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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
Gladstone and Salisbury.

Edward A. Freeman in the Forum
There is mt this moment one living
man among English statesmen who
can say that he found some thousands
of European and Christian people just
set free from the barbarian yoke, that
he helped TO thrust them back again
under the yoke, and then boasted of
what he'll done. Go by the banks
OF the Nardar, and you will hear his
name as Robert, Marquis of Salisbury,
bctrayer of Macedonia.
There is also one living man among
English statesmen who can say that he
found some thousands of European and
Christian people, to whom Europe had
promised freedom, with the barbarian
yoke still about their necks, and that
he, unaidcd, against all opposition,
broke the yoke from off their necks.
Go by the banks of Peneios, and YOU
will hear his name as William Ewart
Gladstone, deliverer of Thessaly.
Let the English folk in all lands
think which of the twain is the more
worthy TO be the leader of one great
part of the English folk, if another
hour of trial should come.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
Concerning ChrysantIlemums.

N'W lDfk ANNtfllScf.1
The scattcrlcaved chrysanthemum
is here, and the pocket book of the
young man with Il best girl Is sick
abcd. The young man argues that it
is not a beautiful flower, the chrysan-
themum. 1t has neither form nor
od"r, and Il hunt through the standard
volumes of verse shows, he holds,
that no poet of ability ever bursts into
song over it; and poets, be it known,
earn their bread and butter and gas
and coal bills, and a few other little
things like that, by their ability to
recognize and cmbalm the beautiful
Still, fashion has claimed this flower
for its own, given it Il special ex-
hlbition and set Il bankrupting price
upon its Struggling head
The windows of the Broadway
florists are decked with select lars of
them, and he or she who would be
above the common herd wears a
boutonnicrc or bunch of them. If the
bearer be possessed of financial wis
dom the expensive blossoms will be
treated tenderly and revived at night
in glass of fresh water, for the price
of II bunch would purchase bird and
Il trio Of bottles ut Del's. Seyenty-five
cents will buy an ordinary specimen,
but if you want one of the big, hardy
out and cutters the florist will mulci
you for Il dollar bill. If there is 8
lady with you the price may suddenly
ascend 80 per ccnt-a little principl,
of the florists based upon that weak
ness i'll young mans nature whicl
leads him when in the presence of fail
fcmininitY TO WAX brash with his Mad
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
Missouri Farming.
Rnfler Mo / ettpr-

Butler, Mo-, Letter.
While Kansas has been looked upon
as the marvellous state in the way of
raising immense crops, Missouri has
been going along in the even tenor OF
her way and 'saying nothing and
saving wood" But when it comes to
large crops there are several counties
in this state which can show them, and
Bates and Cass are two of them.
That this is true is shown by the
returns made by Captain John
Scearce, who lives Just across the line
in Cass county, in Everett township
The captain has a farm of $40 acres
and had 100 in wheat and the sam,
area in corn. His wheat has beel
threshed and his corn has now beel
cut and is in shock.
From the 100 acres of wheat Ian,
the captain received II total of $500
bushels of wheat which he sold at tn,
railroad for eighty-iive cents u bushcl
bringing him in $3.50. His corn ha
been estimated by those who are goo,
Judges to have an average yield O
over fifty bushels To the acre, which,
the estimate holds out, will amount t.
at least $500 bushels, worth rot les
than fifty cents per bushel, or t"ta
of So, ,725 for 200 acres.
In addition to this grain the cap
tain has twenty acres in hay and ha'
an orchard of twenty acres full OF bear
ing trees, which this year are Loaded
down with fruit. He has Il feed lot IL
which fifty head of cattle are ready t'
be fattened, while his wife and da'l%h
ters have a poultry yard that is one q
the best in the state, and which nets
them enough every year to pay more
than the expenses of the household.
The captain estimates this year ina
his farm of 32O acres, which he con
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
The Greatest Man in China

