The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-23
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senator's will see Secretary
Rusk al the department of agriculture
and ask him to secure the
services of ex-Secretary Norman D..
Colman to superintend the sugar
making experiments the coming session..
The senators say that the success SO
far obtained in this field of discovery Is
due to Col. Colman, and they believe
that the best results will be obtained
by having the work continued uhoer
his immediate supervision. There 10
in the appropriation bill a provision
apart $S5 5000 to continue these
experiments. The republican senators
feel that no partisan considerations
should be allowed to stand in the way
of completing the success They say
that if ex-Secretary COlman is willing
to 90 ahead with the work he has 80
well begun it will be a mistake not to
take advantage Of his experience.
The measure of success attained last
season with the diffusion process is not
generally known. 1t is understood al
the department that the Fort Scott
sorghum sugar works, where the
government began experimenting three
or tour years ago, cleared $50 1000 in
six weeks. Col. Parkinson, the presi-
dent of the Fort Scott company, has
admitted that sugar was made last
year with a good profit, but has refused
to give figures" Col, Colman is too
useful q man to be lost to the agricul-
tural bureau, a service in which he did
not enlist Yesterday, or last week, or
last month, but in which he has been
constantly and in%telligently laboring
for over thirty years. Mr.. Celman
was the best head the department Of
agriculture ever had, and 1t is q loss to
the agricultural interests of the
try that he was not retained there.
But of course that would have been
very radical civil service reform. We
hope he will, at least. be retained In
the position Indicated in the above
dispatch, if he is willing to accept it.
At any rate, the desire to have him
retained, even by republicans, is
creditable to him in the extreme.
The st. Louis Republic has for some
months been forging to the front as q
live, progressive, wide-awake and
original newspaper. 1t adopts nc
lines laid down by others, but looks
out for new ones upon which to en-
large, and the public is fast coming to
view it as par excellence the leading
newspaper of the Mississippi valley
Heretofore the energies of daily news.
paper Offices have been stored up to
make of the Sunday issue a mammoth
one, regardless of the fact that thou.
sands of people at a little distance
could not receive it until Monday, when
the cares of business again absorbed
the readers time. The Republic pro.
poses to remedy this, and has per-
manently enlarged its Saturday issue
to Is pages. aftording space for a
much reading matter as in the Sunday
number. New features will be added
until in attractiyeness twill equal the
Sunday paper in all respects, and will
fill the place of a Sunday edition to al
who live beyond the reach of the Sun
day paper Oh the day of its publication
Newspaper readers will do well t.
note these changes and to take ad
vantage of them.
The criminal Jurisprudence commit
tee of the house at Jefferson City ha
brought In q substitute for the DeerinI
high license bill which seems to fit tn
situation Iretty well. 1t is as sever
and as regulative as 1t well could b
without being prohibitive. That SHOULD
satisfy temperance advocates. and tn
liquor interests should be satisfied wit
any system short of prohibition whic
will be a settlement of the question
, The chances, however, are that thi
measure will please neither extreme,
: which case it will possess the yer
highest recommendation for passage
We say all this with only q ousor
glance at the bill, and 1t Is not intende
) as an unconditional Endorsement of a
its provisions. We want to see q GOO
) law passed, and we hope this one wi
be so perfected that it can pass. III
u manner OF imposing the license, whit
appears to be in conflict with the CO.
! stitution, article <, section 10, mayo
. modified and brought under the tor
u of the Downing law. The only THU
u we care particularly for in that regaI
. is, that the big end of the ia K shall
. to the city.
The executive committee of the r
a Ridge Reunion Association of t
n blues and grays has made arrang
n ments for their reunion September 4
If 6 next. The officers OF the commit
IN are Capt. Geo. T. Lincoln, presiden
Il Capt. II. NJ. McGaughey, seoretar
ia E. 3. Morgan, treasurer. The mer
10 bers of the committee are: Ora.
! Capt. Geo. L. Lincoln. Capt. j.
70 Steel, C. L. PIckens, j. B. Lalnk:
=, John F. Shepard and John William
m Blues, Capt. Lewis Pickett, Capt.
G M. McGaughey, e. s. Morgan, P.
Roberts, Capt. Il. II. McCubbins a
~ A. j. Wilks. The association has Q
tanned the title to a 40. acre tract abe
2 miles from the famous Elkho
~ tavern on Pea Ridge battlefield, VIII
10 Is susceptible of being made a VI
beautiful pleasure ground.
is Well, well, to compensate for all
er trusts that cause other people TO 'buI
ss here is one that has itself gone a
Us sbusted'-th he spool and bobbin tru
Id Long may it 60 bobhin through
)i- realms of time wound up on the sp
of discomfort with pooling. The ca
is of the failure was that the memb
Y. were not only sufficiently rascals
is, agree to swindle the public, but I
to having done this they proceeded
nit swindle each other US well, by bre
it ing faith as to the amount they sho
Id steal over and above a fair price
cal their goods. No wonder Blaine E