begins alongside the line of life, cross
ing the middle of the palm; and the
line of the heart, which goes from one
side Of the hand to the other at the
base Of the fingers. A long and we'll
defined line of the head promises intel
lectual power, and pole line means in
decision. A good-looking line of the
heart augurs well for the owners hap
piness. If it sends short lines toword
the line of the head it is taken to mean
that the love of that person will only be
given to those who have earned their
respect. Such are few of the points
OF the science which this winter nearly
every one in intelligent social circles
will be practicing and TALKING about.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
The Value cf Precious S!C!,py,

The diamond miHes Of Draz;I ~
fist opened in 1927. 1t is eai;;ca..
tiat since that time they have prttln".
~ least two tons Of diamonds. Ii -;
land, Q stone weighing enc carat a.i1
tie purest water is orth wien cuv ah
polished about 500 The dealers !:
rough stones acquire the habit OF /:
tinguishing the water Of rourM 81.
10y simply breathing upon ii. An..
the historic diamonds, the Raj
weighed 367 carats and the Great Eln.s.
$50. Before it was cut the latter cs.,s.
800 carats. From the compoSition q,
the diamond we see what costly tilio.
nature makes from common materia.
All the diamond fields of the world are
not worth the anthracite fields of Penn
sylvania. Since 1910 there have bee.
two Pauics, when diamonds rose a4t;
fell like other securities. One was j.
Brazil in 1913, and the other was Nv.
years later, at the time of the revolt
ton in France. This stone is found il,
India, Brazil, South Africa, Borneo, Al
geria and the United States.
Job speaks of the price of wisdom be-
ing above rubies. A ruby of five carats
is double the value of q diamond of that
size, and one of ten carats is worth
three times as much as a diamond of
corresponding size. A perfect ruby is
the rarest of all stones. These gems
were once used as charms against poison
and wicked thoughts. They are often
initiated with real stones, the most COM
mon being spinel. But it is not difficult
to distinguish the imitation, as the ruby
is the only stone having pigeon-red
color. Another precious stone is the
sapphire, which is like the ruby. with
the exception of the color. The
emerald is deep green, the deeper the
better. It loses no brilliancy in an ar
tifcial light, but its color may be ex-
PEELED by a gentle heat. Most of our
emeralds come from New Granada. and
will always have flaws. In limitations if
Is not the hardness nor the color that is
sought, so much as the flaw. This stone
was said to cure palpitations, hypochon-
dria. and other imaginative diseases,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
Why Men Walk Into Danger,

This reason is simply the worship of
chance. Men habitually place their
property, themselves and their families
in situations where they know that dan
ger exists and that merely perfunctory
precautions are taken against it. It APP
pears that the willingness Of the world
to take chances is the real cause of the
most of the loss and suffering produced
by accidents. Lumber is cheaper than
brick and mortar, solid arches and tile
floors; q long, hollow iron wedge is
cheaper than strongly built steamship
with water-tight compartments; stoves
are cheaper than safety-heaters, and
green men are cheaper than experienced
and careful railroad hands. All these
dangerous conditions are supplied by
the capitalists because the public will
pay It's money and accept all the risk
just as readily as if they were avoided
at much greater expense. Against this
state of affairs nothing could be said if
it were not for that small body of peo-
pie who must travel, who must go to
hotels, and who must work in danger
GUS mines and factories, and who yet
demand a reasonable amount of safety
in all their outgoings and mornings
They are forced to take risks against
their will, although willing to pay more
for safety; and they not only have q
right to complain about the usual way
of the world, but they ought to com
plain loudly. Perhaps they may find
themselves in the majority after awhile,
but if they could other people be-
lieve they are now in the majority their
demanded reforms would be forthcom-
ing. A Universal Safety Demanding
Society might be found practical and
beneficial in protecting its members and
others from the prevalent habit of
taking the chances"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
Mexican Crneitv,

An Azatin man who made a pro-
longed trip through Mexico, gives us
some interesting details OF his trip. He
says that when he was in the CITY of
Mexico he was shown through some of
the cid buildings. converts and iails
that we're erected by the Spaniards. In
the wall of one of these ancient build
ings he noticed a small opening, and he
naturallay inquired of his Mexican
guide what it meant. He was told it
was one of the buildings in which Grim
inalswere walled up alive. "What was
the use of that hole in the wall ?"
"Well, Senior. you see, as long as the
prisoner lived his food was handed in
to him on plate, and he handed the
empty plate back, but when he handed
the plate back with the food on it I'M
touched, then the Jailer knew the
prisoner was dead already, and didn't
give him any more" -Terqs Sifti42gs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
MOnOpOliSts in the Senate.

The railroad corporations are making
vigorous efforts to increase the number
OF their attorneys and retainers in the
Senate. Their success so far has been
uninterrupted. In Democratic State
these corporations work in the Demo
cratic party, as witness the case of Sen
ator Brown of Georgia. In Repub-
hcan State they work in the Republican
party, as witness the election of Wilson
i'll Iowa, and DoFph in Oregon.
The next struggle will take place in
Kansas, where the corporations are sup
porting Plumb for reelection. Whether
they can hold their grip on that State
will soon be determined.
The old parties will never make a
square fight against the monopolies of
transportation. The men who lead
and control in politics are but puppets
in the hands of the railroad kings
Springfield 1To.) Statesman.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
Birds Of the Coast Range.

1t is hard to realize myself in Califor-
MIA. Looking one way, [ might easily
think cypress swamp in Louisiana my
hospice; looking another, my Eastern
mountain scene is duplicated, from
North Carolina to tho Adirondacks. OF
course a minute glance detects differ
ences at once, but the general impress
sion is about the same one would gather
from wild bit Of wet woodland in the
hills of any Atlantic State. Always on
the lookout for my friends the birds, I
see that stranger would scarcely no.
tice the difference between California
and the Catskills in this respect. The
scream of the wOodpeckers, the short
whistle of the plumed quail-knightly
bird the loud click and chatter of a
blazing, bee-like hummer, would excite
his question; but one hears here the
same kind of melody, and recognizes
the songs Of old friends in a new brogue,
as Is to be expected of cousins living on
this side of the big continent. Among
these low bushes, for instance, finch is
bobbing about, chirping in a metallic
manner perfectly familiar; and from
another bush comes a joyous roundelay
telling me at once that it is song-spar-
row that is the performer. The black
birds, nesting in the willows so we'll
moated by the sluggish creek, carol
above their treasures in just the happy
go-lucky strain one hears in an Ohio
"swale," but, improving on it, have con-
verified the old cherry roulade INTO the
sharp iingling of an armful of small
sleigh-bells. Chickadees and wrens
squeak and chatter at you, the solemn
wall of the dove comes from the dark
cliff, the coarse scream of the jay (here
bluer and with more swagger than at
home, and the pretty prattle of many
warbler, all suggest, if they do not
precisely tally with, the familiar bird
notes of Eastern woods and swamps. I
have heard it said that the birds in
California do not sing. It is wicked
libel. They are more musical, on the
whole, [ believe, than those of the At
lantic coast, and richer melody was
never heard than drops from their
happy Threats during all these sun
shiny May days.-ErneSt h2gerSoU, IN
Hd1peT''S Magazine.