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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02
END OF THE CONFERENCES.
MethOdists Adjourn After Appointing
Ministers for the Districts.

Slater, Mo, Sept. 27-The South
west Missouri conference closed it.
session here tonight. The following
are the appointments:
Kansas City district-W. T. Mcclure
T.. Central, F. X. Hill; Troost
Avenue, G. NJ. Hawkins; Melrose, C.
NJ. Bishop; Brooklyn Avenue; j. NJ.
Boon; Washington Street, A. b.
Davidson; Campbell and Garland, S.
ii. G. Burgln; Westport station, G.
w. Moore; Independence station, +.
r. Ryland; Raytown circuit, c. T.
Wallace; Lees Summit and Point
Pleasant, f. nj. Burton; Blue Springs
and Atherton, j. b. Busby; Pink Hill
circuit, ). II. Hedges; Oak Grove and
Pleasant Prairie, G. h. Taylor; Lone
Jack circuit, j. j. Keller; Pleasant
Hill station, o. NJ. Hickman; Bolton
and Martin circuit, C. w. Scarritt
Harrisonyille station, w. C. Bewby
Gram. Valley circnit, Alonzo Pattison
hook editor and editor Review, j. j.
Tigert; editor Christian Advocate, W.
b. Palmore; secretary education, sC.
NJ. Bishop.
Lexington district--Clinton Clenny,
+. +. Lexington station, B. v. Alton
Higginsville station, w. A. McClana-
Ian; Waverly station, Perry Long;
Warrensburg station, s. p. Clayton
Lamonte and Dresden, j. X. Strong
Malta Bend and Grand Pass, L. H.
Vandiver; Dover and Providence, A.
NJ. Dowdy; Corder and Blackburn, A.
p. Appleby Elmwood and Bethel, +.
L. Swanson; Odessa and Marvin, w.
NJ. RAIDER; Sweet Springs and Black
Water, T. G. Pickett; Houstonia and
High Point, W. ii. SNOW; Longwood
and IIerndon, Il. ID. Payne; Knob
Noster circuit, l.. F. Clark; Columbus
circuit, p. =. Dewey: Wellington cir
cuit; Charles Franklin.
BoonYIlle district-C III. Briggs, r.
+. Boonyille station, b. W. Howell !;
Pilot Grove and Bellaire, w. b. Cobb (;
Nelson cIrcnit, w. w. Lewis and C. l..
Stonffer; Arrow Rock and Smiths
chapel, +. Y. CHM; Marshall station,
B. y. Higgins; Miami and Mount
Carmel, J. w. Ezell; Orearville and
Shiloh, w. F. Briggs; Slater station.
A. II. Fario; Gillian and Cambridge,
S. B. Brown; Bnnceton circnit, j. W.
Purcell; Prairie Home circuit, j. G..
Cross; California circuit, w. G.. Beas-
ley; Russellyille circuit, A. ii. God
bey; Jefferson City Station, b. C.
Given; Chamois circnit, w. ii. Sud-
doth; chaplain Missouri penitentiary,
w. G. Pike; student Vanderbilt nniyer-
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ness to pass the desired laws imme-
diately.
As for the people, they "may feel
sure, /" says Mr.. Edmunds, "ihat the
commission will do nothing and rec
ommend nothing that is intended to
advance any interest or class at the ex-
pense of any other, whatever may be
the public opinion n respect of the
wisdom of what the commission may
finally suggest to be done" Certainly.
What does public opinion amount TO,
anyway? Is 1t not merely the below
ing Of The senseIess herd? Let the
people sit comfortably down and have
their currency nicely reformed while
they wait.
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Curreneies QuickIy Repalred.

