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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-01-23
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CHURCH MEETINGS.
Baptist, First Sunday.
Methodist, Second Sunday.
Presbyterian, Fourth Sunday:
S. D. TURNER,
Physician.
S. M. ELSTON & Co.,
General Merchandise and Jobbers in
Farm Machinery, Binders Irvine,
&c. &c. &c.
b. LACKAMP,
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Tinwarc, Furniture, Collins, Etc.
GEORGE ELSTON,
Drugs and Groceries,
Express and Railroad Agent.
j. j. SHRlKE.
Matchmaker and Jeweler. Repairing
Promptly Done and Warranted.
CENTRErOWN, COLE co. MO.
CHURCH MEETINGS.
: Presbyterian, Third Sunday.
Baptist, Fourth Sunday.
Lutheran, Second Sunday.
L. A. GREENUP,
Post Master and Justice of the Peace.
Prop'r Commercial Hotel.
DR.. NJ. A. DUNLAP,
Druggist.
MURRAY & WEAVER,
General Merchandise.
A. A. CAMPBELL,
General Merchandise.
d. L. HAWTHORN,
General Merchandise.
GEORGE POPE,
Prop'r Hotel and Dealer in
! Fine WHISTLES, Wines and Cigars.
JOHN f. FLESSA,
Miller and Dealer in Mill Stuff.
MARION, COLE CO., MO
TAGART g. ELLIOTT,
General Merchandise and
Country Produce.
| Usage CITY, Cole Co., Mo.
G. KoEHLER,,
Dealer in
General Merchandise.
THEODORE SCIIEULEN,
General Merchandise and
Country Produce
HENRY POPE,
Dealer in
Fine Whistles, Wines and Cigars.
BONNOT'S, Usage Co., Mo.
l.. b. BOILLOT, Propr.
BOnnot's Mill Hotel,
and ageut for
w. j. Lemp's Kcg anG Bottle Beer
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
MEALS FOR SUNDAY.
Hints for Women Who Do Not Care ia
Spend the Sabbath in the Kit chen.

Hints for Women Who Do Not Care to
Spend the Sabbath in the Kitchen.
Here is hint in regard to Sunday
meals. 1t may help some women to get
more time to rest on Sunday and at the
same time have tasty dinner.
On Saturday morning buy piece Of
neck beef. With sharp knife cut out
the lean part, leaving fat, gristle and
bone. Put lean pieces in wooden
bowl and chop very fine, season with
butter size of hens egg and pepper,
salt and sage. Press into thin cakes and
set away in cool place. Put fat, girls.
tie and bones into a kettle, cover with
cold water, set on the stove and cook
slowly till the bones will slip out. Re-
move the bones, season with salt and
pepper and set away.
Sunday morning, lay the beef cakes in
very hot spider without any fat and
cook over hot fire. Make coffee and
cut generous quantity of bread, and
breakfast is ready. After breakfast,
peel potatoes and any other vegetables
that are relished and leave in water till
twelve O. clock.
Put the meat and broth and vegeta.
bles in kettle, and stir up dnmpling
made of quart of flour, a small hall
teacup of lard, two teaspoons Of baking.
powder and water enough to make soft
dough. Lay the dumplings over the
meat and cook torty-fve minutes. This
with tea and coffee, bread, butter, pick
les and pie will make dinner good
enough for any one, and need not take
more than one hour to cook and serve
thus leaving the housewife more time
for Sabbath rest and thought Den''
try to get supper on Sunday. If neoes
,sary, have lunch of bread and milk OIL
crackers or crackers or cake just at dark
Save strength. and health by being
careful not to overwork at any time. =
Ella E. Hedge, in Farm and Fireside.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
THE HOUR HAND.
A Tale Which Teaches That the Snartest
People Are Not the Most Useful.

A Tale Which Teaches That the Smartest
People Are Not the Most Useful.
