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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Repair the sidewalks.
Keep the weeds down.
Speak we'll of your town.
Will Monroe City celebrate?
Our mechanics are all busy.
r. F. Hixsou was Il Quincy
visitor Saturday.
John Kemp of Illinois is visit
ing at Warren
E. W. Ragland is on the sick
list.
For good ice go to j. W. Bur-
dit.
Monroe County has six all
home print Newspapers.
For good ICE apply to j. w.
stephens. Telephone No. IA.
James Natter, of Shelbina
spent Sunday in this city.
Save Your Blue grass and
Red top seed for Jno. l.. Owen
Hugh Mudd and family were
with relatives in Hannibal Mon
day.
Joe Fitzpatrick, the rushing
Warren druggist, was in this
city Monday.
Wanted-Stock to pasture
near town. Address box "a
Monroe City.
Mrs. Lura Byrd spent part o
the week with her grandmothe
at Shelbina.
For job printing of all kind
the DEMOCRAT is head'quarter
and our prices are right.
The Salisbury Democrat
preparing to publish the name
of ;tS IN lserS VINO fail to nav,
DIR. Arch Ely is spending
few days in Knox County oefor
taking up his dentistry practic
in the new Boulware building
A few hundred dollars wort
of paint would improve Monro
City and it is being used. MOI
roe City people believe in keel
= y 49,. 80. x.4.,sx. 4hA @rAaf s.nxU
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Mrs. John Macy, of Towau-
da, ILL.,, spent part of the week
with relatives in this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

1000 White Oak fence posts
for sale. See r. E. Lear.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Mrs. Theresa Green, Of Flori-
da, was in the city with rela-
tives. She has gone Tor visit
with Hannibal relatives.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01
W. W LoNoMlRE,
Loan aud Abstract Lawyt

The Florida school board did
the right thing in securing the
services of Prof. Horace Hagar
to again teach their school
Prof. Hagar is a teacher of ex'
perience and quite a successful
one.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Benedict Buell. came down
from Brooktield yesterday. His
many friends were glad to see
him.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Mrs. w. S. Turner and Miss
Daisy Huston made the DEMO
GRAFT Office a pleasant call Tues
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

(. DIR. Arch Ely is spending a
few days in Knox County before
taking up his dentistry practice
in the new Boulware building.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01
Robert Crump, of Paris, spent
Sunday with friends in this city.

B. P. Rutledge, of Clarence.
was the guest of his brother, A.
K. Rutledge.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

w. G. r.. U. meeting at Mrs.
j. w. Johnston's, June 9th, 3 p.
IN.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

The Salisbury Democrat is
preparing to publish the names
of its takers VINO fail to pay.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Save Your Blue grass and
Red top seed for Jno. l.. Owen.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

James Natter, of Shelbina
spent Sunday in this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

For job printing of all kinds
the DEMOCRAT is headquarters
and our prices are right.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

For good ICE apply to j. w
Stephens. Telephone No. IA.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Hugh Mudd and family were
with relatives in Hannibal Mon
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

John Kemp of Illinois is visit
ing at Warren
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

Monroe County has six all
home print Newspapers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-06-01

E. w. Ragland is on the sick
list.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
THE HEART OF THE YEAR.

We have fathomed the heart of the year;
And we ask as our pleasures abound,
If In all the glad years we have found,
There was ever another so dear?
Was there ever such verdure before,
Or such fair fragrant lilies as these,
With whole meadows of daisies to please,
Or of fruitage so lavish a store?
And we think how we watched for the
spring,
How we hailed the first bloom with de-
light,
How we questioned by day and by night
What the new year, the strange year would
bring
And her heart she has shown US, and oh!
There are pleasures and treasures OF
worth.
And she scatters them over the earth,
Where the feet Of her lovers may go.
And we follow, like children DER blest
With more gifts than they see in theil
dreams,
And we linger by forests and streams.
And drink of the fountain of rest.
oh, year. that is bonny and sweet!
For thy blessings so lavish we fam
Would thank thee again and again,
And pour out our love at thy feet
Emma A. Lente. in Good Housekeeping.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

