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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
Sam Iones' Ideal Man.

The Rev. Sam Jones expressed
some sound sense in very vigorous
English in recent sermon when
be said:
1.-The place TO take the true meas
ure Of a man is not in the market
place or amen corner, nor in the
field or forum, but at his own fire.
side. There he lays aside his mask
and you may learn whether he Is
an imp or angel, king or cur, hero
or humbug. l care not copper
what the world says Of him, wheth.
er it crowns him with glory or rpelts
him with bad eggs. L care not
what his religion may be. If his
babies dread his coming home and
his better half swallows her heart
every time she has to ask him for a
five dol liar bill, he is a fraud of the
last water. even though he prays
night and morning until hels black
in the face and shouts hallelujah un-
til he shakes the eternal hills. But
if the children run to the front gate
to meet him, and loves own sunshine
illuminates the face of his wife
when she hears his footsteps. you
can take 1T for granted that he is
pure gold-his homo is in heaven
and the humbug never gets that
near the throne of God. He may
be rank atheist and q red flag
anarchist, and a Mormon, and a
mugwnmp; he may buy votes and
bet on elections; he may deal from
the bottom and drink beer until he
can't tell a silver dollar from cir
cular saw, and still he is better
than the man that is all suavity but
who makes his home a hell-who
vents on the head of his helpless
wife and children the i'll nature he
would like to inflict on his fellow
man, but dares not. I can forgive
much in that fellow mortal who bad
rather mako men swear than wom-
an weep, would rather have the
hate of the world than the contempt
of his wife; who had rather call
anger to the eye of king than fear
to the face of q child"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
BiIIyiIIe ON the Run.

"a Story of the C oming War.)
A soldier of the Legion lay dreaming in
Geewhizz;
There was never lack Of glory for that hero
heart of his;
But a fair face bent above him, as he snored
the time away,
And he heard low voice whisper John,
the gas bills due today!"
The dreaming soldier faltered as he heard
that voice so bland,
And he said: "Thank heaven, no more I'll
see my own-my gas bill land
Take message to my creditors, and comfort
them with it,
For was born for Glory--for Glory on tho
Grit
"Tell my tallors and my groccrs as they meet
and crowd around
To figure up their losses on the old, aban-
doned ground,
That hit the grit full bravely, and ere the
N~J ""S uOhS
| was fifty miles from Bilville-from Bilville
on the Run!
"Tell my bankers not to weep for ne when
on my notes they gaze
And find the weather dampened with the dues
OF thirty days;
But to '6gger' on 'em bravely from morn till
set Of sun,
For | was born at Billville-at Billville on the
Runp'
And the calm moon-she rose slowly, and
calmly she looked down
On the soldier there at Geewhizz, long miles
from Bivlle Town;
Yes, calmly o'el his slumbers her journey
she begun,
As she shone on those who mourned him at
Bilville on the Run!
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Cos stimtion,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
An April Fool.

"No person living can play an
other April joke on me with I'M.
punity," puffed Fatty as he stamped
about his Office, says the Detroit
Free Press. "Thls il the last year
that Pm open to any such triokcry.
Pm going to let other people alone
and they've got to reclprocate or
take the consequences"
After Fatty had said things rap.
idly for few moments some one
ventured to ask him what had
happened.
80 | went to one of those parties
last evening where they think it's
funny to put up jobs on you and
play jokes on you just because it's
All Fools day. | chewed ON caramels
stuffed with cotton, took punch that
had nothing stronger in it than red
ram water, had cake sugared with
salt, found the sleeves to my over
coat sewed up and opened my UNI
brella on leaving only to be suffo.
Gated with an avalacbe of corn starch
Great joke, wasn'tlt?' shouted Fatty
as everybody roared.
"This morning oversight and had
to race for the street car"
There was another general laugh
at the thought Of Fally running.
81 just made it, and right ahead
of me a.stylish a young lady entered
the car, and we naturally sat down
side by side because there were only
Two seats left. Then 1 discovered
that, IN my hurry, | had forgotten
TO put on glovea, Thinking II better
form to don them there than to be
without them, | got them out of
my pocket. Az | extended my hand
upward there was a rlvulet ol rice
from every finger of tho glove. 1t
ran over me and into her lap, while
all the fool passengers laughed
and that Supheaded jockey walked
right up aud congratulated me.
tried to explain for tho benefit Of
the lady, but no ono would listen,
She simply shrivcled me with u look,
aud asked SONS man across the aisle
" cxchage seata with herr
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
The Dinpley Craze