0"Come, come, you won't get around
this week if you don't hurry upl" said
the Minute Hand to the Hour Hand,
and he winked at figure One as he
passed along Here comes old Hour
Hand" he said to figure Two. "Look
out he doesn't run over you. Hello,
Three!" he cried, five minutes later,
my short friend will be around after
I've made about two more trips. Oh,
he's travelling! All, Four Don't stop
me for goodness sake! Old Hour Hand
is after me-"
And so the Minute Hand went round
putting them all up to poke fun at his
slow friend. The figures laughed and
called out to one another that the Min
ute Hand was too smart chap for the
Hour Hand to travel with. The Pendu-
lum down below knew what was going
on, and laughed softly as it rocked to
and fro. Even the pale face of the
clock seemed about to break out into a
smile at the general hilarity.
Meanwhile the poor Hour Hand crept
laboriously on.
"Ah, Shorty" cried the Minute Hand
close behind him, "been taking nap?
Come, I'll bet can go around the ring
twelve times to your once; look out now!
FL soon pass you"
The little bell struck sharply, "one--
two!"
Hello, he's got, as far as Two!' The
figures saw, and they all laughed loudly.
''Oh dear, dear!' sighed the Hour
Hand, 81 can't go any faster to save my
life. How l wish / was as smart as the
Minute Hand. I'm the butt of all his
jokes, and the others laugh at me, too.
| haven't friend on the face of the
clock. l can't endure it any longer. l
won't go on. .Pll just stop right here"
where's our moderate friend?" asked
the figures of the Minute Hand an hour
or two later.
20, he stopped back there" was the
answer. "He started to race with me,
but guess he got out of wind"
After awhile the owner of the clock
came into the room. "Hellor' said he,
''clock stopped? No." he continued,
''but it might as we'll be for all the
good it'll do without the Hour Hand. "
Then he gently touched the Hour
Hand, seized the Minute Hand, showed
him round and round the circle, waited
to see that they were going properly
and went away.
'Whew!" exclaimed the Minute
Hand, dizzy and breathless: "How he
did shove me!' and he was nightly
crestfallen because the figures had seen
him so roughly used.
But the Hour Hand travelled on with
a happy face and the figures looked upon
him with great respect
The moral of this tale is that the
smartest people are not alway the most
useful.-Detroit Free Press.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
HER FIRST CALLER.
How the Grim Reaper Was Welcomed by
Down-East Spinster.

How the Grim Reaper Was Welcomed by
Down-East Spinster.
Some years ago Amelia Simpson,
maiden lady of mature years, moved
into New England village to take pos
session of small property had
been left her by deceased uncle.
Miss Simpson was city spinster and
1t happened that while moving into her
new home she made some decisive re-
marks about the village, which remarks
reached the ears of the villagers.
1t was before the days of boycotting,
but the spirit of that method existed,
and so unanimous were the feelings ex-
cited against the newcomer that not
soul in the village called upon her.
The lady herself was unconscious that
she had offended, and made several ad-
vances in the direction of forming an
acquaintance. with her neighbors, but
was met with cool non-recognition every
time.
Then she withdrew herself from any
communication with the people, bought
all supplies from neighboring town,
and lived alone with female servant
for score of years. At the end of that
time she was taken very ill. A doctor
was summoned from distance by her
faithful attendant and he soon knew
that all remedies were useless, and it
only remained for him to tell poor Miss
Simpson that her earthly pilgrimage
was nearly over. This he did in his own
way. He was doctor of the old school
and he approached the subject cour-
teously.
Madam" he said in grave deliber-
ate voice, ~ have done all that l possi-
bly, can do in your case to insure return
of health, but without avail. 1t only
remains for me to inform you that death
Shas called"
Poor Miss Simpson raised herself on
her pillow with smile of satisfaction.
"Show him up she said, with shin
ing eyes, II have lived in this unhos.
pitable place for twenty years, aud he is
the first caller ever had!'
And she sank back with peaceful
look on her composed features. Detroit
Free Press.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
EFFecrlNo THINGS.
Common-Sense Advice Regarding the
RiIhtIng of Public Abuses.

Common-Sense Advice Regarding che
Ri1htIng of Public Abuses.
