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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23
RAMAPo MouNTAIhEERs.
4 Strange Race OF People iahsbitiai
the Wild HILL of New YORK..

4 Strange Race OF People l~ahsbitia1
the Wild Hills of New York.
People who have never been up in
the Ramapo mountains can have little
idea of how strange u race OF people
live back in those high and rocky hills,
miles from any village. and with not
. rod of road by whieh their huts may
be reached by wagon. In other words.
1t is not generally known that within
IS miles of Broadway there is a commu-
nifty, as curious almost, as "a be found
in the remote mountain recesses of Ten
nessee or North Carolina. 1t is a sort
of lost tribe, or rather, an amalgama-
ton of two lost tribes. If N can i'm
agine what sort of beings would result
from more han a century of intermar-
rying of American Indians and Guinea
negroes, with an occasional dash az
white blood added to the mixture, he
may form 4 notion of the people that
live back in the rugged hills that rise
above Suffern, Ramapo, S~loatsburg,
Woodbourne, Tuxedo and other places
in the Ramapo yaley-But it would take
q pretty brisk imagination to picture
some of the queer specimens of human
ity that have resulted from this mix
tnrs, Albinos of the miikiest haired
and pinkest-eyed variety are common,
and the dime museums recruit their
curio halls In that llae from among
these mountaineers, as did the great
and only Barnum before them.
Back in the last century, and during
the first quarter of the present
century slaves were common in
hat part of New York state and
the adjacent region of New Jer-
sey. These slaves were treated no
better by their old Dutch mas
tefs than were their fellow bondsmen
Ia the south. They were worked long
and hard, and the lash was not spared.
Consequently, runaway slaves were
many. These runaways invariably
sought the Businesses of the surround
ing mountains. 1t is q very difficult
thing to make ones way up and among
the Nlamapo mountains, even at this
day, and IL was almost an lmpossibiiitY
in the slavery days. AS o result, when
q negro once succeeded in hiding there,
he Vas as safe from ~recapture as If
ne had gone to Canada, although he
might be within sight and sound OF his
masters home. Scores of runaways in
time peopled the inaccessible hills, and
in the spots where they threw up their
first sheltering huts of bark or fallen
tIsas-a OF found EAfnSAtR caves their &as
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WHITE HOUSE BLACK LIST.
Has Names of U~ninvited Persons who
Crowd INTO receptions

Has Names of U~BinVited Persons who
Crowd Into Receptions.
The white house has a black list.
1t is an interesting souvenir of this
seasons receptions. 1t goes to prove
hat there are persons who own fine
clothes and who are not so thin skinned
as to remain away from places to which
they are not invited. The invitations
given this year to the white house re
ceptions were prepared with unusual
care. Lists of the invited were kept
and cards were issued to individuals
by name. The heretofore indefinite
and indiscriminate land ladies" was not
employed. That there might be no mis-
understandings. the secretary to the
president. Mr.. Porter, and the gentle
man associated with him in the man
agemcnt of details let it be known
through the newspapers that steps
would be taken to detect any who
came without invitations hut the
method to he employed was not eX-
planned.
The trap was set and ii did lis duty.
At onc reception 213 persons who had
not been invited came to the white
house and participated. At another af-
fair the number of unlimited present
was $50. The manner in which the in
truders were detected is interesting.
As usual, each guest on advancing 10
the entrance of the receiving room was
told by an official to "give your name
to the officers, who viii present you"
The name of each guest was called out
twice, first by the officer Introducing
to the president and again by the Of
ficer who made the presentation to Mrs.
Mckinley. The announcing was done
with distinctness. But this year an at
tache of the white house stood in a
secluded nook and took down every
name that was called out. Comparison
with the roster of the invited was made
subsequently, and in this way the
names of the unlimited were singled out
and the black list was created. q.
This was not all. Doorkeepers from
the senate and house We're present to
add their knowledge of faces to that of
the white house ushers. Alphabetical
lists of the invited were in the posses
sion Of the officials. When there was
doubt about anyone the lists were con
suited. Some Of the unlimited were
asked for their addresses. Subsequent
~ letters were addressed to several of
those who had come without invita-
%tions, asking explanations of the
breach. Most of the letters were ig-
nored. Several replied, laying the
blame on congressman from whom they
claimed to have received verbal invita-
lions. Half a dozen department people
were caught, and their cases were re-
ferred to superior oficials.-St. Louis
Globe-Democratl
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scendants dwell to-day.

