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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-11
WON HIMSELF IN A RAFFLE.

Missouri Man, in Great Straits Pat
Himself UP rs a Prize.
81 encountered the strangest man l
ever knew while I was doing some gov
eminent work in Missouri" said the
retired contractor. HE was smart
enough, so jolly that everyone liked
him, and apparently in the best of
health. But he made a few bad deals.
Had to mortgage some of his property,
and just seemed to throw up his hands.
He vowed that he had ceased to be his
w man, and would drift until he
found out what the world wanted to do
with him.
HE never tried to dispose of any of
his possessions by auction or private
sale, but nearly every day held a rattle,
at which the chief attractions were his
jokes and odd sayings. Atthis time he
was not trying to earn a dollar, and ia
a year or SO it was thought that he
had come to the end of his string.
"When he had disposed of the family
clock, and there seemed to be nothing
left, he coolly announced hat the next
day he would rattle himself. He didn't
know whether the boys would care to
buy chances, but he meant business,
and would work faithfully for the man
who drew him. Tickets sold for good
figures, but there were two left, and
he laughingly said that he would take
n couple of shots at himself. When the
drawing came off he held the lucky
number.
well, sir, the fellow turned loose
and went to making money hand over
hand. He became one of the greatest
hustlers in the west, paid off the mort
cages, bought everything there was
money in, and is as rich now as the
river-bottom farm. When he drew him
self at the rattle he made up his mind
that he was his own man again, and,
besides, he had agreed to do his best
for the winner. II twas a strange case"
Detroit Free Press.
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After inauguration.

After the fatigue of reviewing the
vast procession that followed him
"home," and of leading the promenade
at the Inauguration ball, the president
is left alone in his glory, the first mani
festation of which is n stack of boxes
reaching halfway to h ceiling, filled
with applications for office. Now he
is president indeed. Those preliminary
boxes, nearly every caller, letters by the
thousand, and large willow trunks full
of papers delivered with regularity from
the departments, remind him that the
United States expect every president
to do his duty BY the party which
elected him. With a large experience
of this sor of thing, extending over a
longer series of years than ever before
fell to the lot Of an American executive,
Mr.. Cleveland began his second term
with months of labor, broken each day
in the small hours of the morning. BY
this effort the path of executive duty
was merely opened, and the harrass-
ment of ofiioeseekers slightly abated;
but the gain to the president vas as a
rule, "a matter of minutes at meal time,
and a half hour with his family after
dinner, with a return to his desk be-
tween nine and ten in the forenoon,
while the midnight oil continued.-Cen-
tury,
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Oysters a Foot Long,

OF all the species of the mollusks
the oyster has bee and is the favor
lite. OF these nature has been SO mar
velously prolific in their development
that they are to be found in abundance
have yielded a goodly proportion of the
food of savage and civilized man in all
ages along the shores of their nativity.
To-day the oyster interest is one of
The most important industries; it gives
employment to thousands of persons,
and millions of dollars of capital are
invested therein. There is q constantly
growing demand for them, at present
much in excess of their natural pro-
ductive power, SO that the increase of
the oyster supply is one of the prac-
teal questions of the time. By the APP
plication of modern methods the oyster
grounds are made to yield far beyond
the natural supply, and by proper care
they a be made to produce an almost
unlimited quantity. In early days oys-
tiers were to be found in lavish album
dance along our coasts. Nearly all the
creeks and inlets along the acc of
New York state abounded with a fine
quality of oysters. In Nieuw Amster-
dam in 1921 very large oysters" were
SO common that a market could not be
found for them, as one could supply
himself from the beds. In 1871 Aroldus
Montanus, and in 1851 Sir George Cal
vert reported that the new settlements
had among other advantages oysters
a foot long in great plenty.-Calvin Dill
Wilson, in Lippincott's.
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FASHION NOTES.
Items OF interest for Ladies' Whc
Dress in Style.