Mr.. Dingley has two schemes for
increasing the revenues to meet cur
rent defclt and provide money for
war.
One is to raise ali present tariff
duties 10 per cent. But these du,
ties are already so nearly pro-
hibitive that they yield far less
revenue than lower duties would.
TO increase them will be mot to in
crease the Governments income but
to cut it down.
The other plan is to impose duties
on some scores of other articles
that are now on the free list.
This would be to add to the al
ready burdensome taxes on con
sumption and to abolish the only
ameliorating feature of our pres ent
tariff. 1t would subject our manu-
facturers to tax on raw materials
which they have loudly protested
that they cannot stand if they are
to continue to operate their facto-
ries and to employ men at living
wages.
Does the Republican party wan
to commit suicide, or is it moon
struck mad? asks the New York
World.
The way to raise revenue is tc
levy taxes on things that can stant
taxes. An addition of 81 a barre
on beer would yield $4,000, 900 :
year and cost no consumer a single
cent. Ten cents a gallon on whisky
would make large increase in the
Governments income. Tobacco
would easily stand an addition o
two or three cents a pound, as i
has stood it before. A stamp ta1
on property transfers, contracts
bank checks, promissory notel
and the like wonld yield millionl
more, and would be paid chiefly
by the rich and prosperous.
What inseDsate folly it would b.
to neglect these easy and prope,
sources of revenue, and instead tt
tax commerce that is already clip
ped almost beyond endurance BY
iHsGosts!
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

Jackson Cash. Book: Mrs. Char
lotte Mitchell, widow of Anderson
Mitchell, died at her home three
miles southeast of New Wells on the
I'd inst, aged.S5 years, 10 months
and day. Mrs. Mitchell was a
healthy old lady until she took the
pneumonia on the Tuesday before
her death. She was buried on last
Sunday at old Apple Greek church.
She had great many friends and
the funeral was largely attended.
Mrs. Mitchell was q member of the
Methodist church.
Jackson Cash Book: @. B. Kinder
went to st. Louis this week to have
surgical operation performed on
his hand.
Jackson Cash Book: Anderson
Mitchell of Bollinger county came
over last week to attend the funeral
of his mother, at Apple Greek
church,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

Wayne County Journal: The
outlook for good wheat crop was
never poorer in thssection, Very
little ground was seeded last year,
and good deal of that has been
plowed up and put In corn,
ost'pispatch--!"Hop tea" is moi
fliqtor. II is q sort OF lager beer
combination, but Is claimed not to
10 be intoxicating, j. p. Cronistcr
Pf Drum postofisce, Bollinger coun,
Wy, Mo, was arrested for selling Il
without q liquor license, but wa.
released at Poplar Bluff Mo. III.
ploa that the beverage WAS moi
Intoxicating was favorably consId
lered.-A
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

thought, and had far~away look in
his eyes. "Fo' hundred dollars" he
repeated to himself, "Fo' hundred
dollars! En- desi ter think er it's
wus de treasurer en- had ever dollar,
er dat money in my power! My my!
Fo' hundred dollars-fo' hundred
bright silver dollers, in shinin'
lump! Bre'r Johnson, will you please,
sub, do me favor?"
"Des name 1t, Uncle William?'
"Take dis heah hickrY stick, sub,
en- hit me cross de head, en- den kick
me had ez you kin, sub, out de do"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

about equal to that of Kentucky,
Russia is proud nation, yet she
sold us Alaska for comparatively
small sum, though nobody yet knows
who got the better Of the bargain,
Spaniards have a sentimental pride
IN holding on to Cuba, though it is
manifestly to their disadvantage to
do so. We can hardly suspect that
the Spanish government shares this
sentiment.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
WHY He Was Sorry.

