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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

The influence of money in politics is
weakening. Look at the result IN Ohio
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

There were no roosters in the repnb-
lican papers this year.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Democrats get together everywhere
The battle of 1900 has begun.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Henry George is dead. He was ''an
honest man, the nobIest work of God,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

It means Bryan IN 1900. But before
that a democratic congress.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

The election Tuesday was a demo-
cratic victory.
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The supply of firearms gave out il
Kentucky.
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To Cure q Cold in One Day,

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t falls
to cure. 25c.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06
Farmers. Attention

Wm. j. Gabel, the grocer, offers a 100
pound sack of the best grade OF flour for
the best six ears OF corn brought to him
by November 1st. 9-1stf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

The silver craze is dead. We don't
think.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

K~eniucky's SINS must be forgiven
her.
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H.. 8. Funk was in Lexington Tuesday,
Miss Wills, of Odessa, is visiting friends
here this week.
Born, October 81, to the wife OF DIR. e.
F. Gaines, a boy.
Messrs. Hill and Buckingham were in
Oak Grove Sunday.
John Brown and VIM. Ashcraft were in
Lexington last Monday.
DR.. George entertained Frank Vanars.
dale and wife, of Chapel Hill, Sunday.
Robbers broke into the depot on the
night of October II, and secured about "A.
Walter Jackson and Whit Fishback. of
Oak Grove, were calling on friends here
Sunday.
Otto Prick and wife have returned from
a two weeks visit to relatives in Gibson,
Indian Territory.
Slaughter Campbell and W. E. Sullans
attended the Baptist Sunday School Con-
yention at Corder last week.
Rev. Anthony and Rev. Franklin be-
q a protracted meeting at the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, Sunday morn
Ing.
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vi q G

That is just the truth about Hoods Sar-
saparilla. We kno 1t possesses merit
because it cures, not once or twice or u
hundred times, but in thousands and
thousands of cases. We know it cures,
absolutely, permanently, when all others
fail to do any good whatever. We repeat
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Saturday and Sunday with the family of
John K. Lyons near this place.
Mrs. Jan Groves passed through town
Monday on her way to Lexington.
Frank Campbell passed through here
Wednesday on his way to Higginsville.
Mrs. John Cooper and Mrs. Art Rey-
holds were in HigginsviIle Wednesday,.
George Tabb left for st. Louis Sunday
where he will be cIassed among the blue
coats.
Mr.. and Mrs. John X. Lyons and Miss
Efle were shopping In Higginsville We'd
nesday.
Nathan Cooper and Clark Salyers bought
a car load OF ShelIed corn in Kansas City
last week.
Harry Scott, of Kansas City, spent Sun
day here with his mother. Mrs. j. W.
Tompkins.
Burwell Stsrke and family spent Sun
day with the family of Mr.. John Epps
near Corder.
Miss Lulu Jackson left for Kansas City
Sunday morning where she will spend the
winter with relatives and friends
Walter Page, Hugh Shelby and Charles
Caldwell returned Sunday night from a
trip down on Davis creek after Hickory
nuts. They gathered two bushels.
The barn belonging to James Page was
destroyed by fire Monday morning about
nine o'clock. Many farm implements and
q threshing machine was destroyed. The
origin of the fire Is unknown.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

OF course Bryan is feeling we'll.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06
K ELLER'S.
Don't You Care

if you have forgotten. Just walk
in and buy anything you think your wife will want. The
quality will be SO good-things generally will be so satisfac-
tory-that she can't help but be pleased. We know perfectly
well that you will buy your groceries where you can get the
most Tor your money, and where that most will be purely good.
Knowing this, we wouldn't be foolish enough to,tel you we
keep the best at the lowest prices if it wasn't so. Always the
best quality at lowest living prices at
JOS. L. LONG.
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Nebraska returns the right verdict.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Hurrah for the Tammany Tiger.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Now for a solid front for 1898.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

fhe Tammany Tiger is on top.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-11-06

Democratic gains everywhere.
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FOR PRESIDENT IN 1900,
w. j. BRYAN.