Items of Interest for Ladies Who
Dress in Style.
Kid belts are worn with ail sorts of
froclis, and they. come in charming
colors and with beautiful buckles. In
white they arc as soft as glove kid, and
are strapped tight about a waist with
charming effect.
The newest vinaigrette is made OF
agate. The stone polish beautifully,
and those of red and green are particu-
larly popular just now. The tops of the
vinaigrettes are of silver, gilded, and
are usually embellished with a stone
of the color that predominates In the
agate.
Grass lawn seems to have taken a new
lease of life, and bids fair to become q
greater favorite even than it proved
last summer. 1t appears in so many
beautiful effects that it is certainly
hard to pass by in making a selection
of summer textiles. Fine sheer grass
lawn is to be worn over daintily colored
glace silks, many of which + first
accordion plated.
A fashion that seems to hold its own
indefinitely is having the corsage diff
ferent from the skirt. tits both econom-
ical and 7erviceable, as well as becom-
ing, which is doubtless the secret of its
success. Whatever may be the cause,
we are content, for it increases our
wardrobes twofold. Whether in the
shape of a fancy silk top or a muslin
lingerie blouse, it is worn with a linen
cellar and a smart cravat of some kind.
Very many of the organdie and flow
ara1 and dnffaH murS1in draSsaa have
plain tinted batiste or lawn for the
foundation skirt and waist lining, in
stead of t~affeta, on which they were
formerly mounted. The batiste lining
makes n cooler gown, and a more dain-
ty, If a little less rich looking one, and
this soft lining can be had in all tie
pretty shades of pink, lilac, yellow,
green, or other tints that form h back
grounds of figured muslins.
Scarfs of point d'esprit or of fine
net edged with lace are used for ravat
with fancy bodices, wound twice about
the throat. and knotted on one side.
Real lace scarfs are used in the same
way, and but~ter-colored lace of the
many pretty imitation patterns is used
upon bodices, upon which both black
and white lace is lavished. Black net
blouses with applique motifs OF white
lace are charming with a girdle of vivid
green silk, a black skirt, and a cravat of
butter-colored lace.
A dainty chemisettc to be worn with
jacket fronts was made of pink crepe
de chine, accordion plated from the
neck. A two-inch band of cream satin
ribbon started from under the chin,
ending in 81 handsome kn0t at fha
waist. This band was embroidered in
solid stitch, with Aslatic flo, the de-
signs being clusters of pink arbutus,
buds and leaves. The stock of pink
ribbon, the same width, had u bow at
back, and one a little to the left of the
chin, and was edged with a narrow
doubled plating of the crepe.-Chica-
go Inter Ocean.
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TRUSTEES SALE.

whereas, Charles o. Grimes and Talitha ID
Grimes; his wife, by, their deed OF trust.
of the recorder of deeds in Lafayette county.
Missouri. on the eighth day of May. 1874. In
signed trustee the following described real
estate. situate. lying and being in said Lafay-
cite county, Missouri, to,wit; .BeginninR at a
point in the southern boundary line OF the
first addition to the original town NOW city,
OF Lexington, said point being five hundred
and seventeen (51D feet and ten tl0j inches
owned by one K. w. Pomeroy on June 2lst,
line of said first addition to the city of Lei
ingtOn (said northeast corner Of said tract so
owned by said POmeroy being at the intersec-
ZION of the south line of South street In said
city. with the west line of the -old Indepen-
dence roadJ, and running thence from said
beginning point west eight degrees variation
half % degree east three hundred (3OO) feet;
thence east one hundred (l0Ol feet; thence
1900 feet to the beginning, being a part of
northwest quarter of section thirty-four (34),
In township ffty-one l5), in range twenty
together with other real estate, so conveyed
to me in trust to secure the payment of a GER
described tsaid other real estate not herein
described having beer heretofore released
whereas, default has been made in the
payment of said promissory note, ard
The same is due and unpaid; now,
quest of the legal holder OF said note, will,
IN accordance with the provisions OF said deed
at public vendue. to the highest bidder, for
cash in hand, at the court house door. in the
city Of Lexington. In Lafayette county, Mis-
souri,, on
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1897,
between the hours of nine o'clock in the fore
noon and five O'Clock in the afternoon of that
day. for the purpose OF satisfying said note
and the costs OF executing this trust
s-2l-td Trustee
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General Order No, s.
HEADQUARTERS MISSOURI DIVISION
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS

