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Evening star., 1897-02-13

Justice Peckham has been occupying this
winter the house No. 1917 Connecticut ave-
nue., which is in the immediate neighbor-
hood OF the Church of the Covenant, the
residence Of Senator Wolcott and Judge
John Davis, and which he leased soon after
his appointment to the Supreme bench The
house is of the design which has become
SO great favorite here the last few years,
an English basement. IT is built of light
stone. The rooms on the first story make
comfortable reception rooms and Offices
On the second floor, which is approached
by an ornamental staircase, are the draw
Ing rooms, library and dining room. The
house Is elegantly furnished, and much of
what adorps 1t has been brought on from
their home in Albany, the old Peckham
mansion. where they lived twenty-five
years. Justice Peckham has a country
place, seventeen miles from Albany, named
Coolmore.
Evening star., 1897-02-13

The largest state Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in the country is that
of New York, of which Mrs. Mary Towne
Burt is now and has been for fifteen years
the president. Mrs. Burt possesses a geni-
Us for organization, and under her leader
ship the growth of the union has been al
most phenomenal. 1t numbers now over
DOD active members, has young Wo-
mans branch, Loyal Temperance Legion
branch, thirty departments of work and
seven standing committees. Its system of
organization embraces fifty-nine Of the six
ty counties Of the state and 800 local
unions. 1t is through its splendid organiza-
ton that the remarkable record the state
has achieved in legislative work is largely
oue. one OF the departments is that of
mothers meetings, which was adopted In
1881. and has been carried steadily forward
since. Nearly 1,O0O mothers meetings were
neId last year. and s., 500 pages of literature
distributed by this department alone Six
industrial schools for girls and one for bows
are the outcome Of the work I'm this djrac
tion. The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Is chief among the moral forces az
the empire state and its power for good ia
everywhere recognized. Mrs. Burt's leader
ship has been one of great gentIenass
thoroughly aggressive in her methods Of
work, she Is a constant source OF insnira
tion 10 her large constituency, by whom she
Is greatly beloved.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Hammer.
MRS. anna M. Hammer. the president of
the Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. is native Of the keystone
state, and comes of good old revolutionary
stock, not less than three Of her immedi-
ate ancestors having served in that war.
two as generals and one as an army sur
geon, while her grandfather served as an
officer In the war Of 1872, and her uncle.
Cen William A. Nichols, was a graduate
OF West Point, and was assistant adjutant
general during our late civil war. She has
been actively engaged in w. C. T. u work
for twenty-five years, during sixteen of
which she served as national superintend-
ent-three in evangelistic work. which en-
braced mothers meetings as a distinctive
feature; eight years were given to the chill
dren's work Of the Loyal Temperance
Legion. and five to drawing room or parlor
meetings. She has been elected five times
to the presidency of Pennsylvania, which
state is making rapid gains in membership
and influence.
Evening star., 1897-02-13

attempts the merchant had to pay his faro
On his arrival in Chicago he hunted up his
friend, the drummer ~
Say he cried. what kind of trick did
you Llay me? Why. the plan didn't work
for cent coming home
That's strange replied the other. .You
mus nave MADE some mistake. What did
you do coming back?
Why, 1 made the pass with my hand
across my mouth and said Yuno.'
Did you move your hand from right TO
"'Yes, of course
That's where you made a blunder You
see, you were coming back, and should
nave passed your hand across your mouth
from left to right"
Evening star., 1897-02-13
Elastic Corset. to Reduce Flesh

From the st. James Gazette
The newest invention is an elastic corset.
French doctor-and they study these
things in France-assures US that the con-
sta mt contact of elastic has an excellent
effect on what Is politely called "adipose
tissue 1t checks it's development and re-
duces it when developed. The elastic fur
ther tends to produce long slim waist,
without in any way hindering an easy res
piration and healthful digestion. 1t is
peculiarly good at forming a Louis XIV
waist" 1t is interesting to learn that there
are periods In waists. Autocracy, we have
noted, produces 4 long waist, and democ-
racy-as seen in the days of the Thermidor
an uncommonly short one. Early Vic
torian waists were short, middle Victorian
waists substantially; but later Victorian
waists seem inclined to model themselves
on those of the golden days of the French
Louis
Evening star., 1897-02-13

