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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02

The train which carried Col. Tor
rey's regiment of rough riders from
Cheyenne, Wyo., to Tampa was
wrecked at Tupelo, Miss, and five sol
diers were killed
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02

Take one cup of light-brown sugar
and two spoonfuls of water, q very
small spoonful Of butter andafew drops
Of lemon extract. Boil eight minutes
and pour over the cake while hot,
spreading 1t evenly. = PhiladelPhis
praas
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02
mo- VACATION for enc Pre.ident.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Some annoy
ance has been caused the president by
statements concerning his plans for
the summer. Secretary Porter an
nounced last night that the president
not only had made no plans as yet for
the summer, but had not even consid-
cred any. AS long as the situation in
Cuba continues critical it is said TO be
the presidents intention TO remain in
Wnsi. !ngton, where he can direct bet
ter the operations of the war than he
could at any other point.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02
For Sale

by the Building aud Loan Association a
room residence, same will be sold cheap
and on liberal terms. Apply to
CHAs. W. LOOMS,
A 0qtf Snpratary
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02

The transfer company keeps call book
at the Mammoth livery stable, and one at
the Grand Central hotel. Leave orders at
these places. lO"N-h
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02

Thousands OF persons have been cured
Of piles by using De Wits Witch Haze
Salye. 1t heals promptly and cures ecze
ma and all skin diseases. IL gives imme
diate relief, Day 4 Shelby, Leading Drug
gists. a-2tf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-02

white Horses tho More Delicate
White horses nre said 20 be more
delicate than black or brown ones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

morning last February two goid rings
were missing from the dressing table
of DR.. Bretherton's mother. The won
der of the disappearance was
increased some weeks later when
pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses were
missing from the top of DR.. Brother
tons own bureau. AS other valuables
were lying around in the other rooms. it
was not suspected that burglars had been
at work, but there was a general dis
charge of servants the following month
when pair of pearl opera glasses and a
diamond bracelet disappeared from the
same spot in Mrs. Bretherton's ROOM
Other articles disappeared. The real
thief was discovered one midnight when
Jack, in stealing an alarm clock, hap
pened to release the spring, and conse-
quently awoke his master. Then Jacks
box was searched, a1d under the rags
were found the many valuable articles
that had been missing. A court was
held. Jack was decided to be an in
durable criminal, and condemned b
death.-N. y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Regularity In Milking.

Regularity in time of milking is nee
essary. The dairy COW is good time.
keeper, and knows very well when milk.
ing time comes. If she is neglected and
allowed to go far beyond the regular
time, she begins to worry and loss fol,
lows. There are some cows that Ger.
tain mixers can never get clean. They
milk on: all that flows readily, strip
around once or twice, and call her fin.
ished. With some cows this will do
but with Others the mixer must reach
well up on the udder, and work it with
sort of kneading process. A little
manipulation of this sort will cause
the whole quantity to flow in to the
teats, whereas without it there will be
from a gill to pint of the richest milk
left in the udder every time, which
means prematurely dry COW.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
TOLL ROADS MUST GO.
They Are Completely Out of Harmon
with the Times