MlSSOGhI DAfioiON
| UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
BooNvILLE, Mo-, AUG. "a, 1897.
To United Confederate Camps of Missouri.
COMRADES: The camps of the United
Confederate Veterans of Missouri will
hold their first annual encampment at
| Moberly on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, September %, 30 and 80.
Each camp will be entitled to two
delegates, and one additional delegate
for each fraction of ten members over
twenty. This is intended as the basis
| of representation IN the business meet
ings of the encampment, but the entire
membership of each camp Is earnestly
requested to meet with us On this occa-
sion, and ex-Confederates not members
of any camp will also be cordially well
coined.
The Sponsor and Maids of Honor
who attended the Nashville reunion
will be in attendance, and all of the
staff officers are also ordered to be
present.
Some of the leading features will be
the appointment of a historical COM
mittee, a committee on text books. a
committee on monuments, a committee
Ou tic PICSfIt LltOu Va u wa $1,000
of each individual member of The re-
spective camps, ard otter matters con-
corning the welfare o. sx-Confederates
There will be 100 ex-Confederates in
the procession uniformed and armed as
they were during the late war, in order
that the present generation may see
how their fathers and grandfathers
appeared in war paint in years agone.
The first day will be devoted to the
business of the camps; the second 20
parade and addresses by distinguished
cuizens, and the third day is set apart
for tire Daughters of the Confederacy
TO hold their first annual meeting
The first annual reunion of ex-COn-
federates was held in Moberly, and il
is meet and proper that the first annual
encanpnIent of the camps of the u. e.
V. should be held there also. The os-
pitable citizens of this enterprising city
have generously contributed sufficient
funds TO meet all necessary expenses,
and her gates aud homes will be thrown
wide open TO welcome yon, as they
we're at the first reunion of ex-Confed-
crates.
The time is rapidly a%pproachit g
when The reunions and encamprnents Uf
ex-C onfederaies will be only n memory,
and during line few remaining years
spared us we shonld meet together as
often as possible and labor ~zealously
TO leave behind us an impartial record
of our cause and war history. Ii Is
earnestly desired TO make this Il
largest gathering of ex-Csnfederaies
eYer held in the state, and we urge the
camps especially TO hoD"r the occasion
with as large an attendance as possible.
All the railroads in the state have
agreed 10 give reduced rates, but of
this and other matters You will be more
fully advised IN future circulars.
Adjutants are requested to have this
order Published in full, or note made
of same, in their county papers.
ROBERT M'CULLOCH,
Maj Gen, Commanding Department
of Missouri.
ii. A. NEWMAN,
Ait. Gen. and Chief of Staff.
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A PEOPLE.
Four Thousand Encounters n Year ii
Germany.

Four Thousand a Year in
Germany.
More duels are fought in Germany
than In my other country. Most of
them, however, are student duels, which
eliminate in nothing more serious than
slashed cheeks or torn scalps. OF all
German university towns little lena
and Goettingen are most devoted to the
code. In Goettingen the number of
duels averages one q day, year in and
year out. On one day several years ago
12 duels were fought in Goettingen IN
"a hours. In Jena the record for enc
day in recent times is 81. Fully 1000
student duels are fought every year in
the German empire. In addition to
these there are the more serious duels
between officers and civilians. Among
Germans of mature years the annual
number of duels is about 100.
Next to Germany France is most
given to the dueling habit. She has
every year uncounted meetings, "mere-
ly to satisfy honor" that is, merely to
give two men the opportunity to wipe
out insults by crossing swords or firing
pistols in such q way as to preclude the
slightest chance of injury. In the due
statistics these meetings are not reck-
oned, as they are far less perilous than
sven the German student duels. OF the
serious dueis France can boast fully
1000 from New Years to New Years.
The majority of these are among army
officers. More han half of these result
in wounds; nearly 20 per cen In serious
wounds.
Italy has had e,759 duels in the last
fan wears and hos lost 20 citizens nv
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One Timing and Another.