@rinfers' Jn& cfee fifffe se6oo,
master Of aeeerfisins'. saps:
IT Is eHaimse for fee 1pasetnsfon
Star. ane prc6o8fp fruf8tuffp
etaimee. t8of no offer newspopsr
IN f8e eounfrp s,es into 90 farss
o percentage Of off f8e 8ousey
wif6in q rootus Of fmenfp mifss
from f8e office Of pu86eafion
Evening star., 1897-02-13

Mrs. Jessie Brown Hilton. A. NJ, the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
lon secretary of mothers meetings, is the
daughter Of Andrew J. Brown, one Of the
early settlers and leading lawyers of Chi
cago. She married Rev. Theophflus B.
Hilton. d. D., a clergyman in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. and associated with him
in active and ministerial life for sixtee,,
years. she laid the foundation of an earnest
spiritual character. entering into the SYM
pathy and aspirations of all classes OF
people. Mrs. Hilton's mind IL storehouse
OF beautiful thoughts of her own and
others, and q mothers institute az con-
Quoted by her. infuses into questions Of
Evening star., 1897-02-13
The Blazing.

From the Chicago Journal.
Boastful New Englander-"But you can't
deny that the Pilgrim fathers blazed the
way to all the greatness Of our nation
Westerner-"Blazed the way? Yes, by
bun Eing witches"
Evening star., 1897-02-13
No Doubt.

From the indianapolis Journal
She-"Oh. 1 was SO happy just Rugged
myselfr'
Ho-'I suppose that was one Of the occa-
sions when your oft-expressed wish that
you were a man was earnest"
Evening star., 1897-02-13
The Most washable eispet. ON Earth.

L
Probably the most valuable spot on the
face of the earth dls staN burial sites in
Westminster Abbey cannot be bought with
gold are the four corners where Wall
street touches Broad, and the two where it
meets Broadway. I cannot guess how large
price any one OF these might bring in
the market now; but million dollars and
half million dollars more were recently
paid for five lots on Broadway opposite
Bowling Green. This was the value of the
land alone as the old buildings 1t bore were
at once torn down; yet, says Phillip Hone.
lot In just this place sold in 1923 for only
$4,000 As late . 1870 lots on Cortlandt
street could be hid for $1,000. or even for
800. But a year 1rSbxo ago the corner Of
Liberty street asA Nassau, measuring 20
feet ninng the one, s1t2 along the ether,
10000. and this. agaz3, Hor the sake Of the
land alone Ass.s
Evening star., 1897-02-13
Mr.. Colton's Home.

Mr.. Francis Colton's fine home on Con-
Aecticut avenue is q delightful residence
It is built on broad. generous lines. and is
well adapted to the hospitable and social
needs OF its occupants. The front of the
English basement has two good-sixed
rooms. one on each side of ths hall. One
Is adorned by many curioS picked MP during
years OF travel and residence In foreign
Evening star., 1897-02-13
TIE circlesCounty.
From the st. Innis Repubiic.

From the ST. Ienis Repabifc.
The oldest shaped county among the
5000 which go to makeup the separate d.
visions Of the vaFso,n states is Warren
county, Tenn. It lies, ,alInost exactly in the
geographical centeE Of The state mentioned
and Is about as neat asperfect circle as any
division OF land could possibly be. The
circle would be- perfect but for the fact
that there is a short stretch of the north
ern boundary line which follows a small
stream for short disfance. It is bounded
by Cannon. DeKalb, ,..EoKee, Grundy, Van
buren ana White -coHntjes, and Is In no
way remarkable except In shape.
Evening star., 1897-02-13
Nothing to Fear.