OF. JulllCS
If there is at this moment in China
any man who more than another has
the power to control the agitation now
making head against Europeans set
tied in that country, that man is Ii
Hung Chang, the vlceroy of the empire
and ''president-secretary' of state.
"The size of tower says Chi
nese proverb, sis measured by It's
shadow, and great men by the number
of their enemies Dreaded and
obeyed, H-IIung- Chang is the power
ful arbiter whose word is law to 4jO,-
600, 900 of human beings. An Asiatic
Janus, he turns one face towards the
future, and the other, deep-sct in rcsig-
nation, he regretfully turns to the past.
by what feelings, based on Il sense of
sclt-preScrvatiUn or obstinate reliance
on old world preiudiccs, will he be
swayed in his action in the present
emergency?
On the ancient historical heights
from which he cOntemplates our mod
ern civilizations this crSt humble scribe
of Hawaii sees in it naught but the
evanesccnt creations of u day, subject
to the eventualities of all social and
political conditions. He has all the
StoiciSm of the aStutr eastern races,
h"f"rr whose eyes for ages past II con
| tinuous panorama has been passing
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horses and large corn wagon to haul
the Hints 10 camp. The total weight
was triIlc over 400 pounds. The
implements were found in IL laycr one
foot in thickness, cxtcnding over II
space twenty by thirty feet. Many of
them were over eight or ten inches in
length; some of them even larger,
while the majority ranged from seven
t" eight imchcs. They are made of
cray Hint found only in Indiana, and
show that there were from sixty to
seventy flakes detached from each one
IN order 10 fashion it.
The largest find of flint implem ents
made III one place heretofore in Amer
lct did not exceed 1,SO0 specimen
In one of the caverns occupied bv
primitive man il! the valley of the
Seine, below Paris, $500 implements
were found in one deposit. As il is
reasonable to conclude that nearly one
day s work was expended on each I'M
plrment, and as each one exhibits
almost absolute perfection as far as
ilrnt chipping is concerned, the find
will be of special value to cthaological
research.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
A Breach of Etiquette.
Detroit Free Press.


"What you doin', honey?" called ar
old colored woman on Croghan street
to her grandson, sitting i'll the shad,
eating n watermelon.
"Eatln' dish yer watahmilyun," re.
piled the boy.
"Ain't you eatin' Int wild Il knife,
honey?'
"Yes'm; but tain no house knife
Use got barlow knife, has, thi,
with 4 boyish pride.
"Well, honey, shet hit up an put
hit in yo' pocket" she said kindly
"You amt to blame for not KNOWN
how to eat watahmilyun. Shct NJ
dat knife right away, | tells you, an
don lemmc ketch you again eatin
watahmilyun wild it.
"Take up dat slice of milyun in yo
hans honey, an eat it right outen dc
CO. wild yo' mouf. Stick yo' haid il
hit clar to yo' yeahs an chaw hit on
like rs if it was good to eat. Watah
milyun aim no desert to be eat wild ;
silvah spoon, honey; hits Il luxshury
dot you got to waller in an eat wId y'
intiah face; dats what watahmilyuI
is. Fo' de Lord, honey, I'se sorry da
you amt got de same op'chunitics yo
granny had fer bein raised wild quality
folks
The old woman heavcd sigh o
regret, and the boy took up the melol
and tried to eat properly.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
FASHIONS FOR MEN.

FANCY ;handkerchiefs are among the
ixings at present tabooed by well-ssl
dressed men. Z,
THE London vogue of wide cuffs dora
not find favor here. The snug dtfiu{
type imparts dressy and much hgtidier
finish.
The rain coat, for all that appearszce
tells of its mission, might be II jaunty
cape travelling coat made from the latest
pattern of fabric in the market.
THE high-backed turnover has ceased
to be the positive rage that it was and
has settled down us one Of the staples
of the mems furnishing vocabulary.
FoR afternoon and morning wcddtlgs
the gray coat with gray satin lapel lin
ing has been the ultra fashionable gar
Ement, while some of the extreme toffs
have had the notched collar and lapel
of the evening coat done in silk. +
The Simplon tunnel will need eight
years and a half % bore, and will cost
100000.
The sail makers of Liverpool are agi-
tating against the use Of sewing ma
chimes in the stitching of sails.
THE Postal Telegraph Company pays
S. per month extra to receivers who are
competent to take down copy by type
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
whilst they themselves have remained
incrusted with their old world feelings,