Search him, some of you Sinking
lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and
get the chest" he cried.
/ could hear their feet rafting up our
old stairs, so that the house must have
shaken with it. Promptly afterward,
fresh sounds of establishment arose:
the window of the captains room was
thrown open with slam and jingle
of broken glass; and man leaned out
into the moonlight, head and shout
ders, and addressed the blind beggar on
the road below him.
pew" he cried, they've been be-
fore us. Some ones turned the chest
out allow and aloft."
SIS it there?" roared Pew.
"The moneys there"
The blind man cursed the money.
"Flint's fist. mean" he cried.
eve don't see it here nohow," re-
turned the man.
"Here. you below here, is it on Bill?"
cried the blind man again.
At that another fellow. probably he
who had remained below to search the
captains body, came to the door Of
the inn. "Bill's been overhauled
Already" said he, "nothin' left"
Its these people of the limits
that boy. 1 wish I had put his eyes
out!" cried the blind man, Pew. "They
were here no time ago-they had the
door bolted when I tried it. Scatter,
lads, and find EN-"
Sure enough, they left their glim
! here" said the fellow from the window.
Scatter and find 'em! Rout the
house out!" reiterated Pew, striking
with his stick upon the road.
Then there followed a great TODD
through all our old inn, heavy feet
pounding to and fro, furniture all
thrown over, doors kicked in, until the
very rocks reechoed. and the men came
out again, one after another. on the
road, and declared that we were no.
where to be found. And just then the
same whistle that had alarmed my
mother and myself over the dead cap
tain's money was once more clearly
audible through the night, but this
time twice repeated. had thought it
to be the blind mans trumpet, so to
speak, summoning his crew to the as
sault; but I now found that it was a
signal from the hillside toward the
hamlet, and, from its effect upon the
buccaneers, signal to warn them OF
approaching danger.
"There's Dirk again." said one
'Twice! Well have to bulge, mates
"Budge, you skulk!" cried Pew
"Dirk was fool and a coward from the
first-you wouldn't mind him. They
must be close by; they can't be far; you
have your hands on it. Scatter and lool
for them, dogs. Oh, SILVER my SOUL
he cried, "if had eyes!"
fro BE CONTINUED
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
SCIENCE OF GRADING.
midRbIe Task as Many Sup
pose 1t to be.

The grading of undulating lands, and
in fact amy soil that washes badly, is
not difficult task. Various preventive
measures have been adopted, such as
horizontal embankmcnt, liberal fertil-
izing, deep blowing, fiat culture, bind
ing crops and rotation, which prevent
washing. The graded embankment has
given good satisfaction in the south.
BY this method, as illustrated, the EN-
bankment must be large enough and
strong enough to carry off all water
during the heaviest rains; must be of
uniform grade with equal fall in all
places, about one inch to rod. Where
to locate entertainments, the grade to
give them, construction as to shape and
strength and distance apart must all
be considered by each man doing the
work.
Before lines can be run an instru-
ment must be secured that is strictly
accurate and perfectly reliable, one
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