1t was the remark of a man who had
done good deal of public service Of
that sort which Is wholly unrehunefa.
tive, and which must be done froth d
pure love Of seeing abuses righted; that
every body would apply himself to the
Fighting Of public abuses were 1t only
generally known how easily things of
this sort can be done. 'The first time
/ undertook any thing of this sort" he
said, Il went into its without the
slightest hope, of really accomplishing
any thing more than the easing of my
own conscience, and possibly of pre-.
pairing the way for some one who should
come after me and finish what /
could not more than begin, but TO
my establishment I discovered that
after all ore has only I'd set
to work to do about What he will. The
public Is SD observed because it is too
indolent to take the trouble to find out
that it may have most of the abuses
which torment it remedied almost for
the asking"
1t is feared that this view is not to be
taken too literally. 1t was probably
too highly colored by personal expert
ence to be reliable as far as the public
in general goes: And yet it is uhdotbt.
edly trhe that the people who hold back
froth the attempt to have the unpleas-
ant and undesirable. things which vex
the community righted would be amazed
at the things they could do if they
would but. try. 1t is often the mere
starts that cost, as has been so continu-
ously remarked by the proverb mongers
for hundreds of years.
In matters touching the well-being 6f
the eommhhity, it is almost always to
those who. are anxious to retain some
hardly-bought political preferment that
one must apply for relief; and the fear
of offending possible voter is in itself
not infrequently sufficient to bring
matters about 1t Is to be noted,
moreover that as q rule people are good
natured enough to be willing to do any
thing for the public good if it is not too
much trouble, and the amount OF urging
in such case not usually large that is
needed to bring them up to the working
point The reason that things CD i'm
done is because people in general are
persuaded that it is of no use to trouble
themselves about them, while people
in particular are apt to be so engrossed
in following out their private affairs
that they have no time to give to the
rightning of public wrongs, even
though so doing may be their manifest
and individual duty If only folk will
take hold with will it is not essential
that they have great deal of influence
or power, but they can effect a good
deal simply by making beginning-by
taking that first step which provebrially
costs. Boston Courier.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
A Many-Sided Man.

First Newspaper Man-Say, Jobson.
what relation did you sustain to that
journal you had out West?
Second Newspaper Mani was It's
publisher.
"Ah, and you hired some one to edit
it?"
'N-no, was its editor also"
ANY thing elseP"
"Ye-es,- Il printed 10 too
well, you did have siege of it, Pub
Usher, Editor and Printer Any thing
else?" =
''WeIl, old man, don't generally
make the fact public, but in this case
you seem so interested, | don't mind
saying that | also constituted the bulk
of its circulation. Van Dorn's Mag
azine .
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
THE YANKEE DRUMMER,
One Who Usually Gets Even with Those
Who Snub Him.

A very neat little reminder to one OF
the worst bores we ever knew, New
York dude with big cane, was admin.
istered BY clerk who attached 10 the
cave the legend: "This is my busy day"
It was not Received with the best grace;
but proved very effectual on subsequent
visits. The man who fools with drum
mer had better trouble the business end
of a wasp, full many business man
knows. A salesman recently told us his
experience in aneighboring State. He
knew the proprietor slightly, having
called on him once or twice in the pre-
vious years, and, finding him all alone,
after afew moments conversation called
his attention to neat little article In
his line that he was Introducing.
This proprietor TURNED on his heel at
almost the first word, without looking
at the article, and curtly said: mo, sir,
I don't want any part of it. never get
any thing until have call for it," The
salesman waited few moments, MAX
ing no reply until the proprietor was at
leisure again, then heading for the door,
put out his hand and bidding him good
bye, invited him to come up to Boston
and he would extend such courtesy as
he appeared not to be accustomed to.
The proprietor felt the justice of the re-
mark and apoligized in his own fashion.
In certain town is business man who
is rather biggish for the size of the
place. IL a salesman calls he must send
in his card TO the office and humbly seek
ah audience W
On one occasion a salesman sent in
his card by the boy, and word came back
that the proprietor wanted nothing
The salesman told the boy to return and
ask for the card, as they cost the firm
money. The boy soon returned, saying
the proprietor had torn up the card and
sent five cents to pay for the same. The
salesman quickly took out two more
cards and writing on the back of one.
