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WORKS LIKE A CHARM.
This Young MRtrOn Has n Clever way
Of Getting Her ErrAndH
Done.

ayes, cigarettes are a bad habit, but
there is compensation in all things"
said a young married woman to a Star
man who was trying TO lay the blame
Of his smoking ON a silver pocket case
his best girl had given him.
"You See" continued the young
matron, IL would rather Ned didn't
smoke at all, but so long as he does !
prefer cigarettes and stipulate he shall
roll them himself. It's the only way ]
can get my errands done for me down
town OIL ever make him remem-
Der 10 pay the gas bill on the last day
before the discount Is off. Oh. It is easy
enough to work. You see, ! 20 ON the
theory that II Is not willful neglect Of
his home and family that makes a man
forget to do downtown errands, but
the simple fact that they get crowded
out Of his head while he Is at business.
"Now when Ned starts on In the
morning | take his package Of cigarette
papers and write memoranda on them
in pencil. II II Is stun from the green
grocer's ! make a list on the top paper
In the pack and he is sure TO zee II
about the time he gets TO the corner.
and he goes In and leaves the order. II
! want him 60 telephone Alice to run
over from Mount Pleasant to luncheon.
| note the fact about three papers for,
ward, and he Is sure 10 see II soon after
be gets 10 the Office. When I have any.
thing ! want him - run out aud attend
10 al noon, I put il about on the sixth
paper and he is certain 10 read II jusl
as he il comiAg back 10 the Office from
his own luncheon. And II II IL some.
thing ! want brought home for dinner.
l only need TO write bread or beef.
steak, or whatever II Is on the tenth pa
per, and II comes home promptly. tell
you there is nothing like executive abil,
ity when IL comes 10 managing your
husband Star,
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IN THREE CENTURIES.
Many Men Reru In the EiEhteenh
WIN see the rVseauetA oPeH-
S.r,ia's NAny Ceatenarians.

PEOPLE don't live 20 be as old as
Methuselah these days, hut there are a
number now living who. II they last un-
iii the end Of next year, will have seen
three centuries. That Of course, does
not mean that they then will be 800
years Old, but only that they were born
at the close Of the eighteenth century
and lived through this wonderful nine
teenth to see the opening OF the to-be-
more.wonderful twentieth.
There are a number OF these old peo-
pie in the United States, and some OF
them we're born here, when the repub-
lie was in its infancy. They saw the
times that tried mems souls" they re-
member Washington and his coniinen-
tails, and old T%ippecanoe Harrison, and
old Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor
fighting in Mexico at the head Of the
American army; and Mcclellan, and
Grant, and Lee, and Stonewall Jackson,
and sherman, and Sheridan mixing II
up In the fratricidal strife that marked
the passing OF slavery and the martyr
dom Of Lincoln; they saw the first
steamboats, and the first railroad trains
and the Introduction Of electricity; and
in their old age they have come upon
people balancing themselves upon two
wheels and travelling about over the
country at surprising speed; they have
wondered at the Harvesting Of electric
ity and its use as a motive power TO
drive cars and carriages, and engines
that C were run by steam; they have
just seen a war between nations finished
off in a few short months, with modern
fighting implements, that in their
youth would have lasted for years; they
have seen the United States grow from
an infant republic TO a world power,
and they appreciate the marvellous In
the things that to the youth Of to-day
seem commonplace.
There ERE no records of births and
deaths kept in this country when these
old people WERE young, SO there is no
way in which their number can be
computed with exactness. But a COM
petent authority has estimated that
there are at least 700 of them scattered
about over the states. In the older
countries of Europe, however, these
records have long been kept Mp. and
over there it has been figured out that
on the first day Of the twentieth cen
fury there will be over 4,OOO persons
living who were alive on the last day Of
the eighteenth century.
Seryia is especially the country of
centenarians, and leaves all other Eu-
ropean countries hopelessly In the rear
in the longevity race. One man In EGO
has seen 100 years, and, in all, Seryia
boasts 57j men Of 100 years or over.
Ireland ranks next with one cen
tenarian in every s,13O Of the popula-
ton, or 57S In nll.-N. Y. Press.
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Married Ladies', rifles.