They Are Completely Out of Harmony
with the Times.
There are localities in which toll
roads exist and are fairly well kept,
and where the otner roads are exceed
ingly poor. BY comparison, at least,
the toll roads are excellent. In such
cases the wheelmen are apt to deprecate
agitation looking to the abolition of toll
roads, fearing that everything would
sink to the level of the average, I'M
cared-for country road. They prefer
to retain the existing toll roads, with
their many Objectionable features, to
letting them go and taking the chances
on other roads improved and properly
cared for.
This is perfectly natural. Cycling de-
ponds so much on the character of the
roadways that we cannot afford to let
any fairly good roads become deterior-
ated, and some correspondents tell us
that where turnpike companies have
given up their charters, the roads have
been allowed to go to ruin. Such COM
dition of affairs is all wrong, and in
dicates failure of the people to realize
their own interests and a lack of pro-
gressiveness in thisvery important direc-
ton. Does it not indicate, too, that
wheelmen have not agitated the road
question long enough and thoroughly
enough to arouse popular sentiment
and get public opinion formed intelh-
gently on the subject?
AS soon as the Importance Of having
good highways is once appreciated, and
the people become sensible of the neces-
sity for concerted action, and the CO
operation of the state, when they get
out of their ruts and outgrow the notion
that good roads would be only of local
value, and unite in suitable legislation
for their promotion, they will realize
how completely toll roads have had
their day, passed their sphere of use
fulness, and how out of harmony they
are with the times.
The usefulness of toll roads in a limit
ed number of localities constitutes no
argument for nurturing an institution
which was born under very different
conditions from those which now pre-
vail, and which, after failing to move
with the rapid progression of the times,
has fallen into decline, and in many
places refuses either to meet the re-
quirements of the times or vacate in ia
vor of the public. On the contrary,
1t imposes greater responsibility upon
the wheelmen of such sections, as pio-
neers in the good roads movement, to
carry on an agitation that will result in
the improvement of the country roads,
and success in this direction will even
tually wipe out of existence the toll
roads, through the changes that will re-
suit from the construction of modern
tighways.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
This Pussy Was Faithful.

A good story of feline fidelity comes
from Rohrback, in Lorraine. Pussy is
In the habit of taking daily constitu-
tiOnal with her master. Quite recently
a business call demanded a journey by
rail, necessitating five days absence
from home. Pussy saw her master off
by taking pathetic leave of him at the
station. On his return pussy awaited
him on the platform. The station mas
ter said she had not left the premises
and that she had appeared on the plat
form on the arrival of each train day
and night. On his alighting pussy
purred her welcome with an exhibition
OF caresses quite touching to behold
London Modern Society.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
ImprOvement in Tomatoes.

There is great difference in the quail
ty of tomatoes both as regards smooth
ness and solidity. When first intro
duced, tomatoes were simply skinny
bags of water and seeds, having very
little pulp and not much besides their
flavor to recommend them. They were
also very rough, with hollows where
the sun did not thoroughly ripen them.
II is no wonder that people were slow
In learning to like them. But as the
demand has increased most of the
roughness of the old-time tomato has
been bred out of it. While the flavor
remains the same, there is much more
pulp or flesh inside and less of water
ond seeds than used to be the case, and
it does not all cook away as it used
TO do.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Best Route to Klondike,

The quickest and cheapest route is via
st. Paul or Minneapolis, the Northern Pa
eifc Railway, Taiya Dyea) and Chilkoot
Rail & Tramway, or via Skagway and wagon
road to summit of White Pass The lines
over these Passes we are assured will be in
operation in February, 1898, by which time
the worst storms will be over and the snow
packed down fit for travelling.
The ice goes out of the upper Yukon basin
lakes May 18th to June LIST or simultaneously
with the opening of the Stikeen River 300
miles south, but you can reach the Salmon,
Pelly, Stewart and Klondike country from
three weeks to a month earlier by properly
equipping your party and shedding your out
fits, Lake Lindeman to open river at foot of
Lake LIE Berge, 100 miles, thus avoiding pos
sible portages at Miles Canon and White
Horse Rapid
Send two cents postage to Chas. S. Fee,
st. Paul, Mimi, for latest illustrated Alaska
map. The Northern Pacific is the only rail
way running its trains tall equipped with
Dining Cars, Standard, Tourist and free Col
onist sleepers) through to Tacoma, Seattle
and Portland.
As the pioneer line in Alaska passenger
traffic the Northern Pacific will give the
latest authentic information as to reliable
routes of travel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
R8R7F0
BIRDS LIKE TO PLAY.