N"tAA " NHI
The wood had their Indian dwellers
already, and the two races mingled
These are the strange people who are
seen now and hen in the little villages
along the Erie railroad in Rockland
and the adjoining towns of Bergen and
Orange counties and whose homes are
far back in the hills. \ characteristic
of these people is that the names of the
old Dutch families in which the orig.
nal blacks were slaves have been re.
tanned by them, generation after gen,
Grafton. The most numerous family OF
the races goes by the name of De Groat,
but there are De Freeses, Var Hoevens
II many other Des and Vans.
In the summer time you might climb
n Chamber and stumble up the steer
sides and over the rocky SUBMITS OF
the Ramapo mountains all day, and not
see a solitary sign of II habitation, al
though there would be many on all
sides of you. They are so deftly tucked
in among the rocks and hidden by the
trees and foliage that only. m ac-
quainted with the ways of the noun
taineers could find them. In the fail.
when the trees are bare, the huts stand
revealed TO any who may pass that way,
and such are few, for although there is
no better ruffed rouse shooting any
where than in these mountain fast.
nesses, the weary climbing necessary
to get to the haunts of these birds Is
more than the average sportsman cares
to undergo. There is no ground that
might grow anything about any of
these huts; nor n chicken nor n fowl of
any kind; not even a pig. But there are
dogs without limit-mongrel, Nvolfsh-
looking dogs, such as might hang about
Indian camps, and always from one to
half a dozen half-naked, aerie, elfish-
looking children, who at sight or sound
of stranger. scamper to cover in the
hut, in h brush or among the rocks,
disappearing as completely as a startled
brood of young quail.
How do these people subsist? They
are the best hunters and fishermen in
the land, and game and trout are album
dant all about them. They hunt and
grouse and rabbits and catch
trout for the market during the season.
The women and children pick berries.
Fol the products of the forest, streams
and berry patches these people obtain
store goods at the villages, both the
Injuries and necessaries-the former
being chiefly whisky and tobacco; the
latter flour, meal and cheap dress
goods. For their own home providing
the 'possum and the 'coon are plentiful
at their very doors and the chicken
coops Of the outlying farms and viii
lagos are not entirely inaccessible,
Now and then a De Groat or Van some
body Or other will hire out to do work
by the day, but he is looked upon by
his fellow m~ountaineers as a degene-
rate. Some of the female children grow
10 be extremely handsome and shapely
young women, but it is rare that there
are any marriages among these people
outside of their own race.-N. Y. Sun.
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EcceNTRlclTIEs OF TOILETTE.
Rules of Apparel That Govern Mas
cuIIne Attire.

Rules of Apparel That Cover Mas
cuIine Attire.
With reference to the recently dem
onstrated principle that you can wear
a different colored waist with a skirt,
but you can't wear a skirt with a differ
ent colored waist" it may be remarked
how exactly opposite this is to the rules
governing masculine attire. \ man
may wear light trousers or trousers of
a contrasting color with Il dark coat,
but he never dreams or wearing a light
Goa with dark trousers, The only pos
sible exception TO this rule is when
white duck trousers are concerned, and
these are SO exceptional as hardly to
affect the rule at all.
Another a~ntipodean fact of the same
sort Is hat women's clothes invariably
button in an opposite direction from
those of men. With the latter it is al
ways from left TO right, while with the
former it is from right to left. No stage
OF the evolution of the tailor-made girl
was Sc retarded as the II involved by
this. Many a one of those first trim
suits was sent home from the smnrtest
kind of tailor only to have the girl
send it back with the announcement
that the buttonholes were all on the
wrong side" If it took some time 10
convince her otherwise, it took still
longer for her TO become accustomed
to such order of things. Tailor-made
shirt waists are all made with the but
tons upon what, according To feminine
standards. is the wrong side but the
smart dealers refuse to do differently,
and women have at last conceded hat
buttons upon the right side mean a
homemade nontailorly shirt waist
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,
The INTELLIaENCER is the place TO get
your horse aud Jack bills printed, while
you wait II
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HANokERoHIEFs WE USE.
82s SOC, 900 of Them Are COAsuHae
Yearly IN This Country.