"Well, Uncle William" said the
president OF the emigration society,
III s'pose You hearD de newsP'
"No--whuts stirrinr
"W'y You amt hearn bout de
treasnrer?'
"Not q wordl Whut BIO done
nowY"
"Ran otf wild de funds--tuk ever
dollar wild himp i.
"Lawd, Iawdl En how much wus
IN de- trensnryT
$50 hundred dollarsw
"En you say, he gone wild it?,'
"Clean gongt
The old mau seemed wrapped in
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

In the Dent county primary cleo
tion there were four candidates for
prosecuting attorney and the vote
for them was, 440, 434 4lG and 100,
and we are asked to believe the man
who received the 40 votes is the
choice of the democracy of that
county. BOsh!
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

GEN. JAMES X. CHALMERS, the con
fedorate officer who commanded the
frat division of Forests cavalry
and was congressman for three
terms from the north Mississippi
district, died Saturday morning al
his home In Memphis, Tenn, after
. brief illness, aged G7.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
Had a Sinecure,

An old colored citizen, hearing
the rumors of war with Spain, ap
piled for the position of cook to the
army.
"What experience have you had?'
he was asked.
81 wuz cook in de Confedrit army
suh," he replied-''dat is, had de
position of cook, but, ter tell dc
truth, didn't wuk at it,"
"Whyw
Dey wuzn't nuthin' ter cook, suh.'
Atlanta Constitution.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

In dispatch to the Charleston
Enterprise Congressman Vandiver
says of the presidents messaye:
president McKinley's long mes.
sage just read. 1t is weak, means
more delay and war preparations,
but no independence for Cuba"
Ex-senator Ingalls, charactsrizes
The message as "weak, irresolute,
infrm of purpose; dictated by some
malign, but potent, influence"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

AND now the Hon. B. Benson Ca
hoon is running a typewriter on
full time in explanation of his posi-
ton in the Poplar Bluff postoffice
muddle. The paving at the pie
counter isn't doing thing to the
Missouri republicans.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

THE money question will be just
as potent during war as IN peace.
1t is twice as easy to wage war
with two metals as it is with only
one, and that one cornered by mon.
ey sharks. The money question
must be settled at the coming cleo
tiOns, war or no war.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

IF war is declared Hanna is in
favor Of issuing $50O,0O0,00O of
gold bonds at once. Ifthe people
of the United States are caught in a
war with the gold standard, such
war will cost three times as much
as it would if carried on under BIZ
meta Ism
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
RuIes ior Readtnr Aloud.

Few persons doubt their ability
to read aloud acceplably, but were
their audience induced TO speak
frankly tho illusion might be dis
pellod, says Mrs. Barton KIngsland
Ia tho Chicago Record. The lrst
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

The democratic congressional
committee met at Poplar Bluff last
Saturday to name the place and
date of the next congressional con
vention of the Fourteenth district.
The convention will be held at Pop
lar Bluff, Wednesday, June %. The
basis ofreprosentation is one dele
gate for every 100 or fraction over
fifty votes cast for Bryan. This
gives the convention 299 delegates.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

ONE "disinterested" voter has
told us he thought the democracy
of this county would hold a prima-
ry election, but-he happens to be
q republican.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

Lieutenant Governor Bolte has
issued q proclamation Offering re.
ward Of $40 for apprehension OF
Sam Davenport, who killed Charles
IlaiI in Dunklin County, Decem'
ber 20, 1897, and who iAa fugitive
from Justice,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

AT a mass meeting Of the repub,
licrns of Butler county last Satur-
day resolutions were adopted in
dorsing McKinley's course on the
Cuban question and approving the
course of the Poplar Bluff Republi,
can "in opposing those who by some
strange caprice of fate have been
permitted to constitute themselves
the dictators and bosses Of the re.
publican party Of Missouri" Won.
der who they are hitting att Ger
tainIy can't be thinking Of going
back on our John A.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

THE $4,000 libel suit of G. W.
Brown VS.. VIM. Matthews and Hen
ry Graham, all of Marqusnd, has
been on trial at FredericktOwn.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

We are authorized to announce HON,
WILLARD D. VANDIVER Of Cape Girar.
dsau county as a candidate for reelection tc
congress from this, the Fourteenth congress
Ional district, subject to the action of the dem
ocratic congressional convention.
We are authorized TO announce HON
MERRILL PIPKIN OF St. Francois county
SIS a candidate for judge of the Twenty-sev'
eAth judicial circuit. subject 10 the aclioh o
the democratic judicial convention.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