Birds are usually merry creatures,
but the birds that build playhouses for
their own enjoyment must be of a
peculiarly sportive nature. A few
years ago Il gentleman who was hunt
ing in the wilds of New Guinea made
acquaintance with these birds and their
playhouses. He found himself in front
of a neatly built cabin about a foot
and a half high, in the midst of mead
CIV of rich green MOSES studded with
flowers The cabin was much better
made than the huts of the natives.
A fiat piece of ground, on which grew
q small tree about the size of light
walking-stick had been chosen, and
uiNon it the cabin was erected, with the
little tree for it's center post. STEMS
OF an air-plant which would live and
grow after they had been built into the
structure formed the walls and roof,
and futtered their tiny leaves about the
doorway that led to the garden, where
bright flowers and gayly colored ber-
ries and the feathers of beautiful birds
lay scattered about
1t was not until afterward that the
intruder learned that designers of the
tiny playhouse and pleasure-grounds
were little birds.
First cousins to the gardener birds,
says Mr.. j. Carter Beard in Popular
Science News, are the bower-birds of
Australia. These birds build bowers in
which they meet to dance and frolic.
The walls are strongly formed of twigs
aid small branches woven together,
and the whole structure is covered with
a layer of beautiful grasses.
The playhouses are further orna-
mented inside and out with shells, shin
ing pebbles, gay scraps, little bones,
snd skulls of wild birds bleached white,
together with the green and gold and
scarlet feathers of parrots.
After the male birds have built the
arbors they leave their little mates to
decorate them, which they do with
great zest, often flying miles to find
some glittering object that suits their
taste. When all is completed the birds
repair to the bower to enjoy them
selves as if in ballroom, bowling and
dancing, turning about and chasing
each other up and down in whirl OF
sportive delight.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
MONKEYS AT FOOTBALL.
They Also Play Cricket, But Not Ac-
cOrding to Rule.

Travellers in South Africa have noted
the fact that where monkeys congre-
gate in large numbers they also in
dulge in games of certain kind. Two
of these games seem to resemble cricket
and football.
The cricket is of a primitive order
About dozen monkeys stand in a
circle, or whatever is akin to the simian.
idea of a circle. Two of them advance
from different eXtremities of the cir
Gle and stop about Is yards apart, fac.
ing each other. The monkey at the
southern end of the circle has a cocoa
nut in his hand. He is the bowler.
The monkey at the other end does
not, as you might suppose, WELD a
full cane bat. His business is to dodge
the cocoanut which the bowler aims at
his head. The delivery of the ball is
tremendously fast, full pitched and
fraught with dire results if it touches
the spot" When it does happen to
touch the spot-that is, any part of the
monkeys body-that monkey is very
much out and doesn't even stop to
dispute the question.
Another monkey takes his place until
he, too, receives his dismissal. 1t was
presumed by the travellers that the
game was finished when a majority of
monkeys lay nursing their wounds I'M
der the friendly shade of a neighbor.
ing palm.
The football is of more advanced
type. 1t is also played with cocoa
nut. The game, if anything, is I'm.
doubtedly the 'socker" game, and is
played with the feet. OF course there
is no goal nor any tactics to speak of
the object of each animal being to keep
the ball to himself as much as possible
Still the competition to get the bal
makes it resemble a real game of foot
err" and the deXterity exhibited by
these peculiar amateurs is surprising
and wonderful.
In an evil moment some ambitious
monkey may elect to play the Rugby
game by snatching up the ball and
making off, but the game then develops
into war, in which life is sometimes the
prize.
No mention is made of referee, but
if there is one about, like a wise and
provident monkey, he is probably up a
tree.-Brooklyn Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