S2s, 500, 900 Of Them Are COAsuned
Yearly In This
"Very few people outside the trade"
said a leading wholesale dealer in hand
kerchiefs in New York recently, "are
aware that the consumption of hand
kerchiefs throughout the United States
amounts to about $4,000 dozens daily.
This means 27,375, 900 dozen yearly, or
1928, $780, 900 single handkerchiefs. To
satisfy this enormous demand there
are always kept in stock In this city at
least $50 ,000, 900 handkercbiefs. 1t
would be extremely difficult to say
what such a supply Of goods is worth in
the aggregate, as handkerchiefs sell at
wholesale at anywhere from 80 cents to
$40 per dozen, according to quality and
finish. But the figures which l have
given you are not exaggerated, and they
throw q strong light on the gigantic
dimensions of an important branch of
the dry goods business.
"a comparatively small number of
handkerchiefs are manufactured in this
country, and those hat are made here
are mostly of the cotton and inferior
silk variety. The finest silk goods are
imported principally from japan,
which country sends us annually be-
tween 1900, 900 and 1s,o00,O 900 Japan
esq pongees.' The best cambria article
comes from France and Belgium, and
linen handkerchiefs from the north of
Ireland and also from st. Calls, Switzer-
land, japanese silk handkerchiefs are
worth from So to $40 per dozen. while
the imported cambrios from Brussels
sell from IS to 81 o dozen, and the cot
ton product manufactured in Pennsyl-
vauia and New Jersey may be had for
80 cents per dozen.
"rhe capital invested in this business
is immense. 1t may possibly amount
to 500, o00, 900, but owing to the fact
that the trade is distributed, nothing
like accurate figures can be given.
There are six OF seven firms in the dry
goods district which deal exclusively in
hsndkerchisfs, but only two Of these
houses handle the domestic article ex-
tensively. Most of the large American
factories are located outside of the city,
but New York, as in several other
branches of the dry goods business, is
the great distributing center for the
trsde."-Washington Star.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23
TO DRY cHILDREN's SHOES.
The Way to Do IL So That the LeatheE
VIII Not Shrink.

Damp feet are always walking
toward disease and DEATH" says an en-
inent physician, and a more impressive
truth 1t would be difficult to put into
words. Children must play out of doors
and they will run about in all wealth
ers. 1t is almost always the case that
when the little shoes come off at night
they are damp, If not actually wet.
The careless mother passes them by,
thinking that they will dry by morning,
forgetting that, even though they do
dry, they win be harsh, uncomfortable
and irritating TO tender little feet, and
may lay the foundation for discomfort
and suffering untold. When the little
ones have finished their play they
should be taught to remove their shoes
and stockings and put on dry ones.
House shoes of soft leather or felt are
inexpensive and comfortable and they
last a long time. besides being a great
saving in noise and the nerve irrita-
ton that is often harder to bear than
the laborious work with which the
housemother has to struggle.
AS soon as the shoes are taken off
they should be filed to the very tops
with dry oats. 1t is a custom of II of
the most proyident women who ever
raised a family TO prepare stocking feet
of the sizes of the various shoes worn
by the children. These are numbered
and hung up on a nail in the entry
way where the little mes keep their
wrappings. These stocking feet have
short tops; in fact, they are shaped
more like a baby's sock than anything
else. They are filled with oats and
sewed up at the top. A couple of
inches of extra room is allowed at the
top, and when the shoes are to be filled
the oats are shaken loosely through the
stocking; then it is put into the shoe
and adjusted as nearly in the form of
the human foot as possible. Afew gen
tie raps will settle the oats into the
shoe; then a strong cord is tied around
the stocking top as close to the grain
as possible. The oats, being perfectly
dry, occupy q given amount of space.
AS they absorb the moisture. which
they begin to do Immediately, they
swell a little and keep the leather from
shrinking.-Buffalo Express.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23
Why He

Theater MaDager--You say you OBJ
ject to having real food on the table
in the banquet scene, MI. Greesepaynt!
The rest of the company are delighted
at 1t!
Mr.. Greesepaynt-Yes; but my part
requires me to rise from the table
after a couple of mouthfuls and say:
"I cannot eat tonight strange dread
comes over me; 1 will seek the quiet
of yonder apartment for a time!"-Bos-
ton Traveller.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Architect and the Architecture
of the Ear.
An Instructive and Eloquent Sermon on
Mans Organ of H~eRrinR-God Does
Not Give Us a Faculty Which
He Has Not Himself.