sizes-doubloons, and louis-d'ors, and
guineas, and pieces of eight, and know
not what besides, all shaken together at
random. The guineas, too, were about
the scarcest, and it was with these only
that my mother knew how to make her
count.
When we were about halfway
through, 1 suddenly put my hand upon
her arm, for l had heard in the silent,
frosty air a sound that brought my
heart into my mouth-the tap-tapping
of the blind mans stick upon the frozen
road. 1t drew nearer and nearer,
while we sat holding our breath. Then
it struck sharp on the inn door, and
then we could hear the handle being
turned and the bolt rafting as the
wretched being tried to enter; and then
there was long time of silence both
within and without. At last the tap
ping recommended, and to our indie
scribable joy and gratitude died slow
ly away again until it ceased to be
| heard.
Mother" said l, take the whole
and let's be going;" for was sure the
bolted door must have seemed sus-
picious, and would bring the whole hor-
nets nest about our ears, though how
thankful was that l had bolted it none
could tell who had never met this ter
rible blind man.
But my mother, frightened as she
was, would not consent to take frac-
ton more than was due to her, and
was obstinately unwilling to be content
with less. 1t was not yet seven, she
said, by long way; she knew her
rights and she would have them; and
she was still arguing with me, when a
little low whistle sounded good way
off among the hills. That was enough
and more than enough, for both of u.s.
III take what l have" she said,
jumping to her feet.
"And I'll take this to square the
count" said I, picking up the oilskin
packet.
Next moment we were both CROP
ing downstairs, leaving the candle by
the empty chest; and the next we had
opened the door and were in full re.
treat. We had not started a moment
too soon. The fog was rapidly dis.
persing; already the moon shone quite
clear on the high ground on either side;
and it was only in the exact bottom OF
the dell and round the cabin door that
thin veil still hung unbroken to con
ceal the first steps of our escape. Fan
less than halfway to the hamlet, very
little beyond the bottom of the hill, we
must come forth into the moonlight
Nor was this all; for the sound of sew
eral footsteps running came already
to our ears, and as we looked back il
their direction, light tossing to ant
fro, and still rapidly advancing, showed
that one of the newcomers carried ;
lantern.
my DEAR" said my mother, sudden
ly. take the money and run on. Ian
going to faint"
This was certainly the end of boil
of us, thought. How 1 cursed TIL
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
fro BE CONTINUED
DID NOT MIND THE BURGLARS.
Why the Optimistic Mrs. Blank Was
Glad OF Their Visit.

Why the Optimistic Mrs. Blank Was
Glad OF Their visit.
Mr.. Blanks wife is so painfully clean
that Blanks life is made burden to
him, and he has gait like kangaroo
caused by his getting down to clean his
feet when it is muddy and taking long
steps to avoid making tracks.
When Mr.. Blank arose early one day
recently, says the Chicago Times-Her-
aid, he discovered that burglars had
paid the house visit during the night,
and he hurried back to apprise Mrs.
B of their loss.
They've taken all the silver in the
house." he gasped, out of breath.
"Well, they won't get much for it
there's that old comfort anyhow" she
said coolly.
"But your sealskin cloak is gone from
the cedar trunk"
"I'm glad of it-sealskin is out OF
date, and now I'll get something new
But your diamonds that were hid
den in the rag basket-they took
them!"
"Oh, well, there isn't any money in
diamonds. I'm not going to worry
Just put it in the hands of the police.
dare say the poor burglars were driven
to crime for want of bread. always
had good deal of sympathy for Grim.
inals."
"But they've cleaned the house."
John, you don't mean it? And I've
been dreading fall house cleaning all
summer. 1 told you there was some
good in everybody" and Mrs. Blank
turned over for another nap.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
The Very Nam.

Just before recent dinner given in
honor of colonial magnate, young
swell, whose chief claim to distinction
seemed to be the height of his collar
and an eyeglass, addressing stranger,
said:
"Beastly nuisance, isn't it? Spoke to
that fellah over there-took him for a
gentleman-and found he had ribbon
on his coat; some blooming head waiter,
! suppose"
"Oh, no." replied the other; that's
Blank, the guest of the evening"
"Dash it all, now! is it?" said the
astounded swell. Look here. old fell.
low; as you know everybody, would
you mind sitting next me at dinner
and telling me who everyone is?"
Should like to, very much" replied
the other man; but you see cannot
I'm the blooming head waiter! An
sWerS
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

cowardice of the neighbors; how l
blamed my poor mother for her honesty
and her greed, for her past foolhardi-
ness and present weakness! We were
just at the little bridge, by good for
tune; and helped her, tottering as she
was, to the edge of the bank, where,
sure enough, she gave sigh and fell
on my shoulder. do not know how
/ found the strength to do it at all, and
am afraid it was roughly done, but I
managed to drag her down the bank
and little way under the arch. Fur
Their 1 could not move her, for the
the bridge was too low to let me do
more than crawl below it. So there
we had to stay-my mother almost en-
tirely exposed, and both of us within
earshot of the inn.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