From the Kansas City Times.
The currency commission, having got
down to business, indulges, through its
chairman, ex-senator Edmnnds, in The
following modest salutatory:
"The commission is composed OF
gentlemen residing in all the different
sections of the country. They were
not selected to represent, nor do they
represent, any special interest TO be
promoted by whatever they may think
it wise to do; but rather to contribute
from the principal callings of the indus
Try and commerce and finance of the
United States such information rs
would be likely to aid in reaching just
conclusions, and in suggesting meas
ures that should be beneficial equally
to the whole body of the people of The
country"
The timeliness of this bashful ex-
planation will not be questioned. We
knew, of course, that the members
were s'gentlemen; that IN fact the
six republicans and five gold standard
democrats were as cultured a set of
gentlemen as the existing industrial
conditions could produce. They are
all wealthy, condescending 10 us m
feriors and capable of any feat, from
reforming currency 10 leading a
cotillon, without unduly mixing the
figures of either.
This is important to remember in
view of Mr.. Edmunds' statement that
the members were not selected (of
course he meant "dId not select them
selves'O to represent any special inter
est, but came from all the ''principal
callings." There are no farmers or
retail merchants or workIngmen on the
but these are not exactly !
'tcallings," don't you know. No 'gen-
tleman'' feels ''called" to follow hor- |
rid plow under the broiling sun or to
sell nasty dry goods over a counter, or
to SWING vulgar pick in the depths of
the earth. The professions to which
feel "called" are com
few. Chief among them
seem governing the country and re-
the chaotic currency system
The monetary commission feels
''called" to save the people. II m
lends To relieve them of The task of
choosing their own financial policies.
It will not hear of congress eXcrling
itself TO take part in the work. After
all, ihOugh hercnlean labor for
others, 1t will he ridicnlously easy for
Lhe cultured experts. All they need is
a few days to thoroughly and impair
tally investigate existing conditions, 80
ls To be forced In the conclusion that
nothing under heaven can save us but
he single gold standard. Then they
,an quietly take congress by the scrnff
If the neck and spank it into willing
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The Reproach of ..Freedom. !,

From the Kansas City Times.
Among the signs of the times moth
ing Is more curious than the antipathy
that Is aroused among a certain class
of people by the word Stree In mon
archical countries II rs natural enough
that the word shonld be distasteful 10
the privileged orders. Bat our govern
ment was founded upon freedom. Such
was until recently the boast of Ameri-
cans.
Now there seems to be n sort OF aris-
tocratic prejudice against the word and
its implication. For instance, the
opponents of 'stariff for revenue only''
strive to make the tariff reformers
odious by calling them "free traders. -
In Washington's time such an express
sion would have had no force rs an
argument against the reformers. To
have called them ''free traders would
rather have popularized them.
1t is not all clear that the intended
slur has its expected effect. Even if
the people were not intelligent enough
to perceive the vast difference between
limiting the payment of taxes to the
government instead of the trusts and
abOlishing taxes altogether, they might
still fail to see why proposing TO re-
move restrictions upon commerce
should be considered dastardly.
The fact is, however, that the term
"free trader" is supposed to hold up
the tariff reformer to public indigna-
ton. The phrase ''free silver" is ex-
pected to be associated with an un-
righteous confiscation and redivision of
property. The words s'free ballot"
are denounced as an anarchistic al
tempt TO persuade workingmen to vote
against their employers interests.
This tendency TO stigmatize reforms
by branding them with the word
''free" can scarcely be attributed TO
any change in popular sentiment rs
regards freedom. 1t must be due 10
he incnlcation in America of \ caste
feeling among the favored orders, who
see their unjust privileges threatened
BY righteous reforms and think, like
he aristocracy of Europe, that every
hing liberal, popular and free is highly |
reprehensiblc. Yet America Is the
very last place where the people should
olerate sentiments against liberty and |
human rights.
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YOUNG MEMS BEST CHANCES
OF Success Are to be Found Outside Our
Largest Cities.

