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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-05-14
N WAS RIGHT.
She Was Entirely Too Self-Assertivs
to Drown In Water.

She Was Entirely Too s~elf-Assertive
to Drown In Water.
We reached the banks of the Repub-
lican river to find the stream running
deep and strong, and sitting OIL a log,
with a bland smile on his face, was a
man of about so years of age. He in
dulged in a broad grin and a chuckle
as we saluted, and when asked the
cause of his merriment he replied:
Its about the old woman and the
boss, strangers"
do you mean your wife?"
81 do. We were goin' over to Bucks
Vile, both on the same boss, and she
was mad and out of sorts. When we
got here and found the river bank full,
seq to her:
Nancy, the old oss kin never take
us acros Let's go up to Carter's
Ford
"'Carter's Ford be hanged SEE she.
"tBut 1 dassen't try it here
"'Then you kin stay behind, and I'll
60 alone
you'll be drowned, fur sure
""Thar amt water enough in the
state to drown me-
81 argued and reasoned with her."
continued the old man, 'but she was
stiff-necked and sot in her ways. The
more I argued the more determined she
was, and bimeby l slid off the boss and
seq:
"'Well, Nancy Smith, 1 haven't got
any more breath to spare. If you are
bent and determined, then go ahead
ct never was more benter and de-
terminder in all my life,' SEE she, and
she gives the old boss a cut and a lick
and in he goes"
"And did she make the crossing?"
"Noap. I told her she couldn't, and
she didn't"
"You don't mean she was swept
awayl"
That's what she was. The boss
didn't keep his feet a mint. I stood
right here a-lookin' when he turned
over and over, and I jes' got one
glimpse of the old woman as she
throwed up her arms and went out of
sight"
"And you are smiling about it," ex-
claimed the colonel, in great indigna-
ton.
"I can't help it," replied the old man.
"She was determined to hev her way, If
It killed her. I told her and told her,
but she"
He stopped short, and his smile faded
away. We heard a movement In the
bushes close at hand. and as we turned
the old man started off at his best speed.
Five seconds later a ~bareheaded, bare
footed woman, with her wet garments
clinging to her like a plaster mold,
sprang out of the scrub with a club in
her hand and took after him, and as
they disappeared over a ridge half a
mile away she was almost near enough
to hit him on the Observation-Disclosures
Press.
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LAUNDERING TABLE LINENS.
How to Remove Stains and Preserv.
the Napery.


Until q ~housekeeper learns the art
Of having her table linen and napery
properly laundered, she al never hope
to have an elegant looking table. Flow
ers, handsome cut glass and silver,
pretty ornamental embroidery pieces
cannot compensate for a yellow stiff
table cloth, and yet a dinner may be
spoiled by just such a ~tablecloth. Re
versing it, a dinner given in a modest
little home may be made the perfection
of refinement and daintiness, simply be;
cause the snowy white damask dinner
cloth and napkins lend a charm that
nothing else can supply.
A fastidious housekeepr often has
trouble in getting them to suit her, es-
pecially in the country, and it is ex-
pensive to have to send them away.
The country washwoman will often
only make them to blue, but have them
~ stiff as a board-and think Of open
ing a napkin and having to pull it apart.
II being starched SO stiff.
The best way is this, and numbers of
very dainty housekeepers use this meth
cd: First, never allow tablecloths OF
napkins to get very much soiled; do any
darning or mending necessary before
washing. If stained with tea or coffee,
fruit, ETC., pour boiling water through
the linen where stained. Do this before
washing. Soak over night In clear wa
teri then boil the linens and rub well in
hot water. Make a lather of white
soap, and rub the linen between the
hands until clean. Lift out of the boil
er with a stick and drop into a tub of
cold water. Rinse well and wiring tight
ly. Dip into a tub of cold water, to
which bluing has been added until the
water is sky blue. Wiring again and
hang out to dry. Starch lightly and
iron.
4never put soap directly in the goods,
but make q lather of the soap and
rinse in warm water and iron while
quite damp on wrong side, and you
can have an elegant table for years if
you persist in laundering your linens
by this rule.
1t IL a great saving OF handsome table
damasks to use the boiling water to
remove stains, as so much washing
wears them out, and to do this every day
Y time and money. 1t only takes a
few moments to pour the boiling water
through the stains, and it will repay
you tentold. The table is the drawing
card in a home, the whole family meet
there three times a day-it should be
the prettiest and most attractive room
in the house.-Good Housekeeping.
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LIFE IN JERSEY.
Max O'ReII Says the Island Is the Ell
dorado of the World.