In Germany a controversy his arisen
with regard to the style which should
be adopted in addressing married Ia
dies. There are four names by which
a mans better-half may be described
In the language of the Vaderland, viz,
gemahlin %(consort), gattin ~(spouse),
frau Qady), and webb (wife). To save
the frequent disputes and heart burn
ings arising from ignorance or inn
pertlnence in the use Of any n Of these
forms, 1t is proposed that these shall
be officially attached 10 the recognized
%graduations of the social scale. Thus, a
generals wife would be addressed as
his consort," the partner OF an official
Of a certain rank as "bis spouse" the
middle-class wife would be addressed
as her husbands lady" and the work.
mans helpmate would he simply his
"wife."-Chicagn Evening News.
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Among the glaciers found In the
Rocky mountains and recently de-
scribed by James p. Kimball, is Grass
hopper glacier, which derives Its name
from the enormous quantity Of grass
hopper remains that are found on and
in the glacier. Periodically the grass
hoppers that thrive in the prairie to the
north take their flight southwark and
must needs the mountains. Their
favorite route seems 10 be across the
wide glacier, and in the passage score
OF Thousands of them succumb to the
rigor Of cold and wind fall helpless
upon the snow and are finally entombed
in the ice. In the curse of time bill
lions Of them have been the victims of
this glacier. They are Of course carried
by the ice river down into the valley
and deposited at the melting edge of
the ice, and Mr.. Kimball says that
thousands of tons Of grasshopper re-
mains are the principal material at the
lower edge of the glacier. We hear
very often Of rocks and sand as forming
the terminal moraine of glaciers, but
here is a glacier whose principal mo-
rainal material is grasshoppers.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
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AN EXCITED MAN.
Holding on to Three
P~reseryers.

"Some funny situations occasionally
arise from sudden cases of real or APP
parent danger" remarked q much-trav-
eled Philadelphian one day recently,
ian illustration Of which fact came un-
der my observation on the trip from
which | have just returned. II was
on a crowded steamboat. The time was
night and some big excursion party was
on board. All at once the boat began
to careen from side TO side in n way that
alarmed even me, accustomed AZ | was
TO queer antics Of water craft, but be-
cause OF the many women and children
on board kept my alarm TO myself.
at wasn't so with others who noticed
the boats rocking, however, and pretty
soon everybody Wal frantically fasten-
ing on life preseryers. | mean every
body who could get them, for the boat
was equipped with only about half
enough to go around. Then there fol-
lowed a scene Of the widest confusion,
Women were crying and shrieking.
Some OF them were on their knees pray
ing. Men who should have had better
sense ran wildly to and fro picking out
the best places from which to jump IL
the steamer did tip over. In the midst
of it all the captain appeared. Coming
up to a little group of which / was one,
and the members of which were out
wardly calm, he assured us that there
was really no danger, and asked us IL
we would quietly mingle with the peo-
pie and endeayor to restore quiet. OF
course we consented. But that wasn't
the funny part Standing near enough
TO overhear our conversation was an
excited individual Of middle age. When
we started on our missionary work he
thought it his duty to help, and half a
minute later he was hard at work in
the cabin telling the women to stop
their crying, for the boat was all right.
He didn't seem to have much success,
however, and | wondered at II until /
saw him stop in front Of a grim-visaged,
middle-aged woman who had been I'M
able TO get hold Of a life preseryer.
"'Be calm, madam, be calm he ex-
claimed, There is no danger whatever,
and the boat will get to shore all right.
THE oma looked the fellow over
scornfully,
"If you are 30 sure Of that she re.
torted, then give me n Of those two
life preseryers that you are hanging on
to 30 tight
"Sure enough, although | hadn't no.
ticed II before, the man had been car.
rying a life preseryer IN each hand Ia
addition to the one he wore around his
waist all the time he was 80 energet.
ically assuring the weeping women that
there was no danger. The thing was
so absurd that and two or three 9th.
ers who took II all in burst out laugh.
ing, which had as much to do with re.
storing quiet IS anything else. Hall
an hour later the boat landed right side
up with care and we saw no more OF
the man with the three life preseryers.'
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FoUR-EYRS AND MUD CRAB
small Crabs Eye-Other Crust
aceans' Eyes.