whilst they themselves have remained
incrusted with their old world feelings,
customs and prejudices.
L-IIung- Chang is descended from II
race of conquerors; his high muscular
stature shows il. In his cXprcsSionless
features, in the furtive depth of his
intelligent look, in the studied reserve
of his words, in his unimpulsive cOur-
tesy to strangers, race is evident, and
the politician is revealed. I'm his thin
| lips, his wrinklcd forehead docking
like Il block of carved ivory seasoned
by timc), in his dropping lids (vciling
when necessary the expression of the
eycs), in his features drawn and puck
cred by the incesstnt preying on the
mind of single aspiration, ever keen
| Iv alive but cautiously restrained, one
can trace the workings of that power
full mind which guides the destinics OF
the celestial empire. Drapcd in his
long, black silk robes, his wiry, supple
frame is unbent by age and the weight
of public affairs. His Sobriety is pro-
verbal; and of all the charms of life
which attract other men he cares only
for power, and disdains that which is
simply within the region of pleasure
for, rs he is himself fond of repeating,
"Flowery paths are not long"
At the outset of his political career
Li-Hung Chang followed in the foot
steps of Tseign-Kwo-Fan, whom he
was destined TO succeed as viccroy OF
Nanking,and who died without leaving
II single enemy behind him, having,
according to some of his satrical coun-
trymen, suppressed them all while hc
was alive.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
Governor Campbell as Speaker.
Chicago Herald.

His style is distinctly epigrammatIc.
ton and Il pcroration. There are few
of his sentences that are not full of
meaning. The republican newspapers
have abused him because of his levity
in discussing public questions. Mr..
Mckinley, they declared, is digniled
and solemn as became an orator, but
Governor Campbell stoops to make the
people laugh. This criticism led
Campbell to say ut Celina: ssrhc re-
publican papers don't like it because
am not grave and serious in my man.
ner. Well,I am very much in earnest,
but it seems to me that the farmer,
burdened us he is with Il protective
tariff, has enough to make him solemn.
| don't want to add to his lugubrious-
ness. try to say something funny to
take his mind off the troubles the tariff
has brought upon him." Again, al
New Bremen, when the audience laugh
ed loudly mt something he said, he
uttered this reproof: II must insist
on your being less hilarious. You are
likely to disturb the arrangements now
being made for the big republican
funeral that is to take place next
month"; At Celina he said: ~ notice
your Jail is the finest building in the
town. would like to see your poor
house" "A voice-'.We are now
building an addition to the poor house. ;
Yes" replied the governor, 8
thought so. If you don't get rid of :
protected tariff soon, you may rs wei
roof in the entire county and call it ;
poor house,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07

In spite of wonderful commercial
and industrial progress of the United
States, we are still to large extent
using the same soft, dusty, muddy
country roads that served for our re-
mote ancestors. No organization has
done more to remedy this surprising
state of things than the League of
American Wheelmen; and its secretary,
Mr.. Isaac b. Potter, of New York, has
a word to say in the November Forum
about the evil and its cure. He con-
siders that the cost to the farmer, of
carting his produce over the CROUCH
ened streak of soil'' that serves us for
Il highway, is no small factor in the
existing agricultural depression, and
points out that the cost of maintaining
proper public wagon roads, though
great, is more than repaid to the COM
munity in the enchanced value OF
adjacent property alone. This position
he supports by statistics. 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. Potter and his co-work-
ers will succeed in rousing our rural
communities to the disgrace of con-
dition of things which makes us the
laughing-stock of European traveller:
in this country.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
A SagaciOus Dog.
Mexico Intelligencer.


The Intelligencer learns from train
men on the branch that Galloway has
a very remarkable dog. The train
that leaves Mexico ut I II. m. reaches
Cedar City about noon and the engine
always whistles just before it reaches
the town. AS soon us this whistle
blows dog, owned by farmer mile
from the road, makes Il bee line for
the track, which he follows until he
comes up with the train in the yard.
Then he jumps up into the caboose
and helps the boys eat their dinner.
The dog has kept this up for Il year or
more. }. A. Glandon, route agent of
the express company, who vouches for
the story, says that the dog will not
leave the premises unless the whistle
blows.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
STORIES OF ANIMALS.
An Attorney and IL Fish.