CONGRESSMAN VANDIvER is in
Washington, attending to his du-
ties, but will be at home in time to
take a full hand in the campaign.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14


GAME AND FISH WARDEN BUR
FORD is making preparations for
prosecuting every person who vio'
lates the fish laws this spring, says
the Republic. He made a great sue.
cess last winter out of prosecuting
pot hunters who violated the game
laws, and it is predicted that he will
be equally as vigllant after the
individuals who dynamite streams
to catch fish.
It's a felony to use dynamite, and
although the law has been on the
statutes for years, yet but few per.
sons have been convicted, and at the
IA me time the law was violated in
many sections of the state with i'm.
punlty. Mr.. Burford has been ex'
ceedingly active ever since he was
appointed and has taught the law
breakers to fear him.
The law for the protection of fish
is as strong as it we'll conld be, but
heretofore 1t has never been enforced
to any perceptible extent. Here
and there persons have been fined
for seinipg streams, and a solitary
old negro was convicted Of using dy-
Mantle IN Usage county and senten-
ced to Jail, These prosecutions were
50 far apart as to have no affect on
the small army of law breakers who
for years have annually been IN the
habit of dynamiting streams, partic-
ulary in the southern part of the
state
MIR. Burford has selected deputies
in all parts of the state where the
lSn law mas GtEn VlOlaleu tue lnOSL
in the past,and he intends to make it
hot for this class in the future
When he was first appointed game
and fish warden be SAID he would
enforce all the game and hsh laws,
regardless of whose feelings were
hurt. Knowing ones laughed at him,
having heard sach statements before,
but after he had obtained about 500
convictions against persons who
violated tile game law, public opin-
ion in regard to his Intentions un-
derwent a change.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

Mr.. HAWKINS denies emphatical-
ly the remarks attributed to him in
the article we copied from the
Southeast Missourian, and we do
him justice to publish his disclaimer.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

We exchange anything we have for Produce. Bring
us your feathers, WOOL eggs, dry hides, furs, and
any other produce you may have
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

JUDGE Fox is holding court at
Perryville this week.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14

JUDGE MALE is @ candidate TO
represent Madison county in the
legislature.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-04-14
Groceries.

We have just received from n. Born Co., Chica-
gO taiors, spring samples Order one of their suits
and be in style. You need not take it if it doesn't
suit. We guarantee fit.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-12-24
Real War Hardships.

Talk about hard times in. war;"
said relic ofthe civil war. snapp-
ing his fingers: "The best meal
ever bad was eaten in the heart OF
the Alleghanies. Our mess OF seven
had pint of corn meal apiece, and
three ounces OF bacon for all. Mine
was the only hat that didn't have a
hole in it, so we used it as mixing
dish, two fellows holding the brim
while another poured in the meal
and water, and a fourth stirred with
his hands. We raked some bright
hickory ashes from the camp FIRE and
used them for salt. Then we laid a
rail in front of the.Rre, and when it
got hot spread the dough along it.
Fhe latter was carefully cut into
seven parts, and eaca man looked
after his own cooking. Every one
got stick, on the end OF which he
stuck his morsel of pork, and this
be held over the dough so that the
drip would add to the flavor of the
bread. Not a drop was lost; none
fell behind. After the feast we
smoked ourpipes for hours and we're
happy.-New York Press.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-12-24
Carved His Epitaph and Died.

"Jchn Harmon died here from the
bite of rattlesnake." s
This is an inscription on a beach
tree standing on the knobs, in Mon
roe township, back of Jacksonville.
A date once followed the words,
but it is now indistinct. There is O
strange story connected with The in
scription. An CID resident relates
it.
"Years ago, when thatsection Of
Indiana was little explored and when
the heavy bush was the dwelling
place of the wild turkey, deer and
rattlesnake, John Harmon started
to Charlestown to attend court. He
was armed with an old fashioned
rifle. A rattler bit Harmon's leg.
Harmon killed the reptile. Then
he began to pre- pare for death. It
was be who carved the words In
lighter lines on the tree, with the
request beneath, long since oblitera-
ted by the trees growth, to bury
him on the spot. A few days later
Harmon's body was found. A grave
was dug by the tree and there it can
be seen today. Louisville Courier
Journal.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-12-24
WonderfnIGains.