Max O'ReIl Says the Island Ia the Ell
dorado of the World,
The land of Jersey is in the hands
of a frugal and industrious people,
worthy descendants of the rural popu-
l~ations of Normandy and Brittany.
Not u square inch of ground that does
not produce n potato or a cabbage.
Prosperity reigns on all sides. Not one
dilapidated house. In this beehive of
an island everything speaks aloud of
cleanliness, comfort and even of riches
to those who can understand that real
wealth does not consist in the quantity
of things we possess. but in those that
We can do without If need be. Jersey is
q kitchen garden OF about 20 square
miles, picturesque, healthy, fertile,
strewn with cottages that are wrapped
In roses and when 1 have told you that
the cultivation of the potato alone
brings in from $4,000, 900 to 14,OOO.O 900
francs annually-that is to say, about
$4,000, OOO-I shall have no trouble in
convincing you that poverty is practic-
ally unknown in Jersey, happy Jerseyl
Add to this that, with the exception
of WING and liquors, which pay a light
duty, all kinds Of merchandise enter
Jersey untaxed; hat living is conse-
quently very cheap; that the income
tax collector is unknown; hat a crowd
of tourists visits the isle during four
months of the year; that activity reigns
everywhere, not the feverish activity
Of the Americans, but the regular, uni
form, intelligent activity of the French;
that the soil is 50 fertile that flowers
and fruits seem to spring from it as by
enchantment; that the landscape is
most picturesque and varied; that the
climate is delicious, and you will con-
clude that Jersey is probably the Ell Do
RADIO of the world and the Jersey folk,
as : said before, the richest and hap
Piest people on the surface of the globe.
Max O'Rell, in North American Re
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NURSING THEIR WRATH.
All Over Spain Workmen Are Famishing-
CarIists Declare They VIII Seize Power
at News OF Another Disaster.
LONDON. May 10.-The Biarritz corre-
s%pondent of the Daily Mail, dilating

LONDON. May 1O.-The Biarritz CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, dilating
on SPANS internal troubles, says:
But for the necessity OF getting the wal
credits voted in the cortes, Senior Sagasta
would have decreed the suspension Of the con-
stitutional guarantees, thus placing the whole
country under military Jurisdiction. The difi-
culties for the poor people are worse than those
Of the government. The latter. by various
expediencies, can raise money; the former
are unable to obtain either food or employ
ment. The wages of the laborers are too small
TO buy sufficient food for themselves and their
families In the mining regions of Estra
Madura and other places the miners are nearly
furnished. In the Balearic islands thou
sands OF workmen are living upon almonds
Catalonia, though the richest region in
Spain, has suffered most deeply from the loss
of the Cuban market. The Catalonian manu-
facturers recently tried to place their goods IN
the Philippine islands. They were beginning
to succeed and their exports to Manila were
increasing rapidly. This promising condition
OF things has been blighted by the war.
The warehouses are filed up to the cell
ing with goods which will remain there until
the war is over. and thousands OF worlxmen.
famished with hunger. will easily become the
prey Of political agitators and complicate the
social and political situation OF the country.
The work Of the political agitator is daily be-
coming more manifest, as the plight OF the
people becomes more hopeless. The
republicans declare that the moment
the telegraph announces n new disas-
ter to the Spanish arms the great mass of
the country will rise and sweep away evefy-
thing. The Carlists say that II there are fresh
disasters they will seize power. Therefore the
key TO the situation is war news
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Information wanted.