In this discourse DIR. Talmage sets
forth the goodness and wisdom of God
in the construction of the human ear,
and extols music. and encourages
prayer. Text, Psalms, 94:9: "He that
planted the ear, shall He not hear
Architecture is one of the most fasci-
mating arts, and the study of Egyptian,
Grecian Etruscan. Roman EDzantine.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23
Electric welding a.a Soldering.

This is now done by an electric arc
produced between two carbenB held in
a frame nearly at right angles to each
other. 1t IS manipulated like a com
mon gas ~blowpipe. The operator has
to wear colored glasses over the eyes
to protect himself from the immense
glare. The special construction gives
an arc resembling to some extent a
b,gwpipe fame.-Youth's Companion.
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FINAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
other persons interested in the estate OF John
II. L. Widening, deceased, that the Under
signed administration will apply 10 make a
final settlement of said estate. IL the Nav
term, ISIS. OF the probate court of Lafayette
county, Missouri. tn he begun ana held al the
probate court room, in the city OF Lexington.
on the second Monday in May, 1898.
t-95t Administrntcr
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FINAL

Notice is hereby given 10 all creditors and
other persons interested in tlc estate Of Cornp.
Illus II. Burgess. deceased. that the undersigned
public administrator will apply to make n final
settlement OF said estate, at the May term,
lS9S, OF the probate court of Lafayette county
Missouri, to he begun and held at the probate
court room, in the city of Lexington, on the
second Monday in May, lS9S.
:. n. WILSON,
1875 Public administrator.
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JOS. r. BARNETT
FINAL

Notice is hereby given TO all creditors and
other persons Interested in the estate of John
J. Hall, deceased, that the undersigned
administrator will apply to make II final qet-
ilement of said estate at the May term.
Is9s, of the probate court of Lafayette comfy
Missouri, 10 he begun and held at the probate
court room, in the city OF Lexington, Lufny.
cite county, Missouri. on the second Monday
IN May, lS9s.
7. II. LANDRTM,
~ u Administrator
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EMAIL S-ETTIEMENT

Notice Is hereby given To all creditors and
other persons Interested in the estate of David
Groves, Sr., deceased, that the undersigned
executors Will apply to make IA final aettle-
ment of said estate. at the May term. lsgS. of
the probate court of Lafayette county, Mis-
souri,, To he begun and held at the probate
court room, IN tn" city of Lexington, ON tho
second Monday in May, 1898.
J.. +. GROVES,
WM. VI. GROVES,
last Executors.
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Hogs-Receipts since Saturday. 1893; shipped
Saturday. 575. The market steady to Sc lower.

Sheep Receipts since Saturday. 7.035:
shipped Saturday. la Sheep were steady and
lambs 10 to Iac lower. The following are rep
rssentatiVo sales:
II spg. lbs 4s "a 20 s spg. lbs. ~ 10 90
A0s Col lbs. 70 52.H l595 Col lbs. rs 525
eos I'M ews. 30 40 ass T. clip sh. IS 400
Horses and mules Receipts liberal. Buyers
were more numerous and there was more life
to the trade. The morning sales were consid-
cred fully steady with the close last week. Re-
eeipts OF mules are increasing and the market
10 fairly active and nrm with last weeks close.
The feeling that war will create an additional
demand for mules has aroused considerable ill.,
terest among the traders in that class OF stock
St. Louis Live Stock.
ST. LOUIS, April 49, -Cattle-Recelpts. 800;
market steady; native shipping steers, A350
SIS; light and dressed beef and butcher
steers. g 9016. 10; stockers and feeders. 5000
40; COWS and heifers, 81. OOd4 o5; Texas and
Indian steers. s350G4.oo; cows aud heifers,
%. So
Hogs-Reoeipts. 500; market steady: york.
ers. eaT013s 80; packers, S3.65 o. so; butchers
q sOa390
Sheep-Receipts. 800; market strong: ma
tive muttons, e426G4,75; lambs, s. U0d5t IS.
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To the Citizens Of Lexington and T1cinIty:
VI take this means of announcing
that our mills are now in operation.
grinding put the very best grades Of
Flour, Meal and Fran. We have located
Jul mills here as a permanent Lexing-
ton institution, and expect to make il
one of our objects, to build up and add
to LeXingtonis commercial interests.
We shall not attempt to do business
solely on a local PRIDE basis, but pre-
fer that 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 q guarantee satisfaction.
Thanking the citizens for the encOur-
agement given our institution, and hop
ing 10 merit YOU 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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Rough on Auntie