We didn't do a thing to 'em.
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JOSEPH WARDER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
WHISKY ITS RUIN.
Incendinry mt Work for Ten Years
Destroying n Town.

Destroying Town.
Clintonville is in ruins. The determi-.
nation of an inccndiary working for ten
years has finally been accomplished.
Not mill, factory, public building or
a store is left in the village. There re-
main only cider still and a church and
the homes of few families who sit up
nights guarding their property and
hoping for vengeance on the destroyer.
The struggling families which have not
fled from the scourge are living in ter
Tor and preparing to leave. There is a
posted sign on the black walls of the
town that 81 900 will be paid in cash
for the apprehension of the person who
set out half score of years ago to wipe
the town off the map.
1t is insisted by the two or three old
men left in the ashes that the scourge
comes as a visitation in return for
treachery which characterized the first
sale of property. Trumen Gulbert
started out to make the place a temper
ance town. The lots were sold upon
that promise. The first sale was to
Young man who held his lot until all
the others were taken and parted with
it to a man who wanted to open sa-
loon. The saloon grew into a distillery
and this distillery brewed other distil-
leries, and some years ago Clintonville
made much of the whisky used in
northern Illinois. Cooper shops grew
with the distilleries. Many other mills
came to the place, with abundance of
free water power. \ great flour mill,
wall paper factory, steel mill, and u
fork factory and stores sprang up. This
prosperity was short lived.
The incendiary started ten years ago
and has worked with a persistcncy
which has made it impossible in recent
years to get insurance in Clintonville,
save at rates which were prohibitory.
He started with the distilleries. One
burned one month and another the
next. The third went the same year.
The steel mill followed. The iron
works and fork factory went to ashes.
The wall paper establishment went the
same way. One store followed another
and all the cooper factories felt the
touch of the flames The work last
year consisted of u butter factory and
two attempts at the flour mill The
work so far this year has been the feed
mill of Z. c. Hawley, the last block of
stores and house. Not an industry is
left. The river bank is lined with
crumbling walls and the houses stand
ing are deserted because people are
afraid to live in the town. 1t is one Of
the curiosities along the line of the
Northwestern. The good people say
the ruin has come as a curse upon the
whisky traffic out of which the town
prospered.-The Lever.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
TEMPERANCE TIDINGS.

The devil is always certain of catch
ing some mothers boy where he bats
his hook with a moderate drinker.-
Rams Horn.
The Westerly Daily Tribune, of West
erly, r. l., claims to be the first prohi-
bition daily newspaper established in
the world.
1t is reported that the house in Wash
ington in which Abraham Lincoln died
is to be turned into a saloon.-Na tionaI
Temperance Advocate.
The Girls Temperance club is one of
the 20 branches of the Irish Women's
Temperance union in Belfast.
The city of Philadelphia is more than
twice as large as Boston, but arrests for
drunkenness there the past year num-
bered only 23,107, against about 10000
for Boston.
Hereafter no member of the masonic
fraternity in Minnesota can sell intoX-
icants, and 100 persons now in the liquor
business will be expelled from the order
if they do not change their occupa-
ton.
Whatever their habits may be, young
men think too much of their characters
to be seen on the street with women
even slightly intoxicated. a girl ought
not to tolerate in a young man what
young men would not tolerate in girl.
Youths Companion.
A woman in Dahlonega, Ca, whose
husband died u year ago, leaving her
with nine children to support, is run
ming her farm at profit, and is putting
money in the bank. She thinks that
many other farmers could do the same
if they worked intelligently and spent
less for liquor and tobacco.
The story is told of the late Henry
Ward Beechar that in his efforts at
farming he ence paid 500 for hogs
corn and then sold the Lot for $500. His
philosophy was that he lost 500 on the
corn but made $500 on the hogs. That
is exactly the way Uncle Sam is making
money on the liquor trafIic.-The Ohio
Herald.
Last year it was shown by the Chicago
Record that there were in Chicago 170,-
900 families on the charity roll. OF
these there were 5t7 families in one dis
trict alone. The heads of 300 of these
were confirmed drunkards, the heads of
PIT of the remaining families were reg
ular drinkers. This left only II fam
lilies out Of SIT who were supported by
charity whose heads did not drink
Union Signai.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
WEARING FALSE GEMS,
Shnms Now Freely Tolerated in So
ciety