And now" said the lecturer, at the
close of a discourse on theosophy, to
which his audience had listened with
the deepest attention, ''in accordance
with my usual custom l shall extend
to any person present who cares to do
10 the opportunity to ask whatever
question may be in his mind. l wish to
leave no point obscured if it is in my
power to make II clear"
There's n thing I've always want
ed to know" said an earnest looking
nan in the audience. rising as he spoke.
tive asked q great many men, and
none of them could ever tell me. Why
is it that you always find a picture of a
goat on a book beer sign?"-Chicago
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ESKIMO SCHOOL CHILDREN.
They Can Draw Pictures and Like to
Do 1t,

They Can Draw Pictures and Like to
Do 1t.
Uncle Sam has his public school sys-
tenn in bleak Alaska as well as in the
states. But, instead of large, finely
equipped school buildings which ac-
commodate several hundred graded
scholars, the school children there
study their lessons in rough frame
houses. The missionary, who is often
the teacher, too, usually lives in part
of it. There is only one room in the
school, and, except in Sitka, the CAPT
tai, there is only one grade, the pri-
mary. For these little Eskimo chill
dren are but just beginning to under
stand our language.
If one of III public school scholars
herr at home could pay a visit to an
Alaskan public school he would see
many things to interest him and to
cause him establishment. Most of all,
he would be impressed by the good be
havior of the scholars during school
hours. He has never seen such cor
rect department in the scholars in his
own school. The little Eskimos are
seldom reproved. They are very ODE
dent to their parents, as well as their
teachers, though they are almost never
punished.
Nor do these children ever want to
play hockey" The truth is that they
are very much disappointed if any
thing prevents their attending school.
They like to work, are naturally indus
trious and learn quickly.
They prefer writing and drawing to
anything else. They seem to have a
natural taste for both. Some of the
pictures drawn by them without any
instruction are much better than those
drawn by the average American child
of the same age. They draw pictures
of everything-their sledges and dogs,
their dances, their hunting and fishing
expeditions, the queer little huts in
which they live, their boots made of
skins, their mountains and their great
icebergs and ice foes, which are so
plentiful in the Arctic regions. They
are also fond of mechanical pursuits of
any kind, and they invent ingenious lit
tie tools to use in their work or play.
Perhaps one reason that the Alaskan
children are SO fond of school is that
they have few amusements outside of
it. They would be greatly astonished
at most of the games and good times of
young Americans. AT home the whole
family lives in one small room through
out the long, dark Arctic winter, so
that it is no Wonder that the children
are glad to get into a larger place.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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COMPOSITION ON "HIsToRY.'
A Little Virginia Girls KnOwIedgS
of Human Events.