From the Detroit Journal.
First Burglar-"Hist! Here comes the
janitor,''
Second Burglar-"Well. we wiped our
feet. didn't we?'
Evening star., 1897-02-13
Trade=Wimd Blows Rich
Advantage to YOu==
==AT==
pERRY's.

This stores story is always the pont-a record of
happenings that bears directly upon your needs
profit Our ookouts constantly the watch for oppor-
unties that improve for you The result
almost uninterrupted of make inter
estng reading and profitable buying for you
Store"
Evening star., 1897-02-13

al Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
and ever since the first announcement of
the coming mothers congress it has had
the hearty support and sympathy of the
members of that organization. Since the
Womans Christian Temperance Union was
first started its field Of usefulness has
widened very considerably. 1t now includes
the 'Y" Union, as the young women's or
ganization is called, departments of social
purity, herdity and hygiene. and, by no
neaLs least in interest and Importance, the
department of mothers meetings
So IL is that the National Woman's Chris
tion. Temperance Union will be largely rep
resented at the congress of mothers next
week. The women of the former organiza-
tion are for the most part familiar with
convention work and methods, and their
presence will doubtless lend an added in
tcrest to the gathering.
Evening star., 1897-02-13
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Entered at the Post Once at Washington, D. T.,
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Rates of advertising made known application
Evening star., 1897-02-13
DUTY OF MOTHERS
As Set Forth in the Work Of the
National W. @. T. q.
WHO WILL ATTEND THE CONGRESS-
Some Of the Brainy Leaders of the
Temperance Movement.
AN INTERESTING GROUP
AN INTERESTING GROUP

HILE THE NATION
al congress Of wo-
men, which convenes
in this city II e It
week, did not have
IT'S beginning in any
of the regular organ
izations of women,
its aims and objects
are very closely akin
to those which act as
a bond of union in
the case Of several.
This is notably the
case with the Nation-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
Obituary..

Died, vt the ilnm2 OF her parents,
in Washington County Mo-, Aug. l3,
1897, after lingering Illness. Miss
Dora Lcyertl Robinson. aged 20 years
am. - days.
She WAS the child Of religious
parents. aud in early life manifested
religious impressions. bat made nc
profession Ot fditl il Christ until
during her late Illness. She sent for
her pastor ut who's hand, She reIue>f-
ed CARTS, ian baptism aUi Was rcc2if-
ed into the NJ. +. Church as a public
profession oi her acceptance OF Christ
as Savior, and expressed i c9snpleta
resignation to til, will Of God and Il
read !4":;s to - at lis call. She died
! leaving behind hera father, mother
| six >i-t cr>. and uHH brother. WAOla
| She cNhorted to meet her III i.uaN Ii.
| Her IcI..;tino were laid t. Test Gn the
! lIth. NIfE. i. WH,GiEr.
Pastor Palmer Circuit.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
ITEMS OF INT'E!, EST.


Bisniarc,, lla' Il new town hall and
ca,abo0>c.
The lands Of Nilia>Izi Park Associ-
alton OF Crawford County sold at
sheriff sale recently for $50, 900.
The population Of Honne Terre ana
adjoining camps is about /. $50. "
Herculaneum there are about 30o.
The three troops at present at the
range will remain there until Septeni-
Der 18th. The men are all having
splendid ilealt;i and are putting in sey-
eral hours each day in target Practice
i -Ironton" Re lister
Will Kirby. Of Stcelvilc. aged about
twenty-five yeas, accidantlly shot him
self on July 2lst. lie was ATTEMPTING
to shoot a rabbit with small twenty
two caIibra rife, when it vas accident
ally discharged and the bail penetrated
the abdomen, producing What is likely
prove a fatal yJt:;ld.
A jefferson County Coffee Plantation
sounds somewhat out uf the ordinary
butfroma sample stalk shown in Capt.
BiacNnlal'; oilice. which was raised on
the farm of Ir. Nritt.nsilaln located :
miles east Of this city, it seem, d prac-
tical fact The stalk. or vine. Looks
some like a dried oyerripe br;sa. has
pods with sma!i. nearly rouHd pits OF
a dark yellow color Which are sad to
make fragrant dii;I3, mach like the
Imported cJ..Tec. - De soto Press
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
That Roa d Discussion.