County Attorney Andrews has some
rare experiences with the gamcsr OF
game fish, the famous tarpom. Tom
never goes for the grand sealed mon
stcrs of the briny deep with hook and
line, rs Governors Hogg and Ireland
do. lie just goes along III the tarpon
hunt aS if he We're going to court, and
yet he manages to carry off the lion 5
share of the sport.
Last week Tom went with another
party on II tarp0n hunt. As usual, hG
had no fishing tackle. He went alone
merely as Il happy, contcntcd observer
of the gamesomc sport. He was sitting
on the deck comfortably smoking his
long-stemmed pipe when huge tar
pom, envying the serene contcntmcni
of the lawyer, made u wild leap from
he wave, ,amed nj the lazy mans face,
missed, but fairly Knocked the pipe
out of its opponents mouth and taunl-
ingly settled itself on deck right at tn,
feet of the disciple of Blackstone.
This was too much. Tom was not
meddling with the tarpon, which had
attacked Kim without the least provo
cation, had insultingly slapped the pipe
| out of his mouth and scattered his die
nIty and tobacco to the wind, and now
lay there grinning defiance in his face.
This was all too much for our friend
lie sprang upon his tarpon foe {;
nty-siXpounder) and rode him al
over wildly. Tom grapplcd the tiSl
in more than loving embrace, while
the enraged fish with its tail laShe,
Tom too vigorously for ordinary play
Tom rolled, they tumblcd, the big
scales flew from the big fish: the law
yer painted, but held on with determine
tion to win II verdict in the case. The
fun grew fast and furious. The un
used muscles of the officer of the court
however, were soon taxed beyond en-
durance. When perforce his grasl
was relaxed the fish, with Il snort oI
triumph, leaped back into its native
element, justly entitled from hence
forth to wear the insignia of King o
Tarpons. 1t invaded the ship ant
boldly engaged the big lawyer in nor
tai combat and returned triumphant,
to it fellow-denHens of the deep
though not wholly unscaled. Whel
the hunt is on may we be there to Sc
what Tom will do next.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
School DiSrIDIiUp.

j. ii. Perkins in. Liberty Advance.
The school-boys of twenty-five years
ago are very much ashamed of the
degencracy of the boys of to-day
Everywhere there seems to be Il gener-
al disposition TO bring to public tribu-
mails school boy applications which were
formerly kept to ones self. A school
boy of that time would no more think
of going home TO his .'pa'' or his '.ma'
and telling of his ''licllings" than he
would tell of the girls he kissed on his
way from school. This is an unherolc
age when boys whine like martyrs
over their thrashings and get editorial
''dudesn to snivcl over them in public
\ boy who ''squealcd' because Il
woman clicked" him was an especial
object of disgrace. Boys, if you enjoy
making troubles and vcXatiOn for yOul
teachers, take the consequences with
out Il murmur Teachers with fifty
pupils, who know that they can gr
whmpcring TO the board of education
if they are hit too hard, have Il serious
and anxious task To keep order ant
discipline.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
West Virginia Snake Story.
Baltimore American


A curious snake story is reported
from Drag Camp, on the Little Kama
wha river. Two boys named Edward
McCray and George ncvcrs were out
hunting when they thought they had
treed II coon, and proceeded to cut
down large lynn tree. Instead of 4
coon they found the tree filled with
snakes and snake eggs of the viper
species, except that they We're brown
in color and had yellow jaws. They
were very vicious and attacked the boys
and although they succeeded in killing
about fifty, were obliged to retreat.
They came back to the camp and re-
ported their find, when Il party of lum.
bermen proceeded TO the tree and killc,
over 600 of the reptiles. This is In,
second time recently that snakes il
such large numbers have been discov
cred in that locality, the first time be
ing three weeks since, when II mar
named Evan McCray was attacked b,
them and killed twenty before he sue
ceeded in making his escape. The
snakes are of Il kind never bcfor,
known in this section, and are said tc
attack even wild animals on sight.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
IMPERSONAL BREViTIES.

A DELAwAREAN has contracted to
furnish one hundred tons of cat tails to
firm in st. Louis.
THE tallest schoolgirl il the world"
lives at Riednaun, near STERLING. She
IS in her eleventh year, and is about six
feet high.
IT is florist in Vermont who has Sc
cured the permission of President Har-
rison to call new double white pink
the MRS. Harrison pink"
A MAN at Hazleton, Pa, is reported
to have been taken up by gust of
wind during n heavy storm to height
of 100 feet and landed $50 feet from
where he started without being hurt.
A PRIZE was offered by merchant in
Lancaster, Pa. to the man who made
the nearest guess to the time candle
would burn. The winner guessed the
time exactly-even to second-six
hours, twentyfour minutes and ten
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
MWADE'S LONG SING.
He Entertains an Audience of One
by Telephone.