till bubble shows to be level. Then
stick q stake at each end of the instru-
ment, pick up the instrument and move
forward one span, resting rear foot
where front one was. Move board at
front to opposite side of stake. See how
the spirit level shows, and move front
foot up or down till level, and proceed
to the end of the line.
Return to where you began half way
and finish the other end of the line 60
ing up grade, if the whole line is not
more than $50 yards; but if more than
that, finish the line by running down
grade from that place. The water will
then 60 both ways from the middle.
No line should be more than $50 yards
with grade all in one direction. Always
begin at middle of line, even if you in
tend the water to go only one way. 1t
is best to always divide it, letting one
half go in each direction. Then go
down the slope, or incline, from Is to
60 yards (three or four-foot vertical
drop) and lay off another line, just as
was the first; and so on until the field
Is finished.
To build the entertainments pillow out
space three to five feet in width, be-
ginning eight inches from the line of
stakes on the upper side. A steel-shod,
b, landscape as portrayed in the
larger cut is the thing to make them
with. One or two men pull the scrape
by handle c, and one manages the
handles at a. Leave stakes in embank-
ment until finished, raising if neces-
sarY to prevent covering. The line OF
stakes should be exactly in the center
of the embankment. Sometimes plow-
ing will be necessary a second time to
get loose soil to build the embankment
strong enough. Low places, gullies or
old roads should be filled six to ten
inches higher than the general height
of the embankment.-H. J. Dunton, in
Farm and Home.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

Frequently young pigs come into tho
world with teeth so long that they
reach out over the tongue, laeerate the
teats of the dam, make her angry, and
raise Cain generally. Frequently these
teeth are black. The thing to do when
you find this kind of trouble brewing
in the pig lot is TO get pair of pinchers,
get the little fellow under yolr left
arm, and with the pincbers in your
right, break every one of these teeth
off short, says Wallace's Farmer. II
is short, easy job, and should not b.
neglected. This will restore peace and
prevent the young fellow from getting
baclkset at the time Of life when any
backset Is q serious matter.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
UlB[LASWtsEzdIl&S;:[ELLAGlD
1911
-. "a
iRoetRr LOUIS STEVENSON >Ss
PART I.
CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.

The poor captain raised his eyes, and
at one look the rum went out OF him,
and left him staring sober. The express
sion of his face was not so much of ter
ror as of mortal sickness. He made a
movement to rise, but do not believe
he had enough force left in his body.
''Now, Bill, sit where you are" said
the beggar. IF can't see, can hear
finger stirring. Business is business
Hold out your left hand. Boy, take his
left hand by the wrist. and bring ii
near my right"
We both obeyed him to the letter, and
L saw him pass something from the
hollow of the hand that held his stick
into the palm of the captains. which
closed upon it instantly.
And now that's DONE" said the blinG
man; and at the words he suddenly
left hold of me, and, with incredible
accuracy and nimbleness, skipped out
of the parlor and into the road, where
as | stood motionless, could hear his
stick go tap-tap-tapping into the dis
lance.
1t was some time before either l OIL
the captain seemed to gather our senses
but at length, and about the same mo
ment. released his wrist, which wa!
still holding, and he drew in his hand
and looked sharply into the palm.
"Ten o'clock" he cried. "Six hours
Well do them yet" and he sprung to hi
feet.
Even as he did so, he reeled, put hi
hand to his throat, stood swaying TO
a moment, and then, with peculia
sound, fell from his whole height fac
foremost to the floor.
/ ran to him at once, calling m,
mother. But haste was all in vain
The captain had been struck dead b.
laundering apoplexy. 1t is a curiou
thing to understand, for l had certain
ly never liked the man, though of lat
had begun to pity him, but as 500
as saw that he was dead, burst int
flood of tears. 1t was the secon
death / had known, and the sorrow o
the first was still fresh in my heart.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
Feed and Pork Flavor.

