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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

THE mines Of St. Francois county
are producing 113 tons of metallic
lead daily. Before the Republicans
were returned to power and there
YVES no prospect Of higher tariff
on lead,. the price was down to
1915 and lower, or about S55 per
ton. Since the new tariff proposes
to put the duty on lead ores to II
cents per pound, lead has gone up
until it is now 1920, or a difference
of 50 on every ton. This improve
ment in the lead market is worth
over $1,000 every day to the miners
of St. Francois county, and here in
our own county we are receiving,
in proportion to our lead produc-
ton, the same benefits. And yet
Senator Vest argues against the
duty on lead, and says it will not
help the miners of Missouri.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

prosperity is not properly charge
able to the ignorance of the farmer
and workingman on this subject.
They are pretty we'll informed.
This cry comes principally from
the cheap politicians who are striv-
ing to make capital out of the mat
ter. There is no sense in asking
for this promised prosperity before
the passage of bill which will cut
off the enormous importations of
foreign stuff, and give the country
a chance to right itself. When the
remedy is tried and fails it is time
enough for people to say that we
are mistaken and unable to bring
prosperity
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

BRYAN stated that the business
of the United States required an
annual INCREASE of $40, 100000 in
the volnus Of currency, yet the
mint reports show that the money
circulation Of the United States is
$13S, ,0O0,O0O greater than it was a
year ago. Bryan's distress over
what he assumed was lack of
ability to increase our currency
forty-two millions year was not
only unfounded, but evidently in
tended to mislead.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

WHILE the De Soto ''Prcss" is
crying about hard times, it has in
creased it's business to the extent
that a power press had become a
necessity, and which, together with
an oil engine, was placed in position
in its Office last week. While we
congratulate Bro. Mitchim upon
the fact that he is in a position to
make such desirable acquisition
to his establishment, it appears to
us that such improvements are
likely to create an impression
among its readers that the ''Press'
is decidedly overriding the thing
with its continued calamity bowling.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23
LEAD has taken another upwar

LEAD has taken another upward
turn and tho market is reported
strong around $500. Still there
are some Democrats in this locality
who can argue that the condition
of our miner is worse today than
it was year ago, when lead was
bringing only about S2.75, and a
dull market at those figures. The
trouble withour Democratic friends
is that the improving lead market,
under the stimulating influence of a
prospective increase in the tariff
duties on lead, places them in an
indcfcnsiblo position, and they arc
only whistling down the wind for
a more favorable turn of the
breeze in their direction.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

MCKINLEY has urged upon our
foreign ambassadors that they
should USE, their best efforts to Sc
cure an international agreement on
bimetallism. 1t would not surprise
us to see such an agreement reached
before the close of McKinley's term
of office.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

County of Washington, ss'
In the Circuit Court of Washington
County, to August term, 1897.
RACHEL BRYAN, plaintiff,
HILLARD LANKFORD, defendant.
At this day comes the plaintiff here
in, by her attorney, Clfas. II. Richeson,
and files her petition and affidavit,
alleging, among other things, that de-
fendant, Hillard Lankford, is not a
resident of the State Of Missouri:
Whereupon it is ordered by the Clerk
in vacation that said defendant be
notified by publication that plaintiff
has commenced suit against him in
this court, the object and general nature
of which is 20 divest defendant of title
and reinvest same in plaintiff,
| in and to the following described real
! estate, to-wit:
| South half of lot thirty (3O) in Jones'
addition to the town Of Potosi, WASH
ington County, Missouri, and that
unless the said Hillard LankfOrd be
aud appear at this court, at the next
term thereof, to be begun and holden
at the court house in the town of
PotOsi, in said county, on the 26th day
| VI AuSuou hCAU, uuSA OIl VI UCIOTC UIlS
third day OF said term, if the term
shall so long continue-and if not, then
on or before the last day of said term
answer or plead to the petition in said
cause, the same will be taken as con-
fessed, and judgment will be rendered
accordingly.
And it is further ordered, that a copy
hereof be published, according to law,
in the Potosi Journal, newspaper
published in said County Of Washing
ton, for four weeks successively, the
last insertion to be at least four weeks
before the first day Of said next August
term Of this court.
w. NJ. BEN NETT, Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the Record.
Witness my hand and the seal OF
the circuitcourtof Washington County
|tsr., this 7th day Of June, 1897:
t''IAA'1 w. NJ. BEN NETT,
| Circuit Clerk.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23
In Missouri.