ciety.
How much is real and how much is
sham in the Respondent display of pre-
sumably precious stones at the opera OF
other smart functions is impossible to
tell nowadays, for my lady mikes the
two together with a calm audacity that
is development of late years, the old
theory that lady must wear nothing
that is not real being apparently quite
out OF date. The modern adaptation OF
this social rule is that if woman has a
certain amount of fine jewelry she may
wear as many false ones in addition as
she can without making the fact con
spicuous. 1t is only in those who have
no real ones that the display of false
gems is vulgar.
y fashionable woman in town, whose
position is unquestionable, wears sew
eral strings of pearls, one of which is
real and the rest shams, and hardly
knows herself which is the genuine
Another woman, who owns a couple OF
diamond stars, has presented herself
with several others-the best bril-
liants," whose glittering radiance :.
quite undimmed by their juXtaposition
with the real stones. At a birthday
dinner recently the heroine of the oc-
casion wore a ruby surrounded BY
pearls as d brooch. This was greatly
admired. Taking it from the lace
which it fastened, she passed it to one
of her friends. The jewel was handed
from one to another unit! it had made
the circuit of the table. All the guests
were people of culture. familiar with
gems, and some of them We're cou-
noisseurs. After the stone had been
unanimously praised the owner fastened
it in its place again, saying quietly: Il
think it is pretty. l bought it yester-
day at BIS for two dollars
1t mas long been conceded that a
string of Roman pearls may be worn by
young girl without laying her taste
open to question. 1t is a new thing,
however, for rich women to bring real
gems and bogus ones together in such
way as to deceive the very elect and
it seems a pity that the old standards of
noblesse oblige, affecting the wearing
of jewels and lace, should be lowered.
It is claimed by those who wear false
jewels that no deception is intended,
the owner being quite willing to ac-
knowledge her use of the limitations,
but at all events the general public is
deceived and it may be questioned
whether my lady goes out of her way to
acknowledge what she is wearing
Il do not see the use of wearing real
pearls" said a well-known society
woman not long ago. Il have half a
mind to sell mine and wear limitations.
No one would ever know" Then she
fully concluded to take this course and
did take it. Hence she rejoices in the
income of $4,000 in bonds. wears pearls
still and even her intimate friends do
not suspect the eNchange.-N. Y. Trib-
une.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
GUESSED WHAT HE NEEDED.
Chappie Aimed to Impress the Hotel
Guests and Succeeded

Now and then Chicago draws chap
Pie i'll the great shuttle of life. The
other day one arrived here from an in
land town who had a few points to
spare in his trunk.
He took up his residence in an arts
tocratic family hotel, where he ap-
peared religiously each night at IA
seven o'clock dinner in the evening
dress of second-class swell. This was
all very commendable and clearly, and
not at all extraordinary where so per
cent. of the men did the same thing
But the good impression awakened
by the chastity of the newcomers APP
rearance in the ineffable bosom and ii.
was Obscured by his attempt to order
his dinner in as much French as he
deemed would be Ineligible. The
sorority of his final order for "demi
tasse" was good for all the surrounding
tables, if not for the buffers pantry.
AS the first week rolled on the young
man grew more Frenchy. more mellow,
more metropolitan in spirit, and on
the occasion of his first evening at
home made his way to the smoking
room, where he arranged himself
dangerously and picturesquely in an
easy chair.
Near him was the station of a small
colored Buttons.
"Garcon! Garcon!" called out the
oriental one. but little William stood,
with his heavy, seal-like eyes rolled up
ward and his great paws crossed SOL
EMMY over his brass-buttoned jacket,
regardless and needless of the over
whelming honor being done him.
81 say, there, Garcon. won't you bring
mc-ah-"
Some brains, William, for this
chap" growled an apoplectic man on
the other side of the room.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