-
In the tank of the four-eyed fishes at
the aquarium the other day-the four
eyes being cute little creatures two or
three inches long, shaped like water
melon seeds, swimming on edge and
having on each side near the tail a black
spot which looks something like an eye,
this additional pair Of eyes giving the
fish its name-one little four-eyes was
seen to be darling in its nippy little
way at something under the over
hanging edge of a small rock lying on
the bottom. This something retreated
presently further under the rock, and
then four-eyes went away. The thing
that four-eyes was after was a little bit
of a clump claw, or mud crab, that lives
in this tank. 1t had ventured out or
peered out from under this stone and
four-eyes had made a dart for it. The
little fish couldn't have begun to eat
the little crab, small as IL was, but II
could easily have nipped out the little
crabs eyes, and that is whatit had tried
to do when the mud crab looked out
from under the stone. The mud crabs
eyes, like those Of many other crabs,
are at the end Of little projections that
stand out from the body like tiny tele-
scopes, and the four-eyes would have
nipped them on, or n OF them, II 1t
a got a chance, and never thought
that 1t was doing wrong to iniiict this
injury on the little crab.
The blue, or edible, crab has with It's
telescope eyes places for their protec-
ton from injury. To the right of the
right eye and to the left of the left eye,
starting by the eye and running along
the front edge OF the crabs shell, there
are little troughs or depressions, into
which the crab throws the eye on occa-
sion. IL draws the eye In u little and
then bends 1t down into the trough,
doing all this simultaneously. A blue
crab in a tank at the aquarium may be
walking along the glass at the front,
eyes projecting in the usual manner
on telescopes or columns perhaps three
eighths of an inch In length. Presently
some other crab, one going faster,
comes along the same way. As likely
as not It doesn't go around the first crab
or go clear Of 1t at all, but keeps
straight on close TO the glass and
climbs right over the first crab, with
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-09-02
Cheap Rates SOUTH

On the hrst and third Tuesdays Of
each month, up 70 and including
October, the Southern Railway offers TO
homeseekeG and settlers the advan-
tages Of cheap n way and round trip
tickets TO practically all points in Ten.
nessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia and Florida.
Homeseekers' tickets will be sold at
the rate Of M fare plus 50. 90 for the
round trip, tickets good twenty-one
days from date Of sale in which TO
return.
The southeastern territory offers TO
the prOspect0r and settles more advan-
tages than any other part Of the United
States, aud the Southern Railway has
arranged for the sale of tickets on the
dates mentioned above at low enough
rates 10 enable any one 10 20 south and
investigate the opportunities offered In
that territory.
For illustrated matter, rates and
further particulars, address
WV IL. TAYLoE, A. G. 7. A.
Louisville, Ky.
J. G. BEAN, JR., N. W. 7. A,
No. ~ Adams st., Chicago, Ill.
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suhduinr An Unrnlx Son.

4 remarkable event has occurred Ut
Tsing-dang-pp. 4 man by the name
OF King had 0 son who made his father
and mother "lose face because Of the
wild, rakish life he led. lie gamblcd,
loafed, smoked opium, etc. II he stole.
his father would be taken TO the yamen
and the whole family would suffer for
the sons yillalny, and the vital ques-
ton was; How could the family be
protected? Az last they arrived at the
conclusion that the only way to pro.
teot thS father and mother was to take
extreme measures with the kon, which
they did with q Vengeance. The father
and uncle took him out among the
graves, followed by II crowd Of curious
~neigbbors aud friends, and, putting a
rope around his neck, each relation
pulled at an end, and the son was putt be.
yond running the family In this world
North China Herald.
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safe nrp,h. for nlxsr..