81 don wondah es she thinks any
purson'1 go patronizin' round after
her." said one colored belle of another
who was putting on considerable style.
A condemned murderer appealed TO
n governor TO grant him time to get
religion. al had it last year," he
explained, ''but during my trial l was
so mixed up with my lawyers that !
lost it.
A Kansas City young woman recently
discovered through the papers just
what a bucket shop is. "Why, l
always thought that it was one of those
places where they made buckets" she
innocently remarked.
At a s'bargain sale" in London
twenty-five policemen tried to hold the
women apart, and even at that one
woman was killed in the crush. She
got her fifty-cent cloth for forty-nine
cents, and SO died happy.
n COOl anu COuiiucuI uiuHuciCiS run
standing on the scaffold, was asked by
the sheriff if he had anything 10 say.
He nodded, stepped forward, and
pointing upward said: ''I'm due in
heaven ut 1910, my friends. When
any of you come my way drop up and
see me. You'll find the latchstring on
The outsilei"
A little Georgia school girl was asked
for a composition on 1.-The Confeder.
ate Veteran" A few days thereafter
she handed in the following: "fhe
confederate veteran is one that fought
and bled and died for his country. He
is sometimes on one leg and sometimes
on two. The state gives him enough
pension to keep him IN tobacco. Then
the state builds him a home and sells
the home before he can get in il. My
pa says he is a veteran. He was
wounded by having N leg sawed off
Ia a confederate sawmIll while making
collins TO bury soldiers in. The state
don't help my pa mach, and my pa
says, Damn the stated"
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SERVICES.
Tenure of Land on Condition of Pei
snnaI Duty to Tho SONereiEn.

Tenure of Land on Condition of Per-
sonaI Duty to the Sovereign.
After telling how the privy council
was formed into a commission ito hear
the petitions of the lords, great men,
mobiles, knights and other with regard
to services, duties, attendances, offices
fees and rights connected with the
ceremony of coronation" the roll states
what these petitions We're, or at least
such of them as were granted.
One was that the duke of Norfolk,
who claimed 1.-THE right to find for the
queen on her day of coronation a glove
for her majesty's right hand and to
support the queens right arm on the
same day as long as her majesty shall
bold in her hand the royal scepter, the
petitioner holding the Manor of Work.
sop by the aforesaid services" In
other words, if the luke of Norfolk had
failed to provide the glove or to support
her majesty's arm at that particular
time, his ownership of Worksop manor
would have been invalidated, and the
property have reverted to the crown.
Another petition was that of Bar
bara, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, who,
as the head of her family, claimed the
right to carry the great spurs before
her majesty on the day of her corona
ton, and asked that Lord George Byron
be appointed her deputy for the per-
formance of that duty.
Yet another was that of Francis
twelfth earl of Huntingdon. The earl
dom of Huntingdon had remained sus-
pended for many years, owing to the
tenth earl dying without issue. When,
however, this twelfth in the line of sue
cession succeeded in establishing, as q
descendant of the second earl, his right
to the peerage, he also claimed the right
to carry one of the four swords CT state
in the coronation procession; this, as
well as other duties and services con-
nected with the ceremony, being the
condition of his tenure of lands. Small
wonder, then, that in announcing the
omission of the procession it was i'm
portapt to set forth also hat the nom
performance of duties connected with 1t
should entail no observation-disclosures
Hayward, in Century.
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LONELY SPOT IN THE ATLANTIC.
Tristan dn Cunha Might AlmOst BE
Chased aa Ont Of the World.

CIassed as Out of the World.
ANYBODY who feels an inclination to
lead n really quiet life should emigrate
to Tristan da Cunha, an island, or, to be
quite accurate, three islands close to-
eether, in the South Atlantic, so far
away from anywhere that really they
are quite out of the world. The group
was discovered and named by the Por-
tuguese away back in the time when
Portugal was something more than a
name on the map, but now, of course, it
belongs to England, having been APP
propriated by her in 1916 one day when
she didn't happen to be busy grabbing
stray bits of land more valuable than
this one. For awhile some soldiers
were kept there, because of a vague
suspicion hat Tristan da Cunha might
be made the base of operations in the
interest of ST. Helena's terrible guest.
After Napoleon's death the whole gar
rison departed, except a corporal and
two companions, who had a taste for
solitude and asked to be left behind.
Slowly the population grew, ut first
from wrecks and afterward in h or
binary way, and now there are "a peo-
pie on the island, divided into 16 fam
lilies.
According to a recently published
blue book the colony is an abode of
complete peace and moderate happi-
ness. The people have no money and
no private property. There are no doc
tors, lawyers or clergymen on the
island, and yet health, safety and piety
prevail, and such few needs as the soil
does not supply are met by traficking
with an occasional whaler. Once a year
an English warship visits the island,
distributing a few newspapers and let
tiers, and goes away again. The only
serious calamity that ever overlook the
islanders was when, during our civil
war, the Shenandoah landed 40 federal
prisoners there and left them to be fed
or starved, as the inhabitants saw fit.
This sudden demand IN their
came near destroying both hosts and
guests, but they managed to struggle
through the difficulty. The islanders
are good to shipwrecked mariners and
the only charge brought against them
is that they sell extremely tough poul-
try to captains calling there for fresh
provisions, and try to get as much cloth
for old geese as for young ones. Peter
Green. aged ss, governs the island, his
claim to authority apparently being
based on the fact that nobody is 80.
His only duty is to look wise and he
performs it conscientiously and WE'LL
Buffalo Courier.
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Popular LOw-Friee California
Excursions.