We have lately published a
number of articles on the road
question, in which the road over
seers have been scored by one for
neglect of duty and upheld by an
other and the blame for the bad
condition of the roads laid else
where. The writers have wasted
time and we have wasted space
usclessly over these articles, for as
long as the present system of work
ing the roads prevails no amount
of discussion will make them better.
The fault lies neither with the
road overseers nor with the county
court that the roads are bad, but
with the people. They want good
roads, but they don't want to pay
their cost. Let any man, be he
Republican or Democrat, 90 before
the people OF this county as can
didate for Representative and ask
to be elected on the proposition
that he will vote for the abolish
mcnt of the poll-tax system and the
substitution Of an increased prop
crty tax for road purposes, the
snowstorm of ballots against him
will cover him so deep that he
would never come to the surface
again. The county judges can, il
they deem it expedient and have
the nerve to do it, increase the
poll-tax to six days work annually
on the roads; but let them put the
tax higher than two days annually.
and tremendous howl goes ur
and those judges are politically
dead. henceforth and forever.
Competent authority places the
cost of irst-class country roads al
from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile
When the people of Washington
County get good roads that Ii
about the price they will have te
pay for them, otherwise they viii
continue to drive through muc
holes and over rocks and stumps
Bcwailing the condition of th'
roads and lambasting the overseer'
through the newspapers will no
Improve yard Of our highways.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

a YEAR ago every Bryanite or
gan, and every campaign orator
of that faith as well. was telling
the people that the law Of supply
and demand had nothing to do with
values, but that the appreciation Of
the gold dollar-thc 2oO-ccnt dol
lar-was solely responsible for the
decline in prices. Farm products
would never go up again until the
dollar was chcapcncd; a continual
ton Of the gold standard would
send wheat down to 25c d bushel,
they told they farmer. Now that
wheat is at the dollar mark and
other farm products proportion
atcly high, the Bryanite press
is busy explaining how the in-
mensc foreign demand for these
products has wrought this condi-
ton, or, in other words. it says
that the law Of supply and demand
had accomplished what the Bryan
ties claimed a year ago it could
never accomplish. Our friends
have argued themselves into Il hole
out Of which they are now trying
to climb in a reversed position.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
ABOUT a dozen men got together

ABOUT dozen men got together
in St. Louis last week and organ
lied Il new political party, called
the American Party. The visions
which the founders Of this new
party have incorporated in their
platform are the dcmonitization Of
both gold and silver and the sub
stitution of an unlimited paper cur
rency, based upon nothing: the
government ownership of railroads
and telegraph lines, etc; free soup
and transportation for the hoboos,
and free watermelons for the color
ed people. In fact, when the
American Party gets hold OF the
reins life will be continual picnic.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

as the agricultural classes Of this
country have not experienced for
many year. Republic.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

THERE is truly lot of inconsist
ency in human nature. For in
stance those fellows who are COM
planning SO loudly about the low
wages of the workingwan are the
same men who are always wanting
to buy cheaper, to beat the prices
down and invite relentless compc-
tition through which labor must
surely suffer. Ask these fel-
lows to keep up higher standard
of wages by paying higher prices
for labor's products and they will
complain of being robbed. When
finally prices have been beaten
down to a point where labor re-
bels and inaugurates a strike the
employers get abused because they
have cut wages and will not put
them up again. Let the employers
form a combination for the pur-
pose of keeping up prices and
thereby sustaining wages, and the
howl goes up about robbery by
the trusts.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
STR RtYED-

From Casey's Mill, on Indian Creek.
yellow mare. ilaxen name and tail.
ii hands high, ) years old: also bay
mare. small bell on neck. left hip
knocked down, scar on right shoulder
made by barbed wire. Liberal reward
for their recovery, or information lead
ing to their recovery. Address,
EDMOND CASEY. poto,i. Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

ALL the city dailies, Democratic
as we'll as Republican, are crowd
ing their news columns with pros
perity items: but out in the coun-
try the 2x4 Bryanite wceklies are
trying hard to convince the people
that the daily papers are monu-
mental and magnificent liars.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
The Lifting OF Mortgages.