The greatest diving feat ever achieved.
II is said, was in moving the cargo Of the
ship Cape Horn, wrecked OF the coast
Of South America, when IA diver named
Hooper made seven descents to Il depth
OF over 200 feet, remaining at one time
~ minutes under the water. An author
ity states that the greatest depth TO
which u man has been known to descend
does no exceed 220 feet-whlch is
equivalent 10 a pressure OF ssH pounds
to the square inrb.-N. v. World.
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Lafayette County Circuit COurt-Sep-
TENDER Term, 1899. at Hlgginsyille.

hONDAh, hhPTEMbER 4, 1879.
!. George T. Schooling Va. Samuel
Bealli continued Let day, September l.,
?. Milton K. Lilard, ct al, vs.. Edgar
W. Lillard, ct al; continued; LIST day, Sep
TENDER 4, 1893.
3. City Of Odessa 10 use Of V. Gillen W.
h. L. kuchinsky; continued.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1859.
4. Joseph Z. Parrish vs.. Minnie Par
ish; continued.
s. William ID. Brady Va. Emma Pearl
Brady; continued.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1899.
8. J. c. MeGrew We. Mo. Pae. Ry. Co.;
damages.
I. VIM. c. NeaIe ". Michael LiIlis, K.
Todhunter, gsrnishee; appeal.
S. U. q. Hoffman ". P. W. Atkinson;
appeal.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Z, 1899.
9. William See We. Cassie See; divorce.
10. Thomas J.Pletcher vs.John Bracton
Fletcher, ct al; partition.
II. Agnes CathArine Lewis, ct al, VS..
Albert Lewis; partition.
II. City Of Odessa 10 use of V. Gillen
vs.. q. 5. kestersou TO enforce lien.
X. Josie Vim vs.. John VIM; divorce,
a.. Lethia J. Pearcy, ct al, vs. Nor.
wood Mitchell, ct al; partition.
THURsDAY, SEPTEMBER Z, 1899.
15. Morrison Wentworth Bank vs.
Arthur p. Matthews, ct al; note.
IS. MorrisonL Wentworth Bank VS.
John G.. Worthiugton; notes.
II. Morrison Wentworth Bank vs.
Frank Volz; note.
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meeting and sod; Il wish publicly to
acknowledge the goodness OF God. |
was in business trouble. 1 had money
TO pay, and l hNd no means to pay it.
and / wal In utteT despair. of all human
help, and I laid his matter before the
Lord. and this morning | went down
among some old business friends l had
not seen in many years Just to make
a call. and one said to me: Why, | am
so glad to see you, Walk in. We have
some money on our books due you u
good while, hut We didn't know where
you were, and therefore not having
your address, We could not send IL.
We are very glad you have come" And
the man standing in Fulton street
prayer meeting said: The amount they
paid me was six times what II owed"
You say it only happened 500 You are
unbelieving. God answered that mans
prayer.
Oh, you want business grace. Com
mercial ethics, business honor, laws
Of trade, are all very good In their
place, but there are times when you
want something more than this world
will give you. You want God. For
lack of Him some that you have known
have consented TO forge, aud 10 NAL
treat their friends, and to curse their
enemies, and their names have been
bulletined among ~scoundrels. and they
have been ground TO powder, while
other men you have known have gone
through the very same stress of circum.
stances triumphantly. There are men
here to-day who fought the battle and
gained the victory. People come out
Of that mans store, and they say:
well, il there ever was a Christian
trader, that is one" Integrity kept the
books and waited on the customers.
Light from the eternal world flashed
through the show windows. Love TO
God and love to man presided in that
storehouse. Some day people going
through the street notice that the shut
tiers Of the window are not down. The
bar Of that store door has not been
removed. People say: "Wha is the
matter" You go up a little closer, and
you see written on the card Of that win
dow: CLOSED on account of the death of
one Of the firm" That day all through
the circles of business there is talk
about how a good man has gone, Boards
Of trade pass resolutions of sympathy,
and churches of Christ pray. Help,
Lord, for the godly man ceaseth." He
has made his last bargain. he has suf-
fered his last loss, he has ached with the
last fatigue. His children will get the
result Of his industry, or, il through
misfortune there be no dollars left, they
will have an estate Of prayer and Chris
tan example which will be everlasting.
Heavenly rewards for earthly disci.
pline. There "the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest"
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THE HOT SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS.
GO via the Chicago and Alton Railroad.
the Short Line and Best Route.
REDUCED ROUND TRIP RATES NOW
IN FFEEf-T