The Santa Fe Route daily excursions
to California in tourist sleeping-cars +
deservedly popular. The service pleasos.
everybody who tries it. Cars are of
newest pattern and very comfortable,
having all necessary conveniences.
These excursions are patronized by
many of the best people, and the ticket
rates are low.
The Santa FEES California line is re-
markably picturesque. Its middle course
across the continent avoids extremes OF
heat or cold.
For descriptive literature, address W.
j, Black, G. Z. A., \. Il. ~ $. Il. Isy.,
Topeka, kas., o 9. \. Higgins, A. G..
+. A, Chicago.
j. d. EASTER, JR., Agent.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Letters of administration on the estate OF
David Muir. deceased. were granted to the
under. iRned on the 10th day of August,
1897. by the Probate Court of Lafayette
county. Missouri.
All persons having claims against saic estate
are required to exhibit them for allowance tn
the administrator within one year after the
date of said letters, or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate; and IL such
claims be not exhibited within two years from
the date of said letters, they will be forever
barred.
This stu day of August. 1897.
John MUIR,
S-il-5t Administrator
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Ifyou have ever seen a little child in u
paroxysm of whooping cough, or if you
have been annoyed by a constant tickling
in the throat, you can appreciate the value
of One Minute Cough Cure, which gives
quick relief. Day & Shelby, Leading
Druggists. s-2S-tt
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John Powell.
al HAD MoTHgRs.IN.LAw.

ALL HAO MOl
And They u Set of False Teeth
mt Once.
81 seen a mighty queer piece o. bust
ness when 1 was in town." said Jay
Green, who had just returned from q
days s%ojourn at the county seat. 81
VAS standin' in front o Simpsons store
when 1 heard a sharp report-suthin'
Ike a shotgun-in the dentists office
upstairs in the buildin' across the way,
an downstairs bulged a Teller with n
big cloth around his neck an his mouth
full o. cement, a-splutterin' an a-gob-
bin like all gee whizz. Right after him
came the dentist, with his haira nswhis~
kers singed of. The smoke poured out
of the windows, an 1 guess the whole
place would have burnt up if the hook
an ladder company hadn't come an put
it out"
What was the matter, anyhow"
asked Eben Appledry, to whom Jay
was relating his adventures.
THAT was what everybody that run
up wanted to know. The dentist ex-
planned that after he had filed the pa
tient full o. plaster he had started to
put in the time while it was settin' ex-
perimentin' with a set o. false teeth
made of a new composition that had
been sem him for examination. He
went on to say that he had hit 'em with
q hammer to test their strength an
they had exploded like dynamite.
when the dentist had got this far
along in his explanation the patient
managed to spit out enough of the
cement to enable him to ask if teeth
made of hat material wouldn't be liza
BILE to explode an blow their wearer's
head off if they were bitten down hard
on a bone. The dentist replied that such
would probably be the case, an four
men in the crowd who overheard him
say it hollered out that they'd take u
set O. them explosive teeth as soon as
he could furnish them. An the man
who had had the cement In his mouth
shouted:
"Me, too. I've got a mother-in-law
myself. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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tits possible to go around the world and
touch on British territory all the way,
viz: From England to Halifax, N. s.;
across Canada to Vancouver, across the
Pacific to Hong Kong, thence to Sing
apore, Penang, Mauritius, Cape Town,
st. Helena and England; or from Penang
to Ceylon, Bombay. Alden, Perrin. NAL
ia, Gibraltar and home.-N. Y. Sun.