In France the doctors claim on the
estate of a deceased patient has prece-
dence of all others.
--Iowa's state fair this year will I've
open on Sunday. The machinery will
be idle and religious services will be
held.
line most powerful fleet that has
ever been seen on the waters of the Bal
tic will assemble there this spring un-
der the t'aS of Russia.
A iatmer of Ozel'o. Fla, recently
found a hairpin made of something like
gutta percha four feet below the sur
face of an Indian shell mound.
There are now several antitrust bills
before the Legislature of Massachusetts,
one in the senate and six in the house
and there may be others shortly.
Recent mortality returns from the
southern states show that the death
rate of the coloI.d people from tuber-
culosis is three times as high as that
of the whites.
Thieves threw a hook and line
lHiOuSh t-u OJtu NlHuON OF mousse dl
Monterey, Mex, and stole the bed
clothes under which the owner of the
house was sleeping.
A trial has been made of n new sea.
diving dress in the deepest part OF
Sydney harbor. The diver went down in
2Gh fathoms and remained at the bot
tom for so minutes. When he came vi
he showed no signs of distress.
London has now got penny-in-the;
slot refreShment bar. 1t is a temper
ance house. The customer holds hi.
glass under tap labeled with the name
of his particular vanity, and then drops
his penny in the slot with liquid re
suits.
A citizen of Brooklyn has the
largest known collection of bills of fare
There are over 1000 in the collection
embracing everything, from the cracked
slate of mining camp drought to the
extended entrees with which Queen Vic
toria fattened her subjects on Jubilee
days and the car gorged his starving
thousands.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11

seemed so likely he might, when he
needed help SO badly, and almost wished
that for his sake he had sacrificed mis-
pride and gone with him to take the
pledge.
But when he remembered his upright
life, his unblemished manhood, he could
not bear the thought of putting himself
among the weak ones needing the
strong staff of the pledge to lean upon,
and so with a sigh he turned to others,
urging them to make this start for a
better life.
The next day John was invited by a
dear friend of his mothers, lady high
ly esteemed by all who knew her, to
make one of a yachting party down
the lake, and gladly accepted. The
party, made up of congenial friends,
was pleasant, the air delightful, the
scenery beautiful, the company ever
and anon breaking forth into lively
songs. They were surprised when the
lengthening Shadows told them of the
flight of tinn, and they began to feel
that something material would be ac-
ceptable even before the dainty lunch
gas served in the little cabin dining
room. Then came the refreshing drink,
lemonade-and, could it be, iced cham
payne ard light wine.
John looked aghast a moment, and
then was about to decline the Offered
glass, when the lady entertainer herself
took it and said: wig, my dear boy,
I made this myself; the fine juice of
the grape" He could not refuse; how
could he? II would seem so absurd, so
ungrateful to his kind and honored
friend, and drank it down.
Pure juice of the grape, indeed, but
not unfermented, as John soon found.
He was so unused TO the wine that it
few to his head, and he soon became
still more lively and entertaining than
before, telling stories and singing
songs, till all at once a look of surprise
passing between two of his lady friends
caught his eye and brought him to him
self.
He then gave his whole attention to
what others were saying, keeping quiet
himself, thus hoping TO escape further
remarks, till the boat reached her haven
and the company separated; John, with
lame excuse Of ian engagement" es-
Gaping from his friends with small GER
emory. Very humble were his thoughts
as he walked home. SJust this way it
was" he said. to himself that my
poor Tom and viii began the evil habit,
and I, yes, I am very strong indeed; |
do not need the pledge; certainly not;
I am in no temptation" And here
John. feeling weak in body and mind
aud heart, stopped under the friendly
shade of an old oak tree, and, sitting
down, covered his face with his hands
ard with bitter cry tor pardon and
help made solemn vow that hence
forth he would not set himself above
his fellows or do aught to make his
brother offend"
That night he WINS again in his place
ut The Temperance lecture, and by him
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11