REDUCED ROUND TRIP RATES NOW
IN EFFECT.
All of the large hotels at Hot Springs
are now open. In addition to these are
three hundred boarding houses provld-
ing accommodations at reasonable rates.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the only
health and pleasure resort under direct
Government control. The curative
properties Of the Hot Waters are
youched for by the Surgeon General Of
the United States. Send for rates, illus.
trated descriptive matter and complete
particulars.
II. G. STIDHAM. Agent.
Tel. No. 80. IIIgginsyille, Mo.
JAMES CHARLTON, G. p. Il I. A.
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TINE TABLE.

Trains will pass Lexington Junction on
the Wabash M followsi
Going east-No. 70, local freight, $50 a,
M; No. 2, Eastern Express, 1l:lO a. m.
No. u. Eastern Express, 1908 p. M; No.
8, Mail and Express, 7:5 p. M; No. 4
Atlantic Express, lO;Ol p. m.
Going wsst--No. Z. Mail and Express
5:O2 a. M; NO. 70, Kansas City Aocomoda.
ton, 500 q. m,
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Southern Literature.

Interesting literature regarding The
South is now being distributed by the
Southern Railway-'Southern Homes
folders, large map folders, Land Of
the Sky booklets, Southern Fields.
Minerals and mines" books. etc. mail.
cd free TO any address. The Empire
of the South, y a very handsome yolum,
Of about 200 pages, prOfusely illustrated
also issued by the Southern Railway
and sent TO any address upon receipt Of
% cents, which amount approximate
cost of delivery, Address
WIN. u. TAYLOE.
Asst Genl Pass. Agent, Southern R'y.
s-l2-5t Louisville, Ky.
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KANSAS CITY
JOURNAL

Has led the metropolitan dallies of
lhe great southwest for nearly ilfty
Years. In this section il is supreme,
IN 1879 II will be brighter and better
man ever before. More new, attractive
features; more national and foreign
news; more news from Kansas, Okla
mona. Missouri, Nebraska and the
southwest. Bright and well selected
miscellany. Latest sporting news, All
the news that is worth printing. The
circulation Of the Journal now exceeds
fu,OV1 daily. The company wants TO
uolble II this year. Are you a sub
begin. W
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WAYS OF NIGHT HERoNS
The htrange Colony Established By
the BIrds In a Wood In
bucks County, Ia.

an the township of Bristol, In my ma.
tive county, three miles from the Della
ware river" said a citizen Of Bucks
county, Pa, sis an elevated tract Of
woodland covering perhaps three acres,
the timber being chiefly oak Of ancient
growth. During winter there is moth
ing unusual in or about that tract
OF timber to attract attention, but from
early in April until cold weather comes
again there are sights to be seen and
sounds to be heard there that naturally
set the stranger who may happen along
that way to much wondering and spec
ulation.
"Just why the big, long-legged, tuft-
ed birds should have selected that par
ticular piece of woods TO establish their
colony In no one knows, but 30 years or
more ago it was preempted by a pair
of black crowned night herons. who
built their rude nest of sticks and twigs
near the top of one of the oak trees.
There the female deposited four green
eggs. 1t Is supposed they were green,
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS NnrIcr
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

~ virtue of an order OF the probate court
July 10Th, lisa. the undersigned has taken
charge Of The estate Of Martin May, deceased.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them for allowance 10
we administrator within one year after the
Sa,o VI sliu Ietters or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate: and m such
claims be not exhibited within two years from
tne date Of said letters they will be forever
This nth day OF July, 1880
MAT. ID. WILSON,
EAS" Public Administrator.
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