Montrose has refunded $1,000 Of schoo
bonds.
Gresham claims a110-year-old womal
resident.
Public hitching racks are to- be abol
ished in Maryville.
Braymer's curfew law applies t,
children 16 years old and under.
Attorney General Crow has bought
a $4,000 residence at Jefferson City.
Sedalia will not celebrate the Fourth
but will jollify when the new brewery
is completed.
The suppressed slot machines at JET
ferson City were gathering in an
average Of $40 day in nickels.
A Kansas City man demanded an
opportunity to introduce witnesses to
prove that he had not kicked his wife
out Of bed.
Trenton's e&City Treasurer must be
honest, if not careful. His books show
that the city owes him 1922 for over
drafts.
Leola Mitchell, the vaudeville artist,
who is making a hit in the East, is a
daughter of Maj. Harry Mitchell, of
Vernon County.
More foreign capital is being invest
ed in Joplin, according to the Herald
''than in any other city in the United
States Of equal SIZE"
A Pleasant Hill man is the owner of
q freak peach tree. 1t runs up the
side OF his house like vine, the first
limb being Is feet above the ground.
Strawberry wine is one of the chief
products Of Sarcoxie this year. Two
hundred and thirty car loads of berries
were shipped from there this season.
There are some people in Carthage,
AYERS Kansas, City paper, who believe
that when William J. Bryan, of Lin
coin, Neb., speaks there this month,
all the lead and zinc in the mines will
turn to silver.
Until it became state Institution,
some months ago, the ex-Confederate
Home at Higginsville was maintained
mainly by private contributions, and
the products OF the farm. For 1896
the receipts were over s12, 900, and the
disbursements somewhat less.
According to an old resident Of Ash
land, Pearl Waters, the St. Louis
mulderess sentenced to be hanged. is
not the first woman in Missouri thus
condemned. He makes the statement
that on June 10, 1S43, America Beasley
and her husband were hanged near
Columbia for the murder OF their
master, and says he was present at the
hanging.
William Barnes, an old bachelor of
81 years, and his maiden sister, 70
years old, living four miles east of Deer
Park, in Boone County, have somewhat
of remarkable history. They were
born, the Columbia "Herald' says, on
the old homestead farm, where they
now reside, and have lived there con-
tinuously since their babyhood. 1t
will appear contradictory saying they
were not born in Boone County, in the
State OF Missouri, nor in the United
States. They were born in 1913 and
1919, while Missouri was a territory
and before Boone County was located,
They have never heard a sound or
spoken word in their lives, having
been born deaf and dumb. Since their
fathers death they have lived at the
old home, and had for their support
the income Of the farm, the other
brothers and sisters consenting, as re-
quested by their father Mr.. Barnes
and sister are without doubt the oldest
native born citizens now living in
Boone County, and perhaps the oldest
in the state.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23
The Wave, Has, Come to Kansas,