the search for gold, and has diverted the
attention of many others. But in order
TO get there 1t is necessary that a man
should be possessed of the best of health
strong powers of endurance and consider.
able means. He leaves his wife and his fam
lily for considerable period, and the hard
ships he has to endure are all unknown to
him.
Canada has other gold fields, though
They are the fields that produce her golden
grain. This year the crop of Manitoba, ly-
ing north of North Dakota, yielded p, 0O6,-
IVY bushels of wheat alone. The current
price averages rs cents, which, as a local
paper puts it, makes the product in gold
TINS year, for wheat alone, equal to value
OF SD, 100000" Twenty thousand farmers
about S798.
but these same farmers are not living bv
wheat alone. This is only one source of rev
enue to them out of many. They have also
Deef, butter, potatoes, oats, barley and poul-
try to sell, and sometimes other things, so
that it may be fairly estimated that their in
comes will average at least 81 900 per farmer.
mus 5 Manitoba mt fields have yielded this year
fully SIC, OO0,0 900 in gold, divided among 90.
600 actual producers, and general popula-
ton of about 100000"
After counting the cost of stamp mills, ex-
penses of men, ETC., rich as is the Klondike.
such vast wealth as is being taken out of the
| soil in raising wheat in this one province,
cannot possibly be secured in any mining
district Of course mining development as,
sists agricultural development, and that is
| why the Government of Canada feels so much
assurance IN predicting prosperity to all who
| take up farms in Canada. Western Canada
| to-day promises more than any other known
field that is open to immigration. Farms of
100 acres, capable of producing the best No.
l hard wheat, yielding thirty to forty bush
els to the acre, are given away free Rail.
ways, markets, schools, churches-all are
Convenient. The Canadian form of govern
ment is one of the most liberal known, and a
hearty welcome is given to settlers of all ma
tionalities. Already there are many settlers
gone in from the states, and the reports
from them are highly favorable. Those de-
string information as to free homestead laws,
low transportation rates, etc, will have
pamphlets, etc, sent free on application to
the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or
| to any agent of the Government or to NJ. V.
McInness, Canadian Govt Agent, No. l
Merrill Block, Detroit, Mich
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
CANINE KLEPTOMANIAC.
why jack, n New York Scotch Ter
rier, Had to BE Executed.

Just plain Jack is the unpretentious
name of New York dog, whose fame
will be handed down with wonder to
canine posterity. The owner of Jack is
DR.. George f. Bretherton, a veterinary
surgeon of No. 27O West One Hundred
and Twenty-siXth street.
While stealing is by no means an I'M
common vice among all of our house
hold pets, DIR. Bretherton claims that
Jack bears the distinction of being the
only animal kleptomaniac the world has
ever known. Jack is kleptomaniac in
every sense of the word, and he has an
irresistible impulse to steal everything
he can lay his paws on. even when the
article is something that he cannot pos
sibly eat or make use of in any manner
whatever. Rings, spoons, shoe-horns,
paper-cutters and even alarm clocks
stir up a storm of feeling in the heart
Of Jack whenever he lays eyes on them,
and he cannot sleep in peace until, after
the household is asleep, he patters into
the bedrooms and makes off with the
ornament that has attracted his eye.
The dog had not been an inmate of the
Bretherton house many weeks when one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

been placed in position. 1t is best to
make the poles or rails c of some good
timber. Use enough of these to make
the fence or gate sufficiently high
These swing around on the rods as the
water forces them apart. When the
water recedes these can be again placed
in position, and there is no loss of fence
material. The ends are laid on each
other, as in building up rail fence
Albert Shoemaker, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

A young Kentuckian spent very pc
culiar night recently. Up to midnight
he was enjoying himself at ball. Then
he started for home, and going across
n farm lot TO shorten the distance
walked over an unused well that was
covered with decayed boards. Down he
went, 30 feet, into water up to his waist
and there he stayed until morning,
when his cries brought assistance. He
says now that he never had so much
variety in one night before, but be
prefers monotony hereafter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Reflections of a Bachelor.