A soft velvet toque is, as a rule, be-
coming to almost every type of feminine
beauty.
A unique effect in passementerie has
beaded ornaments holding two spread
ing ostrich plumes in Alsatian bow fash
ion. This is intended to be worn on q
low-cut bodice.
The woman who owns long sealskin
ulster now fiaunts its furry luxury in
the face of the perishing feminine in
tailor-made cloth jacket.
The increasing propensity toward ex-
travagance is shown in the bejeweled
chains, vinaigrettes, bonbon boxes and
other so-called "trifles" that the woman
of fashion deems she must have in order
to be happy.-Chicago Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
ORACULAR OBSERVATIONS.
Some Sharp Shots n Weak Spots OF
Mankind,

Everybody has some signs that never
fail
\ man never gets too old to enjoy a
love story.
Some people are proud because they
have some rich relations.
1t is astonishing now much some men
talk to impart just little information.
\ fellow cant help having a little
respect for a man who beats him play
ing cards.
\ man for whom everybody should
feel sorry, is the man who can never
see joke.
1t flatters a man to tell him he made
n shrewd bargain, even if it was little
crooked
A widower can't even look at an I'M
married woman without the whole
town talking about it.
The man who runs upstairs two steps
al ii time is not necessarily the one who
has the most to do.
We have never been able to under
stand why some people want to wear
spectacles and always look over the top
of them
People talk about combinations of
colors" in pictures, when they don't
know an oil painting from blotch of
kerosene.-A. II. Miller, in Washington
Qa.) Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
TEMPERANCE.
WHY HE TOOK THE PLEDGE.
John Elliott Discovers the Weak
ness of the Flesh.

John Elliott Discovers the Weak
ness of the Flesh.
1t was at the close of one of a series of
temperance lectures given by one who
had himself been a victim of the drink
habit. His last sentence had been:
And if there is one present here who
feels himself so strong, so secure in
his convictions, that he has no reason
to say and put it down on paper, so
that all who read may see: God help
ing me, l will not taste as a beverage
any Intoxicating drink can only say,
let him who thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he fall"
As John Elliott heard these words he
looked up in surprise at the speaker
and smiled. "a little overzealous," he
thought-and then as the time had
come for those who wished to go for
ward and sign the pledge he turned to
the young man sitting beside him and
said: Come, my friend, better make
up your mind to sign tonight. L am
sure that you will find it help"
And you have signed it yourself,
suppose. John?" said the other, in
whose handsome yet weak face a look
of determination had come. You have
found it help as you say"
Why, no, Will, have not; will tell
you why. The pledge is designed for
those who are tempted to drinlI-es
pecially those already under its influ-
ence. Now, you see,'I am in neither of
these classes. l have never drank, never
intend to, don't want to; 50 it hardly
seems to be the thing for me to put my
self on paper in way which would
mean to others something not true in
my case; do you see ito"
yes, l see it," said VIII, with short,
bitter laugh. 81 have been there my
self and know how it feels; no, thank
you, I like to see practice where there
is preaching. Think I'll try it awhile
longer as it is; good night" And so the
young man who had been in truth sal
most persuaded" went once more in the
way (which leads to death"
John felt very sorry, almost angry,
indeed, that his weak friend should in
innate that he might not always be
as strong as he thought he was, just as
the lecturer had. He was disappointed,
too; bitterly so, that he had failed to
secure the friends name, when it had
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11

Dr. Hirschfeld, a well known ply
stefan of Madgeburk, Germany, was re-
Gently arrested on the charge of NAL
practice. The specific charge was that
he had refused to give one of his pa
tents alcohol who was supposed TO
need it. The doctor, like the more ad.
yanced German physicians, is discard,
ing liquor from his practice, and made
such a hot defense of the charge that
the court not only discharged the ply.
stefan, but assessed the cost Of the dc.
Tense against the prosecution. -CamI
Fire.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-11
The Change.

Inqua'ing Tourist lin Oklahoma)-l
suppose that, with the coming of east.
ern people, the manners and customs
of this region are gradually growing
more like those of older and more con-
scrvative communities?
Alllali Ike-Yes: frinstance, it has
already got so that it haint no longer
considered good form to propose to a
widow at her husbands funeral, no
matter how pretty she is.-N. Y. Jour
nal.