never get into a varnished buggy
and view the landscape o'er have
an idea that the wave Of prosperity
promised last fall is not here. The
town isn't doing much-it's true.
But out in the country the wave
has come. 1t caresses the tawny
coat Of the wheat. Wheat is fairly
jumping up in the market and in
the Kansas fields. The. wave is
lavlng the laughing tresses Of the
alfalfa that lies thick in the uplands.
The first crop is in the stack. The
second cutting is almost ready. The
price is good and stiff, and the
little pigs in the COW lot will soon
be turned on the field and begin to
fill out for the fall market. The
wave Of prosperity is on the pigs.
They are sousing in it, wallowing
in it, and making their owners more
money today than they have made
since BENZ. Harrison left the White
House.
The. old hen is scratching in
prosperity and the young fries are
running about with the wave hit
ting them so hard that thcir tail
feathers get pushed in faster than
they can grow out. The chicken
market was never better.
The COW and the bull and the old
red steer are knee deep in prosperi-
ty. The wave has struck them,
and they are tromping around
sloshing the still waters of content
ment all over the old man and the
boys whenever they go in the lower
pastures. And when the missus
and the kids 60 into the COW lot
with the three-legged stool and the
tin bucket and the two-quart cup
for the ''strippings," that wave of
prosperity just naturally cools the
women's temples and washes the
kinks of woe ont of their minds and
the b-r-r-r of the milk on the bot
tom of the bucket becomes the
sound of trowel and hammer upon
air castles over the hills and far
away. You are just mighty right
the wave has come to the COW
lot.
And it has struck the corn field
and the oat patch. It is surging
all over the farm. Down in the
orchard-where the cut worms have
not damned things up-tho wave
is tapping upon the trunks of the
trees, and the raspberries and straw
berries and blackberries and goose
berries have to be skinned off the
crest of the wave every morning
with a road scraper. Pretty soon
the peaches and the cherries will be
on the wave, and then it will take
tin roof to gather them.
When this wave gets through
slashing around the farm it will
flow into the town. 1t will ooze
little by little into bank accounts,
into the bad bills, into the sugar
barrels, into the flour bins, into the
oil cans that grease the lawn mow-
ers. Then it will fill the paint
buckets and timber up the brushes,
and we'll all paint up and look
pretty.
The wave has struck the country;
it has inundated the farms; just
hold your horses and it will get to
town. For the wave has come
Emporia (Kan.) ''Gazette."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

The ''Social Democracy Of Ameri-
ca is the title of Eugene V. Debbs'
scheme to establish socialistic
commonwealth. The word ''democ-
racy" will max the plan available to
being incorporated in the next
national platform Of the Bryanites.
They are willing to take in every
thing under that name.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

SrA1N is said to be S36, 900, 900 in
arrears in Cuba, with no way out
of the difficulty. The ever increas-
ing debt which Spain is mourning
to keep possession of the island is q
greater menace to her than are the
insur0cnt {, rccS.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

We don't hear Of any Bryanite
papers suspending publication on
account of the ''tardiness' of the
prosperity wave. But then, they
may be doing business on wind
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

ENGLAND and Japan will prob
ably object to the annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands by this country
but neither England Or Japan would
be averse to adding them to their
own territory.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

Most of the Democratic papers
which are so vociferous about hard
times in their editorial columns,
are Dragging about the amount of
business they are doing in their
local news.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

The farmer who is getting forty
or fifty cents more a bushel for
wheat than he received year ago,
must be inclined to think that there
is something in Republican promises
in spite of the walls of the calamity
hoUlars
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23
$l.OO Per Annum.

A LAKE of soft-soap has been
discovered up in the Northwest. 1t
is probable that VIM. j. Bryan
visited the locality just previous to
the campaign of 1896.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-06-23

STATE OF MISSOURI, GO
County of Washington, 81
In the Circuit Court of Washington
County, to August term, 1897.
RACHEL BRYAN, plaintiff,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
THE POSTER GIRL.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
She Is quite the very newest, the most re-
cent up to date
The Aubrey Beardsey maiden, slim and
with her hair blue china fashion, like IA
lady ON plate
And a hint of indigestion I'm her eye.
Her gown of cut esthetlc, and her arm a
triie lean,
Shoulders soping from a figure rather
tall
You can ten her In n minute when she
comes upon the scene,
And poses like poster on the wall.
For she always takes a corner with cush-
ion and palm
a shaded light. or tapers burning low;
Her voice Is low and pensive, and her man
ner sweetly calm:
All the eligible men she seems to know
She talks of Art" and "Literature" and
Musical Affairs"
Or poses with her lips above a rose,
And even when she's flirting with a fellow
on the stairs
She never seems to lose the poster pose!
She's a yellow book creation. wlth an odor
of Broadway,
A Gibson girl adorned in newer form,
And while you dream of her by night and
think of her all day,
Your foolish heart she'll carry off by
storm.
But like every other woman, as perhaps
you may have guessed,
She is human when her hair gets out of
And when you're making love to her she's
just like all the rest.
A simple little humbug Poster girl
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
MIRACLES in MEDICINE.
The Wonderful Progress Made Within
the Past Few Years.
Diseases that Our Mothers Thought lncurable Now Cured
by Panes Celery Compound.