John +. McWade, the well-known
barytone, was here at the Columbia
week before last with Hallen and
Hart's "New Later On,'' says the
Chicago Post. MIR. McWade, it will
be remembered, is the singer who
populariZed "Comrades,' but he Is
nice fellow in spite of that. He and
his little family have delightful home
at Mount Vernon, near New York
City. During the past summer Mr..
McWade sang in light opera in Mil
waukee, and in every production,
whether the scene was laid in Venice
or Japan, the audience howled for
Comrades" until John stepped to the
footlights, winked at the leader of the
orchestra and proceeded to render that
venerable ballad as he only can render
it.
When here last he and his wife
stopped at the Windsor Hotel. Early
one morning Chief Clerk Jasper re-
ceived message saying that Barytone
McWade was wanted at the public
telephone station, where a party in
Milwaukee desired to hold converse
with him. Mr.. Jasper carried the
message to the McWade parlors in
person.
The barytone was indulging in his
morning nap, or beauty sleep, when he
learned what was wanted. He hastily
arose, donned his clothes and rushed
over to the telephone station, where he
entered the long-distance telephone
box and took up the receiver.
"Hello!" he shouted, sis that Mil
waukee?"
s'Yes," came tile answer, faint but
clear. Is'that John McWade?"
alt is,'' replied the singer. "Who
is that?"
"I'm Billy Crosby, from Chicago. ~
"Hello, Billy! what are you doing
up there?n
s.Had to run up here on business
last night. Say, John, l want you to
do me favor, If YOU will"
"With pleasure. What is it?''
"Just sing the first verse and chorus
of Comrades will you?''
"Well, I'll 5e-," said McWade,
half to himself and the other half to
Crosby IN Milwaukee.
$50 ahead, John. I've paid the
tolls. I'd give So to hear Com
rades' now. If you'll sing I'll open
II small bottle when | meet yor
tomorrow.
"All right; here goes,'' replied
McWade with laugh, and he started
in on "Comrades," singing it as hi
never sang it before. One of the mes
senger boys tiptoed over and quietly
opened the door of the long-distanc'
box.
Then the whole force of the Office
knocked off work and drank IN thu
superb melody as it rolled from th'
barytone's lungs to Milwaukee by wire
As he wound up the song with q higl
note he heard Crosby say: '.Wait :
minute, john Then he plainly hear'
the Milwaukee receiver drop and Cros
by clap his hands vigorously in from
of the transmittcr. 1t was u genuine
applause from ninety miles away, ant
it sounded as aweetly to the singer Il
though it had been the roar of vas
| auHinnnp
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
THE WAYS OF DOMESTICS.

MRS. BACoN-''How do you like your,
new girl?" Mrs. Egbcrt-"First-rate;
she lets me go out nearly every day. -
Yonkers Statesman. V
Too BAD.-Mrs. Smith Ito the nurse)
ROSA, you must really take better
care of the children. Here you have
gone and let poor little Arthur bite his
tongue again. ."-Fliegende Blatter.
''How 20 you like your new .ired
girl?" "Very well. She is the most
careful girl ever had. She is so care
full of my dresses that | would never
have known she wore them if l hadn't
happened to meet her one night when
she had one of them on. IN. Y. Press.
"How LONG did you remain with your
last mistress?" asked the housewife of
the applicant for employment ~Only
three weeks, aam. There wor great
deal av heavy work about the house,
an sure the misthress wor SO delicate
that had to let the place go."-Wash-
ipufoD Star
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-07
FIGURES WORTH READING.

NEW YORK has 60,OOO night workers.
UNCLE SAM is worth S62, 800, 900, 900.
UNCLE SAM has 1000, 600 French Can
adams.
A TUNNEL across the four-mile strait
that separates Elsinore, Denmark and
Helsingburg, Sweden, has been pro-
posed. 1t will cost SI,275, 900.
THE exports of coal from Germany in
the first six months of this year
amounted to 4,454, ,5O5 tons, as compared
with 4,264, 7GO tons in the corresponding
period of 1890.
In twenty-five life insurance COM
panies doing business ia Massachusetts
to-day, there were in force at the close
of last year 1,213,443 policies, and the
number Is increasing at the rate of over
100000 year. a~t.t
THE colored people of Georgia are
, prosperous and gradually acquiring
wealth. They return Is per cent more
of property this year than they did last.
They have returned Sl4,19G,T35 worth
Of taxable property.