AT 30 marriage is the wine of life; at 40
it's the morning after.
A man is quiet when he is dead; woman
is dead when she's quiet
Every woman is a mirror of her bosom
friend to her husband and mirror of her
husband to her bosom friend.
The first sign that woman is beginning to
feel her age is when she hunts up all the baby
pictures of her children.
ty pair of stockings cheap is spoiled because
she can never be perfectly sure they won t
crock.
When you see a girls eyes look as if she
had been crying she has generally met with
some great grief, or else she has Just had her
bath and couldn't find her silk starching
bap-N Y Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

An Englishman was once persuaded
&c see a game of baseball. and during
the play, when he happened to look
away for moment foul tip caught
less. On coming to himself he asked
family: 'What was ?" "a foul-only
q foul" "Good heaveHs!" he exclaimed,
81 thought it was mule"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Hawaii and Japan,

Dispatches from Washington state that
there are about to be important develop
government of the Hawaiian Islands. How
ever this may be, certain it is that the dis
turbance of the stomach caused by simple
indigestion will develop into chronic dys
pepsia unless checkmated at the start The
finest stomachic is Hostetter's Stomach Bit.
ters, which promptly rectifes gastric trou-
BILE, and does away with irregularity of the
bowels and liver.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
A Golden Era

is the title of an illustrated pamphlet issued
by the general passenger department of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Ralwa. on
mining in Colorado, California and other
Western States
Klondyke is an illustrated folder about
Alaska and its gold mines, with rates of
fare and information as to how to get there
and what to expect after arrival. Both
publications may be had free of expense by
sending four az cents in stamps to pay
postage to Geo. H. Heafford, General Pas
senger Agent, Chicago, III.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

Little Mabel and her mother were
walking along a country road, when
some pigs attracted her attention.
What particularly excited Mabel's curl
osity was the twist in their tails. and
after studying them for awhile, she ex-
claimed:
''Oh. ma! l wonder if the dranma
pig puts their tails up in paper every
night?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Gained FOrty-eight Pounds.

Il had strong appetite for liquor which
was the beginning of the breaking down of
my health. l was also slave to tea and
coffee drinking. ! took the gold cure, but it
did not help me"
This is a portion of an interview clipped
from the Daily Herald, of Clinton, Iowa
1t might well be taken for the subject of
temperance lecture, but that is not our OBJ
ject in publishing it. 1t is to show how sys-
TEN, run down by drink and disease, may be
restored. We cannot do better than quote
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
i've the Children a Drink

called Grain-O. 1t is delicious, appetizing
nourishing food drink to take the place Of
coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all
who have used it, because when properly
prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but
is free from all its injurious properties
Grain1O aids digestion and strengthens the
nerves. 1t is not a stimulant but health
builder, and children, as we'll as adults, can
drink it with great benefit Costs about as
much as coffee. Is and 25c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Ruts in Mncndnm Roads.

Nothing is more ruinous to a ma
cadam road than water. Ruts hold wa
ter, and, therefore, should never be al
lowed to exist. To guard against their
formation and development is one OF
the principal parts of proper care Of .
roadway.--L. a. w. Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Just n Scheme, of Course.

Tenpenny-Here is an account in the
paper of a man who was shipwrecked il
mid-ocean and cast away on desert island
with another mans wife.
Mrs. Tupenny-The wretch! l hope hi.
wife got a divorce from iml-Town Topics
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
Spider Needed Help.

Donald seemed greatly interested in
watching spider at work on its web
After a few moments the little fellow
called to his mother: Mamma. here's
a poor, tiny spider all tangled up in it's
hair Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27

To cleanse the system in gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the Springtime
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup of Figs; Buy the genuine. Manu-.
only, and for sale by all druggists, at 80
cents per bottle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, kY NEW YORK, M
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
THE CANADIAN GOLD F1ELDx
they DO Not All Lie i'm the Yukon.

7 h e ex-
citement of
t h e pa s t
few months
has drawn
a 6 T e a t
many peo-
pie to the
c a n a dian
" n L on ~