moni2cs all, Is understood today as never
before, Many persons are not aware that
any such nerves exist. They do not know
that nothing goes ON In any part of the
body that every other part does rot in
stantly know Of" The closeness of this
sympathy is famillarly illustrated by head
aches, indigestion, rheumatism, neuralgia
etc. About every case OF seeplessnees
nervousness and dyspepsia is a sympathetic
strike" by brain, nerves or stomach, induced
by tho lowering OF the general health.
People who think 10 get rid OF these
troubles by some medicine that disregards
the general heath of the body are on tho
wrong track. In getting such diseases as
neuralgia and rheumatism out of the sys-
ten Paines celery compound proceeds at
once to restore normal appetite and regu-
lato the nerves. as the foundation for build
ing up the health and vigor,
1t regulates the bowels without delay. and
II sees to II that the poisonous humors that
are bursting through the skin, in what are,
for purposes of classifying, called skin dis
eases, are given a ready outlet. On this
basis of purified blood and regulated nerves
the permanent cure Of every form OF blood
diseases, such as eczema, salt rheum, bad
complexion is now assured by this really
wonderful remedy.
If the reader of this is not in perfect
health let him simply try a first bottle OF
Paino's celery compound and carefully note
the results
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
THAT MONETARY CONFERENCE.
Language of the BiII TO lie Introduced
by Chandler.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Senator Chandler
has practically made a canvass of the eenate
on the proposition for an International con-
ference on silver and concludes that there
will be no opposition worth the name. still
the bill will not be introduced in the senate
until 1t is accepted by the republican caucus.
as the committee was instructed to report
to the caucus. The language Of the bill is
substantially as follows:
That whenever the president of the
United States shall, after March 4, 1881,
determine that the United states should
be represented at any International con-
ference called either by the United States
or the government of some other country
with a view to secure internationally a
tixity of relative value between gold and
silver as money, by means of u common
ratio between those metals with free mint
age at such ratio, the United States shall
be represented at such conference by 1--WE
or more delegates to be selected by the
president. For the compensation of said
delegates. tos ether with all reasonable cN-
penses connected herewith. TO be approved
by the secretary of state, including the
proportion to be paid by the United States
of the Joint expenses of such conference,
tle sum of Sl00 COO or so much thereof as
may be necessary is hereby appropriated.
1t is understood that the republican caucus
to formally decide upon the bill will be held
next week.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09

II Is dificult almost impossible, to over
estimate the importance of recent advances
in medicine and surgery.
In surgery there is the application Of the
X-ray in determining complicated fractures.
In medicine there is the serum treatment
for germ diseases, and more important still,
the extended use of Panes celery compound
in the treatment of the many diseases that
arise from a faulty or impaired nervous
system.
This class Of ailments causes more suffer.
ing and earlier deaths than all others, and
that is why so much public prominence
was at once given TO Paine's celery COM
pound when its discovery was first aunou eel
by Prof. Phelps OF Dartmouth college
The rapid and sure way that Paine'S celery
compound cures neuralgia, rheumatism ana
nervous debility is marvellous even in the
eyes of this wonder working quarter of the
century.
Ancient miracles were contrary to nat,,ral
laws whereas the remarkable power Of
Paino's celery compound 20 make people
well comes from a better understanding Of
the natural causes of disease.
That wonderful set of nerves known as the
sympathetic nervous system" tina, knits
every part of the body together and har-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
NEITHER PARTY WAS SATISFIED
Millionaire Miner and His Wife Agree
10 u Separation.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. S.-W. G. Creede,
the millionaire miner, after whom the town
of Creele, Colo, is named, and his wife,
have separated and agreed to dissolve at
once, as far as possible without legal
process. the marital bonds. A stipulation
was drawn up and signed several days ago
by which Mrs. Creede accepted $4,000 cash
in hand and surrendered all further claim
upon her husband, at the same time volun-
tarily Withdrawing from his home in this
city. After the necessary period of time
has elapsed Mr.. Creede will institute legal
proceedings and begin suit for absolute di-
vorce on the grounds of desertion. that
being part OF the agreement. Mr. Creede
gave as a reason for the separation that
he and his wife were uncompanionable and
a separation was cOurted by both.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
RESTRICTIONS ON CATTLE IMPORTS.
Efforts to Have the English ReguIa-
tions Modified.