There is vast difference in the quail
ity of pork. Some is sweet, tender and
juicy. Some is directly the reverse.
Feed is largely responsible for this
difference, says the Epitomist. In ex-
periments, conducted for the purpose
of determining the influence of food or
the quality of pork, it has been found
that milk, corn, barley, oats and pear
produce the most solid and best-fla-
vored meat. Potatoes produce a soft
pork. By-products of the -four mill
make an inferior pork. Oil meals pro-
duce pork that is oily and of poor flavor.
The meat made from feeding beans 10
without flavor, and hard and indigesti-
BILE. Acorns do not make good pork.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16

HOMEMADE SURVEYORS LEVEL.
that can be run up grade or down. Set
the spirit level, (see illustration), at
one inch drop. The side boards, a, a,
are fastened so as to be just one rod
apart on the ground. The crosspiece on
which the level rests must be perfectly
horizontal. With the level at one-inch
drop, go to point half way the length
of the intended embankment. This
point should be three or four feet low
er, vertical, than the highest part of
the field. In setting up the instrument
two boards IS inches long and four
inches wide will be required to set I'M
der each foot of the instrument in
operating and each must rest perfect
ly level. The raised end of the spirit
level will always be the down-grade
end. Set the level at one-inch drop and
the raised end of the level always to the
left hand as the instrument is faced |;
smooth the ground where each foot OF
the instrument will rest, put down the
boards and set the instrument on them
and see how the bubble in spirit level
Is. If not level, then move foremost
foot Of the instrument up or down hill
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
CHAPTER ".
THE SEA CHEST.

lost no time, of course. in telling
my mother all that knew, and perhaps
should have told her long before, and
we saw ourselves at once in difficult
and dangerous position. Some of the
mans money-if he had anyways GER
tanly due to us; but it was not likely
that our captains shipmates, above all
the two specimens seen by me, Black
Dog and the blind beggar, would be
inclined to give up their booty in pay
ment of the dead mans debts. The
captains order to mount at once and
ride for DR.. Livesey would have left my
mother alone and unprotected, which
was not to be thought of. Indeed, it
seemed impossible for either of us to
remain much longer in the house; the
fall of Goals in the kitchen CRATE, the
very ticking of the clock, filled us with
alarms.
The neighborhood, to our ears,
seemed haunted by approaching foot
steps; and what between the dead body
of the captain on the parlor floor, and
the thought of that detestable blind
beggar lowering near at hand and
ready to return, there were moments
when, as the saying goes, jumped in
my skin for terror. Something must
speedily be resolved upon; and it &C.
Cured to us at last to go forth to-
gether and seek help in the neighbor-
ing hamlet. No sooner said than done.
Bare-headed as we were, we ran out
at once in the gathering evening and
the frosty fog.
The hamlet lay not many hundred
yards away, though out of view, on the
other side of the next cove; and, what
greatly encouraged me, it was in an
opposite direction from that whence
the blind man had made his appear
ancc, and whittier he had presumably
returned. We were not many minutes
on the road, though we sometimes
stopped to lay hold of each other and
hearken. But there was no unusual
sound-nothing but the low wash OF
the ripple and the croaking of the
crows in the wood
1t was already candle-light when we
reached the hamlet, and / shall never
forget how much l was cheered to see
the yellow shine in doors and windows;
but that, as it proved, was the best
of the help we were likely to get in
that quarter For-you would have
thought men would have been ashamed
of themselves-no soul would consent
to return with us to the Admiral Ben.
bow. The more we told of our trou
bles, the more-man, woman and child
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-16
Ronds of the Future.

This nation must sooner or later turn
its thought seriously to the problem OF
road building. The Anticipated and
stupid methods which now prevail will
no longer do. Those who undertake
to build our roads must have the neces-
sary understanding of the work before
them. The primitive plan of having
the farmer work out his tax by doing
his share of work for which he has as
little fitness as he has for doing any
other form of skilled labor outside OF
his own calling must give way.--St
Paul Globe.