. "Business conditions of The greai
cities are not favorable 10 young men, ;
writes Edward w. Box, in the October
Ladies' Home journal, advising yonne
men abont to begin their careers against
going TO the big cities. at is said,'
he continues, that competition devel-
ops men. 1t does, unquestionably.
But. to cope with present competition
as it exists in the centres, calls for 3
vast amount of experience. That eX-
perience man must have back of him
before he can enter the debating arena.
'Bnt how can better acquire that ex-
perience than when there is constant
need of itp' How better, my young
friend? By serving long apprentice
ship in some city smaller than the
greatest. The large cities are today
poor places in which to learn the rndi-
ments of business competition, for
while the young man is learning, the
experienced man swallows him up.
'But that is experience persists the
young man. 1t is, but n more severe
kind than there is need of: kind
which, once indulged in, does not leave
a pleasant remembrance. CompetI-
tion in smaller city may be just as
keen, proportionately, but, what is all
important to the young man starting
ont, the risks are not so great: the ex-
Perience is not apt to be so costly
should he fail TO succeed. 1t is a true
saying that n man before he succeeds in
business must expect to measure his
height on the ground time or two.
But it is not necessary that in his first
knock-down he should be knocked ont.
"But there is another and more I'M
portant fact which the young man
away from the large cities does not
realize. 1t is that the number of pos
sible positions in the large cities is not
increasing, despite the reiterated asser
tions constantly made to the contrary.
The very opposite Is the truth. Various
causes explain this: higher taxes,
higher prices of lots, or lack of build
ing room, labor strikes, and lower cost
of production. rhe misunderstanding in
terests of this country are constantly
tending toward the smaller cities and
away from the centres. All this means
fewer positions, since only in rare in
stances does the executive branch of
a business call for larger number of
than does the manufacturing
side. Strange as the change of current
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02

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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02
Here and There over the State.

Missouri negroes only selebraIe
Emancipation day twice year. That's
enough.
A bicycle club is being organized in
Carthage. The ideal bicycling season
of the year in South Missouri is now
opening
A farm in Nodaway county contain
ing 7O5 acres was sold last week for
$50, ,Si5. Missouri leads the world IN
fine farms as well as everything else.
Jack Harris, stockman living IN
Galloway county, was afraid of banks,
so he put S7T5 in an oyster can and
hid it in the garnet. HIS house burned
and the money cannot be found.
The gang of thieves, five members Of
which were recently lynched in Indiana,
made a few rich hauls in Missouri
few years ago. They tapped Daviess
comfy for about S22, 900 and escaped.
Despite all the bountiful crops ard
general good times among Missouri
farmers this year, most of the county
fairs have lost money. Can 1t he that
the old fair idea has been worn ont? (
Tom .Iarboe, the well-known Mis-
souri, newspaper man, has moved 10
Norman, |. T., where he will have
charge of the Norman Demo
crat. The press of the state JOINS in
wishing him good luck.
The Sedalii Capital makes this stab
Jefferson CEy: 1.-THE Missouri river
is so dry al Jefferson City that her
people are now drinking tadpoles. "
Just as though the fact of the river
being dry would in any way change the
drinks of Jefferson City people.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02

may seem, il is, nevertheless, n fact
that the young man who today leaves a
good-sized city of actual manufactnr-
ing advantages, turns his back on what
IN few years will be one of the indus
trial bee hives of America"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02

The following low rates To Nashville.
Tenn, from Lexington, via the Mo.
Pacific railroad are now In effect: One
way, $3.50; round trip, $?7.l6; good to
return until Nov, l. A. 8, Loomis, Ag't
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02
just Right.
THE "AcKlEY" LADIES' SYRINGE

is precisely right in principle and
workmanship. II is easily operated
and cleanses thoroughly. Can't leak
nor get out OF order. Cali and OK
anime them at
LEROY FARMER.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02

Moments are useless il trified away; and
they are dangerously wasted il consumed
by delay in eases where One Minute
Cough Cure would bring immediate relief.
Day y Shelby, Leading Druggists. S. 2srf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-02
TIME TABLE.

Commencing Sunday, Nov. 18th, 1896
trains will pass Lexington Junction on
the Wabash as follows
West bound No. 3, Kansas City and nes
Moines express, $50 a. M; No. Z, Denver
limited, 7:I0 IL. m; No. i, fast line, 4:5O p
M; No. II, local fieight, rs y. m.
East bOund-No. ., New York limited
II :05 a. M; No. @, Chicago nd Toledo fast
mail, 7;l@ p. m; No. 4, 81. Lnuis and hes
Moines express, lO:4l p. M; No. 40, lOeal
freight 800 a. IN.
p. w. CARTER. Agent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