The pleasantest feature OF the
general advancing tendencies OF
prices of American agricultural
products at the present time is the
sure promise of placing the Amer
lean farmer in Il more prosperous
condition than he has known for
years past.
According to the figures given
in Il recent issue of the American
Agriculturist, the most noticeable
development of 1S97-9S in the line
Of prosperity is likely to be an
enormous decrease in the mortoaged
Indebtedness of American farmers.
The A griculturist states that should
the farmers realize prices for their
crops anything like those now
clearly indicated as certain, more
than half of all the mortgages on
all the farms in the United States
can be paid Off in one year. The
prices that now seem to the Agri-
culturist as likely to be realized
blythe farmer are: For wheat, 81 90
per bushel; corn, 80 to 30 cents per
busheI: oats, Is to 30 cents per
bushel; rye, 81, 90 PEI bushel:
potatoes, 81. 90 per bushcl. hay, S12
to S15 per ton; cotton, to 10 cents
per pound.
While it may be that these figures
will not be nettcd by American
farmers as whole, it is now almost
certain that general higher prices
for farm products will prevail,
under an unusual foreign demand.
and that these prices will be reach
ed in full time to benefit the farm
er before his crop shall have pass
ed into other hands. Under the
stress of the financial. commercia,
and agricultural depression that
has prevailed for some years past,
farmes have lived more economic
ally than ever before in their lives,
and they have also brought to then
aid all the approved methods OF
money saving farming processes.
For this reason they will benefit tc
even a more marked degree from
the higher prices now almost sure
of being realized.
1t is but natural to suppose that,
with surplus remaining after his
crops have deem marketed and all
the years expenses paid, the farmer
will apply that surplus to the lifting
Of the mortgage from his farm.
This means to him relief from the
50 often disastrous necessity of
paying yearly rate of intrest on
his mortgages which has heretofore
made many years work unproft-
able, and to the sure possession of
those acres from the tilling OF
which his prosperity must come,
1t is safe to say that farm mort
cages will be wiped out as fast as
the farmers can spare the money
with which to thus free himself
/ And then should come an era O
independence and good times sucl
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

LEAD is now at 1 cents with q
prospect that it will 90 higher
The lead miners of Washington
County who voted for Eddie Robb
for Congress must feel that they
would like to be taken out and
switched for not having known
better than to vote for the mar
who opposes their interests by ad
vocating free trade.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
CHhS. II. RsCHESON,
Attorney at Law,
POTOSI, MO.
VIII practice in all court; Of the State
and L. 5. District Court and
Court OF Appeals.
t:iice in Court House.
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For Five Cents Per Day
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accidenlly.
WI! pay if you are accidcntly killed,
:2tiS tn S6It.
Win pay SO Il week when YOU an
sick and unable t. work.
viii pay 500 tor funeral expenses.
Will pay, ii you lose a hand and fsxs
or both feet or both hand. $l3S to ss,ssx
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a one-ttird policy costs s1.5o ssx
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01

As LONG as the laboring classes
permit themselves to be lead by
such violent, anarchistic spirits as
Eugene V. Dcbs and his ilk, the
cause of labor will suffer. These
men tear down rather than build
up, and fatten upon the contribu-
tions they levy from the wretchcd-
ness which follows their teachings.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-01
STRANED.

Frcm my farm 3 miles north of Pal
mer, one three year-o.d dark-bay fly
heavy name and tail. Left my place
lst Of May. last. Anyone furnishing
information that will lead to her re
covery will be rewarded. Address,
WM. WINGo. Palmer. Mo.