A Little virginia Girls KnOVwIedG0
of Human Events.
A little Virginia girl who has covered
considerable ground in the study of
history has condensed the information
she has acquired into the following
composition. 1t was received by the
teachers with some degree of ~satisfao-
ton, as 1t showed On attempt at original
thought and was not a plain copy from
the histories:
HISTORY.
History is a subject I can say very
little about it is very important a very
useful study and interesting to those
who can study some. Some can read it
over and recite perfectly others can
study hard for days and get it by heart
History tells you about the wars and
about different countries in the old
world and about kings, queens and
about the great law givers of the world,
History are divided in so many different
kind. United States History treats of
when Columbus Discovered the world in
in 1892 A. d. Columbus discovered that
the world was round he got in his yes
sci rode on the water and In q short
time he went in the direction land and
be called land West Indies and came
up to Mexico and he saw land all round
and kept on going from place to place
until he saw 1t was round that was when
he discovered America.
THE Indians lived here before the
white people came aud when the white
people came they were very angry and
the whites and the Indians had a war
and the whites gained this land and
the poor Indians had to leave place
wasn't that mean and the Indians
showed the white people how to make
corr bread There is war between gen.
erals Robert E Lee Andrew Jackson on
one side General Bradley johnson and
Usulsees 8 Grant but Andrew Jackson
and Robert E Lee are the most i'm
portant.
1.-THE men keep on making addresses
just last night Smith (Hote.-A DR..
Smith from Richmond, ex-confederate
officer in Stonewall Jackson's troop,
made an address at the town court
house on Lees birthday made an ad-
dress about Robert f Lee which people
will talk about so much we'll There
was a war between England and France
now the History I studied is General
Meyers and hat is divided in three
periods.
Modern History commences with the
CLOSE of the medieval period and ex-
tends to the present time. The History
tells III that you don't know when IA
WAS come in the procession OF the
earth; we only know that is ages most
remote when both the climate and out
line of europe were very different from
what they are at present. Plato was one
of the smartest men in Modern his
tory."-N. Y. Times.
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If the youth is tool fresh it is apt to
spoil the man.
If wishes were horses beggars wopld
want to ride BICYCLES.
If in doubt what step to take con
suit a dancing master.
If blood will tell, perhaps that is
why murder will ont.
If a woman is pretty she can safely
insist on her own imperfections.
II in doubt about an experiment get
some other fellow to try 1t first.
If you have learned to "know thy
self" then you are apt to give thyself
away.
II a man doesn't laugh when he sees
q girl trying to sharpen Il lead pencil
he Is in love with her.
ii the hay trust will only put hay
fever beyond the reach of mankind it
will not have been in vain.-Chicago
Evening News.
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so that he declared, in Exodus.
4:l0: 81 am slow of speech
and OF slow tongue;' on and on
until he set firm foot among h
crumbling basalt, and his ear vas not
deafened by the thunderous Thou
shalt not" of Mount Sinai; the man
who went to the relief of the Israelites
who were scourged because without
chopped straw they were required to
make firm bricks, the story of their
oppression found chiseled on the tomb
of Roschere at Thebes; and when his
armies were impeded by
serpents, sent crates of ibises, the
snake-destroying birds, to clear the
way so that his lost could march
straight ahead, thus surprising h
enemy, who thought they must take
another route to avoid the reptiles; the
whole sky an aquarium to drop quails
for him and the hosts following; the
only man in all ages who Christ
likens to Himself; the man OF
whom it is written, Jehovah spoke
unto Moses face to face as a man
speaketh h his friend;" the man who
had the most wondrous funeral of all
time. the Lord coming down out of
Heaven to bury him. No human lips
to read the service. No choir to chant
a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem.
No angel alighting upon the scene; but
God laying him out for the last sleep;
God upturning the earth to receive the
saint; God smoothing or banking the
dust above the sacred form; God, with
farewell and benediction, closing the
sublime obse quies of law-giver, poet
and warrior. And no man knoweth
of his sepulcher unto this day" Get
your eye on him, instead of trying to
initiate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm came on a prairie
in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh
was lost, but after awhile struck the
track of another sleigh, and felt
cheered to go on, since he had found
the track of another traveller. He
heard the sleigh-bells preceding him,
and FASTENED on and caught up with
his predecessor, who said: Where
are you going?" II am following
you,' was the answer that came back.
The fact is that they were both lost,
and had gone round and round in a
circle. Then they talked the mat
ter over. and, looking up, saw the north
star; and toward the north was their
home, and they started straight for it.
Oh, instead OF initiating men like our
selves and circling round and round.
let us look up and take some starry
guide like Moses, and follow on until
we join him amid the "delectable
mountains" You say you cannot reach
his character. oh, no. Neither can
you reach the north star. but you a
be guided by its heavenly pointing.
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Take little butter crackers, split them,
then dip each half into hot water and
spread thickly with soft butter. Lay
half the pieces upon a biscuit tin and
place one oyster upon each piece. Put
a few drops of lemon juice on each oy-
ster and sprinkle them with salt and
pepper, and just a suspicion of mace.
Cover the oysters with the remaining
bu'tered halves of crackers, brush the
tips with melted butter, place them in
a hot oven and bake for five or ten min
utes, then serve as soon as taken from
the oven. Garnish with parsley. Serve
With tender celerY.-FverY Month.
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Trains will pass Lexington junction on
the Wabash as follows!
Going east-No. 10, local freight, 800 a.
M; No. ., Eastern Express, II 10 "A. M;
No. IL, Eastern Express, 12:OS p. m; No.
6, Mat and Expros', 7:45 p. M; No. 4,
Atlantic Express, 1901 p. m.
Going vest No. 7, Mail and Express
5:O2 "A. m. No. %, Kansas City Accomoda-
tlon, SOP a. IN.
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Explained.

Hickson-Why is it that everybody
In your office dresses SO much better
than you do? Even the youngest clerk
wears much finer clothes than you
have on.
Barker-Well, YOU see they all get
salaries. I'm just the proprietor of the
place. -Chicago EveningtNews.
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Fatal Riot at Milan, Italy.