tiOns Modified.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-President Cleve-
land today sent to the house of representa-
tives a letter transmitting information in
reply to the inquiry of the house as to what
had been done by the State department to
carry out the provisions in the last agri-
cultural appropriation bill for negotiations
with Great Britain to secure the abrogation
or modification of the regulations re-
quiring the slaughter of cattle
from the United States at the port
of entry. The accompanying report
of the secretary of state and the let
tiers accompanying the negotiations are very
Interesting. Secretary Olney's report says
the correspondence submitted shows that In
deperdently of the direction of congress the
State department from time to time since
1890, on representations made by the secre-
tary of agriculture, has endeavored to secure
the removal OF the restrictions placed upon
American live cattle by the British govern
ment.
Mr.. olney adds that as these representa-
tions contained all the information possessed
by the Department OF Agriculture, that de-
partment did not consider Ii necessary to
draft any special correspondence. The sec
retary OF state reports also that the British
law makes slaughter at the port OF entry
permanent after January 1, 1897. The let
ters begin with those OF Mr. Blaine to the
United States minister at London, saying
that the restrictions against American cat
tie should be modified. Mr.. Lincolns inter
views with Lord Salisbury are set forth at
length The letters of Secretaries Rusk.
John w. Foster, Morton and Olney carry
the correspondence down to the present time
and show the condition of efforts made by
them and the United States representatives
in London, Mr. Bayard, Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr. White Ohe latter being In charge OF
efforts to secure notifications OF the English
laws) The correspondence brings out no
additional substantial phases to those made
known pending the negotiations and shows
that the British restrictions continue because
OF the fears expressed by British officials
that infection may result from a free intro
duction OF American cattle.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
TO BIocI<nde Charleston.

WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-The people Of
Charleston, S. c.. and vicinity are promised
novel winter entertainment Secretary
Herbert, after consultation with Admiral
Bunce, commanding the North Atlantic
squadron. has decided to allow the admiral
to undertake the blockade OF Charleston.
Heretofore the squadron maneuvers have not
gone beyond target practice, fleet signaling
and landing parties. Gradually the exercises
have been enlarged in scope as the officers
and men gained in proficiency and became
better acquainted with the qualities OF their
respective ships and now Secretary Herbert
has become satisfied of the practicability Of
undertaking a regular blockade Charleston
was selected as the objective point because
OF the fine winter climate and the ayala-
bility of Hampton Roads and Port Royal, S.
c., as bases for the bockading fleet. The
fun will begin early in February, the exact
date depending upon the ability of the navy
yard people to get the ships ready. Every
one OF the ships that can be supplied with a
crew will participate either as a blockader
or a blockade runner.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
LIMITING THE POWER or JUDGES,
Senate BilI FnvornbIy Reported TO
the House.

WASHINGTON, Jan S.-The bill limiting
the power Of judges to punish for contempt
OF court, by Mr. Ray of New York, frnmed
as a substitute for the bill passed by the
senate last session, was acted upon favorably
by the house committee on judiciary today.
By a vote of to the committee decided to
report favorably the bill to the house. Thope
voting for it were Republicans. Henderson
of Iowa. Ray of New York, Brodericll Of
Kansas. Updegraff of Iowa Gillett of Massa-
chusetts, Connolly OF Illinois, Burton Of
Missouri; democrats, Miles of Maryland.
Those voting against: Republicans, Baker
of New Hampshire; democrats, CulberSon Of
Texas, Terry OF Arkansas, Dearmond of Mis-
souri,. The provisions for the substitute
were published heretofore.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09

and Mrs. Wilson, the secretary OF the navy
and Miss Herbert. the secretary OF the in
terror and Mrs Francis the secretary OF ag-
rlculture and Miss Morton. the speaker OF
the house and Mrs. Reed, Senator and Mrs.
Villas. Senator Hale. Representative George
+ Harrison and Mrs. Harrison. Hon Charles
s. Fairchnd and Mrs, Falrchid, Hon. Wilson
s. Blssell and Mrs Bissell, Hon. Hoke
Smith Mrs. Don VI. Dickinson, President
Patton OF Princeton university, Mles Alice
Lee and Mrs perrlne.