Tommy-That church is over zoo
years old.
Gracie-My auntie says it's only 100.
"Oh, well, I s'pose that's as far back
as she can remember."-Truth.
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ihOWdiis I'N
NJ O or ish, Renais-
sance styles of
building has been
to many "a man u
sublime life
Lincoln and York
C a t h e d s, s t.
Paul's m d st.
Peters, and Arch
of Titus, and h
an temple and AL
hambra and Par
It h e n o are the
to the
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MARKET REPORTS.


KANSAS CITY. April I9-Cattle-Receipts
since Saturday. 1862; calves. 4s: shipped
Saturday. 663 cattle; ID calves. The market
was steady TO firm. The following are repre-
sentative sales:
sMIPpING vi DnEssEn REEE srEEns
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The Light Harness Stallion
RUSTIC e,

Bred and owned by Joseph x. Barnett, pro
prlctor Edg~ield Stock Farm, Lexington, Mo.
VIII make the season of ISIS. at his farm cigh
miles southeast or Lexington, near Prairi,
Church, at Sl5 for the season. with return
privilege, money due as sOOa as fact * usccr
tained or mare parted with.
Rustic u. is five years old. sixteen hand,
aud two inches high, dark buy with black
points. good size, with both style and speeC
combined. good name ana tail.
Rustic IL. was sired by Newcomb. 1888: he bX
utwOuu, No. 6bO, record 2:lSi1: he by RelI
mont No. 90; Newcomb's first dam, MaPRi,
Wilkes, dam of three ia the list. by George
Wilkes, recOrl 2:22: Rustic RS first dam,
MertriN, by Merchant, No. 5gg: he by Bellmont
No. 81; second dam 10y Al west, No. 1881; n,
10y AlmOnt, No 30; third dam by M~armaduke
No 'os2; fourth dam by Idol, No. III: he by
MembriHu Chief, No. H..
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Insurance.

Next few months are times
for Cyclones, Tornadoes and
Hurricanes. Protect yourseli
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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KANSAS CITY. April R-Butter-EKtra
fancy separator. lie; nrsts, l4c; dairy, l90
$50: oountry roll. ll1ieo; extra fancy. 1885,
store packed, iO9lsc; fresh packing stock,
s4llG
Eggs-Strictly fresh, sHc per dozen.
Rcultry-HeRs 6nc: broilers. S20014O0
per doz; r%oosters. 1890 each; duckS
&c: geese. Sc; hen turkeys, DC; young toms.
&c; old toms. &c; pigeons. Toc per dozen.
A~pples-Fancy Missouri Pippin. So 00G95 so;
fancy Ben Davis. S3.O0aa25; Winesaps. $4,000
400; Willow Twigs, ta5O9400 In a small way
varieties are selling at 40d CSC per half bu.
Vegstaeles-Cabbage, h75a2Oo per 1O0-lh
crate. Bsets, 259+Oc per bu Green and wax
beans. tG5ooa0O per crate. Navy beans, hand
picked, H.ISK0l.lo per blu Onions, si.0)GL2a
Potatoes-New, Texas, SL00 per y b4
crate; old, northern stock, fancy. bulk, Bur-
banks, o0c; choice TO fancy mixed. 40155c; bulk
Colorado, o0Gooc; fancy. 75c; home grown. 500
Sc Sweet potatoes. o0GI5c. Seed potatoes.
northern grown Early Rose. 65d7ec; Early Ohio.
6od10c; Red river stock, TOdT5c.
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Chicago Liye Stock,

CHICAGO. April 49, -Cattle-Receipts. 10. 500:
market strong to loo higher; beeves, s4.O0G
$50: cows and heifers. a. ESQ so; stockers and
feeders. &3 7014s0.
Hogs-Receipts. 1000; market rather slow.
2M to SC lower; light t86063s2H: mixed, "a. 10
1390: heavy, &651Sso; rough, sS.65Gs7 20
Sheep-Receipts. 81 600; market steady to IOc
lower; native sheep. IS 5O1+.65; western, S. 500
k65; lambs. &. a5G5,60
Chicago Grain and Provisions.