LUCIANO, Switzerland, May 9.-Yes-
terday was terrible day at Milan.
About n o'clock a veritable battle
occurred in Via Somtraire. Thousands
of tiles and chimneys were hurled from
the roofs upon the troops, who were
compelled to retire. A similar fight
took place in the Via Torino, and
it is believed that no fewer than
800 were killed and 1000 injured.
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Thoughts on Moses Defense of the
Daughters of Jethro the indian.
Helping with tho FIOcks-PreparIng for
Special WOrk-God's Long Memory
he Knows Where to Find the
Right Men for His Work.

mage in this sermon draws practical
and inspiring lessons for all classes of
people. The text is Exodus 3: 1: Now
Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his
father-in-law, the priest of INDIAN"
In the southeastern part of Arabia a
man is sitting by a well. 1t is an arid
country. and water is scarce. so that a
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TO the Citizens of Lexington and Ttcintty:
We take this means of announcing
that our mills are now in operation,
grinding out the very best grades of
Flour, Meal and Bran. We have located
our mills here as a permanent Lexing-
ton institution, and expect to make it
one of our objects, to build up and add
to L~exington's commercial interests.
We shall not attempt to do business
solely III a local pride" basis, but pre-
fer chat our products shall be judged
solely by the standard of merit. Appeal
ing TO your local pride we ask you to
give our goods a fair trial. Should they
prove as good as other mills are making,
we hope and feel that you will be our
patrons.
TO the Farmers:
We will do an exchange business with
you aud guarantee satisfaction.
Thanking the citizens for the encour-
agement given our institution, and hop
ing to merit your confidence and patron
Age, we are respectfully,
GRAVES BROS.
N. B.-Our goods for sale by all gro
GERS in city.
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COUNTRY PApER FOR SALE.

The only paper in Comanche county. in
Southwest Kansas. independent In politics,
good circulation and advertising patronage.
Complete newspaper and fob office. Advance
:s-inch paper cutter, Gordon Jobber and hahd
press. Does all county printing at legal rates.
Average receipts Tor ntteen years, &,slO-last
year, S2.3On. Want To sell quick. A snap for
somebody. Price. S2.WO, three-fourths cash.
Address w. NJ. Cash, Coldwat0r, Kas.
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Thirty five years make a generatIonJ
That is how long Adolph Fisher, OF
GAINESVILLE, o., suffered from piles. He
was cured by using De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve. Day Il Shelby, Leading
Druggists. Att
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we'll is of great val
ue, and focks and
herds are driven
vast distances to
their thirst
slaked. Jethro, a
Midianite sheik and
priest, was so fortu-
nate as to have
eve daughters;
and they are IRA
teal girls, and yon-
der they come, driv-
;no the sheen and
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Il. ". WINSOR
Insurance.

Next few months are times
for Cyclones, Tornadoes and
Hurricanes. Protect yourself
from loss by purchasing au
insurance policy. Rates are
lower now on town property
than ever before. Winsor will
fix up these policies for you.
See
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FAM ER
oONaT
22Oe7.

PAMISIER 220s7, by the great sire Earl 2I7i;
dam, the great brood mare Ashland Kate,
2:2gl4, by Ashland chief 75l, etc.
Terms.-S!O and $3.50, ON same terms as
Conflict
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TIME TABLE.

Address Tor fun pudIgpees, etc.
IT. +. GILLESPIE. or G.. W. BATES.
Bates city, Mo. Owner, Lexington, Mo
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HOME N TO LOAN,

The money now In hands belonging TO the
estates of minors il for loan, part on prime
real estate and part ON good personal security.
Parties desiring to borrow will do we'll 20 call
a. my office, in the Hearle building.
mIyl3tf NJ. ID. WILSON,
Guralor
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TO PRINTERSI

nave one very light run ming. eight column
Washington, Hand Press, for sale cheap. IL
has long and short roller attachment and All
perfect order. Time Civ en- Il desired.
Address T.. ALLEN, Lexington, Mo.
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CONFLICT 1902 tsire of Contest, 2:iS over
half mile track, and 2:2l mt two years old, aud
othc'sl by Madrid 1853; dam. the great brood
mare Rosa Clay, by American Clay 81, etc.
Terms-S2O, payable when mare produces a
living tnal, or SIS. payable Mt time of service;
money to be refunded should mare prove not
in fOal,