DIR. Miles Neryine not only cures
all nervous disease, headache, blues,
nervous piostration, sleeplessness
neuralgia, st. Vitus dance, fits and
Mysteries, but also builds up the
body. / am pleased TO say that after
years of intense, suffering with nerv-
GUS disease, headache and prostration
I tried DIR. Miles Restorative Ner-
vine, and in two weeks gained eight
pounds in weight. ] could not lie
down to sleep, but now sleep perfect
ly easy, and am still improving won
derfully. Cannot say enough for the
Nervine.--Mrs. L. B. Willard, Dun
kirk. N "" Zone customer used
Nervine and gained fifteen pounds in
fesh.-Brown and Mayberry, Cort.
land, n. Y" Trial bottle and ele.
CANT book free at A. NJ. Gilbert's
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If a small bottle of Shakers Di-
eestive Cordial does you no good,
don't buy large one.
"Prove all things; hold fast that
which is good.' It's not good for
everybody, only for the thin, pale,
sick, weak and weary. For th ose
who are starving for want of digest
ed food For those who cannot get
fat or strong, because their stomachs
do not work as they ought TO.
These are the people, millions of
them, whom Shaker Digestive Cor
will cure.
Food makes strength, muscle,
brains, blood, energy-after it is
digested. II not digested. it will
do you you no good at all.
Shaker Digestive Cordial helps
your stomach to digest your food
and cures indigestion permanently.
When you've tried small bottle,
yon can tell.
Sold by druggist. Trial bottle
10 cents.
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THE HOPE OF TUE WORLD.
On a far-away night in quaint Bethleh

l
On far-away night in quaint Bethlehem
town,
Oh, far-away night.
! The clear holy rays OF a star shone down
| TIL the heart OF the world like bud sud.
den blown,
Breathe1 an odor of love and delight
Then sudden the sky was alight and aglow;
Strange, far-away days.
White clouds they were wings that swept
rs fashinely low.
| And waved ia the air that was music allow,
With an eloquent motion Of praise.
To have knelt insthats light! To shave
prayed.TsTo have weptl
Oh, night, dear and gone,
And when faded Vie glory, to safely have
erept -
Where the Babe Born to Comfort undream-
ingIy slept; I
To havessohbihgly watched him sleep
onl1 -
Could heart e'er be turbulent after that
sight? -
Sweet sight ana past.
The girl-mother's face cleaning lovely
and white,
AS she warmed the Worlds Hope in her
bosom that night,
And satisfied Time slept at last.
Then quiet thee, hsart of mine, now is the
night.
This night and dear,
Thy hopes are mild music, thy prayers a
great light,
Send out thy thought angels, swift winged
in white,
Tell the heavens the Christ Child is
here. A. KATE WIsNER.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-12-24

Observation-Disclosures lex. the read
ing editor Of the Asterisk. is busy
fellow | saw him at the office TO-
day with waste basket b sid him
filed TO the brim.
Tetlow-Yes, confound himl But
III bet icrnishcd most Of tbe ma
terial. He couldn't iill The bake.
il be didn', have the stuff 10 Oh it,
could Boston Transcript.
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Attractive Women.


Why is one women attractive and
another noty The most admirable
and attractive thing about an at.
tractive woman is her womanliness.
Everybody admires a womanly wo.
man. She must have health, OF
course, because without it she would
lose the brightness of her eyes, the
fullness OF her cheeks and her viva
city. Real health must mean that
a women is really a woman. That
she is strong and perfect in a sexual
way. as well as in every other. That
she is capable ofperformiDe perfectly
the duties of maternity. Some are
born with what is called "consti-
tutional weakness" Those who do
not enjoy perfect health, need take
the proper precautions and the prop.
err remedy to become perfectly well
and strong. DR.. Pierces Pleasant
Favorite Prescription will cure any
arrangement of the distinctly fem
mine organism.
Send 81 cents 10 one cent stamps
to Worlds Dispensary Medica, As
ISOLATION, Buffalo, N. Y. and re-
ceiye DR.. Pierce's lOOspage "Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser illus
ted.