known nocturnal preferences of burg
lars. Captain Talbert, the head Of the
watch force, is Of the opinion that the
day guard needs to be more on the
alert for surprises than any of them.
Each Waterman has regular per-
manent post, and there is rarely any
shifting of POSTS. On relieving the man
Of the old watch the mid" Waterman
takes the pistol belonging to the post
from the drawer of the table in which
it is placed, sees that it is in proper
shape, asks the to u o'clock watch
man If everything is all right, and sits
down under the incandescent light to
put in his eight hours, most of which
are passed in Buddah-like contempla-
ton of the walls and the shadowy.
silent corridors.
The watch is not permitted to smoke,
read or write while on duty. His bust
ness is solely to watch. If he goes to
sleep and is discovered by the watch
patrol, he is certain to be discharged
upon being reported the next day.
Only very few such cases have oc-
Cured, and in each case the sleeper
has confessed that his drowsiness was
caused by flask drinking after having
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
BOTH A TENT AND A BOAT.
An Austrian Army Ohicer Invents n
Valuable Bit of Military Equipment.

An Austrian Army Oficer Invents n
Valuable Bit OF Military Equipment.
The importance of enabling small
detachments Of troops to cross rivers
irrespective Of existing bridges or fer
ries led Lieut.. Czerny Of the Austrian
army to the invention of light boat,
which may be constructed anywhere
from young saplings or branches of
willow with the aid of the ordinary tent
canvas carried by the military for use
when camping. The boats thus con-
structed are exceedingly light and per-
fectly available and practical in mill
tary operations. The construction is
of the simplest, and after short practice
two carpenters Of Lieut.. Czerny's COM
pany succeeded in building a float Of
three of the little boats inside of forty
minutes. Strong saplings are cut to
the right length and are tied together
with strong cords into frames cor
responding to the size of the tent can
vas. Three saplings are bent to give
the boat the necessary shape at the
bow, stern and in the center. The
framework of this boat only weighs
about six pounds. 1t is placed upon
the canvas, which is then taken up and
laced tightly over the frame, when the
boat will be ready for use. Wherever
it can be obtained it is practicable to
place board at the bottom Of the boat
for greater rigidity. Three Of these
improvised boats fastened together
with cross poles will carry across a
rivertwo men with their full equipment
Of baggage, or three men without the
baggage For recommending purposes,
for the transmission of dispatches and
other military duties this means Of
transportation will be of enormous
value.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

gone on watch, which did not improve
his situation so far as regaining his
Job was concerned.
The watGhmen confess that within
the compass of an eight-hOur night
watch they have plenty of time 10 array
before them in orderly mental fashion
the mistakes of their past lives, and
they are 0 unit In expressing the be-
lief that the strain OF sitting still and
doing nothing for exactly one-third Of
each day, year-in and year-out, would
drive them mad were not the time
broken by the complete round of their
beats, which they are required to make
every thirty minutes.
At the end Of each Of these rounds
the Waterman touches his electrical
button, which informs the lieutenant
OF the watch at his desk at the main
door that everything is we'll with him.
The watch patrol, consisting of four
men detailed for this duty every night
IN each watch, and whose duties are
similar to those Of police roundsmen,
are on tour through the corridors all
the time, partly for the purpose Of see
Ing that the watchmen are alive and
alert, and partly to attend to the sys-
tenn of electrical button registering
which they in turn are obliged to car
ry on to indicate to the lieutenant their
own wide-awakeness.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
A Modest namaro Claim

Thirty-seven million six hundred and
fifty thousand francs Is the modest sum
for which the German embassy in Paris
is about to be sued by Count" Sid
ney O'Dann as damages due him for
eight years and half of wrongful
Imprisonment in Germany. He gives
himself out as rightful king Of Ireland
and chief of the Irish National League,
and asserts that he was handed over
by the Swiss authorities to Germany
on the charge that he had taken part
in intrigues Of Gen. Boulanger which
might have led to war between Ger
many and France. According to the
London Daily Chronicle, he was at one
time an officer himself in 1866, was ap-
poi2ted military tutor to the present
emperor, and was degraded and i'm
prisoned during the Franco-Prussian
war for plundering. He brings suit in
France, as he says it is hopeless to OBJ
tain justice from the German courts.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