''My firm does square business and
never takes advantage Of any one. They
only cost three for five cents" then sent
them In to the proprietor. Give the
salesman q fair show with generous
treatment, and OUR word for it you will
have no just cause to regret it. They
are an indispensable adjunct to our civ.
ilization. England Grocer.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A troop of other vices follow In the
train Of untruthfulness.- Sift-
ings.
1t is a strange fact that man can
best be used as tool when dull.
cago Globe. y ~
The trouble in having your latch.
string always hanging out is that the
wrong people get hold Of 1T. .-Atchison
Globe.
Wisdom is the olive that springeth
from the heart, bloometh on the tongue,
and beareth fruit in the actions --Grym-
stone.
There may be thousands OF things
that are beyond our comprehension.
There is nothing we can not think
about, however.
When a man dubs himself Fatal.
ist" you can bet he is in hard luok.
Good luck, as all the world knows, comes
only by chance
We are too fond of our own will.
We want to be doing what we fancy
mighty things; but the great point Is, to
| do small things, when called TO them, in
right spirit.-Cecil.
Painful 1t is to be misunderstood
and undervalued by those we love. But
this, too in our life, must we learn to
bear without murmur, for 1t is tale
often repeated.-Hyperion.
Every object should have suitable
background. Things seen through too
long perspective are apt to lose their
lines Of symmetry and proportion and
80 fail in appreciation. Judge.
-Surmise is the gossamer that malice
blows on fair regulations; the ecorroding
dew that destroys the choice blossom.
Surmise is primarily the squint OF sus-
picion, and suspicion is established
before 1t is confirmed. Zimmerman.
1t has been said that all great men
are simple, but 1t is to be noted that
mostof them are smart enough not to de-
velop the quality until after reputation
of greatness is fully established: Van
Dorn's Magazine.
When young man starts into busi-
ness it should be with the intention Of
pursuing it to the end II Is the stay
ing quality in men that makes them
successful and helps them to good char
acter.-United Presbyterian.
To establish truth, is to live for the
truth, in its beauty, its entirety. put
ting into life all pure thought energy
and influence; putting the life itself,
into each smallest, as we'll as great con
cern of humanity, loyal at every mo
ment for the right Of any matter, and te
the rights Of any people, or any indi
,, yidual.-The Household.
Not in thy condition but in thysel
lies the mean impediment over whici
thou canst not gain the mastery. Wha
mortal in the world without inward call
ing but would be miserable? He who |
born with capacities for any undertak
ings finds in fulfilling these the faires
: portion Of his being. II is the secret i'm
e pulse within; It is the love and deligh
we feel that helps US to conquer oil
c stacles, to clear out new paths and
. overlap the bounds Of that narrow eirel
in which others poorly toil--Goetha
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
THE kAFFIR'S DIAMOND.
An AfriSsn Story Which Reads Fairly
Well In America.

We'll in America.
There's the most beautiful diamond
l have ever'seen during an experience
of thirty years with the sparkling
gems" said veteran diamond mer.
chant to Philadelphia man, as he held
up stone that seemed bathed in fire.
THAT stone has tragic history, con-
tinued the jeweler. ut comes from the
De Beers mines in South Africa, and
was discovered by Kaffir employed by
the company. His practiced eye saw
that the gem was a marvellous one for
beauty of color, and desire to steal 1T
overcame him. He did steal it, and to
conceal the diamond-for the Kaftirs
work almost naked in the diamond
mines-he cut hole in his flesh under
the arm. But the wound did not heal,
and the observant eye Of the overseer
detected what was the matter. A few
days afterward he charged the Kaffir
with having stolen a diamond, but the
man denied it.
81 when the foreman reached for his
sore arm the thief made dash and ran
toward the outskirts of the kraai like a
deer. The foreman followed him, but
the feet-footed Kafflr outstripped him.
He knew that severe punishment
awaited him II captured, and CEN
tered all his efforts on escaping with
the stone, the value Of which would
have made him rich for life. But the
foreman was equal to the emergency,
and shot the kafir through the back
just as he was gaining the bush. His
body was dragged back into the kraal,
his arm was cut open and this gem was
taken from the iuoision. Jew slers'
Weekly.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
NUMBER 43.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The Christians OF Great Britaingave
altogether to foreign missions last year
B,G72, 455,
According to the latest and COM
plete returns Irish Methodism numbers
e5,345, with about coo probationers.