Rock Of all of its deposits to the point
below. Here the overlooking waters Of
nearly half century ago lodged the
remains Of many tribes, high and dry,
literally moving the last resting place
of their dead, for no Pacific coast tribe
ever buried their dead below the sur
face Of the earth. Some hedged them
about with rocks, above the ground,
leaving the face upward and exposed.
Others put bark covering over them,
while others were suspended from
limbs or left in the forks of trees. Time
has robbed every form Of its substance
and left only the whitened bones and
bleached skulls. Students, dentists
and physicians are eager to secure these
trophies for articulation. So great Is
the demand that at least one man has
for years followed the hazardous bust
ness Of gathering these skulls for the
market. It Is risky, for the few re-
naming Indians still keep vigil over the
remains Of their dead, and to be caught
in the act would mean a prisoner in
the recesses Of the neighboring noun
tains, followed by death of slow tor
ture, for no quarter or mercy would be
shown the victim. Still, knowing this,
Howard Clause, a recluse, nightly risks
his life to gather these grinning, whit
ened skulls, and every now and then
box of large and small skulls Is
shipped from Portland, Ore, to the va
rious noted seats of medical and dental
learning in the east.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

The announcement that days of
grace" have been abolished in one more
state, suggests that in old English law
the phrase had a meaning different
from the present well understood sig
nificance Of the words as used in busi-
ness. Law or custom allows three days
beyond the fixed day of payment for
paying note or bill Of exchange. The
term, days of grace" as used in old
English law, signifed the period Of
three days allowed by the court for the
appearance and answer Of a person
summoned, beyond the day mentioned
In the writ. This old use thus point
ed to mercy rather than to mere BUSH
ness accommodation or convenience. In
these days Of trusts and shylocks there
is neither mercy nor brsiness-just
plain sand-bagging and no more.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
Salvage From Ocean.

Some money, part of 100000 in Bra.
lillian paper currency, lost in the wreck
of the steamer Buenos Ayres, on the
coast of Brazil, between Pernambuco
and Rio Janeiro, six years ago, has
just turned up in fishing village north
of Oporto in Portugal. The British
company that paid the insurance re-
Gently received an anonymous letter
from Portugal, which they put in the
hands of the Portuguese police, who
have already recovered $1,000. The
case containing the money was picked
up by Oporto fishermen, fishing on the
Brazil coast, who divided it among
themselves and said nothing; they
vowed to give part of it to the church,
and were betrayed for not keeping their
VOW.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

The word trocha is of such frequent
occurrence in dispatches and news from
Havana that it seems likely in time to
become incorporated into the English
speech. An explanation having been
asked Of the term, which is pronounced
trotsha, with the accent on the first
syllable, Il may be stated that original
ly it denotes footpath, pathway, or
sometimes a short cut. During the
present Cuban unpleasantness Its sig
nifcance has been applied to fortified
high road.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
BOOK TITLES.
An Amusing Chapter of Literary His.
tory Might Be Written.

An Amusing Chapter of Literary His.
tory Might Be Written.
An amusing chapter Of literary his
tory might be written on the difficulties
Of novelists over the titles of their
books, says the New York Tribune.
Not one is sure If he prints story in
America under a title that seems to
him absolutely original that some one
won't turn out to have used 1t already
In England. We recall that Mr.. How
ellis not long ago had to publish a book
in England under different title from
that which he kept for America, and
now Miss Margaret Sherwood, who was
said to be bringing out novel called
can Experiment in Egoism," is an
nounced to have rechristened 1t, before
publication, "a Puritan Bohemia"
Lucas Malet had to go through the
same operation the other day and her
new novel, "Carissima," comes out un.
der the designation only after having
suffered the most puzzling transforma-
tions. There ought to be place OF
registry somewhere to assist authors in
finding out before they publish whether
their titles have been anticipated or
not. At the same time, we repeat,
there ought to be chapter written
with accounts of the occasions upon
which these changes have involved
serious complications or comlcal devel.
Opments.