The net increase for the year is thirty
nine.
There are in the United States over
three million Baptist Congregational
lists. II Ii were not for that one con-
centrated point of aqueous ritualism"
that makes close communication, the
two kinds of Congregationalisms might
fiow together like the two drops Of
water.
The central division OF the Saliva
tion Army lately celebrated the tenth
anniversary Of the landing of the army
In this country. AT the meeting In this
city five delegates from the army in
India, including Mohammedan, a
Buddhist priest and native Of Ceylon,
were present.
Bishop William Taylor, Of Africa,
large diocese. He reports that seven
Methodist churches have been organized
from the raw heathen;'" that self-sup-
port is in the ascendant, and that he has
thirty-fve stations opened and manned
In the region Of the Congo dt
Nearly two hundred churches and
1900 conversions are reported by the
missionaries of the American Sunday
School Union as the results of the ef-
forts in planting Union Sunday-schools
in the past two years. Since 1894 the
society has started S5,S96 Sunday
schools, with a membership, when
started, of 4, ,155,Sp7.
An official paper printed in Odessa,
on the Black Sea, speaks of the contin-
ued immigration of the German Luth.
colonists to the United States. Within
the last five or six years, upwards Of
1000 such families have left that dis
triot alone, parting with their lands and
all their disposable property. The inn
possibility of disposing of their farms
for any thing like their real value, is
the only reason why thousands Of 9th
ers do not sell out and follow their inn
migrating brethren.
Seventeen centuries Of Jewish his
tory rolled away between the giving Of
the law of Moses and the coming of the
great Messiah predicted by the prophets.
That Messiah at length came in the
person of Jesus of Nazareth. The jew
ish people, as a whole rejected him; and
for this final sin the kingdom Of God
was taken from them, and Roman armies
made the instrument Of their national
destruction. Prophecy was fulfilled to
the letter, alike in the coming of Christ
and the fate Of the Jewish people. In
dependent.
| Total contributions of the Church to
the Boards since the Union of 1883, are
as follows: Foreign Missions, 81, s75, ,67s;
Home Missions, 1896, ,s23; Freedmen's
Missions, 5000, 1888; Church Extension,
S465, 49, Education, $3.50, 429; Publica-
tion, $50, 1858; Ministerial Relief, 500, 145.
Reckoning the gifts to Home and Freed
mems Missions, Church Extension and
Education as belonging to the homo
work, during the period indicated, the
gifts to Home Missions have been
81, ,951, ,7Os, or $576, 03O more than to For.
eign Missions. .t III
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-08-01
VOLUME vi.
I'm GROWING Old

Ah' yes coeae il In my years. Il
Ano deel y 10 my stinening bones;
mote II ID my dulling ears,
Ana sear 1t In my feebler tones
And hide 1t, as slyly may,
BY this md that overt disguise,
ahave 1t in the tell.tale gray
And In the cloud upon my eyes.
Kind friends will often say, tits true.
r. How Young you look, how halo and
strongly
But thSs know they did not do
WHen was sure that was young
And so I'm growing old in truth
My sense less keen, my step less free,
But retain my real youth
] am not old, and will not be-
IT'S not In time to make me old
Tho years may wear my frame away;
May mako the vital currents cold,
And turn the raven locks to gray.
But long as.hope in me Is strong, --
And faith looks up with undimmed eyes,
> and long as love and zeal press on
To reach The mark and take the prize
Yea, long as from the heights serene
The stream Of life flows pure and strong,
The leaf OF life shall still be green,
And mine shall be gladstone song,
AS aged eagles molt their plumes,
And bathe in clouds their new-fedged
1 wings, sg @
So my young soul Its strength resumes,
sAndto Its native Heaven springs.
And 80 shall all who wait on God
Forevermore their youth renew;
Mount up on wings to His abode,
And life's eternal path pursue.
m Y. Observer.